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ST. LOUIS – Almost 16 years later, Bob Spencer's voice still cracks. He stops mid-sentence. He looks away. Time passes, but some wounds are too deep to heal.
He tries to relive the last conversation with his late daughter, Dana, as he stands in a Chaifetz Arena concourse Wednesday night. The moment was a flash in time, something that could have been lived within a household anywhere in the country. The talk was about jeans. Dana had wanted to go out in a pair with holes cut around her knees. Her parents protested. Mom and Dad won. Dana changed. Bob said, "Thank you for doing that." Soon, little about the world was the same.
"Dana's memory will never be erased from either of our minds," Bob says now. "You don't ever lose a child."
There's a new normal after heartbreak. It's less complete than the rhythm known before. Wounds become scars, emotions become hidden but never forgotten, memories become ties to the past. A different life begins.
On Jan. 2, 1997, Dana Spencer died from severe head injuries sustained in a car accident less than a mile from her St. Louis home. She was bubbly, vivacious and loved to giggle. She was 16.
Dana's heart was donated to Justin Hughes, brother of former Saint Louis guard and NBA player Larry Hughes. Justin was born with a heart defect that required a pacemaker to be installed; he was 11 years old when given Dana's gift of life. A piece of her lived with him.
Over the years, the Hughes and Spencer families grew close. The Hughes family celebrated some of Dana's birthdays. Justin called Pattie, Dana's mother, his "heart mom." He graduated from high school and lived in an apartment of his own, before dying on May 11, 2006, at age 20 because of heart failure. He was given a chance to fulfill his dreams.
"They became family," says Larry, who was drafted eighth overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1998.
"Obviously, in the beginning, it was easier for us to accept. They were patient. They were understanding and accepted the fact that we were appreciative of what they gave us. Over the years, we just built a relationship. We look at them as family."
Wednesday, the families joined by two lives met again. During halftime of SLU's 72-45 victory over Eastern Illinois, the Spencers presented Hughes with a Donate Life Champion award from Mid-America Transplant Services and Donate Life America. It was given for his work in supporting organ and tissue donation through activities with The Larry Hughes Foundation. One heart. Many legacies.
"I think it's all about awareness, all about getting the word out there and touching as many people as possible," says Larry, sounds from the court lifting behind him. "Just understanding that one person can touch over 50 lives."
The numbers can startle. More than 115,000 Americans wait for a lifesaving organ transplant – including more than 1,300 in St. Louis. Eighteen people die each day in the United States because of a lack of organs for transplant. On average, 79 people receive a lifesaving organ transplant each day in this country. A single organ donor can save eight lives and enhance the quality of life for 50 more people through tissue donation.
There are ties to SLU basketball that show how widespread the need can be. Former coach Charlie Spoonhour, father of Eastern Illinois coach Jay Spoonhour, received a lung transplant and advocated organ donation. On Dec. 1, former coach Rick Majerus died in Los Angeles awaiting a heart transplant.
Life is fragile, a delicate mystery. Ask Larry why his family became close with the Spencers, and he'll admit it's hard to explain. They're bound by two memories, two young people who had so much more to give. Sometimes, pain provides a new path.
"Their connection is an emotional connection," says Tammy McLane, director of corporate communications at Mid-America Transplant Services. "It's an important one. It's a rare one. But I think it has had some very incredible healing benefit. … It has been a beautiful thing to see them in each other's lives."
Justin was a fighter, a strong worker and a tough spirit, someone who inspired Larry to raise awareness so others can be saved. Meanwhile, Dana was a gentle presence – "The light of our lives," Bob says – and someone whose soul lasted beyond her own.
"We've always been respectful of them and appreciative of the gift that they gave us," Larry says of the Spencers. "I think they genuinely saw that, accepted that. It wasn't anything made up. It was just bringing them into our family knowing they gave us a gift."
The wounds stay fresh, but so do some rewards. It was different than greeting his Dana, but Bob can't recall a time when Justin was without a smile. He and Pattie like to think the trait was a gift from their daughter. They like to think part of her never left.
They saw Justin grow for nine years, becoming a young man before their eyes. They took pride in watching him along the way. Later, when Justin's health declined, the Spencers took it hard. It was like losing Dana again.
"We hope," Bob says, "that this event will help enough people to choose to donate life and there will be other Justins who will live because of the things we're doing here."
There's always hope for tomorrow, even if the past is never gone. Sometimes, little about life is fair. Sometimes, it's best to say, "Thank you," for the time given and never, ever forget.
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Quite location, with room to wander, 3bdr brick comfortable home. 3 acre farmlet. Applicant would need to like animals. There's chooks, ( yes a few roosters) Horses, dogs cats etc. 10 mins to Churchill, 20 to morwell. Own car needed. Frequent buses, from down town. Odd occasion to farm sit in return for reduced rent. Own room, heat wall panel. One living area with coonarra. Share bathroom, but own shower and toilet. Laundry facilities. Wifi All inc. Off street parking, undercover behind locked farm gate if required. Applicant would need to be full time student or fulltime employed. Phone or text for all enquiries.
I will be starting my postgraduate studies at the Federation Uni in Churchill in early 2018. I am a non-smoker, neat and tidy person who love pets. I love going for nature walks and am an amateur hiker. Reading books tucked in bed is what I do, but I also like going out to explore and travel.
My name is Chantelle and I'm a 20 year old online student, studying professional writing and Toursim and am actively looking for part/full-time work. I am very tidy and like to keep to myself but love good company. I have a indoor/outdoor toilet trained kitten I can't let go of as i rescued her. I'm wanting to move back in the area as it's closer to my family and friends.
Hi, my names Skye, I'm a pretty chill person. I have 2 cats, Daenerys is just over a year old now and is deaf. Arwen is about 4 months old. Both my cats will have to be indoor cats. I can cook, and do not mind cleaning. I am a online student with Open colleges currently as well as studying with Fed uni on campus. I'm looking to move closer into town to make travelling easier. I am also an artist and sell my artwork.
I am a clean and respectful person starting my career as an electrical engineer. I am from Melbourne and love playing and listening to music, movies, cooking, and playing sports and games. I'm more than happy to help out around the house.
I'm a 26 year old female with a 4 year old son The property It's in the quiet part of town with elderly in the court and also other people with kids Room is fully furnished but if u have ur own bed that's awesome $150 includes water Electricity we split the bill :)
Rooms available from $160 per week. House is newly built in a great location, only 5min walk from shops and Morwell train station. All rooms are available fully furnished with all utilities included in the rent. The property has central heating, BIR in bedrooms, and shared bathroom. Full disability access is available. Bond is two weeks rent, and will be lodged with the RTBA. Would ideally suit professionals or students.
Property has under cover parking, Large back yard. Close to town. Ducted central heating, wood fire, large Smeg oven with 6 burner cooktop. Two living areas. Storage space available.
House has recently been built (June 2014) in a great spot in Morwell. Currently have one room available which has an ensuite and a walk in robe which is pretty spacious, would suit a full/part-time worker or Uni student as it is only a ten minute drive to the local Uni. Spacious bedroom is available with all appliances for Kitchen supplied. Garage spot is also available for an extra $10 per week. Bills are included with the weekly amount and internet is available as well! NBN internet! Great location and new modern house!! I am looking for someone neat/tidy, easy going to move in! If you have any questions, flick me an email!
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Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, since there is only one God,
who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
Romans 3:29-30
I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count,
from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:9
Bloodlines by John Piper
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"God's concern to include all the ethnic peoples of the world in his saving purposes – in his final, eternal family – is unbreakably linked with the two greatest realities in the universe: God's very being as one God and the way God has ordained to put sinners in the right with himself through justification in Christ. Ethnic diversity is not connected to God marginally. It's connected at the center – his infinite being and his single, glorious way of justifying sinners.
"As this sinks into our minds and hearts, the effect it should have is to change the way we think and feel about racial and ethnic diversity of the world and the church. We are constantly in danger of feeling (even when we are not thinking this way) that God is partial to our tribe – that he has a special liking for our ethnicity and cultural norms.
"This danger is especially present and unseen among majority cultures and majority ethnic groups. When we are in a very large majority, we do not even operate with the category of our own ethnicity. We are just human, so we are prone to think. Others have ethnicity. This makes us very vulnerable to the assumption that God is our God in a way that minimizes his being the God of other ethnic groups.
"May the astonishing way that Paul speaks in Romans 3:29-30 of justification by faith alone awaken us from this deadly assumption. And may it fill us with a sense of amazement at God's passion in the pursuit of all ethnic groups of the world. May we never forget that this pursuit is rooted in God's being one infinite God and in his justifying sinners in one glorious way through faith alone in the blood and righteousness of his Son, Jesus Christ."
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In Bloodlines (PDF – forward by Tim Keller), not only does Piper candidly confess that he was "manifestly" a racist as a teenager, he also repeatedly reminds his readers that he is not a model multiethnic urban pastor today. This is why, he says, he must cherish and cling to the cross – for it has defeated his ethnocentrism and offered manifold forgiveness to his formerly racist heart: "The Lord will be my judge someday. I will give an account to him of how I served him. I expect that as he goes down the list of the choices I have made, none will have a perfectly pure motivation, and many will appear as unwise in the bright light of his holiness. I hope I have been a good steward of my gifts and time. But my confidence in the judgment is not in that. It's in the perfection of Jesus that God has credited to me through faith and in the punishment Jesus endured for me. And I believe there will be in my overall ministry sufficient, imperfect fruits of love that witness that my union with Jesus by faith was real."


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Trey Songz and Keri Hilson's prefect life is turned upside down when she is deployed to war and has to leave him with their daughter.
After treating his fans with steamy music videos for "I Invented Sex" and "Say Aah", Trey Songz now debuts a tear-jerking clip in support of single "Yo Side of the Bed". In this clip, he is narrated as a married man to Keri Hilson. His life seems to be a perfect one until Keri is called to duty.
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Creamy Fruit Salad Recipe
With crowd-pleasing fruits like apples, bananas and grapes plus crunchy pecans, this wonderful salad doesn't last long on potluck buffets. I never bring home leftovers - just an empty bowl. -Bernice Morris, Marshfield, Missouri
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 1/3 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 tablespoon plus 1/4 cup lemon juice, divided
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped or 2 cups whipped topping
- 6 medium red apples, diced
- 6 medium firm bananas, sliced
- 3 cups halved green grapes
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1. In a heavy saucepan, combine orange and pineapple juices, sugar, egg and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat.
- 2. When cool, fold in the whipped cream. In a large serving bowl, toss apples with remaining lemon juice. Add bananas and grapes. Add the dressing; stir to coat. Refrigerate. Fold in pecans just before serving. Yield: 20 servings.
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Friends of Phoenix Special School in Keighley have received a £1,500 boost.
The cash has been donated by the Leeds City Exchange branch of Bluefin Insurance, as part of its Think Giving charity campaign.
Neil Hartley, Bluefin's branch director, said: "The Friends of Phoenix Special School are dedicated to improving the already exceptional care and support provided by the school. Their continued efforts have enriched the lives of local children and provided vital support for their parents.
"We are delighted to make this donation, which we hope will benefit the work of this terrific charity."
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well i know nothing of how or what to do, but when it is lifted, can i have it i am wanting to put a pool in my backyard
My eldest sister whose husband died on Christmas Eve, doesn't want the problem of caring for her perfectly good kidney-shaped fibreglass swimming pool, and is thinking about having it removed and the ground filled in.
Has anyone on AppleTalk done such a thing and can give advice and what the cost could be? She lives in Adelaide's northern suburbs. One thing she does know is that a crane would have to lift it over the house.
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well i know nothing of how or what to do, but when it is lifted, can i have it i am wanting to put a pool in my backyard
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I'd think a bit more about not removing it...
Removing it would certainly not be a cheap exercise by the time pool is gone and yard has been 'rebuilt'. I would suggest it would cost almost as much, if not more than the installation of the pool in the first place. If your sister doesn't want to look after it herself, she could pay someone to do it for her. I wouldn't expect that would cost too much over time, particularly compared to the removal of it.
The other thing I would consider is selling the house and moving to somewhere without a pool... It should certainly attract a higher sale price, and probably sell more readily with the pool.
Edit, I don't think she would get out of just the pool removal for under $8,000. Then start rebuilding the back yard... I've transported large palm trees a couple hundred kms on trucks, at a cost of $18,000 per tree for a landscape job I was involved in a few years ago. So yeah, it will not be cheap to lift a pool over a house and take it away.
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Cover it with a deck or something, or just empty it
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Do not just empty it!Originally posted by mac_man_luke@Jan 22 2006, 01:11 PM
just empty it
I was under the impression that if you just emptied the pool, the pressure from the surrounding earth would eventually cause the pool to collapse inside itself. This earth would have to come from somewhere, perhaps from under a path, the garage or even the house. Not something I would be willing to risk.
You could always just put big holes in the bottom and fill it with soil.
Fill it with hydroponics.
You'll be able to pay for the removal in no time at all.
Seriously I do not know why some would see this as an improvement that would increase your house price. Personally every way I look at it I see a reduction in value. Pools are a headache. Pools cost money now but are likely to both cost more and become more of a headache in future years, with new regulations regarding water use and storage etc.. Quite frankly I have known many people with pools and most of them have to employ someone to look after the pool for at least part of the year. Most of the year the pool is unused. Great for parties of course.. but then someone may always fall in and drown.
I still remember the time I found a ribbon floating on the water and when I grabbed it, found it attached to my sister's head. Her face was blue and I was too small to get her out of the water. Luckily I caught the attention of older boys and thus parents.. Ouch that was 50 years ago.
I'd go for filling it in and making a vege garden in it.. don't forget to drill the holes ^^
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just empty it
I was under the impression that if you just emptied the pool, the pressure from the surrounding earth would eventually cause the pool to collapse inside itself. This earth would have to come from somewhere, perhaps from under a path, the garage or even the house. Not something I would be willing to risk. [/b][/quote]
This is not necessarily so. However since sideways pressure is what holds the roof up and in the case of a pool there is no roof. I'd say it is more likely than not, unless the rigidity of the pool is sound. A smaller pool will survive sideways pressure for longer than a larger one.
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That's the best option. Cheaper than having it removed and the pool is still there as a feature when the house is sold. The council should be able to give advice on all the possible options.Originally posted by mac_man_luke@Jan 22 2006, 01:41 PM
Cover it with a deck or something
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The cost of buying a pool cover and then getting some one to come around every couple of months or more to maintain it for her over about 20 years, would probably cost no more then removing the pool. Also the pool will add value to the house.
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pools are basically maintenance free if you have a self-chlorinator, over winter i hardly do any thing to my parents pool
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Oh my......if ONLY you were in BRISBANE!!!!!
A kidney shaped pool....that can be emptied....ohhh yeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhh....drrrrooollllll....
You should keep it, teach your kids to skate...they will love you all the more and stay home 'til they are 39!!!!!!
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Oh my......if ONLY you were in BRISBANE!!!!!
A kidney shaped pool....that can be emptied....ohhh yeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhh....drrrrooollllll....
You should keep it, teach your kids to skate...they will love you all the more and stay home 'til they are 39!!!!!!
Errrr, ok?
But anyway I think a deck is the best option
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There are issues of course either way... how long does she intend staying in the house? That's probably the main question to ask. If she's considering downsizing in the next 5-10 years, it's probably not worth removing. If she doesn't want to maintain the pool, get a cheap bubble cover for it and talk to a pool shop. They'll help come up with a low-cost/time solution. If she wants to stay there indefinately, remove it. Might be able to sell the body if its ok and comes out in one piece. Will have a Lot of hole to fill though for a start. New plants etc don't have to cost the earth, if she's there for a long time she has time to get immature plants and watch them grow.
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the cheapest solution is to just keep it, cover it up with a deck.
you can remove by using a building contracter to remove the pool completely, pipes, concrete etc.
but you can also do a landfill which is the most common and is a cheaper solution. basically you disconnect the water pipes, remove electricals (if any), seal off pipes, then fill the pool with soil. contractors can perform this task, but it does cost a few thousand or so depending on the size of the pool, contract basis, hourly charges etc.
i am not too certain what your covering up, a full size pool or a spar of some sort. of course the smaller the easier.
but usually its pretty inexpensive and quick to have a landfill by a contractor. i wouldn't recomend doing it yourself because pools will have pipes, electrics etc so you can't just fill it in.
and of course contact your local council for approval
Think outside the box:
* Brick it in and add a stair = Wine cellar
* Only fill in half of the hole = garden pond
* Cover top with bars = 'The Hole' - where you put the grandchildren if they misbehave
* Use to breed bats = Personal unholy army of the night
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Thank you for the various suggestions they have been informative, I shall put them to my sister. She is aged 76 and too old, tired and dissillusioned with life from the recent death of her husband from mesothelioma (asbestos related lung cancer), to want to bother with deckings and the like, and her "children" have their own families and all live too far away to benefit from the pool or other facilities. I shall also give her the names of pool companies to ask their advice, though my own advice is that she keeps the pool and has someone to maintain it. Currently a neighbour is helping.
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This is by far the weirdest topic I have seen on ATAU yet!
Personally I would fill the pool with ice and beer and invite us all round for an uber party!
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Georgina, my fiance spoke to our neighbours yesterday while she was mowing their lawn (bought house in June... only just bought our own mower yesterday and thought would re-pay the times they have mowed our nature strip)... our neighbour had a pool in their front yard, didnt want it, spoke to someone at the local council who managed to arrange for the roads-dept to fill it with soil from road works in the area... free of charge... may have just been good timing, but certainly worth a shot.
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That sort of thing may happen if you happen to know someone who knows someone, who knows that your pool is closer than the dumping site the council would have had to drive the fill to. Thus saving the council money in transport.
Yes it is a case of good timing but I'd suggest that the husband of the lady next door .. knows someone or drives a council truck..
At 76 she may be better off to put the house on the market and get a small unit.
My wife's parents did that and were very happy.
1. no more large garden to look after
2. no more large house to clean
3. A lot of other elderly people do the same thing, so they were closer to all their old friends(retirement village)
4. they left the pool and the pool maintenance behind and moved on.
5. most of such units are kitted out with all the emergency alarms and things, with help available nearby. They are generally built to acommodate elderly people.
why are you reading this?
My sister although 76 and with health problems, is hyperactive, and would go nuts in a retirement village with nothing to do. She relates to her neighbours very well (has gates to them through the back and side fences), but doesn't have any social skills to mix with others. She went to a day place last week and told me there was nothing they do which appeals to her. I think she needs more time to get over the death of her husband before any concrete life changing decisions are made. She isn't someone you can push to do things with out a severe reaction. Thus the swimming pool is on hold.
Meanwhile I went into the Royal Adelaide Hospital yesterday for an angiogram, and spent the night in a nursing home to recover and be monitored. They have a special unit where they keep rooms available for people of all ages who need observation without the need for taking a hospital bed. A beautiful and spacious home like a quality hotel compared to the one my mother is in, but certainly not an environment you would want to live permanently unless you can't look after yourself any more. And yuk, they had a row of PC's for people to use, not a Mac in sight!
PS: With my angiogram I don't know the result yet, I suffered chest pains while it was being undertaken, and in the recovery room while a nurse put pressure on my groin for nearly half an hour to clot the blood and seal the artery, my blood pressure crashed and another nurse called out for a drug to inject into me. Passing out I wasn't able to respond to her telling me to speak to her, all told not a good day. It was interesting that the three nurses with me wore goggles in case the artery spurted!!!
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Given his experience with the scale and style of the Potter movies, Tarzan seems like something at which Yates could excel, especially if it gives him the chance to stretch other filmmaking muscles.
Tarzan is one of the most enduring characters ever created, and has cropped up in numerous forms on both big and small screens, as well as comic books and novels, all sprung from Edgar Rice Burroughs' original tales. Several directors have come and gone on this one, including Craig Brewer, Stephen Sommers and even Guillermo del Toro. While we'd still love to see Del Toro's take in particular, we're happy if Yates truly has the job. And we're intrigued to see how a new Tarzan would work, especially after last year's Edgar Rice Burroughs effort, John Carter, met a rather hostile reception. Can the king of the swingers still command an audience? We hope so.
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I tried to make the subject descriptive enough, but it's kinda hard to explain
What I am facing is what I think is a bug in caching of document objects. Ill try to explain below.
I have a view script containing a multihref element, which I use to generate a very basic navigation of sorts ( slightly simplified ):
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<?php if ($this->editmode): ?>
<?php echo $footerExtra ?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php foreach($footerExtra as $element): ?>
<a href="<?php echo $element->getFullPath(); ?>" title="<?php echo $element->getTitle(); ?>"><?php echo $element->getName(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
I then retrieve the document via a predefined property ( document type ), and display it using the inc() helper:
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$footerDoc = $this->document->getProperty("footerDoc");
if($footerDoc instanceof Document_Page) {
// Option 1: This works, but doesn't show the multihref content
// echo $this->inc($footerDoc);
// Option 2: This works, and includes the multihref content
echo $this->inc($footerDoc->getId());
I commented which method does work and which doesn't. When I pass the Document_Page as parameter the multihref remains empty (option 1). When I get it's id and pass that along the multihref loads as it should (option 2).
Another way to make it work is to use option 1 and passing the nocache parameter in the url ( or turning it off in the code, by unregistering the plugin or such ). Note: I have output-caching turned of in the settings.
I've also tried to use ZF's action() helper and passing the document as parameter, which yields the same result as option 1.
So reloading the document, which is what happens when you pass an id unstead of a Document_Page as inc() parameter, does load the multihref ( option 2 ).
Am I doing anything wrong? Or did I stumble on a bug?
I must admit this is the first project where I use this technique, and only the third project I built using Pimcore ( of which none are online still xD ), so it could just be my newbism getting in the way. That said, I'm planning on using Pimcore for a lot of projects in the (near) future, so I'd love to learn all there is to it.
Thanks in advance!


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Victor Gonzalez earned his first victory of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo North America season, winning Round 8 in rainy conditions Sunday, July 13 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.
Gonzalez earned the top honor in his No. 99 Gallardo LP 570-4 Super Trofeo representing Lamborghini Carolinas and fielded by Change Racing with a victory of 7.536 seconds over first-time series co-drivers Aaron Povoledo and Corey Lewis in the No. 76 Musante Motorsport entry representing Lamborghini Boston.
Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Europe driver Thomas Pichler rounded out the top three finishers in the Lamborghini Dallas entry fielded by Jota Corse.
"I love Canada," Gonzalez said. "That's the only thing I can say while I'm here. I had a great moment and great result, and the hard work from everyone on the team really paid off. This is only my second time in the series, and the car worked perfect.
Championship leader Kevin Conway finished fourth in the No. 29 Change Racing entry representing Lamborghini Carolinas. He leads John Farano, 88-58, with four rounds remaining.
Round 7 winner Dillon Machavern finished first in the Amateur class in the No. 07 Lamborghini fielded by Mitchum Motorsports. Machavern started on the pole but was pushed out in Turn 8 early on the first lap. Gonzalez, who started second, then led the rest of the way except for the mandatory pit stop cycle.
Gonzalez led by 29 seconds with 20 minutes remaining in the 50-minute race and managed his lead carefully over the closing laps.
The No. 88 Lamborghini Vancouver entry driven by David Welch and fielded by GMG Racing finished second in the Amateur class, followed by Lee Carpentier in the No. 80 Lamborghini Palm Beach fielded by Mitchum Motorsports.
While it was Gonzalez's first win of the season in only his second weekend with the series, he is no stranger to the podium. He finished second in Round 7 yesterday at CTMP and second in Round 6 in late June at Watkins Glen. The win today propelled him to third in the points standings with 45 points,
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VICTOR GONZALEZ (Winner, No. 99 Lamborghini Carolinas): "I love Canada. That's the only thing I can say while I'm here. I had a great moment and great result, and the hard work from everyone on the team really paid off. They did an unbelievable job. This is only my second time in the series, and the car worked perfect. I never thought the all-wheel drive would be good. I never thought the Pirelli tires would hold until the end, but they did. Thanks to Robby Benton and Eddie Littlefield for giving me the opportunity, to all the guys on the crew and to Lamborghini Super Trofeo for having me here."
COREY LEWIS (Second, No. 76 Lamborghini Boston): "Never having been here in the wet, I didn't know what to expect driving-wise and car-wise. But the Musante team did a fantastic job setting the car up for us. The first opening laps were a lot more entertaining than I ever expected. We just kept pushing and got ourselves up to second. I handed the car off to Aaron (Povoledo), and he drove his butt off to get us back up to second. All in all, a great team effort. I love the series, and it's a blast to drive these cars. I hope to be able to continue on and do the rest of the season, if possible. Awesome series and thank you to them for letting me be here."
AARON POVOLEDO (Second, No. 76 Lamborghini Boston): "My stint was an absolute riot. But I do have to apologize to the entire team for probably costing us the win today. I thought we had to wait two minutes in the pits, and the rule is a minute, 30 seconds. So I came out of the pits with the gap to the leader plus those extra 30 seconds. In the end, we chased them down, but we probably should have won. I had to learn really quick what the track was like. All the other drivers had been out there for 30 minutes and knew the conditions. On one hand, I'm elated to be finishing on the podium in our first weekend here for the team from Musante/Courtney Racing, but at the same time I'm disappointed we didn't get the win because I think we proved we deserved one. The entire team did a killer job."
THOMAS PICHLER (Third, No. 1 Lamborghini Dallas): "The race was good, but in the last four minutes I had problems with the gearbox. I had to stay in third gear for two laps and ended in third place. This was my very first time with this car, and I needed the time to get used to it. Yesterday was good, but today I felt more comfortable with the car. It was a good weekend here with Lamborghini."
DILLON MACHAVERN (First Amateur, No. 07): "Well, I started P1 overall but unfortunately got pushed out in Turn 8. So from there I was just humming through slower traffic. The car wasn't as good as yesterday, being in the rain today, and we had a push that we weren't expecting. Still P1 in Amateurs, so I'm happy with that. Overall, the weekend was great, and I really enjoyed it. Mitchum this weekend was sponsored by G1 Tour, which takes supercars like Lamborghinis and helps people realize their dreams. Seventy to 80 percent of its fleet are Lamborghinis, so it was a natural progression to partner with them. We wanted to come out here and promote them on their home soil and were able to bring home a couple of wins for them."
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LEE CARPENTIER (Third Amateur, No. 80 Lamborghini Palm Beach): "Awesome job by Mitchum Motorsports, West Palm Beach Lamborghini. Really good job. Again, really tight racing. We had really heaving rain that tapered off at the end. We were leading the race in the Amateur class for about 90 percent of the race until we got taken out in the last corner and ended up being P3 in class. It's hard to swallow but still a good result for the team. Overall weekend, two podiums - can't be mad about that."
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We pulled into the Glen Rouge parking lot, in the shadow of Highway 401 and Port Union Road, on a grey, balmy Toronto winter day.
Warm weather had turned recent snowfalls to slush, and last autumn's leaves stained the icy puddles brown.
Two city workers, tinkering with a sanding truck, didn't raise an eye as we yanked bulging backpacks from our car, donned cleated snowshoes and set off. Minutes later we passed a young woman walking a golden retriever. She was the last person we'd see until reaching Steeles Avenue, 10 kilometres away, the following afternoon.
With me was Fraser – an enthusiastic Mountain Equipment Co-op employee and, until recently, a total stranger. But he was the only person who responded (positively, anyway) to my search for a companion on an opaquely described mission: camping, during wintertime, in Metro Toronto.
Ahead lay the forests and ravines of the still-to-be-minted Rouge National Urban Park, amid Toronto's eastern suburbs. The goal was to wander from one end to the other, and experience just how "wild" this landscape is firsthand.
Since a 2011 Conservative campaign pledge to study the viability of a national park in the Rouge, this municipal ravine has become a media darling – a teenage pop star, if you will, amid Parks Canada's aging line up of dinosaur rockers.
I wanted to answer the unspoken question on many minds: Can a metropolitan park hold its own among Canada's storied family of national parks? More accurately – because comparing an urban oasis with profoundly wild realms isn't fair – I wanted to gauge whether the so-called "People's Park" offers a viable glimmer of hope for the future. Landlocked by concrete, and lying within an hour's drive of seven-million people, is the Rouge a feel-good publicity stunt for a government with a floundering environmental reputation? Or could it begin to address the burgeoning disconnect between Canada's suburban populations and the natural spaces that define our nation?
Less than a century ago, a series of deeply incised, heavily wooded ravines bisected Toronto's landscape, stretching north from Lake Ontario like a tangle of green arteries. Decades of development have steadily shrunk, clogged and atrophied those natural conduits. Many streams disappeared from sight, routed underground in concrete viaducts. Others have been paved. Today, just one significant splash of green remains: the Rouge.
Within its boundaries lie one of Canada's last remaining stands of Carolinian forest. The region is one of extraordinary biodiversity, and while lacking charismatic megafauna, it rivals anywhere in the country for raw number of species present.
For decades, grassroots volunteers have fought to protect the Rouge. As early as 1987, the idea of a national park was floated, but at the time, Parks Canada was simply not interested. (Instead, a patchwork of protected and conservation areas was established, managed by the City of Toronto.) Today tells a different story. With visitation numbers plummeting and its budget slashed, Parks Canada is seeking innovative ways to extend its reach and renew its relevance.
"Are you packing bear spray?" my wife had asked days earlier, as I crammed a sleeping bag, stove and tent into my luggage for a Toronto business trip. "For people," she added, when I looked at her questioningly.
At my luxury hotel in downtown Toronto, I organize tea, sugar, pasta and oatmeal into plastic baggies. It feels odd yet utterly exhilarating to pack for a wilderness trip while looking out over city lights. The next day, after a lunchtime presentation, I peel off my dress shirt and pants in a parkade, then pull on a fleece, hiking boots and tuque in place.
But as I race along the 401, doubts surface. A tangle of concrete, traffic and buildings run as far as the eye can see. How could there be any hint of wilderness among all this? Were my hopes and expectation – for this trip and, more importantly, for the new Urban National Park itself – too high? Not until my GPS shows I am minutes from the park boundary does the first greenery appear: a sprinkling of farmers' fields, and amid them, a solitary white pine.Report Typo/Error
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First, SPMetal is good. It's very good. Much better than life without it. It encourages more object-oriented programming (instead of XML string oriented programming - blech!)
That said, SPMetal falls short of awesome by just a hair.
Ideally, one would be able to generate models from local CAML files instead of having to deploy the content types first since I assume it's best practice for organizations to deploy the content types from CAML files for consistency. It seems backwards from a development perspective to have to deploy your content types and then be able to generate models to write code.
Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure
I spent half a day at the Philly .NET Code Camp and ended up attending only two sessions (weather was too nice outside to be sitting inside on a Saturday :-D). By chance, I saw Alvin Ashcraft's name on the list of presenters when I showed up, so I was hoping I'd get to meet him in person. But he was seemingly absent from his early morning session.
One of the two sessions I attended was on Windows Azure; it was an excellent presentation given by Dave Isbitski. I've dabbled with it a bit early on in the CTP and was not particularly impressed. Since then, I've continued to read up on it on and off. The one thing that I took away from today's session was that Azure is not enterprise ready (yet) and perhaps isn't meant to be?
To understand why, consider your account management and login experience: it's all tied to Windows Live IDs. Yes, that's right. Windows Live IDs. This means that your enterprise password and account naming policies can't be enforced. Your enterprise password complexity and history rules are not applicable. Furthermore, what happens if the person who owns or creates a new Live ID leaves the company? Perhaps she'd be nice enough to hand over the password info, but what if this person were hit by a bus? I think this is a big problem. What if she has a grudge? And just how secure are Windows Live IDs?
Account management is another issue. As it is, it requires entering in credit card information. This doesn't scream "enterprise" to me. You'd think there would be an ability to link accounts to company by company billing accounts (I dunno, maybe via a company's MSDN license?) There's also no concept of hierarchical account linking and instance management. This means that I can't even associate multiple Live IDs with one account and set granular permissions on the instances that each account can control (for example, Steve's account can manage these two worker roles while Joe's account manages this web role). What it boils down to is the wild, wild west of account management; there's no global view for a company to monitor usage across multiple accounts.
While there are a host of other issues (the ability to create data (SQL log exports and external replication are not supported, for example) and image backups) that affect enterprise adoption, perhaps the biggest one, in my opinion, is the big question mark of how these systems can be validated. Whether you're working with clients in the financial industry or perhaps insurance or life sciences (like me), enterprise systems will need to be validated and certified. I see this is a big challenge for adoption in life sciences due to the strict validation requirements for software systems.
At the end of the day, I can kind of see where Microsoft is going with this if you compare it to Google Apps, for example. But the key differentiator to me has always been that Microsoft always represented the enterprise while Google perhaps better represents the entrepreneur and the tinkerer. While both approaches are needed, it does add some difficulty in terms of evaluting Azure for enterprise usage given that the current implementation of some of the core features are not very enterprise friendly.
That said, it's still an exciting platform. I've got a few things brewing and I'll be keeping the blog updated as I complete my experiments.
Obama Increases Funding for Prompt Global Strike
Bear with me here for some politics 😉
Caught an interesting article last night regarding increased investment in a new weapons program to complement the decrease in the nuclear arsenal.
The administration has asked Congress for $240 million for next year's Prompt Global Strike development programs, a 45 percent increase from the current budget. The military forecasts a total of $2 billion in development costs through 2015 -- a relative bargain by Pentagon standards.
Nuclear arms have formed the backbone of U.S. deterrence strategy for six decades. Although the strategy worked during the Cold War, military leaders say they need other powerful weapons in their arsenal to deter adversaries who assume that the United States would refrain from taking the extreme step of ordering a nuclear strike.
"Deterrence can no longer just be nuclear weapons. It has to be broader," Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a leading proponent of Prompt Global Strike, told a conference last month.
Some U.S. military officials say their current non-nuclear options are too limited or too slow. Unlike intercontinental ballistic missiles, which travel at several times the speed of sound, it can take up to 12 hours for cruise missiles to hit faraway targets. Long-range bombers likewise can take many hours to fly into position for a strike.
"Today, unless you want to go nuclear, it's measured in days, maybe weeks" until the military can launch an attack with regular forces, Cartwright said. "That's just too long in the world that we live in."
This is encouraging and I like it. After reading some of the comments on CNN.com on the new START treaty, I started to wonder if some of those posters lived in the same reality. A lot of folks seem to be stuck in the Cold War mentality. Today, our economy is deeply intertwined with that of China and our European allies depend heavily on Russia for oil, natural gas, and Russia's vast diamond supply (well, and hot women, too).
The problem with a nuclear arsenal as a deterrent is that it has no effect in an asymmetrical war against a stateless, nationless, enemy; the enemy already knows that we can't and won't use them due to the collateral damage to civilian populations and nuclear fallout that would result. Prompt Global Strike gives us the ability to deliver munitions with the same expediency as ICBMs do without all of the nasty side effects. Effectively, it becomes a weapon that we can actually deploy and use rather than a stockpile of nuclear arms that I simply cannot foresee us ever using.
However, it's not without its own dangers (at least until a proper protocol is designed):
Although it is technically simple to replace nuclear warheads on a missile with conventional ones, Prompt Global Strike has been dogged by a significant problem: how to ensure that Russia could tell the difference if a launch occurred.
Because it's basically a modified ICBM with a non-nuclear warhead, new protocols are needed to ensure that launching one of these isn't going to trigger an accidental nuclear response. The article mentions some options on the table including lower trajectories, higher trajectories, pre-launch communication with nuclear powers, etc.
Many have decried the START treaty as "weakening" the US. However, this fails to consider that the US and Russia today hold over 90% of the worlds nuclear armaments and the new START treaty reduces this from 2200 to only 1550 - still plenty to flatten most of the world's major cities. Ultimately, as Air Force General Kevin Chilton says, the Prompt Global Response missile system gives "an additional weapon in the quiver of the president to give him options in time of crisis today, in which he maybe only has a nuclear option for a timely response."
The wiki article has some pretty gnarly details on how it can be deployed:
- Ballistic missiles, based on either the ICBM or SLBM
- Hypersonic cruise missiles, such as the Boeing X-51
- Air launched missiles
- Space based launch platforms
Very interesting indeed. As a Command in Chief, working in concert with Gates to realign our military spending and investments in addition to changing our international persona (especially in predominantly Muslim nations and with our European allies), Obama has been miles ahead of Bush in my book.
jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores
I happened upon jsTree a few months back while searching for a solid jQuery based tree.
Without a doubt, it is one of the most well implemented and functional Javascript trees I've used with perhaps the most powerful feature being the built-in support for client-side XML representations of the tree and the ability to add arbitrary metadata to the tree using the Sarissa library.
While the tree itself is extremely powerful, some of the documentation is actually out of date and made my implementation of the tree a bit more tasking than it should have been.
For example, the option for initializing the tree with a static XML string (as demonstrated here) actually requires using staticData instead of static in the latest version. Adding metadata to the tree is also made far more complicated by the documentation and examples I found online.
In reality, the datastore implementation for the nested XML support is powerful enough to extract arbitrary DOM attributes (online posts seem to indicate that you need to use the custom metadata plugin and/or the jQuery metadata plugin). You can see in the sample below, that I set the attribute "md" to an encoded JSON string (you'll want to do this for when you reload the tree as a Javascript string) and then retrieve the value as a part of the XML by specifying the attributes to collect:
/*--- test adding data ---*/ $("#test").click(function() { var t = $.tree.focused(); if (!t.selected) { return; } /*--- sets a person on the node ---*/ var person = { "FirstName": $("#firstName").val(), "LastName": $("#lastName").val(), "Age": $("#age").val() }; var serialized = JSON.stringify(person); /*--- sample of adding an arbitrary attribute at the DOM level ---*/ t.selected.attr("md", encodeURI(serialized)); /*--- ...and how to retrieve it in XML ---*/ var opts = {}; opts.outer_attrib = ["id", "rel", "class", "md"]; var xml = t.get(null, "xml_nested", opts) $("#xml-d").text(xml); $("#treeXml").val(encodeURI(xml)); });
In real usage, you'd assign some more meaningful values to the metadata and save it. I find that with a library like this, it's probably easier to just save the whole XML string and that's simple enough by just pushing the XML to a hidden input before submitting the form (as I've done in the last line).
Mahr Mohyuddin has a much more complex and more generic implementation of ASP.NET integration here, but I think that might be more complexity than is needed. In practice, it makes more sense to use full JSON objects on the client side (as I've used above) and embed them into the attribute and then, using the JavaScriptSerializer class, extract the objects into domain objects on the server side. Here's an example:
string xmlString = Uri.UnescapeDataString(treeXml.Value); XDocument xml = XDocument.Parse(xmlString); // Get all the <items/>. var items = from x in xml.Descendants() where x.Name == "item" select x; List<Person> people = new List<Person>(); JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer(); // Resolve the paths and Person instances. foreach(var item in items) { string[] parts = item.AncestorsAndSelf() .Select(a => a.Descendants("name").First().Value) .Reverse().Skip(1).ToArray(); string path = string.Join("/", parts); if(item.Attribute("md") == null) { continue; // Next iteration. } string serializedPerson = Uri.UnescapeDataString(item.Attribute("md").Value); Person p = serializer.Deserialize<Person>(serializedPerson); p.OrgPath = path; people.Add(p); } _people.DataSource = people; _people.DataBind();
Nothing fancy here; the only thing of note is the little LINQ query to resolve the node path (may or may not be useful).
The Person class is also very simple and barebones:
using System; namespace JsTreeSample { /// <summary> /// Models a person. /// </summary> /// <remarks> /// Serializable to support deserialization from JSON. /// </remarks> [Serializable] public class Person { private string _orgPath; private int _age; private string _firstName; private string _lastName; public string FirstName { get { return _firstName; } set { _firstName = value; } } public string LastName { get { return _lastName; } set { _lastName = value; } } public int Age { get { return _age; } set { _age = value; } } public string OrgPath { get { return _orgPath; } set { _orgPath = value; } } } }
The full project is included. Some usage notes: select a node first and then enter a first name, last name, and age. Then click "Set Data" to create a Person object at the node (this will also show the full XML of the tree). Then click Submit to send the data (displays in a repeater).
Definitely check out jsTree for your next project; it's amazingingly versatile and rich in functionality.
SharpZipLib and ASP.NET
I recently had to write a search-driven component to extract and export documents from a SharePoint repository. It presented a challenge since many examples on the web start from the premise of a file system and not binary streams.
I settled upon SharpZipLib, an excellent and fairly easy to use library, but found the documentation quite lacking, particularly around creating a zip file to a stream (like an ASP.NET output response stream).
I put together a little sample just to test it out and finally got it working after struggling with it for a good 30 minutes. This sample creates a zip package using an embedded resource (text file) for simplicity. In practice, you can just modify the implementation of the GetBinaryContent helper method. Note that when adding multiple files, you do a "put" first and then a "write".
using System; using System.IO; using System.Reflection; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip; namespace SharpZipLibTest { public partial class _Default : Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { string fileName = "package.zip"; // Clear the response. Response.Clear(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"; Response.Charset = ""; Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", string.Format("attachment; filename={0}", fileName)); using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) using (var zip = new ZipOutputStream(ms)) { byte[] fileBuffer = GetBinaryContent(); // Write to the zip package. var entry = new ZipEntry("helloworld.txt"); entry.DateTime = DateTime.Now; entry.Size = fileBuffer.Length; zip.PutNextEntry(entry); zip.Write(fileBuffer, 0, fileBuffer.Length); // Repeat for each file /* for(...) { var entry = new ZipEntry("..."); zip.PutNextEntry(entry); zip.Write(...); } */ zip.Flush(); zip.Finish(); byte[] output = ms.ToArray(); // Write the final output to the response stream. Response.OutputStream.Write(output, 0, output.Length); } // End the response. Response.Flush(); Response.End(); HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest(); } /// <summary> /// Gets the binary content to send. /// </summary> /// <returns>The byte array containing the binary content.</returns> private byte[] GetBinaryContent() { string resourceName = "SharpZipLibTest.helloworld.txt"; byte[] fileBuffer; using (Stream s = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly() .GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName)) { // Read the file stream into a buffer. fileBuffer = new byte[s.Length]; s.Read(fileBuffer, 0, fileBuffer.Length); } return fileBuffer; } } }
The full project file is attached and runnable.


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Denver's Dangerous Theatre to Stage BRIDGES TO NOWHERE, 10/11-11/16
Denver's Dangerous Theatre presents Bridges to Nowhere, written by Jonathan Vick and directed by Winnie Wenglewick, featuring Scott Croushore, Winnie Wenglewick, Jessica Tatham and Ben Pelayo. The show runs October 11 - November 16, 2013, Fridays at 9:00 and Sundays at 3:00. Ticket Price: $10.00.
Playwright and author Jonathan Vick is a master at portraying the darker side of human nature with characters who are believable in a manner that is both comic genius and disturbing. "Bridges to Nowhere" is three scenes set on a pier on a lake. All the scenes look at the complicated mess family relationships can sometimes be. All look at how children are messed up by their parents in one way or another.
In "A Bridge to Nowhere is Just a Pier" Caleb and Adara, brother and sister, are brought back together after 11 years. It was Mom who separated them, and it was Mom who brought them back together. In "The Ghost of a Thousand Regrets" Uncle Patrick and his 13 year old niece Lindsey have a relationship that is, umm, nontraditional. Can you deny fate and destiny? Whose idea is this anyway? What to do with Lindsey's dad in the bloody laundry bag? In "Fish Food and Worm Shit" Connie May is a serial killer who makes no apologies and has no regrets. She was just taking out the trash. Silas is a forensic psychologist who wants to know all about her to learn about the female serial killer mind. Or does he? Is being a killer something you become, or is it in your blood? Is the history of the world really just the story of the psychopaths who came before?
WARNING: Adult content, violence, language and presentation of (consensual) illegal and/or immoral relationships.
Denver's Dangerous Theatre is located at 2620 W. 2nd Ave #1, Denver, CO 80219. Reservations: 720-233-4703 or Online ticketing: http://dangeroustheatre.ticketleap.com. For more information, visit www.DangerousTheatre.com.


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by Alex Kava
No current Talk conversations about this book.
3 Stars
Gives the impression that Kava was asked to churn out a book in a rush and this was the rather hurried result.
The identity of the killer is revealed pretty early and his initial motivation is obvious. For some reason, his undergoes a personality change toward the end that has no real foundation
That said, the plot revolving around the discovery of body parts in a fishing cooler is compelling and the idea of someone carving up people for their body parts is exceedingly creepy. The story ends a little abruptly and a more detailed explanation would have wrapped things up more coherently.
As for being another installment in the Maggie O'Dell series, Damaged offers absolutely nothing in the way of character development or additions to Maggie's ongoing conflict with her new superior or her relationship with her half-brother, Patrick.
Unfortunately, this series seems to be dying a miserable death.
Met veel verwachtingen ben ik het boek Slachtoffers van Alex Kava gaan lezen. Gezien haar vorige boeken uit de reeks waren de verwachtingen zelfs hoog gespannen. Een voortrazende orkaan die weldra aan land verschijnt en een grote obscure organensmokkel, zijn twee ingrediënten die voor een bloedstollende thriller hadden kunnen zorgen. Helaas worden de verhaallijnen zo magertjes uitgewerkt, doorzie je de gebeurtenissen al heel snel en is de dader vrij vlot te lokaliseren, zodat er van spanning weinig tot niets overblijft. Met Slachtoffers haalt ze bij lange na niet het niveau zoals we van Kava gewend zijn. Positief punt: een verhaal dat met veel vaart gelezen wordt, maar daardoor ook een thriller is die niet lang zal blijven hangen.
This thriller is a fast read. Not because it's short, but because it's so hard to put down non-stop action. The short chapters, mostly five to six pages long, move the reader through the book like the hurricane sweeps through the story.
Hurricane Isaac is heading straight for Pensacola, Florida. It has already hit Jamaica as a category-4 storm, which means its winds were 131 to 155 miles per hour and caused "devastating" damage, killing dozens of people. It soon picks up to a catagory-5 with winds 156 miles per hour or greater and capable of causing "catastrophic" damage.
Some residents of Pensacola—the ones who rode out the last storm—don't believe it will hit dead on, but most of the area is evacuating. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Bailey, a twenty-seven-year-old Coast Guard rescue swimmer and veteran of Hurricane Katrina, is part of a team who discovers a floating cooler of horror, full of body parts. They're not even all from the same body.
Meanwhile…Maggie O'Dell, FBI special agent and profiler, returns from a bloody shootout to be sent by her unfriendly boss into the hurricane's path to help investigate the discovery. No time to recover.
Meanwhile…Colonel Benjamin Platt, an infectious disease expert and a guy Maggie would like to have as more than a friend, is sent to the same area to see if he can figure out what's happening to cause some mysterious deaths among military patients.
Meanwhile…a funeral director named Scott, who is Elizabeth Bailey's brother-in-law, is getting himself involved in something that he knows should make him a lot of money. He doesn't exactly realize what it is though.
The threads are woven together expertly against the backdrop of the impending storm, which is picking up power and heading straight for all these characters. The climax will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Reviewed by Kaye George, author of "Choke" for Suspense Magazine
Maggie O'Dell doesn't exactly get along with her new boss and he doesn't exactly like her or so it seems so when she is needed in Florida where body parts are found floating in the Gulf Coast - she's sent - no worries about the Cat 5 hurricane heading her way. Meanwhile her friend Col Benjamin Platt also ends up in Florida to assist when the doctors at a military hospital are baffled by a slew of unexplainable sick soldiers - many who succomb to their illnesses. Of course, the two mysteries intertwine and bisect each other.
I like that Platt has become a character in the novels, but has remained on the periphery. I'm not sure I want Maggie to become involved. I think a romantic entanglement will take away from the mysteries and the mysteries are why I read these novels.
Kava is a good writer and I have enjoyed many of her previous Maggie O'Dell tales but this one was, literally, forgetable. Damaged was in my TBR pile and it was only when I picked it up and examined the maps that it rang a vague bell as the intriguing name 'Florida panhandle' once again caught my attention.
Maggie is in Pensacola [only in America, sounds like some sort of soft drink] investigating a chest full of body parts the coast guard found out at sea - and at the same time Colonel Benjamin Platt, her love interest, is at the military base. Gulf war veterans are dying there and the place is in lock down - Maggie is unwelcome despite needing access to vital information.
Whats more, a hurricane is heading their way - time to batten down the hatches or, better still, get out of town. naturally though Maggie stays to confront medical mishaps, sinsister and unethical undertakers and murder most foul. A huge dfisappointment, and the most memorable thing about the book was the maps.
References to this work on external resources.
Wikipedia in English
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385531990, Hardcover)Steve Berry Reviews Damaged
Steve Berry is the author of six thrillers in the bestselling Cotton Malone series (The Templar Legacy, The Alexandria Link, The Venetian Betrayal, The The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Paris Vendetta, and The Emperor's Tomb), and three stand-alone thrillers (The Amber Room, The Romanov Prophecy, and The Third Secret). Read his guest review of Damaged:
Alex Kava is a master. Her heroine, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell, is one of the classic characters of the thriller genre. Maggie's adventures have taken her to small-town America, and into the Catholic Church, bringing her face-to-face with some sick individuals. But that's her job. She's a criminal profiler. And good at it. Now, in Damaged, Maggie is thrust into the eye of an impending monster hurricane to track down another killer.
Alex Kava has a knack for the macabre. This time she hooks the reader when a fishing cooler is found floating in the Gulf of Mexico filled with a human torso, one foot, and three hands, all tightly wrapped in plastic. Despite the fact that a Category 5 hurricane is just off shore, and headed her way, Maggie is sent to investigate. Resources are limited. All law enforcement is focused on evacuation and emergency preparations. It's Maggie's job to find out what's going on, but when she discovers that the remains belong to a man who mysteriously disappeared weeks earlier, after another hurricane hit on Florida's Atlantic Ocean side, the real trouble begins.
There's a ton more to this story, but I don't want to give away too much. Let's just say that it's unexpected. Once again Alex Kava has concocted a tale similar to speeding at a hundred miles an hour down a giant slalom course, with all its associated twists and turns. The whole thing starts fast and gets faster. Maggie O'Dell is a brilliant and complicated heroine--at once witty, smart, and detailed, but always highly entertaining. Damaged is a book from a writer who knows how to deliver exactly what readers want. Alex Kava is in the top echelon of suspense masters and this one is not to be missed.
Questions for Alex Kava on Damaged
Q: Where did the inspiration for Damaged come from? Why did you decide to send Maggie O'Dell into the path of a deadly hurricane?
Q: You write in great detail about FBI processes and forensic investigations. How did you do research in these areas?
Q: In Damaged, you write about the black market for human organs. Where did that idea come from and how did you research?
Q: Tell us about Maggie O'Dell. Where did the inspiration for her character come from, and is she based on a real life person?
Q: Critics and fans alike have found your heroine, Special Agent Maggie O'Dell, very appealing. What is it about her that readers can't get enough of?
Q: What's next? Can you give us a preview of your next novel, and will we see more of Maggie O'Dell?
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Glorious Drops
Released an addon called Glorious Drops and was surprised unlike my first addon it has a good chunk of downloads for 2 days but no feedback at all in the comments.
What do you guys think?, other than its simple and does what its supposed to.
btw its on Curse as well:
A lack of comments usually means you did a good job of testing, and there aren't any bugs. ;)
Wrote it in 3-4 hours the other day when I got tired of alt tabbing out to try and see what dropped from each different rare.
While writing the addon I was camping Nalash Verdantis and after seeing it 3 times I got Hollow Reed
I'm only missing credit for Go-Kan for my Glorious! achievement as well. Me and a guildie are usually just flying around in heroics ques killing em all.
well, visit curse again, u have lua errors in that addon,
i am amateur and when trying to fix this one /sended u pm/, i just got other one :)
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