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ALISO VIEJO, CA--(Marketwire - January 15, 2013) - MY TrueCloud extends its best-in-class web-conferencing solution to include Skype participants in support of our customers' drive to collaborate with their partners using Skype. Many small to medium size companies rely on Skype for their conferencing needs due to ease of use and no associated costs. However, the lack of security around Skype limits its ability to be used in situations requiring adherence to data privacy regulations and safeguarding proprietary information. MY Web Conferences extends above military-grade 2-Factor Authentication Security to Skype participants by issuing a One-Time Password ("OTP") via a simple meeting invitation generated by the meeting host. Once a Skype participant enters the OTP, the participant can now actively participate in a secure web meeting.
MY Web Conferences is built on the same principles found in Skype -- ease of use with no web or phone usage fees. MY Web Conferences supports both Voice-Over-IP (such as Skype) and land lines. A company decides the best form of communication access needed to conduct a web meeting. Regardless of the communication line, there are no web or telephone usage fees incurred. MY Web Conferences supports up to 1,000 participants from within or outside the company and they participate cost free in a highly interactive, easy to establish, secure meeting.
"MY TrueCloud's support of Skype allows companies to effectively communicate and collaborate with their customers and partners across the globe. Our goal is to emulate the in-house office meeting experience, and with MY Web Conference's advance functionality, we have achieved that goal. Companies will realize significant productivity improvements and rapid return on investment by deploying MY Web Conferences across their enterprise," explains Mitch Alcon, CEO.
MY TrueCloud allows participants to continue to use their Skype audio to connect to a MY Web Conferences meeting via MTC's SSL/VPN Tunneling Technology. The Skype participants can be individually invited to view MTC's White Board. The meeting host uses the White Board to display and discuss documents, presentations, and video while allowing participants the ability to mark-up, highlight, and make annotations on the item being viewed. Capturing ideas is the essence of real-time collaboration. If side-bar discussions are needed while a meeting is in progress, MY Web Conferences allows for the creation of private web Meeting Rooms to conduct those discussions while not leaving the primary meeting. Meeting Rooms will promote efficient and effective discussions.
MY TrueCloud is built on a 100% Cloud Architecture. MTC's approach allows our solution to work on any device (such as Apple, Android, Google, and Microsoft), any operating system (such as iOS, Windows, Java, and Linux), and anywhere in the World (available in 8 languages). MTC's SaaS offerings can be provided by MTC via the Cloud or on your own on-premise infrastructure. Working in the Cloud should not mean you lose control over your data, or are forced into long-term contracts. MTC offers both month-to-month and multi-year agreements, and you always own your data. Lower up-front costs, lower hardware and IT costs, plus big savings with no telephone or web conferencing usage fees combine for significant savings and ROI.
MY TrueCloud is an Aliso Viejo, California-based company. To learn more about our SaaS Cloud based collaboration solutions, contact Glen Passaretti at 866-426-5485 or email [email protected].
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For some reason the missus wanted to go to the cinema yesterday (it was our wedding anniversary - I'd suggested other "more typical" things) and she chose Gone Girl with the "he plays loads of different characters, honest" Ben Affleck.
Given that she had already read the book (I hadn't), I'm wondering if I should be worried.
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* I'm writing this from the basement. *
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"The Gamer Lounge"
| Next:
"Gamer Love Show Ft. Lara Croft"
"Tommy Vercetti's School of MAFIA" is the 3rd episode of That Stupid Video Game Show.
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tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263 Be There The Moon's Watching chomiji 2017-08-17T01:37:36Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:558867 Wednesday Reading 2017-08-17T01:37:36Z 2017-08-17T01:37:36Z busy public 3
 Quick, quick, quick, 'cause I'm so far behind on commitments that it's really unfunny.

 I brought along a virtual stack of stuff (mostly in my Kindle) on our vacation last week. I didn't get to a lot of it, but:

 The Harbors of the Sun is the conclusion to Martha Wells' Books of the Raksura, and I'm really sad to leave her dragon/bee shapeshifters behind. I have to agree with muccamukk that the Pearl-Malachite show alone was worth the price of admission, and that "Everyone got something to do [and] we met all kinds of old friends again." I'm not sure that I believed in the Evil McGuffin, and I'll need to re-read the story to truly understand what happened to it, but I appreciated the effect that the incident had on Jade and therefore on Moon. And Wells didn't kill off Stone, which is something that I had somehow convinced myself would happen. *sighs with relief*

 Monstress vol. 2 (Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda) continues the story of Maika Halfwolf, a very Liu antiheroine (I first encountered Liu through her Hunter Kiss series). A lot of the action takes place aboard a ship, and I enjoyed that a lot. The captain is a total badass. My heart is constantly in my throat with regard to Maika's Morality Pet, the adorable little foxgirl Kippa, but Liu does sometimes let the innocent survive her harrowing tales, so maybe Kippa is *not* marked for a dire end. I'm not sure what I think of the Power Maika is hosting, though.

 I'm now reading Yoon Ha Lee's Raven Strategem. I'm enjoying the new characters and Lee's sly humor, but I miss Cheris right now.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:557645 Wednesday Reading 2017-07-27T02:18:20Z 2017-07-27T02:18:20Z drained public 1
 After I finished re-reading The Story of the Stone by Hughart, I continued on with Eight Skilled Gentlemen (also a re-read). Both books are considerably weaker than Bridge of Birds, but they're both still amusing and full of interesting little details.

 Most of the other things I've read this week have been online articles that are research for the same project that got me re-reading Master Li and Number Ten Ox.
 After several days of that (and writing, and work being chaotic and stressful), I wanted something pleasant and easy. So I spent some time on Big South American River, looking up favorite children's authors. I discovered that not only has someone put a number of my favorite Sally Watson historicals into e-books, they also included Poor Felicity (although the author herself seems to have re-named it The Delicate Pioneer, which strikes me as a really "dead" title). I first read this at a Girl Scout summer camp, where I was a pudgy bespectacled weirdo bookworm who hated sports but was totally unafraid of snakes and bugs, and I haven't seen it since.
 Felicity Dare is a sickly, rather spoiled 19th-century Southern (U.S.) girl whose parents lose all their money in bad investments and decide to go out west to settle in Oregon/Washington territory. Both parents die along the way, leaving orphaned Felicity to her good-natured but hapless uncle. They end up in what eventually becomes Seattle, where Felicity gradually becomes healthier because of being out in nature (shades of The Secret Garden!), makes friends with kids who would definitely have been considered below her social class back East (include some Native Americans), and learns to forage, cook, and shoot a rifle. There's also an ongoing feud with a rough-hewn boy who despises her for most of the book. In the end, when her snooty cousins show up at last (they went by ship instead of overland), she has to confront their faulty assumptions and her own grudges.

 It's fun, slight but with lots of interesting details, and an easy, fast read (aimed at about 10-13 year-old readers).

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:556943 Reading Wednesday 2017-07-20T00:46:49Z 2017-07-20T00:46:49Z tired public 1
 I finished my last-minute reading of Hugo short fiction items and did my voting on Saturday morning. I think that there were a LOT of very good "shorts" this year.

 I am re-reading The Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart, which is the second of the Master Li and Number Ten Ox books. I also tried (really, I did) to read two Very Serious books, which turned out to be nearly unreadable and almost useless for their intended purpose. *looks shifty*

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:551970 Reading Wednesday 2017-06-08T00:42:17Z 2017-06-08T00:51:40Z curious public 4
 So I have been re-reading "Books of the Raksura" (link to author's site), because Reasons. OK, one good non-secretive reason is that the final volume (*sob*), The Harbors of the Sun, is coming out soon. How could I have forgotten how involving these are? Also, I had forgotten a major plot development near the end of The Edge of Worlds (Spoiler; highlight to read: the young half-Fell queen who seemed to actually have good sense, plus her equally reasonable half-Fell followers ... I hope Malachite doesn't rip them all limb from limb before we find out what's up with that.)

 I also read one of the Hugo novella finalists, The Ballad of Back Tom by Victor LaValle. It's a Lovecraft pastiche and critique, with an African American protagonist. It was pretty involving, but I wouldn't say I liked it. One of the other novella finalists, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, is also a Lovecraft pastiche and a bit of a critique too, in that it involves mostly female characters. I'm not sure what the deal is this year with Lovecraft pastiches. I read some of his stuff back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and got the general impression that he expected you to be horrified by describing things as too horrifying to describe. I was not impressed.

 I might as well add that of the remaining novella finalists, I loved Every Heart a Doorway, by Seanan McGuire (although she didn't stick the landing) and Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold. Why do I really like Bujold's fantasy but am decidedly meh on her SF?

 I still have two novella finalists to go: A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson and This Census-Taker by China Miéville.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:550906 Reading Wednesday 2017-05-25T02:07:14Z 2017-05-25T02:07:14Z pleased public 2
 lady_ganesh hooked me up with some really good stuff: Maggie Stiefvater's YA series The Raven Cycle. This consists of

The Raven Boys (finished!)

The Dream Thieves (finished!)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue (finished!)
 and

The Raven King (still reading, unlikely to finish tonight)

 Also, apparently some extra-story authorial snippets exist (I only just discovered this while checking the titles of the main series).*

 In the little town of Henrietta is a posh boarding school called Aglionby. The mascot of the school is a raven. Eccentric local girl Blue, the scion of a houseful of psychic women (including her mother, Maura), thinks Aglionby boys are nothing but trouble. Local wounded-at-the-core boy Adam is attending the school on scholarship; he has managed to become best buds with the charming and earnest Gansey (that's his last name), whose circle also includes the tough-but-brittle bad boy Ronan. And then there's Noah, who shows up somehow at the off-campus digs that Gansey and Ronan share in an old factory.

 Gensey is obsessed with the local ley line, which he thinks will lead him to the tomb of the Welsh hero Owen Glendower. The others are drawn into his search—including Blue, who starts out as somewhat of a mascot but becomes something much more. There are dreams, magic, terror, and lots of fast cars.

 Parts of this seem to be the love child of Alan Garner's The Owl Service and the better "After-School Special" types of teen novels, but it's very involving and tremendous fun. The writing has some weaknesses, especially when Stiefvater seems to be marking time until she can get to the Good Bits, but she's very good at action sequences and the spookier parts are truly chilling.
 ( Cut for long and maybe a spoiler or two )

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:547188 Why Look, It's a Reading Post 2017-04-06T01:35:08Z 2017-04-06T01:36:38Z sore public 7
 So actually I have been doing quite a lot of reading, much of it trying to get caught up to make Hugo nominations (which I did do, yay).

 I'm going to be doing really quick write-ups here, because I'm covering several weeks. If anyone wants to discuss any of this in more detail, I'll do my best!

 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers – Enjoyable ensemble cast SF: an accountant/business manager joins the crew of a small, independent working ship and finds a family of sorts. The setting is vaguely reminiscent of David Brin's Uplift series, in that Earth is a backwater planet joining a larger universe of many other sentient beings.

 A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers – Nominally, the sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, although it follows only two of the characters from the original book. A ship's AI ends up in a humanoid (robot/android) body and has to learn to live with all that this implies; alternate chapters follow the backstory of the AI's new mentor/engineer as she grows up as a child slave in a robot-run factory. I actually enjoyed this more than the first book, but YMMV.

 City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett – Interesting fantasy of an emerging industrialized world (trains are pretty well established, but rifles are new) that until recently featured living, active gods. The action takes place in the lands that used to be god-protected, now conquered by its former slaves. The equivalent Earth civilizations used for the cultures seem to be Eastern Europe (formerly god-protected) and South Asia (former slaves), which gives a different flavor from the usual Extruded Fantasy Product. Diplomat and operative Shara Thivani, of the now-ascendant culture, investigates the murder of an academic in the central city of the former ruling nation and discovers something very disturbing. Strong female characters, including the lead. Warning: the opening scene is deadly dull … but it's meant to be, I think.

 City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett – Takes place a few years after the previous novel. Former general Turyin Mulaghesh, an ally of Shara in the first book, is pulled out of her increasingly inebriated retirement to investigate the disappearance of an operative in backwater Voortyashtana, where an important new harbor is being built by the conquerors. Mulaghesh finds that the mysteries of what's happening in Voortyashtana have more significance to her than she could ever have imagined. I like Mulaghesh even better than Shara.

 Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 20 by Yuki Midorikawa – This series remains its usual comforting, mildly spooky self, bless it. I do wonder whether the mangaka is ever again going to pick up the threads about the sinister exorcist Matoba, but he doesn't make an appearance in this volume.

 Right now, I'm re-reading The Secret Garden as a break. Reading lots of new things tires me, even when I enjoy it. I have Cherryh's latest Foreigner book on my Kindle, and I'm still trying to make myself finish volume 1 of the manga A Case Study of Vanitas by Jun Mochizuki, which looks like something I *should* like (but as you can tell, it hasn't really grabbed me).

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:530255 Reading [Not Quite] Wednesday - Stand Still Stay Silent 2016-10-07T01:45:12Z 2016-10-07T11:54:47Z lethargic public 0
 So I have utterly failed at reading anything of substance this week. In fact I was going to post that I had utterly failed at reading anything this week when I was saved by the arrival of the first collected volume of the web comic Stand Still Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg. Because, in fact, I have been reading a lot of bits and pieces of SSSS (why not S4? - that simply isn't how the fandom rolls, I guess) and related stuffs, like fanfiction and TVTropes entries. This is part of Yuletide prep, because I'm going to request SSSS, but I always meant to blog this comic anyway.

 Stand Still Stay Silent is a science fantasy series set in Scandinavia. It starts with an extended prologue. In our recent past, a pandemic known as the Rash has spread around the world. The disease seems pretty harmless if somewhat debilitating at first, but after a few weeks, it becomes clear that everyone underestimated the Rash. In the end, as far as the central characters of the main timeline know, only Iceland and a scattering of populations in the continental Nordic countries survive.

 The main story starts 90 years later with the survivors having adjusted to the New Normal. Isolated communities and a very few small cities are surrounded by wilderness haunted by weird, horrific warped creatures that used to be human beings and other mammals (they're often referred to as "trolls"). A badly underfunded research expedition is being assembled to go out into the Silent World (the lands that were abandoned by the remnants of the human race) to seek out and bring back technology and medical information. This band of misfits is our main cast.

 Humorous or poignant interactions among the expedition crew members alternate with spooky or downright terrifying encounters with the trolls, who are as varied as they are grotesque. The fact that the crew members are all from different countries (except for the Finnish cousins) and mostly speak only their native languages adds another layer of complexity to the situation. And then there's the fact that not everything that happens can be explained by science ... .

 Sundberg's artwork is vivid and dynamic. The palettes tend to be limited: monochrome schemes overlaid with washes in one or two colors and small spots of intense hot or cool colors. The details of the larger set pieces are impressive (warning: wide image), especially for a comic that's updated five days a week. The world-building is intriguing. The story is full of the family-of-choice and hurt-comfort tropes that make things work for me. And the storyteller punctuates the action of the series with artful infodumps in the form of in-story posters or pamphlets.

 The most common criticism I've seen is that the pace is fairly glacial. Things do pick up considerably once the prologue is complete. The cast is ethnically diverse only within the confines of Scandinavia: everyone is very white. There are a number of female characters in the full cast, including two in the adventuring crew, and they have plenty of agency (one is the commander). No one is explicitly LGBTIQ, but then, romantic/sexual relationships haven't been part of the plot thus far (although a number of straight couples are shown in the prologue). No one seems affected by a disability unless you consider Lalli to be on the autism spectrum (which I do, actually).

 Anyway, I'm enjoying the hell out of this one.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:526894 Drive-By Reading Post Because I Haven't Been Posting Shit Lately 2016-09-01T00:54:08Z 2016-09-01T00:54:08Z tired public 1
 I have been reading TONS and need to blog all of it, sometime, somehow.

 But specifically, I stayed up way too late last night and the night before reading The Cuckoo's Song by Frances Hardinge.

 Man, was that spooky and haunting!

 It's in the family of scary atmospheric fantasy, usually aimed at girls, that I used to get into from time to time when I was a young teen: stuff by Penelope Farmer (Charlotte Sometimes) or Joan North (The Whirling Shapes). Most of these have identity as their core theme, and it's no wonder I found them so scary and yet enchanting.

 Thirteen-year-old Triss is usually ill, but right now, she thinks something even worse has happened to her. She usually doesn't get along with her younger sister, Pen, but now Pen says she absolutely hates Triss and that Triss is not really her sister. What happened the night before the story opens, and why is Triss now ravenously hungry, and why are all the pages ripped out of her diaries?

 The opening scenes and the book's title, together, make it pretty obvious what's up, but the how and why and what's necessary to resolve the situation make an intriguing page turner.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:522699 Hugo Nominations Updated 2016-03-12T17:17:56Z 2016-03-12T17:17:56Z busy public 0
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 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:522462 Hugo Nominations Working List - Second Pass 2016-03-06T04:35:21Z 2016-03-12T17:20:08Z drained public 1
 ETA: Latest additions are highlighted

 One of several reasons that no one's hearing much from me is that I really trying really hard to nominate things for every Hugo Award category that I can this year. I have not actually seen any eligible movies this past year, and I never watch TV, so it's unlikely that I'll have anything for the Long and Short Dramatic Presentation categories—although a number of people have linked to short films available online. But mainly, I am reading, reading, reading. And learning a lot about the many ways one can get short fiction these days.
 ( Cut for what I've already selected )

 The deadline for nominations is March 31.

 I think that when I have added more to this, I will just make a post that refers to this one so that I don't have this huge list posted over and over.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:512282 Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone (Craft Sequence) 2015-09-17T21:21:57Z 2015-09-17T21:26:22Z calm public 2
 Caleb Altemoc is a young man with a steady job (mid-level corporate risk manager) in the big, sophisticated city of Dresdiel Lex. He has enough income to pursue his hobby of gambling at cards, go drinking with his friend Teo, and have a place of his own. Of course, his company, Red King Consolidated, is run by a deicidal lich of considerable necromantic power, but no one's perfect. The King in Red treats his employees pretty well, after all, and provides a dependable water supply for the desert city. And Caleb is, as his boss of bosses notes at one point, rather unambitious.

 There is the little issue of Caleb's father, a caring family man who is also a powerful priest of the gods that the King in Red destroyed. Temoc Almotil's religion involved human sacrifice, and he's now on the run as a terrorist for attempts to bring down his old enemy, Caleb's boss. But he still makes time to pop in and see his son from time to time, usually when Caleb least expects him.

 Caleb's life takes a sharp turn for the weird when he's called into work one night on an emergency involving one of Red King Consolidated's largest reservoirs, where things have gone horribly, necromantically wrong. Caleb finds an attractive woman there, an enthusiast of the sport of "cliff running" (think of parkour on steroids). She's a trespasser and possibly worse, but Caleb is totally smitten with her. She seems like the most magical of Manic Pixie Dream Girls, both to Caleb and (on first read) to me. But very little is as it seems here, as Temoc keeps reminding his skeptical son.

 I liked this much better on my second read, which was after the release of Last First Snow (starring Temoc). On my first read, I was missing the presence of Tara Abernathy and Elayne Kevarian from Three Parts Dead and got very impatient with Caleb. Now I'm beginning to see that Gladstone is focusing on person-to-person bonds other than the usual ones in genre literature. In this one, for instance, we have rather different father-son relationship and a powerful non-romantic male-female friendship (Caleb and Teo). That tendency adds more depth to Gladstone's imaginative world building.

 This one is still the bottom of the Craft Sequence stack, though, when it comes to how much I liked the book. Three Parts Dead and Full Fathom Five seem to be tied for first, then Last First Snow, and then this volume. Still, this is well worth reading.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:507208 The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison 2015-07-05T01:42:23Z 2015-07-05T01:42:23Z thoughtful public 4
 Hugo Award Nominee

 Maia Drazhar is the youngest son of the emperor of the Elflands, but his mother was a goblin princess whom his father married for diplomatic reasons. He has spent all of his eighteen years in exile, first with his mother but most recently alone except for his guardian, an embittered drunkard. But then Emperor Varenechibel IV and Maia's three older half-brothers all die in the same airship accident, and the unwanted boy wakes up to find that he has become the emperor.

 The outline of the story is a classic fantasy trope, but Maia never obtains a magic sword nor leads a troop in battle. He finds the imperial palace to be every bit as lonely as the dreary manor house of his exile, at first, and his deprived upbringing has left him ill-prepared for the task of ruling a large, complex empire on the verge of an industrial revolution. And that airship accident? Wasn't an accident … .

 On the basis of my own reading and the writeups I've seen from others, your enjoyment of this book will depend a lot on whether you can deal with a lot of (fairly well done) antiquated formal language in your dialogue and whether you would like something that "fulfills … wishes about nerdy, bullied people achieving great things through peaceful means" (to quote writer/editor Nick Mamatas, who did not find the book to be his sort of thing at all). I enjoyed it enough that it's already become a comfort read.
 ( Cut for more, including some spoilers )

 Note: Katherine Addison is a pseudonym of Sarah Monette, a/k/a truepenny.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:504116 Tanith Lee, 1947-2015 2015-05-28T02:48:20Z 2015-05-28T02:48:20Z sad public 4 This has been a very bad year for deaths in SF&F, and the year is not even half over.

My all-out favorite Lee is Kill the Dead: something about the combo of lush spookiness and mordant humor. Parl Dro is one of my favorite characters ever.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:502137 I Was Very Pleased to See This 2015-04-25T03:02:50Z 2015-04-25T13:46:59Z determined public 1
 Familiarize yourself with the Hugo mess before voting

 "Apparently a concerted effort gamed the Hugos ... ." - C.J. Cherryh

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:499505 Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (Craft Sequence) 2015-03-20T01:24:55Z 2015-03-20T01:24:55Z satisfied public 12
 Brilliant and determined young Tara Abernathy has overreached herself in an attempt to make use of her training in the Craft and seems likely to pay with her life. Fortunately, fate intervenes in the form of Elayne Kevarian, a senior adept with the necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, who makes Tara a job offer she can't and in fact doesn't want to refuse. Soon they are deeply enmeshed in the affairs of the great city of Alt Coulomb, which has been until recently ruled by the benign god Kos Everburning … who turned up dead recently during the regular post-midnight watch of the young cleric Abelard, whose cigarette addiction is an act of devotion to Kos' fiery nature.

 The might of Kos will linger until the next dark of the moon, powering the trains and furnaces of his city, but Tara and Ms. Kevarian are running out of time to solve the mystery of the deity's death and arrange for his resurrection to keep Alt Coulomb from falling. There are plenty of other mysteries to be solved as well, which may or may not have to do with the death of Kos. For instance, who killed Judge Cabot in such a spectacularly grisly fashion? With Abelard in tow, Tara runs errands and does research for her boss in a city filled with unlikely wonders, and when the advocate for Kos' creditors shows up, both Tara and her boss come face to face with pasts they'd sooner forget.

 Blogger-critic James Nicoll said of these books: "I am very annoyed at the people who have been selecting my reading material for the last 13 years for not having ever sent me a Max Gladstone book and with Gladstone for not having more books in print now that I have discovered them." I feel much the same way. Magical technology, technological magic, women who are badass mage-lawyers, female mentor-apprentice relationships, men and women who are old buddies but not lovers, dead and resurrected deities, vampire pirate captains, cities with jammin' nightclubs and living gargoyles, and so much more: this is one of the most exciting new fantasies I've read in decades.

 One other really great thing to note. See this cover for Three Parts Dead? It's accurate in its portrayal of Tara, who is described at one point as "Dark skin, five seven, curly black hair, curvy, freckles. Last seen surrounded by a halo of flame …." Oh yes, Gladstone has no trouble at all with presenting a very diverse cast of characters.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:499370 Terry Pratchett, 1948 - 2015 2015-03-13T00:01:23Z 2015-03-13T00:01:23Z sad public 1
 Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE, has died.

 "There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." — Carpe Jugulum

 "It's still magic even if you know how it's done." — A Hat Made of Sky

 "No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…" — Reaper Man

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:471708 That Reading Meme Again - May 15, 2014 2014-05-16T02:10:25Z 2014-05-16T02:10:25Z calm public 1
 Yeah, I seem to be doing this monthly. *sigh*

 What have you just finished reading?

 Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. YA fantasy with a Slavic-based setting. The heroine is a prickly, skinny girl who is a cartographer with the army, but she turns out to be The Chosen One and gets swept off for special magical training. She's a duck out of water in a way that reminds me a little of Menolly in the Harper Hall in McCaffrey's Pern books, with the queen bee girls being rude and prickly to her. About midway through she suddenly becomes healthier and prettier because Plot Reasons, and then she starts to like to try on dresses, and I realized that I didn't like her nearly as much. I then had to castigate myself for this, because I'm sure lots of the intended readers would love that part. There was some silly romantical stuff too, which I also disliked. And then Bardugo completely confounded my expectations about what the last part of the book was going to be like. Well done, author! I still don't think it's a great book: too many things happening with too little run-up (for example, Alina's relationship wth her childhood friend Mal would have been better with more showing, less telling, of their shared history), but I think I'm invested enough to get the sequel.

 The Snake Stone, by Jason Goodwin, is the second Master Yashim book. I begin to see what flemmings was saying about the hero's sex life. It's annoying because Yashim might as well not be a eunuch, except that it means he can visit the seraglio in the palace. He's starting to read more like a man with a slightly low-ish sex drive instead. The cultural and culinary details remain interesting, and I liked the info about pre-Victorian archeology and book-collecting.

 The Little Death by Michael Nava is the first volume of a mystery series about a gay lawyer, Henry Rios. It features a tragic Boyfriend in the Refrigerator and lots of Evil Plotting by the rich and the famous. I like Henry, although his situation is somewhat depressing. I will probably try the next one as well.

 Four British Fantasists, which is a critical study and comparison of authors Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Diana Wynne Jones. The author, Charles Butler, is a member of the DWJ online mailing list. The book was interesting, and now I'm wondering whether I should fill in some of the books that I haven't read that are discussed, especially by Lively and Garner. Although I remember bouncing off Garner's Red Shift, and the things he wrote after that are apparently even more experimental.

 What are you currently reading?

 Another re-read for a writing challenge, and also volume 10 of the manga Bunny Drop, which basically short stories about Daikichi and Rin that didn't make it into the main series (which ended, plot-wise, with vol. 9).

 What do you think you'll read next?

 I just got an Amazon order that includes volume 1 of Fumi Yoshinaga's manga series What Did You Eat Yesterday? Also, volume 3 of the hard yaoi manga Crimson Spell (by Ayano Yamane), and the latest volumes of Marjorie Liu's Hunter Kiss series (Labyrinth of Stars) and Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series (Broken Homes). The Aaronovitch has been getting mixed reviews, but I have to at least give it a try because the earlier books were so awesome. (These are both urban fantasy, for those unfamiliar with them, but very different in tone and scope.)

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 Guys, I have not done this since November. I will try to get back on track!

 What have you just finished reading?

 Marie Brennan's (swan_tower's) historical fantasy A Star Shall Fall. I liked it fairly well. I'm not sure what would have made it better for me. I need to think about that. I got this copy from last year's Con or Bust auction, so it's taken me a while to decide to read it.

 The latest volume, 9, of the manga Ooku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga. I really liked it and found it much less grim than this series usually is, so I expect the other shoe to drop and the series to go back to normal - or worse - by next volume. There's a great new character, Hiraga Gennai. I will not spoil you about Gennai and what makes Gennai great. XD

 The first two volumes of the manga Thermae Romae, which is awesomely silly and beautifully drawn. (The book production values are spectacular too.) It's about a Roman engineer who keeps being transported off at random intervals to present-day Japan, where he encounters various modern-day Japanese public and private baths and invariably returns with new inspirations to try out in Rome. Some of the inspirations are relatively believable, and some are wonderfully absurd in a Flintstones-cartoon sort of way. (Wait'll you see his shampoo shield and shampoo hose.) His interpretations of what he's seeing in Japan are really funny.

 What are you currently reading?

 I just started Marjorie Liu's The Fire King, which is one of her Dirk & Steele paranormal romances.
 What do you think you'll read next?

 I grabbed Jason Godwin's The Janissary Tree from the take-on leave-one collection at work. This is a historical mystery set in the early 19th-century Ottoman Empire. I seem to recall reading a favorable review of it at one point, and it won the Edgar Award in 2007. Also, I have the first two volumes of the manga Vinland Saga, but it looks awfully grim. It may be a while until I can get myself to read it.

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 Yeah, it's late: it's been a complicated week. But I didn't want to wait all the way until next week.

 What have you just finished reading?

 Just finished Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead, which was excellent. No less than three significant female characters, none of whom is just anyone's love interest, one of them a person of color (who is an awesome supernatural investigator and magician); magical courtroom drama; high-speed chases through a steampunkish city at night; a vampire ship's captain; gods dying and resurrected; an evil adversary who is a loathesome, charismatic, and brilliant slimeball; a nerdy chain-smoking young priest whose alter-ego is a club-hopping city boy; and much more. I'm looking forward to the next volume, which is actually to some degree a prequel.

 What are you currently reading?

 ann_leckie's Ancillary Justice, which is awesome. At the moment (about 25% of the way into it), it's equal parts mystery and anthropological SF. Leckie's style is very smooth and assured.

 Also still making my way through Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm on my phone.

 Finally, I'm also doing a re-read of canon so that I can beta a couple of stories.

 What do you think you'll read next?

 Beats me! It occurs to me that I have some volumes of Doctorow and Marie Brennan about, which I bought some time ago for a charity auction. I should probably check them out, especially the Brennan (the Doctorow was bought more with my husband in mind).

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 Some more odd serial art stuff from the Small Press Expo, most of which didn't make much of an impression. The one exception was Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York, by Samuel R. Delaney and Mia Wolff. As most of you probably know, Samuel Delaney was one of the first successful African American science fiction writers. This is an actual, biographical story of how he met his life partner, Dennis, who was a homeless man living on the streets of New York. It's very explicit and frank; in parts it's very sad and in others, it's very tender and joyful.

 Also, the latest National Geographic, which had a rather disturbing story of a storm chaser who was recently killed by one of the tornados he was pursuing, along with a colleague and his own adult son, an accomplished photographer.

 I am all caught up with the webcomic Yellow Peril. I have made an LJ feed for it, yellowperilcomi. LJ needs longer names for the feeds. :-(

 Finally, I read vol. 4 of House of Five Leaves. I think I'm starting to get used to the mangaka's drawing style. However, I can't agree with the comments I've seen online about how wonderful it is.

 What are you currently reading?

 Still reading Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead, which is getting really, really good. Things have taken a massive turn for the worse in the story; I'm mentally biting my fingernails.

 For some reason, I have also started a re-read of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which I had downloaded onto my phone sometime ago. It's a pleasant enough diversion, except when the author goes off onto a spate of Rebecca-worship.

 What do you think you'll read next?

 Still haven't started ann_leckie's Ancillary Justice. Also, I've got my Yuletide canon re-read stacked up and ready to go, plus I need to do a canon review for some beta reading.

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 Not nearly such a busy reading week as last week!

 I think the only things I actually finished reading were the latest volume of Blade of the Immortal (vol. 27), and the first couple of volumes of an indie comic, Tales of the Night Watchman, that the Mr. picked up at Small Press Expo. I was rather underwhelmed by it: just not my thing.

 Volume 27: Mist on the Spider's Web was awesome. I should do an entire post on these most recent volumes of Blade of the Immortal sometime. Some people have noted that Rin is not much of a fighter and that Hyakurin and Makie are much more typical female characters, with Hyakurin as the femme fatale spy-type and Makie as the amazingly skilled woman with Major Issues. But then we had Ainu swordswoman Doa, and shinobi Meguro and Tampopo (I thought they were just comic relief at first — Samura's version of C3PO and R2D2 — boy, was I wrong!), and then this current volume had a marvelous arc for Ryo, the kenshi who's the illegitimate daughter of an important man. Even though it turned out badly in the end, she was fantastic.

 What are you currently reading?

 I have started Max Gladstone's Three Parts Dead, and I am enjoying it, but it's not grabbing me hard the way that the Dirk & Steele books were. I'm also trying to catch up to the current storyline on the webcomic Yellow Peril. With the Mini, I can read webcomics in bed! (Yes, cho, welcome to the 21st century.)

 What do you think you'll read next?

 I have volume 4 of the manga House of Five Leaves. I should probably blog the series properly after I finish that, since I can usually tell whether I'll continue with a series somewhere around vol. 3 to 5. Also, I bought ann_leckie's Ancillary Justice, which has been getting great reviews.

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 Busy week!

 C.J. Cherryh's Russalka, which had a more interesting and touching ending than I remember. As is common with Cherryh, I could see ideas and issues that she has tried again or previously in other works, which doesn't bother me: they're interesting ideas.

 Also, vol. 8 of Ooku by Fumi Yoshinga. This is still a cool series, and beautifully drawn, but I want more slice-of-life Yoshinaga (like Antique Bakery and Flower of Life) or yaoi Yoshinaga (like Ichigenme … The First Class Is Civil Law). I wonder whether she'll ever go back to her roots that way?

 Then I read the first volume of the manga version of Durarara!. My reaction is basically "What the hell was that?" The story thus far has seesawed back and forth between cheery high school comedy and urban dark fantasy. I imagine it will take a couple more volumes before I can even tell whether I like it or not.

 Volume 2 of House of Five Leaves was interesting, although the mangaka's distinctive drawing style is beginning to wear on me a little. Although it couldn't be more different in style from Fruits Basket, I'm having the same sort of difficulties telling characters apart.

 Finally, I just finished Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire, the sixth October Daye book. I really liked it. I think it's partially because it is now definitely an ensemble cast. Given that it's written from Toby's POV, she has to be the center, but she has collected an extended family-of-choice that I very much like. So now there's only one more book available: Chimes at Midnight, which just came out a few weeks ago. And then I'll have to wait for one volume a year, according to her website: three more volumes, coming out 2014 - 2016.

 What are you currently reading?

 And still limping through The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit. I only read bits of it when I have nothing else to read, but I am determined to finish it.

 I downloaded the first Marjorie Liu "Dirk & Steele" book, Tiger Eye. It's my first straight paranormal romance (as opposed to Liu's harder-edged urban fantasies about demon hunter Maxine Kiss), and for about the whole first chapter I wanted to thrown it against a wall for what I assume were romanticism elements. As an example, when Our Heroine is retreating through a crowd, and the whole scene has been from her POV, she's suddenly described as getting through the crowd "gracefully." Because, you know, when someone is worried about retreating from potential danger, she of course spends time thinking about how gracefully she does it. (Mary Sue, phone home.) But I'm getting much more interested in it as we get into the heart of the book, including everything from the comedy of trying to make a very tall exotic-looking man inconspicuous in Beijing (and trying to find normal 20th century cosmopolitan clothes to fit him, since he showed up looking like an extra from a Conan story) and the family-of-choice aspects of the firm. And the constantly broken-off almost-sex scenes aren't any more over-the-top than a lot of fanfiction. It's like Liu was really unsure of what she was doing for the first couple of chapters and then got into it more whole-heartedly.

 What do you think you'll read next?

 Uhhh … another problem for another day. I do have two novels in hand that I got off the bring one-take one shelf at work, but I'm not itching to start either one: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, which was recommended by a colleague. Anyone have opinions on either of them?

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 Volume 4 of the manga Bunny Drop (re-read) and the omnibus volume 5 of Gunslinger Girls, where the mangaka is working overtime to stomp on our hearts and smash those suckers flat. (Have I mentioned that the latter series is shounen by its magazine classification? That seems weird to me. Although I am glad that young teen boys are being exposed to the concept of tough, adventurous girls, even if they are brainwashed cyborgs.)

 What are you currently reading?

 Still Limping through The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit and nibbling away at C.J. Cherryh's Russalka. Also some re-reading for a writing project. Plus, I have started vol. 3 of the manga A Bride's Story.

 What do you think you'll read next?

 Volume 2 of House of Five Leaves. volume 8 of Ooku by Fumi Yoshinaga, and volume 1 of Durarara! are in the pipeline from Amazon, along with Ashes of Honor (vol. 6 of Seanan McGuire's October Daye series).

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 It's been three weeks since I did this. I'm not going to list everything I've read since then!

 What have you just finished reading?

 Nail Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I enjoyed it; it was a comfortable fit for me. Even the scary parts were comfortable somehow: Gaiman has a real feel for what actually scares kids. The reviewers have been mostly talking this up like it's the second coming of goodness-knows-what. I think it's an effective piece of writing and in some places, very beautiful, but it isn't wrapping around my brain like, say, American Gods. On the other hand, I liked it better than Coraline or The Graveyard Book. It also reminded me in some ways of Jo Walton's Among Others, in that it's a tribute to the place that books create for introverted children.

 I also read volume 1 of The House of Five Leaves, a manga that had been recommended by smillaraaq and that had caught my eye on the Viz site a while back. I liked it and wanted more.

 I'm re-reading the first several volumes of the manga Bunny Drop (note: spoilers in the post at the link), probably because last week I read the final volume. All my series seem to have run out. *is sad* Anyway, I've finished re-reading volumes 1 through 3.

 I also just finished Jim Hines' Codex Born, which was a total page-turner for me. I also really liked the way Lena's character developed. I think this is the book where I can officially say that I am a Hines fan. I was very underwhelmed by The Stepsister Scheme, and although Libriomancer was fun, it didn't grab me the way this most recent book did.

 What are you currently reading?

 Limping through The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit, which I don't dislike enough to quit entirely. Also re-reading volume 4 of Bunny Drop and C.J. Cherryh's Russalka, which I first read years ago, and which I have downloaded to my new tablet from the author's Closed Circle site.

 What do you think you'll read next?

 Hmmm, I really don't know! Someone on the f-list was reviewing some private investigator mysteries with gay protagonists (this author and this one); maybe I'll try one of those.

 comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-09-03:578263:436656 Weekly Wednesday-ish Reading Meme - August 22, 2013 2013-08-22T12:04:08Z 2013-08-22T12:16:42Z rushed public 0
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 Saladin Ahmed's Throne of the Crescent Moon and E. Nesbit's The Treasure Seekers. (I kept forgetting I had the latter on my phone, when I was faced with a stack of dead-tree books.) Last week, I also finished Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells.

 I liked the Ahmed, but I kept getting tripped up by some writing practices I dislike. One was the constant switch in viewpoints within a scene, which I associate to some degree with amateur writing. He got better about this as he went on, to where at the end, he was switching scene by scene and signaling more clearly what was going on with the viewpoint. There were also a couple of times that things happened presumbly for Deep Plot Reasons, because in context they made no sense and had me going "Where the hell did that come from?"

 The Wells was good. Emilie is sort of a Tremaine Valiarde junior: she's not super-emotional and she is very competent, although not absurdly so (especially given her age). It's a sort of wish fulfillment fantasy of the type that classically stars an intrepid young boy (child gets to go on huge adventure, child is treated with respect by adult fellow travelers and gets to strut her/ his stuff), and it features airships and mysterious underground civilizations.

 The Nesbit was ... OK. It has the didactic and sentimental moments of the magical Nesbits but without the delicious magical absurdities. I enjoyed the slightly out-of-kilter voice of its unreliable narrator, but YMMV.

 What are you currently reading?

 I'm doing a re-read for a writing assignment, which will go undisclosed for now..

 What do you think you'll read next?

 I have Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the End of the Lane, which I forgot to include in my Amazon order for our trip but picked up in Chatham, MA, where we went for a day of shopping and lunch out when the weather was very rainy.

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Northleach is home to the Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul.
The community of St Peter & St Paul is led by the Rt Revd David Jennings.
For a calendar of services please see: http://www.northleach.org/worship/
Family Services are held on the second Sunday in every month (except November). This is a lay led, informal service with modern songs and some traditional hymns too. The church layout is slightly different so that young children can be on a large carpet at the front with some books and colouring bits and they are, of course, welcome to bring their own small toys. There is also a short drama from the Open the Book team at each service. Last month we welcomed 11 young children to this service and we would love to see more, and of course parents and grandparents too. For more information, please telephone either Patsi on 01451 860800 or Laura on 01451 861218.
Sunday School takes place every Sunday morning in the Church Centre during 10.00 am Holy Communion. All children are welcome. We leave during the first hymn and then return towards the end of the service so that the children may receive a blessing during the Communion. Note: There is no Sunday School during the monthly Morning Praise services.
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American Tribes - E-I
Erie - With French
contact limited to one brief meeting, very little is known for certain
about the Erie except they were important, and they were there. The
Dutch and Swedes also heard about them through their trade with the
Susquehannock, but never actually met the Erie. All information about
their social and political organization has come from early Jesuit
accounts of what they had been told by the
Eyak - The Eyak,
literally "inhabitants of Eyak Village" are a Native American
indigenous group traditionally located on the Copper River Delta and
near the town of Cordova, Alaska. The Eyak's territory reached from
present day Cordova east to the Martin River and north to Miles
Glacier. The Eyak initially moved out of the interior down the Copper
River to the coast. There they harvested the rich salmon fishing
grounds. When the Russians arrived they recognized the Eyak as a
distinct culture and described their territory on their maps. They
also traded with the Eyak and sent them missionaries. Because of their
small population they were often raided and their territory boundaries
were under pressure from the Chugach to the west. The Tlingit, on the
east side, had better relations with the Eyak and this led to
intermarriage and assimilation of many Eyak. This pushed the Eyak's
territorial boundary further west and contributed to the Eyak's
decline. When the Americans arrived they started canneries and
competed with the Eyak for salmon. This combined with integration
with, and diseases introduced by non-native settlers led to the
further decline. As populations decreased the remaining Eyak began to
congregate near the village of Orca. In 1880 the population of the
village of Alaganik was recorded at 117 and by 1890 it had declined to
48.In 1900 total population was estimated at 60. As more settlers
arrived this last village became the town of Cordova. As of 1996 there
were 120 living, partial Eyak descendents. The last full blood Eyak
died in 2007.
Eno - A tribe associated with the Adshusheer
and Shakori in North Carolina in the 17th century, historians belive
it doubtful that the Eno and the Shakori where of Siouan stock, as
they seem to have differed in physique and habits from their
neighbors. However, their alliances were all with Siouan tribes.
Little is known of them as they disappeared from history as tribal
bodies about 1720, having been incorporated with the Catawba on the
south or with the Saponi and their confederates on the north, although
they still retained their distinct dialect in 1743. The Eno and
Shakori were first mentioned in 1654, when the Tuscarora tirbe
described them as living next to the Shakori, "a great nation "
by whom the northern advance of the Spaniards was valiantly resisted.
The next mention of these two tribes was in 1672 stating they lived
south of the Occaneechi about the headwaters of Tar and Neuse rivers.
The general locality is still indicated in the names of Eno River and
Shocco Creek. In 1701, the Eno and Shakori confederated and the
Adshusheer united with them in the same locality. Their village,
called Adshusheer, was on Eno River, about 14 miles east of the
Occaneechi village, which was near the site of present-day Hillsboro.
Eskimo - See
- A tribe of Californian Indians, constituting the Esselenian family,
most of its members who were on the founding of Carmelo mission, near
Monterey, California in 1770, which resulted, as was the case with the
Indians at all the Californian missions, their rapid decrease A
portion of the tribe seems to have been taken, to the mission at
Soledad, for Arroyo de la Cuesta in 1821 says of an Esselen vocabulary
obtained by himself, "Huelel language of Soledad; it is from the
Esselenes, who are already few." The original territory of the Esselen
lay along the coast south of Monterey, though its exact limits are
diversely given.
Experts estimate there were about 500 to
1200 individuals living in the steep, rocky region at the time of the
arrival of the Spanish.
Almost nothing is known of
the mode of life and practices of the Esselen, but they were certainly
similar to those of the neighboring tribes. What little is known in
regard to the Esselen language shows it to have been simple and
regular and of a type similar to most of the languages of central
California, but, notwithstanding a few words in common with Costanoan,
of entirely unrelated vocabulary and therefore a distinct stock.
About 460 individuals have
identified themselves as descendants of the original Esselen people
and banded to together form a tribe. The Department of the Interior
has set aside 45 acres of Fort Ord that the tribe can use to build a
cultural center and museum. But they must first obtain federal
recognition. In 2010 the Esselen Nation petitioned the federal
government for recognition as a tribe but the Bureau of Indian Affairs
said they didn't meet the says the formal criteria.


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by Tony Parsons
HarperCollins HK$194
Tony Parsons hates replica breasts. Call them fake 'boobs' and he's likely to become even angrier, the 'infantile euphemism' making light of the damage done. So he's included two chapters on the subject in On Life, Death and Breakfast, his collection of essays on concerns of the modern (mid-life) male. Other subjects include dying (losing one's parents being part of growing up), becoming a curmudgeon (having lived so long you know the way things should work, and see red when they don't) and having a facial. The last is among the most banal chapters in this banal book, which purports to explain what goes on in the heads, hearts and trousers of middle-aged men. Parsons tells us that men want to be in a successful marriage as much as any chick-lit protagonist. He includes the sentiment that Julie (Burchill, his first wife, a fellow journalist at the music mag NME) 'should have been a summer romance, or possibly dinner and a movie', underscoring the continuing bitterness. Fans won't be disappointed if they want to know 'Why Men Stray, Why Men Stay'. Others, however, might feel cheated for having to pay for philosophy lite.
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Healthy Ageing Business BBQ - "Eat & Meet"Print this page
Info09 Jul 16:30 hr Grand café De Bastille, Damsterplein 2, 9711 SX Groningen
On Wednesday, July 9th, the annual Healthy Ageing Business BBQ takes place in 'de Bastille' in Groningen. A new location, where we will feature the new regional innovations in the field of nutrition. Also this year you should not miss the chance to join and to get in touch and bring your own work relations.
16:30 Walk-in
17:00 Reception with spectacular "healthy" welcome drink
17:30 Let's get cookin'
Registration and small fee
For the BBQ we ask a contribution of 15 euros per person. You can pay via the authorization form. We ask you to fill in the attached form and return to the Triade, to: Erika van der Brugge, PO Box 112, 9700 AC Groningen or firstname.lastname@example.com.
In relation to the catering, registration is required. This can be done till July 2nd by sending the authorization form to Triade (Erika van der Brugge).


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