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While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant; meanwhile, in the distracting aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, the surgeon is seduced by his housekeeper. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand - that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is alive, relatively young, and healthy.
This is how John Irving's tenth novel begins; it seems, at first, to be a comedy, perhaps a satire, almost certainly a sexual farce. Yet, in the end, The Fourth Hand is as realistic and emotionally moving as any of Mr. Irving's previous novels.
The Fourth Hand is characteristic of John Irving's seamless storytelling and further explores some of the author's recurring themes - loss, grief, love as redemption. But this novel also breaks new ground; it offers a penetrating look at the power of second chances and the will to change.
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"A rich and deeply moving tale . . . Vintage Irving: a story of two very disparate people, and the strange and unexpected ways we grow . . . Irving's novels are perceptive and precise reflections of the world around us." (The Washington Post Book World)
"A riveting entertainment and certainly one of the funniest novels of the year. The authoritative control of Irving's storytelling has never been more impressive. . . . The delighted reader is powerless to look away." (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Written with a new crispness, this fast-paced novel will do more than please Irving's numerous fans; it will garner him new ones." (Publishers Weekly)
It seems that one either loves this book or hates it. For those who say they hated it and that "nothing ever happens", I suggest a lack of a sense of humor.
I just adored this story, the characters were quirky funny and I looked forward to each new chapter. So if you don't need to have your read be an exciting page turner at each moment, and if you possess a sense of humor, you'll just love this listen.
"Strange but Fascinating"
This is the first Irving book I've "read," and I enjoyed it a lot. The narrator, Jason Culp, is what sold me on listening in the first place, because I had greatly enjoyed his excellent narration of "Last Man Standing." I found "Fourth Hand" fascinating because, in a manner similar to "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," it swirls in a vortex of sexuality without being dominated by it. I've actually known a man like the main character, so as improbable as he seems, he does exist out there. As a character, he may not have been as compelling without the gruesome mayhem aspect, but strangely, that aspect lends him credibility. I admit I fell into the trap of expecting a more profound outcome, thus almost gave it four stars instead of five. But then I realized it's character driven, rather than plot driven. As such, the characters find themselves in multiple laugh-out-loud situations. Bottom line: It's a fascinating ADULT listen, and it may very well be that my slight disappointment at the end had more to do with the fact that the story was over than the fact that it didnt end differently.
"Give John Irving a hand"
Vintage John Irving. This book is the story of TV journalist Patrick Wallingford and puts on display the colorful and sympathetic characters, dazzling imagination and vibrant storylines that have become hallmarks of Irving's classic writing style. And the tale is read by a strong and expressive voice that lights the prose in neon lettering.
On the downside, The Fourth Hand does run out of gas about three-quarters through the book (a common problem with many novels), but the ride has already been so good to that point that you will easily forgive Irving for not ending on a stronger note.
"Like a train wreck"
I couldn't help looking, even though it was horrible. The only character that was the least bit likeable was the lion. At first I thought it was just the narrator that made all the women sound whiny and annoying, but then I realized all the women really WERE whiny and annoying. But the star didn't treat them so well either. Although the ending was weird, I was glad it was over.
"good listen"
John Irving's books work particularly well as audiobooks because he's such a lovely storyteller. You won't necessarily find yourself glued to your MP3 player dying to see what happens next, but with every chapter, Irving invites you in once again with his by now typical characters and plots, so he's easy to pick up and put down and pick up again. If you like Irving, you'll like this a lot, though it's not his best book ever.
"Bit of a bizarre story line"
For some reason I haven't quite figured out, I couldn't stop listening. The characters are colorful, and I agree with the another reviewer regarding laughing out loud a few times, and the reader was good. But, a fascinating story line ... a guy with questionable morals losing his hand and falling in love with the widow of a donor hand ... had a lot more promise than the book ultimately delivers. There was probably and hour or more devoted to silly stuff not even relative to the meat of the story ... like a dog who liked to eat poop, and an owner who liked to sling dog poop with a lacrosse stick ... crazy, but, like I said, I couldn't stop listening.
"American Male Humor"
This is my favorite audio book and I have collected hundreds. This book has everything an American Male can ask for: the NFL, sex, John Irving's dry humor, etc. I strongly recommend it (for guys).
On the flipside, I don't believe females would find this book amusing.
"a good irving story"
Is it as good as A Prayer for Owen Meany or A Widow for One Year? No, I don't think so. But it is good. It's worth reading and it's classic Irving. If you like classic John Irving, you'll enjoy the Fourth Hand.
"Not as good as others he has written"
. . . but still worth it. Mostly because of how Irving writes. I love the innuendos and perspectives of his writing. I didn't love the main character of this story, but I didn't hate him either, which is, I suppose, exactly the type of character Irving was aiming for with Patrick Wallingford.
I really loved the story of the hand surgeon and his son and dog - and Irma.
My favorite Irving novel is still a toss-up between Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meanie.
"My Favorite John Irving - A very engaging story"
A wonderful, engaging book. It's a great combination of entertainment and substance. His characters are so unique and lovely described you feel like you've known them all you life.
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"…a full-on rock/acid house classic that easily showed the way for Primal Scream and hordes of others in following years." ~allmusic
…Hannett's bright, brittle production amplifies everything, creating a swirling hyper-reality that's almost a sonic black hole sucking everything into its vortex – slide guitars, sound clips from "Performance," maniacally looped drum machines, Beatles melodies, drums that are pushed to the front of the mix so it all is a relentless assault, from the ears down to the loins. As jagged and lacerating as all this is, there's a sense of evil glee, that the Mondays want to drag you down to their level, but there's no sense of seduction here; you're either with them or not, as Bummed is music for after you've already succumbed to the dark side.
2007 digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two disc (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) edition of the smash hit album from Shaun Ryder, Bez and Co., originally released in 1990. Features the original album with the addition of extended versions and mixes, while the second disc is a DVD that collects all of their videos into a virtual video "Best Of" the band from 1986's 'Tart Tart' through to 'Judge Fudge' in 1991. The Mondays' 1988 album may have helped chart the future of British Rock/Dance but this album reconstructed the way music was created and helped to bring the Alternative Rock and Dance scenes together as one. Features the hits 'Kinky Afro', 'Step On' and 'Bob's Yer Uncle'.
With the exception of Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches, Happy Mondays had difficulty expanding their ideas into full albums, which makes the singles compilation Loads all the more useful.

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MILWAUKEE, WIS. (May 17, 2010) The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music has received multi-year funding from the Eric D. Batterman Memorial Grant to provide scholarships for youth in support of the Conservatory's new Jazz Institute program. This gift is the largest single program contribution the Conservatory has ever received.
Eric Batterman was professional percussionist, keyboard player, composer, arranger, electronic musician and producer. A strong supporter of the Conservatory of Music, Eric stated "The jazz programs with master classes are invaluable to students. I remember attending many when I was in high school and coming away brimming with inspiration." Eric Batterman passed away in 2008 and his love for music and jazz will live on to support students of the new Jazz Institute at the Conservatory of Music.
The funding from the Eric D. Batterman Grant will provide scholarship assistance to 12 Milwaukee area youth to participate in private lessons, combos, jazz history classes as well as summer jazz camp. These twelve students will be the inaugural class for the Jazz Institute. Each year, as the program develops the core group will expand.
"We are extremely grateful for the Eric D. Batterman Memorial Grant to establish this Institute. Our new Jazz Institute will increase the jazz music education presence in Southeastern Wisconsin by providing further education from seasoned, professional jazz instructors. It will also allow us to provide more scholarship opportunities, summer camps, and music education programs in Milwaukee inner-city schools and other service locations in southeastern Wisconsin," stated Karen Deschere, President of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.
Mark Davis, a jazz piano instructor at the Conservatory since 1992 and chair of the jazz department will serve as the Chair of the Jazz Institute. Doc Severinsen serves as the Institute's Honorary Chairman and announced the formation of the Institute at a concert he performed last year at The Pabst Theater.
About the Jazz Institute
The Conservatory's jazz program was initiated in 1972 by the pianist Tony King and was one of the first jazz degree programs in the United States. While no longer a degree-granting institution, the Conservatory's jazz program, and now the Jazz Institute, follows closely in the footsteps of this award-winning artist.
With funding by the Eric D. Batterman Grant, the Jazz Institute is an enhancement to the Conservatory of Music's long-established jazz education programs. Students may participate in the Institute for up to four years. Additionally, the Institute will provide experiences that are open to all the Conservatory's jazz students including individual classes, summer camps and master classes with jazz artists. The Eric Batterman grant will enable the Conservatory to bring in two to three guest artists each year to work with the students as well as perform for the general public. Jazz saxophone legend Charles McPherson and Grammy-winning trumpeter Brian Lynch were the Institute's first guests, performing and teaching.
About the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music
The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music is the oldest and largest non-profit independent music school in Wisconsin. The Conservatory provides the finest musical education and performance opportunities for every stage of life, from the aspiring professional performer to individuals of any age that seeks musical enrichment and self-fulfillment. For more information call (414) 276-5760 or visit www.wcmusic.org.


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I have a support question, my ex is being forced to retire from the military,i get support put into my account once a month automatically, i never have to ask him for it, unless he goes to file a motion to change the amount i get for child support and alimony does he have to keep paying the same to me as the agreement says? and he will be working full time soon for a window company in MA.that my sister is the manager for and she will be writing his check out weekly, will i have to start all over again to get it withholding which can take about two months from my past experience with the State?
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It all depends on whether his income changes. If it does, substantially, then he needs to modify the last order.
A new withholding order will have to be entered for it to come out of his check at the window company.


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Growers and their employees are among the hundreds of thousands of people evacuating their homes in the greater San Diego area this week.
Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds have reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The fires began Monday in Northern San Diego County and exploded to 145,000 acres. Winds gusted to 70 mph and scattered embers onto dry brush, sparking more fires. At least 14 fires were burning in Southern California from San Diego to Malibu, AP reports. More than 250,000 residents were told to flee San Diego County alone. The Del Mar Fairgrounds on the coast was turned into an evacuation center.
San Diego boasts one of the world's largest concentrations of commercial flower growers and is the leading horticultural county in the United States. The variety of crops grown includes: cut flowers and cut foliage, indoor flowering plants, green foliage plants, cacti and succulents, bedding plants, herbs, bulbs, sod, landscape trees and shrubs, fruit trees and cut Christmas trees.
On Tuesday, we checked in with Stefan Reiner, general manager at Selecta First Class (SFC) in Encinitas, which is also at the same location as cut flower grower and propagator Dramm & Echter.
"It was crazy yesterday (Monday)," Reiner said. "Encinitas got partially evacuated and the rest is on call. I sent everybody home and most won't come in today either (except for me). It changed overnight from a fire far away to a fire right in our neighborhood. One of our employees had to evacuate his home and others were on call. Most are out of the critical area by now, as long as the winds don't change. It's another crazy day today and we all hope it will be over by tomorrow (or under control lets say)."
Dramm & Echter also sent people home Monday and was had a skeleton crew Tuesday, he said. "The sun is rising and winds are calm in our area (at least for the moment)," Reiner said Tuesday morning. "We have single digits humidity and dark smoky air with ash all over the place. But all SFC employees and families are safe and that is what is important."
Ken and Deena Altman of Altman Plants in Vista also woke up to a dark sky Tuesday morning. "Ken and I woke up with a lot of smoke in the air but we were not concerned thinking it was the remains of the Fallbrook fire which we could not see through the haze," Deena said. "However, we got the call an hour later to evacuate our house. There was a new fire that started at the La Jolla Indian Reservation about 3:00 am this morning (Tuesday). We threw stuff together and joined the lines of cars winding down to the I-15 freeway. Now we are at our main facility in Vista. So far all of our nurseries are okay. Deliveries are on hold as the highways are a mess. Again, most employees could not make it in to the various nursery sites. However, power is up and necessary nursery functions are being done."
On Monday, Altman's was surrounded by fires to the north and the south. Most of the employees could not make it to work and major roads were closed coming in.
"Power also was down at our main facility so watering was done by hand," Deena said. "The winds were our worst problem with some plastic roofs tearing loose, however we feel very lucky that we had no other major structural damage. A number of our employees were evacuated from their homes. Some of our retailers have garden centers that have significant damage from the wind. Business in San Diego County is at a stand still."
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Release Date: 2009 |
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffAs discussed with Iai on the forums, this will probably be in my top 5 list this year.
Album Rating: 4.0Seriously considering this as my #1 album of the year.
Might look into this, sounds good I guess.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offdo it. tbh, i'm on the verge of it being a 4.5 and a definite #2 record of the year (so far)
J Dilla's mom is on this just to clarify who Ma Dukes is. It's also prolly the best song on the album.
This is freaking insane, love it.
Sounds good, where can I find it?
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offblogsearch.google.com
Been looking for some quality hip-hop this year, dunno why this is the first that piqued my interest. What else should I be looking out for?
Album Rating: 3.0This year? Not a whole lot to be honest.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offin terms of hip-hop: this, Mos Def, POS, UGK, Pax & Pry, Finale, De La Soul's Nike mixtape, and hopefully Royce da 5'9"s upcoming record.
in terms of soul: Georgia Anne Muldrow (my favorite record of the year), Platinum Pied Pipers, Sa-Ra
I feel this year is about equivalent to last year in terms of quality material.
this is pretty cool
have it, haven't listened to it yet....but I saw them live a few years ago and it was quite an experience....
sobhi did you like the DJ Quik record? i thought it's up there with the ones you listed as well
i have to check this out
I'll definitely look into this, but I don't know if I'll be able to find it.
"Death of the Muse", "Marvel" and "Gotham City Chase Scene" are so good. This has become one of my favorite hip-hop records, more people need to check this out.
i don't see travis touchdown anywhere on here
hip-hop's not my thing, but i might check this out
Heh, Mask has played a little No More Heroes for the wii. That would be awesome if they had used something from the game, although it wouldn't have made much sense.
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Offhaven't heard the dj quik/ kurupt joint rudy, didn't really pique my interest when i read about it. seemed like another "ya hey we're old school, but now we need more money" joint. i'll check it out though.
glad you dug it lucidity, i know you're not the biggest hip-hop aficionado, so that speaks volumes. there's really not a single track i can't stand on here, save for the laughable poetry at the end.
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'Unanswered question' over Lake Vyrnwy estate sale
People living on the Lake Vyrnwy estate in Powys said they still have "unanswered questions" after meeting its potential new owners.
Owner Severn Trent has named United Utilities and RSPB Cymru as preferred bidders.
The £11m sale is described as the biggest in living memory in Wales and England.
One resident said he feared the estate was being "split up". The joint bidders said they wanted a shared vision.
David Rowlands told the meeting in Abertridwr: "I still have more questions I want to ask but I'm concerned particularly that the estate is going to be split up"
"The estate always used to be run as one unit. The result of this split with this lease is that the split is going to be perpetuated", he added.
Another tenant said the future was still uncertain. ""We haven't been told anymore than we have heard before. We are tenants and we don't know where we stand".
A three-month consultation started last month after the preferred bidders to develop the estate were named in July.
United Utilities and RSPB Cymru offered for the agricultural holdings on the estate, while FIM Sustainable Timber and Energy LP was named preferred bidder for the commercial woodland.
Many local people had backed a rival offer by Bala-based millionaire businessman Rhys Jones.
'Fabulous bids'
Ted Pearce, Director of Property for Severn Trent, said Friday was an opportunity for a really good open session with the community of people around Vyrnwy.
"We've had very good feedback, which is hugely valuable to us. We were really pleased to see the level of engagement which we've had here today," said Mr Pearce.
"We had some fabulous bids, many of them we would have been delighted to work with," he explained.
"For this precious asset, we just felt there was a slightly better bid from UU [United Utilities] and RSPB. They are used to dealing with big upland estates of this nature," said Mr Pearce.
"They are used to dealing with communities and they've got some great ideas."
'Wonderful area'
Daniel Jenkins-Jones, head of public affairs with RSPB Cymru, spoke on behalf of the joint bid. He said they were sharing their vision for the future management of the estate.
"By going for a longer term lease we can make better, firmer plans for the future," said Mr Jenkins-Jones.
He stressed the importance of working with local people.
"We want their input so it's a shared vision for the estate. I can say that we will try and tap into the 250,000 who visit this wonderful area and give them reasons to stay that bit longer, spend more money. Jobs will result from that," said Mr Jenkins-Jones.
United Utilities provides water and waste water services to nearly seven million people in north west England, supplying more than three million households and more than 400,000 business premises.
Parts of the Lake Vyrnwy plot being offered for lease are entitled to special protection and include Sites of Special Scientific Interest, a Special Protection Area for birds and a Special Area of Conservation for its outstanding upland habitats.


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1931 – The Four Immigrants Manga, Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama (Stone Bridge Press, 1999)
This Saturday, the San Francisco Public Library will host foundational manga historian Frederik L. Schodt for a talk on a book he translated fifteen years ago: Manga Yonin Shosei, initially self-published by one Yoshitaka Kiyama, a first-generation Japanese immigrant (or Issei) to the United States. Kiyama, a student artist, had lived in San Francisco since 1904, though his residency became less permanent in the 1920s; apparently printed in Tokyo, Manga Yonin Shosei was nonetheless intended for the eyes of new American immigrants, scripted in a unique blend of Japanese and English that couldn't possibly make sense for any other audience. It was a collection of semi-autobiographical newspaper strips, fifty-two in total, intended for a year's weekly serialization but reformatted instead as a singular original work, thus anticipating the way certain rejected strips would find new life in the later phenomenon of the comic book.
It is also, in a way, the first manga to be released stateside.
But what is the early "manga"? Is it narrative picture scrolls of the 12th century? The whimsical drawings of Hokusai? Or should we start with Rakuten Kitazawa, the artist who popularized "manga" in the sense of caricature – who founded the cartoon-laden Tokyo Puck, and, at the dawn of the 20th century, began publishing multi-panel narrative manga for the western-style newspapers and magazines enabled by new access to advanced printing technology? Perhaps it should be Ippei Okamoto, a newspaper cartoonist and pioneer of emonogatari, whose enthusiasm for American comic strips resulted in full-blown Japanese translations for Bud Fisher's Mutt and Jeff, Frederick Burr Opper's Happy Hooligan, and — perhaps most crucially — George McManus' Bringing Up Father, which, in 1924, directly inspired a Kitazawa apprentice, Yutaka Asō, in his creation of the wildly popular Nonki na Tōsan ("The Careless Father" or "Easygoing Daddy"), an American-styled newspaper strip which touched off a wave of merchandise, including collected editions.
Indeed, by 1931, numerous Japanese newspaper comics enjoyed compiled releases, and it could be that Kiyama's exposure to these books — in addition to stateside compilations of Fisher and the like — inspired the ultimate publication of Manga Yonin Shosei. Certainly his application of American strip style to Japanese concerns was in keeping with the aforementioned developments in "manga" from the decade subsequent. Of course, there were concurrent evolutions in children's manga, magazines, etc. – we mustn't limit ourselves, though it would be a disservice to Kiyama not to see him as an active force in an ongoing effort at comics synthesis.
Schodt first encountered Kiyama's work in 1980, but wasn't able to bring it to wide, English-only attention until 1999, under the title The Four Immigrants Manga. As you can see, a compromise was struck in the localization; Kiyama's own English lettering was left untouched, which his hand-lettered Japanese (employing a rather tricky, old-timey style, per Schodt's extensive introductory essay) was replaced by a rather bloodless font. This was done both to distinguish the usage of English-as-Japanese from English-as-English, and to ensure Kiyama's rather dense clouds of Japanese dialogue would actually fit the word balloons in bulkier English.
I can't say it's the most attractive solution (and I mean "attractive" in the aesthetic, rather than pragmatic sense), yet to my mind this also underlines the artifice at the heart of Kiyama's endeavor. What the white characters say in this book — along with the occasional Chinese and black, rudely caricatured in the racist manner of the day — are never really what they're saying, but what Kiyama and his friends can understand of them, and likewise what the Issei can communicate. In this way, having these words spring up from the same hand that draws their bodies seems appropriate, as their hesitancy shakes with the slapstick of bodies. The Japanese language, in contrast, comes from some eternal interior: thoughtless and automatic, issuing from humans but internalized, and stripped of the consciousness of composition.
There was much in the way of conscious performance at that time. The name "Henry" was adopted by Kiyama to ingratiate himself to the monied whites he would rely upon for work and lodging. We don't need Schodt's intro to tell us this either; it is presented to us flatly in the first of Kiyama's strips. Subsequent installments transform personal history into comedy vignettes, several consolidated (at times anachronistically) from community lore, and each one wrapped up in a gag by the twelfth panel. There are references to the earthquake of 1906, Margaret Sanger, the Alien Land Laws, and the difficulty of romance when men outnumbered women eight to one and miscegenation was illegal. Eventually, Kiyama surrenders the protagonist's role to "Charlie," a student of democratic systems and classic twit. There's even a little action:
This is pretty funny stuff, I think, although Schodt's extensive translation notes draw special attention to the most rueful bit of humor: Charlie's plan to "buy some land, marry a white woman, and build a HOME" is farcically predicated exclusively on things which were illegal for him to do at the time; "HOME," after all, denotes citizenship, which would not be on offer to Issei veterans of WWI until well after the publication of Kiyama's comic. By that time, the artist himself was coming and going; the final strip of The Four Immigrants Manga discloses the author-as-character's angst over the Immigration Act of 1924, which effectively banned Japanese immigration to the United States. Feeling down, Kiyama decides to start a family back overseas. By 1937, international tensions had guaranteed a permanent stay in Japan, where he died in 1951.
Still, this is not a bitter work, even if some bitterness is atmospheric; it's difficult to see images of adult men referring to employers as "mom" as anything other than painful. Yet looking back to the bathtub gag a ways above – it's raucous, yes, and a little sinister, with its humor premised in part upon the white woman's fear of rape. There is little lasting blame, though. Kiyama has made an honest mistake, and the woman is understanding. She doesn't fire him until a little later, when he inadvertently teaches her beloved parrot to cuss in two languages. It's a struggle, but we'll learn.
PLEASE NOTE: What follows is not a series of capsule reviews but an annotated selection of items listed by Diamond Comic Distributors for release to comic book retailers in North America on the particular Wednesday identified in the column title above. Be aware that some of these comics may be published by Fantagraphics Books, the entity which also administers the posting of this column. Not every listed item will necessarily arrive at every comic book retailer, in that some items may be delayed and ordered quantities will vary. I have in all likelihood not read any of the comics listed below, in that they are not yet released as of the writing of this column, nor will I necessarily read or purchase every item identified; THIS WEEK IN COMICS! reflects only what I find to be potentially interesting.
Insufficient Direction: From old autobio to new, suddenly we land in the 21st century for a 176-page one-off from Moyoko Anno, a 2005 account of her married life with otaku icon Hideaki Anno, the director behind Neon Genesis Evangelion and (more recently) the unlikely star of Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises. M. Anno is a versatile and talented artist — a protégé of Kyoko Okazaki, whose influence seems to have hung heavily over Anno's last translated manga release, Sakuran — but we've never quite seen her in this mode, and that alone should provide a bit of interest. My manga autobio dream translation, incidentally, is errant Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi's Princess Naoko Takeuchi's Return-to-Society Punch!!, concerning (in part) her lingering inability to follow-up a world-smashing hit with anything of comparable success, but, perhaps in keeping with the theme, I don't think it's ever been collected into a book, let alone slated for licensing. A Vertical release; $14.95.
Rusty Riley Vol. 1: Dailies, 1948-1949: And so the Golden Age of Reprints found respected illustrator Frank Godwin, creator of Connie and, most applicably, this 1948-59 saga of American boyhood among Kentucky horses, scripted by Rod Reed. Classic Comics Press is the publisher, and its 342-page package promises a interview with the late cartoonist's daughter, various bonus illustrations and an introduction by Howard Chaykin; $49.95.
Cape Horn: It's a relatively Euro-heavy week outside of the spotlight, and I'll start with this Christian Perrissin/Enea Riboldi release from Humanoids, a 2005-11 series which I'm guessing stands in a distinctly French tradition of very polished, 'dignified' adventure comics; certainly that's what we got from Perrissin's and Boro Pavlovic's El Niño, portions of which Humanoids released back in '05 when they were partnered with DC. I'd expect lots of observable research going into this late 19th century South American period piece, 228 pages in total, concerning the adventuresome journeys of numerous characters – probably a drier, cooler type of action comics thing. A 9.4″ x 12.6″ hardcover. Samples; $39.95.
Snowpiercer Vol. 2 (of 2): The Explorers: I don't believe Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer movie has yet officially opened in the United States — not that I'd ever know from first-hand experience, given the limited release scheme concocted by the Weinstein Company in exchange for agreeing to distribute the two-and-a-half-hour-plus film unedited — but I enjoyed a good chuckle nonetheless at the very prospect of seeing this material playing out on screen as soon as I read the first Titan Comics collection of the original Jean-Marc Rochette-drawn comics, 'cause hoo-boy is this a relentlessly dour slice of existentialistic-bordering-on-nihilistic SF, positing the whole of the human experience as a rigidly horizontal progression between classes of advantage, pausing only to reflect upon the futility of revolution and the guarantee of eventual, comprehensive annihilation before locking its already-agency-free protagonist into a room with himself and denying him any assurance that a world even exists outside of his own line of sight. But I guess knifes and forks were pounding on tables as France chanted SE-QUEL, SE-QUEL, so following the death of original writer Jacques Lob we got a pair of millennial follow-up albums written by Benjamin Legrand, both of which ought to be included in this 144-page hardcover; $24.99.
The First Kingdom Vol. 3 (of 6): Vengeance: And also from Titan Comics, we've got another 208 pages of reprints 'n supplements pertinent to Jack Katz's 1974-86 super-series, no doubt cleaned-up and re-lettered as all prior volumes have been. I think the next book is where we get into some never-collected stuff; $24.99.
Where Bold Stars Go to Die: One international comic I've frequently seen mentioned since its 2010 North American release is ELMER, an allegorical work about intelligent chickens by Filipino creator/publisher Gerry Alanguilan; SLG handled the NA edition, and now they're bringing another project written by Alanguilan, with art by the late Arlan Esmeña. It's about a man's obsession with a VHS sex starlet, which possibly gets surreal, if I'm reading the solicitation right; $7.95.
Loving Dead: Ha, get it? A pun is a good enough reason for a re-release, as this Stefano Raffaele project used to be called Fragile, back when it was serialized in the English Métal Hurlant; there was a DC/Humanoids collection in '05, but this one's a hardcover, 176 pages chronicling romance among dead people with disintegrating bodies. Humanoids was also serializing Jerry Frissen's & Guy Davis' The Zombies That Ate the World around the same time, less than a year after The Walking Dead launched, when this zombie stuff didn't seem quite so much like a trend. Samples; $19.95.
Valérian Vol. 6: Ambassador Of The Shadows: Cinebook is here too, with another 8.5″ x 11.3″ album by Pierre Christin & Jean-Claude Mézières, its 48 pages this time coming from 1975. Dargaud had released its own English edition of Ambassador of the Shadows back in '84, which you sometimes still see sitting around in dusty corners of comic book stores; by this point the series had become more confidently satirical, so there's a lot of stuff about diplomatic belligerence and capitalist sub-strata. I think I recall heroine Laureline carrying around a wee critter that shits out money. Very enjoyable, imaginative art; good stuff. Samples; $11.95.
Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever #4 (of 4): Being the conclusion to this Tom Neely-fronted homage to domesticity and art, as Johnny Ryan, Noah Van Sciver and Keenan Marshall Keller make friendly appearances. Microcosm sells it; $5.00.
Sergio Aragonés Funnies #12: It's been more than a year, but twelve issues of a one-man show is notable enough in today's comic books. From Bongo; $3.50.
Graphic Classics Vol. 3: H.G Wells: There's a lot of comics out there I'm not familiar with. I'm barely conversant in those Big Nate comics which grossed north of $3 million last year in bookstores, I wouldn't know a Ninjago if one of 'em assassinated by Congressman (were they in The Lego Movie?), and I'm totally not up on the two dozen releases of Eureka Productions' Graphic Classics line of 7″ x 10″ short-form adaptations, though a cursory tour of their site reveals contributions by Spain Rodriguez, Shary Flenniken, Hunt Emerson, Mary Fleener – all kinds of people. This is the third edition of their presumably successful H.G. Wells volume, newly expanded to 144 pages, and featuring contributions by Rich Tommaso, Simon Gane and others. Contents; $12.95.
Leonard Starr's Mary Perkins, On Stage Vol. 12: I do believe Classic Comics Press is rapidly nearing the completion of this realist drama strip project, as the feature concluded in 1979. This one — 264 pages, dailies and Sundays — carries us into early '74, with an introduction by Don McGregor, whom I believe was working in the Warren magazines around that time; $24.95.
Unknown Soldier: For the life of me, I don't know why Vertigo is releasing a new edition of this Garth Ennis/Kilian Plunkett war-espionage series, serialized in 1997 at the height of the heat generated by Preacher; surely it's too soon after the Preacher television deal (which Vertigo/DC/Warners/whatever is notably not part of) to plan a reissue like this. Is the Kanigher/Kubert concept active again at DC? Regardless, admirers of future Ennis forays into international dirty works like Fury MAX will likely have some interest, and it's moreover a good opportunity to admire Plunkett, a sturdy, well-traveled artist who's worked with Jim Woodring on Aliens: Labyrinth and Mark Millar on Superman: Red Son, in addition to quite a lot of popular work on Star Wars comics and animation; $14.99.
The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times: Finally, your book-on-comics for the week, a 248-page McFarland collection of scholarly essays on the William Moulton Marston creation, running the gamut from the H.G. Peter originals through the present day. Edited by Joseph J. Darowski. Contents; $40.00.


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wikiHow to Build an Elevator in Minecraft
Two Parts:Creating the BaseCreating the ElevatorCommunity Q&A
You can build structures as big as you want in Minecraft. When you make huge buildings, climbing up stairs can be time-consuming. Thanks to the use of redstone, you can now climb high structures in just a matter of seconds by building an elevator.
Part 1
Creating the Base
1Dig a hole. The hole should be 4 x 2, and 2 blocks deep. This is where we will start to build our redstone elevator.
2Put blocks on one corner. Put cobblestones that is arrow-shaped on one of the corner. Add another block on top of the "point" end of the arrow.
3Create the base of the elevator. Put a red stone torch on both of the blocks at the end of the 4 x 2 where there are cobblestones.
- Put a red stone dust above the remaining block.
- Put a repeater on the space after the cobblestone with the red stone torch and another repeater on the space after the block with the red stone dust. Make sure that the repeater after the block with the red stone dust is higher than 1 block (on the left), compared with the other one.
- Connect both repeaters with red stone dust.
Part 2
Creating the Elevator
1Put a repeater on the ground beside the lower cobblestone. Add a block beside the repeater and above the cobblestone; you will notice that the repeater you just placed will light up.
- Place another cobblestone on the other side of the repeater that you just recently placed then add two cobblestones placed right beside each other on the side of the red stone torch.
2Add cobblestones on top of both the cobblestones located at the edge. Add them up as high as you want the elevator to be. Make sure that they are of the same height.
- Put a cobblestone on top of the red stone torch that is on ground level.
- Add another repeater on the side opposite from the side with the previous repeater. You will see that the repeater you've placed will light up.
3Place a cobblestone above the red stone that is placed on ground level. Place another two blocks above it and repeat it until you reach the top end of your elevator.
- Repeat it on the other side but on alternate place compared with the opposite so that it looks like a giant zipper.
- Add repeaters on the spaces facing outward.
4Place two blocks beside the cobblestone on the ground level and the other cobblestone with the red torch, also above the dug-up ground. Place blocks on top of it until the two blocks are the same height as what you want the elevator to be.
5Place cobblestones in alternating zigzag shape between the previous zipper-like pattern. Do this on the back side of the tall wall that you've just built. Fill the spaces on the topmost layer of your elevator with cobblestones.
- While still on the back of the wall, put in red stone torches directly on the wall on the spaces that are left, which are supposed to be also in zigzag pattern.
6Put cobblestones to cover up the red stone repeaters on the front side of the wall. After that, put red stone above those cobblestones that you've just placed. Put it on all of the openings on that side of the wall.
- Put blocks beside all the spaces that has red stone on it.
- Lastly, put red stone torches on the remaining spaces that don't have red stone on top of it. Make sure that it is placed directly on the wall and not on top of the cobblestones.
7Place a block above the space between the two repeaters on the dug-up ground. Put any pressure plate above that block. Fill in the rest to cover up the dug up ground.
- Put any type of stair beside and facing the pressure plate.
- Place two blocks across both beside the pressure plate and the stairs.
8Put sticky pistons facing inward on the far end of the cobblestones on the ground. Place it until it's as tall as what you want the elevator to be. Do the same on the other end of the structure.
- Place any type of stairs on the sticky pistons. Test by stepping on the pressure plate. You will see that the stairs will move.
- Destroy the stairs that won't move and as well as other excess cobblestones. Remember that the repeater needs to be on a one tick delay.
Community Q&A
What materials do I need?wikiHow ContributorYou will need: pistons, wood (or any solid block), Redstone torches, Redstone repeaters, and 1 wooden stair block (or any other stair block).
What do I do if I built the elevator and it works, but I don't know how to go up?wikiHow ContributorWhen you build it, you have to stand on the pressure plate on the bottom left.
Dose it work for PE?wikiHow ContributorYes, this will work with PE since pistons work the same in PE as in PC or console edition.
How do I build an elevator in Minecraft?wikiHow ContributorIf you read the instructions, you will find out or you could look on YouTube.
Step 3 of creating the base makes no sense. Could someone elaborate?wikiHow ContributorIf you were stuck on the part where it says: "make sure repeater after cobblestone with Redstone dust is higher then 1 tick", this means the repeater on the left.
What and where are the repeaters in Minecraft?wikiHow ContributorThe Redstone Repeaters are in "Redstone & Transportation." A Redstone Repeater is kind of like a connection of the circuit, so if you have a broken circuit and you put aluminum on the wires, it will work.
Why isn't it doing anything?wikiHow ContributorMake sure you're not using a old version; it should be at least 1.8.
Can I use this technique if I'm playing Minecraft on a phone?wikiHow ContributorUnfortunately this technique does not work on a phone. This technique works on a console or on a PC, but not on Minecraft PE.
Why can't I go up the elevator?wikiHow ContributorIt might be that you are playing in Minecraft PE. In that edition, it won't work. You will just be stuck to the bottom and it won't elevate you.
When I put the pistons on it automatically worked, but now it is stuck. What's wrong?wikiHow ContributorYou must have made a mistake while building it. Something is out of place.
I don't get what you are saying on 6 on so could you hep me?
Can I use a small "room" instead of a stair to go up?
Where does the lift home at?
- All the red stone repeaters on the elevator wall must have the same number of ticks except for the ones underneath the ground.
- Try building around it to make another structure with an elevator inside.
- Be careful not to fall when you're in survival mode.
- Be prepared before making an elevator so that if you fall down, need materials, the ones that you need is there.
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Route to the Co-ed Nationals
In an effort to make the BSF Co-ed Slowpitch National Championships a competition that teams around the country want to qualify for, the BSF wants to increase the number of teams taking part and improve the quality of the tournament.
There are four different routes to a place in the 2016 Co-ed Nationals, to be played on the weekend of 13-14 August at Farnham Park. These routes are detailed below.
2015 Nationals Winners (Platinum, Gold, Silver & Bronze)
These teams will receive an automatic place in the 2016 Co-ed Nationals as defending champions – except that last year's Silver winner will be required to compete at a competitive level rather than staying in the recreational half of the tournament.
To confirm a place, these teams will need to have a representative at the 2016 BSF AGM on Saturday 20 February in Manchester.
2015 League or Division Winners
The 2015 winner of each division in every BSF-affiliated league is eligible to have a place at the appropriate level in the 2016 Co-ed Nationals. These teams will have been notified of their eligibility either directly by the BSF or by their League Chair or Committee. If a league has, say, three divisions, then the winner of each division can have a place in the Co-ed Nationals. Should the winning team not be able to take up its place, then it will be at the BSF's discretion whether the second-placed team in the division is offered the place.
To confirm their place at Nationals, or to keep their option open to take up their place, these league and/or division winners will have to send a representative to the 2016 BSF AGM on Saturday 20 February.
2016 Tournament Teams
Any independent tournament team affiliated to the BSF and outside the National Softball League that would like a place in the 2016 Co-ed Nationals will need to indicate this by the time of the AGM by emailing BSF Tournaments Officer Liz Graham (firstname.lastname@example.com). Based on the number of teams wishing to utilise this route to Nationals, the BSF will determine the criteria to be met to obtain a place.
Independent tournament teams that have indicated their desire for a National place will need to be represented at the AGM.
Premier/NSL Nationals
The top eight teams in the National Softball League (NSL), as determined by NSL play in 2016, will qualify for the 2016 Premier Nationals, as has been the case in previous years.
The Premier Nationals will be played as part of the Co-ed Nationals, along with all other grades of play, on 13-14 August at Farnham Park.


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Newark Officials Insist Fans Will Be Safe For Devils Playoff Game [POLL]
Some fans heading to the Devils/Rangers hockey playoff game at the Prudential Center in Newark tomorrow night say they feel a bit nervous, after several teens were arrested a few weeks ago for assaulting concert-goers at the venue following a Red Hot Chili Peppers show.
Newark officials insist they have nothing to worry about.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker says there have only been 2 incidents at the arena in Newark in 5 years – it's a safety record that's as good as – if not better than -other arenas around the country, and "we have literally dozens of police officers out there- undercover, homeland security personnel – as well as a lot of technology- from cameras to other things to keep people safe…we've had virtually no incidents over the past 5 years …but the recent problem at the Prudential center has suddenly raised the specter of fear-but fear that is irrational if you think that millions and millions of people have come to our arena with not even a stumble or fall."
- ARTICLE: Teens Beat, Rob 5 After Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert at Prudential Center
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He says "our whole downtown now is thriving – the first two new hotels in 4 years – the first new office tower going up in 20 years… and our residential population is coming back with a lot of residential being built in and around our downtown – and that's because they're not only safe and secure, but we also have a lot of great amenities now- bars, restaurants, cultural events, the museum – and so Newark is a downtown that is now really worthy of New Jersey's pride."
Booker adds he's hoping that "when people come to this great playoff game they not only enjoy the game, but they take time to enjoy restaurants in the Ironbound- new bars and restaurants…when we have packed events and there's people coming from everywhere, we really turn it up…when we have events like ultimate fighting and other things, you often get that testosterone running – we're taking extra precautionary efforts…with a rivalry this deep sometimes it arouses the lesser angels of those who come to view it- we're going to make sure that we a lot of folks out there to keep the peace."
Sam DeMaio, the Newark Police Director- says "we're going to have mounted patrols down at the arena, we're going to have a number of plain clothes officers down there as well that are going to be mixing and mingling in with the crowd to identify problems before they happen – you know if they see a group of people that look like they're going to get into a fight – there's going to be a problem that's coming- they'll be able to notify the command post and they'll send uniformed officers to handle it before it takes place."
He adds fans should feel confident that "they're certainly going to be in a very secure area- there's going to be a very high police presence…the message is Newark is as safe a place to come as any other major city in this country…I think that's a credit to the Newark police department, and the men and women that are out there providing the security."
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This is a really moving story told by a Council Member in Fort Worth Texas.
Visit the Trevor Project for more
While my mother is conservative, homophobia in its strongest forms was not in our home. She had friends who were gay and viewed them as they are–normal people. One friend likely died of AIDS largely in secret because Central Illinois was just not the place that gay men were out 20 years ago.
My mother had a strange history with gay men–she married one in her second marriage (I wasn't born yet). He was a Naval Officer and she was his unwitting beard. While in Morocco he was discovered by the Military Police. They came and got my mother and sister and packed up their stuff and they never saw him again. While she was hurt and bitter, it later taught her how difficult and unfair that was.
As a kid, I didn't bully other kids–but I am guilty as many if not most of us at my age of teasing and laughing at guys who weren't traditionally masculine. I can never take that back, but I can hope that young people today learn better and I certainly raise my children that way.


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It�s all too easy to find people willing to mistreat others because they can.
It happens in restaurants where managers skim servers� tips. In checkout lines where customers yak on cellphones while ignoring the cashiers standing right in front of them. In office buildings across the country, where professionals walk past desk guards, custodians and support staff every day as if they were invisible.
How we treat the people we�re allowed to mistreat is a measure of who we are, but most humans on the receiving end of this bad behavior feel powerless to do anything about it.
Maybe that�s why a 26-year-old job seeker�s response to an executive�s nasty email went viral. Diana Mekota took on a bully, on her terms.
Mekota is a Cleveland native currently working in health care communications in Chicago. She and her husband are planning to return to Cleveland in August for his medical residency.
Eager to set a new job in motion, Mekota reached out via LinkedIn to Kelly Blazek, who runs the popular Cleveland Job Bank Listserv.
Blazek won a local award last year as �Communicator of the Year.�
�I want my subscribers to feel like everyone is my little sister or brother,� she said at the time, �and I�m looking out for them.�
Mekota sent a polite letter to Blazek, outlining her education and career so far, and thanked her for her time.
What Mekota wanted was to join the Listserv.
What she got was an excoriation.
�We have never met. We have never worked together. You are quite young and green on how business connections work with senior professionals. Apparently you have heard that I produce a Job Bank, and decided it would be stunningly helpful for your career prospects if I shared my 960+ LinkedIn connections with you � a total stranger who has nothing to offer me.
�Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you and tacky. Wow, I cannot wait to let every 25-year-old jobseeker mine my top-tier marketing connections to help them land a job. Love the sense of entitlement in your generation. And therefore I enjoy denying your invite, and giving you the dreaded �I Don�t Know� (scribbled-out name) because it�s the truth.
�Oh, and about your request to actually receive my Job Bank along with the 7,300 other subscribers to my service? That�s denied, too. I suggest you join the other Job Bank in town. Oh wait � there isn�t one.�
Her signoff: �Don�t ever write me again.�
Mekota was stunned. �I read it over a few times. I thought, �Maybe I�m missing a few words.�� She waited about an hour and sent a follow-up email to Blazek:
�I realize you told me to never write you again, but wanted to reach out as there has been a large miscommunication and I merely wanted to explain myself.�
She explained her intentions and ended with this: �I apologize if this came off as arrogant or invasive as that was never my intention. I was again, hoping to join your very impressive job board but I understand your reservations.
�Thank you for getting back to me, although it was not the answer I was hoping to hear. I wish you and your communication job board the best.�
Why so polite?
�I gave her the benefit of the doubt,� Mekota said. �How many of us have a bad day and say something we regret? I just wanted her to know I wasn�t trying to be disrespectful.�
When Blazek failed to respond again, Mekota decided to share Blazek�s smack-down of a letter on various social media sites. Her intention, she said, was never to shame Blazek, whom she did not identify in her initial posts.
�Her name wasn�t relevant,� Mekota said. �I wanted to say: �Here�s what our generation is going through. Look at how senior professionals interact with us.��
Within hours, someone figured it out, and the story exploded on the Web.
It was Blazek�s turn to be excoriated. Within hours, her various online accounts, including Twitter, disappeared. She sent an apology to Mekota and to The Plain Dealer, a newspaper in Cleveland.
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�My Job Bank listings were supposed to be about hope, and I failed that. In my harsh reply notes, I lost my perspective about how to help, and I also lost sight of kindness, which is why I started the Job Bank listings in the first place.
�The note I sent to Diana was rude, unwelcoming, unprofessional and wrong. I am reaching out to her to apologize. Diana and her generation are the future of this city. I wish her all the best in landing a job in this great town.�
Close readers will note she apologized for notes, plural.
�Think of all those people who never come out,� Mekota said. �What happened to them? Did they cry? Did they take it personally? Did it defeat them?�
We all can imagine that range of scenarios. Many of us have been there.
As for Mekota , she has been stunned yet again � this time by the outpouring of support from other Clevelanders. �It�s the most heartwarming thing I�ve ever experienced,� she said.
From senior executives to fellow millennials , they want to welcome her home.
Count this Clevelander among them.
Connie Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and an essayist for Parade magazine.


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The cap stopping the flow of oil from BP's damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico seems to be holding, but the environmental and economic damage already done will haunt the region for years.
Like most people, I found this story completely frustrating. And as I read more about the corner-cutting at BP and the lapses at the Department of the Interior, I was outraged.
I wanted to channel that anger into a series of editorial cartoons.
But instead of ink, I decided to increase the impact of the artwork by using oil from the leak.
After flying to New Orleans on July 2, I drove east to Pensacola, Fla. Gulf-based AP reporters and a geologist at the University of South Florida directed me to Santa Rosa Island, just west of Pensacola Beach.
There, I found long stretches of beautiful white-sand beaches spotted with tar balls (dried-out oil), some of them the size of doormats.
I collected samples and brought them back to California. In my studio, I thinned the sandy gunk with gasoline, then applied it to the paper with a paint brush.
The brown you see in these cartoons is actual Deepwater Horizon oil.
I guess I'll be able someday to tell my grandkids I witnessed one of the greatest environmental disasters in U.S. history up close.
I hope by then we will have learned to be more responsible.
Breen is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune.


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OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Kevin Durant poured in 30 points and Russell Westbrook added 24 Monday, powering the Oklahoma City Thunder over Phoenix 114-96.
Durant connected on 11-of-24 shots to reach the 30-point plateau for the fifth time in six games. Westbrook helped out with nine assists and seven rebounds.
Oklahoma City also got big contributions from Serge Ibaka (16 points, seven boards) and Thabo Sefolosha (14 points) in posting its third straight win after dropping the two previous contests.
The Suns got 24 points and six rebounds from Luis Scola but it wasn't enough to prevent their sixth consecutive loss.
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Joel Ayres demonstrates the latest products at the 2010 SEMA Show with Restyling Magazine.
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With a stay at Hotel Arco Iris in Tamarindo, you'll be in the entertainment district and close to Grande Beach and Hacienda Pinilla Golf Course. This hotel is within the vicinity of Las Baulas de Guanacaste National Marine Park and Avellana Beach.
Make yourself at home in one of the 12 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Rooms have private patios. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
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Enjoy recreational amenities such as an outdoor pool and bicycles to rent. Additional features include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and wedding services. Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the area shuttle (surcharge).
Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, express check-in, and express check-out. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and free self parking is available onsite.
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Ex-BioWare developer defends Mass Effect 3's day one DLC
Day one DLC has become a hot topic in gaming these days. Some fans absolutely hate it, deeming a company evil for partaking in it, while others simply deal with it. Mass Effect 3's day one DLC, "From Ashes," has recieved a lot of criticism from fans, but according to a former BioWare developer, it's something smart and important to do.
The former employee, Christina Norman, defended BioWare's decision during a GDC interview:
"There's no point in releasing DLC a year after your game has come out when most people have already sold your game back to GameStop three times. That means getting it out early; that means even day-one DLC. That is a terrible thing to some players. Players rant -- they know nothing about this DLC that's coming out except its name. But then it's, 'Oh this game must be incomplete, the game must be ruined.' Game developers are not evil. Some are evil. But most are not evil.
"We just want to release awesome stuff. Players, please give us a chance. Judge our games based on what they are. Judge the DLC based on what it is. Stop thinking you're a producer and telling us when and where we should be building our content."
Norman absolutely hit the nail on the head with this one. DLC made available a year after release usually is only greeted by hardcore fans. By releasing it on day one, a larger demographic will indulge in it due to the game's "freshness." Do you agree with the former developer's opinion, or is day one DLC a problem in gaming? Let us know your thoughts by commenting below.
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Skanska UK governance and organisation
Skanska's UK operation is also governed through the following bodies:
- UK board – members of Skanska UK's executive management team, Skanska AB and non-executive directors.
- Executive management team – responsible for setting strategic direction, led by UK President and CEO Gregor Craig.
- Senior management team – Skanska UK executives who manage the day-to-day operation of the business.
Skanska UK's structure consists of nine operating units responsible for different sectors. Each has a managing director and leadership team. Skanska UK also has a number of centralised support functions such as HR and IT, called enabling functions.


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FREDERICTON, Feb. 4, 2014 /CNW/ - The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Member of Parliament (Fredericton), today announced $10,000 in funding for Winterfesthiver 2014 on behalf of the Honourable Shelly Glover Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages.
The Government of Canada has provided funding through the Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program to support Winterfesthiver. The 12th edition of the event took place on February 1 and 2 at the Capital Exhibit Centre in Fredericton. The activities included musical performances featuring local artists, snow sculpting demonstrations, and artists' displays.
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Pontifex breviloquens : a tweeting pope!
2013-01-21 Vatican RadioVatican Radio) As Pope Benedict XVI launches his first tweets in Latin on Sunday, January 20 thousands of people will have signed up to his Twitter account: "@Pontifex_ln" . Latin, the universal language of the Catholic Church, becomes the ninth language used for the Pope's tweets.
This event provides Veronica Scarisbrick with the opportunity to put all kinds of queries relating to this venture to our popular 'Latin Lover', Carmelite Father Reginald Foster who describes Benedict XVI as "Pontifex breviloquens".
As Father Foster explains a Ciceronian translation of all things 'twitter' is possible. He claims in fact that he almost jumped out of his skin when he realised that in his letter to Atticus, Cicero writes: 'Breviloquentem iam me tempus ipsum facit'..
That's why, he says, as we go out to tweet translates into : "exeamus brevilocutum", and let's tweet among ourselves: "inter nos breviloquamus".
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Posted by Katharine Crnko
For Marketplace Morning Report, Monday April 18, 2011
Here are today's top headlines from the Marketplace Morning Report and from around the web
News just in from Standard and Poors. The U.S. will keep its AAA debt rating for now but the outlook has been revised to negative. That means a downgrade is more likely down the road.
Bad news for Portugal which is asking for a bailout from Europe. An anti-bailout party made big gains in Finland's elections over the weekend. Finland is key for Portugal's bailout hopes because using EU funds for a bailout requires unanimous approval. Here's Marketplace's coverage.
Also today's Financial Times reports European leaders are privately drawing up plans for Greece to default on its debts. The country got a $150 billion European bailout almost a year ago.
New steps to tackle inflation in China: The country is raising requirements for how much cash banks have to keep on hand. China's economy is growing about 10 percent a year. [Here]( 2011/04/18/am-china-raises-bank-reserve-requirements)'s Marketplace's coverage.
Citigroup says its profit fell 32 percent last quarter thanks in part to poor results in its investment banking business.
Nestle today said it's agreed to take a majority stake in Yinlu, a big Chinese food company.
Saudi Arabia is raising concerns about its oil output. The country says there's too much supply.
Also, Holland-based Phillips Electronics is ditching its TV business after disappointing sales. Phillips is having a tough time competing with low-cost rivals.
Samsung Electronics may be looking to sell its hard-disk-drive business for $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Samsung would use proceeds from the sale to invest in new, higher growth areas, the newspaper reported citing a person familiar with the situation.
To the Royal Wedding which is less than two weeks away. Papa John's Pizza is celebrating the occasion with a pie that's a portrait of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Kate has black olive hair and a cheese dress; William has a suit made of pepperoni and peppers. Papa John's chief marketing officer says it "tastes as good as it looks." Meanwhile The New York Post reports that NBC is going the opposite direction. Cutting back its "aggressive and comprehensive" coverage of the wedding because the happy couple are "too boring."
In this age of electronic readers and downloadable e-books, what do you do if you want a signed copy? A new application called Autography will allow an author to e-mail a picture of him or herself with the reader...that could then be signed with a digital stylus pen. The app will debut next month. Now if they could only invent an app that stands in line for you at the bookstore.
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Featuring gleaming timber floors, the floorplan flows past the king-size master bedroom with stunning ensuite and fitted walk-in robe to a light-filled living area where sliding glass doors form a corner that opens up to a sunny north-facing merbau deck. The kitchen is a culinary work of art with loads of bench space, granite sink, stainless steel appliances and butler's pantry, plus two more generous bedrooms served by a family bathroom with free-standing bath and separate shower.
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Milani Baked Blush: Drugstore Beauty Buy Review
Bring on the warm weather and the bright colors! Today's drugstore beauty buy review features my new favorite blush, Milani's Baked Blush in Luminoso. This blush runs for about $6.99 depending on where you are shopping and it's worth every penny! A little bit goes a long way with this product and it's perfect for spring and summer!
Luminoso is a peachy/coral color with just a slight hint of shimmer. It gives your cheeks the perfect glow! This has been my go to blush for the last couple of weeks and I have a feeling I will continue to wear it into the summer!
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Re-election Concerns and the Failure of Plea Bargaining
A new explanation for the failure of plea bargaining is provided. It is shown that a retention agent (i.e. median voter) can use convictions at trial as a signal of the quality of a prosecutor. This encourages a public prosecutor to take cases to trial even when both social welfare and her utility (absent the retention motivatiOn) from plea bargaining is higher.
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Springer, vol. 161(1), pages 141-156, October.
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- William M. Landes, 1974. "An Economic Analysis of the Courts," NBER Chapters,in: Essays in the Economics of Crime and Punishment, pages 164-214 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Landes, William M, 1971. "An Economic Analysis of the Courts," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 14(1), pages 61-107, April.
- Lucian Arye Bebchuk, 1984. "Litigation and Settlement under Imperfect Information," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 15(3), pages 404-415, Autumn.
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- Eric Rasmusen & Manu Raghav & Mark Ramseyer, 2009. "Convictions versus Conviction Rates: The Prosecutor's Choice," American Law and Economics Review, Oxford University Press, vol. 11(1), pages 47-78.
- Eric Rasmusen & Manu Raghav, & Mark Ramseyer, 2008. "Convictions versus Conviction Rates: The Prosecutor's Choice," Working Papers 2008-16, Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy.
- Baker, Scott & Mezzetti, Claudio, 2001. "Prosecutorial Resources, Plea Bargaining, and the Decision to Go to Trial," Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 17(1), pages 149-167, April.
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Alan Green: Roy not Keane to tough it out
For the past week, there wasn't a morning I woke up without half-expecting to hear that Roy Keane had resigned from his post at the Stadium of Light.
There was no question that this was the first time in his managerial career- he'd been Sunderland boss for 27 months - that he faced turmoil. And it all came in a bit of a rush.
Only in October he and the team were basking in the relative glory of a derby win against Newcastle and a considerable draw against Arsenal.
But Sunderland have now lost six of their last seven games and the last four at the Stadium of Light.
Crowds are down and boos have been evident as final whistles sounded.
When he was appointed, I thought it could only go in one of two ways.
Either Keane would be a mammoth success - just as he was as a player - and put himself in line to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford.
Or he'd quickly look in the mirror and decide 'management' wasn't for him. After all, it's not as if he needs the money after such a brilliant playing career. What surprised me was that Keane himself was responsible for much of the speculation that engulfed him.
Why did he so publicly question his future?
Why did he say that he asked himself every day if he was the 'right man'? Why was he taking all the blame for the team's recent poor form? It's daft.
It created a climate of fear and uncertainty around the manager and the club and it ran totally contrary to the huge support that he'd beengiven.
Which managers outside of Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United have been backed to the tune of £80 million?
What wouldn't a manager give to have a chairman like Niall Quinn? Remember, this is someone who generously pushed aside any past differences he had with Keane in order to put the club's interest first.
And Quinn tried desperately to talk his manager out of leaving.
Now, you might say that it was admirable for a manager to front up and take the blame but I'd argue that Keane was letting his players off the hook.
They're the ones that aren't performing. Why give them an excuse to hide behind? No-one really knows what goes on in Roy's mind, probably not even Roy himself.
It was that way in the years he was the most influential player for Manchester United and the Republic of Ireland and it's that way now.
But surely he needed to do the precise opposite of what he has done? He never cared about the plaudits he attracted as a player. Why listen to boos that would quickly have been silenced after a decent result or two?
He should have told the board, the players and the fans - the majority of whom are amongst the best in England - that this manager would be around for the tough times as well as the good times: unfortunately he didn't and now he won't.
Robbie Keane is running out of ideas
Robbie Keane's emotions when he was substituted by Rafa Benitez against West Ham last Monday night - for the 15th time - were etched all over his face.
Clearly, he was less than happy, particularly being replaced by an unknown, untested French youngster, David Ngog.
But, bluntly, Keane has nothing to grumble about.
His form is very poor andthere's no disguising the current conversation amongst Liverpool fans that the Irishman (right) looks very expensive at £20 million.
He certainly looks nothing like the player he was at Tottenham.
So, ironically, he can count himself fortunate that Fernando Torres will be out injured until the New Year because that means, for now, Keane will be the main man and he has to start showing he's capable of the role.
The Premier League leaders are away to Blackburn this afternoon, travel to Eindhoven on Tuesday (a game that's sole importance is in deciding who tops the Champions League group) and then are at home to Hull next Saturday: all winnable matches.
Keane HAS to play a significant part in winning them.
Burnley upset was just the ticket
It was wonderful going to Turf Moor the other night for Burnley's Carling Cup tie against Arsenal.
Maybe it's the rich Lancastrian accents that I love or the fact that the ground nestles so close to the town centre.
Our commentary position sits high up looking out over the roof of the Bob Lord Stand (remember that imposing figure?) towards the mills and the moorland.
The place oozes history: a time when football could accommodate Champions from such modest surroundings.
And it was terrific to be reminded of 'our' connections to Burnley for it was announced this week that Jimmy McIlroy is to be given the freedom ofthe Borough.
Jimmy, one of the nicest men I've ever met in football, is still beloved there.
It was, too, a great game. We came to marvel at the potential of Arsene Wenger's latest crop of youngsters but they were deservedly beaten by a team that played football just as good as Arsenal's and were a credit to the Championship.
I can't wait to commentate on their semi-final.
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By the time she made Side Streets (1934), Ann Dvorak's fortunes at Warner Brothers had fallen sharply. Once a promising leading lady, following notable performances in Scarface (1932), The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932), and Three on a Match (1932), Ann angered studio heads by eloping with her Louvain co-star, British actor Leslie Fenton; the couple sailed off in July 1932 for a year-long European honeymoon that kept her from accepting the projects the studio had in mind for her (although considering the films they gave Bette Davis, their rising Queen of the Lot at this time, Dvorak really wasn't missing much). Upon her return, she found herself either cast in mediocre pictures or on suspension or in litigation to keep from making even worse films. Side Streets falls within this unfortunate period.
As mediocre pictures go, this romantic drama is not without a measure of interest. Unfortunately, Dvorak's role was relatively minor. In her previous title role in Housewife (1934), in which she was third billed, Dvorak had been the loyal spouse who has to compete with a sophisticated Bette Davis for the affections of husband George Brent. Here, she is consigned to the Other Woman role. The lead goes to Aline MacMahon, a Broadway star of the 1920s who had only been in movies a year. MacMahon plays Bertha Krasnoff, owner of a San Francisco fur shop who takes in a penniless, homeless sailor (Paul Kelly), first as her employee, then as her husband. It soon becomes clear, however, especially after Miss Dvorak shows up, that Bertha's hubby is a womanizer who only married her for her money. After a string of extra-marital affairs and childbirth traumas, the husband realizes Bertha is the woman for him after all.
It's a telling fact about Hollywood's attitudes toward women and marriage at the time that one of the working titles of the film was A Woman in Her Thirties, implying there is something out of the ordinary about a woman of that age (MacMahon was about 35 when she made this) who is not yet married, especially if she is not conventionally attractive. The notion is reinforced when Bertha's scheming niece Ilka, who has fallen for Bertha's husband, lays into her for being an ugly old woman who can't hold onto her younger man. In fact, MacMahon in the 1920s was lauded for her beauty, and her heavy-lidded, melancholy looks were inspirations for sculptors and photographers.
The other working title for the film was Fur Coats, the name of the short story by Ann Garrick and Ethel Hill on which the movie is based. Bertha's fur business gives rise to interesting subplots, as she bilks rich men and their mistresses for expensive coats, her way of condemning the marital infidelity that is ironically providing her with a tidy living and the means to keep a ne'er-do-well husband.
Even after breaking into movies, MacMahon continued her stage career well into her later life. Her leading lady period in films was short-lived, but she made strong impressions in supporting parts through the mid-1960s in such films as Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Babbitt (1934), Dragon Seed (1944, an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actress), and Diamond Head (1963). In her last feature role, she recreated her stage success as Aunt Hannah in All the Way Home (1963), based on James Agee's novel A Death in the Family. She continued to work on television, but retired in 1975 after the death of her husband, architect and planned-city pioneer Clarence S. Stein. She died in 1991 at the age of 92.
Ann Dvorak worked with director Alfred E. Green four times in all, previously in the aforementioned Housewife, which was also written by Side Streets scripter Manuel Seff. Green's film career stretched from 1916 to 1954 and included several biographical pictures: Disraeli (1929), The Jolson Story (1946), The Fabulous Dorseys (1947), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950). He also directed Barbara Stanwyck in one of her best pre-code potboilers, Baby Face (1933) and Bette Davis in her first Oscar®-winning role, Dangerous (1935). After leaving pictures, he worked for a few years on television, notably on the series The Millionaire from 1955 to 1958.
Cinematographer Byron Haskin became a director later in his career (Treasure Island, 1950; The War of the Worlds, 1953). At this time, however, he was also an important part of the Warner Brothers special effects team, which won a Technical Achievement Award in 1939 for pioneering the development and first practical motion picture application of the triple head background projector. Haskin and sound engineer Nathan Levinson were co-nominated four times for special effects. Among Haskin's notable effects credits are A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Roaring Twenties (1939), The Sea Hawk (1940), High Sierra (1941), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).
Side Streets earned mixed reviews and did nothing to help Dvorak's fading career at Warner Brothers. Mordaunt Hall, in an August 1934 review in the New York Times, gave MacMahon and Kelly credit for doing their best with thankless roles but only mentioned Dvorak off-handedly, erroneously crediting her with playing the part of Ilka.
Director: Alfred E. Green
Producer: Samuel Bischoff
Screenplay: Manuel Seff
Cinematography: Byron Haskin
Editing: Herbert Levy
Art Direction: Anton Grot
Original Music: Heinz Roemheld (uncredited)
Cast: Aline MacMahon (Bertha Krasnoff), Paul Kelly (Tim O'Hara), Ann Dvorak (Marguerite Gilbert), Dorothy Tree (Ilka), Helen Lowell (Tillie), Mayo Methot (Maizie Roach).
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