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Interview: August 21, 2013
In LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY, his first novel in 15 years, Wilton Barnhardt introduces readers to Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband, Duke, exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society. Jerene works tirelessly to preserve her family's legacy, even if her loved ones aren't cooperating. Bookreporter.com's Bronwyn Miller gets Barnhardt to open up about his inspiration for this proud-to-a-fault Southern matriarch, and the delicacy with which he had to write her in order to avoid any camp or irony. Barnhardt also discusses his own liberal brand of Southern pride, the interesting --- sometimes jarring --- way the South's past and present seem to intersect, and why he and his book-loving family started the Barnhardt Family Fund at Warren Wilson College.
Bookreporter.com: LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY is your first novel in 15 years. Had you been ruminating on it since your last novel, or were there other projects in between?
Wilton Barnhardt: I had been working on my sprawling, multi-century Western out in California, but when I moved back east, I was unable to enjoy all the university libraries and rare documents that I could get my hands on in the Bancroft and Huntington libraries…and so research and writing slowed to a crawl. I moved Novel No. 5, my Southern novel, LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY, up in the batting order. Once I did that, it took six years to finish it, despite the ease of the research. I was directing an MFA program at the time, and my life went into the abyss, I'm afraid.
BRC: This is such a multi-layered family saga. What was the idea you started with first? How long did the writing process take from start to finish?
WB: The trick of the book, as you know, is that all 11 main characters get their own chapter and the narrator looks over their shoulders. The plot moves like a football on a lateral pass among the characters, none of them knowing everything the reader knows (or thinks she knows). The order of chapters moved around up until the last year of writing it (Duke, for instance, was the second chapter, not Gaston), and one family member, the slumming, walk-on-the-wild side Christopher, had his own chapter, but I dropped it. Thanks to magazines and TV, the once-mysterious, dangerous world of meth labs has become standard knowledge. Sorry, Chris, but the book went on just fine without you. It took six years to write it and arrange it --- the arranging and fidgeting taking more time than the initial writing. And the first impulse for the whole book? Jerene.
BRC: You've written three previous novels, each one very different. EMMA WHO SAVED MY LIFE is a coming-of-age story set in New York City, GOSPEL is a theological thriller, and SHOW WORLD is a satiric send-up/cautionary tale of Hollywood. What made you finally decide to write a novel set in your home state of North Carolina? How important to the story is the span of years that it covers?
WB: I tend to write to amuse, educate and entertain myself, and I have been blessed and pleasantly bemused that anyone else wanted to read alongside me. I did hold off on the South --- and this will be my one and only Southern novel --- because I wasn't quite sure I knew what I thought, despite having been born and raised there. I'm defensive about the South, as well as deeply critical, though I DO live here and have lived in Alabama and Louisiana as well. Despite its backward politics and social and economic challenges, it is absolutely the most interesting part of the country, and the rest of the nation owes its music, a portion of its literature, and a lot of good cooking to the region. But I was equally determined not to write a nostalgic, old times on the homeplace kind of Southern novel; this is the South as one finds it now, in the Age of Obama.
BRC: Duke Johnston clings to his family history and Civil War artifacts like they are his life-blood, even though in the end, clinging to the past is what ultimately brings about his family's downfall. In Book 2, you write: "Now it hardly matters what Jerene and Duke's children do; the world of proprieties and respectabilities, the patina of Southern grace and elegant public bearing, all of that was nearly gone and smashed to bits." Did you set out to write a novel that would comment on the New South vs. the Old South?
WB: Yes, and while Jerene Jarvis Johnston, with her grasp on society, her position due to her art collection and her trust, her husband's family and their Civil War pedigree, seems to be fighting a rear-guard action for the Old Southern proprieties and caste system --- her children couldn't care less. The racial/class strictures and threat of social embarrassment and shame that steadied her generation seems to have evaporated, yet Jerene still holds out (as do many matriarchs across the South) for the happy society marriage for her children, the placid genteel surface enriched by nice things, traditions, heirlooms, family silver --- things that whisper of a proud history (whether that history was proud or even true!).
BRC: The characters in the novel have their own specific complications. Did you discover during the process that you had a favorite character to write for? Which character proved to be the most challenging? Which did you find was the most sympathetic?
WB: I was surprised when I got to the reclusive aunt, Dillard, with her exaggerated health problems and her virtual agoraphobia following a spectacularly bad marriage and tragic situation with her self-destructive son, how much I liked and understood her. Jerene was fun to write, but I had to watch myself; she is never camp, or used merely for comic effect --- she is too deadly serious in her purposes for that. The most fun was the debauched, intolerant, judgmental, badly mannered Gaston Jarvis, the artistically failed Southern writer. A projection of how I hope not to end up, I suppose!
BRC: Even though it is satiric in nature, the reader does feel for the matriarch, Jerene. She may be obsessed with appearances, but you get the sense she is trying harder than anyone to keep the family (and its myths) intact. How difficult was it to walk that fine line between satire and empathy for a character?
WB: Her children, particularly Annie, the unwilling debutante, would no doubt say their mother is living in the past, deluded, not aware that these trifles are long gone, gone with the wind, but that would be a misreading. Jerene knows times have changed --- oh, she is well aware --- but she would say that contemporary society was wrong to too quickly abandon the comforts of class, a good marriage, family name, propriety and keeping the darker secrets of a family hidden like they should be. I was careful not to "interpret" Jerene for the reader. My friends who got to read the book early had every imaginable reaction to her --- a villain, the sort of matriarchal dragon lady one is right to fear; a heroine, noble in her way; and, in one case, a friend said she was an absolute role model. I am happy for the reader to debate her character and her merits.
BRC: Each character is so richly drawn and detailed, they feel like flesh-and-blood people who you might have gone to school with or could be your neighbors. Did you base any of them on people you know? (You don't have to mention any names. We wouldn't want anyone coming after you!)
WB: Absolutely. Better leave that answer right there without elaboration! My mother does wish it known that she is in no way the model for Jerene Jarvis Johnston, and of course, not being Society in any way, shape, or form, that seems true enough. But my mother --- and many of the women in my family --- have that stoic ability to weather disaster and the preposterous antics of their offspring/husbands/relatives, and something of this strength must have imputed itself to the book. I am aware that I am by no means the first to notice the lapidary resilience of women in this region
BRC: You were a graduate student at Brasenose College at Oxford University. Can you tell us a little about that experience? Did you take anything from that time and incorporate it into your own teaching style?
WB: I had a magnificent Irish storytelling scholar for an advisor at Oxford who may well have made up half of what he recited, but it didn't matter. He, like many in the British tutorial system, believed in 1) intimidation of the student through sheer volume of knowledge and expertise, and 2) providing good entertainment value. I have tried to incorporate those practices in my own benign, curmudgeonly way. If you make it clear to the student how much you love literature, how essential it is to you, how it speaks as nothing else does to one's deepest feelings, then it proves contagious. Not that there weren't crazed eccentrics at Oxford from whom you could learn completely nothing --- I could make you that list, too. Any expatriation, of course, is beneficial and educational; I wouldn't have traded living abroad for anything, and I go back each summer with an NC State study abroad group of students so I can spread that particular gospel. We tend to be parochial in the United States, and that is especially true in the South --- the more international travel for everyone, the better!
BRC: Did you always intend to use the title LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY, a reference to the anthem "Dixie," or did that come later on in the process?
WB: For a long time, it was going to be LOOKAWAY DIXIELAND, like the once-and-future novel of Gaston Jarvis, but my novel, as the years passed and I knew it better, could in no way be confused for Gaston's, and I didn't want the reader to think I intended that. LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY is even more lost and wistful, and I liked the echo of ABSALOM, ABSALOM; there are faint allusions to a number of Southern masterpieces throughout if one looks with a magnifying class. It had always been my intention to drop a lyric from "Dixie" for the title, which starts the New South-Old South argument on the cover of the book. By the way, I asked an undergraduate class if they knew where my title came from and not ONE hand went up; "Dixie" has been exiled to the Southern shadows…
BRC: You were raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. How much does your Southern upbringing permeate your work?
WB: Despite having lived for five years in Europe, eight in Los Angeles, three in New York City, I have had to admit that I am, in many ways, culturally Southern. But I'm one of the Southerners who does not sit easily with the flow of the politics or the church or the calcification of white privilege that rarely gives an inch. But there are plenty of us troublemaking redneck liberals; I have plenty of company and, I suspect, through the centuries, always would have had fellow travelers.
BRC: In addition to being a novelist, you're the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at North Carolina State University. How does being a teacher inform your writing?
WB: I have recently unloaded that job; indeed, that's how I was able to finish the book, and without my poet colleagues and an indulgent department head, I might not have finished it yet. That is the downside in a nutshell: Teaching at the university, especially in an MFA program, leaves no time for anything else, much less the dawdling, ambling, false-start process that is writing. The good things, however, outweigh the bad: in the interactions, the fresh talk of ideas and structures and plots and characters, the rules you formulate to share with a class, which you find yourself applying to your own work successfully. Everyone I know who teaches to keep a roof over his head (a peril of the profession --- the day job) generally agrees on this point, that being around talented young people is uplifting rather than dispiriting.
BRC: You started out as a journalist, writing for publications like Sports Illustrated. What made you make the jump to being a novelist?
WB: Those were wonderful, raucous days, being a reporter at Sports Illustrated. Occasionally now, stuck in a misconceived chapter, I yearn for the simplicity of reporting on a simple points race in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series…but no. I like a big canvas. Both journalism and novel-writing tell stories, but the novelist is more megalomaniacal, creating a whole universe in which he is an imperfect deity over the lives of his creations.
BRC: The actual day-to-day work of a writer can be quite solitary and lonely. Once the book is published, the readings, talks and appearances begin. Is this an enjoyable part of the process for you?
WB: Book tours aren't as essential as they used to be, and the era of the 75-whistle-stop tour are no more; there are more sophisticated ways, in the emerging media, to publicize a book. But I miss the old days, even the rainy Tuesdays with three people showing up to the reading (who you suspect were herded in from the breakroom by the bookstore events organizer…). I like meeting the people who read --- the only people I want to meet anyway --- in every town in the country. If you're lucky, they'll hang out with you after the reading is over --- fans, future readers, book people who read more than I get to, who will fill a list with recommendations for when I do have time to read. You get to know where the cool coffee shop/cocktail bar/bistro is in every city. No, publication and meeting one's readers is the fun part.
BRC: Can you tell us a little about the Barnhardt Family Fund at Warren Wilson College?
WB: My mother grew up on a little farm in the Bee Tree Valley of Swannanoa, N.C., a quarter-mile from Warren Wilson College (back when it was Farmer's College). During the Depression, they took in poor students who couldn't afford even the bunkhouse up at the college, in return for farm chores and a little bit of money here and there. How strange then that my childhood summers (when I was up with my grandparents), spent biking around Warren Wilson campus, would have a sequel.
In 1997, I was invited to be part of the Warren Wilson fiction faculty, and few associations have ever meant more to me. Their MFA Program for Writers --- the best low-residency MFA in the country --- is enriching for the faculty, too, who live together in the dorm (imagine the late-night discussions!), but also attend each other's lectures and seminars. The brilliance I have heard! Sometimes I have wanted to crawl out the exit wondering what on earth a clod like myself was doing there in this company. But we're a big book-obsessed family, a mafia, a mutually supporting literary mob. My mother and I have given money to provide a scholarship that will cover living expenses for a term, but we hope to add to it. Buy LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY, America, and that fund will grow much bigger!
BRC: What are some of your favorite novels of the South, both old and new?
WB: That deserves a semester-long answer, but leaving aside debates as to Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, even Willa Cather, being Southern, one returns to the lodestars that are William Faulkner (his LIGHT IN AUGUST is maybe the greatest), Zora Neale Hurston's THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, and Ralph Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN, for which we'll give an Oklahoman dispensation. We all know of Welty, McCullers, Wright, Penn Warren, O'Connor, Percy, Tennessee Williams. Maybe it is more useful to talk of great living writers who are doing interesting work. How about Ron Rash (SERENA), Valerie Martin (PROPERTY), Edward P. Jones (THE KNOWN WORLD), anything by Ernest J. Gaines or Lee Smith --- both masters of what they do --- Percival Everett (ERASURE). There are poetry collections every bit as rich and narrative as our novels, i.e., Ellen Bryant Voigt (KYRIE), Claudia Emerson (PINION), Maurice Manning (LAWRENCE BOOTH'S BOOK OF VISIONS), Natasha Trethewey (DOMESTIC WORK). And stories by the aforementioned Mr. Rash or Jill McCorkle (GOING AWAY SHOES) or newcomer Andy Duncan (THE POTTAWATOMIEGIANT AND OTHER STORIES). I could go on…
BRC: What would you like readers to take away from LOOKAWAY, LOOKAWAY?
WB: Of course, the characters, the plot twists, the mayhem, the humor. But it would also be worth discussing, like Jerene cries out in a different circumstance, how long the damned Civil War was going to haunt us. Has that 150-year-old shadow of defeat and folly, the vainglorious attempt to perpetuate the abomination of slavery at swordpoint, been washed out of the fabric of Southern life, or are the sporadic public reactionary temper tantrums (the Dixiecrats, the Wallace voters, the Tea Party) disguising a revival of hostilities? Will the South ever blend seamlessly with the rest of the country? Would it be a loss if it did so?
BRC: Are you working on another novel? If so, what can you share about it?
WB: Next, if the powers-that-be will so permit, I would like to publish a pile of my short stories. But I am also at work on the next novel. Number 5 will be a European romantic comedy with global economic overtones (well, it sounds ludicrous, but you'll see when I finish) --- and I haven't given up on the Western (Number 6)!


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Repentant Keown to face FA charge
WITH timing hardly compatible with the season of goodwill, the FA yesterday charged Martin Keown, the Arsenal defender, with improper conduct after his clash with Ruud van Nistelrooy, the Manchester United striker, during the match at Old Trafford on December 7.
Dermot Gallagher, the referee, did not see the incident and the matter was referred to the FA's video advisory panel, which has recommended that Keown has a case to answer. If found guilty, he is likely to be fined and could face a suspension of up to three matches.
Keown as good as admitted that he was at fault when he apologised to Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager, two days after the match. "Martin has shown a big attitude in saying that he's sorry,"…

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Juan Wauters "Goo" Video
Juan Wauters gets on some early '90s hip hop folk sh*t.
For those unaware, Juan Wauters is the co-creator of the group The Beets and sometimes releases solos tracks under his real name. Most of his tracks fall into the acoustic pop lane, with a splash of folk added for good measure.
Wauters recently unleashed a music video for the track "Goo," from his North American Poetry LP. The video starts off with an intro from EPMD's Parrish Smith (aka PMD), for the iconic tri-state hip hop public access show "Make It Or Break It." In the video, we find Wauters roaming around Queens dressed like an extra from Capone-N-Noreaga's The War Report album cover. While his lip-syncing game is a bit off, the interesting encounters Wauters has with Queens locals more than makes up for the partial effort.
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Learn to ride
Book into La Casella, a 1,000-acre estate with equestrian centre near Orvieto in Umbria, with Real Holidays (020 7359 3938; www.realholidays.co.uk) Riding tuition is available at all levels and accommodation is provided in four renovated farmhouses with two swimming pools, a tennis court and bikes for guests.
Plus point: Children aged four to 10 can join the centre's pony club.
Cost: From £998.90 per person, full board, including flights and car hire. Riding is extra.
Take up bridge
Book a four-night Get Started with Bridge break with HF Holidays (0845 470 7558; www.hfholidays.co.uk) Mornings are used for teaching and coaching sessions, with competitions organised every evening.
Plus point: HF Holidays will arrange partnerships if you are travelling alone, and you can combine bridge with walking and sightseeing excursions.
Cost From £318 per person, full board, at Abingworth Hall in the South Downs.
Send an email
Six hours of computer tuition can be combined into a four-night, midweek break at Cricket St Thomas Hotel in Somerset through Warner Leisure Hotels (0800 138 2633; www.warnerleisurehotels.co.uk) The course covers computer terminology, using the mouse, creating files, emailing and surfing the web.
Plus point: The hotel is a Grade II listed 1820s mansion in 160 acres of parkland.
Cost: From £259 per person, half board, sharing an Ambassador double or twin. The "Computer Skills for Beginners" supplement is £40.
Become a wine connoisseur
Extend your knowledge of French wines with a three-night Bordeaux Wine & City tour in April, September or November organised by specialist operator Arblaster & Clark (01730 263111; www.winetours.co.uk) A tasting on the first evening is followed by a visit to Baron de Rothschild's Château Clarke and a tour of the Médoc and Graves regions.
Plus point: Exclusive invitations to lunch at privately-owned chateaux.
Cost: From £499 per person, including breakfasts and two lunches. Travel extra.
Learn to cook
The Italian cookery courses offered by Flavours (0131 343 2500; www.flavoursholidays.com) range from a long weekend to a week at centres in Tuscany, Puglia, Sicily and Bologna. Puglia's course is based in 17th-century Casino Pisanelli, where week-long courses include outings to Lecce and Gallipoli, and a wine tasting.
Plus point: No single supplements.
Cost: from £849 per person (four nights) to £1,599 (seven nights).
Brush up your painting skills
Tuition in oils or acrylic is geared to individual needs at Hartland Peninsula Arts near Bideford in Devon (01237 441490; www.landscapepaintingholidays.co.uk) Courses, with artist Roy Evans, are in groups of up to five, and though daily programmes are dictated by the weather they do try to make the most of the beautiful local scenery.
Plus point: Non-painting partners and friends are welcome and qualify for a lower accommodation-only rate.
Cost: From £300 per person for three days, including tuition, meals and cottage-style rooms close to the studio.
Take the children to swim with dolphins
Travel City Direct (0844 557 6969; www.travelcitydirect.com) offers a day's dolphin swim for children aged six and over at Discovery Cove (www.discoverycove.com), in Orlando, Florida.
Plus point: Package includes entry to SeaWorld Orlando, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay or Aquatica.
Cost: From £799 per person, based on two adults and two children sharing on a room-only basis staying at the Baymont Inn & Suites, departing mid-April with Virgin Atlantic flights from Gatwick. The dolphin swim costs £195.
Give your home a makeover
Layout, style and colours are explored on a two-day course called Be Your Own Interior Designer, which takes place at The Hamptons Hotel in Ilfracombe, Devon (01271 864246; www.thehamptonshotel.com) on January 15, February 19 and March 19 in groups of up to 10. There will be lectures from a professional interior designer, who will also oversee practical tuition on texture, soft furnishing and decorative lighting.
Plus point: Participants will come away with a personal sample board.
Cost: From £378 per person, or £598 per couple with breakfast, lunch and two nights' accommodation.
Reach a higher octave
Book a one or two-week singing holiday with Authentic Adventures (01453 834137 www.authenticadventures.co.uk) The holidays take place in Taroudant in south-west Morocco, Kerala in India and Abruzzo in Italy, and singing sessions are combined with leisurely sightseeing, meals and walking itineraries. Group sizes range between 12 and 30 people.
Plus point: Social get-togethers are arranged with local choirs and musicians.
Cost: From £899 per person, with most meals but not flights.
Know your elymus from your elbow
Explore the flora-rich nature reserves around Flatford Mill in Suffolk on a three-night Wild Flowers for Beginners course in early June with botanist Ros Bennett. Run by the Field Studies Centres (FSC, 0845 3454071; www.field-studies-council.org), the course is open to families and individuals, with accommodation by the River Stour.
Plus point: Good timing for families as the course coincides with the Whitsun half-term week.
Cost: £288 per person, full board.
Take better photos
Lakeland Photographic Holidays in Keswick (017687 78459; www.lakelandphotohols.com) caters for budding photographers of all ages and abilities. Workshop themes vary, but the centre is particularly strong on landscape photography. Tuition also covers the basics of Photoshop to help you make the most of digital images.
Plus point: Lovely location in six acres of beautiful woodland by Skiddaw and Bassenthwaite Lake.
Cost: From £380 per person for four nights, including all meals and tuition.
Write a novel
Refine your writing skills on a two-week cruise with Swan Hellenic (0845 246 9700; www.swanhellenic.com) The Venetian Republic, departing in September, includes new writing workshops supervised by authors Sara Wheeler, Paul Bailey and Jeremy Lewis, covering the art of writing fiction, memoirs and biographies, travel, history and poetry.
Plus point: There's a prize for the best pieces of fiction or non-fiction writing.
Cost: From £1,925 per person.
Learn to scuba dive
Where better to learn than in the warm Caribbean waters off Grenada with Regaldive (01353 659 999; www.regaldive.co.uk), staying at the Blue Horizons Resort. As well as numerous coral gardens and local wrecks, you can explore more than 60 surreal underwater sculpted human figures, erected on nearby Molinere reef.
Plus point: The hotel is 300 yards from stunning Grand Anse Beach.
Cost: From £1,226 for seven nights, room-only, with transfers, a PADI Open Water Learn to Dive course (including tuition and equipment). Departs Gatwick in January.
Become a twitcher
Take a three or four-night birding break in north Norfolk organised by Limosa Holidays (01263 578143; www.limosaholidays.com). From a base in Old Hunstanton, an expert guide accompanies small groups to coastal hides. Depending on when you travel, sightings might include snow bunting, hen harriers, yellow-browed warblers and little egrets.
Plus point: There is a maximum of eight people per tour and there are no single supplements.
Cost: From £495, full board.
Learn a language
The British Institute in Florence (www.britishinstitute.it) runs monthly programmes, allowing you to sign up for one to four-week courses. The courses cater for all standards, from beginners to advanced (ability is assessed before classes are allocated) and the institute can also advise on local accommodation.
Plus point You can combine the one-month language course with a range of classes in Italian Renaissance art.
Cost From €205 (£183) for one week.
Hit a hole in one
Improve your swing at the luxurious Gleneagles hotel (0800 389 3737;www.gleneagles.com), in Perthshire, which has an on-site golf academy and three championship golf courses. Would-be golfers and improvers can book lessons at £65 per person for an hour's group tuition (minimum two people), or £95 per person for an hour's individual lesson with a PGA Professional.
Plus point: The nine-hole Wee Course is a good starting point for novices.
Cost: From £120 per person, per night for the "Fall into Spring" season, with breakfast.
Learn to sail
Book a five-day RYA competent crew certificate at Club Vounaki, which is run by Sunsail (0844 463 6495; www.sunsail.co.uk) in the Greek Ionian Islands. A newly opened sailing school for 2010 offers various courses with accommodation in the Club rooms or on board a yacht.
Plus point: The price includes use of swimming pool, tennis courts, mountain bikes, gym and spa.
Cost: From £749 per person in May, including flights and transfers.
Acquire the art of snowshoeing
Spend a long weekend snowshoeing in Sicily through pine forests and across old lava flows on the slopes of Mount Etna with Explore (0844 499 0901; www.explore.co.uk). The technique is easy to learn and, on this trip, is combined with cross-country skiing and hiking through the Gorge of Alcantara.
Plus point: The trip includes a visit to Taormina and its Greek amphitheatre.
Cost: From £827 per person for three nights' b & b in small hotels, two lunches and all activities, departing from Gatwick on February 19.
Improve your backhand
The new four-star Club Phokaia in Turkey's Mersinaki Bay has four tennis courts, with tuition, as well as sailing, windsurfing and mountain biking. Neilson (0844 879 8155; www.neilson.co.uk) offers packages, and the sizeable swimming pool and large number of interconnecting rooms make it a good choice for families.
Plus point: Group tennis tuition is included in the price of the holiday.
Cost: From £570 per person in May, with most meals, children's clubs and activities. Individual coaching costs €30 per hour.
Be more creative
Stained glass and mosaic-making are two of this summer's creative courses offered by Skyros Holidays (01983 865566; www.skyros.com) at its Atsitsa Bay centre in Greece. The emphasis is on fun, and the aim is to learn the skills and techniques needed to continue the craft once you return home.
Plus point: Accompanying partners or friends can choose from a wide range of other courses.
Cost: From £845 per person (stained glass), £1,045 (mosaics), full board. Flights are not included.


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Beat Pete.
Make him eat his words like one of those double-double, "animal style'' burgers at the In 'N Out they used to chow at together after practices in Southern California.
The Jets' game against the Seahawks Sunday in Seattle marks the first NFL meeting between Mark Sanchez and his former USC coach Pete Carroll since Carroll, now the Seahawks' head coach, went public with his controversial opinion about how Sanchez was not ready to make the jump to the NFL.
In 2009, while the Jets were in the process of courting Sanchez as their franchise quarterback in the weeks before the NFL Draft, this is what Carroll said about his quarterback:
"The facts are so strong against this decision. After analyzing all the information, the truth is there, he should have stayed for another year. He lost out on a chance to fully prepare himself. The facts are there's a 62 percent failure rate for underclassman quarterbacks. I don't agree with the assessment of the decision.''
Sanchez did not listen. Neither did the Jets, who took him with the fifth pick in the draft.
On Sunday, Sanchez will start his 62nd game with the Jets. He owns a career 30-25 regular-season record and is 4-2 in the playoffs.
Despite his earlier misgivings, no one sounded prouder of what he's accomplished despite not heeding his advice than Carroll, who gushed about him yesterday.
"Just because he didn't do what I thought doesn't mean it wasn't the right thing,'' Carroll said. "Whatever I thought he needed to overcome he left that in the dust and kicked butt and had a great first two years and is having a great career. When he made the decision, he stood up and grew up, was a man about it and went about proving it.
"He went out and proved that he was ready. [That] was a tremendous demonstration of a guy's belief in himself. He [left early] because he knew he could do it. He believed it was the right time. He went against some of the people closest to him to do that and I respect the heck out of him for that.''
Carroll said he "talked to him just like he was my own son.''
Sanchez yesterday did not sound like someone harboring ill feeling for Carroll despite his negative words at such a delicate time. Sanchez, in fact, called Carroll "one of the most influential people in my life.''
"I felt it was the right decision no matter what anyone said, and once you make a decision like that there's no turning back,'' Sanchez said. "The most important thing I heard during that process was that I have to live it out to be the right decision for me. [Carroll] wasn't the only one saying, 'Don't go.' There were plenty of people, my parents included.
"He had a strong opinion, and he felt like I should stay. I had my own opinion about it and I had to make a decision for myself and live it out to be the right decision for me. I have no regrets coming here and being a part of this franchise.''
Jets coach Rex Ryan yesterday said he totally understood where Carroll was coming from when he made those comments.
"I did not blame Pete Carroll one bit, because if I had that young man as my quarterback, I'd say whatever it took to get the guy to stay with me — like, 'Oh, you're not ready, son; as far as you know you're not ready to play.' Deep down [Carroll] knew he was ready.''
Carroll said it's "going to be cool'' facing his former quarterback, saying, "I love playing against our guys. The people I love the most I like to beat the most.''
Sanchez smiled when those words were relayed to him.
"He used to say that in college,'' Sanchez said. "I remember him saying that when we'd lose a coach to another team he'd say, 'We really got to go get this one. He used to sit in here in these team meetings and now we got to go kick his [butt].' ''
With his team's season on the brink, this is what Sanchez needs to do Sunday, almost four years after Carroll's controversial words: Beat Pete.


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The biggest difference in this set of DVDs is just how loud Metallica were back in those days, 1986-1992, Metallica were at the peak of their live performances, Within this box set, you will find 5 hours of the loudest metal you can hear since Motorhead in their prime. The crowd participation is unlike most other concerts, Metallica really get the crowd involved. James's Vocals were at their absolute peak. "Enter Sandman" and "Harvester of Sorrow" sound better than their studio album counterparts. "Sad but true" is the loudest and heaviest song they played in the san diego concert. The mix of the heavy black album songs and their classics worked very well.
The highlights of this album is an 18 minute version of "Seek and destroy" as Hetfield looks for someone in the crowd to scream for him, This kind of crowd participation is never found in Metallica concerts of today. "Battery" is fast as hell, Lars Ulrich in those days could pull it off. It's amazing how James can sing the lyrics and play the rhythm guitar at the same time for a track like Battery and Whiplash. He is phenomenal. Jason Newsted gets to sing like a maniac in the 91 version of Whiplash, He sounds great, much better than most full time vocalists to be honest. "Fade to black" and "One" add a lot of atmosphere to them, They sound even better than in the studio version.
There's a 20 minute solo given to each member of the band, Jason, Kirk, Lars. James and Lars even have a drum battle with each other with James almost winning. They perform covers of "breadfan" and "Am I Evil?" and they never sounded better. The best part is the Intro for "Am I Evil?", which really sounds evil. They perform fan favorites like "Master of Puppets" and "Creeping Death", further cementing their love for the fans. There are chicks flashing, people head-banging etc, Everything you could possibly hope for in a Live DVD.
Are there any drawbacks?, well, it could just be too loud and too long for the average Metal fan but for enthusiasts, This is one of the best you can ever find. Metal non-stop.


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Jeremy Lin's Offseason To-Do List for Maximizing Potential with Houston RocketsJune 13, 2013
After a few "Linsane" weeks in New York, Jeremy Lin faced lofty expectations when he signed with the Houston Rockets.
The skeptics said he was a one-hit wonder who shouldn't have gotten a $25 million contract after only 25 games. The believers said he needed more experience.
It was a largely inconsistent year, hit-or-miss each game as his confidence level fluctuated.
There was the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in late December, where Lin had seven turnovers—tying a season high—and just one assist. But there was the game the day before (Christmas Day) against the Chicago Bulls, where Lin dazzled with 11 assists and 20 points on 66.7 percent from the floor.
In his first year as a full-time starter in the NBA, Lin clearly went through adversity. However, he made great improvements through the course of the season while adapting to his role in the offense.
He is a solid on-ball defender and finished the season with respectable offensive statistics (13.4 points per game on 44.1 percent shooting and 6.1 assists per game).
Still, for a player whose performances are put in the spotlight every game, there is plenty that Lin has to do to polish his game and maximize his potential in a Rockets uniform.
Ball Control/Decision-Making
As a point guard, you are relied upon to make plays, and therefore you are looking to get your teammates involved each time up the floor. The problem was that Lin was 10th in the NBA with 236 turnovers. His teammate, James Harden, led the league with 295 turnovers.
Lin would dump the ball off to Harden on the majority of possessions; when he did facilitate the offense, he was prone to making ill-advised passes. This can be partly attributed to his aggressive style of play.
Of his 236 turnovers, 131 were caused by bad passes and 89 were due to ball-handling, per 82games.
This problem ties in with decision-making. He is a crafty player who got into the lane to draw the defense, but he struggled with his kick-out passes.
Often times, Lin drove the lane and left his feet without having made a decision as to what he was going to do with the ball. It resulted in a lot of those ill-advised passes or traveling violations.
To improve, he doesn't want to be less aggressive, merely more conscientious of what's going on around him.
The problem was mostly mental. He was hesitant because he didn't want to make mistakes. Experience will play a huge part in reducing his turnovers, but he absolutely must work on making more efficient passes this summer.
Lin, with a full season under his belt, will become more confident with time and will learn the right situations to pass, shoot or draw contact for a foul.
Among point guards who played at least 20 minutes per game in 2012-13, Lin's turnover ratio of 13.5 ranked fifth-worst, per ESPN's Hollinger Stats. Of the 82 qualified point guards, Lin was 69th.
The ability to cut down his turnovers and make better, quicker decisions with the ball in his hands will ultimately determine his success.
Consistency with Jump Shot
In the offseason, Lin needs to spend countless hours in the gym. A player who took more spot-up jumpers rather than regularly controlling the offense, he was too inconsistent shooting in 2012-13.
He would have stellar performances and then turn around with a dud. On March 20, Lin shot 9-of-13 from the field for 24 points against the Utah Jazz. He followed that outing with four points on 2-of-7 shooting against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Granted, both of these games were wins and that's all Lin really cares about, but from a personal viewpoint, it's all about consistency.
To sustain success and be on the court in crunch time, you have to be consistent. Confidence plays a huge factor, and in a lot of those "dud" games, Lin played extremely tentatively.
As a point guard, you don't have to take 15 shots a game, as long as you're effective. There were games in which Lin was 5-of-5 from the floor (12 points), even 4-of-8 (15 points)—yet those were effective games that resulted in wins.
He had five 2-of-9 games in the regular season and a 2-of-13 game. In those games, the Rockets were 1-5 and Lin was heavily scrutinized.
Dedication and commitment will allow Lin to improve his shooting and his offense as a whole.
The main thing Lin has to do is build confidence. If he's confident, his shooting will be more consistent. And he won't be so turnover-prone.
Keep Developing Left Hand
In New York, a major weakness was Lin's ability to go to the left. He could barely dribble with his left hand, let alone drive to the left.
In Houston, that has become a focus area for Lin. He has worked diligently on using his left hand, but he still has trouble finishing, even when laying it in from the left side.
In the video below, you can see him warming up with his left-handed dribble and driving to the left side of the lane. What you don't see is Lin finishing at the rim with that hand.
To be a complete player, he has to keep developing that area. It's no longer a weakness and he can drive-and-kick while going left, but it would make him that much more dangerous if he could take it up with his opposite hand.
Even his outside shooting heavily favored the right side. Now a lot of times that's just where Lin was positioned on the floor, but he took a total of 131 shots from the left side of the court compared to 238 on the right side, as evidenced on NBA.com's shot chart and the Vorped shot chart above.
Spending the offseason favoring his left hand—which he practiced in the playoffs when he was injured—can only help Lin in the long run.
If he wants to maximize his potential, the constant development of his left hand is key.
The best is yet to come for Lin and the Rockets, and an offseason dedicated to efficiency and working on consistency will allow Houston to take the next step.


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This May 3, 2011 file photo shows Afghan newspapers in Kabul, Afghanistan headlining the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Torture apologists are at it again, attempting to justify the unjustifiable. One year ago, former Bush administration officials like Vice President Dick Cheney, said torture (by the euphemism "enhanced interrogation") produced "some of the results" that led to the death of Osama bin Laden.
The one year anniversary of the death of bin Laden, shot in his compound in a daring raid inside Pakistan, by the "go" order of President Obama, is once again becoming an occasion to attempt to justify torture.
Jose Rodriguez, for example, the retired CIA officer who ordered the destruction of videos showing waterboarding, has a new book, "Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives," which will be published April 30, the day before the anniversary of the bin Laden raid. In the book, Rodriguez makes the claim that torture ("hard measures") led the U.S. to bin Laden.
This is a claim disputed by both former interrogators and former Republican nominee for president, Senator John McCain. Immediately after the death of bin Laden in 2011, in fact, Senator McCain labeled as "false" the claim that the "intelligence that led to bin Laden" was obtained under "the pressure of harsh interrogation techniques that included waterboarding."
Equally crucially, Senator McCain refused the euphemistic dodges of "enhanced interrogation" and specifically called interrogation techniques such as waterboarding torture. The senator, in fact, singled out "waterboarding which is a mock execution and thus an exquisite form of torture" for criticism. He went on to say that torture, including waterboarding is "prohibited by American laws and values, and I oppose them." The senator's choice of the word "exquisite" in that sentence is especially riveting; one can perhaps hear his personal experience of torture as an echo.
In his book, Rodriguez expresses his repulsion at President Barack Obama's administration for calling waterboarding torture and criticizing its use. "I cannot tell you how disgusted my former colleagues and I felt to hear ourselves labeled `torturers' by the president of the United States," he writes.
From a faith perspective, frankly, the disgust is all on the other side. For years now, I have been both disgusted and amazed that torture, which has been universally condemned by all the world's major religions, is a subject even for discussion. The euphemisms such as "enhanced interrogation" or "harsh" or "hard" measures are transparently an attempt to use word play as a slight-of-hand to attempt to disguise the use of torture. This word-play as an attempt to justify torture by another name is immoral in itself. It's a falsehood.
As I have written before, "torture is moral stupidity." "It is the most corrupt act any one person can inflict on another–it is the most corrupt policy any society can adopt. It is more corrupt and demoralizing even than killing in war."
The National Religious Campaign Against Torture was created in January 2006 to bring American faith communities together to unambiguously state that "torture is a moral issue" and a "matter of conscience" from a faith perspective.
For as long as the torture apologists continue to try to justify the unjustifiable, we in the faith community will continue to call them on it and insist that that the United States abide by the law. Torture is illegal in the U.S. because Congress ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 1994 and thus prohibition on torture has the weight of U.S. law. The convention defines torture as: "For the purposes of this Convention, the term 'torture' means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information…"
We in the faith community will also continue to insist that a nation that adopts torture as a policy loses its soul.
Former president of Chicago Theological Seminary (1998-2008), Thistlethwaite is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.


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The weather was pretty decent also. About thirty-two or thirty-five starting out. Of course as we climbed it got colder, and we had some serious wind. As we climbed Big Bald, there were a few snow flurries. Of course, since we were climbing, there was some serious heating up going on, so there was kind of a balance between being over-heated and chilled all day long.
Mike Keller also joined us for the run on Saturday. We stayed together for the first twelve miles until he rolled an ankle and stopped to tape it.


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Air cooling is not for turkeys & More
Subject: Cases and Cooling | November 24, 2004 - 11:35 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Air cooling innovations are still coming out, even with the growth of water cooling as a solution for top preforming PC's. With 120mm fans and multiple heat pipes being the main improvements lately, it is nice to see someone improve that which usualy gives me the most trouble, the retention clip. Phoronix reviews the Spire VertiCool and one of the comments that stood out for me was "
The Spire VertiCool is among the easiest heatsinks on the market as far as installation is concerned."
"Utilizing dual copper heat pipes and a vertical tower design the VertiCool is ready to push your AMD Athlon XP to its limits. The VertiCool is constructed with a combination of a copper base and horizontal aluminum fins to provide excellent thermal performance and weigh only 333 grams."
Here are some more Cases & Cooling reviews from around the web:
- Thermalright XP-120 @ Legion Hardware
- Thermalright XP-90 Heatsink @ ocmodshop
- Volcano 7+ Spire vs. WhisperRock IV @ OC-Service.com
- Coolermaster Hyper48 @ Rbmods
- Spire Cooler's Verticool Heatsink @ HardwareHounds.com
- AOpen ACP4SH Heatsink @ frostytech
- Gigabyte PCU22-SE 3D Rocket Cooler Heatsink @ frostytech
- Cooljag 2QC/180 1U Socket 478 Heatsink @ frostytech
- Cooljag E44C/180 1U Socket 478 Heatsink @ frostytech
- Cooler Master X-Dream III Cooler @ Tech-Mods.Net
- ThermalTake TR2 M13 SE @ Bytesector
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UPDATE: Missing 9-year-old boy now home safe after spending night at friend's house
Police say a Moorhead boy who was missing overnight is now back home.
Nine-year-old Mitchell Wells hadn't been seen since 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Romkey Park area of Moorhead.
He returned home at about 8:10 a.m. today after reportedly spending the night an at acquaintance's house without inquiring with his mother first, Moorhead Police Lt. Tory Jacobson said in a news release.
Investigators are currently interviewing Wells and can confirm that he is safe and unharmed, the release stated.
Police and the boy's family thanked the community and media for understanding the seriousness of the situation. Officers went door to door in the neighborhood and sent out a Code Red alert shortly after 3 a.m. to solicit information about Mitchell's whereabouts.
"The lack of information in this case was a large factor in deciding to additionally utilize the city Code Red Alert system to the local neighborhood of this child," the news release stated. "We apologize for the inconvenience of the early phone notifications, however we believe this important resource should be utilized when unique situations present themselves."


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A state where rivers run, Missouri is home to thousands of places to enjoy the water year-round. As you travel the state, you'll discover each stream has its own idiosyncrasies. Fishing, boating, floating, swimming . . . all are here, in Missouri. Let us introduce some iconic waterways, plus just a few attractions along the way, to help you get …Read More »
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Trout Season Begins at State Trout Parks
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from an article on trout fishing in Missouri. Please click here to read the full article on VisitMO.com. There are some things you truly have to see to believe. The opening day of trout season at Missouri's trout parks is among them. "It is an event," says Scott Pauley, a professional fisherman and the …Read More »


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That's A Wrap
This article first appeared in IMPO's May 2013 issue.
Assessing your facility's needs relative to stretch wrapping equipment — and how to justify the investment.
Is the amount of load damage going up with the age of your stretch wrap equipment? Having trouble keeping up with production and the increasing number of SKUs and load configurations? Have a need to do more with less people and feel automation might be the answer? Would you save money on film and eliminate film breaks if you could just improve performance?
If any of these questions have crossed your mind, then it's time to seriously consider how to justify a new stretch wrap machine. In today's economy, it's unlikely your company is just handing over money for new capital equipment. Budgets are tight and every department is competing for the reduced dollars available. The good news is that there are many ways to justify the cost of a new pallet wrapper and prove a quick return on your investment.
The Right Fit
It's important to consider what type of stretch wrapper is best suited for your specific application. Think about the size, weight, and variability of the loads you will be wrapping. Highly variable loads would benefit from certain types of machinery, such as orbital, horizontal wrappers that secure the load most securely to the pallet. Stable, light-weight loads of consumer goods would do well with a turntable style wrapper, while unstable or heavy loads would do better with a rotary arm machine. For the best all-around performance, rotary ring machines can handle heavy and variable loads, such as construction supplies, pet food, and beverages, while still handling the highest volume lines.
Need for Speed
One should consider the production speeds required. If moving from a hand wrap application to simple automation, a semi-automatic stretch wrapper may be all that is required. Although these machines still require a person to manually attach the film to the load at the beginning of the wrap cycle and cut the film at the end of the cycle, they can achieve rates as high as 35 loads per hour. The labor reduction or improved productivity may justify the relatively low cost of these machines.
If you've outgrown your existing stretch wrapper or are adding production, a fully automatic stretch wrapper may meet your needs best. While these machines typically cost more, the savings in labor, improved productivity, and increased versatility may easily justify this type of machine. Whether you choose a highly automated ring wrapper that can achieve speeds as high as 150 loads per hour or you prefer the redundancy of two lower volume machines in parallel can depend on available space, labor costs, and maintenance expenses.
Living in a Material World
It is important to understand the material savings that can be achieved with a new stretch wrapper. Payback can be quick for equipment that allows you to reduce film usage. These savings are also, typically, the easiest to quantify. For example, film usage can be reduced by almost 30 percent when purchasing a new machine that would improve the amount of film pre-stretch from 150 to 250 percent.
Equipment design can also have a major effect on film usage. Almost all automatic turntable and rotary arm machines have a fixed clamp that requires the machine to start and stop at the bottom of the load. A rotary ring type machine has the flexibility to start and stop anywhere on the load. This can result in 25 percent film savings — often more than enough to justify a new machine. New machines may also offer opportunities to reduce the number of wraps or move to thinner films. Plus, for companies accounting for sustainability improvements as part of their evaluation, they will likely benefit from the thousands of pounds of film that can be saved.
A Load of Savings
Although film reductions can result in thousands of dollars in savings, it may pale in comparison to the money saved by eliminating load damage and reducing interruptions in production. Study results indicate that annual average unsaleable rates, as a percent of gross sales, are .96 percent for manufacturers, with nearly half of this as a result of damage. Improving load containment could quickly pay back the expense of a new machine — while making the customer much happier.
Likewise, by understanding the cost of production downtime, the justification for a new wrapper may be simple. Production stoppages can cost some companies in excess of $50 per minute. At this rate, eliminating even 20 minutes of downtime a week could pay for a new fully automatic wrapper very quickly.
New Technology Offers New Reasons to Buy
New technologies in stretch wrapping provide new ways to justify new equipment. Add-ons can provide automatic and affordable brand identification. Additional labor savings can be achieved by adding an automatic film roll changer or spare carriage that allows for less frequent film changeovers and improved productivity. Performance monitoring systems provide assurance that the optimal amount of film will be applied to each and every load. Advances in film tension control can allow for variability throughout the wrap cycle to help reduce load damage and eliminate film breaks. Including an integrated top sheet or automated corner board applicator may eliminate enough labor to easily rationalize the cost of a new stretch wrapper.
Selection in Action
Every situation is different, but trained representatives can identify the best equipment choice for different scenarios. For example, Hensley Beverage Company had different challenges: Oddly shaped loads and loads encompassing several different products and sizes that would benefit greatly from variable film tension. ITW's Octopus 808 machine solved these concerns because it applies just the right amount of tension at various points on the load. Manufacturers and distributors such as Hensley can rest-assured that they are reducing product damage while simultaneously lowering film costs.
Instead of operating with a single tension setting, variable tension control machines like the Octopus 808 allow for increased tension at locations on the load that require extra hold (the base of a sturdy box) and lighter tension where reduced force is beneficial (sharp corners, the top of an open box). Hensley Beverage Company has estimated that the Octopus 808 machine has saved the company about 1.5 men a day.
Think Globally
Suppliers, distributors, and end-user clients are all partners in the supply chain, and consistency benefits each step along the way. Finding a partner that can provide a worldwide network of support and global solutions goes a long way in creating consistency. Standardizing equipment can translate into reduced downtime due to faster repairs and shorter parts sourcing turnaround time. Dealing with one vendor instead of many is always more efficient, and the consistent delivery of your products will be appreciated by customers, because it will allow their processes to be more consistent as well.
By working with a company that offers a full breadth of global solutions and an expertise in quantifying economic justifications, you might be closer to that new stretch wrapper than you ever imagined.


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Lisa Harouni: A Primer on 3D Printing
In this Webcast, the presenter discusses about a primer on 3D printing. The presenter also gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things - including intricate objects once impossible to create.
Provided by: TED Conferences Topic: Printers Date Added: Jan 2012 Format: Webcast


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The Colt M16A4 Rifle is fourth generation.
The Colt M16A4 Rifle is the fourth generation of the M16 series weapon system, and is the world standard by which all other weapons of this class are judged. With a removable carrying handle and an integral rail mounting system for mounting of optics and other ancillary devices, it is the ultimate full length combat rifle in 5.56mm caliber for the 21st Century.
While Colt attempts to provide current information and product depictions in this website, actual accessory availability may vary depending on the time of purchase.


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Post Jobs and Internships: Log into Hire-a-Falcon and post positions. You can also update and reactivate previously posted positions, saving you time!
Schedule Interviews: Reserve an interview room and set-up an online schedule for student sign-up. Log into Hire-a-Falcon (or create a free account) by clicking below.
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Career Services can help connect you with campus resources, students and faculty to make your visit a success. By coordinating through the Career Services office, you will receive free parking and table reservations.
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Internships are coordinated and approved uniquely in each college at UWRF. Submit your internships to Hire-a-Falcon and your internship will be posted to the online system for students to view.
Recruiting UWRF graduates for full-time work: Numerous opportunities are available.
Register for the UWRF Career Fair: Opportunities in October and February to meet potential interns and new hires.
Guidelines for Campus Recruitment: Provided by the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE).
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Wednesday, February 7, 2018, registration will begin in October
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September 21, 2016 11:05:03 AM EDT
Hey, friends. I am writing from a dark, dark place. The place of sleepless babies.
If you're a member of our group facebook page, TGN Tribe, then you may have seen me post the other day about sleep regressions. Baby Bear is around 16 months old, and suddenly sleep is SO BAD again. It has been a long week of fighting to get him to fall asleep, and then lots of wake ups. My first baby was always a bad sleeper, but Bear has had this sleep thing down since we night-weaned at a year. And now that I've been spoiled with restful nights, this regression is kickin' my behind.
Isn't infant sleep such an interesting thing? The amount of time that I have spent being consumed by researching and pondering and worrying about sleep habits, or sleep troubles, is just amazing to me. Sleep. Daytime sleep, nighttime sleep. We adults would pay out hard earned money just to score a daytime nap some days. But we have to, at times, work and beg and plead for our babies to just PLEASE FOR ONE HOUR sleep.
So, it has been a rough week. There will be better weeks. This regression will pass, just like they always do. I wish that I could report that, in the moments of struggle, I am philosophical about these fleeting moments of babyhood and appreciating the bad with the good. But mostly, I'm tired and grouchy and just trying to get through it. But peeking into his quiet room after he has finally given into rest, and sneaking pictures of his suddenly-giant toddler body stretched out in his crib, those are the redeeming moments. The moments that I can revel in the passing of time and the promise of rest. Good luck, fellow sleepless adult humans. We're gonna get through this. Together, and with lots of coffee, one night at a time.


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North Africa-Europe Experts Debate Migration
Some 70 experts gathered in Tunis this week to discuss ways of stemming the flow of humanity from poor northern and sub-Saharan Africa nations to the wealthier shores of Europe.
Successive waves of Africans, driven by unemployment and poverty at home, try to enter European countries illegally in search of a better future.
The stowaways opt for north-coast cities like Tangiers or Tunis - the closest points to Europe - for the perilous journey across the Mediterranean. Those who survive the trip then must evade border police before settling somewhere and trying to find work.
The meeting Monday drew representatives from 15 North African and European countries and 11 regional and international organizations and was designed to start a dialogue on how to curb the phenomenon. Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia blame the European Union countries for focusing on border security and instead want these richer countries to help solve the problem by investing in the development of North Africa.
"Cooperation has become, today more than ever, of paramount importance for all Mediterranean countries to settle the issue," said Brunson Mekinley, director general of the International Migration Organization.
Italian ambassador to Tunisia, Armando Sanguini, touched the core of the issue when he insisted on the need to tackle the causes of migration through economic development and partnership.
"The issue requires long-term development projects to generate jobs and promote the living conditions of the population in immigrant-exporting countries," he said.
The European Union has concluded association accords with south Mediterranean countries such as Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt that provide for the creation of free trade areas.
However, experts at the Tunis meeting warned that the move risks being counter-productive.
"The free exchange accords concluded with still under-developed nations are likely to lead to the closing down of several enterprises which would not be able to cope with stronger European ones," said Jean-Pierre Garon, a French expert in migration-related issues. "The closing down of firms automatically means laying off workers."
Experts also called on European countries to look after the immigrants who are legally settled in their territories.
"This cheap labor force, which contributes to the development of Europe, needs to be recognized and granted due rights to life in dignity," Said Bachir Znaidi, a Tunisian expert.
He deplored the situation of the immigrants as second-class citizens, prey to racism and segregation.
The media reports racist attacks by right-wing extremists who hate foreigners, especially those from North Africa. The latest incident was last summer in the Spanish town of El-Egido, near Almeria, where skinheads killed scores of Moroccans, looted their shops and set their homes on fire.
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Control, 360 turn & a Poborsky-esque chip: Omonoia's André Schembri's golazo v Salamis
Away from the bright lights of the Champions League on Wednesday night, a goal-laden friendly was played out in Cyprus as Omonia registered a 5-2 win away at Nea Salamis.
The pick of the goal was a wonderful solo effort from 27-year-old Maltese striker André Schembri.
After collecting a ball over the top, Schembri executed a sweet 360 degree turn to bypass a Nea Salamis defender, and the striker finished the move by wedging a Karel Poborsky-esque chip over the goalie and into the net.
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26 May 2001
Plutonium for sale
THE nuclear arms race has left the world with a terrifying legacy: 3 million
kilograms of bomb-grade plutonium and uranium. A terrorist would need no more
than a few kilograms to make a devastating bomb, so you'd think this material
would be kept under guard in secure military installations. You'd think so, but
you'd be wrong.
Radioactive materials are going missing, border controls are almost
non-existent, monitoring equipment doesn't work and smuggling is rife. This was
the frightening picture painted at a conference of nuclear experts in Stockholm
earlier this month organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
Interpol and the World Customs Organization. It seems only a matter of time
before a terrorist group acquires the ultimate bargaining chip.
Terrorists don't even have to get hold of enough to make a nuclear bomb, says
Friedrich Steinhäusler, a physicist from the University of Salzburg in
Austria and a


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I was really hoping for a proper, tense showdown between Mills and Kallie's mom after last week's cliffhanger. Alas, we cut straight to the SPD, where Ms. Leeds marched in soaking wet and started babbling like some methed-out crazyface. Needless to say, the world-weary front desk officer was not picking up what she was putting down. Her frustration over not getting someone to immediately find her daughter (you know, since she's cared about Kallie for a whole five minutes now) led to a full-on tantrum — and her arrest.
Elsewhere, Holder and Linden were interviewing Angie, the Pied Piper's only target to make it out alive. One particular detail struck a chord when she mentioned that the killer instructed her to move to the back of the car before he attacked her. Was this a legitimate clue meant to remind us of Twitch's parole officer? He'd certainly have the access to these street kids, and it might even set up a connection to the Seward murder since Trisha was a hooker. But it could also be a herring as red as the plastic on which he made Angie sit.
Whoever the guy was, he wasn't Mills. Angie looked at a lineup that included Mills' photo, and didn't pick anyone out. Even after Linden's badgering, she insisted she would recognize her attacker's eyes after he stared at her in the rear-view. Then she asked naively, "He got the left [ring finger]. What if somebody wants to marry me? Do you think it matters?" Even Holder, always quick with a quip, was barely able to whisper out a brokenhearted "No." (Man, Joel Kinnaman nailed it on every level in this scene.)
Holder was back to fighting form when he went outside to criticize Linden for her pushy tactics, which could make any findings from Angie's questioning inadmissible. In fact, he was beginning to question Mills' viability as the perp at all. As they talked, Reddick arrived to continued his war of emotional attrition with Linden. It was interrupted when she got a call about Ms. Leeds' arrest and left. Reddick proved once more he was as intent as ever to phone in the case. He also got in a jab likening Holder's undercover clothes to a Snuggie and then called the newly maimed Angie "four-fifths of a hand job." Classy, Reddick. Real classy.
Linden joined Ms. Leeds in an interrogation room at the SPD. She was particularly unsympathetic to the deadbeat mom's jittery "leads" on Mills and "concerns" for Kallie given that she'd straight-up obstructed the investigation for several days. Linden did have one bone to throw: Ms. Leeds wouldn't be charged. But while they waited, she could make herself useful by telling Linden where Mills might have fled. The key word in that sentence being could since Ms. Leeds instead began a stream-of-consciousness narration about Kallie's childhood. True to life? Sure. But Sherlock Holmes (Elementary or Sherlock version) would have shut that blubbering down. You don't get to tell stories, lady. You should have told stories about Joe Mills three days ago.
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Following last week's arbitration ruling that sent Damien High School and St Lucy's Priory back into the Mt. SAC Area for league groupings, several questions abound as to what the local league landscape will look like beginning next fall.
The schools that make up the Mt. SAC Area voted last May on a new set of leagues that were set to go into place this fall and run for the next two school years. They did so thinking that Damien and St. Lucy's had been moved to the parochial area.
After Damien and St. Lucy's won their arbitration hearing last week, both schools are back and now the Mt. SAC Area is hoping to avoid an extended trip to the drawing board in order to find them a new league home in a very limited amount of time.
It's expected to be an all-day session on Mar. 21 when principals and athletic directors from the member schools meet at Walnut High. The Mt. SAC Area must submit its proposals to the CIF-Southern Section by Apr. 7.
"There's no reason to start this entire process over from scratch," Mt. SAC Area re-leaguing chair Jeff Jordan said. "We worked really hard as a collective group to make necessary adjustments and changes and we haven't started the new cycle yet.
"At this point, we have to amend some of our policies so we can effectively add the Damien/St. Lucy's package back into the Mt. SAC Area."
If the Mt. SAC Area doesn't start from scratch, then there are really only three possible leagues Damien/St. Lucy's could be placed in and they are the Baseline League, Palomares League or Hacienda League. All three of those leagues consist of six teams each.
The Baseline League for next fall is supposed to be Ayala, Chino Hills, Etiwanda, Los Osos, Rancho Cucamonga and Upland. The Palomares League is Bonita, Chino, Claremont, Diamond Bar, Glendora and South Hills. The Hacienda League is Charter Oak, Diamond Ranch, Los Altos, Rowland, Walnut and West Covina.
But what sort of ripple effect does adding Damien/St. Lucy's to an existing league produce if that means another school has to come out to make it fit? And would the subtracted school then get a chance to put forth a proposal or induce a discussion about where it should be relocated?
Damien principal Dr. Merritt Hemenway confirmed Tuesday that he and athletic director Jeff Grant are working on proposals to present at the Mar. 21 meeting.
Meanwhile, a re-leaguing meeting for the parochial area has been scheduled for Mar. 27 at St. Pius-St. Matthias High School in Downey. The all-sports re-leaguing portion of that meeting will take place at 9 a.m. and the football re-leaguing meeting will start at 1 p.m.
Before Damien won its case, the Spartans' football program was slated to be in a league with Bishop Amat, Notre Dame, Loyola and Serra. Amat and Damien were slated to play in Week 10 of the upcoming of the season.
That's not going to happen now and one of the consequences of Damien winning its case is that the parochial area is headed back to the drawing board at a time when most football programs have just solidified their upcoming schedule.
"The bye week and when we're home and away, are all out the door and we have to start over," Bishop Amat football coach Steve Hagerty said. "Outside of the inconvenience of not knowing when homecoming or senior night is, it's just a matter of inconvenience not knowing who we're going to play."
With so much now up in the air, the CIF-Southern Section has also had to push back when it will announce playoff grouping proposals for the next cycle, which starts next fall. The proposals were supposed to come out in mid-March, but no new date for their release has been announced and likely won't be until after the new leagues are figured out.


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The International Music Summit has unveiled the guest speakers for its second year.
Started as an alternative to bigger conference events such as Amsterdam's ADE, the first International Music Summit in 2008 was branded a great success by its organisers, and hence they're back for another round from May 27-29. This time, however, the profile of their keynote speakers has increased dramatically, with Richie Hawtin, Matt Edwards, Rob Da Bank and Sander Kleinenberg all set to host discussion groups.
It isn't just artists that will be imparting their pearls of wisdom though. All sorts of people from the business side of the industry will be there too, representing brands like Cream, KCRW, Pioneer and even the Sonar festival. Whether you want to get your track onto a hit TV show, learn about artist management or just get some deals done with some of the industry's top brass, you can do it at the IMS.
The event will conclude with a big party at the island's Dalt Vila, which is free for all IMS attendees. However, a limited number of tickets will be available for purchase closer to the date of the event. The line-up is still being confirmed, but it's looking likely that some of the guest speakers should step up to the platter and show off their skills.


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ARTS, BRIEFLY; 'Desert Cities' to Broadway, But Linda Lavin Opts Out
By PATRICK HEALY
Published: June 17, 2011
The Tony Award-winning actress Linda Lavin will play the matriarch of the latest dysfunctional family from playwright Nicky Silver (''Three Changes,'' ''Pterodactyls'') in the Off Broadway world premiere of ''The Lyons'' at the Vineyard Theater this fall, the theater company announced on Thursday.
As a result Ms. Lavin will not be part of the coming Broadway transfers of either of her recent projects: Jon Robin Baitz's play ''Other Desert Cities,'' which was a critical and audience hit at Lincoln Center Theater, and the revival of Stephen Sondheim's ''Follies'' at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Ms. Lavin, who won a Tony for Neil Simon's ''Broadway Bound'' in 1987 and has been nominated four other times, will have a bigger role in ''The Lyons'' than she had in the two other recent productions. She will star as Rita, the head of a family of grown children struggling to make emotional connections with one another after the death of its patriarch, her husband.
Directed by Mark Brokaw, the play will also include the actors Michael Esper (''The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures'') and Gregory Wooddell, who has worked chiefly in regional theater. Additional casting will be announced later. ''The Lyons'' is scheduled to begin preview performances on Sept. 21 and open on Oct. 11.
This winter Ms. Lavin received rave reviews playing a master manipulator and recovering alcoholic in Mr. Baitz's ''Other Desert Cities,'' a five-character ensemble about a Palm Springs, Calif.,clan. That production is moving to Broadway this fall and is expected to open at the Booth Theater around the same time as Ms. Lavin's run in ''The Lyons.'' Exact dates for ''Other Desert Cities'' have not been set, and casting is under way for Ms. Lavin's former character, a spokesman for Lincoln Center Theater said.
Ms. Lavin is now appearing in ''Follies'' in Washington, D.C., in the supporting role of Hattie Walker, whose moment in the spotlight comes in Act I singing ''Broadway Baby.'' The Kennedy Center announced on Wednesday that ''Follies'' would transfer to Broadway for a limited engagement, with performances expected to start at the Marquis Theater in August. Casting for the Broadway ''Follies'' has not been announced.
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Give 'em the boot!
A civic association triumvirate representing Marine Park, Mill Basin, and Mill Island have pledged money to buy commercial-grade wheel boots for the 63rd Precinct, in an effort to curb the plague of 18-wheel trucke illegally parking their big rigs in residential spots.
"Mill Island pledged up to $1000 to help the city by purchasing a boot to be used in the Community Board 18 area, together with the Mill Basin and Marine Park Civic Association," said Mill Island Civic Association President Sol Needle.
The civic associations have been complaining to the 63rd Precinct about the large commercial vehicles parking along Avenue U, Hendrickson Street, and Bergen Avenue for years, and while police officers are eager to ticket the spot hogging trucks, their drivers are just as eager to pay the fine in lieu of even more expensive commercial parking spots, according to Needle.
"They're willing to accept a ticket for illegal parking because it's cheaper than parking in a commercial garage," he said. "So people who live in the community are naturally upset that these humongous trucks are soaking up a lot of parking spots."
The precinct doesn't have tow trucks large enough to cart off the massive vehicles, but the civic groups have decided that giving local law enforcement big metal boots to immobilize offending trucks will make the truckers think twice about leaving their rigs wherever they please.
"Way back it was decided that [police] could boot the vehicle — that way they would have to pay for any outstanding tickets to have it removed, plus pay to have the boot removed, plus pay the illegal parking fine," said Needle.
More importantly, a booted truck can't haul cargo until the device is removed, which costs truckers far more than a simple fine or fee.
The truck boots cost roughly $800 each, meaning that if Marine Park and Mill Basin civic associations match Mill Island's pledge, the 63rd Precinct would have more than enough for three of the big, iron deterrents in the war against illegal parking.
"There's no reason that they shouldn't have bought them already," said Community Board 18 district manager Dorothy Turano. "They do have funds and they can get these."
The community has been talking about getting the boots for the precinct for some time, but it looks like they're finally ready to make a purchase, according to Nick Miller, a member of the 63rd Precinct Community Council.
"We're moving forward with it, and we'll be making a purchase in the next few months," said Miller.
According to state Assemblyman Alan Maisel, the civic associations were a bit reluctant to buy the boots for fear the 63rd Precinct may loan out the boots to other precincts.
"I'm sure most of the civics will kick in money, so it's just a question of hearing from the precinct promising they won't go to other parts of the city," said Maisel.
That's a promise the 63rd Precinct is willing to make, according to Community Affairs Officer Thomas Podd.
"I have a closet picked out just for these boots," said Podd. "Once we get them, we're going to etch 63rd Precinct right on the boots and I'll be the only one with a key, so, if someone wants to get them out, they're going to have to come to me."
Podd also said that the precinct is working on getting access to a super-sized tow truck for a day or two and impounding one of the illegally parked rigs.Reach reporter Colin Mixson at cmixson@cn
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How can you NOT love Koko? Her golden locks, beautiful bronze skin, radiant smile and bubbly personality, she is known amongst her friends as honest and also sarcastic. I spend half my days trying to decipher her coded facebook status updates mostly I just give up. Her style is one of a kind and it is simply Koko. I cant help to always drool at her adornment of Jewelry. Readers meet the second Fab Personal Stylista of the Day Miss Koko" Who needs diamonds" Soulstice.
Koko's personal style is influenced by her love for art, music and culture.
"My style allows me to express myself.
I'm a BIG shopping for Quality bargains over name brand.
I believe trends are set from birth, so my mother would be my "trendsetter".
Although I love vibrant colors such as yellow, you will find a lot of earthtones in my closet. Bold, Retrotage' and soulful is the best way to describe my style.
I live for the classic styles of the 50s, the vibrant colors of the 70's and the funky Fabulous 80s.
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Green tech finds: the Earth Week edition
Thinking about gardening this weekend for Earth Day? Or disposing of that old computer responsibly? We've got information you'll want as you celebrate the planet this week.
Need to relocate your garden into a sunny spot?: Or have an older relative who loves to garden, but has trouble bending over to dig in the dirt? The Garden on Wheels (above) works in both of these situations – it's also a great solution for the urbanite with limited gardening space. (via Treehugger)
The energy-efficient dairy farmer gets more milk: Well, maybe, anyway – a study from the University of Oklahoma that was focused on energy savings on farms found that the cows also produced about 6% more milk when barns used LED lighting. (via smartplanet)
Like to exercise with others? The WeBike is exercise and power-production equipment designed more for the coffee shop than the gym. Have a seat, visit with a friend, and charge your phone with pedal power. (via Earth Techling)
Green building for Haitian orphans: Lots of kids in Haiti found themselves without parents after the 2010 earthquake. Project Haiti is a green building project that hopes to serve these kids' needs in an clean, energy-efficient building. (via The Green Schoolhouse Series)
Bike rental goes social: Need a bike for a few hours? Spinlister provides a centralized location for finding one for rental from either a bike shop or an individual. This new service is only available in New York and San Francisco right now. (via City Atlas)
Cleveland Indians give experimental wind turbine a try: Indians fans will get to check out the latest in wind turbine design this season – a "40-foot-high, 18-foot-wide helix turbine" designed locally by a professor at Cleveland State University.
Got electronics to recycle?: Your options opened up a bit more this week. HP and Staples announced a new electronics recycling program that allows drop-off of any e-waste at Staples stores. (via GreenTech Pastures)
If you've dedicated some of your Earth Week to finding the latest in green technology, share what you've found with us.
- Bugs in the garden? Here are some ways to control them without nasty chemicals.
- Great Earth Week project: Build your own rocket stove.
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Syrie James approaches Bram Stoker's classic Dracula with a breathtaking new perspective - as, for the first time, Mina Harker records the shocking story of her scandalous seduction and sexual rebirth. Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell?
Mina Harker is torn between two men. Struggling to hang on to the deep, pure love she's found within her marriage to her husband, Jonathan, she is inexorably drawn into a secret, passionate affair with a charismatic but dangerous lover. This haunted and haunting creature has awakened feelings and desires within her that she has never before known, remaking her as a woman.
Although everyone she knows fears him and is pledged to destroy him, Mina sees a side to him that the others cannot: a tender, romantic side; a man who's taken full advantage of his gift of immortality to expand his mind and talents; a man who is deeply in love and who may not be so guilty of evil after all.
> Yet, to surrender is surely madness, for to be with him could end her life. It may cost Mina all she holds dear, but to make her choice she must learn everything she can about the remarkable origins and sensuous powers of this man, this exquisite monster, this...Dracula!
©2010 Syrie James (P)2010 Tantor
"With its poetic, 19th-century prose style, this tale about a fierce, forbidden romance will appeal to even the most jaded romance fan." (Library Journal)
"James gives readers an intriguing alternate theory as to the events that occurred in Stoker's classic horror tale while at the same time delivering a spooky yet thoroughly romantic love story." (Chicago Tribune)
"Refreshing Romantic Horror"
It was a joy hearing Dracula from Mina's perspective. Dracula was written from a man's point of view since, of course, Bram Stoker was a man. There was no insight into what the feelings and relationship was between Dracula and the women in his story.
Dracula, My Love gives you the story as it could have been with the inside scoop from Mina and Dracula. It lets you see the other side of the story. Dracula is a wonderful horror book, but personally left me wanting more. Dracula, My Love completed the story for me!
"Far Better Than I Thought or Hoped For!"
On the whole, I can't stand fanfic, especially the sappy, amateur romantic stuff that proliferates the internet now. Generally I just steer clear. There has always been an exception in my mind, and that is Susan Kay's Phantom, of which Audible seriously needs to acquire an audio version. In the past 6 years or so, there's been an abundance of "Phanfic" out there telling the would-be sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, and most of them are anywhere from average to complete suckdom. The only stand out one is The Phantom of Manhattan, which is based on the original story idea by Andrew Lloyd Webber that he couldn't get to work, but then got to work some 20 years later in the form of Love Never Dies. Regardless, the stand out novel here is Phantom, which not only builds and expands on the original story, it's actually written far better than the original work and allows you to get inside the heads of the characters and explore the psychology of the story. It remains to this day as one of my all-time favorite books, and it's the book by which I judge all expansions of classic Victorian-Gothic literature.
Thing is, Dracula has the same problem, and it's because of Phantom that I held out hope of one day finding "THE book" that would go deeper and give me more. The original novel is perfect... for about 4 chapters, then it suffers quite a bit from being in a hurry to tell the story. There's no real expansion of anything. But the idea is brilliant. A lot of stories have been written since the book hit public domain. Some of it tries to concentrate on the Dracula / Mina story, some of it tries to focus on the monster hunt, and some of it tries too hard to be the sequel to the story. The Historian isn't bad, and the same holds true for the "official" sequel, Dracula The Un-Dead. But none of it stands out.
Now that's changed in my mind, because of THIS book. On a whim, I spent one of my Audible credits on a book that I could only assume would be a terrible shipper's squee-fest, and I figured that if it were, I could exchange it and get my credit back. Let me tell you about this book! It's not only beautifully told by a writer with a superior understanding of character development than Stoker, it also greatly expands on the original novel, especially on the characters of Mina and her husband Jonathan Harker. This book spins the familiar tale from Mina's perspective in such a way as to tie up some of the loose ends and filling the gaps to make sense of what Stoker only hinted at. And as a bonus, it's written with that Victorian sensibility in mind, so it fits as a companion work to the original novel. Is it a romance? Yes and no. It deals with the romance that's presented in the story, but it comes across more as a psychological study that masterfully tells how Mina could fall for the Count. Her backstory is called into play here, and everything just builds so well. But what's truly amazing to me is that in the course of exploring the romance and conflict within Mina, both sides of Dracula are explored. We get both the man he might have been (Vlad the Impaler notwithstanding) and the monster we know him to be. The love triangle takes center stage as a result, but it's less about the relationships and more about why the characters act and react as they do. Syrie James has clearly studied Stoker's original, and her love of the story shows through. It's not perfect, but it does shift the camera angle to include so much more of what we knew had to be there, and it does it very well.
Then add in a top level performance by Justine Eyre, who not only changes her voice between all of the characters, but eerily enough matches a few that I've heard in a couple different film versions.
All in all, I am truly impressed. A hardcopy of this book will find its way to my library shelf before long just on account.
"Boring Save your Credit....."
I should of have listened to the other reviews of this book, it was slow and boring. I wish I could get my credit back and get another book. It did have some interesting twists but very predictable.
"Hands Down My Favorite Book!"
I've listened to this book 3 times now and each time it's just as thrilling and suspenseful and beautiful as the first time I heard it! Bravo to the author and narrator!
"it was ok"
This book was an easy "read" you could multi-task and not miss much. The plot wasn't too fast or too slow
and the ending wasn't predictable. I would use a credit instead of buying it though, I don't think it's work the $20.00.
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