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Mr. Fix-It by Gabrielle Holly
Publisher: Total-E-Bound
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Short Story (58 Pages)
Other: M/F
Rating: 4 Stars
Reviewed by Fuchsia
Deena can't help but fantasise about the hot handyman she meets next door. She's certain that the gorgeous blond has exactly the tool she needs.
Curvy, quirky Deena Stevens never quite fitted in. She feels especially out of place in the company of "The Botox Brigade"—the kept and polished women populating the upscale homes that border her organic farm.
Regardless of their differences, Deena's neighbours seem to enjoy her company. They sit and chat when they come to buy Deena's free-range eggs and pesticide-free veggies. They even invite her to join their book club—despite the objection of Suzanne, who hosts the club meetings and clearly considers herself the queen of the group.
The book-clubbers peacefully coexist until a house call from sexy handyman, Bill, disrupts the monthly meeting. The women jostle for attention and superficial friendships are tested. Jealousies flare when the hot, handsome blond openly flirts with Deena and ignores the trophy wives. Suzanne has already set her sights on Bill, and when Deena reveals his surprising connection to her past, Suzanne gets territorial.
After their surprise reunion, Bill promises to keep in touch with Deena. Bill shows up at Deena's door and a night of incomparable passion leaves them both craving more. When Suzanne discovers their tryst she begins crafting a plan to destroy the new love affair and steal the sexy handyman for herself.
Will Mr. Fix-It have what it takes to repair the damage?
Deena Stevens operates a farm in an upscale neighborhood selling her pesticide free vegetables and eggs to the women there. As a result, the 'Botox Brigade' which she lovingly calls them, has included her in their monthly book club meetings which is led by Suzanne. Not being as polished as they are, Deena is comfortable with the few extra pounds she wears and the haphazard way she wears her hair. This particular day, Deena was late as always for the meeting which led to Suzanne calling her and yelling about her tardiness.
Bill Swenson is the handyman Suzanne uses to fix things around her house, it doesn't hurt that he's tall, blond and gorgeous. Which is why Suzanne constantly finds things for him to fix; after all who wouldn't want such a beautiful man around? One look at Bill and Deena knew that he would never be interested in her until she took a second look and realized that Bill was her summer camp crush when they were fifteen.
This was a very good story, the author portrayed a not so perfect woman among cosmetically perfect ones and still showed how love can look past the surface. Not everyone is perfect but everyone deserves a chance at love, and Bill wanted Deena. Suzanne was the bitch you knew you would hate, especially with her snide remarks, and scheming ways. She couldn't stand that Bill only had eyes for Deena, especially when he had someone as perfect as her in front of him. Mr. Fix-It is an enjoyable read and if you do pick up a copy I hope that you will enjoy it as much as this reader did.


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Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board is the external monitoring body and is composed of prof. Charles Mgone, Prof. Paul Fine, Prof. David Dunne and Dr. Jim Tartaglia. The members of the SAB bring together broad and strong expertise from the field of HIV, TB, Malaria, Parasitology and Vaccines with both academic and industrial perspective, which is invaluable to the program.
Prof. Charles Mgone
Charles Mgone is the Executive Director of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). Prof. Mgone is a paediatrician by training and holds a PhD in Medical and Molecular Genetics. He has worked in Africa, Europe and the Pacific where he has served as advisor at international and national levels. He has considerable experience in research, health research ethics, research administration, capacity development and training, particularly in sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, malaria and other tropical diseases. Before joining EDCTP, Prof. Mgone was the Network Director of the African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) responsible for coordinating capacity development and networking in accelerating the development and assessment of malaria vaccines and other interventions. Prior to that he was a Research Fellow at the Duncan Guthrie Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, the Deputy Director of the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research and adjunct professor of Health Research of University of Papua New Guinea, and professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Prof. Paul Fine
Paul fine is Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prof. Fine's major methodological interests have been in infection dynamics, family studies, genetics, and the evaluation of vaccines (efficacy, adverse reactions and impact), applied to a variety of infections. He directed a large epidemiological research programme (the "Karonga Prevention Study") in Malawi from 1978-2006, concentrating at first upon leprosy, then tuberculosis, and ultimately HIV, and including demographic surveillance, vaccine evaluation, and studies of other infections in a rural population in northern Malawi. Since 1997 he has been particularly involved in issues relating to vaccine-derived polio viruses, non-specific effects of vaccines, immunological correlates of protection, and vaccine schedules.
Prof. David Dunne
David Dunne is Professor of Parasitology at the University of Cambridge. He has more than 30 years experience of different aspects of schistosomiasis research. Of particular interest over the last 20 years has been multi-disciplinary research on interactions between human schistosomiasis and other infections; and the role of IgE in human immunity. One main focus now is on understanding the regulation and effector functions of IgE in disease endemic populations, as a crucial step towards both the development of safe, effective vaccines for pathogenic helminths, and the treatment and prevention of IgE-mediated hypersensitivity diseases. Dunne is author or co-author on more than 150 scientific publications. His research in disease endemic countries is carried out in long-term partnerships with African scientists. Capacity building and sustained South-South collaboration is an important component of this research strategy. His current research projects aim to include first-class immunology sited Africa. Dunne is co-applicant for a current WT Strategic Award entitled: Infection and Immunity Research & Training for Uganda (with LSHTM, Makerere University, and Uganda Virus Research Institute); and for a WT African Institutions Strengthening Award entitled: Training Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (with LSHTM and 7 African institutional partners); and directs the University of Cambridge's African research training and capacity strengthening programme.
Dr. Jim Tartaglia
Jim Tartaglia currently holds the position of Vice President, New Vaccine Project Head North America for sanofi pasteur and is based in Swiftwater. Dr. Tartaglia is an inventor on over 20 patents relating to recombinant vaccines and has authored over 125 publications in the areas of molecular virology and recombinant vaccine technology. Dr. Tartaglia has been involved in the licensure of several vaccines in the human and veterinary field and was a key figure in the HIV Thai trial, RV144 which led to first demonstration that a vaccine regimen can reduce the risk of acquisition to HIV infection.

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Hole in the Sky
"What made this eclipse so colorful (and so short) was the nearly perfect match in apparent size between the Sun and the Moon. The Moon just barely covered the Sun's visible face, revealing not only the vast corona but also the chromosphere, the thin lower layer of the solar atmosphere that glows with the characteristic red light of energized hydrogen atoms. In most total eclipses the chromosphere is visible only fleetingly at the beginning and end of totality, on opposite sides of the Sun. But this time it formed a nearly complete circle, accented by more than a half dozen flamelike prominences. A particularly large and bright prominence at the 12-o'clock position had detached from the Sun's limb and hung suspended in space."
-Richard Fienberg, Sky & Telescope Magazine
Makes you feel very small in the scheme of things. Eclipses are very cool.
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First, a few things that might make Java Studio Creator not the right tool for me:
- Most of my JSP based web applications are not "run of the mill" forms connected to a database applications. I tend to combine JSPs with Java classes that generate HTML, work with Javascript, etc. The solution to this mis-match would be for me to develop more reusable components as custom tag libraries, etc.
- Java Studio Creator is tailored as a web application development system - I have not tried using it for non-UI, non-web app development. I tend to write and test most of the back end code for a web application before starting on the web based UI. If I end up using Java Studio Creator a lot, I will still probably use other IDEs like IntelliJ or Eclipse to write and unit test plain-old-Java-code.


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Maiora Super Yacht Ibiza
Yacht Charter Ibiza : This is an Italian super yacht for a holiday in Ibiza featuring ample outdoor and indoor spaces. With its 28 m length and an elegant flybridge, the boat is perfect for summer sunset cocktails and daytime sunbathing. Sleeping eight, the luxury yacht has four ensuite cabins, a living-dining room and a kitchen. There are two queen beds and two twin ones with pullman berths. The beam is 5,95 m, the draft is 1,12 m. The luxury yacht was refit in 2011. There are two MTU 1200 hp engines, the crusiing speed is 18 knots, the fuel consumption is 350l/h. Among the water sports equipment, the ship has Jet tender Williams 100 hp, a wave runner, two kayaks and a paddle surf. The crew consists of four people. The yacht is based in Ibiza for summer and in Barcelona for the rest of the year.
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When Apple first premiered the iPad at its event at the end of January of 2010, Steve Jobs not only wanted to show off the new tablet's capabilities, but he very specifically chose those that would take the stage with him. Jobs demoed the Safari browser using the New York Times's website, but then started in on apps.
This is what I wrote a little over two years ago on the day of the iPad introduction:
When the time came to show off how apps work on the iPad, Martin Nisenholtz from the Times took the stage to show off the New York Times app for the iPad. The Times was one of the first to launch a media app for the iPhone, and clearly Apple wanted the Times to be ready for the introduction.That app, of course, launched with the iPad and was a showcase of sorts for other developers.
I mention this because today's presentation previewing Research In Motion's (RIM) delayed BlackBerry 10 software also was an opportunity to showcase what would be unique in the new mobile operating system. As Slashgear reports, new RIM CEO Thorsten Heins chose digital publishing vendor PixelMags, the maker of replica editions, to share the stage with him.
It was an interesting choice, and one that really shows the lack of imagination and vision currently guiding RIM. If the company truly wants to get developers interested in the platform RIM will have to do two things: it will have to develop interesting solutions itself, and it will have to partner with innovative developers.
One has to remember that Apple is one of its own platform's best developers, launching innovative iOS apps for GarageBand, the iWork suite, etc. – not to mention an authoring tool for eBooks, iBooks Author.
RIM could really boost its own platform by launching its own set of innovative apps, as well as authoring tools for publishers that would not only allow the easy creation of apps and tablet editions, but would facilitate really good, exciting apps. You want to get publishers interested in developing for RIM's platform? Do something that neither Apple nor Google has done so far.
As for the developer community RIM needs to seek out innovators, not simply look for me-too apps. I dropped my old Samsung phone for the iPhone in 2007 because I could do new things with my smartphone. Samsung now offers those same features, but that is simply an even trade. If RIM (or Samsung) wants me to buy something else, I need to know that I get something available no place else (even if that is for only a short while).
But RIM has to pick wisely because it will be hard to convince the developer community as a whole without leadership. The NYT's Bits blog, for instance, quotes a series of skeptical developers. One of them, Phill Ryu, chief executive of Impending, expressed the obvious: "If this is a horse race, RIM is two laps behind and has a lame leg. Why would I bet my time and money on them?"
As for BlackBerry 10, RIM says it will launch in the fall. One might be tempted to post about all the product demonstrations of hardware and software set to launch some time far into the future. I would guess that RIM won't be one of those companies that never delivers – BlackBerry 10 will most likely launch.
But remember, between now and then will be the launch of a new iPhone and the newest version of iOS. The preview of BlackBerry 10 can be compared to both iOS and Android versions currently in circulation. By the time Blackberry 10 launches we won't be comparing it to iOS 5, but to iOS 6.
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In the last few years, Pearl Harbor Day has taken on increased significance to me personally, not just because my father and many of my uncles served in the armed forces during World War II, but also because most of the veterans of that war that I grew up knowing have passed from the scene. It was an extraordinary time: rendered more so by the fact that Pearl Harbor and the events that followed are as historically removed from the experiences of the present generation as the trauma of the Civil War was from those of my father's generation. That being said, I now view this day as a perfect excuse to invite my father and those of his surviving friends who lived through the often uncertain years of World War II to reminisce about their friends and experiences. Some of their stories I have heard over and over again, but some are surprisingly fresh and unexpected; this is why it strikes me as particularly poignant that before too much longer virtually all of these recollections — some funny, some touching, and some sad — will, like those who currently share them, be gone forever.
A Long Time Ago, on a Sunny Morning in Hawaii ...
|Mrs. Beard lays a wreath on Pearl Harbor Day
at the anchor of the USS Arizona
As a direct result of these two Japanese attacks, eighteen U.S. ships including seven battleships were either sunk or so badly damaged that they would be out of action for months. In addition, of the nearly 400 military aircraft on the island, 188 were destroyed, and 159 were damaged. Total American casualties were 3,581, of which 2,403 were killed. The pillars of black smoke billowing up from the burning ships and airfields at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese air strikes bore witness to the stark fact that, although no formal declaration had yet been made by either nation, the United States and the Empire of Japan were now at war.
Remembering the "Day of Infamy" Seventy Years After
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Valor in the Pacific National Memorial
In a very real sense, 7 December 1941, marked a major historical turning point for the United States because that date signaled the precise moment in time when a war that had already been raging in Europe for more than two years — suddenly took a circuitous and unexpected Pacific detour — and finally found its way to America's shores. Within a few days of the Pearl Harbor Raid, Adolph Hitler joined with his "Honorary Aryan" allies, the Empire of Japan, in its war against the hitherto neutral America. The United States, its people, and its institutions — spurred by this sudden, unexpected, but existential "two-ocean" war — embarked on a national project that, by the conflict's end in 1945, would leave the country transformed in virtually every way imaginable. As a direct result of the war, vast numbers of people would permanently relocate, sometimes moving great distances; new technologies, whole new industries, and breakthrough medicines and dramatic new medical therapies would be developed; women would enter the labor force as never before; and a generation of young veterans, who — before the war would never have considered continuing their educations past high school — would use the GI Bill for a college education; and finally, the United States, its territory largely untouched by the devastation that laid waste to much of Europe and Asia, would emerge from the war — thanks to its unrivalled industrial and agricultural productivity — as the dominant economic power in the post-war world. But all of the changes that ultimately resulted from America's entry into the war can really be seen as epilogue. In purely historical terms, the story of the United States both during and after World War II, like any narrative, must, along with its ending, also have a beginning. And when it comes to the story of America's participation in its "two ocean war", everything begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor: there, in the space of a few shattering minutes, the arc of the country's destiny changed forever; and, for better or for worse, the United States and its people were, after December 7, 1941, both set upon a path that would guarantee that neither of them would ever again be the same.
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Wesley Bolin Plaza remembrance, Phoenix Arizona 2009