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The Chalk Girl
Carol O'Connell - Author
The eight-year-old girl appeared in New York's Central Park one day: red-haired, blue-eyed, dirty-faced, smiling widely. She looked perfect, like a porcelain fairy—except for the blood on her shoulders. It fell from the sky, she told the police. It happened while she was looking for her Uncle Red, who had turned into a tree. Right, they thought, poor child. And then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months' lost time, spent she will not say where, there is something about the girl that she understands. Mallory is damaged, they say, dangerously unstable, but she can tell a kindred spirit when she sees one. And this one will ultimately lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes, to murders stretching back fifteen years, to blackmail and complicity and a particular cruelty that perhaps only someone with Mallory's history could fully recognize. In the next few weeks, she will deal with them all…in her own way. TWO They're not monster size, but adults are afraid of them. Not Dad, of course. My father doesn't believe in monsters. And he doesn't believe in me.p> —Ernest Nadler The detective closed the door to the lieutenant's private office, perhaps sensing that his boss's voice was about to rise a few octaves—a good instinct. "Let Mallory out of her cage? Are you nuts?" The commander of Special Crimes Unit raked one hand through his light brown hair. A few years shy of forty, Lieutenant Coffey had a bald spot at the back of his head. It was his only outstanding feature and a reminder of what stress could do to a man. "It's not like it's the first time she's done this." "And she's not the first cop to walk off the job with no goodbye," said Detective Sergeant Riker. However, this man's partner was the only one ever to fight her way back from desk duty, that graveyard of damaged cops. But that was last time. "This time is different!" Whoa. Deep breath. In a lower voice that would not slip under the doorsill, Jack Coffey said, "She was gone for three months, and I still don't know why." Riker shrugged this off. "Since when does a cop have to explain lost time?" Lost time? For most detectives that meant taking a walk around the block to clear their heads when the job got too crazy. But Mallory had taken a drive around the lower forty-eight states of the country, an area of six million square miles—not quite the same thing. "The department shrink won't sign off on active duty." Lieutenant Coffey retrieved a psychologist's report from his wastebasket and handed it to Riker. "Cut to the top of page three—where Dr. Kane says she's dangerously unstable. I'll tell you why that got my attention. Your partner is so good at beating psych tests." "And I'm sure she aced this one." Riker tossed the report on the desk. "Dr. Kane's afraid of women—especially women with guns. That quack probably wets his pants every time he sees her." "You knew what was in her psych report before I did. She told you, right?" Jack Coffey held up one hand to signal that a bullshit denial was unnecessary. Mallory could pick the locks to any data bank, and those computer skills had been sorely missed. In her absence, his detectives had been reduced to begging for warrants. Closed venetian blinds covered a window that spanned one upper wall of his private office. The lieutenant lifted a long metal slat for a covert view of the squad room and his youngest gold shield. He was not the only one watching her. Other cops were stealing glances. Were they wondering if they could work with her again? These days, she could jack up the anxiety of any room just by walking in the door, and that had to stop. Going by mere appearance, she was unchanged, still wearing silk T-shirts and custom-made blazers. Even her blue jeans were tailored, and her running shoes cost more than his car payment. Mallory would wear money if she could, flaunting the idea that she might be on the take, though he suspected her of being semi-honest. Her blond curls were styled the same old way, framing a porcelain mask with a cat's high cheekbones. So pretty. So spooky. And what did that damn haircut cost? And why didn't she fight back? As a condition of reinstatement, he had humiliated Mallory by making her handmaiden to the squad. For the past month of probation, she had done all their grunt work without complaint, filling out reports and filing them, making phone calls and tracking down leads for other detectives, tethered all the while to a desktop computer. She daily took this punishment with no sign of reproach, got so much as the arch of an eyebrow. So how did she plan to get even with him? And when might that happen? The lieutenant watched her sort paperwork—busywork—and he knew those neat stacks would line up precisely one inch from the edge of her desk. Her other name was Mallory the Machine, and this worked well with the unnatural color of her eyes—electric green. Sorting done, she just sat there. So still. So quiet. He could not shake the idea that she was spring-loaded. Jack Coffey was a man in a perpetual state of waiting. She turned his way to catch him staring at her like a common peeper. The metal slat snapped shut as he backed away from the window. "I don't make the rules." He turned around to face Mallory's partner. "No fieldwork till she gets a pass from a shrink." "Got it covered." Detective Riker reached into his pocket and pulled out a twice-folded ad of papers. "Charles Butler signed off on her. She's officially sane." As if that could make it so, simply because Butler had more Ph.D.s than God did. "Does Charles know why she walked off the job?" "That might be in here somewhere." Riker unfolded the new psych report and scanned it—as if its contents might be a mystery to him. Right. Jack Coffey snatched the papers but never even glanced at them. He knew everything would be in order, and this new psych evaluation would trump Dr. Kane's bad review. Mallory's personal psychologist had better credentials than any department shrink, but the poor hapless bastard had one unfortunate weakness: Kathy Mallory. If she were barking at the moon, Charles Butler would just assume that she was having an off day. "Not good enough, Riker. She can't just waltz back in here like nothing happened." Foolish words. He wished he could call them back—for that was exactly what she had done: Four weeks ago, Mallory had appeared in the squad room, hovering by the staircase door like a visiting wraith. And then, when all eyes were on her, she had taken up residence at her old desk by the window, a coveted spot that no one had encroached upon while she was away. During those months of lost time, other detectives had avoided going near her desk, as if it might be haunted, and some had even mentioned that the air was always colder there. The squad room had gone deadly quiet on that morning of her return; fifteen men with guns had sat helpless as hostages waiting for a bomb to go off. Riker, whose desk faced hers, had been the first to speak, saying, "The coffee sucks since you've been gone." Only Mallory had ever thought to wash out the pot. Today, sanguine as ever, Riker said to his boss, "You want her to quit?" "For now, she stays on desk duty." The lieutenant lifted one slat of the blinds and resumed his vigil on the squad room. Mrs. Ortega had arrived. He watched the cleaning lady pull up a chair close to Mallory's and sit down for a visit. Well, that was normal enough. The two of them shared a mania for cleaning solvents. And now he glanced at the detective's neat desk. All her work was done. How many hours had he devoted to dreaming up new things for her to do? He had stopped short of handing Mallory a broom and dustpan. She might have liked that. Riker flopped down in a chair. In the only concession this man ever made to his boss's rank, he had not lit the cigarette that dangled from his mouth. The dejected detective stared at the television set in the corner of the office and watched silent news clips of rats and running people. "Why not send Mallory to Central Park for the day? That's harmless enough. Worst-case scenario—she rounds up a missing kid." Jack Coffey's smile said it all: Not a shot in hell. "I just got off the phone with the park cops. All the kids from the day camp are accounted for." "And the one Mrs. Ortega reported?" "No, not that one." Charles Butler's cleaning lady had filed today's only missing-person report on a damn pixie. "I figure Mrs. Ortega was going for a psycho defense after she beat the crap out of the pervert." "I heard that!" The cleaning lady stood in the open doorway, her jaw jutting out, defiant and up for a fight. "I only said the kid looked like a fairy." She reached into a deep pocket of her dress and pulled out a figurine. "Like this one." The small ceramic creature had a wide smile, curly red hair and the wings of a giant housefly. "The mayor's limo driver took me home so I could get it for you." She walked into the office and set her fairy down on the corner of his desk. "Take a picture. It looks exactly like that little girl." "So the kid had wings?" Coffey turned to his detective. "Riker, you left that out of your report. And what's this crap about the mayor's limousine?" "No wings," said the cleaning lady. "She's just a little girl, and she's lost. Her T-shirt had blood on it. Was that in Riker's report?" "Blood?" The lieutenant smiled. "Maybe a little backsplatter from your trusty baseball bat?" "No!" Mrs. Ortega held her breath for a count of ten. Then she dropped her scowl and the New York bravado; this matter was that important to her. The little woman's tone was almost placating when she said, "There was blood on that kid before I creamed the pervert." "Then she's probably one of the Jersey kids," said Coffey. "While you were in lockup, did the park cops tell you about the rat attack in Sheep Meadow?" "The rats were on the ground. The blood was on the shoulders of her T-shirt—nowhere else." Mrs. Ortega folded her arms. "Good try, though." The telephone rang, and Riker leaned forward to pick up the receiver, as if expecting a personal call on his lieutenant's private line. "Yeah? . . . Oh, yeah." The detective listened for a moment and then held out the phone. "Boss, it's the mayor. He wants to talk to you." A rat fell to earth, squealing all the way down, and landed with a thump at Coco's feet. She had seen this miracle before. The lifeless creature lay with its pale yellow underbelly exposed, and the shiny eyes stared at the sky from whence it came. Red droplets fell down to disappear in the dirt at the base of the tree. The rat twitched, and Coco felt icy. Fluttery. She could hear her heart beating. The rodent's body convulsed. Magically reanimated, it scrambled away in the underbrush, snapping twigs and making small mechanical squeaks and peeps. In a child's game of statue, she stood still as death, and her heart—da dum, da dum, da dum—was louder now and faster. Lieutenant Coffey settled into the chair behind his desk. He had concluded his telephone call from City Hall, and now he gave the cleaning lady his best political smile. "The mayor loves you, Mrs. Ortega." The city's top politician was indeed her biggest fan, so happy that a civilian— not a cop—had broken the pedophile's bones in full view of a dozen witnesses, most of them under the age of six. The mayor also suffered from the delusion that Mrs. Ortega's heroism might balance out the bad press of rats eating a park visitor. What a fool. "The mayor tells me his limo driver was supposed to take you to City Hall—not Brooklyn. You're overdue for a photo op and a press conference." "I told you," she said, "I had to go home and get my fairy." "Of course, and thank you for that." Jack Coffey stared at the winged figurine perched on the corner of his desk, and he picked his next words with care, electing not to tell her that the missing pixie would have to murder three or more people before Special Crimes took an interest. With great diplomacy, he splayed his hands, a New Yorker's gesture to show that he held no animosity and no weapons. "The limousine is downstairs waiting for you . . . and the mayor's waiting . . . and the television cameras." "No way," said Mrs. Ortega. "I'm not leaving here till you—" "I'll tell the park precinct there's still one kid missing." Coffey picked up the figurine. "And I'll send them a picture of this thing, okay?" "Sure you will." The little woman sat well back in her chair to let him know that she planned to stay awhile. Screw the mayor. The lieutenant had only turned his head for a moment, and Detective Mallory appeared beside him, as if she had simply materialized from some other planet. Coffey knew that she did this trick to stop his heart, and he was about to point the way back to her desk when she smiled—never a good sign. "I wonder," said Mallory, in the off hand manner of opining on the time of day, "how bad does the mayor want to see Mrs. Ortega?" Jack Coffey could only stare at her, fascinated, though he knew what would happen next. The game was blackmail. The young detective wanted out of her cage. And she was entirely too confident of her second psych evaluation. "The little girl is disabled," said Mallory. "She has Williams syndrome." "That's right," said Mrs. Ortega. "Charles Butler says she'll never find her own way home. You can't let her wander around the—" "Just a damn minute," said Coffey. "Charles saw her, too?" "No," said Mrs. Ortega, "I called him on the way to Brooklyn. He diagnosed her over the phone—the mayor's car phone." The lieutenant smelled collusion. "You might want to find that little girl." Mallory was oh, so casual. "Pedophiles love Central Park. If the kid gets raped, it might wreck the mayor's whole day." It was unnecessary to mention that, via Mrs. Ortega, this detective now had the mayor's ear. And the word payback also remained unspoken. In the darkest region of Jack Coffey's brain, a hobgoblin jumped up and down, screaming, "Shoot Mallory! Shoot her now!" But instead, the lieutenant turned back to the cleaning lady and forced a smile. "Okay, this is my best offer. I'll get the park precinct to spot you ten cops to find that lost kid. Deal?" Mrs. Ortega rose to her feet and leaned over his desk. One thumb gestured back toward the detectives behind her. "You throw in those two, and we got a deal." Mallory sat down in the chair next to Riker's and stretched out her long legs. She opened her pocket watch, an antique handed down to her from thelate, great cop Lou Markowitz. She usually trotted out this prop to advertise the generations of police in her foster father's lineage—and to call in favors owed to that good old man. On the day of her return, she had laid the watch on her desk as a plea and a dare to take her back. But today she held it up as an illustration of time passing. The mayor would be waiting, fuming, only moments from imploding. Jack Coffey shrugged, and this was akin to waving a white flag of surrender. Sometimes losing was a good idea. Failure could be so restful. His tension headache was gone even before his two detectives had been dispatched uptown to Central Park. Mrs. Ortega was sent downtown to City Hall—a problem solved—and, by the scales of wins and losses, this might be a break-even day. The lieutenant allowed half an hour before he turned on the volume of the television set. It was tuned to the cable channel for city coverage, and he expected to see the cleaning lady and the mayor in a press conference. Instead, he saw a picture of Columbus Circle, and around it ran a river of vehicles flowing from the tributaries of broad avenues. The camera narrowed its field and shifted to the sun-washed plaza of Merchants' Gate, the southwest entrance to Central Park. The lens zoomed in on a monument, and atop this high pylon stood the golden statue of Columbia Triumphant riding her chariot drawn by three sea horses. The camera panned down to the tight shot of a little boy with many microphones framing his face. And the lieutenant heard the second fairy sighting of the day. The boy on camera invoked a celebrity pixie of storybook fame to describe a child who was still at large in the park. "But she wasn't blond like Tinker Bell. This girl had red hair." The boy's smile became sly. With special glee and a touch of the ghoul, saving the best for last, he announced, "She was covered with blood!" Oh, great. Just great. "I bet you're wondering how I know you're lying." Mallory did not say this unkindly, but her partner thought she did stare at the boy in the way a cat might gaze at its food—no eye contact. Riker wondered if she saw the child as all of one piece, like a slab of meat that wore a little baseball cap. The young day camper was slow to realize that he was no longer safe in the company of smiling, solicitous reporters. This tall blonde was an altogether different sort of creature—and he was in deep trouble. His mouth hung open when he looked up at her, as if she outsized the golden statue that was merely larger than life. Mallory grabbed the little boy's hand and marched him around to the back of the monument that marked the entrance to Central Park. Riker followed close behind them to shield this kidnap from cameras on the other side of the plaza, where reporters interviewed the rest of the Jersey children, and where street musicians cranked up the music to compete with the honking horns of crazed drivers. Cars were frozen in a massive gridlock around Columbus Circle, and uniformed officers ran along the curb of the plaza, waving ticket pads at news vans insane enough to double-park. A civilian audience lined up to watch this circus, and food vendors appeared out of nowhere to cater the party. No one noticed the child snatched by the detectives. "That girl did have blood on her." The six-year-old's voice was whiny now, but he did not cry, and Riker gave him points for that. The little boy looked down at his shoes, a sure sign of guilt. "Last chance," said Mallory, as if the authority to send him to hell was hers alone. "Tell me what—" "He lied." A second tiny camper, a girl with a ponytail, stepped out of Riker's shadow and crept up to Mallory, saying, "That girl wasn't covered in blood." The child cupped her hands around her mouth and whispered confidentially, "It was just a little blood." She pointed to her own T-shirt and described the small red stains as they appeared on the missing girl's shoulder and one sleeve. "Here, and here, too. Oh, and her name is Coco." Riker opened his notebook. "Coco, huh?" After jotting this down, his pen hovered over the page. "So . . . about this blood. Did you see a wound or a cut?" "No, she was just spotty, and she looked like this." The little girl put two fingers into her mouth and stretched it into a wide Halloween grin with gaps of missing baby teeth. "Well, that sort of fits." Riker held up a photograph of Mrs. Ortega's fairy figurine, and he showed it to this more reliable witness. "Did Coco look something like" "That's her!" The little girl squealed as she jumped up and down, so excited she could hardly stand it. "I forgot about the wings!" Riker sighed. And the little boy, the confirmed liar, nodded. "Yup, she had wings, all right." Small hands jammed into his pockets, he looked up at the sky with newfound nonchalance. "She's probably in Mexico by now." Mallory hunkered down, her face a bare inch from the boy's. No escape, no mercy. And Riker winced. "Tell me something," she said. "About those stains on Coco's T-shirt—did you see that blood before the rats ate Mrs. Lanyard?" The little boy's body jerked to attention, eyes gone wide with the shock of a popped balloon. Evidently, this runaway camper had never looked back to see the rat attack. And the reporters—those jackals—had been too sensitive to tell him that the old lady was dead. All of this was apparent with the child's tears, big ones and so many of them. The detectives had an answer of sorts, and they moved on to enter Central Park. If asked, Coco would say she had walked two hundred and eighty-three miles in the past hour to cross a span of parkland equal to four city blocks. In her reckoning, time and space were arbitrary things, though she did strive to be precise with her numbers. The child followed four steps behind a woman whose face she had yet to see. Coco planned to ask if this stranger would please hold her hand. She badly needed to hold on to someone, anyone. It was a flyaway day with no anchors to a solid world, and tears were a near thing from moment to moment. But now her attention strayed to a man with a blue shirt and gray pants just like Uncle Red's clothing. But this could not be him. Uncle Red had lately turned himself into a tree. The lady ahead of her stopped and looked up. During Coco's travels through the park from nights into days, she had noticed that other visitors never looked up—only this woman. Maybe the stranger had heard a tree crying. Trees did that sometimes. But not this one. Oh, and now the red rain came down here, too, but only a few drops, and they landed on the back of the lady's dress. "You're spotted," said Coco. "You've got red spots—like mine." The woman whirled around, and a rat fell from the tree to land on her head. The lady screamed and batted at it, but the rat was tangled in her long hair, and now it was also screaming. Trembling, Coco rose up on her toes, poised for flight, and then she was off , feet touching lightly to ground as she ran, outrunning sound, chasing it out of her brain. Now there were footfalls behind her—too heavy for rodent steps, even if all the rats in the world stood on one another's backs. But she never looked over her shoulder to see what was behind her. 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Wisconsin had nearly six times more whooping cough cases this year than it did last year.By: By Kristen Durst, Wisconsin Public Radio, Superior Telegram
Wisconsin had nearly six times more whooping cough cases this year than it did last year.
According to the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, there were nearly 5,700 confirmed and probable cases of whooping cough this year as of mid-December. There were 1,200 cases in 2011.
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A photographic love song to Wellington, Peter Black has captured the faces, places and feeling of the city. There are startling moments of recognition and foreignness in these richly coloured photographs; the expressions, bricks and corners, the atmosphere and depth of a multihued city.In eighty-two brilliant, disturbing, and compassionate photographs, extended as if across the time it takes for a baby to wake up and recognise the grandfather who is waiting with the child to cross a busy, dangerous street, Peter Black has composed one of the great photo-portraits of our time. A digital flaneur on high alert crisscrossing the complex urban landscape of Wellington, Black has seen and loved the tender, sad, and often humorous details of life lived moment by moment on the streets of his home city."Looking at the photographs in I Loved You the Moment I Saw you has alerted me to this: to the significant ways in which perception is situated, and to the laminated or layered times it takes to take that in- to be moved, to be in love, in 'the moment'." Ian Wedde Buy now
by Wayne Koestenbaum
PB, Picador
RRP$30.00 vicbooks' price $26.00
Poet and scholar Wayne Koestenbaum whole heartedly, and at times deeply personally, explores the contours and meaning of humiliation. Drawing from the public sphere of the art and celebrity, the personal sphere of the body and mind, and the societal tropes of racism, politics and reality TV, he takes the reader through a diverse spectrum of mortifying circumstances.Arranged by chapters, or fugues, filled with short observations and longer reflective essays, Koestenbaum delivers a diverse range of view points, examples and experiences on the nature, need and result of humiliation, describing an intricate and debilitating human emotion with care, beauty and rare honesty.
The visceral nature of humiliation is evident in his prose, creating a poetics of debasement, yet it is firmly rooted in humane philosophy. His fascination and sensitivity is always evident: "I am tired, as any human must be, after a life spent avoiding humiliation and yet standing near its flame, enjoying the sparks, the heat, the paradoxical illumination." Buy now
Open City
by Teju Cole
TP, Faber
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental environment of work, and they give him the opportunity to process his relationships, his present, his past. Though he is navigating the busy parts of town, the impression of countless faces does nothing to assuage his feelings of isolation. But it is not only a physical landscape he covers; Julius criss-crosses social territory as well, encountering people from differing cultures and classes, people who provide insight on his journey. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss, dislocation, and surrender, Teju Cole's Open City seethes with intelligence. Written in a clear, rhythmic voice that lingers, this book is a mature, profound work by an important new author who has much to say about our world. "...beautiful, subtle, and, finally, original." - The New Yorker. Buy now
by Jonathan Franzen
PB, 4th Estate
Critical voices have asked where the angry writers are; where are the writers who challenge our comforts and understanding? Where are the social novels? Where are the writers that roar? With his new novel Freedom, Jonathan Franzen gives an excellent answer.With moral intelligence and surprisingly ribald wit Freedom's characters ask us what liberty is. The characters enact our limited and contradictory ideas of freedom, playing out the consequences of liberty, its realities and illusions. Richard, a sardonic rock-god, self-indulgently railing against societal norms. Walter Berglund, the very personification of meliorism, confounded by his high ideals, is crippled by his inability to express the love or anger that fills him. And Walter's wife, Patty, a self-loathing, ex-athlete who doubts the validity and merit of her life, able to see the harm she does yet incapable of stemming the love that drives her harm. If the other characters are the currents of the novel, Patty is the body of water they run through. Patty expresses the constraints and expressions of freedom; all its complexity, damnation and beauty. Patty, and the extended Berglund family, is testament to the moments of perfect horror and beauty that make a life; moments emblazoned on personalities so deeply they can be passed through generations and societies like DNA.
The novel is life bound in paper sheaths; an idea explored in a narrative of warmth and great intelligence, carried forward by characters of depth and profound flaw. It is an all-consuming narrative about how to live. Buy now
The Catastrophe
by Ian Wedde
RRP $35.00 vicbooks' price $32.00
The Age of Excess has been good to Christopher Hare. One of the world's top food writers, he has travelled to the best restaurants in the most exotic locations, with the chic dining companion known to readers of his lavish books as The Glace. But, in the new mood of austerity ushered in by the credit crunch, will the world still be interested in what he thinks of Robuchon's caramelised quail? Certainly Christopher's editor isn't. Christopher's moment of truth catches up with him in the corrupt space between the violent Lebanese civil war of 1975-90 and the luxurious bolt-holes of the Riviera. One evening, almost at the bottom of his over-the-hill slope, he is investigating the budget options in a mediocre restaurant in off-season Nice. These days he is no longer accompanied by The Glace, aka Mary Pepper, who has found international fame and fortune as an art photographer of pornographically eroticised foodstuffs. In the restaurant, Christopher witnesses an assassination. Impulsively, he throws himself into the action, and becomes the almost-willing victim of a political kidnapping. What will be Christopher's fate? Will his ex-wife 'The Glace' come to his rescue? Will the harshly beautiful Palestinian paediatrician Hawwa Habash soften towards her accidental prisoner? Suffused with culinary delights and political menace, The Catastrophe is laced with dark humour, crimes against humanity and a range of calamities that cascade towards a gripping conclusion. Buy now
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TP, Random House
Riddled with contradictions and idiosyncrasies, language world-wide is a complex thing; however, taking a lighter look at it can also be enormously entertaining and the psychology behind it is endlessly fascinating. Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where does 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Why do we say 'bald as a badger' when badgers are really hairy? We use it every day, but what is this thing called language and are there rights and wrongs about its use? Four leading linguists, with specific interest in New Zealand English, tackle the common-place and quirky questions that arise from what we say, read and write. Funny, accessible, informative, this is a fascinating book. Language and the way we communicate may be taken for granted but pick it apart, turn it inside out, and it becomes a fascinating object of speculation or conversation topic. Buy now
Listen to Paul Warren interviewed on Radio NZ by following this link - a fascinating and funny discussion.
Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches
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HB, New Directions
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Between Parentheses collects newspaper columns, articles and speeches Bolaňo wrote during the last five years of his life. Bolaňo became famous overnight for his novel The Savage Detectives and was suddenly in demand for articles and speeches, he took to this new vocation like a vociferous duck to water. Cantankerous, irreverent, and insufferably opinionated, Bolaňo could also be tender (about his family and favourite places) as well as a fierce advocate for his heroes (Borges, Cortazar, Parra) and his favourite contemporaries, whose books he read assiduously and promoted generously. A demanding critic, he declares that in his ideal literary kitchen there lives a warrior: he argues for courage, and especially for bravery in the face of failure. Between Parentheses fully lives up to his own demands: "I ask for creativity from literary criticism, creativity at all levels."Dipped into at random this collection reveals observations astute, funny and, always, deeply intelligent: "One is prepared for friendship, not for friends"; "I enjoy vegetarian food the way I enjoy a kick in the stomach"; "Maybe she'd only been Miss Santiago or Miss Burst Into Flames"; "Editors tend to be bad people"; "He had a mother who was less a mother than a gypsy curse." Buy now


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Nina, it was an honour to have you as our teacher. You are providing such a valuable service to the real estate industry by creating the PRA Training program. Throughout your course, you have constantly acknowledged the important role the PRA assistant plays. It makes us feel good to have such recognition. You delivered the course in a professional manner. You stressed over and over to always respect the preferences of our own licensees. In the assignments, you made us think how we can self-improve to better serve our licensees and to benefit ourselves. You also made us think of a marketing plan that would benefit our licensee that we could actually accomplish this year. You taught us the tools to help our licensees run a smooth business which would help them grow.
The course was extremely organized. Nina, you created a family atmosphere in that class. You patiently allowed us to bombard you with all sorts of questions. You were always approachable and accessible before the course even started, during the class, and after class hours. We are going to miss you. We can't thank you enough.
Leila Zein, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Dianne Moscrip, RE/MAX Advantage Realty
I loved how the subjects were explained and then stories and examples were used to make things really clear. This course covered material above and beyond what i expected. it was broken down to make it all easy to follow and understand. I will recommend this to anybody and everybody interested in the real estate profession. This course was increadible!
-Teigan Craven, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Sandy Berry, NewPort Realty
I want to say thanks again [and again] for the amazing 6-day Foundations Training course [a.k.a. PRA Bootcamp] ~ for your expert delivery as well as your ongoing support and encouragement. I found the course cram-packed with everything one could imagine to be teachable in this context ... packaged and handled for success by even a Newbie such as myself. It was empowering to receive the manual well in advance, with initial assignment done ahead of Day One. The course's quality takeaway materials enable in-depth review and further study. It's fantastic to have not only a manual but additionally, a complete sample pack with checklists and co-relating pointers, great for handy reference and self-paced study ... and for confidence building. I'll be fully prepared to establish and enjoy a new career as a real estate assistant.
Helen Pierce, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
I loved that we could discuss a topic as long as we needed. The small class size made it more personal.
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"Dear Nina, I wanted to send this letter as a gesture of my appreciation for the excellent training program that you provided my assistant, Katalin Feher. At the end of each day of your instruction, Katalin would check in with me to disclose her thoughts and positive feelings toward the many details and strategies that were presented. This was well beyond my personal instruction. I can already see the benefits evolving within my real estate sales activities. The value of the time that I have saved is far beyond the modest cost of your course. It was also the most timely program to compliment approximately four other GVREB courses that Katalin had completed prior to enrollment. I would highly recommend the PRA program to any sales person that has a real business plan and values a committed support person when they find the one."
- Craig Cook, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Sabre Realty
"Dear Nina Campbell: As Managing Broker of Sutton Group-1st West Realty, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on a job well done with respect to your Professional Real Estate Assistant training. In particular I would like to acknowledge the achievements of one of your students who is currently employed as an unlicensed assistant with one of our top producing REALTORS®. Katie Litzenberger recently finished training at PRA and already has become a valued member of our office. She exhibits up to date knowledge of the industry, she is professional and focused and she consistently provides a valuable service to the REALTOR® who employs her, as well as indirectly to our brokerage. I am truly grateful that there is a company like PRA that provides such an informative and beneficial course for unlicensed real estate assistants."
-Roloff Veld, Managing Broker
Sutton Group-1st West Realty
"I found the course content to be excellent quality. The team was very attentive and caring."
- France Almeida, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
"Nina and Jesseca are awesome! I could sit and listen for days! I love that everyone was comfortable enough to ask anything."
- Melissa Roberts, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Lorne Chernochan, RE/MAX Westcoast
"The greatest strengths of the course were explanations on why and what the forms are. I really liked the fact that both a Licensee (Nina) and an Assistant (Jesseca) were present, particularly when various questions came up. It was important to see both sides of the relationship."
- Elizabeth Smith, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Phil Gustin, Sutton Group Westcoast
"Great job, I appreciate Nina and Jesseca."
- Katalin Feher, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Craig Cook, RE/MAX Sabre Realty
"The course is very organized and explained very clearly. I think it's perfect!"
- Crystal Su, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
"Nina and Jess were both very experienced and knowledgeable. The course exceeded my expectations."
- Mackinley Cockburn, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Shauna O'Callaghan, Macdonald Realty Ltd.
"I would recommend the PRA Training to anyone looking for a new career or for those already in the real estate profession; it will give you a deeper and broader understanding of the assistant's key role. It gave me the confidence and skills to start my new career in a short time. I have even been able to pass on some of my new knowledge to experienced REALTORS® which feels great. The quality of the training and teaching was excellent. Nina has a unique way of teaching that made me want to learn all she had to teach, she was informative, professional, patient and fun. All of the staff are very positive and supportive."
- Lynda Young, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Margot Wilson, DFH Sidney
"I appreciated that the material was tailored for our needs. Technical trade terms were carefully explained. The greatest strength of the course was the ability to easily interact with the instructors. Jesseca's support and Nina's breath of real estate experience was a great benefit. The course far exceeded my expectations."
- Tom Oak, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Rosemarie Colterman, Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty
"The foundation is laid. Now I have the confidence to take command of my profession. Foundations Training gives you the tools to build your profession as a PRA. Definitely a confidence builder, I do feel more like a professional."
- Susan Danneberg, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Dawn Setter, RE/MAX First Realty
"Upon completion of PRA training, I received multiple job offers and was able to choose the one that suited my skills and abilities!"
- Leslie Brown , Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
"Fabulous - great investment in my future! Great set up, great location, really good overall package. Thank you to the whole team for putting together a really strong program with relevant content and in a professional format. Thank you for making sense out of what seemed like an unmanageable process to a non-experienced person. This course allows someone new to this business to feel like they have a basis of understanding when we are finished."
-Sharon Saarimaki, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
"Nina the PRA™ course was AMAZING! It has taught me so much information in the background of Real Estate which gave me full confidence on what I am doing day to day in my job. This has helped me to move forward in my goals in life and at my position in Lisa Salt's office. The knowledge in this course is priceless it allowed me to move forwarded in all areas of my career. The in class speaking boosted my self esteem which was big for me. Thanks to everyone who has a part in creating PRA, You will go far it is a great course! I would highly recommend this course to other Real Estate Assistants."
- Kim Wevill, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Lisa Salt, RE/MAX Vernon
"This program helped my assistant gain some much needed perspective on the 'whys' of what she does. It has helped her understanding of the process of real estate. I liked how she started making suggestions and taking responsibility for her position. She brought back some excellent filing suggestions."
- Lisa Salt, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Vernon
"I recently completed the PRA™ Foundations course. I have been an unlicensed assistant for almost three years and truly wish I had been given the opportunity to take this course sooner. It gives the unlicensed assistant a foundation of knowledge and understanding that is crucial to performing the job at an optimal level. It explains not only what needs to be done, but more importantly, why it needs to be done. Nina and her team have created a system for each step in the buying/selling process & this is explained and shown so that even a brand new assistant can understand the process. It is a very intensive program that requires a lot of hard work and thought, but with very tangible results.
I have been back in the office for six days now and have already made some significant changes to our current systems. I am really excited to have all this new knowledge that will allow me to contribute so much more to the REALTOR® I work for and to our brokerage in general. I would have no hesitation in recommending new or experienced assistants take the PRA™ Foundations course."
-Vicki Prince, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
DFH Real Estate
"Dear Nina: The PRA™ course was a great experience and has given me the confidence to pursue my dreams for a career in real estate. The small class size was non-intimidating and the perfect learning environment. Your dedication and professionalism is truly inspiring. I know the skills and knowledge I have gained will prove to be invaluable to my future employer."
-Christina Lamont, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
"Dear Nina, the PRA™ course is FANTASTIC. Best of all is the confidence and pride that it gives your assistant and yourself! Has it brought in business... Absolutely, it paid for itself in less than one deal. The trial and error and the time it takes to train your own assistant is solved. Managing REALTOR'S® affairs is invaluable! I recommend this course for every assistant New or Experienced. Thank you Nina... for your insight, dedication and follow up with my new Professional Real Estate Assistant!"
-Colleen Allen, REALTOR®
Sutton Group - West Coast Realty
"Taking this course was a career change, and at my age it was very daunting to start something totally new. Nina and her team put me at ease and along with smaller class sizes, the training was at a great pace and made the learning much easier than I had expected."
-Debra Piwek, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Nic Dominelli, Royal LePage Coronation West
"We've gotten the best assistant EVER from your training course. REALTORS® both in and outside of our office comment on how great she is all the time. Love your program!"
-Damali & Neville Adomi, REALTORS®
Homelife Trendsetter Realty
"Our assistant came back from training very eager and ready to perform daily tasks. She realizes the importance of doing things quickly with attention to detail. Her phone manner is excellent. Thank you!"
-Sharon Schacter, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Treeland
"The PRA team is fantastic committed to growth in the Real Estate Industry. They helped me find a job as an Unlicensed Real Estate Assistant, even before registering for the course! My new employer hired me on the condition that I completed the Foundations Course. The six day training was intense and provided me with the tools that I need to be successful in my career as an Unlicensed Real Estate Assistant. The ongoing support from the PRA™ team has been excellent!"
-Diane Ursic, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For The Adomi Team, Homelife Trendsetter Realty
"Fantastic groundwork for anyone in the real estate profession starting out. The program gives a real solid basis to build upon, teaches good habits and thorough methods. What I like best about my assistant's skills is she's motivated. She pushes me to achieve."
-Ronald Beaudry, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Masters
"Hi Nina, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that the training Al received has really helped in getting him up and running. It is a very busy time at the moment and he has been invaluable to me."
-Louise Boutin, REALTOR®
RE/MAX Crest Realty (Westside)
"All the REALTORS® here are wondering about this amazing real estate course that brought Adam and I to number one this month, so they're considering assistants pretty seriously."
-Stefania Butkovic, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Adam Lloyd, RE/MAX Advantage Realty
"Dear Nina, transiting from a home based virtual worker, back into part-time work will benefit both my employer and myself. I am extremely satisfied with the PRA™ course and the immediate availability of employment. I know I can take the knowledge I've gained to my new job that was found, one week after the course, thanks to your leads of waiting employers. The training I received has already proven to be invaluable. Your quick professional approach and friendly responses are greatly appreciated."
-Charon O'Brien, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Peter Gain & Associates, Prudential Sterling
"I am loving the job. I'm feeling confident everyday and actually understanding now what everything is! I am very happy I took the course."
-Sarah Raappana, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Jennifer Raappana, DFH Real Estate
"This training has been very beneficial and all Real Estate Assistants should take this training! I got all my questions answered and all the holes from my on the job training were filled. Nina is so personable and has such a great deal of experience for all the students to draw on. I look forward to attending some of the advanced courses."
-Shannan Williams, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Royal LePage Showcase
"Thank you so much for putting together such an amazing program! I am so happy to be part of the first graduating class! And proud to be a PRA! Thank you so much again for all your contacts...I greatly appreciate all the time and effort you have put into my placement. You bring and uphold a proud standard that is now being passed on in a course. This professionalism will always be remembered and sought-after. I feel your course was thoroughly successful and I think you are a passionate teacher that will be a strong leader in this educational field."
-Katie Litzenberger, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Scott Clarke, Sutton Group-1st West
"Loved the open discussions, having a smaller class is great more personal and warm...fed off of each other's knowledge and enthusiasm." "This course was amazing! A lot of fun, very informative, loved how comfortable and easy going it was."
-Jaclyn Jones, Unlicensed PRA™ professional real estate assistant
For Colleen Allen, Sutton Group-West Coast Realty
"Thank you for creating this course. It is needed in our industry. I truly enjoyed it!"
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Day 1 with Kazuo Kitai
September 16th, 2011We'll never know what we missed in Okinawa, but if the last several days are any indication, our change in plans has been a blessing in disguise. Yesterday, with the help of Dan Abbe, a young American photographer living in Japan, we were able to have a full day of shooting and carousing with Kazuo Kitai, who arranged a car and driver to take us to the area around Haneda Airport. This is not a part of town tourists usually see (or would want to see), but it is perfect Gossage territory: nondescript and unexciting on the surface, but exuding a slow timeless eloquence that John is able to capture in pictures.
We started in a mosquito-infested park. At first Kitai did not understand exactly why we were there, but after observing John for a few minutes, he commented how interesting John's process was, how he could see what John saw, and then he busted out his Leica (with an 80 year-old lens) and began to photograph.
He was amused when John started shooting a praying mantis. Seeing two great photographers squatting on the ground with a green bug in between them must surely rank as one of the strangest moments of my bookselling career. When John laid down to get the correct shot, the Japanese men grunted in appreciation. We'll see if it makes the final cut.
We walked to an area by water where people took picnics and airplane spotters set up their tripods. I can not tell you where this was. Maybe half way between Haneda and the racetrack. Unfindable. It felt like a scene out of Wolfgang Tillmans' Concorde.
There was a small temple, a shipyard, and innumerable tiny streets where laundry hung to dry and corrugated tin buildings were the prevalent style. We ate a modest lunch of maguro don in a local restaurant, and took a look at some nearby shops. This is a Japanese pickle I think.
Then we drove in search of Starbucks and wound up at a mall that could have been in Paramus, New Jersey. We had a snack at Bagel and Bagel!
Once back at the hotel John asked Kitai to inscribe his copies of Resistance and Sanrizuka. (I went overboard and had four copies of Resistance signed…) In the bar lurked the ghost of Martin Parr.
After some confusion about where to go for dinner, we strolled the neighborhood and I spotted a izakaya restaurant that looked appealing. No English spoken; no English menu. Portends of a good meal. Shrimp cakes and sashimi, grilled fish heads (Kitai ate the eyes!) and fried chicken. A bunch of indecipherable small plates. There will be no such luck at breakfast. 5 straight days of eggs.
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If you like water ski shows there is none better then Tommy Bartlett's. Beautiful setting and much better now the water is back. I do miss the bumper stickers that they would put on the cars while you were watching the show though.
If you like water ski shows there is none better then Tommy Bartlett's. Beautiful setting and much better now the water is back. I do miss the bumper stickers that they would put on the cars while you were watching the show though.
This is what made the dells sort of. This is an amazing show it is well worth the money. we had been coming to the dells for years. Our Daughter findly gave us tickets to the show which we had talked about seeing it for years. I am so glde we finally went it is great.
We've been to the dells many times since the mid seventies and we've always enjoyed the Tommy Bartlett Show. If you have options, I would recommend the night show as the dancing waters look much better with lighting. It's a great show, you should plan on adding it to your itinerary. However, don't forget to look for the many discount... More
I was here once before when I was younger and remember it being a great show. 12 years later I returned with my husband and we still had a great time. It was his first time and he had nothing but good things to say about it. I would definately recommend it.
We were able to see this show from our resort each night.We also were watching the practice they put in all day .these kids work hard and it shows. This is a Dells must see.
Went to the show in July and enjoyed it very much. Loved all the acts on land, and the water ski part. Will tell all our family and friends that this is an awesome show.
it makes you remember back to a simpler time..waterski show and different acts...very worth the time comedy was funny juggling was cool skiers were freaking amazing motorcycles outstanding hang glider cool all lit up at night the hoverskis too cool whatever you do take your family and show em what it was like to be a kid in an ealier... More
Took our 7 & 4 yr. old granddaughters to the show. We should not have arrived as early as we did, since seats were readily available and the wait before the show started was boring for the girls. Once the show started, all of us enjoyed the water skiing portion especially. Some of the "land" acts did not hold the... More
We went to this show on a whim and discovered a true diamond in the rough. The show has the feel of the ability to take you back in time to the hayday of this type of entertainment. It was a true enjoyment for all.
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Timber Creek #103 - 1BR+Loft/2BA Deluxe
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Copper Mountain Resort is located approximately 80 miles west from downtown Denver, Colorado on Interstate 70. The base elevation is 9700 feet. The resort is approximately 1.4 miles from the east village entrance to the west village at Union Creek. Copper Mountain provides free shuttle service throughout the Village. Timber Creek #103 features a full kitchen and dining area. The living room has a flat screen TV, DVD player, complimentary wireless internet, and a gas fireplace. The master bedroom offers a queen bed with a jetted tub in the bathroom. The loft has two captain's bunks and a double width bunk bed. Guests will enjoy complimentary Athletic Club access with the rental of this unit. |
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Honda of Salem in Salem, OR treats the needs of each individual customer with paramount concern. We know that you have high expectations, and as a car dealer we enjoy the challenge of meeting and exceeding those standards each and every time. Allow us to demonstrate our commitment to excellence!
If you're interested in a new Honda model or used car and live in Beaverton, Albany or Corvallis, you're in luck! Honda of Salem has a stellar lineup of new and used cars, including the Accord, Civic, Pilot, Ridgeline and CR-V, among many others.
If you prefer to explore different car models from the comfort of your home, you'll be happy to know, you can do so simply by visiting our new and used car inventories online.
We're also more than happy to help you find just the right car, in person at 750 Commercial St Ne Salem, Oregon. Our Honda experts are at your service to share complete specs of the cars you're interested in, compare different models, and arrange test drives.
People wishing to upgrade to a new Honda Civic, Accord, Odyssey, or any other new 2013 or 2014 Honda model are invited to visit our showroom and take a test drive today. Just a short jaunt away from Beaverton, Albany and Corvallis, we have a model for every driving style: eco-friendly, fast-and-furious, slow-and-steady, safety-conscious.
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We're pleased to provide this source to give you more insight into your health. On this site, you can experience virtual tours of the hospital, learn about medical conditions from local and national experts, see physician bios, and even sneak a peak at surgeons performing real surgeries. Choose a specialty area from the Channel listing above to view the wide selection of St. Francis Health Video Center content. For more information about our services, visit our main website at stfrancishealth.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.


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Minneriya National Park
Located between Habarana and Polonnaruwa, Minneriya National Park consists of mixed evergreen forest and scrub areas. The central feature is the ancient Minneriya Tank (built in 3 AD), which becomes a magnet for elephants during the dry season, as well as huge flocks of birds that come to fish the shallow waters.
- Where: North Central Province
- Ideal for viewing: spot-billed pelican, Asian elephant, leopard, sambar, sloth bear
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Thirty years after the CDC confirmed the first cases of HIV, millions have died, particularly in developing nations. But there's hope. Innovative HIV prevention programs -- including a peer education program from hair stylists in Zimbabwe and a media campaign promoting male circumcision in Africa -- are contributing to a decrease in the global rate of new HIV infections.
These and other stories of effective programs on the ground in developing nations are showcased in a new TV documentary, ViewChange: HIV Prevention - Looking Back & Moving Forward, that premieres on Friday, July 29, from Link TV and international global health organization PSI (Population Services International). Debra Messing, actor and PSI ambassador, narrates the half-hour show.
You can view ViewChange: HIV Prevention - Looking Back & Moving Forward online at www.viewchange.org.
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The first impact of Colorado Springs city budget cuts on neighborhoods was the announcement that community centers would be closing in March.
Then came the forced retirements of land-use inspectors who protect neighborhoods from becoming home to farmyards, slaughterhouses, auto body repair and other illegal activities.
Now assorted road construction projects are being shelved indefinitely, including several designed to to protect residents of neighborhoods from speeding and wrecking cars. The reason? Several traffic engineers were among the 88 early retirements and 93 layoffs announced earlier this month.
Voters are getting what they asked for in November when they rejected funding for city services.
The latest blow to neighborhoods came in this edited version of a news release Tuesday from City Hall:
December 29, 2009
Projects Temporarily Suspended
Reductions in City General Fund revenues have resulted in a shortfall for City Engineering's staff availability to manage the remaining capital projects.
The City Engineering Division will be competitively selecting a private sector consulting firm to manage its PPRTA capital projects.
Due to the time it will take to properly implement this management change, the City is temporarily suspending all City PPRTA Capital work until a program management staff is in place. This does not affect the Woodmen Road project since the majority of that funding is from the federal stimulus program.
The following capital projects are immediately affected:
● South Metro Accessibility (Proby Pkwy.) Phase 1
● Austin Bluffs Corridor Improvements – Nevada Ave. to Academy Blvd. and Barnes Rd. to Old Farm Dr.
● Fillmore/El Paso St. Improvements
● Vincent Drive Bridge at Cottonwood Creek and Vincent Drive Extension
● Hancock Avenue Bridge at Templeton Gap Floodway
● Roadway Safety and Traffic Operations Projects:
- Platte Ave. Corridor – Hancock to Union
- Hwy. 24 @ 21st Street Intersection
- 8th Street @ Arcturus/Ramona Intersection
- Hwy. 24 @ 26th Street Intersection
- Las Vegas @ Royer Intersection and RR Crossing
City staff requests citizens' patience during this transition period. The City is committed to completing these capital projects but needs time to make this program management adjustment.
The city, in the text I trimmed from the news release, basically blamed the PPRTA board for the delays, citing the board's refusal to allow Colorado Springs to use RTA funding to pay the $1.2 million in salaries of the engineers, forcing their layoffs.
Here's a link to the capital improvement projects and where you will find a link to the city's news release about the projects that will be delayed.
Below is a look at the $55.4 million Proby Parkway project, including an elaborate interchange with Powers Boulevard.
Buried on the list of shelved projects is the relatively cheap Platte Avenue Corridor safety project. It was conceived as a way to stop chronic rear-end wrecks on Platte between Hancock Avenue and Union Boulevard.
Neighbors along that stretch were so upset about their traffic problems they formed a neighborhood association to speak in a united voice to City Hall about the need for changes on Platte.
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by Alex Dobie
Jul 16, 2012
As we suspected last week, when phones started to appear in retailer listings, Sony's Xperia NXT series has launched in the United States. The manufacturer sends word today that its Xperia S, P ...
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The Sony Tablet S was one of the first Honeycomb tablets to be upgraded to the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. And now its clamshell-shaped sibling, the Tablet P, has received its own...
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Sony have announced a more specific date for the update of the Tablet S and Tablet P to Ice Cream Sandwich -- more specifically 4.0.3. We first heard about this back in December, but the latest news...
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Sony has announced that the software development kit for its PlayStation Suite will launch in public beta form from this April. The public release follows the closed beta of the SDK, which began in ...
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Nearly six months after being unveiled, the Sony Tablet P is finally getting a stateside release. The "4G"+ WiFi dual-screen tablet will hit AT&T shelves on March 4 for $399.99 on cont...
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Sony's Honeycomb-powered clamshell device, the Tablet P, isn't what you'd call a conventional Android tablet. So it should come as no surprise that it had a fittingly unconventional path...
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The clamshell Sony Tablet P has found its way out into the wild in the UK, bringing to market with it a hefty pricetag just a penny under £500.
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Gameloft and Sony have teamed up to offer some great HD games on the new Sony line of tablets. Five Gameloft titles have been optimized and specifically chosen to show off the great gaming cap...
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Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that it'll be releasing a software development kit for its PlayStation Suite starting this November, with the newly-created games becoming available from spr...
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With the worldwide launch date of its Honeycomb-powered Tablet S and Tablet P fast approaching, Sony UK is giving potential customers the chance to ask a few questions in a live Q&A sess...
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Sep 01, 2011
The innovative design of Sony Tablet P features dual touchscreens that can be used for different functions.
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