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Though ESPN reported Monday that the Dolphins are unlikely to use their franchise tag on impending free agent left tackle Jake Long, a source said "all options available" are still on the table.
The Dolphins and Long so far have been unable to reach an agreement on a contract extension, and placing the franchise tag on him would cost $15.4 million next season.
The Dolphins also have the option of using the franchise tag on another impending free agent, such as Sean Smith. But the franchise tag for cornerbacks is expected to top $10 million.
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Coach Joe Philbin said Jonathan Martin "did a good job" when he replaced Long at left tackle after Long sustained a triceps injury during Miami's second offensive series Sunday.
Offensive coordinator Mike Sherman called Martin's move from right tackle to left "seamless" and "pretty impressive. Jonathan is having a very good year considering he started from Day One, and the players he's gone against."
Nate Garner allowed a sack while filling in at right tackle but "did a real good job," Sherman said. "His run [blocking] was very good."
Will Yeatman, a former tight end, is the only other tackle on the roster, but the Dolphins likely will add a tackle this week.
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Sherman took some blame on quarterback Ryan Tannehill overthrowing Brian Hartline on a potential touchdown: "We didn't anticipate the coverage they gave us. It was off by a foot and a half. He was throwing against the wind.
"I probably could have been smarter when I called that. I probably should have waited until the wind was a little different."
Asked if he agrees with pundits who say Tannehill cannot be fairly judged until he has a better supporting cast, Sherman said: "He's evaluated every day with the people we have here right now. I've always thought this: Really great quarterbacks make those around him better.
"I don't think the book on Ryan Tannehill is written just yet. There will be a lot of good chapters, a lot of great chapters. But eventually, the benchmark will be how good does he makes those around him. The really, really good quarterbacks make others play at a higher level.
"I'm assuming Ryan will be that type of player at some point."
Philbin said he "would like a little better ball security" on Tannehill's touchdown run when he stretched the ball over the goal line. "But I like the way he went for the end zone," Philbin added.
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• Sherman has added some wrinkles, including using tight end Anthony Fasano at fullback for some plays Sunday and calling a reverse for Marcus Thigpen.
"Each week, we'll add some wrinkles and try to keep people on their heels," Sherman said.
• Philbin liked that his defense "got good pressure on [Patriots quarterback] Tom Brady. To take an opposing quarterback down four times is a good afternoon's work. [But we] didn't play well enough in the fourth quarter."
• Defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle said safety Reshad Jones "is becoming one of the better players at his position in the league. He's got a very high ceiling."
• Coyle said linebacker Koa Misi dislocated a finger "and was back in the game a couple plays later like nothing [happened]. He's a tough, hard-nosed throwback kind of guy and we love having him on our defense."
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Phil Miller covered three seasons of Twins baseball, but that was at a different ballpark for a different newspaper. Now Miller returns to the baseball beat after joining the Star Tribune as the Gopher football writer in 2010, and he won't miss the dingy dome for a minute. In addition to the Twins and Gophers, Miller covered the Utah Jazz and the NBA for six years at The Salt Lake Tribune.
The Twins will offer contracts to Anthony Swarzak, Brian Duensing and Trevor Plouffe by Monday night's deadline, the team confirmed, making them eligible for arbitration and keeping them on the roster for 2014.
Had the Twins chosen not to tender contracts to that arbitration-eligible trio by Monday's 11 p.m. CT deadline, they could have become free agents. Instead, the three will negotiate raises on their salaries for next season, or file to have an independent arbiter decide how much they'll earn, a process the Twins have avoided for nearly a decade.
Duensing, who earned $1.3 million in 2013, his fourth season with the Twins, and Swarzak, who made $502,500 in his third year, are eligible for arbitration because they have more than three seasons of service time. Plouffe, paid $520,000 last season, is among the top 22 percent of two-year players in terms of service time, making him eligible as a so-called "super-two" players.
It's likely that Duensing, who posted a 3.98 ERA in 61 innings, and Plouffe, who batted .254 with 14 home runs, will earn $2 million or more when their contracts are settled, while Swarzak can expect to roughly double his salary. Salaries are normally agreed to without a hearing; no major-league player had his case heard by an arbitrator last winter. The Twins have not been taken to a hearing by a player since Kyle Lohse, who won his case against the Twins in both 2005 and 2006.
The Twins also announced they will hold a press conference at Target Field at 2 p.m. Tuesday. A source with knowledge of the topic said the Twins will announce the signing of right-handed pitcher Ricky Nolasco.
Jim Thome toured the tornado-ravaged neighborhoods around his brother Randy's home in Washington, Ill., last week, and decided to help. He talked the Twins into helping, too.
Thome, the former Twins slugger who grew up in Bartonville, Ill., about 10 miles from the central Illinois town where a series of tornados killed two people and destroyed dozens of homes on Nov. 17, has donated $100,000 to a fund to help victims of the twisters. He also contacted four of his former teams -- the Twins, Indians, Phillies and White Sox, whom he currently works for in a front-office position -- and asked if they would be willing to donate, too.
"We all said, 'Yeah,' right away when Jim called," said Bryan Donaldson, the Twins' senior director of community relations. "We all agreed to donate $5,000 each, so that's another $20,000 going to the Red Cross in central Illinois."
It's not the first time the Twins have donated when a player's home is affected by a natural disaster. When an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011, the Twins donated $25,000 to relief efforts and collaborated with Tsuyoshi Nishioka on a fundraising effort that provided thousands more.
Another former Twin is doing charity work this weekend, too. Justin Morneau will promote hisl Winter Warm-Up Coat Drive on Saturday by helping collect coats at Fan HQ in the Ridgedale Center. Despite being traded to Pittsburgh on Aug. 31, Morneau went ahead with his fourth annual coat drive to benefit needy Twin Cities residents. Morneau will accept new or gently-used coach from donors from 10 a.m.-noon.
For the second straight winter, the Phillies have added a center fielder from the Twins.
This time, it's Clete Thomas, the journeyman outfielder who didn't make the team out of spring training, yet finished the season playing more games in the outfield than any other Twin. Cut from Minnesota's roster last month after batting .214 with four home runs in 92 games last season, Thomas signed a minor-league contract with Philadelphia, the Phillies announced Friday. He will be invited to spring training camp with an opportunity to make the Phillies' roster.
Last December, Philadelphia added another Twins outfielder, Ben Revere, in a trade for two pitchers, Vance Worley and Trevor May. The Phillies also signed another ex-Twins outfielder, Delmon Young, last winter, but later released him.
Thomas, originally a sixth-round draft pick by the Tigers, hit a home run in his Twins debut on April 15, 2012. He spent parts of two seasons with the Twins, batting .208 in 104 games, with 17 RBIs and 108 strikeouts. He didn't join the Twins until June 6 last season, and largely lost his job in September when the Twins traded for Alex Presley, but his 92 games in the outfield led the team, ahead of Oswaldo Arcia's 83 and Aaron Hicks' 81.
ORLANDO -- Mike Pelfrey said repeatedly last summer that he hopes to remain in Minnesota. But the free-agent pitcher's agent made it clear on Wednesday that the Twins have competition for the right-hander.
"There's a possibility [he] could" sign a new contract with the Twins, agent Scott Boras said. But "we've gotten pretty good interest in him from other teams."
Pelfrey went 5-13 with a 5.19 ERA last season with the Twins, his first season back from ligament replacement surgery in his right elbow. But he improved as the season went along, posting a 3.45 ERA in July and August before finishing with a bad September.
Pelfrey, 28, earned $4 million on a one-year contract with the Twins, but his next contract figures to be longer. "He's been offered" multi-year contracts, Boras said. He said he met during the meetings with Twins general manager Terry Ryan, who expressed the Twins' interest in retaining the former first-round pick of the Mets.
Six years after he was traded away, one year after he feared his career was over, shortstop Jason Bartlett is back with the Twins.
Bartlett, who batted .272 in three seasons with the Twins before being shipped to Tampa Bay as part of the deal that brought Delmon Young to Minnesota, has signed a minor-league contract that includes an invitation to spring training, espn.com reported Monday.
Bartlett played three seasons with the Rays and was named to the All-Star team in 2009, before being traded to San Diego, where he played two seasons. After the Padres released him in August 2011, Bartlett remained out of baseball in 2012.
Bartlett, now 34, figures to compete for a utility infield spot on the Twins' roster next season. The Oklahoma alum was batting only .133 when released by San Diego, but he's a .271 career hitter and has played his entire career at shortstop. Pedro Florimon is the Twins' incumbent at shortstop, after a season in which he was named the Twins' top defensive player.
A week after Joe Mauer won his fifth Silver Slugger Award as the American League's best-hitting catcher, the Twins announced Monday that it will be his last. Mauer is a catcher no more.
The six-time All-Star will become a full-time first baseman in 2014, after a foul tip ended his 2013 season six weeks early.
"It's one of the tougher decisions I've had to make, but also probably one of the easiest," Mauer said, because the symptoms of his concussion lingered into October. "I really tried to do everything I could to get back out on the field. But it wasn't safe and I wasn't able to do that."
Getting back on the field is what finally convinced the St. Paul native, who had resisted such a position switch for years. A back injury kept him out for a month in 2009, leg injuries cost him half his season in 2011, and he sat out the Twins' final 39 games this year after taking a couple of foul tips off his helmet on Aug. 19. When doctors warned him that another concussion would likely linger at least as long as this one, Mauer had heard enough.
"All it takes is one. That's one of the things I had to realize -- if I said 'no, I'm catching,' all it would take is one foul tip in batting practice and I'm out again," the three-time batting champion said. "I don't want to put myself in that position. I think it's the right decision not only for myself, but for my teammates and the organization."
It was Mauer's decision, general manager Terry Ryan said, but one the Twins -- who still owe their new first baseman $115 million over the next five years -- fully support.
"I'm happy he has chosen to make the transition, but if he decided he wanted to catch, I'm not sure anybody was going to stand in his way," Ryan said. "We had a conversation in October, just about the future. One thing that was apparent, [after] Joe was on the [disabled list] for quite some time, the important thing was his health, and it led from there. Joe did some searching, talked to some people he had a lot of confidence in, and ultimately he got back to me and said he was willing to make the move. I think it's the right decision."
Especially since the Twins have a vacancy at the position, created when Justin Morneau, whose career has been severely impacted by concussions of his own, was traded to Pittsburgh on Aug. 31. Morneau is a free agent now, and Ryan admitted that the possibility of the four-time All Star returning to Minnesota has been lessened by Mauer's decision.
There's also a chance that the Twins might sign a catcher to beef up a position the Twins haven't had to deal with in almost a decade, though Ryan sounded optimistic that the current catchers -- Ryan Doumit, Chris Herrmann, Eric Fryer and especially rookie Josmil Pinto, who batted .342 in 21 games in September -- would be able to handle the position.
Mauer emphasized that he is symptom-free now, and ready to embark on his usual winter workout schedule.


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Departments of Pasco and Huánuco, Peru.
Stated in the original to be in Microhylinae, but posited to share characteristics with members of Gastrophryninae. Van der Meijden, Vences, Hoegg, Boistel, Channing, and Meyer, 2007, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 44: 1017-1030, did not address this taxon. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 581, placed this taxon within Gastrophryninae without comment. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, assigned this taxon to Gastrophryninae without comment. Trueb, Diaz, and Blackburn, 2011, Phyllomedusa, 10: 99-135. cited unpublished data of Greenbaum, 2006, Unpubl. PhD Dissert., Univ. Kansas:, as evidence of the placement of this genus in Gastrophryninae.
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We are the middle class and have worked hard long hours and sacrificed to get there! Since Obamacare our insurance has gone up $450 a month , the cost of groceries has increased, gas has almost doubled and the tax increase took over $100 a month of our income (over all $650-700 increase). The standard of living and income for the poor and middle class has DECREASED since Obama has taken office. Although we are within the retirement age, we see NO chance of that anytime soon! We have to pay for those who feel they are "entitled" to free phones, groceries, housing and healthcare!
Obama has wasted Billions of our hard earned tax $$ on Unions, solar energy and his cronies on the backs of the middle class. The $$ he wants to tax the rich will TAKE AWAY jobs of those of us who have the desire to provide for ourselves. I cannot understand the mindset of those who beleive they are "entitled" to other peoples money! We are each put on this earth the same way..."butt naked"... it is up to the individual what they CHOOSE to do with their lives! Many who have "Succeeded" have come from unfortunate circumstances... but they made the CHOICE to work hard to better themselves!
We always told our children, "You will either reap the rewards or suffer the consquences of your choices and actions!" Those of us who are working long hard hours, saving and doing without do not OWE anything to those who CHOOSE to be victims of their own CHOICES!
FYI, we donated 5 times what VP Biden did last year and he makes a WHOLE LOT more than we do! It is our responsiblity to help those who truly need it, but to those who "work the system" to get the freebies... we owe NOTHING!
It is time for parents to be parents and provide for their children... here's a novel idea... get an education/job (whether it is college or vocational...i.e. mechanic, electrician, plummer, carpenter, a factory), get married, have children and provide a STABLE home where you teach your children individual responsibility instead of expecting the "government" (the working taxpayer) to do your job! CHOICES... suffer the consequences or reap the rewards!Be a positive rollmodel and HERO for your children!
We thank God for the rich, they provide JOBS and opportunites for those willing to work. It's Econmonics 101!
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Owner/Builder | Kragerø Golf AS and Kruse Smith AS |
Size | 20 000 m² |
Finishing year | 2007 |
Architect | LundHagem Arkitekter Einar Hagem, Svein Lund, Per Suul, Vegar Voraa, Pål Ring Giske, Lucas Martins and Sam Hughes. |
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Spas are a quite new phenomenon in Norway, and have only recently been defined with its own architectural language: Lund Hagem Architects from Oslo have shown the "Norwegian way" by designing Kragerø Spa & Hotel Resort.
The plot was already decided when the architects started their work. The spahotel was to be built in the hillside of a very undulate and wooded area. This added an extra sting of challenge, as the large project should contain more than 230 rooms and separate apartments, preferably with a view, it should also have a full spa department, in addition to an easily accessible 18-hole golf course.
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Meet kindred book lovers in this local Meetup Book Club! Fiction or non-fiction, paperback or hardcover, you'll read a new book every month. This book club is "reader's choice," meaning everyone has a voice in book selections. Many book clubs are run this way, and I'd love for everyone to offer suggestions or email me ideas without hesitation. Come to laugh, share stories and make new friends!
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The group gets together to study and discuss The Urantia Book. We welcome new readers who may know little about the book and want to know more, as well as experienced readers looking for interesting discussions. We meet, in a casual sort of way, over light refreshments at a member's home. Inquiries welcome: (201) 886-2243
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Join others interested in immersing themselves in Tarot. Every meetup will be focused on one card until we have gone through the entire deck. The meetup Will be facilitated by Amy Lamash of Hudson Valley Tarot. Amy will provide study sheets for each card to all who RSVP for the meetup and will provide other reading and Tarot studying tips and material that she has learned in many years studying with Tarot Masters such as Mary K. Greer, Rachel Pollack, James Wells, Robert Place, Readers Studio in …
Each month, we will read and discuss and/or write about a great classic written by various American or European authors. Some of these books we may have read as children or teens, others may be new to us, but all have had a significant impact on readers around the globe and are worth a read, or even a second read. We will meet at a coffee/tea shop or a wine bar each month to discuss the book of the month and share anything we have written about the book, if designated as an optional assignment.
Welcome to the Washington/Hudson Heights Book Club, we're glad you're here. A bit about us… About Us We're uptown readers in the Washington and Hudson Heights neighborhoods who love to read. We're looking for other book folk to read with us, share food, drink and have conversation. We're laid back, pretty hilarious, and love books. Nothing stuffy about us. About Book Club We're a group who mixes it up by exploring a range of authors/genres -- fiction, memoir, debuts, classics, cultural, horror, …
This group's primary focus is to help (screenwriters, fiction writers and playwrights too but all types are welcomed) writers advance their skills, share their work, become inspired by writing prompts and get feed back in the room. As well to be an open and helpful way for writers to network with other writers, filmmakers and producers as well. I, Spencer David, have been writing for many years - honing my craft. I started screenwriting as at age eleven, and for nearly that long I've been learni …
The Queens Literati is a safe haven for avid readers who find themselves searching for a new book or an intelligent literary society. Maybe you're tired of joining group after group, reading the same kinds of uninspired young adult novels that leave you feeling... well, childish. Maybe you're looking for the opportunity to read a challenging book and follow it up with an insightful discussion. Maybe you're a recent Queens transplant looking to make new friends in the area. Maybe the sudden appea …
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Are you "Brooklyn"? Do you live or work in Bed-Stuy, Clinton Hill or Fort Greene and have an interest in neighborhood culture? Are you a homeowner? Freelancer? Do you cafe hop in Clinton Hill? Have pets? Love fashion? Geek out on gadgets? Work out at the local YMCA on Bedford? Catch awesome free shows at BAM Cafe? Teach? Own a Small business? Are you a parent? Community Gardener? Cyclist? Artist? Religious Leader? And simply "In The Know" in your hood. Well, this is a group for all of that and m …
Hi and welcome to It's A Shore Thing Book Club. This group is for people that have a love for reading and books. Every month i will take the suggestions of the members and create a poll. The book with the most votes will be our next discussion. so, please feel free to send any suggestions to me for our next read. And don't worry if we don't get to your suggestion, i will make sure everyone's suggestion is read. I look forward to meeting with you. All that i ask from you is that you keep your R …
Got a taste for crime and a yen for travel? Like being transported by both crafty plots and exotic locales? Then join our group of armchair detectives for a killer discussion of murder and mayhem that spans the globe. Housing Works Bookstore is partnering with local publishers to bring you some of the finest in mystery and suspense writing from around the world! Each month, The International Crime Book Group will discuss a novel or short story collection set in a different region. The ICBG will …
If you have lots of writing that no one has read. If you love to write, but lack the discipline to do it consistently. If you believe you would write better, more, etc if you had readers. This may be the group for you...I don't know...it's just getting started and I once belonged to a group that wrote and gave structured feedback; I long to have a group like that again. If that sounds interesting, join me at Panera Bread in Roxbury on Tuesday, July 23rd at 3 pm.
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Share a few hours of free food, complimentary wine, give-a-ways and good conversation with some fellow book lovers and great authors. What more could you ask for in a ladies night out? This club is for anyone looking to get away from it all and talk books - if only for a night!
Hi everyone! This is the Meetup group that corresponds to theEbooks, Ebook Readers, Digital Books and Digital Content LinkedIn group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Ebooks-Ebook-Readers-Digital-Books-1515307?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr Book Publishing professionals interested in latest industry news and experiments on ebooks (e-books), ebook readers, digital books & content—creating/developing, marketing & sales: what's working/not, what are you trying, expand your network, improve your resources, discuss …
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Sundays in Suffolk is a book club based in the Three Villages. We are looking for male & female members in their 20s and 30s. The club meets about once a month on Sundays. We typically choose books that are best sellers and/or highly recommended for book clubs. The members that are a part of the group enjoy reading but also have busy lives and we understand if you are not able to make every meeting and/or finish the book in time. In case of the latter, we always encourage you to come because …
This group was started for those that love to shoot and talk about digital photography. It is open to all who would like to learn more about taking better pictures. It is led by Frank Veronsky. Frank Veronsky has been an editorial and commercial photographer in New York City for over 20 years. He specializes in people, portraits, fashion, photo illustration and personal work. He has worked with such clients as Simon & Schuster, Infashion Magazine, Reader's Digest, Cambridge University Press, Peo …
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Do you like to read novels written for those young at heart? Do you find yourself gravitating towards the YA section at the bookstore? This book club is for people in the New York City area who considers reading YA Novels a guilty pleasure. We know they are are technically published for those younger than ourselves, but we just can't help it! Each month we will vote for a new YA novel and then come together to discuss and meet new people.
They just don't write em' like they used to! We'll have a casual chat about a new classic each time. We can meet whenever and wherever. Not all book clubs have to gather at a coffee shop :-) Some titles already on the list include Anna Karenina, Dracula and Catcher in the Rye. I want the rest of the group to pick some titles, as well. I'm going for a very laid-back kind of gathering. So, let's all put on our smarty pants and share a few laughs and conversation!
Greetings to all members, The NYC Tarot Meetup Group is a social meetup of those who enjoy discussing, learning and trading tarot readings to improve their skills and have a fun afternoon in Manhattan. We offer several organizers who are professional readers and teachers of this art of divination. Classes and events are open to newbies and advanced readers at least once a month in a convenient location. Please view our postings of new events and respond if you can attend. Looking forward to me …
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Do you want to expand your creativity? Do you enjoy writing? Do you want to reconnect with your inner artist more deeply or maybe break through any creative 'blocks'? We will be utilizing Julia Cameron's experiential book: 'The Vein of Gold-A Journey to your Creative Heart' as a guide to do just that. We will read, work through the text, and complete the exercises, tools and tasks from the book on a bi-weekly basis. About the book: "Julia Cameron again draws from her extensive artistic and …
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Not your grandma's book club! This is a group for people who enjoy reading and discussing smutty books! We meet the first Tuesday of the month at Nelly Spillane's Pub, 18 E 33rd St New York, NY 10016. 7pm! Each month we will choose a romance or erotica book to read and discuss. Join us for book discussions and drink specials. Bring your recommendations for upcoming months. See you soon at Smutty Book Club!
Giving a book reading, Flash Mob style, is about writers getting together in any public area and reading their own writing, with the support of the rest of the members of the group present. Depending on how much you would like to read at any given time, sometimes we will have one reader and sometimes more than one reader at a meetup. Caveat: You can only read your own work, whether it's complete or incomplete. So, write something! You can also make a book poster and have one of us hold it up whi …
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A Long Island City based book club! We'll pick a book then meet locally to watch the movie once a month. "Never judge a book by its movie." J. W. Eagan
A place for RPG players, manga lovers, board gamers, comic readers, sci-fi/fantasy fans, video gamers (modern and retro), convention goers, cosplayers, etc.
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Formerly called "Young Widows/Widowers of North New Jersey" There are few places for younger widows/widowers from 20's to 70's, to meet and support each other through the grieving, and difficulties associated with losing a partner. This is a chance to meet others who are also widowed, share experiences, socialize, and make new friends. Members can suggest a meet up and be the host- if the event is not appropriate or if others in our group object to an event the Organizer can remove them. Meetin …
Are you between 35-65? Live/work in Montclair or a nearby town? Do you love to read? Would you enjoy discussing with others a book that you've read? Compare impressions, good points, not-so-good points, thrills, surprises and let-downs? You've found the right place! Join us to discuss books from various genres. Best of all - look forward to a very welcoming environment that encourages lively conversation and friendly fun.
Small, friendly group of local book readers. We have actually been meeting for about three years (maybe longer!), formerly at the late and lamented Zebu Forno.
Welcome to the Latin American & Spanish Book Club! More than a club, this is a space for people who find pleasure reading literature from Latin America and Spain. We organize literary gatherings. We will read non-fiction, fiction, articles, chronicles, essays, poetry, short stories and novels. The only requirement is that it is in Spanish. We have native and non-native Spanish speakers from all over the globe. Our goal is to provide interactive discussions in Spanish to native and non-native spe …
Have you ever read a great spiritual book and would love to discuss it with others? Do you gravitate towards the Spiritual section of the book store? Are you drawn to various authors like Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Wayne Dyer, Gary Zukav, Eric Butterworth, Iyanla Vanzant? Then this group is for you! The Spiritual Book Club of Long Island I will meet monthly and offer the opportunity to explore and discuss various spiritual books and authors that will expand your consciousness and your spirit …
We are a relatively new book club for twenty-somethings & thirty-somethings. We meet in the Book Revue in Huntington each month, and we usually use polls to determine that month's book selection.
There are no assigned readings, no assigned themes. Instead, read what you want and be prepared to explain (without spoilers, if it's fiction) what makes it compelling or a door stop. Extra points for dramatic reenactments, diagrams, and remembering what it was you read. If you're planning to attend an upcoming event, please list in the comments what you're reading, so those between books can choose whether or not to join you. The idea is to meet within walking distance of the 1, A/C D/B station …
A monthly book club for people in the Bayside/Flushing area.
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Lisa K., a teacher of psychic and intuitive development, holds monthly meetings for beginners to practice their natural intuitive skills. Lisa runs this group as a psychic development circle to exercise and help enhance your intuitive abilities and psychic skills which every one has. This group is open to everyone who wishes to develop their intuition and is just starting out exploring their abilities. What is a Six Sensory World Group Meeting? The specific focus is to develop your intuition an …
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It might be a foreign concept in Washington these days, but a group of U.S. senators showed last month that finding common ground is possible.
The release of a new bipartisan plan to overhaul the nation's immigration laws and a policy address from President Barack Obama launched new momentum on a long-stalled issue.
And congressional members who represent Lancaster County -- from both sides of the aisle -- said they are optimistic that they can work together to pass immigration reform this year.
"This is significant legislation because, when you have this amount of people coming together, it's a substantial step in the right direction," Sen. Bob Casey said.
Coming up with the actual language of the bill, the Democrat said, will be the hard part. Overall, the delegation wants change, but the kind that fits with their views.
Rep. Joe Pitts, a Republican who represents much of Lancaster County, is hopeful the issue will move forward in Congress.
"Our immigration system has faced serious problems for many years -- the largest problems being porous borders and an inability to prevent visa overstays," he said in a statement.
The devil is in the details, and there are strong passions in this debate, Sen. Pat Toomey said.
"Our immigration system should be open to newcomers who want to work hard and contribute to our communities and economy, like my grandparents and so many other immigrants over the centuries," he said in a statement.
Casey said that in Pennsylvania, immigration is a big issue for the agriculture industry.
"We have a lot of migration workers who do an important job," he said.
Rep. Pat Meehan, a Republican who represents seven municipalities in the eastern part of the county, agreed.
"Reforms must focus on keeping the best and brightest and the hard workers here," he said.
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Winston Churchill once said "there is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." And a unique program in Merrill is proving healing through horses truly is possible. "What we do at Stable Hands is we work with disabled children and adults," said Diane Abitz, executive director of Stable Hands Therapeutic Riding.
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10 Steps To Managing Your Money
1. Track your spending
Track your spending for two to four weeks to find out where your money is going. Are four trips to Starbucks a week really necessary? Usually, just by tracking expenses, you'll start to curb expenses.
Consider the Latte Factor: Yes, caffeine can be addictive, but let's say you buy a latte every day on the way to class at $3.75 each. By the end of the school year, you will have spent more than $600!
2. Form a plan
The best way to manage your money over the course of a semester is to sit down and map out a budget. List sources of income such as scholarships, loans, money from summer jobs and cash from your parents, as well as expenses, such as tuition, books and groceries.
3. Good time money
If you know you need to buy a new CD or go to a concert or party every week, make room for that in your budget. You're in college, you need some form of entertainment. Otherwise, you can get burned out if you don't do anything fun. Just plan for it in your budget.
4. Pace yourself
If you spend, spend, spend at the beginning of the semester; you could be tapped out later. Give yourself a spending limit for each week. Stick to it and you won't have to eat mac-and-cheese or McDonald's Value Meals every day in December.
5. Go easy on your credit cards
One quick way to spend beyond your means is to charge it. Use credit cards sparingly. Once you get into the habit of reaching for a Visa or MasterCard, it can be hard to stop. Who wants to pay interest on a bag of Doritos or tacos from Taco Bell you bought during your freshman year, five years after you graduate?
According to a recent study, 74% of undergraduates reported using credit cards for school supplies (paper, notebooks, etc.). This was the No. 1 reported use of cards! The second most common usage of credit cards reported by undergraduates was a tie between textbooks and food, with 71% reporting these as charged expenses. Slightly less than 24% reported using credit cards for tuition.
6. Set your own credit line
Just because you have a credit card with a $2,000 credit line doesn't mean you have to spend $2,000. If you know you can only pay back $500, then just spend that. Afraid you'll spend as long as there's room on the card? Call your credit card company and request your credit limit be lowered. Keep at it. Card companies will try boost up your credit lines so you spend more. Tell them "no" each time they try.
Here's another interesting fact: According to a recent study, as students progress through school, credit card usage swells. In fact, 91% of final-year students have a credit card, compared with 42% of freshmen. What's more, 56% of final-year students carry four or more cards, while only 15% of freshmen carry that many. Final-year students carry an average balance of $2,864 while freshmen carry an average balance of $1,585.
7. Stuff happens
If you bust your budget on something you really, really want to do this week, make up for it next week. If you find that you must go out to dinner and a movie one week, spend the money, be satisfied with the decision and commit to staying in your dorm room, eating at the dining hall (you're already paying for a meal plan, so use it) and not making any other purchases the following week.
8. Look ahead
Whether it's spring break with friends or an auto insurance bill, if you know a big expense is coming, start putting some money aside to pay for it now. It's a lot easier to set aside $50 every month than to come up with $300 when the bill is due.
9. Spread it out
Most of the big expenses are at the beginning of the school year. Buy books as you need them. That will spread out expenses. Don't forget to check out prices from online bookstores. They may give you a better deal than the campus bookstore. Buy used books whenever possible.
10. Ask for help when you need it
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Island System: Ubuntu Privacy Remix Seals off Users
Ubuntu Privacy Remix (UPR), based on Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS), is a live, read-only CD that seals off your private data from the outside world. It does this using encryption and isolation methods.
Creators of the CD image Ubuntu Privacy Remix designed it as an island solution and took measures to adapt the Ubuntu distro accordingly. UPR incorporates TrueCrypt for hard disk encryption and modifies the system kernel so that it can't mount any local hard disk data. The modified kernel will also no longer support network functions (LAN, WLAN, Bluetooth, IR hardware and PPP). The distro would also be relieved of such unnecessary packets as Pidgin, PPPoE Conf, SMB Client and Update Manager.
This method of booting off a read-only CD provides a completely isolated and unmodifiable system that can't be compromised by spyware or access from the Web. You can also use Extended TC-Volumes to save configuration and user data for OpenOffice, Evolution and GnuPG settings.
The UPR ISO image is available from the Ubuntu project website. The project also provides step-by-step instructions on how to build your own UPR CD, such as when using a different distro.
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Horse drawn carriage ride through beautiful downtown South Bend! Carriage can accommodate up to four passengers $35 for an approx. 30 minute ride, not including tip for driver. To make reservations, call 574-654-3616 or email: email@example.com
All You Can Eat Fish Fry
May 31, 2013 - Dec 27, 2013 Every Friday From 11:00 until 7:45 pm
Rise N Shine Cafe, Niles, MI
All You Can Eat Fish Every Friday, Choice of potato, side dish, salad or soup, Vegetable & Roll only $6.99 Voted Best of the Best Restaurant in Michiana, and we have the best Fish around!!
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Register Today for After Images Art Counseling Program
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All sessions are held at the Life Transition Center, 215 Red Coach Drive in Mishawaka unless otherwise noted.
(South Bend, IN) - Center for Hospice Care is offering After Images Art Counseling – An expressive individual counseling program providing a unique opportunity to explore grief through the use of art, painting and drawings.
Pre-registration is preferred by calling 574-255-1064 or 1-800-HOSPICE. In addition to these services, individual and family counseling is available.
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All sessions are held at the Life Transition Center, 215 Red Coach Drive in Mishawaka unless otherwise noted.
Groups are offered at no charge and are open to the public. (South Bend, IN) - Center for Hospice Care is offering the following support groups:
• Book Group- First and Third Monday from 1:00 - 3:00 PM. Books will be read and discussed. Previous completion of a Living with Loss Group is recommended.
• Crafting Memories –Second Thursday from 1:00 - 4:30 PM. A group that supports healthy memory work through crafts.
• Forget Me Not – Second Wednesday from 6:30 - 8:00 PM. A monthly support group for parents who have experienced the death of a baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or infancy. Childcare available with pre-registration for those with minor children.
• Young Widows and Widowers Support Group – Second and Fourth Thursday from
6:00 - 7:30 PM, provides education and support for those ages 55 and younger that have recently lost a spouse. Child care available with pre-registration for those with minor children.
Pre-registration is preferred by calling 574-255-1064 or 1-800-HOSPICE. In addition to these services, individual and family counseling is available.
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PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 3, UPPER MERION 2 — Adam Piacitelli and Steve Wallace both had triples in the home eighth, starting off a two-run inning as the Colonials topped the Vikings in extra innings.
Rob Pecharo came on in relief to stop a UM rally in the top of the eighth, getting the win.
PW is now 7-4 on the season, 7-3 in the Suburban One American Conference. Upper Merion fell to 1-8, 1-7 in the league.
PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 17, NORRISTOWN 5 — Plymouth Whitemarsh's Nick Swift led the Colonials with five goals and two assists. Colonial Jake Brown was close behind with three goals and one assist. PW's Andrew Sabia had two saves and Riley White with one.
Norristown Mike Smith and Sean Calhoun led the Eagles with two goals each. Pat Owens scored the other goal for Norristown.
GERMANTOWN ACADEMY 17, SPRINGSIDE 15 — Germantown Academy's Brooke Kiley led the Patriots with five goals and three assists. Kelli Stack also helped the Pats with two goals and three assists. GA goalie Allie Carrigan had 15 saves, while Springside goalie Maud Simms had 14 saves. Springside's Libbie Maine led the team with 5 goals, and Eillie Stout and Sullivan helped out with three goals each.
GA is now 7-3 overall, 3-1 in the league.
SPRING-FORD 19, PHOENIXVILLE 7 - Maddie Ward had seven goals and two assists, Sasha Wozniak added three goals and two assists and Kira Gensler chipped in two goals and three assists to help lift the Rams to the PAC win.
UPPER MERION 15, PLYMOUTH WHITEMARSH 8 - Upper Merion's Caitlin Milke, Sara Schunder and Nicole Priest all had three hits each. Krysta Wellington helped tack on runs with four RBIs for the Vikings. Upper Merion's Nikki Ross was the winning pitcher.
NORRISTOWN 8, POPE JOHN PAUL 5 (8 inn.) - Gina Pellechio chased home a run with a bases-loaded walk and Jackie D'Innocenzo singled home another as the visiting Eagles (3-7) scored three times in the top of the eighth inning to pull out the extra-inning, non-league victory.
Taylor Copestick had a double and three RBIs for the winners.
WISSAHICKON 4, UPPER MORELAND 3 - Britt Gelman scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh to give the host Trojans the walk-off win.
Wissahickon pitcher Katie Zeigler earned her fourth win of the year while Meredith Byrne cracked a two-run triple.
HAVERFORD SCHOOL 68, GERMANTOWN ACADEMY 53 - Ben Ritz lowered his school-record time in winning the 1,600 (4:23.1) and freshman Sam Ritz won the 3,200 (10:13.0) while Jared Whitman (12-0) and Matt Miller (11-6) went 1-2 in the pole vault, but the Patriots came up short in the Inter-Ac League meet.
The GA 4x400-relay team of Max Huang-Hobbs, Nelson Floyd, Dan Furman and Ben Ritz) was also victorious (3:38.3).


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David Arquette: Congress should consider regulating ammunition in films
Nicholas Ballasy
Senior Video Reporter
Hollywood actor David Arquette said he would support President Barack Obama and Congress regulating the depiction of ammunition in Hollywood films.
Hey, listen, if you want to restrict the amount of bullets that fit in a magazine and then restrict that also from being able to show that amount of bullets in a clip on a movie screen, Im totally down with it. Go for it, Arquette told TheDC on Inauguration Day.
President Obama did not mention the entertainment industry when speaking about his executive actions on gun control last week.
Im an actor, so you know, Im sort of Im a worker for hire. Ive done things in movies and shot guns and all this. I dont shoot guns in my real life, but you know, Im also providing a service, said Arquette.
I wish I was in a position to be able to say, you know what, I dont want to do that, because theres a gun involved, and I dont believe in guns, but Im an actor, and I need to work.
Arquette added that he believes in both gun control and peoples right to have a gun.


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Mourning at Sandy Hook
Moving beyond our sadness
Like many of you, I had a disturbed weekend a couple of weeks ago: one filled with TV images of butchery and the psychological and emotional tumult from the events at Newtown, Conn. Anyone who hasn't been asleep surely knows that 20 children and six adults, not including the apparent 20-year-old "suicided" perpetrator, were killed in the town of Newtown in the latest episode of rampage murder in America.
It's the signature movie meditation on rampage killing: Elephant is a 2003 film edited, written, and directed by Gus Van Sant and inspired by the 1999 Columbine High School rampage. Van Sant's little-watched movie is packed with long shots, enigmatic pans, and shuffled time lines and is sited in the fictional Watt High School, in one of the rim towns of Portland, Ore. The movie begins before the ultra-violence gets underway, and tracks the lives of a small set of students and their parents, in and out of the school: all, save for the perps, are clueless about the lethal spasm about to roll over them. Van Sant and his producers have been savaged by some critics because like the "instant consensus" formed shortly after Columbine, the film is built around "fundamentals" that were simply not true. Specifically the two teenage killers, the real ones, were not trench coat mafia kids, weren't unpopular, didn't seem to have been bullied at their high school, and weren't addicted to video games or so called snuff movies. The film is intense and makes one's views evolve rapidly from the pack views big media and their "go to" sources put out early in the Columbine crisis, the thinking that the perpetrators were simply a bunch of traumatized, deeply alienated weirdoes. Too bad it's not so simple.
So Here's the Brain Dump
There're lots of ways of thinking about this problem from hell: one locally popular meme is to embrace economist/analyst John Lott's notion that everyone, perhaps even children, should have a gun. Lott has written for both academic and popular audiences and is a Fox News commenter. His imaginative and very strange book, More Guns, Less Crime: The Bias Against Guns, is really popular in right-wing and libertarian circles. Lott argues that "bad guys" would be deterred if we all had guns and if all barriers to gun ownership disappeared. What sense this makes in the scheme of things, given that we already have between 280 and 310 million guns in circulation in America, according to a range of sources, is beyond me -- actually beyond my imagination. We already have for all practical purposes a largely unregulated gun ownership regime at play in the United States. Virtually anyone can get a gun. So Lott's notion and the mindset it represents, which I've heard with astonishing frequency in Tulsa, strikes me as an impossible blend of irrelevance and insanity.
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In contrast, this recent trauma means that the president and Congress will almost certainly be taking a serious look at a new ban on assault weapons, high-capacity ammunition drums, and accessory devices: reviving the '90s legislative ban. A ban, for the first time in almost 18 years, might get congressional approval -- but would this and a whole bevy of tougher new gun purchasing and background checks do any good?
Another avenue that Congress may take up -- what some call gun safety on steroids: biometric/fingerprint activation technologies and related systems to ensure that only the registered owners of weapons can fire them, would forestall thousands of injuries and deaths that comes simply as a consequence of accidental firings and it might dampen the impulse element that drives gun spawned "retail" and mass killings.
Much of the analysis on our modern era rampage killers is focused on their mental state.
But it is morally critical, essential really, to remember that most people with mental illness are not violent characters. Best estimates suggest that 25 percent of the adult American population has had a mental illness or some kind of mental impairment at some stage of their lives. Also, the same body of evidence indicates that 95 percent of American adults with serious mental illnesses are nonviolent, that is: they never engage in assaultive behavior of the kind that either calls attention to themselves or provokes attention from the authorities.
According to some experts, a huge element of what's needed -- part of what's required to forestall rampage killing, is an aggressive, even intrusive, psychiatric support and soft monitoring initiative: one directed particularly at young people of every description -- the best broad brush description of the people who are at risk of committing violence. In T-Town, this would look like a metro-wide effort designed to identify, but not stigmatize, young people who may have some potential for violent activity. That's the kind of initiative pushed by people like David Cullen, the amazing Columbine writer and a gamut of other researchers and public policy people. And, in fact, there are small-scale initiatives of this kind underway here in Tulsa, led, according to T-Town health and social services pro Russell Burkhart, by Family and Children's Services.
The City-County Health Department and the wonderfully inventive, about-to-expand OU School of Community Medicine are well suited to take the tent pole position for an expanded initiative, perhaps with lots of help from the Mental Health Association in Tulsa and the in place network of social service/in school health providers already being managed by Family and Children's Services. A greatly augmented local mental health effort for kids, and adults also, would have enormous general benefits as well.
Quashing the Stigma
Lots of observers and local resource people say that seeking treatment for mental illness or getting caught up in an episode that leads to treatment often means having a Hester Prynne-like badge on your sleeve. It often means having a neon sign on your head: complicating school admissions, employment, securing housing, even gaining commercial credit. That is highly problematic.
Judge Teresa Drelling, a veteran Tulsa attorney and a state judge in Tulsa, believes there is a critical need to remove the powerful, even vicious, stigma associated with mental illness. She told me that working to bust up this heavy stigma might encourage people to seek help and might empower loved ones to be more aggressive in seeking help for troubled kids and young adults. She also talked about the need to bust up the terrible asymmetries between coverage of mental and physical illnesses by insurance providers: interestingly, this issue is partially addressed in the Affordable Care/"Obamacare" legislation.
Fortifying Schools -- More?
Some local observers and national analysts are calling for a new clamp down on access to schools. Indeed, as I'm writing this, Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett is convening an area wide summit on augmenting school safety with Tulsa Public/Union system officials and the Tulsa Police Department. The stuff is all well and good, but haven't we been through all of this before? Creating ever more fortress-like school campuses is what some see as part of the solution to the problem given the "easy" way the Connecticut killer entered the Sandy Hook school last week. But if you have a child or you've been to many of the public schools in the Tulsa area, you know that there is already a blizzard of such safeguards, measures that were also in place at the Newtown school: how much more of this can we actually do without turning schools into penitentiary-like spaces?
Hard to know, isn't it?
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I NDEPENDENTBOOKSELLERS ARE used to pundits speaking unasked on their behalf, but this year has seen an unusual surge of concern. In a recent survey, The Guardian took the unprecedented step of actually talking to some of us. Lately there's been a lot of hype about the so-called Independent Alliance between a group of independent publishers, which Andrew Franklin, an Alliance publisher (Profile), describes as a 'small but highly significant and controversial change' that 'could save small booksellers', who (according to an article in The Bookseller) face 'extinction within fifteen years'. The aim of the Independent Alliance is 'to provide a range of benefits that will enable you to forcefully [sic] promote your business, with greater access to the kind of support the chains take for granted'. More specifically, an increased discount is offered on selected titles so that independents can offer three-for-two deals. In addition, a few posters and other marketing claptrap are being made available. This makes the publishers concerned feel good, and look good to the uninitiated, but it makes no difference to me as an independent bookseller. And recalling how no publisher lifted a finger to defend the Net Book Agreement, apart from John Calder, I am inevitably inclined to interpret it as a marketing ploy oiled by crocodile tears. For while they are busy patting themselves on the back for paying attention to independents, they are still trying to make their job easier by whipping us into line. I had a circular email yesterday from Canongate, one of the Alliance members, announcing a book as 'The Book Everyone's Talking About'. Why would I care? I want to find out if it's any good, not whether other people are jumping over a cliff after it. I received a 'Summer Reading' order form 'to enable you to make up the 3for-2 offer'. The Alliance asserts that by offering this it is 'bringing new life and a fighting spirit to the independent retail sector'. Perhaps it's benignly meant, but the implication that we should be trying to do the same things as the chains reflects their fixed ideas about bookselling rather than how independent shops function. No disrespect intended to Waterstone's, but why would we want our shop to look like a puny version of theirs? Our customers would leave in droves. And if our book lists consisted of books that publishers wanted us to sell and happened to be offering cheaply, instead of books chosen by us with our customers in mind, they would be right to leave us. It is symptomatic of the ills of the book trade that the Alliance should flood us with the language of supermarkets in their attempt, ostensibly, to help us compete. They speak as if they are countering a deplorable trend, but they do more to foster the current climate with their aggressive policies than to dispel it. Marketing departments, with their bland and ludicrous language of
J OHNDE F ALBE Defending the Independent
hyperbole, have scant value for independents: they grandly assume they know what we want – namely, what everybody else wants, which is perfectly circular, perfectly absurd and perfectly useless. I need to know about the books, not the promotion plans. Since the collapse of the Net
Book Agreement it has been plain that independents couldn't expect to compete on price, and all efforts in that quarter are misdirected. The reasons for which people still visit independent shops may be many (efficiency, flexibility, location, ambience, staff, eccentricity), but the primary one is taste. By way of example, our second-best-selling book this year is Written Livesby Javier Marías. Canongate didn't tell us about this book: I saw it listed in a catalogue about three weeks before publication and asked for a copy. Its success has nothing to do with marketing, everything to do with reading. There was another Canongate book in which I was interested and I asked three times for something to read in advance, in vain: we have sold just one copy. Another Alliance book we'll do well with this year is Andrew O'Hagan's superb Be Near Me, which Faber declare that they are promoting through independent bookshops. But this statement is vacuous unless supported by proofs. Mine was sent by a periodical (this one), for review. Ironically, Random House, a large corporation, is much more responsive. Editors there are relatively accessible and their natural sense of how the independent sector operates hasn't been undermined by marketing clichés. Looking at a print-out of our twenty bestselling hardbacks this year, I see that I've read eleven of them and reviewed a further five. The same exercise with our ten bestselling paperbacks reveals that I have read four, reviewed two, written one, and written an introduction for the top seller (Russian Conspirators in Siberia, which has not been reviewed anywhere and is therefore unusual.) It's not simply a question of vanity: the books we sell most of are those in which we take an interest. Nevertheless, the quantities are not vast (250 Written Lives; 100 Russian Conspirators): we are selling across a much broader range than most chains, and on any given day few books sell more than a single copy. It might suit publishers better if we sold more copies of fewer books (on the chain model) but it wouldn't suit our customers. However pig-headed it may seem, we must insist that we know more about our customers than publishers do (who are not noted for their expenditure at bookshops anyway, and in some cases it is charitable to suppose they ever read at all). Not that questions of rent, terms, location and so forth aren't important, but woe betide us if our selections are driven by what publishers want us to promote rather than by our own tastes. And if we have to work hard to make it succeed, why should we expect it to be otherwise?
LITERARY REVIEW September 2006 CONTENTS
T HIS MONTH ' S PULPIT is written by John de Falbe. He is the author of two novels, and reviews regularly. By day he is a bookseller: he has been at John Sandoe's, an independent bookshop in London, for more than twenty years.
M ICHAEL B URLEIGH 's Sacred Causes: Politics and Religion in Europe from the European Dictators to Al Qaedawill be published in October, together with the paperback of his acclaimed Earthly Powers, both by Harper Press.
D IANA A THILL is the author of Stet and Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood, both published by Granta.
S UDHIR H AZAREESINGH is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. His book La Légende de Napoléonwas published by the Editions Tallandier (Paris) in early 2006, and has just been awarded the Grand Prix du Mémorial d'Ajaccio.
E VAN M AWDSLEY is Professor of International History at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941-1945(2005).
R UTH P ADEL 's latest book, Tigers in Red Weather, is published by Little, Brown.
A MANDA C RAIG is a novelist and children's critic for The Times. Her fifth novel, Love in Idleness, is published by Abacus.
A NDREW L YCETT continues on the trail of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as he works on his forthcoming biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
P HILIP M OULD is an art dealer based in Dover Street, London, as well an author and broadcaster. He specialises in tracking down lost British portraits and paintings.
S UDHIR H AZAREESINGH Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand David Lawday J ONATHAN K EATES Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King Antonia Fraser D IANA A THILL Daughter of the Desert: The Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell Georgina Howell G RAHAM S TEWART Diplomat without Portfolio: Valentine Chirol - His Life and 'The Times' Linda B Fritzinger A NDREW L YCETT Freud's Wizard: The Enigma of Ernest Jones Brenda Maddox A LLAN M ASSIE Liberty:The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France LucyMoore A LEXANDER W AUGH Satan: A Biography Henry Ansgar Kelly
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M ICHAEL B URLEIGH A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 Andrew Roberts C HRISTOPHER C OKER War in Human Civilisation Azar Gat N IGEL J ONES Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest Frank McLynn R OBERT I RWIN Setting the Desert on Fire: T E Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916–1918 James Barr E VAN M AWDSLEY June 1941: Hitler and Stalin John Lukacs R OY H ATTERSLEY White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties Dominic Sandbrook
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S AM L EITH Kingdom Come JGBallard G ILL H ORNBY A Spot of Bother Mark Haddon M ARTYN B EDFORD The Apple: New 'Crimson Petal' Stories Michel Faber J OHN D UGDALE Only Revolutions Mark Z Danielewski C HRISTOPHER B RAY So Many Ways to Begin Jon McGregor C HRISTOPHER H ART Imperium: A Novel Robert Harris S EBASTIAN S HAKESPEARE The Mission Song John le Carré
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P ETER W ASHINGTON Leonard Woolf Victoria Glendinning F RANCIS K ING Betjeman A N Wilson P J K AVANAGH Ireland's Minstrel: A Life of Tom Moore - Poet, Patriot and Byron's Friend Linda Kelly A DAM S ISMAN Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson (Ed) Richard Davenport-Hines R OBERT N YE Collected Poems 1943–93 Martin Seymour-Smith
Editor:N ANCY S LADEK Deputy Editor: T OM F LEMING Editor-at-Large: J EREMY L EWIS Editorial Assistant: P HILIP W OMACK
Contributing Editors: A LAN R AFFERTY , S EBASTIAN S HAKESPEARE Business Manager: R OBERT P OSNER Advertising Manager: T ERRY F INNEGAN Classified Advertising: D AVID S TURGE Founding Editor:D R A NNE S MITH Founding Father: A UBERON W AUGH Cover illustration by Chris Riddell Issue no. 336
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