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Consider the impact of losing two tough guys since the 2011 season--Jason Varitek through retirement and Kevin Youkilis by virtue of a trade that was necessary for both the player and the team. Who are the remaining talented, hard-nosed leaders? Dustin Pedroia is clearly in that category. He has talent, toughness and heart. He truly cares more about winning than his own statistics. A step down from that level is David Ortiz, who is performing well and has respect in the clubhouse. However, Ortiz has an unfortunate tendency to whine about his stats and his salary and seems to be more focused on how things are going for him than for the team. Granted, Ortiz wants to win, but how much of a leader are you when you interrupt your manager's press conference to complain that he was not going to bat for you with the official scorer and when he somewhat condescendingly scoffed at the idea that Jacoby Ellsbury could wind up with more home runs last year than Ortiz would (How did that work out, David?).
Third on the leadership rankings (from the perspective of this fan, who has no idea what goes on behind closed doors in the clubhouse) is....well...it might be....uh. Who is it?
On the pitching staff, Terry Francona attempted to anoint Josh Beckett as the leader. That clearly did not work out well. Texas Conman II has shown no accountability and a questionable work ethic. That attitude seems to have affected others on the pitching staff (Jon Lester in particular). Perhaps John Lackey was also responsible for the poisoned attitudes among the pitching staff. At least, he is the favored whipping boy. Who are the leaders among the pitchers? Who are the tough guys?
Aceves and Padilla are very tough customers and I like having them on the pitching staff. They do not back down from any situation. They lead by example. The performance and accountability of most of the relievers has been very professional. But, who among the starters has the potential to step up this season? Buchholz is a follower. Doubront is virtually a rookie. Cook is new and was all too full of giggles about his terrible pitch location in the Friday game against the Yankees. Virtually all of the others on the staff have no significant history with the team and do not overtly show leadership qualities. Lester has shown zero ability to be a leader. You cannot fault his toughness and courage during his fight against cancer, but where are his confidence, determination and poise on the mound? No one is going to look toward Lester (at least the 2012 version) for leadership.
Position players? Salty has significant future leadership potential, but he does not yet have enough experience, confidence, consistency and willingness to assert his will with a pitching staff during his first year as the main catcher. Middlebrooks is only a rookie. Aviles, Ross, Shoppach, Punto, Sweeney and Nava have no real history with the Red Sox or credibility that comes with performance at an elite level in the majors. Ciriaco is just thrilled to be in the majors.
So, who have I left out…oh…Adrian Gonzalez--who would like to be the Invisible Man, Jacoby Ellsbury, who IS the Invisible Man, and Carl "I have never heard a racial slur in my life before my rehab assignment" Crawford, who I WISH was the Invisible Man.
There could be a fire bombing in the clubhouse and Adrian MIGHT call 911. He wants to get his at bats, play (excellent) defense and attribute everything to "God's will." Without getting into a theological exchange, it has always raised a question in my mind about accountability and responsibility when athletes suggest that they are merely actors playing a part in a play that has been written by the Man Upstairs.
Ellsbury? Great player. Really good person. Has a hard time staying on the field. Can anyone remember thinking of him as a leader? I have never seen him challenge someone on the bench or say ANYTHING about the team or his teammates or show a flicker of leadership qualities. Not everyone can be a leader, and you cannot force something that is not in your personality. He is what he is.
Then there is Carl Crawford. The Yankees had Mr. October and Mr. May (my all-time George Steinbrenner comment). The Red Sox now have "Mr. Deer in the Headlights."
Crawford claims that he was trying to hit home runs and suffered a drop in his batting average in 2011 because the "Red Sox obviously wanted me to hit more home runs because they dropped me to 7th in the batting order." No, Carl, you could not get on base when you were in the 2 spot in the lineup and they hoped to take pressure off you and help the team by moving you down in the order. They were not hinting that you should stop trying to get on base, should not attempt to steal or try at all when you played left field. You were not performing. It was your fault. It was not Terry Francona's fault that you were terrible last year. It is not Bobby Valentine's fault that you "aren't comfortable" this year. Accept responsibility.
Crawford acts like he is being asked to field live hand grenades in left field. The player who Don Zimmer called the "best defensive left fielder that I have ever seen" has been horrid on defense. Crawford is tentative on line drives. He misreads balls hit over his head. He is timid when balls are hit into the corner, apparently fearing that the ball will bounce past him. He has let many fly balls hit the ground in front of the Green Monster or hit low enough on the wall that it obvious that the ball was catchable if he had been aggressive. He has overrun several balls hit to his right and had to lunge back to make (or try to make) plays. He has a below average arm when healthy, and now has to come out of games in the 7th inning if the score is close.
He thinks he needs surgery on the UCL (The Red Sox say that many players have played several years with this condition and do not envision him needing surgery.) . Crawford does not want to risk making a throw that would tear the ligament. Carl, if you want to have surgery now and you think that you may be one throw away from tearing the ligament and having to undergo surgery…well…let it rip (so to speak). If it tears, you will get your wish and get to rehab and come back as healthy as you can expect to be. Maybe you will have the same upgrade regarding arm strength that many pitchers have experienced and have an average arm.
In summary, he's afraid to throw the ball hard, terrified of making mistakes, is hyper-sensitive to fan and media criticism, and has only rarely shown himself to be the aggressive base runner that used to terrorize the Red Sox. Leadership? Heart? Courage? Aggressiveness? To be fair, his teammates like him and he works really hard on conditioning. He is a nice person. He does not hang out with a bad crowd. He does not abuse animals. He is, however, the "Anti-leader."
Championship teams have strong leaders and some depth of leadership. Other than Pedroia (who has the heart of a gladiator), who else has the potential to step up for this Boston team? The team is going nowhere unless several players do so. I do not see those leaders on this roster (and with respect to the young players, at least during this season). It is unlikely that a big trade or trades will happen by the non-waiver deadline, but if something happens, I hope that it brings players will strong leadership qualities, which will be desperately needed by this team in 2012 and 2013.
What about leadership from management? Larry Lucchino appears to have a tight leash on his general manager and manager. Does either have the authority to act courageously and decisively? I have looked for indications and see none. Organizations are powerful or weak from the top down. John Henry and Tom Warner have entrusted Lucchino with the reigns. Lucchino is VERY unlikely to accept the inadequacies of this roster, to acknowledge that this team has only the smallest chance to make it as far as the AL championship series or to give his GM or manager the freedom to do their job until they show they cannot get it done. I hope that Larry gives Ben some freedom and urges him to do what is necessary to bring in leaders as well as good players.
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Legend: Child on amusement park ride is fatally bitten by snakes lurking within.
In the legend's most usual form, a small child (almost always a girl) complains while on an amusement park ride of being bitten or stung. Her parents, who are watching from a location in front of the contraption but who are never on it with the child, ascribe the cries to the youngster's excitement and so don't realize something is going horribly wrong until the ride ends. By then it is too late — though medical help is summoned, it does not arrive in time to save the tot.
Such tales have been told of just about every amusement park in the nation. The deadly snake is said to have been lurking in the ride itself (having made a nest in a rotting wooden carousel horse or roller coaster car just unhoused from winter storage), or to have dropped from above into the open kiddie car, or to have fatally fanged a hand carelessly trailed in the water by a rider in a tunnel of love boat.
As in so many other legends, xenophobia (an unreasonable fear of people or goods that come from other countries) plays a major role, in that often the snake-infested carousel horses or ride cars are explicitly said to have been imported from overseas, the implication being the carnival operator put profits ahead of his patrons' safety by purchasing hardware from dubious foreign suppliers. (Another example is the "Snake in the Coat" legend wherein a shopper at a discount store is killed by the viper that had made its home in a coat's lining back in the garment's country of manufacture.)
Regionalism can also play a role, in that a few tellings specify the ride's components had been stored across the winter in the warmer American South, where the snakes took refuge in them.
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Ball pit, carousel horse, or roller coaster car, the message is clear: danger lurks amidst the gaiety, and a wise parent never takes his eyes off his kid. The juxtaposition of venomous snakes and amusement areas makes an even stronger statement than if these selfsame snakes were putting the chomp on youngsters in less carnival-like settings — say, a schoolyard or a department store. Such legends work to caution parents to not relax parental vigilance even in presumed safe settings.
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The continuing boom in North Dakota seemingly has no end. Last June oil production from the Bakken Formation exceeded 11 million barrels a month. In February it reached 16 million with estimates that by late spring North Dakota could be producing more oil than either California or Alaska. That's more than double what the state produced just two years ago.
The population boom in Williston and elsewhere continues to set records. The oil industry employs more than 30,000 people and could exceed 100,000 if production rises as expected to a million barrels a day. There are so many job openings that the state is sponsoring trade fairs across the country and has to deal with — are you ready? — budget surpluses!
Comparisons between North Dakota and other states struggling with deficits and high unemployment abound. Steve Moore wrote about it in the Wall Street Journal, noting that North Dakota has a budget surplus of $1 billion out of a $3.5 billion budget and it has already cut income taxes and is considering further reductions. Complete funding for the state's pension plan is accomplished every year and the state is building "infrastructure" projects: roads, bridges, railroads and pipelines.
Moore compares this to the issues facing California: five straight years of budget deficits with the current fiscal year's shortfall expected to exceed $6 billion. Brian Calle wrote in California's City Journal:
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HUGO Barra, Xiaomi Global vice president and formerly Google VP for Android product management, stirred excitement in the local tech startup community during his visit in Manila as he shared tips on how new companies can grow their business in the digital space.
The meet-up was organized by Xiaomi, represented by Philippine Product Manager Elizabeth Anne Olvido, and hosted by Kickstart Ventures, Inc., a wholly-owned incubator and investment firm of Globe Telecom, to enable startup companies under its portfolio as well as its local partners to benefit from Barra's deep understanding of the mobile market.
Kickstart President Minette Navarrete said, "Xiaomi's origins and character resonate with startup founders everywhere in the world: dream big, start small, scale fast.
Hugo Barra is widely respected for his skills: he must be one of the best product people in the world."
"This visit is amazingly helpful, and truly inspirational to the tech community in the Philippines. We're so pleased to have him come and have these intense and down-to-earth conversations with startup founders here," she said.
Barra earlier announced that the rapidly-growing Chinese mobile phone firm has chosen the Philippines as its third market in Southeast Asia, a development that augurs well for the tech startups.
Paul Rivera, CEO and co-founder of online talent management and assessment firm Kalibrr, said "This shows just how exciting the Philippines will be as a market for smartphone makers and those who make apps for them. This will bring an entire generation of people online who will be mobile first."
During the discussion, Barra advised startup founders to build excellent software, adjust their plans depending on customer uptake, know their customers, and think of the price that users are willing to pay.
Xiaomi knows their target customers well and lets their products grow with them. "The first 10,000 customers matter so much so I have to acquire the right customers," Barra said. He said that for Xiaomi, it means that they must build a "loyal, excited, vocal community of tech enthusiasts."
"They have chosen not to go the usual route of getting an endorser. They believe their products can stand on their own and sell. After seeing their high-end smartphone test unit, we agreed with that belief," said Jonathan Earl Lansangan, COO and co-founder of Dynamic Objx Labs Inc, a Manila-based software development company that specializes in building web-based applications, mobile device applications, and
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In 2012, Xiaomi sold 7.2 million smartphones and more than doubled the number the following year by selling 18.7 million handsets. (PR)
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Pitching on the heels of a one-hitter and no-hitter thrown by his teammates the day before, Hickory Crawdads starter Connor Sadzeck continued the string of great pitching by the 'Dads Monday night.
The right-hander went six innings and held the visiting Greenville Drive to just two runs, one earned, while leading Hickory to a 5-2 win at L.P. Frans Stadium.
Sadzeck did allow nine Greenville hits over his six innings pitched, but eight of the nine knocks were singles, including five ground balls that found their way through the infield. The Crawdads bullpen was also rock solid in the win, with Cody Kendall and Alexander Claudio combining for four shutout frames.
Offensively the 'Dads were once again led by the long ball, with Jordan Akins and Ryan Rua each going deep. Akins' 3-run blast in the second turned a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 advantage, while Rua's solo shot in the sixth pushed Hickory's lead to 4-2. The Crawdads would pick up a final insurance tally in the 8th, when Jorge Alfaro and Rua hit back-to-back triples to finish the scoring at 5-2. The two triples actually doubled the 'Dads season total up to that point.
The Crawdads were actually out hit in the win, but where nine of the 10 Drive hits were singles, four of Hickory's 8 hits went for extra bases. Rua continued his red hot hitting of late with a 2-4 night including his home run, triple and two RBI, while Akins finished 1-4 with his homer and 3 RBI and Nomar Mazara went 1-2 with a pair of walks.
Sadzeck (3-2) earned the win for his performance while Claudio picked up his team leading seventh save of the season for closing out the ninth. Kendall earned a hold for his two perfect innings of work. Drive starter Brian Johnson (1-3) took the loss after allowing three runs on four hits, one walk and eight strikeouts during his five innings on the mound.
The win is the Crawdads (24-19) third straight and keeps them in the middle of the hunt in the SAL North Division. The Drive (13-31) add to their SAL worst record in the defeat. The 'Dads and Drive will match up again Tuesday night at 6:00 pm in game two of their 3-game series.
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Ramona Quimby, Age 8 By Beverly Cleary
Ramona likes being big enough to be counted on, but must everything depend on her? If Mrs. Kemp didn't look after Ramona, her mother couldn't work full-time. If Ramona's mother didn't work, her father couldn't return to college. Ramona does get to ride the school bus by herself this year. And despite teasing from Danny the Yard Ape, she's determined to enjoy the third grade; her new teacher, Mrs. Whaley; and learning to read and write. If only Mother would not remind Ramona each morning to be nice to Willa Jean Kemp. If only her parents wouldn't quarrel at home. If only Ramona didn't get sick one horrible day and throw up— at school. But being a patient has its advantages. Even book reports and rainy Sundays have a bright side. In Ramona's world, being eight isn't easy, but it's never dull.
Discussion Questions:
Why is it so hard for Ramona to be nice to Howie Kemp's four-year-old sister Willa Jean? Why does Ramona's mother say that getting along at the Kemps' is Ramona's job in the family?
How does Ramona manage to deal with Danny, a boy on her school bus, when he calls her Bigfoot? Why is it that, once she gets her eraser back from him, Ramona begins to sort of like him?
Why does Mrs. Whaley, Ramona's third grade teacher, call Sustained Silent Reading period D.E.A.R.? Why doesn't Ramona like the name? Why is it the best part of the school day, according to Ramona and Howie? How does Ramona use Sustained Silent Reading after school to help her get along with Willa Jean?
Who started the hard-boiled egg fad at school? What happens when Ramona tries to follow the fad?
What does Ramona overhear Mrs.Whaley saying about her and why does it hurt her feelings? Do you think Ramona is really a show-off and a nuisance?
When Ramona and her older sister Beezus complain about what they are eating for dinner, Mr. Quimby decides that the two girls will make dinner the following night. Do you think this is a reasonable punishment? Were you surprised that the dinner Beezus and Ramona came up with was such a success? Would you know how to make dinner (from scratch) if your parents asked you to? What would you make?
Ramona makes an effort to be less of a nuisance, but suddenly the most terrible thing happens and she becomes a "supernuisance" by throwing up at school! Then, at the risk of being a show-off, in place of a book report Ramona writes a kind of commercial to "sell" her book. It turns out Mrs. Whaley doesn't have a bad opinion of Ramona after all. Why are Ramona's teachers always so important to her?
What is the "happy ending" to the day when the Quimby's go out for dinner together one dismal rainy Sunday when everyone is cross?
In this Newbery Honor Book from beloved author Beverly Cleary, eight-year-old Ramona Quimby's zest for life is infectious as ever. Whether speaking her mind to her third-grade teacher, or befriending her schoolyard bully, Ramona can't be kept down!
Then one day an embarrassing incident in the classroom leaves Ramona completely humiliated. Can she bounce back from this one?
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Riding the school bus alone isn't the only new experience making third grade exciting for Ramona Quimby. From befriending a boy called Yard Ape to delivering her book report in the style of a television commercial, Ramona's enthusiasm for life is infectious and irresistible.
That's not to say all is perfect. Having to go to the Kemps' house after school is Ramona's own particular burden—especially the chore of being nice to pesky little Willa Jean. When Ramona gets sick and throws up in class, she feels as though things can't get worse!
In this Newbery Honor Book, newly illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers, Beverly Cleary lovingly chronicles Ramona's experiences as she faces all of her third-grade challenges with imagination and determination.
About the Author
Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. There young Beverly learned to love books. However, when the family moved to Portland, Beverly soon found herself in the grammar school's low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers.
By the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood either with books or on her way to and from the public library. Before long her school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up. The idea appealed to her, and she decided that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was unable to find on the library shelves, funny stories about her neighborhood and the sort of children she knew. And so Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, and her other beloved characters were born.
When children ask Mrs. Cleary where she finds her ideas, she replies, "From my own experience and from the world around me." She included a passage about the D.E.A.R. program in Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (second chapter) because she was inspired by letters she received from children who participated in "Drop Everything and Read" activities. Their interest and enthusiasm encouraged her to provide the same experience to Ramona, who enjoys D.E.A.R. time with the rest of her class.
Mrs. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the 2003 National Medal of Art from the National Endowment of the Arts and the 1984 John Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw. Her Ramona and Her Father and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 were named 1978 and 1982 Newbery Honor Books, respectively.
Among Mrs. Cleary's other awards are the American Library Association's 1975 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Catholic Library Association's 1980 Regina Medal, and the University of Southern Mississippi's 1982 Silver Medallion, all presented in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature. In addition, Mrs. Cleary was the 1984 United States author nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, a prestigious international award.
Equally important are the more than 35 statewide awards Mrs. Cleary's books have received based on the direct votes of her young readers. In 2000, to honor her invaluable contributions to children's literature, Beverly Cleary was named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress. This witty and warm author is truly an international favorite. Mrs. Cleary's books appear in over twenty countries in fourteen languages and her characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby, as well as Ribsy, Socks, and Ralph S. Mouse, have delighted children for generations. And her popularity has not diminished. HarperCollins Children's Books recently announced that the film option for Cleary's classic book character, Ramona Quimby, had been sold to Fox 2000 and Denise DiNovi Productions. In addition, Portland, Oregon has proudly created The Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden for Children featuring bronze statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy, in the park where Beverly used to play.
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Spotting a leak in the exhaust system riser leads to an early fix.Easy Goin' was on the hard at Cap Sante Marine in Anacortes, for some regularly scheduled spring maintenance. Barney, the service mechanic, and I were in the engine room inspecting the drivetrain when Barney said, "What's this?" It was a small brown stain, the size of a nickel, on the port stringer. Before I could say "I don't know," Barney was deep into looking for the source and pulling the insulation blanket off the exhaust riser.
"There it is," Barney said. The stainless steel riser had a hairline crack and an area of corrosion. The riser had been leaking salt water, the blanket was capturing the liquid and the heat of the exhaust created a perfect environment for corrosion and potential catastrophic failure down the road. Stainless steel is prone to a phenomenon known as crevice corrosion, particularly when it is exposed to high temperatures and/or when used in a manner that traps stagnant water when the system is idle. The brown stain that Barney found on the stringer was a textbook sign of crevice corrosion.
The marine wet-exhaust system is a torture chamber if ever there was one. The temperature of the exhaust can exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and it mixes with water that is obviously much cooler, creating a rapid change in temperature and contraction of the gases. The temperature differential on the metallic portion of the exhaust can be several hundred degrees across just a few inches, creating incredible stress that is cycled hundreds and thousands of times over the life of the system components.
A variety of materials have been used for water-cooled exhaust systems, from ordinary steel and cast iron to stainless steel and more exotic corrosion-resistant alloys such as cupronickel and Inconel. Different materials offer different advantages and liabilities. Ordinary steel is strong, inexpensive and easily fabricated; however, it is highly prone to corrosion, which is accelerated by high temperatures. Stainless steel is significantly more corrosion resistant than ordinary steel; however, it is also more expensive, requires different welding skills and equipment (it benefits from MIG and TIG welding), and, contrary to popular belief, it's not completely immune to corrosion and failure.
Cupronickel is even more corrosion resistant than stainless, and Inconel goes a step further in its corrosion-resistance properties — it's used on ships and submarines in their nuclear power- and nuclear propulsion-plant cooling systems.
To complicate matters, stainless steel is available in a variety of alloys, some of which are significantly more corrosion resistant than others. Ideally, if stainless steel is used for a wet-exhaust system, it should use an alloy designated as 316L. This alloy is especially corrosion resistant, and the all-important "L" suffix indicates it has a low carbon content that makes it well suited to welded fabrication. Other stainless alloys, such as 304, while identical in appearance to 316, should not be used for highly corrosion-prone applications, particularly exhaust systems.
Wet metallic exhaust systems often face an additional challenge: adequate support. Because they are often large, complex, heavy and subject to extreme vibration, metallic exhaust systems are doubly prone to stress-induced corrosion and failure. When stainless steel is stressed, microscopic cracks form on its surface, each of which becomes a toehold for corrosion. Thus, metallic exhaust systems must be well supported to minimize as much movement as possible.
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Our ongoing investment in R&D coupled with our comprehensive customer insight programme sustains this heritage of innovation, and means we remain at the forefront of providing new solutions which maximise the possibilities presented by the next generation of telehealthcare solutions.
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The dallas programme has been developed by the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, and joint funded by the National Institute for Health Research and the Scottish Government. It aims to demonstrate how innovative technologies and services can be used to promote well-being and provide top quality health and care, enabling people to live independently and to expect a better future.
The total investment in dallas is £37.3 million and by summer 2015, the programme aims to involve nearly 170,000 people across the UK. Four consortia have successfully bid to run the programme, working with existing statutory health care provision.
Tunstall Healthcare is a partner in two of the consortia, and will be involved in two initiatives:
i-Focus a nationwide programme offering people a range of products and services to help them feel more comfortable in their homes. The Warm Neighbourhoods scheme uses on-line and mobile technologies to enhance and organise informal care networks that help families, friends and neighbours to support others in the community in a practical way. i-Focus also aims to co-ordinate an interoperability strategy across the dallas programme.
The Feelgood Factory encourages people living in Liverpool to plan for their future in order to better manage their health and social care needs, supported by Life Enhancing Technologies(LETs). It aims to use discreet assistive technologies to help people with chronic health needs stay independent and avoid hospital admission.
As the UK's population ages, it brings significant opportunities for British businesses to invest and be part of a growing global market that is responding to demand for innovative technologies and services that meet the wants of older adults. The dallas programme will encourage and help businesses take advantage of this opportunity.
Steve Sadler, Chief Technology Officer for Tunstall said:
To be part of such an important initiative designed to unlock innovation and wellness through technology is both an honour and a challenge. We are looking forward to working with all partners to deliver people focused solutions which will not only benefit the local communities but also provide learning for the rest of the world.
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BERKLEY — The Woodward Dream Cruise gives spectators a chance to see classic and new cars alike traveling up and down the corridor while mixed in with traffic.
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After the parade at 7:30 p.m., the Magic Bus will perform live music on stage at the corner of 12 Mile and Robina Avenue. There also will be a children's area with inflatables and a dancing area for teenagers.
"All the shops have specials going on, and there are booths and food and just much more than just the car parade itself," Colwell said. "It really is an intimate-type atmosphere around town with 12 Mile closed down, and it is a good time to meet new people and hang out with neighbors."
Mark Coon, CruiseFest chairman, has been involved with the event since its inception and chairman for the last 16 years. Coon said thousands of people feel a connection with the automobile industry, making the annual car events one of the best times of the year.
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With the CruiseFest parade focusing mainly on older cars, Coon said even those who don't have classic cars can relate to them. As for the young spectators, he said they could get a glimpse into the past through the parade.
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Robert Service (historian)
Service speaking at the Tallinn Literature Festival HeadRead in May 2011
|Robert John Service
29 October 1947
United Kingdom
Main interests
|Russian history (1917–53)
Major works
|Biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky
Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He is currently a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. As an author Service is known for his 2000, 2004, and 2009 biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky, respectively.
Service spent his undergraduate years at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Russian and classical Greek. He went to Essex and Leningrad universities for his postgraduate work, and taught at Keele and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, which later joined University College London, before joining Oxford University in 1998, where he currently teaches.
Work and critical reception[edit]
Between 1986 and 1995, Service published a three-volume biography of Vladimir Lenin. He wrote several works of general history on 20th-century Russia, including A History of Twentieth-Century Russia. His trilogy of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks leaders biographies include Lenin (2000), Stalin (2004) and Trotsky (2009).
His biography of Trotsky was favourably reviewed in the British and American press on its publication, but two years later was strongly criticised by Service's Hoover Institution colleague Bertrand Patenaude in a review for the American Historical Review.[1] Patenaude, reviewing Service's book alongside a rebuttal by the Trotskyite David North (In Defence of Leon Trotsky), charged Service with making dozens of factual errors, misrepresenting evidence, and "fail[ing] to examine in a serious way Trotsky's political ideas".[2] Service responded that the book's factual errors were minor and that Patenaude's own book on Trotsky presented him as a "noble martyr". In July 2009, prior to the publication of his own book, Service had written a review of Partenaude's publication Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky which he applauded for being "vividly told" but also criticised for neglecting Trotsky's crimes while sharing power in the USSR.
The book was harshly criticised by the German historian of communism, and one-time Marxist, Hermann Weber, who led a campaign to prevent Suhrkamp Verlag from publishing it in Germany. Fourteen historians and sociologists signed a letter to the publishing house. The letter cited 'a host of factual errors,' the 'repugnant connotations' of the passages in which Service deals with Trotsky's Jewish origins, and Service's recourse to 'formulas associated with Stalinist propaganda' for the purpose of discrediting Trotsky.[3][4] Suhrkamp announced in February 2012 that it would publish a German translation of Robert Service's Trotsky in July 2012.
- The Bolshevik Party in Revolution 1917-23: A Study in Organizational Change (1979)
- A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (1997)
- The Russian Revolution, 1900-27 (Studies in European History) (1999)
- A History of Modern Russia, from Nicholas II to Putin (1998, Second edition in 2003)
- Lenin: A Biography (2000)
- Russia: Experiment with a People (2002)
- Stalin: A Biography (2004), Oxford, 715 pages ill. ISBN O-330-41913-7(2004)[5]
- Comrades: A World History of Communism (2007)
- Trotsky: A Biography (2009)[6][7][8]
- The Penguin History of Modern Russia From Tsarism to the 21st Century (1997)[9]
- Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West (2011)[10]
- ^ McLemee, Scott. "The Re-Assassination of Leon Trotsky". Inside Higher Ed. 8 July 2011
- ^ Bertrand M. Patenaude (June 2011). "Robert Service. Trotsky: A Biography. David North. In Defense of Leon Trotsky". The American Historical Review (book review) 116 (3): 900–902. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.3.900.
- ^ "Robert Service has written a diatribe, not a scientific polemic!" The World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 28 November 2011
- ^ http://wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/intr-n23.shtml
- ^ "Review of Robert Service's Stalin: A Biography–Part One". Wsws.org. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ "John Gray on Trotsky by Robert Service". Literary Review. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ "Review: A 'dis-Service' to Leon Trotsky". socialistworld.net. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ A book that fails to meet the basic standards of historical scholarship The American Historical Review discredits Robert Service's biography of Leon Trotsky
- ^ "The Penguin History of Modern Russia – Robert Service – Penguin Books". Penguin.co.uk. 24 September 2009. Retrieved 31 August 2011.
- ^ http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/12/soviet-russia-british-early
External links[edit]
- Robert Service's homepage
- Robert Service at the Internet Movie Database
- Roberts, Russ (26 July 2010). "Robert Service on Trotsky". EconTalk. Library of Economics and Liberty.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- 1947 births
- Academics of Keele University
- Academics of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
- Alumni of the University of Essex
- British anti-communists
- British historians
- Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford
- Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
- Historians of Russia
- Historians of communism
- Living people
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Creole Poetry.
Creole Poetry from Haiti, translated by Merete Mueller with Dominique Herard.
In 2005, as an undergraduate student at Naropa University, I translated a collection of poems from Haiti, all originally written in Creole.
I found a Haitian Creole dictionary at the University of Colorado library and went through each poem, translating word by word, sending the finished poems to my oldest and dearest friend, Dominique—who speaks fluent Creole—to approve and critique.
Throughout the process, I was struck by how little I knew about Haitian history, despite the fact that the United States, being one of the island's closest and most powerful neighbors, has had a huge influence on Haiti's development and its struggles as an independent nation.
The poems that I translated provided a window into the culture and life of Haiti—which includes intense pain and suffering, along with longing and hope, joy, rhythm and music.
As the world turns its attention towards the little country in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, I offer these poems as a reminder of Haiti's culture and history, of its and art and its accomplishments and its people.
Photo courtesy Flickr user Haiti Innovation
Why Creole, instead of French?
Haiti was the second country in the New World to declare independence, after the U.S., in 1804, and was the world's first independent black nation. Until the 1960s, French was considered the official language of the country, even though upwards of 90% of the Haitian population (all but the very educated and wealthy) spoke only Creole. Creole was declared the official language of the country in 1961, but even today French continues to be the only accepted language in the government, as well as the legal and educational systems.
This means that with 90% of the country speaking only Creole, an overwhelming proportion of the population is without a voice.
So the fact that the following poets chose to write in Creole is a powerful political statement. And the music of the Creole language is an integral part of their work—the Creole language has a rhythm and a power that I think would have been missing if the authors had chosen to write in French. I encourage you to read not only the English translations, but also the Creole originals. Notice the repetition and weaving of words…read the originals out loud—even if you don't know how to pronounce them—to get a feel for the sound and the beat of the language.
For more Haitian poetry and notes on the Creole language, check out my blog, where I've posted another, longer poem. I also recommend Open Gate: An Anthology of Creole Poetry from Haiti, translated by Paul Laraque and Jack Hirschman.
Dominik Batravil
Depi lapli
Pa vini ak van
Siyati chovsouri
Chaje mi prizon
As long as rain
marks no wind
signatures of bats
burden prison walls
Woudof Mile
Yo Ti Fanm Sezan Ki Kanpe
On ti fanm sezan
ki kanpe
kwen gran ri ak ri demirak
a onze diswa
lan yon to wob fatigue
On ti fanm sezan
ki kanpe kon yon I
anba on galeri
Li pa p'tann pesonn moun
Selman lakay li
manman-l grangou
prêt pou mouri
lit pito ret kanpe la
gwo onze diswa
lan fredi anba yon galeri
sou gran ri.
Sixteen year old girl
corner of Miracle and Main
at eleven p.m.
in a faded dress
A sixteen year old girl
stands alone
under the arcade
Not waiting for the bus
Not waiting for anybody
at home her
starving mother is
about to die
But she'd rather be standing
here with the eleven
p.m. crowd in the cold
on Main Street.
Suze Baron
Yo di
san kretyen
Si sete vre
Si sete vret
ala diri
ak mayi
ki ta genyen
la peyi
They say
human blood
If that were true
If that were true
my friends
how rice
and corn
would thrive
(Pou A-F.L.) (For A-F.L.)
Soley kouchan Sunlight reclines
Ti bouch ou your little mouth
K'ap pentire paints my eyes with
Syel grenn je-m flecks of sky
Fe dan-m siret siret My sweet mango tender
Nan dan-w between your teeth
Fe dan-w siret siret Your sweet mango tender
Nan dan-m between mine
Fe mwen domi I fall asleep
Nan bra-w in your arms
Fe ou domi You fall asleep
Anba-m down below me
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26 Responses to "Creole Poetry."
very moving, thank you so much for sharing…
Just beautiful Merete. Its good to remember that Haiti is strong and will always have its beauty.
i know right let pray haiti is the best i will always love haiti cause haiti take my heart
Merete, thank you for sharing these moving poems. Haiti needs appreciation and love sent to them right now as well as money. I am struck by your curiosity as a young student to sift through a library for a Creole dictionary and amazed you found one. How are actions bear fruit when we least expect it. It reminds me of the fearless cellist who insisted on playing
in Iraq in the rubble when Bagdad was being bombed. Thank you for this.
Thank You! Merci! i will be reading most of these poems tonight at a Fundraiser for Haiti here in Sault Ste Marie, Canada.
I sent you a poem i hope it was the correct e mail can you confirm e mail
Great post, thank you.
Robin Koyokka, can I use your poem in a community blog post with a full credit? The post will also contain few original images of Haiti. Should I contact you via http://www.online-literature.com about it or this will suffice?
yes, go ahead
God is our creator
His gift to us is love
As a community of hope
We can crush all doubt
To replinish all that is lost
Mother nature is always blind to purpose
There is a reason outside fault
We must unite to rebuild a nation
With the obligation to restore life
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nice article thx
Nice blog, thanks for information.
[…] For more notes on the Creole language and Haitian poetry—as well as more poems—see my recent blog for elephantjournal.com. […]
I as well am impressed by your soul and the love in it. I would like to use this in my speech class tomorrow
at my community college. Liz Charles
I discovered your web site while researching for something distinct on Yahoo and bing about topics related to movies, however I had the chance to go through this blog post and I found it extremely useful indeed.
i really like poem.!!!!
menm mapou a fini li jete fey li
nan lizye tout lot bitasyon yo
li souke ko l li pouse rasin jouk nan peyi moun soley leve yo
menm mapou jete move ze li sou nou
li fe lwa li bare rout nou
li vole te nou…
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Excellent article and thank you for the translation.
Hello Robin,
This is a beautiful piece and I was wondering if you would mind us using it at a benefit dinner we are having at my college. Ofcourse all credit would be given to you but as I have been researching this is by far the most fitting piece I have found.
please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested.
looking forward to your response.
Robin Koykka,
What a beautiful . . . mind, you have. I am quite flabbergasted to have come across this. You are a genius.
yes go ahead


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Dawn, Lorelai, Rolf, Bela, and VD3 each have their own weblog. Which would be no big deal, except that all five weblogs are written by the same person -- Margaret Penney of dream7.com. Penney's 'DiaryU' project is a personal experiment in believable doppelganging. Pseudonymity is a familiar theme in the net art canon, from Alan/Jennifer Sondheim's trans-gender explorations, to Netochka Nezvanova trans-human manifestations, to Luther Blissett's media disinformation hacks. But Penney's project is more fictive, akin in spirit to Nick Bantock's Griffin & Sabine trilogy. A fun read -- intentional typos, bad poetry, and all. - Curt Cloninger
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moreElectronics for Service Engineers is the first text designed specifically for the Level 2 NVQs in Electronics Servicing. It provides the underpinning knowledge required by brown goods and white goods students, reflecting the popularity of the EMTA white goods NVQs. It has also been written in the light of the new EEB / City & Guilds Level 2 progression award (RVQ) for brown goods and commercial electronics, dubbed 'son of 2240', and the existing 2240 part 1.
The wide ranging experience of the authors makes this a readable book with much relevance to the real-life challenges of the service engineer. From simple mathematics and circuit theory to transmission theory and aerials, from health and safety to logic gates and transducers, the complete range of knowledge required to service electronic and electrical equipment is here. This practical emphasis makes the book ideal for existing service engineers seeking to gain an NVQ.
Numerous questions and worked examples throughout the text allow readers to monitor their own progress, and provide practice for C&G tests.
Joe Cieszynski and Dave Fox have a wide mix of experience, both in the field and workshop working on TV and audio, and teaching electronic servicing and security installation at MANCAT. Joe writes regularly for Television magazine.
Taylor and Francis; September 2012
288 pages; ISBN 9781136075971
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WASHINGTON - Nearly two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities by 2030, with most people middle class, connected by technology, protected by advanced health care and linked by countries that work together, perhaps with the United States and China cooperating to lead the way.
That's the best case scenario in a report, Global Trends 2030, released Monday by the U.S. government's National Intelligence Council.
In the worst case scenarios, rising population leads to conflict over water and food, especially in the Mideast and Africa, and the instability contributes to global economic collapse.
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You ask who's the writer madly scribbling away in the pub snug sipping the lovely named English-Style Bitter Honker's Ale by Goose Island Brewery? Why that's Jennifer Stevenson and she's working on the companion piece to her brilliant Winter Solstice piece which you can read here, and better yet, hear her reading thisaway. We have net rights on this forthcoming piece so the Summer Solstice edition next year will feature both text and audio versions of this story! We will do a fresh interview with her, take a look at her fiction, and I'm sure that other goodies will be there as well!
So you also ask why we have these articles from the archives of The Sleeping Hedgehog, our in-house newsletter? It's because there are Neverending Session musicians everywhere in this week after Summer Solstice as they all had well-paying paying gigs for the past few weeksas everyone in this city celebrates that most sacred of holidays.
Yes, they are almost literally everywhere. The Robert Graves Memorial Reading Room in The Library. The Kitchen when Mrs. Ware isn't around. The Consevatory amidst the banana plants. Even on the slate roof. (Don't ask. Just think of crows gone mad.) In duos and smeall groups. All playing music randing from strictly trad Irish to some very odd interpretaions of Philip Glass and Terry Riley. Most with groups of really joyous dancers accompanying them. Worse than a murder of crows with their music and merrymaking! Now read on . . .
First Zina Lee looks at the Neverending Sssion in general
Fiddles. They're everywhere.
The fairies may very well have brought the harp and pipes to Ireland and gifted the population with them, but sometimes it seems that, if they brought the fiddle to anyone, it was to get rid of the pesky things -- they seem to proliferate with nary a thought. Or perhaps it was the elves, living up to their reputations as nasty dudes with rather cruel senses of humor.
I can say these things, seeing as how I'm a fiddler myself; it's me, Zina Lee, popping in from nowhere to say hello to the lads at the Neverending Session at the Pub at The Edge, soon to pop back out again, but hopefully not absenting myself so long this time. I've missed the session and the craic of it all.
The Pub at The Edge -- more usually known as The Green Man Pub, but that's how I first was told of the thing, so that's the way I refer to it -- is home to our motley crew of players in a session that never ends--one tune begins, ends, turns around into another, and the players change as you look up and out and in and around. But one thing remains constant almost always -- fiddlers.
When I open my eyes to find myself in the Pub's shadows, watching the session and listening to the tunes go round, sometimes playing myself, the music plan gently the same yet always different and alive, there's always fiddlers. Possibly it's because no other instrument quite embodies all the different moods of the music as does the fiddle.
Wait -- they're playing 'The Baltimore Salute', a reel I've just been learning to play from my friend Jason, a lovely, rambly, flowing tune from Josie McDermott of County Sligo. You can tell Josie is a flutist, the thing doesn't sit easily on the fiddle, but it's worth the struggle for the tune.
And this tale tells of their varicious appetite when it comes to food, particularly for a really good breakfast . . .
Oatmeal drizzled with cream, fat pork sausages sizzling with fat, eggs both simple and fancy, bread thick with butter and strawberry jam, scones with clotted cream, calves liver, bacon, lobscouse, crispbreads, tea, coffee, Turkish coffee . . . .
At some point you stop playing and decide to get a breath of fresh air; there're no windows in the Pub, you see, and, after Reynard goes to bed, the only light comes from the fireplace in winter after the candles burn down, guttering in brief spouts to smoke and dark, though he often leaves the gas lamps burning in other seasons -- he used to try letting the musos sit and play in the dark, legend has it, but supposedly a few clumsy feet tripped somehow into the bar and several bottles were broken or at least emptied, so he started leaving lights.
Orange and grapefruit and cranberry and pomegranate juices, sausage patties steaming up fragrantly like a wish to the gods, sliced melons and fruit gleaming like jewels, mushrooms and onions sizzling in butter, buns and breads studded with berries and dusted with sugar . . .
You open the door, and, hey presto, there's light. Damn. You've done it again, or perhaps rather the Neverending Session has done it for you again, you've gone and played through the night 'til the daylight, and now that you've seen the light of the sun creeping up into the sky, your body can't make up its mind if it's more tired or more hungry.
Crisp and golden potatoes, fried with onions and lots of pepper, omelettes stuffed with sour cream and spinach or asparagus or studded with bright squares of peppers, perfectly crisp toast ready to cut into soldiers to be dipped into that egg, and did I mention coffee?
Luckily, this is the Neverending Session, so this is the Green Man Building, and that means that any musician still able to stand and heigh themselves to the kitchen hall will find Mrs. Ware's staff, crisply aproned and bright-eyed at an ungodly hour, serving a body all the breakfast it can eat before that body, now happily full, decides it's had enough, and sleep becomes less of an option and more of a consequence . . .
Oatmeal drizzled with cream, fat pork sausages sizzling with fat, eggs both simple and fancy, bread thick with butter and strawberry jam, scones with clotted cream, calves liver, bacon, lobscouse, crispbreads, tea, coffee, Turkish coffee. . . .
First up is a fresh look by Gereg Jones Muller at an author second only to Neil Gaiman in terms of total GMR coverage -- Famed author Charles de Lint assembled the stories in his collection The Very Best of Charles de Lint by asking his readers on various social networking sites to name their favorite stories. In his review Gereg Jones Muller says, 'Rarely has the democratic process been applied so successfully to the field of art.' Find out why, in Gereg's Excellence in Writing Award-winning review.
Gaiman's Neverwhere is a favourite novel around the Green Man offices and it was a BBC series before it was a novel, and a grpahic novel a few years back with the definitive version released last year. Now it's a theatre pieve which Kestrell Rath saw and worried before going that it wouldn't be as good as the novel -- 'I need not have worried. There are so many good things about Neverwhere that my first thought when it was over was, 'I want to see that again.' Lifeline Theatre's motto is 'Big Stories, Up Close,' and they definitely fulfill that promise, delivering a production which not only retains all the wit and imagination of Gaiman's story, but which also vividly demonstrates the immediacy and creativity of live theatre. My only regret in seeing this show is that I don't live close enough to attend more of Lifeline's future productions.' Read her review here.
On a somewhat different note, another English institution (and yes, indeed Gaiman counts as such at this point in his career for very obvious reasons) gets reviewed as well. Chris Tuthill saw Jethro Tull at Jones Beach, and the show did not disappoint. He says that 'seeing Martin Barre and Ian Anderson together is always a treat, and that Barre's playing seems to get better as the years go by.' The full review is here.
Camille Alexa found Changes 'flippant', 'humorous', and 'action-packed', though she wasn't sure her constitution could stand up to all of the 'exploding guts'. Perhaps, unlike Camille, you have the stamina of Jim Butcher's 'hard-talking, fuego-packing wizard-gumshoe-mercenary-hero', Harry Dresden. If so, start here with her succinct review.
Donna Bird liked the Berlin Noir series so much she decided to review it 'partly to give myself reason to reflect on the whole experience of reading them, and partly to share my unabashed delight and enthusiasm.' With such passion her words, found here, are sure to delight! Donna earns herself an Excellence in Writing Award for this series review.
Donna also finds the combination of love and war 'very appealing.' Read her review of Paul Griner's The German Woman to see if it won her over this time.
Another review of a novel about Nazi Germany from Donna Bird brings us The Sleepwalkers by Paul Grossman, a murder mystery about a German Jew in the Berlin Police Department in the 1930's. She says, 'Even by the standards of this subgenre (Third Reich murder mysteries), The Sleepwalkers is a very dark tale.' Find her review here.
Because most of the stories in Cthulhu's Reign occur after what Richard Dansky calls 'the 'Discovery phase' of the great cosmic cycle of Cthulhu's return', he doesn't recommend it for those unfamiliar with Lovecraft. 'For more jaded readers...the relatively novel premise, as well as the quality of many of the stories, makes the book a worthwhile read.' To find out more about these stories, edited by long-time Lovecraftphile Darrell Schweitzer, read here.
Richard Dansky says, 'if you're looking for anything hard-bitten or mean' don't read Shirley Tallman's Scandal on Rincon Hill. 'If you're interested in the travails and triumphs of Sarah Woolson, then the book will be a fast and enjoyable read.' His review is here.
Danger Girl -- The Ultimate Collection by J. Scott Campbell and Andy Hartnell caused Denise Dutton's inner five-year-old to think 'the best marketing for this series would be a 'Got Boobies?' campaign.' Her adult self answers, 'As a woman I'm sure I should be offended / flabbergasted / spouting off some sort of Subjugation Of Women claptrap, but this series is just too beautifully drawn to be anything less than breathtaking.' Check out her Excellence in Writing Award-winning review and see if 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' with spandex' might be a good fit for you.
In her review of Dark Delicacies III -- Haunted Denise Dutton says 'straight-up horror fans could use a new anthology series.' She thinks editors Del Howison and Jeff Gelb may have hit the jackpot. Find out why here.
April Gutierrez is not thrilled with Mink's storyline in Shinjuku, however, if you are a fan of artist Yoshitaka Amano, she says, 'The oversized format gives Amano plenty of room to play, and he runs with it.' Find out all the how's and whys in her review.
David Kidney notes '. . .if I knew then what I know now . . . I wouldn't've become famous.' said Van Morrison recently in a radio interview. In his two-for-one review of Greil Marcus's When That Rough God Goes Riding and Peter Mills' Hymns to the Silence, David replies 'It's too late Mr. Morrison, the barbarians are at the gates!'
Gereg Jones Muller liked many of the essays in The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who edited by Anthony Burdge, Jessica Burke, Kristine Larsen, but he felt 'problems come up whenever anyone tries to justify the title of the anthology.' Find out why here.
He had trouble putting down Ken MacLeod's The Restoration Game, calling it 'A fast-moving cross between The Matrix, E.R. Eddison's classic fantasy A Fish Dinner In Memison, and a John le Carré thriller, The Restoration Game is a lovely puzzle-box of wheels within wheels.' His review is here.
Catching Hell put Kestrell Rath off hamburgers for the Memorial Day weekend. She says it delivers 'a solid dose of adrenaline and a couple of intense gross-out moments.' If you're looking for a summer chiller and aren't partial to burgers, Greg F. Gifune's book may be for you. Find her review here.
'The mash-up is a mélange which acquires its flavor from the motley ingredients of seemingly contrasting plots and mythos', says Kestrell Rath. Find out why she thinks Lori Handeland's Shakespeare Undead 'is more mish-mash than mash-up' here.
Joseph Thompson says Eddie Campell's Alec -- The Years Have Pants 'is simultaneously timeless in the type of voyeuristic and exhibitionistic entertainment it offers, and dated in its current medium.' The words 'voyeur' and 'exhibitionist' make us want a peek at his review -- what about you?
As evidenced by the fact that he keeps a CIA clandestine services application stashed in his files, secret agent wannabe Joseph Thompson may be a bit biased about the topic covered in Super Spy. Still, we think you can trust him when he says writer and artist Matt Kindt 'balances the mundane and the spectacular so beautifully that hanging the laundry becomes an act of defiance and a tryst with an exotic dancer in Cairo is just part of the job.' His coded review can be found here.
Joseph says Greg and Lucy Malouf's Turquoise -- A Chef's Travels in Turkey is 'not for the cowardly or timid...Their work is a cookbook for chefs by chefs as much as it is an excellent example of culinary reportage.' Whew! We hope we're tough enough for this one! Are you?
After reading Ursula K. Le Guin's Journey to Post-Feminism by Amy M. Clarke, Joseph Thompson gives himself homework -- 'Now that I've finished this review, I have a letter to write to Le Guin. A thank you note.' That must be some book! Read his review here.
In his review of The Incredible Hulk by Greg Pak, et. al, Robert M. Tilendis appreciates the complexities of the Hulk's position while 'conceding that the Hulk is an unvarnished projection fantasy for every spindly, geeky teenage loner who ever picked up a comic book.' Read about it here.
Of Oracle -- The Cure by Gail Simone, he says, 'The writers have come up with a telling and subtle characterization, something rare in superhero comics, even these days.' Find out more in his review.
Robert claims that 'Anyone who really wants to understand what's happened to science fiction (and fantasy -- there's a large measure of spillover) since about 1968 would do well to study this book'. He's talking about On Joanna Russ edited by award-winning author Farah Mendlesohn. His thorough review can be found here.
Citing the struggle the YA genre has with 'Preconceived Notions', reviewer Elizabeth Vail says Incarceron is 'Pretty heavy stuff for a 'teenager's book'. Author Catherine Fisher 'raises a lot of questions, particularly regarding the idea of a changeless utopia and the inevitable suffering that comes from repressing natural progress.' That's good stuff for anyone to chew over! Find this Excellence in Writing Award-winning review here.
Gary Whitehouse says 'Stories that go on through too many follow-ups tend to get overheated or fizzle out or just get boring.' Has this happened to Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner in their Destroyer of Worlds? See what he thinks here.
Leona Wisoker, a self confessed Roger Zelazny fan, found the audiobook version of A Night In The Lonesome October -- a 'yummy treat' and a 'wonderfully quirky story' not just because 'the plot frequently twists in unexpected directions', but also because she 'would venture a guess that any of his other self-read audio books would be as great a treat'. Read more here, in Leona's Excellence in Writing Award-winning review.


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Grey evokes a sense of sophistication and elegance and has the ability to complement every scheme, from beautifully neutral to bright and colour-popping. This curated collection has a pared-back palette and presents furniture and décor designs in deep charcoal hues and light fresh tones. Make your choice from clean-lined contemporary furniture, natural wicker accents and classic painted pieces and feel inspired by the serene shade of grey.


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Symantec EV FSA No data on Duplication tab
After importing database, which was created during scanning, i see all data on tabs except "Duplicate Files", i have chacked "Full analyses" but there still no data.
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Are you referring to the FSA reporting component? I know that EV FSA reporting has to reports for this:
Duplicate Files on a Server report
Duplicate Files Summary report
Top Duplicate Files per Volume
If that is the case, there is a setting you need to configure in order to collect duplicates from the file server:
Note: The File Collector service does not collect data for the three Duplicate Files reports by default, due to the performance demands. If you want to use these reports you must change the value of the CheckDuplicates database parameter.
I hope this helps.
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Freedom Mortgage Corp., Mount Laurel, N.J., appointed Donald Hard as the companys first vice president of business development for its retail division.
Hard, who is a former executive with PHH Mortgage, has 15 years of executive level experience in mortgage sales management.
As the retail divisions first vice president of business development, Hard is responsible for building out the companys retail sales division for New England and Florida.
He recently appointed his first key new hire, Lee Ann Dalessandro, as the companys vice president and Northeast regional sales leader.
Dalessandro has over 32 years of mortgage industry experience that includes nine years in executive and management roles.
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Six nights, thirty plays, over 180 years of publishing. Be part of history! Come see new and exciting work from some of the freshest playwrights in the country! From over 900 initial submissions, 30 plays have been selected to perform in the festival, from which 6 will be chosen for representation and published in a collection by Samuel French, Inc.