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Welcome to the next post in my Anticipated Books series for the second half of 2015. Like fantasy, there were too many historical fiction books that caught my fancy for one post, so they've been split in two. For some of these I already have an (e)ARC or review copy, so they'll definitely be read and reviewed. And for the rest, I'll have to see whether I get the chance to get my hands on them! Read More …
Anticipated Books (Winter-Spring) 2015: Historical Fiction January-March
Welcome to the next post in my Anticipated Books series for the first half of 2015. Like fantasy, there were too many historical fiction books that caught my fancy for one post, so they've been split in two. For some of these I already have an (e)ARC or review copy, so they'll definitely be read and reviewed. And for the rest, I'll have to see whether I get the chance to get my hands on them! Read More …
Anticipated Books (Summer-Fall) 2014: Historical Fiction October-December
Welcome to another post in my Anticipated Books series for the second half of 2014. This is the second half of my historical fiction list. There were just so many books that caught my fancy that I split them in two. For some of these I already have an (e)ARC or review copy, so they'll definitely be read and reviewed. And for the rest, I'll have to see whether I get the chance to get my hands on them! Read More …
Anticipated Books (Summer-Fall) 2014: Fiction & Thrillers
Welcome to the fourth post in my Anticipated Books series for the summer and fall of 2014. Today it's time for my mainstream fiction and thriller picks. For some of these I already have an (e)ARC or review copy, so they'll definitely be read and reviewed. And for the rest, I'll have to see whether I get the chance to get my hands on them! Read More …
Anticipated Books (Winter-Spring) 2014: Historical Fiction April-June
Welcome to another post in my Anticipated Books series for the first half of 2014. This is the second half of my historical fiction list. There were just so many books that caught my fancy that I split them in two. For some of these I already have an (e)ARC or review copy, so they'll definitely be read and reviewed. And for the rest, I'll have to see whether I get the chance to get my hands on them! Read More …
Anticipated Reads (Summer-Fall) 2013
After my Anticipated Books for Summer/Fall 2013 posts of the past few weeks, today I bring you the fifteen books I anticipate reading the most in the coming six months. As usual it's a list of fifteen, as there are just too many good books to choose from and I always have a hard time getting the list down to the more usual ten books. There are a lot of books I'm really anticipating reading that I excluded right off the bat, such as all the next books in series I've been reading. If I loved a book last year, you can bet that I'll want to read the next instalment. Examples of these are Lou Morgan's Blood and Feathers: Rebellion, Mark Lawrence's Emperor of Thorns, Elspeth Cooper's The Raven's Shadow, Emma Newman's All is Fair, and Chris F. Holm's The Big Reap. I've also left off any duh-factors, such as Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves, because honestly, who isn't looking forward to that one? So below in alphabetical order by author is my list, with a little explanation of why I really can't wait to read these books. Do you agree or would you have chosen differently from the lists I posted recently? Read More …
Anticipated Books (Summer-Fall) 2013: Historical Fiction July-September
Welcome to the next post in my Anticipated Books series for the second half of 2013. Like fantasy, there were too many books that caught my fancy for one post, so they've been split in two. For some of these I already have an (e)ARC or review copy, so they'll definitely be read and reviewed. And for the rest, I'll have to see whether I get the chance to get my hands on them! Read More …
Anticipated Books (Winter/Spring) 2013: Fiction
Literary fiction, modern fiction, contemporary fiction, mainstream fiction. I always struggle with what to call the books not shelved in one of the genres in the bookstore, so I decided to go with just fiction. I know it's silly because everything on my other lists is fiction as well, but hey, I have to call it something! So in today's Anticipated Books post we take a look at non-genre fiction. Don't forget to check back tomorrow for the round-up with my most Anticipated Reads!
Sophie Divry – The Library of Unrequited Love (Maclehose Press)
One morning a librarian finds a reader who was locked in overnight. She starts to talk to him, a one-way conversation that soon gathers pace as an outpouring of frustrations, observations and anguishes.
Two things shine through above all: her shy, unrequited passion for a quiet researcher named Martin, and an ardent and absolute love of books.
Ronlyn Dominique – The Mapmaker's War (Atria)
In an ancient time, in a far away land, a young woman named Aoife is allowed a rare apprenticeship to become her kingdom's mapmaker, tasked with charting the entire domain. Traveling beyond its borders, she finds a secretive people who live in peace, among great wealth. They claim to protect a mythic treasure, one connected to the creation of the world. When Aoife reports their existence to her kingdom, the community is targeted as a threat. Attempting to warn them of imminent danger, Aoife is exiled for treason and finds refuge among the very people who had been declared her enemy. With them, she begins a new life surrounded by kindness, equality, and cooperation. But within herself, Aoife has no peace. She cannot share the grief she feels for the home and children she left behind. She cannot bear the warrior scars of the man she comes to love. and when she gives birth to their gifted daughter, Aoife cannot avoid what the child forces her to confront about her past and its truth.
Michael Marshall – The Forgotten (Orion)
It should have been the greatest day of David's life. A trip to New York, wife by his side, to visit his new publisher. Finally, after years of lonely struggle it looks as though the gods of fate are on his side. But on the way back to Penn station, a chance encounter changes all of that. David bumps into a man who covertly follows him and, just before he boards the train, passes by him close enough to whisper: 'Remember me.'
When the stranger turns up in his home town, David begins to understand that this man wants something from him…something very personal that he may have no choice but to surrender.
Meanwhile, back in New York, ex-lawyer John Henderson does his girlfriend Kristina a favour and agrees to talk to Catherine Warren, an acquaintance of hers who believes she's being stalked by an ex-lover. But soon John realises that Catherine's problem is far more complex and terrifying than he could ever have imagined…
There are people out there in the shadows, watching, waiting. They are the forgotten. And they're about to turn.
Peggy Riley – Amity & Sorrow (Tinder Press)
In the wake of a suspicious fire, Amaranth gathers her children and flees from the cult where her children were born and raised. Now she is on the run with no one but her barely-teenage daughters, Amity and Sorrow, neither of whom have ever seen the outside world, to help her. After four days of driving without sleep, Amaranth crashes the car, leaving the family stranded at a gas station, unsure of what to do next. Rescue comes in the unlikely form of a downtrodden farmer, a man who offers sanctuary when the women need it most.
Patrick Ness – The Crane Wife (Canongate)
One night George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by a giant arrow. Unexpectedly moved, he helps the crane, and from the moment he watches it fly off, George's life is transformed. The next day, he meets and falls in love with the enigmatic Kumiko. It is a passion that burns hot as a volcano. But this passion comes at a terrible price.
Wise, magical, romantic and funny, The Crane Wife is hugely entertaining. A celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love and a hymn to the creative imagination, it is a completely enchanting novel.
Brian Kimberling – Snapper (Tinder Press)
"Told with precise and memorable prose in beautifully rendered, time-shifted vignettes, Snapper richly evokes the emotions of coming to adulthood. Nathan's fascination with the physical world and with living an authentic and meaningful life, his disdain for jingoistic environmentalism, and his struggle to find balance between the cloistered liberalism of college towns and the conservatism of small towns are thoughtfully explored. All this and it's funny, too. Whether it's a snapping turtle biting off a friend's finger or a borrowed dog finding a human thigh bone in a cemetery, Kimberling writes gracefully about absurdity, showing a rich feeling for the whole range of human tragicomedy. A delightful debut."
So says US publishing bible Booklist about Snapper by Brian Kimberling, a debut novel published under Headline's new literary imprint Tinder Press in May 2013. With shades of David Vann and Annie Proulx, Snapper is a coming-of-age story, loosely based on the author's teenage years as a bird watcher in backwater Indiana. The novel started as a collection of short stories, but Brian's course tutor on the Bath Spa Creative Writing Course, Tessa Hadley, saw a glimmer of something special and Snapper the novel was formed. Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana, 'the bastard son of the Midwest ', it is a book about birdwatching, being in love with the wrong woman, and about a man's relationship with the town he loves to hate.
Anton Di Sclafani – The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls (Tinder Press)
1930s America, southern high society: Part love story, part coming-of-age novel, this is the moving, raw and exquisitely vivid story of an uncommon girl navigating a treacherous road to womanhood.
Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. As Thea grapples with the truth about her role in the tragic events of 1929, she finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Yonahlossee Riding Camp, with its complex social strata ordered by money, beauty and equestrienne prowess; where young women are indoctrinated in the importance of 'female education' yet expected to be married by twenty-one; a world so rarified as to be rendered immune (at least on the surface) to the Depression looming at the periphery, all overseen by a young headmaster who has paid a high price for abandoning his own privileged roots…
Anticipated Books (Winter/Spring) 2013: Historical Fiction
Today we're doing some time travel for my Anticipated Books posts by looking at historical fiction. I rediscovered historical fiction in 2011 and 2012 only strengthened my love for the genre, so here's another list that's become a little longer. For some of these I already have an (e)ARC or review copy, so they'll definitely be read and reviewed. And for the rest, I'll have to see whether I get the chance to get my hands on them!
C.W. Gortner – The Queen's Vow (Hodder & Stoughton)
'I am Isabella, Queen of Castile…'
Isabella was the notorious warrior-queen who, along with her husband Ferdinand, transformed Spain forever. Popular belief has her as a religious fanatic persuaded into the horrific excesses of the Inquisition by her confessor, Torquemada; but C.W. Gortner paints a picture of her early life, showing us a headstrong, passionate girl who grew into the most powerful queen Spain ever knew and whose vision and imagination allowed Columbus to discover America.
Katherine Keenum – Where the Light Falls (Berkley)
At the dawning of the Belle Epoque, Paris attracts artists from everywhere, including Jeanette Palmer, daughter of a prominent Ohio family, who has left Vassar College under a cloud of scandal.
Amid the city's great bohemian neighborhoods and studios, Jeanette meets an American Civil War veteran named Edward Murer. As she begins to achieve artistic success, Jeanette's relationship with Edward begins to flourish—but he is plagued by addiction and personal demons. Just as the world opens its arms to Jeanette, she finds herself torn between pursuing a burgeoning career or following her heart.
Annabel Lyon – The Sweet Girl (Atlantic Books)
Pythias is her father's daughter, right down to her hard, slate-grey eyes. Aristotle's child should be content with a life of childbearing. But she is smart, able to match wits with a roomful of Athenian thinkers. Is she a freak or a harbinger of what women can really be?
When Aristotle finally dies, however, the orphaned sixteen-year-old Pythias quickly discovers that the world is not a place of logic, but one of superstition. To reach her full potential, Aristotle's daughter will need every ounce of wit she possesses, but she must also learn, quickly, to nurture her capacity to love.
Terence Morgan – The Shadow Prince (Macmillan)
One man's impostor is another man's king
Perkin Warbeck is an ordinary young man in fifteenth-century Tournai. The son of a port official, he loves nothing more than swimming, singing and fishing with his father. But Perkin has a secret. His real name is Richard, and he is the rightful Prince of England.
Thought to have been murdered with his brother, Edward, in the Tower of London, he was covertly taken to the continent and placed with an adoptive family under an assumed identity. But when his enemies seek him out he must flee, and embarks on a new life of derring-do, sailing the high seas with the era's greatest adventurers. But Richard cannot avoid his fate forever. He knows he must return to England, to assume the throne that is his birthright. But what for Richard is a homecoming, for the new king, Henry Tudor, is nothing less than an invasion, and 'Perkin' slowly comes to learn that the price of his goal is the blood of innocent men.
Tara Conklin – The House Girl (William Morrow)
Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. New York City, 2004. Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: she must find the "perfect plaintiff" to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves.
It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy roiling the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine's would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit—if Lina can find one. While following the runaway girl's faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: How did Lina's mother die? And why will he never speak about her?
Moving between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing, suspenseful and heartbreaking tale of art and history, love and secrets, explores what it means to repair a wrong and asks whether truth is sometimes more important than justice.
Elizabeth Gill – Miss Appleby's Academy (Quercus)
Emma Appleby's ordered and loving existence in New England comes to an abrupt and painful end with the death of her father. Emma plots her escape to the town in England where he was born. Opening an academy, she sets herself up in competition with the local school, provoking a savage response from the community. But she will not be deterred – even when her past catches up with her.
Victoria Lamb – His Dark Lady (Transworld)
Secrets, spies and murderous plots besiege Shakespeare's Muse and the court of Elizabeth I
London, 1583
When young, aspiring playwright William Shakespeare encounters Lucy Morgan, one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, his life is turned upside-down as the two fall passionately in love, He declares Lucy the inspiration for his work, but what secret is Will hising from his muse?
Meanwhile, Lucy has her own secret – and one that could destroy her world if exposed. For she bore witness to the clandestine wedding of the Queen's cousin Lettice Knollys to Robert Dudley, rumoured to be the Queen's lover. In a court where any slight against the monarch is considered treasonous, what will happen if Lucy's secret is revealed?
With England in perilous times, Queen Elizabeth's health begins to deteriorate, her throne under siege from Catholic plotters and threats of war with Spain. Faced with more than she can cope with, she longs for a confidante. But who can she turn to when those closest to her have proved untrustworthy?
Times have never been so precarious. And these two women, with polar-opposite lives, soon find that they are both in danger…
Lynn Shepherd – A Treacherous Likeness (Corsair)
This compelling follow-up to the acclaimed Tom-All-Alone's sees the return of Charles Maddox in a new literary mystery that is inspired by the Young Romantics – the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife, Mary, author of Frankenstein, and Lord Byron, famously 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know'. Beginning in London in 1850, the story takes the reader back through time and across Europe, to reveal the dark secrets and tangled lives of a dazzling but doomed generation. Drawing on rigorous research, Lynn Shepherd finds new and explosive answers to questions that even modern biographers of the Shelleys still cannot explain.
C.C. Humphreys – Shakespeare's Rebel (Orion)
London 1599, a city on the brink of revolution…
He is Queen Elizabeth's last, perhaps her greatest, love – Robert Deveraux, Earl of Essex. Champion jouster, dashing general…and the man that John Lawley, England's finest swordsman, most wishes to avoid. For John knows the other earl – the reckless melancholic – and has had to risk his life for him in battle one time too many.
All John wants is to be left alone to win back the heart of the woman he loves, be the kind of father that his son can look up to, and arrange the fight scenes for the magnificent new theatre, the Globe. To realise these dreams, John must dodge both Essex and his ruthless adversary for the queen's affections, Robert Cecil, and remain free to help his oldest friend Will Shakespeare finish the play that threatens to destroy him: THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET.
But John is doomed by his three devils: whisky, women and Mad Robbie Deveraux. Despite every effort to evade the clutches of Elizabeth and her cohorts, John is soon enmeshed in the intrigues of court and dragged into the seemingly hopeless war in Ireland, forced to play his part in a deadly game of power and politics, conspiracy and rebellion.
From the scaffold of the Globe to the one in the Tower. From ambush in Ireland to even greater menace in Whitehall, John Lawley must strive to be – or not to be – the man who might just save England.
Richard Blake – The Ghosts of Athens (Hodder & Stoughton)
It is 612 AD and Aelric &8211; senator of the Roman Empire, fresh from a bloodbath in Egypt – is forced to divert the Imperial galley to Athens.
He finds a demoralized and corrupt provincial city threatened by and an army rumoured to contain twenty million starving barbarians.
Not to mention an explosive religious dispute, an unexplained corpse, and hints of something worse than murder…
He will have to call upon all his formidable intellect and lethal ingenuity to survive his enemies inside and outside the city walls…
Iain Gale – Keane's Company (Heron Books)
James Keane, officer in the 27th Foot, card sharp, ladies' man and one of the finest but most rebellious soldiers in the British army, is under threat of court martial for disobeying Wellesley's strict rules. Buthis special, even ungentlemanly, skills have caught his general's eye, so he is selected to form a unique unit which will work behind enemy lines.
Keane's next task is to hand-pick his band of men, some from prison for their aptitude at lock-picking and forgery as well as fighting skills, and form them into an effective unit before being sent on their first intelligence-gathering special mission, this time to link up with a lethal Spanish guerrilla leader.
Stealing into Oporto, Keane's men have to hold a vital post over the river a crossing against overwhelming forces, before being detached once more into the high mountains on another mission where the strains of the diverse characters of the unit test Keane's leadership skills to the uttermost.
Tim Leach – The Last King of Lydia (Atlantic Books)
Croesus, once the richest man of the ancient world, remembers how he once asked the old philosopher, Solon, who was the happiest man alive? Croesus used to think it was him. Yet his wealth could not remove the spear from his dying son's chest; could not make him as wise as his own slave; could not bring his wife's love back; could not stop his army being torn apart, his kingdom defeated.
As the old philosopher replied, a man's happiness can only be measured when he is dead. And Croesus is about to be burned alive.
Imogen Robertson – The Paris Winter (Headline)
Paris, 1909, Grieving the loss of her father, Maud travels to Paris to paint. Slipping into poverty, she is hired as a companion to young, beautiful Sylvie. But Sylvie is a prisoner in her own home, controlled by her addiction to opium. As Maud uncovers the secrets within this world of luxury, she is both fascinated and repelled by what she finds. Will she be able to resist the temptations of Paris and the seductions of wealth?
David Thomas – Killer at the End of the Line (Quercus)
Berlin, 1941: The battered remains of a woman: the seventh victim of a serial killer who has cast a pall of terror over the city. With SS-General Heydrich demanding immediate results, detective Georg Heuser races to catch the killer before he strikes again.
Minsk, 1942: Thousands of Jews arrive in cattle trucks. Among the policemen about to commit some of the most terrible crimes is detective Georg Heuser.
Koblenz 1962: One young lawyer closes in on her prey, and wonders – just how bad can a good man become?
Eva Weaver – The Puppet Boy of Warsaw (Weidenfeld)
Mika, a Jewish boy, inherits a coat from his grandfather and discovers a puppet in one of its many secret pockets. He becomes a puppeteer in the Warsaw ghetto, but soon his talent is discovered and Mika is forced to entertain the occupying German troops instead of his countrymen. There is one soldier, Max, with a heavy conscience, and when Max is handed one of Mika's puppets, a war-torn legacy is passed from one generation to another.
Helene Wecker – The Golem and the Jinni (HarperCollins)
A marvelous and absorbing debut novel, an enchanting combination of vivid historical fiction and magical fable about two supernatural creatures in turn-of-the-century immigrant New York.
Christian Cameron – The Ill-Made Knight (Orion)
William Gold comes into the world as his family slides down the social ladder. His head filled with tales of chivalry, instead he is branded a thief, and must make do with being squire to his childhood friend Sir Robert, a knight determined to make a name for himself as a man at arms in France. While William himself slowly acquires the skills of knightly combat, he remains an outsider – until the Battle of Poitiers when Sir Robert is cut down by the greatest knight of the age, Sir Geoffry de Charny, and William, his lowly squire, revenges him. But with his own knight dead, no honour acrrues to William for this feat of arms, and he is forced to become a mercenary. Scavenging a mis-matched set of armour from the knightly corpses, he joins one of the mercenary companies now set to pillage a defenceless France, and so begins a bloody career that sees William joining forces with the infamous Sir John Hawkwood and immersing himself in a treacherous clandestine war among the Italian city states. But paradoxically it is there, among the spies, assassins and hired killers serving their ruthless masters, that William finally discovers the true meaning of chivalry – and his destiny as a knight.
Sarah Dunant – Blood and Beauty (Virago)
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and in the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood: he is a Spanish Pope in a city run by Italians. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life, women and power must use papacy and family to succeed.
His eldest son Cesare, a dazzlingly cold intelligence and an even colder soul, is his greatest – though increasingly unstable – weapon. Later immortalised in Machiavelli's The Prince, he provides the energy and the muscle. His daughter Lucrezia, beloved by both men, is the prime dynastic tool. Twelve years old when the novel opens, hers is a journey through three marriages: from childish innocence to painful experience, from pawn to political player.
Philip Kazan – Appetite (Orion)
Nino knows that having a passion is the key to surviving in Florence without losing yourself completely. But Nino's greatest gift will be his greatest curse; every flavour, every ingredient comes alive for him as vividly as a painting. His desire to create the perfect recipe and his love for Tessina soon lead him into danger, and Nino is forced to battle his deadly sins.
Giles Kristian – Brothers' Fury (Transworld)
Rebel Cast out from his home, rejected by his family, Tom Rivers returns to his regiment. But his former commander believes the young hothead's recklessness and contempt for authority has no place in his troop. And yet to a spymaster like Captain Crafte, Tom's dark and fearless nature is in itself a weapon to be turned upon the hated cavaliers. For who else would dare to infiltrate Oxford, now the Royalist capital, to destroy the King's printing press and strike a blow at the very heart of the enemy?
Renegade Raw with grief at the death of his father, Edmund Rivers rejects the peace talks between Parliament and the King. Instead, he leads a ragged but hardened band of amrauders across the moors, appearing out of the frozen world to fall on unsuspecting rebel columns like wolves. But Prince Rupert, who recognizes in Mun a fellow child of war, has other uses for him, from stealing an enormous gun, to burrowing through mud beneath the walls of Lichfield. The only peace the enemy will get from Mun Rivers is that of the grave.
Huntress Her heart broken from the loiss of her beloved Emmanuel and her father, Bess Rivers must make the hardest decision of her life. Leaving her new-born son behind she rides from Sheer House seeking Lady Mary's estranged father, for she hopes he will help her re-unite what is left of her broken family. Risking her own life on the road, Bess will do whatever it takes to find her brother Tom and secure his Royal pardon – can she douse the flames of her brothers' fury and see them reconciled?
James MacManus – Black Venus (Thomas Dunne Books)
For readers who have been drawn to The Paris Wife or Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Black Venus captures the artistic scene in the great French city decades earlier, when the likes of Dumas and Balzac argued literature in the cafes of the Left Bank. Amongst the bohemians the young Charles Baudelaire stood out—dressed impeccably thanks to an inheritance that was quickly vanishing. Still at work on the poems which he hoped would make his name, he spent his nights enjoying the alcohol, opium, and women who filled the seedy streets of the city.
One woman would catch his eye—a beautiful Haitian cabaret singer named Jeanne Duval. Their lives would remain forever intertwined thereafter, and their romance would inspire his most infamous poems—leading to the banning of his masterwork Les Fleurs du Mal and a scandalous public trial for obscenity.
Black Venus recreates the classic Parisian literary world in vivid detail, complete with not just an affecting portrait of the famous poet but also his often misunderstood, much-maligned muse.
Madeleine E. Robins – Sold for Endless Rue (Forge)
This captivating historical answers the question, "Why did Rapunzel's mother lock her in the tower?"
After a blighted childhood, young Laura finds peace and purpose in the home of a midwife and healer. Later, she enrolls in Salerno's famed medical school—the first in the world to admit women. Laura and her adoptive mother hope that Laura can build a bridge between women's herbal healing and the new science of medicine developing in thirteenth century Italy.
The hardest lessons are those of love; Laura falls hard for a fellow student who abandons her for a wealthy wife. Worse, her mother rejects her as "impure." Shattered, Laura devotes herself to her work, becoming a respected medico. But her heart is still bitter, and when she sees a chance for revenge, she grabs it—and takes for her own Bieta, the newborn daughter of a woman whose husband regularly raided the physician's garden for bitter herbs to satisfy his pregnant wife's cravings.
Determined to protect her adored daughter from the ravages of the world, Laura isolates the young woman in a tower. Bieta, as determined as her mother, escapes, and finds adventure—and love—on the streets of Salerno.
Bieta's betrayal of her mother's love comes at a terrible price as lives are ruined and families are torn apart. Laura's medical knowledge cannot heal her broken heart; only a great act of love can bring everyone forgiveness and peace.
M.J. Rose – Seduction (Atria)
In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo's beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, Hugo began participating in hundreds of of séances to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with the likes of Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus–and even the Devil himself. Hugo's transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. Or so it was believed.
Recovering from her own losses, mythologist Jac L'Etoile arrives on the Isle of Jersey–wher Hugo conducted the séances–hoping to uncover a secret about the island's Celtic roots. But the man who's invited her there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, has hopes she'll help him discover something quite different–Hugo's lost conversations with someone called the Shadow of the Sepulcher.
Robert Wilton – Traitor's Field (Corvus)
It is 1648 and Britain is at war with itself. The Royalists are defeated but Parliament is in turmoil, its power weakened by internal discord.
Royalism's last hope is Sir Mortimer Shay, a ruthless veteran of decades of intrigue who must rebuild a credible threat to Cromwell's rule, whatever the cost.
John Thurloe is a young official in Cromwell's service. Confronted by the extent of the Royalists' secret intelligence network, he will have to fight the true power reaching into every corner of society: the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey.
Elizabeth Chadwick – The Summer Queen (Sphere)
Eleanor of Aquitaine is a twelfth-century icon who has fascinated readers for 800 years. But the real Eleanor remains elusive.
This stunning novel introduces an Eleanor that all other writers have missed. Based on the most up-to-date research, it is the first novel to show Eleanor beginning her married life at 13. Barely out of childhood, this gives an entirely new slant to how Eleanor is treated by those around her. She was often the victim and her first marriage was horribly abusive.
Overflowing with scandal, passion, triumph and tragedy, Eleanor's legendary story begins when her beloved father dies in the summer of 1137, and she is made to marry the young prince Louis of France. A week after the marriage she becomes a queen and her life will change beyond recognition . . .
Laurie Graham – The Liar's Daughter (Quercus)
Nan Brunty's mother George keeps an alehouse in Deptford, named the Duchess of Brunty, the title she claims would have been hers, had Nelson survived.
Eighteenth century Admiralty Regulations forbade women living on board ship, but many found ways around this. George served on a number of ships, both as a man and unmasked. As Nan narrates her mother's history she becomes obsessed by the idea that Nelson could have been her father. She meets a young man, Baltic Nelson, who clings to the same belief. Could her mother's wild stories really be true?
Edward Rutherfurd – Paris (Hodder & Stoughton)
Edward Rutherfurd, the world's greatest writer of historical epics, turns his attention to Paris and the lives of the men and women who, in two thousand years, transformed a humble Roman trading post on the muddy banks of the Seine to the most beautiful and celebrated capital in the world.
From its founding under the Romans to the timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise and the martyrdom of Joan of Arc; from the gilded glories of the Bourbon kings to the horrors of the French Revolution; from the glittering Napoleonic empire to the Nazi occupation and the incredible efforts of the French Resistance: PARIS brings the sights, scents, and tastes of the City of Lights to sumptuous life.
Henry Venmore-Rowland – The Sword and the Throne (working title) (Transworld)
AD 69. Aulus Caecina Severus has thrown in his lot with the hedonistic Vitellius and prepares his legions for a gruelling march over the Alps.
Driven by the desire to repay the treachery of his former patron, the Emperor Galba, and to keep his rival Valens in check, Severus leads his army against barbarian rebellions and against the mountains themselves in his race to reach Italy first. With the vast Po valley almost in sight, news reaches the army that Galba has been killed in a coup, and that Otho has been declared Emperor by the Praetorians who he had bribed to murder their own emperor.
But there is no turning back for Severus, even if he wanted to. The Rhine legions want their man on the throne, and they won't stop until they reach Rome itself. Even once Otho is defeated, the battle for supremacy between Severus and Valens is far from over. The politics of the court and the mob is the new battleground, and Severus needs the help of his wife Salonina and his freedman Totavalas in this constant game of thrones. When stories spread of a new power in the east, Severus has to decide where his real loyalty lies: to his Emperor, to his city or to himself?
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It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young maid, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember—after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich serving a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the world. There she meets Rebecca, her haughty and fascinating mistress.
Intertwined with Louise's story is that of fifteen-year-old Luke, who is beaten and press ganged, sent to sea against his will on board the warship Essex in the service of His Majesty's Navy. He must learn fast and choose his friends well if he is to survive the brutal hardships of a sailor's life and its many dangers, both up high in the rigging and in the dark decks down below.


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DETROIT (AP) — Some Detroit businesses are offering discounts leading up to this weekend's annual Marche du Nain Rouge.
The tradition features masked and costumed revelers taking to Detroit's streets to banish the folkloric "nain rouge," or "red dwarf," and save the city from its woes.
This year's Marche will be held on Sunday.
It begins with a 5K run, called the Run du Nain Rouge. It's being organized by Tour de Troit.
The discounts and specials being offered this week by retailers and restaurants include 10 percent off all standard bicycle tuneups at The Hub of Detroit; "The Effigy Pizza" at Motor City Brewing Works and a discount on Detroit almanacs at Source Booksellers.

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Lady Raiders Rout Cowgirls, 76-38
Jan. 8, 2005
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - Chesley Dabbs scored 19 points and Alesha Robertson added 14 to help No. 12 Texas Tech rout Oklahoma State 76-38 on Saturday.
Texas Tech (11-2, 2-0 Big 12) built a 20-point lead in the first 12 minutes and never trailed.
The Cowgirls (5-7, 0-2) went more than 8 minutes without a field goal following the midway point of the first half. Oklahoma State shot 18 percent and had no assists to trail 37-13 at halftime.
The Cowgirls were never closer than 22 points after the break, and Tech closed the game with a 9-0 run. Brittany Dietz led Oklahoma State with nine points on 3-for-6 shooting from behind the arc.
Davis finished with 11 points for the Lady Raiders, who dominated the boards 44-23.


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I recently bought a Raleigh Pro frame + fork with a campagnolo headset. When I removed the headset locknut and then attempted to remove the fork it withdrew a few inches and then abruptly stuck. Perplexed, I tried removing it a couple more times with the same results. Finally in frustration I pulled a little harder and managed to free the fork. I found that the steerer tube is "swolen" a few centimeters below the threaded portion. I assume that the damage is due to stem overtightening. I didn't see any cracks but there are some scratches from contact with the bottom headset cup. Is this fork safe to ride or should I replace it?
Sorry, I don't have any pics at the moment since it was recently built up to get a feel for the frame. I can get pics if necessary. Thanks.


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The starting quarterback of the NFC Pro Bowl team stands barely 6 feet in stocking feet. If that. But since Drew Brees threw for a staggering 4,418 yards and 26 touchdowns in New Orleans last year, nobody talks much about his height anymore.
"If he's taller than me, it's not by much," Drew Tate says of Brees, a native Texan like himself whom he met at a camp a few years back. "Everyone wants to look at the negatives, especially with a business like that. They just want to say, 'He's not tall enough. He's not good enough.' "
Welcome to the NFL, son, where the money comes out and the kid gloves come off. Like a lot of good senior college quarterbacks last weekend, Tate wasn't drafted. He knows why. Heck, we all know why. It wasn't the nagging injuries that ruined his senior season (although that didn't help). It wasn't his fiery on-field demeanor (although that may not have helped, either).
No. Teams took a pass on the former Hawkeye signal-caller because he's about 5-foot-11 and change.
"Five-foot-11 and three-eighths, 191 pounds and runs a 4.93," Jerry Jones says. The longtime draftnik had Tate rated as the 21st-best quarterback available - just behind Akron's Luke Getsy and just ahead of Tuskegee's Kevin Huff - in the latest edition of his "Drug Store List" newsletter. "Which kind of cuts you in all directions, if you're looking at numbers. (Ohio State's) Troy Smith was 6-foot, 225 and 4.72. Faster, heavier, taller."
But not, in all cases, better. Every year, it's the same spiel: You can't invest in a short quarterback.
Every year, somebody, somewhere, proves that to be complete poppycock.
"I understand that that's just the way it is," says Tate, who reports to St. Louis next week for his first rookie mini-camp, having signed a free-agent contract with the Rams on Sunday. "Everywhere I've played, I've always had success. It doesn't matter how tall you are or how big you are."
At this point, if you're Tate, you're not looking to make a splash. You're looking to stick. In that sense, the Rams - Chicago had called to say they almost snapped him up in the seventh round - present just as good an opportunity as any. For the moment, St. Louis' backup quarterback is the oft-traveled Gus Frerotte. The incumbent No. 3, Ryan Fitzpatrick, boasts a career passer rating of 58.2.
"I think he has to go in there and just prove to himself that he can play," says Dick Olin, Tate's stepfather. "At (the NFL) level, if you're going to err, you're going to err on the side of size."
Among the top six NFL passers in 2006, half - Brees, Detroit's Jon Kitna and Green Bay's Brett Favre - were officially listed at 6-foot-2 or shorter. Among the top six in passer rating, three - Brees, Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb and Dallas' Tony Romo - were under 6-3.
Johnny Unitas was 6-1. So was Otto Graham. Fran Tarkenton was 6-0. Sonny Jurgensen was 5-11. Doug Flutie hung around for 13 NFL seasons, including eight in a row from 1998-2005, at 5-10.
"I sent him a text message on Sunday night," Tate says of Flutie, now a commentator with ABC. The two struck up something of a phone friendship late last summer, at the behest of a mutual acquaintance, former Iowa receiver Tim Dwight.
"It's easy to relate to somebody like that. He and I, we've gone through a lot of the same situations."
A lot of the same stigmas, too. Making it in the NFL isn't about the size of your shoes. It's about the size of your heart.
I didn't hate Drew Tate, but I'll be shocked if he lasts more than a season on an NFL team.
For every short QB that makes it, there are 10 others that don't.
I was hoping for a Seneca Wallace comparison - so I could've laughed so hard I'd wet myself.
Sadly, Keeler disappointed me...again.
he might be 5-10 I am 6 foot and I stood right next to him about 3 weeks ago at the Union in IC. And he definitely had a little man complex.
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Reminds me of Eric He's a Man Crouch. He did not like playing wide receiver for Rams, not a defensive back for the Packers, but only a qb for Montreal. He played well in one complete game (other than third downs) before being injured last year. Now he is a Torronto Arganaut trying to win the starting qb job. Expect Tate to also play CFL soon.
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
The difference between Drew Brees or Seneca Wallace and Drew Tate is that Drew Brees and Seneca Wallace both have TALENT!!!
Oh, yeah. Neither Brees nor Wallace melt down every time they throw a pick or have a call go against them, and it's not likely you'll see their helmets/heads rolling along the turf in their respective stadiums...
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"Success is just failure that hasn't happened yet." - life advice from Latrell Spreewell
Like a lot of good senior college quarterbacks last weekend, Tate wasn't drafted. He knows why. Heck, we all know why. It wasn't the nagging injuries that ruined his senior season (although that didn't help). It wasn't his fiery on-field demeanor (although that may not have helped, either).
Yeah, it wasn't bad on field performance or the attitude problems that didn't get him drafted, it was because he was short and slow. Please. If you can play, you'll get drafted if you're short. When you go 4-7 as a starter in your senior year and constantly rip your teammates, and post your worst stats as a starter, you don't get drafted. Weak article.
He can always hope to get the the "fill the gatorade table" job that every team needs after they see his talent at QB and know if he's a safety that he will be prone to concussions when making open field tackles.
How tall he is doesn't have anything to do with it. The fact he is a head case and sucks is why he was not drafted.
"I believe the state color for Alabama should be primer," Larry the Cable Guy.
No doubt about it, Tate will be the next Drew Brees...excuse me while I go throw up.
He could go up to Torronto and compete with Eric Crouch. Yet he is slow for CFL.
I just can't wait until the little guy is signing autographs for a dollar at the Dubuque Jiffy Lube.
Eric Crouch initally started a kids playground equipment company after the Rams debacle. Might work for Tate in Iowa City also.
Rumor has it that Tate made one of his offensive linemen hand his jock between lockers so he could use it as a hammock...
That's a stretch.
between the lockers? yes. because iowa o-linemans jocks are tiny!!!!! from all those ster... err b-12 injections but i still think tiny tate could fit
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Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Food section's recent crab taste test — well, other than the winner — was that the judges scored all four samples higher in appearance than in taste. Coincidence? Or evidence of a certain truth about jumbo lump crab: that the smooth, pearl-like beauty of the shellfish muscles prompts a gustatory anticipation that the meat doesn't always satisfy.
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Meth floods US border crossing
The U.S. government shut large methamphetamine labs during the last decade as it introduced sharp limits on chemicals used to make the drug, causing production to shift to Mexico.
The U.S. State Department said in March that the Mexican government seized 958 labs under former President Felipe Calderon from 2006 to 2012, compared with 145 under the previous administration. Mexico seized 267 labs last year, up from 227 in 2011.
As production moved to central Mexico, the Sinaloa cartel found opportunity in Tijuana in 2008 when it backed a breakaway faction of the Arellano Felix clan, named for a family that controlled the border smuggling route for two decades. Sinaloa, led by Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman, had long dominated nearby in eastern California and Arizona.
Tijuana registered 844 murders in 2008 in a turf war that horrified residents with castrated bodies hanging from bridges. After the Sinaloa cartel prevailed, the Mexican border city of more than 2 million people returned to relative calm, with 332 murders last year and almost no public displays of brutality.
Alfonzo "Achilles" Arzate and his younger brother Rene, known as "The Frog," have emerged as top Sinaloa operatives in Tijuana - the former known as the brains and the latter as the brawn. The elder Arzate has been mentioned on wire intercepts for drug deals as far as Chicago, Hill said.
He appears to have gained favor with the Sinaloa cartel brass after another cartel operative raided one of his warehouses in October 2010, leading to a shootout and the government seizing 134 tons of marijuana.
Methamphetamine has also turned into a scourge throughout Tijuana, becoming the most common drug offense for dealers and consumers in the last five years, said Miguel Angel Guerrero, coordinator of the Baja California state attorney general's organized crime unit.
"It has increased a lot in the city because it's cheaper than cocaine, even cheaper than marijuana," he said.
Disputes among street dealers lead to spurts of violence in Tijuana, said Guerrero, including April's murder tally of 56 bodies. But the killings pale in numbers and brutality compared to the dark days of 2008 and 2009. While president, Calderon hailed Tijuana as a success story in his war on cartels.
"The Sinaloa cartel, their presence here has been strong enough to the point that no one is pushing back," said the DEA's Hill. "They just simply want to focus on making money and moving the dope across."
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Cool! Thanks for de-lurking and can't wait to see the results of your maps!
I've been here for quite some time as a lurker (bad me!). I've always been fascinated by the quality this community turns out, and feeling rather bad about my own (rather limited!) abilities. However, since I recently started playing in a fantasy game I decided to give it a try nonetheless, and downloaded a few tutorials for use. I hope to learn a lot, and thanks for being so welcoming!
Cool! Thanks for de-lurking and can't wait to see the results of your maps!
Welcome indeed.
And for just the reasons you mentioned, I joined the guild as well. I've been so impressed by some of the work I've seen here and there are quite a few that still amaze me. I can almost promise you that you will learn something from the tutorials. In the few brief months that I've been here, I've learned tons of stuff and feel as though my approach and skill-levels are taking steps forward on a nearly daily basis. Hopefully you'll experience the same.
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Freshman pitcher James Kaprielian answered a few rapid-fire questions for uclabruins.com during UCLA's stay in Omaha, Neb., during the College World Series. The Bruins return to action on Friday, June 21, at 7 pm CT/5 pm PT.
Favorite baseball team
New York Yankees
Favorite baseball player
Robinson Cano
Best baseball player ever
Jackie Robinson
Favorite baseball movie
The Sandlot
Favorite character from The Sandlot
Favorite type of cookie
Chocolate chip
Favorite ice cream
Butterscotch Oreo
Favorite song
"Safe and Sound" by Capital Cities
Favorite ballpark
Yankee Stadium
Which ballpark do you want to visit the most?
Fenway Park
Best food to eat at a ballpark?
Hot Dog. Always.
What do put on your hot dog?
Ketchup, mustard and relish


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Medge Consulting's new offices in Stockholm, designed by DAPstockholm, are a tightly edited combination of serious and fun, traditional and modern.
The offices are located on Stockholm's luxury power-shopping boulevard, Birger Jarlsgatan, in the two loft floors of building number 9 where the street-level occupants include Agent Provocateur.
Medge is a consultancy in sports rights management, TV distribution and media operations, so it is appropriate that their 180 square-meter (1937.5 sq.ft.) digs are testosterone-induced. Dark half-paneling with its English Gentlemen's Club vibe gives a nod to the company's other office in London and draws the line between traditional (below) and modern (above).
A hideously ugly reddish upholstered couch/sofa in a corner seating area, and the heavy iron bars and wood beams in the ceiling give off a sense of a confidence and strength. We love the use of white paint in the uppermost areas as it contrasts powerfully with the black, and opens up the space to the skylights. Tuija Seipell.
We have written about a Nike store display by the Finland-born, Amsterdam-based illustrator Kustaa Saksi before, but this time, it is his fantastical paper display at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair that drew our attention.
Saksi and Swedish architect Gert Wingårdh created the breathtaking display for the Fair's third annual combined exhibition and talk show area called Hello!
The project is an initiative by the Fair to inspire and start a conversation about contemporary and future workplaces. This year's theme was Communication.
Saksi created the intricate and delicate display from 1120 stacks of A4-size paper (total of 700,000 sheets of paper) suspended from 44,000 points in the ceiling. Ceiling frescoes, church domes, altars – these were all part of the inspiration for Saksi and Wingårdh who concluded that paper is still them most commonly used means of communication and therefor the perfect material for the display.
The Finnish forestry and paper giant Stora Enso donated the paper for the space that also hosts uses seminars and panel discussions. Tuija Seipell
Photos by Tord-Rikard Söderström
Not that anyone really needs a watch to check the time. We all carry more than enough devices that inform us of the time, or more commonly, the lack thereof.
Maybe that is why there is a nice retro feel in the whole idea of wearing a watch. I dare you to rush me! Let me just check the time on my watch and see if I care to rush!
We are certainly fans of cool time pieces here at TCH, so when we were introduced to the Melbourne-based AÃRK Collective our interest was immediate.
We love the minimalist, serious craftsmanship of not just the watches and every detail inside and out, but also the packaging.
The attention to every detail honours the craftsmanship, the timeless craftsmanship, of the entire experience. These are not jewellery or pretentiously magnanimous investment pieces for sheer show-off.
These are practical yet beautiful. Form and function. Minimalist and cool. Just what we love. We've ordered our Yolk Yellow watches. Now, if only time would fly a little faster…Tuija Seipell
Rope, wood and 39 foam board flowers decorated with fashion patterns. These were the elements of a display of Spanish children's shoe brands at the 76th annual children's fashion fair, FIMI (Feria Internacional de Moda Infantil) in Valencia, Spain, at the end of January.
Valencia-based design studio Masquespacio with designer Ana Milena Hernández Palacios at the helm of the project, was charged with creating a stand-out exhibit for the shoes amid the colourful children's fashion exhibitors. They needed to achieve the results by using either materials already in the Fair's warehouse or materials that could be manufactured at a low cost internally.
Foamboard and vinyl became the key elements for the two-sided flowers, clouds and circles, hand-cut by the fair's sign makers. When suspended from the ceiling with nylon line, the pastel-hued mobile twirled lightly in the space.
The trees at either end were part of an earlier exhibition, but reused for this stand as a place to hang the information of each of the 39 participating brands.
We like the overall effect of juicy warmth and crafty playfulness achieved with very few elements yet expressing an idyllic child's world effortlessly. The shoes appear as if they were an afterthought, which makes the display even more appealing, considering that the fair's visitors were seasoned children's fashion experts who were perfectly capable of zeroing in on the shoes without the display pushing them in their faces. Tuija Seipell
Exposition: David Rodríguez from Cualiti
Viennese mums and dads have yet another option to spoil their offspring: Bambini in central Vienna at Tuchlauben 7.
The interior of the 360 square-meter (3875 sq.ft) multi-level emporium of children's high-end fashion was entirely custom-designed by the 12-year-old Viennese firm, Architektur Denis Kosutic, for the Vienna-based MB Fashion GmbH.
Carrying such brands as Armani Junior, Fendi, Gucci, La Perla, Roberto Cavalli, Versace Young and Missoni, this is MB Fashion's first shop of the Bambini concept.
Kosutic and collaborators Mareike Kuchenbecker and Carina Haberl took a Wizard-of-Oz/Alice-in-Wonderland/Jules Verne approach yet cooled the usual colour riot of kiddie stores down into a junior film noir environment
Everything from wall and floor treatments to furnishings and display elements was created specifically for this store.
With smoky grey as the main hue, the space is both imaginatively fun and slightly scary – and we all know that most kids love to be scared, if they feel safe.
There are surprises and details that don't quite match, which makes the space interesting and fun, yet keeps the tone down at a tolerable level.
The custom-created surreal flowers-and-lollipops pattern appears in various places and at different scales throughout the store. Cage-like pillars made of copper tubing create the central merchandise displays and evoke a feeling of retro-futuristic submarine vehicles.
Velvet draping, soft floorcoverings and smooth surfaces on some furnishings add a softness to temper the hard and shiny metallic components.
Also custom-designed are the friezes of mushrooms, lollipops and pears, and seating shaped like bananas, strawberries, lemons and plums.
The designers aimed for a space that would "allow adults to be kids and kids to be adults." We think they have succeeded. - Tuija Seipell.
Photographer: Lea Titz
Should anyone need an excuse to travel to Naples, we can offer the perfect one: Go there to explore Metro Napoli's Art Stations. (That's subway or tube stations for the rest of us.) The Art Stations program has been going on for some time with artists, designers and architects, including, Alessandro Mendini, Anish Kapoor, Gae Aulenti Jannis Kounellis, Karim Rashid, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Sol LeWitt contributing.
What drew our attention is the 13th Art Station of the Naples Metro system, the Toledo Metro Station, that opened finally after many delays in September 2012, during the European Week of Sustainable Mobility. It was designed by the Spanish firm of architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca.
The station is on Via Toledo (Via Roma), one of the main shopping streets in Naples. A second entrance to the Toledo Station will open in February 2013 in the Spanish Quarter, Quartieri Spagnoli. Oscar Blanca also designed the public squares above the two metro entrances.
The Toledo station is one of the deepest in the line at 50 meters, and it is themed around water and light. The art of the station, curated by art critic and former Venice Biennale director, Achille Bonito Oliva, includes two mosaics by the South African artist, William Kentridge, as well as Light Panels Robert Wilson and works by Francesco Clemente, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Shirin Nehsat and Oliviero Toscani.
We especially love the deep, blue, sparkling crater that connects the ground level with the great lobby 38 meters below. No wonder that The Daily Telegraph included the Toledo Station on its Europe's Most Impressive Underground Railway Stations list. - Tuija Seipell
See also: Metro Station Drassanes, Barcelona
This funky pharmacy with its unconventional exterior and startling interior volume is not something you'd expect to stroll into in a small, ancient town in north-central Portugal.
Yet the 50,000 or so inhabitants of Vila Real (=Royal Town) who can trace their town's history back to the paleolithic era, were quite used to an imposing pharmacy building on this site.
But when the private owner of Farmácia Lordelo - which had already operated nearly quarter-century on this site - decided to rebuild, she did not go for timid.
Instead, the architecture and interior design by JOSÉ CARLOS CRUZ – ARQUITECTO went all the way to a super-modern, taking advantage of the fact that the area does not have strict building style restrictions. The building certainly stands out in this residential neighborhood located slightly off the city centre.
Many of us are used to the type of "drug store" where the actual pharmacy part is squeezed into a back corner somewhere and given as little space as possible – as it is not the part generating the profit - while the rest of the store space is taken up by everything from diapers and toilet paper to books and food, and with the tacky packaging and POS material that goes with that. A pharmacy this clean and beautiful is a rarity, indeed.
Farmácia Lordelo is not only a compounding pharmacy but also a laboratory, which is one of the reasons the designers toned everything down and kept the interior airy, white and logo-less. How wonderfully refreshing! And yes, it does look a bit sterile and clinical as well, but that was the intention.
The oval-shaped space is 522 square meters in size (5618 sq.ft.) and the various functions are divided into two levels with the retail floor on ground level..
We also love the cool aluminum coated and perforated exterior where the only opening is the main entrance to the retail floor. The enormous cross logo and the external lighting changes creating an animated and lively contrast to the monochrome interior. - Tuija Seipell
Images by Fernando Guerra, FG+SG Fotografia de Architectura
Yes, yes! We LOVE the cool, clean, minimalist interior (no news here to our readers) of the brand-new 100 square-meter retail store, the HITGallery, opened at the end of September in the Times Square shopping center in Hong Kong.
The elegantly retro store, designed by the talented Milan-based architect and designer, Fabio Novembre, is the first iteration of a new global multi-brand retail concept of the Pettoranello-based fashion house, Ittierre S.p.A. Ittierre holds the licenses, manufacturers and markets several brands, including Aquascutum, C'n'C Costume National, Galliano, GF Ferré, Fiorucci, Karl Lagerfeld Paris, Pierre Balmain and Tommy Hilfiger Collection. The latest brand to sign with Ittierre is Jean Paul Gaultier, with his men's collection launching in Fall/Winter 2013-14.
The HITGallery boutiques, slated to open around the globe, feature\s several, if not all, of the lines Ittiere represents. The next store in line will be the Milan flagship but in the meanwhile, Ittierre has just opened a 1,000-square-meter temporary store, IT'S 30 MANZONI, at Palazzo Scotti Gallarati in Milan's luxury neighborhood.
In a media release, Fabio Novembre is quoted as saying that The HITGallery stores capture the essence and spirit of Italy by, for example, taking inspiration from the surreal atmospheres of the artist Giorgio De Chirico.
He continues: "Upon entering the concept store in Hong Kong, people will promptly notice the strong Italian imprint of the architectural design's classical matrix: symmetrical structure, row of arches, one dominant hue offset by two-tone flooring. The color defining the walls – a neutral shade bordering between green and sky or cerulean blue – defies classification, so becoming the ideal backdrop for all the brands sold in the store."
We love the uncluttered feel, the delicious Casamania Her chair (also by Novembre) and the complete lack of brand-clutter, especially signs and logos. The latter, of course, will pose the most massive of all retail challenges that trumps all design and merchandising feats: The need to provide relevant and sincerely customer-centric service. Don't even get us started on THAT topic! - Tuija Seipell
Photography by Dennis Lo
The ultimate lifestyle shopping experience has arrived to Australia's most iconic beach: The Cool House by The Cool Hunter. After the huge success of The Cool House in Melbourne last week (4,500 people attended over four days), Sydney's Bondi Beach welcomes the ultimate pop-up boutique.
For 10 days only, The Cool Hunter lifestyle is available in the real world - detailed throughout The Lighthouse, Pacific Bondi Beach's f finest penthouse.
As you'd expect from The Cool Hunter, it is all wall-to-wall style, progressive design and understated luxury – and it is all available for purchase; every single items is for sale, as is The Lighthouse itself
Styled by Steve Cordony from Belle Magazine.
There are three kitchen displays with the latest designer kitchen accessories to purchase.
Everything is available to buy, including The Lighthouse.
Flowers by Poho Florist in Potts Point.
Balcony Design by Garden Life
Balcony Design by Garden Life
Large mobile artwork chandelier by Sydney-based paper artist Benja Harvey
Images by Felix Forest represented by DLM
The Cool House Sydney
Friday 7 Dec - Sunday 16 Dec
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Pacific Bondi Beach
6th Floor of the Swiss Grand Hotel
(Enter through Swiss Grand Hotel foyer - take lift to level 5 and follow signs once you see surfboard with Pacific signage)
180 Campbell Parade
Bondi Beach
The 12-year-old Clube Disco night club in São Paulo was reborn this fall. It now carries its past proudly yet offers a completely upgraded experience.
Brazilian architect Guto Requena worked with architect Mauricio Arruda on this project. We like the retro custom-designed furniture that gives a nod to the 1970s Brazilian style and mixes nicely with the black-leather, exposed-pipes underground disco feel. And we like the tunnel that was re-envisioned by Brazilian artist Kleber Matheus.
The lighting of the dance floor consists of 250 linear meters of metallic rails with LED tape that run as a frame along the perimeter of the space. This allows for an endless variety of lighting programs and color mixes to create and accentuate different effects based on the music. The entire system is controlled by the MADRIX software. - Tuija Seipell


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Erin "Gigglechick" Bennett hails from the Jersey Shore (sans fake tan or perfectly sculpted abs). She has been a proud MINI owner since May 7th, 2005 – when she became the happy motoring mama of "Phooka" (pronounced POOH-kuh) her BRG MINI Cooper Convertible.
Erin is a web designer for comedians – and has designed sites for performers Dave Attell, Maria Bamford, Whitney Cummings, Tom Papa, Jim Gaffigan just to name a few. She has also been known throughout the blogging community as "Gigglechick" since creating her site Gigglechick.com in 1999.
As an artist with an Industrial Design degree, she has always been drawn to vehicles whose designs give you an opportunity to "have a chat" with someone. Her first car was a 1971 VW Convertible that broke down after driving it a mile – every time. Next, she drove a 1975 U.S. Postal Jeep that had the steering console on the right and had painted it with some funky colors (not to mention the A/C was an oscillating fan and the passenger seat was a beach chair with a bungee cord). The quirkiness of the MINI was just the next logical step. The number of people who stopped to talk about the two previously mentioned cars pales in comparison to the folks who've yammered at Erin when she's just hightailing around in "Phooka." She would like to think that they stop to chat because they think she's super-attractive… alas, it's the car.
When not motoring, Gigglechick spends her days in New Jersey designing sites for funny people and hanging out with her rescued Jack Russell, Misty (who also goes by the name Gigglepup).
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Max Payne 3, Rockstar Games
Max Payne 3, Rockstar Games
Jul 3 2009, 06:30 PM
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I haven't seen anything about this really, but i was randomly on the rockstar games website and noticed it was being released in winter 2009. I loved the first Max Payne alot when it was first released, but i wasn't as impressed with number 2. This one looks really differnt though, and i'm not sure if i should be impressed with it, or have they changed it too much?!
Will R* do with this, what they seem to be doing to every game recently, and making them GTA sandbox clones...?
So, what is you veiw on this game from what you see here?
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I enjoyed MP and MP2. Storyline in MP2 was suspect, but the game play was a lot better. This doesn't look promising. I mean, he doesn't even look like Max Payne any more.
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@Dork Vader
"Ok over the past 10 years buttons win ratio is below 6%
whilst hamiltons is at 40%+
Few things -
1. Button's win ratio is 6.57%
2. Hamilton's win ratio is over 40%? Really? So seeing as he has started 110 races that means he has won over 44 races. Really? Who knew. I thought he'd only won 21 races, giving him a win ratio of 19%, but hey, that's just me and what do I know. Obviously maths is your strong point, not mine.


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Animated Film Series: Howl's Moving Castle
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
Turned into an old woman by a witch's curse, young Sophie leaves town and falls in with the crew surrounding Howl, a charismatic wizard. Sophie's efforts to lift her curse are sidelined when a war breaks out and Howl turns conscientious objector, causing him and his friends to be hunted down by the King's henchmen. Will Howl escape with his life? Will Sophie regain her youth? And will their budding love survive the shadow of war and death?
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I have a Dell PowerEdge 830 Server running Windows SB Server 2003. It has 4gbs of RAM and a ATA CERC SATA 6CH controller with 3 160gb drives in a Raid 5 configuration.
The Problem
I am seeing Admin ---"Disk Activity Alert on Server" emails These often occur when disk backups, de-frag or high disk usage is going on. Generally the server isn't over stressed.
The Disk Alert emails say in part ... The following disk has low idle time, which may cause slow response time when reading or writing files to the disk. Disk: 0 C: F: D: Review the Disk Transfers/sec and % Idle Time counters for the PhysicalDisk performance object. If the Disk Transfers/sec counter is consistently below 150 while the % Idle Time counter remains very low (close to 0), there may be a problem with the disk driver or hardware.
The Questions I have:
With what utility can I review the Disk Transfers/sec and Idle Time? It appears there is no utility for that on the server!
I think I may need to download a very large (two DVD) Dell "OpenManage" utility to be able to monitor the raid system and see what is a problem is that true?


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Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes RevisitedTen Speed Press, 2008 288p.
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"It's easy to imagine Arthur Schwartz, award winning food writer and master maven of New York City dining, atop a Manhattan skyscraper singing "Tradition" in his most Tevya-like style. ... instead, he wrote an affectionate, wonderfully informed ode, liberally salted with stories, to your Eastern European food that came here with the "huddled masses" of Jewish immigrants." - Sybil Pratt, www.bookpage.com
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Police Found Illegal Drugs, Codeine in Justin Bieber Egg Raid — Report
Justin Bieber's pal, Lil Za, may have faced the bulk of the legal troubles following Justin's egg-tossing house raid that took place last week, but if what the police found in Justin's mansion is any indication, the "As Long As You Love Me" singer could be dealing with a serious drug addiction.
According to what sources involved with the raid have told TMZ, police not only found 2 large cookie jars filled with pot, but also all the ingredients for what we're told is Justin's drug of choice: sizzurp. Pineapple Fanta bottles were found discolored from the codeine — and speaking of codeine, they also found 4-5 empty bottles of it strewn around the house. Yikes!
And if that's not enough, TMZ was also told that Justin's got a "dedicated smoking room in the house, complete with hookah pipes" — and that when the police showed up, some of Justin's friends flushed more drugs down the toilet. Oh, Justin.
Although police weren't even looking for drugs during their raid, it seems that's what they found, and we're hoping this could be a wake-up call for Justin to straighten up and fly right. We weep thinking of the days when Justin was just a floppy-haired Canadian kid trying to make it on the scene with his adorable songs about pre-teen love. Come back to us, Justin!
TMZ has already reported that those close to Justin have already urged him to enter rehab for his alleged drug abuse — will we see Justin get help before it's too late?
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The preliminary double-elimination stages have completed at the 2012 China Open, where the top international stars of pool are fighting for a chance at this prestigious title. In the men's division, thirty-two players have moved on to the single elimination bracket, while sixteen in the women's event are lined up to have a chance at glory.
Among some of the major notable names to make it to the final stage are 2012 World 8-Ball Champion Chang Jun Lin (Taipei), defending China Open Champion Chris Melling & former World 8-Ball Champion Daryl Peach (Great Britain), former world champions Ralf Souquet & Thorsten Hohmann (Germany), and former World 9-Ball Champion Yukio Akagariyama (Japan). The North American contingent now has three players moving on; Alex Pagulayan & Jason Klatt of Canada and Oscar Dominguez of the U.S.
One of the big stories of the final elimination rounds in the Women's Division came in the form of China's Wu Jing making a big move for her first win over World Champion Liu Shasha, allowing Wu to move on while Liu exited the event. Read more of the details in the story below by WPA press officer Ted Lerner, along with links to the tournament brackets, live scoring, and live streaming.
By Ted Lerner/WPA Press Officer
Photo Courtesy Tai Chengzhe/Top147.com
(Shanghai, China)–Yes, perseverance does indeed pay off.
Wu Jing, the 12th ranked female player in China, had played 2009 World 9-ball Champion Liu Shasha on numerous occasions and never tasted victory against her famous compatriot. But tonight on the TV table inside the Shanhai Pudong Yuanshen Stadium, the very unheralded Wu finally pulled it off. And what a time to do it.
In a do or die match to see who would advance to the final 16 knockout stage and who would go home, the diminutive Wu played lights out pool and thoroughly outplayed Liu, winning the match going away 7-2 and qualifying for the big stage of the 2012 China Open.
The win was clearly one of the biggest of Wu's career. The best the 24-year-old from Fujian province had previously done was the final 16 in this year's World 9-ball, and the quarters at last year's Philippine Open. But it was the opponent and the circumstances that had her beaming from ear to ear afterward.
"I've played Liu Shasha many times in the past and I always lose," Wu said after her win. "This time I just said relax, believe in myself and I have a good chance to win. I'm very happy right now."
The final 16 of the women's event begins Saturday with matches race to 9, alternate break. The total prize fund for the ladies is $125,600 with $30,000 going to the winner.
Most of the big names in women's pool made it through–Kelly Fisher, Allison Fisher, Ga Young Kim, Fu Xiaofang, Pan Xiaoting, Chen Siming–and this promises plenty of interesting showdowns right from the get go.
Besides Liu Shasha, however, one other female star will not be making an appearance. Austria's Jasmin Ouschan has an absolutely miserable day on Friday, dropping two matches and uncharacteristically missing the cut.
The men's field has been trimmed from 64 to 32 and several of the late comers were breathing huge sighs of relief. The Philippines Dennis Orcollo found himself down 6-1 to China's Wang Ming in the race to 9 alternate break match. Orcollo then went to work and climbed back, finally tying the match at 8. Orcollo had to deftly work his way through a tense last rack to take the match and a spot in the round of 32.
"He played good in the beginning," Orcollo said. "He's a really good player. Every match is tough. There's a lot of young guys coming up every day. I just have to keep going every day. I know how to survive."
In another do or die match Taiwan's Chen Ying Chieh came back against Japan's Naoyuki Oi to win 9-7. The USA's Oscar Dominguez bounced back from a bitter 9-8 defeat to China's Han Haoxing earlier and cruised past the Netherlands Huidji See, 9-5. Dominguez is now the sole American bet in the last 32.
The matches in the men's field now become race to 11, alternate break. The prize fund for the men is $176,500 with $40,000 going to the winner.
The field will be whittle down to four players in each event after tomorrows play, with the semi finals and finals being played on Sunday. Both the semi-finals and finals will be shown on Chinese state TV, CCTV, and are expected to draw an audience in the tens of millions.
The WPA will be providing live scoring of all matches in the 2012 China Open up to the final on our website, www.wpapool.com. There you can also get updated brackets and daily articles.
For complete tournament brackets please visit the following links.
MEN: http://www.top147.com/news/2012shpool/man_draw.php
WOMEN: http://www.top147.com/news/2012shpool/woman_draw.php
Live real-time scoring can be found here: http://cms.top147.com/index/wl.php?cid=20
View live streamed feature matches of the event here: http://www.5xtiyu.com/pindao/wuxingtiyu.html
*The World Pool and Billiard Association (WPA) is the governing body of the sport of pocket billiards.The 2012 China Open is being sponsored by Star Tables, Andy Cloth, Fury, Holiday Inn Shanghai Pudong.
Results Women 1st Evening Session
Group A
Gao Meng (CHN) 7 – 6 Fu Xiao Fang (CHN)
Wu Zhu Ting (TPE) 7 – 3 Rubelin Amit (PHL)
Group B
Cha Yu Ram (KOR) 7 – 4 Jung Bo Ra (KOR)
Wu Jing (CHN) 7 – 3 Xiao Tong Wang (CHN)
Group C
Chen Xue (CHN) 7 – 6 Liu Sha Sha (CHN)
Group D
Kim Ga Young (KOR) 7 – 3 Bi Zhu Qing (CHN)
Chan Ya-Ting (TPE) 7 – 6 Park Eun Ji (KOR)
Group E
Lin Yuan Chun (TPE) 7 – 5 Kelly Fisher (GBR)
Cong Jing (CHN) 7 – 4 Han Fang (CHN)
Group F
Allison Fisher(GBR) 7 6 Chou Chieh Yu(TPE)
Lai Hui Shan(TPE) 7 – 5 Liu Shin Mei(TPE)
Group G
Han Yu (CHN) 7 – 5 Jasmin Ouschan (AUT)
Zhou Doudou (CHN) 7 – 3 Chchiro Kawahara (JPN)
Group H
Pan Xiaoting (CHN) 7 – 4 Chen Siming (CHN)
Caroline Roos (SWE) 7 – 3 Chai Zeet Huey (SIN)
Women's Results 2nd Evening Session(Winners qualify for last 16. Losers are out.)
Group A
Fu Xiaofang (CHN) 7 – 4 Wu Tzi Ting (TPE)
Group B
Bae Ge (CHN) 7 – 4 Jung Bo Ra (KOR)
Group C
Wu Jing (CHN) 7 – 2 Liu Shasha (CHN)
Bi Zhuqing (CHN) 7 – 3 Chan Ya Ting (TPE)
Group E
Kelly Fisher (GBR) 7 – 3 Cong Jing (CHN)
Group F
Chou Chieh Yu (TPE) Lai Hui Shan (TPE)
Group G
Zhou Doudou (CHN) 7 – 4 Jasmin Ouschan (AUT)
Group H
Chen Siming (CHN) Caroline Roos (SWE)
Men's Results Evening Sessions (Winners qualify. Losers are out.)
Group E
Ko Pin Yi (TPE) 9 – 6 Carlo Biado (PHL)
Alex Pagulayan (CAN) 9 – 6 Hsu Kai-Lun (CAN)
Group F
Dennis Orcollo (PHL) 9 – 8 Wang Ming (CHN)
Li Hewen (CHN) 9 – 6 Andreas Gerwen (SWE)
Group G
Marcus Chamat (SWE) Fu Che We i(TPE)
Chen Ying Chieh (TPE) Naoyuki Oi (JPN)
Group H
Karl Boyes (GBR)9 – 1 Al Fawal, Abdulatif (QAT)
Huidji See (NED) Oscar Dominguez (USA)


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Also note that Q3 has not yet officially started. It's still June, end of Q2.
Also note that Q3 has not yet officially started. It's still June, end of Q2.
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Since my client has a blackberry and zimbra mailserver - outlook 2007 with ZCO 6.0.7 connector environment, and he is getting intellisync errors while trying to synchronize his BB, we got the idea of trying to install a BESx 5.0 and try to synchronise through this way.
This is my status:
- I installed Outlook 2007 and the ZCO 6.0.6 on the server
- I made 2 profiles (BlackBerryServer and BlackBerryManager) wich made me able to pass that option to make them.
- I got to the installation and reboot
- Entering my CAL key, SRP host and SRP authentication information wich verify succesfully, when pressing next, i get the option of selecting an Adress Book, where i choose for the GAL adress list.
When i next press Close, i receive:
- 1st: The (BlackBerryServer) profile is invalid due to missing or invalid property tags. Ensure the specified profile information is valid and unique.
- 2nd: The MAPI subsystem cannot be correctly initialized and used. Please make sure MAPI is installed and configured properly.
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- Type: Application Extension
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- Product version: 6.0.6000.16386
- Date modified: 2/11/2006 11:46
I'm working on Windows Vista machine, Zimbra Collaboration Server v. 6.0.6 and ZCO 6.0.6
Thanks for help in advance!
I don't think BES will work yet with Zimbra. For our Blackberry users (only a dozen or so, most have moved to iPhones/Android devices) we use Notify Corp's hosted service for synchronizing Blackberries (mail, contacts, calendars) over the air to Zimbra. Its worked well for us.
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Zimbra BB Connector 6.0.7 was recently released that simplifies things and removes the requirement for having Outlook running (still needs to be installed).
Requires upgrading to Zimbra 6.0.7 as well.
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Sinus Tachycardia
Sinus Tachycardia
Sinus tachycardia is a heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute. The electrical impulses that cause the heart to beat come from the normal "pacemaker" of the heart.
What is going on in the body?
This condition is a fast heartbeat that follows a normal pattern, as opposed to a "true" or "primary"
arrhythmia, in which the beat is abnormal..Sinus tachycardia is generally a normal response to demands on the heart. The heart beats regularly in this condition, but faster than normal. This condition generally starts and stops gradually, such as at the beginning and end of exercise.
What are the causes and risks of the disease?
There are many possible causes of this condition, including:
- exercise
- anxiety
- emotional stress
- dehydration
- pain
- anemia, or a low blood count
- heart failure
- a high level of thyroid hormone in the body
- low oxygen levels
What can be done to prevent the disease?
This condition can be prevented only if the underlying cause can be prevented. For example, avoiding exercise or dehydration can prevent some cases. It is important to remember that this condition is not necessarily bad and is a normal response to certain situations.
How is the disease diagnosed?
Affected people or a healthcare provider can check their pulse and notice that it is greater than 100. An
electrocardiogram (ECG) will show a pattern of normal heartbeats that are faster than 100 beats per minute.
Long Term Effects
What are the long-term effects of the disease?
This condition itself usually has no long-term effects. In some settings, a fast heartbeat may cause chest pain or a
heart attack. Some people get chest pain every time they exert themselves and the heart starts to beat faster. This is known as angina. This usually only occurs when someone has clogged arteries in his or her heart.
Other Risks
What are the risks to others?
This condition is not contagious and poses no risk to others.
What are the treatments for the disease?
Treatment may be directed at the underlying cause of this condition. For example, people may need:
- fluids if they are dehydrated
acetaminophenfor a fever
- antibiotics for an infection
- extra oxygen if they have low oxygen
- blood transfusions or
iron pillsfor low blood counts
- medications to treat a high thyroid hormone level
Generally treatment is only needed for the underlying condition and not for the tachycardia itself. In fact, exercise that raises the heart rate above normal is advised for all healthy people at least three times a week
Side Effects
What are the side effects of the treatments?
This depends on the treatments used. All medications have possible side effects. These may include allergic reactions, stomach upset, and other side effects. Specific side effects depend on the drugs used. Blood transfusions may cause allergic reactions or infections.
After Treatment
What happens after treatment for the disease?
If needed, the heart rate can be monitored until it returns to normal. Once the underlying cause of this condition is treated, people are free to return to normal activities.
How is the disease monitored?
A healthcare provider should investigate unexplained, repeated, and frequent episodes of fast heartbeats. In many cases, monitoring is only done for the underlying condition, not the fast heart rate itself.


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Sales reps aren't influencing physician prescribing habits as much as some might think, but doctors have no problem passing along information to alleviate patients' financial burdens. That's according to unrelated surveys, conducted by PhRMA and AstraZenca, respectively.
The biggest take from the PhRMA study (performed by KRCresearch) is that only 11 percent of 501 physicians reported that meetings with sales reps influenced their prescribing habits a great deal. However, 63 percent said that the meetings did influence them some.
The biggest factors in how doctors prescribe drugs turned out to be clinical knowledge and experience (93 percent) and the patient's unique situation (88 percent). That doesn't mean, however, that pharma reps aren't a positive impact on physicians. Forty-six percent of doctors surveyed said that reps are always useful in providing information about assistance programs for prescription coverage.
It points out that physicians take into account a lot of different things when they make prescribing decisions. A lot of important factors go into prescribing decisions. Docs want the latest information about drugs that can help them make informed decisions.
"One of the problems that physicians face is that when they make a decision about what meds to take, in some cases patients can't afford the medicine," said Ken Johnson, senior vice president for communications at PhRMA. "One of the things that our reps do is provide doctors with information about their own company's patient assistance programs as well as industry wide programs that are designed to provide patients that are struggling with free or nearly free medicine."
Patient Assistance
A recent example of this doctors getting information from reps comes from a report from AstraZeneca detailing a year-long survey of ways patients found out about the pharma company's assistance program, AZ&Me. Of the 12,487 people surveyed, 35 percent said that they learned about the program from their physician. That percentage dwarfs the other information sources, including brochures (14 percent), advertising (9 percent), and the AZ Web site (7 percent).
The implication is that the physician is made aware of the program by AZ sales reps whose job it is to promote the site. Brochures are also made available at the doctors' offices and at pharmacies that give patients more information about the program.
"Awareness of eligibility is a challenge throughout the healthcare system," said Tony Jewell, spokesperson for AstraZeneca. "In our home state of Delaware, for example, there are thousands of people who are eligible for Medicaid, and they just haven't signed up. It's incumbent upon us, working with every sector of the healthcare system, to make sure that patients are aware of what's available to them."
According to the company's Web site, last year AZ helped nearly half a million people fill 2.8 million prescriptions, resulting in more than $500 million of savings to patients. The program supports people without insurance, people with Medicare Part D, and offers a third program that provides medicines to healthcare facilities.
SK&A President and COO Dave Escalante told Pharm Exec, "The AstraZenca story is an excellent example of how a major pharmaceutical company is stepping up an providing value to the doctor and the doctor's patients, which is ultimately what it's all about."