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A few months ago, we talked with World Fantasy Award–winning writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer about Wonderbook, his illustrated guidebook for creative writers, and he told us a little about his forthcoming work of fiction, the Southern Reach Trilogy. The story, he said, was fundamentally "about how people react when they come up against the truly inexplicable and about our relationship to nature."
The first in this three-volume work, Annihilation, is now in the hands of readers, whom it plunges headlong into a tale that lives somewhere between a Conradian suspense and adventure, eerie horror, and a postmodern investigation into questions of identity and self-knowledge. Unfolding in lushly described natural environment, it follows a biologist assigned to a team who have volunteered to investigate the secrets of an uncanny coastal region known only as "Area X." And while Area X has terrors lying in wait for the biologist and her colleagues, as dissension, suspicion, and secrets quickly take their toll, the real challenges — and horrors — the biologist must face prove to come from within.
The second and third volumes in this quick-release trilogy — Authority and Acceptance — follow later this year, so readers won't have to wait long to follow VanderMeer's labyrinth to the center. But believe me, you don't want to hear any spoilers. So in a recent email conversation with the novelist, we confined ourselves to the events of the first volume, which is packed with plenty of surprises all on its own. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation. — Bill Tipper
The Barnes & Noble Review: Annihilation begins with an adventure-story scenario that echoes with the memory of dozens of classic novels, pulp stories, and films: a team of four women, each an expert in a separate discipline, are deposited in the mysterious wilderness of "Area X," armed and with the mission to explore and report. (Then you drop characters, and readers, down a succession of rabbit holes.) Did you have particular fictional models in your mind, an archetypal expedition into the jungle? Do you enjoy reading adventure stories?
Jeff VanderMeer: The opening more or less wrote itself, and I didn't really have a literary antecedent in mind — perhaps because the setting is such a real place to me. But I've always liked expeditions into the unknown, and so perhaps I was thinking on some subconscious level of some of Borges's metaphysical expeditions and of the sedimentary layer of childhood reading in various pulp magazines and anthologies of similar scenarios. If so, it was all mulched up and crushed together in such a way as to be indecipherable to me as influence. Multiple readings of Kafka, the nature poetry of Patiann Rogers, and Leena Krohn's short novel Tainaron certainly were useful on a craft level — and J. G. Ballard's a master of making space and time compress or expand in reader's minds, and there are moments in Annihilation where something I learned from Ballard helped me create certain effects.
BNR: The "biologist" — as we come to know her — who narrates the story has both the damaged stoicism of the hard-boiled hero and a sensitivity to the natural world that bespeaks something very different. Things go very badly for the "team" — is her isolation from them something that you see as a strength, or is she the most vulnerable of them all?
JV: Is she damaged or is the world around her outside of Area X damaged? That's the question I hoped to raise, to some extent. We're so over-programmed to interact, especially in the age of social media, that I've seen people who don't want smartphones castigated as somehow deviant. In such an environment, solitude is a rare experience, and perhaps we should value it more — value it in the way the biologist does, who surely knows herself better than I know myself. Not to mention, every day we walk by weeds in the pavement using quantum mechanics to enhance photosynthesis and worms in the soil whose senses far outstrip our own and our tech, in certain aspects. As to whether she's vulnerable or not — it's a very good question. I think she is, and ultimately that is a strength. She makes herself vulnerable, is willing to take that risk with the natural world in a way she doesn't with people.
BNR: For all its menace in the story, the coastal wetland of Area X is a beautiful environment — you offer the sense that though it's replete with terrible mysteries, it's also got a sort of organic unity of its own. And much of the portraiture of the landscape and wildlife is done with obvious affection. It seems at least superficially a Floridian landscape — did you base it on a particular place in your home state?
JV: There's a fourteen-mile hike I do out at the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge in North Florida, and the entire novel takes place within that expanse, even though Annihilation is the kind of novel where I don't name where they are, in terms of where it is on earth. There's a kind of useful distance created that's similar to when you base a character on someone you know but it's not really that person, that's just the catalyst for creating the character. Still, there's not a physical description in the novel that isn't something I've seen while hiking. I was even charged by a wild boar once, although in the novel something much stranger happens than what happened to me in real life. I do find it beautiful — I wouldn't trade it for any place in the world.
BNR: Annihilation shares with some of your earlier work a central and rather unsettling concern with the question of how we know that we are really "us" inside — and what's most interesting in this novel is that there are agencies, both human and inhuman, that look to be trying to do the driving for your main character. Do you see this kind of threat to the unitary self as a major theme in your novels?
JV: Yes, I do, and the juxtaposition is deliberate. Clearly, Annihilation charts the extremes, but to some extent we're all constrained by "isms" and systems we live within, all affected by them. So this just makes manifest what is often a steady pulsing truth beneath the surface anyway. What I'm interested in charting are the ways in which people deal with these kinds of pressures, no matter where they originate. I said somewhere else that in the face of things like global warming the key to our survival is to be able to envision the world without us in it — and in a sense acts of imagination are required regarding preservation of the self, too.
BNR: Hypnotism plays an important role in the story — an idea that lends an almost premodern quality to that part of Annihilation but that you deploy to singular effect by making it unclear just how far its influence has spread. How did you decide to include it as an aspect of the story — and what does it imply about our sense of free will?
JV: In the second and third novels it becomes clear that there's a great deal of conditioning behind the hypnosis, and selection of individuals with at least some initial impulse to obey the mission statement of the Southern Reach, so it in a way becomes an even more troubling question. It might seem a little out there, but with social media in particular you see mind viruses not particularly different from hypnotic suggestion spreading at an accelerated rate. We take in received ideas and lies every day and spout them out again because we live in an age in which the lines between fact and fiction, expertise and ignorance, have been irrevocably blurred. It's not that far from someone suddenly taking up some idea as their own and outright hypnotism. A skilled e-magician can induce any number of e-effects. So although it's expressed as hypnosis, the idea of suggestibility is key to how our society often works.
BNR: The shadow of otherworldly forces permeates this novel, but it quickly becomes apparent that singularly human mysteries are driving many of the events of the story — in particular the work of the agency of the Southern Reach, and the way it has burdened the expedition with some very strange preparations and misdirections. Were you deliberately setting out to mingle a conspiracy story with something more traditionally science fictional? Is either term satisfying to you?
JV: Whether we admit it or not, at the very least inefficiency and superstition play a fairly large role in our world. I can't tell you the number of times in day jobs that I've seen major decisions made on whims, because someone had a crush on someone else, or for other reasons that have nothing to do with logic. I've also seen major corporations and government agencies enact policies based on codifying worst practices just because a particular project that should have imploded did not implode, without further analysis. So the answer is just that nothing in the Southern Reach novels in that regard is different than what I've directly observed. It becomes not even a matter of conspiracy so much as an Agreement to Mutually Pretend that then either devolves naturally or some gifted bullshit artist comes along and deliberately manipulates the narrative. In the Southern Reach trilogy, those systems come up against a System that is so completely different that there isn't a single common point of reference.
BNR: Overarchingly, there is the sense in this book of a puzzle laid out for the reader, one that requires careful attention to obliquely rendered clues. Do you see it that way? Will there be a solution in future volumes?
JV: The series does not end with a miniature polar bear inside a snow globe that's on a character's desk that led to a dream the character had which is the story the reader or viewer has been experiencing. I'm forever in favor of leaving some vistas unexplored, but I'm also a fan of delivering on a promise. I don't think it'll play out the way readers may expect, but there are answers in the second and third book that should satisfy.
BNR: Annihilation restricts itself to the point of view of the biologist, as she struggles to survive and make sense of what she finds as a result of the "expedition." Will the next volume continue her story?
JV: I can confirm that readers will learn more about the biologist at some point, but the second book is an expedition into the Southern Reach, through the viewpoint of John Rodriguez, the newly appointed director of the agency. I can also confirm that one thousand white rabbits play a role, and that what has once been shelved may suddenly be un-shelved in dramatic fashion. Perhaps that's cryptic, but isn't that part of the fun of getting involved with a series like this one?
BNR: The title of the book comes from a sequence I found the most chilling in the entire book. Did you have that moment in mind from the early stages?
JV: Perhaps the most unsettling thing for me is I don't remember writing that sequence. I had bad bronchitis while writing Annihilation, and although I would review the day's writing, some mornings I would just wake up and write while still half asleep. That morning I woke with the sound of seagulls in my head and the smell of sea salt, and a vision of the lighthouse, and I just sat down at the computer and wrote the scene. Although a lot of things changed in the revision process, that scene remained largely the same.
BNR: Do you ever scare yourself with your writing?
JV: It's really peculiar — Annihilation is, on an autobiographical level, a love song to a place I know so well, and thus nothing in it really scared me, except the initial vision of what was in the tunnel. But I will tell you that while writing Authority, I continually felt as if things were peering out at me from the text, and more than once I had to step away and stop writing. And then while writing Acceptance I can't even describe the experience, but it was like somehow from on high seeing everything playing out at once and being filled with a kind of love toward the characters as they struggled to do their best in impossible situations. This series is personal to me, and I'm fiercely protective of the people in it.
Beneath the Surface: Jeff VanderMeer on 'Annihilation'
A few months ago, we talked with World Fantasy Award–winning writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer about Wonderbook, his illustrated guidebook for creative writers, and he told us a little about his forthcoming work of fiction, the Southern Reach Trilogy. The story, he said, was fundamentally "about how people react when they come up against the truly inexplicable and about our relationship to nature."


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Fort Bragg, N.C. — A soldier based at Fort Bragg died Saturday in Afghanistan after he was found unresponsive in his room, military officials said Monday.
The military said an investigation is underway into the death of Staff Sgt. Keith Rudd, 36, of Winder, Ga.
Rudd was a flight medic with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. He joined the Army in 2003 and served two previous deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
His awards and decorations include three Air Medals, four Army Commendation, six Army Achievement, two Army Good Conduct, the National Defense Service, Afghan Campaign, Iraqi Campaign, Global War on Terrorism Service, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service and the NATO medals; the Noncomissioned Officer Professional Development, Army Service and two Overseas Service ribbons; and the Combat Medic and Army Aviation badges.
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Please let me know your top two favorite BBQ joints in L.A. Favorite and runner-up in that order.
I see BBQ threads all the time but they get wordy. I don't want you to write reviews. I don't care about parking, service, chipped plates, etc.
I don't want to know who does the best Mac-n-Cheese, brisket, yams, just your favorite pork ribs -- baby back ribs, spare ribs, St. Louis ribs, Kansas City ribs, rib tips, small ends, whatever.
The only rule is if you don't see wood smoke, or a BBQ smoker, then you can't vote for them.
My number 1: Phillips -- Leimert Park
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The so-called Shadow Brokers, who claimed responsibility for releasing NSA tools that were used to spread the WannaCry ransomware through the NHS and across the world, said they have a new suite of tools and vulnerabilities in newer software. The possible targets include Microsoft's Windows 10, which was unaffected by the initial attack and is on at least 500m devices around the world.
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PLYMOUTH, N.H. — Shandra McLane, adjunct faculty in the Department of Art at Plymouth State University has been named a 2012 Remarkable Woman by New Hampshire Magazine.
The magazine describes the 2012 Remarkable Women as artistic alchemists who possess vision and drive that has advanced their craft disciplines to new levels of technique and imagination. For more than a decade, New Hampshire Magazine has recognized remarkable women of New Hampshire in a variety of walks of life. The editors picked craft as the theme this year because of the important role that hand crafts have played in the New Hampshire history as an economic, social and cultural force according to editor Rick Broussard.
McLane studied drawing and printmaking at the University of Southern California and earned an M.Ed. at Plymouth State University, but was always fascinated by glass. She took advantage of an opportunity to study at the Pilchuck School of Glass, but developed her own technique. "I see fused glass as a fantastically versatile reflective and transmissive canvas for color and form," she says.
At a breakfast for the honorees McLane said it was a proud moment when she showed the article to her PSU students, as an indication of what they can do as artists.


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I like the style, 5/5! the manga was very different than the show.
OOOOOO soooo cute.... that duck is from: Princess tutu ( i LOOOVVEE that show)
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I cried. I cried when the wife and one son thought their husband/father and 2 brothers were dead. I cried when the father told others he would not give up until he found his wife. I cried when he thought she was dead. I cried when I thought of what I would do in that situation. I cried for how hopeless I would feel. I cried when I thought of what I would do if she was gone. I cried when I said I would never give up and would not stop looking for her. I cried...
I cried when I realized that I am looking for her now, and how I will not stop until I find her. I cried when I thought maybe she is gone and she don't want to be found. I cried...
To describe love is hard, but it's that feeling of something big happening and you can't wait to tell 1 person, to think your last thought of at night and the first thought in the morning is of 1 person, hope she sleeps well, hope she slept well. Simple things like, that person you want share a new taste with like a fancy meal or even an ice cream, even sitting quietly not even talking and feeling comfortable, seeing her smile, seeing her worry about a meal she has prepared with such care and thought, a few examples. This is why I believe love is not just action, but feeling to. I believe you can show and feel love. I cried when I realized I was not showing love to the one person that deserved it, who showed me love by actions and feelings. So how was I able to allow myself to be that selfish and destroy her love.
All I was thinking when this was running through my head was, how could have I done this to someone I said I love so much. Why was I so uncaring to not even see what the A would do to her.
I was so selfish that all I was thinking about was me.
I cried....
I am so sorry for taking you for granted and destroying our love, for destroying the best person I have had the pleasure to know, I will keep looking for you.
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It's really good that you are able to share this. I hope that you both find peace throughout your journey.
Thank you for expressing remorse and pain so thoughtfully and honestly. This what BSes need to see, to read, to know. I don't know your story, but I know that this kind of honest repentance can help rekindle marriages left for dead. Good luck to you.
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The weather was fabulous when I woke up Saturday. I've been making regular visits to a physical therapist to work through my chronic shin splints. She has encouraged me to run and I decided to do a short, easy trail run Satruday to take advantage of the soft ground and beautiful weather.
2.7 miles/ 28:47/ 10:39 mm. This includes stopping to take pictures and general lollygagging. If felt pretty great. The trails are great, but I might avoid them until the bears are denned up for the year. I saw this about half a mile from the parking lot:
My hand is on the small size but you get the gist- this print belongs to a decent sized bear.
About 1 mile in I almost stepped in this:
I do find it twisted that my first thought wasn't "OMG BEAR!" but instead "OMG I HAVE TO GET A PICTURE OF THIS POO TO POST TO THE LOOP!". Apparently its a bumper season for berries where I live. I ran these miles singing and talking to the bears in the woods so I they could get out of my way and happily I didn't see any. I did see more poo, but of the bobcat variety. I swear I wasn't looking for it, both "deposits" were right smack in the middle of the trail.
Normally I wouldn't run back to back days when I have any kind of injury. But yesterday's weather was just so perfect. My legs/shins felt pretty good, nothing an Advil couldn't numb. DH had a softball tournament and the fields are a little over 6 miles away and I can get to them almost exclusively on a bike path. I told him that I'd meet him down there or possibly just run a few miles and head home if anything hurt too much. 54 degrees and overcast when I left the house. To sum the run up: IT.WAS.AWESOME.
7.24 miles/1:07/ 9:23 min miles.
1- 9:38
2- 9:23
3- 9:24
4- 9:31
5- 9:18
6- 9:21
7- 9:02 (!)
Where this run came from I have no idea. I am a 10 mm kind of girl, finished my half marathon last October with an average of 10:05. I feel like I could have run 5 more miles and kept that pace. I've been running for over a decade and am amazed that I can't predict these things yet. Maybe that is what keeps me coming back- every great run like this is a gift.
My shins feel pretty good- right leg almost 100%. Left leg has some calf issue now in addition to the shin splint but I'm sure its all related. Love that I am running through this problem. Love that I am finally getting help. Really excited for my October 20th half. Work sucks, it is so nice to have this race to focus on.
Next race: This Saturday- Gray for a Day 5K - then Sunday a 10 mile training run if my legs cooperate.


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Round 1 Notebook: Principal Charity ClassicJune 01, 2012
Dave Senko, Champions Tour Staff
Weather: Partly sunny with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 60s. Winds were from the WNW at 5-15 mph.
• Mike Goodes matched his career-low round on the Champions Tour, a 7-under 64, and holds a two stroke advantage over five others after the first round of The Principal Charity Classic. Goodes' round included nine birdies. Four of those came on his first four holes and two others were on Nos. 17 and 18.INSPERITY CHAMP.
• Goodes also had a 64 (8-under) in the first round of the 2011 Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn. This marks the first time in 111 starts on the Champions Tour that Mike Goodes has held sole possession of a lead in any round on the Champions Tour. He did share the first-round lead with Andy Bean at the 2008 Regions Charity Classic before eventually finishing fourth.
• Graham Marsh success on the par-3 holes at Glen Oaks Country Club continued on Friday. Marsh aced the second hole with a 5-iron from 180 yards. In Wednesday's pro-am, Marsh aced No. 5 with a 5-iron from 192 yards. It was Marsh's sixth career hole-in-one on the Champions Tour and the seventh ace in tournament history. Earlier in his career, Marsh made aces in the first and third rounds at the 2004 Senior British Open at Royal Portrush.
• Marsh's hole-in-one was the first in this event since 2006 when both Fuzzy Zoeller and John Harris accomplished the feat.
• Hall of Famer Larry Nelson flirted with matching his age for the first time before finishing with a 5-under 66. The 64-year-old Nelson was six-under par after 17 holes but bogeyed his final hole to miss the opportunity.
• Peter Senior continued his stellar play from his previous start at the Senior PGA Championship where he finished T4, including a final-round 63. Last Sunday, Senior fired a 7-under 28 on the back nine at Harbor Shores and started Friday's round with a 4-under 31 for a 59 on those combined nines. He finished with a 4-under 67 in his opening round here and is T7.
• Andrew Magee shot a 2-under 69 in just his second start since joining the Champions Tour last week at the Senior PGA Championship where he finished 60th at Harbor Shores. Magee was using a new set of Cleveland wedges this week and made two eagles on the front nine on Nos. 1 and 9.
• One of Friday's groupings included a pair of PGA TOUR caddies who are competing in the event. Damon Green, who was on Zach Johnson's bag when he won the recent Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial was joined by Lance Ten Broeck, who caddies for Jesper Parnevik. Green is playing on a sponsor exemption, while Ten Broeck open qualified on Tuesday. They were joined by Canadian Jim Rutledge. Ten Broeck shot a 1-under 70 and Green finished with a 2-over 73.
• Two-time winner Jay Haas (2007, '08) is off to a good start after firing a 5-under-par 66. Haas had 13 one-putts on Friday and is currently T2.
• Haas increased his streak of consecutive holes without a three putt to 156, the best current streak on the Champions Tour.
• Jim Gallagher, Jr., Jeff Freeman and Mark Calcavecchia all posted bogey-free rounds.
• Defending champion Bob Gilder opened with a 1-under 70 and is T35.
• Lonnie Nielsen, a native of Belle Plaine, Iowa, shot a 2-under 69 and hit all 18 greens in regulation.
• Fred Funk, who leads the Champions Tour in Driving Accuracy, was perfect today, hitting all 14 fairways. In addition to Funk, P.H. Horgan also hit all 14. Horgan came into the event ranked 58h in that category.
• The field averaged 70.494 for the day and 43 players finished below par with 34 of those rounds in the 60s. Last year the opening-round average was 72.100.
• The most difficult hole was No. 14 with an average score of 3.296 (+.296). The easiest was No. 9 with an average score of 4.481 (-.519).
• Vicente Fernandez, Bob Gilder, Gil Morgan, Graham Marsh and Tom Jenkins have played in all 12 Principal Charity Classics.


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Dekaron is a game where you fight demons and darkness. The Gods have been pushed back and Humans have almost been wiped out. Karon, leader of the Demons, has temporarily been banished back to the Great Darkness. A group Humans are preparing their weapons and magic for their inevitable confrontation. They are the resistance against evil and humanities last hope.
Bubba N Stix is an action strategy game where Bubba is a happy-go-lucky animal delivery guy for the local Zoo here on Earth and Stix is…well, he's a stick with a personality.
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Dekaron Spectrus is a fun, entertaining and exciting online game. You can start a wonderful gameplay experience and enjoy it with your friends, gain experience, grow as a character and master new powerful weapons in order to destroy your enemies on this extreme action online game
Heavy Weapon Deluxe is a 2D shooter game where you control a very advanced tank. The objective is to blow things out of the sky, mainly, in around 20 missions and two game-play modes. With good graphics and sounds that complement the game-play, this game is very complete. But a price tag that high is bound to make your wallet think a bit about the game.
Enjoy destroying enemies while you pilot a heavy battle helicopter. Use a wide variety of weapons all the way from machine guns, missiles, bombs, lasers and air support. After destroying some enemies you will earn extra bonus, powerups, weapon upgrades and ranking.
Wolf team is a first person shooter designed by Softnyx. The game is meant for online game-play and it is similar to other FPS. The thing that changes is the ability to turn into a werewolf during game-play. The game is fun itself, but it is plagued by a lot of technical issues.
In Astro Pop 2.2 we control a spaceship and our mission is to pop as many blocks as possible. The blocks can be popped by placing four blocks of the same color together. There is also a "Supa Weapon" available which can be used when it's fully charged. Each time we fill up our Brick-o-Meter we will get to the next stage.
The all-new Action Ball 2 is a no-holds barred arcade game that blends the hottest brick-busting action you've ever seen with the thrilling battles of space shooters. Action Ball 2 comes with more than 30 bonuses to capture and use, although not all of them are helpful.
Zombie Shooter 2 is a unique blend of two game genres - Action and RPG. Every player can choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices.
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You basically are in a flying ship killing aliens on enemy ships, all over the place. You will be controlling the ship with your mouse. You can fire regular ammunitions (laser) and rockets. You start the game with four lives, full level of power, and full level of armor. Every time you got hit by the enemies, you lose some armor level.
Try this game for 60 minutes.
Looking for a space shooter that will surprise you? AstroAvenger uses an advanced upgrade and power-up system that allows you to buy new types of weapons, ammo, armor and batteries as you advance from one level to another.
Based on Hasbro's legendary TRANSFORMERS property and one of the most anticipated films of 2009 from Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures, TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen thrusts players into a battle for supremacy across the globe as either AUTOBOTS or DECEPTICONS to drive, fly, fight and blast their way through intense, pressure-packed levels.
In this free game, you need to protect your kingdom against incoming enemy ships. To do so, you have several weapons to choose from, every one with its own advantages and limitations.All in all, this is an entertaining and addictive game. Although its graphics, control, and story are very basic, I'm pretty sure that you will enjoy it.


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A new feature moving into Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich is the Google Wallet. This allows a user to have a prepaid Google MasterCard with pay pass as well as additional bank, credit cards. Also the user will be able to add gift cards for various stores. This will all be accessed from the phone itself.
This system will allow shopping to become much easier.
The user will simply choose which card to use, tap the phone against the pay pass board, then input the pin, and voila the payment will be made!
The app can easily be installed on any ICS device and the device also does not need to be rooted in order for this to work. Simply go to XDA Developers and search for Google Wallet. Find the appropriate link, download the .apk and enjoy the new form of paying.


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I am sure anyone volunteering at the Fair this year has to be glad it's over with. One cannot appreciate all the hours that go into putting on this local event each year. I thought it was an outstanding fair and my hat's off to the Fair Board and all the volunteers for a job well done. By the way, Fr. Richard, is any of your grand champion cantaloupe left? I would love to have had a slice of it!
Golden rod is in bloom - can fall be far behind. Actually, with the weather we've had, did it ever really feel like summer until just the last couple days? Noticed that some species of trees are already turning color on the mountain. Tickseed sunflowers are just days away from blooming. Most asters are a little while off from blooming. Spotted a stand of native cardinal flower in bloom at a location which is inconspicuous enough to where it's not likely to get dug up by some wildflower collector. Naturalized clematis with the tiny white bloom clusters is in bloom around the time of our fair. We just might have us a shortened fall with a rather quick jump into winter. Better get that firewood pile restocked soon!
One thing I did notice this summer at my house was an alarming lack of pollinators. It was reflected in my poor crops of cucumbers, squash and melons. A plus was that my fig did not freeze back and had a good crop and my muscadines produced for the first time. Blackberries and blueberries both did well this year. I understand the fall pecan crop over at the other farm will not be anything like the 2013 crop.
I will end this column with a salute to my father-in-law, Dallas Johnson, who passed away recently. He was a gardener extraordinaire who was not afraid to experiment with growing anything. He was growing kiwis way before anyone around here was familiar with them. He grew an impressive assortment of peppers, too. His garden produced a continuous supply and variety of vegetables which he was only too happy to share with others. Our loss is heaven's gain…


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Cincinnati A former top executive with Avon Products has joined Kroger Co.'s board of directors. Susan Kropf was elected to a term ending in June 2008, at which point she'll stand for election by shareholders.
Kropf retired earlier in 2007 as president and COO for Avon. She spent 35 years with the cosmetics company.
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|Crank This use to be a better variation of this route. After bolt three (I recall) traverse right for a few more bolts. Longer and more sustained and well worth doing once you've walked down there.
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It's pretty easy to toprope the route. We used to rap off a solid manzanita bush about 20 feet over the anchor. The bush is on the path when coming down from the main face of Gibraltar.
Well, after looking at the photo on this page, perhaps the solid bush burned in the last fire. Give it a good kick before using and be sure to have all your affairs in order.
Note that you can preclip the first bolt on the route by climbing good holds slightly to the right of the actual (crank) start.


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UK Executive Stock Option Valuation: A Conditional Model
We value UK executive stock options (ESOs) as American options that are awarded conditional on the probability of the holders achieving some performance criteria. Unlike the standard Black and Scholes (BS) model, which is universally used both in the literature and practice, this provides a more realistic representation of UK ESOs. We show that UK ESOs actually have less value and contain more incentives than they appear under the BS approach. Specifically, we observe a 17 per cent average discount in the value of the ESOs when compared to their BS value. In addition, we find significantly higher incentive levels when we measure the sensitivity of the options using the hedge ratio, i.e. the option's delta. We argue that these findings have implications for two contemporary debates in the UK, i.e. the substitution of ESOs by Long-Term Incentive Plans (LTIPs) and the discounting of ESO value from company profits. Copyright (c) 2007 The Authors; Journal compilation (c) 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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he team heads to Kensington Market where a grocery store owner, Idaris John, is slashed several times, he being a beloved figure in the neighborhood. The wounds end up being non-life threatening. Psych Crimes and Crises is involved because Idaris suffers from a rare neurological condition called, in layman terms, face blindness, where he cannot recognize faces, and as such he will not be able to identify his attacker. Upon further discussion with Idaris' doctor, Dr. Paul Bruckman, they learn that Idaris is also in the early stages of Alzheimer's despite being only in his early forties. Despite no accurate eyewitness accounts beyond the attacker yelling "I know you" - leading to Aidan believing the attack was personally motivated - and being a black man, the team is able to quickly identify the attacker as Benjamin Omari, a refugee from the Congo. In checking his refugee file, they find a photograph of Benjamin as a young teen in the Congo with a man looking like Idaris, but who is identified in the photograph as Melugo, who is wanted in the Congo for war crimes. They have to find out if Idaris and Melugo are one and the same which if so means that this attack was probably not a victimless crime. They also would have to find out how Idaris has been able to masquerade for four years as having this neurological condition under doctor care, the condition which would prevent him from being deported back to the Congo. Meanwhile, Aidan finds that he of late has needed his group PTSD therapy sessions, which may come in handy as well for others entering his life.Resumen IMDb.com
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Anesthesia Spikes Risk of Child Development
Studies indicate children who have had anesthesia before 3 years old are at a higher risk of developmental issues later in life.
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A new study done in Australia, published in the journal Pediatrics, shows that even a single use of anesthesia on children under 3 years old can affect development for the children later in life.
Details of the study:
- Study was based on over 2,500 children in Australia
- 321 of the children underwent surgical procedures that required anesthesia
- The other 2,287 children were not exposed to the drug
- Researchers tested the children at age 10.
- Tests studied how well the children could think, learn, remember, reason, and use language. Behavior problems such as depression and aggression were also monitored.
Results of the Study
Kids who were given anesthesia before age 3:
- Were more likely to have learning problems by age 10 than other children.
- Were not able use language as well as their peers.
- Had more trouble solving problems.
- 1.87 times more likely to have listening comprehension issues
- 1.72 times more likely to have problems with speaking
- 1.69 times more likely to have abstract reasoning delays.
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"Canadian companies, especially Canadian construction companies, don't venture too far outside their own country, if at all, with the odd exception of a few."
He noted that contractors from other places in the world, such as Europe, venture outside their boundaries more frequently.
"Maybe this (conference) gives people an opportunity to see different construction or different opportunities. There's an awful lot of construction going on here now and there are opportunities for them to maybe make some connections. We do have some sessions which will involve some Panamanians and hopefully there will be an opportunity for them to network."
Masicotte is the president of Massicotte Construction in Ottawa, which he founded in 1988 as a small general contracting company.
It has grown to a mid-sized company mainly operating in the National Capital Region and has done work in Quebec, Montreal and as far away as Baffin Island.
He has been actively involved in several industry associations at the national, provincial and local levels for more than 20 years.
He has served as chair of the Ottawa Construction Association and the Ontario General Contractors Association.
Massicotte has been recognized by his peers with the CCA General Contractors Award of Recognition, the OGCA's Chairman's Award of Recognition, and the General Contractors Association of Ottawa's Integrity and Ethics Award for his outstanding contribution and leadership in the construction industry and exemplified ethical business behaviour.
Massicotte is actively involved with the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC), where he was the longest serving member in the history of CCDC, serving as vice-chair before leaving to assume the CCA chair role.
This experience has led Massicotte to have a thorough understanding of contractor and consultant views on contracts and their risk allocation and what owners are looking for in terms of risk allocation.
"Obviously the owners are paramount in this and (I have) that relationship with the owners to make sure that contracts are balanced and CCA understands those needs as it relates to risk transfer to contractors," he said.
Though past CCA chairs have served on CCDC they have not had the tenure as long as Massicotte's 16 years.
His knowledge and experience with construction documents has led to his representation of CCA when dealing with government on federal procurement and contracting practices.
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Massicotte takes over the role of CCA chair from Frank Rizzardo at the CCA's 96th annual conference in Panama.
"I'm looking forward to it," he said.
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The Alchemist's Moment
By CAROL VOGEL
Published: May 27, 2007
OF all his work materials, arsenic is particularly precious to Sigmar Polke. So are lavender oil, meteor dust and flakes of gold and cinnabar, all of which he has incorporated into his paintings at one time or another. On a recent rainy afternoon, however, it was a pure, crystallized violet pigment that preoccupied the artist.
Entering what he calls his summer atelier, an oilcloth tent behind his warehouselike home in an industrial neighborhood here, he strode over to three giant paintings. All are intended for the Venice Biennale, which will open on June 10 to hordes of international spectators. Mr. Polke, 65, had applied layer upon layer of multicolored fabrics soaked with lacquer to the canvases, then more lacquer, then pieces of black transparent fabric. With only a scant amount of daylight penetrating the tent, the works had developed an ethereal glow.
''Once I apply the violet pigments with a brush, the surface will become gold,'' he said, gazing intently at the 10-by-16-foot paintings resting on wooden sawhorses. ''As the light reflects it, it will change color.''
His dealer Gordon VeneKlasen, who represents him with Michael Werner, interjected, ''Violet has had mystical properties since the Renaissance, which has always fascinated Sigmar.''
Sorcerer, jester, sage, visionary -- Mr. Polke is a hero to many artists working today and a magnet for curators and collectors. Part of the attraction is his relentless quest to ask more of the conventional canvas, applying clumps or droplets of ancient substances or cheap mass-produced fabrics in unusual juxtapositions with sketched figures.
At a moment when no clear artistic movement or style dominates popular tastes, he is known as a master of the unexpected. And while often rooted in ancient mythology, philosophy and chemistry, artists and curators say, his work always seems new. The artist John Baldessari, 75, describes Mr. Polke as an artist's artist. ''Any one move can provide a career for a lesser artist,'' he explained.
Collectors and museum directors line up to buy virtually anything Mr. Polke produces these days. When a group of black-and-white drawings -- blown-up studies of paint brush strokes and splatters that evoked celestial constellations -- went on view in February at a cocktail party at the annual Art Show in Manhattan, they sold out within 10 minutes.
His appeal also lies partly in his unavailability. Unlike Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst or Takashi Murakami, who work hard at maintaining their movie-star allure, Mr. Polke shuns the limelight and guards his privacy. He has been known to go for months without answering his phone, opening his mail or allowing visitors into his studio.
At the prodding of Mr. VeneKlasen, however, he allowed a reporter into his studio and backyard atelier to see what he has been up to in advance of the Venice Biennale. ''I felt this body of work is a milestone and needed to be explained,'' the dealer said.
As is always the case with his work, Mr. Polke said, the paintings for the biennale sprang from specific ideas yet evolved in mystical ways as he experimented. ''This is the meeting point of ideas and materials coming together,'' he said in his German-accented English. ''You see what you want, but you have to work with the painting, and the results are always different.''
Altogether, it has taken him two years to apply and dry the poured lacquer surfaces of the seven abstract paintings he has created for the Biennale. Jointly titled ''The Axis of Time,'' they are to form the heart of the biennale's signature exhibition in the Italian pavilion, called ''Think With the Senses -- Feel With the Mind. Art in the Present Tense.''
The show was organized by Robert Storr, the artistic director of the biennale and a former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Given that he views the exhibition as ''a meeting place of conceptual and perceptual art,'' Mr. Storr said, it was a natural choice.
''Polke for a long time has been the most interesting, least predictable of the painters around,'' he said by phone from Venice. ''He's almost impossible to get a bite of. People don't know what to say right off the bat when they see his work. It has a deep kind of shrewdness.''
Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate in London, who has exhibited Mr. Polke's work since 1995, said that quality of inscrutability played into the fascination. ''He turns base metal into gold and base fabrics into great paintings,'' he said. ''But he is a very difficult artist to get hold of. He makes Richter, who's complicated, look simple.'' (Mr. Polke is often grouped with Gerhard Richter because both came of age and experimented in West Germany in the 1960s.)
Like the paintings themselves, Mr. Polke's explanations are not always easy to parse. He pointed to a painting in which his fingerprints are visible through a film of deliberately applied dust. ''This kind of painting tells many stories,'' he said. ''The fingerprints, like the fingerprints of a criminal, are something you fear, but at the same time something you want to touch.''
''For me the image isn't important, it's the human behavior of wanting to touch it that is,'' he said.


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That one thing.
What is it? That one thing you wish they would do. The one thing you know would make you perfectly happy. Just that one thing you dare not ask, but deeply desire. What is it? And what's stopping you from asking?
"I wish she'd let me have another child." "I wish he'd let me experiment." "I wish she'd tell me the truth about that tour of Paris." "I wish he wouldn't touch me like that." "I wish we could try it like this."
We are creatures of want. We are envious and jealous as well. What's interesting is the gap between craving something and the level of satisfaction we may attain if and when we achieve it. Will we actually like what we want when we get it?
Psychologists have studied the relationship between wanting and liking. Actually the two are governed by different parts of the body. According to this Stamford study, our opioid systems and primary sensory and valuation regions are the parts of us that mediate 'liking', while 'wanting' is "encoded by midbrain dopamine activity in efferent regions such as nucleus accumbens'.
Interestingly (and somewhat tangentially relative to this discussion) the researchers also discovered that liking and wanting don't always manifest harmoniously. Though there is a relationship between the two emotions, it is not necessarily sympathetic. To wit you may like something less the more you want it, therefore happiness doesn't necessarily result from getting what you want.
But why do we want things in the first place?
LiveScience looked at the mystery of desire a while back. The authors of this article canvassed the opinions of various experts across a range of disciplines and found, unsurprisingly, a range of theories. The evolutionary psychologist named biology the root factor in want determination and the social scientist concurred, but added experience also plays a decisive role along with timing and context. Nature and nurture in other words.
So perhaps when it comes to understanding what we want, the best place to start is within. Do you want that one thing because you can't have it, because someone else has it, or because you've been told you want it enough that not having it seems impossible?
It's particularly important to ask yourself these questions when it comes to wanting things from other people. And the closer that person is to you, the greater the imperative to understand. I say this from personal experience and as someone who has grown far too accustomed to emails featuring frustrations in the vein of: "all I want is more [blank] and I don't understand why/why they won't give it to me."
Understanding the sources of your motivations matters – the process refines your search and makes a positive outcome more likely. Too many people slave for desires not really their own, or expect satisfaction from others for that which they don't actually want. Too many people suffer as a result.
Of course, once you're sure of what it is you're seeking, it's incumbent on you to answer the search. If you're sure of what you want, and why you want it, why shouldn't you go and get it? Why should you sit in cowardly silence? Why not simply do what needs to be done?
Why not indeed.
So. What is it that you want, why do you want it, and what's holding you back? Or, conversely, what did you want, why did you want it, and what happened when you went for it?


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San Jose, CA, United States, 2013/03/22 - Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Dr. Andras Poppe, associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology, Department of Electron Devices, has received the Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence in the Physical Design of Electronics. NASDAQ: MENT
SEMI-THERM 2013 - Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Dr. Andras Poppe, associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology, Department of Electron Devices, has received the Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence in the Physical Design of Electronics. Dr. Poppe received the award for his paper,A Step Forward in Multi-domain Modeling of Power LEDs, at the 29th annual IEEE Thermal Measurement, Modeling and Management Symposium (Semi-Therm).
The Harvey Rosten Award For Excellence has been established by the family and friends of Harvey Rosten, who was responsible for the development of the worlds first commercial general purpose computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, and co-founder of Flomerics (now a division of Mentor Graphics Corporation). The Award commemorates Rosten's achievements in the field of thermal analysis of electronics equipment, and the thermal modeling of electronics parts and packages. The award aims to encourage innovation and excellence in these fields.
Former Harvey Rosten Award winners include scientists from Philips Semiconductors, Sun Microsystems, Infineon Technologies, STMicroelectronics, Raytheon, Villanova University, Purdue University and Georgia Institute of Technology.
We recognize Andras Poppe for his contributions to our industry since he is a noted expert in thermal simulation and test methodologies, particularly in the LED sector, stated Dr. Clemens Lasance, former principal scientist with Phillips Research and Harvey Rosten Award committee member. Dr. Poppes research and active involvement with key industry standards bodies, such as JEDEC and CIE, have had a major impact on our industry, so we are proud to honor him today.
Dr. Poppes fields of interest include thermal transient testing of packaged semiconductor devices, compact thermal modeling of semiconductor packages, characterization of LEDs and OLEDs, and electro-thermal simulation. He is an active member of the JEDEC JC15 and CIE TC2-63 and TC2-64 standardization committees. Dr. Poppe was actively involved in the development of the JEDEC JESD51-5x standards, targeting thermal characterization of power LED components, used by many LED manufacturers and LED assembly/packaging companies.
Dr. Poppe is also a product manager for the TeraLED® technology for LED testing in the Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division. The TeraLED product is used for thermal and radiometric/ photometric characterization of high-power LEDs. When combined with the T3Ster thermal transient tester, the technologies provide a comprehensive, automated LED testing station. Besides Dr. Poppes academic interest in LED multi-domain modeling, currently he is active in development of industrial testing solutions for LEDs in his role at Mentor Graphics.
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NAPLES, Fla. — Issues pressing the produce industry took center stage during the second day of the Joint Tomato Conference.
During his Sept. 7 annual state of the tomato industry talk, Reggie Brown, executive vice president of show co-sponsor the Florida Tomato Exchange, Maitland, gave a rundown of last season's production.
During the 2010-11 season, which ended in June, Florida tomato growers packed 36.1 million 25-pound equivalent cartons of mature green tomatoes, up from the 27.9 million they packed in 2009-10 but significantly lower than the 50 million cartons the industry typically packs each year during the past decade, Brown said.
He also tackled challenges affecting the tomato industry.
"E-Verify legislation and a guest worker program are ideas floating around in Congress," Brown said. "They are a long ways from being successfully passed by either house, but they are a challenge and an opportunity we must pay very careful attention to.
"I challenge any and all of you if have conversations with our political representatives to explain to them the importance of a workforce that will allow us to continue to produce food for America in America by Americans working in the agricultural sector. Without a viable workforce, we will not have a viable and reliable food supply in this country."
Food safety remained a large theme at this year's show.
During the Sept. 7 Florida Tomato Institute, which focuses on grower-oriented agronomic information, Barry Gaffney, fruit and vegetable regional administrator for the Division of Fruit and Vegetables at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Tallahassee, discussed mandatory state tomato safety rules.
He said all Florida tomato farms are required to be registered with the state for the 2011-12 season.
"Thanks to each and every one of you, we haven't had a lot of big problems with our audits," Gaffney said. "We've had some small problems, but 99.9% of them have been taken care of before we finished the audit. You have come a long way on food safety. It's just as new to us as it is to all of you. It's a lot of work and costs a lot of money. We applaud you for doing such a good job."
Brown called attendance strong and said around 430 people registered for the convention, similar to the last year's attendance.
The conference continues Sept. 8-9.


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thank you.
No, I didn't PM a member of the team yet but I like the idea. Do you know who's the best person to talk to regarding this topic?
Thank you in advance
Hi Johannes,
Sorry for my late response on this. Really busy around here.
I am really REALLY interested in finding a way to make this into a regular piece. I will PM you early next week to talk about a few options. Do you have skype details or Gtalk details that you can PM me?


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Elliott Sadler's bid for redemption in the NASCAR Nationwide Series got a significant boost after the season-opener at Daytona International Speedway.
Sadler finished third, but finds himself atop the series standings. Race winner James Buescher made the preseason choice to compete for the championship in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and runner-up Brad Keselowski has his efforts focused on the Sprint Cup title.
Those decisions helped give Sadler a tenuous early grasp on the Nationwide points race, just two points ahead of rookie Cole Whitt and three ahead of fellow first-year driver Austin Dillon, last year's trucks champ.
Last season at Phoenix, Sadler's hopes for his first Nationwide crown fell apart in a late-race crash. Sadler's 27th-place finish gave an insurmountable points lead to Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who cashed in the following week for his first series title.
Sadler had just completed a shortcut across the apron on Phoenix's backstretch dogleg before his wreck. He blended back into traffic after making a three-wide pass, but was nudged from behind by Jason Leffler, triggering a multicar accident.
"If I had to do it all over again, I would still do it the same move," Sadler said earlier this week. "I don't feel like I was too aggressive, and I don't feel like I ran those guys up the track. I actually feel like I did it the cleanest possible way that I could. We saw it in the Sprint Cup Series race that Sunday, people were passing each other on the apron the day after I was wrecked. I promise you, you are going to see it again this spring at Phoenix."


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Do tax havens divert economic activity?
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Volume (Year): 90 (2006)
Issue (Month): 2 (February)
Pages: 219-224
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We're seeing promotions for the next season now, so once again shall we resume the practice of questioning the survival tactics of the DeadUniverse and how we would do it better? Ask your "Why didn't they think of that?" questions here.
I'll start. We haven't seen any evidence that the zombies can swim. There are lakes and rivers, and canals all over the Country. Why hasn't anyone taken to travelling by boat up/down river? They could travel across vast areas of the country pretty quickly.
Hell all they would have to do is find one good house boat and lay anchor in a lake somewhere- they could sleep in peace.
This is something primitive people did long ago.


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