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Released in space year 2000, the original Deus Ex is still revered by rheumy-eyed PC gamers as one of the greatest titles of all time. Arriving amidst a slew of generic first person shooters, it was a game-changing release that offered a vast array of customisation and choice, effectively creating do-it-yourself gameplay.
Put simply, if you wanted to go through a door, you could either blow it up, hack the lock or sneak round the back. Or do something else entirely: more a philosophical treatise than a videogame. The sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War, failed to capitalise on this open-ended approach, and was dismissed by purists as a dumbed-down console-friendly affair. Seven long years have passed without a flicker in the Deus Ex universe, until now, with this much-vaunted prequel/re-imagining from Eidos Montreal.
Taking place in 2027, it charts the rise of the so-called human augmentation that forms the crux of the series. You play Adam Jensen - all Bono shades, gravelly voice and trench coat - head of security at a firm that modifies human beings, either due to injury or disability, or as is becoming increasingly common, as a life choice. These alterations make them faster, stronger, and arguably better. And yes, it is essentially a glorified version of the concept behind classic '70s TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man.
Seriously injured in a brutal attack on the company's Detroit headquarters, Jensen becomes an unwitting recipient of augmentations himself and returning to work charged with the task of uncovering the conspiracy behind the attack. It's a quest that takes you on a global tour, with the labyrinthine plot unravelling en route. Sticking to the franchise's key concept of offering choice, you are drip-fed a great swathe of vastly different augmentations that come to define your character and the way you approach the game. While some upgrades are simply of the "better armour" type, most offer tangible skills that enable you to tackle areas of the game that would otherwise be out of reach.
In essence, it's a role playing game, but instead of choosing a character at the outset, you instead evolve organically into your preferred type. So if you want to approach it as a shooter, you'll end up carrying a lot of guns in your space-intensive interface. Or if you fancy yourself as a top hacker, you'll upgrade your skills to enable you to tackle the hardest levels of security, with all the hacking taking place via an often heart-stopping mini-game.
Despite the multi-solution structure, there does tend to be an emphasis on stealth, with a paucity of ammo of near Resident Evil proportions making every bullet valuable. And while you can with some effort - and stealth-based augmentations - ghost through the levels unseen, once detected it becomes a frantic cover-based shooter, albeit in a largely bloodless fashion that often resembles digital Top Trumps: my gun beats your armour. Unlike the old adage however, the toothpaste can be put back into the tube, and if you hide long enough the alarm level will decrease.
By no means easy, the game can be infuriating if you attempt to blunder through in gung-ho fashion, and you have to effectively train yourself to approach each situation with the tools at your disposal. Remaining true to the original, there are almost always different ways of solving problems. For instance, you're trying to break into a flat but you don't have the requisite hacking level. Simply hack next-door's easier lock, jump across the balcony and go in through the window. Need to get into a nightclub? Either pay the bouncer or crawl through a vent. It's these manifold solutions that give the game an individual edge, as well as offering indefinite replay value.
That said, progress is bottlenecked by somewhat archaic - and occasionally joypad-smashing - boss levels that do require a nifty trigger finger. And the game isn't too po-faced to hide a handy rocket launcher behind a pile of crates.
Graphically, it's a schizophrenic affair, with some rich cityscapes that offer a distinct nod towards Blade Runner (i.e., a foggy night in Middlesbrough). These are countered by odd glitches, as well as identikit sewers, air vents, lift shafts, and spartan interiors that seem to be a tribute to the original game, as indeed does the lip-synching, which looks rudimentary since LA Noire moved the goalposts.
There is a fair bit of chat throughout the game, and in fact one of the available augmentations is a Social Enhancer that enables you to guide the direction of a conversation. Snippets of conversation also provide a near constant background, and switching on the subtitles is a must if you want to catch every word. The devil really is in the detail, and for those who want to immerse themselves in the full experience, there are countless emails to sift through, ebooks to read, and even context sensitive (electronic) newspapers. For example, if you take out a local gang in a killing spree, you can pick up a paper minutes later and read all about it.
Deus Ex can occasionally be a difficult game to love, particularly when you're attempting the same section for the tenth time, but the sheer depth of the experience drives you on, and you do genuinely become involved in the characters and intrigued by the plot. Plus the diversity and usefulness of the augmentations is a huge incentive to acquire more (thus neatly capturing the problems faced by society in the game). Human Revolution is a worthy tribute to the original, and a game that will live long in the mind.
The near-mythical Deus Ex receives a modern reboot that remains true to the original concept, providing rich varied gameplay and an experience in which you can lose yourself.


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Adrian Gonzalez
For the encounter of meeting Adrian, click here. Like I wrote, the picture from my camera came out terrible. Luckily my friend shot this picture from a different angle. Thanks Ken. Viva Mexico cabrones! lol Check out the band on the site. They were rockin Norteño music. Almost came out deaf…
August 2, 2008 – Adrian Gonzalez
August 2, 2008 National City, California
Adrian Gonzalez was scheduled to sign autographs for free at a Hispanic Super Market in National City at 12pm It was crazy. We arrived early. About 20 fans in front of us but about 500 fans behind us. I'm not kidding. Adrian is very popular in the San Diego area. I took my World Baseball Classic Mexico Jersey. He was signing only 1 item per person. You couldn't give him another item. Impossible. I gave him the jersey and told him I enjoy his personal website and he thanked me and I asked for a quick picture. With loud Mexican music in the background, I didn't hear what he said. But my Wife shot the picture but it didn't come out good. I guess the guys in the background waving at her didn't make it easy. lol 🙂 But I got the autograph and that's what counts. The following players that have signed the jersey is Benji Gil, Oliver Perez and Fernando Valenzuela. Let's see how many more Mexican players I can get in the future. This is the picture of Adrian Gonzalez and myself holding the Jersey. A friend shot a picture of this moment from a different angle. He hasn't e-mail me the picture but once he does I will post it here.
A picture of all the fans waiting….You could only see from the front. This line went as far back as 1 block away from the Market. I don't remember seeing that much people to get a autograph. I've seen alot of fans at other events but this one had to be the most I've seen.
Thanks Adrian !

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President Barack Obama's administration Wednesday unveiled a new online tool aimed at giving prospective college students a better idea of what individual colleges will cost and whether the financial burden will be worth it.
The "College Scorecard" comes as student debt is at an all-time high, graduates are entering a tough job market and families are overwhelmed with confusing and sometimes hard-to-find information about costs.
Obama, during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, said families could use the website to figure out "where you can get the most bang for your educational buck," though some experts Wednesday criticized the data the administration chose to use.
The site allows consumers to get bare-bones information on two- and four-year colleges and universities, including tuition costs, graduation rates and graduates' average loan repayment per month. The goal is to eventually include data on graduates' employment and earnings, part of a push to make colleges more transparent about, and accountable for, student success.
"We know students and families are often overwhelmed in the college search process — but feel they lack the tools to sort through the information and decide which school is right for them," U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement. "The College Scorecard provides a snapshot about an institution's cost and value to help families make smart decisions about where to enroll."
Students can search for a specific institution or by factors such as location, size and majors offered. Some of the information is from prior Education Department initiatives, such as the College Navigator website that provides much of the same data.
The latest effort focuses more on helping students decide whether a particular school will be worth their investment by highlighting financial data, including how much the average student borrower has to repay each month after he or she graduates — and how that compares with other institutions.
For example, the site provides the following information about students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The average net tuition price, after grants and scholarships, is $15,610 a year. About 82.5 percent of students graduate in six years. For students who relied on federal loans to help pay for college, about 2.5 percent of them defaulted within three years of entering repayment. The average borrower pays back about $254 a month for 10 years.
Consumers can see how the costs and default rates compare with those of other colleges and universities. The default rate is a way to judge whether graduates are earning enough to be able to pay off their loans.
If students compare the U. of I.'s average loan default rate with those at other colleges, for example, they would learn it is about 1.8 percent at Northwestern University, 4.4 percent at DePaul University, 15.2 percent at Chicago State University and 18.6 percent at Harper College in Palatine. The national average default rate is 13.4 percent.
Augustana College's vice president, W. Kent Barnds, criticized the "one-size-fits-all" approach. He also said it emphasizes future earning potential instead of student learning. At $21,840, Augustana's net tuition price ranks on the high end, according to the scorecard. The typical amount that graduates have to repay in loans each month — about $287 — also ranks high.
Augustana, a liberal arts school in Rock Island, has about 2,500 undergraduates.
"Access to a great education cannot and should not be defined only through the language of dollars," Barnds said. "There is much more to consider when measuring the worth of a college education and degree."
Barnds said evaluating colleges based on its graduates' earnings will reward institutions that graduate large numbers of future engineers and corporate executives but not necessarily those who graduate large numbers of teachers.
The nonprofit Institute for College Access and Success, which has called for more transparency in higher education, applauded the latest effort but criticized the site, saying some of the data are "downright misleading."
The loan default rates, for example, do not include the context of how many students at a college borrow. And the data on the amount a college's borrowers end up repaying does not distinguish between students who complete a degree and those who dropped out after a few semesters. That could make a college with a high dropout rate look like a good deal when, in reality, its students are paying off debt accumulated in a short period of time.
Terry Hartle, senior vice president of government and public affairs at the American Council on Education, said the website is potentially useful but not a "game changer" because students make decisions about college for myriad reasons.
"There is certainly nothing wrong with what the administration is trying to do," he said, "but I don't think it fundamentally changes the decision-making of very many people."
The scorecard is at whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education/college-score-card


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MX 250 Deer Skull is one of James Hetfield's most recognized Explorer Guitars. It has the same MX-250 Explorer shape. James has recently fitted it with Sperzels and has fitted a small plate to the headstock as well.
The MX 250 Deer Skull was acquired sometime around late 1994 ,but used live more regularly from the Load era to the St. Anger Era. Still used occasionally, but not so much live. This was the basis for his ESP JH-2 signature modelOur Replicated MX 250 Metallica James Hetfield Explorer Guitar CloneAbout the original MX250 Deer Skull, we think we needn't say any more. If you are a fan of James Hetfiled, you will know this is a very typical guitar of james', which has accompanied james to show lots of concerts and it is james' favorite guitar. The guitar features mahogany body and neck, and the shape of this guitar respects MX250 Deer Skull have more sharp points (no banana headstock), slightly longer body (bottom strap button to tip of headstock), switch moved further away from the volume pots, no step in the neck, style single screw bell shaped truss rod cover changed in 1996 to bullet style truss rod cover. Regardless of what color you desire, they are usually pricey-more than $3000. To many guitarists in the street, it is indeed a sky-high price, but anyway it worths. Guys like it but can't afford at all. But if you are looking at our website now, your dream of owning a MX250 Deer Skull guitar with much less money will come true!!!
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The MX250 Deer Skull guitar is the same model as most of James' Explorers, being the difference on the inlays. This guitar has beautiful deer skull inlays. Our replicaated guitar strictly follows the original one, details can be seen from the picture above.
New design bullet style truss rod cover with one screw, which is very special!!The original MX 250 Metallica James Hetfield Explorer Guitar Clone costs fucking more than $3000, we said guys who like it can not afford at all. Now our replicated guitar is sold at a very low price. We just want to realize fans' guitar dream, and share it with all our friends.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Note:Some customers come here complaining about other sellers' replicated explorer guitars, due to they do not enquire and ask for detail pictures carefully before they order the items. To help our customers know more about what look like of real explorer guitar, we list a few pictures of other sellers' explorer guitar and ours.
1. The right logo position is at middle of headstock, but other copies on the market print the logo on the top of headstock.2. Our replicated Explorer was built as the blueprint, both the body and the neck is same with the original guitar. But on the replica market, some Chinese copies are totally wrong, their headstock shape is much bigger, pls look at this pic above.3. Some Chinese copies often make wrong shape of cover of controls, our explorer guitar on the right picture above shows you what is right.4. Volume, Tone and Way Toggle Switch of the original mx 250 is not in a straight line. But some copies on the market make them in a straight line.Those above are just a few points about the shape and error details. Please pay attention to them. As for the wood selection, processing and quality, we do not enumerate one by one. But when purchasing, you need to pay attention to every details.About pickupsIt is worth mentioning that the pickups we select are Wilkinson pickups, Which is more attractive in quality and price. Wilkinson pickups are what we strongly advise. They will save you much money!!! With top quality, Wilkinson pickups are stable and reliable enough!!!
Of course, we also have original pickups- EMG 81/60, which are James Hetfield's favorite pickups, and they can give you original James sound. But you need pay extra money.
About James Hetfiled
James Hetfiled is the rhythm guitarist, co-founder, main composer and lead singer in the heavy metal band Metallica. Metallica was set up in Oct 1981, since that time, Metallica has won 9 Grammy Awards, and released 9 studio albums, three live albums, four extensive plays and twenty-four singles. In 2009, Hetfield was recorded No. 8 in Joel McIver's book The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists, and rated No. twenty four in the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists after beating Parader. James favors Explorer guitar so much that he has employed Explorer guitars from Gibson to ESP successively, and he has been the primary endorser for ESP since 1980. James' main custom-made guitar is the Explorer specifically manufactured by Ken Lawrence.
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James Hetfield has been a major endorser of Guitars since the 1980s, and is best known for playing custom-made Explorer-style guitars with an EMG 81/EMG 60 set for pickups. Hetfield's main guitar from the early days was a Flying V copy made in Japan by Electra.But when the headstock broke on his white Flying V, James turned to his backup guitar: a white Explorer. Although he later got the Flying V repaired and dabbled with other Vs, it was the Explorer that would become his main guitar for nearly the next 15 years. James began using several versions of the 1984 Explorer. These were unlike the 1976 version, with rounded edges and no pickguard. Also making a difference was the control layout which was not in-line like other Explorers. The following are explorers James Hetfield once used, pls check!!!
1984 Explorer
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James Hetfield Snakebyte Guitar
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The AWP of Bubbles, Balloons, and Lonely Hipsters [Some March 2014 Translations]
Last weekend, over 14,000 writers, publishers, agents, translators, reviewers, professors, and readers swarmed the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle for the annual Associated Writing Programs conference—four days of heavy drinking, pot-chocolate (it's legal in Washington!), endless craft panels, a bustling exhibition hall, and the most awesomely awkward dance parties ever.
Put a huge number of book people in any one place and shit is bound to get weird. And when a huge percentage of these book people are young, struggling writers? Weird plus neurotic. Good thing Bubble Man was at the entrance to greet everyone with some love.
Over the past decade, AWP has grown to be one of the largest and most important book events of the year. No longer just a place where mediocre poetry is belted out to the accompaniment of crushing depression and a strummed guitar, AWP is a crucial sales outlet for a lot of presses. (Especially poetry presses, who, due to the decline of other outlets and the increase in AWP attendance will sell $3,000+ worth of books over the weekend.)
Personally, I think this was the best AWP I've ever attended. We broke all our sales records—thanks to a few superfans who bought books and brought friends over to buy all the rest of the books—had a great time with local friends George Carroll, Jay Weaver, Don Mee Choi, and Owen Rowe, enjoyed all the Elliot Bay Book Company experiences, danced a lot too much, and threw an epic (and soon to be annual) Open Letter Happy Hour.
That said, this blog isn't really about happiness and stability . . . So, here are a few observations and jokes to give you a better sense of AWP and to lead into this month's translation highlights.
1) Someone really needs to do a book entitled The Hats and Beards of AWP. AWP is like Williamsburg on steroids. There can never be enough beard and skinny jeans! Also, George Carroll's lovely wife kept referring to AWP—usually pronounced as three distinct letters, "a," "w," "p"—as a single word: "Awwwp." Which is a way cooler way to say its name, and which led to the conference-long game of trying to identify the "Wizard of AWP."
2) What the hell is this, and what is it advertising?
3) Please stop with the endless poetry readings. I know everyone that's part of an MFA program wants a chance to read their work out loud, but some of the events are 4+ hours long. That's just insane and mind-numbing. Especially given the fact that more than half of the poets read with the same annoying cadence. I went to one poetry reading, and left after texting this imitation to a few friends:
And then. I read.
Read a poem.
Poem of poem.
I believe. AWP is. Is. Is.
A place. Pleasant place.
AWP IS. It is.
It is a place of performance.
Performance place.
We. We perform.
AWP. AWP performs.
Me. Me. Writing.
Me. Poetry
AWP. Me.
4) Why does everyone come home from AWP with a wicked, neverending cold? Are writers inherently dirty and germ filled? CLEAN YOURSELVES NEXT YEAR. My sinuses can't take this shit.
5) Every night from 10-midnight, there is an AWP dance party. And yes, it is filled with as much awkward as you're envisioning. Thankfully, there is free beer and wine for the first hour, and the DJ specializes in playing Rap for White Girls (e.g., Nelly's "Ride with Me"), so by around 11, there's a lot of normally self-conscious people on the dance floor moving in ways that sort of resembles dancing. In other words, it's totally awesome. (Somewhere there exists a video of me and Scott Esposito dancing to Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll.") It's non-judgmental—because, well, look around—truly all-ages, and a pretty fun release after 10 hours of bad poetry and the worst indoor lighting imaginable.
But this year, the Saturday night dance party was a bit of a train wreck. It all started off with one
douchebag lonely hipster doing a methodical hip thrust in the middle of the dance floor. Wearing only a wife beater and more hair grease than Cristiano Ronaldo. I'm not sure if he thought he was being ironic, or simply performing some sort of desperate mating call, but he managed to piss off most everyone there. And then, because "hipsters" of this sort just can't embarrass themselves enough, he actually got on stage, had a friend join him, and even lost the wife beater . . . before someone official threw him off—an unsavory 45 minutes later. We spend most of the night hoping, for his sake, that he was tripping balls—even though that wouldn't change the fact that he was the worst person there ever. And because this image is scarred on my brain forever, I figured I'd share it with all of you. You're welcome!
OK, now on to this month's interesting translations!
Trans-Atlantyk: An Alternate Translation by Witold Gombrowicz, translated from the Polish by Danuta Borchardt (Yale University Press)
I love Gombrowicz, but have never gotten around to reading this book about a penniless Polish writer who escapes the Nazis and moves to Argentina—much like Gombrowicz himself. When I was in Argentina a few years back though, we were taken on a literary walking tour and if memory serves, we went by the bar where Witold used to hang out and rant about how much Borges sucked. Apparently he had a thing against JLB, and liked to tell EVERYONE about it.
One evening, a friend challenged him on this by asking what Borges stories Gombrowicz had read. His very Polish response: "None! Why would I ever waste my time reading that crap?"
God I love Polish writers.
Killing the Second Dog by Marek Hlasko, translated from the Polish by Tomasz Mirkowicz (New Vessel)
Sticking with that same theme, I would read anything written by this guy who, according to the New Vessel website, was considered to be the "Polish James Dean."
Add to that picture the fact that this book is about two Polish con men trying to swindle an American widow, and I'm completely sold.
Stone Tablets by Wojciech Zukrowski, translated from the Polish by Stephanie Kraft (Paul Dry Books)
A few months back, I found out that basically all of my ancestors on both sides of my family are from the area surrounding Gdańsk/Danzig. More specifically, my dad's side is made up of Pomeranians and my mom's is all Kashubians. This is one reason why I got into The Tin Drum right from the start—one of the main characters in the opening section is a Kashubian arsonist. Fire AND Poland! (Actually, taking this character as representative for larger Kashubian characteristics explains a lot about my personality.) Anyway, later on in the novel, there's a great speech by Oskar's Kashubian grandmother:
"That's Kashubes for you, little Oskar. Always getting hit on the head. But you are going where things are better now, and leaving old Granny behind. Because Kahsubes don't move around a lot, they always stay put, and hold their head still for others to whack, because we ain't really Polish and we ain't really German, and Kashubes ain't good enough for Germans or Pollacks. They want everything cut and dried."
Also, Stone Tablets is about a Hungarian diplomat in India during the Hungarian Uprising. But let's be honest—I'm mostly including it here because the author is Polish.
Rambling On: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from the Czech by David Short (Karolinum Press)
Sticking with Eastern Europe . . . There are two Bohumil Hrabal books coming out this spring: Rambling On this month, and Harlequin's Millions in May. If you haven't read Hrabal, you absolutely must. Too Loud a Solitude, Dancing Lessons for the Advanced of Age, I Served the King of England, these are all fantastic novels that embody Hrabal's idiosyncratic style that is joyful, conversational, and instantly engaging. Here's Adam Thirlwell's description of it from his wonderful The Delighted States:
In Czech, there is a word for Hrabal's style. This word is Hrabalovština. Hrabalovština is a comic display of vocabulary, of headlong words and invented syntax—it is a system which is forever trying to put off its own demise. But Hrabal's own word for his style was palavering, and palavering is a much more useful and precise concept for this style, this new invention in the art of the novel. Palavering is an art, and it is committed to deferral, to a comic refusal to be polite, and stop talking. It is, according to Hrabal, "my defense against politics, my policy in fact." And this word policy is important. It shows how considered and meditated was Hrabal's apparently natural style. Because the truest poetry is also the most feigning. Against the direction and drive of ideas, Hrabal offer the more vulgar luxuries of digression, and of free association.
Hopefully this collection of short stories and Harlequin's Millions—and other celebrations and articles related to the centennial of Hrabal's birth—will help spawn a new group of Hrabal fans . . .
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton (Minotaur)
Here's a bit from the opening of the review of this novel in the Independent:
Leaving aside the literary merits of I Remember You, residents of Iceland were thoroughly terrified by the book—but, ironically, for its jacket, featuring a pair of intensely staring eyes that (for some reason) deeply disturbed—and even obsessed—many Icelanders, and occasioned a slew of complaints.
Why didn't Minotaur use this cover instead of that crap up there? And why can't I find an image of this? I want to know how intensely these eyes are staring!
Speaking of Iceland, I really wish I could go to the Secret Solstice Music Festival in June. Scratch that. I wish I could just move to Iceland and spend the rest of my days tending bar and floating in the Blue Lagoon.
Also, one other random thing: Unless I'm missing something, there are only three books by women coming out in translation this month. That's embarrassing.
A Curse on Dostoevsky by Atiq Rahimi, translated from the French by Polly McLean (Other Press)
This novel—the fourth to be made available in English from Afghani writer Rahimi—sounds really fun:
Rassoul remembers reading Crime and Punishment as a student of Russian literature in Leningrad, so when, with axe in hand, he kills the wealthy old lady who prostitutes his beloved Sophia, he thinks twice before taking her money or killing the woman whose voice he hears from another room. He wishes only to expiate his crime and be rightfully punished. Out of principle, he gives himself up to the police. But his country, after years of civil war, has fallen into chaos. In Kabul there is only violence, absurdity, and deafness, and Rassoul's desperate attempt to be heard turns into a farce.
Given how Other Press has been killing it lately, I won't be surprised if we're talking about this next year as a potential BTBA 2015 longlist title . . .
Decoded Olivia by Mai Jia, translated from the Chinese by Olivia Milburn (FSG)
We never seem to receive galleys for the "fun" books in translation that presses bring out. A tragic, complicated novel about World War II survivors? Perfect for Post. A thriller about code-breaking and an autistic math genius? Seems more Flavorwire that Three Percent. Shit! I want code breaking! I like math!
But seriously, although I'm sure this isn't as interesting as the jacket copy makes it out be, it does sound like a good escape from the "heavier" stuff that I feel like I've been reading this year. Actually, right now, to balance the more traditionally "literary" stuff I've been reading (and will be reading after the BTBA longlist announcement), I've been reading Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic. I'm not quite halfway done, but I'm really enjoying it . . . It's very entertaining, and although I've never seen the movie Stalker or the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video games, both of these things make sense. I also have things to say about the "meaningfulness" of "entertaining" books, but I think I'll save that for next month.
On Leave by Daniel Anselme, translated from the French by David Bellos (Faber and Faber)
By contrast, On Leave is a bit more serious . . . One of the few novels about the French-Algerian War, On Leave is a book about three soldiers who, on a 10-day break from the fighting, realize that they don't really fit into society anymore. It was published during the conflict (in 1957; the war ended in 1962), and was read by almost no one. This truly is a lost classic, and kudos to David Bellos for translated it and Faber and Faber for publishing it.
Also, extra-thanks to the Faber publicity department for using a blurb from Paul Doyle's Three Percent review on the press release. I'll never forget the first time Grove pulled a blurb from one of my reviews, and I still get giddy when Three Percent pops up in places like this.
Falling Out of Time by David Grossman, translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen (Knopf)
Of all Grossman's books, this is the one that sounds the most intriguing to me, mostly for it's genre-bending nature:
In Falling Out of Time, David Grossman has created a genre-defying drama––part play, part prose, pure poetry––to tell the story of bereaved parents setting out to reach their lost children. It begins in a small village, in a kitchen, where a man announces to his wife that he is leaving, embarking on a journey in search of their dead son. The man––called simply Walking Man––paces in ever-widening circles around the town. One after another, all manner of townsfolk fall into step with him (the Net-Mender, the Midwife, the Elderly Math Teacher, even the Duke), each enduring his or her own loss. The walkers raise questions of grief and bereavement: Can death be overcome by an intensity of speech or memory? Is it possible, even for a fleeting moment, to call to the dead and free them from their death? Grossman's answer to such questions is a hymn to these characters, who ultimately find solace and hope in their communal act of breaching death's hermetic separateness. For the reader, the solace is in their clamorous vitality, and in the gift of Grossman's storytelling––a realm where loss is not merely an absence but a life force of its own.
That's all for this month. Check back in on Tuesday, March 11th to find out which books made the longlist for the 2014 BTBA in Fiction. And April is LOADED with great translations, including one of the best Open Letter books of 2014 . . .


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A conservative Florida group has boycotted the video game giant Electronic Arts over a new "Star Wars" game that features gay characters and story lines.
The Florida Family Association (FFA) called for the boycott of "Star Wars: The Old Republic" and "Mass Effect 3" because the games are set to add gay characters, according to reports.
"There were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars movies," the group said on its website in a post that featured an altered photo of Darth Vader with RuPaul's head.
The group charged that EA relented to pressure from the LGBT community, but EA said the decision to include gay characters was their own.
"EA has not been pressured by any groups to include LGBT characters in our games," Jeff Brown, EA's Vice President of Corporate Communications told GamesIndustry. "However, we have met with LBGT groups and sponsored industry forums to discuss content and harassment of players in online forums. In short, we do put options for same-sex relationships in our games; we don't tolerate hate speech on our forums."
AllOut.org, an organization dedicated to LGBT equality, said in a statement that the decision to include gay characters was not just the right thing to do but also good business.
"You don't have to be a gamer to understand that it makes a real difference for Electronic Arts to present positive portrayals of gays and lesbians to its community of 100 million players," Andre Banks, the Executive Director for AllOut.org said in the statement, which was posted on AllOut's Tumblr.
The FFA, meanwhile, is asking its subscribers to send EA an email that the group drafted against the inclusion of gay characters in video games. But the FFA is not allowing members to change the pre-written email.
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It may look like a tank, but it's not a tank.
A Facebook picture posted Wednesday morning by Denver radio disc jockey Willie B., of a tracked vehicle with a "Jefferson County Sheriff" logo sitting on a flatbed trailer, quickly went viral.
"Uhhhhhh Damn..they gotta Tank!! I'm absolutely sure this is to protect us and serve us....right?" the 106.7 KBPI disc jockey wrote on his Facebook page.
The picture quickly spread across Facebook and garnered 1,746 shares before jumping to Reddit and other sites, with commentators up in arms about a tank in Jefferson County.
"We can buy tanks, only our Jeffco schools our youth, Have to have a bake sale or some other fund raiser to fund computers and books. Great job guys," wrote one Facebook commentator.
"They shouldn't be buying any military hardware, are they implying the state is at war with its citizens?" wrote a Reddit user.
Even though it has tracks similar to a tank, it's actually a 1976 M113-A1 Armored Personnel Carrier that has been on loan to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office from the Department of Defense since 2005, said sheriff's office spokesman Mark Techmeyer.
"We've had it for nine years now and have been very transparent with it," Techmeyer said. "We took it to a middle school career fair yesterday ... I don't know where that particular picture came from but we've had a lot of photos of the vehicle on our website over the years."
The most likely use of the vehicle is in active shooter situations where deputies can be transported safely to a barricaded house, Techmeyer said, or used to transport a suspected bomb.
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The spokesman for the Rio Games organizing committee has apologized to U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte and three of his teammates over how they were robbed earlier this week, and revealed that security officials have been asked to be even more vigilant going forward.
Lochte told NBC's Billy Bush he and fellow U.S. swimmers Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, Jimmy Feigen were robbed when the taxi they were in early Sunday was stopped by people posing as police officers. The swimmer said one of the robbers held a gun to his forehead.
"We obviously regret that the violence has (gotten) so close to athletes," Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada said Monday. "We have requested security authorities that they need to make sure everybody's safe everywhere in the city. We apologize to those involved. Once again, we regret that violence is still an issue at these games."
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Rio Police have also appealed for the swimmers' taxi driver to identify himself to officials in order to help in the investigation, Brazil's OGlobo reported.
Street crime was a major concern of Olympic organizers going into the games, and there have been several high-profile problems on that front since the games started.
Meanwhile, Brazil's sports minister Leonardo Picciani argued that security at the games have been "absolutely efficient" and alleged Lochte's incident occurred outside the Olympic zones.
"All of the athletes have participated in competitions without any kind of problems. Those who have bought tickets to and attended Games have also gone without experiencing any problems," Picciani told OGlobo. "We can't measure [security] based on one factor or another that occurred outside the locations of competitions. No athlete has had any security problems in the competition or training locations, nor in the Olympic Village."


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2010 Slab Clean-up (March 27th, 2010)
The Slab ORV Area Clean-up
Hosted by the Dust Dodgers, All Wheelers Off Road Club and ORV Trail Watch.
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
On Saturday March 27th, 2010 volunteers meet out at the Slab ORV Area to pickup trash to help keep the area open.
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Deputy Sutliff came out to support the volunteer efforts.
Fatboy, Test Dummy and Fireman Bob.
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Test Dummy's crew heading out.
Two of my kids went with Fatboy. Doc and Odo stayed to help 99 and I pickup around the sign in booth.
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Jeepscum, Dirty Bill and Roller Bear.
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Crawl Dad and Mama moving into another work area.
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NEWPORT, R.I. (taken from an SRU press release) -- Brandeis junior right fielder Cameron Shaw (E. Setauket, N.Y./Ward Melville) hit his first collegiate home run today, but it wasn't enough as the Judges fell to Salve Regina University, 8-3, in a non-conference baseball game today. Brandeis falls to 13-17 with the loss, while SRU improves to 23-11.
Shaw's home run was a blast to left field in the eighth inning. Not only was it his first, it was Brandeis's first round-tripper 30 games into the season.
Salve Regina freshman lefty Cole Tretter (East Lyme, Conn.) pitched five shutout innings with six strikeouts and sophomore left fielder Ryan Sweenor (South Kingstown, R.I.) blasted a three-run homerun as the Seahawks won their sixth straight game.
Tretter allowed just three hits while walking three as the rookie saw his season record improve to 4-0. Tretter gave way to a Seahawk bullpen that surrendered three runs, two earned, on just three hits and three walks over the final four innings.
Salve Regina took an 1-0 lead after their first at bat in the bottom of the first as junior third baseman Joe Haley(North Kingstown, R.I.) delivered a two-out, RBI single to left center that scored senior Dominic Di Sano(Central Falls, R.I.) from second base.
With Tretter shutting down the Judges lineup through five innings, the Seahawks offense gave their starter some breathing room with a five-run bottom of the fourth. After Haley walked and junior second baseman Sean Becker (Richmond, Va.) doubled to put runners on second and third, Sweenor sent a towering shot over the left field fence to put the Salve Regina ahead 4-0. A sacrifice fly to right by junior shortstop Daniel Donohue(Westbury, N.Y.) that plated senior Salvatore Cumella (Ridgefield, N.J.) from third capped off the four-run rally in the fourth.
Salve Regina tacked on another run in the bottom of the sixth on a RBI groundout by sophomore centerfielder Ryan Kelly (Waldwick, N.J.) before Brandeis cut into their 7-0 deficit with a RBI groundout of their own off the bat of sophomore catcher Connor Doyle (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms) that brought home sophomore Sam Miller (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln Sudbury) in the top of the seventh. Salve Regina's Becker would get the run right back in the bottom half of the seventh with a RBI single to right.
Brandeis scored singular runs in the top of the eighth and ninth innings but were unable to get consistent offensive production off the Seahawks bullpen. In the top of the eighth, came Shaw's blast and in the ninth, sophomore third baseman Greg Heineman (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) hit a single up the middle to plate freshman Ryan Tettemer (Westfield, Mass./Suffield Acad.) from second base.
Brandeis senior starter Brian Ing (Sandwich, Mass./Sandwich) suffered the loss, falling to 2-2 on the season. The Judges return to action on Sunday afternoon with a 12 p.m. doubleheader at Trinity (Conn.).


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Van Helsing and his intrepid band of vampire hunters might have disposed of Bram Stoker's creation Dracula more than a century ago, but a sequel to the novel by Stoker's great grand-nephew will see them under attack from the undead once again.
Dacre Stoker delved into his ancestor's handwritten notes on the original Dracula novel to pen his sequel, Dracula: The Un-Dead - the original name for Dracula before an editor changed the title. The novel, out next October, draws on excised characters, existing character back-stories and plot threads that were cut from Stoker's original novel, first published 111 years ago.
The new book is set in London in 1912, a quarter of a century after the Count apparently "crumbled into dust". Vampire-hunter Van Helsing's protégé Dr Seward is now a disgraced morphine addict, and Quincey, the son of Stoker's hero Jonathan, has become involved in a troubled theatre production of Dracula, directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself. The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents' terrible secrets, but before he can confront them his father is found murdered, impaled in Piccadilly Circus.
The original is written in classic epistolatory form, alternating between different narrators; the sequel adopts a more direct storytelling route. "[This] makes it more immediately accessible to a modern thriller readership, while remaining faithful to the spirit and atmosphere of the Victorian original," said publisher Jane Johnson of HarperCollins UK.
The book has caused a storm in the publishing world, selling for more $1m to Dutton US, HarperCollins UK and Penguin Canada. A film version is also in the works, with shooting expected to begin next June.
Dacre Stoker, who formerly coached the Canadian Olympic Pentathlon team and now lives in the US, is writing the novel with Dracula historian Ian Holt, a screenwriter and member of The Transylvanian Society of Dracula. The Un-Dead is the first Dracula story to be fully authorised by the Stoker family since the 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi.
Stoker, speaking to guardian.co.uk from a fishing trip in Tennessee, said he had initially been "a little sceptical" about the project to resurrect Bram Stoker's original themes and characters, which was dreamed up by Holt. "Growing up, all the Stokers in my generation were pretty blasé about the fact we were related to this great horror writer. At Halloween we'd get all these comments about 'are we going to get bitten if we go round to the Stokers?'," he said, admitting that he only got around to reading his great grand-uncle's novel when he went to college. "But Ian seemed to be the real deal."
Stoker and Holt say they have each written equal amounts of the novel. "When we started I was worried because Dacre had never written a novel before, but he was great," Holt said. "I think I've got a little bit [of my ancestor's skills] in the bloodline," said Stoker, who spent some time researching the London of 1912 in order to write the book. "We really needed to do the detail the way Bram did - we owed it to him," he said.
"At times we felt in a weird way that Bram was there with us as a third author," added Holt. "We had his notes, and the stories and legends passed down through the family - we were able to give him back his legacy - reclaim Dracula for his roots." Stoker agreed. "Our intent is to give both Bram and Dracula back their dignity. Maybe even more important is to give the novel's legions of loyal fans what they have been waiting over a century for...the return of the real Dracula."
Stoker's original Dracula, the forefather of the wave of vampire novels currently flooding the bookshops, has never been out of print since it was published in 1897. The sequel will be competing with two other high profile vampire novels published next year: film director Guillermo del Toro's debut The Strain, about a vampiric virus which invades New York, and Justin Cronin's The Passage, about a vampire plague spawned by medical experiments.


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President Donald Trump has set his sights on a new target: filmmaker and Trump critic Michael Moore.
"While not at all presidential I must point out that the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad!" Trump tweeted on Saturday.
The president criticized the liberal activist's one-man show, "The Terms of My Surrender," a limited Broadway performance that officially opened on Aug. 10 and was already scheduled to end on Oct. 22.
Moore is an outspoken critic of Trump. In "The Terms of My Surrender," Moore shared stories, quizzed audience members and pleaded for activism. Whoopi Goldberg, Gloria Steinem, Billie Joe Armstrong, Lee Daniels and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., made appearances onstage with Moore.
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The filmmaker even led audience members to a Trump Tower after the Aug. 15 show to protest the president's reaction to deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Though "The Terms of My Surrender" was not a top show at the box office, Playbill.com reported, Moore's show did complete it's full scheduled run. Still, it mostly grossed less than half of its potential and drew in a capacity around the 70th percentile.
Moore later took to Twitter to respond to the president's feedback.
"You must have my smash hit of a Broadway show confused with your presidency-- which IS a total bomb and WILL indeed close early. NOT SAD," he wrote.
Moore went on to chastise Trump for focusing on his broadway show instead of fallen service members in Afghanistan, the first charges filed in the Russia investigation and the ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. He claimed that "The Terms of My Surrender" was the highest grossing non-musical of the summer. While it was the highest grossing of those that opened in the summer, Playbill.com reported, "The Play That Goes Wrong" grossed more in the 12 weeks Moore's play was open.
This is not the first time Trump has taken on a Broadway show. In Nov. 2016, then-President-Elect Trump criticized Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" after castmembers took time onstage to address then-Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence, who was sitting in the audience of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical. Trump said Pence was "harassed" and that the cast was "very rude"


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Ex-Im Bank Authorizes $150 Million in Export Financing for Energy Projects in Latin America
Dec 18, 2012, 05:12 ET
Transactions will support more than 500 American jobs
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than a $150 million worth of American-made energy equipment will head to Uruguay and Mexico because of transactions approved this week by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). The Bank approved a $78.6 million direct loan to Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B), a company in Seville, Spain, that applies technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors. The Bank also approved a $73.6 million direct loan to Palmatir S.A., a 50 MW wind farm in Cuchilla de Peralta, Uruguay, which is owned by Abengoa. Approximately 510 American jobs will be supported from these two transactions.
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"These two transactions demonstrate the strength of American energy technology and highlight the importance of this growing sector," said Ex-Im Bank Chairman and President Fred P. Hochberg. "In order for the U.S. to compete globally, our companies must continue to produce cutting-edge energy technology. President Obama set an ambitious goal of doubling U.S. exports in five years, and these types of projects will help us meet that goal in 2015."
Uruguay - Palmatir S.A.
The Palmatir S.A. loan is Ex-Im Bank's first wind transaction in Uruguay, and it is the largest in the country's history from the Bank. Ex-Im's loan will support the purchase of 25 wind turbines from Gamesa Technology Corporation (Gamesa), which has its North American headquarters in Trevose, Pa. The loan will also help to finance ancillary services and local costs in Uruguay associated with construction of the wind farm. The project will feature Gamesa's G90-2.0 MW turbines. Gamesa began manufacturing wind turbines in the United States in 2006, and it has supplied more than 3,900 megawatts since its arrival in the U.S. The loan will support approximately 160 jobs at Gamesa, and this will be company's first project in Uruguay.
In April 2011, Chairman Hochberg joined President Obama for a tour of Gamesa's factory in Fairless Hills, Pa. Last year, Gamesa received Ex-Im Bank's "Renewable Energy Exporter of the Year" award for its work on a 102-megawatt wind farm in Honduras.
"Exports equal jobs, and Ex-Im Bank provides great mechanisms for facilitating our exports," Gamesa North America Chairman David Flitterman said. "The strong demand for our Pennsylvania-manufactured wind turbines in Central and South America provides lasting benefits to our local economy. This creates additional benefits to our supply chain that provides the materials and services needed in the manufacturing process."
Mexico - Abengoa S.A.
The Bank's loan to Abengoa S.A. will support the purchase of three GE 7FA gas turbines and two generators for the use in the 642 MW Centro Power Project in Morelos, Mexico. The American exports will be used to help build a power plant for Mexico's public electric utility. Approximately 350 jobs at GE are supported by the Bank's financing.
According to the customer, Ex-Im support for this project was needed due to foreign competition and limited availability of long-term loans.
About Ex-Im Bank
Ex-Im Bank is an independent federal agency that creates and maintains U.S. jobs by filling gaps in private export financing at no cost to American taxpayers. In the past five years (from Fiscal Year 2008), Ex-Im Bank has earned for U.S. taxpayers nearly $1.6 billion above the cost of operations. The Bank provides a variety of financing mechanisms, including working capital guarantees, export-credit insurance and financing to help foreign buyers purchase U.S. goods and services.
Ex-Im Bank approved $35.8 billion in total authorizations in FY 2012 – an all-time Ex-Im record. This total includes more than $6.1 billion directly supporting small-business export sales – also an Ex-Im record. Ex-Im Bank's total authorizations are supporting an estimated $50 billion in U.S. export sales and approximately 255,000 American jobs in communities across the country. For more information, visit www.exim.gov.
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PIANY praises Assembly for passing windstorm deductible bill; urges Senate to act
ALBANY, N.Y.–The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. commends the New York State Assembly for its passage of a bill, A.3282/S.3387, which would protect coastal homeowners from the problems associated with insurance companies use of widely varying deductible triggers. "We applaud Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg and Sen. Kenneth LaValle for sponsoring this bill, and urge the Senate to follow the Assemblys lead and pass the bill before hurricane season begins on June 1," said PIANY President Richard A. Savino, CIC, CPIA.
PIANY has long advocated for this consumer-protection measure.
"Hurricanes Irene and Lee should serve as wake-up calls to policymakers that standard triggers and deductibles must be implemented to avoid disparate claims handling as the result of a windstorm or hurricane hitting the state," Savino explained. "A great majority of policyholders are unaware that companies use different triggers to apply deductibles to their policies. This means one homeowner could have a completely different deductible trigger than his next-door neighbor, and the circumstances for which each policy covers windstorm damage could be different for both of them. The next storm to hit New York could result in rightful outrage from consumers over this complicated puzzle of windstorm insurance deductibles and triggers, and we urge lawmakers in the Senate to take action now."
PIANY is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees throughout the state.


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Update April 25, 14:01 UTC : According to Pakistani news, the number of fatalities rises to 27. At least 150 other were injured. Much more than 300 houses collapsed. Local officials say that mostly people suffered in Laghman, Konar, Nurestan and Nangarhar provinces in eastern Afghanistan. Hundreds of cattle were killed.
Update 17:40 UTC : Rescue work will be certainly hampered by the nightly hours. We expect that the current number of injured and fatalities will probably increase when the rubble of many collapsed houses is being cleared. Keep this page open as new updates may be expected the following hours. Page refresh happens automatically.
Update 17:29 UTC : USGS has updated his earthquake data. It decreased the Magnitude from Mw5.7 at 65 km to Mw5.6 at 62 km depth. Recalculation of the different parameters has however resulted in a higher shaking expectation for the towns and villages. You can compare them with the table below. The new data are more reflecting what people have told us in their experience reports. The adapted shaking map below shows a greenish area in the Jalalabad valleys which are mainly river sediment.
Update 16:20 UTC : Reports from Xinhua Press mention 3 deaths in Kunar province. This would bring the subtotal to 25, if no double counting has occurred.
Update 15:40 UTC : The 22 people killed in Nangarhar are confirmed from Iranian sources reporting from Afghanistan. 1 killed also in Kunar as previously reported.
Many people are still believed to be under the rubble. 113 people have been injured in Nangarhar Province, and 6 injured in Kunar Province.
Update 15:10 UTC : Main concerns are for Laghman from which we have not heard much at this point. We hope that the 23 killed have included some of the flood victims, from reports, but reports of 15 killed from the earthquake alone are currently common place, with the 23 killed also being reported.
Update 14:40 UTC : As night fall creeps up on Afghanistan, there are hopes that more survivors will be found. In Kunar Province, 500 buildings have been destroyed or damaged. More are expected in Nangarhar.
Update 14:20 UTC : Landslides have been reported. It is unclear as yet, whether additional deaths have occurred due to landslides than the 23 dead due to shaking and structural collapses.
Update 13:57 UTC : The death toll has risen again to 22 dead and 119 injured.
It should be mentioned that these are just in Nangarhar. In addition in Kunar, 1 death and 1 injured was reported. It is expected that the total will rise. In addition, we haven't gained an insight yet into the possible landslide impacts.
Thus, the total is now 23 dead, 120 injured.
Update 13:30 UTC : The death toll has risen to 13 from the Afghan TV News Network.
Update 13:05 UTC : 8 people have died according to Iranian news sources.
Update 12:55 UTC : 7 dead, 76 injured.
Nangarhar province - 6 dead with 75 injured. Many homes destroyed.
Kunar province - 1 dead with 1 injured. Many homes destroyed.
Update 12:53 UTC : We also remind viewers that earthquakes such as this occur regularly and in most cases does not lead to earthquakes of larger magnitude than the earthquake we have just seen. It is important to realise that despite alarmist websites like World Earthquakes that the reality is that there is always a small chance of a large earthquake occurring but it is not possible to predict future earthquakes.
Update 12:50 UTC : 7 dead, 20 severely injured, 49 slightly injured. Much damage to walls and collapsed adobe buildings is being reported.
Update 12:45 UTC : At least 34 injured as well. The 7 deaths also includes 1 child, and was reported from local TV.
Update 12:34 UTC : Reports of 7 deaths are on TV, as well as damage to adobe houses. (Kindly reported to us by Dr. Syed Ali, Director of the Peshawar University Earthquake Engineering Center.) In addition, the following was reported:
- " We felt the earthquake, it was strong. So far no damage is reported. It was felt in large parts of country. Abbottabad and Muzaffarabad also felt the quake"
Earthquake Report wants to emphasise the great work that is done by many Earthquake Engineering Centers including Peshawar in maintaining and installing tri-axial accelerometers and broad band seismometers, as well as conducting detailed studies in such earthquakes. We greatly support funding of this, as through better determination of the hypocenter, faster alerts can be made.
Update 11:28 UTC : According to weather expert Bernhard Mühr, CEDIM, Karlsruhe, Germany, according to weather forecast models: no intense widespread rain expected during next 7 days.
However, over mountain ranges some isolated showers and thunderstorms with local downpours are to be expected. The temperature forecast Jalalabad: Tmax 27°C, Tmin 15°C and similar for the next 4 days.
It is likely that the saturated soils from the past events are still saturated, and earthquake-report.com still calls this earthquake "dangerous".
Update 11:15 UTC : It is very probable that the earthquake has caused damage, as similar earthquakes in the last 110 years shown below have caused damage.
Update 11:10 UTC : Our viewers may remember the Afghan earthquake of June 2012 - http://earthquake-report.com/2012/06/11/afghanistan-strong-earthquake-hits-populated-area/ where over 70 people died as the result of a landslide from a 5.4 earthquake at 49km depth.
Update 11:00 UTC : There has been over 13 people killed in flooding in Afghanistan in the past few days, and from Afghan earthquakes, most fatalities are generally caused by landslides.
We hope to receive information soon as to the possible landslides that have occurred.
Update 10:32 UTC : The earthquake happened in the Afghanistan Province of Laghman (population 416,184) . The nearest places are Kabol, Bagh-e Mirza, and Dehmazang. The maximum altitude nearby is 4858m.
Update 10:29 UTC : The small map below shows the number of people living in a radius near the epicenter. We have to stress however that in case of intermediate or deep earthquakes the radius is less important.
Update 10:27 UTC : This earthquake has even be felt in Abu Dhabi and probably also in the UAE. Abu Dhabi is at a distance of more than 1800 km from the epicenter !
Update 10:24 UTC : On the image below you can see the soil types in the greater epicenter area. The light and dark orange areas are the most dangerous. They are the river bed areas we were talking about during another update.
Update 10:19 UTC : The epicenter of this earthquake is no further than 10 km from the Daronta dam (below Mehtar Lam). At earthquake-report.com we fear a little bit that the river bed may have increased the shaking. People in New Delhi (India) are reporting that this is by far the strongest shaking they experienced in 6 months.
Update 10:14 UTC : Buildings swayed in the Indian capital New Delhi and people ran into the street in the disputed northern region of Kashmir
Update 10:06 UTC : Pakistan Meteorological Department is reporting a Magnitude at 6.2 at 72 km depth.
Update 10:02 UTC : Nearly 3 million people are expected to have felt a light MMI IV shaking. MMI IV shaking is NOT damaging but can inflict secondary events like landslides.
Update 09:59 UTC : The maximum predicted shaking as calculated by USGS is IV (light shaking). Based on the I Have Felt Reports we are receiving, the shaking was at least perceived as stronger than the theoretical ones.
Update 09:59 UTC : Panic gripped the citizens of the jolted areas, who rushed out to the streets and other open spaces from their homes and workplaces.
Update 09:58 UTC : Due to the close distance to Jalalabad, this earthquake may well have secondary consequences like people suffering heart attacs, running away in panic etc, Jalalabad is a city with 200,000 inhabitants.
Update 09:51 UTC : The main reason why this earthquake was felt at such a big distance is the depth of the hypocenter (from 50 to 70 km reported). That way the earthquake waves are radiating over a much bigger distance.
Update 09:48 UTC : This earthquake created some panic in Kabul. The strong shaking reported may generate some damage in an area of approx. 50 km around the epicenter.
Earthquake epicenter was only 97 km from Kabul, Afghanistan !
USGS Epicenter location :
11km (7mi) S of Mehtar Lam, Afghanistan
25km (16mi) NW of Jalalabad, Afghanistan
66km (41mi) NW of Markaz-e Woluswali-ye Achin, Afghanistan
69km (43mi) NE of Hukumati Azrow, Afghanistan
96km (60mi) E of Kabul, Afghanistan
97 km E of Kabul, Afghanistan / pop: 3,043,532
7 km S of Mehtar Lām, Afghanistan / pop: 17,345
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Magnitude : 5.5
Local Time (conversion only below land) : 2013-04-24 13:55:30
GMT/UTC Time : 2013-04-24 09:25:30
Depth (Hypocenter) : 67 km
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In a sudden, unexpected, even bizarre announcement, San Diego State women's basketball coach Beth Burns retired Tuesday, just eight months after signing a five-year contract.
SDSU issued a seven-paragraph release at 2:32 p.m. with no prior warning that included bland statements from Burns and Athletic Director Jim Sterk. It named Jualeah Woods as interim head coach while Sterk conducts "a national search" to replace the winningest coach in program history.
By late afternoon, Burns was no longer listed as head coach on the Aztecs web site and her bio had been removed.
An athletic department official said Woods, assistant coaches and players would not be made available to the media. Burns was unavailable for comment, and Sterk declined further comment.
The lack of meaningful explanation or a news conference involving the affable, articulate, accessible Burns fueled speculation about the terms of her departure, coming three weeks after winning a school-record 27 games. Is it health related or for other personal reasons? Did she quit on principle after a disagreement with university superiors? Or was the popular coach pushed out due to impending NCAA violations or a major disciplinary issue?
Burns served two eight-year stints at SDSU, sandwiched around five seasons at Ohio State. She was 295-186 and won 10 regular-season or conference tournament titles, reaching the NCAA Tournament seven times and getting to the Sweet 16 in 2010.
The Aztecs went 27-7 in the recently-completed season but were snubbed by the NCAA Tournament after being upset by Fresno State in the Mountain West tournament final. They played in the WNIT instead, beating UC Santa Barbara before losing at BYU on March 23. She was named Mountain West coach of the year for the second straight season, along with District 7 coach of the year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
"My 16 years at San Diego State have been remarkable," Burns, who is in her mid-50s, was quoted in the release. "I am so appreciative of the many people who have supported our program throughout this time. I have had the privilege of coaching many terrific young women and will continue to enjoy following their successes.
"I would also like to give a special thank you to all of my associate and assistant coaches and staff who have given their hearts to make Aztec basketball great. Thank you, San Diego."
And that was it.
Numerous athletic department personnel contacted by UT San Diego said they knew nothing about Burns' departure before the news release or the reasons behind it. Several said they saw Burns in the office Monday and sensed nothing was amiss, noting that she was planning spring workouts for her players.
Just four days earlier, Burns posted a cheery video from her office with departing senior Chelsea Hopkins and junior Chairese Culberson talking about next season.
"Beth Burns has elevated the women's basketball program to a level where it competes for championships on an annual basis," Sterk said in the statement. "The San Diego State community appreciates her hard work and dedication over the years in making the Aztecs a consistent winner. We will begin a national search for her replacement immediately."
Adding to strange tenor of the day was an eerie silence by Aztecs women's players on Twitter. Those with unblocked accounts tweeted about mundane daily tasks like studying and made no mention of the bombshell dropped a few hours earlier.
The last tweet on Burns' account was Monday at 5:34 p.m., congratulating Justin Hutson upon his return to the men's basketball coaching staff following two years at UNLV.
"Welcome home Coach Hut," Burns tweeted. "Let's win more 'ships and Cut Down Nets!!"


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FRIDAY, May 24, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- About one in five parents think they have little control over whether their teens take up smoking, drinking or illicit drug use, a new U.S. government survey finds.
That's too bad, say experts at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), since new research shows that parents are actually one of the most influential forces helping to shape their child's views on these issues.
"Surveys of teens repeatedly show that parents can make an enormous difference in influencing their children's perceptions of tobacco, alcohol, or illicit drug use," said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela Hyde in a news release.
The new findings are based on the agency's most recent survey of more than 67,000 Americans ages 12 and older. The survey also found that one in every 10 parents has not talked to their teens about tobacco, alcohol or other drugs -- even though two-thirds of these same parents believe such a talk might sway their child away from these substances.
"Although most parents are talking with their teens about the risks of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs, far too many are missing the vital opportunity these conversations provide in influencing their children's health and well-being," Hyde said. "Parents need to initiate age-appropriate conversations about these issues with their children at all stages of their development in order to help ensure that their children make the right decisions."
According to SAMHSA, prior studies have shown that when teens believe parents strongly disapprove of their smoking, drinking or trying illicit drugs, they are much less likely to do so. In one survey, just 5 percent of teens who thought their parents would strongly disapprove of their trying marijuana had actually used pot, compared to 32 percent of teens who thought their parents might not have that level of disapproval.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides more information on teen alcohol and drug abuse.