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FEATURED: Soho Crime
Currently available at Brickbat Books:
Cara Black, Murder in the Marais, An Aimee Leduc Investigation
Gary Disher, Kittyhawk Down, An Inspector Hal Challis Investigation set in Australia
J. Robert Janes, Mayhem, A Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler Investigation
Martin Limon, Jady Lady Burning
Magdalen Nabb, Property of Blood, A Marshal Guarnaccia Investigation
Rebecca Pawel, The Summer Snow, A Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon Investigation set in Spain
Akimitsu Takagi, The Informer (Out of print, Hardback)
Janwillem van de Wetering, Tumbleweed, A Grijpstra and DeGier Mystery
Janwillem van de Wetering, Outsider in Amsterdam, A Grijpstra and DeGier Mystery
Qiu Xiaolong, A Loyal Character Dancer, Featuring Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau
FEATURED: What She Said...
World War I as experienced by actual and fictional characters. Pat Barker's trilogy - Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road - is a profound look at the devastation of war on civilians and soldiers alike. Stark, unflinching, haunting.
The ever delightful and surprising Muriel Spark tackles mortality, death, and old age in the wickedly funny Memento Mori. A group of elderly friends are harassed by a mysterious phone caller who leaves the simple, concise message: "Remember, you must die."
J.K. Rowling has called Dodie Smith's 17-year old Cassandra Mortmain, avid chronicler of I Capture the Castle, "one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met." In several sixpenny books, and over six months, Cassandra writes of her eccentric family, the poverty and joys visited upon them, and her own first flutterings of love. Castle is that rare book that is as poignant as it is recognizable.
Hons and Rebels is Jessica Mitford's tell-all of her vastly entertaining and notorious family. Jessica, a devout communist, is at odds (and ends) with most of said family much of the time. A great first step into all things Mitford, especially the sisters: Nancy scandalizes the family with her thinly-veiled and bestselling novels; Diane marries fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity Valkyrie falls for Hitler and becomes a Nazi sympathizer; and Debo, a relief, marries well and remains apolitical. Pamela, the quiet one, prefers country life and her dogs.
All titles can be purchased from:
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NEW ARRIVALS: 11.22.08. Fiction Part 2
Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes, $7.95
Albert Camus, The Stranger, $7.95
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, $6.95
Saul Bellow, Seize the Day, $7.95
S.J. Perelman, Baby, It's Cold Inside, $6.95
Halldor Laxness, Under the Glacier, $6.95
Janwillem van de Wetering, Outsider in Amsterdam, $8.95
Anton Chekhov, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904, $6.95
Eric Ambler, Judgment on Deltchev, $8.95
Andrew Vachss, The Getaway Man, $7.95
Albert Camus, The Plague, $7.95
P.G. Wodehouse, Life with Jeeves, $8.95
J. Robert Janes, Mayhem, $7.50
Don DeLillo, White Noise, $8.95
Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, $9.95
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, $8.95
Milan Kundera, Slowness, $8.95
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, $7.95
Shchedrin, The Golovlyov Family, $7.50
Antonio Tabucchi, It's Getting Later All the Time, $8.95
Rick Moody, Demonology, $7.50
Javiar Marias, All Souls, $8.95
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, $8.95
Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, $8.95
Qiu Xiaolong, A Loyal Character Dancer, $8.95
Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man, $3.95
James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man $3.95
Dashiell Hamett, The Maltese Falcon $3.95
Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear $2.95
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories (hardcover), $7.95
Raymond Chandler, The High Window, $2.95
Samuel Beckett, Three Novels, $6.95
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, $4.95
M. Gorky, The Three (hardcover), $9.95
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (hardcover), $7.95
Thomas Mofolo, Chaka, $5.95
Naguib Mahfouz, Miramar, $7.95
Franz Kafka, The Trial, $6.95
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, $7.95
Aldous Huxley, Heaven and Hell (Margot Herr cover) $4.95
P.G. Wodehouse, Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves, $8.95
James Joyce, Stephen Hero, $7.95
Dorothy Parker, The Portable, $9.95
James Joyce, Dubliners, $7.95
Virginia Woolf, The Mrs. Dalloway Reader (hardcover), $12.95
James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, $9.95
CP Snow, The Masters, $8.95
Phillis Wheatley, Complete Writings, $7.95
Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, $7.95
Rudyard Kipling, Kim, $6.95
Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose, $9.95
Paul Bowles, Collected Stories (Black Sparrow edition), $10.95
Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (British edition), $8.95
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, $7.95
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (hardcover), $10.95
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, $6.95
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, $8.95
E.M. Forster, The Hill of Devi, $5.95
Martin Amis, I (British edition), $8.95
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated, $8.95
Bill James, Roses Roses (1st US edition, out of print hardcover) $9.95
Richard Brautigan, Dreaming of Babylon (1st edition, out of print hardcover) $12.95
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, $8.95
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (hardcover, 36th printing), $39.95
Fydor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (hardcover), $8.95
Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout (hardcover), $12.95
Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal (1st edition hardcover), $14.95
James Joyce, Ulysses (hardcover), $14.95
Paul Auster, The Music of Chance, $6.95
Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari, $8.95
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, $9.95
Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, $8.95
Paul Auster, City of Glass, $6.95
H.D., Hermione, $7.95
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel, $6.95
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant, $8.95
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, $8.95
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure, $5.95
Gertude Stein, Three Lives, $6.95
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, $8.95
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, $7.95
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace, $6.95
James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss, $7.95
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Innocent Erendira, $6.95
EVENTS: Saturday, December 6th: MAX OCHS & GHOST SHIP
Maryland's Max Ochs recorded two influential guitar pieces on a long out-of-print Takoma LP, 'Contemporary Guitar Spring '67', alongside tracks by John Fahey, Bukka White, Robbie Basho and Harry Taussig. 'Hooray For Another Day' contains exciting new instrumental works from this American Primitive master, including a new take on Fahey's arrangement of "In Christ There Is No East or West". The disc also contains several spoken word poems, one entitled "Phil", for Max's cousin, the late folk legend Phil Ochs. Max's tune "Imaginational Anthem" inspired the guitar compilation series of the same name on Tompkins Square. The album is a stirring personal statement from an overlooked yet vital American artist." -Tompkins Square
A trio consisting of Mary Lattimore, Rosali Middleman, and Charles Cohen, Ghost Ship play dark improvised string and synth tangles. For this show they will be working as a duo, with plucked harp sweeps and strands of electric guitar. -m.m.
NEW ARRIVALS: 11.22.08. Art, Essays, Poetry, Philosophy, etc.
Molly O'Neil, A Well-Seasoned Appetite, $8.95
William Bartram, Travels Of, $6.95
E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, $7.95
S. Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling/The Sickness Unto Death (Gorey cover), $7.95
Italian Writing Today (out of print), $8.95
St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul, $5.95
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, $8.95
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, $6.95
Paul Bowles, Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue, $7.95
Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory, $8.95
Leonard Shlain, Art and Physics (out of print), $8.95
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, In Praise of Philosophy (hardcover), $9.95
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays, $8.95
Eugene Ionesco, Amedee/The New Tenant/Victims of Duty (Roy Kuhlman cover), $5.95
Mary McCarthy, The Stones of Florence, $6.95
John Muir, Travels in Alaska, $6.95
Henry D. Thoreau, Walden, $7.95
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation, $7.95
Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian, $7.95
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography/Poor Richard/Later Writings (hardcover), $14.95
Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, $8.95
Lawrence Durrell, Sappho (out of print), $8.95
Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, $7.95
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, $5.95
John Steinbeck IV, In Touch (out of print), $7.95
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal, $7.95
Sempe, Face a Face, $9.95
Simon Louvish, Stan and Ollie, $8.95
All titles can be purchased from:
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NEW ARRIVALS: 11.22.08. Childrens
Marcia Martin, Donna Parker: Mystery at Arawak (hardcover), $6.95
Karen Hesse, Stowaway, $4.95
Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate (1st edition hardcover), $14.95
Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye (1st edition hardcover) $14.95
Shel Silverstein, Runny Babbit (hardcover), $10.95
Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree (hardcover), $10.95
A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (hardcover) $12.95
Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense (hardcover), $9.95
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (hardcover), $10.95
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (hardcover), $14.95
Ruth Stiles Gannett, Elmer and the Dragon, $3.95
Helen Palmer, A Fish out of Water (hardcover), $6.95
Theo LeSieg, In a People House (out of print hardcover), $9.95
Mary Rodgers- The Mary Rodgers Treasury (hardcover), $12.95
Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond (hardcover), $7.95
Jean Lee Latham, Carry On Mr Bowditch, $3.95
Philip Pullman, Lyra's Oxford (hardcover), $7.95
Syd Hoff, The Danny and the Dinosaur Treasury (hardcover), $8.95
Kate Greenway- Book of Games (hardcover), $7.95
Douglas Wood, Old Turtle (hardcover), $9.95
Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child (hardcover), $9.95
Deborah Johnston, Matthew Michael's Beatly Day (out of print hardcover), $8.95
Peter Piper's Practical Principals of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation, $3.95
A.A. Milne, An Expotition to the North Pole (hardcover), $3.95
A.A. Milne, Pooh Goes Visiting and Pooh and Piglet Nearly Catch a Woozle (hardcover), $3.95
A.A. Milne, Eeyore has a Birthday (hardcover), $3.95
A.A. Milne, Chirstopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party (hardcover), $3.95
Dr. Seuss, Oh Baby the Places You'll Go (hardcover), $4.95
Dr. Seuss, What Was I Scared Of (hardcover), $5.95
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (British edition), $3.95
E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle, $2.95
Eleanor Estes, The Hundred Dresses, $3.50
Ruth Stiles Gannett, My Father's Dragon, $2.95
William Steig, Abel's Island, $3.95
William Steig, Abel's Island, (hardback) $9.95
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (British edition hardcover), $12.95
Ruth Krauss & Maurice Sendak, A Hole is to Dig (hardcover), $8.95
Eva Ibbotson, Dial-a-Ghost (hardcover), $9.95
Louis Sachar, Holes (hardcover), $8.95
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline in London (hardcover), $6.95
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Bad Hat (hardcover), $6.95
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline's Rescue (hardcover), $6.95
P.D. Eastman, Go Dog Go (hardcover), $6.95
P.D. Eastman, Are You My Mother (hardcover), $6.95
Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham (hardcover), $6.95
Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (hardcover), $6.95
Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut (hardcover), $6.95
Dr. Seuss, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (hardcover), $6.95
S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, $6.95
Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful(hardcover) $12.95
Ludwig Bemelmans, Madeline and the Gypsies (hardcover), $6.95
Jonathan Stroud, The Amulet of Samarkand (hardcover), $12.95
Crockett Johnson, Harold's Circus (hardcover), $5.95
Jean De Brunhoff, Babar and His Children (hardcover), $6.95
Margery Sharp, Cluny Brown (hardcover), $6.95
Kate Seredy, The White Stag, $2.95
Dr. Seuss, The Foot Book (hardcover), $4.95
Little Golden Books:
The Good Humor Man, $2.95
The Littlest Angel (out of print), $4.95
Tawny Scrawny Lion, $2.95
When Bunny Grows Up, $2.95
Santa's Toy Shop, $2.95
Counting Rhymes, $2.95
Bugs Bunny's Carrot Machine, $2.95
Tex and His Toys (out of print), $5.95
Baby Farm Animals, $2.95
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, $1.95
Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree (out of print), $3.95
Heidi, $3.95
The Happy Man and His Dump Truck, $2.95
The Taxi That Hurried, $2.95
The Poky Little Puppy, $2.95
Fire Engines, $1.95
The Color Kittens, $2.95
Rabbit and His Friends (out of print), $5.95
Bugs Bunny (out of print), $3.95
A Day on the Farm (out of print), $3.95
The Boy with a Drum (out pf print), $5.95
Things in My House (out of print), $3.50
Hansel and Gretel (out of print), $5.95
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse (out of print), $3.95
All titles can be purchased from:
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709 South Fourth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147
215 592 1207
Open every day, 11am to 7pm.
We accept Visa, MC, Amex, and cash.
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NEW ARRIVALS: 11.22.08. Poetry
e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems, $8.95
John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters, $8.95
Lucille Clifton, Mercy, $8.95
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus (hardcover 1942 edition), $12.95
Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell, $7.95
Anne Sexton, Selected Poems, $7.95
Dante, The Divine Comedy: Volume 1, $5.95
William Blake, The Book of Urizen, $6.95
Frank O'Hara, Selected Poems, $6.95
C.P. Cavafy, The Collected Poems, $8.95
William Carlos Williams, The Farmer's Daughters, $9.95
Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire, $9.95
Virgil, The Aenid (hardcover), $9.95
William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, $7.95
Sharon Olds, The Dead and the Living, $8.95
William Blake, Songs of Experience, $4.95
William Blake, Songs of Innocence, $4.95
Anne Sexton, Transformations, $6.95
Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems (hardcover), $8.95
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems (hardcover), $11.95
Mark Strand, Blizzard of One, $8.95
Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems, $6.95
Seamus Heaney, The Haw Lantern, $6.95
Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen, $6.95
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind, $6.95
e.e. cummings, 95 Poems, $5.95
Thalia Field, Incarnate: Story Material, $7.95
Bernadette Mayer, Scarlet Tanager, $7.95
Mary Karr, The Devil's Tour, $5.95
NEW ARRIVALS: 11.22.08 Fiction
Edgar Box (Gore Vidal), Death Likes it Hot (as is), $4.95
John Dickinson Carr, The Blind Barber (out of print), $6.95
Paul Kenny, L'etonnante Aventure De Coplan, $6.95
H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, $5.95
Jonathan Swift, Journal to Stella (hardcover), $14.95
Katherine Anne Porter, The Old Order, $4.95
David Goodis, Nightfall, $5.95
Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin, $3.95
Frank Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes (out of print), $8.95
Herman Hesse, Rosshalde (Milton Glaser cover), $7.95
Herman Hesse, Beneath the Wheel (Milton Glaser cover), $7.95
Graham Greene, The Comedians, $7.95
James Joyce, Dubliners (Ellen Raskin cover), $6.95
Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, $8.95
Paul Auster, City of Glass, $6.95
H.D., Hermione, $7.95
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel, $6.95
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant, $8.95
Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, $8.95
W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre, $6.95
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ambiguous Adventure, $5.95
Gertude Stein, Three Lives, $6.95
Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, $8.95
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, $7.95
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace, $6.95
James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss, $7.95
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Innocent Erendira, $6.95
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn, $7.95
Paul Auster, Timbuktu, $7.95
Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen, $7.95
Jack Kerouac, On the Road, $8.95
Knut Hamsun, Hunger, $7.95
Graham Greene, The Quiet American, $7.95
Graham Greene, The Third Man and the Fallen Idol, $6.95
Fydor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, $5.95
John Cheever, The Wapshot Scandal, $7.95
John Cheever, Falconer, $7.95
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, $7.95
Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Voyeur (Black Cat edition), $8.95
Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity, $7.95
David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, $7.95
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, $6.95
Raymond Carver, Call If You Need Me, $6.95
Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, $7.95
G.B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, $8.95
Raymond Chandler, The High Window, $7.95
Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting (hardcover), $9.95
Muriel Spark, The Finishing School (hardcover), $9.95
Jack Kerouac, On the Road/ Dharma Bums/ Subterraneans, $9.95
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, $8.95
Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, $8.95
Herman Melville, Typee, $8.95
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking, $7.95
J.G. Ballard, A Users' Guide to the Millennium, $7.95
All titles can be purchased from:
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Walton Ford, Watercolors By Walton Ford $30.00
Joel-Peter Witkin, Disciple & Master $50.00
Disciple & Master unites Witkin's photographs with the images that inspired them. Works by photographers such as Charles Negre, Walker Evans, Horst and Cartier-Bresson are matched with Witkin's compelling visions. Text by the photographer illuminates the complex relationship between each pair of images. 57 duotone and quadratone photographs, 120 pages
David Salle, Salle Photographs $40.00
Nude studies in black-and-white. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler.
Andy Warhol, Stitched Photographs $30.00
Photographs stitched into gridlike repeating patterns. Text by Tim Hunt and David Hockney. 64 pages
Edward Steichen, The First Picture Book (Red) $19.95
Photographs by Edward Steichen, texts by Mary Steichen Calderone and John Updike. 68 pages
Edward Steichen, The First Picture Book (Blue) $19.95
Photographs by Edward Steichen, texts by Mary Steichen Calderone and John Updike. 68 pages
Anselm Keifer, Cette Obscure Clarte $70.00 SOLD!
A lavish survey of the German artist's complex canvases. Text by Daniel Arasse. 200 pages
Jonathan Lasker, Jonathan Lasker $75.00
Born in Jersey City in 1948, Lasker focused on the dialectic relationship between perception of reality and reality itself, redefining the abstract painting of the past decades, of which he has been an undisputed protagonist. 224 pages.
Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo Nostalgia $22.95
Christian Boltanski, Night in August $55.00
Photo documentation of an installation project. Text by Michael Glasmeier plus an interview the artist. 88 pages
Cy Twombly, Paintings And Sculptures 1951 And 1953 $50.00
Two series of Cy Twombly's paintings are presented on the glossy pages of this catalog: those from 1951 which were made in Lexington, Virginia and Black Mountain, North Carolina, and those from 1953 which were made in New York after the artist spent a year in Europe and North Africa. An introduction to the original 1951 exhibition by Robert Motherwell is reproduced here as is a poem written to Twombly by Charles Olsen. Photographs of the artist at the beginning and end of the book were taken by Robert Rauschenberg. . Limited edition. 76 pages
All titles can be purchased from:
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NEW ARRIVAL: from JAPAN
Suehiro Maruo, Shōjo Tsubaki (aka Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show) (Japanese edition) $59.95
Hiroshige, The Tokaido Fifty Three Stations $130.00
(Hardcover, accordion book)
Kyoudai Zigoku Nishioka, Child's Play (Japanese edition) $29.95
Kyoudai Zigoku Nishioka, Hell (Japanese edition) $29.95
Kyoudai Zigoku Nishioka, Kokoro No Kanashimi (Japanese edition) $29.95
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective $75.00
(Paperback) Center for International Contemporary Arts, 1989
Kosho Ito, Virus $12.00
(Paperback) Tate, 2002
Ichi Ikeda Project: Floating Earth (Signed by the artist) $65.00
Osamu Tezuka, MW $15.95
(Hardcover with Dustjacket)
Edward Gorey, The Hapless Child (Japanese edition) $25.00
Shinro Ohtake, Monsieur Jarry (Japanese edition) $24.95
Shinro Ohtake and Yamatsuka Eye, Donkedelico $77.00
Shinro Ohtake, ? $19.95
Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes $6.95
Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain $7.95
Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask $8.95
Yukio Mishima, Madame de Sade: a Play $29.95
Seicho Matsumoto, The Voice $18.95
Ryu Murakami, Almost Transparent Blue $8.95
(Paperback with dustjacket)
Junichiro Tanazaki, The Key $9.95
Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen Cogwheels A Fool's Life $40.00
(Paperback) Eridanos Press
Toshio Saeki, "70" (Japanese edition) $98.00
(Hardcover, in slipcase)
Ayukawa Nobuo, America & Other Poems $8.95
"...some of the bleakest and most durable anti-war poems of [our] time." -Forrest Gander
Ayukawa died in Tokyo in 1986 while playing Super Mario Brothers.
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From discovery and exploration to settlement and statehood, California's history is alive with the stories of intrepid Spanish, Portuguese, English and Russian seafarers and explorers in addition to American pioneers like Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and Jedediah Strong Smith. California has its very own Robinson Crusoe in the true story of a young California Indian woman who survived alone on the Channel Island of San Nicholas for 18 years. California's story is additionally enlivened by such notable events as the Gold Rush, the Pony Express and the Transcontinental Railroad. All of these stories will become familiar to you and your student as you learn through this engaging and enjoyable "living books" approach. The study also includes a poem on the history of California suitable for memorization.
The teacher guide presents a literature approach to the study of California history using the best books available on the story of the Golden State. Study notes (with corresponding answer key) are designed to lead the student chronologically through the literature with comprehension questions, topics for discussion, vocabulary, map work, literary elements, and suggestions for a student notebook.
•This study contains 64 Lessons.
•Complete 3-4 lessons per week for a semester-long study.
*Pack includes download Teacher Guide.
Suggested Grades 4-6
California History Teacher Guide (Download)
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California History Timeline
Published by Beautiful feet Books
1948 Caldecott Medal Winner
Song of the Swallows
Cruise of the Arctic Star
Jessie Benton Fremont California Pioneer
Riders of the Pony Express by Moody
By The Great Horn Spoon
Patty Reed's Doll
1941 Newbery Honor Title
Blue Willow
Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Save a list of links during this last week, in order to read them over the weekend. Plans to deeply read and implement Phing on our actual project, so i believe that from the 4 topics bellow the Phing one will consume most of my weekend, although i am curious about the other ones too!
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As a lazy writer who is occasionally forced to interview an actual person, I still haven't found the perfect solution to transcribing phone interviews without doing it myself. But a service called Cogi looks promising.
For $30/month you can record all of your calls through the Cogi website or a dial-in number—up to 1000 minutes a month. These calls can be pulled up at any time in the future, and you can bookmark important points of the call along the way for quick review.
But where the service gets really cool is that you can have 15 of these bookmarks transcribed for you (
unfortunately, only in 30 second chunks). Subscribers can actually have up to 30 minutes of transcription service a month parceled how they'd like. Each additional minute costs $.99.
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We figure Cogi could be pretty great or a bit mediocre, but they are offering free one-month trials so you can try before you buy. [Cogi]


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PWInsider.com will have full coverage of Wrestlemania, as it happens, here on the site, so check back for updates throughout the evening.
24-Man Battle Royale
The Battle Royale is being broadcast on WWE.com, but is not being shown as the pre-show for the PPV. They had all the wrestlers come out to the same generic music, and had their names read off as they came down the aisle. Joey Styles and Tazz called the action. I am sure I will miss a few eliminations, as they are using a pretty small screen on WWE.com to show the action.
As soon as the bell rang, Festus went nuts and attacked everyone. Deuce was eliminated by a Festus kick, then Domino was tossed out by Festus with a hiptoss. Great Khali tossed out Hacksaw Duggan, to a chorus of boos. Stevie Richards was eliminated by a double jumping knee by Elijah Burke. Kane grabbed Burke and tossed him over the top rope. Miz was eliminated by a Jamie Noble head scissors.
Mark Henry backdropped Shannon Moore and Jimmy Yang at the same time. Trevor Murdoch eliminated Jesse Festus tossed out Murdoch by dodging a charge. Festus was eliminated by Lance Cade. Brian Kendrick used a flying bodypress and took himself and Lance Cade over the top and out of the match.
Mark Henry launched Kofi Kingston over the top rope to eliminate him. Chuck Palumbo tossed out Jamie Noble, who stood on the bodies of wrestlers on the floor to avoid elimination, only to be kicked back down (and out) by Palumbo. Khali then eliminated Palumbo. Everyone remaining in the ring teamed up to eliminate Khali.
Snitsky tossed out Hardcore Holly, and I believe Mark Henry tossed out Tommy Dreamer, although it was hard to tell from the angle they were using. It came down to Kane, Mark Henry and Snistky. Henry eliminated Snitsky, and we were down to two. Henry pressed Kane over his head, but Kane floated over and hit a kick to the head to send Henry over the top rope. Kane is the winner.
Winner: Kane.
Wrestlemania 24 opened with a military flyover (which was actually taped shortly before the show went live). John Legend sang "America, The Beautiful" While the upper decks don't look totally full, there are definitely a lot of people there. It's also very cloudy, and when they used one of the wide shots, you could see water on the camera lens.
They showed a video package focusing on the events of the past year surrounding the WWE Title, the World Title, Ric Flair vs. Shawn Michaels and Big Show vs. Floyd Mayweather. Jim Ross welcomed us to the show, and they went to the ring for the first match.
Belfast Brawl: Fit Finlay vs. JBL.
Lilian Garcia is wearing a really great dress. Sorry, I'll try to focus on wrestling. As JBL made his entrance, a video package recapped the Vince McMahon-Hornswoggle storyline. Finlay walked out on the stage, then waved out Hornswoggle, to a big pop. Finlay sprinted to the ring and JBL kicked him as he tried to climb in. They brawled on the floor, with JBL throwing right hands. Finlay reversed a whip and sent JBL into the ring steps, then into the ring, and the bell ran to officially start the match. Finlay hit a sit-down splash and a series of rights. Finlay went under the ring and pulled out trash cans, lids and kendo sticks. JBL grabbed a can and blasted Finlay with it. JBL then used a trash can lid and a cookie sheet to blast Finlay. JBL hit a short-arm clothesline, then threw a section of ring steps into the ring. JBL kicked Finlay in the head, then went for a piledriver on the ring steps, but Finlay backdropped him off.
Finlay hit a kick to the head, then blasted JBL with the cookie sheet twice. Finlay then held the metal pan against JBL's head and punched it. Finlay went for the first cover of the match and got a two count. Finlay hit a right hand, but JBL responded with a boot to the face, then stomped Finlay's hand. JBL threw a series of punches in the corner, then kicked Finlay in the head. JBL grabbed the shillelagh, but Hornswoggle ran in and hit JBL with a kendo stick. JBL was distracted by the shot, and that allowed Finlay to pick up the shillelagh and blast JBL with it. JBL fell to the floor, but Finlay rolled him back in. Finlay put the trash can on JBL's head, then stomped it. Finlay went under the ring and pulled out a table. Finlay propped the table in a corner, then went to whip JBL into it. JBL reversed the whip, and Finlay got thrown into a corner without a table. Finlay charged out and blasted JBL with a clothesline. JBL rolled to the floor, and grabbed Hornswoggle. Finlay jumped out of the ring and bounced JBL's head off the Raw announce table over and over. They went back into the ring, but JBL rolled out the other side.
Finlay dove through the ropes for a tope, but JBL blasted him with a trash can lid. JBL rolled Finlay into the ring for a two count. JBL picked up a trash can and threw it out of the ring, nailing Hornswoggle on the floor with it. JBL picked up another can and blasted Finlay with it. JBL went for a Clothesline From Hell, but Finlay picked up a can and blasted him with it. Finlay hit a rolling Samoan Drop for a two count, then threw JBL into the table in the corner. Finlay picked up the ringsteps to hit JBL, but JBL grabbed a kendo stick and blasted Finlay in the leg with it. JBL then hit a Clothesline From Hell to get the win at the ten minute mark.
Winner: JBL
Kim Kardashian was backstage, telling us about the Money In The Bank Ladder match. Kennedy interrupted, saying he would be the first man to win Money In The Bank two years in a row. Her mic sounded low.
Money In The Bank: Ken Kennedy vs. Shelton Benjamin vs. Chris Jericho vs. Carlito vs. MVP vs. CM Punk vs. John Morrison.
All announce teams are in on this one. John Morrison entered first, then Carlito, then Shelton Benjamin, then CM Punk, then Ken Kennedy, then MVP, then Chris Jericho, with the last two getting big pyro displays. Then again, I guess all pyro will be big tonight. I will do my best to keep up with this one.
At the bell, everyone ran out of the ring for ladders, except MVP. As guys tried to get back in with ladders, MVP would knock them out of the ring. Finally, Jericho got in, and both men had ladders in their hands. Jericho and MVP jousted, with Jericho getting the better of it. MVP rolled out, and Morrison came in and hit Jericho with it. Morrison then took a ladder and moonsaulted off the top rope, hitting Punk, Carlito, MVP and Benjamin with the ladder on the floor. Kennedy and Jericho squared off in the ring, and Jericho catapulted Kennedy into a ladder. Kennedy jumped onto the ladder and climbed up for the briefcase. Morrison came off the top rope onto the ladder, throwing another ladder at Jericho. Morrison and Kennedy slugged it out on the ladder. Benjamin set up another ladder and climbed up next to them, but was knocked down. Kennedy went to superplex Morrison off the ladder, and Benjamin climbed up his ladder and gave Kennedy a sunset flip powerbomb, sending both men to the mat.
Benjamin climbed the ladder, but Carlito tipped it over. Benjamin landed on the top rope on his feet and tipped the ladder into Carlito. Benjamin then tried to jump onto the ladder, but it collapsed. Punk climbed a ladder, but Kennedy pulled him down. Punk knocked him out of the ring, then tried to climb again. Benjamin tried to stop him, but Punk gave him a GTS. Kennedy gave Punk a rolling Samoan Drop onto a ladder. Carlito tried to climb up, but MVP knocked him down, then gave Kennedy a running kick. MVP missed a running kick on Carlito, and Carlito hit MVP with a ladder shot to the leg. Carlito went to climb a ladder, but Benjamin pulled him down. Benjamin hit Carlito with a spinkick. Benjamin went to climb the ladder, but Kennedy and Carlito tipped the ladder. Benjamin went head over heels off the ladder, crashing through a ladder that was bridged at ringside.
Jericho, Carlito and Kennedy all climbed the ladder, but MVP knocked it over. Morrison then blasted MVP out of the ring, then climbed a ladder. Jericho climbed up to fight him, then applied a Walls Of Jericho across the top of the ladder. Kennedy set up another ladder and climbed up. Jericho dumped Morrison, then fought Kennedy on top of the ladders. Punk and Carlito both springboarded from opposite sides of the ring and onto the ladders. Punk and Kennedy came crashing off one ladder. Carlito pulled Jericho off the other ladder with a Backstabber, and both men rolled to the floor.
MVP got into the ring and realized everyone was laid out by him. MVP climbed up the ladder, and went for the briefcase. Matt Hardy emerged from the crowd, to a monster pop. Hardy climbed up the ladder and blasted MVP with punches. Hardy gave MVP a Twist of Fate off the ladder to the mat. The place as going nuts for Hardy. Hardy ran back out through the crowd. Jericho and Carlito started fighting, and two ladders got tangled together. Morrison tried to climb the tangled ladder, but Jericho and Carlito tipped him off it and he fell to the floor. Jericho climbed the ladder, but Carlito sit apple in his face. Kennedy knocked Carlito off the ladder and he landed back first on a ladder that was propped in a corner. Kennedy went to climb up, but Punk knocked him down with a ladder. Jericho gave Punk a Codebreaker with a ladder.
Jericho climbed the ladder, but Punk struggled up it, shaking the ladder. Jericho kicked Punk in the head, yelling "stay down". Punk climbed up and punched it out with Jericho. Punk tripped Jericho and tied him in a Tree of Woe in the ladder. Punk climbed up and grabbed the briefcase at the 15 minute mark.
Winner: CM Punk.
CM Punk now has a guaranteed WWE Title shot against the championship of his choice, good for one year.
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Journalists as media-owners (Core Economics).
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Iran nuclear talks downgraded (The Guardian).
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I don't get the Victor Cruz situation. So giants place a first round tender which I get to mean two things:
1) He gets paid about $2.9 million next year
2) It takes a first round pick to Giants if he signs with another team and giants can match the offer
So why aren't teams offering three years at $18 million or something. He is worth the first round pick right? He is worth $6million per year right? Worst thing that happens Giants have to spend more and if you are in their division then great. Best case you get a good deal.
I must be missing something obvious and appreciate if someone can enlighten me


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The politically treacherous debate over the nation's gun laws has thrown President Obama's second-term negotiating style into sharp relief.
In earlier legislative skirmishes, Obama was pragmatic above all, making a first offer and then a second and a third as he sought compromise with a bitterly divided Congress.
But in his legislative push to curb the nation's gun violence, Obama's willingness to make concessions has been absent, at least so far. The president set a clear marker — to enact the toughest gun restrictions in generations — and has since worked to rally the public to his side while waiting for wavering lawmakers to come along.
Obama is all but ignoring the Republican-controlled House as he waits for a bipartisan majority to emerge in the Senate, hoping to use it as leverage to force a vote from House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).
"It's clear that the dynamic of the second term will be to go to the Senate, try to build a bipartisan majority there for action, and then take it to the House and put John Boehner in the position where he's the only person in town saying no," said Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic lobbyist and former House leadership aide.
Although Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday will focus heavily on the economy and fiscal matters, the president is also expected to pressure Congress anew to act quickly on gun control.
Democratic lawmakers are bringing shooting victims from their home states to sit in the gallery. The White House said victims of gun violence will sit with first lady Michelle Obama.
The president's confident approach on guns is particularly striking given the deep divisions within the Democratic Party over the issue.
The divide is more pronounced in the Senate than in the House, where many Democrats have reliably liberal constituencies. A significant number of Senate Democrats, by contrast, represent states with deep hunting traditions or are worried about votes that might antagonize the National Rifle Association.
Yet the president called again last week for a vote on an assault weapons ban, the most polarizing of his proposals. Obama is pursuing a similar strategy for other issues dominating his second-term agenda, from comprehensive immigration reform to staving off the deep spending cuts known as the sequester.
Obama may still return to a more accommodating approach; he often says that he won't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. But his recent strategy reminds some longtime congressional observers of former President Ronald Reagan, who also drew firm lines — while still allowing for compromise in the end.
"What Reagan was able to do so successfully was to lay out a firm, tough and pure position and hold to it while things shook down and the other side moved, and waiting for them to come much closer to where he wanted them to be," said Norman J. Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "I see Obama's public statements on guns now being much more of that than anything else."
The legislative process should begin by the end of February, when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) plans to stitch together several proposals, including requiring background checks for all gun buyers, making gun trafficking a federal crime for the first time and limiting the size of ammunition magazines.
Expansion of background checks is the most popular proposal and enjoys overwhelming support in public polls. Four key lawmakers — Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) — are drafting the legislative framework for a deal.
To accommodate gun rights proponents, the legislation could include limited exceptions for guns transferred between family members or rented for sporting purposes, according to senior aides.
For decades, liberal lawmakers — many of whom represent cities plagued by gun violence — have pushed for additional gun restrictions. They've wanted to reinstate an assault weapons ban ever since one version expired in 2004.
At a news conference last week, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) of Baltimore spoke about the shooting death of a 20-year-old nephew and said he sympathized with victims' families.
"It is a painful thing to see your blood splattered on the walls of an apartment, to see tissue from your loved one splattered on walls," Cummings said. "I understand why they are desperate for action."
Over the years, however, action has been stymied by more moderate Democrats. Party leaders have steered away from discussions of guns — a strategy designed to win over moderate swing voters. But top Democrats think the Newtown school shooting, in which 20 children and six adults died, altered the political landscape.
"I see this whole gun issue as an opportunity, not a toxic landmine," former President Bill Clinton told House Democrats last week. "I guarantee you, a lot of people from where I grew up were asking themselves this practical question: If that young man had had to load three times as often as he did, would all those children have been killed?"
In the Senate, at least 10 Democrats must defend their seats in 2014 in states with sizable gun-owning populations. Many of them have not taken positions in the gun debate, perhaps because they are struggling to find middle ground. But they also have not championed the NRA's status-quo position, an indication that they might vote for expanded background checks or other measures.
"There may be substantive differences over things like assault weapons, but there's no hostility, and there's a genuine desire to work not only with Obama but to find Republican allies to work with as well," said Matt Bennett, a senior vice president of Third Way, a centrist think tank.
At the moment, the political imperatives of Obama and those of Senate Democrats up for reelection are in conflict, something the president acknowledged last week when he addressed House Democrats at their annual retreat.
"There are regional differences here, and we should respect those," Obama said. "Guns mean something different for somebody who grew up on a farm in a rural community and someone who grew up in the inner city."
Consider Manchin, a gun rights advocate who signaled after Newtown that he might support some gun-control measures. Schumer quickly reached out to him, and their coalition grew to include Kirk and Coburn. The senators and their aides have been tight-lipped in recent days about their talks — a sign in Washington of progress behind the scenes.
One sticking point is Coburn's desire to revamp how the Justice Department manages the system for background checks. Coburn also wants an exemption from background checks for people selling or giving their firearms to relatives, according to senior aides.
Another source of potential tension is the proposed ban on more than 150 military-style assault weapons, authored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Despite majority support for banning assault weapons in most polls, her bill faces long odds on Capitol Hill.
"I think we all know this is an uphill battle," Feinstein said in a recent interview. "That doesn't mean we shouldn't try."
Congressional aides expect Feinstein to decide whether to ask Leahy to include her proposal as part of his guns bill or to have a separate up-or-down vote. Obama said last week that the proposal "deserves a vote in Congress, because weapons of war have no place on our streets."
Gun control is a more emotional issue in the House. Some House members are gunshot survivors or, like Cummings, have personal ties to gun violence. Others, like Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), who fought in the Vietnam War and shoots for sport, are protective of gun culture.
"I'm a hunter and I'm a gun owner and I believe that we should protect law-abiding citizens' rights to own firearms," Thompson said last week. "I'm not interested in giving up my guns, and I wouldn't ask anyone else to give up their guns."


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Supporters of Proposition 29 had better hope that Republicans settle on a nominee sooner than later, for the longer the battle drags on, the less likely it will be that the proposition secures victory.
It's hard to fathom that these two issues--a tobacco tax and the presidential nomination--would be related, but they are.
Proposition 29 seeks to add $1 per pack to the cost of cigarettes, with the funds used for cancer research.
Recent polls show that while voters in general support the ballot measure, Republicans are much less in favor than Democrats.
A statewide poll by the Public Policy Institute of California last month found that Democrats favored Proposition 29 by a lopsided margin of three percent to one.
Among Republicans, however, 54 percent supported Proposition 29, compared with 43 who opposed it.
Fast forward to the votes for presidential nominees on June 5th and the story gets more interesting. Like all primaries, this one is likely to be a low turnout election.
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That's because primaries tend to draw only the most committed voters. But the turnout is likely to very low among Democrats because the nomination question is settled with the candidacy of incumbent Barack Obama.
Among Republicans, the fight goes on.
Every day that the four-way struggle for the nomination continues without resolution is another day that upcoming primaries become important.
To the extent that the outcome remains unsettled by mid-May when absentee voting begins, California Republicans will be much more motivated to vote than their Democratic counterparts.
That takes us back to Proposition 29. Even though the proposition is carrying a healthy majority now, two other factors are yet to play out.
First, voters tend to back off from tax issues as the moment nears when they have to decide whether to tax themselves.
Second, the tobacco industry has yet to swing into action. In 2006, early polls showed strong support for a proposal to increase tobacco taxes by $2.60 per pack.
Yet, after a $65 million campaign by tobacco companies against the proposal, the proposition went down to defeat.
Of course, taxing tobacco is not the same as something like a sales tax increase that affects everyone, so the drop-off may not occur.
Front runner Mitt Romney may have the nomination sown up by the end of the month, which would take the wind out of the sails of motivated Republican voters who no longer feel the importance of their vote.
Still, there's enough uncertainty to leave the fate of Proposition 29 in a precarious position. An unresolved outcome for the Republican presidential nomination may be just enough for a perfect storm--industry opposition, queasy voters, and an uneven turnout for the June 5th primary.
That combination could well cause the defeat of Proposition 29.
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Macan SUV Takes Centre Stage At Porsche Centre
on June 24, 2014
By Theodore Opara
THE world's first sports car in the compact SUV segment, the Macan, was last week unveiled to an excited audience during an exclusive event at Porsche Centre Lagos. The introduction marks Porsche's pioneering move into a new segment, following in the footsteps of the brand's most successful model in the luxury SUV range, the Cayenne.
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The unveiling event was held under the theme "Life, intensified", a phrase which exemplifies what Macan represents.
Commenting on this occasion, Christer Ekberg, Managing Director of Porsche Middle East and Africa FZE, said: "With first deliveries of the all-new Macan, Porsche launches a world first and enter a new segment. I have no doubt that this car will be another success for Porsche, with the long-term commitment and intensive efforts of our local Porsche Centre in Lagos."
Poised to set new standards in driving dynamics and enjoyment, both on and off the road, the new Macan boasts the typical sporty handling characteristics that have become synonymous with the Porsche brand. Many of the design and performance elements have been inspired by the brand's sports cars, including the iconic 911 and the revolutionary 918 Spyder, making it clear that the compact SUV heralds the first of its kind.
Featuring exceptional acceleration, vast engine power, extreme agility and optimum steering precision, the Macan is set to rewrite the rulebook on outstanding sporting comfort and everyday usability. The sporty DNA of the Macan, as with all Porsche vehicles, is immediately recognisable in the design. The compact SUV is unrivalled in its flat and broad profile on the road. The wrap-around bonnet and gently sloping roof line accentuate the overall impression of sporty elegance and powerful dynamics. Two derivatives are available at Porsche Centre Lagos for order: Macan S and Macan Turbo.
The Macan S is equipped with a 3.0-litre V6 biturbo engine, delivering 340 hp and also features an active all-wheel drive with an electronically controlled, map-controlled multi-plate clutch. This all-wheel drive is fitted on all Macan models. From the outset the Macan boasts the recently developed Porsche Doppelkupplung (PDK), which transfers power as required and almost free of interruption in tractive force. This enables the vehicle to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.2 seconds, when equipped with the optional Sport Chrono package, and reaches a top speed of 254 km/h. As the top derivative, the Macan Turbo is set to be the most powerful petrol-powered vehicle in the compact SUV segment. The 3.6-litre V6 biturbo engine, which is being used in a Porsche model for the very first time, achieves an unrivalled 400 hp and catapults the vehicle from 0 to 100 km/h in just 4.6 seconds (with Sport Chrono package), reaching a top speed of 266 km/h.
Anurag Shah, Brand Manager of Porsche Centre Lagos, said: "As you would expect, we have had a great deal of interest in the all-new Macan. Last year the Cayenne, our luxury SUV, proved our most popular model range and we are excited to expand our SUV offering, reaching a new group of customers. The sporty dynamics of the Macan inject an added dose of fun which I believe is set to redefine the SUV market."
The name Macan comes from the Indonesian word for tiger, a spirit the car truly embodies. Boasting pure Porsche power and assertiveness, the Macan is also a nimble yet tenacious off-roader. The latest stage of evolution of the all-wheel drive – known as Porsche Traction Management – has produced one of the world's most powerful drive systems.
A glance at the performance specifications reveal that the Macan has been designed with agility in mind. Further unmistakable hallmarks of the vehicle include its proportions, design and the mixed tyres with different dimensions at the front and rear axle, enhancing the look and functionality.
The driver and passenger seats also boast the low position typical of sports cars.
The range of equipment fitted on the Macan as standard is extensive and includes the all-wheel drive, PDK, multi-function sport steering wheel with shift paddles, high-performance audio system and an electrically operated tailgate.


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First Off, This site is such a great help to me and my ?'s regarding HIV and The Body. Dr.Bob I am a 29yo Afro Amer. Male Hiv+ 2.5 years now. I'm on Truvada/Kaletra regiman (which I love)No side effects at all. However I have been noticing my sex drive lowering and lowering. I have a hard time getting a solid erection when I'm intimate with my friend, the things I used to love doing sexually are just like "blah" to me now! the only time I seem to get excited is when I'm alone and may have a sexual thought or 2. I don't take vitamins but I want to start, can you suggest a vitamin regimen to take with my meds and can I take ginkoba? Is it typical for hiv+ individuals who are on treatment to experience the low sex drive? help me because I'm gonna ruin my relationship
You lost your mojo? Luckily it is often not difficult to isolate the cause of the limp in your love jones and quickly straighten things out, so to speak!
The most common cause of decreased libido, less-than-rock-hard woodies and the "blahs" when getting your groove on between the sheets, for those of us who are "virally enhanced," turns out to be hypogonadism (low testosterone level). It's extremely common in HIVers, even when doing well on HAART. Your next step should be to check your free testosterone level. I'm willing to bet it will be low. Luckily, there are now convenient testosterone supplements that can restore your sex drive and return Mr. Happy to his former glory. I prefer the topical formulations (Testim or AndroGel) that you self apply once per day. If hypogonadism is not your problem, your HIV doctor will run other tests to find out why your trouser snake has suddenly become so shy. Generally speaking, vitamins are not the answer to unhappy Mr. Happys.
Next, for HIVers, I recommend a single once-a-day multi-vitamin. I don't think you need a whole "regimen," if you are eating well balanced meals. As for supplements like ginkgo, there are no good scientific studies that support their common use for HIVers. There are loads of claims that alternative/complementary products do all sorts of things, from curing bad breath to enlarging the size of your one-eyed monster. However, there is a big difference between "claims" and "scientific facts." Many companies selling herbal and complementary products are reluctant to fund clinical studies, because they most likely would reveal their miracle products are not at all useful or, worse, have harmful side effects or drug interactions with common medications.
Ginkgo biloba is a popular product used as a memory booster and for hearing problems, depression and asthma. What we know about the product is that it hampers the effectiveness of some anti-seizure medications and may increase blood pressure if used in combination with certain medications (thiazide diuretics, for example). It is also considered risky to use with some antidepressants (MAO inhibitors). Interestingly, it may help alleviate some impotence problems caused by another class of antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors).
Bottom line: I wouldn't recommend taking complementary/alternative products. We already have way too many pills to take and whatever their possible benefits, there is simply not enough good information available to guide wise decision-making with regard to adding these agents to a HAART regimen. What is also clear is that there are very definite elements of risk involved in taking these products.
Good luck.
Dr. Bob


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This is the most common question asked by Linux newbies (noobs). How do I install a personal firewall on a standalone Desktop Linux computer. In other words "I wanna a simple firewall that allows or permits me to visit anything from my computer but it should block everything from outside world".
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Step # 4: Drop everything else and log it
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But wait you cannot type all above commands at a shell command prompt. It is a good idea to create a script called fw.start as follows (copy and paste following script in fw.start file):
#!/bin/sh # A simple iptables -F iptables -X iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t mangle -F iptables -t mangle -X modprobe ip_conntrack modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp # Setting default filter policy iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT # Unlimited access to loop back iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT # Allow UDP, DNS and Passive FTP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT # DROP everything and Log it iptables -A INPUT -j LOG iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
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Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong faces being stripped of his titles and banned from cycling for life after announcing he will not contest charges levelled by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA).
American Armstrong said in a statement that he is "finished with this nonsense" and insisted he is innocent but did not want to spend any further effort clearing his name.
He said: "There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, 'Enough is enough'. For me, that time is now.
"I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999."
However Armstrong's achievements are set to be wiped from the record books.
Asked what actions USADA intended to impose, spokeswoman Annie Skinner said in an email: "A loss of all results from August 1, 1998 and a lifetime ban from participating any sport sanctioned by a signatory to the WADA Code."
Armstrong, 40, has always denied claims he ever used performance-enhancing drugs during his career and has never failed a test.
But USADA chief executive Travis T. Tygart has said the Texan should face the same proceedings as any other athlete charged with doping offences.
Armstrong, charged by USADA in June, sought a temporary restraining order against the agency's legal action but that was dismissed in a federal court in Austin, Texas on Monday.
His former team-mates Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton have both accused Armstrong of doping. Both Landis and Hamilton have also been punished for doping.
Armstrong, who in 2011 retired from cycling for a second time, is the most successful rider in the history of the Tour de France, winning each year from 1999 to 2005.
His story was made all the more remarkable by the fact his triumphs came after beating cancer.
Armstrong claims the USADA investigation "has not been about learning the truth or cleaning up cycling, but about punishing me at all costs".
"Over the past three years, I have been subjected to a two-year federal criminal investigation followed by Travis Tygart's unconstitutional witch hunt," he said.
"The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today – finished with this nonsense."
He added: "Today I turn the page. I will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances."
He accused USADA of having "broken the law" and "played the role of a bully" and insisted he always "played by the rules" put in place by anti-doping agencies and cycling's world governing body the UCI.
He added in a statement on his personal website: "The idea that athletes can be convicted today without positive A and B samples, under the same rules and procedures that apply to athletes with positive tests, perverts the system and creates a process where any begrudged ex-team-mate can open a USADA case out of spite or for personal gain or a cheating cyclist can cut a sweetheart deal for themselves.
"It's an unfair approach, applied selectively, in opposition to all the rules. It's just not right."
Armstrong, in a passionate defence of his career record, said USADA had no right to take away his Tour titles.
"USADA cannot assert control of a professional international sport and attempt to strip my seven Tour de France titles," he said.
"I know who won those seven Tours, my team-mates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours.
"We all raced together. For three weeks over the same roads, the same mountains, and against all the weather and elements that we had to confront.
"There were no shortcuts, there was no special treatment. The same courses, the same rules. The toughest event in the world where the strongest man wins. Nobody can ever change that. Especially not Travis Tygart."
Responding to Armstrong's statement, Tygart said: "It is a sad day for all of us who love sport and our athletic heroes."
While Armstrong remains steadfast that he did not cheat, Tygart sees the case in a different light.
Tygart added in a statement released by USADA: "This is a heartbreaking example of how the win-at-all-costs culture of sport, if left unchecked, will overtake fair, safe and honest competition, but for clean athletes, it is a reassuring reminder that there is hope for future generations to compete on a level playing field without the use of performance-enhancing drugs."
Armstrong called USADA's actions a "charade" and the allegations against him "outlandish and heinous".
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A few years ago, 2007 to be exact my father comes into my office and plunks a bag down on my desk. This was no ordinary bag, it was vintage Botkier! As it turns out, my grandfather Misha (Michael in Russian) had been a handbag manufacturer in Russia more than 50 years ago…
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Going through the archives of old family photos while the only surviving bag made by my grandfather Misha hung on the wall of my office gave me all the inspiration I needed. To create is to live. The experience made me feel close to him again. I missed him.
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The Sun and others have paid little attention to the importance of firearm size in the context of the current gun control debate. Due to the fact they are easily concealed and portable, handguns are more often accidentally discharged, used to commit suicide and, most importantly, employed by criminals. Rifles, on the other hand, are far less to be involved in such cases. That's why lumping rifle and handgun restrictions together is a mistake.
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When I see performers that are primarily known for a different genre of entertainment try to do something different, I would like to think that I am open-minded to enough to go with the experiment, to see how things work out. Having said that, I was admittedly surprised to see Chris Rock tackle a low-budget comedy. However, his playing opposite a paragon of sorts for independent cinema does help matters when we see him without many of his jokes in 2 Days in New York.
The film is co-written by Julie Delpy (of Before Sunset lore), and Alexia Landreau (Marie Antoinette), with Delpy directing, and starring as Marion, a mother and artist who lives with Rock, who plays a radio talk-show host named Mingus. Mingus and Marion live in New York with two children (from prior relationships) and life is good, as Marion is about to open an art exhibition with the 'selling of her soul.' Things become complicated when Marion's family come to town and throw the couple's life up in the air, specifically Marion's father (played by Delpy's father Albert), sister (Landreau) and sister's boyfriend Manu (Alex Nahon, who wrote the story from where the screenplay arose). In addition, the family seems to influence everything that encounters it, whether it is the exhibition, a potential opportunity for Mingus or a neighbor who shares the same apartment building with Marion and Mingus. The strain of Marion's family gets to Mingus and eventually to Marion, and they only hope the family leaves, sooner rather than later.
In Marion's 'family,' we see the same characters here that we do for 2 Days In Paris, which Delpy also wrote and directed. For disclosure's sake, I will admit to not having seen Paris so I cannot speak to how much (if at all) New York serves as a sequel to it. Though I will say this film certainly possesses a standalone feel to it that seeing Paris may be unnecessary. Anyone can relate to his or her significant other's family coming to town and raising holy hell in one fashion or another, right? Moreover, the emotional wearing and tearing on Marion and Mingus is felt more and more as the film goes on. Delpy goes a good job in conveying this, along with the balance of being an accommodating host to the outspoken sister and boyfriend, and to the general eccentricities of her father. Rock does a decent job as well, all the while interacting with a cardboard cutout of Barack Obama, getting into 'conversations' with it in the hopes of landing a personally-prized interview with the President.
With the positive performances from the leads, the overall conflict of the story is one that is not convincing enough for me for the story to keep pushing forward. While 'in-laws come to town and hijinks ensue' is easily relatable, in 2 Days in New York Delpy does not appear to be sure of how to play it. On one hand, throwing the French with little to no English acumen into the middle of the "City That Doesn't Sleep" is done with some attempts at humor, other times it is done for the wear and tear on the relationship between Marion and Mingus, with Marion and her sister almost constantly fighting with one another. It seems like the film wants to have the best of both worlds, but does not do much in either aspect.
While I certainly thought that this experiment by Chris Rock was interesting and his work with Delpy was acceptable (Delpy was good as well), in 2 Days in New York, we have a film that feels like it is not worthy enough to match either of their talents individually, let alone as a collective. If one were going to make a different choice in their career, one would hope the choice would be a little bolder. As it is, Rock's decision to go indie/arthouse is average, with the hope that it improves.
An AVC-encoded 1.85:1 high-definition presentation is in the tea leaves for <2 Days in New York, with the overall result looking fine. Image detail is decent though not entirely consistent, and flesh tones appear natural, with the color palette reproduced accurately without image processing, and in a scene where Delpy is walking outside at night, the darkness looks natural and black levels overall look fine. The film looks as good as it is expected to be on the medium.
Magnolia includes a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track, and generally, the disc sounds decent. Dialogue is strong through the feature as I listened to it, and the ambient noise provides for a subtle and immersive experience while listening. The subwoofer does not engage during the film, but directional effects are present and sound clear, though channel panning leaves a little to be desired. I was not expecting to be blown away by the film, yet the overall result is workmanlike and complaint-free.
If you like interviews, then you are in luck. Delpy sits down for interviews (22:13) in which she discusses the story and how Paris may tie into this. She also recalls how she met Rock and her thoughts on working with him. Her insights into the process of writing with Landeau and directing in general are shown, along with what she likes and does not, and her opinions on the locations and various story points. Rock has his own segment, though at 5:25 it does not cover all that much. Interviews with Rock, Landeau, Nahon and the Delpys follow, some of those are conducted in French, and they cover much of the same ground as the other segments do. "A Look at 2 Days In New York" (4:52) is just that from AXS (formerly HDNet) with perspectives from Delpy and Rock, and the trailer for the film (1:53) along with other Magnolia releases are shown.
2 Days in New York is an interesting idea and a nice departure for one of the leads in the movie, but the story does not have much to say nor does it feel all that unique and thus, said departure feels wasted as a result. Technically the disc is solid and from a bonus material perspective does almost enough to whet your appetite, but unless you are looking for closure to/an extension of the Two Days series, I would do little more than renting this bad boy.


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Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline set several years before Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City's most dangerous criminals, villains and assassins, players will meet many important characters for the first time.
The game showcases a young, raw, unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, witness identities being formed and key relationships being forged.


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I am looking for pics of Fluffy G, as I just learned of his untimely demise earlier today. A good friend, RIP, buddy,
That being said, I am going through all the old LF / LCLF pics. I have not made it far enough forward for TXLF AZLF and of course I still have to go to the Wormwood Society.
I cannot believe how much fucking fun I am having rereading all this old xit. The pics, the memories,the knowledge of what was to come. The HG, the evolution.
I have become a hermit like no other in terms of being social.I have never been more sad about that than I am right this moment.
Enough weepy bitch xit. I am going to pour another one for Paul, and keep having fun with the past.