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Blanchard Vows Veto If Preschool Bill Fails
Some governors have highlighted precollegiate education in their 1988 State of the State addresses. Following are reports from several states.
Gov. James J. Blanchard called on Michigan lawmakers last week to approve a far-ranging package of school-reform initiatives this year before taking up the more politically sensitive issue of restructuring the school-finance system.
Heading the Governor's list of reforms, which he outlined in a Jan. 20 address, is a new program to provide preschool services to "at risk" 4-year-olds.
"Tonight I am drawing the line," Mr. Blanchard told the lawmakers. "I will veto any education appropriations bill that does not contain'' funding for the preschool initiative. The Governor suggested spending $40 million for the effort in fiscal 1989, $60 million in 1990, and $80- million in 1991.
The Governor's reform proposals also include:
$170 million in "quality assurance" funds. Districts would receive between $25 and $110 per student for adopting a core curriculum for all grades that sets minimum standards for promotion and graduation; lowering the pupil-teacher ratio in kindergarten through 3rd grade to 20 to 1; giving parents the option of choosing a public school for their children from among all such schools in their district; and adopting school-based improvement plans prepared by administrators, teachers, parents, and community business leaders.
$500 million in incentive funds for districts that raise their students' scores on the state's student-assessment tests.
$15 million in incentive funds to encourage districts to keep potential dropouts in school.
$6 million for teacher inservice programs developed at the school level within broad guidelines set by the state board of education.
Requiring prospective teachers to pass a competency test in order to obtain state certification.
Funding for the reforms would be provided separately from general state aid to districts.
"Once this excellence challenge is adopted, we will work with the legislature to enact separate plans to bring greater equity to school districts' funding and to tackle the critical challenge of reducing the property-tax burden in Michigan," Mr. Blanchard said in his address.
Last year, citizens' commissions appointed by the Senate and the state board issued separate school-finance reports calling for major reductions in local property-tax rates combined with an increase in the sales tax. Prior to last week's address, the Governor had not clearly indicated whether he would be willing to tackle the finance issue during this legislative session.
Senator Dan L. DeGrow, chairman of the Senate K-12 education subcommittee and vice chairman of the chamber's appropriations committee, said last week he doubted that the legislature would address the reform and finance issues separately, as the Governor requested. He noted that lawmakers will be under pressure to approve a proposed constitutional amendment to change the finance system by late June in order to put the issue before voters in November.
The Governor is scheduled to submit his fiscal 1989 budget request to lawmakers this week.--tm
Kean Requests Studies On 'Choice,' Values
Gov. Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey has told lawmakers he wants the state "to explore the idea" of letting parents choose the public schools their children attend.
"We are allowed to choose virtually every service and product we use," he said in his annual message to the legislature, "yet we have little choice in the most important decision of all--deciding where to send our children to school."
"Why shouldn't the mother in Camden or Newark decide where to send her child to school?" he asked.
He made it clear he was not proposing that parents be allowed to use public money to send their children to private schools, an option advanced by the Reagan Administration.
"I am not talking about tuition tax credits," he said. "I am talking about efforts to allow choice within the public-school system itself."
The Governor said he would ask Saul Cooperman, the commissioner of education, to study whether public-school choice is feasible and to report his findings within a year.
He also said he had directed Mr. Cooperman to establish a panel of leaders from business, education, government, and religious groups to define what he called "a common core of enduring values that all New Jerseyans believe should be promoted."
Once this task is completed, the Governor said, the department of education will "take these values and use them to once again teach character in our schools."
"Too many schools say morality is no longer their business," he said. "I believe it is long past time we put a little moral fiber in our children's educational diet."
In other education proposals, the Governor called for greater accountability and earlier intervention. He would toughen the state's high-school proficiency examination by testing students at the 11th-grade level, rather than at the 9th-grade level; create a report card for schools to enable parents and taxpayers "to find out what schools are giving them for their money"; and expand the number of preschool programs in the state's urban areas.
"If we invest early," he said of this last proposal, "we can save later in the costs of remedial education, welfare, and even prisons."
Mr. Kean is scheduled to present a separate message on his proposed budget early next month.--br
Moore Seeks Special Session on Education
Aiming some harsh criticism at his political opponents, Gov. Arch Moore of West Virginia has promised to call a special legislative session in April to consider his proposals for educational improvement.
In his Jan. 13 address to the legislature, Mr. Moore blasted political leaders for failing to support his efforts last year to make 1987 the "Year of Education" in his economically troubled state.
"I am bitterly disappointed with my loss, ... a battle I hasten to say I fought all alone, with no help from any segment of the community of West Virginia that always gives lip service to education and its needs," Mr. Moore said.
The Governor said he would unveil "a complete educational program" after the legislature has time to study a number of recent reports on school improvement, and following a March election on proposed changes in the school-finance system.
In last year's session, the legislature approved a precollegiate-education budget of $755 million, considerably below the total requested by the Governor, and rejected proposed pay increases for teachers.
In making those cuts, legislators cited West Virginia's shaky fiscal condition. In December, a lack of cash in the state treasury forced officials to defer several aid payments to school districts.
But in last week's address, Mr. Moore downplayed the fiscal problems, saying they had been blown out of proportion by "reckless discussion and news reports ... played to national and worldwide audiences."
He promised to develop revenue proposals to help pay for his new education reforms, which are expected to closely resemble his 1987 recommendations. Pending the submission of those measures, the Governor has presented legislators with a provisional budget that calls for a freeze in overall state spending, and only a4slight increase in aid to schools.
Under the proposed budget, total spending from general revenues would be set at just under $1.5 billion. Elementary and secondary education would receive slightly less than $772 million, about $17 million--or 2 percent--above last year's level.
Legislative leaders reacted coolly to Mr. Moore's proposal for a special session. With precollegiate-education spending accounting for nearly half of the state's budget, the subjectis too critical to be dealt with at a later date, several said.--wm
N.M. Governor Wants To Block-Grant Aid
In an effort to stretch limited education funds, Gov. Garrey E. Carruthers of New Mexico has become the second Western governor this month to propose block-granting state aid to schools.
"Local discretion is the key phrase in our public-school budget for 1988," the Republican Governor said. He made his proposal during a Jan. 19 address that he dedicated to "the children."
Under Mr. Carruthers' plan, all state assistance to local schools--8with the exception of funds designated for transportation and library services--would be distributed in lump sums.
"Then, it will be up to the local district to find ways to better manage all their state aid," said Marlis Mann, an education aide to the Governor.
A similar plan to move away from the traditional process of earmarking state funds for specific purposes was advanced a week earlier by Gov. Norman H. Bangerter of Utah. His proposal called for block-granting state aid on a pilot basis in several school districts.
"We're both states with tight resources," Ms. Mann noted.
In New Mexico, for example, the Governor's proposed $27.9-million increase in education spending would cover the costs of existing programs and a series of reforms approved in 1986. It would not, however, pay for teacher salary increases, critics point out.
"If individual schools want to take some of that money and spend it on teacher salaries," Ms. Mann said, "that's up to them."
Mr. Carruthers also proposed repealing education-reform laws that eliminated noninstructional duties for teachers, such as supervising lunch periods or recesses. He said the change would add $1.2 million in discretionary aid for schools.
Other education-related proposals in the Governor's address include: spending $6.1 million to reduce the teacher-pupil ratio in 2nd-grade classrooms; a $2.7-million appropriation to fund similar class-size reductions in English classes in grades 7 through 12; and a $450,000 grant to expand bilingual programs.
The Governor also called for the creation of a task force to study ways to revamp New Mexico's school-funding formula.--dv
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Web Chat Today on the Schooling of Native Americans
How federal and state laws can support relevant and engaging schooling for Native Americans will be one of the topics of a Web chat scheduled today for 3 p.m., Eastern time.
Keith O. Moore, who just started a new job as the director of the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian Education, will be a guest for the chat. So will Leslie Harper, who directs an Ojibwe language-immersion school in Minnesota. Moore is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Harper is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.
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I had a lovely shimmery brown jersey, very light and it suited perfectly. The dress was made in no time, but I decided to make the skirt panel much shorter, so it looks a bit younger and sexier. The dress was made and looked ok- I wanted to take some pictures and post it here. But the problem was- I didn't get a chance to wear it anywhere, as it is a bit too revealing for the local idea of appropriate and I hate the bra bit showing at the back too. Eventually I cut it a bit shorter into a tunic and wore with a little cardigan over.
Still, it is nice to showcase what you create, so here it is (with an appropriate underwear aсquired for backless garments, so no x-rated pictures here:


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Labour Market Conditions in the Financial Services SectorRelease Date: 30 Jan 2018
Key Highlights: As at end-3Q 2017, total employment in the financial services sector, covering banking institutions, development financial institutions and insurance companies/Takaful operators, stood at 165,053 persons.
Key developments in 3Q2017 were:
1. Job opportunities remain ample, with sizeable new jobs being created (1,976 jobs) and large job vacancies in the sector (5,857 jobs), driven mainly by high-skilled jobs 1/ .
2. Sustainable high number of new hires (7,208 persons) continued to exceed separations (6,752 persons), indicating positive hiring appetite within the sector.
3. Layoffs remained low at 391 persons as the bulk of job separations were due to quits and resignations (77.8% of total separations).
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Robert Faris puts an even finer point on this idea. If you put adults in a similar situationmeaning airlifted into a giant building full of strangers with few common bondsyou'd find similar behaviors. Like reality television, for instance, in which people literally divide into tribes, form alliances, and vote one another off the island. And I think you see it in nursing homes, says Faris. In small villages. And sometimes in book clubs. And then I realized, having covered politics for many years: Congress, too. It's not adolescence that's the problem, insists Faris. It's the giant box of strangers.
As adults, we spend a lot of time in boxes of strangers. I have always referred to life as perpetual high school,' Paul Feig wrote me in our first e-mail exchange, later adding, when we spoke, that his wife's first order when she landed her Hollywood dream job was to go fire her predecessor. Brown tells me she frequently hears similar things from men in financeas a reward for outstanding quarterly earnings, they get to pick their new office, which means displacing someone else. (The corresponding shame led one to consider quitting: I didn't sign up to terrorize people, he tells her in her latest book, Daring Greatly.) Today, we also live in an age when our reputation is at the mercy of people we barely know, just as it was back in high school, for the simple reason that we lead much more public, interconnected lives. The prospect of sudden humiliation once again trails us, now in the form of unflattering photographs of ourselves or unwanted gossip, virally reproduced. The whole world has become a box of interacting strangers.
Maybe, perversely, we should be grateful that high school prepares us for this life. The isolation, the shame, the aggression from those yearsall of it readies us to cope. But one also has to wonder whether high school is to blame; whether the worst of adult America looks like high school because it's populated by people who went to high school in America. We're recapitulating the ugly folkways of this institution, and reacting with the same reflexes, because that's where we were trapped, and shaped, and misshaped, during some of our most vulnerable years.
High school itself does something to us, is the point. We bear its stripes. Last October, the National Bureau of Economic Research distributed a study showing a compelling correlation between high-school popularitymeasured by how many friendship nominations each kid received from their peersand future earnings in boys. Thirty-five years later, the authors estimated, boys who ranked in the 80th percentile of popularity earned, on average, 10 percent more than those in the 20th. There are obvious chicken-and-egg questions in all studies like this; maybe these kids were already destined for dominance, which is why they were popular. But Gabriella Conti, an economist and first author of the paper, notes that she and her colleagues took into consideration the personality traits of their subjects, measuring their levels of openness, agreeableness, extroversion, and so forth. And adolescent popularity is predictive beyond them, she says, which tells me this is about more than just personality. It's about interpersonal relations. High school is when you learn how to master social relationshipsand to understand how, basically, to play the game.' Or don't. Joseph Allen and his colleagues at the University of Virginia just found that kids who suffer from mild depression at 14, 15, and 16 have worse odds in the futurein romance, friendship, competency assessments by outsiderseven if their depression disappears and they become perfectly happy adults. Because that's their first template for adult interaction, says Allen when asked to offer an explanation. And once they're impaired socially, it carries forward.
Yet even the most popular kids, the effortlessly perfect ones, the ones who roamed the halls as if their fathers had built them especially in their honor, may not entirely benefit from the experiences of the high-school years. In 2000, three psychologists presented a paper titled Peer Crowd-Based Identities and Adjustment: Pathways of Jocks, Princesses, Brains, Basket-Cases, and Criminals, which asked a large sample of tenth-graders which of the five characters from The Breakfast Club they most considered themselves to be, and then checked back in with them at 24. The categories were immensely predictive, according to Jacquelynne Eccles, one of the authors. (Criminals were still most apt to smoke pot; male jocks still had the highest self-esteem.) But one datum was interesting: At 24, the princesses had lower self-esteem than the brainy girls, which certainly wasn't true when they were 16. But Eccles sees no inconsistency in this finding. In fact, she suspects it will hold true when she completes her follow-up with the same sample at 40. Princesses are caught up in this external world that defines who they are, says Eccles, whereas if brainy girls claim they're smart, that probably is who they are. While those brainy girls were in high school, they couldn't rely on their strengths to gain popularity, perhaps, but they could rely on them as fuel, as sources of private esteem. Out of high school, they suddenly had agency, whereas the princesses were still relying on luck and looks and public opinion to carry them through, just as they had at 16. They'd learned passivity, and it'd stuck.
Whether it's for vindication or validation, whether out of self-punishment or self-appeasement, many of us choose to devote a lot of time revisiting our high-school years. That's the crazy thing. In 2011, the Pew Research Center found that the largest share of our Facebook friends22 percentcome from high school. Keith Hampton, a Rutgers sociologist and one of the researchers who did the analysis, says this is true for college- and non-college-educated Americans alike. In fact, Hampton suspects that Facebook itself plays a role. Before Facebook, there was a real discontinuity between our high-school selves and the rest of our lives. Then Mark Zuckerberg came along. Social ties that would have gone dormant now remain accessible over time, and all the time.
Maybe that's what ultimately got me to that nondescript bar near Times Square last fall. Until Facebook, the people from my high-school years had undeniably occupied a place in my unconscious, but they were ghost players, gauzy and green at the edges. Now here they were, repeatedly appearing in my news feed, describing their plans to attend our reunion. And so I went, curious about whom they'd become. There were the former football players, still acting like they owned the joint, but as much more generous proprietors. There were the beautiful girls, still beautiful, but looking less certain about themselves. There was my former best pal, who'd blown past me on her way to cheerleaderhood, but nervous in a way I probably hadn't recognized back then. I was happy to see her. And to see a lot of them, truth be told. We'd all grown more gracious; many of us had bloomed; and it was strangely moving to be among people who all shared this shameful, grim, and wild common bond. I found myself imagining how much nicer it'd have been to see all those faces if we hadn't spent our time together in that redbrick, linoleum-tiled perdition. Then again, if we hadn'tif we'd been somewhere more benignI probably wouldn't have cared.


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The result is reported in the shell exit code, not as a textual output from the command, just like the UNIX /usr/bin/test command. The intended use case is something like the following Bourne/bash shell example: if test -d /opt; then ... install in /opt else ... install in /usr fi or using the /usr/bin/[ synonym available on most systems, if [ -d /opt ]; then ... Similarly, if hadoop dfs -test -e something.txt; then echo "something.txt exists on hdfs" else echo "something.txt does not exist on hdfs" fi -andy On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Pedro Sá da Costa <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > I execute 'hadoop-1.0.3/bin/hadoop dfs -test -d > /user/xeon/gutenberg/A.txt' command in the bash, and I was expecting > getting the value 0 or 1, but I got nothing. > > What is the command to launch from the bash that allows to check if a > file in HDFS is a file or directory? > > -- > Best regards,
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I was so excited when I stumbled across this burlap Valentine's banner on Pinterest yesterday. I followed the image to the funkyshique Etsy store. I especially like this banner because its reminiscent of the Burlap Name Banner we showcased back in September. The Burlap Name Banner is one of our favorite (and easiest) ways to add a little fun to a party. So, why not trade out the lettering for some bright red hearts and the rectangular shape for some cheery triangles? Its a Valentine's Day win.
To see instructions for the Burlap Name Banner, go here. To purchase the White Painted Burlap with Red Glitter Hearts, go here. Above images via here.


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Saturday, September 12, 2009
9 comments:
- Niki said...
Dude, I did that yesterday. I love your Katie in this!
- Sun Sep 13, 04:19:00 PM 2009
- Jessica said...
Love it! Nico, you are excellent at people but I have a special place in my heart for your animals!!!!
- Sun Sep 13, 04:37:00 PM 2009
- Katie said...
NICO!!!! I already told you how much I love this drawing you did for me, but I'll tell you again. I LOVE IT! Thanks so much. :)
Luna's little nose and ears are so cute!! I love how you did different designs for my two kitties. I need that outfit I have on in that drawing. I wanna be that fashionable in real life! :D
- Mon Sep 14, 11:40:00 AM 2009
- kittens with chainsaws said...
Nico you are AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was soo great to finally meet you! Thanks for rockin out with me and not making fun of my off-key singing voice! :)
- Mon Sep 14, 12:26:00 PM 2009
- Nico said...
Niki- thankyou!! This is probably the only time I've ever drawn Katie where I actually like how it came out too, haha
Jess- eeeee, thank you!!!!! We just LOVE animals don't we? We need to COLLAB soon and make a mega-awesome CUTE animal project!
Katie- I'm so happy you like it! I love drawing my friends. Saturday was sooooo much fun, we must do it again really soon! Either someone's next birthday, or a "no reason" party!!!
Brandy- omg I LOVE you, Brandy!!! It was fantastic finally getting to meet you, and you have got to be the sweetest person on the planet. And SHUT YO MOUF, because you sang beautifully!!! When are we hanging out again??
- Mon Sep 14, 04:34:00 PM 2009
- kittens with chainsaws said...
Ah, you are too kind, thank you!
Name the time & place & I'm there!
- Mon Sep 14, 07:02:00 PM 2009
- Benjamin Anders said...
Great job, Nico!
- Tue Sep 15, 04:02:00 PM 2009
- Jenny Lerew said...
That's a great drawing! I used to do the odd drawing of Mizz Rice for her bdays, but they pale beside this one. I wish it were mine! You astound!
- Wed Sep 16, 04:32:00 PM 2009
- Ricky said...
another phenomenal Katie. She just might be your muse!
the cats are spot-on as well!
- Tue Sep 22, 11:24:00 AM 2009


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I'm looking out my window.
I hoped to see some stars.
Unfortunately, those are rare to see in Illinois.
But I see something also just as wondrous.
It's a tree.
There is a light breeze tonight.
I open my window.
The sounds of the city are restless and distract me for a moment.
The cool summer breeze is calming.
Tears swell my eyes as my heart pounds a little harder.
I look back at the tree.
The leaves are dancing in the night with the breeze.
I begin to stare at it.
It makes me smile.
It's beautiful…
It's not the tallest or the straightest or even the most lush of trees.
It even has gaps between the branches where the deep blue night sky peeks through.
But it's still beautiful.
In all it's flaws and imperfections, it was created this way.
It was intended to be this way..
It sounds silly, right?
Being emotional over a tree.
An ordinary tree even.
But it's not ordinary, it's one of a kind.
This tree has lived longer than me.
It's endured wind, rain, snow, and more.
and more…
This tree after everything is still standing tall and strong…
About a third of the way up from the base of the tree trunk is a slight kink.
Almost as if it changed it's course..it's path..
I look at this tree and think it's so beautiful with it's imperfections and all.
My heart pounds again.
Tears swell up..again.
I want someone to look at me like this.
The way I see this tree.
The beauty in my imperfections.
I take a deep breath.
No more tears..
It's darker now.
I can see a few scattered stars now, through the gaps in the branches!
I smile and take another deep breath.
My heart weighs heavy tonight.
Can you see it?
My heart?
The beauty?
I hope you find me.
I hope this finds you.
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Thoughts on the new MacBooks
Just last Tuesday Apple released a whole new line up of MacBooks, and right now I have to say, they look amazing! I really like that they took the new iMac look, because I loved the new iMac when they came out.
I will start off with my thoughts on the new MacBook. The MacBook, in my opinion looks fantastic. I really like the new aluminum design and I think that it looks more elegant and professional than the older plastic one. Even though I would have loved a black MacBook, I think that these will top the older generation. The first and most noticeable change they made in the internal design was the track pad. The track pad now has no button, the track pad is the button. I really like this idea. I think at first it will be very had to get use to but in the end it will be a habit and everyone will love it. The track pad is now glass. Yes, there were some rumors about the new track pad being glass and it looks like they came true. I haven't seen or played with the new MacBooks yet. So I'm not sure if I like this idea, but everyone that has one on YouTube seems to be liking it.
I have two complaints with the new MacBook. One, there is no firewire in it. Two, the price increased instead of decreasing like it should be in this terrible economy. The first complaint, no firewire is terrible. Apple invented firewire back when they made the Mac and they don't include it in their own computers? When is the last time when someone invented something and they didn't include that invention in the next creation that they made? I thought that it was really weird for Apple to not put this in their MacBook and MacBook Pro. Also, the price increase for the MacBook is absolutely terrible. Our economy is doing very, very, bad in these times and all of our prices should be going down so people can afford them not up! There is not much more I can say about this but the price should have been dropped.
Now to the MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro looks the same as the MacBook. Aluminum inside and outside, with the black border around the screen. This in itself could be a big mistake for Apple. In the past the MacBook and the MacBook Pro have always had a feature so you could know which one the Pro was. Now with the new update, they are exactly the same except for the size. Apple also "discontinued" the 17″ MacBook Pro. I think that this was a mistake, although you can buy the old one I think people will really like the new one and they will want to buy that one. I think in the next few months Apple will release a 17″ MacBook Pro. Also, the MacBook Pro doesn't have FireWire, again, that is a problem. The last problem I have with the MacBook Pro is the fact that there is only 2 USB ports. That is absolutely terrible, 2 usb ports on a Pro machine? Apple has always had more than two on their Pro machines. The MacBook Pro needs more than two. But, even though the MacBook price went up the MacBook Pro price stayed the same. I think this was a good idea even though the MacBook should have stayed the same too.
But these are just my thoughts. I'm sure others would say some of the same things but many different ones. If you have any thoughts please leave a comment. I would love to hear your opinion, you can email me at email@example.com.


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talk delivered May 21, 2009 to York Socialists (University of York)
As the Japanese critic Kojin Karatani noted, "the recent casino capitalism…seems to indicate that people no longer believe in the rewards of diligent production and fair exchange."[1] But as Karatani suggests, this common disdain for the 'excess and greed' of banking and finance is today the diversionary code-work of a failure to grasp our current predicament. Critics from several angles today place blame on "deregulation,"[2] a catch-all term whose consequences are summarized as the separation of autonomizing finance capital from its real base, or in other words, a system adapted to the spontaneous creation of "fictitious" (in place of concrete) value. Deregulation becomes the real agent for a dizzying world of speculation, over-leveraging, asset inflation, 'casino' behavior, and the abandonment of what Karatani called – with more than a little bit of irony – "diligent production and fair exchange."
We are made to picture a gap between real/fictitious, productive/financial, value/exchange-value: "the antithesis between commodities and their value-form, money."[3] I myself will speak of a gap, and I use "gap" where others on the left speak of "de-coupling" (i.e. Robert Cox), "dissociation" (i.e. Werner Bonefeld), and "inversion" (i.e. Monthly Review editors), terms that one way or another obscure the original, constitutive nature of the gap itself. I should say that here we need to be a little bit theoretical, dare I say dialectical, or in any case we need to be patient with the use of concepts. This is because of a definite antinomy: while the gap is between value and money, there is at the same time no such thing as value without money, since money is the enabling condition of a system of value. In this respect, the gap can be thought of as internal to value, which, as I will argue, is precisely why notions of abolishing the gap through a "return to real value" – and the Keynesian, social-democratic, New Labour, etc. projects associated with such a 'return' – are less coherent than we would hope.
The gap reaches a breaking point at a certain conjecture, which we know as crisis. However – and this is my central claim today – the conjecture is called crisis, not the gap itself. The phenomenon of the gap is too vast, containing too many shapes and causing too many effects, to be reduced to something as narrow as crisis alone. The gap is the name for capitalism as a whole, as both the site of crisis and as the precise site of growth.
"Crisis," wrote Suzanne de Brunhoff, "is the brutal manifestation of the law of value."[4] Mainstream critics of deregulation would now seem to agree with this characterization of our era, a period of two phases: 1) prices bloat, paper wealth multiplies and "all capital seems to double itself, and sometimes treble itself,"[5] 2) the 'brutal law' asserts its logic when prices can no longer levitate and "defy gravity" as the commentators often say of bubble economics. Crises burst bubbles and devalue capital, so that the political choice becomes one between 'managed' devaluation and 'chaotic' devaluation, this choice being secondary to the fact that in either case, devaluation is the common imperative: "In crises, the choice is between devaluing money or devaluing commodities."[6]
Thus, by the summer of 2008, Jim Reid of Deutsche Bank was suggesting that $1.2 trillion of profits would need to be wiped out before the US financial sector could be "cleansed of its excess."[7] More recently, the IMF has estimated a $2.7 trillion write-down of US-originated assets, while the global number may be in excess of $4 trillion.[8] "I would advance the following," said Kevin Warsh, a Governor of the US Federal Reserve: "We are witnessing a fundamental reassessment of the value of virtually every asset everywhere in the world."[9]
Warsh's innocuous notion of a "reassessment of value" and Reid's technical concept of "mean revision" are euphemisms for nothing less than the massive destruction of capital. I think that for us it's far more illuminating to use Schumpeter's concept of "creative destruction" or to quote Henri Lefebvre, who wrote grimly of the fact that "wars and crises have the same result: they liquidate excess (things and men)."[10] However, the enigma of capitalism – and this enigma is captured in the 'creative' half of 'creative destruction'; the 'dynamism' half of 'crisis and dynamism' – is that the magnitude of the destruction of value that takes place in the event of a crisis is not equal to any previous gains. In the long trajectory of accumulation, it is as though crises are mere setbacks to be overcome, or as Marx wrote, "a crisis always forms the starting point for new investments." [11]
Against this long view, liberal notions of equilibrium – notions always tasked with finding ways to either manage immediate crisis or to defend non-crisis operations – seem to suggest a certain topology of a system in which finance represents an 'overflowing' […perhaps this cognitive mapping is helped along by an image of 'liquidity'?] while crisis (qua illiquidity) represents the corrective – a lid – to the previous excess. The unifying figure of such a topology is the container itself, conceived as a static item of unchanging volume. But this imagery obscures the secret of capitalism itself, whose container is strictly figurative; capital is by definition that which discards its container. Capitalism solves its problems not with new lids but with new containers, so to speak. "Every limit appears as a barrier to be overcome,"[12] so that what were once limits are reconfigured as mere barriers in the endless circuit-work of de-containerizing and re-containerizing.[13]
Why is it the gap (between money and the value it represents) that enables the breaking of the container, in which broken containers are the forensic evidence of crises just they are of expansions? We should simultaneously broaden and specify our definition of the gap. There is not only a simple split of money from value, there is the gap that money itself engenders, a gap within value. This separation is simultaneously money's ability to separate point of sale from point of purchase, and in a related mode, present from future. As Keynes wrote in the General Theory (1936): "[T]he importance of money essentially flows from its being a link between the present and the future."[14] Marx therefore spoke of money as a 'means of payment.'[15] The means of payment is simply what allows the commodity producer to produce prior to sale: it is the inaugural money that exists temporally prior to the production of the actual value in whose name it is advanced. For a moment, the money advanced is therefore fictitious, or "up front," until it is 'realized,' thereby becoming capital. 'Capital advanced' therefore "retroactively posits its own presuppositions.[16] In other words, the 'means of payment' is credit: "credit-money springs directly out of the function of money as a means of payment."[17] Or, to say the same thing: "currency itself is already credit."[18]
To summarize the last, rather paradoxical, point: money operates for the commodity producer by splitting the present (purchase) from the future (sale) in the name of a future gain – this is its 'futurity,' its essential credit aspect. I think its not incorrect to say that all subsequent gaps are derived from this primal archi-gap, so to speak. Financialisation, in the sense of a periodisation, turns the gap into a visible social sector called 'financial sector,' but it expresses the simple separation of exchange-value (money) from value, the separation internal to value itself. The financial sector is an institutional codification of money's primary tension under a system of private producers.[19] The fictitious aspect of capital is not merely an 'excess' for causing crisis, even if it is that too. Fiction creates value. As the novelist Margaret Atwood asked as a young child faced with the complexities of the banking system: "how could a fiction generate real objects?"[20]
How should we think about the move from fiction to what John Bellamy Foster calls "throughput." Capital makes greater claims on the economy than the economy, at its existing capacity, can immediately realise for capital.[21] The result is not failure, but rather competition, whose expression is the accumulation of an excess capital (profit) that, strictly speaking, is immediately unemployable. The structural resolution to this aporia in which existing productive capacity is saturated – in which overaccumulation looms – is total growth through the multiplication of values, in other words, through the multiplication of sites of absorption for investment.[22] The gap is a motor for forward movement (from the perspective of accumulation). Growth is not a choice but a necessity for capital: if growth does not occur, the capital advanced goes unrealized, failing to make its 'fatal leap' (salto mortale), in other words, in must be destroyed. If capital stops swimming it dies – like a shark and just as predatory.
I hope I have painted a picture in which, to bring a total rapprochement between money and value would be to eliminate both. My question is one posed to those who today aspire to perfect the state of the situation by eliminating "those most excessive aspects." If we see that the dynamic gap is internal to value, to use the language I have deployed so far (admittedly there are probably better ways to pose the problem), is it enough to call for a 'return to value,' or 'value for money'? Should we really criticize "excessive capitalism," in which case the signifying predicate plays the role of a redundancy, as though one is speaking of "capitalist capitalism" – is there another kind? Excess (of money-circulation-exchange-finance over value-production-capacity) is the name for capitalism itself, so that we should criticize capitalism and not what has become its ideological decoy in the form of crises, no matter how severe and seemingly anomalous.
I propose a break from domination by the value form, therefore emancipation from the endless accumulation of capital. I am talking about an end of the total subsumption of labour to the commands of ceaseless work and capital. This requires an axiomatic insistence on equality in the face of barbaric inequality, the end of a 'state of the situation' in which individuals are part of the 'count of the count' (counted merely as potential sources of "effective demand") under the biopolitical regime of population management. For the task we don't need optimism, the affect that will never fade in all its beauty. We need to summon something more rare…which is courage: the will to be not an object but a political subject.
[1] Transcritique: On Kant and Marx transl. Sabu Kohso (London / Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003) p. 266. As the promotional material for a banking scheme in the United States recently stated: "the only solution is a return to value: value that comes from production and honest trade." http://press.freelakotabank.com/index.php
[2] see a survey, Leo Panitch and Martijn Konings, 'Myths of Neoliberal Deregulation' New Left Review 57 May/June 2009
[3] Marx, Capital Vol. I (New York: International Publishers, 1967) p. 138
[4] Suzanne de Brunhoff, Marx on Money transl. M. J. Goldbloom (New York: Urizon Books, 1976) p. 118
[5] The passage in full shows Marx already observing what in the context of the subprime mortgage imbroglio we call "securitization": "all capital seems to double itself, and sometimes treble itself, by the various modes in which the same capital, or perhaps the same claim on a debt, appears in different forms in different hands." (Marx, Capital Vol. III quoted in David Harvey, The Limits to Capital ([1982] (London / New York: Verso, 2006) p. 288.) In Vol. I of Capital Marx also reports on something like securitization: "certificates of the debts owing for the purchased commodities circulate for the purpose of transferring those debts to others." p. 139 op. cit.)
[6] Harvey Limits (op. cit.) p. 296
[7] John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009) p. 126
[8] see Patrick O'Connor, 'IMF issues grim forecasts for 2009' (April 24, 2009) World Socialist Website http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/imfr-a24.shtml
[9] Kevin Warsh, 'The Promise and Perils of the New Financial Architecture' speech to the Money Marketeers of New York University (November 6, 2008)
[10] Henri Lefebvre, The Survival of Capitalism: Reproduction of the Relations of Production transl. F. Bryant (London: Allison and Busby, 1976) p. 107
[11] Capital Vol II. quoted in Harvey Limits (op. cit.) p. 219, p. 222
[12] Marx, Grundrisse (Middlesex: Penguin, 1973) p. 408
[13] "Capitalism continually reterritorializes with one hand what it was deterritorializing with the other." Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983) p. 259
[14] John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Great Britain: Palgrave, 2007) p. 293
[15] Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy [1859] Ch. 2 ('Money or Simple circulation) Section 3 of Ch. 2 ('Money') sub-section 3.b of Ch. 2 ('Means of Payment') http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/ch02_3b.htm
[16] Slavoj Zizek, The Parallax View (Cambridge, MA / London: MIT Press, 2006) p. 59
[17] Marx, Capital Vol. I (op. cit.) p. 139
[18] Karatani, Transcritique (op. cit.) p. 218
[19] What are the "roots" of today's financial crisis? On the one hand, the financialisation of the last quarter of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first is seen as a symptomatic development, having "roots in the whole pattern of real accumulation under monopoly-finance capital." (Foster and Magdoff, The Great Financial Crisis (op. it.) p. 19). On the other hand, financialisation is seen as being closer to a cause of symptoms, so that "the international financial system [is] the rootstock from whose disorders stem the various problems which afflict the international political economy, just as blight, disease or mildew attack the different branches of a plant." (Susan Strange, Casino Capitalism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986) p. 4) I side with the first approach, stressing, however, that the root is money and the value form itself. "[M]oney lies at the root both of the social nature of the private labour of commodity-producers and of the fact that this social character can only prevail by the roundabout route of the exchange of commodities, the market, and private appropriation of the value product." (Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism (New Left Books, 1975) p. 408) Basically, the 'roundabout route of the exchange of commodities' is more roundabout than liberal and bourgeois economists are willing to admit – exchange travels through finance, pure and simple. It travels through the fated "gap" I've been promoting.
[20] Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, CBC Massey Lectures, 2008 (Toronto: Anasi Press, 2008) p. 6
[21] Competition "compels every capitalist to expand production by developing the forces of production without regard to the limits of the market." Simon Clarke, Marx's Theory of Crisis (Great Britain: Palgrave, 1994) p. 88
[22] see, for a foundational example of the discussion of saturation, Paul Baran The Political Economy of Growth (New York; Monthly Review Press, 1957)


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So what, anyone can, and should, do that right? Well I have had a lead foot all my life, whether on a bicycle or in a car, and it has cost me dearly in traffic tickets, insurance premiums and even attorney fees (in the car, that is).
But today was a milestone. On the way back from Pennsylvania, I used the cruise control the whole way and ONLY went the speed limit! Actually, I even went under the speed limit on I-270 just because I didn't feel like going faster.
This weekend, I took the Pontiac Grand Am to PA for a wedding anniversary, and then to show it to Stacie's godparents to potentially buy (more on this later). On the way up, I used about 5/8 of a tank of gas, going 70-80mph. It's a 15 gallon tank, and when I filled it up (from almost empty), I got about 30mpg (I started with only about 5/8 left).
After a conversation with my family about their gas usage when they brought down 3 different vehicles to our house from theirs (a Chevy Tracker, a Nissan Pathfinder and a Mitsubishi Galant), they all only used a half-tank to get here. I wondered why I had gotten such bad gas mileage (i.e. using over a half tank). So I decided to do my own test.
Could I go the speed limit?
I left around noon on Sunday for MD, and the roads were almost empty most of the way until a major backup near Hagerstown, MD. I decided that I would utilize cruise control to force myself to go the speed limit, but then I ended up using cruise control the entire way, except for exits, on-ramps and a few times traffic speeds were too sporadic. Also, to get around the backup, I took some country roads and didn't use cruise control.
So, the entire way I did 55 in 55 zones, 65 in 65 zones, 50 in the construction zones and so on.
What was the result?
I didn't refill the tank yet to find out the exact amount of gas used. However, I only used 3/8 of a tank of gas, versus the 5/8 going up the day before. That's a quarter of a tank difference! If I calculated based on assuming the fuel pump and gas gauge are synced properly (they never are), then I got 39mpg on the trip. I think when I actually get gas next, it will be more like 35mpg. Not bad for a car the EPA says should get 29mpg highway!
Unless I got above 35mpg, I won't post an update, but I probably won't know until Friday or Saturday of this week. No point in getting more gas when it's going down, right?


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On 1/16/07, Bob McGwier <address@hidden> wrote:
I understand the need and/or desire to do this natively but we really want to be doing cross platform for this target. 256 MB is not enough for these large compiles.
OK, I can build gnuradio for the EFIKA board (powerpc) using OE now. Well, the compile finishes. If anyone has an EFIKA and wants to test it drop me an email. I do not think there are any graphics in my build and I had to disable gr-atsc and gr-video-sdl because they did not build. To repeat this for a PS3, some work creating a machine definition fo rthe PS3 is required. I don't actually have a PS3, so I'm only a little help there. Or you could send me a PS3 and hope I work on it :) Philip
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Christmas Dresses
I wanted to try and get a quick shot of our girls in there Christmas dresses after church. Addison loves her brown dress. She always wants to wear it, according to her it is so nice and comfy.
Posted by Kim Shirley at 3:14 PM
7 comments:
- Cam and Mary said...
Welcome back Kim! You were almost going to be in competition with KB! :) Love all of your pictures! The girls are so beautiful and make me smile.
- March 8, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- Rhonda said...
Your girls looked so beautiful in their Christmas dresses.
Nice to have you back!
- March 8, 2010 at 8:56 AM
- Caryn said...
Adorable Kim!
- March 8, 2010 at 4:27 PM
- The Young Family said...
Way cute pictures! I can't believe how long Addison's hair is. ESPECIALLY next to Drew! Too Cute!
- March 9, 2010 at 8:12 AM
- Tiffany said...
You and Addison are twins, that is so cute! I Love the pictures you took for christmas...ADORABLE!
- March 13, 2010 at 7:10 PM
- Annie said...
Seriously Kim, your family is soooo beautiful! I love your pictures. You are such a photographer. Honestly your girls are so photogenic. It is so fun to see you on here. Hope you are doing well.
- April 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM
- Elite Dresses said...
thanks for sharing some moments by photo's through .. keep it up
Christmas Holiday Dresses
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The place we stayed at was Hotel Villa Convento which I highly recommend. It was within walking distance of a lot of areas we planned to see and the staff was really helpful and accommodating. The room we stayed in was really clean and nice at a really affordable price.
We were told we had to try the Hand Grenade drink at Tropical Isle. It apparently is considered a dangerous drink as people will consume a lot of it without noticing it contains a lot of alcohol since it has no lingering after taste. I can vouch for the latter, but we practiced self control and didn't order many.
I loved the old buildings with their intricate wrought iron balconies with bushy greenery to spruce up the scene. And almost all the shutters around were painted in fun colors. Such a nice sight to see.
How could we turn down something listed as The Seafood Tower on a menu? Impossible. We picked that out at Pier 424 Seafood Market which felt a little "chain-like" so it definitely isn't a must try if you are in town. We also tried out Imperial Woodpecker Snoballs which was refreshing and not too shabby to look at. But again, not necessarily a MUST TRY unless you are a huge shaved ice fan.
I definitely recommend checking out Carousel Bar; it revolves as you sit! It was very neat. It spins slowly so you don't really notice it until you've been chatting up for a while and suddenly you are on the other side of the room. We had our first Sazeracs here, wowza that's a strong drink. If you like stiff drinks be sure to try it out. I personally needed to chase every sip with some water.
French Market was a couple streets away from our hotel so we stopped by to check it out. It was fun to see all the different seasonings, sauces, and other fares they had to offer. We walked away with some Cajun spices to take home.
Royal Street had a lot of street entertainment during the day. It also is the location of Cafe Beignet. We had some beignets and a muffaletta for the first time. The beignets were okay, I'm not a huge fan of the massive amount of powdered sugar. I did enjoy the muffaletta, though I have a sneaking suspicion that if you don't like olives (I love olives) you won't enjoy this NOLA sandwich. We didn't bother making it to the infamous Cafe du Monde this trip since we had our fill of fried dough.
So far, New Orleans has had the freshest seafood I have ever tried. The shrimp were always succulent, huge, and sweet. The bottom picture is Mr. B's Barbeque Shrimp at Mr. B's Bistro and it is by far the best shrimp I have ever had the pleasure of eating in my life. I was skeptical as this dish was heavily raved about in my food research but the hype is so real you guys.
A few thoughts on NOLA:
+ The weather is the strangest thing. It is hot and humid but it would also be stormy and rainy randomly for brief periods before clearing up and being sunny like nothing happened. And I thought the Midwest had wonky weather!
+ Everywhere you go there is ice cold AC blasting even if their doors/windows were open. I think they do this to entice you inside their business as the heat was pretty intense.
+ We didn't get to visit a lot of areas that I wanted to make it to. I definitely plan to go back to visit the Garden District, check out some jazz clubs, and to get a tour of the cemeteries.
+ If you are a seafood fan, make sure you plan to visit during NOLA's crawfish season. I didn't even know crawfish season was a thing, but it is and we missed it and were very bummed.
+ Bourbon street was not really our scene at night time. It would have been when I was in college, but I'm a bit of a grandma these days and it felt too "frat like" for my taste. We visited all the Bourbon street places during the day when we had most of the place to ourselves.


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"This magical city of Prague! No other city is looking at the visitor with such wonderful, humane and intelligent eyes as Prague"- wrote Russian poet Fedor Tyutchev.
No wonder that countless tourists fill the streets of Prague every day: they come to see the astronomical clock on Prague's old Town Hall, which showed the time before Columbus discovered America, but also memorable places such as Prague Castle, the famous Charles Bridge, the Old Town Square and the Jewish Quarter.
According to the legend, Prague was founded by the Princess Libuse, who married the ordinary farmer Premysl and founded the dynasty of the same name. It is believed that the first fortifications of Prague Castle appeared in 880 by order of Prince Bogeemi Borivoj I. He surrounded the existing church with a wall of stones and clay, dug a moat and built a drawbridge.
By the 10th century Prague Castle became the residence of the rulers of Bohemia, not only princes and later kings, but also the highest representatives of the church, the bishops of Prague. In 1041 the castle was besieged and completely destroyed. Prince Bretislav I laid down a new stone wall, but a few years later the castle underwent a siege, and was again destroyed. It was completely rebuilt, but in 1280 torrential rains washed away the northern part of the fortifications.
In 1344 the first stone in the foundation of the Cathedral of St. Vitus was laid. Today, the cathedral is the architecture dominant of Prague Castle and the main cathedral of the city. 1o years later, Charles IV became the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the Prague Castle became his residence. He also founded the Charles University in Prague, the oldest university in Central Europe, and laid the foundation of the Charles Bridge, connecting the two parts of the city. In the 17th century, the bridge was decorated with 30 sculptures, gradually turning into an art gallery under the open air which brought him a worldwide fame.
The first Jewish settlements were formed in the X century near the Prague castle. By the XVI century, the Jewish quarter (called Josefov, in honour of the Austrian Emperor Joseph I) had developed its own political, religious and domestic rules, isolating itself from the rest of the population, and becoming one of the districts of Prague. In the XVI century, during the reign of Rudolf II, Prague Jews were persecuted and lived in constant fear. According to the legend, in order to protect the Jewish population from riots, the Rabbi of Prague's Jews Leon created a man, molding out his figure with clay from the Vltava river. He then put into the Golem's mouth a 'shem' (the secret name of God, which animates the inanimate), and thereby revived the monster. The Golem became the hope of the Jews, their weapon against their oppressors and one of the most famous figures of Prague. It faithfully served his master by protecting Jews from attacks, but with each passing day the Golem became more aggressive, until the Townsmen, frightened, asked Rabbi Leo to destroy the Golem: he did so by pulling out the 'shem' from his month. It is said that Rabbi Leon put the body of the Golem to the attic of the Old-New Synagogue, and forbade anyone under penalty of death to climb up to the attic. Since then no one has ever come up to the attic.
Nowadays, Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and fourteenth largest city in the European Union. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of nearly 2.0 million. The city has a temperate oceanic climate with warm summers and chilly winters, and is home to a number of famous cultural attractions, many of which survived the violence and destruction of twentieth century Europe. The main attractions include: Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge, Old Town Square, the Jewish Quarter, the Lennon Wall, and Petřín hill. Since 1992, the extensive historic centre of Prague has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, boasting more than ten major museums, along with countless theatres, galleries, cinemas, and other historical exhibits: it is classified as a Beta+ global city according to GaWCstudies, comparable to Berlin, Rome, or Houston. Its rich history makes it a popular tourist destination, and the city receives more than 4.1 million international visitors annually, as of 2009. In 2011, Prague was the sixth most visited city in Europe.
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Call to Honor
Book 1, Team Poseidon - An Anthology
Tawny Weber
This book can be downloaded and read in Apple Books on your Mac or iOS device.
The Poseidon team are hard-bodied, fiercely competitive Navy SEALs. But when a sensitive mission goes disastrously wrong, three of the team's finest will have to trust their hearts and instincts to uncover the truth
"No man left behind" is inscribed in the DNA of every SEAL and Lieutenant Diego Torres is no exception. But with a team member killedand the body missingDiego's honor is sorely tested. Now his career and reputation are on the line, and a traitor is hiding among them. Diego wants answers and only one woman has them.
Single mom Harper Maclean has two prioritiesraising her son Nathan and starting a new life. Her mysterious new neighbor may be impossibly charming, but Diego asks too many questions about her pastand about the father of her child. Questions she fears will reveal her burning attraction for Diego, and ultimately put them all in danger's path.
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Call to Honor by Tawny Weber
ARC copy for honest review with no compensation, Tawny Weber has done it again with another awesome Navy Seal series…..Call to Honor is the first book and can't wait for book 2! ! !
Harper Maclean is a beautiful, sexy, determined, successful interior designer and a single mother to Nathan. She has an ex who abandoned her when she became pregnant when she was 18.
Diego Torres lives for the Navy, this is all he has known for all his adult life. While on a mission, he had to leave a man behind, which they never do. Once back home, the mission becomes under investigation because it seems top secrets have been sold to the enemy. Diego and his brothers need to figure out who the person on their team is dirty….this leads him to Harper. He needs to figure out if she through her ex has anything to do with it or is she just a alibi ….
Diego and Harper are so different but seem to be pulled together under the all the secrecy but will they stay together or will the secrets separate them??
This story has lots of suspense, intrigue, twists, turns and somethings you never expect to happen. Once you start reading you will not put it down until the final word! !
One word… AWESOME
I'm a long time fan of Tawny Weber, but this book? It was AWESOME! In her typical fashion, she puts together a SEAL story with a sexy military guy and an independent, smart woman, but this time deepens the story to include secondary characters and serious suspense. I'm so looking forward to the continuation of this series!
New SEAL series!
With a story filled with intrigue and passion, Tawny Weber brings us the start of a new SEAL series! Team Poseidon is the best of the best and make for an interesting bunch of guys. First off we are getting Diego's story ... looking forward to more!
Diego Torres has given his life to his Navy SEAL career. He lives for his job and his teammates, so when a mission goes awry and someone is left behind, that doesn't sit well with him! He's settling into a boatload of guilt when intel comes in that leads them to think there is some shady business going down. He's sent in to try to get some information from the only source they have.
Harper Maclean has worked hard to overcome her past and give her son a great life. She has done it all on her own, since his so called father walked out before he was born. When a new sexy man shows up as their new neighbor, she can't help but be intrigued. Can she really throw caution to the wind and actually live for herself for once?
Will Diego blow his cover when he gets too close to Harper and her son? And when information starts to surface, will he be able to keep them safe?
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- Call to Engage
- 2017
- Night Maneuvers
- 2016
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- Category: Military
- Published: Jan 31, 2017
- Publisher: HQN Books
- Seller: Harlequin Digital Sales Corporation
- Print Length: 384 Pages
- Language: English
- Series: Book 1, Team Poseidon


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