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Back when I was a little baby nurse, I followed a more senior nurse for 16 weeks while I learned the job. We ate together every day, and one day she asked what I was eating, I suppose because it looked even stranger than my usual fare. When I told her that it was a squash and kale soup, the look of horror on her face was absolutely priceless. But I had confidence in my lunch, so I convinced her to try some, and it turned out that my vegetable-hating preceptor loved this soup. She loved it so much that I made her a batch as my 'Thank you for precepting me' present, and she still remembers it (better than I did, in fact) almost 4 years later.
I love this soup because it's delicious, of course, but also because it's filling and chock full of fiber and vitamins. This is the kind of food that makes you feel healthy and invigorated, rather than bloated and sloppy, and I find that it helps me make it to 7 a.m. when I eat it for my 2 a.m. lunch. Also, this soup keeps well and is better the day after it's made, which means that you can make this soup on your day off, then enjoy it for the rest of the week.
Squash Stew with White Beans and Kale
(From Whole Foods)
- 4 oz bacon, cut into small dice
- 1 medium onion, diced
- Parsley, fresh thyme and two bay leaves, bundled together with string
- 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 1 cup apple cider
- 4 cups vegetable stock (I actually use chicken stock)
- 4 cups kale (or other green) rinsed, center rib removed, and sliced
- 2 cups (cooked) white beans, drained (I used a 14ounce can, but if you're feeling ambitious, cook your own dried or fresh beans)
- salt and pepper
- 1 lb peeled seeded Hubbard, butternut or dumpling squash, cut into half-inch dice
In a heavy-bottomed pot on medium heat, render the fat from the bacon. Cook until the bacon is browned, and remove it with a slotted spoon; reserve.
Cook onions with the herb bundle in the bacon fat until onions soften. Add the garlic and cook until translucent. Put cider and stock into pot and bring to a boil. Add kale, beans, and salt and pepper to taste. Lower the heat and simmer, uncovered, 15 minutes.
Add squash cubes to liquid and cook until squash is tender, about ten more minutes. Discard herb bundle. Ladle stew into bowls and garnish with reserved bacon.


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Anoplate Corporation is a plating job shop that publishes a quarterly newsletter covering not only activities at the company, but also explaining to its employees and customers the intricacies of the finishing processes it provides and why management does the things it does.
The most recent issue is a super example of how Anoplate lets its employees know how certain decisions affect the entire company and make the company a better place for all the employees. In the Spring 2001 issue, Anoplate describes the benefits of having an ISO 9002 quality management system by providing practical, everyday examples of how and why it works.
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Example 1: Dry-film lubricants and various organic coatings are applied to parts following various chemical treatments. Many of these require various cure schedules prior to final inspection. Whether or not a part is finished often is not evident to an untrained inspector. For one such job, the customer needed parts, and the parts looked finished, meeting adhesion and thickness requirements. The parts were shipped even though the paint operator's signature was not on the job sheet.
Whoops! The paint operator returned the next day to give the parts their secondary cure and found them shipped. ThisTeflon required two cure temperatures and had only seen the first cure. The parts were returned and cured. However, now with ISO 9002, that should not happen.
Example 2: Some tubular parts were designated for nickel plating with a specification that said "for corrosion resistance." The plater rationalized that EN would better coat the ID of the tube and provide more corrosion resistance. Well, in the customer's assembly the parts were heated to 1000C and the EN softened and fused the parts together. This would not have happened with pure electroplated nickel, which melts at 1453C. Anoplate now avoids such departures from control using Process Control Element 9 of its ISO 9002. Documented work instructions are issued that demand operators obtain any departures in writing along with suitable authorization.
Letting the employees know why things are done the way they are and how they are affected by management decisions can make for a more cooperative work force. Anoplate has found a practical way to accomplish this.


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Woodworking plans are an essential component of any project. Wood working patterns and scroll saw patterns are needed to plan a project and create accents in your piece. Good plans give step by step instructions, diagrams and illustrations to guide you through from start to finish. You can buy plans, find them for free on the internet or make your own plan.
Finding Woodworking Plans
There are books available that are devoted to wood working patterns. You can find these at book stores, on the internet or in your local library. Often, woodworking magazines will contain plans for a wide variety of projects. Purchase a few of these at your local news stand. After you have found one you like best, you may decide to subscribe and receive new plans month after month.
If you are new to woodworking, it's best to start of with a simple pattern. This will help you learn to read and follow the plans. As your skills increase, you can move on to more difficult projects. Start off with a simple toy or bird feeder before attempting to make a dining room set. Look for detailed and thorough plans to help you create your project.
Good plans include detailed instructions. The instructions should take you step by step through the entire project. Look for plans that have detailed diagrams as well as illustrations of the project at each stage. Print out your plans and keep them in a binder. This will help keep you organized and prevent pages from getting lost or damaged.
You can follow the plan step by step or you may decide to make a few changes to the plan. Changing a few details is a great way to make a generic plan more personal and original. For example, you can change certain designs or accent pieces and give the project a whole new look. Another option is to paint the finished product, rather than staining.
Personally, I prefer a choice of woodworking plans. There are a few great woodworking packages online and some of them are cheaper than this one, but I seriously doubt that you will find any package that is so comprehensive as this one with its thousands of detailed instructions for all kinds of projects, great bonuses and very good customer support. Find out more, here…..
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FuelMyBlog is a spam free community exclusively for bloggers. Bloggers can register with the site, and then submit their blogs for inclusion in the categorised directory for blogs. Every blog is reviewed by a human before being accepted to prevent undesirable content.
Users gain access to new readers for their blogs, fresh conversation on the FuelMyBlog forums, help and advice from other bloggers and the chance to test products and win prizes.
Initially FueMyBlog was no more than a sample single page blog directory, inspired in part by the "Million Dollar Homepage" concept. The management team wanted to extend their early rough implementation of the site into a proof of concept that could enable them to present for potential investors. This required some visual enhancements and a few feature improvements to the original basic concept.
Once investment was secured, FuelMyBlog wanted the site moving onto an extensible platform and to initiate a series of feature enhancements that would increase the community aspects of the site, and create opportunities for revenue generation.
eleventeenth initially worked with FuelMyBlog's php application to improve the site cosmetically, and improve its load times and stability, and implemented some basic feature enhancements. This work was extremely tactical and was completed in a very tight time frame.
For the second phase of development, FuelMyBlog was moved onto the Digital Logistics Manager Application platform. DLM's user management system better enabled them to manage their thousands of registered users and offer them the flexibility to increase that number and add more functionality as the site grows.
Bespoke blog management features were added to ContentDLM in order to manage this community of bloggers who would like to promote their blogs in a friendly yet secure environment. Thanks to the DLM tools, FMB enables users to register multiple blogs with FuelMyblog.
Each time a new blog is registered, it is then reviewed by the FMB team, to prevent spamming or offensive content being promoted to the community. The FuelMyBlog team can approve and categorise a blog easily, thanks to an intuitive administration console where every change is reflected immediately on the website: as soon as blog is approved by the team.
FuelMyBlog has a voting system that enables site visitors to give blogs they have discovered through FuelMyBlog the thumbs up (fueling) or thumbs down (snuffing). Each category then has a "top blogs" chart and one blog is selected as the blog of the day. Voting is managed using the DLM administration console to prevent any abusive comments. Each user can view the votes they have received daily or since they registered on FuelMyBlog.
As well as voting for blogs individually, users can also communicate with other bloggers and the FuelMyBlog team using the DLM Friends feature and the site forums. Users' friends can be viewed via a widget that they can place on their blog.
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Toothpick Sculpture
A video slideshow from Stephenville High School (posted on October 13, 2014)
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2 elephant protectors charged with ivory smuggling in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya – Authorities say that two employees of an elephant conservation group in one of Kenya's most popular wildlife parks have been charged with ivory smuggling.
The Amboseli Trust for Elephants confirmed the charges in a statement Monday. The group said it is confident that an investigation will exonerate the two, a mother and a son.
A spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, Paul Udoto, confirmed the arrests and Monday's court arraignment but said he could not share further details. Court records showed that the two Kenyans were arrested with six tusks.
Kenya's Amboseli National Park sits in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. The Amboseli Trust for Elephants is a not-for-profit trust registered in Kenya and the United States.
Demand for ivory in Asia is fueling poaching deaths of Africa's elephants.


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Impacts of precipitation variability on plant species and community water stress in a temperate deciduous forest in the central US. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 217:120-136.. 2016.
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Asymmetrical effects of mesophyll conductance on fundamental photosynthetic parameters and their relationships estimated from leaf gas exchange measurements. Plant, Cell & Environment. 37(4):978-994.. 2013.
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Barclays ATP final yesterday was great, I've turned into an enthusiastic tennis fan, something I'd never thought would happen in a million years, cause where I'm from, far up in Norway, it's all about winter sports and football. Luckily we evolve in life, would be boring if not, like I've done into longer skirt length this fall, I still love my mini's but I've totally fallen for knee lengths, and this scuba fabric skirt from Cos is among my favorites.
Wishing you all a kick-off week!
Images taken yesterday, I wore a skirt from Cos, jumper Topshop, jacket Vibe Johansson, booties Whyred, bag Acne, ring Pamela Love and sunnies Phillip Lim.


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Kansas Lawyer Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence for Assisting Priest in $52 Million Ponzi Scheme
A Kansas lawyer has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a $52 million Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of millions of dollars. James Scott Brown, of Leawood, Kansas, received the sentence after previously pleading guilty in September to charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Brown was originally indicted in April 2011.
Brown practiced law in England for several years before associating with the British Lending Program ("BLP"), a program organized by Martin Sigillito, an ordained bishop and attorney. BLP purported to operate as a loan program in which the proceeds were used to purchase land in England. Potential investors were solicited through family and friends, as well as Sigillito's church, and received marketing materials that contained a variety of misrepresentations. Investors were told that, in exchange for a 1-year "loan" made to BLP, they would receive an annual return ranging from 17.5% to 25%. In addition, Sigillito and Brown assured investors that there was little to no risk involved, as BLP had sufficient assets to cover its operations, and in the event of a default, English laws contained a quick and efficient process to reclaim the land that would have an investor's original principal investment returned within 60 to 90 days. At the end of the loan period, investors were urged to roll-over their investment into a new loan. In total, BLP raised more than $52 million from approximately 140 investors over the ten-year period from 2000 to 2010.
Rather than purchase land in England, authorities allege that BLP paid extravagant management fees to its principals and used new investor funds to make purported interest payments to existing investors. For instance, Brown collected nearly $1.5 million in management fees, while Sigillito pocketed approximately $6 million. Sigillitolived a lavish lifestyle, collecting expensive antiques, including a $120,000 German book from the 15th century, Persian rugs, and British jewelry. He was regularly shuffled around in a black Lincoln town car by his chauffeur, Virgil.
As the real estate market collapsed in tandem with financial markets during 2008 and 2009, many concerned investors began to demand the return of their investment. Many of these requests were rebuffed by Sigillito, who blamed the delays on the "world of international funding/transfers." The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") became involved in May 2010 after being contacted by an investor, eventually convincing Sigillito'ssecretary to wear a wire. The secretary (who later pled guilty to tax fraud for stealing money from Sigillito) provided the FBI with evidence of Sigillito's fraud and in April 2011, Sigillito, along with Brown and another co-defendant, was charged with twenty-two counts of fraud. A federal jury later found Sigillito guilty of twenty counts.
In addition to his sentence, Brown was also ordered by United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade to pay $34 million in restitution to defrauded investors. Sigillito is awaiting sentencing after his request for a new trial was denied.


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Cream of Spinach and Asparagus Soup
serves 4, 2 cup servings
2 large shallots, sliced
4 tablespoons of butter
1 pound of asparagus, 1-inch dice
1/4 cup of flour
3 cups of chicken stock
4 cups of half and half
4 cups of spinach
sea salt
cracked pepper
pancetta, diced and cooked until crispy
olive oil
In a sauce pan, cook shallot in butter on medium for 2-3 minutes. Add asparagus and cook for 4-5 minutes until it begins to soften. Add flour and cook for 1-2 minutes until it is hot and bubbly. Add chicken stock and half-and-half. Stir until smooth. Bring to a simmer then add spinach. Season to taste.
Serve topped with crispy pancetta and drizzled with olive oil.
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The Daily Herald. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 20, 1867
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WHAT IS IT? The Xtrig preload adjuster allows precise adjustments of your bike's shock spring without the use of a hammer, punch, screwdriver or crowbar.
CONTACT? www.xtrigusa.com or (909) 949-4155.
WHAT STANDS OUT? Here's a list of things that stand out with the Xtrig preload adjuster.
(1) Function. The Xtrig preload adjuster replaces both preload rings on your shock. In their place is a mechanical device that uses the shock body's threads to move an adjuster up and down with the twist of an 8mm socket. The Xtrig preload adjuster makes race sag adjustments quickly and easily.
(2) Mechanical advantage. Turning the adjuster bolt will net you a 24:1 ratio. What does that mean? It means that spinning the 8mm bolt 24 turns is the equivalent of one turn on your shock preload ring. And, as you know, one turn of the preload ring translates into a 3mm change in race sag. The 24:1 ratio may seem like a lot of spinning of a T-handle, but there is a trick. We put an 8mm socket on a Makita power tool and spun the Xtrig preload ring without doing any physical work. We could put two or three turns on the preload ring in about 30 seconds.
(3) Installation. Step one is to measure the static length of your shock spring. This allows you to get the Xtrig adjuster in the ballpark on the first try. Step two is to remove the stock preload rings and shock spring. Once you have a bare shock body, clean the threads and spin the Xtrig preload adjuster in place (put it on the shock body so that the spring will mount in the exact same place that it was with the two preload rings). Be careful to thread the Xtrig pieces on straight and true. Test the mechanism to make sure that it moves up and down freely. The final step is to reinstall the shock spring and its collars.
(4) Performance. The German-made Xtrig preload adjuster can move up and down the complete length of your shock body's threads. That gives it a 4-inch range. On every shock but the 2010 Yamaha YZ450F, there is a sticker with a millimeter scale on it to visually see how far the Xtrig adjuster moves the spring (the sideways shock reservoir on the YZ450F defies the sticker's logic). MXA test riders check their sag before every race (and normally have to make some minor adjustments). With the Xtrig preload adjuster, we can make minuscule or major adjustments in the blink of an eye. To a rider who can feel the difference, this is invaluable.
WHAT'S THE SQUAWK? The price is a biggest setback, plus the fact that for the average rider adjusting the preload has never been as big a priority as it should be. At $150, you might be happy with a hammer and punch.
Many riders never adjust their shock's preload. They aren't candidates for the Xtrig preload adjuster. This is a five-star product for a special rider who cares about getting the most out of his suspension, but, in truth, it is really a lazy man's luxury.


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The Three Refuges
We take refuge in Buddha
In taking refuge in Buddha, we acknowledge the Buddha Nature of all beings. While there are different levels of religious and administrative authority within Zen Center, the sangha recognizes that fundamentally everyone is equally the expression of Buddha Nature.
We take refuge in Dharma
In taking refuge in Dharma, we acknowledge the wisdom and compassion of the bodhisattva way of life. It is through this Dharma that we embody, express and make accessible the teachings of the Buddha as conveyed to us through the lineage of the Soto Zen School by the founder Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and other teachers. Realizing that our understanding and practice of Buddhism is one of many approaches, we also acknowledge and respect all other expressions of the Dharma.
We take refuge in Sangha
In taking refuge in Sangha, we acknowledge the central role that Zen Center community life has in our practice. Because part of taking refuge is the offering of refuge, we aspire to create an inclusive environment for everyone's engagement in the Bodhisattva Way. When our diversity appears to separate us, our practice is to engage in a careful process of recognizing, understanding, and appreciating our differences. In so doing, we affirm and respect our differences and similarities in gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, political belief, and physical abilities and appearances. In creating an inclusive sangha, it is essential that we encourage open, ongoing communication among all residential and non- residential sangha members, and that any ethical concerns or conflicts which arise are fully heard and addressed by the Zen Center community in an appropriate forum. To facilitate this, Zen Center members are encouraged to study the religious and communal contexts, reasons, and limits for authority and decision-making at Zen Center.


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Wrong-way crashes are hidden problem in Bexar County
On a clear summer night in 2010, Robert Mendoza was driving with his family on U.S. 90 near Zarzamora Street when he noticed traffic in front of him slow down and move to either side of the highway.
Mendoza assumed there was an accident up ahead.
"Instead," he said, "we were the accident."
Mendoza didn't know it, but a pickup driven by a drunken U.S. Army private named Jacob Vincent Perez was speeding the wrong way down the highway.
What happened next was sudden and deadly: A Dodge Nitro in front of him exploded into pieces, "like something opened it up," Mendoza said. And then a dark blur hurtled toward his car — Perez's blue Ford F-150, which police later said had been driving the wrong way for at least five miles.
In the moment before the truck hit Mendoza's car head-on, he had only enough time to reach out his arm to shield his daughter and yell one command.
"Hold on!"
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Officer's death boosted work on wrong-way crashes
Wrong-way wrecks a worldwide issue, experts say
A wrong-way crash on a major highway sounds implausible. How could someone be so confused or drunk as to drive up an exit ramp and head into oncoming traffic?
Yet such crashes have been a persistent problem in Texas — with figures in Bexar County nearly topping the list when compared with the four other largest counties, according to an analysis of state crash data by the San Antonio Express-News.
Between 2007 and 2011, at least 136 wrong-way accidents on Bexar County's major highways and interstates injured 138 people and killed nearly 30.
That's more crashes than on similar highways in Dallas County, which has more people and traffic, and almost as many crashes as Harris County, the largest county in the state.
The crash data are derived from accident reports filled out by police officers and compiled by the Texas Department of Transportation, which provided a copy of the electronic records to the Express-News for this report.
The records show wrong-way crashes are often tied to inebriated drivers. In nearly 70 fatal accidents in the five counties, alcohol or drug use was identified as a contributing factor in two out of three crashes.
Many accidents occur on Fridays and Saturdays, particularly in the subsequent early morning hours after bars close. Of 100 drivers whose blood-alcohol levels were recorded in the accident data, the average was 0.19 — more than twice the legal limit.
Despite the severity of wrong-way crashes, which often involve high speeds and head-on collisions, until recently the problem largely flew under the radar in Bexar County.
Six years before Mendoza was hit by a wrong-way driver, a report published in 2004 by the Texas Transportation Institute recommended ways that major Texas cities, including San Antonio, could cut down on such accidents.
The report suggested tracking 911 calls about wrong-way drivers, which would help authorities find the locations where motorists get confused. San Antonio police and TxDOT didn't start doing that until last year, after a police officer died in a wrong-way crash.
"Where was the emphasis on fixing this?" asked Kimberly McGuire, whose cousin Erica Smith died in a wrong-way accident on Loop 410 in December 2007.
Local transportation and police officials acknowledge how deadly wrong-way crashes can be and said they are working on solutions.
Asked why the problem was overlooked for so long, they point out that wrong-way accidents occur infrequently compared with other types of wrecks.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the nature of such crashes defy belief — how can motorists fail to realize something is awry when they drive the wrong way up a highway exit ramp?
"It's like Bizarro World," McManus said. "Everything is backwards when you do that."
Another reason for the lack of attention: There hasn't been a major push by federal highway officials to tackle the problem or raise awareness, which leaves local communities to take action.
In Bexar County, that process didn't get started until summer 2010 — a month after Mendoza's accident.
Even before the crash, Mendoza said he was usually alert like a hawk when behind the wheel, watchful for any possible hazard on the road.
On the evening of July 12, 2010, his vigilance didn't help him.
It was just before 11 p.m. when Mendoza was driving on U.S. 90 with his daughter, April, and 11-year-old nephew Dallas Brooks.
A Dodge Nitro, driven by John David Garcez, was in front of them.
Garcez and his brother-in-law Juan Valente Urrutia had just helped Garcez's niece Linda move out of her Northwest Side home. Urrutia sat in the passenger seat of the Dodge Nitro, and they were driving behind Linda's car.
Though Garcez and Urrutia were related by marriage — their wives were sisters — they also were best friends. More like brothers, even. Godfathers to each other's daughters.
They were talking when Garcez saw Linda's car suddenly swerve out of the lane.
Then he saw the headlights of an oncoming vehicle.
Garcez tried to jerk the Nitro to the left, but it was too late: Jacob Perez's pickup slammed into the passenger side. Perez's pickup exploded as the undercarriage of his truck flew over the Nitro.
The F-150 landed in front of Mendoza and hit his car square in the center. The impact sent Mendoza's car spinning in a circle across the highway until it came to rest perpendicular to traffic. Perez's truck landed next to the eastbound guardrail. A witness, who put out the pickup fire, said Perez was screaming for help from inside the truck.
Mendoza got out of his car several minutes later; the crash had jammed his door shut. He stood up, and pain stabbed his right side. (X-rays later showed his hip was broken. His daughter injured her back, and his nephew fractured his collarbone.)
Mendoza saw Perez, and then finally understood that a truck had hit him.
Mendoza looked across the highway. Garcez was screaming for help.
Bits of glass were embedded in Garcez's face, head, ears and eyes. His knee was pinned beneath the dashboard.
But he was alive, and he could move. He pulled himself out. He called out to Urrutia, to ask if he was OK.
Urrutia didn't answer.
The lower half of Urrutia's body hung from the passenger side door. The upper half was pinned between the seat and the door frame. Most of his right side had been crushed.
A man who stopped to help told Garcez to pray because Urrutia didn't look like he would make it. They had just finished the prayer when Garcez heard Urrutia take his last breath.
"He gasped and let it out and I knew that was it," Garcez said, weeping.
Emergency workers arrived. Garcez begged them to cut Urrutia out of the car. They threw a blanket over his body.
"My world crashed," he said.
Two years later, Garcez still has questions. He heard Perez was driving the wrong way on Interstate 37 before "exiting" to U.S. 90. Perez had driven into oncoming traffic for several miles.
"I get angry as to why he didn't get stopped before that five miles, with the amount of 911 calls coming," Garcez said.
At the crash scene, San Antonio police officers eventually arrested a belligerent Perez, who would later claim he had blacked out after drinking the alcoholic drink Four Loko and didn't remember anything until he woke up in the hospital. A jury later sentenced him to probation.
Police officials in the department's upper echelons soon began to understand that they were dealing with a problem much bigger than the single tragedy that claimed Urrutia's life.
In August, less than a month after the crash, SAPD Lt. Billy Biesenbach Jr. sent an email to his captain, Patrick Murnin, to start a discussion about a problem that wasn't well-known to the public or to the many officers who work the day shift.
"Over the past two months I have had the opportunity to work the DWI Step program from 2230 to 0430 hours," Biesenbach wrote, describing the night shift. "During this time I was amazed by the number of wrong way drivers on our inner-city highways. It is not uncommon to have two or more incidents of wrong way drivers a week."
Biesenbach offered a sobering assessment:
"Currently we have no means to stop wrong way drivers and no plan of action to deal with this deadly act."
In response to Biesenbach's email, Murnin told officers to begin formulating plans and to contact other police departments around the country that might be dealing with the same problem.
Through the fall of 2010 and early part of 2011, officers brainstormed. They discussed installing barriers in parking lots of establishments that sell alcohol, if that business butts up against a highway access road, in order to force drivers to make a right turn.
They looked to other countries for help, such as Germany, where wrong-way drivers on autobahns trigger an announcement on all vehicle radios.
In November, SAPD set up a new policy for officers to use portable spike strips to stop wrong-way drivers — a risky maneuver to be used in limited circumstances.
And shortly after he sent his original email, Biesenbach sent another suggestion, that the sighting of a wrong-way driver should activate an emergency tone on all police radios, alerting them to the possible danger ahead.
"That would be a huge officer safety issue," Biesenbach wrote. "Officers could be heading into the path of a wrong way driver and not even know it."
The use of the alerts attracted the attention of TxDOT's TransGuide center, which monitors cameras on the county's major highways and displays electronic messages for motorists.
"I started hearing from our operators, 'Wow, there was another (wrong-way) report last night,'" traffic engineer Brian Fariello said.
"I felt like we needed to really start talking about this," Fariello said. The topic began coming up in transportation meetings.
The little-known problem wasn't so hidden anymore. But Biesenbach's warning about the danger to police officers was prescient.
Less than eight months after he wrote that email, a wrong-way driver killed Stephanie Brown, a young single mother and fellow San Antonio police officer.


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Sharks hold on for 22-16 victory
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The Melbourne Rebels were their own worst enemy as they handed the Super Rugby front-running Sharks a 22-16 win at AAMI Park. The Rebels dominated territory and possession but let themselves down with costly handling errors while penalties helped keep the visitors in the lead.
Melbourne's defence held firm until the 63rd minute when they again turned over the ball and the Sharks counter-attacked and raced downfield, with winger JP Pietersen touching down. That blew the lead out to 22-9 with their earlier points coming from South African sharp-shooter Frans Steyn, who booted five from five for a 15-6 halftime scoreline.
In their usual fashion, the Rebels, who have won six of their last seven games at home, refused to lay down. They hammered the Sharks tryline and after repeated penalties five-eighth Bryce Hegarty took a quick tap and fired a long ball out to reserve hooker Pat Leafa who burrowed over the line. Jason Woodward added the extras but the clock was against the Rebels, who ran out of time to find the necessary points.
They kept at it, even after full-time, and got to within 10 metres before a penalty for failing to release the ball. Woodward made a superb break midway through the first half, beating six Sharks defenders and as the Rebels sent the ball across field they forced a penalty and their first points of the game. The athletic fullback added a second penalty and although they came desperately close to scoring, with flanker Colby Fainga'a just centimetres away, couldn't get across the tryline until Leafa's effort.
Sharks become the first South African touring side to win in Australia in 2014
No South African team had managed to win in Australia or New Zealand this season but the competition leaders broke the mould which followed a shock loss to the Highlanders last round. The win will add a little more spice to their encounter next week with Australian conference leaders the Brumbies when coach Jake White returns to face his old team for the first time. White said he was happy with way his team responded from the early disappointment.
"When you fly around the world and you score and you don't get a call going your way it tends to put a bit of pressure on the players," he said. "Some sides would have panicked or lost their cool but they got into their huddle and spoke about it and managed to kill the game off. We didn't take our chances and made it difficult for ourselves but it's a win and we tick the box and move on."
When the teams met last year in Durban the Sharks ran in a record 10 tries in a 64-7 thumping which was the worst defeat in Rebels history. Rebels coach Tony McGahan was delighted with their defence but said the result left him "hugely frustrated".
"It was a game that we lost ourselves really," he said. "The boys showed tremendous courage and grit to stay in the game against the number one side but it was game that we let slip away from us."
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The Kookaburras are world champions once again, defending their World Cup title with a 6-1 demolition of the Netherlands.
Powerful defender, and penalty corner specialist, Chris Ciriello was the hat-trick hero as Australia dismantled the Dutch to silence the raucous home crowd in the Hague on Sunday.
The win confirms the Kookaburras place atop the world, and is their third World Cup triumph – defending their 2010 title.
Australia's goals came from familiar faces, with their two leading scorers Ciriello and Kieran Govers both on the scoresheet.
The pair had entered the final with four goals apiece, but Ciriello finished as Australia's leading sharpshooter with his hat-trick carrying him to seven for the tournament – behind only Argentina's Gonzalo Peillat (10).
Ciriello, who finished the match with ice on his shoulder, and Govers delivered first half strikes to hand coach Ric Charlesworth a 2-1 lead at the break, which was extended by a further two goals quickly after halftime as Australia assumed complete control.
Throughout the tournament Australia have earned plaudits for their blistering starts – they went five consecutive games scoring a goal in the opening seven minutes.
But it was the Dutch who drew first blood, with Jeroen Hertzberger scoring an exceptional solo goal in which he evaded Robert Hammond's tackle before firing a tomahawk past Andrew Charter, who had a terrific tournament.
But Australia's response was as swift as it was severe – with Ciriello converting from the first penalty corner with an expert drag flick.
Four minutes later Govers outdid everyone with an exquisite reverse stick shot from the top of the circle that sailed into the top right corner of the goal.
That goal proved pivotal, as did Glenn Turner's persistent effort two minutes after the break to make it a two-goal buffer.
Turner's first effort was cleared from the line by the Dutch goalie, but his second effort couldn't be stopped as it bobbled over an outstretched leg.
Ciriello then killed off any hope of a Dutch comeback with two goals in six minutes – which was always going to be an unassailable lead against Australia's sterling defence, which finished the tournament with just three goals conceded.
Australia's commitment to defence was typified by an outstanding cover defensive effort from midfield Simon Orchard who raced back to single-handedly defuse a promising Dutch counter-attack.
Five-time player-of-the-year Jamie Dwyer, who equalled Jay Stacey's record of 321 Kookaburra appearances on Sunday, put the icing on the cake with a terrific solo effort six minutes from time.
As Australia's lead grew, Dutch players started to express their frustrations at the physical nature of the contest.
Orchard was given a yellow card, and a five-minute sin bin, as was Dutch star Robbert Kemperman for an off-the-ball incident, while Australian pair Glenn Turner and Robert Hammond were handed green cards, and two-minute sin bins, for separate incidents.


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I have a key (of random binary data) that gets generated by
And with this key, I can do several things with my encrypted files. For example, I can decrypt them.
get_key | tee >(decrypt file1) >(decrypt file2)
I would like to know how I could generalize that to
n files where the files are given as
FILES=file1 file2 file3 file4 file5.
At the moment, I can see two solutions:
1) Compute a string and
eval it
2) replace decrypt by a recursive function
f that calls decrypt does
tee >(decrypt A[0]) | f ("${A[@]:1}") (it decrypts the first element and calls itself recursively) if the array is not empty and nothing if it is.
I wanted to know if you had a nicer way to doing that (note that I do not want the key to be written to a file or a variable, so loops aren't an option).
Edit: I'll use it in https://github.com/xavierm02/combine-keys


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I realize that this is a pretty common soup now-a-days, probably because its really good. It has a bit of bite to it, because of the ginger. My 13 month old daughter really loves it too, which is a +.
- 2 tbsp vegan butter or olive oil
- 1 onion- chopped
- 2 cloves garlic-minced
- 3 tbsp fresh ginger-peeled and minced
- 2 stalks celery- chopped
- 5 carrots- peeled and chopped
- 3 potatoes- peeled and chopped
- 1/2 sweet potato- peeled and chopped
- water to cover
- 2 tsp apple cider vinegar
- freshly ground pepper
- sea salt
In a large pot heat butter add onion, garlic, ginger. ( be careful not to have to high of heat, don't wanna burn the garlic and ginger) Add celery, carrots and potatoes. Cover with water, bring to a boil, reduce heat so that
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Terrorist back on the stand today in Chicago trial
An admitted terrorist will be back on the stand Tuesday in a Chicago courtroom. David Headley is the government's star witness in the terrorism trial of Chicagoan Tahawwur Rana, but Headley is a sketchy star witness. He's been convicted twice for bringing heroin into the U.S. and he seems unapologetic on the stand talking about his participation in the Mumbai terror attack that left more than 160 people dead.
Headley says Rana allowed him to pretend to be an employee of Rana's immigration business. Prosecutors say that allowed Headley to scope out potential terror targets in India with ease because he appeared to be a secular American businessman, rather than a muslim Pakistani terrorist. Prosecutors say Rana never carried a gun or threw a grenade in the attack, but his support was critical to the success of the Mumbai plot.
Rana's attorneys told jurors they should not trust anything Headley has to say. Headley's cooperation with the government allows him to avoid the death penalty.


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Oct. 5, 2007
Head Coach Jerry Smith
On the match against No. 1 Stanford:
"We did what we needed to do tonight. We only had one usable sub against a healthy, fast and deep Stanford team. I'm very proud of how my team played tonight. They played a much disciplined game and tonight the post was our friend. Our defense worked hard to limit the space in the penalty box and did a great job stopping what is probably the fastest front line in the nation."
On Santa Clara's defense:
"We played disciplined defense and our goal was to limit the space around the penalty box. We had a young group in the back line tonight with Kendall Doherty and Maxine Goynes, and they had to figure out how to stop the fastest team in the nation."
On Maxine Goynes:
"We started Maxine tonight at center back against the speedy Stanford front line due to Lindsey Johnson's injury. With the decisions we made tonight we made life a little simpler for Maxine tonight, but she played very well given the circumstances."
More on the match:
"We did not concern ourselves with shots because only about half of Stanford's 26 shots were on goal. And tonight the post was our friend. That doesn't always happen. A lot of their shots hit the crossbar."
Junior goalkeeper Meagan McCray
On the most difficult part of the match:
"The whole match was tough. From the beginning we had to focus on defense and with a limited group of players, it was tough. But our defense came up big tonight. You have to credit Stanford. They made some great shots. The toughest of those shots was when they came at us on transition. But our entire backline was crucial to our success tonight."


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by Matthew Dalby, sports information graduate assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College softball team (11-30, 6-8 PBC) earned a hard-fought split with the top team in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tuesday afternoon at the Peeler Complex. The Bobcats won a thriller in extra innings over Columbus State University (30-8, 8-2 PBC) 2-1 before dropping the second game by a score of 6-2.
Junior righty Sabrina Chandler (Covington, Ga.) pitched a brilliant game for the 'Cats, improving to 8-11 by going the distance in an eight inning, one run effort. Chandler struck out two and allowed a mere three hits against a potent Cougar squad.
Senior Brandie Monroe (Savannah, Ga.) scored the winning run after leading the extra frame off with a single to left field. A sacrifice bunt from junior Corby Holmes (Social Circle, Ga.) advanced Monroe, who was eventually brought home on an error from the Cougar shortstop.
GC rebounded after potentially letting the game slip away in the top of seventh inning. Columbus State scored a run to tie the game, but was unable to muster any more runs off Chandler. Monroe scored the first run as well after leading off with a double in the fifth. She scored on a single by leftfielder Caitlin Duvall (Douglasville, Ga.).
The Bobcats outhit the Cougars 11 to 3, while both teams committed two errors apiece.
In game two, Georgia College fell behind early and struggled to mount much of a comeback until the seventh inning.
The Cougars jumped out to a 6-0 lead prior to the Bobcat seventh that included two runs.
Senior Kati Pickowitz (Keller, Texas) led the Bobcats, going 2-for-4 while driving in a run, while Holmes added another hit as she went 1-for-2 with a walk and a run.
The Bobcats continue to jockey for position in a tight PBC race, as they are currently tied for seventh place at 6-8.
GC will continue its PBC slate against fellow middle-of-the-pack squad Flagler College, when they travel to take on the Saints Saturday, April 2 at 1 p.m.
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This page is about special operations required in order to install Mozilla Sync Server.
Newer versions of Mozilla Firefox feature bookmarks, passwords, settings and browsing history synchronization between all your computers and devices. Mozilla Foundation provides a public Sync server, but you can host your own one if you want.
This article describes how to install it manually. Note that there is also an AUR package for it: mozilla-firefox-sync-server-hgAUR
- 1 Prerequisites
- 2 Installation
- 3 Configuration
- 4 See also
Before proceeding, you need to install python2, python2-virtualenv, sqlite, mercurial and make, all available in the official repositories.
If you intend to use your server with itinerant clients, you should install it on an Internet reachable computer.
Administration Rights
All installation instructions are commands relying on the superuser privileges, so open a terminal and type:
$ su - Password: #
Mozilla Sync Server depends on Python 2 during installation. Arch Linux provides Python 3 as default Python version so there are special tweaks needed before running Mozilla Sync Server setup. Setup process creates an isolated Python environment in which all necessary dependencies are downloaded and installed. Afterwards, running the server only relies on the isolated Python environment, independently of the system-wide Python.
Python preparation
Mozilla Sync Server setup needs Python 2.6 or newer. In default configuration,
/usr/bin/python is a symbolic link to
/usr/bin/python3 whereas Python 2 is
Before running setup, we must check the link and change it if necessary:
# cd /usr/bin # ls -l python lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 5 sept. 07:04 python -> python3 # ls -l virtualenv ls: cannot access virtualenv: No such file or directory # ln -sf python2 python # ln -sf virtualenv2 virtualenv
Installation instructions:
# mkdir -p /opt/weave # cd /opt/weave # hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/services/server-full ... source repository cloning messages ... # cd server-full # make build ... many build messages, including harmless warnings ... ... end of the successful build messages: Building the app Checking the environ [ok] Updating the repo [ok] Building Services dependencies Getting server-core [ok] Getting server-reg [ok] Getting server-storage [ok] [ok] Building External dependencies [ok] Now building the app itself [ok] [done]
Check the end of the build messages, they should state "[done]". Otherwise, look at the first error messages, they give you hints on the problem and how to solve it.
Python initial state restoration
Once the build is finished, restore the links in
/usr/bin to their original state.
# cd /usr/bin # ln -sf python3 python # rm -f virtualenv
Server-side configuration files
Configuration files are used to define where databases and logs will be created.
We will place databases in
/opt/weave/data and log files in
/var/log/weave, so we must create the directories.
# mkdir /opt/weave/data /var/log/weave
At least two configuration files must be changed in
/opt/weave/server-full in order to reflect these choices:
development.ini and
development.ini, locate the line:
args = ('/tmp/sync-error.log',)
and change it to:
args = ('/var/log/weave/sync-error.log',)
etc/sync.conf, locate the line:
sqluri = sqlite:////tmp/test.db
and change it to:
sqluri = sqlite:////opt/weave/data/sync.db
This statement appears twice in the file, both should be modified.
Bump the disk quota from 5 to 25 MB:
quota_size = 25600
The fallback node URL must reflect the server's hostname (here
fallback_node = http://localhost:5000/
fallback_node = http://server-name.domain-name:5000/
Unprivileged User
It is a good practice to run daemons as an unprivileged user. Create the group
weave and the user
sync for that purpose:
# groupadd weave # useradd -d /opt/weave -g weave -r -s /bin/bash sync
This new user must have read and write access on every file in
/opt/weave and
# chown -R sync:weave /opt/weave/* # chown -R sync:weave /var/log/weave
Automatic Startup of the Server
In order to make the Sync Server start automatically at boot-time, create a startup script:
#!/bin/bash RUNDIR=/var/run/weave DAEMON=/opt/weave/bin/python PIDFILE=/var/run/weave.pid MESSAGELOG=/var/log/weave/sync-messages.log . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions PID=`pidof -x -o %PPID paster` case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting Mozilla Sync Server" [ -d $RUNDIR ] || mkdir $RUNDIR [ -z "$PID" ] && su sync -c "cd /opt/weave/server-full && bin/paster serve development.ini &>$MESSAGELOG &" if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else PID=`pidof -x -o %PPID paster` echo $PID >$PIDFILE add_daemon weave stat_done fi ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping Mozilla Sync Server" [ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &>/dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else rm_daemon weave stat_done fi ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0
The script must have execution rights:
# chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/mozillaweave
Start the Sync Server at boot by including
mozillaweave in the Daemon list. It depends on the network so it should be placed accordingly.
For systemd:
[Unit] Description=Mozilla Weave After=network.target [Service] Type=simple User=sync WorkingDirectory=/opt/weave/server-full ExecStart=/opt/weave/server-full/bin/python2 /opt/weave/server-full/bin/paster serve /opt/weave/server-full/development.ini StandardOutput=/var/log/weave/sync-messages.log [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Alias=mozillaweave.service
Test start the server using:
# systemctl start mozillaweave # systemctl status mozillaweave
Set the Sync Server to start at boot with:
# systemctl enable mozillaweave
Client-side configuration
Use the Sync Configuration Wizard in Firefox' Settings to create a new account on the server. Don't forget to choose "Custom server..." in the list, and input the server address:
The "Advanced Settings" button allows fine tuning of the synchronized elements list, and the definition of the client hostname.
See also
- Mozilla Sync Server Howto
- Great tutorial, by Eric Hameleers
- Owncloud has mozilla sync server application


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NEW YORK -- On Saturday afternoon Meb Keflezighi lingered in the lobby of his midtown Manhattan hotel, a man without a marathon.
On Sunday at 9:40 a.m., he will not be at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island awaiting the howitzer boom of the start of the New York City Marathon, which was hastily canceled late Friday afternoon.
So where will one of America's most accomplished marathoners be?
"A lot of things crossed my mind," he said. "I want to work with somebody. I don't mind going to Staten Island (which was greatly affected by the storm.) If I cannot run, I want to be positive. Or go to Central Park and let the runners know it's OK. I don't know. It's my first Sunday off in many years. How can I help?"
On Saturday, New York Road Runners President and CEO Mary Wittenberg met with the race's elite runners to explain the decision. It was an emotional meeting, Keflezighi said. He said Wittenberg told the runners that anger over the city's decision to initially hold the race was being directed toward the runners. "She said it wasn't safe," Keflezighi said. "You never know what's going to happen in the streets."
Keflezighi wasn't supposed to address the group but he felt compelled to stand up and speak on behalf of the athletes. "We understand," he told them. "It's like an injury. Sometimes you have to stop and come back stronger."
Keflezighi, 37, said he was committed to run the race next year. "I think it's going to be very emotional. It could be my last marathon next year. I was narrowing down my career, now it got narrowed down one less," he said with a laugh.
Even though he is one of the stars of the field, Keflezighi found out about the race cancellation late Friday afternoon from a television in the elevator in his hotel. The 2009 New York City Marathon men's champion had just returned to the hotel from a 6-mile run. Like all the 40,000 runners expected to compete Sunday, he was stunned. "I guess a lot happens in a 30-minute run," he joked.
Though he acknowledged it would have been easier if the race had been canceled earlier before most had traveled to the city – Keflezighi is from Mammoth Lakes, Calif. -- he didn't want the race to be a divisive force during a time of so much suffering after superstorm Sandy.
"It's not about me, it's about the city. If we're going to have a negative influence, then they have the right to cancel," he said.
The canceling of the race is a financial hit for many runners – from the travel expenses of recreational runners to the loss of potential prize money for the elite runners. The champions receive $130,000. Plus, depending on a runner's sponsorship agreements, there are performance-based bonuses in contracts. Also, there's bonuses from race organizers based on time and place finishes in addition to the guaranteed appearance fee.
"For the top of the food chain, this 50% of your income if you do well," said David Monti, a NYRR consultant who works with the professional athletes. There's also the time and training investment. "It's a three, three-and-a-half month investment of training with a highly specialized schedule to get on a trajectory to be here and ready to go on Nov. 4. It's very hard to salvage that training time."
Keflezighi said he felt well prepared less than three months after finishing fourth in the London Olympics. "Yeah, we get a financial hit, but money comes, money goes," Keflezighi said. "I'm a father (to three young daughters), and there's a lady that lost two of her kids in Staten Island. There's no coming back. Money comes, money goes, but how to you compensate for that loss?"


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Balance of Trade
Assistant Trader Jethri Gobelyn was an honest, hardworking young man who knew a lot about living onboard his family's space-going trade ship; something about trade, finance, and risk-taking; and a little bit about Liadens. It was, oddly enough, the little bit he knew about Liadens that seemed like it might be enough to make his family's fortune, and his own, too. In short order, however, Jethri Gobelyn was about to find out a lot more about Liadens...like how far they might go to protect their name and reputation. Like the myriad of things one might say-intentionally or not-with a single bow. Like what it would take to make a Liaden trade-ship crew trash a bar. Like how hard it is to say "I'm sorry!" in Liaden. Pretty soon it was clear that as little as he knew about Liadens, he knew far less about himself. With his very existence a threat to the balance of trade, Jethri Gobelyn needed to learn fast, or else help destroy all he held dear.
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- Charlie
- 16-09-12
Outstanding! Early Liaden Trader Tale
Balance of Trade is the third book (chronologically) in the Liaden Universe by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and the last in the "Books of Before" sequence. It is outside the mainline story of the Agent of Change sequence, but has important background to improve enjoyment of later books. This book can easily be read standalone, and doesn't depend on the other two books in the Books of Before sequence.
In Balance of Trade, we follow the early career of Jethri Gobelyn, a young Terran trader in the early days of Terran and Liaden interaction. Jethri becomes Apprentice to Master Trader Norn van'Deen, Clan Ixin. What follows is a classic Trader tale, or a classic Coming of Age tale, or a classic Mix of Cultures tale. Or maybe all three. Whatever, it's a rousing good story and a pleasure to read!
The reading is done by Kevin T. Collins and is as superb as his reading of the other two books in this sequence. Each character has a distinctive voice, but the distinction is subtle and doesn't interfere with the narrative. The Liaden Books of Before are my first encounter with Mr. Collins' narration, but I certainly hope not my last.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful
- Elisabeth Carey
- 06-05-16
A young trader gets a dangerous education
It's some centuries after Cantra yos'Phelium and Tor An yos'Galen lead the great migration from humanity's previous home universe. Jethri Gobelyn is a young trader, living and working on his family's ship, Gobelyn's Market. He knows a little bit about all the different areas he needs to know as a trader, and is learning more--including about the Liadens. He's even learning the Liaden language
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. His knowledge of Liadens is just enough to get him in a major tangle that leads learning a lot more about Liadens.
And about his deceased father. And about himself.
But most of all, he's off on a great adventure.
This is a great look at the Liaden culture, at a point when they're well established but not yet what they'll be in later ages. Jethri is a a great character, smart, curious, well-intentioned, and a lot more naive than he thinks he is. He's also finding out that all ships, and all families, have secrets, and they aren't always harmless.
We also another look at Uncle and at the "old tech" he's so involved with in later ages--and why that "old tech" is so dangerous.
Lots of fun. Recommended.
I bought this book.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Skipper
- 27-08-13
Character-Driven Stand-Alone in the Liaden Set
I love this narrator. Could listen to him read the phonebook. As for the story and the series, Lee and Miller have created enjoyable, frustrating, highly improbable featherweight science fiction / space opera, with the focus on relationships and characterization.
This story — another frivolous space-opera — appealed to me, even though the 3rd-person POV hops around like a drunken spacer, the protagonist is a teenager, and the pace is slow at times.
This story has nothing to do with Clan Korval and occurs 1000+ years after the prequel, *Crystal Dragon* and is not set on planet Liad. It opens on planet Terra, which seems to be a new Earth, revised in a new universe. Liadens play a large role.
Balance of Trade portrays the admirable Jethri Gobelyn, a 17-year old "spacer" from planet Terra. All Jethri wants to do is travel the galaxy, trading goods and making his fortune, but mommy dearest is a dream buster, big time.
However, a savvy Liaden trader, Norn ven'Deelin of Clan Ixin, notes Jethri's integrity (melant'i) and takes him under her wing. We see him learn the rather elitist Liaden culture, including how to interpret and enact specific types of highly nuanced bows. (Liadens are similar to the Japanese, small of stature and concerned with maintaining honor).
We also see our spacer learn self defense and become accustomed to gravity, mud, sweat, vineyards, and mountains. As the plot twists, he'll need to know how to fight, in full gravity.
There is no romance in this book, but you get the feeling Jethri and Miandra (a healer, a dramliza wizard) might make a go of it, someday. Several action scenes with the cat, Flinx.
The suspense plots are fairly obscure, and will probably be a challenge for readers who know nothing of the "Befores" or "fractins" or "The Uncle" and other plot threads. Refer to the glossary at the end of the *Crystal Variation* trilogy — not included in this Audiobook.
Bottom line on this book? Good story, but as far as I can tell, nothing occurs in *Balance of Trade* that relates to the entire series.
Excellent narration. Kevin T. Collins is great!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Tom
- 01-06-13
Good but disappointing in the end.
Any additional comments?
I really enjoyed Crystal Soldier and Crystal Dragon, but those two finished with loose ends I had hoped might be brought to completion in this third book (in the Books of Before "series.") So now here again in Balance of Trade. While I enjoy the storytelling and the performance, the ending left so many unanswered questions...just when you finally get really attached to the characters and the story lines, it ends abruptly and apparently none of it will ever be mentioned again in any of the future books. It's been 9 years since this one was completed and as far as I can tell, there are little if any references in future books to what was presented in this one, so it may be safe to assume there never will be. Because of this, I've pretty much decided to not continue with other books in the Liaden Universe "Series." Read Balance of Trade for a good story that you will enjoy as you go through it, but regard it as a stand-alone book and have no expectations of any kind for series continuation or you also may find the ending sudden and disappointing.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Kindle Customer
- 15-02-13
Loving the Liaden Universe
If you could sum up Balance of Trade in three words, what would they be?
engaging, delightful, brilliant
What did you like best about this story?
It was a breathe of fresh air. I am now a huge fan of Kevin T Collins narration and the Liaden Universe. I have read the the books as Audible as listed them and have been fascinated by the universe, the characters and absolutely loved the narration.
What does Kevin T. Collins bring to the story that you wouldn't experience if you just read the book?
Every characters voice is remembered perfectly, I felt he had a extremely strong attention to detail. As a vision impaired person who cannot read paper books and even struggles with a Kindle or iPad on maximum font settings I rely on audio books for my only access point into this great universe. At first I found the pacing quite rapid, but it took maybe 10 minutes to adjust, as it does when starting any new series and I was immediately captivated and held engaged the entire time.
I was impressed by scenes that involved multiple people and how smoothly he switched voices. Fantastic.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Lets just say there where nights I only got 2 or 3 hours sleep because I couldn't stop listening. Normally if I do this with a book I find I fall asleep, but this never happened with these books.
Any additional comments?
Cannot wait for the Trade Secrets book to be put on Audible which is the sequel to this one (Balance of Trade). Hope Kevin T Collins is able to read it again!
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 11-09-12
Old Friends and New
Would you consider the audio edition of Balance of Trade to be better than the print version?
Not better but just as good because I can listen will driving for hours as my life requires.
What did you like best about this story?
I had read this books years ago but lent out my copy and the chance to revisit this story was a pure delight!
Have you listened to any of Kevin T. Collins's other performances before? How does this one compare?
Not applicable
Any additional comments?
Sharon and Steve are masters at storytelling! I have been reading their books for many years and the News Audible was bring out their bact list was great Good News.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Sassy1980
- 14-10-12
Jethri or Jeth Ri?
Another excellent Liaden Universe novel! This one really shows the differences between Liadans and Terrrans, through the education and apprenticeship of Jethri Gobelyn, a ship-born (he thinks) young Terran. But he isn't what he always thought he was! This story is considered a prequel to the Korval series, and really adds to one's understanding of that universe. Highly recommended!
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 24-01-19
great fun
great series, great narrator. Well done, all. Looking forward to the other books in the series!
- Kindle Customer
- 19-10-18
Great Laiden Educational Addition
Balance of Trade is a great story by itself! Being the addition to my Laiden library I own in digital and audio form, I highly value access to re-read and re-listen anywhere and anytime! The narrative was done excellently done and I plan to follow both authors and narrator's works!
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller and Kevin T. Collins each have seperate workings that are advised also. Please consider purchase to enjoy and share.
- Chris H
- 24-12-12
I enjoyed the story but not the delivery
I find Kevin Collins performance overly dramatic. I got annoyed with him in the first two books because the book says when the rimmer accent is broad and he interpreted that as Texas and used it all the time, even in internal voice. Do you think in accent? I don't, and it is irritating when the narration is delivered in the style of the person currently speaking.
Other than that I was happy enough with the book, I enjoyed the story though I don't think it is the best introduction to the Liaden universe.
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