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March 7, 2015
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
in short
This is a very difficult book to recap in short, but here we go: Locke and his crew are trying to con a nobleman and his wife, but it goes horribly wrong when a mysterious guy called the Gray King gets involved. The Gray King tricks Locke into tricking Barsavi, who almost kills Locke but is then killed by the Gray King, who is really called Raza. Raza takes over the city with the help of his sisters and a warlock guy called The Falconer. They use Dona Vorchenza and try to blow up the city that had wronged them so many years ago, but Locke stops them. Jean kills the sisters, Locke kills Raza, and they permanently disable The Falconer. They then sail away together on a ship of dreams.
Dead: Bug (the crew's assistant), the Sanza twins, Capa Raza, Capa Barsavi, the gladiator sisters, Chains, the rest of the Barsavi family.
Alive: LOCKE AND JEAN 4EVA, Dona Vorchenza.
Ongoing mysteries: Who the fuck is Sabetha
what went down
- The book is told in both flashbacks and present day stuff. It starts with Locke as a child joining a band of petty thieves, and eventually he is recruited by an awesome thief person called Chains who pretends to be a blind priest in order for people to give him money. He joins Chains' group which consists of Jean (Locke's true love, imo), Sabetha (who doesn't actually appear in the book), and the twins Calo and Galdo.
- Chains dies off-"screen" and Locke now runs the gang in present day. They have a sweet little apprentice called Bug and Sabetha is still nowhere to be seen. Their group is called the Gentleman Bastards.
- The Gentleman Bastards are pretty freakin' rich because they con everyone. At the start of the book they're about to start a con on Don Salvara. Locke pretends to be someone called Lukas and makes up a story about booze to get Salvara to give him money. Locke then pretends to be a Midnighter and "warns" Salvara about Lukas being the Thorn of Camorr, but he tells Salvara that he should still give Lukas money.
- Meanwhile, the Gray King has been killing Capa Barsavi's (head of the criminal underground who takes a cut from everyone) men.
- The Gray King runs into Locke. He has brought a Bondsmage called The Falconer with him and they scare Locke because the Bondsmage is freakin' creepy like his bird. So The Gray King wants Locke to pretend to be him at a meeting with Capa Barsavi for reasons that he doesn't feel like revealing right now. Locke agrees in return for The Gray King's silence about the con business.
- The Gray King murders Barsavi's daughter, Nazca, and returns the body to the Capa. This is upsetting because Locke had just gotten engaged to her and she was pretty awesome.
- Locke goes through with the meeting but it goes horribly wrong when Barsavi somehow manages to get through Locke's supposed protection, knock him out and put him in a barrel. They then throw him in the canal, because they still think he's The Gray King, and Jean and co. have to come and rescue him. Clearly, The Gray King betrayed Locke and didn't even provide protection in the first place. RUDE.
- Jean, Bug, and Locke return to their base to find all of their wealth stolen and the Sanza twins dead, in the creepiest scene in all of history. Some guy turns up and kills Bug, and threatens Jean and Locke but they're like nah mate.
- Locke goes to The Floating Grave where Barsavi is celebrating the "death" of the Gray King. Obviously, the Gray King is not dead and his minions actually sabotage the party. The awesome gladiator sisters from the beginning kill Barsavi and his sons. The Gray King shows up and is like "I'm gonna run this town tonight".
- Turns out that the Gray King is the brother of the gladiator sisters. What.
- Some background on Capa Raza/The Gray King: he and his sisters had been planning revenge on Barsavi since they were younger because their parents were murdered thanks to the nobles of Camorr. Now he's back to kill them all.
- Jean figures out that the Gray King (or Capa Raza, if you will) has been loading his wealth that he stole onto a plague ship. The gladiator sisters find Jean and fight him, but he kills them both because he's made of awesome. He gets wounded though, which sucks.
- Dona Vorchenza, the Duke's Spider, is now accidentally in league with Capa Raza because The Falconer did some voodoo on her. She lures Locke into a trap but he escapes because he's a ninja.
- Locke goes back to his and Jean's hideout, and discovers that The Falconer has done voodoo on Jean now since he knows his real name. The Falconer tries to make Jean kill Locke, and then tries to voodoo Locke himself but Locke is like "lawl, as if Locke is my true name" and he ends up torturing The Falconer for information on the Gray King. He doesn't kill the guy, but he does remove his tongue and fingers.
how did it end?
So the Gray King has given the city four statues filled with bombs. Locke warns Dona Vorchenza, who is a flawless queen btw, and together they disable the statues. He is then set free to go and kill Capa Raza. In return for his freedom, Locke shares where his stolen wealth is hidden (the wealth that the Gray King stole from him). Locke tells her that it's hidden on a barge, but he doesn't know which one exactly, so people have to go hunting. He also tells Vorchenza to destroy the plague ship because it's seriously gross that it's still there and ready to infect the city. LOCKE FINDS RAZA AND KILLS HIM IN AN EPIC OTP LOCKE/JEAN MOMENT OF AWESOME. Vorchenza realises that she's been tricked and that Locke is the most hilarious and also pretty awesome for using the plague ship filled with treasure as an offering to the goddess of death FOR HIS DEAD FRIENDS GOODBYE. Jean and Locke sail away together because they're a SHIP.
Other recaps for this series:
I LOVE THIS BOOK. That recap is pretty good considering how much goes down in this book hahaha (and that ending! "BECAUSE THEY'RE A SHIP!". YES.)
Also, after book 3 I'm still not entirely sure who Sabetha is…it's like she has split personality disorder or something.
I really need to reread this!
– Kritika @ Snowflakes & Spider silk
Everyone I've spoken to ships Locke and Jean. This community is full of awesome people XD
Thanks for the recap! Just an FYI, the next book in the series, The Thorn of Emberlain, STILL isn't out (and there's no release date in sight) as of July 2018.


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Battle River Train Excursions very much appreciates 840 CFCW being the media sponsor for our 2018 runs. We look forward to hosting 840 DJ Stella Stevens on our June 24 excursion from Kelsey to the Historic Heisler Hotel. Thanks to Stella for the great blog post about our run on the CFCW Country Club Newsletter.
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Thank you to The Community Press, our local newspaper for continuing to keep an eye on what we are up to and reporting it to our larger community. We so appreciate our local support. Thank you to Marlit Contractors, who are doing such a great job renovating our Train Station.
Successful Cultural Evening in May!
Earlier in May, Friends of the Battle River Railway held a cultural evening where we were able to feature the talents in our communities. Attendees enjoyed a musical performance by Ken Eshpeter to celebrate the release of his CD "Ken's Kids Songs", as well as the literary contributions of Joe Boudreault with his new novel Debut, "The Dolphin Code."
The Friends of Battle River Railway hosts regular cultural evenings as a way to showcase local talents within our communities. Check back regularly for future dates. Or take in one of our upcoming train excursions such as the Historic Heisler Train Exursion, Celebrate Canada in Alliance or enjoy a train robbery in August.
Cultural Evenings
Battle River Train Excursions is so pleased to be able to bring cultural events into our Train Station for our Community to enjoy. We have hosted two to date and look forward to many more.
Our valued supporters!
Continued THANKS to the Community Press for their coverage of our Battle River Train Excursions. We appreciate you.
The Heisler Community Sausage Supper
Battle River Train Excursions are so proud to be able to take part in such a long-running, community event that celebrates small-town spirit.
This is an excerpt of a submission by Wanda Hihn from the Heisler History Book:
The Heisler Catholic Women's League Sausage Supper began in 1956 after remarks around town about being tired of eating chicken, forced the Annual Fowl Supper to take a bit of a turn. Mrs. Louise Blaser made a motion that we serve homemade sausage instead of chicken at the annual supper. Mrs. Leander Lang seconded the motion. Motion carried.
And so it began….
At the first supper, 2 pigs, weighing 335 and 350 pounds, plus 12 pounds of hamburger were used. The price paid for the pigs was 14 cents per pound. 30 pounds of leftover sausage were sold for 45 cents a pound. Sauerkraut was also made. Potatoes, salad, applesauce, corn, pies, cream, coffee, butter, and pickles were all donated by members of the church community. The price charged per meal was 75 cents for adults (a motion to charge a dollar was defeated) and 35 cents for kids.
In October of 1980, the CWL celebrated the 25th Annual Sausage Supper by giving every 25th person a tray of sausage.
Some things have not changed over the years. The supper has always been held on the last Sunday of October and much to the dismay of trick or treaters, on occasion Halloween has been rescheduled in Heisler. Another thing that hasn't changed is the tradition of making the saurkraut in the church basement weeks prior to the supper. The saurkraut has always been a popular item to buy after the supper has concluded.
In the Spring of 2016, the annual vote at the CWL meeting to host the Sausage Supper was defeated. Upon hearing the news that the supper would not continue under the leadership of the CWL, a group of concerned citizens came together hoping to continue the legacy of the Sausage Supper. A public meeting was held in the Community Hall in August of 2016 with a large turnout. From this meeting, it was determined that the community did not want to see the supper end. Volunteers signed up and the new Heisler Sausage Supper Committee was formed. With tremendous community support, the 61st Annual Sausage Supper was held on October 30, 2016. Approximately 625 supper tickets were sold. Regulars come back year after year from many places.
Even though many things have changed from October 1956 to October 2016, the spirit of this community remains the same. Many willing hands help out, year after year, to make this supper a huge success. We are proof that when a small community like ours works together, good things can happen. It is the hope of the committee and community that the supper will continue for many years to come.
Our story is pretty amazing!
Shortly after the formation of the Battle River Railway NGC (New Generation Coop), a group of interested people started dreaming of teaming up with them to consider running a tourist train on their line. On March 29, 2012, thirteen people from the line communities met to discuss the feasibility of such a venture.
On March 6, 2013, this group formed a not-for-profit society called Friends of Battle River Rail Society. Our first objective was to promote and encourage participation and common involvement in a tourist railroad. Our second objective was to purchase a passenger car. To this end, a supper, silent auction and dance were held in Alliance. The date was April 13, 2013. As a result of the hard work of the group, enough money was raised to purchase the car. To add to this fundraiser any business or individual could donate a minimum of $1000, which would then give them the honour of being in the Platinum Club. The club was initiated as an incentive for each member in knowing that they would receive one of the first rides in the new passenger car. Enough money was raised and the 1952 Pullman passenger car was bought. It was originally part of CN's passenger car fleet when they provided regular service across Canada in the 50's and 60's. It was being stored at the Kamloops Heritage Society. We bought it for $55,000 and the transportation costs for it to be brought to Forestburg by rail was $6300.
In June of 2013, the group purchased the former Youth Centre in Forestburg, to be our headquarters. After a great deal of cleaning and fixing, the "Friends" moved in and named the building " The Station". This is where our meetings are held and where we do our planning and hold our functions. It also serves as a museum for our Train memorabilia, an art gallery, conference facility and banquet room. We applied for and received a CFEP grant to be used for our first stage of major renovations.
This year, 2017 is our fourth year of excursions for people near and far. Our new name on our brochure is "Battle River Train Excursions."
Over 5000 brochures have been printed this year going out to Alberta tourist bureaus and businesses all over Alberta. We started offering six to eight Excursions throughout the year and this year ran twelve. Our rails consist of 55 miles of straight track with our cars travelling at an average of 25 miles per hour starting, ending or stopping in our little towns of Kelsey, Rosalind, Heisler, Forestburg, Galahad and Alliance.
February starts our year with a Valentine run, "Love is in the Air" from Alliance to Kelsey for the famous Kelsey Dinner Theater in the tiny Kelsey hall where talented local actors put on amazing and entertaining plays. Chocolate covered strawberries and fresh cinnamon buns and drinks are served on the train by wonderful volunteer hostesses dressed in classy red dresses and pearls.
In April we offer an Easter Egg-travaganza from Forestburg to Galahad where the Giant Easter bunny awaits the passengers for the big Easter egg hunt which is a highlight of the trip.
In June 2016 we offered our first Heisler Historic Hotel run from Forestburg to the 1920 Heisler Hotel. New owners had purchased the hotel a few years previous and have totally renovated the inside of the hotel! A great destination venue for our train.
In 2017 our first Scandinavian Day train run was put together with the train starting at Kelsey. From Kelsey, the train powered down the track to Forestburg where a Scandinavian gourmet meal and entertainment awaited us at our train station hall.
In 2016, a Garden and Gourmet run also happened from Kelsey to Forestburg with a gourmet dinner of locally sourced food waiting in the beautifully decorated hall. Tours of the historic elevator, museum and some beautiful yards were another highlight of the day.
Since the start of our Excursions in 2014, the Octoberfest run from Alliance to Heisler's famous Sausage Supper has been happening. This event has been happening in the Heisler community for 60 years now. An amazingly talented accordion player entertains guests onboard the train along with wonderful hostesses cheerfully dressed in their German costumes serving tasty German snacks and drinks.
Santa Daze in Alliance is our last ride of the year! The train is full of bustling children and their families. Santa is waiting to greet the train in Alliance and from the station they are taken to the hall on a flat deck with straw bales for seating, pulled by Santa's white truck!! Lunch is served here by the local ladies. The children can sit on Santa's lap and after presents can be bought at the market vendors right there in the hall. Over in the arena, the families can skate with Mrs Claus and Santa's elves and your Christmas turkey can be won by turkey curling. A turkey is thrown down the ice to marked curling rings for $2 a try! The closest to the centre circle is the winner!! The often brisk snowy afternoon ends with a giant fire and wiener roast, hot chocolate and fireworks! A magical day for families!!
In 2015 we reconstructed the heating system on the passenger car and now have heat on our train for those cold months we offer rides. In order to power that heat on our car, we needed a huge generator. Every time a generator was needed which was almost every run, a volunteer would have to take a truck and trailer to Stettler to pick this huge generator up. The generator then needed to be mounted on the back of the engine with a telehandler and then removed the next day after the train run and returned. Many volunteer hours went into this process. This is when Ken Eshpeter started looking into a Genset Car that would hold the generator that was needed. This would free up rental costs and many volunteer hours for this process. In 2016 an old Boxcar was found and purchased for $2000. Talented volunteers then installed a 175-kilowatt generator in the Boxcar which now gives our passenger car power and heat!
In early Spring of 2017, Ken Eshpeter had an inspiration that our Train needed an "Open Air Gondola" car. This car would allow our passengers to move from the passenger car through the gondola car to the caboose, experiencing amazing nature and wind in your face as the train travels down the rails. Ron Valliere, a friend of Battle River Rail found an "open-air car " that was ready for "salvage " in CN's fleet of rail cars and donated the car to Friends of Battle River Train Excursions. This gondola car was in rough shape and needed much work, including intense cleaning, a new floor, welding to create walkways between the cars, sanding and painting to get this car looking presentable. 4-H members, avid volunteers and board members gave endless hours to make this car presentable!
We now have a passenger car, gondola open-air car, and caboose for tourists to experience and taking one back to the "Good old Days!" The Battle River Railway owns the two engines we use to pull our passenger car and we pay them a fee to pull our cars on our excursions.
Summer of 2017 brought celebrating Canada's Sesquicentennial (Canada 150) with four more rides added to our year. Two Old Time Market Days were created in Forestburg with Jodi Pettigrew organizing this with the Town of Forestburg and our volunteer train board. This created activities that our passengers and locals were able to take in when arriving in Forestburg by train. A parade, the Bill Webb Art Studio, the historic Oberg elevator tours and the museum opened their doors to many people. Great entertainment was held at the train station and Museum gazebo. Smiles, laughter and reminiscing were in the air.
Our theme for the two days was 1920's and our Hostesses were well dressed in their 1920's long dresses and saucy hats! They walked the parade and streets along with our smartly dressed conductors and added that special 1920 's touch and feel to Forestburg's Sesquicentennial Market days.
Our first ever "Great Train Robbery" run happened the weekend in August after Market Days. Many hours went into the staging and planning of this run! 4-H Alumni Horse Club members and a few other recruits were the Train Robbers! Great fun and much laughter were heard as the robbers came on board searching for money from our train guests pockets and using their "water pistols" as ammunition. Even our engineer and conductors were held at gunpoint for ransom money too!
We enjoy sharing our beautiful countryside, our wildlife, our history, hospitality and the uniqueness of the individual communities with our train guests.
You will be greeted by our congenial conductors Jerry Weller, Ken Eshpeter, John Oberg, Ernie Gamroth, Caroline Boddy that are always smartly dressed in their sharp black vests, bow ties and black formal conductor hats along with the beautifully dressed hostesses in their detailed sewn costumes, dresses and hats made by Cynthia Sibley.
The team makes a great picture as you are greeted with smiles and laughter at the steps of our 1954 Passenger car.
The ride down the 55 miles of track will take you right back to the days of wonderful train transportation.
All of these runs are all totally coordinated and executed with hundreds of volunteer hours. Only the engineer on our train has a paid position. Thank you to our great Train Board volunteers – Ken Eshpeter, Virgie Robb, John Oberg, Doreen Blumhagen, Judy Solinick , Caroline Boddy, Muriel Fankhanel, Ernie Gamroth, Joanne McMahon, Joanne Jackson, Diane Damman, Cynthia Sibley, Shara Lynn Weller and Jerry Weller, train conductor.
These dedicated volunteers who shine and put in long days for our excursions to happen and the planning of them bring tourists of all kinds to our beautiful areas in Flagstaff and Camrose counties to experience the wonderful train travel of 60 years ago.
Thank you to Shara-Lynn Weller for this little piece of history.
We APPRECIATE the support!
We always support the great coverage we get from our County's newpaper, the Community Press.
Thanks 840 CFCW
We are so pleased to welcome 840 CFCW as our official Media Sponsor for our August excursions!
Our Biggest Challenge Yet!
The Friends of the Battle River Railway are thrilled with the success of our four Canada 150 excursions.
August 12 and August 13 were called Old Time Market Days. We were able to bring over 150 people to enjoy Forestburg's Canada 150 celebration. We were also able to bring the Maskwacis Performers and Beth Portman and the Good Find Band to the Village for the enjoyment of all. Our passengers enjoyed a gourmet picnic lunch supplied by Forestburg's very own, Darcy Jahns Catering. Special thanks to the hard work of Jody Pettigrew in coordinating so well with our group and thanks to the Village of Forestburg for putting on such a top notch weekend.
On August 19, we hosted a Family Fun Excursion. Ticket prices were kept very low to accommodate our families. We travelled from Forestburg to Heisler, enjoyed old fashioned games at the Heisler Ball Diamonds, went to the Rec Centre for bowling, face painting, an old time photo booth and an amazing snack prepared by the Heisler Hotel. We were able to sponsor 30 people who are members of foster families in our area. We were very privileged to be able to give back to these families who don't have the funds to participate in activities such as this very often.
August 20 brought the Great Battle River Train Robbery. This run started in Alliance, was held up at gun point in Galahad and then travelled onto Heisler for an amazing meal at the Heisler Hotel. The passengers all travelled home with full bellies and empty pockets. Special thanks to Caroline Boddy and the rest of her notorious Gopher Gang for such a great job holding up the train.
The Friends of the Battle River Railways are so happy to have been able to add to our fleet an Open Air Car. Hundreds of volunteer hours went into this project and the outcome is fantastic. Our passengers are now able to move freely from our passenger car to the open air car to our caboose.
We hosted people from England, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and all points in Alberta.
All of this excitement would not be possible without the many, many volunteer hours of our Board. These four runs took a lot of work and our Board handled it like pros. If anyone is interested in becoming involved, we would love to have you. Come join the fun.

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Wow. Okay, time for an update, right?
So first of all, my son was born a few months ago, and all is well with him. It's an adjustment going from 2 to 3 kids, and I think it has to do with the fact we're now outnumbered and I think they know the numbers are in their favor. I can see the first stages of a coup brewing, and I don't have a lot of hope for our chances.
On the writing front, I've released the first 3 books in the REVENGER series. I've learned that the logistics of releasing a longer series can be challenging. When you want consistency in editing and design, you want to use the same professionals, but those professionals have lives and jobs of their own, and sometimes that means schedules can be muddy.
I've also managed to write the first draft of a new book I'm excited about, but not ready to talk about yet. And I have decided I will release the last book in my DEAN CURSE series, as well as the next book in my CAMBRIDGE FILES series. I'm excited for both of those, but both books, while written, have some editing to get through, so it will be 2017 before I release them. But they will be coming.
Presently, I have a promotion going on through Amazon, and it's for a free copy of book #1 in my 6th Grade Revenger series. The link is below, and there are 10 books up for grabs. I've never done one of these before, and didn't know the promotion would only be available to people with addresses in the USA – so apologies to the rest of the world :/ I will do my utmost to make it up to you with the next promo.
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Queenie Chan
Haven't heard of Queenie Chan yet? You will. (And it's a very easy name to remember, no?) This year will see the release of the third and final book in The Dreaming series, plus she will be writing and drawing an original manga based on Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas. Queenie lives in Australia, and I thought it would be fun to talk to her for the One Shot World Tour: Best Read with Vegemite.
I'm unfamiliar with the Australian manga scene. Please tell us about it.
Australia barely has any manga scene—there are places like Kings Comics (and other comic book stores) and Kinokuniya that sell manga, but that's about it. There's a great deal of people here who read manga thanks to the internet, but generally speaking, Australia trails behind the US and the rest of the world in getting manga into bookstores. Cost is the main reason—because Australia doesn't print its own manga and has no experience doing its own printing, the shipping costs from the US is just staggering.
There are no Australian publishers to speak of. Mostly, English-language manga is dominated by American companies like Viz and TOKYOPOP, and Australia imports manga directly from the US. There are Australian companies like Madman who is interested in printing and distributing manga, but so far the costs involved gives no real incentive to.
How did you first get interested in manga? What made you decide to pursue a career as a manga-ka?
I first started reading manga as a child in Hong Kong, and when I migrated to Australia, I continued to read it. So I grew up reading it and has familiar with it all my life. As to what made me pursue a career as a manga-ka, it was actually… unemployment. I was trained as a systems analyst in university, but had the misfortune of graduating in 2002, right in the middle of the dot com bust. I couldn't find a job, but I've been drawing manga in university as a hobby, so I thought about making that into a career. Luckily, the times allowed for that. In 2004, I was able to land a job with TOKYOPOP, who was looking for international artists to start its own original manga line.
You're upfront about not being a trained artist or writer. In your view, what are the advantages and disadvantages of working this way and learning as you go along?
Bad habits are very difficult to undo. I like the idea of teaching yourself to draw—it gives a lot more room to experiment, but I really wish at times that I went to art school. You take the long way round to get to the same level of art skill, and worst of all, you at times get into a rut that you can't seem to get out of. For me, drawing isn't a big priority—my interest is in story-telling, and while I like my art to look good, it's not the main focus of my work.
The good thing about drawing without any training or even references is that you gradually come to perfect what you do. You also develop a style that's independent of any other style out there. But it takes so much more work to put out a decent-looking picture!
In your talk "Adopting Manga: From Hong Kong to America," you briefly discuss some of your Chinese and Australian influences. But for people unfamiliar with you, as a Chinese-Australian manga-ka, how has your heritage influenced your manga (not just in terms of inspiration, but also stylistically or thematically)? And Australia?
I don't think there's any particular stylistic influence happening—I may be a Chinese-Australian, but my identity isn't that big a deal to me. If there's anything that's good about being bi-cultural, is that you get double the amount of inspiration to draw upon. I like to set my stories in Australia, because that's where I live, but there's no reason why I can't draw a story based heavily on Chinese culture either. It's normal for someone to use their place of origin as inspiration for their stories, so in terms of influence, that's about it.
Is there an Australian publisher for The Dreaming, or does TOKYOPOP publish it in Australia? Does this have any impact on your storytelling?
There's no Australian publisher for "The Dreaming"—TOKYOPOP is primarily in American publisher and my primary audience is in America and Europe. In terms of impact on the story—it's practically zero. Hardly any of the fans I get fanmail from care that the story is set in Australia, in fact, some of them think it's set in America (despite a shot of the Opera House on the opening page). So many fans think I'm an American. Same goes for Europeans—"The Dreaming" is also available in French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish and German, and no one cares where it's set either. So, "understanding Aussie slang" is barely an issue here. The visual differences (Australian bush, Opera House, Eucalyptus trees) barely register, so who's taking notice of what sort of slang the characters use? "The Dreaming" uses International English too—not a single American noticed.
I don't think the reason for this is due to the "global-ness of manga" though. It's more so because manga is visual, and children these days grow up in a visual culture. You pick up subtleties in language when you read novels, but visual stories create a reality of their own, and the readers just accept that. When I was a 5 year-old watching Japanese anime on TV in Hong Kong, I never questioned why the characters sat on the floor with tatami mats. I just accepted that was the world that the characters lived in—I barely knew what "Japan" was at the time (in fact, I thought the characters lived in Hong Kong). I think the same thing applies here. People just read the manga, barely register that it's set in Australia, and just take everything that happens in it as part of the logic of that imaginary world.
The Dreaming was inspired by the disappearance of a classmate of yours. On your website you say that you're often inspired by real life events, but what was it about this event, or disappearances in general, that inspired a three volume series about a boarding school in which girls are known to go missing?
I'm afraid the real inspiration for "The Dreaming" was "Picnic at Hanging Rock", a quintessential Australian story. It wasn't really inspired by the disappearance of my classmate—that was just the icing on the cake. I think as an Australian, we've got some kind of national mythos about the bush being an inhospitable and freaky place. This is probably the part that has the most resonance with Australian readers—who also pick up the reference of "The Dreaming" to the aboriginal Dreamtime. These things just seem to go right over the heads of non-Australian readers though.
In the endnotes of vol. 1 of The Dreaming, you say that you often build longer stories off your short stories. Had you written manga with long story arcs prior to The Dreaming? What are the challenges of taking characters or events from short stories and turning them into longer stories, or simply of writing a multivolume manga series?
No, "The Dreaming" is the first long-story I've written. Short stories about 10-50 pages long don't count, but truth is, it's far more difficult to write a short manga story than it is to write a longer one. Turning a short story into a longer one is no challenge as long as you know the general story arc, but in terms of "The Dreaming", the real challenge came in splitting a single story into 3 parts. It's like splitting a single movie into 3 parts—that's how I originally conceived of "The Dreaming" anyway.
Each volume has to be relatively self-contained, but if you read the story from book1 to book3, the events must be in a chronological order. When the story is a mystery, it becomes even more complicated. When and how should you reveal certain secrets? How do you stay ahead of the reader, so they can't guess what's going on earlier? It was a nightmare, really, but I managed to work it out.
You will be drawing and writing the Odd Thomas original graphic novel for Del Rey. How did you get involved with this project?
I was chosen for it by Dallas Middaugh of Del Rey, and Dean Koontz. Del Rey showed Dean samples of my art (I presume for "The Dreaming"), and when Dean liked it, they contacted me about it, introducing me to his book series "Odd Thomas". I read and enjoyed the series, so I agreed to do it. I was an honour to work with Dean, and I'm glad he trusted me to write and script the story.
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"Queenie Chan" is my real name, so you'll have to ask my parents! *laughs*
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Raps shutdown Johnson, Johnson and Smith but night ends on a very bad note
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I'd rather take a loss than see TJ Ford carried out on a stretcher, needless to say it brought to mind the Mark Madsen collision which ended up breaking Ford's vertebrae. Coming off a stinger injury which made him miss about two weeks, this was the last type of hit that Ford needed. There's zero intent on the part of Al Horford who by his own admission was completely tricked by TJ's decision to reverse the ball rather than go straight up with it. It's nice to see Sam Mitchell come out to the other side of the court protesting the foul for the sake of protesting it. There was nothing malicious in the air but Sam's concern for TJ is well evident. Let's just hope he gets better, the word used by Chris Bosh, Anthony Parker to describe TJ on the ground was "scared" as in he's scared about history repeating itself. Hopefully it's just that and nothing more.
There was a funny quote coming out of Chris Bosh in the post-game when asked about TJ's move on Horford:
"[Shrugs] Usually he goes up like a wild man but this time he was in control"
See, even Bosh thinks TJ's out of control at times, not just everybody watching the game. Speaking of the game, TJ was simply phenomenal with 26/2/8 and led the Raptors charge while making Anthony Johnson wanting to retire at halftime. When TJ decides to break the defense down, there's nobody that can stop him, and if his jumper's working on the same night, lines like this get produced. CB4 manly 20/13 provided the presence underneath but at times Bosh was guilty of sticking to the perimeter, we'd talk about it a lot more if this game ended up being a loss.
The game-ball however goes to our defense on Johnson, Johnson and Smith who had 6, 23 and 6 points, respectively. JJ's points came late but were part of a mini-ATL run that never looked to really bother the Raptors. Anthony Parker, Jamario Moon and Carlos Delfino get credit for playing extremely tight man-defense and collapsing in the paint every time Smith went inside. The pick 'n roll defense was superb with the Raptors switching 1-3 consistently thus taking the pick 'n roll away from the Hawks. The Hawks had some big wins this season against PHX, DAL and ORL so they've shown that they're a good team and the Raptors should take some satisfaction getting one in their building.
Andrea Bargnani's return was rustier than an old nail in an abandoned 16th century house. Try 0-4 with 0 points on for size. But he needs practice and Mitchell gets that:
"You look at our schedule, until we get practice time … you have to kind of let them work their way into shape before the game. He (Bargnani) has been working on his own, running and stuff He'll have to some extra running, do some work. Keith (D'Amelia), our strength coach, has been doing some good work with our guys when they've been out, working them."
In short, Bargnani needs a few games to regain his rhythm. There's a good bet Jorge Garbajosa won't play this season after having surgery but I'm inclined to care less. With Jamario Moon, Carlos Delfino and Joey Graham all stepping and performing Garbjosaesque, there's little cause for concern on fans' part. Jorge can take all the time he wants to get back to 100% and know that when/if he comes back it's going to be a dogfight for minutes.
So as Bargnani and Bosh come back, Kapono (wrist) and Ford go out. Rotten luck for the Raptors. It's Dallas tonight, time to erase the memory of blowing a 24 point lead. If you need something to cheer you up you might want to check out Darrick Martin's future in the NBA. Thanks for reading, grab the feed.
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No one wants to see a player go down like that. Here is hoping that it's not as bad as it looked and that TJ gets back soon.
December 12, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Thank God TJ is OK. Funny but the Hawks TV guy , either Steve Smith or Dominique Wilkins , said last night that Al Horford shd. have just let TJ do his thing 'coz he's passed him . Talk of non homer remark by a team Analyst !


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Analysis: China seeks to ease fears as Hong Kong handover anniversary looms
Growing fears of eroding freedom after two decades of Chinese rule
A candlelight vigil in Hong Kong on Thursday. Analysts say the focus is now much more on the "one country" element than the "two systems", and expect Beijing to interfere much more. Photograph: Roman Pilipe/EPA
Xi Jinping has a strong sense of history, and soon after he arrived for his first visit to Hong Kong as Chinese president, he sought to reaffirm his commitment to the "One Country, Two Systems" model governing the ex-crown colony since reverting to Beijing two decades ago.
The "One Country, Two Systems" blueprint allowed China to take control of Hong Kong while maintaining civil liberties such as freedom of speech and autonomy from the mainland for a "50-years no change" period.
Analysts believe the focus these days is much more on the "one country" element than the "two systems" these days, and expect Beijing to interfere much more going forward.
Recent incidents, such as the secret detention of five Hong Kong booksellers on the mainland, have sparked fears that Beijing is prepared to only observe the principle as it suits.
"When the 'one country, two systems' model turns 20 on July 1st, Hong Kong and Beijing officials will hail its success while street protesters will grieve its demise," said Victoria Tin-bor Hui, associate professor in political science at the University of Notre Dame.
"Beijing has played an increasingly heavy role in Hong Kong over the past 20 years, leading citizens to complain that 'Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong' has become 'Western District [home to Beijing's liaison office for Hong Kong] ruling Hong Kong'," said Hui.
Steve Tsang, director of the Soas China Institute in London, believes "one country, two systems" was always an aspiration.
"Having said that, it is holding up in 20 years better than many expected back in 1997," said Tsang.
Political backdrop
A crucial aspect is the political backdrop in China, where Xi is preparing for the 19th Communist Party congress in the autumn that will reshuffle the party leadership.
"Xi has not come to Hong Kong to resolve problems but rather to enjoy a great celebration, with fanfare and other visual images that should add lustre to his march to the party congress in the autumn," said Tsang.
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, professor of political science at Hong Kong Baptist University, foresees more dark clouds and possible political confrontations on the horizon for Hong Kong.
"Hong Kong is politically and even economically clearly less autonomous than 20 years ago," he said.
Cabestan believes that during his visit, Xi will reassure the good and threaten the bad, which is something at which the Chinese leadership excels.
"He will reassure the Hongkongers that 'one country, two systems' will continue and autonomy will be respected, he will concentrate his attacks on the localists and the pro-independence activists, on purpose exaggerating the their that they present in order to meddle even more into HK affairs," said Cabestan.
One of Xi's tasks while in Hong Kong is to officially inaugurate the new chief executive Carrie Lam.
"Poor Carrie Lam has already her hands tied: she will be forced to draft and pass the long-shelved national security law and relaunch the patriotic education campaign. She will need to manage the risks of negative reactions in the society and unrest," said Cabestan.
Democratic representation
As far as securing more democratic representation for Hong Kong going forward, the situation appears grim, said Alvin Cheung, a researcher at New York University School of Law's US-Asia Law Institute and formerly a Hong Kong lawyer.
"It is difficult to see how any meaningful bargain for electoral reform in Hong Kong can happen for the foreseeable future," he said.
"Beijing has demonstrated no willingness to reverse its hard-line policies on Hong Kong; this in turn has directly contributed to the rise of localist and pro-independence parties, at the expense of mainstream pro-democracy parties," said Cheung.
"Unless Beijing is prepared to change course and regain the trust of the Hong Kong public, there seems to be little point in discussing changes to how the legislature or the chief executive are selected," said Cheung.


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Reference: K.-C. Tung, F.-C. Hsiao, K.-S. Wang, C.-H. Yang, and C.-H. Lai. 2013. Study of the endoparasitic fauna of commensal rats and shrews caught in traditional wet markets in Taichung City, Taiwan. Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection 46:85-88 [ER 944]
Country: Taiwan
Coordinate: 24° 9' N, 120° 40' E
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: coordinate based on Taichung
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Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest
Altered habitat: urban
Substrate: ground surface
Life forms: rodents, other small mammals
Sites: 3
Sampling methods: baited
Sample size: 51
Sampling comments: "Rodents were captured from three traditional wet markets in the central and south districts of Taichung City using food-baited traps"
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Contributor: John Alroy
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Or maybe Barry's just deferring to his "Massa," the Rothschild's.
"Goldman Sachs is obviously an arm of their empire, whereas BP is among a host of companies in [the] Rothschild's portfolio."
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Despite the growing evidence against it, the theory of global warming has been the reason for large international summits in recent years, namely one that was just held in Copenhagen late last December.
During this summit, David Rothschild, "adventurer environmentalist" and an heir apparent to the Rothschild financial empire, in an interview with Bloomberg made the admission – through a series of stuttering verbal bumbles – that the talks in Copenhagen were actually about "global governance" rather than global warming.
The Rothschilds aren't the only one letting the global governance cat out of the bag. Others have made recent mention of one world rule. Herman Van Rompuy, the first "president of Europe", made strong mention of it in his first press conference on November 19, 2009, going so far as to declare 2009 as the "first year of global governance". However, without the environmental laws and treaties, this utopia ruled by the banking families of the world may continue only to be a dream in the pipeline.
Stephen Kinzer on the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran CoupAny questions about why President Barry is acting like a tamed minion of BP should be cleared up by the knowledge that BP is a subsidiary of the international band of gangsters that operate out of London.
AMY GOODMAN: Actually, I want to start where you—descriptions and analysis you gave in your previous books and it has to do with BP. Before we get to Turkey and Iran and Israel currently, I wanted to go back in time. President Obama has gone down to Mississippi, and he's going to be in the Gulf Coast for a few days. But there's very little discussed about BP's history, and I'm wondering if you could start with us there.
STEPHEN KINZER: The history of the company we now call BP over the last hundred years has really traced the arc of global transnational capitalism. This company began as a kind of a wildcatting operation in Iran back in the first decade of the twentieth century. It was very entrepreneurial and risk-taking, and they had a bunch of geologists running around in these very forbidding steppes and deserts, and finally they struck what was the greatest find up to that time in the history of the oil industry. They were the ones who discovered that Iran was sitting on an ocean of oil. And then they decided they would take it. Under a corrupt deal that they had struck with a few representatives of the old declining Iranian monarchy, all of whom had been paid off by the company, this concession, which later became known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, guaranteed itself, or won the right to own, all of Iran's oil. So, nobody in Iran had any right to drill for oil or extract oil or sell oil.
Then, soon after that find was made, the British government decided to buy the company. So the Parliament passed a law and bought 51 percent of that company. And all during the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s, the entire standard of living that people in England enjoyed was supported by oil from Iran. All the trucks and jeeps in Britain were being run on Iranian oil. Factories all over Britain were being funded by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, was run 100 percent on oil from Iran. So that became a fundamental foundation of British life.
The Rothschild's have been behind many wars, financing both sides and raking in profits from misery, death and destruction. Profits which compound when they finance the rebuilding of the countries they helped destroy.
The Rothschilds have their tentacles in China, Brazil and India, all rising monetary powers.
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last June appointed Sylvia V. Baca to the post, which did not require Senate confirmation. The appointment follows eight years at BP.


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Saturday, 23 September 2017
Dear friends you are proud representatives of the Iranian people, you are proud fighters for freedom. We here parliamentarians and politicians from Romania we salute you for your great and noble endeavor to free Iran and you have a great leader madam Rajavi who is hope for the Iranian people.
You know to win the freedom it's to defeat the fear and I've seen you today here fearless, you have no fear to win the freedom for the Iranian people.
The rulers, the present rulers in Iran should know something without you there is not an a prosperous, a free and proud Iran. Without you no way, you are the hope, you are the hope for millions and millions of people in Iran and you have to bear this responsibility.
I know what I'm speaking, because about 27 years ago we have conquered our freedom with the Romanian revolution. It was a tragic one. Many people perished it was a bloodshed at the barricade where I was, at the last moment when we were machine gunned by the dictatorship out of the 81 we were there. 39 were killed by the bullets of the dictatorship. I hope from the bottom of my heart that the Iranian transition to freedom and democracy to be peaceful because without peace people cannot live properly beyond the life itself.
Freedom is the most precious possession of humans. you know that better than any. You know what is to fight for freedom. Well it's time for you to build a new Iran. That's my hope, that's our hope to build a new and prosperous Iran for the Iranian people. thank you.


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12 valuable hours were being wasted on a regular workday. So I stopped listing to music and started listening to podcasts during my run or commute.
My commute to work is 55 minutes. My drive back home is around 45 minutes.
That's about 500 minutes per week. Sitting in my car. Wasted.
My daily runs last about 30-45 minutes so that's another 250 minutes. Not completely a waste because it's healthy and therapeutic.
Listen to podcast and expand your mind
Replacing Spotify with Podcasts helps me get motivated for the day. It inspires me to think beyond my current situation and plan for the future.
There are a millions of people that have launched new careers and business. And others have have found wealth, happiness, motivation and confidence. These people what to share what they learned.
And they do this in podcasts. They will often share what they have learned to help others become successful as well.
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Will Smith said, "the key to life is running and reading."
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I MUST listen to something during my runs. It was always music, because I thought it was going to be hard to stay motivated listening to someone talk.
But it turns out it has motivated me more. My creative brain goes into hyper drive. I start thinking of new ways to apply what I'm hearing to my own business, work and life.
Not all podcasts are the same
Finding the perfect podcast can take some time. I have found that some can take forever to get to the point and others were too chatty. Others I have binge listened.
My biggest pet peeve about podcasts is not being able to find the links from the discussion in the show notes. I can't exactly jot those things down when I'm driving or running.
Some of the podcasts I'm listening to now!
How I Built This – NPR
Recommended by a friend after I was telling her about my business idea. The host Guy Raz gets behind the scenes of the world's best known companies. He helps tell the story of innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists.
10% Happier with Dan Harris
I listened to the 10% Happier book on audible so I was excited to see Dan Harris also has a podcast. I love his journalistic skepticism. His book was a direct contributor to my new interest in meditating. He also has a app with the same name that helps people learn to meditate.
Moz creates tools that make SEO, inbound marketing and link building easy. You don't need a paid Moz account to listen to thier podcast. The Moz team shares SEO insights and best practices.
Reach by Convert Kit
This is binge worthy, but I should warn you there is only one season so far. This podcast is perfect for bloggers interested in building an online business.
Actionable Marketing Podcast
CoSchedules podcast was one of the first content marketing podcasts I listened to. The hosts share insights from leaders in content marketing. There goal is to help everyone create more efficient marketing campaigns.
Shopify Masters
I started an online store over 10 years ago, but shut it down years ago. But it would have been great to have this podcast back them. I would have been able to learn from leading ecommerce experts. Brought to you by Shopify.
She Did it Her Way
It's always great to get a women's point of view on business. Every week. This podcast talks with successful female entreprenuers to gain insight on the lessons they learned.
Hit the Streets
I'm trying to get re-inspired with photography. I started to listen to Valerie's podcast for the urban photographer.
Because I geek out a little bit about chatbots. I'm dying to create one myself. This podcast is the best place to learn about chatbots, AI, NLP, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram, and more.
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ARTS ALIVE 2011: It's not unusual to see somebody sketching a sculpture, or drawing a wall of paintings, while seated inside a museum. Less usual is seeing stems and buds and roses and moss echoing a master's work. But it is an intriguing idea, and it is that idea that's at the heart of Arts Alive, the annual floral-and-fund-raising effort that happens each spring at the San Diego Museum of Art. The only thing a lover of petals and paintings should not do is think of this as small-scale. Oh no; rather, over 100 flower artists submit sprays and bouquets, all of which summon the spirit of an artwork they sit near.
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Fiction, Monologues, Plays & More
In June 2012, Eclectic Voices produced a completely original monologue play: The Theory of Silence, Details on a Disappearance. It grew out of a writing exercise surrounding the idea of a family mysteriously disappearing from a small town. The show featured monologues from characters in the town, their reactions, theories and experiences about the disappearance.
The synopsis: The Johnsons have suddenly vanished. They're just gone, nowhere to be found. Did they meet with foul play? If they did, there's no shortage of potential suspects. There's the neighborhood watch guy; the garbage hunter; the crazy bag lady; the medium; the man who manipulated his way into the preteen dance class; the disgruntled waitress; and more. Everyone in town has a theory and they're not shy when it comes to telling you about it. This original mystery monologue show explores the idea of unexplained disappearance, of human evaporation, and how it affects those who witness it.
We are proud to present one of the great monologues from the show, "Lily", written by Chelsea Sutton. Feel free to take a listen to the actress Abbe Rowlins performing the monologue, or read it below.
LILY: I don't know why I did it. I mean, I could give you some bullshit about how I was raised and how I had a lousy childhood and all that Catcher in the Rye stuff, but it's not true. I had a great childhood, my parents were fine, it was all peachy keen, really. They even had The Talk with me when it was time, when most of my friends' parents didn't. My parents actually sat me down and said hey, this is sex, this is how it works, this is why you should wait, yada yada, all that jazz, etc etc, do you have any questions? Of course at the time I had no questions, I was too busy being mortified, as any preteen girl who just started bleeding from her vagina would feel. So, I can't blame any of that for why I started sleeping with Tom Johnson. I could say I was lonely. I mean, that's true. I was lonely. I work in a fucking greasy diner and the people who come in, the people I wait on are the same people I see every day, and they never get more interesting. Sex is one of those things lonely people use to feel connected, just for a second, so they can feel just a little bit worse, just a little bit lonelier after it's done. I mean sex without love can be great, sure, but it can be lonely as fuck, you know what I mean? There's nothing worse than having some great sex with a complete stranger, and knowing when that condom comes off, that's it, the end, the loneliness is back and its worse than ever because you feel emptied, like you were violated without your permission even though you climbed on top of him, even though he's the one that started feeling up your thigh and you let him, even though one thing led to another and that's what happened. It was great, sure, but you have this sinking feeling that there was supposed to be something else behind all that. That you're missing something. But that'd be a lie, of course. I mean honestly, I don't like people, can't stand them, don't like being around them. Especially when I'm at work, when I'm taking people's orders and such, there's always a moment when I have this urge to punch them in the face. Even little old ladies. Especially little old ladies. So it's not like I'm craving human contact. I get too much of it as is, in my opinion. Then, there's the other possibility. Self-destruction. Let's say you're a girl who doesn't know what she wants. You get in your car and drive. You drive until you find a town you like and a job waiting tables. You sleep in your car and shower using the cold hose out back behind the diner. There's a guy in a ballet leotard who comes in every Wednesday for lunch and asks you out and every Wednesday you say no. One day, you spill coffee on him on purpose. Just to see what he'll do. You don't give a damn about anything, because there's nothing that gives a damn about you. And then this married man comes on to you. He's wearing a suit and a tie and invites you for coffee at his place that afternoon, when the kids are at school and the wife is at work, and you accept, knowing what will happen. You want it to happen because if you fuck up your life here in this town, if you fuck up this guy's marriage, it'll give you a reason to get back on the road, to run away and find a different town and a different diner and a different dead end life. Because you know if you stay in one place too long you'll start to realize that you know exactly what you want and it scares the shit out of you. He asks you back the next day. And on and on. You start crying when you see the report cards taped up on the married guy's fridge, you smell the bed sheets like they are the last dying flower in the world, you listen to the sprinklers like they're Mozart. You don't want to admit that this is the life you want. And you can't have it. Then, you start getting paranoid. You're sure everyone knows. One of his friends shows up at your studio apartment late one night, that AA pal of his, drunk off his ass, because he wants to get in on the action, he says. You realize you're the only one who has kept your secret. These afternoons spent falling for some asshole you can't have – they are sacred only to you. You're sure his wife knows. He keeps inviting you over and you keep going…on and on…pictures of his wife staring fire through you while he paws at your skin. And then one day, it's done. He just disappears. The wife. The kids. Gone. Evaporated. Flushed away. You're suddenly free, but you're not. Your self-destruction has just begun. So you continue on, waiting tables at the diner, hating every face you see simply because it's not his, letting yourself slowly break down, molecule by molecule until there's nothing left. Nothing left of him. And nothing left of you.
The Theory of Silence: Details on a Disappearance was originally produced by Jeff Folschinsky, Taylor Ashbrook, Chelsea Sutton at The Eclectic Company Theatre in June of 2012; Written by Dana Amromin, Jason Britt, Jeff Folschinsky, Sean Kozma, Chelsea Sutton and Brad Wilcox; Directed by Chelsea Sutton; Sound Design by Jeff Folschinsky; Featuring performances by Paton Ashbrook, Taylor Ashbrook,Mason Hallberg, Eamon Hunt, Daniel Mandel, Meghan McConnell,Wendy Radford, Abbe Rowlins, Brian Smith, Tim Sprague, Elizabeth Southerd, Tyler Tanner, Erin Treanor, and Biff Wiff
Chelsea Sutton holds a BA in Literature from The College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her plays have had readings and productions in Santa Barbara, New York and Los Angeles and she is currently participating in workshops with the Skylight Theatre Playlab and The Vagrancy Writers Group, as well as spearheading ECT's writers group, Eclectic Voices. Her play The Dead Woman, was recently named a Semifinalist in the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference 2013 and a finalist for the Stanley Drama Award. Her fiction has appeared in The Best of Farmhouse Magazine, The Catalyst, Spectrum, and Fictionade, and is forthcoming in Bourbon Penn and The Cactus Heart, and she was the 2011 Winner of NYC Midnight's Flash Fiction Contest. Her story The Tick and the Tocking received Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. She is a member of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative. WithCoffeeSpoons.com


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Went 6-3 at the 2012 Ivy League Championships … Took eighth-place at the NCAA Northeast Regional event hosted by Boston College.
Sophomore (2010-11):
Earned 11 victories and finished 14th at the NCAA Fencing Championship ... Named first team All-Ivy League ... Placed 10th at the Penn State Garret Open (Nov. 14) ... Went 8-1 at MIT Eric Sollee Invitational (Feb. 6) ... Finished with the top individual record a 13-2 mark at the Ivy League Championship (Feb. 12-13) ... Owned a 7-2 record at the Beanpot (Feb. 16) ... Earned bronze with a third place finish at the Northeast Regionals (March 13).
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First-team All-Ivy League … Went 10-5 at the Ivy League Championships ... Placed fifth at Garret Penn State Open.
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Won the gold medal at under-19 competition at North American Cup in 2008 … Placed sixth in under-17 World Cup in Hungary in 2006 … Claimed the silver in under-17 North America Cup in 2006 … Fenced to bronzed medal in under-20 Junior Olympics in 2006 … Captured the silver at Senior Team Nationals in San Jose, Calif., in 2008 … National Merit Scholarship finalist … National AP Scholar … American Fine Arts Laureate in 2005 … Won high honors at the New Jersey Music Teachers Association auditions in 2005 and 2007-08.
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Big box retailers got hammered in the market on Wednesday, after Macy's reported dismal earnings.
That followed news of Amazon's stock reaching an all-time high, underscoring the more secular shift we've been seeing in online shopping.
But the bull case for Amazon and the broader e-commerce market shouldn't stop there.
As this chart by the financial research firm Pacific Crest shows, e-commerce is still only a tiny part of the overall retail industry, representing a mere 7.2% penetration rate. That means for every $100 Americans spend, only $7.20 of it is spent online.
In other words, there's a massive opportunity for online retailers, most notably Amazon, which has driven more than half of all US e-commerce growth last year, to win more share and generate more revenue.
The scarier part is that Amazon only gets about 25% of its total retail revenue from books and media, the most saturated e-commerce category. The rest of its sales comes from things like apparel, electronics, and home furnishings, categories that still remain vastly underserved, according to Pacific Crest's chart. Plus, Amazon's non-media sales are growing at a 30% clip year-over-year.
Perhaps, that explains why Cowen & Co. predicts Amazon will replace Macy's as the largest retailer in the US by next year.


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I agree that Under Ice is really scary, even though I love it so. The first time I heard it I shuddered too.
Browsing this during lunch time break is rubbish, never have enough time to properly participate.
I love this album, it's probably my favourite out of the *cough* 5 I've listened to. I dived into the album knowing nothing about the concept or that there were 2 sides to it, and it's interesting how the album came across, since I listened to it only a few years ago. The opening songs familiar and yet very different to the various covers I had heard. And the transition of songs can be very jarring to the system for the first listen - yet you still want to listen to it over and over again. I'm still impressed at how each songs stand well on their own, but add the ninth wave to that, and it's mind blowing.
I never knew what Mother Stands for Comfort was about before. And I have to admit I never totally understand/pay attention to all the lyrics in songs... maybe because english is not my first language? (and I don't always go to look for lyrics ) However, I always thought that for a song about mother and comfort/love, there was a great sadness to it, almost as if the person wishes that their mother would be more strict with them and less indulgent.
And dream of sheep was pretty much played in loop when I first listened to it - it's both heart wrenching and soothing at the same time... I also listened to it at a time when I was thinking "why do I bother?" with regards to a lot of things, so the emotions/feelings in the song, that wish of wanting to give up in a way was tangible to me.
Then comes Under ice. Real jolt to the system, which made sense when i read about the ninth wave. I think i must have mentioned it before, but around the beginning, i was listening to it once on the bus back home, absolutely tired from work, and the song actually got a shudder from me. I'm still surprised at it, and now wonder if whether that was because all my defences were down, and hence I was more open to feel/get absorbed in the song?
I love the start of waking the witch, the voices, the accents and the personas you create in your mind to go with them. And yes, the contrast - it makes you think "where the hell is she going with this??!". Oh, and I have a mini crush on that "wake up love" voice
I've already written my opinion on hello earth and the morning fog previously, but would like to say "with just one hand held up high, I can blot you out, out of sight" has grabbed my heart recently, and hasn't let go yet.
I know it's not strictly on Hounds of Love, but it is on my album copy - Under the ivy. I have so much love for this song Usually favourite songs tend to change/diminish in their impact after a while, but not this one. It's definitely about nostalgia for me, I feel it more acutely as each year pass by. I always imagine her going back to the days of innocence to meet her younger self, simpler and easier times, yet being careful not to let that side of her grow up too.
After reading what everyone else has written, I had to listen to the album again
I agree that Under Ice is really scary, even though I love it so. The first time I heard it I shuddered too.
i bought this a few summers ago in toronto, and i think at the time (i was 14 or 15) it was one of the first albums that had a sense of cohesiveness to me - it felt like a whole.
last night there was some mighty thunder and lightning and for some reason i was driving around (when i should have been tucked cozily in my bed!) and i was listening to the remix of the big sky - which is really a masterful remix. i adore it.
i haven't listened to any other of her albums, but i feel like i should get on that.
Such a gorgeous album cover.
I know there are people who aren't too keen on it but I've always loved it lots, the font too.
How have I never heard this?!
According to Under the Ivy, this was the initial version of the song Kate worked on in 1983 before finalising the lyric and melody and replacing the Fairlight string sound with cello. I really like it! Interesting vocal sounds.
^ that alternate version was included in the This Woman's Work boxset I believe.
I love the Alternate Version! It's almost like a different song entirely. She could have called it Hounds of Love Pt 2 and probably got away with it.
Alternative Hounds is gorgeous isn't it? I did this blended mix of both versions back when I was a student. There are others which make the blend less noticeable but I was after a way of clearly comparing the two versions.
Alternative is balanced 50% to the right, and being played from the 12" single with me making TINY adjustments to the revs as it plays to keep them in sync, and it has a longer intro and outro than the CD album version, which is balanced 50% to the left.
I like that alternate version (which I hadn't heard before, thanks menju56), it's somehow warmer, more immediate than the completed take. Although the final version is still my favorite.
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I never liked the alternate HOL... the "run run run" chorus just doesn't do it for me. But I think I could warm up to it, now that I know it's actually an early/incomplete version.
The first few lines of the alt version gave me goosebumps like only the best Kate music can, something that I can't say about the album version, and I love the backing vocals, but I do agree that the chorus is a bit weak. I love that she actually released an unfinished version officially, though. That seems so unlike her. And it's really interesting to see the transition from The Dreaming Kate to the more tight, pop-y song structure of HOL Kate that's in progress on this.


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Chewbacca Mom Sings Michael Jackson Song To Protest Violence (VIDEO)
So Chewbacca Mom can sing. No, seriously. She can SING! It's been just under two months since the world was introduced to Candace Payne (a.k.a. "Chewbacca Mom"), who went viral in a video in which a toy Chewbacca mask made her the happiest woman alive. But now, she's using her internet fame to spread a message of peace through song, as we find out in this video she recently posted to her Facebook page.
The video, which features singing "Heal the World" by Michael Jackson, is the most delightful surprise of the past week, although the circumstances surrounding it are less than joyous. Payne posted the video in response to the recent rash of violence, both from the police and against them. In particular, Payne cites the Dallas police shootings, since it touches eerily close to her home of Grand Prairie, Texas. In the video, she states her hope that her cover might inspire people to make the world "a better place." Here's hoping. But for now, enjoy Chewbacca Mom's voice. Seriously, she's really good. Watch the video below:
What did you think of Chewbacca Mom's Michael Jackson cover? Sound off in the comments!
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