text:
Even this warning did not prepare Robyn for the shock
of the foundry. . . . Her first instinct was to cover
her ears, but she soon realised that it was not going
to get any quieter, and let her hands fall to her
sides. The floor was covered with a black substance
that looked like soot, but grated under the soles
of her boots like sand. The air reeked with a sulphurous,
resinous smell, and a fine drizzle of black dust fell
on their heads from the roof. Here and there the open
doors of furnaces glowed a dangerous red, and in the
far corner of the building what looked like a stream
of molten lava trickled down a curved channel from
roof to floor. . . . Everywhere there was indescribable
mess, dirt, disorder.
David Lodge, Nice Work,
p. 86
Was David Lodge's 1988 novel simply behind the times
when it challenged its heroineRobyn Penrose, Temporary
Lecturer in English Literatureto confront the sooty
business managed by its hero, Vic Wilcox, product of a
Midlands technical college? Is this the utmost challenge
that Lodge can imagine for the contemporary academic sensibility:
to come to grips with the realism of "smokestack"
industrialism as it has appalled fiction since the nineteenth-century
industrial novel (Lodge's elaborate allusion) through
at least Sons and Lovers?
If so, then we can adequately attribute Lodge's comedy
to the slow, sly romance he builds between the academy
and industryto his deft dance of opposites that
at last issues, if not in a classically comic wedding,
then at least in the fleeting copulation of two faculties
of expertise divorced since Victorian sages presided over
the "idea of a university."
Or, on the other hand, should we allow Lodge's minor
prophets of the new world orderRobyn's investment-banker
brother, his financial-exchange-dealer consort, or (more
demonically) the "CNC" computer-numerical controlled
manufacturing machine in Vic's factoryto shift the
comedy into an altogether different register of satire?
Robyn's brother says cheekily while on holiday from financial
London: "Companies like [Vic's] are batting on a
losing wicket. . . . the future for our
economy is in service industries, and perhaps some hi-tech
engineering" (p. 128). Vic says sombrely as he and
Robyn stare across a Perspex pane at the CNC machine's
inhumanly "violent, yet controlled" motions,
"One day . . . there will be lightless
factories full of machines like that. . . .
Once you've built a fully computerised factory, you can
take out the lights, shut the door and leave it to make
engines or vacuum cleaners or whatever, all on its own
in the dark." "O brave new world," Robyn
responds (pp. 84-85).
To glimpse even peripherally such a brave new world order
is to recognize that Lodge's last, best jokeso cruel
that only his furiously contrived happy ending can salve
the bite of the satireis the obsolescence of the
entire, tired opposition between the academy and industry.
"Shadows" of each other, as the novel calls
them, Robyn and Vic both inhabit a twilight order on the
other side of the Perspexor more fittingly, computer
screenfrom true post-industrial night. That
night, which seems the dawning of a new enlightenment
in its own eyes, is Knowledge Work, the Aufhebung
of both academic "knowledge" and industrial
"We grew up in the Industrial Age," Thomas
A. Stewart writes in his recent Intellectual Capital:
The New Wealth of Organizations (1997),
It is gone, supplanted by the Information Age.
The economic world we are leaving was one whose
main sources of wealth were physical. The things
we bought and sold were, well, things; you could
touch them, smell them, kick their tires, slam their
doors and hear a satisfying thud. . . .
In this new era, wealth is the product of knowledge.
Knowledge and informationnot just scientific
knowledge, but news, advice, entertainment, communication,
serviceBhave become the economy's primary raw
materials and its most important products. Knowledge
is what we buy and sell. You can't smell it or touch
it. . . . The capital assets that
are needed to create wealth today are not land,
not physical labor, not machine tools and factories:
They are, instead, knowledge assets. (p. x) [2]
The clarion call of the new millennium is clear. Let
the academies have pure ideas. Let the Third World (represented
in Lodge's novel by the swarthy, immigrant underclass
who serve Vic's factory) have pure matter work. You,
the New Class destined to inherit the earth (or at least
cubicle); you who are endowed with the inalienable right
to process a spreadsheet, database, or reporthave
you counted your knowledge assets today?
But such is too facile a caricature of the age of Knowledge
Work. Just as Lodge's academic romance can be read in
different tones, so too can our contemporary romances
of Knowledge Work. I refer to the immensely influential
and best-selling works of fiction-blended-with-realismlet
us loosely call them "novels"by the Victorian
sages of our time: the management "gurus" (among
whom the just-cited Stewart is a late contender). The
mold for this genre, as John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
note in their survey, was set in 1982 by Tom Peters and
Robert Waterman's five-million-selling In Search of
Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies.
[3] But it is from the early 90s on that the
genre came into its own with the appearance of such works
of wide impact (to name just a premium selection) as Michael
Hammer and James Champy's Reengineering the Corporation,
Joseph H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn's Workplace 2000,
Robert M. Tomasko's Downsizing, William H. Davidow
and Michael S. Malone's The Virtual Corporation,
Peter M. Senge's The Fifth Discipline: The Art and
Practice of the Learning Organization, Don Tapscott's
The Digital Economy, Tom Peters' Liberation
Management, Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith's
The Wisdom of Teams, and Peter F. Drucker's Post-Capitalist
Society. "These books," Armand Mattelart
comments, "which enjoyed a transnational readership
far broader than just business executives, provided a
medium for the followers of the new business doctrine . . . ,"
"a veritable cult of enterprise, bordering on the
religious" (pp. 207, 208).
[4] And this is not even to mention the new
journalism of business that everywhere we lookin
newspapers, magazines, and TV newsamplifies the
dominant fictional realism of our times by rehearsing
the mantra of right-sizing, just-in-time, flat-structuring,
disintermediation, flexibility, team-work, lifelong learning,
diversity management, and (that ultimate arbiter of collective
fiction) shareholder value.
Inverting my questions about Lodge, we may pose the following
puzzles for the postindustrial business imagination.
On the one hand, is the new business literature simply
ahead of (rather than, as with Lodge, behind) the times
when it promises an age of business that is all information
processingor, more accurately (since durables and
consumables must still be produced), all an allegory
of information processing able to make plants, goods,
and people behave with the quick-turnaround responsiveness,
modular flexibility, and ultimate eraseability of bits?
Is the new business literature, in other words, what the
word "virtual" really means: "post-historical"?
"When someone asks us for a quick definition of business
reengineering," Hammer and Champy declare in their
Reengineering the Corporation, "we say it
means 'starting over.' It doesn't mean tinkering
with what already exists or making incremental changes
that leave basic structures intact" (p. 31). And
Peter Drucker, the dean of U.S. management theory, sums
it up: "Innovation," he says, "means, first,
the systematic sloughing off of yesterday."
[5] Society is a diskette to be reformatted.
Read virtually or post-historically in this way, we may
say, the business bestsellers are utopian prophecies of
what Michael Dertouzos calls What Will Be and Bill
Gates The Road Ahead (to cite two titles from the
affiliated genre of information-technology prophecy).
But, on the other hand, is the new business literature
so dystopian (pessimistic about the future where Lodge's
minor prophets are optimistic) that their real subject
is the impassability of history? Witness, for example,
the rhetorical dependence of the genre not just on broad
denunciations of traditional ways of living and working
but also on long catalogues of specific historical "obstacles."
"So, if managements want companies that are lean,
nimble, flexible, responsive, competitive, innovative,
efficient, customer-focused, and profitable," Hammer
and Champy ask, "why are so many American companies
bloated, clumsy, rigid, sluggish, noncompetitive, uncreative,
inefficient, disdainful of customer needs, and losing
money?" (p. 7). The answer is history: "Inflexibility,
unresponsiveness, the absence of customer focus, an obsession
with activity rather than result, bureaucratic paralysis,
lack of innovation, high overheadthese are the legacies
of one hundred years of American industrial leadership"
(pp. 10, 30). Similarly, we can take the measure of the
chapter in which Davidow and Malone's The Virtual Corporation
excoriates decadent old ways from this excerpt:
Here in the United States, [the] sense of distortion
and confusion, mixed with considerable fear, has
become an uncomfortable part of our daily lives.
Everywhere there is a disquieting sense of decayin
government, within boardrooms, on shop floors.
. . . .
. . . .
. .
One by one our industries are losing competitiveness
and market share to industries of other nations.
Our government seems more concerned with lifelong
job security for politicians and spending money
it doesn't have than in enhancing the economic prosperity
of the citizenry. Our manufacturing sector often
insults consumers with shoddy products and workers
with unearned executive compensation‑and then
blames its woes on foreign competition. By the
same token, workers are frequently unmotivated
and selfish compared with their foreign counterparts;
and consumers have in the past replaced good sense
and security with almost pathological acquisitiveness.
Meanwhile, our major cities, once the jewels of
our culture, have become violent, ungovernable places
perpetually teetering on bankruptcy. (pp. 240-41)
To emphasize such harsh, corrosive, often satiric denunciation,
we recognize, is to see that the new business literature
walks the dark side of the street (the "road ahead")
of prophecy. From this perspective, works in this genre
are fire-and-brimstone jeremiads damning sinners in the
hands of an angry global competition. Gurus are not seers
of the new millennium. They are witnesses to a damned
history that is everywhere and nowhere, present in every
manifest obstacle imposed by the past, yet profoundly
unknowable in the discourse of Knowledge Work except as
monstrous other. History is an imaginary Third Worlda
reservation for peoples who remain historicalcouched
within the First World itself. It is the other of the
So why do I raise these questions here if not to answer
them? For the limited purpose of arguing that the undecidability
of the relation between academic knowledge and knowledge
work now solicits from ourselves as scholars the very
opposite of the decisiveness heard so preemptivelyto
cite a conspicuous and near-to-hand examplein the
"Final Report of the MLA Committee on Professional
Employment" (PMLA, Oct. 1998).
However acute, consistent, or substantial the "Final
Report" may be (or not) in its recommendations for
the profession of the humanities in the age of knowledge
work (issues I do not take up here), I believe it is starkly
wrong in legitimating itself as follows in its striking
Preface on the corporatization of the university:
What is wrong with this legitimation, of course, is the
"of course" that refuses at all costs to acknowledge
the complexity of the overlap between academic and business
knowledge work today. That "of course" is a
blindness of insight that has neither the virtue of truth
nor, at the least, of self-serving evasion. Rather, it
is as if in confronting the eternal dark of the computerized
factories that Lodge envisionsthrough that Perspex
panewe were ourselves to shut our eyes and add dark
to dark. For what we thus refuse to see, of course, is
the seriousness of the challenge to academic knowledge
posed by a "knowledge work" that has been redefinedas
per the magisterial inclusiveness of Fritz Machlup's and
Marc Uri Porat's accountings of knowledge-industry services
in the 60s and 70s (The Production and Distribution
of Knowledge in the United States and The Information
Economy, respectively)as both a practical and
intellectual pretender to our throne. In the academy,
of course, we have long been accustomed to accommodating
the practical logic of business as personified
comfortably and endogamously in those whom we love to
hate: "administrators." And, to follow the
lead of both the "Final Report" and the 1998
Presidential Forum series at MLA, we are just now thinking
about going exogamousi.e., asking business nicely
for work as part of a general enterprise of "going
[11] What is missing, however, is any serious
engagement with the full intellectual force of
business in its new persona as Knowledge Work. And without
such engagementas the Sixties, that creche of the
New Class, might have saidasking for nice work can
only be (and not very effectively at that) "selling
What I mean might be represented by a single passage
from the most uniquely influential and widely-cited gospel
of the new knowledge work, Peter Senge's 1990 The Fifth
Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.
This is how Senge defines his fifth, climactic discipline
of business change, "Metanoia--A Shift of Mind":
When you ask people about what it is like being
part of a great team, what is most striking is the
meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about
being part of something larger than themselves,
of being connected, of being generative. It becomes
quite clear that, for many, their experiences as
part of truly great teams stand out as singular
periods of life lived to the fullest. Some spend
the rest of their lives looking for ways to recapture
that spirit.
The most accurate word in Western culture to describe
what happens in a learning organization is one that
hasn't had much currency for the past several hundred
years. . . . The word is 'metanoia' and it means
a shift of mind. . . . For the Greeks, it meant
a fundamental shift or change, or more literally
transcendence . . . of mind. . . .
In the early (Gnostic) Christian tradition, it took
on a special meaning of awakening shared intuition
and direct knowing of the highest, of God. . . .
To grasp the meaning of 'metanoia' is to grasp
the deeper meaning of "learning". . . .
(pp. 13-14)
For an academic humanistand especially one like
myself originally learned in Wordsworth's The Prelude,
or Growth of the Poet's Mindthere is inexpressible
irony in the fact that the single most influential contemporary
visionary of the One Life and Imagination (as the Romantics
called it) should be a management guru. Senge, we recognize,
offers a whole scholarship of, and about, learning bypassing
academic methods of historical knowledge in favor of a
fantastic pastiche of classical, Christian, and (the real
school of his work) New Age lore. Of course, it would
be easy for me as a professional academic to demystify
Senge. It is more embarrassing to say that I am shamed
by contrast with the breadth and dare of his undecidably
intellectual/practical will to know what it might mean
to "know."
Only if humanistic scholars today think about business
as an intellectual as well as practical partner
in the work of knowledge, it may be suggested, can the
really critical issues in the relation of the academy
to business be joined. For, asking business for nice
work can only not be "selling out" if
the academy now engages business in a full, reciprocal
act of critique in which it both gives and takes. Such
critique, I wish to close by urging, cannot even be initiated
if we do not elevate it to the proper level. I mean the
level where, first, we in the academy assume that the
academy and business have a common stake in Knowledge
Work and then, secondly, ask, "what then is
the difference?" What is the newand
not nineteenth-centurydifference between the academy
and the "learning organization"?
The crucial issues to be advanced at this level, I propose,
include at least the following nine:
1. What is the difference between, on the one hand,
academic poststructuralism, culturalism, and multiculturalism
and, on the other hand, the radically distributed,
"networked" model of knowledge now seen
in business in the form of "flat" organizations,
information networks, and diversity management?
2. What is the difference between "culture"
as the humanities now understands it and "corporate
3. What do humanities fields that are fundamentally
historical in definition (e.g., "literary history")
have to offer an age of "just-in-time"
and "Year 2000"?
4. Given the fact that the Dearing Report in the
U.K., the White Paper on Tertiary Education in New
Zealand, and university "corporatization"
in the U.S. all use the same language of "accountability"
and "quality" (in provocative conjunction
with the discourse of "access"), are higher
education and business "global" in the
same way? Especially worth study in this regard
is the fact that the major contemporary educational
reform initiatives are aggressively national (e.g.,
how New Zealand or U.S. higher education
must evolve to confront an era of global competition).
5. How does "information technology"
as an allegory for the future of the academy differ
from IT as an allegory for the new millennium of
business? For example, how does the academy's investment
in the "library" or "archive"
metaphor of knowledge inflect business's investment
in the "database" model? In general,
what are the long-range implications of the many
recent academic "partnerships" with IT
companies that have established channels of ingress
for the entire ethos of postindustrial business?
6. What is academic "intellectual property"
or "freedom of speech" in an age that
is devising new means of regulating the ownership/circulation
of knowledge work?
7. How does corporatization bear differentially
on public, as opposed to private, higher education
8. Given the paradigm of universal insecurity in
the contemporary business worldi.e., the "flexibility"
that makes not just "permatemp" blue-collar
and clerical but also professional-managerial-technical
workers subject to perennial restructuring, can
the MLA's present effort to elevate the status of
adjunct, part-time, and temporary instructors (as
per the report of the MLA Committee on Professional
Employment) be justified without advocating the
elimination of the outstanding discrepancy between
the academy and contemporary business: viz., tenure
(i.e., the exemption from restructuring of a middle-managerial
class whose jobs are definitionally different from
those of the adjunct, part-time, and temporary on
whom the burden of restructuring is now artificially
concentrated)? And if there is no such credible
justification, how might an intellectual safety
netwhich is not necessarily the same as a
job safety netbe instituted such that a redefined
"freedom of speech" and "intellectual
property" in the academy can be protected?
9. Given that contemporary business purports to
value critique as the necessary agent of change,
how might the kind of critical differences indicated
aboveembodied in the critical edge of graduate
students trained in the humanitiesbe offered
to business as something of distinct value?
Since mid century, we may pause to reflect, the U.S.
academy has increasingly understood its business to be
the education of "all"Bor at least as many of the all as a
relatively liberal notion of the white-collar middle class
(and its more recent New Class techno-managerial-professional
overlords) can accommodate. But now Knowledge Work has
called the academy's bluff. Here is a partial listing
of the areas of knowledge production that Machlup included
in his 1962 survey: Education (at home, on the job, in
church, in the armed services, elementary and secondary,
higher), Research and Development (basic, applied), Media
of Communication (printing and publishing, photography
and phonography, stage and cinema, broadcasting, advertising
and public relations, telephone, telegraph, and postal
service), Information Machines (instruments for measurement,
observation, and control; office information machines;
electronic computers); and Information Services (legal,
engineering and architectural, accounting and auditing,
medical, financial, wholesale trade). Now that knowledgein
its training, exercise, and possessionreally is
presumed to be the business of "all," and especially
of Business, how will be the academy adapt to its diminished
role as one among many providers in a potentially rich
and diversebut also just as potentially impoverished
and uniformecology of knowledge? What voice will
brave, dear Temporary Lecturer Robyn Penrose have in the
new world of Knowledge Work?
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This essay was originally delivered at the 1998 MLA
convention as part of the Presidential Forum events
organized by Elaine Showalter under the title (taken
from Lodge's novel) of "Nice Work." It was
subsequently published as "Knowledge in the Age
of Knowledge Work," Profession 1999: 113-24.
. I have compressed somewhat the scene with
the CNC machine. The full scene is complicated by gender
and class issues. The "uncanny, almost obscene"
movements of the machine (p. 85) thus link up allusively
to the "pornographic pin-ups" on the factory
walls that Robyn objects to on the previous page. And
with regard to class hierarchy, Robyn's full response
to the CNC machine is as follows: "O brave new
world, . . . where only the managing
directors have jobs."
[2] . Such observations
on the distinction between head-work and matter-work
are now commonplace. See, for example, Martin Kenney
and Richard Florida's 1993 Beyond Mass Production:
"Under past forms of industrial production, including
mass-production Fordism, much of work was physical. . . .
The emergence of digitization increases the importance
of abstract intelligence in production and thus requires
that workers actively undertake what were previously
thought of as intellectual activities. In this new
environment, workers are no longer covered with grease
and sweat, because the factory increasingly resembles
a laboratory for experimentation and technical advances"
(p. 54). Similarly, Kevin Kelly writes in his New
Rules for the New Economy:
The key premise of this book is that the principles
governing the world of the softthe world of intangibles,
of media, of software, and of serviceswill soon
command the world of the hardthe world of reality,
of atoms, of objects, of steel and oil, and the hard
work done by the sweat of brows. Iron and lumber will
obey the laws of software, automobiles will follow
the rules of networks, smokestacks will comply with
the decrees of knowledge. If you want to envision where
the future of your industry will be, imagine it as a
business built entirely around the soft, even if at
this point you see it based in the hard.
Of course, all the mouse clicks in the world can't
move atoms in real space without tapping real energy,
so there are limits to how far the soft will infiltrate
the hard. But the evidence everywhere indicates that
the hard world is irreversibly softening. (p. 2)
. For Micklethwait and Wooldridge's discussion
of In Search of Excellence in their The Witch
Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus, see
pp. 6, 49, 84-98. In Search of Excellence had
sold five million copies as of 1996.
. For the international reach of such business
literature and the American mode of management theory
it conveys, see Mickelthwait and Wooldridge, pp. 50-53.
Mickelthwait and Wooldridge note, "In a mammoth
pan-Asian survey of business people in 1995, roughly
half of the respondents has bought a book by a Western
management writer in the previous two years" (p.
53). The survey also found, however, that "nearly
the same proportion admitted that they had not finished
reading" their purchases. One might conjecture
on the basis of such statistics that the new business
literature has a status akin to "myth" in
Claude Lévi-Strauss's understanding as a discourse whose
meaning is not dependent on close attention to its language:
"Myth is language, functioning on an especially
high level where meaning succeeds practically at 'taking
off' from the linguistic ground on which it keeps on
rolling" ("The Structural Study of Myth,"
p. 210).
[4] . Peter F. Drucker, Managing
in Turbulent Times, p. 60. On the massive and early
influence of Drucker, who almost singlehandedly invented
management theory, see Micklethwait and Wooldridge,
Chap. 3 on "Peter Drucker: The Guru=s Guru."
[6] . I am indebted to
Christopher Newfield's book-in-progress on The Business
Future (and to discussions with him during his early
work on the book) for the concept of business "prophecy."
As regards information-technology
prophecies: though I refer only tangentially in this
essay to the "allegory" of information technology,
as I previously called it, I believe that the topic
is of remarkable interest in studying the overall convergence
between business and the academy. This is because information
technology amounts to an incompletely assimilated third
term in what is usually described as a binary problem.
While information technology is commonly coopted by
business to the point where it is indistinguishable
from the new "networked" business paradigms,
in other instances it projects variant or dissonant
paradigms of knowledge that neither business nor the
academy have yet fully comprehended. This is the topic
of my book-in-progress, currently titled The Laws
of Cool: The Cultural Life of Information.
. See also Boyett and Conn's Workplace
2000, which inventories "obstacles to self-management"
(pp. 240-44) and concludes by tracing them to the recalcitrance
of history: "many American workers have resisted . . .
because such team systems are so radically different
from what most Americans have known before" (241).
. Similarly, Don Tapscott's Digital Economy
says in essence to education, "let my people go."
"In the new economy," Tapscott observes, "learning
is too important to be left to the schools. . . .
[A]s knowledge becomes part of products, production,
services, and entertainment, the factory, the office,
and the home all become colleges" (p. 37). Thus
does learning shift away "from the formal schools
and universities" to "formal budgeted employee
education" on the model of Motorola U., Hewlett-Packard
U., Sun U., and so on. (pp. 199-200). In general, sustained
diatribes against education are so prevalent in the
new business literature as to be virtually a rhetorical
. On the "New Class," see for example,
Alvin W. Gouldner, Barbara and John Ehrenreich, Erik
Olin Wright, Andrew Ross, John Frow. I am influenced
here especially by Wright's formulation of "contradictory"
class positions.
[10] . One of the most effective narratives
of the transition from the old, entrepreneurial middle
classes to the new, salaried white-collar classes in
America remains C. Wright Mills' White Collar.
[11] . A reference to the main Presidential
Forum event at the 1998 MLA convention ("Nice Work:
Going Public"), which addressed the present job
crisis in literary studies by featuring role models
for crossing from the academy to the media industries
and to novel-writing.
[12] . However, for an eye-opening study
of the internal dynamics and libertarian possibilities
of "selling out" in the Sixties, see Thomas
Frank's study of counter-cultural currents in the advertising
[13] . It was to encourage the exploration
of these and other issues that I created in 1998 my
new World Wide Web resource: Palinurus: The Academy
and the CorporationTeaching the
Humanities in a Restructured World (http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/liu/palinurus/).
Please see this site for an extensive bibliography of
print and online resources bearing on the relation between
the academy and business, reports on relevant controversies
(e.g., higher-education reform initiatives in New Zealand,
the U.K., and the U.S.), study questions, etc.
This essay was originally delivered at the 1998 MLA
convention as part of the Presidential Forum events
organized by Elaine Showalter under the title (taken
from Lodge's novel) of "Nice Work." It was
subsequently published as "Knowledge in the Age
of Knowledge Work," Profession 1999: 113-24.


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The National Football League's poor ratings are a reason for investors to pull back on CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS)'s stock, according to one Wall Street analyst.
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Macquarie Research's Tim Nollen downgraded CBS' stock from Outperform to Neutral with a price target lowered from $69 to $60.
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CBS' NFL ratings have fallen 8 percent through the end of December 2017, but this isn't necessarily a new trend or one driven by hurricanes, Nollen said in the downgrade report. (See the analyst's track record here.)
CBS' NFL ratings have seen two years of "material declines," and it may be safe to conclude this is due to structural changes in consumer viewing habits, Nollen said. The rights to CBS' Thursday nights are up for renewal this season, Nollen said — and the company "may do well to back away.
"And while it's still a ways off to Sunday NFL renewals after the 2022 season, it's not too early to start wondering what happens if CBS either has to endure a margin hit to keep them, or risk losing them to an internet buyer," the analyst said.
CBS' TV ads are also under pressure, Nollen said. Third-quarter ad revenues as a whole fell 3 percent, and viewership trends for comedies and procedurals in the fourth quarter are negative, including "Kevin Can Wait," where viewership is down 20 percent year-over-year on a live basis. "Scorpion" is down 28 percent and "Superior Donuts" is down 26 percent, according to Macquarie.
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Love your son's artwork and hope you complete your taxes!ReplyDelete
Awesome photo of VG!! Super cute.ReplyDelete
BB will always remind me of Mr. Incredible.
Lovely pair of pictures AU.ReplyDelete
Your daughter is every bit as beautiful as you are. How proud you must be.ReplyDelete
Your son's artwork is fantastic!
Taxes, ugh. We pay a hefty chunk to have a CPA do ours for us. He knows lots of secrets that save us some money, so we can give it to him!
Have an arty day!
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Fun artwork too.
Your Daughter is a beauty. Your son well.... Oh... thats his ART work. OK scared me for a minute. :)ReplyDelete
Very talented family here.
she is so gorgeous and looks exactly like you, two beauties in one family. i remember you said your son could draw dogs, so if ever i write a book, i shall know who to ask to illustrate it. hugs.ReplyDelete
Funny to think that this little innocent looking cutie pie is the same who looks so competitive on the courts!ReplyDelete
there's an award for you on my blog, with hugs.ReplyDelete
I forgot that your tax time is different from ours!ReplyDelete
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…How are you really going to describe what you're talking about? Whether it's the company, the technology, or the product. What lexicon are you using? What words are you choosing? What phrases are you using? And are those consistent from not just meeting to meeting or presentation to presentation, but from person to person. And that needs to be orchestrated. It just doesn't happen organically. – Bob Finkel, CEO, Freshblood Group
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Peugeot 207 GT THP 150 2007 Long Term Test 2
I was a natural for the Peugeot 207GT THP 150. Years ago I actually owned a 205 GTi 1.6, for 15 months and 15,000 miles.
Bought for £6,400 brand new. Sold for £6,200. Changed the oil every 3,000 miles. Ran it in carefully at varying revs on the newly opened M25. First big run Wimbledon to Newhaven, then Dieppe to Zaragoza. 900 miles in a day. I still remember how the car came to life in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Then on to our place in Denia.
Another trip Wimbledon to Plymouth, then Santander - Segovia - Burgos - Chinchon - Toledo - Consuegra - Denia. Brilliant little car. Just enough power to overtake, but not too much to get you into trouble. And fantastic balance. You could move the back out just by shifting your bum on the seat.
So to me the 206 was a terrible disappointment. But driving the first 207s in Majorca back in early 2006 I realised Peugeot had got the recipe right again.
It's a much bigger, heavier car. Legislation has seen to that, and I wouldn't like to have been stuffed up the back driving my 205. All Peugeot had to do was make a 207 that got as close to the feel of my old 205GTi 1.6. The first time I drove a 207 1.6 GT THP I knew they had. And I booked that very car for 6 months.
It went back last Tuesday. Having felt more like "my car" than any other test car I've ever driven.
I only drove it about 3,000 miles, from 2,000 to 5,000. (Too busy. Too many other cars to drive.) But during that time it loosened up noticeably, becoming keener and even more flexible than when new.
I fed it a diet of Shell V-Power, on which mpg slowly improved from around 35 (and an average of 33 when I got the car) to around 40 (and an average of 36.5) when I handed it back. Obviously, with very low gearing of around 20.5mph per 1,000rpm the faster you cruise the quicker you're going to empty the tank. But at sensible speeds I hovered around 40, and that's very good for a car of this power. My old 205GTI 1.6 only did 25.
During the entire 6 months nothing dropped off or went wrong, which was very good news considering that my car had just about every electric and electronic extra in the options book. The SIM-in-slot hands-free phone worked fine. The one bugbear was the RT3 satnav that took so long to input town names I usually gave up and got on with the journey. Peugeot knows about this, of course, and now fits a much better hard-disc based RT4 satnav to its bigger cars. But the company urgently needs to offer a dealer software upgrade to stop the RT3 going through its entire dictionary to predict the town name when you key in the first, then the second, then the third characters. Yawn.
My car came in Flamenco Red, which is what FIAT used to call 'Orange Red'. Maybe it was a trick of the light, but the colour seemed to mature over my six months with the car, acquiring more of a rich sunset tinge. The paint quality was very good too. Not a scratch or chip in 6 months and just two £7 Total carwash and polishes kept it sparkling like new.
For a bit more money you can lose the panoramic roof and a bit of weight and up the power to 175PS. You also get stiffer suspension and a more hard-core car. I drove to test the 175 in my 150, then back home in my 150 and have to say that while the 175 will obviously suit some people, it didn't suit me. I don't actually want to go that little bit quicker, and I prefer the mild-mannered, flexible nature of the 150.
Would I buy one? If I didn't have this job, probably yes. After all, I did buy a 205GTi before I had this job.
There really aren't many cars that offer the same performance, handling, comfort and fuel economy for around £13,000 at a discount.
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Three women will power into action in the next two weeks to help seek an end to multiple sclerosis, a disease that affects an estimated 100,000 Canadians.
Canada has one of the highest MS rates in the world and women are three times more likely to be affected than men.
"The cause of the disease is unknown and there is no cure," said Megan Newman. marketing director for the MS Society of Canada's Alberta division.
Edmontonians Julia Nimilowich, Patrycia Rzechowka and Karma Deakin-Harb will lead local fundraisers and collectivelyplan to raise several million dollars to sponsor research seeking a cure, as well as programs and services for people living with MS.
Nimilowich began dancing when she was five years old, found work as a cruise ship dancer when she was 18 and later returned home to train for hours in a dance rehearsal studio.
"But when I jumped, I would often fall," she said. "I laughed it off, but my coach said we needed to get to the bottom of this. I was diagnosed with MS."
Giving up on dancing, she went to university and earned degrees in sociology and marketing and business.
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She has been an MS Walk spokesperson and ambassador for 11 years and will help lead the Jayman Built MS Walk (two km or five km) Sunday from the Rossdale Community League field.
Rzechowka was diagnosed with MS six years ago and has taken part in the annual Johnson Leduc-to-Camrose 180-km-return bike ride since then.
"When I found I had MS, I didn't tell many people for the first three months," she said. "But I came to realize hiding reality wasn't going to do anything to help me fight it."
She shared her thoughts on Facebook, received an overwhelmingly positive response and asked her parents for a bike on her birthday so she could take part in the MS bike tour.
"That first year I rode alone," says Rzechowka, now an MS ambassador and vice-chairwoman of the Edmonton and Capital Region chapter board.
"Now when I ride with about 2,000 people on June 9-10, I will consider all part of my generous community."
Deakin-Harb's MS journey began seven years ago when she had trouble seeing out of the right side of both eyes.
Two eye specialists told her she was wearing too much makeup and a third told her she had a brain tumour.
"I was referred to a neurologist, who did a series of tests, including an MRI and spinal tap, and I was finally diagnosed with MS in July 2011," she said.
Deakin-Harb is on a disease modifying therapy to slow progression of the disease and has had no major relapses.
After reading about the benefits of physical activity for people with MS, she became a spin instructor, teaches fitness classes three days a week, takes high-intensity sessions the other four days and is learning to power lift.
"I have volunteered at the MS bike ride for several years and have been inspired," she said. "I don't consider myself a cyclist, but I want to support others with MS. My original goal was to raise $10,000. So far I have raised more than $11,500."
Go to mswalks.ca or msbike.ca for more information.
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The Charleston, shimmering flapper dresses and felt fedora hats helped net some $500,000 at CASA Carnival's Roaring Twenties Jazz Gala May 11 at the Shaw Conference Centre.
Carnival chairwoman Teresa Debevc-Cantalini made sure everything was roaring in terms of 1920s style and social trends, said CASA Foundation executive director Nadine Samycia.
"Judging by the energy, enthusiasm and generosity, one might have thought the economy was also roaring the way it did in that bygone magical decade," said Samycia.
Money raised will help fund a CASA Research Chair in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in partnership with the University of Alberta's department of psychiatry and a Parents Help Parents Program, a collaborative training course for clinicians, parents and youth.
Musical director Dave Babcock and his orchestra set the scene with a 1920s-inspired jazz show, featuring artists such as vocalist Mallory Chipman, tap dancer Haley Humphries, The House of Hush Burlesque and the swing vocal group Jivin' Belles.
"There was a special moment when Edmonton's Tea Gonzales and acclaimed Canadian tenor Adam Fisher sang The Prayer, most famously sung by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli," said Debevc-Cantalini.
Alex Panetta of Panetta Industries has stepped up as the $50,000 presenting sponsor for three years.
"CASA has an enormous impact on people's lives by focusing on mental health early in a child's life," said Panetta. "This impact is especially close to me as I have personal experience with early childhood mental health challenges."
Auctioneer Nolan Crouse launched a cash appeal and when Dwight Love of Master Pools Alta donated $10,000, Crouse matched it.
Love and his wife Brenda bought for $31,000 the night's only live auction item, a week's stay in a luxurious villa in St. Lucia. The couple also won the raffle prize, a stay in a plush log cabin in Panorama, B.C.


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Donald Grey Barnhouse, on the way home from the funeral of his first wife, was trying to think of some way of comforting his children. Just then a huge moving van passed by their car and its shadow swept over them. Instantly, Barnhouse asked, "Children, would you rather be run over by a truck or by its shadow?" The children replied, "Of course we'd prefer the shadow!"
To which Barnhouse replied, "Two thousand years ago the truck of death ran over the Lord Jesus … now only the shadow of death can run over us!"
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Benefits of AGPL-3.0+ for Medical Physics¶
- Software is less dependent on a single software developer
- Safer and higher quality software
- Software that is more compatible with a wide range of systems
- Still possible to potentially monetise
- Protection against another actor creating a closed source competitor
- Improving our work as Physicists
- Improving the programming skill of employees through community feedback
- Software that has more applications and more features
- Improvements will by default be in a compatible format
The aim of this document is to outline some of the benefits of Medical Physics code being released under an open source license. In particular the benefits of the AGPL-3.0+ licence. An example of a well known code base that uses this open source licence is EGSnrc.
A summary of this license and what it entails is available at choose a license.
Software is less dependent on a single software developer¶
A significant issue with software that is built by a small software development team is the "bus factor". In the event that key team members are lost the software is no longer able to be easily maintained. By opening the code up to the community the number of people who understand the code base is increased. This reduces the dependence on any single employee for the ongoing maintenance of the code packages.
Additionally software development by single developers carry any weaknesses that developer has as a programmer and its only strengths will be limited to those of that programmer. Medical Physicists are generally not trained software engineers, and when it comes to programming we often have many weaknesses that need a light shined upon.
This was the justification provided by the radiation therapy QATrack+ team for open sourcing their tools.
Safer and higher quality software¶
By leveraging the community in software production there will be more minds, more programmers, and more readers of the code. Together there will be more combined time to implement software engineering best practices and there are physicists in the community who are keen to support best practice software engineering. The community will be able to fix bugs, implement programmatic testing, highlight security issues, and generally all round produce safer and higher quality software than a sole physicist turned programmer ever could.
Software that is more compatible with a wide range of systems¶
Users of open source code who are also programmers who have systems which differ to the author's will be able to improve compatibility issues themselves. This iterative process with the community makes it so that the software has a more seamless interaction with the range of systems in use.
An example of this is the Pylinac quality assurance tool. It was built by a physicist who works at a Varian site. Another physicist submitted code improvements to make the software tool compatible with Elekta.
Still possible to potentially monetise¶
The AGPL-3.0+ requires that code include programmatic build and installation instructions. This means that users who are also programmers will likely be able to put in the work to get the software running by themselves without payment to the authors. However in this case there is no one being paid to provide user support and the default is no included warranty.
As a result there still is likely a market for providing the full toolset in a user friendly, warranty included, batteries included, fully supported package. An example of a product and company that uses exactly this business model is the medical imaging DICOM server Orthanc which offers commercial services through the company Osimis.
This model is also used by multileaf consulting which provides paid hosting and support for the open source QATrack+.
There is also the opportunity for advertising revenue.
Protection against another actor creating a closed source competitor¶
By releasing the code under the AGPL-3.0+ license any future work that makes use of the open source code must also be released under the same license. This means that should another actor create a competing product to the original author's should they ever distribute the code they must also release all changes under the AGPL-3.0+ license along with that distribution. In effect unless that company is willing to release all of their own code that is bundled with the author's code to the community they cannot use the original source code to compete.
Improving our work as Physicists¶
The software we write is written for the purpose of improving our work as physicists. Having the community improve the software we write directly improves the quality of the work we undergo.
Improving the programming skill of employees through community feedback¶
Programming skills are significantly benefited by having competent programmers read the code and provide feedback. Community feedback on code itself is invaluable for improving the skill of the programmers writing the original code. The depth and breadth of feedback from the community on programming practices would unable to be matched within a small team.
Software that has more applications and more features¶
As members of the community have needs those with programming skill may extend the code that is provided to meet those needs. This results in the code having more applications and features than would be possible should the code be kept in house.
Improvements will by default be in a compatible format¶
Should the community create code built on top of the released software tools, those improvements will built on top of the format that is already implemented. This allows those improvements to be integrated within already implemented systems with minimal friction.


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Exposure - No Age
- Stewart Smith
- 8 May 2008
Set to be the breakthrough band from Los Angeles arts space The Smell, No Age have unleashed a scuzzy noise-pop masterpiece in their Sub Pop debut Nouns. Guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/singer Dean Spunt crank out a joyous racket that suggests a skate-off between Hüsker Dü and My Bloody Valentine. This band could be your life.
Tell us how it all started, Dean?
We wanted to make music we could listen to. Randy and I love to play music together and it happens so naturally that we decided to make it a two-piece.
How has being part of The Smell scene, along with bands like Abe Vigoda and Mika Miko, shaped you?
In my mind The Smell has been the coolest punk club around for the past ten years, so I have always seen it as mystical and awesome. The amount of attention has nothing to do with us as people or as a band; we would still be doing the same thing if nobody had heard of us or The Smell.
Some bands are 'all about the music' but you seem keen to represent more than that.
It is important for us to represent ourselves, to be honest and just make music. The other things are important because they are what we do, and become what we are. We are both vegan, we enjoy playing in places other than rock clubs and we like art, punk rock, etc. But we are 'all about the music' too.
No Age play Optimo at the Sub Club, Glasgow, Sun 18 May. The album Nouns is out now on Sub Pop.


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The Wrath of Mulgarath (Spiderwick Chronicles)
By Holly Black Tony DiTerlizzi
Simon & SchusterCopyright © 2004 Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
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Chapter OneIN WHICH the World Is Turned Upside Down
The pale light of the newly risen sun made the dew shimmer on the nearby grass as Jared, Mallory, and Simon trudged along the early morning roads. They were tired, but the need to get home kept them going. Mallory shivered in her thin white dress, clutching her sword so hard that her knuckles went white. Beside her, Simon shuffled along, kicking stray bits of asphalt. Jared was quiet too. Each time his eyes closed, even for a moment, all he saw were goblins - hundreds of goblins, with Mulgarath at their head.
Jared tried to distract himself by planning what he would say to his mother when they finally got home. She was going to be furious with them for being gone all night and even madder at Jared because of that thing with the knife. But he could explain everything now. He imagined telling her about the shape-shifting ogre, the rescue of Mallory from the dwarves, and the way they had tricked the elves. His mother would look at the sword and she would have to believe them. And then she would forgive Jared for everything.
A sharp sound, like a tea kettle whistling at full volume, snapped him back to the present. They were at the gate of the Spiderwick estate. To Jared's horror, trash, papers, feathers, and broken furniture littered the lawn.
"What is all that?" Mallory gasped.
A screech drew Jared's eyes upward, where Simon's griffin was chasing a small creature around the roof and knocking pieces of slate loose. Stray feathers drifted over the roof tiles.
"Byron!" Simon called, but the griffin either didn't hear or chose to ignore him. Simon turned to Jared in exasperation. "He shouldn't be up there. His wing is still hurt."
"What's he after?" Mallory asked, squinting.
"A goblin, I think," said Jared slowly. The memory of teeth and claws red with blood awakened a horrible dread within him.
"Mom!" Mallory gasped, and began to run toward the house.
Jared and Simon raced after her. Up close they could see that the windows of the old estate were smashed and the front door hung by a single hinge.
They darted inside, through the mudroom, stepping over scattered keys and torn coats. In the kitchen, water poured from the faucet, filling a sink piled with broken plates and spilling onto the floor, where food from the overturned freezer was defrosting in wet piles. The wallboard had been punched open in places, and plaster dust, mingling with spilled flour and cereal, covered the stove.
The dining room table was still upright, but several of the chairs were knocked over, their caning ripped. One of their great-uncle's paintings was slashed and the frame was cracked, although it still hung on the wall.
The living room was worse: The television was shattered and their game console had been shoved through it. The sofas were ripped open, and stuffing was scattered across the floorboards like drifts of snow. And there, sitting on the remains of a brocade footstool, was Thimbletack.
As Jared moved closer to the little brownie, he could see that Thimbletack had a long, raw scratch on his shoulder and that his hat was missing. He blinked up at Jared with wet, black eyes.
"All my fault, all my fault," Thimbletack said. "I tried to fight; my magic's too slight." A tear rolled down his thin cheek, and he wiped it away angrily. "Goblins alone I might have driven off. The ogre just looked at me and scoffed."
"Where's Mom?" Jared demanded. He could feel himself trembling.
"Just before the break of day, they bound her and carried her away," Thimbletack said.
"They can't have!" Simon's voice was close to a squeak. "Mom!" he called, rushing to the stairs and shouting up to the next landing. "Mom!"
"We have to do something," said Mallory.
"We saw her," Jared said softly, sitting down on the ruined couch. He felt light-headed, and hot and cold at the same time. "At the quarry. She was the adult the goblins had with them. Mulgarath had her, and we didn't even notice. We should have listened - I should have listened. I never should have opened Uncle Arthur's stupid book."
The brownie shook his head vigorously. "To protect the house and those inside is my duty, Guide or no Guide."
"But if I had destroyed it like you said, none of this would have happened!" Jared punched himself in the leg.
Thimbletack scrubbed his eyes with the heel of his hand. "No one knows if that is true or not. I hid it away - see what we got?"
"Enough with the pity party - neither of you is helping!" Mallory squatted beside the footstool, handing the brownie his hat. "Where would they have taken Mom?"
Thimbletack shook his head sadly. "Goblins are filthy things, the master worse than his hirelings. They would dwell somewhere as foul as they, but where that is, I cannot say."
From above them there was a whistle and a clatter.
"One goblin is still on the roof," said Simon, looking up. "It must know!"
Jared stood up. "We'd better stop Byron before he eats it."
"Right," said Simon, heading up the stairs.
The three kids ran up the steps and down the hall toward the attic. The bedroom doors on the second floor were open. Torn clothing, pillow feathers, and ripped bedding spilled out into the hall. Outside Jared and Simon's shared room, cracked, empty tanks lay on the floor. Simon froze, a stricken expression on his face.
"Lemondrop?" Simon called. "Jeffrey? Kitty?"
"Come on," Jared said. As he steered Simon away from the wreckage of their room, he caught sight of the hall closet. The shelves were dripping with lotions and shampoos, which had also soaked the scattered towels. And at the bottom, near deep scratches in the wallboard, the secret door to Arthur's library had been ripped off its hinges.
"How did they find it?" Mallory asked.
Simon shook his head. "I guess they ransacked the place looking for it."
Jared crouched down and wriggled into Arthur Spiderwick's library. Bright sunlight streaming through the single window showed the damage clearly. Tears burned his eyes as he stepped across a carpet of shredded pages. Arthur's books had been ripped free of their bindings and scattered. Torn sketches and toppled bookshelves littered the floor. Jared looked around the room helplessly.
"Well?" Mallory called.
"Destroyed," Jared said. "Everything's destroyed."
"Come on," Simon called. "We have to get that goblin."
Jared nodded his head, despite the fact that neither his brother nor his sister could see him, and moved numbly toward the door. There was something about the desecration of this one room - a room that had remained secret all these years - that made Jared feel as though nothing would ever be right again.
Together he, Simon, and Mallory trudged up the stairs to the attic, crossing over glittering pieces of smashed holiday ornaments and stepping past a broken dress form. In the dim light Jared could see dust erupting in time with the clattering of griffin claws, and he could hear more screeching above them.
"One more level and we can step right onto the roof," Jared said, pointing to the final staircase. It led to the single highest room in the house, a small tower with half-boarded windows on all four sides.
"I think I heard some barking," Simon said as they climbed. "That goblin must still be okay."
When they reached the top of the tower, Mallory swung her sword at the window boards, splintering them. Jared tried to pry off what was left loose.
"I'll go first," Simon said, hopping onto the ledge and gingerly climbing past the jagged slats and onto the roof.
"Wait!" Jared shouted. "What makes you think you can control that griffin?" But Simon didn't seem to be paying attention.
Mallory strapped on a belt, wrapping it around the sword so it hung from her hip. "Come on!"
Jared swung his legs over the sill and stepped out onto the slate. The sudden sunlight almost blinded him, and for a moment his blurry eyes scanned the forest beyond their lawn.
Then he saw Simon approaching the griffin, who had cornered the goblin against one of the brick chimneys. The goblin was Hogsqueal.
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After their encounter with goblins, dwarves, and elves, Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace realize they have to tell their mother about the faerie world surrounding them. But they may have waited too long and it will take everything they have plus help from some friends to make everything okay. "The Wrath of Mulgarath" is the exciting conclusion to the five book series "The Spiderwick Chronicles". The book picks up right where "The Ironwood Tree" ends and is filled with non-stop action. There is the return of old favorite (Thimbletack and Hogsqueal) and not so favorite (Mulgarath) characters as well as more than one surprise along the way. The book is full of twists and turns and not everyone and everything is what they seem to be. There are moments filled with real suspense and even some humor along the way. While the climactic battle scene has plenty of action, I was a bit disappointed because certain events seemed a bit anticlimactic. Since this was the fifth and final book in "The Spiderwick Chronicles" series, everything is neatly wrapped up in the end. Readers will love reading what happens to Jared, Simon, and Mallory, as well as Thimbletack and Hogsqueal, and even Aunt Lucinda. Her ending is the most bittersweet of all. "The Wrath of Mulgarath" is a great ending to a wonderful series.
A great ending to a really enjoyable series. This, being the fifth and final book of the "Chronicles of Spiderwick," brings about a fantastic conclusion. The Grace children return to their home only to find out that their mother has been kidnapped by the goblins. They visit the elves and get enlist the help of Spiderwick himself. The children, along with their Griffin and House Brownie, track the goblins to the junkyard where they have a final confrontation with the ogre who is behind all the troubles. A fun read that moves quickly with a lot of action. I highly recommend this to any one who still has a bit of the child in them that believes in faeries.
What an awesome children's series. I'm so glad I took the time to read this to my kids. The ending was perfect, the characters delightfully crafted. Zack did mention "Hey, if we read the books it will ruin the ending of the movie!" lol, that's sort of the point :)
In this final installment of the Spiderwick Chronicles, the Grace children must rescue their mother and save the human world from the evil ogre, Mulgarath. A fitting end to this series, this book was non-stop action from beginning to end. All story lines are brought to a satisfying conclusion and yet the door is left open for a sequel. This series is a perfect introduction to fantasy for young children. My 7yo was on the edge of his seat for the entire series and this will be remembered as one of our favourite read alouds.
Our only complaint - the series is over. (although I think I head there are books after this but I need to check it out more). The suspense was built and we were sucked into this book. We could barely put it down wanting to finish it. My 8 year old, who prefers it when I read out loud, even read parts of this book when I had to get up and do something! Great, great, great book!
The final battle between the Grace children and the creatures who want their house takes place. Hold on to your hats, because it's a great finale.
This is the last book of the first seris so if you want read this then please read the last 4 books of the series 1 and I promise you that you will understand it much more also if you need help or have any questions please label your review HELP and I will get back to you as soon as possible thaank you and also best book seris I have ever read.
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The fifth book of the spiderwick chronicles by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black. For ages 7-11. It is a thrilled action adventure book. The book is very magical it has to do with three kids that believe in fairies and a mysterious book. In the book there are a lot of magic, mythical creatures like goblins dragons, and a lot of fighting. In the very beginning of the book I wasn't the interested it started to get boring but then it got to a lot of action and fighting and stuff and it became a really awesome book after that. The three kids Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace later on through the book they have to save Simon from goblins that was my favorite part and the end. And they have to go save their mom from mulgarth the monster that is trying to take over the world. The ending of the book awesome don't miss it you like it if you like fighting and action. Read the book to find out what happens in the whole book.
Very magical, with a lot of mythical creatures and fighting! It has a lot of very critical situations these four kids have to go through. But, I would read the first four books first, so you won't be lost! The ending is something you won't want to miss! I promise once you pick up the first book you won't want to stop reading them all!
The fifth book of the Spiderwick Chronicles, by Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black, is an exciting thriller about three ordinary kids with a mysterious book about faries. But book number five is my personal favorite since it's just very special in a way I can't explain to you. All that I can say is you'll feel the exact same way about this book as I do. There's suspense, thrills, chills, and amazement all in this 136 paged book. I assure you that you'll never want to put this best selling work of art until you know the truth! The book is all about three kids named Mallory, Jared, and Simon Grace. They find a field guide in their Uncle Arthur's study. Along with finding the book, they also wonder what ever happened to him. They soon find out that he was taken by elves. Then the children would meet the terrifying Mulgarath. If you want to find out what happens at the end you'll just have to read it for yourself and find out.-D.T


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Cats, humans and other animals can suffer from gingivitis. Gingivitis is the inflammation of the gums (or 'gingiva' in medical-speak) caused by a build-up of plaque (solidified bacteria and food debris in the mouth). Gingivitis can be localised to one tooth or so widespread that it affects the entire mouth. In the early stages plaque deposits are laid on the teeth. If this is untreated - and brushing is the best treatment - the plaque hardens and becomes tartar (also known as calculus). Tartar is yellow in colour and develops mainly along the gum, at the border with the teeth.
Bacteria are the major culprit in plaque formation, and these bacteria can set off chronic inflammation. Without dental care this spreads to the root of the tooth loosening it and eventually causing it to fall out. The bacteria in the mouth may also get into the bloodstream and spread into other parts of the body causing more widespread infection. This can result in serious conditions, including organ failure.
Cats may develop a chronic inflammation of the mouth and gums called lymphocytic-plasmacytic gingivitis stomatitis (inflammation of mucous membrane) or LPGS. This condition affects the entire mouth and is the result of the immune cells - in this case lymphocytes and plasma cells (the cells which produce antibodies) - getting into the gums and the mucosal membrane of the mouth. The exact cause of the problem is unknown but the most likely explanation is an allergic reaction to the bacteria within the plaque.
How do I know if my cat has gingivitis?
Cats are masters at hiding pain, but gingivitis is very painful. So one noticeable symptom is a cat's reluctance to eat, (especially as most cats are generally eager to do so!). The cat may rush to the food bowl as usual, but after a small nibble walk away from the food. This is because although the cat is hungry, it is simply too painful to continue eating. Other obvious signs are that the cat will have bad breath and drool a lot. The gums, because they are inflamed will be much redder than usual and will bleed more easily.
There may be also visible changes in cat's behaviour. You may notice that a previously sociable cat has become withdrawn or irritable and may even become unusually aggressive.
How is gingivitis diagnosed?
By simple examination of the cat's mouth your vet will be able to see if there are plaque deposits on the teeth. In more advanced gingiviyis he will also see lesions and ulcers on the gums or the roof of the mouth. If the condition is chronic, a more detailed examination may reveal tooth resorption. Tooth resorption is the loss of tooth structure to the plaque, starting with the outer enamel surface, usually at or below the gum-line. The lesions (which are not cavities), begin as a loss of tooth enamel and can eventually spread to the dentin and then the pulp canal, which contains the blood vessels and nerves to the tooth. Sometimes, the entire crown of the tooth may be missing. Tooth resorption may only become obvious when the plaque is removed and the clean tooth exposed. An X-ray may be needed to determine the extent of the damage.
If LPGS is suspected, a biopsy will be required to confirm the diagnosis.
How can gingivitis be treated?
Once plaque has built up into tartar, it requires professional help to remove it. Proper dental descaling will also expose any additional dental problems such as tooth resorption. If necessary the vet will suggest tooth extraction. In mild cases of gingivitis just a professional cleaning may solve the problem. There are now increasing numbers of dental biscuits for cats to reduce the build up of the tatar. This may be combined at home with regular tooth cleaning. Make sure you use the toothbrushes and toothpastes which are specially prepared for cats, and remember that not all cats are prepared to submit to having their teeth brushed!
If a cat has chronic gingivitis and LPGS, regular descaling will be essential, and this should be combined with regular cleaning of the cat's teeth at home. The vet may also prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics to limit the gum inflammation. Good nutritious meals with additional vitamins will be essential because a cat with gum inflammation will probably eat less.
In severe cases, if the treatments do not work, the vet may suggest total extraction of all the cat's teeth. Drastic as this is, with severe LPGS it may be the only cure.
Prevention of gingivitis
Most cats will develop some form of gingivitis during their lifetime, so good dental hygiene is important to prevent this developing into more severe gum disease. Adding biscuits designed to reduce tarter build up into your cat's diet, and regular tooth brushing (assuming a co-operative cat) will go a long way to preventing gum disease. Regular checks at the vet and regular dental descaling is also strongly recommended.
Note: This information is for guidance only. It is not intended to replace consultation with a licensed practitioner.