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Hay and BabiesFriday, May 18th, 2007
Finally got around to putting in the sheared roll pin in the PTO lever on the 6000. Turned out to be a real simple fix. Just Loosened the bolts that serve as stops for the lever and drove the old one out with a 1/4 inch bolt. Then just drove the new one in while BJ held the lever in the spot I needed it. I'd a lot rather be replacing a bolt or roll pin than replacing or troubleshooting an electro unit. Now that I've serviced the tractor and got the roll pin replaced I should be good to go for a while.
Hay season has begun here in Kentucky. We took advantage of the warm weather to get a few rolls done. Just like every year I've already broken something though. This time it's the tines on the Sitrex tedder. Looks like about 5 of them will have to be replaced. It too should be a simple fix. All the other equipment seems to be in good shape.
Spring brings new babies to the farm. I picked up a couple bottle calves for the kids. They are Jersey bull calves. Now if I can just get them to feed them once the new wears off. Right now it's not a problem. They love to give the babies a bottle. Garett's rabbits are beginning to multiply too. He has 2 new litters, one of 6, and one of 5. That's 11 babies and the 6 grown rabbits. It's time to figure out what to do with them once they aren't babies anymore. One thing is for sure, it's time to build some cages. I picked up the wire to line the bottoms and have enough hemlock left to do the sides and dividers. Now if I can just somehow find the time to build them. I've got a list a mile long of things to do.
We took a trip to the local Tractor Supply Company to pick up milk replacer for the calves and the girls found some of the cutest shirts. I was opposed to buying them because they are John Deere shirts, but they insisted. I told them we don't have anything John Deere, but they pointed out I have Harley Davidson stuff and I don't have a Harley. Marketing genius on both these companies parts. At any rate the shirts are very cute. Madison's says "Girls Just Love Big Ol Tractors" and Kaylee's says "I'm a Farm Angel".
We've all spent quite a bit of time in the garden pulling weeds this week. It's such a hoot because as we pull the weeds we put them in a wheelbarrow and take them to the fence for the goats. They will run fast as they can and even fight over weeds. Standing belly deep in fescue and orchard grass and fighting over weeds. Just seems crazy to me. Everything is doing really good in the garden except the potatoes that were just coming up during the big freeze. The ones we had left from last year in the basement are doing much better. We still have not gotten the corn and beans in the ground. I put about 40 more tomato and pepper plants in the ground in hopes of selling some at local farmer's markets. The plants were grown at Oakwood, a home for people with mental disabilities in Somerset. I like to try to support their greenhouse program when I can.
Not anything new on the poultry houses. The excavator is over a week late and Cobb obviously isn't happy. The builder we will contract with and the production manager for Cobb were here early last week explaining that they have pullet farms coming online and have to have hen farms for those pullets as they mature. I guess nicely saying "get moving". I'm giving the excavator until Monday and then I'll have to go to plan B.
Well I better go take the tedder apart so I can get the replacement tines I need. Be sure to check out the pics I've added.


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Priests and Parishes Threatened by Drug Cartels
The Mexican bishops' conference acknowledged in a statement on April 14 that Mexican priests have suffered numerous threats of violence, kidnapping and extortion from the nation's narcotics-trafficking cartels. The conference also confirmed that a growing number of priests—mostly serving in remote and mountainous areas rife with illegal drug trade activities—have been transferred to other parishes, assigned other types of work or even moved to other parts of the country because of threats. Other priests, meanwhile, have been forced to raise up to $800 each week for extortion payments.
"We have personally felt the variety of problems that affect our homeland, such as the overflowing wave of violence and insecurity that has been ongoing for years and have claimed numerous victims—many of them innocent," the bishops said in their statement. "Many priests live their ministries in a heroic way, amid the fear of threats, poverty, violence, extortion and aggressions," they said. The statement was read by Auxiliary Bishop José Trinidad González of Guadalajara, Auxiliary Bishop René Rodríguez of Texcoco and Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of San Cristóbal de las Casas as the bishops ended their spring planning session in suburban Mexico City.
The violence overflowing parts of Mexico has claimed at least 22,700 lives—a figure recently revised upward by the federal government—since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006 and sent the army and federal police to crack down on the cartels. "In spite of the grand efforts of various government agencies, fear exists and the insecurity destroying the life of so many communities isolates them and exposes them to new expressions of violence," Bishop Rodríguez told reporters.
The statement marked the first time the bishops acknowledged that the violence attributed to the crackdown on the country's warring cartels has directly affected the church. The bishops released a pastoral letter on violence in February, but the issue has confounded the church as it has attempted to minister in seemingly lawless regions of Mexico without running afoul of either the government or the cartels. Equally challenging has been the question of how the church should respond to threats against priests.
Mexico's evangelical community went public on April 2, when the Mexico City newspaper Reforma published a report on how cartels and their affiliates have threatened to kidnap evangelical pastors and extorted churches and charity projects through protection rackets. The newspaper sought the opinion of the bishops' spokesman, the Rev. Manuel Corral, who initially denied similar threats against members of the Catholic clergy, but stories of aggression against priests and the church quickly surfaced.
A parish church in the Chihuahua town of El Porvenir, which neighbors Fort Hancock, Tex., was damaged by an arson fire on Good Friday. The fire was extinguished by parishioners. Hours later, local military personnel, stationed just a few blocks away, finally arrived at the scene. The parish priest, the Rev. Salvador Salgado, denied he had been threatened but reported that other priests in the Diocese of Ciudad Juárez had been. Father Salgado expressed a sense of powerlessness in confronting the violence. In his region near Ciudad Juárez it has turned once-peaceful communities into ghost towns as frightened residents flee to Texas and cartel members burn down buildings thought to be affiliated with rivals. "This is something we can't meddle in, because there have been threats against us and because there will be reprisals against us priests," he said.
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The Bush administration's announcement of $1 billion in humanitarian and economic aid – but no military assistance – to Georgia in the wake of its war with Russia suggests the delicate balancing act the United States will attempt as it confronts the repercussions of a newly assertive Russia.
The substantial aid package, which would make the small republic on Russia's southern flank a top recipient of US assistance, indicates the resolve of President Bush to support emerging Westward-leaning democracies in the area of the former Soviet Union.
At the same time, the absence at least for now of any assistance to Georgia's American-trained and –equipped military suggests a desire not to further provoke a Russia that considers the young republics on its borders part of its "near abroad." Despite terse accusations and mocking exchanges between the US and Russia in recent days, the Bush administration wants to avoid fully alienating a Russia that has an important role in other international issues.
The humanitarian and economic aid, which would help to house and feed war refugees in the short term and to rebuild infrastructure, was announced on the eve of Vice President Dick Cheney's visit Thursday to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Mr. Cheney criticized Russian actions in the brief war last month, while mounting a muscular defense of Georgia's hopes to join Western institutions including NATO – an aspiration that riles Russia.
"Georgia will be in our alliance," Cheney said, reiterating US support for Georgia's candidacy to NATO. Despite the American position, NATO leaders put off Georgia's application at a summit earlier this year, in part over Russian objections.
Cheney's brief stop in Georgia, part of a swing through former Soviet republics that included Azerbaijan and Ukraine, signaled the tougher branch of the two-pronged US approach. "America will do its duty to work with the governments of Georgia and our other friends and allies to protect our common interests and to uphold our values," the vice president said in Tblisi.
Cheney also made special note of Georgia's willingness to send troops to Iraq. But in Washington, US officials emphasized that the aid package includes no military assistance. In announcing the new assistance, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared to carefully choose her words when she said the aid was meant to "help Georgia sustain itself" – rather than to defend itself.
The aid package, which would put Georgia just after Israel and Egypt in American assistance, is largely seen in Washington as a pragmatic response to the Russia-Georgia conflict.
"It's an appropriate and realistic response to the situation in that the US is a close ally of Georgia … and wants to ensure that Georgia reemerges from this conflict as a stable and viable state," says Charles Kupchan, a specialist in European affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. "The objective is to ensure that Georgia doesn't collapse and end up a ward of Russia."
Still, others see the US position as an attempt to return Europe's geopolitical map to where it was before the Georgia-Russia conflict – an approach that is unlikely to succeed because it fails to come to grips with the challenge of an emboldened Russia.
"This is an attempt to hit the restart button, but it really doesn't do anything to put pressure on Russia," says Nikolas Gvosdev, professor of national security studies at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. The US aid merely puts off a looming decision for US, NATO, and Europe, he says. Should the Eastern frontier of NATO end at the Baltic states with republics farther east accepting a neutral status, or should a "coalition of the willing" of the US and some partners largely from the "new" Europe press to extend Western influence farther east – without NATO support.
The European Union's reluctance to take tough measures against Russia at its summit Monday suggests transatlantic divisions will dog Western response to Russia's new assertiveness, says Mr. Gvosdev. The EU response "really weakened the US hand," he says.
Many European officials, especially among America's traditional allies, are already critical of the US response to the crisis. There is a widespread feeling in Europe that the US only annoyed Russia with its enthusiastic support for Georgia's entry into NATO at the March summit. "The US is seen here as completely out of the picture, in terms of a policy response. Mr. Cheney's trip to the Caucausus is extremely dangerous, very intrusive, guaranteed to provoke Russia," says Thomas Gomart of the French Institute of International Relations in Paris.
Contrary to the American view that the EU has so far failed to step up to the plate on Russia, many in Europe say an EU response is the only one likely to make a difference in the long run.
Says Mr. Gomart, "The more the EU is united, the more it is possible to contain Russia."
• Robert Marquand in Paris contributed to this report.


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A day after after superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, more than 8.2 million homes and businesses from Maine to the Carolinas remain without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air.
As the U.S. death toll climbed to at least 46 people, President Barack Obama warned that the massive storm was "not yet over" due to continued risks of flooding and downed power lines.
In a visit to the Red Cross in the nation's capital Tuesday afternoon, Obama called the aftermath of the storm "heartbreaking for the nation."
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Obama said he told governors in affected areas that if they get no for an answer, "they can call me personally at the White House."
He urged Americans to look out for their neighbors and "show the kind of generosity that makes America the greatest nation on earth" by donating to relief efforts.
"This is going to take some time," he said. "It is not going to be easy."
Hours earlier, Obama declared a major disaster in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane force.
Bloomberg and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie both called the storm and the damage it inflicted "unprecedented."
"Our teams are moving as fast as they can," said Gov. Christie in a morning press briefing after police and fire officials, some with their own departments flooded, fanned out to rescue hundreds. "The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we've ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point."
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At least 8.2 million people across the East were without power. Airlines canceled more than 15,000 flights around the world, and it could be days before the mess is untangled and passengers can get where they're going.
The storm also put the presidential campaign on hold just a week before Election Day. President Obama canceled a third straight day of campaigning, scratching events scheduled for Wednesday in swing state Ohio, which got clobbered by Sandy's winds as the storm pushed west.
"This will be one for the record books," said John Miksad, senior vice president for electric operations at Consolidated Edison, which had more than 780,000 customers without power in and around New York City. He said Lower Manhattan residents could be in the dark for three or four days, NBC New York reported.
Lower Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after the storm sent a record surge of seawater nearly 14 feet high, coursing over its seawalls and highways and into low-lying streets.
Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because of weather in more than a century. The exchange was set to re-open on Wednesday.
A huge fire destroyed at least 80 homes in Breezy Point, a flooded beachfront neighborhood in Queens, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues. Three people were injured in the fire, which started late Monday and raged long into Tuesday morning.
• Click to see video of the six-alarm Breezy Point blaze.
"It looked like a forest fire out in the Midwest," Mayor Bloomberg said Tuesday.
A downtown hospital, New York University's Tisch, evacuated 200 patients after its backup generator failed. About 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were carried down staircases and on battery-powered respirators.
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A construction crane that collapsed in the high winds on Monday, still dangled precariously 74 floors above the streets of midtown Manhattan. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore.
With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven subway tunnels under the East River, Mayor Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation's largest transit system would be rolling again. It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm.
Joseph Lhota, chairman of the regional Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the damage was the worst in the 108-year history of the New York subway.
The saltwater surge inundated subway signals, switches and electrified third rails and covered tracks with sludge. Workers began pumping the water out and will ultimately have to walk all of the 600 miles of track to inspect it.
Millions of more fortunate New Yorkers surveyed damage as dawn broke, their city brought to an extraordinary standstill.
"Oh, Jesus. Oh, no," Faye Schwartz said she looked over damage in Brooklyn, where cars were scattered like leaves.
Reggie Thomas, a maintenance supervisor at a prison near the overflowing Hudson River, emerged from an overnight shift there, a toothbrush in his front pocket, to find his Honda with its windows down and a foot of water inside. The windows automatically go down when the car is submerged to free drivers.
"It's totaled," Thomas said with a shrug. "You would have needed a boat last night."
Besides the subway and the stock exchange, most major tunnels and bridges in New York were closed early Tuesday, as were schools, Broadway theaters and the metropolitan area's three main airports, LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark.
The Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and several other spans were reopening Tuesday. And bus service was also set to resume in the city later in the day, NBC New York reported. Mayor Bloomberg said roads should be free of water by Wednesday.
In New Jersey, a huge swell of water swept over the small town of Moonachie, near the Hackensack River, and authorities struggled to rescue about 800 people, some of them living in a trailer park.
And in neighboring Little Ferry, water suddenly started gushing out of storm drains overnight, submerging a road under 4 feet of water and swamping houses. Police and fire officials used boats and trucks to reach the stranded.
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"I looked out and the next thing you know, the water just came up through the grates. It came up so quickly you couldn't do anything about it. If you wanted to move your car to higher ground you didn't have enough time," said Little Ferry resident Leo Quigley, who with his wife was taken to higher ground by boat.
Jersey City was closed to cars because traffic lights were out, and Hoboken, just over the Hudson River from Manhattan, dealt with major flooding. In Atlantic City, most of the world-famous boardwalk was intact, but pieces washed away Monday night.
Remnants of the hurricane were forecast to head across Pennsylvania before taking another sharp turn into western New York by Wednesday morning. Although weakening as it goes, the storm will continue to bring heavy rain and flooding, said Daniel Brown of the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Meteorologists from NBC Connecticut warned that the state could face possible tornadoes Tuesday in the wake of the Sandy. Gov. Dannel Malloy called the superstorm "the worst water event in the state's history."
As Hurricane Sandy closed in on the Northeast, it converged with a cold-weather system that turned it into a monstrous hybrid of rain, high wind — and even snow in West Virginia and other mountainous inland areas. President Obama declared a state of emergency in West Virginia on Tuesday as powerful blizzards swirled there.
In a measure of how big the storm was, high winds spinning off the edge of Sandy clobbered the Cleveland area early Tuesday, uprooting trees, cutting power to hundreds of thousands, closing schools and flooding major roads along Lake Erie.
Hundreds of miles from the storm's center, gusts topping 60 mph prompted officials to close the port of Portland, Maine, and scared away several cruise ships.
The dead included: 15 people in New York state; three in New Jersey; two in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Virginia and Maryland; one in West Virginia and one person at sea when the HMS Bounty replica sank off North Carolina.
Sandy also killed 69 people in the Caribbean before making its way up the Eastern Seaboard.
Just before it made U.S. landfall at 8 p.m. near Atlantic City, N.J., forecasters stripped Sandy of hurricane status, but the distinction was purely technical, based on its shape and internal temperature.
While the hurricane's 80 mph winds registered as only a Category 1 on a scale of five, it packed the lowest barometric pressure on record in the Northeast, giving it terrific energy to push water inland.
In New York, the construction crane atop a 1,000-foot, $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan dangled for a second day while authorities tried to figure out how to secure it. Thousands were ordered to leave nearby buildings as a precaution, including 900 guests at the ultramodern Le Parker Meridien hotel.
Alice Goldberg, 15, a tourist from Paris, was watching television in the hotel — whose slogan is "Uptown, Not Uptight" — when a voice came over the loudspeaker and told everyone to leave.
"They said to take only what we needed, and leave the rest, because we'll come back in two or three days," she said as she and hundreds of others gathered in the luggage-strewn marble lobby. "I hope so."
An explosion Monday night at a substation for Consolidated Edison, the main utility service New York City, knocked out power to about 310,000 customers in Manhattan.
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"It sounded like the Fourth of July," Stephen Weisbrot said from his 10th-floor apartment.
In Baltimore, fire officials said four unoccupied rowhouses collapsed in the storm, sending debris into the street but causing no injuries. A blizzard in western Maryland caused a pileup of tractor-trailers that blocked part of Interstate 68 on slippery Big Savage Mountain.
"It's like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs up here," said Bill Wiltson, a Maryland State Police dispatcher.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — whose own family had to move to the executive mansion after his home in Mendham, far from the storm's center, lost power — criticized the mayor of Atlantic City for opening shelters there instead of forcing people out, NBC Philadelphia reported.
"Here we are in throes of a major catastrophe and the governor has chosen a time such as this to play politics," Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford shot back on Tuesday's "Today" show. "I think it's reprehensible that he would stoop to the level to try and make a political situation out of something that is so serious as this situation."


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Skeptical that Joe Flacco can outduel Tom Brady this Sunday? You ain't alone. Ravens safety Ed Reed took a moment on Monday to say what everyone already thinks of Flacco:
I think a couple of times he needed to get rid of the ball. It just didn't look like he had a hold on the offense... He can't play like [he did against the Texans].
The thing you have to understand about Joe Flacco is that he brought stability to one of the more unstable positions in all of football. Do you realize that Trent Dilfer, despite winning the Ravens a Super Bowl, only started a grand total of eight regular season games for them? Look at how dire this list is. Before Flacco, the Ravens cycled through fifteen different starting QBs in a span of 12 years. I looked at that list and literally could not remember Randall Cunningham ever playing for this team. The turnover in Baltimore was so fast, you barely had time to notice. Remember Anthony Wright? Of course you don't.
So Ravens fans are uncommonly loyal to Flacco because he was able to bring some semblance of order to a chaotic situation. The problem is that may be ALL he brings. He's like a pitcher who gives you lots of innings without ever having an ERA below 4.00. Flacco has taken the Ravens to the playoffs his first four seasons. No other QB has done that, but let's be honest: It's not as if Flacco has been solely responsible for those playoff runs, not when the Ravens consistently feature a good defense and a healthy running game. Mark Sanchez has more road playoff victories than any other quarterback EVER. You don't see that little stat keeping Jets fans from wanting him booted out the door. And with good reason, because Sanchez is a thoroughly average QB.
Flacco may be better than Sanchez, but you'd be shocked at how close of a contest it is. Flacco's numbers over his career have remained almost exactly the same. He always throws ten to twelve picks. He always throws 20-25 touchdowns. And he always passes for 3,600 yards (three years in a row). There's been no indication that he's actually improving. And this is with the Ravens handing him more and more weapons each year to work with (Ray Rice, Anquan Boldin, etc.). In fact, Flacco's completion percentage this season (58%) was the worst of his career. At this point, he may be as good as he'll ever be. There's no reason to think he'll suddenly make a leap and start playing like Aaron Rodgers.
And that's a real problem, because the Ravens need that if they want to start winning Super Bowls with Flacco at the helm. Sunday is the biggest game of Flacco's life. If he can somehow pull out a 250-300 yard game with 5 touchdowns, then maybe all of us, even Ed Reed, got Joe Flacco wrong.
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Sebastien Centner's Canapé Recipes
Named Top Caterer in Canada, Eatertainment is a Toronto-based company led by director Sebastien Centner and executive chef Christopher Matthews. Their easy hors d'oeuvres and appetizer recipes are perfect when you want to serve something special at Christmas or New Year's Eve. And don't stop there — they're great for cocktail parties, showers, dinners or backyard parties any time of the year.


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Hello and Welcome to another Brown Sugar Challenge!!
Thank you to all who participated in last weeks challenge! All of the entries were great.
We encourage you all to play along this week. If you are uploading your project to an online gallery, please use keyword BSCB-107 (eg.splitcoaststampers, paper craft planet, etc.)
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The Surface Pro is coming a bit later than expected, the Orchestra team's new mail client starts a wait list, embedded tweets get a touchup, and AT&T's network expands.
- Surface Pro Sales Begin on February 9th in the US and Canada, Starting At $899 Microsoft has finally announced the release details its Surface Pro tablet. It will launch on February 9th in the US and Canada starting at $899 for the 64GB model with a stylus and no cover. Other markets will get the tablet in the following weeks and months. [The Verge]
- Hot Email App Mailbox Launches Reservation System to Handle Demand, Arrives for Free in a Few Weeks Highly anticipated iOS mail client Mailbox has implemented a reservation system in order to prepare for it's impending launch. Made by the same team behind Orchestra, our favorite to-do app, Mailbox may be worth checking out. You can get a reservation by entering your iPhone number at the Mailbox site, but take note: Mailbox will only support Gmail accounts at launch. [The Next Web]
- An Update to Embedded Tweets Twitter's embedded Tweets received an update today. Now embedded tweets will display content linked to in a tweet, along with the number of retweets and favorites—much like on the main Twitter site. Also new is an Embed option included under the More button on Twitter.com or Tweetdeck. [Twitter Blog]
- AT&T To Acquire Wireless Spectrum and Assets from Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc., Enhance Wireless Coverage in Rural Areas Today AT&T announced it will acquire the AllTel network's wireless spectrum and assets from parent company Atlantic Tele-Network. This will expand AT&T's coverage in rural areas across six states: Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, and South Carolina. Like any telecom deal, this is subject to FCC approval before it's final. [Business Wire]
- Crackle Streaming Video Heads to LG, Samsung, and Vizio Smart TVs, Samsung Blu-ray Players Video streaming service Crackle is expanding. The company announced via press release that Crackle will be available on LG, Vizio, and Samsung Smart TVs, as well as Samsung Blu-ray players. The rollout will be staggered, but starting today you'll be able to download the Crackle app for LG and Samsung TVs in US, Canada, the UK, and Austraila. [Engadget]
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Advisio needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 135 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Tobi Fairley Interior Design is a leading design firm that is looking to rebrand itself. The new logo needs to be very monochromatic and super sophisticated because her current interior design projects now include less color and more monochromatic and elegant tones.
We want the new logo to position her as the focal point in our company and to push her into a celebrity status of sorts. The most successful interior designers on a national level use their names in their branding and we need to be doing the same.
Sites to think of are Tiffanys.com, suzannekasler.com, and chanel.com.
Please read description for colors and more details. I give detailed constructive feedback, and cannot wait to see your concepts.
Tobi Fairley Interior Design
• New logo will be named Tobi Fairley Interior Design
• The old logo is T. Lamarr Interiors. The logo needs updating to this new name because Tobi's target audience (affluent married couples with children in their 40s and 50s) has not made the connection of "T. Lamarr" with "Tobi". We want the new logo to position her as the focal point in our company and to push her into a celebrity status of sorts. The most successful interior designers on a national level use their names in their branding and we need to be doing the same.
• Tobi's design is elevating into a new phase and the colors in the logo need to reflect this also. In the past, since Tobi has been very young (late 20s, early 30s), she tended to use a very bright and colorful palette in her interior design which is reflected in the current T. Lamarr Interiors logo – a lime green and white.
• Her current interior design work is now contemporary with a little bit of traditional flair and is all about luxury, though for a refined and practical lifestyle (not Donald Trump for instance). She is continuing to build a luxury brand, offers a very sophisticated level of product (furniture, fabrics, etc.) and therefore Tobi Fairley Interior Design needs to be positioned as an exclusive, elite brand.
• Think of a very elite brand such as Chanel or Tiffanys when thinking of Tobi Fairley Interior Design. It's all about being luxurious yet not "over the top" or excessive in other words. Tobi described it simply as a "new luxury lifestyle."
• The new logo needs to be very monochromatic and super sophisticated because her current design now includes less color and more monochromatic and elegant tones.
• Go to http://www.tlamarrinteriors.com to view some of Tobi's work. Be certain to go to "Recent Projects" and look at the "Build for the Cure" project to see the colors and the overall feel of the design. This is the way we want the new branding to feel. This project was recognized nationally in "Traditional Home" in March of 2008 as an aside; she is therefore gaining lots of recognition for using monochromatic and sophisticated color palettes such as in this design.
Colors & Fonts of New Logo
• Tobi envisions a mocha color maybe for her name because her name (Tobi Fairley) needs to be the focal point of the logo when first viewed. Mocha would be best described as milky like hot chocolate. The rest of the logo might incorporate other neutral tone on tones (taupes for instance) and maybe use white where appropriate.
• The overall feel of the colors needs to be ultra sophisticated, clean, luxurious and refined.
• An example of a logo Tobi really likes is on http://www.suzannekasler.com. Go past the intro page and view her logo on other pages throughout the website. Notice how very sophisticated the logo is, the colors and how Suzanne's name is the first thing you see.
• Font – currently it is a very formal and script font (see T. Lamarr website) and it needs to become more clean and contemporary, yet with a soft, feminine feel because many people may not know that "Tobi" is a woman's name.
Sample Websites
Tobi mentioned these websites to view.
Tobi specifically likes the logo and the feel of the entire website. Suzanne Kasler's design is extremely similar to Tobi's interior design and Tobi feels that Suzanne's branding reflects the design extremely well.
http://www.chanel.com and http://www.tiffany.com
Again, these are elegant and sophisticated brands. She doesn't like the colors obviously, but the luxurious, sophisticated and elite feel of the brands are the way she wants Tobi Fairley Interior Design to feel.
This Little Rock hotel has positioned itself as extremely elite and sophisticated. In fact you'll see on the home page that lists "luxury rooms…for the sophisticated traveler." This is just another example of a brand Tobi wants to be like, and this one happens to be on a local level.
- The overall feel for the colors and design needs to be ultra sophisticated, clean, luxurious, and refined... yet simple
- Use mocha (milky like hot chocolate) or similar colors in the name and neutral complementary colors and tones in the background (taupes for instance), white if appropriate
- Somehow subtley draw attention the name Tobi Fairley so that it pops but does not overpower. The name is the focal point
- Font - needs to be clean and contemporary, yet with a soft, feminine feel because many people do not realize Tobi is a woman's name.
- Websites the client likes are suzannekasler.com, tiffanys.com, chanel.com
- Anti-Donald Trump. The look needs to be high-end sophisticated but not over-the-top and extravagant
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NSAB is responsible for base operational support for its major tenants, including Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Navy Medicine Professional Development Center, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Armed Forces Blood Bank, Naval Dosimetry Center, Warrior Transition Brigade, and many more. In all, we support more than 40 tenant commands.


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Logo and business card layout for a real estate development consultant in NYC. Card will be printed on a black plastic card so colors will have to be right.
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Logo should be very detailed and thought out. Should have some type of "construction" theme or base. Purpose of the company is to offer a specialized colsulting experience to luxury condo developers in NYC. Must be a memorable card, hence the black plastic.
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Q What is focus assist?
A Focus assist is a gauge designed to aid in rapid focusing and to help reduce the feeling of being "lost" while trying to focus on a sample. The scale bar displays a number based on the position of the objective lens. That number can be correlated with a particular sample vessel, allowing you to focus on a sample in that sample vessel more quickly in the future.
Q How do I capture images on the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A The FLoid device is primarily operated through a graphical user interface, much like a smart phone. You focus on the sample with the turn of a knob.
Q Can the FLoid device measure cells in my image?
A Yes. The scale bar changes as the digital zoom level is changed, allowing easy estimation of sample sizes.
Q How do I process images on the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A Easily. The FLoid device has built-in image processing so you can quickly adjust the brightness and contrast of your images. You can also display images in color or black and white.
Q Can I print images from the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A Yes. The FLoid device is designed to operate like a molecular biology gel documenting station. You simply walk up and, after a few clicks and a few moments, you walk away with a credit card–sized printed image that you can peel off and place directly into your lab notebook.
Q Do I need special software to see my results saved to a thumb drive on my computer?
A No. Most computers have built-in image-viewing software that will open JPEG, TIFF, BMP, or PNG files.
Q How long does it take to generate images?
A The FLoid device can generate images in 1–2 minutes for most samples.
Q Does the FLoid Cell Imaging Station need to be placed in a darkroom?
A No. The light shield helps block most ambient light and enables imaging at the bench or tissue culture facility in normal lighting conditions.
Q Can I set up the device myself?
A Yes. You can unpack the device and collect images in little as 10 minutes. A field installation engineer is not necessary.
Q What types of vessels are compatible with the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A T-flasks, Petri dishes, 6-well plates, 96-well plates, microscope slides, coverslips, and Matek dishes.
Q How do I clean and maintain the instrument?
A Simply wipe the instrument exterior using a soft, lint-free cloth moistened with distilled water. Wipe the instrument dry immediately after cleaning.
Q How long do I need the device to warm up before use?
A The light sources do not require any warm-up time prior to imaging. The device start-up time is less than one minute, after which it is ready to image.
Q Does the FLoid device require a computer?
A No. The Floid Cell Imaging Station is a fully integrated system combining optics, electronics, and mechanics with an onboard computer and widescreen LCD monitor.
Q Can you connect the FLoid device to a computer?
A No, but you can easily transfer your data to a computer using a USB drive.
Q Do I need to load software on my computer?
A No. Most computers have built-in image-viewing software that will open the JPEG, TIFF, BMP, or PNG files.
Q Does the FLoid device save images?
A Yes. The FLoid device saves images as JPEG, TIFF, BMP, or PNG file formats. Save underlying channels to retain unaltered TIFF files of each channel.
Q Can I select a different language for the user interface?
A Yes. You may choose from English, Spanish, German, simplified Chinese, French, Italian, and Japanese
- See the full list of Floid specifications
Q What are the physical dimensions?
A 15.9" (W) x 21.1" (H) x 13.9" (D) (40.4 x 53.6 x 35.3 cm).
Q How heavy is the FLoid device?
A ~28 pounds or ~13 kg.
Q What channels are available on the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A Four channels are available: transmitted light, and blue, green, and red fluorescent channels.
Q What are the excitation sources?
A The excitation sources are light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with wavelengths of 390/40 nm (blue channel), 482/18 nm (green channel), and 586/15 nm (red channel).
Q What are the emission wavelengths?
A The emission wavelengths are 446/33 nm (blue channel), 532/59 nm (green channel), and 646/68 nm (red channel).
Q Can I change the emission filters on the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A The emission wavelengths on the FLoid device are fixed, which means that the filters are always there and ready for use.
Q What dyes are compatible on the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A The FLoid Cell Imaging Station contains the three most common channels used in fluorescence imaging: DAPI, Alexa Fluor® 488 dye, and Texas Red® dye. For a complete list of Molecular Probes™ dyes that are compatible with the device, please see the FLoid Cell Imaging Station Dye compatibility page.
Q What reagents are on the Molecular Probes® reagents tab?
A The reagent information tab covers about 160 different reagents in 20 application categories, all related to cell imaging. Each reagent has a protocol with quick-reference icons and concise text for maximum usability.
Q Is an extended warranty available for the FLoid Cell Imaging Station?
A The instrument comes with a 12-month warranty, and you may purchase an extended warranty for an additional 12 months.
Q Does the FLoid Cell Imaging Station come with a keyboard and a mouse?
A Yes. The device comes with a keyboard, mouse, power cable, and USB flash memory stick.
Q What type of magnification can I expect?
A The FLoid Cell Imaging Station has 460x optical magnification and up to 1,840x digital zoom.
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Henry Hill, an associate in the Luchese organized-crime family whose decision to turn federal informer, and subsequent itinerant life in and out of the federal witness protection program, inspired Martin Scorsese's acclaimed film "Goodfellas," died on Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 69 and had lived openly in Topanga, Calif., in recent years.
He had previously lived — far less openly — in Seattle; Cincinnati; Omaha; Butte, Mont.; and Independence, Ky., among many other places, as well as in the United States Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa.
His death, in a hospital, came after a series of health problems that included heart disease and the toll of years of heavy smoking, his fiancée, Lisa Caserta, said.
A native New Yorker of half-Irish, half-Sicilian parentage, Mr. Hill was involved with the Luchese family, considered the most powerful of the city's original five Mafia families, from his youth in the 1950s until 1980.
That year, arrested on drug-trafficking charges and facing the prospect of a long prison term, to say nothing of possible execution by his former bosses, Mr. Hill became a government witness against his past associates. His testimony in multiple trials helped send dozens of people to prison.
In Mr. Scorsese's movie, released in 1990 and currently ranked 92nd on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 pictures, Mr. Hill is played by Ray Liotta. The film was based on Nicholas Pileggi's best-selling biography, "Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family," published in 1985.
Mr. Hill wrote several books of his own, including "The Wiseguy Cookbook" (2002; with Priscilla Davis), a collection of recipes and reminiscences that includes a disquisition on the problems of finding authentic pecorino Siciliano in the flyspecks on the map to which Mr. Hill was frequently consigned.
A garrulous figure to whom the anonymity of the witness protection program was anathema — he was expelled from the program in 1987 for relentless misbehavior that included drug possession — Mr. Hill took part in several headline-making crimes during his underworld days.
Chief among them was the Lufthansa heist of 1978, in which he and confederates robbed the airline's cargo terminal at Kennedy International Airport of $5 million in cash and nearly $1 million in jewels.
At the time, the heist was widely described as the most lucrative cash robbery in the United States. Mr. Hill, who was not prosecuted for his role in the case, testified against other participants.
In the late 1970s, Mr. Hill was also involved in a point-shaving scandal at Boston College, in which basketball players were bribed to fix games.
Although Mr. Hill said in interviews — and he gave a lot of them — that he had never killed anyone, by his own admission he knew, quite literally, where a great many bodies were buried.
"I was present when people got murdered," he told The Advocate of Stamford, Conn., in 2010. "I dug a lot of holes."
After leaving witness protection, Mr. Hill lived in comparative safety: most of those he feared were either dead or in prison. But given his former line of work, he remained suitably wary, moving often and adopting disguises as needed.
"If I go to the racetrack, I put a hat and glasses on, and I take my teeth out," he told the British newspaper The Independent in 2001. "You can't recognize me, trust me."
Mr. Hill was a frequent guest on television talk shows, including Geraldo Rivera's, and on Howard Stern's radio show. He also started a Web site, goodfellahenry.com, on which he sold memorabilia and dispensed practical advice on subjects like "Best Ways to Hide a Corpse."
But beneath Mr. Hill's surface charm and ready self-justification lay a lifelong addiction to drugs and alcohol and, family members have said, a flash-flood propensity for violence.
Henry Hill was born in Manhattan on June 11, 1943, and raised in Brooklyn. His father, an electrician who worked on the construction of the World Trade Center, deplored the local Mafiosi and tried to impress on his son the need for a suitable vocation.
"I actually wanted to be a priest," Henry Hill told The Chicago Tribune in 1986. "But that didn't work out."
He was soon seduced, he said, by the flash and dazzle of the neighborhood wiseguys, with their sleek cars, glinting rings and glittering women. At about 12, he began work as an errand boy at a local mob-run cab stand and pizzeria, where he refined his budding love of cooking. By 13 he was catering some of Brooklyn's biggest permanent floating craps games.
He joined the Army at 17 and soon had a tidy sideline in surplus mess-hall steaks, which he sold to restaurants near his base at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.
He was discharged several years later, he wrote, when he started a brawl and, after the sheriff arrived, elected to steal the sheriff's car. He returned to Brooklyn and the mob, becoming a protégé of Paul Vario, a capo in the Luchese organization.
Mr. Hill's portfolio included arson, numbers running, truck hijacking, loan sharking, assault and dealing cocaine and heroin. In the 1970s, he served four years in Lewisburg on an extortion charge.
Mr. Hill's behavior, often intensified by drugs and alcohol, could be highly erratic. In "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood," a joint memoir published in 2004, his son Gregg (who was 13 when the family went underground) and his daughter, Gina (who was 11), recounted their father's hair-trigger temper.
"On my 17th birthday, he beat me within an inch of my life and then took a butcher knife to a picture of me," Gina Hill, promoting the book on Fox News, told Greta Van Susteren.
Mr. Hill's marriage to his first wife, Karen (portrayed by Lorraine Bracco in "Goodfellas"), ended in divorce. He is survived by their children, Gregg and Gina, both of whom have long lived under other names. Also surviving is a son from his marriage (possibly a common-law union) to his second wife, Kelly; a brother; four sisters; and four grandchildren.
For all Mr. Hill's celebrity as an erstwhile criminal, he was never entirely rehabilitated. In 2005, while working as a chef in North Platte, Neb., he pleaded no contest to attempted possession of methamphetamine and, in a plea agreement, was sentenced to 180 days in jail. Later that year, he was sentenced to another 180 days, to be served concurrently, for threatening his wife, Kelly, and another man with a knife.
He yearned, he sometimes said, to be other than what he was. "I wish I could be more like normal people — like these people here," he told The Yakima Herald-Republic of Washington in 2003, indicating passers-by in Leavenworth, Wash., his hometown of the moment. "I don't know how."
But Mr. Hill did manage to find time for ordinary pleasures. As he often said, he never missed an episode of "The Sopranos."


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"a LIFETIME EXPERIENCE."
From the time we embarked we were greeted by our friendly cabin steward(in this case, a charming young lady), who showed us all the details of our cabin. We had been upgrading to a balcony suite. Our first dinner was wonderful, we shared our table with 2 couples,one, Australian and the other, Russian born but now Australian citizens. We became friends right away and will keep in touch. The food was superb and the service throughout was faultless, from the drink steward to the waiter. once again a very lively young woman who knew exactly which dish to suggest. The next morning we went up to the top deck for breakfast. What a staggering choice of dishes.... fruit... cereal.... marvellous. Our first day ashore was very well organised. We didn't go on a tour, simply walked about absorbing the atmosphere of beautiful Oslo. So, every day was wonderful.... beautifulplaces to see, Berlin, reaching it by a special train..... Tannil, in Estonia, lovely old city.... Then our highlight 2 days in St Petersburg !, a well organised 2 day guided tour, we saw such magnificence in the palaces and the museums....... It was great coming back on the ship and comparing notes with our friends at the dining table. Then on to a show, always of a high standard. We cant falter Princess cruises and hope to cruise again with them in the near future.Read more
- Cruise Name: Regal Princess
- Destination: Northern Europe
- Sailed: June 2015
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"Mediterranean Magic"
If you want to see a broad insight of the Mediterranean countries and ports this is the cruise to do. We found September ideal for the weather in all countries visited and great for site seeing both on foot and with tours arranged by Princess. We have visited some of the Ports previously by land on other tours but this was the first time by sea which gave us a different perspective of the places we were again visiting . This mainly caused by the different entry to the town and very different views of the housing and the people living in them. We like to set off on foot to see the places,especially those we were returning to, so often needed to travel on public transport to get to where we wished to wander. ( This also gave us new insights into the places.)We like the very old parts of the cities and the history of them. We find that by taking the time that we want rather than bing hearded by tour guides gives us the greater insight to the way of living there,both now and times gone by. We found Barcelona ,the last port of our cruise,probably the most interesting of all places as by wandering under our own efforts we found an underground city that does not appear in any tourist information so was for from crowded as there were only 5 of us down there but thousands above us in the streets. A magic way to finish a wonderful cruise.Read more
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An advanced weaving process results in thousands of fine, untwisted loops that make our Hydrocotton Towels up to 10 times more absorbent than traditional cotton terry. At a fluffy 550-grams, these Turkish cotton towels are supersoft and fast drying, too.
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- 550-gram weight.
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- Monogram will be centered at one end of the bath and hand towels.
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- Washcloth: 12" square
- Hand Towel: 20" wide x 30" long
- Bath Towel: 28" wide x 55" long
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by Tom Utescher
After a 2-0 start on the squash season, Springside School slipped back to the .500 mark last week, suffering losses against two formidable Girls Inter-Ac League rivals.
The Baldwin Bears, solid from top to bottom, took a 9-0 decision at Springside on Tuesday, and the second setback came two days later at Penn Charter, where the Lions won a few matches at the bottom of the ladder but were defeated 7-2 by the host Quakers.
While longtime PC mentor Geoff Shields remains in command of the boys' team, internationally-known pro instructor Damon Leedale-Brown has taken charge of the girls program while also assuming the title of Director of Squash at the school's Kline and Specter Squash Center, which opened during the 2007-2008 season.
Prior to the Springside match last Thursday, the Quakers had opened the winter campaign on Tuesday with an 8-1 win on the road at Shipley. The PC franchise has returned most of its players from last season, but did lose number one Sarah Domenick, now at Brown University.
No worries for Charter fans, since a new number one has arrived from Episcopal Academy. Transfer Margaux Losty is still a freshman, but last year as an eighth-grader she was already one of the top players on EA's highly-regarded squad. In a four-game bout on Thursday, she lost the third round to Springside junior Libbie Maine, 13-11, but won the other three, 11-8, 11-7, 11-3.
In positions two through six, each of the PC players prevailed in three straight games. Junior Tara Harrington won 11-0, 11-1, 11-3 over the Lions' freshman number two, Caroline Canning, and one rung down the ladder Quakers senior Colleem Fehm dispatched visiting eighth-grader Francesca Fabiani, 11-3, 11-3, 11-0. One of Springside's best players, senior Annie Maxwell, is still out with an injury, but is expected to return shortly.
At number four, three 11-1 games took Amanda Roberts past Springside's Kelly Brady in a clash of two juniors, and in the fifth spot eighth-grader Izzy Hirshberg topped Lions senior Amanda Culp, 11-9, 11-5, 11-9.
As at number four, the number six match featured identical game scores; here it was a figure of 11-4 that gave senior Demi Angelakis the victory in three games over visiting junior Sam Blake.
In the seventh set-to, Charter senior Margaret Hilton and Springside junior Ellie Stout split a pair of 11-9 games at the start of their match, then Hilton finished it by taking the next two, 11-2, 11-5.
The Lions came away with a pair of wins for the afternoon, as freshman Courtney Hamilton and senior Carolina Concannon were victorious at eight and nine, respectively. Hamilton overcame Quakers sophomore Ryann Shaffer, 11-1, 11-2, 11-1, while Concannon conquered a fellow upperclassman, Kate Higgins, 11-2, 11-7, 11-1.


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OSCE Chairman-in-Office addresses the North Atlantic Council
The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis met with the North Atlantic Council on 23 November 2011 to brief NATO Allies on the forthcoming OSCE Ministerial Council on 6-7 December in Vilnius.
He addressed issues of interest both for the OSCE and NATO, including support for strengthening the rule of law, the respect for human rights and the development of democratic institutions in the Balkans, in Eastern Europe, in Central Asia and in Afghanistan. The OSCE Chairman-in-Office discussed with NATO Allies the priorities of the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship and prospects for further cooperation between the two organisations, including support for the Mediterranean countries.
"Under the Lithuanian OSCE Chairmanship we have witnessed an expanded dialogue between NATO and the OSCE", NATO Deputy Secretary General Claudio Bisognero said. "Today's exchange underscores the importance of the role played by the OSCE and that the organisation is a valuable partner for NATO".
NATO and the OSCE are keeping a regular dialogue on regional security and are also working on issues ranging from arms control, non-proliferation of small arms and light weapons, destruction of stocks of ammunition to counter-terrorism and cyber security.


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My suggestions are;
1. To start with, all schools of nursing in any teaching hospital where the university has department of nursing should be closed down, and admission to the department of nursing in such school be increased.
2. All others schools of nursing should be asked to affiliate to a university or be given at least 4-5yrs to do so or suffer being closed down.
3. The nurse tutors schools and their products should upgrade to enable them meet up with manpower requirements. Their training must be university based with minimum qualification being a master's degree.
4. Efforts should be made to create enabling environment for all nurses to obtain an educational certificate from recognized universities.
6. All the present marginalization of nurses and attempt to subjugate them should be addressed. I hope you do not want all nurses to go on mass protest before addressing all these emergent issues.
Majority of nurses are earnestly looking for progress and changes. NANNM in conjunction with NMC should rise up to these challenges. They should not come up with the theory of scarcity of nurses because all professionals are scarce and they are jealously guiding their profession despite these scarcities. Nursing is been displaced all day long with the emergence of auxiliaries and the adhoc midwives trained by the government, the Doctors are out to make nursing irrelevant, but on fortunately they cannot do nursing cores. What will be the fate of nursing if we do not act now?, let us rise to these challenges so that posterity will not judge us.
Time is already against us!!!
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Friday, August 5, 2011
A Dance with Dragons
Contains spoilers for A Dance with Dragons.
Short review : Better than A Feast for Crows, not as good as A Storm of Swords.
Long review : Where to start?
With the good, mostly Jon Snow's chapters. Developments at the Wall are fascinating, and they tie together well with the return of Roose Bolton plus fake-Arya. Towards the end, though, Jon alienates some of his own men, pens up his direwolf and is then backstabbed by said men - in other words, Robb Stark errors and a Jeor Mormont ending. But at least he's not likely to be as dead as either of them.
Another interesting character was a complete scum, but he's captured and maimed by someone even worse. This results in a redemption of sorts and he saves an innocent woman who's similarly a captive. He's called Jaime Lannister or Theon Greyjoy, but despite the déjà vu, Theon's chapters were gripping. His terror and degradation came through vividly, and Ramsay Bolton vies with Joffrey for the Most Hated Character award, though I could have done without the endless "Reek, Reek, it rhymes with…"
Tyrion and Dany fare less well. Tyrion's chapters are a travelogue wherein he meets many, many people, at least one of whom was previously thought dead. And although he's heading for Meereen, he doesn't get to meet Dany.
Though perhaps that's for the best. Dany was amazing in previous novels, but here she's trying to recapture all her tweenage years, especially with Daario. She also marries one of the Ghiscari (which means he's dead meat one way or another), vacillates endlessly about whether to open the fighting pits and takes dozens of hostages whom she cannot bear to harm, so they end up being much safer with her than with their own people. Finally she imprisons two of her dragons because they're growing wild, which naturally makes them even wilder. Her story does end on a more promising note, though, and I still want to see how she eventually conquers Slaver's Bay.
Not to mention Westeros, because Cersei's days as queen there seem to be coming to a well-deserved end. The High Holy Septon makes her pay dearly for what she did… and that's only the start of her troubles. I don't think even FrankenGregor (who makes an appearance) can get her out of this.
Minor characters fare as can be expected. Victarion Greyjoy is still en route to Dany, Davos Seaworth is still the universe's whipping boy and Melisandre is still mistaken. But Wyman Manderly and his pies were shocking and delightful.
All in all, though, there's no way this series can be concluded in only two more books, not even if Martin tightens the prose to the squeaking-point and every character refrains from their favorite catchphrase forever. There are simply too many characters – for each one killed off, three new walk-ons are introduced and someone else rises from the dead.
And there's too much description – granted, it's usually well-written, imaginative description, but it's only padding the book. In A Storm of Swords, what happened in Tywin Lannister's privy was a darkly ironic joke that finished the chapter with a snap. In this book, what is achieved by describing the results of Daenerys taking a squat? The story's realistic enough without all the body fluids.
I'll still buy The Winds of Winter, but I'm not likely to shell out for a hardcover again. If you've read ADwD, what did you think of it?
13 comments:
- Randall said...
Welcome back, Marian!
I didn't read A Dance With Dragons because Martin failed to convince me to finish the first volume, never mind buy any others. But I didn't want to leave you hangin' here with no answers.
- August 9, 2011 at 11:26 PM
- Marian Perera said...
Thanks, Randall, that was nice of you. :) I'm so exhausted from trying to finish a manuscript that I haven't yet returned to the blogosphere, hence the silence around here. But I'll be back completely soon.
- August 10, 2011 at 7:49 PM
- JH said...
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- August 12, 2011 at 12:15 AM
- JH said...
Dany's chapters were actually the best not because of her character per se (actually in spite of her, really) but because they stand up to class conflict, imperialist/postcolonial, and global economic realpolitik analysis. I was astounded at how real everything that went down politically was. The Sons of the Harpy were the fantasy KKK, counterpart to Dany being like fantasy Sherman or Patton, and her rule in Mereen has the global presence of the American and Hatian Revolutions. It was a relief because the thing I loved about this series is its subversion of hero legendry in fantasy, and what worried me was a sort of "creeping hero prophesy" in the later books. Here, despite everyone in the known universe converging on her for practical and mystical reasons, Martin is brutally deconstructing the hero fairy tale. Good Queen Dany frees the slaves from the evil masters and takes the great city, oh man, this is great! This would be the end of a standard heroic fantasy, everyone would Live Happily Ever After. Not here, because Martin makes her deal with the fact that she did the equivalent of conquering the Middle East and shutting down all the oil rigs. The global economy basically runs on slaves, and she just fucked with it. Everyone is going to want to end her, and even if they are "paper tigers," she can't deal with internal and external threats or even threats to her "sister republic" of Astapor. (Meanwhile, in reality, the big world changing revolutions all invited foreign attack from the rulers of the status quo, spooked by the possibility of inspired slaves or bourgeois democracy or communism or w/e knocking over their apple cart.) In the first few books he was crude and ungraceful about this: the fates of Ned and Robb are simple and bloody parables of his nihilistic morality, but Dany gets put through the wringer with a realistic detailing of why heroic fables about changing the world are fables, and how hard radically changing the status quo really is. She pretty much only held on as long as she did because she has the fantasy equivalent of nukes.
- August 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM
- JH said...
Other thoughts: I think Tyrion's chapters were overlong and exposition heavy (this is me saying that there's too much worldbuilding, that should tell you something!) but I think they worked. What I liked about all the major character arcs was that they all detailed the character dealing with some new role and growing into it, with varying levels of success. We're used to action and scheming and high drama in this series, so a plot focused on an internal conflict stands out, might seem dull and pointless. The point isn't really what any of these characters are doing, though. It's what they are feeling and learning. That's the real conflict. Jon is the standard bearer here.
The whole book Jon has been getting more and more ambitious in his plans. He's doing stuff no Lord Commander has ever done, legendary stuff, the type of stuff Old Nan would talk about, and he's doing it for the most grandiose of reasons: the salvation of the entire human race! But he's working with an organization that has been saving some parts of the human race from other parts for centuries, and now he wants to let those other parts in and ally with them. He's basically subverting everything his subordinates have expected from the Night's Watch within the span of a few months. The whole book he's been tempted to forsake his vows for personal gain, but he resisted. And as long as he stayed true to his oaths, he could expect at least grudging support. The second he said he was going to lead a host south with whoever wanted to follow was the tipping point, when those who had suspected them felt they had to act (or, they had been planning to do something like this if Jon went too far, and then he went and did). Now he's going to take part in the wars of kings and lead wildlings against them; he is completely betraying what the Watch stands for, not just shocking it with bold and strange ideas. He was swollen up with his own power, totally confident in his ability to do whatever the hell he wanted (again, just like the Great Hero archtype that Martin and Melisandre had been hinting at, and that shit just won't fly in Westeros, son) and once he abused his authority and influence, once he threw away every lesson he had had to learn before taking command, he was cast down. And killed in the style of another ambitious, prideful leader.
Dany I already talked about, but it's interesting how you can see her story of growth and adaptation and internal conflict in her relationship to her dragons. They have been the source of her power from Clash and they symbolize her use of power. The very same chapter where she puts on her "floppy ears" (a phrase I needed to read much less frequently than I did), she learns that Drogon went berserk. There's a very clear relationship between her putting aside her own values and trying to compromise with those of Mereen (from the first chapter symbolized by her "floppy ears," the tokar, a style of dress rooted in the corrupt and decadent lifestyle of the slaveholding class she just overthrew), and her losing control of the dragons. The more she wallows in these foreign and regressive mores, the less of a handle she has on them. Then, at the end of the fighting pit scene, when she finally puts her foot down against the barbarity of her new home and stops trying to accommodate a brutality she hates, Drogon shows up again, and she tames him. That was really well done.
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- August 12, 2011 at 12:47 AM
- JH said...
So, Tyrion. There's too much talking and sight-seeing, sure, but underneath that is a story of a man who has lost the one thing that had always been a touchstone for his values and self-worth and character - his family - and dealing with how to remake himself without it. It's a story of overcoming suicidal depression, something that seems very out of place in high-action fantasy. And he has to hit rock bottom, as a slave doing dwarf minstrel tricks in a pit arena, to begin to fully remake himself. The degradation he endures cuts away all his prideful ties, all the vestiges of the world he lost, so he is free to develop as a new man. Penny is pretty key here, as a foil and a sort of "guide" in his new, humbler existence, and the sign that he's coming back into his own is when he has to guide her. In the end, he makes a play for a return to power on his greatest ambition, becoming Lord of Casterly Rock, with greater confidence that he ever would have had before.
The real flaws in the book imo are matters of style. The best example is the second page of the chapter "The King's Prize." There's a whole paragraph of someone talking about how Robert would have done things way better than Stannis, and then then Asha thinks, "This king lives in his brother's shadow." No, really? I didn't catch that, thanks for explaining Martin! Also for letting us know that asha is "blessedly unraped"! Normally, I'd assume that someone hasn't been raped unless explicitly told otherwise, but this whole book the word "rape" has practically been a punctuation mark. Every other chapter it's rape this, rape that, whenever a woman is at any possible risk of danger the Rape of Damocles hangs over her head. So you're already primed to think that Stannis' army must have run a train on Asha by now, you have to be explicitly told that this is not the case. Blessed be! But all of this is a side dish, for the main course: someone tell me how it's possible for "cold fury" to be "boiling."
The other big flaws are chapters where nothing happens. There's a Jon chapter that was all about describing people going through through the wall. So much potential tension here: the wildlings and the Watch don't trust or like each other, the Watch doesn't like this whole plan, there are zombies and ice demons on their trail. So much could have happened! A fight between Watch and wildlings that Jon has to bring under control! A bunch of tiny little problems that the steward thinks is going to blow up but Jon handles it, slowly convincing him this is a good idea! The others attack! All of these things!
None of them happen, just page after page of dudes walking by, chit chat between Jon and Tormund. Everyone who went into this chapter came out exactly the same, nothing changed but a bunch of peoples' location. At the very end we find out that somewhere far away, there's a shipwreck and cannibalism and zombies in the woods and the sea, an attack on a ship, accusations of slavery from witches... holy crap! If only I could have read about that!
Contrast to Cercei's last chapter, which was awesome. She's taking a walk, right? Just walking? This walk breaks her. It completely destroys her character, no matter how much she mustered up her old pride in the beginning. The greatest accomplishment in the book, right there, because I actually felt bad for her.
You know what, at this point, I should just write my own review!
- August 12, 2011 at 12:57 AM
- An author's worst nightmare said...
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- August 17, 2011 at 4:26 AM
- Marian Perera said...
Man alive. I got caught up in a brutal editing session and forgot to read all of this. Jordan, so sorry to have missed your take on this until now.
- August 27, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- JH said...
I have already marked you down for several demerits. Replying to blog posts comes first, write your novels on your own time!!
(Also I actually am interested in what you think of my take on it!)
- September 1, 2011 at 6:58 PM
- Marian Perera said...
OK, I sat down, drank tea and read through your essay.
Now that you explain it, I see what Martin is doing with Dany - and thanks especially for pointing out the significance of her Meereenese trappings. As you said, it's realistic and just the kind of thing Martin would do to undercut the fantasy trope of the hero who frees the slaves and allows everyone to live happily every after.
It was still disappointing, though, because I'd gotten used to thinking of Dany as the one person who would get things right, somehow. She made a huge miscalculation in Book 1, but she was smart and determined in Book 2 and ruthlessly clever in Book 3. On the other hand, handling the Meereenese situation calls for different skills unless she wants to start killing off her subjects, and Dany has always been a little too soft for her own good.
Also, love the phrase "the fantasy equivalent of nukes". It's like you're a writer or something. :)
As for the relationships between Dany, Daario and the Ghiscari guy whose name I can't remember... well, in Book 1, I was hoping Khal Drogo would take her home. Here? We know neither Daario nor Ghiscari guy will be the other two heads of the dragon, so I was just waiting for them to either betray her or die.
I also liked your discussion of Jon's character arc. I cheered for him at the start, where he dealt with Janos Slynt - been waiting for that for four books - and the block was the perfect, ironic touch.
After that, though, it was as you said; Jon got carried away with the changes he planned to make. I kept feeling he was sitting on a powder keg, and when he shut Ghost away, he was just asking for trouble. But I read somewhere that there's a chance he'll be reborn as Azhor Azhai (the knight whom the giant ripped apart had stars on his tunic, and didn't the prophecy say something about a bleeding star?).
I'm sure Cersei will recover some of her power. There's so much more of the story to be told, and with Kevan's death, she'll fight even harder to stay on top of the crumbling Lannister midden heap. Plus she has FrankenGregor to be her champion. But you're right, she won't be the same again, not even if she exacts revenge on the High Septon and his cronies. That was a stunning downfall.
- September 2, 2011 at 7:04 PM
- JH said...
"As for the relationships between Dany, Daario and the Ghiscari guy whose name I can't remember... well, in Book 1, I was hoping Khal Drogo would take her home. Here? We know neither Daario nor Ghiscari guy will be the other two heads of the dragon, so I was just waiting for them to either betray her or die."
This is why I really don't like meaningful prophesy, there is something that rubs me the wrong way about treating the plot and characters like elements in a logic puzzle. Once you have several cryptic symbolic prophesies about a character, a recurring mystic/trickster to remind her of them, and the character herself trying to interpret the events of her life according to prophesy, it just becomes... meta. You're not reading the story, you're solving it. The best way to handle this IMO is for a character to meticulously and superstitiously order their life around the prophesies they have received and end up being dead wrong. They were all bullshit, the only seemingly correct prophesies either coincidences or very tenuous interpretations of events to fit.
For what it's worth, I don't actually think Jon is dead, given that there are a number of means of resurrection within a few miles of him. My guess: Melisandre resurrects him and shapes him to be the hero she imagines he must be, since it seems like she's been moving away from backing Stannis. There's something interesting about the Red Priests: none of them seem to be following the same script. Melisandre seems out of line with most of her faith, who have endorsed Dany as their chosen one. So she probably believes in an outcome so strongly that she will make it happen.
Also Martin needs to do a spinoff series entirely about the turtles of the Royne.
- September 3, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- Marian Perera said...
What did you think about the Cersei prophecy in AFfC - you know, the one where all her children died and her younger brother killed her? I liked the drama of that, but it detracted from the story somewhat, because now I'm waiting for Tommen and Myrcella to bite it.
You're right about prophecies being problematic. Once they're written (especially if they're this explicit and the author goes out of the way to remind us of them), either they're fulfilled or they aren't, and both choices are disappointing in different ways.
- September 4, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- JH said...
Well I didn't even remember her prophesy until you brought it up, if that tells you anything. I don't like it any more than Dany's many, many pronounced destinies, unless it turns out to be mostly garbage and she makes a lot of paranoid mistakes in trying to avoid fulfilling it, especially if her efforts to thwart fate result in the prophesy coming true. The probable outcome here is that she imagines Tyrion will kill her, but for some reason Jamie does, she's so busy trying to thwart Tyrion that she doesn't notice Jamie turning against her. (iirc Jamie is the "younger twin" but if not then this is nonsense.)
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