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About UNDP in Tanzania
UNDP is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help build a better life. UNDP started its operations in Tanzania after signing of Standard Basic Assistance Agreement (SBAA) with the Government in 30th May 1978.
The overall focus of UNDP in Tanzania is to support the Government of Tanzania to improve lives of the people through broad practice areas of democratic governance, Climate change & energy, Environment & Natural resources, Private sector development and Capacity development
Following the request by the Government, Tanzania was announced to be among eight pilot countries for the UN reform known as Delivering as One (DaO) in January 2007. The DaO initiative is a country-led process based on the principle of national ownership and leadership. It was intended to make the role and contribution of the United Nations (UN) System at the country level more coherent, effective and efficient.
What do we want to accomplish?
- Within the framework of Delivering as One UN in Tanzania, UNDP works closely with other UN agencies, the Government, as well as with development partners and civil society to build capacity of government to coordinate and mainstream efforts at the sector level and to reinforce implementation at the local level.
- Supporting government efforts to help drive the national development agenda through aligning its support specifically to the national development priorities contained in the MKUKUTA/MKUZA II.
- Helps strengthens the government's capacity to manage and coordinate international development assistance through the development of strategies, action plans and an improved aid management system to facilitate national leadership.
- Building on its global network of Expertise, UNDP assists the government in developing mitigation strategies through training and technical support to national institutions, including those in the private sector, as well as by the promotion of renewable energy sources, improved energy standards, efficient technologies and "clean practices" (to help preserve the environment).
- Supporting development of a national framework for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, as well as of local capacity to manage forest carbon projects.
- UNDP supports capacity development for improved enforcement of laws on the environment and regulations protecting ecosystems, sustainable management of natural resources through awareness raising related to the Environmental Management Act, facilitating formulation of environmental plans and strategies at the local government level, strengthening technical, financial and governance capacities for sustainable land and forest management.
- UNDP will continue supporting the improvement of election management capacities via the application of integrated systems throughout the electoral cycle. This will be done with a view to extending assistance to the 2015 election process if requested.
What are our results?
Democratic Governance
- On 31 October 2010, Tanzania held its fourth multi-party general election. The US$28 million multi-donor funded UNDP Election Support Project supported a wide range of activities in preparation for the polls, including technical assistance to the election management bodies, procurement of electoral materials and voter registration equipment. The project providedNon-governmental organizations (NGOs) with grants for voter education projects focusing on women, the disabled and marginalized groups.
- UNDP's ongoing technical and financial support to the National Anti- Corruption Strategy, and Action Plan, has contributed to a more effective national anti-corruption bureau, which in 2009 prosecuted 17 major corruption cases.
Environment & Energy
- UNDP continues to support the Government to integrate environment and energy issues into national policy, as well as build local and regional capacity.
- Through a UNDP and Global Environment Facility (GEF) initiative some 8,400 households in the northern region of Mwanza were given solar energy systems. Following this success, the Government now requires all local authorities in Tanzania to include solar planning in their budgets, and has removed all taxes and duties on solar energy appliances.
- With over $5 million from the GEF and UNDP, we helped build government capacity to manage the extensive Eastern Arc Mountains, which serve as a water source for the largest city in the country, Dar es Salaam, and other urban areas. With a range of stakeholders including government ministries and non-governmental organizations, we developed a coordinated forest management strategy which is now being implemented. It defines management needs, targets and activities such as advocacy and education
- Our advocacy and programme support is helping to protect the 160 kilometre Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor in Tanzania and Mozambique, by engaging some 50,000 people in sustainable income-generation activities, such as beekeeping and fish farming. This initial project has resulted in the inclusion of environmentally sustainable income-generation activities in all district plans within the Corridor.
- In Capacity Development;UNDP is building national capacity to develop and implement policies focused on reducing poverty. In 2009, UNDP Supported the Government in its national MDGs-based poverty reduction strategy review process, through material contributions and secretariat services. The Review identified key achievable actions such as improving rural-based agricultural production; sustaining achievements in education, health, water, and hygienic care; and focusing on financial and economic strategic management and property rights;
- Enhance aid coordination and management by providing both financial and technical support to develop an aid management information system, through which the Government can thematically classify and integrate foreign assistance into the national budget process, thus helping the Government's strategic planning and budgeting exercises. Initially operational in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, the initiative will be rolled out to other government institutions.
Who are the decision makers?
The Key decision makers within the UNDP Tanzania are as Follows:
UNDP Senior Management Team
- UNDP Resident Representative & UN Resident Coordinator - Alvaro Rodriguez
- UNDP Deputy Country Director (Operations) - Yahya Ba
UNDP Practice Specialists
- Practice Specialist (Capacity Development) and Head of Programme - Amon Manyama
- Practice Specialist (Environment & Natural Resources) - Gertrude Lyatuu
- Practice Specialist( Climate Change & Energy) - Abbas Kitogo
- Practice Specialist (Private Sector Development ) - Ernest Salla
- Practice Specialist (Governance) - Godfrey Mulisa
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Posted By Steven Keys On Jun 16 2012 @ 12:26 pm In Los Angeles Lakers | No Comments
With the word "legacy" being tossed about in these NBA Finals like it's the only reason for living, I got to thinking of those players who set the legacy-bar in the pro game.
Those memorables who've became the standard by which every aspiring superstar will eventually come to be measured.
Aspirants in these Finals would be the reigning MVP LeBron James, ring-holder Dwyane Wade and their up-start opponent, NBA scoring champ Kevin Durant.
And then there's Russ Westbrook. An asset when he plays Scottie Pippen, second fiddle to OKC's version of Michael Jordan, Mr. Durant. And if Russ hits the right notes at the right times, like Scottie, he just might get his ticket punched to Springfield, too (HOF).
Why just five all-time greatest hoopsters? Ever since Letterman made the top-ten list a national pastime it's been run into the ground (ESPN). And those top-100 lists were tiresome & tacky from the start (NFLN). Besides, picking the top five is a slam-dunk. After that, it gets a bit dicey.
5) Michael Jordan
Everyone's #1 in the 40 & under group. I won't get on that bandwagon. Mike comes in at #5. Cons: he never faced greatness in the Finals. Competition matters, a lot. Bulls beat a past-prime LA ('91), Blazers ('92), Suns ('93), Sonics ('96) and Jazz (1997-98). Then there's Phil. Mike was more than a tweak away before Jackson arrived. The NPR coach is a basketball genius and deserves a share of the credit, winning in NY, Chicago and LA.
Pros: Two, back-to-back-to-back championship runs, an armful of MVPs and an unquenchable thirst for winning once he got a taste for it, all put him in this select group.
4) Larry Bird
Being half of the second greatest match-up in history gives you cachet. Three NBA titles ('87 got away) and three MVPs gives you substance. Some would say his being the best white player of the past 35 years worked a bias (Thomas), but Bird was no 'great white (hype) hope.' He had the shooting touch of Oscar Robertson, passing skills of Bob Cousy and rebounded like Dennis Rodman. And all these results with a chronic bad back, in the most competitive decade in NBA history, the 1980s. Before that back went out and Phil arrived in Chicago, head-to-head, Bird & Boston always had Jordan's number, even when he put up 60 points.
3) Wilt Chamberlain
If the prize for 'greatest player ever' were awarded solely on talent, Chamberlain would get the nod easy. But as it stands today, titles have become the litmus test for greatness. He claimed the prize twice, first as a 76er, besting Boston along the way ('67), then in LA ('72). Coaching was the crux early on but when it finally coalesced in Philly, change came again. Though his shipment to LA formed a super trifecta (Baylor / West), all were winding down. Wilt's best remembered for his individual feats, persona and battles with Bill. He may've been his own worst enemy, albeit in a time of great culture clash. Had his earlier career benefited from the team-stability enjoyed by the other four greats, Wilt the Stilt may've had a ring for every finger.
2) Bill Russell
Still #1 for fans-over-fifty, Bill's the safe choice, given his ring-laden hands (11). Makes you wonder how Jordan can get the votes (6). Bill's one of the great 'might have beens' (for St. Louis): drafted by Hawks ('56). Wilt-supporters (fans) always point to Bill's team-talent as the winning-edge. With the likes of Sam Jones, Bob Cousy and Hondo Havlicek, it's a fair point. But in their day, key battles were waged & won down low, in the paint, giants fighting for dominance. And no player (coach '66-69), then or since, has dripped more determination onto the hardwood than Mr. Russell.
1) Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Change is good, at least that's what we're told. I'm not a big fan, no one really is, but in this case, it's apropos. It's time Earvin was moved into the top spot. If Bill was Mr. determination, Magic was, well, magical. Nobody seemed to love the game…the GAME of basketball more than Earvin Johnson. America first saw that big smile when he ran the court as a Spartan and for the next 10 years it would light-up the NBA, receding only when he faced nemesis Bird and finally with his shocking AIDS announcement ('91).
Bill doubles-up Magic on titles and MVPs but the gold-standard (rings) is weighted by its karat-count: competition. Russell v Chamberlain was the battle-royal for posterity, but Magic and Lakers faced a more formidable field than did the 60s Celtics. The 80s had four great teams: Lakers, Celtics, 76ers and Pistons, with Bulls, Rockets & Bucks close behind. It's why the introduction of professionalism into the Olympics (Dream Team) has been nothing more than a marketing money-grab and a farce.
Taking the O'Brien Trophy in his first NBA season ('79-80), subbing for Kareem in '87 (hook-shot heard 'round the world) and even getting his weary Lakers back to the Finals one last time in '91, all put Mr. Johnson on the highest pedestal. Congrats, Earvin.
Plus Teofilo
As oddly loud as the sport pages have been recently with whining on the Bradley v Pacquiao decision (even Manny's judge had it close @ 115-113), they've been as oddly quiet on the recent passing of another 'greatest' in sport. On June 11th it was announced Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson had died of a heart condition at the age of 60.
The undefeated, classy fighter settled for 'greatest amateur,' choosing to never turn pro after winning three Olympic heavyweight gold medallions, his first coming at Munich in 1972. By remaining loyal to Fidel Castro and Cuba, Teofilo created another big 'might have been': the Stevenson v Ali super-fight. And it would've been tremendous. The bad rap on TS: an unproven record. But those critics never saw him fight and then, in his era, the Olympics were the proving ground for prominence, catapulting names like Clay (Ali), Frazier, Foreman and Leonard. Fans of boxing history will remember Teofilo Stevenson.
Ahead of the Curve
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Lots of Football left to play. ALL 4 Qtrs. in the SEC
-30 days to rest and prepare
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-oregon's qb aint "JOHNNY FOOTBALL"
-if notre dame beats usc and bama happens to win out, the rose bowl in pasadena is as far east as the ducks will migrate
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4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp nutmeg
Work butter into mashed sweet potatoes. Add eggs, sugar and milk. Mix well. Add dry ingredients.
Let dough rest for 10 minutes. Roll dough out and cut out donuts. ( or shape them into balls )
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Okay, so UGH. I did get the job at Transvirtual *yaaay!* Got lots of stuff I will be doing there. Going to be working with some cool people such as lilo .. I think I will enjoy this job greatly.
My job got so stressful today, I walked out. Yep, walked out. I couldn't handle it anymore. I was going to leave tomorrow anyway. *shrugs*
Apple STRUCK AGAIN *growls* So I'm going to have to take measures that I do not want to, in order to make them stop *sighs*
Linux World is coming up soon, probably going to be switching between the Debian booth (to hang out with some friends if they show) and the themes.org booth. We have something planned. Come by the booth and we'll try to make it worth your time! Our (themes.org) aim is to have fun at LinuxWorld.. so we would like it if you would come by and have fun with us.


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Man, the Red Wings are stinking up the joint! They have to get it through their head thet THIS IS WAR!
Ok, I took some time to get the latest qcad, build it, and check it out. A nice program. Needs some UI enhancements.
Other than that I went skating Friday night, and rode my bike about 20 miles Saturday and today. Man am I've got to lose some weight. Skating and biking don't do much for the gut. Cheeseburgers don't help... but they're so yummy!


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The knots you get are called wind knots. They are caused by a tailing loop. Or in other terms the fly is below the bottom line. In my case its caused by bending (breaking) the wrist too much at the end of the cast
Oh a tailing loop looks something like this in a side view.
Knots in the leader, other rookie stuff...
What causes this? I seem to be able to throw the line a good distance with a fair degree of accuracy but when I go to change flies I always have at least one Knot in the leader, usually within a few inches of the fly. Next, don't they make a forward moving flipper for float tube fishing? I can't find one and I hate going backwards all the time. Thanks in advance.
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What do you get when you attempt to make the world's largest cupcake? A recipe for disaster!
This week, in Los Angeles, California, chef Gordon Ramsey and the MasterChef Junior contestants revealed what was supposed to be the world's largest cupcake. Instead, their creativity in the kitchen produced a cupcake the size of a marble.
"All great chefs turn negatives into positives," said Ramsey to a packed audience. "Today, we turned that negative around to something positive, and created the world's smallest cupcake."
What happened to the giant dessert? The 3,000-pound cupcake baked for 35 hours in a 6-foot-wide by 8-foot-deep pan. Unfortunately, the pan began to leak and eventually collapsed. The chefs quickly created what they are calling the world's smallest cupcake. Guinness World Records, however, will only judge the largest food items and not the smallest.
"It's cost-effective, it's healthy and it's a one-bite-wonder!" said Ramsay of the tiny treat.
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The event was held to promote the new show MasterChef Junior. The culinary competition was designed to open the door for kids interested in cooking professionally. Here's how it works. Twenty-four aspiring chefs, ages 8 to 13, are selected and put through a series of cooking tests. Contestants are eliminated two at a time until one is finally named Masterchef Junior!
As the kids complete the challenges and work their way up, three judges mentor them. They are celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey, restaurant owner Joe Bastianich, and acclaimed chef Graham Elliot.
Ramsay is known for being a tough critic. If he doesn't like something, he'll let you know. But in MasterChefs Junior he stresses the importance of hard work.
"I think constructive criticism is healthy," he told TFK. "But my focus with these youngsters was on instilling discipline. Having that structure of discipline can take you a long way in life."
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The young cooks didn't fear the adult judges. "Gordon, Joe and Graham were all really supportive and really into what we were doing," said Tommy from Palos Verdes, California. He is a 12-year-old contestant on the show. The toughest challenge for him was making pasta from scratch.
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The aspiring chefs agreed that competing on the show taught them valuable lessons. "Never give up and follow your dreams," 12-year-old Dara told TFK.
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No one ever dies there
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A Want List of Sorts: at this point... I just hope there is a 2017...
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"Wheresoever on earth he dwells, man is prey to two weaknesses: the need to pray and the need to love."-Marquis de Sade
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AMONG the moral gains of the last two centuries, is one which has, I think, never been sufficiently counted. We no longer tolerate the deliberate putting an end to human life for any imputed fault in politics or religion. But although we have ceased to commit the atrocity, we are apt to look at the self‐sacrifice of the victim through spectacles of enthusiasm which blind us to the tragedy it involved. Sir Thomas More went to his death triumphantly, but what of his orphaned household on the evening of that day? And Lady Rachel Russell stands out in history, a calm figure of devoted resignation, but the truth is that her first letter to Dr. FitzWilliam is hardly endurable to read, and that the gradual calming of her shaken nerve is one of the most touching records left us in our historic past. It is a great lesson for frail humanity to realize page: 303 that men are capable of inflicting such unwarrantable pain, for what man has done man may do.
French biographical history supplies us with a companion picture to that of Lady Rachel, and accident placed in my hands the story and the letters, which latter are absolutely unknown in England. The Maréchale‐Duchesse de Montmorency, whose real character can with patience be unearthed from the solemn diction of her biographer, and the strange old French of her own letters (a French anterior to that of Corneille and Racine, and not much later than that of the essays of Montaigne), is a figure well worth preserving. The original biography appears to have been published in 1684, sixteen years after her death, and was reprinted in Belgium at the beginning of this century, in 1824. It is probably impossible to find except on some old bookstall, and the antiquity of the story it relates may be imaginatively gauged by the fact that its heroine was a devoted friend of Madame de Sevigné's grandmother. She is wrapt round in the printed pages by what may be figuratively termed the folds of a Veil of Devotion, under which it becomes a little difficult to realize the figure page: 304 of the adoring wife of Henri de Montmorency. Nevertheless we will try and discover what the poor young woman was really like, before age and bitter suffering had changed and chastened her almost beyond recognition.
Maria Felicia des Ursins was an Italian Princess, and the niece of Pope Sixtus the Fifth; she was born in Rome in the year 1600, when Elizabeth was ruling England in her old age, and the prosperous Shakespeare was adored by the play‐going people of London. Marie de Medicis had lately left Florence for Paris, to be the second wife of Henri the Fourth; the series of huge pictures constituting Rubens' historic rhapsody, and now on the walls of the Louvre, show us the veritable form and face of one at least of the principal personages in the following story; the Royal Godmother; the Duchesse de Bracciano, mother of Felicia, was the cousin and intimate friend of Marie de Medicis, and would have accompanied the bride to Paris but for the expected birth of this youngest child. When the little girl was born, the Queen was godmother by proxy, the baptism took place at St. Peter's, and the baby was, alas! destined to the grandeur page: 305 which beseemed the cousin of royalty. When she was four years of age she was given up to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, to be brought up under that lady's care; her own mother, the Duchess of Bracciano, died three years later. Of her childhood we have a few scanty details—how she once told a lie about some apricots, and was greatly repentant, and how she nearly lost her life from an attack of small‐pox; the remedies inflicted by the Florentine doctors were truly horrible, nevertheless Felicia survived them, and at thirteen a marriage was arranged for her by the Queen of France, who betrothed her to Henri, Duc de Montmorency; he was five years older than herself, and the most accomplished of all the young French nobles. He was son and grandson to the two famous Constables de Montmorency, and had indeed been destined by his father for another bride, but the Queen had her own way; she sent the Marquis de Traynel to Florence with his wife to fetch Felicia, and the young Princess was married by proxy.
As soon as the ceremony was over, her father, the Duc de Bracciano, left secretly for Rome, page: 306 without bidding the poor little soul good‐bye. He wished to spare her the pangs of a farewell of which he knew the probable duration. Of all his many children, Felicia most resembled himself. But her brothers and her eldest married sister remained with her, and also the Princess Orsina, who seems to have been a trifle older than herself.
With the festivities mingled doubtless many tears, but they were cut short by the arrival of the French ships at Leghorn; and the young Duchess left her native Italy for ever, and, with a suitable train of attendants, set sail for Marseilles, where we learn that she visited several famous churches, and in particular the neighbouring grotto in which Mary Magdalene is said to have dwelt for many years in penitence. At Avignon she was met by her father‐in‐law, the old Constable de Montmorency, who received her most tenderly, but regretted to find her such a child. He left her on the borders of Dauphiné, to prepare the proper cortège for his son, and Felicia journeyed north, along the roads we know so well, though we now rush past them with lightning speed; and she finally reached Paris some days page: 307 before the young Duke. Marie de Medicis received her at the New Louvre, in that Pavilion du Roi which had been completed under Henri the Fourth. These noble rooms, long closed, are now shown to the public. The rest of the New Louvre is due to successive reigns. On the day when the young Duke was expected, Felicia took her station at one of the windows (doubtless the great window with the balcony upon the quay which looks across the Seine to Notre Dame and the Sainte Chapelle), and by her side was the Boy‐King Louis the Thirteenth, just a year younger than herself. Felicia this day was full of "extraordinary gaiety." It is the only time we catch the glimpse of a smile enlivening her serious and passionate nature. Presently appeared the procession from Languedoc; a hundred of the best gentlemen of the province riding in splendid coaches, accompanying the extremely handsome young bridegroom, who was not quite twenty years of age; the bride being now in her fifteenth year. She was presented to him by the King, who said, "Here is my cousin. Behold the illustrious Italian. Is she not worthy of you? Are you not satisfied with her?" The page: 308 Queen‐mother also made a pretty speech, and the Duc de Montmorency, godson to the late King (the Grand Henri), replied suitably, as did the old Constable, his father. The young couple were solemnly and suitably married at the Louvre, and the King paid all the expenses of the splendid fête, Felicia being so nearly related to his mother.
And now began the singular romance which the old‐fashioned writer of this biography, evidently a priest of the seventeenth century, finds it difficult to tell in suitably, edifying words, although it is also whimsically evident that his human heart profoundly sympathized with the story he had to tell. Felicia, an exile from her family and her native land, and possessed of a soul naturally yearning towards unusual heights of religious devotion, received Henri de Montmorency as a special gift from heaven, and concentrated upon him all the passionate fervour of her nature. The Bishop of St. Pons, who had known her well at the Court, said of her many years after, that anyone, considering her character as it appeared to those among whom she lived, would never have supposed it possible that she could give her love to any man, had not page: 309 the evident object of her affection been actually visible in the person of her husband, She seemed to him, and to others, predestined to a life of prayer and good works, had not Henri de Montmorency intervened. It is a little difficult to translate the good bishop's thought fully into common English, but it probably contained more than a kernel of truth. No children blessed the union, and she prayed incessantly for the heir that did not come, her husband consoling her by saying that if he had had a boy, he must have taken much more pains to save his money. Montmorency from the first regarded her with the highest esteem and admiration, but for some years he did not give her unmixed satisfaction. Her biographer treats this delicate subject with great reserve, saying that "he always loved her, but did not always love her only," and that nevertheless his distractions were only "reprehensible amusements." Felicia, under these troubled circumstances, showed unusual sense and courage for so young a wife. However much she was tormented by a natural jealousy, she exercised complete exterior self‐control, and at last literally conquered by prayer "this dear page: 310 husband (époux), whom alone she loved, and whose entire affection she herself desired." And when at last Montmorency finally repented of his evil doings, he seasoned his repentance with a mild jest, saying, "My heart! if you cannot forget the past, think when you remember it, that if I had been better you would have shown less piety, for how many of your prayers would have then been left unsaid!" But he told everybody, especially the Court, that he owed his conversion to his wife, and that then, and in the future, she was the only woman for him.
It is impossible to understand the old French biographies without recognizing the double current of human passion and intense spiritual devotion. It meets the reader at every turn—sin and conviction of sin; failure and redress; the woman who leads "a youth of pleasure" not ending by "an old age of cards," but on her knees in some convent; the man turning right round, and changing his ways in obedience to a call. French history is full of it. In Felicia's young days we are told that she managed to lead a quiet life in Paris, even in the midst of "tumult and agitations." Henri was there—"she saw him, page: 311 she possessed him, she was happy." When he was obliged to go to Languedoc to his government, she returned to Chantilly, "that she might think more freely about him and pray for his preservation." When he was seized with a contagious fever, she rushed down to Languedoc to nurse him, and here she had what she considered a distinct answer to prayer. One night, when he seemed to be sinking from hour to hour, the Duchess went into a cabinet adjacent to his room, and falling on her knees, cried, "My God! my God! wilt thou take him from me?" and hardly had the words left her lips, than an unknown voice replied very distinctly, "No, not now" (non pas pour cette fois).
The Marquis de Portés, a friend who had braved the contagious fever, tried to prevent her re‐entering the room. He believed the Duke to be at the very moment of death, and he held out the will, probably as a sign that all was over. She brushed past the Marquis, saying that her husband would not die. She hushed the prayers for the dying which were being recited round his bed, and in an hour the Duke awoke as if from a profound sleep.page: 312
And now how shall the rest of the story be told? I pass over the many details of the way in which Felicia dealt with the immense complicated household of the great Seigneur. How she kept the gentlemen in check and ruled the gentlewomen, and did constant acts of charity; and how from the age of nineteen her health became very delicate, and how she never allowed scandal to be talked in her presence, and how the young King said he wished all the young Court ladies were as modest as Mme. de Montmorency. The portrait is stippled in with many words.
And as this is a short story of the wife and not of the husband, I will not enter into the politics of the troubled time further than to explain their effect on the Duke's career. He continued to be Governor of Languedoc, and she to do the social honours of that great position for some years longer.
In 1629 she was obliged to leave him and take the long, fatiguing journey to Paris, that she might hold her nephew, the young Prince de Conti, at the baptismal font. The godfather was Cardinal Richelieu. After the ceremony a great fête was held at the Hôtel de Mont‐ page: 313 morency Montmorency , attended by the King and all the great nobility. It was still a youthful Court; the Duchess, whose age marched with the century, was just nine‐and‐twenty, the King was eight‐and‐twenty, and her husband thirty‐four.
A small war was now got up by the French king against Piedmont and Savoy, in which Montmorency is said to have covered himself with glory by his feats in the field; and Louis, who had accompanied his army, wrote to the Queen‐mother that Montmorency had not only won a battle, but had wounded the Italian Prince Doria, making him prisoner, and had also taken nineteen flags. All this so terrified Felicia, that she persuaded the King to recall her husband from the war, and the latter promised her that he would so organize the government of Languedoc as to live more in Paris, and also at Chantilly, where he now began to spend great sums of money over that splendid château which was eventually destroyed at the French Revolution, and which in our own days was rebuilt by the Duc d'Aumale. But vain were all these projects, evil days were coming on the Montmorencys, concerning which I find in the old page: 314 book a most extraordinary prophecy, which at the time was kept carefully from the Duchess by all concerned.
The Duke, passing through Avignon with Marshal de Schomberg, was told of a holy monk who when at his prayers was seen to be elevated above the ground. There is a well‐known picture in the Louvre of a similar occurrence, in which the monk is represented as peeling carrots in the convent kitchen while engaged meanwhile in interior prayer. The two nobles went to the convent at Avignon, saw the monk hovering in the air, and tried to kiss his feet. Marshal de Schomberg was allowed to perform the act of homage, but when Montmorency approached, the feet were withdrawn from his lips, at which he was greatly alarmed, supposing that the hindrance could only be accounted for by some forgotten sin on his own part. But on being interrogated by the superior of the convent, the monk replied that he could not allow his feet to be kissed by "a man predestined so soon to enter into the glory of the saints." The reply was carefully kept secret from the subject of the prophecy, and remained untold until after his death.page: 315
This journey to the South of France was the last undertaken by the hapless man; his wife had insisted on accompanying him, but when she reached Beziers, a town not far from Montpellier, she fell violently ill with acute rheumatism, which was attributed to her having, when lately in Lyons, spent her nights at her window, watching for the couriers, during the anxieties of the Italian War. And what was worse and more alarming was the intelligence that Gaston of Orleans, the King's rebellious brother, had returned to France from the Spanish Netherlands. The quarrel was a complicated one; Marie de Medicis sided with her younger son, and Richelieu with the King; Richelieu's chief object being to lower the influence of the great feudal nobles; and, as is well known, he succeeded in giving to the monarchy that fatal supremacy which long afterwards was one great source of the Revolution. It was sorely against his wife's wish that Montmorency took the side of Gaston, and it is difficult to understand how he can have so utterly miscalculated. Ill as she was, she put forth her whole strength to induce him to change his mind, but in vain. One night he pacified page: 316 her by going to bed in an adjoining room, after wishing her a tender good‐night, but he presently got up softly and secretly, and went off to meet the conspirators. On another occasion after he had so deceived her, she insisted on leaving her sick‐bed three times, and had herself carried into his room. to see if he were safe, and each time she found him there; his hour had not yet come; and the third time she besought him in the tenderest way to give up his designs, which she assured him "he could not carry out without causing her death of grief." He wept and caressed and cajoled her, but she saw through him only too well. No other human being was now anything to him but his wife Felicia, yet not even for her would he renounce his ambition. On the 24th of August, 1632, he came for the last time and sat by her bedside; he told her he hoped finally to reconcile Gaston with the King, talked of things he meant to do on his return, and told her that he felt sure of success. The poor woman could do nothing and could say no more; she could only weep upon her pillow, and when Henri had at last got out of the room he was so agonized that page: 317 he fainted away. He was afterwards heard praying amidst his sobs—praying for his wife's temporal welfare and for the safety of his own soul, "que mon salut eternel ne perisse point avec ma vie." And he was gone.
The end came very quickly. In one of the first engagements with the troops of the King, Montmorency received eighteen wounds and was taken prisoner. It may be thought it would have been happier for him if he had died on the field of battle, and assuredly to Felicia it would have been a far lesser shock; but the intervening weeks gave him the opportunity of making a singularly pious and resigned end. When the écuyer sent by his unhappy wife came to his bedside, the surgeons were dressing his wounds, and Montmorency said, "Tell your mistress how numerous and how severe are the wounds you have beheld, and assure her that which I have caused to her heart is the cruellest of all to me." And he wrote this letter with his own hands:—
"MY HEART,—I have been singularly consoled by the sight of Maurins. I had already written what the surgeons thought of my wounds. I assure you that they are exactly as he will de‐ page: 318 scribe them to you, and the sharpest pain I feel in my unhappy condition is the thought of your grief. Arise above it for the love of me, I beseech you, since I was not killed, and God does all for the best. Adieu. Je suis tout votre. describe
The next page contains a curious and pathetic record of how the poor Duchess was tossed backwards and forwards in the throes of a heart and conscience almost too delicate for this world's work. She refused to attempt to corrupt the guards, and she gives a strange hint of wishing to fly into Italy and let it be thought she was dead; she seems to have imagined that if Montmorency was supposed to be a widower his life might be saved by a royal alliance, but she knew that this would be a sinful thing to do. Somebody suggested recourse to witchcraft, and the possible help of the devil, but to this also Felicia turned a deaf ear; she would not risk her husband's soul for his temporal safety. At last his friends determined to try and save him without letting the Duchess know their ways and means; they were foiled, because he was so weakened by the loss of blood as to be constantly fainting away, and it was impossible page: 319 to make any plans involving personal exertion on the part of the prisoner. All this is very obscurely told, for when the biography was originally put together only fifty‐two years had elapsed since the catastrophe, and it is probable that some of the people concerned were still alive. In the meantime the different members of the royal family, and many of the great nobility, tried hard to save Montmorency, and the wretched Gaston, who had been the tempter and caused all the misery, implored the clemency of the King, but in vain. Louis the Thirteenth, inspired by Richelieu, left the Duke to be tried by the parliament of Languedoc, "according to the laws of the State," which meant death. The prisoner pleaded guilty, was at once condemned, and turned every thought of his heart to the ordinances of his religion. He died with perfect courage and resignation, at the age of thirty‐seven; supremely dear to one poor woman's heart, dear to his sister the Princess de Condé, dear to France, which regarded him as a national hero, and regretted by the whole of Europe in an age when Europe was more vitally united than she is now. This is his last letter to his wife:—page: 320
"MY DEAR HEART,—I bid you a last farewell with an affection as deep as that which has always been between us. I conjure you by the repose of my soul, which I trust will soon be in heaven, to accept this affliction from the gentle hand of our Saviour. I have received such graces from His goodness that you can feel that you have every subject of consolation. Adieu once again, my dear heart. MONTMORENCY."
The intelligence that the execution had taken place was brought to Felicia by two Capuchin fathers, who were reluctantly persuaded to precede the government commissioners. They entered her room in profound silence and found her sitting in a passion of tears; but no sooner did she see them than she suddenly became quiet, saying afterwards that she felt as if Almighty God had seized her in a firm grasp, "and as one whom another was tightly holding to avoid any possibility of motion," and she then and there made three resolutions, firstly to embrace the religious life as soon as she was free to do so, secondly to follow strictly step by step whatever appeared to be the will of God, page: 321 thirdly to make a sacrifice of every feeling of resentment; and when, as she interiorly uttered this last promise, the remembrance of a gesture of her fatal enemy Cardinal Richelieu rushed into her mind, she heard a voice saying imperiously, "Je veux que cela meure aujourd'hui."
Madame de Montmorency survived her husband for thirty‐four years, but though she was nearly sixty before she was able to carry out her desire of taking the veil, her life was so associated with the order of the Visitation that it is difficult to describe it in a manner interesting to the general reader. She was for some time kept in a kind of royal imprisonment in the Château of Moulins, where her brother the Père des Ursins, a bare‐footed Carmelite, came to visit her, and when at last she was set free by the King's decree, she made up her mind not to leave that town. Her brother stayed with her for two months, and was to her an immense consolation; with his approval she acquired a large house next door to the Convent of Saint Marie de Moulins and obtained permission to open a door of communication. Here she kept up a large household of retainers suitable to her rank, and page: 322 though she lived personally according to a strict religious rule, she was obliged to keep up much intercourse with the outer world. Anne of Austria wrote her a very affectionate letter, and Gaston wrote her another which cost her many bitter tears. He told her he was coming to see her, and she consented to receive him. In this she strictly obeyed her husband's dying injunctions to pardon the direct and indirect authors of his condemnation.
Ten years after her husband's death, Louis the Thirteenth passed through Moulins, and Madame de Montmorency, who was in church with the nuns, heard the drums and trumpets which announced the arrival of the King, and wept at the sound, but had the self‐command to continue quietly saying her prayers. Both the King and Richelieu sent a messenger to the woman whose earthly happiness they had ruined. She spoke to both of these, saying to the first, "Sir, I beg of you to tell the King that I have been much surprised that his Majesty yet remembers such an unhappy creature, and one so unworthy of the honour." And to the second messenger she said, "Sir, you will say if you please to your master that my tears speak for me, and that I page: 323 am his very humble servant," but neither the King nor Richelieu dared to present themselves before her. And when on the 4th of the December of that same year she received the news of the death of Richelieu, she opened the letter and read it in perfect silence. She then folded up the letter, telling none but the Superior of the news which it contained, and as soon as the hour of recreation was ended and she had returned to her own rooms, she made up several rolls of money, which she sent round to the different churches of the town and ordered Masses to be said for the repose of her enemy's soul.
Madame de Montmorency caused a wonderfully beautiful tomb to be erected over her husband many years after his death; and she obtained permission to have his coffin brought from the South of France to Moulins. It was opened in the presence of officers sent by her, who found his body embalmed and in the same state as when first he was laid in the grave. It was borne through France in a chariot covered with a great pall of black velvet, and drawn by eight horses in funeral trappings. The Queen had written to the Duchess to beg her that this should page: 324 be done very quietly, and the cortège avoided passing through any of the great towns of Languedoc; but in Limousin, one of his old friends, M. Soudheilles, seeing it approach near to one of his estates, called together the nobility of the neighbouring country, who went out in a procession to meet it. It was brought into Moulins at night and the coffin laid where the splendid monument can be seen to this day.¹
Madame de Montmorency was a seer of visions, and quite convinced that her Henri appeared to her three separate times, to her immense consolation. At one moment she made the sacrifice of all the letters he had ever written to her except those dated from prison. She wished to forget the too poignant sense of loss. She was an old woman of sixty‐six when she was called to rejoin him in perfect faith. I trust that the story of her life‐long grief, and the way in which she bore it, may not be without some interest to the modern world.
¹ This monument was spared at the Revolution, as having been erected in honour of a man put to death by a king.


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October 11, 2004, 07:21:38 PM »
A continuation of the original thread from the apparently defunct Gone Gold...
Along the lines of the "Games Completed in 2004", this is a "Books Read in 2004" thread. Claim a spot and list up the books you finish in 2004. Be sure to update your list when you finish a new book.
In order to get as many lists on the first few pages as possible, let's keep general discussion out of the thread until 10/18. That will give former Gone Golders and others who would like to join a week to recompile lists and post them here. So for the time being, please just post your lists of books read in 2004 here.
This isn't really a competition to see who reads the most books in a year, but rather as a way to learn a bit more about other forum members, as a way to spark discussion about books, and as a resource for forum members to find books they might be interested in reading.
It's up to each member to decide on their own what constitutes "reading a book". For me, I have two very little kids, so I probably read a dozen books a day, none of which is longer than 100 words. I won't be counting those. However, I will be counting some easy Japanese novels that I work through occasionally; I feel like I've "read a book" after I finish one of those.
Lastly, I'm very much making all this up as I go along. If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve things, please feel free to post them here or email me.
Happy reading!
My (partial) list:
* Shadow of the Hegemon - Orson Scott Card (1/19) (B-)
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling (1/21) (A+)
* Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett (1/24) (B)
* Guilty Pleasures - L.K. Hamilton (2/15) (B)
* D-Day - Stephen Ambrose (3/7 (B+)
* Stars Shine Down - Sidney Sheldon (3/9) (C)
* Angels & Demons - Dan Brown (3/13) (A+)
* Reversible Errors - Scott Turow (3/17) (B)
* The Lost World – Michael Crichton (3/22) (A)
* Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand (3/25) (A+)
* Guide to Rational Living – Albert Ellis & Robert Harper (3/27 (B+)
* Hominids – Robert J. Sawyer (4/1)(A-)
* Futebol: Soccer, The Brazilian Way – Alex Bellos (4/5)(C+)
* Damn, Why Didn't I Write That! – Marc McCutcheon (4/7 (B)
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October 11, 2004, 07:29:56 PM »
'Guilty Pleasures' by L.K. Hamilton is one of the Anita Blake novels, right? Has she given up on the idea of Blake being a worker with the undead and just writing goth porn now? I really liked the first several novels but they've become little more than a background to Anita getting her rocks off in different combinations of participants.
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October 11, 2004, 07:48:58 PM »
One thing I just realized is that when I started this thread over at Gone Gold, I gave people a few days to get their lists of books posted, so that the first few pages of the thread would be a resource of all the books that forum members had read. Along those lines, could you edit your post to make it into your list of books read this year? I realize my first post didn't say that (until I edited it), but I think it'll be best if the thread starts with everyone's lists so that they are easy to browse through. We'll open the thread up for discussion in a week. Thanks!
(And along those lines, I'll delete this post in a couple of days.)
To answer your question, though...
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'Guilty Pleasures' by L.K. Hamilton is one of the Anita Blake novels, right? Has she given up on the idea of Blake being a worker with the undead and just writing goth porn now? I really liked the first several novels but they've become little more than a background to Anita getting her rocks off in different combinations of participants.
I've read the first four/five books in the series now (I have to update my list). The first one was passable, but weak in a lot of places. The next few were entertaining and original, I thought. The last one I read was a step down: it involved a lot of romance, and that really watered the book down. Her strengths are her innovative characters, her unique world, and her good storytelling. She should stick to those things. I've heard that there is a lot more sex in the later books, but I haven't gotten to them yet. I'll probably read one or two more in the series, then bag them if they head in the direction you mention.
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October 11, 2004, 08:13:11 PM »
The Knight - Gene Wolfe
The King of Foxes - Raymond E. Feist
Prentice Alvin - Orson Scott Card
Alvin Journeyman - Orson Scott Card
Heartfire - Orson Scott Card
The Crystal City - Orson Scott Card
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb (reread)
Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb (reread)
Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb (reread)
Fool's Errand - Robin Hobb
Golden Fool - Robin Hobb
Fool's Fate - Robin Hobb
Angels & Demons -Dan Brown
The Dead Zone - Stephen King
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Lost World - Michael Crichton
Edenborn - Nick Sagan
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Catcher in the Rye
Chronicles (Volume 1) - Bob Dylan
Currently reading:
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
Fahrenheit 451
The Last Unicorn
War of the Worlds
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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October 11, 2004, 08:19:35 PM »
I'm keep adding to this list. I'm busy with school (graduating in May) so I probably won't get around to even buying some of these books for a while.
Recently read:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque
To read (no particular order, a lot of these ideas came from hearing my ethics Prof talk about them):
Lying by Sissela Bok
The Trouble with Christmas by Tom Flynn
The Religion War by Scott Adams
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy by writers of The Daily Show
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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October 11, 2004, 08:23:16 PM »
By Stephen King:
Wolves of the Calla
Hearts in Atlantis
Bag of Bones
On Writing
From a Buick 8
Black House (with Peter Straub)
Everything's Eventual
Song of Susanna
Regulators (as Richard Bachman)
The Gunslinger (revised)
The Dark Tower (Book 7)
By others:
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
1984 - George Orwell
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Watchmen - Alan Moore
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Bad Beginning (SUE1) - Lemony Snicket
The Reptile Room (SUE2) - Lemony Snicket
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
Shopgirl - Steve Martin
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron - Daniel Clowes
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer - Kenneth Patchen
The Journal of Albion Moonlight - Kenneth Patchen
Light - M. John Harrison,
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick - Kurt Vonnegut
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
At one point in my life I was more or less caught up with Stephen King. Spurred on by his finishing the Dark Tower series, it's been a marathon year for my reading habits and now a dozen of his books later I am caught up with his work again.
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October 11, 2004, 08:27:39 PM »
Smoove Reading List: 2004 (as best as I can remember)
Bad Medicine : Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O
The Mists of Avalon
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul
The Salmon of Doubt
The Logic of Failure
The Da Vinci Code
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
How We Believe : Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
Lovecraft (Hans Rodionoff)
Sophie's World
Into Thin Air
Snow Crash
Inviting Disaster
At the Water's Edge : Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
Parasite Rex
Dark Tower Book 6: The Song of Susanna
The Black Company
The Black Company: Shadows Linger
The Black Company: The White Rose
I am Legend
The Writer's Journey (2nd ed.)
Dark Tower Book 7: The Dark Tower
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Just securing some prime real estate while I reconstruct my list.
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Ahh...page one....had been 1st on page 2 for a while...I'll update soon
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October 12, 2004, 01:28:53 AM »
Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Candide - Voltaire
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Not finished yet, actually. About halfway.)
There are Doors - Gene Wolfe
Strange Travelers - Gene Wolfe
Latro in the Mist - Gene Wolfe
Innocents Aboard - Gene Wolfe
The Summer Tree - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Wandering Fire - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Darkest Road - Guy Gavriel Kay
The Demolished Man - Alred Bester
The Golden Transcendence - John C Wright
Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erikson
Memories of Ice - Steven Erikson
Deadhouse Gates - Steven Erikson
House of Chains - Steven Erikson
Blackhawk Down: A Story of Modern War - Mark Bowden
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Broken Angels - Richard Morgan
Gridlinked - Neal Asher
Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days - Alastair Reynolds
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds
Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds
Absolution Gap - Alastair Reynolds
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Disposessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin
Tehanu - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Reality Dysfunction Part I: Emergence - Peter F. Hamilton
The Reality Dysfunction Part 2: Expansion - Peter F. Hamilton
The Neutronium Alchemist Part I: Consolidation - Peter F. Hamilton
The Neutronium Alchemist Part 2: Conflict - Peter F. Hamilton
The Naked God Part 1 : Flight - Peter F. Hamilton
The Naked God Part 2: Faith - Peter F. Hamilton
Stone - Adam Roberts
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II - Gerhard L. Weinberg
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzscheby
Ventus - Karl Schroeder
The Elric Saga: Part III - Michael Moorcock
The High House - James Stoddard
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Shogun - James Clavell
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic - Sean Williams and Shane Dix
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy - Greg Keyes
Star Wars: The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force - James Luceno
Up next:
Dreams of the Sea - Elizabeth Vonarburg
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation - Joseph Ellis
The Knight and The Wizard - Gene Wolfe (Waiting for The Wizard to release so I can read them both at once.
The Star Wars books might seem slightly out of place in the list, but I started reading the series when I was ~11 and wow, heh, does it ever have inertia. :oops:
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October 12, 2004, 03:13:30 AM »
The only book I've finished this year was The DaVinci Code. Decently interesting, but I found it to be somewhat shallow.
I've just started Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It may be awhile until I finish that.
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Reconstructing the list...
Books Read
Wolves of the Calla
by Stephen King
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
edited by Mark Roberts and Jeff Vandermeer
This Symbiotic Fascination
by Charlee Jacob
Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
Veniss Underground
by Jeff Vandermeer
Secret Life
by Jeff Vandermeer
Lies & Ugliness
by Biran Hodge
by M. John Harrison
Gardens of the Moon
by Steven Erikson
Ghosts of Tomorrow
by Jack Cady
Miss Molly's Manners: A Book of Etiquette for Dogs
by Jack Cady
Snow Crash
by Neil Stephenson
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
Dangerous Visions
edited by Harlan Ellison
The Dark Country
by Dennis Etchison
Currently Reading
The Night Country
by Stewart O'Nan
Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance
by Lennard Zinn
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
by Michael Moorcock
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100 Decisive Battles: From Ancient Times to Present(***)
Paris, 1919 by Margaret MacMillan(***)
World War One by John Keegan(*****)
An Army At Dawn by Rick Atkinson(*****)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Andre Dumas(*****)
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy(****)
The Bear and The Dragon by Tom Clancy(***)
No Logo by Naomi Watt(*****)
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond(****)
Marching as To War: Canada's Turbulant Years by Pierre Burton(****)
Krakatoa by Simon Winchester(***)
A Brief History of the Crusades by Geoffory Hindley(***)
The Columbian Exchange by Alfred Crosby(****)
Moby Dick by Hermin Melville (Currently stalled as I read the next book for school)
The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World by Charles Freeman
Need to Finish:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Conrad Black
The British Isles by Norman Davis
Coming Up:
Nuremburg by Joseph Persico
The Hapsburg Monarchy by Robin Okey
The Three Muskateers by Andre Dumas
And its only October, school has definetly put a crimp on my reading though.
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Siddartha, Herman Hesse
His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susana Clarke
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (2 years and counting)
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[Placeholder while I retrieve my list and post it from home]
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From a Buic 8 by steven king
Runaway Jury By John Grisman
Bleachers by ""
The Kite runner : cant remember the author
The world unseen: ''
The Emperor of Ocean Park: Stevphen L Carter
A game of Thrones: GRR marten
storm of sowards : ""
bird eye view: JF FReedmon
On writing: Steven King
SOme other books I cant remember the name of.
Iron Weed: William Kennedy!
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By David Brandt/The Associated Press
OXFORD — There's much at stake in this year's Egg Bowl.
No. 25 Mississippi State (8-3, 4-3 Southeastern Conference) is trying to win four in a row in the rivalry for the first time since the 1940s when the teams meet on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mississippi (5-6, 2-5) is one victory away from bowl eligibility for the first time since 2009.
Bulldogs coach Dan Mullen said what makes the rivalry so special is there aren't many areas of the Magnolia State that are dominated by one of the two fan bases. Instead, there are Bulldogs and Rebels sprinkled together in almost every city.
There's no avoiding the other group.
"It's a neighbor-to-neighbor (rivalry), which makes it an even bigger game," Mullen said.
First-year Mississippi coach Hugh Freeze is well of aware of the demographics.
He grew up outside of Senatobia, Miss., which is about a 45-minute drive from Oxford, and his personal experience with the rivalry is longstanding.
And he badly wants the Golden Egg to make a return to Oxford.
"I actually have family members that are on the other side," Freeze said. "I have great respect for some coaches down there, also. I won't get into the name calling. We have great respect for them. We want to beat them as bad as they want to beat us. I understand the impact it has on the program, our fans and the people of this state. We're going to go about it the right way and try to beat them that badly on Saturday."
Ole Miss might love a lopsided win, but oddsmakers see the game as a close one, giving the Rebels a slight edge.
Mississippi State recovered from a three-game losing streak last weekend by beating Arkansas 45-14 in Starkville. The Bulldogs are led by quarterback Tyler Russell, who has thrown for 2,503 yards and 21 touchdowns and already owns several single-season passing records.
The Rebels will counter with an undersized but speedy defense that is second in the SEC with 31 sacks. Linebacker Denzel Nkemdiche is the poster child, a 5-foot-11, 203-pound redshirt freshman who leads the Rebels with 12 tackles for a loss.
"They have a really good defense," Russell said. "We have to go play. I feel like if we do the things we need to do, we will take care of business. If not, we won't."
The issue for Ole Miss has been playing four good quarters. The Rebels have had a late lead against Texas A&M, Vanderbilt and LSU this season, but let all three games get away.
There are certainly valid excuses for the late breakdowns. Ole Miss is young in several spots and doesn't have much depth.
But players say those shortcomings shouldn't matter, especially when it comes to the Egg Bowl and earning a chance at the postseason.
"We're definitely ready," Ole Miss offensive lineman Emmanuel McCray said. "We have a lot of coaches that played for the university, so they have the same passion … It's a little more intense, but it's still calm. You don't want to be overemotional."
Even though he's from the northeast, Mullen has always been passionate about the rivalry during his four years in Mississippi. He's seen firsthand how it can hit close to home.
His neighbor in Starkville is an Ole Miss fan. And when Mullen's 3-year-old went to visit his friends next door last week, Canon Mullen was rooting for "The School Up North."
Albeit against LSU.
Canon and the neighbor's children were all watching SEC football like a lot of kids in this state and several were rooting for the Rebels to beat the Tigers.
"Since we lost to LSU the week before, he was not real high on LSU at that point," Mullen said with a grin. "He wouldn't mind seeing them lose."
But that'll change Saturday. Now it's the Rebels who are the enemy.
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The sweetest bravest gentlest Labrador Ive ever had the privilege of knowing, asked to go to the Rainbow Bridge today. Her mind was still strong, but her great body was wracked with arthritis and ravaged by diabetes and couldnt go on.
Pebbles came into my life when she was 6 years old and just diagnosed with diabetes. Her owners couldnt/didnt/wouldnt care for her and were going to euthanize her. I said with great gusto, I can find a home for her. And I did. She lived with me for another 6 years.
She was the greatest SAR dog that never was. The greatest OTCH dog that never was. The greatest Field Trial champion that never was. She never sat in a duck blind nor won a ribbon. I wished I could have put just half of her play drive, perseverance, and joy of life into a body that functioned. She would have been world class.
Good night, Pebbles. I hope someday I have the privilege of being greeted by you at the Rainbow Bridge.


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