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On the evening after the rainiest summer day in Melbourne's history, Tony Wheeler's dinner guests, who were British, wanted to discuss the weather. Wheeler gradually redirected the conversation to the Falkland Islands. He had recently written a new Lonely Planet guide to the Falklands, and also one to East Timor, exactly the sort of backpacker destinations that he and his wife, Maureen, had in mind when they established Lonely Planet, in 1973, as the scruffy but valiant enemy of the cruise ship and the droning tour guide. The Wheelers' guests, who were touring Australia, were Roger Twiney, a flatmate of Tony's in England in the early seventies, and Roger's wife, Susanne. As both couples sat in the Wheelers' living room, watching the sun set across the Yarra River, Tony spoke of the Falklands' king and rockhopper penguins; of tracing Ernest Shackleton's footsteps on South Georgia Island; and of the peculiarities of the local "squidocracy," those grown rich from fishing the cephalopod mollusk.
"But isn't it cold, windy, inhospitable?" Roger asked.
"No, no!" Tony said. "It's just like Yorkshire."
"I'm from Yorkshire," Susanne said, with a don't-tell-me-about-Yorkshire tone.
"Well, the Falklands actually get less snow than your home region!" Tony replied, seeming confident that she would be as delighted by this arresting fact as he was. Susanne fell silent.
A slight, graying man of fifty-eight, Tony Wheeler is at least two people. Tony No. 1, who goes to the office every day in subfusc clothing and carries a passport from his native Britain, is so self-contained that he appears, as a colleague puts it, "almost socially retarded." When he gave me a tour of Lonely Planet's head office, in Melbourne, not one of the three hundred eager twenty- and thirty-somethings who work there greeted him as he passed. "I met Tony in our Oakland office a few years ago and I expected him to be this huge presence, this Tony Robbins of travel," Debra Miller, a Lonely Planet author, says. "But he's sort of the Woody Allen of travel."
Like one of those dehydrated sponges which inflate to astonishing size when dropped into their proper element, Wheeler becomes a vastly different and more voluble person when he's on a trip (or recalling or anticipating a trip). This is Tony No. 2, who carries a passport from his adopted Australia. Tony No. 2 and Maureen and I were leaving the next day for the Sultanate of Oman. They were then going on to Ethiopia, and later this year Wheeler planned to visit Macau, Shanghai, Singapore, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, and Japan, and to sweep from Cape Town to Casablanca by air safari.
Tony No. 2 relishes being the face of Lonely Planet and of independent travel, regularly rising before dawn—and ignoring Maureen's tart remarks—to appear on Australia's "Today" show, a program that he acknowledges is "pretty awful." He is a valued guest because, having explored a hundred and seventeen countries, he can speak knowledgeably on almost any topic, from the issues faced by rickshaw drivers in Calcutta to such larger mysteries as why Egypt lacks a major industry. Like Benjamin Franklin and the Norway rat, he is a citizen of the world.
His company's reach is equally broad. Lonely Planet now markets some six hundred and fifty titles, from "Aboriginal Australia" to "Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks," in a hundred and eighteen countries. With annual sales of more than six million guidebooks—about a quarter of all the English-language guidebooks sold—it is the world's largest publisher of travel guides.
"Lonely Planet is the bible in places like India," Mark Ellingham, the founder of Rough Guides, the cheeky British series, says. "If they recommend the Resthouse Bangalore, then half the guesthouses there rename themselves Resthouse Bangalore." The series' authority is such that the team accompanying Jay Garner, the first American administrator of occupied Iraq, used "Lonely Planet Iraq" to draw up a list of historical sites that should not be bombed or looted. The writers Marianne Wiggins, Jilly Cooper, and Pico Iyer have used Lonely Planet guides to immerse themselves in the feel of a far-off locale for novels set in, respectively, Cameroon, Colombia, and Iran. And, in perhaps the greatest tribute, the Vietnamese have begun to manufacture ersatz Lonely Planet guides to complement their line of fake Rolexes.
At the same time, however, a number of the company's authors worry that Lonely Planet itself has begun to manufacture ersatz Lonely Planet guides. As the company has expanded to cover Europe and America, markets already jammed with travel guides, it has been updating many of its guidebooks every two years, which requires that it use more and more contributors for each book—twenty-seven for the forthcoming edition of the United States guide alone. The books' iconoclastic tone has been muted to cater to richer, fussier sorts of travellers, many of whom, like the Wheelers themselves, fly business class. And Lonely Planet's original flagship, its "shoestring" series for backpackers, today makes up only three per cent of the company's sales.
"Our Hawaii book used to be written for people who were picking their own guava and sneaking into the resort pool, and we were getting killed by the competition," a Lonely Planet author named Sara Benson told me. "So we relaunched it for a more typical two-week American mid-market vacation. That sold, but it didn't feel very Lonely Planet." Every Lonely Planet series was relaunched last year in a slicker format that jettisoned much of the discussion of local history and economics; the books now commence, as most guides do, with snappy "Highlights" and "Itineraries." "We're trying to insinuate ourselves into Tony Wheeler's world," Mike Spring, the publisher of the hotels-and-fine-dining-focussed Frommer's Travel Guides, says, "and he's trying to insinuate himself into ours."
Around the time of the relaunch, the Wheelers relinquished day-to-day control of the company, but they still own seventy per cent of it. Tony keeps looking for new places to cover, and he and Maureen continue to reject offers to license the company's name. John Singleton, an Australian advertising magnate whose limited partnership owns the rest of Lonely Planet, says, "Tony and Maureen would rather be broke than be prostitutes, and God bless 'em."
Yet over the years, Wheeler seems to suspect, something essential was lost. "Those vivid colors of the early books," he said to me, "once they get blended with so many other authors and editors and concerns about what the customer wants, they inevitably become gray and bland. It's entropy, isn't it?"
At dinner with the Twineys, as Tony was uncorking a fourth bottle of wine, Maureen Wheeler mentioned her chronic insomnia. An ardent woman with a deeply amused laugh, she grew up in Belfast and moved to London in 1970, at the age of twenty. Within a week, she had met Tony on a park bench when he noticed her copy of Tolstoy's "Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth." Before too long, they were off to Afghanistan in a decrepit 1964 Austin minivan. "I keep waking up from the same dream," she said now. "My father, who actually died when I was twelve, is still alive, but I'm a spinster, with no prospects."
"I just had a dream where I was being chased through a shopping center, and I was in a dark room with all these doors, and they were all shut but one," Tony said. "I was trying to get out that door, and it kept shrinking—and then about fifty women came through the door and prevented me from getting out."
"It's funny," Maureen said. "Because you of all the people I know are the one person who does exactly what he wants at all times." Her voice was taking on an Irish lilt, as it does when she gets worked up. "You're never thwarted. You go off and do what you like and leave everyone else to clean up the mess."
"Oh, now," Tony said. "It's funny. I never have sexy dreams, or frightening dreams, just dreams of annoyance and frustration."
"Dreams are surreal," Maureen said. "They reveal something important by twisting and heightening it."
"Surreal just means 'not real,' " Tony said crossly. "Dreams are dumb."
In the late nineteen-eighties, I travelled in Asia for a year, and the Lonely Planet guides were my lifeline. I ate and slept where they told me to, on Khao San Road in Bangkok and Anjuna Beach in Goa; I oriented myself by their scrupulous if naïvely drawn maps; and on long bus rides I immersed myself in the Indonesia book's explanation of the Ramayana story. The guides didn't tell me to wear drawstring pants and Tintin T-shirts or to crash my moped—I picked that up on my own—but they did teach me, as they taught a whole generation, how to move through the world alone and with confidence.
I learned to stuff my gear into one knapsack; never to ask a local where I should eat but, rather, where he ate; never to judge a country by its capital city; never to stay near a mosque (the muezzin wakes you); how to haggle; and, crucially, when I later went to Mongolia, to shout "Nokhoi khor!"—"Hold the dog!"—before entering a yurt. When you spend months with a guidebook that speaks to you in an intimate, conversational tone, it becomes a bosom companion.
Through studying "The Lonely Planet Story" at the back of the books and talking with other travellers, I versed myself in the creation myth: how, after meandering across Asia's Hippie Trail for nine months and fetching up in Sydney with only twenty-seven cents, the Wheelers self-published "Across Asia on the Cheap," in 1973. The ninety-four-page pamphlet, which Tony had written at their kitchen table, sold eighty-five hundred copies in Australian bookstores. With its buccaneering opinions on the textures of daily life—"The inertial effect of religion is nowhere more clearly seen than with India's sacred cows, they spread disease, clutter already overcrowded towns, consume scarce food (and waste paper) and provide nothing"—the book hearkened back to the confident sweep of the great European guides of a century before. Guidebooks had emerged in the early eighteen-hundreds as a resource for Byronic travellers in search of picturesque views, but the best of them illuminated an entire way of life. "Baedeker's London and Its Environs 1900" told readers, for instance, that the city's public baths were "chiefly for the working class who may obtain a cold bath for one penny."
After spending another year in Asia, in 1975, Tony and Maureen holed up in a fleabag hotel in Singapore for three months while he wrote "South-East Asia on a Shoestring." Tony's former profession—in England, he had been an engineer at Chrysler—clearly influenced the books' format: they read like engineering reports, with topics such as "History," "Climate," and "Fauna & Flora" to contend with before you got to the actual sights. This eat-your-vegetables earnestness made reading the books feel like taking up a vocation.
"Lonely Planet created a floating fourth world of people who travelled full time," Pico Iyer says. "The guides encouraged a counter-Victorian way of life, in that they exactly reversed the old imperial assumptions. Now the other cultures are seen as the wise place, and we are taught to defer to them." A passage from my old Lonely Planet "Thailand" is illustrative:
**{: .break one} ** Recently, when staying in Phuket for an extended period (Kata-Karon-Naiharn area), I talked with a few Thai bungalow/restaurant proprietors who said that nudity on the beaches was what bothered them most about foreign travellers. These Thais took nudity as a sign of disrespect on the part of the travelers for the locals, rather than as a libertarian symbol or modern custom. I was even asked to make signs that they could post forbidding or discouraging nudity—I declined, forgoing a free bungalow for my stay. **
Note the pointed assertion of independence—and the seemingly casual aside that it was an "extended" stay. There was a self-righteousness about the tone, of course, but I liked that Lonely Planet, unlike the other major guidebooks, didn't accept advertisements, and that it donated five per cent of its profits to charity. (After the tsunami in December, the company gave nearly four hundred thousand dollars toward relief efforts.)
I did occasionally wonder just how independent I was learning to be. When Lonely Planet set me down on an island like Ko Samui, then relatively unspoiled but already speckled with bungalows, I realized that I was seeing a parallel Thailand that bore little relation to the "real" thing. Serving up cultural comfort food is a traditional feature—or failing—of guides. Cairo is "no more than a winter suburb of London," an 1898 Cook's Tours pamphlet assured tourists. Richard Bangs, the co-founder of Mountain Travel Sobek, the adventure travel company, says that Lonely Planet travellers "like to think they're out there on the edge, but they're all reading the bible and moving in big flocks."
Yet Tony Wheeler's most important advice—reprinted in the guides until last year's relaunch—was "Just go!" Don't book hotels, don't worry unduly about shots and itineraries or even buying a guidebook—just go. This was an existential call to arms that amounted to a politics and even a morality: more than one Lonely Planet author told me that had George W. Bush ever really travelled abroad the United States would not have invaded Iraq. The most serious political wrangle the company has got into is over publishing its Myanmar book despite international sanctions against that country and the stand taken by the country's Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has urged travellers to boycott the junta. Lonely Planet's "Myanmar (Burma)" guide pays deference to her argument, and lists the ways that you can minimize supporting the government, but concludes that travel "is the type of communication that in the long term can change lives and unseat undemocratic governments."
Movements like Lonely Planet need their martyrs, and in the eighties I heard stories in guesthouses across Asia that Tony Wheeler had recently died in spectacular fashion. There were hundreds of variations of the tale, but all had Wheeler running out of luck at the end of the trail somewhere: in a train, bus, or motorcycle accident; from malaria; at a bullfight; at the hands of the mujahideen_._ Not for nothing was the "South-East Asia" guide, with its distinctive yolk-colored cover, known as the "yellow bible." Even today, there are animated discussions on Lonely Planet's online forum, "The Thorn Tree," about whether Wheeler is the Jesus of travel or the Moses, "since the LP was not written, it was revealed."
High in the western Hajar mountains in northern Oman, our four-wheel-drive Honda lurched down a dirt pass. The one-lane road plunged among the crags toward the goal far below: Wadi Bani Awf, an arroyo filled with date palms, a rare vein of green in an arid land. The brakes were squeaking and giving off a worrisome odor, and my right thigh quivered from jabbing the nonexistent passenger-side brake pedal whenever Tony bent to peer at the odometer, checking the trip distances listed in the Lonely Planet guide. He wasn't planning to write about Oman—the Wheelers were here simply out of curiosity—but he checks every fact, everywhere. As the Lonely Planet author Ryan Ver Berkmoes puts it, "Tony is a trainspotter to the world."
"This is rather nice, isn't it?" Tony said. "Not a bad road at all." From the back seat, Maureen gave a small sigh.
Glimpsing a sign for the mountain village of Bilad Sayt, Tony stopped just past the turnoff. "Let's go see it, shall we?" he said. He began a three-point turn, backing toward the cliff. "Oh, dear," Maureen said. "Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, drat!" The car kept backing. "Stop!"
He stopped, six inches from the edge, and, after a moment, we all laughed. "I'm fine and so are you," Tony said. And the village proved to be a wonder—a cluster of mud-brick houses clinging like a wasp's nest to a cliff, circled by falcons. We might have taken the turnoff not to Bilad Sayt but to the seventeenth century.
Travelling with the Wheelers is like that—you take every side road and see much more than you expect, much more convivially, and at much higher speed. It began at the Dubai airport: Tony and Maureen, who travel very light, charged up the stairs to get to the front of the line at immigration, leaving me feeling sheepish for taking the escalator like everyone else. As we waited at the Hertz counter, Tony studied the road map that he had brought along and announced, "Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the two countries with the highest rate of road accidents." Then he was largely silent as we drove south, ignoring even the first camels.
The Lonely Planet guide had been rather vague about the procedure for crossing into Oman here, near Hatta, and on arriving at the Oman border we were told that we needed first to officially leave the Emirates—there had been an unmarked checkpoint at the Hatta Fort Hotel, a few miles back.
"We're in legal limbo," Tony said, as we headed north. "Here we are coming back to the U.A.E., and we're going to have to explain why we haven't left yet."
"We're going to have to explain this better in the book," Maureen said.
"When you're leaving J.F.K. Airport," Tony continued, "they don't ask you to go to the Hilton to get your passport stamped. So this is interesting."
Finding this Tony—Tony No. 2—was like tuning in a distant radio station late at night: nothing, nothing, and then a sudden flare of chatter. This occurred whenever he saw something strange: a pedestrian underpass in the middle of nowhere, an oddly translated sign—"Sale of Ice Cubes"—or the goat souk in Nizwa, where potential buyers give the billy goats' testicles a considering squeeze.
For more than a week, we moved through Oman's northern, more populous half in a long, clockwise oval. The days would begin with a 7:30 a.m. breakfast at which Tony buried himself in his map and Lonely Planet's "Oman and the United Arab Emirates" and regional Arabian Peninsula guides, plotting the stops en route to that night's hotel, which would usually be the best available. (The Wheelers' room at the Chedi, in the capital, Muscat, cost some four hundred dollars a night.) He would toggle between the books, frowning: the Oman book provided far better cultural context but was woefully out of date. (No new edition was being readied, because the guide had sold only thirty-two thousand copies since it was published, in 2000.) And then, abruptly, we were off. Tony drove, and Maureen chatted or sang "Landslide" or "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" in a pleasing contralto, and we were in and out of the car all day long until nightfall. A few minutes into any museum or souk, you'd see Tony's eyes turn glassy, and he'd twitch his map-of-Africa cap and say, "On, on."
When Wheeler was ten, he asked for a globe and a filing cabinet for Christmas, and he is still a mixture of impulsive and compulsive—ideal qualities for a guidebook writer. He told me, "To research a big guidebook, you need some people who live in the country, but you also need some parachute artists, someone who can drop into a place and quickly assimilate, who can write about anywhere. I'm a parachute artist."
We began to orient ourselves around the country's ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, whose portrait—which shows a bearded, gravely smiling man with warm brown eyes—is as omnipresent as his public-works projects. Every museum in Muscat devoted extravagant space to Qaboos's achievements (though none mentioned, as the Lonely Planet guides did, that he had kicked out the previous sultan, his father, in a bloodless coup in 1970, or that Qaboos's father had been so resistant to Western innovation that he had banned even eyeglasses). A phrase from the English-language Oman Daily Observer became one of our refrains: "The Sultan is always thinking of the benefit of his people."
Well aware that the country's petroleum reserves are dwindling, Sultan Qaboos has encouraged "Omanization," in which guest workers will be replaced by Omanis—and yet almost every hotel and restaurant we went to was staffed by Indians. And so "Omanization" became another, mildly sardonic refrain, as recurrent as Maureen's remark whenever we left a restaurant recommended by Lonely Planet: "Take it out of the book."
"The Omanis don't have a café culture, so we never see them," Maureen remarked one morning.
"Part of it is they've got too much money and they don't have to work," Tony said. Later that day, a police car pulsed its siren at us so that three black sedans could sweep by. "Mercedes, of course," Tony said. "You spend too long in places like Tanzania, where all the rich assholes and government officials drive around in their Mercedeses, and you begin to hate that car."
"It's not Mercedes' fault," Maureen said.
"Yes, it is!" Tony said. "They stand for that sort of thing. As a result, I will never own a Mercedes." (The Wheelers own an Audi, a Mini, and a Lotus.)
The day we went to Bilad Sayt, we made our way down the pass afterward and had a late lunch. Then the question was how to get back around the mountains to our hotel in Nizwa. The main road lay to the southeast, but, looking at the map, Tony suggested a more direct route to the northwest. "It's sealed roads, all the way," he said, asserting a faith in the map, and the Sultan's pavers, which proved unfounded eight miles in, when the road became dirt and began to labor up into the mountains. We came to one fork, then another, then a third and a fourth, all unmarked on the map and all lacking signs. The map suggested that we should be aiming at the village of Rumaylah, but the map was ridiculous. "Every road has to lead somewhere," Tony said, sneaking a peek at his global-positioning device and turning toward the setting sun.
"You won't ask for directions," Maureen said.
"No real man does," Tony said. An hour later, we were going ten miles per hour on a road that had narrowed to a sinister goat track, in a canyon that bore no trace of human passage.
"All this is is a lack of information," Tony said. "We should have asked the restaurant owner the best way."
Maureen snorted. "And then you would have said 'Tssh!' and we would have still come this bloody road." They both laughed.
After a few more flying U-turns—the signature Wheeler driving move—we finally emerged from the mountains at dusk, three hours later, twenty-five miles north of where we expected to be. Rumaylah remained a rumor, somewhere behind us. As we turned south for Nizwa, Maureen saw a fort to the west, and, rather in the manner of a mother trying to distract a child from an approaching ice-cream truck, began a flow of chatter about the mountains to the east.
"Should we take a quick look at the fort?" Tony asked. "A drive-by fort?" We had already been to half a dozen of the country's five hundred forts, all somewhat of a piece: the pillowed room for the wali, or governor; the dungeons; the machicolations for pouring hot date syrup on invaders. Hearing nothing from the back seat, he continued, "I think there's probably a book on the forts of Oman."
"We're not going to publish it," Maureen said.
"No, I meant there probably is one out there."
"Thank God."
The young Tony Wheeler once drew painstaking maps of his walks around the neighborhood. It was, perhaps, a way of trying to hold on to an ever-shifting landscape. Wheeler's father was an airport manager for British Overseas Airways Corporation, the precursor to British Airways, and the family kept moving: Pakistan, the Bahamas, Canada, America, England. "Being always the outsider, never spending two whole years in the same school, it does fuck you up," Wheeler told me.
"Tony has a story for every occasion, but he's not very good with personal questions," the photographer Richard I'Anson, who has often travelled with Wheeler, says. "We were in Delhi together in 1997 when he got the news that his father had died. You would possibly expect that he'd talk with his friend about that, but I knew not to ask him about it then, and I wouldn't ask him now."
Wheeler says, "I don't think I was particularly close to either of my parents; there was an English coolness there—though I did love going to the airport with my father. But what the hell—I'm sure Maureen and I fucked up our kids, too." The Wheelers have two children—Tashi, now twenty-four, and Kieran, twenty-two—and they brought them along nearly everywhere; hostels were their nursery schools. "My memories are all messed up from when I was younger," Tashi Wheeler told me, cheerfully. "Sometimes I remember a place as Peru, and it was Jakarta. We were always travelling, travelling."
In retrospect, the growth of Lonely Planet from such rootless soil is both unlikely and entirely apt. The Wheelers came along when the world had begun to tire of the strictly-for-tourists approach of Fodor's and Frommer's and Fielding's, which was packed with alarming puns (the Hotel Piccadilly in London "puts shoppers right in the limey-light"); to tire of the naïveté propounded in books such as "How to Travel Without Being Rich" (1959), which declared, "Mexico is the best place in the world for economical travelers who like to bring back things to astonish their friends . . . woven straw geegaws, works of art in tin and heaven knows what else."
"In the seventies and eighties, there hadn't been any new guides out for decades," Mark Ellingham, who founded the competing Rough Guides in 1981, says. Then airlines deregulated, making cheap tickets widely available, just as Vietnam and China and, later, Eastern Europe were opening up. "We filled a need, but we were young and ignorant and amateurish."
It was only after Lonely Planet's India guide unexpectedly sold a hundred thousand copies, in 1980, that the Wheelers realized that their scrappy startup was a real business. But the enterprise remained disarmingly ad hoc; for a time, the "Africa on a Shoestring" book said, of the Comoros Islands, "We haven't heard of anyone going there for a long time so we have no details to offer. If you do go, please drop us a line."
"Tony and Maureen would pluck these people out of a bar, or somewhere, and have complete confidence in them," Michelle de Kretser, a former Lonely Planet publisher who is now a novelist, says. "In 1992, they handed me this plum job, running the new Paris office, which I was totally unqualified for. I said, 'How do I do that?' And they said, 'You know, just go and do it, whatever—you know.' " For years, whenever problems arose, Tony would respond rather as the Red Queen did to Alice, saying, "Let's just run faster!" And for years it all worked.
The Wheelers long maintained an implicit non-aggression pact with other countercultural handbooks. But, as Tony Wheeler tells it, in 1984 he noticed that the Moon Travel Handbook's renowned Indonesia guide was seriously out of date, so he commissioned a book on that country. After Penguin bought a majority stake in Rough Guides, in 1996, Wheeler noticed that Rough Guides were undercutting Lonely Planet's prices. "So we thought, How can we hit back?" he told me, with a steely grin. "We targeted their twelve or so top-selling guides and produced competitive titles for every one. They stopped being so aggressive on pricing."
"Penguin is one of the most ruthless media organizations in the world—it'd be happy to squash us like a bug," Mark Carnegie, an investment banker who sits on Lonely Planet's board, says. ("We completely compete with Lonely Planet, but we're not squashing people," Andrew Welham, who supervises the Rough Guides and the DK Eyewitness series for Penguin, observes.) "But Tony is the Rupert Murdoch of the alternative travel space," Carnegie added. "He knows when and how to squash back."
One afternoon in Tiwi, a pretty town on the coast road to Sur, the Wheelers and I had a very good Indian-food lunch. As we strolled out to the car, a small boy in a blue soccer jersey smiled and asked for "baisa, baisa"—money. He was the first beggar we'd met.
"No baisa," Maureen said in a friendly way. She showed a real interest in children, and always replied to them. This boy waited till we got in the car and then flipped her the bird. She flipped it back: "Sit and spin, kid!"
"I don't know if you should do that, Maur," Tony said calmly, as he drove off. "If you know what that gesture means, that means Western women know what it means, and that reinforces the idea that they're loose and easy."
"If I weren't in the car, I'd slap the little bastard," Maureen said. "Would he do that to an Arabic woman? Would he do that to his own mother?"
Thirty years ago, Wheeler took a different view of cross-cultural sexual politics. He wrote, in "Across Asia on the Cheap," that in Muslim countries women are going to "get their little asses grabbed," so "if you can lay hands on one of the bastards, take advantage of it and rough him up a little." In the early days, Lonely Planet advocated what might be called a playground model of behavior: here's the score on Lebanese grass and Balinese mushrooms, here's where to buy carpets in Iran before child-labor laws drive up the price, here's how to sell blood in Kuwait to pay for the rugs. You should avoid unwashed fruit, and you should wear a short-hair wig to fool the uptight cats in Singapore immigration, but, in general, the world is yours.
As the guidebooks grew up, the museum model took hold: foreign cultures are fragile, and should be observed as if through glass; a practice you abhor may simply be a custom you don't understand. In the 1988 edition of the guide to Papua New Guinea, a notoriously lawless place, Wheeler himself wrote, "It is very easy to apply inappropriate Western criteria, and what appears to be uncontrolled anarchy is often nothing of the sort. . . . A case that appears to be straightforward assault may well be a community-sanctioned punishment. Looting a store may be in lieu of the traditional division of a big man's estate."
The first edition of Lonely Planet's Japan guide, in 1981, had lengthy treatments of swinging with Japanese couples, live sex shows, and toruko, establishments where men could get soaped up to full satisfaction. Over the years, this section was pruned and then eliminated. "When we were selling five thousand Japanese guidebooks a year, who cared what we said?" Maureen told me. "At fifty thousand, you have a different responsibility."
Though sales kept rising, by the late nineties Lonely Planet had begun to falter. The company's rapid expansion—in 2000 it published eight new series, including "Watching Wildlife" and "City Maps"—was accompanied by constant cash-flow crises. Sixty per cent of the guides weren't getting to the printer on time. "Everyone was lovely, but no one had a clue," Maureen said, during one stretch of driving. "When Tony was away in 1998—he was travelling a lot, because he didn't want to deal with it—I told the managers they had to go. And I said to Tony, 'If you let them talk you out of it, I am leaving you.' " Tony kept his eyes on the road. Later, Maureen told me, "Without Tony, Lonely Planet wouldn't exist; without me, it wouldn't have held together."
The morning after the planes hit the World Trade Center, in 2001, the company called an emergency meeting, knowing that travel was about to plummet. A hundred people (nineteen per cent of the workforce) were later laid off, and author salaries were reduced by up to thirty per cent. The company was further buffeted by SARS, the terrorist bombing in Bali, the Iraq war, and the threat of avian flu, and it lost money for two and a half years running.
The relaunch, a response to all those changing conditions, subordinated editorializing to giving travellers a well-stuffed factual cushion that they could place between themselves and danger or discomfort. Call it the information model. Tony Wheeler explains, "I would expect someone writing for us about Spain to delve into bullfights, and either to say it's a cruel and primitive spectacle or to say that it's just as great as Hemingway said—and, either way, here are the hours the bullring is open, and do bring sunscreen."
At the same time, "Just go" was replaced, as a corporate ethos, by the words "attitude and authority," which one hears in the Melbourne office every fifteen seconds or so. Equally common are references to the new "consumer segmentation model," which sorts travellers into such categories as "global nomads" and "mature adventurers." And the company that had prided itself on not taking advertisements is about to start a hotel-booking service on its Web site. "When Tony washed up on the deserted shores of Bali thirty years ago, it was great to 'just go,' " John Ryan, Lonely Planet's digital-project manager, says. "If you just went to Bali now, you might not have a place to stay. We're thinking about every phase of the travel cycle—dream, plan, book, go, come back—and trying to fill each one with Lonely Planet content." Like Apple and Starbucks and Ben & Jerry's, all of which began as plucky alternatives, Lonely Planet has become a mainstream brand.
Last year, the company grossed seventy-two million dollars, with a before-tax profit margin of seventeen per cent. But the Wheelers' withdrawal during this tumultuous period has left many authors feeling marooned. Sixteen Lonely Planet veterans have established a private e-mail network to trade yearning recollections of the old days of unfettered travel and unedited prose, of princely royalties and heavy drinking and broken marriages. "Now authors are data collectors for editors," the author Joe Cummings told me. The veterans gripe that the editors don't even return their e-mails, a state of affairs they call "black hole syndrome."
For their part, the Wheelers speak of "mad-author syndrome." But they are equally skeptical of the company's new marketing surveys and slogans: clearly, Maureen is attitude and Tony is authority. One night over dinner at a Melbourne restaurant, Maureen said, "I used to feel that Lonely Planet was very real—we'd steam stamps off letters and reuse them, and everyone who worked there became our friends. And then we hired all these people—"
"These lawyers and accountants," Tony said. "I hate paying them. I walk through our parking garage and see a Mercedes—a Mercedes!"
"Anyway," Maureen said, "the point is, we're learning how to be people who just inspire—but Lonely Planet doesn't feel real to me anymore."
One measure of how the company has changed is that when the new head of trade publishing, Roz Hopkins, took the job, in 2002, she quickly, if regretfully, cancelled Wheeler's forthcoming book about his travels in rice-growing countries. "That sort of book had been quite a dismal failure," she told me, referring to other idiosyncratic Wheeler efforts featuring Richard I'Anson photographs. "They don't articulate the message of the brand." So Wheeler wound up underwriting "Rice Trails" with nearly forty thousand dollars of his own money—effectively using Lonely Planet as a vanity press.
The Wheelers often hear complaints that they have helped to ruin certain destinations—that, as Richard Bangs, of Mountain Travel Sobek, affectionately puts it, "Tony can turn an out-of-the-way secret place like Lombok into something that's loved to death." They respond that change is inevitable, that guidebooks don't inspire travel so much as channel it, and that it's better to have educated travellers than clucks on tour buses. But the way Tony Wheeler rushes about suggests that he feels with particular keenness the age-old traveller's anxiety about getting there before it all goes. (As early as the eighteen-seventies, John Muir denounced the tourists who were ruining Yosemite as "scum.") Wheeler's fears were realized at one of Oman's signature seasonal riverbeds, Wadi Bani Khalid. As we approached the wadi, deep in the mountains, the road became a rugged dirt track and Wheeler brightened; arduousness, for him, promises happiness. Then we rounded a bend and joined a new road swarming with construction workers. He sank back as if he'd been punched: "It's appalling!"
"The Sultan is always thinking of the benefit of his people," Maureen murmured.
After we parked, five local boys shepherded us up to the rock pools, chattering away in the universal pidgin of the tourism encounter: "Where you from? What your name? First time come Oman?" The pools were a refreshing aquamarine, but they were also clotted with trash. The boys asked us to come for a Bedouin meal, and, when we declined, one boy suggested, "Give me money—one rial." Taking our refusal slightly sulkily, they turned back toward the parking lot.
"They'll be proper little guides soon," Maureen said. She considered the concrete picnic areas and the beginnings of what looked like a snack stand—a grader was noisily levelling the earth nearby—and said, "You have to destroy everything in order to appreciate what you have. They'll learn that people are paying more to get away from all this."
We were soon back on the road, heading north. "You grow up, and then you grow old," Maureen said suddenly. "The first part is all right . . ."
The modern version of straw geegaws is cultural capital in the form of stories and photographs. "Tony and Maureen are in the travel-information insurance business," Mark Carnegie says. "If the educated consumer is spending ten thousand dollars on a vacation, and someone says to him, 'For an extra thirty dollars, I will give you a sunrise that will make you cry'—well, he's going to take out that insurance."
Even Lonely Planet, however, hasn't figured out a way to market its epiphanies other than by using the impoverished language of travel writing. And so "palm-fringed beaches" and "lush rain forests" and other "sleepy backwaters" are invariably counterpoised against "teeming cities" with their "bustling souks." Every region has a "colorful history" and a "rich cultural tapestry." And every place on earth is a "land of contrasts." As the Arabian Peninsula guide observes, "Bedouin tribesmen park 4WDs alongside goat hair tents; veiled women chat on mobile phones while awaiting laser hair removal," and so on.
Peering through the windshield as another unnamed village ghosted by—mud-brick houses, men in white slouched in the shade—Maureen said, "We're outsiders, we don't speak the language, we only glean what we can through what we read. I can see their lives, but I'd love to be in their heads for a few hours—what's it like to be their lives?"
Entranced by every sort of strangeness, Tony often wondered aloud: What are these "pee caps" that hotel bars forbid you to wear? Why are there so many "Gents Tailors" in the town of Sohar? But he never stopped, preferring to note the street misnamed on Lonely Planet's Sohar map, and the absence of the promised biryani joints. He wants to discover by observation or exploration, but not to have to ask, a form of cheating. When I was younger, I might have inquired more myself—there was a time when every new thing, even durian slushies, seemed worth investigating. But now, I realized, I had been perfectly content to follow Wheeler's lead, and so I was leaving Oman with a thoroughly researched yet tentative impression of a country of forts, wadis, and a pleasant capital, Muscat.
I asked Wheeler what he thought Lonely Planet should do about Oman. He suggested that a small, high-priced book that focussed on the forts, the wadis, and Muscat might work—but in truth he seemed to be already looking ahead to his next destination, Ethiopia, and then to all the trips beyond. "In the early days," he said, "doing the third or fourth edition of 'South-East Asia on a Shoestring,' I remember feeling like we were trapped: We set this up to travel, and all we're doing is going to Singapore and Bangkok over and over, updating. "
"Now that the company is launched, Tony can really travel," Maureen said.
Tony thought that over, its possible meanings, and replied, "In many ways, I don't think we've travelled a lot, because we've had the business distracting us. It got in the way."
Late one afternoon, we hiked up Wadi Shab, a steep canyon. The first hour was an easy hike, and then it became a scramble over shaley outcroppings and around acacia thorns. Finally, as the canyon filled with shadows, we arrived at a crisp blue pool where a few local teen-agers were splashing about and diving into the adjacent underground caves. The last rays of sun lit the spot: a perfect reward after a long drive and a healthy walk. But Tony shifted with frustration as Maureen and I sat on a boulder and turned our faces to the sun. He had noticed three tourists in bathing suits above us on the faint indications of a trail. "I'll just go on for twenty more minutes," Tony said. We got up and walked with him a ways, and then Maureen took up a perch against the canyon wall. "I'm not going on," she said. "I'll stay here." I was thinking about nightfall, and finding the path down, and the two-hour drive along the sea cliffs to the hotel.
"Well, I'm just going on for a bit," he said. Having, across the years, thrown off most of his burdens, Tony No. 1 now adjusted the one piece of baggage that remained—his backpack, which was ringed with sweat—and strode on as Tony No. 2. Or was it the reverse? In a few moments, he was around the corner.
"The trick with Tony is, if I'd been in that comfortable place by the pool he would have gone on and on," Maureen said. "But, knowing I'm in this uncomfortable place, he'll feel guilty and come back sooner. He has to go around that bend, though—it's his obsession. He has to go farther than the tourists. And, if there's someone else around that bend, he'll keep going until he's past them, until he's the farthest out." ♦


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And we are off!! finally the day arrived for my husband and I to travel to Houston for the International Quilt Festival. I have been looking forward to this trip since May, when I found out my quilt would be in a special exhibit at the show.
This is Monday morning, and we don't check into the Houston hotel until Wednesday, but we are taking the scenic route.....
A beautiful bridge in Alabama. I am taking these though my car window, which really could have used a washing. My camera is an ipad and I think it takes pretty good pictures.
We were to cross many high and beautiful bridges.
Our first night was spent in Mobile, Alabama. We had a good start to our trip and were very ready for a night of rest.
Here are two pictures taken at the Gulfport area.
We were on vacation in this spot the summer before Katrina and it was so sad to see many of the beautiful homes that we remembered from before were gone, all that was left was a "land for sale" sign.
We did eventually make it to the French Quarter in New Orleans and proceeded to get completely lost! Roads were blocked and under repair, and we kept getting turned around. The streets were totally clogged with service vehicles, construction work and I was supposed to be navigating us through this narrow little maze.
At one point, I was using the car navigation system, my husband's Garmen GPS, the maps program on my ipad AND the paper map they gave us at the visitor's center - and I still did not know where the heck we were. So we just headed towards I10W and for Houston. I don't think I will be going back to New Orleans, unescorted, ever again.
While taking this picture, I , the navigator, missed a very important turn and we ended up once again, a little lost (we call it taking the scenic route.) But we got through and found a hotel west of Houston - as our journey continues on....
Tomorrow we skip on over to San Antonio to see a member of my husband's family and then back to Houston where we will settle in for a few days to enjoy the show. Three days in one location without having to get back into the car sounds pretty good to me right now.

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- July 30, 2010 at 7:52 AM
- Simba said...
My Mom does the same thing - she is superstitious about leaving on a vacation or other trip with a messy or grubby house.
That mitt is super-effective with fur-gathering! What exactly is it?
- July 30, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- Goldie, Shade and Banshee said...
The mitt is like those brushes that are kind of velcro-y that everything sticks too. This is only a whole hand version. The PM loves it for furniture and cat beds!
- July 30, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- The Island Cats said...
Aw, we're sorry they are leaving you guys...and more sorry that the PM unfloofed you!!
- July 30, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- The Paw Relations said...
We cannot believe the rudeness!
However we now fear that our mum might get one of those gloves after looking at that picture.
- July 30, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- Hannah and Lucy said...
You are being very badly treated - abandoned and having your rumpus interfered with.
- July 30, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Cory said...
Don't they understand? Refuzzing is hard work...but we know you can do it!
- July 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Kea said...
Gees, what's wrong with floof on the bed? Our human comes around with a lint brush now and again...What's this mitt?
We're sorry you're being left behind again but maybe it'll be the perfect opportunity for a house-trashing party!
- July 30, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- Jacqueline said...
We're so sorry your Mommy stole your furs off all the furniture, we know what hard work that is=our Mommy does the same thing to us and we think it is just rude!...We do hope your Mommy has a fun, safe journey...Happy weekend sweet friends=since she cleaned everything up, is there a house trashing party while she's gone?!MOL...xoxo...Calle, Halle, Sukki
- July 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM
- Anonymous said...
yeah, mom's are REAL Pains In The Butts when it comes to that!!!
Fluff Away Furriend, Fluff away...
- July 30, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Cat said...
I always think that with the amount of cat fur I brush out and pick up from the floor that I could make another cat! Nice to know I'm not the only one - LOL!
Sorry your mum is going away, I'm sure she will miss you kitties, mut sometimes the humans need a little R&R :-)
- July 30, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- Katnip Lounge said...
The PM lifted up your rumpus!?! We would have pooted in protest.
Get busy re-furring, and perhaps a small hairball in an out of the way spot...
- July 30, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Junior and Orion said...
We had to avert our eyes when it came to the fur picture! All that hard work, gone in minutes!!!!
- July 30, 2010 at 3:44 PM
- Parker said...
All of your hard work for nothing...
I HATE it when the 'rents do that!
See you guys when your PM returns!
- July 30, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- Khyra And Sometimes Her Mom said...
What a yang to Tommy and The Chan's ying!
#1 gets home to them,
Your PM leaves!
PeeEssWoo: Wow! That's a lot of fur - I khan't imagine that ;-)
- July 30, 2010 at 4:37 PM
- Kellie The Orange Cat said...
Oh dear, that will be alot of extra work for you - refuzzing the entire house, sigh....
- July 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM
- ABBY said...
Our Momma does the same thing!
Hooman are strange.
Time to floof it up!
- July 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM
- meemsnyc said...
Whoa, that is a lot of floof!!
- July 31, 2010 at 12:50 AM
- Sweet Praline said...
It shouldn't take too long to floof things up again.
- July 31, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- Anonymous said...
She actually cleaned under your rumpus while you were trying to nap? That does take some nerve.
- July 31, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- Ayla and Iza, said...
Um that pile of floof looks like a whole extra cat! Wont Mom be surprised when she returns...
- July 31, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- Dr Tweety of da Fab Five said...
Oh poops! We camez by to vizit & say tanks fur your purrsez to Delilah...
I tinks we shoold trashy da house since your beenz are at da beech!
- July 31, 2010 at 4:33 PM
- Tom, Tama-Chan, Sei-Chan, Yuu-Chan and Bibi-Chan said...
#1 says she left PEI in pristine condition for the PM and Co.!
- July 31, 2010 at 8:11 PM
- Boom Nisanart said...
Your mom love you : ) give her a purr, common !
Everyday Cat Visitor
- August 1, 2010 at 3:25 AM
- Inigo Flufflebum and d'Artagnan Rumblepurr said...
Woah, now that is a LOT of floof!!
- August 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
Can you imagine, lifting up your rump to take away floof!
- August 2, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- JB's Big and Small Worlds said...
Even your rump furs got taken? The nerve!
- August 5, 2010 at 12:59 AM
- LizzyBean said...
Love the mitt! You kitties need to keep the MM on the straight and narrow so there is little or no mess upon the PM's return!
- August 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM
- Becky's Barnyard said...
I bet it won't take long to refur everything. Funny how that happens.
- August 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM
- Huffle Mawson said...
Do you want me to send over some of my spare floof?
- August 8, 2010 at 2:01 AM
- Grrreta said...
Just when you get the cushion perfectly fuzzed...how could she?! We hope she has a great vacation.
- August 8, 2010 at 9:55 PM
- Teri and the cats of Furrydance said...
We had to look up PEI beach and OhMyCat, what a lovely place to holiday! Couldn't they take you with them? Maybe they could bring you back some seafood anyway!


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lol Thanks. The also went live over night. *yay*
lol Thanks. The also went live over night. *yay*
Haven't posted anything in ages. So here are a few doodles/speedpaintings
Free lineart
and a few skin concepts
Wow, I love these! Amazing work!
"No matter what the future may bring, some things will never change! Like the courage and daring of true heroes!" RIP Bionicle.
When levia posted "i wounder what fine art shes made today"
When i saw THE WALL"ITS PERFECT"
invalid signiture space please refrain from saying goose otherwise the world might explode
Every time I read something about a wall, I want to make Trump puns/jokes. lol Thank you tho. :P
Ugh looking at my past self here is so cringy ;-;
Getting atp soon tho
"Juvia lives for the ones that she loves! You've got to as well. If you have love in your life, you must keep on living!
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There's nothing particularly vegetarian about this patisserie. In fact, the place is known for its bizarre macaroon combinations that have included foie gras as a filling. However, Pierre Hermé is an amazing place to indulge in, regardless of your vegetarian/vegan/macrobiotic/organic leanings.
Legend has it: Hermé worked for Gaston Lenôtre, the world famous pastry chef. They are known as the masters of macaroons and this historic patisserie has been serving the aristocracy for decades. However, Hermé felt the urge to move on and opened his first place just down the street on Rue Bonaparte.
Where Lenôtre is about classic French taste (etoile patterns, delicate macaroons, pastels…), Pierre Hermé is bold, experimental, funky, surprising, and above all delicious.
It's enough to get the true French Queen, Catherine Deneuve, to wait in line for morning pastries. At least that is the story I've heard and desperately want to believe. I love the idea of standing in line for an almond croissant with such a legend, chatting about the latest macaroon, working with Luis Bunuel, and the muggy weather.
I was surprised by the reasonable prices. The almond croissant was the same price as the flat, spongy thing seen in more common patisseries around the city. The macaroons were beyond description. I tested the passion fruit and chocolate creation. I also bought his signature chocolate balls. Unfortunately, I didn't eat them fast enough and they grew mold. That's what you get when you expect your food to be filled with preservatives and someone hands you a touch of purity. Oh well, I'll just have to make another trip.
There's a bunch of photos on Flickr from people that enjoy the goodies at Pierre Herme. They'll give you an idea of the passion these morsels create. If you are looking for a delicious dessert, a quick pick me up, or a great gift to bring back home: visit Pierre Hermé.
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- 72, rue Bonaparte (6°)
- 01 43 54 47 77
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It seemed too good to be true, like a trick.
Marion County Commission read the bids for repair of the courthouse tower roof, inside and out, and one bid was about a third of the other two bids.
After much deliberation, the commission approved the bid from Arrow Roofing of Canton for the project for $54,480. Delta Roofing of Kansas City gave a bid of $154,101. Wray Roofing of Newton offered a bid of $134,893.
Expensive equipment rentals and labor costs explained the high bids from two of the companies. Technical consultant Greg Leslie of Garland Company said Arrow must have its own machinery. The difference in travel could not account for the large discrepancy. However, Leslie said the Arrow representative understood what he was bidding.
"We've never had a bid come in this wacky," Commission Chairman Dan Holub said.
Leslie said Arrow's bid was bonded, meaning if the company stepped away from the job because it was losing money, the bond would pay for the difference in cost to finish the job using another contractor. Leslie also said he would be onsite to take pictures at the beginning of the job and assess progress to make sure the roof was being completed.
"When one bid is significantly lower than the other two, what guarantee do we have that the same job gets done?" commissioner Roger Fleming asked.
After a miscommunication about the courthouse roof, the commission asked Leslie to prepare bids for the rest of the roofing project including concrete work for the crossovers that have become brittle on the roof. Leslie said the county would have to hire a structural engineer to assess the project.


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The Blizzard of 2010
If you live anywhere in the Northeast, you've probably experienced some snow in the past few days.
Here in Western Pennsylvania we got 21 inches. The snow began to fall on Friday afternoon, and didn't let up for 24 hours. The meteorologists were way wrong. They originally called for 4-8 inches for the Pittsburgh area. Clearly, they botched that call.
Here's how it piled up in my backyard, all 21 inches of it:
A look at my backyard.
The only setback that I had with the storm was that the cable and internet went down for about a day. Luckily the power never went out, so I was able to stay warm.
What's the baseball connection to this entry? Well, I am a teacher, and school has been canceled for Monday. Guess when our make up day is? That's right – April 5th – also known as the Pirates home opener.
There's another storm brewing for Tuesday with 4-8 more inches of snow forecast.


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Jack O'Connor was best known for his musings on shotguns and bolt-action rifles, but one pretty double rifle also made the grade.
"I once had a pretty little Jeffery double rifle for the .450-500
3-inch cartridge. I bought it almost entirely for the cosmetic effect. Put me in my bush jacket, my Terai hat with pugaree, my Nairobi safari boots, and let me carry my nifty little double and you could just about hear the lions roaring over the water hole in the donga."–Jack O'Connor, The Last Book: Confessions of a Gun Editor (Amwell Press, 1984)
Like this quote? Then we think you'll love Gun Digest Presents Classic Sporting Rifles, edited by rifle and shotgun expert Terry Wieland! A wonderful collection of stories from all the famous gun writers, from Elmer Ketih to Colonel Townsend Whelen–and, yes, Jack O'Connor, too.


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Salvation: Aboard the Salvation 3
You'll land in another brief corridor, at the end of which you'll enter onto a ledge overlooking a large room. On the floor below will be a motley of cloaking droids, terror droids and a new enemy the terror biodroid. Rather than jumping headfirst into the action, stay up on the ledge you entered onto. The cloaking droids, eager to take you one will teleport up to meet you, allowing you to pick them off before venturing down to fight the rest of your foes. Taking out the terror droids should be effortless, but take care with the biodroid. They move fast when they're on the attack and their hits pack a punch that will tear chunks out of your health. To beat, let them charge you and then dodge out of the way at the last second. When they miss their attack will hit the four and they'll become stuck, allowing you some precious seconds to counterattack.
Once the room is cleared head over the lift opposite of where you entered. If you get mixed up, it's the one that's lowered all the way to the floor. Use your force grip to raise it and then user it to jump up to the platform on the right hand side of the room. From there you'll shortly come to a large elevator that you can ride up to the next floor. When it stops, exit the elevator into the adjoining corridor and follow it to its end. You'll enter a hangar in which you'll see Boba Fett fly off in his ship. After the cutscene ends you'll be in a boss fight.
Boss Fight: Terror Walker[edit]
Think of this guy as a giant terror droid. And with its increased size comes more firepower, better weapons and a genuine ability to smear you against a wall. Never fear though, this fight is fairly easy if you know the proper way to approach it. To begin with, don't try and attack Terror Walker from the get go. It's body is shielded and can't be damaged. Your initial focus should be bringing down its shields. To do this, head toward the large generator at the center of the room. Situated around it are four power cores that need to be deactivated. To do so, use your force grip (the game tells you to any ways) and lift them out of the floor. Once all four are removed, the Terror Walker's shields will go down. Even so, the thing is still too much for you to damage. Next, grab one of the explosive crates lining the wall and use your force grip to fling it at the Terror Walker. If it connects, it will east a chunk of the thing's health and leave it temporarily incapacitate and vulnerable to your attacks. Wail on the sucker while its down and hit it with another crate when it gets back up.
Eventually, the Terror Walker's shields will return to full strength. This time, to bring them back down you need to charge and return four fuses to their positions in the wall. Run away from Terror Walker and choose a fuse to start with. Once all of them have been returned to their working position, the Walker's shields will fall. Hit it with another crate and go on the attack. When you deplete its health, a quick time event will trigger. Complete it successfully and you'll find yourself riding the Terror Walker.
We mean that very literally. For a short time you'll get to ride and control the Terror Walker. To be sure, it's a cumbersome thing but have a little fun with it destroying the biodroid that attack you. It will try to shake you off, so be prepared to follow some onscreen instructions when they appear. After all the enemies are destroyed, direct the Terror Walker toward the glowing energy core at the room's center. When you close enough, follow the onscreen prompt and the Terror Walker will be destroyed.
Jump atop the remains of the Terror Walker and advance toward the end of the level.
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AEGON Nottingham Challenge II - Singles
PTA World Tour 250 - Tuesday (1st Round/2nd Round) - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Grass
- Unseeded West CWLander Pierre Rose has made a winning start to his campaign in Nottingham with a straight sets win over little known local wildcard Leon Skinner. Rose would have fancied his chances against the Brit, and played some confident tennis to pick him apart with a good forehand. Skinner tried to target the Rose backhand but had little success, as the West CWLand nation surged into a second round meeting with veteran sixth seed Thomas Velten 6-0, 6-2.
- In the same area of the draw, fifteenth seed Ishan Narang also made a successful start as he served and volleyed his way to a comfortable win against Srdjan Ivic. The Serbian player was blitzed in the first set 6-0 as Narang produced some easy power and a handy eight aces in a first set that lasted a mere 21 minutes. The second set was much closer as Ivic began to get a better read on the Indian-born player's serve, but it wasn't enough to avoid defeat as Narang moved ahead 6-0, 6-3. He will meet Thai player Adul Doungtong who came from a set down to beat Jason Lawley 3-6, 7-6(0), 7-6(2).
- There was a disappointing exit for youngster Morgan Burridge as he was bullied out of the tournament by South Africa's Oliver Thursfield. In a surprising start, Burridge led by an early break but could probably put that down to match practice as he let a 3-1 lead slip to drop eleven of the next thirteen games. Thursfield was too strong and experienced for Burridge in a 6-4, 6-1 win.
- Elsewhere, top seed Nilikar Midid was outgunned by French-Canadian player Michel Paquette 5-7, 7-6(1), 2-6.
- Seeded players out: David Jones; Nilikar Midid; Akihiko Veno.


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This week I would like to start Follow Friday with a couple of articles of interest, followed by the featured blog of the week, followed by the rest of the list of articles of interest.
The reason? Well, read and you'll see!
Leah at The Internet Genealogist has been publishing transcriptions of "A Mighty Mott Memoir"; as of today, I believe she is up to Part 11. If you click on Mott under "Labels," you can pull them all up. It's an articulately written and fascinating memoir.
To make the story even more interesting, there is a connection to this story at Heather Rojo's Nutfield Genealogy: "Cousins Collaborate on a Genealogy Story." I love it when things like this happen!
Heather Rojo's Nutfield Genealogy puts genealogy into the context of history, very often local history ("Working at 'The Shoe' in Beverly, Massachusetts"). The locations vary - New England, Yorkshire, Spain, and Hawaii, among others - and are amply illustrated with photographs. There are some very interesting family genealogy stories (Missionary to New Zealand?), and they often include the research that turned up the story. What I especially like is that Heather proves something I have always suspected - history is definitely not dry or boring!
At Photo Detective with Maureen A. Taylor, Maureen has written the final installment of a series of articles on a mystery photo with triplets ("Final Words on the Triplets").
Becky Wiseman of kinnexions continues to have some fabulous photographs of her travels. Be sure to keep checking – interesting sights and top-notch photography. This week I have enjoyed seeing pictures of Death Valley, which my family and I visited when I was a child.
Laughing with the You-Go Genealogy Girls on their preparations for Salt Lake City – it will be your turn to laugh at me when I get ready for Knoxville in August!
Speaking of Salt Lake City, if you are going, I hope you have been following The Chart Chick Janet Hovorka's tips on Guide to Salt Lake City articles so that you will be prepared to have a great time!
I'm not going to steal any thunder from the next Carnival of African-American Genealogy, but I just have to say some of the posts I have been reading on the subject of "Grandma's Hands" are awesome!
Happy 4th Blogoversary to Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings!
Tech discussions:
Some different views on Macs and genealogy programs at James Tanner's Genealogy's Star and John Newmark's TransylvanianDutch. All I have ever used is Reunion on a Mac and I'm not what you would call a power user, so I wouldn't know how to compare it to other programs, but I love it.
"Apple computers and genealogy – all things great and small"
"Apple for Genealogy"
"Excuse Me, What is This?"
More Apple Genealogy
This week I started following these blogs:
Nolichucky Roots
FGS Voice
And finally, please keep our fellow genealogy bloggers in your thoughts and prayers: Deepest sympathy to Vickie Everhart at BeNotForgot for the loss of her husband and prayers and condolences to Carol at Reflections from the Fence for the death of her cousin's husband and other family members who are gravely ill.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Follow Friday: Nutfield Genealogy
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Shopping in Taupo a treat
This year I had a particularly smooth Christmas Shopping experience in Taupo's town centre. Let me share with you some of my FAV shops...
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Ho, Ho, Ho, Christmas is my favourite time of year! Parties, holidays, yummy food and the best bit.... pressies!
For some reason I am always the one in my household who buys ALL the Christmas pressies (including my own!). "But you love it" says hubby and he's right, I do. And this year I had a particularly smooth Christmas Shopping experience in Taupo's town centre. Let me share with you some of my FAV shops...
It is Sunday morning 10am – Town Centre Taupo here we come (myself and 2 month old baby in her Phil and Teds buggy – def leaving toddler at home with Dad)!
Now have you been to Verge on Tongariro Street, opp SuperLoo? This was my first stop and I always, ALWAYS find great pressies in here and they do a fabulous job of wrapping them too!
The only problem with this store is I always find something that I have to have too! Have found a great set of NZ designer earrings for my sister who is living in the UK and a cute jewellery tree that my best mate had said she needed.
That's ticked off and it's only 10 past 10, baby still asleep in the pram – so far so good. Next stop Addiction, Heu Heu Street – a friendly, trendy salesperson helps me choose an ultra cool shirt for my brother that apparently all the metro guys are buying (and that I would never have picked myself).
That's another pressie in the bag and I've spotted a cute dress for myself... might just see if there is any money left and come back!
Now I am across the road to the Complete Outdoor Garden. First time in here and again a lovely sales lady helps me choose the perfect gift for Mum and Dad's new garden - to give it a bit of character.
Two owls perched on a branch to stake into their garden. Wrapped and ready to go.
So I am doing well but it is now time for a coffee. Don't want to lose momentum so walk past Streetwise and grab a Flat White. Love those guys!
Next stop The Toy Centre in Horomatangi Street. You can't beat the service you get in this store. Just tell them the kids age and your budget and they provide a range of ideas for that age. I love it!
And the best thing about this shop is the toys are educational too. So I picked a magnetic doll and clothes set for my toddler (which is pretty cool I've got to say) a fabulous teddy that makes all sorts of noises for my baby girl.
Now to pop across to Briscoes on Gascoigne Street for some photo frames – always some great discounts in here. Will get some photo's printed at Smilez (Heu Heu Street) of the kids to include and that's Nana, Great Granny and the In-law's sorted.
Across the road to Hunting and Fishing for Hubby.... peek into the pram, baby still sleeping – yes!
Back along Tongariro Street, quickly popped into new Bendon Outlet store - some great specials in here. Mental note, will have to come back here. Next stop NZ Corner for a NZ tee for Brother-in-Law also living in UK. So many cute kiwiana-themed pressies in this shop.
90% of Christmas shopping done in one morning, angel baby has slept through it all, have been impressed with customer service and I'm not stressed out!
Now, do I have time to pop into my favourite shop - Hi Fashion (Heu Heu Street). After all, it's important to look and feel great on Christmas Day isn't it girls?!
For more information about shopping in Taupo, head to www.GreatLakeTaupo.com/Shopping.


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Sound and PA systems can be used by businesses in Trim for many different purposes:
There are many different types of business that can benefit greatly from having a sound or PA system fitted to their premises. This includes restaurants, bars, cafes, hotels, reception areas in any business, spas, hairdressers, waiting rooms and many more. If you don't already have a sound system installed in your Trim business, it might be time to consider it.
Do you need an audio system that covers multiple zones, allowing you to play sound from different sources in each room or area? We can provide this too. We can install systems that easily permit you to play different sound in specific areas or rooms as your needs require.
We only install the highest-quality systems that are simple and straightforward for you to use. No complex systems that demand a huge understanding – just uncomplicated technology that works exactly how you want, when you want.
Our continuing product support will also mean you get unsurpassed ongoing help, should you ever require it. We offer the very best value systems that are tailored for your requirements and wishes to ensure that a sound or PA system will have the greatest positive impact on your business.
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When I was a young girl we did partake in all of those options on Friday's of Lent, but I can also remember when my mom opted for the cheaper non-seafood alternative. I can remember her pulling out her heavy cast iron skillet and whipping up grilled cheese sandwiches on those Fridays for our hungry family of six. And I can also distinctly remember taking the pass. I have no idea why, other than my unexplainable pickiness as a child but I did not like grilled cheese at all. I know - what is there not to like? I really can't answer that sitting here today, but I always lament at the loss of all of those delicious chances to eat those melty gooey sandwiches.
This version of a grilled cheese sandwich is even more tempting than the classic is to me today. It wouldn't pass for a Friday Lent option, but it is worth the wait until the next day. This is a decadently rich way to kick up the traditional pan grilled sandwich.
Bacon Avocado Grilled Cheese
Adapted from William Sonoma
- 8 slices country-style sourdough bread, each 1/2 inch thick
- 4 tsp. olive oil
- 1/4 lb. cheddar cheese, thinly sliced
- 8 bacon slices, cooked
- 1/4 lb. Monterey jack cheese, thinly sliced
- 2 ripe Haas avocados, sliced
Brush one side of each bread slice with 1/2 tsp. olive oil.
Lay half the slices, oiled side down, on a clean work surface and top with the cheddar cheese, dividing evenly. Place avocado slices on top of the cheddar
and the bacon slices next
then top with the Monterey jack, dividing evenly.
Top each with one of the remaining bread slices, oiled side up.
Heat a large fry pan or griddle over medium heat until hot. Place 2 of the sandwiches in the pan, reduce the heat to medium-low and cook until the undersides are golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip the sandwiches and brown the other side, 3 to 4 minutes more. Repeat with the remaining sandwiches.
Transfer the sandwiches to a cutting board and cut in half. Serve immediately. Serves 4.
Click Here for My Adapted Printable Recipe


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Dr. Curtis Black, San Juan County native, joins the staff as the newest member of the Health District Team. Beginning July 30, 2007, Dr. Black joined the Blanding and San Juan Clinics as a family practice provider.
As part of his practice, Black will accept obstetric patients and will offer surgical procedures such as ear tubes, tonsillectomies, cesarean sections and appendectomies.
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Dr. Curtis Black opened his practice of medicine this week in Monticello and Blanding. Dr. Black's family includes (left to right): Benjamin, Kristin, Ethan, Curtis and Maggie. Courtesy photo
Dr. Paul Reay will see patient's an additional day at the Blanding Clinic, and Tanya Richey, Family Nurse Practitioner and provider for Women's Health, will be available every day in the Blanding Clinic and half a day in the San Juan Clinic.
Dr. James D. Redd will now see patients one day a week in the San Juan Clinic, in addition to his Blanding practice, where he offers obstetrics and surgical procedures, including carpal tunnel release.
Obstetrical patients who are candidates for epidurals will now have this long awaited procedure available for pain control at the San Juan Hospital. The new CT scan machine, the best available to health care in southeastern Utah, will afford faster, more comfortable scans for patients.
University of Utah radiology interpretation of these scans offers quicker readings, especially in emergency situation.
The skilled nursing beds at San Juan Hospital offer a unique and long needed alternative for patient's who no longer require hospitalization, but are not yet able to be at home or cared for at home by family members.
For those seeking an alternative to hospice or nursing home care, skilled care beds can offer that choice. Couple these new offerings with tele-stroke care and tele-burn care and San Juan Hospital is in its best position ever to provide up to date care for county residents.
Health care officials state that what's not new for San Juan Health Services are dedicated providers, caring nursing staff and support employees who want all San Juan County residents to receive the best possible health care.


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The United States Department of Agriculture released its preliminary "2012 Census of Agriculture" results showing an increase in the value of agricultural products sold in the U.S. totaling $394.6 billion in 2012, up 33 percent compared to $97.4 billion in 2007.
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The number of farms and land in farms continues to decline and the age of farmers continues to increase. Results from the census include:
- Crop sales of $212.4 billion in 2012 exceeded livestock sales of $182.2 billion. This occurred for only the second time in census history. The previous being 1974.
- Between 2007 and 2012, per farm average value of sales increased from $134,807 to $187,093.
- The average age of a principal farm operator was 58.3 years, up 1.2 years since 2007. This is a continuing 30-year trend.
- There were more minority-operated farms in 2012 than in 2007.
- Between 2007 and 2012, the amount of land in farms in the U.S. continued a slow downward trend declining from 922 million acres to 915 million acres. This is the third smallest decline between censuses since 1950.
The "Census of Agriculture" has been conducted since 1840.
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EBSCO is a company that provides Trent Library with various databases. There are 2 specific Business databases and some related databases available to us. The link to EBSCO Business Databases provides access to all these databases. At the opening screen you can choose which of these databases you wish to search. If you choose more databases you will find more results but they will likely be less specific/relevant.
Databases Included:
NOTE: If you wish to search only Business Source Complete, you may find the direct link to Business Source Complete more useful because it uses a search engine (interface) more suited to business topics.
Many articles are full text from the database. A option also appears for all records.
See mobile access information for EBSCO.
This is a library collection that can be searched and items may be ordered for loan. A few items are available online through the e-collection.
The Center for Research Libraries makes available more than 4.5 million publications, archives, and collections and one million digital resources to its members libraries to supplement their own humanities, science, and social science holdings. Center materials can be obtained for extended loan periods and at no cost by users affiliated with member libraries. Last year, 92 percent of the Center's interlibrary loan requests were sent by two-day express within one business day, and 90 percent of copies were delivered within one business day as well.
The Center's resources include:
The majority of these resources are in print or on microform. They can be ordered through our ILL department. There is also a growing e-collection.
Criterion-on-Demand is an online digital delivery feature film system. Users may stream or download from a selection of over 2900 films ranging from classic film, documentaries, international film, North American feature films, cult classics, and more.
Criterion-on-Demand makes use of the Microsoft Silverlight plug-in on both PC and Mac. Users wishing to stream or download films will need to have the plugin installed. See information and download for Silverlight [external link]. NOTE: The Chrome browser no longer supports Silverlight; use Firefox or Safari.
Allows requests for films that Criterion holds the rights to that have not yet been added to the Criterion-on-Demand service (2-6 weeks). Requests should be sent with sufficient lead time to email@example.com and should include the 'show date' along with the film information.
Use of streaming media is covered by Copyright. Streaming media is for educational use to support study, teaching, and research and any content streamed through Criterion-on-Demand may not be copied or reproduced in any form. It is intended for instructors, students, or persons working under the authority of Trent University.
When streaming media is shown on Trent's premises for educational purposes, to an audience consisting primarily of students, instructors, or any person who is responsible for setting curriculum at Trent University, members of the general public may be present. Admission fees cannot be collected for public showings unless proof of performance rights have been obtained from the distributor/creator.
Streaming media, or media that is available for download through Criterion-on-Demand, cannot be used on other websites or computer environments such as third party websites or social media platforms.
The URL in the address bar of your browser usually works as a permanent link to a film. Be sure to include the proxy prefix at the beginning: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=
DeGruyter is a German academic publishing house. In 2011 DeGruyter acquired BEPress journals, access to the BEPress journals can now be done either through Scholars Portal (preferred) or directly through the DeGruyter site. There is a slight delay in coverage between Scholars Portal and DeGruyter with the most recent articles in a journal being available via DeGruyter before they appear in Scholars Portal.
In addition to the former BEPress journal collection, DeGruyter also provides access to a number of other open access journals.
Click Here to browse journals licensed through DeGruyter (does not include Open Access)
Click Here to browse open access journals offered through DeGruyter.
Click here to connect to Scholars Portal Journals
A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web.
Via Scholars Portal:
1. There is a Permalink at the bottom of each record which is a stable url for that article.
If it doesn't already include the proxy information, add the proxy prefix to the beginning:
Example: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/10811680/v16i0001/49_trotcvpncoc2
2. Many journals in Scholars Portal Journals also use the DOI system to create a stable link.
To link to a particular article via DOI, look for the line that provides a doi and use it create a link.
Link: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10811680.2011.536498
To ensure off-campus access, include the proxy prefix:
DeGruyter is also DOI compliant.
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The aim is to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 5500 journals in the directory. Currently over 2350 journals are searchable at the article level and more than 460,000 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
"Open access" journals are defined as journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.See more information.
This site is maintained by support from membership. Through OCUL, Trent is a member of the DOAJ.
A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web.
To find a stable URL to an article, look for the line that says:The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at:
You may also find a doi link.
To link to a particular article, use the doi at the end of this url:
Example: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-148
Do not use the proxy prefix for these journals, since they don't have restricted access.
This is a collection of e-books, mostly (but not all) scholarly. E-books are accessed online; they are not physically located in our library, but we purchase the right to access them on the web.
E-books purchased by a library are different than individual purchases for your e-book reader because they are mounted on a server, available for viewing to a large number of readers. Libraries purchase access for their users. Software is used to provide a platform on which users can use e-books. ebrary is one of the platforms used to provide our e-books. (See other providers.)
With ebrary, you can
Books are searchable through an advanced search by author, title, subject, full text, call number, key field, and more.
See the ebrary guide. There are other Help features available from the ebrary start page.
Trent purchases many individual e-books available through the ebrary platform; often with a single-user or 3-user limitation. (1,000+ titles)
The following major collections are also available thorugh ebrary, normally with unlimited simultaneous users.
As of 2015, there are over 70,000 books available at this site.
Many of these e-books can be downloaded to an e-book device, mobile device, or computer. Not all books can be downloaded; you'll be informed if the book you selected is not eligible. Generally, books with a single-user license are not downloadable. See the information sheet on downloading.
These e-books are not in a format compatible with Kindle.
Downloaded books are saved for 7 days, after which they are deleted from your device. For further details, see the ebrary Help page.
Some books are purchased with a single-user license to reduce the cost. Each book will identify how many users can simultaneously read the same book. One of the following messages will be shown:
If you view a single-user book, it is not available to any other Trent user. It is automatically released only when:
(There used to be a "Release this title" button when viewing a single-user book, but no longer, given the automatic release.)
If you open a single-user book that is in use by someone else, you are initially shown a preview-only copy of the book.
See ebrary's Help with copying and printing.
Trent's limit for printing from ebrary is 100 pages per session. However, many publishers have enforced their own limits. A session is usually determined by your browser; as long as your browser remains open, your session is still active. This is in place to avoid violation of copyright.
Be careful that you don't violate copyright when you print. See our webpage on "Fair Dealing" and "Short Excerpts".
See the mobile access information for ebrary. Complete ebrary books can be downloaded to your computer, then transferred to an ebook reader, or a mobile device
Also see the Scholars Portal guide to Mobile Ebooks.
See more information about e-books see our webpage on Purchasing E-Books for the Library.
Ebrary software is also used on the Scholars Portal Books site, although it has a different look to it. There is some overlap of coverage on both sites. Scholars Portal Books provides access to e-book collections from:
See information about features on the Scholars Portal Books information sheet.
In ebrary, the url of a particular book in the address bar of your browser is a stable url and it can be copied and used later.
Databases include:
Academic Search Elite
Full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts for all 3,484 journals in the collection. Almost any subject is covered.
America: History & Life
The history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
Bibliography of Native North Americans
Citations to literature about native peoples of North America published from the sixteenth century to the present. Native North Americans include Aleuts; Eskimos or Inuit of Greenland, northern Canada, Alaska, and eastern Siberia; and other native peoples of Alaska, Canada, the United States, and Mexico north of the northern boundary of Mesoamerica.All citations are to published materials: books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US and Canadian government documents.
Business Source Complete
This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
Historical Abstracts Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
Regional Business News
Full text coverage of more than 80 regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
CINAHLCINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. We currently subscribe to CINAHL from Ovid but we plan to move to EBSCO in the future.
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
Political Science Complete
Full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
Public Administration Abstracts
Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 93,600 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Public Affairs Index
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters. It draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents and current reference works to provide up-to-date information on the broad range of topics of concern to the world today.
This database works with to locate full-text availability.
EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application.
As of April 2016 the Library no longer subscribes to this database.
Limited to 4 simultaneous users.
There is no full text in this database, so it cannot provide a stable link to the text. Use the stable URL for site of the full text of an article.
Gale is a publishing company, from which we purchase several online databases. These databases are available on the Gale search engine.
Cross-searchable databases:
Academic OneFile 1980-
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Grzimek's Animal Life
Databases that must be searched individually:
Literature Resource Center
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
The Times Digital Archive 1785 -1985
17th and 18th Century Burney Collection
Some of these databases were one-time purchases with Knowledge Ontario (not funded since 2012).
This is an e-book platform, with many reference books available. The books can be searched as a group, or an individual title can be opened, viewed, or searched.
The following Reference titles are included:
This product comes from Thomson Gale publishers and is available on the Gale interface with other Gale databases. It is part of the Knowledge Ontario package.
To link to a particular book or article, click on "Bookmark" and copy the URL provided.
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- Premier League
Henry linked with key Arsenal role
Arsenal legend Thierry Henry has emerged as a pivotal player in a power battle that could be about to take hold of Arsenal.
Major Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov has claimed he is in regular contact with the Gunners' all-time record goalscorer and has hinted that he will be given a prominent role at the club if the current board allow him to have a greater influence on events at Arsenal.
Usmanov has broken his recent silence to suggest he is eager to transform the structure of the club, with Henry viewed as a central figure in his plans to lift Arsenal from the gloom that has descended since their Capital One Cup defeat against League Two side Bradford City on Tuesday.
"I don't have any power in terms of decisions, but there are a few Arsenal players whom I am in contact with and my favourite is probably Thierry Henry," Usmanov told L'Equipe. "Thierry should already be a part of the club but not as a player. He has another role to play, a more important role.
"Take the example of Patrick Vieira at Manchester City. He is also a symbol of Arsenal, but he is helping another club. We have to avoid that happening with Thierry.
"The presence of a champion can radically change the feel of a team. That is what Thierry Henry showed last year when he came back to Arsenal."
Usmanov's Red and White Holdings owns 29.9% of Arsenal, yet American majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is refusing to work in tandem with the Russian-based billionaire and has used his 66.7% stake at the club to halt his rival's march on power.
Former Arsenal shareholder Nina Bracewell-Smith is among those now lambasting Kroenke and she offered some outspoken views in a Twitter exchange with irate fans on Thursday evening.
"If making money was the motivating factor, surely there are better ways," Bracewell-Smith wrote. "Football is a business of passion and SK [Kroenke] has no passion for AFC. Why he wanted to be a part of AFC, I don't know."
According to the most recent edition of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Usmanov has an estimated net worth of £17.3 billion, making him the 39th richest person in the world, well ahead of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich in the rich league.
However, manager Wenger and his board have shunned Usmanov's advances and have instead remained loyal to a policy that they will run the club within a prudent financial structure, much to the chagrin of an increasingly vocal clutch of the club's followers.
The public debate now raging over the future of Arsenal on and off the field is unprecedented during Wenger's 16-year reign as manager, with the French tactician potentially caught in the crossfire of a boardroom battle that may be looming large.
Wenger has been heavily linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain, while reports in British newspapers on Friday suggest he is also a target for Real Madrid as they prepare for the anticipated departure of Jose Mourinho next summer.


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Cyber Crooks: In It for the Money
Hacktivists steal headlines with their often-audacious attacks against high-profile targets. While it's easy for IT and security professionals to get caught up and imagine hacktivists will be breaking into their networks next, cyber-criminals intent on making money remain the bigger threat, according to a new Ponemon Institute report.
A majority of the respondents in the latest Impact of Cybercrime on Business report said financial fraud was the primary motivation behind cyber-attacks against their organizations. The report, released by Check Point Software Technologies and Ponemon Institute on May 22, surveyed 2,618 C-level executives and IT security administrators in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Hong Kong, and Brazil. Financial threat was the clear threat across regions, with some some geographic variations, ranging from 70 percent in the United States to 57 percent in Brazil. Theft of customer data and intellectual property was the next common reason behind the attacks, followed by disruption of business operations.
A mere five percent of attacks were estimated to have been driven by political or ideological agendas, according to the report.
This corresponds with Verizon's most recent Data Breach Investigation Report, released last March, which found that hacktivists accounted for only three percent of the incidents investigated by Verizon's investigators. Even though hacktivists made headlines and caused a lot of damage in 2011, cyber-criminals intent on making money were still the bigger threat, Verizon's RISK team said at the time.
"Cybercriminals are no longer isolated amateurs," said Tomer Teller, a security evangelist and researcher at Check Point.
They are members of organized groups and contract out work to highly-skilled individuals to craft and execute targeted attacks, according to Teller. The goal of attackers is to obtain valuable information, and what constitutes valuable information has expanded in recent months. Employee records and login information for Facebook and email accounts can be sold alongside credit card data on the black market, Teller said.
Attack Types
Advanced persistent threats (APT) and nation-state attacks also dominate security news, but overall, 43 percent of respondents said SQL injection, where malicious code is entered into a Web form and executed on the database back-end, was the most serious type of attack against their organizations in the past two years. While US-based respondents named APTs as the second most serious type of attack, the executives from other regions were more concerned about botnet and malware infections.
Businesses reported facing an average of 66 new attack attempts per week. The figure was much higher in Germany, with businesses seeing an average of 82 incidents a week.
Regardless of geographic location, all the respondents agreed that employees using mobile devices – including smartphones and tablets – in the workplace posed the greatest risk to the organization. US-based executives were also very concerned about employees remotely accessing corporate resources from home or while traveling. Social networks were also a cause for concern, especially in light of increasing number of attacks relying on social engineering techniques.
"Unfortunately, the rate of cybercrime seems to be climbing as businesses experience a surge in Web 2.0 use and mobile computing in corporate environments -- giving hackers more channels of communication and vulnerable entry points into the network," Teller said.


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Imagine merges 360 Magazine into X360
Imagine's announced its merged 360 Magazine and X360 together under the latter brand. The first issue since the merger will launch on July 11 with Dan Howdle leading the team as editor and Rick Porter as EIC. Both magazines seen recent drops in the last round of ABC results. Thanks, GI International.
X360 headlines
Imagine games mags get new EIC
Bournemouth-based Imagine's appointed a new editor-in-chief of its games division in Rick Porter. Porter will oversee gamesTM, the mag he edits, as well as X360 and the accompanying sites gamestm.co.uk and X360magazine.com. More on MCV.
Imagine has biggest unofficial Xbox 360 mag, says Imagine
Imagine's put out a release saying it has the biggest unofficial Xbox 360 mag in Britain, based on today's ABC figures. X360's average sales are 30,203, and alongside fellow Imagine title 360, which came in at 13,007 per month, Imagine reckons it owns 49 per cent of the unofficial Xbox 360 magazine market. "I am […]


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Belichick describes what Patriots used as motivation in Super Bowl LIII
Brady discusses his sixth Super Bowl title with McGinest
Prime and L.T. debate whether Rams can reach Super Bowl LIV
Patrick Chung on injury: 'Can't go in the cart, I'm tougher than that"
C.J. Anderson: 'It sucks to come up short for certain teammates'
L.T.: Pats' defense had best performance 'I've ever seen' in Super Bowl
David Andrews: 'You do it for moments like this'
Prime gives Edelman a jacket for winning SBLIII MVP
Prime: Goff, Rams are 'not ready for this stage right now'
Robert Kraft looks toward the future of the Patriots' dynasty
Jared Goff on SBLIII: 'The toughest loss I've ever had'
Aaron Donald: 'We'll be back' in the Super Bowl
Sony Michel explains why he's wearing Haitian flag after Super Bowl win
McDaniels after SB LIII win: 'Nobody wants us to be here'
Whitworth after loss to Pats: 'You're not gonna get me to pout'
McVay after Super Bowl LIII loss: 'I got outcoached'