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"Ackroyd is like a literary spiritualist who summons up the voices of the dead and encourages them to possess his writing…. [Poe] is as short and sharp as a flick-knife."
–Daily Telegraph
"Ackroyd reveals a man ahead of his time, an extraordinary genius…"
–Daily Express
"[a] deft, lively summary"
–The Spectator
"Ackroyd…makes the reader want to re-read Poe, and indeed to read more of Ackroyd on Poe."
–Scotland on Sunday
"Poe's brilliant, erratic, abbreviated career stands to gain rather than lose from the form of brief life patented by Ackroyd. A short biography is not a long one shrunk. Instead of patiently accumulated details, emotional complexity and architectural shaping, it operates by lightening strikes, atmospheric colouring, impressionistic techniques of concision and suggestion."
"With an adept ventriloquism Ackroyd weaves together contemporary testimony with his own crisp narrative…a vivid recreation of the life and sensibility that lay behind the work."
–Evening Standard
"A dark subject, but a light read"
–Waterstone's Books Quarterly
"admirably captures the heady mix of the esoteric, grotesque and thoroughly modern in Poe."
–Sunday Times
"Peter Ackroyd is the Micky Spillane of English letters; scarcely a morning goes by without a brilliant new novel, history or biography popgunning out into the shops from his uber-fecund pen… his standards are high and his imagination and erudition greater than most other shopfillers…. informative, still atmospheric, and from time to time clearly the work of a very fine writer"
"Such a Hammer horror biography–a veritable car-crash of a life–is tailor-made for a writer such as Ackroyd. He sustains its intensity in these 160 pages"
–Sunday Telegraph
"an apt biographer for Poe"
–The Irish Times
"informative and well-written"
–The Herald
"succinct and elegant … illuminating"
–Times Literary Supplement
"[Poe] recounts Poe's tumultuous and peripatetic personal and professional life in a tone equal parts crisp and Gothic."
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Yelich approach the same as hit string snapped
NEW YORK -- Hitting streaks come and go, and Christian Yelich's approach to them remains the same.
"Now that it's over, I'm not any more fazed by it than when it started," the Marlins left fielder said.
There was never any worries about how Yelich was handling his string of 17 straight games with a hit. The 22-year-old aims to have a productive plate appearance every time, so it's not like he ever dwelled on it.
As part of Miami's tough 4-3 loss to the Mets at Citi Field on Friday night, Yelich went hitless in four at-bats. He drew a walk, and had his career-long streak come to an end, which had been the longest active stretch in the Majors.
"It's the same feeling that I've had for the last two weeks," Yelich said. "That's why those things are so hard to keep going."
Actually, in the first inning, Yelich came close to having the streak continue. His hot shot to third base went through David Wright's legs, and it was ruled an error.
After that, the young left fielder ripped several drives hard, including a smash to center field, but those were right at fielders.
"I hit three balls hard," Yelich said.
Was it an error on Wright?
"I'm not going to say anything about that," Yelich said.
The Marlins' hit-streak record is 35 games, set by Luis Castillo in 2002. The 17 games matches the eighth longest in club history.
Yelich certainly had an impressive run, going 26-for-71 (.366) with a .438 on-base percentage during the 17 games. He added four doubles, one triple and scored 13 runs.
But when repeatedly asked about his stretch, Yelich brought up the MLB all-time mark, 56 by Joe DiMaggio.
"Everybody thinks you're going to get the streak after you have like eight games," Yelich said. "I tried to tell everybody, to be able to have that thing matter, you basically have to hit for like two straight months. That was the only time I was going to care about it."

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Stocks drop as Italy heads for political disarray
Stocks are having a bad flashback to last spring, when fears about the European debt crisis sent the market spiraling lower.
On Monday, election results in Italy showed a race too close to call, leaving investors fearful that the country will struggle to form a government that can move forward with reforms to revive the economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average posted its worst drop in more than three months. The Standard & Poor's 500, which had its first weekly decline of the year last week, piled on more losses Monday.
The Dow fell 216.40 points, or 1.6 percent, to 13,784.17, its biggest drop since Nov. 7. The S&P 500 fell 27.75 points, or 1.8 percent, to 1,487.85, falling below 1,500 for the first time in three weeks. The Nasdaq composite dropped 45.57 points, or 1.4 percent, to 3,116.25.
Investors worry about the outcome of Italy's election because it could set off another crisis of confidence in the region's shared currency, the euro.
The Dow started the day gaining as much as 81 points on early optimism that Italian elections would produce a government willing to stay the course with reforms. The index drifted lower and then slumped, giving up about 150 points in the last hour of trading.
"This is what markets feared," says Jim Russell, a senior equity strategist at US Bank Wealth Management. "Stability in Europe is paramount to the markets."
Italy has the eighth largest economy in the world and the market for Italian government bonds ranks as the third largest, behind Japan and the U.S.
Last spring, investors fretted over the outcome of Greek elections that had the potential to pull the euro currency bloc apart. By the start of June, U.S. stocks had given up the year's gains after a strong start.
Monday's drop in stocks may unnerve individual investors at a crucial moment.
For several years now, individual investors have been selling more stocks that they've been buying. In the first six weeks of this year, they reversed course. They put $21 billion more into U.S. stock mutual funds than they took out, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade group.
The market drop raised the possibility they could get rattled and start pulling money out again. The slide followed a big fall last week after the Federal Reserve released minutes from its last policy meeting. The minutes showed that members disagreed on how much longer the central bank should buy bonds to stimulate the economy. The Dow fell 155 points in two days.
As investors sold stocks Monday, they piled into bonds. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which is widely considered an ultra-safe investment, fell. The yield declined to 1.88 percent from 1.96 percent late Friday.
The VIX index, a measure of how volatile investors expect the stock market to be, surged 34 percent to 19, the biggest one-day rise since August 2011.
In Italy, investors erased most of an early rally in the country's stock market and dumped government bonds, sending yields higher.
The yield on Italy's 10-year government bond shot up to 4.43 percent from 4.12 percent early in the day, a sign that investors' confidence in the government was dimming quickly.
In the U.S., some analysts say the stock market had gotten ahead of itself with a strong rally since the start of the year. The news from Italy gave investors a reason to sell. Even after today's sell-off the Dow is still up 5.2 percent for the year and the S&P 500 is 4.3 percent higher.
"The market is extremely overbought, it's been overbought since the beginning of this year," says Lance Roberts, chief economist at Streettalk Advisors in Houston, Texas.
US Bank Wealth Management's Russell says many investors were already jittery because the big jump in stocks. Now they have two reasons to sell: Italy, and the automatic budget cuts set to take effect Friday if lawmakers do not hammer out a debt-reduction deal.
"Markets have probably gone up too far, too fast," Russell says. "They were due for pause."
European stocks gave back much of their early gains. Benchmark indexes rose 0.4 percent in France, 1.5 percent in Germany and 0.8 percent in Spain.
Britain's index was up just 0.3 percent after Moody's stripped the country late Friday of its triple-A credit rating.
Among other stocks making big moves:
- Drugmaker Affymax plunged $14.10, or 85 percent, to $2.42 after the company recalled its anemia drug following severe allergic reactions and the deaths of some kidney dialysis patients.
-Mead Johnson fell $3.64, or 4.6 percent, to $75.32 after the company said that a new regulation in Hong Kong could affect the company's sales there as well as in mainland China.
- Barnes & Noble rose $1.55, or 12 percent, to $15.06 after founder and chairman Leonard Riggio told the bookseller he is going to try to buy the company's retail business.
- Hertz advanced 31 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $19.04, despite posting a fourth-quarter loss, after the rental car company said that pricing improved, volume rose and it cut costs.
AP Business Writers Christina Rexrode and Matthew Craft contributed to the report.


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#include <sys/socket.h> ssize_t recv(int sockfd, void *buf, size_t len, int flags); ssize_t recvfrom(int sockfd, void *buf, size_t len, int flags, struct sockaddr *src_addr, socklen_t *addrlen); ssize_t recvmsg(int sockfd, struct msghdr *msg, int flags);
If src_addr is not NULL, and the underlying protocol provides the source address, this source address is filled in. When src_addr is NULL, nothing is filled in; in this case, addrlen is not used, and should also be NULL. The argument addrlen is a value-result argument, which the caller should initialize before the call to the size of the buffer associated with src_addr, and modified on return to indicate the actual size of the source address. The returned address is truncated if the buffer provided is too small; in this case, addrlen will return a value greater than was supplied to the call.
The recv() call is normally used only on a connected socket (see connect(2)) and is identical to recvfrom() with a NULL src_addr argument.
All three routines return the length of the message on successful completion. If a message is too long to fit in the supplied buffer, excess bytes may be discarded depending on the type of socket the message is received from.
If no messages are available at the socket, the receive calls wait for a message to arrive, unless the socket is nonblocking (see fcntl(2)), in which case the value -1 is returned and the external variable errno is set to EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK. The receive calls normally return any data available, up to the requested amount, rather than waiting for receipt of the full amount requested.
The select(2) or poll(2) call may be used to determine when more data arrives.
The flags argument to a recv() call is formed by OR'ing one or more of the following values:
The error is supplied in a sock_extended_err structure:
#define SO_EE_ORIGIN_NONE 0 #define SO_EE_ORIGIN_LOCAL 1 #define SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP 2 #define SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP6 3 struct sock_extended_err { uint32_t ee_errno; /* error number */ uint8_t ee_origin; /* where the error originated */ uint8_t ee_type; /* type */ uint8_t ee_code; /* code */ uint8_t ee_pad; /* padding */ uint32_t ee_info; /* additional information */ uint32_t ee_data; /* other data */ /* More data may follow */ }; struct sockaddr *SO_EE_OFFENDER(struct sock_extended_err *);
For use with Internet stream sockets, see tcp(7).
The recvmsg() call uses a msghdr structure to minimize the number of directly supplied arguments. This structure is defined as follows in <sys/socket.h>:
struct iovec { /* Scatter/gather array items */ void *iov_base; /* Starting address */ size_t iov_len; /* Number of bytes to transfer */ }; struct msghdr { void *msg_name; /* optional address */ socklen_t msg_namelen; /* size of address */ struct iovec *msg_iov; /* scatter/gather array */ size_t msg_iovlen; /* # elements in msg_iov */ void *msg_control; /* ancillary data, see below */ size_t msg_controllen; /* ancillary data buffer len */ int msg_flags; /* flags on received message */ };
Here msg_name and msg_namelen specify the source address if the socket is unconnected; msg_name may be given as a null pointer if no names are desired or required. The fields msg_iov and msg_iovlen describe scatter-gather locations, as discussed in readv(2). The field msg_control, which has length msg_controllen, points to a buffer for other protocol control-related messages or miscellaneous ancillary data. When recvmsg() is called, msg_controllen should contain the length of the available buffer in msg_control; upon return from a successful call it will contain the length of the control message sequence.
The messages are of the form:
struct cmsghdr { socklen_t cmsg_len; /* data byte count, including hdr */ int cmsg_level; /* originating protocol */ int cmsg_type; /* protocol-specific type */ /* followed by unsigned char cmsg_data[]; */ };
Ancillary data should only be accessed by the macros defined in cmsg(3).
As an example, Linux uses this ancillary data mechanism to pass extended errors, IP options, or file descriptors over Unix sockets.
The msg_flags field in the msghdr is set on return of recvmsg(). It can contain several flags:
POSIX.1-2001 only describes the MSG_OOB, MSG_PEEK, and MSG_WAITALL flags.
According to POSIX.1-2001, the msg_controllen field of the msghdr structure should be typed as socklen_t, but glibc currently types it as size_t.


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I was tuning my engine in my garage. Sitting in my car there was a loud BANG, BANG, BANG coming from the back....what the f**k methinks.
Got out the car to find one of my neighbours banging the garage door. When are you going to stop driving me mad!! I've put up with you for Five years ...I've only had the engine running for 10 months... That THING should not be allowed in a resedential area, a garage is for parking a car in not to be used as a workshop!! other neibours are fed up too, she says.
I let her sound off and stayed polite. Told her I was glad she told me that I was annoying her only it's a pity she waited Five years to tell me. I pointed out that my cars are going to be stored on a farm in future from next week. But, I didn't tell her that I was going too cos' I'm getting a divorce.
It still hurts to know that while I'm having fun with the Deuce others around me are upset about it. WHY THEY DIDN'T tell me? Christ, I always talk to my neighbours and they never mention it. I even do the shopping and collect medicine, for the old dear that was sounding off at me, when the weather is bad.
Sorry to rant but I need to get this off my chest!! I feel like I'm leaving this neighbourhood with the divorce and my neighbours will be glad I'm gone too.
I feel for you Deuce, I used to live in a 3rd floor appartment and I would work in the parking lot in the back much to the chagrin of my numerous neighbours. I heard it all, I even once had one guy threaten me with legal action for working late at night (I guess the sound of clinking tools kept him up). I soon moved the car to a side street only to be hassled by the local police force who told me it is illegal to work on a motor vehilce on a city street for any other reason than to fix it enough to move it.
What am I supposed to do? I eventually rented a little one car garage from a nice little old lady who only charged me $10 a month with a little grass cutting in the summer. She was nearly stone deaf and couldn't hear me working at night and I was much happier.
It can seem that everyone hates you except when it comes time for a little car repair for free, hang in there...you have comrades across the pond who have faced the same discrimination as you.
Continue to fight the good fight Deuce and don't let the mechanically inept bastages get you down. Perhaps a little "Rod run" that starts at your house and ends there will give them a dose of reality, not being able to find a parking spot because the street is full of rods might make them realize who is in charge of your life. Make sure there are a few Harley's in there too, they will think your a "gang" member and not want to rustle any feathers in case they end up at the bottom of the Thames wearing cement neck jewelery.
Hmmm...might just be time to go and "tune" the motorcycle tonight just to let the neighbours know it's spring time. Blowing the carbon out is just what she needs.
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself.
Han Solo
maybe it's just cause i'm a poor dumb white boy, but why in the hell be nice to the ol bag when you know you are moving? i woulda told her to f off!
I feel for ya too, i've had that sheet all the time & a divorce thrown in.
I agree if you're moving let 'em suffer make all the noise you can, bo**ox to the old bag.
My roadster is a little noisey & has been known to leave two black lines the length of my street, the Harley & the BSA are both straight through too & have no problem setting car alarms off....to my amusement!
Been in this house for eleven yrs now with no complaints....lucky i guess, so it is possible.
Where in the UK are you, if you were close enough i could supply some support!!
(just remembered the pic to the left is my street, )
[ March 25, 2003: Message edited by: hotrodit ]

Are you sure you don't live on the other side of my butt-head neighbour?
I can sure relate to you. Mine called the cops due to the horrible banging noise outside that lasted for hours at a time. Boy were the cops mad at her when they discovered the source of the horrible noise was me bulding my garage.
I got her back when I rented the tamper. I left it running all day - even when I was not using it.
I can relate,it's like asking what is wrong and they say nothing is but,nothing has 6" teeth and they are stuck in my *** .
And that's the reason I live out in the country. I'm far enough away from my neighbors that I don't bother them and they don't bother me. Hotrodit, when you make the move you may have to bring the UK man with you. Just don't leave that roadster or Tracy.
Yeah we used to have our neigbors call the Sherrif when my dad would fire up his old funny car when I was younger. So one night he finally had it with them and got all of his buddies out thier with their race cars and fired them up. Whew that was loud. A few alcohol funny cars fired up in the peaceful Kansas night sky. My dad said he wanted to knock the pictures off of their walls. They only lived about 600 yards away.
My land is semi-rural. I live in the township. My kids wanted a fire pit, we Can still have open fires in the township, so I dug a pit and lined it with cut off logs for seats. My neighbor bought a movable barn, about the size of a one car garage and sets it 4ft off the property line next to my fire pit. We have some really big fires, lots of trees on my land and lots of limbs to throw in the fire. Her barn starts smoking and I do mean smoking. I hosed down the back of the barn and stopped building up the fire. Next day she's out there looking at the back of her barn, its kind of BROWN and says what am I going to do about it. I said I thought that barn was kind of close to my fire pit but I though she knew what she was doing but I'd suggest she move that barn before it burned down, doesn't seem like a very good place to set it right next to my fire pit. She moved the barn and I still use my fire pit. She had the Sheriff out first and he asked her why she set up her barn right next to my fire pit then she moved her barn.
Todd
Rat Rods Rule!
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LOS ANGELES - A woman sleeping on a street bench outside a drug store was doused with an accelerant and set on fire early Thursday morning in Van Nuys, a district of Los Angeles.
Witnesses told police that a man poured liquid -- possibly a beverage containing alcohol -- on the sleeping woman at about 1 a.m. outside a Walgreens store near Van Nuys Boulevard and Sherman Way. He lit a match and ran from the location, witnesses told police.
The woman, who is in her 60s, was hospitalized in critical condition. The victim will likely be transported to a Sherman Oaks burn center for treatment, police said.
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KSCB News - February 11, 2014 1:26 pm
A group wants a western Kansas school to remove a cross from the top of its building.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State says the cross on Spearville Elementary School violates the First Amendment. The group wrote Superintendent Daryl Stegman and Principal Marvin Hartzler in November in response to a complaint from a resident.
The USD 381 Board of Education reached an informal consensus Monday that it wouldn't take any action on the cross until a lawsuit is filed.
The group requested a reply from the school district within 30 days and sent another letter Jan. 9. The school district has chosen not to respond to the group.
Spearville, a town of about 775 residents, is northeast of Dodge City.


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Brazilian investors buy Miami real estate. Haitian earthquake survivors attend South Florida schools. It's clear what happens in Latin America and the Caribbean has a profound effect on South Florida.
WLRN's coverage of the region is headed by Americas editor Tim Padgett, a 23-year veteran of TIME and Newsweek magazines.
He joins a team of reporters and editors at the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and NPR to cover a region whose cultural wealth, environmental complexity, vast agricultural output and massive oil reserves offer no shortage of important and fascinating stories to tell.


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Congratulations to all of the winners in the Colossal Castle Contest II! Your creations show the finest that Classic Castle has to offer. Thank you to everyone who entered the contest. The huge number of talented entries is what truly made this year's Castle contest Colossal.
The scores were very close so we have provided an Honorable Mention for the top five entries in each category that did not win. Please contact Lenny Hoffman or myself if you have won a category so we can ship out the prizes! The Master Builder prize is being calculated and will be announced in a few days.
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Ralph Litzinger is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. His early research focused on the culture and politics of ethnicity, nationalism, and post-socialism in China. He has published on Marxist nationality theory in China, on ethnic politics in the post-Cold War global order, on gender and ethnic representation, and on ethnographic film, photography, and popular culture. Other Chinas: the Yao and the Politics of National Belonging (Duke University Press, 2000) was the first major ethnographic study to examine the work and writing of minority intellectuals in the imagining of post-socialist futures. Litzinger's more recent research engages with questions of border ecologies, bio-politics, activism and advocacy in labor, migrant education rights. He has published key essays on the transnational and media dimensions of anti-dam protest in southwest China; on global environmental NGOs and the privatization of nature; on self-immolation among Tibetans; on the transnational activism directed at Apple and the companies that source its supply chain; and on the emerging field of global media ecologies. The Cultural Anthropology special online issue, "Self-Immolation as Protest in Tibet" https://culanth.org/fieldsights/93-self-immolation-as-protest-in-tibet remains the most downloaded in the history of the journal Cultural Anthropology's "Hot Spot" series. Litzinger's "The Labor Question in China: Apple and Beyond" http://saq.dukejournals.org/content/112/1/172.abstract was the most downloaded article in the South Atlantic Quarterly in 2013. More recently, Litzinger is the co-editor of Ghost Protocols: Development and Displacement in Global China (Duke University Press, 2016). He is currently working on two book projects, Migrant Futures: Education and Labor in Global China, and Black Lung: An Ethnography of Dust, a collaborative project with former students, miners and labor activists in China.
From 2001-2017, Litzinger directed Duke's Asia/Pacific Studies Institute. During this period, he raised over five million dollars for East Asian studies programming at Duke, send the first Duke students in Trinity College to China and other East Asian countries with funding for research and internships, developed APSI's MA program in East Asian Studies, worked to found the rural education non-profit Dream Corp International (http://www.dreamcorps.org/en/our_programs.html), and the student-led newspaper and now web-based magazine, Duke East Asian NEXUS (http://www.dukenex.us). He also worked with Duke's Development Office to write the successful application for the Oscar Tang Named Professorship (now held by Professor Prasenjit Duara in Duke's History Department). From 2007-2008 he co-directed the Mellon-Sawyer seminar, "Portents and Dilemmas: Health and the Environment in China and India, A Comparative Study." From 2008-2015, he directed the Duke Engage Migrant Education project, a ten-week immersive project at a middle school for the children of migrant workers on the rural-urban fringes of Beijing http://www.dandelionschool.org/a/ENGLISH/general/2011/0105/general_info.html. From 2011-2013, he co-directed the India-China Global Semester Abroad program, and an Environment, Health, and Development seminar at Beijing University. In 2013, Litzinger was awarded the Howard Johnson Excellence in Teaching Award, and, in the same year, the Duke Engage Excellence in Student Mentoring Award. He is on the advisory board of the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), the leading trans-regional labor activist organization in East Asia (http://sacom.hk). He is on the editorial board of the China Environment and Wealth Series at the University of Amsterdam Press.
From 2006-to the present, he has served on multiple committees associated with the establishment of the Duke Kunshan campus in China, and has been a core member on the committee that authored DKU's global liberal arts curriculum. Litzinger offers courses on "Migrant China," "Environmental, Health and Development in China," "Anthropology and Film," "Global Environmentalism and the Politics of Nature," "Theorizing the Anthropocene," and "Millennial Capitalisms." He is now developing new courses on Apple, The Cancer Memoir, Media Ecologies, and the Anthropology of Extractive Capitalism.
Litzinger, R. A. "Tradition and the Gender of Civility." Chinese Feminities/Chinese Masculinities: An Introductory Reader, edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California Press, 2001.
Litzinger, R. A. "Globalization from Below: Reflections on the Anthropology of Global Environmentalism." Links Between Cultures and Biodiversity: Proceedings of the Cultures and Biodiversity Congress 2000, edited by Xu Jianchu, Kunming: Yunnan Science and Technology Press, 2000, pp. 590–97.
Litzinger, R. A. "Re-imagining the State in Post-Mao China." Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and Production of Danger, edited by Jutta Weldes et al., University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 293–318.
Litzinger, R. A. "Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past." Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers, edited by Stevan Harrell, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1995, pp. 117–39.
Litzinger, Ralph. Afterword: Beyond the Corporate Leninist Box. Edited by Aihwa Ong and Li Zhang, 2008.
Litzinger, Ralph. "Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan, by Robert Weller." American Anthropologist, 2008.
Litzinger, Ralph. "Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, by Lisa Rofel." China Review International, 2008.
Litzinger, Ralph. "Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China , by Beth Notar." The China Quarterly, vol. 191, Sept. 2007, pp. 769–71.
Litzinger, R. A. "Contested sovereignties and the critical ecosystem partnership fund." Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 29, no. 1, Jan. 2006, pp. 66–87. Scopus, doi:10.1525/pol.2006.29.1.66. Full Text
Litzinger, R. "The Mobilization of "Nature": Perspectives from North-west Yunnan." China Quarterly, vol. 178, Jan. 2004, pp. 488–504. Scopus, doi:10.1017/S030574100400027X. Full Text
Litzinger, R. A. ""Damming the Angry River"." China Review, vol. 30, no. Autumn, Great Britian China Center, 2004, pp. 30–34.
Litzinger, R. "Theorizing postsocialism: Reflections on the politics of marginality in contemporary China." South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 101, no. 1, Dec. 2002, pp. 33–55. Scopus, doi:10.1215/00382876-101-1-33. Full Text
Litzinger, R. A. "Government from Below: The State, the Popular, and the Illusion of Autonomy." Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, vol. 9, no. 1, Duke University Press, Mar. 2001, pp. 253–66. Crossref, doi:10.1215/10679847-9-1-253. Full Text
Litzinger, R. A. "Beyond the Museum Complex: Minority Culture and History at the Mountain Patterns Exhibit." Asian Ethnicity, vol. 2, no. 1, Mar. 2001, pp. 86–96.
Litzinger, R. A. "Re-imagining the State in Post-Mao China". Edited by Jutta Weldes et al., University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 293–318.
Litzinger, R. A. "Making Histories: Contending Conceptions of the Yao Past". Edited by Stevan Harrell, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1995, pp. 117–39.
Litzinger, R. A. "Tradition and the Gender of Civility". Edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California Press.
"Border Crossings: Borders, Frontiers, and Cultural Contact Zones," Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, Il., March 26-29, 2009.. December 18, 2010
"Re-thinking Nation and Nationality in China's Border Zones," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 17-21, 2010.. December 18, 2010
"Cyborg Circuits: Ethnographies of Contemporary Knowledge Production," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 17-21, 2010.. December 18, 2010


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ict@innovation offers free advanced training material on African "Free and Open Source Software" (FOSS) Business Models. The training materials have been collaboratively developed by a group of experts from Africa and Europe and are titled "ict@innovation: Free your IT-Business in Africa! Advanced Training Material on African "Free and Open Source Software" (FOSS) Business Models for IT-SMEs"
The training materials have been specifically created for African small and medium ICT enterprises interested in creating or adapting business models with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).The material is modular and includes specific African case studies. It can be used by small and medium company managers and employees, as well as by ICT-associations, universities, training institutions and freelance trainers who are interested in training or consulting small and medium enterprises on or working with FOSS Business Models.
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GAME, Britain's biggest video game retailer, has gone into administration today.
The retailer counts around 1.300 stores distributed between the UK and mainland Europe, 5.100 employees in the UK and Ireland, of which 385 are employed at its headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
In Edinburgh, Gamestation on Princes Street, the flagship store of the company, had already been closed in late 2011.
However, as the retailers are refusing to release any comments, it's understood that the GAME stores in St. James Shopping centre and Ocean Terminal are still open as usual.
Meanwhile, it has already been reported that about half of the 600 UK shops have been closed during the day, and it's unclear whether the rest will stay in business.
The company's website is currently no longer accessible, and it names MJA Jervis and SD Maddison as the appointed Joint Administrators.
Mike Jervis has commented: "Despite these challenges, we believe that there is room for a specialist game retailer in the territories in which it operates, including its biggest one, the UK.
"As a result, we are hopeful that a going concern sale of the business is achievable".
GAME, which was founded in 1991 as Rhino Group, had already been rumoured to be in troubled waters as their credit worthiness came under scrutiny just a few days ago.
As a consequence, three main suppliers, Nintendo, EA and Capcom, blocked the distribution of their most recent releases to the retailer.
The overall performance of the company in the last few months has been abysmal, with a £18 million loss for the year to 31 January being blamed on high fixed costs and an ambitious international expansion.


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Sox Win Impressively in Camelback Ranch Finale
With the White Sox blanking the A's 2-0 yesterday in their last spring home game, I can't help but think we're going to see a lot of similar games this year. With one of the best starting staffs in baseball and potentially an outstanding pen, it's reasonable to expect that the Sox will keep the opposition from lighting up the scoreboard more often than not.
Offensively, the Sox have lost the power of Jim Thome and Jermaine Dye. The hope is that the "Ozzieball" approach will score as many runs and folks like Paul Konerko, Carlos Quentin, Alex Rios and Andruw Jones can provide adequate power numbers. That said, I still think lower scoring games will be the rule rather than the exception. And, to me, that's a good thing.
Back to yesterday, it was neat and clean. Mark Buehrle (5 innings), Tony Pena (1), Randy Williams (1) and Bobby Jenks (2) combined for the shutout and Konerko and Quentin both went 2 for 4 with an RBI. Quentin hit his fifth homer of the spring.
The South Siders close out spring training this week. They make the short trip to Goodyear today to face the Indians, have split squad games against the Mariners in Peoria and their AAA affiliate in Charlotte on Thursday and journey to Atlanta to face the Braves on Friday night and Saturday. Then it's onward to Chicago for Opening Day Monday against Cleveland.
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helix[he´liks] (pl. he´lices, helixes) (Gr.)
2. the superior and posterior free margin of the pinna of the ear.
α-helix (alpha helix) the complex structural arrangement of parts of protein molecules in which a single polypeptide chain forms a right-handed helix.
double helix (Watson-Crick helix) the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), consisting of two coiled chains, each of which contains information completely specifying the other chain.
α he·lix
the helical form (commonly right-handed) present in many proteins, deduced by Pauling and Corey from x-ray diffraction studies of proteins such as α-keratin; the helix is stabilized by hydrogen bonds between, differet eupeptide bonds, for example, R1R2C = O and HN(R3)R4' groups, symbolized by the center dot in R1R2C = O · HN(R3)R4. In a true α helix, there are 3.6 amino acid residues per turn of the helix and an increase of 1.5 Ǻ per residue.
Synonym(s): 3.613 helix, Pauling-Corey helix
alpha helix
A secondary structure of proteins, characterized by a single, spiral chain of amino acids stabilized by hydrogen bonds.
al′pha-hel′i·cal (-hĕl′ĭ-kəl, -hē′lĭ-) adj.
alpha helixA specific form of folding of the polypeptide backbone in fibrous and globular proteins; right-handed corkscrew arrangement of a polypeptide chain is maintained by intrachain hydrogen bonding. The alpha helix is a major structural protein motif deduced by Pauling and Corey, and it occurs as bundles in keratin, myosin, fibrin and the epidermis.
alpha helixA coiled configuration of a POLYPEPTIDE chain found in many proteins. This is one of the commonest forms of secondary structure in proteins.
alpha helixa twisted polypeptide chain which forms a helical structure in many proteins, with 3.6 amino-acid residues per turn of the helix. Successive turns of the helix are linked by weak hydrogen bonds and the structure is much more stable than an untwisted polypeptide chain. Long-chain alpha-helix construction is characteristic of structural 'fibrous' proteins, found in hair, claws, fingernails, feathers, wool and horn. Proteins that are intracellular are usually of the 'globular' type with short segments of alpha helixes.
Pauling,Linus C., U.S. chemist and Nobel laureate, 1901-1994.
Pauling theory - a theory of narcosis pertaining to nonhydrogen-bonding agents. Synonym(s): hydrate microcrystal theory of anesthesia
Pauling-Corey helix - the helical form present in many proteins. Synonym(s): α helix


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Coffee Chronicles: WTF is Brewing In Fort Greene
"This is your morning cocktail. Every day."
Let's be honest: who hasn't wanted a deliciously crafted cup of coffee while stopping for a pair of designer sneakers on their way to the dog run? Dynamic Fort Greene entrepreneur Asio Highsmith (who owned posh speakeasy the Hideout on Adelphi, and who currently owns fancy footwear store Pedigree next door) has deployed such a high-concept, minimal coffeebar on Fort Greene that passersby might wonder: WTF?
And indeed...that's the coffee shop's name. And it's not just the name that has amazing balls behind it: this spot is absolutely pimped. Espresso on a shiny new La Marzocco GB5, and manually brewed coffee available on Chemex, French press, syphon, ceramic pourover, and woodneck, or "sock filter" coffee. Oh, and the elaborate wood-and-glass chemistry sets mounted on the walls are not outré artwork: they're brewing super-slow, hyper intense "Kyoto" style drip cold coffee. A sip of roaster Coffee Labs' Amaro Gayo Ethiopian coffee brewed on this is so punchy and far out it's almost boozy. It won't be for everyone, but that's why there are six other brewing methods available.
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Highsmith emphasizes his interest in coffee as coming from a tradition in bars and mixology, thrilling to the idea of surfing the flavors of the same coffees through wildly different brewing modes. "We're going to have a lot of fun with coffee," he says. "We're going to flex the coffee spectrum".
To Highsmith, treating coffee like an adult beverage means offering it proper respect. Cold-brewed coffee is served with Kold-Draft bar ice; the shop's presentation is high elegance; your checkout is done on an iPad. Too fancy? Not for Highsmith, and not for the people of Brooklyn, says the enthusiastic owner.
"Drinks are important. Cocktails are important. This is your morning cocktail. Every day."
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First Trailer For 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'
With Thor: The Dark World due out in theaters in two weeks, its a perfect time to get the audiences going with a peek at Marvel's next Phase 2 film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Set two years after the events of The Avengers, Steve Rogers is settling into his life in Washington D.C., adjusting to a living in a new time and working for S.H.I.E.L.D. After an ally in S.H.I.E.L.D. is assaulted, Captain America and Agent Romanoff must team up to take on a mysterious threat, the Winter Soldier.
Fans of Captain America's history could easily see the ground work for the Winter Soldier in the first film. If you're not familiar with the story, all I'll say is that the Winter Soldier appeared in the first film. But the biggest challenge the filmmakers have here is not just doing justice to the Winter Soldier storyline, but also justice to the first film which was an impressive period piece and a terrific lead in to The Avengers. Without the period piece tone of the film, it looks like they are going to have to switch gears to a "fish out of water story". We were to get a taste of the "fish out of water" subplot in The Avengers, but those scenes were ultimately cut so they could be used in this film. But from this early trailer, it looks like they are on the right path to make Captain America relevant in a current setting and making the Winter Soldier the appropriate threat he needs to be.
After seeing this trailer, I can't wait for more. With Thor: The Dark World two weeks away, this coming up in April, and then X-Men: Days of Future Past on the horizon (with the first trailer due out next week), this looks to be the strongest line-up Marvel has ever had.


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Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Remedy Was Fire
In six weeks I will be speaking at a retreat on the topic of prayer.
I don't mind telling you that I feel a little-bit overwhelmed by this topic, and A LOT-a-bit under-qualified.
Its not that I don't pray. I do.
Its just... well... prayer is such a huge topic and it often involves pain. Of course, pain is a problem I like to avoid.
And yet, I know that prayer is one of the ways I can communicate with my Creator. Its foundational in a dynamic relationship with God. I know that not all of my prayers will be answered the way I would like them to unfold - often providing hope and help from places I didn't even know existed. I know that my prayers have been unequivocally answered "Yes!", and some, "No!". But with 20/20 vision I can look back and see that God used all things for His glory and my good.
I know these things.
My problem is in the practical application. In convincing my heart of a Holy practice that my mind can't fully comprehend.
I find that I waiver between two courses when I pray: I pray that God would spare me (or others) from pain, or, in my pain I ask Him to take it away...and please, make the process as painless as possible.
I've been through just enough discomfort in this life to know it isn't all bad, and that pain is also purposeful - if we choose not to waste it. Still, as most people do, I often dance around it. It reminds me about a situation I was in about 8 years ago....
My daughter was about three-years old and woke up one bright Texas morning with a flat, light-brown spot on the left side of her face. I thought she was getting a freckle but a couple weeks later that little spot got bigger... and had babies.
Within a month that little spot was about the size of a grain of rice, and the other spots ranged from the size of a pin-point to large freckles.
I was concerned.
So I took her to the doctor who said it wasn't contagious, but she didn't know what it was.
I took her to a dermatologist who said he had never seen anything like it and perhaps it was a wart (although they didn't look like warts). He said removing it would cause scarring so to try some over-the-counter wart remover. He then sort of flippantly told us that there was an old wives-tale regarding warts: if you cut a potato and rub it on the wart, then bury the potato in you back yard, your warts would go away.
I tried it.
It didn't work.
I took her to a dear friend who is a medical professional but also knowledgeable in natural medicine. She told me to try Tea-tree oil. So I plunked down some hard cash and put nasty smelling oil on my baby's cheek for a couple of months.
Nothing. And it was getting worse.
As a last ditch effort, I took her to a family friend and well-known plastic surgeon in my hometown. He also wasn't sure what it was (he didn't think it was warts) and told me to wait it out. He asked me if it was causing her pain or if it bothered her in any way.
The answer was no.
He said that he could take it off, but that the in-office procedure would be tough on a three-year old. Not to mention the difficulties of keeping the post-surgery wound on a pre-schooler's face clean. He said to leave it alone and if, when she was 12 or 13, she didn't like the way it looked, he would take care of it.
All these appointments and ointments (and sadly, potatoes) took place over the course of a year. I'm not sure when it occurred to me that I should pray about these marks on her face, it was certainly after I had tried everything I knew to do...but then I prayed.
And then I asked my mom's group to pray.
And then I asked my small group at church to pray.
And then I asked the women's ministry team to pray.
And I prayed some more.
And then, The Girl got very sick.
She had a ridiculously high fever. She complained of nothing else. There were no ear infections, throat issues...nothing. For two days she was poorly. It wasn't easy for her.
Life went on and she got better. About a week later, as we all sat around the table and I looked at her with unbelief. I don't know when it happened but, her spots were gone.
I'm talkin', completely, totally, absolutely, not there. There wasn't a scar or spot or any sort of sign. Just a pink, healthy looking face.
I spent over a year trying to get rid of a blemish that the Lord removed nearly overnight.
As The Mister and I talked about it we think The Girl did in fact have some sort of virus. A virus that only a fever could cure.
We prayed for restoration, the remedy was fire.
There is mercy in fire.
There is purpose in pain.
If we can hang on, until we can see the goodness that comes from the heat of life, we receive the privilege to see the hand of God in our lives and in the lives of those we love.
As Christians we practice prayer because its communion with our God and Father. It helps us to remember that He is in control. Prayer is a gift - sometimes a gift that is pleasurable, and yes, sometimes painful...but all for our good.
7 comments:
- Blue Skies said...
I know I was around and praying then, but this has reminded my how myopic my world is. I don't even remember it.
Your story, however, made me teary on this day as I remember that part of our lives. Today my oldest is 11 and was a baby with your sweet girl. So many opportunities in that time to have our knees on the floor, calling out for God's help. Thank you for the encouragement to continue pressing on, and in, to our Lord.
- March 31, 2011 9:54 AM
- Elizabeth said...
I so wish i could come hear you speak. What a blessing that will be to those women.
- March 31, 2011 11:15 AM
- Kristin said...
loved reading this Kellie. I've struggled with the same things so often, but especially the past month since Emma's accident. The battle between "Lord PLEASE heal my daughter," and "Lord, your will be done." I still don't think I've got it figured out - but I do know that He used her accident to speak to her (and me) in mighty ways, and she will never foget hearing His audible voice speak to her in her fear. I guess that makes it all worth it. Send me the info on your retreat - would love to be able to come!
- March 31, 2011 4:30 PM
- Kim said...
This was so good! Such truth. Thank you for sharing.
- March 31, 2011 11:29 PM
- LJ said...
Prayer doesn't change God, it changes me! It reminds me of my need to be in relationship with the Father. I too try things on my own, only to be brought down on my knees in pain. I am caring of a father who is sick, slowly dying, and now suffering from memory loss. I wish I could "remember" to start with prayer first, it would save a lot of heart ache and would be more comforting and peaceful than waiting until utter despiration. This must be part of the sin nature - go it alone - until I realize I can no longer. Prayer is beautiful, it is soothing and it is real! I love you friend!
- April 01, 2011 12:39 PM
- Tracey said...
In one of the hardest times of my life, I cried out to God, "Oh Lord, what do I do?" He peacefully whispered to me, "Go down the hall." And for three days, He guided me through the next minutes of my day. Here I was, in the worst situation of my life, clinging to Him through prayer...and if I could go back and change the situation, I wouldn't.
- April 01, 2011 11:09 PM
- Candace said...
OOoooo I'd love to go. But I think there's a few hundred miles in the way....
- April 04, 2011 10:41 PM


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In December 2011, the emergence of sungrazing Comet Lovejoy seemed to herald the coming alignment of Jupiter & Venus in the March night sky of 2012.
On December 16th Comet Lovejoy entered into our sun and unexpectedly came out alive. It was heralded by scientists as a miracle comet, one seen by the Southern hemisphere over Xmas. making it a true Xmas comet.
I wrote about the sync of Comet Lovejoy before Xmas.
The Xmas Midnight Comet of Love & Joy - Dec. 23, 2012
Soon after Comet Lovejoy's spectacle and around New Year's Eve I noticed Venus set in the twilight of the setting Sun. It was at this time I turned my attention to the impending alignment of Venus & Jupiter in the night sky of mid-March.
After watching Jupiter in the night sky for the last few years it was exciting to see such a bright light as Venus begin to share the sky with the King of Planets, not to mention the Moon joining the celestial dance.
Why I felt the Xmas Comet Lovejoy heralded this Mid-March alignment is that Venus is traditionally associated with Love and Jupiter with Joy.
Their kiss in the heavens seemed to be suggesting that the union of love & joy was coming to the Earth. As above, so below, right?
The Grey Union of Love & Joy.
As the phase of closest conjunction approached, syncs became strong and fast.
On March 9th, 2011 the mega-budget Disney movie JOHN CARTER was released.
Myself and @Seallion were not able to see it on opening day (something we relish doing) as he was helping me in my work with youth and cinema instead.
There he is below. The puppet master at work.
That evening we were moving equipment to our weekend venue near the Winnipeg Film Group
and we came across that weekend's Film Group guest - Ellen Kuras ASC, an amazing filmmaker and D.O.P. for Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind as well as Blow with Johnny Depp. She was in Winnipeg to teach a masters class to local filmmakers.
As I shook hands with her I thought to myself "you are the person who's eye was looking through the camera on the first shot that @Seallion and I use in making our sync video HeyZeus!" I smiled and welcomed her to Winnipeg.
Of course that is also the same shot they use on the poster for her Winnipeg workshop.
Hey Zeus! was a sync video made for and inspired by the film work of JOHN C REILLY.
JOHN C REILLY syncs well with JOHN CARTER which just so happened to be released in the theatres the same day we met the D.O.P. for the opening shot of Hey Zeus!
John Carter Reilly perhaps.
A weird and wonderful sync flower blossoming.
This John Carter & John C Reilly connect is strong as we realize that both names are highlighted as red JC's and resonant with Jesus Christ.
JC UP - J CUP? J See Up?
The relationship between Hey Zeus! and John Carter though goes beyond March 9th, or Red JC, as syncromystic Jesus himself Willam Dafoe stars in both.
In Hey Zeus! we see him drinking the red wine as the blood of Christ as well as drinking blood from a wine glass as a Vampire.
William Dafoe & John Carter Reilly drinking blood.
The multi-armed alien being Tars Tarkas in John Carter is played by William Dafoe.
By Monday March 12th myself and @Seallion headed to the theatre to see John Carter with Hey Zeus! syncs swirling about. Perhaps suitable considering by March 12th Jupiter & Venus were almost at their closest union in the sky.
Jumping John Carter looking up at the 2 moons of Mars (looking very much like the Venus & Jupiter in our sky).
Wednesday March 14th as Jupiter & Venus reached their peak togetherness things seemed charged and in my sync scanning of actors, birthdays and movies I noticed that March 14th was Jamie Bell's birthday.
Jamie Bell peaked my interest because he stars in Tintin, King Kong, Billy Elliot, Man on a Ledge, The Eagle and Jumper among others.
Jamie Bell jumps and so does John Carter.
Bell's birthday, or 3/14, is also International Pi Day as 3/14 are the first 3 digits of the value of Pi.
Pi fits in here as well as Pi is the ratio that allows us to jump from circle to circle. As the circle grows or shrinks, it's Pi ratio is always the same.
Turns out much of what Jamie Bell stars in has to do with jumping.
This intrigued me and I decided to make a video about Jamie Bell, jumping and of course the Joy of Jupiter and the Love of Venus coming together.
It seemed like a natural fit to connect the sync video process with my own form of "jumping" - the Ayahuasca Ceremony.
When we do Ayahuasca we jump to the source of being, the eternal centre/now. If we keep jumping we build a bridge in between.
Ayahuasca jumping is a bridge between Heaven & Earth.
Jumpiter is anagram for Jump Rite.
On March 16th, in the midst of making the Jumpiter sync video I went with @Seallion to see 21 Jump Street. A movie that was seemingly dripping with Jupiter sync.
That night I Ayahuasca jumped, landing into the wee hours of March 17th, or St. Patrick's Day.
As I was finishing the Jumpiter video late at night and highlighting Jonah Hill from 21 Jump Street dressed as Peter Pan (Green Man resonant), I realized that Leprechaun's, the mascot of St. Patrick's Day are known to leap and jump.
Rainbows, jumping and a pot of gold. (Rainbows are seen at the angle of 42 degrees.)
Perhaps that is the secret of the Leprechaun. Jump enough Rainbows and you eventually hit a Pot of Gold.
Top of Gold?
Here is the Jumpiter video I am talking about. Nothing too special, just a small little video. A window into how cinema, sync & Ayahuasca come together in a process of personal and collective gnosis.
Arrowsmith tweeted today, March 28th, a graphic showing that Channing Tatum, star of 21 Jump Street & co-star with Jamie Bell in the Eagle, will possibly play a role in the upcoming Jupiter Ascending film by the Matrix directors.
Jupiter Ascending is Jupiter Graduating. Prom time.
4/2, next week is Michael Fassbender's birthday. Fassbender stars in the upcoming movie Prometheus. Poster above.
Fassbender also plays Car Jung in the 2011 movie A Dangerous Method.
Syncromystically you can say then that Carl Jung's birthday is 42.
42 being the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything as well as a heavy Jupiter resonant number.
4/2 falls in between the Mirror Mirror Titan Titanic movie release sequence soon to unfold between March 30th & April 4th, 2012.
All happening right after James Cameron, the director of Titanic, just touched the deepest part of the Earth's ocean abyss.
This is all just getting downright silly.
Peace everyone. Hopefully I can come back to this post and try to make more sense of it soon. I just needed to get some stuff out of me.
Off to Turtle Mountain for my next Jumpiter ceremony...
And I catch you.
On March 30th, the day after Jim shared this Jumpiter post, ImpAwards.com released this image.
So what're you waiting for?
Jump, Fool!


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Jorge González was born in Argentina, but he has lived in Spain since the 1990s. He published his first comic, 'Hard Story', together with writer Horacio Altuna and the publishing house Norma. In 2001 he filled a page in the 'Tentaciones' supplement of the daily El País with the comic 'Las Gaviotas son Felices'. His 2004 comic 'Mendigo', written by Carlos Jorge, was published in both France and Spain. In the following year, he participated in 'Lanza en Astillero', a collective book about Don Quichotte.
He continued to work with Altuna on 'Hate Jazz', published by Glénat Benelux and Sins Entido. Further works include 'Kinú y la Ley de Amarok' (Edebé, 2008), 'Fuenteovejuna' (Edebé, 2008), 'La Odisea' (SM, 2008) and 'Los Pasos de Lope de Rueda' (Casals, 2009). He won the FNAC comics prize for his comics project 'Fueye', published by Sins Entido in 2008. A French edition of this comic, called 'Bandoneon', was published by Dupuis. In addition, Gonzáles does illustrations for advertisements and storyboards.


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Hometown Hot Rodding - June 2014
1966 Ford Galaxie
Jeff Lewis; Fort Wayne, IN
Back when Jeff Lewis' parents started dating, they spent their courting days in a '66 Galaxie. Growing up, Jeff saw photos and heard all kinds of stories about the fun times they had in it. His dad unfortunately had to let the Galaxie go to start a family, but Jeff always thought it would be neat to find a twin one day to share with his dad since he had sacrificed so much for the family over the years. During his high school senior year, Jeff spotted this '66 Galaxie with a 352ci engine for sale, but he didn't have enough money to purchase it. For years he hated that he had to pass up on such a nice car for a pretty reasonable price. Fast-forward seven years and Jeff was driving home from his teaching position. Lo and behold, he spots the exact same car at a small mom-and-pop car lot with a brand-new Pearl White paintjob. There was no way he was letting it slip away twice, so he pulled in with intent to talk business. After a little negotiation, Jeff got the owner of the lot down to $4,100 for a car with 50,000 original miles and a mint condition interior with the '60s plastic seat covers preserving it. He finally had his Galaxie.
Since then, Jeff has replaced hoses and gaskets and done a ton of cleaning and detailing work. Hubcaps just aren't his thing, so those were swapped out for 18x8 and 18x9.5 Boss rims with Nitto tires. Next on the list is a performance exhaust and replacing the old front end components.
1970 Olds Cutlass
Jim Cordaro; Macedon, NY
The story of Jim Cordaro's Cutlass actually starts with another car. Jim had another '70 Cutlass previously that he spent five years rebuilding and bringing back to life. He performed all of the work himself—suspension, brakes, and even rebuilt the engine top to bottom. The project was finished in September of 2013 and back on the road. Sadly, Jim was only able to enjoy it for 300 miles before it was hit head-on at 50 mph. Needless to say, the whole front end and frame were destroyed. Fortunately, Jim was OK and his insurance gave him a very fair settlement and even let him buy back what was left of the car. The settlement provided the cash to purchase this gold '70 that he found down in New Jersey. It's an older resto, but has a solid body with a rebuilt Olds 350 with an Edelbrock Streetmaster intake, Edelbrock four-barrel carb, Hooker headers, and a full Flowmaster exhaust with X-pipe. The plan is to swap in the built TH350 trans from the first Cutlass since it has a higher stall converter, manual valvebody, and a shift kit. After that, the 3.42 geared 12-bolt rear end and some interior parts will go in. Other plans include a repro 442 hood, a 442 rear spoiler, disc brake conversion, cam swap, and changing to bucket seats and console shift. It may have broken his heart to see all his hard work go down in flames with the first car, but, in the end, Jim says he's grateful that he walked away with his health and ended up with an even better Cutlass.
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Lightsabers, talking plush toys and robots make up this year's lineup of hot toys every kid would love to get for the holidays.
Hundreds of products, from puzzles to action figures based on "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", which is being released Dec. 18, will dominate store shelves and kids' wish lists alike.
"'Star Wars' is a good monster for the industry," said Richard Gottlieb, principal and founder of Global Toy Group, a consultancy and resource for the industry. "That, of course, will bring an enormous number of shoppers."
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Remote controlled cars, droids controlled by smartphones and robotic creatures with voice recognition features are also popular.
Take a look at 12 hot toys this holiday season:
Star Wars Episode 7 BB-8 App-Enabled Droid
Kids can link this toy and then control it through their iPhone or iPad. The toy reacts to voice command and can patrol autonomously. Also, it can create holographic like recordings. "BB-8 has something unlike any other robot--an adaptive personality that changes as you play," according to the product's description." Based on your interactions, BB-8 will show a range of expressions and even perk up when you give voice commands."
Star Wars Bladebuilders Jedi Master Lightsaber
It's not just another "Star Wars" toy. It is an essential item to have for the series' enthusiasts. It lights up and creates sounds from the movie to simulate the thrill of sword-dueling between Jedi masters and Sith overlords.
Glider Board or 'Hoverboard'
The Glider Board allows you to travel over six miles an hour. It's controlled with your feet as you move around and can climb up 30-degree slopes. The "hoverboard" can go up to 12 miles in distance after every full charge. For security, an anti-theft key lock is included so it cannot be driven without your permission. If you live in New York City, you may have to limit your use of the "hoverboard" to indoor spaces. The NYC police department confirmed that it is illegal to use the 'hoverboards' in public areas because they are considered motor vehicles that cannot be registered with the department of motor vehicles. In California, legislation passed in Oct. allowing the boards to be used in the same places as bikes. Local California municipalities have the ability to ban their use.
Despicable Me 2 Jumbo Talking Minion - Dave
The Minions, both lovable and memorable, are exactly the kind of toy you want for your child. At 16" tall, Jumbo Talking Minion - Dave is a plush toy that with a squeeze on his tummy can say up to 15 sayings in the original voice from the movie. His eyes can also "pop-out" and light up with a press. This plush toy is not only the prefect gift for children, but also for adults who enjoyed the movie.
UDI RC U818A Quadcopter with HD Camera
You can record high definition video from your drone and perform 360-degree tricks at the touch of a button. It has a built-in fast and slow speed function along with a low-voltage alarm on the transmitter to optimize your experience. The manufacturer recommends that this toy be used by people ages 14 and up. It's also important to follow safety guidelines while flying your drone.
Disney "Descendants"
Your child's favorite Disney characters have families in the feature film "Descendants." Toys from the movie feature Maleficent's daughter, Mal and Evie who is the daughter of the Evil Queen from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Carlos, son of Cruella de Vil is another character that you can buy. The figures can be stylized with two outfits, two pairs of shoes and three accessories.
NERF Rebelle Secrets & Spies Arrow Revolution Bow Blaster
This bow and arrow set will unleash your child's inner Katniss Everdeen. The character has spurred an interest in the bow and with the release of the final "Hunger Games" movie, this set will be a hot purchase. Using this bow, an arrow can be shot up to 90 feet away.
Zoomer Dino Jurassic World Indominus Rex Robot
The blockbuster hit "Jurassic World" rocked theaters this summer and toys from the movie will be heavily sought this holiday season. The Indominus Rex, the bio-engineered dinosaur from the movie, can respond to movement, make recorded sounds from the film and change eye color.
Peanuts Happy Dance Snoopy
The Snoopy plush toy is a great gift for fans of the new "Peanuts" movie, featuring Charlie Brown. This plush version of Snoopy dances to a popular tune from the "Peanuts" series and reacts to being kissed on the nose.
Easy Animation Studio
Crayola's animation studio pack allows all future animators and artists to digitally create scenes with characters included with the purchase. After downloading an application for iOS or Android devices, young animators will be able to create scenes with an included poseable mannequin. Position the mannequin into different poses to create a short stop-motion video.
Project Mc2 Ultimate Lab Kit
The equipment for the four super smart girls from the "Project Mc2,"a children's web show, is available for home or on-the-go use. The kit comes with a working 4x microscope and all the equipment needed to conduct a science experiment with a petri dish, safety goggles, pipette dropper and 15 pH strips.
"Lego Dimensions"
"Lego Dimensions," a video game that can be played across most gaming platforms except PC, is the latest in the toy company's reach for the digital age. Figurines such as Lego Batman, Gandalf and Lucy from "The Lego Movie" are available to use in the game. To play the game, figurines are placed on a pad connected to the system and are then represented in the virtual world. More figurines can be bought to expand the character selection.