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I had my boat winterized this season, first time I have ever had to do that.. So what is there to summerizing? Any help would be appreciated....
I had my boat winterized this season, first time I have ever had to do that.. So what is there to summerizing? Any help would be appreciated....
88' Supra Bravura
Depends on the dealer that winterized it. My dealer said all I have to do is "put it in the water and turn the key."
I would change the oil after the first day out.
Only 1 more month!
2002 SSV Owner
I know that they fogged the engine, flushed and filled the cooling water system with straight antifreeze, and disconnected the battery, removed the prop, stabilzed the fuel, coated my hoses and engine with a protectant and coated the trailer with a protectant as well......
88' Supra Bravura
Sounds exactly what they do to mine. Obviously re-connect the battery and re-install the prop. The anti-freeze is more than likely "environmentally friendly", so you should be able to just drop it in the water and turn the key. Check the distributor cap and plugs just to make sure they are all connected.
2002 SSV Owner
I understood that the fogging oil replaces the engine oil, also they usually remove the impeller.
There is a small baggie of goodies that they tied to my steering wheel, I will have to check to see if they took the impeller out or not. I don't think that they did. So just, check all the ignition and hook things back up and the other stuff and just fire it up! Unfortunately we are a far cry from even thinking about getting on the water. We have been dealing with -2F weather and all the lakes aren't even thinking about thawing out for at least another 2-3 months if not longer.........
Thanks guys..
88' Supra Bravura
One more thing....
The fogging oil is a thick adhesive type of oil that will stick to the combustion chamber (cylinder walls) to provide a protective film to prevent corrosion in them. It is injected into the carburator until the engine stalls out. Your regular engine oil is still in the sump/pan. I know that when you fire up the engine after being fogged it smokes like crazy, because you actually burn the fogging oil out of the cylinders.
88' Supra Bravura
Sounds good...good luck!
Took mine SSV out yesterday for the first time this year....she fired up without any issues!!! One of the best feelings in a boat owner's life...
2002 SSV Owner


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By Ms. Canavan of Brockton, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1469) of Christine E. Canavan and others relative to the establishment of a nursing advisory board within the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Public Health.
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Status: | Referred to Joint Committee on Health Care Financing |
Date | Branch | Action |
1/24/2011 | House | Referred to the committee on Public Health |
1/24/2011 | Senate | Senate concurred |
9/12/2011 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 09/20/2011 from 10:00 AM-01:00 PM in A-1 |
5/16/2012 | House | Discharged to the committee on Health Care Financing |
11/13/2012 | Senate | Senate concurred |
1/1/2013 | House | No further action taken |
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Most people who study Chinese law learn early on about Judge Dee, "a semi-fictional character based on the historical figure Di Renjie, magistrate and statesman of the Tang court. The character first appeared in the 18th century Chinese detective novel Di Gong An. After Robert van Gulik came across it in a second-hand book store in Tokyo, he translated the novel into English and then used the style and characters to write his original Judge Dee stories." (The quoted text is from the Wikipedia entry.)
Now in addition to van Gulik's great stories, we have the Judge Dee computer game. I have no idea if it's any good, and they've written the wrong character for Dee on the main page (蒂 instead of 狄), but hey, anything as amazing as a computer game about Chinese legal history is worth a mention. If anyone tries it out, please let me know what you think in the comments.
The Dui Hua Foundation has an interesting article on its web site about local authorities' newfound enthusiasm for legal education - this time, of the compulsory kind, where petitioners are forced against their will to stay for days or even months at a facility where they are ostensibly to be educated to understand and obey the law. This is apparently being done in response to the declining utility of re-education through labor (RETL) as a measure against petitioners - petitioning per se may soon no longer be subject to RETL, and RETL itself may be on the way out.
I just want to add a couple of comments. First, it bears repeating that petitioning of the kind that typically gets petitioners locked up does not in fact violate any law. It's the local authorities that need the education in that respect.
Second, and more importantly, the Dui Hua Foundation article says only that this kind of compulsory "legal education" violates the Chinese constitution and international human rights norms. This is an unnecessarily weak argument; neither of those two norms are robust sources of law in the Chinese legal system. We can actually say something much stronger. Since compulsory legal education does not have any foundation in statutory law - that is, legislation passed by the National People's Congress or its Standing Committee - then it cannot serve as a basis for the deprivation of personal liberty. This is spelled out clearly in Article 8 of the Law on Legislation, and it's the same argument that has been made against RETL. If a deprivation of personal liberty has no legal basis, then it's either kidnapping or unlawful detention, both of which violate the Criminal Law, which is a robust source of law in the Chinese legal system. So let's call this what it is.
Here's a story that goes straight to the ridiculous without passing the sublime. Self-styled direct descendant of Confucius, Peking University professor (shame on you, PKU!), and all-around blowhard Kong Qingdong (孔庆东) was ordered on Wednesday by the Haidian Basic-Level People's Court to apologize and pay 200 yuan to Guan Kaiyuan, a 22-year-old law student at the China Institute of Industrial Relations. After Guan had criticized a poem by Kong as not following proper composition rules, Kong responded on Sina Weibo (Chinese Twitter), "You haven't even read the poem, you dog and traitor," and added some salty references to Guan's mother.
Guan, who is obviously one of those Chinese people we keep hearing about from the government whose delicate feelings are easily hurt, sued. It's not clear from news reports what the exact claim was - presumably defamation. Anyway, Guan still isn't satisfied - he wants Kong to be required to apologize on his Weibo account, not just in some national newspaper.
While one hates to be in the position of defending someone like Kong, this is ridiculous. Guan posted his critique, and received the insult, under a pseudonym. In other words, even if we decided that ordinary insults like "dog" and "traitor" should be actionable as defamation - something that would already severely crimp ordinary speech - in this case nobody knew the insult was directed against Guan until he outed himself. Do the courts really want to overload themselves with cases from every anonymous troll who managed to provoke a rude response?
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Here's a great translation and commentary from the Siweiluozi blog regarding a 2009 Supreme People's Court directive to lower courts on "internet management" (i.e., censorship). In a typical case, a user posts something on the internet, perhaps on a blog or weibo account. The authorities, finding it distasteful, instruct the host to delete it. The host duly deletes it. The user then sues the host for violating the terms of the service contract. Because the censorship instructions to the host have a flimsy legal status - they are probably an oral order from a Party, not state, body delivered over the phone - mounting a defense is difficult and embarrassing.
To the rescue rides the SPC, which instructs courts simply not to accept this kind of case. That way, the flimsy legality of the censorship regime is not exposed.
As Siweiluozi points out, this merely highlights the nature of the courts as administrative and not really judicial bodies. They have precisely as much independence as the Party-state allows them for the sake of convenience, but when a political decision is made to use (or avoid the use of) the law in a certain way, they must fall into line. This instruction from the SPC requires courts to act contrary to statutory law, which already sets forth conditions under which courts should and should not accept lawsuits for hearing. None of the considerations in the SPC's directive can be found in the statute. Indeed, the SPC acknowledges the flimsy legal status of its own directive, by making it secret and prohibiting public comment.
I hear that the China Affairs Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington, DC is now hiring since one of the key people is leaving. They are looking for someone who can lead trade negotiations and who is relatively senior.
Here's the announcement: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/341555900?share=email
I've received the following announcement:
The 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program core competition is now open.
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries for the 2014-2015 academic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others.
This year, there are over 60 awards available in the field of law. Moreover, All Discipline awards offered in all regions of the world welcome teaching and/or research proposals in any area of study, including interdisciplinary projects. Practicing lawyers and law school faculty are encourage to visit the 2014-15 Catalog of Awards for more information about these opportunities. Among them are Distinguished Chair awards in Italy and Sweden; a chance to explore China or Nepal; a Rule of Law, Civil Society Development and Judicial reform award in Macedonia; and an International Human Rights Law award in the West Bank.
In order to meet the changing needs of academia and develop new options to better accommodate the interests and commitments of today's scholars, the program has introduced several innovations to the 2014-2015 program, including: Fulbright Flex Awards, Fulbright Postdoctoral/Early Career Awards, Salary Stipend Supplements, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language Awards.
The application deadline for most awards is August 1, 2013. U.S. citizenship is required. For other eligibility requirements and detailed award descriptions visit our website at http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/ or contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Here's the announcement. Excerpt: "Eurasia Group is seeking an experienced and motivated China analyst. The ideal candidate must have a strong understanding of elite politics, governance, and political decision-making in China. In this role, you will assess leadership dynamics and policymaking, and forecast the resulting political risks."
This is only indirectly related to Chinese law, but in this job climate, I'm going to go a bit further afield in posting relevant help-wanteds on the assumption that readers are also looking at a wider range of possibilities.
Here's a fascinating case that makes for an interesting data point in what we think we know about the Chinese legal system. An anti-discrimination NGO reserved rooms at a hotel in Suzhou for a conference. The police got wind of it and instructed the hotel to cancel the reservations in the name of stability maintenance. The hotel, needless to say, did as it was told. Yawn. Dog bites man.
Now it gets interesting. The NGO sued the hotel for damages in a Suzhou. What would we expect? That no court would accept the suit, and that if it did, the plaintiffs certainly would not win. But what happened is that the court not only accepted the suit, but found for the plaintiffs. It rejected the hotel's argument that the police order to close was a kind of force majeure and that the state had expropriated the rooms ("政府临时征用客房开会"). But apparently the government did not in fact take the rooms in question for some other purpose, and the court rejected the force majeure argument, stating that it wasn't one of the events of force majeure spelled out in the contract.
Astonishingly, the vice-chief of the local police station, Mr. Pan, appeared in court and testified that they had indeed orally ordered the hotel not to allow the meeting to go forward:
Pan: Around April 29, 2012, our station received an oral notice from the relevant superior departments saying that during the period of May 1st, because of the needs of stability maintenance work, hotels within our jurisdiction were requested not to permit the hosting of meetings. . . . Because of this, we orally requested the Motai Company [i.e., the hotel] to discontinue their hosting activities. The main objective at that time was not to permit large-scale meetings to go ahead.
Court: Are there any written materials pertaining to this measure by the police?
Pan: No. Everything was orally transmitted from above to below. At the time, officers from the Security Brigade of the Pingjiang Public Security Branch Bureau went with policemen from our station to the defendant Motai Hotel and worked on the hotel manager Feng Xiaojun. [I have translated "做工作" as "worked on"; the basic idea of the term is to try to persuade someone, but one can imagine it was done in a pretty coercive atmosphere.]
It's hard not to have some sympathy for the hotel here. It's unrealistic to suppose that they could just have blown the police off; I would have thought there was indeed a good case to be made for force majeure. What message is the court sending to hotels in cases like this? That they should not listen to police instructions? It seems extraordinary that a court, especially on in the same city as the police in question, should have come up with a judgment like this. Does this mean that courts are not as subservient to local powerholders as we thought? Or is there some fascinating behind-the-scenes story that explains this apparent anomaly? My inclination is to suspect the latter, but if enough data points like this accumulate then the former will start looking more plausible.
It's the old question of whether you make the observations fit the theory ("My theory tells me that this stuff doesn't happen, so there must be something fishy about the observation") or the theory fit the observations ("Time to reassess what we think we know about Chinese courts"). Although many people think the first method is obviously wrong - of COURSE we should adjust our theory to fit the facts, right? - in practice we constantly, and often correctly, question the validity of our observations precisely because they seem so out of whack with a theory in which we have confidence. Remember the Italian scientists who thought they might have found neutrinos that traveled faster than light? Even they doubted their own findings.
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In the latest development in the China-Philippines UNCLOS arbitration, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has appointed a representative for China, since China failed to do so.
I've previously blogged about this arbitration (in chronological order, here, here, and here). China has objected to the arbitration on the substantive grounds that the complaint lacks merit, and possibly on procedural grounds that the tribunal for various reasons doesn't have jurisdiction. What the Chinese government doesn't seem to understand (perhaps willfully) is that you don't get to be your own judge of these issues; whether the complaint has merit and whether the tribunal has jurisdiction are things the tribunal decides. To fight the claim in no way acknowledges its legitimacy. What it does acknowledge is the legitimacy of the UNCLOS dispute settlement system. That's presumably an important part of UNCLOS. Does China really want to promote the principle that the system applies only to states that consent to its jurisdiction after the dispute arises?
The CECC has openings for two professional staff members and a communications director. The deadline is April 8th. Here's the announcement:
Professional Staff Members (2)
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is a bipartisan commission created by Congress in 2000 to monitor and report on human rights and rule of law developments in China. The Commission consists of Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, and senior officials from the Administration. The Commission holds hearings, issues an Annual Report, and maintains a database of political prisoners in China, among other activities. For more information on the Commission, see www.cecc.gov.
The Commission is seeking professional staff members to assist in monitoring and reporting on substantive issues pertaining to the freedom of religion and criminal justice portfolios. The professional staff member will assist in assessing China's compliance or noncompliance with international human rights standards and Chinese domestic law. Successful candidates should have substantive background and/or an interest in one or more of these issue areas. Successful candidates should also possess the necessary Chinese language, English writing, and communication skills to effectively research, analyze, and explain such developments to U.S. policymakers and the broader public.
Main duties:
- Monitoring and researching Chinese and English language sources (media, government, NGO) for developments relating to their issue area.
- Identifying and analyzing key developments and reporting their significance orally and in writing, including through drafting sections of the Commission's Annual Reports, short analysis pieces, public statements, and press releases.
- Researching political prisoner cases and creating and maintaining case records in the CECC Political Prisoner Database.
- Assisting in organizing CECC public hearings and roundtables.
- Staff member also may be asked to travel to U.S. cities, China, or other foreign locations on official business.
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen.
- Very strong demonstrated ability to speak, read, write, and perform research in Chinese (Mandarin) is required.
- The successful candidate will likely have worked or studied in mainland China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong.
- Candidates will preferably have a law degree or a Ph.D. or M.A. in political science, history, business, economics, or other social sciences. B.A. candidates with very strong credentials will also be considered.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and the interpersonal skills and enthusiasm to work under tight deadlines and as part of a team.
Application Procedure:
- Please submit a brief cover letter, resume, short writing sample (5 pages or less), and the names and contact information for two references to Judy Wright, CECC Director of Administration, via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or via FAX at 202-226-2915. PLEASE NO PHONE CALLS. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 8, 2013, by 11:59 PM, EDT. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
- The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is an equal opportunity employer.
Communications Director
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is a bipartisan commission created by Congress in 2000 to monitor and report on human rights and rule of law developments in China. The Commission consists of Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, and senior officials from the Administration. The Commission holds hearings, issues an Annual Report, and maintains a database of political prisoners in China, among other activities. For more information on the Commission, see www.cecc.gov.
The Commission is seeking a communications director to be responsible for developing and implementing a communications and outreach strategy to increase the accessibility, visibility, and relevance of the Commission's work to key stakeholders, including Commissioners, Congress, the Executive Branch, media, non-governmental organizations, and the general public.
Main duties:
- Develop and implement a communications and outreach strategy for the Commission's key stakeholders, including Commissioners, Congress, the Executive Branch, media, non-governmental organizations, and the general public.
- Develop and implement a strategy for increasing accessibility to Commission work products, including newsletters, political prisoner records, special reports, and the Annual Report.
- Increase media coverage and raise awareness on the Hill and to the general public regarding the Commission's work.
- Maintain the Commission's new Web site and social media sites (Twitter, Facebook).
- Draft, edit, and distribute Commission statements, press releases, newsletters, new media content, and event announcements.
- Develop, plan, and provide logistical support for Commission events, including hearings, roundtables, and briefings.
- Monitor, track, and assess the effectiveness of the Commission's outreach efforts.
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen.
- Candidates will have a B.A. with relevant work experience.
- Some background in layout and design (including for Web sites and publications) is desirable.
- Ability to speak and read Chinese is preferable.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, and the interpersonal skills and enthusiasm to work under tight deadlines and as part of a team.
Application Procedure:
- Please submit a brief cover letter, resume, short writing sample (5 pages or less), and the names and contact information for two references to Judy Wright, CECC Director of Administration, via e-mail at email@example.com or via FAX at 202-226-2915. PLEASE NO PHONE CALLS. The deadline for applications is Monday, April 8, 2013, by 11:59 PM, EDT. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
- The Congressional-Executive Commission on China is an equal opportunity employer.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) is holding a hearing this Thursday in Washington, DC on the above subject. Among those testifying will be Prof. Paul Gillis, the author of the excellent China Accounting Blog. His testimony is a good summary and review of the current problems faced by the SEC and the PCAOB in their efforts to get information about audit procedures from Big Four-affiliated Chinese accounting firms. (I say "affiliated" because the Chinese firms are separately owned and I don't know what kind of contractual arrangements actually bind them to the foreign firms whose name they share.)
Because I have provided expert testimony on this issue, it's probably important to add that I don't necessarily agree with everything Prof. Gillis says in his testimony. In particular, I have expressed here my own views on the issues of how far China's laws on state secrets and archives actually constrain the auditing firms.
First ghost weddings; now ghost cities.
Ghost cities in China have been in the news a lot lately. The term refers to places like Ordos in Inner Mongolia, where a vast expanse of residential and office buildings lies uninhabited, the product of somebody's miscalculation as to where people would like to live and work.
Ghost cities have often been Exhibit A in various arguments about China's economic problems, in particular the argument that the system massively misallocates investment. But wherever there is conventional wisdom, there's going to be contrarian pushback because it's always fun to challenge conventional wisdom. Nevertheless, I don't find two recent examples terribly convincing.
First, the contrarians have been talking up a recent report by Jonathan Anderson of Emerging Advisors Group provocatively entitled "Hurray for Ghost Cities." I don't have a copy of the report, but according to a description of it at the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report, it is less than a resounding hurray. In fact, the argument (again, as reported) seems to be only that ghost cities aren't quite as bad as you think, because if the money hadn't been invested in ghost cities, it might have been invested in creating overcapacity in industry, which would have been much worse for the economy:
His point is that by investing in "ghost cities" to underpin growth, China saved itself from even more unwise overinvestment in areas that could have done lasting damage to the economy, such as manufacturing.
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They've certainly been a black hole, he says, but a hole that has emptied largely into the equally dark vaults of China's state-owned banks, where bad debts can remain buried for a long time.
"Lesson learned: If you're going to waste capital best to waste it completely, where it will do the least damage to everyone else," writes Mr. Anderson.
Or, to put it another way, he offers: "Why truly crap investment projects help 'save' China."
As George Will would say, in a paragraph all its own: "Well."
Anderson's analysis in no way undermines the idea that ghost cities represent a massive misallocation of investment. If the money had been spent on digging holes and then filling them up again, Anderson could equally well have written "Hurray for Holes in the Ground." Anyone who cites this piece as support for the contrarian case hasn't read beyond the headline.
Second, in a recent column in the New York Times, Bill Bishop cites Tom Miller's book "China's Urban Billion" as being dismissive of the "ghost cities" problem. Here's what Miller writes, as quoted by Bishop:
The truth of the matter is that China is not building too many apartments, and a handful of empty urban districts are not evidence of a giant property bubble. Chinese property investment may be inefficient, but it is sustained by a huge, growing and sustainable demand for new housing. …
China's current modern housing stock, defined as homes with individual bathrooms and kitchens, is around 150 million units. But 200 million migrant workers currently live in dormitories or slum housing. If one believes that the urban poor deserve to live in proper flats, the corollary is that Chinese cities actually have a significant shortage of housing – somewhere in the region of 70 million units. China is not building too many new apartments; it is building too few.
My first comment is about what Bill Bishop says, with which (if I understand him correctly) I must respectfully disagree. I can't see how what Miller says counts as dismissive of the ghost cities problem. Chinese cities may well have a significant shortage of housing. But the fact that people may want housing in Beijing or Shanghai or any one of hundreds of other cities does not mean that they want it in Ordos. Of course it is silly to argue that overinvestment in Ordos means there must be a housing bubble everywhere in China, but it would be equally silly to argue that underinvestment in some places means that the phenomenon of ghost cities can be dismissed as unimportant. To be clear, I don't read Miller as making that argument in this excerpt. That's why I disagree with Bishop's citing Miller in support of the contrarian thesis.
My second comment is on what Miller says here. The argument that there is overinvestment in housing, as I understand it, does not address the issue of who deserves what. It addresses the issue of what kind of return one can expect from the investment. If it costs $10 million to build a block of 100 "proper flats" for the urban poor, the project won't even break even unless the urban poor have $100,000 per family to spend on flats. If they don't, then we have to ask where the money will come from. Economic analysis cannot, of course, answer the political question of whether such housing should be subsidized in some way, but it's useful for thinking about the question of whether it will need to be subsidized. Merely asserting that poor people will need housing, and deserve it, doesn't help us answer the question of whether housing developers will make back their investment, and therefore whether the banks from which they borrow will or will not get stuck with a big pile of non-performing loans.
If the housing is intended for a class of people who can afford it, then that is of course a different story. But Miller's argument that China has too little housing is premised on the existence of precisely that group that can't currently afford a decent flat.
I should add that I can't agree with the way Miller loads the emotional dice here: apparently, if you think there's overinvestment in housing in China, you're not only wrong on the economics, but you're also a bad person who thinks that the urban poor don't deserve to live in proper flats. I don't see this as a useful way to start a discussion of a complex issue.


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A chairlift ride turned into a scare for a local father when his two sons fell off the lift.
Randy Turpin said he and his sons were getting on a chairlift at Gunstock on Tuesday evening when his 7-year-old son Josh got bumped by the chair and turned around.
"The first initial thing I am thinking is, 'They are just going to stop. They'll hit the button. They are watching,'" Turpin said. "But it just keeps on going."
Turpin said Josh was dangling and hanging onto his 4-year-old brother, Cameron. Turpin said he tried to hold both of them was he was "yelling blood murder," trying to get workers to stop the lift.
But he couldn't hold on any longer, and the boys fell. Josh had the wind knocked out of him and bruised his back, while his little brother broke his arm.
Turpin said he wasn't going to make a big deal about it until a newspaper article was printed quoting Gunstock's marketing director, Bill Quigley.
"It's saying Bill Quigley says, 'It's just kids being kids, and I don't where the father was. What he was doing?'" Turpin said.
Turpin said he needed to set the record straight.
"The father was sitting there looking into his kids' eyes, waiting for them to slip out of his hands," he said. "You tell me how you'd feel."
Quigley said his quotes taken by the reporter over the phone were misconstrued, and he said nothing was meant to be negative.


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- Neth said...
That cover is much better.
- Chris, The Book Swede said...
Definitely :) i don't receive from Gollancz which is a shame, but I think I'll buy it and review it anyway! Cheers Pat.
- Gav's Studio said...
As soon it comes out in paperback I'll get it!
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This month we published the first interview with Patrick Rothfuss and the first review in German - both are getting quite some attention.
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The interview may not tell American fans anything new, but both Patrick and his publisher were extremely cooperative.
And thanks to this Pat we were put on NOTW's trail earlier this year. We read what you write, Pat! - 8:44 AM
- SQT said...
Oh oh oh! I loved Name of the Wind so there are high hopes for this one. No pressure or anything though....
- Pat Made Me Read It said...
Sigh. ANOTHER book you have got me to order. Please, keep in mind that the school year is about to begin and I'm going to be weighted down with corrections.
- Patrick said...
Pat made me read it!?!
Well, that's it! Time to call it a day, methinks!;-) - 10:29 PM
- Shawn C. Speakman said...
I actually liked both US covers. I wonder who did the cover art for the sequel's cover?
- Pamela Milkweed said...
I don't think the new cover is that great, actually. Looks more like a generic thriller cover than fantasy.
You think so? hmm I think it looks like dark fantasy with a twist of realism. Take for notice that the story is quite realistic and actually only small specific parts are real fantasy. Most of the story could have played some years before the medieval times. This cover shows me the link between the realistic world(the alley and normal side of the cover) and the fantasy part(shady person and the green glow overall). By the way the mixture between realism and fantasy is what mad me love this book.
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The story, told through Michael's eyes, is mostly set in north London, where he has found refuge after fleeing Vienna, the town of his professional training. Ten years have passed but his musings keep returning to events in Vienna: self-doubts in his talent as a soloist, amplified by the demands of an exacting, overbearing teacher, had resulted in a complete breakdown. His abrupt departure left Julia, his love, music partner and muse, without a word of explanation or good bye. As he slowly recovered, he tried to reconnect with her, wrote, contacted her father, only to meet a wall of silence. Seth's depiction of Michael's continuing emotional immaturity, his increasing despair at having lost what he now recognizes as his great love reveals the fragility of a character where musical brilliance and human weaknesses are interdependent. His solo career seemingly over, Michael joins the Maggiore Quartet as second violin. While in many ways a close knit group - the "family" gives his life the needed structure and support - it also is the source of inter-personal rivalries.
The tensions, creative or destructive, between the quartet members are perceptively explored and the reader can appreciate the complex personalities of highly creative and sensitive virtuosi, whose captivating performances we tend to take for granted. Nonetheless, playing together, following the structural and harmonious intricacies of each composition, whether as duo, trio or quartet, overcomes any such impediments and leads to a level of intimacy and understanding that goes far beyond speech. Seth's ability to convey his characters' diverse emotions that are essential to bring out the beauty of each musical composition and to reach a harmonious interpretation is exquisite.
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Michael's precious violin, an early 18th century Tononi, occupies one of the central themes in the narrative. It is another love affair of sorts and one he cannot abandon without losing his identity. Seth, well known also as a poet, finds the right lyrical tone when describing Michael's interaction with his violin, complementing the moods created by the music he plays or listens to. The violin, however, is only a long term loan from his violinist neighbour and music teacher in his home town in Northern England. She "discovered" and nurtured his talent from an early age and he keeps returning to her regularly for companionship and solace. Michael's family, while sympathetic, had no resources to support his ambitions. Seth very delicately raises the issues of family tensions, class and education as he contrasts Michael's upbringing with that of Julia, privileged daughter of an Oxford professor. Despite their differences, music can bridge any differences and misunderstandings between them.
It wouldn't be much of a story, if the former lovers were not to meet again... The romantic settings in Vienna and Venice add a beautiful and vivid backdrop to the concert tour by the Quartet. Seth has a wonderful sensitive touch in his exploration of the challenges faced by Michael and, in particular, Julia. The mystery that surrounds her and how others, especially Michael comes to terms with it, gives special and moving depth to the story and take it beyond what one could have expected.
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Planning and Zoning Board delays Moore's recommendation
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The Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board delayed a recommendation to the Town Commission on owner Alan Moore's request to change Moore's Stone Crab Restaurant & Marina, 800 Broadway, to a residential site.
Moore says he won't be able to renegotiate his business's double-digit interest-rate loans that are due in January if the planning board doesn't move his request along to the commission next month.
Also at its regular meeting, the planning board:
• A request by Ringling College of Art and Design to delay a site-plan application for the Longboat Key Center for the Arts. The issuance of a building permit will be extended to June 30, 2012.
• A site-plan amendment for The Longboat Key Club Moorings Marina, 2800 Harbourside Drive, to allow for the addition of 13 parking spaces.
• Suggestions put together by town staff that depict different types of welcome signs that can be placed at the island's north and south ends as part of a $500,000 grant awarded as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The planning board's suggestions will be forwarded to the Town Commission for review at its Thursday, Sept. 24 regular workshop.
For more information on Moore's request, pick up a copy of the Thursday, Sept. 17 Longboat Observer.
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- It is hard for me to believe that Moore's request would be denied after an election demonstrated citizens of the island supported Moore's request. I guess the planning board is not interested in citizens' opinions about the key. Maybe we need to look at whose opinions should count.
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According to Linde, whose team is responsible for building Web assets to support the IBM.com sales channel and organic Web visitors, IBM deploys content-driven social media marketing in a number of ways, including creating individual blogs, websites, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts for sales reps where they can engage in one-on-one interactions with customers. By establishing themselves as content experts in the eyes of customers, IBM becomes a trusted, go-to resource of information—and not just a seller of products and services.
"Smart marketers use the expert to establish credibility, to get the conversation going," says Linde. "And then maybe you can have the expert point people back to the website where you can do the promotional stuff and the selling activity. By the same token, you listen for activity and if it looks like there are opportunities, you pursue them."16
Among IBM's most successful content marketing initiatives is a program called "Listening for Leads," where specialized 'seekers' monitor tech blogs and other social media sites to find potential customers (such as government agencies issuing RFPs)—and then step in as the subject matter expert to facilitate a potential sales discussion. According to Linde, it's a profitable strategy. "We have uncovered millions of dollars' worth of sales leads through our intelligent listening program, and we've closed a lot of business and we expect to do more. That's going to be a big growth area."17
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Content is creating a cultural transition in marketing, including new ways of calculating and explaining ROI. The ROI pressure is still there—it's not like marketers have suddenly been relieved of answering to the CFO, board and investors—but there is room now for a broader, more incremental definition of investment returns.
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