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This is going to be a rant. Yes, I am pissed.
I'm not one to get annoyed by a company trying to make patches good. I understand that delays are inevitable in some cases and that major bugs need to be fixed. But that's not why I'm writing this. I'm writing this because I'm pissed with how Riot has been handling this.
As we have all been aware, the latest patch was delayed. Originally, this was due to the holiday on Monday. As this is something that could not be avoided, this is completely understandable. However, Yesturday we get a post from Phreak stating that the information regarding the patch was going to be posted today, with vague hints at bug issues. Ok, little irritating, but if it means the patch won't have glaring issues. Then later that same night I hear the patch is delayed until Thursday...
...This is where I got irritated. I can understand having issues with a patch, and I know that coding is a delicate process, but to continuely delay something without giving us anything at all in terms of information regarding the new champ, a patch preview, or even status updates that are not vague seems extremely rude. I get that Riot is stressed from the EU server split, but that doesn't mean you can't give us ANYTHING.
So, it's 9:00pm CST here (remember this), and I have just finished reading Average Gatsby's post regarding the delay of the upcoming patch, with no date given as to when it will be in, and more vague answers to constant questions....I'm pissed.
Riot, I love ya, but this lack of communication and constant delaying needs to stop. You need to be much more strict with your release dates, and you need to keep us updated. I get really tired of thinking a patch is coming, and hearing at the last minute that it's delayed.
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My grandfather lost his (very short) battle with pancreas cancer four months ago (terminal). He was my everything - my best friend and bonus father in one.
Christmas is soon - and I just want to hide away and not celebrate it at all. I just can't get my head around, that he's not there anymore.
My grandmother is comming over this year - and she seems to have moved on, and accepted that he's dead - while I'm still crying over his death.
I feel like I'm not allowed to celebrate Christmas and be happy, since he's dead. I'm afraid of the sparks of happiness - I'm so afraid of forgetting him, his voice, his scent - just his presence.
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Try some comfort food, (food that makes you happy or brings back good memories) or an inspiring book. You could also send a text to your grandfather, saying how much u love him and miss him and anything else you want to say, then keep it untill you are ready to delete it. If it would be a longer letter, write it on a piece of paper, then bury it or burn it.00|00|0
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In solidarity with farmworkers in San Quintín, Mexico who are fighting for union contracts, we are asking Safeway in Santa Cruz to discontinue carrying Driscoll's.
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In an effort to keep pressure on Driscoll's, we are asking Safeway in Santa Cruz, California to discontinue carrying this brand, in solidarity with farm workers in San Quintín, Mexico who are fighting for union contracts. These workers are getting paid $6 an hour for 12-15 hours worth of manual labor. Workers are being forced to skip breaks, work in proximity to dangerous chemicals, and are devoid of medical insurance. While workers in the U.S. have recently been granted the right to form a union, there are still widespread instances of low wages & unsafe working conditions.
No on deserves to labor so intensely under such harsh conditions so that you can have fresh fruit on your table.
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If the characters keep blocking nonstop, I've had the exact same problem with this joystick. Like you, I've gotten it to work with MK2 and SFII. I think it's just the way that the pinouts on the joystick are set up to accommodate for turbo features. I have gotten this thing to work with MK1, although I don't know how. I didn't do anything special, it just started working on its own. Personally, I prefer using a 3 button controller anyway. All the 6 button function does is remap buttons. Meaning that it's not really an accurate control scheme. You use Z to throw people instead of A, and start still doesn't pause. Sorry for the wordy explanation, but in short, just wait until the joystick has a better day or use a standard controller.
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BOFFINS are teaming up with lifesavers to develop a new mathematical means of assessing surf safety to prevent competitor drownings such as that of Sunshine Coast teen Matt Barclay.
Researchers from the Gold Coast's Bond University have joined forces with Surf Live Saving Australia to come up with the "surf safety index".
The researchers include Queensland's oldest ironman, 74-year-old Neville de Mestre, who is also Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Bond.
He and colleague and fellow lifesaver, economics and statistics expert Gary McCoy, resolved to do something after 14-year-old Barclay this year became the third competitor to drown at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships on the Gold Coast.
With more than 100 years' surf lifesaving experience between them, Prof de Mestre and Mr McCoy combined their extensive knowledge of beach and surf conditions with their mathematical expertise to create the surf safety index.
It will be used to scientifically quantify whether ocean conditions are too dangerous to allow surf carnivals to continue.
"It's a metric model that takes into account existing surf hazards on a beach at a given time and the experience levels of the various categories of competitors that are scheduled to compete there," Mr McCoy, the project's chief investigator, said.
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Slow Down, You're Reading Too Fast
"But slowness is also essential to grasping the experience of modernity--if only because the hallmark of modernity is speed." --Arden Reed, Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell
One of my favorite summer reads this year has been Slow Art, which was born from Reed's personal response, over the course of eight years, to Édouard Manet's painting Young Lady in 1866: "Gradually I came to understand that the image displayed--or, better, performed--a certain mystery. Not the hidden, but the visible.... I found myself drawn to the picture, resisted by it, and then drawn back. How long, I mused, could I sustain this conversation? I hardly thought about where I was being led, and certainly never imagined how often I would return to the spot, whether in my imagination or in fact."
I've been reading Slow Art with pleasure and patience. In fact, this seems to be my summer of the slow, concentrated read, beginning auspiciously with Martha Cooley's wonderful Guesswork: A Reckoning with Loss. Though linked in theme, her essays deserve to be savored individually, letting time pass slowly and quietly on the page as it does in the tiny Italian village where she lives part of the year. "For my own part, I have been practicing wordlessness," Cooley writes. "It is not a usual human art. Most people lack regular opportunities to try it."
My third brilliant and exquisitely languid summer read is Mathias Énard's Prix Goncourt-winning novel Compass (translated by Charlotte Mandell), an intricate, breathtaking interior monologue exploring "Orientalism" through the fevered perspective of a bedridden, insomniac musicologist in his book-cluttered Vienna apartment ("I don't throw anything out, and yet I lose everything. Time strips me bare."). It may not sound like beach read material, but Compass is absolutely mesmerizing and revelatory.
Slow down, you're moving too fast. Summer may be the best time to make a case for taking your foot off the reading pedal. Isn't languor a synonym for "summer read"? --Robert Gray, contributing editor
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Meddling Kids
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Childhood pop culture references, witty banter and an unpredictable plot make this a compelling mystery/horror story.
Lessons on Expulsion
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The bare-all poems of Erika Sánchez's debut collection are a visceral record of a Mexican American woman finding her way and understanding her roots.
The Only Fish in the Sea
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This cracking nautical yarn is full of humor, heart and the spirit of friendship.
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The Joy of Rereading a Childhood Favorite
In an original comic, author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher "perfectly captures the unique joy that is re-reading a beloved story from childhood as an adult," Brightly noted.
"Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses" were explored by the Guardian.
Pop quiz (via Mental Floss): "Pick the correct word for each definition."
"This giant, breathtaking Game of Thrones tapestry weaves through the entire series," io9 reported.
Lit real estate listing: The Connecticut house where Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe was born--which was disassembled 20 years ago--is up for auction for $400,000, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The Independent gathered "23 things you didn't know about J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter universe."
Great Reads
Rediscover: On the Road
September 5, 2017 marks 60 years since the original publication of On the Road, Jack Kerouac's road trip roman à clef and one of the Beat Generation's three best known works--alongside Allen Ginsberg's Howl and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch. On the Road brings Kerouac's kinetic prose to a series of trips with Neal Cassady, called Dean Moriarty, through late-1940s America. Kerouac, as Sal Paradise, and Moriarty meet other Beat figures and many women on several drug and jazz-fueled jaunts across the United States and Mexico. Fast-living Dean is the catalyst to Sal's travels, separated in five parts, on an aimless but energetic search for a greater meaning to life, though tinged with a certain sadness at never being able to find it.
In April 1951, Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road over three weeks. He typed it as a single paragraph with no margins, covering eight, single-spaced pages of tracing paper. He later taped these pages together into a 120-foot-long scroll. This original version was heavily edited prior to its 1957 publication, including the substitution of pseudonyms for major characters and cutting sexual passages considered pornographic by 1950s standards. In 2007, Penguin Classics released On the Road: The Original Scroll, a 50th-anniversary edition of Kerouac's novel as originally written. The actual scroll is occasionally brought out for public display by its current owner, Indianapolis Colts CEO Jim Irsay. It's currently part of a special exhibition at the American Writers Museum in Chicago through October 6. --Tobias Mutter
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Camille Bordas: Finding One's Place
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Camille Bordas is the author of three novels and her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker. Born in France and raised in Mexico City, Bordas now lives in Chicago with her husband. How to Behave in a Crowd (reviewed below), her first novel written in English, is the story of Isidore Mazal and his strange, precocious family.
How to Behave in a Crowd has been hailed as "a darkly comedic novel about the confusions of adolescence," but there is so much more to it than that one sentence could possibly convey.
Summarizing the story is always a bit hard, because it covers about three years in the life of this boy, Isidore--the major and the minor things that happen to him in that time span. Also, I don't want to give away any spoilers! But you could say it's about the adventures of a boy who keeps trying (and failing) to run away from home in search of adventure. Isidore keeps wanting to see what's beyond his home life and the silence and the constantly shut doors of his five super-smart academic siblings, but he's always drawn back to them. His brothers and sisters fascinate him, because they seem to know everything and to have life figured out. As the story progresses, though, it ends up looking like the family, which seemed so sturdy at first, might be more of an emotional Ponzi scheme in which everyone thinks the others are doing great and therefore continues with business as usual, until Isidore realizes that his siblings are all just pretending they know what they're doing, and the whole thing collapses.
This was the first book you wrote in English. Did writing in a different language change your writing process in any way?
I didn't find the process of writing a novel in English that much different, or harder, than writing a novel in French. That's probably because I see the process of writing a novel pretty much exactly as E.L. Doctorow describes it--similar to driving at night in the fog: you can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. It makes the whole endeavor seem both vertiginous and not at the same time. You never know where you are, or where exactly you're headed, but the way to get there is one sentence at a time, so that's a manageable unit--and that's how I wrote this novel, same as I would have in French, one sentence at a time.
Obviously, having not grown up speaking English but having learned it in my late teens, there will always be words or phrases that I won't only not know, but also not know that I don't know, so that can be a little paralyzing if I think about it too much. I guess it can all be either extremely freeing or frustrating, depending on the kind of workday I'm having. I have fewer tools than a native speaker, for sure, but I make do with what I've got. To riff on the Doctorow image, I feel that not being a native English speaker only means that my headlights are maybe a little dimmer than those of an American writer, but in a way that might be advantageous: it forces me to be even more focused and precise.
Isidore is such a wonderfully drawn character. He often seems to have no idea what's going on around him, but also has moments of great clarity and wisdom. How did you get into the mind and spirit of an 11-year-old boy?
By writing the book! My books get written one sentence at a time, and characters emerge that way as well. It took me a while to know who Isidore was. No character has ever come out of my imagination fully formed--as I put them in different situations to which they have to respond one way or another, their voices become clear. The questions are not, "What is it like to be an 11-year-old boy?" but more, "Would Isidore say this or that?" You never can fully be in someone else's head, know what it is to be them, but the more you spend time with them, the closer you get to having a glimpse of that.
But I guess I've made this question take a weird philosophical turn, when the simple, down-to-earth answer to it is probably that I remember being 11, 12, 13 years old very vividly. The sense memories of it are particularly strong: a constant discomfort, a feeling that things are going too slow, the loneliness of growing up, the impossibility of knowing if you're the first person to think a thing or if it's part of the process for all of us, the impossibility of knowing if everyone else is having a weird time too. In many ways, I feel out of touch with my teenage self and don't really know who that person was, but at the same time, I know that I haven't changed much since then. I've just had experiences pile up. That's why I liked writing a teenage character: Isidore's brain is fully formed, but not yet shaped by experience, so he mostly doesn't know what to do with it. It's like a useless superpower.
The novel features a 100-year-old woman, Daphne, who has lived so incredibly long--especially in comparison to Isidore's short 11 years. Did you intend for the novel to be an exploration of age and how it shapes our understanding of the world?
I never see my characters as vessels through which to explore any particular issue. I never intend much more in building them--and in this case, in writing Daphne--than to present full people who have something to say, or sometimes nothing to say, but in a funny way. They don't stand for anything other than themselves.
Something that I noticed in the United States, since I moved here, is that it is rare to witness much in the way of intergenerational friendships. In France, I have a handful of friends my parents' age and older, 70-somethings. I was friends with my grandparents. What interested me in Daphne was not so much her age itself (though the dissonance between her range of experience and Izzie's relatively clean slate was a great source for dialogue) but more the fact that she lived a normal life that only started becoming abnormal because of its length--a length that people start attributing meaning to when there isn't any. She becomes a receptacle for people's fears and hopes about old age, and that's problematic because she doesn't have any particular wisdom to offer.
It's clear that the Mazal family loves Isidore in their own ways, and Isidore knows that. And yet he keeps trying to run away from home. Why is that?
Isidore's case is complicated because it's unclear whether he really wants to run away or not. One minute he says he wants to be his own man, separate from his brothers and sisters, the next he says he only wishes to run away to please his mother, who's always complaining her children are not adventurous enough. I think, at the beginning of the novel at least, that it's more a desire to be noticed and find his own place in the family than to leave it. --Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm
Book Reviews
Meddling Kids
by Edgar Cantero
The Blyton Summer Detective Club is four bored children and one dog. In 1977, as they search for cases, they stumble into a traumatizing event that is impossible to deal with. In Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero (The Supernatural Enhancements), what first appears to be deference to the predictable child detective trope swiftly becomes a darker and more terrifying story of necromancy and the hard truths of adulthood.
The four detectives, even 13 years later, are unable to move beyond their disastrous summer. Andy, the tomboy, brings them back to Blyton hoping to put their demons to rest. Cantero gives stock genre characters unconventional traits. "Blyton Hills needs your help, kids," wryly observes a townsperson--but these are kids no longer. Kerri (who still owns a dog) is the genius turned college dropout; Andy is a fugitive; athletic Pete died from an overdose years ago; and nerdy Nate, recently in a mental hospital, still hears Pete talking. Supernatural events, legendary lake monsters, mutilated animals and black magic were inconceivable as children, but are all too real upon their return. Nate says, "The symbols... are not props meant to scare children away. They are signs of a very old science." Their return is noticed by an unseen presence, which leads to a terrifying showdown with powerful and dark forces.
Cantero writes on his blog that this novel is "a high concept that can be described in under a minute: kid detectives and monsters." Here is the mash-up fans of Scooby Doo and H.P. Lovecraft have been waiting for. --Cindy Pauldine, bookseller, the river's end bookstore, Oswego, N.Y.
Discover: Childhood pop culture references, witty banter and an unpredictable plot make this a compelling mystery/horror story.
The Diplomat's Daughter
by Karin Tanabe
Twenty-one-year-old Emiko "Emi" Kato has spent her life moving around the globe, due to her father's position in the Japanese diplomatic corps. But after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Emi and her parents are uprooted and sent away with other foreign diplomats, eventually landing in a bleak internment camp in south Texas. Homesick and lonely, Emi is drawn to Christian Lange, the son of German parents who were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities. Meanwhile, Emi's first love, Leo Hartmann, has fled his home city of Vienna for a refugee existence in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Through the eyes of these three protagonists, Karin Tanabe weaves a fascinating, vivid story of World War II in her fourth novel, The Diplomat's Daughter.
Tanabe (The Gilded Years) begins her story with Emi, who despite her cosmopolitan upbringing is sheltered and a bit spoiled, lacking Leo's native compassion or Christian's tender heart. But all three young people must grapple with previously unimagined tragedy on a personal and national scale, and Tanabe skillfully traces their journeys of sacrifice and growth. Leo waits tables at a seedy nightclub in Shanghai to make ends meet, while Christian enlists in the U.S. Army to avoid deportation to Germany. And when Emi ends up in the Japanese mountain town of Karuizawa, she repeatedly risks her own safety to help other members of her new community.
Rich with historical detail and full of appealing characters, The Diplomat's Daughter is a fresh, captivating story. --Katie Noah Gibson, blogger at Cakes, Tea and Dreams
Discover: Novelist Karin Tanabe weaves a rich narrative of love, sacrifice and tragedy in the Pacific theater during World War II.
The Almost Sisters
by Joshilyn Jackson
Brew a pitcher of sweet tea and settle in with Georgia author Joshilyn Jackson's eighth novel (following The Opposite of Everyone), another Southern story about a feisty heroine with a complex family. The Almost Sisters are Leia Birch, comics artist and self-described dork, and Rachel, the "Super Pretty" one, blonde with the perfect life; their sisterhood resulted from their parents' marriage when they were toddlers.
Despite her publishing fame, Leia feels like an outsider in her family, but trips from Norfolk, Va., to the Birchville, Ala., Victorian home of her beloved Grannie Birch ground Leia in staunch Southern roots. After a celebratory FanCon appearance--where she "had myself some tequila. And some Batman."--Leia discovers she's pregnant. She hides the news at first, but is eventually set to spring the surprise on Rachel and their parents, when Rachel's marriage implodes. That's also when Birchie displays full-blown dementia at a First Baptist fish fry.
In a story with plot twists like kudzu vines, Leia (with Rachel's precocious 13-year-old, Lavender, as sidekick) rushes to Birchie, where her health problems overshadow Leia's pregnancy. Rachel joins them soon after, and Birchie's endearing longtime friend Wattie (with secrets of her own) gently supports the women. All seems manageable, until out tumbles the skeleton in the attic--literally.
Sharp-tongued townsfolk eager to see a Birch get her comeuppance represent a nasty side of small-town life, including racism, petty gossip and political aspirations, but like Leia's comic book character Violet, strong women prevail, and love and loyalty triumph. Jackson's sardonic wit and Southern dialect balance the crises with levity. And Batman? He makes more than a cameo. --Cheryl Krocker McKeon, manager, Book Passage, San Francisco
Discover: A surprise pregnancy is just one crisis facing a comics artist whose beloved Grannie's dementia keeps her from explaining the skeleton in the attic.
How to Behave in a Crowd
by Camille Bordas
It may be hard to like the Mazal family, but it is surprisingly easy to love them. Perhaps that is because this quirky, pretentious family is presented through the eyes of 11-year-old Isidore, the youngest of six children and the least over-achieving of the bunch. His three oldest siblings are on track to have completed advanced degrees by the age of 24. Jeremie performs with a symphony, and Simone, who is closest in age to Isidore, has skipped several grades and is working on her first novel. When "the father," as they call him, dies unexpectedly, the Mazal children--and their mother--seem to take his death in stride. Until the ever-observant Isidore begins to notice the small ways grief has changed the family.
How to Behave in a Crowd, Camille Bordas's first book written in English, is a darkly comedic coming-of-age story. In Isidore, Bordas has crafted a young, naïve, observant and unexpectedly wise character, whose sudden insights into the workings of the world are made all the more striking for his general bewilderment over much of what he observes in the adults around him. As he navigates the tender emotions of his family's grief--and his own--How to Behave in a Crowd moves beyond Isidore's typical 11-year-old angst and into the territory of adult confusion. Do people just pretend to be okay? Maybe, Isidore's experience seems to suggest. But maybe that's enough. --Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm
Discover: A darkly comedic coming-of-age story explores one quirky, pretentious family and the ways they cope with grief.
Mystery & Thriller
The Devil's Muse
by Bill Loehfelm
The drunken carnival ride that is Mardi Gras takes center stage in Bill Loehfelm's hard-boiled crime thriller The Devil's Muse.
Loehfelm (The Devil She Knows) focuses this entry in the Maureen Coughlin series on his protagonist's first experience with Mardi Gras. A scrappy female cop who has no problem speaking her mind, Coughlin lands in the middle of the famous bacchanal, cleaning up after a half-naked parade-goer under the influence of a powerful new street drug. A gang-related shooting near the parade route stirs even more chaos. As Coughlin comforts the victims and tracks down the shooter, she becomes entangled in a power struggle between the press and the New Orleans Police Department that strains loyalties of fellow officers and tests her own resolve.
The Devil's Muse takes place over a short period of time, following Coughlin's Mardi Gras shift. Loehfelm fleshes out the setting and sub-characters with enough detail so that the timespan seems longer. This leads to some slower moments--lulls in the narrative characterized by chatty dialogue and a lack of visceral action--but Loehfelm ratchets up the tension nicely toward the end. He presents a savvy, semi-satirical depiction of social media and Internet news outlets desperate for conflict. Most of all, he succeeds at catching the complex character of New Orleans. His descriptions of Mardi Gras are full of vivid similes--"The crowd roared and raised their faces and hands to the tumbling slips of paper like nomads lost in the desert greeting a long-awaited rain"--but he doesn't shy away from the racial tensions and cultural clashes that define much of inner-city life. --Scott Neuffer, freelance journalist, poet and fiction author
Discover: This gritty yet colorful crime thriller set in New Orleans presents Mardi Gras from the perspective of a female police officer.
Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Marina J. Lostetter
Earth, 2088: Humankind, finally at peace under the Planet United Consortium, develops the faster-than-light means to travel beyond the solar system. Twelve exploratory missions are planned, though their destinations have yet to be decided. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer proposes a trip to LQ Pyxidis, a strange star whose variable brightness makes it a scientific mystery. Either some previously unknown natural phenomenon is shrouding the star, or it is blocked by a Dyson sphere--an artificial power plant and possible proof of alien life.
Reggie's proposal is accepted. Convoy Seven, nine ships equipped with subdimensional drives, will spend centuries traveling to LQ Pyxidis while millennia pass on Earth. Generations must live and die during the mission, and the only way to preserve the crew's initial scientific and engineering talent is to use clones. A society unlike any other in human history is founded, planned to the finest detail, with every biological and mechanical variable accounted for. But as the decades, then centuries roll on, imperfections in the convoy's creation--including the unpredictable personalities emerging in each new clone--threaten to derail mankind's most ambitious undertaking.
Noumenon is told in vignettes spaced throughout Convoy Seven's mission. Each chapter follows a clone, or the ship's artificial intelligence, in snapshots of starry sci-fi splendor and down-to-earth human drama. Nature versus nurture, the rights of the individual versus the collective, power politics and what it means to be sentient clash as the centuries pass. Noumenon is a grand achievement of speculative fiction. --Tobias Mutter
Discover: Generations of clones take a centuries-long voyage to a distant star.
Biography & Memoir
After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land
by Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni was hired to work at Andy Warhol's studio four days before Warhol's death on February 22, 1987. Although their working relationship was brief, Fraser-Cavassoni (Sam Spiegel: The Biography of a Hollywood Legend) had met the pop artist seven years earlier, when she was 16. In 1980, Fraser-Cavassoni, the daughter of novelist and historian Lady Antonia Fraser and step-daughter of playwright Harold Pinter, was already running with a fast, glittery crowd and was months away from an affair with Mick Jagger ("Mick had the power to intoxicate") that landed her, Jagger and Jerry Hall in national tabloid headlines.
The bewigged Warhol is definitely a supporting player in this flashy, name-dropping memoir, but fortunately Fraser-Cavassoni's jet-set life, celebrity encounters and high-profile jobs make for a fast read and a gossipy good time. With jobs at Interview, Women's Wear Daily and W magazines, she was at all the art, fashion and film parties. Anna Wintour helped her get hired working under Karl Lagerfeld at the Chanel Studio, while aging cosmetics pioneer Estée Lauder threatened to have her deported.
When the focus turns to Warhol and the running of his empire after his early death (he died at 58 from complications after gall bladder surgery), Fraser-Cavassoni offers a front row seat at the jockeying for power, the marketing of his image and the posthumous publication of Warhol's diaries in 1989, which caused uproar among fashionable society. After Andy reads like a delicious gossip column covering the wild antics of those in the art and fashion world. --Kevin Howell, independent reviewer and marketing consultant
Discover: Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's After Andy shares her deliciously gossipy view of the fashion/film/art world from her front row seat at Andy Warhol's studio.
Essays & Criticism
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
by Ellen Ullman
With a Cornell undergraduate degree in English and a long career in computer coding, Ellen Ullman has written frequently and earnestly about the intersection of digital technology with the social, political and philosophical fabric of contemporary life (the memoir Close to the Machine and novel The Bug). Life in Code collects nine previous magazine pieces and eight new reflections on the logical discipline behind writing the algorithms that more and more rule the world.
Covering the years of rapidly evolving technology between 1994 and today, Life in Code hits all the familiar touchstones of the digital juggernaut. It also clarifies some of the jargon, acronyms and programming language idiosyncrasies of the tech world. On a personal note, Ullman laments the gentrification of her once gritty SOMA (South of Market) San Francisco neighborhood as AT&T tears up streets to lay fiber-optic cable for the tech start-ups flooding in.
An activist, Ullman wraps up her chronicle of two decades in programming with a comment on the rise of President Trump through the now-ubiquitous disintermediation of the Internet. With Twitter blasts of this and that--either true or false--he bypassed the traditional news gatherers and arbiters of accuracy to send messages straight to his people. She concludes that this is where her years of coding have taken us: "The intermediaries were useless: you could trust only websites; go directly to the internet." It remains to be seen whether this is good or bad, but Ullman's reflections on how we got here are canny, personal, enlightening and pleasantly diverting. --Bruce Jacobs, founding partner, Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, Kan.
Discover: Lifelong computer coder Ellen Ullman describes the rise of the technology that now permeates our lives--for better or worse.
Psychology & Self-Help
Text, Don't Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life
by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
Twenty years ago, as illustrator and author Aaron Caycedo-Kimura was trying to figure out what to do with his life, he made a monumental discovery: that he was an introvert, specifically an INFJ, according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. "The description nailed and validated me; among other things, INFJs are deeply emotional, empathetic, relational, and INTROVERTED."
Later, during a creative dry spell, Caycedo-Kimura, using the handle INFJoe, began posting illustrations online about his life as an introvert. "The response was amazing...! One person wrote, 'I'm so happy to find out I'm not the only one.' " Following that experience, Caycedo-Kimura created Text, Don't Call: An Illustrated Guide to the Introverted Life.
The guide is intended to help introverts understand themselves better and navigate the extroverted world. Caycedo-Kimura points out, for example, that introverts often describe themselves as antisocial or shy, but he illustrates how introversion differs from those two other qualities: being shy stems from a lack of confidence and antisocial behavior indicates an aggressive attitude toward others, while "introversion is the preference for directing our attention inward."
The guide could also help extroverts be introvert allies--e.g., by ensuring at social gatherings that introverts "have a quiet corner where people don't crowd [them]"--or simply be more empathic when introverts feel "peopled out" (exhausted after spending time at large gatherings). The drawings have a gentle wit, getting Caycedo-Kimura's points across in a conversational, nonclinical style. Introverts will find he nails and validates them, by making it clear "we introverts are alone together." --Elyse Dinh-McCrillis, blogger at Pop Culture Nerd
Discover: Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, aka INFJoe, sheds light on life as an introvert.
Children's & Young Adult
The Only Fish in the Sea
by Philip C. Stead , illust. by Matthew Cordell
Little Amy Scott got a goldfish for her birthday and was so disdainful that she dumped him, plastic bag and all, into the sea. Sherman brings this distressing news to his pal Sadie, who immediately gears up for a fish rescue. "The important thing," Sadie says, "is that Ellsworth stays hopeful and brave, knowing that we're on our way." "Hey, Sadie, wait!" calls Sherman, "Who's Ellsworth?" Sadie responds without even looking up from her maps: "Sherman, you have to keep up. Every fish deserves a proper name." Sadie and Sherman, along with a literal band of monkeys, face the dangers of the ocean with a heroic determination to find lonely Ellsworth. Along the way, they outfit a welcome boat, hit the zoo for 21 pink balloons and have a near-miss with a giant squid.
Philip C. Stead and Matthew Cordell (Special Delivery) offer a perfect blend of adventure and silliness on the high seas. The main characters are charming and beautifully balanced with each other. Sherman's earnest kindness works perfectly with Sadie's snap decisions and forward motion. Illustrator Cordell's detailed and playful drawings beg for repeat readings. Kids will enjoy looking at realistically rendered sharks or spotting the fact that the monkeys are quietly bankrolling the expedition with bananas. As for a moral, Stead doesn't feel the need to punish the fish-endangering Amy Scott, but he does make it clear that no one will be hanging out with her in the future. The Only Fish in the Sea is a rollicking little adventure in the name of doing the right thing. --Ali Davis, freelance writer and playwright
Discover: This cracking nautical yarn is full of humor, heart and the spirit of friendship.
Sun and Moon: Folk Tales by Various Artists
Gita Wolf, the talented editor of Tara Books, an Indian publishing company known for championing folk artists, crafted the concept for Sun and Moon: Folk Tales by Various Artists. Representatives of different Indian regions join to create a visually striking screen-printed, limited-edition book highlighting the relationship of the sun and the moon in Hindu and other local traditions. This distinctive encounter starts with the intensely purple cover, with its curvilinear images of a filigreed moon crescent and golden sun face peaking out from the title page through the die-cut opening. The double-page spreads, on heavy, handmade textured paper, feature a song, a line of poetic text, a short tale or an explanation of traditional customs, accompanied by strong, graphic representations of these primordial Indian symbols, the major heavenly bodies that figure so prominently in many cultures. The omnipresent orbs speak about their importance: "I am great, says the sun, for I make the world shine with light./ I am greater, says the moon: without me, the world is a sad sight."
Ten accomplished artists share their bold images. The blazing red and yellow suns and cool blue and white moons invite repeated viewings, depicted in the very individualistic styles of the Gond people from Madhya Pradesh, the Vaghari community of Gujarat, the artists of the Madhubani region of Bihar and the Meena people of Rajasthan. The last page credits the artists and provides some details about the various styles, which also include the ritual Pithora wall paintings of Gujarat and the Patachitra textile art of Orissa (now officially known as Odisha).
Children and adults interested in folklore and art will want to share this authentic exposure to a universal theme. --Melinda Greenblatt, freelance book reviewer
Discover: This artistic, unusual book is a whirlwind tour of several Indian regions and their folk-art traditions.
Lessons on Expulsion
by Erika L. Sanchez
Poet and YA novelist (forthcoming I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter) Erika Sánchez brings a world of raw personal material to her striking debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion. Her work fearlessly explores sexuality, Mexican narco violence and the frequent tension of being of two cultures while searching for one's own identity. These poems grow from her time in Chicago, Mexico, New York City, Madrid, New Mexico and Puerto Rico, and speak in the voice of a woman looking at herself and the rough world around her. Visceral, even feral, she explores her earthy sensuality in poems like "Poem of My Humiliation": "That time I was stunned by my own pudendum. The smell.... The vulgarity of the orchid in all its hooded glory is showy but exquisite." Reflecting on a disappointing fling in Puerto Vallarta in the melancholy poem "To You on My Birthday," she observes: "You lie next to me--husk of spirit, bituminous/ and evasive... our bodies crack/ together on the faded flowered sheets,/ the sand making its way up,/ way up in me."
Beyond the quest for self-awareness, Sánchez's poems address the struggle to reconcile her blue-collar Mexican roots with the opportunities she finds in the United States and in travel and literature. Poems like "Crossing" directly address this emotional divide: "my parents crossed the border/ in the trunk of a Cadillac./ I was born in Chicago." Sensuality, self-doubt, poverty, joy and despair--the poems of Sánchez's Lessons on Expulsion frankly and memorably touch them all. --Bruce Jacobs, founding partner, Watermark Books & Cafe, Wichita, Kan.
Discover: The bare-all poems of Erika Sánchez's debut collection are a visceral record of a Mexican American woman finding her way and understanding her roots.


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Most online crimes leave digital evidence. PCs and cell phones, for example, routinely contain evidence related to the planning, coordination, commission or witnessing of crimes.
Even a low tech crime like robbery can have digital evidence if the criminal has a cell phone in his car or pocket when he commits the crime. Time and location stamps from the phone can place the criminal at or near the scene at the approximate time it took place.
In other cases, a laptop, desktop, tablet or smart phone might have a browsing history that adds evidence to a case. For example, in the summer of 2014, a Georgia father was suspected of having deliberately left his toddler son in a hot car to suffer a horrible death. While even the child's mother proclaimed it to be a tragic accident, digital evidence from the father's computers shows extensive "deceptive behavior" on his part. Such evidence is sure to be part of the case when and if it goes to trial.
Collecting this evidence and preserving it in such a way to ensure it is legally admissible usually requires some level of technical expertise. A high profile case like the one above would be assigned the best possible resources. The mundane, more common cases that don't capture headlines typically don't get the attention of digital forensic experts who have heavy case backlogs. Rather, the local investigating officers may need to determine for themselves if there could be useful evidence on the devices.
A new tool on the market is designed to break the backlog and help investigating officers look for digital evidence on a suspect's devices. Tracks Inspector is a tool developed by the Dutch IT security firm Fox-IT to enable non-technical law enforcement professionals to conduct basic forensic analysis. Tracks Inspector can yield enough information to give a case officer additional clues to follow, and it can guide the officer toward more technical digital forensic resources when necessary. The idea is to advance the basic cases so not every case is waiting for weeks or months for analysis by a digital forensic laboratory.
"Currently the methods of dealing with digital evidence is the agency expects an expert to look at the data. This is where we think things should change," says Hans Henseler, Managing Director of Tracks Inspector. "We think a non-technical investigator should have the first look at the data because in many cases, if he has a simple tool, the investigator will be able to look at pictures, read through emails and documents, and look at the browsing history and decide if there is something here that can help the investigation along. In some cases the investigator can even solve the case without having an expert go through all of the physical data."
Tracks Inspector automatically collects all of the files from digital devices in a forensically sound way. Data taken from computer hard drives, USB/CD/SD/DVD storage devices, or cell phones and tablets go through a "write blocker" to make a forensic copy of the data without making any changes to the original files or devices. These forensic copies can then be scoured for relevant evidence by the non-technical case investigator.
Tracks Inspector processes the input, which can include a variety of evidence formats, and presents it back to the investigator via a web interface in an easy to understand way. Evidence is grouped by categories, such as pictures, videos, documents, and so on. The investigator can use basic filters such as keywords, file types and dates to narrow his search and drill down into specific information to see what is really there. He can add comments to the evidence to document a case, and tags to include the information in a report. All of this information can be shared with other authorized personnel assigned to the case. Once the analysis is done, the investigator's report has forensic details that are suitable for use in court.
In terms of processing evidence, Henseler makes a comparison to reading regular paper-based documents. "If an officer is doing an investigation and he is authorized to do a search and seizure, and he seizes printed documents, he is going to read those documents himself. He's not going to ask a reading expert to look at those documents because the assigned detective knows how to read. If the document is in a foreign language, he might need to go to an expert to interpret it, but he will first check out the evidence himself. This is what we're trying to bring to digital evidence as well—to allow the investigator to 'read' the evidence and attempt to solve the case without the need to call in a digital forensic expert."
Given the shortage of digital forensic experts in law enforcement today, Tracks Inspector could be a useful tool to investigate cases expeditiously and get criminal scum off the streets sooner.


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A little adventure never hurt anyoneLike lots of people, I was looking for adventure and a chance to escape from a job I didn't love, a closet full of suits and the committee meetings that had become my life a few years out of college. I remember sitting in my new office and thinking how I couldn't bear to be twice my age and regret never taking the plunge into the unknown. So I did. I got in touch with a crazy friend from college, who, last I'd heard, had been living in Russia. The next thing I knew he'd invited me to his current town in the middle of China, where there was a university ready to hire me. I wrapped up my responsibilities and it was happening. I was moving to Ganzhou (Gànzhōu, 赣州). My friend told me the Ganzhou climate was like Florida, so I gathered my summer gear, Google-earthed the city and bought the next ticket out of Pennsylvania. Ever since, people have always asked the infamous question, "Why China?" And my answer is: I would have gone to the moon if I could have. I just wanted to go. Everywhere. Anywhere. I'd never studied Chinese and can barely mutter a word of Spanish or French even after several years of classes, but China seemed like an exciting and untamed place. After four years of working in safe and secure jobs, saving for retirement and being one of the few people in the U.S. with decent health care (get it together America), I decided I could always go back if I wanted to. When in my life would I ever again be so independent, so uncommitted to anyone or so free? I packed up my five, yes, five suitcases and landed in Shanghai. I'm still not really sure how, but I missed my connecting flight to Ganzhou. I wandered aimlessly around Shanghai until some kind college students graciously invited me to have tea with them. Even though now I've come to realize I'd fallen for the classic tea-house scam, it got my adventure here off to what I assumed at the time was a friendly start. And thus began my China experiment. It was great. Every day there was something new and exciting to see and do. I made unlikely friends, like the little old lady who sold me buttons and then invited me into her house for dinner; it's these little things that make you feel that you're alive and discovering something. A whole world full of new people entered my life, and looking back, somewhere along the way the adventure took over. I never stopped to consider what living in such a remote place would do to my dating life—I was a 27-year-old single woman, ready for anything, about to live in the middle of a rice paddy. After a good amount of time away from everything familiar, I really started to feel the distance, especially being in such a remote place. But luckily, the world has a way of working itself out and I am writing to you now from Shanghai, where I live with an adorable Brit who I met in the alleys of Saigon and convinced to move here with me.
Take the plunge, you won't regret itI guess the goal of this little nostalgic journey is to inspire those of you who are teetering on the edge of taking the plunge into just doing it. Because really, what's the worst that could happen? The worst thing that happened to me was that Ganzhou was actually nothing like Florida in the winter, and I froze for a few months until I discovered I could get a winter coat custom made on the cheap—one of the many great things about living in China. Sure, I was sold some overly-expensive tea, and maybe I peed on my foot a few times using a squatty potty, but I can't picture being 60 years old and regretting any of my time spent in the Middle Kingdom. Some of the most memorable times away turned out to be holidays. Once I was invited to my friend's small village outside of Ganzhou for a baptism that happened to be on Christmas Eve. She and I walked around the old Hakka house where she grew up, which now only houses a single family. These lovely people shared a cup of tea with us, invited us into their home, and this extension of kindness and generosity was just enough to complete my first Christmas away. The next Christmas was followed by my Nigerian friend dressing up as Santa before wandering into the schoolyard buying trinkets from the children's mini shops in a bit of a holiday role reversal. Priceless. Overall, the best thing that has happened to me, now that I've had experience of life at both ends of the spectrum (from the long corporate days to the happy-go-lucky teaching life), was the discovery that I am not happy at either end, but somewhere in the middle. Living in China has broadened my perspective of the world while at the same time catapulting me closer to being the person I want to be. I know now that I'm more interested in balance: I don't think working 50 hours a week is the answer, and a mere 12 certainly isn't either. And while I may be sitting in a cubicle writing this, I am still riding the wave of excitement that comes along with the risk of moving far away from everything, and everyone, I have ever known. Ultimately, this experience has made me stronger and I don't have to wonder anymore. And as my search for a more balanced lifestyle continues, I'll always be an advocate of taking the less secure route, because I know that's where you'll find the most excitement. I don't know where I'll go from here, but that's the point. What's life without the thrills? You never know what lies ahead until you take the leap.
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Ernie copied himself using our printer!! Full credit to our preschool for the idea!!
Turns out Elves on the shelves poo red and green m&ms!! Declared "funniest thing ever",!! In 14 days our elf has not moved 3 times (luckily we had storms and he was unable to safely fly!!).
Santa photo day at the Queen Victoria Building. Forth year in a row for us!! It is a definite must for us although nest year I will go back to going in November!! Never again ever will I go in December!! So busy but totally worth it!! Luckily Ernie left all three boys new clothes to wear as it turns out not one of them had anything decent to wear out of the house!!
Stunning tree.
I am in awe of the tree once again, however I couldn't help but observe the new dangly fishing rod type decorations look like a cats ultimate toy!!
This is one of my fave Christmas songs. Back in the days before the www I used to hang out to hear this song on the radio, now thanks to the tube and more recently spotify I can hear it whenever I want!!
Linking up a few of my families Christmas traditions with Alicia, Kirsty and Trish.


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The column will be aimed at ABC1 males and will occupy a full colour page with illustrations. The magazine has an ABC-audited circulation of 76,000 paid-for copies every Saturday.
The column will be written by David Behrens, digital editor of the Yorkshire Post and a former TV producer who has been named north of England Internet Journalist of the Year four times.
Suggestions for products to review or discuss should be sent to Behrens. Products in the computing, consumer electronics and photography sectors are especially welcome.
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Okay, in this hypothetical, let's just assume the bloodlines are pure. If you have someone who is 100% white (W) who has a child with someone who is 100% black (B) they would have a child who was 50% white and 50% black (WB). So then let's say that person has a child with someone who is 100% black, so the child would be WBB, then repeating that, WBBB, again WBBBB. At this stage if we kept repeating this scenario, would the new child ever be 100% black again or further down the line if we continue this, for 10 generations, or will they always be considered to be 0.0001% White even if the ensuing children only ever had children with someone else who was 100% of that other race?
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Past ancestry NEVER disappears. The recessive traits (white) in your example will always remain with that person regardless of how black their parents, grandparents, and great grandparent were. African Americans are a prime example of this.
African Americans on average are mulattoes with about 15-25% European ancestry. Majority of that European ancestry was introduced to them over 100 years ago. Even though African Americans are technically "biracial", their white trait doesn't show up physically because the white side has been diluted after generations of constant breeding with other black people. However, just because it's been diluted over the centuries doesn't mean it's not there, because it is there and it will forever stay in that person's families' genetics until the end of the world
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Washington: Amidst all the chaos over security and privacy, following the NSA revelations, a smartphone app has been reportedly developed which allows users to deliberately 'spy' on their spouses to check if they are cheating on them.
The smartphone app called as 'Boyfriends Tracker' was launched in Brazil two months ago but it was removed from the Google Play Store over security concerns.
Brazil has been strongly arguing against the use of NSA surveillance programmes and having an app like this is ironical but tens of thousands of Brazilians who have downloaded the app find it a fair game.
According to Fox News, this app called 'Rastreador de Namorados' (Portuguese for Boyfriend Tracker), promises to act like a 'private detective' in one's partner's pocket.
The 24-year-old developer of the app, Matheus Grijo said that people really appreciate having a tool to help them find out whether they're being cheated on.'
The functions of the app include sending the person doing the tracking updates on their partner's location and forwarding duplicates of text message traffic from the targeted phone, even a command that allows a user to force the target phone to silently call their own, like a pocket dial, so they can listen in on what the person is saying.
Critics of the app said that such tools, if fall in the wrong hands, can be used for more sinister purposes like stalking and said that it breaks an anti-online harassment and hacking law in place since April.
However, Grijo insisted that his lawyer vetted the app and determined that it does not violate any Brazilian laws.
The report added that in order to install the app, suspicious partners have upload the app on their loved one's smartphones and a free version leaves the app's icon visible on the target's phone, while a version that costs 2 dollars a month masks the icon.


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About: Sussex Eye Hospital Sussex Eye Hospital Brighton BN2 5BF
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Took my 91 yr old mother in law to see a doctor at the Sussex Eye Hospital today. We were seen very quickly and all the staff who dealt with Mum were friendly, caring and professional. Mum is quite frail and very slow, but the staff were very patient, respectful of her dignity and made her feel relaxed and that they cared about her. The doctor was very professional, thoughtful and reassuring.
From what I saw, the staff in this unit were very busy and working hard, not in the best of accommodation because of the building work, but they still made sure the patients were treated with respect, friendliness and professionalism. Thanks to all of you for such a positive experience.
Response from Sussex Eye Hospital nearly 2 years ago
Dear Janet
Thank you so much for taking the time to feedback about your mother's experience in the eye hospital.
I am delighted to hear that it was positive and I will pass this onto the teams involved in your care and I know that they will really appreciate your kind words.
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Microsoft Exchange Server team has created email signatures for people on the Exchange team to advertise career site, but due to geeky email-related humor in them, it can be used by anyone. Clicking on signatures will take you to download locations for that specific signature.
How to install them into Outlook:
1. Unzip the signature and copy the content of signature ZIP file to your Signatures folder.
By default on Vista: C:\Users\<Alias>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures
By default on XP: C:\Documents and settings\<Alias>\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures
2. In Outlook go to Tools > Options > Mail Format > Signatures and choose the signature for New messages/Replies. Alternatively, you can insert a signature to just some messages if you go to the Insert tab and choose Signature in Outlook 2007.
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Hi guys, right, you can have a quick look in openejb on org.apache.openejb.cdi.CdiPlugin#resolveViewMethod but you got the idea OWB doesn't know anything about EJB so it needs to ask it to "somebody else" (at least i understand this method this way ;)) *Romain Manni-Bucau* *Twitter: @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau>* *Blog: **http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/*<http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/> *LinkedIn: **http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau* *Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau* 2012/11/8 Joseph Bergmark <email@example.com> > I believe this method is used to take the actual method annotated and > find which method that corresponds to in an EJB interface. The one > place I see it used in the code is DefinitionUtil when its trying to > determine the producer/disposer methods. I believe the concern is the > proxy that is built by the EJB container can only validly be called > from methods on the interface but not the method from the concrete > class (unless it is a NIV EJB). > > svn blame seems to hint that David changed these lines most recently, > so I would defer to him on this. > > Sincerely, > > Joe > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Gurkan Erdogdu <email@example.com> > wrote: > > Hello > > > > There is a method "Method resolveViewMethod(Bean<?> component, Method > declaredMethod);" in OpenWebBeansEjbPlugin? What is the meaning of this > method? No comment there. > > > > > > Gurkan >
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Shouldn't be cruel about Dragonlance - my eight year old grand daughter loves itWas this review helpful to you?
Its one thing to openly discuss bad novels (like Stanek's and Twilight) but putting Dragonlance on the list along with Dark Elf Trilogy is just someone trying to be "controversial" grow up....
After browsing your site its just anotehr hate filled site against books. Dragonlance (no i dont like it but..) really has opened up a new world to young readers and to try and make them feel ashamed for liking it points to a disturbed individual....you are an idiot.
These books were a lot of fun to read. A tad silly and perhaps shallow at times but enjoyable interesting characters.Was this review helpful to you?
DL has been the entry into fantasy in general and was great (as was Battletech for SF for me). I love the characters and the story, its not as sophisticated, but nontheless a good entertaining read. An thats what its all about. To entertain us. Later it became the first book I read complete in english, as english is not my native language. After that I had the confidence to read Tolkien and R.R. Martin in english too.
To sum it up: The first 2 cycles are simply great classic fantasy.
I've read many dragon lance books. And I've enjoyed every trilogy except the trilogy you have posted in the picture. My only complaint is that there is no timeline so I'm always reading out of whatever order they're set inWas this review helpful to you?
The first 3 books weren't a blast, but the Twins were epic!Was this review helpful to you?
The current mandate that 'serious Fantasy' must be grim, bloody, humorless, and morally ambivalent is really horribly tedious. The original Dragonlance creation--not the awful stinking agglomeration of trip that was published subsequently, but the first six Weiss and Hickman books, are wonderful. Sometimes you want a full steak and potato dinner, sure. Sometimes you want a candy bar. Don't diss the candy bar.Was this review helpful to you?
Totally agree.
Dragonlance isn't even a candy bar, it's pre-chewed gum off the sidewalk.The problem with dragonlance isn't the subject matter, or the fact that it's less grim and bloody than later fantasy (although it is still filled with violence, main characters die, Tanis's back story is pretty dark, and Raistlin is a clear example of a morally-challenged protagonist, so it is hardly the feel-good romp some people like to portray it as).The main problem with Dragonlance is that the prose is awful, the characters are bland and 2-dimensional (yes, even Raistlin), and the plots are uninspired and derivative. The only reason it ever got published is because it was an in-house production at a gaming company, written and published by game designers who didn't know the first thing about fiction writing. No traditional publisher would have touched it.
Very interesting storyline. One of the few books that helped get me into reading. The main character is excellent with other very good characters built around him similar to the Lord Of The Rings in more ways than one. You have one big storyline with a few side ones that contribute to the main storyline.Was this review helpful to you?
I had a lot of fun with these books as a kid, both as an introduction to the fantasy genre and to the English language. So I would say its worth reading some of these books if you are young and just starting your "reading career". However, dont mess up like me and read fifty of these Dragonlance books! Move along to something else as soon as possible, it will save you some tears the day you open one of the top 25 fantasy books.Was this review helpful to you?
"Flat" characters? Seriously? Did you forget about Raistlin Majere's existence? Just because these books are silly and fun doesn't mean they aren't good. I find them to have some of the best characters ever and great humour...and I'm also not a little kid, and have read a whole lot of the books on the "Best Fantasy" list. And I never read them as a kid, so nostalgia plays no factor on this.
They aren't deep or serious, but since when was fantasy supposed to be that way?
I read Chronicles as a kid and have recently re-read them. I'm 45 yrs old and have read countless books of many different genres. Is DL a little corny? Yes. Is the writing the best around? No. Sometimes I just want an easy, fun read. These work for me.Was this review helpful to you?
I totally disagree. But then, I rarely agree with the militant fantasy connoisseurs. Dragonlance aren't the best written books, but they have great plots for those of us that liked the simple early styles of fantasy adventure. A bunch of warriors in mixed races and classes, for some reason, all decide to band together(because their creator's played [email protected]) and went off on an epic quest against evil warlords and goblin armies. They weren't the most complex characters, but they were memorable. In fact, I would say Raistlin Majere is still one of the great fantasy characters. A book doesn't have to be a literary masterpiece or overly dark and edgy to be a great, that's just my opinion.Was this review helpful to you?
The Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends are the best fantasy books ever written.
This entire site and its "recommendations" are ridiculous.
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However, since the childhood is what makes the foundation for a good life ahead, putting your child into a wrong day care centre can have some serious implications on your child. It can harm them instead of doing well. So how can you make certain that the preschool and the day care centre where you wish to send your child to are good ones and suitable for your child? Here are some recommendations that can assist you in figuring that out.
Only a good preschool will encourage the involvement of the parents and the family members in the initial schooling years of a child. When you are allowed to participate in the several activities of the preschool, it will not only benefit your child but also instil in him the value of having a close-knit family for his support.
Only a good Pittsburgh day care can provide your child with a loving and a caring environment that also promotes personal hygiene. When you take a survey at the surroundings of the day care, you will have a clear understanding that this is a perfectly suitable day care and preschool for your child.
It is crucial to say that when you are in the search of a reputed and a reliable preschool like Apple Tree preschool, one of the most significant aspects that you must look for is the staff members of the school. The teachers, the trainers, and also the other nonteaching staff must be caring and loving and must possess a pleasant personality. It is essential for them to enjoy being in the surroundings with children. They must have a high level of sensitivity so that you would not have any major concerns in letting them handle your child while you are away. After all, you would not desire to let your kid be in the hands of someone who does not treat him in the way that he deserves.
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The last thing but nonetheless one of the most important things that you should look into is the overall fee structure of the school. Choose a day care based on your budget always, but without compromising on the quality. After all a day care or a preschool plays a very important role in your child's upbringing.
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IAN'S DREAM has easily the best form on show. He finished a close-up third in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at Ascot last summer and won't have to run anywhere near that level to land this on his return. Speronella finished closer at Lingfield on his return and Apricot Sky is likely to improve on his comeback effort at Salisbury. The remainder are harder to to fancy unless Bill Of Rights appreciates the drop back from 7f.
Addictive Nature (IRE) 8-1 (9-5) Always behind, 10th of 11, 10l behind Czech It Out (9-5) at Newbury 7f 3yo mdn (4) gf.
Apricot Sky 5-1 (9-3) Took keen hold, with leader, led 2f out, ridden and headed 1f out, stayed on same pace inside final furlong, 5th of 13, 6l behind Secondo (9-3) at Salisbury 6f mdn stks (5) gf.
Dropping Zone 33-1 (9-5) Slowly away and missed break badly, always outpaced in rear, last of 7, 44l behind Star of Rohm (9-5) at Nottingham 6f 3yo mdn (5) gd.
Green Monkey 13-2 (9-5) Tracked leaders, ridden over 2f out, weakened over 1f out, 6th of 7, 26l behind Star of Rohm (9-5) at Nottingham 6f 3yo mdn (5) gd.
Ian's Dream (USA) 16-1 (9-1) Raced far side, in touch, headway to 2nd that group over 1f out, stayed on inside final furlong, not pace of winner in centre, 3rd of 11, 1 1/2l behind Reckless Abandon (9-1) at Royal Ascot 5f 2yo Grp 2 (1) gs in Jun.
Bill Of Rights 20-1 (8-10) Dwelt in rear, never near leaders, 6th of 11, 12l behind Auction (8-10) at Lingfield 7f mdn fll (5) pol.
Speronella 6-1 (9-0) Slowly into stride, held up, headway over 1f out, stayed on same pace inside final furlong, 4th of 6, 4 1/2l behind Reqaaba (9-0) at Lingfield 6f 3yo mdn fll (5) pol in Apr.


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Personally i believe that chemistry is superficious... If the two of you don't get along, then there ain't chemistry. If you talk, find things in common, and are comfortable with each other then chemistry is just a small process of the whole thing...''
Personally, chemistry is the "i'm looking at a guy right now and he is hot", we talk to him, and "hit it off", but the real chemistry doesn't lie beneath a veil of "i love you" or anything like that... it lies FAR beneath taht... Especially not if the relationship is fresh (ie 3 - 18 months). Chemistry is but a word. Its' a figment of what is truly there In fact, chemistry doesn't exist. I've heard of plenty stories where girls have fallen for guys and their feeelings were one sided. But over time they got to know each other; feel each other and live to a feeling that each other has experienced
Does chemistry mean anything to you? when you say to a guys "there's no chemistry," what do you mean?
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Well I wouldn't say chemistrey is the end all and be all, but I think being able to sense some kind of spark with some one does help to feel some kind of an attraction for the person.00|00|0
Well the girl I'm seeing says there ain't chemistry, then later that night, albeit after a few drinks, we're all over each other.
Well then its good to feel some kind of attraction to some one haha and thanks for MHO


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