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We meet at Probus Village Hall at 2.30pm until 4.30pm on the following Wednesdays:
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We meet at St Marks Church Hall, Sticker at 2pm until 4pm every 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month starting from the 05 November 2019.
A safe, friendly place where folk with memory loss and their carers can come together, make friends and get support. Activities will include singing, gentle exercise, word games to jog memories and refreshments. There will be no charge and parking in the village car park is free.
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Healthy Cornwall are part of Cornwall Council's Wellbeing and Public Health Directorate. We work with all age ranges to help people lead a happy healthier life and support them with weight management, healthy eating and physical activity.
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To access the survey online, please look for the "have your say" column on the right side of the page and click "Friend & Family Survey". All of your feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Young adults aged between 17 - 25 are eligible for a free Meningitis C Booster. Please contact the surgery to make an appointment with the Practice Nurse.
If your GP is referring you to see a Specialist it is important that we have up to date contact details. You can do this by submitting this via the website, or coming into the Surgery to fill out a form. Please note it is also a requirement to have your height, weight and blood pressure.
If you wish to have support for stopping smoking, healthy weight for children and adults, healthy pregnancy or physical activity please call 01209 615600 or visit: www.healthycornwall.org.uk
There is a new Central NHS Computer System called the Summary Care Record (SCR). The Summary Care Record is meant to help emergency doctors and nurses help you when you contact them when the surgery is closed. Initially, it will contain just your medications and allergies.
Later on as the central NHS computer system develops, (known as the 'Summary Care Record' – SCR), other staff who work in the NHS will be able to access it along with information from hospitals, out of hours services, and specialists letters that may be added as well.
Your information will be extracted from practices such as ours and held on central NHS databases.
As with all new systems there are pros and cons to think about. When you speak to an emergency doctor you might overlook something that is important and if they have access to your medical record it might avoid mistakes or problems, although even then, you should be asked to give your consent each time a member of NHS Staff wishes to access your record, unless you are medically unable to do so.
On the other hand, you may have strong views about sharing your personal information and wish to keep your information at the level of this practice. Connecting for Health (CfH), the government agency responsible for the Summary Care Record have agreed with doctors' leaders that new patients registering with this practice should be able to decide whether or not their information is uploaded to the Central NHS Computer System.
For existing patients it is different in that it is assumed that you want your record uploaded to the Central NHS Computer System unless you actively opt out.
For further information visit the HSCIC Website or visit www.nhs.uk/caredata
If you choose to opt out of the scheme, then you will need to complete a form and bring it along to the surgery.
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Animex news
ScMART exhibition
ScMART is an exhibition of photography, drawing, painting, sculpture and animation produced by staff at Teesside University's School of Computing.
ScMART exhibition
Many of the staff are practicing artists who continue to create their work as part of their research and development and teaching. To tie in with the start of Animex, the work produced by staff will be shown at the Python Gallery, Middlesbrough.
The exhibition opens on Friday 12 February between 9.30am - 5.00pm, and everyone is welcome to the private view on Friday, 19 February 4.00pm - 7.00pm.
Dr Derek Simpson, who has just retired as Dean of the School of Computing, said, 'This exhibition is an excellent opportunity for both academic and ancillary staff to consolidate their status as artists in both the public's and students' eyes and disseminate this work into the larger community.'
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Here's one you can pretty much whip up at the last minute. If your wedding is this weekend and you need a St Patty's Day theme favor, you can do this.
Lucky Penny via Pumpkin Petunia. Just click on over there and download the free template! So cute! I think we are gonna do this for school.


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'New owners, same great people'
By Ryan Gueningsman
Managing Editor
DELANO, MN For the first time in 32 years, John Tackaberry woke up Wednesday morning without having a car dealership to run.
Twin Cities Automotive (TCA), part of the Pohlad Companies, has purchased Star West Chevrolet in Delano from Tackaberry. The transaction closed Tuesday.
Under TCA ownership, the auto dealership will be renamed Chevrolet of Delano, and its power sports division will become a stand-alone dealership operating as Star West Motorsports, according to a press release issued last week.
All employees of Chevrolet of Delano and Star West Motorsports will be retained as part of the acquisition.
"Star West Chevrolet has been an important part of Delano for more than 32 years, and we look forward to building on this success and serving the community as Chevrolet of Delano," said Jay Hulbert, president of TCA. "We are pleased to add another excellent Chevrolet dealership to the Twin Cities Automotive family."
TCA plans to remodel Chevrolet of Delano, according to the press release. Star West Motorsports will add new brands to its current mix of motorcycles, ATVs, personal watercraft, and snowmobiles. These upgrades are expected to be completed by the end of the year.
"As I hand over the reins to Twin Cities Automotive, it's exciting to advance the growth and development of Chevrolet of Delano and Star West Motorsports," Tackaberry said. "We both share a commitment to outstanding customer service and stewardship in the community."
This marks the second TCA acquisition of a Chevrolet dealership in a rural market this year.
In August, the company acquired North Branch Chevrolet in North Branch, and broke ground last month on a new facility for that dealership.
"I want our people to win, and I want TCA to win," Tackaberry said. "Today, you have to go big or go home. These guys have the ability to bring more to the table and continue on with the progress we've made over the past 32 years. It's very positive."
Tackaberry said his long-time staff members, Lyle Odden, Barb Albertson, and Tom Stifter were involved with the process from day one.
Tackaberry purchased the dealership, which at that time was Chevrolet and Oldsmobile, in August 1980, from Frank Routson.
"We were never for sale," Tackaberry said. "They (TCA) came to us. We met them, they were good people, and we had a good relationship. That started the process. They were looking to go west and liked Delano being fringe. Everything from the beginning working with TCA has been positive."
He added that variables came up with transitioning franchise agreements.
Tackaberry said Honda, Yamaha, Arctic Cat, and others all went "pretty smooth," but said the Chevrolet franchise transition was predicated on the facility upgrade.
Taking over the helm at Chevrolet of Delano is Dave Bacon, who has more than 20 years of dealership experience.
Bacon is a Fridley native who has lived in the Rockford/Greenfield area since 1986. He spent 16 years with the Luther Automotive Group, where he ran Brookdale Buick Pontiac GMC. He has another 12 years experience with the Valley Automotive Group in Waconia and Hutchinson.
Bacon said he's excited because TCA is striving to be a "one-stop shop."
"If they have the inventory in another location, it's just like having it here," Bacon said. He said it's his goal to go to bat for the customers, and encourage people to give them a chance. Right away, Bacon said customers and passersby will notice more used cars on the lot and more makes and models.
Stifter, who started in service/parts at Star West in September 2000, will continue to run Star West Motorsports.
Prior to Star West, Stifter worked at Jerry's Transmission in Lester Prairie for 20 years and also at a parts store in Howard Lake.
He said he and Bacon think a lot alike, and said they both believe good product and good service is important to everyone.
Twin Cities Automotive was formed in 2008, with the acquisition of BMW of Minnetonka by the Pohlad Companies.
TCA acquired four additional dealerships in subsequent years, including Coon Rapids Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram, Inver Grove Hyundai, St. Cloud Hyundai, and North Branch Chevrolet.
Today, the company has a balanced portfolio of dealerships in metro and rural markets, and across three categories domestic, mainstream Asian, and high-end luxury.
In August, TCA announced plans to acquire Carousel Audi and Porsche in Golden Valley, and Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche in Maplewood, a deal that is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
Founded by Minnesota Twins owner Carl R. Pohlad in the 1950s, the Pohlad Companies has diversified in many industries that include banking, financial services, entertainment, commercial real estate, retail, automotive, technology, and the Minnesota Twins.
Led by James, Robert, and William Pohlad, its business interests continue to grow, as does its commitment to its employees, customers, and community.


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"With great power comes great responsibility" is a saying that has some links to Voltaire but whose origins are more associated with the Spiderman comics. It has continuing relevance today when it comes to protecting the world's forests.
China increasingly has the power part down to a tee, particularly when it comes to acquiring natural resources. The country is now the largest single importer of wood in the world and in the six countries that make up the Congo Basin. The purchasing power of its leading trading companies has an increasingly disproportionate impact on local forestry industries and on communities relying on the forests for their livelihoods.
It is the responsibility part that needs some work. The Congo Basin is the world's second-largest rainforest and plays a key role in regulating the global climate, but it is under threat from numerous drivers of deforestation. Illegal logging is chief among those. Reports estimate that countries in Africa lose as much as $17 billion a year in combined revenue from the practice and that in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as much as 90% of all logging activity is illegal.
Given that China, which eclipsed the European Union (EU) as the main importer of Congo Basin wood in 2012, brings in almost half of all the timber exported from the region, it does not really need much thinking to join the dots.
However, joining the dots is exactly what Greenpeace is here for and through a process of interviewing some of the country's leading timber importers that dominate the market in log imports, Greenpeace East Asia has compiled a new report which shows that some of the largest companies either know very little about the problems and risks involved with the trade in illegal timber or are wilfully ignorant of them.
Opportunity Knocks shows that the lack of binding forestry legislation in China, akin to the European Timber Regulation (EUTR) or the Lacey Act in the US, means that importing companies are obliged by goodwill and trust alone to ensure their supply chains are free of suspect or illegal timber and that proper due diligence processes are applied at all stages of sourcing and trading the wood.
Greenpeace is often labelled cynical and negative by our critics, but it is not hugely controversial to say that trust and goodwill are rarely enough to combat widespread and entrenched illegal practices. Some of the companies we interviewed said they had no illegal wood in their supply chains, yet at least one had been linked to illegal activities in logging concessions it operates in Cameroon for several years. The company has also allegedly traded in so-called conflict timber after it sourced from the Central African Republic and frequently payed the armed rebel group SELEKA.
Given the huge volume of wood brought into the country each year and the high percentage of illegal timber coming from the Congo Basin and the fact that the majority of leading Chinese importers seem to generally ignore the problem, then it is easy to conclude that these cases may be just the tip of the iceberg.
Of course China alone cannot eradicate illegal logging. Despite the EUTR, that expressly prohibits it, shipments of illegal wood continually head for European markets to be placed and sold, because European government seem to fail to remember to effectively enforce the legislation. And Congo Basin governments in Cameroon, the DRC and beyond need to seriously tackle the problems of corruption, weak governance and lack of political will that saturate forestry sectors in the region.
But China and its companies, due in no small part to the large purchasing power they wield, have a golden opportunity to take the fight against illegal timber trade seriously. If the government can move towards the introduction of binding legislation and remind companies of their responsibility, then undoubtedly their influence and power will soon start to produce results on the ground.
Wenjing Pan is a Senior Global Campaigner with Greenpeace East Asia
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Emmanuelle Santos and Dina Khuseyn were selected by the CNN Montpellier (FR) for this residency at Trafo, Budapest. During their residency, they have worked on their project entitled "Nous" in the studio of The Symtomps and in Trafó Studio. They have been joined by Patrick K-H. (Anton Iakhontov) a sound artist and concentrated on the different constellation of the three people on the stage.
NOUS # During this last meeting around the project « Nous » at the residency in Budapest we were able to define our proposition, establish the process of work that will serve us also during the next residencies and as an effect to get more clear vision of the project. 1 / the conditions of reception The reception of Workshop Foundation we perceived as very warm and professional. Lilla was our main piloting person. The office is placed inside the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, which is a very dynamic and well known art center among the young generation. Workshop Foundation has a dance studio rich in activities: dance classes, presentation of performances, work-in-progress presentations, etc.. It's also where we had a presentation of our project - « Nous#2 ». Trafó is in a period of changes: the director who was leading the place during 13 years and was practicing artistic exchange with the foreign artists is on the way to be replaced by more local project. Workshop Foundation does not know what future it will bring them and if it will be possible to continue doing what they are doing under the new direction. This is a very brief and rough resume of the situation. Lilla would be probably able to explain the situation more clearly. About our stay: the flats where we lived were placed in the center of the city and we were proposed a detailed program of cultural events in Budapest. We were working in the White Room in the studio of the Symptoms Company under the artistic direction of Réka Szabo. The company has two studios that are placed in the building called Bakelit Multi Art Center in the periphery of the city inside industrial zone. But even if geographically it's in one space, they have two different realities.Governmental help that the studio was receiving during many years was cut off this year. Workshop Foundation was renting this studio for us. In the space of Bakelit there are also: studio for the repetitions, hall for performances with the bar, sleeping rooms for the artists. This place is receiving minimal subventions to exist and unfortunately because of the distance with the center of the city it's not easy to draw in the audience for the concerts/performances/etc. The White Room is a big studio with fragile sound isolation. Even if it didn't disturb us a lot we wanted to underline for the future artists to require the silence during the working process. In general there is no noise, if the next studio is not occupied. It's possible to have a good and cheap meal in the neighborhood. The zone itself is very quiet; there are not so many passageways which are open. 2/ Nous #1/Angers-Schools David Marques, Dina Khuysen, Emmanuelle Santos The invitation of CCN de Montpellier to represent ex.e.r.ce at SCHOOLS summer festival was an occasion for us to meet again. Because of the possibility that we've been given, to present a form reviewing the things that we've gone through during ex.e.r.ce we've decided to work with the exercise that has been proposed by David Wampach (during ex.e.r.ce). At that time we didn't had any other future plans for this project. But after the presentation in Angers it became clear for us that this experience can become a base for the further experimentation around this subject. Practice : Being David, being Dina, being Emmanuelle More then just an imitation it was an exchange around our habits, codes, the ways of "existence" on the stage, "styles" of performing, where each of us was confronted with a task of transmission of "yourself" for the others. Through a dance-body practice and verbal exchange we were testing, experimenting how it is "being" the other on stage, till where we can go on being someone else. Looking at each other and giving a life feedback allowed us to enter and to improve the skills of being "the other". We were practicing this exercise during a week. The form : The final form of the presentation at SHOOLS (Angers) was decided verbally at the last day before the performance:We were "being" David on the music of his solo (from Deborah Hay), after David and Emmanuelle were "being" Dina at the same time when Dina herself was announcing her "ways", "codes" of performing and the last was Emmanuelle that was playing herself while on the audio we played recorded by us conversation where we were discussing the form of the presentation during one of the rehearsals.Each part was approximately 5 minutes. 3/ Nous #2/Budapest-Workshop Foundation/Jardin d'Europe For this residency David was not able to join us. Not to replace, but to confront this practice with other artist and also with other media we invited Patrick K.-H (Anton Iakhontov). Who is a sound-, animation- and multimedia-performance artist. Practice : Observation no. 1/ We've spend a lot of time transmitting and explaining project to Patrick, that he could understand it and find a possibility for all of us to be able to exchange our habits reciprocally. We were busy with the questions: how his process of creation music could serve us in the movement creation and vice-verse how our dance "habits" could be transformed and exist in the sound reality. One possible strategy was found : when me and Dina - we gathered a musical material for Anton, calling it « personal sound identity card », consisting from a registered noise-sound fragments, music, voices and other musical materials that we could connect to our personalities. Patrick later used all this material as a sort of instruments for his sound improvisation during the working process and performance. The lack of time didn't allowed us to find a way of « being » Anton. Although we've tried it with the perception that we received from him, likewise with some more precise elements, but this chapter is still demanding for a more strong investigation. Observation no. 2 / Since we met in Budapest for the second time, but we've started to work with our "habits" that were coming from the first meeting, we had a sensations that it was not a right choice and the question appeared: do we have to re-find the habits that we've started with or define, find the one's that is a part of us today? We choose the second version. If the process is the same: to share one practice together; the quality of investigation is changing in the function to your preoccupation at this moment. It was a fist stage of the project and an experience that was a reference for us, it's where the common history began. The period of work in Budapest became a part of this history. We would like to go more for the accumulation of this experience, even if they will be different, generate a common vocabulary and create a "history", "memory" of the project, may be even with some real objects that will stay after the performances. Observation no. 3/ Also we can assume that we have some particular habits, visual approaches together. One of them is to make the face disappear, in order to underline "the absence of individuality". In the proposed frame of the project: where by the common practice we are trying to erase our own individuality and to become someone else; the body without a face became a common identity. Form:The performative form that we've presented was worked out during the two last days of the residency. We were "being" Emmanuelle in silence, around the subject of a common body. After "being" Dina was presented by Anton, Dina and Emmanuelle working with the sound and body separately in space. During the last part Anton was playing himself and Dina and Emmanuelle became fixed images in the space. Observation no. 1/ We were using the tools belonging to the musical vocabulary to find a form at the end. In an almost unconscious manner the presence on Anton reflected here and influenced our approach to dance space. Observation no. 2/ We didn't want to present all the material that we've crossed during the working process, like in Angers, the chosen form was different from the practice, although it is definitely sourced from it. Photos of the last presentation available here:http://kni7.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/nous-mi/#wpcom-carousel-14294 The future 3/Nous #3/Paris-Point EphémèreDavid, Emmanuelle, Dina and Anton We will continue this practice build on the exchange of interests, models, propositions of each other and accumulate it in the third step of the project. The experience that we've crossed can be interesting if someone from us will consider it is still actual, present for him and will propose a practice around it. Also we can decide to leave it completely open for the new experience. The form that will be presented will be « Nous #3 ».We would also like to construct a sort of catalogue of different small forms and sort of bank of practices, gestures, sounds and objects that we could use or not later, but that will be a part of "common history" of the project. The continuation of the project will be turning around some key points: - focused on the practice of exchange- exploring the questions: How do we decide the form of presentation? How we can define a practice? How much the form presented will be linked to the practice proposed?- every time the form presented will be different from the one's before and every time will exist as a finished object.
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Dominant web ad giant (Google) possibly 'weeks' away from Euro slapdown
Watchdog Almunia refuses to rule out fines in antitrust probe
Google will learn within weeks if its alleged abuse of dominance in the European search market will earn it a formal complaint from the EU's competition regulator.
Sanctions and fines of up to 10 per cent of Google's annual worldwide turnover could yet be imposed on the company, antitrust commissioner and EC veep Joaquin Almunia said today.
His comments made it clear that Google's recent revised offer to tweak its search engine - submitted to the European Commission - was the final such package of concessions. The web ad goliath is accused of unfairly promoting its online services in its search results to the detriment of rivals.
If Almunia fails to be satisfied by the ad giant's latest proposed measures, which have been kept secret, then he will proceed by issuing a formal Statement of Objections (SO) to Google, a first step in forcing through a settlement or levying a fine. But if he is happy with the search results changes, Google could be legally bound to implement them.
"Google's algorithm played a major role in the company's success. Many startups – such as websites specialised in searches on particular topics – have benefited from Google's role as one of the main entry points to the internet to roll out and rapidly bring new services to a wide audience," the competition commissioner, who leaves his role in 2014, said at a conference in Florence, Italy, on Friday.
"At the same time, it is my responsibility to ensure that Google does not abuse this gatekeeper role in the EU to push its own services against those of competitors who may be just as innovative," added Almunia.
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As you know, we want to find effective solutions to our concerns, so as to preserve competition in the coming years between these services. Whether we will ultimately achieve this through a commitment process is still open at this point in time.
But time is of the essence, and in the coming weeks I will take a decision about the use of Article 9, transforming Google's proposals into legally binding commitments, or go through the Article 7 route towards a SO and a possible negative decision.
This is the clearest indication to date from Almunia that he is ready to move to the next stage of an investigation that has been under way for nearly three years now.
It also suggests a negative outcome for Google's rivals, who have been lobbying hard for the commission to let them formally tear into Google's latest offer.
Almunia is now in a hurry to move the investigation along.
Earlier this month, Google submitted a revised plan to the Commission, after it was rejected by both the company's rivals and Almunia - who said that the advertising giant needed to present better or improved proposals.
Google has consistently maintained that it has addressed Almunia's concerns. Its chairman Eric Schmidt once told The Register that Google had "done nothing wrong" and was "happy to be educated on the contrary". [sic] ®
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Adam & Eve's Guide To The Kama Sutra
Includes illustrated position guide and musical CD.
Filled with 35 different positions, this comprehensive guide to the Kama Sutra is sure to keep you and your lover busy!
Adam and Eve's Guide to the Karma Sutra features 25 different sex positions and 10 oral sex positions. Dr. Kat, a clinical sexologist and relationship therapist, describes each position in detail, from assuming the position to its different benefits. One of five different couples then demonstrates the position. Multiple cameras capture every angle so you can easily re-create the position with your partner at home. 73 minutes, plus 23 bonus minutes.
Some of our favorite positions include:
• Crying Out – The face-to-face contact increases intimacy and allows for greater depth control. • Pine Tree – Allows one partner to play with the others' feet during sex or lean forward to kiss them. • Transverse Lute – Allows the top partner to quickly and easily change angles for deeper penetration, increased comfort, or to hit their erogenous zone.• Sixth Position – Great for deep penetration and G-Spot stimulation during sex.• The Mare & The Swing – This puts the woman in charge to control thrusting while offering improved clitoral stimulation.
The DVD also comes with an illustrated guide and music CD. The guide depicts all the positions shown in the movie along with Dr. Kat's commentary to make finding and trying new positions easier. And while you're working your way through all the different sex positions, you can play the romantic music CD in the background to help set the mood.
We recommend The Guide to the Kama Sutra for couples interested in trying new positions and spicing up their relationship.


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Everybody was very friendly, the service was outstanding and the food simply delicious. We spent wonderful days.Josef B. about Alpinresort Schillerkopf, Vorarlberg
The closeness to Praha and Melnik is fantastic. Price/performance ratio is excellent.Ines D. about Schloss Liblice, Czech Republic
Ingenious architecture – perfect wellness area – lovely atmosphere – delicious meal – all in all absolutely top!Bernhard E. about Arosea Life Balance Hotel, Italy
Very obliging service staff and extraordinary child-friendly, we felt completely at home and enjoyed our stay!Andreas H. about Schloss zu Hopferau, Bavaria
The hotel has been furnished with great attention to detail!Dieter M. about Seehotel Enzian, Carinthia
It was fantastic. We would love to visit Fulpmes and the Hotel Cristall again.Renate B. about Sporthotel Cristall, Tyrol
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Urban Fantasy / Mystery / Horror
In a brilliant collaboration by New York Times and critically acclaimed coauthors Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, Jonathan Maberry, Kat Richardson, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, Cherie Priest, James A. Moore, and Mark Morris join forces to bring you a crime-solving novel like you've never read before.
Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member. But in the aftermath of a bloody battle, a dying cultist makes claims that cause Indigo to question her own origin and memories.
Nora's parents were killed when she was nineteen years old. She took the life insurance money and went off to explore the world, leading to her becoming a student of meditation and strange magic in a mountaintop monastery in Nepal…a history that many would realize sounds suspiciously like the origins of several comic book characters. As Nora starts to pick apart her memory, it begins to unravel. Her parents are dead, but the rest is a series of lies. Where did she get the power inside her?
The old world is dead. Legend tells us the gods are myths. But some remain, like a noose around Ace Dante's neck. And none are more dangerous than Isis. She demands the Soul Eater return to the land time forgot, break into a newly discovered tomb, and retrieve the skull from the sarcophagus inside. If Ace does this one thing, Isis will reveal the secrets he desperately seeks.
Ace knows there's a catch, there always is, but the truth is far worse than even he can imagine.
As Isis's true intentions unravel, so does Ace's past, leaving him no choice at all.
History is wrong.
The past is a lie.
And for the Soul Eater, the truth found in Egypt is far more terrifying than any god.
Soul Eater series reading order:
Hidden Blade, #1
Witches' Bane, #2
See No Evil, #3
Scorpion Trap, #4
Serpent's Game, #5
Edge of Forever, #6
With a dead-end job, a miserable family, and no romantic prospects, twenty-three-year-old Martyn Ross has a rotten life—until he meets his own personal demon. A Spancialosaphus Lacrimosae, or "Spanky" for short, he's Martyn's diabolically handsome alter ego, a tuxedoed charmer who's willing to share his wild world of wine, women, and wealth . . . for a price.
Under Spanky's tutelage, Martyn gains confidence, career success, even a girlfriend. He's living the good life. But like all demons, Spanky expects something in return. And it has nothing to do with Martyn surrendering his soul. In fact, quite the reverse . . .
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For Leira Venn, her future is a given foretold by the oracle of the Albah, the ancient people she was born to. Which is why she knows from the moment she meets Dr. Julian Ryder that he is fated to be hers. But nothing else about the prophecy feels right. For the handsome doctor is shrouded by darkness, and intimately involved with a woman who seems intent on killing Leira . . .
Or a death wish?
Sorrow has shadowed Julian Ryder for as long as he can remember. But from the moment he meets lovely Leira, his heart is filled with hope for the future—a future that is as combustible as the powerful attraction between them. For Leira is marked for death by the very forces who killed his mother. The very darkness that stole everything he held most dear. Only this time, Julian is stronger, more in control of his powers than ever. But will it be enough to save Leira from those who would destroy her?
Jaguar shifter Sebastian Severino is an enigma. He lives alone, works alone, and will die alone. But the night he's attacked by a female werewolf, nothing will ever be the same. And when his young niece is kidnapped, Sebastian, the deadliest assassin Nero has ever produced, will be forced to choose a side…
Isabelle Wood has never taken the easy path. As a bounty hunter and now a bitten werewolf without a mate, she's searching for answers to her father's disappearance while helping to lead an Alphaless Pack. The night she gets the opportunity to take out their enemy, with her blade at his throat, her wolf discovers her mate in the last person she can be with.
Each book in the Moon series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order.
Reading Order:
Book #1 Moonlight
Book #2 Hunter's Moon
Book #3 Blood Moon
Book #4 Harvest Moon
Book #5 Ice Moon
Book #6 Blue Moon
Book #7 Wolf Moon
Book #8 New Moon
Forget about the big bad wolf. Tomas is a dragon and he eats other predatorsfor breakfast. After his restful sojourn in a dungeon, he's ready foraction and love. A pity the doctor he kidnaps isn't on board with hisplan of seduction.
Chandra couldn't say what's more fascinating, the man or the beast, but she won't deny she's attracted to him, andnot just because he's got a nice hoard. After spending her life fighting against a domineering family, she's more than ready to go toe to clawwith the dragon who wants her.
Mating is in the cards if they can survive the machinations of the forces working against them.
Note: While this series is more fun read in order, each book can stand alone and follows one couple to their Happily-Ever-After.
The Black Lily resistance needs a larger army if they are to defeat the vampire monarchy. In order to do so, former lieutenant and traitor to the vampire Crown, Nikolai must seek help from the red-hooded temptress he needs to avoid at all costs. The secret he carries could prove dangerous for her if she gets too close…even though keeping her close—very close—is the only thing on his mind.
Sienna will do anything for the Black Lily, and when Nikolai asks for her assistance to gain the trust of the commonwealth, it's the last thing she wants to do. The thought of leaving her woods and her wolves behind is terrifying…not to mention the danger being with Nikolai poses.
Each book in the Vampire Blood series is a standalone and can be read out of order.
Series order:
Book #1 The Black Lily
Book #2 The Red Lily
Kato Amadi . . . born of darkest sorcery, unstoppable on the battlefield, his magic is as deadly as his blade. But not even magic could save him from vicious betrayal. Trapped for millennia in darkness and silence, he is freed at last, only to find himself in the middle of a battle against the very beasts of hell he was created to destroy.
Grace Van Allen is a scholar of ancient languages who toils in the dim recesses of a museum basement with only a beautiful stone warrior to keep her company. But when Grace calls upon her silent warrior to help her translate an obscure new language, she breaks the ancient curse holding him prisoner . . . and frees three deadly demons to rampage through her city.
Tracking demons is what Kato was born to do, but he'll need Grace's help. And when they discover that Kato's enemy is still alive and still plotting against him, their hunt takes a dangerous turn, one that might just prove fatal for both of them . . .
D. B. Reynolds is the RT and EPIC Award-Winning author of the Vampires in America series of paranormal romance, and an Emmy-nominated television sound editor. D. B. currently lives in a flammable canyon near the Malibu coast, and when she's not writing her own books, she can usually be found reading someone else's.
If the assignment is crazy, dangerous, or a little of both, Sub-Lieutenant Sebastian Rayne can't help but take on the challenge. So when Command Intelligence tags him to fly one of their agents behind enemy lines, it seems like just another routine death-defying mission. Crash landing on the planet was a piece of cake, but the gorgeous agent he delivered safely to her meeting is now believed dead and he must return to retrieve her body.
After Agent Jenna Maxwell realizes her own people attempted to have her killed, she enlists the hot stick jockey's help. His new mission? Sneak her back onto his ship to ferret out who wanted to get rid of her and why. But she fears her growing feelings for Seb have blinded her to his reckless insistence on helping her stay alive, and his rash behavior will cause them both to lose their lives.
Each book in the Valiant Knox series is a standalone and can be enjoyed out of order.
Series Order:
Book #1 Escape Velocity
Book #2 Damage Control
Book #3 Cover Fire
Science Fiction / Fantasy
Set in the same world as Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis C. Chen's Kangaroo Too is bursting with adrenaline and intrigue in this unique outer space adventure.
On the way home from his latest mission, secret agent Kangaroo's spacecraft is wrecked by a rogue mining robot. The agency tracks the bot back to the Moon, where a retired asteroid miner—code named "Clementine" —might have information about who's behind the sabotage.
Clementine will only deal with Jessica Chu, Kangaroo's personal physician and a former military doctor once deployed in the asteroid belt. Kangaroo accompanies Jessica as a courier, smuggling Clementine's payment of solid gold in the pocket universe that only he can use.
What should be a simple infiltration is hindered by the nearly one million tourists celebrating the anniversary of the first Moon landing. And before Kangaroo and Jessica can make contact, Lunar authorities arrest Jessica for the murder of a local worker.
Jessica won't explain why she met the victim in secret or erased security footage that could exonerate her. To make things worse, a sudden terror attack puts the whole Moon under lockdown. Now Kangaroo alone has to get Clementine to talk, clear Jessica's name, and stop a crooked scheme which threatens to ruin approximately one million vacations.
But old secrets are buried on the Moon, and digging up the past will make Kangaroo's future very complicated…
As people fight to survive the aftereffects of more than a dozen meteor strikes, a group of wealthy individuals conspires to rebuild the United States as a corporate entity called the New Confederacy, where the bottom line is law. As a second civil war rages, with families fighting against families on opposite sides, Union president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep the country whole.
To help in the fight for unity, Union Army captain Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her crew of Stryker vehicles are sent after the ruthless "warlord of warlords," an ex–Green Beret who rules a large swath of the West. But defeating him will be even more difficult than she thought. The warlord is receiving military assistance from Mac's sister—and rival—Confederate major Victoria Macintyre. And when the siblings come together in the war-torn streets of New Orleans, only one of them will walk away.
Knot, his true nature now revealed if not truly understood, is haunted by his memories, and is not the ally he once was. Astrid travels to Tinska to find answers for her friend, but the child-like vampire has old enemies who have been waiting for her return. And beyond the Blood Gate in the empire of Roden, a tiellan woman finds herself with a new protector. One who wants to use her extraordinary abilities for his own ends…
Scott Oden's epic novel A Gathering of Ravens is "satisfying…complex…and a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is orcnéas; to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind—the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days.
Drawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew his brother, Grimnir emerges into a world that's changed. A new faith has arisen. The Old Ways are dying, and their followers retreating into the shadows; even still, Grimnir's vengeance cannot be denied.
Taking a young Christian hostage to be his guide, Grimnir embarks on a journey that takes him from the hinterlands of Denmark, where the wisdom of the ancient dwarves has given way to madness, to the war-torn heart of southern England, where the spirits of the land make violence on one another. And thence to the green shores of Ireland and the Viking stronghold of Dubhlinn, where his enemy awaits.
But, unless Grimnir can set aside his hatreds, his dream of retribution will come to nothing. For Dubhlinn is set to be the site of a reckoning—the Old Ways versus the New—and Grimnir, the last of his kind left to plague mankind, must choose: stand with the Christian King of Ireland and see his vengeance done or stand against him and see it slip away?
Scott Oden's A Gathering of Ravens is a novel of vengeance, faith, and the power of myth.
From the author of the popular Magic 2.0 series comes the witty tale of a mischievous A.I. gone rogue.
Al, a well-meaning but impish artificial intelligence, has the mind of a six-year-old and a penchant for tantrums. And the first one to discover just how much trouble Al could cause is Hope Takeda, the lab assistant in charge of educating and socializing him. Day care is a lot more difficult when your kid is an evolving and easily frightened A.I.
When Al manages to access the Internet and escape the lab days before his official unveiling, Hope and her team embark on a mission to contain him—before he creates any real problems.
Soon the NSA is on Al's back, the US Army is fighting a brigade of mass-produced robots, and a wannabe cyberterrorist is looking to silence Al permanently. After months spent "raising" Al, Hope knows she's running out of time—and she's not sure she'll be able to protect him. Will she manage to control the unruly A.I. and quell a global crisis, or will Al outsmart them once and for all?
Laura Lam returns to the near-future SF world of False Hearts with the speculative thriller Shattered Minds.
Carina used to be one of the best biohackers in Pacifica. But when she worked for Sudice and saw what the company's experiments on brain recording were doing to their subjects, it disturbed her—especially because she found herself enjoying giving pain and contemplating murder. She quit and soon grew addicted to the drug Zeal, spending most of her waking moments in a horror-filled dream world where she could act out her depraved fantasies without actually hurting anyone.
One of her trips is interrupted by strange flashing images and the brutal murder of a young girl. Even in her drug-addicted state, Carina knows it isn't anything she created in the Zealscape. On her next trip, she discovers that an old coworker from Sudice, Max, sent her these images before he was killed by the company. Encrypted within the images are the clues to his murder, plus information strong enough to take down the international corporation.
Carina's next choice will transform herself, San Francisco, and possibly the world itself.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
"Brilliant." —The New York Times
Mapping the Interior is a horrifying, inward-looking novella from Stephen Graham Jones that Paul Tremblay calls "emotionally raw, disturbing, creepy, and brilliant."
Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones brings readers a spine-tingling Native American horror novella.
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway. Instead of the people who could be there, his mother or his brother, the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously before his family left the reservation. When he follows it he discovers his house is bigger and deeper than he knew.
The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.
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Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture…a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes.
But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.
When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.
You can't change your fate – so throw yourself into battle, because you'll either win or wake up drinking mead in the halls of your ancestors. That's what Finn's people believe.
But Finn wants to live. When his settlement is massacred by a hostile nation, Finn plus several friends and rivals must make their escape across a brutal, unfamiliar landscape, and to survive, Finn will fight harder than he's ever fought before.
The David Gemmell Award-nominated author of Age of Iron returns with You Die When You Die – an epic fantasy adventure in which a mismatched group of refugees battle animals and monsters, determined assassins, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfil a prophecy.
"I loved every second of it . . . More please, as soon as is humanly possible!." The Eloquent Page
"Hugely entertaining." SFX
"A rip-roaring, swiftly paced adventure set in a sprawling and beautifully detailed world . . . sure to win the devotion of plenty of fans." RT Book Reviews
"The first book in Watson's new fantasy trilogy is raw, violent, and gritty . . . You Die When You Die blurs the lines between hero and villain into who lives and who dies. He who survives another day wins for the moment; tomorrow might be another story." Booklist
Winner of the Prism Award for Best Fantasy Novel
"Tells a love story with exquisite detail."—TrueBlood.net
Cairo in the 1860s is a bustling metropolis where people from all walks of life mix and mingle, mostly in complex harmony. When evil ghosts and unquiet spirits stalk the city's streets, the Guard are summoned—six young men and women of different cultures, backgrounds, and faiths, gifted by their Goddess with great powers.
While others of the Guard embrace their duties, their leader, British-born Beatrice, is gripped by doubt. What right has she, a bookish, sheltered, eighteen-year-old, to lead others into battle? Why isn't dark-eyed, compelling Ibrahim, who is stronger of will than Beatrice, the one in charge?
Ghosts maraud through Cairo's streets, heralding a terrible darkness. Beatrice and her Guard have little time to master their powers; a great battle looms as an ancient prophecy roars toward its final, deadly conclusion.
This enchanting prequel to Leanna Renee Hieber's gaslamp fantasy, Strangely Beautiful, returns to print after more than a decade, edited and revised for Tor's publication.
Strangely Beautiful series
Strangely Beautiful
Perilous Prophecy
Miss Violet and the Great War
The Eterna Files series
The Eterna Files
Eterna and Omega
The Eterna Solution
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New Adult / Young Adult / Middle Grade
"The story is, simply, beautiful." —Fictionist Magazine
All sixteen-year-old Tommin wants is to make beautiful shoes and care for his beloved grandmother, but his insatiable need to steal threatens to destroy everything. Driven by a curse that demands more and more gold, he's sure to get caught eventually.
When mysterious Lorcan Reilly arrives in town with his "niece," Eve, Tommin believes the fellow wants to help him. Instead, Lorcan whisks him off to the underground realm of the Leprechauns, where, alongside Eve, he's forced to prepare to become one of them.
As Lorcan's plans for his "gold-children" are slowly revealed, Tommin and Eve plan their escape. But with Tommin's humanity slipping away, the fate-crossed pair has everything to lose unless they can find a way to outsmart a magical curse centuries in the making.


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August 5th, 2011 Posted 12:23 am
The spicy odour of massaman fails to infect her senses. Her lungs draw heavy breaths, yet she chooses to perceive the aromatic restaurant atmosphere as parched and insipid.
Oblivious to the jubilant crowd, she singles out the silence of her deafening mind over the unheard voices of those surrounding her.
Her disheartened figure slumps over the table, the sharp edge of the timber cutting deep into her elbows as her left hand grips her sunken chin. Slowly she stirs through the contents of her bowl and raises her right hand toward her mouth, the bronze mixture within her half-full spoon emptying into a cacophonic pit. Extensively chewing upon the tasteless fibres, her eyes fixate blankly somwehere between the cold cutlery and the empty seat at the opposite end of the table.
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New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light — HBS Working Knowledge
"Q: While Harvard University searches for a new president, what is the status of planning for the future Allston campus?
A: I think the vision of the future Allston campus is pretty broadly shared in the University community, and there is considerable momentum to carry the process forward. Harvard is unique among the nation's urban universities in its ability to contemplate a development of this magnitude. I hope and trust Allston will stay on everybody's priority list."
A Talk with HBS Dean Light
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We writers are a fickle bunch. We slave over a steaming hot keyboard all day, but don't venture out much to find apps that can help us be more productive, more efficient, and give us a little more time at the end of the day.
Good writing tools for the Mac have certain basics, one of which is word count. The more statistics, the better, right? So, if you write, and you use a Mac, what would you put into a writer's control panel, a writing dashboard?
Word Count Dashboard is a bit misnamed because it does more than track the number of words you write on a given project. It's also a motivational corkboard on your Mac's screen, complete with sticky notes, photos for inspiration, notes and targets.
Does this look familiar?
Word Count Dashboard is more control panel for writing projects, good for setting daily targets, adding notes, and keeping track of progress to date.
Objective visualization can be improved by dropping in a photo. Give yourself little stars depending on how productive you are each day. The app is also a good place to write, but won't replace a dedicated word processor.
The look of Word Count Dashboard is somewhat sophomoric, but utilitarian, and a rather inexpensive replacement for some of the more esoteric, complex, and expensive writer's tools, Scrivener, which I use.


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4K HDTVs are still relatively new, but manufacturers are aggressively getting them out to market. At just $619, LG's new 4K 40-incher is one of the most compelling offers yet for anyone looking for a new mid-sized TV.
This 40-inch HDTV features a full UHD 3840 x 2160 resolution, ensuring you'll be able to watch all the current and upcoming 4K content in full resolution. Even when you're watching non-4K media, LG's Tru-4K HD Engine is capable of upscaling your content to take better advantage of all those pixels. With an Ultra Clarity Index (UCI) of 1080, the picture will be sharp and clear even during dark or fast moving scenes.
Integrated WiFi and access to apps like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube make it easy to enjoy content from streaming sources. It also plays nicely with mobile devices thanks to Smart Share, which lets you share photos and movies from your phone, tablet or laptop directly on the TV screen. Three HDMI ports and three USB ports make it easy to hook up peripherals or share media over a physical connection too.
The majority of 4K HDTVs these days are room dominating displays, with massive profiles and price tags to boot. For those looking for a TV for a smaller room or just a smaller budget, this is a sweet deal on a new 4K HDTV.
- LG 40-inch 4K Smart LED-LCD 40UB8000 HDTV for $619 (normally $1199.99)
Other great deals today include:
- Dell Inspiron 3000 Intel Celeron dual-core slim desktop with 4GB RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth & Windows 8 for $249.99 (normally $299.99)
- Lenovo Z50 4th-gen Core i7 15.6-inch 1080p Laptop with 2GB GeForce GT 820M for $639 (normally $1099.99 – use coupon code USPZ5781023)
- Garmin Forerunner 210 GPS sport watch for $189.99 (normally $249.99)


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Royal Forestry Society opens tender for Forestry Skills Study 2017
The Royal Forestry Society (RFS) is inviting stakeholders and consultants to submit a proposal and quotation for a sector skills study that evaluates the current profile and status of the Forestry Industry in terms of skills gaps and shortages, training provision, and future needs.
This study is commissioned by the Royal Forestry Society, with support from Woodland Heritage, Forestry Commission England and Scottish Forestry Trust, working on behalf of the Forestry Skills Forum (FSF)
Interested parties can submit a proposal for the delivery of the study addressing the following items:
- How would you approach the task?
- What are your relevant skills and experience for the assignment?
- Can you meet the requirements of the tender in terms of time, resources and other commitments?
- Provide a quotation that includes a detailed pricing schedule and clearly states what is included or excluded.
- Provide contact information for a minimum of two references.
The completed proposal (2500 words maximum), quotation and any enquires about this invitation should be sent by email to Ted Wilson, Education Manager, Royal Forestry Society - [email protected] - by Friday 19 May 2017, 5 pm.
All submissions will be evaluated objectively as detailed in the Evaluation Matrix.
A brief of the work is available here.
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pocket solutions is now shipping its aluminum flip cover, the cover-up, for many pocket pc devices. covers for palms are coming soon. i know that miked began asking people if they would be interested in a flip lid for the e310 back in may in this brighthand forum, and he received such an overwhelming response that he started a company to make them for several popular brands. flip covers are available or under development for the ipaqs, toshibas, cli� 615/665, and palm devices. the cover is made of aircraft-grade aluminum and has a foam liner covering the screen area. the covers are attached with velcro and only cost us$19.99. with this cover, i may have to start looking at the dell device, since it is the only new one coming out with a removable battery that could replace my jornada. thanks to pocket pc life for the link.
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|well, then again (8:20pm est fri oct 18 2002)
looks like a nice concept but it doesn't look like it will fit with any of the expansion sleeves on an ipaq.
the ipaq's strength is the expansion sleeves, without them you might as well get a toshiba or one of the other "too damn thing like a palm" devices.
(no, i don't like the little matchbooks! i want a computer, not a toy.) – by iz-paq-n
|ppc cases (4:36pm est wed may 28 2003)
is there a ppc case for my axim which allows for the insertion of the wireless card? – by wheetwert


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Foxconn Technology Group (富士康科技集團) will keep on increasing worker salaries in China and cutting working hours, Foxconn chairman Terry Gou (郭台銘) said yesterday, after it came under fire over poor working conditions for employees making Apple iPhones and iPads.
As part of its efforts to relieve the pressure on its existing factories in Chinese cities such as Shenzhen and Chengdu, Gou said Foxconn would be building high-tech manufacturing facilities in Hainan, as well as expanding operations in Brazil.
"We have a saying now in the company: 'You work fewer hours, but get more pay,'" Gou said at this year's Boao Forum for Asia in China's Hainan Province. "We won't stop here and will continue to increase salaries. Salaries in Brazil are even higher, but we will continue with our investments there. We've just entered a deal with Hainan Airlines and they will eventually be our way of -connecting our supply chain [from China to Brazil]."
The 61-year-old Taiwanese tycoon said Foxconn would lift workers' overall salaries, because some employees at its sprawling factories in Shenzhen had complained that they would not make enough money if hours were reduced.
Apple and Foxconn agreed last week to improve conditions among the 1.2 million workers assembling iPhones and iPads in a landmark decision that could change the way Western companies do business in China.
According to the agreement reached with Apple, Foxconn Technology Group, whose subsidiary Hon Hai Precision Industry (鴻海精密) assembles Apple devices in China, will hire tens of thousands of new workers, eliminate illegal overtime, improve safety protocols and upgrade housing and other amenities.
The move is in response to the independent Fair Labor Association's findings of violations of labor laws by Foxconn, such as allowing long work hours and unpaid overtime.
Foxconn now supplies 50 -percent of the world's consumer electronics, with its units assembling handsets for the industry's best-known names, such as Nokia Oyj and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd (華為), as well as Apple.
"The result we expect is additional hiring to cover the shortfall in labor hours following the reduction of overtime, as well as increased investment in automation equipment to reduce the future impact of continued wage increases in China," HSBC PLC analyst Jenny Lai (賴惠娟) said in a report.
Foxconn has also been diversifying into other Asian markets, such as Vietnam, partly to reduce its reliance on China, although the move has been limited so far.
"Vietnam's development hasn't been as fast as China," said Gou, who is Taiwan's third-richest man according to Forbes magazine.
He added that Foxconn saw Hainan developing as one of its manufacturing bases in the southern part of Asia, although some incentives, such as taxes and the availability of labor, still needed to be ironed out.
"We'll be breaking ground in Hainan at the end of this year and the facilities will be making high-tech products — that I can say, but as to what kind of products and other details, I can't divulge too much now," Gou said.


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Directed By – Orson Welles
Screenplay By – Orson Welles
Based on the Novel By – Franz Kafka
Cinematography By – Edmond Richard
Starring Anthony Perkins
118 min.
I haven't read Kafka's story, but if it's anything like the movie it's probably weird as fuck. This movie starts off by describing itself as "dreamlike" and that nicely explains how this movie works. This being my first viewing I know that I'll have to watch this one again to fully understand some of it. It wasn't necessarily confusing as much as it was disjointed. I don't mind that either, but there would be jumps and it would take me a second to reestablish where the movie and the story was. In fact I really liked this style. One second we're here and the next we're somewhere completely different. It became somewhat of a game of "Where is the story?"
Welles does an amazing job with a minimal budget and gets a great actor in Perkins to go along for the ride.
If anything The Trial is a test of the audience's patience and willingness to let a movie go where it will while have very little continuity to help the audience through. The movie isn't gibberish, it just takes the way we process movies and flips it on it's head.
All in all, The Trial is a feat in the idea that the cinema can be very much a dreamlike experience.
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The official transcript President Barack Obama's remarks at the White House on financial regulatory reform.
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Since taking office, my administration has mounted what I think has to be acknowledged as an extraordinary response to a historic economic crisis. But even as we take decisive action to repair the damage to our economy, we're working hard to build a new foundation for sustained economic growth. This will not be easy. We know that this recession is not the result of one failure, but of many. And many of the toughest challenges we face are the product of a cascade of mistakes and missed opportunities which took place over the course of decades.
That's why, as part of this new foundation, we're seeking to build an energy economy that creates new jobs and new businesses to free us from our dependence on foreign oil. We want to foster an education system that instills in each generation the capacity to turn ideas into innovations, and innovations into industries and jobs. And as I discussed on Monday at the American Medical Association, we want to reform our health care system so that we can remain healthy and competitive.
This new foundation also requires strong, vibrant financial markets, operating under transparent, fairly-administered rules of the road that protect America's consumers and our economy from the devastating breakdown that we've witnessed in recent years.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. derivatives regulator on Monday proposed maintaining the existing cutoff for U.S. firms to register as swaps dealers, backing off an earlier plan that would have subjected more firms to stricter oversight under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
The proposed rule from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission would set a permanent threshold for registration at $8 billion in notional value, stepping back earlier plans envisioned under Dodd-Frank to require more institutions to register as swap dealers.
That threshold was scheduled to fall to $3 billion by the end of 2019, barring intervention by the CFTC.
Twice before, the regulator had delayed the lower threshold from taking effect, arguing the matter merited further study.
Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo said making the higher level permanent would ensure the regulator can monitor the major swap dealers in the market without exposing smaller nonfinancial companies that use swaps to hedge risk from the burdens of registration and stricter oversight.
"The data shows quite clearly that a drop in the de minimis definition ... would not have an appreciable impact on coverage of the marketplace," said Giancarlo. "On the other hand, the drop in the threshold would pose unnecessary burdens for nonfinancial companies that engage in relatively small levels of swap dealing to manage business risk."
Giancarlo said he wanted to finalize the rule by the end of 2018.
At the same meeting, the CFTC also advanced a proposed rewrite of the "Volcker Rule," which had been first unveiled by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday.
That proposal is aimed at making compliance with the rule banning proprietary trading by banks simpler for both banks and their supervisors. The CFTC shares joint authority over the rule with four other financial regulators, who have or are expected to advance identical proposals.
Banks had criticized the original rule as onerous and subjective, and regulators have said the proposed version aims to be more workable without substantially weakening the core goal of limiting risky trading by banks.
However, liberals like Senator Elizabeth Warren were quick to criticize the easier rule, warning it could open the door to banks engaging in riskier activity while enjoying a government backstop.
Reporting by Pete Schroeder; Editing by David Gregorio


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Since the end of the nineteenth century, the clarity of light unique to St Ives and the romantic coastal scenery with its gigantic seas, rugged cliffs and wild moorland has seduced artists from around the world. The town itself, with its picturesque harbour and charismatic fisher folk, offered a wealth of subject material.
Visiting in 1811 and again in 1813, J M W Turner was among the earliest artists to spend time in St Ives, making a panoramic sketch of the town, harbour and coast.
As painting in the open air became increasingly popular during the second half of the nineteenth century, artists started to travel to rural areas throughout Europe and set up colonies. St Ives' reputation as an ideal place for the marine painter soon grew: its geographical position – far south and far west – meant a good balance of daylight hours and a mild climate, allowing artists to paint outdoors for most of the year.
The arrival of the railway in 1877 made St Ives more accessible and meant that paintings could be transported back to exhibitions in London; the town became a more practical place for artists to take residence. Over the following years, whole carriages would be hired as artists sent their paintings to the Royal Academy summer exhibition and other annual exhibitions across the continent.
By the 1880s, the pilchard industry was in decline and the net lofts and workshops of the fishermen became vacant. Artists arriving in St Ives soon started to convert them into studios; the first record of a studio dates back to 1885 when the Right Honourable Duff Tollemach moved into an old sail loft in Carncows Street, Downalong. Studios located near Porthmeor provided a rare opportunity to study rough seas from the comfort of inside, while studios facing the harbour allowed artists to observe uninterrupted views of the fishermen and harbour life.
The majority of the artists arriving in St Ives were educated and middle-class, many well connected to prominent artists teaching in London institutions. In the winter of 1883/4 Whistler arrived with his two students, English impressionist Walter Sickert and Australian-born painter Mortimer Mempes, to prepare a series of pictures for an exhibition on Bond Street. Mempes later wrote, 'Whistler himself loved St Ives: the boats, the sea, the fishermen – all fascinated him … St Ives he revelled in … he did much good work there.' In 1887 Swedish artist Anders Zorn visited the town and today his painting of St Ives harbour in twilight, hangs in the Louvre.
In 1887, James Lanham – a merchant who sold artists materials – opened the first gallery in his store and in the following year the first school of painting was opened in the Porthmeor Studios by Louis Greer and Julius Olsson, both prominent figures among the early artists. Olsson would soon become the leading seascape painter of his generation and the School would attract students from all over the world who came to study marine painting.
In 1890 the St Ives Art Club was founded by Louis Greer. The club gained a worldwide reputation and provided a social centre for an arts community which included musicians and writers as well as artists.
During the following decade St Ives evolved into a thriving artists' colony and the town become increasingly cosmopolitan with artists from countries such as France, Finland, New Zealand and the United States visiting regularly.
In 1920 Bernard Leach, who would become a leader in the world of potters and make St Ives internationally famous, arrived with the Japanese potter Shoji Hamada and built Europe's first oriental climbing kiln at Higher Stennack. Together they joined the ceramic traditions and techniques of the West and East, creating a modern vision and significantly influencing the development of the twentieth-century studio pottery movement.
In 1927, after marine artist Commander George Fagan Bradshaw suggested the creation of a society which would raise standards of the colony and hold exhibitions of works which 'mattered', the St Ives Society of Artists was formed under the presidency of Moffat Lindner. Members included many Royal Academicians, such as: the leader of the Newlyn School, Stanhope Forbes, Lamorna Birch, Julius Olsson, Adrian Stokes, Dame Laura Knight, Sir Alfred Munnings and Sir Stanley Spencer.
Considered a key moment in the development of modern painting in England, in 1928 Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood discovered the paintings of Alfred Wallis in St Ives. Initially a fisherman and rag and bone merchant, after his wife died Wallis began to paint without any tuition. Nicholson admired Wallis' 'primitive' authenticity, his use of unconventional materials and how his images materialised from a combination of memory and experience. Despite his discovery by Nicholson and Wood, Wallis was never accepted by the majority of St Ives artists. He died unaware that he would become an iconic figure for artists of the 'St Ives School' who aspired to achieve a similar authenticity in their own work, and that his paintings would someday sell for large sums of money.
In 1930, Moffatt Linder purchased the Porthmeor studios after they were put up for sale preventing them from being turned into shops. Several years later, during the spring of 1938, Borlase Smart and Leonard Fuller opened the St. Ives School of Painting within the studio complex. In the same year the Royal Academy accepted 80 paintings by St Ives artists, 48 of which were hung in the most prestigious viewing position on the line.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the sculptress Barbara Hepworth and her husband Ben Nicholson left London and escaped to St Ives with encouragement from their friend Adrian Stokes – an art critic who lived in Carbis Bay. They were followed by their friends Naum and Miriam Gabo. And so it happened that three leading practitioners of international abstract or 'constructive' art came to be living in the remote coastal town of St Ives.
The arrival of this generation of artists, who had lived and worked among the avant-garde European artists and whose work pursued abstraction, standing apart from strictly visual representations of scenery, brought new vigor to the town. St Ives-born artist Peter Lanyon received lessons in drawing and painting from Nicholson which would change his style towards abstraction and their influences soon outreached St Ives.
The Cornish town, over 300 miles from London, was becoming an increasingly popular and exciting destination for the artist.
Following the Second World War, the established group of painters, sculptors and potters in St Ives and their growing reputation attracted a succession of younger artists. This younger generation formed the new school of abstract artists for which St Ives would become famous and soon established the town as an important artistic centre for the avant-garde. Among the newcomers were: John Wells, Patrick Heron, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Terry Frost, Sven Berlin, Denis Mitchell, Roger Hilton, Karle Wesche, Paul Feiler, Bryan Wynter and Peter Lanyon – the only artist born locally.
In 1946, Lanyon, Wells and Berlin set up the Crypt group, in the process challenging the authority of the St Ives Society of Artists. This group of younger artists included Bryan Wynter and Guido Morris. Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Kit Baker, David Haughton, Adrian Ryan and Patrick Heron also exhibited with the group. Some of the most progressive and experimental art in Britain at the time featured in these exhibitions, held in the crypt beneath the St Ives Society of Artists gallery in the Mariner's Church.
In 1949 seventeen artists, including Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, and Peter Lanyon, resigned from the St Ives Society of Artists following a divide between the more progressive and the more conservative members. Three days later those that had resigned, among others, founded 'The Penwith Society of Artists in Cornwall', in memory of Borlase Smart who had died two years earlier. This new society embraced the modernists. Both societies still operate today.
In the 1950s these artists associated with St Ives gained international recognition for their nature-based approach to abstraction. St Ives' status as a modern art centre grew and the British Council decided to promote St Ives internationally. In 1950 Hepworth represented Britain at the Venice Bienalle, followed by Nicholson in 1954. The presence of Frost, Lanyon, Heron and Wynter brought more artists to the town, including Karl Weshcke, Treveor Bell, Brian Wall and Sandra Blow. During this time artists of international renown, including Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon, continued to travel to St Ives.
Enticed by St Ives' Bohemian reputation, in the late 1950s and early 60s, a number of poets, designers and writers gravitated towards the area. During this time many artists took drugs as means to unleash their creativity and a heavy drinking culture evolved.
While St Ives' art became known as a European form of abstraction attached to nature, American abstract painting had started to dominate the international scene. Several St Ives artists made links with America, including Lanyon and Heron who both successfully exhibited in New York: Lanyon in 1957 and Heron in 1960. During this time the famous New York critic Clement Greenberg, who played a significant part in establishing abstract expressionism in the modern age, visited St Ives.
For many the deaths of three of the colonies foremost artists in 1975 are considered as the symbolic end of the 'St Ives School' era: the deaths of Wynter and Hilton were followed by Hepworth who died tragically in a fire at her studio in May. At this time abstraction was considered by critical opinion as a form weakened by references to nature, conflicting with the St Ives artists' attachment to nature and abstraction. The rise of Pop Art had also deflected critical attention away from the town.
The opening of Tate St Ives in June 1993, where the work of the artists of the 50s and 60s is continually exhibited in a series of changing shows, renewed interest in St Ives' artists' colony.
Widely considered to be one of the most important art centres in Britain after London, today artists, sculptors and craftspeople continue to be drawn to the magic of St Ives. The town has remained a home to a community of artists and the cobbled streets thrive with acclaimed galleries exhibiting an array of traditional and contemporary artwork, craft workshops and working artist's studios.
Here are a few of the galleries you may come across as you explore St Ives:
Tate St Ives
Opened in 1993, in recognition of St Ives' significant presence in the art world, today the Tate St Ives features exhibitions of the modern St Ives School of painters alongside a colourful array of British and international modern and contemporary art.
The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden
Set within the beautiful home and garden where Barbara Hepworth used to live and work, the Barbara Hepworth Museum contains the largest collection of the 20th century sculptor's works.
Leach Pottery
Amongst the working pottery studios, where the internationally famous ceramicist Bernard Leach used to work and teach, an exhibition space showcases the work of national and international potters.
Millennium, St. Ives is widely acknowledged to be the premier gallery in the South West with an International reputation for the work on show.
Porthminster Gallery
Located in two separate spaces in St Ives, the gallery hosts a quarterly exhibition programme of original artworks by leading and emerging St Ives and British artists.
St Ives Society of Artists
In the light and airy space of the former Mariners church, St Ives Society of Artists exhibits a diverse mix of contemporary visual art work by both its members and invited artists.
Belgrave Gallery St Ives
A sister gallery to the Belgrave Gallery (est. London), Belgrave St Ives exhibits a collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art, including Urban Art, with regular exhibitions of work created by artists associated with the St Ives Modern Period.
The New Craftsman is the oldest established Art Gallery and Craft shop in St Ives


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By Josh Brown
CASSTOWN — Miami East hadn't been taking advantage of its chances.
Against Newton Wednesday, the Vikings turned that all around.
The Miami East baseball team sent 10 hitters to the plate in the bottom of the first alone, plating five runs in the inning to take control. Pitcher Austin Rutledge never let that control slip away, getting out of a pair of early jams and then retiring the final eight batters he faced as the Vikings defeated the rival Indians 10-0 in five innings on a cold, windy and drizzly Wednesday afternoon at Miami East.
After the Vikings (1-4, 1-1 Cross County Conference) lost 7-5 at Tri-Village Tuesday night — in a game where they had the bases loaded and none out in the top of the seventh and failed to score — the Miami East players held a team meeting. And coach Barry Coomes noticed a difference right away Wednesday.
"The kids had their own team meeting after last night's game. They talked for quite a while, about a half an hour," Coomes said. "They came out today all pulling for each other right away. They were rooting for each other and had each other's backs. It was nice to see. It's always good to see leadership from the juniors and seniors like that, taking some ownership of the team. And we had some hits in key situations today for a change.
"Last night's game was a heartbreaker. We were making a comeback and saw all that momentum go away in an instant. But they talked after the game and played well today."
Newton coach Nathan Kopp, meanwhile, could tell his Indians (6-2, 1-1 CCC) were in a funk right away.
"It was just tough all the way around," he said. "It felt like we didn't even want to be here today. To come in 1-0 in the league and 6-1 overall and then not show up at all, that's disappointing."
Miami East drew a leadoff walk and hit-by-pitch to start the game, and after a wild pitch moved the runners up to second and third, Brandon Wilson dropped an RBI single into center field. Kyle Webb followed that by poking an RBI single the other way, and a single by Scot Kirby loaded the bases.
Newton starter Wade Ferrell got his second strikeout of the inning for the second out, but a wild pitch brought in another run and Mitchell Vernon pulled a two-run single into right field to make it a 5-0 game. Troy Denlinger came on in relief to get the Indians out of the inning, but the damage had been done.
Rutledge, meanwhile, struck out four of the first six batters he faced. With two outs in the second inning, he took a lined shot off the leg off the bat of Newton's Charlie Walker, who reached with a single, then a walk and a balk put runners on second and third. Rutledge induced a popout to get out of the inning, though, and preserve the lead.
In the top of the third, Nash Lavy hit a one-out double, his second hit for the Indians, and a walk put two runners on again. A double steal moved them up to second and third for the second inning in a row, but Rutledge got back-to-back strikeouts to again get out of the jam — and he didn't allow another baserunner from there.
Rutledge finished with nine strikeouts and allowed two walks and three hits in the five-inning shutout.
"Austin had a great outing," Coomes said. "He was hitting his spots, kept his pitch count under control and the guys were behind him. We made every play in the field except one. We played much better defense."
In the bottom of the third, the Vikings put the game away.
Webb led off with a single, Kirby drew a walk and Vernon drew a one-out walk to load the bases. Omar Seleme worked an RBI walk, another run came in on a wild pitch and Cam Coomes hit an RBI groundout for the second out. Another walk put two runners on, and Braxton Donaldson brought them all home by blasting a two-run double off the fence in left, making it a 10-0 game.
"We dug ourselves a 5-0 hole after the first, and I think it was 8-0 before they even hit a ball hard," Kopp said. "It was just rough all the way around."
Rutledge finished the game off from there, setting the Indians down in order in the fourth and fifth innings to wrap it up before the ever-present threat of rain became a factor.
Newton will look to bounce back Monday at Riverside.
"Baseball's a game of failures. If you succeed three-and-a-half times out of 10, you're an all-league player," Kopp said. You just can't let your lows get too low or your highs get too high. You've got to stay even keel. We'll get back to work tomorrow."
Miami East, meanwhile, will play its third CCC game in as many days, hosting Ansonia today.
"It seems like we've been right there in games and then had one bad inning. It's been tough, but not today," Coomes said. "It was nice to play at home for a change, too. Now we've got our third league game in a row tomorrow — and that's a lot of league game. This was a good win for us."
Contact Josh Brown at (937) 552-2132, or follow @TroyDailySports on Twitter.


text: This singing bowl is made from the seven metals, and painted a bright green and gold. The Buddhist mantra, om mani padme hum, is painted around the outside of the singing bowl. The striker shown in the photo is included with this singing bowl. There are Buddhist designs on the outside and inside of this singing bowl, but the designs will vary from bowl to bowl- due to the handmade nature of this product. This jade green singing bowl was handmade and hand-painted in Nepal.


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Monday, February 1, 2016
Venice in February... Again
I have no intention of giving up on my other challenge, which turns 4 today, mainly because Venice is still my favorite city in the world and I can't wait to rediscover it though fantastic literature. I have in mind quite a lot of books, but I will definitely read these two: "La Tempestad" written in 1997 by Juan Manuel de Prada, translated into Romanian a few years ago, and which seems to present a totally different image of the Venice we may know, and the long awaited "Venice Noir", a selection of 14 stories set in Venice, which range from the ones depicting tourists during Carnevale to criminals trying to elude the law.... These two tomes should be quite intriguing, to say the least!
Do join me this month in my quest for the mysterious Venice!
4 comments:
- Alle Deac said...
Can't wait to see Venice...! <3
- February 1, 2016 at 4:55 PM
- Ally said...
You work really hard and then your dream will come true :)
- February 1, 2016 at 6:04 PM
- Bellezza said...
I won't be able to join you in your Venice in February plan (sad face) as I'm buried (figuratively) in many other classics at the moment. But, I am so looking forward to your Romanian challenge! I've already bought a most intriguing book, Description of a Struggle: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Eastern European Writing edited by Michael March. It has a few short stories by the author you recommended, Mircea Cartarescu, but also works by Ana Blandiana and Geroge Cusnarencu and Stefan Agopian. Plus, authors from Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, etc. So looking forward to it!
- February 2, 2016 at 5:31 PM
- Ally said...
M, you won't believe this, but on Monday Cartarescu will be in my town to launch his latest book and I am definitely going to see him :) He is amazing! Also, I met Ana Blandiana a few years ago and got her autograph, she writes beautiful poems. Glad you will be reading her, too!
- February 3, 2016 at 2:26 PM