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White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw. --former Rep. Newt Gingrich
[Former Rep. Tom] TANCREDO: If you belong to an orginization, called La Raza in this case, which is from my point of view anyway, just nothing more than a Latino, it's a counterpart, it's a Latino KKK without the hoods ...
SCHUSTER: A Latino KKK -- would you like to take this opportunity to apologize?
TANCREDO: (Laughs) No.
[Convicted felon G. Gordon] LIDDY: I understand that they found out today that Miss Sotomayor is a member of La Raza, which means in illegal alien, "the race." And that should not surprise anyone because she's already on record with a number of racist comments.
"My criticism about her comment and the speech that she gave wasn't that I think this lady is a racist," Graham said, later continuing: "There is no evidence of that, but this statement is troubling and I did tell her this, 'If I said it, it would be over for me. No matter how well-intentioned I was and no matter how much I tried to put it in context, that would be it.' And you all know that."
He added, "being an average, every-day white guy ... that does not exactly make me feel good hearing a sitting judge say that."
"... She needs to explain herself and she needs to understand she offended some people," Graham said." -- Sen. Lindsay Graham
This co-opting of the language of anti-racism and trivializing the inequities that people of color face, offends me. It offends me as a daughter and granddaughter of the Jim Crow South and as a black woman who, though spared the naked hatred and inequity that my forefathers and mothers faced, still knows exactly what real racism looks like. Equating La Raza with the KKK, pretending that "everyday white guys" are under the thumb of Latinas and other minorities is to willfully ignore our country's past and present. To hear Newt Gingrich tossing about the word "racism" in this context is an affront to anyone who once was denied the right to vote, or drank from colored water fountains, or who survived "re-education" in Indian boarding schools or internment in Japanese camps during WW II. or has ever been passed over for promotion or hire because of race, or has ever been stopped by police repeatedly merely for driving while black or Latino or Arab, or has ever worried about being caught on the side of the road in the wrong "sundown town" at night. It is an affront to the families of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and Medgar Evers and Emmitt Till and James Byrd.
[On a related note, some conservatives also like to toss around "lynching" to describe justified reactions to outrageous behavior like that of Republican politico Marcus Epstein (an employee of Bay Buchanan and a former speechwriter for Tom Tancredo who branded Sotomayor a racist) who was arrested for karate chopping a black woman on the streets of D.C. and calling her "nigger." Professor Tracey at Aunt Jemima's Revenge put the lie to that madness.]
The irony of all this sturm und drang on the right about Sotomayor, is that the litmus test for racial egalitarianism that is applied so forcefully to her is rarely applied to white, male candidates for positions of power. Despite this country's long and ugly history with sexism and racism, the right castigates the left for merely implying that a body overstacked with white, Protestant, hetereosexual males might not produce the best results for an increasingly diverse country. Sotomayor's is the lot of any cultural "first."
Let us look at this quote, for example, courtesy of Senator John Cornyn. "We need to know ... whether she's going to be a justice for all of us or a justice for a few of us." This is actually one of the more innocuous comments, nonetheless, it is telling for two reasons. First, it evokes the same type of bigotry that comes along every time a "first" is nominated, elected or appointed. Can John Kennedy be both Catholic and POTUS, or will his policies be dictated by the Pope? Can Keith Ellison uphold the Constitution and follow the Koran? And I remember questions about what Joe Lieberman would do if an emergency popped up during Shabbat. Now, it is can a Latina justice be fair to everyone, or just Latinas?
Second, the fact that these questions are not asked of white, male justices simply evidences the subtle racism (and probably sexism) of our society. Roberts and Alito were never questioned as to whether they could be fair to anyone but other white men. They were never asked how their ethnicity impacts their judicial decision-making. What I take from the previews of the Republican attacks on Sotomayor is an unstated belief that white men are neutral, while any minority is pre-disposed to favoring their own sub-group and therefore can't be trusted to be a neutral justice. Just to be clear. White people can be color-blind justices, Latinas cannot. Read more...
This inequity is not one that the right is likely to notice. They only seem to recognize perceived and manufactured slights against the status quo, the prevailing power structure that looks an awful lot like them.
Many black Americans hold conservative fiscal and social beliefs. So, during the 2008 elections, there was some debate within the black blogosphere about why African Americans are overwhelmingly Democrats when it would seem that increasing our presence in the other major party might buy us some power. Did LBJ buy our undying support for his party when he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Are we addicted to the government teat? Do we think that only white Republicans can be biased against racial minorities? No. Like other marginalized groups with a fealty to the left, we realize that no party that continually and vocally fights to preserve racial and cultural priviledge will ever really adequately address the needs of marginalized and oppressed people. Oh, the Dems certainly do have their problems and their "isms," but I have yet to see a mainstream Democratic political figure (save Geraldine Ferraro) make proud and public mockery of the racial history and present of millions of Americans, ignore the nuances of race and prejudice in American, and twist power on its ear so that the oppressors are the oppressed. As long as mainstream, conservative leaders voice beliefs like those above, most people of color will be leary of the party's warm embrace.
If Newt Gingrich and his compatriots cannot understand what Sonia Sotomayor meant when she said:
In our private conversations, Judge [Miriam] Cedarbaum has pointed out to me that seminal decisions in race and sex discrimination cases have come from Supreme Courts composed exclusively of white males. I agree that this is significant but I also choose to emphasize that the people who argued those cases before the Supreme Court which changed the legal landscape ultimately were largely people of color and women. I recall that Justice Thurgood Marshall, Judge Connie Baker Motley, the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, and others of the NAACP argued Brown v. Board of Education. Similarly, Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg, with other women attorneys, was instrumental in advocating and convincing the Court that equality of work required equality in terms and conditions of employment.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.
Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice [Benjamin] Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.
However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. Read more...
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The Regular Guys roast at the Funny Farm Friday night was scheduled for 90 minutes. It ended up going for more than two and a half hours.
That wasn't a bad thing. The insults flew around like a swarm mosquitoes in a swamp and bit their targets with regularity. But these mosquitoes contained no malaria. By the end of the show, there were no hard feelings. Because the point of roasts is to mock out of love.
The roasters of the Rock 100.5 quartet featured a heavy dose of stand-up comedians, led by Atlanta native Costaki Economopoulous.
The other roasters included show regulars such as Big Kenny, Herman from Dunwoody, Vinny Bucci, Steve Haigh and arguably the biggest name: former Braves pitcher and friend of the Regular Guys John Rocker. Sebas, who regularly does bits for the show, became a primary target. Marshall Chiles, who runs the Funny Farm, played toastmaster, surprised Sebas by throwing out dozens of gay jokes even though Sebas is not gay. (Most of those jokes are not even close to clean enough for me to print here.) Adam Carolla sent in an incredibly unfunny tape.
The owner of rival comedy club and a wannabe comic himself Jamie Bendall even showed up on foreign territory (and admittedly had a bad set.)
The event sold out weeks earlier and could have easily been placed in a larger venue. And since it was not taped for air, the naughty words came fast and furious.
In a quick summary, here are the basic insults:
Larry Wachs, the show ringmaster, is short, bald and Jewish but he says that every day anyway. Oh, and he's a bit of an autocratic jerk. Eric Von Haessler is riding on Larry's coattails, dresses like a homeless man, seldom shows up to public events and has been working on a documentary about Drivin' 'n' Cryin' seemingly forever. "Southside" Steve Rickman runs a bar in the middle of nowhere and sleeps with a gazillion women, even in his creepily advanced middle age. Tim Andrews is addicted to on-line porn and, well, got off pretty lightly, especially since he's now skinny and not chubby and has a hot girlfriend.
Here's a sampling of some of the roast jokes that I could print:
"No women on the dais. I wonder why. Maybe because they have something called Tuna Tuesday where only women can call in. It's like a sketch of what a bunch of misogynistic high school a****** would do. It's a very narrow demo. They have two groups rooting for them: white guys and slightly older white guys." – Costaki Economopoulous.
"I can see why George Stein [the DUI lawyer] and the Regular Guys get along. They both make money when you make a terrible decision in your car." – Costaki.
"Eric Von Haessler. .. you're the ugliest groupie for Drivin' n 'Cryin.' But at this point, they could use any groupies they can get." – "Southside" Steve (getting boos from Drivin' n' Cryin' fans before he had to say, "It's a joke! I love Drivin' n' Cryin'!")
"Every time I talk to you, I get where Hitler is coming from. And I have to say, Schindler would have crossed you off his list." – "Southside" Steve, about Larry.
"Larry Wachs.. he claims to be a die-hard conservative yet he's been carrying Eric for 15 years." – toastmaster Marshall Chiles
"John Rocker.. the arm of an all star and the mind of a Grand Wizard." – Chiles.
"Rocker embarrassed Atlanta more than Wayne Williams, " – Costaki, making an impressively old reference that actually got some laughs.
"Rocker was once a reliever. He still is but now it's at QuikTrip. He does the midnight shift. Go see him! He's the closer!" – Costaki, piling on Rocker.
"The last time a black man was smiling in front of so many white people, he was marrying a Kardashian." – Big Kenny, the token black dude on the dais.
"Eric… the original golden-voiced homeless man." – Big Kenny.
"Eric is producing a documentary on Drivin' n' Crying. What's the matter? Georgia Satellites wouldn't return your call?" – intern Steve Haigh
"Southside Steve. He has standards. Oh, wait. I mean STDs. Misread my notes." – Haigh
"Larry is newly on the single scene – if you like a short bald guy with crippling alimony payments." – Haigh
"Eric is like all the pretentious pompous know it alls I went to school with minus the school part." – Tim Andrews.
"Larry's been on the air talking about keeping Mubarak in charge in Egypt. He fears the domino effect. First, Egypt, then Iran, before you know it, democracy might show up on the Regular Guys show." – Eric Von Haessler, about his long-time on-air partner.
"Larry would say if I could be more like him, the show would be better. I remember the time, he said, 'You have to play porn backward on the air!' Then there's the day, he came in and said, 'I got it! I got them on tape talking to each other in the bathroom. That'd be great!" – Eric, referencing two skits that got the Regular Guys in trouble on 96rock.
"I'm locked into this show. I can't run. My house is upside down. My kid is in college sucking up dollars… I'm here under protest!" – Larry on the dais, minus the cursing.
"The other day, Steve heard on the news there was going to be a cold spell. Steve didn't come in because he didn't feel he could spell cold." – Larry, on Steve.
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By Rodney Ho, email@example.com, AJCRadioTV blog
February 13th, 2011
9:54 pm
It was Friday night – not Saturday. Costaki was never married to Caroline Rhea, and they're broken up now. That said, it was a great show. Yeah C'mon!
February 13th, 2011
9:56 pm
"Costaki Economopoulous, who is married to Caroline Rhea ("Sabrina: The Teenage Witch")."
They got married? Someone should tell Costaki.
February 13th, 2011
10:49 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Atlanta Rio , Rodney Ho. Rodney Ho said: Rock 100.5's The Regular Guys get roasted at The Funny Farm http://bit.ly/hCeSos [...]
February 13th, 2011
11:02 pm
The Regler Gahs are my favrite. Sumtahms Steve give me hot thrashes, but i luv em all. and tell larry i ain't no freeloafer.
February 13th, 2011
11:05 pm
I was there. Praise Allah. Almost three hours, but it seemed like one. Best entertainment ticket bargain in Atlanta by far. Laughed my butt off that long for $25 bucks. Would gladly pay for a video download if they offered it.
February 13th, 2011
11:06 pm
Costaki Economopoulous is one of the most untalented, '1st thought,' unfunny,
lazy "comedians" this side of the Saturday matinee show in Branson, MO.
Oh, and Willie B. was my first gorilla.
February 13th, 2011
11:08 pm
Larry tried too hard to be funny. He's not, and it's obvious he gets jealous of Tim when he gets cheap laughs on air.
February 13th, 2011
11:43 pm
Haven't been able to listen to the show in a while. Didn't know Larry got divorced. The regular guys do what they do well. But it is not as funny when Tim is not on.
February 13th, 2011
11:51 pm
Too bad it wasn't over an open flame. Hasn't the world heard enough of these d-bags?
February 13th, 2011
11:58 pm
Hey Ugh, you are in no way forced to listen, so what does it matter to you. Apparently a good number of people find their show funny. So here's some advice. In the morning, don't put your radio on 100.5. There, you don't have to hear anymore from these "d-bags"
February 14th, 2011
2:31 am
They're still good, but not quite as good as they used to be. Tim is the most underrated person on the show.
February 14th, 2011
4:00 am
I can't wait for EVH's documentary to come out. It should be good.
TRG are still the best morning show in town. It's not even close. Who else is there? The Bert Show? Frank Ski? Lonnie Donnegan & The Breakfast Bunch? Cindy & Ray? Come on, people. Let's be serious here. TRG aren't awesome but they're better than the alternatives…by a mile.
February 14th, 2011
6:25 am
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February 14th, 2011
7:40 am
I'm suprised the blacks aren't complaining about this
February 14th, 2011
7:52 am
So what's the deal with Wachs getting divorced? Been out of town for a few years and have only heard it hinted at. Kelly get tired of his schtick?
February 14th, 2011
9:02 am
Also surprsied the brothaz have not caught wind of this yet.
February 14th, 2011
9:09 am
Larry looks very presidential in these photos. Could this be the beginning of a presidential run for the boys in 2012? Vote REGULAR GUYS in 2012. The USA needs THE REGULAR GUYS because the current morons in the White House are running the USA into the ground.
Vote REGULAR GUYS or else we're stuck with muslim Barry and brain dead Biden for another 4 years.
February 14th, 2011
9:29 am
Remember The Regular Guys before Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction?
Atlanta still loves'em, but man I wish they could go back to those days!
February 14th, 2011
9:41 am
I didn't post the above posting Feb 13 11:02. The four regular guys are just my friends.
Rodney since my video open the TRG Roast it seems that would of been one of the things you mention in this article. It's on Norma Lee Show YouTube The Regular Guys Roast.
February 14th, 2011
9:49 am
I've seen steve with some high quality chicks in the last year–very top shelf stuff–what's his secret?
February 14th, 2011
9:53 am
Why do TRG's even bother with NORMA LEE?
February 14th, 2011
10:00 am
Larry is one goofy looking jew is he not?
February 14th, 2011
10:13 am
So these guys even talk too much when they're not on the air. I guess they enjoy hearing it!
February 14th, 2011
10:13 am
Those guys are talentless, racist, unfunny douche bags.
February 14th, 2011
10:18 am
Hannah banana
February 14th, 2011
10:25 am
cause norma hot & they're are talent guys. larry should go after her
February 14th, 2011
10:25 am
Who cares about these guys? Have you ever noticed those who get roasted are usually has beens or no names in an effort to bolster their presence?
February 14th, 2011
10:42 am
"Southside Steve. He has standards. Oh, wait. I mean STDs. Misread my notes." – Haigh
HAHA we laugh because its true.
February 14th, 2011
11:00 am
Now maybe Larry got a chance with Norma since he and Kelly break up.
February 14th, 2011
11:26 am
Only #1 way for Larry to fine out. Rare lady. money not important
February 14th, 2011
11:32 am
If Larry got divorced, it's so he could marry Nancy!
February 14th, 2011
11:35 am
no he loves norma. nancy his sister
February 14th, 2011
11:41 am
Maybe Larry's wife got tired of him selling his soul to the Tea Party. Eric's political mind is interesting to listen to , but Larry is a jackass
February 14th, 2011
11:54 am
doing what he believes in is NOT wrong. Larry tea party might help everyone.
February 14th, 2011
12:10 pm
These bozos (mainly Larry Larry and Daryl) are still on the air? Thank goodness for a MP3 player and music downloads.
February 14th, 2011
12:20 pm
The fact that these idiots have an audience saddens me, but judging by graduation rates and test scores in local area public schools, it's not surprising.
February 14th, 2011
12:30 pm
I thought south side Steve was in the hospital after a failed spelunking expedition in the vagina of 52 year old Kim Zolciak…ye' come on
February 14th, 2011
12:37 pm
oh norma lee wouldn't have larry. he cusses to much.
February 14th, 2011
12:53 pm
TRG is the best morning show in Atlanta. They are 4 different guys that each bring a certain something to the show. I laugh out loud every morning when listening to them. I did not get to go to the roast but I hope they have it online somewhere. I would be all for extending TRG to noon on week days. Oh, and less Norma Lee would be great. I'm sure Larry doesn't want to encourage his stalker.
February 14th, 2011
1:12 pm
TRG the best show . They need to add Norma to the show. Larry can ignore her every day.
February 14th, 2011
1:43 pm
I just want to know how these comments go from TRG to Norma?
Who gives a flying leap about Norma Lee? TRG rocks!
February 14th, 2011
2:19 pm
Congratulation TRG. Please quit all this posting about me or putting my name posting .Enough roasting for one day guys !! thank you
February 14th, 2011
2:30 pm
Tim Rhodes should talk about other's relationships. Tim, how'd that go marrying a stripper? Last long? Still drinking? Where do you work now? Thought so.
February 14th, 2011
2:49 pm
What Steve has is that he smells really, really good. Also, he treats every girl like she's special. I'm not his "type" but when I met him at 37 Main in Buford last year, he was super sweet.
February 14th, 2011
3:11 pm
What happened to Tim Rhodes?
February 16th, 2011
12:21 am
Steve is a d-bag that has no use for people who can do nothing for him or that don't have a vagina.
That's why he was sweet to you, Girl……
I wonder if I've seen you at 37 main. I've been to many a Rock Mafia night.
February 16th, 2011
3:40 am
Why not show a little respect for Steve and the other Regular Guys? Steve interested in Norma only. She's all dried up.
February 16th, 2011
3:44 am
these guys suck. that little jew boy is rather cute tho.
February 16th, 2011
6:34 pm
100.5 should take them off air. I don't listen to their trash


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Transtec Actualizes Linux Server on Shanghai CPUs
Computer vendor Transtec has actualized its Calleo 330 server series on the new 45-nonometer Opterons from AMD. All Calleos now come with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.
AMD promises better virtualization performance and less power consumption at higher demand and the same processor rate for its Shanghai Opterons. Transtec has meanwhile pulled all its Calleo 330 series servers from the Barcelona over to Shanghai.
The configuration webpage for the Calleo servers still show the older, second generation processors. Hence, prices are probably not up to date, and it's unclear whether their statement that they "deliver your server with two of the chosen processors at no additional cost" still holds for the two new Quadcores. Transtec promises this magazine an update soon.
AMD announced the availability of its showcase chips in a recent press release. The Intel competitor also presented a recent YouTubevideo that showed a disturbance-free migration of a virtual system from an Intel server to an AMD server.
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Mozilla Releases a New Firefox
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Carnegie Mellon researchers say 3 million pages could fall down the phishing hole in the next year.
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Knoppix 7.4 Released
Klaus Knopper announces the latest version of his iconic Live Linux system.
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Heartbleed Bleeds On
According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
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DARPA and NICTA release the code for the ultra-secure microkernel system used in aerial drones.
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Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
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"Money is quite possibly the most misunderstood commodity in the world. We all need it. Most of us want more of it. Few of us have enough of it. And a great many of us hate the damned stuff. It's been called the root of all evil, dirty money, and filthy lucre to name just a few of its nicknames. For the past two thousand years people have equated poverty and spirituality. The picture in our minds of holy men and women wearing sackcloth and ashes makes it almost impossible for us to believe that we can have both enlightenment and wealth. After all, "A camel can pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man can enter the kingdom of heaven." or so we've been told our entire lives. Jesus threw the Money Changers out of the temple. Monks and nuns lived lives of poverty in monasteries for two thousand years, and in Asia Buddhist monks have been carrying their rice bowls, begging for food, for even longer."
But is that the reality of money? Can we spiritualize something we have come to view as evil? Barbara says, "yes, we can and we must."


text: A Perdue truck, loaded with chickens, overturned in Ohio County Monday morning, causing injuries to the driver. According to KSP, 37 year old Greg Pendley of Morgantown was entering a curve on the 17000 block State Route 136 when he lost control of the trailer and struck a guardrail and utility pole before landing on its side. The trailer was loaded with about 5,000 chickens. Pendley was trapped until he was extricated by the Hartford and Beaver Dam Fire Departments. He was flown to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville for his injuries.


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Developing Combination Microbicide Products
Consistent with advances in HIV/AIDS treatment regimens that now combine antiretrovirals from different classes, experts anticipate that microbicides based on a combination of ARVs may maximize their protective effect:
- Combination microbicides could target HIV at different points in the life cycle.
- HIV is likely to be less resistant to multiple drugs.
Where HIV may be resistant to one drug, another drug with a different mechanism of action delivered in the same product may be effective.
The use of newer ARV combination treatments has proven to strongly diminish the residual replication of HIV and is therefore much more effective in preventing the development of HIV drug resistance. Scientists anticipate the same may hold true for ARV combination prevention methods such as microbicides.
Combination Products in IPM's Pipeline
The most advanced combination microbicide in IPM's portfolio contains the NNRTI dapivirine (TMC120) and the CCR5 blocker maraviroc in a long-acting vaginal ring which would release the drug slowly over the course of a month. Researchers from the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) and IPM are collaborating on a Phase I trial to evaluate the safety of the dapivirine-maraviroc ring, the first trial of its kind.
IPM also is developing a product that combines maraviroc and the NRTI tenofovir.
Learn more about how ARV-based microbicides work.


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Our other real complaint was with the main dining room. This was the first time I've tried open seating and didn't fully understand. We presumed that we would have "our table" available each evening at a time we designated. Not so. It was try your luck and show up and wait in line or race to phone by 8 am of day preceding day for dinner reservations (reserve on Monday morning for Tuesday dinner). On 1st formal night, Monday, against our wishes we were seated with table of 8. Service was atrocious and food not edible (whether due to screaming children around us or to poor kitchen execution we don't know). So, we reserved tables in Tamarind for 2 nights and Pinnacle a 3rd. We ate in cabin with room service for 1 night and returned to main dining only for Friday formal night. The Friday evening was delightful with table for 2 (since I had raced to phone by 8 am Thursday for reservations). The other food service was great. No complaints.
Our limited shore excursions (private cabana at Half Moon Cay) and (snorkeling/stingray encounter at Grand Cayman) were well done and very enjoyable.
We would urge HAL to avoid the "Costa Maya" port. The area was filthy and we returned immediately to the ship.
On board entertainment was outstanding. Guitar player was a pro and great at accepting requests for tunes from 60's through current adult play. Loved the shows in the theater. The musical performances were professionally done with a very talented cast. The other bands around the ship were equally enjoyable.
We did elect the voyager wine package (7 bottles, 2 tastings and dinner in Pinnacle) and found it excellent value. We noticed that some waiters were not thrilled when we asked for ice water instead of cocktails poolside.


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Oiler Draft Notes
In their first 10 NHL drafts, the Oilers had only one success come from the college ranks: Glenn Anderson.
Since we're getting closer to draft day, I've decided to focus on some home truths about the Oilers on draft day and fan bias that shall never change. Among the subjects we'll talk about in the next few weeks are injuries and their impact on the draft, fans and their almost universal belief that the Oilers organization is a disaster at the draft, Barry Fraser and how much he delivered and then taxed the organization, Kevin Prendergast and his terribly misunderstood draft record, the enormous difference between draft day facts and what we remember, and a few other items about this years draft.
We begin with some interesting tidbits from the past:
- Kevin Lowe was told the 1979 draft (via telephone) was to start at 10am. He expected a call from Alan Eagleson around 10:15 to tell him which team had selected him in the first round. Lowe waited, and waited, and waited. By 10:45am the phone hadn't rung and Lowe's mom said "My God, they're not drafting him." A mixup in the phone lines caused a one hour delay, but the Lowe household was not aware of it. At 11:10, Eagleson's secretary called with the news Edmonton had chosen Lowe—21st overall
- Glen Sather was impressed by Mark Messier as he played AGAINST the Oilers in the 78-79 season (WHA). Dennis Sobchuk was a pretty good player and legend has it he thought he could take the kid in the Cincinnati Stinger uniform. Messier apparently had a slight edge in punches. 12-0. Sather noticed and picked him 48th overall in the deepest draft in history, 1979.
- Barry Fraser was responsible for the Oilers final WHA draft (1978) and 1979-2000 (he made the Mikhnov pick, and minutes later Lowe traded for the pick that became Brad Winchester).
- Jari Kurri very likely would have gone much higher than #69 in the 1980 draft but it was widely thought Kurri would not come over to NA. Inside info gave the Oilers an edge and they selected one of the very best to ever play for them.
- D Jim Playfair, #20 overall in 1982, and D Selmar Odelein, # 21 in 1984, were both defenders the Oilers chose in the hopes they would develop into rugged blueliners. Injuries sidelined both careers.
- C Jesse Niinimaki, #15 overall in 2002, and C Marc Pouliot,#22 in 2003, were both centers with size the Oilers chose in the hopes they would develop into big centermen who could play on the top 2 lines. Injuries impacted both careers.
- Oilers LOVED their 1988 second rounder Petro Koivunen. He was a center who had a solid first season after his draft year (named to the Finnish team for the Pravda Cup), but he never made it. He did play in Finland, though, and did have some good seasons.
- Raimo Summanen was a more highly rated player than Esa Tikkanen. Oilers brass were quoted often as saying Summanen might be the LW Edmonton needed to throw onto the Gretzky-Kurri line.
- Michel Riesen, first round pick in 1997, had a terrific camp in the fall of 2000 as part of the Bulldog line (so named for their successful 99-00 season in Hamilton) with Brian Swanson and Daniel Cleary. He played 12 games with the Oilers and was traded to St. Louis
- G Alexandre Fomitchev (#231 in 1997) was easy to scout. He played for the St. Albert Saints, as did Fernando Pisani and Mike Comrie.


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"More pulp fantasy superhero action"
This is the second book in the Grimnoir trilogy. I was quite taken with Hard Magic, so I pushed the next book up on my queue. This is an alt-history world in which some great magical "power" came to Earth in the 1850s, granting magical superpowers to a small percentage of the population. Now these magical "Actives" are being persecuted by the government; in fact, the conspiracy to round up and inter or eliminate all Actives is what drives much of the action in Spellbound, though the real threat is something much worse.
Most of the characters are returnees from book one, from Jake Sullivan, the smarter-than-he-looks gravity-controlling bruiser and war hero to Faye Vierra, the super-smart, super-fast Okie girl with teleportation powers, ninja fighting abilities, and super-ADD. Most of our other (surviving) friends from Hard Magic are back too, and as the 30s roll on, Correia continues to insert historical figures into his magical alt-history. Interestingly, it looks like there will be no World War II, or at least a very different one, since we learn here that Hitler got put up against a wall in Germany when he first starting making trouble.
But that's okay, because in this version of history, the Japanese Imperium is becoming nigh-unstoppable. In addition to a massive military and superior technology, they also have the most powerful Actives in the world, notably their elite Iron Guard, whom we met in the last book. Chairman Tokugawa, the Big Bad of the previous volume, makes a cameo here to let Jake Sullivan know that things are only going to get worse.
Correia does a good job of weaving the two threats simultaneously throughout the book: the treachery and abnegation of civil rights threatening the knights of the Grimnoir from their own government, and the cosmic horror that is apparently approaching Earth to destroy the source of all magic, and the Earth. He adds a new main character to the cast in the form of an Iron Guard gone ronin.
Mostly this is another action adventure with loads of cinematic fight scenes, culminating in a battle in Washington D.C. against a 70-foot-tall demon. (Really.) Like Hard Magic, Spellbound may purport to be an alt-history fantasy, but it's really a superhero novel.
It's also the middle of a trilogy, which means you'll miss a lot if you haven't read the first book, and not much is resolved at the end of this one. But it continues to be highly entertaining high adventure, not terribly deep but great fun. Correia is starting to let his politics creep out a bit more (FDR is apparently going to be the Worst President Ever), but it's mostly held in check until the villainous leftist fall-guy's monologue at the end, where he practically twirls his mustache and cackles villainous leftist laughter.
Notwithstanding the straw-leftists, though, it's still a fun series. And Bronson Pinchot - you know, I hated Perfect Strangers, but he makes an excellent narrator!
"Not Austen's best, but still Austen"
I have now read five of Austen's six novels. Persuasion seems to me to be the most outright romantic of those I've read, meaning that while the entire trajectory of the plot, like all of Austen's novels, was to bring the designated couple together in the end for their Happily Ever After, there wasn't a lot else to it.
Anne Elliot, a single woman who has "lost her bloom" at the ripe old age of 27 (!) has a vain, foolish father and a couple of vain and selfish sisters, but somehow has herself grown up to be wise, discerning, self-willed, and charitable. She's definitely one of Austen's most likeable heroines.
Seven years ago, she had an offer of marriage from a young man named Frederick Wentworth. Despite their being very much in love, Anne was persuaded against the marriage (hence the title) by a family friend and substitute mother figure, Lady Russell. F.W. went off heartbroken, joined the Navy, and came back rich.
Anne, of course, is still in love with Captain Wentworth. Captain Wentworth is still in love with Anne. Will these two star-crossed lovers somehow manage to get together again?
SPOILER: Yes.
(It's Austen. Duh.)
This was Austen's final work, and apparently it's many peoples' favorite Austen. I cannot say it was mine. The simple nature of the love story left few surprises, and while of course there are the usual misunderstandings, false "entanglements," misapprehensions about who's in love with whom and who's going to get married, etc., these are all very obvious red herrings to the reader, as Austen practically spells out everyone's true motive from the beginning.
That's not to say I didn't enjoy it - I always enjoy Austen. But Persuasion was lacking the thing that made Pride & Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Emma so delightful: humor.
That's not to say there was no humor at all (setting it above Mansfield Park, in my estimation). Anne Elliot's father, Sir Walter, is a perfectly silly man who's amusing because he takes himself so very seriously.
But the humor is biting; Sir Walter doesn't have any amusing lines, he just goes around sniffing at those beneath him, acting vain and prideful in the face of financial ruin, and generally being an aristocratic fop with zero self-awareness. Likewise, Anne's sisters and her father spend the latter half of the book kissing up to some distant noble cousins, the Dalrymples, who themselves are dull and uninteresting and only important because they've got blue blood, and thereafter making a ridiculous fuss name-dropping their connection.
So, the foibles of Anne's family are somewhat amusing in an ironic way, and there are other quotable lines, but it's basically a story about one sensible, good-hearted woman in imminent danger of spinsterhood getting properly married despite her spendthrift father and superficial, self-centered sisters.
Given Austen's own sad fate as an unmarried woman who died at 41, one cannot help suspecting a certain amount of self-identification with this heroine more than any other.
The themes of the novel are persuasion (when it's good to allow yourself to be persuaded by others, and when it's not) and a bit of proto-feminism (maybe that's just my reading of it) as Anne and Captain Harville argue over whether men or women feel more deeply and more constantly.
""But let me observe that all histories are against you--all stories, prose and verse. If I had such a memory as Benwick, I could bring you fifty quotations in a moment on my side the argument, and I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
Persuasion has all the usual Austen virtues - fine prose, wittiness, and sharp social criticism - and an assortment of characters just large enough to make for an interesting cast, with heroes and villains in the romance wars. But the simplicity of its plot and the missing humor element can't make this one my favorite.
"Book 3 in the zombie apocalypse-superhero mashup"
I started reading the Ex-Heroes series because I have a geeky affection for zombies and superheroes, but Peter Clines is growing on me. The second book was a little better than the first, and the third book, while more of the same story-wise, continues to improve. It's still just a comic book in novel form, but like any ongoing series, if you stick with it you start to get attached to the characters and conversant with the continuity.
The heroes guarding the walled enclave of Los Angeles, surrounded by several hundred thousand "Exes," or zombies, ended the last book with a new arch-enemy: Legion, a superhuman who has the power to spread his consciousness among an ever-growing number of zombies and control them. In Ex-Communication, Legion continues to try to get at the survivors, but then a new Big Bad appears. St. George, Captain Freedom, Stealth, Cerberus, and Zap have to defeat an honest-to-God demon lord from hell.
The addition of actual magic into the Ex-Heroes' cosmology does it no great damage; it was already a comic book world. St. George continues to be the Superman of the series, and Stealth (now his girlfriend), the Batman. Zap is the Green Lantern, Cerberus is Iron (Wo)Man, and Captain Freedom... well, guess.
Clines spins a fun yarn, and it's about as consistent and coherent as a superhero/zombie novel can be. There are the usual twists, reveals, a little more worldbuilding, and some clever power stunts, but at this point the books are just new installments for fans of the series. Hopefully Clines will expand this universe and stretch out a little before it gets stale.
The audio performance is almost the best part about this book; the multiple narrators give each hero (and villain) a distinct voice, and greatly add to the entertainment value, making it even more like listening to a comic book being roleplayed with perfect earnestness.
"Lemur-people vs. Dinosaur-people"
A World War II destroyer is sent back in time and joins lemur-people in a war against dinosaur-people.
If that concept sounds awesome to you, then you should read this book. If that concept sounds silly to you, then I've just told you everything you need to know.
Now, to be more precise, it's not entirely clear whether the USS Walker goes back in time or sidewise, but either way, the ship, on the run from a vastly superior Japanese fleet, winds up in an alternate timeline in which humans never evolved. Instead, they find themselves in a South Pacific inhabited by "Lemurians," who sail the seas in gigantic aircraft carrier-sized "home ships," and are currently facing an invasion by the savage, saurian "Grik"... who have sailing ships that are direct copies of 19th-century vessels from our timeline. Obviously, the Grik at some point encountered other humans who wound up in this timeline.
The USS Walker's crew includes a large cast of characters notable mostly for their individual personality quirks, like any war movie, and the Lemurians also get some named characters who will obviously be important in future volumes. The Grik, at least in this book, are just a bloodthirsty horde of nameless monsters, and all we learn about their culture is that they're insanely violent and driven to conquer. They are so mindlessly violent, in fact, that it seems incredible they could even take the time to learn how to operate sailing ships. Hopefully they'll get fleshed out a bit more in future books.
Into the Storm is the first volume in what appears to be a long series. There is nothing deep about it, but the writing, while nothing remarkable, was straightforward serviceable storytelling with brave men (and Lemurians) fighting a vile foe, and a lot of naval tactics, resource management, and inter-species diplomacy. I found it great fun, enough that I'll continue with the series unless and until it loses steam.
"Murder in San Francisco"
Daniel Brasher is the scion of a super-wealthy San Francisco family who is trying to sever his difficult, snooty mother's apron strings. Having walked away from the lucrative trade of managing the family fortune, he's now a psychologist working with violent ex-cons. Not that he's donned sackcloth and taken a vow of poverty - he still has his money, and as the book begins, he's making plans to start a private practice in a nice luxury office suite.
Much of the human interest involves his group of felons whom he meets with once a week as part of the terms of their parole. They are your usual assortment of poor, mostly non-white people who have made bad life choices, but each one has their little facets and secrets which are unveiled to give them a bit of added dimensionality. Much of the book takes place in their group counseling sessions, which of course turns out to be more significant when Daniel suspects that one of them is a killer.
Without spoiling anything, the killer is out to avenge a perceived injustice, and naturally Daniel turns out to be involved personally. Most of the plot moves in predictable fashion - you can tell when a "twist" is coming by how much of the book is left - but despite it being both somewhat formulaic and implausible (I really don't think the SFPD are going to keep asking a civilian who also happens to be the son of one of the city's most prominent families to keep coming to crime scenes where a serial killer may still be lurking about), I found it entertaining most of the way through. Only at the very end did it become so formulaic as to make me wish it had ended a chapter or two earlier.
Not a particularly thrilling thriller, but the plot moves nicely with a diverse range of characters, and being an expat Californian, I appreciated the San Francisco setting.
"Not Heinlein, but a passable substitute"
Nothing much original here - it's another wannabe Starship Troopers. But it does a good job being what it is, even if B.V. Larson is no Heinlein.
The premise is simple: Earth was forcibly inducted into a Galactic Empire, in which every planet must have something of trade value or they get blown up. The only thing Earth had was its people — specifically, its soldiers. Yes, another interstellar civilization in which humans turn out to be the meanest fighters 'cause we're just so savage and violent. So young men and women (as is typical of modern military SF, this is another imagined future in which men and women fight side by side in undifferentiated roles) join Earth's Legions to go to distant, exotic planets, meet interesting aliens, and kill them.
The protagonist, a slacker named James McGill, is sitting around in his tiny shared apartment playing video games until his mother tells him the government dole has run out. This is his impetus to go join the Legions. He fails the test for the higher status, more glamorous Legions, because he's too much of an "independent thinker" (i.e., a wise guy with poor impulse control), but just when he's about to give up, he finds himself recruited into Legion Varus, which has a reputation for doing a lot of hard, dirty, "real" fighting. With almost no training, McGill finds himself given a gun and sent to a planet occupied by lizard men. The rest of the book consists of McGill repeatedly getting himself in trouble and navigating the petty politics of both the Legion and the Galactics, in between bloody battles in which half the time he and his buddies wind up dead.
Oh yes, they have "Revival Units," i.e. respawning. So when a soldier dies, his backed-up memories are dumped into a newly-grown body. For McGill, this is disturbing and disorienting and quite upsetting the first couple of times it happens, so the author tries to emphasize that infinite respawning does not come without a cost, but McGill also comes to understand that some of his superiors have been killed and regrown over and over and over, for years, which certainly gives them a different take on life.
Besides the respawning, it also turns out that the Galactics monitor all mercenary battles and score it according to arcane rules which, it turns out, are heavily biases against Earth. The real plot consists of McGill finding out how Legion Varus's battles on Steel World may determine the fate of the Legion, and of Earth itself.
So, very heavily reminiscent of a RTS game. Steel World has a lot of action and cleverly-deployed aliens and technology, and decent characterization. (I found McGill himself the most annoying - even after being killed a few times, he's still kind of a whiny, entitled punk.) Some pieces of the plot were a little implausible, and at times the characters' actions stretched credibility just to introduce some artificial tension, but overall it was a fun, pleasant read to fill a few hours when you are in the mood for yet another Johnny Rico clone.
"Mutants on the metro!"
A nuclear war in 2013 wiped out most of the population of the world, and the remnants living underground in the Moscow subway tunnels believe they are the only humans left alive. Each station in the old metro is now its own little city-state. The main character, a young man named Artyom, is sent on a quest to another station. Along the way, he meets Nazis, Communists, Satanists, monks, cannibals, cultists, flying monsters, and mutants. The ending is ironic and grim, as befits a Russian novel taking place after the bombs fall.
Apparently a big cult phenomenon in Russia, which has spawned sequels and video games, Metro 2033 reads a lot like an old-school post-holocaust fantasy, with a man of the new world journeying through the wreckage of the old one, missing the references that are left for the reader to recognize. It also reads a lot like an old-school dungeon crawl, which makes it both repetitive and fun, though I'm afraid the repetitiveness caused me to tune out at several points in the story as I listened to the audiobook.
Artyom's quest basically consists of going from one station to the next, finding each ruled by some twisted microcosm of the old world (the Red Line, the Fourth Reich, the Watchtower, etc.), escaping, and moving on, acquiring and losing companions along the way.
It's not hard to see how this would adapt well to a game. The writing was often psychologically deeper than your typical mutant-haunted post-apocalyptic tale, but the descriptiveness of the prose seemed to fall a little flat in translation. It's definitely a little different in tone from a Western sci-fi novel, even though it conforms to the genre fine. Had it been a little bit less of a dungeon crawl, I would probably have enjoyed it more, but after the third or fourth narrow escape from underground morlocks, I began to simply become impatient for the climax. I suspect, however, that there are a lot of references and in-jokes that didn't translate well into English.
I was not a big fan of the narrator, who was not terrible, and had a properly deep, sonorous Russian voice, but his tone was flat and he frequently dropped his voice so low that I could not hear his words while driving unless I turned the volume all the way up.
"So this guy wakes up as a bug..."
So, this guy Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning as a cockroach. (Actually, the Wikipedia article has an interesting discussion about how Kafka never specified exactly what kind of bug Gregor turned into). His family freaks out a little, as you might expect, but then they sort of come to accept the situation. Gregor feels increasingly isolated as he cannot really communicate with them and he can no longer support them as he once did. Coexisting in a tiny apartment with a giant cockroachinsect becomes increasingly burdensome for the family. Eventually Gregor dies (implied, that he wills himself to death to spare his family further burden) and they're all relieved. The end.
Sort of a downer. I think it loses a lot in the translation, as apparently Kafka's prose in the original German was much of the reason for The Metamorphosis's high literary status.
This is a surrealistic piece which, technically, you could probably call "magical realism." (No explanation is ever given for Gregor's transformation into a giant bug, and no one seems curious about how such a thing could happen. They're just all rather distressed by the whole thing without ever really talking about it.
Frankly, as a story it was a bit flat and anti-climactic, and if there is some deeper meaning, I'm afraid I missed it. Would probably enjoy it more if I read it in the original German.
"A Steampunk post-apocalypse"
Alastair Reynolds has impressed me with his intellectual sorta-hard-SF space operas, but left me a bit cold in terms of characters and storytelling, the grand scope of his plots dwarfing the human elements. He's a bit like a colder Charles Stross who is not trying quite as hard as Stross does to impress you with his cleverness, even though he's very clever.
Terminal World is a departure from his usual space operas - it's set on one world, that vaguely resembles Earth but isn't, in a post-apocalytic far future. The setting is kind of steampunkish, but steampunk done in a hard-SF way, and more post-human than the usual pseudo-Victorian frippery.
Quillon is a doctor living in a city called Spearpoint. Spearpoint is, as its name implies, a towering sliver of civilization stretched up into the atmosphere, surrounded by a wasted, cold and drying planet. Spearpoint is divided into "zones" that determine what technology works there. At the highest levels are the Angels, who still enjoy advanced technology, while at lower levels are places like Neon Heights, Steamville, and Horse Town. Some places, electronics stop working. Other places do not even allow internal combustion. And there are some zones where even humans can't survive.
At first, the characters seem mostly uninterested in how this state of affairs came to be, because apparently it's been like this for thousands of years, and is now the accepted status quo. Indeed, we learn that despite the obvious remnants of what was once a great, highly technological civilization, most people have little awareness of history or a world beyond their own.
It turns out Quillon is an Angel, or a former Angel. Angels can't normally survive in the low-tech lower levels, but he was part of a special infiltration project that went wrong and left him isolated among hostile humans (or "post-humans" as the Angels call them). When the Angels come after him, he goes on the run. His flight eventually takes him out of Spearpoint altogether, and across the wastelands which are occupied by Reaver-like "Skull-boys" and a rival civilization known as SWARM that exists entirely in the air, aboard a great fleet of zeppelins.
So, Reynolds manages to give us sky pirates and zeppelin battles, and a world-saving adventure that does not really uncover the secret behind Spearpoint and its world, but gives us a few glimpses. At times this felt like one of his epic space operas, albeit confined to a single planet, and at other times, it was more like a steampunk adventure. (Zeppelin battles!)
I liked Terminal World - it feels complete, even with a somewhat vague ending. Clearly Reynolds could write more books set in this world, but it doesn't seem like he plans to.
Alastair Reynolds is probably one of the smartest and best writers of hard SF and space opera today, the kind of SF that actually uses physics and big ideas. Unfortunately, his writing still lacks an essential something to make him one of my favorites - it's as if there is always a certain lofty distance between author and creation that one can sense in his work. His characters are intelligent and interesting, but they are largely plot puppets. Still, this was going to be "three strikes and you're out" but it was more of a base hit, so I'll keep reading him.
"A mystic detective in New Orleans"
Claire DeWitt is the protege of Constance Darling, the "greatest detective in the world." Using tea leaves, I Ching, home-brewed philosophy, and a book by a French detective named Jacques Silette, studying under Darling was like apprenticing as a wizard. Then Constance Darling died, leaving Claire as her heir to the title of greatest detective in the world.
It's hard to say how tongue-in-cheek Claire is being when she calls herself that, but she states it in a flat, no-nonsense manner that makes people believe it because she seems to. And she really is, as it turns out, freakishly good at what she does, though I Ching and tea leaves notwithstanding, whatever supernatural help she receives is as likely to be the result of the drugs she does not hesitate to sample as the spirit of her departed mentor.
Claire is hired to find out what happened to a New Orleans lawyer who has disappeared, by his nephew. One of Claire's first observations is that clients rarely actually want you to solve their mystery for them, and this proves to be true. Claire's case takes her through the still flood-devastated streets of New Orleans, uncovering trouble and secrets people would rather she not uncover, and when she solves the case, no one is happy. Pretty much as she expected.
Claire's voice is dry, wise, and occasionally sarcastic. She operates on intuition, mysticism, and drugs. She's tough but not a superwoman, and she seems to have connections everywhere. The other characters are equally vivid and flawed and contain multitudes, even the missing lawyer who is never seen on-page.
This was a quick read that is just your basic mystery with a quirky lady detective on the surface, but contains hidden depths. I'll definitely be reading more in the series.
"It is what it is, and it's kind of awesome"
This book is cheesy big guns blazing entertainment, and I loved it. I am giving it five stars not because it is the best of the best, but because it was fun and action packed and it's an example of an author doing nothing more and nothing less than entertaining his audience without pretense.
Warbound is the third book in the Grimnoir trilogy, so you want to read the first two. It is set in an alt-history in which a magical being came to Earth in the 1850s, and its presence bestowed magical powers on 1% of the population. Most people get a single power, so there are "Brutes" (super-strength), "Heavies" (gravity controllers), "Cogs" (gadgeteer geniuses), "Readers" (telepaths), "Fades" (turn insubstantial), "Torches" (pyrokinesis) and so on.
Basically, despite the "fantasy" element, these are period superhero novels. And the author devotes many words to describing the battles in full-page multi-panel glory. It's hard to do superheroes (an inherently visual genre) justice in written form, but Correia does a pretty good job. At times he reminded me of his fellow Mormon author Brandon Sanderson, who's also known for his intricate "magic systems" and long descriptions of characters figuring out how to use their powers in creative new ways, but Correia's plots are less contemplative (which is not to say simpler) and more about the action.
That said, major suspensions of disbelief are required, but no more than with most epic or urban fantasy.
In the conclusion of the trilogy, war with the Japanese Imperium is imminent, but only the knights of the Grimnoir know that Chairman Tokugawa has been replaced by an impostor. His "son," Iron Guard Toru Tokugawa, knows of the deception and the corruption of the Imperium's magical training schools, Iron Guard, and Shadow Guard, and so has reluctantly joined the Grimnoir.
Since this is a rising Japan in the 1930s, guilty of pretty much the same atrocities Japan was committing in Asia at that time in the real world, this causes a lot of tension with the Grimnoir, who have been sworn enemies of the Imperium. Toru manifests all the usual tropes about fictional samurai: hard-headed, death before dishonor, all non-Japanese are weak and lazy, grudging respect for Westerners who are brave warriors even if they are ignorant barbarians, blah blah blah.
A summary of the plot would be kind of pointless: if the premise does not interest you, it's not gonna interest you, but Correia does do a very good job of working within the parameters he has established and then treating it seriously. Powers work a certain way and everything follows from certain first principles, and when some of the big twists are revealed, more pieces fall into place, including some that have been developed since the first book.
Is this is gonzo gun porn and superhero slugfests? Yes! And awfully darn fun. But awfully damn intelligent for a historical superhero novel as well. And there is a conclusion to bring this trilogy to a definitive close, while still leaving open the possibility (I would guess, based on Correia's prolificness, inevitability) of a new series coming down the pike.
This is not the best written or deepest or most original series. It's just fun and entertaining. Did I mention fun? Okay, so I am a superhero nerd. But in all seriousness, for what it is, the plotting, pacing, characterization, and worldbuilding were all far above the somewhat low bar I have for this kind of book. Hence, 5 stars. Would read more Grimnoir, definitely.
And an additional 5 star rating must be given for Bronson Pinchot. I HATED Balki and "Perfect Strangers"! But he is one of the best audiobook narrators ever! Seriously, he nails every single accent, does men and women both flawlessly, and probably puts more life into Correia's characters than exists on the page.
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Given the stress tensor σ = {0,2,0;2,0,0;0,0,0}
i) Find the principal stresses and their associated directions,
ii) find the surfaces on which the maximum tangential traction occurs, and the value of this traction.
For i) I found the eigen values and eigen vectorsto be λ = 2,-2,0 and for λ= 2 the vector is [1,1,0] for λ= -2, [-1,1,0] and for λ= 0, [0,0,1]. Now in order to populate the principal stress tensor do I know which value goes where based on the vectors? Trying that I get {2,0,0;0,-2,0;0,0,0} is this correct?
for ii) I know that this should occur at 45° to the principal stress, but I'm not sure how to apply that, or how to populate the stress tensor.
Any help, especially on ii, would be appreciated. Also if possible use an example of a matrix with less zeros in it. I feel this problem is simplified so I want to be sure I understand the operations.
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