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The first big and very unique moment in this show comes with the Jam after MFMF. Very cool and spacey stuff here, a must listen! The space drops nicely in to Gumbo, which is standard, and then a well executed segue in to a raging Maze. Boogie and Roggae are both pretty nice, but don't go out there as much as one would like.
Set two isn't quite as good as one would hope, judging by the setlist. The Sand is a monster, but spends a lot of time meandering around, never truly finding its place until Michael Ray comes out. Still a great track, but nothing to write home about. Makisupa > CTB > Funky Bitch is definitely the highlight of this set. Not much can be said about a Hood encore with Ray on trumpet... just listen to it, immediately.
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BRIDGEPORT - The fire victim who lost three children in a fatal Bridgeport apartment blaze can speak, but wants her attorney present while being questioned by the Ohio State Fire Marshal's office.
Michael Duchuesne, fire marshal spokesman, said the mother, Caroline Jean Owens, is now able to speak after weeks of recovering from burns she sustained in the March 17 fire.
However, investigators were informed Owens wants her attorney present before talking with them, he said.
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Motorists on Friday drive past the burned out apartment building in downtown Bridgeport where a blaze killed three children and injured their parents in March.
''We don't believe her counsel is a defense attorney.
"But they don't want her to speak with investigators without her counsel present,'' Duchuesne said.
Duchuesne believes the lawyer is not a defense attorney because the fire is not considered suspicious by the fire marshal's office, while no criminal activity is suspected. The interview with Owens is considered an integral part of the investigation which remains open. Investigators already have interviewed the father, Joshua A. Looby, who also was burned, but not as badly as Owens.
''The cause is undetermined at this time,'' he added.
Previously Duchuesne said investigators could not rule out the fire being electrical in nature. Duchuesne said he did not know if Owens still was recovering in a Pittsburgh area hospital, only that he knows she is able to speak.

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WINTERSVILLE - Game on.
Weir High quaterback William Larch connected with Clarence Bennett for the second time, this one from 19-yards out and, after the two-point conversion failed, Indian Creek held a 26-13 lead with 2:26 left in the third quarter.
"I am pleased with how our kids answered their scores," said Redskins head football coach Andrew Connor. "When we were challenged, our kids responded well."
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ON A ROLL -- Indian Creek's Blake Roar carries the football during Thursday's season-opening game against Weir High.
-- Mike Mathison
SCORING SIX — Weir High's Clarence Bennett scores Weir's first touchdown of the season, a 10-yard pass from quarterback William Larch, in the third quarter of Thursday's 52-13 loss to the Redskins at Kettlewell Stadium in the annual OVAC?Kickoff Classic.
-- Mike Mathison
That response was 26 unanswered points and a 52-13 victory Thursday at Kettlewell Stadium in the annual OVAC Kickoff Classic.
"First, I want to start off my complimenting Weir High and coach (Tony) Filberto," said Connor. "Maybe the score at the end did not indicate it, but they've gotten better. You can tell they worked hard in the offseason. I think they are going to be a much better football team.
"I think they played with a lot of passion and I think they have turned the corner and are headed on an upswing."
Indian Creek senior Blake Roar scored on two consecutive possessions on runs of 7 and 5 yards for a 40-14 lead with 11:39 left in the game. He finished with 114 yards and three scores on 14 carries.
"I liked that our kids came out and battled," said Filberto. "They weren't intimidated at any point. They played hard on every play of this football game. The team we played is a better football team than us tonight. Who knows if we played them tomorrow. But, our kids battled and I'm proud of them.
"I thought we played great defense in the first half, but we couldn't get much offense going. We came out in the second half, our defense still looked good and our offense really started to click."
Indian Creek scored three times in the second quarter in 4:44 to take a scoreless ballgame to a 20-0 halftime cushion.
First-year senior starting quarterback Jonathan Woodbury scored on a 1-yard plunge and a 60-yard jaunt 77 seconds apart and Tyler Lathem found paydirt from the 1.
"I thought for an opening game, this could go a long way in helping us develop into a good football team," said Connor. "There were a couple of times that there were some cracks and we could have broke, but we held together and that's the sign of a team that's trying to mature around some new faces in some new places.
"I'm proud of their effort. I thought we played well.
"We shot ourselves in the foot a few times and you cannot do that. We had a lot of penalties and a lot of things where we our own worst enemy. We emphasize and preach to the kids that you can't have unforced errors and we had a lot of unforced errors tonight."
Indian Creek's defense held the Red Riders to 62 total yards on 43 plays.
"I think we were this far away from a lot of big things," said Filberto. "And, those are things we can correct and build on and be ready to play football next week.
"We have a good football team."
Weir High history was made when senior Alyssa Shingle booted home the PAT after Larch's first touchdown toss to Bennett with 6:37 left in the third quarter. It was the first point by a female in Red Riders history.
The Redskins totaled 415 yards (320 on the ground) on 63 plays.
"Some of the unforced errors that we made had nothing to do with whomever was on the field, they were our fault," said Connor. "We have to clean that up. I understand that in the opener, you have those mistakes. But, at the same token, you don't like to see that many of them.
"I think that overall, the coaches and the kids, did their jobs.
"The first thing is you win the opener. The second thing is you get everybody in the opener and the third thing is you come out of the opener without any injuries and it seems like we did that.
"We're proud of the kids. Now, we get an extra day to prepare for next week."
Indian Creek visits East Liverpool next week, while the Red Riders host Harrison Central.
Indian Creek 52, Weir 13
Weir 0 0 13 0 - 13
Indian Creek 0 20 13 19 - 52
IC: Woodbury 1 run (kick failed) 6.25
IC: Woodbury 60 run (kick failed) 5.08
IC: Lathem 1 run (Roar run) 1.41
W: Bennett 10 pass from Larch (Shingle kick) 6.37
IC: Roar 10 run (kick failed) 5.53
W: Bennett 19 pass from Larch (pass failed) 2.26
IC: Roar 7 run (Beatty kick) 1.41
IC: Roar 5 run (Beatty kick) 11.39
IC: Eakle 6 interception (kick failed)
IC: Sinsel 6 run (kick failed) 4.18
RUSHING: Weir 22-24 (Davis 5-17, Spencer 1-5, Wypasek 2-(6), Larch 16-(-6). Indian Creek 48-320 (Roar 14-114-3td, Harton 1-3, Wigal 1-8, Dailey 4-11, Connor 3-20, Puorro 7-31, Sinsel 5-14-td, Woodbury 9-83-2td, Pavlic 1-1, Lathem 3-35-td.
PASSING: Weir 7-21-38-2x-2td (Larch 7-20-38-2x-2td, Wypasek 0-1-0-0); Indian Creek 10-15-95-0-0 (Woodbury 9-13-79-0-0, Mazar 1-2-16-0-0).
RECEIVING: Weir: Bennett 3-26-2td, Rice 1-0, Davis 2-4, Frankovitch 1-8; Indian Creek Goodrich 4-37, Haught 1-10, Puorro 1-24, Dailey 1-3.
FIRST DOWNS: Weir 7, Indian Creek 15
PENALTIES: Weir 9-72, Indian Creek 17-130
FUMBLES: Weir 3-1; Indian Creek 1-1


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So if I set the counter as 0, the script then updates the value as 1 but next time when the script runs it checks the counter is set to 0 and again shows the value as 1.
I need to save the previous counter value with respect to thee country name as both the values are not fixed. Also there are
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Fear not, rodeo fans. The Colville Pro-West Rodeo is scheduled for its usual Father's Day weekend in June. Because of trepidation over the recent Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) outbreak in Washington State, the Colville Panorama Rodeo Board met June 2 to decide whether or not to proceed with the annual event. According to Panorama President Dave Baskins, the rodeo will go ahead as planned.*See the complete story in the 6-8-2011 edition of the S-E.


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What calculations were done to discover the size of all the planets?
Planets in our own solar system are measured directly. You can measure their angular diameters with a telescope and their distance by measuring the maximum angle they make from the sun.
More recently the accurate distance to the inner planets have been measured by radar
For exoplanets, the technique used depends on the aspect of "size" being measured.
Masses of exoplanets are estimated by using doppler spectroscopy to determine the acceleration of the planet's parent star caused by the orbiting planet, while diameters are estimated by observing the percentage of a the parent star's light that is obscured by the planet as it crosses between the star and the observer.
Masses are actually minimum masses and diameter can only be determined for planets which "transit" their parents. Both estimates require knowledge of the star's properties—for mass, stellar mass, and for diameter, stellar diameter—both of which are estimated from observation of stellar properties (spectra, known distance, etc.) and stellar evolution.


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The Disney prequel to 'The Wizard of Oz' hauls in $80.3 million at the box office.
The Wizard of Oz may be all smoke and mirrors, but the guy delivers.
Oz the Great and Powerful, Disney's prequel to The Wizard of Oz, claimed the biggest debut of 2013 with $80.3 million, according to studio estimates from box-office trackers Hollywood.com.
The opening was $10 million above most analysts' expectations and the third-biggest opening on record in March. The Hunger Games opened to $152.5 million, and Alice in Wonderland collected $116.1 million.
MORE: The weekend's top 10 films
Riding the crest of solid reviews — 61% of critics gave it a thumbs-up, according to the survey site RottenTomatoes.com — Oz wasn't challenged this weekend, a typically slow one as studios gear up for spring releases.
Fans were more supportive: 82% of moviegoers said they liked it, a good sign for the movie's legs over the next month. The film will need positive word of mouth to help offset its $325 million budget.
David Mumpower, analyst for Boxofficeprophets.com, says Oz took advantage of a slow slate at theaters.
Oz flourished during a "box-office lull created by an onslaught of low-budget horror films and little else," he says. "Oz the Great and Powerful was well-positioned. Its performance is no surprise, given these marketplace factors. We can say with certainty that the run of disappointing 2013 has stopped."
The updated fairy tale Jack the Giant Slayer took second with $10 million, followed by Melissa McCarthy's comedy Identity Thief with $6.3 million.
The revenge thriller Dead Man Down took fourth with $5.4 million, meeting the lower end of expectations. The Dwayne Johnson action film Snitch rounded out the top five with $5.1 million.
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On the back of our fridge is a drainage tube (I assume it's for the ice maker; correct me if i'm wrong). Whenever water drains out of it, it leaks. I've identified that the source of the problem is a sort of coupler in the middle of the tube. (I'm not sure what it's called)
I've fiddled with it a little bit but I can't seem to get it to stop leaking. Is there a trick to tighten it? Or should I buy a new one? (If so, anyone know where I can get one?)


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Can anybody point to a man page or specification that defines the Universal Naming Convention (UNC)? I'm looking for the original source of the idea
An early mention of UNC is in US patent 5363487 (bottom of column 29, an fig. 9), filed in 1989 by Microsoft (thanks to John Summerfield for the reference). A later patent, US 5341499 (by IBM), affirms that "the Universal Naming Convention was jointly invented by IBM and Microsoft for use in their jointly developed Local Area Network (LAN) software products". This is very likely to mean LAN Manager.
There is a smidgen of Unix inspiration in the UNC, in that it removes the need for drive letters, allowing network drives to be referenced directly instead of having to first assign a drive letter (and make sure not to have a conflict, with only 26 or 32 drive letters). But Unix used a more flexible mount point system from almost day 1, where a network drive can be attached at any point in the directory hierarchy and not at the top.
Unix acknowledges the UNC in that it allows
Note that the rationale mentions "other systems", not "historical usage". This strongly implies that
Extending local file systems to be part of a larger network via '//hostname/directory/filename' notation dates back to at least Apollo/DomainOS (1981), though it wasn't called UNC at the time. Apollo/DomainOS could be used with SysV and BSD Unix environments.
See chapter 1 in http://www.typewritten.org/Articles/Apollo/005488-02.pdf
As I remember it (and Wikipedia concurs), UNC is a term that originates from Microsoft Windows.
In fact, I don't think I've ever heard before that it originated in UNIX.
Furthermore, I can't find any references to UNC in either POSIX or any RFC. Every reference I have found elsewhere is in relation to Windows. And the singular reference you cite referring to UNIX as the origin also cites Windows as the origin.
There's a game they play on Sesame Street...
This lack of reference is the best evidence I can find that leads to the conclusion that the term did not originate in UNIX. Granted, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. But it seems more probable that there's an error in PC Mag's definition than that there's a gaping omission in the POSIX specification and that in all this time there was never an RFC defining UNC, much less even mentioning it.
But I'll gladly down vote my own post if I'm wrong.


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Looks nice it'll be a rotator just for fisheye lens right ? Some few technical infos about it ?
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This is too good to be a April's Fanotec Fool right??
Will it be available without the rotator? I have NN180 waiting to match
hopefully for the Tokina ATX 107 also
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Hi Nick, the NNu R1 looks awesome, I'm sure everybody will love it.
A very useful is if it allows to roll of the camera on the fly, i.e. to rotate the camera from portrait to landscape, to take the benefit of wide angle on diagonal. For example one takes 4-6 around with Sigma 8mm on 1.6 crop with camera in portrait orientation then see than is need for camera to be rolled in landscape or at 60¬? to capture a wide 180¬? on diagonal for the reggion of the pano where is better to be no seam, say at the bich and in the cases of moving water, waves on the sea/ river, but also moving people in action journalistic VR sport events, mean the panographer can choose a reggion of the pano where 180¬? horisontally to be from a single shoot. Note, In PTGui or Hugin the shift for that shot must be the optimised appart from the other shots.
You know, ultimate panohead opens the way for ultimate panos
you hopefully do not block the focus-ring
Have to contradict here, Mike!
I do hope it will block focus, too.
Otherwise the Nikon/Sigma 8mm (don't know Canon version) rotates freely and you have to tape the focus-ring to keep the focus and camera fixed.
(not really nice to have a rotating camera on top of a 6m pole)
And: really don't need autofocus feature with 8mm fisheye.
Well, Nick ?
Hehe Klaus,
NO I for myself need the focus once in a while.
When doing images in tight places Iset the focus to 0.3m F10-F11.
Also: when you look at the scale, you find out, that different F-stops reqiure differen focus setting.
I am not speaking of AF.
You know the T/MRings from Martin & Tobias: they are slim and just fit onto the lens without
blocking anything.
If you want: tape your lens, if not: use the focus ring. It´s up to you.
I personally hate stuff that constricts me.
The ATX 107 is very sensitive just a couple of mm before the OO mark.
Since Tokina (and all other manufacturers) neglect the uasage of the scale in every mean, it IS important to
make up your own focus setting.Sometimes just AF an object in the right distance with the right AF-point and shoot your
pano MF then with that setting.
In designing the lens ring, I put highest priority to safety of lens. Since the lens is NOT designed for clamping or to support the weight of the camera in any way, I have great reservation of lens ring products at the beginning.
Well, I hear customers say they want a compact light weight lens ring pano head. So I decide to release a lens ring that is safer (causes least stress on lens barrel) to use. My lens ring has the greatest area of contact between the lens and ring. It has a plastic insert between the metal ring and lens. Lens ring is installed closest to the camera body (center of mass). All this reduce stress on lens body.
From reports of many pro panographers, it is very safe to use the ring. R1 has been use to take pole panos at a few meter above ground without any problem.
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I want to write the introduction of a story
It goes like this ,
A guy...
some bitterness,
some talks,
some love ...
a break up
the break up
what should I write here ?
I want to write the introduction of a story
It goes like this ,
A guy...
some bitterness,
some talks,
some love ...
what should I write here ?
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It's a matter of style, if you're writing a story.
The two answers favoring "a breakup" are right in a way. It's certainly consistent. If you weren't talking about fiction, I'd agree with them.
But I don't agree for a story.
If you end with "the breakup", I think the feeling is that there is one deeply significant breakup in the story. You're building tension.
For example:
A man. A woman. The breakup.
Is different than:
A man. A woman. A breakup.
The first one promises an interesting story about one really interesting breakup. The second, to me, sounds weaker and less interesting.
Try this: read both of those slowly and dramatically. Imagine they're the spoken words for a movie trailer. Which movie would you rather see? (Although this is probably useless for someone who's not a native speaker, unfortunately.)
This is definitely just a question of style and of very slight emphasis. It's not that one is wrong and one is right. But the safe choice is chose the indefinite article for all of them; no one will question that. I think the definite article promises a better story, though.
In the interest of parallelism in your list, and given that you are using the word "some" to indicate an indefinite number, it seems reasonable to conclude that you want to use an indefinite article. If that reasoning sounds sensible, then "a" would probably be the proper choice here. I also think it would read better that way, but that's just my opinion.


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Since I started my adventure with endurance activities and I got my first heart rate monitor my training has changed forever. First heart rate monitor I bought while living in UK. It was one of the cheapest monitors from one of the chain stores. It had very basic functions, and one of the most useful at the time was a backlight. As you are exercising in a dark studios it's important to be able to see how fast your heart is beating.
After some time I bought the new model , and this time it was Polar RS400. One of the biggest advantages comparing to the previous one was coded data transmition and summary after each workout. From that time I could change the activity from cycling to running as I bought Running sensor. Another interesting feature was internal storage of workouts so I could always go back to the past trainings. Also I started using the website to transfer all the data to the 'virtual diary' and check my progress on a various graphs. This platform works also as a motivational tool, you can check all you did but also your work load. You can compare your trainings and plan the future ones. The design is bright and colorful and easy to work with.
As I started road cycling i bought my third heart rate monitor. This time I chosen Polar RCX5.This one fully satisfies my needs at the moment. Apart from heart rate monitor with all it's functions I have a speed and cadence sensor for my bike. That gives me a perfect image of my possibilities and helps to change the way I train in order to get better results. Heart rate sensor is also suitable for swimming as this particular model was created for triathlonists.
Data transfer to the website is quicker. I can definitely say that since I'm working with my third heart rate monitor I'm having more fun both with Spinning® , running and cycling trainings. In the end when it comes to the conscious training - control, fun, motivation and progression are key elements of a success. And well chosen heart rate monitor is helping a lot.


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New Miller International Initiative at Rutgers Law School Sponsors Israeli-Palestinian Conference on Environmental and Legal Issues
A trip to Israel in March by a Rutgers School of Law–Newark delegation produced the first of what is expected to be a series of relationships with university and law school counterparts around the world.
The delegation consisted of John J. Farmer, Jr. who at the time was dean of the law school and is now on temporary assignment as Rutgers' senior vice president and general counsel; former dean Professor Stuart Deutsch, director of the law school's global and international programs; and alumnus Paul S. Miller '62. A retired pharmaceutical industry executive, Miller has established the Miller Family International Initiative Fund to support international opportunities and policy research at the law school as well as faculty and student exchanges. The programs of the Initiative will enhance the ability of Rutgers Law graduates to practice on a global scale.
In its inaugural effort, the Miller Initiative will sponsor the Arava Alumni Peace and Environmental Network Annual Conference on May 9–11, 2013 in Beit Jalla, West Bank Palestine. Located in the Negev Desert, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies conducts research on desert environmental and water issues. Affiliated with Ben-Gurion University, the institute grants graduate degrees to students from Israel, Palestine, Jordan and other countries who study and work together in the Negev.
Paul Miller said, "Our sponsorship for the Arava Institute Alumni Annual Conference will provide $25,000 to support the work of Arava graduates from many nations who show that Jews and Muslims and people of other religions can effectively work together in peace to conquer important environmental and water problems."
On their trip to Israel, Dean Farmer, Professor Deutsch, and Paul Miller also visited with officials at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Herzliya, the law school at Haifa University, and the Minerva Center for Human Rights at Hebrew University. Rutgers–Newark Law and the Miller Family International Initiative are working to build relationships with law schools and other institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union. The creation of the Initiative was announced in February by Rutgers University President Dr. Robert L. Barchi at the annual Paul S. Miller Distinguished Lecture.
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Western Digital 2TB Internal Hard Drive - Refurbished for $89.99 + free shipping
Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EADS 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
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Anyone have an idea what the warranty period on these drives is? Newegg's page says 3 years. I find that hard to believe considering the new ones only carry 2 year warranties.
@cobracat03: Where do you see three years? I see 90 days:
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@mastahanky: It's in the product overview down toward the bottom. I see the tab where you found the other now.
@mastahanky: 90 days = no thanks.
Seriously though, these drives work great... if they work out of the box. There seemed to be a high DOA rate, but the ones that survived the initial install seem to work great with little to no problems.
The Promo code WART139 does NOT work for Free Shipping.
If you check the other WD Green drives that are refurbs, they tend to have a high failure rate and difficulties with abysmally slow write speeds. Pass.
I love refurbs (in general), bought my last two TVs that way, just bought a Dyson vacuum that way, so it's not even a shelling out of coin for a refurb, but I just have never ever bought a refurbed hard drive...something about it being my data and a huge hassle when they fail, etc.
With that said though, it appears to be a good deal (as of recent history with hard drive prices anyway), so more power to you if you're brave enough to go for it!
@mlramos2003: it says "off warranty", so I would imagine that code is good for the extended warranty, although I claim no insider knowledge on whether or not that's true.
If you watch the deals, prices like this are starting to become more common. Often on non-refurbished 2TB drives. Sometimes, if you're lucky, on a faster RPM drive too. I believe that the WD "green" line is in the 5400 RPM range (give or take a few hundred).
It's not a bad deal, but slow RPM + refurbished, I think I'd wait.
So, what is the alternative ?
I have been waiting for the prices for HDD's to come down, and they have for the most part.
Want to get another Samsung 2TB.(new)bare drive but have read since Seagate took over their production, they are not as reliable as the pre-flood's.
Any ideas ?
Last week Newegg had a new Samsung 2TB for $99. I've also wondered if these drives are the same as the "pre-flood" drives. I've read some bad reviews of Seagate drives so I'd also be open to suggestions to what brand of hard drives are considered the best.
Great price but I personally avoid "Bare Drives" now. I've had about a 75% failure rate on these damn things after about a year. Buying "Retail" drives I've had no issue. Sure you have a warranty but your data is still effed.
Warning: these drives DO NOT WORK in Netgear ReadyNAS devices. I found this out the hard way last year and spent almost 12 months getting a working "compatible" model as a replacement for the array. I believe the successors to these WD20EARS and WD20EARX both work without issue. My array has been up and functional for almost 4 months now with 4 x WD20EARS.
That being said, I have the old "hot spare" WD20EADS installed in a tower at home and it has been ultra-quietly generating very little heat while humming along as a mirrored backup of a chunk of the NAS media library.
I bought a Samsung 2TB.bare drive, pre-flood from Newegg and got a 3 yr. warranty with it. Use it as a back-up system in an external enclosure.
Never had a problem with it.
Granted, now that Seagate has taken over I'm kinda wondering how it stands now, if something went wrong with it.
Looking to get another 1TB.+ HDD to put in another enclosure, to store extra programs and other stuff I don't use on a regular basis.
This way I won't clog up the 1TB. in the 'puter.
I bought a refurbished western digital hdd and to this day it's still running smoothly. I have it connected to a home media network so it's always on. and i bought it 2 years ago. ha so I'll be getting one of these. I may even get two. only because for some reason Western digital hdd are becoming more expensive. Probably cuz they're reliable. lol
@johnfbeas: You'll find bad reviews of every hard drive manufacturer; they all have bad runs. Seagate was an excellent choice for a long time, since they offered 5 year warranties (I think they're at 2-3 year now). I think the most important factor would be the "vintage" of the drive, rather than the manufacturer. For instance, most of my WD drives have run for 5-6 years before I retire them...except for the time I got 3 DOA drives in a row from a shipment at Fry's a few years ago. It depends on when the machines were last calibrated, how carefully the shipment was treated, etc etc.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The impact of the University of Kansas Cancer Center in Kansas City being designated as a National Cancer Institute is being felt at facilities around the region, including the Stormont-Vail Cancer Center in Topeka.
KU's Cancer Center is linked to more than a dozen other medical facilities in Kansas and Missouri through the Midwest Cancer Alliance. Topeka's Stormont-Vail is part of its Partners Advisory Board.
Oncologist David Einspahr with the Stormont-Vail Cancer Center says the KU Cancer Center's NCI designation makes it an exciting time for doctors around the state. Through creation of the Midwest Cancer Alliance, the new opportunities available at KU's Cancer Center will trickle down to Topeka.
Dr. Einspahr says the access to the latest trials and medications mean Topeka facilities will be able to participate on a whole other level of study they had not previously been able to. Dr. Einspahr says new study drugs and treatments and trials for which KU is now eligible will be open to patients in Topeka.
In addition, the application process saw KU expanding its staff of oncologists, many of whom bring their expertise right to the patients at the Alliance facilities. Dr. Einspahr says that is a big relief for patients who want to seek out second opinions or additional consultations without having to go through the hardship of traveling to another city while they are sick.
Dr. Eiinspahr says the designation not only puts Midwest Cancer Alliance facilities on the front lines of finding new breakthroughs, it also offers something immeasurable to patients - hope. He says being able to offer additional options can be the difference between giving up and continuing the fight.
St. Francis Health Center, Kansas State University and the Kansas Bioscience Authority also are members of the Alliance.


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While there are sophisticated and efficient steganographic schemes with images as cover available, I am yet ignorant of the existence of any fairly efficient and secure schemes with texts as cover. This state of affairs is IMHO unsatisfying, since the communication channel may under circumstances only be able to transfer printable natural language texts, and that in rather small volume, due to constraints posed by the warden.
To be concrete on the efficiency issue, I would desire that the ratio of stego bits to covertext bits be no less than, say, 1/50. For references to existing schemes, if any, or else novel basic ideas that could lead to the development of such a scheme (if possible user-friendly and not too hard to implement), I should be very grateful.


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Arrested: Richard McGauhey, 48, 11 Briarwood Village Court, Colliers, possession of crack cocaine, Tuesday.
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Arrested: Michael P. Chapman, 60, 246 Lincoln Ave., Mingo Junction, possession of criminal tools, aggravated menacing, attempted breaking and entering and tampering with evidence, Tuesday.
Arrested: Amy Lynn Harris, 300 Wayne Ave., Weirton, domestic battery, Sunday.


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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
52 Weeks To Better Genealogy - Challenge #1
My library has quite a lot to offer a genealogist. I've just listed the books that were 1) of interest to my research and 2) in the genealogy section, which means that general history books that give information about the surroundings of ancestors were not taken into account here.
Burgerlijke stand en bevolkingsregister by R.F. Vulsma ; a book dealing with primary sources from 1811 onwards.
Dagen, maanden, jaren: tijdrekenkunde in kort bestek by W. Wijnaendts van Resandt; a book dealing with the different calendars you encounter as a genealogist.
Genealogie: van stamboom tot familiegeschiedenis by Rob van Drie; a book about how to turn your genealogy research into a family history story.
Genealogisch onderzoek in Duitsland by J.G.J. van Booma; a book about genealogical research in Germany (import because I have a German branch)
Geschiedenis van het priveleven: bronnen en benaderingen by Pieter Stokvis; a book of articles about genealogy with the focus on the privat life of people, very informative.
Heraldisch vademecum by H.K. Nagtegaal; an encyclopedia about family weapons, primarily about the designs
Hoe schrijf ik geschiedenis? By Jan van de Wetering; a book about writing your family history
In tijd gemeten: inleiding in de chronologie by C.C. de Glopper-Zuijderland; another book about different calendars you can encounter when doing genealogical research.
Internet bij stamboomonderzoek by Yvette Hoitink and Jeroen van Luin; a book about using the internet when doing genealogical research, probably too old to be of much use anymore.
Onderzoek bij het Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie by Rob van Dries; a book about doing research at the Central Bureau of Genealogy here in the Netherlands, the first stop any genealogist should make after exhausting the resources they already have at home.
Op zoek naar een biografisch portret in het verleden by Kees van der Wiel; a book about finding material to write a biography about someone.
Oud schrift; several parts that teach you how to read old writing.
Repertorium DTB by W. Wijnaendts van Resandt; a book that gives a global view of the available primary records from before 1811.
Verre verwanten by Rob van Drie; a book that gives possible sources to find information about certain aspects of your ancestors lives, like school, health, and professions.
And some general how-to guides to genealogy in the Netherlands
Gids voor genealogisch onderzoek in Nederland by P.W. van Wissing
Gids voor stamboomonderzoek by Roelof Vennik; my personal favorite and one that's on my wish-list for my personal library
Maak uw eigen stamboom by Gerard van de Nes
Handleiding voor genealogisch onderzoek in Nederland by J.C. Okkema
Het stambomenboek by Els W.A. Elenbaas
De stamboom en geschiedenis van uw familie by Henri Vannoppen
Stamboomonderzoek voor beginners by Rob van Drie
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Which version of our book 'Internet bij stamboomonderzoek' do you have? Most of the information in the 2006 version is still valid, although there are some great new websites we would like to add in a new version. There are no definite plans for that yet, but we're thinking about it.ReplyDelete
You have really looked hard at the resource section. I admire that. I myself am really shallow. I just look for my ancestors. I should give some time to this area.ReplyDelete
Thank you for participating in the "52 Weeks to Better Genealogy" challenge. I hope you find it fun and useful. I look forward to reading more if your posts.ReplyDelete
@ Yvette: I don't know for sure which version it is they have in the library, but I know for certain it's not the 2006 version because I remember borrowing it after a internet genealogy course I did in 2004.ReplyDelete
@ hummer: I used to look for just my ancestors too, until I found some really, really intersting information (by accident!) on several related people who weren't my direct ancestors, but had ties to them. That caused me to open my eyes to the wider picture.
@ Amy: I really liked this challenge and I'm looking forward tot the next 51!
@J.M. Then it must be the 2002 version. We have taken care to focus on the methods instead of the particular websites so most of the information there is still correct.ReplyDelete
However, the 2002 version is aimed more at genealogists who are new to the internet, which is a rare breed nowadays. In 2006 we shifted the focus to both new and experienced genealogists who are already familiar with using the internet but not necessarily with using the internet for genealogical research. We've changed the entire setup of the book so it more closely follows the logical steps in the genealogical process.


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Pairing your cabinet with a separate amp head gives you ultimate control over your sound. An amp head's job is to help power a speaker cabinet (or two or three) while creating a tonal balance you're happy with. Once you find your perfect speakers, the guitar amp head will do the rest of the work for you.
Guitar amp heads offer you the ability to bring out your guitar's natural tone, as well as manipulate it. For instance, a vintage series amp head like the Marshall 1987XL 50W tube has equalization and presence controls that allow you to tweak the output to emulate classic vintage tube tone. Should you want a clear representation of your guitar's actual tone, you can balance out the levels to ensure a clear output.
Once you decide on what kind of tone you want from your amp head, you have to choose a voltage that will match your speaker cabinet. The wattage must match to ensure the speakers give you the best sound possible. There are a variety of options when it comes to wattage so you never have to worry about matching a proper cabinet with your amp head of choice.
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Insurance Basics
You don't often hear somebody say that they want insurance. "Boy, I wish I could double up on my homeowner's insurance," is a phrase that certainly would cause you to look twice at the person speaking. Insurance, unfortunately, is something we buy because we need it—not because we want it.
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An insurance deductible is an amount you'll be required to pay in the event that you file a claim. Your insurance company will pay the remaining expenses, after your deductible. The higher the deductible you have, the lower your premium should be.
We need insurance to protect ourselves from the environment, from others, and from ourselves. Insurance is a way to reduce risk by sharing financial losses within a group of people. There are many types of risks, both financial and nonfinancial. These risks include the following:
- Disability or death
- Property loss
- Personal liability
- Risk from failure of others, such as a breach of contract
- Speculative risks, such as the stock market
When considering these risks, you must decide if the protection you receive is worth the cost of the insurance you buy.
Many types of insurance are required. If you have a mortgage, your lender requires you to have homeowner's insurance. Most states require auto insurance.
In addition to these required insurances, you must decide what type of coverage you need for your family, and what you're able to spend on them. Riders, options, and basic insurance all come at a cost so you need to review the price and the coverage as part of your total financial picture.
You may need to provide your own insurance for some risks by putting aside funds on your own. You might want to set aside money for dental bills or a nursing home stay, for instance.
Let's look at some of the kinds of insurance that are important to you and your family.
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So. This mascara is certainly not awful at all, but I am on the verge of throwing out my tube or offering it to my sister even though it's not nearly empty. Here is why.
- I get beautiful, long, fluttery, clump-free lashes after one coat.
- The wand is on the small side and quite easy to work with. (I forgot to take a pic, but Nouveau Cheap has a good one here. Her full review is here, though I do feel it's important to point out that I had a very different experience from her with this mascara.)
- Very easy to remove with a regular cleanser or eye makeup remover.
- After two coats, my lashes look so long - and NOT exceptionally thick - that they look spidery to me. (And evidently to my kitten as well, who started batting at my eyes like they were a bug after I put on the second coat.)
- The formula is so wet that I found it difficult to work with. Don't get confused based on what I wrote about the wand above; I think the wand is great and would work well with a slightly drier formula. However, this formula is so very wet that TONS of product comes out on the wand and transfers to my lashes with each coat. My lashes have some natural lift to them as it is, so I don't always curl them; with Best Lash Extreme, even when I don't curl my lashes I still get little black transfer spots all over my lids, as you can see in the second picture below.
And finally, the part that is a complete dealbreaker for me: this is the LEAST water-resistant mascara I've ever tried. Now, it's not marketed as being waterproof or water-resistant, so I don't think it's fair to say that this mascara doesn't live up to its claims. However, my eyes can get very watery, and when my eyes start to water even a LITTLE bit, this mascara immediately starts to smear everywhere. EVERYWHERE!!! It's not pretty. I've tried dozens of other non-waterproof mascaras that were equally easy to remove as this one, but that held up to my watery eyes far better than this one does.
So, if your eyes are not watery at all and you prefer long lashes and a wet formula, you might absolutely love this mascara. If any of those statements do not apply to you, I can't recommend it.
Disclaimer: I purchased the product(s) featured in this post myself.


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TORONTO - The Steubenville Catholic Central girls basketball team bounced back from Monday's tough loss to Bridgeport with a 46-38 win at Toronto Thursday.
"It feels a lot better today," said Central head coach Tom Winland. "They needed that. They knew they were capable of playing like that. The enthusiasm wasn't there the other night, and they stepped up and had it tonight. I'm proud of them."
The loss was the the Red Knights second in a row to start the season.
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GRABBING A BOARD — Steubenville Catholic Central's Michaela Torrance secures a rebound in front of Toronto's Makayla Bauman and Mariah Turner during the Crusaders 46-38 win over the Red Knights at Toronto High School.
-- Fred Younce
"They're just not converting what we're telling them to do," said Toronto head coach Mallory Blanton. "They're going hard, I know that, but they're not doing the right things that they should be."
Leading 38-37 with 1:42 left in the game, the Crusaders closed the game on an 8-1 run. Senior Rachel Rigaud scored six of her eight points to lead the way during the closing run.
"She's very important," said Winland of Rigaud. "She's one of our leaders. We talk about it all the time, she probably has one of the biggest hearts on this team.
"They all have big hearts, but Rachel works so hard. She works on her free throws before and after practice. I couldn't be more proud of her effort."
Miranda Parkinson, who tallied a game-high 12 points on the night, knocked down the front end of a one-and-one to make the score 39-37 with 1:34 left. She missed the second, but Rigaud snatched the offensive rebound, was fouled, and put through two charity tosses for a 41-37 lead at the 1:32 mark.
On Toronto's ensuing possession, the Crusaders forced a turnover, Rigaud came out of the pack on the fast break, and put home the layup to push the Crusaders' lead to 43-37 with just over a minute remaining.
"For one thing, we have to make our shots," said Blanton of her team's woes on offense. "We have to do the things we're doing in practice.
"We're doing the right things in practice and not converting them in games."
From there Parkinson knocked down a free throw along with two by Rigaud while Katie Spadafora put one in for the Red Knights to make the final 46-38 Crusaders.
"It says we're getting a little more experienced, and a little more mature in game situations," said Winland of how his team closed out the game. "Last year we struggled in those situations. It shows they're working hard to be in these games, and hopefully we can win a few more when we're in close games."
Central threatened to blow the game open in the third quarter after the teams went into intermission tied at 21. The Crusaders opened the second half with an 11-2 run to lead 32-23 with just over five minutes left in the third. The Red Knights closed the stanza with eight straight points and the lead was cut to 32-21 entering the final quarter.
Along with Parkinson and Rigaud's scoring, the Crusaders received eight points from Tori Knight and six a piece from Rachel Irvin and Micca Mirabella.
The Red Knights were led by eight each from Lexi Berger and Kayla Brown. Lindsay Bodnar added six.
Central (2-1) travels to St John Central Wednesday while Toronto is on the road at Bridgeport Monday.
"They have a lot of heart," said Blanton. "They don't give up."
Catholic Central 46, Toronto 38
Catholic Central 8 13 11 14 - 46
Toronto 6 15 10 7 - 38
CATHOLIC CENTRAL (2-1): Knight 3 0-2 8, Irvin 2 2-4 6, Rigaud 2 4-7 8, Mirabella 3 0-0 6, Parkinson 4 2-4 12, Dziewatkoski 1 0-0 2, Torrance 2 0-3 4, Ondos 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 17 8-20 46. 3-pointers: Knight (2), Parkinson (2).
TORONTO (0-2): Sears 0 2-2 2, Berger 4 0-0 8, Bodnar 1 4-5 6, Bauman 1 0-2 2, Brown 2 4-4 8, Harrison 0 1-2 1, Schaming 1 1-2 3, Spadafora 1 2-4 4, Turner 2 0-0 4, West 0 0-0 0, Robinson 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 12 14-21 38. 3-pointers: none.


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The peak time of year to observe drunken girl on girl kissing!
Dude, Jen and Tracy are totally going new year's eve on each other!
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The one night of the year when getting drunk and making a fool of yourself is not optional, but in fact mandatory.
Sara displayed her exemplary discretion by making out with a mere 15 guys at the frat party on new year's eve.
by AlexIsIll January 09, 2004
A night when groups of adults get drunk and use explosives when intoxicated. In some cultures they melt metal objects to artefacts.
The dog was scared of the noises on new year's eve.
by j-hi January 07, 2004
The night before the first hangover of a new calendar year.
One is feeling rather queasy: it was New Year's Eve last night.
by Achilles January 02, 2004
As good a time as any to go to jail.
"What are you in for?"
"New years eve."
"New years eve."
by Bookworm January 20, 2004
The day before the new year. No one really gives two shits about it being a new year, but it's a good excuse to get pissed/laid so who's complaining.
"Happy New Year fuckers!"
by Kay January 18, 2004
a time to get drunk and laid and not remember what happened afterwards
its january 1......... wtf happened to december 31....... and why does my ass hurt?
by matt December 31, 2004
Perfect excuse to get wasted on a week day.
Its New Years Eve, lets get drunk...
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I have problems to upload a photo to an album by the
facebook API. this is my code.
//Create an album
$album_details = array(
'message'=> 'Message',
'name'=> 'Album Name'
$create_album = $facebook->api('/me/albums?access_token='.$access_token, 'post', $album_details);
//Get album ID of the album you've just created
$album_id = $create_album['id'];
echo $album_id." - ";
//Upload a photo to album of ID...
$photo_details = array();
$img = "app.jpg";
$photo_details['source'] = '@' . $img;
$photo_details['message'] = 'Wow.. cool image!';
$upload_photo = $facebook->api('/'.$album_id.'/photos?access_token='.$access_token, 'post', $photo_details);
When i upload the image with a form, it works! but this code does not upload the image into the album.
I have tried also with
CURL but there is nothing... i don't know where the problem is...


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As a beginner in Illustrator I've been creating some pretty cool graphics I'd like to share on my website. From what I've seen, people create a one file .ai icon pack that you can download and use freely. Most of these are setup in a perfect grid format, even with around 100 icons. If I am looking to do something like this, how should I go about my project setup? Should I create each icon individually and then import them into the master icon pack file? Any direction would be great. Thanks!
I would start with a grid that has a good spacing between the icons, not only for making it easier to work but also because you don't have to rearrange in the end. The simplest I can think of is 16x16px icons with 16px spacing between them (if you are working on an icon sprite, space between them should be minimal though). Depending on what you want in the end. But this should make it easier to determine the document dimensions in the beginning. You could also set up guides or a background raster to make sure you are working in the right space/dimensions. I prefer this method over making icons in individual files because it gives you a good overlook if the icons all go well together. Something that you will have to re-evaluate constantly during designing them.
Again, the options are vast, and depend on what you want in the end, so I will just give you an example:
I'm no expert in icon creation, but in my opinion, it will depend on how complex your icons are. If they have many elements, for the sake of size and handling I would use different files to create them. Once they are finished you can paste them in your grid file, but also export them first as transparent .png for example. You will most likely be needing one bitmat file for each icon anyway, as many of the packs I've downloaded had preview folders (as well as the actual .ai file). And if in the future you want to make different packs with the same ones, it's easier to handle too.
Another popular trend is to create icon fonts. These are very usable on the web. But this can only be done if you have mono-color icon's. These are actually quite handy, I use those regularly in design because of ease of use.
But most Icon pack I see have a few variations available: - A few sizes as separate 24-bit PNG with transparency (dark on white and reverse) - separate AI or PDF files - Icon Font (if available) - separate ICO files, in various sizes (real icons).
I haven't seen many on a "contact" sheet, but that could be me :)


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Discussion in 'Fantasy / Horror' started by Werthead, May 12, 2011.
Very interesting, Mark: thanks for adding that. Obviously we all hope it continues to go well!
Lol, I thought that might be the case Mark. I don't think the comparison is valid, as you say your work is very different. I think most works would suffer from such a comparison, but thankfully stickers peel off easily .
I'm looking forward to the next book. And also wonder if you have considered trying to get Graphic Audio to record an audio version? I note there is no audiobook currently offered on Amazon. Having just listened to their recording of The Night Angel trilogy, I think the style would suit Prince of Thorns very well.
Looks like we were meant to be.
Oh please God not Graphic Audio. I'd LOVE to see an audio version of this -- but unabridged text, pretty pretty please!
Let's hope you're wrong about this! Kindle copy of PoT downloaded today and read is well underway... great going so far!
Oh crap, PoT = Prince of Tennis... you're screwed Mark
haha, I'm certainly finding every damn author being compard to GRRM quite vexxing myself, even Leviathan Wakes was compared to him in a review here, because apparently only GRRM does multiple POV's I can't imagine how you must feel.
Finished it. Despite the amount of blood and guts spilled, its not as grim as I thought. There's lot of action, the pacing was brisk, Jorg was entertaining throughout. One thing against this book is that at times I felt as though I'm reading a YA novel, the first person pov and the protagonist's age being the main cause. Aside from that, I enjoyed the book greatly, I'd rate it a 4/5.
Slightly spoilery review thingy.
My review of Prince of Thorns (Goodreads rating: 1 Star)
(N.B. This is rated on the Goodreads scale, not a #/5 scale. This review is not spoiler free. Be warned!)
Ah, Prince of Thorns. A book that's seen a prominence in Britain due to none other than Martin (of the G.R.R. variation), and Harper Voyager's insistence that fans of Martin will love this book to the point of giving it away if people pre-ordered A Dance With Dragons from Waterstone's. It's got a lovely sticker on it with Martin's name on it, although to be brutally honest, which fantasy/sci-fi books don't have a mention of the Bearded One these days?
I've seen many reviews for Prince of Thorns over the past months, many of which praise it very highly. Four stars here, five stars there, best debut of 2011 here. Me? I can see why it was so well liked, but it did little for me, and I had a good number of problems with it to boot.
Prince of Thorns is a tale about a kid named Jorg. When we first meet him, he's 14, six foot tall, toned and muscular, and an utter bastard. He murders, lies, rapes, assaults, abuses, steals - He's pretty much the villain of most gritty fantasy books. Oh, he's also a prince who lives under a sort of self-exile after the murder of his mother and younger brother. And he's incredibly mature... acting. He's a self-obsessed, self-righteous, egotistical arse too, who would even sacrifice mother dearest to get what he wants, although without mother dearest dying, this story probably wouldn't happen. Can you see where I'm going with this? Jorg is able to cut down experienced soldiers, fight in armour, survive being stabbed in the chest and all these other magical things. Pah! You can't deny that something about him is compelling, though, and it's the only thing that kept me reading.
The supporting characters are little different. We have a black man often called the Nuban, and we're frequently reminded that the black man is indeed black and that he has black skin and that Nubans are black. Because he's black, you see. Jorg's Brothers (i.e. his band of merry men) are either food-obsessed, rape-obsessed, violence-obsessed or they're the fallen captain who joins in but still has a sense of honour. The women tend to act simply as sex machines, angry birds or... Oh, I think that's about it. Aside from the almost Oedipal reverence Jorg has for mother dearest, there's not a single positive female character. The one I liked the most was a prostitute, the second best was Jorg's aunt-through-marriage, yet he seemed to quite enjoy mentally fapping over her. Oh, and he almost raped her. Pretty much every woman bar Jorg's mother and his mother-in-law gets beaten, sexed (Either consensually or raped) or... Uh, I think that's the range of interactions.
The world is a bit unusual, because it starts off as a typical medieval world, although some places have suspiciously real place names (Normardy, for example, sounds suspiciously close to Normandy), and people like Plato and Sun Tzu begin to be named, until we find out that this is in fact a darker, bloodier Shannara and that the world has sort of gone pop and then back to this medieval age at some point in the past. A lot of things take their names from archaic places and names. Persia makes a sort of cameo appearance, there's some new Sarachens (Saracens, mayhaps?), Nubans are clearly African and so forth. Things we take for granted such as concrete and plastic also appear, although they're named Builder-stone and plasteek respectively. Oh, and a weird vault computer thingy also magically survives.
Now, the plot. I honestly do not know why most things happened. Jorg is trying to kill his uncle, which clearly involves razing villages, raping women, killing his own men and killing others. He then decides to go home to his dad (The King!) for some reason, but not before killing one of his brothers for the fun of it, and he encounters ghosties and some old priest bloke who recovers from near-death rather quickly. Daddy tells him to bring him a county, Jorgy-poo runs off to do it (Not before getting angry at Daddy's advisor/puppet-master) and so on and so forth. We go through tunnels with necromancers, a tourney outside a castle and a few other things here and there.
The chapters of the plot are peppered by retrospective chapters that, without fail, take place four years ago, back when Jorg was about ten or eleven (I'll comment on that later). They almost invariably involve Jorg and the black Nuban of blackness, and how Jorg comes to respect him (I'll mention that later, too) and how we ended up where we are with this story. I thought they added some good information, but I feel like they could perhaps have been put at the start to give a chronologically smoother read.
My problem with the plot for the book was that whilst some overarching plot was clear, I felt that most of the book just happened, and it wasn't helped by the time skipping all over the place. Something interesting would be about to happen and then... Pop! It's over, and we weren't privy to the actual events. I honestly struggle to remember why Jorg went through the necromancer tunnels, up an elevator shaft (I think... Or was it a buried skyscraper?), why he killed the ladymancer, why he found the bombs, why he blew the mountain up, how he managed to escape in time and so forth. Things just happened, and I felt no real connection nor relevance to the events. I don't think many of these events were helped by Lawrence's often unclear writing, which caused me to reread things more often than I'd have liked.
The fusion of post-apocalyptic settings and a medieval fantasy world doesn't fully work for Lawrence, partially because of his writing but also because of the setting itself. Some things from our existence carried over, but many things didn't. How did this vault continue to function potentially thousands of years after the "apocalypse", and why did society revert itself to a society where women are only good for food and sex? Surely if humanity survived, which it clearly did, then many things like social attitudes would survive to some degree? Christianity survived in this world, and somehow so did written texts, but some characters speak Latin. *How* did they learn Latin in the first place? How did magic come to exist? How could they almost word-for-word reconstruct a medieval setting? Too many questions were left unanswered for me.
Finally, in terms of writing, I felt that Lawrence repeated things too often. The line, or a variation thereof, "I respect that in a man" came up often. I mentioned before that the Nuban's skin colour is stated frequently. There were also inconsistencies with Jorg's age. He's almost fifteen at the start, and reaches that age soon enough. That would mean the Four Years Ago bits span from ages ten to eleven, which is fair enough, except for the fact that Jorg is almost exactly the same four years ago. The way he speaks, the way he acts? He's an arrogant arse even at ten. However, when one of Jorg's best friends said "A little over three years ago, you were ten", it's clearly wrong. Jorg would have been eleven going on twelve. That's a big error there, Mr Protector of Jorgy.
Overall, Prince of Thorns is a disappointing read. I don't mind gritty fantasy, but so little about this book was redeeming. The way women were treated made last year's Farlander look like the pinnacle of female equality, and that even mentioned breasts every two pages! Whilst Jorg was oddly compelling, he was as believable as Nicolas Cage's attempts to act. I find it impossible to believe that an arrogant, puffed-up fourteen year old would be able to lead a band of men twice his age, twice his strength etc, and so forth. It made no sense to me. It made even less sense for him to be a walking tank. I'm sure many people like this book, and that's fine, but for me? I just didn't buy it, and I thought the way women were treated was almost creepy. A shame, really.
That is not slightly spoilery, that is a full blown spoiler. Fortunately I'll probably skip the book based on those reviews(that is not a first negative IIRC)
I didn't actually think my review was that spoilerific, but I've edited my post and spoiler tagged it.
Apologies if I ruined the book for anyone, that wasn't my intention.
I've seen more positive reviews than negative ones.
I'll be getting to this one as soon as I finish ADWD, with something a little more upbeat in between. From the reviews I've read I expect it will be right down my alley, but I don't do well reading two bleak books in a row.
I checked this morning, and mine is the only one star review on Goodreads. Two had two, there were a few with three, but the rest were fours and fives.
The latest spread was
24 5*
16 4*
2 3*
2 2*
1 1*
but being in a minority doesn't make you wrong. You gotta say what you think!
Find me a book that doesn't have a negative review, and I'll give you a popsicle. Anyways, the vast majority of people have really enjoyed the book, and from what I see from most who have not liked it has more to do with them as readers than with the book itself. By this I mean, suciul for example has a problem with 1st person narratives. The main character is a psychopath/sociopath, so women are not treated well in the book... no surprise, we're inside this wackjob's head, so people might have problem with that, which seems to be the case with Loerwyn and many others.
I'll be checking it out myself, but I think this is one book that seems like you have to really pay attention to what is being said in the review, and why it's being said, and see who is saying it because there's certainly subject matter that will be dividing. But that's my impression so far.
Don't even worry about that 1 homie I suspect that will probably be the only 1 on the list. I don't pay much attention to reviews from bloggers, but Wert is fairly solid and when he gives a book 4 1/2 out of 5 I suspect most of those out there on the periphery who just read the site for recommendations will see that review and pay attention to it.
As a side note on a personal level it bugs the hell out of me that someone would actually give the book a 1 in the same thread where the author is actively engaged and answering questions. Not many authors are that engaged when it comes to the fan base and I respect that. I simply do not understand why a member of this community would not have enough respect or even common sense to maybe wait a few months before they torched the book rather than hit the thread with a huge buzz kill. Mark doesn't need that. He is a member as well as an author. Why would anyone want to post something that could discourage people from buying another members book right away? We should be trying to help the book sell. Mark is one of us. Like I said common sense. You don't like the book fine why not just refrain from giving your opinion until the dust has settled a bit? Never ceases to amaze me.
Still waiting for my copy to arrive. I bought this at the same time I bought Grossman's second Magician book which doesn't come out until 8/9 so it will probably be two weeks until I get it. I am kicking myself I should have had each book shipped separately so POT would get here faster.
Would you rather I lied to Mark? I don't exactly feel great when I give bad reviews to authors who I've spoken to, especially when they're as friendly as Mark is. SFFWorld is a balanced site, and my review provides a view point to support that balance. It's my honest view on his book. It didn't do anything for me, but I'm not disputing that others would like it, because people clearly do.
If Mark's right, there have been reviews for this book hitting for eight months now. How much longer would you suggest I wait?
Common sense. The book has just recently been released. Forget the floating reviews out there for the most part people are just coming to know Mark and his book. It is what it is. You stated your position and I stated mine. Nothing more to say.
Keep the thread moving forward. Damn that cover is cool. I want to cover one of my walls with it. That is what I am talking bout!
'Interesting' statistics from Goodreads on the gender front:
Of the 89% of people who gave the book a 4 or 5*
44% were female
Of the 11% who gave the book 3* or less, 20% were female
Another way of saying it is that there are 18 females giving the book a 4 or 5* review on Goodreads for every 1 female giving the book 3* or less
Of course, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics!
Seriously - I'm not here to 'intimidate' anyone out of speaking their mind. I have worried that some people might feel authors who join threads on their own book are somehow cramping posters' style and would rather have these as 'private' conversations - if you know what I mean. If that were the case I'd be more than happy to bow out. I just enjoy taking part is all. Certainly don't want to polarise things.
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