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For a team with a lot of LCA guys on it, Big Island Post 217 didn't show a lot of love to the crew from Christiansburg.
Big Island got its American Legion season off to a roar. That roaring noise came from the bats of the 217ers. Four homers were smacked, as Quentin Palmer (twice), Cameron Byrd and Hunter Johnson each tapped a tater.
Keyton Elliot had a pair of doubles and single, while Gavin Porpora had a pair of hits and a couple of RBIs.
Tre Allison threw five and two-thirds superb innings, striking out seven, while allowing but eight baserunners. Josh Padgett relieved, shutting down Christiansburg the rest of the way.
In the end, the Islander s registered their first completed game of the season, walloping the Burghers, 17-3 in a game called at seven innings due to the slaughter rule.
That was OK with everyone, because as the final out was called, the heavens opened up providing another reason to call this one short of the regulation nine stanzas.
By the way, it seems the Big Island crew might be better nicknamed as the Rainmakers, the Cloudbursts or Thor's Hammers. In its season opener, Big Island went a mere two innings before lightning (and all of its accompanying merriment) sent Rocky Mount Post 6 heading back to Franklin County.
Even during Monday night's game at Lynchburg Post 16 (played at Brookville), the skies were threatening throughout the contest.
But it was the Islanders' miscues and Lynchburg's exploitation of same which spelled the difference in the 6-3 Lynchburg win.
"We didn't play our best game," said Big Island Manager Kelley Russell. "They capitalized on our mistakes."
Russell seemed particularly concerned about the 10 baserunners who were left stranded over the course of the evening.
Additionally, the Islanders committed three costly errors. To wit: Starting pitcher Stephen Hueber gave up five runs in his six and a third innings of work. But only three of those were earned as he yielded but six hits.
Sidearm specialist Nelson Carroll wrapped up the game on the mound for Big Island.
"We just have to make the plays and take advantage of our opportunities," said Russell. "We're still putting things together."
The team seemed to put things together in the ninth inning, scoring a pair of runs on doubles by Zach Coleman and Palmer.
But, it was a case of too little, too late to overcome the large deficit.
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The First United Methodist Church of Chiefland will hold its 5th Annual Epic End of Summer Bash on Saturday, July 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
We will be giving away over 450 backpacks filled with school supplies. There will be a water slide, dunk tank and obstacle course. Also, free clothing, free hot dogs, beverages and snow cones. There will be prizes like gift certificates for kids haircuts and much more.
There are 25 sites in Levy and the Tri-County area where children 18 and under can access free meals this summer through the United State Department of Agriculture's Food Service Program.
The sites, listed below, include several local schools, libraries and churches around Levy, Dixie, Gilchrist and Alachua County, and do not require any identification or documentation from clients.
Today, July 14
Homemakers meet
The Levy County Home & Community Educators group meets the third Thursday of the month at 10 a.m. at the UF/IFAS Extension office at 625 N. Hathaway Ave., Bronson. There are no meetings during the summer months. For more information call 352-486-5131.
Library Friends meeting
The outcome for the man who introduced himself as being "formerly known as chief" of the Fanning Springs Fire Department is yet to be determined.
A Williston man has been arrested on multiple charges of having sex with an underage girl and is being investigated for similar activity with a second underage girl, according to the Levy County Sheriff's Office.
Dillon Arnold Bird, 24, of Williston was arrested after Sheriff's Sgt. Mike Narayan and Investigator Mike Wilkinson met with the parent of a 17-year-old-female. The parent reported discovering evidence that the daughter had been involved in a sexual relationship with Bird.
The monthly meeting of Local Chapter #2133, will be at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 19, in the ForVets, Inc. Lodge House at Otter Springs. Join us for a time of community caring, sharing and lots of healthy merriment.
Chiefland Police Department is asking the public's help in identifying a liquor store robber.
On July 4 at approximately 8:30 p.m. there was a robbery at Chiefland Package at 2311 N.W. 14th St. The suspect is a black male, about 5 foot 8 inches, thin build, wearing a burgundy colored shirt, white undershirt, burgundy shorts, white basketball style sneakers, dark colored gloves and a camouflage ski mask.
The robber was armed and ordered the store clerk to hand over an estimated $4,000 in cash from the store register and safe, and fled the scene.
Cedar Key, Florida (July 20, 2016). The Cedar Key Oystermen's Association and the Suwannee Oyster Association have received a grant award of $20,000 to implement an oyster rehabilitation project in the Suwannee Sound, Gulf of Mexico. One of five collaborative grants awarded across the Big Bend counties—Dixie, Jefferson, Levy, and Taylor—the funding encourages partnerships to strengthen the region's economic vitality while simultaneously ensuring the ongoing health of its natural resources.
Crews from the Florida Department of Transportation are working hurridly on U.S. Highway 19/ North Main Street to repair the stormwater drainage system at 3rd Street.
The bigger pipes will hopefully prevent flooding during downpours at the site. Motorists can expect daytime lane closures from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. as the drainage and resurfacing work continues.
Work will continue on the project next week.
Bids for repaving and widening the pitiously rutted and worn Shell Mound Road have come in and they are well over the amount of a grant the state Department of Transportation is giving Levy County.
So the Levy County Commission is asking the state if it can help with more money and looking into whether recreation impact fees collected from new construction can be used for the project on County Road 326/Southwest 78th Place better known as Shell Mound Road.
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I have an HP Pavilion dv6400 series laptop with an NVidea chipset which is the subject of a class action lawsuit. The symptom (PDF) that I'm experiencing is that the system fails to recognize that there is a wireless adapter installed. It doesn't appear in Device Manager. In this question, I ask if there's a way to work around this problem.
As an alternative, I'd like to see if there's a way to use an old Windows Mobile 5 phone that does not have cellular service (voice or data) as a Wi-Fi adapter. How can this be accomplished?
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I live and ski Lake Tahoe so I looked forward to ski at Alta where no snowboarders are allowed; in Tahoe the wide boards especially on beginners who leave 3 feet wide paths of compressed snow behind them cause powder days to end by 11AM routinely. So I was very happy to have powder days at Alta like they used to be with skiable terrain all day long, no need to hunt for soft snow, it was everywhere. I have to disagree with prior posters stating there were no lift lines;au contraire, there were massive lines on the powder days for obvious reasons but on a Sunday after a powder day with the sun out, the singles line was stretched almost to the parking lot. The prior day however was a powder day but with snow and low visibility so the fair weather skiers stayed home and there were no lines.
The only negative for me,which is relevant to only a few diehard powder hounds, was the attitude of the locals on powder days waiting for the lifts to open. In Tahoe we line up 1-2 hours in advance depending on the resort, first come first in line. At Alta I arrived 75 min early only to find a bunch of locals there already holding places for their friends and "assigning" places in line;10 min before the lift opened one local arrived and calmly walked into his place right ahead of me. Signing up for ski school is the best way to get around these locals;they booed the ski school when they got on the lift first but no boos for their friends cutting line.
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Truex takes 500 pole, Martin earns second
Published: Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 6:20 p.m.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Martin Truex Jr. has won the pole for the season-opening Daytona 500, while sentimental favorite Mark Martin qualified second.
Truex and Martin locked in their spots during Sundays qualifying at Daytona International Speedway. Only the top two spots were secured under the complicated qualifying process for the Feb. 15 race, and the rest of the field will be set by a pair of 150-mile races Thursday.
Truex earned the pole by turning a lap at 188.001 mph in a Chevrolet for Earnhardt Ganassi Racing. The team is a merged effort of Dale Earnhardt Inc. and Chip Ganassi Racing, organizations that joined up in late November when sponsorship difficulties threatened their race teams.
That was exciting for all of us, Truex said after the last of 56 cars made their qualifying attempt.
This is the first time weve come down here and felt like we had a shot at the pole here. Its a big deal, the Daytona 500, starting on the pole. Weve got a lot of hard work in front of us this week still, but Im excited for all the guys. Its a great way to start out the season.
Its only the second pole of Truexs career.
Martin, meanwhile, turned a lap at 187.817 in a Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. The 50-year-old veteran is returning to full-time racing this season after running a partial schedule the past two years.
Everybody on this race team is so charged up, Martin said. Its just so fun to go to work every day and Im glad its just about ready to start.
Four other drivers were technically locked into the field, although their starting spots will not be determined until Thursdays qualifying races. But two-time Daytona 500 winner Bill Elliott, two-time series champion Tony Stewart and Travis Kvapil earned their way in by posting the fastest speeds among drivers not already assured a spot in the field.
Terry Labonte earned a berth in the field as the fastest former champion attempting to make the field.
Many believed Elliott had a solid shot at the pole after pacing both of Saturdays practice sessions in the storied No. 21 Ford for Wood Brother Racing. Like many smaller teams, the Wood Brothers have been saddled with sponsorship woes. Despite being one of the oldest teams in NASCAR history, the team currently has only enough funding for 12 races this season.
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Japanese construction firm Shimizu Corp just revealed their new project: An underwater city capable of fitting 5,000 people and draw its energy from the seabed. Shimizu says the project would take five years to build and the technology required would be ready in 15 years.
Kristoffer Brady is a San Francisco based motion graphic designer with a great hand for futuristic screen graphics. This video is a montage of his work for Simian, an upcoming independent film.
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Ethics-reform effort reaches one-year mark
Published: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
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GRAY -- One of Louisianas major lobbying groups Tuesday hailed its role in passing state ethics laws and said other labor, education and health proposals are within reach.
"We had no idea if this would work," said Bill Slaughter, president of the consulting firm that manages the organizations day-to-day operations, told a group of members and other business leaders at the Cypress Columns in Gray. "I hope you can see today that we feel it is working."
Launched in 2006, the nonpartisan advocacy group, made up largely of business leaders, is a major lobby force for what it calls six key concerns for Louisiana: ethics, health care, transportation infrastructure, workforce, and coastal wetlands and hurricane protection.
Blueprint consultant Rudy Gomez said he expects a number of measures along those lines will clear the Legislature before its sessions scheduled June 23 end.
Among them: a plan to reorganize the state Department of Labor, a $10 million "rapid-response" fund to help with job training for an acute labor shortage and a proposal to require community health centers to detail the services they provide.
The group is also advocating a bill that would provide pre-kindergarten to the states 4-year-olds at a cost of about $100 million over six years.
Its cleared the Senate and the House education committee but must still survive a House vote.
Among the projects in the works that would likely wait, he said, are education and training centers for specific regional-based jobs and money for a trust fund for large-scale transportation projects.
Gomez heralded the ethics reforms passed in the Legislatures first special session earlier this year: financial disclosure for lawmakers, higher reporting standards for lobbyists and House and Senate rules requiring increased transparency for state-funded local projects.
The group also helped net $300 million for coastal restoration and an eventual $250 million to $300 million bump in an annual fund for infrastructure improvements in the second special session, Gomez said.
But the leaders say work remains. Slaughter said the organization plans to keep cranking out fresh ideas and new bills.
It also plans to issue a report card to size up whether legislators who promised to support Blueprints platform kept their word.
"Were winning right now, but its a championship fight," Slaughter said. "Weve got a long way to go. Weve got to hang tough."
Attendees said they are impressed with the results -- particularly with the traction the group got in such a short time.
Ted Falgout, Port Fourchon executive director, called Blueprints work, the Jindal administration and new legislators the "perfect recipe" to get things done. The momentum, he said, will help future projects, too.
"I think the stars and the moon lined up," he said. "Its almost unheard of."
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There a plenty of stories of Chinese hackers and Russian hackers walking away with American data as they please. On a regular basis, some British teenager is shipped over to the US for breaking into CIA and DoD and Pentagon computers.
Other than the Snowden-papers, which are more bragging about capabilities than evidence for successful data retrieval, there are few stories of US hackers getting anywhere with breaking into foreign systems. One can't help but wonder if the US cyberwarriors are really playing in the same league.
If they aren't, it might not be such a good idea to start a cyberwar ...
Since Comcast is now transmitting less data, their costs go down, and so should the subscription fees.
How much are they reducing the package prices?
How many Facebook-friends with questionable habits (lie on an IRS form, question TTIP, vote democrat) will it take for the DOJ to concoct a probable cause to (invite you for an interview/raid your house/seize your assets/contact your employer/generally harass you) until you do whatever they want you to do?
really? presidentclinton.com? in 2011?
Sadly, our law enforcement agencies have failed again to protect us, despite being given all the tools they asked for, and despite being forgiven for taking liberties not granted to them by law.
Rather than empower the law enforcement agencies to conduct yet another antiterror investigation, how about Senator McCain and his peers started to do their job, and investigate why the FBI and other agencies failed yet again (and deliberately misled the public by broadcasting theories based on nothing but wishful thinking?).
Senator McCain's job is to protect America, not the DOJ!
If the FBI needs to entrap people to keep us all safe - let them do it. If the FBI needs to break iPhones to keep us all safe - let them do it. If they need to use National Security letters to bypass constitutional protections to keep us all safe - let them use them.
However, after 15 years of giving the FBI everything they requested to keep us the safe, they are not keeping us safe. People are dying because the FBI are not doing their job.
The only question that matters is if the FBI is doing it wrong, or if it is simply impossible to stop terrorists with the current approach (surveillance, pre-emptive arrests, killing their leaders overseas).
In the first case, the security agencies need to be motivated to deliver what they promise, in the second case, they'll need to be cut back to free up resources to implement other strategies to keep us safe.
For 15 years we have been asked to give up freedom in return for security. Security that has not been delivered.
It is time to introduce accountability into the equation, and put Mr Comey and his peers on notice. Every time people die, they have failed, and they need see conquences!
Why does Google come forward now and support a treaty that is not popular in Google's user base? TPP done and dusted, just waiting to be rubberstamped.
Are there problems ahead by any chance, with the rubberstamping, that would need Google to weigh in even if it alienates its users?
"terrorist targets GCHQ had been tracking had learned from his revelations with heavens knows what consequences, he said."
Not just heavens, everybody knows the answer: there have been no terror attacks in the UK since the documents since the public was informed about some of GCHQ's more questionable activities.
"terrorist targets GCHQ had been tracking had learned from his revelations with heavens knows what consequences, he said."
... it takes about 10 years of piracy to offset the profits Apple and major book publishers cheated out of e-book consumers with their illegal price fixing cartel.
1. If the remastered version is so different from the original that it warrants a new copyright, shouldn't it be released as a cover version under the name of the engineer rather than the original artist? When I buy a Beatles CD, I expect the Beatles and not the work of an anonymous computer expert.
2. If the engineers add so much creative value, do you pay them royalties for every copy sold instead of a engineer's salary?
... send letters to Rightscorp offering not to complain to the FBI if Rightscorp pays a modest $20 'inconvenience fee'?
"Adele Signs $130 Million Contract With Sony Records" (news today).
... who think copyright is about protecting the interests of creative people. Until they have been dead for 70, right?
Copyright legislation is about protecting the income of publishers, and they have nothing to gain from public domain (or creative commons and such nonsense).
... I had my academic thesis printed for free - the publisher got the money from VG Wort's copyright fees. Saved me several hundred euros at the time.
If publishers did indeed give more money to authors in the past, they will be in a tough spot now that suddenly they don't get reimbursed.
For future contracts, it should not be a problem for publishers to adjust their conditions. Unless, of course, this makes authors realize just how much they pay for how little service they get from their publishers.
Perhaps there lies the real problem the publishers have with the decision.
DOJ is free to use any internal documents it wants, and keep them confidential if they choose.
Those internal documents should not have any legal relevance whatsoever outside the DOJ, though, published or not.
If a DOJ employee is caught breaking the law, the benchmark for prosecution is the law, not some internal memo, secret or not.
The courts should make clear they will not accept a 'but my boss told me it was ok' unless evidence is produced in public.
"The Government believes that online offences should be treated no less seriously than their physical counterparts."
Are they planning to increase the penalty for lifting a CD to $160.000 or 10 years in jail, or will the penalty for downloading an album be brought down to $10, then?
"NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years, FROM 2013 to 2015" (The Intercept, yesterday).
Ironically, the article is is based on numbers released by the same government that wants to gag Twitter on the same topic).
Will Afganistan top the USTR-most-favourites - list when the Taliban are back in power, and start chopping off people's hands (or was it heads?) for 'stealing' movies and songs?
... can you look a judge in the eye, swear by the life of your mother and the holy bible that you can save mankind from terrorism, impending doom, drug trafficking and other evil if only he will force Apple to crack a phone ...
... and then come back a few days later, to call off the show after you miraculously found a spare key under the doormat where you had not thought of looking before?


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Dana Crest Park in Dana Point is in a quiet neighborhood with plenty of areas to wander. My sister easily brought four kids under the age of 5 to this park and had no trouble watching them all. The kids seem to the love the little make-believe houses most of all. A reader calls this the "other dinosaur park" in deference to the big dinosaur park in Laguna … [Read more...]
Sea Canyon Park in Dana Point
Sea Canyon Park in Dana Point is an awesome park for climbers. I love that the big kid equipment is safely enclosed so even little kids can wander around. Directions to Sea Canyon Park: From Golden Lantern, turn onto Acapulco near Dana Hills High School. Make a right on Elisa, left on Santiago. Address: 33093 Santiago Drive, Dana Point, CA. MAP to Sea Canyon Park in Dana … [Read more...]
Rancho Santa Margarita Central Park: Bug Out and Then Travel by Train
Rancho Santa Margarita Central Park isn't necessarily a summer-friendly location, since it can get rather hot. I speak from experience - I think it was 95 degrees on the day I took photos and met my blogging friend, Kara-Noel. I always get turned around when I head to Rancho Santa Margarita, but I'm starting to learn my way to the town's center. Location: I usually … [Read more...]
O'Neill Regional Park: Go Wild Outside
O'Neill Regional Park in Trabuco Canyon has a distinctly wilderness feel with options for hiking and camping. I camped there when I was a college student long ago. Rancho Santa Margarita sure cozied up next to it, huh? It's nestled back up in the foothills at the intersection of Live Oak and Trabuco Canyon roads. This is a beautiful time of year to go with the green hills and … [Read more...]
Mountain View Park in Lake Forest
Mountain View Park in Lake Forest is hidden behind a housing community and is slightly off any major roads. We have visited this park during the week and towards the end of our visit we were the only people at the park so we enjoyed listening to the birds sing. Since it isn't on a major street you don't have to compete with any road traffic or noise. Directions to … [Read more...]


text: Wearables are really changing the way we think about clothing and their function in our lives. Designer Ying Gao, a Canadian-based fashion designer and professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal, has designed two dresses that are truly on the cutting-edge of wearable technology. Her collection, known as "(no) where (now) where" consists of two dresses that are embedded with an eye-tracking system that makes them move and light up when a spectator stares at them. Also, the system can turn off the lights, causing the dresses themselves to light up. The effect is quite extraordinary- when the dresses move and glow in the dark they look like glowing sea creatures. Continue reading


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By John O'Donnell and Claire Davenport
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers agreed on Tuesday to allow the ECB to police euro zone banks, but a levy imposed on Cypriot savers shows they will struggle to unify Europe's response to bank problems.
The deal between the European Parliament and member states finalises an accord agreed late last year to give the European Central Bank powers to supervise euro zone banks from mid-2014, a first step to a banking union across the 17-member bloc.
That agreement had initially been applauded as a step towards integration, but a surprise levy on Cypriot bank deposits has shaken hopes that Europe will unite in tackling bank problems rather than let countries struggle alone.
"This is a fundamental step towards a real banking union which must restore confidence in the euro zone's banks and ensure the solidity of the banking sector," said Michel Barnier, the European commissioner in charge of financial regulation.
Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan, who played a central role in negotiations because Ireland holds the rotating EU presidency, welcomed the deal.
"The single supervisor is the core element of banking union and a vital step in breaking the vicious link between the banks and the sovereigns," he said in a statement.
The deal envisages that banks with assets of 30 billion euros, or larger than one-fifth of their country's economic output, are supervised by the ECB rather than national supervisors.
The next pillar of a banking union should be the creation of a central system and fund to close troubled banks, rather than leaving it to individual countries such as Cyprus or Ireland to have to manage alone.
But the reluctance of Germany and other economically strong countries to underpin such a fund means it will be hard to set up.
Paul De Grauwe, an economist with the London School of Economics, said that the levy imposed on Cypriot savers illustrated the lack of support for pooling national resources.
"This is almost a fatal blow to banking union," he said. "The one key element of banking union is a system to help each other out and share the cost when there is a banking crisis in one country. There is no willingness to do that."
(Additional reporting by Robin Emmott; editing by Ron Askew and Rex Merrifield)


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Alley Oop by Jack and Carole Bender
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Uh oh, Oopsters!
This is definitely heating up!
I'm excited! I really am!
Well, hopefully this lame sidetrack is coming to a quick end.
I*Alternate Alley Oop Chapter 18* "The Everlasting Man-thing"(57) 5/8/2013 Wednesday
Panel One
The pilot of the F-22 first hails the bogie to tell them to vacate the area. No response. Her orders are to attack if they don't follow the ultimatum. She first fires a missle which explodes but when the smoke clears she sees the bogie is still intact and an energy is seen glowing around it. "I see why it just sits there, won't get hurt. We'll see about that." The pilot said to herself.
Panel Two
She comes around to fire more missles and use her cannon. She doesn't get the chance when the hovering wing turns and fires blue bolts at her from depressed nose guns.
Panel Three
She can't dodge the super-heated plasmoids which strikes and melts, vaporizes and detonates her ordinance and air craft structure as she pulls the lever.
Panel Four
Capt. Falco manages to eject just as her plane explodes in yellow, red an black. The dark red-wing moves on, ignoring the parachute, slowly flapping its serrated wings like some giant headless bird.
Some excitement. Will he or won't he toss Doowee into the pit with his client Wizer?
What about rescuing Lola and getting her back to Earth 2? Now that would make for an interesting story.
That is our Guz.
And he has a point. Dowee isn't even licensed to practice in Moo, and he doesn't know the first thing about Moovian jurisprudence!
A point indeed. But Guz will not be the first King to realize his point is not a good enough viz a viz a d—- lawyer.
That's better. It's about time Guz started acting like a king.
Doowee and Guz—what a great pair: attorney and a turkey!
yeah maybe we will see the first lawyer execution LOL
How can I send my ex wife's lawyer to Moo?
"C'est l'etat!"
Exactly! Gus is Congress and the President combined. He makes the law and enforces it. Of course the lawyer can always challenge the law before the Supreme Court. Guess who is the Supreme Court.
Ok, Guz….find this lawyer in contempt of court and toss him in the pit….and let him try to find a higher court to appeal to…
UH-OH, now he's about the throw DOWEE into the pit!
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Sacramento's arena war flared again Thursday as arena supporters called on an Orange County political action committee and its Sacramento affiliate to reveal who is financing a petition drive to put the city's arena subsidy plan on the ballot.
In a press statement, Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce President Roger Niello said he wonders if someone from Anaheim is behind the effort to put the $448 million arena deal to a public vote.
Anaheim officials unsuccessfully attempted to entice the Sacramento Kings to Southern California two years ago. At the time, a group from Sacramento launched a petition drive in that city in an attempt to foil Anaheim's plans.
"I am troubled by the fact that there is an Orange County group trying to influence our region without being open and honest as to exactly whom they are," Niello said in the release issued by DowntownArena.org, a group of business and building industry interests. "I have to wonder if there is some connection with Anaheim of past efforts."
Sacramento city officials recently signed a deal to build a downtown arena to keep the team here under new ownership. Under that deal, the city of Sacramento has pledged to commit $258 million to the project, backed mainly by future downtown parking revenue. The city would own the arena, which would be built at Downtown Plaza. The city subsidy includes turning over several city parcels to the Kings, and giving the team the rights to electronic billboard sites.
A local group that calls itself STOP, Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork, teamed up last month with Orange County-based Taxpayers for Safer Neighborhoods to launch a petition drive to place a measure on the June 2014 ballot that would require a public vote on city subsidies for sports facilities.
Representatives of the Orange County PAC have refused requests by The Sacramento Bee to identify the group's financial backers. A Los Angeles-based spokesman for the group this week sent The Bee an email saying he doesn't know who is heading his group or funding it. That spokesman, Jonathan Wilcox, could not be reached Thursday. A local representative, political consultant Tab Berg, declined comment, but pointed out that any funds raised by the political group after June 30 will be legally reportable in October.
Julian Camacho, one of the members of STOP, a small group of Sacramento activists, said he is happy the Orange County PAC volunteered to fund the election effort – which includes paying petition gatherers $1.75 per signature – but declined this week to offer any details about the group.
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The SFFaudio Podcast #334 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: The Birth-Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The SFFaudio Podcast #334 – The Birth-Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne; read by Fred Heimbaugh. This is an unabridged reading of the story (50 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse and Fred.
Talked about on today's show:
The Pioneer, March 1843, a Hawthorne Poe fest, contemporaries, The Scarlet Letter, a quote by Poe about Hawthorne, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, well known?, why this story Fred?, he's obsessed with sin, sociopaths, trigger warnings, neurosis, shame, luck, shaped by sin, a mark upon the family, subconscious Freudian messages, Commentary Magazine, Why College Kids Are Avoiding the Study of Literature by Gary Saul Morson, textual density, vocab, Lovecraft poems, Fungi From Yuggoth poems, harbours, kids are now shuttled between school the home and the mall, ranting against Hawthorne, The House Of The Seven Gables, revolutions in 20th century literature, Ernest Hemingway, the show don't tell revolution, Hawthorne is the telling-est teller who ever telled, the right attitude toward sin, the two facedness of people, Hawthorne is attacking late stage decadent Puritanism, a homosexual vibe, what is the lesson?, science reaches too far?, Gothic horror, the evil wizard or the mad scientist, science as the channel to unlimited power, elixirs, potions, not even futuristic, Georgiana, Aminadab?, where is this story set?, Aylmer's castle, Aylmer's wealth, a compartmentalized life, from the third person POV, the host narration, obsession, the left side, the sinister side, she's been marked, in the dream, chemical means, pre-Darwin, "I've got these old books", Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a natural philosopher, science vs. alchemy vs. magic, Isaac Newton, almost as if he was Ben Franklin, electricity, many suitors, Aylmer's wooing, is Aylmer gaslighting Georgiana?, she's reading, a Medieval heroine, a character of of Greek mythology, is a sex-change story?, is this a boob-job story?, envy, the tips of two small fingers, she's compared to a marble statue, small pox scars, Marilyn Monroe's beauty mark, does positioning matter?, Supernatural Horror And Literature by H.P. Lovecraft, a meditation on obsession, many uninteresting analysis, so little action, beyond the sexual interpretation, Hawthorne doesn't seem all that prudish, how far can you go in purist of perfection in a fallen world, a mark of original sin, wanting knowledge (of good and evil?), the sin of disobedience, Frankenstein and Aylmer are reading the same books, the process of creating a man in Frankenstein, the lightning bolt, Luigi Galvani, grave-robbing, Paracelsus, the gold thing is your way of getting funding, when writing a grant…, this might lead to a cure for cancer(!), alchemy as a religion, The Cask Of Amontillado, Eric S. Rabkin, "the niter, it grows", Montresor or Fortunato, niter, growing human shaped things inside of bottles, poisons, psychology and the occult, the difference between alchemy and science is openness, the Royal Society, Harry Potter's school, there have to be muggles, magically oblivious, J.K. Rowling, natural greed, the ethic of sharing knowledge, France's version of the Royal Society, like the obsession with "open source" or the "public domain", The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe, sooo lifelike, sooo beautifully painted, Gothic horror, the evil mad scientist is destroyed by the power he unleashes, The Portrait Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, the ending, what is Hawthorne saying?, was Aylmer's attempt doomed from the beginning?, Jesse's mom, one of the most important powers of a teacher, she has "THE VOICE", Muad'dib (Paul Atredies), Steve Jobs' reality distortion field, a profound revelation, philosophy and critical thinking, vitamins are bullshit, fish oil woke Fred's brain, North America has the world's most expensive urine, religion wants you to take it on authority, bronze age holy texts, religion as book club where you only ever read one book (or just listen to a guy who did), cynicism or wisdom, loyalty to the organized religion of your family, inherited religions, fundamentalist belief systems, the narcissism of small differences, splintering, revolting revolutionaries, purity of doctrine, young earth creationists, Catholicism as an almost ethnicity (an identity), Hawthorne as a stopgap between H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley, the murky origins of Science Fiction, Dante, Lucifer frozen in the ice, a Gothic ghost story, Frankenstein's obsession is with defeating death, too in love with science, Hawthorne's message is like: "don't drink too much", Greek symposia, what really happened at a Greek symposium, "write drunk and edit sober", The Odyssey, mixing water with wine, getting plastered is a sign on unmanning, the Greek obsession was with finding the moderation between too little and too much, what was Hephzibah's sin?, her sin is being too worried about sin, "you will eat blood", public shaming is a little much, be moderate with your casting of sin, John Wesley, a healthy functioning society, wealth corruption, falling into decadence, the protestant work ethic is kicking-in, Guggenheim, ransoming the grandchild, leaving it all to art, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Fred's all time favourite Science Fiction novel: The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, how do we raise the next generation?, a supercharged Kindle, matter compilers, Star Trek's replicator, eating green sludge, window panes made out of pure diamond, handmade hipsters, how you raise the next generation in a wealthy society, we are unimaginably wealthy, are Japan's young people uninterested in sex?, Richard Dawkins on Twitter, The Last Question by Isaac Asimov, Gothic-y, Science-y, Microcosmic God by Theodore Sturgeon, a great inventor, Neoterics, he's stealing their ideas, the ultimate mad scientist story, following in the tradition, somatoypes, ectomorph (Aylmer), mesomorph (Aminidab), endomorph (Jesse), it's a scam!, Hillary Clinton, the Ronald Reagans of the world, this is astrology, people think that once you've got a word for something you understand it, wearing the mask long enough…, IQ tests, quantification, any time we think we understand the most complex thing in the universe…, there really is a subconscious, tweeting dreams, psychology, the book club with only one book in it, The Great Courses (The Teaching Company), Eric S. Rabkin, survey courses, kooky specializations, the best way to learn, the perennial student, taught not to learn, philosophy of art, credentialism, Jesse can guess the exact words in a student's vocabulary, guess your weight or age, how Jesse gets work, gaming credentialism, no high school diploma, a contempt for institutionalized learning, a play-by-the-rules personality, grade inflation, what did Mussolini do?, intimidation vs. cultivation, give the students the experience of reading, reading as a meeting of minds, defending a dissertation, essays, we're obsessed with essays (for the wrong reason), ohhh spoilers!, the big problem with almost any media, "I don't want to spoil it for you.", testing is easier, a kind of objectivity, don't blame the actors for shitty Hollywood movies, status is society, education as the cultivation of minds, there aren't enough people who are willing to rebel!
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Review of Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
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By Neal Stephenson; Read by Mary Robinette Kowal and Will Damron
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Publication Date: 19 May 2015
[UNABRIDGED] – 31 hours 55 minutes
Themes: / science fiction / apocalypse / space station / humanity / disaster /
Publisher summary:
What would happen if the world were ending?
A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space.
But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain….
Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown…to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth.
Executive Summary: Another interesting book from Mr. Stephenson, that was somehow a bit too short for me despite its 32 hour duration. This one won't be for everyone, but I'd put it on par with many of his previous books.
Audio book: This was my first time listening to a book narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal. She's really excellent. So excellent, that I was pretty disappointed when it changed to Will Damron for Part 3. I'm not sure why they did this. Was Ms. Kowal too busy to finish recording? Was it intentional?
That isn't to say Mr. Damron is a bad narrator. I just didn't like him as much as Ms. Kowal, and the change in narration was jarring. If there was any place in the book it was appropriate to change, it was with Part 3, but I think it would have been better suited if they had just stuck with Ms. Kowal.
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I've been a fan of Mr. Stephenson ever since picking up Snow Crash back in college. I haven't read all of his books, but I've enjoyed all but one of those that I have.
I had no idea what this book was about when I volunteered to review it. Much like most of his work, it's long. The start is a bit slow, and as usual it goes off on tangents and into way more detail than is necessary on things. In some of his books, I've enjoyed those tangents and the excess of detail. In others, less so. This one was somewhere in the middle for me.
This is the kind of thing that will turn many readers away early on. I was never bored myself, but I wasn't really engaged in the book until nearly halfway. In a book this long, that will be too much of a commitment for many. However, I suspect if you enjoy the detail and tangents, you'll be engaged much sooner.
This book is split into three parts. The first part is essentially a present day disaster story. The second is largely a space opera, and the third is a bit of a post apocalyptic tale.
Many authors might have focused on one aspect of this story. Instead of giving us bits of history that help shaped the world of part 3, we live many of the details in parts 1 and 2. For me personally, I would have liked part 1 to be shorter with more time spent on part 3. Part 2 was my favorite of the book, but that may be because I felt despite being a third of the book, part 3 ended too soon.
I have questions still. A lot of them. Is Mr. Stephenson planning a sequel that will contain some of these answers? I hope so.
This isn't a case of a long book that abruptly ends though. For me the issue is that Mr. Stephenson did such a good job with the world building that I want more. I felt like there wasn't enough. I would have happily sacrificed much of the present day (which I found slower anyways), for more time in the future story with the world he created.
Mr. Stephenson doesn't spend all the time on world building either. He develops several interesting characters that are used to make most of the story character-driven. We have a largely female cast, and somewhat diverse background for most of them.
Overall, while this isn't my favorite Neal Stephenson book, I really enjoyed it, and I hope we get another book set in the same world that he built in part 3.
Review by Rob Zak.
The SFFaudio Podcast #322 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
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The SFFaudio Podcast #322 – Jesse and Jenny talk about new audiobook releases and recent audiobook arrivals.
Talked about on today's show:
many sins, paperbooks, The Architect Of Aeons by John C. Wright, Tor Books, The Voyage Of The Basilisk by Marie Brennan, beautiful illustrations and blue text, cover art, a bias against bad art, the way kids talk about book covers, fonts and graphic design, stock photos, don't mix serif'd fonts, use classic art in the public domain, don't muddy it up, Graysun Press Class M Exile by Raven Oak, Star Trek, Self Made Hero, I.N.J. Culbard, The Shadow Out Of Time, The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward, The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath, the difficulty of promotion for small press publishers, Horror!, The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker, John Lee, Macmillan Audio, Pinhead, Hellraiser, random bloody body horror, The Midnight Meat Train, Bradley Cooper, the way Clive Barker's stuff works, Audio Realms, Limbus, Inc. Book 2, a shared world anthology by Jonathan Maberry, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary A. Braunbeck, Joe McKinney, Harry Shannon edited by Brett J. Talley, space for creativity, David Stifel's narration of The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Island Of Doctor Moreau meets Frankenstein done Burroughs style, The Man Without A Soul, David Stifel knows everything about Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton, read by Scott Brick, Mad Max: Fury Road, 3D is a gimmick, Vampire Horror! by M.R. James, John Polidori, F. Marion Crawford, Anthony Head, M.R. James is the country churchyard ghost story guy, John Polidori was Byron's Doctor, Mary Shelley won the contest, The Vampyre by John Polidori, Lord Ruthven is kind of based on Lord Byron, an autobiographical fantasy horror, music!, all the good D words, Survivors by Terry Nation, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, who wrote House, M.D.?, writing credit in the UK, a familiar premise, the original TV series and the remake, The Walking Dead, all the fun stuff we like about post-apocalyptic storytelling, simultaneous existence, The Death Of Grass by John Christopher, A History Of The World In Six Glasses by Tom Standage, our dependence on grasses, The Road, canned food isn't a long term plan, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, deer in the woods, the high price put on poaching, the other solution is cannibalism (also not very sustainable), The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, cutting water, this is already how things are, the atomic bomb scenarios are played out, the water problem, the new dust bowl, North Carolina and South Carolina, Seattle and Vancouver, Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick, read by Phil Gigante, a comic version of Doctor Strangelove, Marissa Vu, Paul Weimer, The Gold Coast by Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, Luke Burrage's reviews of the Orange County books, Find Me by Laura van den Berg, silver blisters?, Guy de Maupassant style, The End Has Come edited by Hugh Howey and John Joseph Adams, Carrie Vaughn, Megan Arkenberg, Will McIntosh, Scott Sigler, Sarah Langan, Chris Avellone, Seanan McGuire, Leife Shallcross, Ben H. Winters, David Wellington, Annie Bellet, Tananarive Due, Robin Wasserman, Jamie Ford, Elizabeth Bear, Jonathan Maberry, Charlie Jane Anders, Jake Kerr, Ken Liu, Mira Grant, Hugh Howey, Nancy Kress, Margaret Atwood's serial, Science Fiction in Space and the Desert, Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, read by Mary Robinette Kowal and Will Damron, very sciencey, too many Jesses, Rob's commute, Nova by Margaret Fortune, read by Jorjeana Marie, a human bomb, Imposter by Philip K. Dick, The Fold by Peter Clines, read by Ray Porter, another Philip K. Dick story called Prominent Author, a joke story, 14 by Peter Clines, Expanded Universe, Vol. 1 by Robert A. Heinlein, read by Bronson Pinchot, Blackstone Audio, Robert A. Heinlein is a weird idea man, Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey, Hachette Audio, Sword & Laser, The Darkling Child (The Defenders of Shannara) by Terry Brooks, read by Simon Vance, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, larger than life voices, The Red Room by H.G. Wells, the accents, BBC audio dramas of James Bond books, the David Niven Casino Royale, The Brenda & Effie Mysteries: Brenda Has Risen From the Grave! (4), Bafflegab, Darwin's Watch: The Science of Discworld III: A Novel by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, read by Michael Fenton Stevens and Stephen Briggs, Uprooted by Naomi Novik, read by Julia Emelin, The Invasion of the Tearling by Erika Johansen, read by Davina Porter, Sarah Monette's The Goblin Emperor, coming of age in a fantasy world, librarians recommend!
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The SFFaudio Podcast #276 – READALONG: Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
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The SFFaudio Podcast #276 – Jesse, Tamahome, and Fred discuss Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway.
Today's podcast is sponsored by Downcast, a terrific podcast app for iPhone and iPad.
Talked about on today's show:
Fredösphere's (Fred Heimbaugh's) choice, the Ann Arbour Science Fiction And Fantasy Literary Discussion Group (founded by Eric S. Rabkin), the audiobook, the confusing and scatter first half of the book, the audio version, Daniel Wayman is one of the best narrator's Fred's ever heard, A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (read by Paul Giamati), some books are better as audiobooks and some are better as textual books, Anathem by Neal Stephenson, Tony C. Smith, StarShipSofa, the glossary takes 30 minutes, Angelmaker is 18 hours, you have to pay close attention, do you listen to podcasts?, our SPONSOR: Downcast, the new iOS, Apple's Podcasts App sucks, Downcast allows you to ultra-customize your podcast feeds, Levelator, volume booster for podcasts are too quiet, Protecting Project Pulp, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and Common Sense, noisy environments, the Downcast app is $3, updating feeds on the go, a podcast queue, if it isn't in the iTunes store …, your custom HuffDuffer feed works great with Downcast, the SFSignal Three Hoarsemen Podcast, Tamahome uses Downcast, back to our regular programing, Jesse has no opinion about Angelmaker, this is Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere by somebody else, the Neverwhere BBC TV adaptation, Nick Harkaway's writing voice and actual voice are similar to Neil Gaiman's, a completely undisciplined novel, a meandering through-line, the prose was "too plummy", an editor with a strong whip-hand, Harkaway is enamored with great ideas, Goodreads has angry and bitter four and five star reviews for Angelmaker, unfinished novels don't often get reviewed, books take a lot of time, why is it present third person every day tense?, breezy and informal sixteen-hour shaggy dog story, really really good writing, Ted Chiang, just because it's old doesn't mean it's good, Tam is surprised, history and science, Neil Gaiman's wild son?, talking about interesting things in interesting ways with interested characters, sexually aggressive women, a pulp fiction novel, Fred lays out the plot, Joe Spork, Matthew "Tommy-Gun" Spork, the grandfather, clockwork bees, a doomsday device, a female James Bond, the evil Asian mastermind, absurdly competent, Remo Williams, the Opium Khan aka Shem Shem Tsien, a brilliant French scientist (a Hakote), the "Apprehension Engine", fundamentally transform human consciousness, waves, "step one: steal underpants", instantly intuit the truth of reality, Nick Harkaway is interested in interesting things, the throwaway ideas, Project Habakkuk, a WWII project in a WWII setting, an aircraft carrier built out of ice, the u-boat service, cool and interesting, the frozen submarine and the frozen air-craft carrier, if Jesse wrote fiction…, a submarine and an elephant in the same sentence, this book has dream-logic, Harkaway wanted the submarine encased in ice and didn't care if it was implausible (a rumour), torture, sex, a Saint-Crispin's speech, an adventure book, humour?, funny?, a romp?, silly?, allusions, The Gone-Away World, Tigerman, steam-punk, clock-punk, the etymology of the word "punk", coming from the street, about the visual, about the body, Neuromancer, looking and acting like a punk, steampunk is about dressing up, form and colour over function, Hayao Miyazaki, an obsession with body parts, an obsession with torture, "fingers getting cut-off", one of the Goodreads reviews, the toe obsession, Polly's sexy and knowledgeable toe, this book is a thousand Chekhov's guns, the toothless dog, the Snowy of this novel, Tin Tin, Tam should read Tin Tin, Angelmaker would be a really good HBO show, the names, Spork, Friend, Cradle, realism is not being strived for, a word cloud for Angelmaker, what words are being used, over description, the main character looks at himself in a mirror, not a mirror but polished brass, very clever Nick Harkaway, René Descartes, a steam-punk pulp adventure spy thriller, Robert E. Howard's muscular description of colour, Howard wrote short, a serious issue, very interesting and difficult reading, the tense, Nick Harkaway is Neal Stephenson by way of P.G. Wodehouse, people drowning in a world of epic fantasy, Grimm's Fairy Tales characters are puppets, over-description, Joshua Joseph Spork embraces his gansterhood, Luke Burrage's complaint about American Gods, the character arc, false or indulgent, decapitating the evil mastermind, the Thompson sub-machine gun, aggressively turning off a large portion of one's brain, Ada Lovelace, trains are cool, cheap complaints, an unplugged wild adventure book, Blood Music by Greg Bear (short story and novels), what is he trying to say here?, science fiction writers, Eon, The Wind From A Burning Woman is an amazing author collection, despite the caveats, the "grey goo problem" and the nature of consciousness, is it the case we are not seeing the world directly?, medium sized objects, trucks and trees, Jesse found it very frustrating, the movie people, a comic booky plot, animation?, John le Carré, paging Dr. Freud, no editors, do editors even exist any more, Marissa Vu works for the author, enjoy a ride and live in a world and drown in an environment, the reader makes an investment in the world building, Darkon (2006), LARPing (live action role playing), Cory Doctorow, Jim Butcher, regular people, Elidor and Aquilonia, more fun to play than to watch, Dungeons & Dragons, more word-play and less shield-taping, escaping from a horrible day job, Thomas Jefferson's idea for state-names, Fred's novel, "you're not like most people you read books", to each there own, make it shorter and better, a unit of Jesse (7 hours), Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott, the modern medieval romance, Game Of Thrones, why Fred fully forgives Angelmaker's failings, scenes that don't just advance the plot, when Jesse wrote fiction it was terrible, being blind to your own faults, self-blindness, the four boxes, incompetent but self-aware, the inevitable decline, Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch, Stephen King, William Gibson, Altered Carbon by Richard K. 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The SFFaudio Podcast #259 – NEW RELEASES/RECENT ARRIVALS
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The SFFaudio Podcast #259 – Jesse, Scott, Tamahome, and Seth talk about NEW RELEASES and RECENT ARRIVALS.
Talked about on today's show: a vintage podcast with Scott, R.I.P. RadioArchive.cc, Radio Downloader app, audio drama, Brad Lansky and the Alien at Planet X is full of sound, it's like Ruby, Richmond Smokes a Joint, The Cleansed, are movies the most respected art form?, Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization by Alexander Irvine, postmodernism, Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 4 edited by Ellen Datlow, Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop, a group of crows is murder, Night Watch #2 and #3 by Sergei Lukyanenko, the Night Watch series discussed on A Good Story Is Hard To Find #57 podcast, "a three volume novel", Dickens serial novels, Blood Oranges by Kathleen Tierney, what Michael Jackson says at the end of songs, The Line by J. D. Horn, Jenny is studying Turkish, Sky Raiders by Brandon Mull, kids at schools love him, Raising Steam (Discworld #40) by Terry Pratchett, regular narrators for series, The Companions (The Sundering #1, Legend of Drizzt #24, Forgotten Realms) by R. A. Salvatore, Dungeons and Dragons, many Dragonlance books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Jesse read them!, what is your D&D Alignment??, vs the Ultima eight virtues, "he's got cool eyes", Magic's Promise by Mercedes Lackey, William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back by Ian Doescher, purists won't like it, more alignment talk, Z 2135 (Z 2134 #2) by David Wright and Sean Platt, Fractured by D.J. Molles, Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper, The Rift by Bob Mayer, The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic, To Honor You Call Us by H. Paul Honsinger, The Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson (a folklorist!), The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era by Craig Nelson, Lockstep by Karl Schroeder, who was on Geek's Guide #106, can't find it in my local bookstore, was serialized in Analog, His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science Fiction of C. M. Kornbluth, Pickman's Model by Lovecraft, guess who had that made?, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine's missing chapter, The True Detective was inspired by The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, Galveston: A Novel by Nic Pizzolatto (creator of True Detective), Words Of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson is longer than all of C.M. Kornbluth's work, Terpkristin gave it five stars on Goodreads, Luke's alignment, Brian K. Vaughan's Saga comic with the Lying Cat, Mask Of The Red Panda graphic novel, it's an audio drama podcast too at Decoder Ring Theatre, Julie's alignment, Martians Go Home by Frederic Brown, Screaming Mimi and Honeymoon In Hell as well, The Frightened Fish (Doc Savage) from radioarchives.com, Doc Savage is a comic from Dynamite too, "hair is like a helmet", Haldeman's Forever Peace, Work Done For Hire, Haldeman's quote about "write what you know", Haldeman's Star Trek novels, Jesse thinks he's f'ing awesome, Seth likes Neal Stephenson, Project Hieroglyph, Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy, in the optimistic axis, The Woman In Black by Susan Hill (and original film)
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Review of The Mongoliad, Book Two
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The Mongoliad Book Two
By Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear, Mark Teppo, Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo, and Nicole Galland; Narrated by Luke Daniels
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Length: 12.5 hours
Themes: / mongoliad / martial arts / fantasy / monks / conquests / Mongols /
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In the aftermath of the Mongolian invasion of 1241, beleaguered Christians struggle with the presence of a violent horde and a world turned upside down. Apocalyptic fever sweeps through Europe, infecting even the most rational individuals, leaving all to wonder if they are seeing the end times — or an hour when new heroes will emerge from the ruins of cataclysmic defeat. An order of warrior monks, the Shield-Brethren, refuses to yield, plotting to overthrow the invaders despite insurmountable odds. Father Rodrigo Bendrito receives a prophecy from God and believes it's his mission to deliver the message to Rome. Along with the hunter Ferenc, orphan Ocyrhoe, healer Raphael, and alchemist Yasper, Rodrigo sets out to reclaim Europe. But to save Christendom, someone must slay the fierce Khan of Khans. Brimming with intrigue and colorful characters, The Mongoliad: Book Two is a riveting, expertly rendered tale about the will to survive.
Much like The Mongoliad: Book One, The Mongoliad: Book Two tells a myriad of parallel stories, all centered around the Mongol conquests in medieval Europe. There isn't much that I can say about this book, Book Two, that I didn't say in my review of Book One.
This book continues most of the plot lines opened in Book One, and adds a couple more. I suppose/suspect that each different author wrote a different parallel story. I'm not sure that a book that is the overall length of the trilogy (the first two books are about 13 hours long each, the third is about 22 hours long) really needs as many parallel stories as the books seem to have–and that's before I've started Book Three, which may add more stories. It's like reading a story with as many parallel plot lines as The Wheel of Time series or the A Song of Ice and Fire series but with a fraction of the total page count. This makes it confusing to keep track of story progress (overall) and each of the characters. This is also made more confusing by the odd names used. As I wrote in my review of Book One, I suspect that this would be easier to read in print, or at least with a wiki of a cast of characters. I'm amazed that I can't seem to find one online.
As with Book One, the book didn't come to any conclusion, it just ended. At least this one didn't end in the middle of a heated battle. Oddly, Book Two didn't pick up exactly where Book One left off. This book started with a new plot line, one with a warrior traveling with a severely injured priest to Rome. I spent a good amount of time when I started Book Two listening and re-listening to the first part; I was trying to jog my memory to remember the plot line from Book One. It took me awhile to realize that the story was brand new for Book Two. The story lines so far seem to be:
– The brother knights on their quest to defeat Ogedai (spelling?) Kahn; they have sustained some losses but also have picked up a few extra travelers in their party, including a warrior woman. They also have a brother with them who has visions; he had one in Book One which we saw the outcome of in Book Two. He had another vision in Book Two, which I expect we'll see the resolution of in Book One.
– The remaining brother knights trying to distract the Kahn's brother and his traveling circus of fighters; these guys seem to be trying to form a rebellion from within the circus. Andreas is helping to lead this rebellion with the two most prevalent Mongol fighters in the circus.
– Ogedai Kahn's point of view, where he is now under attack by the Chinese.
– GonSuk, an adviser/guard to Ogedai Kahn (as well as some of his fellow advisers/guards who are with and without him).
– The Levonian (spelling?) knights, who seem to be out to try to re-gain status in the world. They seem to be in conflict with the Rose Knights (the brother knights on the quest). Their role is not exactly clear yet, but it seems that they have ties to the church. This was a new story line for Book Two.
– The cardinals in Rome who are split into two factions for the election of the next Pope. This was a new story line for Book Two and it's not exactly clear the differences between the factions.
– A wandering warrior and a young warrior girl (one similar to the warrior woman with the Rose Knights, though this young girl is still in training), who have been sent on a quest by one of the cardinals; the cardinal who gave them the quest to pass a message was killed. This was also a new story line for Book Two.
As much of a downer as this review seems, I'm still intrigued. I don't get it, as this defies most of my typical "rules" for books. This time, I'm going to move right into Book Three, instead of reading a few books in between. Book Three is almost twice as long as Book One or Book Two. I enjoy this world, even though it seems like there are too many story lines and too much going on…with confusing characters. I do think that this world is better-suited to the prequels and the "Side Quest" books. I've already read two of the prequels (and have the other one, Seer: A Prequel to the Mongoliad, ready to read), and have three of the Side Quests ready to read once I'm done with the main story. Stay tuned for my review of Book Three, which will include an overall review of the main story line of the "series."
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#20662 closed New feature (invalid)
Embedding views in templates
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I think there is a common need to use reuse logic-backed data in multiple places (e.g. latest comments box in a blogging app)
While RequestContexts may work in some cases , it may not be the right-by-design solution for a bit more complex ones.
A well-known solution among django community is use of templatetags: (e.g. QA1, QA2)
But regarding the NIH-syndrome I don't think it would be a good idea to invent yet-another-templatetag for each embedded view, which I've already seen it in many projects.
I suppose having a render_view templatetag in core would both increase code reuse and readability. See Symfony2 for an equivalent approach.
The implementation would be pretty straightforward, with a new simple_tag forwarding calls to appropriate view. A bonus would be the ability provide ajax-based partial contents.
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comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by semekh
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Django views take an HTTP request and return an HTTP response. A full HTTP response, including status code and headers, not a snippet of rendered HTML to fill in part of a complete response. Since views return full HTTP responses I don't see how a render_view template tag can make sense; you cannot embed a full HTTP response as part of a template you are rendering. If you want to do advanced processing of some sort in a re-usable way in your application, the way to do that is with a custom template tag.
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by semekh
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What about ajax views? Think of the render_view using only ajax-natured views: those returning partial content.
Let's rephrase that, if "view" doesn't make enough sense, and use "function" instead of "view".
What I'm seeing as an anti-pattern, is the pretty-much-same code being duplicated under different tag names in different projects. And I'd say the "right" way is not that hard: Have a simple function/view/whatever-suits renderer tag!
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by kmtracey
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An ajax view still returns a complete HTTP response. And I'm confused as to how you would want that rendered in a template. If you want a tag that renders a (sub)-template, that's called an inclusion tag (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/custom-template-tags/#inclusion-tags). Without specifics I have no idea what you are referring to when you say you see an anti-pattern of pretty much the same code duplicated under different names in different project, nor how some sort of "render it" tag would fix that. Possibly you should take this discussion to the django-developers mailing list to get feedback from others; I'm sorry but what you are asking for here isn't making sense to me.


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Also at Wednesday's meeting, John Lannom, attorney for the port authority, updated the board on several key items including the approval of the port's Foreign Trade Zone application. Mike Philpot, executive director of the West Tennessee Industrial Association, was in attendance and thanked Lannom and the board for their support in getting the application processed. Philpot said that the next step is to make presentations to some area businesses to make them aware of the benefits of having an FTZ.
As a recognized FTZ, the port authority will have the authority to license other trade zones in the area generating a revenue source for the port. Lannom told the board that he is in the process of putting together documents on what the board's responsibilities are with this new designation.
"When you're dealing with a Foreign Trade Zone, the potential for the train jumping the tracks is huge," said Lannom. "We want to build appropriate infrastructure to guard against that."
Lannom also reported that he had spoken with Rep. Bill Sanderson on Tuesday afternoon about funding for the railway extension to the port site. According to Lannom, Sanderson said he had discussed the matter with Gov. Bill Haslam, who requested that a letter be drafted with the specifics of their funding request and for what purpose. Lannom explained to the board that the initial costs for the railway extension limited to the various studies that had to be performed as well as the Safety Transportation Board application would cost around $1 million.
The board also received a project update from Michael Sanders of Forcum Lannom Contractors. Sanders says that the water levels continue to be monitored and although they received a "bump" to around 2 feet earlier in the week, that was only temporary and continues to hover around 1.2 feet on the New Madrid scale.
Sanders reported that the concrete slab for the warehouse was not damaged except where the anchors were pulled out. According to Sanders, there was bracing on the warehouse structure but it wasn't adequate enough for the winds that day. Sanders would not say if the bracing was reasonable enough, only saying, "that was a different question". Sanders told the board on Wednesday that the warehouse work should be done by the last week in January with Choctaw Construction able to finish its remaining work by the first week in March.
Sanders provided a budget update, which he stated was also sent to MARAD earlier in the week. The updated budget shows how tight the project will run the rest of the way with the contingency budget down to just under $72,000.
"It is getting real tight here down the stretch," said Sanders.
Sanders also reported that the minor delays have required that the port authority extend its builder's risk insurance as well as sending a formal request to MARAD to extend the project.
Chairman Jimmy Williamson closed out the meeting with a few comments. Williamson said the board needed to start thinking about hiring a port director that would be separate from a port operator. The port director would be required to keep normal business hours and be on site. Williamson said it would be discussed further at the next meeting.
Williamson also reported that Ken Eriksen of Informa Economics would have a draft business plan ready after the first of the year.
In other business:
* Lannom reported that they are working with MARAD on the reimbursement of the second camera installed at the port site. Sanders noted the benefits of the second camera, which captured the collapse of the warehouse.
* Williamson said he expected to receive official word from the Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday afternoon on when they will return to resume dredging operations at the harbor.
* Williamson noted that the next port authority meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 14 will take place at the Obion County Library.


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Mini Meatloaf with Potato Frosting
|For meatloaf
|Turkey breast meat
|1 Pound, ground
|To Taste
|To Taste
|Worcestershire sauce
|2 Tablespoon
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), chopped finely
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs), chopped finely
|2 Large, lightly beaten
|Cream of mushroom
|14 Ounce (1 can)
|Non-stick cooking spray
|3 Dash
|For mashed potatoes
|2 Large, cleaned, washed
|2 Teaspoon
|Mustard paste
|1 Teaspoon (spicy)
|1 Tablespoon
|Garlic powder
|1 Teaspoon
|For the glaze
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Brown sugar
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|1 Teaspoon
|Worcestershire sauce
|1 Tablespoon
|Butter extract
|1 Teaspoon
1. Clean and wash the potatoes. Make holes using a fork all around.
2. Wrap it in wet paper towel and microwave it till it is soft.
3. Take it out of the microwave and slice it carefully. Peel it and transfer to a bowl. Set aside.
4. GLAZE: In a bowl, add ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and butter extract. Mix it well to a smooth mixture.
5. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
6. Take a muffin pan, spray non-stick cooking spray.
7. In a bowl, put all the ingredients of meatloaf.
8. Using clean hands mix them well till combined.
9. Take filling in a spoon and fill the prepared muffin grooves evenly. Tap to even them out.
10. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
11. After 20 minutes, take out the muffin tray and drain off the rendered fat. Resume baking for another 10 minutes.
12. Remove the meatloaf from the oven and apply the glaze over it generously.
13. Place it back in the oven and resume baking for 10 more minutes.
14. MASHED POTATOES: Into the bowl with baked potato, add pepper, salt, butter, spicy mustard, water/ milk and garlic powder. Mix well till all are well combined.
15. Spread the mashed potatoes over the meatloaf and bake it for another 5- 10 minutes or till the potatoes begin to turn light brown.
16. In a serving plate, serve the meatloaf with any salad of choice.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 223 Calories from Fat 64
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 7 g11.1%
Saturated Fat 2 g10.2%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 61.6 mg20.5%
Sodium 385.6 mg16.1%
Total Carbohydrates 27 g9%
Dietary Fiber 2.7 g10.7%
Sugars 7.1 g
Protein 13 g26.5%
Vitamin A 3.7% Vitamin C 20.9%
Calcium 3.6% Iron 12.7%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet