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philippe starck: AXOR starck organic – water saving faucet
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designboom was in berlin for the debut of 'AXOR starck organic', a bathroom collection which is the result of a collaborative venture between luxury bathroom line AXOR of the german compnay hansgrohe and philippe starck. taking its formal cues from nature, the minimalist device prioritizes sustainable water practices with low flow rates of 3.5 liters per minute (on a booster setting one is able to receive a maximum flow rate of 5 liters per minute). what is unique about starck's mixer is that it steers away from the classic single lever options on the market. instead, the 'AXOR starck organic' presents a design which features two ergonomic and intuitive handles, separating the temperature control, located at the top of the mixer, from the water volume control, positioned at the lower end of the spout. these elements are harmoniously integrated into the body, and by having them function as self-contained parts, allows for economic water consumption. for example, having your personal temperature setting pre-adjusted, means less water is used to reach your desired heat or cold intensity.
the overall body of the tap uses 1/2 less brass than conventional products with a hollow body, and decoupled flow prevents water from coming into direct contact with the mixer, keeping drinking water free from lead and nickel interferences at all times. the resulting spray introduces a new sensation within conventional water basins. gentle drops of water are released from 90 individual outlets creating an efficient spread. merging comfort with responsible water use encourages a new and positive norm in how we look at our consumption of the natural resource.
or its north american debut, the mixers are now available in gold, as an expression of the line's exclusivity and luxuriousness
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comprised of more than 40 products for all aspects of the bathroom: including four faucet heights and wall mounted solutions, as well as exposed or concealed-mounted shower and bathtub fixtures using thermostatic energy, the formal elements of 'AXOR starck organic' allow it to be combined harmoniously with other collections of the range, its shape based off starck's original design for AXOR 20 years ago, which was influenced by a simple outdoor farm tap.
the mixer features two ergonomic handles which separate the water flow intensity and temperature controls from each other
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'in our very first discussions about this new project, it was already clear to us, that we were aiming for a new way to use water in a responsible way', recalls philippe grohe. starck adds: 'this collection is yet another revolution, a new cocktail of highest technology and good philosophy.
installation view of 'AXOR starck organic' during new york design week 2013
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wall mounted 2-handle basin mixer
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mixer for the bathtub
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the 'AXOR starck organic' at its debut in berlin, september 2012:
'AXOR starck organic' by philippe starck for AXOR hansgrohe
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philippe starck
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two of the collection's faucet typologies
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detail of the water outlets
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90 individual countless produce countless drops of water
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'AXOR starck organic' in context
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e-werk in berlin, germany where 'AXOR starck organic' debuted
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'AXOR starck organic' collection is comprised of 40 pieces
form-finding sketches of AXOR starck collection by philippe starck 20 years ago
we have updated the original article from september 19th, 2012–below see images of the new finishes available for the 'AXOR starck organic' bathroom collection, along with a new video of philippe starck talking about his design at the north american premier of the collection during new york design week 2013. for its debut, AXOR has showcased the bathroom fixtures in a lustrous gold custom finish, which illustrates the exclusivity of the line.
often brilliant, this however is a dud
The faucet's 'innovative' on/off idea is very similar to my (more integrated) design from 2008: http://lenart.pl/projects/tubelina/ Oh well
Absolutely fantastic !! I am in general not a big fan of Starck, but the organic shape perfectly fits the intent of this water/energy saving faucet. I also find it really well done, with the typical chrome aspect of bathrooms together with some kind of 'natural' touch on top.
I wish they weren't so expensive!
Can somebody please send me a
couple for my own home?
Excellent work Mr Starck.


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Yum! first show of Fringe Fest
Stories about food. Songs about food. A long-cherished recipe (and a chance to win a piece of that cake). A cooking demonstration.
Why not start the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival with a show about food? It's the one thing everyone can relate to.
This show is really 30 or more years in the making for Beth Ely Sleboda, who will sing, talk, play the dulcimer and cook during Yum!, which starts at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Writers & Books, 740 University Ave.
Sleboda, 62, started her career as a home ec teacher in Livonia, and a beloved bus driver had a most delicious cake recipe. Sleboda latched onto it because it was a good way to show her students basic measurements and what cooking from scratch means.
She calls it the Love Cake and, with variations, has since become central to family celebrations.
Here's the basic recipe:
Love Cake
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1 cup cocoa
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup canola oil
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups boiling water or hot coffee
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease cake pan of your choice, one 13-by-9-inch rectangular pan or two 9-inch circle pans.
Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl.
In another bowl, mix together oil, eggs and vanilla. Add dry ingredients to the wet ones, and thoroughly blend. Stir in the boiling water or coffee.
Beat on low speed for 2 minutes. Transfer to cake pan(s).
Bake in oven for 30 minutes, or until toothpick is clean.
Called Anne's Love Cake (after Sleboda's mother), make in round layers and spread apricot jam between the layers Top with a dollop of whipped cream and garnish with toasted, sliced almonds.
Other variations are to serve with cherry pie filling, heated with a bit of almond flavoring, or cubed and frozen with vanilla, mint or coffee ice cream, then serve topped with chocolate sauce.
Back to the show
Beth's life has been marked by her service to others: her son, now 41; her mother; her students.
The improvisation in her act comes from her years of work with developmentally disabled adults where she went to group homes and helped with different music therapies.
But the stories come from a range across her life. Her scarves all have stories. There's Latte Love, a coffee-colored scarf. A multi-colored scarf that has a "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" story tied to it. A wild and crazy scarf that will lead into the live demonstration of making pomegranate jam during an interactive audience music jam during which she'll play the mountain dulcimer.
She also will make whipped cream. Who knows what will happen there?
The songs will include "Hello, Jell-O" and "Gimme Another of them Creme-filled Donuts!"
In October, Sleboda will be at Theatre 101 in Mount Morris with Ritual … a Celebration of Harvest and Halloween. She also performs her shows at private functions.
For more information about the Fringe Festival, go to RochesterFringe.com.
Along the way, she plans to give away at least one of her scarves, cookbooks and pieces of the Love Cake made for the day.

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Summit Board of County Commissioners hears update from Denver Water
October 25, 2013
The secret to solving the impending and already highly divisive water shortage concerns on the Front Range could be as simple as modeling future growth after the great cities of the East and Midwest, a high ranking Denver Water official said this week.
On Tuesday, Jim Lochhead, CEO and manager of Denver Water, met with the Summit Board of County Commissioners during a workshop in Frisco. Lochhead provided the commissioners with an update on Denver Water's service system following September's historic flooding on the Front Range.
Although Lochhead said the system worked "perfectly" in the sense that service to customers was not interrupted and no dams were breached during the flood, Denver Water sustained $15 million to $20 million in damage to roads, exposed conduits and one of its gravel pits located near the South Platte River.
Despite the damage, and Denver Water's commitment to assist its partner communities in recovering from flood damage, Lochhead said there is a silver lining to take away from the event. According to the most recent reports, Denver Water's reserves, which consist of 15 fully or partially owned reservoirs across more than 4,000 square miles of watershed in eight counties, is at 96 percent capacity.
Gross Reservoir near Boulder, for example, gained 7,600 acre-feet of water and went up in elevation by 19.6 feet as a result of the flooding, Lochhead said, which equates to an increase in storage of about 26 percent. Gross Reservoir¹s capacity is 41,811 acre-feet, according to Denver Water¹s website.
Lake Dillon, Denver Water's largest reservoir at 257,304 acre-feet, also is reporting some of its highest seasonal levels in history, Lochhead said.
But the increased water capacity presents a handful of short-term challenges, Lochhead said, including spring water management should the High Country receive dense snowpack this winter. All of its water comes from mountain snowmelt, according to the Denver Water website.
More important, however, is the fact that the recent increase in capacity does little to ease future water shortage concerns as Denver, the Front Range and the rest of Colorado continue to grow in population.
According to the State Demography Office, Colorado's population is forecasted to increase from a little more than 5 million people in 2010 to close to 8 million people by 2040. Much of that growth is expected to take place on the Front Range, pitting urban residents and elected officials against their Western Slope neighbors in the battle for future water rights.
The division is unnecessary, Lochhead told the commission, saying stakeholders should begin to shift their focus away from what's best for their individual regions and start addressing future population growth in a way that benefits the entire state.
Prior to joining Denver Water in 2010, Lochhead was a shareholder at the Denver law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP, where he worked on a variety of water resource issues both nationally and internationally. He's also served as the governor's representative on interstate Colorado River operations, and had appointments to the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Upper Colorado River Commission, Great Outdoors Colorado and Colorado's Roadless Area Task Force.
"Whenever I get a chance to speak on the Front Range my focus is on our inability to sustain growth if it continues to sprawl halfway to Kansas," Lochhead said. "We can talk about efficient showerheads and low-flow toilets, but until we get to the issue of sprawl we're just scratching the surface."
Lochhead's idea is fairly simple — encourage upward, rather than outward growth along the Front Range and the challenges surrounding water conservation will begin to remedy themselves.
For example, a single-family home with a garden in Denver uses the same amount of water as a four-unit building constructed on a similar-sized lot, he said. However, much of the growth on the Front Range is sprawling away from urban centers; meeting growing water needs is only exacerbated by the current trend of purchasing or building single-family homes on quarter-acre lots.
It's a type of growth that is unsustainable not only in terms of water use, Lochhead said, but also in terms of providing services, such as transportation and energy delivery, because property tax revenue cannot meet the needs that come with a sprawling population.
"We're totally committed to conservation, totally committed to conserving as much as we can, but there's also a lot to be said about growing a vibrant, urban landscape in Colorado," Lochhead said. "It protects our open space, doesn't require water to be taken from the West Slope, and a denser population creates more economic, educational and cultural opportunities for everyone in the state."
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Just got mine this morning. Been listening music for a good half an hour, but these were instantly groovy! You're right in saying that they're definitely AKG, but to me seem a definite upgrade to the K272HD, which I was using on my way to the post office. Awesomely tuneful bass presentation, smooth sailing with the music across the register. I have no trouble distinguishing harmonics. Modal jazz is a breeze, Duke playing those low volume synth things on Zappa albums... Fantastic, everything's there.
Ah, might be new toy syndrome, but I've been instantly disappointed with many other purchases: in other words, I know what I like and don't usually let anything fool me outside of context, which is the music itself.
Can't wait for these to burn in! ... In other words, gain more experience with different music with them and learn to appreciate them for their qualities even more.
Ooh, very musical! ... Just have to add, these are probably not for Rhythmdevils. Bass is very linear and notes are distinguishable, haven't heard better bass-reproduction in any closed headphone. I'll try to compare these to the 8400's at some point, since they have some really good points. These are much smoother though and the bass production of the 8400 doesn't come even close I'm safe to say.
I've never heard the K272HD, but I did own a set of K271MKII which many sources indicated were the same (with different accessories e.g. cables included.)
The K550's are immensely better. Especially the extension at both ends, but in other ways as well.
As for the KNS8400's, I sold mine after buying the K550's.
I do think the 8400's are good value at their price point.
Also like your comments about the bass on the K550's - must agree it's tuned very well.
Very "there", but not overwhelming. Controlled and articulate.


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The evolution of fatherhood with host Anthony Tunstall. Issues that concern fathers. Being a good father. With guests Sam Simmons, Behavioral Counselor at Samuel Simmons Consulting and Senator Jeff Hayden (DFL) District 61
Promoting local women musicians and programs that focus on empowering girls and women. With hosts Lisa Whitney, Jenny Case, and Vanessa Bray.


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Joe E. Conley, age 65, died Monday, January 29, 2007, at Kansas Medical Center Andover, Wichita. The family will greet friends Friday, 6:30 until 7:30 P.M., at the Flint Hills Community Church in Cottonwood Falls.
Friends may call at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home Friday, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. and at the church from 6 - 8 p.m. A celebration of life service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, February 3, 2007, at the church with The Rev. Norbert Tegtmeier, of the Messiah Lutheran Church in Emporia, officiating. Burial will follow in Grandview Cemetery on the Chase-Lyon County Line. The family requests that everyone dress casually for the service.
Joe E. Conley, the son of Doyle E. and Twila King Conley, was born January 7,1942, at Wichita. He was a long time resident of rural Chase County. He grew up in the Saffordville area and graduated from Saffordville High School in 1959. He was married to Dolores "Toots" Kewley. They were divorced. He and Jean Crane Dreasher were married June 1,1988, in Emporia. She survives.
He was a maintenance engineer at Newman Regional Health for 25 years and was semi-retired. He enjoyed fishing and hunting and spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife, Jean, of the home; two sons, Bruce Conley and Brad Conley, both of rural Emporia; his parents of Emporia; a sister, Jolene Rhodes of Americus; a step-son, Brian Dreasher of Emporia; a step-daughter, Kayla Delgado of Americus; and 13 grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Bryan Doyle Conley on July 14, 1994.
Memorial contributions to the American Heart Association may be sent in care of Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.


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Is there anyone using Rhino5 for lasercutting.?
I have this problem with text in rhino. The "O" for example becomes a Octagon when it is lasercut. This happens to every round curve.
What should I do? What are the settings in the export to DXF format?
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That's because you're using the "default" export scheme for exporting to DWG/DXF.
Try the "CAM Imperial" (inches) or "CAM Metric (mm) instead.
Consider taking a look at the conversion options in the named export schemes to fine tune the export for your needs.
Hi John. Thanx!
I will try it tomorrow and will tell you about it. Now it's time to go to bed. Here its 23:30 .
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Bouman, a former Mennonite family of Emden, East Friesland, Germany. Two of its members went into the ministry. Hermanus Lambertus Bouman (d. 1865) served 1819-1824 at ?, 1824-1834 at Makkum, and 1834-1864 at Veenwoudsterwal. His son Heyke Uden Heykes Bouman (1828-1878) was pastor of Den Ilp-Landsmeer 1853-1854 and Noord-Zijpe 1854-1878. Both had been educated at the Amsterdam Mennonite seminary.
Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
Date Published | 1959 |
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. "Bouman family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 30 Mar 2017. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bouman_family&oldid=75910.
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1959). Bouman family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 30 March 2017, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bouman_family&oldid=75910.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Kitchener, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 1068. All rights reserved.
©1996-2017 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Holiday Inn Express Atlanta NE - I-85 Clairmont
Enjoy the Holiday Inn Express Atlanta NE conveniently located off I-85 minutes from downtown and close to the Buckhead, Decatur, and Midtown areas. Offering complimentary parking and local shuttle service, this Emory hotel provides guests easy access to Emory Hospital, Georgia Tech, VA Medical Center, Oglethorpe, the CDC and more. Take advantage of complimentary Wi-Fi throughout the hotel. Enjoy spacious guest room accommodations at one of the most affordable hotels in Atlanta. Our guest rooms feature flat-screen HDTVs with 114 channel selection. Equipped with micro and mini-fridge, executive desk, and a variety of other hotel amenities, your hotel near Emory area is a good value. While visiting Georgia, stay at Holiday Inn Express Atlanta NE near Decatur one of the top family hotels in Atlanta near downtown attractions. We feature a spacious lobby for gathering and Tuesday - Wednesday evening receptions. Stay at the Holiday Inn Express Atlanta NE for Southern charm and friendly staff.
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Sunday: All Day
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I try to watch these now and then, but the extremely long narrative and seemingly stream-of-consciousness style that these have (nearly an hour long) makes it painful to watch. I'm sure there is good banter and points to made. However, the slow sections just make me unable to devote what would be the equivalent of say, an episode of House. Would it be possible to index the video and post links to sections/issues discussed in case I just want to check out a specific topic?I may still not watch the whole thing, but my viewership would increase as I wouldn't have to play Russian roulette with the advancement/clicking of the bar to figure out what is going on in the video.
More info ... less personalities. I can only take so much of the presenter's ego tripping. Some humor is fine ... I liked the Darnell jokes. And yes, I also spent a lot of time trying to skip that crap to get information.
90% of it has nothing to do with video. Just push play and do something else. You should be a pro at multitasking with your ADD. You guys must not listen to the radio at all, because this is exactly what a radio station is like. That too you can listen to while doing other things.
OMG, Gary mentionned Coheed and Cambria! I love them!
I personally am extremely displeased with the new wintergrasp / tol barad system. I'm Alliance and pre-4.0.3 it's typically 5 Horde vs 30 Alliance. Now its 5 v 5 with 25 Alliance sitting in trade chat @#$%^ing. Tenacity was a much better system because at least then I could play Wintergrasp many times in a day. Now I'm lucky if I can get through the queue a single time.I'm sure a lot of servers are better balanced then mine but... cmon Blizzard. If you don't like uneven teams then just play in battlegrounds.
I like the podcast, I have most of the information long before the show gets around to announcing it (seriously guys don't you read MMOchamp and Wowhead?).I love the banter and "personality".
I love this podcast, unlike some other hypocrits around here. Who are after some information, which is ridiculous cuz this news is all old.They just ranting about their interpretations and opinions about the newsfeeds. I enjoy listening to this show while i'm at work, cuz that's what it's like.It's like a radio station having a discussion.If you want Informative movies with actual footage of WoW I suggest you go visit other podcasts or websites.(wowhead and MMO champion anyone?) and not this one. This is just to have a laught and enjoy a funny show with 3 guys that I find funny, personally. Ps. You're not FORCED to watch this podcast so keep ur whining about and if you Think it could be done better I suggest you grab yourcamera and do it yourself.GL & HF
WTB Music
Wow.. Please B***h some more, guys. It's really attractive. This podcast isn't supposed to be some boring, long report on the latest additions to WoW.It's a show about three nerds having some lawlz over latest additions to WoW.If you want to have an hour-long video of humorless information overload, then look somewhere else.But if you're too lazy to do that,Try getting a sense of humor.IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE HILARIOUS AND SILLY AND IRREVERANT. If such things bother you, then why are you even playing a video game?
I totaly love this podcast too! <3 These guys are so awesome! Fony and Gary = sexiest podcast guys evah!You guys are so funny! :D
Name of music? cause it rocks.
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Everton striker Ayegbeni Yakubu had a major impact in a 12-minute substitute appearance, scoring one and setting up a last-minute winner in the 3-2 victory over Blackburn at Ewood Park.
Mikel Arteta's fourth-minute penalty had been cancelled out by Rovers midfielder Steven Nzonzi's 30-yard drive midway through the second half before the introduction of the Nigeria international.
With his first touch seconds after coming on he put his side 2-1 up and although Jason Roberts lashed home an equaliser two minutes later Tim Cahill converted Yakubu's cross from close range late on.
It kept alive Everton's late bid for a European place, moving them to within two points of sixth-placed Liverpool, who play West Ham on Monday.
Aside from the goals Blackburn would argue Arteta should have been sent off after just 20 minutes when he poked Morten Gamst Pedersen in the eye after being angered by the Norwegian's challenge.
Referee Andre Marriner presumably did not see the incident as he booked both players, much to Pedersen's astonishment.
Even by that stage Blackburn had regained the initiative lost by a start which would have infuriated manager Sam Allardyce, whose defence seemed half-asleep when Arteta picked up the ball on the right of the area.
The Spaniard turned Gael Givet and was in the process of doing the same to Ryan Nelsen when the Rovers captain dived in and brought him down with his trailing leg.
Arteta converted from the spot to become the first person to beat Paul Robinson since Birmingham forward James McFadden's goal on March 24, ending an unblemished record of more than five hours.
Rovers' response was encouraging though and they gradually built momentum to the point where Everton were pleased to hear the half-time whistle.
Had David Dunn and Nikola Kalinic not got in each other's way trying to get on the end of Nelsen's header in the six-yard area Tim Cahill's goalline clearance could have been much trickier than it was.
Set-pieces were causing problems for Everton with goalkeeper Tim Howard looking particularly troubled by Rovers' tactic of standing Dunn directly in front of him.
It obviously started to get to him as he gave the midfielder an almighty shove in an attempt to clear some space for one corner but, bizarrely, it was Dunn who earned the talking to from Marriner.
The referee's performance was in danger of overshadowing the game taking place around him as Cahill's late challenge on Dunn warranted only a warning.
In spite of the official, Blackburn carved out a few half-chances, with Martin Olsson's goalbound left-foot volley unluckily blocked by Dunn, who himself was then denied by Phil Jagielka's block.
Just before the break Keith Andrews' drive was saved at the second attempt by Howard, who would have been pleased to find respite in the dressing room.
The interval benefited Everton as they re-asserted their authority and twice could have extended their advantage.
Cahill's last 11 league goals have all been with his head so when Hibbert lofted a 57th-minute cross to the far post and the Australian got in front of his marker it was a major surprise when he failed to hit the target.
Then Leighton Baines' thunderous 25-yard strike cannoned off the outside of Robinson's right-hand post with the goalkeeper motionless.
But where the Everton left-back failed, Steven Nzonzi succeeded in the 68th minute.
There appeared to be little danger when Dunn played the ball back to him but he side-stepped Arteta, advanced and blasted a swerving 30-yard shot past Howard.
The goal was just the confidence boost Rovers needed and Everton looked rattled as Nelsen headed Dunn's free-kick on to the top of the net.
But having tested their opponents all afternoon with set-pieces Blackburn fell victim to one themselves.
Baines' 78th-minute long-throw was flicked on by substitute Victor Anichebe and Yakubu bundled the ball home with his first touch just 22 seconds after his introduction.
Rovers' response was instant as less than two minutes later Kalinic helped the ball forward for Roberts to thrash a 20-yard shot past Howard.
The feeling was there was still another goal left in the game and it went to Everton in the 90th minute.
Yakubu somehow found space on the left of the area and rolled a pass into the six-yard box where Cahill tapped home to deny Blackburn a point.
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Paying Tribute to the King at Comic-Con
An all-star cast of creators joined Mark Evanier for his annual Jack Kirby tribute at Comic-Con Sunday morning. Sharing the stage with Evanier were creators and Kirby devotees Neil Gaiman, Erik Larsen and Darwyn Cooke. Toldja it was a high-powered cast of panelists.
Evanier, a longtime friend of the Kirby's, is busily assembling Kirby: King of Comics, a coffee-table book of Kirby's art, for publication this Fall by Harry N. Abrams. Speaking of Kirby's comics, however, Evanier observed that "Jack is in print more [now] than he's ever been," noting that even what were viewed as Kirby's flops at the time of their publication, "are now $49.95 hardcovers."
Evanier got things started in earnest by asking each of his fellow panelists what was their first exposure to Kirby's work and what is their favorite Kirby work. Gaiman replied, "oddly enough, I was just having this conversation with Guillermo del Toro in Budapest on the Hellboy set." Gaiman was rhapsodizing to del Toro over a specific page from one of Kirby's The Demon comics and he told the crowd that del Toro responded, "you know, Neil, we must make The Demon movie, and we will put that [panel progression] in there shot by shot."
Gaiman also claimed great affection for Captain America's Bicentennial Battles, mentioning that he's not sure if it's currently in print (it is). Gaiman says that one particular 13-page story which featured Kirby inked by an artist whose name I unfortunately didn't capture, represented "what Jack would've been in an alternate universe where he was a pre-Raphaelite."
Speaking of his own stint as caretaker on the Kirby creation The Eternals, Gaiman said that upon rereading Kirby's original series as research, he was "bleeding" for Kirby, explaining that "you sort of read it and obviously saw him fighting with editors." Referring to what Marvel has done with those characters post-Kirby (and pre-Gaiman), the writer likened it to "watching people try to breed a prize greyhound with … a bottle of wine … and got something that would neither win races nor be particularly drinkable." As a result of this, Gaiman's personal mission was to "try and restore the characters and restore the basic equation [of Kirby's vision] … a lot of what I was doing was chipping away the muck off."
Erik Larsen answered Evanier's question by saying that his first exposure to and favorite work by Kirby are one and the same: Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth which, he says, "kicks all kinds of ass." Larsen announced that he will be writing and penciling a new ongoing series of the Kirby creation Silver Star, and that legendary Kirby inker Mike Royer will be inking Larsen's pencils.
Darwyn Cooke's first exposure to Kirby's work was the Marvel Superheroes cartoons he saw when he was a child and thought "they were terrible." Explaining that he was "one of those Neal Adams babies," it was years later when he picked up an issue of Marvel's Greatest Comics that everything turned around for him. The issue in question featured Blastaar the Living Bomb, and Cooke says that the shockwaves of Kirby's storytelling prowess "blew his head apart." Cooke went on to clarify that, "on an emotional level, Kamandi is the one I really responded to," joining Larsen in claiming that title to be his favorite of Kirby's work.
I've got one final tantalizing tidbit to share from the panel. In response to Evanier's asking if there were any Kirby-related project that the panelists were yearning to do, Gaiman referred back to his previously mentioned conversation with Guillermo del Toro. Gaiman shared with the Comic-Con crowd that he has already told del Toro that "if you are going to do this [movie of The Demon], I am writing it, and I will kill anybody else who tries."
Yes, that's right, Guillermo "Pan's Labyrinth" del Toro and Neil "The Sandman" Gaiman are considering adapting Jack Kirby's The Demon as a feature film. How cool would that be?


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Gold Medalist Ice Dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White Are Dating (Other People)
American ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White are the first Americans to ever win a gold in the ice dancing category at the Olympic Games. The pair, who have been skating together since fourth grade, spoke to Cosmopolitan.com about everything from what it feels like to fall to Tinder in the Olympic Village.
How do you feel about people who say that ice dancing isn't a sport?
Charlie: I think it's easy to sit on your couch and say that kind of thing. It's definitely one of the most physical activities you can take part in. I played hockey when I was young, and it's definitely on equal footing — the only difference is I didn't have to look good while playing hockey. [Laughs.] But in ice dancing, there is a new judging system and it's point-based, so we feel very strongly that it's a sport.
What is your reaction to the rumors that you're dating each other?
Charlie: I didn't know there were rumors! But, I think we can positively quell those, since we're both in relationships. It's tough because on the ice we have to make people believe that we're in love during our performances, so we'll take that people think we're dating as a compliment because I guess we're doing our job well! But we grew up together and have known each other for so long, so there is a connection there.
On the topic of dating, the Olympic Village is known to be hookup crazy place where everyone's on Tinder. Tell me more about that.
Meryl: [Laughs] Well, we're definitely not on Tinder, since we're both in relationships already. Tinder wouldn't go over very well with our significant others at home.
Charlie: I think Tinder is something that gets a lot more press than it is visible. People really like that all of the athletes in the Village get together and are very attractive, but the real reason we're all here is to compete. The rest is fun to talk about, but you don't really see that [hookup] side of that very much.
Meryl: But just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there! [Laughs.]
Were your S.O.'s in Sochi watching your performance?
Meryl: Charlie's is here working for NBC, but mine was watching at home.
What are you doing now that you've won your gold? Will you still train?
Meryl: We're really just trying to enjoy it at the moment. This is really the first time in our career that we've been able to enjoy our win without thinking about the next stepping stone. But, the World Figure Skating Championships are coming up in three weeks in Tokyo, so after we get home in Detriot we'll decide if we're going to enter that.
OK, Meryl, random question: do you see yourself as more of a Belle or a Jasminem, Disney Princess-wise?
Jasmine, I just think she is more interesting.
Your coach also coaches the Canadian team, who came in just behind you. What is that like?
Charlie: It's something that we've grown used to. It's been like that for nine years now. It's very motivating actually. I mean, the Canadians are a great team, but over the last four years the key to our success has been focusing on ourselves.
How would you easily summarize the difference between ice dancing and ice skating?
Charlie: Ice dancing is a subset of ice skating. Within ice skating there is men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. With pairs you get a lot more throws and ice dancing you have intricate and close dancing with lifts and a romantic story line. We have the best of both worlds though because there is a lot of athleticism thanks to the lifts we do.
How would you describe your on-ice style?
Meryl: It really depends on the program. We try to really embody the feeling of the music, so we often have several different variations of costumes for short dance and free dance.
The incredible "U" lift? Tell me more about that.
Meryl: For that particular lift we started working on it a whole season before, so two years, but there is so much about timing that you have to get right, so it was one we practiced a lot.
Charlie: Yeah, it's hard to do the swing through and then pull her up on my shoulders. When it doesn't work perfectly it hurts because it's such a hard move, so we knew we'd have to practice it a lot. But it was a special move for us, so we wanted to put it at the beginning of the routine to really make a statement.
You're constantly on the ice and in a cold environment that probably lend to getting sick and a lot of runny noses. What are your go-to products?
Charlie: Of all the go-to's, the only thing after the water bottle is Puff's tissues. Because we're on the ice so much, we're more prone to getting sick, so they come in handy. They also sponsor us, so we're so lucky to be a part of the team, especially since we get a lot of runny noses when we're training.
In detail, how does it feel to fall?
Charlie: Not in detail, it sucks. But we take precaution to minimize the amount it happens. We start on the floor with no skates and practice the lifts, next we put skates on and do the lift, and then we move to the ice to try it out. But we've been together for so long that we find a way to exit a lift with ease even if it isn't working. We really trust each other, so that helps.
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Very nice.That cobra shot icon loks sweet. I hope hunters wont actually shot with cobras instead of arrows, because in that case, I will report this to PETA. :D (and it cant be fun, to get headshot with a cobra. Im just sayin.) :PAnd mages get a new frostfire toy to play around.
Yummy new icons.
Yay new icons !The frostifre orb is mine ! No touchie-touchie.
Still trying to figure out what that cobra shot icon is meant to be. I mean, is it an arrowhead attached to a snakes tongue?
I believe that is indeed a either a cobra with a arrow for its tounge or shooting the arrow from his mouth like a projectile coated in his own venom. Also a lot of the icons are looking pretty sweet, I wonder if they have reforging up and running in this new build.
Looks cool to see some new icons! Looks good too the map for gilneas! The artwork never ceases to amaze me what they come up with to improve the game :)
OH i cannot wait! as a BM it will turn some of my shots into snakes even though it doesn't look like im shooting snakes at the time especially since i will be using guns! I do hope they add dual weild pistols for fun though! WOOT!
@Septimus. It is a Cobra that has a arrow covered in its own venom for a tongue. :)
The map is a little screwey, it won't be the last update. Check out the wall on the right, does not fit the style of WoW's maps. Very fun looking battleground though.
Your avatar has been updated successfully. Congratulations for picking one that is unique! /cheerwhewt!also i want to fight that chick in the achievements, looks fun man
I love this corehound icon. Also, the gear icons look cool, i hope the gear it is for does as well.
Nice, I want a BFF Report with the new battlegrounds!
If you click on those glowy plate icons, they give away what they are: The warrior PVP set! :D Looks like a crazy mix of wrathful hunter and sharks. Excited as always. Can't wait to see the in game model.
yummy new icons hehealso the bg map looks intresting
I has a unique icon ^_^
OOh new version of Battle For Gilneas! Maybe Blizz will give us Gilneas City to worgens?


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South Xtra: South Park trio primed for sectional wrestling tournament
February 13, 2014 12:00 AMGreg Bulsak became the third wrestler in South Park High School history to win a WPIAL title last February.
Bulsak, a sophomore, is back for an encore and could be joined atop the WPIAL winners platform by two Eagles teammates.
"We have three kids who are legitimate threats to win WPIAL titles," said South Park coach Walt Karrenbauer, as the Eagles prepare for Saturday's Class AA Section 1 Tournament, which will take place at Chartiers-Houston High School. "But they can't be concerned with the WPIAL tournament until we wrestle in the section tournament."
Bulsak won section, WPIAL, and Southwest Region titles last season and qualified for the PIAA championships while competing at 126 pounds. He has grown considerably and competes at 152 this season. he enters the postseason with a 27-1 record.
"Greg's only loss this year was to Altoona's D.J. Hollingshead at the Penn Cambria Tournament," Karrenbauer said. "He's in a very strong weight class."
Bulsak is ranked No. 2 in the WPIAL behind Burrell's Steven Edwards, a WPIAL top-three finisher the past two years. South Fayette's Grant Fetchet, a two-time WPIAL third-place finisher, is ranked No. 3. Bulsak and Fetchet will be the top two seeds in Section 1. Edwards competes in Section 3.
"Greg beat Fetchet [4-0] at the Allegheny County Championships," Karrenbauer said. "We're expecting a rematch in the section finals."
Bulsak has two teammates who are ranked No. 1 in the WPIAL. His brother, Dallas (19-4), a freshman, is making his section debut at 106. Jake Wentzel (27-1) is entered at 138 pounds after placing second in the section and fifth in the WPIAL last season at 132.
"We've never had three section champs in one season," Karrenbauer said. "We're hoping this will be the first time."
Bucs primed for sectional
Chartiers-Houston's Jeff Havelka has attended and participated in quite a few section tournaments over the years, but this will be his first as a head coach.
"I'm really looking forward to the tournament, especially since we're hosting," Havelka said. "We've been off for the past two weeks, so the kids are really excited about wrestling at sections."
Chartiers-Houston senior Richie McGinnis is the only entry in the Section 1 Tournament who has won more than one section title. He won titles at 103 and 106, then moved to 120 last year and placed third.
"It would be great to see Richie win a third title," Havelka said. "It would be nice to see him win another title in his final match at home."
Lions show their pride
South Fayette had 11 of 14 entries earn a WPIAL berth at last year's Section 1 Tournament. Coach Rick Chaussard would like to see the Lions improve on that total this year.
"The goal every year is to do better than we did the year before," Chaussard said.
Improving on last year will be tough, as South Fayette has one of its key starters on the disabled list. Senior Zach Walker, a section and WPIAL runner-up at 195 pounds last year, has been scratched with a shoulder injury.
"Zach has a torn labrum," Chaussard said. "He tried to wrestle with it during the WPIAL and PIAA team tournaments. After returning from Hershey, I talked with his parents and we decided it would be best to pull the plug. He could have made it out of sections and probably WPIALs, but it would have been almost impossible for him to qualify for the state tournament."
South Fayette's lineup features two wrestlers who have won a previous section title. Jared Walker is a two-time WPIAL champ, but only a one-time section champ. He placed second in the section last year.
Brett Beltz won a Section 3 title two years ago while wrestling at Keystone Oaks, but missed last season with an injury. Beltz is entered at 145 pounds, while Walker is at 160.
SA to compete in Section 3
South Allegheny had seven wrestlers qualify for the WPIAL tournament last season out of Section 3. The Gladiators are hoping to match that total in Saturday's section tournament at Avonworth High School.
"Our section isn't as strong as the other two sections," South Allegheny coach Anthony DiGiorgio said. "We're hoping to match last year's total of seven qualifiers."
South Allegheny's lineup includes two entries who wrestled in the section finals last year.
Justo Hernandez won a section title at 113 last year, while Seth Hitchens placed second at 220. Hernandez (21-9) has moved up to 120, while Hitchens returns at 220.
"Our lightweights moved down a weight class for sections," DiGiorgio said.
"I'm expecting Justo and Seth to make it back to the finals. My sleeper is Noah Stoker at 113. Noah missed most of last season with an elbow injury."


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Simple Mango Marmalade
Author Notes: I'm planning on salmon for dinner tonight, marinated and then either grilled or broiled (depending on the weather). Normally I like to marinate the salmon in an orange marmalade based marinade. I thought I'd try it with a mango marinade this time. The marmalade was so good on its own that I thought I'd offer it. Serve on toast, biscuits, muffins or scones. —inpatskitchen
Makes about 2 1/2 cups
- 1 navel orange, thinly sliced, peel and all , the slices then quartered
- 1/2 of a large lemon, thinly sliced, peel and all, the slices then quartered
- 3 cups water
- 3 cups diced red mangoes (small dice) - I used 3 mangoes
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- In a medium sauce pan combine the orange slices, lemon slices and water. Bring to a boil and then simmer for about 30 minutes.
- Add the diced mango, sugar and salt, bring back up to a simmer and then continue to simmer for about 20 more minutes.
- Using a potato masher or similar item, mash the mixture until it's thick and a little chunky. Cool, refrigerate and enjoy!
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Police have identified the two men who were shot to death after they broke into a Frankford home the night before Thanksgiving.
Killed on the 5200 block of Burton St. on Nov. 24 were Rashawn Rozier, 20, and Isaih Adams, 22, said Sgt. Frank Hayes of the police department's homicide unit.
Both men were pronounced dead at the house, which is little more than a half-block from Harbison Avenue. Hayes said a handgun was found on the scene.
Police had said soon after the incident that the same home had been hit by robbers on Nov. 6. On Nov. 24, however, the resident was armed with a shotgun. He used it to shoot down the intruders, who had broken in through a kitchen window, police said in late November.
No one else was wounded, Hayes said Saturday.
Earlier reports of the shooting had included information that two other young men had been wounded and had taken themselves to area hospitals.
Police had said they were not certain if the wounded men had been with the intruders, but Hayes said those men were involved in other shootings in the Northeast and had nothing to do with the deaths on Burton Street.
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Chun, Eung Jin and Dimopoulos, Konstantinos and Lyth, David H. (2004) Curvaton and QCD axion in supersymmetric theories. Physical Review D, 70 (10). ISSN 1550-7998
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A pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson as curvaton avoids the η problem of inflation which plagues most curvaton candidates. We point out that a concrete realization of the curvaton mechanism with a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson can be found in the supersymmetric Peccei-Quinn mechanism resolving the strong CP problem. In the flaton models of Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaking, the angular degree of freedom associated with the QCD axion can naturally be a flat direction during inflation and provides successful curvature perturbations. In this scheme, the preferred values of the axion scale and the Hubble parameter during inflation turn out to be about 1010 and 1012 GeV, respectively. Moreover, it is found that a significant isocurvature component, (anti)correlated to the overall curvature perturbation, can be generated, which is a smoking gun for the curvaton scenario. Finally, non-Gaussianity in the perturbation spectrum at a potentially observable level is also possible.
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Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review D |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > Physics |
ID Code: | 23002 |
Deposited By: | Dr Konstantinos Dimopoulos |
Deposited On: | 19 Jan 2009 10:58 |
Refereed?: | Yes |
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so weird, i just passed this section yesterday in barnes and noble and thought about twitpic-ing it.
I saw that for the first time this weekend, which is a reminder why I try to avoid B&N, if possible
Look, every generation of teenagers thinks they invented vampire-fucking. At least these days kids are picking up books to fuel their vampire-fucking fantasies, instead of staring passively in front of a TV or movie screen!
One of my best friends keeps threatening to write a graphic novel entitled, "I Love My Tragic Vampire Boyfriend, But I Think He Might Be Gay."
I keep telling her she needs to get on that before the kids move on to mummy-fucking fantasies, or whatever.
Timing is everything, as the actress said to the bishop.
Not trying to defend television (I don't even have cable) but how is reading a book more active?
"Not trying to defend television (I don't even have cable) but how is reading a book more active?"
Reading a book forces your imagination to be active. You have to picture the scenes, and make a mental image of the characters at least.
Also, reading a book doesn't foist extra unwanted passivity on the consumer, such as being the target of an advertisement cascade.
When I saw this aisle in Borders, I knew they were doomed.
It's all Anne Rice's fault.
It's becoming difficult to find the normal young adult books section in bookstores anymore. It's all vampire/werewolf/paranormal romance these days… I was trying to find a couple of Cory Doctorow's books for my son (16) in Borders, and found exactly 1. I ended up going on Amazon and ordering instead. If you don't have a teenaged daughter who likes paranormal romance books, you are out of luck in a brick and mortar store… including the ones that stocked way more variety just last year.
I don't care what aisles the stores have, as long as the kids are reading.
Start them out on the stuff that interests them. Hand them stuff you KNOW is better when you think they're ready.
This. My kids can read whatever they want, as long as they have books in their hands. Sooner or later they get bored of crap and try something actually worth reading. At least the habit of reading is in place – the good stuff will come.
As a teen I read endless reams of fantasy schlock and pulp sf. Now of course, I read quality fantasy and excellent sf. But I did have a decade or so of 'serious' reading in there somewhere.
Me, I'm thinking of writing a 'literature' novel about a dysfunctional family. That'll be groundbreaking.
"Sooner or later they get bored of crap and try something actually worth reading." Funny that you should say that. I was recently talking with a colleague who has tween girls who are obsessed with Twilight and Harry Potter. My colleague tried to introduce them to Catcher in the Rye, but after reading a couple of chapters they lost interest. Maybe it was too soon for them or maybe, just maybe, there's no turning back after being seduced by fiction based on fantasy instead of reality.
I was recently talking with a colleague who has tween girls who are obsessed with Twilight and Harry Potter. My colleague tried to introduce them to Catcher in the Rye, but after reading a couple of chapters they lost interest. Maybe it was too soon for them or maybe, just maybe, there's no turning back after being seduced by fiction based on fantasy instead of reality.
Or maybe they'd just rather be entertained than bored by a book that their grandparents found relevant. I'll let you get back to watching the Weather Channel now.
Tween girls not interested in books by old men? Should have tried Nabokov! Just kidding. Catcher in the Rye is overrated. I'd never read it again. Neither would I read Frannie and Zooey.
Not too many girls find literature interesting or entertaining. There is nothing in it for them. I'm surprised many of them don't like Tolkien either, but there are no girls in it, so what does it offer?
Absolutely, I am an avid reader, 32 and I have no interest in the classics, what an elitist. He would have had more success trying to get his girls interested in Janny Wurts Empire series. Now that has a truly strong female protagonist.
That is totally and completely false. I think I sort of get what you're trying to say, but a lot of girls find literature interesting. Maybe it's just because I was one of them, and had several friends who were similar, but reading that sentence made me cringe. Not every girl is a Twilight-obsessive who reads nothing else. A lot more of them than you think like other kinds of books. Don't let the popularity of those books fool you into thinking people aren't reading other things.
Also, I don't think you necessarily need lots of strong female characters in a book for a female person to be interested in reading it. It can be nice, but I don't think it's a necessity. I think whether or not someone enjoys Tolkein probably has more to do with writing style and plot than whether there are enough characters of their gender.
Tween girls not interested in books by old men? … There is nothing in it for them. I'm surprised many of them don't like Tolkien either, but there are no girls in it, so what does it offer?
How about an escape from the crushing narcissism involved in being a "tween" girl? (When did Disney start manufacturing tweens anyway?) There's no particular reason a pre-teen girl should read only books featuring a slightly older pre-teen girl as the main character.
Now I'll get back to my book about a spunky middle-aged male (werewolf?) adventurer who makes testy replies to comments on blogs.
There's a lot of good, fun literature that falls into the category of fantasy based fiction. I loved that stuff when I was younger, still do.
And the fact that I loved Tolkein and Douglas Adams, and a whole host of genre authors either as or less reputable, mainly meant that I read a lot. All that reading has made me a better writer and communicator, and it got me into the habit of reading. I mostly read news and current events content now, but as I say, the habit of spending all that time reading was formed by reading sometimes disreputable fiction.
People praised my vocabulary when I was a young person, and who they mainly had to thank for that were the scifi and fantasy authors I read. Those folks use a lot of $5 words, exotic metaphors and interesting phrases, dang skippy.
Would I have read as much if it hadn't been for scifi and fantasy? I feel confident that the answer is no. I found most of the books we were assigned in class boring as all get out. If "reading" had meant nothing more than the possibility of plodding through an infinity of Johnny Tremaine, well, bugger all that for a lark. The whole point was escape. Aliens, laser guns, faerie-infested Medieval farming villages, etc. Lay on the weird.
So while I loathe Twilight for philosophical reasons, (and Anne Rice is objectively so much cooler, of course, ;) I'm glad knowing that it's getting another generation in the habit of sitting down with a novel, reading it through and impatiently trolling the shelves looking for the sequel. Because some day, they'll run out of Twilight books and at least some of them will get this sensation that something's missing in their day. And they'll go to the library or the bookstore in frustration and pick up something by another author, which they will eventually finish. Rinse, repeat.
Because seriously, have you read the comment forums at '16 and pregnant'? Frak. I don't give a load of dingos' kidneys what the kids these days read, as long as more of them learn by example how to string words together into coherent sentences and paragraphs.
Yet another anon here: Why are you reading the comment forums at '16 and pregnant'?
I was recently talking with a colleague who has tween girls who are obsessed with Twilight and Harry Potter.
Harry Potter is actually well-written, though.
Harry Potter is actually well-written, though.
Please … She's a very entertaining story-teller, but she's a crap writer. There are sentences I have to read four times to make heads or tails of.
I think that might be more of a statement about you than about Ms. Rowling. I have no trouble comprehending her prose.
My colleague tried to introduce them to Catcher in the Rye, but after reading a couple of chapters they lost interest.
Can't remember when I first read Catcher. I might have been in my late 30s or even early 40s. It left me cold. Went on to read Franny and Zooey and loved it.
Re-read Catcher this year (late 40s, so there). (Was actually inspired by a fiction contest here on BB.) Loved it. Will probably read it again sometime.
I developed a deep and abiding love of the classics (some of them, anyway) from about the mid-30s onward. Ended up loving some books that I absolutely hated when I was told to read them in high school.
Long story short: don't give up on the girls yet.
I thought pulp science fiction was excellent science fiction?
The Borders near me had a larger Twilight section than the entire math and science sections, combined.
Feels bad, man.
What everyone said.
This 'bubble' has been growing since before the written word. Most romance involves youth or is interesting to teens and most of that involves some degree of magic. Faerie abductions, deity rape, night-stalking blood-drinking seduction. Shapeshifting. Has for millennium.
If I had any sense (I'd be a lot less fun but I'd also) rewrite the ancient greek and roman myths in graphic novel format and include the lurve scenes.
Greek and Roman gods indeed make the best lurvers.
I'm waiting for the day when a "Fan Fiction" shelf springs up there.
It's already started. They're just calling it "historical fiction". Also if I see another Jane Austen prequel/sequel/rewrite I'm going to just avoid that section of my local bookstore entirely.
I think the stock-market-watcher term most appropriate here is "contrary indicator."
Wow, I'm amazed at how judgmental and condescending some people are of the reading habits of others.
I'm also amazed at how awkward that sentences ended up.
Spotted earlier this summer at a flea market in North Carolina:
That's what they said about Urban Romance too.
My favorite is the Vampirate series.
"Me, I'm thinking of writing a 'literature' novel about a dysfunctional family. That'll be groundbreaking."
Ha! Me too. Here's a tip: Literature can be differentiated from regular fiction by the inclusion of least three of the following:
– Incest
– Multiple POV, including at least one character with a mental deficiency of some kind.
– Boorish but sensitive but philandering but secretly romantic aspiring author/popular but flawed professor at a small private college.
– Faithful wives who are so unlikable that the audience cheers when the protagonist repeatedly cheats.
– Tortured, closeted self-loathing gays.
– Pets or uncompleted creative projects as emotional stand-ins for the children never conceived/aborted so long ago.
– An aimless, pointless drive between multiple locations for no clear reason that nonetheless is meant to carry a great deal of symbolic meaning, during which nothing specific is resolved. Bonus points if this takes up more than 1/3 of the total pages.
– Characters must exhibit no growth or change as this is incongruent with reality. Minor sexual identity revelations are permitted, as long as the precipitating event is sufficiently demeaning.
See you on Oprah!
My fav is the Bigfoot series.
Big hands you know you're the one.
But if they rename it "Popular Drivel Teens Read" it will last forever! Or at least until teens stop reading, in about 2018.
The real bubble is the dead tree books bubble. No matter what subject, printed book sales will decline sharply on the next 5 years.
*sigh* Gather 'round, childrens. Time was, that werewolves were all the rage. And by rage I mean rage! Them werewolves shore were sympathetic souls. Kind, sweet, gentle, but then ever' month, Uncle Harry would come a-visitin'. An' even that weren't enough to drive the ladies off. It just gave 'em somethin' in common-like!
Now it's blood sucker this, blood sucker that, an' sparkles an' all.
Wolvey men. Those wore the days.
You don't see a lot of lycanthropy any more…
This section has been in Waterstones in England for quite some time, not on highly prominent display mind, i usually don't even acknowledge its there, mainly since its taken up a whole section which could just be regular scifi/fantasy books which i think we all agree would be better.
I keep telling her she needs to get on that before the kids move on to mummy-fucking fantasies, or whatever.
Who did you call a mummy fucker? Ooooh! I'm telling!
Seriously, this kind of insane ultra-niche categorization comes from marketing departments. Just like record companies creating ultra-subcategories for music like alt-country and trip-hop.
I'm so happy to have grown up in a world of broad categories where one could explore multiple dimensions of a genre like Sci-Fi and general Fiction rather than this nonsense.
What's even funnier/sadder than teen trends is the outraged histrionics of the adults over what a 13-year-old likes. Seriously…get over it already.
Dear god, we can only hope. They might also want to save on sign footage by just calling said genre Girl Crack.
I don't have photographic proof, but I have seen a Teen Paranormal Romance section with the original "Pride and Prejudice" shelved there.
I don't know, we've been seeing superhero comics for 70+ years now. If someone would have said that it would be the dominant genre in the form at the beginning, readers would have thought it absurd.
Maybe 70 years from now, the majority of all novels will be teen paranormal romance.
Speaking as a B&N employee (and as the poor schmoe who had to rearrange the Teen Fiction section to create these new categories in my store):
Yes, it is stupid.
Yes, it sells.
B&N now has three sections of teen fiction: Paranormal Romance, Fantasy & Adventure, and Teen Fiction. These roughly correspond to "Stuff only girls buy", "Stuff only guys buy", and "More Stuff for Girls, without vampires". Cory's books are in Fantasy & Adventure.
The labeling is dumb, I know. However, overall, it does tie into three groups of Teen readers fairly strongly. There's the people (overwhelmingly girls) who like Twilight and the like and want more books like that. They go to the first section and overlook the other two.
There's people who want science fiction and fantasy for teens (or more likely, preteens who are good readers, as a lot of the teens just go to SciFi/Fantasy). They go to the second section and ignore the first studiously.
There's people who want teen fiction, but don't aren't really interested in SciFi or Fantasy, romantic or not. They go to the third section.
You can lament the arbitrary division of the section (as I do), as it pigeonholes both books and readers, and reduces the chance of cross-pollination of readers. You can roll your eyes at the neutering of every scary monster into a metaphor for teenage alienation (as I do). However, they've sliced up the readers pretty darn accurately.
Every person who walks by the Paranormal Romance section lamenting "these kids today" wasn't going to pick up a book about sparkly vampires and well-waxed werewolves anyway, no matter where it was shelved.
I call for an Eldery Bromance bubble!
The mummy or frankensteins fits better in an old people´s home.
Or a fat old elvis… or Bruce Campbell…
I love Bruce Campbell.
My friend and I have been sticking bible in the fantasy… section for years
At least they're reading. That's an accomplishment in itself nowadays. I teach 5th and 6th graders and while they do read SOME of the junky stuff, I see time and again that their tastes and reading choices really do become more refined over time. A lot of the popular tween/teen stuff is hundreds of pages long too. I'm impressed to see them gobbling up so many fat books.
Yet another vote for the "at least they're reading" viewpoint. When my half-siblings were kids in the 50s, they read a fair number of comic books. Many of the other mothers in the neighborhood would raise an eyebrow at my mother and sniff, "You let them read this garbage?" To which she'd always reply, "At least they're reading." And at least one of those children grew up to make millions as a writer and director of genre fiction and movies.
And he also likes literature just fine, too.
When I came along in the 70s, our modest doublewide was fairly crammed with books, not all of them respectable. I was a voracious reader, consuming comic books, science fiction anthologies, Poe, Twain and Shakespeare with more or less equal abandon.
I first became exposed to some literary classics through the Classics Illustrated comic books, and then eventually read the originals. I read Tom Tryon's "Harvest Home" when I was eleven, and Blatty's "The Exorcist" at twelve. I kinda liked "Catcher in the Rye" when I read it at fourteen, but then I'm an easy audience. I guess the point is that my parents encouraged reading pretty indiscriminately in their kids, and all of us kids became lifelong readers (and, in four cases, writers).
I once heard of a couple who came up with a novel policy for their daughter. From a very early age, she was allowed to stay up as late as she wanted, as long as she was reading. Didn't matter what. I do believe I shall adopt this policy with mine own offspring.
If someone I meet admits to having an English degree, I usually ask them what they now read to relax.
People decide to earn university degrees in English when they have a passion for reading. However, once they have to read stacks of books with a pen in hand, ready to write that essay, then reading literature becomes a chore. So what to do when they're relaxing?
Many former English majors get into non-fiction. I got into old pulp fiction. I read Tarzan, Conan, The Shadow, Doc Savage, etc. I look like a girly-girl, inside I'm Xena…Dr Xena…with a PhD in storytelling for digital media.
What gets thrown into the literature category are works that are heavy in descriptive language and characterisation, or alternatively are spare on all counts except absurd imagery and politics. These characteristics make them easy objects upon which scholars can write papers or a thesis.
Papers set a work's place amongst the literary canon. A work can be exceptionally well-written, but if its message is too self-evident, then it is of less academic interest and may only ever be seen as popular fiction. Charles Dickens is escaping this fate because of age.
I am deeply grateful for my time with pulp fiction. It grounded me in strong plotting and the emotional engagement that comes from suspense. I appreciate authors who show the skill to engage in all the elements of storytelling in a balanced manner, not just one or two.
I believe that Harry Potter is well written. I find it bears re-reading. It may become "literature" when it becomes old enough that academics are needed to decode cultural references.
Peace be to the sparkly vampires. I just wish they presented more functional relations to the teens.
Oh, and I count myself among that number (my boyhood chum Tom is another) who dug up and read Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner only after hearing the metal song of the same name by Iron Maiden.
You never know where things will take you.
Here's one my bro sent me from a bookstore down south:
Our local library has a special room for Young Adult literature. In fact, if I want to check out Twilight, I have to get a chaperon to escort me back there to grab the book. The library is basically a giant square room with stacks, chairs, tables, etc. Behind that is the Pedophile Room — pardon me — the Computer Room. The Young Adult section is a small glass-walled booth on the back side of the Pedo Room, so that Young Adults can be carefully observed once they've woven their firm-but-nubile way through the aisles of muttering, raincoat-clad public computer users.
Really? As a graduate student of English I then have to ask, why are there so many girls getting Literature degrees? Have you ever heard of Jane Eyre or other works by the Bronte sisters?
There's ghoul-fucking in Fallout: New Vegas. Robot fucking, too. You have to provide your own robot, though.
Jeez, spoiler alert, wouldja? I haven't gotten to that section of Freeside yet.
If it's a spoiler for you, how do you know it's in Freeside?
I think that might be more of a statement about you than about Ms. Rowling.
Anything is possible, eh?
I like to compare her with Colfer, given the similarity of topic and target age group. He is a model of clear writing.
What you describe as 'clear writing' might be considered 'absence of nuance' or perhaps 'technical writing' by others.
Thank you for the nice laugh. I have to read (and sometimes produce) far too much technical writing in my day job. As for "absence of nuance," I suppose that can be found in my list of favorite authors: Hemingway, Pynchon, Murakami, Capote, Faulkner, DFW.
I can certainly be as oblivious to nuance as the next geek, if not more so, but I doubt I'm missing anything Rowling is dishing out on that score. It's more the sentences that have forgotten, by the time they finish, what they had set out to accomplish (if anything). The sort of sentence that makes me say (when I'm wearing my editor's cap), "We had to destroy the sentence in order to save it."
Bitching aside, I toss my hat in the ring with those who say it's less important what people are reading than the fact they are reading.
Jo Rowling is a terrible writer of environment. After 4000 pages, I still can't find my way around Hogwarts. But besides her obvious mastery of Chekhov's guns, she writes character well and she's brilliant at conversation and humor. I wouldn't dismiss her for her defects anymore than I would dismiss Tolkien for clunkers like, "Fly, you fools!"
anymore than I would dismiss Tolkien for clunkers like, "Fly, you fools!"
Or for the whole Tom Bombadil thing …
I'm not sure I understand why Catcher in the Rye is shoved down every single middle/high-school student's throat, but personally I loved it. Not sure where all the hatin' in these comments is coming from. It may have just been because I strongly identified with the character at the time… I mean, the whole bit about the title (where he explains his fantasy of literally catching the kids in a rye field) never made sense to me, among other weird things in the book – but overall it felt like a tour-de-force. For me it was all about exposing the phonies.
In fact I can probably strongly credit it for making me even more inwardly bitter and cynical in high school. It led to an obsession with the Velvet Underground and some deeply cynical and vitriolic writing of my own for most school assignments. Thankfully, outwardly I was mostly a normal geeky kid and never got into any stupid sub-cultures, but Catcher in the Rye (among other things obviously) deeply affected me – ultimately in a positive way, despite what I've said here :)
I read a lot of trashy sci-fi (a lot of Star Wars books specifically) up to fourth grade or so, when I moved into classics and more challenging things. Once I moved beyond the Star Wars books, I've never been able to take that kind of thing seriously. I wouldn't even consider reading such a book now – it feels like a waste of time, when it would be impossible to read all of the actually great books in one lifetime as it is.
I do hope that the people who are into paranormal teen romance eventually see the light in the same way, but I have my doubts about many of them. I think for many young people, an obsession with reading is a phase that's grown out of in high school or college. What I'm getting at is that I'm not sure I agree that reading trash is better than not reading – on the surface I agree, but when they reach the point of growing out of reading trash (which for some people never happens, of course), these days there are so many other distractions that it's not necessarily a given that they'll jump to reading better books. They might get really into movies, or end up being TV couch potatoes, or browse cat videos all day, find some friends to hang out with all the time, etc.
It's not just teens. I have a female friend who reads what she calls "Paranormal Fuck Books". She's 30 and an executive.
She said she is frustrated because she is running out of books to read.
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The Crowne Plaza Beirut is located approximately one mile from Beirut's city center and six miles from Beirut International Airport.
Moevenpick Hotel and Resort Beirut is the only city center hotel with resort facilities located directly on the Mediterranean Sea, 10 kilometers from Beirut
Overlooking the Mediterranean, InterContinental Phoenicia Beirut is located on the fringe of the city center, three miles from the National Museum, and
Located in the heart of Beirut?s most exclusive business and shopping district, Four Points by Sheraton offers personalized service in a sophisticated
The Mayflower's Hamra location, so convenient for the city, offers you walking access to the famous shopping street, restaurants, cafe, banks, and the
The Golden Tulip Hotel De Ville is located in Sodeco, Beirut next to the French Embassy, only two minutes away from down town of Beirut and 10 minutes
In the center of the city, within walking distance of the Mediterranean Sea, the Radisson Blu Martinez Hotel, Beirut is ideal for both business and leisure
Hotel Has an Elegant Lobby and On-Site Cocktail Bar. A Business Centre and Conference Rooms Are Also Available. Private Parking At the Hotel is Free.
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