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Charterhouse Square is a historic square in Smithfield, central London. It lies between Charterhouse Street and Clerkenwell Road, in the extreme south of the London Borough of Islington, just north of the City of London.
In 1371 a Carthusian monastery was founded by Walter de Manny on what is now the north side of the square. It was established near a 1348 plague pit,[1] which formed the largest mass grave in London during the Black Death, and tens of thousands of bodies were buried there. The name of the monastery, Charterhouse, was derived as an Anglicisation of La Grande Chartreuse, whose order founded the monastery.[2]
The Charterhouse was dissolved as a monastery in 1537, and in 1545 was purchased by Sir Edward (later Lord) North (c. 1496-1564) and transformed into a mansion house. Following North's death, the property was bought by Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, who was imprisoned there in 1570 after scheming to marry Mary, Queen of Scots. Later, Thomas Sutton bought the Charterhouse, and on his death in 1611, endowed a hospital (almshouse) and school on the site, which opened in 1614, supporting 80 pensioners (known as 'brothers'). The school for boys coexisted with the home for pensioners until 1872 when Charterhouse School moved to Godalming in Surrey. Following this, the Merchant Taylors' School occupied the buildings until 1933. The square also lends its name to a preparatory school which occupies a building overlooking the square.
In July 2011, English Heritage granted Grade II listed status to the "setted" road surface in the Square, which was laid down in the 1860s.[3]
Plague burials
In 2014 evidence of the large burial pit for plague victims dating from 1348–50, the time of the Black death, was discovered under the square by workers building the Crossrail project.[4] Subsequent analysis of DNA and isotopes from the skeletons of those buried revealed data about Londoners who fell victim to the pandemic, such as their birthplace, diet, and the fact that there were actually three periods of plague burials, from 1348, 1361 and the early 15th century as outbreaks recurred.[5]
Current use
The Charterhouse, an almshouse for retired men over the age of 60, is located on the north side of the Square on the old monastery site.
The Charterhouse Square campus of Queen Mary University of London is situated on the north-east of the Square, occupying the former school lands. The campus includes student accommodation and departments of Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry: Barts Cancer Institute (BCI),[6] the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine[7] and the William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI).[8] The BCI and the Centre for Cancer Prevention (CCP) within the Wolfson Institute also make up the Cancer Research UK Barts Centre of Excellence, together with Barts and the London NHS Trust.[9] The City of London Migraine Clinic is situated to the South-west of the Square.
Florin Court, a residential building in the Art Deco style built in 1936 by Guy Morgan and Partners, is located on the eastern side of the square. The building has a curved facade, roof garden and basement swimming pool.[10]
The independent preparatory Charterhouse Square School is on the south side of the square. Smithfield Market is to the south-west along Charterhouse Street.
Transport links
The nearest underground station to the Square is Barbican to the south-east. The Barbican bus stop is also near by.
In fiction
Florin Court was used as the fictional residence of Hercule Poirot, Whitehaven Mansions, in the 1980s TV series Agatha Christie's Poirot based on Agatha Christie's crime novels.[11]
- ^ Palmer, Jason (March 15, 2013). "'Black Death pit' unearthed by Crossrail project". BBC News. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
- ^ Charterhouse history Archived July 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. accessed 19 Jun 2007
- ^ "English Heritage grant protection to three Islington landmarks". Islington Tribune. 22 July 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ Black Death skeletons unearthed by Crossrail project By James Morgan, BBC News. 30 March 2014
- ^ "London skeletons reveal secrets of the Black Death". Washington Post. 30 March 2014. Archived from the original on 30 March 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
- ^ "Barts Cancer Institute". Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ^ "Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine". Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ^ "William Harvey Research Institute".
- ^ "Barts Cancer Research UK Centre". Archived from the original on 11 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
- ^ Art Deco London accessed 19 Jun 2007
- ^ Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-) Screen online accessed 19 Jun 2007
External links
- LondonTown.com information
- The Charterhouse Square School website
- Charterhouse Square campus at Queen Mary University of London
- The City of London Migraine Clinic website
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Not sure and better contact them, but IIRC the 750 has some openings inside the front panel of the cups (some big holes), that fire some of the back sound of the driver to the inside of the cup, and are covered by some material that do not block them completelly (working like an apperiodic port in an speaker or so) while in the 2500 the front panels are completelly covered....I'm not 100% sure, and I could be wrong so please again ask them but I think that one size fit all, is not posible, but asking will not harm...and if you get that answer just gimme a shout that could be my solution as well, and it is simpler than what you think, IIRC is only a matter of getting the ring from the 750 that covers the vents on the back of the cup, piece of cake, and if it is possible, of course...
So in order to better replicate the behavior of the 750s, the exterior vents would need to be covered and the 5 black circles covering the inner baffles would need to be removed.
Probably more trouble than it's worth.
Oh well, now to decide between the 750 and 2500.
Decisions, decisions...
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So here it is in black-and-white: Jereme's first Playbill credit. And bless you, Jereme, for telling the world where you got your training and degree!
UPDATED AGAIN: Class of 2011 grad Jereme Kyle Lewis keeps rising to new heights in NYC! He's now Stage Manager for the Broadway hit The Trip to Bountiful. So our Jereme is now giving cues to Cuba Gooding Jr, Vanessa Williams, and Tony-Award-winning Cicely Tyson.


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This is my first image of Saturn this year. The planet is just a little over a month of the opposition and its brightness is still low, with a magnitude 0.3. In this session, the observation conditions are unfavorable and as a result the quality of the image obtained is poor. However, it can be seen very faintly some atmospheric features, apart from the bands and the polar hexagon, which are readily identified. During an observation period of one hour I could capture a sequence of five images.Website
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A 49-year-old construction worker died Wednesday afternoon when he was crushed by a backhoe at a site on the Forsyth-Fulton county line, authorities said.
The incident occurred about noon on McGinnis Ferry Road, between Windward Concourse and Ga. 400 in northern Fulton County.
Alpharetta Public Safety Department spokesman George Gordon said Manuel Aguire appeared to have died from massive traumatic injuries.
"The operator of a backhoe backed over [Aguire]," Gordon said. "We conducted an investigation and everything to date looks like it was a tragic accident."
Aguire was an employee of D&H Construction Co., a subcontractor with the Fulton County Department of Public Works. He was part of a small crew that was laying pipe along the road for water lines, Gordon said.
The initial emergency call was directed to the Forsyth County Fire Department, which was first to arrive on the scene. Aguire was dead when emergency personnel got there.
According to Gordon, the fire department contacted Alpharetta because the incident was determined to have occurred on the Fulton County side of McGinnis Ferry Road, which in several stretches serves as the county line.
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Materials Prices Are Flashing An Inflation Warning...
Gene KoretzJust as many observers are proclaiming an end to inflation, others are warning that inflationary pressures are starting to build. "If you look closely," says economist Lawrence A. Kudlow of Bear, Stearns & Co., "you can spot evidence that inflation is on the uptrend."
Such evidence isn't apparent in the overall inflation indexes. Economist Bruce Steinberg of Merrill Lynch & Co. notes that the producer price index rose only 0.2% last year, while the consumer price index, up 2.7%, chalked up its best two-year performance since the mid-1960s. Even excluding food and energy prices, both indexes last year registered their smallest increases in two decades.
Nonenergy commodity prices, on the other hand, have been springing to life in recent months. The Commodity Research Bureau's spot price index of industrial raw materials, which excludes oil, has jumped 6.4% since late September (chart). The core producer price index for crude materials jumped 2.4% in December and ended 1993 some 11.4% above its year-earlier level.
Some of the sharpest gains have been posted by commodities that are mainly reliant on U.S. demand, such as scrap steel, lumber, and cement. But copper, lead, and zinc have also strengthened.
To Kudlow, such developments--along with the runup in gold prices and a Federal Reserve policy that he believes has been unduly stimulative--suggest that inflationary pressures are stronger than generally appreciated. Even Merrill's Steinberg concedes that commodity prices are trending higher.
The key question, though, is whether this pickup will affect final goods prices much. Continuing small wage gains and strong productivity growth, believes Steinberg, should enable manufacturers to absorb higher materials costs--particularly since economic growth is likely to slow to a more sustainable pace.
Economist Paul D. Mastroddi of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. argues, however, that the economy is closer to an inflationary threshold than many observers realize. With capacity utilization at 83.5% and the jobless rate outside California close to 6%, stronger-than-anticipated growth could accelerate price pressures and prompt significant tightening by the Federal Reserve.
Right now, most economists doubt that will happen. The real inflation threat, they say, will come in 1995, when the entire industrial world will be expanding. The problem is that commodity prices are highly volatile. If they continue to surge upward, they are likely to reinforce inflation fears and prompt inflationary behavior by business and monetary restraint by the Fed.


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Medical Definition of Asian fluAsian flu: A pandemic of influenza A (H2N2) in 1957-58. First identified in China in late February 1957, the Asian flu spread to the United States by June 1957 where it caused about 70,000 deaths. Also known as Asian influenza. Immunity to this strain of influenza A (H2N2) was rare in people less than 65 years of age, and a pandemic was predicted. In preparation, vaccine production began in late May 1957, and health officials increased surveillance for flu outbreaks. Unlike the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic, the 1957 pandemic virus was quickly identified, due to advances in scientific technology. Vaccine was available in limited supply by August 1957. The virus came to the United States quietly, with a series of small outbreaks over the summer of 1957. When children went back to school in the fall, they spread the disease in classrooms and brought it home to their families. Infection rates were highest among school children, young adults, and pregnant women in October 1957. Most influenza-and pneumonia-related deaths occurred between September 1957 and March 1958. The elderly had the highest rates of death. By December 1957, the worst seemed to be over. However, during January and February 1958, there was another wave of illness among the elderly. This is an example of the potential "second wave" of infections that can develop during a pandemic. The disease infects one group of people first, infections appear to decrease and then infections increase in a different part of the population. Source: MedTerms™ Medical Dictionaryhttp://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=26428 Last Editorial Review: 1/25/2017 Medical Dictionary Definitions A - ZSearch Medical Dictionary
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text: Some of The Best Fights of EVO 2010Aulistar Mark7/14/10 4:00pmFiled to: Evo 2010Street Fightersuper street fighter IVMarvel VS. Capcom 2Tekken 6Melty BloodTatsunoko Vs. Capcomstreet fighter iiiArcadeLas VegasTournament176EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkEVO, the annual fighting game world championships, draws thousands of players competing in six games. It has helped create gaming stars like 2010 Super Street Fighter IV champion Daigo Umehara, and a reputation for unbelievable game-play seen nowhere else.AdvertisementHere's a look at some of our favorite videos from this year's throw-down.This year's EVO took place the week of July 9 to July 11 with the Super Street Fighter IV tournament headlining the show. Tekken 6 was also present with its share of dramatic matches turned into miniature soap operas by the EVO announcers. While the grand finals of the tournament turned out to be a complete loss for Law and his man-handler Rip, their talents were at their most brutal in the Loser Finals against Mr. Naps shown below.Melty Blood is a series that has gained momentum recently within hardcore fighting game circles due to its notable aggressive play style, flashy graphics, and unique characters. This melts down to a game that's simply entertaining to watch even without knowing a thing about the mechanics involved. Here is the second match of the Melty Blood tournament featuring Kusanagi vs. Garu who went on to take home the world champion title.The Tatsunoko vs. Capcom grand finals turned into an epic back and forth between Kbeast and Justin Wong's Team Evil Genius teammate Marn.What few expected at EVO 2010 was expert player Justin Wong being eliminated from the Super Street Fighter IV tournament without reaching the top eight. Wong is known to be a top contender and rival of tournament champion Daigo. His opponents Vangief (Zangief) and Gamerbee (Adon), both underdogs in their match-ups, played valiantly, escalating their respective characters to new heights of popularity. The disbelief can be heard in the announcers voices as they take what they are witnessing as an impossibility on the level of Daigo's infamous Street Fighter III victory over Wong at EVO 2004.Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 (MvsC) at just about every level of play tends to look like complete chaos quickly spinning into oblivion. What made this year's MvsC grand finals so nail biting however was Justin Wong's chance to redeem himself. After his elimination from the SSFIV tournament at the hands of relative newcomers, the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Tournament was one of his last chances to ensure he'd bring home a trophy.Here is that famous 2004 Street Fighter III: Third Strike match between Justin Wong and Daigo Umehara for the one or two of you in the universe who have yet to witness its mind-blowing turn of events.Reply176 repliesLeave a reply


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Holland Christian's Kyle Steigenga was named to Class B's All-State boys basektball first team on Thursday.
The senior from Holland Christian led the Maroons to a share of the OK Green title and a regional championship.
Detroit Douglass' Darrell Davis earned player of the year honors.
Steigenga, a 6-foot-6 forward, averaged 19.6 points, nine rebounds and three assists per game. He also averaged 2.3 dunks per game.
"He is the leading scorer in the 90-year history of our school," Maroons coach Jason Mejeur said. "He was our leader night-in and night-out. It was an honor to coach him. He is a great basketball player but an even better kid."
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Men's Colognes: 2013
Are You Going To Smell Good The Moment The First Kiss Happens?
As the prospect of a new year looms, with new ambitions and resolutions, so does a profusion of new perfumes to mark the occasions ahead. So, if you're looking to abandon your faithful old fragrance in favor of something new, now would be a good time to start sniffing around.For guys who are (understandably) wary of straying too far from their tried-and-tested favorites, rest assured that the vast majority of 2013's colognes present opportunities to upgrade and yet remain loyal to the same brand. In the commercial market, 2013 is the year of the flanker — launches designed to capitalize on the success of existing bestsellers. Fans of the classics like Hugo Boss will naturally gravitate toward Hugo Boss Red while devotees of Gaultier's classic Le Male may look to Le Beau Male. Givenchy's classic Gentleman has been remixed into Gentlemen Only. In short, there's no need to stray into unfamiliar territory when looking for a new cologne in 2013.
Elsewhere among the predictable slew of flankers are Guilty Black Pour Homme, which sits alongside Gucci's Guilty, and John Varvatos' Rock Volume Two that — you guessed it — is the sequel to Rock Volume One.
There's also welcome comebacks in the form of Eros by Versace, a brand that has laid low since 2008's Pour Homme, and Paco Rabanne, who made a spontaneous return with One Million (2008), will follow up his success with the optimistically titled Victory. You can expect extravagant campaigns and celebrity faces designed to catch your attention throughout 2013 — just be sure to make your decision with your nose first and foremost.
Eros by Versace
Few brands encapsulate the ideas of power and sex quite as naturally as Versace. Eros, the brand's first men's fragrance in five years, doesn't veer too far off the standard script. The first clue is in the title: Eros was the Greek god of Love. Most of us are more familiar with him by his Roman name, Cupid, but perhaps the image of a cherub shooting a bow and arrow wasn't going to move as much product as a campaign featuring a bronzed, half-naked Adonis draped in a Versace-print silk dressing gown. So Eros it is. The juice contained in this flamboyant Greco-Roman-styled flask is an unusually seductive mix of mint oil, lemon, apple, tonka, ambroxan and geranium. Fresh, bright and woody and not as rich as you might expect.
Gentlemen Only by Givenchy
Where designer brands often employ obvious celebrities (Ryan Reynolds for Boss, Robert Pattinson and Jude Law for Dior, David Beckham for, er, David Beckham), Givenchy's choice of Simon Baker (of The Mentalist fame) seems deliberately random by comparison.
Gentlemen Only is not, as its unfortunate name might suggest, a reference to a seedy strip joint. In fact, it's a refined fragrance intended to evoke the chivalry of yesteryear. Fragrance-philes will have caught the nod to Givenchy's classic Gentleman (1974) in both name and bottle design. Consider Gentlemen Only a 21st-century reinterpretation of the masculine classic with a fresh and spicy opening that gives way to a deep and intense wood and smoke character. Nowhere near the genius of the original, but close enough.
Le Beau Male by Jean Paul Gaultier
At first glance, it would be easy to confuse the new Gaultier release with its infamous predecessor — the iconic torso bottle and tin packaging remain, as does the magic touch of the original perfumer, Francis Kurkdjian. And there's a pretty high-camp advertising campaign to boot.
But the similarities between the two Males end there. Olfactory speaking, Le Beau Male is so far removed from its predecessor that it could have benefited from a completely original concept and name. The reinterpretation is a frosty and sharp blend, featuring a cool blast of mint right at the front. Le Beau Male settles down into a more familiar lavender accord after a while but there are only fleeting traces of the oriental facets contained in the original bestseller.
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Hugo Red by Hugo Boss
With the original Hugo Boss now 20 years old — and still going strong — there wasn't really much call for an update. But, hey, when did that ever stop the guys at P&G from pushing another product? The scent is centered around contrasts: hot and cold, solid and liquid. And while the idea of juxtaposing contrasting accords is (somewhat ironically) rather polarizing among fragrance-philes, Red manages to fuse a cold and metallic accord (comprised of grapefruit and rhubarb) with a hot amber drydown featuring cedarwood. And, yes, Jared Leto is still the face.


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Wow. These were really, really quick to make and totally awesome. I used regular mayo¿I was trying to find a savory blueberry recipe, not necessarily cut calories. It was nearly 100 degrees in Portland last night and this was the perfect summer dinner. The leftovers ended up being second dinner...they were that good. We thought about making these regular wraps, but thank god we didn't¿the lettuce added just the right amount of crunch and brightness. Trust me, these did not taste like some of the other bland, lo-carb-gluten-whatever-trendy-diet lettuce wraps. I'll make these again for our 4th camping trip next weekend.
Wow, great combination. The only change is that I used 2 kiwis. Make sure to do BOTH the salsa and the curry mayo.
Another great version of 'how to get in your fruits and vegetables without even trying'. I just took stuff out of my fridge that were 'salsa-y'; everything on the ingredients list minus the kiwi, plus radishes, cilantro and cut up grape tomatoes. Chopped, diced and mixed it all up and it turned out really great. I used chopped up, cooked chicken I always have in my freezer and a whole wheat/flax seed tortilla. The curry aioli was great. Pair it with Lays Classic potato chips and an ice cold soda and you've got winner!
Though one person liked this, I found it an odd and unpleasant combination of flavors. I would not make it again, nor would I eat it if someone else made it!
I love trying new recipes especially if the ingredients don't jive with my flavor combo expectation. I had saved this recipe to try, and went to work. When I came back, to my suprise, the husband had actually put this together! He too was fascinated and obviously didn't notice the "healthy" side note on it. It was a fabulously refreshing change from our usual choices. Spicy and sweet work well together with fragrant curry. We decided to roll these up in some health nut wraps for easier handling though...great recipe!
Just learning to make healthy things and this one is by far the best. Very easy to make, Used walla walla sweet onions instead of red onions, I diced the blueberrys into 4ths so it was easier to wrap. Added some spicy smoked cheddar cheese, also used flatbread wraps instead of just the lettuce.
These were great! I made for a party because I wanted something light and healthy but still out of the ordinary. The only thing I changed was using green onion to tie the roll-up together. They do taste healthy, but are a nice change on the appetizer table!
These were fantastic. I made them for myself and my fireman boyfriend, who has a healthy appetite. I added whole wheat tortillas to wrap them and used red leaf instead of butter lettuce. I also added some cilantro to the mix. After dinner he asked me to stay the night with him, he was that impressed. Very easy to make and so delicious.
This salsa is incredible--I actually recommend not chopping the blueberries like some other blueberry salsa recipes recommend because it will make your mixture a bit watery. The first time I made this (for a picnic) I substituted spinach for the butter lettuce and it worked well, but making the wraps was a bit time consuming. I ended up taking along a package of deli turkey my boyfriend and I used like injera bread to eat the salsa and it was delicious! He just asked me to make an enormous batch of it (modified, see below) for him to take to Burning Man. Burning Man Blueberry Salsa: For a healthier alternative, you can make the salsa itself and sprinkle on the curry powder to taste. It still goes great with deli turkey and no mayo means you don't have to worry about it spoiling quickly (or additional calories).
This blueberry salsa is amazing!!! As is the curried mayo. Great little roll-ups, light and refreshing.


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text: Witch of Your Friends Are on Call of Duty: Elite?Brian Ashcraft11/08/11 6:30amFiled to: Call Of DutyCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3ActivisionCall of duty: elite106EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Apparently, Brian Crecente is. I haven't used Elite yet. I know it has friends lists, a feed, and notifications. Does it have a #corrections tag? Advertisement This is why it's in beat, folks—beta, I meant beta.Elite Beta [Official Site]You can contact Brian Ashcraft, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.Reply106 repliesLeave a reply


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Modern Wizard J. A. Beard – Author of The Emerald City
- Date: Nov 01, 2012
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Classic stories beg for retelling. Since the first campfire, we've gathered 'round to hear of mighty deeds, melting hearts, and distant lands full of wonder. Each new voice adding timbre to the tale.
For his YA urban fantasy, The Emerald City, author J. A. Beard doesn't simply retell the story of Dorothy and The Wizard of Oz. Where's the fun in that? No, Mr. Beard drops all the magical elements into a dice cup and tumbles out an entirely new narrative.
As a long-time fan of the girl from Kansas, I was intrigued by Beard's interpretation. After her parent's tragic death, an orphan named Gail Dorjee masks her grief with a quick a sarcastic tongue. It comes in handy when her aloof aunt and uncle send her to an exclusive boarding school in Seattle called Osland Academy, replete with snotty socialites, conspiring teachers, and a physically oppressive environment.
She can't leave. Her cell phone never works. The rich-girl clique harasses her. A teacher threatens her life. And try as she might, she can't even form a proper cuss word.
Osland won't let her.
To combat the evil forces gathering around her, Gail's forms allies. Her friends include a timid girl, an unemotional boy, and metaphor mangling roommate. When glass shatters and fountains erupt without warning, she discovers she's stronger than she thinks. Though strength alone isn't enough when someone wants her dead.
She needs to go home.
But where exactly is that?
Please join me in welcoming novelist J.A. Beard.
(waits for applause to die down)
ME: The Emerald City is an unusual derivative work. In it you tell a
completely new story but with touch points to the original throughout the
novel. I enjoyed discovering these Easter eggs as I read. How did you
prepare to write it? Did you reread Frank Baum's books or watch the MGM
J. A.: I reread the original book. Although it's hard not to be influenced by the film, in general I was using the book as my inspiration. Depending on one's background, that may cause them to miss certain references. I've had several people comment about the lack of anything that seems to reference the famous ruby slippers. This is because in the original book the shoes were silver. There is one rather direct and obvious reference to silver in my book and another that is a bit more discreet, though not buried THAT deeply.
It's interesting that you asked me this, as I've had mixed reactions to writing the book in this way. Some people, like you, really enjoyed the indirect referencing of Oz and "Easter eggs," whereas some others seemed a bit more off-put that my story wasn't a more direct overlay of the original story.
I do have a bit of an experiment in mind for a future book similarly inspired by another classic. I think when I write and publish that book I'm not going to mention the inspiration until the end notes.
I'll note as far as The Osland Trilogy goes, the second book will actually allude to things from The Marvelous Land of Oz. The third Osland book, however, won't have any real links to the Oz books other than the characters and symbols already established in the first two.
ME: We experience the story world through Gail Dorjee, a sophomore in high
school. How does a man interested in virology, Japanese history, and
Regency England channel his inner teen girl?
J. A.: Perhaps there's some fancy literature analysis term for this, but I'll just describe it as a sort of pseudo-"method writing" analogous to method acting. I've been out of high school… a while. Although my time on mass transit in the last few years has exposed me to plenty of teens and their conversations, in preparation for the book, I spent time consuming teen girl-targeted media, such as books and movies. I listened to a lot of popular teen music. That sort of thing.
Really, though, people are people, regardless of age. I think if you're constructing a character and have a handle on their experiences, you can go from there to make a character that people find realistic and compelling.
Plus, many of the issues Gail deals with are universal, even if her particular experiences and particular background aren't all that common (Wikipedia informs me there are only about 9000 Tibetan Americans in the entire United States). Most people have dealt with grief, with loss, with feeling lonely, having to deal with change, and, for that matter, thoroughly unpleasant people at school, whether adult or fellow student. Bullying, of course, is a perpetual and cross-cultural problem.
ME: Gail and another classmate are both of minority descent. While I never
considered Dorothy a minority, her quasi-orphan status made her different
than most kids. What do you see as the connection between their
J. A.: Both Gail and Dorothy are thrust into a strange new world that is different from what they were used to, and both have to face that challenge without the main forms of love and support they had before and have to gather their own courage to step up to the challenges.
ME: You've lived with Gail for some time now. What do you think she learned
during her adventure in Osland? About others? Or herself?
J. A.: Well, lots of things. She learned that love and caring can give you strength long after those who you've loved has passed away, the true complementary power of friendship, and just that most fundamental of truths: appearances can be deceiving, in both a good and bad way.
I also played with her background a bit to hit on a theme that though was somewhat Buddhist-inspired, I think is fairly universal: the idea that hatred and negative emotions end up hurting the person who feels them, in the long run, more than the object of their feelings.
One thing I wanted to play with in the book was to have a strong character, who overall, ends up stronger by admitting and accepting her weaknesses and realizing there are ways to accommodate for those that don't make her co-dependent or weak.
ME: You're a self-proclaimed restless soul and have lived all over. Was
Seattle one of your prior addresses? Was the homeless nature of Dorothy in
Oz what drew you to her story?
J. A.: I spent several years in the greater Seattle-Tacoma area, though I lived in various cities around Seattle, never Seattle proper. I was inspired to choose Seattle as my setting both because I was familiar with the city and because it just happens to have the nickname, "The Emerald City." It was too perfect. Once I picked the city, certain plot elements fell immediately into place based on a few unique features of Seattle.
Of course, Gail and her friends don't get out much into the city during this book (though when they do, it's a big deal), but I intend to have them wandering around a bit more in the second book.
I was actually inspired to do an Oz story after watching a performance of the musical Wicked, which, incidentally, tacks much closer to the original Oz in terms of setting (the movie version in particular). When I was watching the show, a light bulb went off, and I had this seed of an idea involving a modern-day Oz story.
The big word these days in fantasy is that "portal fantasies" where a young person leaves their world to enter a new one are a dying breed and don't resonate as well with a lot of modern readers (young adults or otherwise). There are various theories for this, but you can accomplish the same thing in contemporary/urban fantasy by just introducing the person to a world they didn't know existed. So, I took the Oz portal fantasy, flipped it into a contemporary fantasy, and ran with it.
Things changed a lot, though, as the story progressed. Originally, for example, Gail was going to be a bit more of a juvenile delinquent. She was going to be sent to Osland after her rich aunt and uncle cut a deal with the local authorities. In that version, Gail steals a "Tornado" sports car from some guy she meets at a bar after sneaking in with a fake ID.
The idea was that she had fallen into that sort of behavior after the death of her parents. Although things would have been interesting in a different sort of way, if I'd kept Gail the Delinquent, I wanted to isolate Gail more emotionally by presenting her aunt and uncle as just distant people who didn't care about her and not as people who had a legitimate gripe with a girl who was committing grand theft auto while possibly drunk underage. Even if they still were jerks in that version, the emotional texture would have ended up more muddled than nuanced, I believe.
ME: I understand you're a closet pie man, what's the secret to a great pie?
J. A.: I don't really know if I'd say I'm a "closet" pie man. I'm pretty open about it. The secret is a great crust. Foundation is everything.
ME: What's your favorite? Any recipes you'd care to share?
J. A.: Oh, I'm really not sure. It really depends on my mood, though I tend to be more partial to fruit-based pies in general. I don't really have any particular great recipes. I'm still working up my skills at this point.
ME: You're writing a sequel to The Emerald City, and you're about to release
a paranormal Regency romance and a fantasy, both for adults. What can you share with us about these two works?
J. A.: My paranormal Regency romance, A Woman of Proper Accomplishments, is my attempt to preserve the flavor of an English Regency with the plausible insertion of public magic (even if the people in the story mostly insist what they are doing isn't magic). I tried hard to present something that would alter history in subtle ways, but not completely overwhelm the setting (at least in this book). Part of that was accomplished just by making the magic very rare, overall, in the setting.
The story follows unmarried Helena Preston. She's interested in "unfeminine" things such as scholarship and, in particular, spiritus, the ability to imbue life into non-living objects. When a handsome, unmarried spiritus scholar visits her area, she naturally finds herself attracted to him.
After she's attacked in the woods and the evidence begins to point towards him, she finds herself struggling with how to confront the man and her own growing attraction to the handsome militia captain who saved her during the attack. So a touch of magic, a touch of mystery, and more than a touch of romance.
Just a note, I was inspired by Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, so readers shouldn't expect any bodices to be ripped or steamy love scenes.
This is the first in my "A Proper Woman" trilogy. Each book will focus on a different heroine (all of which appear in the first book) in the same general Regency plus magic setting with the my slightly alternative version of the Napoleonic Wars becoming more important in the next couple books. The second book will focus on a friend of Helena, a vivacious Francophile named Cassie. The third book will focus on Helena's younger sister.
I am planning to release A Woman of Proper Accomplishments mid-November.
I also have another book slated for release soon, Mind Crafter. This is a more traditional "second world" fantasy. It focuses on a woman named Shala who is a "mind crafter," a type of mind mage. When she stops an act of terror in a marketplace perpetrated by members of the genocidal Cult of the Cleansing Gods, she's drawn into a web of intrigue at the imperial palace. All the while she's having to deal with strange nightmares that are slowly grinding her down.
This is the first book of a planned series. The sequel, actually, has mostly been written, so I might get that one out sometime early next year.
I am planning to release Mind Crafter in mid-December.
ME: Your background leans academic. What has J.A. Beard learned about being
an indie novelist?
J. A.: I learned the following: Take your time. Take your time. Take your time.
If you try to rush something out, you're going to get burned and it's going to cause twice as much stress as you scramble to fix it vs. if you just would have spent the extra weeks to begin with.
Creative writing is ridiculously fun and fulfilling. Honestly, if I started selling really well, I'd have no problem quitting my job and doing this full-time. I've never really felt that attached to anything like that before other than my family.
I've been writing on and off for years, but only started getting serious these last few years. The act of creating a story and sending it out is pure joy. Heck, seeing other people like your work is great.
Now, obviously, we all get people who don't like our books for whatever reason. Dealing with that sort of thing though has taught me the importance of writing stories with a definite audience in mind and not obsessing over trying to get everybody to like it. I've had people say they disliked my book for the same reasons other people loved it.
Most importantly, I've learned just how much hard work is involved in getting a story ready for publication. I wrote a decent amount before The Emerald City, but it was never going anywhere, so I was able to just have the fun of writing without the struggle of making something truly publication-ready.
Thank you, novelist J. A. Beard, for joining me here today. For more information, follow author J.A. Beard on facebook and read his blog Unnecessary Musings.
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It's crazy about a terminally ill chemistry teacher, age 50 and in midlife crisis mode with a child on the way with a young wife, who suddenly turns into a meth lab cook. He inadvertently becomes a killer as well. Believe it or not, the show's very funny.
So I'm borrowing the Season 1 DVD box set (there's only 7 episodes) and I'm catching up and I'll follow season 2 as soon as I can. This show is great. They used acid to dissolve a dead body in the bathtub already - to comical end results if you don't mind all the blood, bones, and guts falling through the ceiling under the upstairs bathroom.
This show is crazy!
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MOSCOW - An audacious spy-exchange deal is being prepared to return the 10 alleged "deep-cover" Russian agents in the United States to Moscow, according to reports yesterday.
The lawyer and family members of Igor Sutyagin, a Russian jailed in 2004 on charges of spying for the West, claimed that the former nuclear analyst was being readied for a transfer to either Britain or the US.
Sutyagin, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison, had signed a confession and had been transferred from a prison in the far north of Russia to Moscow in preparation for the swap, his brother Dmitry said.
His brother added that Igor maintained his innocence and wanted to stay in Russia, but was forced to sign the confession at a meeting with Russian intelligence officials and unspecified Americans.
He claimed the Russian officials had shown his brother a list of 11 people to be included in the swap. He said Sutyagin remembered only one name from the list - Sergei Skripal, a Russian Army colonel who was jailed for 13 years in 2006 on charges of spying for Britain.
Sutyagin's mother, Svetlana, said her son had told her he would be transferred to Britain today. Other reports suggested that Russia would transfer only three people convicted of spying for foreign states in exchange for the 10 held in America, and that the swap would be carried out in Vienna.
Sources in the Russian security services also told the Kommersant daily that the list included a former employee of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Alexander Zaporozhsky who was jailed for 18 years for espionage in 2003. Another man named was Alexander Sypachev, sentenced in 2002 to eight years in jail for spying for the CIA. Nikolai Kovalev, a former head of Russia's FSB security agency, said he doubted that such a swap deal would take place. "A person whom everyone has forgotten is just reminding people about himself," said Kovalev of Sutyagin. Other events, however, appeared to support the theory that a deal may be in the offing.
A court hearing for three of the suspects in Alexandria, Virginia, that was scheduled for yesterday was postponed for unclear reasons. There were also reports that the US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, William Burns, who was formerly the American Ambassador to Moscow, had a meeting scheduled in Washington today with the Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak.
Top Russian scientists said they had received information that Sutyagin had indeed been transferred from the prison where he was being held in Arkhangelsk, in the far north of Russia, to Lefortovo Prison in Moscow.
Last night special riot police secured Lefortovo's perimeter and a convoy of armoured vehicles arrived.
The 10 suspects in the US are being held on suspicion of being "illegals" - part of a secret operation set up by the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service, to infiltrate US political and policy circles. Searches of the suspects' houses and a number of safe deposit boxes by US law-enforcement bodies have allegedly turned up US$80,000 ($113,500) in cash, a specially configured laptop, code books and radio equipment.
An 11th suspect, known as Christopher Metsos and travelling on a Canadian passport believed to be fake, is alleged to have been the paymaster of the ring. He was arrested in Cyprus shortly after the US arrests, while he was attempting to board a plane for Budapest. He was released on bail and has subsequently disappeared.
The dramatic events unfolded just three days after a summit in Washington between US President Barack Obama and the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. In recent days there has been a tacit admission in Moscow that the 10 were indeed working for Russian intelligence.
Much of the media attention has focused on Anna Chapman, portrayed as the femme fatale in the ring. She was married to a British citizen Alex Chapman, who has gone public with a number of raunchy photos of his former wife and claimed that her father, a Russian diplomat, was in fact working for the Russian security services.
The mother of Anna Chapman released a video on a Russian website, in which she said her daughter was "no Mata Hari". She threatened to sue newspapers which published Facebook pictures that showed her daughter semi-naked - they had been meant only for friends, Irina Kushchenko, 50, said.
* At least 10 people the FBI accuses of being Russian agents.
* Igor Sutyagin: A Russian academic jailed for spying for the CIA in 2004.
* Sergei Skripal: A former colonel in Russian military intelligence jailed for spying for Britain in 2006.
* Alexander Zaporozhsky: Worked for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, jailed in 2003 for 18 years for spying.
* Alexander Sypachev: Jailed in 2002 to eight years for spying for the CIA.
* February 1962: Francis Gary Powers and Rudolf Ivanovich Abel are exchanged secretly at the border between West Berlin and East Germany. Powers was the pilot of a US U-2 photo-reconnaissance plane shot down on May 1, 1960, in the central USSR. Abel was reputed to be director of a Soviet spy network in the US at the time of his arrest, on June 21, 1957, in New York.
* February 1986: Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly B. Shcharansky was freed in an exchange that involved a total of nine people either accused or convicted of espionage. The exchange took place on the Glienicke Bridge between East Germany and West Berlin.
* September 1986: US journalist Nicholas Daniloff and Gennadiy Zakharov, a United Nations worker accused of spying for the Soviet Union, were released after three weeks of talks by the USSR and US after their arrests days apart.
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I'm a first time poster, as I can usually find what I need from searching. I'm pretty much at my wits end with an issue I have with one of my cats.
She's about 4 years old, and we've recently moved to a new city. We've been here about 6 months, and the issues just started about 2 months ago. The issue, is that she won't pee in her litterbox. I have a litter box for each cat, which has been good enough ever since i've had the cats as kittens. She consistantly keeps the peeing to the basement where the litter boxes are, and craps in the litter box with no issues. Seeing that, I took her to the vet to have her checked out. The vet did a urine analysis and checked her over and gave her a clean bill of health. Ever since the cats where kittens, I've used the pine pellet litter (which is what the breeder used so I kept it to keep them comfortable). I was thinking that maybe a change of litter might help? Going to the clay stuff. Short of that, my wife and I are getting tired of the endless messes and are weighing our options on what to do to curb the issue, AND what to do with her if we can't. She's the sweetest, most loving little cat that I've ever seen (coming from me is huge as I'm not a cat guy at all) and I want to help her. I just don't know how anymore. EDIT: I forgot to mention that I set up a webcam for a week to see which cat it was peeing everywhere. Last edited by 50cal.simon; October 29th, 2011 at 05:50 PM. |
Could you try changing the litter box to a shorter hieght? some cats have difficulty or pain getting in/out of the box. How often do you change the litter box? sometimes the urine gets into the plastic and it really smells. Make sure you have cleaned the area where she has gone throughly with a cleaner that has enzymes in in.
You could also try this litter: http://www.petsmart.com/product/inde...ductId=2751734 Good Luck
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I have tried cleaning the litterbox. She's not in pain getting in and out. I mean, she craps in the box. She also has no problems jumping up on my couch, or anything else like that.
I was having horrible issue with my cat a few years ago. Here's my thread, what I did ultimately worked and we've been pee free (well, other than a one off here and there, but I can handle that).
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What are you using to clean the area with? Anything with a harsh chemical smell, ammonia or bleach may encourage the cat to cover that smell up with their own. Ammonia actually smells very much like the base smell in cat urine, so if the previous tenants had a cat who peed in the basement & they didn't clean it with an enzymatic cleaner, your cat may be covering it up or thinking that's an acceptable place to urinate.
In order to remove the odour the cat can still smell even if you can't, you need an enzymatic cleaner like Nature's Miracle or the homemade version. Homemade enzymatic cleaner: 1 cup water, 1/4 cup white vinegar, 1/4 cup isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol, mix together in a clean/new spray bottle. Spray the area affected, blot with paper towel/clean rag, spray again & let dry. You can also use this to clean the litterboxes, garbage cans etc. Perhaps you can add 1 more litterbox & see if that helps, some cats prefer to pee in one & poop in another. You could leave the Pine Pellets in the current box & use the above mentioned Cat Attract litter in the new box & see if those 2 additions makes a difference.
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Rumors say that director George A. Romero is hard at work on a new untitled zombie picture, according to Variety. Though long speculated to be working on a sequel to his recent "Diary of the Dead", all signs indicate that this upcoming feature is more in line with his previous Dead efforts.
The film "involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure".
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This is a very interesting experiment. I didn't know you can scorch snow.
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When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by French Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the number 1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with. Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache's lawmen in a chase through the Louvre, and out into the Parisian cityscape, and finally across the channel to England
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Just about finished with my ROTJ Boba. How does it look?
Just about finished with my ROTJ Boba. How does it look?
I don't know too much about this version but I think the flight suit should be a very pale grey.
That flightsuit is more esb than rotj.
Rotj is like a dusty off white. Kind of like beige almost.
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Overall, things are looking good. All the parts are there, paint job looks nice, battle weathering seems accurate, GOOD STUFF .
Some things to keep in mind based on these pictures:
That little lense thing in the RF top should not be there if this is a classic ROTJ build (that little piece is from the ESB and SE helmet). If you can't take it off it's probably not a big deal but something to keep in mind.
The blaster has a good paint job but the size seems VERY small compared to the rest of the costume pieces (again, not a huge deal since you don't technically need a weapon since the 501st page lists it as an "optional" prop.
I understand that the pictures are darker but, in comparison with the hue of the other armor it may be a tad to dark (perhaps a mild bleach wash could tone it down? I'm no expert with cloth).
Other than that though much that's needed to be done is more minor tweaks than anything else. The costume looks great and I wish you luck on your approval to the 501st!
I took the advice and am in the process of making the jumpsuit lighter. As for the blaster, it's just a modified hasbro. I am working on getting a EE3 kit for an upgrade. Thanks for the info guys......


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great forum!
i'm trying to get a multi level navigation to work in wordpress with jQuery.
It has this structure:
Parent -Child –Grandchild –Grandchild -Child Parent -Child
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Now, the navigation shoud only show the parents and the child elements when loading the page. only onclick the grandchildren of the specific child should be visible.
so far that works, but my problem now is, that the anchor links in the grandchildren li tags do not work anymore? any ideas?
$("#main_navi li ul li").addClass('prior'); $("#main_navi li ul li ul").hide();
$('li.prior').click(function(){ $(this).children().slideDown() return false; });
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Hard to tell without a live demo, but it might be the return false… That selector is targeting list items, not anchor links. Clicking a list item doesn't have any default action you would need to prevent, so it's probably not needed.
hey chris! thanks for your help. i had no chance to test it without the return false yet. cuz it's a business page i can't get u a live demo but perhaps the code of my sidebar.php could make it all a lil bit clearer.
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He's a sleight of hand expert, a street magician, escapologist, stage illusionist and performer of thought control.
'Immensely funny and telegenic' (The Daily Telegraph)
'A hip, sexy, irreverent magician' (Daily Star).
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Shazia Mirza
Winner of the London Comedy Festival 2001 and star of Eve Ensler's hit show, The Vagina Monologues. Shazia is lifting the veil on the world of Muslim comedy.
She is well-known for her appearances on BBC's Have I Got News For You, Beautiful People, Muslim Driving School, and The Now Show and Last Comic Standing on NBC.
A practising Muslim, Shazia is known for her deadpan delivery on her observations of her religious world. She works internationally, recently completing a six month tour of England and the United States and has appeared on BBC's Have I Got News For You, NBC's Last Comic Standing and CBS's 60 Minutes.
The only female Muslim stand-up comedian, she has come a long way since starting out in Birmingham in 2000 working as a science teacher and driving up and down the country for a booking for as little as £10.
'Wonderfully life enhancing... Her laconic one-liners represent something quite unique in modern comedy' (The Guardian).
'No one can resist - the room erupts' (Elle Magazine).
'Clever, ground-breaking and very funny' (Evening Standard)
'Had the place in stitches' (Independent)
'The Lenny Bruce of female stand-up' (Metro).
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David Whitney
Winner of the 2007 Hackney Empire new act of the year and BAFTA winner for Fonejacker. David Whitney's material is a fine blend of political satire and pure filth, making him the thinking person's comic. So long as that person is thinking of something satirically filthy at the time. His posh-accented delivery comes dunked in a tongue-in-cheek laddishness.
'... you can't stop him, you can only hope to contain him' (Reg D Hunter)
'His trajectory is perfect. He squeezes the laughter out of audiences. He is the squeeze person' (Eddie Izzard)
'David Whitney, a stand-up comedian with sharp cavalier observations, his CV reads: actor involved in the BAFTA wining comedy Fonejaker and bagpipe player, who has piped at many events including the Royal Tournament and Gwen Stefani's wedding, a very witty man of many talents' (Funhouse Comedy).
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Scott Bennett
Stylishly shirted, Yorkshire-born Scott Bennett delivers wry observations on the absurdity of modern living. His sharply-written routines, drawn from real-life experiences have been delighting audiences across the country; except in Yorkshire, where they are deeply suspicious of his shirts.
Likeable, with a warm and engaging delivery, he is a Yorkshire live wire with an undeniable no nonsense logic. English Comedian of the Year Runner Up, Comedy Cellar New Act of the Year and Old Speckled Hen Comedian of the Year.
'A generous helping of wonderfully witty comic observations about life's little quirks, relationships and human behaviour. Served by a Yorkshireman with relentless enthusiasm and boundless energy' (http://www.bbc.co.uk)
'Naturally hilarious, the highlight of the evening' (Broadway Baby, Edinburgh Fringe 2013)
'A star of the future' (Huddersfield Examiner)
'This loveable rising star enthrals his audiences with his warm and engaging delivery, he is a Yorkshire live wire with an undeniable no nonsense logic' (Funhouse Comedy).
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Born 1823 in Canton, OH John Danner established the Danner Manufacturing Company in 1874. In 1876 Danner invented & patented a revolving bookcase designed to hold 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia, It was so compact it took up no more room on the floor than an ordinary chair. Yale College ordered a bookcase in 1877. Danner won a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition the next year. Several orders from Czarist Russia kept the company busy through 1893. Once the revolving bookcase began to sale Danner expanded his operation to include a sectional bookcase with sliding doors & adjustable shelves. These cases were available in quarter-sawn oak and mahogany with or without leaded doors. In 1903, when Danner was 80 years old, a fire destroyed the entire factory. The factory, which employed 175-200 men was rebuilt and Danner ran it for another 13 years until he was 93. In 1916, the Gillian Mfg. Company purchased the John Danner Manufacturing Company ~From a Texas connection we obtained this very fine 4-shelved, Danner Stacking Bookcase. Leaded glass doors enclose the upper section of the bookcase with its adjustable shelves and sliding doors. Below is bottom section/base unit of this nice piece also with sliding doors and adjustable shelves. Professionally restored & refinished, it is ready for your home office.
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Obama Relying on Consensus Builder to Steer Carbon Plan
Lisa Lerer and Laura LitvanAs an Obama administration team was crafting its plan to fight climate change, one nightmare haunted it: The troubled rollout of Obamacare.
Both plans are major parts of President Barack Obama's legacy, being fought vigorously by Republicans. And both would succeed only with the help of an unlikely -- and often unwilling -- set of governors and industry groups.
There is a difference. Obama's health care plan was delivered to the states after a bitter years-long fight in Congress. Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy and other administration officials tried to bring the states in from the beginning of the climate effort, much as McCarthy brought in even climate skeptics when she worked for Republican governors in Massachusetts and Connecticut almost a decade ago.
"Instead of doing this high level analysis we just went right in and looked at each individual state," said McCarthy, at a Bloomberg News breakfast yesterday. "I don't think there was an energy meeting that went on in any state in the United States that somebody from EPA wasn't sitting at."
McCarthy, White House adviser John Podesta and their aides spent much of the past year holding meetings with hundreds of business groups, environmental organizations, labor unions, and state regulators, and local politicians.
Listening Sessions
It's too early to tell if these "listening sessions" and other outreach will pay off. And McCarthy's efforts at consensus building only goes so far. She said she expects to make significant revisions in the plan when states react.
Some governors, such as West Virginia's Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, already say they're prepared to fight. Reaction from some energy trade groups has been more muted, and several executives said they appreciated the contact from McCarthy.
"One thing we have noticed with Gina is that she is willing to listen," said John McManus, vice president for environmental sciences at American Electric Power Co., a utility that relies heavily on coal. Under her leadership, EPA officials "don't always agree with you, but they will listen."
McCarthy, a Boston resident with the accent to prove it, has been in the environmental agency's top job for just 11 months. Much of that time has been consumed with crafting the power-plant regulation, the boldest step yet by the U.S. to curb the emissions blamed for global warming. The rules would cut emissions from power plants by 30 percent from 2005 levels.
McCarthy, 60, said she is guided in the mission by experiences in Connecticut and Massachusetts, where she is credited with successfully engaging conflicting groups.
Early Outreach
"The lesson I learned was the early outreach," McCarthy told Bloomberg. She said she spoke with everyone from governors to corporate CEOs before unveiling on June 2 the plan to regulate for the first time greenhouse-gas emissions from existing power plants.
Executives of companies like Entergy Corp. of New Orleans and Atlanta-based Southern Co. have praised her willingness to hear their concerns, even as they continue to study the impact of a plan that sets state-by-state targets that would by 2030 reduce emissions by an average 17 percent from current levels.
One pitfall the EPA sought to avoid was the scramble their health-care colleagues faced in building a bigger federal website to accommodate dozens of states that refused to create their own, according to aides who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to comment publicly on the process.
EPA's climate outreach tour prompted their team to craft a proposal that makes participation easier. Each state has an individual reduction target that they can meet through a variety of measures, including closing coal plants, installing energy efficiency technology, adopting wind or solar power, or joining regional cap-and-trade programs.
"We designed a proposal that meets the objective of getting those reductions overall but doing it in a way that states have very broad flexibility," Podesta said.
Jobs Killer
Still, Republicans are casting the plan as a jobs killer -- an attack also leveled against the Affordable Care Act.
"These regulations will continue to raise the cost of living for every Kansan," said Republican Governor Sam Brownback in a statement yesterday. "This is more of the Obama administration's war against middle America, more cost and more regulation."
McCarthy has heard similar criticisms before.
From 2004 to 2009, she was commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection under Republican Governor Jodi Rell, and she earlier worked in Massachusetts in roles including undersecretary for policy at the Executive Office for Environmental Affairs where she advised Republican Governor Mitt Romney on environmental policy.
In both states, she helped shape a cap-and-trade program in northeastern states, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. That program and other state clean-energy policies have helped the jurisdictions reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by about 40 percent since it was created in 2005, according to RGGI.
'Very Tough'
"She is a master at bringing people together," said Jack Clarke, the director of public policy and government relations at Mass Audubon in Boston, who earlier worked alongside McCarthy as an assistant secretary of environmental affairs.
Robert Rio, a senior vice president at the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, an employer group, said McCarthy had an open ear for industry concerns.
"She's a thoughtful person," Rio said. "At the same time, she's very, very tough and she knows what she wants. She's a good mediator and ultimately people will come along for the ride because they know how passionate she is and that she's not trying to railroad anyone."
Her work on the initiative had rough moments. After she left Massachusetts and went to Connecticut, Romney, in advance of his presidential bid, pulled Massachusetts out of the pact when other states signed on in 2005. Massachusetts joined after Romney left office.
Connecticut's Decision
McCarthy's biggest contribution was to persuade Rell, who was under political pressure to follow Romney and stay out of RGGI, to stick with the program, said Franz Litz, a consultant who earlier led a multistate working group that established the regional plan.
"She was instrumental in keeping Connecticut in the group," he said.
Peter Iwanowicz, who was head of New York's office of climate change when the RGGI states were getting ready for the first auction of emission allowances in 2008, said McCarthy was central to getting states to work together.
"All the things we are hearing now, that energy prices are going to go through the roof and blackouts will result, we heard then," Iwanowicz said in an interview. "She was artful in being a tactician."
Red Sox
McCarthy, who celebrated Earth Day in April this year by throwing out the first pitch at a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, has a masters degree in environmental health from Tufts University. She came to the EPA as assistant administrator for Clean Air Act implementation in 2009.
As the EPA was developing its rule to cut mercury and heavy metal pollution from power plants in 2011, utilities such as AEP and Southern argued that the agency was underestimating the millions of dollars needed to comply.
For AEP, the plan meant the company would need to install a second set of equipment on plants that already had an electrostatic filter, said McManus, the utility vice president.
It would have been "very marginal benefits at a very high cost," McManus said. McManus and his staff met with with McCarthy to discuss those technical issues, and in the final rule, EPA adjusted the requirements enough so that the financial cost for AEP fell 10 percent from $7 billion, he said.
Others say McCarthy hasn't been so compromising. Nancy Gravatt, a spokeswoman for the National Mining Association, said the EPA "did nothing to bring the industry to the table."
"As far as negotiating, I don't think that's a word that could be applied to the process leading up to the rule," she said.
McCarthy said yesterday that her outreach continues. Next week, she'll attend a meeting of the board of the Edison Electric Institute, a trade association of investor-owned utilities.
"I put out a proposal that I believe will allow everybody to get at a table and roll their sleeves up," McCarthy said. The agency now anticipates "a lot of give and take with the states."


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Maxx - Unregistered March 21, 2012 5:15 PM Face it, if his name was Mark Smith, and his dad didn't own a race team, he would be out of racing by now. He seems to have no clue how to set-up, or improve a race car on any given race day. He needs a strong team mate to guide him through that process. 1 agree 0 disagree
TIDE ferrari racing,palm beach - Unregistered March 22, 2012 11:13 PM Like DANICA,probably had numerous top 5's if with an A team Target or Penske T.V.COVERAGE SUCK'S.Sebring was terrific,5 GT CARS ON last LAP. 0 agree 0 disagree


text: Spy Photos: Ferrari "Imola" Drift VideoMike Spinelli10/03/05 10:47amFiled to: Spy PhotosCoupeDriftFerrariFioranoImola0EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkThis image was lost some time after publication, but you can still view it here.Ferrari fans hanging on Modena's every detail can delight in the first video vision of the new Imola /600 / Scaglietti coupe. Some stealthy soul caught the upcoming two-door on Italy's Fiorano test track, where the coupe was being put through its paces, including a four-wheel drift around a gentle back bend. Poetry in motion, even if just for a few seconds.AdvertisementFerrari 600 Fiorano Spy (registration required, or use something called Bugmenot [Fastdrive via Autoblog.it]Related: More on the Imola [internal]


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PARIS (AP) — France will send arms to Kurdish forces in Iraq to support their fight against radicals of the Islamic State group, the presidency announced Wednesday.
A statement said the arms shipment will be delivered "in the coming hours" and has been agreed with authorities in Baghdad.
Citing the "catastrophic" situation in Iraqi Kurdistan, it added that "mobilization in support of Kurdistan and of all Iraq must continue." It did not specify what weapons it was sending.
The surprise announcement comes as the United States has also increased its role in fighting back Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group that is threatening the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of Iraq. Senior American officials say U.S. intelligence agencies are directly arming the Kurds who are battling the militants, which would be a shift in Washington's policy of only working through the central government in Baghdad.
Other European leaders were also feeling the pressure to respond to the emergency. France called earlier this week for an urgent meeting of European Union foreign ministers to consider Kurdish requests for arms and an aid airlift to northern Iraq.
Earlier Wednesday France had pledged to deliver a second shipment of humanitarian aid to northern Iraq in a bid to help religious minorities persecuted by advancing radicals.
The foreign ministry said in a statement that the airlift of 20 tons of medicine, tents and water treatment material will arrive in the Iraqi Kurdish capital, Irbil, Wednesday.
The shipment is enough to provide assistance to 50,000 people, it said, and it pledged further operations in the coming days "to aid populations in serious danger."
On Sunday Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius traveled to Irbil to deliver an initial shipment of aid. France has taken a strong stance on the need to protect Christians and other minorities being persecuted in northern Iraq.


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Ginger Jar, Flair Vase
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Sinuous curves and a dark, reflective surface give this handcrafted ceramic vase a powerful visual impact. Enriched with a distinctively modern glaze, the classic silhouette acquires a timeless elegance that's equally at home with traditional or contemporary décor.
- Hand thrown ceramic vase is enriched with a black glossy finish.
- Variations inherent in handcrafting make each piece unique.
- Watertight; for decorative use only.
- 12" diam.; 21 1/2" high.
- Made in China.
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Arslan ibn Da'ud writes: "Bruce Schneier has an interesting interview with a developer of adware who explains, in gory detail, how Internet Explorer can be exploited to show adware. Once exploited, the ad-showing software embeds itself using a variety of techniques making removal extremely difficult. Interesting note in that the developer targets IE users because they "tend to be the less savvy chunk of the market", in addition to being the biggest."


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The Steelers were 32 seconds away from staying undefeated…. But close only counts in horseshoes and cricket I think… Flacco shredded the Steel Curtain with four straight passes, the final one for a td, as Ravens win 17-14. Steelers WR Hines Ward was down – "So this is going to hurt a little bit. We let one slip through our hands." We will examine briefly…...