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- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 13-12-2011
- Language: English
- Publisher: Neil Gaiman Presents
Regular price: $36.20
Publisher's Summary
Award-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this book, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this work for his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents.
A few words from Neil on Viriconium: "Viriconium is three novles and a short story collection, spanning much of M. John Harrison's illustrious career - what an ambitious task to imagine an alternate version of someplace that may be London, albeit a punk-sensibility London in a post-apocalyptic future. It's as if Mike Harrison remembered a place that will never exist, or at least not for millennia, and fleshed it out with art and legends and glorious gods hiding amidst the population…. the first novel, The Pastel City, introduces Lord tegeus-Cromis, called upon to be the reluctant defender of Virconium from a barbarian onslaught. Eighty years later, in the novel A Storm of Wings, a race of demi-gods rises to threaten Viriconium. The short stories In Viriconium are glorious and terrifying by turns, but they are always incredibly human and incredibly real, and you get the joy of M. John Harrison's prose, which is crystalline and sharp and uplifting…. Viriconium Nights is my favorite novel of the sequence.... Simon Vance is the gold-standard of narrators, and I'm thrilled and proud to have him. He's brilliant, and he's brought entire worlds to life before in the Millennium Trilogy and in Anthony Powell's twelve-book cycle Dance to the Music of Time. He is the man of a hundred voices, a thousand voices, and as soon as Mike and I heard him, we knew we'd found the man to carry us there and back again."
This landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium, here are the masterworks that revolutionized a genre and enthralled a generation of readers: The Pastel City, A Storm of Wings, In Viriconium, and Viriconium Nights. Back after a long absence, these singular tales of a timeless realm and its enigmatic inhabitants are now reborn and compiled to captivate a whole new generation."
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- Max
- 04-01-2012
Virocon, Virocon, still the ancient name rings on
Back when fantasy and science fiction were one eclectic genre, and most writers were re-interpreting Tolkein or Wells, Viriconium was born. In short it is an occasionally psychedelic, sometimes challenging, imagined remembering of a place that never existed, or perhaps did and does exist in many places and times. It undermines the concept of Tokein-esque "world building" as the setting constantly morphs and changes. There is no logical chronology, characters change from story to story and become twisted analogues of themselves. Places change, cultures change, main themes become obtuse metaphors, metaphors become realities. It is an extremely difficult collection of stories to read.
However, there is much to be gained -- many ideas explored. There is often an emphasis on the nature of Time and its effect on society. Also discussed are madness, art, religion and human destruction of the environment; a theme even more poignant now, than when many of these stories were written. Harrison's use of language is extraordinary and vaguely reminiscent of T.S Eliot in the first few novellas.
Simon Vance was an excellent choice. At first I was worried his often skeptical tone would miss the tone of writing. I was wrong. It makes a haunting counterpoint to the events of the book, and suites the style of writing almost perfectly.
If you are looking for an easy read -- something to entertain you on a summer holiday, a throwaway read -- then you will be disappointed. This is a book for the well-read, and a book for those willing to think. It is literary fiction that happens to be within the milieu of Fantasy and science fiction. If this is what you are looking for, then I highly suggest Viriconium in all its many guises.
23 of 23 people found this review helpful
- Jefferson
- 13-01-2012
Dreaming of Beautiful and Grotesque Viriconium
What was this experience that just warped my sense of reality, fantasy, beauty, and story? Viriconium. How can words describe the city? ???I???m a dwarf, not a philosopher!??? And the past of Viriconium is so vast that it ???made of the air a sort of amber, an entrapment.??? As the caf?? philosophers say, ???The world is so old that the substance of reality no longer knows quite what it ought to be.???
The first novel, The Pastel City (1971), in which a morose poet-swordsman named tegeus-Cromis leads a raggedy bunch of legends in an attempt to save Viriconium from Northern barbarians, reminds me of Michael Moorcock???s Elric or Corum wandering Jack Vance???s Dying Earth. If you like dark epic science fantasy, you???d love this.
In A Storm of Wings (1980), Galen Hornwrack, a bitter aristocratic assassin, becomes caught up in a quest to protect Viriconium from an alien insect reality invasion. Recalling Lewis Carroll and Philip K. Dick, this novel was the most densely and richly written Viriconium and hence the most challenging to listen to. Superficial skimmers of pages steer clear!
Evoking Laurel and Hardy, Oscar Wilde, and Kafka, In Viriconium (1980) depicts the milquetoast portrait artist Ashlyme trying to complete a commission and to save his subject as a plague of attenuation spreads through the city. This is the most funny and disturbing novel of the three, as well as the most difficult to understand, as the reality of Viriconium warps and ramifies.
The collection of seven short stories called Viriconium Nights (1985) nightmarishly develops the mirroring of alternate Viriconiums until characters reappear with similar or different names, careers, lives, and deaths, the city accrues overlapping names, rulers, and histories, and finally we are left in our real world desperately seeking Viriconium, which is, after all, only a fiction (isn???t it?).
M. John Harrison???s sad beauty and humorous grotesquery, his painterly, poetic, and pregnant descriptions of landscapes, buildings, and people, his explorations of time, memory, reality, art, and love, his flawed and moving characters and the overwhelming city they live in, leave from, or long for, provide a deep and altering dream. He makes new his ancient Evening Earth and our real world.
Simon Vance???s urbane and warm voice relishes Viriconium and makes listening to it an affecting and absorbing experience. Just hearing him talk like a lamia or croon ???Ou lou loo lou loo??? is worth the price of admission.
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- Dave
- 14-02-2012
A Not So Young Man's Return Journey to Viriconium
I have been to Viriconium once before – and appropriately – I find that the landscape of the city seems to have shifted since the last time I was here. Sometimes, it's a bit difficult to find your way around, because as author M. John Harrison once stated, Viriconium is a place that cannot be mapped. It is its own mythology.
Viriconium is three novels and a collection of short stories. The first book – The Pastel City was my favorite last time, and might still be. It's a tale of technological wastelands millennia in the future, filled with heroes, villains, princesses, and magic. It had lightsabers – baans, or energy swords, years before Star Wars came out. It has teagus-Cromis, the finest swordsman in the land, who was an even better poet. It's a straightforward epic fantasy that isn't a doorstop, and it's the epitome of cool.
A Storm of Wings is the second novel, and Harrison makes some incredibly interesting choices, working very hard to do something radically different than he did the last time he brought us here. It's a difficult listen at times because instead of fighting monsters, the heroes of the story are fighting something that ends up being much more abstract. It's the longest of the stories, and it feels the longest. That said, it might also be the one I'm most eager to revisit.
The third novel is In Viriconium. Again, very different from the two that went before it, but this time the experiment is a glorious one – like watching the Coen Brothers make an urban fantasy farce riffing on epic fantasy tropes. It's laugh-out-loud hilarious at one moment, then deeply disturbing in the next.
Then we get to Viriconium Nights, the short story collection, which is really interesting. Occasionally, characters from the previous books appear, but not always, and almost never quite how we remember them. Here is where Viriconium truly becomes an unmapped city – where all the contradictions of what's come before in its history and characters are put on display.
Simon Vance is our tour guide through all this, showing off the different existences of a world, and tying them all together. He does a fantastic job reading Harrison's stories.
It's challenging, yes. It might even be frustrating. But I'll be damned if I'm not already fantasizing about a return trip.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful
- Troy
- 27-05-2015
A Ton of Fun!
Neil Gaiman Presents, so you know it's quality. I feel I'm indebted to Gaiman for uncovering these lost treasures. This one is 3 books and a short story, the entirety of Harrison's Viriconium collection. While they're connected through a common world, they're also different enough to push the boundaries of that world. The world building is truly the star of the show here as there's enough here to show you how things work, but the edges are murky so as to suggest a lot more. It's kind of like Narnia in that respect, only post-apocalyptic fantasy.
As Gaiman points out up front, Simon Vance is the gold standard for narrators. I can't agree enough.
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- eigram
- 11-11-2014
beautifully written but dull
Would you try another book from M. John Harrison and/or Simon Vance?
simon vance of course - John Harrison - not anytime soon
Would you ever listen to anything by M. John Harrison again?
see above
Would you be willing to try another one of Simon Vance's performances?
of course
What character would you cut from Viriconium?
Any additional comments?
I wonder if maybe Neil Gamans taste and mine are just too different to reconcile - I found this slow and ponderous - the characters intriguing and the writing flowery.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
- Andreas Henriksson
- 07-07-2013
Not suitable for audio
What was most disappointing about M. John Harrison's story?
There are many books that work well on audio - this is not one of them. The whole point of the narrative is to surprise, complicate, and challenge the reader and I prefer my audiobooks (although not my printed books) to keep it fairly simple. It might be a great novel in print, but the audio version lost me on so many occasions I could not follow its many threads to the end.
You didn't love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
There are some fascinating fantasy/sci-fi ideas woven into the story and the first story did conclude in somewhat of a surprise. I should also add that as English is my second language, it might be the the novel's linguistic intricacies that made it difficult for me to follow in audio. Perhaps those intricacies might even appeal to a native English speaker.
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- David Hirsch
- 30-04-2012
Artistic, poetic, but not engaging
I guess that one cannot expect the books Neil Gaiman likes to resemble the books Neil Gaiman writes. I learned that listening to Viriconium. Where Neil Gaiman's work is intellectually stimulating and deeply engaging, making me care about the characters, as a good story should, Viriconium seems like an objet d'art: beautiful in its way, poetic, but not gripping. Because none of the characters knew what was going on in their world, the reader doesn't know what is going on, and the resolutions that occur shed only a little light on the situation. Everything seems to happen in a kind of a dream or a fog both within the story and to the reader as well. Some may find that a virtue; I found it a bore.
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- Katherine
- 22-03-2012
I will remember Viriconium
Viriconium sits on the ruins of an ancient civilization that nobody remembers. The society that was technologically advanced enough to create crystal airships and lethal energy weapons is dead. These Afternoon Cultures depleted the world???s metal ores, leaving mounds of inscrutable rusted infrastructure with only a few odds and ends that still work. The current citizens of Viriconium are baffled by what they???ve dug up, but they have no idea what any of it is for.
The Pastel City, published in 1971, is the first part of M. John Harrison???s science fantasy epic VIRICONIUM which, according to sources, was inspired by Jack Vance???s DYING EARTH and the poetry of T.S. Eliot. Characterization and pacing are sometimes a bit weak, but the scenery in The Pastel City is grand, and I enjoyed the story. In many ways it reminded me of THE LORD OF THE RINGS ??? a group of comrades (including a dwarf) travel through beautiful and desolate landscapes (across rivers and marshes, through mountain tunnels, etc.) on a quest to destroy something so they can save the world. A major difference, and what saves the book from being simply another quest fantasy, is the post-apocalyptic vision of an unknown advanced civilization which died out mysteriously, leaving samples of their devastating handiwork behind. Thus, the dwarf arms himself with an 11-foot tall mechanical skeleton and carries some sort of laser. Cromis and his friends ride into one battle on horseback, but leave in a glass blimp. Cool.
A Storm of Wings is the second part of M. John Harrison???s VIRICONIUM sequence. Viriconium has been at peace for eighty years after the threat from the north was eliminated, but now there are new threats to the city. Something has detached from the moon and fallen to earth. A huge insect head has been discovered in one of the towns of the Reborn. The Reborn are starting to go mad. Also, a new rapidly growing cult is teaching that there is no objective reality. Are the strange events linked with the cult???s nihilistic philosophy? And what will this do to Viriconium???s peace? Tomb the dwarf and Cellur the Birdlord, whom we met in The Pastel City, set out to discover the truth.
A Storm of Wings was published in 1980 ??? nine years after The Pastel City ??? and M. John Harrison???s writing style has evolved. In some ways it???s better ??? characterization is deeper and the imagery is more evocative. This world feels fragile and moribund and the reader gets the sense that, as the cult proclaims, it???s hard to tell what???s real and what???s just a warped perception. Or perhaps Viriconium is slipping from reality into a dream. Or into a different reality altogether. The story is strange, outlandish, and blurry.
In the third part of the VIRICONIUM omnibus, The Floating Gods (aka In Viriconium), we visit the old artists??? quarter of Viriconium ??? a lazy decaying place where gardens bloom and the smell of black currant gin exudes from the taverns where the increasingly lackadaisical citizens used to sit and talk about art and philosophy. This part of the city used to be vibrant and innovative, but it has been deteriorating as a psychological plague has been creeping in from the high city. The artists??? patrons, infected by this plague of mediocrity, have become dreamy and only want to purchase uninspired sentimental watercolor landscapes. And all they want to talk about is the debauched antics of the Barley Brothers, a couple of twins who act like buffoons but are rumored to be demi-gods.
This part is funny, witty, and brilliantly written with sharp humorous insights into disagreeable human behavior. As the plague crept closer, I could feel the beloved city of Viriconium decaying ??? its fountains drying up and its gardens becoming unkempt and shabby. Like the previous book, A Storm of Wings, The Floating Gods is intensely atmospheric. This is a better book, though, because the atmosphere is balanced by humor and plot.
Viriconium Nights is the last book in M. John Harrison???s VIRICONIUM epic. It???s a collection of seven short stories set in and around the city of Viriconium which contain some of the characters we???ve met in the previous VIRICONIUM books and include many allusions to recurring events and motifs: mechanical metal birds, tarot cards, locusts, the fish mask, big lizards, the Mari Lwyd, etc. Each story stands alone but focuses on the city of Viriconium and particularly the bohemian residents of the Artists??? Quarter. All of Viriconium is decaying, but this part of the city feels especially bleak, probably because it???s peopled with brooding artistic types whose desperation results in freakish hedonistic behavior.
Though there are recurring characters in the VIRICONIUM works, we never get to know any of them very well. The haunting, weird, incomprehensible city is the main character. M. John Harrison has explained at his blog that he didn???t want Viriconium to be ???tamed??? or ???controlled,??? so he has confused and disoriented the reader by making it impossible to understand what it would be like to live in his world: ???I made that world increasingly shifting and complex. You can not learn its rules. More importantly, Viriconium is never the same place twice.??? I think this is more successful in the last three parts of VIRICONIUM ??? the first novel, The Pastel City, is almost a traditional quest fantasy.
VIRICONIUM is one of those works that I feel like I should give 5 stars just because it???s original and M. John Harrison???s prose is brilliant. Harrison is a master of style and his writing is superior to most of what???s offered on the SFF shelves. However, the truth is that though I recognize Harrison???s genius, I can???t say that I enjoyed every moment of VIRICONIUM, which may be a reflection on me more than on the work itself. Spending so much time in a city that???s unknowable and decaying resulted, for me, in an overwhelming feeling of disorientation and hopelessness. The characters and the plot, which feel like they are there only to support the role of the city, don???t make up for this. A month from now, I probably won???t remember any of the plots in Viriconium Nights. But I will remember Viriconium.
This audiobook was produced by Neil Gaiman Presents and is narrated by Simon Vance who is one of the absolute best in the business. This is a high-quality production and highly recommended for anyone who wants to read one of M. John Harrison???s best-loved works.
7 of 11 people found this review helpful
- Marie
- 14-03-2012
Only the first story makes any sense
I will admit at the start that I have not finished listening to this book. I haven't been able to finish the third novella, In Viriconium, because I see no point to the story. In the second novella, A Storm of Wings, I don't think I can tell you what actually happened or why. The language is beautiful and haunting but it smothers a story that may or may not make any sense. I only listened to the second and third novellas because I did enjoy the first story, The Pastel City. It made sense, something actually happened, and plot took precedents over language.
Simon Vance is wonderful. He is one of the reasons I selected this book. The main reason, however, was because Neil Gaiman recommended it. I really don't understand why.There is a difference between writing beautiful evocative language that takes the reader no where and a story that takes the reader into beautifully drawn places.
4 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Snaketail
- 24-06-2018
Couldn't finish it. Beautiful language gets in the way of telling the story. The wife and I listen to the to get to sleep. Listened to several hours straight an couldn't tell you what the story was about. And didn't even care.
This by has a few things to recommend it, but very few.
- John
- 05-02-2018
Great writing. Strange and affecting stories.
I came here after reading 'Climbers'. I loved that book so much. Not because I climb a bit, but because the gritty landscape writing and wonderful character portraits and the sense of loss and confusion and humanity had me re-reading it quite soon after I finished. 'Climbers' is a book that gives more, the more you dig.
A pity, I then thought, that this guy, Harrison, turns out to be mostly a science fiction writer. Not usually my thing. But such was my appetite for more that I took this collection of three novels to a month-long job down south.
There are three quite different novels here and yet the same sense of thoughtful confusion suffuses the unlikely heroes and strange enemies of the 'afternoon cultures'. Nothing is certain. The flawed heroes, the dwarf, the last space pilot, the insect aliens and everything else that is in here comes from a kind of polluted fog of deep time. The writing is great and from the confusion comes a rather touching and yet indefinable coherence.
Its not 'Climbers', but it is still Great.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
- Marsbub
- 30-04-2018
Tough going and pointless
A collection of 3 novels and short stories well preformed by Simon Vance and to be honest if he was not reading them I would have stopped after the first novel . I enjoyed The Pastel City to some degree but I found the subsequent novels and short stories tedious.. Found completing them tough going and pointless.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Dave B
- 16-01-2018
I just couldn't get into this one
What would have made Viriconium better?
I really needed characters I could care about a bit more, or a faster paced story. It's a shame, it's an interesting world and the book was well read, but I just found my concentration drifting so that I needed to go back 10 minutes to see what was going on. I got about half way though but gave up, and it's a long time since I last gave up on an audiobook
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Kai
- 04-12-2017
Bit too metaphysical for me.
What did you like best about Viriconium? What did you like least?
The post post apocalypse setting was interesting but as I have mentioned in the headline it gets very metaphysical.
Has Viriconium put you off other books in this genre?
No I have read many sci-fi books and will continue to do so.
What about Simon Vance's performance did you like?
Like his work in the Dune series he puts in a good performance here.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Mr. Paul M. Quirk
- 01-11-2012
Strange but not satisfying
I listened to all four stories in this compendium. The first is quite good but the later ones I found less compelling. Overall I think my time could have been spent on something more interesting, but still there are a few times when the stories are almost haunting and some of the concepts are excellent.
Spoiler alert - read no further
I particularly liked the immortal man who had forgotten who he was or that he was immortal because the mind cannot hold 900+ years of history and the refrain regarding Tegius Chromis (sp?) the warrior who thought he was a poet.
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Real Estate Firms Slipping 'Non-Disparagement' Clauses Into Rental Agreements To Stifle Online Criticism
from the makes-you-wonder-what-they're-afraid-of dept
But don't go looking for the Dorows' opinion on the Web. Within a few days of posting it, they received a letter from their vacation rental agency.If this kind of thing sounds familiar, you may be remembering how some doctors and dentists have done similar things (though using an even more nefarious method of demanding assignment of the copyright on any such review).
"It has come to our attention that you have written an unauthorized review regarding your stay at a home managed by Progressive Management Concepts," it said. "If this review is published by VRBO.com, you will be in violation of the confidentiality clause of the rental contract you agreed to when you made your reservation."
When the Dorows refused to remove the review from VRBO.com, the site through which they'd found the rental, Progressive Management promptly charged $500 to their credit card.
Frommer, reasonably, finds this behavior deplorable, and notes that this is only likely to expand to lots of other things that get reviewed online, such as hotel stays. As he notes, since properties like this already have your credit card on file, it's a real risk that they can then just try to "charge" you for writing a bad review. Frommer also disputes the arguments of those in favor of such clauses by noting their argument is basically that they don't like free speech:
Now the various people who defend these clauses, base their arguments on all sorts of horrid, potential and hypothetical threats. They claim there are a lot of people who, upon checking out, threaten the rental property with a negative review unless they are given a retroactive discount on the rental. They claim, in effect, that vacation renters are blackmailing them.Of course, the best response to something like this is to recognize that if you put such a clause into a contract, it means that you're hiding something, and aren't confident enough in the quality of your property that you can handle criticism. It should be an automatic disqualifier for a renter. Unfortunately, though, as the article notes, sometimes you don't even get to see the terms until after you agree. While I'd argue that makes such terms unenforceable, it does make things more complicated. At the very least, though, it should allow people to post a review that merely notes the fact that such a clause is in the contract, and how that suggests no confidence in the quality of the property...
In my view, simply to state that argument is to refute it. You could justify a great many denials of our First Amendment rights of free speech with scary hypotheticals like that.


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We started our excavation by walking around the remaining foundation of a building and looking at what makes this a site. So, we were looking for anything that demonstrated human activity, like broken glass, nails, ceramics, bricks, altered landscape; we even looked at how the trees in the area were arranged differently too!
Then came the fun part! We started digging; we dug Shovel Test Pits (STPs). These are one-foot by one-foot holes that help us create a range of human activity; they give us information about how far away from the building humans were and what they may have been doing, and if an STP comes back empty it still gives us a lot of information, meaning that human activity didn't extend that far away from the building and it gives helpful information on the stratigraphy or layers of the soil. All of the STPs are carefully measured from a fixed point, called a site datum, on the site that will not move. So we chose one of the brick piers and took a compass and labeled it as 1000N and 1000E and every STP from there was measured in increments of 25 feet in any of the cardinal directions, for example, if the STP was 25 feet south of our point and 25 feet west, the STP would measure at 975N and 975E because calculations are always made in regards to north and east. A brick pier is used as a building foundation. They are used for wooden houses to raise the floor of the house off the ground so that the wood doesn't sit on wet ground and rot. We've all seen a brick pier before, now we know what it's called! The bricks are stacked and mortared together in each corner and usually one on each side of the building as well.
In our STPs we found many different indicators of human activity: different types of glass, different types of ceramics (plates, bowls, etc.), nails, charred wood, oyster shells, even a vinyl record! Glass and ceramics differ by color and texture due to the different time periods, styles, uses, and technologies available to produce them. We found ironstone, a ceramic that is white but will have a rust color in the creases; pearlware, a ceramic that will have a bluish tint; creamware, a ceramic that is off-white and usually has yellow or green in the creases; among many others. In regards to glass, we've found pieces of milk glass, glass that is white through and through; manganese glass, glass that appears clear but actually has a slightly purple tint due to the chemical (manganese) used to produce it; aqua glass, glass with a noticeable light blue tint from the iron impurities in the sand used to produce it; and many more. I could list them all but this would go on for ages. A link to different types and descriptions can be found here.
Also in our STPs we've found this layer of sand, and as we started moving down the hill this layer of sand was found closer and closer to the surface. And then a team member found a shark's tooth! We originally had a hypothesis that where we were digging used to be some type of water system, but the discovery of the tooth made us more sure! So this site may have been a Tidal River of the Chesapeake Bay at some point in the past!


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Purchasing - a Division of the City's Finance & Administrative Services Department - coordinates the purchase of commodities and services required by the City. To fulfill this responsibility, the Division works with City Departments to develop bid packages, requests for qualifications, requests for proposals, and quotation requests. The Purchasing Division also maintains vendor information, reviews and evaluates all solicitations received, and recommends award of the solicitation.
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The City of Clearwater Purchasing Division is responsible for centralized procurement of goods and services in excess of $2,500 for all City of Clearwater Departments except specific Engineering construction contracts. This includes all aspects of the purchase from the receipt of a department requisition to issuance of purchase order or contract.
The Purchasing Division is located at 100 South Myrtle, Clearwater, Florida 33756-5520. The phone number is (727) 562-4630.
The City of Clearwater is sensitive to the affirmative action policy of supporting minority, disadvantaged minority and disadvantaged women enterprises.
A list of current Invitations For Bid is available online and in the Purchasing Division Office, 100 South Myrtle Avenue, Clearwater. Legal ads appear in several local newspapers or publications of generalcirculation for each formal bid item.
The City of Clearwater purchasing is governed by the Code of Ordinances, City of Clearwater, Section 2. Under the Code, several different procedures may be used for purchasing. These are:
Formal BidPurchases of $50,000 or more.
QuotationPurchases greater than $2,500 but less than $50,000; these may be written, phone, or facsimile.
Restricted Purchase OrderThe city authorizes its Department Directors to make small purchases (under $2,500) to support their day-to-day activity. Questions concerning these purchases should be directed to the issuing office.
OtherSole source and bona fide emergency procurement may bypass normal purchasing procedures.
Products and services valued at $50,000 or greater are normally procured through the formal bidding process sealed bids).
Invitation to BidWhen you receive an invitation to bid you may submit a sealed bid to the Purchasing Division that must be received not later than the scheduled opening. You may elect not to bid, in which case you should submit a "Statement of No Bid." Failure to respond to Invitations For Bid may justify removal of your firm from the Bidder's Mailing List.
Request for QuotationThe same procedure specified above applies.
Bid or Quotation OpeningBids and written quotations are opened at the exact time specified. Vendors and the general public are invited to observe bid/quote openings. All quotations are read aloud. A copy of bid tabulations will be forwarded to requesters who provide self-addressed stamped envelopes.
ApprovalThe city department that requested procurement of a particular commodity or service, and the Purchasing Manager will select the recommended vendor. Purchases of $100,000 or more require City Council approval prior to contract award. These items may take up to sixty (60) days to complete the process after opening. Purchases between $50,000 and $100,000 require City Manager approval. Purchases of less than $50,000 require approval of the Department Director and Purchasing Manager only. This approval process may take up to thirty (30) days.
The Engineering Department is responsible for most aspects of construction contracting, including the pre-qualification of contractors. Any vendor requesting consideration for construction contracts should contact the Engineering Department's Construction Management Division at (727) 562-4750, the office located at the Municipal Services Building, 100 S Myrtle Ave., Room #220, Clearwater, FL 33755.
The Engineering Department is also responsible for the selection, administration and management of multi-year Professional Engineer/Architect of Record contracts with architects, engineers, landscape architects, and land surveyors as specified by state law. Any consultant interested in being considered for future contracts should contact the Engineering Department at (727) 562-4750, the office located at the Municipal Services Building, 100 S. Myrtle Ave., Room #220, Clearwater, FL 33756.
Construction contracts for projects that cost less than $100,000.00 may be bid directly by the Purchasing Division. Should your firm wish to be included in this bidding process, please register with Purchasing. The Engineering Department is located in the Municipal Services Building, second floor, 100 South Myrtle Avenue, Clearwater, FL 33756.
Periodically the city will dispose of its surplus property by sale to the general public. Sales are made through the Pinellas County Purchasing Cooperative Auctioneer, currently Tampa Machinery Auction, Inc., Highway 301, Tampa, FL 33687-1069. Sales are held the second Saturday of each month. Please contact Tampa Machinery Auction, Phone (813) 986-2485 for details. Sales are advertised on Tampa Bay radio stations each month.
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Report: Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren to Try "Trial Marriage" With Cheating Clause
Tiger and Elin were spotted together last week and it got everyone talking about a reconciliation. Tiger has already had to fork over $100+ million to Elin in their divorce, since he was caught cheating with a bunch of porn stars and waitresses.
It is possible, he is just trying to recoup some of his money or he wants to do it for the kids, both are reasonable explanations. Sometimes, you don't know how good you have things, until they are taken away from you. There were some reports that Elin wanted a $200 million to come back and a $350 cheating clause in a prenuptial agreement. She is no Tom Brady, she isn't trying to give Tiger any relief on his Cheating Cap.
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"The final straw came when Sam begged Elin, 'Please, Mommy, marry Daddy again! I want him home with us all the time!'
"It touched Elin's heart. Since then, she's spent the night at Tiger's house several times, but they're taking it slow.
"Elin wants to ease back into the relationship before she walks down the aisle with Tiger again."
This doesn't mesh well with the reports that Tiger has been dating skier Lindsey Vonn. Maybe, he is just keeping Lindsey as a sidechick just in case it doesn't work out with Elin.
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Virginia M. Pepple, 93, a resident of Avilla and widow of Huber Pepple, passed away at 6:04 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, at Parkview Noble Hospital in Kendallville. Mrs. Pepple was born June 4, 1917 in Green Township in Noble County, a daughter of Martin and Anna (Bianski) Kostielney. The surviving relatives include her daughter, Rosalie Curtland.The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Ege, with Father Danney Pinto, the celebrant. The family will receive friends at the Sheets & Childs Funeral Home in Churubusco from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday at the mortuary. Interment will be in the Ege Catholic Cemetery, Noble County.The family requests that memorials be directed to the Provena Sacred Heart Home, 515 N. Main Street, Avilla, IN 46710; or for masses.To leave an online condolence for the family in Mrs. Pepple's memory, log on to www.sheetsandchilds.net.


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Fisheries: Commission proposes action plan to protect seabirds
The European Commission today adopted an Action Plan to address the problem of incidental catches of seabirds in fishing gears. Scientific evidence has shown that high numbers of seabird species including albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, auks, sea ducks and divers are being caught in fishing gear every year. Measures taken so far to protect seabirds from being entangled in fishing gear have been ineffective. The new Action Plan sets up a management framework to minimise seabird bycatch to the lowest levels practically possible. It focuses on long line and static net fisheries where seabird bycatch are known to be highest, although other gears such as trawls and purse seines are also covered by the plan. It entails a wide range of elements under 30 recommended actions that are a combination of binding and non-binding measures. The rules will apply to EU fishing vessels inside and outside EU waters as well as non-EU vessels operating in EU waters.
The plan is drawn up in accordance with the objectives and principles of the on-going Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) reform: it promotes ecosystem management, ie covering all components of the ecosystem. It also puts forward a "bottom-up", regionalised approach whereby more responsibility is given to Member States and stakeholders to implement appropriate measures to tackle fisheries problems.
Maria Damanaki, Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, said: "We see today's Action Plan as a platform for giving a clear and comprehensive picture of the current situation and progress needed in order to achieve coherent and effective management to minimise seabird bycatch."
The plan's 30 recommended actions are a combination of binding and non-binding measures. Specific short-term actions include:
In the longer-term, the goal is to incorporate the mitigation and monitoring elements into the new frameworks for technical measures and data collection being developed in the context of the reform of CFP and provide necessary funding to support this under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).
Some of these measures will be implemented at EU level while others need voluntary action by Member States or must be endorsed by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) in fisheries outside EU waters. The Action Plan foresees both actions that can be implemented immediately and others that need a longer term commitment based on available evidence and scientific advice. The success of the Plan depends on the collective contributions of Member States, fishermen and NGOs.
Interactions between fisheries and seabirds are frequent and widespread leading to levels of incidental seabird mortality which pose a serious threat to many seabird populations and which have an adverse effect on fishing productivity and profitability.
The International Council for the Exploration of Sea (ICES) estimates conservatively that more than 200,000 seabirds die every year as a result of contact with the EU fishing fleet in EU and non-EU waters. At least 49 species of seabirds that are incidentally caught are classified under serious conservation concern. These include the Balearic shearwater, Sooty shearwater, Yelkouan sheatwater and Audouin's gull incidentally caught in long line fisheries in EU waters as well as the Steller's eider, red-throated and black throated divers, Slavnoian grebe and smew which are bycaught in static net fisheries, primarily in the Baltic Sea.
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DIY Baroque Tights Tutorial
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As Promised! The Tutorial for the DIY Baroque Tights!
Hope you like it!
You can totally apply this DIY to other items as well!
1) What You Need
1) Tights, I used H&M tights of about 60 denier!
2) Needle, Thread (metallic Thread, Gold or gold colored is preferred), pins, scissors, scotch tape
3) Baroque (cornelli) Motifs, these are mostly Iron-On's although sewing is better for a more beautiful look.
I used 2 kinds of Cornelli Motifs from Barnett Lawson Trimmings in London, both Gold colored, online here and here.
* If preferred, instead of sewing you would need an Iron or Glue (Pattex Glue or Fabric Glue only when making the Motifs yourself since the Cornelli Motifs are Iron On and thus the glue side is platic-like instead of fabric!) You can make Motifs yourself by Spray Painting (gold) felt fabric.
2) Placement Practice
Before we even begin it's very important you understand how the Baroque Motifs and Prints work!
Look closely at my finished tights and to the D&G collection and you will see the placement is symmetric, kind of mirror reflecting! The Cornelli Trimmings I bought (seen below) at Barnett Lawson come in a set so if you decide to make your own trimmings make sure you have a left and right version as well!
Now start playing a bit with all the possible Motifs/Prints you can make to get a good feel of the trend and don't be afraid to look at existing prints! Make sure you work in a symmetrical way, always mirror reflecting the left and right side!
3) Wear the Tights
Ready with the Practice? Wear the tights or if you prefer this DIY on a Tee or Skirt, wear those items so we can have a look of where exactly we want to place the Motifs!
4) Placement
Stay very close to a mirror so you can see what you do! Place the Motifs on the tights how you like it, play a bit with the placements you have practiced and work symmetrical!
5) Pinning
Loosely Pin the Motifs the way you like it! I worked on 1 leg first ( my Right Leg) since I will mirror reflect the Motifs later on on the other leg! Keep looking in the mirror to make sure everything looks good and change things while you still can! I like to do this while I wear the tights since its the best way to see how the outcome will be! I guess with T-Shirts or Skirts you can work on the items while not wearing them.
6) Attaching the Motifs
Although the Motifs are Iron On I really prefer sewing for a more beautiful look but it's really up to you what you want to do! I think Ironing will be as painstaking as sewing and glueing will prob be a hazard too since you would have to be careful not glue the front and back legs to one another ;)
I worked on 1 leg, my right leg, completely finishing one leg first before I reflect the same on the other leg!
7) Repeat the Process on the other Leg!
All done with one leg? and still alive? Repeat the entire process on the other leg by looking in the mirror when placing and pinning the Motifs for a perfect mirror reflected look (symmetry example here)!
8) Your Ready!!
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"The Green Hornet" is going 3D, but it's also on the move: Sony Pictures is moving the Seth Rogen starrer from the prime holiday slot of Dec. 22 to the slower Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.
The Michel Gondry-helmed pic will now open Jan. 14, 2011.
The studio bristled at the notion that bad buzz surrounding the project played a role in its decision to abandon one of choicest days on the box office calendar. Instead, Sony said that once the decision was made to incorporate 3D during the production process, "Hornet" needed to find a frame with sufficient digital screens. A number of 3D pics have already staked out December slots including "Tron: Legacy" and "Yogi Bear."
"We've had a lot of success with the Martin Luther King frame, including 'Paul Blart,'?" said the studio's marketing and distribution topper, Jeff Blake. "We couldn't be more excited about 'Green Hornet.' In fact, we're doubling down by making it 3D."


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The contribution of the Finnish consortium in Care4Me addresses combining information in Personal Health Records with Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). The driver for this combination evolves from the increased interest by the citizens to manage personal health information and the increased demand for including decision support features in Electronic Health Record (EHR) software.


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Glossary of Energy Terms
Click on the alphabet letter you wish to go to.
Note: No entries for Y or Z.
Letter F
FAHRENHEIT -- A temperature scale in which the boiling point of water is 212 degrees and its freezing point is 32 degrees. To convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, subtract 32, multiply by 5, and divide the product by 9. For example: 100 degrees Fahrenheit - 32 = 68; 68 x 5 = 340; 340 / 9 = 37.77 degrees Celsius.
FAN COIL -- A component of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system containing a fan and heating or cooling coil, used to distribute heated or cooled air.
FAULT CURRENT LIMITER - A device that uses superconductors to limit or reduce instantaneously unanticipated electrical surges that may occur on utility distribution and transmission networks (Source: Superconductivity News Update, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA) -- The federal agency in charge of disaster recovery in locations that have been declared disaster areas by a state's Governor and the President of the United States.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION (FERC) -- An independent regulatory commission within the U.S. Department of Energy that has jurisdiction over energy producers that sell or transport fuels for resale in interstate commerce; the authority to set oil and gas pipeline transportation rates and to set the value of oil and gas pipelines for ratemaking purposes; and regulates wholesale electric rates and hydroelectric plant licenses.
FEED-IN TARIFF -- A renewable energy policy that typically offers a guarantee of payments to project owners for the total amount of renewable electricity they produce; access to the grid; and stable, long-term contracts.
FENESTRATION -- In simplest terms, windows or glass doors. Technically fenestration is described as any transparent or translucent material plus any sash, frame, mullion or divider. This includes windows, sliding glass doors, French doors, skylights, curtain walls and garden windows.
FIRM ENERGY -- Power supplies that are guaranteed to be delivered under terms defined by contract.
FISSION -- A release of energy caused by the splitting of an atom's nucleus. This is the energy process used in conventional nuclear power plants to make the heat needed to run steam electric turbines.
FISSIONABLE MATERIAL -- A substance whose atoms can be split by slow neutrons. Uranium-235, plutonium-239 and uranium-233 are fissionable materials.
FLARE GAS -- Unwanted natural gas that is disposed of by burning as it is released from an oil field.
FLAT PLATE -- A device used to collect solar energy. It is a piece of metal painted black on the side facing the sun, to absorb the sun's heat.
FLEXIBLE FUEL VEHICLE (FFV) -- a vehicle that can operate on either alcohol fuels (methanol or ethanol) or regular unleaded gasoline or any combination of the two from the same tank.
FLUE GAS -- Gas that is left over after fuel is burned and which is disposed of through a pipe or stack to the outer air.
FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION -- A process for burning powdered coal that is poured in a liquid-like stream with air or gases. The process reduces sulfur dioxide emissions from coal combustion.
FLUORESCENT LAMP -- A tubular electric lamp that is coated on its inner surface with a phosphor and that contains mercury vapor whose bombardment by electrons from the cathode provides ultraviolet light which causes the phosphor to emit visible light either of a selected color or closely approximating daylight.
FLUOROCARBON GASES -- Propellants used in aerosol products and refrigerants that are believed to be causing depletion of the earth's ozone shield. See CFCs.
FOOTCANDLE -- A unit of illuminance on a surface that is one foot from a uniform point source of light of one candle and is equal to one lumen per square foot.
FORCED AIR UNIT (FAU) -- A central furnace equipped with a fan or blower that provides the primary means for circulation of air.
FOSSIL FUEL -- Oil, coal, natural gas or their by-products. Fuel that was formed in the earth in prehistoric times from remains of living-cell organisms.
FRACTIONAL DISTILLATION the process of refining crude oil into various oil products. The various products are separated out in the order of their boiling points.
FRAMING EFFECTS -- The effect of framing (wood or metal studs, joists, beams, etc.) on the overall U-value of a wall, roof, floor, window or other building surface. Framing generally increases the U-Value and decreases the R-Value of insulated surfaces.
FRAMING PERCENTAGE -- The area of actual framing in an envelope assembly divided by the overall area of the envelope assembly. This percentage is used to calculate the overall U-value of an assembly.
FREQUENCY -- The number of cycles which an alternating current moves through in each second. Standard electric utility frequency in the United States is 60 cycles per second, or 60 Hertz.
FUEL -- A substance that can be used to produce heat.
FUEL CELL -- A device or an electrochemical engine with no moving parts that converts the chemical energy of a fuel, such as hydrogen, and an oxidant, such as oxygen, directly into electricity. The principal components of a fuel cell are catalytically activated electrodes for the fuel (anode) and the oxidant (cathode) and an electrolyte to conduct ions between the two electrodes, thus producing electricity.
FUEL GAS -- Synthetic gas used for heating or cooling. It has less energy content than pipeline-quality gas.
FUEL OIL -- Petroleum products that are burned to produce heat or power.
FUEL REPROCESSING (Nuclear) -- The means for obtaining usable, fissionable material from spent reactor fuel.
FUEL ROD (Nuclear) -- A long slender tube that holds fissionable material (fuel) for nuclear reactor use. Fuel rods are assembled into bundles called fuel elements or assemblies, which are loaded individually into the reactor core.
FUEL SECURITY -- See Energy Security.
FUSION ENERGY -- A power source, now under development, based on the release of energy that occurs when atoms are combined under the most extreme heat and pressure. It is the energy process of the sun and the stars.


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Maryland's Reed helps Terps hand No. 5 Florida State first loss of season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Left-handed starter Jimmy Reed held No. 5 Florida State to two earned runs and five hits over eight innings to power Maryland (12-5, 2-2 ACC) to a 5-3 victory against the previously unbeaten Seminoles Friday night at Bob "Turtle" Smith Stadium.
Reed kept the FSU offense in check for most of the night and the Terps responded with a strong offensive effort in support of their senior starter. Shortstop Blake Schmit made a vital play in the top of the third ranging across the infield throwing to his left to record the third out of the inning stranding two Seminole runners in scoring position.
Second baseman Kyle Convissar made several important stops on sharply hit balls and left fielder Matt Bosse chased a long fly ball deep into foul territory for an important second out in the Florida State (16-1, 3-1 ACC) seventh.
The game turned in the Terps favor in the sixth inning. After Seminole starter Brandon Leibrandt retired the first hitter of the inning, Jordan Hagel singled up the middle and advanced to second on a wild pitch. K.J. Hockaday walked forcing a call to the bullpen for Florida State.
With Convissar up, the Terps called the double steal moving the runners to second and third. As Florida State's defense closed in to prevent the squeeze, Convissar smacked a 1-2 pitch back up the middle to score Hagel and Hockaday and put the Terps ahead 3-2.
The Noles got the run back in the eighth to tie the game. In the bottom of the inning, Hagel tripled to lead off the frame. Hockaday once again drew a walk to give the Terps runners at the corners.
LaMonte Wade would deliver the big blow of the inning. After Hagel scored on wild pitch, Wade doubled to the right-center field gap to plate Hockaday from second and give Maryland a two-run cushion at 5-3.
Kevin Mooney relieved Reed in the ninth and promptly struck out Casey Smit. Mooney got the next two batters to record the first save of his career. Reed improved to 3-1 on the season. Florida State's Brandon Johnson took the loss falling to 1-1 on the year.
Hagel had three hits including a triple. It is his seventh multi-hit game of the season and third three-hit game, which leads the club. Convissar, who came into the game leading the team with 15 RBI, increased his total to 18. Jack Cleary finished 2-for-2.
The Terps and Seminoles exchanged runs in the opening inning. The Noles added one in the third and held a 2-1 heading into the sixth inning.


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I'm experiencing a behaviour of Yii that illustrates that I must be missing something.
To be short: this is the code in view/layouts/main.php:

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Strange enough, but the generated html

... text from render partial goes here ...

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is quite different from what I was expecting:

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Could anybody shed ligth on what's wrong here and how to generate desired html?


text: Autism is quickly emerging as one of the most prevalent developmental diseases of our time. Despite the large amount of scientific discoveries regarding the etiology, pathology, and clinical assessments of this complex, heterogeneous disorder, diagnostic and therapeutic biomarkers that could enable early diagnosis and therapy are lacking. Identification of clinically relevant biomarkers in brain tissue is clearly rendered more difficult by the unavailability of the tissue, the complexity and heterogeneity of the brain, and the fact that peripheral tissues such as blood, urine and even cerebrospinal fluid might not reflect brain pathology. This research laboratory is experiences in the systems biology approach to neurodevelopmental diseases and autism. Systems biology sciences look at the organism as a whole, rather than focusing on a single gene or molecule of interest. We focus on metabolomics, the study of all small molecules or metabolites which are present in a given tissue. These metabolites include amino acids, fatty acids, sugars and other molecules required for the proper functioning of the cells and tissues. Recent investigations of the metabolic status of autistic patients have indicated that certain metabolic impairments may underlie autism, specifically problems in fatty acid and energy metabolism in the nerve cells. To identify small molecules in different regions of the brain, we use magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The researchers have completed a study on 25 autistic children who underwent brain scan of several regions implicated in autism. This study aims to extend the team's imaging and spectroscopy research to specific patients in whom some abnormalities in the metabolomic content of the brain have been identified. To further explore the basic mechanisms of these metabolic abnormalities, the fellow and mentors aim to develop a cellular model of autism which uses patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) and prompts them to differentiate into neurons. In those patient-specific neurons, they will study the metabolome abnormalities as well as their gene regulation. They expect to discover not only new molecular mechanisms that might be important for the development of autism, but also new therapeutic targets which might help alleviate the disease.


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You have to wonder what Gloria Negri must have been thinking as she sat on a bench in the dark of the night in this vast and frightened city of ours, trying to attract the attention of the Boston Strangler, a decoy for this newspaper back in the early 1960s.
I hope he comes – that's what she was probably thinking.
Like the time she basically forced her way into Vietnam in the throes of the war against orders from a Globe publisher who didn't want to put a female reporter in harm's way. She sent a cable back to the states saying, and I quote, "Gloria Negri wants to stay."
A Globe editor sent a somewhat brief cable back: "No."
Name a major event, Gloria has chronicled it, gloriously so: the race riots in the 1960s, Apollo moon shots from Mission Control, apartheid in South Africa, the ferocious 1980 earthquake in Italy that left 2,700 people dead.
She surreptitiously sipped bourbon with Lady Bird Johnson at the famed LBJ ranch in Texas during the 1964 presidential campaign. She trained with Joe Frazier before one of his epic fights against Muhammad Ali. She was at Shea Stadium on that October night when the ground ball skipped through Bill Buckner's legs.
Today, Gloria Negri retires. Today, Gloria walks out of this newsroom as a full-fledged Boston Globe staffer for the final time, ending a nearly 53-year run that is unlike any journalism career this town has ever seen or will see again. Tomorrow, this paper and the world we cover will be a little less vibrant without her.
Understand that Gloria Negri is a trailblazer in every sense of the word, a woman who never worked on what used to be known as the "women's pages," which was unheard of when she arrived here at the tail end of the Eisenhower administration. She broke barriers not as a cause, but because her talent couldn't be contained.
She is also, it must be said, slightly idiosyncratic in the way that newspaper people used to be but, sadly, aren't any more. When she sneezes, which is oddly often, windows rattle across Dorchester. She used to crawl under her desk to make especially sensitive calls. To this day, nights and weekends, she trundles toward the door carrying bags burdened with loose papers, notes for the stories she polishes at her kitchen table. Her voice fills the newsroom as she pulls her disarming Columbo routine with unknowing sources — "So sorry to bother you again. . . . I happened to notice something . . . . Just one more question."
There's something else about Gloria Negri, the most important thing of all. Too often these days, the blabbermouths on television and the elite national reporters who travel in herds try to tell the country what we think, though none have talked to an everyday person in years.
Then there's Gloria. For five-plus decades she's traveled the city and the world with pen and paper, typewriter then laptop, deftly persuading ordinary people to open up about their lives. How? Empathy. In a world too cold, it spills from her fingertips.
Which is why the best Gloria Negri stories weren't necessarily based on the biggest events, but her poignant and wonderfully told insights into the human condition: Doc Mastrangelo, the aging physician who cared for half of Watertown but rarely sent bills; Jim Flath, the homeless shoeshine man who donated much of his pay to charity; a boy named Quinnie, born poor and sick, who spoke his first words and walked his first steps in Boston City Hospital with doctors and nurses who saw him as their son. She wrote the defining story about the disabled students at the Massachusetts Hospital School that didn't leave a dry eye in the state.
Gloria mentioned one recent day that when she dies, she would be delighted to be described as a Globe reporter who did good work. She shouldn't have to wait. On this day of Gloria Negri's retirement, her rebirth, it should be known clear and wide: There hasn't been anyone better.McGrory is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Haunted House Mystery Bank
I'm not sure where the original ad came from (I spotted it on a Tumblr account), but I love the description.
You put your coin on the step of the house and "With a groan and a rattle, the house lights up - spookily - and the door slowly opens. The Horror Hand sneaks out of the doorway and snatches the coin back in! "
Best part? The money back guarantee. As if I wouldn't be satisfied!
Of course, I wonder what it actually looked like. The artist rendition is lovely but I get the sense the bank itself may not have been so detailed.
Let's pretend it was.
This would have helped me save as a child.
Heck, this would help me save as an adult.
And shudder, apparently.
I have a feeling it was like
I have a feeling it was like those grow your own seahorses ads you used to see on the back pages of comic books when we were growing up.
Haunted House Bank 1966
Here is a video of the bank working: (awesome!)
(sorry if this ends up posting twice--but it doesn't look like it worked the first time)
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