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Monday, 30 December 2013
Monday, 23 December 2013
Holiday Greetings
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Here at PP, we are always thinking of our readers. I'm pleased to announce that as of today (15th October 2013) we have dropped the price to the HERNE THE HUNTER SERIES down to $1.99 across all platforms.
In November and December we will be offering you something special - though I won't spoil the surprise. You'll have to come back and find out or keep up with us on Facebook. I'm sure you will like it.
In November and December we will be offering you something special - though I won't spoil the surprise. You'll have to come back and find out or keep up with us on Facebook. I'm sure you will like it.
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Special October Offer
"If the Sergeant doesn't stop those trains, D-Day goes down the drain!"
The speaker was Colonel Fairbairn, special OSS advisor to General Omar Bradley, at a tense meeting of SHAEF only days before the planned Normandy invasion. Thus began yet another do-or-die mission of the man called The Sergeant – C. J. Mahoney (Code Name: Parrot), a big, brawling career G.I. Mahoney was an almost perfect killing machine with an incredible knack for languages … and the Army's heavyweight champion foul-up.
His assignment was to stop the personnel and supply trains crafty General Erwin Rommel had lined up to checkmate the assault he knew would come on Omaha Beach. His first try failed when a key bridge wouldn't blow. Now, with Gestapo Colonel Richter on his trail, it's last-chance time as Mahoney and a handful of maquis steal an explosives-laden train and head for a fateful rendezvous in a tunnel of death!
Friday, 20 September 2013
Along with continuing our established series, October sees the launch of the wartime series THE SERGEANT by Len Levinson (see other posts on the books.
Sadly, October sees the end of David Stuart Davies' Sherlock Holmes series but does end on a high note. BRAND, CROW, FARGO, REAPER and The STORM Family marches on.
Thanks for your support. Mike
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Wednesday, 11 September 2013
A Coup for Ben Bridges
Now this is exciting news just in. The other half of Piccadilly Publishing, David Whitehead aka Ben Bridges, tells me that he is to be credited as an Associated Producer on the upcoming movie DAY OF THE GUN starring Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts. The film is written and directed by Wayne Shipley. Mr. Roberts joins a cast of talented area actors including LaDon Hall, Jim Osborn, Jason Brown, Sam Lukowski, Erin Heilman, Susan Osborn, Brian St. August, John C. Bailey, Richard Cutting, Johnny Alonso, Raw Leiba, Earl Klemm, Jim Holland, Jerry Gietka, and Jonathan Ruckman.
Filmed largely on location in Maryland, "Day of the Gun" features scenic Montana locations shot specifically for this production. Principal photography will wrap on May 4, 2013. The premiere is planned for August 2013.
"Day of the Gun" is about a range war started over a barbed wire fence. Widow Maggie Carter threatens "there will be hell to pay" unless cattle baron Cyrus McCall takes down the wire that threatens her survival as a rancher. The conflict escalates when their children get involved and a mysterious stranger from Maggie's past comes back into her life. Told in flashback by eighty-year-old former newspaper editor Simon Doubleday, Day of the Gun is set in Singletree, Montana, a 1890s mining and cattle town. Doubleday recalls the town's glory days, full of life and hope - and heartbreak.
The picture promises to appeal to a wide audience of movie enthusiasts looking for action, intrigue, love, and a little mystery-- not to mention good old-fashioned storytelling.
And to cap it all, Ben is being allowed to novelise the script. And here's a sneak preview of the cover:
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Tommy Lee Jones to write & direct "The Cowboys" remake
Reports say that Tommy Lee Jones will write and direct a Warner Bros. remake of the John Wayne western, 1972′s The Cowboys.
The plot follows rancher Wil Andersen, who has to recruit a crew of boys to help him drive his herd of cattle to sale when none of the local men will join him. They have to contend with a gang of cattle thieves – led by Bruce Dern (Big Love) – who are following them along the way. It is not known at this point if Jones will also star.
Tommy Lee Jones and westerns go way back – he stars as a claim jumper who helps escort a group of insane women from Nebraska to Iowa in most recent directing effort The Homesman; his 2005 film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada was a modern-day western revenge tale, and his directorial debut was a TV movie western, The Good Old Boys.
Jones' path to stardom really began with his role in the famous 1989 TV miniseries, Lonesome Dove and he impressed as a tracker in Ron Howard's The Missing and as a Texas sheriff in the Coen Brothers' modern-day Cormac McCarthy western-noir, No Country For Old Men. He seems to really come alive these days in historical roles, like his firebrand abolitionist congressman in Lincoln, and while he's always a solid presence, he appears to almost resent appearing in blockbusters like Captain America or Men In Black 3.
John Wayne's name is even more synonymous with westerns than Clint Eastwood's, having starred in more than 80 of them. While well-regarded, The Cowboys is not exactly a beloved classic on the level of True Grit or Rio Bravo, although it is notable for being one of the very few Wayne films in which his character dies at the end.
So if Jones is going to remake a John Wayne film, he's smart to avoid the iconic classics, although the outraged fanbase of such things is not as big or vocal as some other genres. My dad hated the True Grit remake, though… so Jones might still need to be careful.
There is currently not release date available for Jones' remake of The Cowboys, but stay tuned for more information as it becomes available. The Homesman is currently in post-production.
Source: Variety
Monday, 9 September 2013
SUDDEN hits the Top Ten on Amazon UK
Great news to wake up to - finding that the September release of SUDDEN APACHE FIGHTER is #3, whilst SUDDEN AT BAY is #17 and SUDDEN STRIKES BACK is at #57.
When we first took on the series we spoke with Frederick Nolan (Frederick H Christian) on several things. Firstly, the cover: We wanted to get a modern take on the old classic style pulp western. Fred agreed: "I rather like the "Ranch Romances" feel of your Sudden covers -- they bring back memories of the original Newnes covers for the Oliver Strange titles, which were always 1930-ish, and remained unaltered even into the 1960s."
Secondly the language and about whether or not to "upgrade" the lingo for new readers, or to stick with Oliver Strange's archaic view of how they talked Out West. It was decided that we were going to leave it be - thinking of how many thousands of readers have gone before and not complained. That's the way OS wrote 'em.
Why am I bringing this up? Well, there have been a few comments in the feedback area ranging from 5 star:
"written in the original style of Oliver Strange, good story line and a moralistic outcome to the story."
to 1 star:
"Full of spelling and grammar mistakes. Very poorly edited. A five year old could have done better. Always loved sudden books but this one could have put off someone new to them."
We carefully go through each manuscript as if it was an original script. Part of the editing includes changing the UK spelling to American and keeping words such as "yu" rather than "you"; "shore" for "sure" etc. etc. So, perhaps it is the use of the vernacular, in the style of Oliver Strange, which looks somehow "mistaken" to today's modern readers?
Our aim is to do right by our authors and readers. We have no intention of knowingly publishing a book that is less than the best we are capable of.
You can find it HERE.
Thursday, 8 August 2013
Anthology Announcement - Livin' On Jacks and Queens
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
A Message from Len Levinson
The author of THE SERGEANT series, Len Levinson, dropped us a note when he was shown the first cover by Tony Masero (see post below), and we thought to share it with you:
"...I wanted to tell you that I thought it was great, because it promises all the violence, blood and guts that one can reasonably expect from a Len Levinson extravaganza. It's interesting to compare your cover with the ones concocted by Audio-Go for my "The Rat Bastards" series. Those covers have no bizaaz. Covers are very important. Back in the day, I became friendly with Walter Zacharius, prez of Zebra books, who published "The Rat Bastards" and some of my other books. He was a marketing genius and put a lot of effort and money into covers. Because covers matter, which evidently you understand. - Len"
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
The Sergeant comes to Piccadilly!
The series consist of 9 books over a 3-year period beginning in 1980. Mahoney, we learn, has often been promoted and busted in his long career. During the period of the Novels, May 1944 to December 1944, Mahoney is a Master Sergeant, that serves in special missions with the Rangers, and as a Company Sergeant, Platoon Leader, and Squad Leader in the "Hammerhead" Division. Mahoney, with his always present side-kick, Corporal Edward Cranepool, become involved in several of the key battles for the liberation of France, and invasion of Germany. Mahoney, as a US Army Ranger aides the French Resistance before, during, and immediately after the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasions of France. Later, tired of always finding himself involved in "suicide" missions, Mahoney and Cranepool transfer to the "Hamerhead" Division in General George S Patton's 3rd Army. With the Hammerheads, Mahoney participates in the battles of the hedgerows after the Normandy invasions, the liberation of Paris, the crossing of the Moselle and battle for Metz, and the defense of Bastogne.
In the first book in the series, Death Train, which takes place in the summer of 1944, Mahoney is a US Army Ranger working behind German lines with the French Resistance, "maquis", to disrupt a rail-road line that will be essential to German troop and supply movement after the D-Day invasion on Omaha Beach. The book establishes Mahoney as a tough, career Army, individual, and an experienced combat veteran that had seen action since the initial US amphibious landings in 1942 at Morocco.
The series ends with Book 9, Hammerhead, circa late December 1944. Mahoney, disgusted by all the death he has seen, and killing he has done, is praying in a small Catholic church. Facing the altar, with his back to the church, he is nearly killed, before two of his arch enemies end up shooting each other. After determining that one of the men has died and the other likely did as well, Mahoney returns to his prayer.
- Death Train
- Hell Harbor: The Battle for Cherbourg
- Bloody Bush
- The Liberation of Paris
- Doom River
- Slaughter City
- Bullet Bridge
- Bloody Bastogne
- Hammerhead
Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Len Levinson served on active duty in the U.S. Army from 1954-1957, and graduated from Michigan State University with a BA in Social Science. He relocated to NYC that year and worked as an advertising copywriter and public relations executive before becoming a full-time novelist. Len created and wrote a number of series, including The Apache Wars Saga, The Pecos Kid and The Rat Bastards. He has had over eight titles published, and PP is delighted to have the opportunity to issue his exceptional WWII series, The Sergeant in digital form. After many years in NYC, Len moved to a small town (pop. 3100) in rural Illinois, where he is now surrounded by corn and soybean fields ... a peaceful, ideal location for a writer.
Friday, 12 July 2013
Angus Wells on Characters
EXACTLY whore a characters comes from is pretty much anyone's guess, and the sources will change with the technique and temperament of the individual authors. Personally, I don't keep files, preferring to rely on the resources of' my imagination and memory — a proud boast that means I don't have to bother making notes.
Chiefly, they do come straight out from the fantasy land inside my skull, springing up in accordance with the demands of setting and general style of the book I'm writing at the time. For instance, the characters in a BREED tend to be more grotesque than those in a PEACEMAKER, simply because the basic approach of the BREED series is more flamboyant. It was planned that way from the start, when — forno particular reason — I decided a half-breed Apache hero was a good one. Nolan, Christie and all the rest followed on: I wanted to start on a revenge theme, and they just came into my mind (and took over). PEACEMAKER, on the other hand, was (as well as being a joint venture with John Harvey), conceived on entirely different lines.
We started out with the deliberate intention of producing a gentler Western, and hit on the development of a town as a central them by a mixture of design, accident, and watching CENTENNIAL on TV. In sequence, McLain was somewhat gentler than other of our central characters, and that decided the development of the peripheral folk. We dreamed up Alice and Shawn because someone had to run the saloon, and we both fancied the idea of using a woman as a strong character. The others followed on. The various inhabitants of Garrison came with the narrative development of the town; Janey Page came in because we wanted some kind of feminine interest for McLain, though we've always planned to offset that with another lady of, perhaps, more direct intent.
It tends to be a question of balancing personal tastes with narrative direction. Loner heroes allow for broader characters; indeed, the very fact that they are loners — and so wandering from town to town without establishing firm roots anywhere — tends to embellish the secondary characters of the story. PEACEMAKER allows for a gradual development of several running characters, whereas a BREED or a HAWK needs characters who establish themselves instantly — and in consequence they tend to be more grotesque, or at least more dramatic.
Something like GRINGOS is a different kettle of fish altogether, or a different plate of tamales. John and I got the idea of doing a Mexican Revolution series first (all right, sales show it wasn't a very good one, but it was interesting) and that led — inevitably as we're both avid movie fans — to thoughts of THE WILD BUNCH. We decided a team would be more plausible and so set out to create one. Cade Onslow was made deliberately older than usual and put into the Army because we wanted someone with leadership abilities and military knowledge. Jonas Strong came in because we thought a giant black guy would be a nice idea. Then to offset the altruism of Onslow and Strong, we wanted two weaker characters. It was John's idea to have a scar-faced drug addict and I think it was mine to bring in Yates McCloud. It's always easier to dream them up with a co-author as you can bounce ideas off one another. They don't always work, but the bouncing is fun. Hiram Bender came in because our editor at the time wanted a political element and we got to discussing CIA-type operations. Pancho Villa, of course, is straight research. And that was how GRINGOS got its characters. It allsounds easy on paper. But they really don't come as readily as it may sound. There are times you sit around pounding your brain for an idea that won't come; and others when a character just springs naturally to mind.
The big difference, I suppose, is in the nature of the characters themselves. Not as in the books, but as in the need of the idea. Obviously only then central character has to be strong enough 'to retain interest, which often as not leads to him having some kind of gimmick. Breed is half Apache; Hawk has a crippled hand; Jubal, is a doctor; and so on. If you've got any running characters (Marshal Nolan in GUNSLINGER, for example) they also need some personally identifying element. Villains require strong characterisation, which is one reason for the crazed Rebel colonels and the sadistic Mexicans.
And they need to come from somewhere.
Mostly, the leading characters ore all predictably fictitious. They are tailored to meet the requirements of the book, and only once in a while are based on real people.
The fillers are much easier There's a kind of group imagination which Icreated a stock of minor characters. Barkeeps and desk clerks are almost uniformly smug and rather greasy; bankers are either fat or very thin and usually prove nefarious table hands are unctuous, usually grizzled, and usually greedy hotel owners are Laurence.
Friends get inserted as a compliment and a joke. So long as potted descriptions helps to carry the narrative along it doesn't really matter how many people know you're describing a friend. Any more than the musicians whose name we all use: that's a little homage, too. If you can do it without that particular character seeming out of place why not? Just as there's no reason why cinematic characters shouldn't swap over I was three quarters through my very first Jubal before I realised the rancher I was describing was Charles Bickford, though mostly it's far more conscious than that. In BLOOD DEBT, for example, I decided right from the start that Breed's path was going to intertwine with that of Ethan Allen, out of the all-time great THE SERCHERS. That was my tribute to John Ford and John Wayne, and I had a lot of fun doing it
So, they come from movies; from books read and admired; from records; from friends; from the repertory company of the group mind. But mostly they come from the imagination. Out of whatever mental processes (weird mind?) they are that make us writers. Imagination is such a big word: in this case it encompasses the whole process bf conception through development to definition on paper. But it's the only word that describes the indefinable process that lets us do that. Half the time I don't know where they come from — they're just lurking around here someplace.
And I'm grateful they are.
Tony Lewing aka Mark Bannerman R.I.P.
Very, very sorry to have to post this sad news about PP author MARK BANNERMAN (aka Tony Lewing), received this morning: "Dear David, I am Francoise, Tony's wife. I am very aware of the many times you and Tony were in contact regarding his books and Kindle and of the huge amount of help you gave him. Sadly I have to tell you that Tony died in hospital on Monday morning (June 17) unexpectedly after an angiogram on the Sunday. Our son and daughter are with me to give their support. We are devastated and finding it difficult to accept that he will not finish his latest novel amongst many other things. I know he was so grateful for your time and expertise and would like me to express thanks on his behalf. He was so enjoying his success with e-books and was amazed by it. It had given him a new lease of life. Once again, many thanks, and I am only sorry that a developing friendship is now at an end. May I wish you all the best, Francoise Lewing." Tony was a great guy. All our writers are, of course, and I like to think that we all enjoy a unique friendship and camaraderie. Certainly this was the case with Tony. Rest in peace.
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April 16, 2013
The Dog-Scaped Yard
Create a backyard haven for the collared set
by Ruthanne Johnson
Look into any backyard and you can probably tell which one has a dog. Trampled pathways through grass and garden bear evidence of daily squirrel patrols. Muddy trails along fences underscore an intense curiosity about otherside happenings. And freshly dug pits may highlight a hankering for underground critters, a cool earthen bed, or just old-fashioned fun.
Let's face it: Dogs are uniquely skilled at uncoiffing our landscapes. But "don't take it personal," advises Colorado-based landscape designer Elizabeth Bublitz, author of Pawfriendly Landscapes. As someone who's spent more than a decade designing yards for dogs and owners, Bublitz knows that human's best friends are merely seeking to burn off energy, protect their territory, and track down interesting smells.
The following tips from "petscaping" experts will help you create an outdoor space that fulfills your dog's needs and your desire for an aesthetically pleasing yard. If you're strapped for cash or time, remember that picking even one project to start with will help you and your companion delight in your outdoor domain.
Lounge Hounds
In addition to shelter from wind and rain, places to sun are a must-have for the dog-scaped yard. Just ask California-based landscape designer Scott Cohen, who says he can tell the time of day by where his elderly bulldog, Belvedere, happens to be basking. Shady spots are equally important—and can deter your pooch from digging troughs in the dirt. Garden features like trellises, patio covers, and sail shades make attractive cooling zones. Native trees offer natural cover; deciduous species allow both summer shade and winter sun. In Michigan, master gardener Tom Barthel built a covered deck to provide his rescued Labradoodle, Dakota, with both shade and an elevated place to scan his domain. In hardscapes such as cemented areas, moveable umbrellas and built-in holders make for interchangeable sun/shade zones.
Chances are your dog already has some favorite spots for power lounging—ones that also enable her to survey her territory. Outdoor chair padding and dog beds can make these places even more enjoyable.
Nectar of the Dogs
Whether enjoyed as a refreshing sip or cooling plunge, H2O is an essential element in any dog's backyard. To make sure his dogs never go thirsty, Tucson landscape designer Jason Isenberg installed a self-circulating, self-filling water feature. A bacteria-killing UV filter keeps the water sparkling clean while the fountain's sleek, modern lines create an attractive focal point. For Belvedere and his other dog, Lucy, Cohen installed two auto-fill fountains in his yard: a small one for the dog run and a decorative three-tier fountain in the main area. "They like to drink from the bottom tier and run around in the water when it's hot," says Cohen.
Other thirst-quenching elements include ponds, self-circulating waterfalls, sprinklers with timers, and even kiddie pools. (Make sure animals have an easy exit and the water is free of harmful chemicals.)
Most pet owners have observed their dogs munching grass. Though the jury is still out on why, we know that most dogs are perpetually on the hunt for anything remotely edible. You can satisfy these grazing instincts by planting a special garden filled with healthy, tasty plants.
For grass eaters, wheat and oat grasses are good choices, Barthel says. Edible flowers such as pansy, nasturtium, marigold, and rose hips are rich in antioxidants and citric acid. Fruits and vegetables such as blueberries, raspberries, and carrots can also rouse a dog's salivary glands. Young dandelion buds taste sweet and are a great source of vitamins and minerals. Lavender is another natural treat. "It tastes really good to dogs, and it's drought-tolerant and easy to grow," says California-based animal trainer Carolyn Doherty. "Dogs also smell good when they run through it."
Illustration by Shaina Lieberman
On Guard
Dogs are creatures of habit who were born to patrol—a destructive combination when it comes to backyard vegetation. You can direct your dogs' natural tendencies through purposeful pathways: flagstones stepping toward a garden bench, river rock guiding the way toward a creek or pond. For a more artistic look, line paths with colorful shrubs or landscaping material. But be sure to use paw-friendly materials that can withstand a lot of foot traffic, advises Cohen, who uses decomposed granite between his lawn and planters.
Rather than deter his dog from trampling the grass and vegetable plants along his fence line, Barthel—author of Dogscaping: Creating the Perfect Backyard & Garden for You and Your Dog—decided to wave the white flag. He laid a 12-inch-wide swath of mulch for Dakota to use as a runway and moved his garden into 6-inch raised beds away from the fence.
To entice your pet to explore the paths you create, Doherty—who with Cohen authored Petscaping: Training and Landscaping with Your Pet in Mind—suggests hiding treats along the way and providing other enticements. For her rescued Doberman, Chief, Doherty placed various-sized boulders to serve as survey points, encourage exercise, and even keep his nails trimmed.
For Bublitz's German shepherd mix, Barney, peekaboo windows cut into her 6-foot privacy fence ease the frustration of not being able to see what's happening on the other side, while 3½-foot-high berms provide survey points. Half-walls throughout Isenberg's backyard attractively compartmentalize his outdoor living space and serve as lookout platforms. A row of salvia along one wall (a favorite sniffing zone) keeps dogs Buddy and Zora smelling sweet.
Hot Diggity Dog
For dirt lovers, a designated dig zone can keep your yard from resembling a crater-pocked moonscape. Isenberg selected a shady area with a panorama of the backyard, then dug 18 inches into hard desert soil. He filled the pit with playground sand and added an angular border of charcoal-colored Mexican beach stone to match his backyard motif. Now the dig pit is his dogs' go-to spot on sizzling days. Buddy and Zora scrape off several inches of sand before wedging their bellies into the cool, moist underlayer.
Live and Let Live
A dog-scaped yard can still be a sanctuary for untamed creatures. To keep your wild neighbors out of harm's way, create hiding places and escape routes throughout your landscape: brush piles, rotting logs, rock gardens, trees, and thick bushes. Place bird feeders somewhere inaccessible to your pet.
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The storm of allegations regarding Chinese espionage at US national weapons laboratories has led to needed tightening of security at those facilities. That's the positive outcome from the spy scandal that agitated Washington for much of the past year.
But the Chinese espionage affair has also had some disturbing aspects. Most of these are tied to the government's criminal case against Wen Ho Lee, formerly a physicist with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Lee became a magnet for suspicion as the spy charges reached their zenith in Congress earlier this year.
The Chinese-American scientist apparently had been under surveillance, on and off, for years. In the 1980s he had been suspected of giving classified information to Taiwan, where he was born, but had been cleared of those charges. This decade, somewhat ironically, he became the FBI's prime suspect in the alleged transfer of nuclear-bomb secrets to the People's Republic of China, Taiwan's adversary.
Early in December, at long last, Lee was formally charged - not with espionage, but with mishandling classified documents. It's a lesser charge, but could still carry a lengthy prison term. Lee has been denied bail.
The FBI probe of the possible tranfer of nuclear secrets to China is continuing, and of late has broadened beyond Lee and Los Alamos.
Meanwhile, other developments:
*The release of secret congressional testimony by Attorney General Janet Reno has clarified why she kept the FBI from tapping Lee's phone in the course of its investigation. Ms. Reno was roundly criticized for that. It's now clear she felt the bureau was prematurely centering its attention on Lee before eliminating other suspects with equal access to classified material and just as much incentive, presumably, to pass it to other countries. This throws new light on Reno's actions, and raises new questions about the intense focus on Lee.
*This month the accused struck back with a lawsuit against the FBI and the Justice and Energy Departments for invasion of privacy and false accusation. The suit, reportedly, will emphasize that investigators pursued him even after doubts had arisen that he was, in fact, engaged in espionage. Lee doesn't deny that he downloaded classified material to an unclassified computer, but says it was a common practice.
*Suspicion is growing among Asian-Americans activists that Lee is in custody primarily because of his ethnicity. They argue that the FBI's pursuit of him was dictated by racial "profiling" - by the assumption that people of Chinese background were the most likely to be exploited by Communist Chinese agents.
*A detailed report by Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation throws doubt on the accuracy of the congressional report, put together by Rep. Christopher Cox (R) of California, that largely fueled the storm over Chinese espionage and generated furious calls to net the perpetrators. The Stanford team, including credible experts on nuclear weaponry, charges that the Cox report is "inflammatory" and makes some ill-supported allegations.
In summary, the country owes two things to itself: (1) Make sure its system for designing and producing nuclear weaponry is as secure as possible. (2) Just as important, make sure its system of justice, operating in the Wen Ho Lee case, is driven by fairness and a quest for the truth, not by the need to pillory someone in the wake of a politically uncomfortable furor over alleged espionage.
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Snow, Ice and Rain Ground Flights and Snarl Traffic; a White-Out in the Midwest
A monster storm left the Midwest staggering in its wake Wednesday and brought its full force to bear on the East Coast.
As the blizzard wound down in the afternoon, Chicago began digging out from 20 inches of snow. But the storm, estimated to have affected 100 million people from New Mexico to Maine, continued to pummel northwest Indiana with snow, coated the East Coast with ice and dumped more snow on Boston. Bitterly cold temperatures followed....


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•Kill time on a bumpy overnight bus ride and use the app to test your language skills
Lonely Planet's iPhone phrasebooks - they love a journey as much as you do!


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We've said it before and hopefully we won't have to say it again — we've been heads down this week putting the final polish on WPF Elements 5. That hasn't stopped us making some nice improvements to Web Workbench and a few fixes to the rest of our products. Here's what's new in the latest builds.
WPF Elements
Web Workbench
All these updates are in the latest nightly builds. Free editions available from the downloads page, full editions from the store. Web Workbench updates through Visual Studio Extension Manager.


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An alternative for Edmonton lottery homes
Winning a million dollar lottery home would be great, but they're huge. Wouldn't a subdivision of tiny lottery homes be a better alternative?
Winning a million dollar lottery home would be great, but they're huge. Wouldn't a subdivision of tiny lottery homes be a better alternative?
Dr. Riki Ott is a marine toxicologist who happened to be living in Cordova, Alaska when the Exxon Valdez spilled its load near there. This morning she was on CBC Sunday Edition. This interview is worth listening to.
Another oil spill happened in the Gulf of Mexico 31 years ago. The way they handled it then is virtually the same as the way they're handling it now. They weren't too successful back then either.
The flagrant display of incompetence and greed shown by British Petroleum (BP) in the Gulf of Mexico right now is nothing short of sickening. It's no wonder people hate oil companies these days. Of course they're not all like BP, but BP isn't helping any of them.
At some point, Haiti will move on from this disaster. The disaster recover process continues to unfold, but it's time to talk about how the country will move on. Housing is going to be a key consideration and they may want to consider using shipping containers as a secure form of housing.
For years I've pondered the question about whether it's possible to go off-grid in the city and disconnect from the giant utilities that rule our lives.


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As of Tuesday, job applicants will no longer have to give up their Facebook or other social media passwords to prospective employers. This also applies to students applying to state universities.
A law to help struggling home owners is also now in place. It bans dual-tracking so that banks can't foreclose on a home while pursuing a loan modification.
The law also increases penalties for "robo-signing," which is automatic approval for a foreclosure without reading documents. Homeowners can also sue for significant violations.
The second part of the DREAM Act goes into effect Tuesday. It allows students who are exempt from paying non-resident tuition and who are ineligible for federal financial aid to receive grants and scholarships from the state.
Other changes in the state include:
- Coaches and administrators in grades K through 12 will be required to report suspected child abuse.
- The Silver Alert program will begin, which will help locate missing seniors. It's similar to the Amber Alert program.
- Carrying unloaded rifles and shotguns in public is not allowed.
- Party bus operators will be held to the same standards as limo companies.


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New research suggests that there is no relationship between the use of tenofovir and certain markers of bone health.
Tenofovir is a type of antiretroviral drug, which is used in combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of HIV infection. The World Health Organization recognizes it as one of the most important medications needed in a basic health system.
However, as with most medications, there are possible adverse effects associated with tenofovir. Tenofovir can result in common side effects such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Some more serious side effects include renal toxicity and low bone density.
Recently, researchers from the United Kingdom recruited 422 men with HIV to investigate the relationship between tenofovir and certain markers of bone health, including vitamin D status and parathyroid hormone (PTH).
When a person is deficient in vitamin D, their body is not absorbing calcium well. This leads the body to produce high amounts of PTH which acts to pull calcium from bones, which over time can lead to low bone density and increased fragility.
They determined that 57% of the patients were either deficient or severely deficient, defined by levels between 10 and 20 ng/ml and less than 10 ng/ml, respectively. There were no differences in PTH and vitamin D status according to whether a person was or was not using tenofovir.
Additionally, tenofovir was not associated with bone mineral density and bone turnover.
The researchers concluded, "In this largely tenofovir experienced cohort of HIV-positive men, there was no association between tenofovir and vitamin D deficiency, hyperparathyroidism, reduced bone mineral density or increased bone turnover."
Samarawickrama A. et al. No association between vitamin D deficiency and parathyroid hormone , bone density and bone turnover in a large cohort of HIV-infected men on tenofovir. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2014.


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London Fashion Week: Kate Moss at Topshop's effortlessly sexy show
Kate Moss took her place on the front row for London Fashion Week to see the show from Topshop, owned by her friend Philip Green.
Sitting with Green, his son, Brandon, and US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, Moss saw Cara Delevingne model the brand's spring/summer collection.
And if there's one thing you can count on with Topshop, it's that they anticipate what women want before they even know they want it.
For winter, that meant pink coats, tactile fabrics and upscaled proportions but come next spring, it's predicting you'll want something completely different.
Head of design Emma Farrow was inspired by the wild heady days and endless freedom of summer, which translates into a collection of relaxed, fuss-free pieces that would be just as good on a relaxed Saturday in the city as they would on the beach in a far-flung destination.
The effortlessly sexy sundress is the item you'll want to snap up come spring.
Darrow offered barely there styles with spaghetti straps at the back which, while modest from the front, revealed the best part of the models backs.
The rest of the collection furthered that undone feeling. Slouchy denim, frayed jackets and loose-fitting printed trousers appeared while the combination of cracked file prints on transparent voiles and precious gazer silks will have you longing for next summer's warm weather already.


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LeBron James, hipster
Not long ago, David, a single, 46-year-old real-estate agent in New York, put on his friend's thick-framed Masunaga spectacles and looked in the mirror. "It was like I was suddenly face to face with the man I'd always wanted to be," he says as he reverently removes an identical pair from a case and carefully begins polishing the lenses with a small white cloth. "A more interesting, charismatic version of me."
Despite how besotted he had been with the way he looked in his friend's specs, something made David, who has 20/20 vision, pause before purchasing his own pair a week later. It wasn't the $500 price tag, but the sense that he was violating social convention. "I knew [the glasses would] transform how I saw myself and how others saw me, but I wasn't about to fake it," he says. "I wasn't about to become one of those guys."
The men he's referring to – those who wear glasses to look good rather than see well – are everywhere right now, as the old stigma attached to wearing "vanity frames" rapidly dissipates.
"When you have NBA stars wearing these oversized fashion frames, it's hard to dispute that glasses are in vogue," says Jonathan Evans, senior online editor of style and grooming at Esquire. Four-eyed since childhood, Evans used to view non-prescription spectacle wearers with derision but has recently softened his position.
"It's not that people don't need glasses," says one ophthalmologist. "If you prefer the way you look in glasses, you need glasses."
"Don't get me wrong – the lensless thing is definitely silly," he says of the craze first popularized by Japanese fashionistas in the 1990s and more recently adopted off-court by basketball players such as Dwyane Wade and Russell Westbrook. "But I think that accessorizing with non-corrective lenses is okay given that men don't have a lot of other options."
You could even argue that the few accessory options men do have at their disposal have outlived their intended purposes. In-store alterations, cellphones and even buttons have made belts, watches and neckties more about fashion than function. And from an aesthetic standpoint, all three have a markedly less dramatic effect on a man's appearance than glasses.
Certainly, men can't rely on eyewear alone to sharpen their appearance, Evans says, but a black acetate or tortoiseshell frame in a classic shape can add gravitas to practically any smart outfit. Yet, as realtor David suggests, isn't that gravitas undermined if the glasses are just for show?
"It's not that people don't need glasses," says Dr. Josh Josephson of the eponymous Toronto eyewear chain. "If you prefer the way that you look in glasses, you need glasses. You just don't happen to need them for corrective purposes."
According to Josephson, a significant portion of his non-corrective-lens-wearing clientele has had refractive surgery and felt that something about their appearance was missing once they cast off their specs. "People are putting clear lenses in their frames to restore the look that had become part of their personality," he says, adding that eyewear novices without a prescription tend to go for bold, conspicuous frames that aren't necessarily harmonious with their facial structure.
"People sometimes feel that they benefit from bold frames in a professional setting," he explains. "Take a guy like [diminutive talent agent] Swifty Lazar. He wore big iconic frames that gave him a certain presence – glasses that said, 'Don't fuck with me.'"
Jordan Silver of Silver Lining Opticians in Manhattan agrees, noting that many of his customers are professionals who feel that glasses will help them make a statement at work. The high-end boutique has carved out a niche by stocking a selection of big, bold frames, including vintage, internationally sourced deadstock along with its own line of specs named after periodic elements that sell for $325 each.
Is it worth the investment? "I think that if you're only going to be wearing glasses [infrequently], it'd be hard to justify spending a ton of money on a pair of cool frames," says Esquire's Evans. Hence the popularity of online eyewear retailer Warby Parker. The New York-based outfit will send up to five pairs of their stylish, inexpensive vintage-style frames to U.S. customers to try before they buy.
Of course, it's not just retailers who stand to benefit from the growing affection for eyewear as fashion accessory. Ironically, opticians do, too: In the wake of his eyewear epiphany, David underwent an eye exam and was relieved to be told that his vision was actually slightly less than perfect. "That's all that I needed to hear," he says.


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Where to dine in Dewey Beach
While neighboring Rehoboth Beach prides itself on its gourmet attitude, the restaurants of Dewey Beach tend to keep the cuisine suited to this party town's personality: fun, sassy and pleasantly extroverted. Be sure to try one of Dewey's bayside dining landmarks -- Ivy, Northbeach and Rusty Rudder -- even if it's only for watching the sunset over cocktails. There's plenty of plain-and-simple goodness here – including classic Delaware pizza at Grotto's – but also more creativity afoot at such destinations as Port (steaks, seafood, and Thai-food Thursdays); Woody's East Coast Bar & Grill (the crab cakes get raves); Whiskey Beach BBQ & Saloon; Que Pasa; and Nalu Hawaiian Surf Bar & Grill.
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If theoretical President Donald Trump tries to pull a key facet of his immigration plan, he'll almost certainly have to put up a fight in the Supreme Court. And he welcomes the challenge.
Among other things — like building a giant wall along the US-Mexican border and mass deporting immigrants living in the US unlawfully — Trump told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that he wants to deport American-born children of those immigrants.
As part of that plan, he wants to end so-called birthright citizenship, or the right for anyone born in the US to be automatically granted US citizenship.
"That's not going to happen because the 14th Amendment says if you're born here, you're an American," O'Reilly told Trump. "You can't kick Americans out. The courts would block you at every turn. You must know all that."
O'Reilly has a point. Here's the first section of the 14th Amendment, which established the right to birthright citizenship (emphasis added):
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Amendment was ratified in 1868, during the Reconstruction Era. It overruled Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), one of the most disastrous cases in US history for African-Americans, which held that the descendants of slaves from Africa living in the US could not be US citizens.
But Trump argued to O'Reilly that the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to "anchor babies," a pejorative term used to describe children whose parents entered the country illegally to have a child who would be born in the US and granted US citizenship. Trump said "many lawyers" have said that birthright citizenship wouldn't hold up in court.
But case after case, the Supreme Court has interpreted the 14th Amendment broadly, making the conditions for non-citizenship extremely narrow. Three cases in particular tell us how Trump might fare if he brought his own argument to court.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
Ark, a cook working in San Francisco, was born in California to non-citizen Chinese parents. He visited China in 1890 and was detained upon his return to the US under the Chinese Exclusion Act, one of the fiercest restrictions on free immigration in US history.
The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers, and the US argued that Ark was Chinese, not a US citizen, because he had Chinese parents. Ark challenged the US in court, and the Supreme Court eventually ruled that "citizenship by birth is established by the mere fact of birth." Ark was officially a US citizen, and the case set a precedent for the citizenship of children born in the US to foreign national parents.
Vance v. Terrazas (1980)
Laurence Terrazas, also a US-born parent of immigrants, held citizenship in both Mexico and the US. He enrolled at a Mexican university in 1970, and as part of his application, he renounced his US citizenship and swore "adherence, obedience, and submission to the law and authorities of the Mexican Republic."
The State Department considered this a clear-cut case of giving up US citizenship. But, according to an appeals court decision in the case, Terrazas produced other forms where he declared "[b]y taking this oath I did not consider that I was relinquishing my rights as an American citizen."
Ultimately, the Supreme Court didn't rule on whether Terrazas had, in fact, renounced his citizenship. However, the court did rule that US citizens must to intend to renounce their citizenship in order to lose it.
"In establishing loss of citizenship, the Government must prove an intent to surrender United States citizenship, not just the voluntary commission of an expatriating act such as swearing allegiance to a foreign nation," Justice Byron White wrote for the majority.
Plyler v. Doe (1982)
This case might present Trump's most challenging potential hurdle, finding that even non-citizen children still have rights.
Plyler v. Doe struck down a Texas law that withheld funding for schooling of children of immigrants living in the US unlawfully. The last clause of the first section of the 14th Amendment prohibits states from denying "to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Even if those children aren't citizens of the US, an undocumented immigrant is still "a 'person' in any ordinary sense of that term," Justice William J. Brennan ruled for the majority. They therefore cannot be discriminated against by the state.
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Graph Theory Seminar
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 12:05pm
1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Skiles 114
Rota asked in the 1960's how one might construct an axiom system for infinite matroids. Among the many suggested answers were the B-matroids of Higgs. In 1978, Oxley proved that any infinite matroid system with the notions of duality and minors must be equivalent to B-matroids. He also provided a simpler mixed basis-independence axiom system for B-matroids, as opposed to the complicated closure system developed by Higgs. In this talk, we examine a recent paper of Bruhn et al that gives independence, basis, circuit, rank, and closure axiom systems for B-matroids. We will also discuss some open problems for infinite matroids.


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We still need to improve - Mortaza
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has said his team must perform better to build on their win in the first ODI against New Zealand. Bangladesh won by nine runs using the Duckworth/Lewis method, but Mortaza mentioned a number of areas in which the team needed to improve.
"Our fielding was not up to the mark and the middle-order batting was also a concern for us," Mortaza said. "Most of the top-order batsmen got starts but could not carry it on."
Mortaza turned his ankle in his second over and was forced to watch the match from the sidelines. While he wished he could have contributed to the victory, he said the win was the important thing and made him forget all about the pain. "All credit must go to the boys who played brilliantly as a unit to win the game, especially Shakib [Al Hasan] who was great. One bowler was short but it was made up brilliantly."
Bangladesh's total of 228 was 15 to 20 runs short of their target, according to Mortaza, but the team was confident it could defend the score. "New Zealand got off to a good start but we bounced back brilliantly. We knew that it would not be easy for New Zealand to chase down the total if we took two or three early wickets. Riyad [Mahmudullah] and Naeem [Islam] both gave good support.
"This is a nice birthday gift for me," said Mortaza, who turned 27 yesterday.
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori was disappointed with his side's failure to chase down a target he thought was gettable. Their revised target was 210, but they had only 37 overs to chase it in. "Any loss is disappointing but we should have chased the score, but we lost wickets at regular intervals and at crucial times," he said.
Vettori was full of praise for Shakib, who made a brisk half-century to take Bangladesh past 200, and then took four wickets, including a double-strike in the 15th over to remove the rampant Brendon McCullum and Grant Elliott. "His batting late in the innings gave them the impetus," Vettori said, "and his bowling posed a danger."


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Spend two weeks studying visual communication - especially typography - in Venice and Rome, the birthplace of Western typographic tradition. Visit the Trajan Column, the Pantheon and the Arch of Titus. Examine inscriptions on Roman buildings and monuments that have long been a typographic ideal. This workshop in design history, theory and practice will be an intensive period of study that enables students to research and analyze the roots of typography, while practicing contemporary design with Italian and American designers and design historians.
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Marcolini hired at Beth-Center
After just two years at the helm, the leader of the Monessen School District is moving on.
Superintendent Linda Marcolini was hired Monday night as the new Bethlehem-Center School District superintendent.
Bethlehem-Center board members held a special meeting to hire Marcolini. Her 4½-year contract includes a base salary of $110,000, which will increase to $113,000 in July 2014. After that, her salary will jump to $116,699 on July 1, 2015; $120,200 in 2016; and $123,806 in 2017.
The Washington County school district comprises the communities of Fredericktown, Beallsville, Centerville, Deemston, Richeyville, Marianna and East and West Bethlehem townships.
Marcolini, who attended the meeting, said the hiring was a "whirlwind" process.
"It all happened very quick," Marcolini said. "It's time to move on, and work with folks who are ready for change."
Bethlehem-Center board President Chad Novotney said Marcolini became a candidate during a second round of interviews that began in November. She will replace former Superintendent Dr. James Stockdale, who resigned March 29. He was hired in 2010.
"We were very impressed with her (Marcolini), and we're very excited to have her in our district," Novotney said.
Marcolini was expected to submit her letter of resignation to Monessen officials and staff Tuesday morning.
When she will begin her new job will depend upon the Monessen school board.
Marcolini said, under terms of her contract, she would be forced to stay in Monessen until Feb. 17, 2014. Bethlehem-Center officials set a tentative start date of Jan. 16.
Marcolini was hired Nov. 9, 2011, replacing Superintendent Dr. Cynthia Chelen, who retired after 40 years with the district.
Prior to coming to Monessen, Marcolini was the assistant superintendent in the Brownsville Area School District.
Before that, she was a teacher for 16 years in Pittsburgh Public Schools. She worked for eight years in the Woodland Hills School District.
Marcolini's salary under the Monessen contract is $100,000 this year, with 2½ percent increases in each of the last two years of the five-year deal.
News of Marcolini's departure did not surprise Monessen board members, as rumors about her possible exit have been circulating for several weeks.
"We anticipated that she was heading in that direction," said Director Sharon Mauck, who served as board president this year. "I'm a firm believer that if you're not happy then you should do something that will make you happy."
Mauck acknowledged that the board's relationship with Marcolini was "not as good as it first was" when she was hired.
"But this is something that happened, and now we just have to move forward," Mauck said. "No matter who we hire at the helm, what's most important is that we provide the best education we can to our kids."
Newly appointed board President Donna Fantauzzi said she is hoping for a smooth transition, and expects to schedule a special meeting to discuss the status of Marcolini's contract and the search for a new leader.
"The board, both professionally and personally, wishes her well," Fantauzzi said.
Marcolini said that while her decision to leave Monessen was "bittersweet," she believes the time was right to move on.
"Two years ago, when I was offered the position, I understood the work to be transformative and the methodology that the board and I agreed upon to get the work accomplished would be collaborative," Marcolini states in her three-page resignation letter. "In other words, we agreed to support our students by supporting each other as an executive team. Recently, not all, but most of the board members have lost the faith in this philosophy and my leadership. I was hired to make change, I made change, and quite honestly it was not well received by some."
Marcolini said she will miss "everyone deeply," and says she is proud of the work she accomplished in her short time, including implementing a teacher mentoring program, a bully prevention program, the district's cyber program, the Monessen Alternative Program, and the Monessen/Brentwood "Dignity and Respect" project.
Marcolini was thrust into the national media spotlight not long after she was hired following a Feb. 3, 2012, basketball game at Brentwood. During the game, Monessen players claimed they were subjected to racial epithets, and two Brentwood students wore banana costumes.
The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League directed the districts to formulate a plan to promote sportsmanship and prevent the use of racial slurs and intimidation.
Marcolini said she inherited a "heavy slate" when she started in Monessen, including funding decreases and budget constraints.
She said she will assist in the hiring process and training of her replacement, as well as provide a transition plan.
Marcolini said she will always believe that Monessen is one of the area's "best kept secrets," and that she will miss the students and staff.
"There are no words to say how much I will miss the Monessen students," she stated in her letter. "In the past two years I have gotten to know most students by their first names. This is truly my mission — kids. That being said, I wish all Monessen students the best of luck. I will miss you deeply."
Stacy Wolford is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-684-2640 or email@example.com.


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Arnaldo Forlani, president of the Christian Democratic Party, has accepted President Sandro Pertini's invitation to try to form a new government and end Italy's 40th postwar political crisis. The premier-designate is a former foreign minister who has held Cabinet posts in seven governments and is widely regarded as a relaxed and easygoing politician.
Mr. Forlani will try to continue and possibly enlarge the alliance of Christian Democrats, Socialists, and Republicans which collapsed in a parliamentary vote last week. But he did not say if he was thinking of a closer cooperation with the second-ranking opposition Communist Party.
Italy's government crisis hit the nation at a time of severe economic crisis, caused largely by the hugely increased cost of oil. In addition, an gry workers of the Fiat auto empire have idled the Fiat plants in the Turin region since Sept. 11 to protest company plans to lay off up to 24,000 employees. At the time of the crisis, all three main Italian unions had backed a call for a general strike in support of the Fiat workers.


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Liam Neeson's survival thriller The Grey led the pack of new releases at this weekend's domestic box office. Here are the weekend estimates courtesy of Rentrak:
1. The Grey $20,000,000
2. Underworld Awakening $12,500,000
3. One for the Money $11,750,000
4. Red Tails $10,400,000
5. Man on a Ledge $8,250,000
6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close $7,145,000
7. The Descendants $6,550,000
8. Contraband $6,532,250
9. Beauty and the Beast 3D $5,345,000
10. Haywire $4,000,000
Listen to last week's Keepin' It Reel podcast to see how we did with our predictions!
Jim Vejvoda is the Executive Editor in charge of IGN Movies. He's also the only porn legend to also be a Rhodes scholar. You can follow him on Twitter at @StaxIGN or on MyIGN.


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Flames and Smoke Visible is the true story about a veteran fire fighter who was injured on the fireground. While in the hospital, he is compelled to consider what it means to be. What emerges from his remembrance of things past is a lean and eloquent book about brave and honorable fire fighters who possess the mystery of knowing how to face the living and the dying. Their valiant stories are filled with understated wisdom and humility about the beautiful and dreadful things encountered on the fireground.
As David Willson, author of REMF Diary: A Novel of the Vietnam War Zone, writes: "With the authority of experience as a professional fire fighter, D.S. Lliteras has written an authentic and entertaining book . . . a beautifully written, riveting account about this profession that is not only a first-rate entertaining book but also a book which informs, instructs, and allows the reader access to the human heart."
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selected as a Finalist in the Women in Games Breakthrough Talent awards.
The finalists of this year's Women in Games Awards have been announced.
Taking place on Friday May 19th at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London, the Women in Games Awards 2017 will see MCV, Develop and eSports Pro celebrate the plethora of female talent in the games industry across eight individual awards.
The event is sponsored by Twitch, Aardvark Swift, Rovio, Insert Coin and Ukie.
This year's categories include New Development Talent, Creative Impact, Rising Star, Businesswoman of the Year, Career Mentor, eSports Contender, Outstanding Contribution and Breakthrough Talent.
For more info on the ceremony, sponsorship opportunities and tickets enquiries, please check the event's website. And the finalists are...
Anya Elvidge – Trainee Campaign Map Artist, Creative Assembly
Jess Hider – European Community Manager for Unreal Engine, Epic Games
Naomi Kotler – Games Designer, Supermassive Games
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell – Games Lead, Creative Industries Federation
Alessia Nigretti – Professional Services, University of Sussex
Maria Fernanda Díez Huerta – Games Designer and Producer, Freelance
Sian Knight – Games Design Student, UCLan
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What's arguably the best way to grow brand awareness online? Content marketing. What's typically the no. 1 reason marketers don't use content to its fullest? Lack of time.
It's a constant conundrum content marketers face: Consistent, quality content increases SEO and builds brand awareness, but few can find the time to do it right.
Fortunately, one of this year's SEO buzzwords has the power to help marketers reach content goals while preserving time.
I'm Talking About Content Hubs, One of My Favorite Buzzwords of 2014
By Andy Crestodina's definition, a content hub is "a set of content (usually web pages) organized around a specific topic (usually a central page)." It spans all types of content, from e-books to videos and infographics to articles.
You simply choose a theme (typically the keyword or phrase you're trying to rank for) and select supporting content that adds to that overarching subject. For example, your theme could be "B2B content marketing," with supporting content like an infographic of best B2B content curation tools and a blog post with tips on how to use social media in B2B content strategies.
I could go on about my love for content hubs all day, but for the purpose of this post, we'll focus on the blog's role in content hubs. As I noted above, once you select a main theme, you'll need supporting content to share new, helpful angles on the primary subject.
That's where spin-off blog posts – unique content that supports an overarching subject – come into play. Spin-off posts offer readers a new angle on a topic, such as "10 best tools for B2B content marketers" if you're writing under that B2B content marketing theme.
And they save you, the writer, time while increasing SEO for your thematic keyword.
So, Are You Ready to Create Some Spin-off Blog Posts to Complement Your Content Hub?
Here are seven types you can add to your content toolkit as you refine — or launch — your blog in 2015.
1. The Case Study
Once you've selected your main, overarching theme, find a case study that demonstrates how a brand or person has successfully used this in real life.
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Apple is not in the business of writing firmware for every storage vendor's devices. Apple has created support for TRIM in the operating system. Get on your device's manufacturer's case for adding support for it in OS X.
Windows 7 supports TRIM on a wide range of SSDs, and there are third party hacks that enable TRIM on any SSD where the firmware supports it (which is almost every drive shipped now). It wouldn't be difficult for Apple to do the same.
Apple is not in the business of writing firmware for every storage vendor's devices. Apple has created support for TRIM in the operating system. Get on your device's manufacturer's case for adding support for it in OS X.
TRIM is a standard ATA feature, similar to SATA 6G. There's no need for Apple to write firmware or drivers for anyone in order to support it. Either a SSD has the capability (which will be announced to the OS if it asks nicely), or it doesn't. In the latter case, it won't work on Windows or with TRIM Enabler either. Apple has just decided not to enable it on other drives for political reasons. There's no technical reason. Windows supports TRIM generally, so could OS X.
What is their excuse for not supporting other drives?
What if they are? If you want a file, don't delete it.
No offense, but why would you want to recover a deleted file? I mean you already have the option to recover it from the trash... If you delete it from the trash then you probably don't need it at all (or you should have thought better)
No offense, but you're putting a lot of words into his mouth. He just asked if it made deleted files unrecoverable more quickly. For all we know, he might consider that a GOOD thing. I know I do. :)
edit: nevermind, a new version was released by the author (http://www.groths.org/)
edit2: just applied the trim enabler and it is working now on 10.6.8
...a SSD with a SandFore (trim handled by controller).
Sandforce cannot do TRIM in the controller. It can run proactive garbage collection in the background to help ensure an adequate pool of erased pages. This keeps performance high as long as the SSD has a big pool of "invisible" pages - but it also causes unnecessary wear on the drive as the garbage collection will copy unused data while garbage collecting.
(it sure sounds like it because TRIM support is simply about issuing a command to the controller, right
Apple is not in the business of writing firmware for every storage vendor's devices. Apple has created support for TRIM in the operating system. Get on your device's manufacturer's case for adding support for it in OS X.
TRIM is a standard (albeit optional) SATA command. It is a simple command where the OS tells the drive that "sectors XXX through YYY are free".
It has nothing to do with "Apple writing firmware". If the drive identifies itself as "TRIM support=YES", then the OS simply adds the "send TRIM command" to the file system code that puts blocks on the file system free list.
That's why Windows supports TRIM on any device that claims it supports TRIM.
Good drives- like Sandforce or Intel based SSDs-- do not need TRIM. TRIM is only useful for dumb flash drives, and you shouldn't use them anyway, because, even with TRIM their useful life is likely to be only a couple years.
"Good drives" are "better drives" if you can send them TRIM commands. While the performance of Sandforce drives holds up better than earlier drives, TRIM will help them last longer.
Can you name any drives with 2 year MTBF?
Windows has to support Trim generally, since otherwise it would be virtually useless in light of Windows' licensing to multiple vendors. Since Apple isn't licensing OS X to any other vendors, they don't have to support Trim generally. It's not "political," it's practical.
TRIM is a standard but optional ATA feature.
When you buy an SSD, it will report to the OS whether it supports TRIM as part of the device identification protocol.
Apple are being d#ckheads in ignoring the device's support for TRIM if it isn't one of the Apple supplied SSDs.
Windows is simply accepting the device's claim that it supports TRIM, and if so sending the TRIM commands to the device. Licensing has nothing to do with it - Windows is simply accepting the device's claim that it supports TRIM.
Does this mean that deleted files will be rendered unrecoverable fairly quickly?
Yes, before you've even moved you hand away from the [OK] button. ;)
Actually, though, it depends. If "delete" moves the files to a "trash" directory or "recycle bin" - there's no difference from a system without TRIM.
If "delete", however, actually "permanently deletes" the file - with TRIM it will be extremely unlikely that it is recoverable by any "find deleted files" utility.
Those utilities usually work on the assumption that the file system meta-data for the file is marked "deleted", but in fact the rest of the meta-data and the actual file data is still intact. These "deleted" entries will in fact be correct until the meta-data record or the actual file data is overwritten with a new file. If you run the "find deleted files" utility, it looks for meta-data records marked "deleted" - and will try to recover the file.
With TRIM, however, a command is sent to the solid state drive to notify it that the file data is free. The drive will add those sectors to a background task that erases free space and puts in on the available list. (Unlike a spinning hard drive, SSD sectors cannot be simply overwritten with new data - the sector (usually a "page" containing quite a few sectors) must be "erased", and then it can be written.)
The key to maintaining SSD performance is to ensure that the drive has a big pool of already erased pages. That lets a write completely quickly. If there are no free pages, then the drive has to move a bunch of sectors out of a page into partially used pages, and then erase the page, and then write the incoming sectors into newly erased page. This can make writes much slower.
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Oo-er Christa - I hope by scotties you meant the dogs depicted on the sweater (actually Highland terriers I believe)and not people of Scottish origin? My OH is a Scot and hates all nasty little ankle biters except possibly Jack Russells but that is another story. In my extensive experience of living with a Scotsman, you are sadly correct in attributing dour characteristics to them. On a lighter note my OH loves mad cardigans and sweaters. More Norwegian style than Christmas - but so supremely ugly that even his beloved children can't stop joking about them.ReplyDelete
These are hilarious and so are you! I'm certain we all have one of these christmas sweaters looming in our past, present and most likely our future!ReplyDelete
Cheers to the full cup of Bailey's :-), we may need it.
I cannot wait for our 2009 ugly Christmas Sweater party in 3 weeks!ReplyDelete
As the christmas is knocking at the door everyone must be waiting for the party to begin. The costume which is show here in this blog for the ugly sweater party looks perfect for the party. I haven't been in ugly Christmas Sweater party and this time i am planning to attend the party as i want to feel the taste. Thanks for the ugly Christmas Sweater party costume display in this blog.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 20, 2010 at 9:33 PM
"do not go into that house!" LMAOReplyDelete
Tacky holiday sweaters is a national past time, and should be cherished. LOL. Just don't cherish them in public.ReplyDelete
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Anyone know where you can buy some of these ? I think everyones had the same idea this year and I'm struggling to find something both awful and a bit different ? Thanks :o)ReplyDelete
That sweater really cool and good for Christmas season.ReplyDelete
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where in Toronto do we find these 'knitted sweaters'?ReplyDelete


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