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Canopy Outdoor is an Australian company that is dedicated to providing the highest quality marquees and marquee accessories. Ten years of listening to our customers, and continuous improvement on our products, has resulted in the marquees we sell today, and it shows.
We are not like other companies, who just find a supplier overseas, buy a container of stock and go for it. Our products are designed and developed by us, and sold exclusively by us. You won't find what we sell being sold by others. These are not cheap mass produced marquees from China; these are the real thing. We lead our industry in innovation and our ideas are the ones most often copied by out competitors.
Our marquees are used by people who use them every single day, and they only come back after many years and buy more. This is the type of brand we are, these are the types of products we sell. We are professionals and our products are a reflection of that.
Buying online is hard, but buying marquees online is even harder. This isn't a Sony DVD player where you know what you're getting; all marquees are different. They all look the same, but the devil is in the detail.
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What a good and gentle man he was!
I loved him the first time I met him just over 34 years ago. He treated me with such respect and was interested in everything I had to say.
Through the years, I've learned a lot about this great man. He was the grandson of the immigrant Peder Lauritzen, who came from Denmark to America after several years of teaching from LDS (Mormon) missionaries. He brought his family on the ship "Monarch of the Sea".
The Monarch of the Sea brought them to the processing center at Castle Garden.
After making their way to Florence, Nebraska, they walked the rest of the way with their handcart.
Peder Lauritzen, the immigrant.
They lived a pioneer life in central Utah, raised their family in the gospel, and left quite a legacy for others to pattern their lives after.
His son, Peter, was Orson's father. His name, and that of his wife, Mary Loanna Terry, were people that others came to rely on for their great personal strength.
Peter and Mary Loanna Terry Lauritzen
They raised twelve children, and son Orson and was number ten. He and his good wife, Shirley Elma Rhoades, raised eleven children of their own, burying two after they had been raised to adulthood. Mr. Kerry is number five.
Orson and Shirley Rhoades Lauritzen
Kerry has often told me stories from his childhood. Mom, of course, was the choreographer of the family and of the home. Her job was full-time, day and night, as she sought for the best for her children.
Orson was that quiet force in the background. I never heard him raise his voice or act impatiently. He nearly always had one, or two, or more grandchildren on his lap. He took time for each one of them, and for each person who wanted to talk with him.
Kerry has always shown great respect for womanhood. After nearly 34 years of marriage, he still holds the door open for me, pulls my chair out and helps me on with my coat. When we had our own four children, he always had the baby at the end of the dinner table, patiently feed them.
All of these things were examples from his own childhood. Before Kerry was of the age to date, his dad took him aside and talked with him about how to respect and treat a young lady. I would loved to have heard his words of counsel!
Orson has been gone since 2004. He was such a valiant man. He stayed true to his beliefs all of his life, having served as a patriarch in the church since the early 1960's. He was a CPA, owned a dairy ranch, served in the Manti Temple, and taught the truths of the gospel at every opportunity. When anyone wanted an answer to a scriptural question, they would seek out Orson.
But, most of all, he was a husband and a father. He raised the boy who would grow and become my husband.
What an honor to have had this man in my life!
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For active adults, a procedure to ease hip pain
Elizabeth Strumpf, an avid skier, took a tumble last year on an expert trail. When she got up, she felt a dull ache in her hip that worsened and grew even more painful after intense exercise or activity. She soon found she could not sit for more than 10 minutes without increasing discomfort.
"I had pain snaking down the back of my leg just driving my daughter to school," says Strumpf, a mother of two who met her husband, Lance, on the slopes. "Then, at the gym, I started feeling sharp pain in my hip. Eventually, it hurt too much to work out, something I really enjoyed and missed."
She's now back to her active life and the sport she loves after treatment by Justin Saliman, MD. The Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedics surgeon ran tests, including a contrast MRI, finding Strumpf showed signs of femoral acetabular impingement (FAI) – a condition in which the irregular shape or rough edges of the femur (thigh) bone rubs or pinches soft tissue in the hip joint. This can lead to fraying or tearing of surrounding cartilage, causing pain and damage that may develop into arthritis or prompt the need for major surgery.
While anyone may develop it, the athletic are more susceptible to FAI, experts say, because they jump, stretch and flex more. Its symptoms include: pain or aching in the inner hip or groin area; difficulty sitting for long periods of time; discomfort leaning over to put on shoes; locking or clicking in the joint; and lower back pain.
"The condition often goes unrecognized by physicians and patients don't always get the right diagnosis. Often, they're treated for presumed sprains or strains and told to stretch more, which can make symptoms worse," Saliman explains.
A less invasive procedure
Saliman addresses the condition by reshaping the rough or impinging edges in the joint, and, when possible, cleaning up or repairing cartilage already compromised in the area. This all is done in a minimally invasive arthroscopic procedure, in which surgeons – guided by a tiny television camera – can go via a small incision into the joint to do their work with special tools.
In Strumpf's case, Saliman found a tear already in the cartilage lining the socket in her right hip. She underwent an FAI procedure in the outpatient surgery center in November 2010. After three months' recovery, she resumed activities and immediately went on a ski weekend, taking care to stay on easier trails.
While long-term studies on FAI surgery are under way, Saliman – who performs four or five of the procedures each week – and other orthopedists nationwide say it can prevent further damage, slow arthritic development and possibly reduce the prospect that some patients later will need full hip replacement.
Patients walk with crutches for a week or two before starting physical therapy. While moderate exercise is encouraged, it takes four to nine months for the hip joint to mend fully. Saliman tells patients to forego competitive sports for six to nine months after surgery.
"That can be tough for people whose lifestyles included weekly soccer games, regular 10Ks or softball tournaments, but the joint will be stronger if they stick to the recovery plan," he says.


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It's a favorite liberal tactic: If you're losing an argument, just change the terms of the debate, and let your media water-carriers adopt the new language. So, days before the fortieth anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Planned Parenthood unleashed a new video campaign that not only attacks pro-life language, but also pro-choice terminology.
Planned Parenthood's latest campaign, Not in Her Shoes, aims to remove Americans' identity as "pro-life" or "pro-choice" in favor of emphasizing women's personal choice depending on the situation. Not in Her Shoes introduces its mission by stating, "Abortion is a deeply personal and often complex decision for a woman to make … Nobody knows a woman's specific situation — we're not in her shoes."
According to Planned Parenthood, the "black and white labels" of "pro-life" or "pro-choice" hinder conversation at a time when, "a growing number of Americans who might otherwise identify themselves as 'pro-life' are in fact in favor of keeping abortion safe and legal."
A calm woman's voice in Planned Parenthood's video affirms, "The truth is these labels limit the conversation and simply don't reflect how people actually feel about abortion," since, it says, the majority of Americans support safe and legal abortions. The cartoon-animated video discourages political intervention, while promoting "mutual respect" and "empathy" when discussing abortion – or, in other words, "don't let the labels box you in."
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards decided to erase the pro-life and pro-choice "labels" last year after a Gallup Poll illustrated that 41 percent of Americans declared themselves pro-choice compared with 50 percent of self-proclaimed pro-life Americans. Gallup Poll data from 2012 also revealed that 59 percent of Americans support banning abortion in most or all circumstances.
One young woman, Erin Carhart, featured on the Planned Parenthood website, summarizes the Not in Her Shoes campaign in her own words: "Abortion is a private health matter, plain and simple. If you think about it, abortion is about choice and life, so really the labels we've previously placed on this term don't even make sense." Presumably, the "and" should be stressed in that sentence.
When the discussion comes to shoes, Planned Parenthood has a point: one size does not fit all. But to delegitimize the ground other Americans stand upon by shrugging off their arguments as mere labels is little more than a cheap rhetorical trick.


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Friday, December 01, 2006
Clam salad with marjoram
27 comments:
- Anh said...
I envy you now for the growing fresh marojam! :) Simply adorable!
- December 1, 2006 at 5:36 AM
- Kalyn said...
Wow, I think this is very innovative and sounds delicious. I want to grow some marjoram next year; I don't think I've ever had it fresh. I think most plants that are grown inside will benefit from being a little root-bound (crowded in the pot) so I'm guessing yours is just fine.
- December 1, 2006 at 6:05 AM
wow, nice entry Gattina. looks so nice.
- December 1, 2006 at 9:30 AM
- Monisha said...
Looks great Gattina! Your marjoram plant seems to be doing so well! Like you mentioned, I feel that this recipe would be great with calamari as well!
- December 1, 2006 at 10:18 AM
Looks sooo festive already, Gattina! Put me in the X'mas mood:)
- December 1, 2006 at 11:43 AM
- sher said...
The clam salad is beautiful and looks so refreshing too. The colors of the salad are striking and would make any meal feel very special. Perfect for the holidays!
I think your marjoram looks fabulous. It's obviously very happy. I would just keep doing what you are already doing and keep it pruned just a bit by pinching it here and there--to keep it on it's toes! :):)
- December 1, 2006 at 4:12 PM
- bea said...
Looks very refreshing Gattina!
- December 1, 2006 at 6:19 PM
- Angie said...
Everthing is lovely, herbs, salad and all!
- December 1, 2006 at 11:15 PM
- Lis said...
What a beautiful presentation, Gattina! I love the layered colors of the salad =)
This sounds like something right up my alley. I'll be trying this if I can still find any fresh clams in our stores :D
- December 2, 2006 at 1:30 AM
- gattina said...
Anh, a perfect timing for you to start gardening there.
Kalyn, good luck! And thanks for the advice!
lakshmi, thank you for the kind words.
Monisha, oh yes, how can I forget that calamari!!!
Asha, I guess everyone just looking forward to the X'mas season now!
Sher, thanks for your advice too!... and your compliment :D
Bea darling, thank you!
Angie, hope you get well soon! Could your hubby manage to cook you some tonic soup or something?
Lis, thank you! Maybe I watch 'Wht not to wear' too often, and believe Clinton's (the host) 'layers' theory, hehee...
- December 2, 2006 at 1:59 AM
- Ellie said...
Looks amazing! I've never seen yellow zucchini, but I'm glad you had it on hand to create this marvel!
- December 2, 2006 at 4:28 AM
- Angie said...
Gattina, thanks for your concern. My hubby cooking? I think he will turn my kitchen upside down *LOL*
- December 2, 2006 at 6:11 AM
- coffeepot said...
Oh gattina this looks wonderful.
I'm not crazy about mint either because I got sick on some mint gin once but there are some Asian dishes I like it in.
This dish, while not Asian however, looks like one I would love it in too.
- December 2, 2006 at 7:07 AM
Great pics, I've never had anything like this before, I want some.
- December 2, 2006 at 7:22 AM
very yummy. i am not a big fan of cold seafood but ur photo has me drooling. the marjoram..well, u could send me the extra ones..:)
- December 2, 2006 at 7:25 PM
- the yUmMie dUmMieS said...
Wow, what a unique way of presenting your salad haha. Btw, your pandoro tree looks very very nice and tempting!
- December 2, 2006 at 10:35 PM
The colors in these photos are astounding! It's snowing outside but these hues make me feel like it's summer again. :)
Ari (Baking and Books)
- December 3, 2006 at 8:38 PM
- Paz said...
Awesome! I like marjoram, too!
- December 4, 2006 at 3:59 AM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Gattina, what a lovely combination of colors! A very beautiful dish!
I'm not the right person to give you advice on your marjoram, since my basil is bigger and bigger every day. I think it will take over my apartment any day now. ;D
- December 4, 2006 at 7:50 AM
Wonderful salad!
I'm a fan of marjoran!
- December 5, 2006 at 1:11 AM
- Francesca said...
tihis salad, gattina, is an artistic thing, also with transparent anb beautiful glass:)
- December 5, 2006 at 6:18 AM
Gattina - this looks amazing. I hope you will send it to Green Blog Project. I am hosting it for Winter Spring. You can leave the trackback in comments or send me an e-mail.
- December 5, 2006 at 8:03 AM
I am not after cold seafood salads, but oh god i could eat this photo !! How do you pick these colors?
- December 5, 2006 at 6:49 PM
- Mae said...
Ah marjoram. So versatile.
The clam salad looks fab. :)
- December 7, 2006 at 9:31 AM
this looks good and refreshing! love the colors!
- December 8, 2006 at 12:37 PM
- LittleHands said...
Gattina, it looks soooo nice. How to eat yr food ah when you always present it to beautifully? :-)
- December 9, 2006 at 11:10 PM
- gattina said...
Hello all my friends! Sorry for my late reply because of my computer been down for a week! My heart-felt thank you for every lovely comment!
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France 30-12 Italy, Six Nations
France start campaign with a win
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France's Julien Malzieu goes over for the second try of the match
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France kick started their 2012 Six Nations with a commanding 30-12 win over Italy at the Stade de France on Saturday.
Tries from Aurelien Rougerie, Julien Malzieu, Vincent Clerc and Wesley Fofana enabled the beaten World Cup finalists to extend their winning run at the Stade de France to nine matches. It means the tournament favourites remain unbeaten in home matches on the opening day of a Championship since 1975, although they did not have things all their own way early on today.
After plenty of early Italy possession, Dimitri Yachvili settled home nerves with a 12th-minute penalty. However, the visitors levelled the scores with a Kristopher Burton drop goal five minutes later, after the same player had failed with an earlier sighter.
The first try of this season's Six Nations competition came in the 21st minute when Rougerie took advantage of gaps in the Italy defence to score his 23rd try for his country. Yachvili added the extras with a routine conversion and the visitors led 10-3. Poor handling let Burton down when he had the opportunity to cross, before the same player reduced the deficit to four points in the 30th minute with a penalty, after Pascal Pape failed to roll away after a tackle.
The highlight of the first half came in the 35th minute when Louis Picamoles picked up at a scrum and found Malzieu on the outside - and the Clermont Auvergne wing held off several challenges in a powering run before crossing the line.
Italy were given a chance to reduce the deficit early in the second half but Burton's penalty attempt, from just inside the France half, dropped short of the posts. The same player did find the target in the 47th minute after Rougerie had been penalised, before Yachvili put a penalty wide after Italy were penalised for going off his feet at a tackle four minutes later.
Yachvili found the target with another penalty in the 52nd minute, making it 18-9 - and less than two minutes later Francois Trinh-Duc and Rougerie combined to help Clerc cross the line. Yachvili kicked the straightforward conversion, enabling France to stretch their advantage to 25-9.
Italy's Tobias Botes kicked a testing penalty within five minutes of the debutant's introduction for Burton to make the score 25-12. A glut of substitutions on both sides disrupted the flow of play in the second second half.
However, Fofana put the gloss on the win in the 72nd minute when he held off Luke McLean to mark his debut with a try. The conversion was put wide by Morgan Parra - but at 30-12 it did not prove costly.
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Winning a Eureka prize has given me the opportunity to increase the awareness of exciting renewable energy research happening in Australia through media appearances and public speeches, highlighting the work that we are doing to help to address energy poverty affecting 2 billion of the world's poorest people.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – On the back of a gorgeous Erik Hurtado goal, the Vancouver Whitecaps won their second straight match Saturday, handing the Columbus Crew their third straight loss. The road win stretches Vancouver's unbeaten streak to four, while Columbus remain winless in their last seven MLS matches.
Striker Darren Mattocks was unavailable due to injury for head coach Carl Robinson and the Whitecaps, while Gregg Berhalter named the same starting 11 as he did in Week 1 for the Crew.
The opening minutes of the match were marred by errors from both teams. Columbus did not deal well with Vancouver's pressure on the ball and made several poor giveaways in their own half, while Vancouver frequently found themselves in front of goal only to squander the opportunity.
The Whitecaps could easily have been leading by two goals if Crew goalkeeper Steve Clark had not come up with more of his characteristically strong saves.
Columbus weathered the Vancouver storm, and settled into their usual possession play as the first half wore on. By the end of the half, the club reached 55 percent of possession, an emphasis in Berhalter's offense.
But Hurtado notched the opening goal of the match after the Crew had seemingly regained control of the game in the 37th minute, taking the wind out of the Columbus sails shortly before the half.
The Vancouver forward controlled a booming free kick from the opposite half of the field, turned left into space and unleashed a perfectly placed drive that left Clark with no chance of the save, marking Hurtado's first MLS goal.
The free kick that gave Hurtado his opportunity came from Vancouver goalkeeper David Ousted, who notched a rare goalkeeper assist from long range. Ousted added a sprawling one-handed save on a Hector Jimenez shot in the 48th minute.
The Crew, playing their third match in seven days, seemed to suffer from heavy legs in the second half. With Vancouver content to slow the pace of the match and Columbus struggling to make their usual attacking runs, the game was much less free-flowing over the final 30 minutes, to the visitors' benefit.
Columbus made a trio of offensive substitutes in the second half, switching to a three-defender system at one point. But the Crew failed to find a goal for the third straight game, despite pumping crosses and passes into the Vancouver penalty box for the game's final ten minutes.
The Crew have now played 321 minutes without tallying a goal, and their last goal from the run of play came from Jimenez's late-game heroics against D.C. United on April 19.
Columbus fall to 3-4-3 on the season, dropping out of the top half of the Eastern Conference, while Vancouver improve to 4-2-4.
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|Matias Laba (VAN)
|The Argentine was a midfield monster, keeping his countryman Federico Higuain in check and setting the tempo for the 'Caps.
|Erik Hurtado (VAN)
|Not bad for a young winger: Notched his first MLS strike with a Goal of the Week contender and put in the dirty work as a lone striker.
|Steve Clark (CLB)
Kept the Crew in contention with some strong saves on a night when too many of his teammates were well off their best.


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The astonishing, untold story of the Buchenwald vaccine scam.
In late 1942, German troops were dying of typhus at the Eastern Front, and the SS medical chief Ernst-Robert Grawitz was impatient for vaccine—as was Heinrich Himmler himself. Typhus terrified the Nazis more than the allied armies did at the time. Nazi ideology had identified typhus, which is spread by lice, as a disease characteristic of parasitic, subhuman people—the Jews—and the Nazi medical profession was taking outrageous measures ostensibly to combat it. This included walling in or closing off Jewish ghettos in cities like Warsaw, Krakow and Lviv, assuring that the disease would indeed spread widely among Jews. That result didn't bother the Nazis in the least. They had no concern about typhus and its terrifying burden of pain, high fever, psychosis and death—not until the germ began afflicting the German forces locked in battle with the Russians.
But the vaccine production plans of Joachim Mrugowsky, the head of the SS Hygiene Institute in Berlin, kept getting delayed. When British bombers destroyed Mrugowsky's headquarters in 1942, he decided to produce the vaccine at Buchenwald, thinking that allied bombs would not fall there. Jewish inmates of the concentration camp—those whom the Nazis condemned to death as mere human lice—would be employed to manufacture it, thereby saving the German troops at the front.
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The question was: What kind of vaccine should they make? Rudolf Weigl, a famous zoologist credited with creating the first effective typhus vaccine, was employing thousands of Poles in the city of Lviv (Lemberg, the Germans called it; the Polish name was Lwow) in the production of a vaccine made from typhus germs that grew in the intestines of lice after they had fed on human blood. Weigl's product was approved for the Wehrmacht, but there was no way to create a louse farm at Buchenwald. It would mean introducing millions of lice into a concentration camp, and the SS were terrified of lice. Another approved method—a vaccine produced in chicken eggs— was also impossible at Buchenwald. German civilians, let alone concentration camp inmates, could not be trusted around chickens or their eggs.
So on Dec. 11, 1942, Mrugowsky decided to produce a third type of typhus vaccine, which French scientist Paul Giroud and others had developed at the Pasteur Institute. The vaccine was produced from typhus bacteria grown in the lungs of immune-compromised rabbits. "This vaccine has been tested among concentration camp inmates with excellent results," Mrugowsky wrote in a memo. Dr. Erwin Ding-Schuler, an ambitious but callow Nazi officer and Mrugowsky's deputy, was chosen to lead production, and began assembling captive scientists with the help of his new clerk, an imprisoned German intellectual named Eugen Kogon. Among those drafted was a gentle Jewish biologist named Ludwik Fleck, who was a former assistant of Dr. Weigl whom Weigl had protected during the Nazi occupation of Lviv.
Thus began one of the most effective but least-known deceptions of World War II, one that is wondrously thick with irony: For 16 months, working under the noses of his clueless Nazi overseers—in particular Ding-Schuler, whom Fleck described as a " dummkopf"—a Jewish doctor managed to send fake typhus vaccine to the Nazi soldiers at the front, even as he provided the real thing to inoculate his fellow condemned Jews in a concentration camp.
The deception began on Aug. 10, 1943, when Ding-Schuler and Kogon moved themselves into Block 50, a three-story masonry building at Buchenwald. Block 50 stood half a mile down the hill on the mud road from the camp entrance, in the last row of buildings within the central grounds. From the windows of Block 50, the inmates could peer across a triple line of barbed wire into the notorious Little Camp, where the most hopeless among the concentration camp inmates were brought to die, or to be shipped out to terrible work details where they perished of starvation, disease and exposure.
Staffing the vaccine laboratory seemed to be quite easy. There were plenty of doctors at Buchenwald, and others who'd posed as doctors to save their skins or to follow the directives of the camp leadership. ("I had a foot injury and was operated on by a mechanic and a butcher," one inmate remarked.) Willy Jellinek, a bright young Austrian pastry chef known as Jumbo, was in charge of the tubercular ward for a while and helped write the SS doctor Waldemar Hoven's dissertation on lung disease for the University of Heidelberg. Jellinek came to Block 50 to prepare culture broths for the vaccine. August Cohn, a charismatic former communist labor leader, was rescued from a death sentence and put in charge of the rabbits. Ding-Schuler found a doctor with some infectious disease experience, the 36-year-old Marian Ciepielowski, to lead the vaccine production team. Ciepielowski had spent his first year at Buchenwald working with pick and shovel on a road detail. "Every day, dozens of people around me were suffocated, clubbed, stoned and shot to death, and we were all mistreated sadistically," Ciepielowski wrote later. Handsome and blue-eyed with a well-defined widow's peak, Ciepielowski was extremely crafty when it came to sabotage. Other inmates remarked upon his sangfroid. He was also a dedicated physician and treated many of the experimental typhus patients in Block 46.
But making the vaccine was hard—much harder than the Nazis would ever realize. In fact, Ding-Schuler from the beginning was wrestling with problems well beyond his understanding. Leading microbiologists had found it terribly difficult to produce the vaccine at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Now, Ding-Schuler was trying to do it with a group that included a baker, a physicist, a politician and a gym coach.
Even in the best of circumstances, making vaccines is a very subtle trial-and-error process, one that requires deep specialized knowledge and years of hand-to-hand training. When producing a vaccine, each step in the process might need to be altered at the same time to accommodate a particular change in the production method. For example, the Rockefeller Institute scientists who developed the yellow fever vaccine in the 1930s found that after a certain number of passages—that is, after the virus had grown in a particular sequence of animal-flesh cultures—for some reason it became weakened enough to be injected into people in a way that provided immunity but not disease. The Nazi medical bureaucracy, of course, had not considered such challenges. Ding-Schuler pressed the prisoners as soon as they set up Block 50 to produce something. He wanted tangible results.
Ding-Schuler would get results, but not what he expected. The Block 50 crew worked from a 70-page German instruction manual, apparently translated from Pasteur Institute papers. The recipe was not for the faint of heart, and certainly not for the anti-vivisectionist—it involved transmitting the typhus bacteria through four different animals.
Normally, typhus germs grow only in lice and people. To get them to grow outside those species, the germs had to be modified by serial passage through animals—a rather mysterious process, but the only way, at the time, to produce the flourishing typhus cultures required to make a vaccine.
First, blood was injected into guinea pigs after being taken from feverish Block 46 "passage people"—inmates whom Ding-Schuler had purposely infected with typhus so they could serve as reservoirs for the experimental bacteria. When the guinea pigs were infected, technicians ground up their brains or testes, where for some reason the bacteria grew well. After removing most of the host tissue, the remaining liquid was injected into mice. After they sickened, the mice were killed and their lungs ground up and diluted into solutions used to infect the rabbits. These creatures, pure-blood Angoras and mixed chinchilla breeds, were infected at five months of age by stabbing a thick needle through their necks into the tracheal tube.


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Love Me to Death by Maggie Shayne - Twenty-two years ago four teenage boys were convicted of a young girl's murder. Now, in the form of a beautiful woman, the "victim" is seeking vengeance. And only one man dares to dig into the past to uncover its secrets… and set her free.
Lady of the Nile by Susan Krinard - Lady Tameri believes herself to be the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian princess, and Leo Erskine has set out to prove her wrong…never dreaming that the two of them are about to discover a prophecy that will bind them together forever.
Four of today's hottest urban fantasy writers together for the first time! From today's most provocative authors come four tales of urban fantasy and paranormal romance exploring body art that is more than it seems-in a world of magic and mayhem that always leaves its mark. This captivating tattoo theme surrounds each author's popular characters and worlds: Karen Chance's war mage Lia de Croissets, Marjorie M. Liu's demon-hunter Maxine Kiss, Yasmine Galenorn's Otherworld Intelligence Agency operative Camille D'Artigo, and Eileen Wilk's Lupi world.
Everybody makes mistakes-and my first one was named Connor, a heart- stealing Scottish hottie. I thought our night together was the beautiful beginning to a love story, which turned out to be my second mistake. I, Phoebe Allen, lifelong Broken Heart resident and vampire, am now mated to a half-demon. Thankfully Phoebe's four-year-old son Danny is safely away at Disneyworld with his human father. Because Phoebe's right in the middle of major paranormal drama, helping Connor and his rag-tag group of friends retrieve part of an ancient talisman in order to ward off Connor's vicious stepmother, an uber-demon named Lilith. Phoebe swears she isn't falling for any of Connor's demon charm. But still, he's willing to do anything to protect her and prevent demons from storming into Broken Heart. And her undead heart can't resist a bad boy with identity issues... They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and dark magic users. It's too bad Lily doesn't have powers of her own to help. At least, none that she's discovered yet...
When you're a half incubus, your reputation precedes you… All eyes are on Gabriel Mac Braire the day he makes his first appearance in the Seelie Court, including those of Aislinn Finvarra. Despite deep bitterness over her last failed relationship, Aislinn cannot help but be curious about the half incubus who is known to possess dark magick, both lethal and sexual in nature. Rumors abound of the women who have become enslaved to his irresistible charms. So when the Summer Queen of the fae orders Aislinn herself to act as his guide in the court, she is understandably on guard. She's fallen under the spell of far less persuasive men before. In addition, Gabriel might be more than he seems and his true mission is far from innocent. This time, Aislinn must protect not only her heart, but her very life…
For centuries, in the The Witch City, human magick has thinned the veil between the planes to a permeable mist, forming a portal into Salem, allowing more and more magickal supernatural ancients--time travelers and chameleons of the universe--to enter there. Bastian Dragonelli, once a Roman warrior turned dragon, is the first of his legion to be returned to earth, a man. There, so his brothers can also be saved and sent back, he must recover the magick of the sorceress Andra, Goddess of Hope, who gave her powers to transform him. To do so, Bastian must seek his heart mate at the sign of the crowned dragon and make her quest his own. But the dark and powerful Killian, Sorceress of Chaos, who turned his legion into dragons and skewed his transition back into a man, is lightning-hot and hailstone-swift on his heels. McKenna Greylock, the last non-magical descendant of Ciarra McKenna, a witch who survived the hanging times, needs a jack-of-all-trades to help turn her dilapidated Victorian into a bed and breakfast in time to pay her mortgage and meet the building inspector's approval, or she will lose her home and her family's centuries-old legacy. Enter McKenna's cousin, Vivica Quinlan--a highly evolved witch with the power of centuries behind her. Owner of the Works Like Magick Employment Agency, Vivica has a gift for matching human employers with magickal employees. Like her High-Priestess ancestors before her, Vivica knows when the magickal supernatural ancients are about to arrive, so she greets and acclimates them to life, and to making a living, in Salem.
Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O'Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira's global search has led her to a small California town that's about to become hell on earth. Tormented by his own terrifying past and driven by powers he can't explain, ex-seminarian Rafe Cooper joins Moira's dangerous quest. But Fiona is one devilish step ahead. Hungry for greater power, eternal youth, and stunning beauty, the sorceress is unleashing upon the mortal world the living incarnations of the Seven Deadly Sins. Together with a demonologist, a tough female sheriff, and a pair of star-crossed teenagers, Moira and Rafe are humanity's last chance to snatch salvation from the howling jaws of damnation.
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. So far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing. Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane uncle Dracula, Dory's hoping her life is about to calm down. But then she gets some visitors. A friend wants Dory's help in finding a magical Fey relic, and the gorgeous vampire, Louis-Cesare, is desperate to find his former mistress Christine. Dory and Louis-Cesare quickly discover that the same master vampire Christine is bound to is also rumored to be in possession of the relic. But when the master vampire turns up dead, they realize that there's more at stake than a missing mistress. Someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if Dory and Louis-Cesare can't stop the murderer, they may be next…
A majestic wolf prowls the halls of power, protecting his pack of shape-shifters from those who would harm them. But a wolf is not meant to hunt alone… Nick Carter hides his wildness under expensive suits, but nothing can lessen the impact of what he is: alpha wolf. He leads his region's Sentinels, a duty he takes seriously. He is cautious, ready for anything—except Jet. The first time he sees the black-haired, golden-eyed beauty he recognizes a shape-shifter like himself—but like no Sentinel he has seen before. Jet has been trained by the Sentinels' dark counterparts for one mission: to take down Nick Carter. If she succeeds, her pack will be freed. If she fails… But the moment she meets the man with pale green eyes, she recognizes a kindred spirit, a male to match the wild nature of her soul. Together, they could be amazing… But if they do not betray each other, the people they are supposed to protect will die.
My name is Gin, and I kill people. They call me the Spider. I'm the most feared assassin in the South — when I'm not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland. As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me. My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife. But I don't use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to. Call it professional pride. Now that a ruthless Air elemental has double-crossed me and killed my handler, I'm out for revenge. And I'll exterminate anyone who gets in my way — good or bad. I may look hot, but I'm still one of the bad guys. Which is why I'm in trouble, since irresistibly rugged Detective Donovan Caine has agreed to help me. The last thing this coldhearted killer needs when I'm battling a magic more powerful than my own is a sexy distraction...especially when Donovan wants me dead just as much as the enemy.
Last month, I was a single preschool teacher whose greatest thrill consisted of color-coding my lesson plans. That was before I learned I was a slayer. Now, it's up to me to face curse-hurling imps, vengeful demons, and any other supernatural uglies that crop up. And, to top it off, a hunk of a shape-shifting griffin has invited me to Greece to meet his family. But it's not all sun, sand, and ouzo. Someone has created a dark-magic version of me with my powers and my knowledge--and it wants to kill me and everyone I know. Of course, this evil twin doesn't have Grandma's gang of biker witches, a talking Jack Russell terrier, or an eccentric necromancer on its side. In the ultimate showdown for survival, may the best demon slayer win.
In the Boston neighborhood known as the Weird, a decapitated body floats out of the sewer, and former Guild investigator Connor Grey uncovers a conspiracy that may bring down the city's most powerful elite. As the violence escalates, Connor is determined to stop it-with help from one of the most dangerous beings of Faerie. Even if it means unleashing the darkness that burns within him.
As an Advocate for his colony, Julian Sawyer travels to Earth to bring back the Chosen—women who possess energy potent enough to help revitalize his people. The stunning, silver-clad beauty who strides into his club one night radiates a sensual magnetism unlike any he's encountered, and Julian realizes that Asia Callahan is not just Chosen, she is his kindra: his one true mate. For months, Asia has tracked the beautiful and mysterious Julian across the country, convinced that he's behind the disappearance of her sister and a dozen other women. She's prepared to believe he's a ruthless killer, but when she presents herself as bait, she discovers that the truth is far more shocking. Taken to a strange, hazardous realm she never knew existed, Asia will face the ultimate choice—between abandoning the life she's always known, and forsaking a passion as dangerous as it is powerful.
We're the D'Artigo sisters: savvy--and sexy--operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. But being half-human, half-Fae short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. My sister Delilah is a two-faced Were who turns into a golden tabby when she's stressed. And Menolly's a vampire who's still trying to get the hang of being undead. As for me? I'm Camille D'Artigo, a wicked-good witch who's learning death magic with my youkai-kitsune husband. Until now, the Moon Mother's pretty much ignored me, but she's about to take me on the Hunt of my life... Another equinox is here, and life's getting more tumultuous for the D'Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille's dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can't locate the new demon general in town. And Camille's summoned to Otherworld, thinking she'll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.
Kira's day job is as an antiquities expert, but her true calling is as a Shadowchaser. Trained from youth to be one of the most lethal Chasers in existence, Kira serves the Gilead Commission, dispatching the Fallen who sow discord and chaos. Of course, sometimes Gilead bureaucracy is as much a thorn in her side as anything the Fallen can muster against her. Right now, though, she's got a bigger problem. Someone is turning the city of Atlanta upside down in search of a millennia-old Egyptian dagger that just happens to have fallen into Kira's hands. Then there's Khefar, the dagger's true owner — a near-immortal 4,000-year-old Nubian warrior who, Kira has to admit, looks pretty fine for his age. Joining forces is the only way to keep the weapon safe from the sinister Shadow forces, but now Kira is in deep with someone who holds more secrets than she does, the one person who knows just how treacherous this fight is. Because every step closer to destroying the enemy is a step closer to losing herself to Shadow forever....
Publishers Weekly - The gripping, suspenseful, and wry 10th tale in the Nightside supernatural detective series proves every bit the equal of Jim Butcher's better-known Harry Dresden books. The action picks up not long after 2009's Just Another Judgement Day as Lord Screech, an elf claiming to be a peace emissary who has just negotiated a treaty between powerful elvish rivals, enlists PI John Taylor's help in getting safe passage to a portal to another realm. Despite his misgivings about Screech's honesty, Taylor and Ms. Fate, a transvestite crime fighter who "might have heard of taste, but only as something other people had," battle werewolves and Neanderthals to deliver Screech to his destination and tackle several other challenges. Longtime fans and first timers alike will applaud Green's blend of fantasy, mystery, and humor.
Holly Spinnaker is a monster. Really. Fangs and all. Never mind the petite figure. Pay no attention to the once-bouncy blonde mane. When Jarvis Winters first encounters…it…he prepares to exterminate freak number one hundred thirty two without a flinch. Mistake number one: following it back to its lair. Mistake number two: watching and listening to her…it…replay voice mail messages from loving, clueless parents again and again and again. Mistake number three: having an actual conversation with a bloodthirsty fiend. "Make them see you as a person." Holly remembers the advice from a self-defense class her mother made her take her freshmen year. She couldn't save her own sister, who ended up a pile of ashes at her feet only one month ago. The night they both found out monsters were real. The night her sister embraced the change. And Holly began to fight it. "Make them see you as a person." Kind of hard when you aren't even sure if you are a person anymore.
The vampire council has hired skinwalker Jane Yellowrock to hunt and kill one of their own who has broken sacred ancient rules-but Jane quickly realizes that in a community that is thousands of years old, loyalties run deep…
DEMON ENSLAVED. Lore is a Seminus half-breed demon who has been forced to act as his dark master's assassin. Now to earn his freedom and save his sister's life, he must complete one last kill. Powerful and ruthless, he'll stop at nothing to carry out this deadly mission. AN ANGEL TEMPTED.Idess is an earthbound angel with a wild side, sworn to protect the human Lore is targeting. She's determined to thwart her wickedly handsome adversary by any means necessary-even if that means risking her vow of eternal chastity. But what begins as a simple seduction soon turns into a passion that leaves both angel and demon craving complete surrender. Torn between duty and desire, Lore and Idess must join forces as they battle their attraction for each other. Because an enemy from the past is rising again-one hellbent on vengeance and unthinkable destruction.
Megan Berry—Zombie Settler extraordinaire—just wants Pom Squad to trounce Cheer Team in this freakishly funny follow-up to You Are So Undead to Me. But someone's turning coma victims into settler-resistant über-zombies—and everyone thinks it's Megan's fault! Well, except for super-creepy male cheerleader Aaron. (Ew!) Meg's also being stalked by a hot—albeit undead— seer named Cliff. Can Cliff's premonitions help Megan stop a zombies-on-ice deathscapade and discover who's really behind the coma-killer crusade before an entire army of undead rise up? And when Megan's boyfriend Ethan grows jealous of Cliff, will it end their intra-settler romance? Stacey Jay's snarky teen-speak is "dead"-on and hysterical! Ally Carter better get used to the smell of grave dirt . . .
This is no world for those who are other than human. But is it still a world for those who love? New York Times bestselling author Linda Winstead Jones presents readers with an evocative, sensual, emotional tale of a man who is one of a kind… Bren Korbinian is unique: the last of the raven-kind. He long ago accepted there was no future—no wife or children—for him. But when he sees the petite blonde woman entering the only other cabin on "his" mountain, something stirs inside him. Miranda Lynch speaks with ghosts, helping those in need of solace. The last thing she expects is to meet a man who speaks to something deep inside her, filling her dreams with erotic promise. But discovery and joy are touched with danger—there is an organization that wants the world free of "freaks" like Bren and Miranda. They will stop at nothing to ensure that Korbinian is the last of his kind. Including murder….
Nearly a century ago, Felix Leblanc made a deal with the demon of greed. Now he's the most celebrated and powerful voodoo priest in New Orleans, able to enchant anything he wishes from wealthy, beautiful women. Until one client—beautiful and dangerous—brings his reign to a disastrous end, condemning Felix to servitude and a loveless eternity of never being wanted for himself… New Orleans, now. Heiress Regan Henry knows that passion can be an illusion, and she keeps her emotions in check—until she falls under the spell of the beguiling Felix LeBlanc. He's knows that the rumors that her mansion is haunted are true, and that he's the only one who can save her from the spirits residing there. But the only way he can do it is to sacrifice his last chance at redemption…or risk a love that could consign them both to an eternity of evil.
Vengeance has its price. But you pay for passion forever... Descended from werewolf hunters, Catherine Marais has vanquished countless of their vile kind-including the one that slaughtered her father. Her debt of blood and honor was fulfilled-but her heart is empty. The only one who ignites Catherine's passion is Ian-a handsome, elegant vampire whose seductive touch she cannot resist. But when he offers her the dark temptation of eternal commitment to each other, Catherine must look within her heart-and her truest desires-to find the answers she seeks...
With a hot new figure, her dream job as an archaeologist, and two gorgeous boyfriends to scratch her seductive Itch — an angel and a vampire — Jackie Brighton is totally getting the hang of life as a succubus. Then she accidentally knocks the pizza guy unconscious with her touch. Great — she's cursed. After striking a deal to get the curse lifted by a crafty demon, Jackie and her best friend Remy take a road trip to deliver a cryptic message to the nation's oldest succubus. Unfortunately, neither of her jealous lovers is talking to Jackie right now, and due to the curse, she's desperate to get her Itch scratched very soon. Their journey gets weirder with every mile — demonic possession, a charming stalker, a cryptic warning — and when they get to New Orleans, Jackie discovers a dangerous catch to her supernatural bargain. Someone wants her dead — again. Can a brainy vixen in a miniskirt outsmart the forces of evil?
A new series about a boarding school filled with something worse than homework. Lily's parents have sent her to a fancy boarding school in Chicago filled with the ultra-rich. If that wasn't bad enough, she's hearing and seeing bizarre things on St. Sophie's creepy campus. Her roommate, Scout, keeps her sane, but keeps disappearing at night. When one day Lily finds Scout running from real-life monsters, she learns the hard way that Scout is involved in a splinter group of rebel teens. They protect Chicago from demons, vamps, and dark magic users. It's too bad Lily doesn't have powers of her own to help. At least, none that she's discovered yet...
Publishers Weekly - This gleeful, clever sequel to 2006's Disappearing Nightly teams up actress and singing waitress Esther Diamond with the magic-savvy but utterly unworldly Max the Magician and his slobbering canine familiar, Nelli, to discover how and why New York's mobsters are being magically duplicated. Complicating matters is Esther's suspicious would-be boyfriend, handsome Irish-Cuban police detective Connor Lopez, who would prefer a straightforward investigation involving neither Esther nor magic. Resnick introduces a colorful cast of gangsters and their associates, including a thrice-bereaved mob widow and an attractive young priest, as she spins a witty, fast-paced mystery around her convincingly self-absorbed chorus-girl heroine. Sexy interludes raise the tension between Lopez and Esther as she juggles magical assailants, her perennially distracted agent, her meddling mother, and wiseguys both friendly and threatening in a well-crafted, rollicking mystery.
Jackson Holt makes a decent living as a private investigator in New Orleans, home of one of the largest underground supernatural populations in the United States. He and his partners have never met a case they couldn't crack…until a local bar owner asks him to do a little digging on her newest hire. New Orleans is the fourth destination in as many months for Mackenzie Brooks, a woman on the run from a deranged stalker. After all, any man who shows up on her doorstep claiming to be her destined lover has more than a few screws loose. But crazy doesn't explain why he always finds her no matter how far she runs. When her well-meaning boss puts a PI on her case, Mackenzie comes face to face with the incredible truth: magic is real, and whatever spell has kept her hidden and separate from the paranormal world is rapidly deteriorating. With time running out, she has no choice but to trust Jackson as he struggles to uncover the truth of her past—and her destiny.
Genevieve Scelan thought she was done with magic. She was wrong. Sure, six weeks earlier Evie—bike messenger, supernatural tracker, and avid Red Sox fan—had been instrumental in bringing down the Fiana, the organization of magicians that had ruled Boston's undercurrent for hundreds of years. But now they were gone, Boston could breathe easy again, the Sox had a chance at the pennant, and Evie was ready to relax. Except it turns out that when you take down the guy on top, everyone assumes you're going to fill his spot, and now Evie finds herself at the center of a whole lot of unwelcome magical attention. On top of that, a new client needs her to call up a family ghost and ask about a stolen inheritance; Evie's friend Nate has a supernatural problem of his own; and a legendary pack of hounds has been terrorizing Boston's undercurrent. And try as Evie might to deny the legacy that runs through her blood, when the Hunt is called, the Hound must run . . .
Set the world on fire? With Belle Jamison, it's always a possibility. Literally. Planning a wedding is tough. Especially when the bride can shoot fireballs from her eyes and accidentally torches her dress, the groom returns from a dangerous mission with selective memory loss and the man responsible now desires Belle for his own. Any other time, Belle would turn to her ultra sexy fiancé Rome Masters for comfort. But the only thing he can't remember is her – and now his ex is determined to win him back. With the help of her trusty empath sidekick, an optimistic Belle continues to plan her wedding, fight a new band of supervillans, and tries not to accidentally on purpose start too many fires... except when she gets Rome into bed...
Dark huntress and rare telepath Tezra Campbell treads a thin line between being a skilled criminal investigator and a renegade. She's obsessed with finding the vampire who murdered her parents and with helping her traumatized sister. Prince of the American vampire clans, Daemon, sees Tezra as danger to herself and to his people if the serial killer vampire terminates her next. Concerned his own brother might be accused of the crime, Daemon takes Tezra into custody and intends to find the killer himself. Can they win the deadly game of fighting the ancient evil but keep their own hearts intact?
Talk radio host and werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. She's expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt will turn into a fight for her life. The cast members, including Kitty, arrive at the remote mountain lodge where the show is set. As soon as filming starts, violence erupts and Kitty suspects that the show is a cover for a nefarious plot. Then the cameras stop rolling, cast members start dying, and Kitty realizes she and her monster housemates are ironically the ultimate prize in a very different game. Stranded with no power, no phones, and no way to know who can be trusted, she must find a way to defeat the evil closing in ... before it kills them all.
A man with no future... When Dr. Elliott Drake wakes from a mysterious fifty-year sleep, the world as he knew it is gone. Cities are now desolate, and civilization is controlled by deadly immortals. Stranger still is Elliott's extraordinary new "gift"—he has the power to heal, but it comes with fatal consequences. A woman with a past... Jade barely escaped the immortals and is now hell-bent on revenge. She trusts no one... until Elliott. His piercing gaze and tempting touch shatter her defenses, but the handsome doctor seems to have dangerous secrets of his own. Is it safe to trust him with her heart? If they are to survive in this dark new world, Jade and Elliott must work together to fight the forces that take them beyond danger. Beyond desire.
In book five of The Cat Star Chronicles, Drusilla Chevrault, a renowned wildlife painter drawn to Barada Seven by its fabulous birds, finds a far more interesting subject in Manx, a sexy Zetithian who has been on the run from his enemies for the past twenty years. Now that Manx has chosen Drusilla as his mate, others have tracked him down, and in the race to find the last Zetithian, the winner will determine whether he loves or dies. . .
Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. Very few prisoners believe that there is an Outside, however, which makes escape seems impossible. And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl named Claudia. She claims to live Outside- she is the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, and doomed to an arranged marriage. Finn is determined to escape the prison, and Claudia believes she can help him. But they don't realize that there is more to Incarceron than meets the eye. Escape will take their greatest courage and cost more than they know.
Wynn journeys to the mountain stronghold of the dwarves in search of the "Stonewalkers," an unknown sect supposedly in possession of important ancient texts. But in her obsession to understand these writings, she will find more puzzles and questions buried in secrets old and new-along with an enemy she thought destroyed...
The compelling start of a new fantasy romance trilogy set in the world of the Nine Kingdoms, from New York Times bestselling author Lynn Kurland. Return to the world of the Nine Kingdoms with New York Times bestselling author Lynn Kurland as a new evil, and a new passion, emerges. Sarah's brother has embraced the dark arts, vowing to destroy the Nine Kingdoms, and she doesn't have the power to stop him. Now she must risk everything to thwart his plans, even though she fears the quest will reveal the secret she's kept all her life. After seeing his entire family slain by magic, Ruithneadh swore never to use his power again. But when Sarah pleads for his help, he's thrust back into a life of enchantments and peril, and a quest capable of unraveling the entire fabric of the Nine Kingdoms.
Publishers Weekly - In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to The Atrocity Archives (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer übergeek employed by the Laundry, a secret British agency assigned to clean up incursions from other realities caused by the inadvertent manipulation of complex mathematical equations: in other words, magic. In 1975, the CIA used Howard Hughes's Glomar Explorer in a bungled attempt to raise a sunken Soviet submarine in order to access the Jennifer Morgue, an occult device that allows communication with the dead. Now a ruthless billionaire intends to try again, even if by doing so he awakens the Great Old Ones, who thwarted the earlier expedition. It's up to Bob and a collection of British eccentrics even Monty Python would consider odd to stop the bad guy and save the world, while getting receipts for all expenditures or else face the most dreaded menace of all: the Laundry's own auditors. Stross has a marvelous time making eldritch horror appear commonplace in the face of bureaucracy.


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Pedro Miguel Messias-Tgtl Alentejo Collection Olive Oil Can
At Design Interviews
Interview with Pedro Miguel Messias : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Pedro Miguel Messias : The idea was to show the main aspects of Alentejo Olive Oil since is beginning in Portugal, particular in this peculiar region- Alentejo. The landscapes, the people, the history. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Pedro Miguel Messias : The main focus was the nature and the history of this region in make olive oils. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Pedro Miguel Messias : Show the collection to the world and obtain lot´s of sales and inquiry´s .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Pedro Miguel Messias : 6 months. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Pedro Miguel Messias : Was just an inspiration, was not hard, because we have those elements in Alentejo, you just need to find them .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Pedro Miguel Messias : No just for TGTL. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Pedro Miguel Messias : The success of the last work, also inspired in ilustrations and country elements .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Pedro Miguel Messias : Yes, Mário Belém. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Pedro Miguel Messias : A classe, men´s and woman´s between 30-64 year´s old, with good professional position and fine food lover´s, .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Pedro Miguel Messias : I don´t know similar designa to this concept on olive oil. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Pedro Miguel Messias : It reflect´s the history of olive oil in Alentejo .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Pedro Miguel Messias : PSD, Ai, .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Pedro Miguel Messias : Connection with the nature and people who lives in Alentejo .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Pedro Miguel Messias : Yes. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Pedro Miguel Messias : Because we won on last editions .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Pedro Miguel Messias : Just Thank you, .
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Coordination theory: A ten-year retrospective. In , Human-Computer Interaction in Management Information Systems (pp. 120-138). M. E. Sharpe, Inc.. (2006). CT Review to distribute.pdf (531.4 KB)
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How The Oracle Database Determines Wait Time When It's Not Set
Have you ever wondered how the Oracle Database 12c (and earlier versions) determines the wait time when it has absolutely no control over how long the wait will take? If so, then read on!
The Back Story
Using wait time is part of an Oracle Time Based Analysis (OTBA). While Oracle process CPU consumption is a big part of the analysis, the other category is non-idle wait time.
You can see the two categories of time clearly "in action" with my Real-Time Session Sampler script, rss.sql. It's part of my OraPub System Monitor (OSM) toolkit, that can be downloaded for free. Here's an example of the output:
I need to explain a little more about CPU time and then Oracle wait time.
An Oracle processes wants to burn CPU. Without consuming CPU an Oracle process, can well...not process work! Oracle keeps track of the CPU consumption time. It's the actual CPU time consumed, for example, 500 ms or 3 seconds.
When an Oracle process can not burn CPU, the process, in Oracle terms, it must wait. For example, when an Oracle process waits, it's like it yells out details about why it's waiting. We call this yell a wait event. Each wait event has a name. And the name provides clues about why the process can't burn CPU and is therefore waiting.
There Are Different Reasons Why An Oracle Process Waits
There are three broad categories Oracle must time, when a process is not consuming CPU:
- When the wait time is predetermined and not interruptible. Perhaps when a latch can not be acquired through repeated attempts so the process takes a break (i.e., sleeps) for a fix period of time, say 10ms.
- When the wait time is predetermined but the process can be woken by another process. Perhaps a log writer is in the middle of its three second sleep and then a server process commits. The log writer will be signaled to wake and do some work.
- When Oracle has no idea how long the wait may last. Perhaps a process submitted a block to the IO subsystem for a synchronous read. Oracle has no idea how long this may take. This situation is what I'm focusing on in this posting and I show in the video below.
Exploring When Oracle Has No Idea How Long The Wait Will Take
Let's say when I work it's like an Oracle process consuming CPU. And if I have to stop working to drive to a meeting, it's like an Oracle process waiting. And in this situation, I really don't know how long the wait will take. It's out of my control. There could be an accident along the way (think: table level lock)! An Oracle process can experience this same kind of thing.
If I'm an Oracle server process and I discover a block I need is not in the buffer cache, I'm going to need to make a call to the OS for that block. When I make the synchronous IO call, I really do not know how long it will take and I have to wait, that is, the Oracle process must wait.
From a DBA perspective, when I perform an Oracle Time Based Analysis (OTBA) I need know how long the IO, that is, the wait took. How does Oracle figure this out? It's pretty simple actually. It's basiclly like this:
Get the current time, start time
Make the synchronous IO call and wait until IO received
Get the current time, end time
Calculate the delta, end time - start time
The "delta" is the wait time for the single block read. If the single block read is a synchronous read and then placed into the buffer cache, Oracle will tag or name the wait time calling it a "db file sequential read".
Actually Watching An Oracle Process Figuring Out the Wait Time
Some say that seeing is believing. For sure it helps one to learn quickly. If you want to see with your own eyes an Oracle server process determine wait time for a multiple block synchronous read (event name is, db file scattered read), watch the below video.
Pretty cool, eh? By the way, the processing of timing processes and events has a special name, called instrumentation. As we can see, Oracle has instrumented its kernel code.
Enjoy your work and thanks for reading!
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me directly at craig at orapub.com.
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View Controller Methods: Doing What When
Developers struggle with knowing what view controller methods to use, and when. Picking the wrong method to refresh your user interface can result in an app that disappoints the users.
To understand when to do something in the UIKit framework, you need to know when messages are sent, especially to view controllers.
View controllers have a life cycle just as applications do, and certain messages are sent as views that are displayed and hidden.
The two methods you need to know about in order to work with views are the following:
The following table summarizes what you should do in which method:
|When to Send It
|What to Use It For
|After the view controller has loaded its associated views into
|Perform additional view initialization on views loaded
from the storyboard or nib file. For example, if you are displaying
some static text, load that text here.
|When the view is about to become visible
|Do the things that are necessary to present the view.
For example, if you are displaying the location of the nearest book
store that carries iPad Application Development For
Dummies, update that information in this method.
The viewDidLoad message is sent to the view controller after the view controller has loaded its associated views into memory. This method is used to perform view initialization and is not necessarily called every time the view appears. If, for example, the user makes a selection in the view that causes a new view controller to load and slide its view into place, and the user then taps the Back button, this message is not sent when the originating view reappears. That is the job of viewWillAppear:.
The viewWillAppear: message is sent when the view is about to become visible. The first time it is sent is after the viewDidLoad message and then whenever the view reappears, such as when you tap the Back button, for example. You use this method to refresh your user interface, if needed, but not for initialization.


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The North-Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered of all large whales, with a long history of human exploitation and no signs of recovery despite protection from whaling since the 1930s.
North Atlantic right whale, black right whale, northern right whale; Baleine de Biscaye, baleine des Basques (Fr); Ballena, ballena Franca del Norte (Sp)
IUCN: EndangeredIUCN
Atlantic Ocean (northwest, western central)
Scientific Name
Eubalaena glacialis
300-350 individualshttp://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/estimate.htm
Between 300 and 350 individuals still exist, but despite seven decades of protection efforts, no population growth has been observed.
Physical DescriptionThe right whale belongs to the suborder Mysticeti, and is characterized by a symmetrical skull, paired blowholes, and rows of baleen plates for feeding on plankton.
This is a relatively slow swimmer, averaging about 8 kph (6 mph). It usually makes a series of 5 or 6 shallow dives and then submerges for about 20 minutes. Right whales emit a number of low frequency sounds, mostly during courtship.
During the spring and summer, North Atlantic right whales migrate north to feed. Females head south in autumn to give birth to their calves in temperate waters.
They usually do not fear boats and can be easily approached by them.
The North Atlantic right whale can reach 18 m for females and 12.9 m for males. The species can weigh up to 96,000 kg.
Priority species
Whales and dolphins are a priority species. WWF treats priority species as one of the most ecologically, economically and/or culturally important species on our planet. And so we are working to ensure such species can live and thrive in their natural habitats.
Ecology and Habitat
A species with close attachments
This large whale mostly inhabits temperate waters, and compared to other similar-sized cetaceans is found more often in coastal waters, especially during the breeding season.Social Structure
Whereas groups of North Atlantic right whales once numbered in the hundreds in feeding grounds, nowadays they usually travel alone or in groups of 2-3 (sometimes up to about 12).
Groups splinter off for feeding, probably because of the sheer quantity of food required for each animal. These aggregations are not fixed, and individuals have been observed to change groups. One notable exception is in the Bay of Fundy, where up to two-thirds of the remaining population aggregates in the summer to feed.
As with other mammals, right whale mothers and their calves display strong attachments, with the calf keeping in close contact with its mother by swimming up on her back or butting her with its head. Sometimes the mother may roll over to hold her calf with her flippers. Mating pairs are reported not to maintain long-term bonds.
Life Cycle
It is estimated that North Atlantic right whales live longer than 30 years.
Females breed about once every three to five years. Gestation is about one year and the single calf is nursed for nine to 12 months. Pregnant females migrate to an area off the coast of Georgia and Florida to give birth between December and March and then migrate north to their feeding grounds in the Bay of Fundy. Scientists are confident there is at least one other nursery area but have yet to discover it. Where these whales mate is also a mystery.
In their feeding grounds in the Bay of Fundy in the summer, right whales are often seen in what scientists call "surface active groups" - groups may consist of just a few individuals or as many as 40 - which involve males and females making vigorous body contact. It is presumed that this is some type of courtship behaviour, though scientists believe it is too early for actual mating to occur, given what is known about the gestation period. The function of this intriguing social behaviour is not yet well understood.
North Atlantic right whales feeds mostly on copepods, and krill larvae. About 1,000 - 2,500 kg (2,200 - 5,500 lb) may be consumed every day. The North Atlantic whale feeds by swimming through a swarm of prey with its mouth open and the head slightly emerging on the surface. Having filtered the prey with its baleen plates, it drives out the water, dives, and swallows the food, a process known as "skimming".
Population and Distribution
Exploitation begins in the 10th century...Previous population and distribution
The North Atlantic right whale was once found throughout the North Atlantic. Exploitation began around the 10th-11th centuries, with peaks between the 13th-17th centuries. By 1700 it was too rare to be of economic importance.
Current population and distribution
This whale still occurs in parts of the Atlantic Ocean, from the Norwegian Sea, Davis Strait and Denmark Strait south to Massachusetts and Bay of Biscay in the summer. In the winter the range extends south to Florida and the Golfo de Cintra, western Sahara. The species is occasionally found in European waters, but is close to extinction in the eastern North Atlantic. Recent evidence suggests decreased survival and reproductive rates, an indication that the population may be declining.
(Sightings are exceptionally rare in places other than North America) Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Norway (Svalbard and Jan Mayen), United Kingdom, United States
Geographical Location
Atlantic Ocean (northwest, western central)
Ecological Region
Grand Banks, Chesapeake Bay
What are the threats to the North Atlantic right whale?
The tragedy of being slow, close to land and rich in oilNorth Atlantic populations have been decimated by historical over-exploitation by the whaling industry. The species gets its names from early whalers, who considered them to be the "right" whales to hunt. Their slower pace, the fact that they come close to land, their tendency to float after being killed and their "productivity" in terms of oil made them lucrative animals to target.
Today, the species is threatened by ship collisions, entanglement in fishing nets, and separation from calving areas because of shipping traffic.
Since this right whale is found in coastal habitats, it is more likely to suffer from impacts of human activity than more open-water cetaceans. With such a small, slow-growing population, any threatening factor may have a significant impact.
PollutionThe effects of contaminants on cetaceans susceptibility to disease and reproductive performance is increasingly a cause for concern. For example, research has shown that North Atlantic right whales are significantly exposed to a potentially toxic, dioxin-like compound.
What is WWF doing?WWF has reached significant milestones regarding the protection of this species, including helping drive a shift of the shipping lanes in Canada's Bay of Fundy in 2003, thereby reducing the risk of ship strikes of right whales in Canadian waters by up to 80%. However, collisions in US and other Canadian waters remain a major conservation problem for the species.
WWF efforts in this area over the coming years will be directed towards increasing awareness of the need for cetacean conservation at the national and regional levels, and to create opportunities for local communities to be involved in, and to profit from, cetacean conservation initiatives.
The majority of WWF's global conservation work to protect whales and dolphins takes place within the context of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
How you can help
- Support efforts to improve fishing gear by only buying seafood that is MSC certified. This can help to reduce the incidence of marine bycatch, which kills whales and other marine life like turtles, dolphins, and seabirds.
- Vote Earth by taking part in Earth Hour! As climate change is a growing threats for whales, we need to send a message to our leaders that warming must be limited to under 2 degrees Celsius.
- Spread the word! Click on the button to share this information with others via email or your favourite social networking service.
Support WWF
Did you know?
- Scientists recognize individual whales based on their pattern of callosities – the white patches of rough skin that give right whales their characteristic appearance.
Learn more about WWF's work to make the world's oceans safe for whales, dolphins, and porpoises.


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SANTA CRUZ — Cal Fire Santa Clara Unit Battalion Chief Rob Van Wormer lost consciousness and died Saturday night while on assignment, authorities said Sunday.
The cause and circumstances of Van Wormer's death were not immediately released. He fell ill and was transported to Dominican Hospital, where he was pronounced dead around 8 p.m., according to a statement from California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Director Ken Pimlott.
Van Wormer, 47, had served with Cal Fire for 24 years, according to spokeswoman Angela Bernheisel. He served as both fire chief and a fire investigator.
"He was a very personable guy, a guy with a great sense of humor, a great person to work with," said Bernheisel, who said she had worked with Van Wormer since she joined the department 12 years ago. "The people who worked with him in Santa Clara are so distraught over this."
Van Wormer's wife and two sons were brought to Santa Cruz and were later joined by his parents and sister, Pimlott said. His brother, Kirk, is a Cal Fire battalion chief in the Sonoma Lake-Napa Unit.
"This is a huge loss for Rob's family, his many friends, his Cal Fire family and the fire service as a whole," Pimlott said.
Memorial services have not been set.
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