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|Wicked by Gregory Maguire
|A Discovery of Witches: A Novel by Deborah Harkness
|The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One by Patrick Rothfuss
|Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
|A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
|The Fairy Godmother (book 1 in Five Hundred Kingdoms series) by Mercedes Lackey
|The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu
|Stardust by Neil Gaiman
|The Voyage of the Minotaur by Wesley Allison
|The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Book 1 by Michael Scott
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July 2011 Mobile Read Book Club Vote
Help up choose a book as the July 2011 eBook for the Mobile Read Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. We will start the discussion thread for this book on July 20th. Select from the following books.
Wicked by Gregory Maguire [issybird, WT Sharpe, Hamlet53, ficbot]
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Subjects: Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction And Fantasy
Description: Born with green skin and huge teeth, like a dragon, the free-spirited Elphaba grows up to be an anti-totalitarian agitator, an animal-rights activist, a nun, then a nurse who tends the dying?and, ultimately, the headstrong Wicked Witch of the West in the land of Oz. Maguire's strange and imaginative postmodernist fable uses L. Frank Baum's Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a springboard to create a … more »tense realm inhabited by humans, talking animals (a rhino librarian, a goat physician), Munchkinlanders, dwarves and various tribes. The Wizard of Oz, emperor of this dystopian dictatorship, promotes Industrial Modern architecture and restricts animals' right to freedom of travel; his holy book is an ancient manuscript of magic that was clairvoyantly located by Madam Blavatsky 40 years earlier. Much of the narrative concerns Elphaba's troubled youth (she is raised by a giddy alcoholic mother and a hermitlike minister father who transmits to her his habits of loathing and self-hatred) and with her student years. Dorothy appears only near novel's end, as her house crash-lands on Elphaba's sister, the Wicked Witch of the East, in an accident that sets Elphaba on the trail of the girl from Kansas?as well as the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Lion?and her fabulous new shoes. Maguire combines puckish humor and bracing pessimism in this fantastical meditation on good and evil, God and free will, which should, despite being far removed in spirit from the Baum books, captivate devotees of fantasy. 50,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; first serial to Word; author tour. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. YA?Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, has gotten a bum rap. Her mother is embarrassed and repulsed by her bright-green baby with shark's teeth and an aversion to water. At college, the coed experiences disapproval and rejection by her roommate, Glinda, a silly girl interested only in clothes, money, and popularity. Elphaba is a serious and inquisitive student. When she learns that the Wizard of Oz is politically corrupt and causing economic ruin, Elphaba finds a sense of purpose to her life?to stop him and to restore harmony and prosperity to the land. A Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and an unknown species called a "Dorothy" appear in very small roles... The story presents Elphaba in a sympathetic and empathetic manner-readers will want her to triumph! The conclusion, however, is the same as L. Frank Baum's. The book has both idealism and cynicism in its discussion of social, religious, educational, and political issues present in Oz, and, more pointedly, present in our day and time. The idealism is whimsical and engaging; the cynicism is biting. Sometimes the earthy language seems appropriate and adds to the sense of place; sometimes the four-letter words and sexual explicitness distract from the charm of the tale. The multiple threads to the plot proceed unevenly, so that the pace of the story jumps rather than moves steadily forward. Wicked is not an easy rereading of The Wizard of Oz. It is for good readers who like satire, and love exceedingly imaginative and clever fantasy.?Judy Sokoll, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. (from Amazon.com)
A Discovery of Witches: A Novel by Deborah Harkness [Hamlet53, John F, RiverY, maianhvk]
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Subjects: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction, General Fantasy
Description: Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2011 : It all begins with a lost manuscript, a reluctant witch, and 1,500-year-old vampire. Dr. Diana Bishop has a really good reason for refusing to do magic: she is a direct descendant of the first woman executed in the Salem Witch Trials, and her parents cautioned her be discreet about her talents before they were murdered, presumably for having "too … more »much power." So it is purely by accident that Diana unlocks an enchanted long-lost manuscript (a book that all manner of supernatural creatures believe to hold the story of all origins and the secret of immortality) at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and finds herself in a race to prevent an interspecies war. A sparkling debut written by a historian and self-proclaimed oenophile, A Discovery of Witches is heady mix of history and magic, mythology, and love (cue the aforementioned vampire!), making for a luxurious, intoxicating, one-sitting read. -- Daphne Durham In Harkness's lively debut, witches, vampires, and demons outnumber humans at Oxford's Bodleian Library, where witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her. Against all occult social propriety, Bishop turns for protection to tall, dark, bloodsucking man-about-town Clairmont. Their research raises questions of evolution and extinction among the living dead, and their romance awakens centuries-old enmities. Harkness imagines a crowded universe where normal and paranormal creatures observe a tenuous peace. "Magic is desire made real," Bishop says after both her desire and magical prowess exceed her expectations. Harkness brings this world to vibrant life and makes the most of the growing popularity of gothic adventure with an ending that keeps the Old Lodge door wide open. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. (from Amazon.com)
The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One by Patrick Rothfuss [voodooblues, John F, ficbot, Anarel]
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The riveting first-person narrative of a young man who grows to be the most notorious magician his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime- ridden city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that transports readers into the body and mind of a wizard. It is a high-action novel written with a poet's hand, a powerful coming-of-age story of a magically gifted young man, told through his eyes: to read this book is to be the hero.(from BooksonBoard.com)
Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher [siraks, Nyssa, Format C:]
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Subjects: Fantasy, Science Fiction And Fantasy, Contemporary
Description: As in the audio adaptation of Butcher's first Dresden Files novel, Storm Front, Marsters (who played Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) slips easily into the role of down-on-his-luck wizard Harry Dresden. Marsters's self-deprecating tone fits the character perfectly; he reads with a dry, ironic humor that doesn't mask Harry's genuine concern for the lives of innocents. Marsters also displays a … more »remarkable skill for lending even the strangest characters and creatures voices-including gentleman gangster Johnny Marconi, his henchmen, a sexy female werewolf and Bob, the British-accented talking skull. In this outing, Harry is again out of cash, and police detective Karrin Murphy, who's still angry at him over the events of the first book, isn't inclined to throw work his way. But soon a series of mysterious, violent murders sends her to Harry for help. Are the killings the work of a local motorcycle gang? Or a werewolf-and if so, which werewolf? Mac Finn, the werewolf environmentalist? The group of idealistic college kids who voluntarily become werewolves by night? Or the trigger-happy group of FBI agents turned werewolf vigilantes? Though the price of this audio package may put off some listeners, Marsters's lively telling makes it worth every penny. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. He handles the male and female, and the human and para-human, characters with equal aplomb, -- Audiofile James Marsters does a nice, low-key job with the first-person narrative, -- AudioFile even managing some moving pathos out of unpromising moments. Y.R. AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine -- Audiofile (from Amazon.com)
A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin [sun surfer, maianhvk, VioletVal]
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From a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you've ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has launched a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of this magnificent saga, the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere.
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won't let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more.
Subjects: Science Fiction And Fantasy, Epic, Fiction
Description: Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already … more »hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin's stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. (from Borders)
The Fairy Godmother (book 1 in Five Hundred Kingdoms series) by Mercedes Lackey [JSWolf, Nyssa, VioletVal]
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Subjects: Romance, Fantasy, General Fiction
Description: The prolific Lackey (the Valdemar series) draws on the darker, Brothers Grimm side of fairy lore for her enchanting tale, the first title under a new Harlequin imprint to spotlight romantic fantasy. In the land of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, the Tradition, that ineffable magic, holds the promise of happily-ever-after for all deserving young maidens and courteous princes charming. But the … more »Tradition also leads some in its thrall to pain, suffering and gruesome death. Feisty 19-year-old Elena Klovis seems destined to be an Ella of the Cinders (Cinderella), at the mercy of her wicked stepmother and greedy stepsisters. To escape their clutches, Elena tries to get work as a maidservant, but her fairy godmother, Madame Bella, has other plans for her. Elena becomes Madame Bella's apprentice, doing her best, among other challenges, to ensure that evil does not subvert Tradition. The only problem is that fairy godmothers are not themselves allowed to fall in love. It's up to Elena, who has vowed to reform a wayward prince, to tease out the threads of a new Tradition. Lackey has created an intelligent, self-possessed heroine with whom many readers will identify. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The prolific Lackey will enchant readers with this delightful twist on traditional fairy tales. In the land of Five Hundred Kingdoms, "Tradition" rules, and everyone is expected to fit into established fairy tales. Enslaved by her wickedly avaricious stepmother and stepsisters, Elena should have had a Cinderella-like life, but when things didn't work out, she flees and seeks work. Her fairy godmother, in fact, the fairy godmother of several kingdoms, makes her apprentice fairy godmother, and it's her duty to prevent the bad things that come with Tradition. Her life takes yet another curious turn when, disguised as a crone to test three questing princes, she loses her temper with Prince Alexander. He acts like an ass, so she turns him into one. Unwilling to let a defenseless donkey wander the woods alone, she takes him home and puts him to work transforming his life. Lackey's satisfying fairy tale will captivate fantasy readers with its well-imagined world and romance fans, who will relish the growing relationship and sexy scenes. Diana Tixier Herald Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved (from Amazon.com)
The Winds of Khalakovo by Bradley P. Beaulieu [caleb72, sun surfer, Gronk]
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Subject: Science Fiction
Description: Among inhospitable and unforgiving seas stands Khalakovo, a mountainous archipelago of seven islands, its prominent eyrie stretching a thousand feet into the sky. Serviced by windships bearing goods and dignitaries, Khalakovo's eyrie stands at the crossroads of world trade. But all is not well in Khalakovo. Conflict has erupted between the ruling Landed, the indigenous Aramahn, and the … more »fanatical Maharraht, and a wasting disease has grown rampant over the past decade. Now, Khalakovo is to play host to the Nine Dukes, a meeting which will weigh heavily upon Khalakovo's future. When an elemental spirit attacks an incoming windship, murdering the Grand Duke and his retinue, Prince Nikandr, heir to the scepter of Khalakovo, is tasked with finding the child prodigy believed to be behind the summoning. However, Nikandr discovers that the boy is an autistic savant who may hold the key to lifting the blight that has been sweeping the islands. Can the Dukes, thirsty for revenge, be held at bay? Can Khalakovo be saved? The elusive answer drifts upon the Winds of Khalakovo... (from Baen WebScriptions)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman [jabberwock_11, sun surfer, drofgnal]
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Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Fantasy
Description: Stardust is an utterly charming fairy tale in the tradition of The Princess Bride and The Neverending Story . Neil Gaiman, creator of the darkly elegant Sandman comics and author of The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish , tells the story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. One fateful night, Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for … more »her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town (called, appropriately, Wall) and the Faerie realm. No one ever ventures beyond the Wall except to attend an enchanted flea market that is held every nine years (and during which, unbeknownst to him, Tristran was conceived). But Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and thus win the hand of his love. His adventures in the magical land will keep you turning pages as fast as you can--he and the star escape evil old witches, deadly clutching trees, goblin press-gangs, and the scheming sons of the dead Lord of Stormhold. The story is by turns thrillingly scary and very funny. You'll love goofy, earnest Tristran and the talking animals, gnomes, magic trees, and other irresistible denizens of Faerie that he encounters in his travels. Stardust is a perfect read-aloud book, a brand-new fairy tale you'll want to share with a kid, or maybe hoard for yourself. (If you read it to kids, watch out for a couple of spicy sex bits and one epithet.) --Therese Littleton Starred Review. Tristran Thorn falls in love with the prettiest girl in town and makes her a foolish promise: he says that he'll go find the falling star they both watched streak across the night sky. She says she'll marry him if he finds it, so he sets off, leaving his home of Wall, and heads out into the perilous land of faerie, where not everything is what it appears. Gaiman is known for his fanciful wit, sterling prose and wildly imaginative plots, and Stardust is no exception. Gaiman's silver-tongued narration vividly brings this production to life. Like the bards of old, Gaiman is equally proficient at telling tales as he is at writing them, and his pleasant British accent feels like a perfect match to the material. Gaiman's performance is an extraordinary achievement—if only all authors could read their own work so well. The audiobook also includes a brief, informative and enjoyable interview with Gaiman about the writing of the novel and his work in the audiobook studio. Copyright© American Library Association. All rights reserved (from Amazon.com)
The Voyage of the Minotaur by Wesley Allison [John F, Hamlet53, Moe The Cat]
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Subjects: Fantasy Historical, Fantasy, Science Fiction - Adventure
Description: In a world of steam power and rifles, where magic has not yet been forgotten, an expedition sets out to found a colony in a lost world. The Voyage of the Minotaur is a story of adventure and magic, religion and prejudice, steam engines and dinosaurs, angels and lizardmen, machine guns and wizards, sorceresses, bustles and corsets, steam-powered computers, hot air balloons, and dragons. … more » (from Amazon.com)
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Book 1 by Michael Scott [siraks, lila55, JSWolf]
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Subjects: Fiction, Children's Fiction, Children's
Description: Twin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Perry Fleming. In the vey first chapter, armed goons garbed in black with "dead-looking skin and... marble eyes" (actually Golems) storm the bookshop, take Perry hostage and swipe a rare Book (but not before Josh … more »snatches its two most important pages). The stolen volume is the Codex, an ancient text of magical wisdom. Nick Fleming is really Nicholas Flamel, the 14th-century alchemist who could turn base metal into gold, and make a potion that ensures immortality. Sophie and Josh learn that they are mentioned in the Codex's prophecies: "The two that are one will come either to save or to destroy the world." Mayhem ensues, as Irish author Scott draws on a wide knowledge of world mythology to stage a battle between the Dark Elders and their hired gun—Dr. John Dee—against the forces of good, led by Flamel and the twins (Sophie's powers are "awakened" by the goddess Hekate, who'd been living in an elaborate treehouse north of San Francisco). Not only do they need the Codex back to stop Dee and company, but the immortality potion must be brewed afresh every month. Time is running out, literally, for the Flamels. Proceeding at a breakneck pace, and populated by the likes of werewolves and vampires, the novel ends on a precipice, presumably to be picked up in volume two. Ages 12-up. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Starred Review. Grade 6-9–Scott uses a gigantic canvas for this riveting fantasy. The well-worn theme of saving the world from the forces of evil gets a fresh look here as he incorporates ancient myth and legend and sets it firmly, pitch-perfect, in present-day California. At the emotional center of the tale are contemporary 15-year-old twins, Josh and Sophie, who, it turns out, are potentially powerful magicians. They are spoken of in a prophecy appearing in the ancient Book of Abraham the Mage, all but two pages of which have been stolen by evil John Dee, alchemist and magician. The pursuit of the twins and Flamel by Dee and his allies to get the missing pages constitutes the book's central plot. Amid all this exhilarating action, Scott keeps his sights on the small details of character and dialogue and provides evocative descriptions of people, mythical beings, and places. He uses as his starting point the figures of the historical alchemist Nicholas Flamel and his wife, who have found the secret of immortality, along with mythical beings, including the terrifying Scottish crow-goddess, the Morrigan; the three-faced Greek Hekate; the powerful Egyptian cat-goddess, Bastet; and Scathach, a legendary Irish woman warrior and vegetarian vampire. While there is plenty here to send readers rushing to their encyclopedias of mythology and alchemy, those who read the book at face value will simply be caught up in the enthralling story. A fabulous read.– Sue Giffard, Ethical Culture Fieldston School, New York City Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (from Amazon.com
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I happily vote for "The Name of the Wind"
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I voted for A Game Of Thrones. For those curious, Barnes & Noble's preview of A Game Of Thrones is quite large for a sample. I'd think Amazon would give a similarly large preview.
I was recommended this book awhile ago and read the preview then. I thought the first chapter/prologue was great and the rest of the preview was intriguing, but having had so many books to read at that moment, I decided to read this one a little later, and now would be a good time as part of the club. I especially love the idea of a world where seasons last years, so you may have years of, say, winter. Also, now that there is a television series based off of this book, it'd be interesting to read the book and then watch it.
dreams, thank you for providing a description for the book since I didn't in my nomination (and I've been meaning to say, I love your new avatar). I'd like to add another one that I think describes the book better for those unfamiliar:
From a master of contemporary fantasy comes the first novel of a landmark series unlike any you've ever read before. With A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has launched a genuine masterpiece, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill the pages of this magnificent saga, the first volume in an epic series sure to delight fantasy fans everywhere.
Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. To the south, the king's powers are failing—his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king's new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won't let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more.
I've read Wicked and it's a good book. I've actually read a few different books by Maguire and Wicked is the only one I'd recommend. It was his first and best. If it wins though, I'm not interested in reading it since I already have.
As for the other nominations, I admit I haven't heard of almost any of them, not really being much of a fantasy reader, so I can only go by their descriptions here. The other two that caught my eye were The Winds Of Khalakovo and Stardust. The world in The Winds Of Khalakovo sounds intriguing and the story of Stardust sounds fun.
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You're welcome and thank you, sun surfer.
I added in the book description you provided.
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I don't know whether I'll be participating, but I hate reading books in a series where the first book isn't really a stand-alone, and the most recent book ends on a cliff-hanger, and the end of the series is not yet in sight.
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Game of Thrones is probably the only one on the list that does not interest me at all, so I voted for the Rothfuss book since I have it already and it is not yet read
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I voted for A Game Of Thrones, as I haven't read it, and there has been quite a buzz about it on MR recently. Have to admit to not really being into fantasy, but I'm willing to give this a go because I really loved Fevre Dream by Martin.
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Interesting "..Thrones" is so in the news, a long time after its first publication in 1997 - ah, the power of the square box in the corner !!
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Stardust is a stand alone and is written by one of the best authors around. Gaiman does an excellent job of creating a much more adult fantasy novel without devolving it into a romance or sacrificing the magic. It's a bit different from a traditional sword and sorcery fantasy novel, but it still delivers.
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I haven't voted for A Game of Thrones, Stardust or A Discovery of Witches because I've read them (or rather began to read them, in the case of ADOW). I really enjoyed the first two and would reread them, but I abandoned A Discovery of Witches halfway through, which I don't do too often. I don't know if I should try to plod my way through it until the end. It just wasn't holding my interest... on second thought, I'll leave it. I started Wicked and couldn't finish it either, but I would be willing to give it another try. There are several other books on the poll that interest me, but I was planning on reading "The Name of the Wind" soon anyway, so I voted for that.
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I'm not voting, yet. I still don't know what I want. I do know that I will not be voting for GoT, as the TV show has cured me of my curiosity. Nor will I be voting for Wicked, as I've tried it once, didn't finish it and have no desire to try it again.
I'm struggling against the wants vs the haves. I want one book, I'm curious about two and I already own (but have not read) two. So that's 5 possibilities - 3 of which will cost money.One of the 3 I know I'm going to buy, eventually, anyway, but I do not want to buy now in case I have to buy another one instead.
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I had to pick my own book. :P
For those who have not picked it up already, here's a coupon for Smashwords. Feel free to use it whether or not you vote for Voyage of the Minotaur. Follow the link and use coupon code AN87Q to get it for 99 cents.
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I voted for Stardust. I've read GRRM. Loved the first three books. Book 4, a feast for crows was horrible!
I should have voted for GRRM's neck to neck competition, the Name of the Wind, if only to save the suffering of those who haven't read GRRM. Soon to be released book 5 is due in July after a 6 year hiatus. I seriously doubt he'll ever finish the series. I've sworn it off.
Anyway can I retract my vote for Stardust and vote for The Name of the Wind?
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LEWISTON, Maine. - The women's track team won eight events and took second place this past Saturday at the Bates College Invitational. MIT finished with 130 points and defeated Bates (122), but Colby College ran away with the meet victory (151). Sophomore Karen Davie led the Engineers with impressive wins in the high, long and triple jumps.
Junior Alisha Schor began a strong day for MIT by finishing the 3000 meter steeplechase with a first place and New England Division III qualifying time of 11:35.64. After MIT won the 4x100 meter relay (52.12), junior Hana Adaniya took second (5:00.20) in the 1500. The Engineers then competed in the 100 hurdles and junior Christine Fanchiang placed third (16.45). The junior went on to win the pole vault (3.20m) and place second in the 100 meter dash (13.56) and third in the long jump. The Engineers next event victory came in the 400 meter hurdles, where sophomore Leanne Veldhuis finished first with a time of 1:05.00.
Perhaps the strongest events for MIT were the jumping events led by Davie. She began with a first place mark of 1.47 meters in the high jump before leaping to victories in the long (4.84m) and the triple jump (10.06).
Sophomore Aline Thomas also posted a pair of impressive performances in the hammer throw (45.78m) and shot put (11.17m). Both marks were good for second place. The lone athlete to best Thomas in the hammer throw was Keelin Godsey of Bates College, who also won the shot put and discus. Her toss of 61.88 meters was the best throw this season for NCAA Division III athletes.
After a disappointing showing in the discus, junior Chi-Fong Wang helped MIT close out the day on a positive note. She won the javelin throw with a toss of 38.90 meters.
The Engineers return home on Saturday, April 22 to host the Co-Ed Invitational.


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Thelma F. Warwick (Grillo) passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Jan. 20, 2014 from chronic health issues at the age of 73. She was born on Feb. 7, 1940, the eldest of three siblings, to Henry and Elaine Grillo in Tonasket. Thelma leaves behind her husband of 52 years, Stan; her sons, Rusty Warwick, Spokane; Phil Warwick and his wife, Tina, Kettle Falls; her daughter, Kim Warwick, Spokane, and two grandchildren, Jessica and Justin Warwick. Thelma graduated from Tonasket High School in 1958. After high school she attended Kinman Business University in Spokane. She loved doing her arts and crafts, gardening, all kinds of baking, cooking at hunting camp in Colorado, being outdoors and was head over heels in a huckleberry patch. She was a very kind and loving grandma, and she will be missed very much. She is also survived by her mother, Elaine Grillo, Tonasket; one brother, Marvin Grillo and wife Gini, Oroville; one sister, Sherri Laurie and husband, Ted, Tonasket; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral service will be held at the Kettle Falls Legion Hall (1057 U.S. 395 Highway, Kettle Falls) on Feb. 22 at noon.


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I'm trying to duplicate the problem without success. It sounds like the refine edge button is not greyed out? So can you click on the button, and is that when you get the 'No Entry' icon? Have you in Quick mask mode perhaps? Not likely, because you'd see the transparent areas of red.
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The reason we have the month of August is because the old Roman emperor of the time, Augustus, who ruled from 63 B.C. to 14 A.D., was bored.
The reason we have the month of August is because the old Roman emperor of the time, Augustus, who ruled from 63 B.C. to 14 A.D., was bored.
Not being satisfied with "Sextillus," the name for the sixth month in the Roman calendar year, which began in March (see "Ides"), and with nothing to do after conquering everything in sight, he decided to name the month after himself,
For me, August has always had a certain amount of boredom attached to it — summer's almost over, but not quite; it's in between school terms and seasons; people are either going off on vacations, or returning; and husking and steaming sweet corn is getting tiresome.
Perhaps it was to overcome the August "blahs" that we see the celebration of National Goat Cheese Month, or Get Ready For Kindergarten Month, or Neurosurgery Outreach Month, and, my favorite, Panini Month.
Things might have been better in the Brockton of the 1940s and 50s had there been a convenient place on the West Side to do some swimming. I was reminded of pool-time pleasures recently when Enterprisenews.com ran a "this-is-a-keeper" story on "A Look At Local Swimming Holes, From Abington to Whitman."
Back in my boyhood on Belcher Avenue, the most convenient place to cool off during the week, aside from the glider on the screen-enclosed front porch, was the back yard lawn sprinkler, the size of a nine-inch pie plate. Weekends there would usually be a jaunt to the rocky beach at Nantasket and Paragon Park, or the dunes at Horse Neck Beach, or the pine-treed shadiness of the "Brown Betty" pond recreation area at the site of the old Mayflower Grove in Pembroke,
World War II meant gas-rationing, which limited our trips to the Cape, that fabled land of Howard Johnsons, and imagined endless fried clams, double-scooped ice cream cones, and overflowing chocolate milkshakes. Because of the going-to and coming-from heavy Army traffic connected with Camp Edwards, the traffic jams were fearsome.
Until we reached the age of 16 and were thus legally able to do some useful work for a wage, in August there was only the anticipation of the upcoming Brockton Fair, with its sideshows, rides, and the daredevil driving exploits of Lucky Teeter and his madcap crew. On the minus side was the return to school in September. Younger brother Herb and I would reluctantly accompany Mother to Main Street to shop for back-to-school clothes.
There was welcome relief of thirst when the Brockton Ice & Coal truck came lumbering down the avenue as kids of all ages and heights clustered around the back, jumping up and down, anticipating the shards of ice chips that would be left behind as the ice-man chopped blocks of ice into shape for the delivery to the waiting housewives.
The other day, in the unaccustomed heat of 90 degrees, an advertising flyer caught my attention. It was from a "big-box" retailer selling portable swimming pools, something devoutly to be wished for, but non-existent, in the Brockton of the 1940s, or elsewhere, for that matter.
How different August life on Belcher Avenue would have been with a 12-foot-wide-by-3-foot-deep, soft-sided pool, or even better, a metal-frame model, 16 feet wide and 53 inches deep! The prospect of splashing and dunking from morning until the cows came home, and it was time for supper, was very appealing.
In my own case, I have access to a rather commodious indoor swimming pool, but never use it because the chlorine irritates my eyes. I'd like to go ocean-swimming, but the water of the Pacific Northwest is on the cold side at around 50 degrees. I could, however, drive 20 miles or so to one of mankind's most fun-filled inventions – the water park.
There are, in fact, three of these aquatic centers I know of, featuring attractions such as tube rides, slides of various sizes and shapes, wave pools, lap pools, and, if you have a baby in a bathing suit, a place for toddlers to get their toes wet.
In my long-ago Navy days, I swam in the surf at Virginia Beach, and, on the other side of the Atlantic, frolicked in the foamy breakers below the sandy cliffs at Sidi Bouknadel, just north of Rabat, Morocco.
The ocean is not benign. According to a recent report by Accuweather.com, swimmers are advised that "Summer Waters Bring Threats of Jellyfish, (and) Infections." And, of course, there are sharks on the Cape.
All in all, I'd have to say that while swimming is excellent exercise, and a good way to avoid the August blues, I should much prefer a nighttime, outdoor-pool swim, as in the remembered tropic nights of a long-ago, two-week Hawaiian holiday – the pervasive smell of fragrant flowers that surrounded the pool, and, lying in the warm water, looking at the bright stars, and hearing nearby the occasional fall of a coconut, and in the far-off blackness, the sound of the booming surf.
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Nov 02, 2013
Allentown, Pa. – A week after using a ball-control offense to run a school-record 97 plays at Juniata, the Muhlenberg football team took to the big-play attack and rolled to its fourth straight win, 42-3 against Dickinson.
The Mules (6-2, 5-2 Centennial Conference) scored six touchdowns, and four of them were on passes of 30 yards or more. Of the six scoring drives, only two lasted more than four plays.
Leading the charge were freshman quarterback Nick Palladino and junior wide receiver Cody Geyer, who teamed up on a 62-yard pass play to open the scoring with 6:22 left in the first quarter and a 58-yard play on the first play of the second quarter. Each also added a rushing touchdown.
Palladino finished 15-of-18 for 255 yards and three touchdowns while playing just one series into the second half. Geyer accumulated 218 all-purpose yards (204 of which he had midway through the second quarter), catching seven passes for 151 yards.
The defense, meanwhile, held the third-best rushing attack in the CC to 80 yards on 45 carries. The Red Devils (3-5, 3-4) gained only 185 total yards and punted nine times.
Greg DeLade made seven tackles and had one of the Mules' four sacks, while Kevin Cellary also recorded seven stops and John Feaster recorded his team-leading fourth interception of the season.
Connor Winter was a perfect 6-for-6 on extra points to tie the school and CC record for consecutive PATs made (53, dating back to a miss in last year's Dickinson game). He also punted five times with an average of 40.0 yards per kick and had touchbacks on two of his kickoffs.
The teams traded punts on the first four possessions of the game before Palladino found Geyer behind the Dickinson secondary on the left sideline for the 62-yard touchdown. It was the fourth straight week that Geyer had made a play of 60 yards or longer.
Dickinson put together a 12-play drive on the next possession, but a 48-yard field goal attempt by Adam Kaminski went wide left with 30 seconds left in the first quarter. Two plays and a change of fields later, Palladino and Geyer hooked up on their second long touchdown.
On the sixth play after Feaster's interception, Geyer bounced outside on a jet sweep and ran 24 yards into the end zone for his second rushing touchdown in as many weeks.
Kaminski got Dickinson on the board with a 24-yard field goal with 1:51 left in the half, but Palladino engineered a two-minute drive that ended with his 10-yard scoring run with 24.3 ticks on the clock.
Palladino threw a 31-yard scoring pass to tight end Michael Long early in the third quarter, and Joe Carlucci capped the scoring with a 40-yard scoring strike to Brendan Connolly with 6:29 left to play.
Palladino and Carlucci combined to pass for 366 yards as the Mules rolled up 506 yards of total offense.
Mike Carmella, making his first start for Dickinson in place of injured starter Cole Ahnell, was 7-of-14 for 81 yards. Devin Gaby grabbed three passes for 78 yards.


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Gov. Chris Christie's deputy chief of staff and two executives at the Port Authority had knowledge of plans to close local lanes on the George Washington several weeks before the lanes shut down, a series of email and text message exchanges obtained and published by the Bergen Record show.
Those messages (embedded below) also point towards the move as political retaliation against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich for not issuing an endorsement of Christie in his reelection campaign.
Though Christie has repeatedly denied involvement in the four-day September closures and has specifically shot down the notion that the move was politically motivated, the newspaper's report indicates otherwise.
Messages obtained by the newspaper between Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly and David Wildstein, a former Christie appointee at the Port Authority who resigned in December after others testified that he ordered the move, show that both knew of the closures and intended them to wreak havoc on local traffic in the town.
"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Kelly wrote in an email to Wildstein three weeks before the closures, the newspaper reported.
Wildstein replied, "Got it."
Wildstein is scheduled to testify on the matter Thursday before the Assembly Transportation Committee.
The newspaper also revealed that when Kelly sent an email to Wildstein on the first morning of the lane closures asking if the Fort Lee mayor's phone calls to the Port Authority were being returned, Wildstein replied, "Radio silence." In the same email, Wildstein went on to note that the mayor's name "comes right after Mayor Fulop," indicating a likely jab at Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, a Democrat who has been critical of the governor.
The newspaper also included a text message exchange between Wildstein and an unknown party, with the unidentified person asking, "Is it wrong that I'm smiling?" It went on to say, "I feel badly about the kids." Wildstein reportedly replied with, "No," and then said, "They are the children of Buono voters," the newspaper reported.
The message indicates a clear reference to State Sen. Barbara Buono (D-Metuchen), who challenged Christie in last year's gubernatorial election.
Further messages published by the newspaper between Wildstein and other top Christie confidants reiterate the notion that the governor's office had involvement in the matter.
Christie campaign manager Bill Stepien called the Fort Lee mayor an "idiot" in one exchange with Wildstein, who then replied by saying, "It will be a tough November for this little Serbian," the newspaper reported.
Christie spokesperson Michael Drewniak did not reply to an email request for comment.


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The FIFA Executive Committee convened on Thursday 27 September, at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, and approved the kick-off times for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil.
The Opening Match will take place on 12 June in Sao Paulo, with a kick-off time of 17.00.
Group-stage games will be played at 13.00, 16.00, 17.00, 18:00, 19.00 and 21:00 local time, with knockout stage matches at 13.00 and 17.00 local time. The semi-finals will be played at 17.00 local time and the Final, on 13 July 2014 at the iconic Maracana stadium, at 16.00 local time.
All kick-offs are local time, with Cuiaba and Manaus being CET-6, all other venues CET -5. After USA 1994, it's the first time that FIFA World Cup matches will be played in different time zones, with Manaus and Cuiaba one hour behind Brasilia Time.
Finally, it has been decided that the release date of players will be the 19 May 2014, with a mandatory rest period from 19-25 May 2014, to ensure that all players (with the exception of those playing the UEFA Champions League Final) will have one week of rest before joining their national teams.
The Final Draw for Brazil 2014 is confirmed to be Friday 6 December 2013 at the Costa do Sauipe in Bahia.


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SAO PAULO, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Latin America is poised for a lithium boom as mining companies seek deposits of the mineral for urgent and large-scale development.
Lithium-ion batteries are critical to computers and smartphones and are seen as the ultimate solution in the auto industry's quest for a clean, environmentally friendly battery-powered car.
More than 70 percent of the world's salt lake lithium deposits are in South America and investors are eyeing untapped or undeveloped lithium sources outside Chile, the current major producer, in Argentina, Mexico and Bolivia.
U.S. Geological Survey data indicate Bolivia contains almost half of the world's lithium reserves, which remain untapped.
But Mexico is seen as the next hotspot because of its easier investment climate, close ties with the United States and free trade environment.
China and other international investors see Mexico as a favored destination for low-cost lithium extraction and manufacture of lithium-based products for distribution across the Americas and the Pacific.
Lithium markets in Latin America are set to explode as demand rises for new technologies from Apple iPads to electric cars, Green Technology Solutions mining subsidiary GTSO Resources said.
GTSO Resources said it would focus on Chile.
Deposits of lithium are found throughout the Andes Mountains and both Chile and Argentina recover lithium from brine pools.
Lithium is poised to rise in value dramatically as demand grows globally. China, a major producer of batteries, is tapping markets to find and secure more lithium resources for itself.
Despite Bolivia's large lithium reserves, the country's mercurial politics have put off investors.
GTSO said lithium mining in Chile could pay off handsomely if lithium prices continue to rise as expected.
"We're moving aggressively to increase shareholder value by acquiring new projects and sourcing joint venture partners to expand the scope and diversify the risk of our exploration efforts in Chile," GTSO Chief Executive Officer Paul Watson said.
Traditional mining isn't the only path to potential profits with Chilean lithium, it said. GTSO is in talks with CCI Capital SpA for assistance to develop and implement urban mining deals in Chile.
It said the country's mining infrastructure and growing e-waste stream make it an ideal environment for sustainable minerals investment.
New research has shown that sustainable urban mining practices could help dramatically reduce the world's carbon emissions.
By recycling a ton of steel, carbon emissions can be reduced by 2.1 tons. A ton of recycled aluminum eliminates 7.9 tons of emissions and a ton of recycled computers reduces emissions by four tons. As concern over pollution and climate change grows around the world, demand for recycled materials is rising, the research indicates.


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Benjin Blackwater took another drag of the cigarette and passed it back to his foster brother. From behind them they could hear the drunken roar of a full tavern, the bright lights from its windows casting them in shadow, and he knew it wouldn't be long before they were missed. The night was clear, though it was hard to see much from the alley, and he leant back against the wall to enjoy a few stolen minutes of calm.
"Should go back before that arsehole misses us and docks our pay again."
Flint snorted in derision. "If he doesn't dock it for this, it'll be for something else. He only employs Blackwaters because he knows he doesn't have to pay us properly."
Benjin shrugged, knowing all too well he was right, and took back the cigarette. He wondered what his foster sisters were up to tonight, whether Roz would come round with stolen goods she needed to get rid of, whether Christy had recovered from that fight yet, whether...
A scrap of paper suddenly appeared in his hand, surprise making him drop it.
"What the..."
He picked it up from the floor.
"It's from Anya."
"What trouble's she in now?" Flint squinted at the crumpled paper, a pointless endeavour when he had never gone to school often enough to learn how to read. "Has she been caught 'borrowing' books again?"
Dutifully Benjin started to read:
"Dear Ben,
It turns out I'm a sorcerer, which I think basically means I'm good at casting spells, and people pay quite a lot for jobs that sorcerers can do. Especially outside of Varya, where no one cares if your second name is Blackwater. So I've just got paid, and I'm going to set up a school where people can learn magic for free in a village called Redfield, between Varya and Dawn. The mayor is calling for people to help rebuild the village, and I thought you and the others might be interested. She is only offering food and lodgings as payment, but you always said you wanted to travel and some of the villagers have said they'll teach you a trade. It would also be good to have some back up to stop them cutting down more of the forest as the Everni really don't like it. I've enclosed some rava so you can pay someone to teleport you because it is a very long way to walk. I was also going to try to send you a pie, but I've not quite got the spell right yet. Hope to see you soon.
Anya Blackwater JewelWeaver
P.S. If you hear anyone call me 'General' ignore them."
Flint shook his head in disbelief. "Obsessed, that's what she is. Obsessed with magic."
Benjin grinned. "Remember that time she dispelled the magic seal on that cupboard we were forbidden to open just to see if she could?"
"Yeah, and then didn't even open the bloody cupboard!"
"Just changed the spell word on it so that no one but her could get in it. She got into so much trouble for that." Benjin looked down at his foster sister's letter again, rava notes stuck to the bottom corner. "Should we go?"
Before Flint could answer, they heard a shout from the inn.
"Blackwaters! I want you both here right now or you can find yourself another job! And no one else is going to hire you, believe me!"
Both exchanged mischievous glances. It was an obvious choice really. Pocketing the letter and money, they left their previous employer screaming curses into an empty alley, and set off to find their other siblings and a meta mage.
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TORONTO (AP) Drew MacIntyre was sharp in making 13 saves, but the Toronto Maple Leafs lost 3-2 in a shootout to a Philadelphia Flyers split squad in preseason action on Monday night.
MacIntyre has played in only four regular-season NHL games - most recently Nov. 25, 2011, for Buffalo. He could be a potential No. 3 goalie option for Toronto behind Jonathan Bernier and James Reimer.
MacIntyre made an impressive pad save on a 2-on-1 drive by Scott Laughton and stopped Marcel Noebels. He also denied Adam Hall on a semi-breakaway.
Bernier, making his first appearance with the Maple Leafs since being acquired from Los Angeles, allowed one goal on 16 shots. Former Toronto defenseman Luke Schenn scored on him with a deflected shot.
Bruno Gervais scored the tying goal in the third, and Tye McGinn netted the shootout winner for the Flyers.
James van Riemsdyk, acquired from Philadelphia in the Schenn trade, and Jamie Devane scored for Toronto.


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Zenguru has been an Outhouser since the days it was blue. He's the Rick Jones of The Outhouse. Not always in the mansion, but always around in a pinch. Just don't pinch too hard, okay? He's written a few articles, notably $k!d M@rks, and has published several books of poetry. Lately, he's been writing poems and fiction about diners. He's been reading comics since the mid-70's. He dreams of one day traveling between dimensions to be Jonah Hex's sidekick.
Fake DC Shocker: Everyone Will Be Batman!By Zenguru in Features on September 23, 2013
A fictional interview with DC Co-Publisher Dan Didio reveals the details on DC's upcoming fictional super-mega-crossover event, Everyone Will Be Batman.
Character Spotlight: ROM: SpaceknightBy Zenguru in Features on December 21, 2011
Read about one of the Outhousers' favorite characters in the weekly Character Spotlight! This week, we look at ROM: Spaceknight!
$k!d M@rk$: Pittsburgh Comicon 2011!!By Zenguru in Columns on May 3, 2011
Ah, Pittsburgh Comicon, another year has come and gone. As always you had your perks and your quirks...and a power outage.
$k!d M@rk$ : When Will It End?By Zenguru in Columns on April 25, 2011
I've written before about crossovers that pop up in response to others. But what about the ones that never stop?
$k!d M@rk$: DC Comics in the DCU?By Zenguru in Columns on May 31, 2010
You ever wonder what kinds of comics denizens of the DC Universe read? Well, here's a few of the more obscure fan favorites.
!Skid Marks! : Shock Value in ComicsBy Zenguru in Columns on May 24, 2010
What's with all these shocking images in comics nowadays? Are they good, bad, or something else? Has shock comic writing dropped the baby?
It's Con Season! Autograph EtiquetteBy Zenguru in Columns on April 11, 2010
It's Duck Season! It's Wabbit Season! No, it's Con Season! Here's some hints and how-ya-dos for getting autographs from your favorite writers and artists!
Skid Marks: Mid-Ohio Con 2009!!!By Zenguru in Columns on October 11, 2009
Read about my misadventures in Columbus! High points: Meeting artists like Fred Hembeck, Scott Kolins and Arvell Jones. AND DEADFETT!!! Low points: Traffic, parking, walking a frickin' half mile from said parking, accidents, and detours. Really low point: Starlord did not attend......:+(
Pittsburgh Comicon 2009: New DigsBy Zenguru in Columns on September 13, 2009
Another Pitt Con has come and gone. I have memories of misadventures and boobs.
Skid Marks: Confessions of an Aging FanboyBy Zenguru in Columns on August 23, 2009
As you get older, your tastes change for many things. Sadly, comics is one of them.
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Parents are often concerned about their children having nightmares or sleeping restlessly. Confusional sleep states such as an18month old making noises and flipping around for a bit and then falling back asleep or nearly four year old that starts crying out 2-3 hours after going to bed and then returning to sleep or a six year old may start sleep walking. All these examples are unsettling to parents, but are actually quite normal sleep patterns for young children.
In young children up to age five or six, confusional events are so common that most are typically considered development stages for a child and are very normal and expected. Most confusional states usually end with a quick return to sleep and sometimes they will reoccur only little while later. Children have no recollection of these events.
What's important for parents to distinguish is if their child is experiencing a night waking from partial rousing from Stage IV sleep or if the waking is a result of a sleep association i.e. the child hasn't learned how to fall asleep on his/her own.
Typically if a child needs a parent to rock them, pat them, feed or provide some sort of assistance in order to fall asleep when they first go to bed, the child will quite predicable starting waking some time after midnight requesting assisting to fall back asleep. If no assistance is provided the child can become very distraught and will demand assistance until it's provided. This is a sleep association which means that the child has not learned to fall asleep on his/her own and until they learn how to fall asleep independently when the first go to bed, they'll continue to wake at night.
Night terrors, dreams, or sleep waking are quite different and usually occur about 2-3 hours after a child goes to sleep. These occur because the first several hours of sleep the body enters a Stage IV sleep phase or the deepest level of sleep. The child has partial rousing but not completely from a deep stage four and may move about, call out- sometimes frightfully.
Differentiating Sleep Problems from Normal Confusional Sleep States
If it is a true night terror a child will not communicate directly with the parents, have no awareness of the parent and not be able to answer questions. A sleep association is when the child is aware and often, if they can speak, will make requests for pacifier, bottle or some other assistance. During a night terror a child will act out wildly and not respond to their parents. The child is not aware of what is going on and will not have any memory of the incident. It's more frightening for the parent.
Again, under the age of six most of the following sleep patterns are quite normal and nothing to be alarmed by. There is no harm to the child, though it may be frightening for the parent:
- Brief body movements, some eye opening and mumbling
- Sleep talking
- Calmly sitting up, looking around blankly and lying back down
- Calm sleepwalking, semi-purposely either looking for something or going to the bathroom
- Agitated sleepwalking: confused, jumpy & upset and the child may appear to be trying to leave
- Confusional arousal: confused child yelling screaming, thrashing, moaning kicking. This can be prolonged and the child may look possess
- Sleep Terror: screaming with the appearance of fear or panic
While most of these patterns in child under age 6 are normal, there are certain situations that will make them more likely to occur.
- Developmental stages
- Being overtired or behind on sleep
- Having a job to do: For example: If a parent stays in the room with the child until the child falls asleep the child will try to wake to make sure the parent hasn't left. This happens more with children who have a sleep association
- External Sensory Stimulations such as lights, noises or parent touching or disturbing the child while they sleep
- Inconsistent and chaotic sleep/wake schedule:to combat this establishing a predictable and consistent 7 days a week schedule is important
- Illness or medications
- Inherited Characteristics from parents. These things will run in families
Getting Help
If you need help sorting out your child's sleep or your own, contact Tammy Fontana, MS, NCC of All in the Family Counselling and Babysleepfairy.com for help.


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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Day after day, year after year, two mothers sat vigil beside their children.
They sang snatches of favorite songs. They told bright stories out of fragments of the past: Remember when you put that snake in my flowerpot? Remember playing with our old dog, Sweeper?
In Florida, Kaye O'Bara would stroke her daughter's cheek. "Wake up, honey," she'd say. "Wake up and we'll go to Disney."
In Kansas, Shirley Bradley would clutch her son's limp hand. "Squeeze if you can hear me," she'd tell him.
The daughter did not wake up. The son did not squeeze back. The children would not ever again speak or read or move. Their brains were damaged beyond recovery. And so the mothers made their choices.
Kaye O'Bara chose to bring her daughter home, to sustain a life she still viewed as a blessing. Shirley Bradley chose to close off her son's feeding tube, to end what she saw as his suffering.
Neither mother would presume to pass judgment on the other.
Neither claims to have made the right choice. Just the choice that was best for her child.
With the certainty of a mother's love, Kaye O'Bara knows her daughter is happy.
Edwarda O'Bara lies in a sea-green nightgown, on sea-green sheets, in a room filled with angel figurines. Her gray-green eyes flick about, restless and unfocused. Her tongue lolls slackly in her open mouth.
The TV is tuned to Jerry Springer until O'Bara notices and, clucking, changes the channel. "Edwarda doesn't like Jerry," she explains. "She never did like anything smutty."
When she was 16, a lack of insulin sent Edwarda into a diabetic coma. Her heart stopped for several minutes; her brain, starved for oxygen, began to shut down. She can breathe on her own, and cough, but not much more. Edwarda turns 52 tomorrow. On her birthday, as on every day, her mother will braid her long, gray hair with ribbons and pour a mixture of baby food, eggs, milk and yeast into her feeding tube.
Edwarda coughs hoarsely, chest heaving.
"What's the matter, pumpkin?" O'Bara asks, threading a tube down her throat to suck out the mucous. "What's the matter? You want to turn over?"
O'Bara wrestles with Edwarda's motionless body, hoisting her up to change the pad on her sheet, adjusting her head, shifting her hips to avoid bedsores. "You're going for your ride, aren't you?" she says, in the singsong voice mothers use with babies. "You're going for your ride!"
O'Bara, 77, is panting a bit with the effort of turning her daughter. She has done this every two hours, day and night, for 35 years.
"There you are! Miss America!" O'Bara croons, fluffing the pillow. She nuzzles up to Edwarda's cheek. "Oooh, I love you. I love you."
As her mother kisses her, Edwarda's mouth curls into an awkward, fleeting smile.
Shirley Bradley got those smiles, too.
But she knew, with the certainty of a mother's love, that they meant nothing.
For 12 years she had watched over her son, Randy McCullough, in his nursing-home bed. Unmoving, unseeing, his warm brown eyes had gone dull, his limbs stiff and wracked with spasms.
He seemed to know when his mother was with him. Massaging him, she could soothe him into sleep. Although he, like Edwarda, was in a persistent vegetative state, sometimes he seemed to smile at her.
"That smile. That wasn't a smile," she says now, sitting in her home in Topeka, Kan. "It was a muscle reaction. Involuntary. Randy was gone."
She had known it the moment she saw her 25-year-old son strapped to a hospital gurney after a motorcycle crash that had caused head injuries so extensive that he was not breathing when the paramedics arrived.
"I knew intuitively that Randy's spirit, Randy's essence, was no longer with him," says Bradley, a social worker.
She nurtured the body on the bed, tended the sores and kissed the slack cheeks, but it began to seem a charade: "This body was being kept alive, but there was no person in it."
For the first 25 years after Edwarda came home to stay, O'Bara left the house only twice: Once for her husband's funeral and once for her other daughter's wedding.
The wedding was held in a church. But the reception was in the O'Baras' small bungalow in this Miami suburb -- around Edwarda's bed. The priest pinned a corsage on Edwarda's nightgown. The bride held her big sister's hand and told her all about the ceremony.
Ever since she brought Edwarda home on May 31, 1970 -- five months after the teenager slipped into a diabetic coma while everyone thought she was simply sleeping off the flu -- O'Bara has chosen to treat her as a functioning member of the family.
She varies her diet by alternating mashed carrots and mashed green beans in her feeding tube. She rubs sugar-free Popsicles along her lips, and dabs banana pudding on her tongue. She reads the newspaper to her daughter. She paints her nails and shaves her legs as though she might get up tomorrow and go off to the high school prom.
She will not subject Edwarda to any experimental treatment for brain damage, lest it make her worse. But she makes sure she gets the same medical care as anyone else. Edwarda has had surgery on both kidneys and on a collapsed lung. She had a lump in her breast removed; it turned out to be benign. Her mother checks her blood sugar every four hours, around the clock.
O'Bara used to say with conviction that Edwarda would wake up. Now, she says only that perhaps she might.
But even if her daughter remains in this state until she dies, O'Bara has no doubt that it's a life worth living.
"It's all how you look at life," says O'Bara, a former teacher at a Catholic school. "She's enjoying doing what she's doing."
She says her daughter can understand the love that surrounds her and that Edwarda has been blessed with a special power to heal. A book and video about the O'Bara family have drawn visitors to Edwarda's bedside from around the world; several have said she helped them recover from grave illness.
"Maybe someone would come in and say Edwarda doesn't have a good quality of life," O'Bara says. "Well, can you tell me anyone doing as much good as she's doing? To me, that's quality of life."
After the accident in 1991, Bradley saw no quality in her son's life.
Randy, the youngest of her three children, was always so playful, so full of zeal. He loved to wrestle, to water-ski, to pump up his biceps to impress the girls. In the sunroom of her Topeka home, Bradley holds up a photo of her son. He stands waist-deep in water, muscles bulging out of his yellow life vest, grinning and blowing a kiss. That was Randy, alive.
In the nursing-home bed, "he was living, breathing, pulsating, but it was a life sustained only by technical means," his mother says.
"There was energy, of course. But it wasn't life."
The doctors advised her to wait; they told her it was possible he could recover some function. So Bradley waited. She and Randy's father -- the couple had divorced several years earlier -- visited the nursing home daily. Bradley talked to Randy about silly memories: the chocolate cake with caramel icing she baked for his birthday, the treehouse he built with his father, the endless games of Sorry with his two older sisters.
She hoped he could hear her. She never saw any sign that he did.
Instead, she saw his bedsores fester. She noticed bruises caused when his caretakers dropped him as they struggled to prop him in a wheelchair.
He got sick with bout after bout of pneumonia. The antibiotics gave him diarrhea so constant, the skin on his bottom began to peel. Randy had trouble coughing up phlegm, so nurses would suction it out with a tube that made him gag. "I kept thinking: Why are we doing this? Why are doing this?" his mother said.
After several years of fighting to get good care for him in Topeka, Bradley moved her son to a nursing home near his sisters in North Dakota, where she thought he might get more attention. His sisters visited him often; she flew up to see him several times a year. His care did seem to improve. He stopped getting pneumonia.
But his mother noticed a rigidity in his face, in his body, that convinced her he was in pain.
One day, she says, she saw in her son's eyes a plea for help.
"I hesitate to say this, because people won't understand, but if there was any life in that body at all, it was as if he was saying: 'I've had enough. I've had enough.' I knew then that I couldn't stop until I brought him peace."
Bradley told Randy's doctor what she wanted to do.
The doctor convened an ethics committee; they studied Randy's case for months. Meanwhile, Bradley talked with other family members, gradually earning their assent. She also put herself through therapy. She wanted to make sure, she says, that she was acting only out of the "purest intent" -- doing what was best for Randy, not what was most convenient for her.
In January 2003, the doctor agreed to stop feeding Randy, and Bradley flew to North Dakota, to her son.
"I told him what was going to happen. I told him how much I loved him. How much we appreciated the gift of him. I told him it was time now to bring him peace."
For six days, Bradley sat by her son's bed, watching him die.
Blisters pocked his mouth and tongue. His frail body shook with muscle cramps. It was agonizing, she says now: "gruesome, prolonged." But in the dying, "there was also something sacred, something beautiful."
At the end, she recalls, as he gasped for every breath, she wrapped him in her arms and whispered:
"Let go, Randy. I love you. Just let go."
"My goodness!" O'Bara chirps as Edwarda begins, again, to cough. "Cough it up strong. Can you do it yourself? Yes you can! There, that's a good one!"
O'Bara lifts the tube that feeds her daughter, uncaps it and pours in her homemade formula. She does this every six hours, nourishing Edwarda with 1,800 calories a day.
The formula costs O'Bara $219.80 a month. Other supplies -- pads for the bed, lotion to keep Edwarda's skin smooth, tissues and alcohol swabs and catheter bags -- run more than $400 a month.
Medicaid would pay for Edwarda's care if she were in a nursing home or a hospice -- a bill that could easily top $60,000 a year. But because she stays at home, government programs cover only the costs of her medications and one hour a day of nursing care, O'Bara says.
To keep Edwarda comfortable, her mother has taken out multiple mortgages on her house. She juggles 21 credit cards. She cheerfully admits she's $300,000 in debt, but she refuses to worry.
O'Bara doesn't look back at what she missed in life by devoting all her days and all her nights to Edwarda. She refuses to fret about who will take over Edwarda's care in the years ahead. Her daughter is at home, where she belongs, and that's all that matters.
O'Bara wraps Edwarda's fingers around her own.
"You're a funny little kid, aren't you?" she murmurs. "You're a funny little kid."
A picture of Terri Schiavo fills the TV in Edwarda's room.
The sound is muted, so O'Bara squints to read the news flash: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to step in. Schiavo's parents are nearly out of appeals in their fight to have their daughter's feeding tube reinstated. O'Bara strokes Edwarda's arm.
She has sympathy for both sides: For Schiavo's husband, who says Terri would have wanted the feeding tube removed, and for her parents, who say Terri would want to live.
There is no one correct course, O'Bara says. It's a private decision -- one a family must make on its own, with love.
Bradley feels the same. Watching politicians and protesters presume to know what's best for Terri angers her. She would not have wanted a stranger to make the choice for Randy.
Bradley talks to her son often now. "None of us know what awaits us when we die, but I sense that he's aware I'm talking to him," she says. "He's healed. He's free."
Sitting by Edwarda's bed, surrounded by angels, O'Bara also talks to her child. "I see her," she says, "exactly the same as she always was."
Simon is a former Times staff writer.


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Nearly three million Samsung washing machines are being recalled because the top of the machines can unexpectedly detach during use, causing a broken jaw and other injuries, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Thirty-four washing machine models are subject to the recall, which affects 2.8 million machines sold since March 2011, the agency said Friday.
Nine injuries have been reported, including a broken jaw, as a result of machine tops coming off, among 733 reports of excessive vibration on the machines or the top detaching. Anyone with one of the machines is recommended to use use delicate or waterproof cycles for bedding, water-resistant or bulky items.
Consumers can get a free repair in their home, a rebate toward a new washing machine with free installation or a refund for anyone who purchased one of the recalled machines in the last 30 days.
Samsung is sending out a kit with instructions for safe washing machine use to all known consumers.
Consumers with questions can call Samsung toll-free at 866-264-5636 from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET. Read more about the recall at the CPSC website.
The following models are affected by the recall:WA40J3000AW/A2 | WA45H7000AP/A2 | WA45H7000AW/A2 | WA45H7200AW/A2 | WA45K7600AW/A2 | WA45K7100AW/A2 | WA48H7400AW/A2 | WA48J7700AW/A2 | WA48J7770AP/A2 | WA48J7770AW/A2 | WA50K8600AV/A2 | WA50K8600AW/A2 | WA52J8700AP/A2 | WA52J8700AW/A2 | WA400PJHDWR/AA | WA422PRHDWR/AA | WA456DRHDSU/AA | WA456DRHDWR/AA | WA476DSHASU/A1 | WA476DSHAWR/A1 | WA484DSHASU/A1 | WA484DSHAWR/A1 | WA48H7400AP/A2 | WA50F9A6DSW/A2 | WA50F9A7DSP/A2 | WA50F9A7DSW/A2 | WA50F9A8DSP/A2 | WA50F9A8DSW/A2 | WA52J8060AW/A2 | WA5451ANW/XAA | WA5471ABP/XAA | WA5471ABW/XAA | WA56H9000AP/A2 | WA56H9000AW/A2
It's the third massive recall for Samsung in as many months. Two versions of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone were recalled over the risk of overheating batteries causing burns.


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Event Calendar
August 2013
Performances and Films/Videos
Lectures and Conferences
Tours and Talks
Family Activities
Courses and Demonstrations
Food Events
Free Hours at L.A. Museums (PDF, 269 KB)
Art Platform – Los Angeles
A + D Museum
Autry National Center
Craft and Folk Art Museum
Fowler Museum at UCLA
Hammer Museum
Huntington Library
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles Public Library
MAK Center for Art & Architecture
Museum of Latin American Art
Natural History Museum
Norton Simon Museum
Orange County Museum of Art
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena Museum of California Art
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Skirball Cultural Center
August 28, 2013
Tours and Gallery Talks
Garden Tour
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm
Getty Center
The gardens of the Getty are the focus of this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.
Spotlight of the Week
Daily through September 1, 2013
12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Make love, not war. Discover
The Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus
, a collaboration between the masters Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Breughel the Elder, in this 15-minute talk. Meet the docent at the Information Desk.
Architecture Tour
10:15 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm
Museum Entrance Hall, Getty Center
Discover more about Richard Meier's architecture and the design of the Getty Center site in this 45-minute tour. Meet the docent outside at the bench under the sycamore trees near the front entrance to the Museum.
Collection Highlights Tour
11 am
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
Focus Tour: Fit for a King
Daily through September 1, 2013
12:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
Explore the Getty's collection of 17th- and 18th-century art in this one-hour tour of French decorative arts, paintings, and sculpture made during the reigns of kings Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. Meet the docent at the Information Desk.
Collection Highlights Tour
1:30 pm
Museum Galleries, Getty Center
This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Meet the educator at the Museum Information Desk.
The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
From the time an object is made until the day it enters a museum's collection, it may be displayed, used, and perceived in different ways.
The Life of Art
takes selected objects from the Getty Museum's galleries and encourages visitors to sit down and spend time with them, offering the opportunity to examine them closely to understand how they were made and functioned, why they were collected, and how they have been displayed. Through careful looking, what may be learned about the maker and previous owners of a French gilt-bronze wall light, for example, or the transformation in England of a Chinese porcelain bowl? Close engagement reveals the full lives of these works and why they continue to be collected and cherished today.
Learn more about this exhibition
In Focus: Ed Ruscha
Daily through September 29, 2013
West Pavilion, Lower Level, Getty Center
Photography has played a central role in Ed Ruscha's artistic practice, most notably in the photobooks he began publishing in 1963. Highlighting important recent acquisitions by the Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition features a selection of prints and materials related to
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
Some Los Angeles Apartments
(1965), and
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
(1966). Also on view for the first time are contact sheets from his shoot of the Pacific Coast Highway (1974–75), one of the many streets he has documented extensively since 1965. The exhibition offers a concentrated look at Ruscha's engagement with vernacular architecture, the urban landscape, and car culture. Co-organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute, this exhibition is part of the initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
Learn more about this exhibition
The Poetry of Paper
Daily through October 20, 2013
West Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
The selection of drawings in this exhibition explores the concept of negative space—the unoccupied ground around drawn elements. It elucidates how artists such as Rembrandt, Boucher, and Seurat deliberately left areas of paper blank to create the illusion of light and form, using absence to evoke a sense of presence.
Learn more about this exhibition
Werner Herzog:
Hearsay of the Soul
Daily through January 19, 2014
North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
A new acquisition by the Getty Museum's Department of Photographs,
Hearsay of the Soul
(2012) is a five-channel video installation by celebrated German filmmaker Werner Herzog. It combines the early-seventeenth-century landscape etchings of Dutch artist Hercules Segers with recent scores and a performance by Dutch cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger, resulting in a richly layered work that is at once intimate and epic.
Learn more about this exhibition
August 28, 2013
The Getty Villa is closed to the general public on this date.


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The Hollywood Reporter has released a list of 25 interesting facts about the props and sets used to make the Harry Potter films. Some facts include:
1.Daniel Radcliffe wore out 60-70 wands during the making of the Harry Potter films.
2. Every wand that you see in any of the Harry Potter films is created on-site. No two wands are alike…not even the Weasley twins'!
3. Wands are 13-15 inch long and haven't changed in length, so the actors have had to grow into them over the years.
4. Dumbledore's wand was a very elaborate design, even though its significance of being the Elder Wand was far from being known when made.


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We're also one of a few manufacturers that still builds exclusively in the U.S. and uses American-made parts for all of our handguns, including our grips and holsters.
America's 1st Freedom's Magazine writer Laurie Lee Dovey writes "They're the perfect choice for personal protection and are favorites on the cowboy action shooting circuit." (Dec. 2008)
Backwoodsman's' Magazine writer Charlie Chalk writes "Today, there are several companies producing versions in various modern calibers, but top of the line, is Bond Arms of Texas." (Nov.-Dec. 2008)
Pocket Pistols Magazine writer D.K Pridgen writes "Like all the Bond Derringers, the Ranger is a good-looking gun that exudes quality!" (2010)
When talking about our Bond Arms Buck Knives Tactical Knives Magazine writer Tim Stetzer writes "If you get the idea that I was pleased with the way the Bond knives performed, you'd be right. They're a perfect match up if you already have a Bond Arms derringer" (2011)


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LA Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez started and went 90 minutes as the U.S. National Team play to a scoreless draw with Scotland in a match that saw little in the way of scoring chances.
Gonzalez was his steady self making a team-leading 12 clearances on the night as Scotland forced only a single save from U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard. However, the U.S. attack was just as choppy as the team could only put two of their nine attempts on frame. The best opportunity for the Americans came in the 82nd minute when Stoke City midfielder Brek Shea found Aron Johnannsson who fired his shot just wide.
The U.S. return to action on Tuesday in Vienna against Austria.
Highlights of the match are below...


text: Hi, Yesterday I was move a ispconfig master server to another machine. Everything is ok - I was copy all mysql db, dbispconfig too - then I start resync all by Resync Tool. All filse from /var/vmail and /var/www war copied by rsync -a. Files /usr/local/ispconfig was copied too. And everything is ok - I can login to Ispconfig, sites work, but one important thing is not working: If someone try add a new site or something nothig happen. For tasks which should make on external servers (I have one master and 2 slaves) I see a tasks in ispconfig monitor, but they are not done. For local (master) tasks, I don't see anything - I see a newly created site, but only in ispconfig list, not on disk... Can anybody help something??? Log from ispconfig: /usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh 03.02.2013-15:35 - DEBUG - Set Lock: /usr/local/ispconfig/server/temp/.ispconfig_lock 03.02.2013-15:35 - DEBUG - No Updated records found, starting only the core. /sbin/iptables /sbin/ip6tables 03.02.2013-15:35 - DEBUG - Remove Lock: /usr/local/ispconfig/server/temp/.ispconfig_lock finished. I have no idea - nothing interesting in all system and ispconfig logs :/