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> > it is so weird that whilst when I sent the last email, the attachment shows > the cat, yet when recieved the copy it didn't, and if I try toopen the That's because you are confusing proprietory features of your email program with the actual guaranteed behaviour of internet email (a common problem with HTML, of course). You are using Outlook, and in a closed Outlook environment, rich text markup will be preserved and attachments will show up in context and with the icon that you saw when you composed the message (you can use the Windows packager application to add arbitrary icons to attachments when you are operating in a pure Windows/Outlook environment). In an open environment you can only really rely on plain text followed by attachments without any associated icons. When such mail arrives at its destination, a GUI program may re-instate an icon based on the filename extension (or better, the MIME Content Type of the attachment). In order to tunnel across the internet to other closed Outlook domains, various versions of Outlook/Exchange can append either a pseudo-HTML version or a proprietory (MS-TNEF) version as an alternative version of the message. To some extent the pseudo-HTML version will work with non-Microsoft GUI email programs, but it is generally HTML abused for its presentational side effects, so assumes similar presentational behaviour. The fully proprietory version is needed to completely reproduce the local appearance of the message. Both the HTML and fully proprietory versions significantly increase the size of the message. The HTML typically triples it and the MS-TNEF is even worse. Most people on mailing list dislike this because it wastes space in folders, consumes internet bandwidth, and, if they don't have a GUI browser, may well expose them to the raw form of the alternative message. One of the great problems with "user friendliness" in communications applications is that it exposes a false view of the world. Authoring for only Outlook compatibility is quite common because many people fail to realise that Outlook is not the same as email; this is beneficial to Microsoft, as it creates a lock in effect. Using MS-TNEF basically means that you have accepted a closed standards, Microsoft monopoly view of the world.Received on Sunday, 22 April 2001 06:23:28 UTC
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Simple and human friendly library for api servers (PHP serving out JSON)
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Simple and friendly library for api servers (PHP serving out JSON).
It generates json output according to the jsonapi.org standard, but aims to be easy to understand for people without knowledge of the jsonapi standard.
Getting started
A small example:
use alsvanzelf\jsonapi; $user = new stdClass(); $user->id = 42; $user->name = 'Zaphod Beeblebrox'; $user->heads = 2; $jsonapi = new jsonapi\resource($type='user', $user->id); $jsonapi->fill_data($user); $jsonapi->send_response();
Which will result in:
{ "links": { "self": "/examples/resource.php" }, "data": { "type": "user", "id": 42, "attributes": { "name": "Zaphod Beeblebrox", "heads": 2 }, "links": { "self": "/examples/resource.php" } } }
For a collection response, data is an array of resources. Errors can also be send as response, even automatically by exceptions.
Examples for all kind of responses are in the /examples directory.
Use Composer. And use require to get the latest stable version:
composer require alsvanzelf/jsonapi
To Do
Right now, this library handles all the basics:
- generating single resources
- generating resource collections
- adding to-one and to-many relationships
- handling error responses
- sending out the json response with correct http headers
Plus some handy tools:
- easy turning thrown exceptions into jsonapi responses
- constants for easy setting http status codes
- sending out redirect locations
Plans for the near and later future include:
- import a database array as a collection response (#2)
- handle creating, updating and deleting resources (#5)
Pull Requests or issues are welcome!

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Life @ Cryoviva
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With this belief, we work hard like a craftsman working on ensuring perfect shine on Diamond. We understand that hiring a talent is like selecting that one tea leaf in a tea plant that will bring ultimate aroma and taste. Working at Cryoviva demands a handful of pre-requisites like Passion to Excel, Commitment, Dedication and Hunger to Learn. We truly believe in nurturing the talent and thereby provide employees with an open arena to perform and grow.
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With this thought, our Learning and Development initiatives focus on honing the skills of the team to support them excel in their responsibilities. We breakdown the learning needs to the very basic detail and devise programs that don't teach Greek, but help team do improvement on their current skills set.
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A second transgender model has spoken about her alleged sexual encounter with Casper Smart.
Smart was in a relationship with pop star Jennifer Lopez when the revelations of his flirtations with two transsexual models were made public on Instagram.
The rumours reportedly prompted Lopez to call time on her two-and-a half year romance with Smart.
According to The Sun newspaper, Xristina Marie, 25, reportedly \"fooled around\" with the dancer after meeting him in a Miami nightclub.
She told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: \"I was in a club and Casper was smiling and being flirty. Everyone in Miami knows who I am. I think someone would have told him [I\'m transgender]. Then a few days after that I got a friend request from him on Instagram.
\"He started messaging me. We started talking and he met me in his car and we went for a little ride around Miami. We started fooling around in the car and being touchy. We had a kiss and did a little more.\"
The brunette beauty claims he also begged her to send him sexy photographs and asked her to strip for him during a video chat.
She claims the pair met again in his car in Los Angeles. \"We played around -- a little more than the first time. We grabbed each other and we touched. We did everything you can do while driving.\"
Casper has also been accused of exchanging messages and intimate photos with transsexual Sofie Vissa, 23.
Friends of American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez have claimed that the couple broke up two months ago and that his association with the two models began after the split.
The couple were last seen together on May 20 heading to Craig\'s restaurant in West Hollywood after she taped the reality TV show.
Lopez and Smart started dating just four months after the singer and then-husband Marc Anthony announced the end of their seven-year marriage.


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Whisky is big business in Japan with Scotch whisky being especially popular, yet with their own history of brewing and sake production, it's only logical that the Japanese are now making whisky too. What began as a conscious imitation of Scotch, now has a style all of its own, and since commercial production began in the early 20th century, the quality has been steadily improving.
Today, most of the malt whisky produced in Japan is for blending but Japanese distillers generally don't trade casks in the manner that Scottish distillers do. Consequently, it's up to each distillery to produce a diversity of styles that will form the base components of 'house blends' that offer unique and complex flavour profiles. Some Japanese blends will even include a percentage of Scotch whisky, rather than whisky from rival local distillers. This jealous reluctance to exchange whiskies is considered one of the major obstacles holding the industry back from the prominence it deserves: In a number of blind tastings recently organised by Whisky Magazine, which have included Japanese single malts in the lineup along with malts from distilleries considered to be among the best in Scotland, on more than one occasion, the results have had Japanese single malts scoring higher than their Scotch counterparts.After a long absence from the Australian market, we've finally managed to secure some world class Japanese whiskies from the Nikka distillery, Japan's second largest whisky producer after Suntory. Now owned by the brewer Asahi, the company was originally set up by Masataka Taketsuru, who built Yoichi distillery in 1934, having previously spent two years studying the art of distilling in Scotland. (He also developed the now famous 'Yamazaki' distillery in Kyoto for Suntory which he managed for ten years). Yoichi typically produces rich, peaty and masculine malts. The whiskies get their distinct aroma and body from direct heating distillation, in which the pot stills are heated with finely powdered natural coal - a traditional method that's hardly used today, even in Scotland.
Tasting note: Soft smoke and under-ripe fruit. Profound chewy barley; lots of small still coppery sharpness and then a gentle awakening of peat. Sweet peats dusted with demera it takes some time for the chalky oak to finally have a say. Best when left in the glass for 10-15 minutes, only then does the true story emerge. 45% Alc./Vol.
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Large-scale artist's book deconstructing the boards and trustees of major art museums throughout the United States. The publication examines board memberships, political leanings and the financial support members provide to both art institutions and political parties. ... [details]
Compendium / chronology documenting both the artists' books of Edward Ruscha, and the books inspired by, or aping, Ruscha's artist's books. Edited by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton and Hermann Zschiegner. Text by Phil Taylor, with and essay by Mark Rawlinson. ... [details]
Compendium of critical texts on the art of Claes Oldenburg. Edited and with an essay by Nadja Rottner. Additional essays by Joshua Shannon, Yve-Alain Bois, Julia E. Robinson, Ellen H. Johnson, Benjamin H. ... [details]
Monograph on the video work of Andy Warhol by Douglas Crimp. Comprised of six essays with accompanying video stills. "Crimp argues that Warhol's films make visible new, queer forms of sociality. Crimp does not view these films as cinéma-vérité documents of Warhol's milieu, or as camera-abetted voyeurism, but rather as exemplifying Warhol's inventive cinema techniques, his collaborative working methods, and his superstars' unique capabilities. ... [details]
Large-scale critical overview of alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s, developed from an exhibition of the same title held at Exit Art, New York, September 24 – November 24, 2010. Edited by Lauren Rosati, Mary Anne Staniszewski. ... [details]
"In a career that spanned five decades, most of them spent in San Francisco, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making found-footage films, hallucinatory ink-blot graphics, enigmatic collages, or assemblages from castoffs, Conner took up genres as quickly as he abandoned them. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue / monographs published in conjunction with show held at Brooklyn Museum, September 14, 2012 - February 3, 2013. Preface by Lucy R. Lippard. Essays by Catherine Morris, Vincent Bonin, Julia Bryan-Wilson. ... [details]
"How did a small art college in Nova Scotia become the epicenter of art education--and to a large extent of the postmimimalist and conceptual art world itself--in the 1960s and 1970s? Like the unorthodox experiments and rich human resources that made Black Mountain College an improbable center of art a generation earlier, the activities and artists at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (aka NSCAD) in the 1970s redefined the means and methods of art education and the shape of art far beyond Halifax. ... [details]
Critical theory book on the development of periodicals by artists. Includes index to most of the major titles in appendix as "A Compendium of Artists' Magazines from 1945 to 1989." Includes details on +-0 (Plus Moin Zéro); 0 to 9; 4 Taxis; 8 x 10 Art Portfolio; A (Edition A); ABC No Rio Magazine; Agentzia; Aggie Weston's; Aktual Art; Alfabeta; Amazon Quarterly: A Lesbian Arts Journal; American Living; Analytical Art; An Anthology; Apeïros; Appearances; De Appel; Approches; Aqui; Archibras; Archigram; Ark; Art Aktuell; Art & Project Bulletin; Art Communication Edition (ACE) / Strike; Arte Postale!; Artes Visuales; Artitudes International; Art-Language; Art Now: New York; Art Papers; Artpolice; Artpoll Letter (Aktuális Levél); Art-Rite; Artscribe; Art & Text; Art Workers Newsletter / Artworkers News / Art & Artists; Artzien; Aspen; Assembling; Audio Arts; Ausgabe; Avalanche; Axe; A/YA; Azimuth; The Balloon Newspaper; Benzene; Big Deal; Bijutso Shihyo; Bile; Bit; Bit International; Black Art; Black on White (Cerné na Bílém / Schwarz auf Weiss / Black on White / Noir sur Blanc); Black Phoenix; Blast; Blok; Boa; Bomb; Brumes Blondes; Bulletin From Nothing; Caterpillar; Centerfold / Fuse; Cheval d'Attaque; Choke; Chorus; Chrysalis; Circolare Sinistra; La Città di Riga; Cobra; Collective-Copy; Collective Farm; Commonpress; Control; Cover; Criss-Cross Communications / Criss-Cross Art Communications; Cris Cross Double Cross; Culture Hero; D. ... [details]
"In Under Blue Cup, Rosalind Krauss explores the relation of aesthetic mediums to memory--her own memory having been severely tested by a ruptured aneurysm that temporarily washed away much of her short-term memory. ... [details]


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The Divine Plan
11/10/2012 | Share this article: View CommentsBy Carl S ~
The following is approved for all Roman Catholic readers, text free from dogmatic error.
Imprimatur: Bishop Paul Flannagan, Diocese of E. Salem, Mass.
Nihil Obstat: Jesuit Seminary of Scranton, WI
Mosaic laws one iota, and another time, tell exactly how you've changed them in detail. (Just like a politician.) And, you have to "fulfill" prophesies, because they're there already. That'll keep you busy. Make sure somebody writes them down for posterity, at least 30 something years after you're dead.
You're going to have to convince the followers that their life is worth trash without your message, because the world is coming to an end soon, so nothing else matters. Tell them to give away their possessions, let somebody else bury their dead relatives, even give away the shirts on their backs to thieves - because where they're going, they won't need them. Tell them not to make plans for the future, because there won't be any future. Tell them not to return a punch with a punch, or to retaliate, or even seek justice for personal violence against them, because the world's ending , just-around-the-corner- ending, and those bastards will get hell for being mean to you, "in the end." Make sure they get this message: Mortal life doesn't mean s..t. What counts is eternal life, so live your lives preparing for, and looking forward to, death. Soak their minds in future-life. You're going to show the way by dying soon after relaying those messages, leading the way by example. You, the martyr, will be coming back to life soon after. I've got it all planned out.
You will need to criticize constantly the rabbis, scribes, authorities, of your Jewish heritage. Call 'em hypocrites, clean cups outside, filthy inside, whatever. You get them so humiliated, frustrated, so pissed off that they will plan to make you gone. Use your imagination. Push them over the edge, give them enough ammo to take to the Romans to do what they can't - have you crucified. Your ass is gonna be scourged, son. They're gonna nail you up just like they do to thousands of others. You're gonna die of torture.
SON: Wait...wait just a minute, Dad. (What have I gotten into, some kind of sadomasochistic relationship?) Dad, I don't think this is such a desirable plan. Not a good idea. Can't I just go around saying, "Hey look, you know me. I've done all this miraculous stuff for you, raisin' up your dead, feeding thousands of you, curing blindness, etc., etc. You got the message: trust me, this world's ending, some of you guys standing here will even witness it. Trust me, it's not over 'til it's over, and I'm telling you to get prepared by tossing out the earthly treasures. Give 'em away; let someone else bury your relatives. You're gonna die, but another kind of world awaits, and it's eternal, where no one can take away your pleasure and joy. Before that, I'm gonna die, but I'll be back a few days after that to prove that I, the miracle-worker, am your redemption from mortal to eternal life. Would I lie to you?" And, Dad, as for that "crucifixion" thing, why can't I opt out of that and go to Egypt (again)? You can get some fanatic to sub for me, you know, like the kind who'll blow himself up for your glory. Then you can have somebody take his body off the cross, put it in a preselected tomb, and come back later to throw it in with some other crucified ones. (Who's counting?) I could go around for awhile, doing all that good stuff and getting more folks on board for the coming kingdom. What's wrong with a plan "B"?
FATHER: Son, Son, don't be such a pain. (For this I will let infants be slaughtered after his birth?) Don't you know me yet? I just love the shedding of blood from an innocent victim - the more innocent the better. And don't expect you'll be the only one. Why, millions will be slaughtered in your name, for me.
SON: Somehow, those reasons aren't any consolation. Besides, when I'm an adult, I want to live like an ordinary person: drinking, dancing, cussing, making my own mistakes, finding out I don't have all the answers, and telling everyone else how to live their lives. I want to know what it is to be human, to sin, to make mistakes and learn. I want that sexual pleasure which I hear the angels envy. I want to eat ham and sacred cows. I want a full life on earth, and to die peacefully, like most people. And then, come back, after death, go around the world for awhile, so that everybody can see without a doubt, that what I said is true. No questions or debates. Clear as day itself. And, as for that "eternal" life idea, why, it makes human life no more valuable than that of livestock, being born just to die. I don't want humans copying such an "example" as you want me to be, "wasting" their lives and others because they believe they're not really ending lives, but "sending them to another, forever paradise." That very idealism makes life cheap and expendable. The whole "message" is just too perverted and death-oriented. It's fraught with dangers useful to those who will exploit the fearful and gullible.
FATHER: Look kid, you're forgetting that the "resurrection" thing depends on MY plan. I won't allow any other option to my all-loving wisdom. This will get reported, eventually, by my spokesmen who will speak for you, too.
SON: Yeah, right, your "spokesmen." What a record they have. You let them get away with making up that "Moses" character, and that stupid "flood" story. You know these guys; do you really trust those end-justifies-the means bullshitters? They make up anything, and you don't say anything to contradict them!
FATHER: Son, you're out of order! That's inappropriate and blasphemous!
SON: Come on, Dad. All of a sudden you have a problem with truth-telling? If you follow my alternate plan, be assured, knowing their records, that they'll come up with some "explanations," the more bizarre, the more accepted amongst their followers, for my "resurrection." Why, even if I never go to earth, I wouldn't put it past them to fabricate ME!
FATHER: Whatever. My plan will prevail, for I AM almighty wisdom.
SON: Screw that. I'm outta here.


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Praa Sands Pirate Raft Race was pretty eventful this year, the drizzle didnt seem to put anyone off. here's some snaps.
The first to get drunk race.
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- Polaroid soph } on: 4 August 2010 at 07:08 said...
wow! this is awesome... where is this held at and can anyone partake? we do something similar here in oz... the TG invitational, last year was pirate themed check it out... http://heyyousaycheese.blogspot.com/2009/11/tg4-invitational-surf-classic.html


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Program Committee 2000
By nearly all accounts, the annual meeting in Chicago in January 2000, was a grand success. Attendance was the highest ever for a meeting in the Midwest, helped along by the weather: warm, balmy, and almost spring-like. Inside the meeting rooms the spirit of intellectual enthusiasm was high, as many participants found the well-balanced program to their liking.
Enthusiasm was particularly high for the roundtable discussions led by senior scholars in a wide variety of fields—democratic traditions and revolutionary traditions, African American history, Balkan history, labor history, African history, the Korean War, the Atlantic world, women and gender history, and oral history. Also greatly appreciated were the lunchtime "Conversations" conducted by 10 past presidents of the AHA. As the Program Committee hoped, these and many other sessions offered scholars the opportunity to reflect on the state of the discipline and the profession at the beginning of the 21st century.
This process of reflection began with Thursday night's Plenary Session, during which four distinguished members of the profession—Carol Gluck, David Levering Lewis, Charles Maier, and Hans-Ulrich Wehler—gave us their perspectives on the history—and historiography—of the 20th century. Other sessions pondered the significance of the past century with respect to the idea of progress, the impact of widespread travel on the politics of identity, the practice of intellectual history, and the emergence of world History as a research field. Other sessions looked to the future and various professional issues, exploring the impact of electronic media on the teaching of history, the outlook for scholarly publishing, the increasing number of women in the historical profession, the new labor system within the academy, and the prospects for postacademic careers.
Religion emerged as a topic in many sessions, in part because of the extensive number of panels organized by affiliated societies, especially the American Catholic Historical Society and the American Society for Church History. But many AHA panels also dealt with religious themes, exploring such topics as gender and the Gregorian Reform, women's religious experiences in the early modern world, the church on the eve of the Reformation, and religious conflicts in the Islamic world. A number of AHA panels also addressed questions of interest to historians of Latin American history, ranging from discussions of state projects and civil society, colonial Mexican economic history, Gender history, and a very interesting session on text and flesh in early Brazilian history.
In the panels devoted to the United States, many papers reflected current historiographic perspectives, focusing on issues of culture, gender and sexuality, and race. But there were also enlightening discussions on science and technology, federal urban policy, labor policy, the age of Jefferson, and—in no fewer than three panels—various aspects of the Civil War. Among the European panels, two dealt explicitly with the construction of the cultural and geopolitical concept of central Europe and a number of other panels explored religious and cultural developments in that region.
Although—as usual—participants in the annual meeting mostly attended sessions in their scholarly specialties, a significant number ventured into panels in other fields. This testimony to the broad focus and stimulating character of many of the presentations suggests that, whatever the problems of the profession, the outlook for historical scholarship in the 21st century is bright indeed.
James Henretta and Claire Moses (both at the Univ. of Maryland at College Park) were co-chairs of the 2000 Program Committee.


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Here's the problem – these 'snowpocalypses' that have been going through DC and other extreme weather events are precisely what climate scientists have been predicting, fearing and anticipating because of global warming.
Why is that? The thinking that warmer air temperatures on the earth, a higher air temperature, has a greater capacity to hold moisture at any temperature. And then as winter comes in, that warm air cools full of water, and you get heavier precipitation on a more regular basis. In fact, you could argue these storms are not evidence of a lack of global warming, but are evidence of global warming – thus the 26 inches of snowfall in the DC area and the second giant storm this year.
This really shouldn't be surprising to anyone who's honest enough to see what's in front of your eyes. Greater concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere result in greater quantities of moisture in the air. This moisture is fuel for storms, summer and winter. You can observe this by looking out your living room windows.
In Minnesota, this fact is easier to grasp, because our local climate is affected by the cold arctic air to the north, and the warm air to the south. When that humid moisture from the Gulf Coast collides with the colder Canadian air, you get the storms. And the greater concentration of moisture in the air means stronger, more ferocious storms, with more precipitation.
In the summer, this means increasingly violent thunderstorms with extremely heavy winds, flash flooding, tornadoes, yadda yadda. Remember those massive storms that hit Atlanta last September? That's a perfect illustration. "Once in a Century" storms are becoming more and more common, as a result of all that warm moisture in the air.
In winter, this climate change will result in stronger and more intense winter storms, and that means snow. Lots and lots of snow. It can only snow in relatively warm weather, anyway - between 20F and 30F is the ideal range. By the time you've reached single digits, it's too cold to snow. Again, "once in a century" becomes almost routine.
These winter storms across the Mid-Atlantic region of the US don't disprove global warming. Far from it. This is precisely the sort of weather climate change theory predicts. You can predict it yourself if you've been paying close attention. The human race has been pumping pollution and smog into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution, and you knew there would be consequences. There was always going to be consequences.
Just wait until the water runs out.


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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Miss Caroline turns 9 tomorrow. In honor of her birthday I gave her a Lolita apron that I was honored to get to test the pattern. I just love how festive this apron looks. The pattern should be showing up very soon for public sale at Sew Liberated.
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very very very cute.....Oh! and the apron is cute too!
- 11:37 PM, May 31, 2008
- Paige said...
I love this apron! I have been watching that site like a hawk for the pattern to appear. Your version looks great!
- 5:46 PM, June 01, 2008
- Jeanne said...
Happy birthday to cakie!!and the apron turned out cute.
- 8:17 PM, June 01, 2008
- Em said...
That is one lucky girl! Great picture, she looks very happy!
- 8:03 PM, June 02, 2008
- jillytacy said...
The apron looks great! I love the color and the trims. What a great birthday present! Lucky Caroline!
Happy 9th birthday Caroline!!!
- 7:12 AM, June 05, 2008
- Alyssa said...
What a cute apron! And your daughter is darling. I was reading through some of your other posts and you mentioned Neosho. I wondered if you know my mother-in-law - Robin May? She lives in Stella, MO. If so, what a small world!! If not.....forgive me. :o)
- 2:23 PM, June 05, 2008
- Rebekah said...
The lolita is so cute!! I too have been watching for this pattern to be available as well. Looks great!
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Aaron Apps
Hybrid-Genre / Memoir | 5.5″x7″, 88pp., pbk. | ISBN-13: 978-1-939460-04-2 | May 2015
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Intersex explores gender as it forms in concrete and unavoidable patterns in the material world. What happens when a child is born with ambiguous genitalia? What happens when a body is normalized? Intersex provides tangled and shifting answers to both of these questions as it questions our ideas of what is natural and normal about gender and personhood. In this hybrid-genre memoir, intersexed author Aaron Apps adopts and upends historical descriptors of hermaphroditic bodies such as "freak of nature," "hybrid," "imposter," "sexual pervert," and "unfortunate monstrosity" in order to trace his own monstrous sex as it perversely intertwines with gender expectations and medical discourse. Intersex leaves the reader wondering: what does it mean to be human?
Advance praise for Intersex
A book of time and because of it: "Time stopped queerly." Not a book but an essay: a "vibration…along lines." Or the book as "gesture," intervening with: the other possible, "faintly disembodied" mid-line "trajectories." Aaron Apps' Intersex is all feral prominence: a physical archive of the "strange knot." Thus: necessarily vulnerable, brave and excessive. Book as trait. Book as biology without end: modified, pulsing, visible, measured, folded then folded again: an "animal self." I felt this book in the middle of my own body. Reading, your own organs stir. In this way, Apps indicates the "creature" that you are too. Where do you "reside"? Where do you "collect"? Like the best kind of memoir, Apps brings a reader close to an experience of life that is both "unattainable" and attentive to "what will emerge from things." In doing so, he has written a book that bursts from its very frame.
—Bhanu Kapil
Praise for Dear Herculine
Selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for the 2014 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize
The book is clear, forceful, and moving in its concerns: "I'm interested in the formation of gender. The way bodies with weird formations slip and exist below expectations. The way we form and un-form in the fluid when thrown out of the womb gush." Apps writes about growing up with an obviously unusual—apparently an intersex—physical body, and that bodily estrangement, along with early sexual experience, lies at the root of his work, which finds "no tranquil answers in the simplicity of facts." Sometimes sexy, though haunted by self-disgust, Apps is "a grotesque puppet," and "a raucous sac of sex." … The results—part memoir, part analysis, part outburst—become not just memorable but pellucid and teachable: the volume might be important far outside the precincts of poetry, a classic for young people trying to figure out, and then to say, who they have been who they could be, and who they already are.
—Publishers Weekly
Dear Herculine, a harrowingly eloquent cri de coeur, melds consciousnesses and bodies across one and a half centuries, from 1832–2014. Intersexed writer Aaron Apps to intersex reader, the long-dead martyr to early gender-reassignment surgery, Herculine Barbin, speaks from a place so far inside of the abjected subject that it comes out the other end as estranged, engorged and gorgeous language, in letters comprising 'two intersexed bodies composed of multiple parts, and the mess of flesh and text that stands between.' … Apps's fearlessness and the beauty of his prose inspires, pushing poetry, kicking and screaming and expiring with shame, to where it desperately wants to go. A brilliant achievement that defies the triumphalism of that descriptor, Dear Herculine is a cache of love letters urgently needed to heal this world.
—Maria Damon
excerpts from Intersex
Best American Essays 2014, Notable Essay
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Carolina Quarterly
Also in Caketrain | Verse | The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review | The Los Angeles Review
about Aaron Apps
Aaron Apps is the author of Intersex (Tarpaulin Sky Press 2015) and Dear Herculine, winner of the 2014 Sawtooth Poetry Prize from Ahsahta Press. He is currently a doctoral student in English Literature at Brown University where he studies poetry and poetics, sexual somatechnics, animacy, hybrid forms, and the history of intersex literature. His writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Pleiades, LIT, Washington Square Review, Puerto del Sol, Columbia Poetry Review, and Blackbird.


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When we bought our boat ten years ago, it had a very old depth sounder that crapped out on us during our first week of cruising. It was several years later that we invested in a Lowrance chart plotter/depth sounder. Accustomed to relying on paper charts, we use the Lowrance to confirm locations determined on the paper chart.
However, my favourite view is the fish finder view where you can see not only fish, but the contours of the ocean floor. Until we started boating, I had never given much thought to what lies beneath the ocean.
If you like to explore Google Maps, drag the cursor into the Pacific Ocean and zoom in to see the numerous mountain ranges and canyons underwater. Fascinating!
And now, thanks to the incredible research being conducted by Neptune Canada at the University of Victoria, we can see some of the remotest places on earth; the last undiscovered frontier with crazy looking creatures who call the deep ocean home.
Remote submersible cameras are placed at several locations on the ocean floor. The deepest observation station is at a depth of 2600 metres ( 8,530 feet) where the ocean is blanketed in complete darkness. Lights are programmed to come on for brief periods of time so that we can take a peak at what is going on without disturbing the animals. From the comfort of my boat, during my first visit to Neptune Canada's website, I saw a Humboldt squid pulse by. Cool! You can login to the site or view some of the videos on YouTube.
Aquatic plants and animals that thrive near sea vents, are just a few of the things that you will see on Neptune Canada's extensive website. One of my favourite pages is the Sound Gallery where you can hear the underwater calls of the Pacific White Sided Dolphin. We were escorted by a pod of these dolphins one day in Haro Strait- an incredible experience.
There are still many things we do not know about our planet. Technology and Neptune Canada are helping us develop a better understanding of what lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.


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The truth is we steeled ourselves to the possibility that Waited Up Til It Was Light would not live up to the expectations set by Johnny Foreigner's superlative 2007 EP Arcs Across The City. This was for a few reasons. We met the band in New York just as they wrapped the sessions for the full-length, and they were all sick. The band also made what seemed like an unusual choice for producer: while most of our favorite American indie acts worked with Agnello, Albini, Robbins or Weston, Johnny Foreigner threw its lot in with The Machine, a producer whose prior credits included Clutch and Armor For Sleep. Our concern was that he might go too far scrubbing up the trio's sound. And then the initial critical reception for the record in the UK was solid, but not ecstatic.
Happily, our fears were unfounded: Waited Up Til It Was Light is not slack, sanitized or suppressed. Instead the tracks burst with lacerating guitar, blissful feedback, tight vocal interplay and harmonies, and a fair amount of shouting. Overt production trickery is limited to some segues between tracks and some squishing and looping of guitars. Gang choruses (not our favorite) are deployed here and there, but given the band's camaraderie with Cardiff, Wales indie pop concern Los Campesinos! -- leading proponents of the gang chorus today -- we are not surprised to hear some influence manifested (the latter act was actually slated to come and provide backup vocals for "The Hidden Track..." but were apparently waylaid by a late plane). The denouement of "Absolute Balance" recycles the smacking, canned drum beat from "Salt, Peppa and Spinderella" (and the bridge of "The End And Everything After") before closing out with a rant from Berrow buried among vapor trails of guitar that loop off into the periphery of the left channel while a simple, poignant piano figure closes out the primary proceedings.
Songs start, stop, stutter and slam. Lyrics continue to memorably concern themselves with themselves, as well as pointy-shoed scenesterettes, retail wage slaves, and the rest of the frothing mass of the night-clubbing class. Berrow's words regularly penetrate the fourth wall and double back, dragging within their orbits failed romances, scene seances and social criticism. In the stellar "Cranes And Cranes And Cranes And Cranes" Berrow bemoans the impact of imperial barmen ("your boyfriend owns the bar we drink, your boyfriend owns everything") and urban gentrification ("why'd you want to live there if there's nothing but housing?") on Birmingham.
After signing to Best Before the trio's Arcs Across The City EP [review here] and "Our Bipolar Friends" single made it into the U.S. market laterally via EMusic, but the faucet seems to have been shut off, so you'll need to order Waited Up Til It Was Light from the U.K. or Japan. While you wait for that to arrive, read Alexei's song-by-song explication of the record at Drowned In Sound here. The set was issued June 2. The third single from Waited Up Til It Was Light will be for "Salt, Peppa and Spinderella," a song that surely will launch the phrase "turn on the real drums" among the hipster class when it is released Sept. 1 with the requisite remixes (we'd be shocked if one such remix didn't come from within the Los Campesinos! camp). Johnny Foreigner films the video for the track in London next week before launching headlong into the summer's endless strand of festivals. You can review all of the band's live engagements at its MySpace domicile right here.
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Underground Resistance, James Ruskin and Convextion are among the headliners for the Easter bank holiday event.
The Easter techno session will be the London promoter's first time in the Farringdon club, which rarely opens its doors to external promoters. DJ sets will come from Blueprint boss James Ruskin, Tessela, Truncate and Samuel Kerridge, while Octave One, Convextion and B12 play live. There's also a live slot for Underground Resistance's Depth Charge, AKA Mike Banks and Mark Flash. Doors will run from 11 PM through 8 AM.
Tickets are available here on RA.


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|Decreased nocturnal standard deviation of averaged NN intervals. An independent marker to identify patients at risk in the Brugada Syndrome.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 14613743 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|AIMS: Risk-stratification of asymptomatic Brugada Syndrome (BS) patients remains a key-issue. A typical spontaneous BS-ECG pattern and ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF) inducibility are two recognized risk markers. The aim of the study was to identify additional risk markers in asymptomatic BS. METHODS AND RESULTS: We have compared Holter recordings in symptomatic and in asymptomatic patients with BS. Heart rate variability (HRV), QT-interval rate-dependence and ST-segment elevation (ST-SE) were analysed. The study population included 47 BS patients (M=36, mean age=45+/-13 years) with a malignant ventricular arrhythmia in 11 cases, an unexplained syncope in 10 cases and no symptoms in the remaining 26 cases. A typical spontaneous BS-ECG was present in 21 cases and a drug-induced BS-ECG in 26 cases. A downward trend of the time domain variables of HRV was observed. During the nocturnal period, standard deviation (SD) of the 5min averaged NN intervals (SDANN) (46+/-13 vs 57+/-18ms, P=0.02) and ultra low frequency component (3287+/-2312 vs 5030+/-3270 ms(2), P=0.04) were significantly lower in symptomatic versus asymptomatic patients. In contrast, no difference was found in QT-interval rate dependence and in ST-SE. At multivariate logistic regression, VT/VF inducibility, typical spontaneous BS-ECG and a decreased nocturnal SDANN were associated with arrhythmic events (P=0.003). CONCLUSIONS: A decreased nocturnal SDANN was an independent marker of arrhythmic events in these BS patients.
|Jean-Sylvain Hermida; Antoine Leenhardt; Bruno Cauchemez; Isabelle Denjoy; Geneviève Jarry; Fréderique Mizon; Paul Milliez; Jean-Luc Rey; Philippe Beaufils; Philippe Coumel
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|Type: Journal Article; Multicenter Study
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|Title: European heart journal Volume: 24 ISSN: 0195-668X ISO Abbreviation: Eur. Heart J. Publication Date: 2003 Nov
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|Created Date: 2003-11-17 Completed Date: 2004-02-23 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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|Nlm Unique ID: 8006263 Medline TA: Eur Heart J Country: England
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Here are the books that I'm especially looking forward to in Mystery, Suspense, and Fiction for March. Lots of great books this month! Enjoy (all synopsis are from B&N or Amazon)!
The Considerate Killer (A Nina Borg Novel) by Lene Kaberbool and Agnete Friis (Soho Crime-March 1)
Synopsis-The thrilling final installment of the New York Times bestselling Nina Borg series set in Denmark
Scandinavian crime series In an attempt to save their marriage, Nina Borg and her husband traveled to a beach resort in the Philippines for a dream vacation. Only now, six months later, does Nina begin to understand the devastating repercussions of that trip—repercussions that have followed her home across the globe to Denmark. On an icy winter day, she is attacked outside the grocery store. The last thing she hears before losing consciousness is her assailant asking her forgiveness. Only later does she understand that this isn't for what he's just done, but for what he plans to do to.
As Nina tries to trace the origin of sinister messages she's received, she realizes the attempt on her life must be linked to events in Manila, and to three young men whose dangerous friendship started in medical school. Time and circumstance have forced them to make impossible choices that have cost human lives.
It's a long way from Viborg to Manila, and yet Nina and her pursuer face the same dilemma: How far will they go to save themselves?
Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly (Atria-March 1)
Synopsis-A captivating debut novel, meticulously researched and beautifully imagined, about the passionate marriage of Harry and Bess Houdini—a love story that defied death itself.
Before escape artist Harry Houdini died, he vowed he would find a way to speak to his beloved wife Bess from beyond the grave using a coded message known only to the two of them. When a widowed Bess begins seeing this code in seemingly impossible places, it becomes clear that Harry has an urgent message to convey. Unlocking the puzzle will set Bess on a course back through the pair's extraordinary romance, which swept the illusionist and his bride from the beaches of Coney Island, to the palaces of Budapest, to the back lots of Hollywood. When the mystery finally leads Bess to the doorstep of a mysterious young photographer, she realizes that her husband's magic may have been more than just illusion.
In surprising turns that weave through the uncertain days of the dawn of the twentieth century and continue into the dazzling 1920s, Mrs. Houdini is a thrilling tale that will take you deep into the heart of one of history's greatest love stories—asking what drives people to believe in something bigger than themselves—even as it reveals the famous magician's most remarkable feat of all.
Little Sister (A James Palatine Novel) by Giles O'Bryen (Thomas & Mercer-March 1)
Synopsis-Little Sister has vanished. The prototype device—real name IPD400—has powers of surveillance that governments and terrorist organisations would kill for. They might yet.
James Palatine, a trained killer with a surplus of conscience, invented the device and is the only person who can operate it. He's determined to retrieve it, and so is Natalya Kocharian—the arms dealer who 'inadvertently' sold the prototype to a rogue dealer. But the current owner, holed up in the scorching void of the Western Sahara, won't give in without a fight. Meanwhile MI6, fearing for their own reputation, will do anything to beat Palatine to the prize.
As the hunt for Little Sister goes from Whitehall errand to deadly international arms race, global security hangs in the balance. Knowledge is power, after all—and no secret is safe from Little Sister. With only Natalya on his side, can Palatine simultaneously take on his enemies, his demons and the dangerous power of his own invention?
The Singing Bone by Beth Hahn (Regan Arts-March 1)
Synopsis-A convicted killer's imminent parole forces a woman to confront the nightmarish past she's spent twenty years escaping.
I found you. That's what Mr. Wyck told her: I found you.
1979: Seventeen-year-old Alice Pearson can't wait to graduate from high school so she can escape the small town in upstate New York where she grew up. In the meantime, she and her friends avoid their dysfunctional families while getting high in the woods. There they meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck, who lives in the rambling old farmhouse across the reservoir. Enticed by his quasi-mystical philosophy and the promise of a constant party, Alice and her friends join Mr. Wyck's small group of devoted followers. But their heady, freewheeling idyll takes an increasingly sinister turn, as Alice finds herself crossing moral and emotional boundaries that erode her hold on reality. When Mr. Wyck's grand scheme goes wrong, culminating in a night of horrific violence, Alice is barely able to find her way back to sanity.
Twenty years later, Alice Wood has created a quiet life for herself as a professor of folklore, but an acclaimed filmmaker threatens to expose her past with a documentary about Jack Wyck's crimes and the cult-like following he continues to attract from his prison cell. Wyck has never forgiven Alice for testifying against him, and as he plots to overturn his conviction and regain his freedom, she is forced to confront the truth about what happened to her in the farmhouse—and her complicity in the evil around her.
The Singing Bone is a spellbinding examination of guilt, innocence, and the fallibility of memory, a richly imagined novel that heralds the arrival of a remarkable new voice in literary suspense.
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster-March 1)
Synopsis-From the author of the New York Times bestselling Spellman Files series, Lisa Lutz's latest blistering thriller is about a woman who creates and sheds new identities as she crisscrosses the country to escape her past: you'll want to buckle up for the ride!
In case you were wondering, I didn't do it. I didn't have anything to do with Frank's death. I don't have an alibi, so you'll have to take my word for it…
Forty-eight hours after leaving her husband's body at the base of the stairs, Tanya Dubois cashes in her credit cards, dyes her hair brown, demands a new name from a shadowy voice over the phone, and flees town. It's not the first time.
She meets Blue, a female bartender who recognizes the hunted look in a fugitive's eyes and offers her a place to stay. With dwindling choices, Tanya-now-Amelia accepts. An uneasy―and dangerous―alliance is born.
It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Amelia-now-Debra and Blue have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret…can she outrun her past?
With heart-stopping escapes and devious deceptions, The Passenger is an amazing psychological thriller about defining yourself while you pursue your path to survival. One thing is certain: the ride will leave you breathless.
Welcome Thieves by Sean Beaudoin (Algonquin-March 1)
Synopsis-Black humor mixed with pathos is the hallmark of the twelve stories in this adult debut collection from a master writer of comic and inventive YA novels.
A young man spends a whole day lying naked on the floor of his apartment, conversing casually with his roommates, pondering the past, considering the lives being lived around him. In the odd and funny, sad yet somehow hopeful conceit of Sean Beaudoin's story "Exposure," are all the elements that make his debut collection, Welcome Thieves, a standout. In twelve virtuosic stories, Beaudoin trains his absurdist's eye on the ridiculous perplexities of adult life. From muddling through after the apocalypse ("Base Omega Has Twelve Dictates") to the knowing smirk of "You Too Can Graduate with a Degree in Contextual Semiotics," Beaudoin's stories are edgy and profane, bittersweet and angry, bemused and sardonic. Yet they're always tinged with heart.
Beaudoin's novels have been praised for their playfulness and complexity, for the originality and beauty of their language. Those same qualities, and much more, are on full display in Welcome Thieves, a book that should find devout fans in readers who worship at the altar of George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Sam Lipsyte.
The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (Touchstone-March 1)
Synopsis-In Catherine Lowell's smart and original debut novel, the only remaining descendant of the Brontë family embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to find the family's long-rumored secret estate, using only the clues her eccentric father left behind, and the Brontës' own novels.
Samantha Whipple is used to stirring up speculation wherever she goes. Since her father's untimely death, she is the presumed heir to a long-rumored trove of diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts passed down from the Brontë family—a hidden fortune never revealed to anyone outside of the family, but endlessly speculated about by Brontë scholars and fanatics. Samantha, however, has never seen this alleged estate and for all she knows, it's just as fictional as Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
Yet everything changes when Samantha enrolls at Oxford University and long lost objects from the past begin rematerializing in her life. Her father's distinctive copy of Jane Eyre, which should have perished in the fire that claimed his life, mysteriously appears on Samantha's bed. Annotated in her father's handwriting, the book is the first of many clues in an elaborate scavenger hunt derived from the world's greatest literature. With the help of a handsome but inscrutable professor, Samantha must plunge into a vast literary mystery and an untold family legacy, one that can only be solved by decoding the clues hidden within the Brontës' own writing.
For readers who devoured The Weird Sisters and Special Topics in Calamity Physics, The Madwoman Upstairs is a suspenseful, exhilarating debut by an exciting new talent who offers a moving exploration of what it means when the greatest truth is, in fact, fiction.
Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves (Scribner-March 1)
Synopsis-In this astonishingly accomplished, morally complicated, "exceptional and starkly beautiful debut" (Kevin Powers, National Book Award–nominated author of The Yellow Birds), a prideful electrician in 1920s rural Alabama struggles to overcome past sins and find peace after being sent to prison for manslaughter.
Roscoe T Martin set his sights on a new type of power spreading at the start of the twentieth century: electricity. It became his training, his life's work. But when his wife, Marie, inherits her father's failing farm, Roscoe has to give up his livelihood, with great cost to his sense of self, his marriage, and his family. Realizing he might lose them all if he doesn't do something, he begins to use his skills as an electrician to siphon energy from the state, ushering in a period of bounty and happiness. Even the love of Marie and their child seem back within Roscoe's grasp.
Then a young man working for the state power company stumbles on Roscoe's illegal lines and is electrocuted, and everything changes: Roscoe is arrested; the farm once more starts to deteriorate; and Marie abandons her husband, leaving him to face his twenty-year sentence alone. Now an unmoored Roscoe must carve out a place at Kilby Prison. Climbing the ranks of the incarcerated from dairy hand to librarian to "dog boy," an inmate who helps the guards track down escapees, he is ultimately forced to ask himself once more if his work is just that, or if the price of his crimes—for him and his family—is greater than he ever let himself believe.
Gorgeously spare and brilliantly insightful, Work Like Any Other is "a striking debut about love and redemption, the heavy burdens of family and guilt, and learning how to escape them…Virginia Reeves is a major new talent" (Philipp Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Son).
Speakers of the Dead by J. Aaron Sanders (Plume-March 1)
Synopsis-Speakers of the Dead is a mystery novel centering around the investigative exploits of a young Walt Whitman, in which the reporter-cum-poet navigates the seedy underbelly of New York City's body-snatching industry in an attempt to exonerate his friend of a wrongful murder charge.
The year is 1843; the place: New York City. Aurora reporter Walt Whitman arrives at the Tombs prison yard where his friend Lena Stowe is scheduled to hang for the murder of her husband, Abraham. Walt intends to present evidence on Lena's behalf, but Sheriff Harris turns him away. Lena drops to her death, and Walt vows to posthumously exonerate her.
Walt's estranged boyfriend, Henry Saunders, returns to New York, and the two men uncover a link between body-snatching and Abraham's murder: a man named Samuel Clement. To get to Clement, Walt and Henry descend into a dangerous underworld where resurrection men steal the bodies of the recently deceased and sell them to medical colleges. With no legal means to acquire cadavers, medical students rely on these criminals, and Abraham's involvement with the Bone Bill—legislation that would put the resurrection men out of business—seems to have led to his and Lena's deaths.
Fast-paced and gripping, Speakers of the Dead is a vibrant reimagining of one of America's most beloved literary figures.
Nowhere Girl by Susan Strecker (Thomas Dunne-March 1)
Synopsis-In Susan Strecker's Nowhere Girl, sixteen-year-old Savannah Martino is strangled to death in an abandoned house. The police rule Savannah's murder a random attack of opportunity, which prompts the small New Jersey town to instigate a curfew and cancel football games. Isolated and afraid, Savannah's sister, Cady, continues to communicate with Savannah through dreams. Cady knows Savannah in ways no one else knew: The beautiful, ethereal twin everyone thought was an angel was actually on the road to self-destruction.
Years later a chance encounter while researching her latest novel coincides with an unexpected call from the once-rookie cop on Savannah's case, Patrick Tunney, now a detective, who tells Cady that Savannah's case has been reopened. Through new evidence, it has been determined that Savannah's death wasn't a random attack and that whoever killed her sister loved her.
Despite years of interviewing convicted killers, profilers, and psychiatrists for her bestselling thrillers, Cady isn't prepared for the revelation that someone close to her could have killed her sister. Cady is drawn into a labyrinth of deception and betrayal reaching all the way back to her childhood that will force her to find the strength she never knew she had in order to face the truth.
Crazy Blood by T. Jefferson Parker (St. Martin's Press-March 1)
Synopsis-The Carson dynasty rules the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Founded by patriarch Adam, the town is the site of the Mammoth Cup ski race-a qualifier for the Olympics. But when Wylie Welborn, Adam's illegitimate grandson, returns after a stint in Afghanistan, it reopens a dark moment in Carson family history: the murder of Wylie's father by his jealous and very pregnant wife, Cynthia. Her son Sky, born while his mother was in prison, and Wylie are half-brothers. They inherit not only superb athletic skills but an enmity that threatens to play out in a lethal drama on one of the fastest and most perilous ski slopes in the world.
Three powerful and unusual women have central roles in this volatile family feud: Cynthia, bent on destroying Wylie; his mother Kathleen, determined to protect him; and April Holly, a beautiful celebrity snowboarder, on track to win Olympic Gold. But, as Wylie falls in love with April and they begin to imagine a life away from the violence that has shattered his family, history threatens to repeat itself and destroy them both.
Combining exquisite writing with breathtaking scenes of high stakes skiing, CRAZY BLOOD is an unforgettable story of two brothers on a ruthless quest for supremacy.
Goodbye to the Dead by Brian Freeman (Quercus-March 8)
Synopsis-Detective Jonathan Stride's first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride's relationship with current lover, and fellow detective, Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go all the way back to the last year of Cindy Stride's life.
At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of a domestic murder investigation. Gorgeous, brilliant Janine Snow–a surgeon transplanted to Duluth from Texas–was the prime suspect in the shooting death of her husband. Cindy believed her friend Janine was innocent, but Stride thought all the evidence pointed to the surgeon–even though the gun was never found. Despite Cindy's attempts to help Janine, the case led to a high-profile murder trial in which Janine was convicted and sent to prison.
During the current investigation, Serena finds a gun used in the murder of a woman connected to an organized crime syndicate–a gun that turns out to be the same weapon used to kill Janine Snow's husband. Two unrelated cases years apart suddenly have a mysterious connection. As Stride investigates the possibility that human traffickers are targeting women in the Duluth port, he begins to question whether he made a terrible mistake eight years ago by putting an innocent woman in prison. And whether he will ever be able to make peace with the memory of his beloved wife and give his heart to Serena.
Clawback by J.A. Jance (Touchstone-March 8)
Synopsis-In New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's latest thriller, Ali Reynolds faces her most controversial mystery yet, solving the murder of a man whose Ponzi scheme bankrupted hundreds of people, and left them seeking justice…or revenge.
When Ali's parents lose their life savings to a Ponzi scheme, her father goes to confront his long-time friend and financial advisor, only to stumble into the scene of a bloody double homicide. With her father suddenly a prime suspect, Ali and her husband work to clear her father's name, while at the same time seeking justice for her parents as well as the scheme's other suddenly impoverished victims, one of whom is a stone cold killer.
Hard Cold Winter by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow-March 8)
Synopsis-Former Army Ranger and thief Van Shaw is thrust into danger as lethal and unpredictable as the war he left behind in this emotionally powerful and gritty follow up to the acclaimed Past Crimes.
When an old crony of Van Shaw's late grandfather calls in a favor, the recently-discharged Ranger embarks on a dangerous journey to the Olympic Mountains, in search of a missing girl tied to Van's own criminal past. What he finds instead is a brutal murder scene, including a victim from one of Seattle's most influential families.
But the dead bodies are only the start of Van's troubles. A fellow Ranger from Afghanistan turns up at Van's doorstep, seeking support from his former sergeant even as Van wrestles with his own reemerging symptoms of PTSD. The murder investigation leads to heavy pressure, with a billionaire businessman on one side and vicious gangsters on the other, each willing to play dirty to get what they want.
The price of his survival may be too high, demanding moral compromises that could destroy Van's relationship with his iron-willed girlfriend, Luce. And when a trusted friend's betrayal pushes him to the edge, Van has to enlist help from some unexpected places—including someone he believed was lost forever.
The Ranger will need every ally he can get. A powerful, unseen player is about to unleash a firestorm on Seattle that will burn Van and his people to ashes—and it will take a miracle to stop it.
The Travelers by Chris Pavone (Crown-March 8)
Synopsis-It's 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?
Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he's living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can't refuse. Soon Will's bad choices—and dark secrets—take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from a dive bar in Dublin to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean and an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland. As he's drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue, it becomes clear that nothing about Will Rhodes was ever ordinary, that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense and deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications—and that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all.
It's 3:00am. Your husband has just become a spy.
Peacekeeping by Mischa Berlinski (Sarah Crichton Books-March 8)
Synopsis-Mischa Berlinski's first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviews―Hilary Mantel called it "a quirky, often brilliant debut" and Stephen King said it was "a story that cooks like a mother"―and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now Berlinski returns with Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world's most intriguing country: Haiti.
When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007–2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He's sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town's complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. But when Terry falls in love with the judge's wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster.
Tense, atmospheric, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski's gifts as a storyteller. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the world that is as fascinating as it is misunderstood―and takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality.
Far From True by Linwood Barclay (NAL-March 8)
Synopsis-After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father's house. Cal discovers a hidden basement room where it's clear that salacious activities have taken place—as well as evidence of missing DVDs. But his investigation soon becomes more complicated when he realizes it may not be discs the thief was actually interested in….
Meanwhile, Detective Barry Duckworth is still trying to solve two murders—one of which is three years old—he believes are connected, since each featured a similar distinctive wound.
As the lies begin to unravel, Cal is headed straight into the heart of a dark secret as his search uncovers more startling truths about Promise Falls. And when yet another murder happens, Cal and Barry are both driven to pursue their investigations, no matter where they lead. Evil deeds long thought buried are about to haunt the residents of this town—as the sins of the past and present collide with terrifying results.
All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage (Knopf-March 8)
Synopsis-A dark, riveting, beautifully written book—by "a brilliant novelist," according to Richard Bausch—that combines noir and the gothic in a story about two families entwined in their own unhappiness, with, at its heart, a gruesome and unsolved murder
Late one winter afternoon in upstate New York, George Clare comes home to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone—for how many hours?—in her room across the hall. He had recently, begrudgingly, taken a position at a nearby private college (far too expensive for local kids to attend) teaching art history, and moved his family into a tight-knit, impoverished town that has lately been discovered by wealthy outsiders in search of a rural idyll.
George is of course the immediate suspect—the question of his guilt echoing in a story shot through with secrets both personal and professional. While his parents rescue him from suspicion, a persistent cop is stymied at every turn in proving Clare a heartless murderer. And three teenage brothers (orphaned by tragic circumstances) find themselves entangled in this mystery, not least because the Clares had moved into their childhood home, a once-thriving dairy farm. The pall of death is ongoing, and relentless; behind one crime there are others, and more than twenty years will pass before a hard kind of justice is finally served.
A rich and complex portrait of a psychopath and a marriage, this is also an astute study of the various taints that can scar very different families, and even an entire community. Elizabeth Brundage is an essential talent who has given us a true modern classic.
The Invisible Guardian by Delores Redondo (Atria-March 8)
Synopsis-Already a #1 international bestseller, this tautly written and gripping psychological thriller forces a police inspector to reluctantly return to her hometown in Basque Country—a place engulfed in mythology and superstition—to solve a series of eerie murders.
When the naked body of a teenage girl is found on a riverbank in Basque Country, Spain, homicide inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the hometown she always sought to escape. A dark secret from Amaia's past plagues her with nightmares, and as her investigation deepens, the old pagan beliefs of the community threaten to derail her astute detective work. The lines between mythology and reality begin to blur, and Amaia must discover whether the crimes are the work of a ritualistic killer or of a mythical creature known as the Basajaun, the Invisible Guardian.
Torn between the rational procedures of her job and the local superstitions of a region shaped by the Spanish Inquisition, Amaia fights against the demons of her past in order to track down a killer on the run.
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt-March 15)
Synopsis-In a new Georgian–era mystery by Antonia Hodgson, a "truly spellbinding" (Guardian) author, Tom Hawkins prays for a royal pardon as he relives the espionage, underground dealings, and murder accusations that sent him to the gallows.
London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don't hang and Tom's damned if he'll be the first. He may not be much of a gentleman, but he is innocent. He just always finds his way into a spot of bad luck.
It's hard to say when Tom's troubles began. He was happily living in sin with his beloved, Kitty Sparks — though their neighbors were certainly less pleased about that. He probably shouldn't have told London's most cunning criminal mastermind that he was "bored and looking for adventure." Nor should he have offered to help the king's mistress in her desperate struggles with a brutal and vindictive husband. And he definitely shouldn't have trusted the calculating Queen Caroline. She's promised him a royal pardon if he holds his tongue, but then again, there is nothing more silent than a hanged man.
Now Tom must scramble to save his life and protect those he loves. But as the noose tightens, his time is running out.
The Watcher in the Wall by Owen Laukkanen (GP Putnam's Sons-March 15)
Synopsis-A heart-pounding new Stevens and Windermere thriller from the award-winning author of The Stolen Ones and The Professionals.
Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevens's daughter, Andrea, is distraught over a classmate's suicide, but what the two investigators find is even more disturbing—an online suicide club of unhappy teenagers, presided over by an anonymous presence who seems to be spurring them on. Soon, it becomes apparent that the classmate wasn't the first victim—and won't be the last, either, unless they can hunt down this psychopath once and for all.
Silent City by Alex Segura (Polis-March 15)
Synopsis-Pete Fernandez is a mess. He's on the brink of being fired from his middle-management newspaper job. His fiancée has up and left him. Now, after the sudden death of his father, he's back in his hometown of Miami, slowly drinking himself into oblivion. But when a co-worker he barely knows asks Pete to locate a missing daughter, Pete finds himself dragged into a tale of murder, drugs, double-crosses and memories bursting from the black heart of the Miami underworld – and, shockingly, his father's past.
Making it up as he goes and stumbling as often as he succeeds, Pete's surreptitious quest becomes the wake-up call he's never wanted but has always needed – but one with deadly consequences. Welcome to Silent City, a story of redemption, broken friendships, lost loves and one man's efforts to make peace with a long-buried past to save the lives of the few friends he has left. SILENT CITY is a gritty, heartfelt debut novel that harkens back to classic P.I. tales, but infused with the Miami that only Alex Segura knows.
The North Water by Ian McGuire (Henry Holt-March 15)
Synopsis-A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.
Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage.
In India, during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which man can stoop. He had hoped to find temporary respite on the Volunteer, but rest proves impossible with Drax on board. The discovery of something evil in the hold rouses Sumner to action. And as the confrontation between the two men plays out amid the freezing darkness of an arctic winter, the fateful question arises: who will survive until spring?
With savage, unstoppable momentum and the blackest wit, Ian McGuire's The North Water weaves a superlative story of humanity under the most extreme conditions.
Cambodia Noir by Nick Seeley (Scribner-March 15)
Synopsis-A high-octane thriller with a heart-stopping conclusion about a mysterious American woman who disappears into the Cambodian underworld, and the photojournalist who tracks her through the clues left in her diary.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia: The end of the line. Lawless, drug-soaked, forgotten—it's where bad journalists go to die. For once-great war photographer Will Keller, that's kind of a mission statement: he spends his days floating from one score to the next, taking any job that pays; his nights are a haze of sex, drugs, booze, and brawling. But Will's spiral toward oblivion is interrupted by Kara Saito, a beautiful young woman who shows up and begs Will to help find her sister, June, who disappeared during a stint as an intern at the local paper.
There's a world of bad things June could have gotten mixed up in. The Phnom Penh underworld is in an uproar after a huge drug bust; a local reporter has been murdered in a political hit; and the government and opposition are locked in a standoff that could throw the country into chaos at any moment. Will's best clue is June's diary: an unsettling collection of experiences, memories, and dreams, reflecting a young woman at once repelled and fascinated by the chaos of Cambodia. As Will digs deeper into June's past, he uncovers one disturbing fact after another about the missing girl and her bloody family history. In the end, the most dangerous thing in Cambodia may be June herself.
Propulsive, electric, and filled with unforgettable characters, Cambodia Noir marks the arrival of a fresh new talent. Nick Seeley is an ambitious, wildly imaginative author and his enthralling debut explores what happens when we venture into dark places…when we get in over our heads…and when we get lost.
Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben (Dutton-March 22)
Synopsis-In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben's page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark edge-of-your-seat suspense and gut-wrenching emotion. In Fool Me Once, Coben once again outdoes himself.
Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya's husband, Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to? To find the answer, Maya must finally come to terms with deep secrets and deceit in her own past before she can face the unbelievable truth about her husband—and herself.
Twisted River by Siobhan MacDonald (Penguin-March 22)
Synopsis-A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong
"She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car." Limerick, Ireland: the O'Brien family's driveway. American Oscar Harvey opens the trunk of his hosts' car and finds the body of a woman, beaten and bloody. But let's start at the beginning.
Kate and Mannix O'Brien live by Curragower Falls in Limerick, in a lovely house they can barely afford. Their autistic son Fergus is bullied at school, and their daughter Izzy blames herself, wishing she could protect him. Kate decides that her family needs a vacation, and is convinced her luck's about to change when she spots a gorgeous Manhattan apartment on a home-exchange website.
Hazel and Oscar Harvey and their two children live on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Though they seem successful and happy, Hazel has mysterious bruises, and Oscar is hiding things about his dental practice. They, too, need a change of pace. Hazel has always wanted her children to see her native Limerick, and the house swap offers a perfect chance to soothe two troubled marriages. But this will be anything but a perfect vacation. And the body in the trunk is just the beginning.
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (GP Putnam's Sons-March 22)
Synopsis-"Reader, I murdered him."
A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.
Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito, and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents—the fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Sardar Singh, whose history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pair's violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: can she possess him—body, soul, and secrets—without revealing her own murderous past?
A satirical romance about identity, guilt, goodness, and the nature of lies, by a writer who Matthew Pearl calls "superstar-caliber" and whose previous works Gillian Flynn declared "spectacular," Jane Steele is a brilliant and deeply absorbing book inspired by Charlotte Brontë's classic Jane Eyre.
The Never-Open Desert Diner by James Anderson (Crown-March 22)
Synopsis-A singularly compelling debut novel, about a desert where people go to escape their past, and a truck driver who finds himself at risk when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.
Ben Jones lives a quiet, hardscrabble life, working as a trucker on Route 117, a little-travelled road in a remote region of the Utah desert which serves as a haven for fugitives and others looking to hide from the world. For many of the desert's inhabitants, Ben's visits are their only contact with the outside world, and the only landmark worth noting is a once-famous roadside diner that hasn't opened in years.
Ben's routine is turned upside down when he stumbles across a beautiful woman named Claire playing a cello in an abandoned housing development. He can tell that she's fleeing something in her past—a dark secret that pushed her to the end of the earth—but despite his better judgment he is inexorably drawn to her.
As Ben and Claire fall in love, specters from her past begin to resurface, with serious and life-threatening consequences not only for them both, but for others who have made this desert their sanctuary. Dangerous men come looking for her, and as they turn Route 117 upside down in their search, the long-buried secrets of those who've laid claim to this desert come to light, bringing Ben and the other locals into deadly conflict with Claire's pursuers. Ultimately, the answers they all seek are connected to the desert's greatest mystery—what really happened all those years ago at the never-open desert diner?
In this unforgettable story of love and loss, Ben learns the enduring truth that some violent crimes renew themselves across generations. At turns funny, heartbreaking and thrilling, The Never-Open Desert Diner powerfully evokes an unforgettable setting and introduces readers to a cast of characters who will linger long after the last page.
Sawbones by Melissa Lenhardt (Redhook-March 29)
Synopsis-Outlander meets post-Civil War unrest in this fast-paced historical debut.
When Dr. Catherine Bennett is wrongfully accused of murder, she knows her fate likely lies with a noose unless she can disappear. Fleeing with a bounty on her head, she escapes with her maid to the uncharted territories of Colorado to build a new life with a new name. Although the story of the murderess in New York is common gossip, Catherine's false identity serves her well as she fills in as a temporary army doctor. But in a land unknown, so large and yet so small, a female doctor can only hide for so long.
The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter (G.P. Putnam's Sons-March 29)
Synopsis-Blake and Avery return in the stunning sequel to M. J. Carter's lauded fiction debut, The Strangler Vine.
London, 1841. Returned from their adventures in India, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery have both had their difficulties adapting to life in Victorian England. Moreover, time and distance have weakened the close bond between them, forged in the jungles of India. Then a shocking series of murders in the world of London's gutter press forces them back together.
The police seem mysteriously unwilling to investigate, then connections emerge between the murdered men and the growing and unpredictable movement demanding the right to vote for all. In the back streets of Drury Lane, among criminals, whores, pornographers, and missionaries, Blake and Avery must race against time to find the culprit before he kills again.
But what if the murderer is being protected by some of the highest powers in the land?
The Stopped Heart by Julie Myerson (Harper Perennial-March 29)
Synopsis-Internationally bestselling author Julie Myerson's beautifully written, yet deeply chilling, novel of psychological suspense explores the tragedies—past and present—haunting a picturesque country cottage.
Mary Coles and her husband, Graham, have just moved to a cottage on the edge of a small village. The house hasn't been lived in for years, but they are drawn to its original features and surprisingly large garden, which stretches down into a beautiful apple orchard. It's idyllic, remote, picturesque: exactly what they need to put the horror of the past behind them.
One hundred and fifty years earlier, a huge oak tree was felled in front of the cottage during a raging storm. Beneath it lies a young man with a shock of red hair, presumed dead—surely no one could survive such an accident. But the red-haired man is alive, and after a brief convalescence is taken in by the family living in the cottage and put to work in the fields. The children all love him, but the eldest daughter, Eliza, has her reservations. There's something about the red-haired man that sits ill with her. A presence. An evil.
Back in the present, weeks after moving to the cottage and still drowning beneath the weight of insurmountable grief, Mary Coles starts to sense there's something in the house. Children's whispers, footsteps from above, half-caught glimpses of figures in the garden. A young man with a shock of red hair wandering through the orchard.
Has Mary's grief turned to madness? Or have the events that took place so long ago finally come back to haunt her…?


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I drew a plan of the city -
tall housing
narrow offices,
roads for two-wheelers, four-wheelers,
space allocated for trees to stand,
I marked them all in the city,
not knowing how
to make space for me.
Carefully I created the city,
leaving myself out.
(Poem by A. Vennila, Translated by C. S. Lakshmi and Arundhati Subramaniam, Taken from the Open Space pamphlet titled, Coming to the City)
A Picture of an Indian Metropolitan
The hills are always far away.
He knows the broken roads, and moves
In circles tracked within his head.
Before he wakes and has his say,
The river which he claims he loves
Is dry, and all the winds lie dead.
At dawn he never sees the skies
Which, silently, are born again.
Nor feels the shadows of the night
Recline their fingers on his eyes.
He welcomes neither sun nor rain.
His landscape has no depth or height.
The city like a passion burns.
He dreams of morning walks, alone,
And floating on a wave of sand.
But still his mind its traffic turns
Away from beach and tree and stone
To kindred clamour close at hand.
- Nissim Ezekiel
- Inequalities in income, lack of employment opportunities, lack of infrastructure and civic amenities, inadequate access to education, healthcare and other basic services are some of the major areas where rural areas lag behind.
- Over 70% of the population resides in rural areas, and agriculture which is its main occupation now, accounts for only a quarter of the country's GDP.
- Rural India encompasses a little less than three-fourths of the country's poulation and is characterised by low income levels, poor quality of life and a weak base of human development.
- The agriculture sector has been growing at less than half the pace of the other sectors. During the Seventh Plan, agriculture and allied sectors grew at a rate of 3.4 per cent, while the national economy grew at 6 per cent. In 1997-98, there was negative growth of 2 per cent in the agricultural sector, although the national economy grew by 5 per cent.
- Agricultural investments account for 10 per cent of the total investments in the country.
- According to one estimate, the average income of an urban dweller is four times higher than that of a rural dweller. Rural deprivation becomes crystal clear if we look at the data on rural India's contribution to the GDP and what the rural areas get back. Rural contribution is 27% but the return is 5%.
- The gap between the average for urban and rural areas widened by over 8% between 1987-88 and 2000-01.
- In 2001, the urban literacy rate was 80.6% but the rural literacy rate was 59.21%.
- Of the illiterate people who are 15 years and above but not beyond 60 years, rural areas have 55.8% and the urban areas 25.1%.
- Of the school-going children in the age group of 5-14 years, 82.4 per cent live in urban areas.
- Data collected from the sample registration show that life expectancy at birth in rural areas is 58 years, in the case of urban India it is 64.9 years.
- 84.4% of rural households are devoid of toilet facilities, in the case of urban areas it is 23%.
- The all-India average monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) was Rs. 495 in rural areas and Rs. 914 in the urban ones.
- S. Rajagopalan, "The Rural-Urban Divide in India", ICFAI Journal of Urban Policy, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2007
- Prabhat Datta, "The Great Indian Divide", Frontline, Vol. 21, Issue 14, July 3 -16, 2004
- Dileep Rangachari, "The Wide Rural-Urban Divide", The Times of India, March 24, 2003


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Wednesday, 31 December 2014
19 comments:
A lovely sample, Bev! My play is here.ReplyDelete
My photo play is on my Foxglove Hollow Blog.
Happy New Year all!
Lovely Bev!Mine is here:ReplyDelete
Hello ladies, and happy new year!ReplyDelete
You can see my little fairytale HERE.
Happy New Year everyone...ReplyDelete
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Thanks for looking and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Love this! Here's mine, on my blog.ReplyDelete
Dear Bev, thank you for advising me about my numbers, only now I could finally SEE it! Unfortunately, I'm not that ahead...ReplyDelete
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Thanks for looking and comment.
Happy new year to you all,
hugs Anja
My collage, entitled "The Six Faces of Paul - my uncle by marriage", appears on my blog.ReplyDelete
(Lovely sample pic, Bev).
I've been missing in action for a while, but I couldn't miss the last one of the year! My entry is on my blog here.ReplyDelete
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Happy 2015 to all
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I love the peace in your sample. Happy new Year to you all, I hope to be here more often in 2015. Better late than never, mine is hereReplyDelete
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Greetings -Kathy
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لعبة جاتا
لعبة زوما
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لعبة صب واي


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Jill Miller Zimon is challenging fellow John Barnes again this year for his seat as state rep in Ohio's 12th District. This time around the PD came to their senses and correctly endorsed Zimon, who they described as "smart, engaged and energetic."
"During his recent endorsement interview [Barnes] was unable to recall some details of legislation he had co-sponsored," wrote the PD Editorial Board. "And [he] could not adequately explain why he did not take part in voting for or against some key bills."
In her interview, Jill specifically mentions Barnes failure to vote against defunding Planned Parenthood. This shouldn't be surprising. Barnes has been voting with Republicans for years and has been a supporter of some of John Kasich's most controversial initiatives.
Barnes was front-and center at the signing of Kasich's transportation budget (see photo). He was also there when Kasich signed his controversial pro-charter, anti-teacher "Cleveland Plan.". During the last election cycle, Barnes received support from StudentsFirst, Michelle Rhee's anti-union, pro-charter school group in the form of ads and robocalls.
Barnes also voted for both JobsOhio bills, which implemented Kasich's signature plan to privatize economic development in Ohio in a shady, unaccountable and non-transparent semi-private entity.
As we reported two years ago, Barnes also has a horrible work history.
In 2002 he was removed from his position as Director of the Community Relations Board in the City of Cleveland for sexually harassing one of his employees.
In November 1996 Barnes was placed on disciplinary suspension from his job as tax auditor for "Threatening, intimidating, coercing or interfering with supervisors or co-workers." He was suspended the following year for "fighting or attempting injury to other employees, supervisors or persons."
The PD says Zimon "is the better candidate." We wholeheartedly agree.
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|detail of 'Coming to Canada' by Linda McBain Cuyler
This morning I was up bright and early to promote the exhibition on the local Global Television morning show... and back at home long before the sun came up! You can view the video clip here, as I have no idea how to embed it.
I watched it by accident with no sound. You'll think I'm trying to fly away or something. ! I forgot how much I talk with my hands. I do recall public speaking in Winnipeg 2 years ago, and a photographer pulled me aside to show me all the photos after the event. She kept saying, 'look at you! You like you are dancing and swimming and flying!' lol
Ha ha - oh well...
See you all tonight at 813 Broadway Avenue, Saskatoon! Many of the items are for sale FYI. Several of the artists will be there, so please come and say hello to them. For those who cannot be there, please sign the guest book so that I can share your comments with them.
Have a good weekend,


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Let me begin this prediction column by saying I never would have predicted writing it in the first place.
I had the Dodgers losing Game 4 Tuesday as sure as Clayton Kershaw is left-handed.
I figured my next Dodgers column would be questioning yet another of Don Mattingly's decisions, this one to become, now that he'd been relieved of his job with the Dodgers, manager of the Marlins.
See, there's another prediction I absolutely was certain of, one that still could come true if Mattingly is unable to prevent the Dodgers from losing Game 5 to New York on Thursday.
My thinking entering Game 4 wasn't exactly scholarly. Since we'd all seen the Dodgers and Kershaw fail in similar situations before, I figured why believe anything will be different until given a reason to believe.
It's the same logic I applied in May to the Ducks' Game 7 against the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL's Western Conference finals.
The Ducks then went out, fell behind 4-0 barely halfway through the game and made me look like a genius for having the ability to forecast something so obvious Pat Haden wouldn't have missed it.
Then again, I'm something of a hockey expert, knowing the sport well enough to understand Barry Melrose must be taken seriously, even if his hair appears to be the discarded pelt of a weasel.
Kershaw, though, boldly and impressively made new history Tuesday, producing seven brilliant innings as the Dodgers stretched this National League Division Series to its limit with a 3-1 victory.
Talk about providing a reason to believe! Maybe, before the start of the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Ducks should sign Kershaw. I have no idea if he can even stand up on skates, but, honestly, he couldn't be any worse than the Ducks have been when facing elimination, right?
I'd like to tell you I have an undeniable grasp on what will happen Thursday, a very clear vision of which team will advance to the NL Championship Series to face the Chicago Cubs.
But, before the season began, I had the Cubs finishing fourth in their division, my prediction of a Cardinals-Red Sox World Series also now unlikely to occur without the intervention of baseball-loving space aliens.
Back in April, we asked six of our staff members to forecast this season. I'm not interested in embarrassing any specific individuals here, but I will mention that none of us had the Mets even making the playoffs.
Baseball, with its randomness and oddities and volatility – and that's just in the Dodgers' bullpen – can be an almost impossible sport to predict. I sincerely believe this newspaper, in seeking preseason wisdom, would have been justified in polling six chickens.
In a more blunt assessment, each one of us had the eventual AL West-champion Texas Rangers finishing last in the division.
One of us had Kansas City, the team that ended up with the AL's best record, last in the Central, too. Again, I'm not interested in embarrassing any specific individuals here, so I won't mention that it was Pedro Moura or that he can be mocked directly at email@example.com.
The Dodgers are favored in Game 5, which speaks to their starting pitcher, Zack Greinke, and their standing as the home team.
But they were favored in Game 1 at Dodger Stadium, as well, and that didn't stop the Mets' Jacob deGrom from outpitching Kershaw and making the Dodger hitters look like baffled game show contestants.
Heck, Pat Sajak is routinely spotted at Dodger Stadium and maybe now we know why, his presence Thursday perhaps, for the home team, representing a wheel of misfortune.
Of particular note in Game 1, Carl Crawford appeared to have no chance against deGrom, which actually was better than Adrian Gonzalez, who, versus the New York righty, worked three of the emptiest full counts in baseball history, each ending in a strikeout.
I'm tempted to pick the Dodgers, sure, figuring the people in Las Vegas establishing the odds for sporting events know this stuff pretty well. Or at least well enough to retain the majority of their fingers. How else could they keep typing?
Yet, I can't get past the image of deGrom, his fastball exploding toward home plate amid all that hair erupting from beneath his cap, fooling Andre Ethier into a Game 1 swing that was halfhearted but fully pathetic.
So, I'm going to go with the Mets, in a tight game decided in the final two innings. Possible New York Post headline: "Chase Chased; Fracture This, Utley!"
I'm going to go with the Mets against the Cubs in an NLCS that will be immediately preceded by a million questions – and only one answer – about Mattingly's future.
Frankly, I feel awfully good about this prediction, almost as certain as I once was about the Cardinals beating the Red Sox in a World Series matchup that will never happen.
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