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Draco's head was pounding. He had drunken way to many firewhiskeys last night, and this morning was payback. Sitting on his bathroom floor with his pressed against the cool tile floor, Draco groped around for his wand. Finally reaching it he accioed a hangover spell to him. Drinking it gratefully, despite the awful taste. He couldn't even remember what had happened after Hermione left. He slightly recalled drinking a lot, but other than that he was drawing a blank.
Slowly pulling himself up, Draco forced himself into the shower and blasted the cold water down onto his body. Pressing his hands against the shower wall, Draco bowed his head. Thinking of Hermione was driving him crazy, he couldn't believe his attitude towards her. He needed to apologize, to make it up for it. Stepping out of the shower, Draco dried off and pulled on a pair of slacks and a green jersey. From across the room Draco could hear an owl tapping at his window.
Draco walked to the window and opened it, picking up the letter from the owl, Draco gave it a treat then leaned against the window sill, opening the letter.
Please meet me at the Ministry at 12:30. Very important.
Draco strode into his bedroom, grabbing his wand he then went to his fireplace and stepped in. Grabbing some floo powder and throwing it on the ground he yelled "Harry Potter's office, Ministry of Magic."
Draco stepped out of the fireplace in Harry's office, dusting himself off.
"Draco. Thank you for coming." Harry shook Draco's hand, then motioned for him to take a seat across from on the other side of his large oak desk.
Draco sat, giving Harry a quizzical look. "Alright Harry, what is this about that couldn't wait for Monday?"
Harry sighed "Well, we have a security problem pertaining to one of our auror's… Who is being threatened by someone in your family."
Draco's eyes hardened "Who?" he growled
"I think you've probably guessed… Radalphous Lestrange. He's targeting someone very special to all of us, I think you can guess who."
Draco's face became even paler than usual, he said in a monotone "Hermione?" Harry nodded in affirmative and Draco spun, slamming his fist into the wall of the office. Pulling back, a large indent was left in the cream coloured wall.
Draco slowly got control of himself again, taking deep breaths. "Why is he going after her Harry?"
Harry sat up in his chair, one hand massaging his forehead. "Well, as I'm sure you remember, your aunt had somewhat of a vendetta against Hermione, especially with the torture she went through at your manor. Your uncle is now obsessed with carrying out his late wife's unfinished business."
"What can I do?" Draco asked.
"You can marry her." Harry stated, his face completely serious.
"Potter, now is not a good time to be joking around. She would never condescend to marry me- she hates me!" Draco almost yelled.
"I wish I was joking, however I am not. You must marry her! It's the only way she'll be safe, Radalphous would never murder his own niece, even if only by marriage" Harry explained "If we can come up with a believable back story and you and Hermione can act accordingly, we'll be able to keep him at bay until we can catch him and deal with him sufficiently."
"Fine, I'll do it. But I Granger gets to hear it from me- okay?" Draco growled
Harry beamed "Alright, whatever you want, good luck mate"
Draco smirked and strode out of the room flooed back to his own apartment.
The early morning had not been kind to Hermione, with an aching head and very sore stomach she muscled her way to her couch and spent the whole morning eating waffles and watching her favourite tv shows on the muggle television. At around eleven thirty, Hermione slowly made her way to her bedroom, and grabbing her gym bag, she quickly apparated to the gym.
After a great workout and a lengthy shower, Hermione pulled on some sweatpants, put her hair in a ponytail and made her way into the living room. Throwing herself down on the couch, Hermione almost fell asleep but roused herself to grab her phone and order Chinese take-out. Just as she found a movie she was interested in, her doorbell rang.
She yelled "Coming, just have to grab my wallet" as she ran to her kitchen, grabbing said item, she dashed to the door. Pulling it open, she was surprised to see not the delivery boy, but Draco who looked very grim. "Hermione, can I please come in?" Draco asked politely. Hermione opened the door wider to admit him, frowning she gestured for him to have a seat, taking for herself the large armchair. Draco awkwardly sat on her long black leather couch. "Hermione, we have to tell I something and it's really quite serious, but please don't be too distressed." Draco said, placing his elbows on his knees and leant forward. "You may or may not know that Bellatrix Lestrange had a husband. His name is Radalphous and unfortunately he's just as twisted and insane as she was. Also unfortunately, he's my uncle by marriage as you have probably already figured out. The thing is Hermione, that he's coming back from where ever he's been hiding, to do one thing and one thing only."
Hermione looked up from staring at her hands, unable to make eye contact with Draco, Hermione asked the floor "to do what exactly?"
"To kill you." Draco replied, his eyes looking sad.
Hermione jumped out of her chair, her eyes grew wide as her hands shook slightly, Draco lunged across the room as she looked like she was about to pass out. Hermione gained control and waved Draco away. "So, what am I supposed to do? Go into hiding for the rest of my life? Hermione asked, thowing her hands into the air.
"No, no of course not Hermione. I have a solution to this ..problem, but I don't think you're going to like it." Draco murmered "Well…. The solution is to become Mrs. Malfoy- and therefore be save because he would never kill family- no matter how insane he is."
"W-w-what. I can't marry you Malfoy! We've hated each other since we were eleven! This is ridiculous, what would people think?" Hermione flashed angrily.
"Hermione look, you're not exactly my idea of a perfect spouse either, but to be completely blunt, I want to get back at my ex and believe it or not, I don't want my uncle to murder you. So I suggest that you accept this proposal and we'll divorce as soon as the Ministry catches Lestrange." Draco pleaded.
Hermione ran a hand through her hair and threw herself back into her seat. "Fine. But Harry and Ron better catch him quickly."
Dracos face relaxed and he almost smiled, "Oh, unfortunately until they get catch Rapalphous, Harry doesn't want you in the public as much as can be avoided- so we won't be working together out in the field, two other auror's will be covering for us. We will be working in the Ministry interrogating and working on profiles, etc."
Hermione huffed angrily, but didn't complain, she understood Harrys logic completely.
Draco made his way to Hermiones door, turning around he softly said goodbye and let himself out. Hermione slowly walked into her bedroom and softly closed the door. Sinking down on her bed, she curled up into her comforter and promptly fell asleep, forgetting all about her take out order.
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Call it spring fever, call it mid-life crisis, but actually my whole life long I've been more than a little "Earth-centric." I don't know if the word is real, but a few years ago, I was trying to communicate my love for this blue-green ball we call home and this is what came to me.
It came to me when I was considering starting a new church and was trying to describe to people how in my belief system creation is not only a sacred gift from Spirit for which we are to care, but we're all a part of creation and what we do here and now on Earth matters.
There are great churches like Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco (maybe you saw it in the movie "Pursuit of Happyness"). Glide is what church leaders call "Afro-centric" - the music and "culture" of the church is predominantly African-American. Of course, all sorts of people are drawn there and at Glide everyone is welcome!
I'm Earth-centric in that way. It is my culture. Being Earth-centric doesn't mean I'm against thinking about life on other planets. And aliens would be welcome in my Earth-centric church. I loved Avatar, all of the Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who and all. That kind of stuff helps me expand my mind beyond the current limits. Certainly, there could be life on other planets. It makes sense. There could be all sorts of realities of which I'm simply not aware. But my home base is here on earth. In my limited time and energy, Earth is my focus.
Perhaps it's because my background in Christianity is United Methodist who celebrate God's unconditional love - Grace - as a foundation of our beliefs. Even though I grew up in Oklahoma, the belt buckle of the Bible belt, I didn't buy into the fears around what would happen after I died. I believe in a compassionate and forgiving God. What seems strongest in the ways of Jesus is teaching about how important it is to care for each other. What we do here on Earth is important.
Certainly people experience both heaven and hell here and now on earth.
We're connected with each other and all creation in ways we are just barely beginning to understand. We are family.
Mystics from all traditions have talked about how Spirit is present with us even in the earthly creation. St. Francis and sometimes his friend Sister Claire are recognized as loving and serving even the birds and lilies of the field. In case you don't know St. Francis, he can be found in garden statuary with a deer near by, birds perched upon him and sometimes his hand is actually a birdfeeder.
As Lakota elder, Black Elk, said, "The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
Modern mystic and author, Annie Dillard warns: "There never was a more holy time then right now, a more holy place then right here and a more holy people then we are!" This isn't an invitation to competition and judgment of others; it is a call to wake up and smell the holy here and now in our midst.
If you want to go Earth-centric, too, consider Celebrating the Earth especially this Sunday and next at Aldersgate, 11 a.m.
Join in the community interfaith celebration, Earthsong, at 7 p.m. Thursday at Northern Light United Church. Aqeela Sherrills will talk about a reverence movement. He believes that social, peace and environmental issues all stem from violence - against ourselves, each other and the natural world. Go reverent for the earth!
Judy Shook is pastor at Aldersgate United Methodist Church.
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FLYING PICKETS separated poor runs at Wolverhampton with a couple of victories over 7f at this track. Alan McCabe's charge gets the nod back on the Fibresand as he beat Adranian last time and a line through that rival gives him the beating of Whisky Bravo. The latter has won twice here this month and another bold bid is expected from him, while Sunny Side Up makes her Fibresand debut after scoring at Wolverhampton last time with subsequent winner M J Woodward behind. Faraway is another recent Polytrack winner having his first start on this surface.
Whisky Bravo 5-6fav (9-4) Tracked leader, led over 1f out, ridden out, readily, won at Southwell 6f 2yo hco 0-75 (5) fbs beating Adranian (9-5) by 1 3/4l, 4 ran.
Flying Pickets (IRE) 8-1 (9-7) Pushed along leaving stalls, in rear, ridden 3f out, never near leaders, 6th of 8, 23l behind Karma Chameleon (9-0) at Wolverhampton 1m 1f 2yo hco 0-75 (5) pol.
Faraway 2-5fav (8-3) In touch, headway when not much room over 2f out, led over 1f out, soon ridden, ran well inside final furlong, won at Wolverhampton 6f 2yo clm stks (5) pol beating I'm Still The Man (8-11) by 7l, 5 ran.
Adranian (IRE) 2-1 (9-2) Slowly into stride, headway halfway, soon chasing leaders, weakened over 2f out, 5th of 8, 13l behind Flying Pickets (8-13) at Southwell 7f 2yo hco 0-75 (5) fbs.
First Bid 11-1 (9-2) Outpaced, never a factor, 5th of 6, 9l behind Whisky Bravo (9-1) at Southwell 5f 2yo hco 0-75 (5) fbs.
Man Of My Word 10-11fav (9-6) Led, pushed along 3f out, soon headed, kept on one pace and lost 2 places close home, 4th of 6, 13l behind Chrissycross (9-2) at Southwell 1m 2yo hcp 0-65 (6) fbs.
Sunny Side Up (IRE) 9-2 (9-2) Chased leadrs, went 2nd travelling well 2f out, led over 1f out, ridden inside final furlong, held on, all out, won at Wolverhampton 6f 2yo hcp 0-65 (6) pol beating Songbird Blues (8-4) by hd, 10 ran.
M J Woodward 5-1 (7-12) Chased leaders, ridden over 1f out, led inside final furlong, driven out, won at Southwell 5f 2yo hco 0-75 (5) fbs beating Wicked Wench (9-1) by 1/2l, 6 ran.


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The blog Res Obscura offers a review of the book Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe by Ulinka Rublack, which chronicles the importance of clothing to the merchant class during the Renaissance.
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I've just finished reading Ulinka Rublack's Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (Oxford, 2010) and came away from it with a newfound appreciation for how truly odd early modern clothing was -- and how important these clothes were in people's daily lives. Rublack, a Cambridge history professor, is very shrewd in noting that obsolete sartorial choices like codpieces, corsets or tight-fitting doublets were about more than adornment: they helped to structure the limits of physical movement while also expressing personal allegiances, social groupings, nationalities, and religious faith. What is more, early modern clothing offered a window into the inner emotional states of the wearer in a world that was far less receptive to that sort of thing than our own.
The blog also features a number of illustrations of 16th century German merchant Matthäus Schwarz, who hired painters to depict his clothing during various stages of his life.


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This is great. The Columbus Dispatch has a feature that talks about the struggle older people have finding jobs during this recession, and offers a ton of sites that specifically cater to older folks trying to find work. RetiredBrains.com is one of them, which gives these tips:
- Register with temp companies. "They don't care about age but are more interested in your skills and experience," Koff says.
- Practice your interview. You might not have had a job interview in quite a while, so do a practice interview with an employer you're not that interested in working for.
- Rework the resume. Don't hide your age. Emphasize accomplishments, experience and the currency of your skills.
And these are just a few of many. Check out the sites provided in the article for more info as well as AARP's job-posting board and their list of online job resources.


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The Block Airlines' Gratuitous Fees (BAG) Act was prompted by an airline's announcement last week that it would charge passengers up to $45 for carry-on baggage, according to the Senator's office.
"What's next, pay toilets on airplanes?" Begich asked in announcing his support for the bill. "We really need to be looking for ways to ease the financial burden for Alaskans and others who fly frequently - not piggyback more and more fees on them each time they travel."
The BAG Fees Act would essentially end a tax break for airlines on overhead baggage fees. Currently airlines are able to keep the entire fee charged for carry-on bags, paying no taxes on services considered unnecessary for travel. The bill would designate carry-on baggage as a necessity.
By closing the tax loophole, airlines would be less likely to want to charge the fee, Begich said.
"We're trying to stop this fee before it becomes attractive and popular with many airlines," he said. "We know from past experience that once one airline starts to charge a baggage fee, others generally follow suit."
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"What does that mean? Whatever you want it to mean. Are these movies "the best"? Are they our favorites? Are they "movies we got to see before the deadline"? In my case, it's some combination of all three — but I'm really quite happy with the aggregate results." — Jim Emerson
[Insert usual caveat here] With the increase of titles that Snubnose published in 2012 my personal reading dropped from years past but I still read some damn great books. Here they are.
–Driving Alone by Kevin Lynn Helmick & Driving Through the Desert by Donna Lynch – These two books are thematic cousins, that travel through the dark night of the soul, leading you to an end that, once there, you knew was coming all along no matter how much you denied it along the way. Both are elegiac, mournful, and worth your time.
–The Devil Doesn't Want Me by Eric Beetner – I've published some of Beetner's past work so clearly I'm a fan but with Devil, he moves to a whole new level. The beauty of a book like this, and it can be a hard line to walk, is that this is a book that a basement noir crazy and his/her mother will love. Not every book has that type of broad, crossover potential but Devil does. Eric Beetner is one of crime fiction's biggest secrets.
–Blood Red Turns Dollar Green by Paul O'Brien – Blood Red is set in the territory days of professional wrestling, a time when a small and secretive group of men controlled all of the action across the country for decades under a sworn veil of secrecy. Sounds like organized crime doesn't it? In a way it was and O'Brien explores this in a way that appeals to long time wrestling fans and those with no prior knowledge. The key thing about Blood Red is that it is firmly grounded in the recognizable humanity of its characters first and foremost and is a wrestling story second.
–Ghosting by Kirby Gann – A gorgeously written novel that contains some of the most evocative imagery and scenes that I've encountered all year. This is rural noir written as journey of self discovery firing on all cylinders with characters that ache for something that isn't always findable but search they must.
-After publishing three novels and a collection of three novellas in 2012 I'm ready to declare this year Stephen Graham Jones' and the rest of us are just living in it.
Zombie Bake-Off started off the year and remained one of my favorites as the year continued. This tale of zombies, wrestlers, and soccer moms all trapped in a locked arena was the most fun I had all year (and I can't wait to read it again).
Then came Growing Up Dead in Texas, a book that defies easy categorization and is the better for it. What Jones does here is look at the events surrounding a devastating moment and how it affects the people in a small town. It is about community, the importance of small things, and the reverberations felt through time, space, memory, and history.
Later in the year, The Last Final Girl came out. If ever there was a novel that should have been bundled with Cabin in the Woods this was it. A ridiculously clever story that pokes at slasher films while being one of its best. This is the story that Scream wanted to be.
Finishing up the year is the collection Three Miles Past, with the novellas Interstate Love Affair, No Takebacks, and The Coming of Night.
-As I wrote over at Do Some Damage, the new publisher Ravenous Shadows was a big find for me. Two of my favorite reads of the year came from them. The first was Die, You Bastard! Die! by Jan Kozlowski, a book that you know is going to go full dark but still manages to surprise you when it actually does. This is a stunning, and never gratuitous, piece of dark fiction.
The Devoted by Eric Shapiro was the most suspenseful book I read all year. This story of the last hours of a suicide cult grabbed me early and wouldn't let go. I HAD to see what was going to come next and it became unbearable in the best way possible. This is apocalyptic fiction writ small, on a human and intimate scale.
–The Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett – This is a superhero story for crime fictions fans who like their fiction gritty, and violent. It's also one of the most realistic superhero stories ever told as Jama-Everett makes every effort to figure out the real world applications of the powers. This is a compelling read that is a lot of fun. Fans of Kadrey's Sandman Slim books would be wise to check this out.
–Lost in Clover by Travis Richardson – Lost in Clover is about a horrific crime that thrusts a small community into the national spotlight and the teen who played an integral part in the commission of the crime. This is a case study in compressed story telling as 10 years of time are fluidly and quickly presented to the reader. Much like Dennis Tafoya's Dope Thief, where most crime novels end is only the beginning, as Trapped in Clover is more interested in the ramifications and aftermath of the crime.
–Flashover by Gordon Highland – Sometimes the best novels resist easy categorization, falling into the spaces between genres or mixing them so wholly and completely, never settling on one thing. Flashover morphs over the course of its telling, adopting different story modes as needed, and becomes in the end something increasingly rare, a truly touching story.
–The Posthumous Man by Jake Hinkson – The Posthumous Man has more heart and less nihilism then Hinkson's debut novel Hell on Church Street but still retains a fatal ending. This hits my sweet spot for great noir and that is exactly what this is.
–Immobility by Brian Evenson – This book falls into the category of post-apocalyptic noir. The setting is post-apocalyptic but there is a strong noir tonal quality. Immobility also has one of the most unsettling endings I've come across, existential horror at its finest.
–Under the Dixie Moon by Ro Cuzon – In the past I've written that the PI novel is the haiku of crime fiction, there may be only 17 syllables but in the right hands those syllables will sing; that there is the potential for a lot of power in that framework. Ro Cuzon has written one of the freshest PI novels in years. Great characters, great sense of place, and great action. The third person POV allows a wider cast and more interactions that pays off strongly as the story lines come together.
–Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers – Wow, what a book. There is a lot to love about Pig Iron. A Riddly Walker attention to language filtered through a Traveler worldview that, by the end, becomes something else, something scary, like a Donald Ray Pollock story. Rich language, a singularly memorable narrator, and scenes of vivid and harrowing consequence that haunt the reader in a way that doesn't compare to the scarring it must produce in the narrator. There is a moment, near the end, as the climax is building, where Pig Iron threatens to stage a Traveler Grand Guignol, and the prospects of it are truly terrifying. Myers has other cards that he wants to play though and I'll be damned if he doesn't pull it off (though it's a lot of fun to imagine the other scenario playing out).
Honorable Mention: Peckerwood by Jedidiah Ayres – After harassing him for a glimpse at his longer fiction Jed allowed me to read a novel manuscript of his called Peckerwood. It was one of the best crime novels I read all year. Hopefully everyone else will get a chance to read this as it doesn't deserve to languish in a drawer. I include a (so far) unreleased manuscript here not to embarrass Jed or book tease readers but instead to say that he is one to watch.
The Nerd of Noir's Top Ten of Twenty-Twelve
Big Maria Johnny Shaw
Shaw followed up last year's excellent Dove Season with a big fat, shambling adventure story, one about a no-shit quest for gold in them there fuckin' hills, even. With a cast full of loveable losers and told with plenty of filthy laughs and a whole lotta hard-won heart, Big Maria was a straight-up hoot.
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
This was the blockbuster of '12, the book that everyone read (and should read) yet is more fucked up than most of the dirty shit I put in front of my eyes every week. This brilliantly told, deeply sinister and wickedly funny book is gonna be talked about for years and I'll forever be up for weighing in.
Hell On Church Street Jake Hinkson
Plenty of great southern writers put up strong work this year but this was the one that really left me with scars. This creepy, dread-soaked tale of fucked-up religion and sexual obsession unfolds beautifully yet breathlessly at the same time, leaving me up past my beddy-bye to see how it shook out.
Lake Country Sean Doolittle
It'd been way too long since I'd had a Doolittle in my greazy mitts and, waddayaknow, his latest turned out to be one of his best. A ticking clock plot with an ensemble of some of the most complex characters of the year, Doolittle proved once again that he is undoubtedly one of our best crime writers.
Ninth Step Grant Jerkins
Jerkins only recently popped up on my radar but after going through all his shit I'm a devoted fan. Great as his previous two are, though, this one is my favorite. A simple, agonizing premise taken to the horrifyingly dark places it deserves to go, I want tickets to the movie dying to be made out of it now.
The Prophet Michael Koryta
Koryta took a swing at the ever-rare great American crime novel and, for the most part, fucking nailed it. It doesn't get much more American than beautiful young dead girls, a failed industrial town and a great high school football team, and books don't get much more emotionally powerful than this.
The Three-Day Affair Michael Kardos
A simple story of regular guys getting in over their heads, this was a ridiculously intense book that seems beautifully direct until the last few pages roll out just how sly and ingenious the plot really is. To say I'm looking forward to the next Kardos is mincing words something fucking terrible.
Vile Blood Max Wilde
Though Roger Smith gave us a stellar novel (Capture) and novella (Ishmael Toffee) in 2012, the Nerd's favorite book the prolific writer popped out this year was this hugely bloody and highly original horror novel he wrote under the pen name of Max Wilde. The sequel simply can't come out quick enough.
Wee Rockets Gerard Brennan
A story of a West Belfast teen trying to get out of his gang despite pressures from a local vigilante, his peers and his shithead dad, Brennan's novel grapples with some hard questions and issues in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland while delivering the pulp thrills something fierce throughout.
Wolf Tickets Ray Banks
Banks has long been one of my favorites working today and while Wolf Tickets is undoubtedly his least subversive crime novel to date, it's also one of the most balls-out fucking fun reads of the year. It's a big, bold story told with a big, bold voice and full of humor of the darkest, most-utterly-fucked-up stripe.
So, what hit me as great in 2012? I didn't read nearly as many books or short stories as I would have liked, but I still found some really great things out there over the past year.
Novels (top 5, or 7 – depends on how much you care about counting)
1. Growing up Dead in Texas – Stephen Graham Jones
Is it a memoir? A novel? Real or fake? Really doesn't matter because its compelling as hell and a great, great book.
2. This Dark Earth – John Hornor Jacobs
I'm not the world's biggest zombie fan, but I do love good, original books that explore the drive for survival, it's good and bad results. I liked this book more the second time I read it.
3. The Collector Series (Dead Harvest and The Wrong Goodbye) – Chris F Holm
Great hardboiled feel to an urban fantasy mix of detective work and a different kind of soul searching.
4. The Miriam Black books (Blackbirds, Mockingbird) – Chuck Wendig
Miriam's a tough bitch, but an easy person to care about. Caring about her gets people in trouble, sure, but at least it's an interesting ride.
5. Edge of Dark Water – Joe R. Lansdale
A captivating mix of fright and compelling characters. It's full of engaging characters and well drawn places and language that transport the reader into the scenes and their often ugly turns.
Short Stories (I picked 4 that piqued my interests. I am not bound by your list size expectations)
1. "Day of the Dead" by Hector Acosta at Shotgun Honey
2. "Nearly Extinct" by Rob Kitchin at All Due Respect
3. "The Things We Do For Love" by Patti Abbott at Shotgun Honey
4. "Slick Texas Money" by Frank Wheeler, Jr. at Beat To A Pulp
Bloodland by Alan Glynn
I don't know why this dense, complex novel isn't on more best of lists? I'd been circling Glynn for a couple of years, and when this came out at the beginning of the year in the U.S. I finally took the plunge. Bloodland can probably best be described as a Le Carre novel seen through the paranoid world view of James Ellroy. It's an intense, grimly realistic read, and. at least in my opinion, cements Glynn as the very best of the current crop of Irish crime novelists. (And as you all know, it's a very crowded field.)
Driven by James Sallis/Kings of Cool by Don Winslow
I paired these two together because: A) They're continuations of each author's most accomplished novels B) Both can be read as standalone novels and C) Both are masterful continuations, and yes, neither one needed to be written, but I'm glad that they were.
Hell on Church Street by Jake Hinkson/Cash Out by Greg Bardsley
The reason for the pairing, simple: Both are my two favorite debut novels of 2012. (You can check out my thoughts on Hell On Church Street at LitReactor) Both are daring, innovative reads, and no Cash Out is as far from a crime novel (Think of it as a Marx Brother's film with a bit of ultra-violence. BTW, expect more non-crime reads later down the road.) but it is a masterful satire of the foibles of Silicon valley and of how far one man will go to keep his minuscule piece of the American Dream.
Sorry. Please. Thank You by Charles Yu/ A F*ckload of Shorts by Jedidah Ayres
The reason for the pairing: Innovation, innovation, innovation.
As most of you know, I'm a short story writer and proud to be one, and I love nothing more than getting my hands on GREAT short story collections and both qualify. Most Spinetingler readers are already pretty familiar with Ayres, (and if you haven't read him yet, what the hell is wrong with you?) but if you haven't read Yu yet, you need to. His style is comedic, playful, and effortlessly straddles several genres. By the way, I almost lumped Yu in with Winslow and The Kings of Cool not so much based on content, but because both authors have created a unique, stylized form of storytelling that is going to serve as templates for 21st century literature.
The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli/ Growing up Dead in Texas by Stephen Graham Jones
The reason for the pairing: A) Both authors are at the peak of their narrative powers B) Both authors have massive backlists with more than a few of them ranking as some of my all-time favorite reads. (All The Beautiful Sinners by Jones is about as perfect as thriller gets and Every Shallow Cut by Pic occupies the same landscape as the very best of Bukowski and Fante without the boozehound shtick.) C) In a perfect world, both of these novels should be breakout novels for the authors, and I mean household name style breakouts.
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
What more can I say about Dare Me? (If you haven't seen it, you can check out my joint review of Dare Me and Gone Girl at LitReactor.) Just read the damn thing already.
Blackbirds/Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig
Wendig occupies the same realm of fiction as Lansdale and Gaiman, i.e., he can pretty much write in any genre, but most importantly, he seems to include EVERY genre in whatever he writes. The Miriam Black books are a fantastic combination of horror/crime/comedy/whatever. Wendig's conversational style of storytelling, constant action, and deft characterization keeps the pages rolling. Needless to say, I'll pretty much read any book Wendig puts out into the world.
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker/Swallowing A Donkey's Eye by Paul Tremblay
Both of these came out of nowhere.
Yeah, I'd read Tremblay's crime satires (The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland) on the recommendation of Dave Zeltserman and enjoyed the hell out of both, but Swallowing A Donkey's Eye, damn. It's a dystopian satire along the same lines as the very best of Vonnegut and Saunders. The vividness of Tremblay's prose brings the worlds of Farm, City, Pier alive, and like The Last Kind Words and Growing Up Dead in Texas, in a perfect world, Swallowing A Donkey's Eye would be Tremblay's breakout novel.
The Age of Miracles is a breakout novel, and with good reason. I love apocalypse fiction, but my biggest beef with most of it is that the end of humanity is caused by zombies, nuclear war, environmental disaster, and it's big, terrifying thing.(BTW, apocalypse novelists, don't stop doing this, I like the scares.) It ends with a boom. With The Age of Miracles, humanity begins to draw to a close with a whisper, not a bang. A great, albeit quiet, piece of writing.
The Ninth Step by Grant Jerkins
This book is an emotional punch in the balls. Hands down my favorite novel of 2012 (You can see what I wrote about it over at LitReactor)
Stay Awake by Dan Chaon
So have you read Dan Chaon yet? You haven't, well why the hell not? Seriously, gang, Chaon is a MASTER storyteller. The stories in Stay Awake are haunting, horrifying, (but not horrifying in the sense of look at all the blood and guts I'm playing around in/YAAARRRGGGHH there's a guy chasing me with a chainsaw. Think every day horrors like my spouse has died and I'm such an alcoholic mess that I sent my children to live with a relative/I'm so depressed that I still live in the house where my parents committed suicide and I'm letting the house fall apart down around me.) and, ultimately, a beautiful to read. Stay Awake is my favorite book of the year, and one that has stayed with me long after I turned the last page.
There you have it, Spinetingler's picks for the best fiction of 2012. How did 2012 treat you? What did we miss? Disagree with any of our choices? Let us know.


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Boyfriend indicted on murder charge in death of West Texas college student Zuzu Verk
Updated 10:30 pm, Friday, March 17, 2017
Over a month after Zuzu Verk's remains were found in a shallow grave in West Texas, her boyfriend, Robert Fabian, has been indicted with murder, Alpine police said Friday.
Fabian, 25, was indicted by a Brewster County Grand Jury, according to a post by Alpine Police on Facebook. He is being held on a $750,000 bond.
Verk's cause of death is still pending at this time.
RELATED: Affidavit provides detailed timeline of what allegedly happened the night Zuzu Verk disappeared
An affidavit obtained by mySA.com states that Fabian was the last person to see Verk, on October 11, 2016.
Three days after the 22-year-old Sul Ross State University student went missing, police searched Fabian's apartment and saw that his bed had no sheets or pillow cases and found a plastic painter's drop cloth he purchased Oct. 12, 2016.
A neighbor's account to police about the early morning hours of Oct. 12 paint a strange picture of what happened at Fabian's apartment the night Verk went missing.
Fabian was arrested Feb. 4, a day after Verk's remains were found in shallow grave near Alpine, about five months after she was first reported missing. He was booked on a charge of tampering with or fabricating physical evidence in concealing a human corpse.
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Komoyedov: the Baltic fleet from service removed 36 admirals and officers
The head of the defense Committee of the state Duma, Admiral Vladimir Komoedov said that in the Baltic fleet in total from official duties was suspended 36 admirals and officers. The MP added that the Board of the Minister of defence, which investigates the situation in BF, surfaced things about which he cannot tell the press.
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Komoedov said that was present on Board of the Minister of defence, after which it was announced that Sergei Shoigu has suspended BF commander Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk and the head of staff of the Navy Vice Admiral Sergei Popov.
According to Komoyedov, there are some things he can tell the press, but all the violations associated with military readiness, reports "Interfax". In the end, said the head of the Duma Committee under the decree of the President got 36 people – the commander, chief of staff, Nicobar, commander of the naval base and others. At the same time, stressed Komoedov, they were dismissed without discharge.
He also said that the management had a claim not only to the combat readiness of the fleet, but logistics and food for the soldiers. As it turned out, had evidence of moshennichestva with food.
Komoedov noted that to protect people, taken from office for no reason.
The MP also visited the hospital ex-commander Viktor Kravchuk. He was seriously ill and underwent a second operation. Kravchuk said that back on may 10 filed a report on the dismissal to the reserve.
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Review by Greg Neyman
© Old Earth Ministries
Published May 2006
In this chapter, DeYoung summarizes the work of Andrew Snelling concerning fission tracks in zircons.
DeYoung adequately describes the conditions under which fission tracks form. The most common fission track is from uranium-238, which splits into two palladium atoms through fission. As DeYoung notes, for every two million U-238 atoms which undergo normal alpha decay, only one atom undergoes fission.
When this fission happens, the two palladium atoms leave a track in the zircon. As with radiohalos, the fission tracks can be repaired if the mineral is heated above the annealing temperature.
When dating a sample using fission tracks, the scientist will count the number of fission tracks in a particular surface area. Next, the number of remaining undecayed U-238 atoms is counted, giving you the number of parent isotope left in the sample. This is usually done via the external detector method. The sample is bombarded with neutrons, inducing fission of the remaining U-238 atoms. Sometimes this causes tens of millions of tracks in a single square centimeter. With this data, scientists can calculate how many U-238 atoms remained in the sample, and thus they can calculate the age of the sample.
The RATE group examined rocks, but again they based their research on the breakdown of pre-Flood, Flood, and post-Flood rocks, just as they did in the previous chapter for radiohalos. Please refer back to Chapter 5 of this review for an explanation of why this breakdown is unworkable.
Twelve rock samples were obtained that were considered Flood and Late-Flood to Post-Flood in origin. All samples were from volcanic tuff from the Grand Canyon region. It is interesting to note that the tuff samples ranged in size from 6 to 11 pounds. It is also interesting to note that removing a rock from a national park is a crime. There is a process by which scientific research can be conducted in the park, but it is unclear if they followed these regulations. Since the rocks could have possibly come from outside the Canyon, we cannot jump to any conclusions.
The RATE group contracted out the fission track dating to a known laboratory in Australia.
Interestingly, the fission track dates for nine of the twelve samples are not disputed, as they fall within the range published by old earth geologists. DeYoung focuses on the three samples from the Middle Cambrian period, which are thought to be about 535 million years old. The dates obtained by RATE for these samples indicate an age that is significantly less. They are dated at 34.9, 68.4, and 48 million years. As DeYoung points out, fission track dating can give not the absolute age, but the cooling age, or time since the crystal was last above the annealing temperature (for zircons, this is about 150 degrees centigrade). Above this temperature, and the fission tracks could be repaired (think of it as melting back together).
From this point DeYoung boldly claims that this confirms that "substantial spontaneous decay of uranium-238 has occurred in these rocks." By spontaneous he is referring to the young earth theory of accelerated nuclear decay. However, there is no way to justify such a claim. We can only say that there may have been heating of the rock above the annealing temperature, therefore ruining the possibility of obtaining an absolute date for the rock.
As previously noted, putting billions of years worth of radioactive decay, especially fission, into a short period of time such as the year of the flood, would essentially melt the earth. Let's suppose that this spontaneous decay occurred. With such heat, there would be absolutely no record of it in fission tracks, as a temperature high enough to melt the entire earth would certainly be above the annealing temperature of 150 degrees centigrade! This young earth argument easily defeats itself!
Think of it this way. The United States has about 892 million pounds of uranium reserves, in the form of uranium oxide (85% by weight of which is uranium).1 The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima contained 132 pounds of radioactive material. Normally, the uranium must be processed, but the young earth creationists claim that this uranium "spontaneously" fissioned. If you consider only what is in the United States, that is enough to equal more than 6,700,000 nuclear bombs exploding at once. And that is only a small fraction of world uranium reserves. Fortunately for us, this did not happen as the young earth creationist claims!
DeYoung concludes that these fission tracks give evidence of accelerated decay. If accelerated decay had occurred, the temperature would have been far above the annealing temperature, and there would be no tracks...nor any minerals...nor an earth, for that matter.
1 From US Uranium Reserves Estimates (2003). Uranium ore contains less than .2% U3O8. There are 498 million tons of ore, yielding 1,155 million pounds of uranium oxide. Adding the mass of three U-238's and eight O-16, 85 percent of the weight is from uranium, yielding 892 million pounds pure uranium.
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Cady Huffman, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Julie White Set for Page 73 Productions Benefit
Bethany Rickwald • New York City • May 3, 2012
The evening's activities will include a theatrical "bake off" in which playwrights Robert Askins, Max Posner, and Heidi Schreck will be given three "ingredients" drawn from audience suggestions. They will then have one hour to write a new play that includes these three "ingredients." The plays will then be presented by Christopher Abbott and two other actors to be announced soon.
In addition, there will be drinks and hearty hors d'oeuvres as well as the world-premiere of three commissioned new songs by Matt Schatz, performed by Tony Award-winner Cady Huffman and Rebecca Naomi Jones.
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This Beautiful & Stylish Apartment Perfect for 2 Guests
This Beautiful & Stylish Very Quiet Apartment is Perfect for 2 Guests has been Recently decorated in keeping with the High Ceilings & Style of the Building on the 3rd floor of a Traditional Victorian Tenement Block unique to Edinburgh.
It has a Lovely Sunny Living room with Sofa, and 2 occasional chairs, coffee table, Dining Table & chairs,
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A Beautiful Double bedroom with French wooden dressing table, Butlers tray and Bedside tables, and Double wardrobe.
The Double Bed is made up with Luxury Linen,Velvet Bed throw & Pillows.
There is an Alarm clock, Hair-dryer, Iron & Ironing Board supplied.
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Open Plan Kitchen with Large Fridge/freezer, Gas hob, Oven, microwave, Kettle, Toaster. The Bathroom has a Bath with Shower over it, wash hand basin & toilet.
The Apartment has a secure entry system in place and is situated in the Very Central Location of Broughton/Bellevue, which offers a host of cosmopolitan bars, restaurants and take-away facilities.
There are many Restaurants/Cafes/Deli's nearby in both Broughton Street & Canonmills & For local convenience stores there is a newsagent just at the corner the road, and a Large Tesco 5 mins Walk away as well as Takeaways, Restaurants & Bars all within a short Walk. Waverley train station & St Andrews Bus Station are approximately a 15 minute walk away. The Royal Botanic Gardens (10 mins walk) to the south by the celebrated New Town. Near York Place leading to Princes Street, St Andrews Square, George Street's Designer shops, Bars, Restaurants and nightclubs.
A Real 'Home from Home' Where you will be very comfortable and is an Ideal base to Visit Historic Edinburgh and the surrounding areas where you can 'Walk to all the main Festival Venues'. There is also a bus nearby that takes you 10 mins to The Royal Yacht Britannia at The Celebrated Shore of Leith where there are also many Bars, Cafes and Restaurants.The Apartment is near Vibrant Broughton Street where there are many ecletic shops, Deli's, Cafes & restaurants and leads to The City Centre where you can Walk to all the Main Historic sites or wander along Princes Street which has the Magestic Castle in view.
From there you could walk up The Bridges or The Mound to The High Street and up to The Castle or
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Walking away from the City you can Walk to The Royal Botanic Gardens which is 15 mins away.
There is also a Large Supermarket 5 mins walk from the Apartment which sells everything you would need to make meals & snacks as you please
It is a very Quiet Flat to be so near the City Centre with open views across gardens & Fife in the distance.
Ceilings & Style of the Building.
A Real 'Home from Home' Where you will be very comfortable an an Ideal base to Visit Historic Edinburgh and the surrounding areas.
It has a Lovely Living room with a Gilt Antique style Over mantle Mirror, A Sofa and chair, occasion table, Dining Table & chairs, Virgin TV and Broadband Cable INTERNET.
A Beautiful Double bedroom with Slate Fireplace, Wooden Shutters, French wooden dressing table, Butlers tray and a Bedside table, and Double wardrobe.
The Double Bed is made up with Luxury Linen,Velvet Bed throw & Pillows There as an Alarm clock, Hair-dryer, Iron & Ironing Board supplied.
Kitchen with Fridge/freezer, Gas hob, Oven, microwave, Kettle, Toaster,Pots/pans cutlery,crockery,glassware and so much more.
Bathroom has a Continental Bath with an excellent Shower over it. curtains, toilet and wash hand basin.
This is a beautifully Refurbished & Stylish One-bedroom Apartment on the 3rd floor of an Traditional Victorian Tenement Block unique to Edinburgh
The Apartment is well set back from the pavement giving complete privacy and has a secure entry system in place.
The apartment is situated in the Very Central Location of Broughton/Bellevue, which offers a host of cosmopolitan bars, restaurants and take-away facilities.
There is also Live Theatre at The Famous Edinburgh Playhouse
within an easy 15 Mins Walk from the Apartment.
There are many Restaurants/Cafes/Deli's nearby in both Broughton Street & Canonmills & a Major Supermarket within 5 mins Walk.
Waverley train station & St Andrews Bus Station are approximately a 15 minute walk away.
The Royal Botanic Gardens (10 mins walk) to to the south by the celebrated New Town.
Near York Place leading to Princes Street, St Andrews Square, George Street's Designer shops, Bars, Restaurants and nightclubs.
For local convenience stores there is a newsagent just at the corner the road, and a Large Tesco 2 mins Walk away as well as Takeaways, Restaurants & Bars all within a short Walk.
I am Moira married with 4 grown up children.
My husband & I like to travel as much as possible and love meeting new people and experiencing their different cultures..
I bought this property as it is in a Great local area where you can Walk into The City Centre in 10/15 Minutes going up The Vibrant Broughton Street and all it has to offer. It has lively bars, eclectic little shops, bakeries, famous butcher, lovely restaurants and at the top of this street you are in The City Centre.
It is also a short walk going the opposite way from town to Canonmills where there are many lovely cafes, bars and shops and you can also walk by The Water of Leith.
The Royal Botanic Gardens is nearby where you can have wonderful walks and there is a Cafe there with Home made Goodies if you feel like a little refreshment.
A 10 minutes Walk from there is the celebrated little village of Stockbridge again with many Bars, cafes Deli's and small shops.
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(30-40 min), but we very much enjoyed it, especially in the early evening. A Tesco is nearby as well as a laundromat. Bus stops (and Hop On, Hop Off ) are also close by. Edinburgh in August (festivals) is fabulous! Would stay here again.
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Very nice flat between Leith and central Edinburgh. We stayed 3 nights and arrived on a Saturday. That night was a little noisy as the flat is ground floor and other tenants in the building were in and out until very late for smoking, standing outside our window talking. Sunday & Monday nights were no problem though.
The flat itself was charming and a decent size for 2. Moira was lovely to deal with for Edinburgh info and about the flat. Would recommend for couples.
We had a lovely time and the flat provided a great base for getting around and is in walking distance to the centre of the city. We came across some good restaurants and convenient places to eat along the way into Princes Street. The flat really worked for us and we got to do everything that we wanted. The existence of a supermakrket in walking distance was a bonus. Thanks for a lovely break in a beauty city.
First, Moira was great, very helpful in making sure we could check in and still make our first show on our arrival day as part of the fringe and quick to bring items which were missing and help with hot water problems. It also has very good wi-fi which is useful during the festival to book tickets etc.
The flat itself though is not quiet. It is a ground floor flat next to a very busy road which meant there is always traffic noise, even on a Sunday.
It also isn't the most comfortable place to relax, it is very pleasantly decorated but the sofa isn't comfortable as is a sagging sofa bed which means the cushions sit too low in the sofa.
The kitchen is also very poorly equipped and clearly never really used. We had to request a bread knife so we could have toast for breakfast and struggled to make the oven work
Moira is great and this is fantastic if all you need is to crash (assuming you can cope with traffic noise or use earplugs). If you want a comfortable space to also hang out this isn't really the flat.
This cute little apartment had everything we needed for a fantastic week in Edinburgh. We were in town for the Fringe and it really helped to make our stay as enjoyable as it was. We would wholeheartedly recommend booking and this will be our first port of call should we return to the city.
The Apartment is ideally located for exploring Edinburgh and the many Historic sites & places of interest to Visitors to Edinburgh.
The Apartment is close to great local amenities in the Broughton Street/ Canonmills area of town just north of Princes Street- an 8 minutes walk to Broughton Street or the Botanic Gardens in the opposite direction or a 15-20 minutes walk to Princes Street and the train station.
Parking is free within a 2 minute walk Apartment - a huge plus to be so close to The City Centre
The immediate area boasts a large supermarket within a 5 minute walk as well as Broughton Street with its many cafés, bars, restaurants and speciality shops within an 8 minute walk.
The many city centre attractions such as the Castle and Royal Mile are within easy walking distance
Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament building are both within two minutes walk. Edinburgh castle, at the top of the Royal Mile is St Giles Cathedral. Other attractions are Dynamic Earth; the Museum of Edinburgh; the Peoples' Story; Canongate Kirk; and the Museum of Childhood.
All of central Edinburgh is within easy walking distance, including the National Museum of Scotland, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland.
Most International Festival and Fringe venues are equally accessible – the Pleasance Courtyard and the Fringe Box Office in George Street.
Of course, Edinburgh has many other events to offer: Science festival (April), Film Festival (June), Jazz & Blues Festival (July), the Military Tattoo, Book Festival, Mela (August) and a number of others. And the Edinburgh Marathon in May!
There are various Edinburgh Bus Tours, departing from Waverley Bridge Daily. Edinburgh is well-provided with public transport, and from nearby the apartment it is possible to get a bus direct to Ocean Terminal, where the Royal Yacht Britannia is moored, and where there The Popular Shore area is and many Restaurants Bars and Night-life are.


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If you were out there last night to see downtown San Antonio awash in colorful lights, you already know that Luminaria 2009 was a success. Again.
Laura Varela and Vaago Weiland's "Alamo Tents" were eye-catching. Their illuminated vessels, so fragile against the stone walls of the Alamo, illustrated how differently Europeans and Native Americans view the world. The installation was a poignant lesson at the historic shrine.
I spent a lot of time at Poema del Pueblo, a community poem project led by the wonderful Carmen Tafolla. A steady steam of people dropped by to write a few lines that were added to a continuous poema. Who contributed? Everyone, including a teen boy who massaged his haiku before entrusting it to poetry editor Bryce Milligan.
Then there was John Paul Cisneros, son of former mayor Henry and current councilwoman Mary Alice. The junior at USC is studying public policy and is a handsome young man who set down a few words of his own.
Then an old colleague and guitar player dropped by to leave one of my favorite lines of the night: "Love is a verb." Indeed.
Later, I caught up with friends and relatives at the big, red "friendship knot," as Michael Quintanilla calls the Torch of Friendship. There, we listened to the sounds of the Krayolas and their new tunes, including the fabulous "Chola Song."
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MLB: How Should the New York Mets Handle Jose Reyes this Season?February 13, 2011
This upcoming baseball season will be Jose Reyes' most important season of his entire career.
So many questions will be answered for him. While no one knows if the answers will be positive or negative, Reyes just has to go out there and play his type of baseball.
The main question surrounding Reyes is how long will he remain a New York Met. Some people believe he will retire as a Met, but some people think he will be on another team as soon as this season's trade deadline.
Reyes is in the walk year of the contract, and his last two seasons haven't been his best. He's had his share of injuries the past two years, and his value is hurting because of it. Earlier this offseason, the Mets exercised Reyes' contract option for $11 million.
Some people are saying Reyes isn't a Sandy Alderson-type of player. Alderson is the new Mets general manager, and he follows many "Moneyball" ways. He values stats such as OBP and SLG percentage over traditional statistics like batting average.
Alderson is a great baseball mind, and many people believe he will eventually turn the Mets around. One of the biggest decisions he will have to make with the Mets is whether or not to keep Reyes.
If the Mets aren't in contention once the trade deadline approaches, there is a possibility Reyes could be traded. He is still young, and if he puts up Reyes-like numbers, then he will have extremely high value. The Mets could get some great prospects in exchange for him.
If the Mets are contending come the trade deadline, then Reyes will most likely finish the season in New York. Questions about him will rise again once the offseason approaches though. Given the financial situation the Mets are in, if Reyes has a great season and wants a nine-figure contract, it remains to be seen if the Mets will be able to afford him.
Reyes would be a prized possession in the free agent market, and if the Mets want to keep him, they will have to compete with other teams for him. No one knows exactly what Alderson thinks about Reyes.
I don't buy the whole argument that Reyes isn't an Alderson-type player. I don't care what type of players Alderson likes, Reyes is one of the most talented players he has ever worked with. He is the most dynamic leadoff hitter in the league when he's healthy, and I hope Alderson realizes that.
Health is a huge question for Reyes this season, but fans should believe he can put together a healthy season this year. Reyes has only been prone to injuries the past two years. Before that, he was one of the Mets' most reliable players.
Reyes is still young, and his body is in fantastic shape. He is coming into Spring Training 100 percent, and he is looking at a huge season for himself. Assuming he stays healthy, he will compete for the MVP award this season.
Reyes is a once-in-a-lifetime player, and the Mets are extremely lucky to have him. The numbers clearly show that when he hits, the Mets win. When Reyes missed most of the 2009 season, the Mets were horrid. Last year he played 133 games, and the Mets won 79 of those games.
In a season where everything seemed to go wrong, the Mets went 79-83. That is not bad at all, of course much more is expected from a New York team, but that record is not horrible. The Mets' record dramatically increased from 2009-2010, and Reyes was one of the biggest reasons.
It is true the Mets haven't made the playoffs since 2006, but they have had solid seasons since then; they were extremely close to making the playoffs in 2007 and 2008. The team had late-season collapses both times that prevented them from making the playoffs.
In 2007, the Mets won 88 games, and in 2008, they won 89 games. Reyes played 160 games in 2007 and 159 games in 2008. He also played in 153 games in 2006, exactly 20 more games than he played last season.
In 2006, the Mets went 97-65, and in 2010, the Mets went 79-83. They won nearly a total of 20 more games in 2006 than they did in 2010. Reyes played in 20 more games in 2006 for the Mets than he did in 2010. If you ask me, that is no coincidence.
The truth is that Reyes is the engine of this team, and when he hits, the Mets win. Simple as that. I believe Alderson will turn the Mets back into contenders, and I trust him, but there are two things I do not want him to do.
Those two things are getting rid of David Wright and Jose Reyes.
Those two players are the heart of the New York Mets, and I hope Alderson realizes that. If Reyes has a Reyes-like season, then Alderson should do everything in his power to keep him a Met for years to come.
If you take the motor out of a car then it won't go anywhere, remember that Sandy.


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Two Juneau men are in custody following an early morning assault near Willoughby Avenue that left one victim badly injured in an Anchorage hospital.
A 37-year-old Juneau man was undergoing surgery this afternoon at Alaska Native Medical Center, police Lt. Ron Forneris said.
The man was in critical condition with significant blunt head trauma when he was flown out of Juneau this morning, according to Bartlett Regional Hospital spokeswoman Marijo Toner.
Another man, 27, was injured in the assault and was admitted to Bartlett this morning with a dislocated shoulder and multiple head lacerations. He was in stable condition at mid-day.
Police did not release the victims' names.
Police have charged Ronald Edward Smith, 33, and Rey Joel Soto, 20, with two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of robbery each. Both are being held at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center pending arraignment.
The attack allegedly occurred about 5 a.m. when Smith and Soto, armed with a baseball bat and a shotgun, knocked on the door of a Willoughby Avenue residence, near the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, as people inside were watching television.
When the 37-year-old man answered the door, he was pulled outside and beaten with a baseball bat, police said. A second resident was beaten and robbed when he tried to help the first resident, police said. The victims were robbed of a small amount of money, police said. They didn't provide other details.
Witnesses inside the house described the alleged attackers and their vehicle, which police later stopped.
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- The suspect had a backpack, but was not armed, spokesman says
- The president and first lady were not in the White House at the time
A male suspect wearing a backpack scaled the White House fence Tuesday and "took off at a full sprint," but was chased down and arrested, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said.
The president and the first lady were not in the White House at the time, and a search of the suspect's bag revealed that he was not armed, said Secret Service spokesman Max Millen.
The fence-jumper, who has not yet been identified, complied with officers' commands to stop, was taken into custody and will be charged with unlawful entry, Millen said.
It is not uncommon for people to scale a fence at the White House, only to come to a similar fate. One recent fence-jumper's short-lived jaunt was caught live on CNN, as John King was hosting his August 2 show on the North Lawn.


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Hospital's low-dose lung cancer screening effective
Published 11:45 am, Sunday, October 13, 2013
Based on the success of the Norwalk Hospital low dose computed tomography lung cancer-screening program, the hospital is now offering free lung cancer screenings for people who are at risk.
"This is a life-saving test," said Dr. Alan Richman, chairman of the Department of Radiology at Norwalk Hospital. "In these difficult economic times, we do not want cost to be a barrier and we want to help people readily access the screenings," he added.
Those at risk, according to Richman, are current or former heavy smokers between the ages of 55 and 79 years.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men and in women. According to the American Cancer Society, each year more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined. The ACS also estimates that there will be 159,480 deaths from lung cancer -- 87,260 in men and 72,220 among women) in 2013.
Norwalk Hospital's low-dose CT lung cancer-screening program was based upon the findings of the National Lung Screening Trial sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Since then, 350 patients were screened through the Norwalk Hospital program and six seemingly healthy people without symptoms were diagnosed with lung cancer.
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Studies have shown that treatment for lung cancer is more effective and the likelihood of death decreases significantly if it is detected early through screening.
Norwalk Hospital's free program has a three-part benefit, according to Dr. James Bauman, director of the Norwalk Hospital lung cancer-screening program. In addition to the "low-dose" non-contrast CT -- which produces a three-dimensional image of the lungs for early detection of lung cancer -- a coronary calcium score is calculated from the information available from this study.
"This can improve risk assessment for heart disease when added to traditional risk factors," Bauman said. A smoking cessation program is also offered by Norwalk Hospital to active smokers who enroll in this screening program.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a story that says Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash, and obviously they're against it. The story says:
Now Adobe, which controls Flash and Flash Video, is trying to change that with the introduction of DRM restrictions in version 9 of its Flash Player and version 3 of its Flash Media Server software. Instead of an ordinary web download, these programs can use a proprietary, secret Adobe protocol to talk to each other, encrypting the communication and locking out non-Adobe software players and video tools. We imagine that Adobe has no illusions that this will stop copyright infringement -- any more than dozens of other DRM systems have done so -- but the introduction of encryption does give Adobe and its customers a powerful new legal weapon against competitors and ordinary users through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
The DMCA bans tools that help "circumvent" any DRM system (as well as the act of circumvention) so this could stop people remixing them. Indeed, the EFF says: "Even if users aren't targeted directly, technology developers may be threatened and the technologies the users need driven underground."
Of course, we also know that Microsoft is busy putting DRM into Silverlight, which will enable companies that stream unprotected Flash to stream protected Silverlight (standard SMPTE 421M, aka VC-1, aka WMV9) instead. If Adobe does nothing, that should give Silverlight a competitive advantage for broadcasters, and even the rentagob crowd might not be able to shout it down. So I reckon that DRM is something Adobe has to do, whether it likes it or not.
I'll try to ask them about this, but the time difference to California means it's best done later....


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As Derek Jeter's Career Winds Down, Who Is The Next Quintessential Yankee?January 30, 2010
Men want to be him and women want to be with him.
These words describe Derek Jeter to a tee. These words have always been associated with at least one member of the New York Yankees ever since Babe Ruth plopped down in New York in 1919. There has always been a man in pinstripes that is the talk of the town, fingered as the apex of popularity in the free world. But, now that the current Yankee captain's career is entering its sunset, the question must be asked, who will replace Jeter as the quintessential Yankee?
Ruth was the original. Not a single person in the world could have rivaled the popularity of the Babe in the 1920s except for maybe the pope (and I think even the Holy Father would have donned a Yankee cap were he to meet Ruth).
As Ruth began to have to wriggle into his pinstripes, Gehrig arrived to Yankee Stadium as a fresh-faced, shy youngster who didn't demand the spotlight. He was the future, and the fans realized that, eventually embracing him as the heir to Ruth.
After Ruth retired, the next young Yankee idol in 1936 stepped into the spotlight straight out of California. Joe DiMaggio was instantly loved by the New York fans who still had the Iron Horse to idolize as well. DiMaggio was the exact thing that a Yankee was supposed to be. He married famous movie stars, he endorsed products that he loved, and drew attention wherever he went.
DiMaggio was joined in 1941 by the too small Phil Rizzuto. Ruizzuto, who didn't always have the hitting stats that screamed "Holy cow!", was a slick defender and an instant fan favorite.
A decade into his tenure as a Yankee, DiMaggio was joined by Yogi Berra, a guy nobody could justify disliking. His friendly disposition and less than exemplar grammar gave him one of the best personalities of any of the ball players at the time.
As soon as DiMaggio retired, Mickey Mantle, a good-natured southern boy, was able to make fans soon forget that DiMaggio ever left. Mantle was followed up by Thurmon Munson, Reggie Jackson, Don Mattingly, and finally Derek Jeter.
Now who could possibly follow in this list of extraordinary men, all of whom have transcended the sport. Now that Jeter has roughly three to six years of baseball left in him, who can succeed him.
Until recently, I was convinced that minor league phenom Austin Jackson would be the man to take his place. He had everything it would take to replace Jeter, but alas, he was traded this off-season to the Tigers, which leaves me completely at a loss.
My next thought was possibly CC Sabathia. He is already playing up to the level that the quintessential Yankee must play up to, but he does not seem to me to be that person that will be synonymus with the Yankee name.
The only other players currently on their major league roster that seem to have the potential to be "that man" are Joba Chamberlain and Phil Hughes. These two men have the hype needed to be THE Yankee, but neither have shown that they will be a dominant player for years to come, although both have shown flashes of brilliance.
Also, the only minor leaguer that seems to be coming up with the noteriety and skill needed is Jesus Montero. The hard-hitting catcher who will probably end up being a DH or 1B at some point down the line has the hype and potential enough to be the quintessential Yankee.
It seems to me, however, that the next man who is the face of the Yankees is not yet on their team, and not even in their farm system yet. Keep your eyes peeled folks, because when these types of players come, they come fast and usually from out of nowhere.


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Huckaby hosted the Baseball Boot Camp alongside Manteca Baseball Softball Academy owner Greg Wilson and April, and inclement weather didn't cooperate fully.
This time around, rain clouds won't stop campers from learning from the 18-year professional veteran, or several other former big leaguers Huckaby has enlisted as instructors.
Cost of the camp is $110 for children 8-years-old and up, and it includes both days of the camp, which will include sessions that run from 8 a.m. to noon.
Campers will also receive a No Errors baseball cap.
No Errors, which produces top-of-the-line baseball bags and apparel, is well-known throughout Huckaby's home state of Arizona. The company will have a trailer and several representatives on hand to introduce itself to Central California, home to some of the best baseball talent in the country.
"No Errors approached me during one of my son's (Little League all-star) sub-section games about sponsoring camps," Huckaby said. "With their defensive approach to the game, and what I hope to accomplish with my camps, we felt it would be a good relationship."
Former New York Yankee and two-time World Series champion Clay Bellinger will be on hand, as will former Texas Ranger Jason Conti and former San Francisco Giant Jamie Brewington, among others, and it's the big leaguers' unique experience that makes a Huckaby-hosted camp so special for area players.
"The last camp was a different format," Huckaby said. "With the bigger numbers at Big League Dreams, we can have eight, nine, ten players at a station and delve into everything, from hitting and pitching to outfield and infield defense.
"We can cover everything over the course of the two days and let the kids experience it all."
Kids will also have an opportunity on both days to continue private lessons with the former pro ball players at MBSA following the action at BLD.
"Ken brings (to a camp) intangibles that aren't easily explained," Wilson said. "Just Little League myths, like why a catcher has to have his off-hand behind his back. Of the 50,000 pitches (Huckaby) received (in his career), he always had his (off-hand) on his thigh, and he was hit twice. When the hand is on the thigh, it's ready for a block, or a receive-and-throw.
"It's the little things that Ken brings that you would never think about."
To register for the No Errors Fundamentals Camp with Ken Huckaby, log on to www.no-errors.com and click on "camps."
To learn more about Huckaby's coaching and camp philosophies, log on to www.azbaseballbootcamp.com.


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Australian educator and writer David Solomon's Feb. 14 discussion of women who have changed the Jewish world will launch University Synagogue's 2014 Distinguished Lecture Series.
Solomon will discuss women who have made significant contributions to the Jewish world but remained relatively unknown. He will highlight the women, talk about their achievements and the impact they have made on the world today.
Internationally known, Solomon leads "The Whole of Jewish History in One Hour," a group of lectures providing introduction to a range of areas in Jewish studies. For the past two years, he has been the Neshama Life Scholar-in-Residence in Sydney, where he has undertaken the first-ever English translation of the influential kabbalistic text Tiqunei HaZohar. This text, considered a key component of the broader canvas of Zoharic literature, is regarded important and influential within the wave of mystical literature that emerged in Spain about 700 years ago, but which claims to be much older.
Shabbat Alive services begin at 7 p.m., followed by Solomon's talk. The lecture is sponsored by Tom and Andra Ellingson and the Community Scholar Program. Jewish historian Ken Blady will speak March 7 about Jews and medicine. James Schamus, ex-CEO of Focus Features, will speak on "My Wife Is a Terrorist: Lessons in Storytelling From the Department of Homeland Security" on April 4. Claremont McKenna College history professor Wendy Lower will discuss her book, "Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields," on May 2, during Holocaust memorial services.
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In my last column, I talked about some general principles that academic library administrators should bear in mind when faced with requests from other entities on campus to occupy space in the library (either temporarily or permanently). Those principles were: first, remember that the library does not belong to you; second, say "yes" or "no" based on strategy rather than on a knee-jerk defensive reaction; third, remember that cooperation creates political capital.
With this column I would like to share some of what we've learned in my library about building and maintaining happy and mutually beneficial relationships with those nonlibrary entities that do find their way into the library building.
Libraries that keep in mind the first principle mentioned above (responding to requests for space strategically rather than defensively) should find, happily, that when programs and people do end up in the library they will usually represent initiatives that nicely complement the library's own programs and goals. For example, one partnership that my library established years ago was with our campus's Academic Advising office. We now have several cubicles housing advisers from that office in the Knowledge Commons area of our library, which brings together our major research assistance offerings with representatives of the campus's major academic support office. As tired as we all are of the overused term synergy, that's exactly what we've achieved with this partnership.
Sometimes, however, you will find yourself in a position where it is wise to allow someone to take up space in the library despite the lack of any clear connection between the guest's program and the library's. A professor or staff employee may need temporary refuge from a difficult situation elsewhere on campus, or a program office may need somewhere to perch for a few months while a renovation project is completed. When the space request is situational and the programmatic fit is poor, these arrangements tend to be temporary.
Whether the relationship is temporary or permanent, however, living together in the same building will always entail certain challenges. Some of them are unavoidable, but all can be eased by taking certain steps and keeping certain principles in mind.
- Begin all space-sharing relationships with a formal document, one that is signed and cosigned and that clearly lays out rights and responsibilities of both parties. (The one we use in my library can be found here.) This agreement should be reviewed by both parties on a regular basis. The document should make it clear that some rules apply to everyone who inhabits the building, no matter where their organizational reporting lines run. These rules might include requirements to participate in safety drills, to maintain a certain level of cleanliness, to cooperate with security staff, etc.
- Bear in mind that if the library hosts other services, patrons will likely experience them as "library services." This means that interactions over which you have very little control are going to shape patrons' perceptions of the library. To a great degree, this is something you will simply have to accept. In some cases it may be possible to influence the service philosophies of your partners—however, when addressing service issues with your hosted partners, be careful not to send the message, "You guys are really lousy at this, and we're good at it." (And, of course, bear in mind that the learning may need to flow in the opposite direction as well: the library may well be able to pick up service tips from its partners.)
- Don't treat your guests like tenants or even like guests; treat them like fellow citizens. The library and its partner programs are both tenants of a building that belongs to the campus. However, since the library building is largely under the library organization's control, the library should make sure to keep its partners in the loop regarding building events, maintenance issues, changes in opening hours, custodial arrangements, etc. Announcements that go to everyone in the library organization will often not reach those who are physically located in the library but not part of the organization, so maintaining a separate email list for the full population of the building itself is a very good idea.
- Invite partners to meetings and events, maybe even on a recurring basis. In my library, we house the Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) program, which includes one of the campus's major testing centers. Because this relationship is so important, and because the programmatic connections between TLT and the library are so strong, we have made it a point to invite TLT's director to attend meetings of the library's executive leadership team on a quarterly basis. This gives our two programs a regular and predictable opportunity to update each other on initiatives and activities and to touch base about any difficulties or issues that may need to be resolved. This level of interaction and coordination won't be necessary with every relationship, but it's wise to think about it whenever a partner relationship begins.
- There will be blood. Clean it up promptly. Every organization has its own culture, and when two different organizations are placed in the same building, the two cultures will very likely come into conflict at some point. Acknowledge this likelihood early in the relationship and together commit to the principle that when conflict arises, it will be dealt with promptly, professionally, and respectfully.
It's important to remember that by no means will following the principles outlined above guarantee a perfectly harmonious and conflict-free relationship with your new partner in the library space. However, in our experience in my library, these principles can help a lot—both to prevent unnecessary conflict and to provide a clear path to resolution when it does arise.
I invite comments from anyone else who has had experiences with space-sharing in the library and would like to offer other tips and principles for success—or, perhaps even more useful, cautionary stories of failure!


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Lives in Baton Rouge. Attends Crossroads Church in Lafayette& Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge
Became connected to ACF's work by another friend of mine who was already an ACF supporter and missionary. I have been supporting ACF for 1-year.
People who are looking to make a difference not only in a child's life, but also see growth in a community that is beyond impoverished should get behind ACFs' efforts. I have seen first-hand how open hearted the community is, and ACF is one of the few organizations that are bringing the hope of Jesus to these people, which is by far the most important work to be done.
What does ACF do very well in your eyes?
They are great about updating everyone on their progress in all aspects, including the children that are sponsored.
Why do we continue to support this cause?
ACF truly has a heart for the Roma community which is the poorest of the poor. My experience on missions trips have been nothing but authentic.


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In 2011, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez organized the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in 2011 specifically to serve as a regional body that excludes the U.S. and Canada—one that might someday supplant the Organization of American States (OAS).
News that the next Latin leader to assume CELAC's rotating presidency is Cuba's dictator, General Raul Castro, does not come as a surprise, then. After all, Raul's older brother Fidel was organizing students to protest against the "imperialist" U.S.–sponsored OAS when it was established in Bogota in 1948.
The EU should not have been surprised, either, when at the end of last weekend's second biannual 60-nation EU–CELAC Business Summit in Chile, the Chavistas in charge of Argentina, Bolivia, and Venezuela blocked EU attempts to shore up rule of law and protection for EU national investments in Latin America.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso had pleaded for language in the EU–CELAC communiqué to bind Latin American countries and create the "legal certainty" necessary to make long-term investments by the EU less risky.
The scores of Argentina, Bolivia, and Venezuela have fallen precipitously in the annual rankings of The Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom in recent years. Expropriations, as well as the nationalization of private property and investments owned by companies from Spain, France, or other EU states are big reasons why.
The EU effort was for naught, however. Bolivia's Evo Morales rejected it (while also going out of his way to inflame an old territorial dispute with his Chilean hosts). Argentina's Cristina Kirchner tweeted about it negatively, and Venezuela refused to sign it—so the EU "legal certainty" language in the final summit declaration was removed.
This is an issue upon which the EU and the U.S. should agree. President Obama should work with the EU to present a united front to the renegade Chavistas, in the interest not only of U.S. and EU investors but also on behalf of the citizens in Argentina, Bolivia, and Venezuela who are being short-changed by their governments' policies.


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Our friends at California Tortilla today had us hungry for Mexican food so we've found a delicious traditional Christmastime soup recipe called "Pozole" made with garlic, pork and so many delicious spices!
1 whole onion, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon garlic powder or 5 cloves of garlic, peeled and diced
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
4 green chiles, roasted, peeled and diced
1 jalapeno, seeded, and finely diced
2 tablespoons oil or lard
2 cups dried hominy
1/2 teaspoon salt
Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat.
Saute the onions and garlic for approximately two minutes.
Brown the meat in the pan with the onions and garlic.
Add enough water to cover the meat with a least 2 inches.
Stir in the dried hominy, salt, cumin, oregano, cloves, pepper and chiles. (If using fresh hominy instead of dried, do not add at this time.)
Let simmer for 1 hour.
Remove the meat from the liquid.
Remove excess fat and cut the meat into small cubes. Set aside.
Add chicken broth as necessary to replace liquid. If using fresh hominy, add it at this time. Simmer for an additional hour.
Add in cubed pork and simmer for an additional 20 minutes or until hominy is thoroughly cooked.
Salt to taste!
Feliz Navidad!
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