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Dead Island – Achievement Guide
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Achievement Guide by OmegaMustard
Version: 1.0 | Updated: 09/11/11
GAME: Dead Island
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*Does Contain Spoilers, so SPOILER ALERT!*
I. Achievement Overview
II. The Achievements
A. Rootin' Tootin' Lootin'
B. Tis but a flesh wound!
C. There and back again
D. Catch!
E. Road Trip
F. Cardio
G. Swing them sticks
H. Gesundheit!
I. Light my fire
J. 10 heads are better than 1
K. A taste of everything
L. One is all I need
M. Can't touch this
N. Humanitarian
O. Tae Kwon Leap
P. I want one of those
Q. Karma-geddon
R. To put it bluntly
S. Hack & slash
T. Guns don't kill but they help
U. Need a hand?
V. Warranty Void if Used
W. Gotta find'em all
X. Nearly there
Y. Steam Punk
Z. Originality
AA. Together in the light
AB. Going steady
AC. Rageman
AD. People Person
AE. Ménage à trois
AF. Right 4 Life
AG. A very special day
AH. Knock, knock
AI. Busy, busy, busy
AJ. Learning the ropes
AK. Dedicated student
AL. School of hard knocks
Secret Achievements
AM. Everybody lies
AN. Ah! Spoiled meat!
AO. Oh, no you don't
AP. Savior
AQ. How many days exactly?
AR. First!
AS. Hell in paradise
AT. No raccoons in here
AU. King of the jungle
AV. Banoi Redemption
III. Closing Statements/Contact
I. The Achievements
There are currently 48 achievements worth 1000 gamerscore.
There are no difficulty settings until you beat the game, then you can
start playthrough 2 that makes the zombies equal to your level. All
achievement stats carry over to multiple playthroughs and multiple
character playthroughs. For example, you kill 230 zombies with sharp
weapons on one character, then start another character and kill 20 more.
You still get the achievement for killing 250 zombies with sharp weapons.
You can gain 42 of the achievements worth a total of 910 gamerscore offline.
The last 6 achievements you need Xbox Live or System Link to obtain.
There are no missable achievements because you can always replay the game
or join a friend's game to get achievements you missed. Joining a lower
level friend's game is essential to getting some of the harder killing
achievements like killing 5 zombies with a single blow.
II. The Achievements
A. Rootin' Tootin' Lootin'
- Loot 5 Exceptional Weapons. 30G
- These are weapons that are randomly found around the game that are
in Orange text. They are not always great weapons but are considered
rare. Once you have picked up the weapon, you can sell it or whatever
you feel like doing with it.
B. Tis but a flesh wound!
- Sever 100 limbs. 10G
- This can only be done with sharp weapons. Machetes and scythes work
really well. Aim for the arms, legs and heads.
C. There and back again
- Explore the entire island. 30G
- There are a total of 72 places to travel to on the island. You will
get the majority of them while doing quests and side quests.
*Note* as of right now, this achievement is glitched because you can
only discover 71 places on the map. Some people are saying that the
72nd place is future DLC but we will see. I will keep this updated.
D. Catch!
- Kill an Infected with a grenade blast. 10G
- You must first find a grenade, they are rare to find. Now you must
use it on an infected which are the zombies that run at you.
E. Road Trip
- Drive a total distance of 10 kilometers. 10G
- You will gain access to trucks you can drive early on in the game.
You end up driving quite a bit through the game so this is really easy
to get.
F. Cardio
- Travel a distance of 20 kilometers on foot. 10G
- You will do a lot of walking/running while making your way through the
game. You will have no problem getting this one.
G. Swing them sticks
- Kill 150 enemies using Analog Fighting controls. 25G
- First you must turn on Analog in the options menu. Go to the controls
menu and turn it on. Once on, you will have to hold the left trigger
and then flick the right control stick around to aim and such. Takes
minute to get use to. Easier to do early on in the game when the
zombies are weaker. Another trick is to kill zombies while driving.
All hit and run kills count towards this if you have Analog activated
on the options menu.
H. Gesundheit!
- Heal yourself with a medkit 100 times. 10G
- Medkits are rare to find around the game. I find most off of dead
zombies or you can buy them from time to time.
One trick you can do is start a new game and grab the medkit out of
the bathroom in the Prologue level. Use it and then reload checkpoint.
Rinse and Repeat.
I. Light my fire
- Set 10 zombies on fire simultaneously. 20G
- Best to use a molotov to do this. While on Act 2, you can exit the
church and you will see an ambulance on the bridge to the right. Round
of the zombies to follow you and then jump on the top of the ambulance.
Once you see about 10 of them below you, throw you molotov onto them.
J. 10 heads are better than 1
- Kill 10 zombies in a row with headshots. 15G
- This one isn't as annoying as it sounds. You can kick the zombies on
the ground and then shoot them in the head to get a better shot. For
an easier method, take a high level character into a friends game that
is at the start of the game and all shots will be 1 hit kills. Aim for
the head. You can miss the heads but don't hit the zombies anywhere
else but the head or you'll have to start over.
K. A taste of everything
- Kill a zombie with 10 different melee weapons. 25G
- There is a wide variety of melee weapons in the game. Hard not to get
this one if you are picking up different weapons. Pipes, knives,
paddles, scythes, wrenches, coat hangers, cleavers, etc.
L. One is all I need
- Kill 5 Infected in a row with a single blow. 20G
- You must kill 5 zombies in a row with 1 hit. Very easy to do if you
take a high level character into a low level characters game.
M. Can't touch this
- Use a hammer to kill a series of 15 zombies without taking damage. 20G
- Best to take a hammer into a lower level friends game and do this. You
can be grappled while doing this as long as you can knock the zombie
off before it damages you. Find zombies feeding or laying down to kill
is the best method. If a zombie is coming at you, kick it down and then
attack it with your hammer.
N. Humanitarian
- Kill 50 human enemies. 15G
- If you are completing all the quests, you will come across quite a bit
of humans. You will have no problems getting this one.
O. Tae Kwon Leap
- Kill 25 zombies with your bare fists. 25G
- Best to do this early on or by joining a low level friend's game. Just
attack zombies with your fists.
P. I want one of those
- Customize 25 weapons. 30G
- This does not count upgrades, just mods used with blueprints. You can
make 25 of the same blueprint and get this which is nice. Deo-Bombs
use the least resources to make. They only require Deodorant x2 and
Duct Tape x1. You get this blueprint from Mick Fler in the Lighthouse
after finishing the side quest, Tell Me Where It Hurts.
Q. Karma-geddon
- Kill 50 zombies using a vehicle. 15G
- You will get this fairly early on just by completing missions. Just
keep your eye out for steering wheel icons on the mini map. Once in the
car, just hit every zombie you see.
R. To put it bluntly
- Kill 250 zombies using blunt melee weapons. 25G
- Blunt weapons include paddles, wrenches, pipes, coat hangers, batons,
maces and baseball bats. Best done with Sam B since he specializes
blunt objects. Throw kills also count.
S. Hack & slash
- Kill 250 zombies using edged melee weapons. 25G
- Edged melee weapons include knives, scythes, cleavers, machetes.
Best done with Xian Mei since she specializes with sharp weapons.
Throw kills also count.
T. Guns don't kill but they help
- Kill 250 zombies using firearms. 25G
- Guns include pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles and even mounted
guns. You can use the mounted machine gun at city hall and keep
reloading your checkpoint to get this one.
U. Need a hand?
- Join another player's game. 10G
- This can be a friend or just a random person. This can be obtained
through Xbox Live Gold or System Link.
V. Warranty Void if Used
- Create a customized weapon. 10G
- This can be obtained as soon as you get your first blueprint. Go to a
workbench and combine with a weapon for this.
W. Gotta find'em all
- Find 60 collectibles. 20G
- See Nearly There.
X. Nearly there
- Find 120 collectibles. 25G
- There are 140 total collectables in the game. Id badges, folders,
recorders and blueprints all count. You can get this really cheap
by creating a new game and picking up the first collectable you see
because it doesn't reset once you create a new game.
Y. Steam Punk
- Create weapons to rival the gods of fire or thunder. 30G
- Any weapon you create using the Shock Mod or the Torch Mod will unlock
this. You get the Torch Mod for completing the quest Counsel of Despair.
You get the Shock Mod for completing the Black Hawk Down quest.
Z. Originality
- Play in a co-op team of 4 different playable characters. 10G
- You must be a full 4 player game and everyone needs to be using all
different characters. Kind of hard to find unless you organize a group.
AA. Together in the light
- Complete 5 quests in a single co-op game with the same partners. 10G
- This must be done in one session. Not too hard to do since everyone
can work on different side quests in the same game. Just complete 5
to get this.
AB. Going steady
- Complete 25 quests while playing with at least one co-op partner. 25G
- This is one of those over time achievements. It does not have to be
done in the same game just as long as you are completing quests with
at least one co-op partner, you will get this eventually.
AC. Rageman
- Kill 100 enemies with Fury attacks. 25G
- After you level up once, you gain access to a skill point and can unlock
your fury mode. It is on the left on the skill points menu. Once you
have it unlocked, kill some zombies to get your fury meter up. The
circle meter in the upper left corner of the screen beside your health.
Hold B to go into fury mode. You will get this over time.
AD. People Person
- Play with 10 different co-op partners for at least 15 minutes each. 10G
- This will take a bit of time. If you have Xbox Live Gold, just join
up with other people or leave your room open and hopefully people will
join off of you.
AE. Ménage à trois
- Complete 5 quests with 3 co-op partners. 25G
- This can be done over different lobbies. You just have to complete
5 quests with a full game of 4.
AF. Right 4 Life
- Complete act I with 4 different characters. 30G
AG. A very special day
- Kill 250 zombies with modified weapons. 30G
- Just a simple weapon upgrade counts for this so you can get this really
easy. Weapon mods also count. Just upgrade your weapon at a work
bench and start killing.
AH. Knock, knock
- Breach a locked door with the first blow. 15G
- When you come to a door you have to ram into, you will get a little
game to try and knock it down by using the Right Control stick. You
have to hold the Right stick down and push up on it to hit the door.
You are trying to get the bouncing line dead center to open it in one
shot. There is a door in the prologue you can keep trying on by
reloading the checkpoint if you don't get it the first time.
AI. Busy, busy, busy
- Finish 75 quests cumulatively. 60G
- You will get this over time if you are completing side quests and
playing the game over and over.
AJ. Learning the ropes
- Reach level 10. 10G
- See School of Hard Knocks.
AK. Dedicated student
- Reach level 25. 25G
- See School of Hard Knocks.
AL. School of hard knocks
- Reach level 50. 30G
- You will be around your mid 30's once you complete the game once and
that is doing everything you can. You can join other people's games
and build on your experience. Certain skills allow bonus XP so if you
want this faster, be sure to grab those skills. Either way this is
gonna be a little grind.
Secret Achievements
AM. Everybody lies
- Use a large medkit to heal an injury of 5% or less. 20G
- Large medkits are very rare to find, pity you have to waste it on this.
You will get one at the start of chapter 18. Once you have one, dunk
your head under water for a second or just tap fire and then heal
youself with it.
AN. Ah! Spoiled meat!
- Kill a Butcher using an axe. 10G
- Butchers are the zombies with there hands replaces with bones. Just
take it out with an axe.
AO. Oh, no you don't
- Kill a Ram using tackle skill. 10G
- Sam B uses the tackle attack. What you want to do is dodge the Ram when
he charges you and then kick/hit him in the back to get him low on
health and then activate Sam B's tackle skill.
AP. Savior
- Save 5 people besieged by zombies. 20G
- This is really random. You will see people getting attacked by zombies
and have to save them. They randomly appear around the map while doing
side quests. Most are rescue missions.
AQ. How many days exactly?
- Play Dead Island at least 28 days after starting it for the first
time. 10G
- You can either play every day for 28 days after first playing it or if
you want to go through the hassle. You can play offline and change
your systems clock 28 times and load up the game.
AR. First!
- Kill a Suicider with a grenade. 15G
- Suiciders are the zombies that explode when you get close to them.
You have to throw a grenade or shoot a red gas can near them.
AS. Hell in paradise
- Complete act I. 30G
- Story Related.
AT. No raccoons in here
- Complete act II. 30G
- Story Related.
AU. King of the jungle
- Complete act III. 30G
- Story Related.
AV. Banoi Redemption
- Complete act IV. 30G
- Story Related.
II. Closing Statements
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Human Flower Project
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Mandorla: Intersecting Worlds
With a tragedy in Russia, mourners and their florists turn to an old figure of Eastern Orthodox iconography, shaped like a seed.
A Russian Orthodox priest blesses graves outside Krymsk.
Overnight floods in Krymsk, a southern Russia city east of the Black Sea, killed at least 172 people early Sunday morning. There had been no warning, even though authorities later admitted having known by 10 p.m. Saturday that heavy rains threatened to inundate the town.
Some of the survivors (more than 25,000 lost their homes and belongings) say they believe that along with flooded natural waterways, more water was actually released from a reservoir above the city, "a theory rebutted by scientists from Russia's environmental monitoring service, who said Friday's rains swelled nearby rivers with the equivalent of six months' average precipitation."
Recriminations have been mounting. And so have floral tributes to the dead. Thanks to Craig Cramer of Ellis Hollow for alerting us to these striking images taken in a makeshift graveyard outside Krymsk.
A Ukrainian florist advertises various designs for wreaths, most of them variations on the tear-drop form of the mandorla.
How different these sympathy arrangements are from the circular wreaths and sprays we're accustomed to. All morning we've been searching for clues as to their distinctive shape. Egg? Seed? Womb? Teardrop?
After browsing through Russian and Ukrainian florists websites, we're still not certain why this form of tribute is such a consistent floral presence at funerals in the region. We've read that even-numbered flowers are preferred (even required) at times of mourning and that yellow blooms are unwelcome at happy or sad occasions alike.
Having read up on Russian funeral customs and dipped into church symbolism, we've come to think that the massive oval-shaped arrangements follow an iconic shape in Eastern Orthodoxy—the mandorla.
This encapsulating form recurs in Christian imagery, a kind of radiant bubble that surrounds divine figures when they appear to humankind.
One of the earliest such images is this Apse mosaic of the Transfiguration, St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai, c. 550-565
"The term refers to the almond like shape: "mandorla" means almond nut in Italian. In icons of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the mandorla is used to depict sacred moments which transcend time and space, such as the Resurrection, Transfiguration, and the Dormition of the Theotokos."
In Pythagorean symbolism and pre-Christian art, the mandorla shape was conceived as two intersecting circles, alluding again to a kind of "eclipse," when two different dimensions coalesce; momentarily, there's a keyhole that makes it possible to see a more essential reality than we know in everyday life.
These pendulous wreaths, often fashioned with concentric rings of flower-color, remind us of the luminous cloud around our Lady of Guadalupe, a form that both protects and projects the power residing inside.
A soldier digs a grave outside Krymsk, Russia. More than 170 residents of the town died in early morning floods Sunday July 8.
Photo: Sergey Ponomarev, for AP
The intersection of opposites certainly comes through in Sergey Ponomarev's astonishing photo from the Krymsk cemetery. A pale young man (or is it a girl?) shovels inside a grave, a black block surrounded with mud, while on the ground above scores of the bright egg-shaped arrangements lie across fresh gravemounds; all the way to the horizon, they shine back at the sky.
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
Royalish Flower Seed
Seed from some of the plants grown at Buckingham Palace are now on sale, but will their royal connections get them across international borders?
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The BBC reports that 11 plant varieties from among the more than 350 flowers that grow there can be yours.
During the Hampton Court Flower Show, running until Sunday, the seed will be for sale at the Plant Heritage Seed Shop, for a minimum £1 donation to "the charity." (which we take to mean Plant Heritage, not the British monarchy, which seems to be solvent).
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Sunday, July 01, 2012
A Gentle Correction
About 10 days ago, we cited a New York Times article explaining why Burma's human rights leader wears flowers in her hair. She kindly corrected us both, us all.
Aung San Suu Kyi pinned a supporter's flowers in her hair on the day she was released from house arrest.
While visiting France in late June, Burmese human rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who recently had accepted her Nobel Peace Prize, remarked on the customary flowers in her hair. The New York Times had reported that she wore them in memory of her late father, who would put flowers in her hair. HFP seized on this information and passed it along.
But Aung San Suu Kyi corrected that notion recently while visiting France.
"You see, I was only two when my father died," she said. "And at that time, I had no hair! In Burma we believed if you shaved children's hair, it grows back thick and long. And my hair was always shaved, so it's only a myth that he placed flowers there… but I'm very touched people think he did.
"The reason why I wear flowers in my hair is actually because my mother used to do so. This was very much a Burmese tradition. But these days Burmese girls have started cutting their hair short so they no longer wear flowers. And on top of it, they don't know how or have great difficulty doing it. Even my personal assistant—who has short hair—doesn't know how to help me."
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Fair to feature cornucopia of events but no carnival
No carnival this year, but for the first time the main musical act will perform in Marion
Staff writer
The 83rd annual Marion County Fair is right around the corner, and this year there are some big changes.
For the first time, the main musical act will perform in Marion, and for the first time in two years, there will not be a carnival.
Country gospel singer, Susie McEntire is scheduled to sing at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Sports and Aquatic Center.
USD 408's facilities provide an indoor venue that is both air-conditioned, and handicap accessible.
McEntire has awards from the Nashville Network, Country Music Association, and Canadian Country Music Association. She was named "Artist of the Year" several times in the field of "Positive Country Music."
During concerts McEntire tells stories about her early Christian experiences between songs.
She has produced 18 albums to date and also plays celtic, jazz, and Christmas numbers.
Eastmoor Methodist Church and the Emmanuel Baptist Church will sell tickets in Marion and Hillsboro MB Church and Hillsboro United Methodist in Hillsboro.
Fair Manager, Kelli Savage said Tuesday that there were several reasons why a carnival would not be included this year.
"The main issue is scheduling," Savage said.
She also said that out of the 105 counties in Kansas, 90 of the fairs or festivals were in the month of July. Of those 90, 25 occur at the same time or overlap the Marion County Fair, which used to be in August.
She said out of the 25 remaining counties, 11 have a larger population than Marion and 10 have a higher median household income and thus are more likely to attract a carnival.
"As with any group circuit, word gets around where the money is and isn't," Savage said. "Most carnivals want a $10,000 to $35,000 guarantee. The fee has to be paid up front. It is hard to raise that kind of money."
In comparison, McEntire's fee for musical entertainment was only $5,000.
In addition to a carnival's guarantee, ticket sales go directly to the carnival. But the fair must absorb other costs.
"We also have electrical and water expenses," Savage said.
Some carnivals provide a percentage of their income to help cover added utility expenses.
But, Savage said, "we often don't receive any kickback."
The fair board considered changing the date. Savage said having the fair before July 4 would bring up issues regarding display animals and crop exhibits because of the timeline for slaughter and harvest.
If the fair were scheduled later in August, livestock and crops might be too far along to display, she said. An August date might also cause a conflict for school-age participants.
"The majority of the fair board members would like to be able to contract a carnival," Savage said. "It is simply not feasible with our budget."
However, the fair will include a number of other events.
The annual parade will start at 6:30 p.m. July 24, and proceed from N. Main Street to D Street in Hillsboro, finishing at the fairgrounds.
After the parade will be free snow cones, a watermelon feed, exhibitors, and a kids' tractor pedal pull.
The pedal pull is a free event open to children ages 4 through 12. The top three finishers in each age category will receive a medal and be eligible to compete in the State Fair in Hutchinson. Preregistration will begin at 6 p.m. and the event will start at 7:30 p.m. July 24. Contestants are strongly recommended to wear shoes.
The Kraft Rodeo will begin at 8 p.m. July 24 and 25 including saddle bronc, barrel racing, bull riding, and steer wrestling. Local entrants are encouraged to participate.
Kids are encouraged to enter the Mutton Bustin' and Calf Scramble events.
For more information and to register contact Steve Kraft at (620) 200-4081.
A truck and antique tractor pull will begin at 7p.m. July 26 in the fair arena. Registration will begin at 5 p.m. Local talent will compete for prizes and bragging rights. For entry information, call Myron Regier at (620) 367-8277.
The 41st annual demolition derby will start at 7p.m. July 27. Preregistration deadline is Monday. Entry forms and rules are available online at www.marioncountyfairks.org, or at a number of automotive repair and parts dealers. Tickets are available at the arena ticket booth.
The Ag Challenge of Champions will start at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Foods Building on the fairgrounds. The competition recognizes 4-H or FFA agriculture- and livestock-oriented youth. There are three age divisions. Cash awards and agriculture-related prizes will be awarded. Those interested should contact their local FFA adviser or email the fair at email@example.com.
Other highlights include a cow patty bingo contest. Squares will be sold July 24, 25, and 26, for $5 each or 5 squares for $20. The winner will receive $100.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A student who was shot outside a dormitory at South Carolina State University died on Friday as authorities searched for four suspects believed to be involved in the shooting, officials said.
Police said the male student was shot around 1:30 p.m. EST (1330 ET) on the campus of the historically black college in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Officials have not identified the victim or the suspects. Authorities are still investigating a motive for the shooting, said University Police Chief Mernard Clarkson.
The frequency of shootings at schools and universities in the United States is fueling a national debate over gun control. The latest attack follows a shooting death at Purdue University earlier this week and shootings at high schools and middle schools in recent weeks.
University President Thomas Elzey turned emotional as he announced the student died several hours after the incident.
" South Carolina State University is saddened today because of the loss of one of our students," he said. "He was a very nice young man and it hurts. It hurts us all."
The university said a lock down imposed after the shooting was lifted, but warned students to remain cautious and report any suspicious activity to police, according to the school's Twitter feed.
The four suspects were believed to have left the campus, Clarkson said. Police have identified one suspect but do not know the identities of the other suspected assailants, officials said.
South Carolina State University has an enrollment of about 3,200 students. Orangeburg, a city of nearly 14,000 people, is located some 75 miles northwest of Charleston.
The shooting was the latest in a rash of gun attacks at schools across the United States.
On Tuesday, a male student was shot and stabbed to death in a classroom at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
The day before, a student was shot and critically wounded outside an athletic center at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
Last week, two students were shot at a high school in Philadelphia, another was shot at a high school in Georgia, and two students were shot at a middle school in New Mexico.
(Additional reporting by Scott Malone in Boston, Zachary Fagenson in Miami; Writing by Kevin Gray; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Lisa Shumaker)


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Bluebirders of Wake County
The Bluebirders of Wake County will host its quarterly meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, at the Mordecai Historic Park visitor center, 1 Mimosa St., Raleigh. For details, call 919-787-5248 or go to bluebirdersofwake.org.
American Association for University Women
The Raleigh chapter of the American Association for University Women will hold its monthly meeting at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 711 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. For more information, email Terry Wall at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wake Forest Lions Club fundraiser
Ten percent of proceeds will go to the Wake Forest Lions Club when diners at Milton's Pizza and Pasta say they are supporting the club from 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 23. The restaurant is located at 14520 Falls of Neuse Road, Raleigh, in the Wakefield Commons shopping center.
Democratic Women of Wake County
The Democratic Women of Wake County will host a luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, at the N.C. State University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. The lunch buffet costs $20, but the program is free. For reservations, email Pam Sturgeon at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 425-879-1636. Reservations are due by noon Monday, Feb. 22.
Rotary Club of North Raleigh
The Rotary Club of North Raleigh will host Casino Night starting at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at the N.C. State University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. For more information and for tickets, go to http://northraleighrotary.org. All ticket sales directly support charities and are tax deductible.
Brier Creek Seniors
The Brier Creek Seniors meet from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays for social activities, speakers, trips, and games at the Brier Creek Elementary School/Community Center. For details call 919-973-4044.
Triangle Singles Club
A dance club for single people age 40 and older meets from 8:30 to 11 p.m. on alternating Fridays and Saturdays at Northbrook Country Club, 4905 North Hills Drive, Raleigh. The cost is $5 for members and $8 for guests. The event features a DJ, food and soft drinks. For details, call Lewis Lemond at 919-740-3103 or go to www.meetup.com/Triangle-Singles-Club.
Wake County Republican Women's Club
The Wake County Republican Women's Club meets the third Thursday of each month at the University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh. A social begins at 11:30 a.m. and the lunch and program begin at 11:45 a.m. To register, go to www.wakerepublicanwomen.org.
Wake Forest Area Republican Club
The Wake Forest Area Republican Club meets at 6 p.m. the second Monday of each month at Real McCoy's, 3325 Rogers Road, Wake Forest. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7 p.m.
Triangle Stroke Support Group
A support group for stroke patients, caregivers and people at risk of having a stroke meets at noon the third Tuesday of each month at St. Matthew AME Church, 1629 Bennett St., Raleigh. All meetings are free and open to the community.
Hi Rise Toastmasters
The Hi Rise Toastmasters meet from noon to 1 p.m. every Wednesday at the Downtown Express Library, 336 Fayetteville St., Raleigh. For details, email email@example.com or call 919-807-4866.
Wake Forest Survivors of Suicide
The Wake Forest Survivors of Suicide is a support group for those who have been affected by suicide. The group meets from 6:30 to 8 p.m. the second Thursday of each month at 10580 Ligon Mill Rd., Ste. 210, Perkins Counseling, Wake Forest. Questions may be directed to 919-368-6286 or email email@example.com.
Alzheimer's and Related Dementia Support Group
Alzheimer's and Related Dementia Support Group meets at noon the third Tuesday of each month at Spring Arbor of Raleigh, 1810 New Hope Road, Raleigh. The group offers a safe place for caregivers, family members and friends of people with dementia to meet and develop a support system. To RSVP, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 919-250-0255.
Newcomers Club
Newcomers Club of Raleigh invites members and prospective members to Welcome Coffees the first Friday of the month from 10 a.m. to noon at the Harrington Grove Swim and Racquet Club, 12201 New Leesville Blvd., Raleigh. For details, go to NewcomersClubRaleigh.org.
Wake Forest Lions Club
The Wake Forest Lions Club meets at 7 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday of each month at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St. For details, call Bob Wallace at 919-671-9913.
Rotary clubs
▪ The Rotary Club of Wake Forest meets for fellowship, dinner and presentations from guest speakers at 6:30 p.m. Mondays at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St., Wake Forest. For details, email email@example.com.
▪ The Rotary Club of Wakefield meets from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays at TPC Wakefield Plantation Country Club, 2201 Wakefield Plantation Drive, Raleigh. For details, go to WakefieldRotaryNC.com.
Wake Forest Optimist Club
The Wake Forest Optimist Club meets at 7 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St. For details, call Dawn Nakash at 919-926-1452.
Wake Forest Kiwanis Club
▪ The Wake Forest Kiwanis Club meets at 7:30 a.m. Thursdays at The Forks Cafeteria, 339 S. Brooks St., Wake Forest. For details, email email@example.com.
▪ The club meets for Bingo from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Mondays at The Factory, 1839 S. Main St., Wake Forest. Participants pay a $20 entry fee and receive a packet of cards and the chance to win cash prizes. For details, go to WakeForestBingo.com.
Chess club
A chess club for ages 16 and older meets from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays at the Wake Forest Coffee Company, 156 S. White St., Wake Forest. For details, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Civil War Roundtable
The Raleigh Civil War Roundtable meets for a lecture program at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month in the Daniels Auditorium at the N.C. Museum of History, 5 E. Edenton St., Raleigh. Admission is free; new members are welcome.
TOPS Morning Club
Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Morning Club hosts 9:30 a.m. weigh-ins and 10:30 a.m. meetings Mondays at Hope Lutheran Church, 3525 Rogers Road, Wake Forest, and other locations. One-year membership to the nonprofit weight loss support program costs $32. For details, call Laura Wickwar at 919-621-3613 or go to www.tops.org.
Social clubs
Specialized Recreation Services of the City of Raleigh offers three social clubs for individuals with developmental disabilities. The clubs encourage the development of appropriate leisure and social skills. For details, call 919-996-2147.
▪ Adventure Club: Members, ages 15-24, work on money-handling skills and appropriate community behavior.
▪ Wildcats Club: Members, ages 25-34, work on money management, community skills and activity planning.
▪ Dragons Club: Members, ages 35 and older, continue developing appropriate social and community skills while focusing on independent-living skills.
Bridge clubs
▪ Vanderbilt Bridge Club offers competitive bridge games Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings at the Quail Hollow Swim Club, 800 Orleans Place, Raleigh. Beginner bridge classes are also offered. For details, call 919-847-8963.
▪ The Capitol Bridge Club meets for competitive bridge from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Fridays at Jaycee Community Center, 2405 Wade Ave., Raleigh. For details, call 919-996-6833.
Seniors dance club
Pullen Park invites seniors 50 and older to its dance club, which meets from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Pullen Community Center, 408 Ashe Ave., Raleigh. The club dances to live ballroom music including foxtrot, waltz, swing and Latin tunes. The cost is $8 per person per week. For details, call 919-831-6052.
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Rory Reed and Aurelia Rios both of Merced, Calif., are excited to announce their engagement.
Rory is the son of Rick Reed and the late Carol Reed of Emmetsburg and Diane and Skip Miller of Spirit Lake, formally of Armstrong and grandson of Marvis Reed and the late Ronald Reed of Spirit Lake, formally of Ringsted. Rory is the vice president of Valley Techlogic Inc. in Atwater, Calif.
Aurelia is the daughter of the late Luis and Martha Rios of Merced, Calif. Aurelia is an eligibility worker for the Merced County Human Services Agency.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Tuesday in favor of John O. Brennan's nomination to become the next director of the CIA, clearing the way for his confirmation before the whole Senate.
The intelligence panel voted 12-3 in a closed-door session to favorably report Brennan, the Homeland Security adviser to President Barack Obama. Tuesday's vote could clear the way for Brennan's confirmation as soon as this week.
The three senators voting against Brennan's nomination in committee, all Republicans, were Sens. Jim Risch (Idaho), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.) and Tom Coburn (Okla.). Chambliss is the committee vice chairman and said he would be explaining his "no" vote on the Senate floor in the coming days.
Brennan faces some measure of rare, bipartisan resistance from Republicans who wish for more information from Obama about the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi and liberals who want more details about Brennan's role in advising covert drone strikes against terrorist targets.
If any of those senators object to moving forward with Brennan's nomination before the whole Senate, it would trigger the same 60-vote threshold -- a de-facto filibuster -- to which now-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's nomination was subjected.
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I lie down in savasana, arrange my arms and legs. I adjust the position of my shoulderblades. Readjust my head to reduce the bend of my neck. Open my eyes once more, then close them, drawing the gaze inward to the space between my eyes.
Darren Main begins calling the breath instructions. Heidi, assisting him, moves through the room.
Five breaths in, I'm curious.
Five more, no change.
Five more, I feel a tendril of difference, of opening. I register the briefest sensation of aversion and fear. I choose to allow it.
Five more, and a sense of elation arises, lightness.
The breathing continues, but the opening moves to the foreground.
A slight tingling at the tip of my nose.
Nadis in the thumbs and forearms energize and brighten.
A sense of the separation of being high.
Darren calls for five deeper breaths, then, on the exhale, hold until the need for new breath.
At the fifth, breath enters deeply, then out. Then I move into the upward lift of navasana.
Everything ignites. Blazes upward.
St. Theresa.
* * *
Breath brings me back to earth.
Then draws the heart higher.
An image of matsyasana, fish pose, arises in my mind.
My heart lifts, spine arches.
Root bandha engages. Navel bandha locks.
The throat widens and prana moves out with each exhale. I draw the chin toward the chest.
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Heidi presses her thumb into the center of my forehead.
The trembling in my arms and heart cohere into rapid pulsing.
The light coming through my eyelids flashes bright/dark, then pulses.
The sounds of Heidi's breath penetrate my sensory rock concert.
Then I realize she's reaching out to me with the sound of her breath. Suggesting.
My mind slowly thinks to match her breath, but there's no purchase for the mind on the self-driving breath.
Heidi's thumb slides up the forehead, toward the hairline.
All mind connects to her thumb, focus narrows to it, tendrils of mind, of wanting, wrap around the connection, wanting more. Wanting.
Trembling and pulsing grow to all.
Heidi releases and the mind hears her moving to a nearby person.
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The connection gone, the grasping remains.
Darkness, disappointment, rejection, suffering, anguish all arise. Grasping at loss is all.
The body twists and contorts, spams.
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Heidi returns, now in first aid mode. Her touch channels the prana.
A dark phase of matsyasana emerges. Hands clenched. Resistance increases.
Heidi's breathing re-enters my awareness.
She unpeels my fingers from my fist.
The mind sees her calm.
The body arches toward the ceiling.
Then entirely quiet.
Mind quiet.
Body moves into stillness.
* * *
New cycles of breath.
New openness.
Badda konasana. Mula bandha, Uddiyana bandha, Jalandhara bandha all lock.
Then release.
More savasana.
Quiet mind.
Gentle witnessing awareness emerges.
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The first time I participated in a pranayama workshop with Darren Main, I felt like the experience was more than mildly dangerous.
From a flatlander's perspective, it seemed to me to be simply hyperventilation and the disorientation and high associated with it, resulting in some laughter, some sobbing. And though I categorized it and labeled it so, how could that really be as dangerous as I felt it was? With time, I became more interested in the connection between breath and emotion and joy and sorrow that was apparent from the experience.
So by the time Darren came back a year later, I decided to try it again.
Second go-around, less dramatic, less worrisome. Similarly interesting. I was more curious.
Sometimes, three's the charm.
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Like the first two experiences with pranayama, in my third just last week, I again experienced the loosening of the grip of the conscious mind that results from hyperventilation. But rather than shifting into seemingly random emotional or mental states, this time there was enough mindfulness beneath the conscious mind to hold the order and openness.
The explosion of ignition that came first was elemental.
But what I find most interesting now is how clearly I felt then and remember even now the grasping for more of the fireworks, the reaching out, wanting, clinging to Heidi's touch, and then the huge wave of darkness that followed the separation, the clinging with nothing to hold onto, the completeness of misery and unhappiness. Complete and utter dukkha.
So now – back to pranayama. I think I understand its potential a bit better than I did before. Yes, it involves changing the body's chemistry. Yes, its effects can be rightly characterized as unstable. But at a finer level of granularity, for me this time, it reduced the energy usually drawn by the thinking mind, increased the energy channeled through the body, and increased the brightness of my feelings to Klieg lamp levels.
At that level of brightness – where feelings/sensations were all in all – I saw more clearly and sharply both the grasping of wanting more that impeded my experience of what was happening, as well as the inundating darkness and suffering that came from the grasping once the wave of experience subsided.
Not only is it clear that that Buddha guy knew what he was talking about when it came to that Second Noble Truth, it's also clear that in the trippy altered mind state of that pranayama practice, what is see-able is not always as random as I'd guessed.
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Oneida Common Council holding 4 public hearings Tuesday
ONEIDA >> Four public hearings are scheduled for Tuesday's Common Council meeting.
The first will address a local law to amend the city's charter to include a portion relating to assessments that requires the record of every deed and conveyance of land in the city to be kept by the assessor.
Related, the council will also vote on enacting a fee schedule for recording deeds. A $30 fee is proposed to be charged for filing recordings of deeds, along with a $5 fee for copies related to deed fillings.
Public hearings will also be held on the assessment roll for the 2012 sidewalk replacement program, in which benefiting land owners are required to contribute 50 percent of the cost, as well as assessment rolls for the Hagan Circle, Fultz Drive and Gladwell Avenue storm water improvement project, which require similar contributions. Each project will have its own public hearing.
Following the establishment of a local law last year that allows the city to convey land to the Madison County Industrial Development Agency for the purpose of economic development, the council will vote on turning over the parking lot off Cedar Street. The property - 0.47 acres with 58 parking spaces - has been assessed at $41,000. If, within a year, the IDA fails to sell the property to a private entity to further economic growth and development, the property will be returned to the city.
In an effort to support the Oneida Improvement Committee's Rail Trail Project, the council will consider offering the city's official endorsement of the project. If approved by the council, the city will also file an application with the New York State Department of Transportation for a Strategic Transportation Enhancement Program grant to be used for the project.
In other business, the council will consider:
A one-year preventative maintenance agreement with Power Generation & Industrial Engines of Bridgeport in the amount of $355 for a generator/fire pump.
Authorizing the purchasing agent to sell two surplus vehicles on eBay - a 2005 Chevy Tahoe and a 2001 ford F350.
Waiving $15 of the $30 charge to Colonial Laundromat from the Water Department for failing to provide backflow test results by deadline.
The council is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.


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[Editor's note: GeekWire is running a series of profiles on the startups participating in this year's class in the TechStars Seattle incubator program. Check back each day at 1:30 p.m. for a new profile, leading up to Demo Day on Nov. 1]
Sending important medical or financial documents via email can worry those concerned about security. Nveloped is hoping to ease that process.
Built for healthcare and financial services, Nveloped's platform allows users to send and receive secure email in just two clicks using an existing email address. We caught up with CEO and co-founder Nikhil Palekar, a former practicing patent attorney, for this installment of Startup Spotlight.
Explain what you do so our parents can understand it: "Regular email isn't secure. We help users send and receive secure email easily using their existing email accounts."
Inspiration hit us when: "I was forced to use a fax machine to communicate health/medical information but didn't have access to one or want to use one. Email is probably the most efficient way for businesses to communicate, so making it viable for healthcare and financial communication would provide huge gains in terms of efficiency and cost savings."
VC, Angel or Bootstrap: "Each one makes sense for companies at different stages. We bootstrapped for a while, raised a small angel round recently, and maybe we will look for VC money in the future."
Our 'secret sauce' is: "We rethink the way email usually works. Our competitors offer "stagnant" solutions, like message portals or hard-to-use encryption keys. We push the secure content dynamically."
The smartest move we've made so far: "Applying to and starting the TechStars program. The teams in the program and the network of mentors really are amazing."
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Would you rather have Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg or Bezos in your corner: "Bezos. We're okay with "being misunderstood" in the short term, to accomplish our goals long term. When Bezos wants to enter a market, he goes all in. We like that."
Our world domination strategy starts when: "People start to realize that there's no reason to use traditional email instead of our service. Who doesn't want email that's more secure?"
Rivals should fear us because: "We have a really innovative solution that's simply better than theirs. We're nimble, we iterate quickly, and we're getting an incredible amount of customer traction only a month into our beta."
We are truly unique because: "We don't require complicated plugins or rely on message portals to deliver secure messages. You get your secure content directly in your inbox."
The biggest hurdle we've overcome is: "Getting "In the door" with some large healthcare companies, etc. Sometimes it's hard to even get a meeting to pitch your product with someone who can actually make things happen at that company."
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text: Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment, he recorded his voice on a wax-covered cardboard disc on April 15, 1885, and gave it an audio signature: "Hear my voice - Alexander Graham Bell." world Updated: Apr 30, 2013 22:19 IST Reuters Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment: he recorded his voice on a wax-covered cardboard disc on April 15, 1885, and gave it an audio signature: "Hear my voice - Alexander Graham Bell."The flimsy disc was silent for 128 years as part of the Smithsonian Museum's collection of early recorded sound, until digital imaging, computer science, a hand-written transcript and a bit of archival detective work confirmed it as the only known recording of Bell's voice.Carlene Stephens, curator of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American history, first saw this disc and nearly 400 other audio artifacts donated by Bell when she joined the museum in 1974, but she didn't dare play them then. "Their experimental nature and fragile condition ... made them unsuitable for playback," Stephens said by email."We recognized these materials were significant to the early history of sound recording, but because they were considered unplayable, we stored them away safely and hoped for the day playback technology would catch up with our interest in hearing the content," she wrote.That day came in 2008, when Stephens learned that scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California had retrieved 10 seconds of the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune" from a 1860 recording of sound waves made as squiggles on soot-covered paper. That was nearly two decades before Thomas Edison's oldest known playable recording, made in 1888.If the Berkeley scientists could coax sound out of sooty paper, Stephens reckoned, perhaps they could decipher those silent records she had guarded for decades.She contacted Carl Haber at Berkeley and Peter Alyea, a digital conversion specialist at the Library of Congress. They chose six recordings from the collection, including the one that turned out to be the Bell audio, and made ultra-high-definition three-dimensional images of them.The Berkeley lab's scanner captures gigapixels of information, and not just width and height but the depth of the grooves, with measurements down to 100 nanometers, or 250 times smaller than the width of a human hair, Haber said by telephone.DEEP WIGGLESDepth is important with these old recordings, Haber said, because a lot of the information about how it sounds is stored in the deep parts of the grooves."It's not necessarily a groove that wiggles from side to side, it wiggles up and down," he said. "If you just took a regular (two-dimensional) picture of it, you don't get the information you need."Haber and Berkeley colleague Earl Cornell used an algorithm to turn that image into sound, without touching the delicate disc. The system is known as IRENE/3D, short for Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.Most of the recording is Bell's Scottish-accented voice saying a series of numbers, and then dollar figures, such as "three dollars and a half," "seven dollars and 29 cents" and finally, "$3,785.56."This suggests Bell was thinking about a machine for business recording, Stephens said."The recording on its own is historically interesting and important," Stephens wrote. "It answers questions about Bell personally - what kind of accent did he have? (he was a Scot who lived in England, Canada and the United States) ... How did he pronounce his middle name? ('Gray-hum' not 'Gram')."The job of authenticating the disc began with a hand-written transcript of the recording signed by Bell (online at http://newsdesk.si.edu/photos/alexander-graham-bell-transcript-voice-recording).In 2011, Patrick Feaster, an Indiana University sound-media historian, inventoried notations on the discs and cylinders in the Smithsonian's collection. Many were scratched on wax and all but illegible, Stephens recalled."We then matched up one wax-and-cardboard disc, from April 15, 1885," Stephens wrote. "When we recovered sound from the recording ... the content matched the transcript word for word. It is a recording of Bell speaking."Similar scanners are used in quality assurance for micromanufactured products such as microchips, optical components and to assure the flatness of touch screens. Dentists use them to take three-dimensional pictures of cavities to aid in making custom fillings.The Berkeley lab has worked with the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress to learn more about the earliest audio records, some on tinfoil or even paper. And while Haber and his colleagues now know how to authenticate the recordings, they cannot do all the records that may exist.The Northeast Document Conservation Center in Massachusetts is working with the Berkeley lab on a digital reformatting service for early audio recordings. There could be as many as 46 million of these early recordings in the United States.The Bell recording was made at a time of creative ferment, Haber said, as Bell, Edison and others invented devices to change the way Americans communicate."Those guys were creating the future," Haber said. First Published: Apr 30, 2013 22:14 IST


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We are in the seventh month of 2010 and it's time to focus on what is left of this year. These are my most anticipated books for the rest of the year (I have excluded July). I picked some because it is a series I am keen on continuing and some because I love the author and others because I like what I read about them.
I let my emotions guide me when it comes to the books I pick. All of them might not be great literature but I like the characters or the storyline or the wow factor. As you should know by now I like to like the characters I read, there should be some humor and friendly bantering for me to really enjoy myself. New stuff, mysteries, strange alien tech, and new races are also stuff that can get me excited. On the other hand beautiful prose gives me goose bumps.
- Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold on Baen, November 2 – Vorkosigan Saga Book 12
- Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn on Gollancz, September 16 – Hidden Empires Book 3
- Quantum Thief by Hanu Rajaniemi by Gollancz, September 30 – Quantum Thief book 1
- Out of the Dark by David Weber on Tor, September 28 – Out of the Dark book 1
- Redoubtable by Mike Shepherd on ACE, October 26 – Kris Lingknife book 8
- The Technician by Neal Asher on Tor UK, August 20 – Polity Universe
- What Distant Deeps by David Drake on Baen, September 7 – Lt. Leary/RCN 8
- The Colony by Ray Harper on Book Guild Publishing, August 26
- The Water Rising by Sheri S. Tepper on EOS , August 31 – Plague of Angles book 2
- Dreadnought by Cherie Priest on Tor, September 28 – Clockwork Century
- The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff on DAW, September 7 – Confederation of Valor book 5
- Damage Time by Colin Harvey on Angry Robots, October 1
- Money Shot by Christopher Rowley on Tor, November 9 – Netherworld book 3
CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Miles Vorkosigan is one of those lovable rascals, crippled at birth in a society that used to kill babies like him, he still overcome and surpass the obstacles in his way. Too creative for the armed forces he is appointed Imperial Auditor. He is often a frustration for his leaders and seldom asks for permission. Many times he accomplishes a resolution in an unconventional way that frustrates the people around him. In the The last Vorkosigan Novel Diplomatic Immunity he went on a honeymoon with Ekaterin. I am so embedded with this series that I wouldn't miss this one for the world.
Title: CryoBurn
Series: Vorkosigan Saga 12
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Genre: Space Opera
Hardback: 400 pages
Publisher: Baen November 2, 2010
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Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove—he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp—an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future—attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out.
On Kibou-daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re-write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don't mess with the secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping—something is rotten on Kibou-daini, and it isn't due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle—of trouble!
Guardians of Paradise by Jaine Fenn (Gollancz)
Jaine writes wonderful books. Her world-building and characterization is lifelike, different and a joy to read. I see the protagonists in her novels grow and become more, much more than they were before. There is a great historical mystery at the bottom of this series, The Sidhe was defeated in a revolution and thought to be extinct but we learn very early in the series that that is not the case. Book three brings the characters from book one and two together. Jaine write this on her homepage about the characters in this novel "A desire for justice and a drive to survive are all very well, but the bigger picture is more complex than our heroes have considered, and it's largely painted in shades of grey. Then again, some secrets are so dark that genocide isn't too great a price to pay to keep them contained". That sounds intriguing.
Each novel in the Hidden Empire series is self-contained, though certain locations and characters re-occur, and the books come together to tell a larger story. Next in the series after this one are Bringer of Light (2011) and Queen of Nowhere (2012) they will be sold under her new name J. N. Fenn. I thought we were moving beyond the time when female writers had to have male names to sell more copies, but apparently not.
- My Author Profile of Jaine Fenn
- My notes on her earlier books in the series: Consorts of Heaven | Principles of Angels
Title: Guardians of Paradise
Series: Hidden Empire 3
Author: Jaine Fenn
Genre: Space Opera
Hardback: 352 pages
Publisher: Gollancz (September 16)
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Most people believe the Sidhe are long dead, exterminated centuries ago when the males of the race rose up and fought alongside the humans subjugated and enslaved by the female Sidhe. But Jarek Reen knows better: he's discovered, the painful way, that the Sidhe are alive and well, and still screwing over humanity. They've already killed his sister, so he's not surprised when he discovers an old friend and her partner are next on the Sidhe's hitlist. He helps not only to foil the assassination attempt, but also to muddy the scene of the crime, leaving the Angels Nual and Taro sanMalia presumed dead – and free to join his crusade to expose the insidious influence of the Sidhe, and their evil plans to enslave the human race again. Their mission takes them across human-space, from utilitarian hub-points to rich, exotic planets – where they discover that a brilliant vacation spot hides some of the darkest secrets of all. And that's when they discover how easy it is for the hunters to become the hunted …
Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Gollancz)
I first heard about Hannu's fantastic book deal with Gollancz, they signed him for three books after reading just one chapter of the first book, but after listening to His Master's Voice By Hannu Rajaniemi on Escape Pod 227 I totally understand why John Jarrold signed Hannu.
To quot myself about His Master's Voice:
The story is fantastic and makes you interested in more, the world is a singularity one where humans have evolved and can make copies of their own minds. Unrestricted copy led to the creation of Plurals some of which evolved to transhuman civilizations out among the stars. Now human law limits every human to one copy at a time. The master breaks the law and is sentenced to a virtual prison. It's from there the animals have to rescue him.
The language in the story is poetic and it sounds fantastic coming from someone not born to the language. The story hints on things that might be in Hannu's upcoming novel. There is a war going on among the stars and it's there the small animal are going, to the Big Dogs. The story is also amusing and fun, imagine the dog becomes a musician to earn money and the cat had a gladiator career that lasted a while.
I have only one word for this story: Epic
I know quite a few book bloggers that also have The Quantum Thief in their pick for 2010 too.
- Read a Review of the ARC on Wertzone. He calls it "easily the best SF debut since Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon".
Title: The Quantum Thief
Series: The Quantum Thief Trilogy book 1
Author: Hannu Rajaniemi
Genre: Space Opera
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Gollancz (30 September) | Tor (May 2011)
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Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy – from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Except that Jean made one mistake. Now he is condemned to play endless variations of a game-theoretic riddle in the vast virtual jail of the Axelrod Archons – the Dilemma Prison – against countless copies of himself. Jean's routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. She offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self – in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed . . . The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future – a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. It is a stunning debut.
Out of the Dark by David Weber (Tor)
At first I didn't know if I should be outraged that David Weber jumped on the vampire bandwagon or be delighted that he was starting a new series. By what I have been able to find out it sound like we and the vampires stand alone against an alien onslaught. I am not totally happy about it but the idea is intriguing David has yet to write something I don't like.
It is built on a short story with the same name published in the anthology Warriors edited by G. R. R. Martin and Gardener Duzois published by Tor Books March 2010.
- My Author Profile of David Weber – lots of free online novels there to get you hocked.
Title: Out of the Dark
Series: Out of the Dark book 1
Author: David Weber
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor September 28, 2010
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Earth is conquered. The Shongairi have arrived in force, and humanity's cities lie in radioactive ruins. In mere minutes, over half the human race has died.
Now Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky, who thought he was being rotated home from his latest tour in Afghanistan, finds himself instead prowling the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols and trying to organize the scattered survivors without getting killed.
His chances look bleak. The aliens have definitely underestimated human tenacity–but no amount of heroism can endlessly hold off overwhelming force.
Then, emerging from the mountains and forests of Eastern Europe, new allies present themselves to the ragtag human resistance. Predators, creatures of the night, human in form but inhumanly strong. Long Enemies of humanity… until now. Because now is the time to defend Earth.
Redoubtable by Mike Shepherd (ACE)
Kris Longknife is a formidable woman with a knack for getting in trouble and getting out. She is one of them Longknifes and if life wasn't enough complicated being an officer in the navy; the society of humanity dissolve and her grandpa is named King making her a reluctant princess. The Peterwald family with their long standing grudge with the Longknife set up their own little pocket empire and starts to make life for Kris and her family difficult. Lots of humor and fantastic characters. I love this series and the characters in them so this is a must.
Upcoming after this one is Daring in October 2011 and Furious in 2012. The titles are only preliminary expect changes, Redoubtable changed name at least once the last year.
- My author profile of Mike Shepherd
- My thoughts on the three first novels in the series: Mutineer | Deserter | Defiant
- My thoughts on book six and seven: Intrepid | Undaunted
- The Society of Humanity Trilogy written as Mike Moscoe let us follow Ray Longknife, here are my thoughts on book 1: First Casualty
Title: Redoubtable
Series: Kris Longknife book 8
Author: Mike Shepherd
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: ACE, October 26
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Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife has precise orders: seek out, engage,and destroy pirates, slavers, and drug lords operating beyond the rim of human space—without interfering in Peterwald family affairs. But when slavers kidnap a twelve-year-old girl, Kris's mission becomes personal. And if destroying the pirate compound flattens some Peterwald interests—well, to hell with politics.
The Technician by Neal Asher (Tor)
My experience with Neal Asher so far has strictly been with his Agent Cormac series which takes place in the same universe like this one. Fact is that most of the books have part of their action on Masada. So even if I might not see Cormac here it is connected to the story before. Plus the cover is awesome.
One thing that bothers me is that it is so hard to find Neal's books in the US; somebody should do something about that. They are missing out.
Read my reviews of the Cormac series: Shadow of the Scorpion | Grindlinked | The Line of the Polity | Brass Man | Polity Agent | Line War
Title: The Technician
Universe: Polity Universe
Author: Neal Asher
Genre: Space Opera
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Tor UK, 20 Aug 2010
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The Theocracy has been dead for twenty years, and the Polity rules on Masada. But the Tidy Squad consists of rebels who cannot accept the new order. Their hate for surviving theocrats is undiminished, and the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is at the top of their hitlist.
Escaping his sanatorium Tombs is pushed into painful confrontation with reality he has avoided since the rebellion. His insanity has been left uncured, because the near mythical hooder called the Technician that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind even the AIs fail to understand. Tombs might possess information about the suicide of an entire alien race.
The war drone Amistad, whose job it is to bring this information to light, recruits Lief Grant, an ex-rebel Commander, to protect Tombs, along with the black AI Penny Royal, who everyone thought was dead. The amphidapt Chanter, who has studied the bone sculptures the Technician makes with the remains of its prey, might be useful too.
Meanwhile, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals, stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons.
What Distant Deeps by David Drake (Baen)
Captain Daniel Leary and his friend the formidable Adele Mundy and their military adventures in the Royal Cinnabar Navy. David Drake rewrites historical battles and wars and makes beautiful military science fiction out of it. Adele is a really cool character with an interesting background, her whole family was persecuted and killed for treason and she is the lone survivor, now a scholar with spectacular information handling skills and uncanny shooting skills. She becomes the unlikely best friend of Daniel Leary. This is the type of character chemistry I love to read.
- Read my thoughts on book seven: In the Stormy Red Sky
- Love David Drake's new homepage with all the back story to the RCN novels.
Title: What Distant Deeps
Series: Lt. Leary/RCN book 8
Author: David Drake
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Baen, Spetember 7
Excerpts: Chapter 1-12
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Captain Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy, have been in the front lines of Cinnabar's struggle against the totalitarian Alliance. Now these galactic superpowers have signed a peace of mutual exhaustion– But the jackals are moving in!
The Republic of Cinnabar was on the verge of collapse under the weight of taxes, casualties, and war's disruption of trade. That the Alliance of Free Stars was in even worse condition helped only because it has made peace possible.
Years of war have been hard on Daniel and harder still on Adele, whose life outside information-gathering is a tightrope between despair and deadly violence. Their masters in the RCN and the Republic's intelligence service have sent them to the fringes of human space to relax away from danger.
But the barbarians of the outer reaches have their own plans, plans which will bring down both Cinnabar and the Alliance. The enemies of peace include traitors, giant reptiles, and barbarian pirates whose ships can outsail even Daniel Leary's splendid corvette, the Princess Cecile.
Unless Daniel, Adele, and their unlikely allies succeed, galactic civilization will disintegrate into blood and chaos. So they will succeed— or they'll die trying!
The Colony by Ray Harper (Book Guild Publishing)
This one just sounded interesting I enjoyed Karen Traviss' green science fiction the Wess'har Wars series and therefore I think this could be something for me. This is also his debut novel.
The author himself also sounds interesting: Ray Harper, originally from Worcestershire, is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire in Luton, lecturing in biochemistry, biotechnology, computer applications, genetics and molecular biology. He has carried out research and consultancy work in adipose tissue metabolism, cell immobilisation and the development of World Wide Web-based assessment systems and virtual learning environments. He has published a number of lectures and articles in learned journals.
Title: The Colony
Author: Ray Harper
Genre: Green Science Fiction
Hardcover: 228 pages
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing, August 26
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It is the future. Earth is overpopulated and running out of food. Starvation is rife. Everywhere society is disintegrating, with wars and civil unrest. The need to find new worlds to colonise is paramount.
A new planet is discovered, surveyed, found to be suitable, and the first wave of colonists arrive, joined by the survey scientist, Linstrom. Initially, he is resented as an outsider, especially by the colonists' leader, Jon Williams, who sees him as a possible rival. The colony quickly expands, felling trees and planting crops, hunting and fishing and exploring the hinterland. The colonists also begin to use newly developed human-cloning techniques to rapidly expand the population.
Also on this planet, but unknown to the settlers, are the Monitors, intelligent clones left behind by a departed civilisation to safeguard the planet's ecology and protect it from despoliation and development. They have the new colony under observation, and they do not like what they see …
The Colony belongs in the classic tradition of science fiction grounded in real scientific and technological knowledge and expertise, but enriched with true story-telling art. It marks the debut of a new, exciting talent.
The Water Rising by Sheri S. Tepper (EOS)
I am about to make a review of A Plague of Angels before this one get out (expect it in August closer to the release). I have enjoyed everything I read by her so far, she has a talent for surprises and well developed characters. I know she is not for everyone, she can be something of an eco-feminist at times but I like her well enough.
Title: The Waters Rising
Series: Plague of Angels book 2
Author: Sheri S. Tepper
Genre: Feminist Science Fiction Fantasy
Hardcover: 512 pages
Publisher: EOS, August 31 | Gollancz, January 2011 (UK)
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The long-awaited and much-demanded sequel to A PLAGUE OF ANGELS, continuing the story of Abasio, once a farmboy, now, so Blue, his talking horse, is happy to inform people, a man who goes hither and thither helping orphans in this world where renascent mythical beasts and fairy tale 'archetypes' now live. . . . And when he comes agross little Xulai from Tingawan, one of the Ten Thousand Islands, far across the western Sea, she informs him that she too is an orphan, and implores his help carrying out the last request of the Princess Xu-i-lok, who has been dying since the day she married Duke Justinian, who refused the royal order to marry Alicia, the Prince's sister. Xulai is Princess Xu-i-lok's Soul Carrier, and the task she must complete means visiting the scary forest in the dead of night – but it is the only thing that will bring the princess a measure of peace. Abasio, helper of orphans, promises though she must do this alone, he will be near, to aid her if necessary . . . and it is, for there are dark things abroad . . . And Xulai's job is not yet done, for with the princess now dead, the grieving Duke is left a widower – and Alicia, Duchess Altamont, still wishes to marry him. It's not just the man she wants, but his lands too . . . and her plans do not bode well for anyone except her . . .
Dreadnought by Cherie Priest (Tor)
I recently read Boneshaker, Cherie's first book in the Clockwork Century Series and I am really looking forward to the second, Dreadnought (Clementine also takes place in the same series but that was a limited edition that I unfortunately didn't get any of, a normal release of it will be out in 2011). I especially like the strong female protagonist in Boneshaker and hope for something similar here.
Title: Dreadnought
Universe: Clockwork Century
Author: Cherie Priest
Genre: Steampunk
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Tor Books, September 28
Excerpt: Chapter 1
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Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. Once there, she'll catch a train over the Rockies and—if the telegram can be believed—be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle.
Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. When Mercy finally arrives in St. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the Dreadnought. Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard.
What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy can't imagine why they're so interested. Perhaps the mysterious cargo secreted in the second and last train cars has something to do with it?
Mercy is just a frustrated nurse who wants to see her father before he dies. But she'll have to survive both Union intrigue and Confederate opposition if she wants to make it off the Dreadnought alive.
The Truth of Valor by Tanya Huff (DAW)
I enjoyed the other novels in the Confederation of Valor Series especially the dialog is to die for. It is witty and the characters banter and rant in the most delightful way. The main character is Torin Kerr, she starts out as a Staff Sergeant and gradually rise through the ranks until she leaves and begin life as a prospector together with the man of her life. She and her fellow humans are employed by elder alien races to fight in their war. Humanity seems to have been duped much like in John Ringo's Posleen universe. The big arc in the series is about that. There was some decline in my enjoyment in the series in the last books so I hope for a revival of the shock and awe of the first book here.
Read my thoughts on the previous books: Valor's Choice | Better Part of Valor | The Heart of Valor | Valor's Trial
Title: The Truth of Valor
Series: Confederation of Valor/Torin Kerr book 5
Author: Tanya Huff
Cover art: Paul Youll – Preliminary artwork
Genre: Military Science Fiction
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: DAW September 7
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Damage Time by Colin Harvey (Angry Robot)
I enjoyed his previous novel Winter Song very much so this one I picked because I want to read something more of Colin Harvey.
Title: Damage Time
Author: Colin Harvey
Genre: Future Crime | Science Fiction
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Angry Robot October 1
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Rock-hard SF Thriller from the author of Winter Song: no-one here gets out alive. It's 2050 and sea-levels have swamped today's coastal regions. New York City is protected by tidal barriers and the USA is bankrupt. Detective Pervez (Pete) Shah serves with the NYPD's Web Crimes Division as a Memory Association Specialist. When he's accused of murdering a glamorous woman in a bar, he must find the killer, save himself … and the world.
FILE UNDER: Science Fiction [Future Crime / Memory Specialist / Run for your Life / World in Danger]
Money Shot by Christopher Rowley (Tor)
The Netherworld series is Heavy Metal Pulp, a hybrid between novel and graphic novel with violent and adult content so it might not be for everyone. I however am delightfully fascinated with these futuristic hardboiled-noir detective novels, maybe it is the teenager in me? It's a series that well illustrates many of the moral issues that can arise with cloning and gene modifications; where does life become human? The protagonist is Detective Rook and he is accompanied by Pleasur a chipped-up pleasure model with programmed secrets and a Julia a dominatrix on the run.
My reviews of the previous Netherworld books: Pleasure Model | The Bloodstained Man
Rowley's homepage www.christopherrowley.net contains a Netherworld Web Project with 28 slightly different chapters compared to book one that has 21. The texts are without the delightfully noir illustrations. There is also world building notes in the 'Need to Know' section.
Title: Money Shot
Series: Netherworld book 3
Author: Christopher Rowley
Genre: Heavy Metal | Cyberpunk | Noir
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Tor (Heavy Metal Pulp) November 9
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Detective Rook Venner was a successful investigating officer for the Hudson Valley Police Department—until the General Sangacha murder case came across his desk and his world exploded.
Now after being dragged through hell and back, Rook is on the run with Plesur, a Pleasure Model who is the one eyewitness to the murder. Plesur carries a secret in her brain that terrifies the powers-that-be. A secret that they will do anything to destroy—even bring in a Tactical Robotic Regiment to track Rook and Plesur down and annihilate them.
The only choice the two have is to locate the coordinates that were planted in the pleasure mod's head to the isolated mountain ridge where it all began. Deep underground, in a warren of machine halls and ice caves, something so horrific is happening that just knowing three code words is enough to get you killed: Operation Taste Imperative.
Rook and Plesur have no way back and no way out. If they want to survive and have any kind of life together, they must uncover the terrifying secret that lies deep inside the mountain.


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Although Bold City Brewery hasn't been brewing beer the longest, the name is pretty much synonymous with Jacksonville microbrewing. Co-owners and mother-son duo Brian and Susan Miller started the brewery in October 2008 on a fizz and a prayer. Five years later, some of their dozen-or-so products, including flagship brew Duke's Brown Ale, can be found in bars throughout Northeast Florida and beyond, though not out of state (yet).
The taproom has a close, European vibe that is as casual as it comes. Some hipsters filter in, but Bold City is more of an everyman (and woman) spot than a trendsetter haven. If the taproom is crowded, as it often is, snag a drink and wander over to the warehouse side, where you might strike up a conversation with the Jolly Mon himself, who serves up burgers (bean or cow), brats, pulled pork and wings in between puffs of a cigar and sips from a beverage of his choosing.
"I always tell people he was sent to us," said Kevin Miller, a younger brother who does customer relations for the family business. "He kind of adds to the ambiance of the place."
After some saucy conversation and grub, maybe ask that cute stranger with the friendly boxer to play a round of giant Jenga. If you feel like a seasonal with a pinch of nostalgia, try Big John Miller's Apricot Wheat, which was rolled out in June as a Father's Day surprise for the family patriarch.


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