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ABC BLINDS AND SIGNSCertificate of Excellence 2019
ABC Blinds and Signs, Shutters and Shopfronts has been established for over 30 Years and specialises primarily in the manufacture and installation of Shop Signs, Shop Signage, Commercial Folding Arm Awnings, Full Cassette Awnings, Traditional Victorian Awnings, Residential Awnings, Dutch Canopies, French Wedge Canopies, Venetian Blinds, Roller Blinds, Vertical Blinds, Garage Door Shutters, Plantation Shutters, Security Shutters and Shopfronts.
Beaumont Shutters and Blinds LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
We offer bespoke shutters at high quality, we are a family run business which we are proud to say we deliver a service that attentive.
Marshall Shutters
Marshall Shutters is a very reputed company in London. Our team fully dedicated to our work. We also provide the services to domestic and commercial businesses and as well as hospitals, schools, supermarkets and so on.
Top ShopFronts
Top ShopFronts specializes in the installation of high quality shop fronts and roller shutters in the London area. Our experience in the industry, together with our extensive product knowledge means that we can provide the best solution for your requirements at an affordable, competitive price. You may get more info by visiting at http://www. topshopfronts.co.uk or by sending email on email@example.com Emergency 24/7 Repairs We also offer a fast, efficient and reliable 24 hour emergency repair service. Whether your installation has been damaged by accident whilst in use or as a result of an attempted break-in or vandalism, we can be on site quickly 24/7 to repair or replace it. 2 year guarantee on all products No call out charge Free no obligation quote
Lock stock and barrel locksmiths ltdCertificate of Excellence 2019
We offer all general locksmithing work domestic and commercial. We install all types of alarms and cctv of which is personalised to each and every customer. We fit doors and windows. We offer a bespoke service
Hire a Hubby
Hire A Hubby is a property maintenance franchise business originally started in Australia. Now operating in the UK, in Cheshire, Herfordshire, Essex, and Kent We are always looking for new business and people to join our growing team, Our professional handymen provide services to homes and offices, retail and commercial, with no call out charges, free no obligation quotes, CRB/DBS Police checked Hubbies, with £5 million public liability insurance, all their work is guaranteed by Hire a Hubby, no job too big or too small.
Secure SurroundsCertificate of Excellence 2019
As a small family run company, our aim is to keep you and your business safe and get it right the first time round! We Supply, Install, Service and Repair Roller Shutters to your property. With Insulated Roller Garage Doors, Fire Exits, PVC Strip Curtains and many more products to offer, Secure Surrounds are confident in helping you find the right product to keep your property safe. Due to the size of our company, our costs are minimal and in return, we are able to offer very competitive pricing to the market. Based next to J3 of the M3, we have access to all major roadways, quickly, leaving us more time to spend focusing on our customers whilst covering a large area. We prefer to be in a working relationship with our customers and therefore have no automated phone systems and hold times! We endeavour to respond to our customers as quickly as possible, giving you first-hand information promptly to lighten your work load and save you time.
Lazerbeam Fire & Security Ltd
Lazerbeam Fire & Security provide a variety of products and services to clients within the UK and Internationally. We specialise in creating and implementing customised solutions, increasing organisational efficiency with a focus on saving our customers time and money. Below are some examples of the systems that we supply, install and maintain: • CCTV • Fire Alarms and Life Safety Systems • Emergency Lighting • Extinguishers • Access Control • Door Entry and Intercom Systems • Intruder Alarms • Networking
Lena Jones DesignsCertificate of Excellence 2019
A complete interior design service and refurbishments of private property. New kitchens /bathrooms, and extensions. Attention to detail with electrical planning, installation of AV and computer networks. Help with consent and planning and supplying of Architectural drawings. Project coordination with our teams of builders or working with clients own builders . Design and installation of all soft furnishing. We work on individual rooms and entire houses. Furniture layouts, color palettes, bespoke solutions for storage. Decorating, upholstery and curtain making. The Project coordination starts with presenting our clients with digital presentations mood boards with fabric specification, once this has been discussed in detail and clients have made their choices we plan and price all aspects of the job . A start day is given and I will liaise with the teams on a daily basis until the job is completed and the client is left happy with their new homes or rooms.
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SBI LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
We offer made to measure awnings, blinds, window films, verandas, canopies, walkway covers, patio roofs, door canopies, carports, roller garage doors, security shutters, security bars, security grilles, insect screens and conservatory sail shades to both home owners and businesses. We offer a repair, recovering, cleaning and servicing to existing awnings and canopies. Free estimates at your home or business. We cover England.
Distinctive Makers Ltd
We are dedicated curtain makers based in Harleston Norfolk. We offer bespoke, hand made products to fit any specification. Our products include: Curtains Blinds Pelmets Cushions Headboards Seat covers
VLS Curtain Makers
We are a family run company with over 60 years combined experience in the interiors trade that is based in Essex but carries out projects all over the world. Our work has taken us as far afield as Beijing and Buenos Aires and we continue to receive commissions from globally based clients. We specialise in providing a bespoke tailor made service to trade and private clients alike. At VLS Curtain Makers we aim to provide a one-stop service for all areas of the soft furnishing industry, reducing the need for clients to engage the services of multiple suppliers. Our bespoke curtain making service regularly takes us into London and the surrounding areas and counties. We are proud to say our work has been featured in a number of publications including "House and Garden" and "25 Beautiful Homes". All projects are manufactured in our own workshop allowing us to manage and maintain the highest standards of quality that our clients have come to expect from VLS.
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The House Surgery
The House Surgery is an Interior Design Company, specialising in residential Interiors, small boutique hotel design, and high end show home design, although they cater to all budgets. The company has been trading since 2003 and is led by Design Director Emma Sturgess-Lief, who works closely with her talented and dedicated design team on all projects. The House Surgery is a small company and aims to keep it that way in order to maintain the high quality personal approach to each of its highly valued clients. Interior Design is all about capturing your unique and personal style and expressing it beautifully throughout your home, whilst creating a space that enhances your lifestyle and daily needs,.a space that you will love to spend time in, live in, entertain in and unwind in, a personalised space where you can truly feel relaxed and at home.
Modern and Classic Interiors
A vibrant Interior Design and procurement consultancy with a studio in Esher High Street, Surrey. Projects are undertaken internationally and across the whole of the UK. Many budgets can be encompassed alwith various levels of furniture specification which is sourced worldwide. Space planning, colours, flooring, soft furnishings, lighting and furniture are all included to create a complete service. Bespoke and fitted furniture is also designed and made for any special requirements.
Poppy Love Soft Furnishings Ltd
Poppy Love Soft Furnishings offer a wide range of inspiring fabrics with the finest hand sewn make up of bespoke curtains and blinds. We also offer a full collection of made to measure blinds including roman, wood and metal Venetian , roller, vertical, duo, panel, pleated and conservatory. Your free consultation will be undertaken by our company director, Kim Young, who has 20 years experience in soft furnishings. All of our curtains and blinds are made to the highest standard by professional curtain and blind makers. Please see our testimonials. I look forward to meeting you. Kim
Blinds4Less London LTD
Blinds4Less London LTD offer made to measure window blinds and shutters for all domestic and commercial properties. The survey is free with no obligation. Blinds4Less London LTD offers a flat pack furniture assembly service.
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Ravenwood Locksmiths LtdCertificate of Excellence 2019
Ravenwood Locksmiths Ltd is a veteran owned business and provides all aspects of the locksmithing trade to both domestic and Commercial clients. We specialise in non - destructive entry, high security locks, replacement, UPVc specialists. We also supply and fit both internal and external doors for domestic and commercial properties. Ravenwood Locksmiths Ltd are qualified CCTV installation and management experts providing both commercial and residential clients with a range of security platforms.
Computer Tech Support
Bought a new computer? Have a new printer to install? Need to fix a computer? CCTV installed We offer a wide range of solutions regarding your computer set up and repair. Our experts are experienced enough to handle a wide range of computer services and offer repair solutions accordingly whether at home, in the office or at the workshop. Our technicians can attend to you at home or business office at short notice. All you have to do is contact us for an appointment. We can also arrange pickup and return of your computer in addition to repair. Depending on the requirement we can provide you with a wide range of services like:- Setting up and installation of new desktop and laptop computers Setting up and installation of new desktop and laptop computers to the network Setting up and installation of new printer onto the computer or the network Setting up and installation of new scanner onto the computer or the network Setting up and installation of new printer to the computer at home Installation of additional computer to the network Setting up and installation of new computer Setting up and installation of new computer at home Setting up and installation of new computer at in the office for business Installation of wireless adapter to desktop computer at home Installation of wireless adapter to desktop computer in the office for business Installation of wireless card to desktop computer at home Installation of wireless card to desktop computer in the office for business New internet setup and installation of router, modem or switch at home New internet setup and installation of router, modem or switch in the office Troubleshooting wireless connection and internet connection faults at home Troubleshooting wireless connection and internet connection faults in the office for business Securing wireless and wired internet network computer connections at home Securing wireless and wired internet network computer connections in the office for business Data file transfer from old computer to the new computer at home Data file transfer from old computer to the new computer in the office for business Computer virus removal service at home Computer virus removal service at the office Computer malware removal service at home Computer malware removal service at the office Computer ransomware removal service at home Computer ransomware removal service at the office Computer spyware removal service at home Computer spyware removal service at the office Computer windows reinstallation at home Computer windows reinstallation at the business office Computer programs installation repair Computer antivirus installation Computer software solutions Computer hardware solutions We have been in this business for the past several years. We are well known for our services in the market and are happy to have you as our customer. We welcome you to experience the exemplary service we offer as we aim to meet up with every expectation of yours.
storm force securityCertificate of Excellence 2019
For all your security and site needs. Storm force security, A division of storm force site services, started up by the owner to offer cost effective affordable security to everyone. We realize that security is not a luxury but a necessity. Having over 15 years active service within the security field, the MD has provided security and consultation for many a famous and largely established personnel and company including, military, and royal. No job too big or too small Call now
Lions Security Systems
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Hemel BlindsCertificate of Excellence 2019
We supply and fit made to measure, Blinds, curtains and accessories., Plantation shutters. Our products are manufactured by the countries leading blind, curtain and plantation shutter manufacturers. We use the same manufacturers that supply some of our products to John Lewis and similar stores, however as we run our business from home we are always cheaper. If you book an appointment with us, we will bring samples to your home, measure up and give you a quote to supply and fit. This is a no pressure home visit, no unnecessary sales pitch with no obligation to buy. If you do go ahead we ask for a 50% deposit when you order, and then ask for the final payment following fitting. Blinds and Curtains can be ordered and installed in around 3 weeks. We also offer an express service on some of our products often able to fit in the same week as ordering. Our shutters take 8 weeks to make and be delivered,. We offer a no quibble guarantee on all our products from one to three years depending on product.
Alert 4 Shutter
Alert4shutter is a leading shuttering company of London deals in Shutter Repair London, Shop Front Shutters, Aluminium Shop Fronts, Electric Roller Shutters, Shop Fronts London, Aluminium Roller Shutters, Shutter Installer etc. We will help you to keep your business safe and secure. Our deliveries include: ~100% Customer Satisfaction ~ 24/7 Hour Services You may get more info by visiting at http://www.alert4shutter.co.uk/ or by sending email on email@example.com
Apollo Blinds Berkshire
Response Security 1Certificate of Excellence 2019
Response Security 1 was founded in 2011 as a sole trading business since then we have become incorporated supplying security solutions across the uk and employing 10-15 members of our team, we pride ourselves on giving clients bespoke security solutions for complex projects yet still providing a customer based service to our domestic customers. We self operate a micro alarm and CCTV alarm receiving centre based at head office in South Somerset, we are very unique in this way, generally most companies will install intruder alarm systems then pass the monitoring over to a third party company. This method generally leaves the customer with a huge lack of customer care when communication is made after receiving an activation from the customers property. All our monitoring officers are fully trained intruder alarm engineers this allows us to give our customers 24/7 tech support and help with their systems after activations. We have also invested heavily in software and servers allowing us to provide visually verified monitored alarm system, this eliminates false alarms massively and allows us to confirm fire panic and medical activations more effectively. please feel free to contact a member of our team via our web chat @ www.responsesecurity1.co.uk or call our office free on 08006226542.
Koza Curtains & Blinds
ShuttersUp Limited
ShuttersUp is a family run business who specialise in bespoke made to measure shutters who have been surveying and installing shutters for over 10 years. We provide competitive free home quotations for local areas without any hard sales pitch. All team members are fully qualified and employed by us solely. Please feel free to ask us for any advice or provide us details of your requirements and we will be happy to help.
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Focus Furnishing
Focus Furnishing supply and fit all types of flooring, both domestic and commercial, carpet, vinyl and wood, all types of window dressings (Nets curtains and all types of blinds) all types of furniture for the home, garden and office, We supply and fit new appliances aswell as repairs to appliances, We are a Gas Safe registered company. We have a decorations team, and carry out cleaning services. Free quotes are available upon request.
Bushey Blinds
Stanley Security
Stanley Security is part of the global company Stanley Black and Decker. We provide all aspects of security, including service, maintenance and monitoring.
Stanley Security
Part of the Stanley Black & Decker Group. Specialising in installations of Intruder Alarms, Fire systems, CCTV, Access Control and Time & Attendance.
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With her candidly quotable, cutely gif-able kookiness, on screen and off, there may be no actress who seems more of right now than Jennifer Lawrence — she's been declared the queen of Tumblr after all. So it is of note when in the new "American Hustle" she declares, apropos of almost nothing, "I don't like change."
It's as if Lawrence is speaking for our moment now. Across movie after movie this year there have been expressions of anxiety and uncertainty as to where we are heading and what comes next. The future is now, as the saying goes, but that doesn't mean we all have to feel good about it.
It's a wide range of films, from micro-budget indies to large-scale studio pictures, that show traces of these anxieties and also bear a range of responses, from anger and hostility to resignation, acceptance and even triumph. The wellspring of unsettled feelings that runs throughout many of these films presumably runs across many other industries as well. (Media and publishing, being perhaps the most obvious example.) The intertwining rumble of technological, economic and industrial change is bearing down on everyone across the social spectrum.
Early in "Captain Phillips," a man (Tom Hanks) is driving with his wife (Catherine Keener) in the car on the way to work. After she bemoans that the world seems to be moving faster and faster, he tells her that at his job younger guys are working harder and harder to get ahead. The scene seems at first a bit obvious, until it is revealed that the man won't find himself up against some whipper-snapper MBA grad at the office. Rather, he will soon come face to face with the Somali pirate (Barkhad Abdi) who overtakes the shipping vessel the man captains. He sees the future — and it has a gun in his face.
Ridley Scott's "The Counselor," from a screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, also grapples with the sense of a world in transition faster than the people swept along by it can keep up.
The film's most notoriously remarked-upon scene, and the one which creates a disturbing pivot point from a glossy world of sensual possibility to a sour machine of predetermination, is where a sleazy hustler (Javier Bardem) explains to the sleaze-adjacent attorney of the title (Michael Fassbender) how his girlfriend (Cameron Diaz) performed on the windshield of a car as he sat inside. It was a show that was more disorienting than erotic, for as he explains, "you see a thing like that, it changes you."
It is difficult to know just how much emphasis to place on the fact that "The Counselor" is the first film by Ridley Scott since the suicide of his brother, Tony Scott. The film was then already in production, yet it is hard not to feel something deeply personal in the movie's profound sense of confusion, anger, loss and disillusioned deconstruction of glamour. Late in the film the actor Ruben Blades — "The Counselor" is nothing if not brilliantly cast — delivers a terrifying speech as the voice not of reason but of the end of the line.
Blades' character delivers an emotional hammer blow to Fassbender's shady lawyer when he explains that "at some point you must acknowledge that this new world is at last the world itself. ... The world in which you seek to undo your mistakes is not the world in which they were made." At some point you have to live with it.
Engaging with uncertainty in a wholly different way, Spike Jonze's "Her" might well be called "Modern Romance" were the title not already taken by Albert Brooks' masterful 1981 film. Setting his tale in a slight-future Los Angeles — many leave the film envious of its design and imagined technologies — Jonze creates a bittersweet celebration of what makes humans human.
With a disarming earnest quality, there is simply something refreshing and exciting in the way "Her" strives to make sense of what is happening right now with an eye to where we are all going.
A lonely man (Joaquin Phoenix) purchases a new operating system for his computer, an artificially intelligent program (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) that its advertisement touts as "a consciousness," and soon finds they are emotionally entangled. The film then finds its emotional center not in some future biotech interface of man and machine but rather with human connection and genuine interaction, person to person, heart to heart.
Also exploring the intersection of science and romance is "Upstream Color," in which the shared feelings, that sense of close togetherness, felt by a couple may be the result of more than just love. Masterfully edited by Shane Carruth and David Lowery, the film's slipstream storytelling technique, intuitive and abstracted, is a vital part of the experience, making this a film you feel as much as understand. Carruth is also the film's (deep breath) writer, director, cinematographer, producer, composer, male lead and distributor, making "Upstream Color" itself a kind of monument to artistic ambition.
Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers" plays out as a party that never stops, exciting, dangerous and exhausting. At one point a young woman played by Selena Gomez wistfully wonders why a blissfully idyllic moment can't go on, why she can't "just click it and freeze it" stretching a moment to last forever. The film's looping, trance-like structure also mirrors this impulse to self-documentation that has become a crucial part of this era of Instagram, et al.
If "Spring Breakers" ultimately finds something positive in this ambition to become whoever you want to be, Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" in a way finds nothing at all. The film, based on real events, seems scared stiff, recoiling in horror as it depicts a group of L.A. young people obsessed by fame, status and material goods. More than once, images click by as characters arrange their lives, seemingly their very beings, via their Facebook pages.
"The Bling Ring" creates a sensation of withered, hollowed-out blankness. And lest anyone accuse Coppola of being merely another symptom of the problem she depicts, she signals her self-awareness straight-away with her title card near the beginning of the film. As the camera glides over gaudy costume jewelry, her credit is bisected by one extra-tacky piece, so that the image on screen reads "written and directed by [rich bitch] Sofia Coppola." She gets it.
The most positive of these films on technology and transformation may be Andrew Bujalski's "Computer Chess," which is set at an early '80s convention/competition of computer programmers. There would be none of the advances in "Her" without the seemingly obtuse endeavors of the unrepentant nerds depicted here.
Shot on modified vintage black-and-white video equipment, the film looks back in time to contemplate the future, directly confronting, as does "Her," the notion of artificial intelligence and at what point do humans and machines diverge.
"Computer Chess" becomes a celebration of dreamers and weirdos following their passions with a spiritual fervor. When a programmer's machine seems to begin making decisions on its own, he notes with a hint of quizzical pride, "OK, that's kind of new."
These stories circle around a sense of transition and transformation, anxiety over how we interact and live our modern lives, and what comes next.
Yet in "Her," "Spring Breakers," "Upstream Color" and "Computer Chess," that fear does not by definition lead to a negative result. Instead many filmmakers are finding possibility and freedom, not a soulless dead end but an infinite future.


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Hard Magic
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Performer Romy Nordlinger is pitch-perfect casting for urban fantasy Hard Magic's narrator Bonnie Torres, a smart, feisty scryer who can read electric currents for clues to solve crimes committed by other magic-wielding talents. Nordlinger brings to life Laura Anne Gilman's ragtag team of lovingly crafted characters at once colorful and credible, from Bonnie's old-money mentor, J, to her intense, lonejack boss, Venec.
Gilman's high-concept parallel world weaves together political intrigue, the mysteries the mercenary agency is charged with investigating, and Bonnie's coming of age story as she strikes out on her own.
Publisher's Summary
Welcome to P.U.P.I. - Private, Unaffiliated, Paranormal Investigations. A handpicked team trained to solve crimes the regular police can't touch - crimes of magic.
"My name's Bonnie Torres. Recent college grad, magic user, and severely unemployed. Until I got a call out of nowhere to interview for a job I hadn't applied for. It smelled fishy, but the brutal truth was I needed the work - so off I went. Two days later I'm a PUPI - me and Nick, Sharon, Nifty, and Pietr. Five 20-somethings, thrown into an entirely new career in forensic magic.
"The first job we get is a doozy: proving that the deaths of two Talents were murder, not suicide. Worse, there are high-profile people who want us to close up shop and go away. We're sniffing out things they'd rather keep buried. Looks as if this job is gonna get interesting. The only problem is, we're making it up as we go along...."
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- Sarah
- 30-09-2013
Great all round and terrific narrator!
I loved this. It was suspenseful and romy nordlinger was spot on with her narration. Looking forward to the next!
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Leanna
- 08-07-2014
Home run!
Any additional comments?
Laura Anne Gilman has created a wonderful new leading lady, Bonnie Torres. While most readers/listeners will not be able to relate to her affluence, everyone can relate to her immaturity and free acceptance of love in all its glorious shapes, colors, and smells. Bonnie is truly a flawed heroine that we can all enthusiastically support. Romy Nordlinger does a great job bringing this novel to life.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
- Maureen
- 05-05-2014
Overall good
I didn't know what to make of this at first but it pulled me in. I think the ideas were fun and exciting and the author is pretty good. Overall good listen and fun. I must say the narrator Romy Nordlinger is exceptionally good and made the experience for me.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Sharon
- 28-09-2013
Forensic magic...
I liked Bonnie, she's finding herself and trying to stand on her own two feet away from her loving albeit overbearing mentor. After a very unusual interview she becomes part of a team called P.U.P.I 'Private Unaffiliated Paranormal Investigations'.
The general magical community is very much against this new organisation and the fledgling force knows it will struggle to survive.
Each in the team have something to contribute and must get over their ego's to be able to work together. Ian their boss will have it no other way.
There are some gaping holes in the world and I found it very difficult to believe why the magical community would have such an aversion to a team specializing in magical crime without being affiliated to any one else bar themselves, plus I could not understand why Bonnie never really confronted the enigmatic Vasic, no spoilers here just saying.
Despite this the magical world L.G has created is intricate and clever, the characters fully fleshed out and engaging, it's magical C.S.I with bells on.
Looking forward to how this series pans out.
Mustn't forget to mention Romy Nordlinger, great narration.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
- susan
- 05-02-2015
I just couldn't get into it
I don't know why exactly, some combination of the narrator & the constant description of EVERYTHING just really put me off. It just felt super uncomfortable
- nicole
- 23-10-2013
Hard Magic: Paranormal Scene Investigations.
I bought this in the sale at a really good price and enjoyed it enough to buy the series, also on sale. The best thing about the book is that it has a good plot, like most of the detective fantasy novels you come across. A new organization of talent {magic users) are put together, in the face of strong opposition from the magical communities, to investigate talent related crimes. Their first case is the mystery of an elderly couple whose death has been ruled as joint suicide. It took me a while to get into the story but it is overall an enjoyable listen. The narrator was good, not brilliant and a little belabored at times but one I would be happy to listen to again.
Overall I would only recommend this book, if like me you listen to several audio-books a week and you could buy it at a low price on sale. There is a childishness to the writing, the characters are far too stereotyped and overall it felt like this was a trying to be a teen novel for twenty somethings, which really didn't work. There are so many brilliant books on Audible of this type that I'd suggest instead:
Anne Bishop's Written in Red: A Novel of the Others
Michelle Sagara Chronicles of Elantra
Jim Butcher Dresden files
Sergei Lukyanenko The Watch Series
Ben Aaronovitch The Rivers Of London series.
6 of 14 people found this review helpful
- Amazon Customer
- 06-03-2014
Great idea but poor delivery
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
I really loved the concept of paranormal investigators and the book started well but then failed to deliver against my expectations. In the second half of the book the plot grew weak, there was little progress and frankly I had grown bored then all of a sudden the end arrived.
What will your next listen be?
Tom Rob Smith
Do you think Hard Magic needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Not if it's as disappointing overall as this one
Any additional comments?
Pity. As I say imaginative and original idea could have been great
2 of 11 people found this review helpful
- Kelly
- 23-04-2014
What disappointed you about Hard Magic?
I expected a bit more from this series. I am glad I bought it in the sale at a low price, otherwise I would be grumbling about a waste of a credit that could by me something more worthwhile.
What was most disappointing about Laura Anne Gilman's story?
The plot seemed to go in a good direction then just up and leave, dragging on for ages. Ideas and thoughts repeated quite often, but worded maybe slightly differently.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Romy Nordlinger?
Yes, the narrator wasn't that bad. Though I've listened to plenty so far, none by her, apart from this series.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Hard Magic?
I think it needed a bit of toughening up and direction. So many parts of this book were unnecessary and a bit too straightforward. How many times do we need to hear about Bonnie's hair?
Any additional comments?
Overall I am glad I hadn't wasted valued credits and picked up this series on the cheap. It's filled a few hours of listening before I found something more appealing :)
1 of 9 people found this review helpful


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this is my first post although i have lurked a bit on the forum.
so i have a question, i am running linux ubuntu 10.10 RC. i have downloaded and installed python. i can use the terminal and type python to access python. and if i click on python under the programming section in the applications tab, it brings up the terminal with python running the same way.
so i was watching a video tutorial on programming in python. the person in the video was running python on a windows computer. he showed how to save your file. i realised, i didnt have anyway to save the application. can anyone help me out a bit on what all i need to properly run python on linux ubuntu? his video's are good,and there teaching me python pretty well, but it will do me no good if i cant make a program and save it.
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MC Eiht Pissed At Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Lochte For Biting His Phrase "Jeah"!
"TMZ reports that MC Eiht has taken issue with United States Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte, over the latter's attempt to trademark the phrase "jeah." "Why try and trademark something his ass didn't even create? I am mad that he isn't giving me proper recognition for taking my saying," explained the West Coast veteran. "He is just disrespectful." Adding that his concern is about "respect and truth," and not about money, Eiht revealed that he plans on sending a cease and desist letter to Lochte. Lochte claims that he created the term by deriving it from Young Jeezy's use of "chea," and states that his phrase means something "good." Lochte's manager tells TMZ, "Ryan has beeen using JEAH for years...This is the first time I have heard of this claim by MC Eiht.""- HipHopDX
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In art, we tend to think in terms of two classifications - religious, and secular. But, in fact, in the years since Machy's epic depiction, there has evolved a third area, lodged somewhere between these two, that's often referred to as "alternative" or "visionary" art. In the years that followed, there was a trend in art to search out pantheistic visions, principally among English and German painters, such as Philipp Otto Runge as seen in his Spring Morning dating from 1808. It depicts dawn in the form of a nude woman - Aurora - greeting a new-born child below her while a brilliant light plays a regenerative role much as it often does in Christian iconography.
Later in the nineteenth century, English artists such as William Blake began to explore a highly personalised reading of their Christian beliefs, while in Germany, artists such as Runge and Caspar David Friedrich painted images worshipping nature in a pantheistic celebration of a divine presence in flowers, trees, water, and air. But it took the publication of Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1859, and a new clash of religion and science, to spur painters such as Paul Gauguin to begin to look for more evolved alternatives to traditional European Christianity. His Where Do We Come From? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?, painted in Tahiti in 1897, depicts the birth of a child (reading from right to left) in a primitive Polynesian cultural panorama ending with the death of an old woman, all presided over by two women and a blue idol. He writes in one corner, "simple beings in a virgin nature, which might be the human idea of paradise."
Gauguin was only the first Western artist to explore primitive religious iconography. Some of Jackson Pollock's early works such as Totem, Lesson II, dating from 1945, delve into an abstracted view of archaeologic and hieroglyphic symbols as he explored the religious culture of Native Americans. About the same time, Marc Chagall crossed religious lines to reinterpret the crucifixion from a Russian-Jewish perspective. Barnett Newman later broke new ground in "religious" painting in depicting Jesus, during his crucifixion, as abandoned by God. And today, the search for alternative religious visions in art goes on under the label of what has come to be known politically as multi-culturalism - a term that is an anathema to the religious right. Maybe those battling in the education arena for the teaching of morality based strictly upon Christian fundamentals in our state-supported schools should take a renewed look at Machy's Festival of the Supreme Being.
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UPDATE: UT gets 'smokey' with new alternate uniform
The University of Tennessee football program will officially unveil a new alternative uniform at a press conference Thursday afternoon.
A 'smokey' charcoal gray jersey and pants combo will offset traditional Tennessee orange numbers and some other familiar details, including checkerboard undershirts, to honor the program's tradition.
The move, which has been the subject of much speculation online over the past few weeks, comes two weeks after head coach Butch Jones hinted at subtle "special" changes to the team's traditional uniforms at UT's preseason media day.
"There may be something coming, but everything we do will respect our traditions at Tennessee," Jones said on July 31.
Adidas, the official uniform supplier for the Vols released the photo earlier Thursday, perhaps stealing some thunder from the official presentation during UT's news conference in Knoxville.
Alternative uniforms are used at the team's discretion, but it's not yet been made clear when these new uniforms may see the turf at Neyland Stadium.
UT's traditional white helmets with the orange "T" will be worn with the alternate jerseys. The standard orange "home" jerseys and white "away" uniforms will also remain and be used for the majority of the games this season.


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As President Obama contemplates his second term, he has been talking to historians about another two-term president, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
We think of Ike as a great military man, but as president he used his understanding of the military to rein it in. Obama is said to be looking for a low-key way of managing America's global role while minding Ike's credo that true national security begins at home with a sound economy, shored up by a careful balance of resources and commitment.
How did Eisenhower do it? Once Ike extricated the United States from the Korean War in 1953, he managed to cut the defense budget over his two terms by about a quarter, from about 70% of the federal budget to 60%. (Today, defense is about 20% of federal spending.)
Aware from reading Clausewitz and his own experience that small wars have a way of becoming big wars, Eisenhower was determined to keep the United States out of any war. He resisted the temptation to send ground troops into Vietnam after the French military collapsed at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The jungle, he told his National Security Council, would "absorb our troops by divisions."


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Cyrstal Stilts - "Star Crawl"
Brooklyn based postpunkers Crystal Stilts just released their album Nature Noir on sacred bones. Fuzzy and somewhat disoriented this track is loaded and features a welcome string addition. Check out "Star Crawl" for download below, and be sure to watch the 'mvsk video' below.
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Another Christmas is soon about us, another year is almost near.
Would like to thank everyone we hold dear.
You have all made Kioptrix what we are,
Everyone near and far.
We had planned to stay small but fair,
Without tearing out much of our hair.
We have succeeded in continuing on for another year,
Thank you very much, it gives us tears.
For everyone who has supported us in the past,
Let's hope the relationship lasts.
We have met many new faces because if this.
And to them we wish holiday bliss.
Thank you for keeping Kioptrix alive well during 2011. Personally I never expected our blog to be so popular. As I've said many time before "difficulty is relative to everyone", so is success. And consider this past year, as well as this whole project of ours a success.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Be good & stay safe guys.
Thank you,
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text: Once upon a time, there were four guys (Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie) who loved to sing. They all met in high school, and discovering that they shared an affection for music and entertaining, they dreamed of becoming like their idols-the Four Aces, the Four Lads, the Four Freshmen, the Hi-los and the Crew Cuts. They rehearsed in the basement of Smudge's family's plumbing supply company. It was here they became Forever Plaid. Although rock 'n' roll was quickly overtaking the sounds of the '40s and '50s, the Plaids believed in their music. They sang at family gatherings and fund-raisers and eventually graduated to supermarket openings and proms. Then, finally, they landed their first big gig at the Airport Hilton cocktail bar-the Fusel Lounge. But, while they were driving in their cherry-red 1954 Mercury convertible and rehearsing their big finale, they were slammed broadside by a school bus filled with eager Catholic teens. The teens miraculously escaped injury, but the members of Forever Plaid were killed instantly. Then, some 40 years later, through the power of Harmony and the Expanding Holes in the Ozone Layer, in conjunction with the positions of the planets and all the other astro-technical stuff, they are allowed to come back to perform the show they never got to do in life.


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If you take a look at the Civil War Preservation Trust's 2010 list of most endangered battlefields, you'll notice that some of the sites included are national parks or have some similar type of protective designation.
On the face of it, this might seem a little odd. You'd assume that once a site becomes a national park, it's safe and sound. Nobody is going to build a row of condos on federally protected land, and no short-sighted local zoning board can approve a retail development within a park's boundaries. The truth of the matter, though, is that while designation as a park protects land within a site's boundaries, threats from outside those boundaries can be considerable.
Anyone who doubts the impact of development outside of a site's boundaries should visit Guilford Courthouse National Military Park in Greensboro, NC. This is one of my favorite places, and one of the most important pieces of ground in America, where a British attempt to destroy Nathanael Greene's army in March 1781 proved so costly that it led to the march to Virginia that ended at Yorktown. It's a beautiful park, and the NPS has done wonders in interpreting it. I consider it a must-see for anyone interested in the Revolution.
It is sadly, however, crowded by construction. Getting a perspective on the field as it appeared during the battle is extremely difficult, and the park will unfortunately never be able to interpret those parts of the field that lie outside the central core, since they've been churned up and built over. GCNMP is a stellar example of what the NPS can do, but it's also an example of the limitations that urban growth can place on a site.
Development proponents, of course, might call preservationists unreasonable and ask why we can't be satisfied with what we're allotted, why we're always demanding more, more, more. I'd be sorely tempted to ask them the same thing. Preservationists need to remember that every time we draw a line in the sand, someone will be waiting to cross it and force us to draw another. And another, and another. We should be at least as persistent as they are.


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Warm Industrial Furniture from Our Tours
The warm industrial look is all about balancing metal pieces with warm woods and soft accents. If the furniture is sleek and polished, make sure there's some patina in the decor somewhere, to add some vintage industrial character, and if you go with a lot of grit and metal, be sure to temper it with warmer accents.
Top Row:
1. Paige Blackburn's Cozy Mapleton Hill Home
2. Lauren's Farewell, Home Sweet Home
3. Lisa & Scott's Industrial Barbara Bestor Home in Topanga
4. Daniela & Damon's History-Filled Home
5. The Wills' Anything But Ordinary Home
Second Row:
1. Michele & Ryan's New Beginning
2. Sam & Anne's Cozy Modern Blend
3. RJ & Francis's East/West Coast Loft
4. Joe & Brad's Small Space with Big Style
5. Lauren Moffat's Vintage Modern Home
Third Row:
1. Andrew & Rebecca's Modern Vintage Country Home
2. Linton & Rob's Colorful Family Home
3. Scuba's Open House
4. Ali & Dustin's Reinvented Piece of Denver History: The Black Eye Coffee Shop
5. Daniel's Eclectic Industrial Loft
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the wicked child wrote:Rylan wrote:Hartzell played well in the tournament. 2 soft goals burned the Q
Yeah. His team let him down though by not playing to the whistle on the first and allowing him to get to the rebound uncontested on the second. He didn't have much of a chance on the third and was downright invisible on the 4th. He was solid, but definitely outshined by his counterpart. I didn't see much of the tourney, so not sure how he played otherwise.
The Q beat Yale 3 times during the season. It's tough to go 4 for 4. Especially against a team that was hot and on a roll knocking off every top seed in it's way.


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Taliban kill 4 Afghan policemen in attack in south
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says Taliban fighters stormed a police checkpoint overnight in southern Helmand province, killing four policemen.
Deputy district Governor Mohammad Rassoul says the attack happened in Sangin district and that the Taliban have captured the checkpoint.
Rasssoul says the government forces are trying to retake the post and that clashes are underway at the location between Afghan police and the Taliban.
The attack took place as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Kabul on Friday for talks aimed at preventing the fragile country from collapsing into political chaos after disputed elections.
Kerry, who arrived the day before, is to urge two contenders from the presidential election runoff to accept results of an ongoing audit of all ballots and form a national unity government by early September.


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The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix
by James D. Watson . Edited by Alexander Gann and Jan Witkowski
Simon and Schuster, 2012 (($30))
Watson's 1968 account of the race to identify the structure of DNA remains one of the best science memoirs ever written. This new annotated edition features letters, photographs and other documents from the period of Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins's Nobel Prize–winning discovery. Among the highlights: letters exchanged by some of the major players, including x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, who had a famously difficult relationship with Wilkins and Watson, testify to the intense, competitive atmosphere of the time. In one letter, Franklin confides to a friend that she finds many of her colleagues "positively repulsive."


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Pair of Longhorns suspended, sent home ahead of Bowl
SAN ANTONIO - Two Texas football players were suspended for breaking team rules Friday, the day before the Longhorns were scheduled to play in the Valero Alamo Bowl.
Two sources close to the program confirmed that the two suspended players are quarterback Case McCoy and linebacker Jordan Hicks. UT coach Mack Brown declined to name the players at an Alamo Bowl news conference Friday morning, but said they would be sent home.
Earlier Friday, KENS-TV reported that a 21-year-old woman accused two UT players of sexual assault early that morning at a downtown San Antonio hotel, but police declined to confirm that football players were involved.
Police said no arrests have been made and no charges have been filed.
According to a police report obtained by the San Antonio Express-News, the incident happened between 2 and 2:40 a.m. Friday. The woman said she met two men at a nightclub and invited them back to her room at the Holiday Inn Riverwalk. She admitted to drinking at least four alcoholic beverages before inviting them to her room, the report said.
She told police one man had sex with her while the other stood and watched, but she didn't remember the situation in detail.
The report didn't give the woman's version of how the situation escalated. It indicated that the suspects were both students, one of them a 6-foot, 180-pound white male and the other a 6-2, 235-pound black male.
The woman had a bruise on her knee and one on her arm, the report said.
UT spokesman John Bianco said the university is continuing to gather information on the case.
McCoy, a junior who is the younger brother of NFL quarterback Colt McCoy, is the second-string quarterback. He started the team's regular-season finale at Kansas State this month, and also made five starts last year.
He was not expected to play in the Alamo Bowl against Oregon State on Saturday.
Hicks, a junior from Cincinnati, began the season as one of UT's top defensive players, but had been sidelined since injuring his hip and groin Sept. 15 at Mississippi. He wasn't expected to return to action until next season.
While making an unrelated comment about his team's depth during Friday's news conference, Brown referred to Hicks as one of UT's "team leaders."
The Longhorns arrived in San Antonio on Monday and have been staying downtown at the Marriott Rivercenter hotel. Brown declined to answer a question Friday about whether he had instituted a team curfew.
Brown said he planned to address the issue with his team when he met with players after the news conference.
"You have policies that you go by," Brown said. "We understand that when you have an issue, you deal with it and move forward."
This is not the first time Brown has disciplined players on a bowl trip. Following the 1999 season, four UT players – including starters Kwame Cavil and Aaron Humphrey – were suspended for violating team rules two days before a Cotton Bowl loss to Arkansas.


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text: Sweet Robert Smith! Here's the mildly-confusing trailer for This Must Be The Place, Sean Penn's latest venture in overwhelming character immersion. This time, he'll be portraying a wild-haired, lipstick wearing, former rock 'n' roller who, following his dad's death, goes on the hunt for the man who persecuted his father at Auschwitz. So, I guess it's a revenge drama? Wait — Frances McDormand plays his wife so it might also be a romance? And David Byrne from Talking Heads is in it, too — perhaps it's just a music video? Nevermind — it's not up to us to pin Sean Penn to a certain genre. He's far too much of an actor's actor for all that.


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|Bambola Daisy (Antheea-Kai)
I started strong in my doll collecting last year by purchasing a bjd doll called Bambola Daisy. She's made of french resin and comes with a hair wig, and a resin wig that makes her very different from all the other dolls I have. Love her to pieces! I just wish she'd stop kicking me! Her doll string is too tight that she sometimes wont stand still and insists on kicking my fingers. I've been too lazy and afraid to loosen her string but I'll get to it one of these days. I wanted her to have a sister doll too but I never got around to that either....
|Some 2012 Integrity Toy dolls
(From left to right: High End Envy Erin,
Champs Elysees Victoire Roux, And Another Thing Kyori,
Winter Essential renamed Argo, Fall Essential renamed Shale,
Truly Madly Deeply Agnes, and Summer Essential)
Integrity toys knocked my socks off in 2012. I loved most of their dolls to a point of doll hoarding. I got my first Agnes, Kyori, Erin and Victoire Roux. I also managed to snag three lottery dolls of the four season essential dolls offered. I'd never won a chance to purchase any lottery dolls in the three years I'd been a W club member until 2012.
|Mission Control Imogen doll
And did I mention that I won a free Imogen doll from Integrity Toys last June by simply participating in the June forum contest. I never would have personally picked her to buy though she is quite pretty and those are such killer boots! I'm glad that she ended up joining my doll family.
I also got a free Monogram doll (not pictured) from my doll dealer for having purchased a considerable amount of dolls from her last year as a part of their W club special coupon.
|2012 Poppy Parker dolls
(From left to right: Lilac Frost, The Happening, She's Not There)
There were a lot of pretty Poppy dolls in 2012...Too many that I haven't deboxed half of them! Not deboxing is very unusual for me but I got more dolls than normal and they just came all at once! I was completely overwhelmed. I may have to let go of some of my old Barbie dolls this year to somewhat find that doll equilibrium again.
|Mattel Francie dolls
(From left to right: Fuschia n Fur, Growin Pretty Hair, Kitty Corner)
Speaking of Barbie dolls, I only got one in 2012! They just weren't my cup of tea last year. It may have been a good thing, considering I was hoarding some IT dolls like a mad woman! I did purchase the two silkstone Francie dolls offered and found a vintage Growin Pretty Hair at a toy show. Of course my Fuschia n Fur Francie came with flaws the first time so I had to exchange her like I did with the Nighty Brights in 2011. Kitty Corner Francie arrived with slightly wonky eyes but I decided not to exchange her. I'd been receiving such crappy dolls from Mattel lately and it has really affected my decisions to purchase from them.
|Custom Blythe dolls
(From left to right: Simply Guava named Bebe,
Factory Blythe named Inka, Prairie Posie named Gia)
The Blythe dolls are extremely special to me as both my partner and I are really fond of them. I had Bebe from 2011 when I took her home from Japan, didn't appreciate her until she had her face customed last year, fell so in love with her thereafter. I fell really hard that her number of friends have grown exponentially thanks to my lovie. Only three have had their faces customed thus far so the others are still in hiding until they get a face-up, hopefully this year.
|Lalaloopsy dollhouse
I'd like to end this 2012 review by sharing my Lalaloopsy dollhouse, a Christmas gift from my partner. I was asked what I wanted and chose this. The shape is so unconventional. I think it's super awesome and makes a perfect home for my Blythe dolls even though Lalaloopsies keep sneaking in!
The doll gods were extremely generous to me last year despite minor snags like missing doll shoes and doll face rashes. I just wish I had all the time in the world to play.
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Many thanks to those attended my session RAC for Beginners despite the 8 AM timeslot. You must be really motivated. I hope you found the session useful and leaned something you can start using.
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Thanks to those who came to my second session of the day - Secure Your Database in a Single Day. Hopefully that met your expectations. The slides are found here.
Confessions of an Oracle Database Junkie - Arup Nanda The opinions expressed here are mine and mine alone. They may not necessarily reflect that of my employers and customers - both past or present. The comments left by the reviewers are theirs alone and may not reflect my opinion whether implied or not. None of the advice is warranted to be free of errors and ommision. Please use at your own risk and after thorough testing in your environment.
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Someone asked me another day how the training for the P-R Challenge was going. I answered that it was not going.
Excusably maybe but with a bit of time up my sleeve, I chose not to start anything too serious, training wise, because I believe I need to sort out a couple of niggling bits in my body first (again!). The last thing I want is to hit the cobbles with a body that isn't at least 90% right, if you know what I mean.
Conveniently, that was also the opinion of the renowned physiotherapist I have been visiting lately. Unfortunately for me, his painful magic isn't working quickly enough (he said it wouldn't) and my, perhaps accountable, line of work isn't helping either.
Having said that, I felt good on the bike during the two (not so easy at times) long rides I've done this year. Does that say I should quit my job and just ride my bike and attempt to write about it for that will get my body fixed and ready for the challenge I have signed up for?
Not that fast. I am having some medical investigations done at the moment, hoping that something can be found, as unwise as it sounds, and precisely dealt with. Or ignored completely so I can go on with it.
It's time to look for those moments, riding moments!
Have a good ride.


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LAS VEGAS — President Obama flew to this once-red state, turned blue largely by the votes of Latinos, to launch an effort to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. But in doing so, he carefully avoided ultimatums that might disrupt bipartisan talks underway in the Senate and House.
Even as Tuesday's venue in Nevada dramatized the political shifts that have strengthened Obama's hand in the immigration debate, he struck a cooperative note. He praised the progress in the Senate, saying proposals so far were "very much in line" with his own principles, and he sought to emphasize common ground on an issue that has confounded Congress repeatedly for more than a decade.
"I'm here today because the time has come for common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform. Now's the time," the president said as a boisterous crowd began to chant, "Si se puede."
White House officials made it clear that on several important details, the president prefers a more liberal approach than the one outlined Monday by eight senators — four from each party.


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New York's Family Health Care Decisions Act (FHCDA)[1] establishes the authority of a patient's family member or close friend to make health care decisions for the patient in cases where the patient lacks decisional capacity and did not leave prior instructions or appoint a health care agent. This "surrogate" decisionmaker would also be empowered to direct the withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining treatment when standards set forth in the statute are satisfied.The key provisions of the FHCDA became effective on June 1, 2010.
The FHCDA Information Center is a project of the NYSBA Health Law Section. It is designed as a resource for all persons - including health care professionals, health care attorneys, advocacy groups, policymakers and members of the public - who are seeking information about the FHCDA.
[1] Chapter 8, 2010 Laws of New York, A.7729-D (Gottfried et al.) and S. 3164-B. (Duane et. al). Section 2 of Chapter 8 amends N.Y. Public Health Law to create "Article 29-CC Family Health Care Decisions Act."


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Nimesh P Nagarsheth, MD
- Position
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science
- Specialty
- Gynecologic Oncology
- Language
- English
- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Phone
- Nimesh P. Nagarsheth, MD 212-427-9898212-427-9898
- Nimesh P. Nagarsheth, MD 201-894-5999201-894-5999
Dr. Nimesh P. Nagarsheth is an internationally-recognized Gynecologic Oncologist with practices at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey. In addition to serving on faculty as an Associate Professor at Mount Sinai, he also serves as Associate Director of Gynecologic Oncology at Mount Sinai; Director of Gynecologic Oncology and Associate Director of Robotic Surgery at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. In his practice, Dr. Nagarsheth provides the full range of surgical and medical gynecologic oncology care, and is recognized as the world's expert in performing Bloodless Surgery (transfusion-free surgery) in Gynecology and Gynecologic Oncology. In addition, his work and publications on humanistic care and the intersection of music and medicine have also gained him international recognition.
Dr. Nagarsheth graduated with honors (Alpha Omega Alpha) from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University Medical Center, and completed his fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Mount Sinai. Throughout his training and career, Dr. Nagarsheth has won numerous teaching, research, and clinical awards (including being recognized for his outstanding surgical skills by receiving first place in an international surgical film competition by the prestigious American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology). During his training, Dr. Nagarsheth also conducted cutting-edge research at New York University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Dr. Nagarsheth has performed extensive research on the mechanisms of cancer prevention, including the hormonal manipulation of apoptosis. He is a lead author on a landmark study that provides the most convincing evidence yet for a novel theory of how birth control pills help prevent ovarian cancer. He has continued his research at Mount Sinai evaluating the role of hormonal effects on gynecologic organs, and has developed an extensive research background in blood management in the field of Gynecologic Oncology. He speaks frequently at national meetings and serves as a principal investigator for several national clinical trials. Recently, Dr. Nagarsheth was invited by Fran Drescher (U.S. Public Diplomacy Envoy for Women's Health Issues, Founder and Visionary, Cancer Schmancer Movement, and television star) to serve on the medical advisory board for the Cancer Schmancer Movement.
Dr. Nagarsheth is leading the way in humanistic patient care - specifically healing through the arts and music. An acclaimed musician and percussionist, in 2008, Dr. Nagarsheth joined with 5 other women's cancer surgeons from around the country to launch an international campaign to raise awareness of gynecologic cancers through music and the arts. Dr. Nagarsheth and his colleagues formed the rock band N.E.D. (No Evidence of Disease), writing, recording and performing original music to raise awareness and funds for women's cancers http://nedtheband.com/
Shortly after its formation, N.E.D. received a recording contract from Motema Music, NYC a New York City based record label - and released their first album. In the past 4 years, the band has toured internationally and has become a significant fundraising platform for the Foundation for Women's Cancer and Marjie's Fund. N.E.D. released their second album, Six Degrees, in 2011.
The success of N.E.D. led Dr. Nagarsheth on a number of projects to improve quality of life for women's cancer patients through music. In 2008, he published Music and Cancer, A Prescription for Healing with Jones & Bartlett Publishing http://www.motema.com/artist/ned. The book has received top reviews ranging from survivors to the past president of the American Cancer Society. Based on the concepts of his book, Dr. Nagarsheth's talk - Music and Cancer – has received rave reviews and has been given at various events from survivor meetings to grand rounds at some of the top medical centers in the United States.
In 2011, Dr. Nagarsheth received the prestigious GOLD DOC Award recognizing his contributions to Humanism in Medicine. In January 2012, 201 Magazine featured Dr. Nagarsheth as one the "15 People to Watch in Healthcare" based partly on his work in music and medicine.
In 2012, Dr. Nagarsheth and his band members will be featured as the subject of a documentary film that captures story of their band N.E.D. The film, entitled Dancing With N.E.D., is being produced by Spark Media, Washington D.C. The film is a not for profit endeavor to serve as a vehicle to raise awareness for women's cancer and the healing powers of music. A trailer of the film can be viewed at www.dancingwithned.com.
Clinical Focus
- Abdominal Paracentesis
- Acute Abdomen
- Arterial Blood Gases
- Ascites
- Cancer Fatigue
- Cervical Cancer
- Cervical Conization
- Cervical Cryosurgery
- Cervical Dysplasia
- Chemotherapy
- Colposcopy
- Cystectomy
- Cystoscopy
- Dilation And Curettage
- Doppler Ultrasound
- Dysmenorrhea
- Endometrial Ablation
- Endometrial Biopsy
- Endometriosis
- Exploratory Laparotomy
- Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
- Human Papillomavirus Testing
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
- Hysterectomy
- Hysterosalpingography
- Hysteroscopy
- Laparoscopy
- Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure
- Lymph Node Biopsy
- Lysis Of Adhesions
- Oophorectomy
- Ovarian Cancer
- Ovarian Cyst
- Ovarian Cyst Removal
- Pap Test
- Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Procedures
- Uterine Cancer
- Uterine Fibroids
- Vaginal Cancer
MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Residency, Obs/ Gyn
Duke University Hospital
Fellowship, Gynecology Oncology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Named to Super Doctors List New York Metro Area-New York Times
U.S. News and World Report Top Doctor
Castle Connolly Top Doctor
New York Magazine Best Doctors
Named one of the 15 People to Watch in Healthcare
201 Magazine
Patients Choice Award
Gold DOC Award for Humanism in Medicine
Patients Choice Award
Patients Choice Award
SurgeryU-Top 10 Surgical Video Award
American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists
First Place Surgical Film
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologic Meeting
CREOG Award
Alpha Omega Alpha Recipient
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Nagarsheth NP, Sharma T, Awan A. Blood salvage use in gynecologic oncology [abstract]. Transfusion 2009. 2009;.
Liu C, Nagarsheth N, Nezhat F. Laparoscopy and ovarian cancer: a paradigm change in the management of ovarian cancer? [abstract]. J Minim Invasive Gynec. 2009; 3:. 250-262.
Nagarsheth N, Bub D, Nezhat F. Laparoscopic bowel resection, anastomosis, and ileostomy/colostomy [abstract]. Laparascopic Surgery for Gynecologic Oncology, led., Mc Graw Hill Publishing. 2009; Abstract Chapter 7 83-112.
Nagarsheth N, Pinney S, Bassily-Marcus A, Anyanwu A, Friedman L, Beilin Y. Successful placement of a right ventricular assist device for treatment of a presumed amniotic fluid embolism [abstract]. Anesth Analgesia. 2008;.
Nagarsheth N, Shander A, Malovany R, Tzeng J, Ibrahim I. Bloodless Surgery in a Jehovah's Witness patient with a 12.7-kg uterine leimyosacroma [abstract]. J Surg Educ. 2007; 64:. 212-9.
Nagarsheth N, Nicastri D, Kashani M, Fried K. Complete Surgical Resection of a 40-cm Leimyosarcoma of the Large Bowel Mesentery [abstract]. J Surg Educ. 2007; 64:. 162-164.
Nezhat F, Mahdavi A, Nagarsheth N. Total laparoscopic radical hysterectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy using the harmonic shears. [abstract]. 2006;.
Nagarsheth N, Shander A, Malovany R, Tzeng J. Tzeng J, Ibrahim I. Bloodless surgery in a Jehovah's Witness patient with a 12.7-kg uterine leiomyosarcoma J Surg Educ 2007 Jul-Aug;64(4):212-9..;.
Nagarsheth N, Pinney S, Bassily-Marcus A, Anyanwu A, Friedman L, Belin Y. Successful placement of a right ventricular assist device for treatment of a presumed amniotic fluid embolism [abstract]. Anesth Analgesia. 2008;.
Liu C, Nagarsheth N, Nezhat F. Laparoscopy and ovarian cancer: a paradigm change in the management of ovarian cancer? [abstract]. 2009;.
Nagarsheth N, Sasan F. Bloodless surgery in gynecologic oncology [abstract]. Mt Sinai J Med. 2009;.
Nagarsheth N. Music and Cancer: A Prescription For Healing [abstract]. 2009;.
Nagarsheth N, Bub D, Nezhat F. Chapter 7: Laparoscopic bowel resection, anastomosis, and ileostomy/colostomy. New York: Mc Graw Hill Publishing/Laparoscopic Surgery for Gynecologic Oncology.; 2009(p. 83-112).
Nagarsheth N, Sharma T, Shander A, Awan A. Blood salvage use in gynecologic oncology. [abstract]. 2009;.
Nagarsheth N, Foreword I, Rabinowitz S. No Evidence of Disease. New York: Mentor Equity Press [abstract]. New York: Mentor Equity Press. 2010. P. xi- xiii).;.
Nezhat F, Cohen C, Nagarsheth N. Laparoscopy (Chapter 26). In: Smith, R; Del Priore, G; Coleman, R; Monaghan, [abstract]. J; editors. An Atlas of Gynecologic Oncology: Investigation and Surgery, 3rd ed. London: Informa Healthcare; . 2011;.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.
Dr. Nagarsheth has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
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Dear All,
This May 13 marks the sixth anniversary of Quinkie. I sincerely thank all the members who kept the group going with their postings.
Here's a quiz, marking the occasion. Mail me your answers within a week.
1. Inspired by the phrase "poetry in motion" which was used to describe a football player, Mike Lazaridis named his company on similar lines. Which company would you associate Mike with?
2. The company was founded in 1945 as a tube voltmeter manufacturer. Later it diversified into microphones. Today, it is world's leading brand providing integrated solutions for electro-acoustic products. The name of this company is derived from the name of its founder. Name this company/brand.
3. What word has been chosen as the top word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2008?
4. An accessories editor at the magazine Vogue UK, sensed a real demand for stylish but wearable shoes and approached this person, who was a shoe-maker based in the East End of London, recognized for his excellent craftsmanship. Later the editor launched a company on the name of the shoe-maker. The shoe-maker was of Malay descent. Today, this name is famous for glamorous accessories and is favored by international stars worldwide. This company was launched in 1996. The brand was promoted in the Bollywood film Fashion in 2008. Name the brand.
5. This company was founded in 1992 by Daymond John with a line of hats made in his house in Hollis, Queens. The name of the company is a backronym for "For Us, By Us", indicating that the product line was produced by black Americans for a primarily black American market. Which company?
6. Connect the two visuals
8. What famous beverage would you associate with this animal?


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Taylor Swift Finds Love in Romantic New Wonderstruck Enchanted Commercial
Taylor Swift's fragrance empire continues to expand, with her second scent Wonderstruck Enchanted arriving just in time for fall. The latest commercial for the perfume — Chapter 3 in a series of ads — features the 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' singer in a romantic, frilly gown with a ruffly train and her signature blonde tendrils and bright red lips. It's the Taylor Swift we know and love.
The "plot" in the 30-second Wonderstruck Enchanted commercial is as romantic as Swift appears. She stares at herself in a mirror, spritzes herself with the fragrance and then descends a staircase, passing a mop-topped, five o'clock shadowed lad who does not resemble her boyfriend Conor Kennedy. They exchange a glance and sparks fly. Romance and young love is in the air.
Swift looked equally as beautiful in the print ad for the new scent, wearing a rose-colored gown, which also matched the bottle and her lips. Red is clearly a theme for Taylor Swift in 2012, with her new album of the same name dropping on Oct. 22.
Swift also appears in a Macy's spot, which teems with celebrities and her perfume is cleverly promoted. She catches the store manager after he tumbles while setting up a retail display for her new scent.
Watch the Taylor Swift Wonderstruck Enchanted Commercial


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Slam - for a life less ordinary
Slam Design is the home of unusual gifts for a life far less ordinary. Buy gifts for men and women, for your friends and family, for the person who has everything and the person who is hard to buy for! Our range of gifts are great for any occasion be it a birthday, Christmas or a workmate's leaving present!
Slam isnt just a distribution company - we don't just sell products, we conceive, design, manufacture and distribute them to all corners of the globe! If you would like to see who sells them in your country then please see our distribitors page and if you want to distribute our ranges for us then take a look here.
If you are looking for an original gift idea, that hard to find present, or just something fun but useful to brighten up your day then Slam has the perfect thing for you.. unusual and innovative new products that are genuinley useful and will bring a smile to your face. We design and manufacture a range of practical, affordable things to make you and your friends laugh (or wince..). Out of the ordinary products that you won't find from any other brand.
We supply our products through distributors, shops, websites and mail order companies all over the world, so they should be available from a store near you. If you are a retailer or an e-tailer and would like to stock Slam products then please visit our distibutor page to find the nearest wholesaler of Slam stuff. Take a look through our product pages and we are sure that you will find something you like.


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I'm not a fan of the coined term. But if you don't know what this is, you should for your own protection.
USA Today article from today.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story ... 50817688/1
I first got one of these calls back in 2006. It is fairly common. But most of the time they are not specific to the bank, they are broad to get you to input your information for them to narrow it down. For example, I received a call onetime that told me that some accounts at "my bank" had been compromised due to a scam and some debit/credit card numbers with their pins had been copied. For immediate protection a phone notification system had been put in place to call all account holders to reset their pins over the phone. All we needed do was "verify" we were the card holders by putting in our card number, pin, 3 digit card security code and our SSN.... Just like the guy in the article I freaked a little at first but hung up to call my bank directly, at which point they told me it was most likely a scam because none of that was true.
If you feel you are being targeting, here are some red flags for this sort of attack:
Unknown or strange number (ex: 000-000-1234).
If they call every day (even after you hang up on them) or several times a day.
If they never mention YOU or your bank by name. If it was real they would have that information.
If you are speaking to a machine.
If you are speaking to an individual and they cannot pull up your account right away due to the computer freezing.
If you are in doubt and receive a call of this nature, simply hang up and call your bank (or credit card provider) directly.


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Guy Accused Of Being Part Of Anonymous Banned By Court From Using His Real Name Online
from the say-what-now? dept
Peter David-Gibson, aged 20 from Hartlepool, who went by the online nickname "Peter"Yes, you read that right. A guy accused of being Anonymous, but who used his real name online, can now no longer use his real name... because he may have been a part of Anonymous. That makes sense.


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Pierre La Ponce is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. His name is not explicitly mentioned in the game, but is seen on GTA Vice City's official website.
Pierre La Ponce is a stereotypically-dressed Frenchman. He was a GIGN agent hired by Juan Cortez to steal guidance chips used in French missile technology. Cortez sends Tommy Vercetti to retrieve the chips from Pierre; the deal, however, is ambushed by the GIGN, and Pierre escapes with the guidance chips. Tommy chases Pierre down and kills him to retrieve the chips.
The name Pierre La Ponce could be a reference to the French words "Pierre ponce", which means "Pumice stone", though it is likely a reference to Ponce, an outdated British slang term for a posh or effeminate person.
VCPD Crime Tree Record
French Secret Service Agent. Possibly involved in selling military hardware and secrets.
Mission Appearances
- GTA Vice City
- Mall Shootout (Killed)


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Wanted: The Truck Driver Who Lost His Job Due To File Sharing
from the we're-waiting... dept
However, what the article does do is highlight Dodd's new talking points about how he's really protecting blue collar jobs, not Hollywood studio execs and movie stars:
"The first year has been a little chaotic," says Dodd. "There's been a steep learning curve. I bought into the notion that this was a redcarpet, Oscar-night kind of business. Over 2.2 million Americans are employed by the industry. Most of them are in blue-collar jobs, involving the people who drive the trucks and set up the lights. I didn't know that when I started."Yup. It's all about the truck drivers. Of course, the 2.2 million number is wrong. The Congressional Research Service says that number is less than 400,000. And, when we dug into the actual numbers, it shows that jobs in actual movie making are on the increase. The only real decrease seen in movie jobs has been in the number of people employed by theaters. But that's got nothing to do with piracy at all, since theater revenue has been going up and up and up (with a slight dip just last year). The job losses there have been about consolidation in theaters and the rise of giant multiplexes that employ very few humans.
It's not just the names on the marquee, but the rank-and-file workers who are impacted by intellectual property infringements, says Dodd. "People think nothing of stealing from Charlie Sheen," he explains, "but they might care if they realized they were stealing from someone who drives a truck."
That said, since Dodd mentions that poor, poor truck driver twice, I'm curious of a couple things. Which truck drivers get a cut of movie royalties? I'd like to know. Second, can anyone find me the truck driver who lost his job because of file sharing? I'd like to find that guy.


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There's been a mysterious disappearance in a notorious murder caper in Atlanta ... and TMZ has put the pieces together and the missing person ... IS THE NEW BACHELORETTE!
There have been rumors Andi Dorfman -- the smoking hot lawyer lady who dumbed herself down to impress "Bachelor" Juan Pablo -- will become the next "Bachelorette".
So here's our smoking gun that it's true. Andi is currently in the middle of a murder trial in Atlanta and she has mysteriously just taken a leave of absence -- and no one in the Fulton County D.A.'s Office will say why.
Here's the thing. We've now confirmed that Andi is indeed this summer's "Bachelorette."
So case closed.