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We've put together our edit of the best books of 2019, so whether you're searching for a gift for a book lover, a sports fan, a history buff, or anyone on your Christmas list, we've got you covered.
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Me by Elton John
Elton John is the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time, and his only official autobiography, Me, is just as funny, scandalous, dramatic and packed with rock 'n' roll anecdotes as you would hope. Me is a gloriously candid and powerfully moving memoir by a living legend, documenting his childhood in Pinner and the years spent struggling to find success, to selling out stadiums as a chart-topping superstar while his drug addiction spiralled out of control
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Gotta Get Theroux This by Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux is back, but this time in book form. He has made a career from giving us sensitive yet honest glimpses into the lives of others, and now he has invited us into his own. If you know one of the millions of people who love a good Louis documentary, then you know what you can give them this holiday season.
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Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay
Junior doctor turned comedian Adam Kay returns to the hospital wards he first introduced us to in This is Going to Hurt, but this time it's the night before Christmas and the halls are full. Adam brings his own blend of sensitive humour to the incredible work of dedicated NHS staff on one of the busiest nights of the year.
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Frost Fair by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy's collection of Christmas poems grows taller every year and she hasn't let us down this time around. You may even already know someone who collects these beautifully illustrated narrative poems. Whether you give one or ten, these books make the perfect seasonal present for any poetry lover.
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A Nearly Normal Family by M. T. Edvardsson
A Nearly Normal Family is the stunning psychological thriller everyone has been talking about this year. When their daughter becomes the main suspect in a murder case, Adam and Ulrika are forced to confront the question: 'how far would you go to protect your child?' Part thriller, part courtroom drama, this is a book every crime and thriller fan should have on their shelves.
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Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce
As bombs fall on 1940's London, Emmy dreams of assisting the war effort as a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, after a misunderstanding over a job advert, Emmy instead ends up as a typist for formidable agony aunt Henrietta Bird. But Mrs Bird won't answer letters containing any form of Unpleasantness, so what can Emmy do but try to help these desperate women herself? With a wonderfully festive new cover, this is a book to fall in love with this Christmas.
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The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
The Doll Factory is the story of Iris, an aspiring painter who agrees to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost in return for painting lessons, and Silas, a collector who develops an unhealthy interest in her. Both a beautifully evocative tale of love and art, and a darkly gripping thriller about obsession, this is a book literature lovers shouldn't miss.
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The 28-Day Vegan Plan by Kim Julie Hansen
We probably all know someone toying with the idea of giving Veganuary a go in the new year. So why not give them a helping hand with this straightforward and helpful guide to cooking and eating delicious vegan food – perfect for beginners and long timers.
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Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porowski
Antoni Porowski is the charismatic and easy-on-the-eye food and wine expert on the smash-hit Netflix reality series, Queer Eye. The positive message in his cookbook is about finding your own comfort zone in the kitchen and learning how to make food that you enjoy, whether it be a healthy-ish weeknight dinner or an indulgent sweet treat. Packed full of simple recipes with anything but simplistic flavours, this is the perfect recipe book for aspiring cooks of any skill level.
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The Christmas Party by Karen Swan
No one does winter romance quite like Karen Swan. Frostbitten backdrops, cosy cabins, and roaring fires – how can two people not fall in love? If you know someone who enjoys a heart-warming yarn on a cold winter's night, there's no better book to give them this year.
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The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The world has gone wild for Marie Kondo's approach to tidying up and organising your life over the past year. We all know someone who can feel a little overwhelmed by the mess that seems to continuously pile up around them. Kondo's fully illustrated manga introduces the reader to her simple yet effective techniques for living a clutter-free, more streamlined life.
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The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons
We know what every fantasy lover wants this holiday season, and that's dragons. Throw in a healthy dose of demons and gods and you've got the perfect present in Jenn Lyons' latest instalment in the A Chorus of Dragons series. An epic novel that follows in the footsteps of fantasy greats whilst maintaining its own unique voice, The Name of All Things is sure to go down a treat this year.
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The True Queen by Zen Cho
Imagine 19th century Britain but with sorcerers and fairies. This magical novel combines intricate world building, fascinating characters and stunning prose. It's set in the same world as Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown, and readers of her previous work will enjoy this new instalment, while new readers will find it the perfect entry point into Zen's fantastical writing.
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Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Give the gift of space travel this Christmas with Adrian Tchaikosky's epic intergalactic adventure. Following on from the award-winning Children of Time, set in the same universe but with a new cast of exciting characters, this book is perfect for both fully immersed sci-fi fans as well as those looking for a place to dive in.
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Tin Can Cook by Jack Monroe
Is someone you know coming home this winter, desperate for a home-cooked meal after months of pot noodles and takeaways? Help a newly independent youngster out and give them the easiest collection of filling, tasty and inexpensive recipes going.
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My Life and Rugby by Eddie Jones
Eddie Jones is one of the most recognisable names in rugby today. Here he takes the reader through his own life story, from a working-class childhood in Sydney to reinventing the English National Rugby Team in 2015. Any sports fan will be captivated by this account of Eddie's journey through the world of rugby coaching from the man himself.
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The Little Red Book of Klopp by Giles Elliott
English football was well and truly shaken up when Jürgen Klopp was appointed manager of Liverpool F.C. in 2015. Bringing his own unique style of charisma to the beautiful game, watching Klopp manage on the side of the pitch has sometimes been more entertaining than watching what's happening on it! The Little Red Book of Klopp is packed full of his best witticisms, one-liners, and insults, making it the perfect stocking-filler for football fans and admirers of the game's most eccentric manager.
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Eight Days at Yalta by Diana Preston
When three world leaders, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, met in Yalta, their discussions over the course of eight days would decide the course of not only the final days of WWII but what the world would look like in its aftermath. Preston's book provides insight into the minds of three men who each saw an opportunity for a new world, and is a must-read for any and all history buffs.
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Tombland by C. J. Samson
Well-loved detective/lawyer Matthew Shardlake is back in C. J. Samson's latest Tudor mystery novel. Shardlake investigates the death of Edith Boleyn in the court of Henry the VIII in this detailed depiction of 16th century court intrigue and political uprisings.
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Christmas: A History by Judith Flanders
For history lovers and Christmas lovers alike, Christmas: A History is a wonderful exploration of the myths, legends and traditions of the festive season. Why is turkey the dinner of choice? Exactly who was, or is, Santa Claus? Acclaimed social historian and author Judith Flanders answers these questions and many more as she gives us an insight into Christmas, from the origins of the holiday in the Roman Empire, to the popularity of decorated trees in Europe.
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Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden brings us a first-hand account of one of the biggest political exposés to hit the US in recent years. Edward risked everything to reveal confidential information about the US government's mass surveillance system he discovered during his time in the employ of the CIA. The book spans his life from a suburban childhood to life in exile, revealing how Edward helped build the system, and why he felt he had no choice but to expose it.
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Poems for Christmas by Various
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Round About the Christmas Tree by Various
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All that remains, p.1
All That Remains, p.1Patricia Cornwell
'All that Remains'
by Patricia D Cornwell.
A DR KAY Scarpetta Mystery
Saturday, the last day of August, I started work before dawn. I did not witness mist burning off the grass or the sky turning brilliant blue. Steel tables were occupied by bodies all morning, and there are no windows in the morgue. Labor Day weekend had begun with a bang of car crashes and gunfire in the city of Richmond.
It was two o'clock in the afternoon when I finally returned to my West End home and heard Bertha mopping in the kitchen. She cleaned for me every Saturday and knew from past instruction not to bother with the phone, which had just begun to ring.
"I'm not here," I said loudly as I opened the refrigerator.
Bertha stopped mopping. "It was ringing a minute ago," she said. "Rang a few minutes before that, too. Same man."
"No one's home," I repeated.
"Whatever you say, Dr. Kay."
The mop moved across the floor again.
I tried to ignore the disembodied answering machine message intruding upon the sun-washed kitchen. The Hanover tomatoes I took for granted during the summer I began to hoard with the approach of fall. There were only three left. Where was the chicken salad? A beep was followed by the familiar male voice. "Doc? It's Marino..."
Oh, Lord, I thought, shoving the refrigerator door shut with a hip. Richmond homicide detective Pete Marino had been on the street since midnight, and I had just seen him in the morgue as I was picking bullets out of one of his cases. He was supposed to be on his way to Lake Gaston for what was left of a weekend of fishing. I was looking forward to working in my yard.
"I've been trying to get you, am heading out. You'll have to try my pager..."
Marino's voice sounded urgent as I snatched up the receiver.
"I'm here."
"That you or your goddam machine?"
"Take a guess," I snapped "Bad news. They found another abandoned car. New Kent, the Sixty-four rest stop, westbound. Benton just got hold of me - "
"Another couple?" I interrupted my plans for the day forgotten.
"Fred Cheney, white male, nineteen. Deborah Harvey, white female, nineteen. Last seen around eight last night when they drove off from the Harveys' Richmond house, on their way to Spindrift."
"And the car's in the westbound lane?"
I inquired, for Spindrift, North Carolina, is three and a half hours east of Richmond.
"Yo. Appears they was heading in the opposite direction, back into the city. A trooper found the car, a Jeep Cherokee, about an hour ago. No sign of the kids."
"I'm leaving now," hold him.
Bertha had not stopped mopping, but I knew she had picked up every word.
"Be on my way soon as I finish up in here," she assured me. "I'll lock up and set the alarm. Don't you worry, Dr. Kay."
Fear was running along my nerves as I grabbed my purse and hurried out to my car.
There were four couples so far. Each had disappeared, eventually to be found murdered within a fifty-mile radius of Williamsburg.
The cases, dubbed by the press as The Couple Killings, were inexplicable, and no one seemed to have a clue or credible theory, not even the FBI and its Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, or VICAP, which featured a national data base run on an artificial intelligence computer capable of connecting missing persons with unidentified bodies and linking serial crimes. After the first couple's bodies were found more than two years ago, a VICAP regional team, comprising FBI Special Agent Benton Wesley and veteran Richmond homicide detective Pete Marino, was invited by local police to assist. Another couple would disappear, then two more. In each instance, by the time VICAP could be notified, by the time the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC, could even wire descriptions to police department across America, the missing teenagers were already dead and decomposing in woods somewhere.
Taming off the radio, I passed through a tollbooth and picked up speed on I-64 East Images, voices suddenly came back to me. Bones and rotted clothing scattered with leaves. Attractive, smiling faces of missing teenagers printed in the newspapers, and bewildered, distraught families interviewed on television and calling me on the phone.
"I'm so sorry about your daughter."
"Please tell me how my baby died. Oh, God, did she suffer?"
"Her cause of death is undetermined, Mrs. Bennett. There's nothing else I can tell you at this time."
"What do you mean you don't know?"
"All that remains is his bones, Mr. Martin. When soft tissue is gone, gone with it is any possible injury..."
"I don't want to hear your medical bullshit! I want to know what killed my boy! The cops are asking about drugs! My boy's never been drunk in his life, much less taken drugs! You hear me, lady? He's dead, and they're making him out to be some sort of punk..."
"CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER BAFFLED: Dr. Kay Scarpetta Unable to Tell Cause of Death."
Over and over again. Eight young people.
It was awful. It was, in fact, unprecedented for me.
Every forensic pathologist has undetermined cases, but I had never had so many that appeared to be related.
I opened the sunroof and my spirits were lifted somewhat by the weather. The temperature was in the low eighties, leaves would be turning soon. It was only in the fall and spring that I did not miss Miami. Richmond summers were just as hot, without benefit of ocean breezes to sweep the air clean. The humidity was horrible, and in winter I fared no better, for I do not like the cold. But spring and fall were intoxicating. I drank in the change, and it went straight to my head.
The I-64 rest stop in New Kent County was exactly thirty-one miles from my house. It could have been any rest stop in Virginia, with picnic tables, grills and wooden trash barrels, brick-enclosed bathrooms and vending machines, and newly planted trees. But there was not a traveler or a truck driver in sight, and police cars were everywhere.
A trooper, hot and unsmiling in his blue-gray uniform, walked toward me as I parked near the ladies' room.
"I'm sorry, ma'am," he said, leaning close to my open window. "This rest area's closed today. I'm going to have to ask you to drive on."
"Dr. Kay Scarpetta," I identified myself, switching off the ignition. "The police asked me to come."
"For what purpose, ma'am?"
"I'm the chief medical examiner," I replied.
As he looked me over, I could see the skeptical glint in his eyes. I supposed I did not look particularly "chiefly."
Dressed in a stone-washed denim skirt, pink oxford cloth shirt, and leather walking shoes, I was without the accoutrements of authority, including my state car, which was in the state garage awaiting new tires. At a glance, I was a not-so-young yuppie running errands in her dark gray Mercedes, a distracted ash-blonde en route to the nearest shopping mall.
"I'll need some identification."
Digging inside my purse, I produced a thin black wallet and displayed my brass medical examiner's shield, then handed over my driver's license, both of which he studied for along moment I sensed he was embarrassed.
"Just leave your car here, Dr. Scarpetta. The folks you're looking for are in back."
He pointed in the direction of the parking area for trucks and buses. "Have a nice one," he added inanely, stepping away.
I followed a brick walk. When I rounded the building and passed beneath the shade of trees, I was greeted by several more police cars, a tow truck with light bar flashing, and at least a dozen men in uniforms and plain clothes. I did not see the red Jeep Cherokee until I was almost upon it. Midway along the exit ramp, it was well off the pavement in a dip and obscured by foliage. Two door, it was coated with a film of dust. When I looked in the dri
Marino was talking to a thin, blond man, someone he introduced as Jay Morrell with the state police, whom I did not know. He seemed to be in charge.
"Kay Scarpetta," I volunteered, since Marino identified me only as "Doc."
Morrell fixed dark green Ray Bans on me and nodded. Out of uniform and sporting a mustache that was little more than teenage fuzz, he exuded the all-business bravado I associated with investigators brand-new on the job.
"Here's what we know so far."
He was glancing around nervously. "The Jeep belongs to Deborah Harvey, and she and her boyfriend, uh, Fred Cheney left the Harveys' residence last night at approximately eight P.M. They were heading to Spindrift, where the Harvey family owns a beach house."
"Was Deborah Harvey's family home when the couple left Richmond?" I inquired.
"No, ma'am."
He briefly turned his shades my way. "They were already at Spindrift, had left earlier in the day. Deborah and Fred wanted to go in a separate car because they planned to return to Richmond on Monday.
Both of them are sophomores at Carolina, and needed to come back early to get ready to return to school."
Marino explained as he got out his cigarettes, "Right before they left the Harvey house last night, they called up Spindrift, told one of Deborah's brothers they was heading out and would be arriving sometime between midnight and one A.M. When they didn't show up by four o'clock this morning, Pat Harvey called the police."
"Pat Harvey?"
I looked at Marino in disbelief.
It was Officer Morrell who replied, "Oh, yeah. We got us a good one, all right Pat Harvey's on her way here even as we speak. A chopper picked her up"- he glanced at his watch - "about a half hour ago. The father, uh, Bob Harvey, he's on the road. Was in Charlotte on business and was supposed to get to Spindrift sometime tomorrow. As far as we know, he hasn't been reached yet, doesn't know what's happened."
Pat Harvey was the National Drug Policy Director, a position the media had dubbed Drug Czar. A presidential appointee who not so long ago had been on the cover of Time magazine, Mrs. Harvey was one of the most powerful and admired women in America.
"What about Benton?"
I asked Marino. "Is he aware Deborah Harvey is Pat Harvey's daughter?"
"He didn't say nothing about it to me. When he called, he'd just landed in Newport News - the Bureau flew him in. He was in a hurry to find a rental car. We didn't talk long."
That answered my question. Benton Wesley would not be rushing here in a Bureau plane unless he knew who Deborah Harvey was. I wondered why he had not said anything to Marino, his CAP partner, and I tried to read Marino's broad, impassive face. His jaw mules were flexing, the top of his balding head flushed and beaded with sweat.
"What's going on now," Morrell resumed, "is I got a lot of men stationed around to keep out traffic. We've looked in the bathrooms, poked around a little, to make sure the kids aren't in the immediate area. Once Peninsula Search and Rescue get here, we'll start in on the woods."
Immediately north of the Jeep's front hood the well attended landscaping of the rest stop was overcome by brush and fees that within an acre became so dense I could see nothing but sunlight caught in leaves and a hawk making circles over a distant stand of pines. Though shopping malls and housing developments continued their encroachment upon I-64, this stretch between Richmond and Tidewater so far had remained unspoiled. The scenery, which I would have found reassuring and soothing in the past, now seemed ominous to me.
"Shit," Marino complained as we left Morrell and began walking around.
"I'm sorry about your fishing trip," I said.
"Hey. Ain't it the way it always goes? Been planning this damn trip for months. Screwed again. Nothing new."
"I noticed that when you pull off the Interstate," I observed, ignoring his irritation, "the entrance ramp immediately divides into two ramps, one leading back here, the other to the front of the rest stop.
In other words, the ramps are one way. It's not possible to pull into the front area for cars, then change your mind and drive back here without going a considerable distance the wrong way on the ramp and risk hitting someone. And I would guess there was a fair amount of travelers on the road last night, since it's Labor Day weekend."
"Right. I know that. It don't take a rocket scientist to figure out that somebody intended to ditch the Jeep exactly where it is because there were probably a lot of cars parked in front last night. So he takes the ramp for trucks and buses. Probably was pretty deserted back here. Nobody sees him, and he splits."
"He may also not have wanted the Jeep found right away, explaining why it's well off the pavement," I said Marino stared off toward the woods and said, "I'm getting too old for this."
A perpetual complainer, Marino had a habit of arriving at a crime scene and acting as if he did not want to be there. We had worked with each other long enough for me to be used to it, but this time his attitude struck me as more than an act His frustration went deeper than the canceled fishing trip. I wondered if he had had a fight with his wife.
"Well, well," he mumbled, looking toward the brick building."
The Lone Ranger's arrived."
I turned around as the lean, familiar figure of Benton Wesley emerged from the men's room. He barely said "hello" when he got to us, his silver hair wet at the temples, the lapels of his blue suit speckled with water as if he had just washed his face. Eyes fixed impassively on the Jeep, he slipped a pair of sunglasses from his breast pocket and put them on.
"Has Mrs. Harvey gotten here yet?"
he asked.
"Nope," Marino replied.
"What about reporters?"
"Nope," Marino said.
Wesley's mouth was firmly set, making his sharp featured face seem harder and more unreachable than usual I would have found him handsome were it not for his imperviousness. His thoughts and emotions were impossible to read, and of late he had become such a master at walling off his personality that I sometimes felt I did not know him.
"We want to keep this under wraps as long as possible," he went on. "The minute the word's out all hell is going to break loose."
I asked him, "What do you know about this couple, Benton?"
"Very little. After Mrs. Harvey reported them missing early this morning, she called the Director at home and then he called me. Apparently, her daughter and Fred Cheney met at Carolina and had been dating since their freshman year. Both of them supposedly good, clean-cut kids. No history of any sort of trouble that might account for them getting tangled up with the wrong type of person out here - at least according to Mrs. Harvey. One thing I did pick up on was she had some ambivalence about the relationship, thought Cheney and her daughter spent too much time alone."
"Possibly the real reason for their wanting to drive to the beach in a separate car," I said.
"Yes," Wesley replied, glancing around. "More than likely that was the real reason. I got the impression from the Director that Mrs. Harvey wasn't keen on Deborah's bringing her boyfriend to Spindrift. It was family time. Mrs. Harvey lives in D.C. during the week and hadn't seen much of her daughter and two sons all summer. Frankly, I have the feeling that Deborah and her mother may not have been getting along very well of late, and may have had an argument right before the family headed off to North Carolina yesterday morning."
"What about the chance the kids might have run off together?"
Marino said. "They was smart, right? Would read the papers, watch the news, maybe saw the stuff about these couples on that TV special the other week. Point is, t
"It's one of many scenarios we need to consider," Wesley replied. "And it's all the more reason I hope we can keep this from the media as long as possible."
Morrell joined us as we walked along the exit ramp back toward the Jeep. A pale blue pickup truck with a camper shell pulled up, and a man and a woman in dark jumpsuits and boots got out. Opening the tailgate, they let two panting, tail-wagging bloodhounds out of their crate. They snapped long leads to rings on the leather belts around their waists and grabbed each dog by its harness.
"Salty, Neptune, heel!"
All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell / Mystery & Detective / Thrillers & Crime have rating 4 out of 5 / Based on32 votes

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Courtney & Josh
After dinner and dessert we went back to my mom's place and played a rip roaring game of Pictionary! LOL It was actually quite amusing and my grandparent's watched Buzzy for me.
Great Papa & My Buzzy
I'm exhausted. I am soo tired of being pregnant. In 2 years I have only had a total reprieve of 6 months from being pregnant. One month after the miscarriage and 5 months between buzzy and the little Nameless. I'm tired of the acid reflux. Tired of the sensitive smells and tastes. Tired of the nausea, the wacky hair, the swollen feet, the achey leaky boobs, the fatigue. I'm tired of the extra weight, the backaches, the vaginal farts, the sciatica, the necessary pantyliners. I'm just tired of it all. I cannot wait to give birth and regain control of my body. I'll take 5 depo shots if its necessary to keep me from getting pregnant again. I just want to be me for a while, again. Not me + Baby Belly.
Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't trade all that either. I love Buzzy, love my little Nameless who, (as the name implies)has yet to be named and wouldn't give either up for anything. I'm just tired.
Oh, and if I never have to see/taste another Tums in my life it will be too soon.


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Season 6, Episode 12, 'Not Tomorrow Yet'
Are you happy now, Maggie?
I'm no Dr. Spock, but it seems like high on the list of rules for expectant mothers, right up there with not smoking cigarettes or eating cold cuts, would be this: Do not engage in armed raids on postapocalyptic pirate strongholds.
And yet there Maggie was in Sunday's "Walking Dead," not long after seeing her offspring for the first time, demanding, against all better judgment and the urging of Glenn and others, to participate in the attack on the Saviors. Her resulting capture thwarted an otherwise shockingly successful effort, undercutting her husband's great moral sacrifice, and jeopardized the other person most invested in keeping her safe. (Does anyone really think Carol would've been taken if she hadn't been babysitting her?) Now Maggie's briefly victorious comrades are caught in the clutches of what we've been led to believe are the most vicious opponents we've seen on "The Walking Dead." So … nice job by her.
The capture was a face-palm of a denouement to a tense, nervy episode that inaugurated the clash with the Saviors quicker perhaps than most viewers expected. Titled "Not Tomorrow Yet," the hour opened with a delightful montage that offered a tantalizing glimpse of the sort of neighborly tomorrow Alexandria can aspire to, while hinting at the obstacles in its path. Carol did her Betty Crocker routine, baking everyone acorn and beet cookies — a dessert absolutely destined to appear in some Brooklyn bakery soon — as a jangly tune ("Weeds or Wildflowers" by Parsonsfield) cheerfully warned that "I've lived enough to know the battle's never through." Sure enough, soon the R.V. was back, Rick was saying "we're gonna have to fight" and dark clouds literally appeared on the horizon. (That part was a little much.)
The prologue to the chaotic final assault included a charged town meeting, a fun scheme to trick the Saviors with a fake Gregory head and continued curious behavior from Abraham (more on that in a minute). Along the way we saw Rick finding his niche as Alexandria's leader — he's enlightened enough to put the Savior matter to a vote but remains ready, when necessary, to work a zombie melon like a speed bag — and milestones for other core survivors.
We referred earlier to Glenn, who killed his first non-zombies and didn't seem thrilled about it. Even Father Gabriel took a life, doing his best Jules Winnfield impersonation in the process by reciting Bible verses before he pulled the trigger. (All credit to Seth Gilliam, who sold Gabriel's emergence as a mean servant of God, to invoke another Tarantino script, as believably as he previously portrayed Gabriel the Meek.)
Carol finally got lucky, I believe for the first time on this show, post-Ed. (Please tell me if I'm forgetting someone.) Tobin had been a marginal Alexandrian whom the writers seemed to be keeping around for a reason. Now we know why. Early on, Carol wooed-bullied him with the cookies — "Just put it in your mouth, jerk" — and then later, over a cigarette, got Tobin to admit his affection. "It's not tomorrow yet," she replied. (Translation: "We've got tonight, know what I'm saying, big guy?")
Tobin's speech about Carol's strength deriving from the fact that she's a mother seemed important, especially considering Maggie's struggles this week. But I couldn't quite parse the significance of what he was saying. Perhaps it was foreshadowing something Carol will do to protect her from the Saviors in a later episode. Feel free to share any theories in the comments.
The other pivotal player on Sunday was Abraham. We wondered last week about his internal strife, which seemed to find some sort of resolution, oddly, as he was being strangled by the Hilltopper. He symbolically left Rosita's necklace behind, seeming to signal his intention to throw her over in favor of Sasha. Which is what he did on Sunday, though he and Sasha were too busy blasting Saviors to discuss their future together.
But do they really have a future together? Some commenters raised intriguing points last week, noting the interest Abraham showed in the story from the Hilltopper who, when Abraham nearly killed him by mistake, saw his dead wife awaiting him. You'll recall how bereft Abraham was, in the early days, about losing his own family. Did he see something similar during his own brush with death last week? Was that the source of his comfort, knowing that paying the ultimate price will gain him the thing he still desires most?
Now consider the cruelty with which he dumped Rosita, who is a fairly bland character but seems like a decent enough person. ("I thought you were the last woman on earth," he said. "You're not.") She didn't deserve that, and it seemed out of character for Abraham, right? But it might not be, if he's trying to alienate someone who cares about him, because he plans to sacrifice himself at the first appropriate opportunity.
I bring all of this up because someone's about to get it. Maybe several someones, but as we get closer to the inevitable arrival of the big bad Negan it seems certain that at least one core character will be checking out soon, and it's not going to be pretty. We all saw those horrific snapshots in the Savior lair and, as the various stories about Jeffrey Dean Morgan's casting as Negan have noted, his signature weapon is a baseball bat.
Could that someone be Abraham? He's sure acting like a man with a date with destiny, and, as we learned back when Eugene was lying about his world-saving scientific bona fides, Abraham is a man who needs a purpose. I'm guessing we'll find out soon, one way or another.
A Few Thoughts While We Weld and Weep
• Cliffs Notes recap: Moms are strong but also sometimes liabilities.
• I wondered about Carol's sanity a few weeks ago, but on Sunday she seemed fine — Morgan was the one hanging on by a thread. He was last seen crying while he built some metal contraption. It's no surprise he was the dissenting vote on the Savior issue, and he's also waiting for the other shoe to drop on the stray Wolf he used to keep in the basement. But what else is going on with that guy?
• The Saviors are scary, the Hilltopper told Rick after he worked over the zombie head, but they "got nothing on you." I highly enjoyed the whole beheaded Gregory ruse, from start to finish.
• A note about spoilers: Obviously "The Walking Dead" is following a blueprint, but the writers are good at splitting the difference between rewarding comic book fans' expectations and changing up enough to keep all viewers on their toes. So we don't actually know what's going to happen, even though we're at a spot in the story that, in the books, includes some big, significant events. That said, please refrain from posting comics spoilers in the comments. (The moderators will usually reject them if they see them.)
• So what do you think? Am I being too hard on Maggie? Is Virginia really for lovers? (God bless Eugene.) And what's your favorite acorn-based recipe? As always, please fire away in the comments.


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Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Ryan Deschamps, Halifax Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Links to the show topics:
1. St. Louis Library Accuses Patron of Creating Controversial Display (School Library Journal)
Community Library Watch
2. St. Johns Man Arrested On Sex Charges (News4Jax.com)
Man violates 14 y/o in library bathroom (LISNews)
3. Librarians under new management (AP)
Privatizing libraries (Three Wise Men)
The Case for Privatizing Public Libraries (Locusts & Honey)
4. Something else to check out at library: Starbucks (USA Today)
5. Sex @ Your Library (Annoyed Librarian)
6. RIAA Wins in First-Ever Jury Trial; Verdict of $222,000 for 24 Song Files Worth $23.76
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer – Episode 43 (Shelly Palmer Media)
RIAA Misinformation Campaign Apparently Works (TorrentFreak)
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Library and information science as a research domain: problems and prospects (informationresearch)
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Boy in court on terror charges (BBC News)
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WorldCat Turns You Into A Library Power User (Consumerist)
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I think this should be discussed. http://www.abqjournal.com/cgi-bin/print_it.pl?page=/news/metro/604531metro10-22-07.htmMonday, October 22, 2007Sandia National Laboratories Technical Library Closing the BooksBy John FleckCopyright © 2007 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer What is a library without books? That's the brave new world Sandia National Laboratories is trying to enter— much to the chagrin of some scientists and engineers who work there. "BOOK COLLECTION CLOSED!!!" said the signs hastily added to the stacks at Sandia's Technical Library on Friday. "NO CHECKING OUT!!!" In an effort to save money and "re-engineer" library services for the electronic age, Sandia is cutting off access to what a memo sent out last Monday called "hard-copy content"— books, maps and printed journals. In their place, Sandia scientists will eventually have access to a fully electronic library. In the meantime, some Sandia researchers have become vocal about their need for, and attachment to, "hard-copy content." The reaction did not surprise the Sandia managers who planned the move. "As the saying goes, such a new omelet cannot be made without breaking a few eggs," the memo explained. By Friday, the broken eggs had left a bit of a mess. "Poor decision to close the Tech Library," said one post on an internal Sandia message board. "Textbooks are necessary for research," said another. "Erosion of Scholarship, Innovation and Contribution," said a third. "One of the reasons I came to Sandia was because of their high-class library," said Sandia engineer Roy Jorgenson. He studies electromagnetics, a field in which the old classic books are still relevant. Jorgenson regularly comes to the library to get them, browsing entries around them at the same time. "That's what you don't get electronically," Jorgenson said Friday morning during a visit to the library. He was trying to figure out where the books he needs were going to end up. For now, no one knows. The fate of the books is yet to be determined. Located behind security fences in the heart of Sandia's main research complex, the library holds 60,000 volumes. For comparison, the University of New Mexico's Centennial Science and Engineering Library has about 400,000 books. The Sandia library serves a population of researchers that includes 1,686 people with Ph.D.s. According to librarian Donald Guy, the researchers check out books 45,000 times per year. As soon as the change was announced, Sandia managers began hearing from researchers who say they cannot do their work without access to the books, said Wendy Cieslak, a senior manager who is representing the lab's research community in discussions about the library's future. How will Sandia meet the needs of those researchers? "I don't yet know the best answer," said W. David Williams, director of Sandia's Information Solutions and Services department and the point man on the library changes. "There's quite a bit of concern," said Anna Nusbaum, manager of the Technical Library and one of the front line staff fielding questions from users about the library's future. The changes were made as a result of a consultant's study of the way Sandia researchers use library services, said Art Hale, Sandia's chief information officer. Increasingly, Sandia researchers use the computer on their desk to get the information they need, rather than a physical library, Hale said. Current scientific journals are nearly all available online, as are other resources used by researchers. "People aren't coming in here and looking at the hard copy," Guy said. "It's more efficient to do it at their desk." "To maintain a collection, even an out-of-date collection, is very, very costly," Williams said. Sandia's approach, he said, is to improve Sandias' access to research material on their desktop computer. Closing down the stacks will save Sandia $1.1 million per year while allowing it to improve electronic information services, Hale said. Williams bristles at those who say the library is being "closed." "I hate that term," he said. "We're transforming the library." For Guy, who has spent 20 years as a librarian, it's a difficult time. "I'm conflicted," Guy said as he took a pair of visitors around the library Friday. "It's very hard, but I can see that we need to move into the future."
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http://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/editorials/604571opinion10-23-07.htmThis too, editorial from Albuquerque JournalTuesday, October 23, 2007Hey Library Consultant, Look Up Common Sense. It's a textbook example of why not to listen to a consultant. Some such bean-counting genius presumably determined Sandia National Laboratories could save $1.1 million a year by dumping its traditional Technical Library and converting to a completely online system. We would recommend looking up "pennywise and pound foolish" in a dictionary of idioms, but Sandia won't let you check out books anymore. The consultant's proposal probably looked good on paper— the same stuff the proposal wants to get rid of. But in reality, items in Sandia's library— 60,000 volumes behind security fences in the heart of the lab's main research complex— are checked out 45,000 times a year. By researchers including 1,686 Ph.Ds. Who work on things like electromagnetics. And bean counters should respect those numbers even if they don't understand the physics of how an electric current produces a magnetic field as it moves through a wire. Yes, this is the Internet age. And yes, it's logical for the lab to work toward a fully electronic library. The consultant found many Sandia researchers are using the computers on their desks to get the info they need. But plenty are also incensed about the "BOOK COLLECTION CLOSED!!!" and "NO CHECKING OUT!!!" signs. Like the Internet, printed matter like books and maps and journals has a place at one of the country's premier research laboratories. So does common sense. Sandia officials shouldn't allow a consultant's report to eliminate either.


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Greetings! I´m ShadowHaken, and welcome to another article where I'll be talking about the latest anime/manga that I´m reading or watching.
Disclaimer: English is not my native language, so I apologize in advance for anything that is badly written or completely incomprehensible.
You can check the past entry Here.
Episode 38: The Little Bouquet
The Chapter starts exactly where the past one left off. With Lute and Cheval meeting at the cave of trials; Lute, Navirou and the Chief tries to talk him out; but to no avail… With maybe the exception of the message that the flowers in her Mom´s garden are blooming, still Cheval decides to keep on his way out without looking back.
Later Lute, Lilia, Navirou, the Chief and the other Riders in the village have gathered on Cheval´s Mom garden, they talk about the distance that has grown and Genie wonders if they have been always like that? On his case with his Little Brother Hyoro, who he always saw as a Gloomy person; but now… What if he always hold that resentment towards him? In any case, now they only have to trust in the "power of Kinship".
After that the whole group goes to eat at the Chief´s house, all of them looks gloomy until Lilia brings up the idea that they might need some well home-made energy drinks! Everyone says that No! They just are very stuffed with food already so they aren´t hungry, that´s all! Everyone said that with one sole exception… Lute, who is still very depressed about Cheval.
Meanwhile Loloa and his friend whose name I always forget are looking at the stables and a Great Jaggi is there…In any case they see someone getting close to the Garden, it was Cheval. Both of them runs and catch him, with tears on their eyes they beg him to stay, they miss the big kids so much! Cheval, like a rock, decides to leave saying that he has nothing more to do here.
Loloa stops him and says that she has something for him, she quickly goes to the garden and starts picking flowers making a small bouquet and she gave it to Cheval while holding her tears.
She starts telling her a story she had with her Mom, when a broke she loved got broken, and how Cheval´s Mom cut some flowers and gave it to her in order to make her feel better. Therefore she gives him that small bouquet. Still Cheval doesn´t take it and keeps going away, Loloa just says that even if he doesn´t take the flowers, she will still be waiting with a smile when he comes back and she will always have some flowers ready for him.
Later, Loloa and her friend gives the information to the Chief and the others. After that Lute goes out of the village´s outskirts, he screams in frustration for all of what has happened to Cheval and the fact that he feels extremely guilty for the fate that his Mom faced.
Lute feels that in that time he was powerless; but now, he could save her, although…
Suddenly Cheval appears and he has Loloa´s flower bouquet, he throws it to the ground and starts saying that he highly doubts that Lute would have been able to save her even now…
Cheval starts saying some hard truths to Lute in how rash he is, in how he forced him and Lilia to go to his dumb endeavors where the only thing they receive was getting themselves in danger and how that time when the Nargacuga attacked the village it was thanks to Lute that the plan went off the rails and made the whole mess to begin with! For that, each time he looks in the past and sees his time with Lute, the only thing he can feel is a deep hatred towards him! For Cheval Lute is the true culprit on his Mother´s death!
Now Cheval wants to kick Lute´s ass and demands him to Ride his Monstie! To Ride Laeus! Lute refuses, thing that puts Cheval in an even worse mood and he starts punching Lute in the face continuous times; but he won´t indulge in hurting his best friend! Lute says that he recognizes that what Cheval has said is true, that´s why he can punch him as much as he wants. Cheval gets desperate and Rides Leia so Lute sees himself forced to Ride his Rathalos!
Cheval attacks; but Laeus just avoids the attack, like Lute, he won´t indulge in hurting someone dear to him! Still Cheval demands for his Rathian to keep attacking; but she doesn´t move, she is not following his Rider desires.
In that moment Lilia and the Chief reaches the place, Lilia apologizes to Cheval and tries to talk her way with him; but he decides to not to listen, he is just desperate and angry that his Rathian is not following his orders!
Cheval says that a Monstie like Rathian has no use with him, so he will kill her and end her misery! He stops his blade when the Chief tells him that it would be such a waste that the life her Mother died trying to protect would be killed like that… After hearing that Cheval stops and decides to let off his Rathian, he goes away walking and says that Leia is not his Monstie anymore…
Finally, The Chief says to Lute that he feels he is ready, ready to go to the sacred place… The Tower of Illusion.
End of the Chapter (well, not really, we sought a Great Jaggi card)
My Impressions
An Emotional Coaster! The chapter hold no punches when it came to the sad (I even cried a little) stuff that happened in the whole chapter! From Loloa and her friend crying when they saw Cheval, the attitude of this one.
The moment when Cheval started giving emotional and physical punches to Lute, to even when he tried to kill his Rathian just because it seemed that this one wasn´t so keen in "finishing" Lute and Laeus! Man in truth Cheval is a truly complex character and if we believe what he said was true that deep down in him he always hated Lute for his Guts and he blames him for his Mother´s death. Still, Man I truly wants to punch his face; but I guess it will be better the moment he realizes all the damage he has done to the people who was near to him, all in the name of a nameless vengeance against a non-existent entity.
Now Lute will keep on his way to truly be someone who destroys the Black Blight; as a matter of fact it is quite obvious that he is the chosen one to awaken the White Dragon!
Anyway my two cents. See Ya Next Time!


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I figured it out! If you want to see the final product, I attached it. Enjoy Tic Tac Toe.zip Moderator Comment: It's been reported that there are missing VIs to this attachment.
First off, neil, fantastic xkcd haha. And curiouspuya, I'm not really looking for an algorithm actually. That was my first thought, but I'm not skilled enough yet in LabVIEW to work with them just yet. I was more along the lines trying to use Random Number In Range (OpenG) to pick a number 0 through 9 for an index of sorts (as you see, I converted my cluster to a 1D Array) and start at the nearest integer to search for an open spot. In this case, an open spot would be a picture ring value of 0. If the player is X, and the open spot is available, the computer would place an O. Vice versa applies. So, is there anyway I can do basically what I just described using clusters? Also, thank you for your compliment!
Replace Cluster Element
NMarsh94 posted a topic in LabVIEW GeneralI'm making a Tic Tac Toe game using a cluster of 9 picture rings to represent X, O, or a blank spot. If I were to be doing a one player game vs the computer, is there a way I could make the computer make a move? I've tried a few things, and none of them worked. If you want to see the VI, which isn't finished nor cleaned up yet, I have it attached. Thanks Tic Tac Toe Game.zip
I get it now!! Thanks everyone so much!
Thank you todd! Hooovahh, another question for you. Why did you include a "stop" event case? Couldn't you have just wired the stop button to the "or" function outside the event structure, but inside the while loop? Just to be clear, I'm not criticizing, just curious. Maybe I'm missing something is all haha.
First off, thank you everyone for your help! I really appreciate it!! On a more personal scale... ShaunR - How do you know that math there? Also, I'm more or less using a range (halfway between each semitone +/- 1 Hz) to show the note. Sounds a little weird maybe, but I usually keep my guitar in tune but don't always know what note I play. So there's a chance that these notes played won't be EXACTLY what the frequency of a note actually is. So how can I use this math to keep my ranges? ned - Great idea!! hooovahh - Your edited VI and information/advice is impeccable. I can't thank you enough. My only question is how do I get to checking the "Detected Amplitude" from a cluster? Like, which cluster are you talking about and how do I do it? Also, my profile does say I use 2012, although it says I started in 2011. Thanks again everyone. hooovahh - scratch that question about the detected amplitude. Feeling stupid now haha.
Critique This VI!
NMarsh94 posted a topic in LabVIEW GeneralI'd appreciate anyone who could give me some pointers as to how to make this (attached) VI better. I'm new to LabVIEW. Any tips or comments would be great. Please keep in mind, This does EVERYTHING it's supposed to do, and I'm quite happy with this. All I'm looking to do is make it more efficient/cleaner/better if possible. However, if there is some function I can add that will do that, I'm happy to make some changes! The purpose of the VI is to recognize notes played by my guitar and display which note is being played via Boolean. Each note has a certain range of frequencies for each octave, which I have programmed into the case structure which can be seen. The values cover a total of 8 or 9 different octaves. The only issue I've had since the beginning (and I don't know how to fix) is that on my waveform chart, a frequency averaging around 100 Hz is being plotted, even if nothing is plugged in. It isn't that big of a deal, but if this was going to a customer, for them I'm sure it would be. Clearly, this is going to be a tad difficult to test yourself. In order to connect my guitar, I used this cord: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/2590944652720646368?hl=en&sugexp=les;&gs_rn=1&gs_ri=serp&tok=DuO5-FOT3EN7z5tMt31Gwg&pq=guitar+to+microphone+jack&cp=11&gs_id=1k&xhr=t&q=griffin+guitarconnect&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&oq=griffin+gui&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1600&bih=775&tch=1&ech=15ψ=lT4JUZCzJvKw0QGX0YBY.1359560370418.1&sa=X&ei=uz4JUYvSAePV0gGZjICADQ&sqi=2&ved=0CKIBEMwD If there are questions, just post here. Thanks! Note Recognizer.zip


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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will absolutely call a provincial election next week — unless, of course, she doesn't.
And at this point it's looking increasingly like she will wait. Or will she?
Welcome to the intense and exhausting world that is the on-again-off-again pre-election speculation in Alberta.
Trying to figure out exactly when Notley will call the election isn't a merely an existential debate over political angels dancing on the head of a pin.
Whether Notley calls the election next week or waits, and has a spring sitting of the legislature, will tell us much about the NDP election strategy.
Notley has already announced the spring legislative sitting will start Monday afternoon with a Speech from the Throne. The conventional wisdom has been that after the speech — which will be so warm and fuzzy you could wear it to bed — Notley would call the election.
Perhaps Monday afternoon. Or maybe Tuesday morning.
But now the government is talking about actually holding a spring sitting and introducing new legislation. It's working on a Bill 1: the Protection of Public Health Care Act.
The act would, among other things, get tough on extra billing by doctors and stop queue-jumping of diagnostic imaging services such as MRIs.
As Bill 1s go, it sounds pretty anemic, especially compared to previous examples of NDP primary bills that, among other things, ended political contributions from corporations and unions and targeted job creation while diversifying the economy.
But with the province possibly sliding into another recession, the NDP would love to make health care an issue rather than a campaign that seems set to focus on pipelines, pipelines, pipelines with a side helping of deficit, debt and a high unemployment.
That was why New Democratic hearts must have skipped a beat when they saw to their delight Kenney make health care something of an issue last month as he signed a giant cardboard "guarantee" to maintain a universal, publicly funded health care system.
And then Kenney, in NDP eyes at least, undermined that promise by announcing this month that a UCP government would scrap plans for a publicly run $590-million medical "superlab" in Edmonton. The UCP would instead contract out the lab testing work to the private sector.
"(New Democrats) are just ideologically hostile to the idea of the private sector delivering services more efficiently on behalf of the government," said Kenney.
And the gloves, latex and otherwise, were off.
The NDP began working on Bill 1 as a way to reinforce the government's commitment to health care (and the public sector union workers who deliver that care) as well as setting something of a trap for Kenney. The NDP is hoping Kenney will fight the bill, thus making himself into an enemy of public health care.
If only it was that easy.
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Kenney might very well vote in favour of the bill.
But there is another reason for the NDP to introduce legislation and have a spring sitting before calling an election: to buy time.
Not time for the economy to recover and/or a pipeline to get built (that might take years) but for Alberta's election commissioner to dig further into the UCP's 2017 leadership race.
That's the race that Kenney won, of course, to become leader of the party that he helped build from the ashes of the old Progressive Conservative party and the Wildrose.
There have been complaints that one of the candidates in the race, Jeff Callaway, was little more than a paper "kamikaze" candidate whose job was to attack candidate Brian Jean and thus allow Kenney to float above the campaign fray.
In recent weeks, the election commissioner has issued fines against several people with the Callaway campaign for obstructing the investigation and/or breaking financing rules.
Last week, Randy Kerr, who had been an official with the Callaway campaign, was suddenly dropped as the UCP candidate in Calgary Beddington after the party said he hadn't been "forthright" regarding his financial contributions to the Callaway campaign.
As well, independent MLA Prab Gill (formerly a UCP caucus member) has written the RCMP alleging voter fraud in the leadership race.
Lawyers for Kenney and the UCP sent Gill a cease-and-desist letter last month calling his statements "outrageous and plainly false" — and pointing out Gill was booted from the UCP last year after an internal party investigation concluded he had stuffed ballots in a local party vote.
Both Kenney and Callaway have denied any wrongdoing in the leadership race. But questions remain and the NDP is interested in exploiting the issue.
The NDP now appears to be contemplating introduction of a Bill 1 and holding a legislative session to buy time, hoping the election commissioner finds more answers, before calling the election.


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Cary Audio is excited to announce Concierge Pricing on CaryDirect.com for consumer direct purchases in the United States and Canada. As CaryDirect enters its third year selling direct to consumer, we have observed customer trends, buying habits, and have received a lot of customer feedback and suggestions.
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When life isn't going quite the way we had planned, we could all do with a lovely friend to identify the rocky road and deliver us a little box of sunshine to help steer us back onto the not so rocky road.
If you know someone that is struggling, why not send them a ray of sunshine, you will make their day. Lots of Love.