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Interview with Iliana Tsakiraki of Meden Agan
Elias: Hello Iliana and welcome. So, Meden Agan, a symphonic-prog metal band from Greece, you don't see that very often. Tell us a few words about the bands history, your influences and about the time when you joined the band.
Iliana: Hello Elias! Meden Agan was formed in November 2005 in Paris, France by guitarist Diman Koutsogiannopoulos. Their first demo was released in April 2006 and received very good reviews and feedback. Their first full-length album, Illusions, was released in November 2007, and contained progressive metal songs with male vocals. After a one-year hiatus as Diman returned to Greece, Meden Agan started working on new songs featuring me and a new keyboardist. Soon, they released their first EP, which was called Nemesis – Promo 2010. The new line up was: Iliana Tsakiraki (vocals), Diman Koutsogiannopoulos (guitars), Tolis Mikroulis (keyboards), Aris Nikoleris (bass), and Panos Paplomatas (drums). Soon after, the band entered the studio in order to record their album Erevos Aenaon. !And here we are now!
Elias: A new record is out now, called Erevos Aenaon and I believe that you had a small change in the lineup also. You also have a new video. Give us some info regarding the new record and video.
Iliana: At this point we would like to introduce Filip from One of These Days who currently aids us on the drums because our drummer couldn't cope with it anymore. As for our video we are very pleased to work with RawRec, as their work was so excellent , we are considering making our next music video after the summer. Of course we are very happy with all seems lost, a lot of people like it and that makes us even happier.
Elias: You're a very fresh band, but you've already made a very good name for yourself here. You've also done a few shows abroad and you're part of the Metal Female Voices Festival which will take place inBelgium, at October 21st. I believe that this is a great step for the band right?
Iliana: Of course! We were very pleased to know that we were one of the first bands to be announced at the fest. Meden Agan would have participated at last years fest too due to a band cancelling but unfortunately the band was not quite ready at the time. We didn't even have a drummer! The time was too short to work it out so here we are now at its best year celebrating its 10th year anniversary. We are a new band regarding the new lineup indeed but many bands change members every day and that does not make them start all over again. Erevos Aenaon has already been anticipated by lots of fans as an underground band release and we also had many orders by old fans of illusions album from France!
Elias: During the recordings of the new Septic Flesh album, you were asked to participate in one of the songs. You also shared the same stage. Tell us a few words about both these experiences.
Iliana: Its something that really makes me proud and I won't stop feeling proud about it. Im only 22 years old and still I managed to do something like that. It is a great feeling. Most of all because I've been listening to septic flesh since my high school years and I used to sing along to their songs adding my own vocal melodies. And here it is. .the time I entered the studio and they could hear me. My mind was blown these moments. I thank them and I will always thank them for everything. In every single show I performed with them I had shivers all along. I am really very emotional!
Elias: It was Jeff Hanneman from Slayer who said that "I hate interviews because I hate talking about myself". But I have to ask. Is it difficult being a soprano in a metal band? What are your main influences and background, except of course classical music and how do you manage to combine both musical worlds?
Iliana: Since I love both music genres I am a member of Meden Agan. It is the ultimate combination of 2 of my beloved things. It is not that difficult being a soprano at a metal band or a female sing at a metal band.. The difficult part is to try for the greater recognition of your band for it needs a lot of effort. All of us have different influences which are combined together. For example Diman and Tolis love Symphony X and i am more of a symphonic metal fan which all concludes at Meden Agan.
Elias: I went to your last concert with Dimlight and I must say that it was really mind-blowing, you were simply great. I feel really lucky that I attended this show. However, I don't believe that symphonic metal is considered to be very popular in Greece and we don't have many bands of that genre. Do you believe that we're making any progress in that area?
Iliana: We thank you very much for your compliments! I cannot answer in general. You were there you saw a lot of people. In these kinds of gigs you don't expect to see so much crowd so for me that is progress!
Elias: Despite the fact that you have another concert coming up, with Epica this time, I read somewhere that you don't play concerts very often. Is that true and if so, why is that?
Iliana: Its true we don't play a lot in Athens we prefer fewer concerts as long as they are good. Now we are ready to play with Epica. We have prepared a very powerful performance and we are looking forward to it!
Elias: This is a somehow cliché question that I ask everyone. Has the internet and social media helped the band or not? And if yes, how so?
Iliana: Good question but I believe one thing is for sure. It is you who have to use them and to dedicate a lot of time in them if u want them to help your band.
Elias: What's the next step for Meden Agan right now?
Iliana: To have as many rehearsals as we can during the summer in order to heighten our playing level. We want to get the best feedback possible from the MFVF. And by September we will have announced something very great for us so stay tuned!!
Elias: Is there something else that you wish to share with us?
Iliana: Sure! 'leave this world behind
seek the outer boundaries of life
no more tears to hide
feeling free to confide'
Links: https://www.facebook.com/meden.agan.official

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Club Med Ixtapa Pacific / Mexico
El Encanto
Entirely renovated, this restaurant opens for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 5 themed, air-conditioned lounges let you change your surroundings as you wish: the mirror room, the mask room, the interior garden, the aquarium and the planetarium . A large terrace facing the ocean, bordered with white columns and orange trees completes the choice of atmosphere. Club Med staff also make a daily selection of dishes suitable for low-fat diets. A baby-corner allows parents to prepare meals for their little ones. The restaurant terrace is a smoking area.This restaurant has tables for 2 to 8 people and high chairs for babies.
Access conditions :
Maximum indoor capacity: 475
Maximum outdoor capacity: 124
Wheel chair accessible.
The Luna Azul
This excentrically colorful Mexican-style restaurant serves creative and inventive cuisine in a lush green environment.
Looking onto the beach and coconut palms, it is open for dinner only, with waiter service. Booking compulsory
After dinner, you can prolong your evening in the bar.
Tables for 2 to 6 people; equipped with baby high chairs.
For information:
This restaurant may be closed at certain periods.
This restaurant is open evenings only and can be closed at certain dates.
Access conditions :
Maximum indoor capacity: 90
Wheel chair accessible.
The Miramar
Grilled meat dishes are the speciality of this restaurant.
Open for late breakfast and outside the opening hours of the other restaurants. Dinner served à la carte, in the spirit of a steakhouse. Its spacious terrace with panoramic sea view is a beautifully relaxing environment.
Tables for 2 to 8 people; equipped with high chairs.
This restaurant can be closed at certain dates.
Access conditions :
Maximum outdoor capacity: 80
Wheel chair accessible.
The Sirena
The restaurant for little ones… In Mini Club Med! Open to children aged from 2 to 11 yrs, this area has been specially created for them. On the menu, balanced meals, activities and entertainment.
Please note that this restaurant can be closed at certain dates.
Access conditions :
Maximum indoor capacity: 110
Baby corner special service
This baby corner, located in the main restaurant of the resort, proposes suitable meals for children (sweet and savoury baby food with the ustensils necessary for preparing meals).
For information: The speciality restaurant may be closed at certain periods.
- Toll free
- 1 800 572 4766
Or fill the form and one of our Club Med experts will get back to you as soon as possible.
- Opening hours
Monday to friday8 AM to 5:30 PM
Saturday9:30 AM to 4:30 PM(Except July, closed)
Sunday closed


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Øystein Olav Skaar
Academic interests
Methodology and research designs, especially quantitative research
Long-term memory, working memory and executive functions
Processing fluency and cognitive load
Embodied cognition
Learning strategies
Multimedia learning
PhD Project
Project title: "Aha-experiences and interest in mathematics education"
Based on the work of Sascha Topolinski and Rolf Reber (supervisor), the project aims to provide cognitive science new theoretical and empirical understanding on the phenomenology associated with aha-experiences (the feeling of having sudden insight).
Divided in three incremental studies, each conceived as a series of experiments or cross-sectional surveys, the project will have a general emphasis on the relationship between aha-experiences and attitudes, especially towards mathematics.
Courses taught
2014 – 2018: PhD research fellow in psychology at the University of Oslo
2013 – 2014: Research assistant at the University of Bergen (led by Rolf Reber)
2013 – 2014: Assistant professor, teacher ed. programme at the University of Bergen
2010 – 2012: Preschool teacher in the municipality of Bergen
2011 – 2013: Master in Education from the University of Bergen
Title of thesis: The Multimedia Expanse
2007 – 2010: Bachelor in Preschool Education from Bergen University College
- Krumsvik, Rune Johan & Skaar, Øystein Olav (2019). Schooling, educational technology and teachers' everyday practice in Norway, In George W. Noblit (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190264093. 23.
- Folgerø, Per Olav; Hodne, Lasse; Johansson, Christer; Andresen, Alf Edgar; Sætren, Lill Charlotte; Specht, Karsten; Skaar, Øystein Olav & Reber, Rolf (2016). Effects of facial symmetry and gaze direction on perception of social attributes: A study in experimental art history. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. ISSN 1662-5161. 10:452(2016) . doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00452
- Skaar, Øystein Olav & Krumsvik, Rune Johan (2015). Multimedia discrepancies - plenary lectures as perceived by students. UNIPED. ISSN 1893-8981. 38(1), s 53- 73 Full text in Research Archive.
- Skaar, Øystein Olav (2016). Forskingsbasert multimedialæring, I: Rune Johan Krumsvik (red.), Digital læring i skole og lærerutdanning. Universitetsforlaget. ISBN 9788215020495. 11. s 214 - 235
- Skaar, Øystein Olav (2014). Den misforståtte digitale kompetansen. NRK Ytring.
- Skaar, Øystein Olav & Krumsvik, Rune Johan (2013). The Multimedia Expanse.
- Skaar, Øystein & Krumsvik, Rune Johan (2013). Digital læring i førelesingar. På Høyden - nettavis for Universitetet i Bergen.


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Gonzalez, JohnAssociate Professor
226 Weber Hall
(785) 532-3448
EducationB.S. Agricultural Economics / Poultry Science, Texas A&M University, 2002
M.S. Animal Science, Sul Ross State University, 2005
Ph.D. Animal Science, University of Florida, 2008
Bio Brief
Dr. John Michael Gonzalez grew up in the vast urban setting of San Antonio, TX. He was first introduced to agriculture during his high school years when he visited numerous classmates' ranches located throughout the state of Texas. This led Dr. Gonzalez to pursue and earn his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics and Poultry Science from Texas A&M University. He then obtained his Master of Science degree in Animal Science from Sul Ross State University. In 2008, Dr. Gonzalez achieved his Ph.D. in Animal Sciences from the University of Florida. After earning his degree, Dr. Gonzalez spent a 9-month tenure serving as the Technical Services Manager of XL Four Star Beef, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska. Following this experience, he returned to the University of Florida as a Postdoctoral Associate.
Dr. Gonzalez joined the Kansas State University staff in June of 2011 with a 30% teaching and 70% research appointment. Within his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Gonzalez coordinates and participates in the instruction of the department's graduate Advanced Meat Science course. Dr. Gonzalez also re-established and instructs the yearly offering of the department's Growth and Development course and assisted in establishing a molecular techniques/biotechnology course for first and second year undergraduate students.
Dr. Gonzalez's research interests span two broad areas that include classical Meat Science research and utilizing livestock as models for human physiology. Within the Meat Science discipline, his interests primarily center around exploring the effects of management strategies, feeding regimens, and growth technologies on meat color and quality characteristics of red meat species. Specifically, Dr. Gonzalez utilizes molecular techniques to study the effects of muscle fiber morphometrics and the collagen compartment on meat tenderness and color characteristics. Overall, Dr. Gonzalez contributes to the Meat Science group by explaining global changes in meat quality or color by exploring muscle biology mechanisms with basic science techniques.
Dr. Gonzalez resides in Manhattan with his wife, Sara, his daughter Penelope, and two dogs, Bexar and Astro. In his free time, Dr. Gonzalez spends a good portion of his time following the United States space program. He and his wife can be found around town working on their golf game.


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I qualified as a Certified Chartered accountant in 2006 whilst working for a local small size accountancy firm in Bury St Edmunds. Despite a background in practice, I have always been driven by commerce and being able to personally drive improvement within a business. This led me to move into industry in 2008 and joining the Midwich Group in 2010.
Since joining Midwich as Management Accountant, I was promoted to Group Finance manager in 2012, and then to Midwich Finance Director in 2017.
I am proud to say I won the company's "Overall Achievement" Award in 2014, and "Midwich Values" Award in 2015.
My responsibility is for the finances and finance staff of Midwich Ltd in the UK including its satellite offices.


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Tippi and Grace share everything—clothes, friends . . . even their body. Writing in free verse, Sarah Crossan tells the sensitive and moving story of conjoined twin sisters, which will find fans in readers of Gayle Forman, Jodi Picoult, and Jandy Nelson.
Tippi and Grace. Grace and Tippi. For them, it's normal to step into the same skirt. To hook their arms around each other for balance. To fall asleep listening to the other breathing. To share. And to keep some things private. The two sixteen-year-old girls have two heads, two hearts, and each has two arms, but at the belly, they join. And they are happy, never wanting to risk the dangerous separation surgery.
But the girls' body is beginning to fight against them. And soon they will have to face the impossible choice they have avoided for their entire lives
I am so so so smitten with the fact that Sarah Crossan has gone back to writing verse novels again.
Breathe, which wasn't for me at all, left me feeling a bit cold but The Weight of Water is one of my favourite verse novels ever. And One… Jo, thy name is smitten.
I seem to have been gallivanting in Oz when all the buzz about Apple & Rain came out and I promise that I'll get to it soon. But I thought I'd jump ahead to One, an astonishing verse novel about two conjoined twins in America. We learn about Tippi and Grace (named after Hitchcock heroines, I feel I have to add, for all you other film geeks out there) and how they've lived and how they're living and everything that comes with sharing a circulatory system with your system. But soon they have to make
Sounds interesting, right? Sounds different, right? Sounds like it has the potential to break your heart, right?
Right, right and right… your heart will be crushed.
I've never read a story quite like this. It's unflinching and brilliant and completely different to pretty much anything that's out there at the moment. And I don't just mean the subject matter. But yeah, that's pretty unique too. And I don't just mean that it's in verse. But yeah, again, that's pretty different (although more and more verse novels are being published now which is wonderful). But it's the way that Sarah deals with the subject matter and the way she tells the girls' story that makes this book standout. This book could have either been saccharine or gratuitous, but it was neither. Even though it was sad and it did have some very sweet moments, it also had a gorgeous sense of humour and sense of personality running through it. I felt like I truly got to know these girls, especially Grace, our narrator, and not just because their illness.
One is a pretty eye-opening book and shows that gorgeous stories for teens are being written, in all forms and on all sorts of subjects. And you should be reading them.
An advanced copy of this book was provided by the publisher.


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BHP Makes Progress on Exit From Onshore US Business
Earlier this week, BHP's CEO Andrew Mackenzie confirmed the company is making good progress with the exit from its onshore US business. Last year, the miner announced its planned exit from the on US shale formations to focus its attention on offshore assets.
In his address earlier this week to attendees of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Metals Mining & Steel Conference, BHP's (ASX:BHP, NYSE:BHP,LSE:BLT) CEO Andrew Mackenzie said the company is "making good progress with the exit from its onshore US business."
Last year, the Anglo-Australian miner announced its planned and calculated exit from the US onshore shale oil and gas business to focus its attention on offshore assets. Some analysts believe the move was also prompted by pressure from activist investors to back out of the controversial onshore oil and gas projects.
"We have determined that our onshore US assets are non-core and we are actively pursuing options to exit these assets for value," the company said in a 2017 financial outlook statement.
BHP had implemented a two-year target for its exit from what is estimated to be a US$10-billion unit, however this past February the company revised the exit date to be as early as November 2018.
"We continue to progress a number of alternatives to exit our onshore US assets for value," BHP told Bloomberg. "We have commenced marketing each of the fields."
Since 2012, BHP has been actively working to reduce costs and increase revenues. The focus on fiscal responsibility has generated US$12 billion in gains so far, and the company expects to add US$2 billion more by the end of 2019.
"We have reduced net debt by over US$10 billion, returned US$8 billion to shareholders and, crucially, replenished our pipeline with new opportunities," Mackenzie told the crowd. "This pipeline has the potential to add a further 40 percent to the value of BHP, subject to our strict capital allocation processes."
Last month in an effort spur on potential buyers, BHP's president of petroleum operations, Steve Pastor, said the company would consider swapping certain onshore oil and gas resources with competitors' offshore assets. The company is especially interested in offshore wells in the Gulf of Mexico. BHP, is also prepared to offer the assets in seven packages, including three in the prized Permian Basin.
BHP is the world's largest mining company, with assets spanning the globe, and is poised to stay on top through its increased revenue and the future sale or swap of the onshore projects. The company expects to receive top dollar for its offerings due to the quality of acreage higher oil prices, a lower US corporate tax rate and positive results from recent well trials.
"We have maximized operating cash flow as we have lowered costs through productivity; we have been disciplined and transparent in capital allocation; and we have identified new options to increase value and returns," Mackenzie concluded.
On Wednesday (May 16), BHP's share price was up 1.87 percent, closing at GBP 1,744.20.
Don't forget to follow us @INN_Resource for real-time updates!
Securities Disclosure: I, Georgia Williams, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.


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I'm a commuter. So if there's one place I'm always looking to save money, it's in new ways to spend less on car expenses.
I unfortunately drive over 60 miles each way to my job every day (… it's a long story why …). For me, I rely on my car like its another set of legs. If it stops working, then I'm not getting to work. And that's a problem!
As much as we tend to love our cars, they are really nothing more than a pile of steel and bolts. They can be temperamental. Occasionally, they don't like to cooperate.
Make no mistake – They are mechanical machines that are certain to one day stop working. Sometimes they can be really nasty and require thousands of dollars in repairs! Argh!
This is why I strongly advocate NOT to put any more in your car than you have to. Recognize its simply a tool to get you from A to B. It's a tool that you have to maintain if you want it to run in tip-top shape.
Here's a few ways that you can do just to keep your vehicle running like a champ on as minimal of a budget as possible.
1. Don't drive in the first place!
The less you drive, the better it is for your car. But you can also extend this way of thinking to yourself!
If you're going some place local, why not try walking or riding a bike? Not only will you save some money on gas and put fewer miles on your car, but it will also be a cheap and easy way for you to get some more exercise involved.
2. Don't buy a "status" car.
I get it: A solid black SUV with the fancy logo on the back. It's looks cool!
But here's what's not cool: The average auto loan is 5 years or 60 months. So if you're looking at a luxury vehicle that has a $60,000 price tag, the math works out to over $1,000 per month in payments! Ouch! That's more than some people's mortgage payments!
And worse than that – most cars lose an average of 63% of their value in 5 years. Ask yourself honestly: Is this really the best way to invest $60,000? Would you buy a stock that you knew for sure was going to lose 63% of its value in 5 years? I think not!
3. Buy a used car instead of a new one.
Instead of buying a new car, purchase a used one. Used cars have already depreciated, and so you're buying it closer to its true value.
4. Buy used instead of leasing your car.
Leasing a car may seem (at times) like a good deal. But look a few years down the road. When the lease expires and you turn it back in, you'll have nothing. On the other hand, with the used car, you can drive it until it dies – payment free!
5. Know your car's value.
Before you go shopping for a vehicle, if you plan to trade in your current one, make sure you know its value by looking it up on Kelley Blue Book. That way you won't get ripped when the dealership goes to make you an offer.
6. Get pre-approved with a credit union.
Most people finance their vehicles (unless you've got a briefcase of hundred dollar bills just sitting around ready to spend). But where a lot of people get into trouble is when they take whatever finance offer they dealership makes them at the time of purchase. Don't do that! Before looking or buying any vehicle from a dealership, get pre-approved at a credit union. Generally they will have a lower interest rate and better terms than what the dealership is going to offer you. I've done this trick several times and it saved a ton!
7. Don't take the first offer.
Vehicles, whether new or used, are like anything else – the price is negotiable. Whatever the salesmen offers you, ask for less. Just do it. You'll be surprised at how often they are willing to work with you. And if it shaves thousands of dollars off of your price tag, then more power to you.
8. Don't buy insurance through the dealership.
Auto insurance is a topic all of its own. When you're at the dealership, don't buy credit life or credit disability insurance through them. You can find it cheaper from your regular insurance provider or another place online.
9. Skip buying a service contract or extended warranty.
An extended warranty may sound like peace of mind. But usually when you dig into the costs, you'll see that its' not worth it. Chances are you'll never use it – or not enough to make it worth the extra expense.
10. Refinance your auto payments.
Just like your mortgage, you can always shop around for a cheaper rate; even after you made your purchase. Again, I suggest looking to credit unions. I've done this twice now and found them to have better deals.
11. Drive your car for as many years as you possibly can.
There's no magic expiration date that say that after your car gets above 100,000 miles or is more than 5 years old that it must go. For the best bang for your buck, keep your car as long as its working good.
12. Park your car inside.
Keep your car indoors (in the garage) as much as possible. This will keep the weather and elements from corroding it.
13. Service your car regularly according to the manual.
This will keep your engine tuned and your car in tip-top shape. Check the vehicle's manual. Towards the back there is always a recommended service schedule.
14. Find an auto service you trust.
I can't stress how important this one is!
We all know stories and have seen the 20/20 hidden-camera specials about those places that charge you +$1,000 bucks for a part that should only cost $100. Keep trying places where you feel you're getting honest feedback, and you'll avoid getting ripped off for every little thing.
15. Change your own air filters.
It's really not that hard. Usually you just open the hood and pop a new one in. You can find a 3 minute instructional video for literally made or model on YouTube.
16. Change your own windshield wipers.
Again – this is another 5 minute job that an oil change place will happily charge you $30 to do for you. New wipers just snap on and snap off. It's that easy.
17. Brake more gradually.
This will make your brake pads last longer.
18. Group your errands.
If you've got places to go, wait until you can combine your errands into one trip. That way you won't drive unnecessarily, racking up extra miles and wear-and-tear.
19. Commute to work with coworkers or friends.
Not only is this great way to save on driving, but it can also help you to make better friends with the people you work with.
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I want to thank my fellow Board members for their participation today.
In closing, I'd like to recognize the staff of the Safety Board who investigated this accident and developed this excellent report; in particular, the staff from the Offices of Aviation Safety, and Research and Engineering. I commend staff for making sure that every stone was turned over in the investigation and for your commitment, day-in and day-out, to improving aviation safety.
This investigation has highlighted what the Safety Board has long known – that standard operating procedures provide an important buffer against errors caused by fatigue, and that good crew resource management translates into a better performing team in the cockpit.
The 14 safety recommendations we have adopted today, if implemented, will go a long way toward improving the safety of Part 135 flights, by:
This is a full plate of recommendations, and I urge the FAA to move promptly to implement them.
There is some good news – the FAA has already taken action to address CRM. The FAA has mandated that, after March 22, 2013, Part 135 operators will be required to provide CRM training. Unfortunately this is a recommendation that is nearly 10 years old and has been on the Safety Board's Most Wanted List of Transportation Improvements for the past 5 years. Although it wasn't in place in time to help this crew work together more efficiently, it can help prevent future accidents by ensuring that flight crews communicate and collaborate on each and every flight.
We at the Safety Board often quote the Spanish philosopher George Santayana, who said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Many of the safety issues identified in this report are not new issues. We've identified them as factors in other accidents and issued recommendations to address them.
The challenge as we move forward is to remember them, and learn from them, so that they are not repeated.
Thank you.


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What does the "load average" indicator mean?
Asked by Aaz on 2011-09-20
Dear developers,
Your indicator is a very handy one. It is fairly clear and straightforward. However, I can't figure out the meaning or a formula for the indicator "load average" via the user interface. Could you include some hint somewhere in the program?
Thank you in advance!
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Hi Aaz,
load average refers to https:/
So a load of 1 means 1 cpu running all the time, on a 4-core system everything below 4 means you have a cpu idling somewhere, everything above means there are processes waiting for cpu time.
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These days, with the kids all gone, I still make full size batches of Sloppy Joes but I freeze the extra in quart freezer bags. I put the leftover meat into the bag, removing as much of the air as possible, then patting the meat into a 1" thick flat shape before freezing it (this thin "disk" of Sloppy Joe filling thaws out quickly). I love "instant" meals like this.
1 pound lean ground beef (I use 90% lean)
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/3 cup chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped bell pepper
1 cup shredded carrot
2/3 cup ketchup
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1/8 (to)1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (see note)
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
5 hamburger buns, split and toasted
Cook the hamburger and vegetables together until meat is no longer pink (chopping up the meat as it cooks) (drain meat well).
Stir in remaining ingredients (except buns). Simmer on med-low for about 20 minutes (to reduce the consistency of the sauce, but don't let it get too dry). Fill the hamburger buns with the beef mixture and serve.
NOTE: After this is cooked, it keeps well in the crockpot (on low) if your dinner hour is uncertain.
NOTE: I serve these with a slice of cheese under the meat mixture and a squirt of yellow mustard on top of the filling (our favorite).
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A bronze statuette of Cupid, the Roman god of love, called Eros by the Greeks, depicts the god as a child of seven years old with two wings. This statuette has lost a wing and part of one foot.
He is sometimes shown carrying a quiver of sharp arrows. Sometimes he is blind, as love is blind, and does not see the faults of the beloved person. Ancient poets wrote a lot about love in their poems. The worship of Cupid was often related to the worship of his mother Venus (Aphrodite).
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Ad these celery sticks filled with a savory cream cheese and walnut spread to a relish tray or serve them by themselves.
1. In medium-size bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together the cream cheese, milk and Worcestershire sauce until smooth, about 2 minutes. Stir in the walnuts, onion salt and pepper until thoroughly blended.
2. Cut celery ribs into 3-inch pieces. Fill each with about 1 tablespoon of the filling.
3. Arrange the celery on a serving platter. Cover loosely with plastic wrap. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Makes about 3-1/2 dozen pieces.


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It's not unusual, but it's more than the characteristic "I love you" or "good morning."
I read heaviness, words hanging like soggy sheets on the line.
I feel like we've gotten beat up in some ways. Maybe it's just that we are walking in fog and need a lamp to guide each step.
It resonates.
These past few weeks have been damp with fine mist, thick and heavy, hanging in the short, hurried conversations, in the rush of meals around the dining room table, in the quick sinking of bodies into the bed at night -- a fog we've been trying to feel our way through.
A fog so thick it's forcing us to slow from the rapid speed we've been driving because highbeam headlights are useless.
And blinding.
That afternoon before he leaves work I call him; we are supposed to go separate ways tonight -- me to an appointment, him to a meeting, the boys with a babysitter.
Instead, though, I ask, could we just brake?
Could we flip off the bright beams and pull over to the side of the road?
Come together and look at each other instead of straining our eyes to see out the windshield a few more miles beyond where we are?
He drops the road map, and we halt to a stop.
We fling open the doors for some air,
whisper prayers for clarity into the darkness, breathe in
Your Word is a lamp for my feet and light to my path. Psalm 119:105We sit in the soft glow.
in the heavy fog.
in the stillness.
and realize we can see the ground on which we're standing.
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For many people, one of life's most memorable moments is when they get engaged. For me it was made extra special by my boyfriend's excellent choice of Scottish location, so I thought I'd see where some of my VisitScotland colleagues answered that all important question. As you can see, it looks like romantic outdoor locations are very in vogue in Scotland!
The castle proposal: Miriam's ruin with a view
Dunollie Castle, Oban, Argyll
During a relaxing autumn holiday by Loch Linnhe in Argyll, my boyfriend Tim and I took an afternoon trip to Oban, which we previously visited at the very beginning of our relationship. We headed for Dunollie Castle, an ivy-clad ruin up a hill on the edge of the coastal town, and found that since our last visit they had opened a museum and started some conservation work. The castle offered stunning views over Oban bay, the Isle of Kerrera, and across to Mull. On leaving I turned round to say something to Tim and he was down on one knee! Even though the rain came down it was a perfect spot for us, somewhere connected with our past that we can visit again in future.
The festival proposal: Francesca's moonlight delight
Kelburn Garden Party at Kelburn Castle, Ayrshire
After a weekend of glorious sunshine, wild swimming, dancing under the moonlight and exploring the grounds of the unusual graffiti-clad Kelburn Castle, my somewhat nervous boyfriend Blair asked me to go for a walk. We meandered towards the stables and looked out towards the Firth of Clyde, down to the village of Largs, over to Millport, and farther to the Isle of Arran. As I perched on a fence admiring a dusky, dramatic sky, Blair got down on one knee and popped the question! The quirkiness of the castle and the sheer beauty of the flora and fauna surrounding it… well, let's just say it was the perfect spot for an unexpected proposal!
The beach proposal: Lauren's toast on the coast
Arisaig, Lochaber, The Highlands
My usually un-romantic boyfriend Stuart excelled himself when he asked me to marry him on the beach at Arisaig at sunset! We were camping at Sunnyside Croft Touring Site and decided to head to the beach with a bottle of red wine to escape our noisy camping neighbours! As the tide was rapidly coming in, he dropped down on one knee and asked the all-important question! Of course I said yes. We toasted our news straight after, even if it was with plastic camping cups!
Stacie's loch-side proposal and wedding Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
I got engaged at Loch Lomond in April 2013 and then married at the same location at the end of December. It's such a scenic place and is where we always hang out in the summer, so it was the perfect place for the proposal and the wedding! For our engagement, Nicholas organised a surprise break to Cameron House at Loch Lomond and, after a walk along the shores he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. We got married at Luss Church followed by a reception at The Cruin which are both on the banks of Loch Lomond.
Love is in the air
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CamLab's Reguarding CamLab book about its 2015 Occidental College residency. Launching at the 2017 LAABF @ ARTBOOK Hauser Wirth & Schimmel booth.
My chapter on social practice and community art for the Institute For Figuring's book about its Crochet Coral Reef project. The book is co-authored by Margaret + Christine Wertheim and designed by Kimberly Varella, with a forward by Donna Haraway and an essay by Leslie Dick.
Blog post about the Proclamations in Clay workshop I designed for the Getty Villa Education Department
A history of embodied protest, written for the Art21 blog
Occupy LAAAAAA: Artists in Solidarity (Anna Mayer Edition)
Essay written for Laura Aldridge's 'pocket book'
Lessons Learned from the Garden, magazine made in collaboration with Laura Aldridge
Review for X-TRA magazine of It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, ed. Lisa Pearson, Siglio Press, 2011


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Stories about Ecuador from March, 2011
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Ecuador: Investigation Around Newborn Deaths Continues
According to Ecuador's latest census, more than 14 million people live in the country, but there is still no consensus on the national infant mortality rate. Recent incidents have called...
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Dragona: Tour around the Continent of Bartan "Suer"
Welcome to another edition of our blog post. Moving on to our series of map introduction and making a quick tour around the areas so we can understand its localities and inhabitants. Let's take you to the great and ancient city in the continent of Bartan called "Suer".
Suer is a historical site of the ancient Purians. It contains many ruins and relics. However, researchers are unable to determine which relics were connected to which magical powers. Therefore, it is not possible to use the magical function of the relics, and instead, it is used as a dwelling, warehouse or shops were wood or cloth is placed on top of the relic site.
Suer is divided to two historical sites; the Magicians Tower and the Temple of Huanis.
This tower serves as an immense magic integration device used by the Purians during their ancient magical civilization. This tower is the only means of contacting the homeland beyond the Seal of the Storm. It bridges communication between the continent of Bartan and the homeland. Dragonas can contact their clerics back in the mainland with their Dragon Bijou by relaying it through this magician's tower.
In the past, Purians used this device for space interference magic and long-term communication magic. Because it utilized a very difficult magic capable of affecting time and space, an enormous magic integration device was needed. The Magicians Tower was made for this purpose. Currently, that technology has been restored to some extent, and a maximum of 20 AI(1 AI = 1 kg) of mass can be teleported from or to the homeland through the use of teleportation magic. Within the continent of Bartan a maximum of around 300 AI can be teleported at once. But this requires an enormous amount of energy. The Magicians Tower is a magic device operating under a very complex principle. Stella, the guild master of the magician's guild, is the only one who can control this device.
A sacred temple for enshrining the Goddess Huanis. The Order of Huanis lays significant meaning on the discovery of the Statue of the Goddess Huanis at this location, for it is the evidence that ancient races also worshipped the Goddess Huanis. But some have remarked that the statue bears a resemblance to the magician guild master Stella…"
Have a quick tour in our map video: DRAGONA MAP SERIES: SUER
Bartus – Weapon and Armor Exchange Merchant
Loyd – Human Weapons Merchant
Famella – Human Armor Merchant
Eldanas – Eldin Weapons Merchant
Esillien – Eldin Armor Merchant
Nepitus – Kali Weapons Merchant
Ruler of the Red Flame – Human Armor Merchant
Esdel – General Merchant
Jessica – Portal Manager
Catcy – Item Conversion Manager
Gallactus – Archbishop of Order of Huanis, Guild Manager
Stella – Item Reinforcement and Extraction Manager
Cynthia – Fortune-teller
Drakal – Beggar
Harok – Captain NPC
Odessa – Eldin Storage Manager
Kariling – Commission Merchant
Thank you for reading, watch for more of our up-coming Tour around the Continent of Bartan Blog Series on Dragona.
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Zeraph Dylan Moore
Here is a question for you: Is your life small or large?
How do you know?
Is it possible to have a big life in a single, small room?
Or to lead a small life that is lived in many places?
Questions like these have become more pertinent to me lately. They surface when I am ensconced happily in my bed, writing, painting, designing or networking with other artists. They surface also when I am taking the comparatively hazardous journey outside, where the lights, sounds and unfamiliar vistas of the outdoors overwhelm me, sending my brain into a strobing cataclysm of sensory overwhelm.
They surface when I'm somewhere in between, too. When I'm in the living room of the house that I live in, a place I visit so infrequently that it seems like another country, taking a wheelchair ride to the shower or bath. At times like these, I may suddenly think, "My God—my world must seem to others so small—so sad!" But then that question bounces against a bigger and deeper feeling inside: "But my life doesn't feel small or sad to me. Why is that?"
Perhaps I should explain a little about myself.
When I was twenty-five, I was enrolled in college at the University of Maine in Orono after concluding several years of traveling across the United States. I was studying to be an ecologist, I worked as a research assistant, and I was unhappy. At the time, I was engaged with a scientific field I no longer cared about in hopes of becoming someone I thought I ought to be—a proper scientist, not an artist who would never make much money. I wasn't so much blossoming into adulthood as I was wilting. Life kept propelling me forward, rootless and unwilling, toward some future I could not conceive of and did not desire.
Perhaps that unhappiness was why I missed the first symptoms of my illness. Or perhaps it was simply because no one expects this to happen to them, this creeping and insidious sickness that hides the shadows, barely seen, until it's already made itself at home in your life.
However insensitive I was to the signs, I took notice when one day, after an ordinary afternoon of classes, I was too tired to walk across the campus lawn back to my car.
What would you do in such a situation? It certainly feels like an emergency, but you cannot call 911. You need help, but no one will understand.
I had no diagnosis yet to explain my symptoms. I had no idea what was happening to me.
where rock climbers dangle above a ceaselessly moving sea
It was a dark time, both literally and figuratively. My illness caused me to be fatigued by bright lights, so I lay engulfed in the darkness of my bedroom. Sometimes I wondered at what point it would become sensible to end my own life. Could I endure fifty more years of this? It was unimaginable.
But sometime during this period, I also decided to start painting again. This desire came from a very different place than my other choices over the last few years. I didn't do it because I thought I should, or because I might someday be successful. I did it because I saw a video online of a little girl throwing paint and glitter in the air while wearing a tutu, and I thought, that looks like fun.
So I started dragging myself to a corner of my room where I'd set up a little studio and throwing some paint and glitter around. If there were any rules I could recall about making "real art," I tossed them out. Paper, beads, and bits of clay on canvas? Sure! The only criteria for each painting was that it pleased me.
So I lay in darkness and researched and learned self-care, and I also painted when I was able to walk and sit up. Over the next few years, I would have many ups and downs and several remissions and relapses. Over time, I became more and more sure of what illness was afflicting me. Finally, I printed the diagnostic criteria from the CDC's website and brought in to my doctor's office. I left with my diagnosis.
What was confirmed that day was something I had suspected for a long time.
I have CFS/ME, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (or chronic fatigue syndrome in the United States), a complex multi-system disease with post-exertional malaise, or worsening of symptoms following exercise, as its hallmark trait. It also, in its severe form, causes sensory processing problems and sensitivity to light and sound, as well as a coterie of auxiliary symptoms like pain and dysautonomia.
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Today, I live what may seem like an abridged life. I mostly stay in a single room, where I lie in bed in a dim, climate-controlled space. I have a clever set-up with a rolling table that brings my art supplies to my fingertips so that I can paint while sitting or reclined in bed.
For minutes to an hour a day, I work on creating my mixed-media paintings in a style that arose from my early experimentations with texture and color. Sometimes I can work for a while; other times, sitting up makes me so fatigued and nauseated that I have to lie down immediately and leave it for another day.
My artwork explores far-flung ecosystems through textured abstract color fields, embroidery and metalwork. I paint deserts, marshes, prairies and oceans. A remembered outing to the Maine coast, a Louisiana creek bed or a Pacific Northwest rainforest can be refracted through multiple paintings. Through my art, I see and feel the earth's energy, channeling the uproar and harmony of these remembered landscapes.
I also reflect on my college courses in ecology and geology, but I connect to them now through art rather than science. Geology is a particular love of mine. The earth is tremendously dynamic, yet most of its dynamism is expressed over eons rather than moments. Perhaps there's something about that that resonates with me. Like a continent on a tectonic plate, I'm drifting toward my own future so slowly I hardly seem to move.
My artwork also explores my love of exploring abandoned buildings overrun with nature, with their multiple layers of peeling paint and graffiti. I rarely get out to explore abandoned spaces now, but I keep a catalogue of them in my head and on film. I have many photos of the places I've explored, from overgrown barns, to industrial sites and factories, to gas stations and quaint families homes, still packed with moldering 70s toys and ephemera. I've always been fascinated with spaces being reclaimed by nature and the spontaneous art formed by their multi-textured surfaces.
Lately, I've been exploring an even more specific sense of place in my paintings, naming them for particular locales that have impressed something of their own dynamic soul upon me. My current project is a diptych abstract interpretation of Otter Cliffs in Acadia National Park, Maine, where rock climbers dangle above a ceaselessly moving sea.
Written by: Zeraph Dylan Moore ©2018
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In Irish Medium schools, the information in the annual report can be provided in English or in Irish.
The Key Stage 3 annual report to parents should:
- provide meaningful information to parents about their child's progress in every aspect of the curriculum; and
- meet the statutory reporting regulations - The Education (Pupil Reporting) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009
The reporting regulations state that the annual report should:
- be signed by the Principal;
- be received by parents by 30th June;
- include a statement where a pupil has been exempted from any part of the curriculum or assessment arrangements in that school year; and
- include any qualification, award or certificate gained by the pupil, including any credit awarded towards an approved qualification.
Pupils with severe learning difficulties (SLD) can be reported on using whichever set of report headings the school and parents feel are most appropriate for their children.
Comment Banks
Teachers can choose to use comment banks when reporting. However, comments should be personalised for each pupil.
Information in the Annual Report on Pupils in Key Stage 3
The annual report to parents should provide information about the pupil's progress in relation to:
- Communication (taking account of his achievement in the Language and Literacy area of learning);
- Using Mathematics (taking account of his/her achievement in the Mathematics and Numeracy area of learning); and
- Using Information and Communications Technology.
The annual report should include brief particulars of the pupil's achievement in any other area of learning or activity which forms part of his curriculum including:
- Thinking Skills and Personal Capabilities (Other Skills)
- Thinking, Problem-Solving and Decision Making
- Self Management
- Working with Others
- Managing Information
- Being Creative
- Modern Languages
- The Arts
- Environment and Society
- Science and Technology
- Learning for Life and Work
- Physical Education
- Religious Education (optional)
- Interests and Strengths
- Focus for Development
- Any further Optional Content
Key Stage 3 Statutory Assessment and Reporting Progress in the Cross-Curricular Skills
The Key Stage 3 assessment arrangements became statutory in 2012/2013 requiring all post-primary schools to use the Levels of Progression to assess pupils in the Cross-Curricular Skills in Years 8, 9 and 10.
Reporting Progress in Years 8 and 9
In years 8 and 9 teachers should give qualitative comments about the pupil's progress in each of the Cross-Curricular Skills (no numerical level is required).
Reporting Progress at the End of Year 10
At the end of year 10 for the Cross-Curricular Skills of Communication and Using Mathematics teachers should provide written comments in the report about the pupil's progress plus the level that the pupil has achieved (and Using ICT from 2016/2017).
End of Key Stage 3 Reporting: Additional Information
Schools should also include the following additional information in the Year 10 annual report:
- a statement of the level of progression expected for a pupil at the end of that key stage in each Cross-Curricular Skill.
- a statement of the percentage of pupils registered at the school and in the final year of that key stage and not exempted from assessment in that Cross-Curricular skill:
- attaining the expected level or above in that Cross-Curricular Skill.
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John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and one each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.[1][4]
Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984[3] and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 14th Grand Master in 1997[5] and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers.[6][7]
Among his awards for particular works were: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc.[3] He also won an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage.
A 2009 profile in The New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices".[8] He died at his home in Oakland, California on May 26, 2013, aged 96.[9]
Vance's grandfather supposedly arrived in California from Michigan a decade before the Gold Rush and married a San Francisco girl. (Early family records were apparently destroyed in the fire following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.) Vance's early childhood was spent in San Francisco. With the early separation of his parents, Vance's mother moved young Vance and his siblings to Vance's maternal grandfather's California ranch near Oakley in the delta of the Sacramento River. This early setting formed Vance's love of the outdoors, and allowed him time to indulge his passion as an avid reader. With the death of his grandfather, the Vance's family fortune nosedived, and Vance was forced to leave junior college and work to support himself, assisting his mother when able. Vance plied many trades for short stretches: as a bell-hop (a "miserable year"), in a cannery, and on a gold dredge,[10] before entering the University of California, Berkeley where, over a six-year period, he studied mining engineering, physics, journalism and English. Vance wrote one of his first science fiction stories for an English class assignment; his professor's reaction was "We also have a piece of science fiction" in a scornful tone, Vance's first negative review.[11] He worked for a while as an electrician in the naval shipyards at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii—for "56 cents an hour". After working on a degaussing crew for a period, he left about a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor.[10]
Vance graduated in 1942. Weak eyesight prevented military service. He found a job as a rigger at the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California, and enrolled in an Army Intelligence program to learn Japanese, but washed out. In 1943, he memorized an eye chart and became an able seaman in the Merchant Marine.[11] In later years, boating remained his favorite recreation; boats and voyages are a frequent motif in his work. He worked as a seaman, a rigger, a surveyor, a ceramicist, and a carpenter before he established himself fully as a writer, which did not occur until the 1970s.
From his youth, Vance had been fascinated by Dixieland and traditional jazz. He was an amateur of the cornet and ukelele, often accompanying himself with a kazoo, and was a competent harmonica player. His first published writings were jazz reviews for The Daily Californian, his college paper, and music is an element in many of his works.
In 1946, Vance met and married Norma Genevieve Ingold (died March 25, 2008), another Cal student. Vance continued to live in Oakland, in a house he built and extended with his family over the years, including a hand-carved wooden ceiling from Kashmir. The Vances had extensive travels, including one around-the-world voyage, and often spent several months at a time living in places like Ireland, Tahiti, South Africa, Positano (in Italy) and on a houseboat on Lake Nagin in Kashmir.
Vance began trying to become a professional writer in the late 1940s, as part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a movement of experimentation in literature and the arts. His first lucrative sale was one of the early Magnus Ridolph stories to Twentieth Century Fox, who also hired him as a screenwriter for the Captain Video television series. The proceeds supported the Vances for a year's travel in Europe.[10] There are various references to the Bay Area Bohemian life in his work.
Science fiction authors Frank Herbert and Poul Anderson were among Vance's closest friends. The three jointly built a houseboat which they sailed in the Sacramento Delta. The Vances and the Herberts lived near Lake Chapala in Mexico together for a period.
Although legally blind since the 1980s, Vance continued to write with the aid of BigEd software, written especially for him by Kim Kokkonen. His final novel was Lurulu. Although Vance had stated Lurulu would be his final book,[12] he subsequently completed an autobiography which was published in July 2009.[13]
Vance died at his Oakland, California home on May 26, 2013 at the age of 96.[14][15]
Vance made his debut in print with "The World-Thinker", a 16-page story published by Sam Merwin in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 1945.[1] His lifetime output totals more than 60 books—perhaps almost 90.[7] His work has been published in three categories: science fiction, fantasy and mystery.
Among Vance's earliest published work was a set of fantasy stories written while he served in the merchant marine during the war. They appeared in 1950, several years after Vance had started publishing science fiction in the pulp magazines, under the title The Dying Earth.[16]
Vance wrote many science fiction short stories in the late 1940s and through the 1950s, which were published in magazines. Of his novels written during this period, a few were science fiction, but most were mysteries. Few were published at the time, but Vance continued to write mysteries into the early 1970s. In total, he wrote 15 novels outside of science fiction and fantasy, including the extended outline, The Telephone was Ringing in the Dark, published only by the VIE (Vance Integral Edition), and three books published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Some of these are not mysteries, for example Bird Island, and many fit uneasily in the category. These stories are set in and around his native San Francisco, except for one set in Italy and another in Africa. Two begin in San Francisco but take to the sea.
Many themes important to his more famous science fiction novels appeared first in the mysteries. The most obvious is the "book of dreams", which appears in Bad Ronald and The View from Chickweed's Window, prior to being featured in The Book of Dreams. The revenge theme is also more prominent in certain mysteries than in the science fiction (The View from Chickweed's Window in particular). Bad Ronald was adapted to a not particularly faithful TV movie aired on ABC in 1974, as well as a French production (Méchant garçon) in 1992; this and Man in the Cage are the only works by Vance ever to be made into film.
Certain of the science fiction stories are also mysteries. In addition to the comic Magnus Ridolph stories, two major stories feature the effectuator Miro Hetzel, a futuristic detective, and Araminta Station is largely concerned with solving various murders. Vance returned to the "dying Earth" setting (a far distant future in which the sun is slowly going out, and magic and technology coexist) to write the picaresque adventures of the ne'er-do-well scoundrel Cugel the Clever, and those of the magician Rhialto the Marvellous. These books were written in 1963, 1978 and 1981. His other major fantasy work, Lyonesse (a trilogy comprising Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, and Madouc), was completed in 1989 and set on a mythological archipelago off the coast of France in the early Middle Ages.
The mystery and fantasy genres span his entire career.
Vance's stories written for pulps in the 1940s and 1950s covered many science fiction themes, with a tendency to emphasize mysterious and biological themes (ESP, genetics, brain parasites, body switching, other dimensions, cultures) rather than technical ones. Robots, for example, are almost entirely absent, though the short story "The Uninhibited Robot" features a computer gone awry. Many of the early stories are comic. By the 1960s, Vance had developed a futuristic setting that he came to call the Gaean Reach, a fictional region of space settled by humans. Thereafter, all his science fiction was, more or less explicitly, set therein.[1] The Gaean Reach per se is loose and expanding. Each planet has its own history, state of development and culture. Within the Reach conditions tend to be peaceable and commerce tends to dominate. At the edges of the Reach, out in the lawless Beyond, conditions are usually less secure.
Vance influenced many writers in the genre. Most notably, Michael Shea wrote a sequel to Eyes of the Overworld, featuring Cugel The Clever, before Vance did one himself (called Cugel's Saga). Vance gave permission, and the book by Shea went into print before Vance's. Shea's book, The Quest For Symbilis, is entirely in keeping with the vision of Vance. Cugel is a complete rogue, who is nevertheless worthy of sympathy in always failing to achieve his goals.[17]
When asked about literary influences, Vance most often cited Jeffery Farnol, a writer of adventure books, whose style of "high" language he mentions (the Farnol title Guyfford of Weare being a typical instance); P. G. Wodehouse, an influence apparent in Vance's taste for overbearing aunts; and L. Frank Baum, whose fantasy elements were directly borrowed by Vance (see 'The Emerald City of Oz').[18] In the introduction to Dowling and Strahan's The Jack Vance Treasury, Vance mentions that his childhood reading including Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jules Verne, Robert W. Chambers, science fiction published by Edward Stratemeyer, the magazines Weird Tales and Amazing Stories, and Lord Dunsany.[10] According to pulp editor Sam Merwin, Vance's earliest magazine submissions in the 1940s were heavily influenced by the style of James Branch Cabell.[19] Fantasy historian Lin Carter notes several probable lasting influences of Cabell on Vance's work, and suggests that the early "pseudo-Cabell" experiments bore fruit in The Dying Earth (1950).[20] SF critic Don Herron [21] cites Clark Ashton Smith as an influence on Vance's style and characters' names.
Vance's science fiction runs the gamut from stories written for pulps in the 1940s to multi-volume tales set in the space age. While Vance's stories have a wide variety of temporal settings, a majority of them belong to a period long after humanity has colonized other stars, culminating in the development of a region of interstellar space called the Gaean Reach. In its early phase, exhibited by the Oikumene of the Demon Princes series, this expanding, loose and pacific agglomerate has an aura of colonial adventure, commerce and exoticism. Later it becomes peace-loving and stolidly middle class.
Vance's stories are seldom concerned directly with war. The conflicts are rarely direct. Sometimes at the edges of the Reach or in the lawless Beyond a planet is menaced or craftily exploited, though more extensive battles are described in The Dragon Masters, "The Miracle Workers", and the Lyonesse trilogy, in which medieval-style combat abounds. His characters usually become inadvertently enmeshed in low-intensity conflicts between alien cultures; this is the case in Emphyrio, the Tschai series, the Durdane series, or the comic stories in Galactic Effectuator, featuring Miro Hetzel. Personal, cultural, social, or political conflicts are the central concerns. This is most particularly the case in the Cadwal series, though it is equally characteristic of the three Alastor books, Maske: Thaery, and, one way or another, most of the science fiction novels.
The "Joe Bain" stories (The Fox Valley Murders, The Pleasant Grove Murders, and an unfinished outline published by the VIE) are set in an imaginary northern California county; these are the nearest to the classical mystery form, with a rural policeman as protagonist. Bird Island, by contrast, is not a mystery at all, but a Wodehousian idyll (also set near San Francisco), while The Flesh Mask or Strange People ... emphasize psychological drama. The theme of both The House on Lily Street and Bad Ronald is solipsistic megalomania, taken up again in the "Demon Princes" cycle of science fiction novels.
Three books published under the house name Ellery Queen were written to editorial requirements and heavily revised by the publisher. (Volume 45 of The Vance Integral Edition contains the original text for the three Ellery Queen novels. Vance previously refused to acknowledge them for their degree of rewriting.) Four others reflect Vance's world travels: Strange People, Queer Notions based on his stay in Positano, Italy; The Man in the Cage, based on a trip to Morocco; The Dark Ocean, set on a merchant marine vessel; and The Deadly Isles, based on a stay in Tahiti.
The mystery novels reveal much about Vance's evolution as a science-fiction and fantasy writer. (He stopped working in the mystery genre in the early 1970s, except for science-fiction mysteries; see below.) Bad Ronald is especially noteworthy for its portrayal of a trial-run for Howard Alan Treesong of The Book of Dreams. The Edgar-Award-winning The Man in the Cage is a thriller set in North Africa at around the period of the French-Algerian war. A Room to Die In is a classic 'locked-room' murder mystery featuring a strong-willed young woman as the amateur detective. Bird Isle, a mystery set at a hotel on an island off the California coast, reflects Vance's taste for farce.
Vance's two rural Northern California mysteries featuring Sheriff Joe Bain were well received by the critics. The New York Times said of The Fox Valley Murders: "Mr. Vance has created the county with the same detailed and loving care with which, in the science fiction he writes as Jack Vance, he can create a believable alien planet." And Dorothy B. Hughes, in The Los Angeles Times, wrote that it was "fat with character and scene". As for the second Bain novel, The New York Times said: "I like regionalism in American detective stories, and I enjoy reading about the problems of a rural county sheriff ... and I bless John Holbrook Vance for the best job of satisfying these tastes with his wonderful tales of Sheriff Joe Bain ...".
Vance has also written mysteries set in his science-fiction universes. An early 1950s short story series features Magnus Ridolph, an interstellar adventurer and amateur detective who is elderly and not prone to knocking anyone down, and whose exploits appear to have been inspired, in part, by those of Jack London's South Seas adventurer, Captain David Grief. The "Galactic Effectuator" novelettes feature Miro Hetzel, a figure who resembles Ridolph in his blending of detecting and troubleshooting (the "effectuating" indicated by the title). A number of the other science fiction novels include mystery, spy thriller, or crime-novel elements: The Houses of Iszm, Son of the Tree, the Alastor books Trullion and Marune, the Cadwal series, and large parts of the Demon Princes series.
For most of his career, Vance's work suffered the vicissitudes common to most writers in his chosen field: ephemeral publication of stories in magazine form, short-lived softcover editions, insensitive editing beyond his control. As he became more widely recognized, conditions improved, and his works became internationally renowned among aficionados. Much of his work has been translated into several languages, including Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian, and Italian.[1] Beginning in the 1960s, Jack Vance's work has also been extensively translated into German. In the large German-language market, his books continue to be widely read.
Vance was an original member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), a loose-knit group of heroic fantasy authors founded in the 1960s and led by Lin Carter. Its serious purpose was to promote the sword and sorcery subgenre (such as Dying Earth stories by Vance), and some new works were published in Flashing Swords! anthologies edited by Carter, in both mass-market paperback and Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club editions.[1]
In 1976, the fantasy/sf small press Underwood-Miller released their first publication, the first hardcover edition of The Dying Earth in a high-quality limited edition of just over 1000 copies. Other titles in the "Dying Earth" cycle also received hardcover treatment from Underwood-Miller shortly thereafter, such as The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga. After these first publications and until the mid-1990s, Underwood-Miller published many of Vance's works, including his mystery fiction, often in limited editions featuring dustjacket artwork by leading fantasy artists. The entire Jack Vance output from Underwood-Miller comes close to a complete collection of Vance's previously published works, many of which had not seen hardcover publication. Also, many of these editions are described as "the author's preferred text", meaning that they have not been drastically edited. In the mid-1990s, Tim Underwood and Charles Miller parted company. However, they have continued to publish Vance titles individually, including such works as Emphyrio and To Live Forever by Miller, and a reprint edition of The Eyes of the Overworld by Underwood. Because of the low print-run on many of these titles, often they could only be found in science fiction bookstores at the time of their release.
An Integral Edition of all Vance's works was published in a limited edition of 44 hardback volumes. A special 45th volume contains the three novels Vance wrote as Ellery Queen. This edition was created from 1999 to 2006 by 300 volunteers working via the internet, under the aegis of the author. The texts and titles used are those preferred by the author.
In 2012, Spatterlight Press started offering DRM-free e-books editions of many of the works of Jack Vance, based on the source texts collected by the Integral Edition project. It is the intent of Spatterlight Press to publish the complete Integral Edition in e-book form. Gollancz use the VIE texts in their "SF Gateway" e-ditions starting in 2012.
Vance died on the morning of May 26, 2013 at the age of 96 in his longtime home in the Oakland Hills. Vance's son John Holbrook Vance II described the cause as simply the complications of Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and Elizabeth Bear.[23] Steven Gould, president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, described Vance as "one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of the 20th century".[23] A memorial site set up by his family for fans to post tributes received hundreds of messages in the days following his death.[23][24]
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