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The Gulp by Alan Baxter
Jan 24 2021 February 3, 2021
Review by Brennan LaFaro
I've really come to be a big fan of the mosaic novel, looking at it almost as a cross between a themed short-story collection and a more traditionally linear novel. Gabino Iglesias' Coyote Songs caught my attention earlier this year, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas is an all-timer, and now Alan Baxter offers his take the form. In contrast to the others mentioned, Baxter focuses in on a locale. Specifically, the small harbor town of Gulpepper in Australia, known by residents as the Gulp.
A series of five very vaguely connected novellas make up the almost 300 pages of the novel. A few characters appear in multiple books, a few people wander through the background a few times – their stories yet to be told, and some locations and businesses are visited repeatedly.
"Out on a Rim" is a great introduction to the town and the theme. We spend the story behind the eyes of Rich, a new trucker who doesn't listen to his seasoned counterpart. The reader sees Rich's point, because George, the veteran trucker, isn't rolling in compelling arguments. The Gulp is weird enough by day and you wouldn't want to be caught out after dark being the long and short. The two men are put in a position where they get stuck in town overnight. George heeds his own advice, Rich doesn't. Shit ensues. Rich travelling through town gives us the types of sights and people we can expect to come across going forward.
"Mother in Bloom" borders on body horror, but is full-fledged coming-of-age, as two siblings try and cover up the death of their mother. Her remains take on a life of their own, and the two find out how far they'll go to move on and find a sense of normalcy. This one isn't for the faint of stomach.
"The Band Plays On" introduces legendary band Blind Eye Moon, although only legendary in this area. After an unforgettable show, four travelers are invited to come stay at the band's home for a few days. The introduction of the nightmare sequences here are top notch, and one of my favorite parts of the book.
"48 To Go" is Baxter at his best. Tension driven, a character tries to come up with a substantial sum of money in just 48 hours. The lengths he goes to and the outlandish obstacles Baxter dreamed up made this by favorite story of the bunch.
I was on the fence with 'Mother in Bloom", but "Rock Fisher" is definitely body horror. A rock fisher catches something a bit strange and it takes over every aspect of his life. This story does a phenomenal job of bringing the book together.
Baxter leaves us in a spot where this feels like The Gulp: Volume One. It's not so much that he leaves loose ends as he leaves opportunities for further exploration. If you enjoyed last year's Served Cold, you'll love this one too. Baxter weaves through different tropes and sub-genres to paint a picture of just how messed up this place is. I, for one, hope I get to visit again.
I received a copy from the author for review consideration.
Review by Patrick R McDonough
Never thought I'd say the following, but I've been introduced to a Derry down under. Gulpepper, otherwise known to its denizens as The Gulp, is that place. Where everything seems normal on the surface, but when you start looking around and talking to the people, you'll find out that the truck driver that delivers to this sea coast town on a regular basis doesn't like it for a reason. In the Gulp you'll find an array of criminals, good seafood, a legendary band to match the likes of your favorite rock and or metal bands, and whatever the sea spits out of it.
Without a doubt, my favorite story in this mosaic novel is "48 to Go", it's horror, graphic when it has to be, straddles the line of supernatural and weird. I read one particular scene involving guinea pigs while eating a meal. I had to put the book down and finish said meal before returning to that book.
The stories do exactly what they intended on doing. They brought you into Baxter's fictional world, loosely inspired from the town he lives in, and creeps into your mind, body, and soul, until it's attached to your brain. Ready to manipulate your muscles and consume your essence.
Let's reel back (hehe, see what I did there? Shoutout to the last story, "Rock Fisher") to the first story "Out on a Rim". I could relate on a personal level. We start out with a driver (I used to be a driver's helper, delivering booze throughout my home state), and the new guy, Rich, learning the route that he'll soon take over. One of the stops is at a chain grocery story in the Gulp. They're forced to stay the night, the new guy is warned to be careful, but he does not heed the older trucker's warning. It was the perfect story to begin to ease us into just how strange everything, through the eyes of someone as unfamiliar to this town as you, the reader.
The next story, "Mother in Bloom", dives into some weird and creepy stuff, involving a mother and her two teenage children. "The story does something for family that only a horror fan could appreciate. That's what all these stories come down to, family. The perception of what family means, the idea of what it could be, and the dream of the idyllic relationship to get said family.
The last story, "Rock Fisher" is body horror at its finest. The sea is a strange and alien world within its own right. This story shows us just how otherworldly and terrifying of a place it can be and what lives in it. It wraps up the mosaic novel nicely, bringing all the stories together to a place where everyone knows your name (don't know if kids will understand that reference, google it).
After finishing "Rock Fisher", all I said to myself is, I want to read more. There are so many other options to explore. So many places, people, things. Baxter teases the reader with that possibility at the end. Hope it happens!
I received a copy of this book for review consideration.
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Review in progress: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – a return to the familiar
I mean, it's Call of Duty.
Josh Knowles
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Well, everyone, the new Call of Duty is upon us! Black Ops 4, or Blops4 as all the cool kids call it, is Activision's newest Treyarch-developed Call of Duty installment. Treyarch isn't usually one to disappoint and we got the review code on Friday, so we figured it would be best to give you some daily updates and opinions as the weekend and week progress and we move towards a final review.
Check out our early thoughts below.
My code came in and I set the game to download while I was out of the house. When I got home, the gigantically bloated download had barely moved on the bar. I ended up doing other things while waiting for the download to complete, but up until I went to bed, it never progressed to a point where the game was playable. Fair warning here, this game is MASSIVE and if you are playing on a PlayStation like I am, you may end up taking a day to actually get the game up and running.
Obviously, I'm writing this on my first day of playing the game, and I've been surprised by a few things so far, but we're going to wait until I've had more time to fully explore everything. So far though, not too shabby.
Image: Josh Knowles / KnowTechie
I played through the first half of the specialists in the training mode. Surprisingly, there's a story here that seems to run parallel or prior to Black Ops 3 (checked, before). The story is broken up into bite-sized movies that show the various Specialists teams' pasts and also hints at a major conspiracy at the core of everything. There is an AI that is essentially Frank Woods from the first two Black Ops titles. He's vulgar and brash, but also seems to know something isn't right and tosses a few casual warnings toward you during training.
Blackout isn't too bad, although if you played the beta, don't expect much else in the ways of content at this point. I briefly played a pair of games in the mode. It was fun both times I played it, but nothing major to report there yet.
I like that the Woods/Mason story is continuing in the back of gameplay here but I still feel like something is missing. I'll be spending more time with Black Ops 4 and will be able to touch more on that in the future, I suppose.
This kept happening while I was playing the single player training. Awesome… (Image: Josh Knowles / KnowTechie)
Finished all of the Specialists' missions to piece together what bit of story Black Ops 4 has Treyarch has done a pretty consistently great job of telling stories and after seeing the bits of story unlocked from the training for each specialist, it's very clear this is some form of an appetizer. Is it for Black Ops 5 or some sort of story-based DLC that will be offered later? The latter seems feasible as some of the Specialists are actually part of the Black Ops 3 story.
Spent a little time fooling around with Zombies, I'm not great at it but it is still fun. It certainly seems like the multiplayer mode, Zombies, and Blackout all have very distinct feels to them. That's pretty cool and the whole experience so far feels like a collection of Call of Duty game modes.
On my way to shoot some hoops! (Image: Josh Knowles / KnowTechie)
I spent all my time today playing Blackout. Here's the thing I've noticed about this game mode, there really isn't any sort of cohesive gimmick that really sets this game mode out from everything else. PUBG is essentially a 3rd person game with the ability to pick clothes up and have a pretty decent inventory, it is also super glitchy. Fortnite has building aspects and also various points of interest that are colorful and alive, the combat is pretty fast and frenetic.
Call of Duty's Blackout mode is much more vanilla than any of the other mainstream battle royale games. It's not a bad experience per se, but it certainly made me appreciate the uniqueness of every other battle royale game I've played or currently play. There are in-game abilities that you can get that do give you different perks, but I don't see PUBG or Fortnite losing much of a player base to Blackout. So far, it also feels really grindy and really sterile.
I did land at a country club though and end up getting into a 3 on 3 basketball match with some other players until another player came by and murdered most of us, so there's that.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is now available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. We'll continue to provide coverage on Black Ops 4 as we work on a full review in the coming weeks. Check back here for a link to that review.
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" 3000	"
By Brad Friedman on 12/31/2006, 4:46pm PT
It was only June of this year when Tony Snow blithely commented on behalf of the White House, upon the news that the 2500th American troop had been killed in Iraq, "It's a number."
There is a certain warped and tragic sense of unavoidable poesy in the announced death of the 3000th fallen U.S. troop coming, as it does, today --the last day of 2006. Yet I can't help but be reminded that as awful as that "number" is, it comes nowhere near expressing the full pain, suffering, horror, mutilation, and unbearably high cost to humanity that this administration --- and their supporters --- have wrought on this world via their tragic arrogance and folly.
The 3000 "number" includes only American troops killed in Iraq. It doesn't include the number of those, thousands over, who have been injured for lifetime. It doesn't include American contractors who have also been killed. It doesn't include Americans killed in Afghanistan. Neither does it include the troops and citizens from other countries who --- for reasons good or bad --- were deployed to the region after having bought into the mercilessly cruel confidence game that these Administration cretins --- and their supporters --- have perpetrated on the people of this planet. Most disturbingly, however, the "number" 3000 doesn't even begin to include the uncountable --- and mostly uncounted --- hundreds of thousands of citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan who were born with the unfortunate trait of having being born where they were born, only to end up in the deadly literal crossfire ordered by people who neither know them nor give a damn about them.
"River" at Baghdad Burning, one of the citizens born with that unfortunate trait, has been chronicling the misery of such citizens from Iraq for the past three years when the power is on, and she is able to access an Internet computer and she has the stomach to share her pain with the rest of the world. She now shares the same sense, expressed by the White House via Snow, that these landmark statistics "simply represent numbers." The irony would likely be lost on this White House.
A few days ago, "River" reminded us once again of the real cost of this sham war. And as cold-hearted as her thoughts may seem, they are yet another wake up call. Yet another one most likely to be ignored by the desperate fanatics whose simple-minded sense of self-importance has left the rest of the world --- likely for generations --- with the burden of cleaning up behind their crushing cruelty, unforgivable arrogance, and indescribable incompetence.
I believe "River" offers a glimpse of what we all will be forced to come to cold, hard grips with in the year --- and years --- ahead...
Here we come to the end of 2006 and I am sad. Not simply sad for the state of the country, but for the state of our humanity, as Iraqis. We've all lost some of the compassion and civility that I felt made us special four years ago. I take myself as an example. Nearly four years ago, I cringed every time I heard about the death of an American soldier. They were occupiers, but they were humans also and the knowledge that they were being killed in my country gave me sleepless nights. Never mind they crossed oceans to attack the country, I actually felt for them.
Had I not chronicled those feelings of agitation in this very blog, I wouldn't believe them now. Today, they simply represent numbers. 3000 Americans dead over nearly four years? Really? That's the number of dead Iraqis in less than a month. The Americans had families? Too bad. So do we. So do the corpses in the streets and the ones waiting for identification in the morgue.
Is the American soldier that died today in Anbar more important than a cousin I have who was shot last month on the night of his engagement to a woman he's wanted to marry for the last six years? I don't think so.
Just because Americans die in smaller numbers, it doesn't make them more significant, does it?
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... Max-1	said on 12/31/2006 @ 5:18 pm PT...
For every one of these 3000 there are another 200 Iraqis.
Thats a 200:1 ratio.
... big dan	said on 12/31/2006 @ 6:28 pm PT...
I do not believe ANYTHING coming from the Bush administration. We've seen fake newscasts (NVR's), lies about WMD's, complicit "embedded" reporters in the CMSM, targetting of reporters and bombing of Al Jazeera and that hotel we knew housed reporters, lies about Sadaam/Al Queda ties, lies about medicare, sharpied out environmental reports by former corporate lobbyists running agencies, lies about global warming not existing, gas went down for the election and now back up, no-bid contracts, secret meetings with oil barons, "mission accomplished", "last throes", the Iraq War is going well, missing $$$ all over the place in Iraq, etc...
And yoiu BELIEVE the "official count" of 3,000?
I don't believe ANYTHING they EVER say!!!!!
... MMIIXX	said on 12/31/2006 @ 6:47 pm PT...
why does anyone believe the "3000" figure ,they lie about every thing , how can this figure be relied on ?
"When Lions fight its the grass that gets crushed"
"When Liars fight its the truth that gets crushed"
... Larry Bergan	said on 12/31/2006 @ 7:24 pm PT...
It is now known that Bush has been getting advice on how to run this war from Henry Kissinger. Here is how Kissinger regards our troops:
"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy." Henry Kissinger, quoted by Bob Woodward in The Final Days.
You go Henry! STRAIGHT TO HELL!
3000 X ,'s according to bush. Isn't the 3000 figure only the soldiers who died in battle. It doesn't include those who died on the way to hospitals or after being hospitalized or sent home. I don't think "friendly fire" is counted either.
007 help!
(After reading River's blog yesterday I was so upset I sent a note to the White House so if I am "disappeared" you'll know why. All I said was I hoped bush was enjoying the holidays and eating lots of pretzels
... Mar	said on 12/31/2006 @ 7:58 pm PT...
River's accounts are so tragic, and one can only imagine the horror of living life on a daily basis in that poor country
Damn Bush and his illegal war..!! The monster deserves the same justice that Hussein received for HIS crimes.
... whig said on 12/31/2006 @ 8:40 pm PT...
Trackback: Just a number?
... des said on 12/31/2006 @ 9:33 pm PT...
As the bell tolls midnight across the world, as the clockwork of the world winds down in the last hours of 2006, remember John Donne's prose Meditation 17:
"...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee..."
This is from 05 so you'll have to add on to those figures;
Total Actual U.S. Military Deaths from
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2038.htm
Brian Harring, Domestic Intelligence Reporter : "There is excellent reason to believe that the Department of Defense is deliberately not reporting a significant number of the dead in Iraq. We have received copies of manifests from the MATS that show far more bodies shipped into Dover AFP than are reported officially. The actual death toll is in excess of 10,000"
From the DOD, but website no longer available.
March, 2003 through July, 2005: 10,146
Total "Reported" U.S. Military Deaths from March, 2003 through Sept 21, 2005: 2,141
Difference: 8,005
... phil said on 1/1/2007 @ 4:49 am PT...
This whole war is nothing but two world leaders destroying everything in sight for the profit of big business.
I was going to name the episode of Sacxtra! (my show) "3000." But I decided on "Surge" instead, because before this BUSH INSANITY is over more will die. there WILL be 3001 who want's to roll that DICE?
I think it's interesting, that every place I searched for the "leaked" sadam-phone-hanging-video-.mov I also saw a user comment saying, "How long till Bush hangs next." I had to think about that.
I think the answer is that Bush will not hang as long as the Secret Service has anything to say about it. On the other hand, I have to ask myself honestly as a veteran, "Is Bush a war criminal--just the same?"
My honest answer is yes.
Then there's that little problem about sworn oaths, protecting the President of the United States, and the Constitution. (I know about this shit because I am a Veteran)
Well I got to be honest, somebody dropped the ball, the constitution is NOT PROTECTED, it is DECIMATED, DESTROYED. Which makes me think more. What is the consequences of this piss ass poor historical fucking leadership? (It IS LEADERSHIP DOING THIS) Will that motherfucking bush be held responsible for genocide of iraq's? Personally I don't know a damn thing about iraq, or it's people, I met some working in fields growing and propigating plants for a nursery in california back in 1987-89, I have met some on the street (today) who have a kind of crappy attitude, bue that ain't illegal, and met some running 7-11's (back in the 1970's.) I don't think they're any different than me other than they came from another country and have a different religion. But this, this mess that Bush has started up, it has got to be stopped. Same with the Israel crap.
Dear Isreal,
Get the fuck out of the Gaa Gaa Strip, or where ever the hell your causing trouble. Get a Surveyor, MAP some land, and CREATE a fucking palestine! Then GET THE FUCK OUT OF PALESTINE, unless you have a Passport!!!
Dear APIC or APAC or whatever you are, FUCK YOU.
You hear me?
Okay, there's problems everywhere now. Afganistan has some killer fucking heroin now eh? Sort of like vietnam and cambodia did. I see a pattern, the pattern is the 1970's ERA fuckwads, who are OATH BREAKERS, and destroying everything. IRAQ does not need a SURGE it needs Cops. Like the CHP. What we have is RETARDS RUNNING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Drool Drool..
Every single damn bastard that was involved with IRAN/Contral/Drugs in LA/Vietnam/Cambodia should NEVER have office in Government of the United States Of America: THEY ARE THE SHITTIEST FUCKING LEADERS IN HISTORY. (I said that about a year or so ago about Bush, But I NOW say it about all of em.) They are Meth users, Cocaine Dealers, Heroin Slammers, Theives and Murders and they don't belong in our government any fucking more!!!
General this General that, all you fuckers know how to do is kill. I don't care anymore what you think about me. Think about the PLANET Motherfuckers. Think about the CONSTUTUTION Motherfuckers.
Okay i tried not to cuss or digress into this depressing anger crap, but i guess i failed again. This shit is literally going to fucking kill me.
HAPPY NEW YEAR....
May this year be the year all these punk ass fucking corporate rip off's never see light again.
And another thing, I am sick of the CAR COMMERCIALS, The DRUG COMMERCIALS, The OATH BREAKERS, The CORPORATE THIEVES, The RED TAPE for FIXING THE KATRINA VICTIMS, The ELECTRONICS in ELECTIONS, the GOVERNMENT LIARS, The STUPID ASS (I guess they have a right to) RIGHT WING TALK RADIO/CORPORATE NEWS on the same old SHIT... e.g. the Gay's, the Abortion, the Marijuana...FUCKING STOP IT ALREADY!!!! The Left needs to let the GUN CONTROL fucking bullshit go.. I am just SICK SICK SICK of this fucking CRAP. FIX OUR FUCKING PLANET ALREADY!
FUCK THE CARS / OIL
Figure out how to DO water powered cars like in the 1970's.
Stop this WAR PROFITEERING.
HELP PEOPLE. DONT RIP THEM OFF..
(Okay I am yelling again) But damn man.. What the Fuck?
~phil
... Dredd said on 1/1/2007 @ 7:45 am PT...
Big Dan #2
Well said. It reminded me of a comment by Noam Chompsky:
And one of the striking features of the modern period is the institutionalization of that process, so that we now have huge industries deceiving the public—and they're very conscious about it, the public relations industry. Interestingly, this developed in the freest countries—in Britain and the US—roughly around time of WWI, when it was recognized that enough freedom had been won that people could no longer be controlled by force. So modes of deception and manipulation had to be developed in order to keep them under control.
(link here).
These elitist SOB's actually believe that lying is the way to the truth.
... czaragorn	said on 1/1/2007 @ 7:58 am PT...
Hey Phil - Happy New Year, dood - I feel your pain...
... Paul	said on 1/3/2007 @ 1:47 pm PT...
Who would believe anything Tony Snow says? Tony Snow said criticism of the way the Saddam execution unfolded was deflecting attention from Saddam Hussein's real crimes. "There seems to be a lot of concern about the last two minutes of Saddam Hussein's life and less about the first 69 [years], in which he murdered hundreds of thousands of people," Snow said.
"That's why he was executed."
Saddam was ONLY convicted for the judicial murder of 148 villagers in the town of Dujail, villagers who were allegedly involved in a plot to kill him in 1982.
They hanged him only for Dujail!
He committed much more horrendous crimes, but the government never got to finish the other trials. Why?
As columnist Gwynne Dyer put it: It's as if they had taken Adolf Hitler alive in 1945, but ignored his responsibility for starting the Second World War and his murder of six million Jews and just put him on trial for executing people suspected of involvement in the July 1944 bomb plot. With all of Saddam's other crimes to choose from, why on earth would you hang him for executing the people suspected of involvement in the Dujail plot?"
What is obvious is that the government wanted Saddam Hussein executed quickly for the Dujail killings to avoid revealing its complicity in his bigger crimes. The execution was a U.S.-ordered rush job.
Snow got his marching orders.
It backfired on them --- again.


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La biblioclastia o biblioclastía designa la destrucción de libros con intencionalidad, esta destrucción puede darse como quema de libros pero también por otros medios, está última se la suele considerar como un sinónimo, aunque se trata de una forma específica de biblioclastia y que ha sido objeto de obras literarias, de teatro y películas. Abarca la destrucción de libros pero no solamente, también colecciones, archivos, bibliotecas, centros de información y documentación, así como otros materiales de registro de información y conocimiento.

En el siglo XIX la biblioclastia fue considerada como un acto personal, una desviación social o una enfermedad mental. Sin embargo en el siglo XX se considera con más interés su impacto social. Designa acciones de destrucción en forma puntual o sistemática, deliberada y violenta por parte de un grupo, un régimen o un Estado con el objetivo de atacar el registro de la memoria de otro grupo a quienes se considera amenaza, como en el caso de la quema de libros en la Alemania Nazi,  y en contextos de guerra, dictadura y terrorismo de Estado.

En el siglo XXI se ha ampliado el alcance de la palabra comprendiendo no solo la destrucción de libros, bibliotecas y archivos en forma deliberada por fuego u otros medios, sino también la censura y la requisa de libros y el asesinato o la desaparición de quienes trabajan en bibliotecas, archivos y otros espacios que almacenan registros de conocimiento en diferentes soportes. Incluso en sociedades democráticas y en períodos de paz se consideran biblioclásticas las acciones que conducen al desaliento de la lectura en forma sistemática, la incuria o cierre injustificado o abandono de bibliotecas y archivos, incluso la precarización y despido de sus trabajadores.

Si bien la mayor parte de los estudios sobre la biblioclastia, aún con su actual ampliación conceptual, tienen un enfoque de denuncia y visibilización de los hechos, se observan cada vez más acciones de lucha contra la biblioclastia basadas en la recuperación de la memoria, el registro de los incidentes biblioclásticos, y la defensa activa de los espacios como formas resistencia y resiliencia,  incluso considerando la biblioclastia como el atentado al acceso equitativo al conocimiento.

Etimología,  ortografía, equivalentes y uso en otras lenguas
Biblioclastia o biblioclastía del gr. βιβλιο (biblio-libro)  y κλαστός (klastos) que proviene de κλάω (klao) roto.

No se encuentra incluida en el diccionario de la Real Academia Española, por lo cual no hay un indicación clara de su ortografía. En su forma de acentuación llana es: biblioclastia similar a otras palabras con la misma terminación: iconoclasia, hidroclastia.

Es también utilizada con acentuación aguda: biblioclastía, por similitud con otras con la misma terminación en español.

La expresión quema de libros, para referirse a la biblioclastia es ampliamente utilizada en varias lenguas, aunque indica una forma particular, la destrucción por fuego.

En inglés se utiliza en forma casi exclusiva la expresión book burning (quema de libros). Sin embargo encontramos referencias a la destrucción de libros no solo por el fuego. Ya en 1880 el tipógrafo William Blades observaba la destrucción por fuego pero agregaba también, agua, gas, polvo, negligencia, ignorancia, maldad.

Edward Wilson Lee utiliza la expresión libros naufragados (Shipwrecked Books) para referirse los libros perdidos en un naufragio y que fueron listados por Hernando Colón, el hijo de Cristóbal Colón.

Si bien biblioclasm se define como aplicado exclusivamente a la destrucción de la Biblia, hay autores que lo utilizan como traducción de biblioclastia Sin embargo para referirse a la persona que la ejecuta se la denomina biblioclasta (inglés: biblioclast) y las acciones realizadas se consideran biblioclásticas, (inglés: biblioclastic).

Aunque la expresión en inglés se centra en el fuego, Richard Ovenden, director de la Biblioteca Bodleiana de Oxford, afirma que la famosa Biblioteca de Alejandría finalmente no pereció por un incendio sino por el abandono y la falta de políticas de cuidado.

En italiano encontramos la palabra bibliolitia citada como sinónimo de quema de libros y así como de biblioclastia. Carlo Mascaretti (Américo Scarlatti en arte) en una obra de inicios del siglo XX aunque publicada en 2016 la considera como una enfermedad mental. Sin embargo en el siglo XXI Umberto Eco quien la definió a partir de tres diferentes motivaciones como fundamentalista, por interés y por incuria.

En francés, Gérard Haddad la presenta como contraparte de la bibliofilia y ambas como formas de fetichismo Otros autores franceses presentan visiones controvertidas de la biblioclastia, como Raphaël Draï que denuncia a conocidos egiptólogos por su falta de rigor y respeto, y Cédric Biagini quien considera que el libro está en peligro por una biblioclastia que ha resurgido porque el acto de lectura se ha disociado del objeto libro por la democratización de las pantallas y las publicaciones digitales.

En portugués también se está utilizando el concepto con el alcance ampliado en cuanto a los soportes, medios y responsables.

Otros equivalentes de biblioclastia son algunos neologismos como libricidio, utilizado por Rebecca Knuth aludiendo a la destrucción cultural, así como bibliocausto, utilizado entre otros autores por Fernando Báez, relacionándolos por medio de las terminaciones similares con palabras como genocidio y holocausto.

La destrucción de libros en la literatura, el teatro y en el cine
La destrucción de libros más difundida en la literatura es la que se realiza por fuego. La obra literaria emblemática referida a la biblioclastia en un contexto de autoritarismo es la novela Farenheit 451 de ciencia ficción del autor estadounidense Ray Bradbury. La obra fue dos veces llevada al cine: Fahrenheit 451, película de 1966 basada en la novela homónima, dirigida por François Truffaut y otra del mismo título Fahrenheit 451, de 2018, dirigida por Ramin Bahrani director de cine y guionista estadounidense originario de Irán. También otro director iraní Mohammad Rasoulof en 2013 obtuvo premios en los festivales de Cannes y Toronto por Manuscripts don't burn.

En cuanto al teatro, la obra Biblioclastas de Jorge Gómez y María Victoria Ramos se estrenó en 2006 y con varias reposiciones.  Esta obra se compone de un solo acto dividido en cinco escenas. Los personajes son dos funcionarios de un régimen dictatorial latinoamericano cuya función es quemar los libros confiscados.

Aunque sin ser el tema central, la destrucción de libros está presente con una gran fuerza evocativa en muchas otras obras literarias. Por ejemplo, en el capítulo VI de la novela Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes, el barbero y el cura deciden quemar los libros que habían dañado la razón del hidalgo, en el episodio conocido como donoso escrutinio.

En el libro de Umberto Eco El nombre de la rosa, el venerable monje Jorge de Burgos incendia la biblioteca del monasterio para evitar que el mundo conozca la última copia de un imaginario segundo libro de la Poética de Aristóteles, dedicada a la risa y a la comedia consideradas por él peligrosas para la humanidad.

Manuel Rivas en su novela Los libros arden mal, de 2006 evoca la quema de libros organizada por los falangistas en La Coruña en 1936.

Bertolt Brecht en forma provocativa en el poema La pira de libros escrito después de la quema de libros por los nazi, imagina a un poeta que clama para que sus libros sean quemados porque sería la confirmación de que siempre ha escrito la verdad.

También son conocidas citas en las que se habla de la quema de libros como la de la tragedia Almansor de 1821 de Heinrich Heine en la que dice: donde se queman libros se termina por quemar seres humanos (Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen).

Ampliación del campo de la aplicación de la palabra biblioclastia y lucha contra la biblioclastia
Una extensión importante en el campo de aplicación de la palabra se refiere a los objetos destruidos, no solo los libros, sino también archivos, bibliotecas, incluso tablillas de escritura.  También se amplió el campo de medios de destrucción. Si bien se consideró que la forma predominante es el fuego, como quema de libros, desde el siglo XIX, aún en inglés, aparecen otros factores como el interés económico, la ignorancia y la maldad. En 1882 el tipógrafo William Blades considera biblioclastas a algunos coleccionistas y libreros así como a los niños y la servidumbre.

En el siglo XIX la biblioclastia fue considerada como un acto personal, como una desviación social o una enfermedad mental, como pueden serlo otras relacionadas con los libros como la bibliofobia.

Sin embargo en el siglo XX se considera con más interés su impacto social. Designa acciones de destrucción en forma puntual o sistemática, deliberada y violenta por parte de un grupo, un régimen o un Estado con el objetivo de atacar el registro de la memoria de otro grupo a quienes se considera amenaza, como en el caso de la quema de libros en la Alemania Nazi, y en contextos de guerra, dictadura y terrorismo de Estado.

Con referencia a esto dos últimos contextos, e incluso con la ampliación del concepto a otros soportes y con otras motivaciones, un hito importante en lengua española es el libro de 2008 Biblioclastia: los robos, la represión y sus resistencias en bibliotecas, archivos y museos de Latinoamérica. Se trata de artículos premiados por el concurso Fernándo Báez y recopilado por el bibliotecario del Centro Argentino de Información Científica y Tecnológica (CAICYT-CONICET) Tomas Solari.

En el mismo centro fue desarrollado entre 2014 y 2016 el lenguaje de indización sobre biblioclastia en el marco de un proyecto institucional. En este Vocabulario controlado sobre biblioclastia se la define como:

«Conductas, prácticas, procedimientos, dispositivos y políticas que conducen a la destrucción, desvalorización o invisibilización de recursos de información y conocimiento; de los espacios físicos donde se alojan y circulan, y que atentan contra las personas que se relacionan tanto con esos recursos como con esos espacios físicos. Así como las conductas, prácticas, procedimientos, dispositivos y políticas que vulneran los derechos asociados a la información y el conocimiento».

En 2020 con el auspicio de la Comisión de Homenaje a bibliotecarios y trabajadores de bibliotecas asesinados y desaparecidos por el terrorismo de Estado en Argentina y la Asociación de bibliotecarios de Córdoba se llevaron adelante actividades de difusión, conferencias, talleres, contra la biblioclastia en contexto de pandemia, a fin de ese año se constituyó el Colectivo Basta Biblioclastia formado por integrantes de diferentes partes de Argentina, Europa y Chile. Está formado por personas que trabajan en archivos, bibliotecas, centro de datos e información, docentes, estudiantes. Desarrolló también un formulario para registro de incidentes biblioclásticos y recopiló una extensa biblbiografía internacional sobre biblioclastia.

Este Colectivo en 2021 llevó adelante un ciclo de encuentros sobre la Memoria y la destrucción de bibliotecas en la dictadura argentina y lanzó una proclama contra la biblioclastia que recibió adhesión de numerosas firmas y fue avalada por el Honorable Consejo Directivo de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. En esta proclama se extiende aún más la definición de biblioclastia. Además de la censura, clausura, cierre parcial, destrucción, desvalorización o invisibilización de recursos de archivo, información y conocimiento en cualquiera de sus soportes, se consideran como actos de biblioclastia atentar físicamente, moral o económicamente contra las personas que trabajan o se relacionan con esos recursos y espacios físicos y virtuales. Por otra parte se señalan entre los responsables de las acciones en forma activa o por desidia a Estados o sus funcionarios por impunidad u ocultamiento, especulación económica, conflicto armado, emergencia sanitaria, desastre natural cuando tienen la obligación de preservar el legado cultural, científico y de conocimiento de su comunidad. También proponen que configuran biblioclastia el desaliento de la lectura y las acciones premeditadas de oscurantismo, falacias, manipulaciones y negacionismo de conocimiento fundamentado para favorecer el odio y la discriminación.

Asimismo agregan, entre los recursos contra los que puede atentar la biblioclastia, el uso y explotación con fines de lucro o de apropiación privada del conocimiento ancestral de pueblos originarios transmitido en forma oral, gráfica o por otros medios expresivos. Finalmente llaman identificar y denunciar estas acciones para avanzar en una ley que las castigue como delitos contra la humanidad.

En 2021 el término biblioclastia fue incluido en el Catálogo de control de autoridades de la Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno.

Véase también
 Bibliotecas
 Bibliotecario

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Bibliotecología
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Conocimiento
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Soave,...a name that for decades stood as one of Italy's most worldly available white wines. At a time it became literally the most sold, widespread and exported Italian white wine. Along with the huge success and numbers, came the large industries that ended up eventually dismantling it's stronghold reputation down to a pile of yesterday's bricks. But the castle of Soave stands strong to this day and those "in the know", know just how quality driven, terroir driven and varietal driven this ancient cult white of the region of Veneto still is. Especially when coming form properly farmed, quality driven, family owned producers such as Coffele (among a good handful of others).
Soave is produced in the North Eastern Italian region of Veneto, specifically in the county of Verona, right next to the adjacent famous red wine appellation called Valpolicella. Indeed, it was its proximity to the big red boys of Veneto that allowed Soave to flourish commercially as a "white in the land of reds".
The wine can be made in both a regular DOC classification and the higher classified DOCG version, specifically dedicated to the "Superiore" type of Soave (with mention on label) that is made form riper grapes, containing over 13% alcohol and showcasing an increased structure and body, sometimes even aged in oak. The most celebrated though is the regular DOC, which really emphasizes the more food friendly, grassy, almond driven fresh personality of the wine. Made with at least 70% Garganega (the real rock star white grape of veneto) and 30% maximum of Trebbiano di Soave.
Five percent of 'other varietals' authorized in the area is also permitted although rarely implemented. The best examples will usually be made from 100% Garganega. Soave (pronounced So-Ah-Vay) is a dry white wine with intense mineral and dry fruit, lemongrass & almond characteristics, given by Garganega's noble character and the presence of uniquely ancient soils of volcanic origin (some of the fewest in Northern Italy).
It is really this little niche of volcanic soils intertwined with limestone that provides the mineral backbone to balance out the juiciness and beef of Garganega, which only here in Soave reaches these levels of personality. It does not have strict aging regulations, which is left up to the style and will of each producer. Wines aged a minimum of 12 months may be labeled as Riserva and usually undergo oak treatment, although these versions are not the most traditional.
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Sérgio Murilo Santa Cruz e Silva (Carpina, 24 de agosto de 1931 - Recife, 17 de fevereiro de 2010) foi um advogado e político brasileiro. Filiado ao PMDB, foi deputado estadual e deputado federal por Pernambuco.

Carreira política
Começou a carreira política em 1958 ao ser eleito deputado estadual pelo PRT. Candidatou-se a deputado estadual em 1962 pelo PST, obtendo apenas a quarta suplência.

Foi eleito deputado federal em 1974, 1978 e 1982.

Candidatou-se a prefeito do Recife em 1985, sendo derrotado por Jarbas Vasconcelos (à época pelo PSB). Candidatou-se a deputado federal em 1986, sem lograr êxito.

Afastado da política desde 1987, faleceu no Recife em 17 de fevereiro de 2010 aos 78 anos.

Membros do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (1980)
Membros do Partido Democrático Trabalhista
Membros do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (1966)
Membros do Partido Social Trabalhista (1946)
Naturais de Carpina
Deputados estaduais de Pernambuco
Deputados federais do Brasil por Pernambuco
Advogados de Pernambuco


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Kviye led Samir through a few deserted streets to the boardwalk. Here, some of the stores were still open, spilling their lights, smells and sounds onto the street. Kviye didn't know where to start her question and Samir seemed to be in no rush to have her get on with it. He walked slowly, hands in his pockets, turning his head this way and that and taking in his surroundings. He studied the ships that docked for the night, some darkened, others with their cabin lights aglow, and others where the fishers still worked to set everything in order, barking terminology at each other that Kviye had never become familiar with. At a florist, Samir stopped to admire their fresh-cut selection – yellow morning dragons and green opaleyes. She supposed if there was anything that was unique to a place it was its flora and fauna, and wondered if he would be amused by the grazing beasts of their plateaus, creatures she hardly ever thought about.
They passed an establishment that would be open well into the late hours, music and laughter flowing freely from within. Samir peered through its windows with particular interest, as if noting its location for future reference.
"I like your town." Samir said, craning his neck one last time at the pub, "It reminds me a bit of where I grew up – quiet and isolated."
"Not as isolated as this I imagine."
He laughed. "No, not quite. But there's fewer and fewer places like that in the Known Reaches. 'Civilization', as they call it. There's no stopping it."
Kviye turned from the boardwalk, and led them to the end of an empty pier.
"I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around how many of us there are out there." Kviye said, taking a seat at the edge of the pier and staring straight ahead at the stars shimmering over the water.
"I know we don't get starships passing through here often, but no one's ever mentioned having encountered Humans before."
Samir took a seat next to her, stretching his legs out over the dark water that reflected the light from the gas giant.
"That's not surprising. Our kind is pretty new to this, so we haven't really spread all that wide from our little far-flung corner of space."
"What do you mean by 'new'?"
"Well, other species claim they've been travelling the stars for thousands of years, but I think we left Earth only about two hundred years ago."
Earth. That word sounded almost divine, like an ancient mother goddess who had resided nameless in the heavens but now descended, tangible and named.
"Earth," Kviye whispered, just to hear it again. "You said something earlier about a Great Fire?"
She assumed maybe he was lost in the stars as much as she was because the question seemed to startle him.
"What? Oh, right. They say we'd been to the stars before, a long time ago, but then there was a great fire, and we nearly destroyed our planet and ourselves. It took us thousands of years to get back to where we used to be. That's what I was talking about before. We started exploring again and sometimes we'd find old colonies of Humans who survived all this time in isolation. I used to read stories like that as a kid, you know – somebody finding a lost tribe of Humans who went back to their primitive wild ways."
"We're only a little bit primitive."
He laughed again at that, a thing that came out of his mouth freely and breezily, and turned to look at her, though her eyes were only for the stars.
"You wanted to ask me about something specific, didn't you?" He asked.
She did. But she was also treading on the possibility of hope being dashed and it was difficult to cross the threshold.
"Have you ever heard of something called 'the grey'"? She asked.
"Uh, you mean like the colour?"
"No, no." The words came dry from her mouth. "It's a disease that effects our people."
She could feel him tense up next to her, make the slightest move to put some distance between them.
"Sorry, no, it's nothing like that," she said. "It's not contagious, in that sense, but it has been killing my people more and more recently. Our loved ones waste away before our eyes as their skin turns grey, and then they're gone. Does that sound familiar to you?"
He seemed to relax, but there was a new note of sheepishness in his voice. "Can't say that it does. But I'm no expert in medicines. All I know is that there's all kinds of doctors out there, Human and alien, and they can work all sorts of miracles you and I wouldn't understand."
Kviye could see it clearly enough – walking into a hospital on this "Earth" and describing the symptoms to a doctor who, after laughing about the simplicity of these savages, hands her a small vile of salvation which she then delivers to her people across the stars.
"You want to be out there, don't you?"
"What's that?" She asked, crossing lightyears to come back from her daydream.
"You have that look. I've seen enough friends in the months before they jump on some random passing freighter to recognize it. I probably had the same one leading up to grabbing that job on Nkagan. So what about you? Dreaming of getting off this rock?"
She made a dismissive sound that somewhat resembled laughter. "You know, I dreamt about it all my life. To get out there and find others like us. But now it all just seems too big."
"That it is. No matter how much you think you understand, you really don't get it until you're out there – how endless it is. But that's the best part, because nothing beats that kind of freedom. I thought I had it when I moved to Nkagan, but on the Oshken, it's something else. You should join us."
"What?" She asked, startled at her own thoughts being projected onto his words.
"I'm serious. We're a little shorthanded and I've seen you on the ship today, you seem to know your way around the mechanical stuff."
"Me? No. I've only really ever worked on one ship, and it went to space once. Valyen's the real mechanic."
"The pale one? Sure, there's room for her too."
Kviye burst out laughing and had to stop herself after seeing Samir's quizzical look. "Sorry, the thought of Val on a starship is just …"
"Well think about," he said, that crooked smile returning to his face. "You've got a few days."
"I will," she said. "I will definitely think about it."


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And one of the consistent features of the work that I've seen over the past five to seven years has been a work that gets cited, and that's Jim Grossman's Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners and the Great Migration. And this is a work that gives much more, primarily historical consideration, ______ is a citation and that work has been a remarkable watershed for continuing studies in American, African-American literature in the twentieth century.
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I've also been involved with Jim in part in the Newberry Library's "Teachers as Scholars" projects and I _______ after I participated in major seminars on a variety of topics, Jim ______ maybe a little more ______ after I finish. But I've been working through that program, to the seminars on ______ renaissance to _______, at the Chicago, Newberry Library at the Newberry and using its immense resources and ____ studies.
So it's my great pleasure, and I think our great fortune today, to have Jim Grossman.


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Mark Hoekzema
Chief Meteorologist, Director of Meteorological Operations
Mark Hoekzema is the chief meteorologist and director of meteorological operations at Earth Networks. In this role, Hoekzema oversees meteorological content integration and acquisition across all product lines.
In 2000, he joined the company to help manage the WeatherBug desktop application. Later, Hoekzema oversaw the planning and construction of the WeatherBug studio and then formulated the plan for developing the Meteorological Operations department, which he now manages.
Prior to WeatherBug, Hoekzema worked for 13 years at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., starting as an intern while in college and then becoming a weather producer/forecaster, a webmaster of the first-ever TV weather website, and an on-air meteorologist.
Hoekzema earned his master's and bachelor's degrees in meteorology from the University of Maryland.


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package org.apache.cassandra.repair.messages;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.UUID;

import org.apache.cassandra.db.TypeSizes;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataInputPlus;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataOutputPlus;
import org.apache.cassandra.locator.InetAddressAndPort;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.UUIDSerializer;

import static org.apache.cassandra.locator.InetAddressAndPort.Serializer.inetAddressAndPortSerializer;

public class FinalizePromise extends RepairMessage
{
    public final UUID sessionID;
    public final InetAddressAndPort participant;
    public final boolean promised;

    public FinalizePromise(UUID sessionID, InetAddressAndPort participant, boolean promised)
    {
        super(Type.FINALIZE_PROMISE, null);
        assert sessionID != null;
        assert participant != null;
        this.sessionID = sessionID;
        this.participant = participant;
        this.promised = promised;
    }

    public boolean equals(Object o)
    {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;

        FinalizePromise that = (FinalizePromise) o;

        if (promised != that.promised) return false;
        if (!sessionID.equals(that.sessionID)) return false;
        return participant.equals(that.participant);
    }

    public int hashCode()
    {
        int result = sessionID.hashCode();
        result = 31 * result + participant.hashCode();
        result = 31 * result + (promised ? 1 : 0);
        return result;
    }

    public static MessageSerializer serializer = new MessageSerializer<FinalizePromise>()
    {
        public void serialize(FinalizePromise msg, DataOutputPlus out, int version) throws IOException
        {
            UUIDSerializer.serializer.serialize(msg.sessionID, out, version);
            inetAddressAndPortSerializer.serialize(msg.participant, out, version);
            out.writeBoolean(msg.promised);
        }

        public FinalizePromise deserialize(DataInputPlus in, int version) throws IOException
        {
            return new FinalizePromise(UUIDSerializer.serializer.deserialize(in, version),
                                       inetAddressAndPortSerializer.deserialize(in, version),
                                       in.readBoolean());
        }

        public long serializedSize(FinalizePromise msg, int version)
        {
            long size = UUIDSerializer.serializer.serializedSize(msg.sessionID, version);
            size += inetAddressAndPortSerializer.serializedSize(msg.participant, version);
            size += TypeSizes.sizeof(msg.promised);
            return size;
        }
    };
}

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Q: Does CodenameOne support other JVM languages besides Java? CodenameOne supports compiling Java code down to native iOS binaries. Does it support other JVM based languages such as Clojure or Jruby ?

A: Not out of the box but its indeed possible. In the past Steve ported Mirah which is a Ruby subset to run on Codename One. This was when we were using the old VM but should work with the new VM too.
A community member was also able to port Haxe a while back but I'm unsure where that ended.
The main point of contention when porting a JVM language is that Codename One doesn't support reflection and so a duck typed language implementation that generates reflective code would be "problematic".
The reason for avoiding reflection is quite simple, the code size would grow tremendously effectively negating a lot of the advantages of the smaller handcoded VM. Its also quite hard to optimize reflection code in an AOT environment so it will perform badly when compared with a JIT.
A lot of the usage of reflection can be replaced with bytecode manipulation ahead of time so the VM can work as if its standard Java code even when it isn't.
We generally like the idea of running other languages on top of Codename One and would like to help if you run into issues. The main reason we don't invest time in these things ourselves is to keep our focus in place.

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Up For Review, who suffered fatal injuries when brought down at the first fence, was the first horse to be killed in race since modifications to the famous fences were made ahead of the 2012 event.
Tiger Roll, owned by O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud, became the first horse since Red Rum to win back-to-back Nationals on Saturday. O'Leary provided two beverages on the house.
The wait is over, the Grand National is finally here. The famous steeplechase gets underway at 5.15pm. Follow all the action as it happens from Aintree with Sportsmail's KATE McGREAVY.
Get your Grand National 2019 sweepstake kit here. Simply print out the sheet, then cut the names into individual pieces of paper, fold them and put them into a hat ahead of the big race at Aintree on 6 April.
The Grand National takes place this weekend with thousands of spectators to watch the major horse racing event at Aintree. Sportsmail provide you with the 40 confirmed runners and more details.
EXCLUSIVE BY KATE McGREAVY: Lizzie Kelly has given assurances that equine welfare is 'hugely important' to those who work in horse racing ahead of the famous steeplechase.
Day two of the Randox Health Grand National meeting gets underway on Friday with the famous steeplechase on Saturday. There are seven races on the card today, with first race starting at 1.45pm.
It's almost that time of year again. The Grand National is back. For all but the experts, trying to identify the winner in a field of 40 can be a bit tricky.
There are seven races on the card today, with the first race kicking off at 1.45pm. Follow all the action as it happens from Aintree right here with Sportsmail's KATE McGREAVY.
Walsh, who attained the best-ever finish by a female rider in the Randox Health Grand National when third on Seabass in 2012, dropped in on Gordon Elliott's yard in County Meath.
Sandymount Duke, the entry owned by Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, has become the latest horse to be ruled out of the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree on Saturday.
If Irish jockey Derek Fox wins the Grand National on Scotland's One For Arthur on Saturday, a little of the credit will go to Wales — and their Grand Slam-winning rugby union team in particular.
The Grand National boasts a glorious tradition for producing thrilling finishes and heartwarming stories. Our Racing Correspondent runs the rule over a few who could be making the Aintree headlines.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY OLIVER HOLT: The four horses do not look up from their grazing as we lean on the gate and stare at them but they are quite a sight, these kings and queens at their leisure.
Yates paid £300,000 for Blaklion, fourth in 2017 but who was brought down at the first fence last year, and switched the gelding from the Nigel Twiston-Davies stable to Yorkshire's Phil Kirby.
Trainer Gordon Elliott declared Tiger Roll a 'horse of a lifetime' on Tuesday and committed last year's Grand National hero to a date with destiny at Aintree next month.
Deutsch was driving other jockeys home in Cheltenham, Glocestershire, after a night out to celebrate the retirement of a colleague at the Venetia Williams stables, a court heard.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY LAURA LAMBERT: The 23-year-old, who finished fifth on Milansbar, mucked out on Sunday morning before travelling three hours to a low-key race at Plumpton.
An increasing number of British owners are keen to saddle up with the likes of Elliott and his great Irish training rival Willie Mullins, trainer of the Grand National runner-up Pleasant Company.
Bryony Frost finished the best of the British runners in the Grand National, and was 'buzzing' after coming home fifth on Milansbar.
The Grand National is in my blood... I can win it this year, just like my father!
BRYONY FROST: I wasn't born when my dad Jimmy won it in 1989 riding Little Polveir — but I have watched the video more times than I could count!
2 shares The Grand National is in my blood - I can win it, just like my father!
The Grand National is in my blood - I can win it, just like my father!
Davy Russell had been dreaming of winning the Grand National since he was a kid — and his dream finally came true when he rode Tiger Roll to a dramatic victory at a sun-drenched Aintree.
The Grand National, supposed to be the most unpredictable race in the world, ultimately ended with a predictable outcome — a winner trained in Ireland.
Christine McGuinness, 30, looked happier than ever standing next to her funnyman husband Paddy, 44, at the Grand National Day at the Aintree Festival in Liverpool on Saturday.
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The Friday feeling had well and truly taken hold at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool this afternoon, as Ladies Day revellers let their hair down after the action on the track was over.
On Saturday Aintree racecourse will play host to the 171st annual Grand National. Here Sportsmail take you through all the 40 runners and riders of the 2018 showpiece.
INTERVIEW BY MARCUS TOWNSEND: Trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies has experienced the sheer joy of winning the biggest jumps race of the year twice before.
Venetia Williams etched her name into Grand National folklore nine years ago when Mon Mome sprung one of the biggest shocks in the history of the great race.
The reality star, 27, dazzled in polka dots at the Randox Health Grand National Festival Ladies' Day at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool on Friday.
Chelsee Healey, 29, flaunted her enviable figure at the Randox Health Grand National Festival in Liverpool on Friday.
Conditions will particularly favour two of the three runners ridden by female jockeys - Baie Des Iles, the mount of by Katie Walsh, and Milansbar, who will be ridden by Bryony Frost.
Henderson says he will adopt a more attacking policy with Might Bite next season after the gelding spearheaded a grade-one treble which all but secured him a fifth jump trainers' championship.
Ruby Walsh says the odds of his sister Katie's Grand National mount Baie Des Iles are now too short but that her chances cannot be discounted with more rain set to fall on Aintree.
The 171st official running of the Grand National at Aintree is almost here. Saturday's Randox Health Grand National gets underway at 5.15pm. KATE MCGREAVY runs through the betting market.
The Grand National Festival at Aintree kicked off in style on Thursday morning with a host of football legends from Liverpool's two clubs gracing the race course with their presence.
Bookmakers are bracing themselves for an avalanche of support for the horses ridden by the three female jockeys in Saturday's Randox Health Grand National at Aintree.
Organisers of the Grand National at Aintree on Saturday have awarded an honorary 41st place to three-year-old Edie Molyneux, who suffers from a rare brain tumour.
Ironically, with regular commentator John Hunt on duty calling the finishes of the swimming at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Australia, Aussie Matt Hill has stepped in.
Sportsmail provides you with everything you need to know for the Grand National 2018 including runners, how to watch, time and latest odds plus racecourse overview and previous winners.
Should Baie Des Iles win Saturday's Randox Health Grand National, her name will become etched into Aintree folklore alongside galloping household names like Red Rum and Aldaniti.
It is less than a week to go until the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree and the £1million race is the one that all National Hunt jockeys want to win. Last year's race was won by One For Arthur.
Nicholls still has Sky Bet Handicap Chase runner-up Warriors Tale in the race. He will be ridden Sean Bowen. Nicholls' other National possible is ground-dependant Vicente.
Hoo Farm in Preston on the Weald, Shropshire, has been entertaining families with its annual Easter sheep racing event since 1991.
After being on the sidelines for four months with a broken leg, Walsh returned for the Cheltenham Festival after having only two prep rides.
The Three-time Grand National winning owner has bought Warriors Tale to run in the £1m race. The nine-year-old was just touched off by Wakanda in the Great Yorkshire Chase last month.
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has reacted furiously to the decision that Anfield will host a clash with Bournemouth on the same day as the Grand National.
CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA: The RFU have blamed 'bomb blast design requirements' as one of the reasons for their East Stand work at Twickenham spiralling well over budget.
Ellison initially indicated a National decision would be made after the Gold Cup. But he said on Tuesday: 'If he come out of the Gold Cup he is more likely to go for the Betway Bowl Chase at Aintree.
CHARLES SALE – SPORTS AGENDA: The PL say there were 'multiple bidders' for the two sets of 20 games left unsold when the five other packages went for £4.64billion.
She has won a raft of awards for her acting – but Dame Judi Dench now has her eyes on a new prize after entering a horse in the Grand National. The Oscar-winning star has entered As De Mee.
The colours of the Oscar-winning actress are carried by Paul Nicholls-trained As De Mee, who finished fifth in the shorter Topham Trophy Chase over the famous Aintree fences last year.
Treadwell, who landed the 2009 Grand National on 100-1 shot Mon Mome, has announced his retirement on the day the weights for the 2018 Aintree spectacular were announced.
BHA senior handicapper Phil Smith says he is not intimidated by an ongoing feud with leading Irish owner Michael O'Leary, boss of budget airline Ryanair.
CHARLES SALE -SPORTS AGENDA: Two of the biggest events of the English sporting summer are in danger of being without a title sponsor for the first time in four decades.
GB hockey star Sam Quek, jockey Katie Walsh and soprano Laura Wright have teamed up to launch a style partnership for Ladies Day at Aintree. In one shot, the trio all sport monochrome looks.
Champion, 69, from the market town of Guisborough, had been due to take the pictures to his publisher for an upcoming book. He beat cancer and went on to win at Aintree in 1981.
Grand National-winner Lucinda Russell becomes the first trainer to declare that a runner has had a breathing operation since its last start when Dancing Amy (1.45) runs at Musselburgh on Friday.
Aintree Racecourse will tap into Merseyside's rich sporting history to deliver a new look to the Grand National Festival this year. Icons like Michael Owen and Kenny Dalglish will host the opening event.
The 36-year-old presenter was left terrified during her chat with the father and son that at one point she was forced her out of her seat for fear he would come close to her.
The course is introducing a Champions Lounge where racegoers can chat with the likes of former Liverpool stars Dalglish and Michael Owen, and ex-Everton striker Graeme Sharp.
Racegoers gathered in a KFC restaurant near the Merseyside track for a lively end of day after party. Revellers can be seen dancing on chairs and tables to loud music coming over the speakers.
It's Ladies Day at the Scottish Grand National in Ayr and racegoers competing for the much coveted Best Dressed Lady prize decided to flash the flesh in some revealing outfits.
Arthur Bowering's family placed his last bet on Saturday on the Aintree race, backing the 85-year-old's namesake One for Arthur, which stormed to victory at the Grand National.
Alex Blackwell, 38, backed One For Arthur at 16-1 on the Bet 365 website but he accidentally staked £200 on a combination of bets instead of £20.
The four men are seen navigating a construction site racecourse while riding broomstick horses. But the video - which sees them bounding over piles of bricks - was actually a set-up to promote safety.
6 shares Construction site Grand National goes viral - but is all as it seems?
Construction site Grand National goes viral - but is all as it seems?
PETER SCUDAMORE: Almost every aspect of One For Arthur's training programme had been thoroughly documented on our stable website by my partner Lucinda Russell — except one.
Grand National winner One For Arthur will follow a carbon copy season next year when he tries to become the first back-to-back winner of the Aintree race since Red Rum in 1974.
Forecasters predict today will be the hottest day of the year - with parts of the country reaching 26C. Sunseekers in Brighton yesterday (pictured) made the most of the good weather.
Police were seen standing by the 28-year-old fighter's white car and talking to him and his team on the roadside after he was seemingly forced to stop on his way through the city.
One racegoer was seen hitting another over the head with a bottle, drawing a huge gasp from the watching crowd, in the dramatic brawl on a balcony at the Merseyside racecourse.
Belinda McClung and Deborah Thomson, from the Scottish borders, wanted something to do at weekends while the men in their lives were out on the golf course.


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