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Startup launches A.I. services for authors
Authors A.I. launches artificial intelligence services for authors
Startup introduces membership plans for aspiring and established fiction authors
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2020 – The new tech startup Authors A.I. launched its site today with a suite of artificial intelligence services tailored for the author community.
The site, at authors.ai, offers monthly and annual plans for both aspiring and published authors. Members can upload their manuscripts for an analysis by Marlowe, an A.I. program that provides a 26-page full-color critique of the work within minutes.
"We've been thrilled with the reactions we've been getting from authors during our beta testing," said Alessandra Torre, Authors A.I. president and co-founder. "We decided the time is right to open our doors for business."
Pages of the Marlowe A.I. report on multiple devices.
Marlowe was created by co-founder Matthew Jockers, PhD, co-author of The Bestseller Code, along with a team of 125 bestselling authors behind the new startup. The A.I. technology examines a manuscript and provides feedback in these areas: plot structure, pacing, subject matter, story beats, major characters' personality traits, clichés, potentially offensive language, reading grade level, complexity score, dialogue vs. narrative ratio, punctuation data, repeated usage of adverbs and adjectives, use of the passive voice and potential misspellings. It's best used with long-form fiction.
In addition to its A.I. analyses, Authors A.I. is building out a knowledge base of author resources and community hub. It has just launched a public Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/AuthorsAI.
"Our goal is to help authors at all stages of their careers write captivating books and page-turners that find large readerships," said Torre, a bestselling romance author. "And we're also here as a support network to lend guidance and help to authors trying to make it through these difficult times."
Marlowe, the company's flagship service, generally emails her full-length report in as little as 15 minutes. An author can join one of two membership plans, starting at $9.95 and $29.95 per month, or choose to run a one-off report without joining. Authors who have begun using the services have been sending in accolades, which the AuthorsA.I. team have collected for a testimonials page.
Marlowe is named for both Christopher Marlowe, the Elizabethan tragedian who inspired Shakespeare, and Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's hardboiled private eye who plays chess and reads poetry. The founders have decided to personify her as a young woman.
Later this summer, the company plans to launch a second site, bingebooks.com, that connects readers with curated books and authors they'll love. That site is now open to people who want to receive early notification of when it will launch.
Authors A.I. puts artificial intelligence into the hands of published and aspiring authors. The company, founded by and run by fiction authors, helps fellow authors modernize their self-editing process so they can more easily write books that find large readerships.
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Aleman is a locale, a formerly populated place in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States. It lies at an elevation of .

History

La Cruz de Le Alemán
This locale was first a paraje at an unreliable spring in the Aleman Draw, along the route of the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro between Paraje del Perrillo and Laguna del Muerto in the Jornada del Muerto. It acquired its name following the discovery of the remains of a German merchant at that paraje in 1670. This man, Bernardo Gruber, accused of witchcraft, had escaped his prison and fled with the aid of an Apache friend, from the Inquisition in Santa Fe by trying to cross the desert to the south on the Camino Real. He had been forced to cross it in a bad time of the year when it was hot and in a season when no rains had yet fallen, and the Laguna del Muerto and then the spring at the next paraje was dry. Despite the attempt by his friend to get water to him in time, Gruber did not survive and only fragments of his body and garments were found later in the vicinity of the spring after they had been picked over and scattered by vultures and other scavengers. From that time that paraje was known as La Cruz de Alemán for Gruber's grave there. The tale of his death also gave the surrounding desert its name, Jornada del Muerto.

Alemán Ranch
The first settlement of the site of Aleman, was made in 1867 by Captain John "Jack" Martin (1830-1877) an ex-officer in the Union Army, one of the California Volunteers of the California Column, that came to New Mexico Territory in 1862. Captain Martin served first in Arizona Territory and then in New Mexico Territory at Las Cruces, serving in escorts of stagecoaches along the route of the Camino Real there, and especially that of the Jornada del Muerto, until his unit was mustered out at Las Cruces in 1866.

The following year, Captain Martin established a cattle ranch he called Alemán Ranch  at the old paraje of Alemán, and began digging a deep well there in 1868, the first one dug in the Jornada del Muerto. Without taking any money from the Territorial Legislature or the Federal Government, he successfully struck water at 85 feet. He then charged travelers for his water and received a tax exemption for the business. He gave free water to the military and arraigned to have a post of troops from Fort Selden at his ranch to protect travelers traveling through the Jornada del Muerto region. He also arraigned the first telegraph lines to Las Cruces.

The Alemán Ranch was much smaller than the Armendáriz Grant to the north, having an adobe ranch house facing the road with surrounding, corrals, stables and outhouses. From the first it was a stagecoach stop that remained so until the 1880s when the railroad arrived and established a stop on the tracks nearby called Aleman. Martin also maintained a small hotel and established an Aleman post office at the site in 1869 that remained until it closed in 1890 and was replaced by one 2 miles north of San Diego Mountain near the Southern Pacific Railroad at Detroit, New Mexico from 1889 to 1892 when it moved to Rincon.

John Martin left the ranch in 1875 and moved to Santa Fe where he ran a hotel until he died in 1877.  By the mid-1880s, Alemán Ranch became part of the Bar Cross Ranch, a huge ranch, some its land purchased from the Armendáriz descendants, that ran from Dona Ana County to near the vicinity of San Marcial, in Socorro County. Later, in the 1890s, its headquarters was moved to Alemán Ranch from Engle.

Climate
The climate of Aleman Ranch is typical of the climate of the Jornada del Muerto. Under the Koppen Classification, the climate of Aleman Ranch borders both desert (BWk) and steppe (BSk) climates.

The site today
Buildings of the Bar Cross Ranch built on the site of the old Alemán Ranch can be seen north of County Road A039 to Spaceport America near its junction with the County Road A13 (Upham Road).
"Two ranches occupy the Spaceport America site. The Bar Cross Ranch and the Lewis Cain Ranch combined have grazing leases for the entire Spaceport site plus additional surrounding state and federal land. The ranches also own approximately 1,200 acres of land within the Spaceport site. The site is occupied by the respective ranch houses, a foreman's house, and a number of water wells and associated pipelines owned by the ranches to support their operations."

"The State of New Mexico has entered into agreements with the Bar Cross and Lewis Cain Ranches to co-exist during the construction and ultimately the operation of the Spaceport. The goal of the Design Team was to minimize impacts on the ranchers to the extent possible."

References

External links
 Structure and Function of Chihuahuan Desert Ecosystem The Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research Site Edited by: Kris Havstad, Laura F. Huenneke, William H. Schlesinger 2006
 Bar Cross Ranch Headquarters by Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) from medicinemangallery.com accessed August 17, 2019. Medium: Graphite on Paper. Circa: 1900. Size: 6" x 6"

Jornada del Muerto
Locale (geographic)
Former populated places in New Mexico

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Chris Selley: Politicians say they won't prop up a minority government? Don't believe it
Any leader who absolutely rules out giving a minority government a chance to govern, at least for a while, is either lying or delusional
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Published on: September 5, 2019 | Last Updated: September 5, 2019 6:14 PM EDT
Are we really supposed to believe that Elizabeth May, suddenly holding the balance of power — presumably after a historic performance for the Greens — would forego the chance to make things better? Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
As Andrew Coyne wrote here earlier in the week, the silver lining to the omnishambles at Westminster right now has been witnessing a Parliament work like it's supposed to. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hellbent on playing chicken with a no-deal Brexit, many Tory MPs think he's a madman, and they used their collective power to thwart his designs.
There's nothing for Canadians to envy about Britain's situation, but we can certainly envy their House of Commons — especially now we're at that preposterous stage of pre-election posturing where party leaders promise never to prop up a minority government led by [INSERT RIVAL PARTY LEADER HERE], who is the living embodiment of all human evil. And then we in the media actually report on these vows as if they're remotely believable, when they are not.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh have both made such pledges, and May's is easily the least ridiculous of the two. If we get a minority government of any stripe and it doesn't table new plans to fight climate change consistent with keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, she told CTV's Don Martin on Monday, then "we actually would bring a government down and go back to the polls to get a government that's prepared to be responsible."
NDP and Greens battle to be the alternative for voters looking for a change
May says Greens will work with any party that has a serious plan for the climate
Andrew Coyne: Why Singh says he won't work with the Tories, and May says she will
It makes some superficial sense. But there are very compelling reasons why Canada hasn't committed to measures consistent with the 1.5-degree goal. According to the Climate Action Network, policies associated with that goal include the majority of cars sold worldwide being zero-emissions within 15 years, and a 65-to-95 per cent drop in industrial emissions within 30 years. These sorts of things may not lie beyond the limits of human ingenuity, but they almost certainly lie beyond the limits of Canadian politics — and not just Canadian politics.
The only countries in the world whose efforts are in the 1.5-degree-or-less league, according to the Climate Action Network, are Morocco and The Gambia, whose GDPs per capita are roughly seven and one per cent of Canada's, respectively. It ranks no First World nation's efforts any higher than Canada's "insufficient."
The sorts of things to which a minority government would have to commit to satisfy May's conditions would be politically suicidal, rendering her threat of a return to the polls a bit limp. So are we really supposed to believe that May, suddenly holding the balance of power — presumably after a historic performance for the Greens — would forego the chance to make things better even if they weren't perfect? If I were a Green Party supporter, I would certainly hope not.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
Singh's line in the sand, meanwhile, drawn after Andrew Scheer's 2005 same-sex marriage speech came to light, makes no sense at all. "This is exactly why, if Canadians deliver a minority government in October, I will not prop up Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives," he said in a statement. "We can't trust Mr. Scheer or his caucus to champion the fundamental rights of Canadians."
Where to begin? Firstly, practically speaking, the NDP is broke and will be even more broke after the election. Whatever the outcome, barring a sudden outbreak of Jagmeet Fever, the party will be in search of a new leader to save it from oblivion. It will certainly not want another election in short order.
Secondly, holding the balance of power in a hung parliament is by far the best the NDP can reasonably hope for right now, and would by no means be considered a defeat. Ask an NDP partisan about the party's proudest achievements in Ottawa and (of necessity) she will point to the things it accomplished in minority Parliaments: Jack Layton essentially rewriting the Liberals' 2005 budget to eliminate corporate tax cut and add billions in new social spending, for example, and demanding changes to the Conservatives' 2006 Clean Energy Act.
Why do we perform this pantomime every bloody time?
Indeed, Saint Jack was justifiably famous for his ability to work with people across the political spectrum. We are to believe that his successor, holding the balance of power, would vote against the Conservatives at every turn, not try to press his advantage on anything whatsoever because Andrew Scheer opposed same-sex marriage 15 years ago? It's preposterous — and furthermore, by Singh's own logic, reckless. If Scheer's social-conservative views are such a threat to Canadians' rights, why on earth would Singh turn down a job holding his government in check? For heaven's sake, he's basically ruling out one of the only reasons for non-hardcore-partisans to vote for his party.
Why do we perform this pantomime every bloody time? Some of it is likely a product of the incredibly narrow spectrum of ideas and ideologies across which Canadian politics lies, which encourages cartoonish demonization of opponents. Some of it, no doubt, is the lingering effects of the 2008 coalition madness, after which forswearing any cooperation with other parties became de rigueur.
But it's transparent nonsense. Any leader who absolutely rules out giving a minority government a chance to govern, rules out trying to make the best of it at least for a while, is either lying or delusional. I suggest telling them that if you get the chance.
• Email: cselley@nationalpost.com | Twitter: cselley


PARIS, FRANCE (Bicycling.com): Don't look now, but one of the biggest revolutions to have hit the streets of Paris in recent years is that of cycling. Since the French Revolution, Parisians pride themselves on the ability to get up and stand up for their rights. Street protests have been far ranging and include railway workers' pensions and rights for taxi drivers.
And since Paris mayor Bernard Delanoe introduced the first Velib' rental bikes in 2006, Parisians have embraced the bicycle in numbers not seen since World War II. Today, no fewer than 20,000 Velib' bikes, can be found a hundreds of stations on the city streets of Paris. As a result, cyclists can simply pick up a bike from one of the stations, go for a ride, and drop it back at any station they choose.
The introduction of the Velib', or "freedom bike," along with greatly expanded bike lanes, ignited a visible rise in bike commuters over the past five years.
In a recent study cited in the French daily Le Parisien at least 50 percent of those living in the French capital think that more could be done.
For some, the Velib' program encouraged the purchase of their own bike. But others have found the Velib' to be a better alternative. Currently it is estimated that one third of cyclists in Paris rely on the Velib' while the remaining two thirds possess their own bikes.
By some standards, the numbers remain modest. While the number of bike commuters has doubled in the past five years, still barely three percent of the population travels regularly by bike. Nevertheless, cycling is now clearly one very viable means of transportation, something that ironically was not a given in the land of the Tour de France.
"Before, cycling was seen as something for the poor. Now it is seen for its liberty and efficiency," says Dalila Bissrry, secretary of the bicycle rights association Mieux Se Deplacer à Bicyclette (MDB).
In addition, while cycling was once considered old fashioned here in France, it has become fashionable thanks to the Velib', as well as other trends such as the fixie culture that is slowly but surely taking hold around the city.
Like in other urban areas around the world, sundry hipsters are now sporting custom singlespeeds or dusting off old track and road frames and morphing them into city bikes. That said, few candidates for New York City bike-messenger jobs have been spotted here.
But this quiet revolution would not have possible if it weren't for the expansion of bike lanes or bike-friendly lanes. Currently, the mayor's office claims 645 kilometers of protected or semi-protected routes.
Some bike lanes are reserved uniquely for cyclists, while others share the lane with buses and taxis. New laws also stipulate that small streets with a 30-km/hr speed limit or less, allow for bike traffic in both directions.
As a result, Parisians, who often shied away from the risks of cycling amid the quagmire that is Paris traffic, now feel safe cycling in the city.
Associations like M.D.B. continue to push for controlling or reducing speed limits and forcing local politicians to enforce new bike-friendly laws.


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U.S. congressional candidates debate at Barnhart forum
Stimulus package, free trade discussed by four candidates
By MIKE ANTHONY
Three candidates seeking the 3rd Congressional District seat in the Nov. 4 election favor privatizing Social Security while Democratic incumbent Russ Carnahan opposes such a proposal.
Whether to privatize Social Security was among the issues discussed by Libertarian Kevin Babcock of St. Louis, Carnahan of St. Louis, Constitution Party candidate Cindy Redburn of Concord and Republican Chris Sander of Ellisville during a forum in Barnhart sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Besides Social Security, the candidates discussed a myriad of issues, including whether they supported another economic-stimulus package and free-trade agreements, at the Oct. 16 forum that drew roughly 60 people.
The candidates were asked if Social Security should be privatized.
Babcock said, "… I am a Libertarian and yes I believe that … Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. It was sold to us as something other than what it is currently. First of all, there is no trust fund. When they tell you — when politicians tell you there's a trust fund locked away, it's a lie. The money has been borrowed by the federal government and spent and the only way to replace the trust fund is to tax future generations at ever-increasing rates.
"And the number of retirees from the baby-boom generation versus the number of workers is going up. Therefore, it takes more and more workers where their paycheck goes directly to support current retirees. I would eliminate Social Security for all future retirees. You'd have to start saving for your retirement now and for current retirees and people close to retirement, I would sell government assets that they don't have any business owning like the state of Nevada and buy annuities for them."
Redburn said, "Social Security is not constitutionally authorized in the original Constitution and under the powers of Congress. I believe that our Social Security system is in deep trouble. I was reading an article today that said that we are going to have to come up with $7 trillion in the next 75 years to meet the obligations — the money is not there. I believe that we should start now phasing out Social Security, meet the obligations of the people who are in it and then begin privatizing it.
"It has never been the responsibility and should never be the responsibility of government to guarantee retirement. That is an individual personal responsibility."
Sander said, "… I agree that it should be privatized — absolutely. What most people don't understand is that with your money going to the federal government, it's not going to Social Security. It's going to everything else and the current money earns one-half of one-half of a percent. If you would allow people to take that money and start putting it in other, different forms in the open market, whether it be a mutual fund or a stock or whatever you want it to be, your greater return is going to be far greater than what it has been over the life that the government holds it. But I also agree that we need to start phasing it out, allow people to accept the responsibility for their own retirement and their own future and start phasing it out gradually because let's face it folks, if you're 40 years of age or younger, it's gone. It's not going to be there when you get there and just as Mr. Babcock said, it's a lie. It's not there anymore."
Carnahan said, "I'm so glad I get to talk about this. President Bush proposed a privatization scheme in 2005. It was a bad idea then. It's a bad idea now. Think of what would happen had the Social Security of millions of Americans been invested in the stock market back in 2005. What a mess that would be. I am opposed to it. I would fight it.
"Social Security's been rated one of the most efficient programs in the government. It's never missed a payment and it has protected thousands, if not millions of seniors from going into poverty. So again, it's a vital program. We have to keep it sound and secure. It does need reform to improve its longevity. Right now, it can make all its payments for the next half a century. So it's not bankrupt today, but it does for long term need to be reformed."
The congressional candidates were asked if they would support another stimulus package.
Carnahan said, "The economic relief package that was passed already is not going to solve all of our problems. I think we do need to look at additional economic-stimulus plans when Congress comes back the week of Nov. 17th. As expected, they will look at options and what could be done. One of the ideas I like the most that has been discussed is major investments in infrastructure in terms of our crumbling highways, bridges — all that infrastructure. This is — we don't have to speculate whether this works.
"This was done after the Great Depression in terms of rebuilding our economy and creating jobs at a time when they're desperately needed. I think something like that today could be very helpful to our country in growing out of this economic crisis."
Babcock said, "I'm against the idea of an economic-stimulus package if it means mailing me a check for $300. I'd rather eliminate the income tax and let us keep all our money and stimulate the economy that way. But we can't borrow and spend … our way out of all our economic problems. And yes, the government did try this during the Great Depression and it probably prolonged the Depression by quite a bit. So the fact that we can take our own tax money and spend our way out of this problem and all of our problems will be solved if we go out and spend, spend, spend, I think is ridiculous and it's wrong. We need to live within our means. We've been getting in trouble by borrowing too much money and spending money we don't have, so that's not the solution."
Redburn said, "It is absolutely not the solution and I agree with everything that Mr. Babcock has stated that we cannot spend and borrow our way to economic success.
"We need to stop spending money in our government. It needs to come to a halt and then once we halt the spending, then we can begin to operate in a free-market economy and begin to bring prosperity back to our country. The solutions of economic stimuluses are pointless and useless. The last one was an absolute joke and it is not the answer to the problems."
Sander said, "Totally disagree with the stimulus — completely disagree with it. The way to turn this economy around is to create an atmosphere that is conducive for business and this is one thing that you won't hear any of the politicians talking about: Cut taxes. If you cut taxes, especially the corporate tax, down to a rate of somewhere in the neighborhood of about 15 percent, you will create an atmosphere that is conducive for business. You will bring investment back in to this country. You will bring the jobs that have left this country back in to this country and you will create an economic stimulus without the government having to get involved and hand out jobs to people who would rather be working in the private sector than to be on the hook for the federal government."
The candidates were asked, "What would you do to stop the new world order and restore our republic? Would you work to abolish the dangerous free-trade agreements?"
Sander said, "Absolutely. I believe in free trade, but I believe in fair trade and unfortunately I believe that our government to this point, the trade agreements that they've put in place are not fair. You can use the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) deal. You can talk about the CAFTA (Central America Free Trade Agreement) deal that's now coming up. You can also talk about the Korean trade agreement. Just as an example, look at our car industry. Our automobile industry has been decimated because our government did not protect our automobile manufacturers. Our vehicles, in comparison to the Japanese vehicles, Japanese vehicles are subsidized to the tune of almost $4,000, which automatically puts us in a bind and it puts us at a deficit. Those things need to change. We need to go back and revise these agreements and look at it and make sure that it protects our country. And it's in our best interest and not in the best interest of other countries."
Carnahan said, "I have opposed the so-called free-trade agreements. What we've seen is a race to the bottom in this country. We've seen manufacturers and jobs leaving. First they went south to south of the border. Then they went to Asia and many went to China. And what did we get? We got tainted and deadly drugs. We got lead in toys. We got milk products that are killing people and affecting children over there. And again, that race to the bottom, we've got to have safety standards and labor standards and environmental standards. Those kind of fair provisions that not only have to be written in the agreements, but we have to have an administration that actually enforces what's written. That's been one of the problems with the Bush Administration that I've been so upset about. So my hope is that a new administration will actually enforce trade deals and be tough and look out for our interests for a change."
Babcock said, "Well, I'm against things like the North American Free Trade Agreement only because it's thousands of pages of legislation that you don't need to have free trade. If you want to have free trade, you have free trade and I am for free trade. Protectionism doesn't work in the long run. You can protect the auto industry for so long, but eventually they're going to have to compete with the rest of the world. We do have a world economy, whether you like it or not and I think American workers with their productivity can compete on the world scene and I don't buy the fact that we need protection. And it's not going to work in the long run and therefore I say we have free trade, but we don't give up our sovereign-nation status. We don't have other countries writing our laws for us. I'm against that part of the North America Free Trade Agreement because we are our own nation and we don't need thousands of pages of legislation to tell us what free trade is. That's not free trade."
Redburn said, "I also would be opposed to all these acts. First of all, they're unconstitutional. We also have a president who has been pursuing agreements … the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Mexico and Canada, which is just a stepping stone to bring us — all of these are stepping stones, incremental steps to take us to a North American union, which our sovereignty would be lost. These are the steps that were applied in Europe, taking them to a European union. Our sovereignty should be protected … I would seek to disband from the United Nations."
Mike Anthony


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Q: Having Trouble With Copy Constructor I'm having trouble create a good copy constructor.  I want to be able to make a new PizzaOrderNew object that will not change when the object that it is a copy of changes.  The problem is, my PizzaOrderNew instance variables are all objects of another class, Pizza with instance variables, cheese, size, ham, pepperoni as well as typical accessors and mutators.
 I've tried:
public PizzaOrderNew(PizzaOrderNew otherPizzaOrderNew)
{
    pizza01.setSize(otherPizzaOrderNew.pizza01.getSize());
    pizza01.setHam(otherPizzaOrderNew.pizza01.getHam());
    pizza01.setCheese(otherPizzaOrderNew.pizza01.getCheese());
    pizza01.setPepperoni(otherPizzaOrderNew.pizza01.getPepperoni());
}

but this throws an exception. I've tried:
public PizzaOrderNew(PizzaOrderNew otherPizzaOrderNew)
{
    pizza01 = otherPizzaOrderNew.pizza01;
}

but this makes it so the copy changes when the original does

A: I'm guessing you get a NullPointerException because pizza01 is not initialized. Initialize it with some default values and then set its attributes as in your first snippet.

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Annie Dixon newly-named Deputy District Ranger for the Mountain City-Ruby Mountains-Jarbidge Ranger District.
Elko, NV., March 15, 2019 – The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest welcomes Annie Dixon as the Deputy District Ranger for the Mountain City-Ruby Mountains-Jarbidge Ranger District. In her new position, Dixon will assist the District Ranger in providing oversight of the people and resources needed to manage about 1.14 million acres of National Forest lands with diverse natural resource programs.
Dixon started working on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest's Mountain City-Ruby Mountains-Jarbidge Ranger District while in college. In 2005, she accepted her first position through the Student Temporary Employment Program as a Biological Science Technician. Dixon in 2006 was then hired as a Rangeland Management Specialist in the Student Career Experience Program. After graduating college, she was converted to a permanent position as a Rangeland Management Specialist in 2009.
Dixon briefly left the Mountain City-Ruby Mountains-Jarbidge Ranger District when she went to work as an Environmental Specialist for Barrick Cortez Mine in northeastern Nevada in 2014. In 2015, the Fremont-Winema National Forest hired her as the Supervisory Rangeland Management Specialist on the Winter Rim Zone in southern Oregon. Dixon returned to Mountain City-Ruby Mountains-Jarbidge Ranger District in 2016 as a Supervisory Rangeland Management Specialist.
Dixon holds a Bachelor of Science in Rangeland Ecology and Management from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon.
She succeeds Joshua Nicholes, who served in the Deputy District Ranger position for approximately three years. Nicholes recently accepted the District Ranger position on the Mountain City-Ruby Mountains-Jarbidge Ranger District.


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"If not now when? If not when, now!
Dear Friends, family, everyone I love or even who I don't know yet, I ask that you read this with an open mind to and in respect of all I have studied and researched in my life up till now. Please just read the whole thing and make up your own mind from inside yourself.
I have a hard time with this free will thing .. do all the innocent peoples and children in Gaza and Israeli had a free will do die ?this is when i dont understaand certain things in life.. yeah peoples have free will and most of them choose their path in life both i dont understand when innocent children and peoples dies for nothing.i don't think. there is something to justified.this. my prayer love goes to them..
I am sorry for blogging inappropriate material to this wonderful website. All future such posts will be placed in the "Lighten up Lightworkers" group as requested.
There's a saying...Sometimes you need to cut off a finger to save a hand.
For meteor observers, the presence of an almost-full Moon cast a bright pall on this month's performance of the Geminid Meteor Shower, normally one of the best meteor displays of the year. But for a wild card, another very good meteor shower may be right around corner. And for this one, the Moon will not play a factor at all.
So, get out your 2009 calendar and put a big circle around Saturday morning, Jan. 3.
Advice - How Do I Share My Knowledge With Someone New To All Of This?
Been chatting with my wife about the site and my development.
I would love to see her advance as much as I have recently.
It is hard to put into words though.... can anyone recommend "a one size fits all" description of ascension/shift/Star People/2012 etc, etc?
Hey we are right on schedule!
yes i'm changing for good and breaking with old habits.
i'm on a passage inside myself.
it is been hard to understand many things.
that's why my silence on words.
but my spirit is always here and everywhere with all of you.
i'll be back with my true being.
Wish you all the love in the world and strenght.
This is yet another source of scientific proof of what we are about to go through and an absolutely fasinating read.
We are giving this information as it pertains to the New Year. There will be divisions among the people and yet they might not understand what it is or why it is.
We need to review this last year of 2008 to understand the changes of which we speak. As the new energies came in during this last year, there were special energies that came in during the month of December.
Arcturian11, The Tier IV Channeling, On Exponential Expansion and Multidimentional , Multiversal Awareness and the Emaculate States!
The Waith Channelings, nice simplistic way of explaining the coming Shift Changes.
"The earth plane is a training ground with a specific purpose and established set of plays that we call Illusions. These Illusions are placed into a Portfolio of Illusions The current illusion that you find yourself in - this life that you find yourself in - has been in existence for 10,000 earth plane years.


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Robert Denton Bryant, Keith Giglio,
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Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games
by:	Robert Denton Bryant, Keith Giglio,
Writing for the multibillion-dollar video-game industry is unlike writing for any other medium. Slay the Dragon will help you understand the challenges and offer creative solutions to writing for a medium where the audience not only demands a great story, but to be a driving force within it. Aimed at traditional writers who want to learn interactive narrative as well as game creators who want to tell better, more emotionally involving stories, the book is written by two creative veterans of both Hollywood and "Nerdyhood." Through lively discussions and self-paced-exercises, Bryant and Giglio step you such topics as: the "no-act" structure of video games; writing great game characters; making gameplay emotionally meaningful; and bringing your game world alive.
Robert Denton Bryant
Robert Denton Bryant has worked in Hollywood in marketing and production, and in video games as both a publisher and a developer. He has been the executive producer of dozens of games on platforms ranging from CD-ROMs to the iPad, including the best-selling "World Championship Poker" and "Pinball Hall of Fame" console game franchises. He has lectured on game writing at universities in the United States and Europe, and teaches in the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension as well as at Woodbury University in Burbank, California. He holds an MFA in cinema-television production from the University of Southern California and a BA in journalism from Washington and Lee University.
Books of Robert Denton Bryant
Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games 1 Sep 2015
Keith Giglio
Keith Giglio grew up in New York City in a family that felt like the cast of a Woody Allen movie starring Robert Deniro. His love of film comedy began at an early age. After graduating New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and Television, Keith moved to Los Angeles because he didn't want to miss the riots. He began writing with his wife, Juliet, and they sold their first four scripts, thus forcing them to work together. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and has had 6½ movies produced and many more optioned. In addition to writing and producing, Keith teaches screenwriting at Syracuse University.
Books of Keith Giglio
Writing the Comedy Blockbuster: The Inappropriate Goal February 1, 2012
Publish Date: 1 Sep 2015
Drew Karpyshyn Lead writer, Mass Effect; author, the Chaos Born trilogy – May 10, 2016 :
A veritable treasure trove of information. A compelling look at the development and evolution of interactive narrative and an invaluable tool for anyone who loves games!
Aaron Bleyaert Producer, Clueless Gamer with Conan O'Brien on TBSs Conan – May 10, 2016 :
Practical and original advice on narrative writing for video games that treats the world of gaming for what it is: an emerging art form.
Haris Orkin Game writer/narrative designer, Dying Light – May 10, 2016 :
If you're learning how to write for games or a developer burning to create games with better stories, I can't think of a better place to start.
Larry Hryb Xbox Live's Major Nelson – May 10, 2016 :
In my years of working in the industry this is the closest thing to a bible of creative video game story creation as I have ever seen.
Philip Eisner, screenwriter Event Horizon; consulting writer for Telltale Games' Tales from the Borderlands – May 10, 2016 :
Bridges the gap between traditional narrative and non-linear storytelling and makes it simple. A required tool in the working writer's toolbox.
Dan Boutros Executive producer, The Walking Dead Assault; co-founder, Soul Arcade – May 10, 2016 :
A comprehensive but accessible guide for those striving to relate to the medium of video games from another entertainment medium. If you're a writer from film or TV and want to understand more about games, this book should get you comfortable quickly.
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Latinas Head California Wellness Foundation
Community, Health, People
New Board Chair and Vice Chair Take Helm at Cal Wellness Elizabeth M. Gomez elected chair and M. Isabel Becerra, vice chair
The Board of Directors of The California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness) has elected Elizabeth (Liz) M. Gomez as chair and M. Isabel Becerra as vice chair.
Gomez is the executive director of Sober College LLC, a private drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility for young adults. Becerra is the chief executive officer of the Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers. Both will serve in their new roles through December 2016.
"Both Liz and Isabel are extremely dedicated health leaders who have been on the frontlines in promoting access, equity and advocacy for underserved communities. They bring that deep commitment to the Board," said Cal Wellness President and CEO Judy Belk. "I'm looking forward to their leadership, wisdom and support as we work together in advancing wellness for all Californians."
Gomez, a member of Cal Wellness' Board since 2005, served as Board chair from January 2009 to December 2010. In addition to serving as Sober College's executive director, she is a consultant for youth programs across the country, providing technical assistance and expertise on the operation of nonprofit organizations; shelter, transitional living and independent living programs; and programs providing services for youth. Previously, Gomez was the executive director of Los Angeles Youth Network, a position she held for 17 years.
Gomez looks forward to continuing to work with the Board as chair.
"Joining the Board was an honor and privilege for me," Gomez said. "I have always admired how Cal Wellness honors and respects the grantees, the experts in the field working with the population directly, and how they invite that expertise back to the Foundation."
Becerra joined the Board in January 2009. She has more than 18 years of experience in program planning, operations, health policy and development activities for community health centers and private clinics in San Diego, Seattle and Orange County. In 2000, Becerra joined the Coalition of Orange County Community Health Centers, a consortium of safety net partners providing quality health care services for underserved communities. Throughout her career, Becerra has advocated for health care access for the uninsured and underserved.
"With the Advancing Wellness grantmaking program, we are getting at the root causes of the issues that our target populations deal with," Becerra said. "I think we are going to make great strides, changes and great positive health outcomes and impacts. I'm proud to be part of the leadership team that will make that difference."
Outgoing Board chair, Eugene (Gene) Washington, M.D., stepped down after accepting a new position as Duke University's chancellor for health affairs and as the president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System in Durham, North Carolina. He served eight years on Cal Wellness' board and is the former dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine and former vice chancellor of health sciences at UCLA. Gomez expressed the Board's gratitude for his contributions to Cal Wellness.
"Gene's extraordinary leadership during our strategic planning was instrumental in guiding the Foundation to this exciting point in our philanthropic journey," Gomez said. "We are thankful for his service to the Foundation and congratulate him on his next venture at Duke."
The California Wellness Foundation is a private independent foundation created in 1992 with a mission to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention.
Cal Wellness' Advancing Wellness grants program is designed to promote equity through advocacy and access. The grantmaking focuses on three interconnected portfolios: Bridging the Gaps in Access and Quality Care; Promoting Healthy and Safe Neighborhoods; and Expanding Education and Employment Pathways. The program also includes the Opportunity Fund to support innovation in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.
Since its founding, Cal Wellness has awarded 7,690 grants totaling more than $912 million.
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Tennessee's Amendment 1 Is A 'Personhood' Referendum—for Pregnant Women
Farah Diaz-Tello & Cherisse Scott
Amendment 1's proponents claim that it "neutralizes" the law on abortion; in reality, the measure would rob pregnant women of the full protections of Tennessee's constitution.
Amendment 1's proponents claim that it "neutralizes" the law on abortion; in reality, the measure would rob pregnant women of the full protections of Tennessee's constitution. Shutterstock
Read more of our articles on the Tennessee ballot initiative here.
Tennessee voters will soon be asked to vote on Amendment 1, which will remove explicit protections of the right to privacy from the state constitution for some residents. Although the ballot initiative's proponents claim that it will "neutralize" the law on abortion, in reality, the measure would establish that all pregnant women are not entitled to the full protections of Tennessee's constitution.
Amendment 1 is, at least in part, a response to a 2000 Tennessee Supreme Court decision, which declared that the state constitution provides a greater protection of the right to privacy than the U.S. Constitution, and that this right extends to decisions about pregnancy. The proposed amendment is designed to limit the effects of this decision. It would read:
Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.
Again, Amendment 1's supporters claim that it makes the Tennessee constitution "neutral on abortion." However, the measure specifically targets pregnant women as a class of people whose medical, health, and family decisions may be subject to the will of the legislature.
Despite the fact that women's rates of death related to pregnancy have risen throughout the United States in recent years, this amendment could make it possible to prohibit all women from having abortions, even those who needed them to stay alive. This includes women who become pregnant and experience severe health conditions such as heart disease, blood pressure conditions such as eclampsia, or cancer. Amendment 1 would put women and their families at risk, taking from them the state constitutional protections all other Tennesseans have.
The amendment would also reinforce recent legislative action that singled out pregnant women for unprecedented surveillance, control, and punishment. Last spring, Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver (R-Lancaster) introduced SB 1391, a bill that turned the state's fetal assault law into one that would permit the state to arrest pregnant women. A mere year and a half after the original legislation had been clarified to leave no doubt that its purpose was to protect, not punish, pregnant women, Rep. Weaver stood before the Tennessee House of Representatives and asked why pregnant women should be "above the law." Why, she reasoned, shouldn't women be criminally investigated if their babies are born unhealthy? After all, she argued, the state can punish people who attack pregnant women and cause them to miscarry.
This reasoning led Tennessee to become the only state in the nation to pass a law making it possible to jail new mothers based on the outcomes of their pregnancies. By passing this legislation, the general assembly has undermined public health, invited prosecutors into the doctor-patient relationship, and created a brand-new crime of "illegal use of a narcotic drug" that only exists for pregnant women.
Both Amendment 1 and the pregnancy criminalization law use the claim that pregnant women shouldn't be afforded "extra" rights as an excuse to make sure that they actually have fewer rights than other Tennesseans. The text of Amendment 1 may refer specifically to abortion, but the intent could not be clearer: It is to ensure that "nothing in [Tennessee's] constitution secures or protects" the lives and health of pregnant women.


Kitchen Renovations Adelaide could be time consuming as well as challenging and sometimes even overwhelming. But it does not have to actually be. Working with the professional as well as experienced kitchen renovations company could make huge difference in the overall experience you have. Planning ahead may even help a lot.
Before starting your project of kitchen renovations, below are certain things which you need to consider for making the experience of renovating your kitchen great.
Once the kitchen renovations plans have been confirmed with the contractor, it would be your job to physically and mentally prepare yourself for the project. On the basis of the nature of project, kitchen renovations might take a couple of days, weeks and sometimes even months for the bigger projects.
Plan smart – You should try to schedule the project during any season when you don't constantly rely on your kitchen. Summers is often the best season for remodelling the kitchen because weather is better and it's easier to keep yourself busy with different activities outside your house. You may also plan your remodelling project during summer vacations so that you may avoid inconvenience of the renovations and enjoy your renovated kitchen.
Pack up – It's often the initial step for preparing the kitchen for the purpose of remodelling. Even though packing the kitchen might look like hassle, it is actually a wonderful time for getting rid of the outdated or broken kitchen tools as well as appliances while keeping the treasured pieces. Keep the boxes labelled as well as organised.
Set aside the eating or living area – While ordering food from outside is a very convenient option for people who are getting their kitchen remodelled or getting Outdoors Kitchens Adelaide in their house, would most likely wish to have some meals at their home. You may prepare a space in your dining room or the basement where you may enjoy the meals together. You may move your fridge and other smaller appliances to a place where they may be accessed easily.
Keep the time table flexible – It's quite common for kitchen renovations to have certain unexpected delays. Waiting for the appliances reach the destination might delay the project by weeks. You need to keep in mind that your schedule should be flexible. Everything does not go as planned and Kitchen Renovations Adelaide might be one such thing.
Each morning you walk downstairs, prepare coffee and sit down for breakfast for reading the newspaper. During the Kitchen Renovations Adelaide coffee might have to be prepared in the living room or the bathroom.
The time you spend reading during breakfast, might turn to be reading the newspaper on basement couch. Whether you have coffee or something else, the point here is that your schedule will have to be altered for fitting the new circumstances.


The 55+ HMI measures two segments of the 55+ housing market: single-family homes and multifamily condominiums. Each segment of the 55+ HMI measures builder sentiment based on a survey that asks if current sales, prospective buyer traffic and anticipated six-month sales for that market are good, fair or poor (high, average or low for traffic).
All three index components of the 55+ single-family HMI posted increases from the previous quarter: Present sales rose six points to 72, expected sales for the next six months increased five points to 70 and traffic of prospective buyers jumped 10 points to 53.
The 55+ multifamily condo HMI posted a gain of three points to 47. The index component for present sales increased three points to 51, expected sales for the next six months fell four points to 49 and traffic of prospective buyers rose seven points to 38.
Two of the four components of the 55+ multifamily rental market went up from the third quarter: present production increased six points to 60 and present demand for existing units rose four points to 67. Future expected production and future expected demand both fell two points to 54 and 62, respectively.
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Introduction to "The Natural History of Taiwan"
The natural environment is the basis for human survival; therefore, it is meaningful to have the exhibition of natural history as the starting point for the museum exhibitions.
The island of Taiwan was formed by a rapid rise in the seafloor due to the collision between the Eurasia plate and Philippine Sea plate. The basis of the great diversity of creatures in Taiwan was established with animals and plants emigrating from Southern China owing to the topographical changes in the sea level because of changes in the weather as the Ice Age began and ended. For the last four hundred years, movements of population in Taiwan have been relatively frequent. Many species have been introduced to Taiwan either deliberately or unintentionally from the rest of the world, and they have become new immigrants which cannot be ignored.
The Natural History of Taiwan Exhibition Hall has designed a route that takes visitors to visit the three exhibition rooms of Origin, the Ice Age and the Holocene Period in order of eras. It introduces the sequence of "The Natural History of Taiwan" by exploring the major events occurring in the three time zones. The contents are arranged in the sequence "Geology-Ecology-Human", and then the interaction between people and the natural environment is introduced, so as to relate to the exhibitions of the prehistory and tribes in the southern lands that are to come.


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Home » Health » Researchers Finally Confirm That Cancer Is A Purely Man-Made Disease
Researchers Finally Confirm That Cancer Is A Purely Man-Made Disease
By E May 18, 2018 May 18, 2018 Health, Science
Has it ever occurred to you that cancer is a disease purely made by man? There's a recent study that seems to prove this fact.
Researchers from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom have conducted some researching and ultimately concluded that cancer is a man-made disease.
In the UK alone, there are 150,000 people who succumb to cancer each year. Statistics have also shown that 1 in 3 people are likely to get cancer.
The researchers came to this conclusion by studying mummies, fossils, and classical literature. According to them, the disease is fueled by the excesses of modern day life. This is due to the fact that tumors were extremely rare in the past. They only became common and rampant in recent times due to people's poor diet habits, laziness, and excess technology.
The study of Egyptian mummies, showed no signs of cancer in most of them, except one isolated case. When slivers of tissue from hundreds of Egyptian mummies were rehydrated and investigated under a microscope, researchers found only one case of cancer in the mummies.
There are some researchers who argue that the lack of cancer was because of the short lifespan of the Egyptians. But, the researchers from this study disproved these arguments by pointing out the fact that other age-related diseases like brittle bones and hardening of the arteries occurred during this period.
According to reports from the journal Nature Reviews Cancer, the fossil evidence of cancer is not substantial, as scientific literature has provided a few dozen, but mostly disputed, examples in animal fossils. Moreover, a study of Neanderthal bones has offered only one example of possible cancer.
The ancient Egyptian texts also don't provide solid evidence of cancer, as cancer-like problems were more likely caused by leprosy or varicose veins. It is believed the ancient Greeks were the first people to define cancer as a specific disease, and make a difference between benign and malignant tumors.
Michael Zimmerman, the head researcher of this study, stated that there should have been enough cancer-related evidence in ancient societies because there was no surgical intervention.
"In an ancient society lacking surgical intervention, evidence of cancer should remain in all cases. The virtual absence of malignancies in mummies must be interpreted as indicating their rarity in antiquity, indicating that cancer-causing factors are limited to societies affected by modern industrialization", Zimmerman said.
Professor Rosalie David, who also had a big role in the analysis of the possible reference to the disease in fossil records, classical literature, and mummified bodies, said:
She said: "In industrialized societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle."
"The important thing about our study is that it gives a historical perspective to this disease," she added. We can make very clear statements on the cancer rates in societies because we have a full overview. We have looked at millennia, not one hundred years, and have masses of data."
The three lifestyle choices recommended by researchers are regular physical activity, maintaining physical activity and a healthy weight. They believe these are able to prevent about a third of the most common cancers known.
A copy of the paper 'Cancer: an old disease, a new disease or something in between?'doi:10.1038/nrc2914 is available athttp://www.nature.com/nrc/journal/v10/n10/full/nrc2914.html
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The Quick
Lauren Owen
Lauren Owen / Jul 19, 2019
The Quick You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick But first reader you must travel to Victorian England and there in the wilds of Yorkshire meet a brother and sister alone in the world a pair b
Title: The Quick
Author: Lauren Owen
You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair bound by tragedy You will, in time, enter the rooms of London s mysterious Aegolius Club a society of the richest, most powerful men in England And at some point we cannYou are about to discover the secrets of The Quick But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair bound by tragedy You will, in time, enter the rooms of London s mysterious Aegolius Club a society of the richest, most powerful men in England And at some point we cannot say when these worlds will collide.It is then, and only then, that a new world emerges, a world of romance, adventure and the most delicious of horrors and the secrets of The Quick are revealed.
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LAUREN OWEN studied English Literature at St Hilda s College, Oxford, before completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she received the 2009 Curtis Brown prize for the best fiction dissertation The Quick is her first novel She lives in Durham, England.
Jeffrey Keeten
"Fire is a far more effective weapon--not only does it destroy the creature's body, but he will be fascinated by its warmth and may be unable to flee. More than one of them has died simply by refusing to relinquish the pleasant sensation of immersing himself with a blaze, even though his natural resistance to flame is eventually overcome and his body reduced to ash."James Norbury is in London writing feverishly trying to master the art of scribbling. He is living with a young, devilishly a [...]
so, somehow i am supposed to review thisd it's unfair, because it isn't being published until june, and as soon as it is, and more people begin to read it and its secrets come out, it won't be necessary to be all coy in the reviews, but for poor little me, reading this all the way back in february, it would be insensitive to be all HEY YOU GUYS, THIS BOOK IS ABOUT SUCH AND SUCH.even though it was spoiled for me before i read it. double unfaircause the reveal comes early in the book. and if you k [...]
Heidi The Hippie Reader
The Quick is a love-it or hate-it book. I fell into the "I loved this" camp. But, when I pushed it onto my mother and sisters, they didn't like it. They all wondered why I had insisted that they read it and waxed poetic about its story. I was truly surprised.At first, it reads like a classic English, historical fiction novel. Think along the lines of Dickens or Austen. And then it changes very quickly into something else, something more like urban fantasy. I can't say enough how masterful the fi [...]
For me, The Quick was a book which suffered under the weight of expectation and hype. Every single review I've read of it - on , on blogs, and in the press - has highlighted the fact that it has this amazing unexpected twist. And I suppose the fact that I knew it had this amazing unexpected twist led me to speculate on what it might be a lot more than I would have done otherwise, because although I had no clue about the nature of the twist, I guessed it really early, so it didn't surprise me at [...]
There has been much hush-hush about the true reality of this novel but I think hiding this does it an injustice. The true genre of this story is the supposed 'twist' and it's not much of a twist in all actuality. For those who wish to be kept in the dark, stop reading. Bottom line: The Quick is nothing more than an attempt to combine the enthralling historical fiction aspects of Sarah Waters' writing and the Gothic mystery of a classic Anne Rice novel. Suffice it to say it was a failed a [...]
Oh dear!The reviews of this book looked promising plus I live in Yorkshire where some if it is set. And I LOVED Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and was hoping for another corker along those lines. Not to be.Nearly 100 pages in and I've had far too much of such childish naïve writing, riddled with clichés and stereotypes. As for the 'twist'? Subtle as a flying mallet. Not for me thank you.
Where I got the book: ARC from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program.Alas, I am underwhelmed. I guess my expectations were raised to boiling point by the prodigious hype splashed around the ARC's cover pages. "The Quick will establish her as one of fiction's most dazzling talentsnsummate storytelling and suspenseI am in love with Lauren Owen's first novel" and so on. Imeantersay, all this from Random House? I'm expecting Dickens, David Foster Wallace and Edgar Allan Poe all rolled into one her [...]
This book was not what I was expecting or hoping for after reading the promotional blurb. I was more than a little surprised when it turned into a vampire book. If I had known it was a vampire book I never would have selected it. As this was one of the first books I was approved for by NetGalley I tried very hard to get through it. But found it wasn't only the genre that I didn't care for. The pacing of the beginning of the book was slow and I never felt connected to the main protagonist. I foun [...]
This book deserved better treatment from me. I've been so scattered with my reading for the past few weeks that it took me 22 (!!!) days to read it, and no book is as engaging when it's being read in a million little chunks. But despite that, I really, really liked it. It's moody and dark, and really doesn't paint Victorian London in the prettiest light - we only see the very grittiest side of it. The writing feels genuinely Victorian without being dense, and the characters are nuanced and compl [...]
I am sad.Just sad.When Random House gave me permission several months ago to read Lauren Owen's debut novel, I was very excited.(view spoiler)[I understood early on that there was a twist and because of the cover and trends in the publishing industry and some early reviews by fellow early readers, I quickly started to suspect what it might be and so I stopped reading any early opinions about the novel.Because I very much thought I'd like it, and I very much wanted to like it. Because even if it [...]
A well written debut novel, but I really struggled to finish it. It was one of those books where I enjoyed it while busy reading, but as soon as I took a break I felt no compulsion to get back to it, in fact I had to force myself to finish it. I liked the historical feel, but could not connect to any of the characters, and found the plot to be slow and predictable. I am sure there are many others who will enjoy this though.
I read this in galley form and really enjoyed it. I would highly recommend putting it in your to-read shelf.As other reviewers have mentioned, it's very hard to talk about without giving away major spoilers, so I will refrain because I don't want to be the one who spoils the secrets. I mean, what if I revealed Jack Reacher dies in the next Lee Child and ruined it for everybody? Not that he does or anything, but how would you feel? And also, a death revelation has nothing to do with this book.Wai [...]
Audra (Unabridged Chick)
This is a cranky review of a book with a good deal of hype. The writing is nice enough, and there's lots of plot, and some historical ambiance; but I have a giant huge quibble with the marketing and mystique surrounding it which, for me, didn't enhance my reading experience. I'm hesitant to even try to recap the book lest I give away something I shouldn't. In brief, it's set in the 1890s in London, and features siblings who have to find each other as adults after some dramatic stuff happens. [...]
3 1/2 StarsThe Aegolius Club is a mysterious club, run by a group of elite and powerful men with many secrets. Londoners can only speculate on what goes on behind the walls of the club, but we (as a reader) are given the privilege to read the journal/diaries of a member; a mad science known as Dr. Knife. In these diaries you uncover the truth of what these member seek and represent, and it's more sinister then we could ever imagine. While snippets of these diary notes were scattered throughout [...]
I love historical fiction so was immediately drawn to this tale of a brother and sister growing up orphaned in Victorian Yorkshire, with the young man eventually going on to Oxford then to London to attempt to make his way as a writer. From there his life and the plot begin to take twists and turns that I hadn't expected, not having read too many excessive reviews or blurbs. And for that, I'm happy. Surprises in reading are good when they are well done and Owen does them well.I am not going to d [...]
Matthew Quann
This is not the book you think it is. This is not the book I thought it was. But, damn, it certainly was a lot of fun, and fun novels can be hard to come by. James goes to live in London to begin his career as a writer in Victorian England when, quite suddenly, he goes missing. Really, that's about all I can tell you without spoiling the complete reversal that author Lauren Owen pulls 100 pages into the novel that results in a violent upheaval of all that has come before. With that said, Owen ha [...]
Mike (the Paladin)
Wellwhat can I say? (I thought about just ending the review there and letting everyone sort figure i mean it).This book is another very slowly building story leaning on some (slightly) usual characters. Almost anything I tell you about the book/story/plot will constitute a spoiler as the entire book is geared to the slow build up and contributes to the building of said plot. Our two main protagonists are introduced as children and the formative events of their lives begin there. We are also intr [...]
Phrynne
This was a good story about a subject I enjoy. The characters started out interesting and full of good intent. The setting was a suitably Gothic London. In fact everything was in place for my total enjoyment so why did I keep skimming whole sections and generally looking forward to being finished? I guess the book was too long for its content. Some sections were repetitive and some not really necessary. And then strangely the whole lives of two of the main characters sped past in a few chapters! [...]
Frank Errington
Review copyAn auspicious debut for writer Lauren Owen. Given my love of horror, at first I thought I may have been misled into reading The Quick. From the book's description, "1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace. Alarmed, his sister, Charlotte, sets out fro [...]
This was a promising debut novel, set in Victorian England. It begins with two children, Charlotte and James, who grow up in a rambling house in the country. Although this part of the book is quite slow, it does set the scene and establish the relationship between the siblings and show how much James means to his sister. After their father dies, Charlotte is left in the care of her aunt, while James goes off to school. While he is at Oxford he meets a young man in the library, although he doesn� [...]
I received this book as a digital ARC from the publisher through Net Galley in return for an honest review.This book is based on the story of the Aegolius Club that was a British clubmen known by its secretive nature.The plot tells the story of James Norbury. After their parents' death in Yorkshire, James and his sister Charlotte moved into a small cottage with their aunt, Mrs. Chickering.Once James is sent away to school in Oxford, he starts to dream to become a poet. There he will meet Christo [...]
I have read a LOT of vampire books. Most of them were pretty terrible. After Stoker's Dracula and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, it was pretty much all downhill, with very few exceptions. Most books in the genre are either sanitized, pleading attempts to humanize something which, by definition, is inhuman, or gleefully perverse, trading on the author's ability to describe horrifying, disgusting violence rather than the ability to weave plot strings. What Owen has done here harks back to the [...]
A breve la recensione sul canale! Nel frattempo posso dire che Charlotte è stata inutile e la odio, mentre James è un piccolo tesoro! Comunque questi finali aperti li odio quasi più delle protagoniste femminili.
I read this book avidly, even though I detest some of the titles being offered as comparable, like The Last Werewolf and The Passage, and never made it through Dr. Strange and Mr. Norrell. It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to write a vampire novel at this point, especially a literary one, and I was amused to think that, after we've all enjoyed vampire stories set in the Pacific Northwest, Eastern Europe, and Louisiana, setting your vampire adventure in Victorian London now seems fresh again. [...]
Angigames
Il modo in cui l'autrice descrive Londra è sensazionale. Crea quel velo di mistero ed aspettativa veramente speciali, trascina il lettore, in una città quasi sinistra, misteriosa, piena di segreti. Durante la lettura era come se mi trovassi lì, accanto a James, in mezzo a strade e vicoli, dentro dei club esclusivi e sinistri.Eppure questo libro è pesante e lento. In alcuni punti veramente troppo descrittivo, si arriva a metà e ancora la storia non è decollata. Se James è un personaggio [...]
2.5 stars For a debut novel, this has a lot of wonderful strengths, but its flaws gnawed deep into their bones. I wish the editor had stepped up the guidance a bit, because with another draft of two, this could have been stunning.This is a vampire story, told in London, late 1800s. It has some clever twists, fun characters, and unusual developments. Sooooooo much potential! The author is quite gifted at voice; several of the characters (this is told from multiple viewpoints) are fully-developed, [...]
Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for the ARC. Much appreciated.Now that I've read this I've now read some reviews too. I came to this one initially not knowing about the 'twist' or had any preconceived ideas other than that it's meant to be really good. Unfortunately, before reading, I inadvertently clicked onto a review and a big spoiler was given away with literally one word. I was not happy. I still don't know why readers feel the need to talk about spoilers, give key plot poi [...]
Liviania
The cover of THE QUICK is ridiculously boring: sepia-toned man leaning on the edge, most of the cover taken up by a table. But I was quite intrigued by the blurb, which promised both magic and terror. I'm glad I paid little attention to the cover, because I thoroughly enjoyed THE QUICK.The action begins when siblings James and Charlotte Norbury are children, just long enough to establish their relationship. James is sensitive; Charlotte is practically his mother. The time then jumps to James dec [...]
I can't write much about this book without completely ruining the experience, which I refuse to do. And this is really upsetting, because I have a near-perfect read-alike for it, but if I mention it here it will give away the completely surprising plot twist that turns this book on its head about 20% in. So, if you've read this and want my read-alike, let me know. I'll tell you on the DL.Now, my advice to you: read this book sooner rather than later. Because people be jerks, and it's going to ge [...]
Questo libro aveva tutte le carte in regola per piacermi ed infatti mi è piaciuto tantissimo! Epoca Vittoriana, un romanzo che ha al suo interno aspetti gotici, avventura, mistero, giallo, fantasy ed un pizzico di romanticismo. Capite? È il libro fatto per me. Lo stile è molto descrittivo, perfetto a mio parere, perché mi sentivo nei luoghi narrati e riuscivo ad immaginarmi tutto alla perfezione! Narrato in terza persona ci presenta i punti di vista dei vari personaggi ed in più abbiamo cap [...]
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