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BOTTLED WATER - PURE DRINK OR PURE HYPE?
Courtesy: Natural Resources Defense Council
The following report is the Executive Summary of a detailed study by the same title [available] at www.nrdc.org.
More than half of all Americans drink bottled water; about a third of the public consumes it regularly. Sales have tripled in the past 10 years, to about $4 billion a year. This sales bonanza has been fueled by ubiquitous ads picturing towering mountains, pristine glaciers, and crystal-clear springs nestled in untouched forests yielding absolutely pure water. But is the marketing image of total purity accurate? Also, are rules for bottled water stricter than those for tap water?
Not exactly... No one should assume that just because he or she purchases water in a bottle that it is necessarily any better regulated, purer, or safer than most tap water. NRDC has completed a four-year study of the bottled water industry, including its bacterial and chemical contamination problems. We have conducted a review of available information on bottled water and its sources, an in-depth assessment of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and all 50 states' programs governing bottled water safety, and an analysis of government and academic bottled water testing results. We have compared FDA's bottled water rules with certain international bottled water standards and with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that apply to piped tap water supplied by public water systems.
In addition, NRDC commissioned independent lab testing of more than 1,000 bottles of 103 types of bottled water from many parts of the country (California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas). Our conclusions and recommendations follow.
An Exploding Bottled Water Market
There has been an explosion in bottled water use in the United States, driven in large measure by marketing designed to convince the public of bottled water's purity and safety, and capitalizing on public concern about tap water quality. People spend from 240 to over 10,000 times more per gallon for bottled water than they typically do for tap water.
Some of this marketing is misleading, implying the water comes from pristine sources when it does not. For example, one brand of "spring water" whose label pictured a lake and mountains actually came from a well in an industrial facility's parking lot, near a hazardous waste dump, and periodically was contaminated with industrial chemicals at levels above FDA standards.
According to government and industry estimates, about one fourth of bottled water is bottled tap water (and by some accounts, as much as 40 percent is derived from tap water) -- sometimes with additional treatment, sometimes not.
Major Regulatory Gaps
FDA's rules completely exempt 60-70 percent of the bottled water sold in the United States from the agency's bottled water standards, because FDA says its rules do not apply to water packaged and sold within the same state. Nearly 40 states say they do regulate such waters (generally with few or no resources dedicated to policing this); therefore, about one out of five states do not.
FDA also exempts "carbonated water," "seltzer," and many other waters sold in bottles from its bottled water standards, applying only vague general sanitation rules that set no specific contamination limits. Fewer than half of the states require these waters to meet bottled water standards.
Even when bottled waters are covered by FDA's specific bottled water standards, those rules are weaker in many ways than EPA rules that apply to big city tap water. For instance, comparing those EPA regulations (for water systems which serve the majority of the U.S. population) with FDA's bottled water rules:
City tap water can have no confirmed E. coli or fecal coliform bacteria (bacteria that are indications of possible contamination by fecal matter). FDA bottled water rules include no such prohibition (a certain amount of any type of coliform bacteria is allowed in bottled water).
City tap water from surface water must be filtered and disinfected (or the water system must adopt well-defined protective measures for the source water it uses, such as control of potentially polluting activities that may affect the stream involved). In contrast, there are no federal filtration or disinfection requirements for bottled water -- the only source-water protection, filtration, or disinfection provisions for bottled water are completely delegated to state discretion, and many states have adopted no such meaningful programs.
Bottled water plants must test for coliform bacteria just once a week; big-city tap water must be tested 100 or more times a month.
Repeated high levels of bacteria (i.e., "heterotrophic-plate-count" bacteria) in tap water combined with a lack of disinfectant can trigger a violation for cities -- but not for water bottlers.
Most cities using surface water have had to test for Cryptosporidium or Giardia, two common water pathogens that can cause diarrhea and other intestinal problems (or more serious problems in vulnerable people), yet bottled water companies don't have to do this.
City tap water must meet standards for certain important toxic or cancer-causing chemicals such as phthalate (a chemical that can leach from plastic, including plastic bottles); some in the industry persuaded FDA to exempt bottled water from regulations regarding these chemicals.
Any violation of tap-water standards is grounds for enforcement -- but bottled water in violation of standards can still be sold if it is labeled as "containing excessive chemicals" or "excessive bacteria" (unless FDA finds it "adulterated," a term not specifically defined).
Cities generally must test at least once a quarter for many chemical contaminants. Water bottlers generally must test only annually.
Cities must have their water tested by government-certified labs; such certified testing is not required for bottlers.
Tap water test results and notices of violations must be reported to state or federal officials. There is no mandatory reporting for water bottlers.
City water system operators must be certified and trained to ensure that they know how to safely treat and deliver water -- not so for bottlers.
City water systems must issue annual "right-to-know" reports telling consumers what is in their water; as detailed in this report, bottlers successfully killed such a requirement for bottled water.
FDA and state bottled water programs are seriously underfunded. FDA says bottled water is a low priority; the agency estimates it has the equivalent of fewer than one staff person dedicated to developing and issuing bottled water rules, and the equivalent of fewer than one FDA staffer assuring compliance with the bottled water rules on the books. Although a small number of states (such as California) have real bottled water programs, our 1998 survey found that 43 states have fewer than one staff person dedicated to bottled water regulation. By comparison, hundreds of federal staff and many more state personnel are dedicated to tap water regulation. Directing disproportionate resources to tap water protection is warranted. At the same time, over half the U.S. public (including many immunocompromised people) uses bottled water, and many millions of people use bottled water as their chief or exclusive drinking water source.
FDA's regulations are less stringent than some international standards. For example, unlike FDA's rules, the European Union's (EU's) bottled natural mineral water standards regulate total bacteria count, and explicitly ban all parasites and pathogenic microorganisms, E. coli or other coliform bacteria, fecal streptococci (e.g., Streptococcus faecalis, recently renamed Enterococcus faecalis), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and sporulated sulphite-reducing anaerobic bacteria. Moreover, unlike the weaker FDA rules, the EU rules require natural mineral bottled water's labels to state the composition of the water and the specific water source, and mandate that only one water label may be used per source of water. Similarly, recent EU standards applicable to all bottled water also are far stricter than FDA standards. FDA's standards for certain chemicals (such as arsenic) also are weaker than certain World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
Bottled Water: As Pure as We Are Led to Believe?
While most bottled water apparently is of good quality, publicly available monitoring data are scarce. The underfunded and haphazard patchwork of regulatory programs has found numerous cases where bottled water has been contaminated at levels above state or federal standards. In some cases bottled water has been recalled.
Our "snapshot" testing of more than 1,000 bottles of 103 brands of water by three independent labs found that most bottled water tested was of good quality, but some brands' quality was spotty. About one third of the bottled waters we tested contained significant contamination (i.e., levels of chemical or bacterial contaminants exceeding those allowed under a state or industry standard or guideline) in at least one test. This is the most comprehensive independent testing of bottled water in the United States that is publicly available. Moreover, NRDC contracted with an independent data verification firm to confirm the accuracy of our positive test results. Still, the testing was limited. The labs tested most waters for about half of the drinking water contaminants regulated by FDA (to control costs). They found:
Nearly one in four of the waters tested (23 of the 103 waters, or 22 percent) violated strict applicable state (California) limits for bottled water in at least one sample, most commonly for arsenic or certain cancer-causing man-made ("synthetic") organic compounds. Another three waters sold outside of California (3 percent of the national total) violated industry-recommended standards for synthetic organic compounds in at least one sample, but unlike in California, those industry standards were not enforceable in the states (Florida and Texas) in which they were sold.
Nearly one in five tested waters (18 of the 103, or 17 percent) contained, in at least one sample, more bacteria than allowed under microbiological-purity "guidelines" (unenforceable sanitation guidelines based on heterotrophic plate count [HPC] bacteria levels in the water) adopted by some states, the industry, and the EU. The U.S. bottled water industry uses HPC guidelines, and there are European HPC standards applicable overseas to certain bottled waters, but there are no U.S. standards in light of strong bottler opposition to making such limits legally binding.
In sum, approximately one third of the tested waters (34 of 103 waters, or 33 percent) violated an enforceable state standard or exceeded microbiological-purity guidelines, or both, in at least one sample. We were unable to test for many microbial contaminants, such as Cryptosporidium, because the logistics and cost of testing for them post-bottling were beyond our means.
Four waters (4 percent) violated the generally weak federal bottled water standards (two for excessive fluoride and two for excessive coliform bacteria; neither of the two latter waters were found to be contaminated with coliform bacteria in our testing of a different lot of the same brand).
About one fifth of the waters contained synthetic organic chemicals -- such as industrial chemicals (e.g., toluene or xylene) or chemicals used in manufacturing plastic (e.g., phthalate, adipate, or styrene) -- in at least one sample, but generally at levels below state and federal standards. One sample contained phthalate -- a carcinogen that leaches from plastic -- at a level twice the tap water standard, but there is no bottled water standard for this chemical; two other samples from different batches of this same water contained no detectable phthalate.
In addition, many waters contained arsenic, nitrates, or other inorganic contaminants at levels below current standards. While in most cases the levels found were not surprising, in eight cases arsenic was found in at least one test at a level of potential health concern.
For purposes of comparison, we note that EPA recently reported that in 1996 about 1 in 10 community tap water systems (serving about one seventh of the U.S. population) violated EPA's tap water treatment or contaminant standards, and 28 percent of tap water systems violated significant water-monitoring or reporting requirements. In addition, the tap water of more than 32 million Americans (and perhaps more) exceeds 2 parts per billion (ppb) arsenic (the California Proposition 65 warning level, applicable to bottled water, is 5 ppb); and 80 to 100 million Americans drink tap water that contains very significant trihalomethane levels (over 40 ppb). Thus, while much tap water is supplied by systems that have violated EPA standards or that serve water containing substantial levels of risky contaminants, apparently the majority of the country's tap water passes EPA standards. Therefore, while much tap water is indeed risky, having compared available data we conclude that there is no assurance that bottled water is any safer than tap water.
Other academic and government bottled water surveys generally are consistent with the testing NRDC commissioned. Though usually limited in scope, these studies also have found that most bottled water meets applicable enforceable standards, but that a minority of waters contain chemical or microbiological contaminants of potential concern.
Every American has a right to safe, good-tasting water from the tap. If we choose to buy bottled water, we deserve assurances that it too is safe. In addition, whether our water comes from a tap or a bottle, we have a right to know what's in it. Among our key recommendations are:
FDA should set strict limits (equivalent to those in California, EPA rules, international standards, or industry guidelines, whichever is most health protective) for contaminants of concern in bottled water, including arsenic, heterotrophic-plate-count bacteria, E. coli and other parasites and pathogens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and synthetic organic chemicals, including chemicals such as phthalate, which can leach from plastic.
FDA's rules should be overhauled and should apply to all bottled water distributed nationally or within a state, carbonated or not. To comply with common sense and a new requirement tucked into the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments; FDA standards must be made at least as strict as those applicable to city tap water supplies. The FDA should adopt rules for bottled water testing, to control microbial and chemical contaminants, to protect water sources, to ensure the reporting of test results and violations to state and federal officials, to train and certify operators of water bottling plants, and to require the use of certified labs. In addition, FDA should do its own audits and monitoring of the quality of bottled water sold across the nation and should publicly release the results.
Right-to-know requirements should require water-bottle labels to disclose contaminants, the exact water source, treatment, and other key information, as is now required of tap water systems. If bottled water is so pure, why not prove it with full disclosure on the label?
FDA's bottled water program and state programs must be better funded, with a new penny-per-bottle fee on bottled water to fund regulatory programs, testing, and enforcement.
State bottled water programs should be subject to federal review and approval, and should receive federal funding from the penny-per-bottle fee recommended above.
If FDA fails within 18 months to make its bottled water rules and its regulatory oversight and enforcement at least as stringent as those for tap water, the bottled water regulatory program and funding for it (including the proceeds from a penny-per-bottle fee) should be transferred to EPA. We recommend this transfer with some trepidation, in light of EPA's less-than-perfect tap water program and its own serious resource constraints. We conclude, however, that it would be hard for EPA authority to be worse than FDA's seriously deficient program, and that a transfer of funding for bottled water supervision to EPA from FDA would help. Clearly EPA has more resources dedicated to drinking water and has adopted stricter rules and oversight of state programs than FDA has. More stringent EPA tap water rules should be applied to bottled water within six months after transfer of authority.
A credible independent third-party nongovernmental organization should establish a "certified safe" bottled water program that is truly open, ensures full compliance with all FDA, EPA, state, industry, and international standards and guidelines, does twice-a-year surprise inspections, documents sufficient source protection and treatment to meet EPA/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria for Cryptosporidium-safe bottled water, and makes readily available (including on the Web) all inspections and monitoring results. Currently neither NSF nor International Bottled Water Association certifications have sufficiently stringent criteria, nor are they sufficiently independent of the industry, to provide consumer confidence that such strict standards are met. Immune-compromised or other vulnerable people particularly may want such certification to be fully confident of their bottled water's purity.
While we reasonably may choose to use bottled water for convenience, taste, or as a temporary alternative to contaminated tap water, it is no long-term national solution to this problem. Bottled water sometimes is contaminated, and we don't use it to bathe, shower, etc. -- major routes of exposure for some tap water contaminants. A major shift to bottled water could undermine funding for tap water protection, raising serious equity issues for the poor. Manufacture and shipping of billions of bottles causes unnecessary energy and petroleum consumption, leads to land filling or incineration of bottles, and can release environmental toxins. The long-term solution to our water woes is to fix our tap water so it is safe for everyone, and tastes and smells good.
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The resumption of growth outperformance over value highlights why it is important for investors to maintain a well-diversified portfolio that incorporates consistent exposure to both styles.
The reemergence of size and momentum as performance drivers alongside growth's outperformance makes the case for an active approach to growth that can capture momentum in the market—and isn't beholden to a market-cap weighted portfolio structure.
U.S. equities (as represented by the S&P 500® Index) posted a 13.65% return in the first quarter of 2019, rebounding from a dismal fourth quarter of 2018. The 2019 first quarter results marked the best quarter for U.S. stocks since 2009 and the best first quarter since 1998.
The equity market recovery was led, at a high level, by the same driver that had propelled the market to new highs throughout 2017 and the first three quarters of 2018: growth market leadership, paced by technology stocks, which posted a nearly 20% return for the first quarter of 2019.
Source: Morningstar Direct, S&P Dow Jones Indexes. TR = total return.
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While growth's outperformance was certainly a key theme in the first quarter, it wasn't the only driver of the equity market rebound. In fact, at the factor level, momentum had an even greater impact on first quarter S&P 500 Index performance, returning 16.6%. It is also notable that size (e.g., smaller-cap companies) had an effect on the strong first quarter, with the equal-weighted S&P 500 Index outperforming the standard S&P 500 market-cap weighted index.
So what lessons can investors take away from the first quarter? With growth recently resuming its market leadership, it is clear that predictions of the growth rally's demise were premature. In our opinion, an allocation to growth remains a critical component of a diversified portfolio. However, the reemergence of size and momentum as performance drivers alongside growth's outperformance makes the case for an active approach to growth that can capture momentum in the market. In fact, in the context of portfolio construction it is momentum, not growth alone, which has persistently exhibited negative correlation with value stocks, which also should be part of a well-diversified portfolio.
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Certainly, as investors seek out fast-growing stocks in a slowing-growth world, the relatively higher rate of growth of smaller-cap stocks, historically, looks very attractive when compared to the stocks that populate the top of common market-cap weighted growth indexes like the Russell 1000 Growth Index.
Source: FactSet. Top 20 companies in the Russell 1000 Growth Index, by market capitalization. *Historical 3-Year Sales Growth data as of 12/31/2018. **Alphabet, Inc. Class A and Class C share holdings have been combined. Price to earnings FY1 ratio shown is an average of the two share classes.
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The growth-led equity rebound in the first quarter highlights why it is important for investors to maintain a well-diversified portfolio that incorporates consistent exposure to both growth and value. The leadership of momentum alongside growth suggests that finding an active growth manager that can not only provide exposure to true-growth stocks but also can adapt quickly to harness the power of momentum can add alpha to portfolios and act as consistent complement to a portfolio's exposure to value. And finally, as earnings and economic growth around the globe decelerate, investors have demonstrated demand for companies exhibiting high rates of growth, which has benefitted small-cap stocks: a market segment where skilled active managers have the ability to capitalize on informational inefficiencies as opposed to standard cap-weighted index (or index-like) approaches that overweight large and frequently slow-growing stocks.
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My Charlie died on 2-23-09, and today marks 14 weeks since his death.
This morning, as every morning, my alarm went off at 5:30 am, and I always hit the snooze 1 time. Well this morning I slept through the alarm until almost 6. I turned off clock, I was awake, but not up, and as plain as day, I saw my cat Charlie sitting on the foot of my bed looking at me.
As fast as my brain tried to process what I was seeing, he was gone. But from that moment on I felt a peace I had not felt in months. I saw with my own two eyes, my cat sitting right there. Now I know he is ok, and he let me get one more look, and he's gone. Now he can rest in peace, sweet Charlie.
As this is one cat who fought a battle for over a year of his short 2 years of life. He saw 4 vets who could not find anything wrong, but yet he was sick. After many tests, and meds, still nothing had changed, but he pushed on until his vet said it was time, and on that day in Feb, I let him cross over the bridge. It was not until after his death that I obtained his medical records, and low and behold, it plainly stated that my cat was ok, and the vets lied to me. This is why I think he came back today to let me know the he's ok and he doesn't blame me for what the vets told me. God rest your soul lil buddy, mama will always love you.
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Girl, this made me tear up. Damn them vets. The good pets always pass on before their time! Sorry you lost your little baby. We all have... So I know your pain. I lost my dog on my 12th birthday, due to choking to death on a piece of pizza my mother gave him. 2 days later he appeared in the hallway as I was getting a drink of water from the restroom. He got within a foot from me and disappeared. I KNOW it was his way of saying goodbye. After that, I was at ease and peace with his death. I hope you are too with little Charlie!
You must be glad that charlie came to see you one last time to say that he is ok.
Answer to Nor_Cal_Girl...yes, I asked what was wrong with my cat, after 4 vets, $2500, and many tests, and labs, meds, etc, they couldn't find anything. All my cat had was a snotty nose, and in Feb, they told me he was in respitory distess, all I saw in my mind was my cat gasping, so I couldn't let him suffer, it wasn't until after, when I got his records, that I saw in his chart,"heart and lungs ok, no resp distress noted" Thats when I found out they lied, and this guilt was tearing me up... Then I saw my Charlie on Mon morning, and I felt a peace I haven't in nearly 4 mos... I now know he is fine. He loved me, as I loved him... Now all I can say is: Rest in peace, Charlie, mama will always love you!
Thank you all... Charlies memory lives in my heart and mind always! He was and is the feline love of my life! I welcome him to visit me anytime!
I am glad you saw your cat to tell you that he come to be in peace, he want you to be okay that he is okay also. I lost so many cats years and years ago. I am cats lovers.
Sweet story, Your Charlie will always be with you, he has already made his presence known to you. Sweet.
awwwww! I am so happy you got to see your cat one more time! Now you can be happy that your cat is going to be ok!
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After a wonderful stay with Luc and Susan Ouellette in McLennan, I hit the snowy road again on Saturday. Since then conditions have gone between blizzard-like and really cold. I am now in High Prairie. This post is mostly for the good folks of McLennan who, were a little worried about me headed out into the cold. I'd just like to let you all know that I got through that snap we had over the last couple of nights, and I still have all my toes and fingers. Thanks again for everything!


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Agriculture education today has moved away from "cow and plow" classes, he said. Most schools offer more diverse courses in horticulture, small animal veterinary services, landscaping, wildlife conservation and many other ag-related areas.
With only 2 percent of the population in production agriculture, Johnrud said the classrooms would be empty if schools didn't offer these new agriculture-related classes, which offer good career opportunities.
Like many small farmers, Johnsrud combined dairy farming with a job outside the farm to make ends meet while raising a family over the last 20 years.
When Johnsrud finished his military service in Vietnam in 1972, he only had the clothes on his back and an interest in agriculture.
Using the GI Bill, he attended UW-River Falls, where he majored in agriculture, graduating in 1977. He taught agriculture in Brillion for a year and then returned to Algoma where he worked in the shipyards.
"I was a young guy with no collateral," he said, but he wanted to be a farmer. With interest rates at 18 percent, it was prohibitive to buy farmland in the area at that time, he said.
Since the 1960s, Arnie's father had operated a hobby farm with 10 cows on County OO in Algoma and Arnie would help him milk the cows. Using his money from the shipyards, he began to rent the barn from his father, repairing it and expanding the herd.
Finally in 1988, he and his wife, Geanne, had saved enough to buy an 80-acre farm on Kennedy Road in the town of Ahnapee with a big old barn and farmhouse with sagging walls that needed a lot of work, Johnsrud said.
They brought over their cows and began a dairy farm there.
Geanne didn't particularly want to farm, but she knew it was her husband's dream, so she learned how to milk cows after he was rolled over by a hay wagon and broke his wrist, Johnsrud said.
In 1992, they were renting another 80 acres from Geanne's brother and struggling to pay the bills and raise their three children when a part-time position for an agricultural teacher opened at Algoma High School..
Johnsrud leaped at the opportunity to supplement their income, but he had to update his teaching license.
"Flexibility was my forte in those years," he said.
He was offered the job and was honored to be following in the footsteps of Roy Koss, an agriculture teacher who was esteemed at the high school.
"To have his job was just what I wanted," said Johnsrud, but because the Algoma School District couldn't afford to make it a full-time job, he felt compelled to take a full-time position teaching agriculture in Kewaunee when it opened up a year later.
"It was a good fit," said Johnsrud. "I liked working with young people."
But the problem was that it was at least 10 miles farther from his farm and he often had to come home to do his chores and then go back to school for a meeting.
"In spite of the fact that we had three kids, I was always short on labor," he says today, explaining how his son, who played football for Algoma, would often ride his bike to morning practice, come home to milk the cows and then ride back for afternoon practice.
"With farming it is so easy to get behind financially, and it takes so long to catch up," he said."And whenever you are ahead, you end up reinvesting that money in the farm."
Over the last 28 years, Johnrud and his family have torn down the old farmhouse and built a new three-bedroom home with high ceilings. They have remodeled the barn with new stalls. They grew green peas and winter wheat and at one point were milking 54 cows.
But they sold the cows in 2000.
"We just couldn't keep up," Johnsrud said.
This year, for the first time, they are also renting out their land.
Their contract for growing peas had expired. Johnsrud explained that the pea canning company has pulled out of Northeast Wisconsin and gone to warmer climates where farmers can grow a second crop.
He noted that the expiration of a contract for a cash crop is just one of the problems farmers faced.
"It is hard for young farmer to be successful today," he said. "It is really about problem-solving, because the next crisis is just down the hill."
He believes, however, that there are good opportunities for new farmers in organic milk and grass-fed beef..
About half of his former students today are employed by the large concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the county, he said.
"They are good-paying jobs," he noted.
On most smaller farms, one spouse often has to work off the farm – at least to provide health insurance, he said.
He said that it is hard for the small dairy farmer to compete with the large dairy operators who have both investors and larger subsidies to tide them through years when crops fail or milk prices are low.
But he said that he doesn't regret operating a small dairy farm.
"I would never change anything about our farm," he said. "I like it here – the setting and the majestic barn."
But he said that the "labor takes its toll."
He noted how difficult estate planning can be for older farmers like himself.
"If you have three kids and only one wants to farm, is he going to be able to pay off his siblings?" said Johnsrud, noting that with land prices in the county, his children may find it easier to sell the farm. He said that he had hoped that his youngest son might be interested in taking over the farm.
"Right now, the answer is no," he said. "If you have what is considered a small dairy farm today – 50 to 500 cattle – and you have kids who want to start out with that, you have a better chance,", he said.
Retired from his full-time job in Kewaunee, this fall Johnsrud is working as an assistant teacher for a diesel lab class at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Sturgeon Bay and serving as commander of the Forestville Post 372 American Legion post. He also is working as a volunteer for Farm Technology Days 2017 in Kewaunee County.
"I am still interested in the technology and the changes ... but we are going away from small farms to big agriculture, he said.
Right now, he is contemplating what to do about his own barn's roof, which needs to be replaced.
Johnsrud said that he can't justify the $30,000 cost of a new roof for a barn that he no longer uses. He is considering contacting some Amish farmers, who will often take down a barn and rebuild it on one of their farms.
"I just hate to see this stoic barn go down," he said. "But the old big red barn isn't conducive to the new agriculture anymore. It's the end of an era."

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Today in Madonna History: May 14, 1994
May 14, 2019 By Jay in 1994, May Tags: Live Down Under, The Girlie Show World Tour	1 Comment
On May 14 1994, Madonna: The Girlie Show – Live Down Under hit #3 on the US Top Music Videos Chart. The live video recording was released on April 25 1994.
Dominic Griffin from Daily Variety had this to say about the release:
Madonna danced, sang, and more specifically entertained her way through this two-hour concert set. Madonna's comments aside, this show was purely for the cameras and the viewing audience at home. Expertly shot with multi-cameras including a crane and an onstage SteadiCam, the show was shot in close quarters, with an occasional pan of the vast audience. After a slow start, the show, which included nine costume changes, never once let up. Madonna showed great energy and amazing stamina throughout.
Today in Madonna History: April 26, 1994
April 26, 2019 By Jay in 1994, April Tags: Laserdisc Release, Live Down Under, Live Videos, The Girlie Show World Tour, VHS Release	1 Comment
On April 26 1994, The Girlie Show – Live Down Under was released by Warner-Reprise Video on VHS and laserdisc.
The concert – recorded on November 19, 1993 at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia – was a re-edited version of the concert special that had aired live on HBO. It was directed by Mark "Aldo" Miceli, who directed the live screens on Madonna's 1990 and 1993 tours, as well as the Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90 VHS/laserdisc release. The Girlie Show – Live Down Under was nominated for a Grammy in 1995 for Best Long Form Music Video and was also one of the first concerts to be commercially issued on DVD in 1998.
Today in Madonna History: November 20, 1993
November 20, 2018 By Jay in 1993, November Tags: Australia, HBO, Live Broadcast, Live Down Under, Sydney, The Girlie Show World Tour	1 Comment
On November 20 1993, Madonna – Live Down Under: The Girlie Show (taped November 19th at Sydney Cricket Ground) was broadcast on HBO-TV. In Australia, Madonna postponed a scheduled concert at the Sydney Cricket Ground due to severe rain.
Recording of the November 19th show had been intended to serve as both a practice run for the following night, and as a safety show in the event of technical difficulties or cancellation of the November 20th concert. With Madonna apparently satisfied with the safety footage captured on the 19th, neither the December 3rd show at the Cricket Ground nor the rescheduled date (December 4th) served to provide supplemental footage for the eventual VHS/laserdisc release. The only notable differences between the HBO broadcast and the released version were some alternate camera angles and additional audio mixing.
November 17, 2016 By Jay in 1993, November Tags: Australia, Controversy, Live Down Under, Liz Rosenberg, The Girlie Show World Tour	1 Comment
On November 17 1993, Madonna arrived in Sydney, for the start of the Australian leg of her Girlie Show World Tour and it didn't take long before she was making stirring up controversy over a gift she received.
Here's a snippet of what ran in the Chicago Tribune the day after she arrived:
The didgeridoo is a long, tube-like wind instrument that is traditional among the Aborigines. Only men are allowed to play it.
Madonna, who offended some fans in Puerto Rico when she rubbed the island's flag against her crotch, received a five-foot didgeridoo on her arrival in Sydney on Wednesday. It was a gift from the promoter of the Australian leg of her tour.
"The fact Madonna is a Westerner and the didgeridoo as a gift does not change the fact she should not be carrying it around," said Badangthun Munmunyarrun, an Aboriginal elder.
November 20, 2015 By Jay in 1993, November Tags: Australia, HBO, Live Down Under, The Girlie Show World Tour	1 Comment
On November 20 1993, Madonna – Live Down Under: The Girlie Show was broadcast on HBO. Live Down Under was the channel's most watched original program of the year.
The November 20 show was to be filmed at the Sydney Cricket Ground and aired on HBO, however, severe weather conditions forced the cancellation of the show, so the November 19 show (which had been taped at the same venue the night before as a "safety show") was aired instead.
The broadcast included the following songs:
The Girlie Show Theme
Rain / Just My Imagination / Singing in the Rain
Deeper and Deeper
Why's It So Hard
Bye Bye Baby
I'm Going Bananas
Justify My Love
Everybody is a Star / Everybody
April 26, 2015 By sonicboy19 in 1994, April Tags: Laserdisc Release, Live Down Under, Live Videos, The Girlie Show World Tour, VHS Release	2 Comments
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– drugi z czterech ciężkich krążowników typu Myōkō zbudowany dla Japońskiej Cesarskiej Marynarki Wojennej. Pozostałymi okrętami należącymi do tego typu były: "Myōkō", "Ashigara" i "Haguro". Jego nazwa pochodzi od góry w prefekturze Wakayama.

Wyporność okrętów tego typu wynosiła 13 500 t, a ich długość 201 m. Były w stanie rozwinąć prędkość do 36 węzłów (67 km/h) i przenosić dwa wodnosamoloty, a ich uzbrojenie składało się z dziesięciu dział 203 mm w pięciu dwudziałowych wieżach. W tym czasie kiedy były budowane posiadały najcięższe uzbrojenie ze wszystkich typów krążowników na świecie.

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Stępka pod "Nachi" została położona w bazie marynarki wojennej w Kure 26 listopada 1924 roku, a 15 czerwca 1927 roku odbyło się wodowanie "Nachi" i nadanie mu imienia. 28 listopada 1928 roku został przyjęty do służby w Cesarskiej Marynarce Wojennej. Jego służba w czasie II wojny światowej zaczęła się w Holenderskich Indiach Wschodnich, gdzie po raz pierwszy starł się z wrogiem w pobliżu Makasaru w dniu 8 lutego 1942 roku. W bitwie z 27 lutego 1942 roku na Morzu Jawajskim odgrywał kluczową rolę i przyczynił się do zatopienia brytyjskich okrętów HMS "Exeter" i HMS "Encounter" na południe od Borneo w dniu 1 marca 1942 roku podczas swojej kolejnej akcji.

"Nachi" został następnie przeniesiony na Wyspy Aleuckie, gdzie brał udział w ataku na wyspy 3 czerwca 1942 roku. Na Aleuty wrócił w marcu 1943 roku, gdzie brał udział w bitwie koło Wysp Komandorskich, w której odniósł uszkodzenia. W lipcu 1943 roku brał udział w ataku na Kiska.

Do października 1944 roku okręt znajdował się na Filipinach i wziął udział w bitwie w zatoce Leyte jako część zgrupowania krążowników pod dowództwem wiceadm. Kiyohide Shima. "Nachi" został uszkodzony w ciśnienie Surigao 25 października 1944 roku po kolizji z "Mogami".

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"Nachi" znajdował się w zatoce Manilskiej 5 listopada 1944 roku, kiedy został zaatakowany przez trzy następujące po sobie ataki amerykańskich samolotów, które wystartowały z lotniskowców USS "Lexington" i USS "Ticonderoga" należących do Task Force 38.

W czasie tego ataku "Nachi" został trafiony przynajmniej dziewięciokrotnie zarówno torpedami jak i rakietami. Przełamał się na dwie części po dwóch potężnych eksplozjach i zatonął pośrodku wielkiej plamy ropy. Z załogi 807 osób zginęło, w tym kapitan, a przeżyło 220. Jego flagowy dowódca, wiceadm. Kiyohide Shima przebywał na konferencji podczas ataku, ale zdołał dotrzeć do doku, aby jeszcze zobaczyć, ku swemu przerażeniu, jak jego flagowy okręt rozpada się na kawałki.

John Prados w swojej książce pt. Combined Fleet Decoded (pl. Połączona Flota Rozszyfrowana) pisze, że nurkowie z US Navy znaleźli we wraku olbrzymią ilość dokumentów z kodami leżących na stołach i w szufladach. Nie posiadali ze zdumienia, że tej rangi dokumenty nie były schowane w sejfie. Było to o tyle ważne, ponieważ "Nachi" był w tym czasie flagowym okrętem 2. Grupy Uderzeniowej. Odnaleziono również japoński sprzęt radarowy.

Oryginalny podpis pod zdjęciem ukazujący zatopienie "Nachi" przez eskadrę samolotów z USS "Lexington" brzmi: Notatka koordynatora zadania: krążyliśmy na wysokości 6 metrów, aby upewnić się, że nie będzie żadnych rozbitków. 15 do 20 osób, które znajdowały się w plamie ropy potraktowaliśmy za pomocą strzałów kalibru 12,7 mm, tak dla pewności. Spekulowano, że na pokładzie "Nachi" odkryto duże ilości złota, które zostało wyciągnięte przez nurków. Jednak jest to kwestionowane przypuszczenie, które nie jest potwierdzone przez większość ekspertów i które uważa się za nieprawdziwe z powodu braków dowodów.

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Ecumenical Patriarch decries persecution of Christians in Middle East
CWN - Speaking at an ecumenical gathering during a pastoral visit to Finland, Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople decried the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
"One of these crucial challenges is undoubtedly the rise of so-called religious fundamentalism, culminating in unjustifiable acts of violence and destruction as a result of religious hatred," said Patriarch Bartholomew, who holds a primacy of honor among the Eastern Orthodox churches.
"The image that is particularly critical and lasting in our minds is the example of persecution endured today by Christians, irrespective of confession, in the wider region of the Middle East, where even the simple admission of Christian identity places the very existence of our faithful in daily threat," he added. "These exceptionally extreme and expansive occurrences of violence and persecution against Christians cannot leave the rest of us – who are blessed to leave peacefully and in some sense of security – indifferent and inactive."
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Address by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Ecumenical Gathering in the Lutheran Cathedral of Espoo (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople)
"Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:31-32 ESV)
"My son, do not lose sight of these — keep sound wisdom and discretion, and they will be life for your soul." (Proverbs 3:21,22a ESV)
First of all it must be understood that it is the duty of all Christians - especially of those whose calling dedicates them to the spiritual life - to strive always and in every way to be united with God, their creator, lover, benefactor, and their supreme good, by Whom and for Whom they were created. This is because the center and the final purpose of the soul, which God created, must be God Himself alone, and nothing else - God whom Whom the soul has received its life and its nature, and for Whom it must eternally live.
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Experiments on reworking by successive unconfined subaqueous and subaerial muddy debris flows
Horacio Toniolo, Peter Harff, Jeff Marr, Chris Paola, Gary Parker
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
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Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
Debris flows occur under water, e.g., in lakes and the ocean, as well as under air. These two types of debris flow have many similarities, but also differ in striking ways. The focus of the research reported here is on the ability of an unconfined debris flow to remobilize or rework an antecedent deposit over which it runs. Experiments were performed in a tank in order to quantify reworking. The debris slurry was premixed and consisted of a mixture of water, sand, and kaolinite clay. Three experiments were performed, each consisting of four individual runs. In each run the slurry was released impulsively from a head tank. The first run of each experiment formed a deposit over the initial inerodible bed. The second, third, and fourth runs progressed over and reworked to a greater or lesser extent the antecedent deposit(s). Two experiments of four runs each were performed in the subaqueous configuration, and one experiment of four runs was performed in the subaerial configuration. In the subaerial case, reworking was immediate and extensive. In the subaqueous case, reworking of the deposit of the first run by the second run was suppressed. Part of the reason for this appears to be hydroplaning of the head of the debris flow. As the deposit built up, however, considerable reworking was eventually observed in the subaqueous case as well.
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Toniolo, H., Harff, P., Marr, J., Paola, C., & Parker, G. (2004). Experiments on reworking by successive unconfined subaqueous and subaerial muddy debris flows. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 130(1), 38-48. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2004)130:1(38)
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Toniolo, H, Harff, P, Marr, J, Paola, C & Parker, G 2004, 'Experiments on reworking by successive unconfined subaqueous and subaerial muddy debris flows', Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, vol. 130, no. 1, pp. 38-48. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2004)130:1(38)
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Even though Steve Wozniak is full of praises for Android, Steve Jobs had different ideas. He in fact wanted to "destroy" what he considered to be a stolen product. Contrarily, Wozniak thinks Android's OS to be a better product than Apple's own iOS. He confessed this in an interview to The Daily Beast saying, "My primary phone is the iPhone. I love the beauty of it. But I wish it did all the things my Android does." The thing that Wozniak likes the most about Android is its voice commands and its built-in navigation system.
He says that, "I used to ask Siri,'What are the five biggest lakes in California?' and it would come back with the answer. Now it just misses. It gives me real estate listings. I used to ask, 'What are the prime numbers greater than 87?' and it would answer. Now instead of getting prime numbers, I get listings for prime rib, or prime real estate." Now that tells a lot about Apple's famous voice-activated virtual assistant.
Hence, in the end, he plugs in his own product. It is totally up to a user which smartphone he or she chooses. If not to go with the hype and brand-advertising, the right product will surely win. When it comes to technology, the right choice is always to go with a product that is easier to operate for you than to go with one which looks fancy, but ends up not working for you.


With Mother's Day fast approaching, I am honored to be taking part in the Shot@Life campaign. My friend Nicole from Sister from Another Mister put together this great link up to bring awareness to the cause. I hope you take the time to find out more about what Shot@Life is. In the coming months, you will hear me talking about it and I would love it if you would join me in supporting this great cause.
My girl had a seizure this past week and though it has happened before, it doesn't get any easier. That helpless feeling is heartwrenching. Knowing that there's nothing I can do during the time when it is happening and being able to do nothing but hold her, rock her and speak to her during the post-seizure sleep brings new appreciation for a few things. I can't help but put myself in the position of moms who hold their kids until they take their last breath because they had no access to vaccines.
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In 2002, 2.9% of the 58 million-odd broadband connections worldwide were made via fiber, using either passive optical networks (PONs) or point-to-point links like Ethernet.
In 2002, 2.9% of the 58 million-odd broadband connections worldwide were made via fiber, using either passive optical networks (PONs) or point-to-point links like Ethernet. In contrast, more than 97% of folk used cable modems, DSL, or fixed wireless to get their data.


On the penultimate night of fashion month, amid the final paroxysms of designers attempting to define how women want to look today, there was a show of a different kind.
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Q: Objective-C: detect keyboard size/origin *before* it opens? How is this done? I'm looking for iOS7/8 solutions. keyboardWillShow is not satisfactory because I need to resize a view based on the keyboard height before the keyboard actually shows.

A: keyboardWillShow is fired before the keyboard is shown. If that's not satisfactory for you, then you'll need to be smart about the keyboard size.
If the keyboard has never been shown on screen in your app before, you can make an educated guess by first checking for the device type and orientation and then having a quick lookup table of the default keyboard sizes. This will cover you 99% of the time.
In the event that the user has a custom keyboard in use that is not a standard size, you can use the keyboard size from keyboardWillShow, store it and the orientation (NSUserDefaults would work well here) and then reference the stored value the next time you need the size.
This wouldn't cover your needs every time because you wouldn't know which keyboard is going to be pulled up until keyboardWillShow is called. For example, you could replace the inputView on two different UITextField's with your own custom views; those views could be different sizes. You wouldn't know which one was going to be shown until keyboardWillShow would be called.
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There is another possibility...if you know the view that you want to show the keyboard for explicitly.
I added this to viewDidLoad:
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(keyboardWillShowFirstTimeNotification:)
                                             name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification
                                           object:nil];
[self.view addSubview:self.textField];
[self.textField becomeFirstResponder];

Then, add a method for handling that notification. This method should only be called once and then inside of it remove the notification so it's never called again.
- (void)keyboardWillShowFirstTimeNotification:(NSNotification*)notification {
    NSDictionary* keyboardInfo = [notification userInfo];
    NSValue* keyboardFrameBegin = [keyboardInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey];
    CGRect keyboardFrameBeginRect = [keyboardFrameBegin CGRectValue];

    NSLog(@"keyboardFrameBeginRectHeight: %f", keyboardFrameBeginRect.size.height);

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow)
                                                 name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification
                                               object:nil];
    [self.textField resignFirstResponder];
}

This will log the keyboard height without ever showing it on screen.
If you wanted to extend this further, you could subclass UITextField and UITextView to have properties for keyboard height for different orientations and then you could store that value directly in the text fields and text views. Then, you'd be able to have multiple input view sizes and know what they will be prior to showing them.

A: Currently the time for the keyboard to show is 0.3 seconds, but Apple may change that at any time. This is also true for the keyboard size. The default keyboard in portait mode is 216px in height and in landscape it is 162px, but that may also change at any time. If (for any reason) you need to find out the keyboard size you can do that pretty easily.
   [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                    selector:@selector(keyboardWillShow:)
                                        name:UIKeyboardWillShowNotification
                                      object:nil];

    // Read the userInfo for the key UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey
    -(void)keyboardWillShow:(NSNotification*)notification {
        NSDictionary* keyboardInfo = [notification userInfo];
        NSValue* keyboardFrameBegin = [keyboardInfo valueForKey:UIKeyboardFrameBeginUserInfoKey];
        CGRect keyboardFrameBeginRect = [keyboardFrameBegin CGRectValue];

        NSLog(@"%@", NSStringFromCGRect(keyboardFrameBeginRect));
    }


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The Leaning Pile of Books
The Leaning Pile of Books is a feature where I talk about books I got over the last week–old or new, bought or received for review consideration (usually unsolicited). Since I hope you will find new books you're interested in reading in these posts, I try to be as informative as possible. If I can find them, links to excerpts, author's websites, and places where you can find more information on the book are included.
Last week brought two books in the mail plus two book purchases (well, technically, three, but since I'm going to be reviewing the third soon I'm not going to feature it here). All of these books sound amazing, but first, here's last week's post in case you missed it:
Review of Gilded Cage by Vic James (I thought had a great beginning and ending but a lot of slow parts, and it was just interesting enough—and short enough—that I finished reading it)
Now, the books of the week!
The Waking Land by Callie Bates
Callie Bates' debut novel will be released on June 27 (hardcover, ebook). Paste has an excerpt from The Waking Land.
This was one of those fun surprises—a book I knew nothing about before it showed up but now really want to read! As an added bonus, I love the cover, and the comparison to Uprooted certainly didn't hurt when it came to piquing my curiosity either!
In the lush and magical tradition of Naomi Novik's award-winning Uprooted comes this riveting debut from brilliant young writer Callie Bates—whose boundless imagination places her among the finest authors of fantasy fiction, including Sarah J. Maas and Sabaa Tahir.
Lady Elanna is fiercely devoted to the king who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder—and must flee for her life.
Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised, estranged father, branded a traitor long ago. Feeling a strange, deep connection to the natural world, she also must face the truth about the forces she has always denied or disdained as superstition—powers that suddenly stir within her.
But an all-too-human threat is drawing near, determined to exact vengeance. Now Elanna has no choice but to lead a rebellion against the kingdom to which she once gave her allegiance. Trapped between divided loyalties, she must summon the courage to confront a destiny that could tear her apart.
Shadowfire (Birthgrave Trilogy #2) by Tanith Lee
The second book in Tanith Lee's Birthgrave Trilogy was re-released in mass market paperback and ebook in fall 2015. The publisher's website has an excerpt from Shadowfire (link below the cover image).
I purchased the first book around the time it was reprinted and figured I should complete the set!
Turek was raised as an orphan nomad, until one grim night when he learns of his heritage. He discovers he is the son of the last woman of a superior race long thought dead – a woman who once dishonored his warrior king father. Intent on revenge, Turek takes his father's name, Vazkor, and embarks on a journey to find his mother – and murder her.
Rediscover this realm of brilliant cruel beauty and seductive immortal ruins, of savage war and grand conquest, of falling stars and silver gods—with this 40th anniversary edition of legendary fantastist Tanith Lee's Birthgrave Trilogy.
Hunting the White Witch (Birthgrave Trilogy #3) by Tanith Lee
The third book in Tanith Lee's Birthgrave Trilogy was released in mass market paperback and ebook in early 2016. The publisher's website has an excerpt from Hunting the White Witch (below the cover image).
Although I haven't yet read the first book in the trilogy, I wanted to make sure to get a copy since I'd wanted to read these books years ago when they were difficult to find!
Vazkor, who assumed the name of the warrior father he had never known, seeks his mother, a survivor of the hated Old Race known as the White Witch. He has sworn to kill her, to avenge his father and all the humans who had suffered at the hands of the Old Race. But as he searches, his own powers—his fearful heritage—grow. Can Vazkor rid the world once and for all of his own creator?
Hunting the White Witch is the concluding volume of the Birthgrave Trilogy. Rediscover this realm of brilliant cruel beauty and seductive immortal ruins, of savage war and grand conquest, of falling stars and silver gods—with these 40th anniversary editions of legendary fantastist Tanith Lee's debut book series.
Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) by Mark Lawrence
The first book in the Book of the Ancestor series will be released on April 4 (hardcover, ebook). Amazon's "Look Inside" feature shows an excerpt from Red Sister.
I've seen the main protagonist in this compared to Arya Stark, who is one of my favorite characters from A Song of Ice and Fire, plus a "secretive order of holy warriors" sounds like fun!
The international bestselling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins a stunning epic fantasy series about a secretive order of holy warriors…
At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls.
A bloodstained child of nine falsely accused of murder, guilty of worse, Nona is stolen from the shadow of the noose. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but under Abbess Glass's care there is much more to learn than the arts of death. Among her class Nona finds a new family—and new enemies.
Despite the security and isolation of the convent, Nona's secret and violent past finds her out, drawing with it the tangled politics of a crumbling empire. Her arrival sparks old feuds to life, igniting vicious struggles within the church and even drawing the eye of the emperor himself.
Beneath a dying sun, Nona Grey must master her inner demons, then loose them on those who stand in her way.
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