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Q: How can I add a module to my application after it has started up without using require.js? My AngularJS application has a module admin that I want to be made available only to those in an Admin role. On the server I have placed the files for this module all in one directory and I have this web-config in the same directory. This works and unless the user is in the admin role then they cannot download the javascript files:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
      <security>
          <authorization>
              <remove users="*" roles="" verbs="" />
              <add accessType="Allow" roles="Admin" />
          </authorization>
      </security>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

So my server side solution appears to be solved. However I am completely stuck with what to do on the client, how to download scripts and add a module to my application after it has been bootstrapped. Here's what I have:
The files in the admin directory that I protected with the web-config look like this:
admin.js
angular.module('admin', [])

homeController.js
angular.module('admin')
        .controller('AdminHomeController', ['$http', '$q', '$resource', '$scope', '_o', adminHomeController]);

function adminHomeController($http, $q, $resource, $scope, _o) {
    ....
    ...
}

My application level files look like this:
app.js
var app = angular
    .module('app',
        ['ui.router', 'admin', 'home',])
    .run(['$rootScope', '$state', '$stateParams', '$http', '$angularCacheFactory', appRun])

function appRun($rootScope, $state, $stateParams, $http, $angularCacheFactory) {
    $rootScope.$state = $state;
    $rootScope.$stateParams = $stateParams;
}

app.config.js
app.config(['$controllerProvider', '$httpProvider', '$locationProvider', '$sceProvider', '$stateProvider', appConfig]);

function appConfig($httpProvider, $locationProvider, $sceProvider, $stateProvider) {

    // I added this to help with loading the module after
    // the application has already loaded
    app.controllerProvider = $controllerProvider;
    //
    $sceProvider.enabled(false);
    $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
    var admin = {
        name: 'admin',
        url: '/admin',
        views: {
            'root': {
                templateUrl: '/Content/app/admin/partials/home.html',
            },
            'content': {
                templateUrl: '/Content/app/admin/partials/overview.html',
            },
        }
    };
    var adminContent = {
        name: 'admin.content',
        parent: 'admin',
        url: '/:content',
        views: {
            'root': {
                templateUrl: '/Content/app/admin/partials/home.html',
            },
            'content': {
                templateUrl: function (stateParams) {
                    return '/Content/app/admin/partials/' + stateParams.content + '.html';
                },
            }
        }
    };
    var home = {
        name: 'home',
        url: '/home',
        views: {
            'root': {
                templateUrl: '/Content/app/home/partials/home.html',
            },
            'content': {
                templateUrl: '/Content/app/home/partials/overview.html',
            },
        }
    };
    var homeContent = {
        name: 'home.content',
        parent: 'home',
        url: '/:content',
        views: {
            'root': {
                templateUrl: '/Content/app/home/partials/home.html',
            },
            'content': {
                templateUrl: function (stateParams) {
                    return '/Content/app/home/partials/' + stateParams.content + '.html';
                },
            }
        }
    };
    $stateProvider
        .state(admin)
        .state(adminContent)
        .state(home)
        .state(homeContent);
}

When a user logs on then I know if it is an Admin role user as I have a security token returned to me that shows:
{
"access_token":"abcdefg",
"token_type":"bearer",
"expires_in":1209599,
"userName":"xx",
"roles":"Admin",
".issued":"Fri, 30 May 2014 12:23:53 GMT",
".expires":"Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:23:53 GMT"
}

If an Admin role user then I want to

*

*Download the Admin module scripts: /Content/app/admin/admin.js and /Content/app/admin/homeController.js from the server. I already have it set up like this for $http calls: $http.defaults.headers.common.Authorization = 'Bearer ' + user.data.bearerToken; so the Bearer token would need to be sent when getting the scripts:

*Add the admin module to the app
Can someone give me some suggestions on how I can do these two things. After reading about require.js I feel that I would not like to use it as a solution. I would like something as simple as possible.
From what I understand until AngularJS allows it then I need to make it so that I can inject my controller. So I already added this to the appConfig:
app.controllerProvider = $controllerProvider;

But how can I download the two javascript files and how can I add these to AngularJS so that the user can start using the features of the controller inside the admin module? I saw something about $script.js being used by the Angular team. Is this a good solution and how I could I implement this to meet my fairly simple need.

A: You can add a resolve property to your admin routes.
var admin = {
    name: 'admin',
    url: '/admin',
    resolve: {
        isAdminAuth: function($q, User) {
            var defer = $q.defer();

            if (User.isAdmin) {
                defer.resolve();
            } else {
                defer.reject();
            }

            return defer.promise;
        }
    },
    views: {
        'root': {
            templateUrl: '/Content/app/admin/partials/home.html',
        },
        'content': {
            templateUrl: '/Content/app/admin/partials/overview.html',
        },
    }
};

You can chain this as well.
    resolve: {
        adminPermissions: function($q, User) {
            var defer = $q.defer();

            if (User.permissions.isAdmin) {
                defer.resolve(User.permissions.admin);
            } else {
                defer.reject();
            }

            return defer.promise;
        },
        hasAccessToHome: function($q, adminPermissions) {
            var defer = $q.defer();

            if (adminPermissions.hasAccessToHome) {
                defer.resolve(true);
            } else {
                defer.reject();
            }

            return defer.promise;
        },
    },

The result of resolve properties will also be passed to the controller if resolved. If rejected, the route will not load. You can access it like this.
function adminHomeController($scope, adminPermissions, hasAccessToHome) {
    $scope.adminPermissions = adminPermissions;
}

You can also manually bootstrap an app:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<div ng-controller="WelcomeController">
  {{greeting}}
</div>

<script src="angular.js"></script>
<script>

  var isAdmin = true; <!-- injected variable from server here -->

  var app = angular.module('demo', [])
  .controller('WelcomeController', function($scope) {
      $scope.greeting = 'Welcome!';
  });
  angular.bootstrap(document, ['demo']);
</script>
</body>
</html>

[reference] - https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/function/angular.bootstrap
Instead of injecting a variable or some other server side templating method you can make a request using jQuery:
$.getJSON('/my/url', function(data) {
    if (data.isAdmin) {
        // bootstrap app with admin module
    } else {
        // bootstrap app without admin module
    }
});

Here is an IE8+ compatible example alternative to the above (not jQuery):
request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', '/my/url', true);

request.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (this.readyState === 4){
    if (this.status >= 200 && this.status < 400){
      data = JSON.parse(this.responseText);

      if (data.isAdmin) {
        // bootstrap app with admin module
      } else {
        // bootstrap app without admin module
      }
    }
  }
};

request.send();
request = null;

[reference] - http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/#json

A: I would highly recommend the use of some module loader.
I understand that you want to keep things simple however writing AMD (asynchronous module definition) or CommonJS modules would help reduce some of the problems associated with dependency management (like loading things in the wrong order, overriding of libraries, etc).
If you really insist, you can use jQuery.getScript() to load additional javascript sources (assuming you have jQuery as a dependency).
Pure javascript without jQuery will require you to do something like the loadScript example found in this answer.
In both cases, this would be done in the callback set for the controller; take caution because the script will be executed in the global scope so any variables, functions in the remote file MAY override things that already exist if you're not careful.
If you're still interested in a module loader but you don't like require.js, take a quick look at curl.js.

A: Ido Sela talks about authorization in an Angularjs app and how they handle loading (or unloading) of modules here:  http://youtu.be/62RvRQuMVyg?t=2m35s
I would definitely look at this as it will give you some of the best guidance I have seen for how to handle authorization and loading of modules conditionally.  (It's how I should have been handling it in my prototype, and will in future versions once I have some time to clean it up.)
If you do need to authorize after bootstrapping the application and then need to conditionally load modules, you might consider making this a server concern.  For instance, using a script loading mechanism of some sort, only render the logic based on the authorization of the request.
For example, in ASP.net MVC, I would consider delivering my admin resources via a controller (not as static content) and only render the actual scripts if the user was authorized.
Update
Sorry for not taking your entire question into consideration.  It sounds like you've already secured the server side.  So now module loading is the problem.  I would still consider a controller that would filter your requests per authorization (i.e. User.IsInRole("FooAdmin") or create an actual filter to scale your usage)


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Никола́й Ива́нович Шува́лов  ( — ) — командир 1-го стрелкового батальона 861-го стрелкового полка (294-я стрелковая дивизия, 52-я армия, 2-й Украинский фронт), капитан. Герой Советского Союза.

Биография
Родился  в селе Таболо в крестьянской семье. Окончил 6 классов. Работал в колхозе счетоводом. В 1939 году призван в РККА Епифанским РВК Тульской области. Окончил курсы младших лейтенантов.

Великая Отечественная война
С первых дней войны воевал на Ленинградском, Волховском, Воронежском, Степном, 2-м Украинском фронтах.

Командир 1-го стрелкового батальона капитан Шувалов отличился в бою при прорыве обороны противника в районе города Умань в марте 1944 года. Батальон Шувалова первым форсировал реку Днестр, обеспечив переправу остальных подразделений, успешное продвижение полка вперёд.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 13 сентября 1944 года за образцовое выполнение боевых заданий командования на фронте борьбы с немецкими захватчиками и проявленные при этом отвагу и геройство
капитану Шувалову Николаю Ивановичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда».

Командир стрелкового батальона капитан Шувалов 12 января 1945 года погиб в бою в селе Сельпедужа. Похоронен на кладбище села Сельпедужа (Польша).

Награды
 Медаль «Золотая Звезда» (13.09.1944);
 орден Ленина (13.09.1944);
 орден Красного Знамени (30.06.1944);
 орден Александра Невского (29.09.1944);
 орден Отечественной войны 2-й степени (04.11.1943);
 медаль «За отвагу» (1943);
 медаль «За оборону Ленинграда» (1942).

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Q: send two values in a link to another page i need to use two values in my links.
here is my current code:
<a href='<%# String.Format("products.aspx?cat={n}/,mybrand={x}", Eval("116"), Eval("Samsung"))%>'>

well ! is not working. how can i send these two values ("116" & "samsung") with
my link ?
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i'm using a page that shows all of my products. but i need to filter contents by category and brand. so i need to send these two values from every link to that page.

A: found it !
link should be like this:
Product

and in second page in page_load:
Textbox.Text = Request.QueryString("cat")
Textbox.Text =Request.QueryString("brand")

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Hunter Biden Facing Federal Investigation into his Taxes
Transition Team Releases Statement
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press
Eds: UPDATES: Updates with reference to subpoena, that investigation involves Hunter Biden's business dealings. With AP Photos.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter said Wednesday that he is facing a federal investigation into his taxes, putting a renewed spotlight on the questions about his financial dealings that dogged his father's campaign.
Federal investigators served a round of subpoenas on Tuesday, including to Hunter Biden, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing probe. The tax investigation centers on his business dealings, the person said.
The Justice Department's investigation, centering on potential tax fraud crimes, had been going on at least a year before President-elect Biden announced his candidacy, according to another person familiar with the matter. Investigators did not reach out in the weeks prior because of a Justice Department policy surrounding elections that prohibits overt investigative acts.
In a statement released by the president-elect's transition office, Hunter Biden said he learned about the investigation on Tuesday but did not disclose specifics about what was being scrutinized.
"I take this matter very seriously but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors," he said in a statement.
He has long been a target of President Donald Trump and his allies, who have accused him of profiting off his political connections. Trump and his supporters also raised unsubstantiated charges of corruption related to Hunter Biden's work in Ukraine at the time his father was vice president and leading the Obama administration's dealings with the Eastern European nation.
The disclosure of the federal investigation, led by the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware, comes at an awkward moment for the incoming president, who is assembling his Cabinet. His pick for attorney general could have oversight of the investigation into the new president's son if it is still ongoing when Biden is sworn in on Jan. 20.
The transition team said in a statement: "President-elect Biden is deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger."
Hunter Biden's attorneys did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment.
Biden's younger son has been caught up in controversies before. While his father was vice president, Hunter joined the Naval Reserve only to be discharged after testing positive for cocaine in his system, later revealing a yearslong struggle with addiction.
He also joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014, sparking concerns about the perceptions of a conflict of interest given the elder Biden was deeply involved in U.S. policy toward Ukraine. A Republican-led Senate investigation did not identify any policies that were directly affected by Hunter Biden's work.
In the weeks before the election, Trump supporters used the existence of a laptop they said was connected to Hunter Biden — and the emergence of someone who maintains he had business discussions with him — to raise questions about Joe Biden's knowledge of his son's activities in Ukraine and China. The president-elect has said he did not discuss his son's international business dealings with him and has denied having ever taken money from a foreign country.
The laptop surfaced publicly in October when The New York Post reported on emails that it said had come from Hunter Biden's laptop and that it said it received from Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer.
Another person familiar with the matter told the AP that the tax investigation does not have anything to do with the laptop.
The people had knowledge of the investigation but were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
In a CNN interview last week, President-elect Biden addressed the business dealings of his son Hunter and his brothers, pledging that they would avoid any perceived conflicts of interest during his time in office.
"My son, my family will not be involved in any business, any enterprise that is in conflict with or appears to be in conflict, where there's appropriate distance from the presidency and government," Biden said.
Lemire reported from Wilmington, Del. Associated Press writer Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.


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From 2018, the new GCSE French exam has two tiers, three themes and four different papers which students sit at the end of the course. There is no coursework.
The Foundation Tier is for grades 1 to 5.
The Higher Tier is for grades 4 to 9.
Local, national, international and global areas of interest.
Current and future study, and employment.
The GCSE French exam is designed to be taken at the end of a two year course of study, although some schools do begin to prepare students over a three year period.
Over the two or three year course, your specialist French teacher will cover all the skills, vocabulary, grammar and communication strategies you need for your exam.
One of the welcome improvements introduced by the new exam means that there is now more potential than ever to shine and demonstrate all the skills you've acquired during the course of your studies. This is because the new GCSE has been reformed to better differentiate between students of different abilities.
Attend all your lessons, including any extra conversation or revision classes provided by your school.
Set aside enough time to complete all your French homework tasks thoroughly without rushing.
Concentrate and pay full attention in all your lessons. We really can't stress enough how important it is to work hard in class and save your distractions for break time.
Always ask for further explanation if there is something you haven't understood properly during the lesson.
Go the extra mile and keep a vocabulary list with you at all times. If you're waiting for a bus, queuing for lunch or just find you have a few minutes to spare, take out the list and see how many words you can commit to memory whilst you're waiting. When it comes to learning a new language, little and often leads to success.
Read a little French every day. Try an online newspaper, magazine or blog that interests you.
Listen to French every day. Try finding internet radio stations, podcasts, films, YouTube content etc. It doesn't matter if you don't understand everything, just soak up the sounds and experience the language.
Find extra opportunities to write in French, for example, if you like to write lists, do them in French.
Speak French every day, even if you only talk to yourself. Try describing what you're thinking or doing in French.
You've had long or frequent periods of absence from school.
Your specialist teacher of French has been absent and a large proportion of your lessons have been covered by a non-specialist teacher.
You've fallen behind in your studies for some reason and need to catch up.
You've recently changed schools and your new school is following a different syllabus, for example from a different examination board.
You're borderline between two grades and you want to make that extra push to achieve the higher grade.
You're feeling overwhelmed and need some encouragement and reassurance to boost your confidence.
Despite asking for extra help at school, you're still struggling to understand certain aspects of the course.
Fleur de Liz is here to help with any of the above. For further advice or support, just ring 0113 217 9687 or 07486 668622, or email info@fleurdeliz.co.uk.


Galveston, Texas is known for fresh seafood, not so fresh beaches, and sun. On a recent weekend visit to "the island", I discovered that Galveston offered up a pretty good burger in a cool little neighborhood dive, Medicinal Purposes. While this might seem like a funny name for a bar, as well as an odd place for a burger, it all really makes sense.
As the story goes, "subsequent to Prohibition, alcohol was available in speakeasies and through bootleggers, and whiskey could be obtained by prescription from medical doctors. While labels clearly warned that it was strictly for medicinal purposes, doctors freely wrote prescriptions with pharmacies filling them without question. Due to it's coastal location, and a loophole allowing ships (with crew and passengers) operating 3 miles off shore to possess and consume alcohol, Galveston became a haven for the trafficking of illicit liquor & spirits." And, thus, Medicinal Purposes was born as a tribute to Galveston's rich history.
Equipped with a full bar and pool table, the food at Medicinal Purposes Bar & Grill was a real treat. Their "Half-Pounder" with all the trimmings was a nicely prepared 1/2 ground chuck patty smothered in cheddar cheese, mixed with bacon, lettuce, onion and light mayo on a nicely toasted egg bun. The bacon mixed inside the cheese was a nice change of pace from the standard strip placed on top of the slice. The side of hand cut sweet potato fries was the perfect addition. While the sun made me hungry, Medicinal Purposes fed my appetite. The prohbition inspired libation, "The True Sazarec", was my inspiration for a pretty decent game of pool. Just what the doctor ordered.
I receive many recommendations as to where I should eat a hamburger. While most point me to a likely burger spot, occassionally one comes out of left-field. A recent random suggestion was Island Grill Mediterranean Restaurant. With several in town, I chose their Bellaire location.
This unassuming strip-center family cafe offers 3 burger options - Certified Angus Beef Burger, Buffalo Burger, and Turkey Burger. I walked up to the counter, placed my order for the "Certified option", and went to my table to await its arrival. Unsure of what I would be eating, how it would look, feel, or taste, my expectations were not high. After all, how good could a burger taste from a restaurant focused on Mediterranean specialties, smoothies, and juices? Well, I was surprised that the burger was much better than my low-expectations.
The burger was brought to my table by one of their friendly staff. As usual, I cut it in half, and I immediately encountered steam coming from one of the juiciest looking hamburger patties I had ever seen. The cheese melted evenly over the patty, with leafy lettuce, sliced onions and mayoniase gracing the nicely grilled whole wheat bakery bun. This looked quite good, and as impressed as I was with the steam from the heat, I wondered if the taste would match.
First bite taken - quite good. Hot, juicy, and nice flavor. This was just a good simple burger on quality meat, prepared cooked-to-order. The bun, while grilled/toasted, was soft, fluffy, and full of sweetness. And, I enjoyed every bite that followed. While I do not consider this a burger destination, I would not discourage you from ordering one at Island Grill.


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Hackers Destroyed VFEmail Service – Deleted Its Entire Data and Backups
What could be more frightening than a service informing you that all your data is gone—every file and every backup servers are entirely wiped out? The worst nightmare of its kind. Right? But that's precisely what just happened this week with VFEmail.net, a US-based secure email provider that lost all data and backup files for its users after unknown hackers destroyed its entire U.S.…
Researchers Implant "Protected" Malware On Intel SGX Enclaves
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a way to hide malicious code in Intel SGX enclaves, a hardware-based memory encryption feature in modern processors that isolates sensitive code and data to protect it from disclosure or modification. In other words, the technique allows attackers to implant malware code in a secure memory that uses protection features of SGX which are otherwise…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday — February 2019 Update Fixes 77 Flaws
Microsoft has issued its second Patch Tuesday for this year to address a total of 77 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other products, 20 of which are rated critical, 54 important and 3 moderate in severity. February security update addresses flaws in Adobe Flash Player, Internet Explorer, Edge, Windows, MS Office, and Office Services and Web Apps,…
New Unpatched macOS Flaw Lets Apps Spy On Your Safari Browsing History
A new security vulnerability has been discovered in the latest version of Apple's macOS Mojave that could allow a malicious application to access data stored in restricted folders which are otherwise not accessible to every app. Discovered by application developer Jeff Johnson on February 8, the vulnerability is unpatched at the time of writing and impacts all version of macOS Mojave,…
Adobe Releases February 2019 Patch Updates For 75 Vulnerabilities
Welcome back! Adobe has today released its monthly security updates to address a total of 75 security vulnerabilities across its various products, 71 of which resides in Adobe Acrobat and Reader alone. February 2019 patch Tuesday updates address several critical and important vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe Coldfusion, Creative Cloud Desktop Application, and Adobe Flash…
Xiaomi Electric Scooters Vulnerable to Life-Threatening Remote Hacks
Smart devices definitely make our lives easier, faster, and more efficient, but unfortunately, an insecure smart device can also ruin your day, or sometime could even turn into the worst nightmare of your life. If you are an electric scooter rider, you should be concerned about yourself. In a report shared with The Hacker News in advance, researchers from mobile security firm Zimperium said…
RunC Flaw Lets Attackers Escape Linux Containers to Gain Root on Hosts
A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in the core runC container code that affects several open-source container management systems, potentially allowing attackers to escape Linux container and obtain unauthorized, root-level access to the host operating system. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2019-5736, was discovered by open source security researchers Adam Iwaniuk and …
Beware!! New Windows .exe Malware Found Targeting macOS Computers
A malicious Windows EXE file can even infect your Mac computer as well. Yes, you heard me right — a .exe malware on macOS. Security researchers at antivirus firm Trend Micro have discovered a novel way hackers are using in the wild to bypass Apple's macOS security protection and infect Mac computers by deploying malicious EXE files that normally run only on Windows computers. Researchers …
First Android Clipboard Hijacking Crypto Malware Found On Google Play Store
A security researcher has discovered yet another cryptocurrency-stealing malware on the official Google Play Store that was designed to secretly steal bitcoin and cryptocurrency from unwitting users. The malware, described as a "Clipper," masqueraded as a legitimate cryptocurrency app and worked by replacing cryptocurrency wallet addresses copied into the Android clipboard with one belonging …
Google Created Faster Storage Encryption for All Low-End Devices
Google has launched a new encryption algorithm that has been built specifically to run on mobile phones and smart IoT devices that don't have the specialized hardware to use current encryption methods to encrypt locally stored data efficiently. Encryption has already become an integral part of our everyday digital activities. However, it has long been known that encryption is expensive, as …
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We are committed to supporting and upholding our commitment to the Treaty of Waitangi. All classes incorporate aspects of Tikanga Maori in their school programme. Assistance from resource people to develop teaching and learning programmes in the school is sought periodically.
The school employs a Part-Time Teacher to assist class teachers in the delivery of this programme. All classes have te reo instruction and kapa haka groups operate. We are intent on increasing the children's knowledge of Maori protocol, particularly with poroporoaki and powhiri.


Many Bank-financed projects, especially those implementing large and complex contracts, are continually facing high risk of implementation delays and procurement is the most frequently used scapegoat. What has gone wrong in those cases? Borrowers are always requested to prepare a detailed procurement plan for the first 18 months of project implementation, which is of course carefully reviewed and approved by the Bank before loan negotiations and the projects are then declared "good to go", but reality is almost never that rosy. In many cases, as soon as financing agreements were inked, those negotiated procurement plans had to substantially change. The most common reason for the need to revise those plans was related to lack of appropriate long vision, lack of appreciation of the risks, lack of a market-based strategy that made them either too rigid or too idealistic to implement. The (New) Procurement Framework (PF) provides us with a strong instrument to counter this – the Project Procurement Strategy for Development (PPSD), containing a set of tools and structure to develop a procurement strategy to achieve the Project Development Objectives (PDOs) using a robust analytical basis. As the new PF just became effective a few months ago, one may question whether PPSD has been tested on the Bank's portfolio to see if it is really as helpful and efficient as envisaged. Some answers can be found in Vietnam, where the Bank's portfolio ranks third largest with US$8 billion lending and a long list of complex and challenging projects.
Since early 2015, the procurement team of the Governance GP in Vietnam embraced the idea of PPSD and soon realized its potential. Although there was no detailed guidance at that time, the team was able to convince and help our Borrowers to prepare PPSDs for some complex projects and activities. Some borrowers were initially reluctant and believed that this was just an additional requirement being imposed by the Bank. However, once the team demonstrated the use of some of the tools, they became excited about the potential benefits that a PPSD may bring. For instance, under a large water and sanitation project in Ho Chi Minh City, a procurement strategy was developed for a US$300 million wastewater treatment plant (envisaged to be a single contract) which helped the Government to decide on a bidding strategy using open technology and a design-build-operate contract, among various options including PPP, design-and-bid, design and build, etc. In the same city, the Government hired an international consultant expert to help prepare a PPSD for a challenging flood risk management project. This PPSD found that the local market for some types of works (such as tidal sluices) under the project were not adequate, thus they should bid internationally for those contracts despite their values being relatively low. It also recommended that for canal improvement work which accounts for the largest portion of project investments, contracts should be divided according to the specific types of technical design to attract the broadest competition through international bidding. Other examples include dam safety and climate resilience projects, whereby PPSDs helped Ministries of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Environment develop multiple detailed procurement plans for various subprojects scattered across the country. These examples are all for projects which use the Guidelines of the previous procurement policy.
For projects using the new PF, such as in land administration project (an Early Adopter of new PF), through an in-depth market analysis and robust PPSD, the Borrower (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment) has successfully justified the participation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and public service units under this ministry for certain specialized technical services. In the past, such an acceptance of SOEs was rarely possible as it would require a policy waiver from the Bank. The PPSD also showed the benefits of using a framework contracting rather than centralized procurement.
While the above PPSDs are only few early examples, they have already proven to be an effective tool that helps borrowers look at both the challenges and opportunities, foresee risks and finally enable them to strategically design project procurement plans that best fit the project needs.


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HTR est un sigle qui peut signifier :
 Handwritten text recognition, (en français, reconnaissance de l'écriture manuscrite) ;
 High-temperature reactor (en français, réacteur à haute température), une technologie de réacteur nucléaire ;
 horloge temps réel ;
 hors taxe récupérable ;
 Le secteur de l'hôtellerie, du tourisme et de la restauration.


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Saw an ad for this 12″ white label in the back of Blues & Soul magazine, circa 1985. Low level bootleg pressing, so it required a good deal of cleaning up in Magix Audio Cleaning Lab. On the record are three unknown, unnamed, anonymous mastermixes. The first one shall be known as Jam On It mix as it takes the Newcleus electro track as its foundation break. Next up is Picture This, named because of the Bugger Groove samples. Finally it's the Big Mix, because it's the biggest of the three. Listen to all tacks on the player below. Tracklists to follow. Solid Groove Records was a reggae label based in Croydon, UK, so this 12 may have originated from them.
If you have any info at all on the DJ(s) or the people that sold this in a classified ad in Blues & Soul, or if you can scan the advert for this site, or maybe you're one of the ladies on the record sleeve(!), please do get in touch.


Hiring a landscaper to create your garden is much like hiring a builder to build your home. You might have the resources to do it on your own, but you can save time and costs by hiring a team.
Whether you're creating a new garden, or remodelling an old one, a landscaper uses his or her experience to ensure that the job is done correctly the first time. Whilst it is important to match the hard design elements to your requirements (and to the look and feel of your home), it is also vital to ensure you are selecting the correct plant material. Knowledge of plant characteristics can prevent plant loss within the first few seasons due to incorrect planting methods, positioning or conditions, and can help avoid costly expenses in later years such as having to repair damage from an aggressive root system.
Landscapers have relationships with a wide range of suppliers in the industry, and this can be very beneficial when it comes to costs and quality. In most cases, a landscaper sources products in bulk and at wholesale prices – and with supplier relationship discounts – savings which they pass on to you. For large projects where transport must be taken into account, bulk purchases can significantly reduce your overall costs. Most importantly is the flexibility of a landscaper to source plants from multiple suppliers in order to ensure that the quality remains high. We frequently shop around for our clients, and it is not unusual for us to utilise up to three or four plant suppliers for a single project.
Projects which include hard landscaping (i.e. paving, building, decking, etc.), require the use of an experienced team, and require attention to detail by the project manager to ensure that they are installed correctly. When it comes to plants, we work to ensure that each and every plant is placed and planted correctly, as well as passing on knowledge to you on how to maintain and protect specific plants.
Landscapers are up to date with the latest trends in the industry and will be able to advise you on new ideas that may be beneficial to your home. In addition, many new complexes and estates require the home owner to follow a set of landscaping guidelines, often incorporating the use indigenous plant material. A landscaper follows these guidelines to ensure the garden conforms to the requirements. Another factor to consider (with regards to modern trends) is whether or not you are enhancing the value of your home. If you are planning to sell your property then using a professional team to work on your garden can make a big impact when it comes to the resale value – it's something we frequently see when a client reports back to us on the sale of their property.
If you have a small garden, or a corner of your home that needs a garden, then a DIY job can be very rewarding. Start by gathering ideas from books, magazines or the internet, and then design and install the garden yourself or with the help of family members. Smaller projects may also mean you only have to make a small number of trips to nurseries and other outlets to gather the material you need.
Some home owners hire a landscaper to create a design for them (which should include a plant list and bill of quantities), and then follow the design to do the installation themselves. This can be rewarding, not only for the home owner, but for the entire family as well.
If you love gardening, then you'll love being outdoors every day working on a new section of your garden. Working on your garden in stages like this will take longer, but it is an enjoyable hobby, and you'll be able to say you created it yourself!
My backyard is basically just a big field right now, but I want to turn it into a fancy backyard paradise, complete with a patio and lots of plants. I thought it was good that you mentioned that a professional landscaper will be able to install everything correctly. I'll have to find a landscaper to help me put my grand design into real life.
Don't underestimate the qualities of a field. The grasses and wildflowers are splendid in their own right and are probably hosting several insects, reptiles and other interesting creatures.
This article has taught me a lot about landscaping services. It was interesting to learn that these type of services can help you to know what type of services are modern. I hope this article can help us to know what water feature will best maximize the value of our backyard.
We'll certainly write an article on water features in due course. Please continue visiting us.
Thanks for this helpful post on hiring a landscaper vs doing it yourself. I have actually never hired a professional company to take care of my lawn maintenance before. I think that this year is the first time where I might just not have enough time to take care of my own lawn. I like what you said about how they have more experience and knowledge than I do as well. I think it is well worth hiring a company to take care of my lawn. Thanks for the help!
All the best with your lawn.


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North Denver's Mary Ford House at 32nd and Osceola was saved from imminent demolition by a City and County of Denver hearing officer reviewing its landmarking.
You'd never know that from reading an Elisa Cohen piece in the most recent North Denver Tribune. That piece distorts key facts in the matter—and does, so one might surmise, because of the West Highland Neighborhood Association's (WHNA) effort to stop a liquor license application by Golden's Cliff Bautsch, who owns the Tribune.
First, the Mary Ford House was going to be demolished. The Tribune falsely paints this as mere speculation. An April 5 email, from Denver architect Ted Tinsman to Bill Johnston, the former WHNA president, read: "I learned yesterday that the new owner of 3825 W. 32nd Ave was planning to tear down the house located on the property in order to build condominiums. I believe this is an architectural gem, although I am not aware of its landmark or historic status. I was party to a conversation where a developer spoke of his plans to demolish the Victorian house "quickly, before it could be registered as a historic structure." Please convey this to the neighborhood and check on the channels they are through because it will be a sad day for West Highland to witness the demolition of this building." Despite the Tribune's efforts to paint WHNA and concerned neighbors as precipitous and overreaching, they did the only thing they could do to protect North Denver's legacy— use the city's legal channel to pursue a status that would protect the structure after, and only after, due process.
Also omitted from the Tribune was the involvement of Historic Denver. Historic Denver is a quasi-official organization with a decades-long track record of protecting Denver's architectural heritage. The organization, too, believe that Ford house should be protected from demolition. A hearing officer found that to be the case as well, in setting a hearing before the Landmark Preservation Commission of the city on June 8th.
The Tribune also sought to portray this affair as a "taking," a loaded term of specific legal definition. No court has ever found Denver's landmarking process to be a taking— and it doesn't meet the current legal tests as such. Landmarking, adverse or not, is not a taking. Period.
The Tribune sought to portray Steve Kite and WHNA as something they are not. Kite (who is a genuine hero in this matter) and WHNA simply want to preserve a part of what makes North Denver so special—its century plus heritage.
Not every house in North Denver should be protected from demolition. Many, if not most, redevelopment in North Denver is a change for the better.
Here's our editorial position: Density is okay, particularly along transit corridors. It helps the sense of community, local business, building pedestrian friendly neighborhoods, and the environment. Quick redevelopment, for the pure sake of a buck, when it comes at the cost of preserving our heritage and North Denver's sense of place, should be, and will be, editorialized against. Location, architectural significance and history are all part of that judgement.


This opportunity is in a small village clinic near the capital city of a Central Asian country. We need primary care doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, OT, PT, nurses and other allied health professionals to help with this church-planting outreach. As a ministry in a focus people country, we rely on high-quality, visible service to the community. Work regularly at the village clinic and its projects, participate in team meetings, or be a guest in a local villagers' home. Participate in other outreach activities such as home visits, seminars, and public health events.
Professional Skills: Appropriate medical licensure and diplomas are required. We prefer people with professional experience practicing in their field but students may apply.


If arranged, we can provide a high chair for kids and a travel or standard cot.
We rent out also a wellness bath barrel for a fee.
A bath barrel will guarantee your maximum relaxation at our cottage. It can be used throughout the year. In winter, the water inside the barrel is heated by a wood burning stove which is fitted under the water surface. The bathers are protected from the stove by wooden casing. The board around is an ideal place for drinks and dainties so that they will be in easy reach. Installed LED strip conjures good holiday atmosphere. In summer, you can use the barrel to refresh yourselves on sultry days which also come to the Vysočina region.
The big advantage is that even in summer you may heat up the barrel, what is especially useful for children or night bathing.
Your kids will fall in love with our barrel, so you will have only one problem. How to get them out and have barrel for yourselves.
The barrel is always cleaned before arrival and filled with fresh water, at night switches automatic water filtration for clean water without unnecessary chemicals.


An inquisitive, young porcupine gains valuable insights about trees when he visits his friend's forest home. The fun-filled day of exploration with these two adorable characters, creatively introduces scientific concepts about plants and plant growth. This narrative nonfiction is informative and engaging.


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It was around 1:30pm and the place was pack like mad. You see tons of people standing beside the table waiting (and giving pressure) for that table to finish and leave. It was scary.
Amazingly, we manage to secure a table and most of the stall owner here seems to know our friends. Yay !! for connections. Hehehee… we got served pretty quickly and the satay stall guy kept coming back to load us with FRESH hot batches. The pork satay was really good. The sauce was really nice but I would have prefer if it is thicker. That way, the sauce would clung onto the satay better.
We shared 2 bowls of the Ipoh hor fun between the 5 of us. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get any photo as my fingers were sticky from the tons of satay we wallop. (I think we ate about 60 sticks !!!).
Aside from the famous Ipoh Hor fun, this shop is also famous for their egg custard. Sadly, they ran out that day… NooOOOooo… (I was pining to sink my teeth into this famous egg custard since day 1 when she told me about it). But, all is well (in chulet's world)… as I had the chance to try the next best egg custard in town.


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Strange Horizons Wants You
Over at the Strange Horizons blog, I've published a call for reviewers, and particularly female reviewers. This is a follow-up to Niall Harrison's recent project to examine how genre review venues break down according to gender. Click through to read more, and if you're interested in writing for Strange Horizons, by all means drop me a line.
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Strange Horizons Reviews, March 21-25
This week's Strange Horizons reviews kick off with one of the most talked-about books of the last few months, Jo Walton's Among Others, which charms reviewer Michael Levy by being as much about the experience of being a genre fan as a genre story itself. Graham Sleight takes a look at the seemingly puzzling combination of Michael Moorcock and Doctor Who tie-in novels in Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles, and concludes that the groundbreaking author and the classic-but-revitalized TV series have a lot in common. Today's review is of the anthology Sprawl, edited by Alisa Krasnostein, a collection of fantastic stories by Australian authors from Twelfth Planet Press that deeply impresses its reviewer, Dan Hartland.
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This week's Strange Horizons reviews kick off with Matthew Jones's take on Caprica, which is a little more negative than mine and, interestingly, more concerned with the technological questions raised by the series's premise, which the show neglected in favor of political and social storylines and, of course, soap opera. On Wednesday, Hannah Strom-Martin reviews the anthology Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die, which I (and I think Hannah too) had taken as nothing but a gimmick, but which she finds surprisingly thoughtful and worthwhile. Today, David McWilliam reviews Charles Stross's latest Laundry novel, The Fuller Memorandum, which he thinks is a welcome return to form after the disappointing Jennifer Morgue.
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The results of the Strange Horizons 2010 readers' poll are in, and, alongside such winners as Theodora Goss (best short story), Marge Simon (best poem), and Orrin Grey (best article), I'm stunned to announce that I was voted best reviewer. I'm joined in that category by Adam Roberts, Niall Harrison, Matthew Cheney, and Farah Mendlesohn, which is such an august group of reviewers that I can't believe anyone would rank me above them. Thanks a lot to everyone who voted, and congratulations to the other winners.
Genevieve Valentine joins Strange Horizons as a columnist this week, and her first column is about reading the film Winter's Bone as a fairy tale. I saw Winter's Bone just last week, and at the Strange Horizons blog I discuss Genevieve's column and some of my reactions to the film.
Actually, the absence of a thing: I've let my series about the Strange Horizons review policy lapse for, quite frankly, lack of time. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to revive it before the end of the month.
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Strange Horizons Reviews, March 7-11
This week's Strange Horizons reviews kick off with Richard Larson's discussion of one of the most talked-about science fiction novels of the last year, Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, with Richard joining in the novel's near-unanimous praise. On Wednesday, Andy Sawyer puzzles over Ken MacLeod's The Restoration Game, and the meaning of its twist ending. Today's review, by Duncan Lawie, is of a debut that we might have called urban fantasy a few years ago when that term had a very different meaning, Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London (Midnight Riot in the US).
Recent Reading Roundup 29
Some of the books I never got around to writing about in the women writing SF project, and a few of the ones I've read since then.
Moxyland by Lauren Beukes - I found a lot to be impressed by in Moxyland, one of the most talked-about debuts of the last few years. What I didn't find was a novel. The book feels like a demonstration of Beukes's talent--for worldbuilding, for constructing interesting and flawed characters, for bravely taking her story to its dispiriting conclusion--but its pieces don't come together into a greater whole. Which is not to say that Moxyland isn't worth reading. The setting--a future South Africa in which corporations and government have become indistinguishable--is a nice blend of cyberpunk tropes, real-world problems taken to the nth degree, and the strangeness of a foreign country with a troubled history. A lot of the devices Beukes deploys are familiar--cell-phones are necessary for everything from buying food to using public transport, so the police uses the threat of temporary or permanent disconnection to keep troublesome citizens and anti-establishment protesters in line, and breaks up demonstrations by using them to deliver electric shocks; advertising is ubiquitous and, in many cases, illegal to block; employment contracts more closely resemble indentured servitude, and seeking alternate employment is very nearly a criminal offense--but she uses them with aplomb and makes them her own. Moxyland describes the intersecting lives of four characters--a naive artist who has sold her body as a billboard to a drinks manufacturer; a narcissistic, bed-hopping, shock-jock blogger; an activist being drawn towards increasingly dangerous but no less futile acts of protest; and a corporate employee ruthlessly trying to maneuver her way into a better job. These are unpleasant people in unpleasant situations whose stories end unpleasantly, and Beukes isn't afraid to take any of them to the depressing places her premise demands. At the same time, she doesn't let gloom overwhelm the novel, which for all its hopelessness is an energetic, engaging read. There is, in short, a lot to be impressed by here, but despite the faint intimation of change at the novel's end (which gives the impression that it is a prologue to a very different story), Moxyland feels more like a snapshot than a story, more like a promise that Beukes can do great things than that promise's fruition. I'm certainly planning to seek out more of Beukes's fiction, though--most obviously, her second novel Zoo City, recently nominated for the Clarke--in the certainty that she can achieve that greatness.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - I first heard about Stead's Newbery-winning children's novel when it participated in School Library Journal's Tournament of Kids' Books last year, where its description as an homage to both A Wrinkle in Time and Harriet the Spy intrigued me. Though the book skews a bit younger than most of the YA fiction I tend to read, it tells a resonant story--growing up in New York in the early 70s, narrator Miranda is distracted from humdrum problems such a single mother who is frustrated by her job and afraid to commit to her boyfriend, a best friend who has stopped talking to her, and a snooty rich girl at school, by notes that seem to predict the future and ask her to carry out certain tasks in order to prevent an unspecified calamity. Miranda is well-drawn as someone who is both intelligent and believably limited, and part of the pleasure of the novel is watching her realize how many of she assumptions she makes at the beginning of the book were mistaken--the break with her best friend turns to have been the right choice for both of them, the girl she hates turns out to be smart and cool. The time travel aspect of the story, however, is less successful. It relies on Miranda being so unfamiliar with the tropes of the time travel story that she can barely wrap her mind around them. That may be believable for a child growing up in the 70s, but surely nowadays even children are so familiar with time travel as a story element that they can understand, for example, how you can arrive at a place before you left it. For an adult reader, Miranda's slowness in figuring out what's happening to her, while not an insurmountable obstacle to enjoying When You Reach Me, makes the book a lot harder to get lost in.
Origin by Diana Abu-Jaber - I chose this book for the women writing SF project not so much because Origin is science fiction (though as a mystery it is a genre novel, and it raises the possibility of being SFnal very briefly) but because I thought it might be interesting to add to that project a mimetic novel about a female scientist--the narrator, Lena, is a fingerprint analyst in Syracuse who is called upon to help investigate a series of suspicious crib deaths. What I found instead was a novel that put me very strongly in mind of Kit Whitfield's Benighted, which, if you've read my review of that novel, you'll know is no great praise. Like Benighted's Lola May, Origin's Lena is a neurotic who, at thirty, has barely any grasp of how to function in society or how to deal with people on any but the most basic level. There's an interesting story to be told here, obviously--Lena might suffer from serious mental health problems, or the novel could point out the responsibility she bears for cutting herself off from human interaction (or both)--but like Whitfield, Abu-Jaber chooses to portray Lena as a hard-done-by victim, whose social phobias are solely the fault of wicked people around her--unloving parents, conniving colleagues, a domineering ex-husband--and easily remedied by a love interest who seemingly has no other goal in life but to pursue Lena in a respectful but relentless manner, break down the walls of her social maladroitness, and dedicate his every moment to her happiness. Even the science part of the novel turned out to be a dud--Lena is a sought-after crime lab technician despite having no formal education not because she's a good scientist, but because she has insights into crime scenes that not even she can fully explain, and the novel is a lot more interested in her emo narrative than in science and rational enquiry. The mystery itself, despite the irresistible hook of a serial killer who targets infants, fails to ignite--at one point Abu-Jaber has to posit that the victims' families somehow convince the press that their children's death are an act of terrorism in order to keep the tension from flagging--and its conclusion arrived long past the point where I had ceased to care about it.
I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett - Fans of Pratchett's writing have long ago learned to ignore the author's occasional proclamation that the next book would be his last, or the last in the Discworld series, or the last to feature a certain character or setting. Somehow, once the manuscript was turned in, there always turned out to be another story in the tank. Nevertheless, there is a feeling of finality about I Shall Wear Midnight, and not just to the YA-oriented Tiffany Aching series, of which it is the fourth volume, but to the whole world of the witches of Lancre and the surrounding regions. For one thing, Tiffany is no longer a young adult. Though she's only 16 at I Shall Wear Midnight's outset, there is nothing childish or juvenile about her. She's been carrying a woman's load for quite some time, caring for the sick and elderly, resolving disputes, and acting as an official arbiter and figure of authority in her native Chalk. I Shall Wear Midnight sees Tiffany coming into her own as the head witch of the Chalk, to which end she must earn the respect and acceptance of the new Baron Roland, her former friend and almost-paramour (Pratchett handles this near-miss with delicacy, remaining true to both characters but also making a persuasive argument for their incompatibility; it is frankly refreshing to see, in YA fiction, childhood sweethearts who realize, upon reaching adulthood, that they really shouldn't be together). Throwing a wrench in those plans is the spirit of a dead witchhunter who awakens anti-witch sentiment in Roland and the people of the Chalk. Which is how I Shall Wear Midnight manages to cap off the whole sequence of witch-centric Discworld novels--it is a story about the nature of witchcraft and its necessity, and its climax brings to Tiffany's side not only familiar figures such as Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, and new ones such as the young witches she discovers and trains on the Chalk, but reaches all the way back to Equal Rites, the very first witch novel, to let us know what became of its heroine.
The problem here, and not for the first time, is that these are very familiar beats. I Shall Wear Midnight wants to be a crescendo, the definitive statement of Pratchett's take on the role of witches in his world--as quasi-magical social workers, simultaneously leaders and servants of their community--and on the evils of human nature that make them necessary. But instead of a crescendo the novel is a repetition of what most of the previous witch novels have said already. The first Tiffany Aching novel, The Wee Free Men, was one of the freshest, most engaging Discworld novels of the last decade, giving us a new and entirely different perspective on the nature of witchcraft and its practitioners while telling an exciting and funny story. But perhaps because it rested on a foundation already six books deep, the series very quickly descended into familiarity, and into the same tendency to prioritize message over plot that has marred most of Pratchett's writing in the last half-decade. I Shall Wear Midnight also confirms what the previous volume in the Tiffany series, Wintersmith, had suggested--that though Tiffany herself is a wonderful character, her series's premise has a lot less give in it, and a lot less room for expansion and for new kinds of stories, than the regular witch novels. Tiffany's pixie protectors the Nac Mac Feegle, for example, have gone from a hilarious invention in The Wee Free Men to a tired joke, and their role in the novel feels forced. I Shall Wear Midnight is by no means a slog, but it rather persuasively argues that even if Pratchett doesn't intend it as the last witch novel, it probably should be.
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman - It's a piece of rather bad luck that after two months of reading thought-provoking, evocative, beautifully-written genre novels, my first foray back into literary fiction should be Rachman's snide, unfunny, inexplicably well-received novel. I find myself wanting to rant, like the most partisan of genre enthusiasts, about the worthlessness of a critical scene that elevates novels like this one. Set in and around the offices of a Rome-based international paper during the second half of the last decade, The Imperfectionists charts the death throes of the paper--and of the print journalism industry--by visiting the people who make it work, from the managing editor to stringers in Cairo and Paris to the chief financial officer to the paper's most loyal reader, dedicating a chapter to each and weaving through them the paper's history and the steps that lead to its demise. The problem is that none of these people are characters--they're caricatures, whose behavior is, at best, trite and predictable (the Paris correspondent is so desperate for a byline that he sells out his estranged son by naming him as a source; the corrections editor has spent a lifetime romanticizing a childhood friend as a free-spirited artist, but discovers when they meet again that his is the adventurous, cosmopolitan life while his friend has happily settled into bourgeois mediocrity). At worst, they are simply unrecognizable as human beings.
Rachman seems to be aiming for humor, but he more often hits something so broad and obvious that it turns leaden. In one chapter, a grad school dropout is angling for a job as a stringer in Cairo, but is so completely lacking in backbone or any sense of how the world works that he not only allows himself to be scooped by his opponent, a walking stereotype of the man's man, globetrotting, war-zone reporter, but ends up giving the guy a place to stay, paying for his cabs and meals, and letting him carry off his laptop and house keys. Possibly the worst chapter in the novel involves the paper's chief financial officer, who finds herself seated on a plane next to an employee she's just fired. As the two struck up a flirtation, magically discovering how much they had in common, I said to myself that not even Rachman could possibly be aiming at a conclusion as juvenile and preposterous as the revelation that the fired employee is playing a cruel prank of seduction and revenge, but this is exactly how the chapter ended. There are one or two readable chapters--the best, which sadly comes rather early in the novel, tells the story of the paper's obituary editor, who has let his career fester in order to spend time with his daughter only for her to die in an accident; it is probably telling, however, that Rachman must reach for a dead child before he can elicit genuine emotion--but for the most part The Imperfectionists is a clomping, cliché-ridden novel. I can't help but wonder whether the ecstatic reviews I've seen for the book--which have almost uniformly called it nuanced, well-observed, and, most incredibly, funny--aren't tinged by their authors' being print journalists themselves, and perhaps too caught up in the excitement of seeing their own profession captured in fiction, and elegiac fiction to boot, to notice how little humanity there is in the novel. Whether or not I'm right, neither The Imperfectionists nor its critical reception leave me feeling particularly heartbroken about the death of print journalism.
The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter - This is three quarters of a truly excellent novel, sadly undone by its last fifty pages. To put it another way, The Fortunate Fall works really well as a piece of worldbuilding, but falls flat on its face trying to tell a story in that world. The world, however, is very nearly worth the price of admission, combining cyberpunk and transhumanism with third world and post-genocide politics into a setting that I would have loved to have spent more time in--albeit with another author. Maya is a journalist several centuries in the future, in a Russia only a few decades past a brutal, genocidal conquest (by Americans, though the novel makes very little of this--we don't find out anything about the American "Guardians," their philosophy, or the reasons for the slaughter they carried out, and in the novel's present the US is mentioned only briefly as a wasteland that none of the characters are particularly concerned with) which was only overcome through the force of another atrocity--a computer virus that turned millions of the Guardians' subjects into the single-minded, relentless Unanimous Army. In the present, the same brain-chip technology that allowed the Army to come into existence, now heavily regulated, is used for entertainment. Maya doesn't report the news but allows her viewers to experience it through her networked sensorium. In the post-Guardian world, the new superpower is Africa, which largely escaped the Guardians' and the Army's ravages, where mind-sharing technology is used freely and the definition of human is rapidly evolving. In the former subjugated nations, remnants of tyrannical rule are still in place, and Maya in particular is fearful of being arrested for her sexual orientation.
There is, obviously, a hell of a lot that could be done in this setting, and though it is understandable, given its intricacy, that Carter spends most of the novel simply explaining its world to us, once that setting is established the story he chooses to tell in it is a let-down. Maya is investigating the little-documented Guardian period and the Unanimous Army, and stumbles upon a former dissident and present-day enemy of the state who promises her the story of a lifetime. "Stumbles," is, in fact, exactly the right word--Maya does little investigative work on her own and the story seems largely to fall in her lap. That this turns out to be deliberate, a plan by Maya's source and her new screener--the person who edits Maya's thoughts and emotional state for public consumption, and also doubles as her research assistant--doesn't truly justify how shapeless and cobbled-together the novel's plot, and Maya's progress along it, feel--though again, for most of the novel, when Carter's energies are directed towards having Maya explain her world's culture, politics, and history to us, this is not a problem. When the long-awaited interview with the mysterious source finally occurs, however, it turns out to be a chance for him and for Maya's screener to speechify for 50 pages, elaborating on the subjects that underpin the novel--the changing nature of personhood in the wake of mind-sharing technology, the effect that that technology has on human capacity for empathy, and the morality of doing evil for the sake of achieving good. Important and interesting topics all, but not when they're delivered as a lecture that more than anything else put me in mind of the Architect scene in The Matrix Reloaded. The tragic love story in Maya's past, which is supposed to humanize these chapters, is too thinly sketched--too drowned out by worldbuilding--so that when Maya finally finds herself forced to choose between accepting her lover as an altered, possibly evil transhuman, and living alone, we know so little about either character that it's hard to know which outcome to root for. Despite its tedious conclusion, The Fortunate Fall is worth a look for its setting and the ideas that have gone into it, but it is ultimately a failure.
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Strange Horizons Reviews, February 28-March 4
This week on Strange Horizons, Nader Elhefnawy rounds off February with his review of L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Empress of Eternity, which Nader thinks has its strong points, but is ultimately a disappointing execution of an interesting premise. Dan Hartland kicks off March on a more positive note, with a glowing review of Zoran Živković's short novel The Ghostwriter. Continuing the trend, C.B. Harvey is also quite pleased with Col Buchanan's debut fantasy, Farlander. John Clute is less cheerful in the latest installment of his column Scores, in which he is decidedly unimpressed by three recent novellas, Tobias Buckell's The Executioness, Paolo Bacigalupi's The Alchemist, and Elizabeth Bear's The White City.
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What is up babes?! I'm so excited to be doing this post today – today we'll be talking about some skincare items that I've been loving lately.
Skincare is a vital part of #selfcare! It's a lil something that is just for me – a little quiet time at the sink to indulge. Taking care of my skin means preventing aging (at the ripe young age of twenty three, lol), fighting break outs and other skin problems.
I've struggled with acne, oily skin, scarring from break outs and dullness. So, I love trying out new products that may help to eliminate or even reduce these issues. As Lauryn Evarts from The Skinny Confidential says, you've gotta lead with your skin. Makeup is fun and great, but it only cover's up the issues. There's texture, bumps, flakiness + other skin things that can be preventing your skin from livin' it's best life.
So, today I'm going to be reviewing some of my favorite products that I received in a recent PR box from Push The Envelope PR – they so graciously sent these items over to try / test out. You all know that I'm very selective when it comes to which products / companies I share here on the blog. Your trust in my word / recommendations means everything to me. I'll never recommend something that I don't truly believe in / stand behind.
This all over skin balm REALLY hydrates your skin. First of all, it smells like chocolate… like literally straight up cocoa powder. AMAZING RIGHT? Have you ever smelled Too Faced's Chocolate Bar Palette?! This smells almost identical to it.
This body butter is USDA Organic certified. Meaning, it's free of all that gucky stuff like sulfates, parabens, etc… You know, all of the buzz words that we hear floating around. It's alarming when you do your research and learn how many harsh chemicals are in the products that we frequently find on the aisles at our local pharmacies / grocery stores. I try to use organic products on my skin as much as I can.
I will say, you need to scrape off the top layer of the body butter before it really starts to become functional. Or else, you'll be rubbing your hand around in the jar only to get minimal product. Once you scrape off the top layer, the product becomes creamy + easy to apply.
What I love most about this product is that my skin is hydrated / glowing THE NEXT DAY. Has anyone else ever put lotion on only to have their skin dry out a few hours later?! So frustrating.
I absolutely recommend this product if you're looking for a high quality, organic body butter! You can find it here.
I'm not kidding when I say that this may be the most amazing / luxurious / functional skincare product that I've ever used. The top of this product is an ice roller ball – yep, you read that right. It's a cool-to-the-touch roller ball that disperse's the product within the tube within the click of a button.
You press a button on the side, and a small amount of product comes up from the tube. Then you start rolling the roller ball onto the skin which then disperse's the product. GENIUS. Ice roller's are amazing for the skin because they help to reduce inflammation and puffiness.
The serum itself is one of the nicest formulas that I've ever used. The next morning, my skintone is even, moisturized but not oversaturated. I absolutely adore this product and it's quickly become part of my every night routine. .
Are you as obsessed with sheet masks as I am?! These are the ultimate #selfcare, sure you'll look like a GHOST while it's on (lol) but the benefits of deeply penetrating your skin using sheet masks is unparalleled.
This one from a brand called Iris + Orchid is amazing. It smells just as good as it looks + my skin was so supple / hydrated after using it! I like to do sheet masks at night. I curl up in bed with a good book and relax as my mask is doing it's work.
The easiest part about sheet masks is that they're minimal clean up. Unlike mud masks, these require no washing off. If you're like me and can get lazy at night, you can take off the sheet mask after about 20 minutes and put it on your night stand (LOL). Just rub the left over oils into your skin and off to sleep you go!
BY FAR THE COOLEST / MOST YUMMY PRODUCTS I RECEIVED! For all of my Philly / PA babes – this brand h. honeycup is located right in Wayne, PA. They provide all natural / organic skincare items which is right up my alley. The two products that I received were absolutely amazing.
I've been using the Palmorosa Pomegrante Body Oil is insanely good. I use it after putting on the Booda Butter + roll the oil ALL OVER MY SKIN. If only you guys could smell this stuff. It's so so so yummy. I'm an avid oil user + try to get everyone on board the oily train. To me, it's the most luxurious product with the most skin benefits.
They also sent over their Orange Sunflower Lotion Stick is to die for. It smells like an orange creamsicle, no joke. So, what exactly is it?! Well it's just like the name eludes to.. a stick of lotion. Is that genius or what. I threw this into my purse for moisturizing on the go.
This brand is so cute, innovative + high quality. I'm definitely going to be purchasing more items from their online store: here.