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This event is expected to open for registration in mid March, 2019. If you have any questions, please contact the event planner directly.
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Provide overview of the Plant Modernization Program within EPRI for utility members, with plenary session, vendor fair, and breakout sessions with detailed discussion on the topics of Remote Radiation Monitoring, Next Generation Radiation Protection, Smart Chemistry, Common Information Model, among others.
Attendance will provide up to date information for organization on information and application of a variety of technologies for plant modernization including condition monitoring, radiation monitoring, and chemistry programs. Attendees will return to their plants/utilities with actions that can be taken to improve productivity and execution of programs. They will be able to share implementation strategies and valuable lessons learned from plants that have implemented or will implement various plant modernization technologies such as remote monitoring to improve economic performance.
Opportunities for engagement, both in meetings, during breaks and at the vendor fair, provide engagement and exchange with peers from other utilities, and with vendors. Participation will allow attendees to build a network of expert resources that you can reach out to with questions on a regular basis after the conference, and gain visibility into how other plants operates, allowing you and your team to benchmark your own challenges.
EPRI has conducted workshops related to Radiation Remote Monitoring several times over the last years. The last RMT workshop was in June 2017. This year, the topics are expanded to also include other areas in which remote monitoring can be applicable, including chemistry, radiation safety, operations and maintenance, and other topics related to the new Plant Modernization initiative across EPRI.
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African All Stars
Too Good, Too Bad: The Best & Worst of Africans Abroad
Kiplagat Sang
7:36 AM GMT 29/11/2021
It was another action-filled weekend for Africans as some registered new records while others found themselves on the losing sides
A number of players from the continent were in action for their respective teams in Europe but how did they perform?
Review of Africans in Europe
Riyad Mahrez, Fashion Sakala and Joseph Ayodele-Aribo made direct contributions to their sides' good results whereas Emmanuel Dennis and Samuel Chukwueze scored but saw their teams defeated.
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Too Good - Mohamed Salah
The Egyptian provided an assist for Diogo Jota - for his second goal - in the 32nd minute as Liverpool won 4-0 against Southampton.
Salah has now been directly involved in 25 goals in all competitions this season - 17 goals and eight assists - more than double that of any other Premier League player.
Too Bad - Edouard Mendy
The Senegal shot-stopper failed to keep a clean sheet when Chelsea drew 1-1 against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge.
He conceded a goal by Jadon Sancho in the 50th minute as Chelsea remain winless in their last eight Premier League games against the Red Devils.
Too Bad - Alex Iwobi
The Nigerian failed to make his mark in the game as Everton lost 1-0 to Frank Onyeka's Brentford.
The result means Iwobi's side is now winless in seven Premier League games and that is their longest such run since April 2016 under Roberto Martinez (also seven).
Watford.
Too Bad - William Troost-Ekong
The Nigerian defender featured as Watford suffered 4-2 loss to Leicester City at the King Power Stadium.
Troost-Ekong's team has conceded in each of their last 23 league matches, shipping 45 goals in the process, the longest current run of any Premier League side without a clean sheet.
Too Good - Emmanuel Dennis
Although Watford lost, Emmanuel Dennis scored his fifth Premier League goal in 12 appearances and he has also registered five assists.
He is also the only sixth player to reach both tallies in 12 or fewer appearances, the others are Eric Cantona (11), Jurgen Klinsmann (12), Arjen Robben (11), Andrey Arshavin (10) and Bruno Fernandes (9).
Too Good - Riyad Mahrez
Although he had his goal ruled out for offside, the Algeria forward provided an assist for Ilkay Gundogan to open the score as Manchester City won 2-1 against West Ham United.
Mahrez's Manchester City have now won 11 of their last 13 matches against the Hammers in all competitions, losing none. Over this period they have scored 35 goals against David Moyes' side while conceding only six in return.
Too Bad - Wilfried Zaha
The Ivorian was not only yellow-carded in the 29th minute but also failed to rescue Crystal Palace from a 2-1 defeat to Aston Villa at Selhurst Park.
The loss means Zaha's Eagles have suffered their first defeat in their last eight Premier League games (W2 D5), since a 0-3 away defeat to Liverpool in September.
Rangers.
Too Good - Fashion Sakala and Joseph Ayodele-Aribo
Nigeria's Ayodele-Aribo and Zambia's Sakala were on target for Rangers as they downed Livingston 3-1 in a Scottish Premiership fixture.
Ayodele-Aribo scored in the 16th minute to give the away side a 2-0 lead before Sakala added the third one in the 78th minute.
Villarreal.
Too Bad - Samuel Chukwueze
The Super Eagles star equalised for Villarreal against Barcelona in the 76th minute after they had gone behind to Frenkie de Jong's goal in the 48th minute.
However, Barcelona stung them late in the second half as Memphis Depay scored the second in the 88th minute and Philippe Coutinho struck the third in added time to beat Chukwueze's side on their own turf.
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Options Pop on Activision Blizzard, General Motors
Aphria stock is higher despite a C-suite shakeup
ATVI
General Motors stock is on track for its best day since late October
Stocks are pulling back today as the government shutdown drags on. Video game maker Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) is lower, while auto stock General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), and cannabis name Aphria Inc (NYSE:APHA) are higher. Below, we'll take a look at the news moving the shares of ATVI, GM, and APHA.
ATVI on Verge of Snapping Five-Day Winning Streak
Earlier today, Activision Blizzard transferred the publishing rights for its "Destiny" video game to Bungie. The move prompted price-target cuts to $87 from $93 at Benchmark, and to $48 from $68 at MKM Partners, with the latter now expecting "less pronounced product catalysts." ATVI at last check was down 10.3% to trade at $46.22 and about to snap a five-day winning streak. Despite the drop today though, the stock appears to have found support at the $43 level, which cushioned its Dec. 26 low of $43.71.
The ATVI options pits have exploded today. So far, about 115,000 options have changed hands, 12 times the average intraday pace and volume pacing for the 100th percentile. Most of the action is transpiring at the weekly 1/11 46- and 46.50-strike calls, where it appears new positions are being opened.
General Motors Stock Heading Toward Huge Week
General Motors stock is up 9% to trade at $37.85, one of the best stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) today, after the automaker issued upbeat profit guidance for its fiscal 2019. GM is on track for its best day since Oct. 31 and its best weekly win since June. Longer term, though, the auto name has shed 15% year-over-year, and last week sank on subpar vehicle sales data.
In the options pits, calls have become quite popular today. At last check, about 150,000 calls have changed hands, 11 times the average intraday pace and volume pacing for the 100th percentile.
APHA Pivots Higher, Eyes Key Trendline
At last check, Aphria stock was up 4.4% to trade at $6.87. Earlier today, the stock traded as low as $6.39 after the company's second-quarter earnings report. In addition, Aphria's CEO announced he would be stepping down at the end of the current quarter. APHA has since pared those losses and is heading toward a weekly win of $13.6%. The shares are on track to close above their 40-day moving average for the first time since mid October.
APHA shorts have been piling on, with short interest up 32% in the two most recent reporting periods to 21.88 million shares. This represents a healthy 9.5% of the stock's total available float, making the stock ripe for a short squeeze.


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LISTEN: Osama bin Laden's Son Urges Jihadists to Go to Syria
By S.J. Prince
Updated Aug 29, 2022 at 11:21pm
Undated file picture of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in an undisclosed place inside Afghanistan. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
In a new audio message purportedly released by Hamza bin Laden, son of deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Hamza urges all "mujahideen" to travel to Syria to fight. Hamza was groomed by his father to be the heir of the bin Laden brand of terrorism.
The video is titled "Jerusalem Is a Bride and Our Blood Is Her Dowery." And while Hamza urges terrorists to flood Syria, the goal is the capture of Jerusalem from Israel. The audio message was released around the same time that the Islamic State released a series of video messages directed at the capture of Jerusalem.
Though their end goals are the same, ISIS and al-Qaeda have been at war with each other since September 2015, when al-Zawahiri, the man who replaced Osama bin Laden as the head of al-Qaeda, declared war on ISIS "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an audio message. al-Zawahiri said:
"We [al-Qaeda] don't recognize this caliphate… Despite the big mistakes [of ISIS], if I were in Iraq or Syria I would cooperate with them in killing the crusaders and secularists and Shia even though I don't recognize the legitimacy of their state, because the matter is bigger than that."
Along with the al-Zawahiri's statement, al-Qaeda also perpetuated a blitz propaganda campaign in November 2015 calling ISIS "un-jihadi." Watch those videos here.
ISIS arose out of al-Qaeda in Iraq or AQI. According to Yahoo! News:
[ISIS] split from al-Qaeda during the early phases of the Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011, after refusing to confine its operations to Syria. [ISIS] has since seized large swaths of Syria and Iraq, eclipsing al-Qaeda as the world's chief jihadist threat, with [ISIS] chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declaring himself Caliph or leader of all Muslims in 2014.
Published May 9, 2016 at 11:51am
al-Qaeda, Israel, Syria, Terrorism
In a new audio message purportedly released by Hamza bin Laden, son of deceased al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Hamza urges all "mujahideen" to travel to Syria to fight.


The top four faced off in the Premier League this weekend and it did not disappoint.
Arsenal blew the title race wide open as Danny Welbeck scored a last-gasp header to beat leaders Leicester, while Tottenham kept up their challenge by earning a late victory over Manchester City.
Manchester United's task of reaching the top four is getting more and more difficult after losing to Sunderland, while Newcastle let in five at Chelsea and bottom side Aston Villa were thrashed 6-0 by Liverpool.
But who made the cut this week?
Five wins in six games for Southampton and Fraser Forster hasn't conceded a goal in any of them. The Saints looked rock solid in defence against Swansea at the Liberty Stadium and much of it has been down to their goalkeeper.
What must be frustrating for the England international is that he is playing at his best at the same time as Joe Hart - who is clearly England's number one choice at the moment - leaving him and Jack Butland to fight it out to be number two. It is great news for Roy Hodgson and the national team to have so many top-class keepers at their disposal but a nuisance for Forster.
Cesar Azpilicueta started on the left of Chelsea's defence and then moved to the right and looked totally at ease in either position. It takes a rather special defender to play consistently well in his unfavoured position. Azpilicueta is a right-footed player playing left-back for Chelsea and doesn't get the credit he deserves for handling the situation so well.
The Spaniard is a proper defender and is always keen to find space in order to join the attack. Against a poor Newcastle he did just that and produced a wonderful cross (from the right this time) for Bertrand Traore to score his first Premier League goal. Unfortunately for him, there is so much talent in the Chelsea line-up he often finds himself in good positions pleading for a pass but getting overlooked.
What a goal the Norwich full-back scored against West Ham. The only problem with Brady's goal in the Canaries 2-2 draw against West Ham is that it didn't inspire Norwich to defend any better as a team.
There must be a point this season when either the manager or the players begin to realise that squandering two-goal leads like this, not to mention the one against Liverpool last month, is the stuff that gets teams relegated.
Well, they've done it. Sunderland have only gone and beaten Manchester United at the Stadium of Light. To be perfectly honest they deserved it. O'Shea must have got a great deal of pleasure beating his old club and I'm not entirely sure that he would have been overly impressed with their performance either.
David de Gea, who has been amazing at times this season, was especially disappointing and played as though he had become fed up with the ease at which Sunderland were breaking through United's defence. Both of Sunderland's goals were stoppable, but O'Shea won't lose any sleep over that. However, if I am right and De Gea is becoming disillusioned at Manchester United that is a real cause for concern.
Lots of managers don't like to buy players in the transfer window anymore because they believe it's a bad time to sign a player. Really? Well Sam Allardyce doesn't seem to suffer from such paranoia. The acquisition of Lamine Kone is a signing in Allardyce's own image.
Kone is a strong, no nonsense, old fashioned defender who would send a chill down any centre forward's spine and who is also proving to be a nightmare to mark in the opposition's penalty area on set-plays. He was impressive against Manchester City and even better against United. All in all, this signing looks like the sort of defender the Sunderland fans could get to like.
Mark Hughes looks like another Premier League manager who isn't afraid to harass his chairman into putting his hand in his pocket during the transfer window. In Stoke's 3-1 win at Bournemouth, Giannelli Imbula looked like he was worth every penny of his £18.3m record-breaking fee.
He was creative in attack and resilient in defence and scored a super goal, which he started and finished himself. It was a great win for Stoke, who have made a great decision to freeze their ticket prices for the ninth consecutive season.
This was a game between the paupers and the aristocrats. Leicester have players who cost a fraction of the price of Arsenal and get even less in salaries. Yet you would never have detected that in City's 2-1 defeat at the Emirates. N'Golo Kante epitomises what Leicester is all about and the nearest thing I've seen to the former Chelsea and Real Madrid superstar Claude Makelele.
Leicester deserved a point in this match and if Danny Simpson and Marcin Wasilewski had not panicked at vital moments against the Gunners it would have been a very different outcome. And this is the point - can Leicester hold their nerve?
With the exception of his debut for Chelsea against West Brom, I don't think I've seen Pedro play better for the Blues. He took his goals against Newcastle brilliantly and looked bright and inspired throughout the match.
Whenever I've been to Stamford Bridge this season (and I've been quite a lot) Pedro looks like he is trying too hard. I don't know what he thinks he's got to prove? The lad has played for Barcelona, for goodness sake.
I don't think I've seen a player change his feet so quickly when going past an opponent. I saw him do it for Shakhtar Donetsk against Chelsea in the Champions League a few seasons ago which almost certainly was one of the reasons they bought him.
Willian has been Chelsea's most consistent performer this season by a mile and appeared to be above the internal politics and the dressing room antics surrounding Jose Mourinho. The Brazilian absolutely terrorised Newcastle from start to finish. To be perfectly honest, Newcastle were very lucky Chelsea only scored five.
I haven't seen a better all-round performance from a Tottenham team for years than the one during the 2-1 win at Manchester City. I've been saying all season that Spurs can't win the title and that's because, in the most open race for years, I really haven't got a clue who will emerge victorious. What I can tell you is that against Manchester City, Mousa Dembele made Yaya Toure and David Silva look ordinary.
The Belgium international was sensational but, to be fair, I could have selected any one of the 11 Tottenham players on the field against City, such was the quality of their work ethic. Meanwhile, Manchester City's season is starting to unravel and they are missing Kevin de Bruyne enormously. However, if Mark Clattenburg keeps giving Spurs the kind of penalty decisions he did against City then anything is possible.
It must be really refreshing for Jurgen Klopp to have a fully-fit squad to choose from again, especially as they approach their League Cup final against Manchester City. Liverpool were so much better than Aston Villa, Klopp could have rested Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho and also taken a few more days off himself and still Liverpool would have destroyed them.
Remi Garde's team look more like relegation material the more I see them. The moment the ball fell to Sturridge in the box, from a perfectly delivered cross from Coutinho, you knew the ball would end in the back of the net. We've waited a long time to see Sturridge in Liverpool's colours again and if I were City boss Manuel Pellegrini, I would be working on a plan to stop Coutinho getting the ball to Sturridge in the final at Wembley. Otherwise, Manchester City's hopes of winning the League Cup could be in the same predicament as their title hopes… falling apart.


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The Southern Miss Gulf Coast Library presents a watercolor exhibit by the late Finnish artist Osmo Visuri. The exhibit will be on display on the third floor of the Gulf Coast Library from September 6 through November 30 with an opening reception on Thursday, September 21 from 4:30 – 6 p.m.
The collection is on loan from Mary Pyle of Gulfport, who met Visuri during his tenure as a professor at the University of Helsinki in 1988. Pyle was visiting Finland as a presidentially appointed member of the National Council on Vocational Education.
Visuri would later visit Pyle and her husband, Jack, at their home in Mississippi. During his visit, the artist and the couple attempted to find a place to exhibit his paintings. After an unsuccessful effort during his month-long stay, Visuri left his paintings with Pyle, where they remained until 2017. The pieces have been previously been displayed at William Carey College's Tradition Campus and the Mary O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs.
A painter, photographer, filmmaker, author, professor and world traveler, Visuri travelled extensively in the Middle East and published several books on Israel when the state was being established after WWII. He is recognized as a television pioneer in Finland, serving as Head of Documentary Programs for Finnish National Television and as the Head of the Department of Television and Film at the University of Helsinki.
Visuri was also known in Italy, where he operated a watercolor studio, and in Israel, where he authored several books about the Biblical Parables. After retirement, Visuri continued teaching at his studio until his death in 2013. A respected citizen of Finland, Visuir received the Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland and the distinguished Kalevala cultural medal.


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'They have attack'd almost every person who has met with them' – Re-reading William Bradley
Stephen Gapps	Lieutenant William Bradley	 May 23, 2019 7 Minutes
In a previous post I discussed finding the name Bloody Point in Lieutenant William Bradley's log book that had just been donated to the Australian National Maritime Museum. This honest place-naming of the most gruesome, violent event that had then occurred between the colonists and the Sydney people in 1788, made me revisit Bradley's journal.
As a junior officer, the more senior colonists including his captain John Hunter didn't give great credit to his work, and Hunter took much of it for himself. Indeed, Hunter largely ignored many of the place names Bradley had allocated around the harbour he surveyed in early 1788.
When checking Bradley's journal again, it also seems workmanlike and honest – not (at least initially) written for audiences back in London as many others were. He was also, unlike other diarists, keen to note what events he personally witnessed, and what were told to him by others. So I decided to check Bradley's journal and examine his notes on instances of conflict. I was looking to see if his daily record of events, as I suspected, shows a pattern of increasing conflict between the colonisers and the Sydney people during 1788.
In late January 1788, Bradley reported how the people they first met at Botany Bay were 'Well disposed to us' and for two days 'our People & the Natives were mixed together'. In the first two weeks at Sydney Cove, he said 'Men, Women & Children' were 'very friendly'. At the 'Middle Branch', they 'met us in the most cheerful manner' and 'danced with us' and at Spring Cove on the north shore Bradley met 'several canoes' and the people 'had so much confidence in us' they 'mixed together and were quite sociable'.
Bradley also noted how the men were reluctant to allow the Europeans near women. He admired their tactical good sense, as even when 'socialising' they 'had Arms ready to protect them' {women}, or had someone guarding their weapons, which 'increased my favourable opinion of them'. In the last few days of January Bradley recorded nine instances of communication that he witnessed, and only one of conflict (a spear thrown), and that was reported to him.
A view in upper part of Port Jackson; when the fish was shot, 1788 / possibly by William Bradley
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During the month of February however he recorded several times where 'the natives would not come nearer the camp' or 'ran off in great confusion'. But there also appeared to be a growing acceptance of the colonists – gifts of fish were readily received and Bradley witnessed several women fishing who 'felt no interruption from our boat being among them'. There were two reports of conflict. On the 9th of February he wrote that the French under La Perouse at Botany Bay 'had been obliged to fire on the Natives' 'to keep them quiet' and at Garden Island how some Sydney men stole axes and shovels, 'but not without their skin being well pepper'd with small shot'. Still, he recorded personally observing ten instances of 'communication' and only two of conflict.
In March, Bradley reported six instances of conflict. Most were from convicts who were ranging outside the encampment in Sydney Cove, or Aboriginal men who took tools from the colonists, who regarded this as stealing. Several convicts were wounded or beaten and at the end of the month Aboriginal people 'would not come near the ship' and others who were approached when fishing, 'paddled to the shore and ran into the woods'. There were 18 instances of communication, and six of conflict noted in Bradley's journal in March.
In April, suspicion and fear of the colonists increased and Bradley noted the Sydney people could 'not be persuaded to go into Camp', or 'ran away to the woods'. In May, while most of Bradley's references to the Sydney people were that they were 'very friendly', there were many 'who appeared to be very hungry'. In mid-May a convict 'sent out to get greens' was wounded and an Aboriginal man at Garden Island wounded and possibly killed in what may have been again retaliation for 'stealing' tools and equipment. In the last days of May, Bradley noted that Captain Campbell went to the 'SW arm' to where two convicts had been left to gather rushes and found a trail of blood from their tent leading to the mangroves, where Campbell found the mutilated bodies of the convicts William Okey and Samuel Davis.
In one of the rare moments Bradley mused on the overall situation (and why I am certain this is where he marked 'Bloody Point' on his first draft map of the harbour), he felt that while 'they have attack'd our people when they have met them unarmed, but that did not happen until they had been very ill treated by us in the lower part of the Harbour & fired upon at Botany Bay by the French'.
Here, Bradley agrees with Collins, Tench and others that it was the colonisers who generated conflict. And this idea has held sway in almost all subsequent accounts of the first year of 1788. Added to the depletion of fish stocks in the harbour, these are the generally accepted reasons historians give to the conflict that began to increasingly occur and turn bloody.
But this suggests that the Sydney people were all quite happy to have the colonists in their midst. It says nothing about the earlier shows of force – displays of musketry and military capability that in my mind had the most important bearing on relations in the early colony. As Tench and Dawes noted, there was an association made between all the colonists and firearms – 'gooroobeera' according to Tench was the name given to the colonists as 'those who carry guns' and according to Dawes 'djerebar', the name given to the musket and which 'the natives frequently called us by'.
The day after Phillip and his party had returned from the expedition in search of the people who killed Okey and Davis (where he had bumped into a group of over 200 warriors who had allowed his small party to return to the encampment at Sydney Cove) he gave orders 'that no party under 6 armed Men were to go into the woods on account of the Natives being so numerous.' During the cold month of June, few Aboriginal people were seen. Bradley noted at North Head he met three men and two boys who 'made signs for us not to fire our Musquets'.
In July, Bradley described increasing hunger and further conflict. The Governor's fishing boat met 'a great number of the Natives in the lower part of the harbour', gave them fish, but they were not satisfied and 'took what they pleas'd'. At Camp Cove, he 'found a Man & two Children 'starving', and gave them salt beef. A boat 'down the Harbour' had 'several stones thrown at her on landing' and a 'musquet fired at them set them off'. In late July 'convicts gathering greens' were 'attack'd by the Natives' and one was wounded. A 'straggling' sailor only escaped conflict when he 'presented a stick as if a musket' and got away.
A view in Port Jackson taken from Sirius Island; the Sirius lying of [sic] the entrance of Sydney Cove, 1788 / possibly by William Bradley
In August some canoes were seen passing up and down the harbour. Bradley noted that on the Governor conducted a sort of 'census' of Aboriginal people around the harbour. They counted '67 Canoes, 94 Men, 34 Women & 9 Children'. All those in the upper harbour were 'very friendly' but in the North Arm 'were not so friendly', and 'while speaking with the boat' a 'spear was thrown which passed about 6 feet right over the midships'. They ran off and a small shot round was fired at them. Women came to the shore and tried to entice the boats to land. Over the month there were 3 instances of communication and three of conflict.
In early September a convict at Major Ross's farm was 'wounded by a spear being thrown at him from behind a tree by a Native who ran away immediately'. At this point, Bradley's account of events at Port Jackson ends as his ship HMS Sirius is ordered to sail for Norfolk Island. He then launches into a 'collected account of the Natives' based upon his 'certain knowledge'.
He says his initial idea 'of their being Friendly disposed' had changed. By September he was convinced the Sydney people were only friendly when 'we have them in our power' or they 'are well prepared by being armed'. He noted that lately 'they have attack'd almost every person who has met with them that has not had a muskquet & have sometimes endeavoured to surprise some who had'. Indeed, he writes 'the Musquet now seems to be the only thing to keep them in Awe' and that some of them have been killed by Musquet balls … I have not the least doubt'.
Much has been made by historians of the cross-cultural encounters that occurred in the first few months of the Europeans arriving at firstly Botany Bay and then shortly after, Sydney Harbour. In The Sydney Wars I suggested that during the first year, before the devastating galgala disease of April 1789 killed probably more than half the population who lived around the harbour, instances of conflict grew in frequency and intensity.
Bradley's journal gives us an excellent snapshot of this spiralling conflict in the first months of the colony. It points to a picture of growing discontent with the colonists, particularly on the North Shore, and a growing willingness to attack them. It also shows how the Sydney people had an understanding of the firepower of the British and a great concern with their military capability – tactics were already being adapted to counter this military superiority. Bradley's matter of fact account focuses on this, rather than, as other officers accounts that speculate, often wildly, about the motivations of the people living around Sydney Harbour. It seems to me historians should have paid more attention to Lieutenant William Bradley.
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Historian and museum curator. Author of The Sydney Wars - Conflict in the early colony 1788-1817.	View all posts by Stephen Gapps
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Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00060 - Peter Hanson Papers
Peter Hanson Papers
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Hanson, Peter G. (Peter George)
Born in Vancouver in 1947, Peter Hanson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1971 at the age of 24. He worked as an ER doctor for three years, then established a family practice in Toronto. In 1986 he wrote the first of his international best-sellers, <i>The Joy of Stress</i>, followed a few years later by Stress for Success. These have sold over a million copies in 20 languages. He currently resides in Denver, CO.
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Gift of Peter Hanson, 1990.
The collection consists of materials, notes, manuscripts, galleys, correspondence, reviews promotional materials and other printed materials for two Hanson books: The Joy of Stress and Stress for Success. The papers document the way in which a book privately published in Canada became an international best seller.
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request
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Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she Violet's TV-director dad has traded a job in Vancouver for one in Los Angeles, their run-down house for a sleek ranch-style home complete with a pool, and, worst of all, Violet's mother for a trophy wife, a blonde actress named Jennica. Violet's younger sister reacts by bed-wetting, and her mother ping-pongs from one loser to another, searching for love. As for Violet, she gets angry in ways that are by turns infuriating, shocking, and hilarious.
When her mother takes up with the unfortunately named Dudley Wiener, Violet and her friend Phoebe decide that they need to take control. If Violet's mom can't pick a decent man herself, they will help her snag George Clooney.
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To really show you just how wonderful this book is, I would pretty much have to reproduce its entire 229 pages here, which would probably get me sued. So I won't do that. But I am going to share some of my favorite passages with you. Truth be told, I highlighted almost the entire book, so even picking out favorite passages of my many, many favorite passages has been a chore. I'm going to limit myself, therefore, to passages from the first half of the novel so I don't spoil too much for you. Beca To really show you just how wonderful this book is, I would pretty much have to reproduce its entire 229 pages here, which would probably get me sued. So I won't do that. But I am going to share some of my favorite passages with you. Truth be told, I highlighted almost the entire book, so even picking out favorite passages of my many, many favorite passages has been a chore. I'm going to limit myself, therefore, to passages from the first half of the novel so I don't spoil too much for you. Because seriously, you've got to read this book.
FOR THE RECORD: I did not mean to send my two half sisters to the emergency room.
Now that's a hook! From the first sentence Nielsen grabbed me by the throat (in the best way) and yanked me into her story. What agent or editor could turn down an opening like that? It's got everything. It introduces conflict, character, and the tone of the novel all in just sixteen words!
Lola and Lucy were so cute, it hurt. They were just under two years old, and they'd inherited the best of their parents' genes: Jennica's thick blonde hair and big brown eyes, and my dad's chin dimple and megawatt smile.
Rosie and I hadn't been nearly as lucky in the gene pool lottery. Despite having the same father and a very attractive mother, all we'd inherited was Dad's mousy brown hair and his poor eyesight. He wore contacts; we wore glasses. I'd managed to get his big feet and ears, too, and his bulbous man-knees. All these things looked good on my dad, but transplanted onto a scrawny girl like me, it was seriously unfortunate.
We played with the twins for a long time in that sandbox. They adored being with Rosie and me, and I would have loved them with all my heart if I hadn't hated them so much.
What Nielsen does next takes real courage. In response to being treated so shabbily by her father, Violet feeds these sweet little baby girls who never did a thing to anyone cat turds. She tells them its chocolate and laughs as they swallow actual poop. Stepmom Jennica freaks out and rushes the twins to the hospital, thusly fulfilling the promise of the opening line. Now I'm not in favor of feeding children poop, but I understand why Violet does it. I suspect not every reader will. Nielsen takes a real chance of turning some readers off in the first chapter. But by doing so, she creates in Violet an immediately sympathetic character I think far more readers will relate to. After this, I was ready to read about anything Violet did. And although eating poop is gross, the twin girls are fine.
It was her clothes I couldn't stand. She'd started dressing differently after the divorce papers were signed. Her jeans were too tight, and her shirt was cropped to let her stomach show, a stomach that had had to stretch not once but twice to hold babies. A soft layer of flab drooped over the waste of her pants. To top it off, her belly button was pierced--a belated birthday gift from her friend Karen after they'd had a few too many margaritas one night.
As we continued our leisurely descent, I said my little prayer: Dear God, or Allah, or Buddha or Zeus or Whoever-You-Are, please let this one be okay. Please don't let him be a cheater (Jonathan), a cheapskate (Alphonse), an alcoholic (Carl), a creep (Guy), married (Larry), or a general, all-around jerk (Dimitri, Paulo, Jake, Yuri).
I said this prayer even though I'm a cynic when it comes to love because I know that my mother is not. You'd think, after what happened with Dad, that she'd given up on men and found contentment in a life dedicated to child-rearing, hard work, and celibacy. But no. Despite a growing list of epic failures, she had this freakish need to have a man in her life. So she dated like there was no tomorrow, always hoping the next guy would be The One.
Much of the plot centers around Violet going to great lengths to protect her mother and by extension her and her little sister from her mother's loser boyfriends. There are some particularly fun sequences in which Violet spies on the men with binoculars. Finally, Violet comes to the conclusion that she will have to find a suitable mate for her mother and stepfather to her on her own. And who better than George Clooney? Yes, that George Clooney. Violet writes Clooney letters and sets out on a mission to convince him to marry her mom.
Needless to say, George Clooney shows up and saves the day, the end. Or maybe not. I think it's best that I leave the plot description here, lest I spoil too much of the book for you.
Dear George Clooney, Please Marry My Mom has almost nothing to do with George Clooney, so I can repress my deep sense of injustice as a Batman fan for another day. I'm not even going to tell you if George Clooney shows up in the story or not, and it wouldn't really matter if he did, because this book isn't about him. This is a book about families and the constantly shifting definition of what constitutes a family these days.
Let me wrap this thing up by stating for the record that I absolutely love this book. It's everything I want my own writing to accomplish and I'll be studying parts of it for awhile. Nielsen's prose is articulate, but not needlessly ornate, and she employs lots of white space which allows the pages to fly by. She's crafted a great story that is equally hilarious and heartbreaking. Whatever else you do this year, Esteemed Reader, buy this book!
fun,enjoyable contemporary book. both fun and funny, I both related and understood the protagonist at times, at the same time she behaved poorly sometimes. I disliked the time jumps that the book had.
nice book if you want a quick contemporary read.
I had high hopes for this book. Everyone told me this was a charming & funny read & when I was looking through it before reading it, it looked very cute indeed.
Let's start with Violet (MC). She was the main reason why I was so disappointed. She was so immature and dramatic (and not funny at all (view spoiler)[ok, except at very specific times when I actually laughed out loud (hide spoiler)]). I know that she was 12 years old (I think) but I still had to remind myself that she was a kid & that's how kids act someday but she was still too immature for me to feel any sympathy for her at all.
The next thing that bothered me a bit was the writing style. At first I liked it and thought that it was fun and unique, however as I read more it started to get a little annoying.
I'm sure that this book is enjoyable but it was not the read for me, maybe if I had been younger or older with more patient for dramatic brats I would have liked it.
Ho ricevuto questo libro dalla casa editrice, dopo aver l'intervistato l'autrice a Mare di Libri.
Sono stata felicissima, perchè avevo bisogno di una lettura leggera per concludere Giugno.
Mi ricordava me stessa quando avevo 13 anni, visto che ho provato alcune delle cose che succedono alla nostra protagonista: mi ricordo la rabbia, il non voler accettare la situazione.
Forse mi sarebbe stato d'aiuto se lo avessi letto in quel periodo, ma leggerlo adesso mi ha fatto pensare alla me del passato con Ho ricevuto questo libro dalla casa editrice, dopo aver l'intervistato l'autrice a Mare di Libri.
Forse mi sarebbe stato d'aiuto se lo avessi letto in quel periodo, ma leggerlo adesso mi ha fatto pensare alla me del passato con un po' di tenerezza, perchè so che il più grosso è passato.
Adoro la presenza di Phoebe, migliore amica e figlia di psicologi, che cerca sempre di analizzare i comportamenti di Violet non sempre razionali e le fornisce una spiegazione. Così in qualche modo ho cercato di capire anche io perché mi comportavo così ai tempi.
Come anche "Siamo tutti fatti di molecole", pure questo libro l'ho divorato, perchè sono veloci da leggere.
What I thought of this book overall (read only this section if you do not want to be spoiled) : I really enjoyed reading this book. I found it very relatable to me. This book is about a girl named Violet who's parents are divorced and she has a baby sister named Rosie who Violet takes care of. Violet struggle's with her mom's countless boyfriends and wishes that her mom would marry George Clooney.
Violet was basically me in my childhood, which what I found so relatable in this book.
The things th What I thought of this book overall (read only this section if you do not want to be spoiled) : I really enjoyed reading this book. I found it very relatable to me. This book is about a girl named Violet who's parents are divorced and she has a baby sister named Rosie who Violet takes care of. Violet struggle's with her mom's countless boyfriends and wishes that her mom would marry George Clooney.
I'm surprised reviewers aren't comparing this to the Georgina Nicolson series. Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom is a story of how 12-year-old Violet learns to cope with life following her parents' divorce. But it's in her not coping that all the absurdosity occurs. To give any details would ruin the surprises. Just know that grief makes people do weird stuff. Violet is no exception.
That's what really resonated with me: how Violet's (and her mom's) actions felt so real. She wasn't nice, I'm surprised reviewers aren't comparing this to the Georgina Nicolson series. Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom is a story of how 12-year-old Violet learns to cope with life following her parents' divorce. But it's in her not coping that all the absurdosity occurs. To give any details would ruin the surprises. Just know that grief makes people do weird stuff. Violet is no exception.
That's what really resonated with me: how Violet's (and her mom's) actions felt so real. She wasn't nice, she wasn't rational, but she was hurting. Divorce is a family injury, and everyone in a family heals differently and at their own rate from the blast. There were a few cliches and some simplistic writing, but I overlooked that when Violet's little sister ran around in only her underpants with a colander on her head, which is totally par for the course with 5-year-olds. I'm here for realism, folks.
Did this for a book report. Pretty cool book!
Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom is not the type of the YA novel I usually get the chance to read because protagonists as young as Violet don't always appeal to me... but I'm so so glad I did read this one! Right from the get-go, as soon as I read the title in fact, I knew I was going to like this novel. I mean, doesn't its name already put a smile on your face? It certainly did for me... and that smile grew on my face as soon as I read the very first line.
"For the record: I did not mean Dear George Clooney: Please Marry My Mom is not the type of the YA novel I usually get the chance to read because protagonists as young as Violet don't always appeal to me... but I'm so so glad I did read this one! Right from the get-go, as soon as I read the title in fact, I knew I was going to like this novel. I mean, doesn't its name already put a smile on your face? It certainly did for me... and that smile grew on my face as soon as I read the very first line.
"For the record: I did not mean to send my two half sisters to the emergency room."
Ever since Violet's director father upped and left their family to live the good life in LA complete with his own new family, Violet's mother has been on the dating scene... with not so great results. So when Violet learns her mother has started dating Dudley Wiener, she decides enough's enough and vows that no one would be perfect for her mother except, you guessed it, George Clooney.
Violet is the kind of girl that anyone could easily relate with and some of her antics had me actually laughing out loud. Her Magic 8 Ball conversations were a blast to read and the level of protectiveness she feels for her younger sister and mother, going so far as to even spy on her mother's boyfriends, is just so endearing. She's the kind of character who tells things for what they are and isn't afraid to go after what she wants.
Nielsen's writing is fresh and fun, keeping the tone of the novel light yet knowing how to get a bit serious when the time comes. Violet may be a little troublemaker with a snarky attitude (which borders on being cynical at times), but she's still a young girl who simply misses her father and wishes things would be normal again.
Dear George Clooney is about a girl Named Violet Gustafson who lives with her mom Inrid Gustafson and little sister Rosey. Ingrid and her husband had a devorce so ingrid is constanly looking for a date.Violets dad lives in Vancover he is remarried to an actress named Jennica and they have 2 twin girls. On the other hand Violet is frusturated by her mom going on dates and she thinks all of them are losers.So Violet and her best friend Pheobe try to hook her up with actress George Clooney.On their way Violet builds relation ship with a boy named John Paul and Ingred gets a date with a guy named Dudley Weiner.
The book had a few flaws especailly at the end because it was like a big hole in the story it just ended. But some strenghts is that it was a realistic fiction Susin Neilsen did a great job writing about a 13 year old girl it was like she was the character.
I think the book was amazing it was halarious in many parts and Susin Neilsen did a great job writing the story. The book had barely any flaws it was one of the best reads I have ever read and I recomend it to anyone.
The lightest work from Nielsen compared to two other titles I had beforehand. Unlike Henry and Ambrose, here we got a female protagonist named Violet, who tried to set her mom up with George Clooney (the title was pretty obvious) because after her dad left Violet's mom for another woman, serial dating her mom's having turned out to be disastrous. So Violet had this idea to find the right man for her mom - George Clooney.
Kinda "easy" and too-happy-to-be-true ending, but still I enjoyed the detail The lightest work from Nielsen compared to two other titles I had beforehand. Unlike Henry and Ambrose, here we got a female protagonist named Violet, who tried to set her mom up with George Clooney (the title was pretty obvious) because after her dad left Violet's mom for another woman, serial dating her mom's having turned out to be disastrous. So Violet had this idea to find the right man for her mom - George Clooney.
Kinda "easy" and too-happy-to-be-true ending, but still I enjoyed the details Nielsen gave us. The moral of the story is pretty much about how to deal with grief, and to understand that there will always be two sides of a story. Also, to let yourself fall in love.
And Cosmo and Amanda from Word Nerd made a comeback! This cute couple had their continuation you surely don't wanna miss out on. I always love it when an author creates a continous universe like what Nielsen does. Guess I should read all of her works to see the whole picture.
I finished this in one day! I thought it was a lovely and endearing story! Love how all the main character starts to mature and starts to forgive her family! I liked the incorporation of George Clooney in the book! I learnt that we should not hold grudges against people because that will affect your life more and not to interfere in anybody's love life because only they know who is truly right for them!
It has a very "DeGrassi" vibe, and in my universe, that can only be interpreted as being in the book's favor. Violet is a very relatable protagonist, even when (or because?) tends to give into her lesser demons and makes terrible decisions. Read it for its humor, its nuanced characters, and (always a plus), it uses the term "pop" instead of "soda" and repeatedly throws out great phrases like, "hairy eyeball".
Mixed feelings about this, mainly because the main character was so incredibly nasty in the beginning. However, I thought there was a lot detail in this short book, and I loved how it was set on Main Street in Vancouver. There were some scenes and instances that were funny.
I also loved the ending.
It was funny, adventurous, and when i read the part about the Dad cheating on the mom(When he was walking out putting on his belt) it made me want to be there to slap him across the face.There book shows that you have to learn to accept things and they way they work in a silly way.It is a must read book if you want to just chill and laugh out loud.
I liked this book, but didn't love it as I got very confused with all of the flashbacks and jazz.
I really liked this book. It was easy and short, which i liked reading after Dust City. It was funny and kept me wanting to read more!
This book is such a great book if you are looking at books to read, read this one. I guarantee you will love it!!!
Violet Gustafson lives with her mother, Ingrid Gustafson and her little sister Rosie Gustafson in an old house with a broken door-bell and run down washer-dryer machine. Violet's best friend is Pheobe, Pheobe helps Violet with everything from advice on what to say to Ashley Anderson (Their worst enemy) to attending late night stakeouts and spying on her moms boyfriends. Violet's mom and dad are divorced and her dad moved to L.A with wife number 2, Jennica Valentine, and their twin daughte Violet Gustafson lives with her mother, Ingrid Gustafson and her little sister Rosie Gustafson in an old house with a broken door-bell and run down washer-dryer machine. Violet's best friend is Pheobe, Pheobe helps Violet with everything from advice on what to say to Ashley Anderson (Their worst enemy) to attending late night stakeouts and spying on her moms boyfriends. Violet's mom and dad are divorced and her dad moved to L.A with wife number 2, Jennica Valentine, and their twin daughters Lola and Lucy. Ever since the divorce Violet's mom has been looking for "the perfect guy" but every guy she brings home is far from perfect. Once the 11th guy of the year showed up to their front door for a date with their mom, Violet realized that enough was enough and since her mom couldn't find a decent boyfriend for herself, Violet was going to set her up with one of the best looking actress out there. George Clooney! Violet just hated all of her moms boyfriends especially the most recent one, Dudley Weiner, from his yard sale purchases and un- funny puns he's just terrible. One day Violet sent George a letter in the mail telling him about her mom and everything that was happening but she got a response with a form letter and 8-by-10 signed glossy of George. Violet decided that she would go to meet George himself which was the perfect idea because her dad who is directing show in the same studio as George is in L.A and would let the girls come to visit. When Violet got to tantamount Studios a lot went down start. Violet came out of there with a broken ankle, a scraped up right side and a almost concussion. In the end Violet ended up accepting the fact that her mom was happy with the Wiener and gave him a chance (thanks to George Clooney) and he actually turned out to be a great guy.
This book really showed the life of a young 12 year old girl going through and family divorce. Violet's character is eager to find the perfect guy for her mom since her dad left to live with wife number 2. This book had me laughing because of the things that Violet did to just to make sure her and her family would be happy again. Little did she know that all this time when she was hating all her moms boyfriends it was only because nobody can replace her dad, not even the great George Clooney. This book had great messages. One message was give people a chance because you never know who they are on the inside. This message was really there when Violet hated Dudley Weiner just because of his last name and his looks but she didn't look at him on the inside and he actually turned out to be a great guy. The other thing I loved about this book was that it didn't drag. A lot of book tend to take longer to explain things but this one got straight to the point so it made the book short and cute.An example of that was when Jean-Paul, Violet, and Phoebe were spying on Dudley. The first time they spied on him they couldn't find anything but the second time they found out something. Other books would make them spy on him like 4 or 5 things before they found anything. Another thing that I really liked about this book is that it was relatable. Some book that are based on young children don't really seem to be that accurate as to the characters would do things that their age group wouldn't really do. The only problem I had with this book was the flashbacks. Sometimes they got a little bit confusing and the flashbacks happened in places where they didn't need to be. Like in one part Violet was having a flashback about what her mom would have done if she had been there. That flashback was really confusing because there were talking about there life in L.A when they immediately switched to there mom. Overall this book was fantastic, I really liked it. The great messages, the straightforwardness, and the relatableness really help to make me enjoy the book! I would definitely suggest this book to young readers!
For context, I read this book for my podcast. We wanted to read something between seasons of Degrassi that was Degrassi adjacent and decided to give this book a shot.
The premise of "Dear George Clooney..." is brutally realistic. The protagonist, Violet, is reeling from her parent's divorce and the seemingly unfair way that her father can be a big-shot Hollywood director and have a new life with a new woman while her mother struggles to make life work in their home city of Vancouver. This fr For context, I read this book for my podcast. We wanted to read something between seasons of Degrassi that was Degrassi adjacent and decided to give this book a shot.
The premise of "Dear George Clooney..." is brutally realistic. The protagonist, Violet, is reeling from her parent's divorce and the seemingly unfair way that her father can be a big-shot Hollywood director and have a new life with a new woman while her mother struggles to make life work in their home city of Vancouver. This framework allows Nielsen's skill set to truly shine in a way that reminds me why I love the episodes of Degrassi that Nielsen has writing credits on. She has a deep understanding of the mind of a preteen girl, more importantly, she understands that it is a dark, complicated place. Violet's anger is entirely understandable, but as a protagonist, she certainly pushes you in terms of her decision making. She lashes out at everybody in her life, some deserving it and some not so much. The first half of the book is a great way to expose these messy dynamics. I am still so pleasantly surprised that Nielsen's understanding of this age group is able to shine throughout the movement of this plot.
Unfortunately, with this understanding, comes a part of the narrative that I had a major issue with. This is specifically Violet's habit of bodyshaming every single woman she came in contact with, including her mother. While I understand that a lot of girls her age have these thoughts go through their heads, but it's difficult to tolerate this aspect of the narrative when there is no moment in the story that her behavior is properly called out. It makes this aspect of the plot very difficult to tolerate. It also becomes a bigger picture issue, as I am apprehensive to recommend this book to a middle grade-aged reader, unless there is an adult that is willing to sit them down and reiterate that this type of behavior is unacceptable. It's also not a story that can be particularly recommended for its portrayal of diversity. The only characters explicitly declared as people of color are Violet's best friend, Phoebe, and one of her parents, who are Canadian-American. While Phoebe's family is portrayed positively as a mixed family, Phoebe refers to herself as Violet's sidekick and is constantly content to be at her heels, as opposed to being seen as an equal. It continues to perpetuate the struggle of finding Asian representation in media and the ugly trope that they are passive, particularly to their white counterparts in the story.
The second half of the book also suffers from falling into a predictable formula that lacks the heart that the first half has. It also begins to go in certain directions that are so drastically unrealistic to the gritty reality of the first half, it's difficult to buy it at times. Relating to its ability to be believable is that it is a bit dated. The book is from 2010 and it shows. References to things like Obama fistbumps happen. That said, I do think there are very real emotions that happen in this book that do speak to the experience of kids going through divorce, regardless of what year the books come from.
Je ne connaissais pas du tout Susin Nielsen et ce fut une très bonne découverte. L'auteur a un style fluide, ce qui rend la lecture rapide et prenante. C'est drôle et pétillant sans tourner au niais, ce que je craignais un peu au début de ma lecture.
Elle arrive également à trouver les mots justes pour s'adresser aux adolescents. Le thème abordé n'a rien d'original en soi : le divorce et la séparation des parents, les nouvelles vies des parents après cette séparation, etc. Toutefois, j'ai appréci Je ne connaissais pas du tout Susin Nielsen et ce fut une très bonne découverte. L'auteur a un style fluide, ce qui rend la lecture rapide et prenante. C'est drôle et pétillant sans tourner au niais, ce que je craignais un peu au début de ma lecture.
Elle arrive également à trouver les mots justes pour s'adresser aux adolescents. Le thème abordé n'a rien d'original en soi : le divorce et la séparation des parents, les nouvelles vies des parents après cette séparation, etc. Toutefois, j'ai apprécié son traitement. Violette apprend à accepter que sa mère n'est pas qu'une mère et qu'elle a des besoins et des envies qui lui sont propres, même si elle ne les partage pas. Au fil de l'histoire, Violette gagne en maturité même si ce n'était pas forcément gagné au début. Cela a donné énormément de situations cocasses.
Susin Nielsen apporte une touche de fraîcheur dans la littérature adolescente. Même en étant une adulte, j'ai passé un agréable moment de lecture. J'ai réussi à me reconnaître dans l'adolescente qu'est Violette mais j'ai aussi réussi à me mettre à la place de la mère de Violette, ce qui a rendu cette lecture encore plus intéressante.
Je ne vais pas hésiter à jeter un coup d'œil aux autres ouvrages de cette auteur et j'espère que, lorsqu'ils seront suffisamment grands, mes enfants s'intéresseront également à ces livres.
Wir spielten ziemlich lange mit den Zwillingen in der Sandkiste. Sie verehrten Rosie und mich, und wenn ich sie nicht so gehasst hätte, hätte ich sie sicher von ganzem Herzen geliebt.
Violet Gustafson ist 12 und lebt mit ihrer kleinen fünfjährigen Schwester Rosie und ihrer Mutter Ingrid in Vancouver in Kanada. Ihr Vater Ian ist Regisseur und hat sich vor rund drei Jahren in die Schauspielerin Jennica an seinem Set verliebt, sich scheiden lassen und ist nach Hollywood g Wir spielten ziemlich lange mit den Zwillingen in der Sandkiste. Sie verehrten Rosie und mich, und wenn ich sie nicht so gehasst hätte, hätte ich sie sicher von ganzem Herzen geliebt.
Violet Gustafson ist 12 und lebt mit ihrer kleinen fünfjährigen Schwester Rosie und ihrer Mutter Ingrid in Vancouver in Kanada. Ihr Vater Ian ist Regisseur und hat sich vor rund drei Jahren in die Schauspielerin Jennica an seinem Set verliebt, sich scheiden lassen und ist nach Hollywood gezogen.
Ingrid geht seit der Scheidung wieder ihrem alten Beruf nach, sie ist Stylistin und arbeitet in einer Haar-Akademie als stellvertretende Geschäftsführerin, zusammen mit ihren Freundinnen Amanda und Karen, die stets einen guten oder auch weniger guten Rat für sie haben. Violet meint die Freundinnen ihrer Mutter wären wie das kleine Engelchen und Teufelchen.
Ian und Jennica haben Zwillinge bekommen welche nun die Halbgeschwister von Violet und Rosie sind. Violet hat schwer daran zu knacken und lässt dies auch Anfangs stark an den kleinen aus. Doch Lola und Lucy sind in ihrem tapsigen Alter nicht nachtragend und so kommt es, das Violet sie auch nach und nach in ihr Herz schließt.
In der Schule hat es Violet nicht leicht. Von Ashley und Lauren wird sie als Idiotin 1 bezeichnet. Idiotin zwei ist Phoebe. Phoebe ist die allerbeste Freundin von Violet und immer für sie da. Auch deren Eltern sind sehr modern und freuen sich jedes Mal über Violets besuch. Auch wenn sie stets versuchen sie zu mästen fühlt sich Violet dort sehr wohl. Und dann ist da noch der gutaussehende Jean-Paul. Natürlich würde Violet nicht einmal im Traum daran denken das er sich für sie, die bebrillte Bohnenstange interessieren würde. Doch er scheint ein Interesse an ihr zu entwickeln.
Violets Mam erlebt indes eine enttäuschende Beziehung nach der anderen. Entweder sind die Männer Betrüger, verheiratet, Alkoholiker oder sie sind einfach nur daneben. Daneben findet Violet den aktuellen Freund ihrer Mam. Dudley Wiener heißt dieser und schon den Namen findet Violet schaurig und spioniert ihm zusammen mit Phoebe nach. Irgendein Geheimnis trägt er sicher auch mit sich herum. Oder?
Doch wie kommt Violet an George Clooney heran. Die Gelegenheit soll sich schon bald bieten, denn Violet und ihre Schwester Rosie sollen ihren Vater wieder einmal in Hollywood besuchen. Aber vorerst muss sie sich noch bei Jennica und ihrem Vater Ian entschuldigen. Was sie schlimmes angestellt hat und ob sie George Clooney überhaupt treffen wird? – lest selbst.
Nur damit das klar ist: Ich wollte nicht, dass meine beiden Halbschwestern in der Notaufnahme landen.
Warum lesen sich Kinder- und Jugendbücher so schnell ... richtig die Seiteneinteilung und auch die Zeilenabstände sind großzügiger ;) und zack ist ein Buch ausgelesen.
Ein tolles Buch für Kids und auch für uns Erwachsene. Ein Einblick in das Gefühlschaos unserer Kids, der hilft sich wieder einmal in ein Kind hineinzuversetzen und über einige Dinge nachzudenken.
Es geht unter anderem um die Urangst der Kinder. Das die geliebten Eltern sich trennen, das der Vater sich in eine andere Frau verliebt und die Mutter den Vater durch einen neuen Mann ersetzt.
Der Wiener machte es sich auf unserem roten Sofa bequem. Ich setzte mich ihm gegenüber auf unser goldgelbes Sofa. Er lächelte. Ich nicht. Ich starrte ihn ungerührt an.
In diesem Buch kämpft die Protagonisten dafür, dass es nicht so weit kommt. Zumindest versucht sie dies bei der Mutter, denn ihr Vater hat bereits eine neue Frau die er kurz nach der Scheidung ihrer Mutter auch geheiratet hat und mit der er Zwillinge bekam. Violet sieht George Clooney als Idealbild, als perfekten Stiefvater für sich und ihre Schwester. Ihrer Mutter hatte viele hoffnungslose Liebhaber, doch sie will nur eines, endlich wieder von einem Mann geliebt werden und sich geborgen fühlen. Violet braucht lange um dies zu verstehen und die Geschehnisse der letzten Jahre zu verarbeiten. Es fällt auf, dass sie stets Sachen sortiert, von A nach B, von klein nach groß und umgekehrt. Es ist sehr interessant in die Gefühlswelt eines Scheidungskindes hineinzublicken. Geschrieben ist es in der Ich-Perspektive und man ist von Anfang an mitten in Violets Gefühlsleben. Das Cover ist knuffig und authentisch. Ein Männlein zum Anknabbern, leider nur ein täuschend echtes Abbild. Die Kapitel beginnen mit großen Ziffern und sind jeweils nicht allzu lang, sodass das Buch für Kids sehr gut zu lesen sein wird. Es ist rasant und flüssig geschrieben.
Ein Einblick in das Gefühlschaos eines Scheidungskindes, welches lange braucht um die Veränderungen zu verarbeiten. Ein Kind das alles daran setzt die Liebhaber der Mutter schnellstens zu entlarven und los zu werden, denn schließlich hat sie die Idee ihre Mutter mit George Clooney zu verkuppeln. Ob aus der Idee auch etwas Reelles wird, oder wie eine Seifenblase zerplatzt lest ihr in diesem wundervollen Buch. Mir hat es zeitweise zu denken gegeben und an vielen Stellen im Buch musste ich auch kräftig schmunzeln. Dieses Buch ist für Jung und Alt gleichermaßen zu empfehlen. Als Erwachsener fragt man sich oft, was geht in einem Kind vor. Man war selbst einmal ein Kind aber vergisst mit der Zeit welche Sichtweise auf die Dinge man damals hatte. Dieses Buch katapultiert einen zurück und lässt einen wieder Kind sein. Ihr merkt, ich finde dieses Buch sehr unterhaltsam und interessant.
In this book we meet Violet who's struggling to adapt along with her younger sister Rosie to life without their dad at home after he was caught cheating on their mum and left them for her, as well as his new twins.
To make it worse her mum then tries dating ending up with a guy called Dudley Wiener, of all names. Convinced he's not right for her mum she sets her mind on splitting them up and finding George Clooney her mum's celebrity crush whom she met once.
Along with a fun ridiculous escapade ha In this book we meet Violet who's struggling to adapt along with her younger sister Rosie to life without their dad at home after he was caught cheating on their mum and left them for her, as well as his new twins.
Along with a fun ridiculous escapade hardly believable this was a short but still entertaining read about single parents and dating again. We also see Violet rebuilding her relationship with her father after a rather harsh incident takes place.
I wish I hadn't glimpsed the last page of the book in a mindless moment flipping the pages; it would have been more satisfying!
"They did not have problems. They had been perfectly, utterly happy.


Halfway between the Columbia River and Mt. St. Helens, the Trapper Creek Wilderness is a warren of hiking paths along woodsy creeks and ridges. Several trails climb 6 miles or more to reach the old lookout site at Observation Peak, with views from Mt. Jefferson to Mt. Rainier, but a little-known trailhead gets you there in less than 3 miles—and allows explorers to take a side trip to a higher, better viewpoint atop Sisters Rocks.


  Our "Spider" Syrian hookah.
There are so many beautiful places that you could travel to, some safer or less than others. Cannibals have not been reported world-wide for about 60 years since dining out in the South Pacific on Fried Japanese soldiers who wandered away from their fellows and got lost.
 "Monty Python's Flying Circus " has an old way back in time sketch about fellow British Navy men cast away at sea in a boat for 3 weeks with nothing to eat. The Captain tells his men in a moment of nobility : "Well chaps, I've got gangrene in my limb, I'll never make it- so you'd better eat me".
""You don't have to eat the leg Thompson, there's still plenty of meat on my arms".
"Well, I'd rather eat Hodgkins, Sir".
"Hodgkins : "That's it then everybodiy's going to eat me".
Thompson : "That depends on how you kill him, Sir" !
I must be a real cow  brain if this is what I have in my memory cells .
(I'll bring it out to you one time).
So I have the ideal place of intrest to all you on the lookout for a great place to travel, beautiful views, wonderful weather with zero chance of rain or cloudy days, beautiful people and you don't hafta schlep your real best buddy, the hookah along. Cuz, if you cannot smoke shisha, who wants to pay good money and suffer? You'd fly to Greenland I'll bet if you had a strong hookah, an extra glass base and a large supply of coals and shisha tobacco. Oh yes, and one wind cover will do !
The place I have in mind , you won't want to bring your narghilah, since you can buy there an even better one with many varieties offered. The price will be more or less exactly like you'd expect to pay online ! But no shsiha in your suitcase .
Didn'tI say beautiful view, beautiful people, and no chance of rain? In Gary, Indiana the air is so thick with sulphurous acids from the steelmakers of the MidWest, rain evapourates  2 kilometers  above in the atmosphere.
See that stretch of HighWay? Now I prove my utter worldliness. If you were to take the photo and enlarge it (Which I will do so that I don't seem a fool), you will see I-94 the interstate highway that reaches from Milwaukee,Wisconsin and probably Daluth ,Minn. also, south to the "Windy City" of Chicago , skirts Lake Michigan south and slowly east where you MUST hold your breath in the confines of your own car until you pass Gary,Indiana and head north-east to Kalamazoo, Michigan which is worth the stop unless you go on 40 minutes to Battle Creek on I-94 the home of "Kellog's Cereals" and "Post" cereals.
If you are a Detroit Tiger fan, keep going east on I-94 to Motown, Detroit City,on the Canadian Border of Windsor Bridge.I blew the photo to gigantic size and its a bad print, but yeah, the right hand lane goes north east on I-94.
WHICH IS NOT MY real IDEA of a FUN TIME.
Here is my suggestion- and here is the map.Look at the southern -most point to find it.
Sharm-El-Sheik is in Egypt, the southern tip of the Sinai desert. The Sinai Desert notice is south of Israel and Jordan, 3 times the size of Israel. Besides Sharm El-Sheik and DiZahav  more north on the same coast, you  will find no so-called civilization like burger king andMcDonald's, Pepsi and Coca Cola for sure but who wants to pay $567 dollars for a bottle of warm Coke in the midst of a desert?"That's what the market bears".
North of Sharm el-Sheik you will find Gebel Musa (Mountain of Moses in Arabic) or the supposed Mount Sinai.
Right on the beach off the coast a bit, or going to the nearby Islands is supposed to be some of the world's  best scuba diving. I don't scuba dive, and for that you need a "hookah" hardly an original name, but the scuba divers stole the name from us as a name for some great air apparatus. I've seen photos in National Geographics from 40 years back underwater here by David Doubliet who I read some where died recently. He went back there a number of times to dive, collect and shoot beautiful photos under water. The fish their are tropical, have no teeth and are amazingly colourful.
Now you are probably asking yourself how a world class chump like me know about Gary, Indiana but where does he get to mouthing off about the Red Sea Coast? The truth is, I never flew there, or took a bus, or drove .And there are no trains going there. I didn't swim either. I just put my nose in the air, looked due south and followed my thumb or finger as they do in the Middle East.
Lets get back to hookahs. There are tribes of Bedouin who don't consider themselves Arabs, but are all Moslems. They could be what was left of the time 3,770 years ago and even before, while Israel were  still slaves in Egypt of the "Nabatean" civilization. In english they are called Nabatean. In Hebrew Navat (Nabat) is a wanderer, and also means I forget in english, yes "Navigator" as in ship navigator, airplane navigator, or navigating the desert.
Hey…lookee here NAVAT in Hebrew NAVIgator¬† in English.Same root word and that's no coincidence.Like "Jubalee" in english is Yuval (Yubal) in Hebrew.We can interchange the Bet to a Vet.(B to a V).
And the Bedouin sure know how to navigate the Sinai Desert.On foot, camel mostly and jeep too.
Now I  can and will show you pictures of Sharm El-Sheik which again are only on the Sea coast of the Red Sea. Tourists from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Europe, come in on planes. Lucky strike for them.
This is a kilometer from Sharm El-Sheik.See?Nothing but desert one kilometer from all the rich hotels and night clubs.Thousands of hookahs on sale, great shisha tobacco at lower prices than you pay in Europe or America, but while you CAN bring your hookah home through customs and  not get hassled at all or pay a cent in tax since they see hookahs all day long in customs and know that they are cheaper a bit.Do not bring any shisha.It sounds like hashish, smells exotic, right? And of course has fruit, which is not nice to bring into any country fruit from abroad! Smoke a lot of shisha in Sharm El-Sheik, see the blue sky as wide across as Texas.(There I go again), The  mountain range of the African Divide which I mentioned in a previous post as the Moab range. This is true , but the African Rift range encompasses it all down to Sinai.
If you know who Ricky Martin is, please raise your hand.I don't.
Looks like a front shop for exchanging foreign hot, warm, and cold currency which must come there from all directions of the Middle East and Africa.
Flag of Egypt : These are for the hookah smokers I'll bet! Here you see the airport in the middle of the desert.
Sharm El-Sheik from the plane view. A swimming pool?Would you bring your own ground wheat to Iowa usa or the Ukraine? Would you bring your own sandwhich from home to a restaraunt?
There is no industry except tourism 100% to pollute the water. Did you ever see a fish pish? Not even from the diving board! this water is clear as daylight.
So you ask yourself, how it is that I know all about Interstate I-94 without peeking (honestly) on the   search engines for directions, talk about the wide expanses of Texas, and get right down to the real nitty-gritty of the Sinai desert and Sharm-el Sheik. "El-Sheik" I knew what it meant, the Sheik or Chief. I was trying to figure out the word "Sharm" and anyone who speaks perfect Arabic can correct me, but a "Sharmouta" is Arabic for a a female servant (server)who has special talents. !!!So my guess is Sharm means the male version the "Servant of the Sheik".I'll look it up. In Hebrew too Sharet same root word is server.
Now, I have passed through as quick as possibly at least 50 times Gary,Indiana, passed thru Texas as quickly as you can sing "Waltz across Texas with you by my side".(Great song). And…I have never seen all of these hotels, palm trees stores or airport, but sure as heck have been a few times in Sharm El-Sheik. In 1972¬† I was on the Suez Canal shouting distance from Egyptian soldiers. We would wave during the day to each other. Poor guys had to do 5 years service and we only 3 years.I pitied them. What scared me the most was the plastic-nylon bags from our bags of sliced bread that got loose in the wind and caught down below by the water in the barbed wire.We would stand in a trench for 4 hours night time trying not to fall asleep in the heated wind so we drank liters of Turkish coffee to stay awake¬† which gave me the nervous jitters and then the rustle of a plastic bag on the barbed wire could be Egyptian commandoes. I was there around 4 months , but exactly a year later, in 1973 Yom Kippur¬† Holy Day which comes in a few days from now the commandoes from Egypt really did come, and in daylight too.
I first got to Sharm El-Sheik in 1974 when I got out of the army and came back there again when my brother was  stationed on one of the missle boats there, his future wife was working on radar, and my sister was in the navy too as a sports director. We are all living in the same little village today near Bethleham in Israel.
So Sharm El Sheik didn't even have tourists then, just a group of young guys out of the army making big money comparatively building roads from Sharm El-Sheik up north to Israel. I think these white houses were navy dormitories, and this is about a kilometer away from Sharm as I remember it. If you are Israeli and reading this, I'll finish with a true joke.
p.s. I have a mountain named after me in the sinai desert off the coast north of El-Tur which you can see on the west coast of the southern side of the Sinai.I was (Again) back in the army this time as a reservist on the Red Sea, 7 of us in a tent on the Red Sea.This is around 1976 right before I married.I was given permission to go on a hike.I skirted the coastal road and put¬† my rifle on my back, and started to climb a typical Sinai hill whcih is very sharp and rocky.A stones throw from the Red Sea..Well I climbed higher to another ridge and to another and another where I judged that I would get a beautiful view of the Red Sea from high above. No summit, so it was a choice of going down these very sharp rocks or reaching the plateau and…oh hell I was quite adventerous then, but still as dumb as today. It got darker as I climbed higher and higher and higher..Finally night time. I took out 3 bullet magazines and emptied all the red tracer bullets into one magazine. Tracers are so bright red and travel really slow from far away like a 2 kilometer¬† laser light show at night. Sure enough the guys in the patrol, only 6 left besides me came in 2 jeeps along the coastal road. I shot a burst of¬† tracer bullets directly¬† above me so they'd know my position, and they yelled with a horn that they'd be back in the morning.
Well, it was about 8:30PM and morning was yet a long while. I noticed that I was actually laying on a very small ledge on this hill-mountain  way above the Red Sea lapping waves at the foot of the road so peacefully.I was afraid, no, certain that if I fell asleep and rolled a bit, I'd end up quickly on the road far below smashed 20 feet from the sea. Then during the night I decided that I would talk my  2 years girlfriend into marrying me. I was 23 and she 19 on our communal farm.That's how it ended up!!When morning came and I saw how narrow the ledge was, and  how high up I was, it was even scarier.A few hours later some guys from another unit called me from above not too far at all with ropes in their hands, snappling we call  it.Same in english? And I more was pulled up than climbed even though I had extremely strong legs from years in the infantry, and running long distance as a hobby, on the ledge all night I was cramped physically and emotionally too.
They jokingly called this mountain Jabal Mussa .Like I said before, in Arabic Jabal is a large hill or mountain.Mussa is Moses and my first name is Moshe (Moses-Mussa).It means to draw out or take out just as Moses was called by the daughter of Pharoah who drew him out of the water.Pharoah's daughter was called "Batya" "The daughter of G-D" which is my eldest granddaughter's name too!
No fiction, no embellishments only facts have I written here!
Below is Sharm as it was in 1976.
Hookah 1  This is S. Katherine's Church-Shrine where suposedly the mount Sinai is, but the Torah states that G-D hid it physically after the Revealing of the Torah to Moses there and Moses Gave it to the Israelites. Anyhoo, you can see what I mean by shaggy, sharp rock ridges, and this is a far away picture.
This is exactly what "My" mountain looks like, but its a coast 8 hours drive or so straight from Sharm to southern Israel, and the same north west toward Egypt..
I was on the West Sinai coast (See the above map) north of El-Tur about an hours drive by jeep and across from Abu-Rhodeis,Egypt.Boy did I have one great holiday there in the army that time around. Tenting out, 7 friends, 50 meters from THE beautiful toquoise-blue Red Sea.Guard duty was a pleasure, we climbed up a bit some rocky steps and just loked out at the peaceful torquois-blue "Red Sea" which is really in Hebrew  "Sea of Reeds". Some topographer dropped an "e".
Sharp, jagged ridges.For me its been 32  and a  half years in my past.
Who trim's Abdul Rachman's beard so well?
This takes real talent both for the horse and the man.
I 've seen this online for more than a year. If you are viewing it, this means that the cheif censor okay'ed it. Aestetically its beautiful, and as a hookah smoker all the  more.
That is an ineresting story. I was touring in Sharm El Sheik 2 years ago. Yes friend like you show in the photos it is even more beautiful place.
Wonderful town of Sharm El Sheik. Many Arab tourist come its true. Very good atmosphere to relax.Yes you can buy good shisha pipes there and nakhla is fresh in the big round containers.
It is so pretty there, and the islands for diving. Lots og the nargeela smokers only go south as far to Di Zahav and campout cool it on the free beach, no hotel to pay for, but you are inside the view.
And I thought that Sinai is in Iran somewhere. Good thing you wrote here. Sounds like a fine place to smoke and chill out.


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You know when you are getting dressed up for a special night out and just before you leave you see yourself in the mirror and feel pretty pleased with the way you look?
During the course of the evening someone takes a photo of you – you see it and think DEAR LORD NO this is not how I thought I looked at all. You see the flaws, maybe some wrinkles and the fixed grin.
…. And yet there are times, when someone has taken a photo in an unguarded moment, from across the room, you are totally unaware of the camera – your smile is genuine and the wrinkles & flaws disappear because all you see is your naturalness… it's the person you liked in the mirror at the beginning of the evening.
So this is the reason I became a photographer of people: I want to recreate that 'unguarded moment' – the one that makes you smile and makes you feel great about yourself. It's that simple!
All my life I have been told that I have a natural gift of putting people at ease (and making children giggle) and my clients tell me it's the main reason they book me.
A portrait sounds rather formal but it doesn't need to be .. let me show you how I can create beautiful, natural cherished memories of ALL your family , on all the special occasions.


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