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Turns Out the Long Goodbye Wasn't All That Long: Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe Returns In New Novel
By James Camp • 02/20/14 11:30am
Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. (Courtesy imfdb.org)
Raymond Chandler had ambitions for the detective novel. "Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic," he wrote in 1940 in "The Simple Art of Murder," and Chandler, who died in 1959, thought his genre stood as good a chance as any of getting reality right. Later in that manifesto, he compares its practitioners to Aeschylus and Shakespeare. As Chandler remarked, famously, of Dashiell Hammett, "[He] did … what only the best writers can ever do. He wrote scenes that seemed never to have been written before." If newness was what Chandler looked for, he must have been pleased with what he saw happening at his typewriter. Though he started out writing for pulp magazines, Chandler's fiction eventually won an audience that defied categorization. In 1955, the Daily Express canvassed its readers for their favorite lowbrow, middlebrow and highbrow celebrities. As Chandler later wrote, "Marilyn Monroe and I were the only ones that made all three brows."
Chandler was a stylist, but that wasn't what made him as famous as Monroe. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean," as Chandler put it in "Simple Art." "He is the hero, he is everything." His great hero is Philip Marlowe, the Los Angeles private investigator. Marlowe made his debut in The Big Sleep in 1939, and in the fiction Chandler wrote after that, he is everything. He is also everyman, a new kind of detective, less a rationalist in search of an answer than a guy trying to keep his cool. This is, in a nutshell, the difference with Sherlock Holmes. When, late in Big Sleep, Marlowe gets home and discovers the nymphomaniac rich girl naked in his bed, he lights a cigarette and pours himself a drink. He studies his chessboard—practically his sole possession. Eventually, he asks the girl how she broke into his apartment. When she explains, Marlowe says, "Now I know how you got in tell me how you're going to go out." That is what is meant by hardboiled.
After she leaves, "I put my empty glass down and tore the bed to pieces savagely." The scene is over the top but typical of Marlowe, who is a creature of inhibitions. Chandler has an interesting way of making him recite his inner thoughts while sounding like he wished to hell he wouldn't. He is weird about women ("Women made me sick"), whom he often finds occasion to slap, and he doesn't like homosexuals either. In Big Sleep, there are forebodings of a "fag party." One might see in these the standard failings of a man who died just short of the '60s, but they're also important to Marlowe's truculent, antisocial persona. There is weirdness from Chandler, too. His metaphors are ridiculous even when they're brilliant. Of an ex-con in Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler writes, "He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake." It is the poetry of a mind that has spent a lot of time hanging out in diners.
The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has identified that sentence as an object of his particular admiration. You'd think that all the hang-ups with which Chandler saddled the figure of Marlowe would have made him tricky for later artists to embrace, but of course the opposite has happened. Freed from his creator, Marlowe lives on abundantly. There have been movie adaptations, by Howard Hawks and Robert Altman (among others), television series, radio serials, innumerable pastiches and even a video game. Some Marlowes are hard to forget. Humphrey Bogart's face, in Hakws's Big Sleep is still the first thing most people associate with Chandler's hero. It doesn't always go well. In 1991, the late crime writer Robert B. Parker, the dean of Chandler admirers, wrote Perchance to Dream, a sequel to Big Sleep. Reviewers were unkind. "If Raymond Chandler had written like Robert B. Parker," wrote Martin Amis in The New York Times, "he wouldn't have been Raymond Chandler. He would have been Robert B. Parker, a less-exalted figure."
In his new novel, The Black-Eyed Blonde, John Banville, under the pen name Benjamin Black, tries to out-Parker Parker by succeeding in being Chandler. His hero is Philip Marlowe, his milieu is mid-century Los Angeles, and his title derives from an entry in one of Chandler's notebooks. As spin-offs go, Mr. Black's is scrupulous, and readers who have spent time in Chandlerland before will recognize a man who knows the custom of the country. There's a mystery blonde, a dubious death and an accumulating pile of corpses. The people with money have no principles, and the people with principles have no money. (In noir terms, this is Economics 101.) All of the essential ingredients are there, afloat in a tumbler of Santa Monica sleaze.
Mr. Black is not an obvious candidate to take over from a long-dead genius of American slang. For one thing, he is Irish. He is also a bit of a highbrow. His last novel (as Mr. Banville), The Infinities (2009), was about the Gods. But as anybody who knows Mr. Banville's fiction—a rogues' gallery of frauds and
usurpers—could tell you, impersonation is his forte. Indeed, he can ape Chandler seemingly at will. "It's part of the story of my life," his Marlowe thinks, "sitting in cars late at night with stale cigarette smoke in my nostrils and the night birds crying." It's all there—the weariness, the romance, the detached despair. But Mr. Black can also make words do things Chandler could only dream of. Unlike the master, he has eyes for nature: "The rain was making the water in the lake look like a bed of nails," Mr. Black's Marlowe thinks. That's a new note, but it isn't a false one.
The plot of Black-Eyed Blonde, in classic Chandler fashion, is bleak and just short of clever. (Chandler didn't like a clever plot. It distracted too much from the bleakness.) The blonde (an heiress, married, beautiful) hires Marlowe to track down a lover who has run out on her. Only the lover turns out to be dead. Then he turns out not to be dead. Then he turns out, or so it seems, not to be her lover. Soon darker forces than the blonde are on the hunt for the undead cad, with the result being that Marlowe gets beat up a lot. "An ache is an ache," he thinks. A knight at heart, Marlowe, as usual, finds himself a pawn in someone else's endgame. "I seemed to know a lot of people who had understandings with each other," he thinks. He never gets paid.
Mr. Black has chosen to close out a storyline left dangling by The Long Goodbye, and it will no doubt thrill or outrage Chandler's devotees, as will other changes. Marlowe still drinks and smokes but is otherwise a warmer figure: gay-friendly, nonracist and a quoter of poetry. He has even shaped up on the woman front. The eyes of the title blonde are "a lustrous shade of seal-black that made something catch in my throat." That comes in the first scene, like a warning shot across the bows. The only thing the old Marlowe's throat ever caught on was tar.
For nonpartisans, however, the fun lies in watching two styles tangle, and in the small effects—the "juicy sob" of a weak young man or an old cop captured in a line: "a shapeless wad of weariness and melancholy and the occasional sudden rage." With an artfulness worthy of the original, Mr. Black has made it new, though he doesn't forget whom he owes. The villains have fake British accents, Chandler Boulevard comes up, and there's even a reference to the movie Double Indemnity, whose screenplay Chandler wrote. "Lies are life's almost-anagrams," says the narrator of Shroud, his 2002 novel (as Mr. Banville). And Black-Eyed Blonde is rich in anagrammatic allusions to the game it plays.
Some of this might seem a bit cerebral for noir, but the eye for imposture is pure Chandler. "Pictures have made them all like that," as Marlowe thinks of the "elaborately casual voice" of one hoodlum in Big Sleep, and in all his books, Chandler reminds us that toughness is a form of phoniness. It was his genius. Plenty of people can write noir, but it took Chandler to see what lay on the far side of the darkness; that's what makes his writing literature. It's also why The Black-Eyed Blonde, like all the best Marlowe works, ends with a revelation of "how soft you are, how soft you'll always be." Fans of Marlowe will recognize this insight, though it isn't what you'd call hardboiled. By imitating what counts, Mr. Black shows us that Chandler wasn't always Chandleresque.
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I am staying in Kerala-South India almost 2 years. I love foods and try new culinary. Kerala is food paradise city. The foods taste influenced by a delicious Arabian, Malabari, British and French. And because of these, Kerala also known as "Land of Spices". Kerala Cuisine caters to vegetarians and non-vegetarians dishes prepared using fish, poultry, and red meat with rice a typical accompaniment.
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And The famous foods from India and always in my mind is "Chicken Biryani" and I really like it. For me this food we called "nasi kuning". Maybe because I familiar with rice. Chicken Biryani is non vegetarian dish made with moderate spices and tender chicken pieces. Sometimes add with egg also. My Suggestion, Don't eat this menu alone. You need ask someone to join to finish this foods because this food is too much portion for 1 person.
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Review – The Cityborn by Edward Willett
POSTED ON July 1, 2017 BY Austine IN Book Review
The Cityborn
by Edward Willett
Published on July 4, 2017 by Daw Books
Genres: Adult, Dystopian, Science Fiction
Two young individuals must uncover the dark secrets of their stratified city in this suspenseful sci-fi standalone
The metal City towers at the center of the mountain-ringed Heartland, standing astride the deep chasm of the Canyon like a malevolent giant, ruled with an iron fist by the First Officer and his Provosts in the name of the semi-mythical Captain. Within its corroding walls lies a stratified society, where the Officers dwell in luxury on the Twelfth Tier while the poor struggle to survive on the First and Second, and outcasts scrabble and fight for whatever they can find in the Middens, the City's rubbish heap, filling the Canyon beneath its dripping underbelly.
Alania, ward of an Officer, lives on Twelfth. Raised among the privileged class, Alania feels as though she is some sort of pampered prisoner, never permitted to explore the many levels of the City. And certainly not allowed to leave the confines of the City for any reason. She has everything a young woman could want except a loving family and personal freedom.
Danyl, raised by a scavenger, knows no home but the Middens. His day-to-day responsibility is to stay alive. His sole ambition is to escape from this subsistence existence and gain entrance to the City--so near and yet so far out of reach--in hopes of a better life.
Their two very different worlds collide when Alania, fleeing from an unexpected ambush, plunges from the heights of the City down to the Middens, and into Danyl's life.
Almost immediately, both of them find themselves pursued by the First Officer's Provosts, for reasons they cannot fathom--but which they must uncover if they are to survive. The secrets they unlock, as they flee the Canyon and crisscross the Heartland from the City's farmlands to the mountains of the north and back again, will determine not only their fate, but the fate of the City...and everyone who lives there.
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I've finally read a dystopian that I've enjoyed. Well, I suppose it's technically sci-fi but it FELT like a dystopian with the whole world-ending, have to overthrow the government vibes.
The Cityborn is told from the alternating perspectives of Alania, raised on the highest tier of the city, and Danyl, raised quite literally in the trash well below the floating metal monstrosity. It took a number of chapters to really get into the story as the author begins when both are mere infants and takes a couple chapters when they're preteens and again as teenagers, before finally reaching adulthood, to detail their lives. Once you make it through those, the story begins to pick up and I was mostly hooked.
I can't say I was entirely invested until the very end, to be honest, because the pacing of this book is very slow. Any quickening of it was a reason for excitement. Much of the story involves the characters wandering through some part of the highly contained (and unexplained) world. This wasn't the worst thing to read about except that the world is never really provided in the details beyond what the scene needs. It took until quite literally the end of the book to learn anything beyond the basics of the City, and this was done in an info dump way (though it works with the situation it's presented in).
Because of all that, I'm glad the two characters weren't kept apart very long because they have a really interesting dynamic. They feel a kinship for the situation they're in together and had I been forced to read their perspectives where they do everything on their own, the book wouldn't have worked for me.
Alania was pampered all her life but she has a strong heart and the will to do what it takes to figure out what's going on and save her life. But she wouldn't have survived long without Danyl, and he needed a friend (as well as someone who knew the City). They needed each other, though I got really tired of reading the whole "are we siblings or can we be romantically involved" scenario that came up several times over in their early days of knowing each other. Gave me Clary/Jace (Mortal Instruments) vibes but thankfully the author didn't handle it how I expected (which is a good thing, mind you).
Honestly, I think the ending sealed the deal for me on The Cityborn. I wasn't necessarily invested until then but it really brought the story full circle and those details made this book stand out in its uniqueness for me. Though slow, the writing is well done and the fact that there isn't a lot of background information on the world or the characters (more so the secondary ones), those gaps kept me reading hoping for answers.
My final issue with this book is that it does not look like there will be a sequel and the ending wrapped everything up so quickly that I felt it needed to either be slowed down during this book (which clearly didn't happen) or explained in a sequel. But I'd definitely recommend The Cityborn, especially for fans of sci-fi looking to branch into dystopian, and for readers like me who are tired of the typical dystopians out there.


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SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR RESIGNS
ONCE REVERED AGENCY NOW EXPOSED AS
BEING IN DISARRAY
SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR PIERSON HAD TO
RESIGN AFTER EXPRESSIONS OF "LOST CONFIDENCE"
FROM PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
TAGS: SECRET SERVICE SECURITY BREACHES,
DIRECTOR FORCED TO STEP DOWN,
MORE DETAILS EMERGE ABOUT SECURITY LAPSES,
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE SECRET SERVICE?
(Wednesday October 1, 2014 Washington, DC) There are no greater spectacles in this town than Congressional hearings that follow closely on the heels of a scandal. Congressmen and Senators sit like an assembly of morally supreme inquisitors gifted with the wisdom of the ages toiling on behalf of the public good while pretending to investigate the scandal du jour while a string of "witnesses" are called before them to be scrutinized and excoriated for errors of commission and omission. The august panel is actually composed of some of the most corrupt, self-serving sleaziest politicos in the country. Yesterday's villain was U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson called on to address a recent incident in which a man scaled a fence and entered the White House. Director Pierson said that such an intrusion was "unacceptable" and told the congressional committee that she takes "full responsibility." Good, she should take full responsibility for such an egregious breach of White House security. But, some of the very same Congress members who grilled her during the hastily called House Oversight Committee have dirty, soiled hands in the growing dysfunction of the Secret Service. Congress has repeatedly denied a higher budget for the Secret Service and have themselves been guilty of impeding the Service's capabilities. If there was even a marginally productive and engaged Congress here actually carrying out their oversight obligations as our Constitution mandates, perhaps there would not be such widespread dysfunction ineptitude and unaccountability as there exists in the massive federal bureaucracy.
Director Pierson was unable to survive the controversies as more details emerged about serious lapses in the Presidential security detail. Late yesterday it was revealed that a private security contractor with a felonious history was on the same elevator as President Obama while he was visiting the CDC in Atlanta last week. This private contractor had a loaded firearm on his person which is a breach of such proportions that Pierson's tenure as the Service's Director was no longer tenable. Given the fact that President Obama has received three times as many death threats than any other president in history made these huge lapses of security at the White House and with the Presidential Protective Detail all the more alarming. She spoke with the President by phone earlier today and submitted her resignation to the Director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Jeh Johnson, under whose sprawling bureaucratic domain the Secret Service has been part of since the founding of the DHS in 2002.
A PROUD TRADITION TARNISHED
In some law enforcement circles and the public's conscience the Secret Service has always been highly regarded and respected. The men and women who literally place themselves in harm's way, willing to take a bullet for the president, any member of the "first family" or whatever dignitary they are assigned to, have commanded a level of respect consummate with their assigned and vital mission. It was only after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that the "modern" Secret Service was born. That death of a president, a president like every other they were responsible to protect ushered in a new approach in their core mission of providing an iron clad protective bubble for the president of the United States.
In the morbid, shameful wake of the assassination of JFK, the Secret Service responded by creating a new breed agency staffed by a new breed of agents. The Secret Service became the forerunners tactically and operationally with a renewed mission to never again allow a president to be vulnerable to an assassin's bullet or any other lethal threat.
In retrospect we see just how innocent we were as a society when JFK was shot and killed as he sat in a convertible limousine on that bright and sunny Texas November afternoon. There was no fault to be laid on the threshold of the Secret Service; it just wasn't within anyone's realm of thinking that such a tragic event could happen. What impacted the Secret Service the most was that the sinister ambition of one man, Lee Harvey Oswald, could bring down a presidency. Yes, to this day conspiracy theorists argue with the findings and final report of the Warren Commission. We are all entitled to our own opinions but, in a city such as our nation's Capital, secrets are hard to keep for a period of weeks let alone decades. When JFK was transported to Parkland Hospital and the young trauma surgeons on duty realized the extent of the damage to President Kennedy's head and brain they knew he would not survive even their most valiant efforts. It was within hours after JFK had been pronounced dead that the "new" Secret Service was born. Those in charge of the agency at the time made vows and committed themselves to a higher mission objective than they had been tasked before that dreadful day in Dallas. And, with all due respect, they have performed admirably until just a few years ago.
Once a model for what a professional, federal security agency could do, within the past 5 years there has been one embarrassing incident after another with several of these incidents involving members of the Presidential detail and the first wave unit that scouts out the location the president is next planning to appear. One episode involved a team of advance agents getting intoxicated and using the services of local prostitutes in South America. One agent was so intoxicated that he passed out leaving his credentials and firearm unattended. Several similar episodes have transpired each more disturbing than the one previous.
SECRET SERVICE: LONG HISTORY OF SPEAKING WITHOUT LISTENING
Aside from the presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland, Camp David, the president travels to New York City more often than any other destination. The Secret Service has a Field Office here, second in size only to that at the White House and combined Personnel Protective Detail. In law enforcement it is never easy to share a jurisdiction with another agency; turf wars are not uncommon and simply working out a logistics protocol and providing security can become contentious debates. Fortunately for NYPD, they have the best working relationship with the Secret Service outside of the Washington Metro Police and the other uniformed federal and local agencies that often create divisiveness and animus. When the mission is as important as proving protection for the president and his family on the move be it to a vacation, a fundraiser of to deliver his annual address to the United Nations General Assembly as well as providing assistance to the security personnel accompanying all the other heads of state and foreign dignitaries, the most capable professional men and women are usually assigned to those tasks. But, this is easier said than done and there are few NYPD Officers from the ESU, Intel Bureau and other Units who have not witnessed the hubris of the Secret Service. No agency no matter how well trained and equipped, no matter how lofty their mandate knows New York City anywhere near as well as the MOS of NYPD. It is Our City.
There have been disagreements (to be polite) of legendary proportions between top operation and command Brass of NYPD with their Secret Service "counterparts". It was not uncommon to have a Secret Service agent be assigned to a delegation protection unit during his or her first in a lifetime visit to Our City. So overwhelmed and distracted by all the stimuli in this environment there have been breaches of security that, if not for the timely intervention of well-seasoned NYPD Officers, there could have very well been an international crisis to deal with.
NEWLY APPOINTED ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE SECRET SERVICE, JOSEPH CLANCY
SEEN OPENING LIMO DOOR FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA IN 2009
In defense of the Secret Service, they have been victimized by shrinking budgets, stagnant wages as compared to other law enforcement agencies where than can be hired, a fairly large turnover rate either by attrition or choice. Complacency in an organization particularly one with the once rigorous standards of the Secret Service is a slow death. It leads to over-looking important matters they see as smaller, a lack of cohesion and trust among agents and generally a pervasive infection of low morale. The Congressional charade played itself out with all the usual suspects preening and pontificating into the TV cameras while expressing the proper blend of outrage, righteousness, and self-satisfaction. Director Pierson's resignation was inevitable and placing an "acting director" until a proper candidate is appointed will not do much systemically to an organization that has drifted so far from their core mission that lives were in danger.
We are living essentially in America on a "full time war-footing". The world has never before been so riddled with upheaval and widespread death, with conflicts, disease, and oppression. We have been engaged with radical extremists by whatever name they chose to call themselves since al Qaeda attack America on September 11, 2001. Perhaps it is this overlay of a world gone mad superimposed on the failings of the Secret Service that make all the awful breaches that much more chilling, reprehensible and frightening. We know that any and every terrorist group or lone wolf watches our news as a regular matter of fact. They use CNN, BBC, websites and other sources with which to gather intelligence to be used against us.
One can only imagine the repercussions if the White House intruder, Omar J. Gonzalez, a 42 year old Iraq war veteran was not apprehended by the coincidence of an off duty Secret Service Officer tackled him far into the Green Room. What if Gonzalez had instead and run up the stairs, which he passed, and entered the First Family's private residence? On November 11, 2011 another man, Oscar R. Ortega-Hernandez, shot seven rounds from a high powered rifle while he was in his parked car at a distance of 700 feet of the White House. Four of those rounds stuck the window panes of the Family Residence but it was only four days later when a custodial staffer brought the broken windows to the attention of the Secret Service that anyone had realized what had happened.
That such incidents have been able to be perpetrated given the high alert rate our government and military are allegedly observing only serve to make them that much more outrageous.
The "Acting Director" Joseph Clancy who had a long career with the Secret Service working for four different presidents has to immediately investigate these recent breaches and move systematically to overhaul old protocols and essentially retrain all the agents assigned to the President and ultimately all the agents in the Service. His task is no small fete and he will not have much, if any, Washington honeymoon with all the congressional and Senatorial sharks in the bloody water. At this time all we can do his with him well.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-service-safeguards-breached-white-house-intruder/story?id=25861810
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/white-house-fence-jumper-111438.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/armed-former-convict-was-on-elevator-with-obama-in-atlanta/2014/09/30/76d7da24-48e3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?hpid=z1
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/why-the-secret-service-blew-it-111296.html#.VCsryxZWXkc
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-fence-jumper-made-it-far-deeper-into-building-than-previously-known/2014/09/29/02efd53e-47ea-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.html
http://news.sky.com/story/1344793/us-secret-service-seven-recent-blunders
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-intruder-was-tackled-by-off-duty-secret-service-agent/2014/09/30/052fb86c-48b4-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html?hpid=z1
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article2357718.html
http://time.com/3449641/secret-service-scandal/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/politics/wh-secret-service-hearing/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/09/30/352707239/secret-service-chief-faces-questions-over-breaches-at-white-house
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-director-julia-pierson-hot-seat-n214726
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The first message sending was at the top of the hour, then repeated at the half hour.
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You may not be able to afford a Van Gogh or a Monet, but that's no reason to put up with a boring wall. As long as you live in your house, you will spend many hours of your life staring at the same wall, so you may as well make it interesting to stare at. You don't need a degree in interior design for that.
There's a lot you can do transform a plain, boring wall into something extraordinary, even with a meager budget. With that said, here are six ways to turn your wall from bare and dull to attractive and interesting.
Retro may be based on the things of the old, but it never really gets old. It has an elegance that transcends time. With a tasteful application, it can evoke a sense of nostalgia of the best things from the past.
For a retro-inspired design, you can use vintage pieces, like a '50s-style round clock, neon signs, vintage signs, and wall decals. One of the most popular retro wall decorations is hanging a gallery of vintage pieces over a long, usually bright couch.
If you don't have the patience to build a retro gallery, you can also use removable wall decals of old product posters, magazine covers, and vintage patterns to create your own retro wall.
There's nothing like art to add attraction to a plain, boring wall. The colors, lines, and elements of an artwork all mesh to create meaning that the viewer tries to discern. Art is not just for decoration, but also for engaging.
The first step to create a wall art gallery is to find the perfect spot. This is the sort of decoration that has the maximum impact when it's the centerpiece in a room. Next, make sure to choose artworks that are cohesive yet different from one another.
The frames you use is part of the decor, so you can't just randomly choose anything. Frames with common elements should be used. If you're not sure what that means, play it safe with plain black or white frames.
The artworks that you use should also have cohesion with rest of your interior decoration. Whether it's the color or the theme, the important thing is to achieve a balance of harmony and contrast.
It would a waste to just hang random art on your wall, so use art that you actually love. That will make the decoration so much better.
Instead of using scenic photos or paintings, why not create a photo gallery of your family pictures to spruce up your wall? It's much more personal and meaningful than just putting up beautiful yet random art on the wall.
You can cover one whole wall with picture after picture of your family members and your best moments together. The family gallery wall is not just for beautifying a boring wall; it's also a way to catalog your journey together as a family.
Aside from framed photos, you can also throw in a personalized family wall calendar to keep track of the all the important occasions in your lives. You can hang it together with your family pictures as a functional decoration.
Sometimes, it's the quality, not the quantity, that makes the decoration stand out. You don't have to use a lot of eye-catching pieces or loud colors and patterns to make your boring wall exciting. A few elegant pieces are all you need.
Before sconces were used for the primary purpose of lighting, but now they're more decorative than functional. They don't give off enough light to see clearly, but they help build the ambience in the room. Installing a couple of tasteful brass sconces on a plain wall can transform it into a minimalistic, elegant space. It has the same effect as that of adding a chandelier in a room.
If you want to create a fun, modern space, then patterns are the way to go. Patterns add depth to your space. You can also add colors to make your wall more attractive and exciting.
There are lots of patterns you use to capture the kind of theme that you want. For example, geometric patterns make the space look more clean and contemporary. On the other hand, curvy and wavy patterns give off a more abstract and relaxing feeling, especially when you use muted colors.
Use paint, stencils, or wallpapers to create the patterns you want, and inject some cheer into your boring wall. Here are 30 modern wall designs to get you inspired.
Take advantage of your artistic talents (or artistic friends) to transform your wall from dull to interesting. Paint a mural on your wall, and turn it into one big masterpiece. You can paint anything, from simple patterns to majestic sceneries.
With a mural, you no longer have to use other decorative pieces to spice up your. It's already completely transformed.
There are four different sheens for interior household paint: flat, eggshell, satin, and semigloss. An eggshell sheen is ideal for painting a mural. It has more luster than flat paint has and has less shine than semigloss has. It's also easier to clean and doesn't make wall imperfections as obvious.
Learn the basics of creating a mural through this quick, informative guide.
You don't have to spend thousands of dollars to make your boring walls interesting and exciting. You don't even have to be specially creative or gifted in the arts to do that. Create a vintage vibe with retro decorations, or go for a modern look with geometric patterns.
Personalize with a family wall gallery or get creative with an art-gallery wall or painted mural. Go for a classy, minimalistic look with elegant fixtures. With a few decorating tricks and design inspirations, you can spruce up your bare and dull walls.


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F=MA
Action = Reaction
Balanced & Unbalanced
Graphing Motion
Avgerage Speed
As a NASA engineer, you must design, build, and test a transport vehicle for future interplanetary missions.
How can we design and test vehicles that can land safely?
Forces affect the movement of an object.
A force is a push or a pull that can change an object's velocity. Heavy objects are harder to move and stop. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Newton's 1st Law of Motion
"Objects at rest, stay at rest. Objects in motion, stay in motion. With the same speed and direction,
unless acted upon by an unbalanced force."
If an object is moving, it will continue moving with a constant velocity (in a straight line and with a constant speed) unless a net force acts on it.
If an object is at rest, it will stay at rest unless a net force acts on it. Inertia is the tendency of the motion of an object to remain constant in terms of both speed and direction.
"Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia."
― James Thornton
More Mass,
More Inertia
It will take more force to change an objects direction; whether at rest or in motion.
Force = Mass x Acceleration
Force influences the shape and motion of an object.
Mass is the measure of the amount of matter in an object. Acceleration is the ratio of its change in velocity and time taken.
Ken Griffey Jr. quickly changes the direction of a fastball.
Are measured in Newtons (N) and is anything that will change the direction of an object. Every force is a push or pull. A magnet is a perfect example of both forces when lining up the North and South poles. Gravity pulls us to earth while a sumo wrestler may push you to defeat.
Changer of Motions
It is more difficult to change the direction of a heavy moving object. Heavy objects have more mass, and need more force in order to move them. The matter inside of you makes up your mass (you know all your molecules and stuff). Your weight is simply your mass multiplied by the force of gravity (9.8m/s squared) That is why you weight less on the moon, but still matter just the same.
The Matter Within
The result of all forces acting on an object. How fast does it pick up speed? Average speed = Distance divided by Time (s=d/t). But a drag ca racer going 0-60mph in 4 seconds does not have an average speed, it varies. Acceleration is the Average of the initial speed, and the final speed.
Faster and Faster
If you know any 2 of these, you can solve to find the other.
Force is measured in Newtons
Mass in Killograms
Acceleration in meters per second squared.
Action - Reaction
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
-Sir Isaac Newton
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This delicate sky blue shirt will go beautifully with a navy blue suit, for a style that's both chic and classical. A slim fit cut, Milanese collar and simple cuffs decorated with gorgeous deers give it a particularly original style. It will be the touch of discreet charm in your wardrobe.


"Bryan was recommended to me by a friend. My husband and I loved our photos and will be asking Bryan to take more photos in the future." – Samantha and Luke.
"We met Bryan at the park and he was great at capturing our family's personality. We will cherish the pictures he took for many years! I HIGHLY recommend him for any photography needs you have!" – Michelle and Michael.


Juliet Langley enjoys managing Nashville's Java Jive coffeehouse, but she loves her challenging new part-time job as a licensed private investigator. Working at her friend Maya Huxley's agency, Juliet's newest assignment has her working undercover to discover how and why one of the partners of Wonder-Gen Fabricators is funneling money into the accounts. It's Juliet's first case working alone, but scrubbing office toilets while disguised as a nighttime cleaner is not exactly the glamorous job she may have envisioned.
A former music major with a degree in vocal performance, Juliet Langley has become accustomed to changing careers and starting over. Although she may be a talented singer, paralyzing stage fright has her working in her second-favorite passion, the food and restaurant industry. The café she owned failed, not because of her stellar professional skills, but as a result of her poor personal judgment in trusting the fiancé who stole all of her savings.


Whittle away a few days soaking up the local sights of river life aboard a luxurious vessel cruising down the Mekong Delta while exploring Vietnam's quieter side in its rural heart. Witness everyday life on the delta's rivers with floating markets, boats and even floating homes passing you by on your journey through the waterways.
Possibly the most civilised form of travel (if done well) take in the spectacular scenery of the Rockies and West Canada's glacial lakes, snow-capped mountains, river canyons and forests on a train trip aboard the Rocky Mountaineer, complete with gourmet food, British Columbian wine and unbeatable views throughout your journey.
Lace up your walking boots and head to Epirus in northwest Greece where you can hike through Vikos Gorge, the world's deepest canyon. The scenery may be the main draw but there's also over 3,000 species of flora and fauna to be admired in this region. Next up is Meteora, home to jaw-dropping ancient monasteries perched precariously on narrow clifftops.
'Tis the season of le Tour de France, and with that comes a certain worldwide cycling obsession. Cycle through Spain's Emporda region, winding through medieval towns, vineyards and olive groves with an expert vinicultural guide in tow. On yer bike!
Feel at one with nature and saddle up on a riding safari across Kenya's stunning central highlands in Laikipia to access remote areas that a 4x4 cannot reach, galloping alongside incredible game aboard a trusty steed.
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Q: ggplot2 - Insert title using file names I need to plot several tables, in order to automatize the process, I would like to  use the files names and insert it as the title for each plots.
For example, the file names has the following naming scheme:
almourol_gfdl-esm2m_rcp8p5_daily_ref.csv

My desired output, should looks like that:
Almourol daily discharge ref. period

For the moment I am using the following code:
almourol_ref <- read.table("almourol_gfdl-esm2m_rcp8p5_daily_ref.csv", header = TRUE, sep = ";", fill = TRUE)
library(ggplot2)
library(reshape2)
library(tools)
title = file_path_sans_ext("almourol_gfdl-esm2m_rcp8p5_daily_ref.csv")
title = strsplit(title, "_")
title = noquote(title)
title = paste(title[1],title[4], "discharge",title[5], period)
almourol_ref <- melt(almourol_ref, id.vars="DAYS")
png("almourol_ref.png", width = 600, height = 400)
p <- ggplot(almourol_ref, aes(DAYS,value, col=variable))
p + geom_line(size = 0.1) +
  geom_hline(aes(yintercept = 0), linetype="dotted") +
  ylab("Runoff [m3/s]") +
  xlab("Day") +
  theme_bw() +
  theme(legend.key = element_blank())+
  scale_color_discrete(name='Models GCM_HM') +
  ggtitle(title)

Unfortunately it does not work and any title is added to the graphs. Any ideas or hints are more than welcome.
Please find a minimal example of the data:
DAYS;GWFDisi;GSWIM;GGAP3;GHYPE;GVIC;HWFDisi;HSWIM;HGAP3;HHYPE;HVIC;IWFDisi
1;-308.78;-183.19;-232.48;-233.22;-150.38;-596.49;-311.58;-571.41;-387.63;-315.43;-451.26
2;-348.52;-192.39;-314.68;-231.67;-147.88;-563.14;-335.39;-558.46;-423.13;-355.14;-501.58
3;-416.24;-211.68;-436.83;-232.73;-164.87;-537.54;-327.19;-465.70;-455.62;-403.40;-458.43
4;-459.95;-217.75;-486.37;-228.07;-202.23;-560.68;-359.07;-497.20;-481.41;-430.87;-475.76
5;-437.58;-219.63;-494.34;-223.27;-249.18;-613.41;-371.47;-457.38;-499.42;-433.01;-446.02
6;-470.20;-228.91;-503.95;-217.41;-292.13;-618.50;-381.87;-505.86;-505.63;-430.23;-440.30
7;-500.54;-245.91;-527.91;-226.86;-319.97;-599.95;-381.06;-416.05;-474.56;-431.76;-526.32

A: If you step through the code, line by line, it will be clear that something isn't working. In your case, the result of strsplit is a list of length 1, which holds the sliced vector. You can resolve this in a number of ways, one is to subset only the first element, or perhaps use unlist(title).
title <- "almourol_gfdl-esm2m_rcp8p5_daily_ref.csv"
title <- strsplit(title, "_")[[1]]
title <- noquote(title)
title <- paste(title[1],title[4], "discharge",title[5], "period")
title

[1] "almourol daily discharge ref.csv period"

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Home World Man who faced prison time for filming his wife cheating on him...
Man who faced prison time for filming his wife cheating on him with her boss was cleared of all charges
A cuckolded hubby who used the "Find My iPhone'' app to track down his straying spouse — and then barged into her lover's Rockland home and filmed them naked in bed together — was cleared of burglary and spying charges Tuesday.
Sean Donis, 37, wept as Rockland County Supreme Court Justice Kevin Russo found him not guilty after about 20 minutes of deliberation at the non-jury trial.
"Just thank God it's finally over,'' said Donis, a florist from Clifton, NJ. "Now I can finally
Donis' lawyer, Howard Greenberg, even went so far as to say his client deserved to be more than just cleared in court.
"He should get a medal for not acting out a crime of passion when he walked in on the scene he did," Greenberg said in his closing statement.
"In the end, it's a very simple case. … He commits trespassing that in the same jurisdiction is a violation, not a crime, and uncovered the greater evil of his wife screwing a stranger."
The suspicious hubby used the app to track down the family's iPad, which his wife, Nancy Donis, 38, had unwittingly taken with her to boyfriend Albert Lopez's home in April 2016.
Sean Donis said that when he arrived at Lopez's house, the front door was unlocked, and he went inside.
Prosecutor Nabeela McLeod asked Donis during cross-examination whether he had permission to enter Lopez's home.
"Define permission,'' Sean Donis said. "My wife was there. I rang the doorbell and knocked on the door. She could have been kidnapped, you never know."
McLeod replied, "But you said you wanted to catch her. You felt you had the right."
Donis shot back, "If my wife wasn't there, I wouldn't have gone in."
He entered Lopez's dimly lit master bedroom to find his wife and her boss naked in bed — and began filming them with his cellphone.
Lopez testified Friday that he was terrified of what Donis would do at the time. McLeod said in her closing statement that the scorned husband "wanted to embarrass, humiliate and degrade [the pair] as much as possible.''
But in his closing statement, Greenberg offered some common-sense advice to counter that notion, saying, "You can't be too scared of anything if you screw another guy's wife.
"When you engage in adultery, you assume the risk and thereby consent in being exposed,'' the lawyer argued.
He contended that his client actually "did a mitzvah'' — a good deed — by exposing Lopez's shenanigans with an underling. Lopez was the COO of Gotham City Orthopedics in Clifton at the time, and Nancy Donis was his billing manager.
Sean Donis had faced up to 15 years behind bars on charges of burglary and unlawful surveillance in the case.
A crew from the British public broadcasting network, the BBC, was on hand for Tuesday's verdict as part of a larger documentary series it is making.
"His life took a 'Me Too' in 2016 before there was a hashtag 'Me Too' movement,'' Greenberg said.
Neither Lopez nor Nancy Donis were in court Tuesday. Phone calls to numbers listed for them and their relatives either went unanswered or were immediately hung up.
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Q: Within what limits Github actions/cache work? I don't quite understand the extent to which Github actions/cache works, what I mean:
Caching works fine if I make a pull request and then in the same pull request I add 1 more commit, but if I create a new pull request in the same branch - the caching is reset and starts again, but why?
Is there any way to extend file caching to all yml files and so that each pull request uses existing caching?
Because to speed up the work it turns out - that developers always need to pour their work into one branch, and it somehow sounds like some nonsense.
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My caching key is formed as follows
- uses: actions/cache@v2
  id: composer-cache
  with:
     path: .github/docker/development/php-cli/composer/cache
     key: ${{ runner.os }}-develop-composer-${{ hashFiles('src/composer.lock') }}
     restore-keys: |
        ${{ runner.os }}-develop-composer-

A: Yeah, GitHub's cache action has unintuitive behavior across branches. Pull request workflows don't share, and tag workflows never get a cache hit.
Per the docs (useful bit made bold):

A workflow can access and restore a cache created in the current branch, the base branch (including base branches of forked repositories), or the default branch (usually main). For example, a cache created on the default branch would be accessible from any pull request. Also, if the branch feature-b has the base branch feature-a, a workflow triggered on feature-b would have access to caches created in the default branch (main), feature-a, and feature-b.

So the solution then is to make a separate workflow triggered by pushes to main — plus any base branches you like — just to keep a fresh cache available to pull requests and tags.


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Rob has worked in archaeology since 2001, initially training under the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service, becoming a Project Officer with Suffolk Archaeology CIC and now Cotswold Archaeology. During that time he also attended Southampton University, where he read for a BA Hons in Archaeology, studying a range of topics from Heritage Management, to European Prehistory, with a dissertation specialising in the Iron Age in East Anglia.
Since becoming a Project Officer, Rob has led a variety of fieldwork projects, many of which are currently in the process of publication. These include a medieval dyeing workshop in Lavenham, excavation of 16th century and 18th century Suffolk-type kilns at Euston Estate, a Roman burial site in Long Melford, excavations at the Saxon and medieval river front in Thetford, and excavation of a substantial part of the medieval and post-medieval settlement on the outskirts of Clare.
Rob also works to coordinate surveying for the team's various sites, as well as helping to maintain the OASIS record, in order to help with disseminating the results of the company's fieldwork to the public. He also enjoys working on Outreach projects, having been involved with various community excavations, as well as having helped to run talks with schools.
Rob led an excavation at the Guildhall Primary School in Bury St Edmunds, uncovering an interesting range of finds and features within the medieval core of the town. The site would have been within a backyard plot of a house fronting onto Bridewell Lane and such areas were typically not gardens as we think of them today, but functional, working spaces.
The most prominent feature on the site was the flint and mortar foundation of a small medieval building. This may have been the remains of a small kitchen or food store (built away from the house to minimise the risk of a fire spreading), or it could have been used for craft/industrial activities, such as weaving, baking, etc. After it went out of use it was demolished, being backfilled with large quantities of local pottery, animal bone, oyster and mussel shells, roof tiles and floor tiles.
Other features found on the site included quarry pits, dug to extract chalk (that would have been processed into lime for use in mortar) and a small hearth. Finds from the site were particularly interesting, including a gaming counter, a spindle whorl (used for weaving) and a possible chatelaine chain, as well as antler and bone working waste (some of which had been used to make buttons). A Boy Bishop token was also recovered. These were handed out at Christmas by an elected choirboy 'boy bishop' to be used for trading in local taverns and shops.


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Lețcana este un sat din județul Bacău, în prezent integrat în localitatea Racova.

Satul Lețcana este atestat documentar din anul 1774. Prin reforma administrativă din 1968 satul Lețcana a fost comasat cu satul Racova. Totuși localnicii mai folosesc și în prezent denumirea.

Satul Lețcana este situat la 2 km de Buhuși. Este traversat de râul Lețcana.

Referințe

 Comuna Racova - Lețcana

Localități din județul Bacău

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Little did you know, THIS is how I was feeling about taking off my warm beanie and coat. It was probably like 40 degrees out that day. And for a California girl like me, 40 degrees feels like 5. Also, I can't believe I just posted this silly picture!
Le Societe: One part Chambord, one part Herradura Agave Syrup, a spritz of lemon juice, and fresh blueberries. Also known as: absolutely delicious.
Nothing begins a day off like a morning filled with a hearty avocado, bacon and tomato skillet, with a side of fruit and a warm sourdough muffin.
Having lunch with me typically involves me embarrassing you by taking pictures of your food. Ah, the life of a blogger. The photo of this tasty Granada Salad from one of my all-time favorite restaurants, Crepevine, is courtesy of my friend. And don't worry, a food post on Crepevine is totally on it's way.
Now that you've all seen my with my naturally curly hair, do you remember when you used to see me like this? I happen to think I look the same, but some say it's like night and day. What do you think?
I don't like to take myself too serious. Smiling is my favorite.
I would like to thank each and every one of you for being a big part of my 2010. I started my blog in August, and I while I have thoroughly enjoyed working on all of my posts, I have to say one of the best parts about blogging has to be all of the relationships I have built with my blogger buddies. You guys are awesome, and I can't wait to share 2011 with each and every one of you.
I did an insane amount of wardrobe (etc.) cleaning too! First, at my parents' house back in CT, I tried to trash old, random "memorabilia" that I hoarded as a child. I filled up two heavy plastic bags with trash, another with clothes for goodwill, and had piles of shoeboxes and magazines. It sounds terrible and sloppy, but it wasn't all that bad....somehow I had this weird tendency to save all my shoeboxes and turn them into storage compartments.
That was before the ball dropped.
After the ball dropped, I came back to LA and cleaned out my current closet. I counted the number of clothing items that landed in the bag for goodwill...upwards of 70. Who can throw out that many items and still have a wardrobe?
And, at times, feel they've nothing to wear!
I get what you mean about going into the new year with clear priorities and a clutter free space. It feels so good to downgrade. I want to sweep through everything again - it would be nice to get down to bare minimum and get rid of all the excess.
Gorgeous outfit and the pics of all the food made me really hungry! happy new years!
That salad is making me so hungry. You have great style.
i love that second photo! i totally know how you feel - sometimes it stinks to take off your coat before taking photos!!
oh and that salad looks seriously delicious!
I love your last photo - so peaceful looking.
I'm glad you started the year in a good way, cleaning out your room and wardrobe has to be a great start. I always do mine in August time before the school year starts, although this year it was before my job started in order to start the year feeling calm and relaxed.
You've had a great year blogging and I wish you all the best for 2011. Also I love that last photo, beautiful lighting.
looks like you had an amazing meal, too!
happy new year - you look gorgeous!!
That cocktail looks amazing! And I love the picture of you in the cream dress with brown boots- so gorgeous.
You are such a beautiful lady. Can't wait to see more of you in 2011. Happy New Year. ps. that omelet made me sooo hungry!
Gorgeous photos!!!! That food looks amazing!!
Loving these pictures! Everything looks great!
I agree, when I decided to grow my blog past just my close family and friends I was NOT expecting to feel so rewarded by the "blogger friends" that I have made via this new venture. You have done so well for just beginning in August, keep it up!


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How Digital Publishing Is Challenging The Traditional Print Game
Dilina Amaruwan Culture & Identities June 10, 2017
With the internet taking over as the primary source of information in the world, devices that access this information superhighway have also become relatively commonplace. Someone had the bright idea that you should also read on these devices. Why not create a device specifically for reading, that could hold thousands of books? Released by Amazon in 2007, the Kindle has reached its eighth generation today. It's not even the only dedicated e-reading device anymore. The Canadian-Japanese Rakuten Kobo series and the Barnes & Noble Nook devices are also popular alternatives.
In the present day, e-books have grown into a multi-billion dollar market all on their own. There's no doubt that e-books were a game-changer, but it seems civilisation would not evolve without a few relapses. Some sources state that digital fatigue has set in, and that e-book sales are declining. However, the real story may be more complicated than that. The digital market has not stopped growing; it's simply diversified beyond the usual digital marketplaces, and has become harder to quantify.
With whole catalogues of giant, global sellers like Amazon available at the tap of a finger, e-books and e-readers have become an attractive proposition for the hungry reader. Will publishing follow suit?
Publishing In The Digital Medium Is Different
The Amazon Kindle has been an overall game changer. Image courtesy Amazon
Traditional publishing requires a great deal of circuitous labour. Once a manuscript is completed, an author is usually required to write a book proposal and then pitch it to countless agents and publishers until it is accepted. This process, where publishing houses act as gatekeepers of the publishing world, may take several years. If they don't think your work is worth investing in, it's dead in the water. If they do pick it up, the author hands over the manuscript, following which the publishing house uses its resources to edit and format the text, find cover art for it, print it, and market it.The publisher would typically print an initial number of copies and distribute it to points of sale. In this scenario, the publishing house retains most of the rights and royalties of the book.
The new, alternative route to publishing is one pioneered by Amazon, which has made publishing almost a DIY project with its Kindle Direct Publishing and Createspace platforms. The idea is that an author needs to simply digitally write and format their work into a single e-book and then upload it to Amazon's system. As the Amazon website says, "publishing takes less than 5 minutes and your book appears on Kindle stores worldwide within 24-48 hours."
According to Amazon, it's only a process of a few steps:
Format the manuscript.
Make sure it meets Amazon's content and quality guidelines.
Create an account on Kindle Direct Publishing
Upload your manuscript and enter the relevant metadata
Et voila! Your manuscript will be digitally published in 72 hours.
Amazon would then include it in their Kindle digital store to be bought and read by anyone with a Kindle or a Kindle app.
Why Go The Digital Route?
Mandy Jayatissa's steampunk novel.
"For me, the traditional publishing route just seemed exceptionally daunting," says Mandy Jayatissa, author of The Other One. Her digitally published steampunk novel—a subgenre of science fiction where steam-powered technology is commonplace—made its way to Amazon's hot new books list on day one and reached number three on Amazon's free sci-fi list following a free promo. Her novel tells the tale of a clockwork city called Mliss, which is on the brink of spinning out of control, and of the people in the centre of that crisis.
"This was the first time I've written anything for the public," says Jayatissa, "I wanted to get it out there and see what people thought as soon as possible, not spend time writing pitches to impress agents, and then wait around for months, or years, till my book goes into print."
The tale of Rohan Wijeratne, a suicidal alcoholic who volunteers to be sent into a black hole.
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, the author of The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne, says he found that most international publishers required a period of six months to evaluate a submission and to respond. A science fiction novel, The Slow Sad Suicide, is the tale of Rohan Wijeratne, a suicidal alcoholic who volunteers to be sent into a black hole. "Every writer speaks of years spent taking the book to market," says Wijeratne, "six months is an aeon. To speed up this process, I need contacts at international publishing houses, which I do not possess. I spent some time studying the principles of layout and design, and cover art, and obtaining ISBNs [International Standard Book Number] and such, and voila: it's up on Amazon."
Navin Weeraratne's third novel.
Author Navin Weeraratne also holds a similar belief. He is the author of three novels currently available on Amazon: The Ice Moon Explorer, Burning Eagle and The Hundred Gram Mission. The latter was widely lauded for its research and meticulous craftsmanship. It is a hard science story about the development of an interstellar mission, which touches on topics like antimatter and nanotechnology as well the politics between private and government enterprise.
Speaking to Roar, Weeraratne explained that his reasons for choosing digital publication were threefold: a much bigger market, very low cost, and the advantage of cutting past the gatekeeper culture of print publishing.
But what about local publishers? Does this mean the conventional route of paper publishing is already outdated in Sri Lanka? "What irked me is that local publishers do not seem to understand how fast the world is shifting towards these markets," says Wijeratne. "They treat this like yet another retail outlet. It's not. It's a mercurial and beautifully complex search engine that very few people know how to break, and certainly none that I've met here."
What Works Best In The Digital Medium?
Another reason behind the shift to the digital medium is genre. Genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and steampunk have little presence in the already small Sri Lankan English literature market. For authors in these spaces, having an avenue to the global market is very valuable. Sri Lanka's reading is overwhelmingly in Sinhalese, which excludes it from the global marketplace that deals mainly in English. Also, dedicated e-reader devices are too expensive and not available in the country, which limits the spread of e-books as a popular format.
Wijeratne questions whether an appreciable percentage of Sri Lankans spend money on English books by Sri Lankan authors. "Of that," asks Wijeratne, "how many are likely to pay for a Sri Lankan English science fiction author? I have a much better chance on Amazon by tapping into a worldwide audience of sci-fi fans."
According to Jayatissa, the support her work received on the digital platform was surprising. "It's safe to say that it was not anything like I expected at all," she says. "I didn't really know much about the geek/sci-fi community here prior to this, and the amount of support I've got has been overwhelming and humbling."
Although it sounds simple, selling on Amazon is no easy feat. It's not quite as straightforward as uploading your work and waiting for the money to roll in. There are thousands upon thousands of authors vying for the same readership worldwide. To have a worthwhile slice of that pie, you need to learn how to market your book in the digital space.
According to Wijeratne, "Optimal strategies for Amazon seem to point to publishing one novel a month, most of them in a series… and preferably having at least two series running in different genres. At least one book in a series ought to be provided free as a way for readers to sample the series (and an easy way to attract potential readers)."
Indeed, self-publishing through the digital space allows freedoms that traditional publishing would not. For example, you could offer promotions where you make your work available for a lowered price, or even for free, for a limited time. This lets people become fans of your work for little to no effort. Something like this would be very costly with print books.
"People are a lot more supportive and generous than I expected," says Wijeratne. "Especially if supporting something doesn't take away too much of their time—so digital is a perfect playground."
Success?
Success is certainly possible if you look at it from a global perspective and not just focus on Sri Lanka. Authors such as Bella Forrest and Michael Anderle sell thousands of books each month and yet many have not heard of them. Then there's Britain's L.J. Ross, who has been described as the Queen of Kindle. The key seems to be having an actually good book that is well written and well edited, to go along with a good marketing campaign. It need not be a massive investment and you might never be as rich as J.K. Rowling, but with enough effort, you just might be able to quit your day job.
Will we see a new generation of English authors in Sri Lanka? As e-book sales grow each year internationally, and more and more Sri Lankans adopt smart devices for daily usage, it seems likely that a digital shift will come sooner rather than later.
Yudhanjaya Wijeratne is the author of The Slow Sad Suicide of Rohan Wijeratne and blogs at yudhanjaya.com
Mandy Jayatissa's steampunk sci-fi novel The Other One is available on Amazon in digital as well as a print-on-demand paperback.
Navin Weeraratne is the author of three novels, the latest of which is The Hundred Gram Mission.
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No. 979 - Crabtree - Salvation Army Hall (1917-1967)
Crabtree is a rural settlement in the local government area of Huon Valley and is located about 15 kilometres north of Huonville. It was once an important timber and orchard-growing district. The settlement is named after the Crabtree Rivulet.
Crabtree has had only two places of worship; a Salvation Army hall which was built in 1917 and an Anglican church hall which opened in 1929. The State school was used for religious services by both the Salvation Army and the Anglican's prior to the construction of the two halls.
The activities of the Salvation Army at Crabtree were an extension of the the Corp's that was established at nearby Ranelagh in the late 1890s. In both settlements, orchard workers were an important source of Salvation Army supporters.
The Crabtree hall opened on Saturday 2 June 1917 being built for holding religious services as well as a Sunday school. The hall's opening was recorded by the Huon Times:
"The new Salvation Army Hall was opened on Saturday afternoon… by Major Henry of Launceston. The hall was packed, people coming from all parts of the district, and a very able address was given by the Staff Officer. A tea was then partaken of and the food which was left over was sold by auction. In the evening the hall was not big enough to hold all who wanted to gain admission, and some had to be turned away. Major Henry presided over the meeting and was assisted by Captain McWilliams and Lieutenant East, of the Ranelagh branch of the Salvation Army. …The new hall is situated in a central part of the district, and is built on land donated by Mr Robert Harvey of Cygnet. A very substantial sum of money has been collected recently, and with the proceeds of the opening services, will go a long way towards paying for the building, which is the first to be erected here to be used for religious purposes…".
In 1925 a two room cottage was built alongside the hall to accomodate visiting Army officers. The hall was among the 1400 buildings destroyed in the 1967 bushfires, as was the Crabtree Anglican church hall. Neither building was replaced.
The Crabtree Salvation Army Hall and cottage c.1925 - photo courtesy of the Salvation Army Museum
The Crabtree Hall at the time of its opening - source: The Tasmanian Mail
Daily Post, Monday 11 June 1917, page 2
Huon Times, Friday 15 June 1917, page 5
Huon Times, Tuesday 23 December 1924, page 1
Huon Times, Friday 16 October 1925, page 2
Tasmanian Mail, 15 July 1917, page 19
1910-1919 Salvation Army Southern Tasmania


There's nothing cooler to me than seeing remnants of old, old New York.
This is Pier 54, it's located south of 14th Street at the West Side Highway. It was owned by White Star Lines (and frequently used Cunard ships) and this is where the RMS Carpathia docked to unload the survivors of the Titanic.
Is it not cool as hell that this is still standing and VISIBLE after 102 years?! 'Cause I think that's insane and amazing. I don't know why I have such a fixation with Titanic-related stuff. I remember hearing about it when I was a kid and just thinking that it was such a crazy story. And then I found out that I had a great-uncle who worked in steerage on the ship, so that (of course) only made me more intrigued by the whole event. Anyway, it's so neat that this beam is still standing.
Obviously it'd be way cooler if THIS had somehow been restored and not torn down, but that's in the past now. It really looks like it was a beautiful building.


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When creating a KSBR profile one of the options is a password field. We don't actually want to encrypt our backup but when we try to remove the password we are told that it must be included. Is there a way to remove this requirement?


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Chickenpox during pregnancy
Chickenpox is an infection caused by a virus. If you get it during pregnancy, it can cause problems for you and your baby.
You're probably safe from chickenpox if you've had it before or if you've had the vaccine. Both of these help make you immune to chickenpox.
Talk to your health care provider to make sure you're immune to chickenpox before you get pregnant or early in pregnancy.
What is chickenpox?
Chickenpox is an infection caused by a virus called the varicella-zoster virus. Chickenpox used to be a common infection, especially in children under age 12. It's less common now because a vaccine is available to help prevent it. A vaccine is medicine that makes you immune to certain diseases.
Chickenpox usually isn't dangerous in children. But some people are at higher risk for complications from chickenpox, including pregnant people and newborns.
The chances of getting chickenpox during pregnancy are low. Most pregnant people are immune to chickenpox because they've had the infection before or they've been vaccinated against it. Talk with your health care provider to make sure you're immune to chickenpox before you get pregnant or early in pregnancy.
What are the symptoms of chickenpox?
Chickenpox causes an itchy rash that turns into blisters and then scabs. The rash usually starts on the chest, back, and face and spreads all over the body. The rash appears about 10 to 21 days after you're infected and can last 5 to 10 days.
Other symptoms can include fever, headache, being tired and not being hungry. These symptoms may appear 1 to 2 days before the rash.
How does chickenpox spread?
If you're not immune to chickenpox, you can get it easily by being in contact with someone who has the infection. A person with chickenpox can spread the infection starting about 2 days before the rash appears and until all the blisters are covered by scabs. It can spread through:
Droplets in the air when someone with chickenpox coughs or sneezes
The saliva (spit) or mucus of someone with chickenpox
Touching a chickenpox rash
If you're not immune to chickenpox, you can also get it through close contact with someone who has shingles. Shingles is an infection caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. If you've had chickenpox before, the virus stays in your body and can come back later as shingles. Shingles causes a painful rash on one side of the face or body. People with shingles can spread chickenpox to other people, but they can't spread shingles to other people.
Can chickenpox during pregnancy cause problems for you and your baby?
Yes. Having chickenpox during pregnancy can increase your risk of getting pneumonia and can even be life-threatening. Pneumonia is a lung infection that can be very serious. The symptoms of pneumonia include cough, chest pain when you breathe or cough, fever, fatigue (being very tired) and shortness of breath.
Chickenpox during pregnancy can cause these problems for your baby:
If you get chickenpox during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, your baby may have an increased risk for congenital varicella syndrome. This is a rare group of serious birth defects that can cause:
Scars on the skin
Problems with the arms, legs, brain and eyes
Gastrointestinal complications
Low birthweight. This is when a baby is born weighing less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces.
If you get chickenpox between 2 weeks before birth to 2 weeks after birth, you can pass the infection to your baby. If this happens, the infection in your baby usually is mild.
If you get chickenpox immediately before or right after birth (5 days before birth to 2 days after birth), your baby may have an increased risk for a serious infection called neonatal varicella. This infection can be life-threatening, but treatment is helping more babies survive.
If you have a preterm birth, your newborn may be at higher risk of complications from chickenpox. Preterm birth is birth that happens before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Can you prevent chickenpox?
Yes. The varicella vaccine can protect you from chickenpox. In fact, this vaccine prevents more than 3.5 million cases of chickenpox each year. But the vaccine is not safe to get during pregnancy.
Talk to your provider if you're pregnant or planning a pregnancy and you're not sure if you've had the vaccine or had chickenpox before. Your provider can do a blood test to find out if you're immune.
If you aren't immune, how can you protect yourself from chickenpox during pregnancy?
If you're planning a pregnancy and the blood test shows you're not immune, get vaccinated. You get the vaccine in two doses. It's best to wait 3 months after the second dose before getting pregnant.
If you're already pregnant, don't get the vaccine until after you give birth. In the meantime, stay away from anyone who has chickenpox or shingles.
Tell your provider right away if you're pregnant and you come into contact with someone who has chickenpox. Your provider can treat you with medicine that has chickenpox antibodies. Antibodies help the body fight infections. It's important to get treatment within 10 days after you've come into contact with chickenpox to help prevent the infection or make it less serious. And tell your provider if you come in contact with a person who has shingles. Your provider can decide if you need treatment to help prevent you from getting infected.
How is chickenpox diagnosed?
Your provider can tell you if you have chickenpox by doing a physical exam. Your provider may do a blood test or take a swab of the rash and send it to a laboratory for testing to be sure it's chickenpox.
How is chickenpox treated during pregnancy?
If you get chickenpox during pregnancy, your provider may give you an antiviral medicine such as acyclovir or valacyclovir. An antiviral is a medicine to treat infections caused by viruses. These medicines are safe to use during pregnancy. They work best when given within 24 hours of the chickenpox rash appearing.
If you have chickenpox and develop signs or symptoms of pneumonia, your provider may want you to stay in the hospital and be treated with acyclovir through an IV (through a needle into a vein).
If you get chickenpox during pregnancy, how is your baby treated after birth?
If you have chickenpox during pregnancy, your baby's provider may treat your baby right after birth with medicine that has chickenpox antibodies. The medicine can help prevent chickenpox in your baby or make it less dangerous. If your baby gets chickenpox in the 2 weeks after birth, your baby may also be treated with antiviral medicine.
Can you get chickenpox from someone who has gotten the vaccine?
Yes, but it's rare. If a vaccinated person gets chickenpox, they can still spread it to others. But the vaccine is more than 90 percent effective at preventing chickenpox. Providers recommend that children get their first dose of the varicella vaccine at 12 to 15 months of age and the second dose at age 4 to 6.
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Answer: all have been program topics this year of the Chicago Chapter Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA). Are you a member? If not, give it some thought - it's the only organization dedicated to the independent computer consultant and the cost for membership is nominal.
Oak Enterprises has long-supported the ICCA and has been a member since 1984 - the year Oak started in business. We've met a lot of high-caliber consultants through the ICCA and through our attendance at meetings have become better educated about critical issues that are of concern to consultants and consulting companies alike.
The networking opportunity at meetings is excellent and can truly pay dividends over and over as we all try to navigate through times good and bad. Take a look at their upcoming meetings and other membership benefits online at www.icca-chicago.org.
Or call Oak Enterprises at (630) 858-4443 and ask to talk with Wayne Stellmach. As the Chicago chapter's Program Director, Wayne can fill you in first-hand on some of the speakers and topics that are on this year's agenda. He can also arrange for you to attend a meeting at the member rate.


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If I Can Dream: The Great British Elvis Tribute Contest
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Back by popular demand. This festival brings together Elvis fans from all over Britian and the world for three days of Elvis in one of the UK's most colourful seaside resorts.
Elvis Presley left a legacy unmatched by any other musician in history. His life, his memory and his music is celebrated across the country and across the world, by dedicated and talented artists who pay him tribute.
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Its Pre-Monsoon !! Waiting eagerly for rains to quench your thirst. Why not enjoy the firework of fireflies while waiting.
Moon and stars have always been there to follow your path and guide you.
Ever seen fireflies do the same. Imagine a dark trail brightened by fireflies flying all around you. Imagine to be in a mysterious forest lighted by fireflies.
What are fireflies and why do they ignite?
Fireflies are a family of insects which glow in the dark. The phenomenon of glowing is called as bioluminescence which occurs due to a chemical reaction inside their bodies. Fireflies use this luminescence to attract mates or prey.
Certain species of female fireflies pick mates based on specific male flash pattern characteristics. Higher male flash rates and increased flash intensity have been found to be more attractive to females among two different fireflies species.
Many fireflies do not illuminate at all. They use pheromones to attract their mates. Using pheromones for sexual signal is an ancestral condition, whereas, using luminous sexual signals are recent phenomenon.
Certain species of fireflies deploy both pheromones and luminous component to identify their mates.
There are varieties of use of luminescence by fireflies apart from attracting mates. luminescence is also used for attracting prey, making themselves unpalatable to predators, for identifying other members of their species etc.
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Andrée Guize (parfois Guise) est une actrice belge, née le  à Bruxelles (ou à Ostende), morte en 1988.

Biographie

Filmographie
 1934 : Le Secret d'une nuit : la secrétaire
 1935 : Bonne chance ! : Henriette Lepeltier
 1936 : Les Demi-vierges
 1936 : Faisons un rêve : une servante
 1938 : Chipée : Zizi Flor
 1938 : La Vénus de l'or
 1939 : Serge Panine : Jeanne
 1942 : L'Âge d'or : Juliette Dubélair
 1943 : Le Capitaine Fracasse
 1946 : Christine se marie : l'infirmière
 1948 : Rouletabille contre la dame de pique
 1951 : Deburau : la dame inconnue
 1958 : Sacrée Jeunesse :  Deponchette
 1960 : Tire-au-flanc 62 : la colonelle Chamerlot

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Actrice belge de cinéma
Naissance en mai 1908
Naissance à Bruxelles au XXe siècle
Lieu de décès inconnu
Décès en 1988


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It's a logjam atop Masters leaderboard halfway through tournament
By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods ran into the long leg of the law and escaped with a most unlikely birdie.
He just couldn't take the next step — one more birdie on a back nine filled with so many chances — to join the largest 36-hole logjam in Masters history.
Golf's best worked their way to the top Friday at Augusta National to set up a weekend filled with possibilities. Francesco Molinari, Jason Day, Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott and Louis Oosthuizen created the first five-way tie for the lead going into the weekend at the Masters.
All of them are major champions. Three have been No. 1 in the world.
Looming just as large was Woods, who made it look even more crowded at the top by making Augusta National sound as loud as ever. Despite missing two birdie chances inside 8 feet on the back nine, he holed consecutive 30-foot birdie putts for a 4-under 68.
One of those big birdies followed a bizarre moment on the 14th hole.
Trapped in the trees, Woods hooked a low punch toward the green and was walking toward the fairway when a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent trying to contain the gallery slipped on the rain-slickened grass and slid into the lower right leg of Woods.
He managed to keep his balance, winced, hobbled and flexed his ankle repeatedly when he made it to the fairway. Then he turned trouble into a birdie and was walking just fine the rest of the way.
"I'm fine. It's all good," Woods said. "Accidents happen and move on."
What's happening is a weekend at Augusta National loaded with top players, and not just those tied at 7-under 136. Dustin Johnson, poised to return to No. 1 in the world after Justin Rose missed the cut, has looked effortless over two days and was one shot behind.
Nine players were separated by one shot, a group that includes seven major winners and five former No. 1-ranked golfers. Phil Mickelson, at 48 trying to become the oldest major champion, was three shots back. Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler were four shots behind.
"This is really stacked," Scott said. "I think it's going to be an incredible weekend no matter what happens now."
Woods has gone 14 years since he last won the green jacket, 11 years since his last major and had five surgeries — four on his back, the other to rebuild his left knee.
But he feels he's getting closer.
"The last three majors, I've been right there," Woods said.
He briefly held the lead Sunday in the British Open. He chased Koepka to the finish line in the PGA Championship. And now he goes into the weekend one shot behind, the closest he has been to a lead going into the weekend at a major since the 2013 British Open at Muirfield.
But that's not just anyone he's trailing.
Molinari, the British Open champion who has shown he belongs among the elite in golf, had a 67 and was the first to reach 7 under. Day was right behind, coping with nagging soreness in his lower back with a 67 to match the Italian.
Koepka, the U.S. Open and PGA champion, began with a birdie to quickly take the lead, only to hit out of the pine straw, off a tree and into the creek to make double bogey on the par-5 second hole. He made two more bogeys before reaching the seventh hole, and then pulled himself together to salvage a 71.
"You're going to be tested in a major championship one way or another," Koepka said. "I hit a bad shot; just got to suck it up and just keep going on. You've got a lot of holes left, and you can make up some ground."
Scott was the only player to reach 8 under with a 2-iron into 5 feet for eagle on the 15th, only to miss a 3-foot par putt on the 16th. It added up to a 68 for the Australian who won the Masters six years ago, and has gone three years since his last victory.
He had a chance to win the PGA Championship in his last major until Koepka pulled away and Scott made a careless bogey at the end to finish third. He has shown flashes this year on the West Coast, at Torrey Pines and Riviera, but has geared his game toward this week.
Here he is, with a lot of company.
"Look, tomorrow is a very important day because there's no doubt someone in the top 15, or a few of them, are going to play very well," Scott said. "This is the best players in the world on the biggest stage that we all want to be in so badly."