Well, it has been quite an interesting few days for me. As my two regular readers will have observed, some nuclear nuts are in an uproar over my blog post (from April 8, 2009) titled Nuclear Nuts. Apparently, they are unhappy with the graph I posted that definitively shows a state's electric power price increases as the percent of power from nuclear plants increases. They are also dumbfounded that the state with the highest percentage of nuclear power, Vermont, has one of the highest power prices in the country. All these facts go against their long-held beliefs.
There is also some controversy over the construction cost of new nuclear power plants, with some nuclear nuts claiming the costs as put forth by Craig Severance were discredited. Perhaps so, but only in their own minds and to their own satisfaction. I have, as I wrote elsewhere on my energyguysmusings blog, carefully checked Severance's figures and agree that he has it just about right.
Further, major utilities have published their own cost estimates for new nuclear power plants in the U.S. and their numbers are not far below those of Severance.
Therefore, I set up this blog post to keep score, as it were. The proposed nuclear power plants in the U.S. will each get a paragraph or maybe more, and a summary table will show the estimated cost and initial schedule for completion, then cost increases as time passes, and the final cost plus years behind schedule.
I will also keep track of the investments in each new nuclear plant's customer base of non-grid-based power, such as wind, solar, cogeneration, distributed generation, and combined heat and power. If any new nuclear plants ever do start up, there will be a rude awakening for the nuclear plant owners. Their customers will not pay for their outrageous power price, but will instead self-generate via the many alternatives now available. The nuclear plants' owners will be in quite a fix, as their customer base shrinks and shrinks. Their only move at that point is to increase their power prices to their remaining customers, thus giving even more incentive to go off the grid and self-generate. Thus, the nuclear death spiral occurs again as it did in Louisiana in the 1980s.
To begin the listing, here is the summary table.
STNP is proposed as a doubling of the existing plant, by building two new reactors not far from Victoria, Texas, just a small distance from the mouth of the Colorado River. This plant is controversial because it consumes precious and scarce river water in drought-stricken South Texas. Thirsty people get rather cranky, especially when they know that their local nuclear power plant is literally vaporizing vast quantities of fresh water into the air. This plant is also infamous, as the original two reactors cost SIX times the initial cost estimate ($5.4 billion final cost vs $900 million initial cost) and was several years late in completion. Lawsuits were filed all around. Currently, a Japanese company who sells reactors and reactor technology is part of a joint venture to build the new reactors. Their cost estimate is $5 billion each, or a total of $10 billion - yet that was recently updated (increased) to $13 billion, to account for interest during construction. They also state they will complete the plant expansion in four years after receiving their COL (Construction and Operating License) from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. We shall see. UPDATE: San Antonio city leaders are receiving loud and numerous messages to not buy into the STNP expansion. Oct 13: CPS Energy's board, the San Antonio municipal utility, voted to issue $400 million in bonds to fund development of the expansion, but passed a resolution to reduce the city's ownership to 20 to 25 percent, rather than 40 percent. The city council will vote on this (ratify) on October 29. This puts NRG, the project proponent, in the bad position of having to find a buyer for the remaining 20 percent. Will be interesting to see who is willing to do this, and if the San Antonio city council votes to approve or deny the city's participation. (Oct 28, 2009): The price just went up by $4 billion, now at $17 billion. Toshiba apparently cannot agree on the price - and City of San Antonio is re-thinking this - and postponing their decision. This is absolutely amazing, since nuclear proponents insist (indeed, shout it from the rooftops!) that Japanese nuclear plants are old technology by now - with modular construction and known costs. Apparently not! Stay tuned in Texas!
And now (Jan 21, 2010), City of San Antonio via its CPS entity is suing the venture of NRG and Toshiba. Never a good sign when the supposed partners in a multi-billion dollar venture go to court so early in the game. This project may not yet be fully dead, but it is certainly comatose. The price issue was to be resolved sometime in January, 2010, which is any day now.
FP&L is proposed as a two-reactor plant at Turkey Point with each reactor 1,100 MW. This was recently approved (August 2009) by the state of Florida, and now awaits approval for COL from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Florida is interesting because of the vast potential for power from the Gulf Stream offshore Miami. Such a power plant could easily provide all of Florida's power forever, with zero risk of radiation, and zero operating cost except for maintenance.
FP&L was dealt a serious blow this week (Jan 21, 2010) when the Public Utility Commission denied their $1.3 billion rate increase request, and instead awarded approximately $75 million. This effectively kills the nuclear project, or at the best (for nuclear proponents) postpones the project for a few years. The price will only increase with time, as materials and labor costs increase.
Georgia Power's Vogtle plant is also a two-reactor plant with each reactor 1,100 MW. This plant recently (August 2009) received an Early Site Permit from federal regulators, which merely allows some preliminary site preparation to commence. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has yet to issue a COL. However, the utility states they will be finished with construction by 2017. Such optimism, both on the cost estimate of $14 billion, and the schedule!
Stay tuned, sports fans. This game will take a while to play out, but the action is bound to be interesting!


2013-03-15T13:17:38-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/b52/20130315132150002_hd.jpgDonald Trump addressed attendees at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He talked about the 2012election campaign and provided advice to the Republican Party. In his remarks his also emphasized the importance U.S. manufacturing and energy production.


WINSTON SALEM, N.C. - The Emmanuel College track & field team competed at the JDL College Kick-Off Classic on Saturday to start their indoor season.
On the women's side, Junior Bree Teasley was the top performer, finishing 12th out of 60 in the 60m dash with a time of 7.85. Teasley followed up with an impressive 4th place finish in the 200m dash with a time of 25.79. Freshman Kristin Stephens posted a 9th place finish (26.22) in the 200m dash.
Sophomore Malik Jackson led the men with an 8th place finish in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.58.
Freshman Ackeem West recorded a 6.35 meter jump in his first ever long jump to secure 13th place.
"It was a great start to both the men and women's team this weekend at the JDL College Kickoff Classic," said head coach Chyna Davis. "There were multiple personal records and new school records set at the very first meet of the season. We still have a lot of fine tuning to do, but I'm excited to see what this season holds for the team."
The next meet is December 8th at the Clemson Open.


A method for the linear least-squares estimation of random signals contaminated with random noise is shown that uses a new method of spectral factorization. It is shown that the optimal filter can be written entirely in terms of the two spectral factors of signal plus noise and noise-alone, and can be applied to the general case of coloured and white additive noise. The method of spectral factorization used is novel and uses control-system methodology.


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Vascularization of the brain and spinal cord
Hans J. Ten Donkelaar, Ayhan Cömert, Ton Van Der Vliet, Peter Van Domburg, Pieter Wesseling
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In this introductory chapter, the vascularization of the brain and the spinal cord are discussed with examples of the clinical syndromes of arterial or venous occlusions. The English terms of the Terminologia Neuroanatomica are used throughout. A further subdivision of the segments of the major brain arteries has been included. The same holds for the cerebral veins. The advent of neuroimaging has allowed a more precise clinicopathological correlation of ischaemic lesions and infarcts on computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For a more precise assessment of the vessels involved, knowledge of the arterial territories and their variations is needed. Atlas sections of the arterial territories of the human cerebral hemispheres, the cerebellum and the brain stem are presented in Sects. 2.5, 2.11 and 2.12, respectively. Most cerebral arteries have anastomoses that can partially supply neighbouring brain areas. Within limits, even an insufficient blood supply to the brain via the internal carotid and vertebral arteries may be compensated by anastomoses from the facial and the superficial temporal arteries with the ophthalmic artery and by a reversal of the direction of the blood flow of the ophthalmic artery into the internal carotid. Leptomeningeal anastomoses between the three cerebral arteries and between cerebellar arteries also exist. However, despite all the anastomoses between brain arteries, the sudden occlusion of a large artery will lead to ischaemic brain infarction (see Sect. 2.7). The clinical symptoms of an arterial occlusion depend on the neurofunctional systems affected and particular syndromes have been defined. Several examples, illustrated by imaging and postmortem data, are presented as Clinical cases.
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Ten Donkelaar, H. J., Cömert, A., Van Der Vliet, T., Van Domburg, P., & Wesseling, P. (2020). Vascularization of the brain and spinal cord. In Clinical Neuroanatomy: Brain Circuitry and Its Disorders (blz. 71-126). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41878-6_2
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Below you fill find all funeral homes and cemeteries in or near San Lorenzo.
San Lorenzo is also known as: Alameda County / San Lorenzo CDP.
Zip codes in the city: 94580.
Some of the notable people born here have been: Ellona Santiago (singer).
It was reported on October 3rd, 2018 that Angelyn Fahey (Groholski) passed on in San Lorenzo, California. Ms. Fahey was 82 years old and was born in Stevens Point, WI. Send flowers to express your sympathy and honor Angelyn's life.
It was noted by San Mateo County Times on August 29th, 2015 that David John Flynn passed away in San Lorenzo, California. Flynn was 53 years old. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor David John's life.
It was written by Monterey Herald on April 28th, 2015 that Rose Agliano (Cardinale) perished in San Lorenzo, California. Ms. Agliano was 92 years old. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Rose's life.
It was written on January 19th, 2015 that Eugene "Geno" Steve perished in San Lorenzo, California. Steve was 87 years old and was born in Stillwater, NV. Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Eugene "Geno"'s life.
It was disclosed by The Californian on November 12th, 2014 that Esther Jorgensen (Juhl) perished in San Lorenzo, California. Ms. Jorgensen was 86 years old. Send flowers to express your sorrow and honor Esther's life.
It was reported by Plumas County News on August 1st, 2014 that Sarah G miss Whitton died in San Lorenzo, California. Whitton was 78 years old. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Sarah G miss's life.
It was written by San Mateo County Times on April 23rd, 2014 that Mark Joseph Casey passed on in San Lorenzo, California. Casey was 53 years old. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Mark Joseph's life.
It was written by Plumas County News on July 25th, 2012 that Dorothy Jean Gonzales (Santos) passed away in San Lorenzo, California. Ms. Gonzales was 84 years old. Send flowers to share your condolences and honor Dorothy Jean's life.
It was written by Oakland Tribune on March 15th, 2012 that Mary L Murphy (Jergentz) passed on in San Lorenzo, California. Send flowers to express your sympathy and honor Mary L's life.
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Bohannon's pioneering pre-cutting techniques, referred to as the "California method," were used in later developments, such as the more famous Levittown, Pennsylvania. Home construction continued into the 1950s to accommodate the region's booming population. The population was 21,898 at the 2000 census.
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Just graduating in 2016, from Boissevain, Manitoba, Levi's sport is Cross Country Skiing.
Levi represented Canada in Norway for the Nordic cross-country Youth Olympics in February 2016!
Profession: Various part time Jobs.
Why GORP? First of all they taste great and they're good fuel for training. I mainly use them as a recovery snack, or on really long training bouts. I also keep a few on hand for travelling.
Your Inspiration: the Canadian cross country skier Ivan Babikov. I really admire his work ethic.
On my day off: I wash my clothes, usually try and get a nap in and I usually go do something with friends.
In my bag: The essentials. A change of clothes, a snack (GORP Bar/smoothie) and a towel.
Proudest accomplishment: Qualifying for the Youth Olympic Games.
Favourite place in the world: Shoal lake Ontario.
Levi has been accepted to be part of the National Development Centre in Thunder Bay Ontario. The team consists of 14 High level athletes from various regions in Canada that train year round under the guidance of NDC coaches with the goal of progressing up to the Canadian National Team. To help support, please visit Levi's Go Fund Me page HERE.


New books are updated each month on Kidsreads. Click the book worm to be redirected to the Kidsreads site.
The Delaware Public Library has put together a great list of recommended books. I love the list they created so much that I felt there was no need to recreate the wheel.


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"The security system was my lifeline."
Resources Lifesavers Katie Anderson
ADT Customer Uses Home Security System to Help Save Her from Violent Attack
It was the most horrific day of Katie Anderson's life. On March 14, she allowed her ex-boyfriend back in her Fresno, CA home to collect his belongings after kicking him out days before. An argument ensued and then he started assaulting her.
"I felt the sheer panic that he would kill me," Katie said. "He abused me for about 90 minutes…smothering me, holding me down and not allowing any chance of escaping while repeatedly threatening to kill me. He had taken my cell phone and keys so I couldn't call the cops or drive away."
That's when Katie spotted her ADT key fob on the kitchen counter. She reached for it, activating her two-way voice security system. The call was received at ADT's Customer Care Center in Irving, TX. The agent came on the line and asked if everything was okay. Katie said no and requested she call 911. In the background, the ADT agent could hear a man trying to control the conversation by claiming Katie was okay. The agent disconnected from the home and called police.
"I knew the red button on my ADT panel would save my life,"
Within minutes, officers were at Katie's front door but the attacker had fled. Katie believes the ADT security system scared him off and saved her life.
"The security system was my lifeline," she said.
To celebrate how Katie's life was spared, an ADT LifeSaver event was held June 8 at Fresno's Marjaree Mason Center, one of California's largest domestic violence shelters. Surrounded by her friends and family as she shared her powerful story, Katie met ADT team members and police officers who played a part in her rescue.
"I am sharing this horrific event in my life to illuminate the issue of domestic violence and to bring other victims forward," Katie said. "I am grateful to be alive today."
Katie Anderson's LifeSaver Story
"I felt the sheer panic that he would kill me"
As part the event, ADT contributed $5,000 to the Fresno Police Chief's Foundation and an additional $5,000 to the Marjaree Mason Center. Both checks were presented by Letha Steffey, ADT Sr. Vice President of Marketing.
"Domestic violence is just not a police problem, it is all of our problem," said Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer.
Letha also awarded five LifeSavers. Among the recipients were ADT Fresno team members Sam Tristan and Jason Rerucha who sold and installed an upgraded security system in Katie's home. Also receiving ADT's highest honor were Kevin Gaylord and John Linares from SafeStreets, an ADT Authorized Dealer, which did the original sale and install in Katie's home. Additionally, the third shift at the Irving Customer Care Center was recognized. Accepting was Unit Manager Jamie Smith.
Following the LifeSaver event, which was covered by most of Fresno's news outlets, the celebration of life continued at the ADT Fresno branch where Letha and Joe Longfield, ADT Regional Vice President, co-hosted a Meet a Customer for Life event. They were welcomed by Daniel Bodie, Area General Manager.
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9 months ago I didn't think it would be a big deal to travel without my baby. I was pretty convinced otherwise – by 7 weeks of life of course I'd need a break, right? No big deal to miss two days in baby's life so that I can be in the wedding of one of my best friends. And taking baby with me wasn't an option, right? Too much infection risk, said the pediatrician in me, and too many difficulties during the flight.
So, I thought of the challenges. How to feed baby during this time? We had bottles on hand (Breastflow to maximize compatibility with breast feeding). I bought some glass bottles as well because of the newer articles discussing the problems with any plastics (not just BPA) in containing food. I talked to my lactation consultants and began to stock pile the 60 ounces of milk I anticipated being necessary for my baby's survival and ended up with a large oversupply of milk that I started to whittle down. My parents were prepared with all supplies to take care of the baby that weekend, everything seemed to be a go. We were starting to bottle train him a little each day as well.
Then last Monday, I took one look at my baby in the morning and thought of being away from him for two whole days, and I burst into tears. What would happen to him without me? I know my parents were there, but would he eat properly? When I got back, would he be willing to breastfeed again? What would happen to our bond? Would he be scared that I had left him? And how would I survive without HIM?!!
Then came my posts to diaperswappers, looking for advice on what to do. Each and every woman who responded said that they would take the baby with them and suddenly I felt inclined to agree. I called my mom and told her I wanted to take the baby with me, and I called T to discuss whether this would be feasible. It wasn't the best time of the day to talk but as soon as he got home we went through the processed the risks and benefits of such a decision, and we decided ultimately to take him with us. While there is considerable risk in taking him out into the wide world, he did have my immunity, after all, and provided that we stayed clean and kept him close, we should be prepared well.
So while two weeks before the wedding were spent in preparation to travel withOUT my boy, the week before the wedding became dedicated to traveling WITH him, and boy was it a challenge! I started looking up packing lists of what to take, how to organize, what extras one needs on the plane as compared to in the bag, and how to keep things as sanitary as possible. I continued to pump milk and whittle it down but knew I would need to do some degree of pumping while on the trip in order to attend various events related to the wedding. T left this set of tasks up to me, and it worked out well.
Diapers (20) – no, we didn't use cloth! We used disposables for travel.
OK my time is pretty much up to type – gotta head to bed and if I keep typing next to baby he is liable to wake up prematurely. This list basically came in pretty handy and I used most of the items here. Because the trip was so short we pretty much didn't need toiletries but I would let people know not to underestimate the need for burp cloths, diapers, and extra clothes – we went through 4 diapers during one diaper change on Saturday morning. Fortunately we fared better during other changes but it definitely helped to have a good supply. I hope to write more about our travels tomorrow and how everything went, but here we go … time runs short and there are so many things to think about writing again soon!


In July I was hoping for a video and now we've got one. Here is the 409Shop listing. I would be interested in a VHF version of something like this. There are a handful of repeaters that I listen to most frequently, so a "lucky stone" in my pocket would be even better than a UV-3R.
Seems pretty cool to me. I could see it coming in handy.
One thing though, how do you know what channel you're on? Seems to me like a rotary channel control like you see on 16-channel portables would've made more sense in this case. All I can guess is that the radio has a voice that will say what channel you're on, but that's just a guess.
Hi. I do have one of these and it does have a voice that announces which channel that you are on. The only thing is I had to change the setting in the program file to an English announcement rather than Chinese, but that was easy enough.


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Flux Pavilion Ushers in a New Era With Upcoming Album Cut "I Believe"
by ABR	: December 4, 2020 News
The single will appear on his highly anticipated forthcoming album ".wav."
It has been six years since Flux Pavilion dropped a new album, but the wait is almost over. To prepare his fans for what's to come, he has dropped a new single titled "I Believe," a spellbinding track that serves to usher you into a new era of the famed producer's illustrious career.
"I Believe" features a stunning vocal performance from Asha, whose feathery voice is expertly controlled and will send chills down the spines of her listeners. Her vocals pair perfectly with the eerie bass that creeps its way into the forefront of Flux's pristine arrangement. The drop here is transporting, filled with rippling synths and gritty saws that lend to a feeling of time standing still.
Flux Pavilion's long-anticipated sophomore record .wav, which follows his 2015 debut album Tesla, will arrive on January 21st, 2021. It is said to be his 16-track magnum opus, so his fans are definitely in for a treat. They can likely expect to see a few of his recent singles such as "You & I" and "Sink Your Teeth In" on the tracklist alongside "I Believe."
Flux Pavilion's upcoming album .wav can be pre-saved or preordered here.
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Music Director Gerard Schwarz Leads Palm Beach Symphony In Landmark Season Of The Symphony's First Televised Performance
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Q: Selecting tweets based on searchwords in R For my thesis I am working with tweets. I am trying to select only the tweets that contain certain words. Since I am analysing the tweets geographically I have them as a SpatialPointDataFrame (SPDF). As a result I want to see on a map where the tweets about these words come from so I want to select them from the SPDF, as a new SPDF.
I figured this should be easy with the package tm (Text Mining) or with general functions like scan. But unfortunately I find it difficult to find a function that allows me to scan the tweets for a certain word. My next step would be to work around it, converting the tweets in the SPDF to a textfile, selecting the tweets using one of the functions I have been trying with the SPDF, and then link them back to the SPDF to make them spatial again.
In the programming language R someone has told me to not start making functions since most functions you will try to make already exist. So before I am breaking my brain on this situation I am posting it here hoping someone has the result at hand.
So I have a SPDF with a lot of tweets. I want to select all tweets that contain a certain word. And that's it! It still sounds so easy to me and I feel like I am just not getting the right line of thought at the moment.
Please help!
EDIT!!!!!
all_tweets_containing_word_test_are_true <- grepl('test', spatialpointdataframe$twt_txt)
??? Select all true numbers of spatialpointdataframe ???

A: In a regular data frame you use grepl like this:
Sub.DF <- DF[grepl('test', DF$twt_txt),]

As long as an SPDF works like that then this should be what you want. You won't even need to make the Sub.DF object if you just want to plot it. If you use ggplot2 or ggmap or something then just use data=DF[grepl('test', DF$twt_txt),]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Buckeyes Wire
WATCH: Ryan Day postgame Michigan press conference
Phil Harrison
Things didn't go nearly the way Ohio State wanted Saturday against Michigan. The Buckeyes controlled the game in the first half but only went into the locker room up by three points. The second half was a different story with the Wolverines putting the gas pedal down and running away with the game with big play after big play.
It was no doubt a dose of humble pie for the entire team that was motivated and confident in beating Michigan after listening to all the talk and perceived disrespect since walking off the field in Ann Arbor last season.
It wasn't meant to be and the entire team is now left looking for answers, including head coach Ryan Day. In fact, the head man met with the media in Columbus afterward to face the music and was visibly and obviously disappointed by the outcome.
Here is everything Day said after the bitter loss to arch-rival Michigan for the second year in a row.
Ohio State will now await its postseason fate as it sits back and watches the Wolverines head to Indianapolis instead of it for two-straight years. The most likely landing spot for the Buckeyes is the Rose Bowl, but there's an outside chance they squeak into the College Football Playoff if things break correctly. Don't hold your breath on that one though.
Five things we learned from Michigan's throttling of Ohio State in the second half
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Genital ambiguity occurs when it is not possible to categorize the gender of the child based on outward genital appearance.
Genital ambiguity in the neonate should be treated as an emergency, and diagnostic evaluation undertaken as soon as possible.
Emphasis is on patient-centered care.
Figure 49-6 Ambiguous genitalia in a child with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
Ambiguous Genitalia Some rare conditions result in ambiguous genitalia. This is a case of congenital adrenal hyperplasia.


00:10:11 Tough can i pull?
00:15:15 Tough or wl have ulti?
00:17:30 Strom take top tower?
00:36:08 Affliction pick going AC ?
00:41:44 Affliction SHUT YOUR CUNTMOUTH YOU SILLY FUCKAR!
00:42:38 McNabb can someone else buy wards now?
00:48:28 Affliction wtf are you doing there ?
00:49:42 Laier can we end?
00:49:48 Strom või, hmm, ta võttis aegise?


In the mood for a Geek Meet? January 24th 2008 it's time again!
Niklas will talk about using RDF to represent information for sharing and reuse. The focus will be on summarizing the foundation, relations to common practises of databases and XML, as well as to modern uses of microformats and JSON. A practical example will be how to use it for the integration and syndication of Swedish legal document descriptions.
Isac and Fredrik will talk about how they worked in the project form an Art Director/Front-end developer perspective, and then they will delve into how they solved things front-end-wise.
Yet another time, Creuna are sponsoring the event. You should know the drill by know, but pizza and drinks will be on offer to all happy geeks (and maybe the grumpy ones as well :-). The meeting will be January 24th 18.00 in the Creuna office at Kungsholmsgatan 23 (a map to the location).
Sign up now by entering a comment! Due to planning reasons, please do not sign up unless you're sure you can attend. If you for some reason have to cancel, let me know by e-mail as soon as possible.
Also, if luck stands us by, there might even be a little present for attendees (no promises)!
Thanks, I changed the post.
Kul med RDF! Jag kommer!
If you don't Geek Meet, does that make you a widgetarian?
Slänger in ett 90%igt Javisst.
"Ska bara"… Ã…terkommer i ämnet.
DET vill jag vara med på. Låter superspännade. Och en extra möjlighet för lite cross-Creuna kompetensutbyte?!
Precis vad jag behöver detta! Jag kommer!
Jag kommer också så gärna.
Ramlade över detta via Wicket på nåt sätt. Kul! Kommer gärna!
I'll show up – my third time.
Måste avboka. Möte på firman samma tid.
Jag är där på Torsdag.
I'll bee there too, bzz, bzz!
Jag kommer gärna. Hoppas jag får plats i något hörn.
kommer. blir säkert storslaget som alltid.
Jag kommer så gärna, jag.


Three things that rising model Iris Law has in common with Kendall Jenner: She's the offspring of famous parents, is stunningly beautiful, and has envy-worthy style. Iris is the 16-year-old daughter of actor Jude Law and Sadie Frost, but she's already making a name for herself. Like many of today's biggest models, Iris has an immense social media following, and she just landed her first campaign. It's a huge one: She's the newest face of Burberry Beauty. First up, Iris fronts the brand's new Liquid Lip Velvet Colors campaign. We've picked out our favorite colors for you to shop, below.


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Saving Abby
"Don't ever stop smiling, okay?" ~ 82%
Saving Abby begins with a bucket list made by a 13-year-old girl. Claire wants to marry a man who loves her more than life, be an artist, travel, skydive and most of all, be a mother. Fast forward years and the little girl is now a grown married woman still making lists.
Children's book illustrator, Claire, and her writer husband, Josh, lived the past three years focused on having a child. Coming to a sad acceptance, they decide to say goodbye to their dreams of being parents and build happy memories with just the two of them.
The couple gets the miracle they are hoping for soon as they give up hope. But something is not right. In the beginning of her pregnancy, Claire experiences extreme fatigue, debilitating headaches and fainting spells. Her symptoms worsen urging her to seek help from the doctor. What she receives is a terrifying diagnosis and an impossible decision: save her own life or her unborn child's life.
"He could lose his wife, his soul mate, the one person who made his life make sense—because she was pregnant." ~ 59%
Steena Holmes has a way making main characters so likable in the first couple chapters that I'm totally invested in the story. Saving Abby is no exception. By the second chapter, I was hoping for a miracle. I was rooting for the couple's dreams to come true. During an early rainy afternoon, I got lost in the descriptive scenes and became a "neighbor" in Claire and Josh's world.
Saving Abby is a beautiful story of hope, survival and emotional decision-making. I imagine this scenario happens to a few unfortunate couples in real life. Steena Holmes did a good job of portraying relatable strong characters. Her writing just keeps getting better!
Happy Pub Day, Steena Holmes! Saving Abby is now available.
Disclaimer: This book was received directly from the publisher for review purposes only. In no way does it influence my review. The opinions I have expressed are honestly my own and would be the same if I spent my hard-earned coins.
Title: Saving Abby
Author: Steena Holmes
Edition: Galley
Rating: ♥♥♥♡
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"I don't know any black people who have even been to Africa. It's like calling me Danish-American even though I've never been to Denmark." ~ pg. 105
Rachel Morse is a young bi-racial girl growing up in the early 1980s. Shoutout to my fellow 80s babies. She is the brown-skinned, blue-eyed daughter of a Danish woman and a black G.I. A family tragedy leaves Rachel the only survivor in her family. She goes to live with the grandmother she has never met in a black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. For the first time Rachel feels like she has to choose between being white or black while adapting to a new environment and grieving her family. As if living with a recently met relative isn't enough, Rachel has to deal with being the new girl at school with "good hair" that "thinks she's cute." Racial identity is the main theme.
Over 70 of my bookhearts read and gave high ratings for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. Yet it was an eBook that I downloaded immediately and just never read. I kept pushing it further down my TBR. Thanks to a reading challenge hosted by Bookish, May was the perfect month to read this classic.
"It's late. I close the book. I turn off the flashlight." ~ pg. 88
The problem with reading a popular award-winning novel is the high expectation it gives. I just knew this novel would be a page-turner and among my best books read ever. It had all the makings of a great classic: tragedy, unpredictable and gripping. Yet here I am standing in the corner alone not drinking the kool-aid that everyone swears is the bomb. It was far too easy to close the eBook and start another. I found the characters meh and the alternating narration a distraction. I give credit to author Heidi W. Durrow for her premise that draws from her own upbringing but The Girl Who Fell From the Sky was just okay to me. Perhaps I would have liked it more if it were a memoir instead of adapted to a coming-of-age fiction novel.
Title: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
Author: Heidi W. Durrow
Edition: eBook
Challenge: Bookish Kill Your TBR—Read the Classics
US vs. UK
The UK is my hometown glory but I live in the US. The US vs. UK bookish meme compares book covers published in the two countries. I haven't done this meme in months so in honor of Memorial Weekend, enjoy the battle of the book covers below, bookhearts!
Today's first comparison is Home by Harlan Coben. I am so looking forward to this new Myron Bolitar novel. But enough about my joy; let's compare the covers. The US version is plain with a white cover and large bold red and black letters. The UK version has the same colors but better presented with a man in the distance. This is easy; UK wins!
Total: US 28, UK 31
The second comparison is Freedom's Child by Jax Miller. The US cover is dark with a woman on a motorcycle. The UK cover is drastically light in tone with the title in yellow letters and a woman standing on a sidewalk. The US cover fits the book description best.
The third comparison is Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon. Although both covers show the close-up of a woman's eye, closed on the US version and open on the UK version. I prefer the US version only because if you're trying not to breathe, your eyes are most likely to be closed. Go ahead—hold your breath and try it.
The fourth comparison is Pleasantville by Attica Locke. Both covers are striking with different color themes. The US version reminds me of a broken glass window. The UK version shows a city's landscape. Hmmm, I prefer the UK cover because it shows what Pleasantville may look like.
The fifth comparison today is Killing Floor by Lee Child. Although I like the colors of the UK cover, it is too much like sunset on paradise. The bullet holes through a dollar bill on the dismal US cover fit better.
Today's final comparison is The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig. The US cover is black with a wave and ship in the distance. A woman's face can be seen inside the blue wave. The UK cover is a striking blue with an underwater scene. Such an obvious winner; I would pick up the UK cover in a bookstore first.
Happy Memorial Day Reading! If the covers pique your interest, you may find my reviews by clicking the book title. But for now, which covers do you favour?
Series Sunday: I Wish I Had a Red Dress
(Idlewild #2)
Series Sunday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Revision. I encourage all of my fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.
My Series Sunday pick is I Wish I Had a Red Dress, the second book in the Idlewild series by Pearl Cleage. Joyce Mitchell keeps her days occupied by running The Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide needed services to young women of Idlewild, many of them being single mothers. When the state legislature leans toward no longer funding the group, Joyce and the girls find creative ways to keep the group active. Meanwhile, there's a new guy in town; finally someone to make Joyce's heart skip again and make her grab a sexy red dress
"It ain't Detroit, but ain't Nirvana either." ~ pg. 55
While I highly recommend the first Idlewild book, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, I did not enjoy this follow-up nearly as much. It was meh. The story line jumped around in the beginning making it hard to follow and to care.
It seems this novel is the last of the Idlewild series. Bookhearts, let me know if I am mistaken. I am still interested in the fate of a couple characters.
Title: I Wish I Had a Red Dress
Author: Pearl Cleage
Rating: ♥♥
First Lines Friday
First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Revision. I encourage all of my fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.
Grab your current read(s) for Memorial weekend.
Share the first line(s).
Include the title and author.
"Robert's familiar rap on the door came as I was studying a miniature portrait of myself. The small painting, meant as a parting gift to my beloved, had just been delivered, and I was debating the artist's interpretation. I had to admit that Miss Peale's suggestion to paint my face in profile, and thus avoid the black patch covering my left eye, was a good idea."
~ Glory Over Everything: Beyond the Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
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Before the Fall
"Tragedy is drama you can't bear to relive." ~ 31%
Before the Fall begins with a private plane sitting on the runway in Martha's Vineyard. Ten people board: The Bateman family (father David, mother Maggie and their two children, Rachel and JJ), wealthy couple Ben and Sarah Kipling, painter Scott Burroughs, the pilot and crew. Sixteen minutes later, the plane crashes into the sea.
There are two survivors: the painter and a six-year-old boy, the last remaining member of a wealthy television mogul's family. The story unfolds into the lives of the passengers and crew members before they boarded the plane. As clues unravel, I couldn't help but spin conspiracy theories. Is it pure coincidence that so many wealthy people died in one plane crash? Is it odd that one of the survivors spent his career painting pictures of disasters? Is the growing bond between the two survivors genuine or linked by circumstance? Who is really liable? It is all suspicious and told in a fashion that was hard to pause reading.
The media plays a big part in the novel. The 24/7 news was the character I loved to hate. Much like true life, the news and media outlets will sensationalize and exploit tragedies. There is no loyalty to the victims, families or survivors. It's all about entertainment and ratings. Whether author Noah Hawley purposely portrayed the media in this light, I do not know. But well damn done.
Before the Fall will be published on Tuesday, May 31. Get your copy of the tragedy of the summer!
Title: Before the Fall
Author: Noah Hawley
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♡
Sugarland Tour
Welcome to Literary Marie's Precision Revision! Thanks for visiting the last blog tour stop for Martha Conway's new jazz age mystery, Sugarland (available as of May 12, 2016). I love a good mystery so very excited about sharing my review and an excerpt. Get comfy and enjoy the content below.
In 1921, young jazz pianist Eve Riser witnesses the accidental killing of a bootlegger. To cover up the crime, she agrees to deliver money and a letter to a man named Rudy Hardy in Chicago. But when Eve gets to Chicago she discovers that her stepsister Chickie, a popular nightclub singer, is pregnant by a man she won't name. That night Rudy Hardy is killed before Eve's eyes in a brutal drive-by shooting, and Chickie disappears.
Eve needs to find Chickie, but she can't do it alone. Lena Hardy, Rudy's sister, wants to learn the truth behind her brother's murder, but she needs Eve's connections. Together they navigate the back alleys and speakeasies of 1920s Chicago, encountering petty thugs, charismatic bandleaders, and a mysterious nightclub owner called the Walnut who seems to be the key to it all. As they fight racial barriers trying to discover the truth, Eve and Lena unravel a twisted tale of secret shipments and gangster rivalry.
If I had the opportunity to go back to an era, it would be the 1920s. The fashion, the jazz, the nightlife and the beginnings of women empowerment would be right up my alley. So the setting of Sugarland was perfect for me. Author Martha Conway wrote such descriptive backgrounds that it was like watching a movie. She captured the essence of the Roaring 20s, Prohibition and Jazz Age. Racism and relationships between races was also a theme in the novel and well portrayed. It was interesting to read how black and white musicians were treated during the Jazz Age as well as refreshing to watch a friendship build between two women from different backgrounds. The characters were well-developed with their own distinct personalities shown through both actions and dialogue. And the mystery wasn't so easy to solve!
Sugarland is a smooth read recommended for a breezy spring/summer evening on your patio with your favorite drink (or homemade hooch) and American jazz (Bessie Smith or Billie Holiday) playing in the background. You will get lost in the suspense fiction within the first couple chapters. In fact, you can start with the excerpt below then purchase Sugarland on Amazon. Trust me—you'll want to continue reading this story.
Title: Sugarland
Author: Martha Conway
Sugarland: A Jazz Age Mystery
Chapter One Excerpt
Hoxie, Illinois, 1921
At two in the morning the trains were stopped for the night, and the old wooden depot, manned only during the day now that the Great War had ended, was deserted.
Eve could see her breath in the cold January air as Gavin Johnson helped her up the last step of the empty train car. Then he jumped up himself. He moved closer and she smelled whiskey and something musky he'd splashed on his face. He pressed her against the rail and began to kiss her with lips cold at first but getting warmer. That was all right.
She turned her head and kissed him back, a feeling of steam moving up through her body. The night was so still it was like a creature holding its breath. She pulled away for a moment. "How'd you get a key to the train car?"
Gavin just laughed. "Let me put out the light." He opened his lantern's tiny glass door to blow out the flame, and in the darkness Eve followed him into the empty car.
Her blood was still warm from the corn whiskey she had drunk with the boys after the show, and she felt a little lightheaded. Here she was with a handsome man late at night, alone, her heart beating hard. Before her the rows of worn velvet seats were like people turning their backs. For some reason this excited her more.
"Nice at night, dontcha think?" Gavin asked, taking her hand. With his other hand he touched the soft fold of her dress at the collar. Then he began to unbutton her coat. They were in the Entertainers' car, the special train car they all traveled by and even slept in if there weren't any colored hotels in town. Jimmy Blakeley and His Stoptime Syncopaters, they were called, with Gavin Johnson on tenor sax and Eve Riser on piano. Everyone in the band was young and excited, and Eve felt young and excited just being around them. But sometimes it got lonely going from place to place without resting.
From the window Eve could see the empty depot house. Gavin touched the side of her face and she closed her eyes.
Oh she should know better all right. But she was feeling so good, she had played so well that night, really found her way into the music. Also that afternoon she had started a new song—"Sea Change," she would call it. The first four bars were a gift, just appearing in her mind as she walked back to the hotel from the drugstore, and they still looked good even after she'd written them down.
It was hardly warmer inside the train than out and she pressed against him too now, wanting to feel every inch. Gavin spread his overcoat on the floor and Eve let him guide her down onto the aisle, a hard space meant for feet. After a while his kisses became firmer and deeper like now they had really started, they were really going somewhere now.
She felt his hands behind her neck, fumbling with the buttons of her new dress.
"Gavin," Eve said.
"Shh, angel girl. I got us all covered."
She let him undo the buttons. She'd been on the circuit six months now. Six months of playing different pianos all in need of tuning, of fending for herself, of shooing off managers who said come on back to my office and I'll show you something I know you'll like. Some of the boys in the band called Eve beautiful but she didn't know about that. What she cared most about was her music. The horn players liked to start off with notes so strong and high you thought there was nowhere else to go, challenging Eve to follow. She always did. She thought of them as brothers, the teasing variety. But then Gavin came in halfway through their tour, a fine-looking man with deep brown eyes and a complexion her grandmother would call Georgia brown. At first Eve thought he was just another alligator with his little straw boater and his silk tie and his fine boutonniere pin from one of his daddy's social clubs, but it turned out he was there to play second sax. He called her angel girl and brought her coffee in the mornings. She was tired of being lonely. She liked his sloping smile.
Gavin got her last button unbuttoned. His eyes dark liquid drops in dark hollows. He pulled her dress down to her shoulders and kissed her collarbone again.
"Beautiful," he said.
"I should say," said a deep voice behind them.
Martha Conway is the author of Sugarland: A Jazz Age Mystery [Noontime Books], available via Amazon as of May 12, 2016. Conway's first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award, and her second novel, Thieving Forest, won the 2014 North American Book Award for Best Historical Fiction. Her short fiction has been published in The Iowa Review, The Carolina Quarterly Review, The Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Folio, and other journals. She teaches creative writing for Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program and UC Berkeley Extension, and is a recipient of a California Arts Council Fellowship for Creative Writing. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she is one of seven sisters. She currently lives in San Francisco.
Author Links: Facebook Twitter Goodreads Website
Disclaimer: A special thanks to the publisher Noontime Books and SMITH Publicity for the ARC. This book was received directly from the publisher for review and tour purposes only. In no way does it influence my review. The opinions I have expressed are honestly my own and would be the same if I spent my hard-earned coins.
Series Sunday: Ask the Sistahs
(Sistah Speak Podcast: Ask the Sistahs)
Special Series Sunday is a meme hosted by Literary Marie (Sistah LM). I encourage all of my fellow podcast hosts to play along.
Listen to an episode of a podcast series.
Include the podcast title and episode info.
My Series Sunday pick is Sistah Speak: Ask the Sistahs Episode 003. Listen to all four Sistahs answer your questions and give advice from a Sistah's point of view.
Join us in Chicago on July 9 for the Sistah Speak Family Reunion! Register here.
Podcast: Sistah Speak Podcast Network
Co-Hosts: Sistah A, Sistah J, Sistah K and Sistah LM
Time: 1 Hour, 16 Minutes
Grab your current read(s).
"A private plane sits on a runway in Martha's Vineyard, forward stairs deployed. It is a nine-seat OSPRY 45XR, built in 2001 in Wichita, Kansas. Whose plane it is is hard to say with real certainty."
~ Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
"What I've done is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color--it's a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown...I've tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar." ~ pg. 254
The above quote from the author herself is the best description of The Bell Jar. It is the semi-autobiographical novel of Sylvia Plath which details her dream to become a writer and struggle with depression as her personal life falls apart and society refuses to take women's aspirations seriously. To Plath and the main fictional character, Esther Greenwood, the world was a bad dream.
Even though The Bell Jar was written more than 50 years ago, it is still relevant today. The questions of how to sort out your life, how to deal with men and sex, how to be true to your successful self and live day-to-day are all still the same today. The anxieties of life have not changed. Now I see why Plath was viewed by critics as a contemporary and feminist. It is unfortunate that her suicide in 1963 brought instant fame; Plath was already a literary star.
As I sat down to type my review of The Bell Jar, I realized it is damn near impossible. How do I review such a classic? Both the novel and the author's reputation is already established regardless of what I have to say. All I can offer is my recommendation for those who are unfamiliar with Sylvia Plath. (Re)Read this classic! Research the author and impact of her brief career as a poet, novelist and short story writer. See for yourself why The Bell Jar is the feminine companion to Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. See why this novel remains in Chickadee's favorites of all time. It is a great choice to read during National Mental Illness Awareness Month.
Title: The Bell Jar
Author: Sylvia Plath
Challenge: Bookish Kill Your TBR—Read the Classics; Popsugar A Classic from the 20th Century
The Pocket Wife
"Manic depression, the doctors said—the great magical force that turned on her and tricked her into thinking she could fly. Episodic, they said." ~ pg. 25
Dana Catrell lives a life of chaos. Her husband makes her feel like loose change in his pocket. When Dana is in a mania phase, part of her bipolar disorder, she finds there are holes in her memory. So what really happened on the afternoon of her friend/neighbor Celia's death? Was it murder or all in her head? Dana uses the clarity the mania brings to fill in the terrifying gaps in her memory in this thrilling debut novel.
The Pocket Wife is a 3Ms story: marriage, murder and madness. This novel is a good blend of psychological suspense and behavior told from the point of a view of a woman with bipolar disorder.
Title: The Pocket Wife
Author: Susan Crawford
The Sudden Appearance of Hope
"First impressions matter, when they are all you have to live by." ~ 5%
Every intended meeting with Hope Arden is as if she suddenly appeared for the very first time. You could have met her a thousand times before but forgot. It started when she was sixteen years old. Her mom setting the dinner table for three instead of four. Her dad not driving her to school. A friend who sees her as a stranger. A classmate who thinks she is the new girl. A cop who arrested her for a crime but can't remember why. So little of Hope Arden is left behind when memories are stripped away. Sure it may seem hurtful but Hope Arden takes advantage of her condition by living a dangerous life; she steals to live.
PERFECTION is a life-coaching app designed to make a better you. Once you download and give it access to all your data, it gives daily reminders and suggestions to make your life better. Where to shop, what to wear, where and what to eat, how much to spend, etc. Before long, it is addictive and heavily relied upon by tons of people.
A woman becomes consumed with the app PERFECTION to the point where she falls into a depression and commits suicide because she just isn't perfect enough. Hope Arden met this woman repeatedly but, of course, was forgotten. Hope takes it upon herself to steal jewels from the ones responsible for PERFECTION. Her personal vendetta gets entangled with the agenda of other dangerous users in the darknet.
"A gap between knowing a thing, and comprehending it. Between perception and belief." ~ 65%
Claire North, where in the heck did you get this idea from? It is a story line I never heard of or read before. Or did I forget? Hmmm... either way, The Sudden Appearance of Hope has an original premise with a subplot that could very well happen in real life. Apps run the world and Claire North certainly shows through her third novel how dangerous that can be.
Though too lengthy at parts, The Sudden Appearance of Hope is a recommended read for those looking for something original, dark and modern.
Title: The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Author: Claire North
Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
"Basquiat was an omnivorous consumer of source material; he came, he saw, he painted." ~ pg. 347
Even if you lived in a cardboard box, never walked the streets of New York or stepped foot inside of a gallery, you surely heard the name Jean-Michel Basquiat. He was a young international painter mentored by Andy Warhol, known for his meteoric rise, graffiti art and signature words with a copyright symbol and crown. In less than a decade, he took over the art world and became an international artist. Unfortunately, his career ended far too soon as he died at the age of 27 years old from a drug overdose.
Nearly thirty years after his death, Basquiat is still recognized and his story is beyond vividly interesting. Based on hundreds of interviews done between August 1988 and November 1997, Phoebe Hoban goes into detail with Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art. It begins with his childhood, family life, teenage years and his brief adult life. The novel also covers the 1980s art scene, Basquiat's influence on art culture, the graffiti movement and inner workings of art galleries and dealers.
"For better or worse, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become the world's most famous black artist." ~ pg. 30
Basquiat was so much more than just a young black kid who wrote on buildings and sold art for millions. He is an icon. His black identity shows throughout his signature art. A Quick Killing in Art is the best biography, complete with a photo gallery, for those interested in reading an accurate tale on Basquiat, exploitation, fame, addiction and art dealers during the 1980s. This novel left me wondering, had Basquiat not died young and lost his life to drugs, what more he might have contributed to the art and hip hop culture. It is impossible to ignore the international legend that is Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Happy Official Pub Day, Phoebe Hoban!
Title: Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
Author: Phoebe Hoban
Series Sunday: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
My Series Sunday pick is What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day, the first book in the Idlewild series by Pearl Cleage. After spending a decade in Atlanta with fancy blacks, fancy cars, elaborate homes, the best clothes and luxe lifestyles, Ava returns to her hometown of Idlewild, Michigan, with the weight of bad news. Why would anyone leave the hustle and bustle city life for a small northern community? Well, Ava needs peace and quiet. And it seems the town needs her too.
"I almost never just sit anywhere. I'm always talking or working or reading or watching TV or on the phone or worrying." ~ pg. 64
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminds me of the days I wanted to move to Idlewild. I had clients that loved living there. They dare not trade Detroit for the close-knit, lakefront, all-black town of Idlewild. Yes, it is very different than city life. Full of confident, relaxed black people. The smell of success fills the quiet streets.
The relationship between sisters Ava and Joyce is strong. They support each other without smothering or being too nosy. One is never too far from the other, yet they have different interests. It was heartwarming to read about a positive black familial relationship. This is the kind of fiction I miss: the good 'ole stories of the 1990s.
It is hard to imagine this novel was Pearl Cleage's debut so many years ago. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day is a well written classic, still as good as ever.
Title: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
Challenge: Bookish Kill Your TBR—Read the Classics; Popsugar A Book I Haven't Read Since High School
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥
"On the sidewalk outside 57 Great Jones Street, the usual sad lineup of crack addicts slept in the burning sun. Inside the two-story brick building, Jean-Michel Basquiat was asleep in his huge bed, bathed in blue television light. The air conditioner was broken and the room felt like a microwave oven. The bathroom door was ajar, revealing a glimpse of a black and tan Jacuzzi tub. On the ledge of the tub was a small pile of bloody syringes. "
~ Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art by Phoebe Hoban
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"Like every circumstantial case, every piece of evidence had two sides." ~ pg. 226
If I see a novel recommended in a few magazines and featured in my public library's new releases newsletter, I add it to my TBR without hesitation. Such is the case for Alafair Burke's The Ex.
Twenty years ago, a woman broke up with her fiancé and ruined his life. Today Jack is still grieving his wife who was shot and killed by a 15-year-old boy three years ago. But he considers entering the dating scene when he spots a beautiful woman enjoying a champagne picnic alone in the park. It must be a sign because the woman is reading Jack's favorite book.
Eager to help her best friend start dating, Molly posts a blog on her popular website hoping to find the mysterious woman for Jack. Just a few days later, the woman and Jack make plans to meet officially in person at the waterfront. But it goes downhill from there. The mystery woman never shows up and next thing you know, Jack is arrested as the main suspect in a triple homicide—one of the victims happens to be a wealthy man who was held responsible for his wife's murder. Of course Jack has a motive but as the evidence against him grows, old fiancé Olivia sees this opportunity as a way to make up for the past. She dives headfirst into an investigation and finding out who framed Jack.
"You're basically saying it sounds too much like a lie to be a lie. You need more than that kind of logic to vouch for a client." ~ pg. 37
The Ex lives up to the hype. It deserved to be featured in magazines and by public libraries. It was that good. It kept me guessing and thinking of multiple outcomes of the plot. Even though a couple parts were predictable, the flow of the story kept me turning the pages, bouncing between my NOOK and a hardcover edition because I carried and read it everywhere.
The Ex is for readers who like psychological suspense stories. It belongs on the shelf beside The Girl on the Train, Before I Go To Sleep and Gone Girl. What you think is going to happen just may, but read to see how.
Title: The Ex
Author: Alafair Burke
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Online Menopause Centre's new Report finds that 48% of women say menopause has affected their job.
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Half of working women going through the menopause say it has had a detrimental impact on their employment, with some being driven to leave their jobs because of debilitating symptoms.
In The Annual Menopause Report 2022, carried out by the Online Menopause Centre, 48% of women questioned admitted the menopause/perimenopause (the period leading up to the menopause) had affected their job, with those working in professional roles most severely impacted (71%).
Changes women made to their working patterns because of the menopause range from reducing or altering their hours, through to giving up work entirely.
Only 14% of those questioned discussed their menopause/perimenopause symptoms with their employer. The most common reason for not speaking about it was they didn't think their employer could help (29%). Other factors included not thinking their employer would understand (21%), being embarrassed (11%) or fear of demotion/losing their job (6%).
The research also asked women who had spoken to their employer how their workplace had helped them manage their menopause experience. Nearly half (47%) said their employer had done nothing, 18% had been offered flexible working and 7% had provided specific interventions (such as fans/air conditioning for hot flushes).
Those working in senior management roles were least likely to have thought about telling their employer (54%), compared to those in middle management (38%) or supervisor level (28%).
Around 13 million women in the UK are currently menopausal or perimenopausal – equivalent to a third of the entire female population[i] – and symptoms include hot flushes/night sweats, brain fog and sleep problems, as well as anxiety, poor memory, low self-confidence and loss of libido
The Annual Menopause Report 2022 was carried out by the Online Menopause Centre to gain a greater understanding of the menopause and perimenopause and its findings come at a time when there is growing concern about the effect that menopause has on working women.
Commenting on the report, Dr Laila Kaikavoosi, who is a GP, menopause expert and founder of the Online Menopause Centre, said: "Whilst there is much greater awareness around the menopause – thanks to the role of celebrities and increased media coverage – there has been very little around the impact it has on women in the workplace. This study shines a light on the real issues women are facing and will hopefully act as a catalyst for employers to recognise that women need help and support during this difficult time.
"Menopause happens at a time when many women are at the height of their career, often in senior roles and an integral part of a business. It is a tragedy that some suffer such debilitating symptoms that they feel the only option available to them is to give up their job. Not only is this devastating for women, it is also a great loss to the employer."
The Annual Menopause Report 2022 was based on research carried out by Zing Insights and it surveyed 464 women aged between 35-64 years old across the UK.
The Online Menopause Centre is carrying out a Menopause in the Workplace webinar for employers and HR teams to find out more about what they can do to support employees going through the menopause. The webinar is on Thursday, May 26th 10.30 – 11.30 and to register click here.
[i] Local Government Association Menopause Factfile
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Emily Freeman and Zachary Tavlin interview Zachary's mother and grandmother, and discuss the challenges of Zachary's chronic blood disorder. Monday, October 21, 2013
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Purple Songs Can Fly is a unique program that provides a musical outlet for the many children being treated for cancer and blood disorders at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers. In this program, which is the first of its kind, the children work with founder, Anita Kruse and other professional composers to write and record their own songs. In an in-house studio, composers work with the children and their siblings to write, record, and burn songs to disc within short sessions.
As patients in the Cancer Center, Zachary and Emily have written many songs with Purple Songs Can Fly and have inspiring perspectives on life that will touch your heart. Enjoy interviews with doctors, nurses, friends, family, special guests, and the many children who have written songs during their treatment.
Be sure to tune in for Purple Songs Can Fly every Monday at 3 PM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Kids Channel.
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Emily is a 17 year old high school Junior who loves all things pertaining to performance, purple, and her pet pug, Moochie. Prior to diagnosis with a rare cancerous brain tumor in June of 2009, she led an active life as an accomplished ballerina. She took ballet from the age of four, and, in 2006, auditioned for the role of Clara in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes. After landing the role in Houston in 2006, she went on to a repeat performance at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 2007. Due to vision loss from the tumor, short term memory loss, and other damaging endocrine effects from treatment, she is hanging up her ballet shoes for now.
However, as providence would have it, one day while waiting for an appointment at Texas Children's Hospital, she met Aaron who worked with Purple Songs Can Fly, and helped her record her very first song. This chance meeting opened a door to work with Purple Songs, a perfect match for Emily, which has given her a much needed outlet to sing, perform, and continue to touch the lives of others with her exuberant zest for life. She is beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to learn radio and reach a brand new audience through Voice America Kids!
Zack Tavlin began with "Purple Songs Can Fly" back in 2006. His illness and the beginning of Purple Songs Can Fly almost directly coincide. Through this organization, he has had the opportunity to write songs for prominent heart surgeons, astronauts, musicians and even popular athletes! He continues to write and record songs, both to spread his love of Purple Songs Can Fly and to express his heartfelt joy for each day he is blessed to be alive. Zack is extremely excited to be on the radio and looks forward to interviewing many interesting people.
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Man Gets Life In Prison For Murders Of Two South Florida School Janitors
A man accused of killing two school custodians in 2013 has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty.
Javier Burgos, 57, pleaded guilty last week to two counts of first-degree murder with a firearm in the deaths of 56-year-old Ted Orama of Greenacres and 48-year-old Christopher Marshall of West Palm Beach.
Their bodies were found on the morning of June 19, 2013, by another custodian at Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in downtown West Palm Beach.
On Monday, a Palm Beach County judge accepted the terms of the plea deal and sentenced Burgos to life in prison.
Burgos was named a suspect in the murders in 2014, but fled to Colombia.
Buding Burgos' four years at the school, he was accused of trying to sell a gun to a co-worker on school grounds, grabbing his crotch in front of a female colleague and challenging another co-worker to fight.
He was extradited back to the U.S. in May and confessed to the murders.


Einstein@Home volunteers discover two new radio pulsars in Arecibo data!
Einstein@Home has discovered two new radio pulsars in Arecibo "Mock" data! Congratulations to Dave and Emma Johnston of Jacksonville, Florida (USA) and to Piotr Kamiński of Warsaw (Poland) and to our other lucky volunteers! Further details about the newly-discovered pulsars can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course.
Einstein@Home has discovered two new radio pulsars in Arecibo "Mock" data! Congratulations to Dave and Emma Johnston of Jacksonville, Florida (USA) and to Piotr Kamiński (Poland) and to our other lucky volunteers! Further details about the newly-discovered pulsars can be found on this web page, and will be published in due course.
Jacksonville! Then they're at most an hour's drive away from me. We're getting awfully close to home, here.
Our congratulations for Poland and Florida!
I was wondering, is there a 2d or 3d map of the positions of our pulsars.
So you can see the position and relative distance to the sun (not to close please).
Or a data file to set them in Starry night or stellarium.
This is excellent news. Congratulations on the discoveries!
Einstein@Home has discovered two new radio pulsars in Arecibo "Mock" data!
It is super to see such great results for the project.
that's actually a nice idea! I like it! I can try to spend some time on this, shouldn't be too hard I guess.
Ha ha, I know what you mean; but sticking to the science of the matter here, we are all equidistant.
Congratulations to Dave, Emma and Piotr!
Benjamin, I have a question. I'm new to E@H. I have excellent training in general relativity with the needed math skills but I need help with understanding the info on these pulsars. I'd very much like to get more involved.
welcome to Einstein@Home, happy to have you on board! A gentle start with some background info on the radio pulsar search is available on our webpages in the section "Info on the Arecibo radio pulsar search".
If you would like to understand in detail what the Einstein@Home result plots, e.g. this one, show you can have a look at my PhD thesis, which is available for download as a pdf here. Chapter 3 is a complete overview of the Einstein@Home radio pulsar processing pipeline. Section 3.10 details the post-processing and the overview plots you were referring to. If you have a general physics background this should be readable. If you would like more details on pulsars, you can read Chapter 2 of my thesis, better yet the excellent Handbook of Pulsar Astronomy by Michael Kramer and Dunc Lorimer, or "Pulsar Astronomy" by Lyne and Graham-Smith.
prepfold is one of the standard tools of pulsar astronomy and is part of the much bigger presto software suite. When you've read up on pulsars most of the diagrams on the prepfold plots are almost self-explanatory, but I believe there's at least a tiny bit of information in my thesis (e.g. on page 151 below the prepfold plot for the discovery of J2007+2722).
Hope that helps and thanks a lot for your interest!
We're going to add ALL the Einstein@Home discoveries to the screensaver, perhaps with some form of mouse-over detail.
The executables can/will function in two modes (i) as a screensaver that exits with any user input as you'd expect and (ii) as a standalone window in 'exploratory' mode accepting user keyboard/mouse input. The current Starsphere code already works this way, as will future examples based upon the existing framework for such. See here.


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The Defense and a Special Prosecutor Agree About Unfairness in a Missouri Capital Case: Will That Be Enough to Stop an Execution?
Updated: 28 Nov 2022
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The state of Missouri plans to execute Kevin Johnson on Tuesday, November 29, for a crime he committed when he was 19 years old. It wants to do so even though his defense lawyer and a special prosecutor, who was appointed in October by a Missouri trial judge to review the Johnson case, agree that unconstitutional racial bias played a crucial role in the handling of his case.
Such agreement is quite unusual in the intensely adversarial world of capital litigation where prosecutors and defense lawyers seldom see eye-to-eye on almost anything.
On Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court will listen to oral arguments in which both sides will ask that Johnson's execution be postponed until a trial court can hold a hearing on the allegations about racism.
It will have to confront a question that continues to plague America's death penalty system: is finality and getting on with the business of state killing more important than preventing a manifest injustice?
As Kevin Johnson's lawyer, Shawn Nolan, notes, "Civilized countries don't execute people based on the color of their skin, but that is what the State of Missouri is about to do. We have a special prosecutor, who is prepared to argue in court that everything about this prosecution reeked of racism. All we need is a court willing to hear this case."
Nolan is right that "Any rational court would put a stop to this execution." That is what the Missouri Supreme Court should do.
The special prosecutor, Edward Keenan, acting under a 2021 Missouri law authorizing him to file a motion to vacate a judgment "at any time" if he has information that a convicted person may have been "erroneously convicted," agrees with Nolan. His agreement constitutes the state's own confession of error.
As Keenan put it in his motion asking the state supreme court to vacate the judgment in Johnson's case, the evidence "clearly and convincingly shows that improper racial factors played a substantial role throughout the process—in the prosecutor's selection of defendants for first degree prosecution, the decision to seek a death sentence, and in the selection of jurors ultimately tasked with determining guilt and sentence."
Keenan is urging the court to act under a state law requiring that judgments should be set aside when judges find "constitutional error at the original trial of plea that undermines the confidence in the judgment."
Neither the special prosecutor nor the defense contends that Johnson is innocent of the crime for which he was sentenced to death.
The facts of that crime are undeniably tragic.
According to The Missouri Independent, "On the evening of July 5, 2005, police officer William McEntee and others entered a family residence to serve a warrant. During the search, Johnson's 12-year old brother, Joseph Long, suffered a seizure and collapsed…. Johnson watched the officers ignore his brother's obvious medical distress, stepping over his limp body several times but never getting him help. Officers even prevented Long's mother from entering the house to help." As a result, Joseph died.
Two hours later, "McEntee came back to Johnson's neighborhood responding to a report of fireworks. A chance encounter with Johnson ensued. Emotionally distraught and overwhelmed, Johnson said, 'you killed my brother,' before shooting officer McEntee multiple times."
But even guilty people have rights in this country, including the right to equal treatment under the law.
From the start of his case, Johnson was denied that right.
Despite the extenuating circumstances surrounding Officer McEntee's death, the St. Louis County prosecutor's office charged Johnson with first degree murder instead of some lesser offense and sought the death penalty.
The special prosecutor's motion notes that during the tenure of Robert McCulloch, who was St. Louis County's prosecuting attorney at the time of Johnson's arrest, five people were charged in cases where a police officer was killed. Four of the defendants, including Johnson, were Black, and one was White.
McCulloch sought the death penalty against all of the Black defendants but not the White one, even though the latter had bragged on social media about his desire to shoot police officers.
In other evidence of racial disparity, McCulloch invited the White defendant's lawyer to submit any evidence as to why McCulloch should not ask for the death penalty in advance of his charging decision. He issued no such invitation to any of the lawyers of the Black defendants.
Johnson was tried twice for first-degree murder in the McEntee killing. The first trial ended in a mistrial when jurors could not agree on whether he should be convicted of second-degree or first-degree murder.
In advance of that trial, the prosecutors developed a strategy to get around the requirements of the United States Supreme Court's 1986 Batson v Kentucky decision. In Batson, the Court found that prosecution attempts to exclude Black jurors from serving in death penalty cases were unconstitutional.
Following that strategy, McCulloch's office decided not to use all their peremptory challenges in the hope that the trial judge would eliminate Black jurors without those jury strikes counting against the prosecution. But the trial judge did not go along with their plan, and the jury in Johnson's first trial was composed of six Whites and six Blacks.
But McCulloch's efforts to exclude Black jurors from sitting on the jury in Johnson's case did not end there. Before Johnson's second trial, prosecutors again worked on ways to eliminate Black jurors. This time they succeeded in reducing the number of Black jurors; only three were seated.
Tellingly, the special prosecutor, not just the defense, has presented these facts to the state supreme court for its consideration.
Racial discrimination of the kind documented in Johnson's case was not just a problem when the St. Louis prosecutor dealt with people who killed police officers. Professor Frank Baumgartner, a renowned death penalty expert, studied more than four hundred death-eligible cases handled by McCulloch's office.
The results are disturbing but not surprising.
Baumgartner found substantial race-of-victim effects at every stage of the capital prosecution process during McCulloch's time in office. The death penalty was used at a rate 3-4 times higher when the victim was White than in cases with Black victims. And Baumgartner reports that the race-of-victim effects could not be attributed to any "legitimate case characteristics."
The problem of racial bias is not limited to one prosecutor or one jurisdiction in Missouri.
Since 1976, the state has put 92 people to death. An earlier study by Baumgartner found that from 1976 to 2014, over 81% of the people executed in Missouri were convicted of killing Whites even though they made up less than 40% of all murder victims in the state.
As Baumgartner explained, "Homicides involving White victims are seven times more likely to result in an execution than those involving Black victims."
Such discrimination is a shameful and well-documented part of the death penalty system wherever capital punishment has been used in this country.
But, even when there is compelling evidence of racial prejudice in capital cases, courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have often been impatient and hostile to late-stage appeals like the one the Missouri Supreme Court will hear in Johnson's case.
Thus it is not surprising that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene on his behalf last week. And Missouri's Republican Governor Mike Parson has promised that in Johnson's case "everything will go on forward as scheduled."
It is now up to the Missouri Supreme Court to defend the Constitution. It should do what both Johnson's defense lawyer and the state's special prosecutor are asking it to do and halt his execution so that the issues they have raised can be thoroughly vetted.
As his defense lawyer puts it, that court must stop "one arm of the state (the executive)…. (from) rushing to execute… (Johnson) in order to prevent another arm of the state (the special prosecutor) from having its findings of racial bias and discrimination heard in court."
If the execution goes forward as planned because the state supreme court fails to act, that court will come perilously close to acquiescing in a lynching.
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The Indianapolis Public Library's 2021 Summer Reading Program logged more than 14 million minutes of reading
More than 20,000 kids, teens, and adults took part in The Indianapolis Public Library's 102st Summer Reading Program..
More than 20,000 kids, teens, and adults took part in The Indianapolis Public Library's 102st Summer Reading Program, "Discover," which ended on July 31. Readers devoted approximately 14 million minutes to learning more about the world around them through reading and exploration while earning prizes generously donated by community sponsors.
The 2021 Summer Reading Program offered both live and virtual event options. This year's program encouraged participants to not only read books but to take part in activities that allow patrons to explore their interests, connect with others, and learn more about their community. From cooking classes to genealogy workshops, there was something for everyone.
Kids Summer Reading Program:
For the second consecutive year, kids kept track of the amount of time spent reading instead of the number of books read. This allowed participants of all reading levels to have an equal opportunity to earn prizes.
"For our young patrons, the summer reading program helps stop the summer slide by encouraging kids and teens to continue reading and learning when they are away from school," said Sharon Bernhardt, Manager of Children's Services with IndyPL. "This new model, alongside the allure of prizes, helps kids stay motivated throughout the program."
Prizes such as books, bags, toys, pool passes, and vouchers to local museums and attractions were earned at milestones of reading for 1 hour, 5 hours, 10 hours, 15 hours, and 20 hours. The program also allowed kids to complete fun and educational activities that entered them into drawing to win an additional Discovery Mystery Bag.
Adult Summer Reading Program:
The adult Summer Reading Program allowed participants to earn prizes by completing activities in the three categories: Discover Outside, Discover You, and Discover Something New. Adults earned prizes for tasks including gardening, biking, checking out local art exhibits, exploring genealogy, or reading a book in a new genre. Prizes that were up for grabs included a Meijer gift card and a ghost tour at the Central Library.
"We are really thankful for our community partners that have donated generously to the summer reading program," Jackie Nytes, the Library's Chief Executive Officer. "Your support has helped this program become a staple of the community that connects our patrons and encourages lifelong learning."
The 2021 IndyPL Summer Reading Program was presented by Friends of the Library through gifts to The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation. Major sponsors include The Indianapolis Foundation Library Fund; Indianapolis Indians; Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, and Mary Frances Rubly & Jerry Hummer. Supporting sponsors are BKD CPAs & Advisors; Citizens Energy Group; CollegeChoice CD 529 Savings Plan; Indiana Pacers; Indianapolis Colts; Indy Eleven; Louise Lage Kirtland and Hugh C. Kirtland Endowment Fund, a fund of The Indianapolis Foundation; Lilly Endowment Inc.; Meijer; Office of Lawrence Township Trustee Steve Talley; OneAmerica®, G. Marlyne Sexton; The Swisher Foundation, Inc., in memory of Glenn M. Swisher.
To discover The Library's many activities visit The Library's website or The Library's Facebook and YouTube pages.


The CH postcode area, also known as the Chester postcode area, is a group of postcode districts covering parts of north-west England and north-east Wales. Having previously roughly covered the former Chester district and present-day Flintshire county, postcodes for the Wirral Peninsula (CH41-49, 60-66) were transferred to it in 1999 from the L postcode area. It includes Birkenhead, Chester, Ellesmere Port, Neston, Prenton and Wallasey in England and Bagillt, Buckley, Connah's Quay, Flint, Holywell and Mold in Wales.
CH postcode area map, showing postcode districts in red and post towns in grey text, with links to nearby CW, L, LL, SY and WA postcode areas.
^ "Why we are changing postcodes – Royal Mail". Wirral Globe website. Newsquest Media Group. 18 March 1999. Archived from the original on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
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