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18May 2019
Elgar, Strauss, Ravel, Goossens – Longing for Paradise – Albrecht Mayer, Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrusa – 2019 (FLAC, 24BIT – 96KHZ)
Composer: Sir Edward Elgar, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Eugène Goossens
Performer: Albrecht Mayer – oboe
Orchestra: Bamberger Symphoniker
Conductor: Jakub Hrůša
Elgar · Strauss · Ravel · Goossens – Longing for Paradise
Sir Edward Elgar (1857 – 1934)
01. Soliloquy for Oboe and Orchestra (Orch. by Gordon Jacob)
Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
Concerto for Oboe and Small Orchestra in D Major, AV 144, TrV 292 (Rev. Version)
02. 1. Allegro moderato
03. 2. Andante
04. 3a. Vivace
05. 3b. Allegro
Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
Le Tombeau de Couperin, M. 68 (Arr. for Oboe and Orchestra by Joachim Schmeißer)
06. 1. Prélude
07. 3. Forlane
08. 2. Fugue
09. 5. Menuet
10. 4. Rigaudon
Eugène Goossens (1893 – 1962)
11. Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in One Movement, Op. 45
Recording Venue: Konzert- und Kongresshalle Bamberg
When the world threatens to descend into chaos, the longing for Paradise grows apace. Time and again composers have invoked this discovery and turned it into music in many different ways. Now the internationally acclaimed oboist Albrecht Mayer has joined forces with the Bamberg Symphony and Jakub Hrůša to present several of these creations on his new album, Longing for Paradise.
Richard Strauss wrote his only Oboe Concerto shortly after the end of World War II, seemingly forgetting all the world's upheavals. It is, Mayer enthuses, "a piece abounding in beauties, perhaps an intimation of Paradise. It requires maximum effortlessness. Perhaps Strauss himself soared in something like the pure riches of its euphony when he wrote it". For years Mayer has been fond of preceding the Strauss concerto in his performances with a little piece by Edward Elgar: Soliloquy. The sole surviving movement of a fragmentary suite for oboe and orchestra, it was only completed and presented to the public in 1967.
Just as Richard Strauss sought artistic responses to his experiences after World War II, Maurice Ravel struggled to find solutions in the midst of the Great War. Originally composed for piano, Le Tombeau de Couperin was orchestrated by the composer in 1919. It is a "very morbid piece", Albrecht Mayer emphasises: "Each movement is dedicated to a comrade who fell in the war. We're therefore dealing with highly personal music embedded in baroque forms."
Eugène Goossens's Oboe Concerto of 1927 is a genuine trouvaille. He wrote it to fulfil a request from his brother Léon, one of the 20th century's formative oboists. "Imagine Stravinsky writing a concerto for oboe, seasoning it with a pinch of British humour and adding a dash of regional sounds". This stylistic mélange thus likewise becomes an expression of distant longing.
With his new album, "Albrecht Mayer once again reveals his innate feeling for polished thematic programmes: "We witness composers intent on projecting themselves into a more beautiful world. They dreamt their way into Paradise."
Albrecht_Mayer_Longing_for_Paradise_2019_24-96.rar
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DENVER—Dust blown in from the Southwest settled on snow over many of Colorado's mountains during this week's storm and will eventually affect how fast the snowpack melts and possibly how much water the state can hold onto.
Researchers say the dust kicked up from Arizona, New Mexico and Utah by southwesterly winds fell in Steamboat Springs, Summit County, Vail, Aspen and the San Juan mountains. Dust was also scattered in the snow that fell along the Front Range, but it's likely that dust could have been carried by southeasterly winds from other areas too, including parched southeastern Colorado, the San Luis Valley and the Arkansas River Basin, state climatologist Nolan Doesken said.
Jeffrey Deems, a research scientist for NOAA in Boulder, said dust on top of snow can absorb up to twice as much sunlight as clean snow, speeding up melting. He compares the effect to wearing a dark T-shirt on sunny day.
This week's dust storm was the second widespread one in Colorado's mountains this season. Another storm April 8 left a thick layer of dust in the state's snowpack, which has now been boosted to 79 percent of the peak average thanks to this week's storm.
"It's kind of a mixed blessing now," Deems said of the new, dusty snow.
More snow is in the forecast, but whenever the dust layers from this week and earlier this month are eventually exposed, there will be a significant speed up in the melting of the snow at that time, said Chris Landry of the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies in Silverton. The center is studying the impact of dust on snow for water providers across the state—including Denver Water and the Bureau of Land Management—and periodically checks sites at mountain passes across the High Country for dust.
If clean snow keeps falling the impact will be delayed, Landry said, helping farmers without storage who don't need irrigation water just yet and rafting companies hoping to attract customers to big flows later in the season.
Flows don't have as much of an impact on water providers with reservoirs, which have plenty of room after two straight years of drought, but Colorado's vast mountains can hold more water in the form of snow than reservoirs can.
An early snowmelt would help farmers in northeastern Colorado a bit. As the snow fell this week, crews for the Central Colorado Water Conservancy District worked in the mud to get its lined gravel storage pits ready for the flow. The water they collect will be used by 500 farm families in Weld, Adams and Morgan counties, district executive director Randy Ray said.
Like everyone, he'd prefer a slow, steady flow of water but, as a junior water rights holder, he said the district would take what it could get.
"We're ready to take water if it comes down fast," Ray said.


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Book Review: Bought: Destitute yet Defiant by Sarah Morgan
I downloaded this book when I was on 'ebook download binge' after installing a reading app.
Another reason was: I recognized the author's name and remembered enjoying reading a couple of her books. Just couldn't remember the name of the books on time.
Let's find out a little about 'Bought: Destitute yet Defiant'…
Genre: Contemporary Romance.
Main Characters: Jessica 'Jessie' Gray, Silvio Brianza
'Bought: Destitute yet Defiant' by Sarah Morgan' ~~ Synopsis:
Jessie is a singer in a night club in the shady part of the city. She'd not chosen the job, but she does not have a choice. She has to make a living and also pay the debt her late brother left behind.
She's trying her best to pay the thugs and keep out of their clutches. But she knows they want their money back sooner than she'd pay and are ready to kill her.
One night after work Jessie tries to outrun the thugs, but they cornered her. She's ready to die trying to defend herself when....
Silvio, her brother's best friend and her childhood crush, appears out of nowhere to save her. He whisks her to the safety of his new world.
Unlike Jessie and her brother, Silvio with his determination and hard work left the slum life behind and built a new luxurious life for himself.
Three years after the death of his friend and Jessie's insistence that he leaves her alone, Silvio comes back to save Jessie.
Seeing the way Jessie's barely managing to live or pay her brother's debt, Silvio feels guilty of leaving her when she needed him the most.
He decides to save her from the life in the slum, whether she wants to take his help or not. This much he can do for his late friend's little sister and his secret crush.
Jessie's thankful, yet is angry with herself for allowing Silvio to save her. He's the one she blames for the death of her brother...if only he'd not given her brother the money.
Silvio blames himself as well, but he doesn't allow his past to dictate his future. He has come to understand that his friend's death wasn't entirely his fault as Jessie likes to believe.
Jessie wants to leave Silvio's world as soon as possible. But Silvio convinces her to stay and allow him to help her build her life from the scratch.
The more time Jessie spends with Silvio, the more it becomes difficult to keep pretending that they are not attracted to each other.
And that maybe she's wrong to accuse Silvio for her brother's lack of wanting to take responsibility for his actions.
Yet Jessie doesn't want to stay in Silvio's life as she's sure she's just another project for him.
Silvio's predicament: how to inspire confidence in Jessie? And if she loves him as he does.
"Some people are too messed up. Or perhaps they just don't want to be saved. But at the end of the day there's only so much someone else can do. They can give you a ladder but it's up to you to climb up it." ~~ Sarah Morgan (Book: Bought: Destitute yet Defiant)
Minus Points:
1: The plot moves too fast, which is good, if you enjoy short novels aka novellas. But it also gives the feeling as if it's jumping from one scene to another, leaving you wondering what's happening.
2: I understood the insecurities of Jessie's character and even sympathized.
As her life changes within a fortnight, so her insecurities & phobias are understandable. But after a while, her psychoanalysis of everything around her gets annoying.
3: The thugs after her life are relegated to the background which is fine as well. But it means there's not much happening action wise in the story.
4: Jessie comes off as not just clueless about life, but totally stupid sometimes, which seems impossible. She lived a rough life since the age of five and she behaves as if she lived a sheltered life. Her insecurities are understandable, but her naiveté is unbelievable.
Maybe it has something to do with some guideline that all Harlequin novels follow:
According to which heroine, at all times is supposed to be stupid or turn into one after meeting the hero. Because stupidity and naiveté combined is some sort of aphrodisiac!
5. The story falls along with the ones that needs more space to develop.
Plus Points:
The plot, despite the glitches, moves at an exciting pace. You might not find anything amiss, if you are only looking for a weekend read that provides you some entertainment, which this book does.
Ratings: 2 stars/5.
Book Review: Bought: Destitute yet Defiant by Sara...

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Q&A: Nancy Hoffman On Vocational Education
This November, Getting Smart reviewed Nancy Hoffman's book Schooling in the Workplace: How Six of the World's Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life, a book that explores best practice examples of vocational education practices around the world.
Hoffman is a Vice President and Senior Advisor at Jobs for the Future, a national non-profit in Boston, the mission of which is to improve educational and workforce outcomes for low-income young people and adults. She works on early college designs, and the transition to and through postsecondary credentials. Hoffman serves as a consultant for the Education and Training Policy unit of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
In her book, Hoffman outlines the ways that vocational education and training (VET), which couples hands-on work experience and traditional learning to develop 21st century skills, can better prepare students for higher education and life. In the Q&A below, Hoffman discusses the outlook of VET programs around the world, the differences in the US and the challenges Americans face in producing comparable programs for students.
Q: What is VET?
A: VET (vocational education and training) is one of two educational pathways between which young people chose at around age 15 in most European countries. The other is the academic pathway to university reserved for students wishing research, academic careers and professions such as medicine and law. The purpose of VET is to build a transition from school to learning-to-work to fulltime work over a period of three of four years. The goal is for participants to get training for an initial career and enter the workforce smoothly with the option to continue their studies in postsecondary institutions if they wish. The best VET approaches integrate work and learning in a partnership with what are called "social partners" — employers, unions, educators, and the state.
The state takes responsibility for ensuring that the education is broad and that the students get portable skills. Students generally spend two days in school and three in a company working to develop competencies that will qualify them for permanent employment. Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Australia, and several Nordic countries educate from 40 percent to 75 percent of their young people in this system. In a number of countries, VET is the smartest and quickest route to a wide variety of occupations for the majority of young people in the successful countries—not a default for failing students. Young people realize that technical skills like IT, engineering, graphic design and the like are better learned on the job than first as theory as in a university setting, and then applied later on during a first job.
Q: What is the success rate of VET programs across the globe?
A: I can only report on the countries I studied and that are included in Learning for Jobs, the OECD 17-country study which got me started on this work. We can say this: Countries with strong vocational education and training (VET) pathways have the highest rates of upper secondary completion and the lowest youth unemployment. VET appears to keep students in school who might otherwise drop out, although it is true that VET in general has lower completion rates than the academic pathway.
Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, for example, have the majority of students in their VET systems and have graduation rates above 90 percent. These countries have also kept their youth unemployment rates between five and eight percent in the economic crisis while US rates have risen to 20 percent. Bottom line is that countries with strong VET systems have almost everyone in school through age 18 or 19 attaining work experience or preparing for university. Compared with these countries, the US is a shameful failure with high school drop out rates in our cities of 50 percent. In addition, upper secondary completion in VET countries is more like the completion of an AA degree than high school.
Q: How is VET around the world different than work study or internship programs in the Unite States?
A: I love the phrase, "the school is not the center of the world," which came from a report written by a group from Moldova a on a study tour to Switzerland to learn about the Swiss VET system, arguably the best in the world. They write that "the Swiss Education system was presented… with … emphasis on the fact that 'the school is not the center of the world;' it is just a service-providing institution that should meet the client's needs. The future apprentices think less about which school to go to and ore about learning occupation in order to get a good job."
I love the phrase, "the school is not the center of the world."
Work-study and internships are additions to full-time schooling, not the main locus of schooling. To come at this a different way, in strong VET systems, the state establishes the legal framework for VET through a Vocational Training Act, setting up a tripartite governance structure: 1) the representative bodies established by the social partners (employers and unions) 2) the state (ministries, education boards at national and regional levels), and 3) VET providers (schools, state or regional entities). The institutional framework sets out the roles of all stakeholders, the qualifications for teachers and trainers, the way VET is assessed, and how quality is controlled. Such a legal document leaves little ambiguity about decision-making and power sharing in specific realms. Within the legal framework, the foundational document is the apprenticeship or traineeship contract that sets out the rights and obligations of both trainees and the firms receiving them. This is an education system, not an "add on" internship or work-study program.
Q: What is the current rate of VET-type programs (work study, internships) in the United States for K-12 and college-level students?
A: Work-study and internships are not what VET is about as I point out above. Both are useful experiences for students, but in the non-US programs that I'm describing, students learn primarily at work, their applied learning is assessed there, and the school learning is integrated with it. They exit school qualified for a calling and with substantial work experience, often doing a full, productive job as they complete their three or four years in the workplace and they get a stipend for their work. The stipend usually starts at a percentage of the regular wage (in Switzerland around $800 a month for a 16-year old), but reaches full wages by the third year or nearly full wages.
The US would show up as having no VET or career and technical education (CTE) at all.
As for the US, one piece of data that may surprise readers is that when the OECD charts the proportion of students across countries engaged in vocational education and training as opposed to academic general education, the United States is not on the chart. The US would show up as having no VET or career and technical education (CTE) at all. This is because while about one in five high school students concentrate in an occupational area, the course requirements are a small proportion of the high school diploma. Precedence goes to being "college and career ready." High school CTE has as its purpose to allow students to explore a career and to motivate and engage at risk students to stay in school, while providing the basic math, reading, and writing skills required for postsecondary education. While CTE programs in low-performing districts tend to have higher high school completion rates than the non-CTE curriculum that is a very low bar. For a host of reasons explored in my book—not the least of which is that too many young people go off to college unprepared and bored with the prospect of more school—CTE could be doing much more, and not just for struggling students.
Community college students do have internships and clinical experiences; these are required for licensure or to earn a certificate in a number of career areas, most notably the health professions. If you are following some of the exposes of for-profit career schools, one rap against some is that to get a job you need a specific number of hours of clinical experience, which these schools promise to provide, but in fact, do not. Nursing programs do a great job of teaching students on site in hospitals and clinics, for example. The approach, however, is not incorporated or required in most career areas, and not in community college transfer degrees.
Q: What are the major policy obstacles or challenges in the United States that prevent schools or universities from implementing a VET program?
A: First of all, the US does not have youth policies that protect and support the younger generation as other countries do. I despair when I think about the prospects of the "forgotten half," those young Americans who—for reasons of poverty, poor quality high school education, no faith in the future, lack of engagement in traditional schooling—are adrift in a harsh economy with no structures or supports as they grow from being adolescents at school into adulthood. Compared with other relatively strong economies, the US pays youth low wages, has little job protection, and provides few social and income supports for young people struggling with schooling and employment. More specifically, there are obstacles to engaging younger students in work because of unions' and others' objections to training wages, a lower wage for students learning on the job.
I despair when I think about the prospects of the "forgotten half."
In addition, we do not provide income supports to young people and so cannot use these as "carrots" to incentivize young people to be in a mix of school and work until they get a credential. Called "activation policies," these entail agreements or compacts among young people, their families, and the government that the young person will actively seek work and stay in training in exchange for targeted actions to help them. Income supports and other services are in jeopardy if the young person refuses services, or does not keep her side of the bargain in participation. Finally, our notion that all students need to be college and career ready and these are the same thing has created a disincentive for schools to provide career counseling, to teach high school students about work options, and to do more than get every one essential academic skills which are important, but aren't the whole picture.
Q: How can we best overcome these challenges?
A: That's a tough question. You might suggest that your readers take a look at the Pathways to Prosperity report, which draws lessons from the models I've been describing, but is written to encourage US educators and policy makers to address the lack of pathways to careers in the United States. The Pathways to Prosperity Project, which is based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), examines the reasons for our failure to prepare so many young adults, and advances a vision for how the United States might regain the leadership in educational attainment it held for over a century. The report argues that our national strategy for education and youth development has been too narrowly focused on an academic, classroom-based approach and advocates development of a comprehensive pathways network to serve youth in high school and beyond.
When the report appeared last February, it generated considerable heat by contending that at present, we place far too much emphasis on a single pathway to success: attending and graduating from a four-year college. The report notes that while the United States is expected to create 47 million jobs in the 10-year period ending in 2018, only a third of these jobs will require a bachelor's or higher degree. The report argues we need to broaden the range of high-quality pathways that we offer young adults. This would include far more emphasis on career counseling and high-quality career education, as well as apprenticeship programs and community colleges as viable routes to well-paying jobs.
I've drawn on the news release from HGSE (February 2, 2011) for the description above. Full disclosure requires me to say that one of the authors of the Pathways report is my husband, Bob Schwartz, who has joined me in the OECD work, teaches education policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and was the founder of Achieve, Inc. He and I have had a long interest in workplace learning. You can find the report on line.
Q: How do you envision VET programs in the United States in the future?
A: The United States is not without excellent high school CTE models some replicated at considerable scale, and most with aspirations for both career and college readiness as the outcome. And many community colleges mount certificate and degree programs with clinical or internship requirements that do get completers excellent starting jobs. Indeed, evidence is growing that if you choose the right AA or AAS degree, you can earn more than a good proportion of college graduates. Recent data from Florida, for example, shows that graduates with two-year Associate in Science degrees earned $10,357 more on average than baccalaureate graduates of the State University System.[i] Known and admired abroad for its inventiveness and entrepreneurial spirit in education and especially for, the US has pockets of excellent. We just don't have a system.
A couple of examples to build on might be helpful. At the high school level cutting-edge career and technical education (CTE) bears little relationship to traditional vocational education programs that are sometimes little more than schools of last resort for students who were not going to succeed in college-prep. National initiatives such as Career Academies, Project Lead the Way, High Schools that Work, and Linked Learning– a more recent California initiative– combine the broad academic foundation needed for further education with some depth of study in a career area.
The newest of the modernized CTE models is Linked Learning, an ambitious California initiative which goes beyond career exploration in high school to provide engaging career concentration in areas in high demand in specific labor markets in the state– engineering, biomedical and health sciences, energy, information technology, manufacturing, natural resources and the like. Linked Learning has developed integrated and interdisciplinary curriculum and pathways into postsecondary.
Two high performing school networks for high school age young people—Cristo Rey and Year Up—have commonalities with European apprenticeships: substantial work experience is a requirement for everyone, and students are socialized to understand and perform well in a business culture. Organized through its Corporate Work Study Program, Cristo Rey students work one day a week in hospitals, universities, law firms, research labs, and private businesses. Serving high school graduates ages 18 to 24 entering with weak skills, the yearlong Year Up program provides technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and a six-month corporate internship.
In addition, states are also linking high school and postsecondary education to support college level credit in high school through dual enrollment and accelerated whole school models such as early college high schools. The recent rapid growth in dual enrollment programs, and the promising development of the national network of some 250 Early College High Schools (ECHS) suggest that some of the barriers that have prevented better cooperation across the secondary/post-secondary boundary are beginning to break down. My organization, Jobs for the Future, has been the national intermediary for early colleges, and sees considerable promise there. About 77,000 young people now attend early college high schools, the majority of them low-income students and students of color. Over 40 percent are graduating from high school with at least one year of college credit, and nearly a quarter with an AA degree. About one third of the programs have a STEM focus with young people equipped to enter the job market after the AA if they want to. North Carolina's early college high schools offer an ECHS STEM and career-focused models with strong political support and employer participation that other states and districts could adapt to suit their education and employment needs. This is the direction we should be taking, but a huge challenge that has never been met in the US is to engage employers.
Hoffman also wrote the recent books including Women's True Profession: Voices from the History of Teaching (2003), Double the Numbers: Increasing Postsecondary Credentials for Underrepresented Youth (2004)(with Kazis and Vargas), and Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It (2007), (with Vargas, Venezia, and Miller), and Learning for Jobs. Hoffman serves on the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
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Brief Description: Internet, telephone and mail order cigarette sales.
The 2004 Legislature enacted House Bill 2682 concerning the sale of cigarettes to Kansas residents. The legislation requires all cigarette retailers, whether in-state or out-of-state, to register with the Kansas Department of Revenue. This is to ensure that 1) each retailer engaged in selling cigarettes to persons in Kansas obtains a Kansas Retail Cigarette License; 2) the cigarettes sold to Kansas residents have a valid Kansas cigarette tax stamp affixed to each package; 3) that the proper sales or use tax is collected by the retailer on the cigarettes; and 4) that certain packaging and age verification processes are followed for cigarettes shipped by mail. A copy of House Bill 2682 is available on the department's policy library at www.ksrevenue.org.
House Bill 2682 requires that all cigarettes sold to Kansas residents have a valid Kansas cigarette tax stamp affixed to each package. In order to sell stamped cigarettes, retailers must either purchase their cigarettes from a licensed Kansas wholesaler or register with the Department as a wholesaler and purchase stamps for affixing to each package. To register as a cigarette wholesaler, contact our cigarette licensing staff listed at the end of this notice. A listing of Kansas cigarette wholesalers will be posted on the department's web site by July 1 for your reference in locating a wholesaler for the purchase of stamped cigarettes. Selling unstamped cigarettes is a severity level 8, nonperson felony. It is a violation of the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Act for retailers to purchase cigarettes from anyone other than a Kansas licensed wholesaler.
In order to sell cigarettes to Kansas residents, in-state and out-of-state cigarette retailers are required to have a Kansas cigarette license and be registered to collect Kansas sales or compensating use tax on their cigarette sales to Kansas residents. Licensed retail cigarette dealers selling cigarettes over the internet, telephone or other mail order transaction must also have a Kansas cigarette license and be registered to collect and remit the Kansas sales or use on their sales to Kansas residents.
To obtain both the cigarette license and tax registrations, complete our Business Tax Application, Form CR-16. This form, along with Publication KS-1216, Kansas Business Tax Application Booklet, is enclosed. Kansas retailers will register for a Kansas Retailers' Sales Tax Registration number and out-of-state retailers will register to collect the Kansas Retailers' Compensating Use Tax. There is no cost for a sales or use tax registration number. Cigarette retailers not selling through vending machines will also check the "Retail Cigarette License," box in Part II of the application. The cigarette license fee is $25 for each location, and must be renewed every two (2) years.
Before mailing or shipping cigarettes, the seller must reliably establish that the prospective customer is at least 18. To do this, the seller must obtain a signed statement showing the purchaser's address and date of birth, and confirming the purchaser's wish to receive mailings from a tobacco company. The statement must also include an acknowledgement that the buyer understands that signing another person's name is illegal, and that the purchase of cigarettes by anyone under 18 is illegal. The retail cigarette dealer shall verify the information contained in the certification by the purchaser against a commercially available database of governmental records, or obtain a photocopy or other image of a valid, government-issued identification stating the date of birth or age of the purchaser. Failure to do this is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.
All packages of cigarettes shipped from a cigarette dealer to purchasers who reside in Kansas shall clearly print the package with the word: "CIGARETTES" on all sides of the package. The package shall contain the following externally visible and easily legible notice located on the same side of the package as the address to which the package is delivered.
All invoices, bills of lading, sales receipts and any other documentation related to the sale of cigarettes through the internet or other mail order transactions shall contain the current, valid Kansas cigarette dealer license number, Kansas sales tax registration number, business name and address of the seller.
The requirements of House Bill 2682 complement federal law (commonly referred to as the Jenkins Act) which requires cigarette retailers shipping cigarettes to file with the appropriate state tobacco tax administrator a monthly report of cigarettes delivered within a state. Kansas requests all retailers who are shipping cigarettes to report their Kansas sales on a monthly basis. The report would contain the seller's name, trade name (if any), principal business address, other place of business addresses, and a memorandum or copy of the invoice covering each and every shipment of cigarettes made during the previous calendar month into Kansas. The memorandum or invoice shall include the name and address of the person to whom the shipment was made, the brand, and the quantity thereof. Mail these reports to Customer Relations, Cigarette Tax, Kansas Department of Revenue, 915 SW Harrison, Topeka, KS 66625-2073.
Effective July 1, 2004, the Kansas Department of Revenue will publish a list of active cigarette and tobacco licensees on the department's web site, www.ksrevenue.org. The list will be updated monthly.
Additional copies of this notice, forms or publications are available from our web site, www.ksrevenue.org. If you have any questions about Kansas cigarette and tobacco products laws or reporting requirements, please contact the Kansas Department of Revenue via e-mail at abc_licensing@kdor.state.ks.us or call (785) 368-8222. Address a written inquiry to Customer Relations, Cigarette Tax, Kansas Department of Revenue, 915 SW Harrison, Topeka, KS 66625-2073.


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A 2014-es Isla Vista-i gyilkosságok halálos támadások voltak a kaliforniai Isla Vistában. 2014. május 23-án este. Elliot Rodger hat embert megölt és tizennégy embert megsebesített – pisztolylövésekkel, késszúrással és gázolással – a Kaliforniai Egyetem campusa közelében, majd ezután megölte önmagát.

Rodger egyenként, érkezésükkor három férfit agyonszúrt a lakásában. Körülbelül három óra múlva egy egyetemi leányszálláshoz hajtott, de miután nem jutott be a házba, három nőt lelőtt az utcán, akik közül ketten meghaltak. Elhajtott egy közeli élelmiszerbolt mellett, és agyonlőtt egy férfit. Ezután autójával több embert elgázolt, majd egy parkoló járműnek ütközött. Itt öngyilkosságot követett el.

Mielőtt a diákszálláshoz vezetett, Rodger feltöltött egy videót a YouTube-ra Elliot Rodger megtorlása címmel, amelyben felvázolta tervezett támadását és indítékait. Megmagyarázta, hogy meg akarja büntetni a nőket, mert elutasítják, és a szexuálisan aktív férfiakat, mert irigyelte őket. Hosszú önéletrajzi kéziratot is küldött e-mailben ismerőseinek, terapeutájának és családtagjainak; a dokumentum megjelent az interneten, és manifesztumként vált ismertté. Ebben leírta gyermekkorát, családi konfliktusait, a tartós párkapcsolat hiánya feletti csalódottságát, gyűlöletét a nők iránt, a párok (különösen a különböző rasszok közötti kapcsolatok) megvetését és az általa "megtorlásként" leírtakat.

Rodger önmagát incelnek tartotta, cselekedetei miatt az incel-közösségek hősként tekintenek rá.

Elliot Rodger

Fiatalkora
Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger Londonban, Angliában, az Egyesült Királyságban született, és ötéves korában szüleivel az Amerikai Egyesült Államokba költözött. Los Angelesben nevelkedett. Apja Peter Rodger brit filmrendező, apai nagyapja fotó-újságíró, George Rodger. Anyja egy filmgyártó vállalat malajziai kínai kutatási asszisztense. Egy húga született, mielőtt szülei elváltak. Miután apja újra megnősült, második feleségével, Soumaya Akaaboune marokkói színésznővel közösen született egy fiuk.

Rodger a Crespi Carmelite High School-ba járt, egy fiú katolikus iskolába Encino-ba, Los Angelesbe, majd a Taft High School-ba Woodland Hills-be. 2009-ben diplomázott az Independence Continuation High School-ban, és rövid ideig a Los Angelesi Pierce Főiskolára és a Moorpark Főiskolára járt, majd 2011-ben Isla Vista-ba költözött. Járt a Santa Barbarai Városi Főiskolára; kiáltványában elmondta, hogy 2012 februárjában kiesett az osztályából; a gyilkosságok után az iskola azt mondta, hogy már régóta nem járt az intézménybe.

Mentális egészsége és szociális problémái
Családja ügyvédje és családtagjai szerint Rodger nyolcéves kora óta több terapeutát is látott, de az ügyvéd szerint hivatalosan soha nem diagnosztizáltak nála mentális betegséget. 2007-ben diagnosztizálták nála az autizmust.

A kilencedik osztályban Rodgert "egyre inkább megfélemlítették", és később azt írta, hogy "mindennap sírt az iskolában", ebben az időben a World of Warcraft multiplayer-online játék függőjévé vált, amely a tízes éveinek nagy részében uralta az életét 20 éves koráig. A Crespi Carmelite High-ben zaklatták; az egyik esetben a fejét alvás közben az íróasztalhoz ragasztották. Rodger szerint 2012-ben "egyetlen barátja [volt] az egész világon, aki valóban megértette [őt]..., ám a barátja később minden ok nélkül azt mondta, hogy nem akar többé Rodger barátja lenni. Rodgernek volt egy YouTube-fiókja és egy blogja "Elliot Rodger hivatalos blogja" címmel, amelyen keresztül kifejezte magányát és elutasítását. Azt írta, hogy Riszperidont írtak fel neki, de nem volt hajlandó szedni, kijelentve: "Miután megvizsgáltam ezt a gyógyszert, azt tapasztaltam, hogy abszolút helytelen dolog lenne szednem."

18 éves kora után Rodger elutasította a mentálhigiénés ellátást, és egyre inkább elszigetelődött. Azt mondta, hogy képtelen barátkozni, bár az ismerősei azt mondták, hogy visszautasította próbálkozásaikat a barátkozásra. Dale Launer, a család barátja elmondta, hogy tanácsot adott Rodgernek a nők megközelítésével kapcsolatban, de Rodger nem fogadta meg a tanácsokat; Launer azt is megjegyezte, hogy először nyolc-kilenc évesen találkozott Rodgerrel: "Akkor láttam, hogy valami nincs rendben vele ... most visszatekintve olyan emberként hat rám, aki a fogantatás pillanatától megtört."

Előzmények

2011-ben Rodger kávét öntött egy párra, akikre féltékeny volt; egy másik esemény során két lányt fröccsentett le kávéval, amiért nem mosolyogtak rá. 2012-ben Rodger egy narancslével töltött Super Soaker vízipisztolyt használt a Girsh Parkban kickballt játszó csoport lelocsolásához.

Hivatkozva egy 2013 júliusi esetre, Rodger azt írta, hogy miután egy partiban kigúnyolták, megpróbált néhány lányt egy tízlábas párkányról lelökni; de ehelyett más fiúk őt lökték meg és megsérült a bokája. Amikor visszament a napszemüvegéhez, megint kicsúfolták és megverték. Egy szomszéd látta, hogy Rodger sírva hazament, és megfogadta, hogy megöli az érintett férfiakat, majd önmagát. Kiáltványában azt írta, hogy ez az eset volt a támadás megtervezésének utolsó kiváltója.
2014 januárjában Rodger néhány gyertya ellopásával vádolta meg Cseng Jüan Hongot, egyik szobatársát; Hong bűnösnek vallotta magát apró lopásokban. Április 30-án Rodger szülei felvették a kapcsolatot a rendőrséggel, miután aggódni kezdtek Rodger viselkedése és YouTube-videói miatt. A seriff helyettesei, akik ellátogattak Rodgerhez, megállapították, hogy nem felel meg az önkéntes elmeorvosi beutalás kritériumainak. Rodger elmondta nekik, hogy "félreértés" történt a szüleivel.

Nőgyűlölet
A támadás vitát váltott ki a nők elleni erőszak és a nőgyűlölet tágabb kérdéseiről. Rodger olyan online fórumokat látogatott, mint a PUAHate és a ForeverAlone, ahol ő és más férfiak nőgyűlölő kijelentéseket tettek közzé, és online "incelekként" jellemezték magukat – egy online szubkultúra tagjaként, amely azon alapszik, hogy tagjai képtelenek találni egy romantikus- vagy szexuális partnert. Rodger azt írta, hogy miután megvásárolta az első fegyverét, "új hatalmat érzek. Most már felfegyverkeztem. Ki az alfahím, szukák? Gondoltam magamban mindazokkal a lányokkal kapcsolatban, akik lenéztek engem a múltban." Leírta azt a tervét is, hogy betör egy egyetemi leányszállásba, majd azt írta: "Minden egyes elrontott, elakadt, szőke ribancot lemészárolok, akit csak ott látok. Mindazokat a lányokat, akikre annyira vágytam. Mindannyian elutasítottak engem, és alacsonyabbrendű emberként tekintettek rám."

Mary Elizabeth Williams kifogásolta, hogy Rodgert "szűzgyilkosnak" titulálják, mondván, hogy ez azt jelenti, hogy "a férfi agressziójának egyik lehetséges oka a női szexuális beleegyezés hiánya". Amanda Hess, aki a Slate-nek írt, azzal érvelt, hogy bár Rodger több férfit ölt meg, mint nőt, motivációi nőgyűlölőek voltak, mert a megtámadott férfiak gyűlöletének oka az volt, hogy szerinte ellopták azokat a nőket, akikre jogosultnak érezte saját magát. Az "Reason for Writing" kifejezésre Cathy Young azzal válaszolt, hogy "ez jó példának tűnik a koncepció értelmetlenséggé való kiterjesztésében – vagy megváltoztathatatlanul kvázi vallásos dogmává alakításában", és azt írta, hogy Rodger sok gyűlöletkeltő üzenetet is írt más emberekről. A hágai Nemzetközi Terrorelhárítási Központ szerint a támadások nőgyűlölő terrorcselekménynek minősültek.

A támadásokat követően a Twitteren néhányan a #NotAllMen hashtag-et használták annak kifejezésére, hogy nem minden férfi nőgyűlölő, és nem minden férfi követ el gyilkosságot. Mások kritizálták ennek a hashtagnek a használatát, mivel úgy ítélték meg, hogy az a nők elleni erőszak kérdésének megvitatásából fakad. Valaki május 24-én létrehozta a Twitteren a #YesAllWomen hashtaget, hogy kifejezze azt az elképzelést, miszerint minden nő megtapasztalja a nőgyűlöletet és a szexizmust.

Egyes incel-közösségeknél gyakran előfordul, hogy a hozzászólásokban önmagukat inceleknek tartók dicsőítik az erőszakot. Rodgerre hivatkoznak a leggyakrabban, az incelek gyakran hivatkoznak rá, mint a "szentjükre", és olyan mémeket osztanak meg, amelyekben az arcát keresztény ikonok festményeire helyezik. Egyes incelek őt tartják a mai online incel-közösségek valódi ősének. Gyakran látni utalásokat az "E.R." -re, az inceli fórumokon, és az incelek által elkövetett tömeges erőszakot rendszeresen "going E.R."-nek nevezik. Rodgerre számos más tömeggyilkosság elkövetői vagy feltételezett elkövetői hivatkoztak.

További információk
 Szexet akarnak, különben gyilkolni fognak
 Hét embert megölt egy kaliforniai ámokfutó

Jegyzetek

Kalifornia
Gyilkosságok
Bűncselekmények az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban

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Чач (*610 —671) — засновник Брамінської династії, магараджа Сінда у 632–671 роках.

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Походив із заможної й впливової брагманської родини. Завдяки цьому зробив швидку кар'єру — замолоду зайняв посаду міністра при магарджі Рай Сахаші II. Після смерті останнього у 632 році (за деякими відомостями його було отруєно) Чач одружився на удові Рая. На цій підставі він захопив трон Сінду. При цьому йому довелося хитрістю вбити брата Рая Сахаші — рана Махаратхі.

Під час перебування на троні Чач багато часу присвятив зміцненню державної влади, приборкавши племена джат і лохана. Вслід за цим розбив та приєднав до своїх володінь землі незалежних раджів у Брахманабаді та Мултані. Зрештою зумів дійти до Кашміру, де на знак встановлення кордонів держави посадив чинару та деодар (гімалайський кедр).

Зміцнивши кордони на сході, Чач звернув свої зусилля проти послабленої держави Сасанідів, пограбував Кандагар, проте не зміг його приєднати до Сінду.

У 644 році Чач вперше зіткнувся з арабами, які підкорили на той час Персію. Водночас Чач підкорив Макран (частина сучасного Белуджистану), перемігши арабів. У 663 році було завдано поразки арабському війську при Боланському перевалі, після цього до самої смерті Чач відчував себе впевнено на троні. Після його смерті у 671 році трон наслідував його брат Чандар.

Джерела
 Wink, Andre, Al Hind the Making of the Indo Islamic World, Brill Academic Publishers, January 1, 1996, ISBN 90-04-09249-8

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Down Interviews Kill Devil Hill Pantera Rex Brown
Kill Devil Hill's Rex Brown says His Door is Wide Open for Possibilities!
Kill Devil Hill, Pantera. and Down what do these bands have in common? Well bassist Rex Brown he's played in both. As of now he's been focusing upon Kill Devil Hill with the release of their two full-length albums, releasing his own life story in terms of a book, with his door wide open with Pantera possibilities! Bassist Rex Brown took some time to talk one on one about everything and what the future holds!
1. What can you tell me about your latest album "Revolution Rise" that hasn't already been said about it?
Rex: I just think it was our second record and the timing of when we put it out 2 records, 24 songs, within a year's period of time, so when we did "Revolution Rise" we had more time to do it with our schedules and did it all in chunks, 3 songs here, 3 songs there, waiting 2-3 weeks or whatever. Then got the songs put together to go onto the record nailing it altogether. Looking back, it gave us more time to look at the songs, giving us more of an approach to the record, and it's just a bigger and badder expression of who Kill Devil Hill is and what these songs were about. A lot of bands these days take about 3-4 years to release records back to back, even though it came out in November of this last year we just had a lot more time to get everything together the way we wanted it to turn out.
2. Did you get everything that you wanted on this release or were there some songs that didn't make the cut or certain things that you wanted to do but didn't get too?
Rex: No I think that we got everything we had to say on this record. We got everything we wanted at that point and time in this point of the game, so no we do have tons of material we write all the time but there wasn't anything left that I can pin point we pretty much got it all on the record. It's one of those records that came out at the right time, it's still doing decently well around different places across the country, now it's just the starting point of touring, having to replace drummers recently, we have a wonderful drummer now, and we just got back from playing some shows and will be heading out to some other festivals and just touring and playing more shows.
3. Do you have any new music in the works in terms of a follow-up?
Rex: Well we do, we have about 8-9 months of touring in front of us, why would we want to go back into the studio when we can finally tour with this band. That's the main point of us getting to as many people as we possibly can, there are certain things we want to do, we want to play shows and we couldn't do it before, there was no issue with Vinny being there, everything was fine, but now we have moved on and want to just get out there and play in front of people. I don't understand why a lot of bands already have material ready or have extra material from the recording session, I can tell from my experience you get a record out and tour as much as can, I don't want to take 3 to 4 years to get a record out ya know?
4. Whose choice was it when it came down to former drummer Vinny Appice leaving the band?
Rex: It came to a point of him having other projects and we wanted to tour, there was nothing personal or anything like that at all. So we rehearsed non-stop after getting our new drummer and shows have been great, with Vinny no disrespect but we didn't really play that many shows, we want to get the most out of this record and touring and playing shows.
5. Do you see Kelly to be in it for the long run or do you think Appice will make a comeback?
Rex: No, no, no, it's not Vinny this or that it's yay Jonny's in the band is now a permanent member. We can go jam! There's no conflict there Johnny is now a permanent member of the band.
6. Do you ever get tired of being asked Pantera questions?
Rex: No because it's just a big part of me as a musician, so no don't have that problem.
7. What are your thoughts on Pantera getting back together IF it were to ever happen?
Rex: My door is wide open, Phil's door is wide open, we both said it so much we're blue in the face, until we get all on the same page, I would love it to be a tribute to Dime, I can't take it any further than that I am up for it and ready. Metal Master's we played 5 Pantera songs, playing with your brother, the songs are very strong songs, we influence a lot of people to them, being fair, I enjoy doing it, I would do it again with Vinny.
8. IF they did come back how do you think they would do it, in terms if showcases, would you want to see a 1 time ordeal or a fully fledged tour or a handful of shows?
Rex: I'm not going to contemplate on it, if it happens I am all for it, I will put everything on hold to do that.
9. Do you think all the members of Pantera would ever be together again under the same roof, like if you guys won the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or any other BIG achievement?
Rex: What I just said about it being a part of my life, I would like it very much but we would have to see what happens, my door is wide open.
10. Are there any other side projects that you have going on?
Rex: No really focusing on Kill Devil Hill, I have ideas writing all the time, there was a lot of stuff cut out of that book, how do you put your life story in just 300 pages? There were a lot of funny anecdotes left on the cutting room floor, but as of right now all I've been wanting to do is play some shows!
11. What else do you guys have planned for this year and the future?
Rex: Just want to jam if that's okay?
12. Anything you'd like to say to your fans?
Rex: No, just come out, if you're expecting us to sound like another band I was in, you're not going to get it, just come out and see Kill Devil Hill live, you won't be left disappointed let me put it that way.
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I had the idea to make this Top Ten Tuesday resemble magazine advertisements, it sounded really cool in my mind but my execution failed spectacularly lmao. I also had some surprise family visits so I could only do seven books! I AM SORRY. REAL LIFE CALLS.
1) SOUNDLESS by Richelle Mead because it's an Asian fantasy with a kickass cover, how could I NOT love it?
2) ILLUMINAE by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff I feel like everyone and their dog has read this book, but I am still pretty excited because I saw someone compare it to Battlestar Galactica AKA MY FAVE SHOW EVER.
3) WINTER by Marissa Meyer because there's a black Snow White! Also possibly the most anticipated sequel of this year, right up there with Queen of Shadows.
4) THE SLEEPER AND THE SPINDLE by Neil Gaiman because princesses that saves themselves and it's Gaiman! Plus gorgeous pictures. WANT. WANT. WANT.
5, 6, 7) BLOOD & SALT, WE'LL NEVER BE APART and THE DEAD HOUSE all Halloween type titles I have heard great things about, and hope to read in October!
Wow that is a lot of black and white and a lot of graphic fail. Remind me to never try to be hip again.
ANYWAY! What's on your fall TBR?
I am pleased you like the graphics! I just thought it was quite different from my usual style so I was too unsure of it. EEP I am glad you like The Sleeper and The Spindle, makes me even more excited!
I am so ready for Winter. SO READY! Also, The Sleeper and The Spindle is amazing. It's a beautiful twist on Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.
I think you would love the Lunar Chronicles series, so I hope you'll get a chance to read it soon!
I know right! I feel like all the US bloggers have already read it – there's a launch night in Syd and Melbourne at the end of October though, will you be going?
Your graphics are amazing, I think, as always! 😀 I think it's time I add Illuminae to my TBR, it feels like everyone is talking about this story, I'm intrigued!
Interesting picks…I'm especially interested in The Sleeper and The Spindle by Neil Gaiman. 😀 Nice attempt with the graphics…I didn't even bother thinking of how to present mine LOL…just wall of text!
I love making graphics for the TTT because I'm worried they would be too short otherwise haha, I actually skip doing TTTs if I can't think up of a graphic to do for it XD I AM SO OBSESSIVE.
That is a great Halloween reading list!
Thank you! Glad you think so!!
I must recommend Rotting Frontier by Dave Atwell, I think I'll insert it into my fall TBR to fit the Halloween theme. Teresa Frohock's Los Nephilim is superb too.
I think it all looks great. The Sleeper and the Spindle is great.
So happy to hear that you enjoyed The Sleeper and the Spindle! I am really looking forward to reading it.
Thank you! I am really excited for The Dead House as well, I am waiting for my next paycheck before I can purchase it!
YES to Winter, Illuminae and Soundless. I can't wait to read Soundless especially because it's a fantasy and has an Asian protagonist!
Yes I hope we both like Soundless as much as you liked Serpentine, there's not enough Asian protagonists in my life!
Oh my gosh, I LOVE your graphics! And Illuminae is fantastic! It's one of my all time favorite books now, so make sure you do get to it for sure. I'm so excited for Soundless as well!
Illuminae is my most anticipated book at the moment. I honestly can't wait to get my hands on that book. Winter is also very high on my tbr list. Your graphics are wonderful. Great list.
The marketing for Illuminae is insanely on point, it's little wonder we are all so crazy for the book haha!
where did you fail exactly? Those look amazingly stunning!
I am not 100% sure on Soundless either because I thought VA was a bit of a mess, but it has a East Asian protagonist so I just want to support it on principles!
Yasssssss! I'm so excited for Winter!!
Hope we'll both enjoy it, Mishi!
No graphic fail here! I always love what you come up with!
And I really enjoy your selection. So eagerly anticipating Winter – Marissa Meyer has created a seriously strong series.
Eep I am glad you liked the graphics regardless 😀 Hope we'll both enjoy Winter!
Thank you so much Raven, glad you also enjoyed the graphics 😀 Hope we will enjoy all the books!
Illuminae made it on my TBR list as well! I need to start it this weekend… we'll see if I find the time! I just finished reading "Soundless" over the weekend, and really enjoyed it. Do you have an ARC copy of it? If not, I'd be happy to pass mine on to you once I get my review written. I don't think it comes out until November.
Yeah it doesn't come out the November, but I am happy to wait, since shipping would be so expensive from the US! Thank you so much for offering though, I am so happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
I also need to read the rest of The Lunar Chronicles before reading Winter, I think I'll do a marathon week like I did with the Throne of Glass series last week!
I am so glad to hear you gave the thumbs up to Illuminae and The Dead House, I trust your taste and therefore I am doubly excited now!
I'm looking forward to all of these books, too! If I read Soundless, it will be my first Richelle Mead read. It's the first of her books that interest me so far, although I've heard her others are promising. Just for the record, though- my dog and I have not yet read Illuminae (I don't have a copy yet. I don't even have a dog…lol). I am really excited for Winter but I need to catch up on the rest of the Lunar Chronicles series. I *cringes* haven't read past Cinder yet but I liked the first book!
To be honest I did not really enjoy VA which were the only Richelle Mead books I've checked out -but I heard her second series Bloodlines is excellent. Plus, Chinese inspired fantasy, I really can't say no to that haha. I also need to read the rest of the TLC series as well, like you, I have not read past Cinder but I am sure it should be fantastic.
Can't wait to hear your thoughts on all of those titles, especially for Illuminae 😀 there's been so much hype and love for that series I almost feel like it's too good to be true, haha.
I just started We'll Never Be Apart, though I'm not very far in yet. The Sleeper and the Spindle looks great. Good choices!
Are you enjoying We'll Never Be Apart? I am glad you liked The Sleeper and the Spindle! That one sounds awesome from what I have heard so far.
Yes, I keep forgetting about it because I have not seen too much hype about it, but Soundless sound amazing! Illuminae is pretty much old news by this stage, but I still want to read it so badly!
So excited for The Sleeper and the Spindle! Anything by Neil Gaiman is an instant buy for me! I can't believe I didn't think of that one on my list!
I used to read every single Neil Gaiman book as soon as they were released, so I've been dropping the ball this year XD I really need to fix that starting with The Sleeper and the Spindle.
Yeah I tried reading Jay Kristoff's Stormdancer and had to side eye the Japanese appropriation a lot — but hopefully with Amie Kaufman there to temper him this one will be OK?
Winter!! Cannt wait. I really want to read We'll Never be Apart too – Great list!!
Ooo another fan of The Sleeper and the Spindle! I have only heard good things about it so I am really excited!
I really want to read Soundless! I love Richelle Mead and I adore the concept of an Asian MC!
ILLUMINAE!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THAT BOOK!
ILLUMINAE, WINTER AND BLOOD AND SALT ARE ON MY TO BE READ AS WELL! I CANT WAIT FOR BOTH OF US TO READ IT AND BE ABLE TO DISCUSS IT <333 YOURE ALSO GOING TO MEET JAY AND AMY IN THE SIGNING AND IM SO JEL. I WONT BE ABLE TO MEET THEM BUT MY MOM'S FRIEND IS GOING FOR ME TO GET ME A SIGNED BOOK SO YAY.
I love you graphics as always. Thanks for sharing your picks, Aentee. I have Soundless and Illuminae on my list too.
Ah, FABULOUS choices, at least of the ones I have read and want to read, which is… all of them except one which I never heard of (the Neil Gaiman one). Illuminae IS fabulous. My dog said so too 😉 (I don't even have a dog.) I also loved Blood and Salt, so another great choice! Hope you love all of these, it's a fantastic looking bunch!
I love your graphics SO MUCH, they're so pretty! I really want to read Illuminae and Soundless – THEY LOOK AMAZING. Also, I really want to read some creepy books in October so I'll definitely check those last few out too!
Thank you for this blog post! I am so used to seeing the same books all over the place, but I like your first pick, 'Soundless'. I hadn't heard of it before and now I'm intrigued. ^.^ Top Ten Tuesday is such a great way to hear about new books!


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Q: "Compass" as in "compass their ends" -- meaning in context Anatomy of the sentence:

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing

I know this is the origin of "all that is necessary for evil to triumph, is that good men do nothing", and I know exactly what the latter sentence means. The thing is I don't know how it is relate with the sentence in the title. Can anyone decompose and explain it, especially for the phrase "compass their ends" and the structure "A need nothing more to do than B should do"? Just a simple explanation would be appreciated.

A: This is an archaic meaning of compass:
compassed; compassing; compasses
Definition of compass (Entry 1 of 3)
transitive verb

1: to devise or contrive often with craft or skill : PLOT
  " … persons … who have compassed my destruction … "
  — Charles Dickens
  2: ENCOMPASS
  a lake compassed by mountains
  3a: BRING ABOUT, ACHIEVE

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compass

"A need nothing more to do than B should do"

I don't think that paraphrase is quite accurate. The phrase "that good men should look on and do nothing" is acting as a noun, so it's more "A needs have nothing more" than "A needs to do nothing more".  A need nothing more" is another archaic feature; in modern English, it's more standard to say "Don't need anything more" than to say "Need nothing more". "should" is used to emphasize the subjunctive nature of "look on and do nothing". In phrasing more standard with regard to current norms, it would be "To accomplish their ends, bad men do not need anything more than that good men look on and do nothing".

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Sun Cheng (en xinès tradicional: 孫程; en xinès simplificat: 孙程; en pinyin: Sūn chéng) (mort el 132 EC) va ser un eunuc durant la Dinastia Han que, contràriament als estereotips dels eunucs Han de ser corruptes i ansiosos de poder, va ser lleial a la família imperial i va intentar (sense èxit) contrarestar la cultura de corrupció.

Contribució a la restauració de l'Emperador Shun
Durant el regnat de l'Emperador An, les seves diverses persones de confiança, inclòs els eunucs Jiang Jing (江京) i Li Run (李閏) i la seva dida Wang Sheng (王聖), així com la seva dona l'Emperadriu Yan Ji, van exercir de fet l'administració imperial, i van aprofitar l'ocasió per a aconseguir el poder i riquesa de manera corrupta. Una de les coses en què Jiang i l'Emperadriu Yan van estar involucrats va ser, en el 124, en acusar falsament al Príncep Hereu Liu Bao (劉保, de nou anys) de crims fent que l'Emperador An el deposés i el fes Príncep de Jiyin.

En el 125, l'Emperador An va morir sobtadament, i encara que el Príncep Bao era l'únic fill de l'Emperador An, l'Emperadriu Yan volia algú jove per controlar, i és així que va fer a Liu Yi (劉懿), el Marquès de Beixiang, emperador.

Quan el jove emperador va emmalaltir greument a finals d'any, Sun, que llavors era un eunuc de nivell mitjà, es va preocupar sobre que l'Emperadriu Vídua Yan tornés a eludir al príncep Bao, l'hereu legítim, i és així que va unir-se per conspirar amb uns altres eunucs. Ells van fer un jurament per restituir al príncep Bao, i uns quants dies després que l'antic Marquès de Beixiang va morir, ells van fer un assalt sobtat sobre el palau i donaren la benvinguda al Príncep Bao al mateix i el van proclamar emperador (com l'Emperador Shun). Després de diversos dies de lluita amb la facció de l'emperadriu vídua, els eunucs dirigits per Sun prevalgueren, i el clan Yan va ser massacrat.

Per les seves contribucions a la seva restauració, l'emperador Shun va crear Sun i els seus 18 companys eunucs com marquesos.

Persones de la dinastia Han
Eunucs xinesos