The Canon EOS-1D and the Canon EOS Rebel T2i (labelled Canon 550D in some countries) are two digital cameras that were revealed to the public, respectively, in September 2001 and February 2010. Both are DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras that are based on an APS-H (1D) and an APS-C (T2i) sensor. The 1D has a resolution of 4.1 megapixels, whereas the T2i provides 17.9 MP. Read on to find out how these two cameras compare with respect to their body size, their sensors, their features, their input-output connections, and their reception by expert reviewers.
An illustration of the physical size and weight of the Canon 1D and the Canon T2i is provided in the side-by-side display below. The two cameras are presented according to their relative size. Three consecutive perspectives from the front, the top, and the back are available. All width, height and depth measures are rounded to the nearest millimeter.
If the front view area (width x height) of the cameras is taken as an aggregate measure of their size, the Canon T2i is considerably smaller (49 percent) than the Canon 1D. Moreover, the T2i is substantially lighter (67 percent) than the 1D. It is worth mentioning in this context that the 1D is splash and dust resistant, while the T2i does not feature any corresponding weather-sealing.
The above size and weight comparisons are to some extent incomplete since they do not consider the interchangeable lenses that both of these cameras require. A larger imaging sensor (as in the 1D) will tend to go along with bigger and heavier lenses, while more compact options are available for the smaller-sensor camera (T2i). You can compare the optics available in the Canon EF Lens Catalog.
Concerning battery life, the 1D gets 500 shots out of its NP-E3 battery, while the T2i can take 440 images on a single charge of its LP-E8 power pack. As can be seen in the images above, the 1D has a battery grip built in. This facilitates image-taking in portrait orientation and gives it additional battery power. In order to provide similar functionality for the T2i, Canon provides the BG-E8 vertical grip as an optional accessory (see here on eBay).
The price is, of course, an important factor in any camera decision. The retail prices at the time of the camera's release place the model in the market relative to other models in the producer's line-up and the competition. The T2i was launched at a markedly lower price (by 89 percent) than the 1D, which puts it into a different market segment. Usually, retail prices stay at first close to the launch price, but after several months, discounts become available. Later in the product cycle and, in particular, when the replacement model is about to appear, further discounting and stock clearance sales often push the camera price considerably down. Then, after the new model is out, very good deals can frequently be found on the pre-owned market.
Of the two cameras under consideration, the Canon 1D features an APS-H sensor and the Canon T2i an APS-C sensor. The sensor area in the T2i is 39 percent smaller. As a result of these sensor size differences, the cameras have a format factor of, respectively, 1.3 and 1.6. Both cameras have a native aspect ratio (sensor width to sensor height) of 3:2.
Technology-wise, the T2i uses a more advanced image processing engine (DIGIC 4) than the 1D (DIGIC), with benefits for noise reduction, color accuracy, and processing speed.
Despite having a smaller sensor, the T2i offers a higher resolution of 17.9 megapixels, compared with 4.1 MP of the 1D. This megapixels advantage comes at the cost of a higher pixel density and a smaller size of the individual pixel (with a pixel pitch of 4.31μm versus 11.56μm for the 1D). However, it should be noted that the T2i is much more recent (by 8 years and 4 months) than the 1D, and its sensor will have benefitted from technological advances during this time that make it possible to gather light more efficiently.
The Canon EOS-1D has a native sensitivity range from ISO 200 to ISO 1600, which can be extended to ISO 100-3200. The corresponding ISO settings for the Canon EOS Rebel T2i are ISO 100 to ISO 6400, with the possibility to increase the ISO range to 100-12800..
Many modern cameras are not only capable of taking still images, but also of capturing video footage. The T2i indeed provides for movie recording, while the 1D does not. The highest resolution format that the T2i can use is 1080/30p.
Beyond body and sensor, cameras can and do differ across a range of features. The 1D and the T2i are similar in the sense that both have an optical viewfinder. The latter is useful for getting a clear image for framing even in brightly lit environments. The viewfinder in the 1D offers a wider field of view (100%) than the one in the T2i (95%), so that a larger proportion of the captured image is visible in the finder. In addition, the viewfinder of the 1D has a higher magnification (0.55x vs 0.54x), so that the size of the image transmitted appears closer to the size seen with the naked human eye. The table below summarizes some of the other core capabilities of the Canon 1D and Canon T2i in connection with corresponding information for a sample of similar cameras.
One feature that is present on the 1D, but is missing on the T2i is a top-level LCD. While being, of course, smaller than the rear screen, the control panel conveys some of the essential shooting information and can be convenient for quick and easy settings verification.
The 1D writes its imaging data to Compact Flash cards, while the T2i uses SDXC cards. The 1D features dual card slots, which can be very useful in case a memory card fails. In contrast, the T2i only has one slot.
For some imaging applications, the extent to which a camera can communicate with its environment can be an important aspect in the camera decision process. The table below provides an overview of the connectivity of the Canon EOS-1D and Canon EOS Rebel T2i and, in particular, the interfaces the cameras (and selected comparators) provide for accessory control and data transfer.
Studio photographers will appreciate that the Canon 1D (unlike the T2i) features a PC Sync socket, so that professional strobe lights can be controlled by the camera.
Both the 1D and the T2i have been discontinued, but can regularly be found used on eBay. The 1D was replaced by the Canon 1D Mark II, while the T2i was followed by the Canon T3i. Further information on the two cameras, as well as related accessories, can be found on the official Canon website.
So what is the bottom line? Is there a clear favorite between the Canon 1D and the Canon T2i? The listing below highlights the relative strengths of the two models.
Faster burst: Shoots at higher frequency (8 vs 3.7 flaps/sec) to capture the decisive moment.
More detail: Has more megapixels (17.9 vs 4.1MP), which boosts linear resolution by 108%.
More compact: Is smaller (129x98mm vs 156x158mm) and will fit more readily into a bag.
Less heavy: Has a lower weight (by 1055g or 67 percent) and is thus easier to take along.
More modern: Reflects 8 years and 4 months of technical progress since the 1D launch.
If the number of relative strengths (bullet points above) is taken as a guide, the 1D comes out slightly ahead of the T2i (11 : 10 points). However, the pertinence of the various camera strengths will differ across photographers, so that you might want to weigh individual camera traits according to their importance for your own imaging needs before making a camera decision.
Do the specifications of the Canon 1D and the Canon T2i place the cameras among the top in their class? Find out in the latest Best DSLR Camera listing.
In any case, while the comparison of technical specifications can provide a useful overview of the capabilities of different cameras, it says little about, for example, the shooting experience and imaging performance of the 1D and the T2i in practical situations. User reviews that are available, for instance, at amazon can sometimes shed light on these issues, but such feedback is all too often partial, inconsistent, and inaccurate.


The meeting was attended by Adon Berwick, Nausica Marcos, Teppo Jakonen, Darren LaScotte, Zhan Li, and Cory Mathieu. We opened the meeting with a recap of AAAL, including the MUSE open meeting – which was attended by eleven people – and a colloquium on material mediation in the classroom in which Darren and Cory presented. We also discussed the possibility of submitting a proposal for a symposium on materials use research at AILA 2020, for which Anne Marie will take the lead. Our discussion then turned to Yumi Matsumoto's recent MLJ article titled Material Moments: Teacher and Student Use of Materials in Multilingual Writing Classroom Interactions. The article prompted a dynamic discussion on a variety of topics including how we as researchers define materials, the potential agentivity of materials in the classroom (and the pushback some of us have received from other scholars on this topic), and how complexity theory relates to different methodologies (particularly short-term versus longitudinal research).
MUSE International is delighted to announce that members Anne Marie Guerrettaz (Washington State University, USA) and Nausica Marcos Miguel (Denison University, USA) have won a Spencer Foundation Research Award. The pair, in collaboration with Professor Nancy Bell (Washington State University), will conduct research on Spanish as a foreign language teaching materials. This study will include colleges and universities across three states in the USA during the 2019–2020 academic year.
We at MUSE are pleased and excited to wish Anne Marie, Nausica, and Nancy great success with their Spencer Foundation Research Award!
Our first meeting of 2019 set an attendance record. Here's a warm welcome to the new participants: Li Zhan (China), Sarah Han (UPenn), Mari Haneda (UPenn), Magda Madany (UPenn). The regular participants were: Cory Mathieu, Anne Marie Guerrettaz, Marcus Grandon, Yi-Ju Lai, Adon Berwick, Nausica Marcos, Nicole Pettit and Simthembile.
AILA has Research Networks (ReNs) that we discussed plugging into as part of our existing MUSE International group. Here is additional information: https://aila.info/research/ We would need to apply and probably have 3 "convenors" (i.e., facilitators/organizers/leaders). Anne Marie will begin getting more information about this process, and Teppo and Mari have both expressed interest as well. Please let Anne Marie know if anyone else is interested and in what capacity.
Grants: We discussed a few months ago applying for one (or multiple?) collaborative grants as an organizational goal for 2019. Anne Mariecreated a sign-up sheet here for all those who are interested and think that they will have time to work on such a project over the next year or more. Yesterday, we discussed creating a subgroup to work on this project outside of our regularly all-group meetings. Please add your name and consider the few short questions at this online survey link if you are interested: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cvAWfYs0DdNvHVj Please complete this by Monday, Feb. 25. Anne Marie will then send out a Doodle poll to schedule our first "exploratory" meeting to discuss ideas, options, and individual availability.
Teppo will be attending the 4th international conference Thinking, doing, learning 2019. The conference seeks to advance the understanding of usage-based approaches to the L2 environment.
Lastly, a big congrats to Yumi Matsumoto for her MLJ publication that just came out recently online!
Many thanks to Anne Marie and Cory for contributing the notes above.
The reading for discussion was: Harwood, N. (2017). What can we learn from mainstream education textbook research?. RELC Journal, 48(2), 264-277.


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This topical and absorbing book, written by two eminent journalists, explains why India has entered a new era of coalition politics. It analyses the consequences and implications of this relatively recent phenomenon. India has come a long way from the time since the Congress dominated the country's polity. The authors argue that the multi-party structure of government, or a coalition government, is neither temporary nor an aberration. Coalitions are here to stay, at least in the foreseeable future. The authors dismiss the view that India's polity is essentially bipolar, that is, led by either of the two largest political parties - the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party. They do not accede to the contention that other political parties have no option but to align themselves with either the Congress or the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Continuing the analysis begun in their earlier work, India in a Time of Coalitions: Divided we Stand (Sage, 2004) both authors skilfully piece together the complex jigsaw of Indian politics. The authors point to the fragmentation of Indian polity with the rise of caste-based and regional parties and the formation of coalitions at the federal as well as provincial levels. This, they say, should not be perceived as a negative feature but as a positive influence on the working of the country's democratic structures. The authors take the view that coalition governments are in fact better equipped to deal with the tensions of India's deeply divided and highly hierarchical society. In comparison, governments dominated by single parties tend to both centralize and homogenize.
Among the issues the book analyzes are
" The impact of the April-May 2004 general elections that saw the dramatic decline of the National Democratic Alliance led by the BJP and its replacement by a government formed by the United Progressive Alliance coalition led by the Congress with outside support from four left parties
" A gradual revival in the fortunes of the Congress after the party had witnessed its traditional supporters - including the minorities and the disadvantaged groups - deserting it in large numbers
" The sudden rise and fall of the BJP from the time it was almost wiped out in 1984, the party's faction-ridden character and its inability to quickly come to terms with its electoral defeat in 2004
" The growing importance and the changing tactics of the left parties, their internal differences and mainstreaming and their influence on the country's economic policies
" The crucial question of whether coalitions can provide stable governments and under what circumstances
" The possibility of alternate political formations - led neither by the Congress nor the BJP - coming to power at the centre
" The extent to which political coalitions have led to better governance, brought about a greater degree of federalism and reduced the incidence of corruption
" The manner in which successive governments have handled the new politics of economic liberalization and globalization together with the crucial issue of growth with equity
Challenging many commonly held views regarding India's political processes, this fascinating book will delight anyone interested in Indian politics at the beginning of the 21st century.
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Protection For Mac Added To Panda Cloud Solution
New Panda Cloud Office Protection (PCOP) 6.8 now protects Windows, Linux and Mac in corporate environments
Bracknell, Nov 14, 2013.
Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the introduction of significant enhancements and new features to Panda Cloud Office Protection (PCOP), version 6.8. The company's cloud-based solution for corporate environments adds protection for Mac workstations and servers, and includes URL filtering and Web access control features for Windows servers as well.
Panda Cloud Office Protection leverages the proactive, real-time protection provided by Panda Security's cloud-based Collective Intelligence platform, ensuring maximum security against malware and exploits that take advantage of unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities, regardless of the source of infection. With this new version, Panda Cloud Office Protection becomes the only solution in the market to provide centralized, cloud-based control of Windows, Linux and Mac devices.
Main New Features
The latest version of PCOP incorporates significant improvements from previous versions. One of its main new features is the inclusion of permanent, real-time protection for Mac workstations and servers, on-demand scans and the ability to scan any type of file.
"Panda's extensive portfolio already included a solution to protect Mac computers exclusively: Panda Antivirus for Mac. However, with this new version, Panda Security takes a huge step forward with one single platform that supports three different types of systems -Windows, Linux and Mac-, in corporate environments," said Manuel Santamaría, Product Manager Director at Panda Security.
The protection for Mac is centrally managed from PCOP's Web-based console in exactly the same way as for Windows and Linux computers. The product incorporates a specific section for configuring this new protection. The solution supports the following Mac operating systems: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks.
With PCOP, companies can have licenses for Windows/Linux systems and Mac systems in a single console. Additionally, Panda Security's channel partners who use Panda Cloud Partner Center will be able to access at all times information about customers with licenses of PCOP for OS X, regardless of whether they also have licenses for Windows or Linux computers.
Another new feature is the inclusion of URL filtering for servers in Panda Cloud Office Protection Advanced (v. 6.80). This feature responds to enterprises' need for implementing Web access control capabilities on workstations, laptops and servers as well.
More information about Panda Cloud Office Protection here
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Missing Decorah eagle dad: 'We don't think he's going to come back'
Eagle experts say it's time to accept that Decorah Dad is gone. But a panel of eagle pros has offered a theory on what caused his disappearance.
Missing Decorah eagle dad: 'We don't think he's going to come back' Eagle experts say it's time to accept that Decorah Dad is gone. But a panel of eagle pros has offered a theory on what caused his disappearance. Check out this story on desmoinesregister.com: https://dmreg.co/2I2sEMw
Kevin Hardy, kmhardy@dmreg.com Published 7:04 p.m. CT April 26, 2018 | Updated 7:47 a.m. CT April 27, 2018
Each spring people all over the world get an inside view of the birth and rearing of new bald eagles, thanks to The Raptor Resource Project's live streaming camera. See some of the best footage and learn why the team remains committed to the work. Kelsey Kremer/The Register with The Raptor Resource Project
Mom and Dad Decorah do snow removal earlier this season for the eggs. Dad Decorah went missing last Wednesday and hasn't been found.(Photo: Photo courtesy of Raptors Resource Center)
It's time to say goodbye to Dad Decorah.
The Raptor Resource Project issued a statement Thursday evening about the famous male bald eagle who has been missing since April 18. A search of the immediate area surrounding the eagle's nest, where he was helping to raise three eaglets, turned up no signs of the patriarch.
"And now we have to accept that we — and Mom — will have to go on without him," the statement read.
Amy Ries, a contractor who works for the Raptor Resource Project, said fans of the Decorah eagles have been grieving over the last eight days since dad first went missing.
"Basically we're letting people know that dad is gone. We don't think he's going to come back," she said. "It's time for us to move forward."
The post on the nonprofit's Facebook page said the disappeared eagle will be remembered as "a masterful architect, skilled hunter, proficient prey purveyor, loving and perfect partner, defender of all things that go bump in the night, and devoted Dad."
"Death and the succession of eagles is part of the natural order, but that doesn't make it any less sad when it happens," the post read. "We watch the Decorah eagles and love them, but they belong to no one but themselves. Their lives are a gift we are privileged to share and learn from."
Post by RaptorResourceProject.
Known only as Dad Decorah, the eagle played a starring role in the tale of the world-famous Decorah eagles. Since launching a live nest cam in 2007, the eagles have been viewed nearly 400 million times. The patriarch fathered 31 eaglets over that time.
"It's been a hard thing to tell people, I knew there would be people who would be really crushed," Ries said. "For a lot of them, mom and dad were kind of like family."
More: 'This is nature:' Humans won't try to step in for baby Decorah eagles after dad went missing
Photos: World-famous Decorah eagles
The female eagle is perched in a tree by the Decorah State Fish Hatchery, which is across the road from the nest. Bob Modersohn/For the Register
A screen capture of the live-streamed Decorah eagles in their nest on April 21, 2014. Special to the Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah. Mary Willie/The Register
Bob Anderson of the Raptor Research Project drives near the eagles' nest which, is visible in a tree in the background in Decorah during the spring of 2014. Bob Modersohn/For the Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah. Bob Anderson with Raptor Resource Project said he never gets tired of viewing the nest. Anderson has a control booth set up in a shed owned by Willard and Mary Ellen Holthaus. Mary Willie/The Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah. Bob Anderson with Raptor Resource Project said he never gets tired of watching the nest. He is shown here in the control room, which is a storage shed owned by Willard Holthaus. Mary Willie/The Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah on April, 7, 2011. Bob Anderson with Raptor Resource Project said he never gets tired of viewing the nest. Anderson has a control booth set up in a shed owned by Willard and Mary Ellen Holthaus. Mary Willie/The Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah on April, 7, 2011. Bob Anderson with Raptor Resource Project said he never gets tired of viewing the nest. Anderson has a control booth set up in a shed owned by Willard and Mary Ellen Holthaus. Anderson visits with Jim Womeldorf who volunteers in the control room. Mary Willie/The Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah. This is a still frame from the livestream. Mary Willie/The Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah. Their nest is in prime location, just across the road from the Decorah DNR Fish Hatchery and easy pickins for hungry raptors. Mary Willie/The Register
The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah. Volunteer Jim Womeldorf and homeowner Willard Holthaus share their thoughts on the recent activity in the eagle nest. Mary Willie/The Register
Willard and Mary Ann Holthaus donate space in their storage shed every year so the eagle camera near their property can operate. The eagles made famous by livestreaming were busy with three hatchlings in their nest just south of Decorah. Mary Willie/The Register
A close-up of a nesting eagle's beak and feathers shot from a laptop computer screen. Special to the Register
A nesting eagle nearly completely covered with snow in the night. Special to the Register
A nesting eagle partially covered with snow at night, taken from laptop computer screen. Special to the Register
Another closeup of the laptop showing the head of one of the eagles with Bob Anderson, and the two appear to be looking at each other. Bob Modersohn/For the Register
Bob Anderson of the Raptor Research Project operates the joystick that controls the eagle cam's pans, tilts and zooms at command central near the eagles' new nest. Bob Modersohn/For the Register
A wide view of the interior of the garage that serves as command central for the Decorah eagle cam. Bob Anderson is shown at left operating the joystick that controls the camera. Bob Modersohn/For the Register
Screen captures of the live streamed Decorah Eagles in their nest on on April 21, 2014. Special to the Register
The three eaglets are more vulnerable without their father. Generally, the parents take turns hunting and guarding the nest. But now, the mother must leave the chicks behind when she ventures away, leaving the birds at risk of being preyed upon by another eagle or raptor.
But so far, mom has held her own.
John Howe, executive director of the Raptor Resource Center, said she has done a good job guarding the nest and keeping her young well fed, hunting and delivering several times throughout the day.
The project specializes in the preservation of falcons, eagles, ospreys, hawks and owls. It creates, improves and directly maintains more than 50 nests and nest sites and offers training in nest site creation and management.
As another adult male eagle hovers near the nest site, Howe said "we're kind of rounding the corner here" on the story of Dad Decorah. Many observers are wondering whether the matriarch will accept him as a future mate.
"It doesn't appear that Dad Decorah is coming back," Howe said. "We're trying to make this more of a celebration about the eagle we've been watching over the last ten years."
More: Decorah eagles' dad, missing for days, is mourned by throngs of fans
Photos: Decorah eagles raise their eaglets for world to see
A male and female eagle perch in their nest outside of Decorah in 2015. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
Eaglets with their father on April 24, 2017 at one of two nests live streamed by the Raptor Resource Project near Decorah. The eaglets are almost a month old now. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
Eaglets are fed by their father at the Decorah North Nest in the spring of 2016 near Decorah. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
Two of three eaglets have hatched at one of two nests live streamed by the Raptor Resource Project in the spring of 2017 near Decorah. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
A close up view of the mother eagle at one of the nests live streamed by the Raptor Resource Project in 2017 near Decorah. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
Mother and father eagles tend to their eggs at one of the nests live streamed by the Raptor Resource Project in the spring of 2017, near Decorah. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
Eaglets emerge from their eggs at one of the nests live streamed by the Raptor Resource Project in the spring of 2017, near Decorah. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
A mother eagle perches on a branch near her nest live streamed by the Raptor Resource Project in early 2017, near Decorah. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
A father eagle pictured near the original Decorah Eagle live streamed nest near Deborah in 2016. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
Eaglets in their nest on April 18, 2017, at one of two nests live streamed by the Raptor Resource Project near Decorah. The eagles are almost a month old now. Special to the Register/Raptor Resource Project
John Howe, executive director of the Raptor Resource Project runs the famous Decorah Eagles live stream from a computer set-up in a garage near the nest on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in Decorah. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
A camera hangs from a tree near an eagle nest originally constructed by the Raptor Resource Project for the eagles of the famous Decorah Eagles live stream on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in Decorah. The previous nest was destroyed by a storm. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
John Howe, executive director of the Raptor Resource Project runs the infamous Decorah Eagles live stream from a computer set-up in a garage near the nest on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in Decorah. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
A camera hangs from a tree near an eagle nest originally constructed by the Raptor Resource Project for the eagles of the infamous Decorah Eagles live stream on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in Decorah. The previous nest was destroyed by a storm. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
A sign is posted near the nest of the infamous Decorah Eagles on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in Decorah. Kelsey Kremer/The Register
Experts still don't know why the eagle went missing in the first place.
After conferring with a panel of eagle experts, a few theories rose to the top: It's possible he was electrocuted by power lines or hit by a car. The panel rejected the idea that the eagle just "gave up and left" and though it was unlikely that he was shot or kidnapped.
But what's most likely, they concluded, is that the other male eagle hanging around the nest — known as UME, or unidentified male eagle — challenged Decorah Dad. With a high density of eagles in the area, particularly non-breeding adults, intra-species fighting has become a leading cause of death among bald eagles, the nonprofit said.
"In some ways, it seems fitting that we will never truly know what happened to him," the post read. "Dad remained his very own self until the end."
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Q: Why would TLS version in one config cause another to break? I have an Apache proxy that has several VHosts. Some of these are legacy configs that were before my time. Long story short, I removed some .crt files on the server that had expired, and forgot to remove the associated /etc/apache2/ssl/*.conf files, so when Apache would try to rotate its logs, it would fail.
After repairing that mess, I began receiving 502 Proxy Error when navigating to only one of the VHosts. All the others worked.
This is what was causing everything to break. In one of the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/*.conf files, there was this line:
SSLProxyVerify none
SSLProxyCheckPeerCN off
SSLProxyCheckPeerName off
SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire off
#SSLProxyProtocol +TLSv1 <---- THIS BROKE IT

All the other VHosts are using TLSv1.2. My question is, why would this make only ONE VHost break and not all of them, especially when it wasn't even the config that had the old TLS in the file?
Update I set Apache's log level to debug, and it shows the error, but doesn't tell me which config file was the culprit. Luckily, I know which one:
[Mon Aug 30 08:26:35.098657 2021] [ssl:info] [pid 10843] SSL Library Error: error:1409442E:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert protocol version (SSL alert number 70)
[Mon Aug 30 08:26:35.098679 2021] [ssl:info] [pid 10843] [remote 192.168.66.120:8004] AH01998: Connection closed to child 0 with abortive shutdown (server www.example.com:443)
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Joe Monahan is a long-time political blogger who for years has published his political blog "New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan".
If you are a political junkie and do not read Joe Monahan, you do not know what is going on in the world of "La Politica" as he calls it.
High profile Dem political consultant Alan Packman is packing up and moving into new digs on the 11th floor of Government Center where Tim Keller, one of his final clients, presides over matters.
That's the word from City Hall insiders who report that Packman will work in constituent services under the direction of Alan Armijo, a former Dem city councilor who was placed in his position by Republican Mayor RJ Berry.
Keller, Packman and his Rio Strategies firm came under fire during Keller's mayoral campaign over financial improprieties.
Packman solicited $30,000 in cash donations but listed them as "in-kind" services to the Keller campaign.
The city ethics board ruled the Keller campaign had violated the ethics code but did not mean to and did not fine or reprimand him.
Packman's star was dimmed after he ran into the ethics buzzsaw.
Rio Strategies had been charging clients as much as $10,000 a month for consulting services.
Armijo makes $85,000 a year in his job.
No word yet on what Packman will be getting paid.
On Monday, August 13, 2018 Joe Monahan published a corrected version on the hiring of political consultant Alan Packman by the administration of Mayor Keller.
The first said he would be working in constituent services in the Mayor's office under Alan Armijo.
The city confirmed Packaman will be working in the Department of Technology and Innovation which oversees the 311 service.
311 is the centralized call center for all non-emergency inquiries and services.
Packman's official title will be "Integration Specialist" and he will be paid a salary of $75,000.
Alan Packman has always played a significant role in the political career of Tim Keller and many other young progressive Democratic candidates.
Mr. Packman has also been known to speak and make presentations at "Progress Now" forums with hundreds in attendance to teach progressive candidates in breakout sessions how to run for office.
Alan Packman was or is the main principal in the political consulting firms known as "Full Arsenal" and "Rio Strategies".
Packman's political consulting firm's managed Tim Keller's campaign for New Mexico State Auditor.
According to campaign finance reports filed with the New Mexico Secretary of State, Mr. Packman's consulting firms were paid lucrative consulting fees in the thousands of dollars by Tim Keller while he was New Mexico State Auditor.
According to the New Mexico Secretary of State First Biannual "Report of Expenditures and Contributions" filed on April 11, 2016, New Mexico State Auditor Tim Keller had $37,755 total monetary in contributions and had total expenditures of $27,081.10 for the reporting period and paid $22,944.57 to a firm listed as "Full Arsenal" for "consulting".
According to the Second Biannial "Report of Expenditures and Contributions" filed on October 11, 2016 for the reporting period, Mr. Keller had $14,900 total monetary contributions with total expenditure of $25,414.00 and paid $14,018.63 to "Rio Strategies".
State Auditor Keller never disclosed why he needed "consulting" services as the New Mexico State Auditor and what work those firms did for the State of New Mexico.
Tim Keller never disclosed if "Full Arsenal" and "Rio Strategies" worked or were paid to do work on Keller's campaign for Mayor of Albuquerque the year before Keller announced he was running for Mayor nor what was the "consulting" and services performed for him by Full Arsenal and Rio Strategies.
When Keller ran for Mayor, Alan Packman was front and center and paid very well for consulting services to get Keller on the ballot and to collect 3,000 qualifying donations for public financing.
According to the July 14, 2017 Tim Keller Campaign Finance Report, on April 3, 2017 the Keller campaign was given $342,952 by the City of Albuquerque in public finance and paid to the campaign by the Albuquerque City Clerk.
Alan Packman has also played a significant role in the careers of other progressive Democratic candidates especially in Tim Keller's age group, the 40 to 45+ crowd.
The political campaigns Packman has worked on as a political consultant and managed directly through his consulting firms have been Maggie Toulouse Oliver for Secretary of State, Raul Torrez for Bernalillo County District Attorney, Jeff Apodaca for Governor, Garrett Vene Klausen for Land Commissioner, Pat Davis for City Council and United States Congress and Roman Montoya for Bernalillo County Clerk to mention a few.
Packman also worked for Senator Martin Heinrich's campaigns at times and the Martin Chavez for United States Congress campaign.
In the interest of full disclosure, Mr. Packman was employed by yours truly when I ran for Mayor over 4 years ago at which time he was paid a nominal monthly salary of approximately $1,000 per month for approximately 8 months.
Four years ago, then State Senator Tim Keller was expressing his desire to run for Mayor, but decided not to run for Mayor but to run for New Mexico State Auditor when I ran for Mayor.
Normally, it would not be considered a big deal that any former campaign worker or supporter with strong loyalties to a candidate to go to work for a successful candidate.
It is not uncommon that key supporters or campaign workers are hired for high management or mid management levels, such as Chief of Staff or as a city department director or division head and paid $95,000 to $110,000 a year.
However, in the case of Alan Packman, a professional political consultant, and the work of "constituent services" he will be doing and working with a Berry holdover Alan Armijo, it is probably a prediction of things to come for Mayor Keller.
Constituent services is critical in giving any incumbent a leg up and an advantage for any election when it comes to likely voters who can be called on at a later date for help, a vote or for that matter a donation.
Former Republican Congressman Manuel Lujan and former Republican US Senator Pete Domenici were very well known for their constituent's services throughout the state and were both re-elected for decades repeatedly by landslides in a solid Democratic State.
Packman's entry may be an indication that Alan Armijo is on his way out.
Alan Armijo is a former Democratic County Commissioner and former Democratic Albuquerque City Councilor.
During the 2013 Mayors race, Alan Armijo did a "robo call" recording to registered Democratic voters endorsing Republican Mayor Richard Berry.
After the election, Democrat Armijo was given his job by Republican Mayor Richard Berry.
Republican Mayor Richard Berry appointed Democrat Armijo Director of Constituent Services and paid him $39.71 an hour or $82,596 a year.
The position of Director of Constituent Services is not a protected position and is one of the many positions that is "at will" and serves at the pleasure of the Mayor.
Sources have said that constituent's complaints go to die in the Mayor's Office of Constituent Services headed up by Alan Armijo.
The fact that Alan Packman has now been hired to work directly out of the Mayor Keller's Office after almost a full year after Keller's election as mayor is a clear indication that Mayor Keller intends to run either for re-election or for higher office, which should surprise no one.
Mayor Tim Keller has expressed in the past that he has a desire to run for Governor which will not be likely for 8 years if Democrat Michell Lujan Grisham is elected Governor.
Keller could conceivably serve two full terms as Mayor and then the timing would be right to run for Governor.
Political insiders are saying that United States Senator Tom Udall is giving very mixed messages or keeping mum as to if he is running for reelection in 2020.
If Udall does not run for reelection, it may Keller's only option to make a move for the US Senate seat, especially if things do not get better for him in Albuquerque when it comes to APD, crime rates and the economy.
It would not be a first time for Tim Keller to try and move on to higher office before finishing a term he was elected to serve seeing that he has now done it twice before: first as a New Mexico State Senator to run for New Mexico State Auditor and second as State Auditor to run for Mayor of Albuquerque.
The fact that Packman is now going to go to work full time for Tim Keller handling constituent services says a lot in the world of "La Politica" as political blogger Joe Monahan calls it.
Keller needs someone he can trust in the Mayor's office handling constituent complaints.
It is difficult to believe that all Mr. Packman will be doing is responding to constituent complaints and demands when he is a high priced professional political consultant who has made a very nice living in the past from running political campaigns.
It is never too early to start getting ready and started for a reelection effort or for that matter the next political office when you are politically ambitious.
All too often, ambition shatters a youthful politician's concentration in just doing a great job, especially when a political consultant who got them elected has the ear of the elected official who has his eye on reelection or higher office.


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Zuckerberg Announces Big Changes To Facebook. Here's What People Should Expect
Воскресенье, 10 Мар, 2019
Huawei claims the US statute blocking Huawei equipment from developing 5G networks hinders competition and hurts the economy. The U.S. accounts for 20 percent to 25 percent of the global market for computer and telecom technology.
James has also dished out his fair share of assists during his 16 National Basketball Association seasons, CBS Sports reports . LeBron James moved past Michael Jordan into fourth place on the NBA's career scoring list Wednesday night.
In the statement, Nicolas Maduro's administration accused him and the German government of "crass" and "unlawful" meddling. An American journalist was reportedly detained in Venezuela on Wednesday morning - and hasn't been heard from since.
Met Éireann issues weather warning for Galway for snow
Stay tuned over the weekend for more detailed information on this weather-maker.flooding could become a MAJOR concern next week. Mr Holley said Monday would again be blustery, but the wind speeds would not reach as high as over the weekend.
American singer Nick Jonas has made a confession that his wife and Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra would not be too happy to hear. The world needs boy bands, and we think you're the one to save the whole genre of boy bands and cute boys to break our hearts.
Rodgers' impact has already been welcomed by the Leicester squad, with the 46-year-old lifting the mood at their Belvoir Drive training ground.
Paul Merson states his prediction for Liverpool FC v Burnley
De Bruyne will have played in just seven of City's 30 league games this term if, as expected, he misses out against Watford . Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has emerged the victor of the Premier League Manager of the Month award for February.
Kelly Accused of Giving 13-Year Old Girl Herpes
Demands for air strike proof making Pakistan 'happy': Modi
He said the social platform would spend the coming years assuring that its WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook content is encrypted so that outsiders, and even Facebook, can not read it.
Facebook is to move users more towards private conversations and away from public broadcasting. That means Facebook still gets information about your app-related activities, even if you don't have a Facebook account or if you're signed out. "I believe there's an opportunity to set a new standard for private communication platforms - where content automatically expires or is archived over time", he said. Zuckerberg said the privacy-focused platform, focusing on private interactions and encryption, would be built similar to WhatsApp and then incorporate more "private services", including calls, video chat, groups, stories, businesses, commerce and more.
Zuckerberg's olive branch to them was heavily caveated: he claimed the firm would work with the authorities to help prevent "terrible things" online "wherever we can".
In May 2018, it promised to launch a "clear history" feature that would let people delete personal data Facebook had scooped up. Zuckerberg said many people use its Messenger app on Android to send and receive SMS texts and noted those texts can't be encrypted because the SMS protocol isn't encrypted.
But none of this will change Facebook's core service, the news feed.
"Frankly we don't now have a strong reputation for building privacy protective services, and we've historically focused on tools for more open sharing", he wrote in his blog post.
"So we won't keep messages or stories around for longer than necessary to deliver the service or longer than people want them". The company also says it can help Chinese companies connect with the world's 2.2 billion users "more accurately". These are significant challenges and there are many questions here that require further consultation and discussion. Foreign agents from countries like Russian Federation have used Facebook to publish disinformation, in an attempt to sway elections.
But the general sentiment among a sampling of data-security experts, including several attending the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco this week, was one of skepticism and suspicion that Facebook is again offering mere lip service to an issue that has dogged it for at least two years.
According to Zuckerberg, Facebook would shift from an open forum to a "digital living room" where discussions can be intimate, ephemeral and secure. At one point, he emphasised prioritising what friends and family shared on Facebook and de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands.
United Kingdom watchdog group Privacy International on Tuesday said while a few Android apps have stopped sharing data with Facebook, many haven't. Then those phone numbers became part of Facebook's ad targeting options.
The Facebook CEO confirmed his company is considering deleting messages by default after a month or a year, allowing users to opt out if they wish. "The chat app essentially becomes your browser".
In a Wednesday note, the Facebook CEO outlined a new plan to build a "privacy-focused" messaging and social networking platform. He said Facebook could tell antitrust authorities that WhatsApp, Instagram Direct and Facebook Messenger are tied so tightly together that it couldn't unwind them. Some in law enforcement have repeatedly railed against the difficulties that end-to-end encryption can create for investigations.
Duke star Zion Williamson out vs. North Carolina
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Watertown, MA According to Belmont Savings Bank, the ground breaking to renovate the clubhouse and pool for Oakley Country Club has taken place. Belmont Savings is the sole lender, providing a $10.4 million loan. The Oakley Country Club is a private 18-hole golf club, which was founded in 1898. The renovated space is slated to open in spring 2019.
The main clubhouse is undergoing a complete renovation which will include a new pool complex, an expanded front entry, and outside decking to showcase the views of the Boston skyline.


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Scotland's Currency Conundrum: Independence May Mean Decade of Austerity
By Shane Croucher
Updated July 1, 2014 17:45 BST
An independent Scotland could face a decade of fiscal tightening through tax rises and spending cuts in order to meet European debt-to-GDP rules and maintain sustainable borrowing costs, depending on how much public debt it inherits from the UK's vast pile of over £1tn.
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) estimates that Scotland may need fiscal tightening of 5.4% in the ten years from independence to achieve the Maastricht Treaty agreed debt-to-GDP ratio of 60% under borrowing costs likely to be as much as 1.65% above current interest rates on 10-year UK gilts.
This is because Scotland would need to run an annual 3.1% fiscal surplus in order to lure investors in its sovereign debt at reasonable borrowing costs during the ten years after independence, but the government is currently running a primary fiscal deficit of 2.3%.
It means Scotland would be exposed to sudden downturns or shocks, such as a fall in oil prices hitting revenues from the North Sea, because fiscal levers could not be pulled to flood stimulus into the economy.
As such, it is crucial for Scotland to control its own interest and exchange rates with an independent currency, said the NIESR ahead of the launch of its significant report on the currency conundrum surrounding the 2014 independence referendum.
However, it could get around this problem of inheriting its share of the UK's vast public debt pile by exchanging oil revenues for debt write-downs, the NIESR proposed.
"The greater the amount of public debt an independent Scotland assumes, the greater the importance of retaining some policy flexibility and the stronger the case for introducing a new Scottish currency," said Dr Angus Armstrong, director of macroeconomic research at the NIESR and one of the report's authors.
Prosperity Needs 'Hard' Currency
The report, called Scotland's Currency Options, will launch on 19 September. It analyses three currency scenarios for an independent Scotland. They include remaining as part of the sterling union, adopting the euro, and having an independent currency.
Central to the currency question posed by the NIESR report is fiscal solvency and so the level of debt burden an independent Scotland would end up with.
"Recent events around the world, particularly in Europe, have shown that fiscal sustainability and currency arrangements cannot be considered in isolation," said Dr Armstrong.
"We consider how the existing UK public debt would be divided, and the ability of an independent Scotland to pay its share. For an independent Scotland to prosper it requires a 'hard' currency; one in which investors are willing to hold long-dated Scottish government debt at a reasonable price.
"A necessary condition for a 'hard' currency is that government solvency must always be beyond doubt."
Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) which is campaigning for a yes vote in the independence referendum, has already said he would keep the UK pound as currency is the country left the union.
He said it would be similar to the Isle of Man having its own pound, pegged to UK sterling, which has lower borrowing costs than the British government.
In a speech, Chancellor George Osborne claimed Scottish families would be £2,000 worse off if their nation split from Britain.
This article was first published on September 17, 2013
Related topics : GDP Scotland


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Eucalyptus foecunda ist eine Pflanzenart innerhalb der Familie der Myrtengewächse (Myrtaceae). Sie kommt im Südwesten und an der Südküste von Western Australia sowie vereinzelt in South Australia und New South Wales vor und wird dort "Slender Leaf Mallee", "York Gum", "Narrow-leaved Red Mallee", "Ooragamandee Yandee", "Hooked Mallee", "Black Mallee", "Fremantle Wattle", "Silver-leaf Mallee"oder "Coastal Dune Mallee" genannt.

Beschreibung

Erscheinungsbild und Blatt
Eucalyptus foecunda wächst in der Wuchsform der Mallee-Eukalypten, dies ist eine Wuchsform, die mehr strauchförmig als baumförmig ist, es sind meist mehrere Stämme vorhanden, die einen Lignotuber ausbilden; oder Baum, der Wuchshöhen von bis zu 5 Meter erreicht. Die Borke ist am gesamten Baum glatt und grau oder rotbraun. An den unteren Teilen des Stammes kann sie auch grobstückig sein. Öldrüsen gibt es weder im Mark noch in der Borke.

Bei Eucalyptus foecunda liegt Heterophyllie vor. An mittelalten Exemplaren sind die gegenständigen, sitzenden Laubblätter elliptisch, gerade, mit gezahnten Rand, blaugrün bemehlt oder bereift. Die auf Ober- und Unterseite gleichfarbig glänzend grünen Laubblätter an erwachsenen Exemplaren sind schmal-lanzettlich oder lanzettlich, relativ dick, gerade, verjüngen sich zur Spreitenbasis hin und besitzen ein spitzes oder stumpfes oberes Ende. Die kaum erkennbaren Seitennerven gehen in einem stumpfen Winkel vom Mittelnerv ab. Die Keimblätter (Kotyledone) sind zweigeteilt.

Blütenstand und Blüte
End- oder seitenständig an einem im Querschnitt stielrunden Blütenstandsschaft stehen in einem einfachen Blütenstand etwa elf zusammen. Die spindelförmigen Blütenknospen sind nicht blaugrün bemehlt oder bereift. Die Kelchblätter bilden eine Calyptra, die früh abfällt. Die glatte Calyptra ist konisch, doppelt so lang wie der glatte Blütenbecher (Hypanthium) und so breit wie dieser. Die Blüten sind cremeweiß. Die Blütezeit ist August oder Januar bis Februar.

Frucht
Die Frucht ist kugelig oder halbkugelig. Der Diskus ist eingedrückt oder flach, die Fruchtfächer stehen heraus.

Vorkommen
Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet von Eucalyptus foecunda ist der südliche Teil der Westküste von Western Australia. Vereinzelt kommt sie auch an der Südküste von Western Australia, in South Australia und in New South Wales vor.

Eucalyptus foecunda wächst bevorzugt auf weißem, grauem, gelbem, braunem, orangem oder rotem Sand über Kalkstein sowie auf Sanddünen, Sandebenen, Kalksteinerhebungen, Felsen und Hügeln und an Straßenrändern.

Taxonomie
Die Erstbeschreibung von Eucalyptus foecunda erfolgte 1844 durch Johannes Konrad Schauer in Plantae Preissianae, Volume 1, S. 130. Das Typusmaterial weist die Beschriftung "(...) ab colonia Fremantle, Aug. M. 1839 fructifera. Herb. Preiss. No. 231" auf. Synonyme für Eucalyptus foecunda  Schauer sind Eucalyptus leptophylla F.Muell. ex Miq. , Eucalyptus leptophylla var. floribunda Blakely, Eucalyptus leptophylla var. densa Blakely, Eucalyptus oleosa F.Muell. ex Miq., Eucalyptus uncinata var. rostrata Benth., Eucalyptus leptophylla var. leptorrhyncha Blakely, Eucalyptus desertorum Naudin, Eucalyptus foecunda Schauer var. foecunda, Eucalyptus foecunda subsp. aeolica Brooker und Eucalyptus aeolica Brooker.

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To be honest, it's freaking me out that we're almost to the end of 2021. To help combat the weirdness of how fast this year is going by, here is the first part of my most anticipated new releases of 2022! I've included books from a variety of genres, although a bunch of them are from authors I've previously read and enjoyed, since those are the ones I tend to hear about first. I'm also only including books that so far have covers and tentative release date (although all release dates definitely may change, particularly with the current supply chain issues), and I hope you find some that interest you enough to add to your TBR! Feel free to comment any other books you're looking forward to next year that I might have missed.
2022 Book Releases I'm Excited About (in order of tentative release date)
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire (anticipated release 1/4/22) – I can't believe this is the 7th book in McGuire's Wayward Children novella series! These are portal fantasy books focused on the denizens of a school that takes in children who have been sucked into portal fantasy worlds tailored to them and then unexpectedly expelled from those worlds and are having difficulty adapting back to reality, and this newest installment focuses on a second, similar school that we haven't heard about yet.
From Goodreads – Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company.
There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.
It isn't as friendly as Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children.
And it isn't as safe.
When Eleanor West decided to open her school, her sanctuary, her Home for Wayward Children, she knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn't save; when Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Miss West reluctantly agrees to transfer her to the other school, where things are run very differently by Whitethorn, the Headmaster.
She will soon discover that not all doors are welcoming…
Electric Idol by Katee Robert (anticipated release 1/4/22) – This is the second book in Robert's Dark Olympus series, which is a romance take on Greek mythology set in a modern-day city. I really loved the first book, Neon Gods, which was a Hades/Persephone romance; I'm definitely looking forward to the next installment, which takes on the Cupid/Psyche myth.
From Goodreads – In the ultra-modern city of Olympus, there's always a price to pay. Psyche knew she'd have to face Aphrodite's ire eventually, but she never expected her literal heart to be at stake…or for Aphrodite's gorgeous son to be the one ordered to strike the killing blow.
Eros has no problem shedding blood. But when it comes time to take out his latest target, he can't do it. Confused by his reaction to Psyche, he does the only thing he can think of to keep her safe: he marries her. Psyche vows to make Eros's life a living hell until they find a way out of this mess. But as lines blur and loyalties shift, she realizes he might take her heart after all…and she's not sure she can survive the loss.
Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman (anticipated release 1/11/22) – one of the few 2022 releases I actually have an ARC of so far, this feminist historical fiction novel sounds especially intriguing.
From Goodreads – Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman's survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned — it is a death sentence. At the onset of King William's War between French and English settlers in 1689 New England, Ruth Miner is accused of witchcraft for the murder of her parents and must flee the brutality of her town. She stows away on the ship of the only other person who knows her innocence: an audacious sailor — Owen — bound to her by years of attraction, friendship, and shared secrets. But when Owen's French ancestry finds him at odds with a violent English commander, the turmoil becomes life-or-death for the sailor, the headstrong Ruth, and the cast of Quakers, Pequot Indians, soldiers, highwaymen, and townsfolk dragged into the fray. Now Ruth must choose between sending Owen to the gallows or keeping her own neck from the noose.
Steeped in historical events and culminating in a little-known war on pre-American soil, Out Front the Following Sea is a story of early feminism, misogyny, arbitrary rulings, and the treatment of outcasts, with parallels still mirrored and echoed in today's society.
Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall (anticipated release 1/25/22) – Alexis Hall has a whole bunch of 2022 releases planned, and I'm looking to read them all since he's one of my favorite romance authors. I've only read his contemporary works so far, so I'm really curious to see what he does with historical romance.
From Goodreads – Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally.
It was always his father's hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up…romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine's proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again.
Arabella's twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure "Bonny" Tarleton, has also grown up…romantic. And fully expects Valentine to ride out after Arabella and prove to her that he's not the cold-hearted cad he seems to be.
Despite copious misgivings, Valentine finds himself on a pell-mell chase to Dover with Bonny by his side. Bonny is unreasonable, overdramatic, annoying, and…beautiful? And being with him makes Valentine question everything he thought he knew. About himself. About love. Even about which Tarleton he should be pursuing.
Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur (anticipated release 2/1/22) – the third book in Bellefleur's Written in the Stars contemporary romance series set in Seattle features Margot, the business partner of former protagonist Elle from the first book, and I'm really looking forward to her friends-to-lovers romance.
From Goodreads – Margot Cooper doesn't do relationships. She tried and it blew up in her face, so she'll stick with casual hookups, thank you very much. But now her entire crew has found "the one" and she's beginning to feel like a fifth wheel. And then fate (the heartless bitch) intervenes. While touring a wedding venue with her engaged friends, Margot comes face-to-face with Olivia Grant—her childhood friend, her first love, her first… well, everything. It's been ten years, but the moment they lock eyes, Margot's cold, dead heart thumps in her chest.
Olivia must be hallucinating. In the decade since she last saw Margot, her life hasn't gone exactly as planned. At almost thirty, she's been married… and divorced. However, a wedding planner job in Seattle means a fresh start and a chance to follow her dreams. Never in a million years did she expect her important new client's Best Woman would be the one that got away.
When a series of unfortunate events leaves Olivia without a place to stay, Margot offers up her spare room because she's a Very Good Person. Obviously. It has nothing to do with the fact that Olivia is as beautiful as ever and the sparks between them still make Margot tingle. As they spend time in close quarters, Margot starts to question her no-strings stance. Olivia is everything she's ever wanted, but Margot let her in once and it ended in disaster. Will history repeat itself or should she count her lucky stars that she gets a second chance with her first love?
The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker (anticipated release 2/1/22) – This is one of the more random books on this list, since I've never previously heard of the author, but it sounds like an interesting mix of historical fiction and a feminist family saga.
From Goodreads – New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past. But when a hungry journalist starts chasing her story, she's confronted with whom she once was: Iris Chapel.
Connecticut, 1950: Iris Chapel is the second youngest of six sisters, all heiresses to a firearms fortune. They've grown up cloistered in a palatial Victorian house, mostly neglected by their distant father and troubled mother, who believes that their house is haunted by the victims of Chapel weapons. The girls long to escape, and for most of them, the only way out is marriage. But not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second, leaving the rest to navigate the wreckage, to heart-wrenching consequences.
Ultimately, Iris flees the devastation of her family, and so begins the story of Sylvia Wren. But can she outrun the family curse forever?
Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow (anticipated release 2/8/22) – Since reading Morrow's short science fiction novel Mem, a creative take on memory and alternate history, I've been really interested to read more from her.
From Goodreads – Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS—White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford—and it creates a dissonance in her best friend that Farrah can exploit. When her own family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure, the calculating Farrah is determined to reassert the control she's convinced she's always had over her life by staying with Cherish, the only person she loves—even when she hates her.
A troubled Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitman family but the longer she stays, the more her own parents suggest that something is wrong in the Whitman house. She might trust them—if they didn't think something was wrong with Farrah, too. As strange things start happening at the Whitman household—debilitating illnesses, upsetting fever dreams, an inexplicable tension with Cherish's hothead boyfriend, and a strange journal that seems to keep track of what is happening to Farrah—it's nothing she can't handle. But soon everything begins to unravel when the Whitmans invite Farrah closer, and it's anyone's guess who is really in control.
Told in Farrah's chilling, unforgettable voice and weaving in searing commentary on race and class, this slow-burn social horror will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page.
Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour (anticipated release 2/8/21) – I've previously read two of LaCour's YA novels and really enjoyed them, particularly subtle ghost story Watch Over Me, and I'm liking this publishing trend of YA authors writing adult literature.
From Goodreads – The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each other.
When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner.
When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, pulls them apart again and again. When Sara's old life catches up to her, upending everything she thought she wanted just as Emilie has finally gained her own sense of purpose, they must decide if their love is more powerful than their pasts.
At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story for our time and a propulsive journey through the lives of two women finding their way in the world.
House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas (anticipated release 2/15/22) – although I did think it was a bit too long, I still loved reading the first book in the Crescent City series, House of Earth and Blood, and I'm very curious to see where Maas is going with this series. It definitely has a lot of similarities to ACOTAR, but it's different enough that it's still a great new fantasy world. Don't read the synopsis unless you've already read the first book, though, or you'll be spoiled!
From Goodreads – Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.
The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri's power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels' plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what's right. And they've never been very good at staying silent.
In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode―and the people who will do anything to save it
A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross (anticipated release 2/15/22) – I just heard of this book, and it sounds so interesting! Goodreads is comparing it to House of Earth and Blood, which is a comparison I don't really get from the synopsis, but it does sound like my kind of fantasy.
From Goodreads –Jack Tamerlaine hasn't stepped foot on Cadence in ten long years, content to study music at the mainland university. But when young girls start disappearing from the isle, Jack is summoned home to help find them. Enchantments run deep on Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armor, and the smallest cut of a knife can instill fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that rule the isle by fire, water, earth, and wind find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home. Adaira, heiress of the east and Jack's childhood enemy, knows the spirits only answer to a bard's music, and she hopes Jack can draw them forth by song, enticing them to return the missing girls.
As Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together, they find they make better allies than rivals as their partnership turns into something more. But with each passing song, it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than they first expected, and an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all.
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake (anticipated release 2/22/22) – F/F romance has always been underrepresented, so I'm always looking for new authors and books coming out, and this small-town contemporary romance sounds great!
From Goodreads – Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it's a different woman every night, but that's just fine with her.
When Delilah's estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid's stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there's some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all.
Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise…at first. Though they've known each other for years, they don't really know each other—so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they're forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations—including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé—Claire isn't sure she has the strength to resist Delilah's charms. Even worse, she's starting to think she doesn't want to…
Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist (anticipated release 2/22/22) – Possibly one of the books I'm most excited about, based on the amazing synopsis and gorgeous cover. It sounds like it has hints of dark academia and mystery, and reviews mention an eat-the-rich message as well.
From Goodreads – Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly simultaneously. So when she is offered a position, against all odds, working for one of Boston's most elite families, the illustrious and secretive Verdeaus, she knows she must accept it—no matter how bizarre the interview or how vague the job description.
By day, she is assistant to the family doctor and his charge, Jonathan, the sickly, poetic, drunken heir to the family empire, who is as difficult as his illness is mysterious. By night, Lena discovers the more sinister side of the family, as she works overtime at their lavish parties, helping to hide their self-destructive tendencies . . . and trying not to fall for Jonathan's alluring sister, Audrey. But when she stumbles upon the knowledge that the Verdeau patriarch is the one responsible for the ruin of her own family, Lena vows to get revenge—a poison-filled quest that leads her further into this hedonistic world than she ever bargained for, forcing her to decide how much—and who—she's willing to sacrifice for payback.
The perfect next read for fans of Mexican Gothic, Tripping Arcadia is a page-turning and shocking tale with an unforgettable protagonist that explores family legacy and inheritance, the sacrifices we must make to get by in today's world, and the intoxicating, dangerous power of wealth.
Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May (anticipated release 3/29/22) – I've been getting more interested in historical fantasy lately, and this one's cover and premise very much appeal to me.
From Goodreads – In the aftermath of World War I, a young woman gets swept into a glittering world filled with illicit magic, romance, blood debts, and murder in this lush and decadent debut novel. On Crow Island, people whispered, real magic lurked just below the surface, but Annie Mason never expected her enigmatic new neighbor to be a witch.
When she witnesses a confrontation between her best friend Bea and the infamous Emmeline Delacroix at one of Emmeline's extravagantly illicit parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world. A world where magic can buy what money can not; a world where the consequence of a forbidden blood bargain might be death.
The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa (anticipated release 4/5/22) – I loved Mia Sosa's previous contemporary romance The Worst Best Man, and this sounds like another wedding-adjacent contemporary set amid a similar backdrop in DC.
From Goodreads – Just weeks away from ditching DC for greener pastures, Solange Pereira is roped into helping her wedding planner cousin on a random couple's big day. It's an easy gig… until she stumbles upon a situation that convinces her the pair isn't meant to be. What's a true-blue romantic to do? Crash the wedding, of course. And ensure the unsuspecting groom doesn't make the biggest mistake of his life.
Dean Chapman had his future all mapped out. He was about to check off "start a family" and on track to "make partner" when his modern day marriage of convenience went up in smoke. Then he learns he might not land an assignment that could be his ticket to a promotion unless he has a significant other and, in a moment of panic, Dean claims to be in love with the woman who crashed his wedding. Oops.
Now Dean has a whole new item on his to-do list: beg Solange to be his pretend girlfriend. Solange feels a tiny bit bad about ruining Dean's wedding, so she agrees to play along. Yet as they fake-date their way around town, what started as a performance for Dean's colleagues turns into a connection that neither he nor Solange can deny. Their entire romance is a sham… there's no way these polar opposites could fall in love for real, right?
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse (anticipated release 4/19/22) – I love Rebecca Roanhorse, and Black Sun is one of my favorite books of 2021 so far. It ends on a shocking and devastating note (no spoilers! Avoid the synopsis if you haven't read it!) and the sequel is much needed to see what happens to this fantastical world and its characters.
From Goodreads – The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent.
The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded?
As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected ally in the former Priest of Knives. For the Clan Matriarchs of Tova, tense alliances form as far-flung enemies gather and the war in the heavens is reflected upon the earth.
And for Serapio and Naranpa, both now living avatars, the struggle for free will and personhood in the face of destiny rages. How will Serapio stay human when he is steeped in prophecy and surrounded by those who desire only his power? Is there a future for Naranpa in a transformed Tova without her total destruction?
Welcome back to the fantasy series of the decade in Fevered Star—book two of Between Earth and Sky.
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (anticipated release 4/26/22) – I'm generally interested in anything approaching a dark fairytale retelling, and I think that this one fits the bill.
From Goodreads – With her signature mix of the grim and the delightful, award-winning author T. Kingfisher takes the old bones of fantasy and fairytale and makes them into something entirely new in this enchanting adventure.
After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter—has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself.
Seeking help from a powerful gravewitch, Marra is offered the tools to kill a prince—if she can complete three impossible tasks. But, as is the way in tales of princes, witches, and daughters, the impossible is only the beginning.
On her quest, Marra is joined by the gravewitch, a reluctant fairy godmother, a strapping former knight, and a chicken possessed by a demon. Together, the five of them intend to be the hand that closes around the throat of the prince and frees Marra's family and their kingdom from its tyrannous ruler at last.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry (anticipated release 5/3/22) – Henry's previous two contemporary romances Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation have gotten a ton of love and attention and were both high 4 star reads for me; her third promises to be just as great. The book-related premise is definitely a plus.
From Goodreads – A by the book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.
Nora Stephens' life is books—she's read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters' trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she's convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they've met many times and it's never been cute.
If Nora knows she's not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he's nobody's hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they've written about themselves.
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (anticipated release 5/3/22) – I'm curious to see how McQuiston's writing style translates to a contemporary YA setting!
From Goodreads – Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she's spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that's kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal's perfect progeny.
But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes.
On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she's not the only one Shara kissed. There's also Smith, Shara's longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara's bad boy neighbor with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara's trail of clues and find her. It'll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair-and-square.
Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. And maybe—probably not, but maybe—more to Shara, too.
Book of Night by Holly Black (anticipated release 5/3/22) – Technically this one doesn't have a cover yet, but I love a dark contemporary fantasy, and despite having mixed feelings about Black's YA books, this one sounds very much up my alley.
From Goodreads – In Charlie Hall's world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences—but also to increase power and influence. You can alter someone's feelings—and memories—but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden—a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. And sometimes, it has a life of its own.
Charlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie's present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear—and at worst, non-existent. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister—all desperate to control the magic of the shadows.
With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Remember while you read, light isn't playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are.
Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert (anticipated release 6/7/22) – Another Dark Olympus book, because Katee Robert is being very good to us in 2022! This one is a Achilles/Patroclus/Helen romance, which is an interesting and uncommon take on the myth.
From Goodreads – In Olympus, you either have the power to rule…or you are ruled. Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing, but as a child he vowed he would claw his way into the poisonous city's inner circle. Now that a coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to compete and double their odds of winning.
Neither expect infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize…or for the complicated fire that burns the moment she looks their way.
Zeus may have decided Helen is his to give to away, but she has her own plans. She enters into the competition as a middle finger to the meddling Thirteen rulers, effectively vying for her own hand in marriage. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather see her dead than lead the city. The only people she can trust are the ones she can't keep her hands off—Achilles and Patroclus. But can she really believe they have her best interests at heart when every stolen kiss is a battlefield?
A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow (anticipated release 6/14/21) – the second novella in Harrow's Fractured Fairy Tales series after Spindle Splintered, a Sleeping Beauty retelling I read for Dewey's 24-Hour readathon. Maybe I'll pick this one up during a readathon in 2022!
From Goodreads – Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues.
Just when Zinnia's beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because there's more than one person trapped in a story they didn't choose. Snow White's Evil Queen has found out how her story ends and she's desperate for a better ending. She wants Zinnia to help her before it's too late for everyone.
Will Zinnia accept the Queen's poisonous request, and save them both from the hot iron shoes that wait for them, or will she try another path?
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn (anticipated release 7/26/22) – I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN THIS SERIES! Legendborn was the best YA fantasy I've read in years, and the ending was so unexpected–I wish this one was coming out even sooner!
From Goodreads – All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother's death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights—only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has become someone new:
A Medium. A Bloodcrafter. A Scion.
But the ancient war between demons and the Order is rising to a deadly peak. And Nick, the Legendborn boy Bree fell in love with, has been kidnapped.
Bree wants to fight, but the Regents who rule the Order won't let her. To them, she is an unknown girl with unheard-of power, and as the living anchor for the spell that preserves the Legendborn cycle, she must be protected.
When the Regents reveal they will do whatever it takes to hide the war, Bree and her friends must go on the run to rescue Nick themselves. But enemies are everywhere, Bree's powers are unpredictable and dangerous, and she can't escape her growing attraction to Selwyn, the mage sworn to protect Nick until death.
If Bree has any hope of saving herself and the people she loves, she must learn to control her powers from the ancestors who wielded them first—without losing herself in the process.
A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys (anticipated release 7/26/22) – A science fiction book that sounds like it deals with environmentalism as well as aliens, so I'm on board.
From Goodreads – A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach.
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm–and stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. And if humanity doesn't agree, they may need to be saved by force.
The watershed networks aren't ready to give up on Earth. Decades ago, they rose up to exile the last corporations to a few artificial islands, escape the dominance of nation-states, and reorganize humanity around the hope of keeping their world liveable. By sharing the burden of decision-making, they've started to heal the wounded planet.
But now corporations, nation-states, and networks all vie to represent humanity to these powerful new beings, and if any one accepts the aliens' offer, Earth may be lost. With everyone's eyes turned skyward, everything hinges on the success of Judy's effort to create understanding, both within and beyond her own species.
Husband Material by Alexis Hall (anticipated release 8/2/22) – Boyfriend Material was my favorite romance of 2020, and I'm so happy it's getting a sequel! I love main characters Luc and Oliver, and would happily read several more books about them.
From Goodreads – In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends…and somehow figured out a way to make it work. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc's feeling the social pressure to propose. But it'll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a bowl full of special curry to get these two from I don't know what I'm doing to I do.
Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL.
Mad About You by Mhairi McFarlane (anticipated release 8/9/22) – I really enjoy Mhairi McFarlane's writing style, and although I haven't yet finished her newest release Just Last Night, I'm still already looking forward to this one.
From Goodreads – Harriet Hatley is the most in-demand wedding photographer in town, but she doesn't believe in romance, loathes the idea of marriage, and thinks chocolate fountains are an abomination. Which is why, when her long-time partner proposes, she panics. Suddenly Harriet is single… and living down the hall from her ex. She needs a new apartment, like, yesterday.
Enter Cal Clarke, a hopeless romantic who just experienced his own wedding-related disaster. Harriet and Cal are like chalk and cheese, but as they go from strangers to roommates to friends, it becomes clear they're both running from something. When Harriet's most heavily guarded secret comes to light, her world implodes. And Cal, with his witty humor and gentle advice, is a surprising source of calm at the center of the storm.
With her career, friendships, and reputation on the line, Harriet must finally face her past in order to take control of her future. Because if she's willing to stop playing it safe and risk everything to share her truth, real love and happiness may be waiting on the other side…
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Can't wait for Where the Drowned Girls Go, Yerba Bueno, and Bloodmarked!
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The trial of the former Allianz CEO for criminal fraud is set to take place in 2024 in New York
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday set a 2024 trial date for former Allianz (ETR::SE) CEO Gregoire Tornant, complicating allegations that he defrauded investors of billions of dollars by downplaying the risks of what they bought.
Tornant, the former chief investment officer who created and oversaw Allianz's Alpha Composite Structure Funds, was indicted in May on charges of fraud, conspiracy and obstruction, and has pleaded not guilty.
The funds once had more than $11 billion in assets under management, but lost more than $7 billion as markets were affected by COVID-19 in February and March 2020.
Allianz agreed to pay more than $6 billion in a settlement with US authorities in May, and the German company's US asset management unit pleaded guilty to securities fraud.
Chief Justice Laura Taylor Swain of Manhattan Federal Court set Tornant's trial for February 5, 2024, rejecting his attorney's argument that it was too early to set a date.
Seth Levine, Tournant's attorney, said he would seek to dismiss the case because the plaintiffs obtained information from Tournant's former attorney, who also represented Allianz, that should have been withheld based on attorney-client privilege.
Authorities had accused Allianz's US unit, Allianz Global Investors USL, of misleading pension funds and of having "significant loopholes" in their oversight.
Investors were told that the funds used options include hedges to protect against a market crash, but the plaintiffs said fund managers repeatedly failed to buy out those hedges.
The conviction included a 10-year ban on Allianz Global Investors from providing advisory services to US-registered investment funds.
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 SinoAfrica Medicines and Health Ltd participated in the 25th annual meeting of UGANDA SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RADIOLOGY AND IMAGING (USOFARI)-Company News-SINOAFRICA MEDICINES & HEALTH LTD.
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