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Purchase extends Big Blue's Smarter Commerce initiative by adding cloud-based software offering.
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IBM has completed its acquisition of DemandTec, a San Mateo, Calif.-based provider of cloud-based analytics software. Financial terms of the deal were not reported.
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The IRS allows you to deduct any expenses that are considered "ordinary and necessary" for your business. You can get more information on the IRS website.
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Filing on paper or requesting a paper check for your refund will increase the time to process your return and issue the refund. In most cases, the IRS expects to issue electronic refunds within 21 days of receipt of your return.
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If you are getting a large refund and you expect to have similar earnings in 2018, tax experts suggest you may want to consider reducing the amount of withholding your employer takes or reducing the amount you send in on your quarterly estimated payments.
Overpaying your taxes may result in a once-a-year big check from the government, but you are missing out on using that income for day-to-day expenses or investing it and earning interest.
If you owe a large amount of taxes to the IRS, you should consider increasing the amount your employer withholds or increasing your estimated quarterly payments.
The IRS will charge a penalty for not making sufficient payments throughout the year if your tax bill is $1,000 or more, except under certain circumstances. You can increase or decrease quarterly payments throughout the year to ensure that your payments are sufficient.
If you are expecting any changes in your income or in your family's structure or income, you may want to fill out a new W-4 form if you are an employee or revisit the IRS's estimated tax calculator if you are self-employed.
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The IRS allows you to use electronic copies of receipts, so scanning receipts and keeping them on your computer may help you stay organized and clutter-free when tax time comes around. There are even apps for your smart phone that can help you stay on top of your expenses.
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Neal Lyons is a lead volunteer coordinator with Massage Therapy Schools Information. He has experience practicing and running his own massage business in Texas.


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Review: In 'Hillbilly Elegy,' a Tough Love Analysis of the Poor Who Back Trump
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By Jennifer Senior
In late July, The American Conservative ran an interview with J. D. Vance that drew so much traffic it briefly crippled the central nervous system of the magazine's website. The interviewer's last line implored readers to have a look at Mr. Vance's publishing debut, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis." Ever since, his book has hovered at high altitude on Amazon, seldom dipping below No. 10.
After reading "Hillbilly Elegy," you can easily understand why. This is a historically peculiar election cycle, boisterously disrupted by outsiders, one of whom found the perfect host body in the Republican Party and became its presidential nominee. An investigation of voter estrangement has never felt more urgent, and we're certainly not getting one from the lacquered chatterers on the boob tube.
Now, along comes Mr. Vance, offering a compassionate, discerning sociological analysis of the white underclass that has helped drive the politics of rebellion, particularly the ascent of Donald J. Trump. Combining thoughtful inquiry with firsthand experience, Mr. Vance has inadvertently provided a civilized reference guide for an uncivilized election, and he's done so in a vocabulary intelligible to both Democrats and Republicans.
On the checklist of modern privilege, Mr. Vance, 31, has the top four in the bag: He is white, male, straight and Protestant.
But his profile is misleading. His people — hillbillies, rednecks, white trash, choose your epithet (or term of affection, depending on your point of view) — didn't step off the Mayflower and become part of America's ascendant class. "Poverty is the family tradition," he writes. His ancestors and kin were sharecroppers, coal miners, machinists, millworkers — all low-paying, body-wearying occupations that over the years have vanished or offered diminished security.
Mr. Vance was raised in Middletown, Ohio, a now-decaying steel town filled with Kentucky transplants, which at one point included his Mamaw and Papaw — in newscaster English, that's grandma and grandpa — who moved there shortly after World War II. Though the couple eventually managed to achieve the material comforts of a middle-class life (house, car), they brought their Appalachian values and habits with them. Some were wonderfully positive, like loyalty and love of country. But others, like a tendency toward violence and verbal abuse, were inimical to family life.
Papaw was forever coming home drunk. Mamaw, "a violent nondrunk," was forever tormenting him, whether by serving him artfully arranged plates of garbage for dinner or dousing him with gasoline. All this guerrilla warfare affected their children. Mr. Vance's mother was an empress of instability — violent, feckless, prone to hysteria. A long stint in rehab couldn't shake her addiction to prescription narcotics (she'd later move on to heroin). She spun through more boyfriends than this reader could count and at least five husbands.
The only reason Mr. Vance made it out in one piece is because his grandparents eventually reconciled, becoming his unofficial guardians. (He also spent a terrifically affirming four years in the Marines.) Mamaw was especially encouraging. She was tough as snakeskin, foul-mouthed as a mobster and filled with love. In a town where many children don't finish high school, she raised a grandson who managed to graduate from Ohio State University and Yale Law School, defying skyscraping odds.
"Hillbilly Elegy," in my mind, divides into two components: the family stories Mr. Vance tells — most of which are no doubt better experienced on the page than they were in real life — and the questions he raises. Chief among them: How much should he hold his hillbilly kin responsible for their own misfortunes?
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In Mr. Vance's estimation, the answer is: a lot. Economic insecurity, he's convinced, accounts for only a small part of his community's problems; the much larger issue is hillbilly culture itself. Though proud of it in many ways, he's also convinced that it "increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it."
His frustration with the nonworking white poor is especially acute. He recalls being a cashier at a Middletown grocery store and watching resentfully as his neighbors, who had creatively gamed the welfare system, jabbered on their cellphones as they were going through the checkout line.
He could not afford a cellphone.
"Political scientists have spent millions of words trying to explain how Appalachia and the South went from staunchly Democratic to staunchly Republican in less than a generation," Mr. Vance writes. He suspects those cellphones have a lot to do with it. "I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off of government largess enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about."
Time and again, Mr. Vance preaches a message of tough love and personal responsibility. He has no patience with an old acquaintance who told him he quit his job because he hated waking up early, only to take to Facebook to blame the "Obama economy." Or with a former co-worker at a tile warehouse who missed work once a week though his girlfriend was pregnant.
Squint, and you'll note the incendiary nature of Mr. Vance's argument. It's always treacherous business to blame a group for its own misfortunes. Certainly, an outsider cannot say what Mr. Vance is saying to his kin and kind. But he can — just as President Obama can say to fellow African-Americans, "brothers should pull up their pants," as he did on MTV.
The difference is that President Obama believes poverty, though it may have a cultural component, is largely a structural problem, one the government can play a large role in fixing. Mr. Vance, a conservative, takes a far dimmer view.
Whether you agree with Mr. Vance or not, you must admire him for his head-on confrontation with a taboo subject. And he frames his critique generously, stipulating that it isn't laziness that's destroying hillbilly culture but what the psychologist Martin Seligman calls "learned helplessness" — the fatalistic belief, born of too much adversity, that nothing can be done to change your lot.
What he's really writing about is despair.
Never is Mr. Vance more aware of this pessimism and estrangement than when he leaves for Ohio State University. He's plumped with hope; his neighbors, left behind, feel its opposite. "There was something almost spiritual," he writes, "about the cynicism of the community at large."
His friends and relations are convinced that the media lies. That politicians lie. That the military, an institution they revere, is fighting two fruitless wars. Universities feel "rigged" and inaccessible; job prospects are slim. For what purpose do you live under such circumstances? When the stanchions of your life have sunk into the muck?
Mr. Vance doesn't have all the answers. But he's advancing the conversation.
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
By J. D. Vance
264 pages. Harper. $27.99.
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Discotek Media is bringing back an anime from the 90s with the release of the first season of 'Digimon: Adventures,' also known as 'Digimon: Digital Monsters' in North America. They are bringing all fifty-four episodes to a brand new DVD box set.
The release will include the original Japanese audio as well as the English dubbed version of the fan-favorite anime.
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Produced by Toei Animation, this season was directed by Hiroyuki Kakudō and Satoru Nishizono. It would go on to have a trading card game, numerous sequels, several films, video games, manga, and even a comic book from Dark Horse Comics.
Wikipedia says of the development, "In 1999, a short film based on the virtual pets called Digimon Adventure was released. However, shortly after the film's storyboard was completed in 1998, producers at Toei Animation were requested to turn it into a television series."
"The DigiDestined's character designs were created by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru. The staff had decided to name the characters based on kanji that related to luck," they added.
The set is available for pre-order on Right Stuf Anime, which describe the synopsis:
"When seven young kids go to camp for the summer, they never expect to find themselves whisked away to a world populated by Digital Monsters! In this strange Digital World, the kids must unlock the power within themselves if they hope to Digivolve their Digimon friends into new, more powerful forms and defeat the evil that threatens both worlds! From the dreaded Devimon and his Black Gears on File Island, to back in Tokyo to battle the vampire lord Myotismon from locating the Eighth DigiDestined child, then a face-off against the menace of the Dark Masters – all in this complete collection of the first season of Digimon: Digital Monsters, the hit series that defined the childhoods of anime fans around the world!"
The first season originally ran from March 7, 1999 to March 26, 2000.
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As I plodded along waiting to hear the words, "And done," I thought about Jesus and the disciples during His final days before His resurrection. Every day they would climb the hill over the Mount of Olives and crisscross from Bethany to Jerusalem and back to Bethany. How steep was that incline? I go to breathless and can't talk as I'm climbing. The scenery stays the same for me.
Back and forth they would go though. Jesus ever talking and ever teaching as they climbed the descended the hill. Olive and fig trees lined the path, and the fragrance of olive oil permeated the atmosphere.
I call it Taxing Tuesday.
For Jesus this day, so long ago, came as a day of great confrontation with the religious leaders assembled in Jerusalem. Tuesday was filled with tales of teaching. We call them parables, and Jesus uses them to point out the religious leaders rejection of God's messengers. These tales only add fuel to the smoldering anger in the Pharisees.
Stressful situations, yes Jesus had them also, but in the midst of the stress, the chaos, and the confrontations, Jesus took a moment to observe His surroundings.
Another teaching moment. In the midst of Taxing Tuesday Jesus pauses a moment to memorialize a poor widow and her meager offering. We read this kodak moment from our side of His Story. We will never know her name but she is a giant among the Bible heroes. One day we will meet this precious widow. She will be wearing a robe of righteousness, a crown of beauty, and adorned with grace.
Taxing Tuesday comes to an end, but Jesus had a few more tales to conclude the day.
At the moment Jesus talks of His crucifixion, the priest and elders begin to conspire.
Also at the end of that same day, one of the twelve begins the betrayal.
Taxing Tuesdays. We all have them, but I propose to you that Jesus' Tuesday was the granddaddy of all Taxing Tuesday's. Yet, He still paused to celebrate the unsung heroes of the day.


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Small scale farming is not really in fashion at the moment; food production it is argued, would better be done on a bigger, more efficient scale. In Zimbabwe, where Mr. Zephaniah Phiri, The Water Harvester, lives and works, the take-over and break up of large, commercial farms has been attacked for its disastrous effects on national food production.
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As mentioned in previous posts, I (with the help of some awesome fellow knitters) am knitting the flowers for my wedding in addition to my shrug. This is why I've essentially been away from the blogosphere for the past month or so. That and the other elements of wedding planning and getting ready to move in May. Now I finally have some actual FO flowers worth sharing, so I thought I would.
First is this tulip from Lesley Stanfield's beautiful book 100 Flowers to Knit & Crochet. (she has also made it available in a few other places, one for free!). I think it might be my favourite so far.
So favourited, I had to take several pictures.
An anemone, also from Lesley's book.
This calla lily is another favourite. The pattern is by Cathy Ren.
A peony, also from Leslie's book.
And lastly, a rose. It's this pattern I mentioned in this post.
Two posts a tad close together, I know, but I had to share the fruits of my second day at the Creativ Festival. Pics of my adventures as a model for the Fashion Knits show to hopefully come soon.
Breaking it down, we have the two awesome books I got, more detail in my other post. Both are entirely worth the investment, but I love that I got them at a huge discount from Grantham Books. They're at the festival every year, and I always come home with something. On their site they list other shows they go to as well as permanent locations.
In the foreground you can see some navy blue DK possum merino. That's right, possum. It is made in New Zealand, and available in Canada here, the UK here, and the USA here or here. Apparently, "the possum fur is hollow and, when spun with merino wool, produces a hardwearing yarn with superior heat retaining qualities." Either way, it feels awesome and I am excited to try it. Here's a close-up.
I also picked up some good ol' Berroco Vintage Chunky in white from Creative Yarns. It shall one day (soon) become the shrug for my wedding dress. I'll be using the same pattern as for the one I talk about here.
I also got some neats beads, pendants, and a pair of cool glass earrings at this store's booth.
After much hunting, I was finally able to find a booth that sold Brother equipment for my Brother sewing machine. I got some thread, extra bobbins, a blind presser foot for fancy hems on dresses and dress pants (I have a backlog of stuff to fix…), and a teflon foot and twin needle for sewing onto knitting, so that maybe I can finally get the lining onto my cabled belt from way back.
I especially like the one with the tapered and braided ends. It makes it really easy to wear as a scarf or snood/hood type thing. Gotta remember this design idea for later.
And finally, you may remember Ozzy the Alpaca from yesterday's post. Today, I leave you with a fortune.


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The 1973 Benson & Hedges British Open Championships was held at Abbeydale Park in Sheffield from 27 January - 2 February 1973. Jonah Barrington won his sixth title defeating Gogi Alauddin in the final. This sixth success took him to just one behind the record set by Hashim Khan, but it was also to be the last title victory for Barrington.

Seeds

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Professor Raul Benitez-Manaut
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GIS GUEST EXPERT Raul Benitez-Manaut is a professor and researcher at the North America Research Centre of UNAM-Mexico. He is president of the Mexican NGO Colectivo de Análisis de la Seguridad con Democracia (CASEDE) and was public policy scholar at the Latin American Programme at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington in 1998 and 2003.
He was a visiting professor at the Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia University in 2001 and professor at the School of International Service, American University (2006-2007).
He is a lecturer in political science and international relations at the National University of Mexico UNAM and the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM).
He has a PhD in Latin American Studies at UNAM and a Masters in International Affairs from the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica (CIDE). He has taught as a lecturer at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Dominican Republic and Guatemala; the China Institute for International Strategic Studies, Beijing; the Institute for Developing Studies of Tokyo; the University for Peace in Costa Rica; the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, Costa Rica; the Torcuatto di Tella University in Argentina; the National Defence University, Washington; the Universidad de Valencia, Spain; Georgetown University, Washington; New York University; the Canadian Foundation for the Americas, Ottawa; York University in Toronto and the Carter Centre, Atlanta.
He has published numerous journal articles and chapters of books on matters of Hemispheric Security, the Central American Peace Process, the civil war in El Salvador, national security, geopolitics, and the armed forces of Mexico.
He is the author of the Book La teoria militar y la guerra civil en El Salvador (UCA editores, 1989) and co-author of 13 collective books on security, foreign policy and armed forces.
Raul Benitez has been a member of the Latin American Studies Association since 1987 and the International Studies Association.
Reports of Professor Raul Benitez-Manaut
Analysts – and voters - wonder whether Mexico will sink any lower
Despite an encouraging start to his term just over two years ago, Enrique Pena Nieto is the only Mexican president in the past 25 years to poll at less than 50 per cent approval with the public. His problems include lower oil prices, inadequate tax revenues, organised crime and corruption. ...
Security remains an issue as Mexico and the US improve relations
Trade, investment and education made the headlines when US President Barack Obama and new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto held talks on May 2, 2013. But gun control, drugs and immigration are still key issues for both men and there is a lack of trust between their intelligence communities, which ...
Mexico's next president must deliver on election promises
The mainstay of President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto was a promise to undertake structural reforms to improve the lives of Mexicans throughout the country. In the second of a two-part series on his election, we look at the prospects and obstacles for those reforms, in particular on energy, the labour market, ...
The hopes and fears surrounding Mexico's next president
The election of Enrique Pena Nieto as president of Mexico will reinstate the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) at the head of the country's politics - 12 years after it lost power in 2000. Its reputation then was one of autocracy and corruption, but the newly-elected president has given it a ...
Mexico election: Josefina Vazquez Mota claims women's vote in presidential race
Support for Josefina Vazquez Mota is growing in the race for the next President of Mexico. She has shaken up the election race as the first female candidate selected by a main political party. Her popularity is growing with a campaign focussing on women's liberation as one of the major ...


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Beyonce Accused of 'Extreme Witchcraft' by Ex-Drummer
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Beyonce's former drummer attempted to file a civil harassment restraining order against her. And the reason has to do with witchcraft.
The Blast obtained court documents filed by Kimberly Thompson that claim the pop star has been using "extreme witchcraft, dark magic" to run surveillance and control her finances, as well as conducting "magic spells of sexual molestation" to harass her. As if that's not bizarre enough, she also says the singer killed her pet kitten.
Though it is unclear what prompted the musician to make these claims, she is adamant that Bey is out to get her.
On Wednesday (September 19), Thompson's request for a temporary restraining order was denied, most likely due to the nonsensical nature of her claims.
Thompson worked as Beyonce's drummer for seven years. She also has played with the Fred Armisen-led 8G Band on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this article claimed in the headline that Beyonce had been "slapped with a restraining order." This is incorrect as Thompson's request for a restraining order was denied. We regret the error.
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The last row will always be offset. I tried looking at line heights, heights, widths, line breaks, but to no avail.
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Tinder, the online dating app, is in the hot seat after adding a video to the app that shows an Asian man being rejected.
When logging into the app, Tinder users in Hong Kong were greeted with a short video showing off the app's swiping features, according to Asian news and culture blog Next Shark. The user in the video apparently swipes right on all the prospects presented to her except the Asian man.
A spokesperson for Tinder told HuffPost on Wednesday that the company did not intend to offend anyone with the video and explained that the login video was a part of a temporary test.
Next Shark's Heather Johnson Yu called the video a "very cheap shot at Asian men." Indeed, the video furthered a problematic and false stereotype that Asian men aren't manly or sexually desirable.
These emasculating stereotypes, which are often perpetuated in films and on TV shows, can put Asian men at a disadvantage in dating. One study in 2014 found that Asian men have a harder time with online dating. In a speed-dating study conducted at Columbia University, Asian men also had the most difficulty getting a second date.
Tinder has since pulled the video from its app, but the damage may have already been done in Hong Kong, where users noticed the video.
"This video not only disrespects the market that Tinder seeks to serve, but also reinforces the stereotype Asian men aren't attractive to women," Ariadna Peretz, founder of the Maitre D'ate matchmaking agency in Hong Kong, told South China Morning Post.
The worst part? Peretz said that women in Hong Kong do subscribe to that stereotype and believe that Asian men lack charisma. "The problem is Asian men are dealing with stereotypes that do not represent them fairly," she told the Post.
JT Tran, a dating coach and founder of the ABCs of Attraction, told Next Shark that people can be "anonymously racist" on dating apps, which is why he says Asian men have such a hard time on them.


Thousands of years in the future, the canine population of planet Earth, along with their robot helpers, sit around campfires and tell each other controversial fables about how they owe their ascendance to an extinct and perhaps mythical species of benevolent, if misguided, humans. This bleak, melancholy portrayal of humanity's prospects for survival is unusual, then, not only for its dystopian vision but also for its often pastoral storytelling.
Originally published during the 1940s as a series in Astounding Science Fiction, these eight stories were gathered into a novel in 1952. For the book, Simak made a few revisions and added a framework of "textual commentaries," featuring remarks from canine critics who debate both the meaning of the tales and the likelihood that humankind ever even existed. The stories themselves focus on the role of the (human) Webster family, whose descendants during the course of thousands of years influence the future of humans, dogs, robots, and even ants. The only character common to all the tales is a robot named Jenkins, who serves first human, then canine masters as various threats present themselves over the course of numerous millennia.
The first three tales describe a deteriorating human society that retreats from urban blight and escapes to remote family outposts, relying almost entirely on robots for supplying the labor and on the wired world for communication and supplies. (Simak's prescient vision of the Internet is one of the most hauntingly accurate prophecies in this book.) As a result, many of the earth's inhabitants suffer from agoraphobia--a combination of simple lethargy and a fear of leaving their homes--and this isolation is amplified in the form of nearly immortal human mutants that live entirely on their own, "disdaining all the artificiality of society."
The most memorable (and most original) pair of tales portrays a few humans who venture outside their homes to other worlds and who inadvertently discover a form of nirvana by assuming the genetic makeup of a mysterious, gas-based life-form on Jupiter. Humanity is thus confronted by a choice: either perpetuation of their own species or the allure of paradise under a different guise.
Simak's initially relaxed pace soon surrenders to a more riveting style, especially because the later stories are more interrelated (both by common characters and by plot devices) than the first three almost-standalone tales. The book's underlying hopelessness, which often flirts with a subtle misanthropy, is hard to explain, however; there's no real apocalypse. Instead of doom or destruction, the future of humanity according to Simak is a world of isolation and loneliness, and perhaps that's the most depressing vision of all.
The novel City is actually a collection of framed tales, most of which were published in Astounding as separate short stories. The eight tales are "City" (1944), "Huddling Place" (1944), "Census" (1944), "Desertion" (1944), "Paradise" (1946), "Hobbies" (1946), "Aesop" (1947), and "The Trouble with Ants" (1951). The first seven appeared in Astounding, but Simak was forced to sell the final tale to Fantastic Adventures. Campbell did not like the idea of ants inheriting the earth.
Simak tacked these eight tales on the framework of a legend that Dogs tell "when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north." The story begins in a future when the world has literally gone to the dogs and "Man" has become a myth. The Dogs dispute among themselves about the existence of such concepts as cities, wars, and mankind itself. Could there have been such a perverse creature as Man? Was it possible that, in some primeval time, Man and Dogs were actually friends? In the "Editor's Preface," the Dog reader is cautioned against taking "these tales too much to heart, for complete confusion, if not madness, lies along this road."
On this heavily ironic note, Simak begins his future human history. To add to the fun of the story, each of the tales is preceded by a head note providing satirical, scholarly comments by the Dogs. The arguments are delightfully tongue-in-cheek.
Like most of Simak's serious work, City is saved from the label of "doomsday" literature by its lighter touch. All turns out right in the end. The human race does not really destroy itself, nor does Simak permit the loss of intelligent life on Earth. Humanity is merely shuffled off to a new world, a new frontier where perhaps human ambition and the inevitable human cussedness could begin all over again.


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Plato's stave: academic cracks philosopher's musical code
Historian claims Plato's manuscripts are mathematically ordered according to 12-note scale
Tue 29 Jun 2010 09.21 EDT First published on Tue 29 Jun 2010 09.21 EDT
The research appears to support a previously discredited symbolic, rather than literal, way of reading Plato's great works. Photograph: Greek/Getty Images/The Bridgeman Art Library
It may sound like the plot of a Dan Brown novel, but an academic at the University of Manchester claims to have cracked a mathematical and musical code in the works of Plato.
Jay Kennedy, a historian and philosopher of science, described his findings as "like opening a tomb and discovering new works by Plato."
Plato is revealed to be a Pythagorean who understood the basic structure of the universe to be mathematical, anticipating the scientific revolution of Galileo and Newton by 2,000 years.
Kennedy's breakthrough, published in the journal Apeiron this week, is based on stichometry: the measure of ancient texts by standard line lengths. Kennedy used a computer to restore the most accurate contemporary versions of Plato's manuscripts to their original form, which would consist of lines of 35 characters, with no spaces or punctuation. What he found was that within a margin of error of just one or two percent, many of Plato's dialogues had line lengths based on round multiples of twelve hundred.
The Apology has 1,200 lines; the Protagoras, Cratylus, Philebus and Symposium each have 2,400 lines; the Gorgias 3,600; the Republic 12,200; and the Laws 14,400.
Kennedy argues that this is no accident. "We know that scribes were paid by the number of lines, library catalogues had the total number of lines, so everyone was counting lines," he said. He believes that Plato was organising his texts according to a 12-note musical scale, attributed to Pythagoras, which he certainly knew about.
"My claim," says Kennedy, "is that Plato used that technology of line counting to keep track of where he was in his text and to embed symbolic passages at regular intervals." Knowing how he did so "unlocks the gate to the labyrinth of symbolic messages in Plato".
Believing that this pattern corresponds to the 12-note musical scale widely used by Pythagoreans, Kennedy divided the texts into equal 12ths and found that "significant concepts and narrative turns" within the dialogues are generally located at their junctures. Positive concepts are lodged at the harmonious third, fourth, sixth, eight and ninth "notes", which were considered to be most harmonious with the 12th; while negative concepts are found at the more dissonant fifth, seventh, 10th and 11th.
Kennedy has also found that the enigmatic "divided line" simile in the Republic, in which Plato describes a line divided by an unstated ratio, falls 61.7% of the way through the dialogue. It has been thought that the line refers to the golden mean, which expressed as a percentage is 61.8%.
Copies of the paper have been circulating among senior scholars, who believe Kennedy's argument should be taken seriously.
Professor Andrew Barker, a leading authority on ancient Greek music, said that "the results he's come up with look too neat to be accidental" and that if scholars confirm them, "he will have shown something quite startling about Plato's methods of composition".
Kennedy believes his findings restore what was the standard, mainstream view which held for 2,000 years "from the first generation of Plato's followers, up through the renaissance". This held that "he wrote symbolically and that if you worked hard and became wise you could understand the symbols and penetrate his text to his underlying philosophy." Only in the last few hundred years has an emphasis on the literal meanings of texts led to a neglect of their figurative meanings.
It also explains why it is that Aristotle, Plato's pupil, emphatically claimed that Plato was a follower of Pythagoras, to the bafflement of most contemporary scholars.
The secrecy was because Plato's was "a dangerous idea", claims Kennedy. "It meant that mathematical law governed the universe and not Zeus." Given that Plato's teacher, Socrates, had been executed for sowing impiety among the youth he would have been "very cautious abut revealing doctrines that threaten the gods of Olympus".
For once, Alfred North Whitehead's description of western philosophy as "a series of footnotes to Plato" looks like being an understatement. "We've got some 2,000 pages of Plato," says Kennedy. "We now know that underneath all of those genuine dialogues there's another layer of symbolic meaning. This is the beginning of a big debate. It will take years to make sense of all this."


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Press Release June 8, 2010
Wiley Rein Assists in $59 Million Sale of TechTeam Global Government Unit
Wiley Rein has assisted in the sale of TechTeam Global Inc.'s government solutions subsidiary—TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc.—to Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. for $59 million. Partners William A. Roberts, III, co-chair of the firm's Government Contracts Practice, and Kay Tatum, chair of its Corporate Group, led a team from Wiley Rein that served as TechTeam Global's legal counsel, along with attorneys from Blank Rome. Also on the Wiley Rein team were partner Kevin J. Maynard and associates Jon W. Burd and Tracye Winfrey Howard.
Commenting on the deal, Mr. Roberts said, "When buying or selling an entity that sells to the federal government, well informed companies like TechTeam benefit from engaging lawyers with government contracts expertise who understand the legal issues of risk and contractual coverage."
TechTeam, a worldwide provider of information technology outsourcing, will sell the entirety of its stock in TechTeam Government Solutions, Inc. to Jacobs, one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional, and construction services. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter, pending a TechTeam shareholder vote.
Ranked in the top tier of government contracts practices nationwide by Chambers USA, Wiley Rein's Government Contracts Practice serves as "go-to" counsel for companies with high-stakes business before the federal government. The group often teams with the firm's Corporate Practice on transactional deals and in mergers and acquisitions. Wiley Rein served as lead counsel for a major communications and electronics company's $825 million sale of its government contracting division, and Wiley Rein lawyers drafted and negotiated the acquisition of agreements for a major European aerospace company in its purchases of more than $2.2 billion from major U.S. defense companies.
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The heat invites us to go out on the street to play sports, and it is a good way to get in touch with nature while we exercise. On this occasion to continue gain muscle mass outdoors we will focus on the parks, specifically in the training of bodybuilding that we can carry out in a park.
In the parks, we can find benches, trees, ponds … But there are also stations prepared to train and exercise. Most of them are provided with a series of logs arranged in such a way that will allow us to perform different exercises in the open air as if it were any gym. Parallel bars to do dominated, benches of abdominal … All this is usually what we find in a park and is what we are going to stop to be able to exercise in this environment that will help us evade.
In most of these devices prepared for muscle training, we usually work with our own weight. To achieve the best results we recommend the correct execution of the exercises. Performing each movement slowly and concentrated is one of the best ways to influence more effectively the muscles that we want to work. Therefore, it is very good that we know perfectly the development of each exercise and the part that is going to work, in order to train much better.
We can also use other alternatives like the use of ballasts. In this case, we can use weight bags attached to the waist. We can find them in sports stores or make one simply with a bag full of sand from the park and fastened to the waist for exercises such as those dominated by dorsal or the bottoms of the chest in parallel and triceps.In addition, we can use ankle weights for leg exercises, as this will increase the weight and thus the intensity of exercise.
We on this occasion will highlight a simple general routine to work in an outdoor park.
Side leg set on the bench: We will make it on top of a park bench as a step. With this exercise, we will work the legs in general. What we do will be placed laterally next to the bench. We will go up on the bench the leg that is closest to the bench raising our whole body on the bench. Once up the leg that we had leaning on the bench, we will place it on the ground of the other side and so on.The idea is to make a series of 15 repetitions per side to work thoroughly all the muscles of the legs in addition to coordination.
Front elevations of legs on a bench: For this exercise, we are going to stand facing the bench with our legs together. First, we will raise a leg that we will place on the bench. With this leg, we will raise the whole body. And once we are up, with the leg that is free we will kick back so that we contract all the muscles in this movement. Then we will go down again, and the leg that remains pound we will carry it back until we support it on the ground and we will repeat this sequence again. The ideal is to perform about 4 sets of 15 to 20 repetitions each.
Jumps on the bench: This is also an exercise to work the legs. In this case, we will stand to face the bench with our legs together. Keeping our legs together what we will do will propel us by stopping a bit to jump up on the bench with both legs at a time without separating them. Once we are on the bench we will stretch and from a saint back we will return to the ground again. For this exercise, we recommend 4 sets of about 15 to 20 repetitions.
Pectoral Press: With this exercise, we will work the entire pectoral part. For this, we will rely on a bench or some of the timbers arranged in the area of bodybuilding of the park. What we will do is support the feet by the tips on the ground. With the whole straight body, we will place the open hands at the height of the chest on the bench or the wood and we will realize elevations of the body through the action of the pectoral muscles. We recommend doing 4 sets of about 12 to 15 repetitions each.
Triceps Press: With this exercise, we will focus directly on the triceps and secondarily on the pectoral and deltoid. For this, we will start from the position described in the previous exercise. Except that, on this occasion, the hands will be placed closer to the trunk. Hitting cases almost with the arms in it. The mechanics will be the same, raising the trunk by the action of the arms, in this case, the triceps. We will do 4 sets of 12 to 15 repetitions.
Dorsal Dominated: With this exercise, we will be exercising the dorsal muscles. All of which make up the shoulder and indirectly the biceps. For this, we will use the bar for dominates that we will find in the area of musculación of the park. The mechanics will be the same as in the gym. We will hang from the bar grabbed by the hands that we will place separately or together. Depending on the area that we want to work. In this way what we will do will be to elevate our body through the action of the dorsal. If we separate the hands we will work the outer part more, and if we join them. We will do the internal part. In this case, we recommend 4 sets of about 10 repetitions each. In its defect, we will arrive at the fault.
Biceps dominated: We will work the dorsal inner and biceps. For this, we will perform dominates, like those described above, only, in this case. The grip will be performed together and with the hands upside down, that is, with the palms facing us. The distance between the arms will be small and the legs must be advanced. We will do 4 sets of about 10 repetitions.
Parallel Bending: For this, we will use the parallels that we will find in the park. With this exercise, we will work the lower part of the pectoralis and the triceps. We will place each hand in each of the parallels and leave the body hanging. The only point of support will be the hands. The movement to follow will be lowered to the maximum by bending the elbows and keeping the arms immobile. Then we will raise the body through the action of the triceps and pectorals. We recommend doing 4 sets of about 12 to 15 repetitions.
It is very important to keep in mind that you can perform more exercises than the ones we propose. Which is simply a basic routine to know what to do if we are going to train the park. That is why we encourage you to enrich everyone with other types of exercises that we know to Gain Muscle and that may be of interest to us.
Let's not forget that when training outdoors we must protect ourselves from the sun. For this, we recommend a perfect hydration. And if it can be through isotonic drinks better than better to get the minerals we lose through sweat. The skin will be protected by the use of protective creams. The same will do with the head. The use of caps or a handkerchief will avoid overexposing the head to the effect of the sun.


The human story that turns against herself: forced migrations.
Humanity became humanity when she rose up and started walking, following the rhythms and flows of the natural world.
The first migrations were forced by the changes that occurred in the relationship between humans and the natural world. These changes in turn affected and transformed the relationships between humans and humans and those relationships in turn affected the natural world.
Our skin, our pigment, tells the story of longer and shorter stays along the longitudes and latitudes of the world. Movement was indispensable till someone, a woman or women, more than likely, among the humans took note of the seeds and caught them at the headwaters of the natural world.
My ancestors walked toward the horizons cut by the rising and falling of the sun. The earth tilted for its seasonal bows to the sun, creating longer and shorter days, shifting the human settlements.
Human movement has been an indicator of social, economic and cultural development. The only borders the earliest human migrations knew were bio-regional, geophysical and followed the movements and migrations of other earthly species who were more in tune with the gravity of the world.
Migration is a shared story among all two-legged, four-legged and other species who like humans were connected to the magnetic fields of life herself.
Along with movement and migrations, all species share the water to live and procreate life and her cycles and her plants and offerings among species to share the energy of the constellations of earthly life in all her shapes and forces. Movement, water and plants are now subjugated to the dominant industrial modes of human settlements.
To be human is to be a nomad.
The most human of humanity today are migrants, who have been forced to leave or flee for their lives, to survive. They are a cosmic spiral of sorts who link us to our first ancestors, who changed their relationships and became more human by walking together.
Today, to become human and to become more human, means that we stand up with migrants, that we walk with migrants and become migrants omce again in the long arc of humanity's unfolding of her humanity.
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Shadow Tyrants: Clive Cussler (The Oregon Files #13)
By Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison. 2018
Adventure stories, Suspense and thrillers
Only Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon stand between two warring moguls and global havoc in this thrilling…
suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men--and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind. Soon, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives aboard the Oregon find themselves trapped between two power-hungry adversaries, both of whom are willing to use shocking means to accomplish their goals.

Cabrillo and the team must divide and conquer as they fight dual threats, which include a supercomputer at sea and satellites that can wipe out technology across the globe--including the high-tech weapons on board the Oregon. The crew must rely on their unique skills to stop the tyrants in their tracks and save the earth from a dynasty of terror.
A New York Times Bestseller
Clive Cussler's the Devil's Sea (Dirk Pitt Adventure #26)
By Dirk Cussler. 2021
Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New…
York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler.

 In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait.

 Only someone else is after it, too…a rogue Chinese military team that makes their own earthshattering discovery, hijacking a ship capable of stirring the waters of the deep into a veritable Devil's Sea. From the cold dark depths of the Pacific Ocean to the dizzying heights of the Himalaya Mountains, only Dirk Pitt and his children, Summer and Dirk Jr., can unravel the mysteries that will preserve a religion, save a nation…and save the world from war.
Shock Wave: A Novel (Dirk Pitt Ser.)
By Clive Cussler. 2002
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A hundred and forty years after a British ship wrecks on the way to an Australian penal colony and the…
survivors discover diamonds on the tropical island where they wash up, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica with a party of passengers after their cruise ship seemingly abandons them.Dirk Pitt, on an expedition to find the source of a deadly plague that is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea, finds Maeve and the passengers and rescues them from death. When Pitt later uncovers the cause of the plague, he discovers that Maeve's father, Arthur Dorsett, and her two sisters are responsible because of their diamond-mining technology. A deadly race develops to stop Dorsett from continuing his murderous mining operations and to head off a disaster that will kill millions. Pitt's struggle to foil Dorsett's ruthless plan to destroy the market for diamonds and thus gain a monopoly of his own takes him from harrowing adventures off the west coast of Canada to being cast adrift in the Tasman Sea.
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Odessa Sea: Dirk Pitt #24 (Dirk Pitt #24)
Dirk Pitt responds to a mysterious Mayday signal from a deserted ship that will draw him toward a deadly secret…
leftover from the Cold War arms race in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

 Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent Mayday—"Under attack!"—from a nearby freighter. But when he and his colleague Al Giordino arrive, there is nobody there. Just dead bodies and a smell of sulfur in the air. As Pitt and Giordino explore, a blast from the stern scuttles the ship swiftly, almost taking them with it.
 The more the two of them search for the secret of the death ship, the deeper they descend into an extraordinary series of discoveries. A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. A brilliant developer of advanced drone technology on an unknown mission. Modern-day nuclear smugglers, determined Ukrainian rebels, a beautiful anti-terrorism agent from Europol—all will combine to present Pitt with the most dangerous challenge of his career.
 And not only Pitt. His two children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are exploring a mysterious shipwreck of their own, when they are catapulted into his orbit. The three of them are used to perilous situations—but this time, they may have found their match.
 Filled with breathtaking suspense and remarkable imagination, Odessa Sea is further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
A New York Times Bestseller
Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt Ser.)
Tracking a notorious Chinese smuggler's activities leads Dirk Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is constructing a…
huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location? The trail then leads to the race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the ship that Chiang Kai-shek filled with treasure when he fled China in 1949, including the legendary boxes containing the bones of Peking Man that had vanished at the beginning of World War I. As Pitt prepares for a final showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered...
Turn-of-the-century detective Isaac Bell pursues a blood-thirsty bank robber—and perhaps one of the world's first sociopaths—in the first novel in…
the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In 1906, the western states of America suffer a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of "The Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man it can find: a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers from coast to coast. But Bell has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues a fiend who seems to draw pleasure from the challenge and a woman who may to hold the key to the man's identity. As Bell begins to suspect a new term used among top psychologists, sociopath, may describe his target, the Butcher Bandit turns the chase around on him. The hunter becomes the hunted. And soon, it will take all of Bell's skills not merely to prevail . . . but to survive. Filled with intricate plotting, Cussler's signature dazzling set pieces, and not one but two extraordinary villains, The Chase is the master working at the height of his powers.
Sahara (Dirk Pitt #11)
Suspense and thrillers
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe eleventh classic Dirk Pitt novel, where the adventurer is drawn…
to a secret in the burning African desert, which could destroy all life in the world's seas.Deep in the African desert, Dirk Pitt discovers that a top secret scientific installation is leaking a lethal chemical into the rivers, threatening to kill thousands of people - and to destroy all life in the world's seas.To warn the world of the catastrophe, Pitt must escape capture and death at the hands of a ruthless West African dictator and French industrialist, and undertake a long, perilous journey across the merciless Sahara...'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Dragon (Dirk Pitt #10)
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe tenth action-packed thriller in the classic Dirk Pitt series, where…
the adventurer must foil the deadly conspiracy of a group of Japanese nationalist fanatics.Buried in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Japan, lies one of the greatest drowned secrets of World Wart Two - a crashed B-29 Bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in 1945.Its deadly cargo, lost in the sea for nearly fifty years, is at the heart of this classic Dirk Pitt thriller, in which a small group of Japanese nationalist fanatics, dreaming of a new Nipponese Empire, set out to neutralise and blackmail the USA - with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country's major cities...'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Treasure (Dirk Pitt #9)
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe ninth gripping thriller in the classic Dirk Pitt series, where…
the adventurer finds himself in a deadly battle against the darkest forces of international terrorism.'On behalf of a grateful nation I wish to thank you for this astonishing gift...'The President of the United States had reason to be grateful. Dirk Pitt had unearthed the greatest storehouse of knowledge in the ancient world: the Alexandria Library.The trail began in a lonely fjord in Greenland. It ended on the banks of the Rio Grande. In between Pitt had frustrated an assassination, rescued a hijacked liner, survived a deadly gun battle and halted an invasion.A gripping, action-packed story by a master of the craft.'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Inca Gold (Dirk Pitt #12)
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe twelfth hair-raising Dirk Pitt thriller, which sees the adventurer hunt…
for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold, before the richest prize known to man is lost forever.A call for help from a stricken archaeological expedition brings Dirk Pitt to a sacred well, high in the Andes. There he confronts a band of ruthless art thieves, who plunder ancient sites for their precious artefacts.But soon Dirk Pitt faces even graver danger, as he searches for a lost Spanish galleon and hunts for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold. And in a desperate race against time, Pitt must track down a sacred site - before the richest prize known to man is lost to the world forever...'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Shock Wave (Dirk Pitt #13)
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe thirteenth adrenaline-filled Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the…
adventure novel, Clive Cussler.A hundred and forty years after a British ship wrecks on the way to an Australian penal colony and the survivors discover diamonds on the tropical island where they wash up, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica with a party of passengers after their cruise ship seemingly abandons them.Dirk Pitt, on an expedition to find the source of a deadly plague that is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea, finds Maeve and the passengers and rescues them from death. When Pitt later uncovers the cause of the plague, he discovers that Maeve's father, Arthur Dorsett, and her two sisters are responsible because of their diamond-mining technology. A deadly race develops to stop Dorsett from continuing his murderous mining operations and to head off a disaster that will kill millions. Pitt's struggle to foil Dorsett's ruthless plan to destroy the market for diamonds and thus gain a monopoly of his own takes him from harrowing adventures off the west coast of Canada to being cast adrift in the Tasman Sea.'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Mayday! (Dirk Pitt #2)
Adventure stories, War stories
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe amazing second Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the…
adventure novel, Clive Cussler.----------------------------------------Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his lumbering amphibious plane over the islands of the Aegean. Brady Air Force base was under fire, its entire force of jets destroyed on the ground . . . by just one First World War bi-plane!A psychotic ex-Nazi, a bloodthirsty Greek strongman and a beautiful double agent set Pitt on the trail of the warped mastermind behind a devastating sabotage plot. And on that trail, danger and death are never far behind . . .**********'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Raise the Titanic! (Dirk Pitt Adventure #3)
The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk…
Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century...
The Chase (Isaac Bell #1)
A remarkable adventure from the limitless imagination of Clive Cussler. For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels…
filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years. April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three people who died forty-four years before. But it is neither the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next.... 1906: For two years, the western states of America have been suffering an extraordinary crime spree: a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of "The Butcher Bandit," the U.S. government brings in the best man it can find-a tall, lean, no-nonsense detective named Isaac Bell, who has caught thieves and killers from coast to coast. But he has never had a challenge like this one. From Arizona to Colorado to the streets of San Francisco during its calamitous earthquake and fire, he pursues what quickly becomes clear to him is the best criminal mind he has ever encountered, and the woman who seems to hold the key to the man's identity. Using science, deduction, and intuition, he repeatedly draws near, only to grasp at empty air, but at least he knows his pursuit is having an effect. Because his quarry is getting angry now, and has turned the chase back on him. The hunter has become the hunted. And soon, it will take all of Bell's skills not merely to prevail ... but to survive. Filled with intricate plotting, Cussler's signature dazzling set pieces, and not one but two extraordinary villains, The Chase is the master working at the height of his powers.
Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down
General fiction, Suspense and thrillers
When some of the top thriller writers in the world came together in THRILLER: STORIES TO KEEP YOU UP ALL…
NIGHT, they became a part of one of the most successful short-story anthologies ever published. The highly anticipated THRILLER 2: STORIES YOU JUST CAN'T PUT DOWN is even bigger. From Jeffery Deaver's tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson's dysfunctional family in the California wine country to Ridley Pearson's horrifying serial killer, this collection has something for everyone. Twenty-three bestselling and hot new authors in the genre have submitted original stories to make up this unforgettable blockbuster. Turn off your phone. Shut down your computer. Say goodbye to your friends and family. Be prepared to read for days.
Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt #14)
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe fourteenth incredible Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the…
adventure novel, Clive Cussler.Tracking a notorious Chinese smuggler's activities leads Dirk Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location? The trail then leads to the race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the ship that Chiang Kai-shek filled with treasure when he fled China in 1949, including the legendary boxes containing the bones of Peking Man that had vanished at the beginning of World War I. As Pitt prepares for a final showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered...'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Treasure of Khan
By Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler. 2006
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Genghis Khan almost conquered the world. Now, one man wants to finish the job-unless Dirk Pitt can stop him.
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Celtic Empire (Dirk Pitt Adventure #25)
Clive Cussler, "The Grand Master of Adventure," sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest…
mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.

The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. . .

A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. . .

An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. . . Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago.During what was supposed to be a routine investigation in South America, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt finds himself embroiled in an international mystery, one that will lead him across the world and which will threaten everyone and everything he knows--most importantly, his own family.

Pitt travels to Scotland in search of answers about the spread of an unknown disease and the shadowy bioremediation company that may be behind it. Meanwhile, his son and daughter face a threat of their own when the discoveries they have made in an Egyptian tomb put killers on their trail.

These seemingly unrelated riddles come together in a stunning showdown on the rocky isles of Ireland, where only the Pitts can unravel the secrets of an ancient enigma that could change the very future of mankind.
A New York Times Bestseller
Poseidon's Arrow (Dirk Pitt #22)
"Dirk Pitt is oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones," praises the Associated Press. "Exotic locations, ruthless villains and many narrow escapes--Cussler's…
fans come for swashbuckling [and] he delivers. " And now the Cusslers bring us Pitt's most dangerous adventure of all. It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades--an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. Nothing else in any other nation's naval arsenal even comes close. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype is missing--and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes bodies are found aboard... burned to a crisp. What is going on? And what does it have to do with an Italian submarine that itself disappeared in 1943, lost at sea? Or was she? It is up to NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team, aided by a beautiful NCIS agent and by Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, to go on a desperate international chase to find the truth, from Washington to Mexico, Idaho to Panama. What they discover at the end of it is a much, much greater threat than even they imagined. If they don't succeed in their mission, the world as they know it might end up a very different place--and not a pleasant one. Filled with breathtaking suspense and extraordinary imagination,Poseidon's Arrow is further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
Havana Storm: A Dirk Pitt Adventure
Renowned marine adventurer Dirk Pitt returns to stem a toxic outbreak in the thrilling novel from the grand master of…
adventure and #1 New York Times–bestselling author. While investigating an unexplained poisonous spill in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Dirk Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous—a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that stone was believed to have been destroyed on the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, which brings them both to Cuba as well—and squarely into harm's way. The whole Pitt familyhas been in desperate situations before . . . but perhaps never quite as dire as the one facing them now.From the Hardcover edition.
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If you have never been a part of a POLO event before, we want to invite you to join us for dinner and drinks as we kick off the fall together with a "Parent's Night Out".
POLO is a group of parents who started getting together after realizing that all of us felt a common isolation in this unique time of life. Dinner, drinks, movies, parks, crafts, team trivia, group projects, birthday parties, this year we've discovered that it doesn't really matter what we do together. Simply having a group of friends whose lives are as ridiculous and messy as ours is a gift to us and our kids. Therefore we want to share and always be inviting others like you to join us too.
Our main gathering each month, when we drop off the kids at childcare and dinner provided by SCPC and walk to dinner & drinks together at a different local restaurant each month. There is no program (religious or otherwise) to attend. The goal is simply to get to know each other better, share our stories, and build friendships in this unique time of life.
During the summer months join us for ... POLO in the Park!
What: A BBQ & potluck fellowship in the park with the whole family.
Something for your family to grill & drink.
A side dish to share.
Church will provide grilling items, utensils, plates, etc.
Who: Any families with a child 6 or under. Feel free to invite any parents who could use a group of friends like ours.
You MUST register (forms here) before arriving. This helps us prepare child care, emergency info & dinner for the little ones.
Consider the LOGOS Program if you have children over 6.
Childcare is limited to children 6 and under. If you also have older children consider enrolling them in SCPC's LOGOS program, a ministry for 1st-8th grade. Please be advised, this is not a drop in program. Participation in LOGOS is expected each week, not only on POLO nights. Program info & registration paperwork can be found here.
On the last Tuesday of each month all POLO men are invited to share a drink, food and some games at Champs Downtown (139 S Allen St.). Please RSVP to Mike Ozaki beforehand so reservations can be made.
Who: Anyone who calls themselves dad and could use a night out.
Each month the moms get together to do something, anything that seems fun. Past activities have been seeing the movie "Bad Mom", wine and snacks party, crafting at "The Makery", make up bachelorette party for 1 member of the group. No rules, just enjoying each other's company with a little creative catharsis.


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