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Podcast Shakespeare
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Here you'll find my ongoing list of sources, from academic journals to TV productions. I'll update this regularly (so it currently only focuses on parts that I have covered), but consider all parts of it a work in progress.
With a thousand thanks to the National Library of Australia and the libraries of Australian National University, Canberra, and the University of Melbourne. Also ever grateful to the State Library of Victoria, and the library services of the City of Melbourne and City of Port Phillip.
Key for multimedia:
d: director; w: writer; p: producer; s: starring; c: conductor; m: music; l: lyrics; b: book (musical)
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric (eds); William Shakespeare: Complete Works; Royal Shakespeare Company, 2007, Hampshire: Macmillan
Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric; Sewell, Jan; Sharpe, Will (eds); William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays; Royal Shakespeare Company, 2013, Hampshire: Macmillan
Irving, Sir Henry (ed); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Also His Life, His Will, and an Introduction to the Plays; 1926, Cleveland: World Syndicate Company Inc.
Wells, Stanley; Taylor, Gary; Jowett, John (eds); The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works (2nd ed.); 2005, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
If you're serious about Shakespeare studies, academic journals are the way to go. Many can be accessed through reliable library websites such as JSTOR and Project MUSE. Individual access will set you back a fair amount, but check with your local, state, or national library. In Australia, for instance, anyone can get a library card to the National Library and access such resources from home. Some are only accessible, unfortunately, through universities, which usually restrict e-resources to actual students and staff, not external members. Still, there is a lifetime of deeper reading available for the armchair scholar. (And it's always grand to read the highs and lows of critical eras gone by.)
Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation, twice-yearly (2005 – present), published by the University of Georgia English Department
The Shakespeare Association Bulletin, 24 vol (1924-1949), published by Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare Bulletin, quarterly (1982 – present), published by Johns Hopkins University Press
Shakespeare Quarterly, quarterly (1950 – present, following on from The Shakespeare Association Bulletin), published by the Folger Shakespeare Library and Johns Hopkins University Press. Still the high water-mark for Shakespeare studies, the first 62 years are available at JSTOR while new articles are released for those lucky ducks with access to Project MUSE.
Shakespeare Studies, annual (1973 – present, published by Boston University)
Shakespeare Survey, annual (1948 – present), published by Cambridge University Press
The Shakespeare Yearbook, annual (1990 – ??), published by Texas A&M University – I can't find this anywhere as of 2017, so wondering if this has ceased publication.
The Upstart Crow, annual (1980 – 2012), published by Clemson University
Abbott, E.A.; A Shakespearian Grammar (3rd ed.); 1886, London: Macmillan and Company
Abrams, M.H. (ed); The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1 (6th ed.); 1993, New York: W.W. Norton & Company
Ackroyd, Peter, Shakespeare: The Biography, (Chatto & Windus, 2005)
Armstrong, E.K.; Shakespeare's Imagination; 1946, London: Lindsay Drummond Ltd.
Armstrong, Jane; The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany; 2001, London: Methuen
Asimov, Isaac; Asimov on Shakespeare (2-vol);1978, Avenel
Astington, John H., Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time: The Art of Stage Playing (Cambridge, 2010)
Auden, W.H.; "The Joker in the Pack" in The Dyer's Hand; 1963, London: Faber & Faber
Baldwin, T.W; William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke (2-vol); 1944, Urbana: Illinois
Baldwin, T.W, On the Literary Genetics of Shakespeare's Poems and Sonnets (Urbana, 1950)
Baldwin, T.W., On Act and Scene Division in the Shakespeare First Folio (Urbana, 1965)
Baldwin, T.W., Shakespeare's Five Act Structure (Urbana, 1947)
Barber, C.L., Shakespeare's Festive Comedy; 1959, Princeton
Bate, Jonathan; Shakespeare and Ovid; 1993, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Bate, Jonathan, The Romantics on Shakespeare (Harmondsworth, 1992)
Bate, Jonathan; The Genius of Shakespeare, 1997, London: Picador
Bate, Jonathan; Jackson, Russell; Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History; 1996, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Beauman, Sally, The Royal Shakespeare Company: A History of Ten Decades (Oxford, 1982)
Berry, Cicely; The Actor and the Text; 2000, New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Bevington, David; Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience; 2005, Oxford: Blackwell;
Blake, N.F.; Shakespeare's Non-standard English; 2004, London: Thoemmes Continuum
Blanpied, John W., Time and the Artist in Shakespeare's English Histories (University of Delaware Press, 1983)
Bloom, Harold, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human; 1998, New York: Riverhead Books
Bloom, Harold (ed.); William Shakespeare: Comedies; 2009, New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Bogdanov, Michael; Shakespeare: The Director's Cut (combined edition); 2003, Capercaillie Books
Bogdanov, Michael; Pennington, Michael; The English Shakespeare Company: The Story of the "Wars of the Roses", 1986-1989; 1992, London: Nick Hern Books
Booth, Stephen; King Lear, Macbeth, Indefinition and Tragedy; 1983, Yale University Press
Boose, Lynda E. & Burt, Richard (ed), Shakespeare the Movie: Popularising the Plays on Film, TV and Video, 2 vols (London and New York, 1997)
Borges, Jorge Luis; Fables; trans. James Irby in Labyrinths: Selected Stories and other Writings; 1964, New York: New Directions
Bradley, A.C.; Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth; 1904, Macmillan, republished 2007, Palgrave
Bradshaw, Graham; Shakespeare's Scepticism; 1987, Brighton: Harvester Press
Brockbank, Philip (ed); Players of Shakespeare 1; 1988, Cambridge University Press
Brook, G.L.; The Language of Shakespeare; 1976, John Wiley & Sons
Bryson, Bill; Shakespeare: The World as Stage; 2007, United Kingdom: Harper Press
Bullough, Geoffrey; Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, Volume One: Early Comedies, Poems, Romeo and Juliet; 1957, New York: Columbia University Press
Burgess, Anthony; Shakespeare; 1970, London: Jonathan Cape
Callaghan, Dympna; A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare; 2000, New York: John Wiley & Sons
Carroll, William C., The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (Princeton, 1985)
Cartelli, Thomas, "Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness and Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI" in Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England, ed Richard Burton and John Michael Archer (Cornell University Press, 1994)
Cavell, Stanley; Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare; 1987, Cambridge University Press
Cercignani, Fausto; Shakespeare's Works and Elizabethan Pronunciation; 1981, Clarendon Press
Chambers, E.K.; William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (2-vol); 1930, Oxford
Cheney, Patrick ed, The Cambridge Companion to Shakepseare's Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Clarke, Mary Cowden; The complete concordance to Shakespeare; 1881, London: Bickers & son
Collins, Michael J. (ed), Shakespeare's Sweet Thunder: Essayso n the Early Comedies (Newark, 1997)
Cotrave, John; The English Treasury of Wit and Language; 1655, published online at http://shakespeareauthorship.com/cotgrave/; Accessed May 2017
Cousins, A.D. et al; The Shakespeare Encyclopedia; 2009, Sydney: Global Book Publishing
Cowden Clarke, Mary; The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines; 1850, republished by Cambridge, 2009
Crystal, David and Ben, Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companino (2002)
Dent, R.W., Shakespeare's Proverbial Language: An Index (1981)
Dessen, Alan C., "Stagecraft and Imagery in Shakespeare's Henry VI", Yearbook of English Studies 23 (1993)
Dobson, Michael and Wells, Stanley, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 201)
Dromgoole, Dominic; Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life; 2007, London: Penguin
Duffin, Ross W.; Shakespeare's Sogbook; 2004, New York: W.W. Norton & Company
Duncan-Jones, Katherine; Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life; 2010, London: Methuen
Dutton, Richard, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life (Macmillan, 1989)
Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E.; A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III: The Comedies; 2003, Oxford: Blackwell
Eagles, Jonathan, Watching Shakespeare: A Theatregoer's Review of the RSC, 1980-95 (1997)
Empson, William, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1935, rev 1953)
Friedman, Winifred H., Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery (New York, 1976)
Frye, Nothrop, A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean Comedy and Romance (New York, 1965)
Gay, Anne, As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women (1994)
Goddard, Harold C.; The Meaning of Shakespeare (2-vol); 1951, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Greenblatt, Stephen; Shakespeare's Cure for Xenophobia; The New Yorker, June 2017
Greenblatt, Stephen; Will in the World; 2004, New York: W.W. Norton & Company
Hazlitt, William; Characters of Shakespear's Plays; 1906, London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Greer, Germaine, Shakepeare's Wife (2007)
Grote, David, The Best Actors in the World: Shakespeare and His Acting Company (2002)
Gurr, Andrew, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London (Cambridge, 1992)
Gurr Andrew, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642, 3rd edn (Cambridge, 1992)
Hall, Edward, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustrious Families of Lancaster and York (1548)
Hazlitt, William, The Round Table and Characters of Shakespear's Plays, ed. Catherine M. Maclean (1906)
Henslowe, Philip, Henslowe's Diary, ed. R.A. Foakes and R.T. Rickert (Cambridge, 1961)
Hinman, Charlton, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakesepare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1963)
Holinshed, Raphael, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, 2nd edn (1587)
Hyland, Peter, An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems (Palgrave, 2003)
Jones, Emrys, The Origins of Shakespeare (Oxford, 1977)
Kastan, David Scott (ed.), A Companion to Shakespeare (Oxford, 1999)
Kermode, Frank; Shakespeare's Language; 2001, London: Penguin
Knight, G. Wilson; The Wheel of Fortune: Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tragedy; 1930, London: Methuen
Kendall, Gillian Murray, "Lend me thy Hand: Metaphor and Mayhem in Titus Andronicus", Shakespeare Quarterly 40, no. 3 (Autumn 1989)
Kermode, Frank, Shakespeare's Language (Penguin, 2000)
King, T.J., Casting Shakespeare's Plays: London Actors and their Roles, 1590-1642 (Cambridge, 1992)
Kirsch, A.C., Shakespeare and the Experience of Love (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
Knight, G. Wilson, The Mutual Flame: On Shakespeare's Sonnets and 'The Phoenix and the Turtle' (1955)
Knight, G. Wilson, The Imperial Theme: Further Interpretations of Shakespeare's tragedies including the Roman plays (1931)
Kott, Jan, Shakespeare Our Contemporary
Lamb, Charles and Mary, Tales from Shakespeare (1909)
Mahood, M.M. (Molly), Shakespeare's Wordplay (1957)
Mahood, M.M.; Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare; 1998, London: Routledge
Mangan, Michael, A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies (Longman, 1996)
Marlowe, The Complete Poems and Translations, ed. Stephen Orgel (Harmondsworth, 1971)
Marrapodi, Michele (ed), Shakespeare's Italy (Manchester, 1993)
Miola, Robert S. (ed) "The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays" (Garland, 1997)
Muir, Kenneth, The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays (New Haven, 1977)
Nuttall, A.D., Shakespeare the Thinker (New Haven, 2007)
Ovid, Metamorphoses (trans. Arthur Golding), ed. John Frederick Nims (New York, 1965)
Ovid, Heroides, trans. Grant Showerman (1914)
Partridge, Eric; Shakespeare's Bawdy; 1968, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Pendleton, Thomas A., ed: "Henry VI: Critical Essays" (Routledge, 2001)
Plutarch, Lives (trans. Bernadette Perrin, 1914-26)
Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (trans. Sir Thomas North), 1579
Rubinstein, Frankie, A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and their Significance, 2nd edn (New York, 1995)
Schiffer, James, ed. "Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays" (Garland, 1999)
Schoenbaum, Samuel, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (Oxford, 1975)
Schoenbaum, Samuel, Shakespeare's Lives, rev. edn (Oxford, 1991)
Shapiro, Michael, Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare's Times and their Plays (New York, 1977)
Shaw, George Bernard, Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings on the Plays and Production of Shakespeare, ed. Edwin Wilson (New York, 1961)
Sidney, Philip, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, ed. Maurice Evans (1977)
Silverbush, Rhona; Plotkin, Sami; Speak the Speech! Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated; 2002, New York: Faber and Faber
Smith, Bruce, Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics (Chicago, 1991)
Spevack, Marvin, A Complete and Systematic Concordance to the Works of Shakespeare, 9 vols (Hildesheim, 1968-80)
Stern, Tiffany, Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (Cambridge, 2009)
Suetonius, The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, trans J.C. Rolfe (1914)
Taylor, Gary and Wells, Stanley, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford, 1987)
Thompson, Ann, Shakespeare's Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins (New York, 1978)
Tillyard, EMW, Shakespeare's History Plays (1944)
Tillyard, E.M.W; Shakespeare's Early Comedies; 1965, London: Chatto and Windus
Tillyard, EMW, Shakespeare's Early Comedies (Chatto & Windus, 1965)
Vickers, Brian (ed.); Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage (6-vol); 1974-81, Routledge
Wells, Stanley; Shakespeare & Co; 2006, London: Penguin
Wells, Stanley, Re-Editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader (Oxford, 1984)
Wells, Stanley (ed), Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Burlesques (1977)
Willis, Susan, The BBC Shakespeare Plays: Making the Televised Canon (Chapel Hill, 1991)
Wilson, Christopher; Shakespeare and Music; 1922, reprinted 1977, New York: Da Capo Press
Wilson Knight, G.; The Wheel of Fortune: Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tragedy; 1930, London: Methuen
Woodhuysen, H.R; Norbrook, David (ed.); The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse; 2005, London: Penguin
Ashley, Mike, Shakespearean Whodunnits: Murders and Mysteries Based on Shakespeare's Plays; 1997, London: Robinson Publishing
Burgess, Anthony; Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life; 1964, London: Penguin
Nye, Robert; The Late Mr. Shakespeare; 1998, London: Allison & Busby
The Dresser. d: Peter Yates, w: Ronald Harwood, s: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay. Columbia Pictures, 1983
The Dresser. d: Richard Eyre, w: Richard Eyre après Ronald Harwood, s: Ian McKellen, Anthony Hopkins. BBC, 2015
Shakespeare in Love. d: John Madden, w: Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. Miramax Film Corp and Universal Studios, 1998, DVD
Shakespeare Wallah. d: James Ivory, w: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Merchant Ivory Productions, 1965
In Search of Shakespeare. Michael Wood. PBS, BBC-TV, 2004
Playing Shakespeare. d: John Carlaw and Peter Walker, w: John Barton, p: Andrew Snell. BBC-TV, 1982, DVD
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.p: Renat Zinnurov. BBC-TV, Soyuzmultfilm, 1992-1994
Shakespeare's Songbook: Ballads, Rounds, Ayres & other Songs from the Plays of William Shakespeare (2 vol); p: Ross W. Duffin; 2004, Cleveland: Azica Records
Bernard Shaw, G.; Shakes versus Shav: A Puppet Play; 1953, Lanchester Marionettes
Harwood, Ronald; The Dresser; 1980, Amber Lane Press Ltd.
Robinson, Keith; Taylor, Tony; The Popular Mechanicals; 1992, Currency Press
Diana, pastoral romance by Jorge de Montemayor
Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric, (eds); The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The RSC Shakespeare, 2001, Basingstoke: Macmillan
Bergeron, David M.; "Wherefore Verona in The Two Gentlemen of Verona?" in Comparative Drama 41.4, Dec 22, 2007
Bond, R. Warwick (ed.); The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Arden Shakespeare, First Series, 1906, London: Methuen.
Brooks, Harold F; "Two clowns in a comedy (to say nothing of the dog): Speed, Launce (and Crab) in The Two Gentlemen of Verona" in Essays and Studies. XVI: 91–100; 1963.
Carroll, William C. (ed.); The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, 2004, London: Thompson Learning.
Crawford, Julie; "The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies" in Dutton v.3, 2003
Elyot, Sir Thomas, The Governour Bk II, Ch XII (Titus and Gisippus), 1531 in Bullough v.1
Gervinus, G.G.; "Second Period of Shakespear's Dramatic Poetry: The Two Gentlemen of Verona" in Shakespeare's Commentaries, F.E. Bunnett (ed.), AMS Press, 1971
Guare, John; MacDermott, Galt; Shapiro, Mel après Shakespeare, William; Two Gentlemen of Verona; 1973, New York
Hunter, G.K.; John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier; 1962, Cambridge, Mass.
Leech, Clifford (ed.); The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Arden Shakespeare, Second Series, 1969, London: Methuen
Lyly, John, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, 1579 in Bullough v.1
Masten, Jeffrey; The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in Dutton v.1, 2003
de Montemayor, J; Diana Enamorada, trans: B. Yonge, 1598, in Bullough v.1
Quiller-Couch, A; Dover-Wilson, J; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; New Cambridge Edition, 1921
Rivlin, Elizabeth; Mimetic Service in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, in Bloom: Comedies
Rossky, William; "The Two Gentlemen of Verona as burlesque" in English Literary Review 12, 1982
Sanders, Norman (ed.); The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The New Penguin Shakespeare, 1968, London: Penguin.
Schlueter, June (ed.); The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Critical Essays; 1996, New York: Garland.
Schlueter, Kurt (ed.); The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The New Cambridge Shakespeare, 1990, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stephenson, W.E.; "The Adolescent Dream-World of the Two Gentlemen of Verona"; Shakespeare Quarterly vol. 17
Simmons, J.L.; "Coming Out in Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona" in English Literary History 60, 1993
Taylor, Keith; The Banished Men in Ashley, 1997
Wells, Stanley; "The Failure of The Two Gentlemen of Verona" in Shakespeare Jahrbüch, 1963
The Two Gentlemen of Verona; d: James Sandoe; Oregon Shakespeare Company, 1957 Audio recording
The Two Gentlemen of Verona; d: George Rylands; Marlowe Shakespeare Company, 1959 Audio
MacDermot, Galt; Guare, John après William Shakespeare; Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1971 Original Broadway Cast, (C) 2002 CD, Decca
The Two Gentlemen of Verona; d: Don Taylor, p: Shaun Sutton; BBC-TV (1983), 2005 DVD
The Two Gentlemen of Verona; d: Clive Brill; Arkangel Shakespeare, 2006 CD
The Two Gentlemen of Verona; d: Simon Godwin; Royal Shakespeare Company, 2014 DVD
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Sony wins E3 2014: Microsoft gambled on games, and lost; Nintendo did better than expected (updated)
By Sebastian Anthony on June 11, 2014 at 8:15 am
Updated @ 8:15am June 11: This story has been expanded to include feedback from Nintendo's E3 Digital Event. The original story, about whether Sony or Microsoft won E3, has been left mostly untouched.
At its press conference last night, Sony casually sauntered on stage, slipped its hands nonchalantly into its pockets, offered up an expressive French shrug, and won E3 2014. Microsoft and its legion of fans could do nothing but look on with envy as Sony unveiled hit after hit for the PS4. For all of Microsoft's talk about games, the only platform exclusive that might be a critical success — Halo 5 — was reduced to a 60-second-long pre-rendered clip. The Division looked fantastic, but it's a cross-platform game. There were some smaller, art game-like titles that looked good — but nothing that Microsoft felt warranted more than a scant few seconds of gameplay footage. Sony, on the other hand, essentially showed off everything a gamer could want at E3: A new white PS4 (to celebrate the release of Destiny); a release date for PS Now and the PlayStation TV streaming box; more details about the Morpheus VR headset; the beautiful art game No Man's Sky; and actual in-game/in-engine footage from two massive exclusives (LittleBigPlanet 3, Uncharted 4) and many more smaller titles (No Man's Sky, a remake of Grim Fandango).
Nintendo, with what appeared to be in-engine footage of the upcoming Wii U Zelda title and some fun new IP called Splatoon, actually did surprisingly well. If Nintendo can deliver on its promise of an open-world, Skyrim-like Zelda title, then we could be looking at a massive hit. Likewise, Splatoon looks like it will be the funnest new game to be revealed at E3 this year. But that's a lot of ifs and buts: I am a lot more confident that Uncharted 4 and LittleBigPlanet 3 will actually be awesome, as opposed to possibly awesome.
With all that said, it's not unusual for one of the console companies to come out ahead at E3 — but this isn't just Sony winning by a nose; it's a landslide, and such huge disparities are rare at E3. How did Microsoft get it so wrong? And what can Nintendo do to stay in the game?
"Today we are dedicating our entire briefing to games," began the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, to huge cheers from the E3 2014 audience. But, if you put all of your eggs in one basket, you better be damn sure that you have a very strong basket — and Forza at 1080p and a pre-rendered clip of Halo 5 do not a strong basket make.
The question is, why did Microsoft decide to make games the focus of its E3 presentation, even when it knew it had nothing big to show off? Bear in mind that Microsoft almost certainly knew about all of the games that Sony intended to display, and so it knew full well that it was going to be eviscerated by core gamers for a weak showing.
But… what else could Microsoft do? Following its backtracking of every single policy and feature that made the Xbox One unique, all that's left is games. After de-bundling Kinect, Microsoft couldn't then take to the stage at E3 and show off some amazing Kinect-based game. Likewise, in the words of our associate editor James Plafke, Microsoft couldn't really show off another peripheral such as IllumiRoom after the Kinect debacle.
Microsoft could've showed off a new console, though — if it rushed a cheap, slim version of the Xbox One, that would've given gamers something to talk about. Or it could've announced some exciting updates to the Xbox One dashboard. Or it could've re-introduced digital game sharing, or something else equally crazy.
Presumably, Microsoft figured if it focused on just one thing — games — it actually stood a chance at beating Sony at something. Now that Sony has shown its gaming hand, we know that isn't the case. In short, games were the crux of Microsoft's E3 presentation, and thus games were the crux of its failure.
Nintendo: Quirky as always
Like last year, Nintendo instead opted for a pre-recorded presentation instead of a flashy main-stage E3 event. As it turned out, this was a savvy move that kept expectations low and increased the impact of some fairly big games. The Wii U Zelda title, Super Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2, and the new IP of Splatoon were all quite impressive. That Nintendo chose to unveil them in a series of quirky interviews and claymations was an interesting choice, but the overall impression is that Nintendo had a strong E3.
Nintendo has always relied on killer games to sell consoles — and right now, the Wii U only really has two games that make the console worthwhile (Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario 3D World). Individually, almost all of the games shown off by Nintendo at E3 2014, if they're as good as Nintendo promises, would be reason enough to buy a Wii U. Personally I bought the Wii for Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess, and I would buy the Wii U for Zelda — if it delivers. Judging by the Wii U, I doubt I'm alone in that thinking — and likewise, I suspect Nintendo is counting on it.
Unfortunately, though, the Wii U Zelda game still isn't due until 2015 at the earliest — and Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors aren't due until the holiday season, either. Nintendo definitely put in a good showing at E3 this year, but I suspect it's a matter of too little too late. Life-long Nintendo fans will pick up the console to play their favorite franchises, and Splatoon might bring in a little new blood, but we're not going to see a crazy resurgence in console sales.
Swaggering Sony
While Microsoft's E3 presentation was full of obsequiousness — "you are shaping the future of Xbox, and we are better for it," said Xbox's Phil Spencer — Sony oozed confidence; the kind of confidence that comes from knowing that you almost have the eighth generation of the console war sewn up. Sony already had the lead in sales and consumer confidence, but it needed this E3 to show gamers that it can capitalize the advantage — by golly, that's exactly what Sony did.
Not only did Sony beat Microsoft in the primary arena of games, but it also won the secondary conflicts by default because it didn't focus solely on games. PlayStation TV (previously Vita TV), PS Now, and the white PS4 are all very cool additions that will only increase Sony's sales lead. Perhaps this is Microsoft's biggest problem coming out of E3 2014: The only real thing that will drive more Xbox sales is Halo 5, while Sony announced at least three or four games that are have the potential to become Game Of The Year. There's a possibility that Sunset Overdrive — the only original IP announced by Microsoft — will become a runaway hit, but I still think Sony is in the lead by some margin.
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You probably know that it is easy to embed Youtube videos on your website. Youtube provides an embed code for each and every one of its videos, and all you need to do is to copy/paste the code to your site. Now, what if you just want to embed only the audio part of the video? There's actually a workaround that allows you to embed only the audio part of a YouTube video. Follow along to learn how.
1. Head over to YouTube and find the video (or audio) that you want to add to your website.
2. Once you are on the video page, note down the ID of the video you want to embed.
3. In the following code, replace "VIDEO-ID" with the ID of the YouTube video that you noted down in the previous step.
5. Place the code in your website's file and load the page. You will see that it does not load the video player anymore. Instead, it only loads the music control for you to control the audio part of the actual video.
data-autoplay - if you set this to "1", the audio will start playing as soon as the page loads.
data-loop - if you set this to "1", the audio will play in a loop (just like how you play a YouTube video in a loop).
This should come in handy for you if you happen to embed only music tracks on your website and most of those are available on YouTube.
While YouTube doesn't give you the embed code to embed the audio part of a video, you can make one yourself with the YouTube API using the above method.


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We looked inside some of the tweets by @VictorFoote5 and here's what we found interesting.
Let's quit talking the talk and start walking the walk. If crimes against the President have been committed start the legal process and start indicting people. If not , S.T.F.U. It's getting old and an insult to all Americans.
Liberty loving patriots everywhere owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, and Mark Meadows. Despite enormous obstacles placed in front of them by the Left, & their media chums, they refused to give up on uncovering the biggest political scandal of our time.
I'm sorry to say this travesty has just begun. The perpetrators of this heinous crime against the President and the American people must be held accountable. Heads must roll. Let the tribunals begin.
I want my country back NOW !!!
Let's not jeopardize innocent lives here. Very complicated situation. Just cut off all federal funding , ALL of it , to sanctuary cities. I'm for deporting all ILLEGALS out of country.
Omar , AOC and all the other extremists on the left side of the isle are a complete and total embarrassment to the American political system. It is an attempted coup and should be stopped at all costs.
Elijah Cummings is looking for his 15 min. of fame. He's not the brightest bulb on the X-mas tree and is solely seeking revenge for the Right exposing his lack of fact checking abilities. Eliar Cummings.
If the Presidents Counsel does not seek to indict those who fabricated the Russian Collusion story we got a major problem with our judicial system. Indict them or S.T.F.U. Sincerely Constitutional Conservative.
Being able to make a free throw isn't being smarter. Their putting to much unnecessary pressure on themselves.
Somebody please tell me what's really going on in D.C. ? Is this debacle ever going to end ? Where are we going with this ?
Right NOW I'm almost ashamed to call my self an American. The Democrats have gone insane and the Republicans can't or won't do anything about it. Stop the finger pointing and start enforcing the LAW.
This is why we love our JOKER.
He makes $1 a year , so he's made almost $2.50 so far. I'll pay it if its ok with the President. Democrats need to get a life , seriously. Isn't it a felony to threaten the President ? Dems. doing it every day.
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As a result of the project, 80 people with disabilities have received jobs or have received support for self-employment within the tourism industry.
Lebanon's tourism sector still does not comply with standards of accessibility for persons with disabilities because many decision makers within the tourism sector have not yet recognized the importance of doing so.
The Inclusive Tourism Project improves accessibility and inclusion standards at four popular tourist sites: The Old Market of Byblos City, the beach of Tyr, the Shouf Biosphere Reserve and guest house, and the historic fort of Baalbek. The project consists of a combination of architectural modules, training workshops for staff, and technical consultations to integrate accessibility on the sites. Actions include building ramps, improving access, and creating brail and audio support for persons with various disabilities.
Another objective of the project is to allow persons with disabilities to participate as employees and business entrepreneurs. Persons with disabilities were offered assessment sessions and were then supported by intensive, rapid vocational training to prepare them to enter the tourism labour force. This resulted in 50 people receiving jobs with tourism companies and 30 securing material support for launching self-employment projects in the field of tourism, such as establishing beach kiosks for selling food and drinks in the above-mentioned sites.
The project's first year has had a positive impact on the commitment of public and private-sector stakeholders towards supporting the adoption of an inclusive tourism policy, and has resulted in the endorsement of the Beirut Declaration as the first national document on inclusive tourism in Lebanon.
The project is in the process of being replicated by the Ministry of Tourism in Lebanon. Consultations with LPHU are taking place to benefit from the project's modules and strategies for adopting inclusive tourism standards in other regions around the country, starting with the renovation of other sites in the ancient city of Baalbek.
The Inclusive Tourism Project is funded by civil society (founders, friends, grants, crowd funding, etc.) and within the framework of the AFKAR 3 programme – an EU-funded programme working on defining a strategy for dialogue and cooperation between the public sector and civil society to improve the protection of human rights.
All produced modules, training workshops, and technical consultations are currently offered for free, and LPHU is evaluating strategies to make the project self-sustainable soon.


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Masters Field Set at 86 Players, Rory McIlroy Now Favored Over Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods
Posted on: April 2, 2019, 01:00h.
Last updated on: April 1, 2019, 01:23h.
The 2019 Masters field is all but set at just 86 players. Only the winner of this week's Valero Texas Open in San Antonio can additionally qualify for golf's first major of the year.
Rory McIlroy is the odds-on favorite to win the Masters next week in Georgia. (Image: Andrew Redington/Getty)
At 8/1, Rory McIlroy is now the frontrunner, but Dustin Johnson (10/1) and Tiger Woods (12/1) are lurking. With a green jacket, McIlroy, 29, would complete the career grand slam and claim his fifth major in his hall of fame career.
Bettors who take the 8/1 odds and risk $100 will net $800 should Rory sit down with Jim Nantz in the Butler Cabin Sunday evening. DJ is also seeking his first green jacket, while Woods is chasing his fifth Masters title and 15th overall major – but his first in more than a decade.
Kevin Kisner – who won the World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play on Sunday after topping Matt Kuchar – is at 60/1 to win his first major.
I don't think I played my best all week, really," Kisner said Sunday evening. "I feel like I just did what I needed to do."
A Kisner Masters win would net bettors $6,000 for every $100 risked. Kisner has just one sub-70 round out of 12 trips around Augusta National. His best finish (T28) came a year ago.
Lucas Bjerregaard, who beat Woods in match play but lost to Kisner in the final, is at 150/1 in his Masters debut.
Former Champions
Winners of the Masters receive lifetime invitations to drive down Magnolia Lane in early April. Along with Woods, there are 19 other players with green jackets in their wardrobes who will tee it up on April 11.
They include defending champion Patrick Reed (50/1), Bubba Watson (25/1), Sergio Garcia (25/1), and Phil Mickelson (30/1).
In his first Masters in three years, Woods finished T32 in last year's tournament. He's played well since, winning The Tour Championship to close the 2018 PGA Tour season, and making all five cuts in the five tournaments he's entered in 2019. His best finish came over the weekend when he finished T5 at the match play.
Some of the older winners with longer odds include fan-favorite Freddy Couples (500/1), two-time winner Jose Maria Olazabal (3000/1), and Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, and Ian Woosnam at 5000/1.
Entry into the Masters is by invite only. In addition to lifetime exemptions for winners, invites go out to the world's top 50 ranked golfers, five-year exemptions for winners of the other three majors, the current US Amateur champion and runner-up, and winners of PGA Tour events over the last 12 months.
Once in, the Masters is considered the easiest of the four tournaments to win due to its small field size. That is especially true this year, as at just 86 players the field will be the smallest since Woods won his first green jacket back in 1997.
The field sizes of the US Open, PGA Championship, and Open Championship are all 156 players – or 70 more than the number of players who are invited to Augusta, Georgia, in 2019.
Masters Odds: Tiger Woods Favorite in Bunched Leaderboard Heading Into Weekend Play
Bettors Backing Dustin Johnson for US Open at Pebble Beach, Koepka, McIlroy, Woods Trail Closely
WGC, PGA Championship Odds Shorten on Dustin Johnson Following Canadian Open Win
Masters Week: Odds Favor McIlroy, DJ, Rose, and Woods for Golf's First Major of 2019
Masters Odds Favor Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, and Jordan Spieth, Sportsbooks Win on Tiger's Withdrawal


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79th Board Meeting of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
Press Release 21.03.2019
The Board of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) held its 79th meeting today.
WKCDA's Chief Executive Officer Mr Duncan Pescod reported that progress of the M+ Project has continued at a good pace with the new Management Contractor. It is anticipated that all the remaining civil and structural works will be completed in the coming few months. The opening of the museum now looks likely to be end of 2020 or early 2021.
The Art Park has been granted all the necessary permits and licences, which allowed us to open a second phase of the Promenade area and the area near the dry river bed. Freespace, located centrally in the Park, has completed the statutory inspection process and is anticipated to have the soft opening in May.
Located in the West Kowloon Cultural District (West Kowloon) waterfront promenade, "Growing Up", the winning pavilion design of the first WKCDA Young Architects & Designers Competition, was opened on 28 February 2019 and will be open to the public for at least six months. The Pavilion enjoys stunning harbour and sunset views, responding to its location as part of the fabric in West Kowloon. This is the first public art and design installation in the West Kowloon.
There will be a series of M+ events and programmes throughout the Art Basel Hong Kong week. M+ is organising the M+ Human Library from 27 to 31 March 2019, borrowing the concept of the 'human library', where stories and experiences are shared through conversations. The Library offers two types of 'reading' experiences: 'Dialogue with M+ Staff' and 'A Walk with Creatives', where people can spend time with our staff members or engage with some of the creative practitioners we work with. We hope that through interacting with the 'human books' that are part of the museum, the public can understand the museum better.
M+ will also be premiering Cheng Ran and Shao Yanpeng's live cinema event M+ Live Art: Miraculous Trajectories, which is a new 70-minute film with a live electronic soundtrack on 29 March 2019.
Meanwhile, M+ will be announcing the shortlist of finalists for the Sigg Prize on 29 March 2019. The award will be given to an outstanding artist working in the Greater China region, including Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, later this year.
Members also noted that over 2,800 people joined the last Freespace Happening of the season on 9 and 10 March 2019. Freespace Happening will return later in the year under a new format and with new performers.
In May 2019, WKCDA will welcome the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe with the complete series of Four Dreams in the Camellia Hall, a Kunqu production rarely staged in its entirety, at the Grand Theatre in the Xiqu Centre. Written by the influential Ming dynasty playwright, Tang Xianzu, the collection includes four classic plays: 'A Pair of Purple Hairpins', 'The Peony Pavilion', 'A Dream Under the Southern Bough' and 'The Tale of Handan'.
In May and June 2019, the renowned Shanghai Pingtan Troupe will present Gao Bowen performs Blossoms in the Tea House Theatre. It is a four-part adaptation of the award-winning novel by Shanghainese author Jin Yucheng in the traditional Pingtan form. Singing in Mandarin, Shanghainese and Suzhou dialects, artist Gao Bowen brings to life an intricate tale and showcases the unique charm of this narrative musical tradition.
WKCDA recently participated in the Hong Kong Trade Development Council Education & Careers Expo 2019 for the second year in a row. We have also taken part in various Campus Career Fairs in the past months including The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University. Over 800 potential recruits visited our booths at the Expo and campus career fairs.
In addition to the West Kowloon corporate website, we continued boosting our employer brand via social media platforms to cater for younger people, millennials and job seekers in the digital age. Conventional channels, like newspapers, are also used to cover more traditional audiences.
Mr Pescod was pleased to report that between 15 and 24 March 2019, West Kowloon presented the third garden display ─ 'Freespace in Blossom' at the Hong Kong Flower Show 2019 in Victoria Park. It took home the Grand Award for Design Excellence (Landscape Display).
About West Kowloon Cultural District
Located on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, West Kowloon Cultural District is one of the largest cultural projects in the world. Its vision is to create a vibrant new cultural quarter for Hong Kong. With a complex of theatres, performance spaces and museums, the West Kowloon Cultural District will produce and host world-class exhibitions, performances and cultural events, as well as provide 23 hectares of public open space, including a two-kilometre waterfront promenade


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Chinese Regime Brings Back Public Humiliation by Parading COVID-19 Rule Breakers in Southwest China
By Alex Wu
Alex Wu
Alex Wu is a U.S.-based writer for The Epoch Times focusing on Chinese society, Chinese culture, human rights, and international relations.
A video circulating on Chinese social media shows people being paraded in the street for violating the Chinese regime's pandemic regulations. The extreme measure of public humiliation caused wide criticism online.
On Dec. 28, a video was circulated on YouTube and other mainland social media platforms showing four people in white protective clothing and masks, with placards displaying their photos and names hanging on their chests. Each was held by two police officers who were also wearing full protective gear as they were walked along the street surrounded by people and armed riot police.
Local people confirmed the incident to the Chinese language Epoch Times on Dec. 29 that there was indeed a parade of public shaming. One resident said that the location of the parade was Tunpan Township in Jingxi County of Baise City in Guangxi Province.
An online video shows the humiliation parade in Guangxi.
A villager in Tunpan Township told this publication that the people being paraded were from Vietnam. One of whom had tested positive for COVID-19 and quarantined for more than 20 days. "After they were out of quarantine, they were paraded on the streets. This is the first time I have seen such public humiliation here in my life. They risked everything just to survive."
Some netizens revealed online that the small town is on the border between China and Vietnam. Four people were suspected of crossing the border. Among them, two Guangxi men were suspected of driving two Vietnamese men across the border and into China. They were intercepted by the police while heading to Nanning, the provincial capital of Guangxi. One of the Vietnamese men tested positive for COVID-19. Both were charged with illegally crossing the border and obstructing the prevention and control of infectious diseases.
The parade has caused an uproar on the internet. Many think that such an extreme measure is inappropriate. The Jingxi City Public Security Bureau and the Anning local government later responded that this was an on-site disciplinary warning activity, the punishment was as required, and there was nothing inappropriate. Jingxi Public Security also said on Dec. 28 that four people were suspected of smuggling people into China.
The Chinese language Epoch Times called the Guangxi Baise CDC to inquire about the incident, but the call was unanswered.
This publication also called the government official hotline in Baise, Guangxi and the CDC in Jingxi County, but staff members said that they knew nothing about it.
According to a commentator's article published on Dec. 29 in Mainland China's "Beijing News," in 1988, China's Supreme Court, the Supreme Procuratorate and the Ministry of Public Security had issued the "Notice on Resolutely Stopping Convicted and Undecided Criminals from Being Paraded."
Li Yanjun, a citizen of Guangxi, said, "What the Communist Party says about governing the country by law is nonsense, and it's all a lie. Is this law? The Chinese Communist Party has always been lawless, and it uses the means of struggle and persecution like what happened in the Cultural Revolution to scare the people and make everyone afraid: 'You run and this is the consequence.'"
Commentator Wen Xiaogang told the Chinese language Epoch Times that such behavior is a humiliation to human beings, and even if these people commit crimes, they shouldn't be treated that way. This looks like mainland China has gone back several decades and returned to the "Cultural Revolution" era.
Luo Ya, Hong Ning and Liu Yi contributed to the report.


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Finally the night has arrived! All the little witches can fly to witch mountain and participate in the big dance. However you have to watch out for the little thunder witch, because her broom is a bit slow and her wand keeps shooting thunder by accident.
Skunks are famous for clearing rooms. If you want a table at a trendy and crowded restaurant, for example, you know to bring a skunk along with you in order to clear the room. In-laws won't leave the table after Thanksgiving? Better break out the skunk.
Want to be as strong, brave and glorious as the knight Richard Ritterschlag? To become a knight, all knaves first have to master regal tasks and prove that they have good intuition. Your task is to seek out giants, dragons, witches, and other dangers!
The monster bakers are hard at work in the kitchen – but to be honest, they're all terrible bakers, filled more with enthusiasm and drive than baking talent. Thus, you need to help them assemble the ingredients they need in order to complete the cakes on order!
In Fire Dragon Valley, it's bubbling dangerously underground. After a thousand years, the mighty volcano Rubino is once again on the brink of an eruption! The dragon riders can hardly wait, as according to an old legend, precious dragon rubies will burst out of the Rubino.
Master builder Matt is the head of the large construction site and there are lots of things to do! He has many plans for the colorful houses that have to be built today. The children help Tim the laborer transport new building blocks from the quarry to the construction sites.
Munchkin is a satirical card game based on the clichés and oddities of Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games. Each player starts at level 1 and the winner is the first player to reach level 10.
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In Mice and Mystics players take on the roles of those still loyal to the king – but to escape the clutches of Vanestra, they have been turned into mice! Play as cunning field mice who must race through a castle now twenty times larger than before.
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Hello once again today I present to you Dreadfleet by Games Workshop.
This has been my main project for the last few months. Tried out some new techniques and a few new products. Overall my impression of this kit is very impressive and daunting. The level of detail is great and each ship is unique in it's color scheme.
I hope you enjoy the hard work that went into painting this set.
Wow... just... wow. I had no idea how big a project this was! I think this is the first fully painted Dread Fleet I've ever seen outside of the studio!
The water is brilliant, the glowing eyes in the skulls is great, and each ship is beautiful!
The Mechanical octopus is hands down my fave! Stellar work all around WC!


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In this edition of Hockey 101, a look at the best players currently in the NHL.


Personal narratives in high school and college are often assigned in MLA format. Here are useful tips on how to write this kind of papers.
Do not include a title page unless it is required. Just write your name, the name of your teacher, date, and type of assignment at the beginning of your first page, above the title.
Use Times New Roman font, 12 pt, and double-spacing.
Set your margins on all sides to 1 inch.
Use the tab key to indent your paragraphs.
Include a page number in the upper right corner. Before the number, write your last name.
Do not include the author's name and year of publication in parentheses. In a personal essay, it looks out of place. Weave the author's credentials into the fabric of your narrative in a casual way, as it was done in the example above. You may not mention the year at all.
If you use any quotations, list your sources on the "Works Cited" page according to general MLA rules. If you do not have any quotes, you do not need this page either.
Write in the first person: "I". Avoid too much "hiding" in a group ("we") or shifting to the second person ("you"). Tell your reader what you were actually feeling, not what you think others would feel.
Do not try to sound "academic". Use the language you would normally use in speech.
Be clear and specific. Ideally, you should not tell your readers what happened but show it, painting a picture with words.
Choose emotional, dynamic words. Consider adding few idioms or a bit of slang to make your story more vivid.
Start a new paragraph every time you introduce a new location, event, or a direct speech by another person.
You may use present tense to describe events in the past so your readers will feel as though they witness them happen. Just be consistent with it. An occasional slip into the past tense can ruin the whole impression.


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Oohs and Aahs of July Releases for End of Summer Clash
We're moving toward the end of summer...but there's still plenty of time to check out these great new releases! This month's CLASH OF THE TITLES runs the gamut from debut authors to tried and true fav authors--from history to mystery...Suspense! Contemporary Romance! Sailing! Cowboys! Novella to full-length - something for everyone.
Come join us on this latest Clash of the Title competition. Vote for the next book you are desperate to add to your reading list...and don't forget to leave a word of encouragement.
This CLASH VOTE lasts until midnight August 27--that's next TUESDAY.
The author with the most votes will be announced on August 29 -- THURSDAY! Make sure you come back then to meet the author and read more about the winning title.
Stalking Willow, by Fay Lamb
Trailed by a stalker in New York City, Willow Thomas, a young ad executive, scurries back to her small North Carolina hometown and the lake house where ten years earlier a scandal revealed her entire life had been a lie and a seed of bitterness took root in her soul. The cocoon of safety Willow feels upon her arrival home soon unravels when she meets opposition from her family, faces the man she left behind, and the stalker reveals he is close on her heels.
Miss Fishfly, by Linda Glaz
Searching for love everywhere but in the right places, Christie Hayes is confounded when chocolate brown eyes wink at her at her best friend's wedding. A narrow miss of the bedpan, and she discovers old Mr. Hartway's grandson, Colton Keller, and brown eyes are one in the same.
A Lady of Quality, by Louise M. Gouge
Catherine Du Coeur is determined to uncover the truth about wealthy Lord Winston, who falsely accused her father of treason. Baron Lord Winston has had little success in finding an accomplished aristocratic bride who is suited to his diplomatic aspirations, but when he meets Miss Du Coeur, a countess's lowly companion, he finds that family connections are far less important than matters of the heart.
Becalmed, by Normandie Fischer
Tadie Longworth doesn't spend much time worrying that she's turning into one of Beaufort, North Carolina's, spinsters with her gift shop full of her own jewelry designs and a sweet little sailboat to take her mind off the guy who got away. But now Will's back with a daughter and a ship to repair so he can sail—straight out of Tadie's life.
Rodeo Regrets, by Shannon Taylor Vanatter
After Lane Gray broke her heart Natalie Wentworth made a game of lassoing one cowboy after another with no strings attached. Nine years later, irresistible cowboy Lane Gray is a changed man and wants Natalie's forgiveness-and more.
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Scotland, Food, Romance, God--Four Greats, One Novel. Five Days in Skye.
Didn't manage that Scotland get-away this summer? No worries. You can travel there now, through the pages of Laureano's latest novel, Five Days in Skye.
A recent COTT clash participant, this "delicious" romance is a whirlwind trip you won't want to miss!
Five Days in Skye
by Carla Laureano
About Five Days in Skye
Hospitality consultant Andrea Sullivan has one last chance to snag a high-profile client or she'll have to kiss her dreams of promotion good-bye. When she's sent to meet Scottish celebrity chef James MacDonald on the Isle of Skye, she just wants to finish her work as efficiently as possible. Yet her client is not the opportunistic womanizer he portrays himself to be, and her attraction to him soon dredges up memories she'd rather leave buried.
For James, renovating the family hotel is a fulfillment of his late father's dreams. When his hired consultant turns out to be beautiful, intelligent, and completely unimpressed by his public persona, he makes it his mission to win her over. He just never expects to fall under her spell.
Soon, both Andrea and James must face the reality that God may have a far different purpose for their lives—and that five days in Skye will forever change their outlook on life and love.
Carla Laureano has held many job titles--professional marketer, small business consultant, and martial arts instructor--but writer is by far her favorite. She currently lives in Denver with her patient husband and two rambunctious sons, who know only that Mom's work involves lots of coffee and talking to imaginary people.
Carla spends her free time hanging out on her blog and social media. Connect with her here:
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"Five Days in Skye is at turns sweet and scathing, lush and intimate... This story has guts and heart as well as the depth and heat necessary to satisfy any romance reader's palate." – Serena Chase, USA Today
"What a delicious discovery! Carla Laureano's Five Days in Skye swept me away to the Scottish Isles and into the wounded hearts of the impeccably cool Andrea Sullivan and the charismatic charmer Jamie MacDonald. This is a romance to savour from beginning to end. The funny and feisty first interaction between this pair sucks you in and as the story and characters develop you will have no desire to leave as they wrestle with doubts, prejudice, preconceptions, and sparkling attraction. What I loved most was the substance to this story – this is no marshmallow romance – but a love story that is intriguing and real… In a world replete with romantic clichés, Carla's writing is so very refreshing!" – Rel Mollet, Relz Reviewz
"The storytelling, characters, and setting all served to drag me so deeply into the world of Skye that for days after finishing the book I felt a huge, gaping hole… If you love exotic places, larger-than-life leading men, and romances that warm you to your very core, Five Days in Skye is the perfect getaway for a hot summer afternoon. Prepare yourself to read late into the evening and night as putting down the novel will be next to impossible." – Elizabeth Olmedo, Radiant Lit
"From the sceneries, to the refined cuisine, every detail of the land is sketched with precision and care, embarking readers on an unforgettable journey that will leave them breathless for more. Laureano not only seems to have a knack for breathing life into a place few of us truly know, but also for breathing life into characters that will take you by the hand and run away with you."—Amazon reader review
"The setting was inviting and gorgeous. The characters, especially the hero, felt real and had fully-rounded back stories. Of course, there was a lot of chemistry and fun, but I was drawn in by the deeper themes of making peace with the past and trusting God with the future as well." –Amazon reader review
"While I was reveling in luscious details and having a grand time, Laureano managed to remind me that life is about more than working hard to earn good things. Taking a moment to breathe, to lift your head and appreciate creation, to let go of mistakes you've made and allow people to love you--all these gems are embedded in the pages of Five Days in Skye. You'll come away from this novel refreshed and craving good food, good times and the company of loved ones." –Amazon reader review
Grace's Pictures by Cindy Thomson
Welcome! Today we are taking a look at recent Clash Contender, Grace's Pictures by Cindy Thomson. First, take a look at that gorgeous cover! Love it! Now "turn the book over" to read the back cover blurb:
Grace's Pictures
Grace McCaffery hopes that the bustling streets of New York hold all the promise that the lush hills of Ireland did not. As her efforts to earn enough money to bring her mother to America fail, she wonders if her new Brownie camera could be the answer. But a casual stroll through a beautiful New York City park turns into a hostile run-in with local gangsters, who are convinced her camera holds the first and only photos of their elusive leader. A policeman with a personal commitment to help those less fortunate finds Grace attractive and longs to help her, but Grace believes such men cannot be trusted. Spread thin between her quest to rescue her mother, do well in a new nanny job, and avoid the gang intent on intimidating her. Grace must put her faith in unlikely sources to learn the true meaning of courage and forgiveness.
A review from the Library Journal
Irish immigrant Grace McCaffery came to New York City for a better life. She takes a job as a nanny to make enough money to bring her mother over from Ireland. When her employers are slow to pay her, she decides to take her new Brownie camera and earn some extra income by selling her photos. A trip to the park puts Grace in danger when she photographs some local gangsters, raising the attention of policeman Owen McNulty. But Grace, who was taken by police to the workhouse when she was a child, has a distrust of men in uniform. Still, she never expects to find one so kind—or attractive. VERDICT Thomson (Brigid of Ireland) has penned a delightful story of overcoming obstacles. Lynn N. Austin fans will savor this historical series debut.
Another in-depth and very positive review can be found here.
Gotta see more? You can purchase Grace's Pictures on Amazon and read a preview right now!
Cindy Thomson is a writer and an avid genealogy enthusiast. Her love of history and her Scots-Irish heritage have inspired much of her writing, including her Ellis Island series with Tyndale House. Cindy is also the author of Brigid of Irelandand Celtic Wisdom: Treasures from Ireland. She combined her love of history and baseball to co-author the biographyThree Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story, which was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research's Larry Ritter Book Award. In addition to books, Cindy has written on a regular basis for numerous online and print publications and is a mentor for the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild. She is also a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and the Historical Novel Society. Cindy and her husband have three grown sons and live in central Ohio. Get to know Cindy at her blog, on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Pinterest.
Click here for a great interview with Cindy on Tyndale's website.
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The Winner of the June New Releases Clash is...
The winner of our latest Clash is:
A Melody For James
Hallee Bridgeman
Congratulations, Hallee!
Special thanks to her competitors for their participation:
Carla Laureano
Cindy Thomson
Miralee Ferrell
About A Melody For James:
Solitary strangers meet during a stormy stopover. Hours later, their hearts hum a harmonious duet.
Melody Mason has the hottest female voice in the country music scene. But the cheers of throngs of adoring fans mean little in the absence of the handsome stranger who rescued her years before. Widower James Montgomery has never forgotten her. He prays God can bring her back.
Incredible events finally bring them face to face again. Together at last, they realize the bond between them has miraculously risen to a crescendo, melodiously marrying them like strong symphonic chords. Uncannily, they learn they share more in common than they could have ever imagined. They know God reunited them for a purpose.
Sinister forces threaten to destroy their new found happiness. The couple must work in close concert, placing all their faith in God as they solve the deadly mystery that ties their lives inexplicably together.
Fire, loss, and bloodshed cannot shake their faith in God to see them through as they face a percussive climax that leaves hearts and lives forever changed.
Hallee Bridgeman lives with her husband and their three children in small town Kentucky. When she's not writing Christian romance novels, she blogs about all things cooking and homemaking at Hallee the Homemaker (http://www.halleethehomemaker.com).
Hallee started writing when her oldest child and only daughter was a baby, but a busy professional career and being the wife of a deployed soldier had her shelve her books for another time. Two more children, a cross country move, and God's perfect timing brought the books off of the shelf to be dusted off and presented to you now.
Join Hallee's Street Team -- Hallee's Allies -- find all of the information here: http://www.bridgemanfamily.com/hallee/i-want-you-to-join-hallees-allies/
Hallee loves coffee, campy action movies, and regular date nights with her husband. Above all else, she loves God with all of her heart, soul, mind, and strength; has been redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ; and relies on the presence of the Holy Spirit. She prays her books are a blessing to you and would love to hear back from you. You can reach Hallee at hallee@bridgemanfamily.com
This book has affected me on so many levels. I am so moved by it that I don't know where to begin this review. Me, who is usually never stuck for words! To say I'm stunned is an understatement. Friends, brothers and sisters, I never say I'm stunned by a book. Never. But I'm saying it now.
This is as taut a thriller as ever I've read. It's hard hitting and doesn't flinch from the bad stuff. Like any contemporary thriller, it's full of surprises. Explosions, bombs, bullets, missed connections, it's all there. What's not there is explicit sexual description and what is definitely not there is profanity. What a refreshing change! Hallee Bridgeman has gone and proved that you don't have to write dirty to get people's attention. That a book can thrum with sexual tension without a bed in sight. That actual evil and hatred can manifest itself on the printed page without a single swear word. And I truly believe, as a person who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that God raised him from the dead, that this can only be accomplished by the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Hallelluia!
I praise and thank God for the gift of Hallee Bridgeman to readers, for her awesome talent and generosity of spirit in sharing this wonderful story. The Spirit of God is definitely present here and the Word of God and it's vibrant power is continuously present.
The plot, James and Melody's story, how they meet at a juncture of their lives and fall in love, to be reunited again several years later, is compulsive and will please readers of romance. The intrigue regarding the enemies who surround them will please the readers of thrillers. How this couple walk in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, fearing no evil will please spirit filled Christian believers. It is so true - if you live in the Word of God and the Word in you, no weapon formed against you shall prosper and ever tongue which rises against you shall be condemned.
Heavenly Father, I pray this wonderful novel will be read far and wide and help increase the faith of believers everywhere and bring faith to people who don't know the Lord. In Jesus' Name, Amen!
~From Contemporary Romance Reviews (http://rbh-contemporary.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-melody-for-james-by-hallee-bridgeman.html)
Click here to see the author discuss the book herself!! http://youtu.be/np3EQK3VFh4
Thank you all so much. This has been a tremendous clash! Join us again for our July New Releases, coming soon! :)


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Must Own Albums: Best of British part 2
May 22, 2016 / James Fenney
T Rex – Electric Warrior
Although mainly known as a singles band, T Rex had their share of influential albums. Electric Warrior marked a shift from the band's folk origins and ended up pioneering glam rock and making Marc Bolan a musical icon. It spawned one of the band's best selling singles 'Get It On'. Bolan's simple yet theatrical songwriting is simply superb. Bold, bonkers and brilliantly British.
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
Composed by one of the world's greatest guitarists Mark Knopfler, Brothers in Arms went on to top the album charts all around the globe. It remains one of the best selling albums in history with over 30 million copies sold. It's easy to see why with the rock'n'roll of 'Walk of Life', the smooth sax of 'Your Latest Trick' and the instantly recognisable riff of 'Money for Nothing'.
The Kinks – The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Having already established themselves as one of the most important rock bands of the sixties and releasing a string of best selling singles, the band tried something a little different for the last album with the original line-up. The album was amongst the first concept albums and focuses on a series of vignettes of old fashioned English traditions. Although it sold poorly at the time it has since come to be considered their best work.
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
At the time this was one of the most ambitious albums ever produced. Young Mike Oldfield, who was only 19 at the time, decided to compose a prog rock magnum opus. He played nearly all of the instruments himself, recording them separately and then layering them afterwards. It seems simple now but at the time this was a revolutionary way to record an album and has changed the industry forever. It was the first album released through the Virgin label and was made famous as part of the soundtrack of The Exorcist.
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Many businesses are now required to measure temperatures of customers and employees under state reopening guidelines
By Artie Ojeda	• Published May 11, 2020 • Updated on May 11, 2020 at 6:19 pm
As local businesses begin to reopen under strict state and local guidelines, many customers and employees are seeing significant changes, including mandatory temperature checks at some locations.
Currently, grocery stores are not required to measure the temperatures of customers. But at Zion Market in Kearny Mesa, a security guard is using an infra-red device to take the temperatures of customers before they're allowed inside.
Customers must have a temperature lower than the CDC recommended threshold of 100.4 degrees.
Have a high temperature? You're not welcome inside. Here's a preview of my story on businesses now measuring temperatures of customers and employees. Complete report on https://t.co/ylvk5rP6Vf. #nbc7 @Dena_TruHealth @ZionMarket pic.twitter.com/TCo6VsjDUX
— Artie Ojeda (@ArtieNBCSD) May 12, 2020
"I think it's necessary, I think they should be doing it everywhere to be honest. I mean, it takes a second for them to measure our temperature, and I think when you're in the store, just knowing there's nobody else that might be sick, I think it gives you reassurance so, I think it's good," said Vanessa Pearce of Spring Valley.
As of last Friday, when they were allowed to reopen, golf courses are required to measure the temperatures of players before they can hit the links.
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At the Coronado Municipal Golf Course, temperatures are measured as customers pull into the parking lot and sit in their cars. Only after getting an acceptable reading, are they allowed to park.
Private businesses are also required to measure the temperatures of their employees. Some have already been doing for some time. At Truvian, a health care diagnostic company in the UTC area, a temperature check station has been set up in the lobby for its 42 employees. Employees self-take their temperature, and then it's confirmed by a coworker.
Most companies are using an infra-red device, which some have called into question because it measures only skin temperature and not internal temperature. Some also question the reliability of temperature to predict a positive case of coronavirus because of possible not-yet-symptomatic cases.
But for shoppers at Zion Market, they seemed more content knowing the temperature reading offers peace of mind.
"It shows that they're paying attention to the welfare of both their employees and their customers, and doing what they can to try and control the spread of the virus," said Gordon Brown of Mira Mesa.
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Roman Emporer Julius Frontius made this bold comment in the 1st century. And he didn't even have Google Plus to contend with. Bet he feels a bit silly now.
Tempting as it is to apply it to today you'd be similarly way off the money. Robot butlers and jet packs may top my own wish list but in practical terms what is likely to change?
If 2011 was a year of rapid change in local government then 2012 may see more of the same. Most of it is just a continuation of themes that started in the previous 12 months.
Here are 12 predictions for the year ahead from my perspective as a local government comms person. (Disclaimer: much of this probably won't ever happen).
1. Comms will have a fight for control of social media. They'll lose in the long term if they want to keep it all for themselves. They'll win if the create an environment for others to innovate.
2. Data visualisation will boom. With the web prompting comms people to search for new platforms to tell a story data visualisation will expand. With free tools being available there will be innovation.
3. JFDI dies. As the mainstreaming of digital continues JFDI – or Just Flipping Do It – as a way of getting things done in an organisation will end. You can't fly under the radar on Facebook if 29 million people in the UK are on it.
4. Digital customer services will expand. Just as calls centres emerged as the telephone matured as a way you can talk to people so too will a social presence for customer services people.
5. Someone will do summat reely stoopid and it won't matter. In 2008, a rogue tweet could have closed down a council's social media output. As it gets more embedded it'll be more bullet proof.
6. Emergency planners will use Twitter as second nature. There'll be more big incidents played out on social media. But best practice will be shared.
7. The local government social media star of 2012 will be someone doing a routine task in a place you've never visited. Step forward the local government worker who talks about his day job. There will be more like @orkneylibrary and @ehodavid.
8. Linked social will grow. Linked social is different voices on different platforms growing across an organisation or across the public sector. It will be especially interesting to see how this develops in Scotland and the West Midlands.
9. Good conferences will have an unconference element. Or they'll actually be unconferences. Some people don't get unconferences. But they generally want to leave on the stroke of five o'clock and don't do anything outside their JD. Bright ones do but will be happier if they're wrapped up and presented like a 'proper' conference. But unconferences will be more diverse and targeted.
10. Newspapers will carry on dying. Bright comms people will carry on developing web 2.0 skills and use them in tandem with old media. Good Journalism will carry on adapting to the web. But this may take time to filter through to local newspapers who have been the bread and butter of local government press offices.
11. Data journalism will grow. But not in local newspapers. Bloggers will uncover big stories that a print journalist doing the work of three doesn't have time to look for.
12. Amazing things will happen in Scotland. Some of the brightest people in the public sector who are innocavating aren't in London. They're north of the border serving as police officers as well as in local government. It'll be fascinating to see how this develops.
Sometimes you need to stop listening to geeks. Sometimes you need to start listening to people in pinstripe suits.
When it comes to open data there's a gem of a report by Deloitte Canada. 'Understanding government' is a belter. It's an assessment by suits for suits of what open data can achieve. It's worth downloading.
Think of this post as a review. It's worth reading the whole thing but here are some bullet points. The sub-headings are mine rather than from the report.
"The social media culture in particular is driving governments to open up while offering the imagination and expertise necessary to improve public services.
"In response, government organisations are embracing the idea that public data should be broadly available in a re-usable format and that governing should be a collaborative enterprise between government and its citizens.
"The good news is that open government initiatives can help engage the public in making the difficult budgetary choices governments are grappling with.
"It will place governments under an unprecedented level of scrutiny and accountability while offering the potential to improve public services.
"Government leaders recognise that in addition to leveraging community resources to analyse public data they must get better at analysing vast stores of public data – in addition to online resources.
"Leading governments are investing in building a core competency in data analytics.
Isn't data a bit vast? Where do you start to look at data as government?
This post was first published on the Open Data Blog.


"ascilite report 2 for the Carrick Exchange Project: themes, issues and" by Robyn Philip, Dominique Parrish et al.
Philip, R, Parrish, D, Lefoe, G & O'Reilly, M 2007, ascilite report 2 for the Carrick Exchange Project: themes, issues and concerns emerging through key practitioner interviews, report prepared for Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, Wollongong, NSW.
This report is one of several data gathering processes implemented as part of Stage 2 of the ascilite research (January to September 2007). Full details of the ascilite project are provided in the ascilite/Carrick Exchange Proposal and Project Plan 2007. (See also reports by Phillips, Orrell and Millea (2007), and Lefoe, O'Reilly, Parrish, Bennett, Keppell and Gunn (2007)). For this segment of the research, ascilite conducted twenty-nine phone interviews with key practitioners drawn from Australian higher education, the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector and a number of international projects. The data was analysed within a design-based research methodology. The findings will be validated by three ascilite reference groups and will form the basis for further research and data gathering from the sector.


With an aim to provide them a steady source of income, Maharashtra government plans to recruit police informers as home guards.
With an aim to provide them a steady source of income, the state government plans to recruit police informers as home guards, a volunteer body that assists the police force in maintaining law and order.
Director general of police Sanjeev Dayal had, in a letter sent to the home department on March 13, proposed the idea of permanent state jobs for informers.
However, the department modified his proposal and suggested that they be accommodated as home guards.
The proposal is in its final stage, said a senior home department official, on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Currently, the police department is facing several issues such as inadequate funds for compensating the informant.
According to the information tabled in the Budget session of the legislature, the home department has spent Rs 25 lakh on paying informers last year, an amount senior officers termed as paltry.
The informers have also come under threat from the criminals they observe on behalf of the police department. Many such informers have been murdered in Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra.
The issue of strengthening the network of informers was also discussed at a police conference attended by the chief minister and home minister last week.
"Informants are crucial in detection of criminal cases, and every officer has his own network. Protecting these people financially and physically is paramount," said a senior police officer.
Around 80% of the 42,000 home guards are posted at railways stations across the state and for special patrolling during festive seasons at a daily remuneration of Rs 200.


To Market, To Market: Get a Hedney!
Canadian luge athlete, Sam Edney, has created Hedneys to help fund his trip to Sochi and raise money for Classroom Champions- an organization that's near and dear to my heart. The vintage style toques come in 6 styles (2 of which are sold out. Yay Sam!). You can support the cause by picking one up here.
While things in Sochi don't seem to be going very smoothly so far, I can't wait to cheer on our Canadian athletes!
Side note- how awesome is the Google doodle today?!


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