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package com.opengamma.strata.measure.index;

import com.opengamma.strata.basics.currency.CurrencyAmount;
import com.opengamma.strata.basics.currency.MultiCurrencyAmount;
import com.opengamma.strata.data.scenario.CurrencyScenarioArray;
import com.opengamma.strata.data.scenario.DoubleScenarioArray;
import com.opengamma.strata.data.scenario.MultiCurrencyScenarioArray;
import com.opengamma.strata.data.scenario.ScenarioArray;
import com.opengamma.strata.data.scenario.ScenarioMarketData;
import com.opengamma.strata.market.param.CurrencyParameterSensitivities;
import com.opengamma.strata.measure.rate.RatesMarketDataLookup;
import com.opengamma.strata.pricer.index.IborFutureOptionVolatilities;
import com.opengamma.strata.pricer.index.NormalIborFutureOptionMarginedTradePricer;
import com.opengamma.strata.pricer.rate.RatesProvider;
import com.opengamma.strata.product.index.IborFutureOptionTrade;
import com.opengamma.strata.product.index.ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade;

/**
 * Calculates pricing and risk measures for trades in an option contract based on an Ibor index future.
 *

 * This provides a high-level entry point for option pricing and risk measures.
 *

 * Each method takes a {@link ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade}, whereas application code will
 * typically work with {@link IborFutureOptionTrade}. Call
 * {@link IborFutureOptionTrade#resolve(com.opengamma.strata.basics.ReferenceData) IborFutureOptionTrade::resolve(ReferenceData)}
 * to convert {@code IborFutureOptionTrade} to {@code ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade}.
 *
 *
Price

 * The price of an Ibor future option is based on the price of the underlying future, the volatility
 * and the time to expiry. The price of the at-the-money option tends to zero as expiry approaches.
 *

 * Strata uses decimal prices for Ibor future options in the trade model, pricers and market data.
 * The decimal price is based on the decimal rate equivalent to the percentage.
 * For example, an option price of 0.2 is related to a futures price of 99.32 that implies an
 * interest rate of 0.68%. Strata represents the price of the future as 0.9932 and thus
 * represents the price of the option as 0.002.
 */
public class IborFutureOptionTradeCalculations {

  /**
   * Default implementation.
   */
  public static final IborFutureOptionTradeCalculations DEFAULT = new IborFutureOptionTradeCalculations(
      NormalIborFutureOptionMarginedTradePricer.DEFAULT);

  /**
   * Pricer for {@link ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade}.
   */
  private final IborFutureOptionMeasureCalculations calc;

  /**
   * Creates an instance.
   *

   * In most cases, applications should use the {@link #DEFAULT} instance.
   *
   * @param tradePricer  the pricer for {@link ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade}
   */
  public IborFutureOptionTradeCalculations(
      NormalIborFutureOptionMarginedTradePricer tradePricer) {
    this.calc = new IborFutureOptionMeasureCalculations(tradePricer);
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /**
   * Calculates present value across one or more scenarios.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesLookup  the lookup used to query the rates market data
   * @param optionLookup  the lookup used to query the option market data
   * @param marketData  the market data
   * @return the present value, one entry per scenario
   */
  public CurrencyScenarioArray presentValue(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesMarketDataLookup ratesLookup,
      IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup optionLookup,
      ScenarioMarketData marketData) {

    return calc.presentValue(trade, ratesLookup.marketDataView(marketData), optionLookup.marketDataView(marketData));
  }

  /**
   * Calculates present value for a single set of market data.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesProvider  the market data
   * @param volatilities  the option volatilities
   * @return the present value
   */
  public CurrencyAmount presentValue(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesProvider ratesProvider,
      IborFutureOptionVolatilities volatilities) {

    return calc.presentValue(trade, ratesProvider, volatilities);
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity across one or more scenarios.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the calibrated curves.
   * The result is the sum of the sensitivities of all affected curves.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesLookup  the lookup used to query the rates market data
   * @param optionLookup  the lookup used to query the option market data
   * @param marketData  the market data
   * @return the present value sensitivity, one entry per scenario
   */
  public MultiCurrencyScenarioArray pv01CalibratedSum(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesMarketDataLookup ratesLookup,
      IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup optionLookup,
      ScenarioMarketData marketData) {

    return calc.pv01CalibratedSum(trade, ratesLookup.marketDataView(marketData), optionLookup.marketDataView(marketData));
  }

  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity for a single set of market data.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the calibrated curves.
   * The result is the sum of the sensitivities of all affected curves.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesProvider  the market data
   * @param volatilities  the option volatilities
   * @return the present value sensitivity
   */
  public MultiCurrencyAmount pv01CalibratedSum(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesProvider ratesProvider,
      IborFutureOptionVolatilities volatilities) {

    return calc.pv01CalibratedSum(trade, ratesProvider, volatilities);
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity across one or more scenarios.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the calibrated curves.
   * The result is provided for each affected curve and currency, bucketed by curve node.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesLookup  the lookup used to query the rates market data
   * @param optionLookup  the lookup used to query the option market data
   * @param marketData  the market data
   * @return the present value sensitivity, one entry per scenario
   */
  public ScenarioArray<CurrencyParameterSensitivities> pv01CalibratedBucketed(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesMarketDataLookup ratesLookup,
      IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup optionLookup,
      ScenarioMarketData marketData) {

    return calc.pv01CalibratedBucketed(trade, ratesLookup.marketDataView(marketData), optionLookup.marketDataView(marketData));
  }

  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity for a single set of market data.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the calibrated curves.
   * The result is provided for each affected curve and currency, bucketed by curve node.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesProvider  the market data
   * @param volatilities  the option volatilities
   * @return the present value sensitivity
   */
  public CurrencyParameterSensitivities pv01CalibratedBucketed(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesProvider ratesProvider,
      IborFutureOptionVolatilities volatilities) {

    return calc.pv01CalibratedBucketed(trade, ratesProvider, volatilities);
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity across one or more scenarios.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the market quotes used to calibrate the curves.
   * The result is the sum of the sensitivities of all affected curves.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesLookup  the lookup used to query the rates market data
   * @param optionLookup  the lookup used to query the option market data
   * @param marketData  the market data
   * @return the present value sensitivity, one entry per scenario
   */
  public MultiCurrencyScenarioArray pv01MarketQuoteSum(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesMarketDataLookup ratesLookup,
      IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup optionLookup,
      ScenarioMarketData marketData) {

    return calc.pv01MarketQuoteSum(trade, ratesLookup.marketDataView(marketData), optionLookup.marketDataView(marketData));
  }

  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity for a single set of market data.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the market quotes used to calibrate the curves.
   * The result is the sum of the sensitivities of all affected curves.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesProvider  the market data
   * @param volatilities  the option volatilities
   * @return the present value sensitivity
   */
  public MultiCurrencyAmount pv01MarketQuoteSum(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesProvider ratesProvider,
      IborFutureOptionVolatilities volatilities) {

    return calc.pv01MarketQuoteSum(trade, ratesProvider, volatilities);
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity across one or more scenarios.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the market quotes used to calibrate the curves.
   * The result is provided for each affected curve and currency, bucketed by curve node.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesLookup  the lookup used to query the rates market data
   * @param optionLookup  the lookup used to query the option market data
   * @param marketData  the market data
   * @return the present value sensitivity, one entry per scenario
   */
  public ScenarioArray<CurrencyParameterSensitivities> pv01MarketQuoteBucketed(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesMarketDataLookup ratesLookup,
      IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup optionLookup,
      ScenarioMarketData marketData) {

    return calc.pv01MarketQuoteBucketed(trade, ratesLookup.marketDataView(marketData), optionLookup.marketDataView(marketData));
  }

  /**
   * Calculates present value sensitivity for a single set of market data.
   *

   * This is the sensitivity of
   * {@linkplain #presentValue(ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade, RatesMarketDataLookup, IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup, ScenarioMarketData) present value}
   * to a one basis point shift in the market quotes used to calibrate the curves.
   * The result is provided for each affected curve and currency, bucketed by curve node.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesProvider  the market data
   * @param volatilities  the option volatilities
   * @return the present value sensitivity
   */
  public CurrencyParameterSensitivities pv01MarketQuoteBucketed(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesProvider ratesProvider,
      IborFutureOptionVolatilities volatilities) {

    return calc.pv01MarketQuoteBucketed(trade, ratesProvider, volatilities);
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  /**
   * Calculates unit price across one or more scenarios.
   *

   * This is the price of a single unit of the security.
   *

   * Strata uses decimal prices for Ibor futures in the trade model, pricers and market data.
   * The decimal price is based on the decimal rate equivalent to the percentage.
   * For example, a price of 99.32 implies an interest rate of 0.68% which is represented in Strata by 0.9932.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesLookup  the lookup used to query the rates market data
   * @param optionLookup  the lookup used to query the option market data
   * @param marketData  the market data
   * @return the present value, one entry per scenario
   */
  public DoubleScenarioArray unitPrice(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesMarketDataLookup ratesLookup,
      IborFutureOptionMarketDataLookup optionLookup,
      ScenarioMarketData marketData) {

    return calc.unitPrice(trade, ratesLookup.marketDataView(marketData), optionLookup.marketDataView(marketData));
  }

  /**
   * Calculates unit price for a single set of market data.
   *

   * This is the price of a single unit of the security.
   *

   * Strata uses decimal prices for Ibor futures in the trade model, pricers and market data.
   * The decimal price is based on the decimal rate equivalent to the percentage.
   * For example, a price of 99.32 implies an interest rate of 0.68% which is represented in Strata by 0.9932.
   *
   * @param trade  the trade
   * @param ratesProvider  the market data
   * @param volatilities  the option volatilities
   * @return the present value
   */
  public double unitPrice(
      ResolvedIborFutureOptionTrade trade,
      RatesProvider ratesProvider,
      IborFutureOptionVolatilities volatilities) {

    return calc.unitPrice(trade, ratesProvider, volatilities);
  }

}


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System for reliable detection of occupancy of parking spacesThe research group in "Electronic engineering applied to intelligent spaces and transport (GEINTRA)" of the University of Alcalá presents an artificial vision system with telemeter, which combines the information from a video camera and an steerable telemeter, to inform and guide reliably to the user when finding a parking space for their vehicle in large areas of surface parking such as a shopping center or train station. The combination of those data, makes it possible to easily locate vehicles in the car park regardless of their type or size and the environmental conditions / lighting (e.g. at night). The research group looks for town halls and companies in charge of the management/administration of car parks, to reach license agreements, collaboration agreements or commercial agreements with technical assistance. There is a great added value in an application that combines the knowledge of the free spaces and the vehicles in movement through the parking so it can provide the right indications to the user guiding him to a free space.
Procedure for measuring the speed of motor vehicles in the short section, with minimum error geometry, using 2 cameras and artificial vision algorithms.The research group in Intelligent Vehicles and Traffic Technologies of the Automation Department of the University of Alcalá has developed a procedure for the punctual measurement of the speed of motor vehicles, through the use of at least two cameras, pointing to two different regions of the track, calculating the relative distances of the vehicle from the cameras by detecting the license plate and its internal elements, storing timestamps, calculating the speed for all possible combinations of distances between cameras that are at the optimum distance that generates minimum error in the calculation of the speed and calculating the average speed of all the speed measurements obtained for optimal distances of minimum error. The group seeks for licensing agreements, technical cooperation agreements, manufacturing agreements and commercial agreements with technical assistance with companies that perform maintenance and commercialization of precision kinemometers and companies that produce intelligent systems of transport.


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Published: 5 November 2019
Imprint: Penguin
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Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Born in Singapore in 1964, Chan Joon Yee was a very prolific self-taught writer in the 1990s. He has written 2 novels and translated one Chinese travelogue by one of Singapore's backpacking pioneers, Ng Wai Choy. His shorter pieces which included poems, short stories, book reviews, celebrity interviews, travel articles, advice columns and advertorials, were featured in newspapers, magazines and some trade publications. He has also done ghostwriting for business people who needed to make light-hearted speeches or engaging presentations.
After accumulating a further 20 years of life experiences since his last novel was published in 1993, Chan made a comeback in 2013 with a collection of short stories entitled Spellbound in Chiangmai. Chan Joon Yee first visited Thailand as an army boy in 1984. The Land of Smiles fascinated him for many years, but like many foreigners who have tried to settle here, his feelings have matured from infatuation to healthy cynicism. Set in the charming northern Thai city of Chiangmai, Spellbound in Chiangmai is a work of fiction inspired by his many puzzling encounters in the Land of Smiles.
Spellbound is followed by Dental Phobia which takes a humourous look at the other side of the terrifying dental chair. Dental Phobia is followed by another non-fiction book titled Leaving The Pain Behind. This book explores some of the painful stories behind people who tattoo themselves. He has also published (on Google Play) an English version of the ancient Chinese epic, Three Kingdoms. Unlike the direct translations of Three Kingdoms readily available online and offline, Chan's version of Three Kingdoms contains many of his own interpretations of what actually happened, not just on the battlefield but in the minds of the schemers and warriors.
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2005: Justen Hall gets death for '02 killing
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Justen Grant Hall, left, speaks with his attorney during the opening day of his trial in this Jan. 25, 2005, photo. (Photo: Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times file)
Feb. 19, 2005 El Paso Times
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Justen Grant Hall was sentenced to death Friday, 10 days after being convicted of strangling a Northeast woman with an electrical cord and dumping her body in the desert in Dona Ana County more than two years ago.
The verdict was returned to Judge William Moody of 34th District Court about four hours after the jury began punishment deliberations.
On Feb. 8,Hall, 23, was convicted of capital murder in the Oct. 28, 2002, slaying of Melanie Ruth Billhartz, 29. Hall kept his hands in his black slacks while the judge read the verdict. Before Moody sentenced him to death, Hall turned to look at the courtroom audience and flipped off the section where a police investigator sat.
Maintains innocence
Francisco F. Macias, one of Hall's lawyers, said after the trial that Hall maintains he is innocent and was not surprised by the verdict.
"He told me he would rather be on death row waiting for his appeal than serving a life sentence," Macias said about his client. "He asked me to tell the jury that they killed him a week ago on February 8 when they took his freedom."
Jurors, in their verdict, stated that life imprisonment was not suitable for Hall because he is a future threat to society.
According to court and police documents, Billhartz was killed while Hall was out on bond on another murder charge. After Hall was charged with the April 10, 2002, shooting of Arturo Diaz, 28. Hall's bond was set at $75,000 by Municipal Judge Al Dominguez. Hall paid $7,500 to get out of jail.
Victims family grateful for verdict
Police said Hall is the first person in El Paso to be charged with murder while out on bail on another murder charge. It was unknown Friday if the district attorney's office would continue to prosecute Hall in the Diaz case now that Hall has been sentenced to death.
Elaine Rountree, an aunt of Billhartz, said her family was grateful for the verdict.
"It has been a real difficult time. We have waited two years and now we have closure." she said.
Rountree and Lucy Diaz, the sister of Arturo Diaz, were allowed to read statements to Hall after the trial ended. Rountree read a statement prepared by Billhart'z sister.
"You threw her in a shallow grave to be forgotten, but she will never be forgotten. Her memory will live on in me," Elaine Rountree read.
Lucy Diaz told Hall, "Now that justice has been done, my brother can rest in peace.
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Oracle Sails Out of OpenWorld, Into Uncharted Waters
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Talk about a study in contrasts. In the dying hours of OpenWorld, Larry Ellison and Oracle unveiled their own social network.
Even the name was awkward. The Oracle Social Network, Ellison called it, and as he demoed the thing on Wednesday afternoon during his closing keynote speech at Oracle's flagship conference, he struggled to describe the basic ins and outs of a system that mimics what's become commonplace with Facebook and Twitter and even corporate social services like Chatter from Salesforce.com.
It was a moment that nicely summed up Oracle's belated efforts to reinvent itself in the face of "disruptive technologies" challenging its traditional business from all sides. Ellison and company realize they need to move with the times, but these efforts feel much like an afterthought – and even half-hearted – and you have to question whether they can pull these new technologies off without undermining their existing business.
"Oracle has a lot to lose by throwing disruptive technologies into the market. In some ways, the only person they'd disrupt is themselves," Bill Hostmann of research outfit Gartner told Wired after taking in Ellison's keynote. "But on the other hand, OpenWorld has shown that they're going to address each one of those technology evolutions."
At OpenWorld, the company rolled out not only a social network, but a "NoSQL" database along the lines of MongoDB and Cassandra and a "public cloud" that follows in the footsteps of Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine. In each case, Oracle is imitating technologies that have reinvented the enterprise IT world in recent years, and Ellison almost acknowledges that the company is late to the party.
"When you need a cloud, you just need a cloud," Ellison said during his closing keynote. "Everyone's got a cloud, and now we need a cloud."
Last year, Ellison mocked the concept of the cloud, but he hedged this ongoing ridicule by saying that cloud services would eventually run on Oracle software and that many, including services from Amazon and Rackspace, already ran it – in a way. Now the company has inched closer to the cloud world is was skeptical of.
"I think Larry got the memo," Hostmann said. "His salespeople were competing more and more with cloud providers and Oracle didn't have an offering in the [cloud] infrastructure business." Or as Salesforce.com boss and ex-Ellison protégé Marc Benioff put it: "Imitation is the best form of flattery."
There were also times when Ellison seemed to deny the imitations. "We didn't notice last week," he said. "We noticed a while ago." But with these new offerings, Oracle is indeed trailing the pack. "I think they're a bit late to the game," Doug Toombs, a manager at research outfit Tier 1 Research, told Wired.
In many ways, the company is simply repurposing what it already has. Oracle didn't build a NoSQL database from scratch. It rejigged the existing BerkeleyDB relational database, trying to transform the old way of doing things into the new.
OpenWorld itself reflected this effort. This miniature city of a conference began like it always does. All three convention centers of the sprawling Moscone complex were packed to the gills with customers, analysts, entrepreneurs, press, vendors, and developers. Massive red and white tents filled a barricaded city block. An America's Cup racing simulator dominated one of the halls. And Ellison kicked things off by pitching some very old-school technology, hailing the company's hardware appliances as the future of the enterprise.
But then, bit by bit, the new messages spilled out onto the more than 45,000 people in attendance. He was still Larry Ellison. And this was still Oracle. But the new terminology crept in, and the two didn't exactly seem to mesh. There was the Oracle Social Network, and yes, they will call the other two the Oracle Public Cloud and the Oracle NoSQL Database.
Like Dell and HP, Oracle wants it both ways. It wants both the old and the new. While this is certainly a more sensible strategy than placing all your bets on the old, the balancing act isn't easy to pull off.
"They're in a very difficult position. Their market space is being disrupted by technologies that are offering things at a price point that isn't very appealing for them to compete with," says Max Schireson, president of 10gen, the startup behind the open-source NoSQL database MongoDB. "When I put myself in their shoes, it's very hard to decide what to do. It's very hard to decide whether to cannibalize your own product. It's a classic innovator's dilemma."
Clearly, Larry Ellison isn't completely comfortable in those shoes either.
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Victoria and its mayor Lisa Helps were the first to call for a class action lawsuit against oil companies last year, seemingly bringing some credence to the West Coast Environmental Law Centre's years-long campaign to convince municipalities to bring litigation against these energy producers. Stewart Muir looks at the issue.
Canadian resource people have been preoccupied with two pieces of controversial legislation in Bills C-48 and C-69. In a surprise twist, a third federal bill would increase emissions by placing unexpected new constraints on hydroelectric power.
Four supertankers from Iraq and one from Angola are currently bound for the refineries of Long Beach carrying hydrocarbon cargoes.
Here's a rare interview with the chief executive of what is surely Canada's most talked about infrastructure project: a twinned crude oil pipeline to the west coast of British Columbia.
ESSAY: Who wants to start a process and commit money to developing a project under circumstances of prevailing uncertainty and confusion in law and practice? In this sweeping essay, longtime political affairs columnist Jeffrey Simpson looks at the landscape of Canadian natural resources and prosperity.
After careful consideration, we've found that Bill C-48 comes up short in striking a balance between environmental and economic interests.
VIDEO SERIES: Who speaks for members of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation? That's at the heart of a controversy involving elected and hereditary representatives of the northwest British Columbia group. We asked Theresa Tait Day, a hereditary chief known as Wi'hali'yte, for her perspective.
As the world pursues cleaner forms of energy to reduce GHG emissions, the outlook for a Canadian liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry only gets better.
For more than a year, Resource Works' Stewart Muir has been sharing real-time oil tanker maps in Twitter, making the point that safe ship movement is an everyday occurrence all around the world. Here are some recent maps.
Soon to retire as CEO of the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF), Dr. Brian Riddell was also among the community leaders who answered the call from Resource Works in 2014 to be part of our Advisory Council.
Municipalities are being asked to participate in campaigns that would seek funds from fuel companies. A range of differing views is emerging as to its efficacy, writes Stewart Muir.
110 friends and supporters of Resource Works gathered on March 14, 2019 at Vancouver's Terminal City Club to help us celebrate our first five years of service.
What started as a government initiative to protect the mountain caribou has become a hot issue in rural British Columbia, with some residents concerned that traditional access to the backcountry is in jeopardy.


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It was a family day out for Drew Barrymore and her husband Will Kopelman. The couple was spotted leaving a restaurant on Saturday after having lunch with their daughter Olive.
Will carried the high chair, while Drew carried her giggly girl!
For the past few weeks the actress has been making the media rounds promoting her new book.
"I have always loved hearts," Drew writes in the foreword to the heartwarming book. "The way that continuous line accomplishes the most extraordinary thing–it conveys love." In FIND IT IN EVERYTHING, Drew shares the photographs she has taken of heart-shaped objects and patterns she has come across over the past ten years. Some are obvious and others barely discernible. A discarded straw wrapper, a hole in a T-shirt, a scallion in a bowl of miso soup — seemingly everywhere she turns her lens a heart reveals itself.
Six months pregnant with her second daughter, Drew recently dished to Ellen about her love for food this time around.


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If you fancy a chat with Phil Daniels and maybe a few things signed, head for the Quadrophenia screening in August.
The date is Thursday 23rd August and the screening takes place at the Genesis cinema, 93-95 Mile End Rd, London E1 4UJ. The showing of the 1979 movie is in conjunction with the Matters of Vinyl Importance record store.
Join them at the bar at 7pm for live music 'themed after the film', cocktails, and a record stall from Matters Of Vinyl Importance. The film is of course, showing (from 8:40pm) and after the film, Phil Daniels will be around for a Q&A session.
Not just that, Phil is happy to hang around after for a meet and greet and to sign anything you want to take along.
If you have a question for the Q&A, you can send it over in advance at [email protected] or you can just stick your hand up on the night.
Tickets are available now for £15 or £12.50 concessions directly from the Genesis Cinema website.
Alternatively, if you can't make it, you can always buy a copy at Amazon. It doesn't cost much on disc these days.


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I have an older Delta contractor saw, I was trying to adjust the blade to 90deg. and to the left of the blade I'd get it set to 90deg. and right of the blade would be out. so I put a straight edge across the width of the cast iron top over the throat plate area and from left to right of the top, its not flat by .016" out.
I was wondering what is the normal flatness and how to correct this problem or adjust for it.
Check without the throat plate. Make sure you're testing to the plate of the blade and not to the tooth.
Hmmmm! Learned something on here again today :-) I never would have thought of that.
I did check it with the throat plate off and with the blade body and not on the teeth.
At first I thought the problem was the plate, but it's not.


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The Town of Bayfield is a Statutory Town located in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 2,838 at the 2020 United States Census, a +21.65% increase since the 2010 United States Census. Bayfield is  part of the Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History
The town derives its name from W.A. Bay, founder.

On January 19, 1988, Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 crashed in Bayfield, killing nine of the 17 people aboard.

Geography
Bayfield is located at  (37.230532, -107.599539), along U.S. Highway 160.

At the 2020 United States Census, the town had a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,549 people, 567 households, and 409 families residing in the town.  The population density was .  There were 597 housing units at an average density of .  The racial makeup of the town was 91.67% White, 0.19% African American, 2.13% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 3.36% from other races, and 2.52% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.46% of the population.

There were 567 households, out of which 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.3% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.7% were non-families. 22.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.19.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 31.2% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 23.8% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.3 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $39,336, and the median income for a family was $46,583. Males had a median income of $34,464 versus $22,027 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,324.  About 2.9% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 7.9% of those age 65 or over.

See also

Colorado
Bibliography of Colorado
Index of Colorado-related articles
Outline of Colorado
List of counties in Colorado
List of municipalities in Colorado
List of places in Colorado
List of statistical areas in Colorado
Durango, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area
Spring Creek Archeological District, a Basketmaker and Pueblo site near Bayfield

References

External links

Town of Bayfield website
CDOT map of the Town of Bayfield

Towns in La Plata County, Colorado
Towns in Colorado

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UFC 104 preview: "Shogun" undeterred by late arrival on championship stage
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Anointed by many as champion in waiting upon joining the UFC in 2007, Mauricio Rua's road to a title fight has been much longer than even he imagined.
Slowed by a knee injury prior to his American debut at UFC 76, Rua was schooled in the finer points of cagefighting by Forrest Griffin and assumed the role of another PRIDE star struggling to make the transition stateside.
Questions multiplied after another weak performance, albeit salvaged with a win, against Mark Coleman at UFC 93. Despite the less-than-stellar first two romps in the octagon, "Shogun's" confidence never wavered.
"I never really got worried or doubted myself because I believe in my potential and I know what I can do. I know what I can reach," Rua said. "After the Coleman fight, I realized my mistakes. I understood that I could do better. And, I understood that I had to train harder. It was good to get me on the focus track. So, I went on and trained harder and prepared myself better and tried to take care of whatever problems had presented themselves. Nowadays, I feel 100 percent focused."
That focus showed in Rua's first-round dismantling of Chuck Liddell at UFC 97 in April, a fight that punched his ticket to a title shot against light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida Saturday night in the main event of UFC 104 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The 27-year-old Brazilian, who seldom faced adversity during his ultra-dominant 12-1 reign in PRIDE, admittedly had difficulty adjusting to the wide-open feel of the octagon and underestimated the nuances of transitioning from a ring. Surgery to repair his knee added to an inability to find his form prior to the Liddell fight.
"I was lacking rhythm since I was sidelined for a long time," said Rua (18-3 MMA, 2-1 UFC) after missing all of 2008 due to injury. "But now I'm in rhythm again. I have been fighting often. I'm training a lot, and I'm much more adapted to space because I have an official-size cage in my academy where I train. That gets me perfectly used to the space and to the environment of fighting in the UFC and adding that to the rhythm and to the constant fighting and training."
The pairing with Machida is a bout Rua has been expecting for some time. The two trained together earlier in their careers at the Chute Boxe Academy, a time when Rua was the rising star with a lethal combination of Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu jitsu. Today, it's Machida who's the indestructible force as the unbeaten, untested champion in the UFC's bellwether division.
Much has been made about the trouble fighters have in preparing for Machida's karate-bred style of MMA. Machida's movement and defensive posture keep opponents off balance and open up opportunities for him to land strikes. Rua acknowledges Machida's uniqueness, but he believes relying on the Curitiba-based camp that surrounded him during his best years in PRIDE has prepared him for the challenge.
"For most athletes that you face, you just need to train, adapt to little things but train as you regularly do and fight them because you're used to what they bring to the table," he said. "But, Lyoto is a different guy with a karate background and well adapted to mixed martial arts. And, it's very tough to find him during the fight, to find the right distance as he has great timing. But, I'm well prepared with the right strategy. I have been preparing for four months straight about my game plan for this fight."
Rua, circa 2005, would have been the favorite in a fight against Machida. "Shogun" knows he's the underdog now in this present-day match-up of two the sport's elite 205-pounders. However, perhaps a return to the aggressive style that made him so tough in PRIDE is the fight plan he needs to put Machida on his heels and prevent him from dictating the bout.
Despite his unblemished record, up until two fights ago, the 31-year-old Machida was still searching for that signature victory to win over fans who prefer knockout to tap out. Successive KOs of Rashad Evans and Thiago Silva should have convinced any remaining doubters of Machida's place as the preeminent light heavyweight in the world.
"The biggest change has been that I still use the same strikes … a lot of the same moves, but what I've adapted into my training camp, and it started with Thiago Silva, was to find a physical strength and conditioning and agility coach that's been able to adapt a lot more speed and agility and a lot more strength," said Machida (15-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC). "It's given me a lot more power in my strikes. So, it's not that my strikes or anything that I'm doing inside the octagon is any different than what I did before. It's just now that I've got a physical trainer and I've got this infrastructure behind me, it's enabled me to make my strikes be a lot more powerful and a lot more effective."
That newfound strength, and an innate ability to avoid incoming attack, has propelled Machida to seven consecutive UFC victories and made him the promotion's official karate ambassador.
"I'm very happy to be in this position to be able to make all of these people in the traditional martial arts proud," he said. "I feel that not only have I been out there promoting my style of karate but just promoting the traditional martial arts. I've been adapting karate because my karate is not the typical karate that you learn, but I've been adapting it for quite a few years to be effective in mixed martial arts."
Dues paid, Rothwell finally arrives in UFC
Thankful that the grind of the International Fight League and opponents such as Chris Guillen are behind him, Ben Rothwell arrives in the UFC as a battle-tested veteran to tangle with a promising young prospect in Cain Velasquez.
Following the demise of Affliction, Rothwell (30-6 MMA, 0-0 UFC) was a 30-win fighter in need of a job. Timing finally broke his way when he not only received a call from the UFC but also was given the UFC 104 co-feature fight against Velasquez.
"My objective all along is to come into the UFC as a somebody and then make my name and finish my career there," said Rothwell, who splits his training time between the Miletich camp in Iowa and working with Duke Roufus in Milwaukee. "And the only way you can finish your career there is if you win fights and you make a name for yourself. Obviously, I've done something right because they put me on the poster and made me a co-main event. And, I don't think it just happens just because. I think it's because the guys that matter have been watching me and they know who I am, and they know what I can do, and that's why they gave me this opportunity, and I plan on being around for a while."
Rothwell hasn't fought in nearly a year, but after the rigors of fighting nearly every other month for two years in the IFL, the 6-foot-5 banger hasn't been too irked by the down time. He was scheduled to fight Chase Gormley at the last Affliction show but now draws a much different assignment.
"As respect to Cain, I feel great about the fight because I was going to fight a guy that nobody had heard of. … That doesn't mean the guy is not tough. It just means that's a fight that you've got everything to lose and really not much to gain," Rothwell said. "Well, fighting Cain, everybody knows who he is. I want to be fighting with the guys that are the names in the UFC. I want to be a name in the UFC as well, and that's the only way."
It's a massive opportunity for "Big Ben," taking on an opponent who's on the short list of potential challengers for the UFC heavyweight crown. Rothwell will have the edge in experience and in the standup – a spot in which Velasquez's game is still developing. Cheick Kongo showed at UFC 99 that the former Arizona State All-American wrestler can leave himself open on his feet. Despite being down against Kongo, Velasquez dominated the fight. However, the Frenchman's right hands caught his attention.
"I mean pretty much when I stood in front of him I didn't do anything, and that's a mistake I'm not going to do again, and you just learn from it," Velasquez said. "And, that's how fighters get better. They watch film or they work on what they need to work on, and that's what I'm doing."
Velasquez, 27, (6-0 MMA, 4-0 UFC) was originally scheduled to face Shane Carwin, but that bout was scuttled after Carwin was pulled off to face Brock Lesnar at UFC 106. Velasquez wasn't pleased but said the change hasn't kept him from focusing on Rothwell.
"It was discouraging at first, but then you know I really can't dwell on it because then they gave me Ben Rothwell after that," he said. "I've got to focus on my task at hand, and you know that's getting a good fight with him. And pretty much I can't dwell on it. I do feel like I will be in that position (for a title fight), so it's still no problem."
The balance of the pay-per-view main card features three other compelling bouts, topped by perennial lightweight contenders Spencer Fisher (23-4 MMA, 8-3 UFC) and Joe Stevenson (30-10 MMA, 7-4 UFC). The free-swinging Fisher has strung together three straight victories but is still a couple of wins away from working his way up the crowded 155-pound ladder. Getting his hand raised against another tough vet like Stevenson is one he needs to keep his title-shot aspirations alive.
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Amazon names Premeditated Myrtle to annual list of Top 20 Children's Books for 2020
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Everyone needs some good news, right? In advance of Black Friday, this week Amazon announced its annual list of the Best Books of 2020. The list includes the Top 100 adult titles and the Top 120 children's titles broken down by target audience (20 titles named for each of baby to age 2, ages 3-5, ages 6-8, ages 9-12, young adult, and a separate category for non-fiction). Amazon went on to select the Top 20 Children's Books from this group. We're happy to report that frequent borg contributor Elizabeth C. Bunce's mystery Premeditated Myrtle was named to Amazon's Top 20 Children's Book of 2020!
Premeditated Myrtle was previously named an Amazon Best of the Month Editor's Pick and #1 Amazon New Release, and last month the second book in the series, How to Get Away with Myrtle, was a #1 Amazon New Release. Online webzines Netflix Life and Fansided included the Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series on its list of "7 Books to Read if You Like Enola Holmes on Netflix."
Elizabeth's first novel, A Curse Dark as Gold, won the American Library Association's inaugural William C. Morris Award for a young adult debut novel and was named a Smithsonian Notable Book. Her high fantasy Thief Errant series includes the novels StarCrossed, A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for 2010, and Liar's Moon, one of Kirkus Blog's Favorite YA Novels of 2011. StarCrossed and A Curse Dark as Gold have appeared on Oprah's Kid's Reading List. Her novels have been named to the ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list, and she is a three-time Kansas Notable Book winner. Elizabeth completed her eighth novel and third novel in the Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series, Cold-Blooded Myrtle last month–it is slated for release next year. Learn more about the series and major industry reviews of Elizabeth's books here.
In Premeditated Myrtle, readers will meet the quick-witted and fearless Myrtle Hardcastle, a twelve-year-old girl with an unseemly obsession with forensic science and criminology. When Myrtle's wealthy neighbor dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle is the first to notice anything amiss. With the help of her unflappable governess and opinionated cat Peony, Myrtle takes it upon herself to follow the clues investigators overlooked. As more evidence emerges, she begins to believe that the town prosecutor, her own father, is pursuing the wrong man. Myrtle pores over toxicology textbooks, interrogates suspects, and does the one thing no Young Lady of Quality is ever supposed to do: she Goes Outside Alone After Dark. Myrtle Hardcastle may be just a twelve-year-old girl, but she is not the type to sit by while grown men botch a murder investigation.
It's no surprise that Myrtle can't stay out of trouble for long, even when her father sends her off to the English seaside for some relaxation. In Book Two, How to Get Away with Myrtle, Myrtle, her governess, her insufferable Aunt Helena, and, of course, Peony the cat are loaded onto a private railway coach where Myrtle makes the acquaintance of Mrs. Bloom, a professional insurance investigator aboard to protect the priceless Northern Lights tiara. But before the train reaches its destination, the tiara vanishes and Myrtle discovers a body in the baggage car. The trip is derailed, the local police are inept, and Scotland Yard is in no rush to help. What's a bored aspiring detective stranded in a washed-up carnival town to do but follow the evidence to discover which of her fellow travelers is a thief and a murderer?
Other titles selected by Amazon for its Top 20 Children's Books of 2020 are Amy Timberlake and Jon Klassen's Skunk and Badger, Katherine Applegate's The One and Only Bob, Rita Lorraine Hubbard and Oge Mora's The Oldest Student, Jewell Parker Rhodes' Black Brother, Black Brother, Tami Charles and Bryan Collier's All Because You Matter, Tehlor Kay Mejia's Paolo Santiago and the River of Tears, Derrick Barnes and Gordon James' I Am Every Good Thing, Jacqueline Woodson's Before the Ever After, Jonathan Auxier and Olga Demidova's The Fabled Stables, Jerome and Jarrett Pumphrey's The Old Truck, Terry Fan's The Barnabus Project, Lev Grossman's The Silver Arrow, Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohammed's When Stars are Scattered, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt's Every Night is Pizza Night, Peter H. Reynolds' Be You, Chris Naylor-Ballesteros' The Suitcase, Frances Stickley and Anuska Allepuz's What Will You Dream of Tonight?, Ibram Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky's Antiracist Baby.
Elizabeth C. Bunce's Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series is published by Algonquin Young Readers, a division of Workman Publishing Company. Cover artwork for the series is created by Brett Helquist (A Series of Unfortunate Events) and Laura Williams.
Congratulations, Elizabeth!
C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg
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Out tomorrow: Amazon Best of the Month Editor's Pick and #1 Amazon New Release, Premeditated Myrtle, and #1 Amazon New Release, How to Get Away with Myrtle
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It's not every day you get to be part of a project that is exciting and fun. My wife, borg contributor, and author Elizabeth C. Bunce has been writing her Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series for a few years now. Prompted by a quick utterance of "premeditated murder" and a cat that showed up one night in the rain, a character and an idea took hold and before we knew it she had created and sold the first four books in a new series of mystery novels. But as Tom Petty said, "the waiting is the hardest part." Tomorrow, after the obligatory pandemic delay, not only does the first book, Premeditated Myrtle, arrive in bookstores, but the second installment, How to Get Away with Myrtle, too (available in hardcover, eBook, and audiobook). How often do you begin a new series and can hardly wait that next year for the second installment? Solved!
It's been exciting to watch Elizabeth build the story from the ground up, featuring 12-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle, an irrepressible and tenacious heroine living in England in 1893 as the sciences of criminology and forensics are taking off. Her father is a local prosecutor, and with her governess Miss Judson she forms a sort of dynamic duo, solving crimes as she faces the pressures of Victorian society and growing up with other kids whose interests are less… morbid. And the team is only complete with Peony, a truly opinionated neighbor cat, who joins her on her sleuthing.
"Bunce crafts a truly captivating murder mystery, throwing in a delicious mix of twists, red herrings, and relatives excluded from the family fortune…the book will make readers yearn for more of Myrtle's (mis)adventures." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Premeditated Myrtle is currently an Amazon Best of the Month Editor's Pick and #1 Amazon New Release, and last month How to Get Away with Myrtle was a #1 Amazon New Release (and is currently a #3 New Release). Last week Netflix Life and Fansided included the Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series on its list of "7 Books to Read if You Like Enola Holmes on Netflix."
"In the tradition of heroines like Flavia de Luce and Harriet the Spy, Myrtle is a fine example of the Victorian scientific female—smart, inquisitive and fearless," says Rhys Bowen, the New York Times bestselling author of the Her Royal Spyness series. "Written with a terrific mixture of humor and suspense, Premeditated Myrtle is a perfect read for any budding detective."
Elizabeth's first novel, A Curse Dark as Gold, won the American Library Association's inaugural William C. Morris Award for a young adult debut novel and was named a Smithsonian Notable Book. Her high fantasy Thief Errant series includes the novels StarCrossed, A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best book for 2010, and Liar's Moon, one of Kirkus Blog's Favorite YA Novels of 2011. StarCrossed and A Curse Dark as Gold have appeared on Oprah's Kid's Reading List. Her novels have been named to the ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults list, and she is a three-time Kansas Notable Book winner.
Here is more industry praise for Premeditated Myrtle and How to Get Away with Myrtle, coming to online and brick and mortar bookstores next week in the Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery Series:
Channeling classic Victorian whodunits, Bunce's detective series opener features a quirky, winning narrator and a lively secondary cast… A generous, well-wrought relationship between governess and charge complements tightly plotted twists… Myrtle is as clever as she is determined, and her expertise—seen in evidence collection and courtroom antics—is certain to delight genre stalwarts and mystery novices alike.
BOOKLIST STARRED REVIEW
There is something afoot at Redgraves… Myrtle's above-average intellect, passions for justice and science (an endearing blend of her parents' professions), fondness for detective stories, and predilection for asking questions make her the perfect person to investigate what is obviously a crime most foul. Written very much in the style of Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce mysteries, Myrtle's spirited investigation—aided by her governess, who champions the Socratic method of learning—is a joyful thing to behold. Well-crafted red herrings throw Myrtle and readers alike for a loop or two…Set in Victorian England, this mystery gleefully overturns sexist norms and celebrates independent women of intellect, with Myrtle Hardcastle leading the charge.
BOOKPAGE STARRED REVIEW
Premeditated Myrtle is a book young readers will love and adults may well sneak out of backpacks and off of nightstands for their own enjoyment… Myrtle has an investigator's tool kit and access to her prosecutor father's law library; she is curious to a fault, brave and persistent. Bunce keeps secondary characters grounded in reality as well—even a cat has an interesting character arc—and the quest to determine who killed Miss Wodehouse is as keenly plotted as the best adult cozy. Here's hoping for more adventures with this delightful, heroic protagonist.
BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Bunce crafts a truly captivating murder mystery, throwing in a delicious mix of twists, red herrings, and relatives excluded from the family fortune. Miss Judson and Myrtle work as a power duo, with Myrtle offering up big ideas and Judson giving those ideas practical applications. Myrtle is an entertaining protagonist, not afraid to get her hands dirty, sneak into mansions after dark to find a clue, or call out sexism of men toward her scientific interests or the racism toward her governess… the book will make readers yearn for more of Myrtle's (mis)adventures.
HORN BOOK MAGAZINE
This clever and lively Victorian English village murder mystery starring precocious twelve-year-old fledgling detective Myrtle Hardcastle has all the trappings: households with cooks and governesses and groundskeepers; church luncheons and afternoon teas; mysterious newcomers; missing wills. Also, poisoned elderly ladies… Bunce does an excellent job of making Myrtle the lead actor but gives her a strong set of (mostly female) supporters… Myrtle's narration is Arch with a capital A ("Dear Reader, kindly permit me to pause to properly introduce one of the Key Players in this narrative"), but it suits the novel's setting and subgenre to a T.
A saucy, likable heroine shines in a mystery marked by clever, unexpected twists.
Bunce fully utilizes the story's classic mystery settings (the train, a grand hotel full of unusual guests, and a small town of memorable characters) as she spiritedly chucks red herrings at readers and Myrtle alike. Humor and wit make the narrative sparkle, and, happily, Myrtle is as irrepressible as ever.
Readers who enjoyed Premeditated Myrtle will rejoice in this second installment featuring the plucky protagonist, her beautiful and multitalented governess Miss Judson, Peony the cat, and a whole new cast of strong female characters. References to Scotland Yard and investigative techniques will delight young Sherlock Holmes aficionados. The advanced vocabulary will send even the most sesquipedalian readers scurrying to the dictionary… VERDICT This deeply plotted sequel is an additional purchase for collections serving the most precocious readers who long for a fast-paced mystery where women shine.
Elizabeth will be appearing at several virtual events in the coming weeks beginning with a virtual book launch at Watermark Books, Tuesday, October 6, 2020.
Congratulations to Elizabeth on her book launch!
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First look–Artist Brett Helquist cover revealed for Elizabeth C. Bunce's How to Get Away with Myrtle
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We have a cover reveal today for borg readers! Take a look at this great cover by Brett Helquist, artist for A Series of Unfortunate Events and other great covers and picture books. It's for Elizabeth C. Bunce′s second novel in her Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries series, How to Get Away with Myrtle. As a result of prioritization by distributors and national shipping companies of food and other staples due to the pandemic crisis response, How to Get Away with Myrtle will now join the first book in the series, Premeditated Myrtle, to launch together as Fall 2020 releases, debuting October 6 (both are now available for pre-order here at Amazon). "I didn't think I could love a cover more than Brett's first for the series, and then… Wow! Here we are with the cover for Book 2 already," said Elizabeth. "We shared some ideas back and forth through the Algonquin publicity team. I love the complimentary color orange following that purple theme from Book 1. Putting that great locomotive out front sets the stage for this adventure, along with the image of the seaside resort as if it were pulled right off the brochure for the excursion service referenced in the novel. And, of course, Peony the Cat sneaked her way onto the cover again! Now that we have two paintings from Brett, it's really fun for me to see both covers side by side."
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First look–Brett Helquist cover revealed for Elizabeth C. Bunce's Premeditated Myrtle
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We have a cover reveal today for borg readers! Take a look at this great cover by Brett Helquist, artist for A Series of Unfortunate Events and other great covers and picture books. It's for Elizabeth C. Bunce′s next book, Premeditated Myrtle, now available for pre-order here at Amazon.
As readers over the past decade at borg know, one of our frequent contributors of book and TV reviews is author Elizabeth C. Bunce, whose first novel, A Curse Dark as Gold, I feature here every October as a recommended Halloween read. Next up for Elizabeth is Premeditated Myrtle, the first in a new mystery series in the tradition of Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, Miss Fisher, Flavia De Luce, and… Quincy, M.E. I, your humbled editor and Elizabeth's husband, have been watching Elizabeth build her mystery series from the ground up–the second book has been written and the third and fourth mysteries are underway! I know you're going to love the adventures of intrepid twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle and her equally intrepid cat Peony (who also made the cover if you look closely).
Myrtle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father's law books and her mum's microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England, in the year 1893. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and find the killer, even if nobody else believes her — not even her father, the town prosecutor.
"Covers are always a surprise for the author—seeing how someone else will envision your characters," said Elizabeth. "My agent leaked the news that Brett Helquist might be working on Premeditated Myrtle, so I had to pretend for months that I didn't know! I knew his work, of course, but what really sold me were his illustrations for A Christmas Carol. There are no ghosts in my Victorian mystery, but Brett did an amazing job capturing Myrtle's determined energy—and even more importantly, Peony the cat! We went back and forth on a couple of sketches for hair and clothing, but what never changed was Myrtle's perfect expression. The scene he chose to illustrate was one of my favorites to write, so it's been great fun watching it come to life in full color."
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The Archives & Museum was recently visited by the cast of the forthcoming production at Shakespeare's Globe, Bedlam. Playwright, Nell Leyshon, covered her own visit in an article in The Evening Standard: interestingly her conclusions bore remarkable similarity to those of the Illustrated London News correspondent who visited Bethlem in 1860. Remarking on what he saw as evident progress in the Hospital since the eighteenth century, this could do little to fill "the vast abyss of human mental misery."
We should remember that the progress remarked on in 1860 reflected much wider changes – in medical treatment (with the declining popularity of bleeding and purging as a standard response to both physical and mental disease), and the growth of the county asylum system, and an increasingly bureaucratic and professionalised mental health field. For some, however, seemingly outdated treatments continued popular: in 1860, one 38 year old housewife at Bethlem demanded to be cupped and bled "as the only means to relieve the distress of her head." The medical officers did not comply with her requests.
Yet, it seems fitting that Leyshon's play reflects the use of the word 'Bedlam' in the Globe's heyday. In the 1600s, the term entered popular parlance as a general term for insanity, chaos or riotousness, as well as referring specifically to the Hospital and its former inmates. In Shakespeare's King Lear, Edgar disguises himself as a "Tom o' Bedlam," a common term to refer to former inmates who might subsequently become wandering vagrants, while the Hospital itself appeared in the early Jacobean satire, Northward Ho, written by Thomas Dekker and John Webster. Such plays tend to provide romanticised or exaggerated views of asylums and the mad, for dramatic effect, humour, social commentary or political allegory. They provide better insights into the fears and obsessions at large in the world outside the hospital, than they do about conditions that actually obtained inside it. Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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