It's been more than 100 years since a wild wolf was known to live in Pennsylvania. However, there's one place in Lancaster County where the howls still echo at dusk – the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania.
The sanctuary is nestled along Hammer Creek in Elizabeth Township, among the heavily wooded northern edges of Lancaster County. The property is particularly endearing; it's a place where history and nature come to life. Dating to 1760, Speedwell Forge was built by James Old. He took a young man from Ireland – Robert Coleman – under his wing and taught him about the iron ore business. Coleman married Olds' daughter and went on to establish his own empire. The land remained in the Coleman family until 1942, when they sold 1,000 acres of the historic Speedwell Forge property to Gerald and Kathryn Darlington.
How did wolves come to roam the property? Nearly 40 years ago, it became illegal to keep wolves as pets in Pennsylvania. Having a few wolves as his best friends, the Darlingtons' son, William, was faced with the prospect of having to relinquish them to the authorities. However, he had a better idea and decided to file the appropriate paperwork to keep the wolves. His mission met with success. Then, the Pennsylvania Game Commission came to William with a wolf in need of a home, and the sanctuary was born.
Originally opened as a private wolf refuge, the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania has provided a safe home for dozens of wolves that would have otherwise been euthanized. The sanctuary provides a healthy and stimulating environment through which the wolves can also act as ambassadors to the preservation of their species. They are living reminders of the motto, "Extinct is Forever." In recent years, William's daughter, Dawn, has grown the sanctuary into an environmental education center through which the thousands of people who visit in a year's time can learn about the biology and conservation of wolves.
I have vivid memories of visiting the sanctuary on a field trip as a kid. Now I get to experience it all over again through my children; I enjoy sharing their excitement and the wonder in their eyes as they learn about these beautiful and fascinating creatures.
The sanctuary offers wonderful public and private tours throughout the week on a year-round basis. A favorite with fans of the wolves are the full-moon tours (the next one is November 4). Other special educational events fill the calendar, as well.
There's also a relatively new aspect of the sanctuary. In 2005, Dawn saw her dreams become a reality, when she finished restoring the ironmaster's mansion and re-opened it as the gorgeous Speedwell Forge Bed & Breakfast. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. While Dawn is honored to host guests in one of the three mansion rooms or in one of the three more secluded cottages on the property, she is also honored to be carrying on the legacy of the wolf sanctuary started by her father.
The sanctuary is only able to continue its important conservation work through the generous donations of its supporters and visitors. This year the sanctuary will be taking part in the Lancaster Community Foundation's Extraordinary Give event on November 17. Be sure to visit extragive.org on Lancaster's biggest day of giving and show your support for the wolves and their cause!
To learn about the Wolf Sanctuary of Pennsylvania, visit wolfsanctuarypa.org. For the B&B, visit speedwellforge.com.


Anyone can write their own psalm and this can be a wonderful spiritual practice. Go to a quiet place, preferably outdoors and spend some time looking around you.
What catches your attention? Bird song? The breeze? A tree or flower?
What do you notice? Look closely.
What does that thing you notice tell you about God? About yourself?
Write your thoughts. This is your psalm.


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The Nina Hancock Cameo Stripe Pastel Pink Wallpaper is a beautiful alternative to the other cameo design from the Brockhall Wallpaper Collection. This delightful wallpaper has a vintage inspired design and is sure to make a welcome addition to any room. The wallpaper features a cameo inspired design in a beautiful striped concept and is perfect for updating a bedroom or living room this season.
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States pressed for limits on gray wolf protections
BILLINGS, Mont.—Wildlife officials from western states lobbied for strict limits on federal protections for gray wolves before the Obama administration proposed to take the animals off the endangered list across most of the Lower 48 states, documents show.
During private meetings with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state officials threatened lawsuits and legislation as they pressed to exclude Colorado and Utah from a small area in the West where protections would remain in place.
The documents suggest the animal's fate was decided through political bargaining between state and federal officials, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
The nonprofit group obtained the records through a freedom of information lawsuit and provided them to The Associated Press.
"In simplest terms, these documents detail how the gray wolf lost a popularity contest among wildlife managers," Ruch said.
Fish and Wildlife Service Assistant Director Gary Frazer rejected the assertion. He said science drove the administration's proposal, and the released documents reflect only a small portion of a years-long review of the legal status of gray wolves.
"It was not going in with some predetermined outcome," he said of the meetings with state officials. "It was to step back and engage experts from the state and federal agencies that are responsible for managing wolves."
The administration's plan unveiled earlier this month would declare gray wolves are only endangered in a relatively small part of the Southwest inhabited by a few dozen Mexican wolves—a subspecies of the gray wolf.
Meanwhile, gray wolves would lose protections on millions of acres in Colorado and Utah—an area the wildlife service earlier had said was suitable for wolves but currently has none of the predators.
The documents from 2010 and 2011 include detailed notes from closed-door meetings between state and federal officials, presentations by federal wildlife experts, and maps of potential wolf habitat.
The meetings laid the groundwork for the administration's proposal, which is expected to be finalized next year. It reflects the federal government's desire to largely exit the wolf restoration business following protracted and hotly contested programs in the northern Rocky Mountains and western Great Lakes.
More than 6,000 wolves now roam those two regions after government-sponsored poisoning and trapping nearly exterminated wolves in the past century.
But with vast areas of wild habitat still devoid of gray wolves, some wildlife researchers and advocacy groups say it's too soon to say the species has recovered.
The documents show the government weighed a variety of factors beyond gray wolf survival, including economic impact on the livestock industry, public tolerance and other issues outside the scope of the Endangered Species Act.
Frazer said the government didn't take anything off the table during its discussions with the states but stressed that its final decision would be based solely on the authority provided by the act.
Under the pending proposal, Mexican wolves that spread into Colorado, Utah or other states still would be protected. That would not be true for wolves that dispersed south from the much larger northern Rockies population.
Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton said the state supports the administration's plan. He declined to comment on how the federal government reached its conclusions.
Michigan Technological University biologist John Vucetich, a member of a scientific panel that advised the Fish and Wildlife Service on Mexican wolves, said the agency gave states too much deference. The panel's experts agreed that the Mexican wolf population would need to reach around 700 animals and cover significant parts of Colorado and Utah to survive in the long term, he said.
"It's almost as if the real limiting factor to wolves right now is not the intolerance of citizens who are shooting them," he said. "It's the intolerance of federal government to keep working on the problem."
Flesher reported from Traverse City, Mich.

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«Интуиция против соблазна» () — американское развлекательное реалити-шоу, премьера которого состоялась в США 8 января 2007 года на канале Lifetime Television. Всего шоу насчитывает 18 выпусков.

Сюжет

В этом шоу, в каждой передаче девушке представляют трёх молодых людей. Она должна пообщаться с ними, а возможно подвергнуть и какому-нибудь шуточному испытанию или конкурсу, и выбрать того, кого она хочет видеть своим спутником. Однако после знакомства с ребятами, раздаются поочерёдно два звонка — от девушки, утверждающей, что один из ребят — её кавалер, а также от парня, рассказывающего, что один из парней — гей, к тому же его молодой человек.

Таким образом, есть три варианта: один свободный парень, один юноша, связанный отношениями, и один парень-гей. Теперь цель девушки — выяснить, кто из парней есть кто, а главное правильно выбрать свободного — тогда она отправится вместе с ним в путешествие. Если же она не угадает, в путешествие отправится молодой человек, которого она выбрала вместе со своей партнёршей или партнёром.

О шоу

Название шоу в оригинале — «Гей, натурал или занятый?».

В силу условий отбора конкурсантов, шоу носит комедийный характер. Кроме того, создатели утверждают, что они таким образом пытались разрушить существующие стереотипы о геях и мужчинах традиционной сексуальной ориентации.

Эпизоды

Все эпизоды вышли в эфир в США в 2007 году.

Показ в других странах

 Австралия — Arena TV
 Бразилия — Multishow
 Великобритания — Five Life
 Италия — SKY Uno
 Нидерланды — RTL 5
 Польша — MTV Польша
 Россия — MTV Россия (Мужчин озвучил Евгений Рыбов, а девушку-ведущую — Мария Трындяйкина)
 Турция — Foxlife

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт
 Шоу на сайте TV.Com

Телесериалы ЛГБТ-тематики США
Реалити-шоу США
Программы телеканала Lifetime

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In recent years, data theft by hackers continuously occurrence. Firewall is an important part of network security, it is responsible for filtering unnecessary network connections to protect organization''s internal network.Firewall mechanism for filtering packets is through the records rules in the ACL to make a decision.Firewall mechanism for filtering packets is through the records rules in the ACL to make a decision.therefore, the rules in the ACL and the rules order and the ACL deployment all must have to be careful. Unexpected behavior when the firewall filtering rules, in this article we call the rule as Anomaly Rule.The goal of this paper is in knowing the multi-firewalls under the condition of network topology, by the abstract firewall model, we transforms each firewall in network topology to the correspondence abstract firewall (AFW), then each AFW by way of sequential path validation and parallel path validation to verify rules between multi-firewalls whether there exists anomaly rules, if exists anomaly rules,notify the network administrators to modify, after the modification is completed, it''s represent the AFW of this network topology. By this AFW as an intermediary, enabling the network administrators to go through this AFW to ckeck accuracy of firewalls network.


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Corporate Certificates and By-Laws
Acquisition by CNRL
ESTMA Reporting
Plans of Arrangement and Tax Info
Highlights and Outlook
Core Area Review
Acquisition by CNRLcurious2021-12-10T08:36:53-05:00
Storm Resources Ltd. has entered into a definitive arrangement agreement with Canadian Natural Resources Limited pursuant to which the purchaser has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Storm for cash consideration of $6.28 per Storm share.
Storm's Board unanimously recommends that Shareholders vote FOR the arrangement resolution.
To receive your $6.28 (CAD) in cash per Common Share, Storm shareholders must vote to approve the acquisition by Canadian Natural Resources Limited at the upcoming Storm Resources Ltd. Special Meeting of Securityholders on December on 15, 2021 (the "Meeting"). Storm's Board of Directors unanimously recommends securityholders vote FOR the transaction.
Key Transaction Highlights:
All Cash Premium to Market Trading Prices. The purchase price of $6.28 represents an all-time high share price for Storm as well as a premium of approximately 10% to Storm's 10-day volume weighted average trading price on the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") as of the close of markets on November 9, 2021.
Attractive Value for Storm Shareholders. The purchase price of $6.28 per share implies an enterprise value for Storm of approximately $960 million including transaction related expenses and decommissioning obligations. The resulting transaction metric is estimated to be 7.5 times annualized funds flow in the first six months of 2021 or 6.1 times excluding loss on risk management contracts (hedging losses).
Why Vote FOR of the Transaction:
Immediate cash liquidity at an all-time high share price at time of announcement
Attractive value for shareholders at a 51.3% premium over the price 2 months prior to the announcement and an approximately 10% premium to Storm's 10-day VWAP on the Toronto Stock Exchange prior to announcement
Cash payment removes ongoing risks related to commodity volatility, market volatility, royalty changes, unknown regulatory developments, financing and execution challenges.
Only Storm Shareholders of record at the close of business on November 15, 2021, are entitled to vote at the Meeting.
If you have a TWELVE (12) digit control number on your Form of Proxy or Voting Instruction Form
Online: http://www.alliancetrust.ca/shareholders
Mail: Alliance Trust Company, 1010, 407 – 2nd Street S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 2Y3
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For Further Details:
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Modern art is an important period in the history of art. Before 1945, all styles and practices were linked. But after the war, it was replaced by contemporary art. It is an art that consists of talented people freely expressing their feelings through their works. But did you know that it was the intervention of an artist that completely changed the course of history?
What is contemporary art?
It is all the works created and published by artists from 1945 to the present day. It involves the style, aesthetic practices and, in particular, the plastic art of this time. Indeed, contemporary art replaced modern art from 1850 to 1945. At that time, the visions of the artists were unknown to everyone. This even led to debates in society.
Nowadays, contemporary art encompasses several trends. There is, for example, the famous "Pop Art", "Street Art" and "digital art". There are also other current artistic productions such as photography, painting and sculptures. Moreover, these can be found everywhere, whether in museums or on the street.
The precursors of contemporary art
After the war, Marcel Duchamp is known as the first precursor of the evolution of art. He was an artist in the field of painting and plastic art. He created the "Fountain", a kind of inverted porcelain urinal. It was with this work that he was able to revolutionise his talent. As a result, his work remains the most controversial of the 20th century.
Subsequently, many contemporary artists were influenced and they began to show their work in the open. This is the case with Michel Journiac, a French artist who made Messe pour un corps. The same goes for Chris Burden and his body art, which was exceptionally powerful and provocative.
Current and former contemporary artists
In 1956, painters Jirō Yoshihara and Saburō Murakami produced a performance that changed the history of art in the 20th century. Their exhibition embodied a revolution in the free art of the body in an innovative way in Tokyo. A little further on, there is Matthew Barney, an American artist. He produced art by exposing his body to very complex artistic experiments.
Nowadays, many contemporary artists have appeared. For example, Casey Jenkins and his performance art in knitting. Not to mention Tino Sehgal, a British artist who focuses more on the body and social interactions.
Contemporary art is therefore an activity that brings together artists from the 1940s and their works with those of today. Even if the styles and fields are different, their goals are the same: to showcase their unique art in a free way.
Famous artists are generally those who have succeeded in marking their era in an original way. This specificity of the art they put forward and perpetuate contributes to their success.
A museum or a gallery generally launches the career of an artist. But the latter can also ensure the notoriety of these places of exhibition, if he already has a recognition.
Art Evaluation
If you don't understand why one painting costs more than another, ask about its history. The context or state of mind in which the artist created it is important.


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Q: AWS Vpn routing to multiple subnets We have a VPN setup with two static routes
10.254.18.0/24
10.254.19.0/24
We have a problem that we can only ever communicate from AWS - to one of the above blocks at a time. At some times it is .18 and at other times it is .19 - I cannot figure out what is the trigger.
I never have any problem communicating from either of my local subnets out to aws at the same time.
Kinda stuck here. Any suggestions?
What have we tried? Well the 'firewall' guys said they dont see anything being blocked. But I read another post here that stated the same thing and the problem still ended up being the firewall.
Throughout the course of playing with this the "good" subnet has flipped 3 times. Meaning

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*Right now I can talk to .19 but not .18

*10 min ago I could talk to .18 but not .19

It just keeps flipping.

A: We've been able to get this resolved. We changed the static routes configured in AWS from:

*

*10.254.18.0/24

*10.254.19.0/24

To use instead:

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*10.254.18.0/23

This will encompass all the addresses we need and has resolved the issue. Here was Amazon's response:

Hello,
Thank you for contacting AWS support. I can understand you have issues
  with reaching your two subnets: 10.254.18.0/24 and 10.254.19.0/24 at
  the same time from AWS.
I am pretty sure I know why this is happening. On AWS, we can accept
  only one SA (security association) pair. On your firewall, the
  "firewall" guys must have configured policy based VPN. In policy/ACL
  based VPN, if you create following policys for eg:  1) source
  10.254.18.0/24 and destination "VPC CIDR" 2) source 10.254.19.0/24 and destination "VPC CIDR"
                     OR 1) source "10.254.18.0/24, 10.254.19.0/24" and destination "VPC CIDR"
In both the cases, you will form 2 SA pairs as we have two different
  source mentioned in the policy/ACL. You just have to use source as
  "ANY" or "10.254.0.0/16" or "10.254.0.0/25", etc. We would prefer if
  you can use source as "ANY" then micro-manage the traffic using
  VPN-filters if you are using Cisco ASA device. How to use VPN-filters
  is given in the configuration file for CISCO ASA. If you are using
  some other device then you will have to find a solution accordingly.
  If your device supports route based VPN then I would advice you to
  configure route based VPN. Route based VPNs always create only one SA
  pair.
Once you find a solution to create only one ACL/Policy on your
  firewall, you will be able to reach both the networks at the same
  time. I can see multiple SA formation on your VPN. This is the reason
  why you cannot reach both the subnets at the same time.
If you have any additional questions feel free to update the case and
  we will respond to them.

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Audiobook Review - Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs @Mercys_Garage @PenguinAudio
Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs
Narrated by Lorelei King
Series: Mercy Thompson #7
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Date Read: August 22, 2017 (2nd read)
Source: Purchased - Audible
Length: 10 hours 1 minutes
Mercy Thompson returns in the seventh novel in the number-one New York Times best-selling series.
Mercy Thompson's life has undergone a seismic change. Becoming the mate of Adam Hauptman - the charismatic Alpha of the local werewolf pack - has made her a stepmother to his daughter, Jesse, a relationship that brings moments of blissful normalcy to Mercy's life. But on the edges of humanity, what passes for a minor mishap on an ordinary day can turn into so much more....
After an accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and Jesse can't reach Adam - or anyone else in the pack for that matter. They've all been abducted.
Through their mating bond, all Mercy knows is that Adam is angry and in pain. With the werewolves fighting a political battle to gain acceptance from the public, Mercy fears Adam's disappearance may be related - and that he and the pack are in serious danger. Outclassed and on her own, Mercy may be forced to seek assistance from any ally she can get, no matter how unlikely.
Amazon | Audible | BAM! | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Kobo
This was another great installment in an excellent series. I have been working my way through an audio re-read of this amazing series over the course of this year. It surprises me how much I am enjoying this series during my re-read. This book isn't one of my favorites in the series but it was really good. I wanted to listen to this book for hours at a time because I wanted to stay with Mercy and the gang and make sure that everything would work out for them.
This book opens with Mercy and Jesse doing some black Friday shopping. Mercy gets into a small traffic accident while they were out which really shouldn't have been a big deal. They realize that there is a problem when they can't reach Adam or any other member of the pack when they call for a ride home. The entire pack has been abducted.
Mercy is such a strong character and great leader. She takes her role as Adam's mate seriously and works to keep everyone she safe. There is quite a bit of excitement as she works to protect the few connected to the pack that were not taken. She is able communicate with Adam through her mate bond so she isn't completely unaware of things that are happening.
I really enjoyed spending time with some of my favorite characters. Mercy was incredibly brave and smart in this story. She is willing to sacrifice her own safety to keep others safe when needed. Adam was fierce at times but such a great leader and protector. I do wish that Mercy and Adam hadn't been separated so much during this story. I really enjoyed the focus on Ben, Tad, and Asil in this book since they are characters that we don't always see a lot of.
Once again Lorelei King does a fantastic job with the narration. There were a few sections of this book that were told from Adam's point of view and I thought she did a great job with those. She really does bring Mercy to life. There is so much emotion that really comes through in her narration. She is quickly becoming one of my favorite narrators and I look forward to listening to more of her work soon.
I would highly recommend this series to others. This is my second time experiencing this book but it will not be my last. It is simply wonderful to find a series of books that you know you will enjoy no matter how many times you read them. I can't wait to listen to the next book very soon.
The Series - Mercy Thompson
Book 1 - Moon Called
Book 2 - Blood Bound
Book 3 - Iron Kissed
Book 4 - Bone Crossed
Book 5 - Silver Borne
Book 6 - River Marked
Book 7 - Frost Burned
Book 8 - Night Broken
Book 9 - Fire Touched
Book 10 - Silence Fallen
Click the links to read my reviews for the other books in this series!
Photo: © Mike Briggs
#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs lives in Washington State with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.
Author Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter
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Waiting on Wednesday - White Trash Zombie Unchained
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
My Waiting on Wednesday pick is:
White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland
Series: White Trash Zombie #6
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group DAW
Publication Date: September 5, 2017
Sixth in the dark and funny zombie series that "shines in a crowded genre" (USA Today).
Angel Crawford has finally pulled herself together (literally!) after her disastrous dismemberment on Mardi Gras. She's putting the pieces of her life back in order and is ready to tackle whatever the future holds.
Too bad the future is a nasty bitch. There's a new kind of zombie in town: mindless shamblers, infectious and ravenous.
With the threat of a full-blown shambler pandemic looming, and a loved one stricken, Angel and the "real" zombies scramble to find a cure. Yet when Angel uncovers the true reason the plague is spreading so quickly, she adds "no-holds-barred revenge" to her to-do list.
Angel is busting her ass dealing with shambling hordes, zombie gators, government jerks, and way too many mosquitos, but this white trash chick ain't giving up.
Good thing, since the fate of the world is resting on her undead shoulders.
Pre-Order: Amazon | BAM! | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Kobo
Why Am I Waiting?
I have really enjoyed this series so far and I am looking forward to this newest installment. I have been slowly making my way through the series in audio. I still need to listen to the fifth book but plan to do so soon so that I am ready for this newest one once it is available in audio. Allison McLemore does such a fantastic job narrating this series that I couldn't imagine experiencing it any other way. This book should prove to be a lot of zombie fun!
What are you waiting for this week?
New Releases - August 29, 2017 #newreleases #newbooks
It's Tuesday! That means it is time to make a little bit of room on the bookshelves, load up your ereader, or make your way to your local library. In other words - It is time to get your hands on a new book!
Here are just a few books that have just been released that you may want to grab soon:
So I Married a Sorcerer by Kerrelyn Sparks
Find it at:
Goodreads | Booklikes | LibraryThing
Amazon | BAM! | B&N | IndieBound | Kobo
See my review!
Growing up on the Isle of Moon, Brigitta knows nothing of her past, except that she is Embraced: born with powers that forced her into hiding. Everything changes when she learns she's a princess, hidden away from her villainous half-brother who now rules the kingdom. But he knows about Brigitta, and he'll do anything to get her back. Unless a certain roguish pirate has anything to say about it…
Rupert is both an infamous pirate and a sorcerer with the power to harness the wind. He's been waiting nineteen years for revenge—and he needs Brigitta to get it. What begins as a kidnapping of the fiery beauty turns into a fierce attraction. But can he win the captive princess's heart?
Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller
Sallot Leon is a thief, and a good one at that. But gender fluid Sal wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class and the nobles who destroyed their home.
When Sal Leon steals a poster announcing open auditions for the Left Hand, a powerful collection of the Queen's personal assassins named for the rings she wears -- Ruby, Emerald, Amethyst, and Opal -- their world changes. They know it's a chance for a new life.
Except the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries, and vicious ex-soldiers. A childhood as a common criminal hardly prepared Sal for the trials. But Sal must survive to put their real reason for auditioning into play: revenge.
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.
Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.
Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, and watches, heart in throat, as she struggles to become her own hero--and in the process, becomes ours as well.
Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
Wild Ride Cowboy by Maisey Yates
He's come back to Copper Ridge, Oregon, to keep a promise—even if it means losing his heart…
Putting down roots in Copper Ridge was never Alex Donnelly's intention. But if there's one thing the ex-military man knows, it's that life rarely unfolds as expected. If it did, his best friend and brother-in-arms would still be alive. And Alex wouldn't have inherited a ranch or responsibility for his late comrade's sister—a woman who, despite her inexperience, can bring tough-as-iron Alex to his knees.
Clara Campbell didn't ask for a hero to ride in and fix her ranch and her life. All she wants is the one thing stubborn, honorable Alex is reluctant to give: a chance to explore their intense chemistry. But Clara has a few lessons to teach him, too…about trusting his heart and his instincts, and letting love take him on the wildest adventure of all.
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Review - Ready to Run by Lauren Layne @_laurenlayne @readloveswept
Ready to Run by Lauren Layne
Series: I Do, I Don't #1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept
Date Read: August , 2017
The Bachelor meets The Runaway Bride in this addictive romance novel about a reality TV producer falling for her would-be star: a Montana heartthrob who wants nothing to do with the show.
Jordan Carpenter thinks she's finally found the perfect candidate for Jilted, a new dating show about runaway grooms: Luke Elliott, a playboy firefighter who's left not one but three brides at the altar. The only problem? Luke refuses to answer Jordan's emails or return her calls. Which is how she ends up on a flight to Montana to recruit him in person. It's not Manhattan but at least the locals in Lucky Hollow seem friendly . . . except for Luke, who's more intense—and way hotter—than the slick womanizer Jordan expected.
Eager to put the past behind him, Luke has zero intention of following this gorgeous, fast-talking city girl back to New York. But before he can send her packing, Jordan's everywhere: at his favorite bar, the county fair, even his exes' book club. Annoyingly, everyone in Lucky Hollow seems to like her—and deep down, she's starting to grow on him too. But the more he fights her constant pestering, the more Luke finds himself wishing that Jordan would kick off her high heels and make herself comfortable in his arms.
This romance was just charming! I am not usually too eager to read wedding themed books but I like Lauren Layne's writing enough that I knew I had to read this one. This was a really fun premise with most of the wedding talk being about a groom who had a history of leaving his brides at the alter. Throw in a reality show wanting to capitalize on that and and you have a great set up. This was just a lot of fun to read and I enjoyed every page of it.
Jordan comes to Lucky Hollow with one thing on her mind. She is determined to secure Luke Elliott, the hunky local firefighter, for a new TV show. Luke has left 3 brides standing at the alter and seems to be the perfect choice for the new reality TV show. There is only one problem. Luke isn't interested. At all. Jordan refuses to give up too quickly so she settles in for an extended stay in the small town of Lucky Hollow.
Luke is an all around good guy. He works for the local fire department and has a great group of friends. He is not at all interested in the attention he is getting in regards to possibly staring in a new reality show. He has had 3 relationships end poorly but he has moved on with his life. The entire town seems to want him to sign on for the show and they have all become friends with Jordan.
I really enjoyed Jordan and Luke as a couple. They started out as adversaries because of the TV show before giving into their attraction to each other. Even when they were arguing with each other, they had some great chemistry. They seemed to be really good together anytime they shared a scene. They both had some painful events in their past that were heartbreaking.
I would recommend this book to fans of contemporary romance. This was a really fun story filled with wonderful characters. It was one of those story that leaves you with a big grin on your face by the time you get to the last page. I can't wait to read more of this new series soon!
I received an advance reader edition of this book from Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept via NetGalley.
Lauren Layne is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen romantic comedies.
A former e-commerce and web marketing manager from Seattle, Lauren relocated to New York City in 2011 to pursue a full-time writing career.
She lives in midtown Manhattan with her high-school sweetheart, where she writes smart romantic comedies with just enough sexy-times to make your mother blush. In LL's ideal world, every stiletto-wearing, Kate Spade wielding woman would carry a Kindle stocked with Lauren Layne books.
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Stacking the Shelves #84
I am really excited to participate in Stacking the Shelves, a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality.
So...I didn't win the Powerball. I tried though if that counts for anything. On Monday, I saw the solar eclipse and it was actually pretty amazing. Since my area was in near totality, people were pretty excited. We got to go home early from work (which I found very exciting) and I watched it from my house with my 3 dogs. My husband and I went to a Cardinals game on Tuesday which was fun even though the Cardinals lost horribly. On Wednesday night, I got to play with my 3 year old niece and nephew and I learned that I am pretty popular with the 3 year old crowd. Friday night was the first marching band performance of the year...and there may have been a football game going on as well :)
All in all a busy week. Reading was rather slow just because of how many things were on my calendar. Starting next week, things should slow down just a bit.
Perfect Gravity by Vivien Jackson (NetGalley)
To Marry a Texas Outlaw by Linda Broday (NetGalley)
Blackwing by Ed McDonald (NetGalley)
Heart on Fire by Amanda Bouchet (Edelweiss)
I actually have a copy of Blackwing from First to Read but cannot get the file to open so I decided to request it on NetGalley ~ I have pretty high hopes for this one. I read Knight on the Texas Plains a couple of months ago and loved it so I decided to request the newest Linda Broday novel. I have been wanting to start reading the Tether series by Vivien Jackson ~ it sounds like my kind of read. I am super excited to be approved for Heart on Fire and will most likely start reading it right away.
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden (ARC from publisher)
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Finished copy from publisher)
I really excited to start reading The Girl and the Tower and am thrilled to have a copy of The Bear and the Nightingale for my bookshelves. Thank you Random House - Del Ray!
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Review - So I Married a Sorcerer by Kerrelyn Sparks @KerrelynSparks @SMPRomance
Series: The Embraced #2
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Read: August 21, 2017
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I loved this book! I enjoyed the first book in the series, How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days, so I was really excited to start reading this book. This book was just as good as I had hoped it would be. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to put it down and ended up reading almost the entire novel in a single day. I didn't want it to end because I was having such a good time getting lost in this magical world. This really was a joy to read.
Brigitta and her sisters from the Isle of Moon are on their way to be with Luciana. During their travels, their boat becomes a target and Brigitta learns that she is actually a princess. She ends up on Rupert's pirate ship along with a nun to act as her protector. Rupert is a pirate and is known as a sorcerer. He has the power to control the wind which turns out to be rather handy while at sea.
I really liked Brigitta and Rupert together. They just clicked right from the start. They had a lot of things in common and just seemed to connect with each other and had a lot of chemistry. Their relationship did move pretty fast but it worked with in the context of the story. I loved that Brigitta and Rupert had equally exciting backgrounds and I wanted to keep learning more about each of them.
This book was incredibly exciting to read. There were a lot of scenes that were just filled with action. I loved how Brigitta and Rupert's special abilities were described in this story. I wouldn't have imagined how exciting the power to control the wind could really turn out to be. This book really does a little bit of everything with some really funny moments worked into the story and a pretty entertaining secondary romance.
I would highly recommend this book to fans of paranormal romance. While I do think it is possible to read this book as a stand alone novel, I think this series is best enjoyed in order. I cannot wait to get my hands on the next book in this delightfully entertaining series.
I received an advance reader edition of this book from St. Martin's Press.
Book #1 - How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days - My Review
Book #2 - So I Married a Sorcerer
Book #3 - Eight Simple Rules for Dating a Dragon - Coming March 27, 2018!
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Kerrelyn Sparks apparently has issues with reality. After writing more than a dozen books about vampires, she has now completely gone off the deep end and wound up on another planet. But how thrilling that she can share this magical new world with her readers! Although she is best known (so far) for the Love at Stake series, which has hit as high as number 5 on the New York Times list and 22 on the USA Today list, she hopes her readers will love The Embraced as much as they did her merry band of vamps and shifters. To learn more about her paranormal, historical, and upcoming out-of-this-world fantasy romances, please visit Kerrelyn on Facebook, Twitter, or her website at www.kerrelynsparks.com.
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Audiobook Review - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel @neuvel @randomhouse
A Quick Note About this Review
I originally read and reviewed this book back in April 2016 (see review). At that time, I liked the book but I didn't love it. I actually only gave it 3 stars. I saw a few people saying how good the audiobook was and when I saw it on sale, I decided to pick it up. I was amazed by how much I enjoyed this book in audio. Since my thoughts are so different this time around, I thought I should write a review based on this reading experience.
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Narrated by Full Cast
Series: Themis Files #1
An inventive debut in the tradition of World War Z and The Martian, told in interviews, journal entries, transcripts, and news articles, Sleeping Giants is a literary thriller fueled by a quest for truth - and a fight for control of earthshaking power.
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.
Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.
But some can never stop searching for answers.
Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of relic. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history's most perplexing discovery - and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?
This was really good! Amazingly good! I am kind of thinking that I am a big dummy for not realizing how good it was when I read the book last year. I liked it the first time around but I wasn't nearly as impressed as I was with this listen. I really do think that the narration of this story took everything to a whole new level. I listened to it over just a few days and really never wanted to stop listening. I am so glad that I decided to give this book another try.
This story is quite imaginative. Rose falls into a hole as a small child and discovers what appears to be the hand of a giant metal robot. I was hooked right away. The entire premise is just so interesting and I loved watching this group try to figure everything out. Since I had read this book just a year ago, I already knew how things would play out but that didn't lessen the excitement for me.
This book is laid out a little differently than the norm. Instead of a running narrative, this story relies on a series of interviews, reports, and journal entries. The interviews are conducted by a character that doesn't have a hands on role with the project but seems to have a lot of power over everything that is going on. I found myself not only trying to figure out what was going on with the project but also trying to get some kind of clue regarding the identity of the nameless character.
One of the main reasons that I decided to give this story another try was the fact that this audiobook is performed by a full cast. Having read the book before, I had a feeling that if done right this audiobook could be amazing. I was right. I almost felt like I was listening to a play being performed. Each character in the book had a different narrator. Interviews would be conducted back and forth between two narrators. The narrators were all really good and captured the characters very well.
I would highly recommend this book to others. If you are someone who enjoys audiobooks, I would recommend that format if you have the option. The full cast production of this audiobook really does take a good story to a whole new level. I can't wait to continue with this series.
SYLVAIN NEUVEL dropped out of high school at age fifteen. Along the way, he has been a journalist, worked in soil decontamination, sold ice cream in California, and peddled furniture across Canada. He received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago. He taught linguistics in India and worked as a software engineer in Montreal. He is also a certified translator though he wishes he were an astronaut. He likes to tinker, dabbles in robotics, and is somewhat obsessed with Halloween. He absolutely loves toys; his girlfriend would have him believe that he has too many, so he writes about aliens and giant robots as a blatant excuse to build action figures (for his son, of course).
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Waiting on Wednesday - Holiday Wishes
Holiday Wishes by Jill Shalvis
Series: Heartbreaker Bay #4.5
Publisher: Avon Impulse
It's Christmastime again in Heartbreaker Bay!
When Sean O'Riley shows up at the Hartford Bed & Breakfast for his older brother's bachelor weekend, he's planning to get through this weekend as well as he can and fulfill his duties as best man. What he's not expecting is to come face to face with the woman he lost his virginity to a decade ago - a woman he's never really forgotten.
The last time Lotti Hartford saw Sean, she told him she loved him while he said nothing. Now, ten years later, she's just looking for a good time. For once, she wants to be wild and free, and when she sees how good Sean grew up, she thinks he might actually be the perfect candidate.
As the weekend continues, Sean realizes that after a lifetime of being the hook-up king, he's ready to find happily-ever-after with Lotti. But is she ready to open her heart once again? As Christmas sweeps through the little B&B, love and magic are in the air.
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I am really enjoying the Heartbreaker Bay series so I am pretty eager to get my hands on this novella. I am a fan of second chance romances so this one really appeals to me.
Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore
A magically inspiring tale of a man who is reincarnated through many lifetimes so that he can be with his one true love: Death herself.
What if you could live forever—but without your one true love? Reincarnation Blues is the story of a man who has been reincarnated nearly 10,000 times, in search of the secret to immortality so that he can be with his beloved, the incarnation of Death. Neil Gaiman meets Kurt Vonnegut in this darkly whimsical, hilariously profound, and wildly imaginative comedy of the secrets of life and love. Transporting us from ancient India to outer space to Renaissance Italy to the present day, is a journey through time, space, and the human heart.
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Shattered by Allison Brennan
Over a span of twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried nearby in a shallow grave. Serial killer or coincidence?
That's the question investigative reporter Maxine Revere sets out to answer when an old friend begs her to help exonerate his wife, who has been charged with their son's recent murder. But Max can do little to help because the police and D.A. won't talk to her―they think they have the right woman. Instead, Max turns her attention to three similar cold cases. If she can solve them, she might be able to help her friend.
Justin Stanton was killed twenty years ago, and his father wants closure―so he is willing to help Max with her investigation on one condition: that she work with his former sister-in-law― Justin's aunt, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid. Trouble is, Max works alone, and she's livid that her only access to the case files, lead detective and witnesses depends on her partnering with a federal agent on vacation. She wants the career-making story almost as much as the truth―but if she gets this wrong, she could lose everything.
Haunted by Justin's death for years, Lucy yearns to give her family―and herself―the closure they need. More important, she wants to catch a killer. Lucy finds Max's theory on all three cases compelling―with Max's research added to Lucy's training and experience, Lucy believes they can find the killer so justice can finally be served. But the very private Lucy doesn't trust the reporter any more than Max trusts her.
Max and Lucy must find a way to work together to untangle lies, misinformation, and evidence to develop a profile of the killer. But the biggest question is: why were these boys targeted? As they team up to find out what really happened the night Justin was killed, they make a shocking discovery: Justin's killer is still out there … stalking another victim … and they already may be too late.
Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
From the bestselling author of the beloved The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes another perfect fable for our times--a story about women, choices, and recovering from past mistakes.
Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late‑night talk show punchline; she is slut‑shamed, labeled as fat and ugly, and considered a blight on politics in general.
How does one go on after this? In Aviva's case, she sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. She tries to start over as a wedding planner, to be smarter about her life, and to raise her daughter to be strong and confident. But when, at the urging of others, she decides to run for public office herself, that long‑ago mistake trails her via the Internet like a scarlet A. For in our age, Google guarantees that the past is never, ever, truly past, that everything you've done will live on for everyone to know about for all eternity. And it's only a matter of time until Aviva/Jane's daughter, Ruby, finds out who her mother was, and is, and must decide whether she can still respect her.
A novel about a world that continues to want to define what women are and what they can, and cannot, do, Young Jane Young follows three generations of women, plus the wife of the Congressman. Told in varying voices through e-mails and even a Choose Your Own Adventure section, it captures not just the mood of this particular, highly charged moment but is an accessible, witty, smart take on the double standards that are alive and well and waiting to trip up ordinary and extraordinary women alike.
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Dr. Davide Capodanno, University of Catania, Cardiovascular Department, Ferrarotto Hospital, via Citelli 1, 95124 Catania, Italy.
A 60-year-old man with a chronic total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) (Figure 1A) and evidence of myocardium viability was successfully treated with percutaneous coronary intervention. Four overlapping bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS; Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, California) were implanted: 2.5 × 28 mm, 3.0 × 28 mm, 3.5 × 28 mm, and 3.5 × 28 mm from distal to proximal, respectively ("full polymer jacket") (Figure 1B) (1). Optical coherence tomography (OCT; Ilumien, St. Jude Medical, St. Paul, Minnesota) showed good expansion of the scaffolds and good apposition of the struts (Figures 1a to 1g). At 8 months, elective angiographic follow-up documented a focal coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) at the mid-segment of the LAD (Figure 1C) (2). OCT revealed a CAA maximal lumen area of 16.4 mm2 with a longitudinal length of 8.4 mm in the absence of thrombus. At the CAA site, most of the BVS struts were embedded in the aneurysmal wall and covered by neointima, whereas late-acquired incomplete scaffold apposition (ISA) was noted in some cross sections (Figures 1a′ to 1g′). To our knowledge, this is the first described case of new-onset CAA and late-acquired ISA after BVS implantation. Potential mechanisms of late-acquired ISA after chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention include guidewire injury to the adventitial layer, creation of a false lumen, or subintimal stenting (3). With BVS, the management is uncertain, not automatically resembling that of CAA developed after metallic stenting (2). The potential consequences of balloon angioplasty or stent implantation inside a BVS that has lost its integrity as a result of the bioresorption process are unknown. A "watchful waiting" strategy with long-term dual antiplatelet therapy and early follow-up was adopted.
(A) Angiogram with chronic total occlusion of proximal left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD). (B) LAD angiogram after "full polymer jacket" with bioresorbable vascular scaffolds (BVS). (C) LAD angiogram at 8-month revealing a coronary artery aneurysm (CAA) at the mid-segment (white bracket). (D) Magnification of CAA at angiography. (E) Magnification of CAA at optical coherence tomography (OCT) 3-dimensional reconstruction. (a–g) OCT cross sections and longitudinal view after the index procedure show good expansion and apposition of the scaffold struts. (a′–f′) Corresponding cross sections at 8-month angiographic follow-up showing normal vessel with good scaffold apposition (a′ and f′), CAA with scaffold struts (white arrowheads) embedded in the aneurysmal vessel wall (b′ and c′), and late ISA with BVS struts (white arrowheads) floating in the lumen vessel (d′ and e′). The luminal surface of CAA is homogenous with no evidence of thrombus. (g′) Longitudinal view of the CAA.
(2013) Successful retrograde recanalization of chronic total coronary occlusion with multiple bioresorbable vascular scaffolds ('full polymer jacket'): initial experience and rationale. Eur Heart J 34:2925.
(2008) Coronary artery aneurysms after drug-eluting stent implantation. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv 1:14–21.
(2014) Mechanisms, pathophysiology, and clinical aspects of incomplete stent apposition. J Am Coll Cardiol 63:1355–1367.


Today we have something special for visual fans. We have collected six of the fastest, latest and greatest graphics cards currently on the market from nVidia and ATI including GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, 6800 Ultra AGP and PCI Express, Radeon 9800XT and the AGP versions of the X800PRO and X800XT PE. We cover each card briefly and then compare them all in our usual array of benchmarks. The BIG BOYS have come out to play!
" This is the true words of someone who was wishing they had been preparing to write a review on a Radeon X800XT or GeForce 6800 Ultra - how do we know this you may wonder - because we write about this kind of stuff a lot of the time.
Today we are turning up the heat as we look at the hottest graphics cards on the market ranging from the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra from nVidia to the AGP and PCI Express versions of the monster 6800 Ultra and the Radeon 9800XT from ATI all they way to the X800XT PE powerhouse.
Many other websites have compared the 9800XT to the X800PRO or the X800XT to the X800PRO but we thought we would get our hands on six of the hottest cards available at time of publishing and benchmark them in true TweakTown style.
We want to know exactly what you guys all want to know - how much faster is the X800PRO to the 9800XT? How much faster is the X800XT compared to both of them? What does PCI Express give us at the moment in terms of performance compared to AGP and are we going to see the available bandwidth come into play here today?
These are all questions that our readers want to know so we are going to answer them for you in this mega GPU performance comparison where the big boys come out to play. We will firstly have a quick run down on all the cards available before we get into our benchmarking results. Let's get things underway!


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Lon Helton has been the host of Country Countdown USA since its inception in 1992. During the course of his national radio career, Lon has interviewed practically every major country star, including Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Alabama, Reba McEntire, Clint Black, and Vince Gill. He appeared in Alabama's pay-per-view TV special, "For The Record: The 41 #1 Hits."
Lon is the Editor & Publicher of Country Aircheck, a music industry publication. He is also the Country Chart Editor for Mediabase. Country Countdown USA uses the Mediabase country chart.
Lon's country radio career began in 1971. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Country Music Association, most recently as President.He is currently Chairman of the Board.He also serves on the Board of Leadership Music.
Country Countdown USA has been nominated for five Billboard Program of the Year awards. In 2001, Lon was a finalist for the CMA's National Broadcast Personality of the Year award. Lon has been recognized as country radio's best-known star interviewer.


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public class DifferenceCommand extends Command {
    private double double1;
    private double double2;

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Rizal puede hacer referencia a:

Lugares

En las Filipinas
 Provincia de Rizal
 Río Rizal
 Parque Rizal
 Biblioteca Rizal en el Ateneo de la Universidad de Manila.
 Rizal Memorial Sports Complex en Manila.

Localidades:
 Rizal de Cagayán, municipio del Valle del Cagayán, Filipinas.
 Rizal de Kalinga
 Rizal de La Laguna
 Rizal de Nueva Écija
 Rizal de  Mindoro Occidental
 Rizal de Paragua
 Rizal de Zamboanga del Norte

Personas
 José Rizal, prócer filipino.
 Paciano Rizal, General, hermano de José Rizal.

Instituciones educativas
 Universidad José Rizal y su equipo, los Jose Rizal Heavy Bombers.
 Universidad Tecnológica Rizal

Películas

 José Rizal (película), una película protagonizada por Cesar Montano.

Otros
USS Rizal (DD-174), barco de la Marina de Estados Unidos.


Of course, to be a true slow cyclist you don't have to go very far! Before going away to France I put my tent up in my friend's garden. The food and wine was so good I got head-spin and did not get much sleep. This is why I rarely drink on holiday – I really don't need to!
This was also when I discovered that my seat post was wobbly and the wrong height so it was good to iron out these little niggles. On my return home I started to gather all my kit for the panniers together to be weighed, sorted and re-weighed to hone it down to absolute essentials.
Mine is the big one! Got any funny tent photos from the TWATs?
I thought that yours was the big one, that is a nice tent. I'm sure that I have some funny tent photos somewhere at home.


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If I Can Dream
If I Can Dream Elvis Presley
Format CD Album
Category: Rock & Roll
Released: 30th October 2015
Collection of hits sung by Elvis Presley with the backing of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Debuting at #1 in the UK Albums Chart, this posthumous album also features the collaborative effort of 'Fever' with Michael Buble.
Track 1 Burning Love Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.29
Track 2 It's Now Or Never Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.15
Track 3 Love Me Tender Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.25
Track 4 Fever (Feat. Michael Buble) Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 4.23
Track 5 Bridge Over Troubled Water Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 4.36
Track 6 And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.4
Track 7 You've Lost That Loving Feeling Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.57
Track 8 There's Always Me Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 2.2
Track 9 Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.18
Track 10 In the Ghetto Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.11
Track 11 How Great Thou Art Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.06
Track 12 Steamroller Blues Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.08
Track 13 An American Trilogy Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 4.32
Track 14 If I Can Dream Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 3.11
Format CD / Album


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Dominance, media relations, and Seattle's history with Los Angeles
By Richard FarleyNov 10, 2012, 10:42 AM EST
Until this season, the Seattle Sounders' history with the LA Galaxy had not been a good one. Most memorably, there's the demoralizing Western Conference semifinal two years ago when the Galaxy scored early in Seattle (Edson Buddle 38′) and didn't allow a goal until the 176th minute of their 3-1 win. There's also the 5-1-2 record the Galaxy's accumulated against Seattle from 2009 to 2011. Before the 2012 season, it looked like there was some kind of hoodoo Bruce Arena'd developed over Sigi Schmid.
That changed this season. With Seattle's 2-0 win in early May, you could argue LA was still working through their early-season troubles. But the 4-0 drubbing the Sounders handed them in August? Though LA played makeshift back line (with David Junior Lopes and Bryan Gaul at fullback), that's no excuse for one of the most embarrassing league results of the Arena era.
Even though LA beat Seattle in the season finale, 1-0, 2012's results should give the Sounders plenty of confidence going into Sunday's first leg of the Western Conference final. They shouldn't have to do things like … resort to the clichéd sophistry of spinning media mishaps into motivation.
Alas, as we see in this Seattle Times' report, coach Schmid is making a media department gaff into much more than it could ever possibly be:
But their opponent, the defending MLS Cup champion Los Angeles Galaxy, is doing its part to add to Seattle's drive, starting with a faux pas by its communications department.
"L.A. thought they were playing Salt Lake," coach Sigi Schmid said after Thursday's playoff series win against RSL. "They put out a news release and said they were playing Salt Lake, so we hate to disappoint them. That's motivation enough for us right now."
Schmid often uses sarcasm and irony when addressing the press, usually to break up the monotony of the daily check-ins us content-hungry vultures demand of MLS coaches. His comments may be more playful than serious.
But let's take them as they're conveyed and assume Schmid either sees a slight or wants to make this into one. It's no more than many coaches across many sports do regularly: Manipulate anything (and sometimes, everything) to try to get more out of their players.
The practice insults players' intelligence. While I'm sure a handful of MLSers can be convinced into believing in a conspiratorial, malevolent LA communications department, it's far more likely that this was an honest mistake – a team not doing a find and replace on a release drafted before the Thursday game started. Players are smart enough to figure this out.
What impression of players' intelligence do you have if you're trying to portray some evil LA P.R. managers taking matters into their own hands, giving the opposition a jibe. Or perhaps the scenario doesn't involve such rogue behavior. Maybe the theory has the order coming Bruce Arena himself? It's all a bit kooky.
That's not to say there aren't media matters that can ruffle feathers. Witness this week's comment from Mike Magee:
"(The Sounders) have judged themselves based on their successes and failures against us," he told LAGalaxy.com. "This is their MLS Cup."
Who gives that to the media? Somebody that isn't worried about firing up the opposition, a casual disregard that often (ironically) gets the opposition fired up.
Just another example of the subtle games people play this time of year.
Tags: Bruce Arena, Major League Soccer, Real Salt Lake, Sigi Schmid, Sounder


Atul Dodiya was born in 1959, Mumbai, India.
Dodiya was trained in Mumbai, at Sir JJ School of Art, 1982 and École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1991-1992. In the 90s, Dodiya was known for hyperrealist paintings depicting middle-class Indian life and for his watercolour series on Mahatma Gandhi. His paintings are populated by diverse traditions in painting, the written words, images from the media and of saints, legends, national history, political events, traumata and autobiographical narratives. His allegorical paintings on canvas or metal roller shutters and watercolours may be aggressive or poetic.
Atul Dodiya has had more than 28 solo shows in India and abroad, which includes a mid career retrospective at Japan Foundation Asia Centre, Tokyo in 2001, a solo show in Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid in 2002, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, US in 2013, a major survey show of his work held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 2013. He has participated in 1st Yokohoma Triennale, 2001, 51st Venice Biennale, 2005, Documenta12, 2007, 7th Gwangju Biennale, 2008, 3rd Moscow Biennale, 2009, Biennale Jogja XI, 2011, 7th Asia Pacific Triennale, Brisbane, 2012 and Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India, 2012.
Atul Dodiya lives and works in Mumbai, India.


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The driver uses the logistic terminal to log in the plant logistics system. This considerably reduces the workload of own personnel. Moreover, language barriers are overcome and a connection to the business transaction is established (e.g. barcode brought along on the order document or a mobile device). Anyone involved in the plant will be informed automatically about the login and can act accordingly.
The user interfaces are available in several languages represented to the driver by national flags icons s/he can select.
Dialogues are adjusted individually to the requirements of the operating company. Pictures and graphics, e.g. safety instructions, are developed and delivered by the operating party and automatically implemented in the screen menus before start-up. The driver is guided safely through the system by single-step operation.
The driver gets an identifier (circulation slip with barcode, ident card, pager) to be guided through the process. The plant logistic system permanently informs the driver of the next step. Deviance is detected and entails corresponding instructions.
The call function calls the driver logged in to approach the site and the target indicated. Either the personnel sends the call instruction manually or the system sends it automatically controlled by resources to meet the current demand.
The driver gets the call via an information board, via the pager handed out during login, or on the mobile phone by SMS – at any location and promptly or with time to handle as required. This allows for additional external buffer areas.
The operating party dictates the access time. The driver waits in the vehicle and safely for the call. Tailbacks in the plant are prevented and the driver can use the waiting time to have a rest.
It is not the driver who decides on the order of transactions but the company using the current rate of utilisation as a basis.
The driver approaches the barrier at the entrance to the plant and uses the identifier to open it. Rapid and reliable processing reduces tailbacks at this point.
Easy and rapid processing at the barrier. No tailbacks. No need for own personnel.
Checking the transaction automatically ensures that only authorised vehicles may enter the plant.
For processes with weighing, the driver uses the identifier on the logistic terminal to start weighing automatically. Here, the plant logistic system respects all aspects required by the Standards and Measures Law.
Weighing allows for all aspects of the Standards and Measures Law. Sensors, side boundaries, camera systems, and – if required – devices detecting the registration numbers document the transaction and make it safe.
The driver handles weighing all by self-service. S/he uses the identifier, weighing is released automatically; other operating steps are not required.
The scales are operating 24/7 – no need for own personnel.
Loading or unloading of general cargo is effected by corresponding personnel. The time stamp at the start / end can be entered manually or transmitted by other systems (e.g. LVS). This acknowledgment enables the next step.
The identifier brought along allows for correct assignment to the transaction and loading of the correct cargo.
The demand-meeting call reduces the residence time because all preliminary work has been completed already. Loading or unloading can start at once.
Start and end of loading / unloading get time stamps. This allows an analysis of the utilisation and more qualified statements to the forwarder.
Integration of automated loading and unloading points. At the loading/unloading point, the driver independently undertakes loading of e.g. bulk material. Existing sensors, scales, flow meters, etc. are integrated.
Connection to the existing control system via I/O or common industrial bus interfaces.
Multilingual user interface with icons to allow for rapid and accurate handling.
Verification of material and loading point. Should the driver select a wrong loading point, s/he gets an automatic information about the correct loading point. In case of manually supported processes, the four-eyes principle including a personified confirmation by the employee is implemented.
The output of simple delivery notes up to complex delivery dockets is effected on accordingly designed logistic terminals featuring a signing function.
No manual output required. Own personnel becomes relieved. Availability beyond office hours.
The logistic terminal is integrated in the route through the plant. This avoids superfluous travel and parking times.
The driver approaches the barrier at the exit of the plant and uses the identifier to open it. Rapid and reliable processing reduces tailbacks at this point too.
Easy handling out of the vehicle allows for rapid transaction.
Checking the transaction automatically ensures that only authorised vehicles may leave the plant. To this end, the sequence chain has to be complete.


Your company has two choices: market harder or market smarter. If you choose to market harder, you need to increase your budget and grow your audience each year. The other option is to market smarter. This involves improving your targeting and strategy to better reach potential buyers. It also involves improving customer service to improve retention.
Marketing smarter allows you to market harder. You can improve your ROI and then reinvest the money you save into additional channels. One tool that strategic marketers can utilize is a single customer view (SCV), which pulls data from multiple sources to create a unified experience across channels and devices.
Editor's Note: some professionals refer to a single customer view (SCV) as a single view of the customer (SVC). These acronyms are interchangeable for the most part, and we chose the use the SCV option for clarity.
The single customer view (SCV) was developed in response to our multichannel digital world. For years, marketers struggled to reconcile how customer conversations and engagements that started on one channel turned into conversions on another one.
Marketers would lose customers on mobile devices who switched to a desktop.
They would lose customers who started on social media and then reached out to the call center.
This disconnect results in incomplete analytical data, duplicate results, and bad customer experiences.
SCV utilizes existing data from multiple sources to marry various customer engagements and create a single view. With this information, an unresolved customer complaint via email is solved when a customer calls into the center or visits a store. Brands can also lean the different paths customers take in the customer journey to learn how they can improve the process and invest in better solutions.
Each company has its own level of data maturity, or the strength of connections and communication across channels. Companies with level one and two data maturity levels are most at risk of losing customers because of these disconnects and a clear lack of a SCV.
Essentially, customers expect your brand to have a high level of data maturity because other companies are already providing them with the experience that you can't.
If you want to see examples of differentiation of customer service across multiple channels, tweet at a handful of brands and see how they respond. Some social media teams have the ability to solve customer complaints. They can cancel orders or change bookings right from Twitter. Meanwhile, other teams just direct you to call the customer help line. The latter option doesn't provide customer service at all. Web users could save time cutting out the twitter feed and just call after looking up the number online.
Unfortunately for these laggard social media teams, more customers than ever expect quality customer service on social media. More than half (54%) of customers prefer social messaging over phone or email for customer service and it costs an average of six times more to solve a customer problem through a call center instead of through social media.
The communication and resource problems on social media lie in departmental differentiation. A company might outsource its social media with direction from the marketing department while its customer service team is run by another department through another company in another state. There is no unified experience or real strategic planning.
Developing a single customer view (SCV) creates a cohesive process for addressing customer service concerns regardless of the channel. Furthermore, customers can bounce from one channel to the next without quality changes or disruption.
While brands might focus on customer service opportunities when they start developing their SCV models, there are additional benefits both to the customer and the brand. Knowing your customer means knowing how they want to interact with your brand and what they need.
A clear picture can help you improve your brand messaging, give you a better idea for when to market to your customers, and hone your marketing efforts to reach likely buyers instead of relying on mass broadcasting.
Internally, a clearer picture of the customer improves your marketing attribution. Google Analytics tries to reconcile the customer journey through its Top Conversion Paths view, but this data is often lacking and unclear to someone who doesn't have an experienced analytical eye. With a SCV, you can clearly see which channels are most responsible for sales and improved customer care. Plus, you can see which channels are essential in the buying process, offering assists that push customers along the sales funnel until they are ready to buy.
With better marketing attribution, you can allocate your budget to for better targeting. With better targeting, you get the right message in front of the right customers at the right time — increasing your conversions and sales.
What Does a SCV Contain?
Transaction data: essential customer service information related to past and pending transactions, customer communication history, and interaction history with the brand.
Demographics: physical demographics like gender, age, and geo, interests, lifestyle, income, and buyer persona.
Behavioral patterns: data relating to how and when they buy, what types of items they need and how they use them, which social channels they use, and how they communicate with the brand.
Brands looking to develop a single customer view need to focus on collecting good data instead of excess data. Just because you have hundreds of data points on a customer doesn't mean you have valuable information — especially if you are so overwhelmed by the volume that you can't make strategic decisions. Additionally, brands are often so focused on collecting data internally that they ignore third-party data sources that can help close gaps in customer information and paint a more valuable picture.
Without careful planning, you could have an incomplete or inaccurate SCV.
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Biografia
Carlo Enrico fu il terzo figlio, unico sopravvissuto, nato dal secondo matrimonio di Carlo IV di Lorena che non aveva avuto figli dal primo matrimonio. Questo secondo matrimonio venne annullato dalla chiesa a causa del fatto che la separazione del duca dalla sua prima moglie, Nicoletta di Lorena, non venne accettata dalla Santa Sede.
Per questo motivo, Carlo Enrico non ebbe diritto al titolo di duca ed esso andò a suo zio. Nel 1669 egli sposò la cugina Anna Elisabetta di Lorena, ed ebbe un solo figlio, Carlo Tommaso (1670-1704), principe di Vaudemont che venne ucciso in battaglia vicino Ostiglia.

In esilio come suo padre, il principe Carlo Enrico servì nell'esercito spagnolo degli Asburgo contro la Francia. Egli combatté in molte battaglie e nel 1675 fu insignito dell'ordine di cavaliere dell'Ordine del Toson d'oro. Combatté la guerra dei nove anni, nelle Fiandre, sotto il comando di  Guglielmo III d'Inghilterra.

Nel 1698 venne nominato Governatore di Milano.

Nel 1700, alla morte dell'ultimo re spagnolo degli Asburgo, Carlo II, venne insediato sul trono di Spagna Filippo duca d'Anjou nipote di Luigi XIV di Francia. Questo cambiamento dinastico provocò la guerra di successione spagnola nel corso della quale il territorio intorno a Milano fu uno dei maggiori campi di battaglia. Il principe Carlo Enrico, in un primo tempo accettò il nuovo re come suo sovrano di Lombardia, ma non ebbe fiducia in lui: Saint Simon sostenne che egli avrebbe passato delle informazioni al nemico. Sta di fatto che suo figlio Carlo fu un comandante austriaco.

Dopo la battaglia di Torino, i francesi e gli spagnoli furono costretti a lasciare l'Italia ed il principe Carlo Enrico firmò un trattato con il comandante imperiale Eugenio di Savoia, che poneva la Lombardia sotto il dominio austriaco.

Nel 1708, il nuovo duca di Lorena, Leopoldo di Lorena diede a Carlo Enrico il principato di Commercy. Egli diede incarico al famoso architetto Germain Boffrand di costruirgli il bel castello di Commercy.

Ritiratosi a vita civile morì nel 1723.

Titoli
Principe di Vaudémont
Principe di Commercy dal 1708
Conte di Bicth
Conte di Saruuerden
Conte di Falkenstein
Conte di Walham
Barone di Fenestrange
Signore di Flobecq
Signore di Leffines
Signore di Ninoue
Signore di Waure

Cariche
Gentiluomo della Camera di Sua Maestà
Gentiluomo del Consiglio di Stato
Governatore di Milano (1698 - 1706)

Ascendenza

Onorificenze

Stemma

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Carlo Enrico
Governatori di Milano


"Composition in the Age of Austerity is a book that is needed now. The problems we compositionists face are myriad, and economic 'austerity' measures are taking their toll. To put it simply: writing teachers need help. This book is an important attempt to offer it."
"This book moved me in ways that scholarship too infrequently does. . . . faculty can benefit not only from reflecting on the strategies and analyses of the collection's authors, but from the emotional strength that can be taken from shared struggle and endeavor."
"[L]ays bare the messiness and magnitude of challenges awaiting the field. There are no easy answers to composition' s current 'crisis' and Welch and Scott are sympathetic to the difficulties of rising to the challenge of resisting further ethical compromise and the hard work of undoing the uneasy realpolitik of "adjunctification". . . . should be required reading of every composition colloquium and WPA seminar."
"[This] collection inspires and furthers related discussions among graduate and undergraduate students, tenure and non-tenure track faculty, community leaders, legislators, and parents, all of whom have a vested interest in quality instruction and can learn from the voices here. . . . Welch and Scott have made a solid contribution to the field by addressing a range of questions from the political to the theoretical to the very practical."
In the face of the gradual saturation of US public education by the logics of neoliberalism, educators often find themselves at a loss to respond, let alone resist. Through state defunding and many other "reforms" fueled by austerity politics, a majority of educators are becoming casual labor in US universities while those who hang onto secure employment are pressed to act as self-supporting entrepreneurs or do more with less. Focusing on the discipline of writing studies, this collection addresses the sense of crisis that many educators experience in this age of austerity.
The chapters in this book chronicle how neoliberal political economy shapes writing assessments, curricula, teacher agency, program administration, and funding distribution. Contributors also focus on how neoliberal political economy dictates the direction of scholarship, because the economic and political agenda shaping the terms of work, the methods of delivery, and the ways of valuing and assessing writing also shape the primary concerns and directions of scholarship.
Composition in the Age of Austerity offers critical accounts of how the restructuring of higher education is shaping the daily realities of composition programs. The book documents the effects and implications of the current restructuring, examines how cherished rhetorical ideals actually leave the field unprepared to respond effectively to defunding and corporatizing trends, and establishes points of departure for collective response.
Nancy Welch is professor of English at the University of Vermont, where she helped to found the faculty union and is active in region-wide labor solidarity. Among her books are Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World and The Road from Prosperity: Stories.
Tony Scott is associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University where he directs the writing program. He is the author of Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition and coeditor of Tenured Bosses and Disposable Teachers.


On Christmas morning, Manila is peaceful. The roads are devoid of cars, the sidewalks of people, as if a virus has made everyone disappear. I like it.
Because we had all the time in the world, we strolled along Padre Faura Street. I pointed La Solidaridad to Jere—a small bookstore that houses rare titles. It's owned by the Filipino novelist F. Sionil Jose. On weekdays, during lunchtime, he can be seen inside, ready to sign autographs if you buy any of his books.
The restaurant we meant to dine in was closed. Except for Jollibee and Starbucks, pretty much all of the establishments weren't open; the tenants and owners must have been asleep from their Christmas Eve revelries. We were both surprised at what we saw because we were seeing Manila with fresh eyes. At 9:00 AM, the morning was still cold, the air fresh, and we stopped for a few blocks to take photos with our phones, amused that while we were killing idle time, some people were left in the hospital.
We turned left to Roxas Boulevard and found it, to our pleasure, empty. We stopped by the nearest Starbucks so I could buy a freshly brewed hot coffee then resumed our leisurely walk. "I should have bought a bike," Jere said, to which I replied that Manila isn't a bike-friendly city. Jere mourned the fact.
There were new buildings everywhere.
We decided to walk where our feet would take us, hoping we'd find any restaurant open that was willing to feed us. Meanwhile we took random photos.
The leaves looked tired and weary.
We eventually reached Remedios Circle and realized Café Adriatico was near. Thankfully it was open.
I ordered bacon and eggs, with hot chocolate on the side. Jere had Vigan longganisa, the closest thing he has to the experience of coming home to Santa Catalina, Ilocos Sur, where he grew up.
The hot chocolate, made from concentrated tablea, reminded me of the tsokolate I had in Iriga City, when my block mates and I visited the Catangui ancestral home in 2011.
Bacon too limp for me. Glad you had someone to breakfast with on Christmas, at least.
You want your bacon crispy, then? Yes, we both felt we needed a good breakfast after a tiring shift. Merry Christmas!


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The Ceremony was but a Pinterest dream, from the hand made metal initials of their names made by mike, to the mason jar lanterns hanging as the ceremonies backdrop….it was to-die-for!
Erica & Mike wrote their own vows, and how wonderful a job they both did! If only I could type out their exact words, it would just melt your heart! Mike even got a little chocked up when reading his to Erica, it just went to show how strong his love for her truly is!
Now, the dances…the dances were so much fun, Erica & Mike pulled off a fun little number that they had no idea they were even going to do! They just threw it together, right there, in front of all our eyes….and let me tell, it was AWESOME!
Once all of the scheduled dances were over with, everyone piled onto the dance floor, and danced the night away! I just can't get over how cute Ericas grandparents were when they got to do their dance together, love runs deep in both their families. It just goes to show that Erica & Mike are truly going to have a wonderful happily ever-after!