Although this does not makes sense from evolution, it makes perfect sense according to creation. Although the ability to digest cellulose would greatly benefit a particular animal, imagine what damage it would do to the entire system of life. We use cellulose to build houses and make paper. Cellulose also protects foot by providing a hard outer coating in many cases. It makes perfect sense that a Creator would not give multicellular animals the ability to digest cellulose for the benefit of the entire life system (and for the benefit of man). However, it makes no sense according to evolution, since the ability to digest cellulose would greatly increase the survival of the individual possessing the ability.


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Using a TENS machine in labour - Which?
TENS is a popular and safe pain relief option that you can use wherever you plan to give birth. Find out how a TENS machine can help you cope with labour pain, and where to buy or hire one.
What is a TENS machine?Is a TENS machine effective for pain relief?
TENS stands for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation. The machine sends mild, painless electrical pulses to your body when you're having contractions, via sticky electrode pads attached to your back. Many women find this helps reduce the pain experienced during labour.
While it's not known exactly how a TENS machine helps to relieve pain, it's thought that the pulses 'distract' the nerves that are transmitting pain. Using one may also boost your endorphin levels – your body's natural form of pain defence.
Most TENS machines have a digital display and several settings, such as a massage setting with a lower-pulse frequency or a more intense mode with stronger pulses.
A good machine will be lightweight and come with a belt clip so you can still move around while using it – many women find that moving around during labour can help them feel more comfortable.
Is a TENS machine effective for pain relief?
According to the NHS, TENS machines are proven to be effective only during the early stages of labour, when lower back pain is common.
They have not been proven to be effective during the active phase of labour, when you'll experience longer, stronger and more frequent contractions. However, there's nothing to stop you continuing to use TENS if you feel it's working for you.
In a 2018 CQC survey, 13% of women reported using a TENS machine during labour and a 2014 Which? survey found that three quarters of women who used one said that it helped them cope with the pain of contractions.
Are there any problems with a TENS machine?
There are no documented side effects of using a TENS machine, for you or your baby. There is no time limit on how long you can use it for during birth, and because it doesn't contain any drugs, as soon as you turn the machine off, the effect of the electrical pulses go away.
Where can I use a TENS machine?
One of the advantages of a TENS machine is that you can use it wherever you're planning to give birth, and as early or late in the first stage of labour as you want.
If you want have a water birth, you'll have to remove the TENS machine before getting in the birth pool, but you can use it up until that point.
If your baby needs to be monitored with CTG, you may need to remove the TENS machine if it interferes with the equipment.
It's also a pain relief option you can use while you're travelling to the maternity unit in labour, or if you need to be transferred from your home birth or birth centre to the hospital unexpectedly.
Read more about what pain relief options are available at home, in a birth centre and in a labour ward.
You can look up your maternity unit to find out what type of birth equipment, including TENS machines, they have available to women in labour. Bear in mind, however, that your hospital or birth centre may have a limited number or machines, and if other women are already using them, one may not be available to you.
Because TENS machines tend to be the most useful in the early stages of labour, you may decide to buy or hire one in advance even if you're planning to go to a maternity unit for the birth, to help you cope with the contractions until you're in established labour and ready to travel to the maternity unit.
If you're being induced, remember to put your TENS machine in your hospital bag so you have it handy when you get to the labour ward and the induction starts.
While the home birth midwives will be able to supply you with gas and air, you will need to buy or hire a TENS machine if you want to use one during labour.
Have a look at our home birth checklist for more tips on good things to have ready when you're planning to give birth at home.
If you've decided that you want the peace of mind of having a TENS machine ready at home before you go into labour, there are several options for how to get hold of one.
You can buy a TENS machine from pharmacies, baby stores and online. It's important that you check that the TENS machine you're buying is specifically designed to be used during labour – other versions exist for other types of pain. If in doubt, talk to your midwife at one of your antenatal appointments for recommendations of brands.
TENS machines cost around £30 to £70. How much you spend will largely depend on the level of functionality you'd like – some have different preset programs designed to be used at different stages of labour, while pricier models also allow you to log the frequency and length of your contractions.
You could always go halves on one with another pregnant friend, provided your due dates are sufficiently far apart to avoid potential overlap.
An alternative option to buying your own TENS machine is to rent one, which can work out slightly cheaper. Hiring one typically costs between £20 and £30 for around six weeks.
Many of the larger pharmacy chains and baby stores offer TENS hire, and they're also available to hire directly from the NHS or physiotherapists.
Our survey found that almost one in three women borrowed their TENS machine from a friend. This is a great choice in terms of money-saving, and also means your friend can show you how to use the machine – all in all, a very helpful option if it's available to you.
Writing a birth plan: Having a birth plan gives midwives, doctors and your birth partner a clear idea of what's important to you.
Why choosing where to give birth matters: Find out more about how where you plan to have your baby can affect your care during labour.
Choosing your birth partner: Having a supportive birth partner can make a big difference to your birth experience.


This is a Tax Freedom Day Rally speech from April 15, 2012 in Medford, Oregon.
What's the Opposite of a RINO?
If a RINO is a Republican in name only, the opposite is someone with traditional conservative values who doesn't identify as a Republican. Who are these people? Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Independents, and even conservatives who've given up on the system and no longer register to vote. My esteemed friend, the Sidewinder, refers to them as apostate Republicans. Most of them wouldn't be caught dead voting for a Democrat but, for whatever reason, they're disenfranchised from the Republican party. Some of them quixotically vote for third party candidates. Others, more cynical, don't vote at all.
I'm not advocating voting for RINOs, when there are true conservative options. But the last thing the Republican party can afford is to drive the RINOs away. The party can't continue to view itself as a members-only club, or a church of true believers, while the Democrats set themselves up as a populist block party, everybody welcome, with free food (and healthcare) for anyone who'd rather get something for free than work hard to earn something better.
There are still a lot of people who share the traditional values on which our country was founded. But many of them are drifting away from the Republican center of gravity, and it's going to take a concerted effort to reach out and draw them in. It's time to start focusing on what we all have in common, rather than what separates us.
I'm an apostate, myself. I've been a libertarian for 28 years (and no, I don't support Ron Paul). But I'm registering Republican this year because I'm so disturbed by the Democrats' misguided agenda, and so apprehensive that they will prevail, that I see a real need for conservatives of all persuasions to form a united front to defeat them.
I'm not particularly partial to any of the remaining Republican candidates, but I tend to favor Giuliani. He's got the strongest position on the economy and on national security, and he has a record of getting things done. (Does anybody remember the 1976 movie Taxi Driver, when Travis Bickle, a New York cabbie, said "Someday a real rain will come, and wash all this scum off the streets?" Well, the real rain did come, and it was Rudy Giuliani.) But, at this point, I'll support whichever one wins the nomination. An actual elephant would no doubt be best, but even a RINO is better than a donkey bearing a staggering socialist agenda.
Chronology of Islamic Terrorism Against the U.S.
The Hydra was a mythical monster with the body of a snake and a hundred heads. Every time one of its heads was cut off, a new one grew in its place. The Islamic terrorist network, spread out across the world, is the modern day Hydra. It has many heads. And, any time you cut one off, a new one will soon replace it. But it's funded by a small handful of very wealthy countries, who fund it through the proceeds from oil. We cannot kill the Hydra by cutting off its heads. The only way to kill it is to cut off its source of funding.
Ron Paul and the Democrats would have us believe that all we need do is go home, and the Jihadists will leave us alone. To me, that seems naive. Remember, the Islamic terrorists started this war by attacking us at home, on our own soil, killing several thousand civilians in our nation's largest city and attacking our Pentagon. Before that, there was a whole series of escalating attacks spanning over two decades.
In 1979, fifty-two American citizens were taken hostage by Islamic terrorists who took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
Between 1982-1991, ten Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon.
In 1983, a Hezbollah suicide bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
Later that year, another suicide bomber attacked the U.S. marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. marines and injuring over 100 more.
Terrorists also bombed the U.S. Embassy annex in Kuwait in 1983, killing six and injuring over 80 others.
In 1984, there was another suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy compound in Beirut, killing 24 people.
Later that year, Hezbollah hijacked Kuwait Airways flight 221, and killed two American officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development when their demands to release the 17 terrorists who had bombed the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait were not met.
In 1985, Hezbollah hijacked TWA flight 847, first to Lebanon and then to Algiers, where they held the passengers hostage for 17 days. Again, they demanded the release of the terrorists who had bombed the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait, and shot a U.S. Navy diver when their demands were not met.
Later that year, the PLO hijacked the Achille Lauro, an Italian cruise ship, and killed an American tourist when their demands for the release of PLO terrorists were not met.
In 1986, TWA flight 840 was bombed just before landing in Athens, Greece, killing four people who were sucked out of the hole caused by the explosion.
In 1988, Pan Am flight 103 from London to NY was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 passengers and 11 people on the ground.
In 1993, a Muslim sniper opened fire on the CIA complex in Langley, VA, killing two CIA employees and injuring three others.
That same year, a car bomb was planted in the garage under the World Trade Center.
In 1995, a car bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killed five Americans.
In 1996, Hezbollah bombed the U.S. military complex in Riyadh, killing 19 Americans and injuring hundreds more.
In 1998, Al Qaeda bombed the U.S. Embassies in both Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing a total of 223 people and injuring over 4,000.
In 2000, Al Qaeda bombed the USS Cole harbored in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 U.S. sailors and injuring 39.
In 2001, they destroyed the World Trade Center, killing 3,000 civilians, and attacked the U.S. Pentagon.
Our policy of turning the other cheek up until 9/11 only emboldened them. They kept escalating the violence until they hit us so hard we couldn't ignore it. And they're going to continue waging war on us, whether we fight back or not, until Allah grants them victory (as they're confident he will). Ignoring them hasn't worked in the past. Why would it work in the future?
Bringing our troops home before the job is done would result in bringing the war home with them. Is that really what America wants?


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Население составляет 3542 человек (на 2008 год), в коммуне располагаются 1425 домашних хозяйств. Занимает площадь 18,43 км² (по занимаемой площади 66 место из 116 коммун). Наивысшая точка коммуны над уровнем моря составляет 293 м. (113 место из 116 коммун), наименьшая 224 м. (40 место из 116 коммун).

Ссылки
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Q: Angular - pipe and elvis operator (?) causes getter to be called sooner I have came across a strange case which I don't understand.
When I use a pipe and elvis operator, the code is executed in different part of lifecycle.
Having this simplified situation:
@Component({
  selector: 'app-foo',
  template: '<ng-content></ng-content>'
})
export class FooComponent {
  @Input() foo: any;

  get bar() {
    console.log('bar getter called, this.foo:', this.foo);
    return this.foo;
  }
}

If I use it like this:
  <app-foo #fooComponent [foo]="{a:1}">

  </app-foo>

the bar getter is called when foo attribute was not filled yet (it is undefined).
Console: bar getter called, this.foo: undefined
In any other usages:

it works as expected.
Console: bar getter called, this.foo: {a: 1}
Can anyone explain this? Is it intention? Or BUG?
UPDATE:
problem is gone after update from Angular 10.0 to Angular 10.2

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Offered as a set or individually. Price offered per one piece. Price for the whole set negotiable.


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[PangyoTechnoValley] Kakao Enterprise Launches Smart Speaker Mini Hexa Kakao's Fourth Smart Device With Six Ears
Nov 29, 2020 | Technology
– Integrate the latest hardware technology, strengthen voice recognition-connection
– Maximize speech recognition with six high-performance microphones, voice recognition beamforming, and echo cancellation feature
LOS ANGELES, CA, November 29, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ — A smart speaker that responds to your voice accurately in any situation has appeared.
Kakao Enterprise (CEO Baek Sang-yeop) released Mini Hexa, a smart speaker equipped with the AI platform Kakao i on Oct. 26.
Mini Hexa is Kakao's fourth smart device to be released following Kakao Mini, Kakao Mini C and Mini Link. The Mini series has evolved into various forms to improve convenience by implementing AI in all daily life.
As the name suggests, Mini Hexa has a hexagonal exterior design. The advantage is that it can be easily mounted anywhere in the house with a more compact size and design than Kakao Mini and Kakao Mini C.
It also gathers the latest hardware technology to improve speech recognition accuracy, connection speed, and stability compared to existing products.
Six high-performance microphones were used to maximize the voice recognition rate with the voice recognition beamforming and echo cancellation feature. It responds by recognizing the exact direction of the person who gave the voice command accurately, whether it was a small whisper or from far distance or noisy environment.
The connectivity with various devices has also been further strengthened. By separating the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth antennas, the network speed and stability were improved. By mounting Qualcomm's Smart Audio 400 Platform, it supports upgraded performance, connectivity, and audio functions.
External speakers and smartphones can be controlled with stable connection. Kakao Enterprise's devices can be easily connected with just the voice command "Connect mini link (device name)."
If you use Mini Hexa, you can use various and convenient features provided by Kakao i. Like Kakao Mini, you can check and send KakaoTalk messages, and you can listen to music or receive recommendations. In addition to knowledge/life information like news, exchange rates, stock prices, and fortunes, • alarm/memo registration • home exercise • delivery food ordering • transportation/direction information • language dictionary • movie/TV information are also available.
Frequently used commands can be used by pressing the Quick Button located in the center of Mini Hexa. After adding the Hey Kakao chatbot as a friend in KakaoTalk, you can set your own commands by talking to the chatbot. When you press the Quick Button after setting, the answer to the command is automatically executed.
You can execute multiple commands at once, and you can use this in situations where it is difficult to give voice commands. For example, you can register two commands, "How's the weather today?" and "Tell me the news," in the quick button, and by pressing the quick button, today's weather and news will be played in sequence.
Kakao Enterprise said, "We have upgraded Kakao Mini and Kakao Mini C by adding a compact design, advanced voice recognition performance, and quick button. It will function as a life assistant that provides everything from life information to entertainment." The company added, "In the future, we will continue to evolve devices based on the reactions and needs of users." Mini Hexa will start selling at KakaoTalk Gift Shop at 9:00 am on Oct. 26. It consists of the body, cable, and adapter, and the price is 59,000 won.
Kakao Enterprise is based in Pangyo, Pangyo Technovalley is the Asia Tech Hub where more than 1,200 companies in IT, CT, and BT sectors with innovative products and technologies are gathered. Located just south of the Seoul metropolitan area, easy transportation access and infrastructure provides the best environment for Korean companies to conduct businesses.
Various high-tech companies are located here, with more than 64 thousand full-time workers with a vast majority in their 20s and 30s. By industries, companies in the high-tech industry are made up of IT companies, content technology companies, biotechnology companies, and nanotechnology companies.
With the support from innovative companies with global capabilities like Kakao, NHN Entertainment, AhnLab, Krafton, NCSOFT, Nexon, and Hancom at hand, companies in Pangyo Technovalley made over 100 trillion in revenue this year. A 20% increase from last year, it is expected to become one of the best IT clusters in Korea in near future, along with advanced technology research institutes like Advanced Institute of Convergence Technology, KAIST, ETRI, and KETI working together to develop the relevant technologies further.
"Is it the Kakao style?"
Kakao krew is often challenging themselves. Our view, behavior, and vision have already been imbued with the Kakao style, a naturally mastered and embodied essence to create a better world. We will never stop starting from basics and pondering our next move. That is Kakao's style.
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B&N NOOK Arrives In Walmart From Oct 24
By Chris Davies/Updated: April 24, 2012 1:03 pm EST
Always wanted a NOOK but refuse to step into a Barnes & Noble store or shop online? You're in luck, then, as the bookseller has just announced its wireless ereaders will be showing up in Walmart stores (as well as through their online store) from October 24 2010.
Both the NOOK 3G – which has WiFi and AT&T 3G connectivity integrated – and the NOOK WiFi – which only packs WiFi – will be available, and while there's no pricing information we're guessing Walmart will be matching B&N's own numbers. That means around $149 for the WiFi-only unit, and $199 for the WiFi/3G version.
BARNES & NOBLE ANNOUNCES AWARD-WINNING NOOK™ EBOOK READER WILL BE SOLD AT WALMART
NOOK Devices to Be Sold in Walmart Stores and on Walmart.com Beginning Next Week
New York, NY – October 21, 2010 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced its award-winning NOOK eBook Reader will be sold in 2,500 Walmart stores (NYSE: WMT) and online at www.walmart.com. The popular NOOK devices are expected to arrive on Walmart shelves beginning as soon as October 24, in advance of the holiday shopping season.
The NOOK eBook Readers will be prominently featured as the premier eBook Reader in the consumer electronics area. Many Walmart stores will feature a NOOK-branded eReading area where shoppers can see and touch a demonstration device.
Walmart will offer both great choice and value with two NOOK by Barnes & Noble eBook Reader models — NOOK 3G, which offers free AT&T 3G wireless and Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as NOOK Wi-Fi, a Wi-Fi only model. Both offer a crisp, paper-like E-Ink display for reading and a beautiful color touch screen for navigation, and access to shop the Barnes & Noble expansive eBookstore with more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers, most available for $9.99 or less and more than half a million free titles. Digital content from Barnes & Noble is downloaded wirelessly in seconds. NOOK devices are also the only to offer sharing of eBooks with friends through Barnes & Noble's breakthrough LendMe™ technology.
"Sales of NOOK devices continue to exceed our expectations, and we are thrilled to be able to partner with Walmart, one of the world's greatest retailers, to expand the distribution of our award-winning NOOK eBook Reader," said Chris Peifer, Vice President, Digital Business Development at Barnes & Noble. "Walmart's millions of shoppers will have an easy and convenient way to try NOOK devices in many stores and to learn why NOOK is the most full-featured eReading device on the market, and the perfect gift solution for anyone who loves to read."


Health insurance giant Cigna announced its intent Thursday to buy Express Scripts, a company that negotiates prescription drug deals on behalf of insurers and large employers. This merger comes on the heels of the CVS-Aetna deal late last year, which is also, in part, a marriage between an insurer and a pharmacy benefit manager – or PBM. What does this wave of consolidation mean for the prices consumers pay for their prescriptions?


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Illinois $13 Billion Budget Woes Reach Boiling Point; Governor Quinn Works for Union Thugs and Promises to Raise Taxes by 50%; Bill Brady for Governor
11 Tuesday May 2010
Posted by Mish | May 11, 2010 6:21:00 | Uncategorized
Inquiring minds are again focusing on problems in state budgets.
Illinois is in a dogfight with California, New York, and New Jersey for the dubious honor of being the state deepest in fiscal do-do.
Although New Jersey is addressing its fiscal issues thanks to Governor Chris Christie… Illinois, California, and New York are flopping around like a 50 pound sea bass in 3 inches of water.
Illinois $13 Billion Budget Woes Reach Boiling Point
Please consider Illinois Budget Woes Come to a Boil
Illinois lawmakers were in disarray Thursday as they groped for stopgap measures to address a $13 billion deficit equaling nearly half of the state's general-fund revenue.
The state faces one of the nation's worst budget crises, spilled over in part from the broader national economic crunch, and its current bond ratings lag only California's. But the confusion in the legislature indicates that serious steps to fix state finances won't be taken until after the November elections—if then.
House Minority Leader Tom Cross said "We are lucky in that we still can borrow," noting that lawmakers responded to rating-agency concerns last month by reducing pension benefits and lifting the retirement age for new state employees to 67 from 60. Lawmakers also are weighing the idea of postponing pension payments for the first half of the fiscal year until January, Mr. Trotter said.
Mr. Quinn presented a budget in March that would still leave the state with a $10.6 billion deficit. His plan projected a deficit of $4.7 billion for the coming fiscal year beginning July 1—which he planned to cover through borrowing—and a $5.9 billion deficit carried over from the current budget.
The governor also proposed cutting expenses by $1.5 billion and raising the state income tax 1.5 percentage points, to 4.5% from 3%. He said the tax hike would be used to avert tens of thousands of teacher layoffs. A different proposal to raise income-tax rates passed the state Senate last year but has stalled in the House.
Any hopes that the national economic recovery would help the budget discussions were dashed this week when Illinois disclosed that revenue for April —when most citizens pay taxes—fell more than 15% from the same month a year ago, or $501 million, in part because of a $345 million drop in federal aid. Gross personal income-tax receipts, a major revenue source, dropped $103 million, or 8.1%.
Illinois Comptroller Daniel Hynes said in his April report that the state's cash position for the quarter ending June 30 "looks exceedingly difficult." By June 10, Illinois must repay $1.75 billion, plus interest, in short-term borrowing.
Meanwhile, the state still owes billions of dollars to hospitals, universities, social-service providers and others. Mr. Hynes said the state's backlog of unpaid bills probably will exceed $5.5 billion at the end of June.
"Eventually, many providers of essential state services may be unable to continue their operations at current levels, and those vulnerable segments of the population to whom they provide services will suffer the consequences," he wrote.
States in the Red
For more state details please see the Wall Street Journal Interactive Map States in the Red.
Illinois Taxpayers Fund Statue of Lois Lane
John Tillman at the Illinois Policy Institute is questioning a A Taxpayer Funded Lois Lane
Towns, cities, and villages are lining up to get more dollars from the state to fund projects intended to bring tourists in. John Tillman appears on ABC Chicago and wonders if this is really the best policy for our state, or if it's just another example of the state picking picking the winners and losers.
Please click on link to see video. Here is a fine quote:
"As mayor of the city of Metropolis it is my job to take every opportunity I can to get every dollar that is generated through state or federal government. I am going to be first in line to get every dollar I can get."
School Choice in Illinois
Please consider this Update on SB2494 and School Choice
Thousands of families are trapped in failing or poverty-stricken overcrowded schools. An effort was born this spring to give those families a better choice. A school voucher bill was proposed by Senator James Meeks to allow those families to choose a private school for their children, if they so desired.
Though the bill passed the full Illinois Senate and the Illinois House Executive Committee, there is not yet enough support within the House of Representatives to send the legislation to the governor's desk. Yesterday, Senate Bill 2494 was placed on extended consideration – meaning that the legislation has already received significant support but not a majority of votes on the House floor.
The move to extended consideration means that no official roll call was taken after yesterday's impassioned debate in House chambers. However, video of the live vote showed that the landmark school choice legislation was likely five or six votes away from passage, despite heavy opposition from union lobbyists and other powerful interest groups.
If you live in Illinois, please call your representative and demand free choice. If you want change, you have to act.
Note: In the above link the address "type" is important. For me it was "CT" for court, for others it may be "AVE" for avenue, etc. I had to put that in the "type" field rather than the street name field or the search came up blank.
Governor Quinn Works For Union Bosses
The Illinois Policy Institute discussing Unionizing Your Home
Does Governor Quinn work for the citizens of Illinois or for the union bosses?
With free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, a group of home-based personal care providers filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court against Governor Pat Quinn and union officials for their efforts to force Illinois personal care providers under unwanted union boss control.
The National Right to Work Foundation press release reads:
The additional 4,500 home-care providers who are not yet under union control rejected union membership by a two-to-one margin in a mail-in vote. However, per Quinn's executive order, the home-care providers may again be subject to out-of-state SEIU and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union organizers making "home visits" attempting to organize the home-care providers through coercive "card check" unionization tactics.
I spoke to Pam Harris (listen to that interview here), one of the home-care providers who filed the suit.
Harris claims that it would cost $140,000 annually to institutionalize her son, but that through a Medicaid program she gets $25,000 to look after him at home. Out of that she says she pays for his therapies and developmental training.
Please play the interview with Pam Harris.
The teacher's union, among other groups, is also against the withdrawal of the governor's executive order.
Strong-Arm Tactics and Tax Policies of Quinn
I am sick and fed up with union strong-arm tactics and the tax programs of Governor Quinn who want to raise Illinois taxes by 50%.
Bill Brady is the Republican nominee. Brady is for school vouchers and is in favor of spending cuts.
Here is Brady's Position on Governor Quinn's obstructionism
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I look around the room and suddenly realize: I'm old enough to be their grandfather.
My middle schoolers love for me to tell them stories of how things were when I was their age. As I perch on my stool and tell them the stories and watch their brains try to wrap around a world they've never experienced, I suddenly realize I'm old enough to be their grandfather. The scenario is déjà vu for I can remember my grandparents doing the same thing with me.
I'm not afraid of growing old. In fact, it's fun. I've gained experiences I can share with my children, grandchildren, and students. I love life, and I still pile as much on my daily plate as I can do without exhausting myself. Yet, age is starting to take its toll.
I can't do what I once could. I strain to lift a fifty-pound bag of birdseed. Bending over is more painful. I look to see what else I can do while I'm in the bent-over position. I can't walk as fast as I once could, and exercise—while good for my body—taxes my joints just the same. Names of people I've known for years escape me. Sometimes I can't remember the names of students who I see five days per week—another source of laughter for them.
Although my body and mind are changing as I age, one thing remains the same. As with the prophet, God has remained my God throughout my lifetime. From the moment I met Him when I was nine years old until now, He's stayed faithful. He has cared for me and carried me through every circumstance in life. And I have faith He'll continue to do the same until I breathe my final breath or until He returns for me.
Age alters our bodies, but God never changes. Jesus said He would never leave His children—and He won't. Even if our minds and bodies cease functioning properly, He's still close by, tending to our every need. He remains faithful to the promises in His Word, no matter how long we live. He will deliver His people through sickness, disease, hard times, brokenness, and death.
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The Power Of Serena Williams' Sports Illustrated Cover
The art direction behind Serena Williams' Sports Illustrated cover caused just as much controversy as her selection for SI's 2015 Sportsperson of the Year. Yu Tsai for Sports Illustrated
Shana Renee
When Serena Williams' name is mentioned, controversy is sure to follow. She is arguably the greatest tennis player in the history of the sport, yet she has scores of detractors who will focus on what her body looks like, find fault with her domineering demeanor on the court or attack the grunts she makes as she pounds out unreturnable serves at 120 mph. Even her offseason, off-court moves are scrutinized. This week proved no different when Sports Illustrated named Williams its 2015 Sportsperson of the Year.
The announcement stirred the pot for two reasons, one of them being the majority of Sports Illustrated readers voted Triple Crown winner American Pharoah as their choice for Sportsperson of the Year. Despite Williams' career year -- three Grand Slam titles, winning 26 of 27 Grand Slam matches, and an overall record of 53-3 -- she ranked tenth out of eleven on the readers' poll. By now, the outcry from Pharoah fans has been documented ad nauseam. No need to rehash the absurdity of that debate.
The other reason the announcement had the Twitter streets talking was the creative direction of SI's cover, which features Williams, the first solo woman to appear on the front of the highly coveted issue since track-and-field athlete Mary Decker in 1983.
The cover features Williams dressed in an all-black lace bodysuit and patent leather power pumps, perched on a gold, ornate throne. Those who recognize Williams as Queen of the Court immediately see the image as an appropriate nod to her ruling the tennis world. However, not everyone is bowing down in praise of the cover. While some say it's extremely powerful, others say it's either too sexy. My point of view is a bit more simplistic and sounds a little something like this, "Yes, yes, and yaaassss!" Especially after Sports Illustrated revealed, "The cover was Serena's idea, to express her own ideal of femininity, strength and power."
The cover was Serena's idea, to express her own ideal of femininity, strength and power https://t.co/XVCpNmW5FD pic.twitter.com/gRr362mruO
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) December 15, 2015
Looking at the cover and the attention it garnered, I say mission accomplished, Serena. While the cover, absent of any tennis props, not so subtly reminds us she is not defined by the sport, it also sends a more important message: She understands it is possible for women to simultaneously possess sex appeal and power. There is an inherent power in owning and self-defining your sexuality. It is not an either/or thing, but an and/both non-mutually exclusive thing. Serena is a strong, skilled, competent and self-respecting woman, in control of her image and all that it entails. Not only is there nothing wrong with that, but it's in fact highly empowering. It's a boss move.
Serena has never fit the mold tennis, or the sports world, tried to create for her so why would she start now? In her WIRED magazine essay, she publicly identified herself as a black woman "in a sport that wasn't really meant for black people." Her self-awareness, courage to speak out and be as bad as she wants to be is a positive shift toward achieving equal representation on a race and gender front. This isn't just a magazine cover. It's progress.
Behind the scenes: Serena Williams's Sportsperson of the Year ...
Go behind the scenes of Serena Williams' #SISportsperson photo shoot, and see more photos here: http://on.si.com/1m1WPH7Here's the cover story: on.si.com/Serena
Posted by Sports Illustrated on Monday, December 14, 2015
For centuries, black women have been demeaned and taught to value themselves less than women of any other race. Williams, specifically, has bore the brunt of centuries-old scrutiny regarding her body composition and race. And finally, after 20 years of consistency, and over 250 consecutive weeks ranked No. 1 in the world, Williams has earned the right to call the shots, both literally and figuratively. Far from an unseasoned rookie, Williams has gained the opportunity to control her image and how she'd like to be portrayed on one of the most meaningful magazine covers of her iconic career. Williams going against the grain and portraying herself as a feminine, strong and powerful woman, void of tennis props, is a major victory for all women who work tirelessly, and often thanklessly, to crash through glass ceilings in any industry.
Her success. Her cover. Her body. Her choice. Our win.
Shana Renee is the founder and editor-in-chief of All Sports Everything and a passionate New York Jets, Knicks and Yankees fan. Follow her sports talk on Twitter at @ItsShanaRenee.


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Remembering the Black Tigers
Remembering the Black Tigers | Tamil Guardian
21 Black Tiger elite commandos who took part in the raid on a Sri Lankan airbase in Anuradhapura, 2007
On July 5, Eelam Tamils across the world remember and mourn the sacrifices made by the LTTE's elite women and men, the Black Tigers. "Karumpuli Naal" marks the sacrifice made by the first Black Tiger, Captain Miller, or Vallipuram Vasanthan, 35 years ago.
In 1987, he attacked a Sri Lankan Army garrison in Nelliyadi in the Jaffna district, by driving a small truck with explosives into it. Forty Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in the attack.
In 2007, a group of 21 LTTE Black Tiger commandos, smashed the Anuradhapura Air Force Base with reports that all but three of the 27 aircraft in the base were destroyed or damaged. The estmiated damage was reported to be above US$ 30 million. Read our coverage at the time here.
In 2008 the LTTE declared that 356 Black Tigers had laid down their lives, 254 of them in sea operations since Captain Miller's attack. It is not yet known how many sacrificed their lives during the final phases of the war.
A memory that lives on
Karumpuli Naal was observed widely in the North-East until 2009, where thousands of Tamils turned out to show their respect.
Several monuments were constructed in honour of the Black Tigers, including a statue of Captain Miller. Captain Miller, or Vallipuram Vasanthan, was a student at Hartley College in Point Pedro.
Statue of Captain Miller in Nelliyadi, Jaffna. 2003.
His statue was destroyed by armed men in 2006, suspected to be Sri Lankan soldiers. Other memorial stones have since been destroyed by the Sri Lankan military, including the graves of all LTTE cadre.
The damaged statue in 2006. Photograph TamilNet
Destroyed Miller statue in 2012. Photograph @Saygi
Tamils across the homeland have also commemorated the sacrifice of Captain Angayarkanni the first female Black Tiger, who was martyred on August 10, 1994. In 2019, Tamils in Kilinochchi remembered her sacrifice as part of International Women's Day.
Earlier this year, as tens of thousands of Tamils marched through the homeland as part of the Pottuvil to Polikandy, protestors stopped at Nelliady, Captain Miller's hometown, and held a minute's silence in his honour.
These are just two vignettes of the lives of the men and women who died under the command of the Black Tigers.
Reproduced from a piece by Sachi Sri Kantha.
Sea Black Tiger: Major Santhana
Date of Birth: 1973, February 11 Died: 2000, June 26.
Major Santhana knew well that her long dream and the objective would be successful this time. With this, she went to see her mother at home for the last time. Her mother told her, "Child, will you visit us frequently?". She responded, "I'll return mother, very shortly". Her mother, at that moment, didn't understand the meaning of her daughter's words. She bid farewell to her daughter, by hugging and kissing her, with tears. Her mother was unaware that Santhana would only return in photo.
Major Santha was one of the thousands of young women who joined the Movement to fight and liberate the Tamils from Sinhalese dominance. She was in Women's Tiger battalion and in 1995, she joined the Black Tiger team. Once completing the special training assigned for the Black Tigers, Santhana began to search for targets.
When she was about the launch her final attack, and when she boarded the boat, she handed her slippers to her fellow fighter, saying: "I'll not return; so, you can keep this". Within a minute, she cracked, "Suppose, if I return, please give the slippers back to me". Even in her final moments, she delighted in making others smile, with a joke.
On June 26, 2000, the ship 'Ugana' brought armaments, explosives and food provisions to the Kankesanthurai harbor from Colombo for the army. The battle boats of the Sea Tigers and Black Tiger were on their mission to block and thwart this supply ship. About 55 miles from Point Pedro harbour, in the mid-sea, there was a confrontation of high intensity. Black Tiger boats cavalierly rammed the 'Ugana,' which then sank. Ten Sri Lankan navy cadres got killed. Those who wrote heroic history were Major Santhana and five of her colleagues; Black Sea Tigers, Lt. Col. Gnanendran, Major Suran, Major Nallappan, Capt. Ilamathi and Capt. Bhamini also settled into the sea permanently.
Black Tiger: Lt. Col. Borg
Date of Birth: 1959, November 11 Died: 1990, November 23.
In the heart of the Vanni district, the Mankulam military camp of Sinhalese was located. It carried out quite a number of atrocities. When Eelam War II began, the Liberation Tigers surrounded this military camp. There was a special plan to attack this camp. It was decided that a Black Tiger attack was needed to capture the camp.
Col. Balraj, who led the attack stated, "When we were planning the attack, Borg asserted, 'I'm the one who knows much about this camp. So I'll be the one to drive the explosive-laden vehicle.' "
Col.Balraj continued, "Borg is not a neophyte in the battlefield". "He was in charge of the district, and he led quite a number of attacks. Before he left on his final mission on 1990 November 23, Borg hugged me and said, 'I'm about to leave'. With this, Mankulam military camp was history. He drove the explosive-laden vehicle. In a few minutes, we heard a big explosion. The military camp was floored. In a few hours, we captured the camp territory."
Before his final mission, brother Borg went on his home leave for a few days. His village (Semamadu, in Vanni district) is in the vicinity of the Sinhala border. He walked in the sands of his village and appreciated the lake, fields and forest. He was bidding farewell to his familiar surroundings. Nearby, a few children were playing. Brother Borg sat near them and asked; "Little brothers, you know Heroes Day is nearing. Suppose if I die, what will you do on that day?" The little guys retorted, "Why? Are you going to die?" Borg responded, "Suppose if I die, in my memory, will you plant a tree? Each one of you?" The little guys laughed. Borg also smiled.
The day to leave home arrived. Borg had lunch and rested on a mat for while on the verandah. His mother also came nearby and placed a mat to rest herself. Borg requested, "Mother, come near me, and place your mat adjacently." Mother obliged and patted his head. That afternoon, Borg said farewell to his family members (father, elder brothers, younger brothers and loving sister). Finally, he went to his mother and said, "Mother, please place a pottu (blessing charm) on my forehead." His mother obliged accordingly. He smiled, and bid farewell to her. He took a last look of all, from the gate and he left.
A few minutes later, his elder brother shrieked: "Thambi has left his lungi and T-shirt". For that, his mother consoled, "Maybe, he left these, because they had worn out".
Borg's mother says sobbingly: "I couldn't understand, why he behaved rather differently on that last day. Only after he died as a Black Tiger, did I realise why he had asked me to come and sleep next to him, why he asked me to place the blessing charm, why left his clothing. Now, I know".
Sharmini


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Note: I am using ggplotly because it is easier to manipulate long axis labels in the actual data I am using.
Here is my code:
ggplotly(ggplot(mtcars) +
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I have also tried to the same effect
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      xref = "paper", yref = "paper",
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    ),
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Finally, I have also tried using onRender based on an example from here:
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Jason Davis (born 15 September 1973 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), known professionally as Jabba, is an Australian actor, media personality, video jockey, television and radio host, who first made a name for himself as part of the launch of subscription television in Australia in 1995. He was a host for music television station "Red" on the now-defunct Galaxy subscription television network, before the channel changed its name to Channel V. Jason the jabba was part of a famous Incubus live performance at a secret gig in Bondi 2002.

Early life
Born Jason Davis, Jabba attended Hunters Hill Primary School, where he gained his name, and James Ruse Agricultural High School. He also played with the All Saints Hunters Hill soccer team, and Parramatta Waterpolo Club.

Career
Jabba began presenting for Foxtel's Channel [V] in 1994.
He hosted a variety of shows including The Joint and Jabba's Morning Glory, which featured performances and interviews with prominent musicians including Pink and Beastie Boys . During his time with [V], he played the role of "Davo "Dazza" Dinkum" in the SBS television comedy show Pizza and Swift and Shift couriers.

In 2004, Jabba participated in the Band in a Bubble project with Australian alternative rock band Regurgitator, which involved him being locked in a Big Brother-style environment with the group and their engineers while they produced an album under 24-hour surveillance. During this time, it was revealed that he had separated from his long-term partner and mother of his children. Following the projects conclusion, Jacquie Riddell of XYZ Networks, announced that Jabba would be taking an extended break, stating that "(the bubble) was a pretty big deal". In 2005, he left [V] and began presenting for Nova FM in Brisbane.

Jabba later moved back home to Sydney, working at Nova 96.9 hosting The All New Nova Top 10 with Jabba and Mel, while still also hosting the Motorola ARIA Charts show on Sunday afternoons, which is Nova's only national show. Jabba also writes a column for the Australian edition of Rolling Stone. Although, in November 2008 Jabba and Mel left The All New Nova Top 10 with Jabba and Mel they were replaced by James Kerley and Maz Compton.

Jabba was also the host of Great BBQ Challenge, a competition series on Foxtel's LifeStyle Food channel. It was a contest to find Australia's best BBQer, who would win $25,000 and go on to host their own show on Lifestyle FOOD. He has been named by some (one actually) as a 'Social recalcitrant'. "It sort of slid when he left the international passport to smoking pleasure behind"

Jabba's next career move in March 2010 was as host of a new Breakfast radio program with Mike Goldman called "Macarthur Breakfast" on the Win TV Network's C91.3 FM in Campbelltown, NSW. Jabba and Mike left the station in December 2010 as they have refused to move to Campbelltown, as it was important for the station to be as local as possible.

In 2011, he appeared on two SBS sitcoms: Swift and Shift Couriers and Housos. In 2014 he was featured in the motion picture Fat Pizza vs. Housos.

Collection of works

Filmography

Television
The Joint (as Himself-Host) (1999)
Pizza (as Middle Class Homeboy & as Davo Dinkum) (2000–2007)
Jabba's Morning Glory (as Himself-Host) (2002)
Pizza Live (as Davo Dinkum) (2004)
World Record Pizza (as Davo Dinkum) (2006)
Pull Up Selecta (as Himself-Host) (2006)
Great BBQ Challenge (as Himself-Host) (2006–2007)
20 to 1 (Himself) (2007–2010)
2008 National Musicoz Awards (as Himself-Host) (2008)
Swift and Shift Couriers (as various recurring characters) (2008, 2011)
Dirtgirlworld (as Hayman) (2009)
Jabba's Curious World (as Himself-Presenter) (2011)
The Essential 20 (as Himself-Presenter) (2011)
Housos (as Dazza) (2011)

Awards
Jabba was nominated for and won the Best Music Personality at the 2007 Australian Commercial Radio Awards held at Crown Casino.

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Australian music critics
Australian music journalists
Australian male television actors
Australian television presenters
People educated at James Ruse Agricultural High School
Living people
Australian VJs (media personalities)


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Tad Williams reveals "Empire of Grass" cover, answers Reddit questions
Posted on September 25, 2018 by Osten Ard
oday, legendary Science Fiction and Fantasy writer Tad Williams, author of the "Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" novels as well as the "Otherland", "Shadowmarch", and "Bobby Dollar" series, participated in an "Ask Me Anything" Reddit chat with readers. During the AMA chat, he revealed the cover of his latest novel (sixth in the Osten Ard series), Empire of Grass, which will be published in May 2019.
The new cover, as with all previous full-length Osten Ard novels, was painted by the uber-talented and award-winning Michael Whelan. The beautiful cover art features one of the elvish-like Sithi at the edge of Aldheorte Forest, surrounded by ruins of one of the lost Gardenborn cities. Behind the trees, grassland can be seen. Since the cover has been disseminated, we at Treacherous Paths can present it here.
There has, of course, been some speculation about which one of the Gardenborn settlements is depicted in Whelan's painting. Nine great cities were named in Williams' original Osten Ard novels: Nakkiga, Enki e-Shayosaye, Da'ai Chikiza, Kementari, Hikehikayo, Asu'a, Mezutu'a, Jhina T'senei, and Tumet'ai were named as the nine. But Nakkiga and Tumet'ai are now covered in ice, Mezutu'a and Asu'a are deep underground, and Jhina T'senei was lost under the waves. Da'ai Chikiza and parts of Asu'a were previously depicted by Whelan in earlier artwork, as was a smaller settlement, Sesu'adra.
The full cover artwork, including the wrap-around (showing the backside as well), can be found at Michael Whelan's official site.
During the Ask Me Anything Reddit chat, Williams was asked by many long-time readers about his plans for the upcoming novels (which include Empire of Grass, The Navigator's Children, and The Shadow of Things to Come, among other projects). The questions from readers included some spoilers for The Heart of What was Lost and The Witchwood Crown, both new Osten Ard novels published in 2017.
One reader asked, "Norn society changed a lot during this time span, with an obvious example being the mixing with mortals but several other things can probably be included. Is it fair to say that this process is due to the change of leadership from set-in-her-ways-for-millennia (ultra-conservative if I may) Utuk'ku to a little more flexible Akhenabi and maybe some others?"
Williams responded: "The long-term direction of Norn society will definitely be an important part of the third volume. Hard to say more without spoiling all the little hints smuggled into the first two volumes."
Another reader, named Novander, writes, "I was reading Memory, Sorrow and Thorn around the time I was starting university and didn't want my screen name to be something horribly goth and edgy anymore, so I stole your word for November in Osten Ard, which may be part of my legal name now. So my question is, you cool with that?"
(We at Treacherous Paths sincerely hope Novander's last name isn't Holyfield).
Another reader, a Christopher Paolini, writes: "Dude! It's been ages! (Life has a way of throwing curveballs at us all.) I really enjoyed The Heart of What Was Lost, and I'm finally — FINALLY — starting in on the Witchwood Crown. My questions are these: Given the size of your main novels, how do you go about tackling them, both before and during the writing? As I remember, you tend to be pretty methodical in your approach. What habits have you found helpful? What's your day-to-day process like? Also, what was it like returning to the world and characters of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn after so long?
Williams responded, "Hi, Christopher! Yes, it's been ages — please give my love to all your family. My day to day process is very much about preparing to write as much as writing. I like to spend a lot of time figuring out — by trying lots of thought experiments — how to move the story forward appropriately, and what kind of scenes would make good reading. I spend a lot of time lying down thinking. Some would say I am merely napping, but that's a terrible, unfair lie. (I only spend part of that time napping.) Returning to Osten Ard has been an unexpectedly rich and satisfying experience for me, which is why I no longer say I won't do this kind of thing. In fact, I'm planning to write more Osten Ard after this set of linked projects, although I don't know if that will necessarily be the next thing I write."
A fourth reader writes: "Ok, my question: are we going to see what happened to Prince Josua? I'm not expecting a happy family reunion or anything, but… He's not just gone, is he? Also, the ending to Witchwood Crown… Holy shit. How'd you pull that judo move? I never saw it coming…"
Williams responds, "Question one: I guarantee we'll find out quite a bit more about what happened to Josua. More than that I cannot say now. Question two: Good! Thank you! That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. We writers love to deliver an honest shock every now and then, and it's especially difficult with my readers, because they're smart and they've read a lot of books, so they're often trying to outthink me and guess what's going to happen."
More of Williams' AMA thread can be found here.
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New video trailer for Tad Williams' "The Witchwood Crown"
Posted on April 17, 2017 by Osten Ard
enguin Books has just released a new video trailer for Tad Williams' The Witchwood Crown, the fifth volume in his international bestselling Osten Ard saga. Over epic music, the camera pans over legendary artist Michael Whelan's illustrations of the Great Swords of Osten Ard: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.
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New Covers for "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" revealed!
oday, Random House website Suvudu.com revealed three brand-new re-issue covers for international bestselling author Tad Williams' classic "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" dark fantasy series. The covers feature beautiful new cover art by legendary science fiction/fantasy artist Michael Whelan, who painted the original covers for "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" almost thirty years ago.
The updated artwork is the first major revamp of the classic covers of The Dragonbone Chair, Stone of Farewell, and To Green Angel Tower since the books first went to print in the late 1980s/early 1990s, at least in America. Whelan, winner of fifteen Hugo Awards and three World Fantasy Awards for best artist, is known for his detailed and painstaking work, which often involves months of research and manuscript reading.
The new covers will appear on updated U.S. DAW Books trade paperback editions of the original trilogy, with a newly-revised edition of The Dragonbone Chair scheduled to appear in July 2016, followed by Stone of Farewell in September 2016, and To Green Angel Tower in November 2016. These volumes will be closely followed by two brand-new Osten Ard novels: The Heart of What Was Lost in January 2017 and The Witchwood Crown in April 2017. Three or four additional novels are planned, with The Witchwood Crown being the first volume in the highly-anticipated sequel series "The Last King of Osten Ard".
First up is the new cover for The Dragonbone Chair, the cardinal volume, which features a blurb by George R. R. Martin, author of the bestselling A Game of Thrones: "Inspired me to write my own seven-book trilogy… It's one of my favorite series."
Whelan's artwork accurately depicts the sword Minneyar, also known as "Year of Memory" or simply Memory, one of the Three Great Swords spoken of in the Mad Priest Nisses' ancient prophecy:
"When frost doth grow on Claves' bell
And shadows walk upon the road
When water blackens in the well
Three Swords must come again.
"When Bukken from the earth do creep
And Hunën from the heights descend
When Nightmare throttles peaceful sleep
"To turn the stride of treading Fate
To clear the fogging Mists of Time
If Early shall resist too Late
Scheduled for September, the new cover for Stone of Farewell features the Great Sword Sorrow, also known in the Sithi language as Jingizu. Whelan's illustration accurately portrays the double-hilted sword, which is made of both iron and witchwood, two materials which were considered inimicable, perhaps because neither the iron nor the witchwood are native to the lands of Osten Ard: iron was brought from Ijsgard east to Osten Ard on King Elvrit's longboat Sotfengsel, while witchwood was brought westward to Osten Ard by the undying Sithi on their eight great ships.
The great sword Sorrow is described in the text: "… in a sheath at [King Elias'] side was the sword with the strange crossed hilt […] there was something queer and unsettling about the blade… [It] had a strange double guard, the cross pieces making; with the hilt, a sort of five-pointed star. Somewhere, deep in Simon's self, he recognized this last sword. Somewhere, in a memory black as night, deep as a cave, he had seen such a blade…"
The new cover contains a blurb from author Patrick Rothfuss ("The Kingkiller Chronicle"): "Groundbreaking… changed how people thought of the genre, and paved the way for so much modern fantasy. Including mine."
The third volume, To Green Angel Tower, is scheduled for a November 2016 re-release. The cover features Michael Whelan's depiction of the Great Sword named Thorn.
The text describes the sword thusly: "it was a sword like no other he had ever seen: long as a man's arms spread wide, fingertip to fingertip, and black. The purity of its blackness was unmarred by the colors that sparkled on its edge, as though the blade was so supernaturally sharp that it even sliced the dim light of the cavern into rainbows. Had it not been for the silver cord wrapped around the hilt as a handgrip— leaving the uncovered guard and pommel as pitchy as the rest of its length— it would have seemed to bear no relationship to mankind at all. Rather, despite its symmetry, it would have seemed some natural growth, some pure essence of nature's blackness extruded by chance in the form of an exquisite sword."
The cover features a blurb from author Christopher Paolini (Eragon): "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is one of the great fantasy epics of all time." We at Treacherous Paths can't disagree.
We will keep readers up to date on more news as soon as we're authorized to release it.
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Title of Fifth New Osten Ard Novel Announced
Posted on January 17, 2016 by Osten Ard
he title of Tad Williams' fifth new Osten Ard novel was made public this week on Facebook. The novel, which will be an interquel rather than a strict sequel, will be named The Shadow of Things to Come.
Williams, an international bestselling author, has hinted about this fifth novel in the past, but the title of the new book has remained under wraps until recently. In a previous Facebook posting, Williams wrote:
I would guess that the second short novel [The Shadow of Things to Come] will come out between The Witchwood Crown and Empire of Grass, but that's a guess until we work out the schedule with publishers. The story at this stage is one of a number of possibilities, so I think I'll talk about it next newsletter, or perhaps when actually I'm writing it and it's jumping like the tree frogs around here whenever we get some rain. All the possibilities are pretty interesting, I have to say.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
In all, five new books set in Williams' eldritch world of Osten Ard will see worldwide publication over the next few years. Publishers in the US, UK, Germany, and the Netherlands have already been announced. The first new novel, The Heart of What Was Lost, was originally envisioned as a short story, but like many of Williams' stories, expanded greatly in the telling. The original working title of this novel was The Heart of Regret, but that title has since been changed. The Heart of What Was Lost is set immediately after the events of To Green Angel Tower (published in 1993), and could be seen as a sequel novel to Williams' original classic "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" books:
The story [of The Heart of What Was Lost] follows [Duke] Isgrimnur [of Elvritshalla] as he leads an army against the Storm King's defeated warriors, who are looting and killing as they fall back to Nakkiga, their mountain home in the far north.
The Heart of What Was Lost is expected to be published in January 2017, followed by The Witchwood Crown in late Winter 2017. This second new Osten Ard novel will continue the story some thirty years later. After The Witchwood Crown will come The Shadow of Things to Come, Empire of Grass, and The Navigator's Children, though not necessarily in that order.
Williams has given several interviews over the last year regarding several of the new Osten Ard books. We will provide more details on OstenArd.com regarding these highly-anticipated new novels when possible; alternately, you can subscribe to Williams' official newsletter.
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Tad Williams reveals "Heart of Regret", new Osten Ard novel
ver the last few years, speculative fiction author Tad Williams has been writing new stories set in Osten Ard, the mysterious world of his now-classic "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" books. In April 2014, Williams announced "The Last King of Osten Ard", a sequel trilogy to "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn"; the first volume of the new series, The Witchwood Crown, is expected in March 2017, with subsequent volumes Empire of Grass and The Navigator's Children published sometime thereafter.
Last week came the news, leaked by Tad Williams on his Facebook account, that another Osten Ard novel, in addition to the three already announced, is already in the works. This week, Williams revealed the working title of the fourth new Osten Ard novel on his message board; the title is Heart of Regret.
Williams stated that the book started out as a novella, but (as is typical with his writing) grew in the writing process:
The short novel is no longer a novella, which was how it started. I've just finished the first draft and the current page length is 213 manuscript pages, which is something in the order of 70K words.
This is certainly no surprise. Nearly all of Tad Williams' novels have been lengthy, with To Green Angel Tower being one of the longest English-language novels ever written. The 70,000 words of Heart of Regret works out to about 280 pages, according to one word-count website. Williams goes on to explain that the Heart of Regret title is only a working title, and may well change by the time of publication. He also reveals many new details about the new story, including quite a few spoilers:
The original title was "Heart of Regret", and I still lean toward that, although Deborah is worried that it's too much of a downer and would rather have something about the Battle of Nakkiga in the title. (The Heart of Regret is a symbolic jewel belonging to an important Norn character, but the words also say much about the nature of the story and its events.) It takes place in the half-year after the end of [To Green Angel Tower], and tells of the attempt by Isgrimnur and a force largely made up of Rimmersgard soldiers to destroy the remaining Norns as they flee back to their homeland and their mountain. Of course, it gets a bit more complicated than that. It also answers some questions about what actually happened in the immediate aftermath of the fall of Green Angel Tower.
So the main characters will be the returning Rimmersmen characters Isgrimnur and Sludig; Isgrimnur is the Duke of Rimmergard in "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn", a point-of-view character. Sludig was his lieutenant, and a dynamic and important character in the original trilogy; he accompanies Simon, Binabik and Qantaqa north from Naglimund Castle, skirting around the western and northern sides of Aldheorte Forest in their long, cold quest to retrieve the Great Sword Thorn from the "Rhymer's Greate Tree". He then travels south with Binabik and Qantaqa around the eastern edge of Aldheorte to the Stone of Farewell, where he becomes Prince Josua's Man Friday, accompanying the prince south to Nabban and then back north to Hayholt Castle.
According to Williams' announcement, Heart of Regret will continue almost directly from the ending of To Green Angel Tower, though it's unclear what this exactly means for the story. The fall of Green Angel Tower happens one year before the ending of the classic series, as the Afterword, after Chapter 60, takes place one year after the fall of the tower.
Williams also revealed more about the plot of Heart of Regret, including these juicy details:
The only real returning characters from MS&T are Isgrimnur and Sludig, but there are several prominent characters from "The Witchwood Crown" as well, including the Norn lord and engineer, Viyeki, and Sir Porto, a Perdruinese man who is young in the short novel but pretty old by the time Witchwood Crown begins. There are also a few others such as Akehnabi (a Norn magician, very important in the new books) who had brief appearances in MS&T.
Williams had previously revealed the names Viyeki and Porto last year on his message board (along with about 40 other names), and these names had been identified, correctly as it can now be said, by readers on the Smarch forums as belonging to a Norn man and a Perdruinese man, respectively, through careful guesswork.
The third name on Williams' announcement, Akhenabi, appeared in "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" as the embittered spokesman at the ruins of Naglimund, the "nail-fort" in the northern part of Erkynland. It was Akhenabi who caused the corpses of the dead of Naglimund to rise once more in a macabre display of eldritch power.
Williams then announced some details on the publication of Heart of Regret:
Deb and I are still considering options as far as how it will be published, in part because we would like to see it come out when "Witchwood Crown" was originally scheduled, i.e. Spring of 2016. When I have more information — and there WILL be more information — I promise I will tell you immediately.
I will be happy to answer other questions, but of course I will be very conservative with any more story information than I've already given here. Without giving anything away, there will be threads in this story that will become very important in the trilogy to come, so it's probably not safe to ignore if you want to stay up with the Canonical Osten Ard. (I am grinning at my own self-indulgence here.)
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Tad Williams' "The Witchwood Crown" Delayed
Posted on August 10, 2015 by Osten Ard
The Witchwood Crown, first volume of the highly-anticipated sequel to Tad Williams' "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" has been delayed, and unfortunately does not appear in DAW Books' Spring 2016 catalog.
Deborah Beale, wife and business partner of Tad Williams, has released this statement:
"Book one of Tad Williams' 'The Last King of Osten Ard' isn't in in the DAW spring schedule owing to pressures arising from the integration of Penguin/Random House. We will know more about that after Tad's September meeting with his publishers.
"Beyond this, we have been focussed on a number of projects related to 'The Last King'. The road to volume one, 'The Witchwood Crown', will be dotted with many Easter eggs, some of which will be announced after that September meeting. This is a trilogy that is expanding from the front end of things!"
The Witchwood Crown is the first volume of "The Last King of Osten Ard". This sequel to Williams' classic 1980s fantasy trilogy/tetralogy was set to be released in Spring 2016, though no definite date had yet been set. The announcement of "a number of projects related to "The Last King of Osten Ard" is intriguing. Williams has written of several possibilities on his official message board over the years.
More news will come from Tad Williams or Deborah Beale when it is available; hopefully in September. Meanwhile, Hodder Books in the UK has released The Dragonbone Chair on audiobook, via Audible.com/Amazon.co.uk, the first time MS&T has been available as an audiobook for the general public. A review of the reading from this site is forthcoming.
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The Dragonbone Chair Now Available on Audiobook
Posted on July 21, 2015 by Osten Ard
Hodder Books has announced that Tad Williams' The Dragonbone Chair, Book One of "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" is now available for pre-order on audible.com. The audiobook is the first novel in Tad Williams' classic fantasy series "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn", first published in 1988 and now available as an unabridged audiobook for the first time.
Kitchen-boy Simon is bored, restless and 14 years old – a dangerous combination. It seems, however, that his life has just taken a turn for the better when he's apprenticed to his castle's resident wizard. As Simon is learning to read and write under Doctor Morgenes' tutelage, forces greater than he could possibly imagine are gathering: forces which will change Simon's life – and his world – forever.
Following the death of Good King John, Osten Ard is plunged into civil war as his sons battle for control of the fabled Dragonbone Chair – the country's throne as well as the symbol of its power. Simon is forced to flee the only home he has ever known, a journey which will test him beyond his worst nightmares.
With The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams introduced readers to the incredible, complex fantasy world of Osten Ard and kicked off the beloved, internationally best-selling series "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn". Later Osten Ard works include Stone of Farewell (1990), To Green Angel Tower (1993), The Burning Man (1998), and The Witchwood Crown (forthcoming). The audiobook release for Stone of Farewell is set for November; the audiobook for To Green Angel Tower will follow sometime thereafter. The audiobook for The Witchwood Crown is expected around the time of the release of the new novel.
Written by: Tad Williams
Narrated by:Andrew Wincott
Series: Memory, Sorrow & Thorn, Book 1
This title is scheduled to be released on 06/08/2015
The beloved fantasy classic, praised by George R. R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, and Christopher Paolini (among others) has been unavailable in audiobook format before now, at least in the English language. The book will be narrated by Andrew Wincott, an English actor with over 100 audiobooks to his credit.
Pre-order The Dragonbone Chair here!
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Maradona buried near Buenos Aires on Thursday amid clashes
Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona was buried Thursday in a private ceremony attended by only two dozen people near the capital Buenos Aires.
Only family members and close friends were permitted at Jardín Bella Vista cemetery for the final religious ceremony and burial of Maradona next to the graves of his parents, Dalma and Diego.
The private funeral was a stark contrast to earlier in the day when tens of thousands of weeping fans filed past his coffin for hours.
Fans waving Argentine flags had gathered along roads as Maradona's funeral car drove by under heavy security. Many tried to touch the vehicle whenever it was stopped by traffic.
The earlier viewing at the Argentine presidential mansion was halted shortly before 6 p.m., frustrating many who were waiting to pay their respects and causing new tensions at the gates of the cemetery.
The crowd overwhelmed organizers and the violence resulted in injuries and arrests, which led Maradona's family to end the public visitation.
Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez has announced the country will go into three days of national mourning for Maradona.
Maradona died Wednesday of a heart attack in a house outside Buenos Aires where he had been recovering from a brain operation Nov. 3.
Arguably the greatest soccer player of all-time, Maradona is best known for leading Argentina to a World Cup title in 1986. In the quarterfinals, he scored the famous "Goal of the Century" against England, which is often said to be the greatest individual goal of all time.
Maradona was also involved in the controversial "Hand of God" goal during that World Cup.
One of the greatest football players of all time, Maradona had a troubled personal life marked by cocaine and alcohol addiction. He had successful surgery on a brain blood clot earlier in November and was to be treated for alcohol dependency.
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ROYAL Caribbean International (RCI), an award-winning global cruise brand, has slated 43 port calls to Penang compared with 15 last year.
Its Asia-Pacific managing director Sean Treacy said they were expecting to bring in 140,000 passengers to Penang this year compared with about 45,000 last year.
"We have been visiting Penang more often on three-night cruises since it has become a popular destination among our customers," he said during a tour with press members on the Voyager of the Seas recently.
Treacy said Voyager of the Seas, a cruise liner with a passenger capacity of 4,269, would be setting out from Singapore this month and next month.
He said there would be 13 journeys of three to five nights to Phuket, Penang and Kuala Lumpur (Port Klang) plus an eight-night one-way cruise to Hong Kong with stopovers in Bangkok (Laem Chabang), Ho Chi Minh City (Phu My) and Nha Trang for one night.
Voyager of the Seas, with a passenger capacity of more than 4,000, will be in South-East Asia for six weeks.
"The Voyager of the Seas will be in the South-East Asia region for six weeks from this month.
"It underwent an US$80mil (RM356mil) refurbishment in 2014.
"There will be more staterooms and revitalised features such as the FlowRider surf simulator, virtual balcony interior staterooms and added specialty restaurants," he said.
Besides Voyager of the Seas, RCI also serves up two other ship options — the iconic Mariner of the Seas and Ovation of the Seas, the largest ship in the Quantum Class in the region.
These cruises start and end mostly in Singapore, covering Bangkok, Phuket and even China, among other destinations.
Treacy said the company was celebrating its 10th anniversary in the region.
Passengers having fun at a nine-hole miniature golf course on the cruise liner.
"We started with Legend of the Sea, a 2,000-capacity ship in 2007.
"We had only 11 visits to Malaysia then. This year, the expected number of visits to Malaysia is almost 90.
"You just think about the growth over the last 10 years.
"We believe we may see a 10-fold increase in our visits to Malaysia in the next 10 years.
"There is strong support from local authorities and the Federal Government to build cruise tourism.
"We believe this is just the beginning," he said.
It was earlier reported that Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd was investing in the Swettenham Pier Cruise Terminal to lengthen the pier from the present 400m to 688m.
It is taking a 40% stake in a joint-venture company to be formed with Penang Port Sdn Bhd in an expansion project that will cost US$35mil (RM155.5mil).
After the pier has been made longer, two mega cruise liners carrying more than 4,900 passengers each will be able to simultaneously dock at the pier.