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With a total area of 70 hectares, the Südpark is Düsseldorf's biggest and most visited park. The popularity of the park is due not least to the 30-kilometre network of paths and the variety of things to do and see. The park comprises three very different sections: Volksgarten, "Vor dem Deich" and "In den Gärten".
The Volksgarten, the oldest part of the Südpark, was completed in 1895/96 and formed the green oasis of the park in the 19th century. It was deliberately planned as an open, natural-looking park. Ponds with attractively curving shorelines, avenues, dense shrubbery, and winding paths offering sudden glimpses of groups of trees, are designed to give the illusion of a harmonious, almost ideal landscape.
On the south side, the area comprising 23 hectares of water and meadows is called "Vor dem Deich". The starting point for the gardeners was a deep quarry pond fed by groundwater, which used to be a gravel pit. This, together with the neighbouring former industrial area, was transformed into a blooming paradise. Luscious vegetation thrives along the banks of the artificial ponds and chain of islands. The floodwater dike, which was built in 1573 for the Stoffeln cemetery and rediscovered by the planners of the Südpark, provides a good overview of this biotope. The dike is a welcome vantage point in the almost completely flat park and is crowned with a panorama restaurant.
The 20-hectare garden axis "In den Gärten" links the historic Volksgarten and the semi-natural "Vor dem Deich". Here, the central eye-catcher is a 600-metre long water axis. Sixteen different theme gardens divided by hedges are grouped along this axis. The garden axis surprises with different plants and seasonally changing flowers.
Two surges of development, 90 years apart, gave the Südpark the appearance and design that it has today. In 1892 the city purchased 11 hectares of land from the Arenberg family for the creation of the Volksgarten, in order to provide the inhabitants of the densely populated parts of the city with somewhere to relax.
In the 1960s, an area of wasteland next to the Volksgarten with a derelict gravel pit, overgrown scrap yards and tangled gardens, had turned into an ugly back yard. These areas were cleaned up and redeveloped for the Federal Garden Show in 1987, and today's Südpark came into being. Comprehensive maintenance measures were carried out again in 2008. At the time, the city of Düsseldorf was a participant in the "Entente Florale" competition, which it went on to win. The Südpark was also included in the application concept: it represented the city's approach to public parks.
The many different types of landscape in the Südpark are complemented by numerous sculptures by international artists, who deal with the tension between art and nature in their work. Starting with "Zeitfeld" with 24 clocks by Klaus Rinke, via the water axis by Christian Megert and Wasa Marjanov, the steel elements by Erwin Reusch, a column by Ulrich Rückreim, through to the gate made of basalt lava by Erwin Heerich.
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From start to finish, this film had me on the edge of my seat with constant long sighs with intermittent bouts of holding my breath. Writer/Director, Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster), was able to artfully build tension, blare an at times cacophonous and ever so eerie score, and deliver a dialed back cast with limited emotion, flat affects, that maintain the wryest cadence that would impress even Wes Anderson. There are plenty of dark and uncomfortable moments, which were enough to illicit uncomfortable laughter from the audience.
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Post by stann_co » Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:36 am
More often than not when a suggestion is made, someone will link a mod that does the thing suggested, or atleast something similar. This has been counted as a good thing.
Though if a mod already does the thing you're suggesting, would it be better to not have it suggested it in the first place?
How should you go about making it known that this element of a mod, or a whole mod is something you strongly feel should be made part of the base game?
Do the devs actively look at all new mods and make those decisions on their own?
This is some open questions, i'd just like to know before i write more suggestions myself, so i don't waste peoples time. I also have a bit of technical know how so i'm considering getting into modding a few ideas i had myself ( :
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Post by Stringweasel » Wed Oct 19, 2022 1:03 pm
I don't think it's ever wrong to make suggestions, I would even encourage it. Maybe a modder sees your idea and decides to implement it as well.
As long as your friendly about it, and understand that everybody has different ideas about what should be part of vanilla. And ultimately Wube will decide what's should be part of vanilla, as they should.
And they do take ideas from mods. For example you can read this Alt-F4 article about just such cases. However, I don't think it happens that often anymore, if at all. Factorio is quite mature and stable, so they won't likely add many more features or ideas. Except of course the expansion, but that's a different story
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Post by Tertius » Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:26 pm
Reading through suggestions give an impression how players see the game and what players like to see in a game. It's like a mod, only without actually doing it as mod, because it's perhaps more difficult or the player lacks the skill and energy to create a mod himself.
It also happens that people are unable to express themselves in detail. They have an idea, but cannot flesh it out. Others pick up an idea and are able to flesh it out in a discussion.
The developers can use all this as inspiration and as indication what players find interesting.
However, some people forget the core of the game and want some radical changes that don't fit the original goals set by the developers.
And people often forget that good ideas are only good ideas if they can actually be implemented in a game. Most ideas simply cannot be implemented, because the have side effects that only surface if you start thinking about the details.
But without giving any suggestions, no one can be inspired by them, and nobody will ever know there are other people with similar ideas. So don't hesitate to make your own suggestion.
As far as I see it, the developers probably look into every mod and look what it does. Perhaps they don't install and test each and every mod, but I'm quite sure they browse every new mod and look for what stuff the creator spent many hours to create that mod.
And if a mod already exists, why should that be implemented in the core game? If you want the content, just install the mod. I guess developers rather look for original ideas to add to the game, not re-implement features from mods. Only if a mod adds essential functionality that everyone should be able to use, it's a candidate for re-implementation in the base game.
The developers themselves also don't all have the same vision about the game. They all have their own ideas. You can see this from mods created by the developers themselves.
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Post by Koub » Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:38 pm
The first thing is that many people are just happy with a mod if it allows them to enjoy the game more. Mod suggestions will often be in the early answers on a suggestion.
Second, the answer to the question "should modded features be included into the base game ?" is subjective. My opinion is that for a mod to be somehow integrated into vanilla :
1) The feature should blend nicely into vanilla.
2) The feature should be straightforward, and considered beneficial to all (or at least to most). If it only suits a certain specific playstyle, it lowers the probability a suggestion is added in vanilla.
3) It should not degrade the performance : one of the signature features of the game is the ability to build big even on a half-potatoe half-toaster computer. The devs are very committed on that part.
4) At least some of the devs need to be convinced by the feature. Some suggestions have remained for years until a dev realized the game lacked that feature and implemented it.
Last : there is a last consideration : mods break Steam achievements. If the devs think a feature should be enjoyed without breaking Steam achievements, it might be an additional point for the implementation into vanilla (personal speculation here).
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Post by Tertius » Thu Oct 20, 2022 2:45 pm
Koub wrote: ↑
mods break Steam achievements.
Let them go. If a silly badge is more important than your enjoyment of the game, you should adjust your views in my opinion.
Yes, I also hesitated to install mods (this started with Skyrim, and continues to Factorio) just because of the achievements, but mods add so much QoL in detail, I never reget I just let the achievements go. Skyrim with its UI, Factorio with some of the UI annoyances (zoom on widescreen monitor; moving existing entities around). For me, mods remove usability annoyances. I don't need big overhauls and additions, I use mods to remove annoyances.
By the way, is there a thread where game annoyances are collected and discussed? I didn't find any recent. Seeing 1.2 on the distant horizon, it might be possible to help the developers rethink a few of their usability design views.
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Post by quyxkh » Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:09 pm
stann_co wrote: ↑
if a mod already does the thing you're suggesting, would it be better to not have it suggested it in the first place?
There's just wayyyyy too many mods for anyone to page through them all, if the "downloads" and "trending" sorts on the mod install page don't bring you joy, I'd say absolutely, ask here, that's what forums/discord/reddit/whatever are for.
There's two questions about something that would please you: can you already make the game do that?, and would the vast majority of people be happier if the game did that?
If you know a mod will do what you want, then the relevant question is that second one, and there's no accounting for taste: people either know about the mod and already use it or they don't and they'll be glad to hear about it. If you *dont* know a mod that will do what you want, then of course it's best to suggest what you're after, that's how you hear about mods that do what you want.
But if you think you're going to persuade people that they "should" want something through the power of your rhetoric or the fervency of your personal rightness and desire, or whatever, uhh, well, I'd say you've got another think coming.
Post by Koub » Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:13 pm
Tertius wrote: ↑
One can't command what one finds enjoyable. Some people prefer their spaghetti broken in half, and cooked for 15 minutes, with ketchup, some people like ham and pineapple pizza, some others their hamburgers with mayonnaise, or chorizo in their paella, and some even like their cheese pasteurized and stored in the fridge (those heretics should be burnt with cleansing fire, but I digress). Same goes with the urge to unlock badges.
I prefer when games don't have achievements (whether ingame or on Steam), but when there are, I find it extremely challenging to ignore the call of completionism.
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The killer in the backseat (also known as High Beams) is an urban legend from the United States and United Kingdom. It was first noted by folklorist Carlos Drake in 1968 in texts collected by Indiana University students.

Legend
The legend involves a woman who is driving and being followed by a car or truck. The mysterious pursuer flashes his high beams, tailgates her, and sometimes even rams her vehicle. When she finally makes it home, she realizes that the driver was trying to warn her that there was a man (a murderer, or escaped mental patient) hiding in her back seat. Each time the man sat up to attack her, the driver behind had used his high beams to scare the killer, causing him to duck back down.

In some versions, the woman stops for gas, and the attendant asks her to come inside to sort out a problem with her credit card. Inside the station, he asks if she knows there's a man in her back seat. (An example of this rendition can be seen in the 1998 episode of Millennium, "The Pest House".) In another, she sees a doll on the road in the moors, stops, and then the man gets in the back.

In another version, the woman gets into her car and then a crazed person leaps out from nowhere and starts shouting gibberish and slamming their hands on the car. The woman quickly manages to escape from them but no matter how far or which direction she drives, every time she stops, the same crazy person appears and attacks the car. The woman then arrives at a police station and tells the police about the crazed person. The police calm her down and offer to drive her back to her house (or a safe place in other versions). But when they go with her to get her things from the car, they find the killer hiding behind the driver's seat. As it turns out, the crazed person that was chasing the woman was the ghost of one of the killer's victims, trying to either warn the woman or get at the killer.

Origin
The story has been identified as circulating at least as early as the late 1960s, and may have gained more widespread recognition after appearing in a letter to advice columnist Ann Landers in 1982. It has been speculated, including by Snopes founder David Mikkelson, that the legend may have been inspired by a vaguely similar case which took place in 1964, in which an escaped murderer hid in the backseat of a car, only to end up shot by the car's owner, a police detective. Other somewhat similar, though not identical, cases have since been noted, including by folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand.

Interpretations

The story is often told with a moral. The attendant is often a lumberjack, a trucker, or a scary-looking man: someone the driver mistrusts without reason. She assumes it is the attendant who wants to do her harm, when in reality it is he who saves her life.

In popular culture
 The Twilight Zone episode "Perchance to Dream" is notable for its protagonist's allusions to 'that woman who was killed by a psychopath hiding in the back seat of her car', in an episode first broadcast around eight or nine years before the story is believed to have entered into urban legend. It is unknown if this is pure coincidence or deliberately referencing some otherwise unrecorded 'proto-myth', or even perhaps helped to inspire the legend.
 John Carpenter's 1978 film Halloween has the character Annie Brackett killed when she enters the car and the killer Michael Myers sneaks up from behind the back seat and slashes her throat.
 A version of the story by author Alvin Schwartz appears in the 1981 collection of short horror stories for children Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
 Terror in Topanga, the first segment of the 1983 anthology film Nightmares, is a depiction of this legend.
 The story is featured in a 1992 an episode of The Simpsons when Otto tells Lisa the legend as a bedtime story. In his version, the victim is chased by another car that keeps ramming her vehicle, and she drives off the road into the woods and loses the other car. She is then killed by an axe-wielding maniac who had been hiding in her backseat. He then reveals himself to be said maniac.
 The 1998 film Urban Legend begins with this scenario.
 In a 1998 episode of Millennium, "The Pest House", Frank Black chases a doctor from a mental hospital after one of its patients escapes into the back of her car and tries to kill her. When she pulls over at a gas station, the attendant saves her by taking her inside.
 The story is featured in a 1998 episode of the television show Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction under the title "Bright Lights".
 A 2003 episode of the detective series Jonathan Creek, "The Coonskin Cap", begins with a version of this legend, except that instead of a killer inside the car, the pursuing driver is trying to alert the woman that there is a body tied to the back of her car.
 The 2003 Tamil film from India, Whistle, begins with this scenario.
In the 2009 film Zombieland, Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) explains to Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) that Rule #10 of surviving a zombie apocalypse is to check the backseat for hidden dangers, such as re-animated zombies. Later on in the film, after getting robbed at gunpoint again, Tallahassee admits to Columbus that Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) got the drop on him and Tallahassee because he (Tallahassee) didn't check the backseat.
In the 2013 film Curse of Chucky, Nica Pierce is sent to a psychiatric hospital, suspected of a set of killings committed by Chucky. As the arresting officer gets into his car, Tiffany Valentine, who had been hiding in the back seat, slits his throat with a nail file.
 In the 2015 episode of Scream Queens, "Ghost Stories", Chanel #5 (played by Abigail Breslin) is driving and a truck starts honking at her and using his high beams. When she pulls over at a petrol station, he tells her about the Red-Devil (the murderer), lurking in her back seat but then he is stabbed by it while #5 makes her escape.
 The 2022 episode of American Horror Stories, "Drive", Marci (played by Bella Thorne) is driving home from a night club and a jeep starts flashing its high beams at her. Marci loses the jeep and hides behind a car wash. Her friend Piper tells Marci of the legend. Later, it's revealed the driver of the jeep really did see someone in the backseat, but it wasn't a killer, it was actually someone Marci kidnapped herself, subverting the legend.

See also
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References

Entry at Snopes
Info at About.com
 Brunvand, Jan Harold. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. 2001.
 Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Choking Doberman. 1984.

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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson took to Instagram to pay tribute to his late WWE Hall of Famer father, Rocky Johnson, who passed away last Wednesday at the age of 75 from natural causes.
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Capitan Mutanda - Il film (Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie) è un film del 2017, diretto da David Soren.

Basato sulla serie di libri per ragazzi omonima, è prodotto dalla DreamWorks Animation ed è stato l'ultimo distribuito dalla 20th Century Fox, prima del passaggio a Universal Pictures.

Trama
George e Harold sono due amici di quarta elementare e vicini di casa, che spesso portano gioia alla loro scuola, scherzando eccessivamente con il loro crudele preside, il signor Benjamin "Benny" Grugno, che li mette in contrasto con lui. La coppia di amici crea anche fumetti su un supereroe di nome Capitan Mutanda, un personaggio che ha superpoteri ma indossa semplicemente biancheria intima e un mantello. Li vendono ai loro compagni di scuola attraverso una compagnia di fumetti chiamata Treehouse Comix Inc., situata nella loro casa sull'albero. Gli scherzi di George e Harold giungono a una fine quando vengono sorpresi a manomettere un'invenzione di un gabinetto-robot, il Turboidrator 2000, realizzato dal ragazzo intellettuale Melvin. Questo dà la possibilità a Grugno di separare i due ragazzi in classi diverse, pensando così di poter distruggere la loro amicizia.

Per evitare la separazione, George ipnotizza il signor Grugno con un "Hypno-Anello" trovato in una scatola di cereali; i ragazzi notano così che il signor Grugno senza il suo parrucchino assomiglia a Capitan Mutanda e gli ordinano di esserlo. I ragazzi apprendono presto la gravità della situazione quando Capitan Mutanda inizia a causare problemi e quindi decidono di portarlo nella loro casa sull'albero. Lì, scoprono che possono trasformare Capitan Mutanda di nuovo in Grugno spruzzandogli dell'acqua e di nuovo in Capitan Mutanda schioccando le dita. Rendendosi conto che il signor Grugno continuerà a cercare di separarli, decidono di stabilirsi con il loro supereroe, ma lo fanno travestire da Grugno con il pretesto di una "identità segreta", a cui Capitan Mutanda è d'accordo. L'improvviso cambiamento di personalità di Grugno riesce persino ad attirare l'attenzione e l'affetto della timida addetta alla mensa della scuola, Edith.

Proprio quando George e Harold credono che i loro problemi siano finiti, uno scienziato strano e con accento tedesco di nome Professor Pannolino visita la scuola, che il capitano (ancora travestito da Grugno) assume come nuovo insegnante di scienze, ma George e Harold sono sospettosi a causa del suo comportamento irascibile e violento. Infatti, Pannolino sta cercando di eliminare le risate della gente, che da sempre lo ha preso in giro a causa del suo nome, come spiegato in un traumatico flashback quando gli è stato quasi assegnato un premio Nobel prima che il comitato ridesse di lui per il suo nome ridicolo.

Con Capitan Mutanda nei panni del preside, la scuola è un luogo più vivace e viene allestito un luna park nel cortile. Tuttavia, scoppia un temporale e il capitano ritorna ad essere di nuovo il signor Grugno, che dispone la separazione di George e Harold in due classi diverse. Nel frattempo, Pannolino recluta Melvin per il suo piano, poiché il giovane non ha il senso dell'umorismo e non trova il suo nome divertente. Presto, Pannolino cerca di conquistare la città con una versione gigante del Turboidrator 2000 di Melvin, alimentato dagli avanzi tossici della mensa scolastica lasciati da Edith, e usa il cervello di Melvin come fonte di energia per trasformare i bambini in persone cupe e senza umorismo. Capitan Mutanda cerca di fermarli, ma non avendo veri superpoteri, viene sconfitto senza sforzo e gettato nello sciacquone tossico. George e Harold vengono catturati e trasformati in cupi, ma riescono a fuggire quando le loro risate per lo scherzo che li ha resi amici all'asilo sovraccaricano il raggio zombi, che danneggia il computer del Turboidrator 2000 e riporta i bambini alla normalità. Dopo aver consumato gli avanzi tossici, Capitan Mutanda acquisisce veri superpoteri e, con l'aiuto di George e Harold, sconfigge e rimpicciolisce Pannolino, che fugge su un'ape poco dopo.

Sapendo che non possono controllare Capitan Mutanda per sempre, George e Harold distruggono l'Hypno-anello per farlo ritornare permanentemente nel signor Grugno. Sentendo che quest'ultimo sarebbe molto più gentile se avesse degli amici, i ragazzi organizzano un appuntamento romantico tra lui e Edith, facendo cambiare umore al signor Grugno, che restituisce a George e Harold i loro fumetti sequestrati, ammettendo che le loro creazioni sono davvero umoristiche. Tuttavia, i rifiuti tossici del Turboidrator 2000 caduti in una discarica creano un esercito di gabinetti parlanti, che attaccano il ristorante dove stanno cenando Grugno ed Edith. Dopo aver schioccato le dita accidentalmente, il signor Grugno ridiventa ancora una volta Capitan Mutanda, portando via George e Harold per aiutarlo a combatterli con sorpresa e ammirazione di Edith.

Personaggi
 Benjamin "Benny" Grugno/Capitan Mutanda: l'eroe del film. È simile a un uomo comune, ma indossa solo un paio di mutande e un mantello rosso. Quando non si trasforma, suo malgrado, in supereroe, è Benjamin Grugno, preside della scuola di George e Harold: un uomo severo, collerico, antipatico e avverso al divertimento.
 George Beard: uno dei protagonisti. È un bambino di colore che ama fare i fumetti con Harold; da piccolo aveva una grossa capigliatura afro.
 Harold Hutchins: un altro dei protagonisti. È biondo e, come George, ama fare i fumetti.
 Professor Pipi Diarrea Stein Pannolino: l'antagonista principale del film. È uno scienziato folle, spietato, crudele e privo di scrupoli con accento tedesco che trama per conquistare il mondo per sbarazzarsi di tutte le risate dopo anni in cui è stato costantemente denigrato per il suo nome.

Distribuzione
Il film è stato distribuito negli Stati Uniti il 2 giugno 2017 e in italia il 1º novembre 2017. Il film si basa sull'omonima serie di libri per bambini dello scrittore statunitense Dav Pilkey.

Accoglienza

Incassi
Il film ha incassato 125.5 milioni di dollari nel mondo, di cui 73,9 milioni nel Nord America e quasi 51,6 milioni nel resto del mondo, risultando il quarto con il minor incasso tra i film della DreamWorks.

Critica
Il film ha ricevuto pareri positivi da parte della critica. Su Rotten Tomatoes ha una percentuale del gradimento del 87% con un voto medio di 6,8/10 basato su 120 critiche; il consenso critico implica: "Con una trama ordinata, un'animazione pulita e un umorismo che si adatta perfettamente al suo materiale originale, Capitan Mutanda - Il film è un film di intrattenimento che metterà d'accordo tutti i membri della famiglia." Su Metacritic ha un punteggio del 69 su 100 basato su 32 recensioni, che significa una valutazione""recensioni generalmente favorevoli".

Serie TV
Una serie televisiva basata sul film, dal titolo Le epiche avventure di Capitan Mutanda, è disponibile su Netflix dal 13 luglio 2018. In Italia la serie è stata trasmessa su DeA Kids dallo stesso giorno e su Rai Gulp dal 14 gennaio 2021.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Capitan Mutanda
Film d'animazione DreamWorks Animation realizzati in CGI
Film d'animazione realizzati in CGI
Film d'animazione statunitensi
Film commedia fantascientifica
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Die Volga (ukrainisch ) (dt. Wolga) ist ein unter ukrainischer Flagge fahrendes Drei-Sterne-Flusskreuzfahrtschiff, das im Jahre 1970 auf der Schiffswerft Korneuburg der Österreichischen Schiffswerften AG Linz in Korneuburg/Österreich gebaut und an die Sowjetische-Donau-Reederei ()  in Ismajil ausgeliefert wurde. Es ist das Typschiff der Volga-Klasse (Projekt Q-031). Das Schiff wurde nach dem Fluss Wolga benannt.

Beschreibung
Das Flusskreuzfahrtschiff mit drei Passagierdecks gehört zu einer 1970 hergestellten Baureihe von zwei Schiffen des Typs "Volga", welche auch als "Projekt Q-031" bekannt war. Die Volga verfügt über einen dieselelektrischen Antrieb mit zwei Viertakt-Hauptmotoren MWM TbD 440-8 mit Turbolader je 660 kW.

Einsatz
Die Volga wird auf der Donau auf der Kreuzfahrt-Strecken zwischen Ismajil und Passau, von Tulcea in Rumänien bis nach Passau in zwölf Tagen, von der Nicko Tours eingesetzt.

Ausstattung
Das Schiff hat Zweibettenkabinen verschiedener Klassen sowie vier Dreibettkabinen auf dem Hauptdeck welche mit Dusche/WC, Schrank, regulierbarer Lüftung, Bordtelefon und Safe ausgestattet sind. Drüber hinaus stehen drei Bars (eine davon auf dem überdachten Achterdeck), Panorama-Restaurant, Sonnendeck mit beheizbarem Swimmingpool und ein Gemeinschaftsraum zur Verfügung.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Flusskreuzfahrtschiffen

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Beschreibung und Fahrplan 2013

Flusskreuzfahrtschiff
Passagierschiff (Ukraine)
Passagierschiff (Sowjetunion)
Österreichische Schiffswerften AG


We've been Timbuk2 fanboys for a while now at GearGuide. We swap bags quite regularly but Timbuk2's bags often find their way back into our personal gear rotations. In fact, we just pulled the Timbuk2 Commute Messenger — originally reviewed back in 2012 — out of retirement for a trip to Chicago. It performed as we expected, still breezing through TSA checkpoints with ease. One of the newer and less messenger-bag-traditional briefcases in the Timbuk2 lineup is the Alchemist. We banged a medium-sized Alchemist around the streets of San Francisco for a month or so and here's what we learned.
Timbuk2 clearly designs the Alchemist for urban pursuits. It's built from a combination of tarpaulin, nylon, webbing and a little aluminum thrown in for good measure. We liked the tarpaulin and water-resistant zippers used on the Alchemist. It stood up to a number of very wet storms recently with almost no infiltration, keeping the laptop and other contents nice and dry. Weight-wise, the Alchemist comes in around three pounds.
Inside, the Timbuk2 Alchemist boasts a unique combination of pockets. Under the lid, Timbuk2 places two large hook-and-loop sealed pockets that provide perfect homes for laptop chargers and other bigger items (one of them also has a zippered side entrance). A larger zippered pocket is just behind those two serving as a spot for loose items, keys and the like. Smaller pockets for pens, the necessary MiFi and other accessories sit just inboard from there.
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Pretty nice bag overall and one we'd recommend if you're looking for something that shows a little more unique style than the ubiquitous messenger seen around the streets these days.
A little more unique style than the ubiquitous messenger.


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Directional on-chip laser enables live hologram technology
TMOS project combines InP and nanowire design for miniaturized medical devices.
Medical view: compact holography
A project at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) has developed a device that might ultimately allow live holography to be used in field hospitals.
The potential impact of dynamic 3D holograms in medical care has been clear for some time, as a way to give surgeons a more comprehensive real-time understanding of a patient's internal systems in environments like field hospitals or low resource settings.
The challenges, however, have remained substantial. Such holography will need a miniaturized optical system that can be integrated on a chip, consumes minimal power, can shift a beam into free space, control the beam shape, and has a tunable wavefront.
The TMOS project believes that it has now brought that technology a step closer to reality using meta-optics, combining a vertical nanowire with a microring laser made from semiconductor nanostructures. The results were published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
"This is the way forward towards low power consumption, on-chip microlasers with tunable emission directionality," said TMOS's Wei Wen Wong. "This new development removes one of the key obstacles standing in the way of realizing 3D holograms."
In its published paper the project notes that controlling the direction of emission is a key hurdle for downscaling these technologies and creating compact devices, and that most current solutions involve coupling the structures to external light sources, which hinders integration options.
The team's new approach combines an indium phosphide (InP) microring laser cavity with a vertical InP nanowire antennae that sits in its center and directs photons into freespace with specific beam shapes. The microring cavity, which functions as the light source, and the antenna are grown simultaneously using a selective area epitaxy technique, allowing the device to be less than 5 microns in size.
Future pocket sized medical devices
"Compared to passive nanoantennas or metasurfaces for directional light scattering, our approach proves to be a more pragmatic solution for on-chip integration, given its much better scalability and independence on external light sources," said the project in its paper.
"It is our hope that this novel device will one day be integrated into a device small enough and cheap enough for medical professionals slip into their pocket as they travel to remote areas, allowing full color dynamic holograms to be projected from field operating tables," commented Wei Wen Wong.
The project builds on research into light manipulation at TMOS, which is a collaboration between universities in Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. In 2021 TMOS was part of a project creating nanoscale crystal films for improved human night vision, transforming infrared light into visible images in an ultra-thin screen.
"The development of dynamic holograms is one of our Centre's flagship projects," said TMOS Chief Investigator Hoe Tan. "Teams across all five participating universities are working together to make this a reality. The next step for our research is to create an array of pixels where the wavefront and beam shape can be controlled individually and dynamically tuned."
ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems
Infrared-to-visible imaging breakthrough for human night vision
Lumentum to double InP laser capacity
On-chip tuning of laser light offers improved metrology


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Republicans tell Google not to censor pro-life clinics
While Democrats do the opposite.
In a letter to Google's CEO Sundar Pichai, 17 Republican attorneys general have warned the company against limiting search results for pro-life clinics, and threatened legal action of the company continues to do so.
We obtained a copy of the letter for you here.
The letter appears to be a response to another letter by Democrat lawmakers that urged the tech giant to limit the appearance of crisis pregnancy centers in search results of people looking for abortion clinics.
The letters by the pro-choice lawmakers cited research by Center for Countering Digital Hate, which found out that searches for "abortion pill" and "abortion clinic near me" returned results for pro-life pregnancy centers that help women.
"Directing women towards fake clinics that traffic in misinformation and don't provide comprehensive health services is dangerous to women's health and undermines the integrity of Google's search results," said the letter by the Democrats, which was sent in June, following the leak of the draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade.
GOP attorneys general have warned Google against enforcing the requests of the pro-choice lawmakers.
"Suppressing pro-life and pro-mother voices at the urging of government officials would violate the most fundamental tenet of the American marketplace of ideas," the GOP attorneys general wrote in their letter.
The AGs noted that anti-abortion pregnancy centers provide important services like pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and parenting classes for free, adding that "at least some" users searching for information on abortion expect to find alternative information.
They warned that if Google complies with the "inappropriate demand" from the Democrats to "bias" search results, their offices would take legal action, including investigating if such an action violates religious discrimination laws and antitrust.
"We trust that you will treat this letter with the seriousness these issues require, and hope you will decide that Google's search results must not be subject to left-wing political pressure, which would actively harm women seeking essential assistance. If you do not, we must avail ourselves of all lawful and appropriate means of protecting the rights of our constituents, of upholding viewpoint diversity, free expression, and the freedom of religion for all Americans, and of making sure that our markets are free in fact, not merely in theory," the letter said.
Google has 14 days to respond to the letter.


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Q: How to cast a value of generic type T to double without boxing? Imagine the following simple code:
public void F<T>(IList<T> values) where T : struct
{
  foreach (T value in values)
  {
    double result;
    if (TryConvertToDouble((object)value, out result))
    {
      ConsumeValue(result);
    }
  }
}

public void ConsumeValue(double value)
{
}

The problem with the above code is casting to object, which results in boxing in the loop.
Is there a way to achieve the same functionality, i.e. feeding ConsumeValue with all the values without resorting to boxing in the foreach loop? Note, that F must be a generic method.
I can live with an expensive preparation code as long as it is executed outside the loop just once. For instance, if a fancy dynamic method needs to be emitted, then it is fine if done just once.
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T is guaranteed to be of some numeric type or bool.
Motivation. Imagine meta data driven application, where an agent reports a data stream, where data item type is dynamically emitted based on the data stream meta data. Imagine also, that there is normalizer engine, which knows to normalize numeric data streams according to some algorithm. The type of the incoming numeric data stream is known only at run time and can be directed to a generic method of that data type. The normalizer, however, expects doubles and produces doubles. This is just a very high level description.
Edit 2
Concerning the cast to double. Actually we have a method to convert to double with the following signature:
bool TryConvertToDouble(object value, out double result);

I should have used it in the example in the first place, but I wanted to save space and written something that is not going to work. Fixed it now.
Edit 3
The current implementation does box the values. And even if I do not have the profiler's verdict as to performance penalty of it (if any), still I am interesting to know whether there is a solution without boxing (and without converting to string). Let me call it purely academic interest.
This really interests me, because things like that are trivial in C++ with templates, but, of course, I am not starting an argument over whether .NET generics or C++ templates are better.
Edit 4
Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/users/267/lasse-v-karlsen who provided the answer. Actually, I have used his code sample to write a simple class like this:
public static class Utils<T>
{
  private static class ToDoubleConverterHolder
  {
    internal static Func<T, double> Value = EmitConverter();

    private static Func<T, double> EmitConverter()
    {
      ThrowIfNotConvertableToDouble(typeof(T));

      var method = new DynamicMethod(string.Empty, typeof(double), TypeArray<T>.Value);
      var il = method.GetILGenerator();

      il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
      if (typeof(T) != typeof(double))
      {
        il.Emit(OpCodes.Conv_R8);
      }
      il.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

      return (Func<T, double>)method.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func<T, double>));
    }
  }

  public static double ConvertToDouble(T value)
  {
    return ToDoubleConverterHolder.Value(value);
  }
}

Where:

*

*ThrowIfNotConvertableToDouble(Type) is a simple method that makes sure the given type can be converted to double, i.e. some numeric type or bool.

*TypeArray<T> is a helper class to produce new[]{ typeof(T) }
The Utils<T>.ConvertToDouble method converts any numeric value to double in the most efficient way, shown by the answer to this question.

A: NOTE: There was a bug in my initial code for instance-based code generation. Please re-check the code below. The changed part is the order of loading values onto the stack (ie. the .Emit lines). Both the code in the answer and the repository has been fixed.
If you want to go the route of code generation, as you hint to in your question, here's sample code:
It executes ConsumeValue (which does nothing in my example) 10 million times, on an array of ints and an array of booleans, timing the execution (it runs all the code once, to remove JIT overhead from skewing the timing.)
The output:
F1 ints = 445ms         <-- uses Convert.ToDouble
F1 bools = 351ms
F2 ints = 159ms         <-- generates code on each call
F2 bools = 167ms
F3 ints = 158ms         <-- caches generated code between calls
F3 bools = 163ms

Roughly 65% less overhead with code generation.
The code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Reflection.Emit;

namespace ConsoleApplication15
{
    class Program
    {
        public static void F1<T>(IList<T> values) where T : struct
        {
            foreach (T value in values)
                ConsumeValue(Convert.ToDouble(value));
        }

        public static Action<T> GenerateAction<T>()
        {
            DynamicMethod method = new DynamicMethod(
                "action", MethodAttributes.Public | MethodAttributes.Static,
                CallingConventions.Standard,
                typeof(void), new Type[] { typeof(T) }, typeof(Program).Module,
                false);
            ILGenerator il = method.GetILGenerator();

            il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0); // get value passed to action
            il.Emit(OpCodes.Conv_R8);
            il.Emit(OpCodes.Call, typeof(Program).GetMethod("ConsumeValue"));
            il.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

            return (Action<T>)method.CreateDelegate(typeof(Action<T>));
        }

        public static void F2<T>(IList<T> values) where T : struct
        {
            Action<T> action = GenerateAction<T>();
            foreach (T value in values)
                action(value);
        }

        private static Dictionary<Type, object> _Actions =
            new Dictionary<Type, object>();
        public static void F3<T>(IList<T> values) where T : struct
        {
            Object actionObject;
            if (!_Actions.TryGetValue(typeof(T), out actionObject))
            {
                actionObject = GenerateAction<T>();
                _Actions[typeof (T)] = actionObject;
            }
            Action<T> action = (Action<T>)actionObject;
            foreach (T value in values)
                action(value);
        }

        public static void ConsumeValue(double value)
        {
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();

            int[] ints = Enumerable.Range(1, 10000000).ToArray();
            bool[] bools = ints.Select(i => i % 2 == 0).ToArray();

            for (int pass = 1; pass <= 2; pass++)
            {
                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                F1(ints);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F1 ints = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                F1(bools);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F1 bools = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                F2(ints);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F2 ints = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                F2(bools);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F2 bools = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                F3(ints);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F3 ints = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                F3(bools);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F3 bools = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");
            }
        }
    }
}

Note that if you make GenerationAction, F2/3 and ConsumeValue non-static, you have to change the code slightly:

*

*All Action<T> declarations becomes Action<Program, T>

*Change the creation of the DynamicMethod to include the "this" parameter:
 DynamicMethod method = new DynamicMethod(
     "action", MethodAttributes.Public | MethodAttributes.Static,
     CallingConventions.Standard,
     typeof(void), new Type[] { typeof(Program), typeof(T) },
     typeof(Program).Module,
     false);

*Change the instructions to load the right values at the right times:
 il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0); // get "this"
 il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1); // get value passed to action
 il.Emit(OpCodes.Conv_R8);
 il.Emit(OpCodes.Call, typeof(Program).GetMethod("ConsumeValue"));
 il.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

*Pass "this" to the action whenever it is called:
 action(this, value);

Here's the complete changed program for non-static methods:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Reflection.Emit;

namespace ConsoleApplication15
{
    class Program
    {
        public void F1<T>(IList<T> values) where T : struct
        {
            foreach (T value in values)
                ConsumeValue(Convert.ToDouble(value));
        }

        public Action<Program, T> GenerateAction<T>()
        {
            DynamicMethod method = new DynamicMethod(
                "action", MethodAttributes.Public | MethodAttributes.Static,
                CallingConventions.Standard,
                typeof(void), new Type[] { typeof(Program), typeof(T) },
                typeof(Program).Module,
                false);
            ILGenerator il = method.GetILGenerator();

            il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0); // get "this"
            il.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1); // get value passed to action
            il.Emit(OpCodes.Conv_R8);
            il.Emit(OpCodes.Call, typeof(Program).GetMethod("ConsumeValue"));
            il.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

            return (Action<Program, T>)method.CreateDelegate(
                typeof(Action<Program, T>));
        }

        public void F2<T>(IList<T> values) where T : struct
        {
            Action<Program, T> action = GenerateAction<T>();
            foreach (T value in values)
                action(this, value);
        }

        private static Dictionary<Type, object> _Actions =
            new Dictionary<Type, object>();
        public void F3<T>(IList<T> values) where T : struct
        {
            Object actionObject;
            if (!_Actions.TryGetValue(typeof(T), out actionObject))
            {
                actionObject = GenerateAction<T>();
                _Actions[typeof (T)] = actionObject;
            }
            Action<Program, T> action = (Action<Program, T>)actionObject;
            foreach (T value in values)
                action(this, value);
        }

        public void ConsumeValue(double value)
        {
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();

            Program p = new Program();
            int[] ints = Enumerable.Range(1, 10000000).ToArray();
            bool[] bools = ints.Select(i => i % 2 == 0).ToArray();

            for (int pass = 1; pass <= 2; pass++)
            {
                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                p.F1(ints);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F1 ints = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                p.F1(bools);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F1 bools = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                p.F2(ints);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F2 ints = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                p.F2(bools);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F2 bools = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                p.F3(ints);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F3 ints = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");

                sw.Reset();
                sw.Start();
                p.F3(bools);
                sw.Stop();
                if (pass == 2)
                    Console.Out.WriteLine("F3 bools = "
                        + sw.ElapsedMilliseconds + "ms");
            }
        }
    }
}

A: It's a good question, I also had this task and I came up using compiled Linq Expressions to do arbitrary conversions of value types to and from generic type parameters avoiding boxing. The solution is very effective and fast. It stores one compiled lambda per value type in a singleton. Usage is clean and readable.
Here's a simple class that does the job very well:

public sealed class BoxingSafeConverter<TIn, TOut>
{
    public static readonly BoxingSafeConverter<TIn, TOut> Instance = new BoxingSafeConverter<TIn, TOut>();
    private readonly Func<TIn, TOut> convert;

    public Func<TIn, TOut> Convert
    {
        get { return convert; }
    }

    private BoxingSafeConverter()
    {
        if (typeof (TIn) != typeof (TOut))
        {
            throw new InvalidOperationException("Both generic type parameters must represent the same type.");
        }
        var paramExpr = Expression.Parameter(typeof (TIn));
        convert =
            Expression.Lambda<Func<TIn, TOut>>(paramExpr, // this conversion is legal as typeof(TIn) = typeof(TOut)
                paramExpr)
                .Compile();
    }
}

Now imagine that you want to have some storage with objects and doubles and you don't want your doubles to be boxed. You could write such class with generic getters and setters in the following way:

public class MyClass
{
    readonly List<double> doubles = new List<double>(); // not boxed doubles
    readonly List<object> objects = new List<object>(); // all other objects

    public void BoxingSafeAdd<T>(T val)
    {
        if (typeof (T) == typeof (double))
        {
            // T to double conversion
            doubles.Add(BoxingSafeConverter<T, double>.Instance.Convert(val));
            return;
        }

        objects.Add(val);
    }

    public T BoxingSafeGet<T>(int index)
    {
        if (typeof (T) == typeof (double))
        {
            // double to T conversion
            return BoxingSafeConverter<double, T>.Instance.Convert(doubles[index]);
        }

        return (T) objects[index]; // boxing-unsage conversion
    }
}

Here are some simple performance and memory tests of MyClass which show that using unboxed values can save you a lot of memory, reduce GC pressure and performance overhead is very tiny: just around 5-10%.
1. With boxing:

        const int N = 1000000;
        MyClass myClass = new MyClass();

        double d = 0.0;
        var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++, d += 0.1)
        {
            myClass.BoxingSafeAdd((object)d);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Time: {0} ms", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        Console.WriteLine("Memory: {0} MB.", (double)GC.GetTotalMemory(false) / 1024 / 1024);

Results:
Time: 130 ms
Memory: 19.7345771789551 MB

2. Without boxing

        const int N = 1000000;
        MyClass myClass = new MyClass();

        double d = 0.0;
        var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        for (int i = 0; i < N; i++, d += 0.1)
        {
            myClass.BoxingSafeAdd(d);
        }
        Console.WriteLine("Time: {0} ms", sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        Console.WriteLine("Memory: {0} MB", (double)GC.GetTotalMemory(false) / 1024 / 1024);

Results:
Time: 144 ms
Memory: 12.4955024719238 MB

A: Why not just add a double-specific overload for F alongside the generic version?
public void F(IList<double> values)
{
    foreach (double value in values)
    {
        ConsumeValue(value);
    }
}

Now if you call F(someDoubleList) it'll call the non-generic version, and with any other list the generic one will get called.

A: Although the scenario still isn't very clear (see my comment), this is never going to work. You will have to provide a custom class or method that can convert from your generic T to a double.
The unboxing isn't even relevant, as the cast in
ConsumeValue((double)(object)value);

will throw an InvalidCastException if value is not a double itself.
(see this blog entry by Eric Lippert for the reasons why.)
You'll have to preprocess the input, the generic variant will not work.
Edit:
I'd choose Convert.ToDouble.
Only if performance is ab-so-lu-te-ly top priority, I'd go with dynamic method.
It adds enough complexitely to avoid it, if possible. The performance gain of around 50% looks significant of course, but, in the scenario given by Lasse, on my machine I gain around 150ms when iterating over 10000000 (ten million) items, saving you 0,000015 millisecond each iteration.

A: You can use the Convert class.
ConsumeValue(Convert.ToDouble(value));

Not sure about ToDouble's internals... but probably the best you can do.

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Description: An Atlanta ex-cop comes to sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quiet—but he hasn't bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner he's ever met.
My Impression: This was a fun quirky tangle of a book that tackled some very serious issues without distracting from the fun or the seriousness. I love the McCready family with all their quirks, issues and long running jokes. This time the focus is on Frankie who with her purple and blue streaked hair and somewhat morbid job is probably one of the quirkier members of the family. Except her respect for the dead and her efforts to help and protect both the deceased and their families doesn't make her job seem all that morbid. It actually comes off rather sweet.
New interim sheriff Eric is not quirky or morbid and is actually probably on the straight laced side. He and Frankie have a little bit of a history which leads to some tension which is pretty entertaining. Watching Eric try to navigate the McCready family's rapid fire speech made me laugh more than once and I think I enjoyed watching Him and Frankie pretend nothing was between them almost as much as the McCreadys' themselves. Both characters have pretty serious back stories and watching them get to know each other was very sweet and genuine.
The plot involving local delinquent Jared added a bit of interesting conflict and got quite a bit of the town involved. I found it entertaining and not too distracting with a satisfying conclusion. There is some real conflict between Eric and Frankie and I loved that not only did both screw up but they both apologized which doesn't happen nearly enough.
This is a fun quirky romance that was a delight from start to finish and since it is peach season here had me wanting peach pie!
Would I Read More of this Series/Author? Yes! I'm thinking Duffy's book is next? I'm hoping?
Would I Recommend this Book? If you enjoy fun contemporary romance this is one you shouldn't miss.
As I read your review it began to feel familiar - Sweet Tea and Sympathy right! I've read it I think thanks to you. Oh this one sounds like a must!
I've been enjoying this series and my uf kick made me lose track of releases. I will be grabbing this one soon. Glad to see you loved it.
When my husband was reading Jack Reacher there would be a mention of peach pie and let me tell you, that's all we thought about. So of course we had to get one.
I hope you are on the mend and I know you will get lots of reading time in!
I really enjoyed the first book in this series as well - looking forward to picking this one up. I loved Frankie in the first book, can't wait to have her be the main character :) Great review!
I really need to read the first one. They both sound great.
This is a new to me author. I don't know if I'll end up reading the series, but it sounds good.
"the cutest coroner he ever met" - sounds fun :) Adding it to the tbr list.
I read the prequel novella for this series and did enjoy it. It sounds like I need to get busy with the rest of the books. I do love her quirky characters. Glad you enjoyed this one.
This soonds like a really fun summer read. As you were describing the characters I was thinking to Stephanie Plum's dysfunctional family. I'll definitely be giving this on a try. thanks for the heads up.
I love the sound of this! I already like Frankie. I need to add this to my wish list!
Sounds like a fun one. I'll be checking it out on GR.