The successes achieved so far by Operation Cast Lead, say defense officials, are the result of careful coordination among the different branches of the military - something that was lacking in the Second War in Lebanon.
The major intelligence achievement of the Second Lebanon War took place with the opening shot against Hizbullah on July 12, following the kidnapping of reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. That night, IAF fighters flew deep into Lebanon and, within 34 minutes, bombed more than 90 targets, all of them housing the guerrilla group's long-range missiles. Subsequently, however, even when the IDF had intelligence, it failed to relay it to the forces in the field. As a result, despite the heavy bombing of Hizbullah bunkers in Beirut's Dahiyah neighborhood, the group continued to maintain command-and-control capabilities, and few of its senior operatives were killed. Though Operation Cast Lead is not yet over, one conclusion that can already be made is that in this war, the intelligence is unprecedented, as is the cooperation among the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), the IDF's Southern Command and the air force. Three branches of the defense establishment collect intelligence relating to Gaza: the Shin Bet, which operates human agents on the ground and a variety of sensors for intelligence collecting; Military Intelligence, which has the 8200 Unit for SIGINT (Signal Intelligence) and Unit 504 for HUMINT (Human Intelligence); and the IAF's Intelligence Division, which collects VISINT (Visual Intelligence), through aircraft, satellites and other intelligence-gathering platforms. In the past, these branches worked independently of one another, with each branch operating its own command center. This time around, however, as a lesson from the 2006 war, the IDF, Shin Bet and IAF decided to create a single joint command-and-control center at Southern Command headquarters in Beersheba. There, all of the intelligence is processed, and targets are selected and added to those prepared before the war. This unprecedented intelligence cooperation is what has led to the IDF's success in dealing Hamas such a severe blow in the first few days of the operation. The cooperation among the different agencies produced dozens of targets, enabling the relatively quick closing of "intelligence circuits" - the time it takes from the spotting of a target to its bombing. By the beginning of the week, more than 1,000 targets had been bombed, among them more than 300 that were located during the fighting. THE IDF started preparing for Operation Cast Lead three years ago, when the Southern Command began drawing up an operational plan for confronting Hamas and stopping the rocket attacks on the South. The intelligence gathering intensified over the past year, particularly after the cease-fire went into effect in June, and Hamas increased its arms smuggling and training. Under Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant, the Southern Command had been calling for a ground operation since Hamas violently took over Gaza in the summer of 2007. At one point, Galant even recommended a preemptive strike, after intelligence showed that Hamas was set to cross a "technological threshold" and obtain large quantities of high-grade explosives and an improved propellant for its Kassam rockets, making them more accurate and extending their shelf-life. The political echelon and Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi were against a preemptive strike. Hamas, then, began manufacturing the improved rockets. The operation launched nearly two weeks ago caught Hamas in the middle of its production cycle, when it had managed to manufacture a mere few thousand rockets, not the expected tens of thousands it would have been able to manufacture, given more time. THE BLOW to Hamas is demonstrated on several different levels. The IDF has destroyed nearly all Hamas government facilities, including the Prime Minister's Office, Interior Ministry and police headquarters. This has created a sense of anarchy, leading Hamas earlier this week to impose curfews on Fatah neighborhoods, out of fear that Fatah will try to take over. In addition, Hamas has ordered some of its remaining policemen to stand at street corners and direct traffic, if only to create a sense that it is still in charge. "All of the [Hamas] offices and databases are gone," one top security official asserted this week. "When this is all over, no civil servant will have an office to sit in." Then there is the weapons infrastructure, which has been severely impaired, including Kassam manufacturing plants, more than 100 weapons-smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi corridor, the Hamas research-and-development laboratories, located at the Islamic University campus in Gaza City, a main operations bunker near Shifa Hospital and a major weapons-manufacturing plant, located in the neighborhood of Tal al-Zatar, north of Jabaliya. Dozens of weapons storehouses have also been bombed, though many are believed to remain. Also harmed is the Hamas military wing, Izzadin al-Kassam, whose rocket division is believed to have suffered a heavy blow. And though it still has several thousands rockets, it will have difficulty replacing some of its people, among them Iman Siam, its founder, who was seriously wounded in an air strike on Tuesday; Muhammad Akhram Shabat, head of the rocket division in Beit Hanun; and Husam Hamdan, head of the rocket division in Khan Younis. Though several hundred Hamas operatives are believed to have been killed, none is among the top terror leaders. Still, Israel is said to know where most of them are hiding. And the reason the IDF is not killing them is because many are hiding in apartment buildings filled with civilians. Instead, the IDF is bombing many of their homes, which also serve as command-and-control centers with extensive weapons caches. THE IDF believes that it has succeeded in achieving two of the three objectives set for it by the cabinet. The first was to hurt Hamas. After 14 days of air strikes and ground operations that have killed hundreds of Hamas operatives and destroyed more than 1,000 targets, it feels that it has made progress in this direction. The second objective was to create a new balance of deterrence. Here, too, the IDF sees progress. The thinking goes that Hamas now realizes it had underestimated Israel by assuming it could fire rockets with impunity, following the collapse of the cease-fire - and that with its control over Gaza wavering, it will not be able to act as it has been doing for the past eight years. The third goal - to create a "new security reality" in the South - is the one the IDF is still working on. It was to try and meet this goal that the IDF launched the ground operation last Saturday. And, if the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire does not meet Israeli demands, it is considering expanding the operation. AT THE moment, the IDF believes that Hamas would agree to a new cease-fire under the same terms as the last one: whereby Israel would open the border crossings, and Hamas would rein in other Palestinian factions and stop terror activity in Gaza. But neither the the government nor the army considers this sufficient. What they say is needed is a new deal - one that not only ends terrorist attacks, but also puts a stop to the military buildup by eradicating the tunnel industry in the Philadelphi Corridor. "If we stop today, and the smuggling is not stopped, then next time they will be able to fire into Tel Aviv- not just Ashdod and Beersheba," one defense official explained.


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Holly Welcome Radice
Regional Representative - Americas
Location: United States of America
Holly Welcome Radice has over 20 years of experience in humanitarian and development work. Prior to the CALP Network she was CARE's global cash and markets technical advisor spearheading the agency's strategic focus on gender in cash and voucher assistance and co-led the gender and cash sub-workstream of the Grand Bargain Cash Workstream.
Her expertise is in food security and livelihoods and has supported programming in sexual reproductive health, education, nutrition, WASH, shelter, youth empowerment, and gender-based violence response.
She previously also worked with Catholic Relief Services, the Somalia Food Security Cluster, Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, and Peace Corps. Additionally, Holly was an independent consultant and supported a variety of NGOs in strategic reviews, evaluations, capacity building and proposal development. Most significantly, for the CALP Network she wrote the comprehensive report Cash Transfers for Food Security In Epidemics and co-authored Harnessing Digital Technology for Cash Transfer Programming In the Ebola Response.
Holly has worked in El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and Lebanon.
She has a master's degree in Natural Resources for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and a BA in Individualized Studies from the Gallatin School at New York University. Holly is fluent in Spanish and Guaraní and speaks basic French and Portuguese. She is based in the Washington DC area.
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At Girlington Primary School we offer a fully inclusive provision, to remove barriers to learning and ensure full participation, this includes all pupils, staff parents, carers and other people who use the school, regardless of their disability.
At Girlington Primary School the children are happy, well behaved, confident, numerate, literate life long learners who are socially and emotionally secure. We aim to develop positive attitudes in children towards all people regardless of disability.
As a fully inclusive school we cater for deaf and hearing impaired pupils as well as a range of SEND needs.
This policy sets out how the governing body will promote equality of opportunity for disabled people and fulfil its requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act Part 5A – the Disability Equality Duty.
The school SEN policy ensures that staff identifies, assess and arrange suitable provision for pupils with disabilities and special education needs. Working with the LA and Education Psychology Service, The SENCo manages the Statutory Assessment Process, ensuring additional resources are available where appropriate.
The school mentor team provides additional support for pupils and supports teachers in implementing strategies for improving pupils' behaviour and access to learning.
The element of the Planning Duty covers all areas of the physical environment such as external areas, buildings and fixtures and fittings.
The aim is to continue to enhance the environment to meet the needs of all pupils and ensure that they have access to all aspects of education offered by Girlington Primary School.
Soundfield system throughout main school and the EYC.
Ensure teaching tools (e.g. background colour on whiteboard) are appropriate for all learners. All staff are kept up to date on the needs of the pupils in school through regular SEND training.
Staff are aware of the services available through the LA for converting written information into alternative formats.
The whole scheme is linked to the School Development Plan and is reviewed annually. Disabled people in school and in the wider community are consulted in the evaluation of the schools duty to carry out the general duty.
Disabled people, including pupils, have been involved in both the consultation and the evaluation of the scheme. For example, interpreters provided for deaf reviews, regular meetings with parents and pupils who have maple syrup urine disease regarding adjustments made to diets and through school council meetings.


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If You are an Author Looking to Build a Brand, Here are Some Items to Consider
August 13, 2018 / Emily Haas
There are some things that are terrible ideas. In the realm of trademarks, #cockygate definitely qualifies. #Cockygate refers to self-published author Faleena Hopkins' decision to obtain a federal trademark registration for "cocky" for romance novels and then send cease and desist letters to some of her competitors. The reason for the letters? Like many romance writers, the letter recipients used "cocky" in the titles of their books. Eventually, a TTAB cancellation was filed against Hopkins' registrations. Hopkins responded by filing a federal lawsuit against the lawyer who filed the cancellation petition, a writer who used "cocky" in the titles of books, and the publicist for a collection of short stories entitled "Cocktales" that was written by various romance authors in protest of Hopkins' behavior. After a federal judge found Hopkins failed to show she was likely to succeed on the merits of her suit and denied her request for a preliminary injunction, the suit settled. Hopkins surrendered the trademark registrations.
Trademark law is designed to protect brands. Terms that are commonly used to fairly describe or identify a particular thing for what it is are not brands. To use the Trademark Attorney Favorite Example, no one may trademark "apple" for apples, and manufacturers of apple juice are free to describe their juice product as "apple juice." The term "apple," however, may be used to brand products unrelated to apples, such as computers.
The question many authors are asking in light of #cockygate is – can an author have a trademarked brand and, if so, when?
Authors looking to build a brand should keep several things in mind. First, consider the purpose of a brand. Brands answer the customer's question: Who is the source of this product I am buying? A brand, therefore, needs to identify a single source. Often, in the world of authors, the author's name does this far more than the any particular title. That does not mean an author cannot have a separate brand. It does, however, mean that selecting that brand needs to be done with purpose and planning, and the brand must be used consistently and exclusively by the author. As discussed above, the brand selected should not identify or describe the product. The best brands are arbitrary; there is not an immediate rational connection between the brand and the product (like "apple" and "computers").
Brands are easier to build and provide greater protection when they are unique. For a trademark to be protectable, it must be exclusively used by the source user. Even if a trademark is used only by one user, there still may be similar uses made by others. Depending on the scope of use, these similar trademarks can cause a mark to be considered "weak" (in which case it can only protect against a very small number of infringing uses). Trademark weakness arises from customers seeing the same words or phrases so often from many different sources that they learn to discount those words and phrases and look to other things to identify the source of what they're purchasing. In some cases, similar use by others may even prevent a mark from being protectable. "Cocky" for romance books, for example, was not a good idea for mark, as the term is commonly used in romance book titles and with romance story archetypes. Customers and prospective customers are used to seeing many different authors writing stories with "cocky" in the title or on the related "swag." As a result, they are not likely to understand "cocky" as designating a single source of products.
A brand should also be marketed as a brand. It is important to remember that, in the world of books, a brand is not the title of a single book. The title identifies the story, not the source. A consistently branded series, however, can be a trademark. For example, The Magic School Bus series is the subject of U.S. Trademark Registration No. 1,714,213. While each book has a unique title (The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System; The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses; The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane; etc.), they are marketed collectively as the "Magic School Bus Series." Branding, however, should not end there. Authors seeking to build a unique brand should brand their website, blog, and social media pages with their brand. Give away products ("swag") and for-sale merchandise like bookmarks or T-shirts should also be offered under the brand.
Finally, a brand should be used consistently. Changing the font, logo, or other visual presentation can dilute the impression a brand creates. In contrast, when the brand is presented in the same format each time, it is easier for a customer or prospective customer to remember.
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Storm Glass by Jane Urquhart
'In 1986, Jane Urquhart published her first novel, The Whirlpool, to almost universal critical acclaim. When it met with a negative response, it tended to offend or bemuse because of its imaginative content. In The Whirlpool, Urquhart treated reality with contempt. She was clearly a courageous stylist with a unique vision. Now, with Storm Glass, the courage of the stylist is confirmed and the uniqueness of the vision is expanded.
'Though most of the stories here predate the writing of The Whirlpool, the reader is given the chance, once again, to explore the territory of dreams and memory so vividly established in that book. Clearly, this is a milieu in which Urquhart excels.
'Other times and other places lend their colour to most of the stories in this collection. Windows and glass are also prominent. Some of the characters have no names and all of them are dreamers, though what they dream is hardly the stuff of which good sleep is made. Storm Glass is exhilarating precisely because the dreams of which it tells are so disturbing: disturbingly real and disturbingly familiar. Most readers will recognize the impulse here to wake up and escape the dream, but most will also recognize the tantalizing magic of dreams that keeps us going back for more.'
Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario and is the acclaimed author of Storm Glass, The Whirlpool (which won France's prestigious Le prix du le meilleur livre etranger), Changing Heaven and Away, which won Ontario's Trillium Book Award. She lives with her husband, artist Tony Urquhart, in Stratford, Ontario.
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Todd Lefever is a skilled and respected guitarist, songwriter, recording artist and teacher. Experienced and versatile, he is accomplished in several musical genres.
This Medicine Hat native studied classical guitar at Medicine Hat College, then went on to major in performance at the prestigious Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. He spent several years touring Canada and the United States with Lisa Dodd and Shameless, and played lead guitar with EMI recording artists Alpha Galates. While teaching guitar for four years at the Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music, Todd was a member of the critically acclaimed Lyle Rebbeck Jazz Quartet. He later became lead guitarist for Juno-nominated, pop-rock singer and songwriter, Fefe Dobson, with whom he toured in both Canada and the United States. In recent years Todd has performed in Toronto and southern Ontario with The Soundtastics, The Mick McKenzie Band and ProCon, and with singer MacKenzie Porter.
Todd's heart is soundly rooted in the art of teaching of music to all levels of developing musicians. He has been teaching in Toronto, both in a classroom setting and as a private instructor for over twenty years. His lessons are comprehensive and fun, and can cover any number of music styles including rock/metal, pop, blues, jazz, country, folk, and classical guitar.
Clayton's love for teaching comes from the joy that music has brought him throughout the entirety of his life, and the desire to share it with others. Clayton has been a professional performing and recording artist for over 20 years, and an instructor for 10.
Starting his career in 1999 as a side musician to Borealis recording artist Angus Finnan, Clayton's musical experience has crossed many genres. He's also worked as a side musician and session player to such acts as legendary children's entertainer Washboard Hank, rock-a-billy Hall of Famer Ronnie Hayward, Petunia and Jimmy Bowskill.
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Paying Proper Attention to Your Professional Staff
April 1, 2015 Stephen Alexander / Administration
Professional staff have the undeniable potential to further your philanthropy's impact. Whether you're currently staffed, anticipating a new hire, or simply weighing your options, here are tips to help your paid professionals flourish.
Before a hire: Put your affairs—and your mindset—in order
It goes without saying that bring staff on board requires time behind the scenes to iron out job descriptions, compensation and benefits, work space, office equipment, and other needs—and we hear from members just how often they underestimate the time it takes to complete these tasks.
On par with the time you dedicate to these logistics is the time you dedicate to adjusting your mindset about what it means to hire and develop a staff person. Successful employers know their people are critical assets—perhaps the organization's most critical—and they view the manager's role as an opportunity to nurture those assets for the good of the organization.
"Leaders are strengthened by those around them," says Sharmila Rao Thakkar, executive director of The Siragusa Foundation. "The work will always be there, but priority number one for us is developing, guiding, mentoring, building, and lifting up others."
Successful employers also anticipate—and help others adapt to—the changes that come with hiring new staff. "Moving from a model with the board fully in charge to staff having functional and strategic decision-making power is a big change," says Program Director Erin Cinelli of the Emanuel and Pauline A. Lerner Foundation. "We're in the middle of figuring out what the dynamic is going to look like, and there are bound to be growing pains."
Get information and expectations out of your head—and onto paper
"When you work by yourself, you don't realize how much is inside your head," continues Erin. "Our foundation didn't have written documentation, aside from grant materials; that's a task for 2015. When I was sharing information with our new hire, there wasn't anything I could point her to." Echoes Jack Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation, "It can be tedious to document procedures the first time around, but these documents are critical to have in place."
Also key to a staff person's success are clear and shared expectations around their duties, priorities, and goals, plus frequent communication on these topics. When Sharmila Rao Thakkar assumed her role as foundation executive director this January, it was the first time a non-family member held that position. To succeed, she knew she'd have to make sure everyone was on the same page. She drafted a detailed job description and self-evaluation form, and instituted regular avenues for communication, including bi-monthly conversations with the board chair, monthly email updates to the board and finance committee, and a conversation about performance with the board chair 90 days into her tenure and again before year end.
When hiring a friend or family member, it can be particularly challenging to put formal processes into place. But they are important nevertheless.
Provide the tools and resources to succeed
For Patrick DeMoon, president of the Kara Foundation and former Exponent Philanthropy board member, proper tools and resources are critical to staff development. He recommends connecting staff to trainings and programs soon after they start. Help them plug into a network of like-minded individuals, like Exponent Philanthropy, a regional association, or a funder affinity group. Encourage them to find a mentor in the field, or, if your organization is large enough, internally. And, if incoming and outgoing staff overlap, take full advantage. Few things are more valuable professionally than access to the person who held a position before you.
Nurture the relationship
When Cynthia Drennan stepped in as executive director of the Sisters of St. Joseph Charitable Fund, one charge she embraced was to mentor staff—supporting fellow staff in their professional and personal growth as well as developing a team model of leadership. She makes time to get to know her colleagues as individuals, holds quarterly meetings with each individual (in lieu of an annual review), and encourages open discussion of their strengths, opportunities, accomplishments, and goals for the upcoming quarter.
Cynthia also creates space for learning as a way to build relationships among staff and board—as well as to ensure that staff have the information and inspiration to succeed. Every staff meeting at the Fund begins with shared reflections on recent events, meetings, or pre-readings. Cynthia encourages staff, and the board, to figure out how they might apply their new knowledge within the organization.
For Jack Fitzpatrick, formal performance reviews are one way to nurture your relationships with staff. When Jack joined the foundation, performance reviews were informal conversations. Based on his prior experience and a review of best practices, he developed a more formal process. "Reviews are sometimes viewed as a task to be done for the sake of documentation," says Jack, "but they are a way to invest in your most valuable assets."
Program Manager Stephen Alexander designs sessions for our educational programs and coordinates content production with the goal of delivering the best service possible to the Exponent Philanthropy community. Before coming to Exponent Philanthropy, Stephen worked with Thomson Reuters, Jones Lang LaSalle, and two small nonprofits in Washington, DC. Stephen currently serves on the board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network's DC chapter. Follow Stephen on Twitter @StephenALXdc.


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Suga-T (справжнє ім'я Теніна Стівенс) — американська реп-виконавиця, учасниця нині розпущеного гурту The Click. Після талант-шоу в Ґремблінгському державному університеті родичі Теніни, брат E-40 й двоюрідний брат B-Legit, вирішили зайнятися музичною кар'єрою. Згодом гурт переїхав назад до Вальєхо, де вони об'єдналися з її братом D-Shot, щоб сформувати групу MVP (Most Valuable Players). Пізніше до гурту увійшла Suga-T і колектив змінив назву на The Click.

Дебютну сольну платівку It's All Good було видано в 1993 р. на Sick Wid It Records. У 2000 р. лейбл Pushin' Hits випустив її третій студійний альбом Gettin' It.

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We Know What's Gonna Happen But That's Fine With Us
In the case of many novels, readers basically know the general parameters of what will happen. In the case of many other novels, the plot destination is a complete or near-complete unknown (unless a review or too-talkative friend gives things away 🙂 ). Either type of novel has the potential to be compelling.
But can a novel be truly compelling if you kind of know what will happen? The obvious answer is "yes," because lots of the appeal is in the journey: how the author gets to the expected conclusion, how characters deal with things, the quality of writing, and so on. Also, there are still usually some unexpected moments.
For instance, I read Lisa Genova's excellent Inside the O'Briens last week, and — as in that author's earlier novel Still Alice — a character is stricken with a devastating incurable disease early on (Huntington's in the O'Briens and Alzheimer's in Alice). But even though we know bad things are in store for the protagonist — Boston police officer Joe O'Brien — we are drawn to how he realizes he's sick, how he and his family react to the Huntington's diagnosis, and so on. Plus there's still plenty of suspense, because Joe and his wife Rosie's four adult children (a firefighter, a dancer, a yoga instructor, and a bartender) each have a 50-50 chance of possessing the death sentence of the Huntington's gene. Do they want to take the blood test?
The very title of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold informs readers that a character will be murdered, but the author maintains lots of interest through such means as Santiago not being warned of his fate even though many people knew about the threat he was under.
Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird definitely contains some surprises, but we unfortunately know for certain — as the book's iconic trial begins — that innocent, falsely accused black man Tom Robinson will be convicted by a racist all-white jury in the 1930s U.S. South.
Of course, historical fiction has all kinds of elements we know are coming, but those novels can still be gripping — including their humanizing of the past. One of many examples is Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. Most readers are aware of the heroic story of Joan, her rigged trial, and her gruesome early-in-life death by burning, but Twain takes us on a fascinating journey along the way.
Another historical-fiction example is Anita Diamant's The Red Tent — whose protagonist is Dinah, a minor character in the Bible. But her parents are Leah and Jacob, and her grandparents are Rebecca and Isaac, so people versed in the Old Testament know what happens in the lives of those four famous personages.
Novels whose outcomes are almost a complete mystery to people reading them for the first time? Some of my favorites include Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (will Jane and Rochester's romance ultimately work out?), Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (will murderer Raskolnikov be caught?), Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (will Newland Archer and Ellen Olenska reunite?), W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (will Philip Carey stop acting like a lovestruck idiot?), Octavia E. Butler's Kindred (will 20th-century African-American writer Dana become stuck in her ancestral Antebellum South after getting yanked back in time?), Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch (what will happen to a priceless painting?), Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies (will the rich banker guilty of severe sexual misconduct get his just desserts?), Andy Weir's The Martian (will stranded-alone-on-Mars Mark Watney escape the planet?), etc.
Then there are mystery novels themselves. Most of the time we don't know "who done it" until near the end of the book. There won't be much mystery if that wasn't the case, though there are some novels in that genre that reveal the culprit relatively early even as we still wonder how, when, or if that wrongdoer will be caught.
Your favorite novels that fit both sides of this topic?
In addition to this weekly blog, I write the award-winning "Montclairvoyant" topical-humor column for Baristanet.com. The latest weekly piece — which satirizes overdevelopment by focusing on the fictional Variances family — is here.
37 thoughts on "We Know What's Gonna Happen But That's Fine With Us"
Ah the great question of any book…. WILL? With books like Jane Eyre, which you rightly mention we keep reading in the hope they will end up together and obvi you know they will BUT you are rooting for them by this time so the doubts creep in. Love Story begins by telling us the heroine is dead but then we want to know how ( death has its own morbid fascination in a book.) Maybe that is why murder mysteries are so popular. Mysterwise I quite liked Mary Higgins Clark's A Stranger is Watching (found her very predictable as her career went on but good to start with ) cos she had these creepy chapters about the real killer and you reading on in the hope he would be caught and while you knew he would, she was pretty well inside his head. I started to wonder if just maybe he was going to get a way.
Thank you, Shehanne! When I read "Jane Eyre" for the first time as a teen, I figured Jane and Rochester would eventually get together, but the details of how that would happen were hard to predict. 🙂
Yes, novels in which we know early on who the killer is but are not sure how things will play out can be VERY compelling. And books in which the "ending" comes early before the back story/flashbacks kick in can definitely work, too.
If not the chief enjoyment, surely it is a principle one in any ongoing series, comedy or detective or thriller: that the hero will live somehow through it, which gives one the confidence to follow the plot, whether farce or mystery, through all its novel twists and turns.
Things may look impossibly dark for Jack Reacher and/or Bertie Wooster, but each will be able enough after to man the next installment.
Great point, jhNY! Fans of series rely on the hero or heroine surviving to live another book, against all odds.
And the authors, of course, don't want to lose their protagonist meal ticket.
For me, the obvious example of a predictable novel is anything that's a re-read. I think it says a lot about a writer if you're happy to revisit their work, even when you know word for word what's going to happen.
In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a man named Ivan dies. There's not much more to it than that, and yet I found it really absorbing and am grateful to you for recommending that Tolstoy short story.
Bryce Courtenay's April Fool's Day is about the death of his son. The book opens with Damon's death so you absolutely know that it won't have a happy ending, and yet Courtenay breathes so much life and energy into the people on the page that there was a part of me hoping that there would be a magical AIDS cure, and a miraculous recovery, even though I KNEW that it just wasn't going to happen.
Being a bit naughty and moving away from books, I've been completely swept up in the TV series Supernatural. I find it very predictable in a way. You always know who the good guys are. You always know that they're going to win, and they're going to stay good guys. I mean, they can go to hell, and kill a bunch of people, but somehow they're still good, and it all gets cleaned away. Having said all that, I just love spending time with the two main characters. Their acting and dynamics together are so much fun, whether they're killing vampires, or just sharing a beer. And I guess like literature, it's more about the words and feeling at that exact moment. Is it too corny to say it's about the journey, and not the destination? 🙂
Thank you, Susan! I agree — a reread novel is the ultimate predictable novel! (Unless one rereads it after so many years that what happens has been forgotten. 🙂 )
And, yes, a work like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" indeed telegraphs its main plot point with its title. You're right that that Tolstoy story was still extremely compelling. Glad you liked it!
AIDS-themed novels can be really tough to read, but "April Fool's Day" sounds excellent.
I wasn't familiar with "Supernatural." Just googled it: Wow! It's been on for 15 years! That's impressive, as were your thoughts about that TV series.
"…it's about the journey, and not the destination"? Often true!
We followed 'Supernatural' like religion for the first 2 seasons, but after the apocalypse was set loose upon the world at the end of that second season, everything that followed seemed a bit anticlimactic, and we tapered off eventually, then entirely. Perhaps we should have persisted, given your longstanding interest.
I did appreciate the character Ruby from those early days: a bad un who did enough good things that after much misgiving and reassessment, she eventually charmed the boys into believing they had in her an ally. Alas, she did all those good things so as to be in position to do one very bad thing: unleashing Hell.
The Ruby Principle, as I subsequently named it, has helped me to analyze and understand several actors and institutions in contemporary politics, so I guess in that sense, "Supernatural" was time well-spent. See NYT re Whitewater and Hillary's emails for examples.
I'm actually only up to season six of Supernatural. Lucky I've seen season 2! I think the show gets better with each season, and I can't see any reason that I wouldn't make it to the final episode. I understand your point about the apocalypse being the peak of the show, and everything after that being anticlimactic, but for me, it's all about Dean and Sam's relationship, and there's always drama there, whether they're trying to stop Hell being unleashed, or if they're just going out to dinner. I also like that the people behind the scenes seem to respect their fans. There are lots of little nods to the audience, and more than one episode that doesn't make a whole lot of sense from a plot point of view, but has obviously been written just because it's a lot of fun. if you want to check out just a single episode that has no real bearing on the overall story, episode 15 of the sixth season is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
I'm glad you brought up Historical Fiction for this post, because it was the first thing that popped into my head. Of course as a student of history, I know a lot about what is coming in the bigger picture. However, the smaller story within that picture can still often be a heart stopper. The best example I can think of is pretty much anything by Kate Quinn (The Alice Network and The Huntress, especially). I also just finished a novel that came out very recently – A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum (hope I spelled that right). While I was familiar with a lot of the historical events there, I couldn't put that book down because of the incredible story she set up. Even in the case of biographies or memoirs, or stories about particular units like Ambrose's Band of Brothers, I am always anxious to see how people fare, even if I know the overall outcome going in. Another example I can think of outside of the hf genre is the summer hit "Daisy Jones & the Six." The plot summary inside the cover tells you exactly what happens. The band breaks up. But why??? It was a real page-turner finding out! 🙂
Thank you, M.B.! Excellent points! As you note and allude to, the overall history in a historical novel might be known but we don't always know what will happen with specific characters — who are of course often fictional, even as they might interact with some real-life historical figures.
Kate Quinn is definitely on my to-read list from your previous mention of her work. 🙂
Hi M.B.
I'd like to ask you if you've read John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles? They're about the only historical fiction that I've read, and I really enjoyed them. If you've read them, I'd be interested to know how you rate them?
I agree that the reading experience can still be good, even if you know the outcome. I remember reading War and Peace for the first time, knowing that the romantic couple of the novel was Pierre and Natasha, but still Tolstoy managed to make me think that Natasha was going to marry Andrey and that I somehow had gotten the Pierre and Natasha bit wrong.
Thank you, Elisabeth! That's a very interesting angle: knowing an outcome in a book even as the novelist (Tolstoy, in the case you mentioned) is so skilled that an authorial "misdirection" is almost believed!
Kat Lit
Hi Dave, I'm back for a short while we are getting ready for the move back to Chester Co. I was struck by the photo of Lisa Genova, one of my current favorite authors. I loved "Still Alice," "Left Neglected," and "Inside the O'Briens." You know that none of the main characters are going to be magically cured by any of the diseases or conditions that they suffer from, so there are no great surprises to be had. But she is such a great writer and knows her stuff about everything she writes about. There's another one about a young boy with autism, which was good but not great.
Welcome back, Kat Lit!!! (Even for a short while. 🙂 )
Lisa Genova IS a tremendous author, and I hope to make "Left Neglected" the third novel of hers that I've read. She definitely knows her stuff (being a neuroscientist and a dedicated researcher), and keeps readers very absorbed even as we know the general parameters of a lot that will happen.
The best of luck with your move!
Thanks Dave! Btw, the other book by Genova that was about an autistic 8 y.o. boy is Love, Anthony. For some reason I couldn't come up with the title. I guess it didn't have the same impact on me as most of her others! Bill put together a floor plan that has my furniture laid out, at least for the bedroom, but he still needs to work on the living room. But I'm sure he will give it to me before I move in.
Thanks, Kat Lit! Even if "Love, Anthony" isn't as good as some of Lisa Genova's other novels, I'm sure she has interesting things to say about autism.
I hope the floor plan works out!
Nice to see you here, if but for 'a short while'!
The Lovely Bones is applicable by Alice Sebold.
Thank you, Michele! You're absolutely right — though of course there's still suspense in the novel, including wondering when or if the murderer will be found.
That is the novel I was going to mention. I am still disturbed by that ending!
Thank you, lulabelle! Very disturbing — the ending and the whole novel. Excellent/haunting book.
Oh, I don't remember the ending. But I am still traumatised by the beginning!
I agree, Susan — the start of "The Lovely Bones" (along with the rest of that novel) is one of those "worst nightmares" scenarios. But all put together really well by the author.
Although some would argue that the Bible fiction. But even those who don't categorize it thus recognize that in the New Testament Book of Revelation has a predictable end: God wins. But it's quite a read to get there.
Thank you, Bill! I can see that there's a "God wins" predictability about the Bible amid all the stuff that a person might not expect when reading the Bible for the first time. Of course, the Bible is one of those works that's constantly reread by many people (at least certain passages), so that enters into the predictability equation as well.
Yet the hero dies in the middle.
Hmm…droll and excellent observation, jhNY. But if the New Testament is to be believed, he…returns!
The first thought that came to my mind was the billion dollar romance market. Yes, we are fine when we know what's going to happen. In fact, if something does not go as planned, we are disappointed, even annoyed. That is what is so wonderful about books – there is something for everyone, whether it be certainty or unpredictability. Always a joy to stop by.
Thank you, Clanmother, for the kind words and the excellent points!
I'm not much of a romance-novel reader, but I've certainly heard that the plots have some predictability — complete with happy endings. We all need some positivity. 🙂
And, yes, it's nice that the wide variety of novels can offer readers certainty or unpredictability or a toggle between the two!
I love the idea of toggling. Books are always always an adventure.
So true! Opening a novel one is about to read is a wonderful feeling. 🙂 And reading different kinds of novels adds to that.
cryptomathecian
Personally I like to read a story where the plot isn't too predictable. Even when the fate of the protagonist is kind of revealed at the start, there can still remain some twists that can take you by surprise.
Thanks, cryptomathecian! I hear you — I prefer that, too, but have still also enjoyed more predictable novels. And, yes, predictable novels are thankfully not always completely predictable!
Thanks to Mary Kay Fleming for recommending "Inside the O'Briens"!
Mary Kay Fleming
My pleasure, Dave, glad you liked it! Even though some aspects were predictable (the relentless decline of Huntington's Disease), there were a few surprises in the story for me, including one big one that forced me to pull over my car while I was listening to the audiobook. Such a poignant story. I can't wait to see what Lisa Genova writes next.
I did very much like the novel, Mary Kay. 🙂 And, yes, definitely some surprises — among them, Rosie's dramatic crisis of faith and Joe's positive reaction to Katie's boyfriend. I will definitely read a third Lisa Genova book in the not-too-distant future!


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package de.nedelosk.modularmachines.common.blocks;

import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.material.Material;
import net.minecraft.block.state.IBlockState;
import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;

public class BlockForest extends Block {

	protected BlockForest(Material mat, CreativeTabs tabForest) {
		super(mat);
		setCreativeTab(tabForest);
		setHardness(2.0F);
	}

	protected BlockForest(Material mat) {
		super(mat);
		setHardness(2.0F);
	}

	@Override
	public int damageDropped(IBlockState state) {
		return getMetaFromState(state);
	}

}

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Foreign nationals 'hired preferentially' for entry level jobs – CEE
A report released by the CEE said that the hiring of foreign nationals may adversely affect their South African counterparts.
by Dan Meyer
The Commission for Employment Equity (CEE) has released its annual employment figures for the 2019/20 year, and among their findings is the revelation that foreign nationals are being preferentially hired for entry-level jobs at an increasing rate.
Workers originating from outside of South Africa are filling job vacancies ahead of their South African counterparts more and more, the report revealed, and the commission said this has been among the challenges it has faced in terms of achieving the goals it set out in 2015 to ensure employment equity in the country.
Employment of foreign nationals on the up
CEE Chairperson Tabea Kabinde said that the increase in foreign nationals at entry level (including semi-skilled and unskilled Levels) jobs may mean that unemployed South Africans are being adversely affected by the trend.
"Whilst South Africa has stringent legislation governing the appointment of Foreign Nationals, the increase in the appointment of Foreign Nationals at entry occupational levels, i.e. is noteworthy," she said.
"It is argued that the unemployed in South Africa might be deprived of employment opportunities as a result of a trend towards the appointment of Foreign Nationals at these occupational levels."
The report handed down by the CEE cited another by the B-BBEE Commission National Status Report on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment for 2018, which shows that white people and foreign nationals account for 62% in 2018 for management control positions, demonstrating not only a 6% increase in their role in the sector of employment, but also how the large majority of other racial groups are being turned down for such positions.
"In line with the working visa policies, it is expected that the Foreign Nationals represented at this level, are employees with scarce skills," said Kabinde.
"However, their representation remained constant, which suggests that there may not be skills transfer at this level.
Foreign nationals maintain high rate of entry level job employment
The report outlined the following increases in foreign national presence in the job market at various levels:
Top management:
"The representation of Foreign Nationals remains constant at 3% at this level," the report suggests, noting an overwhelming majority of white people making up the market here.
Semi-skilled:
The Private sector employs the most Foreign Nationals followed by Educational institutions at this level.
The representation of Foreign Nationals at this level remains constant at around 2%, which is relatively high considering that this level is an entry level for semi-skilled workers in a country with a high rate of unemployment.
Unskilled:
The report indicates a relatively high representation of immigrants at this occupational level between 2017 and 2019, considering the reported availability levels of unskilled South African workers. Foreign nationals made up 3.9% of unskilled labourers in 2019.
"At this level, White and Indian population groups are under-represented whereas a relatively high percentage increase in the representation of Foreign Nationals at this level is noted between 2017 ( (3.5%) to 2019 (3.9%) considering the reported availability levels of Unskilled workers," the report noted.
Plans for employment recovery won't 'do away with foreigners'
Last month, Deputy Minister of Employment and Labour Boitumelo Moloi said that a new "National Employment Policy" will include new regulations around labour migration as the country seeks to ensure job recovery post-COVID-19.
"We are looking into this matter in a proper way. However, it is important to remember that we can't just 'do away with foreigners'. Some of them are refugees and legally supposed to be here," he said.
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Ő készítette a The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2010–2016) című sorozatot, amelynek a főszereplője, írója és producere is. Szinkronszínészként is tevékenykedik; szinkronizált pl. a Kung Fu Panda-filmekben (2008–2016), a Megaagyban (2010) vagy a Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) játékban, utóbbiban Zero hangját szolgáltatta.

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A Georgia állambeli Roswellben született, zsidó családba. Szülei Barry és Susi; apja Leedsből emigrált. Nem sokkal születése után Cross családja Floridába költözött. Ezután New Yorkba és Connecticutba költöztek, végül visszaköltöztek Roswellbe. Cross-nak két nővére van.

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A North Atlanta High School tanulója volt.

17 éves korában kezdett stand-upolni.

Magánélete
2011 augusztusában jegyezte el Amber Tamblyn színésznőt, 2012-ben összeházasodtak. 2017. február 21.-én Tamblyn bejelentette, hogy lányuk született.

Ateista, annak ellenére, hogy zsidó vallásban nevelkedett.

2013. szeptember 26.-án a Kickstarter társalapítója, Yancey Strickler felfedte, hogy Cross volt a platform első befektetője.

Cross rajong a Beastie Boys együttesért, és barátságban is áll velük.

Diszkográfia
Shut Up You Fucking Baby! (2002)
It's Not Funny (2004)
Bigger and Blackerer (2010)
America...Great (2016)
Oh Come On (2019)

Bibliográfia
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Young people of the Armenian youth congress commemorate the murder of Hrant Dink in Istanbul in the 100th year after the beginning of the Armenian Genocide in Berlin, Hanover, Dortmund, Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Munich. The scenery of his murder is going to be re-enacted at the time of crime.
Freedom of press belongs to one of the fundamental freedom rights of a democracy. The attack on the office of the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" on 7th January 2015 in Paris shows that this fundamental right has its risks.
People who express their criticism in public, in written form or graphically often encounter resistance or even murder threats which eventually can be verified in some cases.
The Armenian journalist Hrant Dink also had to suffer this fate.
On the 19th of January 2007 the then 17-year-old Turkish right-wing extremist Ogün Samast shot dead Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in the middle of the street in broad daylight in Istanbul. After his crime Ogün Samast supposedly shouted bravely "I have shot the infidel".
The justification for his crime – Hrant Dink continuously supported the reappraise of the Genocide against 1.5 Million Christian Armenians in 1915. In this Genocide – tolerated by the German Empire – not only Armenians were slaughtered, but also hundreds of thousands of Arameans/Assyrians and Pontic Greeks.
Until today the Turkish government is still denying that a Genocide against the Armenians did take place. This active policy of denying is also being pursued in Germany. Denying a Genocide is a continuation of this crime against humanity only with different means.
"Hrant Dink supported the reappraise. He was the voice of the Armenian minority in Turkey as well as the voice for all the Turks who did not close their eyes to the truth. Not only did he fight for the recognition of the Genocide, but also did he fight against Discrimination of Armenians and other minorities in present Turkey." Says press spokeswoman of the action, Anahid Akkaya.
That is why he was shot on the street in broad daylight. Hrant Dink became the most recent victim of a Genocide which started in 1915. The voice of the Armenians in Turkey should become silent.
The background, and especially the involvement of the Turkish government concerning the murder of Dink are up until now not disclosed.
"The Hrant-Dink-Action is an opening to a special commemorative year. A hundred years ago in April 1915 the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire started. With diverse events we want to remind of the first Genocide of the 20th century in Europe and we demand that the German government and the German Bundestag recognize the Armenian Genocide to set an example against denial." Explains lawyer Ilias Uyar of the Armenian Church in Germany and coordinator of the campaign.
Just as the denial of the Genocide, also the impunity of the culprits provides breeding ground for renewed mass murder. The support and toleration of the Turkish government for the massacres of the ISIS against Christians, Yezidi and Kurds in Syria and Iraq are an example for this terrible connection.


World half-marathon record-holder Zersenay Tadese is due to compete at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff on March 26 where he will face a line-up including Britain's Mo Farah and Kenyans Geoffrey Kamworor and Bedan Karoki, reports Super Sport.
Tadese is a former five-time winner of this event.
Kenya's Levy Omari, a 2:05:16 performer, will compete in the Vienna City Marathon on April 10.
Other recruits include Robert Chemosin (2:08:05 PB) and former 1500m runner Suleiman Simotwo (2:08:48), while David Kogei, who paced Eliud Kipchoge in the Berlin Marathon last year, will make his full marathon debut.
Organisers expect more than 40,000 entries for the 33rd edition of the race. Information from organisers.
European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen was one of the special guests at the inaugural Serbian Open which was staged in the newly-built indoor facilities in Belgrade.
The arena which hosted the meet will serve as the training venue for the 2017 European Indoor Championships with the competition taking place at the Kombank Arena.
"It was a great pleasure to attend the first Serbian Open here in Belgrade. European Athletics has been closely following the progress of the constructions and we can only be delighted with the results," said Hansen.
David Rudisha has said a lack of money and testing infrastructure has stymied Kenya's fight against doping, reports The Associated Press.
"We don't have labs in Kenya so we depend on international labs and most of them are there to assess those who are elite and top of the world. So what about the others who are running locally, who are training locally? Nobody knows them. It's a big challenge," he said.
Rudisha will compete in Melbourne at the IAAF World Challenge meet on Saturday.
A small team of nine athletes – eight men and one woman – have been named on the French team for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Portland.
The squad is led by Renaud Lavillenie in the pole vault, while Dimitri Bascou and Pascal Martinot-Lagarde start among the favourites in the 60m hurdles.
Fresh from jumping 8.23m aged 35 at the French Indoor Champs, Kafetien Gomis competes in the long jump, while European champion Benjamin Compaore is their sole entrant in the triple jump.
Kevin Mayer starts among the favourites for the heptathlon title.
The sole female entrant is Carole Zahi, who recently gained French nationality having previously competed for the Ivory Coast. She will contest the 60m.


Omcee Sillone the computer operator uses The Galaxy Z26 Equation.
(computer operator. uses the Galaxy Z26 Equation (where as Z=26÷A=?___=8.666667 then what is A? Her Galaxy routes(Navigation) is based on this equation up to the number 26.
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using System.IO;
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namespace SlxFileBrowser.FileSystem
{
    public class DiskDirectoryInfo : DiskFileSystemInfo<DirectoryInfo>, IDirectoryInfo
    {
        private static readonly IDirectoryInfo[] _emptyDirectoryInfos = new IDirectoryInfo[0];
        private static readonly IFileInfo[] _emptyFileInfos = new IFileInfo[0];

        public DiskDirectoryInfo(IDriveInfo driveInfo, DirectoryInfo info)
            : base(driveInfo, info)
        {
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        #region IDirectoryInfo Members

        public IDirectoryInfo CreateSubdirectory(string path)
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Intensive agriculture in Japan: Save the Farmers!
Farmers getting older are not replaced. Larger scale mechanized takes the lead. All petroleum based even when organic. Save the farmers!
Shot For Azra and Hellmann, manufactures of Modern Poultry Equipments, at Megha farm Mysore. Complete automated egg production.
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POP Center Biographies Scott Decker
Scott H. Decker
Scott H. Decker is professor emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. Prior to working at ASU, he was Curators' Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research. He was the Hindelang Lecturer at the University at Albany in 2009. He is a fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Criminology. He received the 2011 Bruce Smith Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He is the author of 17 books, including Life in the Gang; Burglars on the Job: Streetlife and Residential Burglary; Confronting Gangs; Lessons from the Inside: Drug Smugglers on Drug Smuggling; Policing Gangs and Youth Violence; Responding to Gangs; and European Street Gangs and Troublesome Youth Groups. His main research interests are in the areas of gangs, juvenile justice, criminal justice policy, and the offender's perspective. Decker received a bachelor's degree in social justice from DePauw University, and a master's and doctorate in criminology from Florida State University.
E-mail: Scott.Decker@asu.edu
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Variable - receives the raw 12 bit data read.
Read 12 bit temperature data from a DS18B20 digital temperature sensor and store in a word variable.
The conversion can take up to 750ms. Both readtemp and readtemp12 take the same time to convert. This command is designed for more advanced users, for standard 'whole degree' data use the simpler readtemp command. The readtemp12 temperature is read back as the raw 12 bit data into a word variable (0.0625 degrees Celsius resolution). The user must interpret the data through mathematical manipulation. See the DS18B20 datasheet for more information on the 12 bit Temperature/Data relationship.
Note the readtemp12 command does not work directly the same with the older DS1820 or DS18S20 as they have a different internal resolution. However example 2 below shows a workaround for the DS18S20. The readtemp12 command is not designed to be used with parasitically powered DS18B20 sensors (DS18B20-PAR) as the 5V pin of the sensor must always be connected.
This routine will output a signed temperature read from by a 'readtemp12' command to 0.625C resolution.
This routine will output a signed temperature read from by a 'readtemp12' command to 0.625F resolution. The 512 is equivalent to 32.0 with a 4-bit fractional.


Allergy-induced skin conditions are some of the most common reasons for bringing a pet to Deerfield Animal Hospital. Do you think your pet is having an allergic reaction? Itching, scratching and hot spots are all good indications of allergies. Pet allergies are very common and treatable, but can fester and become serious health conditions if left untreated.


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Lueger was de frontvrouw van de band Zweitfrau, die in 2003 werd opgegericht. Samen met Zweitfrau toert ze samen met P!nk, en hebben ze in 2014 een hit-single United die nummer 1 staat in Oostenrijk, toen MTV de single opnam in de playlist opnam.

In 2019 schrijft Lueger nog het nummer Die Essenz dat ze samen met Bobby McFerrin zingt op het Jazzfestval in de Weense Staatsopera.

Na haar zangcarriere werkt Lueger als yoga-lerares, en zet ze zich in voor de milieuorganisatie Global 2000.

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Summertime Death by Mons Kallentoft
Kallentoft, Mons – 'Summertime Death' (translated by Neil Smith)
Paperback: 496 pages (May 2012) Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks ISBN: 1444721577
The second in this seasonal quartet set in Linköping, south of Stockholm, is as hot as its predecessor, MIDWINTER SACRIFICE, was cold. Police detective Malin Fors is suffering in the sweltering temperatures, missing her daughter Tove who is on holiday in Bali with her ex-husband. Brooding over her parents – eternally absent and, Malin is convinced, keeping an important family secret from her – and without anything to do in her life outside work, Malin is abruptly awakened from her ennui by the discovery of a teenage girl in a children's park. The girl has been abused but is catatonic.
For the next 250 pages of this nearly 500-page novel, Malin and other colleagues desperately try to find out what happened to the girl, as well as search for another girl who has gone missing. This section of the book ends with the discovery of a body, buried near a municipal outdoor swimming pool. The pace picks up, as another young woman goes missing and the urgency increases.
SUMMERTIME DEATH is a well-constructed novel with an atmospheric, well-observed setting. Malin is the person who has to carry the book, and to a large extent she does, though the hints about her conflicts with her parents are repetitive and inconclusive (the reader can make an educated guess at the nature of the secret that she has sensed). The investigation itself is frustrating for a regular crime fiction reader as there is too much that the police omit to do. For example, they round up two young men who have been previously accused of rape, but don't investigate the others who were initially arrested with them. A bizarre clue emerges, but nobody thinks to investigate the only shop in town that sells such objects. The house and garden of one of the girls is not examined. People who had regular access to the girls' houses are not followed up. Not all these omissions turn out to be relevant, but when combined they make the book too drawn-out.
Most of the police are reasonable people, but one of them is not – yet his otherwise politically correct colleagues turn collective blind eyes when this man beats up more than one suspect to obtain information that verbal questions have not elicited. The narrative is interspersed with "dead victims speaking from the grave" segments, an unnecessary cliché (a device used previously, but less jarringly, by the author in MIDWINTER SACRIFICE).
The final scenes, while Malin works out who is responsible for the crimes and how they were carried out, are tense, but ultimately crazy in terms of psychological explanation, as well as featuring a heavily signalled, predictable victim. They also depend on Malin behaving in uncharacteristic ways, for example when she mishandles a press conference by volunteering two pieces of incendiary information, and her incredible insistence in not asking her colleagues for help in the final "race against time" sequences. There are certainly good things about the book, for example the character of a Serbian kiosk-owner and its portrait of small-town life, but as a crime novel it would have been better if shorter, without the supernatural elements, and less reliant on mistakes or accidents for its outcome.
Review first published at Euro Crime, August 2012.
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