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Posted on April 18, 2022 by accordingtohoyt
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If you wish to send us books for next week's promo, please email to bookpimping at outlook dot com. If you feel a need to re-promo the same book do so no more than once every six months (unless you're me or my relative. Deal.) One book per author per week. Amazon links only. Oh, yeah, by clicking through and buying (anything, actually) through one of the links below, you will at no cost to you be giving a portion of your purchase to support ATH through our associates number. A COMMISSION IS EARNED FROM EACH PURCHASE. That helps defray my time cost of about 2 hours a day on the blog, time probably better spent on fiction. ;)*
FROM SARAH A. HOYT: Odd Magics: Tales for the Lost
Odd Magics
This is a very strange collection of fairytales, recast for modern life. In it the prize isn't always to the fairest, the
magic is rarely to the strongest.
But lonely introverts do find love, women who never gave it a thought find themselves at the center of romance.
Doing what's right will see you to the happily ever after.
And sometimes you have to kiss an accountant to find your prince.
Okay, so I intend to figure out what went wrong with the spill chucking and de-typoing on this. I had several editors, and either I mixed up versions, and put up the wrong one, or I was so out of it when entering changes that I added to the typos. You'd think that's impossible, but I've recently seen what I've done to Barbarella script over the move, so…
I repeat: If you've complained to me about the typos (and there have been more than 5 people who did so, can you send me a typo list? Under the form of "is" and "Should be" per line. Younger son is also on it, but he's good but slow. I will also be doing a hard cover of this, and the artist has very kindly (and for free) sent me a new TPB cover. So if you intend to buy on paper, you might want to hold off a week or two while I figure this out. If you buy on kindle, it will automatically update when fixed. It was supposed to be one over the weekend, but … stuff happened. -SAH.
FROM BECKY R. JONES: Magic Abroad (Academic Magic Book 4)
Zoe O'Brien is very much looking forward to teaching summer school and tracking down fairy tales in Ireland. Her hopes for a quiet, academic summer are squashed when the dolphins tell her there's something wrong in the Aran Islands, and her students are stalked by a… something before disappearing. There's also the possibility that the slightly creepy guy at the train station is her father. So much for a quiet research-filled summer!
Now Zoe is in a race to find her students and help stop an invasion of Ireland by creatures out of myth and legend. The amount of magic in Ireland stuns Zoe. Are the ancient gods of Ireland returning to fight their enemies in the middle of her research? And what does the Morrígan want with Zoe?
*My husband recommends this series – SAH*
FROM A. W. GUERRA AND KELLY HOGAN: First Strike: Loudoun County
Retired Army Delta Force operator Luke Ellis, 17-year-old teen Annie Dedham and her 12-year-old brother Darren, along with young Loudoun County deputy sheriff Alec Holman, are in a race against time to prevent the destruction of humanity. To succeed, they need the help of a mysterious woman scientist. Only she can stop Armageddon from taking place. There's a huge problem, though: Terrorists are rampaging through the small Loudoun County hamlet of Lucketts and they're after the same scientist. What Ellis and his little band do over the next several hours will decide the fate of humankind.
FROM JERRY BOYD: Don't Give Up the Shop (Bob and Nikki Book 24)
The band took some shore leave, and helped their friend in his shop. On a visit to the bots, Bob and Nikki had to rescue some folks. Andre found a girlfriend, and then rescued her, a knight in shining hull metal. Come watch the crew deal with what their shepherd sends them.
FROM LAURA MONTGOMERY: Relief Afar: A Martha's Sons Short Story
Even on a lost colony world, secret enclaves have something to offer—but not when an insider sees a newcomer as the enemy.
Twenty-year-old Peter Dawe's exile gets worse. Not only is he forbidden the lost colony's city and his family's freehold, but even his brother's isolated farm no longer offers refuge. Of necessity, he heads north, away from humanity's terraformed valley towards the hidden enclave where pioneers push back the forbidding flora and fauna of the planet's native terrain. They call it Kentucky
Young volunteers from First Landing's northern families work to terraform the plains beyond the mountains. They've known each other all their lives and spent the summer working together. Peter's presence should be a welcome addition to the small group.
After what he did to protect his brother's family, Peter has resolved not to fight again—at least not for a good long time. When another man seeks to test himself against Peter and Peter's past violence, Peter faces a choice. Does he confront what he's tried to leave behind, or does he show he understands the hard lessons life insists on teaching him?
Relief Afar offers another window into the lost colony world of Not What We Were Looking For. If you wonder what it's like to build a new life on an unwelcoming planet, and if you want to see what lies in store next for this son of Martha, you'll want to jump right into the newest tale.
Buy Relief Afar to transcend exile today!
BY ED LACY, WITH INTRODUCTION BY D. JASON FLEMING: Room to Swing (Annotated): The Pulp Noir Classic
Black private eye Toussaint Moore knew a murder frame-up when he saw one, especially when it was hung neatly around his neck. Instead of dawdling around New York waiting for the NYPD to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit, he followed the one lead he had: the victim's hometown in Ohio. Only a stone's throw north of Jim Crow Kentucky. If he can't find who wanted that white man dead, and quick, all he's going to have left is room to swing!
FROM WILLIAM STROOCK: The Great Nuclear War of 1975
The Great Nuclear War of 1975
In a Different 1975…
Superpower relations breakdown and a nuclear war all but annihilates the Soviet Union and devastates the United States.
100 million Americans are dead.
After Washington is destroyed, a smalltown judge delivers the oath of office to Vice President Rockefeller.
Surviving American forces on land, sea and in the air await orders from the new president.
Americans across the nation climb out of the rubble looking for a homeland that no longer exists.
In surviving capitals across the globe, governments ponder the implications of a world without the superpowers.
In Britain, a rump cabinet meets in the Cotswolds to plan a way forward without the United States.
Commonwealth Prime Ministers in Canberra, Auckland and Ottawa look to the UK for leadership.
In Buenos Ares, a weak government plots the takeover of the Malvines.
As radiation sweeps down from Siberia, the Chinese government faces unprecedented famine.
In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wonders how she will feed India.
In Rhode Island, one man will start a trek halfway across North America to reunite with his family.
William Stroock is the author of 15 novels including the World War 1990 alternate history series.
FROM TONY ANDARIAN: The Ring of the Killravens: Dawn of Chaos 2 – Hell Gate, Part II (Sanctum of the Archmage Book 3)
A new constitution prepares Carlissa for an era of enlightenment. The harsh traditions of the past fade, and a promise of freedom stirs the air.
In the space of one terrifying day, that promise is shattered in a bloodbath of fire and magic.
In The Ring of the Killravens, the survivors of the Horde's first brutal assault regroup and consider their options. The royal family plans a desperate gamble to use the power of an ancient, hidden artifact against the demons.
Thousands of years ago, an epic battle was fought between good and evil. The demon lords had opened a door to the realms of hell itself, and their horde threatened to overrun the earth. But the Kalarans, led by the hero Calindra, destroyed their hellgate and drove them from the world.
The Great War has long since been lost to myth and legend. The Church struggles for relevance as the people forget their covenant with the gods. A renaissance of freedom and learning stirs the air in the modern age of Carlissa, led by the royal family, and the wisdom of the Archmage.
All of that comes to an end when a dome of shimmering magic appears in the capital city.
The people fight desperately to survive the chaos that follows, and wonder bitterly why the gods seem to have abandoned them. Their only hope lies with the magic of the Archmage — and his, with a young princess who never wanted to rule. She must find the strength to set aside her bard's calling and take up a battle against impossible odds, or surrender her land and people to the Black Magus and his demons.
Note: An earlier version of this book appeared as part of the novel Dawn of Chaos, published briefly on Amazon in 2017. That book has now been re-written and expanded into a series of six novella-length installments.
FROM D. W. PATTERSON: Frozen Time: Time Series Book 3
Because of the Time Wars fought in the space around Earth the underlying system of local and non-local links that makes up spacetime had been destroyed. It was now impossible to use the spin-two drive to open those links and access orbit and the rest of the Solar System. Space access services had fallen back on the rocket ship as the primary way to reach orbit from Earth's surface.
Now a strange spaceship had appeared above the spaceports scattered around the world and placed them in a seemingly impenetrable bubble of frozen time.
The Earth economy was thrown into turmoil with the loss of space access and a young boy, along with his friends and his amazing AI, were off on an adventure of a lifetime as they and others tried to understand what had happened.
"Frozen Time" is a novel set in the future (2700s) and is the thirty-third and final (for now) story in the Future Chron Universe. Hard Science Fiction – Old School.
The Future Chron Universe consists of nine novels, sixteen novellas, and eight short stories, almost eight-thousand words of science fiction and adventure. See the author's website dwpattersonscifi.blogspot.com for more information including a recommended reading order.
Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and 'Nother Mike.
So what's a vignette? You might know them as flash fiction, or even just sketches. We will provide a prompt each Sunday that you can use directly (including it in your work) or just as an inspiration. You, in turn, will write about 50 words (yes, we are going for short shorts! Not even a Drabble 100 words, just half that!). Then post it! For an additional challenge, you can aim to make it exactly 50 words, if you like.
If you have questions, feel free to ask.
Your writing prompt this week is: Early
*Since I'm not early — obviously — with this post, I'd like to point out that a) Amazon associate's site-stripe IS one of those rare things, an improvement that helps with doing these posts. I also wish to tear out my hair and hop around like a chimpanzee on speed because ARGH. No, seriously, argh. I was connected through the proxy, without checking, and site strip THOUGHT it was working but refused to. It required two full reboots to bring you this post. Not your fault. Mine a bit for not checking on the proxy before starting. But ARGH. – SAH*
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26 thoughts on "Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and 'Nother Mike"
Minor nit: "FROM BECKY R. JONES: Magic Abroad (Academic Magic Book 4)" is actually Book 3, as the cover shows.
Oh, I will be purchasing it but my first thought was "Book 4, where is Book 3". 😉
Prof. Ornery says:
Yeah, Amazon messed it up and it comes with the link. I fixed it.
Still reading it (yes, I purchased it) and I'm glad to see that my guess when reading the prologue was correct. 😉
It's Looking Good! 😀
"They say that the early bird catches the worm but this Dragon says that the early Wurm catches the Knight". [Very Big Dragon Grin]
Qoheleth says:
I never claimed to be a dinosaur buff. And I'm methodical; say "Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous" and I'll start at the beginning and work forward. It's not my fault the Tempo-Vator broke after the trip to the Early Triassic.
Anyway, what's Jason's beef? Five healthy dicynodont eggs must be worth something.
Raptor says:
"Darling! You're home early!"
"…you don't get to call me that any more. Both of you, get out. Now."
"Darling, I can explain…"
"You can explain to my lawyer. And remember that prenup you insisted I sign? It goes both ways, remember? I hope you like ramen."
Jolie says:
I intend to reexamine my paper version of Odd Magic after I am done with my capstone. Pinky swear.
accordingtohoyt says:
Thank you. Son is going through it as well. He's thorough but SLOW. Fast writer, slow proofer.
Nice selection of promos today! Yay!
"Ah, it's Nigel." Delia, brown-haired and watching him with narrow eyes, emerged from the train.
Charlotte-Rose popped out after, her blond hair streaming. "I didn't expect to see you this early."
Nigel spread his hands. "I'm not studying. It's chance when my work coincides with any part of your studies."
His mouth was dry. "It is not too early to begin planning," he said. "If it is perilous, a prudent plan is necessary. Otherwise, failure is certain, and you will be left without what you so direly need."
She smiled upon him. "Yes, we must plan. I will tell you."
And she would learn early how to travel on roads in the mountains. She would need to know that, after the curse broke.
She smiled radiantly at the map, and then she began to trace the routes out of the mountains, since a prince had to come from another kingdom.
Padre0875 says:
"Oh, darling. I wish I could, but it's that time of the month again."
"Aren't you a little early?"
She gave him a very direct look that had him blushing redder than his strawberry-blonde hair.
"It's better than my being late."
SheSellsSeashells says:
Maybe her ancestors would have called it witchcraft. Maybe lycanthropy. All Leah knew was that it was far too early for the morning after the night before, no matter how much fun she'd had prowling the suburbs.
Leah smacked her mouth dubiously. She regretted it as soon as her higher mental functions checked in. "Yech. Harriet, TELL me you didn't try to eat a mouse while I was out."
The nondescript tabby perched on the end of the bed watched her unblinkingly. *Pickles. Snack cakes. Ice cream. Cheese." The concepts didn't really enter her mind as words, just vividly remembered tastes and textures.
Leah scrubbed both hands over her eyes. "And you didn't brush my teeth."
Teeth are your job.
"And sitting on the couch in my body eating snacks is apparently yours."
I sit on the couch in my body too. But pickles snack cakes ice cream cheese don't taste good with cat teeth. Harriet twisted improbably to groom the back of one foreleg.
setnaffa says:
It's too early to tell; but I think America is being red-pilled by essentially bar of soap-sized suppositories. And it looks like NY and California might not be the same…
Her parents taught her to be super-industrious from a very early age. She was that cute little girl who sold bouquets of wildflowers to the tourists and lemonade to the neighbors. The tips were great! By age 14 she was gigging at the clubs and teaching music on the side.
An Author In Charge says:
Is there something akin to the "dogs looking like their owners" thing that happens with a Solist and her Companions?
Seriously. I'm of the philosophy that "if you're not early, you're late," and some prior planning lets you get away with being places early. Throw in the fact that the Lycée is really the only place Sayuri and I can spend time together that isn't OCD-chaperoned, Deborah has a reason to leave because she has to go home to see her mother and help with her recovery, Aretta still feels a bit weird about how her life has become but likes to be with me, and let's not get into the venomously polite cat-fight that is Sayuri and Belladona (all done where I can't see it, but I know)…
So, we're somehow competing in coming to school early because I'm getting there early for one reason, then usually Deborah, then Sayuri (if the car tires haven't been slashed the night before), then Belladona (if a pound of sugar hasn't been poured into some gas tanks), then Aretta.
I love my Companions, I truly do. But they're family, and I can tell this because I love them dearly. Even when I want to break a riding crop on Sayuri and Bellandona's ass. Perhaps especially so.
Evenstar says:
I was going to buy Odd Magics for my niece's birthday (in November) but I will wait for the hardcover.
In the moonbase's dining commons the Early Show was on the TV. Until now it had been your typical morning national news program, with weather reports and the opening-bell financial report — until the news anchor announced that they were switching to their correspondent in Moscow for a very special presentation.
News didn't take long to get around the moonbase, and in minutes the astronauts were all crowding around the little screen. Leonid Gruzinsky had granted an interview. At least the US cameraman had been able to convince him to sit facing their correspondent, hiding the worst of his scars. Shelly could actually see the resemblance to the handsome young major in the photograph Admiral Chaffee had shown her.
Of greater interest, he wasn't speaking through an interpreter. Although nobody would mistake his accent for that of a native speaker, Gruzinsky had an excellent mastery of colloquial American English, football metaphors and all. Amazing, given how much the ESA astronauts, even ones from the UK who were native speakers of English, struggled with the basics of downs and yardage, forward passes and fumbles.
analytical-engine-mechanic says:
"Thank you for coming, Assistant Director Ventner." The slim, precisely dressed man in front of her rose and offered his hand in (what had always seemed) sincere appreciation. Of course, his nickname was and long had been 'Spooks'… and being in his presence told you one reason why.
"And thank you for being available in turn, Researcher Dawkins." That odd title of his was one more way to say something, without saying much. "It seems you want to see me about that latest batch of reactions tests..?"
"Yes. I'd like to discuss a few of the results for some of the agents you so graciously provided, especially Stefania Olshansky." He whipped out two pieces of paper — which in this office, at least, usually meant 'Here's something to take with you and study later' — instead of the 'Watch some pictures flash across my screen, then try to remember them for later' you too often got with others. "First a sort of general summary of the test results for all nineteen of the people we just tested — and then second a bit more detailed a summary for Agent Olshansky alone. Some of her results are, let me simply say for now, somewhat anomalous."
Samantha Ventner could feel one eyebrow climbing. "I hope none of this is leading in any direction like any sort of probation, or Heaven forfend suspension, for her. Steffa is one of our best, she's very fast at both assessment and action and even has a sort of 'sixth sense' for things of little note but great consequence." The way the man speaks isn't just kind of stilted, it's also a littlecatching… but what could you possibly expect from a guy named Nigel Dawkins??
An expression flashed across Dawkins' face, almost too fast to see, that might've been something like a wry smile. "Yes. That last point is even consistent with the results. But I assure you I'm not trying to amount to any kind of drag or drain on the Department's resources, very much the contrary. Do you know what you're seeing there? Basically it's a rather structured and nuanced set of measured reaction times, to assorted kinds of situations and, ah, stimuli — in something at least vaguely like an abstract simulation of assorted actual dynamic field conditions."
"I can see her numbers aren't too different from some of the others', in many cases clearly smaller… but many of hers are printed in red instead of black, and the meaning there escapes me." Very few of the stats on the other page — except for Steffa's — were in red. Indeed much of the red there was at the top, the document status (which wasn't UNCLASSIFIED or even the relatively milquetoast NOFORN).
"It's a very old and simple code, Director, been used time out of mind in places like accounting. The numbers are the delays between the stimulus being present enough to perceive, and a completed and measurable reaction by the test subject — or at least the start of one clear enough to be unambigously under way. 'In the black' means the reaction is trailing, or late by that much; 'in the red' means the reaction is leading, or early by that much." 'Spooks' crossed his arms. "Now, Assistant Director, you're not going to be one of those annoying people who start bleating 'But that cannot be possible' right about now, are you? I'd be, in your case, rather a bit disappointed." There was a hint of exasperation in his voice and on his face, but much more of comradely humor… of a Dawkins-esque kind.
Samantha's eyes scanned the page, again, far more carefully and in detail now she knew (and mostly believed) what that was about. "So, what you're telling me is that in about one-third of these encounters, she actually registered a measurable, accurately time-able reaction to something that was about to happen, but hadn't quite happened yet? Some of these, I guess I'd have to call them 'negative delays' for now, are listed as fifty to eighty milliseconds before the… stimulus, you called it, was there."
Did I actually just say that, right out loud??
She even, for a minute, flashed to the date — not April, or the 1st.
Nigel Dawkins actually beamed, at least as much as he ever showed any such strong feelings in himself. "Yes. That's the point, much as if your 'sixth sense' comment was also a quantifiable, exact thing. Do note that she displayed those early reactions only in the cases where a field-like situation was presented, one that required an assertive or an aggressive — most people would say violent — response. The others, her reactions were normal, or at least towards the fast-normal. So simply on the face of it, not only can she react to situations not yet present, she can also 'read' them appropriately. Also look at the shoot / don't shoot score, one of the few non-timing statistics, near the bottom of the page. No 'incorrect' reactions, at all. Only one other person, Michael Gowan, had that quality… and isn't he one of your better field agents, too?"
Not one 'good guy' or 'bystander' shot — and also not one 'bad guy' who was not shot effectively, either. The ideal; seldom the reality.
"Yes, yes he is. Which means — and I'm not just reflexively standing up for my own people, though I do that too — I'd also hate to lose him."
"Not, as I've said, my goal; rather the opposite of it." Nigel's voice had that oddly-distant quality that betrayed he was (something like) bored of others' misunderstandings of the perfectly patent and obvious. "Perhaps Miss Olshansky is the most, let's say, obvious and clear-cut case of this kind of advanced reactions, pro-active in the original sense of the word. But she is by no means whatever the only such person I've seen and tested by now. And over the years I've slowly built up a vague, phenomenal, and patchwork description of what this looks like, from the inside as well as the outside. So I might just be able to offer to her and a few others a set of rules of thumb, a bagful of hints to try, a sort of clinic of the pre-active… which has proven itself likely to help at least a little, and quite unlikely to be disruptive except to those who operate purely on instinct. Which, again, is not many and none of these, ah, four or five."
And again, that expression, which came (for Dawkins) perilously close to being an actual grin. "So, would you care to walk on the wild side a bit with me, and authorize Olshansky and Gowan and the rest to come and talk about all this, see if they — individually and willingly — may want to hear more of this? To step, and I'm stealing a book title from the 1980s, a bit further out toward the 'Margins of Reality' with me and the rest of us second-degree spooks that have been lurking far out there already?"
'Spooks' it was, sure enough and all the way home…
But it made sense. One meaning of the word, they were all 'spooks' since it came with the job. And Dawkins had made something of a profession of being otherwise extra 'spooky' these past twenty years or more here. Thus, 'spook-s' for him, 'spook squared' as they'd said since forever. Nobody stayed long here unless they were useful, so… doubly-good spooky, too.
Now, though, it looked like quiet, merry Steffa was spookiest of all.
*hic
"Er, Dakota, you know you needed to be up early, so… uh. well, drinking is not the best way to wake u p and stay awake. And.. what's with all the grease and such? You really need to wash all that off."
"Early? I thought you said 'oily' and I wasn't sure of just which version of 'well-lubricated' you meant, so… I took both paths."
"NUTS! Your species got beyond mud huts just how?!?!"
Bob the Ape says:
A thundering knock sounded on the door of the Blue Nebula speakeasy. It wasn't the code knock. "You're early," shouted the bartender. "We're not open."
With a grinding crash the door burst open and in strode Tropheus Gurch, bounty hunter extraordinaire. "Pretty big staff you have, then," he growled, surveying the crowd. One of the customers pulled a flame pistol. Gurch reached over and took it from him and took his machete from its scabbard. He tossed the pistol into the air and sliced it into three parts on the rise.
A group of men were gathered about something in an alcove. The bounty hunter went over and parted them, revealing an arena table. "Illegal critter combats, eh?" With one hand he swept up and pocketed the stakes put down by the gamblers, while with the other he picked up the groundhogs and casually juggled them.
Into the speakeasy through the shattered door came another man, shorter than Gurch but bulkier. He was brandishing the head of a dragonhorse. It had not been cut off; it had been pulled off. "This belong to anybody?" he demanded in a harshly accented voice.
Tropheus Gurch turned. "You know damn well who that belonged to, Dar Dar Shan," he said. Tears, incredibly, formed in his eyes. "I loved that animal."
The two bounty hunters stared at each other, waiting for a move.
As usual that morning I left far too early for work, but threw in a couple of errands on the side. (The 24-hour pharmacy, getting gas for the car, dropping books into the library depository…) With traffic the way it is in Los Angeles these days, efficiency is key and it gives me a feeling of accomplishment – more than I'm likely to get from my job.
I didn't want to hear the news but turned on the radio anyway, as an antidote to the still-silent streets. At this hour it's possible to find low wattage AM radio stations that broadcast weather or public service announcements. I find their mechanical voices soothing rather than unsettling. But that morning's broadcast at 1700 on the AM dial fell into the latter category:
"This is a test. This is only a test." Pause. "This is a great day, testing, testing. This is only a test."
Then the tenor of the voice started to warp. I drove faster.
Steve O says:
I waited with the other security staff for the Deputy, my counterfeit ID on display.
The 3D-printed flechette gun was in my coat pocket, next to the lock of my wife's hair.
We were both here, early, for today's Resettlement Policy meeting, but neither of us would be attending.
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They say in life, "All good things must come to an end". Sadly, this week the Albertson Lazio '99 ended their Albertson careers just as it started, with not much fan fare. Many of these boys have worn the Albertson jersey for over 10 years and have progressed through the ranks of munchkins, intramurals, pre-travel, LIJ, premiere travel, pre-USSF, and even USSF.
Led by team manger Jeff Knee the Lazio have represented Albertson with honor and distinction for so many seasons. The players were drawn from Roslyn HS, Wheatley, and South Side HS. Many of these boys represented their high schools on different sports teams while simultaneously playing for Albertson SC. In 2016 the Lazio were crowned LIJ Cup Champions.
In a few days these boys will be graduating from their respective high schools. Come next year they will be putting on a different soccer uniform representing their colleges at the club, intramural, and/or frat soccer level. In an era when players jump from team to team, and club to club annually, it is rare to see a group of players/friends remain together for so many years. Their successes on and off the field are something Albertson SC should be proud of and tout loudly. Below is the list of the exceptional colleges these student-athletes will be attending in 2017. We wish them all the best and success in their next four years of soccer and academic endeavors.


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Above average hurricane season(WTOK)
Published: Nov. 30, 2021 at 10:07 AM CST
November 30th marks the official end of hurricane season. It was an active season for sure with 21 named storms, 7 hurricanes... 4 of which were major hurricanes (category 3 or higher). All of the names on this year's list were used, but thankfully, the supplemental list of names wasn't needed. Hurricane season forecasters (NOAA, Colorado State) called for an above average season, and it looks like the forecast verified.
The season actually started prematurely in May with tropical storm Ana (May 22-24th). June brought two U.S. landfalling tropical storms which were Claudette and Danny. Elsa was the first hurricane of the season, and it was the only tropical cyclone to form in July. It made a landfall across the Florida Panhandle but as a tropical storm.
Seven tropical cyclones formed in August (but only 6 were named by the end of the month). Three developed into hurricanes, with two of them becoming major hurricanes. This includes Ida which devasted parts of the Louisiana coast. It made a landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana on August 29th before eventually bringing flooding rains to parts of the WTOK area.
The one un-named tropical cyclone from August went on to become a major "long-lived" hurricane in September...Larry. This system plus 8 other tropical cyclones were named during that month. Finally, in October, the tropics began to quiet down. There was only one tropical cyclone to form during that month, which was Subtropical Storm Wanda. In November, all was quiet.
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James Andrew Secord (born 18 March 1953) is an American-born historian. He is a professor of history and philosophy of science within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Christ's College. He is also the director (since 2006) of the project to publish the complete Correspondence of Charles Darwin.
Secord is especially well known for his award-winning work on the reception of the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a pioneering evolutionary book first published in 1844.

Education and Career
Secord was born in Madison, Wisconsin. After attending Pomona College, he received a Fulbright–Hays grant to study in the United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. in the history of science at Princeton University (1976–81). His dissertation was entitled "Cambria/Siluria: The Anatomy of a Victorian Geological Debate" and his adviser was Charles Coulston Gillispie. After postdoctoral fellowships at University College London and at Churchill College in Cambridge, he taught history of science at Imperial College from 1985 to 1992. In 1992 he began teaching in Cambridge.

Publications

Books
Secord's first book, based upon his Ph.D. research, was Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986). He followed it with Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), which was awarded the Pfizer Prize by the History of Science Society for best book in history of science, 2002. His most recent book was Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014). He has also edited numerous volumes and been a contributor to many more.

Articles and book chapters
 'Nature's Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons.' Isis 72 (1981): 162–186.
 'King of Siluria: Roderick Murchison and the Imperial Theme in Nineteenth Century British Geology.'  Victorian Studies, 25 (1982): 413–442.
 'John W. Salter: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Palaeontological Career.'  In From Linnaeus to Darwin: Commentaries on the History of Biology and Geology, ed. by A. Wheeler and J. Price, 61–75.  London: Society for the History of Natural History, 1985.
 'Newton in the Nursery: Tom Telescope and the Philosophy of Tops and Balls, 1761-1838.'  History of Science 23 (1985): 127–151.
 'Natural History in Depth.'  Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 181–200.
 'Darwin and the Breeders: A Social History.' In The Darwinian Heritage, ed. by D. Kohn, 519–542.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
 'The Geological Survey of Great Britain as a Research School, 1839-1855.'  History of Science 24 (1986): 223–275.
 'Pasteur and the Process of Discovery: The Case of Optical Isomerism.'  Isis 79 (1988): 6-36 (with G. L. Geison).
 'Behind the Veil: Robert Chambers and Vestiges.'  In History, Humanity and Evolution, ed. by J. R. Moore, 165–194.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
 'Extraordinary Experiment: Electricity and the Creation of Life in Victorian England.'  In The Uses of Experiment, ed. by D. Gooding, T. Pinch, and S. Schaffer, 337–383.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
 'The Curious Case of Acarus crossii.'  Nature 345 (1990): 471–472.  (See Andrew Crosse.)
 'Edinburgh Lamarckians: Robert Jameson and Robert E. Grant.'  Journal of the History of Biology 24 (1991), 1–18.
 'The Discovery of a Vocation: Darwin's Early Geology.'  British Journal for the History of Science 24 (1991), 133–157.
 'Scientific London.'  In London: World City 1800-1840, ed. by C. Fox, 129–142.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992 (with I. Morus and S. J. Schaffer).
 'Clarke, Alexander Ross.'  In The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons, ed. by C. S. Nicholls, 135–136.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 'Introduction.' In R. Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and other Evolutionary Writings, vii-xlv.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
 'The Counter-Revolution in Science.'  Yorkshire Philosophical Society Annual Report for the Year 1995, 49–51.  York: 1996.
 'The Crisis of Nature.'  In Cultures of Natural History, ed. by N. Jardine, J. Secord and E. Spary, 447–459, 493–494.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
 'Introduction.' In C. Lyell.  Principles of Geology, ix-xliii.  London: Penguin Books, 1997.
 'Une science à la mode.' Les Cahiers de Science et Vie 49 (1999): 14–23.
 'Geology.' In An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832, ed. by I. McCalman, 519–521.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
 'Robert Chambers.' In Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 3d ed., vol. 4, ed. by J. Shattock, cols 2528–2531.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
 'Progress in Print.' In Books and the Sciences in History, ed. by M. Frasca-Spada and N. Jardine, 369–389.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
 'Vestigial Sensations: Author's Reply.' In review symposium on Victorian Sensation, Metascience 11 (2002), 28–33.
 'Quick and Magical Shaper of Science [J. H. Pepper].' Science 297 (2002), 1648–1649.
 'Introduction.'  In reprint of  J. H. Pepper, The Boy's Playbook of Science (1860), v-x. Bristol: Edition Synapse/ Thoemmes Press, 2003.
 'Introduction.'  In reprint of [S. Clark], Peter Parley's Wonders of the Earth, Sea, and Sky (1837), v-x. Bristol: Edition Synapse/ Thoemmes Press, 2003.
 'Author's Response.' In review symposium on Victorian Sensation, Journal of Victorian Culture 8 (2003), 142–150.
 'From Miller to the Millennium.' In Celebrating the Life and Times of Hugh Miller, ed. by  L. Borley, 328–337. Cromarty, Scotland: Cromarty Arts Trust, 2003.
 'Monsters at the Crystal Palace.' In Models: The Third Dimension of Science, ed. by S. de Chadarevian and N. Hopwood, 138–169.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
 'Andrew Crosse,' 'Henry De la Beche,' 'David Page,' 'John William Salter,' 'Adam Sedgwick,' 'Harry Govier Seeley,' 'Daniel Sharpe,' 'Charles Southwell,' 'William Bernhardt Tegetmeier.' In New Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and B. Harrison.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
 'Knowledge in Transit.'  Isis 95 (2004): 654–672.
 'Scrapbook Science: Composite Caricatures in Late Georgian England.'  In Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture, ed. by B. Lightman and A. Shteir, 164–191.  Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2006.
 'Science', contribution to symposium on textbooks, Journal of Victorian Culture 12.2 (2007) 272–276.
 'The Geohistorical Revolution', contribution to review symposium on M. Rudwick, Bursting the Limits of Time, Metascience 16 (2007), 375–386.
 'From Scientific Conversation to Shop Talk.'  In Science in the Marketplace, ed. by A. Fyfe and B. Lightman, 23–59.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
 'Science, Technology and Mathematics.' In The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 5, 1830–1914, ed. by D. McKitterick, 443–74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2009).
 'Introduction' to focus section on 'Darwin as a cultural icon' Isis 100 (2009), 537–541.
 'The Secret History of Victorian Evolution', Journal of Cambridge Studies 4 (2009), 23–36.
 'A Non-Darwinian in the Darwin Year', Journal of Cambridge Studies 4 (2009), 46-55 (with Haiyan Yang).
 'Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century', History of Science 48 (2010), 251-285 (with N Hopwood and S Schaffer).
  'Global Darwin' in W. Brown and A C Fabian (eds) Darwin.  Cambridge University Press, 2010, 31–57.
 'Foreword' in Science in Print: Essays on the History of Science and the Culture of Print, ed. by R. D. Apple, G. J. Downey and S. L. Vaughn. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, vii-xiii.
 'Early Science Literacy', Natural History (Dec. 2014-Jan. 2015), 28-33.
 'Introduction: Communicating Reproduction', Bulletin of the History of Medicine 89 (2015), 379-405 (with N. Hopwood, P. M. Jones and L. Kassell).
 'Mary Somerville's Vision of Science', Physics Today (1 Jan. 2018), 46-52.
 'Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire', in Worlds of Natural History, ed. by H. Curry, N. Jardine, J. Secord and E. Spary, 401–417, 610–612. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
 'Natural History and its Histories in the Twenty-first Centuries', in Worlds of Natural History, ed by H. Curry, N. Jardine, J. Secord and E. Spary, 535–544, 632–634. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 (with H. Curry).
 'Talking Origins', in Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, ed. by N. Hopwood, R. Flemming and L. Kassell, 375–389. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
 'Spontaneous Generation and the Triumph of Experiment', in Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, ed. By N. Hopwood, R. Flemming and L. Kassell, Exhibit 26. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
 'Eureka!', in Surprise: 107 Variations on the Unexpected, ed.by M. Fend, A. te Heesen, C. von Oertzen and F. Vidal, Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2019, 356–359. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/2019-09/surprise_daston_2019.pdf
 'Life on the Moon, Newspapers on Earth', in Moon: A Celebration of our Celestial Neighbour, ed. by M. Vandenbrouck et al., London: Royal Observatory Greenwich, 2019, 150–155, 240.

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Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932)
Thu 11 Nov 1915
A grand pioneer in the commercial life of the city, one respected in municipal circles, and an earnest worker in the cause of his Church, Mr. Patrick Stanley of
Thu 11 Nov 1915 - Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932)
Page 16 - OBITUARY
MR. PATRICK STANLEY, REDFJuRN.
A grand pioneer in the commercial life
of the city, one respected in municipal
circles, and an earnest worker in the cause
of his Church, Mr. Patrick Stanley of
'Meath House,' Cleveland-street, Redfern,
passed peacefully away on Friday at his
residence, in his 90th year. It is now 70
years since : young Patrick Stanley siepped
ashore from his native land. Trim, Meath,
Ireland, and faced a new world in New
South Wales. The generous-hearted young
Irishman, however, soon found congenial oc
cupation and won the respect of his «m
ployer, the. late Mr. John Baptist, of
George-street, Sydney. For many years Mr.
Stanley assiduously assisted his employer and
rose in position. His industry was ?rewarded,
and after Mr. Baptist's death Mr. Stanley
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became proprietor of the business, which he
carried on for some time, until his retire
ment, when it reverted to the family and
became known as' Stanley and. Co. The ap
preciation of his fellow-citizens induced .Mr.
Stanley to apply his abilities in municipal
activities, and for some 35 years he sat in
the Redfern Council, nine years of whicn ne
occupied the Mayoral chair. In all public
movements in the district Mr. Stanley took
The Late Mr. Patrick Stanley. Help
The Late Mr. Patrick Stanley.
a prominent part. In church affairs he did
not spare himself, and was a generous and
active member of the Sacred Heart parisn,
Darlinghurst, in the olden days. He was
President of the Australian Catholic ' Young
Men's. Society in that parish 50 years ago,
and was presented with a beautiful address
by ^the committee,, as a mark of appreciation
of his services. In more recent years St.
Peter's, Surry Hills, benefited by Mr. Stan
ley's services, and it was the Rev. Father
Collender and the Rev. Father Lonergan,
of that parish, who spiritually attended mm
during the last years of his life. In his ill
ness he was assiduously attended by the
Sisters of Mercy and the Sisters of St. Jo
seph. ?
Mr. Stanley left one son (Matt) and four
daughters, Mrs. Lionel Bridge, Mrs. John
O'Brien, Mrs. P. J. Scahill, Mrs. M. Keogh,
also .Mrs. M. Murray (daughterin
law), as well as bhirty-eight grandchil
dren and 10 great-grandchildren. The fune
ral, which moved from his late residence,
was largely attended by representative pub
lic men. Among those present at the grave
at Waverley were : — Mr. and Mrs. M. Stan
ley, Mr. and Mrs. M. Keogh, Mr. and Mrs.
John O'Brien, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Scahill,
Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Bridge, Mrs. M.
Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Stanley, Mr.
and Mrs. P. A. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Laidlow, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Carroll, Mr
and Mrs. Tom Condon, Mr. and Mrs. An
drew Meaney, Mr. and Mrs. D. Falain,
Messrs. Seahill (5), O'Brien (2), Jack Bridge.
Lionel Bridge, Keogh, 3 (grandsons) ; Miss
es O'Brien (5), Keogh (2), Stanley 3 (grand
daughters), Annie M:Kenna, Sir Thomas
Hughes, Aid. J. G. Griffin (Water and
Sewerage Board), Alderman John English
(City Council), Thomas Thrower, M.L.A.,
Messrs. Clarence Bridge, A. O. Y. Miller
(Bank of New South Wales), Geo. Howe,
and Fanning (ex-aldermen, Redfern), Colin
Borthwick, D, J. O'Bren, Maurice O'Brien,
T. M'Mahon, G. E. Bryant, J. F. Hayes,
P. O'Lduighlin (District Secretary Hi
bernian Society), P. Dignam, Tom
Mitchell, Morty Kelly, George Brown,
Alf. Blundell, George Boulton, John Bonl
ton, T. Nickson, Tom Brown, James Wil
son, M. O'Driscoll, T. Shannon, M. Parker,
T. Dowling, De La Salle Brothers, C. Wil
liams, Wilson Glenn, T. Proctor, C. Proctor,
Fred Leston, J. Duffy, John Baptist, C. .13.
Byrne (Hardie and Gorman), AV. T. Smith,
Frank Hart, T. Scaihill, AAr. Scahill, J.
Horan, T. Brogan, T. Lovatt, John Radford,
J. M'Millan, Doran, Frank Kelly, P.
Kane, Mat Cranney, Michael' Cranney, , ?
Peter Sutton (junr.), R. Keating, Bert
Kelly, and numerous others. The Rev. Fa-.
thcr Collender officiated at the graveside,
assisted by Rev. J. M. Kelly (Adm. St.
Francis), E. O'Brien (Mosman), Milne Cur-,
ran. The funeral arrangements were in th-?
hands of Mr. AA'. N. Bull.— RIP. . ?
OBITUARY (1915, November 11). Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), p. 16. Retrieved January 18, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115596925
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Сан-Рамон () — місто () в США, в окрузі Контра-Коста штату Каліфорнія. Населення —  осіб (2010).. Його населення становило 74,378 в 2012 році.

У місті знаходяться штаб-квартири компаній AT&T (її західного відділення), Chevron і 24-Hour Fitness. Також тут є досить великий (близько 800 співробітників) медичний центр (San Ramon Medical Center). Основними святковими заходами у місті є Фестиваль Мистецтва і Вітру на вихідні на День Пам'яті, Пікнік та Феєрверк на Четвертого липня і волонтерська пробіжка за освіту Primo в жовтні, названа в честь одного з її споносорів (Primo's Pizza).

2001 року місто назване одним з найбільш екологічно чистих у США (Tree City USA).

Географія
Сан-Рамон розташований за координатами  (37.761542, -121.937694).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 46,82 км², з яких 46,78 км² — суходіл та 0,04 км² — водойми.

Клімат

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 1541 особа/км².  Було 26222 помешкання (560/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 5,3 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 8,7 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 29,6 % — особи молодші 18 років, 62,6 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 7,8 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 37,1 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 96,6 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 92,4 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  долари для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 4,2 % осіб, у тому числі 4,4 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 4,8 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 20,8 %, освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 19,6 %, виробництво — 12,4 %, роздрібна торгівля — 10,0 %.

Примітки

Джерела

Міста Каліфорнії
Населені пункти округу Контра-Коста (Каліфорнія)


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Analysis: Baseball's labor peace is broken. Here's a guide to the struggle.
By Greg Giesen
The Virginian-Pilot |
Major League Baseball has officially hit lockout mode. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)
A whole seven minutes. Four hundred and 20 seconds.
With their backs to the wall and the possibility of the first Major League Baseball labor dispute since 1995 staring them in the face, afternoon negotiations ended Wednesday after seven minutes.
So, when the clock hit midnight on Thursday, baseball's collective bargaining agreement ended. The players were locked out and 26 years of labor peace was thrown away.
It's possible that the chasm between the MLB Players' Association and the owners is so great that seven hours wouldn't have made a difference. But seven minutes? It's as if the MLBPA and the owners just wanted to give fans the middle finger before starting a labor battle.
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred reacts to a question during a news conference in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Owners locked out players at 12:01 a.m. Thursday following the expiration of the sport's five-year collective bargaining agreement. (LM Otero/AP)
For those 35 and younger, this is a new experience. Baseball has had labor peace since 1995.
Back in 1994, an age where shifts didn't occur, players stole bases and hit the other way, and there had been only four playoff teams per year (yeah, it was a long time ago), the union and owners didn't get into a labor battle, it was an all-out labor war.
It was a scorched-earth battle that took fans prisoner and killed a World Series. Owners wanted a salary cap like football and to break the union. The union opposed a salary cap and wanted owners to police themselves. The sides fought, and it went so far that the President of the United States and the National Labor Relations Board got involved before the two sides came to an agreement.
Among the casualties — the 1994 World Series. Consider that for a minute. Bud Selig and Donald Fehr did something Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini couldn't — get a World Series canceled.
It took Cal Ripken's streak and the Great Home Run Chase* of 1998 to bring fans back. Some never returned, wanting a pox on both their houses.
The strike was so vicious, when the next CBA came up, Selig and Fehr did about anything they could to avoid labor strife. And they did. Baseball has been blessed with labor peace for 26 years.
That streak ended Thursday after a seven-minute meeting.
All good things must come to an end. Heck, even the Chicago Cubs won the World Series. But labor peace was something to be cherished. Now it's gone.
So, for those who haven't been through this before, here's a little guide to this insanity.
What does a lockout mean?
It's the owners locking the players out of club facilities until a new CBA is signed. Unlike a strike, where workers walk out, a lockout has management keep workers out until a new agreement is signed. There can be no free-agent signings, trades or any player movement. The owners are trying to control the process and force the players into negotiations and an agreement before games start and they lose game revenues.
What are they fighting about?
The simple answer is money. The players want the ability to get more, and the owners don't want that.
OK, really, what's going on here?
Major League Baseball union head Tony Clark, right, and chief negotiator for the players association Bruce Meyer listen to a question during a media availability in Irving, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Owners locked out players at 12:01 a.m. Thursday following the expiration of the sport's five-year collective bargaining agreement. (LM Otero/AP)
Over the last 10 years, how players are evaluated and valued has changed. Teams spend on younger players and, except for megastars, avoid free agents. The change has, in turn, decreased player salaries. According to the Associated Press, salaries have decreased by 6.4% since 2017. The median salary — the point where an equal number of players are above and below — has dropped 30% since 2015.
The players have noticed this and want to see younger players make more money by reducing the number of years until arbitration is available for a player from three to two and changing free-agency eligibility. The players want the luxury tax increased and changes to revenue sharing so the owners aren't pocketing the money. The players also want changes made to the way MLB drafts, both in the first-year player draft and the international draft. The changes would increase salaries for the players.
And the owners' response?
Well, there's a lockout, isn't there? The owners are willing to institute a minimum team salary, which would boost salaries to a degree, but not to the level that players would like to see. The owners are also against any changes to the arbitration system and free agency.
The owners want the luxury tax to remain where it is and strong penalties for violators, so there is competitive balance. Their thinking is that baseball is better when Minnesota and Tampa Bay can keep their players and have the same shot to win a World Series as the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. (And if you believe that really happens, I'm sure you also believe gnomes come out at night and Elvis is working at the 7-Eleven at the Oceanfront.) Finally, the owners don't want changes to revenue sharing because, at this point, they can invest the money in their farm systems, for example ... or pocket it, depending on who you believe.
What about tanking?
Tanking is a big issue. In the early 2010s, the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros gutted their teams to build up their minor league system. It didn't matter that neither fielded a competitive team. The franchises aimed to win big in a few years. Both teams did as the Cubs won the 2016 World Series and the Astros won in 2017. Other teams followed the same concepts to various levels of success. The owners like this because you get the maximum return from controllable players. The MLBPA doesn't like this because it keeps salaries low and decreases the demand for free agents. It also goes against the idea of every team competing for a title. Players on the Cubs and Astros during those tanking years knew management wasn't supporting them.
What about expanded playoffs, the DH, and other issues?
Well, yeah, those are bargaining chips. Let's put it this way: The playoffs will expand at some point; the DH will be adopted by the National League at some point; and teams will have advertising on their uniforms at some point. But these are peripheral issues and won't stop teams from playing baseball.
Speaking of playing baseball ...?
Yeah, who knows? This fight has been a long time coming and both sides are ready for it. Spring training usually starts around Valentine's Day. The two sides have 12 weeks to figure something out if they want spring training to start on time. They have something like 14 to 15 weeks to get something done for the season to start on time.
Will a deal get done?
At some point, yes. When that will be, I don't know. Frankly, if I could see the future, I'd be relaxing in luxury after winning the lottery.
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That's a bit snarky!
Sorry, it gets a little frustrating when you see baseball fans treated like collateral damage because two sides can't figure out how to share a huge sum of money. And, with the clock ticking, they end negotiations after seven minutes.
So who's going to win?
If one regular-season game is missed because of this, the answer is simple — no one.
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Etech to Launch "REMOTE WORKER" Technology at IRCE
New technology will launch at the Internet Retailer Convention and Exhibition on June 14-17 in San Diego.
Nacogdoches, TX –June 7, 2011 – Etech a global business process outsourcer, today officially announced that their technology division, Etech Technology Solutions (ETS), will launch their first remote worker management solution at the upcoming Internet Retailer Convention and Exhibition (IRCE). IRCE is being held in San Diego on June 14 – 17 at the San Diego Convention Center.
IRCE is the world's largest e-retailing show. Every key industry is represented—retail, catalog, manufacturing and consumer service companies that specialize in e-retailing. Virtually all of the Top 500 e-retailers attend as well as hundreds of smaller players that fall outside this prestigious group. Of course, all notable vendors in e-commerce are represented along with scores of finance, research, consulting and publishing enterprises.
Many e-retailing companies are interested in adding the ability for their contact center agents to work from home. This model has several advantages for both the company and the employees. Companies can realize a huge cost savings with this model and can employ people who previously could not commute to a regular work setting such as the disabled. It also provides an environment with little to no distractions, no commute and flexible working hours. However, there are two primary problems that prevent many companies from taking this step –management of the at-home employee and security.
Known as NOMAD, Etech Technology Solutions has developed an application that controls the desktop workstation of the at-home employee. The Nomad application includes a number of key features to make the remote worker model possible for many organizations. It provides a secure, encrypted access portal to the company's systems as well as a number of other security measures to keep customer information safe and secure. It also has features which ensure a positive customer experience no matter where the employee is located including tracking unacceptable content and alerting management if an issue has occurred. It also includes many helpful tools to help the at-home employee do their jobs well including a built-in chat module to allow the remote workers to chat with their supervisors, a learning knowledgebase, and an announcement board.
"We're pleased to add Nomad to our technology solution offerings and to launch it at the upcoming IRCE show in San Diego," said Ronnie Mize, Vice President of Etech Technology Solutions. "ETS was developed to help businesses accelerate service delivery while maintaining cost-effectiveness. Nomad is one great example of an application that will cost-effectively help companies expand to offer remote agent support. It is especially suited to the at-home customer service agent model that many e-retailing companies are looking to implement."
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Etech is a leading provider of intelligent sales and service solutions utilizing inbound and outbound voice and web chat. We understand the importance of customer relationships. That's why all of our solution strategies are driven by the 'voice of the customer'. Our stringent QA process ensures an ever-improving customer experience. We also gather critical business intelligence data from each customer interaction. And we do everything with the highest integrity and quality possible. These differences allow us to provide industry-leading service, stellar CSAT scores, and high performing sales and service solutions that enable our clients to increase revenue and delight their customers. For more information: www.etechtexas.com
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The Ojibwe: an Overview
The Ojibwe people comprise numerous communities ranging mainly from southern and northwestern Ontario, northern Michigan and Wisconsin, and Minnesota, to North Dakota and southern and central Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The most usual explanation of the name, "Ojibwe," relates it to a root meaning "puckered up," a reference to a distinct style of moccasin. Ojibwe speakers commonly refer to themselves as Anishinaabeg, a term meaning humans (as opposed to non-humans) or Indians (as opposed to whites).
The Ojibwa homeland before European contact extended at least along the eastern and northern shores of Lake Huron, up the northeastern shore of Lake Superior, and probably into the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In the 1600s and 1700s, the Ojibwe expanded along fur trade water routes to the north and west. Those with ancient connections to Sault Ste. Marie, named after the French mission founded there in 1668, carried with them the name Saulteaux (people of the rapids), a term still widely used in Manitoba. Numerous other local group names have gone out of use or have lost their reference to a specific place. For example, in the 1600s, the Mississauga (now an alternate term for the Southeastern Ojibwe) were a band residing near the Mississagi River on the north shore of Lake Huron.
Estimates of Ojibwa population at European contact are speculative. Some scholars estimate that there were about 30,000 Ojibwe in the region around the Northern Great Lakes, 2,000 Plains Ojibwe, and 3,000 Ojibwe the southern Great Lakes area. In the early 20th century, the combined Canada-United States population was reported to be 38,000-41,000, and during the late 20th century that number totaled about 80,000. This does not include people who are non-status Indians or persons of mixed descent who may self-identify as Anishinaabeg.
The Ojibwe language is a branch of the greater Algonquian language family. There are several dialects. Southern Ojibwe speakers include the Ottawas and Chippewas of southern Ontario, Manitoulin Island, and the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. To the east, the Nipissing and Algonquin represent another speech community, while western and northern Ojibwe speakers again represent perhaps three dialectal variants. The Northern Ojibwe (neighbors of the Swampy Cree) speak a dialect increasingly known as Ojicree or Oji-Cree; outsiders have often identified these communities as Cree, a label sometimes adopted by the people themselves when speaking English.
The earliest recorded Ojibwe contacts with Europeans began in the 1640s in the Great Lakes region; French Jesuit missionaries first preached at Sault Ste Marie in 1641. Iroquois warfare against the Huron and their Algonquian allies led to the destruction of the Huron confederacy in 1649 and to wide dispersal of affected communities. By the 1690s, however, the Mississauga, Ottawa, and others had defeated the Iroquois in several battles, and Mississauga villages began to occupy old Iroquois sites along the northern shores of Lake Ontario.
Meanwhile, French fur traders began actively to pursue contacts with Algonquian communities around and beyond the upper Great Lakes, to meet European demands for beaver felt for hats. French trade goods, especially kettles, knives, awls, and axes, drew strong Ojibwe interest for their convenience and durability and tended to replace or supplement bark and pottery containers and stone tools; cloth, trade beads, tobacco, and alcohol were also in demand. Dependency on European goods should not be assumed, however; guns of the 1600s, for example, were unwieldy, inefficient, and dangerous to their users. The fur trade fostered specialization; Ojibwe winter hunting and trapping began to focus more on securing the desired furs. The Ojibwe in turn increasingly expected French traders to advance goods and provisions as "debts" to support fur production. Ojibwe women were essential as processors of leather and furs; their workload in this sphere increased as the trade grew, although metal tools eased many of their customary tasks.
By the early 1700s, Ojibwe groups spread into Manitoba, Minnesota, and beyond. Montreal-based Canadian traders were moving westward to compete with the English Hudson's Bay Company which was extending its trade into the interior of the vast Hudson Bay watershed known as Rupert's Land, which it had claimed by royal charter since 1670. Many Ojibwe had long associated with the Canadians and frequently intermarried with them "according to the custom of the country," as these unions were styled. From the Great Lakes to the far northwest, a sizable population of mixed descent had arisen by the early to mid-1800s. Depending on circumstances, these offspring might remain with maternal relatives and identify as Ojibwe (as was common around the Great Lakes); or they might be connected with the growing number who coalesced into the unique community that became known as the Metis, who began in this period to see themselves as ethnically distinct and later as an independent nation in the Red River region. The rise of the Plains Ojibwe dates to this period.
Ojibwe communities diverged in several other directions by 1850. Those who traveled with the fur trade into the subarctic regions above Lake Superior adopted a lifestyle closer to that of their northern neighbors, the Swampy Cree. In the Great Lakes region, the Ojibwe communities were under increased pressure from white settlers. Governmental policy oscillated between the encouraging of Indian reserves and agricultural mission settlements in the south, and the removing of Indians to more northern localities such as Manitoulin Island.
The Ojibwe groups that spread into Wisconsin and Minnesota expanded westward through warfare and conquest during the middle 1700s to early 1800s, and by allying themselves with their Metis relatives they were able to gain a solid foothold on the prairies. By the 1850s, their land base and population had been severely reduced by United States removal policies, by disease, and by the overall pressures of heavy white settlement, especially in more southern areas.
In forested areas, the Ojibwe economy was mixed; combining the seasonal harvest of wild resources (fish, game, birch bark, berries, plant medicines, and other local products) with gardening, wild rice harvesting, and trade making up the majority. The rise of the fur trade brought increased emphasis on beaver, muskrat, and other pelts, and encouraged production of maple sugar and wild rice as provisions valued by traders. Fish, notably whitefish, and more specialized products such as sturgeon isinglass acquired commercial value - bringing some groups into a more entrepreneurial focus. Those Ojibwe who had turned to the plains specialized in bison hunting, although they maintained mixed seasonal use of other resources and did not become as oriented toward horses as did other Plains groups.
Trade with the Europeans was also significant, with access to flour and other goods becoming increasingly important as the fur trade began to take up time from traditional subsistence activities. The fur trade turned many Ojibwe into middlemen, whereby the worked in tandem with the Metis population to gather furs, make pemmican, and serve as direct employees at forts and posts to augment their income.
Ojibwe communities consisted of local autonomous bands of interrelated families, often known by a name reflecting a geographical feature of their territory (such as the Red Lake people, Leech Lake band, and others). Bands often contained several hundred people. In more western communities, many bands, especially on the Plains, comprised an ethnic mix of Ojibwe, Ottawa, Cree, Metis, and Assiniboine influences - leading to the Ojibwe being, perhaps, one of the most widespread cultural groups in North America, extending from the eastern Great Lakes to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Brown, J.S.. (2000). "Culture Summary: Ojibwa." EHRAF. Yale University, New Haven, Conn
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More proof that a chimp of average intelligence could work in television news: A Louisville, Ky., television station reported earlier this week that the state's last World War I survivor had died.
The station added that Rex, who was 107, enlisted in 1919 and served three years.
Can the writer who pulled this report together really be that ignorant of history, or is it just plain laziness?
World War I ended in 1918, and while some US troops did serve overseas in occupation roles for some time afterward, soldiers aren't classified as combat veterans if they didn't see action on or before Nov. 11, 1918.
In addition, there has been considerable national press over the past year or so regarding Frank Buckles, the 108-year-old West Virginian who is regarded by nearly everyone except WLKY and its sources as the last surviving American World War I veteran.
A better term for WLKY to use in referring to Rex would have been as a "World War I-era veteran," but then television news isn't always big on getting its facts straight.
One of the more amazing (and discouraging) aspects of the federal stimulus program is the wide array of projects included on the ever-growing wish list.
The many thousands of projects nationwide include everything from infrastructure enhancement and economic development to broadband access and hazardous waste cleanup.
And while overall the entire plan is nothing more than generational theft masuarading as a government-mandated spending spree, at least one project brings a bit of irony with it.
In Arizona, state transportation officials are getting ready to spend $1.5 million in stimulus money to replace metric signs along Interstate 19 with mileage signs, according to The Arizona Daily Star.
The signs marking kilometers instead of miles were first installed in Arizona the early 1980s when I-19 and a handful of other roads were signed in metric as the country considered a full conversion.
That conversion hasn't happened, the paper helpfully adds.
Hey, it was a waste to put up the metric markers in the first place, and the ongoing stimulus program is a waste, albeit a much, much larger one, so the whole thing makes perfect sense.
Columbia, SC, technology company Collexis Holdings Inc. continues to dilute its stock in an effort to generate enough money to stay afloat.
Collexis announced Wednesday that it had issued 26,142,857 shares of common stock at 7 cents a share in a private offering, representing an investment of a little more than $1.8 million in the company.
Earlier this month, Collexis announced it had issued nearly 13 million shares of stockand raised a little more than $900,000. That offering also priced Collexis's stock at 7 cents a share.
That means the company has issued more than 39 million shares of stock in the past few weeks, substantially diluting the investment of existing shareholders.
Prior to the most recent sale, Collexis had 136.1 million shares of common stock outstanding.
Collexis appears to be in dire straits financially. It lost more than $4 million for the last six months of 2008 and the company's independent accounting firm included an explanatory paragraph in Collexis's annual report last October that expressed substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
S.M. Silva has an interesting post on the Ludwig von Mises Institute's blog about the curiosity that is the National Football League draft.
In the recently concluded draft, the Detroit Lions selected former University of Georgia quarterback Matt Stafford with the first pick. The Lions and Stafford quickly announced an agreement that guarantees him at least $41.7 million in compensation before he plays a single game.
That means Stafford will have more money guaranteed to him then any other current NFL player, and represents a 20 percent premium over compensation guaranteed to Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons, who was the first quarterback taken in last year's draft.
Of quarterbacks selected in the draft's first round, the recent evidence suggests at least a 50 percent failure rate, Silva writes.
Of course, given the pathetic nature of the Lions, who completed the NFL's first 0-16 season last year, Stafford is likely going to be earning a good bit of that $41.7 million the hard way. Still, it's not a bad salary for someone just out of college.
The beauty of tolerance and inclusiveness was in full bloom last week when an Auburn, Ala., councilman decided he didn't like the idea of small Confederate flags being placed on the graves of Civil War veterans and began pulling them up.
Councilman Arthur L. Dowdel, who is black, said he was picking up his daughter from Auburn Junior High School near the cemetery when several people told him they "had a problem" with the flags. He drove to the cemetery and started pulling up flags from private plots, he told The Opelika-Auburn News.
Mary Norman claims Dowdel pulled the flag from her great-grandfather's grave and snapped in half, a charge Dowdel half-refuted.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy placed the flags earlier in the week, as they have done for 50 years, in preparation for Confederate Memorial Day, which was celebrated as a state holiday in Alabama Monday.
As might be expected, Dowdel's action caused a firestorm of reaction.
Sadly, though, many in the area supported his actions. It's sad because no matter what one's views on the Confederacy, there's something deeply disturbing when a segment of any society no longer respects the rights of others to honor the dead in the manner they wish.
First Community Corp. of Lexington, SC, is feeling the effects of the worsening economy, even if it's bottom line has improved recently.
The parent of First Community Bank earned $744,000 during the quarter ended March 31. That's a marked improvement over the $559,000 loss the company posted during the last three months of 2008, but still represents a sharp drop from first quarter 2008, when it earned more than $1.1 million.
First Community saw its non-accrual loans jump to nearly $7 million during the first three months of 2009, compared to $642,000 a year ago, and total non-performing assets were $8.7 million for the three months ended March 31, up from $862,000 in 2008, according to information filed with The Securities and Exchange Commission.
Even analyzing the linked quarters shows sharp increases in non-accrual loans and non-perfoming assets. As of Dec. 31, 2008, First Community had nearly $1.8 million in non-accruals and nearly $2.6 million in total non-performing assets, signficantly less than at the end of the most recent three months..
Also, net charge-offs jumped from $5,000 at the end of the first quarter of 2008 to more than $1 million for the most recent three-month period.
First Community's stock has rebounded some over the past few months. It closed Tuesday at $7.50 a share, up from a low of $5.05 in early February. However, its 52-week high is $15.
Daily circulation at The State newspaper in Columbia has fallen below 100,000, possibly for the first time since the 1960s, according to the most recent information released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
For the six months ended March 31, The State had an average daily circulation of 96,737, down 4 percent from a year ago, The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday.
According to "Palmettos and Oaks: A Centennial History of The State," the paper's circulation first broke 100,000 in 1967 and does not appear to have dipped back below that mark until the most recent six-month period.
The State's Sunday circulation suffered even more, falling 12 percent, to 122,539, the Audit Bureau of Circulations reported.
By comparison, the paper's daily circulation was nearly 140,000 and Sunday circulation topped 160,000 approximately 20 years ago, shortly after it merged with The Columbia Record.
The past year has not been an easy one for The State. In March, it announced its second round of layoffs in less than year, cutting 11 percent of its workforce – 38 positions – and implementing wage reduction of between 2.5 percent and 10 percent for the rest of its employees.
The Charleston Post and Courier saw a 4 percent drop in daily circulation, to 96,005, and a 4 percent drop in Sunday circulation, to 106,192.
The Charlotte Observer lost a staggering 11 percent of its daily circulation, to 187,633.
The Raleigh News & Observer's daily circulation also fell 11 percent, to 156,909.
The Charlotte paper tried to put a good spin on the most recent numbers by pointing out that the combined print/online index – which reflects traffic to the newspaper's Web site – was up 8 percent year to year to 1.07 million.
The index measures the combined audience of the newspaper over a seven-day period and the past 30 days of unique visitors to the paper's website. Charlotte ranked eighth highest in growth in the nation in the combined index, the paper reported.
While newspaper circulation has largely been falling in the Carolinas and across the nation for some time, at least some of the decline can be attributed to papers dropping delivery to outlying areas.
Sacramento-based McClatchy Co., which owns The State, The Charlotte Observer, The Raleigh News & Observer, The Rock Hill Herald, The Myrtle Beach Sun News, The Hilton Head Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette, reported advertising revenues off 31 percent at its Southeast newspapers in the first quarter, The Charlotte Observer reported.


Need to tell what instances of eDirectory are on a given machine?
What Instances are on a Machine?
Each line in the instances file should contain the full path to each eDirectory Instance nds.conf file owned by the User's <UIDNUMBER>.
which will return all the instances for the user that is currently logged in.
Some of the parameters in the Nds.conf file are also stored as attributes within eDirectory. When the eDirectory attribute is modified, then the nds.conf file is updated. When the various services for eDirectory start, they read the parameters in the Nds.conf file to use when starting their respective services and they set the respective attributes in eDirectory.
The nds.conf file contains a list of configuration parameters for configuring Novell eDirectory. This file is read by the eDirectory daemon, NDSD, when it is started. The configuration file is stored in the UTF-8 format.
The "http" prefixed entries are used by the HTTP Server Object.
These are the ndsconfig Parameters we know about.
Each parameter entry would be a single line within the Edirectory Instance Management file, if set.


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Version of Uber finally available in BiH?
One of the applications for transport of passengers, which operates on the principle of popular Uber, is finally available in BiH. This is a mobile application called gogo.ba, and it is aimed at connecting drivers with passengers.
In this kind of companies, unlike standard taxi service, passengers order a vehicle through the mobile application by entering their exact location and destination. This type of transport has numerous advantages in comparison to standard taxi service.
You can see where is your vehicle and when it will pick you up.
Moreover, you can also see which vehicle and driver will come to pick you up. Payments are conducted through the app as well, so it is not possible that you pay more than you should.
The company that started the application gogo.ba was registered in the United States. They purchased the domain at the end of September and made an internet site in BiH, and they already started with google advertising. They are currently inviting drivers to contact them and citizens to download their app.
To recall, Uber is the largest US and worldwide company that is operating in this way, but there is a large number of other applications that are functioning on this model of operation as well.


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Morbidity pattern among prisoners of central jail, Hindalga, Belgaum, Karnataka
Asha A Bellad, Vijaya A Naik, MD Mallapur
Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Nehru Nagar, Belgaum, Karnataka, India
Date of Submission 31-Mar-2006
Date of Acceptance 19-Jan-2007
Asha A Bellad
Department of Community Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Nehru Nagar, Belgaum, Karnataka
Bellad AA, Naik VA, Mallapur M D. Morbidity pattern among prisoners of central jail, Hindalga, Belgaum, Karnataka. Indian J Community Med 2007;32:307
Bellad AA, Naik VA, Mallapur M D. Morbidity pattern among prisoners of central jail, Hindalga, Belgaum, Karnataka. Indian J Community Med [serial online] 2007 [cited 2021 Jan 17];32:307. Available from: https://www.ijcm.org.in/text.asp?2007/32/4/307/37707
Prison population consists of an over representation of members of the most marginalized groups in society, people with poor health and chronic untreated conditions. This population is an underserved section of the society. Often their health problems are neglected. There are problems of tuberculosis, skin infection, HIV/AIDS and anxiety etc. A study carried out among inmates of Yerwada Jail revealed that skin disorders were the commonest ailments followed by dental, ENT disorders, respiratory tract infection and eye conditions. [1] Another study done among inmates of the Bangalore Central Prison revealed that 1.98% had HIV infection. [2]
Reforming the delivery of prison health care is one of the most important aspects of improving human rights compliance. Therefore knowing the types of morbidities among them will help us in taking actions which will reduce the disease burden in this group and will also help in re-integration of prisoners into mainstream society following their discharge from prison. [3] The objective of this article is to study the different types of morbidities, their incidence and prevalence among prisoners.
The Hindalga Jail spreads over an area of 99 acres. It has a capacity to accommodate 1,162 prisoners. During the study period there were 850 prisoners lodge in the jail. The jail has two buildings known as circles. The first circle has 7 barracks wherein the convicted life term and other short term prisoners are made to work and stay. The second circle has 4 blocks where under trial prisoners are lodged. The short term prisoners stay in the jail from few months to few years.
In the present study any disease lasting for the period of 0-4 weeks was considered as acute morbidity. Any disease exceeding this period was considered as chronic morbidity (However, the definition of acute and chronic morbidity vary according to the type of disease and the system affected).
A large number of the prisoners were male (92%) and 56.87% of the prisoners were in the age group of 30-49 years. Almost 61.00% of the prisoners were literates. However only 37.50% of females were literates. Majority of the prisoners belonged to Social Class-IV (43.10%), with only 10.20% of prisoners belonging to Class-II according to modified Prasad's classification. [4]
Almost 2/3 rd of the study populations were unskilled workers, working as farmers, labourers and coolie. Amongst females, 50% of them were house wives. Almost 90% of the prisoners had committed murder, remaining crime being theft, attempt to murder, rape and cheating.
Follow-up of these prisoners for a period of 1 year revealed that anaemia (54.82%) was the commonest morbidity among chronic morbidity followed by AURTI (21.75%) and diarrhoea (13%) for acute morbidity. Pulmonary TB and HIV contributed 2% and 1.5% respectively. Other Morbidity were Diabetes (3.6%), senile cataract (7%), Pyoderma (12%) etc.
The incidence of AURTI / Prisoner/Yr was 1.53, diarrhoea was 0.93, ALRTI was 0.63 and gastritis was 0.35. Episodes of both AURTI and ALRTI were common in the rainy season. ( P < 0.001 and P < 0.001 respectively).
The physical conditions and infrastructure in the prison were poor. The prisoners did not have access to safe water leading to diarrhoea (13%). More than half of the prisoners were anaemic which was due to lack of nutritious diet. [1]
We are thankful to the prison authorities of the Hindalga jail for their kind co-operation throughout the study and also to the prisoners for their active participation in the study
1. Gupta RK, Singh GPI, Gupta RR. Health status of inmates of a prison. Indian J Commun Med 2001;26:86-9.
2. Sundar M, Ravikumar KK, Sudarshan MK. A cross sectional seroprevalence survey for HIV 1 and high risk sexual behavior of seropositives in a prison in India. Public Health 1995;39:116-8.
3. Kuruvila M, Ismail SM, Pramod K. Pattern of dermatoses among inmates of district prison-mangalore. Indian J Dermatol 2002;68:16-8.
4. Park K. Textbook of preventive and social medicine. 17 th ed. M/s. Banarasidas Bhanot Publishers: Jabalpur; 2002.
1 Tuberculosis among prisoners & health care workers
Salil Bhargava,Satyendra Mishra
Indian Journal of Tuberculosis. 2020; 67(4): S91
2 Burden of pulmonary tuberculosis in modern prison: A cross sectional prevalence survey from south India
Chandra Kumar Dolla,Baskaran Dhanraj,Muniyandi Malaisamy,C. Padma Priyadarshini,S. Syeed Hissar,Mohan Natrajan,Rajendran Krishnan,Srikanth Prasad Tripathy
Indian Journal of Tuberculosis. 2019; 66(1): 189
3 Status of Tuberculosis services in Indian Prisons
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BBNaija: Nengi reveals why she decided not to be part of the BBNaija WhatsApp group
Olamilekancr December 07, 2020 BBNaija, Entertainment News, Nengi
Reality TV star, Nengi has revealed why she decided to not be part of the Whatsapp group created for the former housemates.
In a chat with her fans during her trip to Abuja, the reality TV star said the reason she declined to be part of the group was that she doesn't want any problems.
"About the house, I am friends with who I am friends with. I don't like to force friendships. I think I am the only one that is not on the group chat," she said.
"They approached me and I told them no I don't want to be there. I don't see the need to be pretending or be in a space with people who... I don't like wahala."
Nengi was one of the housemates from the fifth season of Big Brother Naija.
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