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In 2010, I kept a log of the books I read, and ended with a "Books of the Year" post. This was remarkable fun, so I did it again this year, and once again I have some recommendations and some anti-recommendations.
First, the obligatory lump of statistics: Only 61 books read this year, down from 101, but many more partially read but abandoned. Of the ones fully read, 18 were science fiction, 15 fantasy, 6 lit fic, one thriller, 14 non-fiction, 5 YA, 6 middle-grade. (The ones not fully read were, alas, mostly low-grade) Three were re-reads, and (a different) three were anthologies of short fiction. Out of this, I found 18 that I can recommend, about the same fraction as last year, and one (of the ones I finished) that deserves an anti-recommendation. Fortunately this one is merely unexpectedly bad, rather than something which ought to be set on fire at the soonest opportunity.
The recommended list is much more non-fiction–heavy this year, including two extraordinary books about the United States which I think every American should read as soon as they can get their hands on them.
For the "writers to read everything by them the moment it is available" list, I've got one addition, or rather the removal of a caveat – I think that I can safely recommend the entire corpus of Guy Gavriel Kay's work without hesitation, at this point.
So now, to the details!
Lots of good fiction this year. I'll start off with science fiction, and Kim Stanley Robinson's new book Galileo's Dream. This is the story of how Galileo was secretly and repeatedly kidnapped by time travelers; but far from a romp, it's a beautiful, complex, and serious book, mostly a (very historically based) life of Galileo, deeply meditating on faith and reason, science and religion, and the balance between the emotional and intellectual life. One quote from it which particularly struck me, and which I think illustrates the style and tone:
"We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else ever knows these lives."
Highly recommended. Equally good was Félix J. Palma's The Map of Time, the first of his novels to be translated into English. This book attempts to explore, as far as I can tell, every single major approach in literature to time travel, as well as the meaning of story and writer, and does so with such wit and passion that you can't stop reading it. H. G. Wells is one of the main protagonists; elaborate Victorian frauds are a major plot element. If this doesn't grab your attention, I don't know what will.
Another extraordinary book I read this year was an older one, Guy Gavriel Kay's The Sarantine Mosaic. (Warning to readers: This was published in two volumes, "Sailing to Sarantium" and "Lord of Emperors." The covers will not warn you that these are a single book, not a book and a sequel; there is no ending point between the two. Publishers do this sometimes and it annoys the piss out of me.) Following his tradition of writing quasi-historical fantasy (he has an interesting essay on why he writes this, rather than straight histories) this book covers the later years of the reign of Justinian and Theodora in Byzantium, told through the eyes of a Roman mosaicist commissioned to cover the ceiling of the great cathedral, rebuilt after the Nike Riots nearly destroyed the city. I don't know if I can do justice to this book in a paragraph; he manages to make a chariot race seem like the most exciting thing in all creation, he brings the glory of this world and of its infamous politics so much to life that you are seeing gold before your eyes for a week afterwards, and you will feel that you know the protagonist like a brother by the time the story is out.
A different take on the ancient world comes from Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey. This is postmodernism at its best: each chapter retells some part of the Odyssey, but changed in some way: perhaps from a monster's perspective, perhaps with the story mutated. You walk through a garden of delights, realizing only partway through that it is actually a maze, and that you will never be able to know exactly which story is true. (Fair warning: This book is a lot better if you know the Odyssey well. [If you don't, my favorite translation is Fitzgerald's] This is also definitely a lit-fic experience, so if that isn't your thing, this book might not be, either.)
And now for something completely different: Habibi, by Craig Thompson, is perhaps the most important new graphic novel of the year. It tells the story of two child slaves somewhere in the Middle East (perhaps North Africa?), bound to each other by what little love they have known as circumstance tears their life apart. This book succeeds on many levels: as a novel, it tells a compelling story; as a graphic novel, Thompson's use of visual metaphor and structure is really stunning. Islam plays a very deep role in the story, and the ways in which stories and prayers from the Qu'ran mix in with the text (and with the art! Always, with the art!) are subtle and will leave you pondering connections for hours. This book made me wish I read Arabic, so that I could understand all of the subtleties. (And incidentally, Thompson is neither Arab nor Muslim; his previous major work, Blankets, was rooted in his own fundamentalist Christian upbringing. Now I'm waiting for him to write a book about Judaism in the same way; if it's half as good as these, it would be splendid)
And following up on the religious theme, I picked up and re-read one of Heinlein's later works, Job: A Comedy of Justice. This book was surprisingly good, and survived a re-read many years later far better than I would ever have guessed. It's a parable about a rigidly fundamentalist preacher from a rigidly fundamentalist world, who finds himself unexpectedly transported into a completely different world – and then another, and another – until he suspects himself to be a modern-day Job. The book is a sharply pointed satire of hypocrisy of many sorts, and I actually suspect it to be one of his best-written works. (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is better, but a very different kettle of fish) In retrospect I'm surprised that this book isn't better-known, and that it isn't considered one of the most controversial things about his career; his satire is not gentle at all, and by the end of it Satan himself is one of the protagonists. If you are up for such a thing, it's quite a good use of your time.
More science fiction: Robert Charles Wilson has a new book out, The Chronoliths, which is simply first-rate science fiction, on a par with his earlier Spin. One day in Thailand, an enormous monolith celebrating a military victory sixteen years in the future suddenly appears; soon more start to come. The question is how the world is to cope with the knowledge of an incomprehensible war in its near future.
Genevieve Valentine's debut novel Méchanique is a strong step onto the literary stage; it follows a travelling circus in a post-apocalyptic world, whose ringmaster has modified most of her members mechanically. The strains between the troupe are balanced by the conflict with the "government man," who wants this technology for military purposes. Science fiction with a steampunky feel.
I finally got a chance to read Charles Stross' Saturn's Children, and I think that it's a very worthwhile piece of serious SF. (Especially alongside Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects, one of my recommendations from last year; it's almost impossible not to read these books as being in dialogue with one another) Plot synopsis: Humans have gone extinct, but the robots they created have colonized the Solar System. Some robots, though, are now permanently out of place; e.g. our protagonist, created to be a sexbot, and now trapped in political intrigue. What could be a light romp instead takes on subtle meaning, because the book takes a classically Asimovian premise (the humanoid robots have succeeded us and improved on our works), and adds the same insight Chiang discusses, that the only way to make a robot which thinks like a human is to raise it like one; but then it mixes in the harsh reminder that "robot" comes from the word for "slave," and if we are creating robots to be our tools, and these robots have sentience, then we are raising and training slaves, with all the moral consequences which that entails. (Like many of Stross' novels, the worldbuilding and the ideas are superb, the plot is well-fashioned, but the character development is somewhat weaker; YMMV)
Another book by Charles Stross, or rather a series, are his Laundry novels: The Atrocity Archives, The Fuller Memorandum, and The Jennifer Morgue. These are not serious fiction at all. They are the stories of the civil service agency which is in charge of dealing with Lovecraftian horrors, and it is often hard to tell which is more alarming: the mind-shattering things with tentacles, or the office politics. (These often interact) I read these while sick and have to say that they make excellent mindless reading. (You'll want at least a passing familiarity with Lovecraft if you read these)
And these make an excellent intro to the light reading section of our recommendations.
Michael Swanwick finally published a Darger & Surplus novel, Dancing with Bears; for those unfamiliar with the characters, they are a pair of con men (well, strictly speaking Surplus is a bioengineered, uplifted con-dog) travelling a world which has long since rebuilt itself after the apocalypse. Their short stories are great fun, and apparently they handle the transition to novel-length with ease.
Lavie Tidhar has a very enjoyable book out this year called Camera Obscura. Sure, it's got the lizard royalty of England battling against the secret council of men and automata which rule France over control over an alien artifact with the power to animate the dead and open gateways between worlds, but at its heart, this is really a Wu Xia novel, and it's kung fu (and the occasional Gatling gun) which saves the day. This makes for something surprisingly awesome.
And finally, one thing which is not like the others: I read L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables this year. While the target audience for this book may have been ten-year-old girls, something which I have never been, I can't help but thinking that this is one of the most extraordinary books ever written for children. It radiates an outlook on life which is fundamentally so hopeful, and so passionate, that you can't help feeling better about the world after reading it. So if you've never read this book, go do it.
The first two books I would like to recommend are about the US, and will really be of interest only to those who live in the US or who are passionately interested in it. But I'm going to give them an unusually strong recommendation: If you do live in the US, these are books that you should read. Neither of them is something you would obviously pick up in a bookstore.
The first is American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell. This book is a deep analysis of how religion shapes, and is shaped by, our society. It is based on a number of large-scale studies (the General Social Survey, the Pew Religious Landscape Survey, Gallup data, and several other sources) and was written by people who understand statistics deeply and who know how to draw every last valid inference out of data; but this is not a book of statistics and has no math outside the footnotes. What it does have is a wealth of surprising insights into how our country works. Some examples:
Starting in the late 1970's, American politics, and particularly partisan affiliation, started to become tied to religion. The leading driver of this was a reaction to the sexual revolution, and the key determinant of people's politics was their attitude towards sex. More recently, politics has begun to determine religion; people started to choose their churches based on their political views, rather than the other way round. This in turn led to a significant rise in the religiously unaffiliated; people who generally have faith, most of whom believe in the existence of God, but who do not associate themselves with any particular religion. (And yes, they provide convincing evidence for the causal arrows)
People in the US orient themselves by their friends first, by their politics second, and by their religion third; that is, they choose their politics based on what their friends think, and their religion based on the church which matches their politics.
Some social changes have deeply pervaded society: for example, the graphs of attitudes about women's rights over time look shockingly similar (apart from starting from different points) across all religions and levels of religiosity, and notions of gender equality are actually widely accepted by all but the most religious few percent. Other changes fractionated sharply along denominational lines, e.g. attitudes about abortion. Interestingly, attitudes about the rights of gays and lesbians are following the first curve: acceptance is spreading uniformly across denominations.
These are just a few snippets. This book has almost 700 pages of this sort of stuff.
The other book you wouldn't expect to read is John R. Vile's Essential Supreme Court Decisions. (Now in its 15th edition) Unless you're as much of a geek as I am, this book won't seem so appealing at first: it simply goes through the most important decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court (several hundred of them), divided up by subject matter and then by chronology, giving for each a summary of the question at hand, the decision and reasoning of the court, and any noteworthy dissents.
What's really extraordinary about this book is the way that the subject-matter grouping shows you how the country has evolved and what the real distinctions it sees are. For example: You read through the famous school segregation cases; then you read through the gender segregation cases; and then you encounter very similar cases about social class, and the court treats it very differently. Suddenly you see how Americans view this as so different from all other distinctions, and a lot of our current politics makes a new kind of sense.
(There's a third essential book for Americans to read, which I didn't read this year and so is technically not part of this list – but it's Amar's America's Constitution: A Biography, which studies how each part of the Constitution evolved over time. I have never learned so much about the underlying nature of our country as while reading this book; two particular gems were the evolution of the understanding of the second amendment during the Civil War, and finally understanding why the 3/5 compromise and the Electoral College were really insidious.*)
So long as we're on the subject of politics, another fascinating book I read this year was Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. Fukuyama studies a range of civilizations and studies how political orders emerged. I don't agree with everything he says,** but he has a number of interesting arguments. A key one is on how the rule of law emerges: "True freedom tends to emerge in the interstices of a balance of power among a society's elite actors." It's worth reading and pondering if questions like these at all interest you.
But maybe they don't. Maybe you want to read something short and to the point; if so, I suggest John McWhorter's Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English. It tackles things which I didn't realize were considered controversial, like the influence of Celtic languages and the Viking invasions on English; and it is one of those rare books whose brevity feels more like a lack than a mercy. It's fun, it's not technical, and can be a very nice introduction to modern comparative linguistics.
And perhaps you want something lighter still. Well, this year Larry Gonick finally published the last volume of his history of everything, The Cartoon History of the Modern World, volume 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad. I've been reading these books for more than half of my life at this point, and it's sad to think of them finally being over (as his history finally reached the modern day); they're charming, and fun, and generally fairly good history. (NB that the first part of the series is titled The Cartoon History of the Universe, v. 1-3)
* The 3/5 rule wasn't evil because it counted blacks as 3/5 of a person instead of one; it was evil because it counted them as 3/5 of a person instead of zero. Article 1 section 2 doesn't give slaves 3/5 of a vote; it gives them zero votes, and gives slaveowners an additional 3/5 of a vote for each slave they own. (Technically this was just at the representation level, but many slaveholding states actually propagated this down to individual votes) This was meant to give the South a guaranteed permanent majority in Congress; the Electoral College was meant to transfer this compromise to also give them control of the Presidency. Not, as is commonly supposed, to protect the power of small states – that was expected to be an issue, but as Monroe's letters show, it pretty quickly became clear that this wasn't turning out to be important, and the far bigger threat was that the South wouldn't sign on to the new Constitution. By his estimate, if the South didn't sign on, and two separate countries with a large land border were to form, war would be inevitable and the entire American experiment would go down in flames. He may have been right, but this set the stage for a century of spiraling tension as the South saw that it was gradually losing its guaranteed majority to population shifts. It is not a coincidence that the Civil War broke out just as the South finally lost this majority, and a clearly Northern president was elected.
** For example, I think he grossly overstates the significance of Brahminism as an independent cause of India's development of the rule of law; from his own evidence, I think that the early emergence of the jatis as independent sources of power, balanced against one another, was far more important. But my concerns are at this sort of level of detail, not at the larger scale.
Rotten Tomatos
No year would be complete without at least one utter stinker. This year, the "award" goes to Arthur C. Clarke and Frederick Pohl's The Last Theorem. This is a bit surprising, since Clarke and Pohl are both extremely respected writers and experienced collaborators, but this book is an unmitigated disaster. It has a generally straightforward and predictable plot, and the characters are shallow, but the real problem is how characters don't make sense from page to page. The worst example: At one point, the (male) protagonist meets, falls in love with, and marries a woman. She is promptly happily (and without any conflict) ensconced as a full-time housewife and mother, and is asking her oh-so-brilliant husband to explain to her some basic concepts of computer science, so that we have an excuse for a multi-page expositional dump.* The problem? Two pages before, she was a postdoc in CS at Caltech, and one of the most promising researchers in the field. Did she simply forget her entire life's work the day she got married? Apparently so. The whole book is like this.
So if you were waiting anxiously to read Clarke's final work… save yourself the pain. Go re-read Childhood's End instead.
* Note: You do not want a multi-page expositional dump. No, really, you don't.
on December 15, 2011 at 12:09 Comments (4)
Tags: reading material
This year I followed Amy's lead from last year and kept a log of the books I read. Apart from being a fun exercise, and making it easier to remember what I read and when, it gives me a natural opportunity to write a "best of the year" post.
So first, some statistics: this year's haul included a total of 101 books fully read, plus about 20 more partially read but abandoned. (Not all because they were bad; some because I wasn't in the mood, or whatever. And the worst of the lot were actually finished.) Of the fully read, there were 38 SF, 26 fantasy, 18 lit fic, 13 nonfiction; only 15 of them were re-reads. 6 were YA, 5 middle-grade. I would say that 30 of them were good enough to recommend, with the ones below especially noteworthy. There were plenty of mediocre ones, but only one terrible enough to make me want to claw my eyes out of my head. And I added two writers, Kazuo Ishiguro and Theodora Goss, to my list of "writers whose work I will read the moment it comes out," an unusually good crop for the year.
And so: Twenty books worth reading and one worth setting on fire. (more…)
on January 3, 2011 at 09:00 Comments (4)
Tags: history, reading material, religion, science
Monte Carlo methods in History
I just finished re-reading Jared Diamond's magnum opus, Guns, Germs and Steel. It's amazing how well the text holds up on re-evaluation; the analysis is deep, and the number of cases he covers is wide enough to convince me that there is a real meat to his argument. It did, however, get me thinking about some interesting ways to extend his work. He proposes several in the epilogue, including all of the obvious further data searches and analyses which would need to be run to confirm or refute the hypothesis, and these are surely in the hands of people far more qualified to think about them than I am. But he raised one point obliquely which got me thinking about the one thing I have most trouble with in the argument, and it gave me a thought for how to answer the question.
on October 28, 2010 at 18:09 Comments (10)
Tags: computer science, history, reading material, science
New reading material
Amy has a new blog, The Practical Free Spirit. It's all about doing big, crazy things (having a career in the arts, trying to change the world, etc) from a very practical perspective, and I recommend it. Today's post, for example, is on dealing with disappointment.
on July 8, 2010 at 12:37 Comments Off on New reading material
Read this book!
Back from Montreal. No energy to try and write a con report right now… but it was a hell of a Worldcon. Paul Krugman's two talks were definitely high points, as were several panels, and a great deal of meeting some very interesting people.
But something better than a con report is a book report! Paolo Bacigalupi has a novel out (released just this Friday, Amazon doesn't seem to realize it yet) called The Windup Girl. This is the best new SF (not fantasy, not spec fic) novel I've come across in the past few years. It takes place in an intricately thought-out near-future Bangkok, where the consequences of genetic engineering of crops, climate change, and political shift have all taken their toll. It follows four different protagonists: an American expat working for an agribusiness conglomerate, trying to get access to Thai seed stocks; a Chinese refugee of a Malaysian genocide, working for this American while trying to build a life for himself; a captain of the Thai environmental ministry, which is locked in a complicated war with other factions of the government; and the title character, a genetically engineered "new woman" created to be a personal secretary, now abandoned in Bangkok and living in a brothel.
This book works out the consequences of the SFnal ideas in it as thoroughly as Charles Stross works his out; but what will grab you about this book are the rich characters, their deep and conflicting motivations, the depth of realization of the world. It has one very interesting structural feature: although there are four protagonists, and the chapters cycle points of view, this book doesn't do the usual (and IMHO, slightly annoying) multi-PoV thing of having four separate stories that one is bounced between. Instead, each chapter leads seamlessly into the next; the camera simply moves to follow one character, and then the next, as they all move through the same (very gripping) plot.
If you're at all in to serious SF, this is a book worth picking up. It manages to combine the conceptual rigor of the best hard SF with the characterization and writing of… well, of a really damned good book. Go read it.
P.S.: The publisher, Nightshade Books, is putting out a lot of other interesting stuff lately. For example, if you are interested in vampires, or post-apocalypses either with or without zombies, they can set you up.
on August 11, 2009 at 15:01 Comments (1)
From work: We've got lots of new people in our group. As a getting-to-know-you event, next Wednesday our boss is taking us shooting, then drinking.
I love my boss.
(A very deep part of me thinks that ought to be spelled shootin' and drinkin')
Reading Material: Collapse by Jared Diamond – highly recommended. It's a volume of case studies on societies which have failed, societies which almost failed but got themselves out of hot water quickly, and societies which are still in transit. Very insightful as to the different ways people can blow themselves to hell, and good at extracting some general principles from it. It's given me a very different perspective on various issues, especially on the right way to manage resource use.
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami – I'd never read any of his short stories before. Quite surreal at times; very good. The subjects range from the quotidian (a man seeing his sister move towards marriage, the author recounting his job mowing lawns in high school), told with Murakami's slightly wistful tone, to the somewhat surreal. (A story – not the title story! – about a man who works in an elephant factory)
Desolation Island by Patrick O'Brian – very naval. Just started it. Notable for being able to use the following lines in an actually meaningful context:
"But if you had heard him speak of wombats – oh, just in passing, and not with any sense of ill-usage – it would have brought tears to your eyes. Oh, Jack, he is so very low."
on July 21, 2005 at 14:46 Comments (4)
Tags: musings, reading material, work
Odd reading
The Heimskringla is a remarkably good read. It's a history of the kings of various bits of Scandinavia, from Oðin's time up to the author's present day, in the late 11th century. But despite being a medieval text, it's just plain fun to read, and Snorri Sturluson (the author, one of the great scholars and politicians of his day, and possessor of a great-sounding name) does his best to give a real scholarly analysis, especially of the parts of the history that are furthest in the past and so hardest to verify. It's got a very modern feel to it.
Besides, any history book with chapter titles like "King Fjolnir Drowns in a Mead Vat" can't be that bad.
on March 30, 2005 at 23:23 Comments (12)
Tags: musings, reading material
Busy couple of weeks…
…actually, busy couple of months. I just finished reading "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," by Richard Rhodes, and I can't recommend it highly enough; it's an amazingly engaging bit of history, well-researched and exceptionally written. And, of course, rather creepy to read.
It's also got me thinking about an idea for a sophomore or junior-level physics course in nuclear physics, that would try to combine serious theory, engineering, experiment, and history; essentially following the early development of the subject, actually doing all of the major experiments (it's one of the few fields of physics where that's possible in a classroom setting), and getting the students up to the point where they understand both the technical and ethical issues associated with their field. I suspect it could be a great way to both really draw in the very serious students and to give them a much-needed parallelism of experiment and theory in a class.
(I remember that I didn't get my first really interesting experimental physics class until my senior year. That was the year I got thrown in a lab with a bunch of spare parts and told to measure things. I remember building a gamma spectrometer and spending hour after hour looking for interesting things I could examine with it… and had I had a class like that a few years earlier, my life might have turned out very differently. Oh well… thus the urge to teach it to others.)
Also: It looks confirmed, my cousin Sharon is getting married in early June, so I'm going back to Israel for a few weeks. (Finally!) And my grandmother promised to teach me the basics of wood sculpture while I'm there. (And if it weren't for the wedding being in June, I would probably go much sooner… dammit, I need a trip. Right now a few weeks in Israel and a few days on the side in Paris sounds really, really appealing)
Tags: personal, reading material, science, teaching
Just finished Keegan's Intelligence in War. Despite the issue in my prior post, I think this is a remarkably well-written and well-thought-out book. I recommend it to anyone interested in the role that intelligence has played in military operations in the past few centuries. (It covers from Napoleon to the second Gulf War)
But incidentally to the main thread of its discussion, reading this book drove home the extent to which our present situation (with regards to hazy terror groups, not Iraq) is different from what our military has been designed to handle. Even Keegan states that "no smaller power has ever won a protracted war with a larger one" – by which I assume he was thinking only of traditional, symmetric wars.
It makes me very curious about the entire subject of the structure of informal networks such as al Qaeda, and how they may be most effectively monitored and interdicted. I've got some preliminary thoughts, but there's a very basic missing piece in my trying to think about this.
An organization like al Qaeda can be thought of as a large network of people. What, precisely, is it that propagates along this network? Do specific commands propagate? Does information propagate upwards as well as downwards? What about materiel, raw resources like money, training data? How are expert proficiencies handled – are people already in situ trained at something, or are specialists moved into position by central planning?
I think a lot of these questions are answerable without access to classified information, and a bit of thinking about these issues could lead to some very interesting structural models that could provide useful information about how to destroy these groups irretrievably.
on January 31, 2004 at 20:23 Comments (9)
Tags: history, reading material
I just read the most amazing/disturbing review of the latest Harry Potter. It's worth reading, with or without the book, just because it's so remarkably over-the-top with its references and giant enumerations. Either the writer (John Leonard) is an enormous fan of Umberto Eco, or he was very, very stoned when he wrote this, or both.


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Why Renewing Sanctions on Iran Will Cause Oil Price Chaos
by Dr. Kent Moors | published May 1st, 2018
An agreement is an agreement, or so it's said.
Tensions are skyrocketing after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's claim that Iran has violated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement.
This is the deal that was meant to shut down Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Whether Netanyahu is correct or not, it puts the ball in President Trump's court. Remember, he has questioned the JCPOA since before his election.
But while the talking heads on TV will tell you that cancelling the JCPOA and renewing sanctions on Iran will drive oil prices up…
The truth is much messier. Here's what'll really happen…
Iran's Restrictions are Extensive – and Controversial
As we await a Trump decision on whether to continue the Iranian nuclear accord, the uncertainty is beginning to have an impact on oil's pricing volatility.
The accord signed during the Obama administration is officially called the JCPOA. It was agreed upon in Vienna on July 14, 2015 after some 20 months of negotiations.
Signatories include the five permanent (and veto carrying) members of the UN Security Council (U.S., UK, France, China, Russia), Germany and the European Union (P5+1+EU) on the one hand, and Iran on the other.
[Update]: China Is About To Get A Devastating Reality Check…
Under JCPOA, Tehran agreed to eliminate its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium, reduce its store of low enriched uranium by 95%, and decrease the number of gas centrifuges for 13 years by some 67%.
Additionally, for a period of 15 years, JCPOPA states that Iran would do the following:
Not enrich uranium beyond 3.67%, enough for energy use but well below weapons grade;
agree to forego the building of any new heavy-water plants, essential to control nuclear reactions, over the same period, and
limit enrichment to a single location employing first generation centrifuges for a period of 10 years.
In return, the P5+1+EU agreed to begin phasing out – subject to a sequence of verifications – economic and trading sanctions imposed by the U.N., the U.S., and the E.U.
However, during the 2016 presidential campaign Trump heavily criticized JCPOA and pledged to scrap the accord…
America Wants More from the Agreement
In President Trump's view, matters not part of the agreement – such as Iranian support for global terrorism, continued development of ballistic missile programs, and support for enemies of Israel and Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf region – need to be added to the arrangement.
As a result, the White House announced in October of last year that it would not provide the periodic JCPOA certification as required under U.S. law.
However, the administration did not end the agreement.
This week, Israel released documents claiming that Iran has continued its nuclear program in violation of JCPOA. The presentation was less than compelling, including little tangible information about the post-accord environment.
Both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and independent watchdog organizations have said that there is no evidence to support the contention that Iran is evading JCPOA. The IAEA has the responsibility under JCPOA to monitor Tehran's compliance.
Now, my Iranian contacts were quick to note the obvious: Each of the new demands made by Washington are not part of what is covered by JCPOA.
"One does not revise an international arrangement after the fact to pander to one's own internal politics," a source in the Iranian National Oil Company said over the weekend.
There is also strong support from other permanent UN Security Council members, Germany, and the EU to continue the agreement.
Yet all other parties are very aware that JCPOA will not survive if the U.S. pulls out.
And neither will the current oil environment…
Shocking Proposal could ignite 58,950% revenue surge!
The Future without the JCPOA Is Bleak
The global pricing of crude oil is now feeling the impact of the politics swirling about Washington.
I expect that the current intent inside The Beltway is to develop evidence to support the Israeli claims. But there seems to be little leverage to accomplish such an objective, even if the administration can figure out what it wants to add.
This is an exceptionally dangerous play with no clearly identifiable upside beyond delivering on a campaign pledge and a few tweets.
Trump may have made a threat to scrap JCPOA a central theme for his political support base and has said that a better replacement is needed, but that development has a very low probability.
Throwing out JCPOA will certainly put Iran back into full weapons development with a corresponding rise in geopolitical uncertainty.
And there will be a direct impact on oil prices.
Renewal of U.S. sanctions will increase the cost of Iran's crude exports, cut Tehran off from easy access to global banking and capital, and in all likelihood reduce the country's predictable export volume.
These are factors that would contribute to an upward pressure on international global oil prices.
But there are other things to consider – factors that could be even stronger and ultimately drive prices in the other direction.
For one thing, Iran would certainly stop any pretense of abiding by the OPEC-Russia production cuts. That, in turn, would prompt defections by others.
Moreover, the enticement for a spike in production will be almost irresistible for U.S. companies – which are both the quickest sources of additional oil coming into the market, and the main source not subject to production caps.
But the main destabilizing factor emerges from the acceleration in volatility itself.
Any perception of additional security challenges in the Persian Gulf – and make no mistake, the end of JCPOA will heighten tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia – will contribute to a near-term rise in global prices.
The resulting uncertainty will quickly give way to a widening application of competing short and long plays, which, in a whipsaw effect, will result in higher highs and lower lows in the oil price band and make genuine pricing determinations more difficult.
Ask any trader.
Predictability is more important than anything else. Ending JCPOA thrusts the Iranian factor into the center of the equation.
And that will not be a preferable development.
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UK Election Result 2017: Hung Parliament As Theresa May's Election Gamble Backfires
The outcome - an astonishing turn following a campaign that began with predictions that May would win in a historic landslide - immediately raised questions even among her fellow Tories about whether she could maintain her hold on 10 Downing Street.
World | © 2017 The Washington Post | Karla Adam, William Booth, Griff Witte, The Washington Post | Updated: June 09, 2017 12:03 IST
Theresa May's Convervatives party fails to gain majority in parliament
PM May under pressure after Jeremy Corbyn asks her to resign after loss
Results mark 2nd time that British body politic defied predictions
British Prime Minister Theresa May's bet that she could strengthen her grip on power by calling an early election backfired spectacularly on Friday, with her Conservative Party on the verge of losing its parliamentary majority and May facing calls to resign.
It also threw into disarray the country's plans for leaving the European Union, threatening to render Britain rudderless just days before talks were to begin with European leaders over the terms of the nation's exit.
As of 5 a.m., a projection based on a combination of exit polls and official results put the Conservatives at 318 seats - eight short of what they would need for a working majority in the 650-member Parliament and well down from the 331 they won just two years ago.
The Labour Party was forecast to win 262 seats - an unexpected gain of dozens of seats under far-left leader Jeremy Corbyn. The outcome gave him at least a chance, albeit a remote one, of becoming prime minister - something virtually no one had thought possible before Thursday's vote.
The results mark the second time in as many years that the British body politic has defied predictions, scrambled the country's direction and bucked the will of a prime minister who had gambled by calling a vote when none had been required.
But unlike last year's E.U. referendum - which delivered a clear if close verdict to get out of the bloc - the will of the voters who cast ballots on Thursday was not nearly as easy to decipher.
There was little doubt that the Conservatives would emerge, again, as the largest party. But as Labour unexpectedly picked off seats - especially in areas of London that had voted last year to remain in the EU - May's once-undisputed political authority was being called into question.
A triumphant Corbyn, crowing that the country had "had enough of austerity politics," demanded that she resign.
UK election result: Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn asks PM Theresa May to exit after Conservative Party's poor show.
"The prime minister called the election because she wanted a mandate," Corbyn said in an early morning speech after winning reelection to his north London district. "Well, the mandate she's got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence. I would have thought that is enough for her to go, actually."
Minutes later, May - her voice trembling - delivered her own speech in which she said that as long as the Conservatives remain the largest party, they should be allowed to govern.
"The country needs a period of stability," she said.
But it was not a given that May would be allowed to stay on. Within her own party, Thursday's results represented a catastrophic outcome that may prompt a search for a new leader - even if the Tories ultimately have the votes necessary to continue to govern.
"It was a dreadful campaign - and that's me being generous," Anna Soubry, a Tory member of Parliament who narrowly won reelection, told the BBC.
Asked whether May should resign, Soubry replied: "It's bad. She's in a very difficult place."
Other top Tories were declining to appear on television to discuss May's fate amid internal party discussions over whether Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson or another senior figure should be brought in to replace her, BBC anchors reported as dawnc broke on Friday.
The election results suggested no party is likely to win a majority - a scenario known as a hung parliament.
UK election result: Staff members empty a ballot box at main Glasgow counting centre in Scotland, on June 8.
If the Conservatives fall short of 236 seats, it will set off a free-for-all, with both Labour and the Tories seeking to forge alliances that get them to the magic number for a majority.
It is far from clear which parties would team up, or under what arrangements, to try to govern. A "progressive alliance" - including Labour, the Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh nationalists, and others - may have as many seats as the Conservatives. But the Conservatives would also have potential coalition partners if they fall short of a majority, including Unionists in Northern Ireland.
The results - and the turmoil they portend - prompted an immediate drop in the pound, which fell 2 percent against the dollar within minutes after exit polls were released following the end of voting Thursday night.
Tories were incredulous at the early numbers, saying that they thought the results had undersold the party's performance and that official tallies would give them a higher total.
But as the results rolled in, they grew more somber and acknowledged suffering losses that virtually no one had foreseen.
In Europe, observers were bracing for yet more instability out of Britain.
"Could be messy for the United Kingdom in the years ahead," tweeted former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt. "One mess risks following another. Price to be paid for lack of true leadership."
The results drew intense scrutiny to May's choice to gamble by going back on repeated promises not to call an election before the one that had been due in 2020.
In April, with her popularly spiking and the country seeming to rally around her vow to be a "bloody difficult woman" in talks with European leaders, May stunned Britain with her call for a snap vote that she believed would give her a stronger mandate before the negotiations began.
Observers hailed the move as a cunning bit of political strategy and predicted she would secure the sort of overwhelming parliamentary majority that predecessors Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair had enjoyed.
But after that, little went according to plan.
Thursday's vote follows a turbulent campaign that was interrupted by two mass-casualty terrorist attacks, and that was marked by a faltering performance by May even as Corbyn exceeded expectations.
UK election result: Campaigning was suspended after London attack killed 8 people and injured 48.
May - known for her resolute and no-nonsense persona - claimed the nation's top job only last year, emerging from the political wreckage of the country's choice to leave the EU.
Since then she has had only a slender majority in Parliament - won in a 2015 election when the country was governed by her predecessor, David Cameron - and she had feared that without a bigger cushion she would lack the latitude she needs in steering the country to Brexit.
But the approval May enjoyed in office didn't translate to the campaign trail. A politician who endlessly touted herself as a "strong and stable" finished the race being tagged by critics as "weak and wobbly" after high-profile U-turns, including a particularly disastrous bid to force senior citizens to pay more for social care - a measure derisively dubbed "the dementia tax."
She also ducked debates, and rarely mingled with voters in unscripted moments.
"We've learned what we suspected all along: She's not particularly fast on her feet, she's not a natural campaigner, she's not really a people person," said Tim Bale, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London.
Lacking the common touch, May's strategy was to focus the campaign on a presidential-style choice between her leadership skills and those of Corbyn. She relentlessly hammered her rival as a far-left throwback to another era who would leave the country vulnerable in both the Brexit talks and at a time of growing terrorist threats.
UK election result: Theresa May endlessly touted herself as a "strong and stable" leader on the campaign trail.
Corbyn - for decades a backbencher who unexpectedly vaulted to the party's leadership in 2015 with his Bernie Sanders-style message of taking on the 1 percent - faced a steeply uphill challenge to sell himself as a potential prime minister.
But he was widely seen to have mounted a far more credible challenge than many thought possible, running a nothing-to-lose campaign focused on ending seven years of Tory austerity policies and shrinking the gap between rich and poor.
Even if he doesn't prevail, his performance has undoubtedly saved his job as Labour leader - a stinging blow for more-centrist party figures who had quietly hoped the harsh glare of a national campaign would leave him exposed and force him to step aside.
Deep into Friday morning, Labour lawmakers who had spent nearly two years trying to overthrow Corbyn lined up to appear on television and sing his praises.
The results are a vindication of Corbyn's decision to focus the campaign on Tory budget cuts, rather than allow it to be defined by Brexit.
May had wanted the vote to be a referendum on her Brexit plan. But Corbyn spent little time discussing the issue.
Like the prime minister, Corbyn halfheartedly favored a vote to "remain" in the EU during the Brexit referendum. But also like May, he promised not to obstruct the will of voters and to follow through on their desires if they approved an exit.
UK election result: Jeremy Corbyn faced a steeply uphill challenge to sell himself as a potential prime minister.
Negotiations with the remaining 27 members of the EU are due to kick off in a little over a week. Even before Thursday's vote, May had faced long odds in delivering the successful exit she has promised. If she is still in office, her job has become even harder following the rejection of her plea for a broader mandate.
May had vowed a hard break with the bloc that leaves Britain outside the single market, the customs union and the European Court of Justice. But she has also promised to deliver a free-trade deal that will preserve the best elements of membership without many of the onerous burdens.
European leaders scoff at such a notion, and say that Britain's demands for EU benefits without responsibilities will have to be denied lest the country's departure trigger a rush to the exits by other nations demanding the same sweetheart deal.
If she prevails, May also will be under pressure to deliver on pledges to expand the powers of police and other security services following three deadly terrorist attacks this spring, including two in the midst of the campaign.
After the most recent attack - a van-and-knife rampage in London that left eight dead - May said "enough is enough" and promised a sweeping review of the nation's counterterrorism rules.
Many observers thought the attacks would play to May's advantage. But Corbyn managed to flip one of his potential areas of weakness - security - to a strength by hitting out at May for the cuts to police budgets she had authorized as the nation's home secretary, the top domestic security official.
He promised to put more cops back on the beat - a message that aligned with his broader mantra.
"It's sort of like Labour offering a huge platter of beautiful juicy burgers and steak and fried food in front of voters. And the Tories are like, 'Think about the bill!' and the voters are like, 'We don't want cold radish again!' " said Rob Ford, a politics professor at the University of Manchester. "You can see why people find that appealing."
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Billy Milligan, the first American to use multiple personality disorder sucessfully as an insanity plea after the rape of three women on the Ohio State University college campus has died this week in a Columbus hospital.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Milligan
Wikipedia Wrote: Milligan reported having ten different personalities. These ten were the only ones known to psychologists. Later on an additional 14 personalities, labeled "The Undesirables", were discovered. Among the first ten were: Arthur, a prim and proper Englishman; Allen, a manipulator; Tommy, a con artist; Ragen Vadascovinich, a Yugoslavian communist who Milligan claimed had committed the robberies in a kind of Robin Hood spirit; and Adalana, a 19-year-old lesbian who craved affection and who had allegedly committed the rapes.
The article also lists all his personalities, they sound like a hilarious collection of stereotypes.
Wikipedia also Wrote: One of the victims said that he was quite nice and that he acted like a 3 year old girl
WTF am I reading?
He'd at least have to be acting completely out of the ordinary for MPD as an insanity plea to work. If it truly was 'someone else' in there I feel bad that his body was used to wreak havoc like that. I won't assume he's just a liar because it'd really suck if it was me and I was telling the truth. Good things tulpas are a way better option.
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PA radio host: Israel is "cancerous entity… everyone knows [the Jews] have no right to this land"
Official PA radio station The Voice of Palestine - Jan. 1, 2018
Official PA radio station The Voice of Palestine, Sign of Hope
Official PA radio host: "Those who established and support the Zionist movement created these religious illusions and lies in the holy city [of Jerusalem]... in order to plant the cancerous entity [of Israel] in the Arab region as part of a new colonial scheme to control it… Everyone knows that in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions they [the Jews] have no right to this land, and these are firm facts."
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The PA radio station host made this statement in response to US President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital on Dec. 6, 2017. Trump instructed the State Department to begin preparations to transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He added that the final borders of Jerusalem will be determined during negotiations.


Approximately 1400 HIV-positive women are known to become pregnant in the UK each year, the overwhelming majority being from Sub-Saharan Africa. The overall question I pose in this thesis is: how do African women living with HIV in the UK engage with HIV services and interventions during and after pregnancy? The question is addressed through a mixed methods approach. Drawing upon epidemiological data from the UK and Ireland's National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood, and primary ethnographic data, I examine key outcomes (not receiving antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy, detectable maternal HIV viral load at delivery, vertical transmission, late antenatal booking and maternal loss to follow-up from HIV care after pregnancy), as well as exploring women's experiences. Women from Western Africa and those who had arrived in the UK after conception appeared to be at greater risk of poorer outcomes. Pentecostal beliefs in divine healing, although cited by professionals as a potential barrier to HIV care, did not necessarily prevent women from engaging with HIV services and interventions. Instead, a complex constellation of cultural and structural factors including stigma and lack of UK citizenship rights emerged as a greater challenge to engagement with care. Women described good relationships with their multidisciplinary HIV antenatal teams that fostered confidence in medical systems. On the other hand, some reported negative experiences, particularly with regards to poor maternity care at the time of delivery and difficulties in abstaining from breastfeeding. Overall I found that the majority of African women living with HIV in the UK engage well with HIV services and interventions during and after pregnancy, resulting in low rates of both vertical transmission and loss to follow-up after pregnancy. This highlights women's resilience and determination to engage with HIV care, despite challenges, in order to secure the health of their babies.


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How Hollywood starlet Diana Gibson settled down in Mt. Gretna
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Rosemary La Bie Schropp, also known by her stage name Diana Gibson, left the exciting life of a Hollywood starlet to settle down in Mt. Gretna.
Schropp was born May 21, 1915, in Chicago, Illinois. When she was 20, she had her Hollywood film debut in "His Night Out," though she was not part of the main cast.
Promotional image for the 1937 film "Behind the Headlines" featuring Gibson.
Two years later, in 1937, Gibson found herself starring alongside already well-renowned actor John Wayne in "Adventure's End." Her career looked like it was gaining steam.
Promotional image for the 1937 film "Adventure's End" featuring Gibson.
However, over the next two years, Gibson appeared in three films – with only one, "Western Welcome," credited.
This was the same time that Gibson began to appear in the Mt. Gretna Playhouse's productions. The July 7, 1977 issue of the Elizabethtown Chronicle reported that Gibson had starred in the theater's productions in 1938 and 1939.
In 1939, Gibson married Jack Schropp, a Lebanon newspaperman, and the Hollywood chapter of her life closed for good.
She continued to steal the show in Mt. Gretna as a leading lady.
In 1940, the July 26 issue of the Elizabethtown Chronicle wrote that "the outstanding feature of Brother Rat is the appearance of Diana Gibson's name in the cast of characters." It noted that her husband Jack Schropp also performed in this show.
A Brother Rat ad in the July 24, 1990 issue of Lebanon Daily News. A. E. Scott was an actor-director based at Lancaster's Fulton Theatre.
For 50 cents (yes, only 50 cents!), Lebanon audiences could see a Hollywood leading lady at work.
When she eventually retreated from the spotlight, Gibson began to take a more active role in the community as Mrs. Rosemary Schropp.
At one point, Rosemary was the Treasurer of the Lebanon Daily News, while Jack was its Vice President and General Manager. According to a column by Henry Homan in a 1991 issue of the Lebanon Daily News (paywall), Rosemary was also an owner of the newspaper.
She was the president of the Good Samaritan Hospital auxillary.
Perhaps one of her greatest contributions to the community was her role in the Street Fair, run by the Auxiliary. Rosemary was the general chairman of the Street Fair in 1965. The 1965 Fair featured a cake-baking contest, an X-ray unit, and a Ferris wheel, amongst other attractions.
A photo with Schropp in the June 7, 1966 issue of the Lebanon Daily News.
While this year the Street Fair is being replaced with the July 20-27 Festival of Themed Baskets event, it was held for over 70 years before its cancellation.
In the late 1970s, after years of contributing to the community in Mt. Gretna and Lebanon, Rosemary and Jack moved to Florida.
Oct. 12, 1991, Rosemary passed away in Coral Gables, Florida, at the age of 76. She is buried at Grand View Memorial Park in Annville (thanks to reader Pat Rhen who shared this fact with us, and actually clued us into the story originally).
However, here in Lebanon, she will not be forgotten as Diana Gibson, actress, or Rosemary Schropp, leader in the community.
An earlier version of this article had the incorrect first name for Henry Homan, we regret the error.
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Mind my asking how old you are?I'm 22, and it's been difficult keeping on top of my CF since I started college. Balancing treatments with all this fun is tough! I do pulmozyme every other day in the morning, about ten minutes of yoga, autogenic drainage, and off to class. I take a few units of insulin when I eat. I take a calcium supplement, ADEK twice, multi-vitimin. I do a lot of hollistic kinds of stuff to keep my body, mind and spirit in shape. I usually do my flutter for about 10 mins at night or have my boyfriend drum on me for a while.


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Odeon Theatre or Odeon Theater or Odéon Theatre may refer to:

Australia
Odeon Theatre in Norwood, South Australia, Australia
Odeon Theatre, Hobart, in Tasmania, Australia

Canada
Odeon Theatre Toronto, Canada
Odeon Theatre (Victoria, British Columbia), Canada

United States
Odeon Theater (Belview, Minnesota), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Redwood County, Minnesota, U.S.
Odeon Theater (Tucumcari, New Mexico), U.S.
Odeon Theatre (Greensboro, North Carolina), U.S.
Odeon Theater (Mason, Texas), U.S.

Other countries
Odeon theater (Amman), in Jordan
Odeon Theatre (Bucharest), in Romania
Odeon Theatre, Christchurch, in New Zealand
Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, in Paris, France

See also
Coors Event Centre, formerly Odeon Events Centre, in Saskatoon, Canada (originally built as a theatre)
Former Odeon cinemas in Leeds, UK
Odeon Cinemas, a cinema chain
Odeon Leeds-Bradford, a cinema complex in the UK
Odeon Star, a cinema in the Adelaide suburb of Semaphore, South Australia

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Gilbert Pémendrant, 77 years of age, the king of La Fuste (as his farm is called), the lord of Bernifal (his painted cave), has been honoured by the jury of the International Festival of Archaeology Films in Nyon, where the film Sophie Cattoire made about him ("Le Dernier Paysan Préhistorien") received a prize in the form of an "Oscar" carved out of Swiss granite. Marvellous! Just as heavy and just as unique were the carved stone awards given to Frédéric Wibler and Salhéa Gherdane for their film "Crépuscule des civilisations : Angkor la civilisation engloutie" (prize for the best archaeology film), Iossif Pasternak for his film "Les secrets du trésor de Priam" (special prize of the jury and audience award) and David Geoffroy for his film "Quand les Gaulois perdaient la tête" (rewarded for its educational value)… not forgetting the three special mentions given to Paul Rambaud and Claude Delhaye for their film "Une dame, des pierres, des hommes", Rob Hope for his film "Descente : un passage à travers le temps" and Raymond Collet for "Photographier l'invisible". A splendid palmares… and a fine creative team, in search of meaningfulness and knowledge in a world suffering from amnesia where everything moves too fast: a fine bunch of individuals for whom the magic words are "take your time", "make it your own" and "treasure each moment - all together".
THE INVISIBLE WORLD AND SILENCE… SO ELOQUENT!
Showing the invisible and making silence speak, leaning on information gleaned from infinitesimally small fragments that have many a tale to tell… that is the challenge in historical documentaries, said the Italian filmmaker and producer, Adolfo Conti, as he presided over the closing ceremony of the festival at the" Usine à Gaz": the place to be for art in Nyon, a town situated on the banks of Lake Geneva, between Geneva and Lausanne. Actually, it's quite a tricky job… but one whale of an adventure! The "image specialists" can have a ball, while continuing to observe a humble and rigorous approach to our History (recorded in writing) and our Prehistory, valiantly going back millions of years. For the temptation is there to make our finds say what we want them to say, to be in line with prevailing ways of thinking, current ideologies and beliefs. But in archaeology it is not a matter of finding what you expect to find… you find what there is to find - and you have to be thankful. If all this searching strikes a chord within us, I believe it is because we still have, somewhere at the back of our minds, memories of what we used to be, at the beginning of time. These memories give us strength and make us proud; they are our anchor; they give us the guts to fight and carry on.
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What was the 'Shot Heard 'Round The World'?
The best baseball players born on Jan. 3
10 top moments from Gaylord Perry's career
24 amazing Willie Mays stats and feats
The best baseball players born on Oct. 7
The best baseball players born on Sept. 29
Joe Morgan's most memorable moments
Giants' all-time retired numbers
The top Giants Draft pick from every season
Willie Mays' most memorable moments
Evan Longoria's top 10 moments
The top Giants not in the Hall of Fame
The best baseball players born on Jan. 12
The best baseball players born on Dec. 26
Top 10 moments in McCovey's HOF career
How 'Bye Bye Baby' became a Giant hit
The best baseball players born on Feb. 3
Here are the 6 Giants to win ROY honors
10 players you forgot were Giants
The 5 greatest seasons from Giants pitchers
The 8 best moments in Oracle Park history
How did the Giants get their team name?
Best Giants to wear each uniform number
By Elizabeth Muratore @nymfan97
There are moments in baseball that transcend the sport. Babe Ruth's called shot in the 1932 World Series was one of those. So was Hank Aaron's 715th home run on April 8, 1974, in which he passed Ruth to become the new all-time home run king. However, perhaps no home
By Shaun O'Neill @oapostrophesd
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Jan. 3:
By Chris Haft
Gaylord Perry became familiar with the notion that reaching the Major Leagues is difficult, but staying there is harder. The Hall of Fame right-hander, who died Thursday at age 84, spent 22 years in the big leagues. But Perry's first two years with the Giants, 1962 and '63, were interrupted
New documentary on the Say Hey Kid debuts on HBO, HBO Max on Tuesday night
By Paul Casella @paul_casellaMLB
From his remarkable combination of speed and power at the plate to his iconic defense in center field, Willie Mays is undoubtedly one of the best all-around players in Major League history. He hit 660 home runs. He's a member of the 3,000-hit club. He won a batting title, four
By Justin Adams
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Oct. 7: 1) Mookie Betts (1992) One of the best all-around talents in the game, Betts was selected by
By MLB.com
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Oct. 1.
By Chris Shaeffer
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 29: 1) Ed Morris (1862) Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Morris grew up in California and was one of
Hall of Famer was no ordinary Joe
Good teams seemed to follow Joe Morgan around. Need proof? Not until Morgan arrived from the Houston Astros in a five-player trade before the 1972 season did Cincinnati's Big Red Machine begin firing on all cylinders. Morgan proved integral to the Reds' World Series triumphs in 1975 and '76. The
SAN FRANCISCO -- When Cooperstown calls, the Giants listen. The Giants officially retire a player's number when he reaches the Hall of Fame. They've made one exception, placing left fielder Barry Bonds' No. 25 off-limits in 2018. Of course, Bonds possesses enough credentials to warrant such an honor, having ended
By Maria Guardado
The MLB Draft can be a bit of a crapshoot, as evidenced by the spotty history of the Giants' top selections. Here's the full list of San Francisco's top overall selection in each year's Draft, dating back to 1965. (In years with more than one first-round pick, only the top
Willie Mays thrived partly by turning imagination into reality. "I would go home at night and create what I was going to do the next day," Mays told MLB.com in a 2008 interview. "It sounds kind of childish. But if I feel that we're going to have a good crowd
By Adam Berry
ST. PETERSBURG -- As the Rays' best young player during the club's rise from perennial cellar-dweller to American League East powerhouse, Evan Longoria quickly became one of the faces of baseball at the beginning of his career. He cemented that status by delivering one of the most memorable moments in
The Giants are well represented in Cooperstown. Sixty players, managers, executives and broadcasters with ties to the New York and San Francisco Giants are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, including 25 inductees who spent the bulk of their careers with the organization. But the club has also
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Jan. 12.
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Dec. 26:
By Susan Bryson
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Oct. 9: 1) Joe Sewell (1898) Sewell, the first of two Hall of Famers on this list, found his
By Matt Kelly @mattkellyMLB
A version of this story originally ran in January 2022.
If you've attended a game at Oracle Park or tuned in to a Giants television broadcast, chances are you're familiar with the team's unofficial anthem: "Bye Bye Baby." The peppy song usually plays at the waterfront ballpark and on the Giants' broadcasts at the end of each half-inning in which
Who are the best players born on each day of the year? We have a list for every day on the calendar. Here's a subjective ranking of the top five for Feb. 3:
The Giants have seen a fair share of rookie phenoms pass through the organization and make big splashes at the outset of their careers. Here's a look back at the six Giants to win the Baseball Writers' Association of America's National League Rookie of the Year Award, which was established
SAN FRANCISCO -- The collection of Giants alumni is as intriguing as it is iconic. For every superstar who established Hall of Fame credentials with San Francisco (Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Juan Marichal, for example), there was a Cooperstown inductee who made a forgotten or relatively unheralded cameo appearance
Ten pitchers have gone into the Hall of Fame with a Giants cap, a nod to the franchise's rich history of developing elite arms. Several of these all-time greats burnished their credentials by producing some of the best individual seasons the league has seen. Here's a look back at five
Opened in 2000, Oracle Park is known as one of the most beautiful ballparks in the country, thanks to its stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and its quirky features. The stadium, which was previously known as Pacific Bell Park, SBC Park and AT&T Park, has also witnessed quite
In 2014, the Giants unveiled the Gotham Clubhouse, a speakeasy-style event space reserved for Gotham Club members at Oracle Park. Ensconced behind the out-of-town scoreboard, the Gotham Clubhouse pays homage to the franchise's rich history in New York. Founded by John B. Day and Jim Mutrie in 1883, the Giants
Over their 138-season history, the Giants have seen scores of talented players become synonymous with the numbers on the backs of their jerseys. Here's a look at the best Giants player to wear each uniform number: No. 0: 1B Al Oliver Oliver batted .298 with a .705 OPS over 91


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A fellow writer has told me I write good reviews. (Actually, she was more complimentary than that, but I blush easily.) I'll take the praise, but I attribute the quality to writing serious reviews in a Word file first, to be considered, revised and finally uploaded to Amazon or GoodReads. Both of these sites do a fine job of encouraging reviews to be done in the polar opposite way: "on the fly". "Rate" a book, then immediately "Review" that book. Not at all the same thing.
Years back—pre-Amazon—I attended a panel on book reviewing at World Fantasy. (I remember it was in the same room where I heard George R.R. Martin read from Game of Thrones, pre-publication.) As a published author, used to 2-3 line reviews in Locus Magazine, I wanted to know why some books aren't reviewed. I learned that in those days, most books didn't merit a review, and surely not a national review. Too many books, too little space. The cover blurbs helped fill that marketing gap—and maybe got you the attention of reviewers. But in genre fiction, if you got reviewed at all, you were darn lucky! And if you got reviewed on a national level, you'd be astonished.
Comes the digital revolution, and every reader/purchaser is invited to be a reviewer.
I've read the reviews of my own books: online, on my Amazon Author Page, on my Good Reads Author page. I've learned a lot from all of them. Wise authors read all reviews, and look for consensus. What one reader hates, the next one will love. Same book, same character. Some readers don't know the name of the character they're discussing, so maybe they are "reviewing" a book they read years ago. They're really rating the book, and I love to try to guess which edition, version or cover they're referencing. Sometimes even the actual name of the book eludes them. They click on its picture, and rate the book. And memory is inexact, especially if you read a lot.
So, what is a book review? A real book review? Well, it isn't a lengthy synopsis or summary of the book. That's the Product Description. Reviews go deeper.
Why the story works for the reader. Or why it doesn't. Why you liked the villain better than the hero. Why another reader would like—or should avoid—the book. That you liked a book is a compliment. Why you liked it is useful to the author and other readers.
I wasn't sure where else to post this, so I figured I'd leave it here on your most recent post.
About 12 years ago I was attending your writers group at Jerry Stigliano's Book Source in Hermitage, and was wondering if you were still running one anywhere? Obviously not at that particular bookstore since it's closed.
I could certainly use the encouragement that only other authors can lend as I work on my YA novel.


Online games and activities for those kids who love Dora and Diego.
Lots of great activity ideas for preschoolers and those just starting to read.
Find online games and activities. You can also select the games by grade level, from Kindergarten to grade 8.
Free online books in many languages for children 3 to 13. Search by country, age, language, length/type of book.
Oodles of crafts and activities to compliment Jan Brett's children's books.


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What Is Public International Law?
The United Nations, which is headquartered in New York City, was designed as a forum where international conflicts could be resolved.
Some international laws regulate air travel between countries.
Trade and shipping regulations are a part of public international law.
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Public international law is the body of law concerned with the interaction of sovereign states, as well as entities such as multinational corporations and non-governmental bodies. Simply put, public international law governs the way states interact with one another, while national law governs how citizens behave within states and private international law governs the ways in which citizens from different states interact. International laws regulate trade, shipping, air travel, communications, the conduct of war, human rights, and other topics. This type of law is a complex and often-disputed field.
The origin of modern public international law is usually dated to the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. This diplomatic congress ended the Thirty Years' War, establishing the modern idea of the sovereign nation-state. The writings of legal thinkers such as Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) influenced the origins of international law during this period. Grotius argued that nations should be governed by moral principles, and that the community of states ought to be regulated by treaties and agreements between nations.
A model of public international law based on treaties between sovereign nation-states dominated international relations well into the 19th century. Treaties between nations were seen as the safest way of guaranteeing peace. As the European powers clashed over territory and authority, however, many became concerned that the international system of treaties was threatening peace between nations rather than upholding it. This concern came to a head following World War I. Many observers believed the intricate network of alliances in Europe had been a major cause of the war.
After the war, the victorious nations attempted to create a multilateral framework for ensuring peace. The League of Nations was unable to enforce adherence to international law, though, and states such as Italy and Japan defied the organization's rules with impunity. Following World War II (WWII), the United Nations (UN) was formed to maintain peace and implement new conventions regulating international behavior. The work of the UN and other intergovernmental organizations resulted in the post-WWII period seeing a greater degree of success in international law enforcement, although many contentious issues remain into the 21st century.
Contested areas in public international law include human rights and the conduct of war, as well as economic issues such as fishing rights. Even in the case of an established international consensus, there are a number of obstacles to enforcing international law. The most significant problem is national sovereignty: Every state is the final authority over its own conduct, so it is difficult to enforce international standards on nations that do not voluntarily agree to them. Enforcement mechanisms can include diplomatic pressure, economic sanctions, and even military intervention. Crimes against international law are judged by the International Court of Justice, the judicial arm of the UN.
Despite the problems of enforcement, public international law plays a vital role in the functioning of the world community. By providing a basis for cooperation between governments, international agreements and conventions permit governments to deal with problems beyond their individual ability. States or groups that go against the conventions of international law harm their reputations and face potentially serious consequences.
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Rock in Peace Malcolm Young. Thank you for bringing the world some great Rock'n'Roll! In honor of his life here is the song with the most votes from the facebook group. Feel free to join us there and share your favorite AC/DC songs!


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Thunderstorms usually make their visit during spring and summer months, especially in the afternoon or evening. Lightning, thunder, rain, and wind gust are the building blocks of a thunderstorm.
The booming sound of thunder is caused by rapid expansion of air as a lightning bolt pass through it. Since the air surrounding the bolt is expanded rapidly too, you get to hear grumbles and growls.
Despite the apparently threatening nature of thunderstorms, some people find the sound of thunderstorms to be quite relaxing. They love deciphering each grumble as it travels through the atmosphere. They love the waves of rain pitter-pattering on the roof and windows. They also love when the lightning illuminates the evening sky. These people can spend hours sitting next to the window, immersed in the experience.
Is it weird to enjoy thunderstorms?
No, not at all. In fact, there's a word for it: chrysalism. It is defined as the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm. A thunderstorm is dangerous, that's a fact, but most people who enjoy it are watching from the comfort of their homes. The chaos that the storm brings enhances the sense of security that their homes provide.
Because there are people out there who love to watch thunderstorms outdoors. Some do it in tents while camping in a forest, while others just let their body soak in the pouring rain. They're savoring the sensation of rain on their skin and the surreal feeling of the mist hitting their face. It's just how they roll.
If you happen to enjoy thunderstorm but it isn't the time of the year for them to make a stage, just browse this collection of thunderstorm ambient sounds. Mix your own if you find them not to your liking. Adding your own effects is easy and making your picture-perfect storm is downright possible.
Of course, the sound of thunderstorms is not for everybody.
Many people find the sound of storm makes them immensely alert. They fear and respect it, as they understand the degree of damage it can cause. People with PTSD also won't find the sounds comforting in any way. If you dislike storms, you should just go with these rainy days ambient sounds instead.
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Turbulence shakes Democrats going into final debate of 2019
A deepening sense of volatility is settling over the Democratic Party's presidential primary election on the eve of the sixth and final debate of 2019. The seven candidates who remain are being forced to grapple with unprecedented distraction from Washington.
FACT CHECK: Claims from the 5th Democratic debate
Ten Democrats seeking the presidency vied for advantage Wednesday night in a debate just over two months before the primary voting begins.
Andrew Yang asked 1st question 32 minutes into debate; later jokes he'll tell Putin 'Sorry I beat your guy'
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, polling at 3 percent, according to a Fox News poll, was asked his first question 32 minutes into the Democratic debate on Wednesday night in Atlanta.
Tim Ryan drops out of 2020 presidential race, announces House re-election campaign
Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan dropped out of the 2020 presidential race on Thursday and announced he will, instead, run for re-election for his congressional seat.


CBSE Scholarship is offered under different categories and this board offers scholarships to help meritorious children. Not just to motivate these kids, but also to help parents from a poor financial background to provide education to their children. Many such scholarships by CBSE are offered not just to children at school, but also for children at the college level as well. The board issues notification then and there along with the last date to apply and also the eligibility requirement to be fulfilled by candidates to apply to the appropriate scholarship.
Among the many scholarships offered by CBSE, the Merit Scholarship for Single Girl Child Class X is highly popular. This scholarship by the Central Board of Secondary Education is offered for meritorious girl children, who are a single child to their parents to continue their higher secondary education after completing class X. The last date for applying for this scholarship online for the year 2016 is announced by the board as 15th of December 2016. Also, the applicants are recommended to submit the hard copy of the application before 31st of December 2016. CBSE offers girl child scholarship for single girls for UG studies as well for candidates, who have completed their higher secondary.
The objective of this scholarship by CBSE is to provide for the higher secondary education of a single and only child in the family for girls. To apply for this scholarship, the girl should have completed her class X under CBSE with at least 60% of marks or 6.2 CGPA and continuing her class XI and XII. This scheme is not just to encourage the meritorious girls, but also to recognize the efforts of parents to educate their only girl child. The scholarship will be awarded purely on merit basis. The child should be presently continuing her class XI and XII in a school that is affiliated with CBSE. Also, her tuition fee should not be more than Rs.1500 per month. NRIs from the Board are also eligible to apply, and the tuition fee for these candidates is decided at Rs.6000 per month.
Any candidate getting scholarship under this scheme can enjoy the other concessions offered at the school.
The rate of this CBSE scholarship is Rs.500 per month, and the amount will be paid for a maximum period of two years. The payment to the students will be made through ECS/ through Demand Draft. The scholarship should be renewed by the students after successful completion of their Class XI, such that they will continue to get the same for Class XII as well.
Candidates meeting the eligibility requirement should visit the official website of CBSE scholarship and should first register and then should apply as per the onscreen instructions.
Hii, my son is pursuing class 5th from Burhanpur, he want to prepare for JNVs, What is the pattern of Jawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya Selection Test (JNVST)?
Hii, I am from Tiruttani, plz let me know Are Navodaya Vidyalayas government schools functioning in different states in India?
Hello, good to see that you are from Tiruttani, Yes, all Navodaya Vidyalayas in India are functioning under Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, which operates under Ministry of Human Resource Development of Government of India.
Hii, my son is pursuing class 5th from Tinsukia, he want to prepare for JNVs, What is the pattern of Jawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya Selection Test (JNVST)?
Hello, good to that your child is studying from Tinsukia, For admission to the class VI, the test will have questions under three sections namely mental ability, arithmetic and language, Weightage is 50%, 25%, and 25% respectively for each of these sections.The time allowed is 60 minutes, 30 minutes, and 30 minutes respectively for each section.
Hii, my neice is studying in good school of Badaun, plz tell me What is the eligibility requirement to apply to JNVST for class VI?
Hii, As you are from Badaun, I would like to tell you Only candidates from the districts where a JNV school is present can apply to the test, Those applying for the test must be doing their class V in a government or government-aided school or even from a school under open schooling system, Also, the applicants must be between the age group of 9 and 13 years.
Hii, My child is studying in primary school of Kalyani Nagar, now he want to give Navodaya exam, Is there any reservation procedure followed by the government for admission to JNVs?
Yes, a minimum of 75% of the selection of students should be done from rural areas, while an utmost 25% of seats should be filled by students from urban areas, Also, 33% of the total seats are reserved for girls, if your child is studying in good school of Kalyani Nagar, can clear the exam.
Hello I am from South 24 Parganas, can you plz tell me What is the admission procedure in Navodaya Vidyalayas for different classes?
Is JNVST conducted in the English language alone or other state languages, also suggest good play schools in Erode for my younger kid?
Hii, I am from Kushinagar, plz tell me What is lateral entry admission in Jawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya schools?
Hello, good to see that you are from Kushinagar, With a view to making the best use of the infrastructure and facilities available in these schools, the Samiti has been filling up the vacant seats in class IX and XI through an All India Level Selection Test, the district-wise details of vacant seats are notified through local newspapers for which candidates can apply.
Hii, my neice is studying in good school of Nagapattinam, plz tell me What is the eligibility requirement to apply to JNVST for class VI?
Hii, As you are from Nagapattinam, I would like to tell you Only candidates from the districts where a JNV school is present can apply to the test, Those applying for the test must be doing their class V in a government or government-aided school or even from a school under open schooling system, Also, the applicants must be between the age group of 9 and 13 years.
Hii, my son is pursuing class 5th from Trivandrum, he want to prepare for JNVs, What is the pattern of Jawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya Selection Test (JNVST)?
Hello, good to that your child is studying from Trivandrum, For admission to the class VI, the test will have questions under three sections namely mental ability, arithmetic and language, Weightage is 50%, 25%, and 25% respectively for each of these sections.The time allowed is 60 minutes, 30 minutes, and 30 minutes respectively for each section.