Private airline IndiGo is the "worst performing" carrier for consumers, while national carrier Air India has the best luggage policy, said a parliamentary panel chairman Derek O' Brien.
TMC MP O'Brien, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, Thursday said the panel had taken strong note that during the festive season some airlines were charging 8-10 times more than the normal fares. The Civil Aviation Ministry comes under the purview of this panel.
"Every single member (of the panel) is disgusted with the way some private airlines are operating but more so with IndiGo, it is discourteous. The airline is very rigid, IndiGo even charges for one-two kg overweight, this has not been taken very well and the committee is looking into the matter seriously," he said.
O'Brien asserted these were not only his views but of all members of the panel who were from different parties.
Meanwhile, IndiGo in a statement said, "As an airline, our endeavour is to minimise extra hassle right from the airport entry, check-in to boarding and create a more convenient experience for our customers." "We, therefore, evaluate every complaint/feedback rigorously and develop training modules keeping the customer sentiment very much in mind," it said.
The airline further said it ensured that the staff was not only given regular coaching to handle situations but also laid emphasis on individual empowerment so that the staff was equipped to make the customer experience more courteous and hassle-free.
On the luggage policy, Brien said the national carrier had the best luggage policy and the other private airlines should also enhance the baggage limit. "Air India has best luggage policy…the maximum luggage limit prescribed by the airlines, except Air India, should be enhanced," he said, adding that baggage charges are also on higher side.
Brien said there are five ministries under the purview of the standing committee unlike other panels, where there is only one ministry.


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Systematic review protocol assessing the processes for linking clinical trial registries and their published results
Rabia Bashir,
Adam G Dunn
Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Correspondence to Rabia Bashir; rabia.bashir{at}students.mq.edu.au
Introduction Clinical trial registries are an important source of information for tracking clinical trials from their inception through to their reporting, and have been used to measure publication bias and outcome reporting bias. Our aim is to survey and quantify the processes that have been used to identify links between clinical trial registries and published trial reports in studies that rely on these links to evaluate the completeness and accuracy of trial reporting.
Methods and analysis We will identify studies that describe a process for identifying the links between a trial registry included in the WHO International Clinical Trial Registry Platform and published trial results, and use those links to evaluate the completeness and accuracy of trial reporting. Information extracted from the studies will include the purpose and application domain of the study, registries used or searched, processes by which the links were identified, the study period and proportions for which links were found. We will summarise what is known about the number and availability of links between clinical trial registries and published results, and examine how automatic linking, inference and inquiry processes have been used to identify links since the introduction of trial registries.
Ethics and dissemination The systematic review is focused on the analysis of secondary data and does not require ethics approval. The results of the systematic review will be used to inform standard processes used to identify links to and from clinical trial registries in studies that evaluate the completeness and accuracy of clinical trial reports, as well as systematic reviews. Our findings will be disseminated by publishing the systematic review in a peer-reviewed journal, and by engaging with stakeholders from clinical trial registries and bibliographic databases.
This systematic review will quantify the processes used to link clinical trial registries to clinical trial results and determine how these may have changed since the introduction of clinical trial registries.
The processes used to link clinical trial registries to published reports of clinical trials vary across studies that rely on those links to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of trial reports, and this systematic review will quantify these differences to inform the way this is performed in the future.
By producing a baseline measurement of the availability of automatic links and the number of other links that must be identified through inquiry or inference, the systematic review will help determine the potential value of using clinical trial registries to augment current methods used to identify trials for systematic reviews of clinical interventions.
As studies linking clinical trial registry data to published results are designed for a range of different purposes, the processes used to identify links are not always reported completely, making information extraction difficult.
Clinical trial registries were designed to provide information to researchers, clinicians and the public about trials that are underway or for which the results have not been reported.1 ,2 Since their introduction, their use has increased substantially following changes in requirements for journal publication and changes to the law in several countries,3–5 and a number of studies have examined publication bias6–17 and outcome reporting bias,18–27 using one or more of the registries.
Studies that use clinical trial registries to examine the completeness and accuracy of clinical trial reporting rely on being able to establish links between registries and reports of clinical trials. A proportion of those links can be accessed automatically,28 ,29 but the remainder must be determined by inference or inquiry. The manner in which these processes are used vary from study to study and are known to be time-consuming.9 ,26 ,27 It is not yet known whether differences in the way links are established by these processes have influenced the results of studies examining publication bias or outcome reporting bias. As a consequence, there is a current need to survey the studies that have used these processes to identify links between clinical trial registries and their published results.
Clinical trial registries are sometimes used to identify trials for inclusion in systematic reviews.30–32 Systematic reviews benefit from clinical trial registries because they can be used to quantify reporting bias for an intervention or condition, can be used to assist in scheduling updates,33–36 also could be used as an external corpus in machine learning methods that automate or assist in searching and screening methods37 and in some cases as a source of trial results that have not been published in peer-reviewed literature.31 ,32 By understanding the processes that have been used to establish links between trial registries and published trial reports, we may be able to provide guidance on how each of these processes can be used to identify a complete set of trials, supporting new methods that use clinical trial registries in systematic reviews.
The objective of this systematic review is to quantify the processes that have been used to link clinical trial registrations to their published results in studies that examined the completeness and accuracy of clinical trial reporting.
We will include all English-language studies that use one or more of the clinical trial registries included in the WHO International Clinical Trial Platform (WHO ICTRP),38 to compare what was registered with what was published, determine the proportion of published trial reports that have been registered or the proportion of registered trials that have been published. Studies will be excluded if they do not report the number of clinical trials for which they identified links or if the study is describing a trial or reviewing clinical evidence.
Relevant articles will be identified by searching PubMed and EMBASE for studies that meet the inclusion criteria. These databases were selected because they are known to have good coverage of clinical research,39 ,40 and other databases typically used in systematic reviews of clinical evidence (such as the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials) were irrelevant to the topic of the review. Owing to the atypical nature of the included studies, we designed the search strategy with the support of a medical research librarian, and it was designed to balance the number of articles returned by the broad terms covering the clinical trial registries by constraining the search using terms that were common to the set of relevant studies. We considered a set of 50 articles we knew met the inclusion criteria and used their titles, abstracts and keywords to define a search strategy that returned all 50 articles without returning an unmanageable number of irrelevant articles (table 1). We will additionally hand-search the reference lists of all included studies to identify any other articles that may have been missed by our searches. The complete steps for searching both databases are included in the online supplementary material.
Search strategy used for PubMed and EMBASE bibliographic databases
[bmjopen-2016-013048supp.pdf]
Two reviewers will evaluate the articles returned by the searches against the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Duplicate studies will be removed by automatically comparing digital object identifiers (DOIs) across the search results where possible, and by manually evaluating titles, authors and journal names for the remainder. In each of the two phases of screening for eligibility (title/abstract and then full text review), disagreements about inclusion will be resolved by a third author and by discussion, as needed.
Data extraction process
Data from studies will be extracted independently by both reviewers and then compared, reporting the level of agreement for each information element. The information to be extracted includes the following: (1) the number of trial registry entries examined or identified in the study; (2) the number of published trial reports examined or identified in the study; (3) the trial registry or registries used; (4) the purpose of the study (such as measuring publication bias, outcome reporting bias or the number of published trials that were registered); (5) the application domain; (6) the processes used to identify the links and (7) the proportions of the links found for each method if available.
In relation to the method for identifying the links, we categorise links as one of three types—automatic, inferred or inquired. Automatic links are those for which the unique identifier from the trial registry entry is used to identify links to published results without requiring any inference or manual work. Inferred links are those for which the investigators used the characteristics of the trials to search and reconcile links to or from published trial reports. Inquired links are those confirmed by contacting trial investigators or authors to identify the location of published results.
Data synthesis
Using the information extracted from the articles, we will pool the overall proportions of trials for which links were identified. As they represent different types of links between trial registries and published reports, studies that start from a cohort of trial registry entries and identify published results will be pooled separately from studies that start from a cohort of published trial reports and identify trial registry entries.
Heterogeneity in the overall number and proportion of links identified in these studies is expected to come partially from differences in the processes being used to identify links, the period in which the trials were completed and published (reflecting temporal changes in the policy and practice of trial registration and reporting) and the specific application domains (some conditions or interventions may be more likely to have registered trials published or published trials registered). To account for these differences in the overall pooled estimates, we will estimate the contributions of each of the three categories of linking processes to the overall estimates wherever the information is available. The result will include estimates of the proportions of links that can be automatically captured, the larger proportion that can be reliably identified when investigators search for and infer links, and the larger proportion that can be identified when investigators contact trial investigators for more information.
We are also interested in examining whether the processes for identifying links between registry entries and trial results have changed over time. To measure the differences over time, we will examine the trend in the proportion of links identified overall—as well as using each of the three categories of linking processes—by applying linear regression relative to the midpoints of the data collection periods specified in each of the studies.
Discussion and dissemination
To the best of our knowledge, this is first systematic review surveying the processes used to identify links between clinical trial registries and published clinical trial results. By aggregating the results of many trials in the area to estimate the proportions of links that can be identified through automatic linking, inference and inquiry, this systematic review is expected to advance the field in several ways. First, the systematic review will be used to determine whether differences in the processes for identifying links between registry entries and trial reports can partially explain differences in the results of existing studies of publication bias and outcome reporting bias, which in turn may be used to help standardise the way these studies are undertaken in the future. Second, by determining the proportions of trial registry entries that can be automatically linked to their results, we can help guide new systematic review technologies that rely on links to improve methods used in the identification of trials.
One limitation of the systematic review process is the exclusion of studies that are not published in English, which may mean that we miss some articles describing registries based in non-English speaking countries. As a substantial proportion of the studies that will be included are designed for purposes other than simply identifying the links between registries and published results, the description of the processes used to link the two may be limited, and this may limit our ability to determine the proportions of links captured automatically, by inference or by inquiry.
Our findings will be reported on the basis of guidelines from Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. The results of this review will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Other forms of dissemination will include direct engagement with clinical trial registry developers.
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Contributors RB and AGD developed the systematic review protocol, drafted the manuscript, critically revised the manuscript and approve of the final version.
Funding RB is supported by a Macquarie University Postgraduate Scholarship.

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It's official: Coal is kaput in Ontario
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From our friends at Ontario Clean Air Alliance:
On April 8th, the Thunder Bay Generating Station burned its last lump of coal marking the end of an era in Ontario. Thunder Bay was the last of the province's five dirty coal-fired generating stations to close. Nanticoke, formerly the largest coal-fired power plant in North America, was closed in December 2013, following on the heels of the closure of the Lambton Generating Station in October 2013, the conversion of the Atikokan station to biomass, which began in 2012, and the closure of Lakeview Generating Station in 2005.
Now with this final puff from Thunder Bay, Ontario has successfully eliminated the province's single biggest source of smog, toxins, acid rain and greenhouse gases. This is no less a victory for people in Northern Ontario than it is for residents of the once smog-choked South. Coal burning at Thunder Bay and Atikokan led to rising mercury levels in northern lakes and damaged northern forests through acid rain. Fortunately, the north is rich in cleaner energy alternatives, from water power to wind.
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Umkomaas has a huge variety of dive sites, most of which are around Aliwal Shoal. Ragged tooth sharks are the main attraction, but intrepid divers will meet large stingrays, moray eels and ragged-tooth sharks hiding in caves. Raggie Cave And Shark Alley (14m) is best known for housing groups of ragged tooth sharks in winter.
Protea Banks has an average depth of 28m and the chances of seeing a variety of sharks is high. Divers must be qualified to dive to 30 m.
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The number of Japanese nationals that left Japan decreased by 1,307,685 persons (7.6%) from the previous year to 15,987,250 in 2008 (Source: The Immigration Bureau, Ministry of Justice).
Examination of the status of offenses committed by Japanese nationals outside of Japan, as ascertained by diplomatic establishments abroad through their Japanese citizen protection services, revealed that 462 cases (down 4.1% from the previous year) were committed by 514 Japanese nationals (down 9.3 % (id.)) in 2008. Table 1-5-1-1 shows the number of cases committed by Japanese nationals outside of Japan by type of offense in 2008.


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Comparison of technical characteristics between computer processors, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8150 on one hand, and the Intel Core i5-9300H on the other hand. The first has a total of 8 cores, 8 threads, a maximum frequency of 2.8 GHz. The second has 4 cores, 8 threads, its turbo frequency reaches 4.1 GHz. The following table also allows us to compare the lithography, the number of transistors (if indicated), the amount of cache memory, the maximum RAM memory capacity, the type of memory accepted, the launch date, the maximum number of PCIe lines , the values obtained in Geekbench 4 and Cinebench R15, as well as the price.
We can better compare what are the technical differences between the two processors. The processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 8150 has a larger number of cores, that the maximum frequency of the Intel Core i5-9300H is superior, that the heat dissipation power of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8150 is smaller. Both were produced during the same year.


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Community Agriculture Alliance: My favorite things
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'Tis the season to reflect on the past year and to savor what we've accomplished at Historic Routt County. We are proud of our role in saving Routt County's special places, and the year has been a whirlwind of activity with preservation projects, events, socials, awards and win-win partnerships.
Thank you in advance for indulging me in a whimsical look back at 2014. (To be sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music." I am not Julie Andrews, so my Christmas gift to you is that you're reading this rather than hearing me sing it.)
Invoices paid and grants that are closed;
Grading that's finished and nicely bulldozed;
Teamwork in action, and partners in swing;
These are a few of my favorite things.
Letters that say "Your grant is approved!"
Contracts signed, roadblocks removed;
Projects beginning anew each spring;
Historic buildings with register plaques;
Events and socials, rooms that are packed;
Volunteers hammering, laughing and singing;
When the paint peels,
When the money's gone,
When I'm feeling sad —
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then, I don't feel so bad.
In fact, I don't ever feel too bad, because there is so much to be thankful for at Historic Routt County, beginning with our loyal members and supporters. They are our most favorite thing! And because we value the people of this community and the work we do, our board of directors has been thinking hard about how we can best serve Routt County through a proactive and focused approach for our work.
Every community has its own story — a story that begins with something significant and continues along a progressive timeline uniquely special to that community.
At Historic Routt County, our goal is to help our special places talk so they can breathe added life into Routt County's distinctive and compelling story. We preserve, restore, reconstruct and represent identified structures that best showcase significant milestones along Routt County's unique timeline, and we think that an inclusive and organized architectural legacy is important to show the breadth and depth of our county's story.
Our current chapter of preservation projects includes Crossan's M&A Market in Yampa, Rehder Ranch in Pleasant Valley, Foidel Canyon Schoolhouse near Oak Creek and Hahn's Peak Lookout near Clark. The combined stories — both past and present — of these unique places, all contribute to the massive, intertwined story of mining, mercantilism, education, ingenuity, ranching, farming and skiing (and more) that is Routt County.
I want to take a moment to thank all of our wonderful partners and organizations that have contributed to our story-telling success for 2014: History Colorado/Colorado State Historical Fund; National Trust for Historic Preservation Peter Grant Fund; Routt County Museum and Heritage Fund Advisory Board; Routt County Board of Commissioners; Routt County Historic Preservation Board; Yampa Valley Community Foundation; Friends of Crossan's volunteer group; town of Yampa; Dobell Contracting Company Inc.; Mountain Architecture Design Group P.C.; Thira Inc.; Yampa Valley Land Trust; Steamboat Engineering and Architectural Design Inc.; USDA Forest Service; Peabody Energy/Twentymile Mine; H.E. Rogers Construction LLC; Historical Society of Oak Creek and Phippsburg; Yampa Valley Sustainability Council; Bud Werner Memorial Library; Chief Theater; Bob McHugh; Jack Dysart; Paul Bonnifield; Steamboat Today; American Institute of Architects Colorado Chapter; Tread of Pioneers Museum; Steamboat Art Museum; Colorado Preservation Inc.; Community Agriculture Alliance; and Northwest Colorado Cultural Heritage Tourism Program.
To all of you (and anyone I most likely have forgotten), thank you. On behalf of Historic Routt County's board of directors and advisory board of directors, our very favorite thing is working with you to keep Routt County's story alive and fresh — a story that truly has something for everyone.
Meg Tully is a certified association executive and executive director of Historic Routt County as well as owner of Nonprofit Know How, which provides services to nonprofits of all shapes and sizes.
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All week we have been talking about Jay's work's open house. Addi was super excited to see where Daddy works and talked about it non-stop. Well, Saturday morning we woke up and started getting ready. I grabbed the laptop and sat in bed to check the weather report and Addi ran off. A few minutes later I went to look for her and she was sitting in her bed.
She had gone downstairs, got her toy laptop, and was doing exactly what I was doing. So cute.
Right before we left the house, Addi grabbed her computer again and I asked why she was bringing it. She said, "I need it for work." Apparently she thought she was going to work too! Funny girl.
Then Addi got to sit into a fire truck and was SUPER excited. Between fire trucks and school buses, the kid doesn't know which to love more.
Sam of course took it all in and loved every minute. Here she is in the new testing facility - very impressive!
Finally, Addi got to climb up into a few machines and pretend to drive. She was in heaven.
Fire trucks.... running in the dirt... ice cream... what more could you want.
How Fun! Caroline would have passed out from excitement from ALL. THOSE. TRACTORS!
Hey! We were there on Saturday, too....from about 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. It is a nice facility! Jack actually liked the demonstration.


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Oak Barcelona, Guide & Review
Carrer del Rosselló, 208, Barcelona, Spain
A Video of Oak Barcelona
Located where the former club Nick Havana once used to be, Oak Club is an up and coming nightclub which is so original and authentic that it gets bombarded by crowds all year round. The décor of Oak Club has been made to look like a beach club, however, unlike other beach clubs, Oak is open all year round!
Oak Club provides a nonstop entertainment zone with the perfect beach atmosphere which many people crave. Summer or winter, Oak is always open with its original style and ambience to please their clientele.
There's no wonder behind why Oak is the most popular club amongst the young, student crowds in Barcelona. In fact, this club sees a lot of friendly student faces both local as well as international. One of the few nightclubs where you can actually get away with wearing beachwear, throwing water balloons on each other and enjoying the spectacular performances of go-go dancers, Oak club is one of a kind and extremely sought out amongst all kinds of crowds.
This is the ultimate guide to Oak Club, Barcelona. Here, you will find out everything you need to know about the different routes and modes of transport you can take there, the dress code policy, the crowds there, the kind of music and drinks you can expect, and everything else you need to know.


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The Web Became Video's Best Friend
Netflix and the Cloud
It's official: video has now completed a successful transfer to the cloud. The outstanding example of late is Netflix's tie with HBO for the most Emmy awards. This is the first time Netflix has tied with HBO in the Emmys, and it's a clear sign that the guard is changing.
Netflix is an upstart that delivers streaming video, and when it started out, not many of us pictured it competing for awards with the biggest name in prestige television, HBO. Because of the level of competition Netflix's cloud collection is delivering, HBO and other major names have jumped into the streaming game as well. Other majors who are now in the streaming space include Showtime, CBS, ESPN, DirecTV, AT&T, and Starz.
Notably, Netflix relies on Amazon's AWS for cloud hosting. With five awards for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Amazon Prime Video is no slouch in its own regard. Although Netflix is the platform delivering the majority of the award-winning goods, Amazon may be the true disruptor. Amazon Prime Video is picking up momentum, and anyone who watches Netflix should be aware that its level of service would not be possible without Amazon's cloud capacity and efficacy.
Ever since Netflix released The Square (2014), a documentary that earned the streaming service an Oscar nomination, the phrase "straight to video" has dropped its negative connotation. We can all remember the days when, if a movie went straight to video instead of theaters, it was because the production studio deemed the movie low-quality. Netflix's use of the cloud to deliver quality content means the phrase "straight to streaming video" can have positive implications.
But the cloud isn't just a place for big-name streaming services to deliver top notch video. It's also a quotidian place for all sorts of projects.
The Versatile Video Cloud
Thanks to smartphones and apps, anyone can start filming at a moment's notice. However, there's more to it than that — there's the matter of actually producing the thing for consumption. Any business looking to tap into an audience driven by visual input needs to produce a video that looks professional.
When it comes to videos, 90 percent of people use them to help make decisions about what they're going to buy. In the larger scheme of the information economy, 95 percent of people retain information through video, versus 10 percent through text.
That means it's very important for marketers and communicators to produce effective videos. After filming, editing begins, and that's where cloud steps in. There are multiple cloud-based video editors vying for space, and some of their features are about as novel as it gets. For beginners, Magisto uses AI to detect emotion, pick music accordingly, and make transitions — effectively editing the video for you. It also provides a huge library of stock videos. WeVideo includes cloud storage and the option to edit footage offline. And Loopster allows teams of people to edit videos in the cloud, with a ton of visual effects and sound effects available to users.
For people who are serious about editing in the cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud is the same SaaS that James Cameron used to work on Avatar. The production teams for Deadpool and Gone Girl also used Creative Cloud's Premiere Pro application.
Storing Video on the Cloud
Although there's a lot of creative freedom and innovation going on with video on the cloud, a survey conducted by EverPresent revealed that 82 percent of families aren't confident their videos are backed up on the cloud. In other words, storing valuable videos and photos isn't the primary priority for consumers, even though they might wish otherwise. Particularly when it comes to Apple products, backing up smartphone and tablet data is more of a nuisance than anything else.
Reporting some of the latest findings from Cisco, ZDnet points out that streaming video, social networking, and search are among the most popular cloud applications for consumers. Once people really begin transferring their digital videos to cloud storage in earnest, and as streaming video becomes the main game in town, cloud data centers are going to see an astronomical amount of traffic. That's because video takes up so much space, and streaming video takes up a lot of bandwidth.
Video will contribute to a huge increase in the number of hyperscale data centers — an estimated 628 in 2021, compared with 338 in 2016. Overall, cloud data center traffic will make up 95 percent of all data center traffic, and total data center traffic will increase to about 19.5 zettabytes per year.
It only makes sense to store and stream videos on the cloud, and since that's the case, it looks like mega-companies like Amazon and IBM stand to win out with their IaaS solutions — even more than they already are.
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Daniel Matthews
Daniel Matthews is a freelance writer from Boise, ID. Daniel received his Bachelor's in English from Boise State University in 2006, and is currently working on a book about the 2008 financial crisis. Widely-published online, he specializes in research and analysis that sheds light on the intersection of tech, business, and current affairs. Daniel is an avid writer and technology enthusiast whose mission is to bring journalistic integrity and informed opinions to his audience in ways that make them think differently about the world. You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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The Humane Society of El Paso is very sorry for your loss and wants to help you find closure. That's why the HSEP operates the only pet crematorium in the City and County of El Paso.
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Abbi was working on about 24 hours of diarrhea, which by itself isn't a big deal as long as she doesn't become dehydrated and, of course, there is no sign of blood. We were prepared to call the doctor this morning if things hadn't improved.
Bedtime went well and Abbi was asleep by 8pm. Around 10:30, she let out some cries from her crib that we had to check out. Em got up with her and none of the tricks to get her back to sleep worked. It wasn't long and Em called me to help take Abbi's temperature. Abbi was crying and flailing around so it was hard for one person to hold the thermometer under her armpit. When I got out the the living room, Abbi was just in her diaper and completely inconsolable.
We were getting readings that were border line 'fever'. We decided to call the doctor's office and speak with the on-call physician. Sure, by this time it was 11:30pm on a national holiday but unfortunately sickness and Father Time don't always see eye to eye.
We waited 30 minutes and hadn't received a call. This had happened to us once before. When we saw Abbi's doctor the next day he said 'that should never happen' and if we don't receive a call in 20-30 minutes to call the answering service back. Initially, the service sends a short text to the doctor's pager and if that doesn't work, they try the cell phone and then the home phone. After the 30 minutes, we called the answering service back (both times they were pleasant and professional) and we were assured they would get in contact with the on-call doctor.
By this time, Abbi had fallen back asleep but we still weren't happy with the temperature readings. Finally, 20 minutes later (12:25am) the phone rings. It was the answering service saying "We've got the doctor on the other line, we're going to patch him in." After those few awkward seconds of "Hello", "Are you there?", the doctor that was on the phone was Abbi's physician who was not on call last night. Apparently, the service couldn't get a hold of the on-call doctor via pager, cell phone or home phone and they called Abbi's doctor at home.
So we were both disappointed and a little impressed with the experience. Had we not had previous directions from the pediatrician to call back after 20-30 minutes, we wouldn't have known any better. Staring at my phone waiting for the call was like watching water boil. On the other hand, I don't think Abbi's regular doctor who was not on call had any obligation to call us after midnight on a holiday. Kudos Dr. Swicker!
What have been your experiences with on-call doctors after hours? What do you think is a reasonable time frame for a return call?
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Spyglass, Inc (ancienne valeur NASDAQ : SPYG), était une société de logiciels Internet basée à Champaign dans l'Illinois, aux États-Unis.

L'entreprise a été fondée en 1990 à l'université de l'Illinois à Urbana-Champaign et fut créée pour commercialiser les technologies et soutenir le National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Elle a été rachetée en 2000 par OpenTV.

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Entreprise informatique ayant son siège aux États-Unis
Entreprise fondée en 1990
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Built in 1860, Beau Rivage is one of the first hotels in Nice located by the famous Promenade des Anglais. Late nineteenth century facade, creative architecture, and modern design rhyme with the warmth of Provence, the decorative pebbles and the fine woods at the Beau Rivage.
The sober and functional rooms are designed in a refined style inspiring serenity with precious fabrics, eiderdowns, local photos and Niçard wooden shutters. The advanced equipments complete the minimalist decor reflecting the vision of the designer.
Les Galets restaurant & bar will delight your palates with succulent specialties, in a cozy space blending quietness and modern comforts.
With pebbles and teak terrace, the Beau Rivage beach offers Zen and trendy spaces, offering a soothing and fancy ambiance in an original setting.
Beau Rivage Hotel is located in the heart of Old Nice, a short walk from the seafront, 5 minutes from downtown and 15 minutes from the airport.
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Lauren Bruner, one of last survivors of USS Arizona, dies at 98
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Lauren Bruner, one of the last four survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona by Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941, died Tuesday in California. He was 98.
"We are deeply saddened to share the news that Pearl Harbor Survivor Lauren Bruner has passed away," the Pearl Harbor National Memorial said in a Facebook post on Wednesday. "Lauren has come back to Hawaii many times over the years and was well known to many of us here at the visitor center. He will be greatly missed."
Bruner, who was a 21-year-old fire controlman third class in charge of the ship's .50-caliber guns, was the second to last person to leave the burning ship after the onslaught by the Japanese.
In a 2014 interview with Arizona Public Radio, he recalled that on the morning of Dec. 7 he raced up from below the ship's deck when the attack began. He said he saw a Japanese plane fly by so closely that he could see the pilot's face with a "big old grin on his face, mouth wide open."
"I could see all those teeth," Bruner recalled. "You wanted to reach and bust him one."
The Arizona was hit with four bombs – one of them hitting past three levels of the ship and into a powder magazine.
Bruner and five others were stranded on the sinking ship and were able to escape by grappling for 70 feet on a rope to a nearby repair ship, the USS Vestal.
Despite having burns on over 70 percent of his body, Bruner recovered and was later assigned to the USS Coghlan, where he participated in eight major engagements in the Aleutian Islands and seven operations in the South Pacific.
He retired from the Navy in 1947.
Bruner, who received the Purple Heart, chronicled his experience of the attack in "Second to the Last to Leave USS Arizona," a book he co-authored in 2017.
With his death, only three more survivors of the USS Arizona are still alive: Don Stratton, 97, Lou Conter, 98, and Ken Potts, 98.
"Lauren was always quick with a laugh and had a smile that would brighten an entire room. Lauren will truly be missed not just by us, but by the world," Stratton wrote in a Facebook post. "Rest in peace dear sailor. Your story will ALWAYS be remembered."
Bruner will be interred on the USS Arizona with his fallen comrades.


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Polymeters in Unexpected Places
William Ennis Thomson
Published online: 4 April 2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18177/sym.2014.54.fr.10548
PDF: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26574389
polymeter
American popular song
The American songbook repertoire of our musical past—the 1930s through the 1950s—is not where one usually seeks abstruse metric and rhythmic details. The very nature of that repertoire— and especially its demands on performers—deems complications undesirable. A song in 4/4 bears accents on beats one and three; divisions of those beats normally do nothing to contradict a 1-2-3-4 makeup. Syncopations are merely diversions from the norm—the norm lingering in the background. For those who doubt this claim, I suggest a careful examination of collections of such songs, like those in the old "Fake Book" of the 1940s, where hundreds of such songs can be found in their original notations.
For this reason, I was shocked to find an oddity that contradicts the norm. It's a classic example of polymetric successions, no less complex—in its own special way—than what one might find in classic phrases by Bartók or Piston. That rare veering from the norm occurs in "But Not for Me," a song from the classic Gershwin show Girl Crazy of 1930. Gershwin's notation is in simple Alla-breve meter, yet a careful examination of the tune's sonic and lexical realities yields striking exceptions to the specified norm. Within that conventional Alla-breve housing resides a succession of groupings that can only be described as threes and twos, defying the metric balance of 2/2 plus 2/2. A metric scansion of the text for the first verse of Gershwin's song need not be complex, as shown below (accents are in bold letters).
They're wri-ting songs of love, but not for me;
A luck-y star's above, but not for me.
With love to lead the way,
I've found more clouds of gray
Than an-y Russ-ian play could guar-an-tee.
And, of course, this ordering might be set to music in many different ways. The choice of any one must fit rhythmic outcomes to pitch desires; any final result depends upon the message the composer wishes to transmit. It might be harbored in a melody of far more complex structure than its lexical structure implies, as it is spoken in the English language.
I have included enough of the tune here to undergird my claim of mixed meters. Those who find that claim questionable should sing through the song to enjoy its rhythmic treats. Perhaps my reader will even be seduced into joining my search for yet more examples of such eccentric delights.
The Gershwin piano arrangement, made in 1930, only broadens the sense of eccentricity. Most interesting is the way it sometimes strengthens the polymetric version. At other times, it does not.
Piano Version, verse measures 17-25 (which correspond to. 1-8)
As the piano arrangement makes clear, chord changes sometimes underline melodic blockings, and at other times contradict them. In its first three measures the I–V-I-V-I progression supports the melody's 3-3-2 scansion. The I-V-I that moves from ms. 2, then concludes in ms. 3, undergirds the melody's switch back to the duple meter that continues into ms. 4. But ms. 5, with its V/V, followed by V7 in ms. 6, does nothing to strengthen the melody's polymetric scansion. Finally, the harmonies of ms. 9, with its 2/dissonance + 2/consonance fails to confirm the lexical rhythm of strong-weak-strong ("can't dis-miss") as well as the 3/4 meter implied by the polymetric scheme.
Put together, these items are likely reasons this song continues to be more fetching than many others of the same vintage. This presence of improbable rhythmic conditions, in what one expects to be simple and straightforward scansions, provides but another surprise in the analytical hat. As Lawyer Frazier said to Bess about "deevoce" without marriage, "It's a complication."
I may have misinterpreted some of these passages. The interactions of melody, harmony and text are indeed complex. But I am convinced that the presence of metric shifts is supported by sonic reality, even if some of my interpretations seem to be a bit left of center.
There are yet other examples in the American songbook repertoire. Songs like "America," from Bernstein's West Side Story are rooted in rhythmic patterns of a recurring polymetric scheme, a 6/8—3/4 pattern introduced even in the song's introduction. One might call it "recurring syncopation," but the designation polymetric fits as well.
"America," Bernstein's West Side Story
I have no doubt that there are many other examples of such metric irregularities in the American songbook repertoire of the past eight decades. Music theorists have ignored them over the years, mainly because other factors—most of them dealing with pitch—have captivated our theoretical interest. True, the polymetric occurrences are not numerous. Despite long and careful searches of the repertory, I have found few whose characteristics quite match those of "But Not For Me". Two that I do find eligible are classics of the faded pop genre: "Good Night Sweetheart" and "I Can Dream, Can't I?". Both are shown next, brackets displaying their metric irregularities.
Good Night Sweetheart, Ray Noble and Jimmie Campbell, 1931
One captivating aspect of this first sample is its usual following of a three grouping by one that is unclear, as in the line "may make us for-lorn." The three groupings are nonetheless not hidden, although they are less obvious than those from the beginning of "I Can Dream, Can't I?".
I Can Dream, Can't I?, Sam Fain, 1937
Perhaps these little gems will spur my readers on to discover other such mixes of meter where a constancy of simplicity is assumed to dwell. Best wishes!
Bernstein, Leonard. "America." Vocal Selections from West Side Story. New York City: G. Schirmer Inc., 1957.
Fain, Sam. "I Can Dream, Can't I?". New York City: RKO Building, Chappell & Co. Inc., 1937.
Gershwin, George. "But Not For Me." Gershwin Classics. 12-15. Los Angeles: Warner Bros. Publications, 1936/1963.
Noble, Ray and Campbell, Jimmie. "Good Night Sweetheart". New York City: Robbins Music Co., by arrangement with Campbell, Connelly & Co., London, 1931.
After a youth playing jazz trumpet and French Horn, the professional life of William Ennis Thomson (b. 1927, Ft. Worth, Texas) was devoted to collegiate-level music theory and composition. His primary thrust in research and writing centered upon the cognitive/perceptual foundation of music, but the range of his many books and articles extends to political and historical aspects of academe. A complete listing of published articles can be found in Wikipedia, (William Ennis Thomson).
His academic history includes Music School, University of Southern California (Professor and Dean, 1980–1992; SUNY-Buffalo (Music Chair and Ziegle Professor, 1975–80); University of Arizona (Director, Graduate Studies 1972–75); Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Institute of Music (Kulas Professor, 1969–72); Indiana University (Music Theory Chair,1961–69)); University of Hawaii (Scholar in Residence, 1967–68); Sul Ross State College (Prof., 1951–59); Ford Foundation Composer in Residence, Elkhart, IN (1960–61). From 1967-77 he guided the formation of the public school music curriculum for the state of Hawaii.
1975-79 Thomson chaired the Advanced Placement in Music Test Committee; 1971-75; served as Music Panel Member and Examiner for the National Endowment for the Arts; was Fellow and Policy Committee member of the Ford Foundation CMP, 1963-76; and board member, Buffalo Philharmonic,1976–80.
Early in his career Thomson composed award-winning works for band, orchestra, chorus and various chamber media. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-46, mainly as band member aboard the aircraft carrier Lexington.
Now retired from USC, he lives in Bloomington, Indiana.


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We all would do well to read or re-read perhaps, Anthony Sampson's outstanding anatomical study or investigation into the international arms trade: "The Arms Bazaar". As it gives us some perspective on how the "defence industry" has grown to become what it is now; an unwieldy Golem, that's out of control.
Currently, "the military industrial complex" seems to be thriving even in these hard times. There are mammoth weapon sales galore underway on a global scale. For instance in Asia, the U.S is bolstering militarily co-operation with its close alley and Chinese foe, by selling a large weapons package to the island of Taiwan. A regional arms race seems to be developing. This has really riled the Chinese who have "vehemently" protested by means of all diplomatic channels available to them. The reaction to Washington's planned military shipment to Taipei was swift and strident. "The People's Daily" considers the U.S. move to be a sign of a" pre-emptive cold-war mentality and moral hypocrisy," it stated.
In response to the $ 6.4 billion USD deal, Beijing has cut off all "military dialogue" with Washington in the wake of the arms deal with Taiwan. China has also threatened economic reprisals. Beijing is considering sanctions against U.S defence firms involved with Taiwanese the deal such as "Boeing" corporation which has reportedly sold 12 missiles to Taiwan as part of the overall sale. The arms shipment to Taiwan totals in all, 114 patriot missiles and 60 attacks Black Hawk helicopters (1).
Analysts are concerned about the growing tensions which could perhaps occur along the strait of Taiwan for instance, which separates mainland China from the "break-away" Island. At a recent meeting meeting of strategic experts in London this week, the IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies) chief specifically referred to a possible stand-off developing, between the US and Chinese navies. "Defining ways in which the two navies might acceptably operate in areas near to China would be a good subject for the military-to-military talks… that unfortunately can easily be placed in jeopardy when the countries find themselves in a political dispute, especially over Taiwan," the institute's director, John Chipman remarked recently (2).
Hence the risk of an armed confrontation between the old (U.S) and new (rising China) superpower rises each day.
Middle-East, Persian Gulf: More military tinder is stacked for the pyre or fire to come.
Shifting to the Middle East, there are resurging tensions with Iran. They are reaching potentially explosive levels. The U.N. plans further and more stringent sanctions against Tehran, as part of the on-going efforts by the West to curb Iranian nuclear ambitions. In the view of NYT columnist Thomas Friedman, "If these sanctions prove incapable of getting Iran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program, the chances for a U.S. or Israeli military strike against Iran will grow very high before the end of this year. Here in the Persian Gulf, apprehension is off the charts." His words of warning appear to be far from empty rhetoric. They may be a veiled threat of what may happen next.
Furthermore, in addition to the sanction regime against Tehran, arms deals are being done to further intimidate Iran. These weapons sales are most likely meant to contain the potential belligerent by rearming the Persian Gulf region. As part of the record $ 708 billion USD allocated by Congress for military spending in 2011, the Obama administration is "boosting friendly states' military capabilities."(3) This military build up is obviously meant to offset Iran's strategic missile threat. Thus, Washington plans to sell a $ 410 million USD "Patriot" missile defence system to Kuwait, and another similar system worth $ 7.8 Billion USD, to Turkey. And in doing so, further encircling Iran with "defensive" deterrents.
In addition, to re-arming the Gulf region there are also "substantial" armament sales to other regional allies such as Egypt, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates in the works according to the Financial Times newspaper (Ibid).
The Russians want to get into the Game too.
Russia has signed a deal with Libya to supply with small-arms and other weapons to the value of $1.8bn (£1.1bn, 1.3bn euros), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has announced (4).
The Lybiandefence minister, Yunis Jaber was in Moscow recently to negotiate this "arms package". Russian media sources have reported the deal includes 20 fighter aircraft, a mobile missile defence system known as the "S-300". It also includes "T-90C" type tanks. Indeed, the world is witnessing an arms sales bonanza, which risks setting volatile regions in Asia, the Persian Gulf and North Africa ablaze.


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Sean Hannity, who earns tens of millions of dollars every year and aggressively evicts his own tenants who get behind on their rent, thinks government workers earning a fraction of what he does should suffer the "inconvenience" of going without pay in order to help super-wealthy Donald Trump get taxpayer funding for his border wall that Mexico for.
According to Forbes, Hannity earned in 2018, alone. That does not seem to account for earnings from his . Yet while Hannity oh, so sincerely professed "sympathy" for those who are "inconvenienced" by going without their paychecks, he did not offer to go without any of his own earnings to help tide them over. He did not even offer to go easier on any of his own working class tenants he so when they get behind on their rents, even when it's due to hospitalization.
Hannity spoke with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Monday night after Donald Trump's Oval Office address. Predictably, Hannity ignored the fact checking on his own network, which preceded his show, in order to bolster Trump and perpetuate the fear mongering lies about immigrants.
Why Graham wanted in on the con is a mystery to me. But he laughably said about , "This is the most presidential I've seen President Trump. It was compelling and everything he said was true." And, "Illegal immigration's on the rise because our policies are attracting people here." FACT CHECK: Fox News had just noted that government statistics find illegal immigration is on the decline.
According to , Graham is one of the least wealthy U.S. senators. But he's a comfy salary of $174,000.
Graham and Hannity dismissed the of the affected government workers (nearly 14% of whom than $50,000 a year) as no biggie. Even as the pair feigned sympathy, they also suggested that it is the patriotic duty of government workers to sacrifice their financial safety nets for the cause. Yet neither Hannity nor Graham indicated they'd be making any of their own sacrifices.
HANNITY: I know it is inconvenient for those furloughed employees [Graham laughed]. I acknowledge and I can sympathize with them. I know their checks are going to be delayed in some cases and – but it's a partial government shutdown. Essential services are up and running. And that constitutes what, two-thirds to seventy percent of the government stays open.
HANNITY: And I do want these people that have been furloughed to get back money, etcetera. But the point is, if the president doesn't take the stand here, fully, do you see any other path that he can use, that he will get the money to stop the crimes from happening on our southern border? The drug trafficking, human trafficking, some criminal elements that want to cross over our border?
GRAHAM: I've been dealing with this since 2006. This is the best chance I've seen to get a deal. The president made a compelling case tonight for more border security and I think he is right to ask for more money to secure our border.
As to the government employees, I'm sorry you're in the middle of this mess but you'll get your back pay. You're gonna be fully compensated. Ms. Singh [wife of a police officer killed by an undocumented immigrant] is not going to get her husband back. To all those people who have lost loved ones from illegal immigration, your loved ones are not coming back. So I'm bound and determined to see this thing through.
Yes, some () workers will get their back pay. But in the meanwhile, they have to feed their families, get medicines, pay mortgages and rents, car payments, insurance, etc. Apparently, Hannity and Graham think that's a great deal in return for Trump's "."
HANNITY: The question is here, we're talking about on the one hand we're gonna have some people that work for our government that are inconvenienced. I am sympathetic to that. But I am also sympathetic to the parents that were on this program last night. I'm sympathetic to the five-month-old little boy of a police officer in California that will never see his father for the rest of his life. And I'm sympathetic to the victims of crime. Are your fellow Republicans willing to say life and death is more important than a delayed paycheck and an inconvenience?
GRAHAM: To my Republican colleagues, this is the best chance we'll ever have to help President Trump get border wall funding, steel barrier funding and at the same time fix the loop holes. … If we'll stand firm, put deals on the table that make sense, we will win this on behalf of the American people. But if we undercut the president, that's the end of his presidency and the end of our party and we deserve to be punished if we give in now.
Watch Hannity and Graham all but openly admit that they don't mind making working people suffer for the sake of partisan politics above, from the January 8, 2019 Hannity.


Z. ALL OF THE FEELS. Read it. That is all.
LOL, I guess I should share more about Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward the third book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Yes, I am finally reading this series and loving every minute. Each book supports the overall ARC and shares one of the brother's romances. Addictive and well balanced with a dash of suspense Lover Awakened delivered one hell of a book high.
This series is best read in order as it has an overall arc involving the Lessers and Brotherhood. I will try to keep this spoiler free for those who have not started the series.
Zsadist better known as Z is perhaps one of the scariest and most volatile member of the brotherhood. Since the beginning, I have been drawn to Zsadist and Ward gave me everything I could have asked for. Z is severely scarred and bears the tattoo from his life as a former blood slave. He is the twin brother of Phury. He has anger issue, doesn't like to be touched, denies himself pleasure, and sleeps on the floor. I delighted in hearing his story, even as I wept for him.
Bella and Zsadist met in the previous book when she made clear she was attracted to him. Bella was taken by a lesser and in Lover Awakened, he finds Bella and their relationship begins. I loved how Ward allowed their relationship to unfold. Zsadist shared his past, bared his soul and through Bella awakened.
Their romance has all of the feels and some were downright hilarious. Moments involving Bella's cycle had me laughing so hard there were TEARS! While reading I laughed, cried, shuddered and cheered. Ward provided such an emotionally gripping romance. It was dark, and edgy, with as much pain as there was pleasure. I honestly did not know if Ward would give this couple an HEA. She had me flipping the pages and biting my nails. The book left me emotionally spent and I didn't pick up another book for almost two days!
If you are looking for a fluffy vampire romance skip the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Like the previous books, Lover Awakened was complex, with multiple threads and while at times I wanted to be with the couple, the other threads held weight and furthered the overall world and story ARC. We had threads involving John, Butch and Bella's brother giving dimension to these characters.
Ward has us spending times with the Lessers, particularly our twisted villain David, who believes Bella belongs to him. The lesser thread is dark and these characters live and breathe evil. I shiver every time we travel in David's head. We meet other lessers and learned of some of their plots.
Fantastic, engaging, and an emotional ride from beginning to end Lover Awakened is a story I would gladly read again.
This series is so crazy additive!! I love Z's story so much….
Yay so glad you loved it too!
Great review! Z is one of my favs, and I loved how Ward developed his relationship with Bella. It felt more earned, as it wasn't just insta-love. I can't wait to see what you think about the next book.
I have been reading this series recently and I adored Z and Bella as well! Gah! So many feels!!!! Great review!
I have not read this series yet. I think I'll enjoy this series coz the review makes the book sounds so interesting!
oh I just LOVED this book so dang much!!! One of the best books this author has written. These two were brilliant together…just BRILLIANT!!! I love the way Z become such a swoon worthy hero. This book and Lover Eternal are my top favorites of the series. I can't decided which one I love more to be honest, but both give me the feels.
YES….even thinking about it makes me smile and hug myself!!
lol I'm really really late in this series! I need to read the 4 first books I have at home, even in French. One day!
Enjoy! I will be reading book 4 soon!
Yessss, holy crap. So freaking feelsy! That last bit at the end, where he was writing things for her…I was a sobbing mess.
Oh she really tugs at the heartstrings!
Z is the original King of Angst!
I am glad you are reading and loving this series. I have long been eyeing it. One of these days.
I am working on two backlist series at a time. My list is sooooo long!
Z!!! Make sure you read the novella. Father Mine.
These books were my true beginning of reading as much paranormal as I do. First 8 or 9 read back to back so they all kind of mesh together as one for me. But boy do I remember Z's story! I am so happy you are loving these!
I went through that with Ilona Andrews.
So many to get through. I am trying to do a book a month.
You are making me smile with all the good memories I had from reading this for the first time. Someday I will go back and re-read b/c I really loved how the early books hit all the emotions particularly Z's book. Great quote choices!
Glad I could take you on a trip down memory lane!
YESSS!!! YESSS!!! Become addicted so we can gush about it YESS!!! I can't wait for you to get to Vishous' story which is book 5.
Hopefully I will get to 4 and 5 before years end.
I think this was the most emotionally rich book that she has ever written. It has all the feels!
Exactly Felicia. I was spent.
The most amazing book in the series! I'm so glad you're reading the series. I read the books until I got to the ninth book and switched to audio. I'm loving the narration.
Enjoy the rest of the series!
Good to know about the narration!
I recently plowed through this series. The second and third books (Rhage and Z's stories) were my faves so far. Their stories continue in the later books. Excited to hear what you think of the rest. Definitely a worthwhile read (although I must admit there were two books I skipped in the middle because I just wasn't interested enough in those particular characters. SUPER addictive series/guilty pleasure.
I can't binge ..I need at least 3-4 weeks between titles.
Z's books was SO emotional! I need to go back and read these again!
Z's story was one of my favorites.! He is awesome in so many ways.
The feels Maggie the feels!
Z IS MY FAVORITE KIM!!! I love him so, so much:) This is definitely my favorite book of the series, I'm so glad to see you loved it too:) I feel like I need to re-read this one now!
Zsadist is my FAVORITE brother. I LOVED his story. It's an emotionally journey with some hard moments barring ones soul and some fun times with Bella's cycle. J.R. Ward did this couple fabulously and the story was told so well, that it stays with you and you don't want to read anything for a few days. Those are the books that stick and you want to read again someday.
It was so good..and yes I love how she mixes darkness and humor.
I've heard this was a fabulous series for a pretty long time so hopefully you enjoy them all. Have a great weekend!
Thanks Ali…hope your weekend is relaxing!
It's so awesome to read a book and love it from beginning to end! This definitely sounds like a great series! Glad you're moving it! Great review, Kim!
I love every book of the series! Ward's writing never disappoints! I think Zsadist and Bella's story is probably my favourite among all, I also loved their spin-off Father Mine, which I think surpasses Lover Awakened (I'm still reeling from it). There's just something about Zsadist's tortured past that made him my favourite book boyfriend. Love your review and I'm glad that you liked the series!
Everyone is saying that about Father Mine. I will be sure to read it!
I go back-and forth on wanting to read this series. Mostly want. I love that it made you laugh like that.Definitely makes me want to read it more.
I love that series and this was a really great book. Glad to hear you are liking the series so far.
Glad you love the series, I am enjoying it!


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