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Joe Golem and the Drowning City: An Illustrated Novel (2012)
Written by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola
Illustrations by Mike Mignola
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Joe Golem and the Drowning City on Amazon
If you live in the Boston area, buy it at Hub Comics or Porter Square Books
You never know what you’ll get on the plate when the chef hats are hoisted onto Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and prolific author Christopher Golden (The Ferryman, The Boys Are Back). Their previous collaboration, Baltimore: Or the Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, was an exploration of world war history, but with a bloody vampiric edge. Mignola’s knowledge of folklore blends seamlessly with his obvious love of history, detective stories, and good old fashioned horror. Golden, whose writing radiates with emotional depth, is the perfect co-conspirator. When the two work together, you can be guaranteed a concoction of grotesque monsters, strange machines, and a fascinating cast of characters. You can also count on a profound sense of sincerity and humanity amidst Lovecraftian levels of horror.
Their latest tale, Joe Golem and the Drowning City, is a nightmarish steampunk vision of lower Manhattan, now 30 feet underwater as the result of cataclysmic earthquakes and flooding. Fifty years later, fiery young Molly McHugh traverses the still sinking city via rooftop, avoiding scavengers, water rats, and worse. Her employer and caretaker, the once famous magician Felix Orlov, now ekes out a living as a psychic medium. After a botched seance, Felix is taken prisoner by a group of strange men in gas masks. Molly attempts to track them down, but finds herself pursued by the monstrous masked men.
Molly is rescued by the hulking Joe Golem, a stoic brute who speaks with his massive fists. They hide out in the home of Simon Church, a brilliant but ailing detective who keeps tabs on the strange underworld. Church’s continuing life depends on a mechanical heart, keeping his ultimate foe, death, at bay for the moment. Church fears that a powerful, arcane device called Lector’s Pentaljulum will fall into the hands of the evil Dr. Cocteau.Cocteau, ringleader of the gas-masked men, has plans for the device: plans that will have him communicate with otherworldly monsters to bring about the destruction of our world.
In this sort of high stakes tale you might expect character development to take a back seat to the action. This is not the case in Joe Golem. Though there are striking descriptions of the complex subterranean world amidst white-knuckle action, the characters are equally vivid. Molly is tough and cunning, but fiercely loyal to Felix. Joe is brutish, but possesses a kindness that runs counter to Molly’s experience in the drowning city. The two form a bond, one that will have them take risks where otherwise they’d only look out for themselves. Their relationship is touching, and it speaks of the human connection for which we all long.
At the core of the story lies the question: What separates man from monster? If you’re familiar with Mignola’s work, you know there’s usually more to fear from his human characters, and kindness can manifest in terrifying, hulking creatures. Joe Golem is akin to Hellboy in that his rough-and-tumble exterior is betrayed by a kind heart. One might find either of them petting a kitten shortly after pummeling a giant beast. Once Joe’s true nature is revealed, it’s remarkable he’s able to feel much at all. Joe’s back story fuels a bittersweet final act full of teary goodbyes.
Most of all, Joe Golem and the Drowing City is about finding family in unlikely places. When you’re cold and alone, surrounded by rising water, attacked by masked monsters, what better comfort than to find companionship in a person whose very existence is to fight evil? That’s one hell of a friend.
I can’t recommend this book enough. Buy it. That’s it.


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People are funny. On one hand, you see webs of housing developments approved in patches across the West Island that will nominally exacerbate traffic problems. On the other hand, we see Kirkland residents kiboshing a proposed 800-unit housing development on the former Merck Frosst site on the north side of the Trans-Canada Highway. With locals insisting that they need a say in what the new development will look like, the Broccolini dream weavers will no doubt have to redraft a more flattened version of six condo towers, three of 13 storeys; 142 townhouses; and 182 stacked townhouses.
On one hand, you have Pointe-Claire and Beaconsfield agonizing over how to install sound walls along Highway 20, while on the flip side you can have 800+ new residents willing to live along the even noisier and eye-cringing 40. People are funny.
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In the final analysis, the fact is that people want to live in the West Island and we have to make room. The West Island is not a gated community.

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Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson has stated that he expects a ‘terrific’ encounter against Stockport County this Saturday.
Wrexham travel to Edgeley Park in high spirits, hoping to extend their recent run of form.
Last time out, the Welsh side defeated Grimsby Town 3-0 at home, with to goals from Ollie Palmer, Will Boyle, and Elliot Lee.
Parkinson is now focused on their next opponents, as reported by the Evening Leader: “The game (against Grimsby) had a really good feel to it, the atmosphere was terrific, and it was a real, professional performance.”
“You enjoy that winning feeling but straight away this week there is a real focus on the next game, and getting the work right so we go into the Stockport game as sharp as we were on Saturday.
“It is going to be another terrific game and we go to Stockport in good spirits. We keep building and keep working, and look to keep improving.”
Wrexham head to Stockport
Wrexham and Stockport have a bit of a rivalry and the pair competed for the National League title back in 2022, with the latter coming out on top in the end. Both sides are aiming to get promoted to League One now.
Parkinson’s side were beaten on the opening day of the campaign at home to MK Dons but haven’t lost since then. They are unbeaten in their last seven league outings and have risen up to 4th in the table.
The Red Dragons have won their last three games in a row and are gaining some momentum. They are three points behind table toppers Gillingham and are outside the top three on goal difference.
Stockport County made a difficult start to the season under Dave Challinor as they nursed their wounds after losing the play-off final to Carlisle United on penalties at Wembley last season. However, they have won their previous two away games against AFC Wimbledon and MK Dons, indicating that they have turned a corner.
The game on Saturday is already beautifully poised, with two teams in a confident attitude. The stadium is also sold out, which should create an exciting atmosphere.

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Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov and BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney assess the evidence that the man in the White House may have got there thanks to the man in the Kremlin. The Donald and Vladimir: nothing to see here? Or are the Russians winning the Cold War thanks to five goals in injury time?
The session will begin with a screening of John Sweeney's documentary Trump: the Kremlin Candidate?
Here is a clip from the documentary, in which Donald Trump walks out of a 2013 interview with John in Trump Tower following questions about links with Russian-born gangster Felix Sater.
Here is another clip from the documentary, in which one of Putin's advisers walks out of an interview with John. In English with Russian subtitles.


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Study: Joint replacement patients with diabetes greatly benefit from controlled glucose
ROSEMONT, Ill. The risk of complications that diabetes patients often have when undergoing total joint replacement decreases when they have their glucose levels under control, according to a recent study.
Published in the July issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, the study found that diabetics with uncontrolled glucose levels are more than three times as likely as those with their levels under control to experience a stroke or death after joint replacement surgery, and are approximately twice as likely to experience post-operative bleeding and infection.
“We found that controlled glucose levels really do make a difference for the patient,” Duke University Medical Center orthopedic surgeon and study co-author Milford Marchant said. “It did not matter if the patient had Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.”
RetailNet Group CEO addresses retail survival in 2010 at NACDS Marketplace
BOSTON Not only is the economy on the skids and bringing retail sales down with it, but there is a generation rotation taking place in the modern trade, all of which means that retailers must stay ahead of the curve and adapt to change in order to survive. That was a key message RetailNet Group CEO Dan O’Connor had for attendees of Tuesday’s morning business session.
During his presentation, titled “Survival Retailing 2010,” O’Connor set the stage by explaining how, historically, retail sales have grown about 5%, but in today’s current economy, that growth is nonexistent as people are spending less and their purchasing power shrinks. To top it off, shelf prices are falling as retailers shift more of their focus to private label, and cash-strapped consumers increasingly migrate away from premium stores to discounters.
O’Connor also told attendees that, looking ahead, the Web likely will lead to in-store category reduction and that the future of retailing will be more about services versus merchandise. A perfect example: retail-based health clinics. “The clinics are perhaps the most important thing [being done] in this industry in a long, long time in terms of the impact it will have on the underinsured and the availability of health care,” O’Connor said.
Meanwhile, there’s a generation shift taking place at retail, which O’Connor likened to beer drinking. Think about it, O’Connor said: When people are young, they are much more experimental and will try anything (to get their hands on that beer), but as people grow older, their eagerness to try new things narrows. This next generation, which relies heavily on word-of-mouth and lives on the Web, is arriving.
O’Connor suggested that, in order to thrive, retailers must “win search.” Today’s shoppers are precise in their buying habits and expect to find retailers on the Web, a listing of products and the price. This is especially important given the ease of using online price-comparison tools.
The fundamental question is: How long will this economic environment last?
“There is no indicator that tells us we will be out of the woods in the next 12 months,” said O’Connor, who thinks it will be more like at least 18 months. “… We suggest it will be a 36- to 48-month cycle from beginning to end when we will see back-to-back quarters [of rising retail sales].”
FDA seeks public comment on tobacco regulations
ROCKVILLE, Md. The Food and Drug Administration wants input from the public regarding its new authority to regulate tobacco products under legislation signed into law last week by President Barack Obama.
In a Federal Register notice, the agency announced that it would seek public comment about topics ranging from product contents to advertising and marketing. All public comments will be posted online.
“We’re interested in receiving input from across the country as the FDA begins to implement this important new authority intended to reduce the enormous toll of suffering and death caused by tobacco products in the United States,” FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg said. “We look forward to the public’s response.”
In addition to imposing stringent new regulations on tobacco products, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act creates a new office within the FDA, the Center for Tobacco Products, to oversee regulation of the industry.


text: I'm sure this is just par for the course for trading, but wow, just wow. I enter into a trade, and arbitrarily set a random stop below my entry. You know what happens next. Some how, the market always falls as soon as buy in, hits my stop on the penny and then proceeds to go way up. What the hell ? I've seen this time and time again, and it makes me laugh. I mean really, what are the chances that I picked the exact low point to the cent. I'm not even using S/R or pivot pts. And yes, I know the market isnt out to get me, I just think its funny how it works out for a 1yr old trading newbie like myself Perhaps its the market makers , I'm not sure, but I'm considering trading without stops and only selling when I see key indicators turning against me.

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Hunter Geophysics is currently developing the iOnTheSky aurora-monitoring camera network. Each camera in the network automatically takes a photograph every five minutes and allows Aurora Australis photographers to see what the Aurora Australis, light pollution, and weather conditions are like at any given moment.
There are currently five cameras installed throughout Tasmania (although one was offline for maintenance on the 31st August). We eventually hope to install dozens of cameras around the world. The footage from these cameras will be made available to the general public via iPhone and Android apps, which will hopefully be released in late 2017.
The below video shows the camera footage from the four operational cameras from 10am 31st August 2017 to 10am 1st September 2017 (from 00:00 to 23:55 on the 31st August 2017, UTC).
The four cameras are situated in Barrington (north Tasmania), Campbell Town (mid-northeast Tasmania), Bothwell (central Tasmania), and Ranelagh (southwest of Hobart, southern Tasmania). The fifth camera (which was offline that day) is based in Abels Bay (slightly further southeast from Ranelagh).


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5 July 2017
This half-day conference aims to bring together in conversation scholars and artists working across the boundaries of the humanities and the social sciences exploring the cultural aspects of urban life and the importance of culture nowadays in the make-up of so called post-industrial, creative cities. The occasion for the conference is the launch of the book:
Mari Paz Balibrea. The Global Cultural Capital. Addressing the Citizen and Constructing the City in Barcelona. Basingstoke:Palgrave MacMillan, 2017
PANEL 1: 2:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Fernando Sdrigotti (Birkbeck, U of London). The Politics of Space in New Argentine Cinema
In this paper, I will discuss the representation of Buenos Aires in Pizza, birra, faso, one of the most pivotal films of New Argentine Cinema. Paying attention to some of the film’s salient aspects vis-a-vis its portrayal of urban space, my analysis will have as its ultimate goal to reveal the ways in which the film engages in a political critique that might seem absent if studied solely from a narrative point of view. In this sense, Pizza, birra, faso is a paradigmatic example of the ways in which many of the films of New Argentine Cinema engaged with their political context differently to films of the post-dictatorship generation. To unearth this political content, I will argue, it is necessary to study these films as films, and not merely as texts
Luis Manuel García (U. of Birmingham). At home, I’m a tourist: Musical migration and affective citizenship in Berlin
This presentation explores the ways in which musical, sonic, and more broadly sensory experiences of Berlin provide the ground for an ambivalent sense of civic belonging for a cadre of migrants affiliated with the city’s local electronic dance music scenes. Drawn from ethnographic fieldwork, the accounts of these ‘techno migrants’ articulate an identification with Berlin’s local music scenes as well as with other emotional/felt aspects of the city. These affective identifications provide a means of sustaining a fantasy of belonging to a place where one remains foreign, relying on immersion in and identification with the city’s atmospheres to hold in abeyance the alienating aspects of migration.
PANEL 2: 4pm – 5:45 pm
Xavier Ribas (U. of Brighton). Photography and Urban Peripheries.
This presentation will discuss three photographic series by Ribas focusing on Barcelona’s peripheries.
Marc Morell (U. of Illes Balears). Urban Labour and the Tourist City. Notes from Ciutat de Mallorca
This talk deals with the production of the tourist city by drawing on the presence and activities of different class fractions that inhabit and visit the capital city of Mallorca and its nearby tourist resorts. By establishing the political and economic appropriations that are made of the representations developed upon these fractions, I look into the labour cooperation that makes tourist cities happen to conclude that the economic success of the competitive tourist city needs wide class gaps in between those fractions that work within a same chain of production value.
BOOK LAUNCH 6pm – 7:30 pm
Mari Paz Balibrea. The Global Cultural Capital. Addressing the Citizen and Constructing the City in Barcelona. Palgrave, 2017.
The author will be in conversation with Monica Degen, Brunel U.


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Investigating the Role of Toll-Like Receptors in Models of Arthritis.
Piccinini AM., Williams L., McCann FE., Midwood KS.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized by persistent synovial inflammation leading to tissue destruction and progressive loss of joint function. Here we describe two methods that can be used to assess the contribution of toll-like receptors (TLRs), and their potential ligands, to RA pathogenesis. We focus on the antigen-induced model of murine arthritis and human synovial tissue explant models. Both enable detection of TLR, and TLR ligand, expression, as well as investigation of the effect of inhibition of these molecules. Each offers a unique insight into disease; with murine models allowing kinetic analysis in live animals and explant models allowing examination of inflamed human tissue, which together can help us to dissect the role of TLRs in the onset and progression of RA.

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The world feels like it’s becoming more and more technical by the day, and sometimes by the hour or the minute. Technology and information are advancing rapidly, and as they continue to evolve, so too will their place in everyday life. The technology integration trend can already be seen in a myriad of ways. From how we communicate, to how we shop, and even how we work. The prominence of remote work and the virtual economy was heightened during the last few years of the global pandemic. When COVID-19 hit, society began a swift transition into a virtual world. Many organizations and individuals were more than ready for this shift. However, this wave blindsided many others. The consumer segment considered to be digitally native, were largely ready to embrace this new technological and virtual era. This is, at least in part, due to some of the ways technology has already been integrated into everyday life for the past few decades. The generational gap between those born before smart-technology or the internet, and those who were born with it readily available, is more than just ideological. Being introduced to technology and information as early on as new generations have been, there are actual fundamental differences in thought processes. This is important to understand when considering how to develop organic customer engagement with a modern audience.
The modern economy is defined by the customer relationship. This is due to the intersection of technology, transparency, and previously overlooked issues becoming urgent and prevalent. For example, the undeniable science of climate change has completely changed the way that conscious businesses operate. This is also because, thanks to technology and the internet of things (IoT), the average consumer now has access to the necessary information to support businesses based on things like environmental consciousness, if they choose. In turn, this forces businesses that want to stay competitive to operate in ways that align with their desired consumer demographics. Understanding how valuable the customer relationship is, is only one half of the equation. The other is putting it into practice. As such, here’s Topdown Systems list of customer engagement best practices for 2022.
Organizations of all types are using more technology today in day-to-day operations than ever before. Marketing and communication professionals have not sat idly by as they now incorporate sophisticated software to segment and communicate with their audience.


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Mathematics is kept alive by the appearance of new unsolved problems, problems posed from within mathematics itself, and also from the increasing number of disciplines where mathematics is applied. This book provides a steady supply of easily understood, if not easily solved, problems which can be considered in varying depths by mathematicians at all levels of mathematical maturity.
For this new edition, the author has included new problems on symmetric and asymmetric primes, sums of higher powers, Diophantine m-tuples, and Conway’s RATS and palindromes. The author has also included a useful new feature at the end of several of the sections: lists of references to OEIS, Neil Sloane’s Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
About the First Edition:
"…many talented young mathematicians will write their first papers starting out from problems found in this book."
- András Sárközi, MathSciNet
Content Level »Graduate
Keywords »Mersenne prime - Prime - Prime number - Zahlentheorie - number theory

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Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Author: Gabriela Garcia Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction Pub. Date: Mar. 2021 (read May 2021)
I have read some really good books this month and Of Women and Salt is definitely one of them. I’ve been seeing a lot of buzz about it over the past few months but I couldn’t quite pin down what the plot was. I gathered it was a multi-generational immigrant story and honestly, I didn’t need to hear any more, I was sold.
We put this on our book club voting list and it lost to The Lost Apothecary, which is really too bad because I think my book club would have enjoyed this a lot more than they enjoyed The Lost Apothecary. This book is centered around women, primarily the relationships between mothers and daughters. It’s another story that is told non-linearly (seriously, I’ve read so many of these this year), but this is one of the books where I didn’t mind the non-linear telling. Overall the plot is pretty simple, so I didn’t find it difficult to jump around as the novel focuses more on the character relationships than anything else.
The novel kicks off in 19th century Cuba and then jumps around from there. Though someone from almost every generation of this Cuban immigrant family are featured throughout the novel, most of our time is spent close to present day with the youngest woman in the family, Jeanette. When she witnesses her neighbour being taken away by ICE in the middle of the night, she inadvertently becomes guardian to her neighbour’s daughter for a short period of time. Though they only know each other for a few days, the experience has a profound impact on both Jeanette and the young girl, Ana.
I’m glad the novel focused on these two individuals because I did find their stories to be some of the most memorable and meaningful of the book. Though I did love the development of both Jeanette’s relationship with her mom (Carmen), and her Mom’s relationship with Jeanette’s grandmother (Delores). Beyond Delores, I don’t think going further back in the family tree really added that much to the story. The inclusion of the family tree at the start was definitely a good idea, I could see this being really confusing otherwise.
Some might question how much Ana and her mother’s story really belonged in this book, but I loved the comparison of two different immigration stories and though they are only loosely linked to one another, I thought the inclusion of both really made this a more well rounded story.
Honestly, my only complaint about this book is that it could have been longer. It’s only about 200 pages and I really would have loved to spend more time with each of the women in this family, particularly Carmen. I felt like I had good insight into Dolores’ perspective, but I would have loved to hear more about Carmen’s experience immigrating to America and what it was like growing up under the shadow of her childhood trauma. Abuse was passed down from generation to generation in this family and I think that Garcia could have really developed this theme more to make her narrative even more impactful. I just wanted a little bit more from each of the characters, but the writing was so beautiful I’m definitely excited to see what the author will write next. An excellent debut!
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Author: Linda Rui Feng Genres: Historical Fiction Pub. Date: May 2021 (read May 2021)
I haven’t been seeing that much buzz about this book, so I have no idea how it got on my radar, but I found the name super compelling. Then when I read the plot and saw it was blurbed by Jean Kwok, I was super interested in reading it.
What an understated book. It’s a simple plot with simple storytelling, but I really enjoyed it. I really like Linda Rui Feng’s style of writing and thought it was really lyrical storytelling about a family that becomes separated by time and circumstance. From the synopsis, this is the story of two parents who immigrate to America and leave their daughter with their parents in law, promising to come back for her on her 12th birthday. But the daughter, Junie, loves her life in Trout River and doesn’t know that her parents have become estranged in their new country.
The story delivered on this plot, but it’s really only a small part of what this book covers. I expected the book to mostly be about Junie, but it’s actually primarily about her parents and their connections to music. It’s not so much a multi generational story as a story of her parents growing up, their journey together, and then their journey apart. Her father, Momo, grows up in Trout River and is one of the first people to succeed and get out of the village, leaving to get a university education. There he meets Dawn, a budding violinist who teaches him to play ahead of China’s cultural revolution. Finally, he eventually meets his wife, Cassia, a nurse who has experienced her own loss through the revolution.
Like I said, it’s an understated novel about growing up and subtly addresses the impact the cultural revolution had on many of its citizens, without being a heavy novel solely about the revolution. It’s about family, the ones we make and the ones we choose, and who we might be if events in our lives had gone differently. It’s not a long book and made for a really enjoyable read.
The only part I didn’t really like was the ending. I found it very abrupt and would have preferred to spend a bit more time getting to know Junie rather than just her parents. That said, I loved Dawn’s character and even though she wasn’t a part of the main family, she was my favourite part of the book! Check it out if you’re looking for something a little different.
I have so many thoughts on this book. I’m not a big movie goer, but I saw Brooklyn in theatres when it came out at the recommendation of a friend and fell in love with the movie. I didn’t even realize it was a book until several years later – but it didn’t have the best reviews on Goodreads, so I decided to give it a pass. About a month ago I stumbled across a copy in a second hand bookstore and decided to revisit the story and give the book a try.
The movie stays very close to the book, so it’s hard to separate one from the other. As reviews suggest, the writing is good, but not great. The author has a very ‘matter of fact’ way of telling the story that can seem a little bland next to some other books. That said, I enjoyed the book a lot more than I thought I would – Toibin is still a good writer, it’s just not the kind of moving writing that you give 5 stars too. Even so, I found the story just as compelling as the movie and flew through it in just 2 days.
In some ways I preferred the book and enjoyed getting Eilis’ internal monologue, but in other ways I thought the movie was stronger. Eilis has an indifference to Tony in the book that doesn’t quite sell this as a love story as strongly as the movie does. The most notable difference for me was the last part of the book when Eilis returns to Ireland. The first three quarters of the movie follow the book almost verbatim, but the story diverges slightly in the last quarter. The ending of the book is almost jarring in its suddenness, but that may be because I was expecting it to continue based on the movie.
But before I get into the spoiler part of the review, I just want to talk about why I love this story. It may not be 5 star writing, but in my opinion, it’s definitely a 5 star story. Brooklyn is set following WWII, we’re not told the exact year, but based on the setting, others have dated it to the early 1950’s. Eilis grew up in a small town outside Dublin and has spent her whole life in Ireland. She studies book keeping, but as a young adult, she struggles to find meaningful work. Her sister, Rose, makes contact with an Irish priest in New York who offers to sponsor Eilis to America. He arranges her papers and finds her work in a department store and accommodations in a boarding house.
Eilis is overwhelmed with the pace at which the decision is made for her to go to New York and feels she has no other choice. She’s not looking forward to leaving Rose and her mother, but she acknowledges there’s very little for her in Ireland. So she boards a boat to America and settles in an Irish community in Brooklyn. It’s very difficult for her at first and she becomes homesick, but eventually she settles in and starts to build a life for herself. She attends Brooklyn College for book keeping and meets an Italian named Tony who starts to make her feel at home.
I love this story because it is such an accurate portrayal of how it feels to leave home and make your life elsewhere. Even though the story is set in the 1950’s, its a story so many can relate to. I grew up in a small city that has also been heavily influenced by Irish culture and while I wasn’t personally forced to leave to find work, many of my family members and to an extent, my husband, were forced to seek opportunity elsewhere. While my motivation for leaving was different from Eilis, I could relate with so much of what she went through. Toibin captures so well the heartbreak of leaving your home behind and the challenge of feeling you can longer share a part of yourself with anyone. Eilis goes through many struggles, but she doesn’t want to burden her mother and sister with her pain, so she keeps it to herself. She feels she has no one that she can share her true self with until she meets Tony.
I don’t want to go too much further and potentially spoil the story for someone, so I’ll just say that I think this a story anyone can enjoy and would highly recommend to anyone who has left one home behind for another. It’s definitely a white immigration story – the struggles Eilis faces are almost laughable to what today’s immigrants experience, so definitely read those immigration stories too.
But now let’s get into more of the SPOILER part of the review. . . . Like I said above, the book doesn’t sell this as a love story quite as strongly as the movie does. That’s fine because I think the love story is secondary to Eilis’ personal experience, but it is a little disappointing to read. Eilis is lukewarm to Tony throughout most of the book, but slowly grows to love him. I definitely love Tony, but he is somewhat problematic and I wasn’t totally sold on how Toibin portrays Eilis’ feelings towards Tony. Eilis really did need Tony – she needed someone to share herself with. She keeps to herself a lot and struggles to fit in with the women she boards with, so when she connects with Tony, he is very much a lifeline to her. She’s reluctant in love, but I think it’s more a part of her character than her feelings about Tony. It just takes her a while to really warm up to him. Overall I was impressed with how Toibin communicates Eilis’ story, but there were definitely a few instances where Eilis’ internal thoughts didn’t jive with me. It was only a handful of times, but I did find myself thinking, “this is a man writing how HE thinks a young woman would think, rather than how I think Eilis would actually think” (if that makes sense).
Tony pressures Eilis into marrying him because he’s afraid she won’t come back from Ireland otherwise. It’s definitely a legitimate fear, but sad for both of them that they don’t trust their love enough to really test it. More disappointing of course is Eilis’ relationship with Jim when she returns to Ireland. This relationship is absolutely essential to the story, but Eilis’ indifference to Tony in the book as compared to the movie was a little upsetting to me. I didn’t remember her actually kissing Jim in the movie (or at least not more than once), whereas in the book she pretty much has a full on relationship with him and reflects that she regrets marrying Tony.
Don’t get me wrong, I love how this dilemma is presented to Eilis. Suddenly everything she ever wanted is available to her in Ireland. She reflects on why life couldn’t have been like this for her 2 years ago before she was forced to go to America, but she also has to acknowledge that America helped her to grow in so many ways and is largely responsible for the success she’s now able to have in Ireland. But in my opinion the movie better presents the dilemma in having to choose between these two lives. Because in the book Eilis openly regrets her marriage to Tony, it’s a little disappointing to then see her return to that life anyways. With both the book and the movie ultimately having the same ending, I definitely prefer the movie. One of my favourite scenes from the movie is when Eilis boards the boat back to America and mentors the new Irish girl about her lived experience. It’s so moving and more cathartic than how Toibin opts to end the book. Maybe the book is more accurate in the heartbreak of her decision, but the movie definitely provides the catharsis.
I did still like Eilis’ reflections on her life in Brooklyn in the book though. She describes how it seems like a hazy dream to her now that’s returned to Ireland. I thought it was so accurate how when surrounded by people you used to know, the experiences you lived without them almost seem to disappear. Her mother and friends thought she was glamorous upon her return, but they had little interest in what actually happened to her in Brooklyn. This is accurate to my own experiences.
I’ve been away from home for a lot longer than Eilis, but aside from my parents, I generally find my friends don’t have a whole lot of interest in my life in BC. It’s not that they don’t care, I think it’s just that it’s no longer a shared experience between us, so it’s easier for them to talk about their own lives because those lives exist in a setting we can at least both relate to. It’s also a struggle because despite how much you grow, you often remain in stasis for those friends (as they do for you as well). Because of the distance it’s hard for you to grow together now and so you become stuck as former versions of yourself.
As much as I love the movie ending over the book ending. I did love the last thought that Eilis has on her way back to America. How the fact that “she has gone back to Brooklyn” is something that Jim will be upset about for awhile, but how over time it will become something that means less and less to him, while it will become everything to her. The movie ends with the line “and you realize, that this is where your life is”, which is also accurate. Despite the heartbreak of repeatedly saying goodbye to your friends and family every time you see them, the truth is that you have built a life somewhere else, and that’s okay.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Author: Patricia Engel Genres: Fiction Pub. Date: Mar. 2021 (read Apr. 2021 on Audible)
I decided to read Infinite Country because I’ve been seeing a lot of good reviews and the narrator in the audiobook sample sounded excellent! I’m so glad I picked it up because I ended up really liking it. I found it mildly confusing to keep track of the characters at the beginning, but this was a really moving story about how it feels to be divorced from your homeland and the struggles mixed-status families face in staying connected to one another.
Infinite Country is split between Colombia and America and tells the story of a family who move to America and overstay their visas. Elena and Mauro never intended to stay in America, but the uncertainty of returning to Colombia and the fact that some of their children are now American-born, they decide to stay. Eventually they become separated – with half the family returning to Colombia and the other half living undocumented in the States.
Like the book, I’m going to keep my review short. The story had some interesting plot points – especially with the part of the family living in Colombia – but at the end of the day it’s a simple story about the trauma many families experience in trying to immigrate to America. Nothing in this story really surprised me (except for the bad thing Talia does), it’s a story I feel like I’ve heard many times before. Families that seek a better life and are forced to live in poverty and taken advantage of because of their fear of deportation. But I loved this book because it is deeply humanizing. We get to spend time with each family member and experience each of their longings and struggles. I really connected with each of the characters, especially Mauro, and I was moved by their tenacity.
Immigration forces everyone to make tough choices and I really appreciated this in-depth look at its impact on one family. At less than 200 pages, I read this in two sittings and definitely recommend it for everyone!
To Date, Gyasi’s first book, Homegoing, is the highest ranked book my book club has read – and we’ve been reading a book a month since 2012. So I was super excited to pick up Yaa Gyasi’s new book for our November meeting.
Transcendent Kingdom is completely different from Homegoing, but in the best possible way. Homegoing is a wonderful piece of multi-generational, historical fiction, while Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply introspective look at grief, addiction, mental health, religion, and the challenges of being an immigrant. I could see how some fans of Homegoing might be disappointed with Transcendent Kingdom, but I loved that the author tried something new in this book and I think she really showcased her versatility as an author. So even though this book is getting most of its press because of Homegoing, try not to let Homegoing influence your expectations.
Gifty is a PhD candidate who has studied medicine at both Harvard and Stanford. She’s been studying addiction and whether there’s a neurological way to break the cycle through lab experiments with mice. Her studies are driven by her own tragic past as her brother, Nana, was addicted to opioids. Her family immigrated to America from Ghana before she was born and she’s always had to walk the line between two worlds and cultures.
Meanwhile, her mother shows up at her apartment after undergoing her own emotional breakdown and spends weeks in Gifty’s bed battling depression. Her mother had a similar struggle with depression 20 years prior, after Nana’s death. Like the last time, Gifty is determined to help lift her mother out of her pit of depression, but has absolutely no idea how to help her. As she tries to encourage her mother to reignite her faith, she is reminded of her childhood and the deep-seated role religion and spirituality played in her own life.
I don’t think this was a perfect book. I think the structure could have used a little more work and I would have liked to see some of the themes developed further. Gyasi tackles a lot of issues in this short book and I’m not sure she was able to do them all justice in just 260 pages. That said, life and grief and mental illness are all messy. Healing is not linear and it does not fit into a nice like hallmark-movie narrative. I felt the story ended too soon – I wanted to see more of a resolution to some of the themes – but I also appreciated that grief and depression are things that we carry with us for many years and that though we all seek catharsis and closure, we don’t always get it.
That said, while I did feel her exploration of her Mom’s depression could have been a little better developed, I thought she did a great job exploring some of her other themes, particularly around grief, addiction, and religion. I really liked how the narrative was developed. There’s no clear delineation between the past and the present, with her current day experiences triggering past memories throughout the novel. I could see how this structure might be frustrating for some, but I loved gaining those little insights into Gifty’s past and how those past experiences influenced who she is today and her relationship with her mom.
But the highlight of the book for me was Gyasi’s look at the role religion played in Gifty’s life, and how despite her best efforts, she was never able to completely shed that upbringing. I had a big religious upbringing myself and while I haven’t been trying to shed that background the same way Gifty was, I really related to her in the ways that it hurt and helped her. Unfortunately religion also brings with it a lot of shame and guilt. I wish it wasn’t the case, but it does create an internalized sense of shame and feelings of anger and frustration when religious institutions are not the good and holy influence that they should be. There are a lot of christians who carry around a lot of misplaced righteousness and it has not made the world a better place.
But more than anything, I felt Gifty was really just looking for something to belong to. She has more often than not been the only black person in her church, in her classes, in her program, and she has struggled to make friends and connect with people. Her brother was the one person she felt close to and when she lost him and her mother started to fall apart, she had no one that she could turn to. Her faith in God was destroyed by the loss of her brother, and to an extent by the hypocrisy of the Christians in her church and town. But while she tries to leave her faith behind or explain it away, she’s never able to fully dismiss her spiritual experiences. Despite her church not caring for her family the way they should have, her pastor was there for her and her mom when they needed him and she finds herself seeking comfort in the familiarity of church services and her favourite bible verses. It’s hard to describe the feelings Gyasi’s narrative evoked, but I just really connected with Gifty and despite all that is different between me and Gifty, I found her very relatable.
Finally, the writing was lovely. It’s a very introspective plot – it’s not character driven in the way I normally like in literary fiction, but I liked how the author explored her ideas and how I came to understand Gifty and her family a little better throughout the course of the novel. Like I said, the narrative is a bit all over the place, but honestly that’s exactly what my thought process is like too, so it just worked for me.
Definitely recommend this one, just set aside your expectations because this is not like Homegoing.

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Manchester City Football Club have announced pan-African betting market leader SportyBet as the club’s official betting partner in the continent.
Under the terms of the new deal, Man City and SportyBet will collaborate to create co-branded content designed to create ‘unique experiences’ for customers in Africa and for supporters of the club.
“We are pleased to welcome SportyBet as a new regional partner of Manchester City today,” said Kaitlyn Beale, Vice President, Global Partnership Sales at Manchester City.
“Our fanbase within Africa continues to grow, shown by the interest in our fan events and trophy tour visits to Africa in recent years, and we look forward to working with SportyBet to bring fans even closer to the club.”
A brand of the Sporty Group, SportyBet have licenced operations throughout Africa in countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda.
Known for its innovative betting platforms in the continent, SportyBet enables a user experience that is mobile friendly, as the betting firm states it has undertaken careful consideration when it came to the product design on speed and performance of its betting app.
Sporty Group Brand Director, Oluchi Enuha, added: “We are absolutely delighted to add Manchester City to our list of partners. Manchester City has consistently proven to be one of the most exciting teams in Europe.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Berks will hold an educational event for students titled “Cherry Wine” at 12:15 p.m. Friday, April 14, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. The event will explore the dangers and consequences of alcohol and drug abuse and sexual assault, and provide information on resources available to victims.
During the event, students will act out scenarios involving substance abuse, and during freeze frames the expert panel will assess the situation. The panel will include Penn State Berks Police Officer Joel Avram and Saundra Reichel, director of campus life; Carmen White of Safe Berks, and panelists representing legal agencies and insurance companies.
According to Autumn Fritz, assistant director of community development, the event was named for a song by singer-songwriter Hozier that deals with domestic violence, and proceeds from download of the release are donated by the artist to a series of international domestic abuse charities.
This event is coordinated by the Penn State Berks Criminal Justice Club and the State for State Club. For additional information, contact Fritz at 610-396-6098 or via email at [email protected].


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Here's a photo of my nail polish look that stayed on for FIVE days (and I believe it could've stayed on longer - except I wanted a change!!)
I've had so many compliments on this look! It's simple to do, and looks fantastic! The nail polish I used for the base was Sinful Colors Mint Apple, while the nail polishes I used for the dots were Sephora by OPI Teal We Meet Again and Avon Mystic!
Another look I just created involved my dotting tool AND rhinestones this time! I've been wanting to use my nail tools and nail art in different ways...This is what I came up with!
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That nail polish that I used for the accent finger and french tips was OPI Ogre-The-Top Blue, the glitter polish was Sinful Colors Suede Shoes and the dots are OPI Fiercely Fiona and OPI Yoga-ta Get This Blue! I also chose blue and yellow rhinestones to place over the dots on my accent finger - these are completely optional!
I did start with only three rhinestones on my accent finger...but I felt it looked lopsided, so I just continued to place them on until the whole nail was covered!
I hope you like these looks!

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Athens/Bonn, 17 August 2006 - At today’s meeting of the UN-affiliated International Maritime Organization (IMO), UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner, together with representatives of other UN Agencies and countries in the affected region, focused on how to contain the oil spill and the related environmental disaster caused by armed conflicts in Lebanon.
The CMS Family has offered to help countries in the region to cope with the environmental damage as it relates to migratory species. The Convention and two of its Agreements asked Mr. Steiner to convey their offers of technical assistance to the international high-level meeting that was working towards a coordinated UN response to the oil spill.
The actual impacts of the oil spill on migratory species have yet to confirmed. However, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), and in consultation with the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic area (ACCOBAMS), the CMS Partners and members of the CMS Scientific Council, the CMS Secretariat has undertaken a preliminary assessment of the potential impact of the Lebanese oil spill.
The results of the assessment have been compiled and are available in summary form.
Impacts to cetacean species are expected to be mainly indirect. ACCOBAMS has offered to provide an expert to advise the Lebanese authorities on possible cetacean-related impacts from the spill.
For waterbirds the situation could deteriorate in the very near future when the autumn migration starts and over-wintering marine and coastal birds (cormorants and gulls) start arriving in the affected region and other migrants utilize the coast for foraging. AEWA has offered access to its network of experts and would be ready to undertake a study to help identify potential risks posed by the oil spill on populations of breeding, migrating and wintering waterbird species in the region, if funds were made available.
The preliminary CMS assessment identifies green and loggerhead turtles and their nesting beaches in Lebanon and Syria as potentially at risk. Consequently, CMS has offered the affected countries access to its network of experts on marine turtles and has offered to contribute its global expertise to future coordination efforts on the spill and to any post-conflict environmental assessment.
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South Asia’s vulnerability to climate change and associated fragility risks calls for a regional approach to climate services. Different actors need to cooperate to share actionable climate information—the security architecture in the region would benefit.
With cities continuously more threatened by climate change-induced disasters, urban planning’s reflex response is to protect cities against nature. But what if the solution lies in working with nature instead against it? Architect Kongjiang Yu invites readers to imagine what cities could look like if they took into account ancient wisdom on spatial planning.
During the past two weeks, Antigua & Barbuda, Nicaragua and Panama ratified the Escazú Agreement, giving a major boost to the unprecedented and innovative Latin American pact that seeks to reduce social conflicts and protect frontline communities in the world’s deadliest region for environmental defenders.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined priorities for the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 26) during a briefing at UN Headquarters. The briefing was hosted by the UK, which will be assuming the COP 26 presidency in partnership with Italy. COP 26 is scheduled to convene from 9-20 November 2020, in Glasgow, UK.

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German singer Kim Petras has unveiled her latest You Tube cover version of Alicia Keys song "Girl On Fire" in the week that marked a pause for thought for victims of transgender prejudice.
When Alicia Keys unveiled the song she spoke about her reason for writing it, telling fans: "I felt like a girl misunderstood that no one really knew, I felt like it was time to stop making excuses for any part of my life that I wanted to change. Once I made that choice I became a Girl on Fire."
Kim said that was also the reason she chose to do a cover of the song, saying: "I heard it and loved it. It's really powerful and I think it's awesome that she did this to empower people to live their dreams."
Music channel Viva marked the 14th International Transgender Day of Remembrance with a special 30 minute focus on Kim and her music in their flagship programme 180 - showing how talented Kim who was born with a boy’s body had managed to turn her life around through a mixture of determination, luck and an amazingly supportive family and friends. She was able to become not only the girl she always knew she was - but also an accomplished singer and performer.
Signed as a song writer with Universal Music this year Kim has an extensive portfolio of her own songs currently being worked into a new album - but in between a busy production and performing schedule has been keeping her fans happy with the occasional You Tube cover version.
Her last cover on You Tube of the Chris Brown song Don't Wake Me Up reached an incredible 620,000 hits at the time this article was written, a remarkable achievement for the blonde singer given that she has reached her worldwide fan base largely on her own initiative.
The LA Times described Kim as the hottest act out of Germany in a world music survey for its "The World Is Our Playlist". Speaking of the song she wrote herself called "One Piece of Tape" the paper said: "She wrote this in two hours. Pads and pumping beats blend with her angel-like voice, combining a state-of-the-art club sound with traditional song writing to spread the word of tolerance."
And celebrity columnist Perez Hilton has also raved about Kim's talented cover versions produced on her home PC in between studio time. He said: "Everyone should love a singer who knows how to be her own back up singer."
He described another cover by Kim, of Demi Lovato, as "Layers upon layers of a single, supreme voice making for one AWEsome Demi Lovato cover" and added she was one of his fave YouTube sensations - with a "magical touch".
Kim's priority at the moment though is finding the time to work on her new songs in the wake of a busy year.
She has been a guest on the red carpet at celebrity events in her native Germany, been asked to perform at big name festivals and clubs across the country, was asked to sign on an advert for Deutsche Telekom and was signed as one of the acts on the Sony Playsation DanceStar Party - where only 40 other tracks included the likes of Lady Gaga and Rihanna.
* The Viva programme available in German here showing Kim as a shining example of how somebody with her background can turn a tough start in life around to make themselves a success as the world marked the 14th International Transgender Day of Remembrance. It is a day when those who have been victims of anti-transgender violence and prejudice are remembered.
It is a day to mourn those lost and celebrate the lives they lived, but also to bring awareness of the struggle and dangers that trans and gender non-conforming people face around the world on a daily basis.
Panda Dies Of Horrific Injuries After Savage Attack
A three-year-old wild Giant Panda left badly wounded in the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in China after an attack by yellow-throated martens has died of its wounds.
Food Jewellery Craze In Japan
The designers call it modern art, and claim it is designed for the woman who wants a guarantee she will stand out at the next dinner party.
Darth Vader Taken Out By Street Sign
Darth Vader and a pair of Imperial Stormtroopers felt the force of a blow from a road sign after not paying attention while hitting the campaign trail.
How An Austrian Park Every Year Becomes A Lake
Spectacular images that show how a park becomes a lake each spring complete with underwater trees have been captured by two divers.
Mad About Mammoths At Vienna Museum
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- Buso Renkin: 26 episodes over two collections of 13 episodes each, May / June release.
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YEREVAN, July 29./TASS/. One of the leaders of protests in Armenian capital Yerevan over rising electricity prices, David Sanasaryan, has been hospitalized with back pains.
Some participants in a protest rally say the 31-year-old activist fell flat on his back on the asphalt when police were dragging him away from a pedestrian crossing that he was trying to block.
The riots in Armenia erupted in mid-June after the commission for regulation of the country’s public services had agreed to increase public electricity tariffs by 16% to meet the request received from CJSC "Electric Networks of Armenia" distribution company.
The measure which is to take effect on August 1 caused a wave of indignation among ordinary Armenians who assumed that the electricity price hike would automatically increase prices for essentials and many services.
The country’s opposition later took advantage of the situation and forced people into streets, what resulted in the dispersal of the Yerevan protests by police on June 23. As a result, 18 people, including 11 police officers, were hurt, and 237 people were detained but later released. However, protesters almost immediately resumed peace protests.
On June 27, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said that the government was ready to suspend the hike temporarily and cover the price rise out of state funds rather than increase customers’ bill until experts did not complete the audit of the Electric Networks of Armenia distribution company.
That split the protesters’ camp in two: those who accepted the government’s proposal moved to Freedom Square outside the Yerevan Opera Theatre; the other half of more radically minded protesters who rejected the government concession continued to stay on Marshal Bagramyan Avenue.
On June 29, protesters in a picket in Freedom Square made the decision to stop street protests, choosing "a new format of fight". On July 6, police cleared Marshal Bagramyan Avenue of barricades and protesters, after which protests moved to Freedom Square.


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Named after front woman Valerie-Josephine and the Latin word for lion, Ottawa-based band JΘSΞPHINΞ LEΦNE pulls their influences from bands like Nirvana, Beth Hart, and The Black Keys. With some blues, soul and funk thrown in the mix, they describe their sound as Scrunge Rock. Gritty vocals, swampy funk grooves and fuzzy riffs permeate their songs.
JΘSΞPHINΞ LEΦNE has been gaining recognition in their hometown since 2015. They’ve performed at venues and festivals across Ontario and Quebec, sharing the stage with great talent such as Bif Naked and The Pack AD as well as performing in front of over 10,000 people with Trooper and Loverboy at Kemptville Live Music Festival.
Their first release, a self-titled EP recorded and produced entirely by the band members, came out in 2016 with several songs earning plays on Ottawa’s alternative rock station Live 88.5 FM as well as rotation on numerous campus stations. Next, the band released a series of singles with accompanying music videos in anticipation for their first ever full length album “Gold In The Fire” released October 19, 2019. The first taste of this album was a live off the floor version of “Never Satisfied” which landed plays on radio and podcasts around the world and in late 2018 the album’s first official single “Watch Out” was released. Next they released “Vice Grip” followed by “So Fine” in spring 2019, both receiving enthusiastic feedback with their accompanying provocative music videos.
After a successful Ontario tour in fall 2019 that was topped off with the “Gold In The Fire” album release party, the band was gaining incredible momentum. JΘSΞPHINΞ LEΦNE was scheduled to play at the Ottawa Bluesfest in the summer of 2020 and anticipated a busy year playing festivals and venues across Canada. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of all major shows and forced the band to delay their plans to tour the country. However, with COVID-19 restrictions finally appearing to ease up, the members of JΘSΞPHINΞ LEΦNE are very excited and optimistic about getting back on stage this summer.


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Congratulations to Xin Zhang, MD, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow, on receiving an award for “Outstanding Poster” which underlines research that may prove useful in the management of functional pain syndromes.
Congratulations to Drs. Niccolò Terrando and Zhiquan Zhang on receiving an $8,000 voucher for their project that aims to prevent memory dysfunction after surgery with a novel, pro-resolving peptide.
Dr. Tera Cushman shares the findings of a QI project that highlights the wastage of infused medications throughout the perioperative process and offers a solution to save money and medicine.
Congratulations to Sven-Eric Jordt, PhD, on his appointment to a group that aims to improve disaster preparedness, response and research, including the development of new therapeutics for chemical inhalation injury.


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Terms and Conditions of IDOS.cz
1. Common provisions
1.1. The company CHAPS Ltd. with headquarters at Bráfova 1617/21, Brno, 616 00, Czech Republic, ID: 47547022, registered in the Business Register mantained by the Regional Court in Brno, Section C, file 17631 (hereinafter referred to as Contractor), is entitled to exercise property rights to the IDOS timetable website and the IDOS timetable application (hereinafter only IDOS.cz).
1.2. The Contractor issues these IDOS.cz Terms and Conditions (hereinafter referred to as SPI), which govern the rights and obligations of the User and Trader when mediating the sale of a travel document (e-ticket) via IDOS.cz to bus or train connections. The effective wording of the SPI is published at: https://resources.crws.cz/content/
1.3. Trader is a company ČSAD SVT Praha Ltd. with headquarters at Křižíkova 4-6, Prague 8, registered in the Business Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague under file number C 11856, ID: 45805202. The Trader mediates the purchase of tickets on IDOS.cz based on contractual relationships with individual transport companies (hereinafter referred to as Carriers).
1.4. User means an entity that accesses IDOS.cz pages or applications, uses these pages or uses IDOS.cz applications.
1.5. Before using IDOS.cz, every User is obliged to familiarize himself carefully with SPI. By using IDOS.cz, the User agrees to the published SPI.
1.6. Client is a natural or legal person using the IDOS.cz website or application to purchase travel documents. By placing an order for the purchase of a ticket, the Client agrees that the rights and obligations of the Client and the Trader shall be governed by these SPI effective on the relevant date of the order.
1.7. Registration is the communication of selected personal data of the Client. The reason for registration is the requirements for the provision of certain applications and services of IDOS.cz or the targeted intention of the Contractor to enable access to certain parts or services of IDOS.cz only to registered Users.
1.8. Legal relations between the Trader and the User/Client are governed by the law of the Czech Republic. All possible disputes between the Trader and the User/Client will be resolved by the general courts of the Czech Republic.
1.9. Carrier is a legal or natural person providing transportation of people.
1.10. A Passenger is a person who actually used an e-ticket for their transportation, it does not have to be the same person as the Client who purchased the travel documents. A Passenger in whose name an e-ticket is issued for one or more Passengers is referred to as Holder. Only this e-ticket Passenger is required to prove his/her name with an ID card at check-in.
1.11. For the out-of-court settlement of consumer disputes arising from the purchase contract is responsible the Czech Trade Inspection Authority, with headquarters at Štěpánská 567/15, 120 00 Praha 2, ID: 00020869, internet address: https://www.coi.cz/.
1.12. The Contractor reserves the right to change these SPI without prior notice and with immediate effect. It is the duty of the User and the Client to follow the current wording of these conditions.
1.13. The purchase of SMS tickets for urban public transport through IDOS.cz does not constitute any responsibility of the Contractor or the Trader for the error-free delivery of the SMS ticket or for the performance of the SMS ticket service. These services are provided by individual local carriers in cooperation with mobile operators.
2. Using IDOS.cz
2.1. Without the consent of the Contractor, it is not allowed to use IDOS.cz other than for your own use (both as a whole and individual parts). Other use is subject to prior approval by the Contractor.
2.2. It is forbidden to interfere in any way with the technical principle or content of IDOS.cz without the consent of the Contractor or to use the data of the searched information for other applications.
2.3. The contractor is not responsible for any impacts, consequences and damages resulting from the use of the IDOS.cz application caused by any technical defect (whether on the side of the application or a third party), insufficient connectivity, failures on the payment gateways side, etc.
2.4. The contractor is not responsible for any impacts, consequences and damages resulting from the use of informations obtained from IDOS.cz caused, for example, by the out-of-date or incompleteness of published informations or non-compliance with timetables by individual carriers.
2.5. The Contractor is not responsible for the content of IDOS.cz, if it was placed on IDOS.cz by a third party without the Contractor's knowledge in violation of these terms and conditions or in violation of legal regulations.
2.6. The Contractor is not responsible for the content, availability and security of third-party websites referenced from IDOS.cz, nor for any obligations and relationships arising between the User and third parties.
2.7. The User has no legal right to access the applications and services. The Contractor reserves the right to temporarily or permanently suspend selected IDOS.cz applications and services or the availability of IDOS.cz as a whole without compensation and without prior notice.
2.8. The User is obliged to act in such a way that no damage occurs to the Contractor, Trader or third parties.
2.9. The User is prohibited from using IDOS.cz and its other applications to collect information for their further processing and sharing.
2.10. The User undertakes to provide only true and up-to-date information about his identity during Registeration.
2.11. The costs incurred by the User when using means of communication in connection with the use of IDOS.cz are covered by the User himself.
3. Registration of Client data
3.1. The provision of some IDOS.cz applications and services or the availability of some parts of IDOS.cz may be bound and conditioned by the Client's registration through IDOS.cz. The Client is notified of the necessity of Registration in the relevant section of IDOS.cz or in the relevant application or service of IDOS.cz.
3.2. Provision of personal data for Registration by the Client is voluntary and is a condition for Registration and the possibility of using IDOS.cz applications and services, which are conditioned by this Registration.
3.3. Registration is free. These following informations are required during registration:
- E-mail (serves as login)
- First name
- Last name
3.4. To confirm the Registration, must be filled in all the mandatory information. By creating a Registration, the Client agrees to these SPI.
3.5. Registration is valid for 24 months from the date of Registration. This period is always extended by another 24 months after purchasing a ticket or after logging in to the IDOS.cz services using the data from the Registration.
3.6. The Contractor is entitled to terminate the Client's Registration in the case that the use of IDOS.cz by the User is in violation of these SPI or generally binding legal regulations. Furthermore, the Contractor is entitled to terminate the Client's Registration after the expiration of the Registration period. The Contractor is not obliged to inform the Client about the termination of the Registration for the above reasons.
3.7. The client has the right to request deletion or correction of personal data (change or cancellation of Registration).
3.8. Registration on IDOS.cz can be replaced by logging in with an account from the social network Facebook or a Google account. In such a case, IDOS.cz does not collect any personal data of the Client, but takes it from these services.
4. Processing of personal data
4.1. Personal data are processed by the Contractor as administrator only on the basis and to the extent permitted by Act No. 110/2019 Coll. (Personal Data Processing Act).
4.2. The Contractor declares that all personal data are considered confidential, will be used only for internal purposes, will not be published, provided to a third party or otherwise misused, except for provision to public authorities if they require it by legal regulations.
4.3. Informations about the Client and his ticket purchases are stored in a secure database and they are not provided to third parties.
4.4. The purpose of processing the personal data of Clients who have completed Registration or even without Registration is exclusively the provision and delivery of selected IDOS.cz applications and services, the sending of ordered tickets and the protection of IDOS.cz.
4.5. The Contractor is entitled to use anonymized data without connection to a specific Client, e.g. for statistical purposes.
4.6. In matters related to the processing of personal data, the Client can contact customer support using the web form https://helpdesk.amsbus.cz/idos/?lang=en or directly by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org. The client has the right to information about the processing of personal data, to the provision of copies of personal data and details of the processing. The client has the right to correction, erasure, restriction of processing (change or cancellation of Registration), can raise an objection, file a complaint with the supervisory authority.
5. Purchase of e-ticket and check-in
5.1. When purchasing an e-ticket before going to the payment gateway, consent to the current wording of the SPI is always required, which also expresses consent to the processing of the Client's personal data in accordance with Chapter 4 of this document.
5.2. During the purchase, the Client enters the required number of e-tickets and informations about the Passengers. If the Carrier requests the Passenger's name, or other required data, they must be entered. In case of purchase without Registration, it is also necessary to enter the correct e-mail address to which the e-ticket will be delivered.
5.3. To pay for the e-ticket, the Client is redirected to the payment gateway according to the payment method chosen by him. Neither the Trader nor the Contractor will in any way come into contact with the sensitive data of the Client's internet banking (login data) or the Client's payment card, in particular the payment card number, the name of the holder and the period of validity of the card. Card payment is secured by the 3D Secure system.
5.4. After successful payment, the Trader will issue an e-ticket in electronic form.
5.5. The e-ticket file in PDF format will be sent by the Trader to the Client by e-mail to the address the Client provided during the purchase or during registration. The Client can view, print or save this file as needed.
5.6. When boarding a bus or when checking travel documents on a train, the passenger presents the e-ticket shown on the display of the electronic device and, where applicable, a document confirming entitlement to a discount. Only in cases where it is explicitly stated on the e-ticket or it is an e-ticket for a domestic ČD route, is it is also permissible to check in a passenger only with knowledge of the e-ticket check-in code and possibly a document confirming entitlement to a discount.
5.7. If the Carrier requires the printing of an e-ticket, the Client is informed of this fact during the purchase and in an e-mail containing the e-ticket.
5.8. Check-in with a printed e-ticket in unchanged size on A4 paper is always permitted.
6. Passenger Data
6.1. On some connections, the Carriers require the inclusion of Passenger data on the e-ticket (e.g. surname and first name). In this case, these data are required when purchasing an e-ticket, displayed on e-tickets and such e-tickets are non-transferable.
6.2. When choosing a connection, the client is informed about the tariff used according to the entered information. The Passengers must prove the right to a discount when boarding the bus or when checking travel documents on the train, otherwise they loses the right to transport without compensation.
7. Responsibilities of the Trader
7.1. The Trader declares that the personal data required for the purchase of an e-ticket are considered confidential. Details on the processing of personal data are provided in chapter 4 of this document.
7.2. The Trader is not responsible for the Carrier. The actual course of transport is governed by the relevant transport regulations and the Carrier's contractual transport conditions, unless otherwise stipulated in these SPI.
7.3. In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on the rights and obligations of passengers in rail transport, the Trader warns Passengers that the e-tickets issued by them do not offer the same level of protection as direct transport documents and the railway carrier operating the given route did not issue these transport documents as direct transport documents. For railway carriers, only the current conditions published on their websites apply - see paragraph 10 of these Conditions.
7.4. The Trader is not responsible for any damages caused by the Client not accepting the e-ticket.
8. Responsibilities of the Client
8.1. When purchasing an e-ticket, the Client is obliged to check all data, especially the date and time of departure, the selected connection, the used tariff corresponding to the Passenger's claims for a discount, the Passenger's name, the price, or e-mail address for delivery. The Trader is not responsible for any damage caused as a result of incorrect data provided by the Client. The client acknowledges that specific requirements or discounts applied later cannot be taken into account when providing the service.
9. Returning an e-ticket
9.1. The conditions for returning an e-ticket are set by the Carrier and are already stated before the purchase of the e-ticket. The e-ticket is printed with the relevant deduction/time until departure according to the timetable, by which time the e-ticket can be returned. The exception is the carrier České dráhy, where the return conditions are listed on the carriers website.
9.2. The e-ticket can be returned with the corresponding deduction and within the time limit until the departure of the connection in one of the following ways:
- by clicking on the relevant link/button in the application in which the e-ticket was purchased (in the IDOS Timetables mobile application in the ticket detail, on the IDOS.cz website on the Tickets page),
- by filling in the IDOS.cz code in the form "Return of purchased tickets" on the Tickets page on the IDOS.cz website (idos.cz/en/jizdenky).
For the successful return of an e-ticket purchased with a logged-in Client account, logging in with the same Client account that was used to purchase it is a necessary condition.
9.3. If an e-ticket was purchased via the IDOS Timetables mobile application without Client registration, then the e-ticket is stored only in the memory of the device used to purchase the e-ticket and will not be displayed via the IDOS.cz website (however, its return using the IDOS.cz Code will be possible on the IDOS.cz website). If the application memory is cleared or the application is reinstalled on this device, the e-ticket will no longer be available in the application.
9.4. If an e-ticket was purchased via the IDOS.cz website without Client registration, then the e-ticket is stored only in the memory of the Internet browser on the computer that was used to purchase the e-ticket and will not be displayed in the IDOS Timetables mobile application. If the memory is deleted or the internet browser or the entire system is reinstalled, the e-ticket will no longer be available on the IDOS.cz website.
9.5. If the Client no longer has the IDOS.cz Code available, it will no longer be possible to return the e-ticket. The IDOS.cz code was included in the e-mail containing the e-ticket or directly on the e-ticket sent to the e-mail address specified when purchasing the e -tickets or was displayed on e-tickets displayed through one of the IDOS.cz applications.
9.6. The ticket of the carrier České dráhy, a.s. can be returned within IDOS.cz exclusively as a entire combined document. That is, the trip there and back always together, taking into account the departure time of the trip there. On the ČD website (https://www.cd.cz/eshop/vraceni-a-vymena/) you can apply all the rights from the transport contract according to the carriers complete options. You need to know the check-in code and the e-mail address used when purchasing the ticket.
9.7. The refunded amount will be transferred to the Client's account through the payment gateway used by him, from which he made the payment. The refund instruction is usually entered within three working days after the e-ticket is returned by the Client. The client is informed about this via e-mail, which is sent to the address used to purchase the e-ticket.
10. Complaint of an e-ticket
10.1. The Carrier is responsible for the course of transportation. The passenger is not entitled to payment of any damages caused by the delay or cancellation of the connection against the Trader or the Contractor.
10.2. If the Passenger did not use the e-ticket for less than 250 km because the relevant connection was canceled or the departure was delayed by more than 30 minutes, the fare will be refunded. Long-distance transport is governed by regulation EP No. 181/2011. This provision only applies to bus e-tickets, unless the Carrier has different conditions set specified in this document.
10.3. The Client must request this compensation from the Trader via the customer support form, where they also attach the claimed e-ticket. The trader undertakes to confirm all complaints received in this way within two working days. If the Client does not receive confirmation within this period, the claim request must be considered undelivered and the claim must be repeated.
10.4. The Trader will verify the claim with the Carrier, and if its validity is confirmed, it will refund the fare to the Client via the payment gateway used by him to the account from which the payment was made. The Client will be notified of the outcome of the complaint procedure.
10.5. The complaint form can be found at: http://helpdesk.amsbus.cz/idos/?lang=en
10.6. For tickets of the carrier group Leo Express, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on its website https://www.leoexpress.com/en/about-us/transport-terms-and-conditions. Customer center contact, refunds, compensation https://www.leoexpress.com/en/contact.
10.7. For tickets of the carrier group RegioJet, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on its website https://www.regiojet.cz/.
10.8. For tickets of the carrier Arriva vlaky sro, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on its website https://www.arriva.cz/.
10.9. For tickets of the carrier group Flixbus, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on its website https://www.flixbus.com/. To communicate with the carrier, please use its form at https://help.flixbus.com/s/contact-us?language=en.
10.10. For tickets of the carrier České dráhy, a.s., are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on its website https://www.cd.cz/.
10.11. For tickets of the carrier SLOVAK LINES EXPRESS, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on the website https://www.slovaklines.sk/. Contact the customer center, refunds, compensation at email@example.com.
10.12. For tickets of the carrier CK DAKA, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on the website https://bus.daka.sk/. Contact the customer center, refunds, compensation at firstname.lastname@example.org.
10.13. For tickets of the carrier LeviTour, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on the website https://www.levitour.sk/. Contact the customer center, refunds, compensation at email@example.com.
10.14. For tickets of the carrier Gepard Express, are exclusively applicable only the current conditions published on the website http://files.bileto.com/ge-terms.pdf. Contact customer center, refunds, compensation at firstname.lastname@example.org.
This document becomes valid and effective on September 30, 2023.

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Town take three points from Rochdale
A late Mark Roberts header was enough to give Fleetwood Town all three points in a tough game against Rochdale at Spotland.
The captain put the Cod Army ahead after a Scott Hogan flick had cancelled out Antoni Sarcevic’s penalty in the first half.
Graham Alexander opted for an unchanged side, following Tuesday’s victory over League One Rotherham United. Emergency loan Dale Eve was drafted into the squad at the last minute to cover for David Lucas, whose wife is expecting a baby.
Both sides started the game positively, as the two attack-minded sides came together. Fleetwood were arguably the slightly better, as two early Steven Schumacher corners were floated in; one creating a half-chance with a header over the bar from Nathan Pond.
Ian Henderson showed some early signs of danger when his weaving runs down the left hand side left Conor McLaughlin in no man’s land. Fortunately however, Roberts was there to head away what could have been a troubling cross.
The first major occurrence in the game came on 21 minutes, when Charlie Taylor was shoved to the ground by Ryhs Bennett after charging into the box beating two defenders. Much to the dismay of the Rochdale faithful, the referee was left with no choice and pointed to the penalty spot and Sarcevi coolly converted to put Town ahead.
Culprit Bennett, then took the ball past Gareth Evans and Taylor down the right, but his dramatic drop to the floor ended any danger he had created and gave the referee every reason not to give a foul.
The game became scrappy midway through the first half, as Fleetwood used their grit to frustrate the home side, who were in favour of passing the ball nicely around the pitch.
Town were breaking well and opening themselves up with plenty of options either side. Jeff Hughes carried the ball towards the Dale box with Evans and Sarcevic in support, but was closed down by former Fleetwood loanee Ashley Eastham.
And it was Eastham who helped with the equaliser soon after on 38 minutes. Scott Hogan, brother of Town’s Liam, knocked the ball into Davies’ net from around three yards out after an Eastham header was thrown into the danger area.
Taylor curled a superb ball towards the back post from the left but Nathan Tyson could not guide his header towards goal as Fleetwood looked to regain their just before the break.
Rochdale started brightly right after the break with a neat move that opened up the Fleetwood defence. The troublesome Henderson played a great ball through to Matt Done, who curled an impressive shot just wide of Davies’ left-hand post.
Matty Blair then almost restored the lead when his shot cracked off the back post from point-blank range after an impressive cross over from the left-hand side.
A Gary Dicker cross was then crucially blocked by Roberts, before Sarcevic cleared away the corner and reverted the danger. The game was quickly becoming an interesting battle between to very similar playing sides.
Scott Hogan could have nudged the home side ahead on 58 minutes when a Michael Rose corner found his head on the 6-yard box, but he could not direct it goal wards.
Matty Blair and Daniel Carr were then brought on by the manager, in place of Matty Blair and Nathan Tyson respectively in a bid to add fresh legs to a tight game. Both immediately made an impact with Carr bringing the ball out of the air well, Brown receiving the pass and floating in a ball for Gareth Evans, only for the defender to put it out for a corner. The ball then fell to Evans once again, who had acres of space in front of goal, but his side-footed-shot ended up in the stands.
Neither of the sides looked set on a draw, as the game became attacking mid-way through the second half. Taylor continued to go on bursting runs down the left for Town, whilst Henderson was a danger at the other end.
Stewart Murdoch then replaced Evans, as Rochdale began to take real control. Fleetwood’s attacks were being halted at the final third which in return, gave the home side the freedom to attack the Cods with all men behind the ball.
Fleetwood’s lead then came with seven minutes remaining when Steven Schumacher played a short free kick to Brown, who turned and produced a marvellous cross into the box. Jeff Hughes towered above everybody only to see his header rebound off the left-hand post, leaving Mark Roberts with an open goal in which he scored his second goal in Town colours.
It proved to be the winner, as Fleetwood held onto another 2-1 lead after soaking up any Rochdale pressure that was thrown their way.
Next up is Burton Albion on Tuesday night in the FA Cup replay.


702 West Trade Street
Commute to Downtown Charlotte
Most errands can be accomplished on foot.
Flat as a pancake, good bike lanes.
702 West Trade Street has a Walk Score of 82 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
This location is in the Third Ward neighborhood in Charlotte. Nearby parks include Fourth Ward Park, Fourth Ward Park and 9th Street Park.
Nearby schools include Irwin Avenue Open Elementary School, Walter G Byers Elementary School and Metro School.
The closest grocery stores are Harris Teeter, Avenue Market and Timmys Business.
Nearby coffee shops include Karma Kafe, Starbucks and TK CAFE (525). Nearby restaurants include Little Village Grill, Pub At Gateway and Great Wok.
702 West Trade Street is near Fourth Ward Park, Romare Bearden Park and Duke Energy Headquarters.
There are good bike lanes and the terrain is flat as a pancake. 702 West Trade Street is bikeable, there is some bike infrastructure. Bike sharing is available from Charlott B-cycle.
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702 West Trade Street is in the Third Ward neighborhood. Third Ward is the 7th most walkable neighborhood in Charlotte with a neighborhood Walk Score of 65.
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