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Judge dismisses lawsuits against Zapata
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Zapata Corp., a former Houston public company, has won dismissal of 21 class-action shareholder lawsuits. The suits alleged that Zapata's CEO and two former officers inflated the company's stock price in an attempt to profit from illegal insider trading.
In a ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake ordered the dismissal of the actions against the company and its CEO Avram Glazer; Eric T. Furey, former vice president and counsel; and Joseph Von Rosenberg, former executive vice president and general counsel.
"The judge said there was no evidence supporting any of the shareholders' claims," says Thomas Ajamie of the Houston law firm Schirrmeister Ajamie, who represented Furey and Von Rosenberg.
Zapata and Glazer were represented by attorneys Joe Redden and David Jones of the Houston law firm Beck, Redden & Secrest.
Zapata, an oil exploration company founded in the 1950s by former President George Bush, had become a producer of marine protein products. Furey and Von Rosenberg had left their positions with Zapata to head the company's new subsidiary, Omega Protein Corp.
In April of 1998, Zapata announced plans to become an Internet and e-commerce business under a new name, Zap Corp.
Following that announcement, Zapata issued a flurry of press releases announcing letters of intent to acquire various Internet entities. And Glazer held interviews with the media in which he made glowing statements that Zapata intended "to become one of the largest Internet companies in the world."
The company's stock reached a high of around $20 in July of 1998, a time when the stock market in general was soaring. Zapata's stock began declining in August of 1998 and had dipped below $10 by October -- a period in which the stock market fell dramatically in reaction to Asian currency failures.
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Rail passengers using London Liverpool Street station are to benefit from improved information about Greater Anglia train services.
In a project jointly funded by Greater Anglia and Network Rail, the existing Greater Anglia Information Desk on the concourse is being replaced and upgraded - with more space for additional customer service staff and new HD information screens.
The investment follows feedback from staff and customers about how information provision could be improved at the busy London terminus.
The new Customer Information Point will be bigger than the previous structure and will now be able to accommodate three Greater Anglia customer service staff, who will all be able to answer passengers’ queries. Having additional capacity will be particularly helpful during busy times or if there is disruption to the train service.
Additional, new ‘intelligent’ HD information screens on the exterior will provide information about pre-planned engineering works as well as live messages directly from Greater Anglia’s Control Room during disruption.
Lee Ivor Smith, Greater Anglia’s Head of Customer Service South, said, “Staff and passengers have reinforced how good quality information is really important to a smooth journey, so I am very pleased that we have been able to respond to this feedback by improving the Information Point at London Liverpool Street station.
“This will be a step-change in the information provision we offer to customers thanks to the new intelligent information displays and the extra space, which means that we can have more staff on hand to help passengers and make their journeys a little easier.”
Ellie Burrows, Network Rail’s route director for Anglia said: “We know that equipping passengers with the right information at the right time will help them to complete their journeys quicker and more easily. The new facility will house all the latest information in one place, which is especially important at a large and busy station like Liverpool Street.”
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On its self-titled debut album, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra offers the listener the best of two possible worldsa thinking person's big band that also swings. There's a lot happening in these ten original compositions (including the two-part French-Canadian/Métis Suite), but the elaborate charts seldom interrupt the band's essential purpose, to present high-caliber music that is not only aesthetically pleasing but viscerally captivating as well.
Pianist Michelle Grégoire wrote the evocative Suite, as she did the almost-blues "Minor Alterations," while trombonist Jeff Presslaff composed "Having Met," "Nightflame" and the Gershwin-inspired and dirge-like "Something to Wash Over Me." Completing the bill of fare are two works ("Riff Raff Riff," "Europa") by trumpeter Richard Boughton and one each by saxophonist Ken Gold ("The Chomsky Moan") and vocalist Lianne Fournier ("Aphrodite," on which she also sings).
To me, the straight-on "Europa," encompassing inspired solos by flugel Boughton and tenor Brian Klowak and a superb intro by Grégoire, earns the blue ribbon, but the other charts are close behind, and there is certainly much to admire elsewhere, especially in Grégoire's trio of handsome arrangements; the Kentonesque "Having Met," shuffling "Riff Raff Riff" and impishly funky "Chomsky Moan." Boughton delivers another impressive flugel solo on "Having Met," while Greg Gatien is heard to good advantage on tenor ("Minor Alterations") and soprano ("Riff Raff Riff," "Nightflame," Part 1 of Suite Métis). Other soloists of note include Grégoire, Gold (baritone on "Chomsky Moan," tenor on Part 2 of Suite Métis), guitarist Ron Halldorson, bassist Gilles Fournier and bass trombonist D'Arcy McLean.
The charts are sharp and engaging, the ensemble snug and sturdy, and the WJO's debut album is a pleasure to hear.
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- January 25 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne Boleyn, who becomes his second queen consort.
- January 26 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, is appointed Lord Chancellor of England.
- March 30 – Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
- April – The Statute in Restraint of Appeals in England declares the king to be the supreme sovereign and forbids judicial appeals to the papacy.
- May 23 – King Henry VIII of England's marriage with Catherine of Aragon is declared annulled by Archbishop Cranmer. Since Pope Clement VII had rejected Henry's petition for annulment in 1530, Catherine continues to believe herself Henry's wife until her death.
- June 1 – Cranmer crowns Anne Boleyn as queen consort of England, in Westminster Abbey.
- July 11 – Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Clement VII, as is Archbishop Cranmer.
- July 22 – Treaty of Constantinople between the Ottoman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria: Ferdinand I, King of the Romans, withdraws his claims to most of Hungary and János Szapolyai, voivode of Transylvania, becomes King of Hungary under the suzerainty of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
- July 26 – Sapa Inca Atahualpa is executed by garotte, at the orders of Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca. The Spanish arrange for his younger brother Túpac Huallpa to be crowned as a successor, but he dies of smallpox soon afterwards.
- September 7 – Anne Boleyn gives birth to Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth I of England, at the Palace of Placentia.
- October 28 – The 14-year olds Henry, Duke of Orléans – the future King Henry II of France – and Catherine de' Medici are married at the Église Saint-Ferréol les Augustins in Marseille.
- November 15 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cusco, Peru.
- December 3 – Ivan IV succeeds his father Vasili III as Grand Prince of Muscovy at the age of three years.
- December – Hernando de Grijalva and his crew discover the uninhabited Revillagigedo Islands, off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
- Paracelsus interprets the Bible in Appenzell.
- Pechenga Monastery is founded, in the far north of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.
- 1533–1534 – Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent makes the Ruthenian harem girl Roxelana his legal wife.
- January 2 – Johann Major, German poet and theologian (d. 1600)
- January 3 – Jerónimo Bautista Lanuza, Spanish friar, bishop and writer (d. 1624)
- January 6 – Timotheus Kirchner, German theologian (d. 1587)
- January 28 – Paul Luther, German scientist (d. 1593)
- February 5 – Andreas Dudith, Croatian-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat (d. 1589)
- February 9 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
- February 16 – Gianfrancesco Gambara, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1587)
- February 28 – Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (d. 1592)
- March 10 – Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1550)
- April 5 – Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1578)
- April 8 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1604)
- April 24 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)
- May 2 – Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1596)
- June 30 – Martín de Rada, Spanish missionary (d. 1578)
- July 10 – Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (d. 1611)
- August 2 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (d. 1588)
- August 7
- September 5 – Jacopo Zabarella, Italian philosopher (d. 1589)
- September 7 – Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1603)
- September 15 – Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1572)
- September 27 – Stefan Batory, King of Poland (d. 1586)
- October 9 – Henry V, Burgrave of Plauen (d. 1568)
- October 12 – Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese ruler (d. 1573)
- October 14 – Anna of Mecklenburg, duchess consort of Courland (1566-1587) (d. 1602)
- November 22 – Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1597)
- December 13 – King Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
- date unknown – Eknath, Indian Marathi saint (d. 1599)
- March 19 – John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English soldier and statesman (b. 1467)
- April 10 – King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
- April 28 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
- April 30 – John George, Marquess of Montferrat, Italian noble (b. 1488)
- June 25 – Mary Tudor, queen of Louis XII of France (b. 1496)
- July 4 – John Frith, English Protestant priest and martyr (b. 1503)
- July 6 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (b. 1474)
- August 8 – Lucas van Leyden, Dutch artist (b. 1494)
- July 26 – Atahualpa, last Inca ruler of Peru (executed) (b. c.1502)
- September 6 – Jacopo Salviati, Italian politician and son-in-law of Lorenzo de' Medici (b. 1461)
- September 17 – Philip I, Margrave of Baden (b. 1479)
- September 20 – Veit Stoss, German sculptor (b. c. 1447)
- October 10 – Severinus of Saxony, Prince of Saxony; died young (b. 1522)
- October – Túpac Huallpa, puppet ruler of Peru
- December 3 – Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy (b. 1479)
- date unknown
- probable – Girolamo del Pacchia, Italian painter (b. 1477)
- Historians disagree on the exact date of the excommunication; according to Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, the bull of 1533 was a draft with penalties left blank and was not made official until 1535. Others say Henry was not officially excommunicated until 1538 by Pope Paul III, brother of Cardinal Franklin de la Thomas.
- American Geographical Society (1967). Special publication 38 p. 370. New York. ISSN 0065-843X
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Fungus Among us...or Shitake Happened
I am (way) late in posting information on our fungus fun at the 22nd Annual Mushroom Festival. Better late than never though. Sophia and I were offered prime parking (read: FREE) on Saturday just two blocks from the festivities. The Borrelli posse were our tour guides and we live it up!
Ed was so excited by the possibility of being featured as the Mushroom Man on this blog that he nearly wet himself at the entrance to the Mushroom Exhibit!
Way to go, Mushroom Man!
And this is what the exhibit had in store:
Beds of smooshed poop with mushroom growing stuff on it...
And of course...mushrooms.
Keith, aka. Lil' Mush, enjoys a piece of fungus straight off the ....uh....bed of mushroom growing stuff. He LOVES it as his mother is gagging behind the camera.
There were also plenty of mushroom crafts to go around. These are mushroom shaped concrete that have been decorated by local artists. They were being auctioned off to raise money for...more mushrooms?
I wanted to bid on one of them. Though having a huge, psychedelic looking mushroom in the front yard would be humorous for George to come home to. Unfortunately the starting bid was $150 and by the time we got there they were well over $300!
Smaller, wooden mushroom crafts.
Even the radio station was there with their own mushroom tent!
And there was a shady mushroom truck down a side ally that was selling all sorts of goodies (of the fungus sort) out of the back on this truck. Seemed a little "Sopranos" to me.
If you have been inspired by the posted fungus and are now jumping out of your shorts to have some mushroom memorabilia you can visit the website and quench your thirst for a while....and we'll see you there next year! (I know where there is some cheap parking!!!)

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by ivan loh AND christopher tan
TELUK INTAN: Barisan Nasional is fielding Gerakan president Datuk Mah Siew Keong in the Teluk Intan parliamentary by-election.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is expected to announce his candidacy here today.
Born and bred here, the 53-year-old Mah, who has a Bachelor of Law degree, was the Teluk Intan MP for two terms before losing the seat to DAP in the 2008 general election.
DAP retained the seat in the general election last year after Seah Leong Peng beat Mah and independent candidate K. Moralingam with a 7,313 majority.
The seat fell vacant after Seah, 48, succumbed to cancer on May 1.
Mah had earlier indicated that he was interested to contest again, pending a final decision from the Prime Minister and Barisan chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Nomination is set on May 19 and polling on May 31.
Of some 60,000 voters in the constituency, 41% are Chinese, 38% are Malays and 19% are Indians.
Meanwhile, DAP looks set to field 27-year-old Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud for the seat, and party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng will announce her candidacy here this afternoon.
Dyana, who is DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang’s political secretary, is believed to have been picked over the other shortlisted candidate Hew Kuan Yau, also known as Superman.
In George Town, acting national DAP chairman Tan Kok Wai admitted that the Teluk Intan by-election would be an uphill battle for the party.
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This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.
There are 318 pages in this book. This book was published 1986 by Perfection Learning .
Michelle Magorian was originally an actress. While acting, she worked on stories and ended up writing the award-winning Goodnight Mr Tom. She has written further novels, poetry collections, short stories and picture books. Michelle lives in London and continues to act and write.
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This book, which is prepared for kids, is about the miraculous characteristics of the living things on the earth. Full color and written in a clear style, this book gives your children the opportunity to get to know God and His perfect artistry in creation. You may never have heard of how skilful and intelligent ants are. Some of you may even think of them as simple insects that wonder around all day without doing anything.
But those of you who think like that are mistaken, because ants, just like many other living things, have a life of their very own, and have many amazing features. Omar, the hero of our book, gets the chance to learn about the details of this life from a friend. He is astonished at the things he learns from him.
So what makes Omar so excited? Why is he so fascinated by the world of the ants? More important, who is this “little friend” who gives Omar so much information? You must be wondering what all this is about. So read this book, and find out….
Islamize your science curriculum with this clever story. As stories like this not only integrate Islam in the classroom, they make learning interesting and fun! Full of photographs and illustrations.

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We spoke to the director of Geoffrey’s in Antibes about how the store started and the problems after Brexit. / Geoffrey’s of London, thought to have been the largest independently owned UK food shop in France, has closed, a casualty of Brexit.
MacDuff 1890 were supplying customers on the continent with 'Rolls Royce of Scottish Beef'.
But the UK’s departure means far-reaching changes for the Irish economy. We are already seeing signs of how things may shake out and the really fundamental changes it means for many businesses, for consumers and for trade.
Dairy shipments collapse by as much as 96 per cent. Experts say extra red tape and delays are to blame.
There are concerns in the EU that the UK had not yet fully complied with the terms of the earlier Brexit divorce deal and stressed that “vigilance” would be required in future. / “Exports to our biggest market, Ireland, have also dropped more than two thirds." - Dominic Goudie, FDF
An article written by Peter Hardwick from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) explains that the declining level of red meat exports between the UK and EU illustrates the new-found trade friction between the blocs.
The EU Goods Sub-Committee publishes its report on what the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) means for trade in goods.
UK Meat Industry: Brexit Impact Report 25/03/2021
The UK meat industry employs around 97,000 people and is worth an estimated £8.2 billion a year to the UK, including about £1.6 billion in exports. / This report examines the impact of the first three months of trading with the EU as a third country.
“Now I can see the full carnage of what this government has done to my industry and the wider economy.” 30/01/2021
I am now at the end of January 2021 and still no new stock. I can see clearly what #Brexit really means for my industry & how I will have to fundamentally change my business model if I am to be trading in 12 months time. But the government wants more paperwork in five months.
Exports of Scottish seafood from smaller companies are to be halted for a further five days by the transport company that handles most of the trade.

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Sergio Marchionne -- who has been a heavy smoker -- is in his final year as CEO of the company.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne likely will miss the automaker's planned July 25 announcement of its second-quarter earnings as he recovers from recent surgery, according to an Italian media report.
Lettera 43, an Italian business website, said Marchionne likely will miss the quarterly conference call. It did not attribute the source of its information.
On July 5, Lettera 43 reported that Marchionne underwent surgery in Switzerland. The Lettera 43 story quoted an FCA spokesman saying the surgery was on Marchionne's right shoulder and that "he was in recovery phase," adding that "a short period of [convalescence] is expected."
The report did not give details about the surgery. Marchionne, 66, did not respond to a text message from Automotive News on July 6 inquiring about his health.
Marchionne -- who has been a heavy smoker -- is in his final year as CEO of the company, having joined a then-struggling Fiat in June 2004. His successor has not yet been named publicly, though Marchionne has repeatedly insisted that he (no women were considered, he said) would come from the company's internal executive ranks.
His quarterly conference calls are widely followed for his frequent candid -- and sometimes pointed -- responses to questions from analysts around the globe and for his habit of regularly making news about FCA's future plans.
Marchionne's latest known public appearance was in Rome on June 26, when he delivered a Jeep Wrangler to the Italian Carabinieri (the Italian equivalent of the U.S. Military Police).
In a statement earlier today responding to other Italian media, FCA admitted that Marchionne had recently underwent surgery, but shot down a story on his possible replacement.
“As the Company has stated on more than one occasion, such appointment will take place at the appropriate time and the successor, to be promoted from within, will be chosen based on a rigorous decision-making process initiated some time ago,” FCA’s statement read.
A spokeswoman for FCA US declined to comment further.
According to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, publicly traded companies are not required to disclose to the public if their top executives have serious illnesses. However, FCA, in its annual SEC filings, regularly cites Marchionne’s continued health as vital to the company’s long-term prospects.
FCA has regularly disclosedin its annual report that Marchionne’s health and his continued ability to carry out the company’s business plans are “critical to the execution of our strategic direction and implementation of our business plan.”


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A novel about memory, music, friendship, family rifts and reconciliation, this is an intelligent, compelling read set in Melbourne.
The Woman Upstairs
Nora Eldridge has always been a good girl: a good daughter, colleague, friend, employee. She teaches at an elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the children and the parents adore her; but her real passion is her...
Offers revelatory glimpses into the secrets and frustrations of the human heart, played out by a community of misfits united by political disagreement, intense dissatisfaction and lifetimes of words left unspoken. This title also...
The Orphan Master’s Son
At a tender age, Pak Jun Do, is plucked from his orphanage of Long Tomorrows to be trained as a tunnel assassin, kidnapper and spy. How far can Jun Do go before he, too, is sent to the paradise beach of eternal retirement?
Good on Paper
Somewhere out there, among the wounded egos and frustrated ambitions, among the mangled manuscripts, murky motives and missed deadlines - the great Australian novel is waiting to be discovered. When the infamous Josh Henry...
No World Concerto
A prismatic and erotic novel of the intersection of multiple worlds, this is the first novel by Roberto Bola o's early writing partner A. G. Porta to be translated into English.
Life After Life
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. The same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? This book follows Ursula...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?
All That Is
From his experiences as a naval officer in battles off Okinawa during World War II, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. He soon inhabits a world where marriages fail as affairs ignite, alcohol...
A World of Other People
Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.
Letters to the End of Love
Three stories, three secrets, three marriages.
I force myself to take the phone away from my ear and search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word, 'sister'. I know I should have used her name but it is all I can think of in this moment. Sister. My...
The Childhood of Jesus
The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read. This beautiful and surprising fable is about childhood, about destiny, about being an outsider. It is a novel about the riddle of experience itself.
The Rosie Project
A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, Don Tillman has given up on love. Until a chance encounter gives him an idea.
The Great Gatsby
Everybody who is anybody is seen at Jay Gatsby's glittering Long Island parties. Yet Gatsby himself is reserved, unknowable. He seems always to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. When he finally draws the...
Deals with the ordinary life of Dad Lewis, long-time resident of Holt, Colorado, who is now dying of cancer and has months to live and in those last few months the people who love him gather around him. This novel explores the...
Timeless yet singular, mythical yet deeply personal, this novel is about one man and his unnamed village that speaks for a way of life lost for ever. It evokes the tragedy of land pillaged and communities scattered, as England's...
The Great Gatsby
This is the story of Jay Gatsby, a Prohibition-era bootlegger whose obsessive dream of wealth and lost love is destroyed by the reality of corruption and cynicism.
The Fine Colour of Rust
If you loved A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, you'll love The Fine Colour of Rust.
Madame Bovary’s Haberdashery
Zac, a translator of Flaubert, can't believe his luck. He ends up sleeping with Odette, a beautiful but capricious ceramic artist, and her best friend, Cicely, a talented knitter and author of an erotic novel. As well as an...
Five Star Billionaire
In the Man Booker prize-longlisted 'Five Star Billionaire' Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times--bestselling author Ron Rash returns again to Appalachia to capture lives haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear in unforgettable stories that span the Civil War to the present...
Cat and Fiddle
Cat & Fiddle centres on two families whose lives become intertwined at the country estate of Bourne Abbey in rural Wiltshire. While Dr Choudhury is busy advising Henry Bourne on the restoration of the abbey to its former glory,...
The Secret Lives of Men
In these haunting stories, Georgia Blain explores human nature in all its richness: our motivations, our desires and our shortcomings. The men in these tales frequently linger at the edges - their longings & failures exerting a...
Flynn's toxic mix of sharp-edged wit with deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds readers at every turn. When his wife disappears on their anniversary, Nick starts having cringe-worthy daydreams...
The Best Australian Stories 2012
In The Best Australian Stories 2012, Sonya Hartnett compiles the year's most compelling short fiction from Australian authors.
Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet--where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere.
The Happiness Show
At thirty-eight, Lizzie Quealy thinks she has things sorted: a happy relationship, a couple of gorgeous kids, a steadfast best friend and a job she loves. But when Lizzie bumps into Tom, an old flame from her globe-trotting...
We are Not the Same Anymore
A man turns up at his daughter's birthday party with a goldfish in an ice-cream container. On the way to collect firewood, a woman and her teenaged neighbour crash in a snowstorm. An unwilling son helps his sister and father put...
Ruth and her cousin Naomi live in rural Failing, Wisconsin, part of a community of Pentecostal fundamentalists. While their families perceive constant danger in the outside world, they are blind to the destruction and devastation...
The Sleepers Almanac No. 8
2013 marks the tenth year of independent publishing outfit Sleepers, committed to publishing new and emerging authors in style. This eighth Almanac is no exception. Featuring new stories from Anica Boulanger-Mashberg, Jonathan...
The Midnight Dress
When a teenage girl disappears, a small town is awash with rumours: everyone is talking about the dress she wore, a midnight-blue dress made from the remnants of other dresses, a dress of stories ...
Wolf Among Wolves
This sweeping saga of love in dangerous times -- the 1923 collapse of the German economy, when food and money shortages led to rioting in the streets and unemployed soldiers marauding through the countryside--is deemed by many to...
The Fall of the Stone City
In September 1943, German soldiers advance on the ancient gates
of Gjirokastër, Albania. It is the first step in a carefully
planned invasion. But once at the mouth of the city, the troops are
taken aback by a surprising act of...
The epic story of THE PASSAGE continues
Bring Up the Bodies
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012
Like a House on Fire
From prizewinning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimedDark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies and injustices and...
The Fun Parts
A hilarious collection of stories from the writer The New York Times called the novelist of his generation. Returning to the form in which he began, Lipsyte offers up a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction.
Fifty Shades of Grey
When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind -...
The Amber Amulet
You're in safe hands - the Masked Avenger and Richie the Power Beagle are here to protect you! A charming story from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones.
In Tulli's second novel, set in a mythical fourth partition of Poland, the world is unreal yet strangely familiar.
A Tale for the Time Being
This is the simple story of a girl, her great-grandmother & the novelist who becomes enthralled with their tale. A simple story drawing from the deep currents of our times, from quantum physics, Japanese ghost tales, suicide...
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and...
Touch the Black: The Life and Death of Squizzy Taylor
A novella about the life and times of 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
My Hundred Lovers
Lyrical and enigmatic, sensual and elegiac, My Hundred Lovers tells the history of one woman through her sensual and sexual experiences and relationships. A woman, on the eve of her sixtieth birthday, looks back on her story of...
Love Is a Canoe
Love Is a Canoe is a smart, funny and romantic novel about the fragility of love and marriage. Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a Canoe , his decades-old guide to love and relationships, won the hearts of...
Ways of Going Home
A heartbreaking novel from a rising star of Latin America literature, and one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists.
In the tradition of classical Japanese poetic collections, the stories in this title are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new characters and...
Merivel: A Man of His Time
Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his ability to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair...
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Indigenous voices. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping...
Fishing for Tigers
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal...
A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1
Offers a Proustian exploration of the author's past, in which he creates a universal story of the struggles, great and small, that we all face in our lives. In this novel, the author writes about his childhood and teenage years,...
A Memory of Light
The final volume in the bestselling Wheel of Time series.
A Hologram for the King
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
By turns funny and moving, konkretion stages a dialogue around the romance of the Baader-Meinhof gang's revolutionary aspirations. Ex-commo Monique Piquet (aka Monica Picket) meets up in Paris with her former student, Angel...
Written by Hans Fallada in a notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale -- often fierce, often poignant, often even extremely funny -- of a small businessman losing...
May We be Forgiven
The dark and dazzling new novel from the author of the major bestseller This Book Will Save Your Life
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe. How...
All the Way
Solange wants to have sex. Will it be with one of the boys at school? The exchange student? The fireman she meets at the disco when she sneaks out one night? Or with Arnaud, the coolest boy she knows? She'd like to see more of her...
Woes of the True Policeman
When Oscar Amalfitano begins an impulsive affair with one of his students at the University of Barcelona, he has no idea where it will lead. More than his turbulent revolutionary past, or the death of his beautiful wife, the...
Barker confirms her place in the pantheon of Britain's finest novelists with a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of the Great War. Admirers of the Regeneration trilogy and fans of Downton Abbey alike will...
Where’d You Go, Bernadette?
An irresistibly funny, brilliantly original coming-of-age novel
A collection which features eleven masterful stories that deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. These stories represent seamless evocations of self-discovery.
When an incoming freshman steps into Harvard Yard for the first time she has lots of advice from her mother. But no amount of coaching will prepare Penelope for the people she meets at school. Gloriously skewering the social...
*WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD*
A Golden Age
East Pakistan, 1971, a country on the brink of war and a family that is about to change for ever. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her children in her rose-filled garden. Beyond the garden walls the city buzzes with excitement...
We Bought a Zoo: the Amazing True Story of a Broken-down Zoo, and the 200 Animals That Changed a Family Forever
A film tie-in edition to 20th Century Fox's film adaptation of the heart-warming international bestseller starring Scarlett Johansson and Matt Damon and directed by Oscar-winning director Cameron Crowe.
Leaving the Atocha Station
From a National Book Award finalist, this ironic first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.
This Is How You Lose Her
Offers a collection of linked narratives about love - passionate love, illicit love, dying love, maternal love - told through the lives of New Jersey Dominicans, as they struggle to find a point where their two worlds meet.
Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities...
The highly acclaimed new novel by the National Book Award winnng author of Tree of Smoke.
New Finnish Grammar
One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. With nothing to identify him, and having lost his memory and language, he is a mystery to the crew of the German ship that rescues him.
On the Road
Blending fiction and autobiography, this novel swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America.
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Fifteen years old and blazing with the hope of a better life, Hattie Shepherd fled the horror of the American South on a dawn train bound for Philadelphia. Her American dream is shattered time and again: a husband who lies and...
The Polish Boxer
The English-language debut of a major Latin American writer.
The Girl on the Stairs: A Masterful Psychological Thriller
Some buildings are alive with memories.
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
A tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon. It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on the most fluid and increasingly scarce of goods:...
Raised from the Ground
It is set in the Alentejo, the rural area of Portugal where Saramago's family came from, and follows the fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family from the beginning of the twentieth century through to its middle. Joao Mau-Tempo suffers...
The Rainbow Troops
On Indonesia's Belitong Island--impoverished and tyrannized by tin-mining interests--a wily group of schoolchildren fight for their right to education --
Britain, 1972. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year at Cambridge. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn...
When Roberta 'Bertie' Lightfoot is crippled by polio, her world collapses. But Mama doesn't tolerate self-pity, and Bertie is nobody if not her mother's daughter - until she sets her heart on becoming an artist. Through art, the...
From a National Book Award nominee ( Eat the Document ) comes a startlingly original and compelling novel about an eccentric artist and his sister.
A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilisation under orders from...
Peta Wheeler measures time differently now. Before the couch. After the couch.
Set in Melbourne in the 1950s, a 11-year-old boy witnesses a murder when he is spying through a window of a strange house.
The biggest novel yet from the master of American fiction, the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, T.C. Boyle. A New York Times Notable Book 2012.
Harland’s Half Acre
A revised edition of this seminal Malouf novel, now with an Afterword from the author. Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers, and his desire to regain the...
The Red Book
Clover, Addison, Mia and Jane were college roommates until their graduation in 1989. Now, 20 years later, their lives are in free fall. The four friends have kept up with one another via the red book, a class report published...
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Christopher Koch returns with a remarkable novel of gripping narrative power. Young Hugh Dixon believes he can save his father from ruin if he asks his estranged great - uncle Walter - a...
The Chemistry of Tears
The long affair had been kept secret from their colleagues at London's Swinburne Museum and now she must grieve in private. Or almost. In an act of compassion, the head of her department gives Catherine a very particular...
The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno
A sumptuous period story with the most wondrously vibrant cast of characters -- this tale of secrets, friendship and forbidden love will leave you enchanted
Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk's second novel is the moving story of a family gathering the summer before the Turkish military coup of 1980.
Autumn Laing has long outlived the legendary circle of artists she cultivated in the 1930s. Now 'old and skeleton gaunt', she reflects on her tumultuous relationship with the abundantly talented Pat Donlon and the effect it had on...
The Testament of Mary
All my life I have loved the Sabbath. So begins Colm Toibin's devastating novella The Testament of Mary
The Rest is Weight
The award-winning stories in The Rest is Weight reflect Mills' years in Central Australia, as well as her travels to Mexico, Russia and China. The collection displays a confident diversity of narrative voices and a brevity in...
The Third Reich
Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday to the Costa Brava. He brings along his new game, The Third Reich, which he plans to practice for the...
A Hologram for the King
Takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This novel is an evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving...
The Snow Child
Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wilderness is a stark place, and Mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before. When a little girl appears...
In the Kingdom of Men
Raised by her grandfather, a strict Methodist minister, in a two-room shack, Gin McPhee never imagined she'd have a husband she loved and a houseboy making her breakfast. When Mason takes a job at the Arabian American Oil company...
Paul Lohman and his wife Claire are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and ambitious politician, and his wife Babette. Paul knows the evening will not be fun.
When She Woke
When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign. An enthralling and chilling novel from the author of MUDBOUND, for fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and THE SCARLET...
From the acclaimed novelist and editor of The Believer comes a wildly imaginative and emotionally intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another.
Set in the idyllic countryside during a short-lived Swedish summer, this novel creates an atmosphere of foreboding when a single young woman visits her older sister, who is married to a writer as charismatic as he is violent.
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. But no matter how spectacular it is, travelling the endless rails of the railsea, Sham can't shake the sense that there is...
The Invisible Circus
Phoebe O'Connor of age eighteen is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her...
Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. After early success as a writer, he has become a pen for hire, finding work when and where he can. Then he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime, to write the biography of the...
The Hunger Angel
The new novel from the Nobel Prize winner, author of The Land of Green Plums, a brutal, brilliant story of survival and testimony from a young Romanian-German deported to the Soviet Gulag at the end of the Second World War.
Tigers in Red Weather
The Second World War is just ending, Nick's cousin Helena has left her in search of married bliss in Hollywood, and Nick's husband is coming home. Everything is about to change. A decade later, on the cusp of adolescence, Nick's...
The Sound of Things Falling
Originally published in Spain 2011 by Alfaguara (Santillana Ediciones Generales) as El ruido de las cosas al caer.
When the Devil Drives
When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion, a young woman who has vanished without trace, it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay vanished.
The Elephant Keeper’s Children
Peter and Tilde are trying to track down two notorious offenders: their parents. They are the minister and the organist, respectively, of the only church on a tiny island. Known for creating cheap miracles to strengthen the...
Children of Liberty
From Paullina Simons who brought you the unforgettable The Bronze Horseman comes the much-anticipated Children of Liberty.
The Third Reich
Written in 1989 and found among Bolano's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. This visceral novel shows a world-class writer coming into his own--and exploring for the first...
After a whale beaches itself on the shore of the remote coastal town of Paradise Deep, the last thing any of the townspeople expect to find inside it is a man, remarkably alive. The discovery of this mysterious person, soon...
Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures
Tells the story of a young starlet for whom the cost of fame is too high. As her veneer of stardom crumbles, this novel asks: How many people can we be over the course of our lives? How much can we change? And at what cost? It is...
Miles Off Course
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
From the author of the highly acclaimed A Child's Book of True Crime comes a dazzling, intense, and erotic second novel set in an isolated mansion in the country. Liese has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander,...
'Before you fall in love, or find a dear friend, you should know: this is the day I will meet someone whose memory will touch my heart and change my world forever.
Bold, brave and darkly funny, Triburbia explores the experience of fatherhood in the modern world.
Lightning Rods is the long-awaited second novel by the author of arguably the most exciting debut novel of the decade, The Last Samurai.
Twice winner of the Miles Franklin Award and an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contribution to Australian literature, Christopher Koch returns after three years with a remarkable new novel that is pure Koch at his best....
PR whizz Cassandra Daley isn't afraid of using all the dirty tricks of the trade to spin a story her way. A glamorous city-slicker, she has never given much thought to wildlife until she humiliatingly loses a PR war with a...
Closer to Stone
The story of two brothers from 'The Springs' (a fictional former spa town near Brisbane); one a soldier peacekeeper with the UN and one a sculptor. Set in 1993 in northern Africa (Morocco, Western Sahara and Algeria) and in the US...
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
A collection featuring twelve new stories and twelve selected favorites from the author's acclaimed collections, beginning with his debut, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven , to the PEN/Faulkner-winning War Dances...
FORECAST TURBULENCE is a breathtaking and exquisitely lyrical collection of nine short stories and one memoir piece from internationally acclaimed Australian author Janette Turner Hospital. Featuring a compelling and enigmatic...
A Small Circus
It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a...
When talented, dedicated fourteen-year-old Georgia Slade becomes a student in an elite Toronto ballet academy, her confusing feelings toward one of her teachers lead to disaster.
An award-winning international sensation as haunting and unforgettable as Suite Francaise. Paris, 1975. Camille sifts through letters of condolence after her mother's death when a strange, handwritten missive stops her short.
Silver: Return to Treasure Island
July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to...
The biggest selling dog-lovers' book since Marley and Me: A feel-good rom-com about one resourceful puppy's quest to find his mistress the perfect mate...
Crimes, campgrounds, vagrants, violence, poetry, sex, love and corruption -- they're all here: it's pure Bolano.
Deadlocked: A True Blood Novel
The brand new Sookie Stackhouse novel!
The Bellwether Revivals
A masterful work of psychological suspense and emotional resonance sure to appeal to fans of Donna Tartt and Marisha Pessl, this sophisticated debut novel explores a group of Cambridge friends entangled in a strange and opulent...
In treacherous weather the merchant vessel Per Se is about to cast off from its Icelandic port, bound for Suriname, far across the other side of the world. Each of the nine crew members carries his own secret -and some have blood...
Memory Of Salt
Alis father is a Turkish circus musician performing in Kabul when Alis mother, a young pediatrician from Melbourne, meets him in a bar. He plays the trumpet, the saz, the flute, hears voices that urge him to violence, sees angels...
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
On his one-hundredth birthday Allan Karlsson makes his escape from the old people's home and embarks on an unlikely and momentous adventure. The international bestselling phenomenon by Swedish sensation Jonas Jonasson.
The year is 1985 and twenty-two-year-old Galen lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a secluded old house with a walnut orchard in a suburb of Sacramento, California. He yearns for transformation. But he's powerless to...
The Cat’s Table
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other...
The past isn't dead. It isn't even past Jodie Garrow is a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks when she falls pregnant. Scared, alone and desperate to make something of her life, she makes the decision to adopt out her baby;...
A stunning collection about poltics, family and community from award-winning virtuoso writer, Roshi Fernando
Stay Awake: Stories
Before the critically acclaimed novels Await Your Reply and You Remind Me of Me, Chaon made a name for himself as a renowned writer of dazzling short stories. Now, in Stay Awake, Chaon returns to that form for the first time...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from war. Back in Texas, he has become a national celebrity. A Fox News crew filmed Billy and the rest of Bravo squad defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight. Now Billy is a...
Belinda McKeon is a startling new talent in the great Irish mould, and Solace is a work to be admired equally for its spare, intense lyricism as for its range, understanding, and deeply compassionate portrayal of life as it is...
Lost Memory of Skin
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is...
The Map and the Territory
Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news.
A captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both.
The Little Shadows
Here is the eagerly anticipated new novel from a brilliant writer whose last book, Good to a Fault , was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean. The Little Shadows...
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Date: Saturday, January 5, 2013 - Thursday, January 10, 2013
Steamboat MusicFest--the ONLY festival that brings the finest Texas and Americana music to the snow swept Colorado Rockies for a full week of sport and song. Eighteen bands will perform over the six days in the heart of the Rocky Mountains featuring free après-ski concerts, evening concerts and special engagements throughout the week including over 40 live performances, from an increasingly diverse line up of artists with styles ranging from country to rock, blues to bluegrass, folk and western swing, and everything in between. Six days, 40 bands & one really big tent-don't miss it!
2013 MusicFest Artists include:
Adam Hood, Bri Bagwell, Brison Bursey, Casey Donahew Band, Charlie Robison, Cody Canada and The Departed, Cody Johnson Band, Corb Lund, Cory Morrow, Dirty River Boys, Folk Family Revival, Gary P. Nunn, George Devore, HalleyAnna and The Tennessee Volunteers, Hayes Carll, Jack Ingram and The Beat Up Ford Band, Jason Boland and The Stragglers, Jason Eady, John Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Lee, K Phillips & The Concho Pearls, Kevin Fowler, Kimberly Kelly, Kristen Kelly, Kyle Park, Larry Gatlin, Max Stalling, Michael Martin Murphey, Midnight River Choir, Micky and The Motorcars, Randy Rogers Band, Reckless Kelly, Rodney Hayden, Roger Creager, Six Market Blvd., Slaid Cleaves, Stoney LaRue, The Rankin Twins, The Trishas, The Washers, Thieving Birds, Turnpike Troubadours, Uncle Lucius, Wade Bowen, Walt Wilkins, Whiskey Myers, Will Hoge, Ashley Ray.


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In this guided tour, students will discover the history of Melbourne through contemporary images from the 1840s through 1880s. Drawn from the Roy Morgan Research Centre Collection, these paintings and lithographs provide a glimpse of colonial Melbourne, seen through the eyes of those who were there.
Students will learn and examine the history of the city from first European settlement, through to Federation, when Melbourne became the capital city of Australia. A visit to the Executive Council Chamber is included in this tour to see the Sir Francis Grant R.A. portrait of Charles La Trobe, our first Lieutenant-Governor.
This tour is catered for visual learners. Ideal for ESL students.
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San Francisco transit bosses are planning to remove hundreds of parking spots from nearly 1,200 bus stops across the city in the hopes of improving transit accessibility.
Flag stops—when the bus has to stop inside a traffic lane to pick up passengers— are the focus of the parking spot removals. There are 1,195 flag stops in the city, roughly a third of all city bus stops.
The city’s transportation agency has not given specific details about which bus stops would lose parking spaces, but Districts 7, 8, and 10 would lose the most parking spaces. Those districts include the Bayview, the Castro, West Portal and parts of the Inner Sunset.
Vehicles parked at flag stops can make it difficult for a bus driver to see a waiting passenger, said Supervisor Dean Preston, who introduced the resolution calling for the SFMTA to remove parking from bus stops in November 2021.
"No senior or person with a disability should need to navigate the often narrow space between two parked cars to board a bus at these stops," Preston said.
The transportation agency estimates that removing parking spaces from the bus stops could take as long as seven years and cost between $3 and $5 million.
The bus agency says it will take so long because it needs to visit around a third of all stops in the city before beginning the lengthy parking removal process.
The agency has outlined three phases for removing parking from flag stops.
Phase One would see a 20-foot section of bus stop curbs painted red, telling drivers not to park there.
Phase Two will actually remove the parking spots and start with those prioritized by the agency, with a focus on busy bus routes and routes in commercial areas.
The agency has prioritized 517 bus stops under those criteria, and the conversion, which began in March, is expected to end in March 2026.
Phase Three would take the longest and see the removal of the other 678 flag stop parking spots in the city, many of which are in quieter residential areas, the agency said. It estimates that 125 to 150 stops per year will be checked, with a scheduled end date in March 2029.
The plan was discussed at the Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting Monday.
Agency transit planner Sean Kennedy told the committee that the reason for the seven-year timeline is because the bus agency must hold a public hearing about each flag stop which will have parking removed from it.
"We can't just paint 1,200 curbs, it's going to be a longer process," Kennedy said.
The plan to add 20 feet of painted red curb to each flag stop will go before the transportation agency's Board of Directors during a December 6 meeting.


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Katy Perry Only The Fifth Artist To Land Six Top 10 Hot 100 Hits From One Album
When the pop history book is finally written about this era of music, upcoming SNL host Katy Perry will have at least one more achievement to look back on, following her record five Hot 100 chart-topping singles from Teenage Dream — she’s now only fifth artist to land six Top 10 hits on the Hot 100 from one album in the chart’s 53-year history. She’s also the first to do so since Janet Jackson’s 1993 LP janet. also produced six. Perry’s “The One That Got Away” has moved up six positions to #10 on the new Hot 100 chart that will be officially published tomorrow. In addition to radio play, the song no doubt got an added boost following the premiere of its music video two weeks ago.
Following this achievement, Billboard has highlighted the five artists — Katy and Janet being the only females — and seven albums that have pulled off the impressive chart trick. They include the following:
1. Michael Jackson, Thriller (released in 1982, seven Top 10 singles)
2. Bruce Springsteen, Born In The USA (1984, seven)
3. Michael Jackson, Bad (1987, six)
4. George Michael, Faith (1987, six)
5. Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989, seven)
6. Janet Jackson, janet. (1993, six)
7. Katy Perry, Teenage Dream (2010, six)
Now the question remains: can Katy surpass Michael Jackson (who she’s currently tied with) by becoming the artist with the absolute most #1 singles on the Hot 100 from one album?
Let us know your thoughts below!


text: Another remix, this time based on old conversion made by Briareos - TLTF. Recalibrated jump pads, tweaks and tricks here and there, but most importantly, quirky rules. I've made this for myself, as a fun training ground, for practising second shot. In regular DM game first shot from a railgun isn't deciding, it tilts the balance, but only second shot (sometimes third one) brings the success. So that's the premise for this creation. 20 slugs for Railgun 5 grenades for Grenade Launcher 100 shell for Super Shotgun. Railgun as the main weapon, grenades for disrupting, Shotgun for close calls And a little prize for brave accomplishments. It works properly only with a dedicated config, but if you wish to use it in your own way, feel free. If you decide to try it with my config, share your experiences (or send a demo .dm2 file). .... A bit of history. Many years ago I've made this map, and then for a long, long time I have been changing a configuration of items and weapons, trying to catch the best and most enjoyable layout, and this is a result. Right now when I try to recompile this map from the scratch, I get errors, back then I have used some trickery and magic to turn this on, and now I don't remember what I hacked, and there are no any writings I should left. So it is, what it is, partially unfinished, yet very enjoyable for me, thus I want to share and see if other players may like it too.


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This Glock manufactured magazine is designed for the Glock 17 and 34 handgun but will fit many more 9mm Glock handguns giving you extended capacity for the range or home defense. Made in Flat Dark Earth, this magazine adds the same reliability Glock is known for with added visual appeal.
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As in any post war conflict country, resource/waste management is a task that requires systematic and long term thinking and is not always best managed by profit seeking corporations though good exceptions to that rule exists and many more will come.
When changing a mindset of a whole nation towards resource use, one must obviously start with the root of the issue. Most people argue that there are many different aspects of the personal view that interact in order to form an opinion.
I argue that it´s the single set of prevailing social norms that oppresses mans´ search for order and structure. The social norm, flawed or not, is most often reaffirmed when conveyed in a socially uniform context where few incentives exists to change.
So how how does one achieve change in a society where success is measured in powerfulness, and powerfulness is measured in the amount of equally colored Land Cruisers or Nissan Patrol in a row on the highway on your way to the supermarket or a business meeting? Well, some would say ”in the same way it became the measuring unit in the first place”. Lets look at natural sciences for an answer.
By creating attractors in space time continuum change and evolution is attained. Is that a fact? Yes. In science we talk about attractors that by way of interaction with other entities evolve by way of integration and inheritance. This is the case also in social systems.
When reviewing some of the less obscure post war social, commercial and governmental processes in Iraq one cannot deny that government has played a very influential role in shaping society in a ”brute force change model” manner. Amongst people, being extremely tired of conflict and only desiring improved living conditions, it would seem an easy task to provide societal development. That is of course not never the case. Utilizing the free market forces to rebuild a whole country or region is not something that would happen without mistakes and injustices occurring. Though the very same mechanisms residing within government governance and consumer market forces will change the social norms in a secular new capitalistic society. Where smart, powerful and modern thinking about the society and its resources (people, technology, natural resources, processes) will be the true sign of achievement, honor and greatness. These attractors will need to be installed in all parts of society under the jointly shared societal norm taking responsibility for the future generations.
So also this time round, government and its change agents will play a decisive role in evolution, because, there are several individuals and officials that think strategically and long term and wholeheartedly for the benefit of the country and region. Should the government jump start the change and the people will assign different value to their and the country´s resources?
Yes, that is being done already but without strategic coordination, pervasive structure and enforcement.
Looking at the Waste Management case in Iraq, one could start by lobbying for master plan inclusion of a) monetary incentives for resource management of complete cycle systems, b) consumer and commercial resource recycle and resource reuse incentives, c) free advertising space and airtime for Green & Clean Technology ventures, d) ratifying relevant international treaties and mechanisms, e) setup´s of Green Tech and Clean Tech incubators and science parks, f) implementing legislation that all public buildings shall be rebuild or newly build and be completely self sustaining closed systems from a resource and security point of view and that every new building must be build to comply with strict energy consumption restrictions, g) allow primarily young people to purchase an apartment, at a reduced price and a superior mortgage plan, in ”Green” apartment buildings that are highly equipped with state of the art technologies and knowledge access.
Well in order to achieve the previous sample goals, a strategic roadmap and development must be reconciled and widely communicated to the public in order to gather and conjoin the positive forces in private and public sectors and to setup the initial important attractors.
The slogan ”the change starts with you” is as relevant as at was when first conceived. Though without a counterpart and partnership with society and government such change will take longer time to achieve and require more dramatic methods from consumers.
Even if the social norm was changed by way of the “well known” brute force change model, I would find it very unlikely that any group would go out in the streets with the intent to destroy or to create havoc due to the fact that the refutes from households, hospitals, factories, and public administrative offices were recycled, reused and reduced and that people had better terms for acquiring apartments than before, that public spending was made more efficient, that more people became rich, that the general standard of living for people had increased, or even more absurd, that it would create political turmoil due to the improved environment that people live in.

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text: "Cast off fear and anxiety; do you not know that we walk with you at all times. The love and power that surrounds you is far beyond your comprehension. And God is not far off, the vail that separates the worlds is so very thin. You may not be able to see beyond it with the physical eye but heaven is as close as your next breath. Live your days in peace and rest at night in the serene comfort that your angels are always encamped round' about you. Those who are for you are far greater than any challenge that might befall you. Even death is but a doorway that leads the soul back to the land of its origin. To think of such prospects as dying may fill you with great fear, but in the end you will look upon it as a something that was very easily overcome. There is truly never any reason to fear whatsoever... you are safe, loved and protected at all times."


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Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is all set to bring its Mi 4i smartphone for its customers through an open sale on Flipkart.The smartphone which recently gained popularity for its good specs and cheaper price will now be available for purchase without any registrations on May 25 and May 26.
Till now, the smartphone was being sold through the company’s much successful flash sales models.But I digress – it looks like this particular handset has issues with overheating as well, as it runs on the 64-bit Snapdragon 615 SoC that boasts of an octa-core 1.7GHz CPU and is mated to the Adreno 405 GPU.
Xiaomi decided to pull one back for the team by rolling out a rather hefty 804MB update, which will be known as V18.104.22.168 LXIMICD.However, there has been no information about the number of units being available for the open sale.Surprisingly, the open sale by Xiaomi clashes with the open sale of Lenovo A6000 Plus on the same dates which clearly shows that the customers and the two companies might have a tough time around.
To recall, the Xiaomi Mi 4i features a unibody polycarbonate build, and has a soft touch matte finish with an anti-grease coating.Both SIM card slots support 4G LTE connectivity, and the phone is compatible with LTE bands in India.
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