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Exclusive: ‘Fuller House’ Star Jodie Sweetin Sizzles In Her Most Jaw-Dropping Shoot Ever
“It’s a side of me people haven’t seen before.”
“Whatever happened to predictability?” asks the funky theme song to the sugar-sweet ’90s sitcom Full House. In the case of its star Jodie Sweetin, who recently posed for this scorching-hot photo shoot, it seems to have flown right out the window.
It makes sense that she wants to refresh her image, considering an entire generation watched her grow up on one of the most family-friendly shows in TV history. The 34-year-old has played middle child Stephanie Tanner for almost three decades now, first on the original show, and now on the updated Fuller House (the second season of which is currently streaming on Netflix). Her character’s catchphrase, “How rude!”, is right up there in the pop-culture pantheon with “Dy-no-mite!”, “Did I do that?” and “D’oh!”
Though her path from Full House to Fuller House wasn’t always smooth—she wrote a memoir, unSweetined, about her struggles with addiction and recovery—her determination to get her life back on track is truly admirable. We were very excited to get the chance to speak with Jodie about her sexy shoot shared exclusively with Maxim, the new season of Fuller House, and how growing up with Bob Saget as a father figure can really mess a girl up.
What inspired you to do this shoot?
I wanted to do something that was a departure from Stephanie, but still a part of who I am. I am an adult woman, and I think people kind of forget that when you’re so closely tied in with such a traditional family sitcom. At the end of the day, it’s fun to do something different. It’s fun to do something sexy and unique and a little more personal. When I got the opportunity to work with Glenn Nutley, who’s the photographer and also a really good friend, I was like, “Let’s just have fun and play with it.” And so we did, and they turned out really well.
You look great. How do you like to keep in shape?
It’s so hard with the holidays right now. I work out at least three times a week—I do a lot of Pilates. I also have a great personal trainer who kicks my ass. It’s not just about what I look like, though. The side benefits are, of course, you definitely look better, but for me it’s all about how I feel. That’s a huge reason I work out as often as I do.
Do you have a part of your body you’re particularly proud of?
It depends on the day of the week and what I’ve had for lunch, but I would say probably… well, my fiancé says I have a nice ass, so I’ll take that. I definitely don’t turn around and have no butt.
Do you think your fans will be surprised by the sexiness of the shoot?
Yeah, it’s a side of me people haven’t seen before, and it’s something people haven’t really recognized in me. In the first season of Fuller House, there were definitely some jokes about Stephanie’s attire. It’s been hinted at, but I don’t think people have ever seen me do a photo shoot like this.
So, full disclosure, I’m a Full House fan.
Oh, I’m glad. I think for a lot of people, it’s their guilty pleasure. One of the things I’ll say about Full House and now Fuller House is that it’s television comfort food. It’s something you watch, and it feels really good and familiar and makes you happy, and you can watch it over and over again and never get tired of it. I love being a part of that. It’s really fun to know that so many people have grown up with it for the past 30 years.
How old were you when the original started?
I was just turning five years old.
Wow, so you must not have much memory before the show.
I really don’t. I was talking about this the other day, like, “I don’t have any memory of life before Full House.” Most of my childhood memories have to do with either working on the show or being on the show or being really connected to that world. I was on the show from five to 13; those are like your childhood years. That was it. So I never had a normal school experience. It was always going to work and going to school, and it’s crazy to think that ever since I can remember that’s how it’s been.
How is it different working as an adult with Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier on Fuller House?
I feel like I’m a part of the adults now. It’s like the secrets are out, we’re sharing jokes, I don’t have to go run off to school. It just feels like when you move from the kid’s table to the adult’s table at Thanksgiving. It’s sort of that same transition where you’re like, “Oh, OK! I’m in the big kid’s club now.”
Did you learn about anything crazy that happened on set of the original show that you were shielded from as a kid?
Not that I can remember. Those guys were actually pretty good on set. I’ve heard stories about them having fun outside of work—there are definitely some Vegas stories that they’ve shared—but nothing too crazy while they were on set with us kids. I mean, they always had their inappropriate humor and stuff like that.
Well, we are talking about Bob Saget.
Is there anything you can spill about the new season? DJ and even Kimmy Gibbler had romantic relationships in the first season, but Stephanie really didn’t.
Yeah, Steph gets a boyfriend this season. She does have a little bit more going on in the romance department. She’s a lot more focused on her music career, and she’s kind of settling into the family dynamic. Part of Steph’s story is that she was traveling the world with her music and living that kind of lifestyle, and she’s now settling a bit more into being grounded. You really see that progression for her throughout this season. She has more of a role as an aunt and is definitely a bit happier being with the family.
Last season you had Macy Gray and Giants’ outfielder Hunter Pence as guest stars. Any fun ones this time?
New Kids on the Block. Candace [Cameron Bure] and Andrea [Barber] were like beside themselves, because they were huge fans growing up. We also bring back a lot of the cast from the original show, like Gia, who was Stephanie’s troublemaking friend. And then DJ and Kimmy have their high school reunion, where we see a lot of the characters that DJ went to high school with coming back. It’s fun references for fans who grew up watching the show, like, “Oh my god. it’s Kathy Santoni!”
Any Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen cameos?
No, not yet. But we’re always open, so we’ll see.
Do you have reunions with folks from the other TGIF shows? Like do you, Urkel, Balki and Topanga ever hang out?
I actually have another show coming out with Christine Lakin, who was on Step by Step, and Beverley Mitchell, who was on 7th Heaven, called Hollywood Darlings. It’s a fun comedy about things that have really happened in our lives, but turned up to 11. Like, we play really heightened versions of ourselves. We have a lot of great guest stars on that show too using TGIF people, but it’s adult humor. It’s definitely not the show that you’re gonna sit and watch with your kids. It’s a little bit darker humor, and I think the kids who grew up watching Full House who are now my age will find it funny.
I just read that Jeff Franklin, the show’s creator, actually bought the Full House house in San Francisco.
Yes, he’s been talking about it for a while. He bought the actual Full House house, so now it’s a real part of the family.
Does the inside look like the set?
Not yet, but he’s working on getting it there. The inside of the house that we have on set, there’s no way that could physically exist as the house you see on the outside. But he is trying to go in and make it as close to what the set looks like. I’m sure the neighbors are gonna fucking hate us.
And fans already take pictures in front of the house now anyway.
The house is on Broderick St., and about 200 people a day come by and take pictures. It’s on a bunch of San Francisco city tours. The owners before Jeff tried to repaint it to make it indistinguishable from the others, but Jeff painted the front door red again so people will know. There’s no hiding the Full House house.
How many times a day do people ask you to say “How rude!”?
It depends on where I’m at. If I’m out somewhere, people will definitely ask. I speak at different colleges and universities about growing up on the show, and that’s always one of the questions: “Can you say, ‘How rude’?” I’ve resigned myself to the fact that it will probably be on my tombstone.
What do you talk about at colleges?
I talk about growing up on Full House, what my life was like after and in between—the good stuff and the bad stuff—and where I am today. It’s a lot about my personal experiences and my memoir. It’s really fun to speak about my life coming full circle.
You mentioned that Full House is a lot of people’s guilty pleasure. What are some of yours?
I binge watch Orange Is the New Black, which is one of my favorites. So good. Stranger Things, Game of Thrones I’m a huge fan of. I’m actually a huge book nerd. I will almost always choose a book over watching TV. I usually like real dark psychological thriller stuff. I’m reading a Stephen King book now that’s fantastic, Doctor Sleep, which is the sequel to The Shining. Stuff that is a little bit scary is more my speed than anything else. Romance novels and rom-coms are not usually my go-tos.
Have you been watching your costar Candace Cameron Bure in those Hallmark Channel Christmas movies?
To be honest, I don’t have cable. I only have Netflix and HBO GO. I’m a total on-demand girl. There’s no sense in paying for TV that I’m not gonna watch.
Do you have any holiday traditions?
Christmas pajamas. It’s not Christmas without Christmas pajamas.
Finally, what do you look for in a guy?
A sense of humor, for sure. If you don’t have a great sense of humor and are sarcastic and find darker things funny, then it’s not going to work. I grew up with Bob Saget, so my sense of humor is maybe a little bit twisted.


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It turns out, your mother was right. A little gratitude goes a long way—especially when it comes to email.
Boomerang, makers of an email plug-in, analyzed more than 350,000 email threads to see which closing garnered the highest response rate.
Emails that closed with some form of “thank you” pulled in the highest response rates at 62%, according to a post on the BoomerangApp.com blog written by Brendan Greenley.
And of the grateful closings, “thanks in advance” received the highest response (65.7%), “which makes sense, as the email’s recipient is being thanked specifically for a response which has yet to be written,” Greenley writes. “There’s a bit of posturing involved with this closing, but it turns out it works pretty well.”
Here’s the complete list of closings they analyzed and their corresponding response rates. Apparently “best” isn’t best, after all.
- Thanks in advance—65.7%
- Thank you—57.9%
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Interest in social-emotional learning and resiliency training (click here and here for just two examples) in education has shown a recent uptick on activity. Given this activity, IQs Corner is starting a series to explain the previously articulated Model of Academic Competence and Motivation (MACM), which was a model ahead of it's time (IMHO).
The imporance of non-cognitive (conative) characteristics in learning have been articulated since the days of Spearman, the father of the construct of general intelligence. Richard Snow's work on the concept of "aptitude," which integrates cognitive and conative individual difference variables, is the foundation of the Beyond IQ MACM. Non-cognitive (cognitive) characteristics of learners are important for learning and are more manipulable (more likely to be modified via intervention) than intelligence. Thus, the MACM components make sense as potential levers for improving school learning and pursuing more well rounded life-long learners.
This material comes a larger set of materials on the web (click here).
This current (first) installment in the Beyond IQ series provides an overview of the MACM framework. All installments in this series (and other related posts and research) can be found by clicking here.
Overview of MACM framework
Although a variety of models of school learning have been articulated (see Haertel et al., 1983, for a review), it is only recently that a model with sufficient breadth and depth has emerged with the potential to serve as a “bridging” mechanism between educational and psychological theory/research and educational practice. Based on a systematic program of educational research, the integration of the extant literature (which included a review of four existing taxonomies; Snow, 1973), and an emphasis on the relatively stable constructs causally related to educational performance, Richard Snow ventured a provisional taxonomy (Corno et al., 2002; Snow, Corno & Jackson, 1996).
The figure below presents a proposed and adapted version of the Snow Academic Aptitude Model (SAAM). Although the broad strokes of the SAAM are drawn primarily from the writings of Snow and colleagues, based on a contemporary literature review, it was found necessary to modify portions of the model and/or the model’s terminology. For example, Corno et al. (2002) describe and present learning orientation under the sub-domain of motivational orientation. Most contemporary motivation research refers to this construct as academic goal orientation (see Anderman, Austin & Johnson, 2002). In this adapted and extended model the more contemporary achievement goal orientation terminology is used. Where necessary and appropriate, modifications are made to the original SAAM terminology to reflect contemporary research and writings.
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In addition, a contemporary literature review uncovered specific behaviors and/or skills not included in the broad-stroke SAAM. These “newcomer” domains were logically placed under the SAAM category that appeared most appropriate. For example, relatively new research surrounding the construct domain of thinking dispositions (Perkins, Tishman, Ritchhart, Donis & Andrade, 2000) is related to a learner’s ability conception (Dweck, 2002).
The meaning of the MACM variables presented in the figure are amplified by the four categories of questions proposed by Wigfield and Eccles (2002).
Do I (does she/he) want to do this activity and why? Learner characteristics related to this question include, but are not limited to, achievement interests and values, intrinsic motivation, academic goal orientation, and social goals and their relations to motivation. Obviously, learners who have repeated consistent school failure would, as a group, be predicted to respond in the negative to this question.
Can I (he/she) do this activity? When pondering this question, learners reflect on a number of motivational self-beliefs (e.g., self- confidence, academic self- concept, academic self- efficacy) that have dominated social cognitive models of motivation research the past three decades. Although germane to all learners, this question is particularly salient for learners who have experienced repeated academic failure (e.g., learners with disabilities, disadvantaged learners).
What do I (does she/he) need to do to succeed? High motivation and positive self-beliefs are necessary but insufficient conditions for succeeding in educational environments. A bridge must link cognitive/academic abilities and motivation with actual behavior. The primary link is the presence of self-regulated learning strategies (e.g., study skills, cognitive and learning strategies, engagement, adaptive help-seeking) that allow individuals to manage efforts to accomplish their goal.
How do I (does he/she) need to behave towards others to succeed? Traditionally U.S. schools have valued student characteristics such as citizenship, conformity to social rules and norms, cooperation, and positive social behavior (Wentzel, 1993). The learner who does not know how (or who lacks the appropriate skills) to behave appropriately and responsibly is at increased risk for academic failure.
Finally, the recent version of the SAAM makes little mention of the domain of social ability, an ability that was touched on in earlier articulations of the SAAM (under the category of orientation towards others). As noted by Snow et al. (1996), psychologists have historically displayed a strong interest in the construct of social intelligence, which is typically defined as the ability to act wisely in interpersonal relations and being sensitive towards others (Thorndike, 1920). Educators and researchers have consistently demonstrated the importance of prosocial behavior and social skills to learner success (O'Sullivan & Guilford, 1975; Wentzel, 1989).
Social ability has two primary dimensions: “the ability to decode social information, including the ability to understand nonverbal cues and make accurate social inferences, and the ability to behave adaptively and effectively in social situations” (Snow et al., 1996, p. 278). These two dimensions roughly correspond to the cognitive (internal mental processes) and behavioral (observable behaviors) components of social functioning. As presented in the model, a cognitive-behavioral social ability distinction is made in the model.
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Two popular dance classes, Country Swing (Beginning) (CMSV 0040 80) and Country Swing (Intermediate) (CMSV 0041 80), will begin on Sunday, March 27, at Casper College.
Country Swing (Intermediate) will run from 4 to 6 p.m. each Sunday through April 17. According to Machelle Holloway, instructor, those taking the class will “expand on the dance steps learned in the country swing beginners class and learn the two-step, waltz, and some ballroom.”
County Swing (Beginning) will run from 6 to 8 p.m. The country swing class is a beginner’s level class and “students will learn three fun and easy dances; country swing, two-step, and country waltz,” Holloway said. The class runs from 6 to 8 p.m. each Sunday and will also run through April 17.
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This post's overview:
- 1 How to get to Bad Reichenhall? Do you need a car to explore German Alps?
- 2 How many days should you stay in Bad Reichenhall?
- 3 Where to stay in Bad Reichenhall?
- 4 10 amazing things to do in Bad Reichenhall:
- 4.1 Go hiking in The Alps
- 4.2 Visit the Thermal Baths
- 4.3 Discover lake Thumsee nearby / swim if it’s summer
- 4.4 Have a beer in one of the authentic local “Stuben”
- 4.5 In case it’s winter, go skiing!
- 4.6 Explore the towns nearby & take The Sound of Music Tour
- 4.7 Cross the German-Austrian border walking
- 4.8 Go cycling
- 4.9 Visit the famous Eagle’s Nest
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In this article, I will share 10 amazing things to do in Bad Reichenhall, the prettiest spa town in Bavaria (or maybe even the the whole of Germany).
If you’re new to this blog, hi, I’m Liza! I’m currently living in London and exploring some of the most beautiful places in the world, one place at a time. However, I have family in two different countries, including Germany, and Bad Reichenhall and Berchtesgaden are two places I keep revisiting all the time. I’ve visited Bad Reichenhall over 5 times now and I keep discovering new places and amazing things to do in both cities!
Before we start with the absolute best things to do in Bad Reichenhall, I’ll try to answer some of the frequently asked questions!
How to get to Bad Reichenhall? Do you need a car to explore German Alps?
Bad Reichenhall is easily accessible from Salzburg airport. It’s actually way closer to Austria than it is to any other large cities in Germany (from some parts of Bad Reichenhall, you can easily walk to Austria in about 15-20 minutes). However, if it’s easier for you to fly to Munich, you can take a train from there. You can check the prices of the trains here.
If you’re wondering if you need a car to explore Salzburg and Berchtesgaden, I would say yes, however, I recommend hiring a car later, when you’re ready to leave Salzburg. That’s because Salzburg is a very walkable city and you’ll get the best experience by staying in the city centre. There, hotels don’t usually have parkings. Salzburg has wonderful connections with the airport (it’s just 15 minutes away by a public bus), so getting back to the airport to rent a car would be easy.
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How many days should you stay in Bad Reichenhall?
If you’re wondering, how many days you should spend exploring Bad Reichenhall, I would say – as many as you have. If you’re okay spending 7 days in the South of Germany – that’s perfect, you will find things to do! 4 days, however, are enough to visit the area and see some of the main highlights as well as travel to beautiful Salzburg in Austria that is just around the corner!
If you want to spend more time hiking, cycling and swimming in the lakes, then you can probably stay even for 10 days! Also, if you’re staying for longer, you can go on a trip to visit Hallstatt, the most beautiful village in Austria!
Where to stay in Bad Reichenhall?
Bad Reichenhall has a lot of amazing hotels for any budget. Some of the best-rated and best-located hotels are:
Ibis Styles Bad Reichenhall – the newest hotel in Bad Reichenhall, we stayed there on our most recent trip to Berchtesgaden and Bad Reichenhall and really liked it!
Villa Sonnenhof – the best-rated hotel in the area
Hotel Bürgerbräu – if you’re looking for a beautiful historical property
Okay, now, lets talk about the top 10 amazing things to do in Bad Reichenhall and nearby!
10 amazing things to do in Bad Reichenhall:
Go hiking in The Alps
Hiking is probably the best activity out of the things to do in Bad Reichenhall. It’s actually very easy to get to the Alps and there are countless hiking routes! There is even a trail that starts not more than just 30 minutes walking from the city centre. I always recommend using All Trails to look for hiking routes. Also, keep in mind, that between February and April, it might be a bit dangerous to hike because the snow is melting in the mountains.
There are plenty of very scenic routes. Here are the examples of the panoramas you can see from the mountains.
Visit the Thermal Baths
If you went hiking properly, I’m sure, on the next day, you would want to relax. Thermal Baths in Bad Reichenhall are awesome! The best part is outside and it’s especially amazing to swim in hot water when the temperature outdoors is below zero. I must admit that it’s probably my favourite activity out of all the things to do in Bad Reichenhall. I just miss these Thermal spas and I hope that they would be a thing in the UK!
Also, there is a great sauna complex but you probably need to know that everybody goes there naked: bikinis are not allowed. So if you’re brave enough – go on 🙂
Discover lake Thumsee nearby / swim if it’s summer
Lake Thumsee is located just a short walk away from Berchtesgaden and in spring or summer it’s totally worth visiting. You can either drive there or go for a walk – it takes between 45 minutes to 1 hour to walk all the way to Thumsee and the route is pretty amazing, especially in summer. However, I’d recommend to avoid it if it was raining heavily before, as the route might be very slippery.
If you’re visiting in summer or early autumn, you can actually go for a swim. Water is generally pretty cold in the Alpine lakes, however, lake Thumsee is not as bad compared to other lakes. Moreover, there even a special beach area with sun loungers and umbrellas (you need to pay for entering this area), but it’s a low price for high comfort, especially if you’re planning to spend there a couple of hours.
Have a beer in one of the authentic local “Stuben”
There are plenty of breweries, restaurants and taverns in Bad Reichenhall and all of them are amazing and very authentic. One of the oldest taverns, Aegedi Keller offers many beers most of which you won’t be able to encounter anywhere else.
My brother is advertising some local beer here, in this photo 🙂
In case it’s winter, go skiing!
Because you’re in the Alps, you can actually ski near Bad Reichenhall! You can take a bus to the famous Jennerbahn or to Schönau am Königsee and enjoy skiing in German Alps. I haven’t actually done it myself, so I can’t advise on prices and rental equipment, unfortunately!
Explore the towns nearby & take The Sound of Music Tour
Every single town in this part of Germany is very unique. And most of them are worth hiring a car/taking a train or bus and exploring them. Berchtesgaden is probably the best one (and has the most scenic views over the mountains). Also, you can go to Salzburg, one of the most famous cities of Austria by just taking a bus or train! Salzburg is just 20 km away from Bad Reichenhall. If you go to Salzburg, I highly recommend taking the sightseeing tour of Salzburg combined with The Sound of Music Tour!
Cross the German-Austrian border walking
Bad Reichenhall is actually located almost on the border of Germany with Austria. If you walk few hundreds of meters towards the town called Bayrisch Gmain, you’ll see the border yourself. The border is actually driving a bigger town into two parts: Bayrisch Gmain – the German part and Grossgmain- the Austrian part.
…and take one of the most scenic and incredible routes. You can even go to Salzburg by bike, it’s not so far as I already mentioned above, but the view you’ll see will be incredible. There are plenty of bike rental offices in Bad Reichenhall. None of them have websites (most of them are a little bit old-fashioned) and actually a lot of businesses in this part of Germany are not very digital-friendly. The best way to find a bike rental office is by asking someone at the reception in your hotel or heading straight to the tourist information centre.
There are plenty of amazing routes for cyclists, including the routes, where you don’t need to share the road with cars and have a separate cycling lane going through the beautiful Alps!
Visit the famous Eagle’s Nest
Eagle’s Nest or Kehlsteinhaus is connected to the Dark History of Germany and you can read about it more here (if you haven’t heard of it before). However, the views from Kehlsteinhaus are incredible!
You have two options, you need to either buy tickets for the bus to go up there (these tickets also give you the right to take the golden lift) – they cost around 27-28 euros or you can hike all the way up there. The hiking trail is amazing, but it can take around 2 hours to go all the way up. Some people buy just a one-way ticket (although, to be fair, the price isn’t significantly cheaper) and hike all the way back instead.
Up there, there is a nice restaurant and also a small cafe, where you can have some snacks (e.g. a Brezel or an ice cream), so consider your lunch sorted, especially if you decide to hike all the way there.
I hope you enjoyed this list of the top 10 amazing things to do in Bad Reichenhall!

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YA Weekend: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Fantasy
Series: Book 1 of Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Date of Publication: September 27, 2011
Let me just start this review by saying how glad I am to have finally picked up this book! Now that I’ve finished reading it, I can’t help but wonder just what on earth had kept me waiting so long. It also just occurred to me that 2013 has been a great year for me when it comes to Young Adult paranormal fantasy novels featuring angels.
The interesting thing I found about Daughter of Smoke and Bone is that it really reads like a book with two distinct parts. The first part introduces us to our main protagonist and narrator Karou, a blue-haired young woman studying at an art school in Prague. Her sketchbooks are filled with drawings of chimeric monsters and other fantastical beings, which all her friends think are the products of an excessively-active imagination. None of them know the truth, that the strange creatures are in fact all very real, and Karou is a very special girl. In her secret life she runs mysterious errands for her foster family, led by the demonic looking Brimstone, the chimaera whose shop opens a portal between two worlds.
But then around the world, burned and blackened hand prints begin appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged figures that witnesses can only describe as angels. Thus we meet Akiva, one of these beautiful, angelic strangers, who happens to catch sight of Karou while she was on one of Brimstone’s errands. In my eyes, the moment they clashed heralded the beginning of the second part of the story, told mostly in flashbacks and memories. It’s a shame that I can’t really say more, because this to me was where things started getting really good. I won’t spoil the book, but I will bring attention to the opening lines, which I think sums things up nicely:
Two words: forbidden love. I’ll admit I have a weakness for it. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always appreciated having a little romance in my reading, but I generally don’t go all sentimental and lose my head over mushy stories of star-crossed love. But Forbidden Love will do it. Every. Single. Time. I am such a sucker for all that comes with it, the ache and longing, the clandestine meetings and the inevitable tragedies. I swear it should be like a genre in itself! Something about books like this make me get all tingly inside, and then everything else just fades away as I become inexorably hooked.
The second half of Daughter of Smoke and Bone did just that to me. The first half was pleasant enough, but I did not feel the connection to this book until Karou and Akiva finally meet and their relationship is explained, the intricacies of their story peeling away gradually, layer by delicious layer. Normally I think I would be repelled by this style of story-telling with all the time jumping and perspective switching, but somehow the author makes it work.
It helps of course that Laini Taylor writes oh so beautifully. The intensity and passion in the romance is almost palpable, due in part to her wonderful prose. Also, when she’s not enchanting me with her rich and detailed descriptions of the city, she is making me smile with the bright and spirited personality of Karou. As to the former, I loved that this book takes place in Prague, the perfect setting for a story like this about myth and magic. Everything comes together to create a mood that is all at once sensual, dark and bewitching.
This book, especially with the revelations contained in its final chapters, completely captivated me. Yes, my penchant for this kind of love story may have a lot to do with it, but at the same time, the beauty of the writing as well as the sheer amount of creativity and inventiveness behind the book’s premise cannot be denied. I don’t often feel the urge to jump right into the next installment of a series, even for books I’ve really enjoyed, preferring to take breaks in between. But I didn’t want to wait for this one. Even as I write this, a copy of Days of Blood and Starlight is now in my possession and waiting to be read, and I am very much looking forward to starting it next.

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MAHA Australia Pty. Ltd. became a member of the MAHA Group on the 1st of April 2010, being a continuation of a long-established Australian company, Thurgood Equipment / MAHA Australia which was formed by Rick Thurgood. The MAHA presence in Australia goes back more than 30 years.
The new subsidiary in Australia inherited a large customer base in the automotive and transport industry which dated back to 1982. The company has been instrumental in introducing Roller Brake and Suspension Testing Technology to the Government Testing Authorities, OEM´s, Educational Institutes and the General Transport Industry including Public Transport in Australia.
MAHA Australia has built up a nationwide Sales and Service Network. Main offices are in Brisbane and Sydney with Sales and Service Staff around the country. The headquarter warehouse in Brisbane consists of over 2000m2 of space, with container handling facilities and air-conditioned offices. Today the company has 16 employees consisting of both Sales, Service and Administrational staff.
Key to MAHA´s success in Australia is our ability to control the complete supply chain from Manufacture in Germany right through to delivery, install and across the service life of our product. This high priority focus on customers’ needs and the willingness to provide the highest quality of service and support one can expect from a German premium-built product. Additionally, due to the extensive range of spare parts and standard MAHA products in stock, MAHA Australia has shorter reaction times and can supply urgent spare parts for maintenance and installations of MAHA products.


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2 delicata squashes (about7 inches long)
3 tablespoons tahini
1 tablespoon tamari
Pinch of cayenne (optional)
1 tablespoon water
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Slice squash in circular discs about 1/8 inch thick, leavingseeds.
3. In a small bowl mix tahini, tamari, cayenne and water, adding abit of water to get a creamy consistency.
4. In a large bowl, mix squash slices in sauce until each piece iscoated.
5. Place on a non-stick baking sheet, sprinkle with pepper and placein the oven for 15 minutes.
6. Flip pieces and bake another 15 minutes, or until the squash issoft and tender.

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This paper aims to present experimental results of gasoline-fuelled engine operation of a crankcase-scavenged two-stroke cycle engine used for unmanned air vehicle (UAV)/unmanned air system application and to cross correlate with computational fluid dynamic modelling results.
Computational modelling of the engine system was conducted using the WAVE software supported by the experimental research and development via dynamometer testing of a spark ignition UAV engine to construct a validated computational model exploring a range of fuel delivery options.
Experimental test data and computational simulation have allowed an assessment of the potential advantages of applying direct in-cylinder fuel injection.
The ability to increase system efficiency offers significant advantages in terms of maximising limited resources and extending mission duration capabilities. The computational simulation and validation via experimental test experience provides a means of assessment of possibilities that are costly to explore experimentally and offers added confidence to be able to investigate possibilities for the development of similar future engine designs.
The software code used has not been applied to such crankcase-scavenged two-stroke cycle engines and provides a valuable facility for further simulation of the twin cylinder horizontally opposed design to offer further system optimisation and exploration of future possibilities.
Financial support was provided by the UK Ministry of Defence for part of the work covered by this paper.
Hooper, P. and Al-Shemmeri, T. (2017), "Improved efficiency of an unmanned air vehicle IC engine using computational modelling and experimental verification", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 89 No. 1, pp. 184-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEAT-09-2015-0200Download as .RIS
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[License-discuss] patent rights and the OSD
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Wed Mar 8 01:37:43 UTC 2017
On Mar 07, 2017, at 06:58 PM, Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com> wrote:
Christopher Sean Morrison wrote:
> Software patents are terrible in part because they pertain to the source code itself, thus affecting the distribution terms on that code.
Patents don't pertain to source code or to code distribution, at least not in legal terms of direct patent infringement. Patent rights pertain to the "use" of the software, not its written description.
I didn't meant to imply that the code itself infringes on the patent, but rather that the "it pertains" in the practical sense that one can test whether OSD #1 or #7 are permitted by looking at the code.
Is it not true that if the code satisfies a patent's claims, any recipient could not engage in free redistribution without a patent grant? That is what makes this an OSI matter in my view.
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“It’s 6:17. I’ve been working all day and I want to go home! Where is my shuttle?”
Fair question. And to answer it, MASCO provides one of the most innovative commuting solutions ever deployed: an interactive shuttle locator that combines GPS with Google mapping to display exactly where your bus is at any given time.
You can access the shuttle locator from any device with a Web connection, including your smartphone or other mobile device. Some MASCO members have even installed large LCD monitors at key locations that broadcast shuttle data live.
The Longwood Medical Area’s shuttle locator was the first to let you view multiple routes simultaneously. It also lets you select specific routes in order to find stops and get estimated arrival times.
MASCO worked with Harvard University and TransLoc to introduce the system in 2008. The first version was relatively simple, but it did something that no one had ever seen before: it showed the buses actually moving along the roads. This innovation was based on a psychological insight.
“Being able to ‘see’ your ride goes a long way toward making mass transit as appealing as having your own car,” says Josh Cohen, Director of Business Development at TransLoc, “It’s visible proof that you have the means to go where you want to.”
Response to the Shuttle Locator has been positive from the beginning:
“Extremely valuable and easy to use.”
- Jim Smith, Department Manager of Parking and Commuter Services, Children’s Hospital.
“This is a real timesaver!”
- Tom Graf, commuter
“It really helps when trying to catch a shuttle…”
- Mike Costello, commuter
Rider satisfaction is a moving target.
Persuading more people to use mass transit solutions is the key to alleviating congestion within the LMA. Fewer cars also mean a greener environment. Both are major priorities. So MASCO keeps improving the Shuttle Locator.
Recent upgrades include:
-- Introducing iPhone and Android apps. These have increased usage dramatically. The system now averages 27,000 inquiries per month.
-- Switching to a new platform provider with better cell phone tower coverage in the LMA. This has virtually eliminated “dead-spots”.
-- Introducing service-related text alerts and estimated arrival times.
The system has also proven to be a valuable management tool that helps MASCO and its transit partner, Paul Revere Transportation, monitor on-time performance and traffic conditions. David Clough, Director of Commuter Services and Parking Operations for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, also finds it to be useful, stating that: "TransLoc is a fantastic tool. We use it to track service challenges and help with our long range planning.”
The availability of comprehensive analytics has led to schedule adjustments that decrease passenger wait-times. To improve service quality further, managers are using the system’s new “Instant Replay” function to investigate rider complaints.
Alleviating congestion in the LMA remains an enormous challenge. 105,000 people come into the LMA every day. But 13,000 now travel by shuttle, a respectable percentage, and it’s growing.
TransLoc’s Josh Cohen sees it this way: “The better the experience, the more people will use the shuttle. Or use it more often. That’s why we’re all working so hard to make the experience the best it can be.”
To view the shuttle locator or download the shuttle tracker app, click here.


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My kids like to snack, so I try to provide them with heathier, non processed options. I make them these granola bars often but they never end up the same bc I always add new things.This is one of the ways we like it, feel free to add what you and your family likes to the mix.Ingredients
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 3/4 C packed brown sugar
- 1/2 C wheat germ or ground flax seed
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 C all-purpose flour
- 3/4 C chips-chocolate, peanut butter, butterscoth,white chocalate (choose your fav or do all)
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 C health bar morsels (optional)
- 1/2 C honey
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1/2 C vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1. Preheat the oven 350*. Generously grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
2. In a large bowl, mix together: oats, brown sugar, wheat germ, cinnamon, flour, chocolate chips, health bar and salt. Mix in honey, egg, oil and vanilla. Mix well using your hands if need be until well blending. Pat the mixture evenly into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for 30-35 mins until golden at the edges. Cool for 5 minutes, then cut into bars while still warm. Do not allow the bars to cool completely before cutting, or they will be too hard to cut.
Thats it! You can add raisins, nuts or anything really to this recipe. Its a base recipe that I throw together and add whatever I have in the cupboard. I really like to add toasted coconut into the mix! So yummy!! Hope you and your family ENJOYS!!


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We-Ha.com welcomes Letters to the Editor from the public, including endorsements, but letters submitted by political candidates 60 days prior to an election will not be published. Please provide your name and town, as well as your phone number at the end of the letter. Phone numbers will not be published but are required in case verification is needed. Please submit letters to [email protected].
To the Editor:
It’s election season, and that means we are going to start seeing the final push from candidates and parties to get voters’ support. That means a lot of social media posts meant to grab your attention. Something I cannot help but notice as an admin and moderator on social media, is that every election season people are willing to take talking points, fear tactics, and misinformation (from ALL sides) without many actually looking into sources or doing their own research.
PLEASE people, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, before you head to the polls. Learn about your candidates. Learn about the issues they are saying they will cover. And do not be afraid to call them out when misinformation is spread.
An example of this was recently posted on several political candidates pages as well as the local Party page. It was a photo of a woman who appeared to be distressed, with a couple sentences about our town not being one of the safest in the country. The post that went along with this indicated that “The chances of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in West Hartford is 1 in 44.”
At face value – this is telling you that you are 1 in 44 times MORE likely to be the victim of a violent OR property crime in West Hartford. Sounds scary, right? Notice how they put the word “violent” first? I think most people, regardless of political leanings, would admit we have an issue with crime here. My cars have been rummaged through, had items stolen, etc. several times over the years. That’s property crime – not violent crime.
How many people who read that post, will look up the source used in that post? Will they see that – when it comes to VIOLENT crime – the rate in our town is “well below the national average” and that “one’s chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 1749”? That is direct from the source provided (www.neighborhoodscout.com/ct/west-hartford/crime#description)
It’s important to note that same source does show that we have an above average chance of being the victim of a property crime – and that statistic is one in 45.
Are we to be coerced into voting for candidates and parties based on misguided information and fear tactics? Or should we review sources and see if the information being provided is accurate or being misconstrued? I know what I do. I look for facts.
If a candidate is telling you “There is no crime issue in West Hartford” do your research. If a candidate is telling you “There is a huge crime problem in West Hartford” do your research. These are people you will be voting for to represent YOU. They are YOUR voice. Do not allow their “talking points” to speak for YOU!

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The natural gas station Strasshof owned by OMV Gas & Power is one of the biggest natural gas stations in Austria. The safety technology provider Bartec received the order for the engineering and supply of trace heating for the conveyer pipes as well as the condensate pipes. The target was to keep the temperature of the natural gas on a constant level as well as to avoid the pipes getting frozen.
The used cable was the self-limiting parallel heating cable PSB as well as the self-limiting parallel heating cable HSB. The convincing advantage of these two kinds of cables is their ability to be used in explosive atmospheres without any temperature limiter. Consequently, costs for further components could be saved. 4,000m of the cables were used. The cable was divided in 280 heating circuits, so that the output power of the heating conductor would not generate an inadmissibly high temperature which, in its turn, reaches or exceeds the temperature limit of temperature class T3 in explosion-hazardous areas.
Both cables have a temperature-dependant resistive element between two parallel copper conductors which regulates and limits the heat output of the heating cable according to the ambient temperature. This output regulation is carried out automatically along the entire length of the heating cable according to the prevailing ambient temperature. As the ambient temperature rises, the heat output of the cable is reduced. This self-limiting property prevents overheating even when the cable is overlapped. A temperature limiter is not required, not even in explosion hazard zones as in the natural gas station Strasshof. Thanks to the parallel power supply the heating cable can be cut to any required length. This feature considerably simplifies project planning and installation. The heating cable is cut and terminated in accordance with the local requirements directly on the construction site. In cases where the cable may become damaged, it is not necessary to replace the whole circuit but only the affected part. The protective outer jacket of either fluor polymer or polyolefin protects the inner copper braiding from corrosion and chemical attack. The copper braiding serves as an earth conductor in accordance with VDE 0100 and also increases the mechanical stability of the cable. Under the protective braiding are two synthetic jackets providing electrical insulation. The inner of the two jackets is thermally fused to the heating element (bonded jacket).
Because the related equipment to the heating pipes has to be also certified for applications in Ex areas, there were two options for connecting the PSB and HSB heating cables: the connection technology heat shrink ‘Ex’ or the PLEXO connection system. The connection technology heat shrink ‘Ex’ is a reliable technology for connecting heating cables. The principle is easy. After stripping the heating tape, insulation tubes are shrunk over the supply lines and the twisted protective braiding and wire end sleeves are put on. As a basic rule, the heating cable is connected to terminals in an enclosure that has increased safety or flameproof encapsulation protection class. The heating circuit end is also closed with shrinkable tubes. On the other hand, PLEXO, the first plug-in connection system for heating cables used in potentially explosive atmospheres, offers substantial reductions in installation time and expense. Maintenance work for future modifications of the heating circuit can be carried out more efficiently.
The connection system is well suited for self-limiting parallel heating cables. The heating cable and power supply connection cable are connected via safe spring creating the requisite pressure, eliminating any need for unravelling or twisting. A sophisticated sealing system offers safe and reliable protection against adverse weather conditions. The flexibility of the system allows direct connection of the heating cable to a supply cable or an Ex junction box. Two similar heating cables can be joined to each other by means of a ‘splice’ plug and socket connection sleeve. The heating tape remote end termination can be equipped with plug-in contacts for future extensions of the heating circuit. Consequently, the advantages of PLEXO convinced the client. The connection system perfectly met the requirements for the application at the natural gas station Strasshof.
Bartec did not only provide the heating cables and the connection kits but also the required control technology in order to offer a complete solution from one hand to OMV. The used BSTW safety temperature monitor, a 16A Ex temperature monitor, is a change-over controller housed in an EEx e certified polyester enclosure. Heaters, fans, motors and other equipment are energised and de-energised by means of this thermostat when specific temperature ranges are exceeded. This device can also be used to control the temperature in air, liquids or on various surfaces. Any change in temperature at the sensor bulb causes a change in the volume of fluid in the measuring system, which in turn results in a movement of the diaphragm membrane. This membrane is connected to a mechanical device that activates a micro switch. If the temperature at the sensor bulb exceeds the pre-set value, terminals 1 and 4 are opened.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland officials are announcing funding for a health zone in Baltimore to help address persistent health disparities.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake have scheduled a news conference Monday to announce the funding for the West Baltimore Primary Care Access Collaborative Health Enterprise Zone.
It will be managed by Bon Secours Baltimore Health System in partnership with several local community organizations.
The designation was among the first five locations in Maryland to be designated as a health enterprise zone in January.
The initiative is a four-year pilot program with a budget of $4 million a year. Community coalitions in each of the five areas use incentives to address health disparities.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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This class is recorded and distributed after the event to all who sign up.
Dr. Aristo Vojdani is known as the father of functional immunology. He is an internationally known and respected speaker and is invited to present at different conferences every year. He sits on the editorial board of 5 scientific journals, and his many awards include the Herbert J. Rinkel Award (American Academy of Environmental Medicine), the Linus Pauling, PhD Award (American College for Advancement in Medicine), and the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute Lifetime Achievement Award. He has over 200 articles, and 2 books, "Neuroimmunity and the Brain-Gut Connection," and “Food-Associated Autoimmunities: When Food Breaks Your Immune System,” to his name. One of his latest publications, “Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Infection, EBV, HHV-6 and other factors may contribute to inflammation and autoimmunity in long COVID” which appeared in the journal Viruses in early 2023, both details and summarizes the important information that will be touched on in this live class.
FACT ABOUT THE TOPIC: About 10-30% of individuals who have contracted SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) will develop long COVID.
You will learn:
How antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 can be used as biomarkers to detect, confirm and help manage long COVID and associated autoimmunity
SARS-COV-2 viral persistence contributes to long COVID
The reactivation of latent viruses such as EBV and HHV-6 contributes to long COVID
Many patients with long COVID present symptoms and lab test abnormalities similar to those of many autoimmune diseases.
There is a significant overlap between the symptomatology of long COVID and ME/CFS
This free course is hosted by Rupa Health — the best way to order, track, and get results from 30+ lab companies in one place.
Rupa reduces the time spent ordering labs by 90% and provides customer service for your patients around lab test collections.

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Regularly distributed dislocation network with a controllable spacing could be formed by wafer bonding. Different kinds of Si bicrystals were fabricated by (001), (111) and (110) Si wafers bonded with (001) SOI. NiSi2 formed on the bicrystal was found to be affected by the underlying dislocation arrays. The nanostructures were confined by the dislocation grids. It demonstrates that by means of controlling the surface stress arrangement, the shape of the silicide nanostructures could be controlled and a variety of nanostructures could be obtained. The observation is conductive to the basic understanding of the stress effect on the formation of the silicide nanostructures on Si bicrystals.


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This past year our crew had the opportunity to work on Little Ceasar’s Arena. The arena which is now “home” to Detroit’s NHL (National Hockey League) and NBA (National Basketball Association) teams, cost $862.9 million to construct and opened on Sept. 5, 2017. Little Ceasar’s Arena can respectively hold 20,000 hockey spectators and 21,000 basketball spectators, in addition to the world’s largest center-hung scoreboard that measures 5,100 square feet.
Our involvement with the state-of-the-art sports and entertainment center, Little Caesar’s Arena, was broken down into two contracts:
The first contract RBV Contracting executed was valued at approximately $400,000 and completed in February 2017 for CIMCO Refrigeration. In the first contract, we performed excavation and subbase installation services at the Arena, as well as final grading to National Hockey League (NHL) specifications, prior to concrete placement for the Arena’s ice surfaces. Our crew also completed all excavation and backfill services for Little Caesar’s Arena’s underground mechanical systems for both practice and main rinks.
The second contract we executed at Little Caesar’s Arena was valued at over $1.2 million and completed by September 2017 for Barton Malow-Hunt-White. Our crew served as a prime contractor for the Arena’s outdoor landscaping, which includes installing large diameter trees, planting beds, and irrigation system installation.
RBV Contracting has made its mark on both the interior and exterior of the revolutionary multi-purpose arena, and we are thrilled to have contributed to this historic project. Here’s to many successful seasons for the Detroit Red Wings and Detroit Pistons in Little Ceasar’s Arena.
Photo credits: Mike Mulholland, MLive.com
Video credit: The District Detroit

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CowardI love how you think you're above us all,
I think it's funny how you feel you'll never fall.
And I find it amusing, how when you're put to the test,
You fall behind all the rest.
You can't face your demons,
You can't face your fears.
And when you are confronted,
You flee from it in tears.
You can't even look me in the eye,
But yet you have the audacity to lie.
You mock me when my back is turned,
And yet you act like you were burned.
You truly are a pathetic coward,
A whiny, spineless weakling.
And though you won't dare to say it,
You know it's what we're all thinking.
RainbowHer world was full of colors,
They burned and singed her soul.
But they brought her a sense of joy,
She had never felt before.
Rainbow upon rainbow,
Or blood red.
These colors made her want to die,
While sweet music filled her head.
She began to wish for gray,
For death, the color black.
But there was something about those rainbows,
That kept her coming back.
One day she couldn't take anymore,
So she took all the color in.
Vice, happiness and sin.
Because the rainbows hurt her eyes,
She's lying on the ground,
Laughing until she dies.

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Surf cinema at Riverside Studios, London on 22nd July
X-treme Video is a partner of a very special evening of surf cinema! Two surf films: Andrew Kidman’s ‘Litmus’, presented by X-Treme Video and Peter Hamblin’s ‘The Ripple Effect’.
‘Litmus’ represents a revolution in the perception of modern, professional surfing, changing the way we see our icons and how we surf. It was nominated in five categories at the 1998 Surfer Video Awards, including Best Video. Andrew Kidman is not only a surfer and filmmaker but also an artist and photographer. As well as the screening, X-Treme Video will be showcasing some of Andrew Kidman’s work, from The largest European selection available at the By-Walski store in London.
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The Damnation of Theron Ware is a novel written by American author Harold Frederic. Considered widely to be a classic of American literature and scholars, it has not been as widely read or known by readers as others books of its caliber. This 1869 work is largely about the life of a Methodist pastor, Theron Ware, who has recently moved to a small town in the Adirondack Mountains and becomes attracted to a Catholic girl, Celia. The main theme for the reader is to decide if by the end of the work if Theron is illuminated and has become a better person or has become degenerated.
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Wired: Microsoft had made a Surface Mini tablet but never shipped it
According to a Wired report, Microsoft had built the rumored Surface Mini tablet, but did not ship out the device. If Microsoft has distributed the Surface Mini to the market, the tablet would have challenged Apple iPad Mini tablet.
Going by the Wired report, the disclosure - that a Surface Mini tablet had really been made by Microsoft - was made to the tech news site by Microsoft’s Surface team chief Panos Panay.
Confirming the existence of the rumored Surface Mini tablet which Microsoft did not launch on the market, Panay told Wired that the Surface Mini was a remarkable device which, unfortunately, did not see the light of the day.
As per the details shared by Panay with Wired, Microsoft decided against shipping the Surface Mini tablet; and launched the powerful new ‘Surface Book’ laptop instead. The Surface Book has been designed to dominate the PC market; and it went ‘out of stock’ within four days of the opening up of its preorders.
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The Bostonians was a reactionary novel even in the day it was written, and this is exactly why college students should read it.
Colm Toibin, it often seems, is everywhere. He divides his time between Dublin and Barcelona, and teaches frequently in the United States. He publishes about a book a year—novels, short stories, literary criticism—and his essays and reviews on artistic and cultural topics appear regularly in a variety of publications, including the Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lectures widely and grants lots of interviews. With the possible exception of William Trevor, Toibin is Ireland’s best-known literary figure.
Toibin’s fiction is popular, but it’s also quite literary, lending itself to internal rather than external drama, and stressing atmosphere over plot. As a college student in the early 1970s, Toibin first read Henry James’s The Portrait of the Lady (1886), and was immensely impressed. In 2004 he published The Master, which brilliantly captures James’s keen powers of observation and the strong flow of his thought. Toibin does not, however, try to reproduce James’s elaborate, often serpentine, style. His own prose is subtle, but also sturdy and straightforward—surely a key reason for his wide appeal.
There are certain echoes of The Portrait of a Lady in Toibin’s sixth novel, Brooklyn (2009), which is the basis of John Crowley’s new film of the same name. In James’s novel, a beautiful and inquisitive young American, Isabel Archer, leaves her hometown in Albany, New York for a voyage to Europe, where she becomes an heiress and meets an assortment of suitors from the upper reaches of old world society. The trajectory in Brooklyn is the opposite, with Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) leaving her hometown of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, for a new life in the United States. Eilis, unlike Isabel, is neither wealthy nor adventurous. Her prospects are dim, especially if she stays put in the economically struggling Ireland of the period after the end of the Second World War.
Still, she does not want to leave. Eilis lives happily enough with her widowed mother (Jane Brennan) and her older sister, Rose (Fiona Glascott), and she has plenty of friends. But New York, everyone assures her, is just like home. It’s full of Irish clubs and Irish churches. There’s an Irish priest, Father Flood (Jim Broadbent), in New York who helps new arrivals to settle in. In other words, she can leave Ireland without leaving Ireland. “We need Irish girls in Brooklyn,” Father Flood tells Eilis when she is at her most homesick. It’s nearly her duty, he implies, to make a life in the United States.
And with the priest’s help, Eilis does land a job selling women’s underwear in a department store owned by one of his parishioners. It’s a good first job, Eilis knows, but often confounding. “The cups of some of the brassieres,” it says in Brooklyn the novel, “seemed much more pointed than anything she had seen before.” In fact New York isn’t at all like home. The bread tastes strange and the butter seems greasy. She must use lots of sugar to mask the odd taste of the tea and milk. Incredibly, in America, Eilis also discovers, the heating is left to run throughout the night.
The screenplay (by popular British novelist Nick Hornby, author of 1995’s High Fidelity and 1998’s About a Boy) sticks closely to Toibin’s original, which means it doesn’t brim with what most moviegoers expect these days—action. The drama comes in a subtler form, as when, for example, Eilis deals with customers or her supervisors at work. Or when she and Father Flood serve a Christmas meal in a church hall filled with aged and impoverished Irishmen. Many had come years before to help build the city’s roadways and tunnels; now, these men are permanently cut off from home and much given to drink.
Brooklyn is beautiful; Crowley and his cinematographer, Yves Belanger (Wild, 2014), transform present-day Montreal into a colorful and plausible copy of the borough as it appeared back when Coney Island was booming and the Dodgers still played at Ebbets Field. Still, Eilis pines for Enniscorthy, living with other lonely single women in a boardinghouse run by the comically imperious Mrs. Kehoe (Julie Walters). She studies every word in the letters that arrive from home, which seems a universe away. She cries daily, so Father Flood enrolls her in a bookkeeping course at Brooklyn College. Best to keep busy, he says.
Things improve when Eilis meets Tony Fiorello (Emory Cohen), a young plumber who still lives with his brothers and Italian-born parents in Bensonhurst. Tony is friendly, generous, kind—“decent” Eilis calls him—and eager to strike out on his own. He wants to get married, and he promptly recognizes what the audience already knows: Eilis is both lovely and lovable: she’s “sensible,” too, people say, and not willing to race down the aisle. Marrying an American, she fears, means never going home, like the lost men shuffling about in Father Flood’s church hall.
And so, about halfway through Brooklyn, the suspense begins. Eilis grows increasingly attracted to Tony, who is, with all of his energy and optimism, something of a personification of America itself—at least as it might have appeared to a young woman from an old, small Irish town. He’s certainly one of the most appealing plumbers ever to appear in an American movie—blue collar men, at least since John Avildsen’s Joe (1970), have often been made to appear loutish, or creepy, or in any case dangerous to society.
In fact many younger viewers might find much about Brooklyn surprising, not least its portrait of postwar America, when life was vibrant as well as more marked by the sort of mannerly behavior that Tony displays. It has been a long time since Grease (1978), and since then depictions of the 1950s in popular culture have been largely monochromatic and bleak. It is the period to which no enlightened person would ever wish to return, when half the population supposedly suffered neurosis from sexual suppression, and something called the Red Scare spread fear and terror throughout the land. In Brooklyn, Tony lives in a crowded apartment but looks happily and optimistically forward: with his brothers he plans to build houses in the green fields of Long Island. Who doubts they will succeed? Not Eilis. Not surprisingly, her relationship with Tony takes a serious turn.
But then, of course, complications ensue. We follow Eilis as we did Isabel Archer, wondering what it would be best for the young woman to do, and waiting to see if she will make that best choice or some other. It makes for much suspense in the final act of a splendid film whose ending, brilliantly staged by Crowley and Belanger, packs enormous power.
Ronan, who has just earned a Golden Globe nomination for best actress, will also almost certainly be nominated for an Academy Award. Brooklyn deserves several Oscars, not least for Hornby’s screenplay and Belanger’s cinematography. Over the Christmas season, many moviegoers may well forgo the long lines for Star Wars: The Force Awakens to see Brooklyn instead. They will be happy they did.


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The export of iron ore by Brazil to China rose 10.8 percent year on year to 111 million tons between January and August, according to figures released by the Bureau of Foreign Trade (Secex).
The ore sold in the first eight months of the year brought in revenues of US$8.4 billion, which represents a year on year drop of 7.44 percent, Secex said.
Brazil’s total exports to China amounted to US$31.7 billion from January to August, or 0.26 percent less in annual terms.
The main products sold to China were soybeans, meal and oil, iron ore and crude oil, which accounted for 83.7 percent of the total. (macauhub/BR/CN)


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SUMMER AT RED ROCK CANYON
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After a few days at the crap and blackjack tables in Las Vegas, it will be time to take a break. Hop into a vehicle and head out to Red Rock Canyon. Red Rock Canyon is less then an hour's drive west of Las Vegas and has many significant geologic features. The area is a good place to kick back and just enjoy nature's wonders.
The most significant geologic feature of Red Rock Canyon is the Keystone Thrust Fault. A thrust fault is a fracture in the earth's crust where one rock plate is thrust horizontally over another.
13-Mile Loop Drive offers sightseeing, vistas and overlooks. If your time is limited, stop at either of the Calico Vista points. Both offer good vantage points for photographs of crossed-bedded Aztec sandstone. For easy walking access to the sandstone, stop at the Sandstone Quarry parking lot. There you can see large blocks of stone and other historic evidence of the quarry activity as it occurred shortly after the turn of the century.
FACTS ON RED ROCK CANYON
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada is a 198,000 acre (801 km²) area managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of its National Landscape Conservation System, and protected as a National Conservation Area. It is located about 15 mi west of Las Vegas, and easily seen from the Las Vegas Strip. The area is visited by over 1 million visitors each year.
The conservation area showcases a set of large red sandstone peaks and walls called the Keystone Thrust. The walls are up to 3,000 ft (1,000 m) high, making them a popular hiking and rock climbing destination. The highest point is La Madre Mountain, at 8,154 ft (2,485 m).
A one-way loop road, 13 miles (21 km) long, provides vehicle access to many of the features in the canyon.
Red Rock Canyon itself is a side-canyon accessible only by four-wheel-drive road off of the scenic loop. The unnamed but often visited valley cut through by Nevada State Route 159 is commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as Red Rock Canyon. The massive wall of rock called the Wilson Cliffs, or Keystone Thrust, can be seen to the west along this highway.
Towards the southern end of the National Conservation Area are Spring Mountain Ranch State Park, the western ghost town replica attraction of Bonnie Springs, and the village of Blue Diamond.
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Solar PV and wind will continue to be the cheapest sources of new electricity generation capacity in Australia, even when integration costs are included, according to new research from the country’s science agency, CSIRO, and the Australian Energy Market Operator.
While the third annual GenCost report features a more accurate approach for analysing the cost of renewables to include additional integration costs such as storage and new transmission infrastructure, solar and wind were still found to be the cheapest sources of new-build electricity generation.
The additional costs to support a combination of solar PV and wind generation in 2030 is estimated at between AU$6 – $19/MWh (US$4.64 – US$14.70/MWh) depending on the variable renewable energy share and region of Australia’s National Electricity Market.
Although large-scale PV was expected to continue its historical learning rate, cost reductions have slowed in the 2020-21 update, reflecting what the research describes as local challenges whereby several solar developers went out of businesses, consequently reducing competition and leading to more conservative outcomes. However, the modelling has not built any further industry disruptions into the projection and so cost reductions are forecasted to resume in future years.
The cost of battery storage was found to be lower than previously thought as stakeholders requested that the analysis recognise that batteries are achieving longer lives before they need to be replaced.
According to the research, battery costs fell the most in 2020-21 compared to any other generation or storage technology, and are projected to continue to fall. “Lower battery storage costs underpin the long-term competitiveness of renewables,” the report states.
Meanwhile, the study includes hydrogen electrolysers for the first time and finds that hydrogen is following a similar trajectory to more established renewables, with the technology supported by a host of supply and end-use trials globally and in Australia. With increased interest in deployment and a range of demonstration projects, the study estimates that there will be “substantial cost reductions in hydrogen technologies” over the coming decades.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Former Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist died following surgery and a short illness, officials announced Sunday. He was 87.
Sundquist was born in Moline, Illinois, in 1936, and went on to graduate from Augustana College. He not only served in the U.S. Navy, but he also spent years in the printing and advertising industry in Shelbyville and Memphis before being elected to Congress. He served six terms in Congress, where he later earned the reputation as a staunch fiscal conservative.
Sundquist was elected as Tennessee’s governor in 1994 and was re-elected for a second term in 1998.
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Under his leadership, Tennessee was able to set record levels of economic development, establish a ground-breaking welfare reform program and implement comprehensive crime laws that focused on victims’ rights.
During Sundquist’s tenure as governor, two national sport franchises were brought to the state: the Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators.
Sundquist died at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis the morning of Sunday, Aug. 27, according to The Associated Press, citing a family spokeswoman.
Former First Lady Martha Sundquist released a brief statement regarding her husband’s passing: “We are comforted by our faith and friends, and know he is with our Lord and loved ones in heaven.”
Numerous Tennessee lawmakers, as well as former lawmakers, expressed their condolences to the Sundquist family following news of the former governor’s death:
Governor Sundquist was an impactful leader and principled statesman who devoted his life to public service. As Tennessee’s governor for two terms, he contributed to our state’s legacy of fiscal responsibility and expanded opportunity for Tennesseans through historic economic development. Maria and I join all Tennesseans in honoring Governor Sundquist’s remarkable life, and we pray God’s comfort over Martha and their family in the days ahead.Gov. Bill Lee
Chuck and I are saddened to hear of former Gov. Don Sundquist’s passing. He was a good man, who served our country and state faithfully in the U.S. Navy, as Congressman, and as Governor. We join Tennesseans in prayer for his wife Martha, 3 children, and grandchildren.U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Don Sundquist was a loyal friend and a man with a good heart. He helped our state prosper & expanded health insurance for Tennesseans. He put the state ahead of his own political interests. The Alexander family sends to Martha & their family our sympathy & respect for Don’s life.Former U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander
“Don foremost loved the people of this state. He loved politics and believed good politics led to a thriving democracy that lifted up all people. He and Martha enjoyed together getting to intimately and caringly know people in every corner of the state. Most of all, Don understood the value of genuine bipartisanship and relationships across the aisle in order to get things done. Don Sundquist, Fred Thompson, and I developed deep and lasting friendships during our 1994 campaigns as we traveled Tennessee that year, and in the years of statewide service where we worked hand in hand — Don at each step led the way.”Former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist
I was a State Senator for the eight years that Don Sundquist served as Governor of Tennessee, and we had a very fine relationship. I respected him and developed a friendship, unlike many others with whom I served. We had the ability to find common ground on important issues, such as the public voting on the state lottery, tax benefits that helped with the funding of AutoZone Park, a wildflower program along our interstate highway system, as well as a 70 miles-per-hour interstate speed limit.
Don Sundquist was a man of his word who never forgot Memphis. He had a most decent and professional staff, and a loving and caring wife and good kids. He was a man of good character and moral rectitude, and his was a life well lived.U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen
Roberta and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Don Sundquist. Over his long and successful career, Don Sundquist has served as a business leader, Member of Congress, and Governor. In public office and out of public office, Don Sundquist cared greatly and profoundly about the people of Tennessee and worked tirelessly for their betterment. Don was a true friend to both Roberta and me. He will be deeply missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, former First Lady of Tennessee, Martha and their children, Tania, Andrea, and Deke.U.S. Rep. David Kustoff
Governor Don Sundquist was a passionate public servant for the people of Tennessee. His service didn’t stop after his elected years, he continued helping others and our communities. Our prayers are with Martha, their children, and grandchildren.Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton
Sadly, I have just learned of the passing of the 47th Governor of Tennessee, Don Sundquist. He served our Republican Party at every level over the course of his life beginning as young republican, party officer, Congressman, and ultimately Governor of Tennessee. During my tenure as Chair, I have absolutely enjoyed our conversations and most importantly the profound wisdom and insightful advice of Governor Sundquist. His legacy of service and accomplishments continue to be displayed everyday in the greatness of Tennessee. Our deepest prayers are extended to First Lady Martha Sundquist and the entire Sundquist family.Chairman Scott Golden of the Tennessee Republican Party
The former governor is survived by his wife of 64 years; their children, Andrea, Tania (David), and Deke; and their beloved granddaughters: Gabby (Markos) and Alex.
A funeral service will take place at First Lutheran Evangelical Church in downtown Nashville on Sept.5 at 11 a.m. Sundquist will lie in state in the Rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol on the same day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A spokesperson said the public is invited to both.

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Tegucigalpa, December 4 (RHC) – Honduran opposition candidate Xiomara Castro says a lack of supervision at many polls during last week's presidential election allowed the vote to be inflated in favor of the ruling party candidate.
The left-wing Libre party candidate also accused some small political parties of selling their poll workers' spots to the ruling National Party.
Castro, whose husband Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a 2009 military coup, is demanding a full recount of the vote and urging her supporters to take to the streets on Sunday.
Honduras' electoral court has declared conservative Juan Orlando Hernandez the winner of last Sunday's presidential election. The court says he received 37 percent of the votes compared to 29 percent for Castro, with 96 percent of the votes counted. Six other candidates shared the remaining votes.
On Monday, Honduras' electoral commission agreed to recount vote tally sheets from the presidential election.
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Online fashion retailer Boohoo has appointed PKF Littlejohn as its external auditor, replacing PwC which stepped down from the role in October
PwC is understood to have resigned as auditor over concerns around governance at the AIM-listed company and the potential reputational risks. The Big Four firm had been Boohoo’s auditor since it went public in 2014.
However, Boohoo said PwC ‘confirms that there are no matters in connection with this change that should be brought to the attention of the Group's shareholders’.
Boohoo’s statement continued: ‘The board would like to thank PwC for its services and support provided to the Group over the past seven years.’
In a regulatory announcement Boohoo said PKF Littlejohn, ranked tenth in the annual Accountancy Top 75 league table, had been selected following a competitive tender process, and will begin work with immediate effect.
Earlier this year, following media criticism of conditions in Leicester garment factories, Boohoo commissioned an independent review of its supply chain, which was conducted by Alison Levitt QC.
This found evidence of dangerous working conditions and failure to pay minimum wage rates.
In a statement in September, when the review was published, Boohoo said the report ‘made uncomfortable reading’ in places and said Levitt had ‘identified many failings in the Leicester supply chain and recommended improvements to boohoo's related corporate governance, compliance and monitoring processes’.
The report noted that Boohoo had taken steps to address problems prior to the negative publicity in July and August 2020, but the company admitted that ‘with the benefit of hindsight we regret that these processes did not advance quickly enough’.
Levitt was satisfied that Boohoo did not deliberately allow poor conditions and low pay to exist within its supply chain, it did not intentionally profit from them and its business model is not founded on exploiting workers in Leicester.
In its conclusion, the report stated that ‘if Boohoo is willing to take a different approach to how it both views and interacts with the Leicester supply chain, it has within its power to be a tremendous force for good.’
According to its 2019 annual report, PwC received £235,000 for audit work for Boohoo over the year, plus £154,000 in fees for services relating to taxation and other advisory services, bringing the total to £389,000 in fees.


Much has been made in the past few weeks of the Obama Administration’s plan to issue a new nuclear weapons doctrine, replacing the Bush Doctrine that included the possibility of using nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
But while the Obama Administration is formally renouncing that option on the surface and claiming its arsenal is for “deterrence” only, it appears that the doctrine will include an enormous loophole that will mean the nominal policy shift will ultimately mean very little.
The loophole will insist that the only non-nuclear states free of preemptive nuking are those which are “in compliance with their nonproliferation obligations.” This would, at least from the administration’s perspective, leave open the possibility of attacking Iran with nuclear weapons.
Iran would certainly argue that they are in compliance, of course, but exactly what these obligations are is never altogether clear to the public (the IAEA safeguards agreements are not made public) and President Obama has made clear that he believes Iran is not.
At the end of the day this policy is only a guideline anyhow, and if the president decided to nuke Iran the after the fact argument of if they were really non-compliant will likely be very much beside the point. But while the president still claims to have a goal of a nuclear-free world, the manufacture of such a deliberate loophole for a nuclear first strike is beyond troubling.


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Sometimes I’m Scared
I’m scared of a lot of things. The future, for one, seems quite frightening to me. I try to tell myself over and over again that things will work themselves out. But sometimes, it’s not quite enough. Sometimes I stay up late in a wild panic-driven workaholic mode, planning things out like a madwoman in an attempt to alleviate my fears. But other times, there is so much fear that I don’t even know where to begin. I feel like that now and it is hard even to find words to write down here.
I think I am scared of my writing. It is hard for me to read what I write and I think that it is because I am scared of what I will read. I think that sometimes, I write like I am scared of what I am writing. It is like I skirt around the story instead of sticking my head inside it. I don’t want to be scared of the stories in my head and I don’t want to be scared to feel things for the characters that have lives waiting to be put on paper.
I have a question. Or maybe a few. How do you know that what you write is good or bad? How do you know it was worth writing down? How do you know that it deserves to be read?
I should just stick to writing for myself.


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Police will learn from death: Inspector
Police say they hope to learn from circumstances surrounding the death of Darlene Nielsen.
Yesterday 41-year-old Paul George Kowaleff was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his former partner at her Port Kennedy home.
She had taken out numerous restraining orders against him and had complained to police about his behaviour in the days before her death.
Detective Inspector Tom Clay says police did everything they could to help Ms Nielsen.
"There's certainly regret when you see that someone's died," he said.
"This is a tragedy and we don't want any tragedies. One death is one too many."
"We have been talking, we are working with, and have worked with the family."
"We will learn from all the events that have occurred from Darlene's situation."