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The Galaxy Chronicles (Future Chronicles Book 8) Kindle Edition
In this latest title in the acclaimed 'Future Chronicles' series of speculative fiction anthologies, twelve authors take us on that incredible journey with adventurers, colonists, and space marines as they push the boundaries against the unknown, against alien empires, and themselves.
"The Galaxy Chronicles" features stories by USA Today and Amazon bestselling authors Nick Webb (Constitution), Raymond L. Weil (The Lost Fleet), Jasper T. Scott (Dark Space), plus nine more of today's top authors in speculative and science fiction.
"The best place to discover new SF authors, I think, is any of the anthologies coming from Samuel Peralta"
-- Hugh Howey, NY Times bestselling author of Wool
"A powerful new voice in speculative fiction"
-- Nick Webb, USA Today bestselling author of the Legacy Fleet trilogy
About the Author
Its unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes - A.I., time travel, dragons, robots, aliens, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday - has made it one of the most acclaimed anthology series of the digital era.
- ASIN : B017PQOEU8
- Publisher : Windrift Books; 1st edition (November 30, 2015)
- Publication date : November 30, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 722 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 347 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #606,458 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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In steps the latest edition of the Future Chronicles -- The Galaxy Chronicles. Twelve stories from some of the greatest and most imaginative writers out there right now telling the tales from beyond the stars. The stories live up to the billing, with each a delight, taking a different approach to the overall theme.
Full disclosure: I have stories in three other Future Chronicles titles, but have no involvement in this production. I just enjoyed the heck out of it.
I won’t go over each story -- other reviews take care of that -- but I will briefly mention a few stories that resonated with me.
Erik Wecks starts off the collection with a fast-paced space heist “A Mercenary in Escrow.” I loved it, seeing a version of The Italian Job in space as the Deek, the captain of a ship, willingly goes to prison to save the rest of his crew. Three years later, Deek is out, but he isn’t safe as he now belongs to the company he screwed before he went in the clink. What happens and what will his crew do? Great pacing and great storytelling tell the reader they are in for a treat the rest of the anthology.
I got a huge kick out of Jennifer Wells’ “Symbiont Seeking Symbiont.” Told from the perspective of a woman who meets an alien bacteria, it garnered more than a few laughs from me. As you read the author’s note, you’ll read about the inspiration for the story and it makes perfect sense. Cringe-worthy at times because of some of the lines the bacteria tries on our protagonist, this is a great turn for Wells.
“Earth Fall” by Raymond Weil is a great twist on the space genre, giving us an “invasion” tale with a fantastic turn at the end. I found Weil’s writing to be tight and compelling and will definitely seek out more by him in the future.
And the story that closed out the collection, “Multiply” by Nicholas Wilson, was fantastic. A ship controlled and inhabited by two different and distinct artificial intelligences crashes on their mission. What do Walter and Comet do? Their basis may be artificial but their motivations are very “human” and in the end we get a great parallel to human history as well. I loved the story and found the characters interesting and would read more stories with Walter at the fore.
Those are just a few of the stories I loved. Ask me tomorrow and I’ll probably chose a different top four. All twelve stories are fascinating and will have fans no matter what.
Ultimately, Samuel Peralta has done it again with The Galaxy Chronicles and I cannot wait to read what he’s got coming out next.
The collection starts out with “A Mercenary in Escrow” where we are introduced to a mercenary captain who does three years in prison in an effort to save his crew from the consequences of breaking a contract. But, as he soon learns, it’s the actions of his crew that will really determine his future. 5 Stars
“Excelsior” takes us into a Cold War between two factions that control the earth, and the political maneuverings that could destroy - or save - humanity. Could a new world be the answer to save them all? 4.5 Stars
Pippa DaCosta gives us her story “Falling,” introducing us to how Caleb Shepperd first met Fran. For fans of her Girl from Above series this will give you a peek into the past, and it’s a great introduction to the characters for those new to the series. 4 Stars
“Apogee” is a thrilling story of the start of a revolution, as a planet seeks to reclaim its freedom from the heavy rule of the Earth Alliance. But starting a war is never easy, and sometimes decisions have to be made that are difficult to live with. Could you do what needed to be done? 5 Stars
Giraffe is Felix R. Savage’s story “Keep Off the Grass” is an interesting individual, and this story - showing us a future where Japanese Catholics are living in space to save themselves from persecution - makes me want to read more. I’m very interested to see what this author can come up with next! 4 Stars
“Ser Pan Comido” leads us on a merry chase as three urchins scramble to free themselves, and a starship pilot, from a planet that seeks to rip away their futures. 4 Stars
“The Kasant Objective” is probably my favorite of the collection, with Chris Reher giving us a new twist on the Grey Alien mythos. While the story started out a little slow, it soon filled with surprises, and the ending made me go back and re-read the story, happy with the new perspective I had on this tale. 5 Stars
“Symbiont Seeking Symbiont” illustrates the danger found on unknown worlds, and the author does a great job at really making us wonder what will happen next. It’s Alice in Wonderland in Space, but with a potentially deadlier ending. 4 Stars
David Adams brings gives us a story that is at once futuristic but also reminds me of the struggle that our own Veterans go through, home again after war, often missing limbs and loved ones. “The Immortals: Kronis Valley” can be read as a stand-alone but is also part of a larger universe of work. 4.5 Stars
Every good collection about Galaxies and Space Exploration has to have an invasion story. “Earth Fall” brings us back home as we watch the final days of Earth’s civilization, as it is brought down by a technologically superior race. But is it really the end? 4.5 Stars
“The Stars that Bind” is a strange story that shows us multiple generations and their quest to save and protect the Empire from being lost in the expansion of the universe. But can this Binding actually be done? While this story is good, it felt a little disjointed and I would have liked to see the ending expanded upon a little more so the reader actually really understands what happened. 3.5 Stars
The last story is another favorite of mine, and it’s a great story to close out the collection. “Multiply” by Nicolas Wilson is the tale of two AIs, trapped together, forced to work beyond their programming to protect others. Reading this tale, I was left with the thought that I was watching a new civilization emerge to take its place in the galaxy. 5 Stars
As usual, Samuel Peralta has managed to put together an excellent collection of stories to make you wonder what else is out there, what is possible, and what our future may bring. 4 ½ Stars overall.
While I did receive a review copy of this book in exchange for a review, I enjoyed it enough that I also purchased a copy!
It will be well worth it. As I said in my header, I do like breaking off from full length novels and reading the shorter books, and yes I am calling them books instead of stories. Each one within their own ranks and style, have contributed a true complete book, just in a shorter fashion.
After reading through all of them, I came to appreciate two things for sure. 1) I truly got involved with the characters as I did in a full-featured book. 2) Each ended with the story being well wrapped like a full book. However, I have to admit I truly wanted more. This of course, did what could be one of the reasons for writing short stories and consolidating them into a compact series, to encourage you to sign up for each of the authors websites. Of which I did sign up for quite a few.
Give it a try, it's certainly worth the money and very enjoyable to be able to read a complete story in perhaps a lunch break. That's my thoughts!
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And the epics premises are not that good. While the slightly old fashioned prompt of “Time Travel Chronicles” resulted in original tales, the idea of The Galaxy Chronicles leads to tired old tales:
*of humans fighting each other in space (Excelsior by Jasper T Scotts - if I got I free samples instead of buying the book, I would have dropped it; The Immortals: Kronis Valley by David Adams);
*humans fighting an alien invasion (Earth Fall by R.L. Weil where the author admits dusting off something written 20 years ago, and I admit not reading until the end a tale of brave Americans decimating yet another large alien fleet);
*and various tales of space smugglers (entertaining A Mercenary in Escrow by Erik Wecks, Falling by Pippa DaCista).
There are exceptions:
*a humorous tale “Symbiont seeking symbiont” by J.F. Welles, which as I microbiologist I can say puts modern S back into SF. “Keep off the grass” by Felix R.Savage;
*although following the formula Holmes meets Watson, cue adventures, is an original variant of Solar System Space exploration;
*charming - who could resist street urchins and a brave spaceship captain - Ser Pan Comido by M.A. Thyer
I do hope that in the marketing activities of the writers will be curtailed in future books of the series, and the short stories in the series will remain a stand-alone product. I know that the writers like to eat, that’s why I’m attending the concert.
Book 2 Excelsior, read some of Jasper T Scotts work before this and true to form, this is another all action story along with another preview of the stupidity of our species. WW 3 has just started and our heroes are off to a new planet to re-start. Again, don’t expect any depth to anything, it is just a short story after all and a pretty good one at that.
Book 3 Falling Emotionally conflicted characters in a love/hate story, all the usual stuff but this time set in some space mine place, could just as easily have been anywhere but to get in a Sci-fi book you have to have space or hi-tech stuff and this book is just that. Barely worth wasting the 15 minutes it took to read it.
Book 4 Apogee Well, finished reading it before it even started. A planet wanting to break away from the Earth based alliance and earth not happy about it. I hope G.S. Jennsen is going to expand this into a novel, maybe give more background into the earth alliance and why the planet wants to break away from it. Good read, you’ll probably miss the odd typo but all in all worth reading.
Book 5 Keep off the grass. Set in the same timeline as his Solarian War Saga. Felix R Savage writes this as I think he hopes the future to bevery much dis-jointed and no clear idea of who is in charge. I think you’d need to read at least 1 of his Solarian War Saga to get the jist of the technology and location as well as the reasons why things are the way they are.
Book 6 Ser Pan Comido. One of my pet hates is authors who write things characters say in a different language from English, and then give a translation, why bother? It is a fine story set in some dystopian junk yard, barely any action but the ship got rescued and the kids got off the planet. Have to look for more books by Matthew Alan Thyer.
Book 7 The Kasant Objective. A different take on the little grey men always probing earth people, this time some other species is trying to take over another planet because they’re own one is failing, no reason given as to why, but along come the little grey men and try to stop them. Quite fun even if you don’t actually know what species anyone is
Book 8, Symbiont seeking Symbiont, Fantastic idea, how would an intelligent bacteria communicate with us? From what this one is offering, I’d gladly let it in me. A bit of Black humour in there as well. It’s certainly worth reading.
Book 9 The Immortals: Kronis Valley. The black side of human conflict, what happens to the hero when he goes home to the people he protected? No help given and he’s left on his own but is being watched by his ex-superior officer who wants him for another job. Don’t read this if your depressed.
Book 10 Earth Fall. The aliens have landed on Earth and systematically wiped out the majority of the human race, but thanks to information from the other aliens that survived Roswell back in 1947 we knew what was coming and had time to prepare, Raymond L Weil says he will release it as a full length book sometime in 2016, looking forward to it.
Book 11 The Stars That Bind. Doesn’t make any sense to me. Nick Webb claims to be an experimental scientist, maybe he should add the title experimental writer to his name, this is just some bizarre story that some might like but not for me.
Book 12 Multiply. Cute, 2 robots alone after crashing into an asteroid get all philosophical while building an army of other robots to seed passing planets with. Absurd is one word Nicolas Wilson uses in his word from bit at the end, and yes it is very absurd. A good end story to a pretty good book all round.
It is always a delight to discover new-to-the-reader authors whose work bring pleasure and so opens up more possibilities to follow. This book gives us that opportunity twelve times over, thanks to Mr.Peralta's discerning selection. I was fortunate enough to receive this book in return for an honest review and my thanks go to everyone who made The Galaxy Chronicles so enjoyable. Highly recommended to all science fiction fans or anyone looking for something a little bit different.

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HipHollywood was on the red carpet and backstage during the live two hour telecast hosted by Anthony Anderson, and caught up with the cast after their big win.
And it was also a big night for Ava Duvernay’s Selma biopic and David Oyelowo who won Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, Taraji P. Henson who won Entertainer of the Year and Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (No Good Deed), and ABC’s How To Get Away with Murder.
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**4.5 Cage stars**
Apparently, I’m the last romance reader to read this steamy Abbi Glines book. 🙂 I had read book 2, Because of Low, in 2012 but never made it around to reading the others in this series. While browsing the local online library I saw this one was available as an audio download. Both a male and female read Cage and Eva’s parts. I know I’ve said it before but audios can be great because they allow you freedom to do other things while listening-> you can cook dinner, go on a walk, etc.
Listening to this story had me swooning over Cage. I can see why my friends loved him as a bad boy. When Cage meets Eva he finds himself transforming from a player to a better man who was both sweet and protective.
“I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn’t last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it’s gone.”-Eva
Book #9 is due out Oct. 2014 to find out when it is availableclick here.

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This piece was originally published in the July 2016 issue of electroindustry.
Jeroen Medema, DICOM Standards Committee Co-chair, Philips; Robert Horn, AGFA; and Lawrence Tarbox, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
As a mature standard with roots reaching back to before its debut in early 1990s, Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is the international standard for medical imaging.
How, then, does a mature standard stay current in the modern world of health IT, with cloud-based data, hackers accessing medical systems, ransomware in hospitals, and the like?
The short answer is that DICOM prevails as a wholly modern standard in the areas of security and privacy. Actual security and privacy depend entirely on the standard’s implementation in relevant products and in the deployment of these products in the field.
Note that DICOM is not a software package; rather, it provides specifications for information exchange, analogous to the NEMA specifications for electrical power plugs and sockets. Product development teams use the DICOM specification when creating a product.
Starting in 1999, DICOM included options for encrypting and protecting data moving over network connections. This was in response to the implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (commonly known as HIPAA) and not in response to cybersecurity concerns.
In 2001, DICOM extended the use of cryptographic message syntax (CMS) for encrypting data. It specified how sensitive portions of a DICOM object (known as a PHI, which stands for protected health information) could be encrypted within the DICOM object (the digital equivalent of a DICOM image) for safekeeping.
Thus, the standard provides for the protection of a DICOM object throughout its life, not just during information interchange. This encryption of sensitive portions of a DICOM object is an integral capability. While it is not within the scope of DICOM to encrypt the entire DICOM object, DICOM does facilitate such methods.
Security and Privacy Mechanisms
Most DICOM objects contain images and associated demographic and medical information about patients, which must be kept confidential. Encryption is one way to keep data confidential. DICOM does not specify the encryption in detail (it refers to other standards for that), but several changes made to the standard over the last decade facilitate encryption. These include the transfer of encrypted DICOM objects and reading encrypted DICOM objects on the receiver’s end. For example:
- For sending objects in an email, DICOM defines how to encrypt the files using CMS methods for email.
- For sending objects using traditional DICOM transfer mechanism (known as the DIMSE protocol), DICOM defines how to use an encrypted transport layer security (TLS) connection.
- For sending objects using the new DICOM transfer mechanism (DICOM web services), DICOM defines how to use an encrypted https connection.
DICOM facilitates the use of encryption but does not mandate it; it defines how encryption is to be used in a DICOM context. Whether to employ encryption or not is a policy choice for a hospital and an implementation choice for a vendor. Regardless of a vendor’s choice, hospitals may establish a VPN-encrypted network and use unencrypted DICOM. This is quite common between sites, but, from a cybersecurity point of view, may not be advisable.
The security and privacy capabilities of DICOM are only a small piece of total protection of medical data. Chief information officers (CIOs) of hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare providers are responsible for protecting the medical data of their customers. Ultimately, CIOs have the responsibility of implementing and maintaining the protective mechanisms within their own systems and interfaces.
DICOM stands ready to facilitate this.


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cashew is a nut that can be grown in Australia but only if you have a large, well-drained garden.
But if you’re not that lucky, the first thing you should try is getting some nuts.
Here’s how to make a cashew fudge from scratch, as well as making your own cashew chips.
The cashew sauce recipe The first thing to do is make the cashew paste.
Mix together the vinegar, vinegar vinegar and water in a bowl.
Once the mixture has been combined, you’ll need to add a bit of sugar and cinnamon.
The mixture will then come together with the help of the pressure cooker.
Add the cashews to the mixture and mix well.
This is where you can add the nuts and chill.
You can also add them to the pasta sauce if you prefer.
If you’ve got the time and patience, try adding a little lemon juice to the sauce and using a bit more of the vinegar to thicken it.
You’ll need around 1kg of cashews for this recipe.
The final step is to make the fudge.
Heat a frying pan on a medium-high heat and fry the casnuts until they turn golden and crisp.
Remove them from the pan and set aside.
Add a pinch of salt to the caskys sauce and the casks to the boiling water in the pot.
Bring the mixture to a boil and allow the mixture, which has cooled, to cool.
Once it’s cooled, you can remove the caskins from the pot and mix them with the sauce.
The fudge will be thick, crispy and creamy.
Add some lemon juice and you’re done!
Recipe Notes This recipe is adapted from the Cashew Nut Fudge from the Vegan and Gluten Free Cookbook.
It makes 2 cups of fudge, but you could also double it for a total of 4 cups of cashew goodness.
Recipe Source: Vegan and GLuten Free Cooking, © Vegan and Vegan Cooking 2016, Claire B. Cook

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Trump weighs conditioning foreign aid on religious freedom
The proposed change in U.S. policy could complicate relations with countries like Egypt and India.
Aides to President Donald Trump are drafting plans to condition U.S. aid to other countries on how well they treat their religious minorities, two White House officials said.
The proposal is expected to cover U.S. humanitarian and development assistance and could be broadened to include American military aid to other countries. If the proposal becomes reality, it could have a major effect on U.S. assistance in a range of countries, from Iraq to Vietnam. Its mere consideration shows how much the White House prioritizes religious freedom, an emphasis critics say is really about galvanizing Trump’s evangelical Christian base.
But experts on U.S. aid also warn that picking and choosing which countries to punish could be a difficult task, not least because several countries that are partners or allies of the United States have terrible religious freedom records.
The effort comes as Trump faces an impeachment inquiry that hinges in part on whether he froze military aid to Ukraine as a way to pressure its government to investigate his political rivals.
Two White House officials confirmed the basics of the religious freedom aid-conditioning plan. They stressed that the idea is in its early stages and an executive order is still being drafted, meaning questions about whether military aid will be covered remain unanswered.
One said imposing sanctions is being weighed as a method of punishment, too. The other said the idea is patterned in part on existing U.S. legal requirements that restrict aid to countries that do poorly on an annual U.S. report on human trafficking.
During his U.N. General Assembly speech in September, Trump signaled that his administration would keep making religious freedom a priority.
“Hard to believe, but 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where religious liberty is in significant danger or even completely outlawed,” Trump said. “Americans will never tire in our effort to defend and promote freedom of worship and religion.”
As they try to push that vision forward, administration aides are considering using the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s lists of offending countries as their guide for deciding which countries should have their aid withheld or face sanctions, the White House officials said.
The commission’s regular reports rank countries in tiers. Its lists can differ from countries of concern separately designated by the secretary of State, and they often are longer. Among its Tier 1 countries — considered the worst offenders — are U.S. partners such as Saudi Arabia and adversaries such as Iran.
Representatives from the National Security Council, the Domestic Policy Council, the State Department and Vice President Mike Pence’s office have been meeting to discuss the executive order, which Trump has not yet seen, the White House officials said.
Pence’s role could prove a flashpoint.
He’s a deeply conservative Christian and a key liaison to evangelical Trump backers. And while his message is generally couched in terms of the need for all people to have religious freedom — he has criticized China’s mistreatment of Uighur Muslims, for instance — critics say he emphasizes Christians. Pence also is facing scrutiny for his role in directing U.S. aid to favored Christian groups abroad.
Asked for comment, his press secretary, Katie Waldman, said, “The vice president is always proud to support religious freedom both here at home and abroad.”
One evangelical leader close to Trump hailed the idea as something that’s been needed “for a long time.” “Obviously the devil is in the details about how it is arrived at and carried out as a matter of policy,” this person added, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Others observers were more wary.
“Oh, man, there’s so many ways that could go wrong,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior aid official in the Obama administration.
He said that, depending on how strictly the administration interprets the idea of “religious freedom,” it is likely to hit national security concerns about protecting certain allies. Egypt and India, for example, arguably have religious freedom issues, he noted, but both receive U.S. aid.
Egypt, where the Christian minority has long complained of discrimination from majority Muslims, receives roughly $1.4 billion in U.S. assistance a year, most of it for security purposes. India, where tensions between Muslims and Hindus are on the rise, has received tens of millions in U.S. aid in recent years, government data shows.
The religious freedom commission categorizes both as Tier 2 countries.
There’s also “not a lot of evidence or experience to suggest that this kind of conditioning of aid is actually terribly effective in achieving its goal,” Konyndyk added, saying that even the human trafficking law has had limited success in curbing such activities, despite how much countries hate the bad publicity.
Also, governments are not the only entities that persecute religious minorities, Konyndyk said. Often, religious persecution is a social or cultural problem over which a government has limited control.
“A community is not going to stop persecuting another community because some other part of the country is going to get the aid cut,” he said.
One strong likelihood is that any executive order will include a clause that gives the president or a designee the ability to exclude a country from aid restrictions on grounds that it is in the U.S. national security interest.
Trump’s approach to foreign aid has long drawn criticism, and not because of what might have led to the hold on the military funds for Ukraine. Critics say Trump has “weaponized” foreign aid to pursue specific political objectives, and that it has had little success.
He’s effectively ended U.S. aid to Palestinians in a failed effort to push them to negotiate peace with Israel. He also used the lure of foreign aid to try to get Venezuelans to rise up against their dictator, Nicolás Maduro — another unsuccessful effort.
On a macro level, the Trump administration is generally hostile to foreign aid, having proposed multiple times to slash it significantly. Congress has prevented such cuts.
The linking of aid to religious freedom would not be a surprising move by Trump given his administration’s intense focus on the issue.
During the U.N. General Assembly in September, Trump announced a $25 million commitment to support religious freedom.
Weeks earlier, his administration launched the International Religious Freedom Alliance, a vehicle that brings together countries to promote the cause. The administration also has held two major gatherings of foreign ministers focused on promoting religious freedom.


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Dr. Levitt, and his wife Marcy, have two children. When not in his practice, Dr. Levitt routinely exercises, and enjoys boating, flying, skiing, horseback riding, golf, tennis and travel.

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Narrator Point of View
American Born Chinese is kind of like watching a movie or a TV series—at least, for two-thirds of it. (We'll get to the other third shortly.) Both the story lines for the Monkey King and for Danny come from a distant narrator who's simultaneously above the fray and yet also able to give you close-up views of the characters.
How? Consider it the nature of a graphic novel. On one hand, you've got—in the Monkey King sections—an actual narrator giving you voice-overs of what's going on around the Monkey King or in his head. But even though the narrator can tell you that the Monkey King "stayed awake for the rest of the night thinking of ways to get rid of [his monkey fur smell]" (1.47), the narrator doesn't judge. At least, not verbally.
The narrator lets the pictures do the talking. For example, when Tze-Yo-Tzuh tells Monkey to stop being such a fool, the picture shows a close-up of Monkey dumbly considering Tze-Yo-Tzuh's words. You might think that because Monkey seems properly awed by Tze-Yo-Tzuh's powers, he'll totally follow what Tze-Yo-Tzuh asks him to do. But no cigar. The next picture shows the exact same close-up, only Monkey's face is angry and determined, both of which highlight his stubborness as he states: "'I don't care who you say you are, old man. I can still take you'" (4.83).
What an idiot, right? But the narrator doesn't tell you that. It's the next picture—of a distant Tze-Yo-Tzuh sighing (4.84) that confirms the idea that Monkey is completely immature. There's no judge-y voice telling you how to think or feel, just the silent zooms in and out of the picture frames that guide you to these general conclusions about Monkey's character. Neat, huh?
In Danny's story, the narrator is even more objective because the narrator doesn't even bother to speak. In fact, you might say that there isn't a narrator at all; it's just the view given to you by each picture. That's why Danny's storyline becomes all about the action and dialogue in each frame.
Each chapter opens with a picture of the setting: Danny's house, Oliphant High, the library. From there, the pictures lead us right into a scene and the scene just unrolls before our eyes—like a TV screen. Just like the Monkey King parts, these scenes don't carry a judge-y feeling exactly because there isn't anyone telling us how to feel and think. In fact, our view of the picture tends to be at mid-distance: the picture doesn't zoom in or out much, and mostly just stays in the middle letting you see everything unfold.
Case in point: When Danny walks into the library and sees Chin-Kee performing "She Bangs" on the table, we get to see both Chin-Kee dancing and singing gleefully while Danny's face, still in the frame, shows his bugged-out eyes and gritted teeth (9.5). We get why Danny cringes, but since both characters are in the frame, no perspective is favored exactly. You can't tell exactly who the narrator judges or favors, which invites us to grapple with the discomfort we may feel in response to both characters.
The whole TV feel of Danny's story also makes it easier to see how Jin's transformation into Danny is kind of like an entrance into Jin's own personal lalaland.
And then there's Jin. How do we know that Jin is really our main guy for the whole book? Even though his story is squashed between the story of the Monkey King and Danny/Chin-Kee, his story is the only one told in the first person, from Jin's perspective. That means we get the whole deal—how he thinks, how he feels, what he does—all of which ultimately make Jin a sympathetic character.
Plus the book ends with his story. It moves from the third person objective narration of Danny's story into Jin's first-person voice. This is most evident when Jin tells us how many days (over a month) he sat at 490 Bakery Cafe waiting for Wei-Chen to show up (9.103). He's letting us know how much he's changed and how committed he is to making amends for his misdeeds. And we feel it more because it's in the first-person, which makes it much easier for us to experience Jin's remorse and believe in his transformation.
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Senator Landrieu Urges Loan For Next Autoworks
US Senator Mary Landrieu is urging the Department of Energy to act on a loan application from start-up car manufacturer Next Autoworks.Next Autowork needs 321-million dollars to build a proposed auto assembly plant in Monroe. During a Senate Energy and Natural
Resource Committee, Landrieu told Jonathan Silver, who heads the department of energy's loan program, that funding from Louisiana is
in jeopardy, because of the federal government's slow response to Next Autworks application. The Next Autoworks plant has the potential to create 14-hundred jobs.

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“Supermarket Rage” — the opening track of Jonah Tolchin’s fourth release, Fires for the Cold — shows the New Jersey native embracing moodier and more textural approaches than on previous outings. “I’d walk out the door but freedom ain’t free / these days, they sell it by the pound,” Tolchin sings, addressing the way in which the US economy is essentially dependent on stoking and gratifying peoples’ cravings for escape and divertissement.
“You hide behind your liquor and perfume / you’re damaged baby, you’ve got open wounds,” Tolchin sings on “The Real You,” a portrait of someone unable to “heal” or “breathe and love [her]self,” the unfortunately common plight of addiction, fueled in recent years by a market flooded with opioids.
On the stark and reverb-y “Turn to Ashes,” Tolchin’s voice is aptly vulnerable: “I put my faith in you and then a screw turned loose / And now I’m all alone, out upon the open road.” “Honeysuckle” shows Tolchin and band embracing a more upbeat and bluegrass-y approach, a mix reminiscent of some Becky Buller tracks. Sara Watkins’ violin is instrumentally memorable.
“Wash Over You” unfurls as a lo-fi, spontaneous performance à la Tom Petty’s Wildflowers, Tolchin’s transition from verse to chorus the most hook-y move on the album. Supporting vocals by Cindy Walker and Marie Lewey are especially complementary. “Day by Day” is an honest and heartfelt take on the maturation process, how becoming an adult and navigating the world are by nature challenging ventures: “Life was simple in the shelter of your mother’s arms / but things they complicate, it gets hard to navigate / I’m still learning how to stand up straight.”
“Timeless River” is the most sonically engaging track in the sequence, featuring Sheldon Gomberg’s wah-wah bass and Ben Peeler’s steel guitar. The hazy soundscape will remind some listeners of Chris Whitley’s melancholy side or the more atmospheric takes on Dylan’s Time Out of Mind. “Maybe I’m a Rolling Stone” stands as an effective closing to the project, Tolchin suggesting, possibly in pantheistic fashion, that he could be any number of things: a songbird, an angel, a devil, a bullet, a flower, and/or “a rolling stone.”
Fires for the Cold is a more pensive and less melodic enterprise than Tolchin’s previous work, an album to listen to in a quiet locale, perhaps at a time when distractions are less likely to impinge. While Tolchin’s latest may not be his most compelling set (I’d reserve that praise for 2014’s Clover Lane), taken in the context of his oeuvre, it points to an artist with substantial creative range.

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Le Carroi, the cultural events association of La Flèche, hosts numerous unmissable festivals and events. Every Friday, a concert is given at Henri IV square, near your Kyriad hotel. The program includes classical music, chamber music, contemporary music, percussion, jazz… Les Affranchis, the theater festival, takes over the city during the second weekend of July. In March, the fair comes to town. Known as the Foire des Cendres, it blends entertainment and sublime cuisine, and can be found in the city center.


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Alūksne – Top 10 MUST SEE for Your relaxing, travelling and inspiration!
If you want to feel yourself as a nobleman? Visit Alūksne New Palace. It is surrounded by the park with the oak trees planted in the 18th century – the time when the park was developed. The park is unique for its small architectural buildings. An exciting walk along its paths visiting the Aeolus’ temple, the Granite Obelisk, the Alexander’s Pavilion and other buildings leads to the palace which Neo-Gothic nobility cannot be found in any other place in Latvia. The guests of the palace are welcomed by the Alūksne Museum and the Nature Museum “Vides labirints” (The Environment Labyrinth)..
It is not easy to choose the most beautiful landscape in Alūksne, but there is the place that makes it the highest town in Latvia – the Temple Hill park . In ancient times it was a Latgalian castle mound but nowadays the top of the hill is decorated with the Temple of Fame – the granite rotunda built in 1807 on the order of Baron von Vietinghoff. Nearby there is a pedestrian bridge called the Sun Bridge. In the park there is the highest sightseeing tower in Latvia. – from which you can enjoy an unforgettable view of Alūksne. The tower is 37.8 meters high and it is open from May 1 till October 31.
A beautiful town hides beautiful surprises. It seems that the dreamers’ hands have developed the Alūksne Manor Park. The beginnings of the park were marked in the second half of the 18th century when Baron von Vietinghoff-Scheel became the owner of the little Alūksne manor. Nowadays the park is ranked among the most significant monuments of history and culture in Latvia because of the number of small architectural forms preserved there. Even their names sound like a song – the Aeolus’ temple, the Bird Pavilion, the Granite Obelisk and others.
Decorated with carved boulder stones the tower of Alūksne church rises in the sky. The church built from 1781 to 1788 is one of the noblest early classicism monuments in Latvia. The view from the tower was so picturesque that the Baron ordered to build the oak stairs in it to make the ascent easier for the guests. There are no similar stairs in churches in Latvia. The church is home to treasure – the organ made by the famous craftsman August Martini.
Such miracles can happen only in Alūksne – the house where beer was brewed once offers cultural events now. The beer brewery built in the 19th century is the monument of architecture, and in the autumn of 2015 after the renovation it first welcomed the visitors as Alūksne Culture Centre. It is the place for creativity in all expressions. The Culture centre houses a modern concert hall, a national applied arts workshop “Kalme” as well as an entrepreneurship support centre.
It is easy to shift yourself from the town into nature if one of the cleanest lakes of Latvia is close at hand. For the pleasure of the town inhabitants and its guests, nature has given the lake wonderful shores, waters rich in fish and four islands. The biggest one is Pilssala (Castle Island) with the ruins of the Livonian Order castle, but Cepurīte (Hat Island) was inhabited already in the Stone Age. To have a closer view at these places you can have a trip on a little ship “Marienburg”. Breath-taking emotions over Alūksne lake will be provided by zip-line “ZZZIPPP”.
Which one is more romantic – a castle or an island? Alūksne offers both at the same time as there is a castle on the island. The Livonian Order castle was built in 1342, and its walls were up to 2 metres thick. The legend tells that a girl was built in the wall of the castle . Her name was Maria thus the island is also called Maria Island. Nowadays a tower has been restored in the mighty fortress, where a sound and light adventure tells about the history of the castle in special musical tale“MARIENBURG the eighth brother”. Island also has a pedestrian path around the castle ruins, a swimming area, a stadium, volleyball courts, a children’s playground, a multifunctional service building, and an open-air stage.
In Alūksne you can have a look at the history of the Latvian language and culture. This is the place where German priest Ernst Glück finished the first complete Bible translation into Latvian that was published in 1694. It became the ABC and the guide for the nation throughout the centuries. In the museum there are Bibles in 40 different languages, a Bible in Braille and many other exhibits. Not far away from the museum, at the Priest’s Manor, there are Glück’s Oak Trees. The priest planted them when he had finished the translation of the New and the Old Testament, but his step-daughter Marta later became Catherine I, the Empress of Russia.
If you want something more romantic than the stars and the moon, have a walk along the streets of Alūksne at night when wonderful light performances decorate the town. Five fountains in the Summer season sparkle in the New Palace Park till midnight, and colourful lights illuminate the pedestrian bridge in Tempļakalna Street, the Rotunda in Temple Hill and the 7th Sigulda Infantry Regiment Monument. Alūksne at night is as beautiful as during the day but much more mysterious. Could there be a better reason for a late walk?
All Latvians know the tongue twister “šaursliežu dzelzceļš” that means “the narrow gauge train”, but how many of them have travelled by it? For more than 100 years it takes people from Gulbene to Alūksne. Nowadays the little train travels twice a day. In Alūksne, the end station of this line, in the multimedia exhibition created in the historic baggage shed, you will discover the facts of railway history, hear 10 unique stories of the station, see who Bānītis is a friend, helper, workplace and source of inspiration.
Alūksne is a modern and developing town which cares about its cultural heritage and the beauties of nature and is always proud to show them to its guests. Discover Alūksne!


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''I never had any contact with the Sovereignty Commission.''
That's what Charles W. Pickering told the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing that preceded his appointment to the federal bench in 1990.
The problem with that statement is that it doesn't appear to be true.
The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission was a grotesque, hateful, virulently anti-black organization established by the state of Mississippi in the mid-1950's to take whatever steps were necessary to maintain segregation and the privileges of white supremacy in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling outlawing segregation in the public schools.
The commission harassed black people, undermined efforts to secure voting rights, spied on civil rights leaders and infiltrated civil rights and labor organizations. Among other things, it helped screen potential trial jurors for Byron De La Beckwith, who murdered the civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963.
The commission was still doing its dirty work when Mr. Pickering served in the State Senate in the 1970's. But when Mr. Pickering was selected by President George Bush the First to fill a District Court seat in 1990 he not only denied any contact with the commission, he said that when he was a state senator it ''had, in effect, been abolished for a number of years.''
That certainly wasn't true.
This is relevant now because Judge Pickering has been nominated by President George Bush the Second to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. It's a critically important appointment. The Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, covers the states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. It's the poorest circuit in the country and more than 40 percent of the inhabitants are ethnic minorities.Continue reading the main story
Judge Pickering, a close friend of Senator Trent Lott, is a right-winger whose views over many decades have been insensitive, and frequently hostile, to the rights of minorities, the disenfranchised, the poor and women. Mr. Pickering is to appear today before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss his record. Civil rights and abortion rights groups are mobilizing to block his confirmation.
Mr. Pickering had a significant effect on his home state's racist past as early as 1959 when he was a student at the University of Mississippi Law School. He felt it was important to bolster Mississippi's anti-miscegenation law. A marriage between a black person and a white person was a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. But Mr. Pickering recognized there was a loophole in the law that could allow some interracial couples to fall in love and marry without being arrested and sent off to prison. He wrote an article in The Mississippi Law Journal explaining how the law could be fixed.
The state legislature took his advice, amending the law the very next year.
Mr. Pickering's claim that he had had no contact with the notorious Sovereignty Commission seemed pretty dubious when the commission's previously sealed records were released a few years ago. People for the American Way, one of the groups fighting Judge Pickering's nomination, noted that in 1972 and 1973 he voted as a state senator to appropriate money to cover expenses of the commission.
The records included memos showing that he had asked to be kept apprised of the commission's information regarding a group promoting workers' rights in Laurel, Judge Pickering's hometown.
Throughout his career Judge Pickering has been antagonistic to the voting rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment and the federal Voting Rights Act. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, one would think that a commitment to the protection of voting rights would be a prerequisite for anyone being considered for appointment to the federal bench.
But that idea is quickly trumped by the simple fact that President Bush was the beneficiary of the Florida debacle.
Some things never change. Mr. Pickering's nomination is an affront to black people from coast to coast. But in a Bush White House, when civil rights come up against the Republican right, it's not even a close call.
Judge Pickering's racist past, his problematic present and his apparent difficulties with the truth have not been enough to persuade the president to reel in this nomination.Continue reading the main story

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Ratings: ‘The Flash’ returns solid; ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ preview strong; ‘Agent Carter’ has weak start
We’re not going to say that Tuesday was a home run insofar as TV viewing goes. Most programs saw declines versus their most-recent episodes, and the few who saw gains were minimal at best. Not only that, but a highly-anticipated new series failed to get off the ground with the numbers that many were hoping for.
The winners – The people who probably are feeling the best this morning are executives over at The CW. “The Flash” matched the 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic it received for the midseason finale, and we believe that there is still a chance this could adjust up in the final numbers. This proves that the show has the same passionate following that it always has, and that airing against largely-new programming made little to no impact on the night.
Meanwhile, we also have to say that things are looking bright for “Legends of Tomorrow.” The sneak preview special on Tuesday scored a 0.9, which is pretty great given that the episode itself is airing on Thursday, and this had only limited awareness. Both it and the DC Films special, featuring the new “Suicide Squad” trailer and more, both fared better than “iZombie” has all season.
The losers – The biggest one is “Agent Carter” over on ABC, which premiered to just a series-low 1.0 rating in the demo. The alphabet network lost to every other one on the night, including The CW, and that does not bode well for the long-term future of Hayley Atwell and company.
Elsewhere, both “NCIS” (2.4) and the “New Orleans” spin-off (1.8) each declined without the crossover airing, while in turn both “Chicago Med” (1.7) and “Chicago Fire” (1.6) lost a little bit of steam of their own. In the end, all of this is somewhat surprising given that January so far has produced great ratings for shows thanks to people wanting to avoid cold weather.
If you missed our review of the “Flash” winter premiere, head over to this link. Meanwhile, sign up right away to have some further scoop sent right to you via our CarterMatt Newsletter. (Photo: The CW.)