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The main advantages are its safety, especially for the elderly and the children, and its awesome minimalist style.
Glass-enclosed shower
There are many design options for your walk-in shower to choose from. The most common one may have a glass enclosure which creates a bright and airy feeling with a spa look. Imagine adding a skylight to this transparent walk-in shower for a chic modern look.
The shower with a steam room
With an obvious spa feeling, the walk-in showers allow for a steam room. You have to add a bench or some seat that integrates into the rest of the bathroom style. It might be a large stone instead of a seat for a nature-inspired bathroom or a wooden seat as well.
The doorless shower
Your shower can occupy a whole room and then, it transforms into a doorless shower. If you add marble as a luxurious touch for your walk-in shower it will have a timeless look, perfect for a shower.

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Donald Trump, days earlier than he is because of launch his 2020 re-election marketing campaign, has mentioned he would "need to hear" dust on his opponent if it was provided by a international energy. "There's nothing flawed with listening," the president advised ABC Information on Wednesday, reigniting the controversy over his 2016 marketing campaign's contacts with Russia, and scary a number of Democratic presidential candidates to name as soon as once more for his impeachment.
Two oil tankers struck by suspected assaults in Gulf of Oman
Two oil tankers have been hit in suspected assaults within the Gulf of Oman, amid ongoing tensions within the area between the US and Iran. The suspected assaults, near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, come weeks after blasts rocked 4 different tankers docked off the coast of the UAE. Iran has repeatedly denied involvement in these assaults, regardless of claims on the contrary by the US nationwide safety adviser, John Bolton.
Oil worth. Information of the assaults despatched the worth of oil surging early on Thursday, with Brent crude leaping greater than 3% to $62 per barrel.
Home panel holds Barr and Ross in contempt over census
The Home oversight committee has voted to carry the US lawyer normal, William Barr, and the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, in contempt of Congress, for his or her refusal to show over paperwork concerning modifications to the US census. The White Home has pushed to incorporate a query about US citizenship on the 2020 census, after which asserted govt privilege over paperwork that would make clear the motives behind that call.
Hong Kong falls silent as world backs protesters
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Navy makes PNG waters safer for shipping
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Location(s): Wari Island, PNG
Topic(s): HMAS Shepparton (A03), HMAS Leeuwin (A245), HMAS Benalla (A04)
Survey Motor Launches HMA Ships Benalla and Shepparton arrived in Papua New Guinea on Thursday with the task of conducting survey operations in the vicinity of Long Reef, in order to provide alternate routes for shipping through the area. Hydrographic Survey Ship HMAS Leeuwin (HS Red Crew), had been working in the area for the previous five weeks.
Hydrographic Survey Ship, HMAS Leeuwin (HS Red Crew), had been working in the area for the previous five weeks: surveying, building strong relationships with the local villages and establishing the vital tidal infrastructure required to allow Benalla and Shepparton to commence survey operations.
The ships met in the morning haze where the Coral Sea rises up into Long Reef, with Leeuwin steaming out to meet the Survey Motor Launches and placing them in formation for Officer of the Watch manoeuvres.
After a series of manoeuvres the ships exercised Replenishment at Sea (RAS) approaches and a formation anchorage off Wari Island to take advantage of this valuable 'three ships in-company' time.
Once the ships were at anchor, personnel from Benalla and Shepparton reported onboard Leeuwin for a Commanding Officers' luncheon, survey handover and regional brief. The handover was formalised when the three Commanding Officers went ashore on Wari Island to meet with Councillor Lassono Philip and inform the local ward of the handover from Leeuwin to Benalla and Shepparton.
The visit also provided the opportunity to provide some supplies to the drought affected island and strengthen the relationship between our two island nations.
Councillor Philip welcomed and thanked the crews.
"We are very happy to have you here," he said.
Upon returning to their ships, Benalla and Shepparton weighed anchor together to commence survey operations through Long Reef, leaving Leeuwin readying herself to return to Cairns.
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Why Bridal Market?
In an age where conceivably, a retailer COULD buy new inventory via the Internet from designers, it seems a waste of time and money to fly to New York every six months.
People ask: Why do you do that?
The travel part is indeed a bear. I hate it. I mean, hate it. But once there, the experience becomes a therapeutic lift up.
Going to NYC, the nation's fashion epi-center, is an opportunity to think larger than I do every day in the store. It gives me new ideas for display. It nurtures relationships with long time designers with face time and it gives me a chance to explore new sources I didn't know existed.
The other intangible is the chance for me, the seasoned buyer to catch MY breath at new gowns that are presented to me as the customer. And that could never happen on a monitor.
The market experience has changed over the years to be less "buzz" though and very "lets sit down and get acquainted." Fifteen years ago all the fashion houses were within a two block area known as the Fashion District. I could make appointments in the same building one right after the other and never need a cab or a coat.
Nowadays, what with rising rents, the designers are "showing" all over the city. Some are in nice hotels such as Plaza Athena, The InterContinental, The London Hotel and the Hilton. The less established/expensive new kids on the block rent booths at The Pier. (The Pier to me is a miserable pipe and drape hellish trade show, but a necessary evil.)
The former is a quite retreat with fresh flowers, champagne and a butler attending me in quiet hope that I'll "leave paper." That is code for "an order."
In the early years, I believed the pitch of every showroom rep i.e. "This dress is on everyone's order." "This is a bread and butter dress." "It is our highest ranking re-order dress from last season. You must have one for your inventory."
Now, I don't take chances. Every single gown that comes into my store, I select personally. I can imagine exactly what kind of bride will look best in that dress i.e. age, body, venue, budget and taste.
I used to believe that every newbie stood a chance. Not any longer. Most of the pop ups, shut down in two years. I do business with designers that are well established and have a long track record of good delivery.
As a result, I am the only bridal store I know that can say, "We have never missed a wedding."
The relationship I have with this New York crowd is so genuine that they jump through hoops for us/our brides.
The side bar benefit is seeing old friends who own other high-end salons all over the country as we gather for fashion shows. There are cocktail parties hosted by The Knot and Martha Stewart magazines and customer appreciation dinners with designers. It is all a whirlwind but fun.
As I fly back home, it is with excitement to jumping back in to running Nolte's Bridal.
We have some really cool things to share with you in the next few months. Stay tuned. This buying trip is bringing home lots of polished Big Apples!


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Go zero to sixty in this dangerously sexy novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.
Breezy Simmons was born into a ruthless motorcycle club—and now that she's out, she's never going to be that girl again. But when her past catches up with her, Breezy must go to Sea Haven to seek out the man who almost destroyed her. The man who chose his club over her and left her feeling used and alone.
As vice president of Torpedo Ink, Steele is ride or die for the brothers he lived through hell with. He never thought he'd find something as pure as his feelings for Breezy, or that keeping her safe would mean driving her away with cruel words that turned her love for him to ash.
Now, Steele won't let her walk away twice. He'll do whatever it takes to make Breezy his woman again—especially when he learns the real reason she came to him for help, and that the stakes are higher than he ever could have imagined…
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Talk about a story that just consumes you. Breezy and Steele's story is utterly captivating. It hooks you from the very beginning and is just impossible to put down.
Breezy and Steele's love affair is a complicated one. You see, the life that Breezy grew up in was terrible. Absolutely horrible. She was treated like the lowest of the low and the only saving grace in her life was Steele. The moment Steele came into the picture and claimed Breezy for his own, Breezy finally got a taste of good. All was going well with these two until the day came that Steele had to break her heart. And he didn't just break it, he crushed it. But, I promise you, he had his reasons for hurting Breezy. Did they suck? Absolutely. But when you love someone as much as Steele loved Breezy, there's nothing he wouldn't do to save the woman he loved. 3 years will pass before these former lovers will be reunited and so much has changed. An old threat has Breezy seeking out the man who destroyed her heart and the life she once put behind her. And once Steele lays his eyes on his woman after all that time….All bets are off. He's playing for keeps this time and won't stop until Breezy is right back where she belongs….
Vengeance Road is a complicated, dark and intense read. Some passages were really hard to get through and just left your mind spinning. Many times I found myself wondering how Steele and Breezy were able to rise about their pasts and become better people. It just totally blew my mind. Their lives should have been an overwhelming mess, but somehow they were able to make some positive out of all the pain.
Now, I will be the first to tell you, these characters are frustrating. Like rip your hair out, scream at your kindle frustrating. After the home Breezy grew up in, she wanted absolutely nothing to do with the MC life. She had a lot of judgement when it came to the Torpedo Ink, and rightfully so. But, her time away from Steele forced her to grow up and depend on herself, not a man. She had a lot of reservations about Steele and definitely put him through the paces before even considering letting him back into her heart. And Steele….man oh man is he complicated. He's gruff. He's possessive. He's controlling and one determined man. His relationship with Breezy was definitely a complicated one and could be seen as toxic by some. Due to the things he endured in his past, I could understand his insane need to protect and watch over Breezy. Did it make crazy? Sure did. But, when you learn about all the demons he's battling it just somehow makes sense. Somehow this crazy relationship just works. It's not for me, but who am I to judge? At the end of the day, Breezy and Steele just mesh well together. They get one another in a way that no one else can and I honestly think that they are the only ones who could handle the complicated mess of their lives. I loved that Breezy wasn't easy on Steele. She made him work and show her that he's a changed man and that she is the woman that he wants.
Overall, I really enjoyed this story. Vengeance Road is filled with lots of passion, angst, drama and danger. This story will put you heart through the ringer and will have your eyes glued to the pages. I loved the characters, even if they did frustrate me at times. I loved the grittiness of the story-line and being kept on the edge of my seat. I couldn't wait to find out what happened next and I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Steele and Breezy. Vengeance Road is a terrific addition to the Torpedo Ink Series. It gave me everything I was looking for in an MC Romance. It was dark. It was complicated. There was a ton of shock and danger. There was of course, romance. And some seriously sexy good times. This book definitely hit all the marks for me and I'm excited to see where this series is going to go next!
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Breezy Simmons leaned against her pickup for a moment, staring at the large building that housed the Torpedo Ink Motorcycle Club. Her heart beat so hard in her chest she was afraid she might vomit. The world spun uncontrollably, and she quickly leaned down, putting her head between her legs, drawing in great gulps of air. She caught a glimpse of two men on the other side of the compound as her head went toward the asphalt, and she didn't recognize either of them. That made her pounding heart sink.
She couldn't possibly have the wrong club. This had to be them. She was running out of time and options. She slowly righted herself and took another cautious look around. The two men stared at her from across the parking lot. She was careful not to look at them too long. She didn't want them coming anywhere near her. She needed to get in and out very fast.
The Torpedo Ink compound was extremely large and had a high chain-link fence surrounding it. There was even razor wire up on top of the fence, making the place look like a fortress. The rolling gates were wide open, and she'd driven her truck right inside, parking as close to the clubhouse as possible. She deliberately left the door to her beat-up pickup open and the engine running. Hopefully, no one recognized her, and she could get in and out of the building quickly, once she asserted these were the right people, the ones she was looking for.
In the early morning hours, the club was just beginning to stir. Clearly, they'd partied hard over the weekend. In the enormous side yard, the one with the beautiful ocean view, she could see embers in fire pits glowing as the breeze stirred them up. A man with his back to her watered them down with a hose. He wore a tight tee and jeans, but no colors. Still, she knew this was the home of the club that called itself Torpedo Ink. She sent up a silent prayer that this was the one she'd been looking for.
There were empty bottles strewn around the grass and on the ground to the side of the building in the wide expanse of open field. Cars, motorcycles and trucks were scattered around the parking lot, although no one parked where the club did. Their motorcycles were lined up neatly and a prospect watched over them. He sat on the curb looking at her. She was parked too close to the precious bikes, but she didn't care—other than it had drawn the attention of the prospect.
Another long line of motorcycles was parked a short distance down from the clubhouse and a prospect watched over those bikes as well. He looked at her without much interest, which indicated to her that these bikes belonged to a visiting club. He wasn't as interested in protecting the grounds as the one closest to the clubhouse.
She had to get this over with. Just being in such close proximity to an MC made her sick. The fact that she knew what went on at the party made her even sicker. That this might be his club, and she had to risk running into him, made all that far worse.
Breezy squared her shoulders, dragged the envelope off the seat and turned all in one motion. The prospect was on his feet. If she knew for certain this was the right club, she would have thrust the letter into his hands and left, but she was guessing from a process of elimination.
She purposely hadn't kept track of him, especially when she'd heard, a year after she'd left, that eighteen members of the Swords had set up the international president for assassination and had, allegedly, wiped out a number of members and then disappeared. She knew who those eighteen members were immediately and knowing them, she knew it was possible when others said it wasn't. She'd run as far from the life as she could and now she was pulled right back in.


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MONTREAL (AP) A no-goal call in the third period fueled the Montreal Canadiens to a comeback victory over the Ottawa Senators.
Shea Weber scored the tiebreaking goal in Montreal's four-goal third period and the Canadiens rallied for 5-2 win over Ottawa on Saturday night, beating the Senators for the third time in 12 days.
After Montreal's Jesperi Kotkaniemi tied the score 2-2 at 2:06 of the third, the Canadiens appeared to take the lead less than 90 seconds later when Phillip Danault put the puck behind Senators goalie Mike McKenna. However, the goal was waved off after Artturi Lehkonen was called for embellishment seconds before.
"We were a little upset and we transferred that energy the right way actually," Weber said. "It was a good reaction. Guys were really upset. We thought we deserved a goal there. But we did the right things and came back and played the right way."
After the disallowed goal, a loud chorus of boos rained down on the Senators, and referees, for the rest of the period.
"They were fired up and we were fired up," Weber said of the Bell Centre crowd. "It was a good intensity and energy for everyone. It was definitely loud."
Montreal then scored three times in a 7 1/2-minute stretch later in the period to get the win.
Kotkaniemi and Matthew Peca each had a goal and an assist, and Paul Byron and Jonathan Drouin also scored for the Canadiens. Carey Price stopped 16 shots to win his fifth straight.
Weber put the Canadiens ahead just past the midpoint of the period with aa powerful snap shot from the left faceoff dot for his fourth.
Byron made it 4-2 with 6 1/2 minutes left when he redirected Kotkaniemi's shot past McKenna. Drouin sealed it with an empty-netter nearly four minutes later.
"We were all upset," said Canadiens coach Claude Julien, who earned his 600th career victory. "You can disagree with bad calls. I consider that one a mistake more than a bad call. I wish they would have gotten together and overruled that. It would have made sense.
"After that we played our best hockey of the night. It woke us up."
Each of Montreal's recent wins against Ottawa have been by identical 5-2 scores.
Colin White and Mikkel Boedker scored for the Senators, who were coming off a 4-2 win against Detroit the previous night. The 35-year-old McKenna, starting in place of Craig Anderson. finished with 42 saves.
"Any time you allow four goals, you're always searching for things you can do better," said McKenna, a 2002 draft pick. "As a goalie, it doesn't matter how many you faced it's about how many you keep out of the net."
The Canadiens outshot the Sens 16-3 in the second, 19-7 in the third and 47-18 overall.
"We let them come at us in waves and we didn't have a match for their energy and the amount of pucks they put on the net," Ottawa forward Bobby Ryan said. "We sat back a little too much. We were a stick length away all night.
"Sometimes you just have to be a little more aggressive. That's on all of us."
With his second goal in two games, Peca got the Canadiens on the scoreboard at 3:39 of the first.
Montreal's lead was extremely short-lived, with White tying it 20 seconds later with his ninth. It came seconds after Brady Tkachuk appeared to trip Price with his stick, and the Canadiens challenged the goal for goaltender interference but the call on the ice stood.
Heavily outworked in the second, the Senators scored on their first shot of the period at 9:11. Confusion between Jordie Benn and Noah Juulsen behind their own net led to Boedker's fourth.
NOTES: The Senators dropped to 2-4-1 in their past seven games. ... Price improved to 25-9-5 all-time versus Ottawa. ... Montreal went 0 for 4 on the power play and is now 0 for 22 with the man advantage over its last seven games.
Senators: Host Nashville on Monday night.
Canadiens: Host Boston on Monday night.
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Unpublished Dispositionjaki Akai Mahammad, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Danny Serett, Defendant-appellee, 860 F.2d 1079 (6th Cir. 1988)Annotate this Case
Before NATHANIEL R. JONES and ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case has been referred to a panel of the court pursuant to Rule 9(a), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. Upon examination of the record and briefs, this panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a).
Jaki Akai Mahammad brought this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that the former grievance board chairman at Fort Pillow State Prison violated his constitutional rights by failing to respond to his grievances and by refusing to allow him to take college level courses. He requested monetary damages and injunctive relief. The district court granted the defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings, deciding that Mahammad's claims did not implicate constitutionally protected rights and, thus, the complaint failed to state a claim for relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Mahammad raises the same arguments on appeal. In addition, he appealed the district court's order denying his motion for leave to amend his complaint to add certain pendent state claims.
Upon consideration, we affirm the district court's dismissal of the complaint. Mahammad's claims did not implicate constitutionally protected rights. First, inmate grievance procedures are not constitutionally required in state prison systems, therefore, the defendant's alleged failure to follow grievance procedures does not give rise to a Sec. 1983 claim. See Spencer v. Moore, 638 F. Supp. 315 (E.D. Mo. 1986). Furthermore, plaintiff has not adequately alleged that state law created a liberty interest in the grievance procedure. Even if one were created, plaintiff would merely be expressing a due process interest in due process and not an interest in an underlying substantive right. See Olim v. Wakinekona, 461 U.S. 238, 250 (1983) ("Process is not an end in itself. Its constitutional purpose is to protect a substantive interest to which the individual has a legitimate claim of entitlement.")
There is also no constitutional right to vocational or educational programs in prisons, thus Mahammad's claim in this regard must also fail. See Rhodes v. Chapman, 452 U.S. 337, 348 (1981); Garza v. Miller, 688 F.2d 480 (7th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 1150 (1983).
Finally, the district court correctly denied plaintiff's motion to amend his complaint to include pendent state claims. The district court correctly dismissed Mahammad's complaint for failure to state a claim for relief under the federal civil rights statute. Thus, there was no reasonable basis for the court to exercise pendent jurisdiction over plaintiff's state claims. See United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs, 383 U.S. 715, 726 (1966).
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An ethical conundrum: the estimation of event attendance
International Journal of Tourism Cities
Publication date: 26 June 2019
The purpose of this paper is to examine issues of ethical corporate social responsibility related to the estimation of event attendance, scrutinize the philosophy of situational ethics as justification for reporting inflated figures and present a potential solution to the dilemma.
A conceptual approach is applied. First, the importance of attendance as a primary evaluation variable for economic, social and environmental impact studies, as well as for event stakeholder return on investment in general, is clarified. A brief review follows on the subject of event attendance estimation as reported in both popular and academic literature, before moving into a content analysis of this literature to investigate if there are existing concerns of ethical corporate social responsibility.
Attendance at events as reported by popular media remains controversial. Methods for arriving at accurate figures have been investigated and reported upon in academic literature, but there remains no consensus on how to best estimate event crowd size. Inflated attendance numbers reported are too often justified by situational ethics, a non-logical philosophy that has been previously debunked. A content analysis of popular media and academic literature revealed a lack of concern for ethical corporate social responsibility when it comes to the accurate estimation of event attendance.
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The failure to accept ethical corporate social responsibility when estimating attendance harms event stakeholders and leads to misleading and unreliable impact data.
This subject has not been previously addressed and is important to advancing the professionalism of event management.
Biaett, V. (2019), "An ethical conundrum: the estimation of event attendance", International Journal of Tourism Cities, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 188-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJTC-12-2017-0080Download as .RIS
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New Drug Effective Against MRSA in Mice
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem. S. Staph"), have become difficult to treat because the microbes responsible have evolved resistance to the drugs used to treat them. Decades of widespread use have encouraged the spread of bacteria with resistance to multiple antibiotics. Recent data from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that antibiotic resistance costs the nation an estimated $20 billion a year in excess health care costs.
Many antibiotics used for treating infections, including penicillin and methicillin, are designed to target late stages of bacterial cell wall synthesis. Cell walls are essential to bacterial survival, but the structures don't exist in humans. An enzyme called undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase (UPPS) is needed for early-stage cell wall synthesis. Since UPPS isn't produced by humans, it's a potential target for drug development. rlier studies had already identified some compounds that inhibit UPPS.
A team led by Dr. Eric Oldfield of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Andrew McCammon of the University of California, San Diego, set out to build on the previous work to develop UPPS inhibitors that could potentially be used as new antibacterial drugs. The study was partly funded by NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and National Cancer Institute (NCI).
The researchers used computer screening programs to identify diverse compounds with activity against UPPS. They then used X-ray crystallography to analyze the 3-D structures of the compounds bound to the enzyme. The researchers found that the 10 identified compounds bound to at least 1 of 4 previously identified UPPS binding sites. The strongest of the inhibitors, they discovered, bound to a site that is surprisingly outside the region responsible for the enzyme's activity.
E. and a strain of MRSA. One of the most potent compounds also increased the effectiveness of methicillin against a MRSA strain. The scientists next tested this compound on mice infected with MRSA.
Twenty out of 20 animals survived if they were treated with this drug lead, and zero survived if they weren't treated," Oldfield says.
his research may pave the way for more effective antibacterial drugs. Additional studies will be needed to know whether these inhibitors or others like them can be used to treat people with resistant infections.


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This pretty quilt set features patches of patterns in stunning blues, green and white. Strips of fabric in various sizes appear to be hand stitched together making this stunning design a true work of art.
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From the documentation:
Extension Overload is an extensions, control panels, control strip modules and contextual menus management application. It offers detail information of 5934 extensions and control panels, control strip modules and contextual menu items in your system. It also lets you activate and deactivate them, so that you can always easily tailor your system to your current requirements. In addition, Extension Overload includes a useful collection of helpful information and tidbits.
Serial Number
Name: ccb
Serial: R12409AW734M01A0G8
Download 1 is Extension Overload 5.9.9, the final version of this program for PPC only.
Download 2 is Extension Overload 5.5, an older version, the last one to support 68k.
Version 5.9.9
A 601 or newer processor - which means that Macs with 680x0 processors are EXCLUDED but all others are fine, including Macs with a PowerPC, G3 and G4 processor.
5 MB of free RAM.
Mac OS 7.6.1 or higher required.
@cbone Or so says the documentation of Trygve's CMM Plug-ins and his CMM Plug-In Framework:
Your plugins will run only on PowerPC machines. The Contextual Menu Manager currently does not support 68K plugins. In fact, the [Apple] SDK does not give you a way to build 68K plugins. I don't know of any technical reason for this limitation, only "human resource" limitations, such as "who are we going to pull off another project to build and test this instead?"
If it is possible, it'd have to be in some way that doesn't use Apple's own CMM SDK and the Contextual Menu Manager itself. I'm not sure if anyone ever made a CMM in such a way, I think probably not.
If some coding wizard & hacker (in the literal sense, "someone who makes things work") is willing to rise up to the task, it might be theoretically possible. Only a passion-filled 68k-focused individual would be able to pull this one off.
Wait, so there are no 3rd-party custom CMMs available for the 68k version of Mac OS 8? Wow!
@MTT Nice! This will prove helpful.
I wonder if CMM could be considered an app category
Yes, there is a new sub category; "Command Menu Modules" under the "Utilities" category.
@ MTT Thanks! It sounds quite useful.
I wonder if CMM could be considered an app category in the Garden. I managed to find a bunch of them out there in the end. (I will try to upload them as time goes, too.)
Such a shame they are PPC-only, though. Mac OS 8.1 on 68k is really missing out. I don't think Apple had any technical reason not to make CMMs 68k-compatible, too. I wonder if this could be related to FinderPop being a PPC-only app, too.
I'm hoping to find in it a CMM called "Lock /Unlock", which I'm hoping instantly flips a file, folder, volume etc. between locked and unlocked. [...] The hunt for all sorts of CMMs continues.
I haven't come across a CMM named "Lock/Unlock" as yet. But I have stumbled across one named "More File Info" CMM v2.1.1, which performs a number of useful tasks, one of them being Lock/Unlock items.
From the "More File Info" Manual:
Main feature of this plug-in is to show the detailed information on the selected file to the contextual menu. However, it also allow users to set or change the following settings.
- File Type and Creator
- File lock status (ON/OFF)
- Memory requirements for an application program
This CMM is by the Japanese shareware author Hide Itoh and a copy of "More File Info", I found located on MacAddict CD issue 23. This CMM will get added to the MG's archive, but if you're in a hurry you can DL the MacAddict ROM from the Internet Archive's pages.
This is supposedly full of CMMs, as well. (CMM = Contextual Menu Module)
I'll only be able to check this archive tomorrow, but I'm hoping to find in it a CMM called "Lock /Unlock", which I'm hoping instantly flips a file, folder, volume etc. between locked and unlocked. REALLY useful when you have a newly-obtained image file, want to lock it to preserve it better, but don't have to bring up "Get Info" and click on an overly-specific corner painfully each time.
[Edit: Yeah, this has no actual CMM in it, it is truly purely just the database and manager. The hunt for all sorts of CMMs continues.]
Indeed, it's awesome to easily remove clutter from your system.
Btw - go ahead if you have System 7 and want to use it. I found it to work wonderful on my 6100/66 and System 7.6.1
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Daniel Henry Curran, 72 of Bayfield, passed from this world to the next on Mon., Jan. 29 in Rochester, Minn. with his daughters at his side, after an extended battle with cancer. He was born on June 29, 1945, in Elkhorn, Wis. to Agnes Josephine (Meyerhofer) Curran and George Francis Curran, of Lake Geneva.
As a child he attended Central School and St. Francis de Sales Catholic School, later graduating from Badger High School. Daniel's undergraduate education began at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; he later joined the U.S. Army Reserves and finished his architectural degree at the University of Milwaukee, where he also attended graduate school. Initially, he was a draftsman for Johnson, Wagner, Eisley, Widen and Hipp of Milwaukee, assisting with plans for the Milwaukee Area Technical College and South Division High School. Once he became a registered architect, he opened his own practice in Lake Geneva. Designs by his firm ran the gamut, though Daniel particularly enjoyed historic preservation and renovation. Among many projects, he guided the renovation of St. Francis de Sales Church, the Riviera, Holy Communion Episcopal Church, and Landmark Center in Lake Geneva, Wis.; renovated the St. Francis Friary in Burlington, Wis., and designed many new homes. From 1989 to 1996 he worked for the Red Cliff Housing Authority and helped rehabilitate more than 130 houses through the Comprehensive Assistance Improvement Program, funded through H.U.D. In 1996 he started on a related path of building inspection, and worked for the City of Superior, later becoming the city's chief building inspector.
Along with his paid work, Daniel took pride in serving others. He was president of the Lake Geneva Rotary Club, he was elected to the Lake Geneva City Council for a two-year term and was a member of the Lake Geneva Planning Commission. He also served on the Bayfield, Wis. Architectural Review Board, the Bayfield Historic Planning Committee, and the Bayfield Comprehensive Planning Committee. With Roger Bristol, Daniel was instrumental in the creation of Bayfield's Fountain Garden Park. He volunteered as a Lay Leader of Prayer for the St. Francis Catholic Church in Red Cliff, Wis., Holy Family Catholic Church in Bayfield, St. Louis Catholic Church in Washburn, Wis., St. Joseph Catholic Church in La Pointe, Wis., and St. Ann Catholic Church in Cornucopia, Wis. Through leading prayer, lecturing and serving at Mass, Daniel gained great joy and deepened his faith.
Daniel is survived by his daughters, Katherine (Justin) Hansen of Bayfield, and Claudia (Andrew) Broman of Janesville, Wis.; his grandchildren, Alex and Carter Hansen, and Evelyn and Nelson Broman; brothers Thomas Curran of El Cajon, Calif. and Patrick Curran of Rockford, Ill., and sister Helene Churchill of Lake Geneva, Wis. along with countless people he has touched throughout his life. He was preceded in death by his second wife, Joyce Evelyn Grant, the mother of his children; two sisters, Rosemary Lemire of Escanaba, Mich., and Kathleen Wilson, of Lake Geneva, brother Gerald Curran, and his parents. He will be greatly missed.
Mass of Christian Burial was held at 11:00 am on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at St. Francis Catholic Church, Red Cliff. With Visitation from 10:00 am to 11:00 am at the church, also, 2 pm to 4 pm on Sunday, Feb. 4th , with a prayer service at 3:30 pm at the Bratley Funeral Home Chapel in Washburn. Father Kevin Gordon and Father Brian Dulli Officiating. Interment at St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, with military honors performed by the Apostle Islands Honor Guard.


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Slave rebellion
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A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves. Slave rebellions have occurred in nearly all societies that practice slavery, and are amongst the most feared events for slaveowners. Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by Denmark Vesey, the Roman slave Spartacus and the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish king Ongenþeow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled.
North America
Numerous slave rebellions, revolts, and insurrections took place in North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. There is documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving ten or more slaves. Three of the best known are the revolts by Gabriel in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner at Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
Slave resistance in the antebellum South finally became the focus of historical scholarship in the 1940s, when historian Herbert Aptheker started publishing the first serious scholarly work on the subject. Aptheker stressed how the rebellion was rooted in the exploitative conditions of the Southern slave system. He traversed libraries and archives throughout the South, managing to uncover roughly 250 similar instances, though none of which reached the scale of the great Nat Turner uprising.
List of North American slave revolts
- New York Revolt of 1712 (1712)
- Stono Rebellion (1739)
- New York Slave Insurrection of 1741
- Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion (1800)
- Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion, led by Charles Deslandes (1811)
- George Boxley Rebellion (1815)
- Fort Blount Revolt (1816)
- Denmark Vesey's Uprising (1822)
- Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
- Amistad Seizure (1839)
South America and Caribbean
- Quilombo dos Palmares; most famously led by Zumbi.
- The most successful slave uprising in the Americas was that in Haiti in the 1800s led by Toussaint L'Ouverture.
- Panama also has an extensive history of slave rebellions going back to the 16th Century. Slaves were brought to the isthmus from many regions in Africa now in modern day countries like the Congo, Senegal, Guinea, and Mozambique. Immediately before their arrival on shore, or very soon after, many enslaved Africans revolted against their captors, or participated in mass marroonage, or desertion. The freed Africans founded communities in the forests and mountains, organized guerrilla bands known as Cimarrones, and began a long guerrilla war against the Spanish Conquistadores, sometimes in conjunction with nearby indigenous communities like the Kuna and the Guaymi. Despite massacres by the Spanish, the rebels fought until the Spanish crown was forced to concede to treaties that granted the Africans a life without Spanish violence and incursions. The leaders of the guerrilla revolts included Felipillo, Bayano, Juan de Dioso, Domingo Congo, Antón Mandinga, and Luis de Mozambique.
Probably the most famous slave rebellion in Europe was that led by Spartacus in Roman Italy.
External links
- PBS online article: New York: The Revolt of 1712 (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p285.html)


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The acquisition of New Belgium Brewing Company is a buzz-kill for craft beer fans, but a critical lesson in sustainability to entrepreneurs.
If you are a fan and follow the craft beer industry -- from both a business and consumption standpoint -- then you are probably aware of the slate of craft beer industry acquisitions that have left many fans disappointed.
To understand why fans are unhappy, you first need to know that the craft beer industry has seen meteoric growth over the past decade, nearly doubling the number of total US breweries in just that past five years from 3,800 to 7,450, according to the Brewers Association.
This growth is great for craft beer aficionados, who are passionate and fiercely loyal to the craft. And as consumer experiences continue to be a differentiation for younger consumers, craft breweries provides one of the few unique experiences still available, with every craft brewery offering a highly differentiated beer selection and often a completely distinctive and personalized encounter.
This unique experience is so important that fans will often revolt dramatically when there is any sign of a small craft beer sticking a little toe in and testing the big corporate waters. Case in point is San Diego-based Lagunitas Brewery, which in 2015 sold a 50 percent stake in its company to Heineken. Even though the acquisition still left Lagunitas with autonomy to make its own beer under its own label, social media erupted with angry fans and more than a few calls to boycott the craft brewery.
The grumbling died down, and when Heineken purchased the rest of Lagunitas in 2017, the less-loyal fans had already defected to one of the many other options available.
The acquisition spree continued this year, as craft beer stalwarts Dogfish Head Brewery was acquired by Sam Adams Company and Kona Brewer by Anheuser Busch InBev SA's. And this week, New Belgium Brewery Company, the fourth largest US craft beer company in 2018 (Brewers Association), announced it has agreed to be acquired by Lion Little World Beverage, the parent company of Japan's Kirin Holdings Co.
Kim Jordan, the co-foudner of New Belgium, an entirely employee-owned operation, justified the acquisition in a statement saying, "Over the life of our ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), including this transaction, the total amount paid to current and former employees will be nearly $190 million. We will have helped a significant number of people realize the upside of having equity in something, being a part of the American Dream!"
New Belgium was one of the last, big-named craft brewery holdouts, and one that craft beer fans would point to as validation for how craft beer can compete without the influence of big corporate beer companies.
So why did it finally capitulate? According to MarketWatch.com, "New Belgium was struggling to stay independent at such a large scale, amid intense competition from a new generation of craft breweries that has doubled the total of such businesses in just four years ... and was struggling to meet cash demands of the ESOP and selling stockholders while expanding the business both in production and branding."
In other words, the reason so many craft breweries are "selling out"? Survival.
Consider first that while the number of breweries has nearly doubled in five years, the total dollar market share for craft beer during this same time has only increased from 19.3 percent to 24.1 percent (Brewers Association). That 4.8 percent increase is a remarkably small increase to be divvied up between so many new companies.
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No, no, I didn't drink too much; I rarely drink alcohol anyway to be honest .
It's just a way to show off some of the recent conversions I did.
Maybe I need to explain why I'm doing this:
When I decided to do a Rangers of Shadow Deep project in 15mm, I checked what I had already laying around. Turned out I had quite a bit of monsters and villains, most meant for sci-fi or 28mm, and barely any heroes. To remedy this I bought some adventurer packs from Alternative Armies. I
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Quite a few Men-at-arms, enough Wizards to start a council and the beginnings of a decent Thieves Guild but no archers or models suitable to be used as rangers.
And like I already mentioned in my previous post, I really like to have two of every follower.
So, in order to get myself all the companions I needed, I knew I had to do a few conversions.
Now, the best conversions are the ones where it's almost impossible to spot the original from the one you changed. I'm far from that level but I'm still quite pleased with how some turned out and I feel like I did a decent job. Some are better than others, but that's just the way it is.
One word of warning though, a few of the models are a lot smaller than others. Many are close to 18mm, but others are actually closer to 15mm (barely). Which means you can paint eyes on some but it's near impossible to do on others.
First up are a Tracker and an Arcanist, both started out as some kind of Druid. Strange enough he was carrying around a shield which didn't like, so I removed the arm holding it on both of them and gave my Tracker a bow. The Arcanist also got a headswap with a head I removed from a Blighthaven Southern Death Cult model. As I noticed a severe shortage of female characters among my companions, I also gave the model a sex change. The book, made from some leftover putty, didn't work out as I wanted but decided to keep it anyway.
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AUSTINTOWN, Ohio - Mount Union's swimming and diving freshman Alexis Schuller (Berea / Berea-Midpark) was named Ohio Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Week (10/21).
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eCYBERMISSION, a web-based STEM competition for middle school students and sponsored by the U.S. Army, is seeking dedicated individuals over the age of 18 with a background or interest in STEM—to serve as a virtual judge for the program.
New e-book in the NAGC Select Series:
Early Entrance to College as an Option for Highly Gifted Adolescents
Now available in Amazon's Kindle Store is the latest NAGC Select book,
Early Entrance to College as an Option for Highly Gifted Adolescents
. Author Alexander Pagnani discusses the history of early entrance to college, how it is beneficial and provides questions to ask if you are considering it for your child.
NAGC Select e-books are a series of concise, informative booklets on topics and issues in education. Intended as a service to practicing educators and/or families, NAGC Select e-books are designed for the non-researcher who needs to know the basics of a particular topic in education. The books have a consistent format: an intro on the importance of the topic, three to five sections explaining what we know and how it translates into practice, a conclusion/summary and five to seven key resources on the topic, with annotations. Also check out the first two in the series:
Rigor for Gifted Learners: Modifying Curriculum with Intellectual Integrity
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Psychological Foundations of the Arts: Understanding and Encouraging Artistic Expression in the Early Grades
by Erin Morris Miller and Rachael Sloan
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An Early Childhood Advocate
Nancy B. Hertzog Director Robinson Center for Young Scholars, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
This Compass Points column features NAGC members telling us a little about their "day job" while sharing how their work with an NAGC committee or network relates to the field. With National Parenting Gifted Children Week coming up July 20-26, we thought we'd throw the spotlight on Nancy Hertzog, chair of NAGC's parent advisory group, PECAB.
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We Remember Abraham Tannenbaum
NAGC mourns the death of a giant in the field of gifted education who passed away on June 30 at the age of 90. Dr. Abraham Tannenbaum was Professor Emeritus of Education and Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, where he taught for more than 20 years. He earned his bachelor's degree in English literature from Brooklyn College, a master's degree in guidance and educational administration from Columbia University and a doctoral degree in social and educational psychology, also from Columbia University. Early in his professional life he was a public school teacher in Brooklyn, New York. He led numerous research projects concerning gifted and talented students and served as a consultant to many programs, including the influential Head Start Program. NAGC presented him with the Ann Isaacs Founder's Memorial Award in 2010 and the Distinguished Scholar Award in 1985.
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What Makes an 'Extreme Learner'?
When Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski was dissecting a sheep's heart during an eighth-grade science class, she had an epiphany that changed her life. "That heart told the story of anatomy and physiology!" she said. Realizing that science is best communicated through stories, Cueva-Dabkoski, now just 19 years old, went on to explore beetles in China. She's now at Johns Hopkins University, and continues to do research during breaks. Cueva-Dabkoski is considered an "Extreme Learner."
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Column: Recommit to Gifted Education
Lexington Herald-Leader
While thousands of Kentucky students graduated from high school recently, nearly 50 achieved this milestone in a particularly impressive fashion. The recent graduates of the Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky spent their final two years of high school studying on the campus of Western Kentucky University. These students pursued a rigorous and intensive math and sciences curriculum and graduated with at least 60 hours of college credit, with most having engaged in research and/or study abroad.
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Racial Gaps Remain in Gifted Programs, Analysis Shows
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on special educational services for a small but elite percentage of students deemed "gifted." And those students are disproportionately white and Asian. Despite aggressive efforts to erase the gap between the races, white students in Georgia are roughly three times more likely than their black counterparts to be enrolled in gifted programs — and roughly two-and-a-half times more likely than minority students.
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Study Finds Math, Science Grads Earn Top Dollar
The Associated Press via Education Week
One's field of study appears to matter more than where they attended college — and math and science are a plus, according to a report from the Education Department. The survey of the class of 2008 provides an interesting snapshot of the nation's educated elite following a crushing economic recession.
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STEM Education Growing, but Still Has Room for Improvement
By Suzanne Mason
The revival of interest in STEM education started with the national Educate to Innovate campaign in 2009. The campaign is designed to bring American students to competitive ranks with their international counterpart when it comes to the subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Educators, organizations and the federal government have all taken steps to spark interest in both STEM education and careers. Five years later, the revival of STEM education is still in its infant steps, and it still has room to grow in both diversity and innovation.
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Flipped Learning Skyrockets Across the Nation
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Though no learning model is perfect, flipped learning offers educators and students one way to boost engagement and make learning much more interesting and organic. And as more research highlights this learning model's benefits for students and teachers, more educators are motivated to give it a try.
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The University of South Dakota Foundation board of directors has elected officers:
•Chairwoman, Lorraine Hart, 1973 USD graduate. Hart, a full-time community volunteer, retired in 2006 as vice president for investments at Ameriprise Financial after working there for 22 years.
•Vice chairman, Robert Hollingsworth, Class of 1991, partner at Deloitte and Touche LLP.
Three new members have joined the foundation board: Joel Portice, Class of 1987, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., CEO at Intermedix Corp.; Ryan Taylor, classes of 1995 and 1999, Sioux Falls, partner with Cutler Law Firm LLP; and Sylvia Wagner, Class of 1971, Lees Summit, Mo., retired executive vice president at Assurant Employee Benefits.
Dana Dkyhouse, CEO of First Premier Bank, is the winner of this year's Spirit of Sioux Falls award from the Sioux Falls Development Foundation. The award recognizes leadership excellence and dedication to the Sioux Falls business community and its economic growth.
Marco has hired three technology advisers: Nate Peterson, Kenny Hartzell and Robby Wolfgang.
McGladrey LLP has promoted seven employees:
•Mark Broders to lead tax manager. Broders has been with the firm for six years.
•Rick Dykstra to assurance supervisor.
•Corey Fishel to assurance senior manager. Fishel joined the office in 2006 and has 10 years of experience in accounting.
•Katie Gibbons to assurance senior associate.
•Loretta Keyes to business applications manager. She has 14 years of experience.
•Brian Reid to assurance supervisor. Reid has four years of public accounting and auditing experience.
•Brady Velgersdyk to lead tax senior associate. He has been with the office since 2013.
South Dakota Biotech has elected a new executive committee: President, Steve Statz, Avera Health; vice president, Kevin Kephart, South Dakota State University; treasurer, Steve Lewis, Poet; and secretary, Sue Lancaster, South Dakota Innovation Partners. The new board of directors includes Paul Batcheller, Prairie Gold Venture Partners; Dan Engebretson, GEAR Center; Lucas Huntimer, Elanco; Mark Larson, Augustana College; Rollie Nevins, RTI; David Pearce, Sanford Health; Jan Puszynski, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology; past president Eddie Sullivan, SAB Biotherapeutics; and adviser Mel Ustad, Governor's Office of Economic Development.
Several awards were presented at the annual convention of the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations:
•SDAHO Distinguished Service Award – Health Care Professional to Dr. H. Eugene Hoyme, chief pediatric medical officer for Sanford Children's Hospital and chair for the department of pediatrics for the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota.
•SDAHO Distinguished Service Award – State Official to Margaret Hansen, executive director of the South Dakota Board of Medical & Osteopathic Examiners.
•SDAHO Distinguished Service Award – Trustee to Barb Everist, chairwoman of the board of trustees of Sanford Health.
•Regent Award – Senior Level Executive from the American College of Healthcare Executives to Curt Hohman, senior vice president of managed facilities for Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center.
•Chapter Leader Award from the South Dakota Health Information and Management Society and the William G. Follmer Bronze Award from the South Dakota Healthcare Financial Management Association to B.J. Dvorak, president/co-founder of eProvider Solutions.
•Leadership Award from the South Dakota Healthcare Human Resource Association to Elizabeth "Betsy" Geiver, chief of human resources at the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System.
•South Dakota Hospital Partner Award from LifeSource to Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota.
•Excellence in Partnership Award from LifeSource to South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations.
•Bright Idea Award from the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Marketing and Public Relations to Avera Health for its Butt Seriously campaign.
•Award for Partnership, South Dakota Healthcare Engineers Society's Hospital Preparedness Partners Program to Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center.
•Award for Response, South Dakota Healthcare Engineers Society's Hospital Preparedness Partners Program to Avera Behavioral Health Center and Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota.
The 114th Fighter Wing of the South Dakota Air National Guard has earned the 2014 Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for the time period of Oct. 1, 2012, to Sept. 30, 2014.
EmBe's board of directors has three new members: Stephen Bianchi, Home Federal Bank; Lisa Irvine, Premier Bankcard; and Sonja Theisen, MetaBank.
The National Association of Women in Construction, Greater Sioux Falls Chapter No. 237, has elected officers: President, Brooke Cosand, Henry Carlson Co.; vice president, Gin Aguinaga, Graybar Electric; treasurer, Cheryl Swolley, Baete Forseth; corresponding secretary, Cindy Cosand, Egger Steel Co.; recording secretary, Leah Raastad, Henry Carlson Co. New directors are Tracy Kerkhove, G&R Controls; Raven Hoffman, Syverson Tile & Stone; Katie Krantz, VandeWalle Architects; and immediate past president, Karen Krietlow, Muth Electric Inc.
Marco was named by Great Place to Work as one of the best small and medium workplaces in the U.S. It ranked No. 14. The Minnesota-based business has offices in Sioux Falls and several states.
The Sioux Empire Society for Human Resource Management has recognized three Sioux Falls businesses with its annual workplace excellence awards:
•Large employer: Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center.
•Medium employer: Carsforsale.com.
•Small employer: Howalt-McDowell Insurance.
Active Generations awarded The Inn on Westport with the Positively Aging Corporate Support award and Diane Helin with the Lifetime Achievement award during its annual Volunteer & Sponsor Recognition event.
Jason Sudenga, head pro at Bakker Crossing Golf Course, has been honored by the Minnesota Section PGA. Sudenga won the 2015 Player Development Award for his contributions to the golf and fitness industry through GreatLife Malaska Golf & Fitness, where he is director of golf.
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"We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck." — M.T. Anderson, Feed
|Zero Station, by Amanda Hamm
I mistakenly downloaded this to read on my Nook. Billed as a novella, it isn't even a short story … more like a pitch for a story idea. A good idea, too, but only a sketch, with no characterization, no background, none of the detail that makes a story interesting. Frankly, I'm surprised Ms Hamm found someone to publish it in present form … ah, now I understand: it's self-published. That's what happens if you aren't careful with e-book downloads!
|The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
The great classic, pretty much as remembered from my teenage years, only more suspenseful. Today we cringe at Wells' interest in eugenics (in The Time Machine, present-day privileged classes evolve into a useless, pampered above-ground race while workers evolve into a brutal hairy underground life form). But those were the times Wells lived in, and his story remains masterful and timeless. Isn't it about time someone made a movie of it again?
|The Affinity Bridge, by George Mann
The blurb on the cover calls it "steampunk." "Cashing in on steampunk" is more like it.
The last sci-fi/steampunk novel I read was The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling & William Gibson (reviewed here). I thought it an unexciting story, but at least the present-day steam-driven London of the story was well explained. You understood why, in the writers' conceit, England and other industrialized nations relied on steam power to a much larger degree than actually happened in reality (the Pope's opposition to internal combustion), and the engineering and science were plausible … if, going into the 20th century, we had been denied the internal combustion engine, the world Sterling & Gibson conjure up would have been the logical result.
George Mann's vision in The Affinity Bridge is slightly different. The time is Victorian England, somewhere in the late 1800s. Steam rules, but has been developed to a far greater extent than happened in reality. But in Mann's story, there is no rigor, no logic, no coherence. The science & engineering don't make a lick of sense and aren't even remotely plausible. Steam-powered trams, airships, and clockwork robots are a mere backdrop to a third-rate Sherlock Holmes knockoff. Gentlemen with pipes, brandy snifters, and laudanum habits. A daring woman who doesn't mind getting the hems of her floor-length skirt dirty. Evil villains. Even zombies.
A more charitable person would describe The Affinity Bridge as dime store hugger-mugger. I call it what it is: a load of crap.
|Stories, edited by Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio
This is an anthology of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories by contemporary authors, including one story each by the collection's editors, Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. I don't read many short story collections, but every time I do I think to myself that I should do it more often. This anthology was consistently good, with nearly every story a winner. And I must say it made me want to read more by both Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, two authors I've heard plenty about but whose work I hadn't, until now, read.
|Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Ship Breaker is killer good: a young adult adventure set in a post-nation/state world of environmental collapse, a world where powerful clans control sail- and dirigible-driven trade, a world where society is divided into two classes: the very rich and the very poor. It's a Margaret Atwood scenario on steroids, and like Atwood, Bacigalupi has rich narrative and descriptive powers: you can see the world of the shipbreakers on their oil-stained beach, you can feel the rust and sharp edges on the steel plates the breakers pry off the beached oil tankers, you can hear the hammer blows and the pop of forced rivets, you can smell the fuel oil and sweat. There's nothing theoretical about Bacigalupi's writing, nothing that requires page after page of dry explanation; his fictional world is immediate and gripping, fully revealed through the context of a kick-ass story, all but real.
Honestly, it's hard these days to distinguish "young adult" from "adult" fiction. As a general rule (and I'm sure there are exceptions), in YA fiction the boy and girl protagonists don't quite consummate their budding sexual relationship or get all messed up with alcohol and drugs, aspects of adult writing that often get in the way of a good story. I'd put Ship Breaker up against any harrowing adult sci-fi/adventure/thriller I've read in the past several years. I'll be looking out for the second volume of this great series.
|American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
See, I told you I was going to read some Neil Gaiman. I prefer hard science fiction, but have to admit I quite liked this fantasy novel. Gaiman's conceit is that the early people who came to the New World brought along their hearth and home gods, who thrived here until they were gradually forgotten. Ancient Siberian earth and bison gods came with the people who migrated over the land bridge from Russia to Alaska, Odin sailed over with the Vikings, leprechauns and banshees booked passage with the Irish in steerage, and so on. In the novel, a rootless young man becomes part of a plot by Odin and other nearly-forgotten gods to reassert themselves. Sounds silly, but it's a very readable novel with enough suspense in the plot to keep you turning pages, and ultimately far more rewarding than anything in, say, the Harry Potter series. Neil Gaiman writes like Gene Wolfe when he's on a roll; he's engaging and interesting and I will add him to my list of favorite authors.
|Feed, by M. T. Anderson
Once again, I prove to myself that young adult science fiction might as well scrap the YA label. Adult readers will find in Feed an engaging, satisfying, well-written near-future dystopian novel with two strong teenage characters, Titus and Violet. The "feed" of the title is an implanted internet/smart phone connection used by almost everyone. People can message one another, share what they are seeing, tasting, smelling, touching, and hearing, and instantly access information on any topic. Which sounds good until you realize that it's all controlled by corporations, which use the feed to simultaneously control the flow of information and lull the population into consumerism and conformity — a fact well known and actively resisted by Violet, who attempts to educate Titus, a happy consumer with a certain amount of native intelligence. The world of Feed is a world falling apart, pushed to the limit by resource depletion, pollution, and overpopulation: imagine Brave New World rewritten by Margaret Atwood. Good stuff, and I want more.
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