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Dead Heads is the first in the Gloomwood series by Ross Young.
Augustan Blunt is a washed out cop with a bad attitude, a drinking problem and a troubled past. Oh, he's also dead but that's okay - so is everyone else. Other than that things are just peachy.
Someone has stolen the Grim Reaper's head and Blunt has been told to find it. In a new city where the rules of the living don't apply; Blunt's up to his neck in the brown stuff and he's never been much of a swimmer. With the aid of a woman who keeps turning involuntarily invisible; a journalist who hasn't written an article since she died and a bureaucrat who can't say no to anyone – Blunt's got to stop whoever is stealing the heads of the city's elite.
As he begins his investigations he finds things aren't all they seem. Who are the Gloomwood Youth Order? What do you call the murder of someone already dead? Why are people having their heads chopped off? And what is in the hot dogs? With time slipping away he needs to learn what makes the city tick before there's no city left.
Gloomwood is a city for the dead - founded by no-less illustrious a personage than the Grim Reaper* himself – as the final resting places for dead people, gods, ideas and concepts. The Grim Reaper is the de-facto ruler, key holder and all round nice guy. His very visage stirs fear in the hearts of the newly dead and respect in those a little better acquainted, so it comes as a bit of a shock to the Office of the Dead when someone decapitates him and steals his head.
Augustan Blunt – an old school detective with a bad attitude, a nasty case of alcoholism** and a propensity to hate everything and everyone - is promptly recruited by Crispin Neat to find the Grim Reapers head and the culprit before any of the Gloomwood residents cotton on...about 12 hours after Blunt's own untimely demise.
Gloomwood is grey, unsatisfying and decidedly weird.It's also proof positive that death isn't always the worst case scenario.
Blunt is a joy! I kept waiting for him to grate on me; as his rudeness, dissatisfaction with the world(s) in general and entitlement alienated him from everyone in the book...but it didn't happen. Though he is Obnoxious (capital O there); I really enjoyed his cynical and bleak view of the world. It's hard not to feel a certain degree of sympathy for someone who has had every negative assumption he's ever made in life confirmed...and then has to do it all over again in death! Even better – he knows that he's a jerk and takes his various snubs, beatings and general abuse as his due with a wry stoicism.
Blunt finds himself in Gloomwood to solve a very particular crime. Though it's not really alluded too in much detail; I think that his demise felt a little too convenient and I wouldn't be surprised if we find out there was some hanky-panky relating to the how's and the when's in future stories!
His right hand man - Ralph Mortimer; I was a bit more up and down about. Initially I just loved him, but his meek manner did slightly irritate me in the middle. Nevertheless, I was delighted to find that he had a spectacularly glorious looking wife. Hey, I'm not saying that they're happy, but it was so satisfying that Ralph had *something* in his life that left everyone around him speechless with envy and surprise, as he is portrayed as such a worm.
There are also hints that Ralph might have more to him than meets the eye...though I'm not sure he'd enjoy the realisation that it is in fact Blunt that brings out the best in him.
Sarah Von Faber – the barely there forensic expert – provides the final member of Blunt's working crew. Her intangibility aside (an unfortunate side effect of an experiment gone awry), Sarah is easily one of the more intelligent members of the Gloomwood community and her astute observations and sarcasm ensure than she is a vital team member, rather than a conveniently creepy plot device. Indeed her special skills are far more often a hindrance than a help.
Quite a bit of writing is devoted to setting the scene and Gloomwood is more than a mere geographical oddity – the land is as much a character within this book as Sarah or Ralph or the Reaper. For Blunt, solving the mystery depends on his rapidly coming to terms with his new environment. I wish so much that I had one of those special edition illustrated hard back versions because I would have LOVED to see long lost hopes and dreams (such as the perennially depressed embodiment of the Earth is flat belief or Petal) illustrated! eBooks are awesome... but those colour plates of my youth are hard not to miss!
It's a great initial idea, - a murder set in the afterlife - and is well executed for the most part, though the pedant in me has to point out that in the kindle edition I read, there were a few grammatical errors and structural mis-fires that interrupted the narrative flow. Honestly, it probably wouldn't have bothered me as much if the main wasn't written so well.
I found the first few chapters to be gripping but also utterly discordant - I couldn't understand how they would all link up to one another, or if indeed that was even the goal of the book! While it all works out beautifully - I think that it would have been a bit off-putting if I hadn't been so cheerful in general that week! Talk about feeling thrown in the deep end from the first page.
Perseverance brings rewards and joy, boys and girls!
The mystery is very well drawn out indeed - while this is ostensibly a straight-forward whodunit; the set up of the world and the potential abilities of the plethora of very individualistic characters ups the game considerably. Once you read the ending you immediately see the sense of it, but I hadn't a clue what was coming – my favourite state to finish a book!
For all that; this is a book that I would only carefully recommend. If you're a fan of Tom Holt, Neil Gaiman or Terry Prachett – you'll probably do just fine. However, it is as weird as it is wonderful and I don't think I'd pass onto someone morally opposed to SF or fantasy!
Two sentence summary:
Despite the weird and wacky sounding set up outlined above; this read to me as primarily a character driven SF book. The mystery is – you know – the point, but it's the humour and drive of the characters that keeps you reading.
The second in the Gloomwood series – Get Ted Dead – will be out soon...
* * * * *Check out our Podcast with Ross HERE
Visit the Gloomwood website HERE
* * * * **Best. Backstory. Ever.
My new definitive history for the Grim Reaper.
**I assume that future books are going to explain where the heck the food and drink turns up from?! Although maybe I'd be better off not knowing. The possibilities are rather grotesque. The hot dog question I think I'll avoid! *shudder*


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Dozens of supporters gathered in Moss Point Sunday to protest the fatal police shooting of a local man last Thursday night. Carlos Moore, an attorney representing the group, claimed at least seven witnesses have said that Toussaint Sims did not have a weapon when he was shot to death by a police officer. A Moss Point police report claims Sims displayed a weapon in a threatening manner while attempting to flee officers. Moore is also demanding that body cam footage of the incident be released.
A man is dead after an argument during a Mississippi church service turned into a fight, then a shooting. It happened in Ripley, a small town about an hour and-a-half southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. Local news media report the son-in-law of the preacher at West Ripley Church of Christ got into an argument with a constable who is a member of the congregation. The 57-year-old son-in-law reportedly attacked the constable, who shot him in self-defense. The constable is a county law enforcement officer and just ran unopposed for re-election.
Since the ICE raids last week, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services has been providing translators to families of immigrants detained. Some 680 people were rounded up last week in what the government says was the largest single state enforcement of undocumented immigrant workers in U.S. history. A spokesperson says the agency will be visiting schools across the state this week where detainee children may be attending. The translators are being provided through the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Canton.
Over the weekend, a makeshift clinic was opened up in Canton to give free legal advice to those affected by the ICE raids. Representatives of the League of United Latin American Citizens, some who traveled to Mississippi from as far away as Chicago, counseled over 50 people. In addition, the organization gave out free food and children's books.
2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris says the upcoming census will be heavily impacted by immigration raids. On NBC's Meet the Press, the California senator says she believes the Trump administration's "campaign of terror" will distort the 2020 census. Harris said with recent raids, like the one in Mississippi where 680 workers were arrested by Customs and Border Protection agents, undocumented immigrants will be afraid to be counted in the census. She argues that will impact its results which decides things like electoral lines and where the government puts resources.
The attorney representing fans suing the NFL over a Saints playoff game says he is not backing down on moving the lawsuit forward. Tony LeMon responded over the weekend to Saints' team officials asking the plaintiffs to drop the lawsuit or to have the courts dismiss the case. Several Saints fans have joined together to sue the league over a controversial missed call at the end of the 2018 NFC Championship Game against the L.A. Rams. LeMon said the case is more about the integrity of the game and getting to the truth.
A Virginia Elvis impersonator is making a name for himself at the home of the king. Twenty-one-year-old Taylor Rodriguez was named 2019's Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist at Graceland in Memphis on Saturday. The win landed the musician with a contract to perform with Elvis Presley Enterprises and 20-thousand-dollars in cash. He also performed at the Soundstage of Graceland last night. Rodriguez says he started studying Elvis when he was just nine-years-old.
Seems "sleeping on it" really is a thing … A new study from the University of Bristol found that daytime naps can help us weigh the pros and cons of a challenging decision, and can even help us process unconscious information.
Have a latte before lying down … According to a new study, having coffee before bedtime will not keep you up. Having alcohol before bed, on the other hand, will mess with your sleep. Yep, seems counter-intuitive, since coffee is a stimulant and booze is a depressant, but researchers at Florida Atlantic University found that drinking a cup of coffee four hours before bedtime was not found to affect sleep quality. The study found, however, that having alcohol within four hours of going to sleep did lead to worse sleep quality. And if you're a smoker, listen up. The research found that nicotine was especially bad for sleep length and quality, and its effects are worse if you have insomnia. (The Ladders)
Some folks behind the insurance website Insurify crunched the numbers and figured out which cars get the most speeding tickets. Here's a rundown of the top cars, ranked by percentage of drivers with a speeding ticket for each model:
- Subaru WRX -- 20.12 percent
- Scion FR-S -- 19.09 percent
- Volkswagen GTI -- 16.92 percent
- Hyundai Genesis Coupe -- 15.75 percent
- Jeep Wrangler Unlimited -- 15.35 percent
- Dodge Ram 2500 -- 15.32 percent
- Dodge Dart -- 14.86 percent
- Infiniti G37 -- 14.72 percent
- Subaru Impreza -- 14.66 percent
- Hyundai Veloster -- 14.48 percent
It seems the top cars are almost all less-than-common models. Maybe they're getting targeted by cops because they're so special and unusual? (Gear Patrol)
Should Guys Pay for the First Date?
A new survey found that 62 percent of guys believe men should pay for the first date. But, only 46 percent of women believe men should pay for the first date. The survey also found that only two percent of men and five percent of women believe that women should pay for that first date.
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East Tennessee State Women's Soccer
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Location TN
Event Date(s) Jul 10, 2019 to Jul 13, 2019
Ages 14 to 18
Grades 9th to 12th
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Date: July 10th - 13th
Ages: 14 - 18
Residential Camper: $409
Commuter Camper: $309
Residential Team: $395 (Minimum of 12 Players)
Commuter Team: $300 (Minimum of 20 Players)
Bassler Course: $30
Benefits to our camp:
- Each team will be assigned a college coach and current college players to work with you and your team.
- Improve your technical ability and tactical understanding of the game via challenging team sessions.
- Sports science / nutrition education.
- Teams stay in newest dorms on campus that include private bedrooms and bathroom facilities.
- Access to all-you-can eat buffet at the Market Place Café for every meal during camp.
- Team building activities and the camp talent show.
- Team & character development.
- Full-sided games played every evening.
- Recovery sessions (Pool and foam rolling)
Goalkeeper Training:
Our goalkeeper training is run in conjunction with our residential camp. The structure of the goalkeeper training offers a balance of specific goalkeeper training, training with the team, and playing in games. Training focuses on the many facets of the game and will include sessions such as
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- Shot stopping / ball handling
- Breakaways
- Set pieces
Sibling Discount
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This committee helps to enhance the beauty of our school, year-round, starting with the 1st day of school. With the help of volunteers, the Beautification committee decorates our school with back to school, holiday and seasonal decorations and plantings to create a warm and welcoming environment for our new and returning students and families.
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This committee runs the Apple Program, which provides teachers with donated gifts throughout the school year. On a monthly basis, this committee, with the help of volunteers, puts together gift baskets which are handed out through a lottery amongst the teachers. In addition, this committee is in charge of putting together, with volunteers, 2 teacher luncheons during the year – one during Catholic Schools Week in late January/early February, and the other during Teacher Appreciation Week in early May. The committee also provides goodies each day for our teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week, as well as a gift for each teacher/staff. This committee also coordinates volunteers to donate snacks to be brought to the teachers lounges on a bi-monthly basis.
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This committee organizes both the library volunteer schedule for the library classes in 1st – 5th grades as well as general volunteers for the Librarian. These volunteers assist the Librarian in stacking and examining books. They also go online to find replacement books when needed. These volunteers also assist the with special projects, curriculum support, helping teachers with research, supporting children during class time, and to check books in and out. These volunteers also coordinate volunteers for the art classes for 1st and 2nd grades.
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The Book Fair Committee runs two Book Fairs throughout the year, in the fall and the spring. With the help of Scholastic Books, and potentially other sources, the committee offers age appropriate, best-selling books as well as puts together teacher wish lists and required reading lists. The Book Fair is open for four days to the entire GCS community.
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Pizza Treasurer: MaryBeth Brown
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This committee plans and coordinates a day when GCS families can invite Angels in the lives of their students (grandparents, aunts, uncles, special friends) to share part of the school day with them. The Chairs main responsibilities include: meeting with the appropriate faculty and staff to plan the day, creating invitations, tracking responses, organizing Mass for the students and Angels, arranging a sit down breakfast for the Angels, purchasing ornaments for the Angels, organizing many volunteers who help make the day possible and coordinating classroom visits. The time commitment of this Committee runs from October through the beginning of December with an increased amount of time spent in the days before the event.
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This committee organizes a Family Fun Night event for all the families at GCS to take place during the second half of the school year. Traditionally, this night involves the coordination of up to 500 participants for the playing of Bingo with prizes and raffles for all. Cost for tickets, includes pizza.
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UPDATE: The cameras were removed on Sunday 7/15 after my post. The cameras had been up since at least December. It is unclear whether the Tennessee spies remain, although I saw them packing their car up yesterday.
Let me tell you about the scary house across the street. I have to look at it every time I look out my windows.
It never used to be scary.
But that all changed about two years ago.
It all started when the elderly woman who used to live there by herself had her daughter (or is the son?) and son-in-law (or is it daughter-in-law?… Neighbors have heard both versions) arrive. They proceeded to tell a handful of us in the neighborhood that their mother was being harassed (people banging on her windows and such) and for us all to be on the lookout.
A short time later, another man claiming to be the son of the elderly woman went door to door with his daughter, handing out his sister's phone number in the event they see anyone harassing his mother. But the other son (daughter? Daughter-in-law?) who arrived said THAT MAN actually is the bad son harassing his mother (mother-in-law?)
The long and the short of it is that the elderly woman's relatives from Tennessee moved in with her well over a year ago. Mr. Tennessee began to visit me regularly, spending hours at a time visiting me with my living room. A time or two, he asked to smoke my weed. I told him no, I could lose my card over that.
I liked the guy from Tennessee, as it is no secret I am a down home Republican, or at least have become one. I am about the furthest thing from a gay Yankee that you could possibly get, in fact, after my shocking abuse at the hands of the mentally ill, criminal Rock Island County Democratic party.
I told him all about the corrupt, FILTHY Rock Island County Sheriff's Department and all about Gerry and Cheri Bustos. He ate it up.
When I would ask him a few months later why RI County Sheriff's Deputies would respond to their distress calls instead of RIPD, he would say, "Oh I know those guys."
That became to be his mantra for everything. For example, he said, "Oh yeah, I know that guy" when I told him about the woman up the street, Barbie, who was out walking my elderly neighbor one day. Barbie suggested I write a parody about drugs and lawmakers.I came up with this piece that I think is really funny. Click here, but read it later. Don't let it distract you from the seriousness of the situation (maybe that's what 'Barbie' was trying to do, who knows).
Over the course of the summer, I, too, was harassed now and then. When I would wake up to commotion, I often would run to the window, look outside, and see a White Ford Explorer fleeing the house across the street. A time or two, I saw bald man chase after cars.
Weird stuff. Was bald man a cop?
The Hunter Collins and "Team Ryden" factor
Apparently so. And according to my self-proclaimed SECOND FBI victim's advocate Hunter Collins, who I went to high school with, I would be "safe" if I let the house across the street see the "Team Ryden" SUV when it polled up. His SUV is marked "QCREALTOR."
Collins is retired Air Force. He said he used to get the flight manifests at Quad-City International Airport and he also searched the C17s. He said he knew I was telling the truth. You can read about my shocking nightmare in the Rock Island County Jail by clicking here.
By the way, Collins was my SECOND FBI victim's advocate, the first being a woman named Amie Lohman.
When QCREALTOR arrived, he began to take pictures of the inside of my house, including a framed front page my boss Bill Lobdell gave me. The page from Glendale News-Press was headlined "What Kind of Human," and the paper, under my leadership, won an award. The paper dedicated that edition to coverage of when a man in Glendale burned his family up while they slept. His entire family.
When I mentioned Cheri Bustos name (I'm sneaky that way) he said, "OH I love Cheri Bustos!!" He later told me he said he simply knew her as a lobbyist in Washington.
Tennessee's wife very unfriendly, never liked me
Tennessee bald man's wife never much cared for me. She'd make a nasty, "You're conceited" face whenever I would express pride in my own. She was an extraordinarily unfriendly woman who seldom spoke; nothing like her friendly husband.
Once, Mr. Tennessee told me it would be "defeatist" for me to leave.
They left for the winter, and the man who is over there now moved in. That happened a couple of weeks after I was threatened by the FBI and my house was shot up the first time. However, he left a while back and Tennessee Baldy moved in again until about a month ago.
It's like the investigation gets called off and re-started, and different people move in and out of that house. Every time I begin to cooperate with authorities AGAIN, I feel like I am telling the story from scratch all over again.
Because I am.
It's mind f*&$, it is.
You can read all about the FBI threatening me by clicking here.
You can read about my house being shot up by clicking here.
'Tennessee Baldy' is out, 'Stunt Double'
For me, the bottom line is this.
The house across the street clearly is NOT the FBI house. The FBI house looks like any old house. I know which house is the "FBI House" because my neighbor told me. She is not crazy. She saw the sweep last month when, in night gear, the FBI came through the neighborhood and arrested 17. I did wake up that night and saw what looked like a government people loading people up from the Dipple house.
The Dipple house has been the site of almost constant police activity since I moved here. That used to be Dolores Fox's house, where the neighborhood children attended Vacation Bible School for Bethany Baptist Church.
But back to the Spy House. The equipment on it is from Walmart, and sometimes they even post what to me look like IEDs on the stop sign (correct! Public ROW) A neighbor saw this violation recently and was aghast.
Silly me, I told her, it's the FBI house, they can do what they want.
She's smart and did not respond. I feel silly that I let that house fool me as long as I did when my neighbors knew the truth.
As I wrap this up, I took a final lap around the block and now none of the cameras are NOT fixed on my house but fixed on the house next door to me. Where they should be pointed.
Tomorrow's blog.
When I asked Tennessee baldy if their cameras got the shooter of my house last May, he just shrugged his shoulders.
That was the night I jumped online when I was woken by the house alarm. Twenty minutes later, one Timothy Michael Madigan was taken into the Scott County Jail.
It wasn't for shooting my house, and I'm not saying he shot my house.
And I'm not saying he didn't. Bill Boom used to talk about the Illinois speaker having a gay son.
This is scary stuff, folks. The man over there now looks like Tennessee Baldy but is not. He's a stunt double, I guess.
If it weren't so scary, it would be slapstick. Just look at this editorial cartoon in which I delight, so much so I paid Quad-City Times $20 for a print and framed it.
Here's what that's all about. Yes, Cheri likes to spy on constituents and voted to give herself those powers a while back. Check it out for yourself right here.
Not even the neighbors on each side of the "spy house" believe a word of anything that comes out of the mouths of anyone in it.
I know this to be true.
Indeed, the home is now known as the Bustos and Bustos "Spy House" harassing the sober caregiver who was jailed for going to police about human trafficking.
There is NOWHERE for the SICK people who hurt me to run, even if the FBI and DOJ do give them a free pass.
Until next time.
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Difficulty level: expert
Length in km: 63
Elevation gain one way/back: 966/871
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Trail sign/number: red
Connection to bicycle route:
Continuation of the route from Nowy Sącz in the direction of Limanowa. In Leluchów connection to the blue, so called Transborder Bicycle Route. In Piwniczna Zdrój connection to the trail along the Poprad River.
PL: historic city of Nowy Sącz with rich culture, castle in the town of Rytro, canoe trip down the Poprad River, museum of skiing in Piwniczna Zdrój, linden forest in Muszyna, wooden St Demetrius' Church in Leluchów
How to get there:
SK: border crossing point Mníšek nad Popradom - road no. 68, then road no. 87 in Poland or through the border crossing point Leluchów road no. 77 from the direction of Prešov
PL: from the direction of Kraków - Tarnów - Nowy Sącz - road no. 75, from the direction of Nowy Targ road no. 969
PL: the railway line runs along the whole bicycle route, it is possible to reach the Nowy Sącz transport node by train from 15 different points situated along the route.
SK: Mníšek nad Popradom
PL: Nowy Sącz, Rytro, Piwniczna Zdrój, Muszyna
Bike rental:
PL: Muszyna - Stanisław Hans, Urocze, Ski & Resort. Wierchomla Mała Hotel, Piwniczna Zdrój, Filipiak Janina - guest house
Nowy Sącz, Muszyna
Bicycle: TB, CB


text: Addo Elephant National Park: from hell to paradise Posted by Scott Ramsay on 30 May 2012 Addo Elephant National Park is most famous for its conservation of the last remaining wild elephants in the Eastern Cape. A few hundred years ago there were thousands of the earth's largest land mammal in this area of South Africa, as well as plenty of other wildlife like lions, leopards, rhinos, buffaloes and springbok. But rapid colonial expansion after 1820 meant most of this diverse landscape was transformed into dairy farms and citrus fruit estates. The elephants had a penchant for oranges in particular, and understandably they couldn't resist raiding the farmers' crops. The farmers got fed up, and put pressure on the government to sort out the problem. The first solution was predictable – for the times. The Administrator of the Cape Province – Sir Frederick de Waal – started paying hunters to exterminate the elephants. In particular, a certain bloodthirsty Major Pretorius shot 120 elephants in his first eleven months in the Addo area. During one hunt, according to the archives, he was 'once forced to lame an elephant by shooting it through the vertebral column, then like lightning he jumped on the beast's back, ran to its head and killed it with a shot through the neck.' In another instance Pretorius shot 16 elephants within 30 seconds – or so his journal records. Eventually, after decades of hunting and harassment, the remaining elephants – just 11 of them in the whole region – retreated to the almost impenetrable thicket of the Addo region, where hunters and humans couldn't reach them. Yet they still made their forays into the farmers' fields at night to raid the crops. By that stage fortunately, the public had woken up to the tragedy, and quickly there were calls for the establishment of a reserve. In 1931, the national park was proclaimed, extending just over 2000 hectares. However, the reserve wasn't fenced, so the big animals still posed a problem, frequently moving onto farm lands. The reserve's ranger Harold Trollope wrote in 1931 how farmers and their staff still tried to kill the elephants: 'Farmers in some instances fired at the elephants on sight often wounding them and supplied boys with rifles giving instructions that they were to shoot any elephant they came across, and that these orders were carried out. The elephants were shot at in a most cowardly manner, from safe distances, as for instance across a kloof, but never at close quarters, and were it not for the protection offered by…the difficult bush, the Addo elephants would not have existed today.' Elephants in Addo are accustomed to vehicles, unlike in the past Trollope succeeded in driving the remaining elephants into the area marked for the reserve, and for the most part he and his team of park rangers managed to keep them safe. But the elephants had to wait until 1951 for complete sanctuary from the guns of farmers. At that stage, the reserve's ranger Graham Armstrong had devised a unique type of fence constructed of railway sleepers sunk several feet into the ground, and attached to these were old wire cables supplied free-of-charge by the Otis lift company in Port Elizabeth. This design proved so effective that eventually the entire reserve was fenced off, and the elephants weren't able to break out – finally, after a few hundred years, both the elephants and people were happy. And today, the Armstrong fence is still used. Today the Addo Elephant National Park conserves the Big Five, including lions (reintroduced into the area from Kgalagadi, and buffalo, which, unlike the lions, were never exterminated). However, the emphasis has shifted from species conservation towards habitat protection and restoration. The huge increase in the park's size from 2 000 hectares to more than 180 000 hectares is indicative of the national trend to conserving "corridors" of biodiversity. (Addo is now the third-largest national park in the country, although Garden Route National Park is not far behind). Similar to the Baviaanskloof Mega-Reserve and Gouritz Initiative, Addo conserves, by design, a marvelous diversity of natural habitat: stretching from Nama Karoo in the Darlington Dam section in the far north, to fynbos and forest in the mountainous Zuurberg wilderness area, to subtropical thicket in the middle, and finally coastal dune forest and beaches in the Woody Cape section along the coast. This coastal section has the largest sand dune complex in the southern hemisphere, and it also includes a group of offshore islands that protects the largest populations of African penguins and Cape gannets in the world, as well as a sizeable Cape fur seal colony. All these different habitats are now connected to each other over conserved land, joined together in a contiguous fashion, whereas in the past there were only isolated pieces of protected areas in a vast area that was transformed into monoculture and urban development. (Granted, the national N2 highway still divides the coastal section from the rest of the park). The reasoning goes that 'islands' or 'pockets' of nature will eventually die out and become sterile. Species and habitats need to be connected if they are to survive, thrive and adapt. Especially nowadays with global warming, which is predicted to have a desiccating and heating affect over much of Southern Africa. Unless species can move to other areas, and adapt at the same time, South Africa will lose most of its biological diversity over the next few hundred years or so, with potentially disastrous consequences for humans. However, as conservation manager John Adendorff told me, even Addo's 180 000 hectares is not a very big piece of land if one considers the huge amount of urban and agricultural development around the park. 'It's a highly managed park, and we monitor animal populations very closely to see how they are impacting on the vegetation.' An Elephant takes a lunch break Today there are more than 600 elephants in Addo, at a density of about 2,8 elephants per square kilometre, perhaps the highest in Africa. 'They've got it pretty good here,' John said smiling. It's incredible to think that at one stage there were only 11 left in the whole Eastern Cape. Hell has turned into paradise for the ellies. The only reason that park authorities aren't more worried about an overpopulation of elephant is because of the thicket biome. It's a remarkable habitat, and at its core is spekboom, a succulent bush which not only sequestrates as much carbon from the atmosphere as rainforests, but also sustains some of the highest densities of wildlife in the world. Park manager Norman Johnson tells me that "the elephants now are so successful that they're becoming a nice problem. At some stage, we'll need to look at controlling the population." But culling is not even considered as one of the options – instead, SANParks are looking to drop more fences between the different sections of the park, allowing the elephants to roam more widely, and also thereby introducing natural stresses into the elephant's reproduction cycles. By forcing the elephants to roam further for water and food, growth rates in the population should slow down. And then there's always contraception, which is the next best alternative. The last few days I've had some good sightings of elephant and buffalo, and although it's been raining a lot, today there was some sunshine. I've had a chance to explore the main sections, where the Big Five hang out, and also the Zuurberg mountain section, where I went for a short horse ride this afternoon with ranger Thembelane Keye. It's quite amazing to drive twenty odd kilometres from the subtropical heat of the main section, and in no time enter the cool, windy mountains where fynbos and grassland plateaus are the norm. Reminds me of the Baviaanskloof and Gamkaberg Nature Reserve. Well, that's a long blog from me today, but I've been hibernating from the rain like the rest of the animals here. But now that the rain has stopped, I hope to post more photos and blogs. The sun's just about to go down, and I'm going to put some kudu wors on my braai. Addo Main Camp is pretty, and the chalets looks over a little valley, where hyenas and jackal seem to hang out at night (I can hear both species calling while I lie in bed). 'The history of the preservation of the elephants is assuredly an epic in game conservation. In this manner, the bush, clad in hazy myster, is being preserved for future generations as an unspoilt facet on the face of the Masterly creation.' – The Addo Elephants, A National Parks Board publication (published at a time when this little book cost 50c!) For more, go to www.yearinthewild.com and www.facebook.com/yearinthewild. Thanks again to my sponsors for making it all possible. 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Book six of the Disney Villains collection focuses on "A Tale of the Old Witch" who happens to be Mother Gothel.
This story gives a huge insight into why Gothel needs Rapunzel, how she came to kidnap her, what her real intentions were.
Yet again The Odd Sisters play a huge role without taking over which has happened in past books. As usual there is a link to the other books in the series but this time without our Villain getting lost amongst it all.
I really enjoyed this story, it's the biggest book so far at 390 pages, it has turned into a darker read with murder featuring through the pages, witchcraft and even an army of the dead.
Gothel wasn't always evil and a look into her childhood explores her backstory nicely before revealing how it all went wrong for her.
There is a lot of witchcraft which I really enjoyed and it's made me look forward to book seven which is all about The Odd Sisters.
My only criticism is that it felt rushed when it came to Rapunzel entering the chapters so a lot of it was a case of fill in the blanks from the film so I wish it was a longer book to accommodate for this.
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KUALA LUMPUR (April 26): CIMB IB Research has upgraded Supermax Corporation Bhd (SUCB) to "Add" at RM2.85 with a higher target price of RM3.47 (from RM2.35) and said it now was more positive on SUCB's current operations and future capacity expansion plans following a meeting with the company.
In a note April 25, the research house said SUCB's glove production capacity will grow by 16.1% to 27.2 billion by end-2019.
It said this was thanks to ongoing rebuilding works on older plants and the addition of two new plants.
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Read this tip to make your life smarter, better, faster and wiser. LifeTips is the place to go when you need to know about Weather Instruments and other Weather Stations topics.
You stepped outside without your umbrella and you're already soaked. What did Mom always tell you?
"Take an umbrella in case it rains."
"Take your raincoat."
"Don't place your rain gauge less than a foot above ground level, especially if there are trees around."
Mom knows that she's talking about. She also has the following advice:
* Place rain gauges away from other weather instrument sensors such as a wireless thermometer or barometer, since the signals can interfere with each other.
* Mount the rain sensor on a pole or post away from sources of dirt and grime--but most rain gauges are self-cleaning (unlike your room, Mom says).
* If your rain gauge is cabled, check cables to make sure that rain spillage hasn't caused shorts or a possible fire.
* Place rain gauges at twice the height of obstructions to get the most accurate readings.
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4/4/10: The Brave New World of Finance – How to Master Your Debt with Jordan Goodman
We've heard estimates that every man, woman and child in the US is currently saddled with $40,000 to $170,000 in debt – just for the Federal government! Then tack on state and local government debt, and before you even get your first credit card, debt has a dominating hold on your finances. As we boldly go where no one has gone before, it's more important than ever to be strategic in managing your debt. To help us explore the galaxy of information on this topic, we beamed a best selling author into The Real Estate Guys'™ studios.
On the bridge of our radio starship:
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• Best selling author, the Money Answer Man and ship's Financial Engineer, Jordan "Don't call me Scotty" Goodman
"Debt, the endless frontier. These are the continuing escapades of a spendthrift society. It's apparent mission: to encumber itself beyond any hope of repayment; to seek out new debt ceilings and then monetize that debt; to boldly go where no one is sure we should." Da ta daaa, ta da ta da DAAAA!!!! Swoosh!!!!
Sorry. We got carried away. All this may sound like a tee up for political commentary (we are soooo tempted), but it isn't. Our point is that debt, both public and private is a major part of every person's financial future. And as we attempt to break free from the gravitational pull of the Great Recession, we find ourselves looking at a brave new world of finance – one with new rules that it behooves each of us to learn.
At its core, debt involves getting other people's money (which we like!) and paying them interest (we like that less). The motivation of the lender is, like a drug dealer, to get you hooked on debt and forever paying interest. The motivation of the addict…we mean borrower, is to enjoy now and pay later (or never). So where does an investor fit in?
As investors, we want to borrow cheap and invest high – just like the banks. But since there are no bailout programs for us, we need to be more careful. The first step is to understand the rules – and then to implement effective strategies. Sound easy, but when the rules change, we need to examine our strategies.
We launch the show talking about the new realities of debt in the post meltdown economy. For the older folks, we're getting back to "normal". For younger people, free and easy credit was "normal" and the current environment is no fun at all. We talk about where things are now and where they might be headed.
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I'm a stupid stubborn bastard and spent a good two days to get three orinocos reflashed and the silver to gold hack (ie. 104bit WEP and 14 channels) working. Now, after lots of swearing and gazillions of reboots it works on all three cards, one original lucent silver orinoco and two enterasys/cabletron roamabouts.
Most of the time was spent rebooting lose98 in various configurations to get the various broken WSUs to see the friggin cards. What follows are some notes beyond what you can google for yourself:
The orinoco driver (0.13 and 0.15) on my systems always says "104-bit WEP"...the only way to reliably find out the truth is to hand the card a long WEP key. If it doesn't do 104bit, it'll simply ignore the extra bits and continue to talk to your 40bit equipment. iwlist and iwconfig will show a long key. If it can do 104bit, communications with 40bit equipment will miraculously fail as soon as you finish your iwconfig :-)
The need to reflash the secondary firmware (station firmware) after altering the PDA is real. The contents of the PDA nvram/flash(?) have no effect whatsoever until combined with a firmware (upgrade) and loaded into flash.
The problem with this is that there are no non-windows firmware files available. The closest you get to success is prism2dl (linux-wlan-ng project) which would flash a firmware if you had one available in the weird S3 HEX format. Unfortunately prism2dl doesn't read firmware from flash at all.
the windows WSU crap things are executables, and I haven't found a tool to extract secondary firmwares. the hfwget tool (hermes-ap project) extracts firmware from windows drivers (w*.sys), but these include only tertiary firmware (access-point mode) and ram-only secondary firmware (which can't be flashed), as the fucking win drivers replace the firmware on card load. Also hfwget's format is not S3 but similar (and there is source for it, so that couldn't be a real problem).
alchemy doesn't work on my lose98 box, at all. There goes the 'safe and easy' way of doing things.
The older manual flash.exe / flashold.exe fuglyness worked on the original orinoco, but not on the roamabouts: the program would barf during writing to the PDA nvram: "Offset busy bit never cleared.RID FD01 read error." or "Error - Command 322 never signaled status!" depending on the version of flash.exe tried. This error plagued a few people, but as flash.exe is NDA-ware leaked from within intersil, there is zero chance on getting that thing fixed.
This here is a nice short description of how to use prism2dl to do the PDA update; I might add that prism2dl requires the address of the PDA to write to as an argument (in my case "-l 0x390000").
The linux-wlan-ng Debian package doesn't include prism2dl, but that's zero problem as you have to compile the kernel modules anyway: that set of files actually does build prism2dl (but not package it into a deb package) and after the make-kpkg modules_image you should copy ...where_ever_your_modules_are/linux-wlan..../debian/tmp/sbin/prism2dl somewhere safe.
Modifying only locations 0x104 and 0x109 (as required for the orinoco) left the roamabouts unwilling to associate with my access point, ie. useless and dead. But as I'm a stubborn bastard I just took the orinoco PDA, changed the MAC address therein and flashed that to the roamabouts and voila, now everything works as hoped. Interesting fact on the side: flashing the roamabout's PDA to the orinoco does not break any functionality. I know this because somehow I inadvertently managed to flash the roamabout PDA to the orinoco and then put that card aside after a short test. Later I needed the orinoco (one of the roamabouts being temporarily dead) and wondered very hard about the packet storms suddenly happening on my wavelan....the other, still functional roamabout was the original owner of that PDA...and the PDA controls the MAC address.
The WSU thingies all suck. Contrary to popular opinion, none of the variants works truly vendor-independently: Agere, Proxim, Avaya, Enterasys versions all either overtly check whether the underlying windows driver is theirs or simply fail. You will also experience driver-version madness, as lots of WSUs don't work with newer drivers or older drivers...or any drivers at all. Mucho reboots and cursing ensued.
Enterasys offers version 6.06 as final WSU, which sucks. 8.72 is reasonably current. None of the other WSUs work with the Enterasys drivers, and the other drivers don't work with the Enterasys cards (despite all that crap being the same hardware). There seems to be a registry hack to get the drivers to interoperate with your hardware (documented somewhat with the PDA hack) but I found that too cumbersome to get to work. But there is a trick to make the fucking WSUs talk to the roamabouts: replace the string "LUC" in the executable with "RBT". You still need a functional installation of the Enterasys windows drivers, but now you can flash the cards with the non-Enterasys WSU. The trick does not work with the purportedly vendor-independent Agere WSUs; use Proxim's crap instead.


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If you want an entry level job with an environmentally conscious company, the following post offers a couple of tips you should consider.
The term "environmentally friendly" is like catnip to consumers nowadays. Claim your business is an eco-paradise and you'll gain entrepreneurial Brownie points from customers and the government alike. Indeed, it's a strategy that's helping out many big businesses. The Bank of America, for example, decreased paper usage by 32 per cent between 2000 and 2005, yet saw
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Before accepting new jobs, recent college graduates may have the opportunity to negotiate for something. When negotiating, they (and other job seekers) should avoid these seven mistakes discussed in the following post.
While even the word "negotiation" can evoke fear, stress and anxiety for many, the intent is quite simple: to discuss and ultimately agree on a deal. Whether it's a multimillion dollar contract or just deciding where to meet for lunch, life is rife with negotiations. And, the negotiation process is
While some employers might prefer their employees not using social media on their entry level jobs, there are some benefits to them doing so. Learn more in the following post.
Use of social networks at workplace – right or wrong or can be assigned to the gray area? Social networks are sometimes seen as platforms where employees lose time in their working hours, to the point that some companies have blocked access to these platforms for being considered a waste of time. In fact, there are studies that
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If Americans limited their time of sitting by three hours the average lifespan would be extended two years. Use these simple excuses to stand every hour to extend your own life expectancy. STAND MORE SIT LESS – We all know that it is good for our health, just have to figure out how to implement it daily. Loved this
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Being successful in your career takes a number of different factors. Women have to work hard, be smarter, and strive to prove that they are qualified for whatever jobs they are undertaking. One of the biggest mistakes that women make in the workforce is in the image they present. Women not only have to have
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If you are searching for your dream entry level job, you may want to think about starting a blog about your passion. Learn five ways a blog can help you find the position you want in the following post.
When blogging first became a thing, bloggers were dismissed as amateurs who used the platform primarily as an outlet for whining. That unfair characterization, of course, has radically changed by now, with countless professionals earning their entire income from blogging, and Fortune 500 companies carefully curating blogs of their own. But blogs today can do even more than
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If you're looking for ideal candidates for entry level jobs at your company, why not consider entrepreneurs. The following post shares five reasons you should.
Some of the desirable qualities seen in the 21st century job descriptions and requirements are: Self-driven, self starter, works with minimum supervision Innovative, a thinker and a maker A quick learner and a problem solver Excellent communications skills Looking at the above requirements, an entrepreneur would certainly nod his/her head
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California regulators faced criticism Monday for a hastily announced meeting that could clear a major hurdle to a bankruptcy filing by Pacific Gas & Electric Corp.
The California Public Utilities Commission gave just several hours of notice for a meeting later in the day to decide whether to allow the company that provides electric and gas service to 16 million customers in Northern and central California to immediately obtain credit and loans while the company is under Chapter 11.
State law generally requires multiple days of notice for public meetings. The CPUC cited an exception for emergency situations that affect public health or safety.
Mindy Spatt, a spokeswoman for The Utility Reform Network, said PG&E's financing did not qualify as an emergency.
"These are public assets that are being discussed, and there's supposed to be a public process," Spatt said. "Everything the commission does is supposed to happen in a public process, and this is just the opposite."
Christopher Chow, a spokesman for the CPUC, said it had met its noticing requirements for the meeting.
PG&E normally needs to go through a longer approval process before the CPUC for debt financing. It is seeking an exemption from that requirement at Monday's meeting. The company, which filed public notice of its planned bankruptcy on Jan. 14, has told the commission it needs the bankruptcy financing to continue providing gas and electric service and funding wildfire prevention efforts.
Without "timely" bankruptcy financing, "this Commission faces a substantial risk that the public health and safety of California will be severely impaired" if gas and electric service is "compromised," CPUC President Michael Picker said in a filing proposing that the CPUC approve PG&E's request.
He also said the decision would not in any way indicate the CPUC endorsed PG&E's bankruptcy.
The Utility Reform Network urged the CPUC not to immediately grant PG&E's request. The CPUC should instead push the utility to reevaluate the need for bankruptcy following a state fire investigation's determination that PG&E's equipment was not to blame for a 2017 fire in Northern California's wine country that killed 22 people, TURN said in a filing with the CPUC.
PG&E cited hundreds of lawsuits from victims of that blaze and others in 2017 and 2018 when it announced that it planned to file for bankruptcy on or around Jan. 29 in the face of at least $30 billion in potential wildfire damages. The company later it said it had lined up $5.5 billion in credit and loans so it could continue operating during bankruptcy.
The bankruptcy would consolidate the lawsuits and potentially leave thousands of wildfire victims without compensation.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's office has estimated that more than half of the roughly $30 billion in potential damages the company cited was from the wine country fire.
According to TURN, PG&E has indicated it could access a significant amount of capital even without bankruptcy.


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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Leaders at the Huntsville police department are setting their sights on the place, where they set their sights.
Police are asking the city to help them build a new indoor gun range, something a little quieter for neighbors next door.
From a few paces away on lane 37, firearms instructor John Doyle makes it look effortless.
"I enjoy this out here, I really do," Doyle said. "I want to make sure our officers are proficient, and they maintain that proficiency."
He's demonstrating shooting from cover. Doyle is tasked with testing Huntsville's police officers every year during their required range time.
"We'll then put them through a qualification course that is A-post standard. Mostly for their duty weapon, which is their pistol," Doyle said.
"Something happens and your adrenaline kicks that heart rate up, kicks the blood pressure up. and we try to mimic that," Lieutenant Michael Johnson with the Huntsville Police Department said.
The police range in Triana is a year old. And neighbors living nearby say most weekday mornings, they don't need an alarm clock.
"They don't shoot every day, but when they do, it's loud," Charlie Coleman, who lives in Triana, said.
"Pretty soon, it's going to get bigger," Doyle said.
Bigger, and ideally, quieter. Huntsville police plan to build four walls and a roof, not just so they can use it rain or shine, but also to cut down on the noise. Since every sworn officer in Huntsville is getting an AR rifle by next year, that'll mean thousands more rounds that neighbors have to put up with.
"Most of this entire range is going to be covered," Lt. Johnson said.
There's no target date for completion yet. First, project leaders have to design it and figure out how to pay for it. Johnson says the FBI has promised $6 million to build the combined space. It's unclear yet how much the city's portion will be.
"We'll be glad to get it quieted down," Coleman said.
But neighbors like Coleman say, the sooner the better.
So far, the project is in its early stages. A Huntsville police spokesman says the department wants to build the new range within three years.


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Elizabeth Flux is an award-winning writer and editor whose fiction and nonfiction work has been widely published, including in The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue. She was a judge for the 2019 Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and is a past recipient of a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.
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On Monday, a low over the northwest of NSW is moving southeastwards, intensifying as it reaches the south coast late Monday. This will bring a southerly change to the southern half of the coast from Monday afternoon, then extending up the coast by early Tuesday. Gale to storm force winds likely over parts of the central and southern waters. Winds are forecast to ease from Tuesday evening.


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download How I Live Now, read online How I Live Now, kindle ebook How I Live Now, How I Live Now f99f8cb42f98 Every War Has Turning Points And Every Person Too Fifteen Year Old Daisy Is Sent From Manhattan To England To Visit Her Aunt And Cousins She S Never Met Three Boys Near Her Age, And Their Little Sister Her Aunt Goes Away On Business Soon After Daisy Arrives The Next Day Bombs Go Off As London Is Attacked And Occupied By An Unnamed EnemyAs Power Fails, And Systems Fail, The Farm Becomes Isolated Despite The War, It S A Kind Of Eden, With No Adults In Charge And No Rules, A Place Where Daisy S Uncanny Bond With Her Cousins Grows Into Something Rare And Extraordinary But The War Is Everywhere, And Daisy And Her Cousins Must Lead Each Other Into A World That Is Unknown In The Scariest, Most Elemental WayA Riveting And Astonishing Story
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10 thoughts on "How I Live Now"
I spent a while considering how I would rate this book, but finally decided on a full 5 5 rating, and here s why It troubles me greatly that so many readers can t see past the unconventional relationship between our protagonist and her cousin, because it so wholly isn t what the book is about That s the only real downfall of How I live Now unfortunately, Meg Rosoff seemed to target her book towards an audience too immature to realize that this novel is a novel about SURVIVAL It s a novel about how people change when faced with hardship and how people can come together in the oddest of ways It s about family It s about love It s about hate Meg Rosoff has a unique gift of just giving the reader the bare bones of a story that is to say, no surnames are given, little background about the characters is revealed in depth, the enemy is referred to solely as just that, The Enemy and still making a profound impact This is a novel about people and our determination to survive even in the face of hopelessness Stylistically, this book is stunning The prose is insightful and puzzling, but necessary given the circumstances of the novel Finally, a book which reads as if the narrator is actually recalling events, rather than the artificially produced recollection of events and conversations, verbatim, which we have grown so used to.I sincerely hope that people reading this book will start focusing on the beauty of the story the prose, the characters, the structure which is at once remarkably simplistic and stunningly complex and stop focusing on details which are not entirely pertinent to the story at large.
In all fairness, I had plenty of warning I d read Tatiana s review so I should have been well prepared.Conventional wisdom states that when cousins get freaky, you re likely to end up with something like this image error
takes some balls for a white woman to claim that she s the only one who can write diversity properly.she wears her privilege like a pimp wears his furs.but the best part tho is the bit where she says that when anyone else writes diverse characters, it s an agenda, which has no place in young adult literature, according to her.no, for real.that s literally what she said.so fuck your needs, people this white lady s ragey pootling is all the diversity you or your kids will ever require.s cool tho some of her best friends are black.
Well, it s official I am a total sucker for a stream of consciousness style narration.The writing was very wistful and if it was any flowing, I would certainly have slipped and face planted half way through this You know how from time to time a book comes along that you re positive you won t forget about it anytime soon but can t really explain exactly WHY That s how I feel about How I Live Now and these precious kids.Charming surrounding, extraordinarily charming characters ohmigod Piper , in the mist of cruelty, death and loss all around The desperation of it just got to me so hard, the crying that I did view spoiler for dear dear Edmund hide spoiler
This summer I started doing fitnessy activities not in an attempt to lose weight or clear my prematurely blocked arteries but in response to the plethora of Young Adult Dystopian Novels that led me to question whether I could a win the Hunger Games b jump from a moving train with my Dauntless buddies c take out an alien with a swift kick to the face and then evade their hot spaceship pursuit The answers to these questions are a no b no c no Young Adult Dystopian Novels forced me to stare fate straight in the eye if removed from my cushy existence by a twist of apocalyptic fate, I would die I would die every single time Refusing to accept this, I began a workout regimen to guarantee my survival But then I read How I Live Now and my resolve is weakening Because Daisy, who charmingly narrates her experiences during a world war, is no Teen Action Hero She reacts how the vast majority of us would in dire circumstances not by staging a coup or leading the resistance, but by surviving as best as she can Now I m left wondering if my pushups and jogs are even worth anything if the world fell apart, I d probably just stay in my basement trying to stop my towering piles of canned goods from toppling over And face it so would you.So that s what s so refreshing about this novel It s about normal people The people that most of us would be during all out world war The people simply trying to survive That s Daisy s story It s a story of survival in extreme circumstances and then learning to accept those circumstances as her life forever After finishing the novel, I can t help but wonder whether humankind s immense adaptability is a strength or a weakness It s wonderful how Daisy and so many others find new ways to live after catastrophe, but isn t it sad how quickly we humans adapt to a less than perfect world How easily content we become with nothing Meg Rosoff is an excellent writer and demonstrates her skill most readily with Daisy s voice The novel is first person with Daisy recounting her experiences after the fact The most incredible thing Daisy actually sounds like a teenager Aside from one too many SAT words, How I Live Now truly reads like a teenager talks Daisy s narration is witty suggesting that we can find humor even in the darkest moments and her experiences are recorded in the same way she might have submitted an essay to her English teacher on the first day of school titled What I Did During Summer Vacation When Bombs Hit Britain and This Manhattanite Was Stuck On the Wrong Side of the Atlantic During World War Three With Her Very Hot Cousin I ve seen many reviewers object to the novel s incestuous relationship The incest is quite secondary and it s included in the plotline to show how something scandalous in normal times is entirely irrelevant even laughably unimportant in times where people care about 1 dying in a nuclear attack 2 dying by gunfire 3 dying from starvation 4 dying from infection 5 DYING I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn t one that could touch us How I Live Now may have destroyed any motivation I had to go running tomorrow, but I m glad I read it I want to read books especially in YA about the people who aren t overtly special, who aren t the Chosen Ones Daisy is a normal teenage girl facing an extraordinary situation She is a reminder that life persists even in epochs of death.PS There is a film adaptation coming soon starring the lovely Saoirse Ronan trailer The movie Daisy seems to be badass than she was in the book, but it was the film s approaching release date that urged me to read this sooner rather than later and I m happy I did.
I didn t like this weird little book until about halfway through The narrator sounded too much like a teen I know, I know and I didn t know what was going on but then I somehow got lost in the voice Suddenly I was seeing things through the narrator s eyes and no one else s This slim volume is like a textbook on how to write limited first person Absolutely excellent wondering why all my reviews are five stars Because I m only reviewing my favorite books not every book I read Consider a novel s presence on my Goodreads bookshelf as a hearty endorsement I can t believe I just said hearty It sounds like a stew.
While the world wavers on the brink of war, struck by terrorist attacks and embargoes, Daisy s big concern is whether her stepmother is poisoning her food and how much she hates the unborn baby Shipped off by her father to stay with cousins she s never met in England, she s not so far into herself that she doesn t notice something a bit odd about them Osbert, the eldest, seems fairly normal, being responsible for his siblings while their mother, Daisy s Aunt Penn, is away but really wanting to spend time with his friends spying on the enemy Twins Edmond and Isaac are the most strange Edmond can hear her thoughts and silent Isaac prefers to talk to the farm animals The youngest, Piper, is a sweet girl who has a way with animals too, and likes to forage in the woods for things to eat.Daisy doesn t eat She s made herself anorexic through her fanciful fear of her stepmother poisoning her, and then it became something she didn t have to think about When Aunt Penn leaves for Oslo to help with peace negotiations, the five children are left alone at the old farmhouse They feel far removed from any conflict, and hear conflicting reports Warnings of small pox keep people practically housebound, and idle days lead to an intense relationship between Daisy and her cousin Edmond.Finally, the Territorial Army comes and commandeers the house and land for their own use, and Daisy and Piper are sent to live with a Major s wife whose son is fighting elsewhere Daisy s one goal is to get back to Edmond and the farmhouse, but first she must figure out where Edmond and Isaac have been taken, and how to get there.I had heard high praise of this book with such a boring cover, I probably wouldn t have read it otherwise I certainly never noticed it But it was a hugely disappointing read.I can see what the author was aiming for here to show how desensitised young people are to war and violence, and also how they can rise to the occasion and what they go through to survive There are lots of exceptional stories about these themes I wrote an assignment on them for my teaching degree I just don t think Rosoff did a very good job Also, it piggy backs on some better novels that deal with the same or similar themes and situations As with The Hunger Games, an enjoyable book that can be read as a Hollywood rewrite of Battle Royale, How I Live Now simply reminded me of far better books especially John Marsden s Tomorrow, When the War Began.Written in a stream of consciousness first person narration in two parts, the first part meant to show Daisy s underdeveloped ability to write properly because she doesn t know how to write dialogue, as compared to the second part written six years later, it can be exhausting to read Melinda in Speak narrated in similar style but to better effect Daisy s voice runs on with barely a breath and gives it a rushed feeling, so that details were hard to take in and I sometimes became disorientated As an example of her running sentences, here s her description of Edmond Now let me tell you what he looks like before I forget because it s not exactly what you d expect from your average fourteen year old what with the CIGARETTE and hair that looked like he cut it himself with a hatchet in the dead of night, but aside from that he s exactly like some kind of mutt, you know the ones you see at the dog shelter who are kind of hopeful and sweet and put their nose straight into your hand when they meet you with a certain kind of dignity and you know from that second that you re going to take him home Well that s him p 3 It made me dizzy Sure her exuberance could be seen as energising, or at least realistic, but Daisy was such an unlikeable character for the better part of the book that it s hard to listen to her Sure, she s vulnerable and yes, she did seem to be a realistic portrayal of self centred modern teens, and she would doubtless appeal to others for her frankness and inner vulnerability, but to me she was empty, hollow For someone who s narrating, I didn t learn much about her, and through her shallow eyes I learnt only superficial things about others.Likewise, I didn t buy her relationship with Edmond She talks about how intense it is, how they connect, but I can t buy it because she never shows me She never shows anything, just tells tells tells I ve read some very good books with first person narration that, through the author s skill, manage to reveal than the narrator realises, so that the reader has an even better understanding of what s going on than the narrator does, even though they re our only source There s nothing of that here And since I couldn t get to know any of the characters, I couldn t care about them either.I was expecting , to be honest, on all fronts This is a decidedly lacklustre book and the I talk about it the less impressed I become The war situation is never explained in a way that makes sense, so it s like an annoying gnat trying to get your attention but just isn t important enough to Daisy says the enemy drew the British troops somewhere else then swooped in and took the country and now defend it from the original army Okay But that then creates a very interesting situation of invader and occupier that is barely touched upon Want to convince me that Daisy IS in a war zone Rationing, send the kids off to strangers, shoot a couple of people, a massacre at a farmhouse yeah, that should do it Huh No.When you read books written by people who lived through invasions and occupations, who lived through war books like Suite Fran aise for example you really notice that people being shot is the least of it It s so much than that The elements are here, such as the disintegration of Aunt Penn s family, but it lacks any kind of real emotional involvement Keep it superficial and hope the reader will fill in the gaps with their imagination Nice try, but you re missing the point The only satisfying thing about this survival tale is Daisy learning to eat the smartest thing she does.There are other things that nag at me Quite possibly the reason Rosoff set this story in England is because she now lives there, having moved from America but it s than that For a century England has been the place of children s war stories, Narnia being the most famous I grew up exposed to many through books and BBC adaptations, and my mother is a big fan of these stories There s something about England, captured in Narnia and fantasy books like Mythago Wood, that draw on its druidic roots and ancient magic that makes England a place that straddles the line between realms, that makes it a place of possibility and secret gardens and all sorts of things Moving Daisy to England seemed a bit redundant, because it wasn t utilised to its full effectiveness So her cousins were misfits, being telepathic and the like with so much potential between the war and England s magic and mind powers, it s no wonder I was expecting something with oomph Daisy glosses over so many things, never fully explaining or delving into things so that everything becomes almost trite, that I struggled to finish it My main emotional response a lot of the time was So Depending on the laws of your country, cousinly love isn t technically incestuous but there is definitely something a bit creepy about it The father of Aunt Penn s children is never revealed, but considering the children s oddness it could be thought their parents were cousins themselves Because the relationship didn t feel real to me, not the way it was written and I m not asking for graphic sex scenes, far from it , it didn t feel necessary either.Add it all up, and you get a quick in and out survival story told by someone who s really quite boring and, yes, a product of her our times and not a flattering one either but the novel fails to really explore anything, and what could have been insightful observations, gripping plot and engaging characters merely becomes flaws The magic that should come with setting a children s war survival story in England is completely missing A shame, but like I said, there are better books out there.
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The world has gone mad What is there to add While the book was a bit overly simplistic, there was something endearing about it The 4 stars is for the unorthodox punctuation.Q Every war has turning points and every person too c Q If you haven t been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all c Q I noticed that once you realize someone s watching you it s pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back c Q Staying alive was what we did to pass the time c Q I didn t seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints c Q The real truth is that the war didn t have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop c Q I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea c Q Fighting back is what I ve discovered I do best Q some people are lonely for all the right reasons c Q Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop c