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MILLS RIVER - An update on facility needs and technology highlighted a Henderson County School Board workshop Thursday at Mills River Academy.

School board members, administrators and principals were on hand to learn about where the district is in terms of infrastructure, both the bricks-and-mortar kind and the technological.

Hendersonville High, Balfour Education Center and Edneyville and Upward elementaries are on the list of possible capital improvement projects as part of the school system's long-term plan. James D. Wilhide with Moseley Architects shared information about addition and renovation concepts at the schools.

Possible scenarios for Hendersonville High include construction of a building on a new 3-acre site that would contain a media center with a computer lab and additional classrooms for visual arts, chorus and drama.

Renovations of existing buildings would allow for changes of program locations, such as relocating a Spanish classroom from the current vocational building to the main building, renovating a space into a new health classroom, renovating existing library, chorus/drama, and visual arts spaces into new classrooms and renovating the existing cafeteria/kitchen by expanding the dining area into current storage rooms and relocating the storage rooms, Wilhide said.

HHS had a 20-day membership of 732 students for the 2012-13 academic year, according to district records. The renovations are needed to accommodate future growth, school officials said..

A second option calls for the construction of a building between the main academic building and the cafeteria with renovations to some existing spaces. This scenario would also place a new baseball field on the Boyd property adjacent to the high school. In 2011, the school board agreed to purchase the property.

Although he did not express a preference in the design options, Principal Bobby Wilkins said he was pleased with some of the things presented by Wilhide.

"It sure would be nice to have a ballfield at your school," Wilkins laughed, adding that the second scenario is appealing for security reasons. "You don't have to walk all the way across campus if all the buildings are in one central area."

Possible options for Balfour Education Center include doing away with the current structure and putting everything under one roof, with the exception of the auto mechanics lab, or renovating the existing buildings with an eye toward creating more flexible spaces to grow and adapt for new uses as the school's vocational academies change, Wilhide said.

"Several years ago, we had a vision that this campus would truly be a vocational and technical training center ... now we have a lot of momentum with regard to the academies," said Superitendent David Jones.

The school currently has academies for fire science, automotive, art, business, early childhood and fitness, offering career education and training for students who may not be headed to college. Next fall, Balfour will add a mechatronics program.

Proposals for capital improvements at Upward Elementary call for between 5,121 and 6,403 square feet of additional classroom space, a new administrative/front entry addition, a cafeteria dining area/administration renovation of 1,925 square feet and a 313-square-foot hallway renovation.

Upward and Edneyville elementaries would each receive a renovated front entrance that improves security by following the model currently in place at the recently built Mills River and Hillandale Elementaries. That design plan features administrative/front offices situated to the left of the doors that people walk through when they first enter the buildings, with a second set of doors that can only be opened by front office staffers buzzing a visitor inside.

That feature is exciting, said Edneyville Principal Chad Auten.

"I really like that," he said. "Connecting the two buildings we have helps with security so children don't have to go outside. Getting everybody under one roof would be great."

Plans for renovations to Edneyville show a new section built between the two current buildings on the campus, providing about 8,359 square feet of additional classroom space. Another design feature would create one central entrance to the building that both bus students and car riders could use, instead of entering the building in two different areas.

No timelines were given for the potential projects and there was no discussion of how much they would cost or possible financing scenarios. School Board Chairman Ervin Bazzzle asked Wilhide to attend an upcoming Joint Facilities Committee meeting to present the same information to the group, which consists of two school board members and two Henderson County commissioners.

The proposed plans for the district's capital needs are a step in the right direction to make schools more secure and provide for growth, Bazzle said.

"I'm excited about the fact that we're talking about it," he said, referring to carrying out the district's long-term facilities plan. "We're in the planning stage, but it's important to design something that will work and have it ready so that when funding becomes available, we're ready."

In an update of the district's technology, IT Director Rick Fender said the school system completed its installation of a wireless network in October. The district has seen 20 percent growth in the number of school-owned devices from last year, with more than 7,200 desktop computers, laptops and iPads in the schools, he said. They have also tripled Internet bandwidth over the past three years, with plans to double bandwidth again this year.

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Eugenio Amato (ed.), Rose di Gaza: gli scritti retorico-sofistici e le Epistole di Procopio di Gaza. Hellenica 35. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2010. Pp. x, 697. ISBN 9788862742337. €80.00 (pb).

Reviewed by Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, University of Granada (

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Modern scrutiny of the works of Procopius of Gaza highlights the methodological concerns which permeate studies on late antique literature: the study of the intellectual and religious life of important urban centres such as Gaza; the labelling of a prolonged succession of teachers and educational centres as "schools"; and the prevalence of pagan cultural elements in a Christianizing society. Such topics are addressed in this volume, which contains a series of essays on Procopius' works accompanying a translation of his letters and rhetorical works.

In the first two chapters ("Dati biografici e cronologia di Procopio di Gaza", and "La produzione letteraria di Procopio") Eugenio Amato delineates the figure and works of the sophist to the degree possible given the scarcity of available biographical data. (Choricius' epitaph, Photius' Bibliotheca and Procopius own letters are the main sources.) He is believed to have lived from 465-470 to 526-530, and studied in Alexandria under Olympiodorus the Elder. The doctrinal and exegetical information provided by his epitomes on biblical writings (Pentateuch, Prophets, Proverbs, etc.) suggests to Amato that in old age he abandoned his monophysite convictions in favor of the Chalcedonian Creed.The survey of his rhetorical-sophistical works that follows is noteworthy for the detailed analysis of two of Procopius' ekphraseis, namely the meticulous description of a monumental water clock full of mythological motifs (an appendix of plates and figures at the end of the book provides reconstructions of this clock), and the dissection of a pictorial composition in which the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus is fused with scenes from the third book of Homer's Iliad.

In chapters three ("Discorso figurato ed allegoria cristiana negli scritti retorico-sofistici di Procopio") and four ("Procopio e il dies rosarum: eros platonico, agape cristiana e rappresentazioni pantomimiche nella Gaza tardoantica"), Amato explores the eclectic nature of Procopius' works. Procopius had recourse to pagan mythology in order to help elucidate Christian concepts, as is the case in his "Dialexis of the Rose", in which the myth of Aphrodite and Adonis, coupled with the symbolic allusion to Dionysus (that is, the liturgical wine), are both used to support a Christian allegory of the sufferings and resurrection of Christ. The highly rhetorical nature of such works seems to complement the religious and festive context within which they were composed: the dies rosarum, a festival held in honour of Aphrodite and Adonis, also played host to a number of pantomime performances within the context of the Maiouma festival.

In "Procopio ἠθοποιητικός", Gianluca Ventrella pins his detailed analysis of Procopius' four extant ethopeia on the rhetorical theory established by Aphthonius and Hermogenes. Despite the obvious differences among the main characters in these works (a shepherd, a sea merchant, the goddess Aphrodite, and the myrmidon Phoenix), Ventrella's analysis reveals how Procopius' style was consonant with precepts (σαφήνεια, γοργότης, γλυκύτης, ἀφέλεια) incorporated by both Aphthonius and Hermogenes in relation to certain exercises. He goes on to acknowledge how a dynamic and adept approach enabled Procopius to switch effortlessly from one tone to another when necessary (that is, narrating the worries of a shepherd whilst detailing Aphrodite's inner complexity).In the following essay, "Procopio panegirista: struttura e topoi del Panegirico per l'imperatore Anastasio", Ventrella notes how Procopius' prose style forms part of a strongly standardized panegyric written for the emperor Anastasius, much of which is dependent on the βασιλικὸς λόγος as prescribed by Menander Rhetor.Unoriginal as the panegyric may seem, Ventrella is able to discover an intriguing socio-political significance in the panegyric in ch. 7, "L'ideologia imperiale in Procopio". The pagan pedigree of the emperor's virtues (εὐσέβια, φιλανθρωπία, σωφροσύνη, δικαιοσύνη) seems to bring Procopius closer to the Stoic and Neoplatonic tradition rather than to that of the Christian conception as implemented by Eusebius. Ventrella also argues that Procopius' idea of emperor Anastasius as βασιλεύς and ἱερεύς directly anticipated Byzantine Caesaropapism.

In "Le Epistole", Federica Ciccolella reflects on the content and nature of Procopius' letters. Although letter writing was more of a subsidiary occupation and part of a sophist's duties rather than an autonomous art, Procopius' epistolary corpus contributed towards defining and defending his status as σοφιστής of Gaza. In addition, the development of a "decisa difesa della propria identità professionale e del suo fondamento morale" (p. 125) compelled him to equilibrate the pyrotechnic rhetoric required to attract students and gain an advantageous position within society with his self-identification as a philosopher. (Letter 18 for example testifies to such a strategy when he digresses on the relationship between sophistry and ἀλαζονεία.) These letters helped Procopius build up a network of contacts among the cultural elite and reveal how his image as a Christian teacher was compatible with the sophist-philosopher paradigm – a common theme shared among authors of the Second Sophistic. His strong literary dependence on classical models did not prevent him from developing his own idiom and structure. The translation of Procopius' corpus is preceded by remarks concerning its complexity; both Eugenio Amato and Federica Ciccolella point out the difficulty of compiling a corpus of letters as the manuscript tradition is extremely variable in the number and order of the epistles. Amato himself is the author of the first and only complete edition of Procopius' rhetorical works which resumes (and improves) upon previous efforts using the Byzantine textual tradition.

The translations of Procopius' works remind us of Russell's sophistopolis. His dialexeis on the spring have recourse to mythological stories (Narcissus; Apollo and Daphne; Pan and Pitys); his dialexis on the rose celebrates Aphrodite; and Phoenix's ethopoeia reminds us of Homeric times. Procopius' philhellenism, however, was not démodé. His water clock ekphrasis and his ekphrasis eikonos prove that in sixth century AD Gaza, architectonical and decorative elements bore a mythological significance with an allegorical worth revered in a Christian context, as is the case with another Christian author, Nonnus of Panopolis, whose use of pagan mythology was "blamelessly classical".1 Procopius' references to pagan deities in fact stems from a combination of his subordination to literary models (Libanius, Themistius) and Menander Rhetor's prescriptions, leaving little room for Christian interpretation (e.g., Pan. Anast., 5: ἡ δὲ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀχλὺς διελύετο, for which Amato and Ventrella provide literary parallels from Christian authors).F. Ciccolella (assisted by Amato in translating and commenting on Procopius' letters 166, 169-174) produces a revealing analysis of the socio-cultural milieu within which Procopius flourished, alongside a linguistic study of his literary style. Procopius' main concerns are reflected in these epistles – letters of recommendation, consolation letters and letters of apology – all of which give us a clearer insight into his social network; yet there is one topic that remains ubiquitous: silence. This is not a new concept since letters reproaching the silent treatment can be found among many late antique authors (Symmachus' letters abound in this regard), yet it is interesting to note that in a period in which rhetoric and public recitations proliferated all over the Empire, silence was still feared in such a way that it could potentially endanger Procopius' social network. This tendency to horror silentii, it should be added, afflicted (ep. 31: σιγήσας λυπεῖς), irritated (ep. 38: τί τοίνυν ἔτι σιγᾷς), or amused him (ep. 126: Δέδεγμαί σου τὴν φίλην καὶ γέμουσαν ὄντως ἀφροδίτης ἐπιστολήν, τῆς μὲν μακρᾶς σιωπῆς σωκρατικῶς αἰτιωμένην ἡμῖν τὸ δαιμόνιον). Ciccolella's punctilious comments contain remnants of the prose style adopted by Procopius himself: the use of pluralis sociativus (e.g., πρὸς ἡμᾶς), the frequent aposiopesis (ep. 1, 34, 133), the non-sexual use of terms such as ἒρως and πόθος, post-classical forms (the use of the adverb πολλάκις with aorist; the repetition of expressions as τὸ δὴ μέγιστον; καθέστηκα used as the present tense of εἰμί), were all linguistic peculiarities which created an unoriginal yet competently achieved style.

The volume also includes an appendix with three more contributions. Aldo Corcella translates Choricius' funerary speech in honour of Procopius, a rhetorical work which heralds its subject as the ideal rhetor who managed to blend Christian virtues, social righteousness and the ability to docere et delectare all at the same time. The speech breathes the spirit of the School of Gaza, that is, an obvious inclination toward Classicism (Choricius compares Procopius with Pericles, Alcibiades, and Demosthenes as part of his perception "Gaza è come Atene", p. 509) intertwined with the Christian faith (see for instance paragraphs 51-54 on the figure of the bishop taking over the sophist's duties.In "Prokop: Die Kunstuhr in Gaza", B. Bäbler and A. Schomberg aim to reconstruct the mechanism of the clock as described by Procopius. Though admitting that "Die Technik antiker Uhren ist so kompliziert" (p. 531), Bäbler and Schomberg build upon H. Diels' previous attempts to reconstruct the mechanism, and indeed it is a refreshing idea to think of Procopius not only as a school teacher and sophist but also a scientific commentator whose remarks on the clock allow us to reconstruct the methodological and mechanical principles behind its construction (in this case, a blend of the science of Greek horologists that impressed the Arab polymath Al-Jazari in the XIIIth century). Bäbler and Schomberg go on to further point out that "Die Verteilung der übrigen Figuren korrespondiert mit der Anordnung an der "Uhr des Archimedes und der arabischen Uhren, was im Hinblick auf die ausgefeilte Technik" (p. 557).

In "Prokop von Gaza: Der Gemäldezyklus", B. Bäbler discusses the paintings described by Procopius and agrees with the assertions of Amato, Ventrella and Ciccolella when explaining the choice of pagan motifs incorporated in a Christian environment: "Die berühmte Rhetorenschule von Gaza (...) vermochte die Traditionen der hellenischen Bildung mit dem Christentum in eigenständiger Weise zu verschmelzen" (p. 562). Indeed, Procopius' ekphraseis illustrate how the mythological elements of the painting cycle were allegorized, thus facilitating the audience's "mehrschichtige Rezeption" (p. 616) of the main characters in the painting (Ariadne, Theseus, Hippolytos, Daphne), all of whom were mythological figures whose endurance to overcome sins earned them respect throughout late antiquity and in the Byzantine era.

In light of this, Eugenio Amato's work seems on course to become a vital study reference with a commendable level of profound investigation into both late antique literature and art. This is substantiated by detailed archaeological and artistic reconstructions and a well-crafted philological approach, complete with a helpful supplementary appendix, all of which contribute towards helping aid our visual impression of Procopius' cultural milieu. Moreover, the volume has the potential to open exciting new paths through which late antique scholars can continue to explore aspects of the transition from the classical world into the early Middle Ages. Multiple methodological angles are examined to supplement an exhaustive philological examination of his works. Different lectiones of manuscripts and editions are supplied to clarify dubious passages, and modern scholars' opinions are offered when unclear passages vary in their interpretation. In essence, Amato's volume fleshes out a number of important, thought-provoking aspects of a city in the sixth century AD.

1.   Laura Miguélez Cavero, "The Appearance of the Gods in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus", GRBS 49 (2009), 557-583

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  1. I thank sincerely Dr. Quiroga Puertas for his detailed review and I take the opportunity of giving notice of the exciting discovery of two new Procopius of Gaza’s texts: a dialexis (from the ms. Laur. plut. 60.6) introducing or announcing an epithalamic discourse and a whole gamēlios logos (from the ms. Athon. Mon. Dion. 347) adressed to a young Gazean married couple, Meles and Antonina.
    The latter work in particular, that first Spyridon Lambros had wrongly attributed to Aelius Aristides and very recently Constantin Raïos has considered to be of obscure paternity, is a very important text: it allows us not only to appreciate a new aspect of the Procopius’s rhetorical art, but also to explain some debated points as regards the occasion and the place of the epithalamic epideixis.
    Remarkable is also its contribution for our knowledge of the Greek nuptial rite, as well as for the Palestinian late antique prosopography and epigraphical vocabulary.
    A better understanding of a passage in the Damascius’s “Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides” is also enabled by this new text, in which it is possible to locate, among other things, an imitation of the Achilles Tatius’s novel and some anonymous poetic quotations or references.
    Really interesting and original is furthermore the description, in the proem, of the primordial world, most likely a paraphrase of the Empedoclean cosmogony.
    Both texts, only just published in the «Revue des Études Tardo-antiques» 1 (2011-2012), are available at this address:


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BMJ 2005; 331 doi: (Published 15 September 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;331:611
  1. Anne Ellaway (anne{at}, senior researcher1,
  2. Sally Macintyre, director1,
  3. Xavier Bonnefoy, regional adviser2
  1. 1 MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ
  2. 2 WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Görresstr 15, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
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Obesity levels are high and increasing worldwide. Being overweight is linked with increased death rates and contributes to a wide range of conditions, including ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, certain cancers, and diseases of the gall bladder.1 The principal cause of obesity is an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. And there is growing recognition that, independently of individual characteristics, place of residence may be associated with health outcomes, including body size2 and health related behaviours, such as level of physical exercise.3

Few studies have explored which features of the local neighbourhood might be related to these outcomes or behaviours, although perceived attractiveness has been found to be related to levels of physical activity.4 Levels of incivilities, such as litter and graffiti, are associated with poorer health outcomes such as general wellbeing but not, to our knowledge, with levels of physical activity. Few studies use objectively measured indicators of the residential environment or similar research instruments across different settings. Based on our previous work, we hypothesised that areas which are pleasant with lots of greenery and few incivilities might encourage people to take exercise and thereby influence levels of obesity.

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Effect of litter, and greenery on likelihood of being overweight/obese or being frequently physically active

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For respondents whose residential environment contains high levels of greenery, the likelihood of being more physically active is more than three times as high, and the likelihood of being overweight and obese is about 40% less (table). Conversely, for respondents whose residential environment contained high levels of incivilities, the likelihood of being more physically active is about 50% less, and the likelihood of being overweight or obese is about 50% higher.

In this study of a range of European cities, we find that objectively assessed features of the residential environment are associated with the likelihood of being physically active and not being overweight or obese. Our analysis is limited because it is cross sectional and may be subject to differences in interpretation and reporting between countries—for example, in the reporting of height and weight. In efforts to promote physical activity and reduce weight, however, attention should be paid to environmental facilitators and barriers as well as individual factors.

What is known on this topic

Area of residence is increasingly recognised as being associated with levels of obesity and physical activity

What this study adds

Higher levels of greenery and lower levels of graffiti and litter in residential environments are associated with being physically active and not being overweight or obese; efforts to promote activity and reduce weight should take into account environmental facilitators and barriers

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  • We thank Matthias Braubach, Nathalie Röbbel, and members of the WHO Large Analysis and Review of European Housing and Health Status study team for the survey data and Alastair Leyland and Geoff Der for statistical advice.

  • Contributors All authors contributed to the design and writing up of the study. AE did the analysis and is guarantor.

  • Funding No additional funding.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Ethical approval Not needed.

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Anzio [Updated October 2003]

2003 WBC Report

 2004 Status: pending 2004 GM commitment

Michael Sincavage, VA

2002-03 Champion

2nd: Bob Ryan, MI

3rd: Paul Fletcher, CT

4th: Carl Walling, PA

5th: Tom Oleson, WA

6th: Bill Scott, VA

Event History
1991    Tom Oleson        8
1992    Mike Sincavage      13
1993    Mike Sincavage      12
1994    Mike Sincavage      14
1995    Mike Sincavage        9
1996    Mike Sincavage        8
1997    Tom Oleson      10
1998    Mike Sincavage        8
1999    Mike Sincavage     12
2000    Robert Ryan     24
2001    Stephen Likevich     21
2002    Mike Sincavage     18
2003    Mike Sincavage     20

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2001    Bob Ryan     22

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 1. Mike Sincavage

 2. Bob Ryan

 3. Stephen Likevich

 4. Tom Oleson

 5. Paul Fletcher

 6. Carl Walling

 7. Chris Harris

 8. John Grant Jr

 9. Paul O'Niel

10. Bill Scott

11. Walter Garman

12. Bruno Sinigaglio

13. Bryan Jackson

14. John Ellsworth

Past Winners

Tom Oleson - WA
1991, 1997

Mike Sincavage - VA
1992-1996, 1998-1999, 2002

Robert Ryan - MI

Stephen Likevich - OH

Year 4 of the Renaissance

The tournament got off to a good start on Tuesday with several veteran tournament players getting into the action along with newcomers Joe Doughan and James McCarthy. Open Swiss rounds continued through Friday when four players qualified for the single elimination finals: Bob Ryan, Mike Sincavage, Carl Walling III and yours truly. Along the way we played 28 games. Twenty-two of those were the full 15 turn Basic Game, with invasions pretty evenly split among Salerno, Termoli and Terracina. There were also two Napoli invasions.

Twelve of the twenty entrants were players who have been with us for three or more years. These players now have a few years under their belts using the tournament rules that were introduced in 2000. It's pretty clear that these folks are now comfortable with the strategic implications of the tournament scenario and, as a group, are beginning to explore different approaches. This year we saw people trying various initial invasion zones as the Allies, (or denying certain zones as the Germans), with a clearer sense of how the game would flow from those different starts. People were also trying out different tactical approaches at all of the chosen first invasion sites. The resulting games were quite interesting, and we saw a variety of positions on the Anzio boards spread over the tournament area.

Along the way, we were happy to see old friend Donald Webster return after a year or so off, and we welcomed newcomers Vincent Alonso, Andrew Miller and Bill Riggs. Tom Oleson again played more games than any other entrant: his game count was eight!

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Eight Salerno invasions: the Allies won two
Six Termoli invasions: the Allies won four
Six Terracina invasions: the Allies won three
Two Napoli invasions: the Allies won one

Of course, where you invade is affected by the German set-up, and any invasion at Terracina or Termoli risks being crushed due to German air superiority at the start of the game. As a result, the Allied player's decision of where to come ashore continues to be a tough one, involving risk-reward tradeoffs. Do you want to go in at Terracina and get pounded hard for three or four turns and maybe get tossed right into the sea? Is Termoli really any better, with the road to the port of Termoli at risk of counterattack on the first turn, and with the Germans able to surround you at 1-1 if you stick your nose out too far? This is why we saw eight Salerno invasions, even though it is a long and tough slog up the boot to have a chance to win in December. There were many interesting games, but I will share some details about two games that had some unusual approaches.

One of those was a game that I happened to be involved in: the consolation game with Carl Walling III playing the Germans. Against my Termoli invasion, Carl chose to defend the southern side of the beachhead, allowing the Germans to retain the Vasto area with the threat of crossing the always-important Fiume Sangro. The Allies were forced to drive for Foggia overland from Taranto, and mud arrived before Foggia fell. During mud the Allies decided to push north, because the Germans had to devote considerable stength to holding the southern areas. The Allies gained a bridgehead over the Sangro and focused their efforts on driving toward Pescara. However, the resources required for this left the Allies weak in the south end, and as a result, through November, Foggia remained in German hands and the Allies only had Salerno and Termoli. Once the second invasion came in at Anzio, there were three fronts: The Anzio beachhead, the Termoli beachhead that had stretched north close to Pescara, and a line from the mountains north of Salerno across to Foggia. This weird configuration gave the Germans air superiority for one turn in December before the Allies woke up and captured Foggia. The last few turns were a battle for Pescara, which the Allies managed to win by rolling terrific dice. This game literally could have gone either way on the last turn. In fact, as the Allies, I was blessed with good die rolls all game long. All in all, it was one of the most entertaining games of Anzio I have ever played, due to the interesting and unusual positions and the way the game hung in the balance. Credit must go to Carl for his creative approach to defending the Termoli invasion.

In the final game, Mike Sincavage got the Germans on a -1 bid. Bob Ryan decided to go for the high-risk Terracina invasion and the slugfest was on. The Allies lost the US 45th Infantry Division and the US RGR regiment to the German counterattack the first turn of the game, but managed to hold on to the Beach and Terracina Port counters.

The Allies dug in as the Germans attacked the next couple of turns, but could not throw the Allies back into the sea. During this time, the Allies repeatedly tried a single attack on German defenders at 1-1 undoubled. The Allies had to retreat three times before getting a 'stick' on the fourth try.

The German had a nice short perimeter around the Terracina beachhead that was both constricting and strong. In an attempt to break the stranglehold, the Allies executed a forward retreat to place the New Zealand Mechanized and US 3rd Infantry Divisions behind German lines. These units bounced off a doubled German position, retreating south toward Naples even though it meant they were then out of supply. The next turn the Allies managed to relieve the OOS condition for these units by attacking and creating an inverted counter near Salerno, which opened a supply line. At the same time the surrounded units attacked and executed yet another Retreat Forward which put them on a mountain hex south of Cassino. The Germans successfully surrounded these units again on their next turn and the Allied units eventually starved to death.

The Allies conducted their second invasion on November 2 by landing in the Anzio/Roma zone. They surrounded and eliminated the German 26th Panzer and managed to link up the Terracina and Anzio beachheads while also moving into one hex of Roma. The Germans then counter-attacked in the Roma area, and slowly pushed the Allies back toward Anzio. The Allied drive up the peninsula had come to a crawl due to the German defense, and a shortage of Allied units. As the game drew to a close, the Allies held Salerno, Foggia, Terracina, and Anzio. A last ditch effort by the Allies to take Napoli came up short, and the Germans took the victory.

 GM      Paul Fletcher  [10th Year]   51 Hartwell Rd, West Hartford, CT 06117   NA

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I need some advice on how to clean and seal my basement concrete floor.

My house is 5 years old. The basement floor is dirty in areas from my cats urinating. I need to effectively clean the stains and remove the odor so they stop.

I've found some cleaners but I need something that will do a better job.

Once I have the floor cleaned, I need to find a good sealer that will stand up to daily wear and use. I'm planning to set-up a small workshop once the floor is done.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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You might want to look at Grase Lightning. Its pretty good cleaner and degreaser.

As for the sealer, I used some regular concrete sealer that I had left over from my garage. It still holding up for 3 years now. Just didn't want to waste 3/4 of a pail.

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Basement floor 42 years old. In good shape. Best way to clean and seal.

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My home is in the framing process. Why did they use a shiny backed foam board instead of 1/2 OSB for several areas of the outside walls. Under/above the windows, the oustside of the garage walls and several other areas do not have OSB. They have this foam sheeting material and the whole house is wrapped in Tyvek.

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Mumbai: It is much vivid that Shah Rukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra have started avoiding each other wherever they bump into each other. Even at Shah Rukh Khan’s bash post Don 2 release, Priyanka was missing and almost all others were present there. Shah Rukh and Piggy Chops were good friends and even had a lot of fun together. But as they say, a guy and a girl can never be friends’. The philosophy seems to be fit on both Khan and Chopra. And the rumors started emerging on the scene.

But who was behind this gossip mill? Well, it is none other than Neelam Kothari, who is a party queen and yesteryear’s actress. She is Guari Khan’s best buddy and she injects this air into Guari’s ears. And you know what can happen when the suspicious wife like Gauri is filled with gossips. Result: Khan and Priyanka are no more friends and even are not on talking terms.

Whether there was love between them or not, the fact of the matter is that they are no more friends now. Even two days back at Farhan Akhtar’s birthday bash, Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri came across to Priyanka over there, they just greeted each other and slipped to respective corners.

Priyanka was after thoroughly to grab the person, who was spreading all these gossips and finally she captured her. She came to know through her sources that it was Neelam. She directly did not ask her anything but conveyed her message to Neelam through friends. Kothari tried to call Piggy Chops but she did not attend it as she was not interested at all in talking her.

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Riteish Deshmukh’s dad Vilasrao Deshmukh has been airlifted to a hospital in Chennai as he is in a critical condition. According to reports, the 67-year-old former chief minister of Maharashtra has liver cirrhosis and both his kidneys have stopped functioning. Doctors are trying to stabilise his condition so that they can conduct a liver transplant.

Vilasrao’s illness had been diagnosed a year ago and there had been considerable improvement after he underwent treatment abroad. But recently, his health took a turn for the worse. Riteish has reportedly stated that he is ready to donate a part of his liver (as is required in such cases) to help his father. However, tests are yet to be conducted to determine if it will be a match. Our prayers are with the family.

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Chicken with Figs In Ras-El-Hanout and Couscous

Published: September 2009
Servings: 6
Chicken with Figs In Ras-El-Hanout and Couscous  Recipe

Servings: 6
  • 6 whole chicken leg-thigh pieces (about 4 1/2 pounds total)
  • 1 tablespoon salt plus additional for seasoning
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
  • 12 baby carrots, peeled
  • 1 cup shallots, peeled, halved (about 4 large)
  • 3 garlic cloves, peeled
  • 1 teaspoon fresh chopped thyme plus additional for garnish
  • 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
  • 2 tablespoons ras-el-hanout
  • 3 cups low-salt chicken broth
  • 3/4 cup dry white wine
  • 14 Brown Turkey figs, halved
  • 2 teaspoons Sherry wine vinegar
  • Couscous (prepared according to package directions)

  • Arrange chicken on rimmed baking sheet and sprinkle each side of each piece with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cover with plastic wrap and chill overnight.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Transfer chicken to skillet and sear until golden, 5 to 6 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to heavy roasting pan, skin side up. Add carrots, shallots, garlic, 1 teaspoon thyme, lemon peel, ras-el-hanout, chicken broth, white wine, and remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil to skillet. Bring to boil, whisking up brown bits. Pour mixture over chicken in roasting pan and bring to simmer over medium heat. Cover with foil; place in oven. Braise 1 hour, until tender.
  • Transfer chicken, carrots, and shallots to baking sheet; discard garlic. Pour pan juices into large saucepan. Spoon off fat from surface. Boil juices until reduced to 1 3/4 cups, whisking occasionally, about 18 minutes. Add figs and vinegar; cook until figs are just heated through, 3 to 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Place cooked couscous on large plate. Top with chicken, vegetables, and figs. Spoon sauce over chicken and figs. Garnish with fresh herbs and serve immediately.
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A Pluot is a hybrid fruit that is three quarters plum and one quarter apricot, combining the best qualities of each. It’s a trademarked name that’s now owned by the developer who came up with the original cross 20 years ago. There are more than 80 varieties of the 75:25 hybrid grown in the United States, with California supplying most of the Pluot market.

Crossing a plum and an apricot results in a deeply flavorful fruit that’s like a plum in flavor and texture, but sweeter and less acidic. Pluots are delicious eaten fresh, as well as baked in tarts, crisps, and cobblers. They come in an impressive range of colors—dappled, streaked, yellow, green, crimson, or plum. Pluot varieties have relatively short seasons; at the farmers’ market, you’ll notice the selection change as summer progresses. Like heirloom tomato varieties, Pluots have whimsical names: Dapple Dandy (also called Dinosaur Egg), Flavor Grenade, and Flavor King.

How to Buy and Store

A ripe Pluot should be plump, firm, and fragrant, with rich color. It should give slightly when pressed gently at the stem end. Pluots that aren’t quite ripe can be stored at room temperature in a loosely closed paper bag, where they’ll ripen in a few days. On the counter, ripe Pluots will keep for about three days; they’ll keep for up to a week in the fridge.

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Pluots are a good source of vitamin C and fiber; eating them may help support immune- and digestive-system health.

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  • Format: Paperback | 272 pages
  • Dimensions: 138mm x 208mm x 22mm | 259g
  • Publication date: 28 April 2011
  • Publication City/Country: New York
  • ISBN 10: 1595143351
  • ISBN 13: 9781595143358
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  • Sales rank: 138,648

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On her seventeenth birthday, Katie discovers a locket and decides to wear it for good luck. But when her boyfriend Isaac finds out she cheated on him - with their mutual best friend Mitch, no less - he dumps her, leaving her devastated. And then a miracle happens. The locket burns on Katie's chest and she feels herself going back two weeks in time, to the night she cheated with Mitch. At first, Kate is delighted to be a better girlfriend to Isaac this time around. But as other aspects of her life become inexplicably altered, she realizes that changing the past may have had a dangerous effect on her present. Can she make things right before the locket destroys everything - and everyone - she loves?

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Stacey Jay is the author of "You Are So Undead to Me" and "Undead Much." She lives with her husband and three kids in Maumelle, Arkansas, and is also a photographer.

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I wasn't supposed to read this book until 9th March, the day my exam ends. But I couldn't resist it and took a peek... and ended up finishing the whole book in 2 days. Which explains why I'm writing this review now. I want to share the good news - I really like it!

At first, the locket sounded like a great gift from God - it enabled Katie to travel back in time and fix the mistake she made two weeks ago, that was cheating on her boyfriend Isaac by kissing her best friend Mitch. And I bet you know what happened when Isaac found this out: he dumped her. Seriously wanting their relationship to work again, Katie was brought back in time by a supernatural power, but found that the little difference in the alternate world can eventually lead to many serious disasters. The pretty magical locket suddenly turned into something more evil and twisted.

I like how the author layered this novel with twists and turns. The story was interesting, but sometimes I felt like slapping some sense into Katie - she knew she was in love with Mitch but denied it all the way, letting poor Mitch drown in his misery of an unreturned love. But there were times when both of them felt a mutual attraction that surpassed the "best friends" relationship.

"... They're so perfect."

Mitch smiled and looked back at the bride and groom. "They are. I'd like to be like that someday."

"Yeah?" I asked, not realizing Mitch had his arms around my shoulders until I instinctively leaned into his warmth and felt the soft scratch of his wool coat against my cheek.
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I really don't understand why would Katie pick Isaac over Mitch. Isaac, though nice and caring, cared his basketball more than his girlfriend. He was constantly busy and didn't have time to accompany Katie. On the other hand, Mitch, however busy he was, would spend time with Katie, even though he knew he didn't stand a chance with Katie, who believed that her first and only true love was Isaac, with whom she dreamed of having a family with. (Hey there, Katie, Mitch is so much better, OK!)

The minor characters in this story played an important role in this story. We have Rachel Pruitt, an obnoxious, rich, sickeningly-sweet and gorgeous queen bee who totally has a black stone as her heart, Sarah Needles, a gutsy girl who is Katie's (only) best girl-friend, Theo, an actual academic whiz who failed to be as clever in the alternate world, and a few other lesser characters. These people made Katie re-think about everything - her time-travel, her happy ending with Isaac, her more-than-friend feelings for Mitch, the truth and lies etc.

While the locket seemed to be an evil object to cause many disastrous, painful events, it did taught Katie a lesson, that is to follow her heart and overcome her fear of falling, or rather, failing in the eyes of others. As a conclusion, the locket contributed to Katie's inner growth and played a part in helping her to discover her true self. I would recommend this book to those who enjoy a twist in perfection and happy endings!


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  • Format: Hardback | 224 pages
  • Dimensions: 262mm x 322mm x 22mm | 1,542g
  • Publication date: 28 September 2007
  • Publication City/Country: Boulder
  • ISBN 10: 1934030090
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Paris-Roubaix is the world's most famous one-day cycle race. Held in north eastern France it is aptly known as "The Hell of the North" - a name resulting from the long stretches of muddy farm roads, paved with rough-hewn "bone-shaking" cobblestones. The course is made more treacherous by notoriously fickle weather, often including rain, wind and snow.The race has been held annually, on the third Sunday in April, since 1896, and follows a 270km course between the suburbs of Paris and the city of Roubaix."Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell" recounts the history and excitement of the race in oversized format and with hundreds of spectacular colour and black and white photos. The authoritative text is put together by top sportswriters at France's L'Equipe magazine and gives the inside story of the race and its traditions, and the champion cyclists it has helped to confirm.Spectacular black and white and colour photography brings into stark contrast the harsh conditions of this race and the toll it takes on its riders - the "hard men" of cycling. The editors of L'Equipe, the premier cycling and sports publication in France, have compiled the content for this book from their comprehensive archives. A chronological sequence unveils the history of the race. The book includes profiles of the most colourful and dominant riders. It includes an exclusive, behind-the-scenes chapter, a perspective shared only by those who have travelled to witness Paris-Roubaix first hand.

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Reading the Screen: Some Other Pirates of the Caribbean

The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, subtitled On Sranger stranger-tidesTides, is based on Tim Powers’ popular 1988 novel of the same name (switching out Powers’ characters for Jack Sparrow and the gang).

It’s not the only pirate movie that’s based on a book. The various movies called Treasure Island, or something similar (there are at least a dozen of them), are based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel — hard to believe it’s nearly 130 years old, isn’t it? — although some of them, like Disney’s Treasure Planet, bear only a passing similarity to the source material.

The Island, a mostly dreadful 1980 movie about modern-day pirates of the Caribbean, is based on the 1979 novel by Peter Benchley. It’s an interesting novel, written while Benchley was still riding high off the success of Jaws and before his string of mediocre books of the 1980s. If you like pirate stories with a contemporary twist, you ought to check it out.

200px-1922-captainblood-coverThe 1935 Errol Flynn swashbuckler, Captain Blood, is based on the 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini. Blood is a made-up character, but he’s he based on some real people, and the book incorporates a fair amount of actual historical goings-on. Sabatini also wrote Scaramouche (1921), which has been made into a couple of movies. But the book isn’t concerned with pirates, so we’re not concerned with it right now.

Peter Pan was introduced in J.M. Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird. But it was the 1904 stage play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, that spawned several movies, including the 1924 silent film, the 1953 Disney animated classic, and the 2003 live-action version.

The character also inspired Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991), a sort-of sequel to Barrie’s story, in which a grown-up Peter returns to Neverland for a final showdown with Captain Hook.

Spielberg is also, apparently, toying with the idea of making a movie pirate-latitudesout of Pirate Latitudes (2009), Michael Crichton’s final novel. Published posthumously, it’s a corker of an adventure, a real change of pace for the technology-minded author, and somebody definitely ought to make a movie out of it.

Got any favorite pirate movies that are based on books? Tell me what they are, and we can talk about them.

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David Pitt lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In addition to reviewing for Booklist, he writes a monthly column about paperback fiction and nonfiction for the Winnipeg Free Press. He has contributed to The Booklist Reader since 2010.

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Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Housed in the Children's Galleries of the Chicago Art Institute, they are a collection of 68 exquisitely crafted miniature rooms made in the 1930s by Mrs. James Ward Thorne. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are "magic.
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In the following review of The Infinite Plan, Arana-Ward argues that Allende's novel suffers from clichés, "numbing descriptions," and slight characterizations.

A promise is made in Isabel Allende's new novel, [The Infinite Plan] in the lure of its title and the shimmer of its opening tableau. A little boy urinates on a hillside at sunset, his back to the mountains, his eyes on the liquid gold of the Pacific Ocean. In the distance his family waits.

It is a moment he will never forget. At other times in his life, when confronted by the world's surprises, Gregory Reeves felt that wonder, that sensation of belonging to a splendid place where everything is possible and where each thing, from the most sublime to the most horrendous, has a reason for being, where nothing happens by chance and nothing is without purpose—a message his father, blazing with messianic fervor as a snake coiled about his feet, used to preach at the top of his lungs.

This is surely the most captivating passage of The Infinite Plan, filled with the imagery we have come to expect from Allende, the most successful among Latin American women writers—a Scheherazade whose beguiling stories have held us rapt in the exotic terrain of The House of the Spirits or Eva Luna.

But it is there that the similarity between this novel and anything Allende has ever done before ends. Unlike her previous four volumes, this story centers around the life of a male protagonist and proceeds uncertainly across a land Allende has come to know only in the most recent decade of her life: the United States of America.

The son of an eccentric itinerant preacher and a Russian immigrant woman, Gregory spends his childhood traversing the countryside in a dilapidated truck, watching his father fulminate against evil and prove the power of his bizarre religion by having a gigantic boa writhe about his body like a firehose. "Creation is governed according to the rules of The Infinite Plan," he rails. "Nothing happens by chance."

Gregory's demented mother hardly notices that her husband is carrying on with her best friend, the domineering fortuneteller from Odessa who travels with them—whose clown-red cheeks and "fiery hair were so intimidating that few dared turn her away for fear that she would turn them into a pillar of salt."

It is not until the group settles into a Los Angeles barrio that Gregory and his spirited sister, Judy, realize what family love is all about. In the sensuous, hospitable world of the Morales, their Latino neighbors, the Reeves children come of age. It is the only warmth they will ever know. Judy suffers at the hand of her increasingly psychotic father and grows up bitter and obese; Gregory is first raped, then sexually awakened, learning to calm his unruly libido under the wide skirts of his father's lover. Growing up with the Reeves children in the hard ganglands of L.A. are Carmen and Juan Jose Morales, whose lives trail and spiral theirs for the next 40 years.

Allende dutifully tracks the last half of the American century, leading her protagonist into the Vietnam War, the classrooms of Berkeley, a '60s infatuation with sex and drugs, and on to two angst-ridden yuppie marriages, two heartbreakingly troubled children, and a tortured confrontation with his past.

In all of this, we are only sporadically reminded of Allende's gifts as a storyteller. We plow endless, barren chapters looking for the richness of language that has graced her earlier novels. Sometimes we are rewarded, as in this scene, which takes Gregory into the jungles of Vietnam: "I am alone, at dawn, on the mountaintop. Below, through the milky mist, I see the bodies of my friends. Some that have rolled down the slopes lie like disjointed red dolls; others are ashen statues surprised by the eternity of death." More often, we encounter paragraphs that scroll across two or three pages at a time, not with the incantatory rhythms of Allende's Latin American novels, but with the clichés of an American reality that we know all too well.

Halfway through the numbing descriptions—("University education attempted to prepare students for a productive and docile existence, a project at odds with their increasing rebelliousness"), the awkward lurches of time ("As his soul soaked everything in like a sponge, his body developed and within a few weeks he grew out of boyhood and his expression became that of a contented man"), and the trite characterization ("Carmen was pure dynamite")—we realize that we do not know these people. We do not care if we do not.

But Allende cares. She lards her third-person narrative with Gregory's voice, straining to lend the story a more personal air. She teases us with the notion that there may be a reason her characters are so slight; they are alienated creatures, after all, incapable of love. And yet she forces them to the brink of love all the same.

There is something vaguely embarrassing about all this. As if the novelist had drawn her characters not from life but from the arid well of Monday night television, furnishing their worlds with predictable images and binding it all with a prose that betrays an existential boredom.

Allende is better than this. We know it. We cannot help but wish she had known it too.

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(b) An friendly farmer.
(c) Red Cross workers.
(d) Mother.

2. Who tells Sookan and Inchun to go to the back of the train and crawl underneath?
(a) The guide.
(b) The inn keeper.
(c) The conductor.
(d) The young mother from the market.

3. While at the guardhouse, Sookan and Inchun are interrogated ___.
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(b) While blindfolded.
(c) Together.
(d) Using torture.

4. Where do Sookan and Inchun sleep while looking for their mother?
(a) In a hotel.
(b) In a treehouse.
(c) In a barn.
(d) In a drainage ditch,

5. At Little Proletariat School, what are the children encouraged to do?
(a) Learn Spanish.
(b) Learn about other cultures.
(c) Talk about their families.
(d) Talk about their personal goals.

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1. Using his job as a cover, what does Sookan's father do?

2. When Sookan looks after Inchun, what does he call her?

3. Where do Inchun and Sookan try to spend the night while looking for their mother?

4. What does Sookan's family plan to do when her father and brothers return home?

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a review of a best-seller...

Submitted:Dec 25, 2011    Reads: 5    Comments: 0    Likes: 0

this adiga "piece of literature"(did i hear you snort?),has no equal.you heard right.it's that insipid.ever had a taste of any exotic dish in some fancy fine dine resto,that,due the description of the ingredients,sounds juicily tantalizing,but when you actually eat it,comes across as a cryptic waste of fine ingredients,not to mention your time?..i guess you get the drift.if you read the introduction of the book,you'd be fooled into believing that the book is some sort of suspense/drama with a backdrop of a phenomenon called redevelopment that some manic depressive genius thrust upon the hapless sensiblities of the very optimistic,mumbai city denizens,fulfilled a few aspirations,crushed a ton more and is now,the bread-earner for "legal eagles" whose sole mode of survival is the multi-pronged legal issues spawned out of the disputes resulting from a set of laws that systematically contradict each other.but as the story,if any unfolds,you realise it coudn't be more off.
the book starts of with a summary of who lives where in a fictional society in a non-fictional neighbourhood amongst one of mumbai's many suburbs.(the heavily christian dominated,area of vakola).the protagonist,if you will,in this book is a recently bereaved senior citizen called yogesh murthy while the plot cenres around a particular "confidence group" sending a redevelopment proposal to the two wings of vishram society,and how the various characters react to his proposal.
first things first.either aravinda adiga's research is inadequate,or it just might be delibrate on adiga's part to have chosen to feature a mode of redevlopmentthat is actually the least prominent.in the book mr shah(the developer),prosposes that the residents of vishram society,leave the premises for a one time outight payment which exceeds the prevailent market rate per squre foot for that area.the most popular mode of redevlopment is one where the residents of any place are housed either in the same building that builder would develop leaving him with ample extra fsi with which to earn his profits or in another building in the same vicinity for the simple reason that the market conditions and do not allow for y developer to sink in gargantuan amounts of money into a single project with no real of returns.
and so you delve into murky world of the characters of the book.there's an old christian couple who have kids abroad an who,having retired,simply live off the returns of an fd that they have invested ages ago.there's a lady,mrs.rego,with two kids who's been abandoned by her husband an who's now a social worker.a woman who has a differently abled son of eighteen and who'd on the cusp of a mid-life crisis and is-depressive about life having passed her by.a broker who's had a none too illustrious career.a cyber cafe owner who too has nothing to show for the life he's lived.all in all a collection of motley individuals purportedly perfect for a potboiler.
adiga starts off introducing you to yogesh murthy's psyche,and the contortions that go through his brain when a the appartment next door is rented out to a young ournalist.apparently ,yogesh murthy is a celebrated teacher some of whose ex-students have managed to turn into success stories.at the fag end of his career,yogesh murthy,or masterji,as he is referred to in the book,trie to get a grip on the fragments of his life which include a son that embodies the now proliferated stere type of the apathetic son,popularised throughout the 90s through various tearjerkers of tv serials,a daughter he'd lost to the general apathy that the mumbai city slickers mistake for normal behaviour,and a wife,possibly the only person who'd cared for him whom too he loses,to cancer.after the builder,one confidence group(here,it's hard to pinpoint which real life developer,if at all it is an allusion to..)puts forth his proposal,the story degenerates into a very predictable pattern of loqacious blather about how the onset of money changes character or rather,reveals it.

so the confidence man(the developer) makes the residents of vishram an offer they can't refuse.the offer comprises a square feet rate several thousand inr above the prevailent market rate,which,due to some of the residents,residing in close to 1000 square feet homes,works out to more than a crore,a sum still respectable even after the deterioration of the indian currency,financial market et al.
here's where the plot is lost.instead of a righteous man's fight for what he believes in,it then becomes a deranged man's fight for something he doesn't himself know whether he believes in,for,believe it or faint,masterji doesn't really know why it is exactly that he is oppsosing the redevelopment.so as the scenes progress masterji's door is plastered with the son of the differently abled son of another member,masterji attempts a futile resistance by way of a an advocate's consultation,and loses all his friends an is frowned upon by friends and foes alike.towards the end of the book,adiga seemingly re-asserts that in his books,there really isn't the usual white vs black for all the characters are various shades of grey.the misplaced jibes,the very lacklustre and shallow research,and a to-the-point,writing style that at the start of the book seems alright but tends to work against the narrative towards the end,as the work never really grips you,make for a below par combination,something that doesn't even measure up to his earlier book.

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Engaged to Life: Episode 8

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I’m not ready: Since he and Anelle have been together, Russell has been a little intimidated by her sexual experience and is hesitant to have sex with her due to his lack of experience. Meanwhile Carlen and Cassie decide to go to a mall which recently opened but they have trouble getting there.

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Engaged to Life

I'm not ready: Since he and Anelle have been together, Russell has been a little intimidated by her sexual experience and is hesitant to have sex with her due to his lack of experience. Meanwhile Carlen and Cassie decide to go to a mall which recently opened but they have trouble getting there.

SCENE: The Living Room

(Russell is sitting on the couch watching TV when Anelle joins him.)

Anelle: (She kisses him on the cheek.)

Russell: Hey.

(He smiles.)

Anelle: Whatcha watching?

Russell: How it's made, this episode is on how hot sauce is made.

Anelle: Hot sauce?

Russell: Yeah I know, but it's pretty interesting.

Anelle: Well I have a better idea, how about you come with me upstairs and we can find out how babies are made.

(She says while touching him.)

Russell: Are you, are you sure about that, I'm not qualified for parenthood.

Anelle: Of course we'll use protection.

Russell: But there might still be a possibility that my sperm could penetrate the condom and impregnate you, parenthood.

(He quickly walks into the kitchen.)

Anelle: What? Well that was a total fail, college guys were never this hard.

SCENE: The Kitchen

(Daniel is sitting at the kitchen table when Russell in.)

Russell: I can't do this.

Daniel: Can't do what?

Russell: (He sits at the table and begins to explain himself.)

Okay, Anne is ready to take the next step in our relationship.

Daniel: Next step? Can you be more specific?

Russell: You know what I mean by the next step.

Daniel: No I don't.

Russell: She wants the sex.

Daniel: Oh, congrats man, you're so in there.

Russell: Yeah, so in there.

(He says hesitantly.)

Daniel: So what's the problem?

Russell: Anne is so sexually experienced.

Daniel: Okay, you are too.

Russell: (He stares at Daniel.)

Daniel: No, no, you haven't? Ever? Wait, but what about Angela? That dare you had with her?

Russell: It never happened; I didn't want to do it.

Daniel: Well it sure sounded like it happened.

Russell: We faked the whole thing; I was just banging my hand on the wall and screaming yeah, so was she.

Daniel: Why didn't you do it?

Russell: I'd always believed that I would do it with someone that I truly loved.

Daniel: Do you love her, Anne?

Russell: Yeah.

Daniel: Then you shouldn't be intimidated or scared.

Russell: Yeah but I am.

Daniel: Then just tell her, she'll understand.

Russell: Are you out of your mind, I'm supposed to be a man here. You are no help.

(He walks back into the living room.)

Daniel: Well that was a total fail.

SCENE: Anelle's Room

(Anelle is lying on her bed listening to music on her iPod with an upset look on her face.)

Carlen: (She knocks on Anelle's door.)

Can I come in?

Anelle: Yeah.

Carlen: (She walks into Anelle's room.)

Anelle: Hey.

Carlen: I'm headed to that new mall that was opened on Glence Avenue, and I was just wondering if wanted to come along.

Anelle: I don't think so, but thanks for asking. You should ask Cassie I'm pretty sure that she would want to go.

Carlen: What's with the long face, are you okay?

Anelle: I don't know its silly; I shouldn't bother you with it.

Carlen: Come on, tell me.

Anelle: Alright. I wanted to take the next step in me and Russell's relationship, but when I tried to get him to come upstairs with me, he hesitated and left the room.

Carlen: Wait, you know that there's something wrong with that sentence, right?

Anelle: What?

Carlen: When you tried to get him to come upstairs with you.

Anelle: Yeah, so.

Carlen: Anne, it seems like you were trying to force it on him.

Anelle: No, it doesn't.

Carlen: Yeah, you have to know that he's comfortable with it first, he probably just needs time.

Anelle: Did you give Dan time?

Carlen: Oh he didn't time, neither did I, because we were both ready. What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't push it, let it happen naturally.

Anelle: Yeah you're probably right, thanks.

Carlen: You're welcome, well I better get going.

Anelle: See ya.

(Carlen leaves Anelle's room and goes downstairs.)

SCENE: The Living Room

(Carlen walks into the living room where she finds Cassie.)

Carlen: Hey I was looking for you.

Cassie: Found me.

Carlen: I was wondering if you wanted to go to that new mall that was just all Glence Avenue.

Cassie: When?

Carlen: Now.

Cassie: Yeah, I guess, I'm not really doing anything right now.

Carlen: Alright, let's go.

(Carlen and Cassie leave the house.)

SCENE: The Kitchen

(Anelle walks downstairs into the kitchen where she sees Russell at the counter.)

Anelle: Hey.

(She says as she grabs a bag of chips from the cabinet and a bottle of water from the refrigerator.)

Russell: Hey

Anelle: Umm, I just wanted you to know that we don't have to rush anything, and I apologize if I made you feel uncomfortable earlier.

Russell: You didn't make me uncomfortable, I was just surprised, that's all.

Anelle: Well if you're not ready to you know be, intimate or whatever, I can give you time.

Russell: Not ready, give me time?

Anelle: I'm just saying we don't have to get right into it, we can just take it slow.

Russell: You're acting like I'm some teenage boy who's never had sex before.

(He says raising his voice.)

Anelle: And you're acting like a jerk.

Russell: How am I acting like a jerk?

Anelle: The way you're raising you're voice at me. You know what I shouldn't have even come down here.

(She goes upstairs.)

Russell: Anne, I'm so, I'm sorry.

SCENE: In Carlen's Car

Cassie: (She's sitting in the driver's seat.)

Are you sure we're going the right direction?

Carlen: Yeah, I think. Why do you ask?

(She says while driving.)

Cassie: Cause it doesn't look like we're driving near Glence Avenue and because I haven't seen this part of Floyd County before? Do you even know where we're going?

Carlen: Maybe, maybe not.

Cassie: So we're lost.

Carlen: We're not lost, I hope.

Cassie: Carlen.

Carlen: Alright fine, I'll just park the car at the side of the street and you go out and ask someone, who doesn't look like a druggy for directions.

(Carlen parks the car and Cassie gets out.)

(Carlen's phones rings so she answers it.)

Carlen: Hello.

Daniel: Hey Car

Carlen: Dan, Honey.

Daniel: You and Cassie have been out for a while, where are you?

Carlen: I don't know, I think we're lost.

Daniel: You're lost?

Carlen: Yeah, but its okay, I sent Cassie out to ask for directions.

Daniel: Alright then, before careful, bye love you.

Carlen: I love you too, bye.

(She hangs up.)

(Carlen looks through the window to check where Cassie is but doesn't see her.)

Carlen: Cassie, where the hell are you?

(She gets out of her car, crosses the street, looking for Cassie.)

(She finds Cassie in front of a bar making out with some guy, so she runs over to her and pulls her away from him.)

Cassie: Hey, what was that for?

Carlen: I told you to ask for directions, not to make out with some stranger.

Cassie: He's not a stranger, his name is Tony.

Tony: Hey I'm Tony.

Carlen: Get the hell out of here, before I kick your ass.

Tony: Alright, I'm going, later Cassie.

(He walks away.)

Cassie: Bye Tony.

Carlen: What's wrong with you?

Cassie: Hold on I got the directions, from Tony.

Carlen: Fine, whatever let's just go.

(Carlen and Cassie walk back to the car.)

SCENE: Anelle's Room (In the Evening.)

(Anelle is on her laptop when Russell knocks on the door.)

Anelle: Who is it?

Russell: It's me, can I come in, please.

Anelle: Fine.

Russell: (He comes into the room.)

Can we talk about what happened?

Anelle: Are you gonna start raising your voice again?

Russell: No, and you were right I was being a jerk.

(Russell and Anelle sit on the bed together.)

Anelle: Is there something wrong, something you're not telling me.

Russell: There is some thing that I haven't told you, and I didn't want to tell you earlier, but you deserve an explanation.

Anelle: What is it?

Russell: The reason why I was so hesitant to have sex with you wasn't because I wasn't ready to or because I want to take things slow, it's because I haven't had sex before, and I figured that if I did have sex with you I would suck at it.

Anelle: What? Are you serious?

Russell: Yes I'm serious.

Anelle: Suck at it? Russ, sex isn't a competition to see who's the best or the worst, it's a moment you share with someone who you, who you.

Russell: Love, I fell in love with you that day you opened yourself up to me in Virginia, which was the very first time that I actually felt connected to you.

(He strokes her hair.)

Anelle: You really mean that, you love me.

Russell: I really mean it.

Anelle: I love you too.

(She kisses him.)

(And you know what happens after this I don't really need to tell you or go into the details, common sense girl.)

SCENE: Living Room

(Daniel is sitting on the couch when Cassie and Carlen walk into the house from the door.)

Daniel: Oh hey, you're back. How was it, what happened?

Carlen: I don't want to talk about it.

Daniel: Cassie?

Cassie: I don't want to talk about it, either.

(She goes into the kitchen.)

Daniel: Car?

Carlen: I'm tired, I just wanna go to bed, carry me?

Daniel: Sure.

(He carries her upstairs.)

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April Underhill, Tooth Fairy

Published: 1st April 2012
For Ages: 5+ years old
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High in the sky above Parkville, tooth fairies April and Esme Underhill are on their way to collect their very first tooth…

April and Esme Underhill have never collected a tooth before. Mum and Dad always do it. But tonight it’s their turn. So, equipped with a bag, a coin and a mobile phone, the sisters head for Daniel Dangerfield's house, and a very unusual first tooth visit!

About the Author

Bob Graham has written and illustrated many acclaimed children’s picture books, including How to Heal a Broken Wing, Max, which won the 2000 Smarties Gold Medal, and Jethro Byrde, Fairy Child, which won the 2003 Kate Greenaway Medal. He has won the Australian Children’s Book of the Year Award an unprecedented three times. He lives in Victoria, Australia.

ISBN: 9781406339604
ISBN-10: 1406339601
Audience: Children
For Ages: 5+ years old
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 40
Published: 1st April 2012
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 30.0 x 20.8  x 0.5
Weight (kg): 0.24


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Stravinsky, Igor - Rite of Spring Facsimile - Full Score
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Facsimile of the autograph full score Edited by Ulrich Mosch With an introduction in German and English.

This magnificent manuscript is undoubtedly one of the most important documents, not only of Stravinsky's oeuvre, but of the entire holdings of the Paul Sacher Foundation.

The expressive calligraphy, for which the composer had a fine talent, distinguishes the autograph score in a very special way. Abounding in corrections as well as conducting and publication markings, this manuscript initiated a long process of revision that lasted for decades as the work was extensively edited
for publication from 1922 onwards.

The edition allows a wider readership to see Stravinsky's Rite in its original forms for the first time, thereby providing an opportunity to further engage with this seminal piece of art.

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