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AfDB supports Nigeria’s cassava project
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has pledged its support for the newly launched BASIC–II project of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). This was disclosed in a statement endorsed by Godwin Atser, a digital extension and advisory services specialist, sent to PREMIUM TIMES.
The project tagged Building an economically sustainable and integrated cassava seed system, phase 2, (BASICS-II), was launched during a virtual meeting at the IITA headquarters in Ibadan. IITA is a non-profit institution that offers research partnership that facilitates agricultural solutions to hunger, poverty, and natural resource degradation throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Martin Fregene, AfDB’s director of agriculture and agro-Industry, was quoted to have said the project is aimed at creating a more efficient dissemination of cassava stems that would trigger the adoption of new varieties to improve productivity with the hope to raise income of cassava growers and seed entrepreneur. He also told that the project will enhance gender equity and as well contribute to inclusive agricultural transformation in Nigeria and Tanzania.
Mr Fregene said the development bank, through its flagship project, Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), is excited to be part of BASICS-II to ensure the best varieties are put in the hands of farmers as soon as possible. The statement noted that the first phase of the project, BASICS-I, which lasted between 2015 and 2020, facilitated the development of more than 160 commercial seed entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
These seed entrepreneurs are now growing cassava with the primary aim of producing and selling stems—an activity that is generating income and creating wealth in cassava growing communities, the statement reads.
It said BASICS-II will also work with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND Foundation). While PIND pledged to be the project’s sustainability platform in the Niger Delta of Nigeria; AGRA will help the project’s replication in other states in Nigeria as well as other African countries, Mr Atser noted in the statement.
BASICS-II will not only raise the productivity of African, Nigerian and Tanzanian farmers, but it will improve productivity along the value chain and make cassava to be a good business for anyone to invest in, Mr Fregene maintained.
He urged the project managers to maximise public private partnerships to achieve maximum success and impact. In his remarks, PIND executive director, Dara Akala, said his foundation would help BASICS-II outlive its duration in the Niger Delta. Everything we do in PIND is centred around partnerships and partnerships is at the core of what we have achieved in the Niger Delta. Our collaboration with NRCRI Umudike towards the end of BASICS-I led to the pool of Village Seed Entrepreneurs in the Niger Delta.
So, we are committed to partnering with BASICS-II to consolidate and scale up the results of those initial efforts made in BASICS-I, he said. The 5-year project will be led by IITA, working in partnership with Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC), National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), IITA GoSeed, Umudike Seed, Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Ltd., Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), and Tanzania Official Seed Certification (TOSCI).
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The Royal Treatment by M.J. Summers Book Blitz
Posted by Robin | May 31, 2017 | Another Book Hangover, Book Blitzes, Featured, M.J. Summers
(Crown Jewels Romance #1)
Publication date: May 23rd 2017
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Romance
Enough laughs to satisfy fans of Bridget Jones. Enough sparkly shoes and breathtaking ball gowns for fans of Cinderella…
Twenty-eight-year-old Tessa Sharpe, a.k.a. The Royal Watchdog, hates everything about Prince Arthur. As far as she’s concerned, he’s an arrogant, lazy leech on the kingdom of Avonia. When he shocks the nation by giving her the keys to the castle in an attempt to boost his family’s dismal public approval ratings, Tessa has no choice but to accept and move in for two months. It’s lust at first sight, but there’s no way she can give in to her feelings—not if she wants to have a career or a shred of pride left when her time at the palace ends.
Ultra-private, ultra-hot Crown Prince Arthur has always gotten by on his charm. But that won’t be enough now that the Royal Family is about to be ousted from power once and for all. When Prince Arthur has to rely on the one woman in the kingdom who hates him most, he must learn that earning the love of a nation means first risking his heart…
Can two natural enemies find their forever in each other’s arms, or will they ruin each other to save themselves?
[PLEASE NOTE: The Crown Jewels Series is not a typical MJ Summers book. It’s a light romantic comedy, very heavy on the laughs with a low steam level (but lots of delicious sexual tension and some swearing).]
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Prince Arthur:
When we reach the vault room, there are two guards standing at the door. Normally there is just one, sitting on the inside; but for nights like tonight, there are a total of six. I nod, and one of them opens the door.
“Good evening, fellows,” I say.
“Good evening, Your Highness.”
Once inside the room, we go through the same routine with the other four men. I go to the keypad and press the code, then hold my face in front of the camera for a retina scan. When I look down at Tessa, she actually looks impressed.
“A little Bond-esque, no?” I ask.
“Come on, Moneypenny, let’s get you something for that beautiful neck of yours.” I tug her hand and pull her in with me before she can say no.
She’s already shaking her head, but I hold up one finger. “I can see those Sharpe family brains of yours going to work on ten different reasons why you won’t borrow a necklace, but I have already prepared counterarguments, and since we are now twelve minutes behind schedule, please allow me. One, they’re already paid for, some of them hundreds of years ago, so it’s not coming out of anyone’s taxes. Two, like the books in the library, they’re going to waste in here. Three, for the first time in my life, I want to share something with someone else—someone who deserves to feel like a queen, even if she’ll only allow herself that for one measly little evening. Four, I have this fantasy of seeing you in only the jewels. Maybe the heels could stay.”
Tessa laughs and her cheeks go pink. “All right. One necklace, but make it a cheap one.”
I raise one eyebrow. “Define cheap.”
“Less than a kitchen stool.”
“How about less than a car?”
“Sofa.”
“I said ‘queen.’ Would a queen really wear a sofa around her neck?” I reach up and run my fingertips along the base of her neck.
“Would she wear a car?”
“Good point.” I lean down and kiss the crook of her neck. “How about this? You choose whichever one you like the best, and I won’t tell you how much it’s worth.”
I continue to brush my lips along her skin, then move up to her earlobe. The other night, I discovered a little spot at the base of her ear that turns her to putty. After a moment of some careful work, I get what I want. A breathy, little ‘okay’ escapes her lips.
MJ Summers made a name for herself with her debut novel, Break in Two, a contemporary romance that cracked the Top 10 Paid on Amazon in the UK, as well as Canada (and the top 50 Paid in the USA). Her highly acclaimed Full Hearts Series was picked up by both Piatkus Entice (a division of Hachette UK) and HarperCollins Canada. Her first two books have been translated into Czech and Slovak by EuroMedia, with more translations underway.
MJ Summers currently resides in Edmonton, Canada, with her husband, three young children, and their goofy dog. When she’s not writing romance novels, she loves reading (obviously), snuggling up on the couch with her family for movie night (which would not be complete without lots of popcorn and milkshakes), and long walks in the woods near her house. MJ also spends a lot more time thinking about doing yoga than actually doing yoga, which is why most of her photos are taken ‘from above’. She also loves shutting down restaurants with her girlfriends. Well, not literally shutting them down, like calling the health inspector or something. More like just staying until they turn the lights off…
MJ is a member of the Romance Writers of America, as well as the International Women’s Writing Guild.
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ft. complex will house the collection of Mark Pieloch, nearly 250 cars that range from classic 1960’s and 1970’s American muscle cars to modern “sophisticated” muscle like a 2016 Shelby GT350R. Pieloch is founder and president of PF Inc. (formerly Pet Flavors), which is based in Melbourne. There was a problem saving your notification. Additionally, investigators said they obtained water records on the South Dakota residence, which showed that from 2008 through 2010, the Pielochs used an average of 300 gallons of water per month. And tomorrow from 2-5 the American Muscle Car Museum will host an open house for all of those that made this happen!!! {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}} This new 123,000 sq. The new center is also energy efficient and eco-friendly, using radiant heat and a kennel cleansing system that uses less water.The combination of sites means the humane society can house more animals (although Downey said he hopes that is not needed), keep animals longer, train those who come in with hard-to-adopt behaviors, showcase those irresistible fuzzy faces and create a comfortable setting that will entice people to linger and visit often.Plans to build an adoption center were announced in June 2011. Including a passion for animals, which he regularly gives to many animal-related charities and programs, he also has a love for vintage cars, and not just any cars, Muscle Cars!
Construction began early spring 2012 and was completed this past May. Damage to the floors delayed the center’s June opening by one month.Downey credited generous donations with making his long-time dream of an adoption center into a reality.Dave and Mary Jo Livingston sold the 2.5 acre parcel of land to the humane society for $500,000 -- less than half of its $1.1 million appraised value.While the Pieloch name graces the outside of the adoption center, inside the generosity of dozens of pet lovers is etched into the walls and windows of colony and adoption rooms. Initially, this was to be done live...Over 50 years of Ford racing history and supercar design packed into one episode!
Five Vedco Employees Receive Free Sports Cars - StJoeChannel.com vid on link ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Since the solar-powered facility opened in October 2016, his collection has grown to 302 vehicles valued at roughly $50 million.The American Muscle Car Museum typically only opens to the public during charitable events.
The founder of the American Muscle Car Museum, Pieloch is an animal pharmaceutical inventor and entrepreneur.
Initially, Melbourne officials considered adding a dog park at Ruffner Park, a small recreational area on Country Club Drive just north of the Florida Institute of Technology. -- Five employees from veterinary supplier Vedco in St. Joseph got the surprise of a lifetime Monday morning when they were presented with brand-new … They talked to a Dakota Dunes neighbor who said Pieloch and his wife stayed at the house perhaps two days per month. Eventually they will be part of the humane society’s storybook “Night at the Animal Shelter.” The story will be a take-off of the popular movie “Night at the Museum” taking families on a fantastical expedition through the adoption center after normal business hours.The $4 million adoption center is more than a pretty building. The 501(c)3 museum, located on 42 acres in Melbourne, includes 90,000 sqft of vehicle display area, an 18,000 sqft showroom, and an adjacent 15,000 sqft maintenance and restoration facility for the collection. * A small isolation room for cats who may have respiratory viruses. AMCM Owner Mark Pieloch has owned this truck since new, and with consistent care and upkeep, it looks nearly new despite being 20 years old and having nearly 100,000 miles. An animal lover and long-time friend of Downey’s, Pieloch donated $1.5 million toward the humane society’s Celebrate Me Home capital campaign -- putting it well over the top of its original $2.9 million goal.“It’s a very beautiful facility inside and out,” Pieloch said in a telephone interview from his business in Melbourne, Fla. “It should get a lot of use and hopefully will save the lives of lots of dogs and cats.”The new adoption center is a place of windows -- inside and out.
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Takata Non Grata: GM Recall Actions Shine By Comparison – Forbes
Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2014
The Takata air-bag imbroglio is making General Motors’ handling of its own air-bag problem look especially good by comparison.
While Takata management, the U.S. car-safety regime and some of GM’s largest rivals have been grossly mishandling the problem of air-bag shrapnel, GM seems to have turned the corner on its own safety-recall mess — and largely because of how CEO Mary Barra has conducted herself and the company.
The Takata terror looks worse by the day as the Japanese mega-supplier, automakers and the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration deal unevenly and slowly with recall and safety campaigns meant to corral 7.8 million older cars with air bags that can explode with too much force during a crash and spray drivers and passengers with metal and plastic debris that amounts to shrapnel.
Most recently, AutoNation, America’s largest auto retailer, halted sales of any of the cars in question as CEO Michael Jackson blasted federal regulators for their “incoherent” response to the crisis. Takata air bags so far have been blamed for four deaths and more than 30 injuries in the U.S. Most main brands in the U.S. auto market, including some GM vehicles, have taken actions ranging from issuing recalls to urging owners to leave the front passenger seat empty until air bags can be replaced.
NHTSA has warned owners to get their cars repaired immediately but has resisted issuing a nationwide recall because the danger is most acute in hot, humid areas of the country where air-bag degradation likely is worst. Some automakers also have focused their efforts to get limited supplies of recall parts to most-affected regions. But that doesn’t deal with the fact that cars and consumers scatter everywhere. And NHTSA’s limp actions in the matter have sewn confusion among many car owners around the country.
There’s also the fact that faulty Takata air bags have hardly caught NHTSA unawares. Japanese automakers have been recalling batches of cars carrying Takata air bags, because of this problem, for nearly two years. In March, Toyota and Honda and Nissan recalled a combined three million vehicles because of Takata air bags. But only very recently has NHTSA begun trying to assert overall control of the problem in the United States.
So while Washington bureaucrats and politicians have yet to reach their final judgments about the handling by Barra and GM of the ignition-switch problem that led to at least 29 deaths in the United States, the Takata episode has become another hour that is not NHTSA’s finest. The fact also remains that NHTSA poorly handled allegations of unintended acceleration in Toyota models several years ago, with an approach that helped escalate a dubious accusation into a massive and expensive safety recall imposed on the company. Toyota’s own obstreperous response, of course, only made things worse.
And a congressional committee also has held NHTSA to blame for its own role in not being able to put the pieces together earlier about GM’s ignition-switch problem though there was much evidence to suggest a fundamental flaw.
In fact, the Takata debacle may yet end up forcing the Obama administration to change NHTSA chiefs. Current acting head David Friedman isn’t likely to be renominated for the job, Reuters reported.
Also, compare the reaction of Takata management to that of GM. So far, Takata has only said the company will form a global quality-control committee, and CEO Shigehisa Takada has apologized for “causing … concerns and troubles.” Yet arguably the company should have known about the potential for this kind of disaster as early as 2006, when mishandling of the propellant in its air bags — it’s the only supplier to use ammonium nitrate, Bloomberg reported — caused a series of explosions in its plant in Mexico. Takata’s flaccid response so far seems vastly disproportionate to the seriousness of the flaw in its air bags and to the amount of time it has known about the problem.
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Crypto custodian Anchorage nabs national bank charter from OCC
Published by theblockcrypto.com on 2021-01-13
Anchorage has won the race to become the first federally chartered digital asset bank by obtaining a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
The institutional crypto custodian is now on even firmer footing with its designation as a “Qualified Custodian” under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) requirements. Investment advisers have to keep client funds and securities with those that meet the qualified custodian standard, usually banks or registered broker-dealers.
In a statement, the OCC highlighted the “conditional approval” of Anchorage’s banking bid.
“The OCC granted a national trust bank charter to Anchorage after thorough review of the company and its current operations. As an enforceable condition of approval, the company entered into an operating agreement which sets forth, among other things, capital and liquidity requirements and the OCC’s risk management expectations,” the regulator said.
With a banking charter, the Anchorage Digital Bank National Association can provide sub-custody services — like holding assets for a main custodian — for any financial institution, according to Anchorage.
“Before now, there have existed fintech companies with the technical sophistication to securely handle digital assets under a piecemeal, state-by-state regulatory structure, and there have existed federally chartered banks with a robust regulatory framework that lack the true technological savvy it takes to operate in the blockchain space at its breakneck pace of innovation,” said Nathan McCauley and Diogo Mónica in a joint statement.
Anchorage Digital Bank, they say, can now provide the tech and regulatory clarity that “serious institutional participation” requires.
Other players are also looking to obtain banking charters in the near future. BitPay and Paxos both applied for federal charters from the OCC in December. Avanti remains a state-regulated bank under Wyoming’s charter.
Anchorage’s approval comes days before Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks is slated to end his tenure with the bank regulator, according to a report from Politico.
© 2021 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.
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Brandi Glanville is a former model and American television personality, best known for her role on the reality TV show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, where she appeared for four seasons. Glanville has also appeared on season 7 of the Celebrity Apprentice and made it to the final four but was fired only two weeks before the finale. Glanville is also a cast member of E!’s latest reality TV show, Famously Single, and will appear on the FOX cooking competition series My Kitchen Rules against friend Dean Sheremet. Aside from television appearances, this reality TV star runs a weekly podcast, Brandi Glanville Unfiltered, where she discusses pop culture and conducts celebrity interviews. Additionally, the former model is a contributor for the celebrity news magazine NW.
In terms of her love life, the former RHOBH star hasn’t had it easy. She married actor Eddie Cibrian in 2001, and the celebrity couple have two boys together. However, their relationship ended in 2010 after Cibrian was caught in an infamous cheating scandal with country singer LeAnn Rimes, who is the ex-wife to Glanville’s friend Dean Sheremet. Despite the betrayal, the former model has continued to date since her split from Cibrian but ultimately has not remarried. Hopefully with the help of Famously Single, Glanville will get relationship advice that will bring her closer to finding the love she deserves.
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The Q8 Magellan spectrometer – Bruker’s flagship for metal analysis
To describe Bruker Elemental’s relationship with its customers, Andreas Kunz, Managing Director of Bruker Elemental, needs a single word: “customise”. Where others come along with standard products and standard service, Bruker offers customer-oriented solutions that exactly fit custom needs. “First of all we listen closely to our customers, and then together we create the optimum spectrometer with the required parameters and detection limits,” explains the CEO.
Customerisation is in demand especially where high-tech metals are processed and produced for the manufacturing of high-tech products in aerospace, the automotive industry and generally demanding materials in the steel and aluminium industry. For metal analysis during the manufacturing process, Bruker’s Q8 Magellan is already equipped with the necessary, rather unusual line combinations according to customer requirements. Matrices such as gold, indium, silver and bismuth can be easily analysed. With Bruker’s analytical expertise in spark spectrometry, the Q8 Magellan offers highly specialised companies worldwide an optimal, precisely tailored analysis tool. Custom design and flexibility become the customer’s benefit in many applications.
Today Bruker’s Q8 Magellan is considered one of the most perfect instruments of its class on the market. Very accurately and quickly, the spectrometer performs even the most demanding analytical tasks, scoring with its highest precision, lowest detection limits and outstanding stability. Bruker’s high-end analyser is the first spectrometer worldwide that offers a previously unseen quality of analysis because of its possibility for unlimited combinations of measurement parameters.
The most important reason for the Q8 Magellan’s outstanding capabilities is its statistical evaluation of time-resolved measurements of the individual spark. This allows new algorithms for the determination of dissolved / undissolved element portions, and also helps to detect non-metallic inclusions. Oxygen content, oxide and sulphide inclusions, and particle size distribution of various oxide and sulphide types (such as aluminium oxide, calcium aluminate and magnesium aluminate spinels) can all be determined with the Q8 Magellan. For samples with a copper matrix, the spectrometer features such small limits of detection with the necessary tight tolerances that the elemental composition of pure copper with a few ppm impurities can be analysed.
To carry out the measuring process under optimum conditions, the Q8 Magellan uses a pneumatic sample clamp at the spark stand. This enables user-friendly operation and ensures the stable fixation of the sample during the spark, a precise analysis flow and ultimately accurate results. At the same time, it also allows a quick change of the samples. Because of the open spark stand, the analysis of bulky samples, sometimes 50cm wide, is also possible. The subsequent analysis is carried out by one-button technology – as fast as it gets.
“The Q8 Magellan meets all requirements that are expected of an optical emission spectrometer in the premium segment of metal analysis,” says Product Manager Martin Tilleman. And this includes not only the technical finesse. “Also Bruker Elemental´s service and competence as a partner for difficult analytical problems is “premium”. We partner in a team with the customer. Sophisticated analysis always includes expert support.”
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October 11, 2013 | by Julie Cerqueira
Building local capacity to reduce short-lived climate pollutants from the waste sector: CCAP and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
Recognizing the need to mitigate climate change in the near-term, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition was launched in February 2012 to leverage political will in an effort to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as methane, black carbon and other air pollutants. One of the Coalition’s key initiatives works directly with city and national governments to reduce SLCPs from municipal solid waste (MSW). As a member of the Coalition’s MSW initiative, CCAP is building on its expertise developing Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the waste sector to support projects at the city level in Colombia and Chile that complement NAMAs at the national level. Through the generous support of the Coalition, CCAP is working closely with the cities of Cali and Barranquilla in Colombia, and Vina del Mar and Concepcion in Chile, to improve sustainable waste management practices that reduce SLCPs.
One of the benefits of joining the Coalition is access to a global network of waste and finance experts, cities, and national governments working together to reduce SLCPs from the waste and other sectors. At a March 2013 meeting convened by the Coalition on the periphery of the Global Methane Initiative Expo, the governments of Chile and Sweden initiated a formal partnership to support the development of sustainable waste practices in Chile. This partnership was also extended to the city level between Vina del Mar and Stockholm.
The first activity emerging from the partnership was a week-long site visit by Swedish officials to Chile to help Vina del Mar determine how to most appropriately apply Stockholm’s renowned waste policies to their own context. In November 2013, Vina del Mar will be traveling to Sweden to get a better understanding of Stockholm’s waste policies and systems. During this exchange, CCAP is providing technical and capacity support to the city of Vina del Mar with the goal of helping to design a sustainable integrated solid waste management plan for the city. The plan will strive to reduce the volume and cost of waste dumped in landfills as well as promote value-generating activities such as recycling, composting and biodigesting.
In Cali, CCAP is working with the government to assess and develop source separation and collection policies. To do so, the team will develop models to quantify mitigation impact, assess opportunities for diverting organics from large producers, and determine the market feasibility of compost generated through organics diversion. The policies apply to both organics and recyclables, and importantly, explore how to best formalize the city’s informal waste sector to improve the lives of waste pickers.
New to the Coalition, the cities of Barranquilla and Concepcion are collaborating with CCAP to conduct assessments of their waste stream and identify a menu of potential projects that reduce SLCPs. CCAP, the governments of Chile and Colombia, and waste officials from the four cities recently participated in a global meeting of the Coalition’s Advisory Network in Vienna, Austria. The meeting shared best practices from across the globe and build the capacity of city governments to improve waste management activities with the goal of putting them on a path to identifying, designing and ultimately implementing actions that reduce SLCPs. The cities of Cali and Vina del Mar were showcased during the two-day event to demonstrate to new members the opportunities created by joining the Coalition and actions that can be achieved through strong local and national partners.
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This is great news for new members for opportunities created by joining the Coalition and actions that can be achieved through strong committed local and foreign partners. I am a Founder and Managing Trustee of Interwaste R&D (EA) Trust for waste resources recovery education to Universities and waste to energy schemes for sustainable developments in African cities in great lakes region (9) countries. We look forward for committed partners, investors and donors for this noble initiative. Thank you. Best regards. John Gakunga
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Monday Memos: Top 3 TV shows that left us to soon in 2014 & 2015
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Hello people of the internet!!! On today’s ‘Monday Memos’ we’re going to talk about everybody’s favorite pastime…watching T.V.! January is an interesting time for T.V., because this is when new seasons premiere, new shows are added to the list of thing’s we’re obsessed with, and our hearts are broken when our fav shows are cancelled. So let’s take a look at some of the shows in 2014 & 2015 that were taken from us far too soon. Ready? Ok, let’s go!!!
3) Crisis (NBC):
This high action drama was another show that had the potential to be so great. It told the story of what happens when the nation’s most powerful people’s children are kidnapped and held for ransom. We not only got to see the drama that the adults went through as they struggled with their parental love and civil duties, but we also got to see the drama that the kids went though as they tried to survive. This is a show that always kept its’ audience on their toes, so I would have liked to see how it would have continued.
2) Red Band Society (FOX):
This show was able to perfectly balance, romance, drama, tragedy, and comedy in an amazing story of terminal ill teenager who live in a hospital. Even though the show only had a 13 episode run, they did a great job of developing their characters, and it’s obvious that we would have fallen even more in love with these characters as the series continued.
1) Twisted (ABC Family):
This was was another drama that always had us on our toes. This show told the story of a boy named Danny who returns to his hometown after 5 years in a juvenile detention center after being convicted of murdering his aunt. When he returns he reunites with his 2 childhood best friends and soon finds himself accused of committing another murder after a popular girl from his high school dies. In the rest of the season we get romance, lots of drama, and more questions about whether or not Danny really killed his aunt, and if he didn’t what secrets is his family hiding. It’s such a shame that this show ended before we could really dive into the story, and explore these complex characters.
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Connectionist models of language production: lexical access and grammatical encoding. (1999)
by G S Dell
Venue: Cognit. Sci.
The persistence of structural priming: transient activation or implicit learning
by Kathryn Bock, Zenzi M. Griffin - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , 2000
"... Structural priming in language production is a tendency to recreate a recently uttered syntactic structure in different words. This tendency can be seen independent of specific lexical items, thematic roles, or word sequences. Two alternative proposals about the mechanism behind structural priming i ..."
Structural priming in language production is a tendency to recreate a recently uttered syntactic structure in different words. This tendency can be seen independent of specific lexical items, thematic roles, or word sequences. Two alternative proposals about the mechanism behind structural priming include (a) short-term activation from a memory representation of a priming structure and (b) longer term adaptation within the cognitive mechanisms for creating sentences, as a form of procedural learning. Two experiments evaluated these hypotheses, focusing on the persistence of structural priming. Both experiments yielded priming that endured beyond adjacent sentences, persisting over 2 intervening sentences in Experiment 1 and over 10 in Experiment 2. Although memory may have short-term consequences for some components of this kind of priming, the persisting effects are more compatible with a learning account than a transient memory account. Speakers repeat themselves. Sometimes their repetitions are intentional, made for emphasis or other stylistic and social purposes (Giles & Powesland, 1975; Tannen, 1987), and sometimes they are accidental. They may involve almost
...mulate priming in a computational model that actually learns to produce sentences. Such a model can then be tested in an analog of the priming paradigm. Chang, Dell, Bock, and Griffin (2000; see also =-=Dell, Chang, & Griffin, 1999-=-) implemented a model that adapts the principles of parallel distributed processing to the circumstances of language production. The model explicitly incorporates a learning mechanism for priming, so ...
Becoming Syntactic
by Franklin Chang, Gary S. Dell, Kathryn Bock , 2006
"... Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this idea, the authors applied a connectionist model of sentence production to the development and use of abstract syntax. Th ..."
Psycholinguistic research has shown that the influence of abstract syntactic knowledge on performance is shaped by particular sentences that have been experienced. To explore this idea, the authors applied a connectionist model of sentence production to the development and use of abstract syntax. The model makes use of (a) error-based learning to acquire and adapt sequencing mechanisms and (b) meaning–form mappings to derive syntactic representations. The model is able to account for most of what is known about structural priming in adult speakers, as well as key findings in preferential looking and elicited production studies of language acquisition. The model suggests how abstract knowledge and concrete experience are balanced in the development and use of syntax.
...n & Dyer, 1991; Rohde, 2002; St. John & McClelland, 1990), and production, where word sequences are predicted from meaning 234BECOMING SYNTACTIC 235 (Chang, 2002; Chang, Dell, Bock, & Griffin, 2000; =-=Dell, Chang, & Griffin, 1999-=-; Miikkulainen & Dyer, 1991; Rohde, 2002). Our model is a variant of the dual-path model of Chang (2002), a connectionist treatment of the acquisition of production skill. The original dual-path model...
Doing without schema hierarchies: A recurrent connectionist approach to normal and impaired routine sequential action
by Matthew Botvinick, David C. Plaut - Psychological Review , 2004
"... In everyday tasks, selecting actions in the proper sequence requires a continuously updated representation of temporal context. Many existing models address this problem by positing a hierarchy of processing units, mirroring the roughly hierarchical structure of naturalistic tasks themselves. Such a ..."
In everyday tasks, selecting actions in the proper sequence requires a continuously updated representation of temporal context. Many existing models address this problem by positing a hierarchy of processing units, mirroring the roughly hierarchical structure of naturalistic tasks themselves. Such an approach has led to a number of difficulties, including a reliance on overly rigid sequencing mechanisms, an inability to account for context sensitivity in behavior, and a failure to address learning. We consider here an alternative framework, according to which the representation of temporal context is facilitated by recurrent connections within a network mapping from environmental inputs to actions. Applying this approach to a specific, and in many ways prototypical, everyday task (coffee-making), we examine its ability to account for several central characteristics of normal and impaired human performance. The model we consider learns to deal flexibly with a complex set of sequencing constraints, encoding contextual information at multiple time-scales within a single, distributed internal representation. Mildly degrading this context representation leads
...ehavior. Models very similar to the one presented here have been proposed in work on language comprehension (Elman, 1991; McClelland et al., 1989) and production (including errors; Dell et al., 1993; =-=Dell, Chang, & Griffin, 1999-=-), raising the intriguing possibility that sequence production in language may rely on the same mechanisms as non-linguistic sequencing. In agreement with some others (e.g., Gupta & Dell, 1999), we su...
Speech errors, phonotactic constraints, and implicit learning: a study of the role of experience in language production
by Gary S. Dell, Kristopher D. Reed, David R. Adams, Antje S. Meyer, Gary S. Dell, Kristopher D. Reed - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition , 2000
"... Speech errors follow the phonotactics of the language being spoken. For example, in English, if [n] is mispronounced as [n], the [q] will always appear in a syllable coda. The authors created an analogue to this phenomenon by having participants recite lists of consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in ..."
Speech errors follow the phonotactics of the language being spoken. For example, in English, if [n] is mispronounced as [n], the [q] will always appear in a syllable coda. The authors created an analogue to this phenomenon by having participants recite lists of consonant-vowel-consonant syllables in 4 sessions on different days. In the first 2 experiments, some consonants were always onsets, some were always codas, and some could be both. In a third experiment, the set of possible onsets and codas depended on vowel identity. In all 3 studies, the production errors that occurred respected the "phono-tactics " of the experiment The results illustrate the implicit learning of the sequential constraints present in the stimuli and show that the language production system adapts to recent experience. We know that "king " is a word of English and that, as far as we can tell, "hing " is not. However, most people would not be greatly surprised to hear that "hing " is a word that they just do not know. This is because [hlrj] is well formed. Each of its phonemes occur in English, and their ordering is consistent with English phono-tactics, the constraints that define the language's sound sequences. Just as it is apparent that "hing " is a possible word, it is even
...een syllables. None of the existing recurrent network models of the production of word forms (e.g., Dell et al., 1993) can give a good account of phonemic movement errors, particularly exchanges (see =-=Dell, Chang, & Griffin, 1999-=-, for a discussion). To conclude, we return to the phonotactic regularity of speech errors. Why does this effect occur? Our experiments invite the conclusion that at least part of the effect is the re...
A Connectionist Model of Sentence Comprehension and Production. Unpublished
by Douglas L. T. Rohde , 2002
"... The most predominant language processing theories have, for some time, been based largely on structured knowledge and relatively simple rules. These symbolic models intentionally segregate syntactic information processing from statistical information as well as semantic, pragmatic, and discourse inf ..."
The most predominant language processing theories have, for some time, been based largely on structured knowledge and relatively simple rules. These symbolic models intentionally segregate syntactic information processing from statistical information as well as semantic, pragmatic, and discourse influences, thereby minimizing the importance of these potential constraints in learning and processing language. While such models have the advantage of being relatively simple and explicit, they are inadequate to account for learning and validated ambiguity resolution phenomena. In recent years, interactive constraint-based theories of sentence processing have gained increasing support, as a growing body of empirical evidence demonstrates early influences of various factors on comprehension performance. Connectionist networks are one form of model that naturally reflect many properties of constraint-based theories, and thus provide a form in which those theories may be instantiated. Unfortunately, most of the connectionist language models implemented until now have involved severe limitations, restricting the phenomena they could address. Comprehension and production models have, by and large, been limited to simple sentences with small vocabularies (cf. St. John & McClelland, 1990). Most models that have addressed the problem of complex, multi-clausal sentence processing have been prediction networks (cf. Elman, 1991; Christiansen & Chater, 1999a). Although a useful component of a language processing system, prediction does not get at the heart of language: the interface between syntax and semantics.
Symbolically speaking: a connectionist model of sentence production
by Franklin Chang - Cognitive Science , 2002
"... The ability to combine words into novel sentences has been used to argue that humans have symbolic language production abilities. Critiques of connectionist models of language often center on the inability of these models to generalize symbolically (Fodor & Pylyshyn, 1988; Marcus, 1998). To addr ..."
The ability to combine words into novel sentences has been used to argue that humans have symbolic language production abilities. Critiques of connectionist models of language often center on the inability of these models to generalize symbolically (Fodor & Pylyshyn, 1988; Marcus, 1998). To address these issues, a connectionist model of sentence production was developed. The model had variables (role-concept bindings) that were inspired by spatial representations (Landau & Jackendoff, 1993). In order to take advantage of these variables, a novel dual-pathway architecture with event semantics is proposed and shown to be better at symbolic generalization than several variants. This architecture has one pathway for mapping message content to words and a separate pathway that enforces sequencing constraints. Analysis of the model’s hidden units demonstrated that the model learned different types of information in each pathway, and that the model’s compositional behavior arose from the combination of these two pathways. The model’s ability to balance symbolic and statistical behavior in syntax acquisition and to model aphasic double dissociations provided independent support for the dual-pathway architecture.
... & Williams, 1986). 2.1. Statistical learning of production: the Prod-SRN model The Production Simple Recurrent Network (Prod-SRN, Fig. 1) was a SRN (Elman, 1990), which was augmented with a message (=-=Dell, Chang, & Griffin, 1999-=-; Jordan, 1986). One part of the network mapped from a representation of the previous word to the next word in the sequence. The output word units received inputs from a set of hidden units, and the h...
Connectionist natural language processing: the state of the art
by Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater - Cognitive Science , 1999
"... provides an opportunity for an appraisal both of specific connectionist models and of the status and utility of connectionist models of language in general. This introduction provides the background for the papers in the Special Issue. The development of connectionist models of language is traced, f ..."
provides an opportunity for an appraisal both of specific connectionist models and of the status and utility of connectionist models of language in general. This introduction provides the background for the papers in the Special Issue. The development of connectionist models of language is traced, from their intellectual origins, to the state of current research. Key themes that arise throughout different areas of connectionist psycholinguistics are highlighted, and recent developments in speech processing, morphology, sentence processing, language production, and reading are described. We argue that connectionist psycholinguistics has already had a significant impact on the psychology of language, and that connectionist models are likely to have an important influence on future research. I.
Theoretical and computational analysis of skill learning, repetition priming, and procedural memory
by Prahlad Gupta, Neal J. Cohen - Psychological Review , 2002
"... This article analyzes the relationship between skill learning and repetition priming, 2 implicit memory phenomena. A number of reports have suggested that skill learning and repetition priming can be dissociated from each other and are therefore based on different mechanisms. The authors present a t ..."
This article analyzes the relationship between skill learning and repetition priming, 2 implicit memory phenomena. A number of reports have suggested that skill learning and repetition priming can be dissociated from each other and are therefore based on different mechanisms. The authors present a theoretical analysis showing that previous results cannot be regarded as evidence of a processing dissociation between skill learning and repetition priming. The authors also present a single-mechanism computational model that simulates a specific experimental task and exhibits both skill learning and repetition priming, as well as a number of apparent dissociations between these measures. These theoretical and computational analyses provide complementary evidence that skill learning and repetition priming are aspects of a single underlying mechanism that has the characteristics of procedural memory. One of the most significant developments in the study of human memory over the last two decades has been the discovery of a dissociation between two different kinds of memory systems. An early indication of this dissociation came from studies of amnesia in patients with excision or lesions of the hippocampus (Scoville & Milner, 1957). These patients were dramatically impaired in their
...; Bock & Loebell, 1990; Bock, Loebell, & Morey, 1992). It has been specifically proposed that structural priming is a form of implicit learning (Bock et al., 1992; Chang, Griffin, Dell, & Bock, 1997; =-=Dell, Chang, & Griffin, 1999-=-). Furthermore, thesviability of such a view has been demonstrated in the form of a computational model in which connection weights are adjusted slightly each time a sentence is presented to the model...
Connectionist sentence processing in perspective
by Mark Steedman - Cognitive Science , 1999
"... The emphasis in the connectionist sentence-processing literature on distributed representation and emergence of grammar from such systems can easily obscure the often close relations between connectionist and symbolist systems. This paper argues that the Simple Recurrent Network (SRN) models propose ..."
The emphasis in the connectionist sentence-processing literature on distributed representation and emergence of grammar from such systems can easily obscure the often close relations between connectionist and symbolist systems. This paper argues that the Simple Recurrent Network (SRN) models proposed by Jordan (1989) and Elman (1990) are more directly related to stochastic Part-of-Speech (POS) Taggers than to parsers or grammars as such, while auto-associative memory models of the kind pioneered by Longuet–Higgins, Willshaw, Pollack and others may be useful for grammar induction from a network-based conceptual structure as well as for structurebuilding. These observations suggest some interesting new directions for specifically connectionist sentence processing research, including more efficient representations for finite state machines, and acquisition devices based on a distinctively connectionist basis for grounded symbolist conceptual structure. I.
...usible alternatives. But it it is hard to believe that this can be done without a fuller grammatical analysis than that implicit in the SRN. The study of syntactic priming (Bock 1986) in the paper by =-=Dell et al. 1997-=- in this volume might appear at first glance to encourage a more optimistic view. It uses a variant of the simply recurrent architecture linking the context units of an SRN trained to associate sequen...
Learning to divide the labor: an account of deficits in light and heavy verb production
by Jean K. Gordon , Gary S. Dell , 2003
"... Theories of sentence production that involve a convergence of activation from conceptual-semantic and syntactic-sequential units inspired a connectionist model that was trained to produce simple sen-tences. The model used a learning algorithm that resulted in a sharing of responsibility (or “divisio ..."
Theories of sentence production that involve a convergence of activation from conceptual-semantic and syntactic-sequential units inspired a connectionist model that was trained to produce simple sen-tences. The model used a learning algorithm that resulted in a sharing of responsibility (or “division of labor”) between syntactic and semantic inputs for lexical activation according to their predictive power. Semantically rich, or “heavy”, verbs in the model came to rely on semantic cues more than on syntactic cues, whereas semantically impoverished, or “light”, verbs relied more on syntactic cues. When the syntactic and semantic inputs were lesioned, the model exhibited patterns of production characteristic of agrammatic and anomic aphasic patients, respectively. Anomic models tended to lose the ability to retrieve heavy verbs, whereas agrammatic models were more impaired in retrieving light verbs. These results obtained in both sentence production and single-word naming simulations. Moreover, simulated agrammatic lexical retrieval was more impaired overall in sentences than in single-word tasks, in agree-ment with the literature. The results provide a demonstration of the division-of-labor principle, as well as general support for the claim that connectionist learning principles can contribute to the understanding
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The World is a Very Scary Place
‘Goodfellas’ Said Best Film of All Time
Martin Scorsese’s classic mobster movie “Goodfellas” is the greatest film of all time, according to the experts(!!) at a British film magazine.
THAT would be awful enough on it’s own but this…(?!)
“Fight Club,” starring Brad Pitt, came fourth…
…leaves no hope for the future. Throw “Alexander” in there and be done with it.
Fun | Mr. Bingley | October 25, 2005 9:05 am
6 Responses to “The World is a Very Scary Place”
Cullen says:
Goodfellas is okay. I love Fight Club though. Don’t think it’d be in my top 10 best, though. Top 20 maybe.
I think I’ve discovered where they train snail trainers.
GetALifeAgain says:
‘WINS, “The janitors say it was two million, the local police say it was four million, Lufthansa says it was six million!”‘
(Back to Henry Hill in the shower), “JIMMY….”
This heist is in the Guiness Book of world records.
Crusader says:
Goodfellas was decent, but sheesh.
Goodfellas is the greatest movie ever made. Just shut up. SHUT UP!!!!
GALA says:
No the best movie ever made was, “In The Heat of The Night” (1967) with Rod Steiger & Sidney Portier.
“Strange Cargo” (1940) Clark Gable & Ian Hunter
“Breaker Morant” (1979 – Australian) Edward Woodward
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Kerry Cassidy is broke
"We basically have run out of money," says Kerrynote 1 in this update video dated March 17th. The caption reads "We are totally out of funds .. please help." Well, that's straightforward enough, anyway.
To me, the surprise is that this didn't happen years ago. In my opinion, running the kind of wild and woolly operation Kerry does, and expecting your audience to support you 100% financially, is foolhardy. It might work for PBS (just barely,) but PBS's audience is mostly professional people with what they call discretionary income. My picture of Kerry's core audience is of people who barely have jobs, let alone money to throw around to enable Kerry to jet off to Gobekli Tepe with her paramour and stay in a nice hotel.
So she may have managed to swing the Gobekli Tepe boondoggle, but the more general evidence is that I'm right. Late last year Kerry announced an Indiegogo campaign, with a $100,000 goal. The campaign wound up on November 28th having raised $5,850 -- just 6% of the target. This despite the fact that a $5,000 contribution would get you a perk of a dinner with Kerry (Good luck getting a word in edgeways there.)
I'm not unsympathetic. It's tough being broke, and believe me I know. But I just think Kerry's ambitions are totally unrealistic. She works hard, no doubt about that, but her product really isn't very good. She claims to have done a year of film school at UCLA Extension, but I see very few signs of a professional approach to videography. Her IMDB page includes no credits whatsoever as director, producer, writer, editor or director of photography. It lists just two credits as "herself." (I won't brag about my own IMDB credits, but they're... er, a lot.)
This 25-minute video from Kerry's May 2013 trip to Washington DC serves to illustrate Kerry's shortcomings as a videographer. She starts with a minute of establishing shots of the city, setting up the venue (The National Press Building.) OK, a perfectly decent idea. But what she gives us is a minute of the camera waving around, finding focus, passing over some recognizable stuff then moving right along. This is not what you do to establish a location. What you do, as a professional, is to capture enough scenes from the tripod to offer your editor so that he or she can cut together a montage of the appropriate length. You do not use the out-of-focus shots or the wavey-waveys.note 2 Then you write a script that fits the picturenote 3, record it, and dub it on. Optionally, mix in a little M&E (Music and Effects.)
In practice the editor may be the same person as the producer and camera operator, as I'm sure it is in the world of Kerry. Makes no diff. And I'm not saying the occasional whip-pan or crash-zoom is verboten -- just that everything shouldn't be on the move all the time. It's dizzying, and it serves its intentions very poorly.
Her framing during interviews isn't too bad, actually. I was trained to keep the interviewee's eyes between 2/3 and 3/4 up the screen height, and Kerry pretty-much follows that. But from 06:58 to 07:28 in this piece she keeps the camera trained on the interviewee's lapel as she introduces herself for half a minute. CHOP IT OUT, Kerry. A professional would never allow that dreck into the cut story. She doesn't shoot enough cutaways to edit the interviews tightly -- she seems to be content to let them drone on at full length, and that applies to her entire oeuvre as far as I've seen. To my mind, she simply doesn't have the instinct for what works to create watchable documentaries.
Her pieces to camera run the range from so-so to frighteningly bad. She doesn't light herself, so we get an ultra-low contrast picture. She doesn't seem to believe in learning a script, or teleprompting one, so we get plenty of ers and ums, and she has the devastating habit of shaking her head every so often, as though getting her hair out of her eyes (check the appeal for support video, at 01:45.) Her editing is at times inaccurate (again, check the appeal vid at 09:57 for a double-cut.) I hear you say this is all part of her down-home appeal, but I don't buy it. UNPROFESSIONAL is the word that comes to mind.
So my suggestion to Kerry would be to give up on it. Maintain your library of however-many-thousand over-length interviews you have, but stop prancing around the world making more of them and expecting volunteers to foot the bill. Perhaps stick to conference organizing — that surely generates plenty of cash. The punters who pay good money to attend the Awake and Aware conferences aren't interested in Kerry specifically, but in the speakers she comes up with. She's pretty good at that, and of course these days she could always have a great new career as an Uber driver.
Update March 24
Since declaring that she's skint and cannot continue "this important work," Kerry has produced and released the following videos:
Same day: Richard Bartlett & Melissa Joy: Matrix Energetics (whatever those are)
A day later: Chris Kehler: Quantum Energy Healing (whatever that is)
And today, "The Brussels bombings were a False Flag." Oh yes of course they were. Everything tragic is. That way we can all admire Kerry's brilliant access to THE REAL STORY and forget about wasting sympathy on the 30+ fake families who are pretending to have lost fake loved ones. Terrific job, Kerry.
Announcements that tell their own story: Today Kerry announced that she's putting together a tour of Europe, to take place sometime this Spring. She doesn't say she'll be hitchhiking and staying in youth hostels, either.
If that announcement had come a day later I'd have thought "Yeah, yeah, Kerry. April fool, right?"
[1] For those who have NFI who Kerry is, here's a briefing.
[2] Unless you're Dennis Hopper. Sorry, Easy Rider is one of my pet hates.
[3] In the newsgathering business they tend to start with a narration track and cut to it. Fine, that works too (but in my opinion is less creative.)
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It doesn't really work for PBS either. They get some of their funding from tax payers and from various foundations. Where Kerri gets her money has always been an open question for me.
Quite right, Chris. "Viewers like you" only provide a minority of the total budget. All the more reason to declare Kerry's business model a non-starter.
Exactly. Even Hoagland tried to line up other sources of income(dvd sales, conferences, and whatever C2C was paying him) before begging for money from his fans. In the end, not he could make that work.
The guys making a go of it in this area our the folks who write books. Bara, for all his faults, has a good enough work ethic to keep turning out(really bad) books. Of course they are crap, but they give him a little cash and something to talk about at conferences. They also give him some credibility with gullible (or apathetic) TV producers.
Irrelevant comment from "Captain Novvak" disallowed
THE Orbs Whiperer said...
Do you feel there is a legitimate purpose to cover the subjects in programs they have produced, Patrick, and that the only problem is with the craftsmanship of the production, or should there be censorship, all together?
Expat wrote: "forget about wasting sympathy on the 30+ fake families who are pretending to have lost fake loved ones."
It might, in this case, point to a more psychopathic (narcissistic?) tendency: to construct a view which inhibits actual sympathy for the mindless suffering, waste and ignorance while elevating one where everything is rationally "controlled" and "staged", in some evil and hidden way. It's the typical flipped inside-out world view of a person trying to keep ones own intolerable suffering and desire out of sight by controlling those elements by endlessly restructuring them. And sometimes for good reasons: accepting would break down a fragile ego-structure, fragile in the sense of vulnerable when the fantasy story arch production would stop functioning.
It's all too human but so exaggerated in this case! And very sad how Kerry does not see how she's describing mostly her own panic, secrecy and conspiracy for the world to take notice. Endlessly self-therapizing, without solution since the hiding is the source of problem and as well the source of her current power, her current "way to be".
The fact this stuff still has some kind of audience, shows not only that there are others who resonate with her disposition but more that there's a market for the outrageous, repetitive and tantalizing speculation. Members of such audience might have complex and varying motives to remain (briefly) interested. There's in my view no easy answer, no handy category to put them all in. Not even "nut cases" or "woo crowd". Perhaps this is more like conspiracy p@rn? While in this case the director believing it's true art...
Dr. Dee
based on previous posts I know what a "pain in the nuts" Ripley can be but on the other hand it was always pretty funny,
entertaining and "informative" how she always seem to be able and willing to make a complete nutter out of her-selves.
So....a request to allow her comments every now and then....just for the fun of it ;-)
Happy Easter holiday
Theadora: ABSOLUTELY NO CENSORSHIP. Kerry has an absolute right to say silly things, just as I have an absolute right to mock them. Click on the little KERRY CASSIDY label at the bottom of my article to see everything I've ever written about her. Summary: It's both the content and the packaging I object to. If Kerry fails for lack of financial support, that's just what she deserves. But as I hinted in yesterday's update, she's just bluffing.
Dee: Your analysis is excellent. I fully agree.
Adrian: I did, see?
Erickson said...
For awhile I might have dreamed of a world where Kerry could not afford to continue her work, where she would not be able to visit "Captain" Mark Richards in prison because the vending machines in the visiting room raised their prices, or she could not travel around the world with Sean Morton (although future trips with Sean will probably have to be delayed in any event). It would be nice if her supporters simply decided that her quest for insider knowledge and conspiracy was not worth the price they were paying - not because of censorship, not even because of the risk of a scaler attack, but because people decided that whatever she had to say was just another false flag and they got bored.
But from your update, it does appear that it is just a dream.
She has an audience, just not a paying one. Hoagland has the same issue, but to a lesser degree. He has his own BS to sell, where as she's just selling other people's stories.
Those interviews really are awful. I saw the 3 hour one with Hoagie, and it was all over the place. Instead of trying to keep him on topic, she let him (and his ego) roam free. Truly bad.
Thank you...and I fully agree with your "...Kerry has an absolute right to say silly things, just as I have an absolute right to mock them..." reaction to Ripley's post. The world is going berserk with political correctness and the silly offspring it produced. There are to much [potential] narcissistic people around thinking they have the right to be offended for example. It is nothing more then a silly and childish whine. If we would or should allow such a right to exist they also should except its offspring...Having the right to offend.
So yes, excellent point
Lest any readers think I'm exaggerating the attitude of conspira-droids (not just Kerry) to domestic tragedy, here's a quote I stole from Metabunk, who were in turn quoting from the NorthernTruthSeeker blog:
"WHY are there still shills out there in the alternative media and the so called "truth movement" trying to push the lie that Sandy Hook was real to this very day? Honestly, even with the other frauds including the San Bernardino fraud, the Virginia fraud, the Boston Bombing fraud, etc, etc, staring them right in their faces, they still have the nerve to say that Sandy Hook was real? It would not surprise me that they were paid off (estimates are that the criminals involved have given each person participating some $666,000 in blood money for perpetuating the lie...) and are now stuck with their lies.... I honestly wonder how they can live with themselves?"
No censorship, Patrick? Well then, call it obstinacy. You dismissed my first comment on this thread, even though it pertains to that Dick Hoagland, who also deleted my comment on the same subject.
Now watch, he's going to do just as I preDICKted, and start ranting about the incoming comet having a companion under intelligent control, and 39 more nerds in Nikes are liable to wash down a fistfull of sleeping pills with vodka and castrate themselves all over again.
I'll say it right here and now, their blood will be on your hands, because you can't handle the truth.
Or do you think that the Heaven's Gate suicide pact never happened, and that it was all just a show, with actors playing dead as they were hauled out on stretchers to the ambulance? Maybe they drank vodka that had been dosed with knock out drops, and then they were castrated? At any rate, that Dick Hoagland and Art Bell were like Orson Welles doing, War of the Worlds.
To this day, they remain unrepentant about their complicity in driving those impressionable audience members to their deaths, even if it was all staged. Hoagland and Bell wouldn't have had inside information about it all being an act, would they? Hoagland did go so far as to say that he heard that Marshall Applewhite was a CIA operative.
At any rate, what are the odds that three comets would be headed towards Earth, flying in formation, equidistant apart, as if three lights on the starboard side of a gimoungous triangle? It must be another fake picture from NASA.
What three incoming comets? Comet 252PLinear flew by Earth on March 21st, followed by Comet P/2016 BA14 a day later, and both were keenly observed by comet watchers. There WAS no third one.
I count THREE!
Objects 252P/Linear, P/2016 & BA14
Amateur comet watchers don't hold NASA accountable.
Please pay attention Theadora:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/p2016-ba14-closest-comet-in-almost-250-years03162016/
If you noticed, Patrick, they ASSUME that the object is a comet, because it has a tail, and that the two companions are chips off the old block. In any event, we are being desensitized to the possibility of ETs, so as to mitigate the potential damage to cultural impact upon society, as cautioned by Margaret Mead's contribution to the so called, Brookings Report. Otherwise, if NASA knows for certain that the object(s) are a comet, then they would state so uncategorically, instead of qualifying the description.
P/2016 and BA14 are one and the same comet, NOT two separate ones!
Look at the caption of the photo of the 'three' green comets.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/18/comets-brush-earth/81974318/
It's nothing more than a composite photo of ONE of them - P/2016: "The STACK of telephoto exposures was captured on March 16 from Penwortham, South Australia".
There is a subtle inference that the objects might not be a comet. Why the ambiguity?
Furthermore, notice the un-natural, symmetry. The two trailing objects following an equal distance, starboard of stern, from the lead object.
Discussion of these comets is now closed.
Comment from Novvak/Theadora attempting to extend the comet theme disallowed.
Planning and announcing tours could perhaps supply quick financial relief as interested fans often need to book and pay these "exclusive" opportunities in advance or in some cases lump sum advances might be paid by the organizing parties. Not sure about cancellations though. Does event insurance exist?
Utterly irrelevant comment from Novvak/Theadora disallowed
What's she on about now? https://twitter.com/projectcamelot
She's channeling some guy called 'Faily' (appropriate) who failyed in his attempt to warn us of all sorts of calamities on the 7th.
http://projectcamelotportal.com/2016/04/06/13047/
Sheer raving lunacy. It's hard to believe that even her most devoted fan would give that rubbish any credence.
"ANNOUCEMENT [sic] posted here for simplicity" -- That's a gem already.
Nothing simple about it. The announcement is unsurprisingly riddled with factual errors and incoherent usage of various technical or formal terms, showing the source, human or not, has little exposure to the topic apart from what's gleaned from various similar blogs.
It doesn't come as a surprise though as it's known that in times of high stress, the schizophrenic personality retreats in the self, dissociating to the extent of feeling "others" speaking, but mostly just facilitating through the act some "safe" environment to deal what must look like an extremely dangerous world ready to explode (and in some ways, that's always somewhat true, just more vividly so for people in this state).
Sometimes this can provide some creative or at least amusing output. Not in the case of Kerry though. Perhaps inspiring to other crazies who are less creative or able to write coherent sentences? How can this increasing collapse ever end well?
Yes, we have no Mike Bara
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===Key Hydrogeology References===
AB Brokonsult. 1980. Tabora Region Water Master Plan: Hydrogeological Studies. Ministry of Water Tanzania
Shindo S. 1989. The study on the Recharge Mechanism and Development of Groundwater in the Inland Area of Tanzania. Progress report of the Japan-Tanzania joint Research 4. Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Carl Bro, Cowi Consult, Kampax-Kruger. 1982. Regional Water Master Plans for Iringa, Ruvuma and Mbeya Regions, Hydrogeology Vol 9. Ministry of Water for Tanzania.
SADC. 2010. Hydrogeological Map of Tanzania.
Coster FM. 1960. Underground water in Tanganyika
DHV. 1984. Regional Water Master Plans for Morogoro. Ministry of Water Tanzania
Mato. 2002. Groundwater Pollution in Urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Assessing Vulnerability and Protection Priorities. Technical University, Eindhoven
Mjemah IC. 2007. Hydrogeological and Hydrogeochemical Investigation of a Coastal Aquifer in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Laboratory for Applied Geology and Hydrogeology, Geological Institute, Ghent University.
Mjemah IC, Van Camp MC and Walraevens K. Groundwater exploitation and recharge rate estimation of a quaternary sand aquifer in Dar-es-Salaam area, Tanzania.
Africa Groundwater Atlas >> Hydrogeology by country >> Hydrogeology of Tanzania
The area of present-day Tanzania has been inhabited since pre-historic times, first by hunter-gatherers, and since at least 2000 years ago by farmers. Travellers and traders from the Persian Gulf and India began visiting coastal areas in the early 1st millennium AD, and Arab trading posts were set up long before the 14th century. Portugal took control of some coastal areas and parts of Zanzibar from the 15th century, before Omani Arabs claimed Zanzibar in the mid 19th century, which subsequently played an important role in Arab-controlled slave and spice trades. The mainland part of Tanzania was part of German East Africa from 1884, while Britain took control of Zanzibar. After World War I, the part of German East Africa that became Tanzania (then called Tanganyika) was claimed by Britain. Tanganyika became independent in 1961, and Zanzibar in 1963, and they merged in 1964 to become Tanzania.
After independence, the country embraced the ideology of African socialism, with a single party state, transitioning to a multiparty political system in 1992. The first president, Julius Nyerere’s, policy of emphasising national unity and discouraging ethnic divisions helped provide relative political stability. Demands for Zanzibar’s independence from the rest of Tanzania have become stronger in the 21st century.
Tanzania’s economy is heavily based on agriculture, which accounts for a quarter of GDP and 85% of exports, including sugar, cotton, cashews, coffee and sisal. Gold mining provides valuable export income, along with some petrochemicals. Tourism is a growth industry, boosted by visits to Mount Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and wildlife destinations. Strict laws protect wildlife, but poachers pose a constant threat.
Tanzania has relatively abundant water resources, with relatively high, but seasonal, rainfall and a number of major rivers and lakes. Most rural areas rely on groundwater from communal boreholes for water supply, and many piped urban supplies depend on groundwater. The post-independence policy of collective villagisation, intended to make the provision of infrastructure more efficient, included the rural water supply programme that aimed to supply free and safe water within 400m of every household within 20 years. However, in the 2000s access to improved water supplies has declined, especially in urban areas.
1 Authors
2 Terms and conditions
3 Geographical Setting
3.3 Surface water
3.4 Soil
3.5 Land cover
3.6 Water statistics
5 Hydrogeology
5.1 Unconsolidated Sedimentary
5.2 Consolidated Sedimentary - Intergranular & Fracture Flow
5.3 Basement
5.4 Groundwater Status
6 Groundwater use and management
6.1 Groundwater use
6.2 Groundwater management
6.3 Transboundary aquifers
6.4 Groundwater monitoring
7.1 General online resources
7.2 Key Geology References
7.3 Key Hydrogeology References
Hosea Sanga, Department of Water Resources, Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Tanzania
Dr Kirsty Upton, Brighid Ó Dochartaigh, British Geological Survey, UK
Dr Imogen Bellwood-Howard, Institute of Development Studies, UK
Please cite this page as: Sangea, Upton, Ó Dochartaigh and Bellwood-Howard, 2018.
Bibliographic reference: Sangea H, Upton K, Ó Dochartaigh BÉ and Bellwood-Howard, I. 2018. Africa Groundwater Atlas: Hydrogeology of Tanzania. British Geological Survey. Accessed [date you accessed the information]. http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Hydrogeology_of_Tanzania
The Africa Groundwater Atlas is hosted by the British Geological Survey (BGS) and includes information from third party sources. Your use of information provided by this website is at your own risk. If reproducing diagrams that include third party information, please cite both the Africa Groundwater Atlas and the third party sources. Please see the Terms of use for more information.
Geographical Setting
Tanzania. Map developed from USGS GTOPOPO30; GADM global administrative areas; and UN Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. For more information on the map development and datasets see the geography resource page.
Tanzania lies in the area between the Great Lakes (Victoria, Tanganyika and Malawi) and the Indian Ocean. The lakes mark the trace of the western branch of the East African Rift System. The coastal area of Tanzania comprises a low-lying flat plain. The centre of the country is dominated by a plateau, which varies in height between 900 and 1800 m above sea level. In the north and south of the country are highland areas, with the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 metres above sea level), situated in the northern Pare Range. Tanzania also includes several islands, located off the east coast in the Indian Ocean. The largest of these are Pemba (north), Zanzibar (centre), and Mafia (south).
Capital city Dodoma
Region Eastern Africa
Border countries Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique
Total surface area* 947,300 km2 (94,730,000 ha)
Total population (2015)* 53,470,000
Rural population (2015)* 36,942,000 (69%)
Urban population (2015)* 16,528,000 (31%)
UN Human Development Index (HDI) [highest = 1] (2014)* 0.5212
* Source: FAO Aquastat
The central plateau region of Tanzania is classified as a hot arid steppe climate, while the northern and southern regions are predominantly tropical savannah. The highland areas in the northeast and southwest of the country have temperate climates with dry winters and warm or hot summers. These climate regions are reflected in the spatial variations in observed average annual temperature and precipitation across Tanzania.
There are temporal variations in precipitation and temperature across Tanzania. Temperature is generally lower during the winter months of June to August, and highest during November and December. Precipitation is consistently low from June to September, and is higher and more variable during the summer months.
More information on average rainfall and temperature for each climate zone can be found on the Tanzania Climate Page.
These maps and graphs were developed from the CRU TS 3.21 dataset produced by the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. For more information see the climate resource page.
The main surface water features in Tanzania are Lake Victoria in the north, Lake Tanganyika in the west, and Lake Malawi in the south.
The main river draining the plateau region into Lake Tanganyika is the Gombe River. Several smaller lakes, including Lake Manyara, Lake Eyasi and Lake Rukwa, also receive discharge from rivers draining the central plateau.
The main rivers flowing from the plateau region into the Indian Ocean are the Pangani (north), Wami (centre) and Rufiji (south).
The Ministry of Water, through its nine Lake/River Basins, is responsible for river flow gauging. River flow data are stored in each of the Lake/River Basin offices, and also stored centrally at the Ministry of Water.
Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) have river gauging stations at selected areas of interest within National Parks.
Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) also monitor lake levels and river flow in selected locations.
Major surface water features of Tanzania. Map developed from World Wildlife Fund HydroSHEDS; Digital Chart of the World drainage; and FAO Inland Water Bodies. For more information on the map development and datasets see the surface water resource page.
The soils of Tanzania are very varied, reflecting the complex interaction of climate, topography and geology.
Volcanic activity associated with the East African Rift System typically gives rise to Andosols, while erosion of weathered basic volcanic rocks typically produces Vertisols.
Widespread Cambisols reflect continuous uplift of the area surrounding the East African Rift System. These are young soils that generally lack distinct horizons and show limited evidence of soil forming processes.
Acidic Acrisols and clay-rich Luvisols represent soil development in areas with significant relief.
Extensive Lixosols in the south of Tanzania reflect the predominance of grassland savannah.
Fluvisols are widespread in central Tanzania along the floodplain of the Rufiji River and its tributaries.
Soil Map of Tanzania, from the European Commission Joint Research Centre: European Soil Portal. For more information on the map see the soil resource page.
Land Cover Map of Tanzania, from the European Space Agency GlobCover 2.3, 2009. For more information on the map see the land cover resource page.
Water statistics
Rural population with access to safe drinking water (%) 45.5
Urban population with access to safe drinking water (%) 77.2
Population affected by water related disease No data No data No data
Total internal renewable water resources (cubic metres/inhabitant/year) 1571
Total exploitable water resources (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data
Freshwater withdrawal as % of total renewable water resources 5.385
Total renewable groundwater (Million cubic metres/year) 30,000
Exploitable: Regular renewable groundwater (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data
Groundwater produced internally (Million cubic metres/year) 30,000
Fresh groundwater withdrawal (primary and secondary) (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data
Groundwater: entering the country (total) (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data
Groundwater: leaving the country to other countries (total) (Million cubic metres/year) No data No data No data
Industrial water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) 25
Municipal water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) 527
Agricultural water withdrawal (all water sources) (Million cubic metres/year) 4,632
Irrigation water withdrawal (all water sources) 1 (Million cubic metres/year) 4,425
Irrigation water requirement (all water sources) 1 (Million cubic metres/year) 973
Area of permanent crops (ha) 2,150,000
Cultivated land (arable and permanent crops) (ha) 15,650,000
Total area of country cultivated (%) 16.52
Area equipped for irrigation by groundwater (ha) 386
Area equipped for irrigation by mixed surface water and groundwater (ha) No data No data No data
These statistics are sourced from FAO Aquastat. They are the most recent available information in the Aquastat database. More information on the derivation and interpretation of these statistics can be seen on the FAO Aquastat website.
Further water and related statistics can be accessed at the Aquastat Main Database.
1 More information on irrigation water use and requirement statistics
This section provides a summary of the geology of Tanzania. More detail can be found in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
The geology map on this page shows a simplified overview of the geology of Tanzania at a national scale (see the Geology resource page for more details).
Other geological maps at various scales are produced by the Geological Survey of Tanzania, which hosts a Geological and Mineral Information System that shows paper geological maps available for sale, and also provides a digital geology map at a scale of 1:2 million, which is downloadable in shapefile format.
Geology of Tanzania at 1:5 million scale. Based on map described by Persits et al. 2002/Furon and Lombard 1964. For more information on the map development and datasets see the geology resource page.
Geological Environments
Key Formations Age Lithology Structure
Tertiary-Quaternary Unconsolidated Sedimentary
Neogene-Quaternary Unconsolidated sediments cover large parts of the country, including alluvial sediments in valleys, coastal/marine sediments along the coast, and continental and lacustrine sediments.
Cretaceous-Quaternary volcanic rocks
Cretaceous-Quaternary Carbonatite volcanoes began erupting in the Cretaceous and continued into the Cenozoic. Ol Doinyo Lengai is the world's only active volcano with carbonatite lava. Alkaline volcanic rocks of Neogene age are common north of Lake Nyasa and Lake Natron. Volcanism is associated with the East African Rift system.
Kimberlites
Diamondiferous kimberlites are concentrated within the Precambrian Tanzania Craton (see below), mainly south of Lake Victoria, with outliers in the Precambrian (Proterozoic) Mobile/Orogenic Belt (see below). The main kimberlite provinces are Shinyanga-Mwadui, Mabuki, Speke Gulf, Lake Eyasi and Iramba Plateau.
Sedimentary – Jurassic-Tertiary
Cretaceous Sedimentary Late Jurassic to Tertiary Late Jurassic to Tertiary sedimentary rocks in Tanzania are associated with a long-lasting marine regression, which led to the deposition of mainly continental and deltaic sedimentary rocks, interbedded with thin marine beds. The The continental units include sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. The marine units contain coral limestone, silty shale and mudstone, and are mostly found in southern Tanzania, with isolated outcrops in the central-east and northeast. The sedimentary rocks were deposited in rift troughs of the East Africa Rift, trending SW-NE, and also in the coastal basin. In the coastal basin there are two major structural trends associated with faulting: the NNE-SSW Tanga Fault and the NNW-SSE Lind Fault.
Sedimentary – Mesozoic-Paleozoic
Karoo Supergroup Carboniferous to Lower Jurassic The Karoo system consists mainly of sandstone, siltstone and shale, with more minor coals, conglomerates, tillite, mudstones and limestones. In southwest Tanzania the Karoo sedimentary rocks are of continental origin; in the northeast they are predominantly marine. The major basins of the Karoo System trend NNE. The smaller basins are aligned in a NW direction between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika. The sedimentary sequence of the Karroo System reaches 7000 m thick.
Igneous Intrusive
Granitic Rocks and Pegmatites Archean - Proterozoic Intrusive igneous rocks are not distinguished on the geology map on this page, but they occur intruded into Archaean and Proterozoic rocks across Tanzania.
Granitic rocks are subdivided into syn-, post-, and late-orogenic. Late-orogenic granites typically form the cores of gneiss domes, or occur in complex intrusions. Various types exist: granites that are typically intruded into Archaean and Proterozoic rocks, micro-granites, and granodiorites.
Different types of pegmatite occur in syn-orogenic granites, migmatites, and metamorphic rocks of the Archean and Proterozoic terrains. Pegmatites are abundant in the Proterozoic Usagaran and Ubendian Systems; they are rare in the Archean Dodoman System; almost absent in the Archean Nyanzian System; and do not occur in rocks younger than Proterozoic age.
Granites within the Archean and Proterozoic rocks of Tanzania are scarce, small and discordant with the general structural trend. Micro-granites typically occur as lenticular masses within syn-orogenic granites in the Lake Victoria Goldfield. Granodiorites occur in several places including the Archean Lake Victoria Goldfield and Proterozoic Lupa Goldfield.
Precambrian Mobile/Orogenic Belt
Bukoban System, Mozambique Belt (Upper Proterozoic)
Ubendian, Usagaran, and Karagwe-Ankolean Systems (Lower and Middle Proterozoic)
Proterozoic The Bukoban System comprises largely unmetamorphosed sedimentary rocks of anorogenic and continental origin, amygdaloidal basalts, and andesites. They have occasionally been subjected to local cataclasis. The sedimentary rocks of the Bukoban System include sandstones, siltstone, shales, red beds, chert, conglomerates, quartzites, greywackes, and dolomitic limestones. The rocks of the Mozambique Belt are intensely metamorphosed and deformed, and include granitoids, granulite, meta-anorthosites, gneisses, amphibolites, marbles, pegmatites, mafic and ultramafic rocks, migmatites, quartzites and schists.
The Ubendian System includes granulite, amphibolite, migmatite, gneiss, schist, quartzite and marble. Intrusive rocks are predominantly granite, but also include gabbronorites, eclogites, metamorphosed amphibolites, dolerites, peridotites and carbonatites. The Usagaran System comprises sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Konse Group and gneisses, amphibolites and lenses of granulites of the Isimani Suite. The Karagwe-Ankolean System comprises argillaceous formations that have been slightly metamorphosed to argillites, phyllites and schists. Arenaceous formations have also been metamorphosed to quartzite.
In the Lower and Middle Proterozoi, rocks of the Usagaran System were largely deposited in geosynclinals troughs. The Konse Group of the Usagaran System trends NE-SW and is bordered by the Tanzania Craton to the West and Isimani Suite to the East. The Isimani Suite is highly metamorphosed and is unconformably overlain by the Konse Group.
Precambrian Craton
Tanzania Craton: Dodoman and Nyanzian-Kavirondian systems, Greenstone Belts Archean The craton is a composite of several different terrains of variously metamorphosed Archaean rocks.
The Dodoman System, in central Tanzania, is the oldest and is of amphibolites facies. It is intruded by ultramafic, mafic, and felsic rocks (granites and pegmatites discussed above).
The Nyanzian and Kavirondian Systems are in northern Tanzania, and include gneiss, schist, quartzite, migmatite, amphibolite and granulite.
The Greenstone Belts to the south and east of Lake Victoria are regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies, and locally metamorphosed to epidote and amphibolites facies near granitic intrusions. The Greenstone Belts include ultramafic rocks, gabbros, dolerites, granites, syenites, diorite and lamprophyries. The Greenstone Belts are also intruded by mafic to felsic intrusions of various ages.
This section provides a summary of the hydrogeology of the main aquifers in Tanzania. More information is available in the references listed at the bottom of this page. Many of these references can be accessed through the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
The hydrogeology map on this page shows a simplified overview of the type and productivity of the main aquifers in Tanzania, at 1:5,000,000 scale (see the Hydrogeology map resource page for more details).
Tanzania is also covered by the SADC hydrogeological map and atlas (2010), available through the SADC Groundwater Information Portal.
Map of hydrogeology (aquifer type and productivity) of Tanzania at 1:5 million scale. For more information on how the map was developed see the Hydrogeology map resource page
Unconsolidated Sedimentary
Named Aquifers General Description Water quantity issues Water quality issues Recharge
Alluvial deposits are mainly seen in coastal delta regions and along river valleys. The coastal plain consists of largely unconsolidated sediments (beach sands, dunes and salt marsh), with some consolidated limestone deposits. Alluvium is found in river valleys. There are also volcano-pyroclastic sediments close to formerly active volcanoes.
Borehole yields vary depending on lithology, but the greatest potential lies within the volcano-pyroclastic and alluvium deposits of the Kahe Basin and Sanya Plain near Kilimanjaro. Yields typically vary between 0.2 and 2 l/s.
The thickness of unconsolidated aquifers is usually not well defined, but the water table depth tends to vary between 10 and 20 m. Boreholes are often drilled to depths of 100-200 m.
There are no major groundwater quantity issues. Groundwater quality is generally good, with the exception of the coastal plain deposits, which are vulnerable to saline intrusion. Rainfall is the dominant source of recharge, but infiltration also occurs from rivers and lakes.
Consolidated Sedimentary - Intergranular & Fracture Flow
Coastal Sedimentary Aquifer The groundwater potential of the Coastal Sedimentary Aquifer varies depending on its lithology, with higher productivity provided by the sandstones and limestones. Marls and shales are generally unproductive. The aquifer is also generally unconfined. Borehole yields in the Coastal Sedimentary Aquifer are highest in the limestone (1-6 l/s) and slightly lower in the sandstone (up to 2.5 l/s).
The aquifer generally varies in thickness from 5-30m. The water table typically sits at a depth of 10-35 m. Boreholes are not normally drilled below a depth of 80 m.
The productivity of the Coastal Aquifer is limited due to issues with saline intrusion. Salinity and nitrate are common groundwater quality issues.
Karoo Sandstone Aquifer Sandstones and conglomerates of the Karoo System are characterised by intergranular flow and storage, which can be locally enhanced by secondary fracture permeability.
The aquifer is generally unconfined.
Boreholes commonly provide yields of 0.1 to 5 l/s, but yields up to 15 l/s have also been reported.
The aquifer generally varies in thickness from 5 - 30m. The water table typically sits at a depth of 10 - 35 m. Boreholes are not normally drilled below a depth of 80 m.
Basement Complex Groundwater occurrence in Basement Complex rocks is largely limited to secondary permeability, such as weathered zones, joints, fractures, faults or solution features. The potential of weathered zones depends on the degree and depth of weathering and associated fracturing, and the saturated thickness. The aquifers are generally discontinuous, and often confined.
Higher yields are encountered in narrow bands of gneisses and metasediments, in which permeability can be enhanced by a greater degree of fracturing due to their proximity to fault zones. Such zones occur in the Pangani Basin.
Higher yields are also obtained where thick weathered zones are associated with bedrock fracturing, such as in the Makutapora Basin in Dodoma, and in fractured quartzite and metasediments in otherwise dense gneisses.
Borehole yields in the basement complex rocks are generally around 3 l/s and vary with lithology. A maximum yield of 13 l/s is recorded in the Pangani Basin.
Transmissivity in the Pangani Basin ranges significantly. Hydraulic conductivities of between 1 and >16 m/day have been reported.
Studies in the weathered fractured aquifer of the Makutupora Basin have indicated a transmissivity of 670 m²/day in the basement rocks, while overlying sand and gravel deposits have a transmissivity of around 490 m²/day.
The basement aquifers are typically up to 50 m thick. Boreholes are typically drilled to depths of 70-120 m in the Dodoma System and 40-250 m in the Usagaran System.
There are no major groundwater quantity issues. There are no major groundwater quality issues. Recharge generally occurs through fracture zones, faults or lineaments.
Groundwater Status
In Tanzania there is inadequate data and information available for the major aquifers. Data that exists are often scattered, fragmented and incomplete.
Some of the key groundwater issues in Tanzania are:
Overexploitation
Parts of the Makutupora Basin, which supplies the Dodoma Municipality, are showing declining water levels;
There has been a decrease in borehole yields, particularly within the Sanawari area;
Overexploitation has led to saline intrusion in coastal regions, particularly around Dar es Salaam;
There is no country-wide monitoring network to fully understand issues of overexploitation;
There is a lack of groundwater resources management to deal with issues of overexploitation.
There is no established safe distance between groundwater abstractions and potentially contaminating human activities;
Polluting activities are increasingly encroaching on important recharge areas;
Many aquifers are showing deteriorating groundwater quality;
There is inadequate public awareness of potential sources of pollution and their impact on the groundwater environment.
Management of abandoned wells
Poor borehole construction can lead to borehole collapse, which leaves deep aquifers vulnerable to pollution;
There is inadequate institutional regulation of groundwater resources;
There is inadequate government control of the private drilling sector.
Generally, the natural groundwater quality in Tanzania is considered potentially good and acceptable for use, with notable exceptions in some parts of the country:
High chloride concentration (salinity) is a problem in the coastal regions of Lindi and Mtwara, and in central regions such as Singida and Shinyanga where there is a high evaporation rate and poor drainage.
In Lindi and Mtwara regions, high levels of carbon dioxide have been reported in groundwater (Kongola et al. 1999), which causes issues with corrosion.
High fluoride concentrations are a common problem in the areas surrounding the Rift valley system (e.g. Kilimanjaro, Arusha, Singida and parts of Shinyanga regions) (Mato et al. 2002).
High iron content in groundwater has been observed in Mtwara and Kagera regions (Kongola et al. 1999).
Nitrate levels of more than 100 mg/l were reported in the Makutupora basin, Dodoma and Singida town (Nkotagu, 1996; Kongola et al. 1999).
There are several groundwater dependent ecosystems in Tanzania that are dependent on the Makutopora aquifer in the Dodoma Region. The Little Kinyasungwe River and the Hombolo lake/wetland are discharge points for this aquifer and are important sources of water for domestic supply, livestock and irrigation in the Chamwimo District.
Groundwater use and management
Groundwater is a vital source for both rural and urban water supply schemes in Tanzania. Towns such as Dar es Salaam, Singida, Babati, Arusha, Moshi and Dodoma depend largely on groundwater for public water supply. Many rural water schemes are also built on groundwater sources. Most sources consist of boreholes with electric or hand pumps.
The current volume of groundwater used across Tanzania (1,265,000 m³/day) is estimated to be 12% of the total available volume. The main uses of groundwater are:
Urban water supply (10% of total volume)
Rural water supply (50% of total volume)
Agriculture (10% of total volume)
Industry and mining (2% of total volume)
Other uses including livestock and dry land fishing (28% of total volume)
Source: Ministry of Water, 2009
Groundwater use in industry is more concentrated in urban areas, particularly in Dar es Salaam, where around 80% of Tanzania's industrial activity takes place.
The principal legal instruments that regulate water resources in Tanzania are:
The Water Resources Management Act, No. 11 of 2009, which regulates water resources management.
The Water Supply and Sanitation Act, No. 12 of 2009, which regulates water supply delivery.
These pieces of legislation are based on the 2002 National Water Policy.
The Water Resource Management Act outlines the institutional and legal framework for the sustainable management and development of water resources, outlines principles for water resources management, provides for the prevention and control of water pollution, and provides for the participation of stakeholders and the general public in the implementation of the National Water Policy.
The Water Resource Management Act also addresses issues such as groundwater control areas, and abstraction and discharge permits. Under Section 62 of the Act, the Ministry of Water is responsible for:
Groundwater exploration licences (issued to any person who is engaged in groundwater exploration);
Groundwater drilling licences (issued to any person who wishes to undertake groundwater drilling activities);
Drilling licences (issued to all drillers, allowing them to operate a drilling rig).
Part IV of the Water Resource Management Act outlines the different institutions which are to be responsible for the development and management of water resources, including groundwater.
Institutions mentioned in the Act are: The Directorate of Water Resources (DWR), the National Water Board (NWB), Basin Water Boards (BWB), Catchment and Sub-catchment Water Committees and Water Users Associations (WUAs). The Act also specifies the duties and responsibilities of these institutions.
Other key institutions and organisations are:
The Ministry of Water – responsible for forming regulations and guidelines;
9 Lake/River Basin Water Boards – act as a point for data collection, assessment, monitoring and management;
Drilling and Dam Construction Agency – responsible for government agency drilling of boreholes;
Higher Learning Institutions – responsible for providing groundwater water related courses:
University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM)
Ardhi University
Sokoine University of Agriculture and Water Development and Management Institute (Formerly Rwegulurila Water Institute)
Transboundary aquifers
The main transboundary aquifers in Tanzania are:
Kagera aquifer (Uganda)
Kilimanjaro aquifer (Kenya)
Coastal sedimentary aquifer (Kenya to the north and Mozambique to the south)
Karoo sandstone aquifer (Mozambique)
There are currently no significant issues concerning the management of these aquifers.
For more general information about transboundary aquifers, please see the Transboundary aquifers resource page
The Ministry of Water has established groundwater monitoring stations in four basins: Pangani, Wami/Ruvu, IDB and Rufiji.
Groundwater level monitoring is carried out in the Makutapora Basin in the Dodoma region, where ten automatic water level recorders are installed.
Groundwater level monitoring is also performed in observation wells in Arusha by the Arusha Urban Water Supply Authority and in TPC-Moshi. Most of these measurements are taken manually on a daily basis.
The Ministry of Water, through its nine Lake/River Basins, also has a water quality monitoring network. Each Basin is responsible for the management and operation of its respective monitoring network and monitoring is generally carried out on a quarterly basis. Physical, chemical and biological monitoring is carried out through sampling of the following:
pH, Electrical Conductivity, Turbidity, Odor, Taste and Temperature;
Nitrate, Nitrite, Sulphate, Fluoride, Iron, Hardness, Alkalinity, and Ammonium;
Total Coliform, Faecal coliform, and E coli.
Bacteriological monitoring is performed in Makutapora only.
Many of the references below, and others relating to the hydrogeology of Tanzania, can be seen in the Africa Groundwater Literature Archive.
General online resources
SADC Groundwater Information Portal
General information on surface water and groundwater resources in SADC
Key Geology References
Geological maps published by the Geological Survey of Tanzania. http://www.gst.go.tz/mapproducts.html
Geophysical maps published by the Geological Survey of Tanzania. http://www.gst.go.tz/add/map_geophysical.html
Key Hydrogeology References
Retrieved from ‘http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php?title=Hydrogeology_of_Tanzania&oldid=38745’
Africa Groundwater Atlas
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Faith based education through sport
District 8 Athletic Association administers secondary school sports servicing the Catholic and Independent high schools the Waterloo Region. It is a member of Central Western Ontario Secondary Schools Association and the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations.
Click here to view the District 8 Organizational Chart.
Currently District 8 is made up of eight catholic and independent secondary schools within the Waterloo Region. They include:
École secondaire Père-René-de-Galinée
Monsignor Doyle Catholic Secondary School
Resurrection Catholic Secondary School
Rockway Mennonite Collegiate
St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School (Cambridge)
St. David Catholic Secondary School
St. Mary’s High School (Kitchener)
Woodland Christian High School
District 8 – Code of Ethics
Code of Ethics for Student‐Athletes
I will respect student‐athletes, coaches, officials, and spectators.
I am a student first and athletics is an extension of my educational experience.
I am committed to striving for excellence with integrity and sportsmanship.
I will communicate in a positive way.
I am grateful to be a student‐athlete, and I will win with dignity and lose with grace.
Code of Ethics for Coaches
I will act in the best interest of the team while developing the student-athlete as a whole person.
I will teach my student‐athletes to play fair and to respect the rules, officials, and opponents.
I will be generous with praise and constructive feedback.
I will encourage and model integrity and sportsmanship.
Code of Ethics for Spectators
I will remember that student‐athletes play sports for their own enjoyment and as an extension of their educational experience.
I will cheer in a positive manner.
I will respect the area of play.
I will respect the decisions of the official.
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Posted in indie, new release, rawk, review By Bill Kopp On October 24, 2017
Album Review: Floating Action — Is it Exquisite?
Imagine if The Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips were influenced as much by pop and soul as by psychedelia. Imagine, too, that they adopted a more intimate, less expansive production aesthetic. The results might sound a bit like Is it Exquisite?, the fifth album from Black Mountain NC-based Floating Action.
Though there is a live, four-man performing version of Floating Action, in the studio, Floating Action is Seth Kaufmann. And on Is it Exquisite?, he displays his full command of the studio. There’s an intentionally tinny, lo-fi ambience to the tracks, but one supposes that quality is the product of an aesthetic decision rather than the result of studio limitations.
The hypnotic aura of canned percussion is especially effective on the epic-length (well, eleven-plus minutes) instrumental, “Controlled Burn.” The relentlessly repetitive backing of the tune imbues it with a krautrock feel; Kaufmann’s subtle addition of guitar figures – sometimes close-picked, other times in the form of sustained whammy-bar chords – is set against vintage-sounding electric keyboards.
Is it Exquisite? serves up plenty of sonic variety. “Last of the Wild Cards” weds acoustic guitar and a drum machine, all in support of a plaintive, gentle vocal. And the demo-sounding psych-pop of “My Ticket Out of Here” recalls Berlin-based American expat Anton Barbeau in its combination of winning pop melody and a vaguely mysterious arrangement.
“It Won’t Be Long” (not a cover of the Beatles tune of the same name) finds Kaufmann affecting a breathy vocal reminiscent of early ’70s AM radio pop, with a catchy, understated melody to match. But the boxy synthetic drums anchor the song in more modern era (the ’80s, at least).
The aforementioned Flaming Lips vibe is even more evident on “My Blood is Bright,” a melodically straightforward tune with oddball lyrics and assorted bits of wonderful sonic weirdness. “Seek Then I Found” features a Beatlesque melody, but it’s delivered in a production style that works seamlessly within the context of the album. The tune is also notable for its effective use of background vocal harmonies, something used only sparingly – and in a more subtle fashion – elsewhere on Is it Exquisite?
“I’m Gonna Take You Down” wins the Weirdest Track on the Album award; once again Kaufmann writes a catchy tune, but the arrangement owes more to My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the 1981 collaboration by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
“The Silent One” combines a hymn-like backing vocal with exceedingly spare instrumentation, and for its first half, it’s redolent of a bad acid trip. But the second half of this relatively brief tune transforms itself into a funky number that suggests that when the trip is over, it’s time to dance.
The phrase “late night album” applies to Floating Action’s Is it Exquisite? It’s a collection of songs best experienced via attentive listening.
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SPOTLIGHT: Books of August 2008
Welcome to the August 2008 edition of Fantasy Book Critic’s monthly SPOTLIGHT which covers everything from fantasy and science fiction to horror, thrillers, YA, and more. Previous spotlights can be found HERE. While not as jam-packed as July, August is another busy month spearheaded by Stephenie Meyer’s highly anticipated conclusion to her Twilight Saga. Other notable titles include Richard K. Morgan’s first fantasy novel, “The Steel Remains”; more sequels in The Gypsy Morph, Return of the Crimson Guard, Sly Mongoose and The Diamond of Darkhold; and some exciting debuts in The Gargoyle, The Cabinet of Wonders, Pandemonium, The Little Book and The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls… (NOTE: Unless stated otherwise, all release dates are for the US. Also, Liviu C. Suciu provided valuable assistance with the August 2008 Spotlight):
“British Invasion” edited by Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon + James A. Moore. Release Date: August 1, 2008. They invaded before, sending their best & brightest to transform popular music for all time. This time, they're focusing on words. From creeping dread to hideous humor, from quiet terror to brutal horror, from mad speculation to unspeakable truth, the twenty-one tales here represent the best that the UK has to offer. The rising stars and masters of British horror have joined together. The British Invasion has begun…
Official Christopher Golden Website
Official Tim Lebbon Website
Official James A. Moore Website
Order “British Invasion” HERE
“Superior Saturday” by Garth Nix (The Old Kingdom, The Seventh Tower). Release Date: August 1, 2008. Arthur Penhaligon has wrested five of the Keys to the Kingdom from their immortal guardians, the Trustees of the Will. But gaining the Sixth Key poses a greater challenge than any he has ever faced before. For Superior Saturday is not just one of the Trustees, she is also the oldest Denizen, and the most powerful and knowledgeable sorcerer within the house…
Official Garth Nix Website
Official Keys To The Kingdom Website
Order HERE (US) + HERE (UK-July 1, 2008)
NOTE: “Superior Saturday” is the sixth volume in Garth Nix’s gripping YA fantasy series, The Keys to the Kingdom.
“Stalking the Vampire” by Mike Resnick. Release Date: August 1, 2008. In this long-awaited sequel to Mike Resnick’s 1987 classic, Stalking the Unicorn, it is All Hallows’ Eve, and on this night when ghosts, goblins and other creatures of the night are out celebrating, detective John Justin Mallory—with the aid of the catgirl Felina, a cowardly vampire and a dragon that writes hard-boiled private eye novels—must stalk the vampire who has threatened his assistant, Winnifred, and prevent him from killing again…
Official Mike Resnick Website
Order “Stalking the Vampire” HERE
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s REVIEW of “Stalking the Vampire”
NOTE: In support of Mike Resnick’s new John Justin Mallory novel, Pyr is releasing both the 1987 classic, “Stalking the Unicorn” (reprint), and its sequel, “Stalking the Vampire”, simultaneously.
“Ghostgirl” by Tonya Hurley. Release Date: August 1, 2008. Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school. But after spending all summer ‘rebooting’ her look and her life, she is more than ready to turn her nonexistent status into Hawthorne High A-List. But in her eagerness to climb the Hawthorne social ladder, she lands “six feet under” instead, after accidentally choking on a gummy bear after Physics class. Now a 'can-do' spirit, Charlotte is not letting the simple fact that she’s dead stop her from attainting her goal of popularity. It just makes her more creative about her approach…
Official Tonya Hurley Website
Official Ghostgirl Website
Order “Ghostgirl” HERE
Read Reviews via The Story Siren
“Dark Whispers” by Bruce Coville. Release Date: August 1, 2008. “Dark Whispers” is a tale of two quests: Cara Diana Hunter's search for an ancient story that may unravel the secret of the long enmity between the unicorns and the delvers, leading her to the court of the centaur king; and her father's journey from mysterious India to free Cara's mother from the Rainbow Prison. This multi-stranded story will intrigue and delight the legion of fans who have been clamoring for the next tale in this beloved series…
Official Bruce Coville Website
Official The Unicorn Chronicles Website
Order “Dark Whispers” HERE
Listen to An Excerpt HERE
NOTE: “Dark Whispers” is the third volume in Bruce Coville’s YA fantasy series, The Unicorn Chronicles, following “Into the Land of the Unicorns” and “Song of the Wanderer”.
“Therapy” by Sebastian Fitzek. UK Release Date: August 1, 2008. Twelve-year-old Josy has an inexplicable illness and one day vanishes without a trace. Four years later her father, psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, has withdrawn to an isolated island to deal with the tragedy. There he meets Anna Glass. A novelist, Anna suffers from an unusual form of schizophrenia: all the characters in her books become real to her, and in her last novel she has written about a young girl with an unknown illness who has vanished without a trace…
Official Sebastian Fitzek Website
Order “Therapy” HERE
NOTE: The internationally bestselling “Therapy” was originally published in Germany in 2006.
“Billy Bones: A Tale from the Secrets Closet” by Christopher Lincoln & Avi Ofer. Release Date: August 1, 2008. Billy and his skeleton parents live in the Secrets Closet, where they're in charge of filing all the secrets and lies of the unscrupulous Biglum family. Then Billy meets Millicent, Sir Biglum's recently orphaned niece. Together, Billy and Millicent encounter ghosts and other uncanny creatures as they explore each other's worlds and uncover the biggest secret of all: Billy was once a Biglum…
Official Christopher Lincoln Website
Official Avi Ofer Website
Order “Billy Bones” HERE (US) + HERE (UK-April 2008)
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“Filter House” by Nisi Shawl. Release Date: August 1, 2008. Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Filter House, the first collection of Nisi Shawl’s short fiction. Featuring an introduction by Nebula Award-winner Eileen Gunn (Stable Strategies), the collection's fourteen tales (eleven reprints / three unpublished) offer a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the reader's subconscious. As Karen Joy Fowler says, “This lovely collection will take you, like a magic carpet, to some strange and wonderful places.”
Official Nisi Shawl Website
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“Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer. Release Date: August 2, 2008. “Twilight” tempted the imagination. “New Moon” made readers thirsty for more. “Eclipse” turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for, “Breaking Dawn”, the fourth and final entry in Stephenie Meyer’s (The Host) number one bestselling The Twilight Saga, will take your breath away as questions will be answered and the fate of Bella Swan and Edward Cullen will be revealed…
Official Stephenie Meyer Website
Official The Twilight Saga Website
Order “Breaking Dawn” HERE
Read a Preview HERE
Watch An Interview with Stephenie Meyer HERE
“Leather Maiden” by Joe R. Lansdale. Release Date: August 5, 2008. A masterly new thriller from the Edgar, British Fantasy, American Horror and six-time Bram Stoker Award–winning writer who has “a folklorist’s eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur’s sense of pace” (The New York Times Book Review), Leather Maiden is a brash amalgam of suspense, raw humor, and mystery that unfolds in the vividly rendered shadowy lowlands of eastern Texas. It’s country noir as only Joe Lansdale (The Bottoms) can do it…
Official Joe R. Lansdale Website
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“City at the End of Time” by Greg Bear. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Greg Bear (Darwin’s Radio, Moving Mars) is one of science fiction’s most accomplished writers. Bold scientific speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguish his work. Now Bear has written a mind-bendingly epic novel that may well be his masterpiece. Do you dream of a city at the end of time?
Official Greg Bear Website
Official City at the End of Time Website
Order “City at the End of Time” HERE (US) + HERE (UK)
“The Gargoyle” by Andrew Davidson. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Marianne Engle is a beautiful sculptress of gargoyles who appears in the burn unit one day and tells the narrator of this mesmerizing tale that they were lovers in medieval times, when she was a scribe and he was a mercenary. Is she simply mad? Or is she truly the angel of mercy who will save him from his suicidal despair? The Gargoyle is an extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time…
Official The Gargoyle Website
Order “The Gargoyle” HERE (US) + HERE (UK)
“Marsbound” by Joe Haldeman. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Winner of five Hugos, five Nebulas, a John W. Campbell, a James Tiptree, Jr. and a World Fantasy Award, Joe Haldeman (The Forever War, Forever Peace, The Accidental Time Machine) “delivers cutting-edge technological speculation and irresistibly compelling reading” (Booklist). Now in “Marsbound”, Joe sends readers on an epic voyage to humanity’s newest frontier on a familiar nearby planet. But the frontier is not new to everyone…
Official Joe Haldeman Website
Order “Marsbound” HERE
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“The Last Theorem” by Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl. Release Date: August 5, 2008. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author. It is also a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the Grand Galactics, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together . . . or perish…
Official Frederik Pohl Website
Order “The Last Theorem” HERE
Read An Extract HERE
“Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show” edited by Edmund R. Schubert & Orson Scott Card. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game, The Tales of Alvin Maker) founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known science fiction and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of the best of those stories from the past year…
Official Orson Scott Card Website
Official Intergalactic Medicine Show Website
Official Edmund R. Schubert Website
Order “Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show” HERE
NOTE: Collection includes fiction from David Farber, Tim Pratt, and David Lubar among others, as well as four new Ender’s Game universe stories by Card himself.
“The Academy” by Bentley Little. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Something strange is happening at Tyler High. The laid-back principal has become unusually strict. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things are happening on school grounds that defy rational explanation. But there is an explanation. It’s just nothing that anyone can begin to believe—or hope to survive… The Academy is the latest horror novel from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author…
Official Bentley Little Website
Order “The Academy” HERE
“Mars Life” by Ben Bova. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Jamie Waterman discovered that an intelligent race lived on Mars 65 million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and discover who the Martians were…
Official Ben Bova Website
Order “Mars Life” HERE
“Hell & Earth” by Elizabeth Bear. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Two queens sit on thrones in two different worlds—Elizabeth reigns over England, while Mab, rules the Faerie realm. Bound together by magic, their monarchies draw strength from each other, sustaining their regimes. But within the inner circles of royalty, are ambitious men plotting to usurp power. Bear’s latest addition to this epic tells the story of Kit Marley, Queen Elizabeth’s playwright/spy who crafts magical plays that maintain Her Majesty’s rule…
Official Elizabeth Bear Website
Order “Hell & Earth” HERE
NOTE: “Hell & Earth” is Volume II of The Stratford Man—after Ink & Steel—which itself is a sequel to “Blood & Iron” and “Whiskey & Water” in Elizabeth Bear’s The Promethean Age series.
“The Last Centurion” by John Ringo. Release Date: August 5, 2008. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the world is struck by two catastrophes: a new mini-ice age and a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as “Bandit Six”, an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland. Written “blog-style”, The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future, a world that is a darkling mirror of our own…
Official John Ringo Website
Official The Last Centurion Website
Order “The Last Centurion” HERE
Read Excerpts HERE
Read Reviews via RedState + Say Anything
“Pirate Sun” by Karl Schroeder. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Chaison Fanning, the admiral of a fleet of warships, has been captured and imprisoned by his enemies, but is suddenly rescued and set free by a mysterious woman named Antaea. Chaison flees through the sky to his home city to confront the ruler who betrayed him. And perhaps even to regain his lovely, powerful, and subversive wife, Venera, who he has not seen since she fled with the key to the artificial sun at the center of Virga, Candesce…
Official Karl Schroeder Website
Order “Pirate Sun” HERE
Read Reviews via Fantasy Book Critic
NOTE: “Pirate Sun” is the third book in Karl Schroeder’s Virga science fiction series after “Sun of Suns” and “Queen of Candesce”.
“Exile and Glory” by Jerry Pournelle. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Collecting the novels “High Justice” (1972-1975) and “Exiles to Glory” (1977) by number one New York Times bestselling author, Jerry Pournelle, “Exile and Glory” tells of an Earth sinking into a morass of corruption, red tape, and failure of nerve, while a dedicated few dare to reach for the stars… Jerry has won the John W. Campbell, Prometheus and Heinlein Society Awards, and served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America…
Official Jerry Pournelle Website
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“The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls” by John R. King. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Probably the most infamous story in the Sherlock Holmes canon is “The Final Problem” which relates the death of the detective at Reichenbach Falls. But what really happened that day at Reichenbach Falls and why did Holmes disappear in the aftermath? And what of the infamous Moriarty? How did a noble mathematician become the Napoleon of Crime? “The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls" provides these answers and more…
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“The Gaudi Key” by Esteban Martín & Andreu Carranza. Release Date: August 5, 2008. In the early 20th century, Barcelona, Antonio Gaudí is charged by an ancient religious brotherhood to protect a sacred object from those who seek to do evil. Almost a century later, María, the granddaughter of the apprentice to whom Gaudí passed along his secret, is charged with finding the relic before the evil forces aligning against her can unravel the true meaning of Gaudí's monuments and their mysterious legacy…
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“Acheron” by Sherrilyn Kenyon. Release Date: August 5, 2008. 11,000 years ago a god was born. Cursed into the body of a human, Acheron spent a lifetime of shame. However, his human death unleashed an unspeakable horror that almost destroyed the earth. Brought back against his will, Acheron became the sole defender of mankind and has fought for our survival for centuries. Until a lone woman threatened his very existence. Now his survival—and ours—hinges on hers as old enemies reawaken and unite to kill them both…
Official Sherrilyn Kenyon Website
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Watch the “Acheron” Book Trailer HERE
“Underground” by Kat Richardson. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Harper Blaine was your average small-time private investigator until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker—walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases, such as her latest which involves homeless turning up dead and mutilated or missing, decomposing zombies, and a creature out of ancient legend…
Official Kat Richardson Website
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NOTE: “Underground” is Kat Richardson’s third Greywalker novel, after “Greywalker” and “Poltergeist”.
“Omega Games” by S.L. Viehl. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Dr. Cherijo Torin faces a different kind of epidemic—a mysterious black crystal spreading like cancer throughout the galaxy. The hunt for information leads Cherijo to the planet Trellus, whose inhabitants exhibit excessive paranoia and anger, taking out their frustrations in the Omega Dome in simulated combat against battle drones. But someone is killing victims outside the arena, and Cherijo believes the black crystal infection is responsible for this horror…
Official S.L. Viehl Blog
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NOTE: “Omega Games” is the eighth volume in S.L. Viehl’s Stardoc science fiction series.
“Harmony” by C.F. Bentley. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Long ago, the world of Harmony—and its close-knit colony planets—isolated itself from the rest of the universe. But with the human-based Confederate Star System fleet hard-pressed to stand against ever-increasing attacks by the alien Marillon Empire, the Harmonic Empire cannot be left alone. Yet invasion is far from the only threat the planet faces, and in this time of crisis, one young woman might prove Harmony's best hope—or the catalyst for total collapse…
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“Storm Born” by Richelle Mead (Georgina Kincaid). Release Date: August 5, 2008. Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. In her most recent case, however, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy—one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it. Now Eugenie is a hot target for every demon and Otherworldy who either want her knocked up or dead…
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“Gale Force” by Rachel Caine. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is on vacation when her Djinn lover, David, asks Joanne to marry him. She’s thrilled to say yes, even if some others may be less than happy about it. Unfortunately, Joanne’s pre-marital bliss is ended by a devastating earthquake in Florida. And she can’t ask David and his kind for assistance. Because the cause of the quake is unlike anything Joanne has ever encountered—and a power even the Djinn cannot perceive…
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NOTE: “Gale Force” is the seventh book in Rachel Caine’s Weather Warden urban fantasy series.
“The Cabinet of Wonders” by Marie Rutkoski. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it’s never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who gives her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. And her father in faraway Prague is able to move metal with his mind. But Petra’s life is forever changed when the prince steals her father’s eyes. Why? Petra doesn’t know, but she’s determined to go to Prague and steal back her father’s eyes no matter what…
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“The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard” by Eddie Campbell (From Hell, Bacchus, The Fate of the Artist) and Dan Best. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Step right up, Ladies and Gentlemen, for a glorious spectacle of graphic literature beyond your wildest imaginings, in which young Etienne discovers that replacing his uncle as the Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard, world-renowned acrobat and head of a circus troupe, is every bit as difficult as it appears to be, especially when his happiness is in question...
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“Necking” by Chris Salvatore. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Gia Felice is the premier book publicist to the underworld which sometimes can suck—literally. Especially if you’re human and have the hots for impressible Johnny and his sly half smile that shows just a little fang. Now Gia’s agreed to help Belladonna Nightshade, a New York Times bestselling vampire author, find the supernatural killing machine who changed Bella centuries ago…if he doesn’t find Gia first. Who knew publicity was such a deadly business?
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“The Viper of Portello” by James C. Glass. Release Date: August 5, 2008. Soldier, strategist and assassin, Eduardo Cabral harbors two souls—one dark & deadly, the other loving & creative. After a war ending in betrayal, Eduardo flees to a peaceful, artistic life on another planet. But war and its aftermath will not go away. There is revolution on his home world and it is Culebra, the Viper, who must decide between innocence & guilt, while searching for a love he has never had, and a world where Eduardo can find peace…
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“The Steel Remains” by Richard K. Morgan. UK Release Date: August 7, 2008. As rumors of ghosts and demons spread throughout the Empire, three veterans of the War against the Scaled Folk—Ringil Eskiath, Egar the Dragonbane and Archeth—are about to meet a new, even more terrifying enemy and fight again for a world that owes them everything and has given them nothing… Thus begins a new fantasy saga from the author of Altered Carbon and the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Black Man/Thirteen…
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“The Night Sessions” by Ken MacLeod. UK Release Date: August 7, 2008. After the Middle East wars and the rising sea levels, came the Great Rejection and the Second Enlightenment which separated religion from politics. In this enlightened age there's no persecution, but the millions who still believe and worship are a mistrusted minority. Now someone is killing them. At first, suspicion falls on militant atheists, but it soon becomes evident that something old has risen from the ashes. Old and very, very dangerous...
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“The Everlasting” by Tim Lebbon. UK Release Date: August 11, 2008. Thirty years ago, Scott's grandfather slaughtered his best friend and then committed suicide. Now the spirit of the murdered man has returned, seeking the ancient volume that can return him to life—forever. Pursued by this savage spirit and accompanied by a strange woman who claims to be immortal, Scott must do the impossible and find the book that may have driven his grandfather to murder and destroy it before its secrets can be revealed…
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“Faces of Fear” by John Saul. Release Date: August 12, 2008. New York Times bestselling author John Saul (The Blackstone Chronicles) is a master at writing novels that chill the bones, curdle the blood, and tap into our darkest fears. He creates characters so real that you’ll feel as if they’re friends or family, and throws them into situations so terrifying that you won’t be able to look away until you turn the final page. Now, in “Faces of Fear”, Saul proves that there’s a fine line between perfection and madness…
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“Bitten to Death” by Jennifer Rardin. Release Date: August 12, 2008. “Jaz Parks here. My latest mission has taken me to the ancient Greek city of Patras. But instead of soaking up its splendor, I'm here to infiltrate a Vampere Trust. Only two vamps have ever escaped the tightly bound communities and lived to tell the tale: Edward “The Raptor” Samos, the most reviled criminal mastermind in recent memory; and Vayl, the CIA's number one assassin who also happens to be my boss. This job is going to be the death of me.”
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Order “Bitten to Death” HERE (US) + HERE (UK)
NOTE: “Bitten to Death” is the fourth Jaz Parks novel after “Once Bitten, Twice Shy”, “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Biting the Bullet”.
“The Dragon Heir” by Cinda Williams Chima. Release Date: August 12, 2008. Moral compasses spin out of control as a final battle storms through what was once a sanctuary for the gifted. With so much to lose, what will Jason Haley and Madison “Maddie” Moss be willing to fight for—and what will they sacrifice? Continuing the tale from “The Warrior Heir” and “The Wizard Heir”, it’s every man for himself in this thrilling conclusion to Cinda Williams Chima’s young adult fantasy series, the Heir Trilogy…
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“13 Things That Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time” by Michael Brooks. Release Date: August 12, 2008. Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology, chemistry to psychology to physics, Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement, messiness, and controversy of the battle over where science is headed. “In science,” he writes, “being stuck can be a sign that you are about to make a great leap forward. The things that don’t make sense are, in some ways, the only things that matter.”
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“The Little Book” by Selden Edwards. Release Date: August 14, 2008. An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than thirty years in the making, Selden Edwards’ “The Little Book” is the extraordinary tale of forty-seven year old Wheeler Burden who suddenly finds himself in fin de siècle Vienna, the year 1897, precisely ninety-one years before his last memory and a half-century before his birth… “The Little Book” is a breathtaking love story that spans generations and is a masterpiece of unequaled storytelling…
Order “The Little Book” HERE (US) + HERE (UK)
Read An Interview HERE
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“Hespira” by Matthew Hughes. Release Date: August 15, 2008. “Hespira” is the follow-up to “Majestrum” and “The Spiral Labyrinth”, and is the third book in a loose trilogy from Night Shade Books featuring freelance detective, Henghis Hapthorn. An author of science fiction, fantasy, media tie-ins, and crime fiction, Matthew Hughes’ bibliography also includes “Fools Errant”, “Fool Me Twice”, “Black Brillion”, “The Gist Hunter and other Stories”, “Wolverine: Lifeblood”, “The Commons” and “Template”…
Official Matthew Hughes Website
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Read Fantasy Book Critic’s REVIEW of “Majestrum”
“Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” by Sean Williams. Release Date: August 19, 2008. For Darth Sidious—better known as Emperor Palpatine—the overthrow of the Republic is complete, but more remains to be done. Pockets of resistance must still be defeated and missing Jedi dealt with. These tasks fall to the Emperor’s ruthless enforcer, Darth Vader. In turn, Vader has groomed a lethal apprentice entrusted with a top-secret mission. But this nameless agent seeks an even greater destiny—destroying Palpatine…
Official Sean Williams Website
Official “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” HERE
NOTE: “The Force Unleashed” is a tie-in novel to the LucasArts videogame HERE, which is coming out September 16, 2008 for the PS3, Xbox360, etc. Additionally, on August 18, 2008, Dark Horse Comics is releasing The Force Unleashed graphic novel HERE, which was written by Haden Blackman and illustrated by Brian Ching & David Ross.
“Zoë’s Tale” by John Scalzi. Release Date: August 19, 2008. Meet Zoë Boutin Perry: Friend. Daughter. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. A player—and a pawn—in an interstellar chess match to save the human race. Seventeen years old. Readers of John Scalzi’s bestselling Old Man’s War series have met Zoë before, but now, in this compelling standalone novel set in the same universe, Scalzi brings her front and center, to tell her tale as only she can…
Official John Scalzi Website
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Watch An Interview HERE
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“Sly Mongoose” by Tobias S. Buckell. Release Date: August 19, 2008. Fourteen-year-old Timas’s life is turned upside down when a strange man crash lands on the city. The newcomer is fleeing an alien intelligence intent on invading the planet Chilo and discovering the secret hidden deep inside the perpetual storm—a secret that could lead to interplanetary war. As Chilo’s citizens race against time to stop the enemy, Timas will find out what kind of man he has become in the harsh conditions of Chilo’s surface…
Official Tobias S. Buckell Website
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NOTE: “Sly Mongoose” is a standalone novel, but is set in the same universe as Tobias S. Buckell’s “Crystal Rain” and “Ragamuffin”.
“Ill Met in the Arena” by Dave Duncan (King's Blades, The Pandemia). Release Date: August 19, 2008. In a world ruled by women who can read minds, where men possess superhuman strength and teleportation, and where a son’s future can be won in psychic gladiatorial contests, two contestants—Quirt of Mundil and Humate of Alfet—find themselves caught in an epic struggle where much more than a winner's crown at stake. For there is also atrocity, revenge, and even possibly a war. And there is also the hand of a lady…
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“Dark Vengeance” by Ed Greenwood. Release Date: August 19, 2008. Orivon Firefist was captured as a six-year-old child by dark elves. Fifteen years later, Orivon rose up and opposed his underworld tyrants, successfully returning to the surface world home that he thought only existed in his dreams. But the score is far from settled. Years of oppression and revelations about his former captors only fuel his rage. And the fact that their evil still permeates the underworld only intensifies his desire for a dark vengeance…
Ed Greenwood @ Wikipedia
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“Man in the Dark” by Paul Auster. Release Date: August 19, 2008. Recovering from a car accident, plagued by memories he would prefer to forget, 72-year-old August Brill imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq, but with itself… Passionate and shocking, Paul Auster’s “Man in the Dark” is a novel of our moment, a brilliant book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence…
Official Paul Auster Website
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“The Age of the Conglomerates” by Thomas Nevins. Release Date: August 19, 2008. Forty years in the future, in a world where Big Brother runs amok, a powerful political party known as the Conglomerates has emerged, vowing to enforce economic martial law at any cost. But even in this cold, cruel age, the Conglomerates can only control so much… In his enthralling debut, Thomas Nevins thrillingly chronicles a brave new world where one family struggles to survive by keeping alive feelings of mercy, loyalty, and love…
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“The Darker Mask” by Christopher Chambers + Gary Phillips. Release Date: August 19, 2008. Expanding on the concept behind Byron Preiss' Weird Heroes, GRRM’s Wild Cards series, and Michael Chabon's McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, The Darker Mask is a collection of original prose stories recalling the derring-do of the beings we call Superheroes and the worlds they fight to save. This is the stuff of urban legends, new mythos, and extraordinary folks exploring worlds gritty, visceral, and fantastic…
Official Christopher Chambers Blog
Official Gary Phillips Website
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NOTE: Includes stories by Walter Mosley, L.A. Banks, Naomi Hirahara, Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tananarive Due and Stephen Barnes, Mike Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ann Nocenti, Jerry Rodriguez, Reed Farrell Coleman, Doselle Young, Mat Johnson, Peter Spiegelman, Alexandra Sokoloff, Christopher Chambers, Gary Phillips, Victor LaValle, and Wayne Wilson.
“Yellow Moon” by Jewel Parker Rhodes (Magic City). Release Date: August 19, 2008. Echoing with the heartache and triumph of the African American experience, the soulful rhythms of jazz, and the horrors of racial oppression, Rhode’s “Yellow Moon”—part two of the New Orleans trilogy that began with “Voodoo Season” which in turn is a sequel to “Voodoo Dreams”—gives us an unforgettable heroine in sexy, vulnerable, and mysterious Marie Levant, while it powerfully evokes a city on the brink of catastrophe…
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“The Northwoods Chronicles” by Elizabeth Engstrom (Nightmare Flower, Dead On Demand). Release Date: August 20, 2008. To all appearances, White Pines Junction is just a normal small town with a lively summer fishing and tourism industry. But White Pines Junction is a town with a dark secret and those who live in the northwoods know that their community has a foot in two different worlds—one in reality and one not—and they live contentedly, for the most part, with a few murderous secrets…
Official Elizabeth Engstrom Website
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“The Stress of Her Regard” by Tim Powers (Last Call, Declare). Release Date: August 22, 2008. A novel of secret histories and dark revelations, Tim Powers’ “The Stress of Her Regard” is the tale of a terrified young doctor who—after discovering his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed and forced to flee to prove his innocence—allies with the great Romantic poets, Byron, Keats and Shelley in a desperate battle against a malignant vampire seeking her ultimate pleasure in their ravaged bodies and imperiled souls…
Official Tim Powers Website
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NOTE: Originally published in 1989, “The Stress of Her Regard” received the World Fantasy, Mythopoeic, and Locus Awards. The book has been out of print since 1994.
“Return of the Crimson Guard” by Ian C. Esslemont. UK Release Date: August 25, 2008. In this second Malazan novel from co-creator ICE, Empress Laseen of the Malazan Empire faces threats from both the Crimson Guard—a mercenary company opposed to the existence of the Empire—and insurrectionists who have lost patience with Laseen’s rule. Yet there are hints that Laseen is using the uprisings to draw out and eliminate the last survivors of her predecessor's rule, while rivalries and betrayals plague the Guard…
Official Malazan Empire Fansite
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Read Reviews via Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s REVIEW of “Night of Knives”
Read Fantasy Book Spot’s INTERVIEW with Ian Cameron Esslemont
“The Best of Lucius Shepard” by Lucius Shepard. Release Date: August 25, 2008. Lucius Shepard writes from the darkest, truest heart of America, and he writes of it with rare passion, honesty and intelligence. The Best of Lucius Shepard is the first ever career retrospective collection from one of the finest writers of the fantastic to emerge in the United States over the past quarter century. It contains nearly 300,000 words of his best short fiction and is destined to be recognized as a true classic of the field…
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Read Reviews via Adventures In Reading
“The Gypsy Morph” by Terry Brooks. Release Date: August 26, 2008. Terry Brooks won instant acclaim with his classic novel, The Sword of Shannara. Its sequels earned Brooks legendary status. Then in The Word and the Void trilogy, he gave the genre a compelling contemporary twist. In 2006, Brooks began the Genesis of Shannara trilogy with Armageddon’s Children which united two unique worlds. The Elves of Cintra followed in 2007. Now, that trilogy comes to a shattering conclusion in The Gypsy Morph…
Official Terry Brooks Website
Order “The Gypsy Morph” HERE (US) + HERE (UK-September 4, 2008)
Find Excerpts HERE
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“The Ten Thousand” by Paul Kearney. Release Date: August 26, 2008. Vast, dominant, and prestigious, the Assurian Empire is thought to be invincible. An exile from the empire, the Great King’s brother hires a force of ten thousand elite mercenaries from a legendary race known as the Macht to take the throne by force. But when their employer is killed, The Ten Thousand find themselves abandoned. This is the story of their fight for freedom and the beginning of a brand new series by one of fantasy’s finest writers…
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“The Diamond of Darkhold” by Jeanne Duprau. Release Date: August 26, 2008. It’s been several months since Lina, Doon and the rest of their people escaped the dying city of Ember and joined the town of Sparks. Now, struggling through the harsh winter aboveground, they find a book. Torn up and missing most of its pages, it alludes to a mysterious device from before the Disaster, which they believe is still in Ember. Together, Lina & Doon must go back underground to retrieve what was lost and bring light to a dark world…
Official Jeanne Duprau Website
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NOTE: “The Diamond of Darkhold” is the fourth Book of Ember novel after “The City of Ember”, “The People of Sparks” and “The Prophet of Yonwood”.
“Pandemonium” by Daryl Gregory. Release Date: August 26, 2008. As a boy, Del Pierce is possessed by the Hellion, an entity whose mischief-making can be deadly. With the help of Del’s family and a caring psychiatrist, the demon was exorcised . . . or was it? Years later, the Hellion is back and clamoring to get out. Del needs an exorcism, by any means necessary, and the answers may lie in a handful of Golden Age comics, a series of demon-created paintings, and his own childhood memories…
Official Daryl Gregory Website
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“The Battle of the Hammer Worlds” by Graham Sharp Paul. Release Date: August 26, 2008. Back from tangling with the Hammer of Kraa, the most brutal tyrants in humanspace, Michael Helfort is assigned to the Federated Worlds cruiser Ishaq, which is blown apart in a horrific ambush. One of only a few survivors, Michael and company are sent to a prison camp on the Hammer’s home planet. Its payback time and the Hammers intend to throw their entire space fleet into destroying Michael Helfort and the Federated Worlds…
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NOTE: “The Battle of the Hammer Worlds” is the second book in the Helfort’s War series following “The Battle at the Moons of Hell”.
“The Riven Kingdom” by Karen Miller. Release Date: August 26, 2008. Ethrea is an island in the centre of the most important shipping route in the world and has enjoyed peace and prosperity for 400 years. The imminent death of Ethrea's king has placed his daughter, Rhian, in a dangerous position. The church has great power in Ethrea, stating that no woman may have dominion over a man. If Rhian can take and hold the throne—can she also keep it safe from the rest of the world? An exile from Mijak may be her only hope…
Official Karen Miller Website
Order “The Riven Kingdom” HERE (US) + HERE (UK-October 2008)
Read Reviews via The Specusphere
NOTE: “The Riven Kingdom” is the second volume in The Godspeaker Trilogy after “Empress”.
“Wanderlust” by Ann Aguirre. Release Date: August 26, 2008. Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster-than-light ships through grimspace. Unfortunately she’s also broke and unemployed. So Jax accepts a diplomatic mission for the government—only to find herself contending with Syndicate criminals, a stormy relationship with her pilot, man-eating aliens, and her own grimspace-weakened body. She’ll be lucky just to make it to out alive…
Official Ann Aguirre Website
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“The Ghosts of Kerfol” by Deborah Noyes. Release Date: August 26, 2008. In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl. Four more tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries, slip forward in time, peering in on a young artist, a hard-drinking party girl, a young American couple, and a deaf gardener who now tends the Kerfol estate. All these souls are haunted by the ghosts of Kerfol…
Official Deborah Noyes Website
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“Rogue’s Home” by Hilari Bell. Release Date: August 26, 2008. As in “The Last Knight”, Hilari Bell's first Knight and Rogue novel, “Rogue's Home” combines the banter of a buddy story with elements of classic fantasy, medieval derring-do, and mystery. This time, Sir Michael Sevenson and his reluctant squire, Fisk, continue their knight-errantry, facing new challenges, greater dangers and . . . Fisk’s family. Magnets for trouble, you never know what is going to happen to these would-be heroes next.
Official Hilari Bell Website
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“Pure Blood” by Caitlin Kittredge. Release Date: August 26, 2008. In the shadows of Nocturne City, witches lurk and demons prowl, and homicide detective Luna Wilder must keep the peace—while living life as a werewolf. Now bodies are turning up all over town, the brutal murders linked by a cryptic message: We see with empty eyes. To make matters even worse, a war is brewing between rival clans of blood witches and caster witches—a magical gang war with the power to burn Nocturne City to the ground…
Official Caitlin Kittredge Website
Order “Pure Blood” HERE
Read Darque Reviews’ Interview with Caitlin Kittredge
NOTE: “Pure Blood” is the second volume in Caitlin Kittredge’s Nocture City series after “Night Life”.
“Hunter’s Prayer” by Lilith Saintcrow. Release Date: August 26, 2008. It’s another night on the Nightside… An ancient evil looms over Santa Luz. Prostitutes are showing up dead and eviscerated. And Jill Kismet—introduced in Lilith Saintcrow’s Night Shift—just might be able to get her revenge against an old enemy. There’s just one problem. Someone wants Jill dead–-again. And if they have to open up Hell itself to kill her, they will. Sometimes, even when you're Jill Kismet, you don't have a prayer...
Official Lilith Saintcrow Website
Order “Hunter’s Prayer” HERE (US) + HERE (UK-September 2008)
Read Fantasy Book Critic’s REVIEW of “Night Shift”
“Legacy” by Jeanne C. Stein. Release Date: August 26, 2008. Vampire Anna Strong has struggled to adapt to her supernatural status while clinging to the vestiges of her humanity. Now in Jeanne C. Stein’s fourth Vampire Chronicles novel, Anna must deal with her legacy. Because the sinister vampire who transformed her is dead, and Anna is entitled to his vast fortune. But a predatory werewolf comes forward, claiming the inheritance as her own—and she’ll kill to get what she wants most: blood and money…
Official Jeanne C. Stein Website
Order “Legacy” HERE
“Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe)” by Kimberly Pauley. Release Date: August 26, 2008. Being a teenager is a challenge, and high school is no piece of cake. In Kimberly Pauley’s new young adult novel, “Sucks To Be Me”, life gets really complicated when Mina Hamilton has to decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents. Toss in a couple of cute boys, and it’s enough to drive a girl crazy—or at least make her want to drink some blood…
Official Kimberly Pauley Website
Order “Sucks to Be Me” HERE
Read Reviews via Book Review Maniac, LoveVampires + The Book Muncher
“The Source” by Michael Cordy. UK Release Date: August 28, 2008. Ambitious geologist Ross Kelly has it all: a lucrative career searching for oil across the world and Lauren, a beautiful, brilliant wife who is pregnant with their first child. But when Lauren deciphers the university's mysterious Voynich manuscript—which has confounded experts for centuries—Ross is suddenly thrust upon a desperate quest against a lethal assassin and a fanatical priest that will eventually challenge everything he ever thought about the source of life on earth…
Michael Cordy @ Wikipedia
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“Seeds of Change” edited by John Joseph Adams. Release Date: August 29, 2008. Imagine the moment when the present ends and the future begins. When the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today’s most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, oil, political revolution, and technological advancement. Many serve as a call to action. How will you change with the future?
Official John Joseph Adams Website
Order “Seeds of Change” HERE
NOTE: Includes stories by Mark Budz, Tobias S. Buckell, Blake Charlton, Ted Kosmatka, Jay Lake, Ken MacLeod, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Jeremiah Tolbert, and K. D. Wentworth with an introduction by John Joseph Adams.
Kimberly Swan said...
Another amazing spotlight from you Robert. I've gotten to read several(thank you for the DR links) and will read a few more in the upcoming weeks, but I always end up adding more to my 'wish list'. lol
Just wanted to point out that Elizabeth Bear's two Stratford Man novels are not exactly prequels to Whiskey and Water.
The Stratford Man is set 400 years in the past during the days of William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth. It's not exactly a prequel either, just a story set in a different era.
For what it's worth, I also have a review of The Best of Lucius Shepard from a few months back.
Superb spotlight once again, thanks a lot.
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I always look forward to these posts. Great job once again. There are some that I've already heard and have on my TBR list, but Therapy
by Sebastian Fitzek looks really good. I can't wait to read it.
~ Popin
You're welcome for the links Kimberly! I'm always amazed at how many titles you end up reviewing when I put together a spotlight :D
Joe, thanks for the info and for the link to your Lucius Shepard review. I've updated the spotlight with your review :)
Calibander, no problem! I'm just glad the website wasn't locked for a significant time...
Thanks Popin! I'm looking forward to reading Therapy myself too :)
Thanks for the link to the Book Catapult! MUCH appreciated.
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