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Jackie Trad resigns as Queensland's Deputy Premier and Treasurer, Steven Miles and Cameron Dick to take on portfolios - ABC News

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 03:35:00 GMT

  1. Jackie Trad resigns as Queensland's Deputy Premier and Treasurer, Steven Miles and Cameron Dick to take on portfolios  ABC News
  2. Poster girl’s fall a shock for the left of politics  The Australian
  3. Corruption investigation into Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad has potential to unravel Labor Government's five-year reign  ABC News
  4. Editorial: Premier, Queensland needs a new treasurer now  Courier Mail
  5. Analysis: Latest investigation not a good look for Jackie Trad  Courier Mail
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Ten arrested and police officer injured at protest against Victoria’s Covid-19 lockdown laws - The Guardian

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:00:46 GMT

  1. Ten arrested and police officer injured at protest against Victoria’s Covid-19 lockdown laws  The Guardian
  2. Hundreds of anti-vaxxers clash with police during protest in Melbourne's CBD  Daily Mail
  3. Coronavirus: Anti-lockdown protesters clash with police in Melbourne  NEWS.com.au
  4. Ten arrested, police officer injured in anti-lockdown protest  The Age
  5. Coronavirus Australia updates: anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne as NSW and WA set to ease Covid-19 restrictions – as it happened  The Guardian
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On behalf of Ballou Library in Washington DC, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

By guyslitwire.blogspot.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:31:00 +0000

The final total of books gifted to Ballou Library via the October Book Fair & Cyber Monday  holiday shopping (which continued all week), comes in just over 200 titles! Thank you so much for buying books and helping to spread the word for this DC high school!


The wish list remains open year-round and there are a ton of great books on it, all of them chosen and approved by Ballou students. These are books the teens want and we so enjoy doing everything we can to get these books to them.

In the coming days I will be moving things around a bit on the list, getting series books together so they are easier to find. (I really really REALLY wish that amazon had "search by title" and "search by author" functions. So frustrating!) And we will, of course, be continuing to assist Ballou to fill its shelves next year and hope that you will return to the list and also help us spread the word about the amazing work done by librarian Melissa Jackson.

Have a lovely holiday folks, and thanks again for all you do to support this high school library.


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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

By guyslitwire.blogspot.com
Published On :: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000




Lyrical, visceral, and wise, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz haunts the melancholy middle between heartbreak and hope.

Salvador confronts his senior year and the anxiety that accompanies this countdown to supposed independence—questions of college and new beginnings and one’s true place in this world. Add to these the accumulating stressors particular to Sal’s life: homophobic slurs against his openly gay adopted father, feeling Mexican-American but looking white, the deteriorating health of his beloved grandmother Mimi, the deteriorating home life of his friend Fito, the devastating loss experienced by his best friend Samantha.

Not surprisingly, Sal finds himself greeting more days with fists and tears. Sal desperately wants to find himself in the larger sense, but as Sáenz deftly demonstrates in this young adult novel, all growth is loss—a truth that can make growth a daunting task.

With one of many eloquent words of wisdom, Sal’s father tells him early on we must “find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn’t turn us into hurt animals” (13). But how do we discipline our hearts without hardening them? How do we fight the darkness without devolving into darkness ourselves?

In Sal’s case, he scrapes together every illuminating spark: the tenacity of Fito, the loyalty of Sam, the grace of his father, the serenity of his grandmother. And through the spark of The Inexplicable Logic of My Life and Sáenz’s luminous prose, we learn anew how family is forged by more than blood—and though who we are is our life’s work, identity is never a solitary act.


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Black Light Express by Phillip Reeve

By guyslitwire.blogspot.com
Published On :: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:30:00 +0000


From my recent review of Black Light Express for Locus:


Philip Reeve’s absolutely incredible world building again takes center stage in Black Light Express, the sequel to Railhead. The second book picks up soon after the events that brought Railhead to a stunning close, with former thief and unwitting catalyst Zen Starling having fled the Network Empire along with Nova, his android girlfriend. Meanwhile, completely against her will, Threnrody Noon, the Paris Hilton of the empire-controlling Noon family, has assumed the position of Empress. She is only a pawn of more powerful interests however and virtually trapped in the palace attending a haze of pointless engagements while her former fiance, Kobi, is on the other side of the galaxy about to be forced into a corporate approved marriage with someone he has never met. Basically, the fallout from Railhead is reverberating across all the lives of the major characters while, unknown to them, it’s about to get a lot lot worse. 

What Black Light Express (and the first book, Railhead), offers readers is sentient trains, a vapid rich girl who decides she doesn't want to be a pawn anymore, political machinations, alien technology, aliens, dinosaur-descended aliens, human-android romance, the fact that the human-android romance is the best kind of romance, more stupid rich people, the satisfaction of rich people losing because they are stupid, a protagonist who is smart and scrappy and more than willing to walk on the wrong side of the law because playing by the rules gets you only so far (and those rich jerks are the ones who wrote the rules in the first place).

Oh - and a train is killed and that is far more upsetting than you would think. 

As I wrote in my review, I'm really surprised that these books are not more well known. They  are excellent SF (which is not too common in the YA literary world) as well as being excellent political mirrors for much of modern society. Check them out!


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Saying Goodbye to Guys Lit Wire

By guyslitwire.blogspot.com
Published On :: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:30:00 +0000

This is the final post for Guys Lit Wire.


We started this site many years ago (I'm honestly afraid to even see how many years), after an online discussion about how teenage boys seemed less willing to browse for books they wanted than teenage girls. (The argument being that if the guys had more easy to find recommendations, they would read more but when they didn't know how to find books on subjects they liked, they just gave up looking.)

So that was what we set out to do (as evident from the site's name): recommend some books that we thought teenage boys would like. This often meant books from a boy POV, or graphic novels that might lure in reluctant readers, or nonfiction that might appeal to specific audiences that don't read a lot but like certain subjects. What all of these books had in common is that one of our many contributors thought it was a good book and deserved some more attention from readers who would probably love it if they knew about it. We certainly hope that all kinds of kids and teens (boys and girls) have picked up a book because of something we posted here.

Beyond that, we also supported several schools and organizations devoted to getting books into the hands of kids who needed them via underfunded library shelves. Cumulatively, over 10,000 books have been bought & shipped due to our efforts. Most recently, for Ballou Sr High School in Washington DC, over 200 books were bought off their wish list by our readers and sent their way at the end of 2017. 

Support for the Annual Book Fair for Ballou will continue, as I take those posts over to my site, Chasing Ray, and continue to host the book fair there. Please follow me on twitter, (@chasingray), for updates on that effort.

Personally, Sarah Stevenson & I would like to thank everyone who was with us on this ride. We are both writing much more heavily now on our own projects and bring an end to GLW with a heavy but grateful heart. Simply put, it is time. All of us at the site are confident however that we accomplished far more here than we ever thought possible. The archives will remain live and there are a ton of great book recommendations to peruse; be sure to check them out. 


Sincerely,

Colleen Mondor & Sarah Stevenson
January, 2018


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Michał Herda: Lisp Koans 2.0

By nl.movim.eu
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:04:20 GMT

I have rewritten the Common Lisp Koans to fix the many issues that sort-of plagued the code.

You can see, inspect, and download the outcome here.


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Zijn hitlijst was lang, zijn invloed op latere iconen zoals The Beatles en Prince immens: flamboyant rock-'n-rollpionier Little Richard (87) is niet meer - Het Nieuwsblad

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:00:00 GMT

  1. Zijn hitlijst was lang, zijn invloed op latere iconen zoals The Beatles en Prince immens: flamboyant rock-'n-rollpionier Little Richard (87) is niet meer  Het Nieuwsblad
  2. Rock-n'-rollpionier Little 'Tutti Frutti' Richard (87) overleden  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Rock 'n' roll-pionier Little Richard is overleden, herontdek zijn grootste hits  VRT NWS
  4. Little Richard drukte zware stempel op de rock-'n-roll  De Tijd
  5. Muzieklegendes over Little Richard: “Als ik zijn muziek beluisterde, kon ik God horen”  Het Laatste Nieuws
  6. Hele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws


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Hoog spel rond Brussels Airlines - De Standaard

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 01:25:00 GMT

  1. Hoog spel rond Brussels Airlines  De Standaard
  2. Moeten we Brussels Airlines redden of niet?  De Tijd
  3. Lufthansa Group verdubbelt in juni het aantal vliegtuigen in dienst  Luchtvaartnieuws.nl
  4. Akkoord tussen Swiss en Lufthansa: blauwdruk voor Brussels Airlines?  Trends
  5. Lufthansa groep vanaf juni met 160 vliegtuigen de lucht in  Up in the Sky
  6. Hele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws


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Voormalige TVL-kok 'Chef Moke' overleden (Wellen) - Het Belang van Limburg Mobile - Het Belang van Limburg

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 09:56:00 GMT

  1. Voormalige TVL-kok 'Chef Moke' overleden (Wellen) - Het Belang van Limburg Mobile  Het Belang van Limburg
  2. Wellense chef Moke Karmaoui overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Limburgse chef Moke Karmaoui (50) overleden: “Je blijft ons grote voorbeeld en onze held”  Het Laatste Nieuws
  4. Hele verhaal bekijken via Google Nieuws


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NHL execs express mixed feelings over proposal to hold draft early

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 23:45:24 +0000

There are mixed feelings among executives about the idea, ranging from frustration to begrudging acceptance.


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Stars CLASSICS Highlights | 1999 Stanley Cup Final Games 2 and 3 vs. Sabres

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Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:32:14 +0000

Stars CLASSICS Highlights | 1999 Stanley Cup Final Games 2 and 3 vs. Sabres


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Preventing loneliness and social isolation for older people (cards)

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Published On :: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:08:05 +0000


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My Home Life Scotland

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Published On :: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:57:07 +0000


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Pilotlight - pathways to self-directed support

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Published On :: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:07:24 +0000


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Dutch Kludge: Cooler Than Your Library

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Published On :: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:00:00 -0700

The circulation desk at Delft University of Technology. I'm Jealous.


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Atelier Audemars Piguet Museum

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Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:00:44 -0500


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The Zombie Grinder 4000 Slingshot: The Ultimate in Anti-Undead Technology

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Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:00:00 -0700


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Hair Flipping Has Never Been More on Point Than When You Do it With Archery

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Published On :: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 07:00:00 -0700

Archer and Korean Pop star Chou Tzuyu, of "Twice", may have hit the target on the coolest new way to flip your hair.


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When It Rains, It Pours, and When It Pours...GRASS BLISTERS!

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Published On :: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 04:00:00 -0800


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Dogs Finally Get the Compliments They Deserve in These Pretty Tweets

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Published On :: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 10:00:00 -0700

The theme here is simple: whatever your dog is looking at might be pretty, but your dog is always prettier. Got it?


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The Daring Story of a Pilot Who Didn't Let a Thing Like "Missing a Landing Gear" Stop Him

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Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:00:00 -0700


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