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BLOOD IN THE DUST
The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves a home—a home to fight for, to be changed by, sometimes to die for. Jed Asbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of a dead man. Allen Ring was another: he'd won his plot of land in a card game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From a has-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses' troubles, the characters in these classic Louis L'Amour short stories are all "riding for the brand"—staying loyal to what matters, staking the West with their courage and their blood.
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(Because I make my way through so many books and movies for CCLaP, I regularly come across projects that are interesting enough unto themselves but that I simply don't have much to say about, or at least not enough to warrant an entire entry. I thought, then, that on occasional weekends I would gather up such "micro-reviews" and post them all in one large entry; they can also be found on CCLaP's main book and main movie archive pages.)
Intention Implication Wind
By Ken Sparling
This is the latest release by our friends at Canadian small press Pedlar, and unfortunately the first title of theirs that I found myself not so fond of, which can mostly be chalked up to the nature of experimentalism in general; because while the exact perfect amount of abstraction and poetry in a title like this is what makes one of them so great, much like most of the other Pedlar titles I've read, just the tiniest amount more or in the wrong direction can make the whole thing fall apart at the seams. And that's simply the nature of cutting-edge work, why it's called cutting-edge to begin with, and why so relatively few writers even attempt such a style; because not only is there objectively only a tiny window that constitutes a success with experimental stories, but with that window changing locations from one individual reader to the next too, so that one person may love a project for the exact reasons another may intensely dislike it. It's still recommended to adventurous readers in this spirit, in the hopes that all its elements may deeply click with you; but in my particular case, I found Intention Implication Wind to be just a little too scattershot for my tastes, more a case of abstract poetry written in a prose form than a narrative tale written with a poetic sensibility.
Out of 10: 7.4
Our Tragic Universe
By Scarlett Thomas
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
I suppose if I'm being entirely truthful, a big part of why I was so profoundly disappointed with Scarlett Thomas' Our Tragic Universe was not from the quality of the book itself, but simply from a case of mistaken assumptions; namely, based on the whimsical jacket copy and exquisite production details (including a custom-glued full-color glossy hardback cover and pages dyed black at their edges), I had been expecting this to be some smart, well-done New Weird comedy along the lines of China Mieville's Kraken, instead of the ho-hum, cutesy-wootsy, "Sex And The City With a Dark Streak" social-realism chick-lit tale it turned out to be. And while that's not my particular taste, the book is certainly on the high end of the quality scale for what it is, and I suspect will be well-liked by those specifically looking for this type of work; but I just can't help but feel frustrated and disappointed anyway, because of all these details that pointed to one kind of book and a manuscript that actually delivered the opposite. I know, I know, don't judge a book by its cover! I know!
Out of 10: 7.1 or 8.1 for fans of dark-tinged chick-lit
City of Ruins
By Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Whenever I read a book like Kristine Kathryn Rusch's City of Ruins, the latest release from our pals at Pyr, I can't help but to think of that endless roster of thirty- and fortysomething nerds who have cranked out livings over the last couple of decades as writers on weekend genre television shows, stuff like "Buffy" and "Farscape" and all those "Stargate" spinoffs; because while these writers are known by name by their most passionate fans, and worshipped as much by them as an NPR nerd might worship Jonathan Franzen, it's hard for me in particular to think of such stories as much more than fodder for teens and stoners on a boring Saturday afternoon, making them certainly a legitimate part of the literary industry but projects that will always and forever have only a limited appeal, and will only ever be fully embraced by those willing to pay for their sci-fi trope delivery with a high tolerance for sometimes mediocre writing. The second title in a situation-based space-opera franchise, this posits a sexy rogue space salvager known simply as Boss and her ragtag crew, who in their quest to track down various pieces of highly developed tech scattered across the universe (remnants of an ancient alien race of whom almost nothing is now known) this time stumble across a far-ranging conspiracy on a planet whose population lives in giant half-open caverns, and where the inner-earth walls seem to almost magically destroy and then reshape themselves on a moment's whim. Competently done but with characters that largely come from Action Thriller Central Casting, and dialogue that will leave a lot of people sighing in frustration, it's the very definition of a novel that only a fanboy could love; and while I wish such authors the best of luck, no matter which genre they work in, such middling titles unfortunately fall beyond my usual purview here at CCLaP, which is why they generally get only middling scores despite being well-loved in certain circles. It should be kept in mind before picking up a copy yourself.
Out of 10: 7.4, or 8.4 for fans of weekend sci-fi television series


I am a huge fan of Chris Ridell’s work - stories and illustrations - so imagine my excitement when I discovered he was writing a brand new magical adventure series AND that I was invited to be part of its blog tour! The Kingdom Of Thrynne is a place of ancient magic, but those seen … Continue reading “The Cloud Horse Chronicles: Guardians Of Magic,” by Chris Riddell.
“A boy. A drone. And the danger below.” Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for ‘Spylark,’ with a special piece by Danny Rurlander about the beautiful Lake District setting for his book. Since his accident, Tom’s not only struggling with the loss of his father but also loss of mobility. Retreating into the … Continue reading Blog Tour: ‘Spylark,’ by Danny Rurlander, cover by Doaly.
#BookBoy loves gaming. Luckily, he also loves reading. But titles which allow him combine these two interests are few and far between. I’ve been racking my brain for children’s books which feature computer games as a key component, and here’s what I’ve managed to come up with! ‘Glitch’ by Sarah Graley (Scholastic) has just dropped … Continue reading Game On! Level up with these books about gaming!
This is a book for anyone who used to while away the hours as a childhood immersed in an imaginary world or playing made up games with rules nobody outside your circle of friends would understand. I had the pleasure of interviewing Jenny about these very things for my Library Girl and Book Boy podcast, … Continue reading ‘The Land of Roar,’ by Jenny McLachlan, illustrated by Ben Mantle.
This blog post has a sea-faring theme with a selection of books for readers of all ages about pirates, the sea, and the creatures who live in it. ‘Lula and the Sea Monster’ by Alex Latimer (OUP) Lula lives by the beach in her beautiful family home and she loves it. She loves looking for … Continue reading Books Ahoy!
I am huge fan of all things witchy and wizard (mainly thanks to a very popular series of children’s books which shall not be named!) and am always very excited when a magical new series arrives on the scene. Cue ‘Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day’.... and LOOK AT THAT COVER! The wonderfully named … Continue reading ‘Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day,’ by Dominique Valente, illustrated by Sarah Warburton.
Today is my stop on the ‘Girl. Boy. Sea’ blog tour. In addition to telling you all about this shipwreck adventure, I also have an exclusive piece from the author himself about the sea-faring adventures that inspired him whilst growing up. This is a story of storm, shipwreck, survival and the formation of an unlikely … Continue reading Blog tour: ‘Girl. Boy. Sea.’ by Chris Vick.


In Ireland, we are due to vote on Friday on whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. This piece of text was introduced in 1983 by secretive, right-wing, Catholic pressure groups who exerted all the leverage they could on the government and the people in an attempt to copperfasten the Constitution against any attempts to introduce termination of pregnancy. In the decades since, this unnecessary clause has caused women’s deaths, not to mention untold misery to thousands, while the very act it is trying to ban is merely exported.
So many women have testified here about the damage the Eighth has done. As a citizen, a woman, and a person of conscience, I can only vote Yes to repealing it. A wonderful community has galvanised around our cause. We have Together for Yes, Doctors For Yes, Lawyers for Choice, Psychologists for Yes, Men for Yes, and now Farmers For Yes bringing up the cavalry. (Thanks Lorna. Anyone Irish and on the fence about their vote, check out her post!) For my part, I want to talk about my experience writing abortion in my work.
Writing Women’s Choices
In 2014, I had a novel published which did something then unusual in Irish literature: it contained a storyline where a character under extreme duress seeks an abortion, then undergoes it, and continues with her life without major regret. Up till very recently, this was quite rare; the only other case I could think of was Maeve Binchy’s Light a Penny Candle (supremely ironic, given her brother, a law professor, is one of the founding members and leading lights of the anti-choice movement in Ireland!) To my mind, Binchy handles the scene between Elizabeth, who is procuring an illegal abortion, and Aisling, who in spite of her disapproval offers her support, with nuance and thought. There was wistfulness on Elizabeth’s part, rather than sentimentality; she does not doubt her decision, but sometimes thinks about what would have happened if her partner had been more supportive.
In White Feathers, the abortion takes place during wartime England in 1915. I was going to say that laws there were much harsher than the present, but actually…not in Ireland. The legislation that affected Eva and Lucia would have been Section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. Having an abortion, or procuring one, could be punished with life imprisonment. This statute was not repealed in Ireland until May 2013, when a ramshackle Act was passed through – ramshackle because the root of the poisonous tree, the Eighth Amendment, was still in place. It was like putting a dressing on an infected wound.
The same law, 100 years on
I got my offer of publication on August 4, 2013. I had submitted my last unassisted draft in April of that year. From the very start of writing the novel to the day I hit “send” on the last draft to my agent, the provisions of the 1861 act on abortion were still law in Ireland. Both then and now, Eva and Lucia would have broken the law – and both would be liable to heavy sentences, heavier than rape. I think it really says something when I’m writing a novel set 100 years in the past and we were still stuck under the same law! Historical fiction is meant to be historical, lads. The clue is in the name.
When I got my notes back from the editor, she and I worked very hard on those scenes, to get the right amount of nuance and conflicting emotions. To establish, in a nutshell, that such an experience, being so physically difficult, was not nothing, but did not have to cast a shadow over everything else either. That the girl in my story very much wanted an abortion and did not, on balance, regret it. I also found it hard to write the part where she had to confide in someone she loved and valued. I had to run through his reaction in my mind, balancing the need to not be burdened with judgement with the requirement to be true to the customs and worldview of wartime England in the early twentieth century. Which would have viewed abortion as quite shocking.
I did not receive much post-publication feedback on that particular storyline, though I suspect it might have “marked my card” behind the scenes. A few friends told me that they appreciated the sensitivity and even-handedness of it. One powerful medium obliquely rebuked me for it, chiding me for allowing the character a jocular thought about being pregnant “after all she has been through”. The idea that she might not be haunted day and night, that she might have felt like a prisoner while pregnant, that she have been able to look back on the whole episode with wry relief and even joke about it – this was obviously still not an acceptable viewpoint to hold in Irish literature, even three and a half years ago, never mind back in the good old days. I still had to pay a penalty for putting it out there, earning a harsher dressing down than many of my colleagues lauching their debuts.
However on balance – I wouldn’t change a word. Not one word. I’m proud of that storyline and glad I wrote it. And I hope that come Friday, the conditions that surrounded the characters in a historical novel…will be relegated to history in Ireland, for once and for all.


‘Odium’ is a novel about more than zombies. Yes, it is set in a world in which the dead roam the world outside the high walls of the cities, and yes, it does include lots of graphic, exciting instances of fights with zombies and near escapes. However, what I really loved about ‘Odium’ was Nina, the main character. Sassy, intelligent and strong-willed, Nina draws the reader in – you will find yourself willing her to succeed and really caring about her. The first person narrative helps you to walk with Nina (and bludgeon Zombies with her along the way!) and her sarcastic humour means you enjoy the thrilling journey. Claire Riley has a knack for creating a fast-paced, exciting rollercoaster of a tale that doesn’t scrimp on great characterisation, dialogue and description. The graphic descriptions of the zombies in all their gruesomeness are beautifully contrasted by some touching moments when we learn about Nina’s past and follow her developing relationships. Her concern for 13 -year -old Emily and their growing reliance on each other and affection for each other is particularly well drawn, as are the dynamics between the very different members of the group of survivors that the two girls encounter. Although dystopian post-apocalyptic zombie novels are not really my usual choice of book, I can recommend ‘Odium’ – there is a lot more to this well-crafted story than zombies.
You can find Odium here.


A plot and setting review of the play lysistrata
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A plot and setting review of the play lysistrata
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Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones
Yellow and pink comforter ending in pom-pomfringe on Flanders Avenue She’ll diehere by choice ashes in the backyardnot in a circular cement bomb shelter for oneGo into your tree roll on a rabbit fur blanketrefuse to eat for thirty days plus ten days Unremembered does it mattermisremembering the baby she lost a different baby(unborn never born the unnamed) This rain reminds me of rainI cleaned the pain but smell it on floorboardsof a Ford Fiesta maybe need to burn effigiespowder puff French cosmeticsand perfumes the tortoiseshell hairbrush fathergave her in Saigon “My Butterfly” he wrotein the long lost This is a clichéd teststuff the alarm clock in my bag Cloudsand black in the afternoon (untranslatable)
“Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones” from A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure.
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Hoa Nguyen is author of several books of poetry including Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 and Violet Energy Ingots. A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-“Fall-of-Saigon”, her most recent title, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, was selected for the longlist of the National Book Award 2021. Born in the Mekong Delta and raised and educated in the United States, Hoa lives in Tkaronto with her family.
"'I rename myself a bell to ring,' Nguyen writes, and that bell rings with impressive tonal and melodic versality throughout her work. This dense collection, rife with the life of the body, is proof of what language can bear witness to, a testament Nguyen makes wholly her own."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Nguyen's latest tells the story of Diệp Anh Nguyễn, the author's mother and a daredevil motorcyclist whose portrait — seductively and maniacally posing on her bike — appears at the beginning of the collection. An investigation of mothers and motherlands, devilry and diaspora, this book chronicles her mother's story but delivers almost nothing in the way of facts or events. Nguyen pulls off a paradox, a biography composed of gestures, the sort of thing that could only happen in poetry."


With the publication of The Last Rite – the final instalment of The Danilov Quintet – imminent, it’s time for me to make a confession: I didn’t make it all up. Admittedly the stuff about vampires and a curse on the blood of the Romanov emperors was all my idea, but as for the rest of it I pride myself on my attention to historical accuracy. It’s always pleasing to read reviews that say how well-researched the books are, and I’m often asked for recommendations of books which go into the history behind the quintet in more detail.
So I’ve gone back through my library and picked out a couple of history books for each period covered – those that I particularly remember from the many others that I trawled through to uncover the minutiae of Imperial Russian life.
Twelve – 1812
Once I’d plotted Twelve, I realized that if I was going to make it authentic I’d need an in-depth account of Napoleon’s occupation of the old Russian capital. I had to go back to 1964 to find something good enough: The Burning of Moscow 1812 by Daria Olivier. There’s a fascinating amount of detail in a book that covers just five vital days of European history.
Thirteen Years Later – 1825
One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the freedom to choose which path to follow when historians themselves are unsure of the truth. Often my choice is the less likely – and therefore more fascinating – path. Since 1825 there has been a persistent rumour – even within the Romanov family – that Alexander did not die then, but faked his own death in order to be free of the burden of ruling Russia. The threads of the story are brought together wonderfully in Alexis S. Troubetzkoy’s Imperial Legend, although unlike me, Troubetzkoy does not suggest that the tsar’s disappearance was down to the fact that the blood of the vampire Dracula flowed in his veins.
The fame of the revolutions of 1917 has somewhat obscured the uprising of 1825, leaving it hard to find thorough histories of the subject. This time a detailed study came from 1937 with Anatole G. Mazour’s The First Russian Revolution, 1825. It’s fascinating to wonder just how different the world might have been if the uprising had succeeded.
The Third Section – 1854-1856
The Third Department by P. S. Squire, written in 1968 provides a good understanding of the organization. It’s easy to see a thread that stretches on to the Ohrana, the Cheka, the NKVD and the KGB (and perhaps beyond).
I fear that my fascination for the next selection may not be shared by all, but the development of the railways, and particularly the building of the St Petersburg to Moscow railway, was essential to the modernization of Russia. Richard Mowbray Haywood’s Russia Enters the Railway Age, 1842-55 has detail invaluable for anyone writing about the period, and the storytelling still delivers a highly readable text.
The People’s Will – 1881
I couldn’t find one single all-encompassing text on the events and had to piece things together from several sources. In Alexander II – The Last Great Tsar Edvard Radzinsky gives a highly readable account of the life and death of Russia’s most (perhaps only) liberal tsar, though betrays a little more partially than most historical biographers do.
Historical fiction relies on detail and this is often found not in the broad, sweeping brush of a generalist, but in the biography of the one of the bit players. Lee B. Croft’s print-to-order Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich – Terrorist Rocket Pioneer gives an account of the life of one of the leading members of The People’s Will – the man who designed the bombs that killed the tsar and also a prototype rocket intended to take travellers to the moon.
The Last Rite – 1917-1918
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes. It is both wide-ranging and detailed and takes full advantage of the benefits of hindsight.
Quite the reverse can be said of Ten Days That Shook the World, a first-hand account by American journalist John Reed of his experiences of the Bolshevik coup. Such a personal account, from a man who does not attempt to hide his admiration for Lenin and his comrades, must be treated carefully as a contribution to the historical record, but is unrivalled in its evocation of what it was like to be on the streets of Petrograd at that time.
One Book to Rule Them All, One Book to Find Them
Natasha’s Dance – A Cultural History of Russia. Aside from fictional sources such as Tolstoy’s War and Peace (from which Figes’ book takes its name), I found nothing that gives a better feeling for what Russia was actually like in the century leading up to the Revolution.


A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume. Likewise Christians, tortured by Communists, rewarded their jailors by love. We brought many of our jailors to Christ. And we are dominated by one desire: to give Communists who have made us suffer the best we have, the salvation that comes from our Lord Jesus Christ."
--Richard Wurmbrand, founder of Voice of the Martyrs
from Tortured for Christ
I take three things away from this passage. The first is for me right now. The second is for me and for others; an analogy to be shared. The third I have known all along, and yet fail to practice with consistency and integrity.
1) Do not become what you are immersed in. I can not be tainted or covered by something I am even intensely affected by. I must wear the coat of Christ love to repel such things, so that they do not become stuck to me. I must fan into flame the fire of Christ inside, that I may stay the same. Do not become corrupted. Be set apart. be holy.
2) When we are crushed, what does it reveal inside of us? Is it anger? is it bitterness? Is it love? Is it grace? With what do we color the foot that stomps on us? Am I the flower that perfumes the foot that stomps me? Or am I the bitter root that leaves the stink of anger and resentment?
3) Do I respond in love to the people who hurt me? Even worse, the people who intentionally hurt me? We excuse ourselves when we offend someone by saying "it was not my intent," but this is wrong on two levels.
Firstly, intentional or not, we must own our wrongs and the offenses we give. We must make reconciliation and if applicable, recompense. A man who runs over his neighbor's dog does not excuse himself by telling the boy it was unintentional. Is that much better than if it were? What consolation does this offer the boy who has lost a cherished pet and friend? The man must acknowledge the wrong he had committed and the grief he has caused.
Secondly, the person affected by a wrong must not be hung up on whether something is forgivable based on intent. Ultimately, we are called to forgive. To hold on to anger and unforgiveness hurts everyone: Christ, the offender, and the offended. I once heard that unforgiveness is like swallowing poison and waiting for the offender to die. Unforgiveness may affect the offender, but it will never harm him as much as the one who withholds forgiveness.
All of this is an aside. All offenders, intentional or not, are our enemies at the moment the offense is given. How we respond to our momentary enemy reveals our heart. Do we love this enemy? Do we see him as Christ sees him? Do we see in him the imago dei (image of God)? Do we see Christ in him, whom Christ himself suggested we should provide a drink of water? Or do we see him as an enemy. An offender. An invader of our boundaries and a destroyer of our peace? Is he an adversary whom we must steel ourselves against? Do we raise up the walls of defense? Or worse yet, are the words of the counter-assault already on our lips before we know what we are saying?
How do we react to our enemy-in-the-moment? Do we love him or hate him? Do we give him the best we have?


By Jane Dunn
The political and non secular conflicts among Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for hundreds of years captured our mind's eye and encouraged memorable dramas performed out on degree, display, and in opera. yet few books have dropped at existence extra vividly than Jane Dunn’s Elizabeth and Mary the beautiful texture of 2 women’s competition, spurred on via the pursuits and machinations of the forceful males who surrounded them. The drama has exceptional resonance even now as girls proceed to fight of their bid for government power.
Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints photographs of a couple of protagonists whose ambitious strengths have been put in relentless competition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy needed to be vouchsafed through criminal ability, glowed with govt skill and a visionary strength as vivid as her crimson hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s competitors wanted to determine at the throne, was once captivating, female, and deeply persuasive. That such girls, queens of their personal correct, must have been contemporaries and neighbours units in movement a joint biography of infrequent spark and page-turning energy.
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Neale, and extra lately Anne Somerset’s dependent, authoritative paintings, Alison Weir’s renowned trilogy, and David Starkey’s vibrant portrayal of the Princess’s formative years; for Mary, not anything has outdated in additional than thirty years woman Antonia Fraser’s amazing and sympathetic lifestyles, even if Jenny Wormald’s research of Mary as a monarch is marvellous. however the wealth of fundamental resources is so nice that the scope for bringing new illumination to the tale is sort of boundless. Elizabeth and Mary is set the connection among the queens, person who appeared, in the course of their lifetimes, to conform a lifetime of its personal, and in any case carry either captive to it and every different. It was once the main compelling dating in their lives, affecting their political coverage and private attitudes. in contrast to Elizabeth with Burghley and Leicester, or Mary with Moray, Darnley and Bothwell, this used to be a courting neither had selected, nor may possibly break out, even in loss of life. Elizabeth realised with a few depression how their fates have been intertwined: whilst she used to be ostensibly Mary’s jailer she declared, “I am no longer unfastened, yet a captive. ” The indissoluble bond among them used to be solid by means of opposing forces; their shared inheritance and competition for Elizabeth’s crown set opposed to their usual team spirit as regnant queens in an overwhelmingly masculine global. that they had a fascination and sympathy for every different; they have been cousins in an age while relations mattered and while, for a lot in their lives, either lacked nearer family members. Mary selected to emphasize her familial dating with Elizabeth, her letters frequently supplicating, daughterly, even lover-like. “How a lot better,” she wrote to Elizabeth, “were it that we being Queens so close to of relatives, neighbours and residing in a single isle, may be pals and dwell jointly like sisters, than via unusual ability divide ourselves to the harm of either. ” And Elizabeth spoke back to those emotional pleas with a tone that used to be bossy, condescending and, for it slow, elder-sisterly in her exasperated care. And but they by no means met. this can be the good dramatic centre in their tale. within the absence of fact, a rival grows in stature within the mind's eye, changing into whatever superhuman, but in addition below human and for this reason more uncomplicated to kill. Their failure to fulfill additionally turned an expression of pissed off wish and regulate. Mary by no means gave up pleading for private touch, definite that her appeal may adjust her case along with her cousin. at the start prepared, Elizabeth then grew more and more far-off and aloof, terrified of what she believed used to be Mary’s virtually magical energy to enchant, already exaggerated in her mind's eye and fuelled with the tales of others. Elizabeth used to be at a loss for words: “There is whatever chic within the phrases and bearing of the Queen of Scots that constrains even her enemies to talk good of her. ” a part of the drama in their lives is that this nice competition among their natures, their earliest reviews and the types of ruler they wanted to be. All her lifestyles, Elizabeth had steeled herself to end up to the realm she had the guts and brain of a guy, so conscious was once she of the accredited inferiority of being in basic terms lady.


Barry and family. Curtis was one of a kind, unique in his humor, knowledge, and temperament. I am proud to have shared his friendship.My life is better from having known him. He had a life well lived. I will miss him. I wish him fair winds, blue skies, and peace on the other side.


He’s one of the outstanding students from the Malaysian school of graffiti who we’ve already introduced in our “Instagram Suggestion” section. Now, the people at Spraydaily are the ones who want to delve into the story of Siek27, a writer from Kuala Lumpur who has become a master in wildstyle in a very short period of time, and makes excellent use of his preferred paint: MTN Hardcore 2. SInce it couldn’t have been any other way, we’ve summarized the article with some images and text fragments that we found most interesting.
“(Kuala Lumpur) The number of writers are increasing and so does the amount of burner walls. (…) But we’re running low on bombers to compare with others Asian country like Indonesia.”
“I saw some of the writers only start painting because they think they can make a good income from it and it get’s in my nerves.”
“There’s a lot graffiti writer have to sacrifice like money, time, love and many more. For god sake please try and appreciate all graffiti for what it is and feel the messages we try to deliver.”


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Background: Despite a remarkable increase in the depth of our understanding and management of breast cancer in the past 50 years, the disease is still a major public health problem worldwide and poses significant challenges. The palpability of breast tumors has facilitated diagnosis and documentation since ancient times. The earliest descriptions of breast cancer date back to around 3500 BCE. For centuries to follow, theories by Hippocrates (460 BCE) and Galen (200 CE), attributing the cause of breast cancer to an "excess of black bile" and treatment options including the use of opium and castor oil, prevailed. Surgical resection was introduced in the 18th century. The advent of modern medicine led to the development of novel treatment options that include hormonal, targeted and chemo-therapies. There are still several therapeutic challenges including the treatment of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), and overcoming drug resistance.
Scope of review: The increased incidence and awareness of breast cancer has led to significant changes in diagnosis and treatment in recent decades. But, mankind has come a long way. Herein, I have traced how our understanding of breast cancer has evolved from the early description of the disease around 460 BCE as "black bile-containing crab-like tumors" to the conventional as a heterogeneous disease with high degree of diversity between and within tumors, as well as among breast cancer patients. How is breast cancer treated today and how do risk factors, breast cancer subtype and drug resistance contribute to the therapeutic challenges at the turn of the 21st century?
Major conclusions: Breast cancer remains a serious public health issue worldwide. However, appreciable growth in our understanding of breast cancer in the past century has led to remarkable progress in the early detection, treatment and prevention of the disease. The clinical focus is shifting more towards tailored therapy as more targets are characterized and novel highly innovative approaches are developed.
General significance: Tracing the history of breast cancer, highlights how increased awareness of the disease, and progress in research and development have enhance our understanding of the disease.
Keywords: Angelina Jolie; Aromatase inhibitors; BRCA1 and BRCA2; Breast cancer; ER; HER2; Herceptin; Hippocrates; Mammography; Radical mastectomy; Tamoxifen; Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC).


In an earlier blog I wrote about the different types of physical abuse. Today I would like to focus on emotional abuse.
Emotional abuse is a part of the pattern of controlling behavior. This is a particularly vicious way of hurting someone by cutting to the very core of their being.
Many of those who have been victims of domestic violence will tell you that it was the accusations, the name calling, and the demeaning words that really damaged their self esteem. The physical wounds healed, but the emotional scars take much longer.
Emotional abuse causes the victim to question their self worth, their ability to make decisions, their ability to parent their children, and their ability to really trust their perception of the situation.
They start to believe what is being said to them: that they are stupid, they will lose their children, they can’t survive without the abuser, they are ugly. The list goes on and on. They begin to question everything about themselves and their worth and value as a person.
The therapists at Hope House work with the clients on addressing the issue of their low self esteem and help the clients to begin to understand what has happened to them. They work with them to trust themselves and their decisions.
Healing from the wounds of emotional abuse can be a difficult road of recovery but it is wonderful to see someone blossom and become their own person again.
That is our work: to help guide people on their journey of self discovery. Sometimes for the very first time; other times, it is a reclaiming of their lost self. Either way it is an honor for us to accompany them on their journey.


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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Someday he'll come along. the man I love., and he'll be big and strong, the man I love
Finally feeling better, still a little weak but much better. Decided to take a short drive and stopped by the local Starbucks on PCH for a cup of Refresh tea. California weather is so crazy, early Sunday morning it was pouring rain but by Sunday afternoon it was gloriously sunny. Today was a lovely crisp day! While sipping my tea I overheard two women talking. When one of the women remarked that last night one of her friends attemped suicide as casually as one would state , "Last night she got a new hair cut." I was rather shocked. Judging from the converstaion the "friend" attempted suicide because she was broken hearted over a man.
I was sitting so closed to them, they knew I overheard what they were talking about and being female, instead of being outraged, they asked me to join the conversation. These two women then asked me the most usual question, "Do you think a married man would ever leave his wife for his mistress?"
"No" I stated,"A married man will never leave his wife for a mistress for then he loses a mistress!" Why would you want a married man to leave his wife for you in the first place? Talk about your bad karma.
Then the women asked me: "Why are all the men I meet are married?" I wanted so to answer that question with a question:
"Why are the only men you are attracted to are married?" I meet men all the time and I'm no beauty. But I have no trouble meeting men, even in cold L.A. City of Angels.
They began talking to me about men and wanting to meet a man they can have a relationship with. I then asked them what was their idea of their ideal man.
I went wild with their answer for they were so vague. One thing I agree with the book "The Secret" it tells you to write down exactly what you want! These two women were more detailed about their Starbuck's coffee drink then they were about their ideal man.
I don't know if I'm jaded but the last thing I worry about is finding a man!
Still, last week I was taken aback when I read that a 106 year old, single, Chinese woman who has never been married, was considering looking for a HUSBAND! One hundred and six and she's looking for a man to love?
Some dreams never die!


An Attack of Conscience!
The entry I put up last night was done when I was...slightly emotional. In a fit of pique, you might say. There was a camel's back, and a straw fell on it and it broke. In the cold, harsh, light of morning when the only emotion I am capable of feeling is, of course, the overwhelming sense of dread about the upcoming workday, I started to feel slight pangs of guilt that perhaps I had crossed a line. A privacy line. Like the line that is the doorway to my bedroom that a certain someone constantly crosses when he and his friends are entering it to use my stuff. But we won't talk about that. My feelings of guilt intensified when my mother IMed me to gently suggest that I should take the entry down. So I am. It's gone. Until the next incident, when I'll put it back up again and then take it down the next morning. It's the circle of life, people. Circle of life.


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Grammatical cohesion in translating English media discourse into Arabic
Kais A. Kadhim, Sohar University, Oman; Abstract: Cohesive markers help to relate words and sentences together in the text. Also, they make the whole text united and meaningful resulting from their functions in linking the sentences. While translating from the SL to the TL, the translator may not translate the whole cohesive markers or translate them incorrectly which affect the communicative meaning of the SL. In this study, the researcher will make use of Halliday and Hasan (1976) model of cohesion to identify cohesive markers used in Arabic and English texts, and only focusing on References as cohesive markers. The source English texts are taken from The New York Times and The Washington Post online articles, their translated Arabic versions are taken from the online Arabic newspaper, namely, Asharq Al-Awsat. Also, the study will adopt Nida’s translation techniques (1964) to identify the translation techniques used to translate English grammatical cohesive markers into Arabic text. The results showed that two techniques of Nida are appeared in analysis ‘Alteration’ and ‘Subtraction’, besides; one new technique is appeared in this study, namely ‘Sustaining’. By identifying the translation techniques used in translating the cohesive markers, the translators or the linguists will be aware of these techniques.
Keywords: Cohesion, References, Technique, Alteration, Subtraction
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In loving memory of a dear wife, mother, grand-mother, great-grandmother, sister, auntie and friend to many. Beryl was extremely caring, always looking out for others, her friends and family are lucky to have had their lives graced by her love.
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This mistress was hired to extract info from this business executive and she did a stellar job of it as she tortured him until he revealed the most intimate and intricate details of his company. The mistress was armed with a rod and with her high heels and made him give her all the details she wanted. He was afraid of the pain she was about to inflict on him while he was tied and that is why he talked.
Lady Scarlet and her friends had a problem with how rude this guy was. He was rude to them as well as other people including the elderly and these mistresses felt that it was time for him to learn his lesson. That lesson was taught to him in a way that he had never imagined. He was trampled from head to toe by the mistresses who did it at the same time.
This girl had snitched on mistress Nicole and her friends and she had to be taught a lesson as the mistresses did not want to have snitches near them. So the mistresses chose to dominate her by torturing her with their cigarettes and also painting her face with their make up. She was humiliated until she learned the value of keeping her mouth shut. She never again snitched after that.
This slave was insubordinate and these mistresses were not going to allow him to mess things up. So the mistresses chose to dominate and punish him to make him change. He was not supposed to continue with that behavior and have that attitude so the mistresses used their cigarettes to torture him. He was in a lot of pain after what they did to him but there was nothing he could do about it.
Lady Zora was angered by her boyfriend but he learned his mistake and he begged her for mercy. She chose to make him lick her feet and her shoes before she forgave him. Lady Zora knew she would not get such a good opportunity soon so she took full advantage of it. It was a lot of fun for her and she enjoyed herself to the max at his expense.
Mistress Enola and this guy were competitors and they had agreed to compete fairly. But she found out that the guy was cheating and she could not stomach it. So she punished him by trampling him and crushing his head so as to pump some sense into it as it looked like the sense had gone out of his head. He apologized for his misdeeds and he promised to change.
Lady Sarah was hired to punish this guy for cheating on his spouse and she took the job as it paid handsomely. She took him to the woods and she tied him to a tree while he was naked and she enjoyed kicking him and even using him for target practice by throwing some items at him. He felt the pain of his life as she did so but he knew he had brought it all on himself.
This slave needed some reminding on who was the boss. So the mistress used her plug to stretch him as she felt that was more humiliating than anything else she could have done to him. The mistress enjoyed teasing him and making him lick her plug before she made him sit on it and it went into his ass. He was humiliated but he had no choice but to do it.
This slave was too unruly for mistress Sofi. She had to make sure he learned to respect and to obey her so she used her butt to crush him and pump some sense into his head. She placed his head on a wooden chair and she ass crushed it and when she was done, she also stood on it and trampled it. He learned his lesson and he never messed with her again.
Goddess Lena wanted to dominate this slave and she chose his nipples to torture. She pulled them and pinched them. She could see he was in a lot of pain but she did not care. She laughed at him as he cried and begged her to let him go. She only let him go after she felt she was done with him. He never pissed her off as he was afraid of what she would do to him.


Neural dialogue models, despite their successes, still suffer from lack of relevance, diversity, and in many cases coherence in their generated responses. These issues have been attributed to reasons including (1) short-range model architectures that capture limited temporal dependencies, (2) limitations of the maximum likelihood training objective, (3) the concave entropy profile of dialogue datasets resulting into short and generic responses, and (4) out-of-vocabulary problem leading to generation of a large number of $<$UNK$>$ tokens. Autoregressive transformer models such as GPT-2, although trained with the maximum likelihood objective, do not suffer from the out-of-vocabulary problem and have demonstrated an excellent ability to capture long-range structures in language modeling tasks. In this paper, we examine the use of autoregressive transformer models for multi-turn dialogue response generation. In our experiments, we employ small and medium GPT-2 models (with publicly available pretrained language model parameters) on the open-domain Movie Triples dataset and the closed-domain Ubuntu Dialogue dataset. The models (with and without pretraining) achieve significant improvements over the baselines for multi-turn dialogue response generation. They also produce state-of-the-art performance on the two datasets based on several metrics, including BLEU, ROGUE, and distinct n-gram.


“O Remember, Remember”
President Henry B. Eyring
Second Counselor in the First Presidency
When our children were very small, I started to write down a few things about what happened every day. Let me tell you how that got started. I came home late from a Church assignment. It was dark. My father-in-law, who lived near us, surprised me as I walked toward the front of my house. He was carrying a load of pipes over his shoulder, walking very fast and dressed in his work clothes. I knew that he had been building a system to pump water from a stream below us to our property.
He smiled, spoke softly, and then rushed past me into the darkness to go on with his work. I took a few steps towards the house, thinking of what he was doing for us, and just as I got to the door, I heard in my mind these words: “I’m not giving you these experiences for yourself. Write them down.”
I went inside. I didn’t go to bed, although I was tired. I took out some paper and began to write. And as I did, I understood the message I had heard in my mind. I was supposed to record for my children to read, someday in the future, how I had seen the hand of God blessing our family. Grandpa didn’t have to do what he was doing for us. He could have had someone else do it or not do it at all. But he was serving us, his family, in the way covenanted disciples of Jesus Christ always do. I knew that was true. And so I wrote it down, so that my children could have the memory someday when they would need it.
I wrote down a few lines every day for years. I never missed a day no matter how tired I was or how early I would have to start the next day. Before I would write I would ponder the question: “Have I seen the hand of God reaching out to touch us or our children or our family today?”
As I kept at it, something began to happen. As I would cast my mind over the day, I would see evidence of what God had done for one of us that I had not recognized in the busy moments of the day. As that happened, and it happened often, I realized that trying to remember had allowed God to show me what He had done.
“More than gratitude began to grow in my heart. Testimony grew. I became ever more certain that our Heavenly Father hears and answers prayers. I felt more gratitude for the softening and refining that come because of the Atonement of the Savior. And I grew more confident that the Holy Ghost can bring all things to our remembrance — even things we did not notice or pay attention to when they happened…
My point is to urge you to find ways to recognize and remember God’s kindness. It will build our testimonies. You may not keep a journal. You may not share whatever record you keep with those you love and serve. But you and they will be blessed as you remember what the Lord has done.
“The Living Waters of the Gospel of Jesus Christ”
Elder Quentin L. Cook
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Brothers and sisters, President Hinckley extended this call to serve in the Quorum of the Twelve late Thursday afternoon. I cannot possibly articulate the kaleidoscope of feelings I have experienced since then. There have been sleepless nights and much prayer. My spirits have been buoyed however by the knowledge that President Hinckley is the prophet and that the membership of the Church will be praying for me and my family. To say that I feel deeply inadequate would be an understatement …
The overwhelming feeling that I have in receiving this call is that we must live by faith and not by fear…
Sister Cook and I were in Vavahu in the Tongan Islands on one occasion. I had just spoken about following the Prophet in the general session of Stake Conference. At the luncheon following the conference, I sat next to a distinguished elderly patriarch. He indicated how grateful he was to hear what the Prophet was teaching.
He gave me the following account: Vavahu, which is a relatively small island, usually has sufficient rain, but periodically there are severe droughts. The island has long inlets or bays almost like sounds, which curl into the island below steep hills. When drought conditions left the village without water there was only one way they could obtain fresh water and stay alive. Over the centuries, they had found that fresh water traveled down through rock formations inside the mountains and came up in a few spots in the sea.
The Tongan men would set off in their small boats with a wise elder standing at one end of the boat looking for just the right spot. The strong young men in the boats stood ready with containers to dive deep into the seawater. When they reached the appropriate spot, the wise man would raise both arms to heaven. That was the signal. The strong young men would dive off the boat as deep as they could and fill the containers with fresh spring water.
This old patriarch likened this life-saving tradition to the living waters of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the wise man to God’s prophet here on earth. He noted that the water was pure, fresh and in their drought condition life saving, but it was not easy to find. It was not visible to the untrained eye. This patriarch wanted to know everything the prophet was teaching.
We live in a precarious time. The world is in desperate need of the fresh spring water, which is the gospel of Jesus Christ. We should listen intently to the Prophet as we make choices.
“Don’t Leave for Tomorrow What You Can Do Today”
Elder Claudio R. M. Costa
Of the Presidency of the Seventy
We know God has taught us for centuries how to protect and take care of our families. We also know and can see that the adversary has been attacking the family. Now is the time to use all those teachings. Now is the time to perform our God-given duties concerning the family …
In the Family Proclamation we … learn that, “By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children.
In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners.”
It is in the home that the family learns and applies gospel principles. Great love is necessary in order to teach and guide a family. Loving fathers and mothers will teach their children to worship God in their home. When a worshipping attitude/spirit permeates the home, that attitude/spirit is extended into the lives of each family member. This will prepare them to do whatever sacrifice is necessary to be able to return to God’s presence and stay together as a family for all eternity.
The Family Proclamation helps us understand much of the love of the Savior refers to when He told us must love one another. He gave us the supreme example of love when He declared, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” He later atoned for all our sins, and finally gave His life for all of us.
We can lay down our lives to those we love not physically dying for them, but rather living for them — giving of our time, always being present in their lives, serving them, being courteous, affectionate, and showing true love for those of our family, and to all men as the Savior taught.
“Mothers Who Knew”
Sister Julie B. Beck
Of the Relief Society Presidency
In the Book of Mormon, we read about two thousand exemplary young men who were exceedingly valiant, courageous and strong. “Yea they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before him.” These faithful young men paid tribute to their mothers. They said, “Our mothers knew it.” I suspect that the mothers of Captain Moroni, Mosiah, Mormon and other great leaders also knew.
The responsibility mothers have today has never required more vigilance. More than at any time in the history of the world, we need mothers who know. Children are being born into a world where they “wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual darkness in high places.” However, mothers need not fear. When mothers know who they are, who God is, and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.
Mothers who know desire to bear children. Whereas in many cultures in the world children are ‘becoming less valued,’ in the culture of the gospel we still believe in having children…
Mothers who know honor sacred ordinances and covenants…
Mothers who know are nurturers …
Mothers who know are leaders. In equal partnership with their husbands, they lead a great eternal organization. These mothers plan for the future of their organization. They plan for missions, temple marriages and education. They plan for prayer, scripture study, and Family Home Evening. Mothers who know build children into future leaders and the primary examples of what leaders look like…
Who will prepare this righteous generation of sons and daughters? Latter-day Saint women will do this — women who know the Lord and bear testimony of Him.
“Small and Simple Things”
Elder Christoffel Golden Jr.
Of the Seventy
Alma, the Book of Mormon prophet, aptly remarked, “Now ye may suppose that this foolishness in me; but…by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and … by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.”
Quite recently I was privileged to observe this process in the life of a brother named Stan, who had been less active for some forty-five years. He had lived a good life and supported both his wife and a son in their activity as faithful members in the Church. Yet for personal reasons he chose to remain outside the fellowship of the Church. Even so, each month he welcomed the home teachers.
During February 2006, Stan received new home teachers. Their first visit was pleasant enough …Their next visit did little to alter their initial observations, even though Stan was a little warmer and friendlier.
On their third visit, however, there was as visible change in Stan’s countenance and demeanor … he and his wife had commenced reading one chapter a day from the Book of Mormon.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie eloquently described the type of reawakening Stan experienced. “Here is a man who gains a copy of this blessed book, begins to read it, and continues … until, having read it all, his famished soul is filled with the bread of life. He cannot lay it aside or ignore its teachings. It is as though the waters of life are flowing into the barren deserts of his soul, quenching the arid, empty feeling that theretofore separated him from his God” …
Stan’s thirst for learning and rediscovery of the restored gospel soon expanded his reading beyond one chapter a day, accompanied by deep soul searching and fervent prayer.
“Clean Hands and a Pure Heart”
Elder David A. Bednar
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Brothers and sisters, it is possible for us to have clean hands but not have a pure heart. Please notice that both clean hands and a pure heart are required to ascend into the hill of the Lord and to stand in His holy place.
Let me suggest that hands are made clean through the process of putting off the natural man and by overcoming sin and the evil influences in our lives through the Savior’s Atonement. Hearts are purified as we receive His strengthening power to do good and become better. All of our worthy desires and good works, as necessary as they are, can never produce clean hands and a pure heart.
It is the Atonement of Jesus Christ that provides both a cleansing and redeeming power that helps us to overcome sin and a sanctifying and strengthening power that helps us to become better than we ever could by relying upon our own strength. The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.
In the Book of Mormon, we find the masterful teachings of King Benjamin concerning the mission and Atonement of Jesus Christ. The simple doctrine he taught caused the congregation to fall to the earth, for the fear of the Lord had come upon them. “And they viewed themselves in their own carnal state, even less than the dust of the earth. And they all cried aloud with one voice, saying: O have mercy, and apply the atoning blood of Christ that we may receive forgiveness of our sins, and our hearts may be purified; for we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who created heaven and earth, and all things; who shall come down among the children of men.
Again in this verse we find the twofold blessing of both forgiveness of sin, suggesting clean hands, and the transformation of our nature, signifying pure hearts.
As King Benjamin concluded his instruction, he reiterated the importance of these two basic aspects of spiritual development.
“And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you — that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God — I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor.”
Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart — both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God. Clean hands alone will not be enough when we stand before Him who is pure, and who as “a lamb without blemish and without spot” freely spilled His precious blood for us.
“The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain”
President Gordon B. Hinckley
Of the First Presidency
The Church has become one large family scattered across the earth. There are now more than 13 million of us in 176 nations and territories. A marvelous and wonderful thing is coming to pass. The Lord is fulfilling His promise that His gospel shall be as the stone cut out of the mountain without hands which would roll forth and fill the whole earth, as Daniel saw in vision. A great miracle is taking place right before our eyes …
When the Church was organized in 1830, there were but six members, only a handful of believers, all residing in a largely unknown village. Today, we have become the fourth or fifth largest Church in North America, with congregations in every city of any consequence. Stakes of Zion today flourish in every state of the United States, in every province of Canada, in every state in Mexico, in every nation of Central America and throughout South America.
Congregations are found throughout the British Isles and Europe, where thousands have joined the Church through the years. This work has reached out to the Baltic nations, and on down through Bulgaria, Albania, and other areas of that part of the world. It reaches across the vast area of Russia. It reaches up into Mongolia and all down through the nations of Asia into the islands of the Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand, and into India and Indonesia. It is flourishing in many of the nations of Africa.
Our general conferences are carried by satellite and other means in 92 different languages.
And this is only the beginning. This work will continue to grow and prosper and move across the earth …
The Book of Mormon is the only book ever published, of which I know, that carries in it a promise that one who reads it prayerfully and asks concerning it in prayer will have revealed to him by the power of the Holy Ghost a knowledge that it is true.
Since its first publication in a rural print shop in Palmyra, New York, there have been more than 133 million copies produced. It has been translated into 105 languages. Not long ago, it was named one on the twenty most influential books ever published in North America.
Recently a first edition sold for $105,000. But the cheapest paperback edition is as valuable to the reader who loves it language and message.”


Unleashing the Power of 5G Internet: A Technological Marvel with Environmental and Societal Implications
The fifth generation of wireless technology, commonly referred to as 5G, is revolutionizing the way we connect to the internet and communicate with the world. 5G is more than just an upgrade to 4G; it’s a technological leap that promises faster speeds, lower latency, and a multitude of applications that have the potential to transform our lives.
In this article, we will delve into the definition of 5G, explore its potential benefits, discuss its impact on the environment and wildlife, and evaluate its advantages and disadvantages.
5G stands for the fifth generation of wireless technology, and it represents a significant step forward from its predecessors. Unlike previous generations, 5G operates on a broader frequency spectrum, utilizing both sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. This expanded spectrum enables 5G to offer remarkable data speeds and exceptionally low latency, making it ideal for various applications, including IoT (Internet of Things), autonomous vehicles, augmented and virtual reality, and more.
How 5G Is Helpful for Us
- 5G promises blazing-fast internet speeds, which means smoother video streaming, quicker downloads, and seamless video conferencing, making it easier to work and connect with people worldwide.
- The low latency and capacity of 5G enable the proliferation of IoT devices, making smart homes, cities, and industries a reality.
- This enhances convenience, efficiency, and sustainability.
- 5G supports cloud-based services and edge computing, ushering in a new era of computing where data processing happens closer to the source.
- This results in faster and more responsive applications.
Effects on Our Environment
- 5G networks are designed to be more energy-efficient than their predecessors, which can help reduce the carbon footprint of telecommunications infrastructure.
- As 5G extends the life of existing devices and enables the repurposing of older electronics, it may lead to a reduction in electronic waste.
Effects on Birds
- There have been concerns about the potential impact of 5G radiation on birds and other wildlife. Research is ongoing, but so far, there is no conclusive evidence that 5G technology is harmful to birds.
- The frequencies used in 5G are generally considered safe for humans, and similar safety standards are typically applied to wildlife.
Advantages of 5G
- 5G offers significantly faster data speeds, which can improve the performance of applications, reduce buffering times, and support high-quality video streaming.
- With lower latency, 5G enables real-time interactions and enhances applications like online gaming, autonomous vehicles, and remote surgery.
- The extensive connectivity and low power requirements of 5G pave the way for a massive expansion of IoT devices, transforming how we interact with our surroundings.
Disadvantages of 5G
- Deploying 5G networks requires substantial infrastructure investments, including the installation of many small cell towers and antennas, which can be costly and time-consuming.
- Some individuals have expressed concerns about potential health risks associated with 5G radiation, although current scientific consensus suggests that 5G is safe within established limits.
- The rollout of 5G is not uniform, and some regions may lag behind in receiving its benefits, leading to a digital divide between urban and rural areas.
- 5G technology is a remarkable leap forward in the world of telecommunications and connectivity.
- It has the potential to transform our lives by enabling faster and more responsive internet services, supporting the growth of IoT, and revolutionizing the next generation of computing.
- While concerns about its environmental impact and potential health risks exist, ongoing research and the development of regulations aim to address these issues.
- As we move forward with the adoption of 5G, it’s essential to balance the benefits with the need to mitigate any potential drawbacks, ensuring a brighter and more connected future for all.


Staff Photo by Erin Sockolof
Have you ever been prescribed an opioid? Maybe you had your wisdom teeth removed or you broke a bone. Or perhaps you are one of the millions of Americans living with chronic pain. You might be surprised to learn that those people with chronic pain might have had to fight for years to get access to pain-relieving medications.
Because of the media portrayal of the opioid epidemic, the US government has placed extreme restrictions on who can access these medications. As a result, chronic pain sufferers are repeatedly denied access to a better life. The only real relief for these patients comes in the form of deep sleep. The only time these people are not in pain is when they are unconscious.
Why would doctors allow their patients to live like this? Let me tell you why. Of all chronic pain patients who are prescribed opioid medications, 21 to 29 percent misuse them, and 8 to 12 percent develop an addiction or disorder. As a result of this, the United States government punishes the providers who prescribe these medications. Doctors are sent to prison every year because they “over-prescribe” or accidentally prescribe to an addict. Because of these risks, doctors have become afraid to give these medications to those who need them the most.
Doctors are being prevented from adequately treating patients because of a small percentage of the population’s indiscretions. To change this, we need to change the narrative. People need to know the truth.
Life with chronic pain is a miserable one. Conditions like Fibromyalgia, Osteoporosis, Arthritis and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome can cause debilitating pain and permanent joint damage. Medications like Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen don’t do anything to lessen the pain. However, as any chronic pain sufferer could tell you, they don’t work. Opioid drugs like Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Tramadol are typically last-ditch resorts to remove some of the pain. However, for people dealing with these conditions, they may need to become a daily reality just to get out of bed.
That kind of pain can drive people to do crazy things. So wouldn’t it make sense to treat the pain with something that works? To the average person, yes. But it’s just not that black and white. Pain patients know all too well the struggles of getting treatment. They endure years of being called crazy or hypochondriacs. They are regularly called drug seekers, constantly told they are faking it and are even gaslit by their doctors—all in the hopes of waking up one day and not dreading the next 12 hours.
We need to give people access to the medications they deserve. The government needs to loosen its grasp on the healthcare system and let doctors treat patients. Society as a whole needs to redefine the way we approach drug abuse. But most importantly, doctors need to be able to trust their patients when they say, “I have chronic pain.”


When news came out that Matt Walst of My Darkest Days and the brother of Three Days Grace’s bass guitarist, Brad Walst, will be the new vocalist, everyone expected it won’t be as good as Adam Gontier being in it.
I beg to differ as Matt wrote depressing and angry lyrics to the band’s new album “Human” that had a similar tone to “Life Starts Now”, but the only difference is the voice of Matt Walst.
Matt and others who worked on it made the songs sound like a different perspective of humanity than what we are generally seeing everyday. The whole album describes those dark side in form of feelings that most humans had felt. It all starts with a hatred for the human race in the first song of the album, “Human Race”.
It then escalated to the point where some form of pain killers were used to ease the pain of some kind in “Pain Killer”, but also including that the song may reference to drug addiction, to the anger towards humanity in “Landmines”.
Next, it reaches the point where it feels more of being a machine than being a human as the feeling of being human is numbed out by something that has been broken, therefore, becoming more of a machine which has no human feeling.
Towards the end of the album, the last time songs “The End Is Not The Answer” and “The Real You” presents the feelings of one who is running from their problems with horrible solutions with bad consequences. However, they are sung in the perspective of voice of reasoning. For example, in “The End Is Not The Answer”, the voice of reasoning is telling not to give up because they are simply not alone in whatever situation. As for “The Real You”, it presents the idea of a person running from their real self while someone from the outside is trying to make them understand that they know the real them and trying to convince that person to going back to their real selves.