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Australian cleantech investors Anna and Simon Hackett campaign fundraises $205,000 for Climate 200 in three days

Simon and Anna Hackett with Rainee helping from the back seat A grassroots fundraising campaign set up by Australian cleantech investors Anna and Simon Hackett has raised more than $200,000 to support the Climate 200 initiative in just three days. Based on the belief...

Vic Air on cloud 9 with EBS & Dynamics NAV

Vic Air Supplies Financial Accountant Shelley Hughes Melbourne-based air conditioning company Vic Air Supplies has migrated its business systems to the cloud after replacing its old accounting system with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Vic Air Supplies http://vicair.com.au/ is an Australian owned, family-run business which...

Adelaide hosts myth-busting conference on Albinism this weekend

Albinism Fellowship members including AFA President Elizabeth Beales (second from right)About 100 individuals and family members affected by albinism will gather in Adelaide this weekend for a national conference about the causes, challenges and achievements of this often-misunderstood genetic condition. International...

MIMP delivers affordable gigabit-speed Internet services for businesses in Whyalla and Mount Gambier

MIMP CEO Allan AitchisonBusinesses in Whyalla and Mount Gambier can now access ultra-fast download speeds at affordable prices from $49.90 per month using the GigCity Internet service, deployed by MIMP connecting solutions. Launched earlier this month, the first regional deployments of...

Start-ups hold the key to the future of everything

Pottinger executive chair Nigel Lake will present at this week's Myriad Festival in Brisbane The Australian dream run of economic prosperity is at risk unless the nation supports start-ups to drive a new wave of innovation warns Nigel Lake, executive chair...

Australian eCommerce platform disrupter Ultra Commerce makes latest strategic acquisition for global growth

Ultra Commerce CEO Matthew HylandAfter raising more than $10 million for growth this year, Sydney-based Ultra Commerce has acquired US-based Slatwall Commerce to accelerate the global reach of its end-to-end digital commerce platform. In its second strategic acquisition of 2021, Ultra...

Underwriters Laboratories Selects Redflow for Flow Battery Research Program at Stress Engineering

Underwriters Laboratories, SES and Redflow at Stress Texas Facility 24th January 2022. Left to Right: Judy Jeevarajan, Ph.D., vice president and executive director of Electrochemical Safety Research Institute (ESRI), Underwriters Laboratories Inc.; Daniel Juarez-Robles, Ph.D., research scientist, ESRI, Underwriters Laboratories...

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Victron aims to cut into global markets with MultiPlus-II

Victron Energy BV Managing Director Matthijs Vader Global energy system specialist Victron Energy is expanding grid-connection approvals globally for its new MultiPlus-II battery inverter-charger, boosting the market for this robust unit that works both on and off-grid. Victron will also use the...

Reviews

Here are a bunch of books John Harris has read recently and what he thinks about them.

Details: In Reviews; / Published on 28 January 2008

White Doves at Morning Set mostly during the American Civil War, this is the story of young Irish migrant Willie Burke, the black woman he touches to read and the Northern abolitionist whom he loves. As the vortex of the Civil War sweeps away lives, livelihoods and love affairs, the tale explores the moral choices confronting Willie, Flower Jamison and Abigail Downling as the tumult tears apart the genteel culture of the Old South and exposes the brutal and brutalised underclass on whose back it was built. James Lee Burke uses major battles of the Civil War, at Shiloh, Shenandoah and Louisiana, as set pieces to punctuate his story of love, loss and liberation. It is not a history book, but an historical novel, using an epic setting to explore how Willie and his women discover their true characters in this punishing time. While the battle scenes are brutal, as is the treatment meted out to blacks in the South, the story is permeated with a surprising tenderness and confidence in the power of human kindness.

Details: In Reviews; / Published on 22 January 2008

the cold moon.jpg This is one of Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme novels, about a quadriplegic criminalist who solves crimes from a forensic lab in his Upper West Side apartment, by Central Park. When Rhyme is called in after two apparent homicides in lower Manhattan Island, attributed to the self-named Watchmaker, he is irked that his offsider and girlfriend, Amelia Sachs, appears distracted by a seemingly commonplace suicide. At each murder scene, the Watchmaker leaves a poem and a distinctive clock. Deaver also introduces Kathryn Dance, his Californian FBI “kinesics” expert in body language and interrogation (his latest novel is about her). The cop story is counterpointed with the tale of a sex-crazed halfwit named Vincent Reynolds who is the sidekick (or perhaps dropkick) for the icy killer Gerald Duncan – aka the Watchmaker.

Details: In Reviews; / Published on 01 January 2008

tin roof blowdown.jpg After Hurricane Katrina slams New Orleans into the middle ages, New Iberia detective Dave Robicheaux is despatched to help maintain law and order in the Big Easy. The discovery that his friend, Jude LeBlanc, a Catholic priest with cancer and a heroin habit, is missing in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward leads Dave into a labyrinthine mystery that involves black looters ripping off gems, drugs and counterfeit cash from the mansion of criminal kingpin Sidney Kovick, white vigilantes dispensing their own justice and a mysterious character who casts a menacing shadow over the streets of New Iberia. Coincidentally, the main suspect in the shooting, Otis Baylor, is the rather of a teenage girl who was raped by three of the four looters two years earlier.

Details: In Reviews; / Published on 20 December 2007

When a 25-year-old wine-making commune of ex-hippies in California is threatened by a planned hydroelectric dam, its charismatic leader Ricky “Priest” Granger concocts a plot to steal a seismic vibrator, along with detailed seismological data, in order to threaten the Governor of California with a cataclysmic earthquake. Only crack FBI agent Judy Maddox, a half-Vietnamese agent in her mid 30s, has the intellect and intuition to counter the threat posed by the eco-terrorist group that calls itself The Hammer of Eden.