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Mickey Haller gets the text, “Call me ASAP — 187,” and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game.
When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he is on the hook for this one. He soon finds out that she was back in LA and back in the life. Far from saving her, Mickey may have been the one who put her in danger.
Haunted by the ghosts of his past, Mickey must work tirelessly and bring all his skill to bear on a case that could mean his ultimate redemption or proof of his ultimate guilt.
The Gods of Guilt will be released in the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on November 21, and in the US and Canada on December 2.
in light of President Higgins accounced his convening a council of state due to passed abortion bill
Here is a rundown of said council
Ex-officio: executive Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny
Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Eamon Gilmore
Ex-officio: legislature Ceann Comhairle (Chairman of Dáil Éireann) Seán Barrett
Cathaoirleach (Chairman of Seanad Éireann) Paddy Burke
Ex-officio: judiciary Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Susan Denham
President of the High Court Nicholas Kearns
Ex-officio Attorney General Máire Whelan
Former officeholders President Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese
Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave, Albert Reynolds, John Bruton, Bertie Ahern, Brian Cowen
Chief Justice John L. Murray, Thomas Finlay, Ronan Keane
President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State None ( The office of President of the Executive Council was superseded in 1937 by that of Taoiseach; both former Presidents are dead. The 1996 Constitution Review Group proposed removing, as obsolete, mention of the office in relation to the Council of State)
President’s nominees (List of former nominees) Michael Farrell, Deirdre Heenan, Catherine McGuinness, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Ruairí McKiernan, Sally Mulready, Gerard Quinn
See below for a short biography of each of the President’s nominees
Michael Farrell
Michael Farrell is the senior solicitor with Free Legal Advice Centres. He was involved in the Civil Rights movement in Northern Ireland and is a former co-chairperson of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
Michael was a member of the Irish Human Rights Commission from 2001 until last year and is currently the Irish member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. He is also a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society.
Professor Deirdre Heenan
Deirdre Heenan is Provost and Dean of Academic Development for the University of Ulster’s Magee Campus, where she a member of the Senior Management Team. She was appointed to a Lectureship in Policy Studies at the University of Ulster in 1995 and became a Professor in 2007.
Professor Heenan is a co-founder and former co-director of the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey which has become a key statistical resource for schools, academics and policy makers. Her particular areas of expertise are devolution, education and social care.
In 2008-9 Deirdre spent nine-months working as a policy adviser in the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister. Last year she was appointed by Health Minister, Edwin Poots, to join the five strong panel of advisers to assist with the Review of Health and Social Care Services in Northern Ireland.
Judge Catherine McGuinness
Judge Catherine McGuinness was called to the Bar in 1977 and to the Inner Bar in 1989. She was a member of Seanad Éireann from 1979-82 and was a previous member of the Council of State from 1988-90.
She served as a Judge of the Circuit Court from 1994-1996, of the High Court from 1996-2000 and of the Supreme Court from 2000-2006. From 2005-2011, she was President of the Law Reform Commission. She is currently the Adjunct Professor of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh is Professor Emeritus in History and former Dean of Arts and Vice-President of the National University of Ireland, Galway. A former member of the Senate of the NUI and of the Irish-US Fulbright Commission, and a former Cathaoirleach of Údarás na Gaeltachta, Professor Ó Tuathaigh has published widely – in Irish and English – on many aspects of modern Irish history.
Ruairí McKiernan
Ruairí McKiernan is a community activist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of the national youth organisation SpunOut.ie. He is also a founder and organiser of the Possibilities 2011 Social Summit. Ruairí is a business graduate and is a recipient of numerous awards including a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Award, a Net Visionary Award, and a Junior Chambers International Award. After 8 years as CEO of SpunOut.ie, he recently stepped down to develop new social innovations.
Sally Mulready
Sally Mulready has made a huge contribution to the Irish emigrant community in Britain over many decades. She was born in Dublin and moved to Hackney, London with her mother in the 1970s.
Sally is a local Labour councillor in the London Borough of Hackney since 1997. In her former capacity as the Secretary of the Federation of Irish Societies, Sally was involved in securing the Irish Government’s agreement for the creation and funding of five Survivor Outreach Services in Britain. She is also a founder member of the Irish Women’s Survivors Network and Director of the Irish Elderly Advice Network.
Sally was prominently involved in the campaign to free the Birmingham Six and is currently active in the Magadelene Laundries issue.
Professor Gerard Quinn
Professor Gerard Quinn is the Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the NUI Galway School of Law. The Centre is part of a new Lifecourse Policy Research Institute at the University which researches policy innovation covering age, child and family as well as disability. He is a graduate of UCG (BA, LL.B.), was called to the Irish Bar in 1983 and holds a masters (LL.M.) and doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School. His specialization is international and comparative disability law and policy.
Professor Quinn led the delegation of Rehabilitation International (RI) at the UN Working Group that elaborated the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He has worked in the European Commission and held a number of posts such as Director of Research at the Law Reform Commission and First Vice President of the European Committee of Social Rights (Council of Europe). He is a former member of the Irish Human Rights Commission.
He voluntarily participates on a number of international boards dealing with disability law and policy issues.
Out of all of his nomineees Michael Farrell,Judge Catherine McGuinness, and Professor Gerard Quinn will be of use to him.Professor Emeritus Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh will probably be able to provide a historical prospective.Current members Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Susan Denham Attorney General Máire Whelan Chief Justices John L. Murray, Thomas Finlay, Ronan Keane as well as Nicholas Kearns ,President of the High Court of Ireland and Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese, who were both solicitors before they entered Áras an Uachtaráin will be of to Micheal D
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Posted: July 24, 2013 in Uncategorized
Treasure Data raises $5M, fuses Hadoop and data warehouse in Amazon’s cloud
Posted: July 23, 2013 in Uncategorized
The assault on the enterprise data warehouse market carries on, with the latest challenge coming in the form of a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup called Treasure Data. The company, which offers a combination Hadoop and data warehouse service hosted on the Amazon Web Services cloud, has raised $5 million from Sierra Ventures. Sierra’s past investments in the data warehouse space include Teradata and Greenplum, and new Treasure Data board member Tim Guleri was responsible for the Greenplum deals.
However, while the cloud angle immediately distinguishes Treasure Data from the legacy vendors, some might be wondering how it compares with another hot data warehouse service presently hosted with AWS — Amazon’s own Redshift service. According to Treasure Data co-founder and CTO Kazuki Ohta, the difference is pretty clear: Whereas AWS’s various big data services — S3, Redshift and Elastic MapReduce — are like Lego blocks that must be pieced…
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After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. It was the closest thing to a home he ever had.
Why? He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the phone. But the officer sitting behind Reacher’s old desk isn’t a woman. Why is Susan Turner not there?
What Reacher doesn’t expect is what comes next. He himself is in big trouble, accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide. And he certainly doesn’t expect to hear these words: ‘You’re back in the army, Major. And your ass is mine.’
Will he be sorry he went back? Or – will someone else?
Expected Release Date: 29 Aug 2013
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Forced into hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael Bennett must decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the man who is hunting them.
When Bennett arrested Manuel Perrine, he thought he had brought an end to the drug cartel boss’s reign of terror and would get justice for the murder of his best friend. But then, during the trial, Perrine escaped.
In a bloody shoot-out, Bennett killed Perrine’s wife. Now he wants nothing more than to make Bennett suffer, to make him pay.
The whole family are moved to a safe-house in California. But as Perrine’s attacks on US soil become more vicious and more daring, it’s clear there is a war coming.
No one, anywhere, is safe
Expected Release Date: 12 Sep 2013
Excellent timing, the women’s prize for fiction is announced during the London Literature Festival at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank, which I had the opportunity to visit on Saturday (more on that excitement later!).
A strong list, and some equally strong and divided opinions about the books that made the list and a bit of a surprise result, it has to be said.
So to remind you, the six shortlisted authors and their books were:
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In the opinion of the judges the book chosen mostly ably fulfilled the criteria of the award, being originality, accessibility and excellence.
And the winner was:
May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes
A first book award for her 10th book, a career spanning 25 years and a dream fulfilled at last. The author paid tribute to her father who sadly passed away a month ago, knowing that his daughter…
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The Dail has a history of sordid sexism – and without more women, it’s not going to change
Posted: July 13, 2013 in Uncategorized
I wrote this piece for the Herald on Thursday as “lapgate” began spreading on social media. The reason I’m posting it here as well is this article by Stephen Collins in today’s Irish Times. Collins is right on Dail reform but he is utterly out of step on this issue; an incident of sexual harassment in the national parliament during a debate on women’s sexual health and reproductive freedom is not just a “silly distraction”. I’m studying women in politics at the moment, and one of the main problems with increasing our proportion of women representatives is cultural and institutional norms. Nodding and winking at sexual harassment in the workplace is one of those norms that is preventing women reaching their potential… here’s my original piece.
The Dail is the home of Irish democracy, the lower house of our national parliament, where laws are passed and history is made…
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The View from The DJ booth 