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Title: Indicators of performance in the fishery for shrimp Palaemon serratus (pennant) in Irish Coastal Waters.
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Date: December 1, 2006
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Chapters: Frank Solich, Jim Grobe, Carroll Widdoes, Tom Lichtenberg, A. C. Jones, Brian Knorr, Bill Hess, Don Peden. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Frank Solich (born September 8, 1944, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is a college football coach, currently the head coach of the Ohio Bobcats. He was previously the head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, where he played fullback under head coach Bob Devaney in the mid-1960s. Solich grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Holy Name High School in 1962, where he earned all-state, All-America and all-scholastic honors. He was a part of Bob Devaneys first recruiting class at Nebraska, and became a standout for the Huskers in the mid-1960s, where he earned the nickname "Fearless Frankie". An All-Big Eight fullback and co-captain of the Huskers 1965 team, his playing career earned him induction into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 1992. In NU's 2717 win over Air Force in 1965, he ran for 204 yards on 17 carries, becoming the first Husker to run for 200 yards in a game, and subsequently the first Husker to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Solich is married to the former Pamela Wieck, of Beatrice, Nebraska, and they have two children, Cindy and Jeff. Cindy and her husband, Jon Dalton, have a daughter, Catherine, and two sons, Aaron and Jacob. Jeff and his wife Chara have a son, Cade. He began his career in the Nebraska prep ranks, as head coach at Holy Name High School in Omaha in 1966 and 1967. His 1967 team was state runner-up. Solich then moved to Lincoln Southeast for 11 years, where he compiled a record of 66-33-5 while capturing consecutive Class A state titles in 1976 and 1977. Solich returned to college football at his alma mater in 1979, spending 19 seasons at Nebraska ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1769954 ... Read more

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In 2028, a deadly Flu virus ravages the earth. Only one in two thousand survive the virus, and these "Survivors" are rarely left unaffected. By 2038, only 38 million people remain on Earth. Most of them live in small communities, ever fearful of outsiders who might bring the deadly Flu.

Ceej Kane lives with his uncle and his Survivor sister Harryette in an abandoned hotel on the rim of the Grand Canyon. His quiet, boring life suddenly becomes a desperate adventure when Uncle and Harryette disappear. Searching for them, Ceej and his only friend, Tim, are attacked by the Kinka, a renegade band of half-mad Survivors who spread the Flu to make more of their own. Worse yet, it appears that Harryette has joined them.

Fleeing deep into the Canyon, a narrow land of ghosts and ancient secrets, Ceej and Tim meet Bella, a mysterious Hopi girl. She has been searching the canyon for the Sipapuni, a mystical portal that the Hopi believe leads to another world. Tim thinks Bella is crazy, but Ceej is not so sure. Maybe there is a way out of this Flu-ravaged world. But first they must find out what happened to Uncle, and they must save Harryette from the Kinka -- if she wants to be saved.

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Hole in the Sky
The novel Hole in the Sky, written by Pete Hautman, takes place in 2028 in Arizona.A raging flu virus has wiped out almost all of Earth's population.A boy named Ceej, his sister Harryette, and his uncle live in an abandoned hotel next to the Grand Canyon until one day when a tribe of flu survivors attack a nearby settlement.Someone must go work the dam, otherwise it will break and the canyon will flood.Ceej and his friend Tim are left alone at the hotel.They wait for days but no one returns for them.
Ceej and Tim must now rescue Harryette, but on the way they meet a Hopi girl named Isabella who tells them of a sacred place called the Sipapuni where they can escape their flu-infected world.The Sipapuni is a hole in the ground in one world and a hole in the sky in another.Bella is strange and mysterious but intent on reaching her second world.It is hard to believe in such a thing, but it seems as if Ceej is falling for it even if Tim is not.Bella decides to aid them on their search, putting aside her desire to raech the Sipapuni as soon as possible.
The four teenagers are all forced to choose a path.Will Harryette return to Ceej and Tim?Will Tim believe in the Sipapuni or will he choose to stay in the world he knows and trusts?Will Ceej follow Bella in to the Sipapuni, if it even exists?And ultimatly, will they survived this roving, dangerous, trek?
This book was very intruiging and there wasn't ever a dull moment.It has an interesting plot and the way the flu was spread is very believable.The characters seem so real and the lonely world Pete Hautman has created seems so futuristic.This book gave me the chills because 2028 isn't that far away and it is possible for this kind of thing to happen.Overall this book was excellent and I would suggest it to anyone who was looking for something with a strange but exciting twist.

Holey schmoley
Ah, there's nothing like a good disease-based post-apocalyptic story.Author Pete Hautman has over the years been slowly but surely making a name for himself amongst the juveniles and teens of the world.In this tale written long before the haunting "Mr. Was" and National Book Award winning, "Godless", Hautman takes a classic idea (a plague destroys most of the population of the world) and gives it a couple fancy twists.The book remains relatively unknown, but with Hautman's growing reputation that may not be the case for long.

Split into four parts amongst four young protagonists, this is a story about the end of an old world, and the birth of a new.The bulk of the narration in this tale is given to Ceej.Living with his sister and his uncle just beside the Grand Canyon, Ceej gets occasional visits from his friend Tim and Tim's father.The book is occasionally interrupted by small passages from "A Recent History of the Human Race" (copyright 2038) which helpfully explains how the plague started and how life after its appearance adjusted accordingly.This is lovely conceit and saves the narrators from explaining details that they themselves wouldn't realistically be discussing with the reader.When Ceej's uncle and Tim's father decide to take a trip to a nearby dam so as to prevent a natural disaster, the two go missing.Logically, it's up to our intrepid heroes to try and save them.And the most perilous danger facing these hardy teens is a band of survivors of the flu (which renders anyone who's lived through it hairless and slightly altered) called the Kinka who've become a dangerous and violent cult, threatening our heroes' actions at every turn.

The plot that I have just described is a really good one.There's a lot of well thought out details involved and I was delighted to find myself really enjoying it just about until we meet the Hopi girl.Suddenly the book swerves from science fiction into fantasy.Ceej and Tim run across Bella, a girl in the woods who's been surviving on her own with little effort.Bella is searching for the Sipapuni a (and I'm quoting the book's jacket on this one), "mystical portal that the Hopi believe leads to another world".That's all fine n' dandy, but I found the character of Bella somewhat stereotypical and needless.She could have been an excellent foil for the other characters.Instead, she's rendered rather two-dimensional.Bella has lived much of her life as any normal kid.Yet when we meet her in the story she seems, amongst other things, incapable of conjunctions.While most of the characters speak without affectation, Bella has a halting overly formal speech that just rubbed me the wrong way.On top of that, she's a guide to the Sipapuni, a master of healing, has a way with animals, and speaks regularly with her grandfather (deceased).You just want to ask Hautman why he decided to write such a stiff caricature of a Native American.Why didn't he let Bella be a realistic person?Why is she placed in that long tradition of stereotypical "wise Indian" parts that have been around as long as "The Last of the Mohicans"?I found Hautman's choice to display Bella in this way needless.But hey.That's just me.

Apart from Bella, the writing falters when our characters start concentrating on the mystical Sipapuni; a land without disease.Harryette, Ceej's sister, is a deaf mute and a survivor of the disease.Hautman makes numerous references to the fact that Harryette can't hear things going on.Fast forward to the end of the story where Harryette twice miraculously recovers her hearing.Is this a miracle of desert life?No, it's the book momentarily forgetting that Harryette is deaf.Hence Harryette, "Faintly, in the distance", heard Bella cough.Later when Harryette and Tim are climbing down a steep crevice, "A few minutes later I heard his voice".Sloppy writing, heck.Sloppy editing.On top of that we've the suddenly fantastical element of the Sipapuni, standing at odds with the wonderfully science-fictionist feel of the rest of the book.

The finale of this story is open-ended, which is fine.It does certainly stare you in the face and seem to scream "SEQUEL!!!" in your ear, but so far fans of the book have been disappointed in that respect.As it is, it stands well enough on its own.On the whole, it's a fun book.I just wish it could have been rewritten a little to avoid mistakes, stereotypes, and shifts in genre.But if you're looking for a great tale of future woe, you could not do much better than this story.

This is the review (with some minor changes) as I wrote it way back in March of 2004.In 2005 author Paul Hautman contacted me and let me know that I'd been a bit on the sloppy side and had screwed up my facts about the book.I print his points on the matter here.If you would like a balanced view of "A Hole In the Sky", then please read Mr. Hautman's counterpoints as follow.When I write that the book conveniently forgets that Harrryette is without hearing, Mr. Hautman writes that:

"Harryette is not deaf, a point which is made clear (to most readers) earlier in the book.  She hears just fine, but she is unable to process language--a condition well-known to medical science.  I never suggest that Harryette 'can't hear things going on'".

To my point that the book switches gears from science fiction to fantasy, Mr. Hautman writes:

"There are no fantasy elements in this book.  You have chosen to interpret the Sipapuni as fantasy.  It is not.  The Sipapuni is a real place, sacred to modern Hopi, many of whom still believe that it is--or once was--a portal to another world.Understand that all four POV characters in 'Hole' are unreliable narrators.  Just because a character believes something fantastical does not make a book a 'fantasy.'   I would call the book straightforward science fiction with a suggestion of mysticism".

In response to Mr. Hautman's points I suggested that I add his rebuttal to this review, which I have.I hope that this will give the readers a view of "Hole In the Sky" that they might not have gotten otherwise.Whether you love the book or hate it, I think that it should be clear from this review that this is a book worth discussing with others.It is in many ways an ideal teen bookgroup book (if you happen to have access to a teen bookgroup, of course).So read the book.I promise you that it is anything but dull.

"HOLE IN THE SKY" review by Jose Paredes
"Hole in the sky", written by Pete Hautman is one of the greatest books I've ever read. The book tells about fours teens that try to survive in the wake of a deadly flu virus that has destroyed most of the earth population by 2028. A group of people immune to the disease see themselves as "the chosen" and threatens to use the virus to wipe out all other survivors. Ceej and his friend Tim set out to rescue Ceej's sister from the cult, though they aren't sure if she's a prisoner or a willing participant. They meet a girl who is convicend that there is is a magical path out their diseased world and into another one. Each of the four teens narrates of a portion of the story. The Grand Canyon works both as great place appropiate for a disease, and as a hopeful site for a mistical transformation into a new uncontaminate planet. In conclusion I recommend this book especially if you like futuritis fiction and survival stories.

Hole in the Sky
Hole in the Sky is the book I chose to read about.The author Pete Haulman wrote this book about a deadly flu in the year 2028.You should know that the Kinkas are a group of survivors of this deadly flu. They want to wipe out all of the people who have not been diagnosed with the flu.Ceej and Tim, who are friends, had their guardians taken away from them by the Kinkas.Ceej's sister Harryette, was a survivor of the deadly flu and she joined the Kinkas feeling very threatened by them.Now Ceej and Tim go out and try to get Harryette from the Kinkas.Along the way they meet a Hopi girl named Isabella.Isabella told them about a third world where there is no flu or Kinkas.So Ceej, Tim and Isabella tried to rescue Harryette.They ran into the master Kinka who was always around Harryette and made it hard to free her.Finally, Tim finds a way to free her and gets away.In the end, I was very disappointed because the author didn't tell whether any of them made it to the third world or not and Ceej and Isabella wandered off without Tim and Harryette and you don't know what happens to either of them.I would recommend this book because it keeps the suspense going and you want to keep on reading.For people who like good endings this would not be a good book for you but it had a good topic.

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Sangani,Pranay
Feb-12
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Hole in the Sky
Pete Haulman
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This book by Pete Haulman talks about a flu bug that is really deadly.
hardly only some people survive after the flu has hit thrm and others hope to stay
away from it.They try to seclude themselves from the outer world.In fact,the isolate
themselves to such a major extinct that they prohibit outsiders from entering their
towns.Their is a mysterious group of people known as the Kinkas.These people have
survived the flu.People who have survived the flu are bald and some seem to loose
some of their human capabilities.Some can't talk some can't walk.In the grand canyon
in Arizona,there are some people living on the rim of what is the Grand Canyon.
Whithin them is a young boy named Ceej.He has a sister named Harryette.Ceej
has not been effected by the flu.Although his sister is a survivor.Before the flu she
was a playfu seventh grader,but the flu drained her ability to speak.She could
not hear either.Then there is their Uncle.He takes care fo them.Also,a person
named Hap trades stuff with Uncle.
The book was really good.The book gives you a sense of adventure.Unlikemost authors,Pete Haulman,has done something different.He has based the book on the
future,but he has not used futuristic technologies.The only reason to advance time was to make the event of the flu possible.The opening of the book is very good.There is a quote
which gives you a great sence of adventure,"That was when an earthquake hit.Except it wasn't
an earthquake at all,it was the rock moving,and I was standing on it.I saw tim's eyes go wide,and the sky seemed to tilt,and the air was filled with thunder/I must have jumped,because
the next thing I knew I was lyingon my belly on the rim and the rock was sliding down the
face of the cliff."Tim and Ceej are trying to push the rock down the surface of the grand canyon.
Then out of frustration Ceej stands on it.Then it falls and he jumps on the hard grand canyon.
This book is good,but there are four parts of the book,and in each of the parts there is a character.After each part the narration of the character changes and we have a book with
four first prespective reviews.I didn't like that.Another thing I don't like is the book meves at a very slow pace.You can convey the same information in a page,but they have taken 4 pages to display the data.So,it makes reading the book boring.Then the ending,it is abrupt.They wanted to leave the book on interpretation but this doesn't give an ending!"Maybe Ceej and Bella are dead on the river bottom,their mouths filled with silt."This is one of the last sentences and because of the narration changed the main characters are lost!
My least favorite part was that the main characters are lost.The holy place believed by
Bella is found,But Bella is not.I really got frustratedI read the whole book but in the end you don't know what happpened about the flu or anything else. ... Read more

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Since the death of his older brother, thirteen-year-old Billy Baggs has had a distant relationship with his father, but life on their farm in northern Minnesota begins to change when he starts to play baseball.4 ... Read more

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Summer of Changes
Billy is a hard-working kid with a hard life.His parents own a farm and his older brother was killed five years ago, when Billy was eight.It was Billy's fault that his brother was killed with a piece of farm machinery, and things have been strained in his family ever since.

Billy understands the need for hard work, especially since money is tight.Billy's family doesn't have a lot of the luxuries those in town have, and he usually doesn't complain.There is only one thing he misses: baseball.

One afternoon while in town waiting for his father to finish grinding grain at the mill, Billy wanders to the field where the baseball team is practicing.When a ball rolls toward him and he throws it back, he catches the attention of the coach, who decides he needs a kid this good on his team.

This summer is one of changes for Billy.He finds himself more interested in and protective of his two teenaged neighbors--especially when he witnesses something bad happening to one of them.He has to decide if he has the courage to do something about the situation.For the first time, Billy's mother goes to work, at a doctor's office in town.Billy and his father have to adjust their lives to not having her home all of the time.And this is the summer, too, that Billy has decided he will finally find a way to fit baseball into his plans.

I liked the strength in Billy's character and the fact that he always stood up to people instead of letting them make him feel bad about where and how he lived.

Striking Out
Striking Out
Up until now, Billy Baggs's life has tired and bored him out. He has never had any real friends or played baseball for an actual team, and has never gotten over feeling guilty for his brother's death. Billy works almost all day at his father's farm, and rarely sees the outside world. One day he goes into town with his dad, to help purchase the animal feeder. Across the street from the Farmhouse is a baseball diamond where a game is in play, a homerun is hit and the balls rolls near Billy. He picks it up and tosses it back, with ease, it goes all the way to home plate. The Coach for one of the teams is amazed, and rushes over to Billy and his father. The Coach offers Billy a spot on the team, but Billy's dad argues that he has too much work, and no time for such games. Billy is disappointed, but ends up getting to play after talking to his mom, who settles it with his dad. After attending his first practice ever, Billy and his teammates realize that he is a natural born player, and an amazing pitcher. He makes many friends, and learns things about himself that he never realized was there. His new friends teach him that life is full of disappointments and let-downs, and that with family and friends, you can make it through anything. For once in his life Billy is having a blast while leading his team to the championship game. Everything is seeming to fit into place for Billy Baggs, until a surprising misfortune happens, and Billy is left with a serious choice, to give up his new friends, and the game he loves so much, or to let his family down. Will Billy figure out his predicament, or is he destined to pitch hay the rest of his life.
In my opinion this book was really good and very interesting! I thought that it had an excellent plot, and an amazing ending! I was able to feel like I was in the book a lot, I could easily relate to the situations and characters in the story. Thanks in large part to the fact that, the author used a great deal of description, when describing the setting and characters. I was really into the main conflict too, since I love baseball, and that was what the whole story was pretty much based around. I thought that characters were realistic because I could relate to their emotions in the types of situations they were in. I believe that the ending was extremely satisfying and easily the best part of the entire book, it was exciting, and I never expected what happened and it worked out great in this type of story.
Will Weaver's voice in this book, is 3rd person. The author did not really use vocabulary in interesting ways, aside from the slang "southern" drawls in the dialogue. I think that the authors vocabulary and writing style were pretty easy to read. Will Weaver used dialogue but didn't really use enough I believe, If there was one thing I could change about the authors' writing style it would be for him to add more dialogue. I thought that Will Weaver did an excellent job describing the characters and their emotions, which made the story a lot more fun to read.
If I had to rate Striking Out, I would probably have to give it an 8 out of 10 possible points. It was honestly that good,. I enjoyed the book so much I will probably end up reading it again sometime. I thought that the descriptions in the novel were superb, and the characters were like everyday people that I have probably met before, and that's how realistic they were.
All in all, I enjoyed the book a lot! I thought that the entire book was well paced, and extremely exciting throughout. The author did a phenomenal job, and I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone, especially someone who enjoys baseball, and likes to read about it. This is totally the book for you!

The Greatest Pitcher in Town
"Striking Out" is about a boy named Billy Baggs who wants to play baseball but his father won't let him. Billy found out that he liked baseball when went to watch the kids play at the park across the street from the feed mill. A ball flew over the fence and landed In front of Billy. Billy picked up the ball and threw it from where he was standing to home plate in one throw. Billy lives on a farm where he works every minute of everyday. One day Billy and his father had to cut up a heifer or one of there animals because it was dead. Billy's mom had an interview for a job as a secretary at the clinic.
The things I liked about the book were that Billy was a pitcher, that Billy likes to drive tractors, and that Billy likes to work. The dislikes were that the Erickson sisters keep bugging Billy, that Billy has to work all day without having fun, and that Billy has to hang out with Tiny Tim who talks a lot.
The people who would like this book are people who like baseball and farms. Similar books are Farm Team.

STRIKING OUT
After five years of trying to fill his dead brothers' shoes for his father, Billy Baggs begins the struggle to forge his own dreams. In his first novel for young adults, STRIKING OUT, Will Weaver uses his memories of growing up on a farm in Minnesota to shape the setting and plot of this book. Will Weaver now lives in Bemidji with his wife and two children, where he teaches Creative Writing and English at Bemidji State University.
I think male or female teenagers who enjoy realistic fiction will enjoy this book. Although it seems like this book is mainly directed at teenage boys who enjoy baseball, I think it's a book that will attract both baseball, and non-baseball fans alike. The book deals with all problems that young adults face with their parents when they take their first steps towards independence. Billy wants to begin playing baseball, his father is against it, finally Billy and his mother take a stand, and he begins playing.
The book is written in the third person, although it focuses mainly on Billy, it occasionally takes on the view of his baseball coach. The effect is interesting, throughout almost the whole book you see what Billy sees, feel what Billy feels, and then suddenly you switch to what the coach sees in the boy, or what other people would think when they saw Billy; a tough, gap-toothed farm boy who is good at baseball.
I think the main purpose of this book was to teach readers the value of family, and finding your place in the world. Throughout the book Billy's family is arguing, or ignoring each other. Each one is haunted by the past; the book starts during a turning point for the family. The title of the book STRIKING OUT is very important since Billy and his mother are both starting to take a stand, and strike out against his father living in the past. At one point in the book his mother, pent up with emotion, starts yelling; "things have to start changing around here!"
Will Weavers' strength in writing is character. Each of the characters is well defined, they all have their weaknesses, they are not good, or bad. Although he is writing in the third person you still understand how Billy feels, and when you switch to the Coaches' point of view, you understand what other people see in Billy. When you take on Billy's point of view farmers are described as the normal people, and other higher-class members of the town, are looked on as being snobby. When the coaches' point of view is taken on, Billy is described in a somewhat ragged fashion, as a person of higher class would see him.
Billy, and his father both have complicated characters, Billy's father is strict but sensitive, a deep and emotional character that somehow seems believable. Weaver's writing is raw and powerful when it comes to writing about Billy's family. You understand the hurt each member felt when his brother died, and how much it has impacted their lives, Billy's father especially.
When I first started reading the book, I didn't realize that Billy was only thirteen, he seemed much older, I thought that the author wasn't very good at capturing the character of a thirteen-year-old, but I soon realized that I was wrong. The reason Billy seems older is because he's a farm kid, he has more responsibilities, and therefore seems older. Weaver subtly explained this in parts of the book, and made me understand.
Weaver painted a fairly detailed picture of the setting, a small town in rural Minnesota, home of farmers and the "upper class"; suburbans.
The plot of the book is engaging, the trauma of Billy's home life, trying to get on the baseball team, and the memories of his brother all add up to a large amount of excitement. There are some baseball scenes, but even if you are a non-baseball type person, you will still be able to understand what is going on, mainly the competitiveness of Billy and the other members of the team.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone over the age of thirteen, there are some adult themes, but otherwise I think most people who enjoy realistic fiction, and don't mind baseball, would enjoy this book.

If you like Baseball you must read this Book
A boy and his brother live on a farm with their parents in a small town. One day the main character goes and works in a field on their farm. His little brother wants to join him so he comes and gets on the tractor with his older brother. The little boy wants to drive but his older brother won't let him so he tries anyway. He falls backwards off of the tractor and dies because he gets tore up in a plow. A while later the boy goes to a baseball diamond that's near his house. He finds other boys about his age playing and thats when he falls in love with baseball. Some things I liked about the book was that it starts right off with action when the boy is thrown from the tractor. Some things I didn't like were that the story is not totally focused on baseball right from the start like I was hoping, but that isn't such a bad thing and that is why I gave it a four-star.

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