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|Polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) undergoing parr-smolt transformation and the effects of dietary linseed and rapeseed oils
|Tocher, Douglas R
Bell, J Gordon
Dick, James R
Henderson, R James
McGhee, Fiona
Michell, D
Morris, Paul C
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|Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
Fish oil
Vegetable oil
Rapeseed oil
Linseed oil
Fatty acid composition
Polyunsaturated fatty acids
Atlantic salmon
Fish oils
Vegetable oils
Fishes Feeding and feeds
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|Tocher DR, Bell JG, Dick JR, Henderson RJ, McGhee F, Michell D & Morris PC (2000) Polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) undergoing parr-smolt transformation and the effects of dietary linseed and rapeseed oils. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 23 (1), pp. 59-73. http://www.springerlink.com/content/0920-1742/; https://doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1007807201093
|Duplicate groups of Atlantic salmon parr were fed diets containing either fish oil (FO), rapeseed oil (RO), linseed oil (LO) or linseed oil supplemented with arachidonic acid (20:4n-6; AA) (LOA) from October (week 0) to seawater transfer in March (week 19). From March to July (weeks 20-34) all fish were fed a fish oil-containing diet. Fatty acyl desaturation and elongation activity in isolated hepatocytes incubated with [1-14C]18:3n-3 increased in all dietary groups, peaking in early March about one month prior to seawater transfer. Desaturation activities at their peak were significantly greater in fish fed the vegetable oils, particularly RO, compared to fish fed FO. Docosahexaenoic acid (22:6n-3:DHA) and AA in liver and gill polar lipids (PL) increased in all dietary groups during the freshwater phase whereas eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5n-3;EPA) increased greatly in all groups after seawater transfer. The AA/EPA ratio in tissue PL increased up to seawater transfer and then decreased after transfer. AA levels and the AA/EPA ratio in gill PL were generally higher in the LOA group. The levels of 18:3n-3 in muscle total lipid were increased significantly in the LO, LOA and, to a lesser extent, RO groups prior to transfer but were reduced to initial levels by the termination of the experiment (week 34). In contrast, 18:2n-6 in muscle total lipid was significantly increased after 18 weeks in fish fed the diets supplemented with RO and LO, and was significantly greater in the FO and RO groups at the termination of the experiment. Gill PGF production showed a large peak about two months after transfer to seawater. The production of total PGF post-transfer was significantly lower in fish previously fed the LOA diet. However, plasma chloride concentrations in fish subjected to a seawater challenge at 18 weeks were all lower in fish fed the diets with vegetable oils. This effect was significant in the case of fish receiving the diet with LOA, compared to those fed the diet containing FO. The present study showed that during parr-smolt transformation in Atlantic salmon there is a pre-adaptive increase in hepatocyte fatty acyl desaturation/elongation activities that is controlled primarily by environmental factors such as photoperiod and temperature but that can also be significantly modulated by diet. Feeding salmon parr diets supplemented with rapeseed or linseed oils prevented inhibition of the desaturase activities that is induced by feeding parr diets with fish oils and thus influenced the smoltification process by altering tissue PL fatty acid compositions and eicosanoid production. These effect, in turn, had a beneficial effect on the ability of the fish to osmoregulate and thus adapt to salinity changes.
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November goal review and December goal setting
I can't believe it's already December 1st! I think I say this to myself every time we enter a new month. Mostly, I can't believe that 2011 is coming to an end. It's been an interesting year, but I feel like I'm ending it on a high note and I feel very blessed.
Anyway, a month ago today I posted my November goals. I'm glad I only set a few because it ended up being another busy month, but let's see how I did.
My November 2011 Goals
- Get at least one more room of our house "finished" – Um, sort of? I did put a lot of stuff away when I thought someone was coming to clean our house (remind me not to buy anymore Groupons for cleaning companies) and I've also gotten a good start on Christmas decorating. Nothing is really ever "finished" right?
- Send out some handwritten cards – YES! I sent out the two cards I mentioned last time and I've also been trying to send encouraging messages to people on Facebook and via text. It's been good and people really seem to appreciate it.
- Bake, bake, bake – I have taken this one to a whole new level. I've baked desserts, enchiladas, vegan meatloaf for Thanksgiving, cinnamon rolls from scratch (first time ever), and a lot more that I'm sure I'm leaving out (plus some no bake things too). Very happy with this one and want to continue.
- Homemade Christmas presents – I'm working on this one too. I didn't get started until the week of Thanksgiving but I've already got one gift nearly finished and just a few more to do before December 25th, let's hope I can buckle down!
- Rest – I haven't taken a nap in a few weeks so I definitely need to get on this. I also didn't do enough fun shopping/browsing but hopefully I can find some small local shops to visit this month (no malls or Target for me this time of year, too much stress). But I have been spending more time at home during the week and I'm learning to say no to things from time to time when I just don't have the energy to be somewhere.
So, in review, even though they each required a little explanation, I would say I was fairly successful at meeting my goals for November. I could have done better but at least I made some intentions and followed through on all of them to some extent.
Now, what to do for December? Hmm…
My December 2011 goals
- Stay active during the holidays – The colder it gets outside, the harder it is for me to stay motivated to go out, get in the car and go to the gym. It's easy when I'm at work because the gym is here, but we get a little over a week off after Christmas and being away from work (hence, off my normal "schedule") can make staying active more difficult. But I have plenty of options to use over the break, including a temporary membership to the YMCA and a Groupon for Zumba/Yoga classes, so no excuses. Staying active to me means getting in some sort of movement outside of your normal daily activities at least a few days a week and resting when you need to as well (it's important to recognize resting needs vs. wants, ha ha).
- Keep up with reading/listening – I see a theme here. Keeping up with the things I'm already doing now while I'm off work. In the past few months I have discovered audio books and it helped me reach my goal of reading 12 books in 2011, I'm actually on #13 right now. I buy them at a used bookstore and then sell them back to buy more, but I also live down the street from a public library, so I need to utilize that more. This will be easy to do for most of the month but I think this one will be challenging at home because I won't be at my desk with headphones on able to listen. Perhaps I will be able to read a "real" book that week! Ha ha. Maybe that's the real goal here, read one "paper" book. If you are interested in what I read or want to swap book ideas, find me on Goodreads. I have decided to up my goal to 24 books in 2012, eek!
- Stay happy – This one is not just for me but for all of you as well. It's so easy to get bogged down by this time of year. The changing weather and less sunlight can be depressing, or maybe you are just stressed out by the holidays in general, or by your family and friends. Things can get kind of crazy this time of year. My friend Rob wrote a post around Thanksgiving called GrAttitude where he talked about how we "ramp up into higher gear. Guests coming over, visiting relatives, dinners to cook, houses to clean, games to watch, presents to buy, etc. The purpose of the holiday gets lost, stress increases, relationships strain…" I agree with him that our attitude really determines how things go. We can make a choice to be angry or stressed out for whatever reason or we can choose to put it all aside and give thanks to God for all our blessings. We can choose to be grateful and happy. (Disclaimer: I know this "choice" doesn't apply to everyone, some of you are probably dealing with some very tough emotions right now, maybe you lost a loved one recently or you are just going through a difficult time in life. I just pray you are able to find joy and happiness.)
- Send Christmas cards – This is something I haven't done in years, believe it or not. I just sort of got out of the habit and now that we know so many people I was always afraid that we wouldn't be able to do one for everybody and then someone would get offended and so on. Another one of my goals for 2012 is to care less about what people think or at least don't invent what I think people will think because I'm probably wrong anyway. But I plan to send a few or some, as many as I can and to write thoughtful messages in them and not just sign my name to a stack of cards (not that there's anything wrong with that, ha ha).
- See November's goals – I want to keep up with what I started last month. They were all good goals that I believe can apply all year long.
So what about you? What do you want to accomplish in December and the final month of 2011?
Posted on December 1, 2011, in Uncategorized and tagged 2011, 2012, audio books, cards, Christmas, December, exercise, goals, Goodreads, holidays, November, reading, stress. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
I really like the 'stay happy' goal. It really is a difficult time of the year for a lot of people and it's important to make an effort and soak in the time and memories.
My goals are to stay active through the month and continue to eat well since it's exponentially more important for me this year.


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The audience laughs uproariously, gasping for air as their limbs fly and they rock back and forth, shaking due to laboured breaths. Their actions are larger than life and the spectators revel in their freedom. Secure in their belief that no one can see them beneath the blanket of darkness. Hopeful, that others are as engaged as they are, and that their eyes are drawn more to the spectacle on stage than the spectacle beside them.
People usually don't display their reactions as openly. Rarely will people allow others to see their true emotions, unfiltered and unplanned. Perhaps this is the true beauty of Theatre. In seeing actors be completely unbound in their actions, the audience can cast away their masks for a few hours and reveal flawed and imperfect people.
The evening began with a notification on a phone: 'It's your lucky day! Congratulations, you have won 2 lottery tickets to see today's performance of Young Frankenstein.' Though not a planned evening, it is one that promises a good time.
Sexual innuendos fly from the stage at a pace almost too fast to follow. Perhaps a tactic to keep the audience from questioning some of the darker jokes? Physical comedy ties each line together and jokes and comments are accentuated with a calculated caress of a prop or by striking a suggestive pose. Perhaps what keeps the audience so enraptured is the thrill of following the actors along this precipice of drowning virtue: balancing at the edge, one line away from falling over with a joke that can't be taken back or ignored. Would the audience care though, or would it be passed off under the protection that art can bring?
'Please Don't Touch Me' becomes a personal favourite and is received well as the audience cackle throughout the song. The glamour, grandiose movements, and gutsy humour delivered by the talented cast stun and amaze the viewers. The rest of the shows songs are met with the same rambunctious applause.
Suddenly the scene shifts to a Transylvanian backdrop with an over sexualized germanic village girl guiding Doctor Frankenstein to his castle along with Igor: A hunchback providing timely comedic relief. The tone for the humour has been set and those who have not welcomed this silly, sexual, and sometimes shocking humour will not have much to look forward to until the show ends. For those who relate to the humour and can laugh, if only out of disbelief that these jokes were made, a night of fun has only just begun as the monster is brought to life: A giant green monster who turns out a little differently to what the Doctor predicted.
The interval is cleverly placed for the audience to make guesses and predict what will happen to the monster and when the show continues people remain in high spirits. Seats are filled again and no one seems to have left during the interval, though more than a few people return with full wine-glasses. The show continues and everyone follows along with rapt attention. Laughs seem almost synchronised as the cast once more masterfully ensures that the audience reacts to each line and guarantee that Mel Brooks's humour is understood and welcomed.
The show ends too soon for the liking of many in the theatre. The applause that meets the actors as the curtain rises is louder than any that night. The room seems divided at this point though as many people remain seated while applauding. Most however, stand to show the actors how much they enjoyed the performance.


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I began this blog in October 2009. It has been in storage for several years. But, in honor of the 10th anniversary of it's existence, I hereby announce that the torch has been passed to the next generation of Grounded Girls and their Legacy Continues!
For a one time only special appearance I bring you; The GrandGrounded!
Look out world ; ) God knows what she will do.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
The Only Way To Go
Time has slipped away from me. I spent one week adjusting to being a Grandma. Another week adjusting-even though we have been prepared over 2 years- to the fact that My Daughter JOINED THE MARINES and is at boot camp. Then another week just settling. Then a few more days just being quiet because all that adjusting wore me out. We're settling into a new way of life.
My very first post 4 years and two months ago was "There Are No Cheerleaders Here".
But, as I look about my home now I see,
There Are No Grounded Girls Here
I have raised them. I have finally got them off the ground. They are all three women now.
During the course of this blog Biggest married and is now A Mother, Littlest, my sarcastic 14 year old has transformed into A Marine Corps. Recruit. And Middlest, who spurred the creation of this blog with my frustration with her.. like a phoenix, is rising up and beginning again with a new job and her own place. She has always followed her own path, heard the beat of her own drummer and she will make it wherever she is going and do it in her own way. That's just who she is.
And that's ok with me : )
We have had as much excitement and drama here in the last 3 months as we have had in all the years I had teenagers put together.
But of course, what other way would the Grounded Girls make their exit?
I love this blog more than I can express. It's like a limb. A piece of our lives that I have nurtured and cared for and documented. But it is complete. That doesn't mean I'm gone. Just like in my real life I'm simply moving on the next phase. I appreciate everyone who has walked with me and read the journey of my girls growing into women. Even those who visited for awhile and then detoured off to other roads. But most of all, those who came at the beginning and stuck around no matter what my world would bring, and those who came in at the middle of my mess, looked around, and actually stayed anyway ; ) For all of you who are still around please follow me to my 'other place', if you haven't already. Despite the occasional 'other stuff ' this blog is dedicated to my daughters, on the other, we might be visiting more varied topics and of course the girls will be there too. They're just grown not gone. I certainly hope to see you there. If you're thinking, Oh Thank God, that woman has finally shut up, that's fine too.
So while from the beginning it has been the case that, "There Are No Cheerleaders Here". There WERE good times and bad. Triumphs and failures and Some Other Stuff too; ) But..
This Was THEN.
You can still visit the blog Service Unavailable Error 503 now.
And yes, of course, The Only Way To Go
Moon Music
This has been 'Once in a Lifetime'. [Talking Heads]"Time isn't holding us, time isn't after us
Time isn't holding us, time doesn't hold you back"
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The Effective Medicaid Pharmacy Program: A White Paper for Medicaid Directors and State Agency Personnel
In June 2019, NESCSO and Commonwealth Medicine jointly released a white paper titled The Effective Medicaid Pharmacy Program. Through information compiled from stakeholder interviews and an environmental scan, this brief paper reviews components of an effective Medicaid pharmacy program and provides practical information for Medicaid programs and state leadership. An effective Medicaid pharmacy program provides members with access to medically necessary medications that are cost-effective, aligned with best clinical practice, and provided in a transparent environment. It is important consider a program's administrative structure, pharmacy benefit delivery system, and influence of external factors in the achievement of these goals.


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Oh Deer Christmas Cushions
Another quick project on my Christmas DIY List was to whip up some Christmas cushions.
And here they are. I found similar ones on Pinterest and knew I could make my own.
Don't you just love the play on words. :)
And they were really easy to make. I just printed the patches directly from the printer onto the fabric.
I had some leftover canvas fabric which I made the cushion covers from and then just sewed the patches onto the front of each.
And they fit in perfectly with the rest of my lounge cushions!
:) Julie
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Bhardwaj, Anvita
School of Public Health
South Africa
An Adaptive Randomized Evaluation of Nurse-Led HIV Treatment Retention Interventions for Women Living with HIV
The overarching goal of the study is to test the effectiveness of an adaptive and patient-responsive strategy of HIV treatment and individualized case management to achieve sustained HIV viral suppression among marginalized women living with HIV in Durban, South Africa. Our data from South Africa consistently indicate over 60% HIV prevalence among Female Sex Workers (FSW), with adverse clinical outcomes and high risk of onward HIV transmission given limited uptake of treatment. The determinants of limited coverage of treatment among these FSW are multifactorial, including barriers to the effective delivery and uptake of HIV treatment among those living with HIV. Thus, we need multicomponent interventions that address these multilevel gaps in order to optimize treatment. However, not all FSW will benefit from or need the same intervention or intensity to achieve HIV viral suppression.
The interventions being tested in this adaptive study include mobile decentralized treatment programs (DTP) and individualized case management (ICM). These approaches have not been formally tested within a marginalized population such as FSW, nor have the incremental benefits and cost-effectiveness of these interventions been evaluated. Furthermore, mobile van-based nurse-led treatment initiation and ART management represent a novel type of decentralized care in South Africa. In addition, there are limited data describing the characteristics of those that require more intensive interventions. Using the proposed design, we can selectively scale up services and assess benefits for those that have not been successful in achieving sustained viral suppression and learn how to target the intensity of future ART packages for FSW.
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Group Exhibition: Feels Like Home
I am participating in a group exhibition which will open this weekend at Kelas Pagi Yogyakarta. I'm not showing any new works, but instead I will display my old pictures, snapshots of my friends, which really sparked my initial interest in photography. You could say my photography journey began with these pictures. Given the current state I'm now in, for me this exhibit is somewhat nostalgic and reflective, and I had some really major doubts about showing these very personal pictures before I managed to pull it through.
The exhibition is running until March 17th, if you're in town feel free to drop by!
A little sidenote: There are alternative posters for this show, as each participant makes their own version. The above poster is mine. To see other versions see here.
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Chivita, one of Nigeria's juice brands holds its second Annual Chivita World Juice Day Event recently. The Annual Chivita World Juice Day is a public interest initiative undertaken by CHI Limited, makers of the Chivita brand of fruit juices, to deepen conversations on consumption of 100% fruit juice thus enabling healthy living and happier lives for all Nigerians.
The theme for this year's edition of the event, "Fruit Juice: The Smart Secret of Boosting Immunity", was informed by the need to highlight the beneficial properties of consumption of 100% fruit juice to support the body's immune system in order to promote everyday wellness.
Speaking about the event, the Managing Director of CHI Limited, Mr. Deepanjan Roy, emphasized the need for 100% fruit juice consumption as a smart way of supporting immune function during the COVID19 era and beyond. He said while the global pandemic has challenged systems everywhere, it has also raised social consciousness on healthy diets and lifestyle.
In partnership with health and nutrition experts who were carefully selected to share their perspectives on how Nigerians can defend themselves from within through fruit juice consumption, CHI Limited hopes to empower consumers to consider daily consumption of a glass of 100% fruit juice as a smart choice in their daily health routine.
One of the Guest Speakers and Principal Dietician with the National Orthopedic Hospital Igbobi, Mrs. Adejoke Adeniji, listed the benefits of consumption of 100% fruit juice to include strengthening of the immune system, aiding of digestion, weight loss and prevention of allergies and ailments from entering the system.
"Consumption of 100% fruit juice is a valuable source of nutrients that are bioactive and can support the immune system by fighting free radicals and also reducing fatigue. While not postulating that fruit juice can prevent or protect against COVID-19, available facts show that drinking a glass of 100% fruit juice daily can boost Vitamin-C and folate intake and, by so doing, support the optimal functioning of the body's immune system," she said.
In celebration of this year's event, there has been a sustained drive to create consumer awareness and drum up anticipation across several touch points including Guest Appearances on National TV Stations, Radio Hypes and Call-in Sessions, Out-of-Home Displays, Engagements on Social Media platforms, Article publication on Print Publications, and In-store CHI-Shoppe promotions aimed at rewarding the brand's consumers.


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Destiny, a queer woman in Arizona, recently had an unfortunate run-in with her homophobic dad. He came into the home that she shares with her girlfriend, Destenny, took the rainbow flag they had hanging on their wall, and threw it away, Pink News reports.
Instead of defiantly pulling their flag from the trash or buying another one, the two women had a much more permanent solution. They carefully painted a rainbow flag directly on the wall.
Destenny posted their act of resistance to Twitter, where followers have gone wild with support for the women.
When your gfs homophobic dad takes down and throws away your Pride flag JUST PAINT ONE ON THE WALL ???????❤ pic.twitter.com/AnoGiHjJvt— Slim (@des10yyyy) October 20, 2017
As of writing, the post has more than 36,000 likes and commenters are calling the couple "goals."
YALL ARE THE CUTEST EVER. ??I DONT UNDERSTAND THE HATE, &TOWARD HIS OWN DAUGHTER!! THE AUDACITY OF THAT MAN. im glad yall are safe&doin U— rickee g ? (@rickeetowers) October 22, 2017
This is beautiful you two stand up for yourselves. ? Also, I am extremely satisfied by how perfect those lines are you both did AMAZING— Caroline ? (@Daydreaming_Dan) October 22, 2017
Many people were wondering, how did Destiny's dad react? So Destenny filled us in. In short, he said that their "permanent" solution isn't so permanent since he can still paint over it.
My girls dads response to her Instagram post. pic.twitter.com/99vxLLSOIn— Slim (@des10yyyy) October 21, 2017
Many people wondered, both out of concern for Destiny's safety and that her dad could easily come through on his threat to paint over the flag, if the two actually lived in his house. But Destenny made it clear that they don't. The flag was actually painted on the wall in Destiny's mom's house, where she and Destenny live part of the time. And her mom is supportive of the women and their relationship.
I'm sorry they do that. We support you ❤❤❤ We're lucky enough to have both of our moms support, some people don't have either parent.— Slim (@des10yyyy) October 21, 2017
As for the women's safety, Destenny assured her followers that they were doing well and had the support of other family members if anything were to happen. For now, they're happy and proud to be living in a house with their new perfectly-painted rainbow.
Refinery29 has reached out to Destenny and will update this post if we receive a response.
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This is not the way that people seek the truth today.
This is an example of where consumers seek the truth today.
For all you marketing geniuses out there, the landscape has changed. Big firms and yesterdays marketing pro's have always tried to stay ahead of the curve. They also did everything possible to picture their product or their style as being the best in the market. The time has come for them to get in the fast lane or risk being kicked to the information super highway curb. The consumer of 2012 and beyond is not some hapless spender hoping that the wise, well imaged owl will rescue them from their own ineptitude and deliver what they need.
The consumer today does more research and is more prepared to make a decision than any other time. Today's consumer is not visiting open houses for kicks. Today's consumer knows more about the houses that are available than most real estate agents. They are armed with information. Some is accurate and some is not. Today's consumer just wants the truth…the truth at a fair price!!!
Buying a home in 2012 is like peeling an onion.
The disconnect between the desire to buy and actually doing so in a comfortable fashion is filled with layer upon layer of processes. Each time a buyer peels back one layer, there is another waiting and it seems each one is so convoluted that the buyer finds his or her eyes welling up with tears. The industry's zeal to minimize all liability has created, in some cases, an atmosphere of tempered information and in others, responses that resemble "my lips are sealed". Consumers want answers. They want answers to their questions. They do not want sanitized sales pitches. They do now want to hear that they must follow blindly along because the agent is "in the top 5% of real estate agents in the USA". They want to be represented by the top agent in their transaction – period.
They want agents to STOP selling and start representing.
Basic overview
Keep it simple. Let's start with the premise that most buyers DO NOT have cash to buy a home. Sure, some do but most don't. They are going to have to finance the purchase. Lenders just have to accept that a lot of people don't find them very trustworthy and they find the whole borrowing process mystifying. Lenders you did it to yourself. I have never met anyone buying a home that had the opportunity to pull in a little TARP money if they fell short on cash. You did, most of us don't have a clue what it was or why you got it. The general feeling is that you made a lot of money off bad loans and discovered that you had no money left after lining your own pockets.
Deal with it, there is a trust issue.
Most buyers really don't care how tough the new GFE is or how the requirements make it more difficult on you. Most buyers did not understand what the hell was going on with the old GFE, so the fact that you find this one less clear does not matter. Muddy water in a jar and muddy water in a bowl is still muddy water. Buyers want to know what information you need, how much cash they have to have and what they will be paying each month. They want to know how much house they can afford comfortably. (Here is a little secret, you can still blow smoke up their rear end and convince them they can afford more…they don't understand….but when things get tight and they walk…you really have to stop blaming them.) Here is a fact, there are a hell of lot more people facing foreclosure than there are lenders that made the loans. I don't have the numbers, but I sure can read the papers and I know there are not a million different lenders out there. (Remember Jonestown? One crazy preacher and hundreds dead. Seems like a fair analogy)
IMPORTANT EDITORIAL COMMENT: During the recent real estate fiasco, appraisers got paid, lenders got paid, agents got paid, ancillary service providers got paid. Apparently, by the time the Feds are done even the investors will get paid. The American Taxpayer is footing the bill. Everyone had their greedy finger in the pie. Advisors (read agents and lenders) were the ones that convinced buyers they could afford what they were purchasing.
OK. so can you simplify the process? Can you just explain how things will pan out in the real world on a month to month basis? May be you could actually do that as an added value service.
Folks pay a lot of money for this logo. It would be prudent to discover if they live up to the creed.
Realtors, most buyers don't need you to find them a home. You can offer to send listings, but you better have a cracker jack website for them. At least tell the truth, they don't have to use your site. There are 100's of sites that have the local listings. You do not have a secret stash of homes for sale. (If you claim that you do and you have listings that you do not list in the MLS, you are violating the law. Why would anyone want to use an agent that can not even obey the law?).
If I could share anything that I have culled from conversations with buyers today… lose the fake smile, fake laugh and patronizing attitude. Do not load buyers in your car. Let your buyers tell you what they want to see. If you think they might have missed something, tell them and let them decide if they missed it or not. You can follow them, unlock the doors and stand back. You should be using your eyes and ears. Enough with the guided tour remarks, let your clients focus on what they see. They really don't need you to point out that a counter is granite or that the 6 foot wide, double door in the basement is a walk out. Your endless prattle is only annoying background noise. Let them think!
The perception out there is that agents seem to have control issues.
Well, you know what, most agents do have that problem. It is no longer acceptable. Lose it or send resumes to CarMax or Best Buy. The buyers of 2012 want to tap into your knowledge and not your opinions. They want you to be the expert on determining value and negotiating and looking out for them. They want your focus to be on helping them own a home. They are really turned off if you seem to be more concerned about your paycheck than their welfare. They really do have a right to know that you have done this before. Experience is very important.
Oh, and one last thing…lipstick on a pig? It is still a pig.
You can hide behind your fancy terms of puffery, etc. It is a damn lie, that is obvious to buyers, when you use remarks in your listing, that a home just needs some TLC and actually are full of trash, missing appliances and smell like a public cat urinal. You are not doing the seller any favor. You are just wasting the buyers time. If the house is a dump, tell it like it is. Oh, and those pictures you post on line that were taken before the stove was removed, they need to go the way of the high school photo you still have slapped on your business card. (The younger generation really wonders if you think they will be struck blind from the time they see that out of date photo on your web page and the 10-15 years older version that is also 2o lbs heavier that walks through their door. If you can't see the difference between the image you share on line and person you see in the mirror, how can you be expected to be aware of all the intricacies involved with represent the buyer?" They want to buy a house and your glamour shot will not enhance their chances …. use the money on education or better yet one of those self help courses that teaches folks to accept themselves.
Final Word
Pinocchio was really cute in the movie. Today's consumers don't want cute, they want the truth. Opps, they also want just a little respect. Little respect…no…they want total respect. Total respect means listening to them, letting them take the lead and protecting them as they move through the process.
When are you people going to get it?
If you are currently in the market for a new home, let us take you through the process…step by step. We use all of the gadgets and still find a way to get beyond the bells and whistles and offer our clients help.
We are John MacArthur and Lourdes Tudela and our phone number is 301-509-5111.
New Years Eve 2011
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Owning a pool is a serious responsibility. Pools have to be monitored and repaired as needed. It costs money for cleaning tools, chemicals, and re-filling frequently to be sure the water doesn't get low. Another yes, is that you will can definitely be held accountable if something goes wrong in or around your new swimming pool. It is important to purchase a homeowners warranty for the pool, and look into liability insurance. Even if the person swimming is your best friend, you never know if they'll hold you responsible for any hospital bills. There are so many people that are shocked when a close friend hands them the bill for something, or their parents decide to sue you when you get into a car accident together. Never overestimate a friend when a tragedy is partially your fault. Legal and hospital bills are expensive. You should protect yourself as much as possible.
So what if you do want a pool, but you don't like the design of the one that comes with the house. Unfortunately, you'll have to decide if you're able to overlook it. If you are going to stare at everything you don't like all the time, you should buy a different house. If the cosmetic changes aren't too complicated, such as putting new tiles around the pool, you shouldn't necessarily consider the pool a deal breaker. But, if you hate everything about it, that will only get worse over time. You should also take caution and look into the history regarding the pool. Don't just take the sellers word for it when they say that there's nothing wrong with the pool. If you're smart, you'll have it fully inspected before putting an offer in on the house.
One thing you can be excited about is that pools don't tack on a whole lot of extra money in the list price, as they aren't factored too much into the appraisal. For example, if you live in a cold climate, the 'comps' aren't going to show much difference in the value of the home. It could be a different story if you live in a hotter climate. Installing a pool is a
very time-consuming and draining process. Choosing tile, lining, fountains. These are things that take serious time, as you'll only install the pool once and you want to be certain that you love everything you picked out. Of course, you've also got to keep your budget in mind and be realistic by realizing that if you're budget is small, your pool isn't going to look like the pictures in this article. However, being able to pick your own lighting, the location, and the size and shape of the pool is exciting.
Having a pool can be very exciting and lots of good times will likely be shared at your home if you have one. The key to remember is that when buying a house that has a pool, or you plan to install one in it, you've got to think carefully about the legal and financial responsibility that comes with it.


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Disclosure: Imperfect Women was not financially compensated for this post. Jo received a sample of the product for review purposes. The opinions are her own, based on her personal experience with the product.
By Jo
I stumbled upon the Shabby Apple website not too long ago, and immediately fell in love with their vintage clothing and dresses. The layout of the website is very pretty, and I love the way the clothing is modeled. All the pieces have a very feminine, vintage feel to them while also looking very tasteful and modest. I was very excited to be given the opportunity to pick out a dress to review because I was curious to see the quality of these pieces.
I chose the Guinea a Minute dress. It seemed like a perfect dress to wear to work, a get together with friends, or any business casual occasion.
After consulting the size chart, I ordered a size four, which is my normal size. When I received the dress in the mail though, I regretted it. The dress fit, but was very form fitting, and not as modest as I had hoped. I went back to the website and saw that the model was wearing the dress loosely, so I decided to exchange it for a size up.
Their customer service was so delightful! I asked some questions using the live chat and was able to print out a free return label to send back the original dress. The exchange process took less than two weeks.
I love this dress. It is very nice quality, warm, and comfortable. I think it could be worn in every season with the right accessories and shoes. The pencil skirt style of this dress makes it very versatile. I would wear this to work, school, a date, a family get together, or even just a day out shopping. The skirt of the dress hits lower than an empire waist and higher than my natural waist, which is very flattering. There are button details on the sleeves and on the pockets in the skirt, which add a nice touch, and a slit in the back of the dress for a more comfortable fit. My only complaint is that the pockets are a little too high up to be used comfortably.
I paired the dress with some black tights, black suede heels, yellow earrings, and a yellow bracelet. The dress is nice and warm so I didn't need a sweater. When I wore the dress to go out for dinner and to take pictures, I received a lot of compliments. Almost everyone I talked to complimented the dress and asked where I got it.
I am really happy I decided to exchange the dress for a larger size. The fit is a lot more flattering and modest. I read some other reviews online for Shabby Apple, and most of them mentioned that while their normal size fits, they preferred the dress a size up. I would recommend buying a size up on any dress that looks like a more form fitting cut.
I would recommend Shabby Apple dresses to a friend. I think they are good quality, very beautiful, and most importantly, very modest. I am taller than average and my biggest problem with dresses and skirts is that they are usually too short to be appropriate or comfortable. I think a longer skirt is more flattering as well.
(Model is 5 foot 8 inches, weighs around 140 pounds, and wears a size 6)
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Catching the tiger by the tail…
Our last baby has just reached her first birthday. An enormous milestone for us parents as much as our baby. We know she is our last because we took definite, final steps to ensure this.
The day after her birthday my most recent Amazon order arrived. In it was a book I had discovered… Red Moon: Understanding and using the creative, sexual and spiritual gifts of the menstrual cycle. I won't be needing this for a while, I thought, and put it to one side.
Two days later my period came back.
So now I am at the beginning of a new phase of my life. Free for the first time from the worry of getting pregnant. Free from the wondering if we want any more children. Knowing that each moon will bring the light and dark of my soul. My creative surges and moody exhaustion. That the only babies I will be able to make now are the children of my creativity rather than my body. My nurturing self is mine alone. That is a very empowering thought. To have that clarity. And yet I am only approaching 31. So I know that I face another 10, maybe 20 years of periods. Unending, ceaseless cycles. Cramps and crankiness. And inappropriate tears and tantrums.
After 6 1/2 years with less than a year's cycles, it will take some getting used to for me… not to mention my husband and family. Mounting the rollercoaster of my hormones once more, I cannot say I am without trepidation.
This is a little discussed subject. I remember reading in The Wise Wound the fact that there was no research anywhere on the impact of women's cycles and PMT on children… and yet an effect there must be! We joke about women on the rag. Those around us suffer too, but we do not discuss it, or re-think family life at these times. They also see and feel the effects of our enhanced creativity, libido and need to retreat within. The whole family sails the seas of a mother's cycles.
Which is where the book comes in. I want to deepen my work with my own cycle. Work that I started before I got pregnant for the first time. So that I work with myself and not against my own rhythm. So that I can catch the tiger by the tail and ride her with grace, wisdom and abandon.
My closest friend and I exchanged moon letters for a year on to explore our feelings, our cycles and the journey we were on.
Others have a moon lodge, a space where menstruating women can go for sanctuary. There they have a moon book where women record their insights to share with others.
Others journal or chart their cycle privately.
Other cultures in other times had the Red Tent. There are many red tent celebrations around the world now, some annually, some monthly.
Others have women's groups…
How do you ride the tiger? How do you nurture and care for yourself and balance your family responsibilities at this time?
Wonderful resources:
Red Moon: Understanding and using the creative, sexual and spiritual gifts of the menstrual cycle
The Wise Wound
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
The Red Tent
Thirteen Moons
http://www.moontimes.co.uk and now also on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pa
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Business News - Opportunities - Reviews
The nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice have set off conversations in nearly every industry about the treatment of Black workers, and book publishing is no exception.
The industry has long been criticized for hiring and retaining so few employees of color — according to a survey of the work force released this year by the children's book publisher Lee & Low Books, only 5 percent are Black. But the calls to diversify have intensified in recent weeks, as Black professionals have publicly shared long-suppressed frustrations about how racial prejudice has affected their work. In publishing, that has included discussions of hiring practices, workplace microaggressions and publishing companies' treatment of books by Black writers.
Publishers say they are listening. They are seeing books about race and racism dominate best-seller lists, and several companies have committed to changing their hiring practices and the books they publish.
Eight publishing professionals — working in different facets of the industry, including an author, literary agent, marketer, publicist, editors and booksellers — told us what they are seeing now and what they've seen before, how being Black has affected their careers, and what they hope the future will bring. Here are their responses, which have been condensed and edited.
Tracy Sherrod
Editorial director, Amistad
'The only really painful thing about racism in publishing is the books that are not around.'
It took seven years of interviews for an editorial assistant position. I used to make a joke that I was the oldest editorial assistant in the world. But it didn't matter to me because I was very, very happy to be working with books. Once I discovered that this could be a career, there was nothing that was going to stop me. And I think that's the spirit of all the Black editors in publishing: There's nothing that's going to stop them from doing this job.
I think publishers hold certain beliefs about what is universal, and oftentimes we don't fit, our stories don't fit into that equation. At Amistad, I'm trying to feed our community by shining a spotlight on Black stories, Black culture, Black history. Because oftentimes what's in the headlines is not the full story of our humanity. What I think has changed or not changed in publishing is that there's more diversity in terms of what is being published in the African-American marketplace, in terms of the variety of stories that are being told. But there's only like seven of us Black editors who have some authority, real authority and power — and it's not full authority and power.
Given my sales history, I think if I weren't a Black woman, I would probably have a higher title. But titles don't really matter to me, just the opportunity to publish books for my people is what matters most, so I don't really focus on that. People who have racist ideas and racist actions do not bother me. I don't let any of those issues influence what I do or the way I think or what I publish. That is a personal problem. I don't let it become my problem. Racism is prevalent in all aspects of American society, and publishing is no different.
Sometimes there are proposals that come along, and you know in your heart that this is an important book on an important subject, but because the editorial room is all white, you may not be able to acquire it, so the only really painful thing about racism in publishing is the books that are not around, the books that didn't get to be published. When I was interviewing for those seven years for an editorial assistant position, I was told multiple times that Black people didn't read. That's an unfortunate belief. Because it's just not true.
We saw this moment in the '70s and late '60s, and that's how Toni Morrison, Marie Brown, Charles Harris, all of those people got into publishing. And then it happened again in the 1990s when Terry McMillan, Alice Walker, they landed on the New York Times best-seller list at the same time, and most of the people in publishing did not know who they were, particularly Terry McMillan. They were like, "Where did she come from?" Whereas we had been always reading Terry McMillan, and this was her third book, "Waiting to Exhale," so we expected it to be on the best-seller list. We knew, her fans, because we're part of the community.
I don't feel comfortable overpaying for a book as an editor of color. I feel a responsibility to watch out for my authors' careers so that they can continue to publish. If an author gets a particular advance, they need to ask their agent, "How many copies do I need to sell to earn this out?" Because it's going to be tougher for them to publish again if they don't earn it out. It hasn't been proven to be the case, from my observations, for white authors.
A white editor can be rewarded for acquiring an expensive Black author. If you did the research, you'd probably find that most people who have acquired a book by a Black author for a large advance, they're promoted, get a new job. I've seen people make their careers off of it. Why do I think that is? Because if a white person puts their stamp on a Black book, it suddenly becomes more valuable. Black editors most definitely must be fiscally responsible to keep your job and to have the pleasurable opportunity of publishing our voices. It's assumed that Black editors don't know white books and white publishing, but we do, because what do you think we've been reading all these years?
Tracy Sherrod is the editorial director of Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Interview by Concepción de León.
Kerri K. Greenidge
Author, 'Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter'
'I tend to think, being a historian, that triumph over racial discrimination or racial bias isn't like, one person gets through and then the floodgates open.'
I knew entering graduate school what I wanted to study, which was African-descended people in New England. And from the beginning, I was told that nobody was going to publish that, unless I was writing about slavery, or unless I was writing about the busing crisis. No one was interested in that history, because No. 1, it hadn't been done before, and No. 2, there weren't that many Blacks in New England. My book on William Trotter, every place I submitted the manuscript to, the response was that no one was going to read a book that didn't have white people as a protagonist, and who was going to read a book about a Black man that nobody had ever heard about?
If there's one thing I would say about my own story in terms of racism in publishing, it's that whatever breakthrough successes I have had have been due to Black women who have steered me in the right direction. Black women have been the ones who have guided me and told me how to navigate situations. In that sense, I've been very lucky. But until I plugged into that, it was very, very frustrating, in terms of being told that no one was going to read certain Black stories, despite the fact that I had a doctorate and presumably had a little bit of expertise.
The reception for the book was not something I expected. I just wanted to get the history out there and change the narrative we have about Black history and about Black New England and Blackness in spaces that we don't think about it being in. That was my goal, and the accolades are just the icing on the cake.
I tend to think, being a historian, that triumph over racial discrimination or racial bias isn't like, one person gets through and then the floodgates open and everyone goes in after them. I don't particularly have any belief that this moment is going to fundamentally change the industry. I think that what that will take is a fundamental change to all of the avenues through which people produce work. All of that has to change before publishing can change.
Particularly in this moment, there is this idea that what America has to do is come to a moment of reckoning and we'll all learn the error of our ways and things will be reformed, and from a historical perspective that's not the way history works. I point out to my students that the first time the phrase "postracial" was used was the 1910s. That's not to say that I don't think the current moment is a significant moment in a long struggle for rights and equality for Black people, because I think it is. But I also think people are very shortsighted about history and what it takes to make a sustained change.
In terms of publishing and academia, I think those two fields will only catch up if the political momentum on the streets turns into something. Seeing young people starting a movement in the streets in the middle of a pandemic gives me hope and confidence. Seeing this generation of young people turning years of trauma into something that's exploding around the world is inspiring.
Kerri K. Greenidge is an assistant professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora at Tufts University.
Interview by Alexandra Alter.
Janifer Wilson and Kori Wilson
Owner and operations manager, Sisters Uptown Bookstore
'Twenty years later, I still exist.'
JANIFER WILSON: I opened this store because, as a child growing up in southwest Georgia, I never saw any depictions of anybody that looked like me in the books that we were studying. I grew up feeling invisible. I wanted to give back to the community where I chose to live, so when the children would come, they could see books presented and housed, to let them know: "I can have my own business" or "I can be an adventurer."
The struggle of the book business has been astonishing. I've not made money as a book vendor over the last 20 years. That placed the business into the area of a labor of love versus a business that is earning income. Thank God, I had a job, and I made enough money where if the store didn't make money, I was able to pay the store's bills. Someone actually told me, "Oh, she's not going to make it because Black folks don't read." But 20 years later, I still exist.
This is the first time we actually made money to pay our bills and actually be in the position to order a lot more books. We saw thousands of dollars paid into our bank account. This whole surge that we have now with Covid and Black Lives Matter, I have some sort of feeling deep in my spirit in terms of sustainability. To have our business surge in a matter of weeks as the result of an unfortunate incident with a man losing his life and the whole world getting to see it has just impacted my spirit and soul. I get so tearful when I think about how this came about. I'm just prayerful that this is going to be the new way.
KORI WILSON: This is one of the first times in our history where what our mission is and what my mom created in this space is being recognized and actually is connecting to revenue. Definitely we were considered a niche in the business, just putting African diasporic literature at the forefront. It did make a difference as far as notoriety and being recognized in the industry as an independent bookseller. With the larger publishing houses, when they would have their book tours for upcoming seasonal releases, we weren't part of that group.
JANIFER: I think the publishers are going to be forced to look at how they have done business in the past. I think it's going to cause a different relationship with booksellers and publishers. Before, we were just ordering books and there was no real relationship. But I think they're going to need our information and ideals on how they can best move forward in this industry. Now there are folks in marketing who are reaching out to us to partner.
KORI: We really want to be outlets for independent and self-published authors. We were one of the main places that people would come and ask to have a book event or a book launch, so they can try to get their name out there and get some sales because of that gap in the industry between them and the big guys.
JANIFER: There needs to be Black and brown publishers. We need more publishers in our community that will publish the work and not change it. I think the only way that can happen is we need to get into the industry more ourselves.
Other Black booksellers are now recognizing that we're all one and the plight is the same. We're now communicating with each other as to how we can best move through this era. How can we make sure we all stay alive?
KORI: We house and preserve a very specific area of Black studies and Black culture that interests not only Black people. This is information that should be disseminated to all people. We should have more spaces for that. And with the support that we're seeing, hopefully these Black bookstores that already exist can expand. We can put our heads together and figure out how to continue that.
Janifer Wilson is the owner of Sisters Uptown Bookstore in New York City. Kori Wilson, her daughter, is the store's operations manager.
Interview by Concepción de León.
Linda Duggins
Senior director of publicity, Grand Central Publishing
'I really hope that people will start having real conversations. I don't care if they're difficult.'
There was a time when we promoted and published quite a few Black authors and authors of color, so that was my primary focus quite a few years ago. I used to be the director of multicultural publicity at Warner Books. We used to do lots of those books, and then a shift happened. I think it was an industrywide shift.
Books written by Black writers and people of color — they look at those books a little bit differently. Do those books work? If they do, great. If they don't, let's start phasing them out. Whereas when you look at publishing as a whole, you have books written by all types of authors and most of the books, from where I sit, they're white writers. Some of those books don't do well, but we don't phase out white authors.
The advantage that I had, starting at this publishing house, was this is a second career for me. I was not 20. And I knew that I was going to navigate my way having direct conversations with people. A lot of younger people don't feel comfortable walking into their manager's office and having a conversation like that. I think it really behooves that manager to have a welcoming spot for their employees to have those conversations.
I have had some experiences along the way. For example, a colleague — who didn't know I was a colleague — there was a gathering for a Black author, I was in the lobby of the building, and she didn't have her ID. I said, "Oh, great, I can get you upstairs," and she turned to me and said, "Oh, are you related to the author?" And the reason she asked me that was that the author was Black. The thing that was the most upsetting was this editor had worked on a book by this author, and the book was about the racist practices at the inception of this country.
How many times have any of my white colleagues walked up to another white colleague and asked them if they were related to their white author? Probably never.
I have friends who worked for the company well over 10 years and just said, I'm out. Enough is enough and I just can't take it any longer. My ability to be able to read my white colleagues has allowed me to last this long. I'm not suggesting every single day is a battle for me, that's not what I'm saying at all. But I am clear about the level of fear that white people seem to have concerning Black people. I'm clear about that.
I think people have this false impression that this industry is great, it's books, and people love to read and write. But you bring all the baggage of the systemic racism right through the door with you, whether you know it or not.
With all the conversation around Black Lives Matter, all types of publications are supporting and telling people to support independent black-owned bookstores, which I think is awesome. But it does sadden me to know that the push for the sales is connected to that stacking of dead Black bodies. That thing is sad. So yes, buy books by Black writers, absolutely. But why can't we just buy books by Black writers, period.
I hope to see more Black people and people of color at the executive level. I hope to see real training for all entry-level employees. I hope to see managerial training being set up. And I really hope that people will start having real conversations. I don't care if they're difficult. So what? It's difficult when I'm driving down the highway and I get stopped by a policeman and I'm wondering, "Oh my God, am I going to be shot in my head?" That's difficult. And that's real.
I'd like people, especially Black people and people of color, to know that they should invite themselves to this table we call publishing. Don't exclude yourself. We know the pay isn't great. We know that. But at the same time we have to be part of the dialogue and part of the creating of the culture. It's not an easy transition for a lot of folks. I always look at my training — and by training I mean my white-people training. I went to a Catholic school. So I had a different type of training.
There are some editors who are white who care about those kinds of things, they try over and over and over again. But having Black editors to champion Black writers, that's very very important. We have to be at that table.
Linda Duggins is a senior director of publicity at Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.
Interview by Elizabeth A. Harris.
Cherise Fisher
Literary agent, Wendy Sherman Associates
'You can't publish with cynicism.'
I went looking for "Home to Harlem," by Claude McKay, for a class. When I pulled it off the shelf, I saw it was a first edition. I was struck by the fact that I was holding this book that somebody purchased for Yale. I thought to myself: Claude McKay the man, the Jamaican man who was writing during the Harlem Renaissance, could never have imagined in his mind that a Black woman of Caribbean heritage — my family is from Montserrat — would be a Yale student and read his book.
And I thought about all the people who had touched that book and read it, and I felt a connection to them.
After I graduated, I started working for a publisher. My plan was to work for two to three years, then go to law school, become a lawyer and then a literary agent. I ended up having a career as a book editor for decades, which I loved, before becoming an agent.
The first book I edited was "Do They Hear You When You Cry," by Fauziya Kassindja and Layli Miller-Muro. It was a memoir of the first woman who received asylum in the U.S. on the basis of female genital mutilation, in 1996. Fauziya was born in Togo and escaped to Lagos, then Germany, before coming to America.
Working in publishing is very much an apprenticeship. You work for an editor, and they're teaching you the ropes, and they have to be your biggest advocate. They have to promote you, support you and propel you forward. I've had a lot of good sponsors in that way, people who recognized something in me and were ready to back me up. You really need older or more experienced editors to back you up when you're starting out. So in the case of Fauziya's book, I'm sure the editor I worked for got the proposal, knew immediately I would be a good person for it, so she kept pushing me in front of it.
I'm drawn to books about maximizing life experiences: fitness, self-help, a better love life, a better bank account, a better sex life. One of the things about being an editor is that you can't publish with cynicism. You have to absolutely believe it's important. The process of working on a book is nine months not only of editing, but telling everybody how important it is.
I remember getting "Push," by Sapphire. I read it and felt like I understood the book and what it was trying to do, and saw that it did that well. But I personally didn't want to spend the next year in such a dark novel, so I passed. It wasn't meant for me. Maybe it wouldn't have had the huge impact it did if I'd edited it, because I didn't feel it was right for me.
Even as modern and progressive and as Black as I am — I'm super Black — publishing has this way of battering into you its assumptions about Black readers.
I got in "Letters to a Young Brother," by Hill Harper, aimed at men between the ages of 15 and 25. I thought to myself, Who's going to want to read this? How do we penetrate that audience and stimulate those guys to read? I knew that Black women were avid readers because I was surrounded by them. I knew Black men were avid readers for the same reason. As an editor, I don't think I believed at that moment that young Black men were interested in reading books. Now that I'm an agent, I don't feel that same splitness anymore.
I remember the period when several publishers were developing special imprints focused on African-Americans: One World, Amistad. Many of those imprints went away because the publishing companies weren't really invested. It's one thing to acquire those books. It's another to have a full team doing their best to penetrate that market, knowing how to market: what magazines to promote in, having a sales force that understands the market and having retailers that know how to sell those books. The late 1990s were glory days. Places like Borders, Waldenbooks — they moved books by Black authors by the ton. When we lost those retail outlets, sales of those books took a dive.
There is an engine in publishing houses. Not every book gets the same amount of gas. Some books get premium. Some get regular. My hope is that the books people are purchasing right now have the full buy-in from the company. This interest and rush to acquire is fantastic, but we need to take it all the way so those books have a fair chance of success. Their success will be a determining factor for future books by diverse voices. Publishers are large corporate conglomerates. They're not cultural institutions — they're businesses.
Cherise Fisher is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates.
Interview by Joumana Khatib.
Ebony LaDelle
Associate director of marketing, HarperCollins
'Black publishing professionals are becoming exhausted from being heard only when it benefits the company's bottom line.'
The realization that I could have a career in publishing started at Howard University. I worked at the Howard University bookstore, which was at the time independently owned. I worked in marketing. Black people aren't monolithic, and having this intro into having creative, different marketing campaigns for Black authors within the bookstore was really exciting and also really empowering. We assume that every book by a Black author should be marketed in this certain way, and it's just not the case.
As a Black woman, I understand the differences between me, my personal life experiences, the things that are important to me versus a woman who is African, versus a woman who is Caribbean. There are so many layers. So when we talk about subject matter within these books, they're all different.
As a marketer, I've marketed not only books by Black authors, but books by white authors. Figuring out the strongest points of the book, how do we pull that out to engage with the consumer, how do we pull the consumer in with some of the concepts that we feel would resonate. It's interesting to me that it's so easy for white marketers to pull those things out from books by white authors, but when it comes to Black books, a lot of marketers don't know how to promote.
I started publishing in what's called an associates program. This program was essentially to bring in diverse hires. It's like a next level up from an intern. Now, mind you: I had a master's degree in publishing, I had attempted to network as best as I could, but it still didn't translate into me getting jobs. It was frustrating. It just made me wonder if I would've gotten into publishing if it had not been for people seeing me on a day-to-day basis and feeling good about me and my work and who I am, versus that unconscious bias of seeing my résumé, seeing my name, seeing Howard University, and dismissing me because I don't quote unquote have enough experience.
I think there has been a lot of change in that regard, where we're finding that more and more people are bringing in talent of color. But how do we keep them? That is the biggest disconnect, because these are assistants and coordinators who have a different background than a lot of their white bosses.
The other issue is the pay. You have a lot of assistants I remember coming up in the industry who would tell me that their parents bought them an apartment in the East Village or they're paying for their rent, and I had two jobs up until I became a manager. I was leaving right at 5 and going to tutor. But when you present that to white counterparts, they're like, "Oh, you have another job?"
I've been thinking a lot about, especially in the past few weeks, how race has played an impact in me and my work and my mental health, and I keep coming back to Audre Lorde's quote, "My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you" — silence from white people but also my own silence and respectability politics.
I think a lot of Black publishing professionals are becoming exhausted from being heard only when it benefits the company's bottom line. I'm constantly giving myself, my voice, my thoughts, when I shouldn't have to prove myself or my knowledge over and over again. White colleagues are able to speak their mind, but when it's my turn, I can't be direct or forthcoming without coming off as aggressive. I know that I and a lot of people like me have spent hours trying to figure out a way to write an email that appeals to a white colleague or make myself more pleasant in some way, because they can't handle honest criticism. I'm just tired of tiptoeing around my feelings to protect theirs. That's another thing that people are going to have to check if they really are about change. You have to check your feelings at the door.
Ebony LaDelle is an associate director of marketing at HarperCollins.
Interview by Concepción de León.
Erroll McDonald
Vice president and executive editor, Pantheon
'Publishers are now in the ironic position of making money off books by authors that they once held in disfavor.'
I do not believe, regardless of what publishers say, that they are not informed by systemic racism. I know it's very difficult for them to talk about it, if only because publishing presents itself as a sort of bastion of progressive liberalism. I could describe countless instances involving not only myself but other Black people in publishing that will certify what I'm saying. But I'm not interested in rehashing episodes of rank discrimination involving hiring or promotions. What I'm here to testify is that it's there, and it has not gone anywhere.
When I first started in publishing, the mantra was, "Black books don't sell. Black people don't read." What that ignored was that white people don't read, and white people don't buy books. It takes a majority of Blacks and whites to turn a book by a Black writer into a best seller. I find it very interesting that nowadays because of the outrage at the murder of George Floyd, the preponderance of books on the nonfiction best-seller list are books about race or by Black writers. Publishers are now in the ironic position of making money off books by authors that they once held in disfavor.
There is, in a curious way, a greater openness to books by and about Black people, but that has not necessarily changed the structure of the industry. Every major publisher now is singing the "diversity of voices" blues. They want to increase diversity of voices, but diversity of voices doesn't have anything to do with anti-Black racism in publishing.
Many a publisher is issuing lists of books that mostly white people should read to inform themselves about the issue. It almost seems as if these books are being bought and read as if they were a genre of self-help book. The scandal for me is that, as a result of reading these self-help books, will there be self-improvement? As with most self-help books, the answer might be no. After all of this hoopla, after all of this self-education, I worry that we're going to wake up and be exactly where we were before any of this happened. I don't think that as a result of white people reading certain books, we're going to be living in a postracial America.
The industry is predominantly a white industry. The number of Black editors in New York City is shockingly de minimis. I work for the largest American book publisher, and I cannot name more than a handful of Black editors there. That is not particular to Penguin Random House, that is endemic to the industry. And I think unless you have systemic change from top to bottom, publishing will remain a conflicted cultural force, that preaches something but doesn't practice it.
Race has affected my career both positively and negatively. Black editors are subject to a certain kind of racial profiling that white editors are not subject to. I've had to, to one degree or another, fight against that — fight against presumptions of what kinds of books I should be interested in or publishing.
Positively because it's allowed me to spread my wings, publish all kinds of things against imagined stereotypes. Several years ago, in the wake of outrage at police violence, I was able to simply go out and commission a book called "Policing the Black Man." It was simply assumed that I would do such a book, so it facilitated things in a certain way. But I have interests that extend far and wide. There have been occasions where the very fact that I was proposing something seemed especially fascinating because it was coming from an unexpected source.
My condition as a Black man in racist America and, by extension, in the publishing industry, which is informed by systemic racism, has not changed in 40-plus years. What has changed are responses to that condition. It's a far better place to be at a publishing company nowadays than it was, say, 40 years ago, when people would say overtly racist things. Now that is not that case, but that doesn't mean that the plague has disappeared. It is there and one has to deal with it in one way or another every single day. But the industry claims to be open to change, and that is a huge difference. Publishers 40 years ago were not talking about these issues. These issues just simply didn't exist.
You shouldn't be able to walk into a publishing company and imagine apartheid. And by that I mean there should be integration from the lowest positions on up to the highest positions. Every aspect of the publishing chain, from marketing to sales to publicity, should contain a rainbow coalition of people. That is my dream, as opposed to having a mostly white hegemony that seems that it would never change.
Erroll McDonald is the vice president and executive editor of Knopf and Pantheon, imprints of Penguin Random House.
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by Tony Harrington
I remember the last time I spoke with my Grandfather.
It was the early part of 1984 around one O'clock in the morning. I was eight years old and he came into my room and sat on the edge of my bed.
He always called me Nino, explaining that it was the Italian name for Tony. It was a kindred spirit thing as I was named after him. He explained the nickname every time he said it and I would nod and smile as though it was my first time hearing it.
That night, as he came into my room and sat at the foot of my bed, was no different. He just looked at me and said, "Nino, it's time for me to go. You know why I call you Nino, Right?" I didn't answer, I couldn't. Something was different about him. Granted he felt familiar and his presence filled the room as it always had, but there was a profound sadness this time. It was as though he was saying goodbye for the last time.
After he explained what I already knew about the origin of my nickname he said, "I am going down the hall to say goodbye to your mother." And then he was gone.
A few hours later my mother came into the room that I shared with my twin brother. She leaned in and told us to get up and get dressed, that we had to get to the hospital as my Grandfather was fading fast. He had been hospitalized for the last few weeks in the final stages of lung cancer, a disease he acquired from years of smoking unfiltered Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Due to the horrible physical condition that my Grandfather was in, my twin brother and I were not permitted to see him, we were too young and my parents thought the image would have been devastating. I remember sitting in the waiting room as my older sister was escorted to the hospital room to say her goodbye. She emerged broken, trembling and crying, no words were of comfort to her. I knew it was bad.
The morning stretched on as family filed in and out of the hospital room as my brother and I sat in the waiting room. Finally, after what seemed an eternity, my mother emerged from the room and said the two words that broke me that day. "It's over."
After the heartbreak passed I remembered his visit early in the morning and his words to me. "It is time for me to go." I knew, I just knew, that he had said goodbye in his own way, knowing that he would not get to say goodbye to me properly.
It wasn't until a few years later when my mother told me of an experience she had the night before his passing. She recounted an experience where she dreamed her father came to her room, sat on the edge of the bed and told her that he had to be going. "You know me," he said matter of fact. "I am not one to stick around a place for too long."
She awoke from that dream and woke my father and told him to get ready, that the phone was about to ring. Seconds later it did, it was the hospital letting my mother know that her father was about to pass.
Neither my brother nor my sister ever mentioned a visit from our Grandfather the night before the morning of his passing, so I am not sure if they discounted it as a dream or did not receive the farewell visit.
The phenomenon is what is known as the "Farewell" apparition, and it is experienced more than any other type of paranormal activity.
The realism of the visit is what sticks with most people. It is described as having a dream-like quality, but the visitation is so real, the dialogue and the image of the visitor so lifelike, that afterward it is confounding for the person having experienced it. Most people do not share their experience openly because they either feel that it was simply a dream, their imagination, or they don't want to face possible ridicule. Some people don't share it because it is a deeply personal experience and it could raise issues with other family members who did not get a farewell visit.
I am sure it is the latter reason that it took my mother years to talk about her experience, at the time I was too young to understand what it was that I experienced. I never told my mother about my experience until I was well into my adulthood.
What exactly is it that happens during one of these visits? Is it truly paranormal, are we actually seeing the spirit of a departing or departed loved one coming to say goodbye one last time? For the millions of people a year that experience the phenomenon it is real and it offers a glimpse of hope that we truly go on after we shuffle off our mortal coil. It provides closure and healing and a message that love is eternal and transcends the earthly confines of this plane of existence.
Scientists believe that what is actually transpiring is simply a coping mechanism, that our subconscious concocts the visit to help transition us through the stages of grief as a way to lessen the blow caused by the loss of a loved one. We inject our memories of the loved one into the visit, their voice and mannerisms defined by what we remember. It is why the visits often reflect the individual how we remember them, not in the sickly state they are in at the moment of their passing.
These types of visits though are not reserved just for those left behind. It would seem that the ones who are crossing over from this world to the next get their own visits as well. In a related type of apparition called a "Deathbed Apparition", at the hour of death, the dying sees familiar faces of those who passed on before them.
My family recounted stories of how my Grandfather saw his brother, and several friends and family who had passed standing in his room. He interacted with them as if they were there and conversing with him. Perhaps it was those friends and family who showed him how to transcend his dying frame and say his final goodbye to those who were open to receiving it.
I had a friend who worked as a hospice nurse and she recounted many instances of patients having received visitations from those who have preceded them in death. She reported that they seemed aware of their current surroundings as well as being able to see what she could not; the presence of others in the room. These visitations often brought a sense of peace and more times than not the patient seemed to be relieved of their suffering and pain until their death took them from the world.
Who is to say what is actually happening during these visits? It could very well be our minds providing solace and comfort in the face of a tragic loss, or it could be something more. It could be that our loved ones truly find a way to get their message to us, or, at the end of our lives, find a way to see us once more to carry us home.
What has been your experience with farewell apparitions and the deathbed phenomenon? Have you experienced a visit from a dying or recently deceased loved one or have you witnessed a dying loved one talk of others in the room, people who had gone before them?
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Changing your case to solve battery drain and overheating on the Google Nexus 6P Phone
My daily driver phone at the moment is a Google Nexus 6P. It is the last of Google's true Nexus phones, so it is especially nice if you want to do some Android development and have more recent ROMs and access to new Android features. It is also a really nice option if you want to have very affordable worldwide cell and data coverage with Google's Project FI which requires you to have a new Nexus Phone or the its successor, the Google Pixel. The difference to the Pixel does not seem so big, however, the 6P has a major downside: it runs a Snapdragon 810 which (under load) overheats even more than other cell phone processors.
I felt this issue very often - the phone was behaving sluggishly, felt hot in my pocket- and in addition I got a very short runtime (often less than 10 hours without re-charging). However, lots of people report very few overheating issues on the Nexus 6P and advise against an upgrade to the Pixel as not being worth it.
So why would mine have it? There also seem to be a lot of reports around battery drain on the Nexus 6P, especially after upgrading to Android 7 (Nougat, read here), but I really feared upgrading as I already had these problems under Android 6. There is now even a class action lawsuit building up against Google and Huawei (more here).
Basically motivated by the hot phone in the pocket, I was thinking if my case could be the problem, The Nexus 6P has a nice metal body, so I thought if there was no or a very thin case it might allow much faster heat dissipation. I was using a flip case for the Nexus 6P , the Nillkin [Sparkle] Nexus 6p Flip Cover Folio case. It had a really nice grip, was pretty light and protected of course the whole phone - being a flip cover. I switched to a pure bumper case from RhinoShield and I was nothing short of impressed: it seems that nearly all my battery drain and overheating problems are gone. I have on average 3-6 hours more of battery life. It now looks usually like in the following image. The stuttering still occurs sometimes but also much less often.
So, of course this experience is not a big study, but maybe some of the people investigating the lawsuit (and maybe also Google and Huwaei) should check if there is actually a correlation between the drop outs and drains and the cases teh respective people use.
If you have a 6P, I would love some comments on your personal battery and overheating experience, and please take the phone for a day out of its protector (be careful though) and check its runtime.
Products discussed in article and links to buy them:
The really nice and sturdy bumper case, I switched to: RhinoShield for Nexus 6P $10-$15
The Nexus 6P is still quite a bargain (especially when using the correct case). Check for example these offers out here: Nexus 6P $300-$450/32GB-128GB.
You might have to add a screen protector when moving from a flip case to a bumper. These are the best protectors I ever had as they really reduce glare on the phone and make it possible to use the phone better outside in the sun: Mr Shield (5-Pack) For Nexus 6P


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Musician life coach Dave Sherman: Let's Start a Movement
I'm a firm believer in synchronicity. When a number of seemingly disparate things happen at the same time it makes me think that it happened for a reason and that they are ultimately connected. Late last week I had this happen and it definitely encouraged me to take this column off the page (um…screen) and into the real world.
Before I get into that, I want to explain what happened at the last treatment facility I worked at and see if that translates into what I want to do. When hired I was asked to take over an adolescent intensive outpatient department. It had been struggling for years--low attendance, clients not getting sober, the wrong fit with the staff they had hired (it's not easy finding someone that can get through to teenagers.) When I got there, there were five clients total in the program, three groups a week, and none of them were getting better. Maybe it has to do with my style of counseling (as loose and flexible as possible), maybe it was the timing, maybe I'm really good at it, I can't really say, but within three months the census was up to double digits in each group, the groups increased to six per week and within the first 90 days some of the clients started getting better. I mean really better, like embracing changes in their lives and talking to their friends about the program and encouraging them to attend. In short, it exploded. Staff kept asking me what the secret to my marketing was. My response was always the same: "Well…I used to drink a lot." You see, I personally believe that nothing will get through to someone that is struggling more than talking to someone that's been through it and came out of the other side. That's why I tell all my clients struggling with drugs and/or alcohol issues to check out 12 step meetings. They'll connect with people that can relate because they've been through it. Just talking to people you can relate to makes you realize that you're not the only one; it makes you feel less alone.
But it wasn't just the program that exploded. At one point one of my clients, a senior in high school, decided to approach the administration at her school and told them that the school needed to start a group at the school itself where anybody that wanted to attend could as long as they were willing to talk about their issues. It started off small, from what I understand it was three of the clients from my program. And then word got out, and it took off too. That was four years ago and the last time I checked, it was averaging about a dozen students every time they met as it had been doing for years.
I also believe that people create their own power, and that once you have some momentum unbelievable things happen. With the group, once the first two clients starting making changes they started calling out the other members of the group, which caused the next half dozen to do the same and it just built on itself from there. I reached a point where the groups for the most part ran themselves. I would show up, sit down and occasionally moderate while they interacted with each other…and got better.
So this is what brings me to last week. Two things happened within an hour of each other in the form of three emails I received. All the previous emails had been very positive about the column, some of the things I said, some people telling me their story, relating to points I had made. Very cool stuff. But I got an email from a guy who was a little on the angry side; he disagreed with some of my points (which is cool as far as I'm concerned--we ending up having a pretty good back and forth for a while) but the point he made that stuck with me was something along the lines of (and I'm paraphrasing) "Great, now you've scared a whole lot of people into thinking that they might have a problem…aren't you going to give them a solution?" I pointed out that in the first column I had mentioned counseling/therapy/12 step meetings. But after I thought about it, it wasn't enough--which brings me to the second email. Mike Costello from My Arcadia hit me up, completely out of the blue and dropped something on me that I didn't know. It's his story to tell, but I can say that his family was deeply affected by drugs and alcohol and that he wanted to do something about it. He wanted to start a foundation or a not-for-profit organization that encouraged people to start making better decisions, to stop messing up their lives and the lives of their families, and when I thought about it, sure, I'd love to start a foundation or a 'not-for-profit' organization but what I really want to do is start a mother fucking movement. So he brings it up and my immediate reaction was to suggest, "What if we brought this idea to shows?" What if, instead of the usual 'meet and greet' a couple of hours before showtime, we had anybody that wants to talk about their stuff sit down, and talk about their stuff? What if any bands that wanted to get involved would actually take the time to really connect with their fans? Because the reality is everybody's got stuff. Mike loved the idea, he's in.
So basically anytime he's playing in New York I'm going up there and we'll get a group going, and anytime there's a show in Philly he's coming down here and we're going to start from there and see if we can blow this up. He said, "If we get two people at the first one I'll be excited." Hell, if we get one person at the first one I'll get excited. Within minutes of that conversation, KJ from Dancefloor Diplomacy hit me up and I bounced the idea off him. His response was "I would have killed for something like that when I was a teenager." He's in. And just for the record if you haven't seen the video for "We Are Ready" do yourself a favor. If you have a minute (or nine…) check it out--you'll get to the end of it and like everybody else that has watched it, you'll say "Okay, that was really cool, what the hell was that?" Any bands that want to get involved, hit me up. Any fans that want to attend, leave a comment. I'm thinking as soon as I get some responses I'll add a calendar to my website or even better, we'll start a website specifically for this (whatever the hell this is) so you'll know who's participating and what venues they'll be at. Let me know what you guys think. We don't even have a name for it yet, but Mike wants it to involve the word "beats." Something tells me that this is a really good idea that might just work. Let's start a mother fucking movement.
Dave Sherman


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