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Tyndale, Quills, and Ink: Manifold Greatness Opens at the Tuscaloosa Public Library
On March 8, the City of Tuscaloosa welcomed the Manifold Greatness traveling exhibit to the Tuscaloosa Public Library, a highly anticipated event in a region that lies in the heart of the Bible Belt.
Five displays, which were curated by the library, are scattered throughout the building to enhance the Manifold Greatness experience. These displays offer visitors the chance to experience physical representations of the topics discussed within the Manifold Greatness exhibit, such as the history of books, papermaking, bookmaking, the literary influence of the King James Bible, and what the Bible has become today.
Our family-friendly opening reception was held Sunday, March 10. Attendees were given the chance to peruse the exhibit while enjoying the classical music of Handel's Messiah and partaking of light refreshments. The keynote speaker, Dr. L. Jeffrey Weddle, Associate Professor at the University of Alabama, introduced the history of the first English Bibles through William Tyndale's version during his presentation, entitled "William Tyndale: How His Bible Translation Changed the Reformation and Led to the King James Version."
As an added bonus, the Children's Department gave patrons a guided tour through the history of bookmaking, starting with a discussion of early bookmaking and the various materials that have been used to make books, followed by a feather quill making activity. After reading the story The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C.M. Millen, participants saw a demonstration of making blackberry ink and were able to use their new quills to sign their names.
From there, they were offered the opportunity to hear from Christopher Davenport and Laura Rowley, students from the University of Alabama Book Arts Department, with lessons and hands-on activities on letterpress printing, bookmaking, and papermaking.
In the coming weeks, the library is looking forward to the many special groups scheduled to attend the exhibit and will be hosting two additional programs geared towards engaging our community in the history and influence that the creation of the King James Version had on the world.
Susana Goldman is Reference Librarian at the Tuscaloosa Public Library in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.


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Panasonic Security Viewer Ver. 2.2.2 is an application that can view the images from i-PRO SmartHD Series Network Cameras, Network Disk Recorder (WJ-NV200/WJ-ND400/WJ-HD616/HD716). By connecting a terminal to a 3G/4G or wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), it is possible to view live images from cameras registered on the recorder and recorded images stored on recorders.
The Panasonic Security Viewer app includes the ability to search by date and time, fast playback and fast reverse playback, while a "Play Recent" feature, quickly replays the last 30-seconds of video.
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From Baby Names Beyond Parody at The Awl:
We didn't quite believe it when we saw this on Kate Day's Twitter, but here it is, in the Independent. Biggles George Fittleworth Jackson-Kew. And his sister. Posie Betsy Winifred Jackson-Kew. Who have an older sister. Named Tuppence.
But of course, things are crazy in England. The paper also makes note of the marriage of Peter Wood and Kitty Fox, and please let them hyphenate their names. "Hello, Mrs. Kitty Wood-Fox!"
From a Telegraph article by a UK mom with kids named Croyde, Kiki and Trixie:
My middle child may not have got through that particular net. She's called Kiki (that alliteration thing again). I was inspired by the linguistic fact that it's impossible to say the 'ee' sound without the mouth turning up into a smile. Plus, I know a sassy, smart Kiki in her thirties so I asked for her advice. "I love it" she said, "Nobody ever forgets it. But in The Philippines it means vagina so my mum's cleaner can't look me in the eye." That swung it for me. I like the idea of a stealthy vagina. And it will hopefully be a deterrent to island hopping in South East Asia when she should be going to university.
From a Globe and Mail article about the death of Rehtaeh Parsons:
Rehtaeh is "Heather" spelled backwards, a name her mother thought was pretty.
From Attempting to create original baby names has repercussions in The Australian:
McCrindle Research director Mark McCrindle said many parents were now "designing" rather than choosing names, often driven by phonetics.
But he warned it could lead to a lifetime of grief for children whose names are now attached to their digital profile.
"More than ever, people are saying, 'it's my child's name, I am going to give it some difference'," he said.
"But I think sometimes parents are being a bit short-sighted in the designing of their children's names."
From an article on names in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
"The Name Game" was a hit for Shirley Ellis in 1965. You know the song: "Shirley-Shirley-bo-burly, banana-fana-fo-furly, fee-fie-foe-murly … Shirley!" She bragged that "there isn't any name that you can't rhyme." While entertaining soldiers in Vietnam, however, she discovered she couldn't rhyme "Rich" or "Chuck."
From a 5 Ways to Sabotage Your Baby Name Search at Upswing Baby Names:
While I don't condone picking a name that is blatantly humorous, I would never disqualify a name just because it has remote teasing potential. For example, some parents will eliminate a name for rhyming with a funny word. But if you think long enough, you can find a funny word to rhyme with many names. Instead of trying to find the safest (most boring) name possible for your child, work on building their social skills instead.
From Betting on Baby in The Daily Beast:
Despite being a modern couple, Will and Kate are almost guaranteed to pluck a traditional moniker — like Mary, Victoria, or Elizabeth (a favorite) — from the royal bloodline, says author Phil Dampier, who has spent 27 years covering the royal family.
In mid-April, bets for the name Alexandra (Queen Elizabeth's middle name) surged unexpectedly, causing house odds at William Hill to jump from 33/1 to 2/1. Other major betting firms also slashed their previously high odds. The profiles betting on Alexandra (new accounts, higher bets) led bookies to suspect an inside tip had leaked.
From an episode of The Mindy Project:
Mindy: "I want kids, four kids. Madison, Jayden, Bree and the little one's Piper."
Danny: "Are you kidding me with those names? You want a bunch of girls who work at the mall?"
From Parents Name Their Child Bane, Secure His Future Grudge Against Batman, Mumbling at The Mary Sue:
A couple from England have named their newborn baby boy, Bane. Yes, after the Batman villain last seen in The Dark Knight Rises. Rugby player Jamie Jones-Buchanan and wife Emma told The Sun they always agreed to give their children unusual names.
Oh yes, there's more.
The couple have three other children. Two are named after Star Trek characters – Lore and Dacx [sic] – while the other is named after Highlander's Kurgan.
From 'Twas Ever Thus at British Baby Names:
In the late 18th and 19th century talk about names often bandied the phrase "romantic names" around. From all I can glean, it was used generally as a euphemism for any name considered slightly fanciful or outlandish, in much the same way "creative names" or "unique names" are used today.
The idea was, of course, also then picked up in essays and newspapers. Strangely, although we now tend to associate fanciful names with the aristocracy, it is the working classes who get the brunt of criticism in much of the commentary.
From British grandmother claims she was raised by monkeys at Today.com:
Marina Chapman's book, "The Girl with No Name," claims that she was raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle for about five years of her childhood, adopting their behavior and eating the same food. Chapman claims that a group of capuchin monkeys became her surrogate family after she was kidnapped and abandoned in a Colombian jungle when she was 4 years old.
After living with the monkeys for several years, Chapman says she encountered hunters who tried to sell her into domestic slavery in the Colombian city of Cucuta. She then ran away and became a thieving street kid before being adopted by a loving family in Bogota as a teenager and giving herself the name Marina.
This reminds me of that isolated indigenous Brazilian man…
And, finally, a bit about Quaker names from Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer:
Delaware Quakers also differed from other English-speaking people in the descent of names from one generation to the next. Unlike New England Puritans, Quakers named their first-born children after grandparents. Unlike Virginia Anglicans, they were careful to honor maternal and paternal lines in an even-handed way.
These naming choices were not invented in the New World. They were virtually identical among Quakers in England's North Midlands and America's Delaware Valley. Through the eighteenth century, males received the same combination of biblical and teutonic names — with John, Thomas, William, Joseph and George the leading favorites among Friends on both sides of the water. Quaker females were mostly named Mary and Sarah in English and America, with Hannah, Anne, Elizabeth, Hester, Esther and Deborah strong secondary favorites. Plain English names such as Jane, and traditional Christian favorites such as Catherine and Margaret preserved their popularity among Quakers, more so than among Puritans. Also exceptionally popular among Quakers in England and America was the name of Phebe, which rarely appeared in Puritan and Anglican families.


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COLUMBIA - The Boone County Commission is considering a measure on the April ballot to pay for 911 improvements.
The commission held a meeting Thursday afternoon at the Boone County Government Center to discuss creating a county-wide sales tax for the Columbia/Boone County Office of Joint Communications and the Columbia/Boone County Office of Emergency Management.
The Boone County Commission formed a panel last year to make recommendations on the proposed 911 sales tax. The tax would provide funding for the 911 services budgets as well as a new operations facility with up-to-date technology.
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The garden series is not "official", as far as I know it was sponsored by private collectors. I would be wrong though.
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Over the past week, I've benefited from some favorable press. On Monday, my new friend Lisa Duggan featured me on The Parent du Jour, where I shockfully reveal that I no longer have sex with my kids' mother. I met Lisa at the New Parents Expo last weekend, and predictably, she is good people. Especially because she likes to titter at terms like "12-15 inches of erogenous tissue." And presumably, at "titter."
The other momentous news is that Babble.com, arbiter of Most Things Motherly, published its list of the Top 50 Dad Bloggers. I'm proud to wear No. 6, because the list was compiled by my peers, long before I started spume-surfing. There's a lot of great individual fatherly talent there, even though old-schoolers Daddy Types and Pet Cobra were somehow overlooked.
I'm also happy to be looking up at Polly Pagenhart, who, dad blogger or Twitter mom, is just a great writer and person.
If you're visiting here for the first time from either of these sites, I'm glad you're here. I will be using this slightly larger sphere of influence to talk about ... gonads.
As I am smack in the middle of my Deadwood DVDs, I've become a little obsessive over the greatness of Al Swearengen. (So much so, in fact, that I'll be growing a Swearengen Stache as part of our ever-burgeoning Movember dadblogger team.)
I like watching DVDs because I'm a dork for the commentary, especially when it comes from the perspective of the series creator. In this case, David Milch was annotating a scene in which Swearengen is being treated for what the Doc expects are kidney stones. And since this is the 187os, the "treatment" involves probing for the stones by sticking a metal spike into Al's urethra. As you might imagine, Al spends most of this scene held down by three other guys and screaming his head off in agony, within earshot of just about everyone in the camp. One by one, the characters turn to react to the cries of "MOTHER OF GOD!" and other things that only premium cable stations can broadcast. And Milch says he wrote the scene to stress the "unity" in "community":
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Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013
LEAWOOD, Kan. — Jeffrey Cain, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare for 2013 by Modern Healthcare. The award honors individuals in health care who are deemed by their peers and an expert panel to be the most influential in leadership and impact.
Persons on the list were chosen through reader and editorial staff input submitted between March 18 and April 19. The top 300 candidates were identified from the nearly 28,000 submissions that comprised the final ballot. More than 238,000 readers then voted for their top five candidates. Readers' votes counted toward half of the outcome; the senior editors at Modern Healthcare accounted for the other half to determine the final ranking.
"I'm both honored and humbled to be included among the leaders of America's health care system," said Cain. "This recognition acknowledges the growing understanding that primary care physicians are the foundation for ensuring that everyone has access to high quality care as our health care system evolves. I've been fortunate to serve as president of the AAFP and to advocate for our patients as this change begins to take place."
Cain is a family physician practicing at the AF Williams Family Medicine Center and chief of family medicine at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver. In addition, he serves as an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is co-founder of the AAFP's Tar Wars tobacco-free education program that has reached more than 8.5 million children in 50 states and 16 countries.
Cain is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. He also has the AAFP Degree of Fellow, an earned degree awarded to family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.
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Founded in 1947, the AAFP represents 136,700 physicians and medical students nationwide. It is the largest medical society devoted solely to primary care. Family physicians conduct approximately one in five office visits -- that's 192 million visits annually or 48 percent more than the next most visited medical specialty. Today, family physicians provide more care for America's underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty. Family medicine's cornerstone is an ongoing, personal patient-physician relationship focused on integrated care. To learn more about the specialty of family medicine, the AAFP's positions on issues and clinical care, and for downloadable multi-media highlighting family medicine, visit www.aafp.org/media. For information about health care, health conditions and wellness, please visit the AAFP's award-winning consumer website, www.familydoctor.org(familydoctor.org).
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Candidate Addresses Voters at WHS
By Dave Choate
Hampton Union, Tuesday, November 27, 2007
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
Rudy Giuliani got down to business early on Sunday in Hampton, asserting a national need for tax reform, tort reform and continued efforts to fight terrorism at home and abroad.
The Republican presidential hopeful was frequently interrupted by applause from a supportive crowd at Winnacunnet High School.
He said he supports making military and surveillance services stronger in order to fight what he characterized as "terrorists, dictators and people who support terrorists."
"This is the major issue of this campaign. These enemies do want to harm us, they do think they can conquer us," Giuliani said. "We've got to be a country that deals from strength."
On the economic end, he discussed overtaxing, overspending, too much regulation of business and the abundance of lawsuits as major issues facing the country. He accused his Democratic opponents of not working to find solutions.
His solution, he said, is to let many government jobs stand vacated after workers retire, cut corporate, capital gains and independent taxes and trim regulations on businesses.
Giuliani also said he supports a measure to cut down on frivolous lawsuits, citing a man in Washington who he said sued a family-owned dry cleaning business for millions after it lost a pair of his pants.
"It cost $100,000 for the family that had to defend it, so I ask you, shouldn't he now have to make out a $100,000 check to pay them?"
After fielding a question about the Supreme Court, Giuliani said he would appoint justices and judges who were strict constructionists, meaning they would adhere to the Constitution.
"I want judges who interpret the Constitution, not make up the Constitution," he said.
Giuliani did not mention fellow Republican candidate Mitt Romney, whom he accused over the weekend of wrongly mandating health care for all residents when he was governor of Massachusetts.
Jane Pederson, a Hampton resident, said she went to Winnacunnet to hear Giuliani's opinions on major economic and social issues.
"I think he was very forthcoming and he didn't even have to think about most of his answers. I was very impressed with what he's done for crime in New York City," said Pederson.
Fellow Hampton resident Ralph Smith said he was still considering his voting options, but he also made it clear who he would not be voting for.
"Actually, I'm in the undecided column, so I'm here to hear what he has to say," said Smith, who noted he was also considering Romney. "The bottom line is, anybody's better than Hillary."
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"This is all about the advertiser," Cosentino said. "And it's about adding value. Advertisers don't care about where they're advertising. In this realm, they're not loyal. What they care about, understandably, is getting a return on investment and being able to measure which points of distribution are going to drive their business forward."
Online, newspapers' competition for advertising share is exponentially greater — by sheer volume of Web publishers — and online advertising, in general, continues to be challenged in some significant ways.
"No matter what kind of advertising you encounter online, it's always perceived as an interruption. A banner, a kick-over, it's always something that you immediately look for a way to close. The reader looks for the X to close it. With print, we're not dealing with the same thing. Turning the pages in a magazine, and encountering the ads becomes a sequential part of the overall reading experience," Cosentino said.
Banner ads and right-rail ad placements have become so commonplace on the Web that readers have grown adept at ignoring them based simply on placement.
"There's no ROI for the advertiser on the right rail," Cosentino said. "That's why the majority of Adblade's business is within the article or below. That's where people look; that's where people are engaged. That's where people respond."
Through its OptiServe platform, Adblade has created a way to consistently maximize advertisers' return on investment. Adblade lists Hearst Corp., The Washington Times, USA Today, and others among its clients.
"We were able to create this whole new revenue source for publishers. We weren't displacing or cannibalizing any existing inventory or revenue. We've actually created a new space in the article — or after the article, whatever the case may be — and publishers can even sell into that space," Cosentino said.
A cooperative approach
Print publishers had their world turned upside down when centuries of print workflow gave way to digital media and content made up of ones and zeros instead of sheets of film and engraved cylinders. Digital workflow left newspapers scrambling to standardize ways of creating and disseminating content that suddenly was no longer tactile until printed as a final product.
So, publishers and advertisers convened at industry events to determine how to move forward. Out of those discussions blossomed the idea of third-party assistance to digitize ads, proof ads, communicate about ads, and distribute them across publications and publishers. Ad networks were born of the necessity to get digital content into print, which ultimately paved the way for digital content to be deployed across the Web.
"The idea of an ad network is that you can distribute a message, in a homogenous fashion, and figure out which distribution point gets you the best ROI," Cosentino said.
ROI is where digital media excels over its print counterparts. While there are certainly ways to track the effectiveness of print advertising, the process is exponentially easier with digital.
"We're looking at a whole new animal here, because you really can figure out which points of distribution work the best," Cosentino said. "Publishers and advertisers can track clicks, impressions, sign-ups, and purchases — data that reveal which online publications are delivering the best value."
While industry pundits still lament the low value of online advertising, Cosentino said he sees a very different picture.
"For some of these publishers, it's an entirely new revenue stream," he said. "Depending on their profit, we have publishers we send $8,000 checks to, and publishers that we send $400,000 every month."
Misconceptions about online ad networks abound, and no one knows this better than Jonathan Bellack, Google's director of product management for publisher ad platforms, who spoke with E&P about the dated perceptions of Google's AdSense.
"(Google AdSense) started as an ad network that focused on a couple of things," Bellack said. "It focused on contextual targeting, based on analyzing the content of a page. Advertisers wanted to display against specific keywords. Originally, it was focused on text formats, which are mostly text ad units — a lot like what you see on search sites."
During the past few years, Google AdSense has evolved to more frequently deliver display ads and is now part of Google's broader value proposition known as the Google Display Network.
What has not changed, however, is Google's understanding that publishers have a brand to protect, and that they're not inherently inclined to just open up their Web properties to just anyone. AdSense enables publishers to block domains, approve or reject ads, and block "sensitive categories," according to Bellack.
"Google also operates DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), which is an ad server for publishers that have their own operations, and are directly selling ads and making decisions about who to work with," Bellack said. Publishers deploying DoubleClick and AdSense are able to leverage "dynamic allocation," allowing AdSense to backfill impressions that are not otherwise sold out by the publisher. This is vital for publishers seeking to maximize ad dollars that come in through their digital properties.
"In a newspaper and magazine world … if you sell more ads, you add more pages. If you sell fewer ads, you cut pages. So the inventory exists based on what you sell," Bellack said. "Online, you have this unique challenge. When a user is on your site and generating ad impressions, if you don't put something there, you've lost the revenue opportunity … It's a perishable commodity, and publishers just don't sell everything out themselves.
"The other big trend here is the idea of exchanges," Bellack said. "Instead of just working with one intermediary — and hoping I got a fair deal — I'm going to have these networks compete against each other, based on what they think my inventory is worth. And that's going to help expose the best possible value."
Help yourself
Adblade and other developers have embraced a self-serve advertising model, as well, allowing online access to advertisers to create, proof, approve, and launch an ad without any hands-on intervention from the publisher.
Wave2 Media Solutions is a big player in self-serve display advertising solutions, though Brian Gorman, Wave2's vice president of sales, was quick to note that the Wave2 platform may be used to publish any kind of content — advertising or otherwise.
Founded in Europe, the developer made quick inroads in the North American market and now boasts 200 U.S. websites that are complemented by Wave2 AdPortal technology.
"Five years ago, self-serve advertising was mainly available for classified, private-party ads, and real estate," Gorman said. "The private-party classified systems were bolted to the publishing system, but the functionality for the Web was limited. So we saw an opportunity."
Gorman named off a noteworthy list of early adopters, including The Boston Globe, The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., The New York Times' regional group, Houston Chronicle, and The Orange County (Calif.) Register. A subscription model enables publishers to have a fixed monthly cost, which Gorman said could range from $500 to $1,000 per month.
As with all other aspects of publishing, in the realm of self-serve advertising, context matters. Gorman said the self-serve model is best suited to certain categories of newspaper advertising such as real estate and obituaries.
"With obituaries, we're talking about an existing revenue stream that has stayed consistent. What our software does is help them increase ad revenue. We have some markets where they have seen a 20- to 30-percent increase in ad revenue because of self-serve," Gorman said. "Funeral directors, rather than sending emails and faxes, or making phone calls to the newspapers, can create the obituaries, get a proof on-screen, and before it's published, know exactly what that obituary will cost, and can communicate that to the family. In this way, self-service has greatly improved customer service from publisher to advertiser, from advertiser to consumer."
Gold rush
Newspapers are still generating the majority of their ad revenue through direct sales, according to Google's Bellack. Ad networks are an excellent way to supplement those revenues, but leveraging them will introduce a new challenge — one of channel management — that is worth tackling head-on.
"Don't sell yourself short," Bellack said. "You don't want to undercut important relationships you have already, but you don't want to lose new opportunities. So publishers are trying to solve that in various ways."
But many publishers are frustrated by the sheer volume of companies that have sprung up to address this problem — all of which make big promises but don't necessarily have a long track record of working with newspapers.
"Every day, I receive an email from some network that is going to help me sell more video, sell more stories, sell more ads," said Rich Medeiros, director of advertising at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Take a look at the number of developers that have created network and software solutions that bridge the advertiser-publisher relationship, and it quickly becomes apparent that this is fertile ground. There's a legitimate value proposition, and there's money to be made.
Adblade is a network partner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "It really has helped us increase revenue from non-standard placements, such as below articles," Medeiros said. "That was a revenue channel that we, frankly, hadn't explored. What we've done is use the back-end tools to test and measure ad placements, and it's helped us with the overall yield of the website and allowed us the ability to serve advertising-related content that's going to have the highest yield."
Publishers are not the only ones seeking guidance in navigating the digital content space. Advertisers — especially smaller, local businesses — often turn to the newspaper to be the expert on what type of ad is going to move the needle.
"The questions I often hear are: 'What is the optimal ad placement on a page? And what does it look like? Line ads? Video?' I'm not sure that we know," Medeiros said. "But one thing I do know: If we have a disciplined process to test and measure all of the interactions that consumers have — with our content and the advertising — I know that we'll begin to develop a very good understanding of the optimal page."
According to Google's white paper "Display Business Trends Publisher Edition: What's Trending in Display for Publishers?" content monetization is "one of the fastest-growing segments in advertising. Publisher video impressions grew nearly 70 percent in the second half of 2011 across the DFP Video platform."
"A publisher gave me this (quote) a few years ago, and it was so good, I use it a lot. He said, 'Without the data or the analysis, publishers … know there's gold buried on their land, but they don't know where,'" Bellack said. "So, publisher education and tools that enable them to understand their inventory are important."


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As a runner I have learned the importance of properly fueling my body.
Skimping on calories & nutrients hurts performance and can hurt your body, too. Carbohydrates are important to supply muscles with glycogen for exercise and a snack of protein & carbs is important after running to help refuel & repair muscles. It imperative to begin this process as soon as possible after a run, but absolutely within 30 minutes.
I have been a little lax on refueling recently,but that has to stop. My current,soon-to-be history, routine for my long runs involved meeting up with my MIT group, running, socializing, driving home (with a coffee detour) and then eating breakfast. By the time I was actually sitting down to eat it was easily 1+ hours later. Not good.
Last week I shared my plan of action for better training with you guys. I am taking it seriously and am now going to include these Mix 1 Protein Shakes in the Saturday routine to see how they work for me. Read More »


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One of the most fulfilling things about this whole blogging / Flickr / Moda Bake Shop / Fat Quarterly business is hearing (& seeing) that I've inspired people to make things based on an idea or inspiration that I had.
Here are a few amazing projects based on my tutorials and patterns that I wanted to showcase and share with all of you:
Krista / Poppyprint made this "Flying Fish" table runner using a selection of Japanese fabrics. The pattern was featured in the first issue of Fat Quarterly. Krista selected some beautiful fabrics and took my pattern to the next level by having those diagonal bars end in a triangle of the same fabric, creating some nice movement and unity among the different pieces of the pattern. Thanks, Krista!
Beth made this "Off the Grid" sliced nine-patch quilt (first featured on the Moda Bake Shop) using one of my favorite fabric lines of the moment, Hunky Dory:
Love that pieced back! Nice job, Beth.
Here's another Off the Grid quilt made by Betsy. Betsy useed another of my favorite new fabric lines, Botany.
How cool is this? Betsy made a pillow to coordinate with her quilt. What a great idea!
Betsy, if you ever get tired of this set, just let me know and I'd be happy to take it off of your hands. It will have a happy home here ... I promise!
One of my more recent tutorials was for an iPad sleeve, which was also featured on the Moda Bake Shop. I wasn't quite sure how well this one would be received, since relatively few people have iPads ... and I figured that those that do would be getting some cool leather portfolio or something. I was so happy to hear that at least two people have used my tutorial ... and gave me some good feedback on it, too.
This first one was made by Julie (aka jaybirdquilts) for her mom. She used the Remix line by Ann Kelle for Robert Kaufman for the exterior and Moda Snuggles fabric for the interior. Isn't it great?
Photos courtesy of Julie Herman
And here's a beautiful version in blue and green that was made by Tacey, who emailed me these photos:
Thanks, as always, for all of the great feedback on my different patterns. I'm working on another quilt pattern right now for our 2nd issue of Fat Quarterly (coming this July), and have a few other things rattling around in my head ... so stay tuned!


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Winter-Themed Classroom Resources, Grades K-5
Lessons, Activities & Resources Target Seasonal Changes and Animal Adaptations
Though some of us will not get snow this winter, we share other annual changes. These lessons, activities, and other resources will help develop an understanding of the mechanisms that bring about seasonal change and how animals have adapted to them.
Lesson Plans & Activities
Lesson Plans
Migration Science and Mystery
Lesson plans on shorebird migration for K-12 students. And don't miss the complete learning adventure!
Today's Temperature
Elementary students learn to read a thermometer and record daily temperatures. Page links to a daily record sheet.
Reason for the Seasons
Students in grades 2-5 use polystyrene foam balls and light bulbs to investigate the sun's intensity on the surface of the Earth.
Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
Students in grades 3-5 learn the technique of haiku and write a winter poem.
Can You Haiku?
A four part unit for grades 3-5 on the reading, technique, and writing of haiku.
Learning Lesson: The Shadow Knows I
Elementary students measure the length of their shadows and compare them three to four months later to discover seasonal changes. Part II lets students calculate the circumference of the earth using shadows
Games & Activities
Snowflake Pictures
Students in grades K-2 make snowflake prints that look like snowflakes using old strawberry baskets.
Paper Snowflakes
Illustrated instructions and an instructional video for making paper snowflakes.
Hibernation Worksheet ( PDF, 16.7 KB, 2 pgs.)
A brief reading and comprehension questions for upper elementary students.
Winter Storms
Information and a brief quiz for upper elementary students.
Time & Temperature Resources
Daylight Savings Time
A comprehensive resource on DST, Daylight Saving Time.
Daylight Saving Time 2014: When Does It Begin? And Why?
History of DST and a brief discussion of positive and negative health effects.
Local Time: FAQs
As well as FAQs, this page links to a free application that lets users find time zones based on zip codes.
Lake Effect Snowfalls
This resource explains how cold arctic air sweeping across the Great Lakes creates snow squalls along the lee shores of the Lakes.
Site Map for Weather Doctor
This comprehensive weather site includes a large section on winter weather.
Weather Resources
Winter Weather
The Center for Disease Control's cold weather health advice. Includes a downloadable winter weather infographic.
Extreme Cold Prevention Guide ( PDF, 3.45 MB, 15 pgs.)
Combines all of the key content of the CDC Winter Weather website into one downloadable, printable file.
Severe Weather and Natural Disaster: Winter Storms
Information, experiments, and vocabulary for upper elementary students. Experiment with the Interactive Weather Maker to discover the effects of changing temperature and humidity.
Ping-Pong Avalanches
This audio clip describes how scientists used ping-pong balls to study avalanches.
All about Snow
The National Snow and Ice Data Center website provides photos, facts, questions and answers, and links to additional resources.
Snowflake Bentley
Wilson A. Bentley was the first person to photograph a single snow crystal in 1885 and photographed more than 5000 snowflakes during his lifetime. The official website includes a biography, articles written by or about Bentley and his work, a match the snowflake game, and links to additional websites.
Snow Crystals.com
Kenneth Libbrecht's online guide to snowflakes, snow crystals, and other ice phenomena includes photos and information about natural snowflakes, designer snowflakes, frost crystals, snowflake physics and snow activities. The snow activities section features activities for kids.
Koch Snowflake
Description and explanation of the Koch Snowflake, a fractal made by the infinite iteration of the Koch curve.
The Seasons
Seasons of the Year
Provides an explanation for the season and answers to related questions.
Sunlight Concentration in Summer and Winter
A graphic showing the angle of sunlight in relation to Earth's surface (45 degrees North) on the first day of summer and the first day of winter.
Winter Sky
Meteor Showers Guide
Viewing information for December's meteor shower, the Geminids, and links to other useful stargazing information.
Starry Night Education
Free astronomical resources for K-12 students and teachers.
Miscellaneous Resources
Animal Adaptations
Animal Migration Birds, butterflies, whales, and other species.
How Hibernation Works
Explains the physiology of hibernation.
Describes the black bear's yearly cycle focusing on hibernation. Includes a section on heat loss.
Winter Sports
The Science of Hockey
The physics, chemistry, and sport of Hockey. Use a calculator to learn how much force is generated in a check.
Energy Transformation for Downhill Skiing
The relationship between work and mechanical energy in downhill skiing is described and illustrated in an animation.
Print, Audio & Video
Winter and Children's Literature
Lists picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction. Brief descriptions and suggested winter activities.
Science of the Olympic Winter Games
The winter games are over but the science is timeless in this 16-part video series exploring the science behind Downhill and Aerial Skiing, Speed Skating and Figure Skating, Curling and Hockey, and Ski Jumping, Bobsledding and Snowboarding. The videos are accompanied by lesson plans and fun classroom activities.
- The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
- Winged Migration
A documentary following several species of migratory birds including king penguins. (98 minutes)
- Vivaldi and the Four Seasons ( PDF, 3.8 MB, 34 pgs.)
Teacher Resource Kit for grades 4-6 cross-curricular lessons and activities
- The Four Seasons – 4. Winter
Listen to and view "Winter."
- Winter Poems and Rhymes
An anthology of winter poetry for children. All poems are printable.
- Winter Poems: A Poetry Sampler
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Project overview*
|EIS status
|'Coordinated project' declaration lapsed
|Coal export facility with an initial capacity of 10 million tonnes per annum (Stage 1) and a future capacity of 22 mtpa (Stage 2).
|Fitzroy Terminal Project Pty Ltd
|Adjacent to Port Alma, 50 km south-east of Rockhampton and 40 km north-west of Gladstone.
|Local government/s
|Key features
|$1.2 billion
|Stage 1
* Project information supplied by proponent and subject to change.
Environmental impact statement (EIS) process
|5 May 2014
|'Coordinated project' declaration lapsed
|4 May 2012
|Terms of reference for EIS ( 423 KB) released.
|30 January 2012 to
2 March 2012
|Draft terms of reference for EIS public consultation.
|31 October 2011
|Gazettal of 'coordinated project' declaration ( 81 KB)
|5 September 2011
|Project deemed a controlled action by Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.
|8 August 2011
|Project referred to Commonwealth Minister for the Environment.
|16 June 2011
|Application, including initial advice statement ( 6.2 MB), submitted.
Read more about the EIS process.
Further information
For more information, visit the Fitzroy Terminal Project website.


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cempra, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEMP) today announced that Prabhavathi Fernandes, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of Cempra, will present at the Oppenheimer 23rd Annual Healthcare Conference at 11:10 a.m. EST, Wednesday, Dec. 12, at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York City. Dr. Fernandes will provide an update of the company's two leading antibiotic clinical programs, solithromycin (CEM-101) for community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and its fusidic acid (CEM-102) for the chronic, oral treatment of gram positive pathogens including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in prosthetic joint infections.
The presentation at the Oppenheimer 23rd Annual Healthcare Conference will be webcast live under the events section of Cempra's website at www.cempra.com and will be archived there following the presentation. Please connect to Cempra's website several minutes prior to the start of the broadcast to ensure adequate time for any software download that may be necessary.
About Cempra, Inc.
Founded in 2006, Cempra, Inc. is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing antibiotics to meet critical medical needs in the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases. Cempra's two lead product candidates have both completed oral Phase 2 clinical trials and seek to address the need for new treatments targeting drug-resistant bacterial infections in the hospital and in the community. The company also intends to utilize its series of proprietary lead compounds from its novel macrolide library for uses such as the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, endocrine diseases and gastric motility disorders. Additional information about Cempra can be found at www.cempra.com.
Investor and Media Contacts:
Robert E. Flamm, Ph.D.
Russo Partners, LLC
(212) 845-4226
Andreas Marathovouniotis
Russo Partners, LLC
(212) 845-4235
|SOURCE Cempra, Inc.
Copyright©2012 PR Newswire.
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Deep Fried Chicago: Fritz Pastry
Fritz Pastry in Lakeview is the sort of spot that begs to you linger. Sunlight streams in through the picture windowed facade overlooking a quiet stretch of Diversey. There's a vintage turntable and a crate of records just itching to be played. And of course, there's the pastry menu—a deliberate selection of ever-changing items you can count on just two hands. But on this particular day, my interest was limited to doughnuts. We gave a shout-out last year to Fritz Pastry in a roundup, but I wanted to take a closer look at a wider array of their offerings.
The doughnut sales model proves problematic for the completist, though. Long before Doughnut Vault created a business strategy around running out early, purveyors have been operating in a similar fashion: they make what they make for the day, and when they're gone, they're gone. In this case, gallery photos on the bakery's website enticed me with a myriad of options: various glazes, sprinkles from across the rainbow, and even ones topped with breakfast cereal. But when I stopped in on a quiet Wednesday morning, the offerings were limited to three, none of which included cereal. No matter: after giving each my undivided attention, I get the general idea.
The Donut ($2.50) proper is a square yeast doughnut, hole included. This same style is used across the board, with variations to be found in the choice of toppings or glaze. The completely vegan doughnuts are doughy and substantial, with a dense interior that would hold up well to coffee. You could easily make a full meal out of one of these, blood sugar be damned.
The seemingly ubiquitous Vanilla Sprinkle features a light, crackly glaze that adheres well. The sprinkles are scattered judiciously, and sweetness remains at bay.
The Cinnamon Sugar is equally balanced; a light-handed application of each renders your fingers lickable without the telltale dusting on your shirt. With its exceptionally crunchy exterior, this was my favorite.
The Chocolate Strawberry is the richest of the three. There's not much in the way of strawberry flavor here, which is likely obscured by the heavy chocolate glaze.
A quick word about the Donut Holes. Serving them atop the doughnuts is a cute touch, but their small size combined with the dense dough makes for a rather chewy, tough bite. A slightly bigger hole would probably prove more successful.
I'll definitely be back to try a larger sample of doughnuts. And since I'm really intrigued by the cereal topped ones, I'll take the menu's advice and call in first.
Fritz Pastry
1408 W Diversey Parkway Chicago, IL 60614 (map)
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Florida Snake Identification Key
Redbelly Snake
Scientific name: Storeria occipitomaculata (STORER 1839)
The following will separate the two Redbelly Snakes found in Florida. If you are unable to distinguish between them based on the characteristics in the key below, you probably can do so using the geographic location alone.
Select the box below that is the closest match to your snake:
Light neck spots fuse to form collar; top of head black; central Florida to southern Georgia.
Your snake could be a Florida Redbelly Snake, Storeria occipitomaculata obscura.
3 light spots on nape of neck; top of head not black; Florida panhandle to southern Canada.
Your snake could be a Northern Red–Bellied Snake, Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata.
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Spring training storylines: Effect of Biogenesis on horizon
- The Biogenesis saga is mercifully over
- A-Rod is suspended for the 2014 season%2C Braun returns after a 65-game suspension
- The fallout of the investigation will unfold this spring
Baseball, once reliably staid and static, is headed toward another year of havoc. Expanded instant replay - whether it's innovative or intrusive likely depends on when you were born - is coming online. More aging icons may be on the way out. A game increasingly without borders will welcome a $155 million ace from Japan and yet another potential superstar from Cuba.
Today, Arizona Diamondbacks pitchers and catchers kick off the season earlier than ever, holding their first workout in preparation for a season-opening series against the Los Angeles Dodgers - in Australia. As the sport loosens its collective muscles for seven weeks of training until the true opening day on March 31, USA TODAY Sports takes a look at the spring storylines that allow a glimpse at a 2014 season that will be transformative:
The Biogenesis saga is mercifully over. The guilty have been punished. Milwaukee Brewers star Ryan Braun was humiliated. Alex Rodriguez won't be back on a major league playing field until he's nearly 40.
Without a single positive drug test, Major League Baseball's steroid police have served notice that if you cheat, they're going to catch you.
Yet, while Biogenesis director Anthony Bosch and his 60 Minutes crew have gone away, the bad boys are back to play.
This spring, they'll gauge the fallout for their roles in an unprecedented doping scandal.
Braun will face the most scrutiny. He's the one who not only lied to the public, but also to teammates and peers before taking a 65-game suspension and disappearing in July. Maybe his teammates will forgive him. His peers might be a different matter, with many such as Detroit Tigers Cy Young winner Max Scherzer openly expressing his disgust.
Maybe a few pitchers will pull a Ryan Dempster and drill Braun the way Boston Red Sox pitcher did last year with A-Rod.
Some players, in team meetings with union officials, will express disgust at how the cheaters have prospered; it's very possible a stiffer penalty for first-time offenders gets on the fast track. Yes, they'll be talking about you, Jhonny Peralta, who received a four-year, $53 million contract from the St. Louis Cardinals.
Still jobless: Nelson Cruz, who missed the Texas Rangers' final 50 regular-season games.
Save for Rodriguez's legal action against MLB and the union that defended him, the Biogenesis case is closed. But the protagonists are back, and the aftermath of their actions will resonate from Florida to Arizona.


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He'd done some speaking, then stopped for a while. Here's his own diagnosis of where he stood when he started this project:
Speaking well in public always felt like something I should be good at. I make a nice living from the written word, and among small groups I can handle the spoken word too. But increase the number much beyond half a dozen and I'd founder. Nerves and self-consciousness and a history of failure would take over. I'd dry up, go surly, or platitudinous, or seek recourse in jokes that didn't quite work.
Inexperience got the better of me. Stories fell flat. What I thought were telling points sounded trite as they left my mouth. As I wrote in my appeal for more speaking gigs, "Each time was like the first time." These occasions would loom large in my diary and my head, blotting out everything else for weeks in advance. I just wanted them to be over, and when they were over, I felt my life could begin again.Anyone who's seeking to improve as a speaker will find this a realistic look at a year well spent--and this is as good a time as any to think about your own speaking resolutions. Leave a note in the comments about what you're seeking to improve as a speaker in 2010.
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Philly cop killer denied new trial
By Kathy Matheson
Associated Press
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PHILADELPHIA — Death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal lost his bid for a new trial in the killing of a city police officer after the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not take up the case.
Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther and one-time radio reporter, had claimed prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering white Philadelphia police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.
Abu-Jamal's attorney, Robert R. Bryan of San Francisco, called his client's trial "a mockery of justice" and said Monday he would seek a rehearing by the high court.
But prosecutor Hugh Burns said that "for practical purposes, this was the last remotely realistic chance for getting a new trial."
Abu-Jamal's death sentence remains in limbo. The Supreme Court has not yet acted on the state's request to reinstate his capital punishment, said Burns, chief of the appeals unit for the Philadelphia district attorney's office.
A Philadelphia jury convicted Abu-Jamal in 1982.
The 25-year-old patrolman had pulled over Abu-Jamal's brother on a darkened downtown street. Prosecutors say Abu-Jamal saw the traffic stop and shot Faulkner, who managed to shoot back. A wounded Abu-Jamal, his own gun lying nearby, was still at the scene when police arrived. Authorities considered the evidence against him overwhelming.
In March 2008, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld Abu-Jamal's conviction but ruled his death sentence invalid. The appeals court found the jury was given flawed instructions during the penalty phase of his trial.
A new death penalty hearing would give jurors the option of sentencing Abu-Jamal to life in prison.
Since Abu-Jamal's conviction, activists in the United States and Europe have rallied in support of his claims that he was the victim of a racist justice system. Abu-Jamal, 54, has kept his case in the spotlight through books and radio broadcasts.
Faulkner's widow, Maureen, has also written a book and done numerous media interviews to tell her side of the story.
Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham issued a statement Monday saying she is gratified by the ruling.
"It is a pity that Maureen Faulkner had to go through the last 26 years to hear what she knew from the beginning: that (Abu-Jamal) murdered her husband, Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, in cold blood," Abraham said.
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Who's afraid of software? I mean viscerally, stomach-knotting afraid. Afraid like you might be when you come across a snake or a bear, or when you are mugged. Do you obsess about a phishing attack each time you open your email? Do you worry there's an eavesdropper when you join the open wifi access point in a coffee shop? Do you worry your software will fail in your modern automobile or aircraft?
I listened to a Freakonomics podcast about risk, uncertainty, and beliefs. One point made during the show was that our fears are shaped by evolution—to our ancestors, it made sense to be afraid of threatening animals. In modern life, however, our fears don't match risks—we'd be much better off being afraid of cheeseburgers, as pointed out in the show. Some people are afraid of modern risks. I know people afraid of cancer, for example.
That got me thinking about fearing software. Software is certainly among the most complex artifacts created by humans. Modern cars contain 100+ million lines of code. Nearly every day there is a story about a large corporation being hacked and of cyber-warfare between nations.
My question is serious—I really do wonder if people are genuinely afraid of software. I work in the area of software assurance, and while I take precautions against viruses, phishing attacks, etc., I don't particularly worry about software failures, even when my life might depend on it. This is despite issues just last year like this and this in automotive software. I get to see a somewhat how the sausage is made, and in general, we only exercise a small fraction of the state-space of deployed software in validation and in actual usage. There are legitimate risks, but there seems to be very little fear.
Perhaps like a medical doctors stereotypically neglecting their own health, I don't worry day-to-day about software assurance despite working in the field. But it seems nobody else really fears software, either.
In the podcast, the topic of polarizing claims, like global warming, is discussed. Outside of academic circles, one's view on the risks of software are not so polarizing—your views on the topic won't cause your friends or colleagues to disparage you (indeed, if anything, the main risk is likely boring others in discussing the topic!). I wonder just what the "global warming" of software might be in the future.


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PAHRO's Fadama Legal Assistance Program progresses in Ghana
Projects Abroad Human Rights Office (PAHRO) makes significant progress with the Fadama Legal Assistance Program (FLAP) in the slum community in Old Fadama in Accra. The Human Rights team of volunteers and staff have been creating awareness and empowering the community to know about their basic human rights.
The volunteers held a workshop with a group of men from the community and explained the conditions under which police arrests must be conducted with or without arrest warrants. The volunteers also explained what illegal detention means and the fact that if any of them were held for more than 48 hours without bail or arraignment in court, then that constitutes illegal detention. They also explained to them that women and children have safe guards and special protection if they get arrested and that the men should demand that the police respect their rights.
After the workshop, the volunteers distributed the names and contacts of institutions that they can call in order to get legal assistance. The volunteers used this opportunity to introduce the FLAP Centre, which is still under construction and advised that the community should not hesitate to contact them when need be.
The men who participated thanked the volunteers for coming to give them valuable information on something they face almost on a daily basis. The participants bemoaned situations where the police request money from them when they want bail. Some also recalled times when they have witnessed suspects spend more than 48 hours in police custody without court or bail. According to them, this is a normal practice by the police.
After the program, the volunteers paid a visit to the building site of the new FLAP Centre. The building was a result of fundraising and donations from Jennifer Croker (Australia), Kristine Mikkelsen (USA) and Jennifer Mill (Australia).
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Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore has refused to be drawn on whether a wider inquiry will be launched in the continuing Garda controversies.
The Labour leader denied there was any threat to Justice Minister Alan Shatter's position as a result of the fall-out.
But he said Government ministers are taking very seriously the latest dossier of alleged wrongdoing within the force, and will deal with the claims at a Cabinet meeting tomorrow.
Asked if Mr Shatter's role was under question, Mr Gilmore said: "No."
The Tanaiste said the Government was already working on legislative changes to make better arrangements for Garda whistleblowers to make complaints about alleged misconduct among colleagues.
Questioned on whether a wider inquiry would be launched, Mr Gilmore said: "I think the important thing is that we deal with the substance of the material that was supplied last week, we are taking it very seriously, we are looking at it very seriously and we'll deal with it at Cabinet tomorrow."
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By Renee O'Quinn
At a regular meeting held April 9, City Manager Jeff Baxley presented the most common questions relating to yard sale ordinance to the Baxley City Council members to review and fill out. The questions will be used as a tool for drawing up a draft yard sale ordinance. The manager added that he looked at eight different cities to see their code of ordinances for yard sales. He discovered that some cities did not regulate yard sales at all and some had strict regulations and he added that yard sales in a few cities are forbidden all together. The manager asked the council members to answer the questions and give them back to him and this would help get a consensus from the council concerning regulating yard sales. Baxley further stated he would get with City Attorney Alex Johnson and use the answered questions from the council members to create a first draft ordinance for yard sales in the city for review at the next regular council meeting.
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Yep. Me. I am going to open the comments up for questions from the audience, but until then, I figure I'd give ya'll a little more of a glimpse into this side of the partnership. So at the risk of sounding schizoid/all MPD, here we go.
When did you know you wanted to be a writer?
I've wanted to write since I first learned to read. In fact, until my water heater went out last year and flooded out the garage I still had files with things I'd written back to grade school. They were hideous of course. But the drive was there.
Who are some of your favorite authors?
There are too many to count, really. And it really depends on my mood. Sometimes I will be looking for humor, or a good mystery, or a thriller, or an urban fantasy. Whichever I want will determine my favorite of the moment. Still, I can always count on Jim Butcher, Dick Francis, Robert B. Parker, Rachel Caine, Dorothy Parker, Agatha Christie, Charlaine Harris, Shannon Butcher, Janet Evanovich. I re-read my early Laurell K. Hamilton books frequently and am still amazed at her creativity and skill as a writer. The worldbuilding is absolutely amazing, and it set the stage for an entirely new genre. How cool is that?!
Which of the books you've worked on was the hardest?
The hardest was Howling Moon of the Sazi. It was originally the first book, but it didn't get published first, and we kept dropping hints in other books that led back to it. But that meant that when it finally DID get re-written (to accommodate all of those changes) the time line was INSANE. We had a chart with where some of the main characters of the Sazi series were at any given time in 15 minute increments to make sure nobody was in two places, and that we weren't asking them to do the impossible. UGH.
Which was the easiest?
Every once in a while you'll get a book that just races through your brain and out your fingers. Touch of Madness (in the Kate Reilly/Thrall series) was like that. MAGIC.
You haven't been to a lot of signings or conferences the past couple of years. Why?
Real life has been a little intense the past two years. Not bad, but definitely busy. Also, Cathy and I both have a day job -- in the SAME OFFICE. So it isn't always feasible for us to both be off at the same time. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS we have a couple of signing events coming up shortly and each of us will be going to a couple of conferences this year. So there's a good chance of you seeing either or both of us soon. Keep an eye out, check the Newsletter and the website for details.
Do you listen to music when you write?
Sometimes. But more often I run into something that inspires me, then write after in silence. Sometimes there will be a song that just GETS to me and shows me an insight to a specific character, or opens up inspiration on a whole new world. Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You" (written by


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Is Gaza Occupied?
So a journalist sends me a few questions for an article she is writing, those are the questions and my quick answers.
1. In your opinion, is Gaza "occupied" by Israel?
2. What do you want Americans to know about the situation in Palestine?
3. What do you want Americans to know about the Arab or Muslim world?
4. Any additional comments
1) One must understand the definition of the word 'occupation' and then compare it with the facts on the ground in order to judge whether Gaza is indeed occupied by Israel or not. According to my dictionary, occupation means 'Invasion, conquest, and control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces'. Another definition is 'The military government exercising control over an occupied nation or territory.' Now let us act blind and try to find out whether this is the case in Gaza or not.
As a Palestinian living in Gaza, I am subject to random Israeli air strikes every now and then. Case in point would be the day previous to yesterday where the Israeli jets pounded my area with their missiles, using apaches, F16s, and helicopters. In the past couple of days, around 7 people were reported injured, two of whom are children. That is for armed forces. Then we move to our basic human right of movement. As a Palestinian from Gaza, I am destined to strive for at the very least three or four months to plan on leaving the strip for whatever purpose; be it educational, medical, vocational, or even for a holiday. I am destined to work 40 times harder to get the needed documents months in advance, and even then, the likely possibility is for me to be rejected and not allowed to leave the strip. Hundreds of people are rejected everyday at the Rafah crossing, due to the Israeli siege. It is noteworthy that also an engineer in Gaza is assigned the Gaza International Airport project, but Israel would not allow us to rebuild it. Other than movement would be trade. It is incredibly dangerous for any trader to engage in trade, noting that trade in Gaza means only imports as we are not allowed to export. What is allowed to pass through Israel is peanuts compared to the needs of 1.5 million locked up in this 360km2 of land. If it weren't for the tunnel industry, as dangerous as it is, Gaza would be starving by now. Add to this the regular power cuts we face every single day. Every 8 hours, the power goes out and our only resort would be power generators. This is resulting from not allowing enough fuel to get into Gaza, of course by Israel. Not to mention also the restraints on sent and received mail; never mind the fact that it takes months to reach its destination, whether coming in or going out, but what you are allowed to ship is what matters (only papers and documents are allowed to be shipped in or out, nothing else). These are but few examples of the 'control of a nation or territory by foreign armed forces' mentioned in the definition of occupation, and the list goes on for whoever is living in Gaza or interested to know the facts. In the end, what does blockade and siege fall under if it weren't 'occupation'?
2) I want Americans to know that their tax dollars are contributing to one of the biggest injustices of modern history, resulting in a massive disproportionate use of power against a civilian population. I want Americans to try to understand what it is like to be under occupation, and to try to feel the anger jammed up inside every Palestinian for seeing their family suffer endlessly when there is very little that they can do about it. I also want Americans to know that violence is never an inherent part of the culture, and if it were them facing 63 years of pain, agony, oppression, displacement, humiliation, and massacres, they would do far more than homemade rockets. While Israel is supplied with the most destructive weapons of all time, on a constant basis, we are being locked up and forced to live a miserable life under a tight, inhumane blockade. We are dying in the hundreds, but the world is not paying attention. I want them to see the injustice in how a Palestinian life is nothing compared to a scratch an Israeli person might get. I want them also to notice the countless non-violent resistance approaches by the Palestinian people from years and years ago and continuing until this day, yet the response is always violence, murder, and oppression from the Israeli internationally-back armed forces; case in point would be the continuous Nabi Saleh peaceful protests that are always dispersed violently by the Israeli army. I want Americans to know that the Palestinians are paying for what Hitler did, and that we were never part of any victimization of the Jewish people. They came to this land, massacred my people and displaced them to settle there and build their country. I want them to know that my mother is a refugee and her family was thrown out of their home during the Nakba of 1948 (formation of Israel) to have an Israeli family live there instead. I also want Americans to know that Jews and Arabs in Palestine used to coexist peacefully, and it wasn't until the Jewish immigrants (later called "Israelis") who were supported by the British started to displace Palestinians from their livelihoods on farms owned by absentee landlords and then the creation of the state of Israel which puts the Jewish people (that are born to a Jewish mother) first, and any other citizen would be a second-class citizen with less rights, that the conflict started. I want them to open their eyes to apartheid in this part of the world, and if not act against it and against the discrimination and injustice it entails, then at least not to contribute to it.
3) I want Americans to think outside the box and open their eyes to the protests that are taking place across the Arab world in order to see that we all love democracy, love freedom, and love justice (contrary to what the media usually portrays). I want them to think of how such dictators as Mubarak, for instance, were supported by the American government for years, which shows the complicity of that government that advocates 'democracy'. And I also ask them to not be too stupid to accuse Muslims in general of being terrorists, because terrorism knows no religion. This can be seen in the latest bombings in Norway that left over 90 innocent people killed, and how it was instantly claimed to be Islamic terrorists until the truth came out. Open your minds and hearts, stop contributing to the injustice and violence against innocent Arabs and Muslims and creating more enemies while you are at it, merely for domination and imperialistic purposes. Muslims respect and love all religions, and perhaps the most important verse in the Quran would be "There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion" (2:256). My friends who were killed during Israel's assault were named Musa (Moses) and Eesa (Jesus). In fact, we learn about Moses and Jesus in school as our prophets too, and we respect them that we name some of our children after them. Let us see each other as equal human beings and respect each other, and there shall be peace.
4) I want to shed light on Israel's reaction to the PA appeal of UN recognition of a Palestinian state. Although this 'state' would mean giving up almost 80% of the land, Israel is rejecting it and is threatening us not to go on with it. I do not support this UN recognition anyway, but it just goes to show that no matter what we do, Israel will find a way to say no, and then they say it is us who do not want peace. We, as Palestinians, have tried everything in our pockets. What else are we supposed to do? What does Israel suggest?
I also blame the decent Jews for not rising up against Zionists, just as they blamed the decent Germans for not rising up against the Nazis. On the other hand, my love & respect goes to the decent and brave Jews who are opposing the crimes of Israel, most recent of those is Lucas, the American Jew who spoke about Palestine inside Israel and got beaten and arrested for it. And also the Jewish activists who come to Palestine, including Gaza, to show their solidarity. Our problem is not with Jews as many seem to believe, it is with the apartheid regime that puts people born to a Jewish mother as the standard, and everybody else is second-class. It is with those who claim that the Palestinian people never existed and those who see us as 'cockroaches' and not worthy of living. I don't see them attacking Peter Griffin, from Family Guy, for saying Jew is the only religion with the word 'ew' in it! I mean I never heard a Palestinian say it, as funny as it is! Finally, I love Chuck Norris and I think if he were here, he would stand with the Palestinians in their struggle for justice, peace, and freedom! 😀 (jk about Chuck Norris part, but love Chuck Norris jokes!)
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Jehan, your message is very clear and having read quite a bit about the history of your land, I can't find a single thing in what you say that I would disagree with. You've got the facts on your side. The situation you are in is outrageous and is testimony to the power of the United States and of Zionism within the United States.
Here in America, your side is little represented in the population at large and even less represented in the world of power and money. Given the choice between finding out the facts and believing what a neighbor or a political leader says, most people will take the latter course.
In contrast to Muslims and Arabs, of which I know not a single one in my community, Jews and Zionists are everywhere and occupy positions where they can influence policy.
My state (Illinois) senator is Jewish and Zionist. My state representative is Jewish and Zionist, one of my U.S. Senators is Jewish and Zionist and the other is the infamous Mark Kirk, so rabid a supporter of Israel that I call him "the Senator from Israel" rather than Illinois. My Representative in Congress is Jewish and Zionist. In her last run for election she was up against another person, also Jewish and Zionist and they argued about who was the better friend of Israel. Palestinians simply don't exist in anyone's mind here – out of sight, out of mind.
Believe me, I write to these politicians all the time to decry their shameless obedience to the policies of Netanyahu and friends. All I get in return is the same "right to defend itself" nonsense that could be straight from the lips of Bibi himself. Yes, it's that bad.
My state of Illinois buys Israel government debt – the only foreign government debt that it buys. Why is this? Who decides this? I would like to know and have written my state treasurer about it. So far, silence. I'm used to that.
Although there are Americans like me who know the history and see right through the fantastic one-sided story, that story is always present and is accepted by almost everyone – because few bother to find out the facts. There is no debate on Palestine here, the entire issue is framed in terms of how much danger there is to Israel and how similar Israel is to the U.S. (this is a disgrace to the U.S.) For all the death and destruction, for all the oppression that Israel dishes out to your people, all I hear about here is the rockets of HAMAS.
There is no conversation, there is no debate. While there are Americans who know what is going on and support you, you should not put any hope in America because this country is absolutely and frighteningly in the pocket of Israel and the hypocrisy will continue, disregarding the fundamental principle of liberty and justice for all that should have the U.S. firmly on the side of the Palestinians.
For all the pain and fortune wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have no doubt that if Israel started a war with Iran, my government would jump right in recklessly and automatically. Our interests in the world are, unbelievably, secondary to what Israel wants. This is only possible because the zealots are in positions of influence and the mass of Americans are apathetic, ignorant of the truth about Palestine or both.
Things are changing. New voices are being heard here, many of them Jewish, who are disgusted with Israel and dislike being associated with it. But this movement will never get to the point of affecting U.S. policy.
The hope I see for you is in BDS, and the overwhelming sympathy you have in the UN. Uncle Sam, I'm ashamed to say, is going to continue to undermine you at every turn. Israel will be its own worst enemy as it becomes more extremist, shrill, arrogant and presumptuous.
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The Importance Of Being Consistent
Jun 10 2012
I've been observing businesses from several different perspectives for most of my career. After I became a mom, I began observing other parents so I could learn from them. It's clear to me that being consistent in action whether it be disciplinary or rewarding in nature is very important….but so very hard to do "consistently."
If you aren't consistent as a manager/leader or as a parent, your team or your kids can easily get confused and frustrated. They aren't sure what behavior will result in what reaction from you. If you keep changing direction before your team or your kids understand where things are going, it can result in fatigue and rebellion. I've seen this happen countless of times in business. The entrepreneur/CEO isn't sure where things are headed, so they shift directions before the team gels and can improve the situation or in really bad cases they don't even tell the team, and they find out only when they are in a random meeting weeks later! I've seen cases where one day the manager is happy with the way someone is doing something and the next day they act as if they have no idea what you are talking about.
I've seen parents (myself included) say one thing and do another because we are tired, not sure what to do, feel guilty, are under extreme emotional duress, or think because someone else is doing something a certain way we should too. It's not easy being consistent from bed times to drop off/pick up times to homework with your kids as well as expectation setting, messaging, or rewarding your employees. I'm sure someone somewhere has done a more scientific study than I have that would prove the value of being consistent. If it were easy, I'm pretty sure we'd have fewer wars! 🙂Author: Aruni | Filed under: entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, mom, parenting | Tags: bed times, business management, consistent | 3 Comments »