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A blog about the art of writing and the writing business. Writing for the soul and writing to be paid.
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Tactician Writer - Seeing a Few Moves Ahead
Well, I need to tell you something else about me first. I play chess. Not very well, but I try. As a chess player though, I've learnt the importance of seeing a few moves ahead. The more moves you can see the better player you are.
Same goes for my writing. I can't categorize myself using any of the above techniques. Depending on what I'm working on I have different methods I use. However, there is one thing I always strive for and that one thing is to know/have, at the very least, a few scenes ahead in my head.
So there you have it, I present a new method - tactical writer. And as always, I'm probably not the first to write about this or mention this, but who has any "first" ideas these days?
Any chess lovers out there by the way?
Categories: writing, process, chess
31 comments:
- Paul Darcy said...
Hate to say it, but I find chess - boring. To each his or her own.
However, when it comes to writing I need a plot established, although for some of my shorter pieces sometimes all I need is an idea or ending and away I go.
I think you will find that what works for you works almost exclusively for you (minor variations with some others) and that a lot of established authors have vastly different techniques for writing.
We are all individuals after all, and writing is a pretty unique expression of one's self.
- 02 November, 2005 11:20
- erin said...
I agree with Paul. That said, I'm fascinated by the chess analogy.
When I have to stop writing for a session or for the day and the story's not done, I try to stop somewhere strategic -- where I have a good sense of what's next, and I'm still looking forward to writing it and finding out about all the things I don't know yet. It can be awkward cutting myself off mid-scene, but it really does work for me.
Maybe it's the equivalent of saying to my 'opponent': "Here...take 12 hours to look at everything I've put on the table...I'll be back later to keep the game going.."
- 02 November, 2005 15:14
- melly said...
Hiya Paul, other than the chess part we seem to agree :)
Writers defintely have varying techniques for writing, I only mentioned about six of them but there are way more.
Erin, that's a great way of looking at it. I love the way you put it. Thanks.
- 02 November, 2005 15:58
- Cavan said...
I'm definitely the same way - I like to have planned at least two or three scenes ahead at all times.
When that doesn't work out, my writing tends to become monotonous and exceedingly dull.
I also like to have a general idea of where the plot will be going (though that tends to change several times over the course of the novel) and I hate to go into a project without an ending in mind.
P.S. I love chess, but really suck at it. My roommate during my first year of university and I used to play constantly. Actually, he could beat me even when he was drunk.
- 02 November, 2005 16:47
- ME Strauss said...
I always say I'm just a writer who works for a living. But yeah, I'm always looking for what's next, What's now and what's next and of course, and then what?
Great post, Melly. Fresh new look on how we do things.
- 02 November, 2005 17:16
I am writing toward an end. I know the end of my novel by the road to get there has had some scenes planned out while others just sprung up out of nowhere. I never really know which turn the story is going to take. Some of the best parts of my novel just popped up out of no where. I keep asking myself, "Okay, what is the most interesting thing that can happen next." Hopefully, it will all come together in the end!
- 02 November, 2005 19:18
- rdl said...
Glad to see you back today, i was beinning to worry that i wouldn't be seeing much of my fav's now with nanowrimo(sounds like a natural disaster or flu). My technique if I have one is the last one on yr. list. Simply take the pen or sit at the computer and write. While it works for me for blogging, journal writing and poetry it has never worked for writing a story. I don't know how many beginning paragraphs/pages I've started and abandoned. anyway i'm glad that you haven't abandoned us.
- 02 November, 2005 20:22
I never could learn to see ahead, so no chess for me but I admire the game and the mental alacrity it takes to play. Do you know where this is headed? lol...I wirte that way too, just sit and put words together until I run out of steam. Not very writerly is it?
- 02 November, 2005 20:48
- redchurch said...
Because I didn't finish my outline before Nanowrimo started, I've found myself using exactly what you describe Mel... as long as I can see a few scenes ahead, I'm ok.
I keep referring back to my story structure chart to make sure I don't go off into strange intangible territory.
- 02 November, 2005 21:55
- Patry Francis said...
Oh, this is inspiring, Melly. I definitely need to become more tactical. I tend to plan very little and just spurt ahead--which is fun for a while, but eventually it leads to an impasse, and then days of regrouping.
- 03 November, 2005 00:03
- Ronn said...
If we're defining a tactical writer as one who needs to see a few scenes in advance of the current writing, I guess I'd fall into that category. I plot it out at least two scenes ahead of what I'm working on most times so that I know where I'm going and have an idea as to how I'm going to get there. My writing lives and dies on my outline.
Oh, and I'm a lousy chess player, but I do enjoy playing the game and trying to be good.
- 03 November, 2005 06:52
- Benjamin Solah said...
I like that theory a lot. Maybe it would work for my non-nano novel. I tried to write with just one scene in my head, which was at the beginning. Then 31,000 words later, I'm fighting block after block not knowing where this thing is going. Then, when I'm dedicating all writing time to nano, it comes to me, lol.
p.s. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
- 03 November, 2005 09:27
- Eric Mutta said...
[Raises hand as a fan of something that might as well be chess: software optimisation. In this black art, having a crystal ball to see the future is crucial since a mistake you make 30mins from now could invalidate the work you spent the last 6 hours doing].
- 03 November, 2005 12:02
- Pat Kirby said...
Chess. I can be tactical but not for long stretches of time because the attention span poops out.
I can hold my own against the husband for a while and then I start to get bored. At which point he starts to slaughter me and I give up. (I know the rules but call the pieces "horsies" and "castles.")
Writing. I have a good idea of how the story will end but again, much of it is driven by character-driven issues. I always use this weird analogy. It's like I'm writing Empire Strikes Back. I know that Luke's father issues will culminate with the discovery that Darth is his dad. But I don't know how I'll get there.
Because plot is my weakness, I rely on my plot-driven husband for help in that area. It's fun to see how our different approaches to story telling (and reading) complement each other.
Hope you're getting loads written.
- 03 November, 2005 12:16
- Melly said...
Cavan, I too find that knowing the ending is crucial. I may not know how to get there yet, but at least I know where I want to get.
(Sounds like we're about the same level in chess ;)
Liz, great way of looking at it. Not only what's next in terms of the process of writing, but also interms of what project I'll tackle next.
Fred, I think that as long as the ending is known you can't really stray too much. I'm pretty much the same.
rdl, I'm here, just still with very limited internet access time. Thanks for noticing. Yes, for story telling it's pretty important to have a direction, an ending, something. But I can see how it could work well in poetry.
- 03 November, 2005 15:37
- Melly said...
Easywriter, what works for you is the right thing. If it works, it simply can't be the wrong thing, no?
While I don't know your aspirations and what you do with them, I know that from what I see it sure is working for you :)
Redchurch, seems we're on the same boat here. And absolutely, so important not to go on a tangent. It tends to be one of my weak points and then I have to hack off entire chapters.
Thanks Patry. Yes, I think we're all familiar with that impasse and I think it does tend to happen to me when I don't think much before but simply sit and write.
Ronn, hi. Seems you're the ultimate tactician :)
I hear what you say about the outline, although I've managed to surprise myself once or twice with spurts, although only in shorts.
As for chess - we're very similar.
- 03 November, 2005 15:45
- Melly said...
Benjamin, I was happy to stop by your place, and especially to hear about warm places (who am I kidding? I was jealous! :)
Yes, that block or impasse as Patry put it comes when the direction isn't clear. But even with an outline it sometimes happen to me. I may not like the original layout, or it doens't work anymore. But I agree with you, it sure is better with an outline than without.
Eric, how do you always manage to do this, even in this rather straight forward subject you manage to make me laugh.
So... can you tell the future?
LOL Pat. I love my horsies and my castles, although I do call them by their proper name. I now I feel like such a boring person...
You're so lucky you can talk about it with hubby and that he can actually help. I once talked about a story with a friend who likes witch craft and all that, and she took the plot to such weird directions I never talked to her about my writing again.
- 03 November, 2005 15:56
- dog1net said...
For me I think the writing process is just plain messy. I do most of my initial work on yellow lined paper. Often times I start with a sense of something, an idea, or perception I have of something, and begin writing in response to that. Sometimes I'll go with associations of something, something that evokes strong feelings. Sometimes the writing will come fast and furious; sometimes slow and tortured. I'm not a chess player per say, but I've written essays where I've moved my last paragraph to the first, and my fourth paragraph to the last. I even move sentences in paragraphs that way, too. Ideas are not easy things to work with. What sometimes might seem understood can prove to be little understood, but what we finally arrive at surprises us in ways never expected.
Thanks for stopping by today. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and encouragement in response to my writing. It is good to be in your company.
- 03 November, 2005 19:14
- Eric Mutta said...
Melly:>Eric, how do you always manage to do this, even in this rather straight forward subject you manage to make me laugh.
You get a lot of serious and smart folk around here, so someone has to do the comic relief :-)
Melly:>So...can you tell the future?
With software, yes, definately, otherwise my buh-hind would be seriously broke.
With people, I can tell only the immediate future. E.g if the missus fumes into the room and stands on the spot ancient maps used to label "here be dragons", I can tell that I'll be sleeping on the couch that night.
With life in general, I can tell the future simply because I intend to create it. E.g in the year 2015 people will work from 10am instead of 9am because my employees will do so. People will copy me because I'm going to be rich and famous, and I'm going to be rich and famous because...darn, crystal ball just suffered a system overload, so I'll get back to you on that one!
- 04 November, 2005 07:44
- Thundering Wind said...
Hi Ric!
Remember me??? LOL
Writing can take on so many expressions. Writing can be a moody muse. Writing flows and ebbs. Writing is confessions of expressions.
- 04 November, 2005 08:27
- Melly said...
Hi Scot, thanks (you should see the red color I have on my face now...) I'm blushing.
I loved the way you described your writing process. You seem to be so intuned with your writer self.
It happened to me so often that I started something, nearly 100% sure of myself only to find out I either know nothing about the subject I'm writing or that I changed my views 180 degrees.
Write and learn? ;)
Good to have you here always :)
Eric - Please always remain our comic relief. It's an invaluable asset.
And anything me or the mama can do to help that future come to life - just say the word ;)
Hi there Anna - amazing: you just took it all and summed it up poetically. Thanks :)
- 04 November, 2005 11:09
- Deborah said...
Whenever I write a new story, I tend to come up with the character first. Then comes then ending. Finally, I try to maneuver him/her/them to that ending.
I enjoy chess, although I don't play it as often as I used to. My youngest loves it.
- 04 November, 2005 11:46
- melly said...
I like this strategy Deborah. I really do. It's a hybrid of being very character oriented vs. being plot oriented.
Chess is awesome for kids, do you play with him?
- 04 November, 2005 11:52
- Gone Away said...
The chess analogy is exactly right for me. There was a time when I got too much into chess and had to make a decision as to whether to pursue it seriously. I opted for real life (hmm, don't seem to have managed to make that decision regarding the internet as yet). And I write in the same way that chess is played. I know the story before I ever start writing and you could call this my strategy. But I allow the details to fill themselves in as I go along, so that events may take place that I had never envisaged in the first place. You could say that this is the tactical element.
- 04 November, 2005 12:00
- melly said...
Gone, ummm... life? What's that?
You talk of strategy and it makes me wish I was more strategic. Having a strategy sounds like a wonderful thing to have in almost everything in life...
- 04 November, 2005 16:29
- deadliner said...
Tactical writing sounds good to me. But my massive issue is always turning off the inner critic, and that means that too much foresight kills the writing stone dead before I even get it saved.
Starting Nanowrimo 7 days late has proved fun. I'm a deadliner, plain and simple. With a gun to the head, anyone can milk a cow, I say.
My own blog is an effort to stick that gun somewhere uncomfortable and make unreasonable demands of myself. Come over and have a look if you get a free minute between computer crashes and Nano-novelling.
Best of luck with it,
deadliner@ http://deadliner.typepad.com
- 09 November, 2005 23:59
- Melly said...
Sorry for the long time it took me to reply, Deadliner.
Don't feel bad about NaNo. I'm starting it with 10 days to go. So...
I'll come visit you soon.
- 20 November, 2005 12:58
- Trent said...
I love chess and have a similar approach to writing, at least on a semi-concious level, that you describe. Perhaps I'll find out who plays chess at the next InkDwellers meeting and see if those that share the love have similar writing approaches :)
- 30 May, 2006 03:59
- Melly said...
Let me know what you come up with then, Trent. It would be fun to make this little study :)
- 30 May, 2006 08:13
- Trent said...
I missed the last meeting, but I'll be going to the next barring fatal catastrophe :)
I'll keep you informed
- 25 June, 2006 05:24
- Melly said...
Thanks Trent.
I'm waiting to hear :)
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We additionally received a continuation of the running gag concerning the Parks department's hatred of the library (and vice versa), and more movement on the Andy/April quasi-romance, with April feeling squeezed between her judgmental gay boyfriends and Andy's cheerful obliviousness. Actually, I feel they KNOW that 30 Rock is scores-dependent, since they used to let The Workplace run a full hour at the beginning of a season before bringing Rock back in October. Our family has made it our mission to take a look at all of our native recreation areas. Michael Schur has already shown he's able to breaking the broadcast rules with a creatively unprecedented comedy (The Good Place") and few would challenge the concept every single forged member is able to excelling with contemporary characters.
Now could be the time to find your park and rediscover all the nationwide parks and programs in your individual yard. This is hoping Bluto can carry the show by season three if that opportunity comes. Stop first to enjoy the Santa Cruz Seashore Boardwalk, one of the oldest seaside amusement parks on the West Coast. Mule deer, coyotes, bobcats and even mountain lions may be found within the recreation space's boundaries. One of the hottest shows on Netflix, Stranger Things has a forged of young stars that grew up with Instagram.
It is fascinating that it's taken this present only a handful of episodes to succeed in a difficulty that The Office did not actually address till its fifth season: how does someone who's basically an ingenue (Leslie/Michael) succeed in fields (politics/enterprise) that usually embrace underhanded, nasty, and merciless conduct. There are some good moments within the first few episodes of this season where we see the other characters being more supportive of her. I was actually impressed by the season premiere, head and shoulders above what they did last year.
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San Francisco 49ers
New guy Laken Tomlinson will get shot at 49ers guard spot
Kyle Shanahan said newcomer Laken Tomlinson has a chance to win a starting job at one of the 49ers' guard spots, perhaps left guard where incumbent Zane Beadles struggled Sunday against the Panthers.
"We'll look at that every week," Shanahan said. "We did last week, too. We've got a group of guys on our roster – they'll battle. They had three days to do it last week; they'll have three days to battle and we'll put out (on) Sunday whatever we think our best lineup is."
Tomlinson, whom the 49ers acquired in a trade with the Detroit Lions on Aug. 31, was one of seven players who did not dress for the Carolina game largely because he's so new to the team's system and also because he doesn't play center. Rookie Erik Magnuson was the team's backup guard and center against the Panthers.
Tomlinson, who is entering his third season, never has played in the type of zone-blocking system the 49ers run, and it might be a stretch to think he'd be well-versed enough by Sunday to make his first start for San Francisco in the loud, frenetic atmosphere in Seattle.
"Asking him to do something he never did in college or the NFL is a little tough with just a few (practice) reps," Shanahan said. "He'll have more reps this week. ... Usually the more reps a guy gets, the better chance he has."
Shanahan said both guard spots are up for grabs. Beadles, however, had the biggest gaffe Sunday, allowing a Panthers defensive lineman to sack quarterback Brian Hoyer and cause a fumble in the first quarter. Three plays later, Carolina scored the first touchdown of the game.
Shanahan called Beadles' performance "up and down."
"The hard thing about (being) an O-lineman is that when you miss it and it ends up being a sack, everyone gets to see that, and they don't get to see the rest of what you have to do," he said. "He had a tough challenge. He had some good players he was going against and at times he blocked them well. Came up short on a couple of them. One, the sack-fumble, was a big one."
Tomlinson, 25, was a first-round pick in 2015 by former Lions general manager Martin Mayhew, who is now one of the top decision makers in the 49ers organization.
Last year, Tomlinson began the season as Detroit's left guard but lost the starting job five weeks into the season. He ended up starting 10 games at right guard because of injuries to other players. He was a four-year starter at Duke at right guard and had been lining up at right guard with the Lions second-team offense prior to the trade.
The 49ers' starting guards at the moment are Beadles and Brandon Fusco. Joshua Garnett, a first-round pick in 2016, appeared to be in the lead for the left-guard spot in early August when he suffered a knee injury that required surgery. The 49ers placed Garnett on season-ending injured reserve earlier this month.
The 49ers sent a 2019 fifth-round pick to Detroit for Tomlinson.
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Amid all the excitement of the recent Detroit and Los Angeles auto shows, three vehicles stood out for me. But not, I'm afraid, in the positive sense. It seems that after years of solid but uninspiring work, German car company designers are starting to let their hair down. The problem is in some cases, they are going too far, or not paying enough attention to current trends.
Take Mercedes-Benz, for example. Does this company really need yet another roadster? It seems that almost every other model in the MB line-up is a two-seat convertible or a sporty car of some kind. At Detroit, Mercedes presented us with one more; the Vision SLA. Not that I am against fun roadsters or sporty cars—far from it—but they need to display a sense of class and style, especially when they carry the three-pointed star. And the SLA, like last year's overwrought Vision SLR luxury coupe and convertible, is lacking in the taste department.
To be fair, let's look at the good points of the SLA. Based on the Benz A Class hatchback, the new roadster is extremely compact, at 3.77 meters in length. It uses the A Class's suspension and its economical 1.9-liter four-cylinder powertrain, producing 125 bhp. Bodywork is made of an interesting combination of aluminum structural components, sheet aluminum and composite materials. Load bearing sections of the vehicle structure at the front, rear and sides are made of aluminum designed to absorb impact forces. In fact, Mercedes claims the SLA is capable of meeting the same crash safety standards as larger sedans despite its diminutive size. The central floor area uses a newly designed multi-cavity aluminum structure that is both strong and lightweight. Composite panels are used for most of outer bodyshell except the doors. The construction technique means the SLA weighs in at just 950 kg.
So far so good: the SLA is a compact, lightweight convertible with excellent safety characteristics. But why did the designers feel the need to make this interesting car look so toy-like? The front end of this car is overrun with styling features, the most awkward being the integrated wing. One can admire Mercedes for being more adventurous with its design concepts, but both the SLA and the exotic SLR are almost like caricatures.
If Mercedes designers appear to be trying a little too hard to make an impact, their counterparts at Volkswagen are not doing enough. The two concepts VW presented this year, the Dune in Los Angeles and the Advanced Activity Concept (AAC) in Detroit, were decidedly under-whelming. The Dune is an attempt to create a modern version of the original Beetle-based Beach Buggy of the '60s. As such, it is necessarily an exercise in frivolity. So it should be fun and outrageous. Instead, VW's German design office created a tame-looking concept, which while packed with interesting features, looks little changed from the standard Beetle. One wonders if it would not have made more sense to give the Dune project to the VW studio in California, surely a more appropriate setting to design a buggy.
In Detroit, VW caused a stir by unveiling the AAC, essentially a luxury pick-up truck. While such an idea might have been innovative five years ago, it is old news today. Lincoln and Cadillac both have luxury trucks for toting furniture home from Neiman Marcus coming soon. If VW is to get back into the pick-up market (remember it did have a small pick-up years ago), then this oddball creation—with its turbo-charged V10 diesel engine— is not the way to do it. Nor does the AAC offer the versatility of some new hybrid pick-up/sport utility vehicles like the forthcoming Chevrolet Avalanche.
If Mercedes and VW have missed the mark with their latest concepts, it is not a matter of immediate concern; both companies are doing a roaring trade with their current model line-ups in North America. But in the longer term, the question marks over concept design may be a more serious matter. --John McCormick
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Sweet Potato Pudding Recipe
2 1/2 cups baked sweet potatoes peeled, boiled and mashed ( you can use canned if preferred)
1/2 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
4 large eggs
1/3 cup half and half or evaporated milk
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
1 tablespoon corn syrup, preferably dark
4 tablespoon light or dark rum
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
Praline topping, recipe follows
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
With an electric mixer, beat together all the pudding ingredients until smooth and light. Pour the pudding into the baking dish. Transfer to the oven and bake for 25 minutes.
Sprinkle the praline mixture over the pudding and bake for an additional 20 to 25 minutes, until the pudding is set and slightly puffed. Last 10 minutes add the cherries and marshmallows if desired. Splash with more rum if desired. The top will sink as the pudding cools. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Praline Topping:
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
Optional(more dark rum to drizzle over the top when cooked)
Optional Maraschino Cherries and Minature marshmallows ( place marshmallows around edge last 10 minutes) for holiday decorating.
In a small bowl, combine the ingredients and reserve to use as topping for the sweet potato pudding.
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Its a new recipe for me....I have never had it....I will be trying it soon....Thanks for the recipe :)ReplyDelete
Fabulous recipe :)ReplyDelete
What a sweet sweet treat! I have not had anything like this before. Thanks for sharing. Hope you're having a great week ahead.ReplyDelete
Blessings, Kristy
Oh, fabulous!!! This might be my new favorite way to eat sweet potatoes :)ReplyDelete
What a wonderful sweet treat. This would be absolutely perfect for Thanksgiving too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2011 at 8:49 AM
Sounds delightful, love the pecans and marshmallows on top!ReplyDelete
I have never seen such a fabulous recipe for this!ReplyDelete
Perfection, Claudia!
Sweet potato pudding awesome. i love sweet potato. nice recipe.ReplyDelete
sweet potatoes are always a hit on a southern table esp with a praline topping... this dessert just beats all....ReplyDelete
The south is infiltrating your eating habits I see lol Love the dessert. Perfect for a fall holiday!ReplyDelete
looks great Claudia. I've never made or eaten one of these though I've heard about them.ReplyDelete
So welcoming! And fun recipe - sweet with health benefits!ReplyDelete
I love this..I have some sweet potatoes, will try it soon! They are also so healthy! Looks fantastic Claudia!ReplyDelete
Those marshmallows are a perfect accompaniment!ReplyDelete
Another recipe that I will follow.ReplyDelete
This is really a rich and sweet treat!ReplyDelete
This sweet potato recipe is reminding me of Thanksgiving, but I'm sure it's great any time of the year!ReplyDelete
I love love sweet potatoes. Those look great.ReplyDelete
I have never had sweet potato pudding and now I am wondering why?!? That sounds incredible! I love the way you served it with the pecans and the marshmallows... that looks delicious!ReplyDelete
Mmm....sweet potato pudding....what a great flavor choice.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 2, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Yum!!! This is so old school, and I know it's delicious. I can just tell. Plus, we make something similar sometimes...;-)ReplyDelete
this looks delicious I haven't had like thisReplyDelete
What a heavenly treat Claudia! Love the topping too!ReplyDelete
This is very much like what we call "Sweet Potato Souffle" in the South. We serve it as a side dish, usually at Thanksgiving, with the turkey and dressing. Divine!ReplyDelete
Sweet potato pie has always been a favorite, love your topping :)ReplyDelete
i love sweet potato!ReplyDelete
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The Institute for the Shamanic Arts (ISA)
The Institute for the Shamanic Arts is now called Intuitive Shamanic Animists-ISA is the Spiritual Education branch of Earth Web Media
To see our upcoming schedule of Events- please visit our Meetup group calendar-
ISA is a community based in Tucson, Arizona. We explore our Animistic roots through the Animist and Earth honoring practices. Through drum journeying circles, experiential workshops, practitioner trainings and artistic performances, each participant is encouraged to remember their shamanic/animistic ancestry, learn how to utilize their abilities in the modern world, and feel at One with the world, moment by moment. :)
I want to give my appreciation for the blessing of knowing you. The space you hold for others to expand and grow. Every event over the years we've shared has helped in accepting of owning my gifts.
ISA is part of Earth Web Media Inc.,. Our principal form of inquiry/prayer/worship/exploration is the spirit world journey to a consistent drumbeat. Very briefly, the journey is when someone listens to a consistent rhythm of drum or rattle. The beats alter the brain waves to where they are when we dream. Many insights are possible when we access our Dreaming Mind.
As people hear the voice of their own soul, they are more able to hear the world around them. As we empower people who practice Animism, we honor the Earth by learning to understand what to do in these times.
"Journeying has been a powerful experience for me. I have gotten in touch with animal guides and answers to questions about current issues in my life, sometimes through images and sometimes through words. The space is held in a masterful way and it always feels totally safe. I feel free to express whatever comes."
Soul- the entity which is regarded as being the immortal or spiritual part of a person, and though having no physical or material reality, is credited with the functions of thinking and willing, and hence determining all behavior. ISA offers opportunities to explore the Soul and the worlds it/we inhabit.
The Intuitive Shamanic Animists was founded by Quynn Red Mountain in 1998, and she has offered circles and trainings since then. Quynn created ISA to offer a multidimensional approach to wellness and the Animist arts, with modern and personal applications in people's lives today. Now, ISA hosts events and circles offered by a number of talented practitioners.
For a complete list of offerings, go to our meetup group
The purpose of ISA is to seek out and train individuals who want to improve their natural abilities in the Animist arts* and to educate the public about the Animist arts, their usefulness to individuals as well as their benefits to the community. This education happens through workshops, performances, trainings, enactments and adventures in Nature. There are also circles for those with shamanic journeying experience.
*The Animist arts explore modern applications and benefits (emotional, mental, physical and spiritual) of consciously voyaging into the wilderness of one's mind for the purposes of healing, increasing communication skills and inspiring art.
"Thanks for holding the space for us, for making yourself so available to teach and share. It hasn't been an easy shift and it's only a beginning but a shift it is!! Yee-ha!"
What do we offer?
Intuitive Shamanic Animists offers a series of shamanic workshops, circles, trainings and interactive events which focus on various aspects of the modern shamanic arts.
Intuitive Shamanic Animists' offerings help each participant:
- Establish contact with your inner wilderness
- Teach your mind and heart how to strengthen your intuition
- Understand how the Universe speaks directly to you
- Remember your pre-monotheistic religion ancestry and learn how it applies to your life
- Learn to use your natural abilities and to understand Nature
- Research our collective and individual ancestral past
Who can Participate?
ISA serves openhearted and minded people of all ages, genders, spiritual beliefs, sexual orientations, heritages and abilities.
How can I Participate?
Intuitive Shamanic Animists' class/workshop offerings can be utilized in a number of ways:
- Take one circle to learn, or enhance, shamanic skills
- Pick and choose the classes that interest you, and that fit your schedule
- Use workshops for personal/emotional and spiritual growth
- Participate in a healing practitioner training
- Dive into your healing by taking all classes offered
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If you are looking to find a place to study, ISA might be a place for you, however, you should know what to expect. At this time ISA does not have living facilities for students, nor does it provide housing assistance. If you feel called to come to Tucson for this purpose, either for a visit, or for an extended stay, do your research and be prepared.
Study Style: If you are looking for instruction about particular cultural styles of shamanizing, ISA is not the place for you. Quynn, as well as any other facilitator, does not teach any particular culture's approach, NOR ARE WE COUNSELORS OR THERAPISTS. We share tools that seem to run through all culture's approaches and that have worked for us. The most important thing is that each student listen within to find their own way to connect.
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ISA is based in Tucson, AZ. We hold circles in a growing number of locations, including full moon labyrinth walks in city parks and power places. Our center is located at 2016 E Broadway Blvd. We are in FB and ING.
Cost of Classes
Some circles at ISA are offered by Spirit Guided Donation. This means you ask within to know how much you are to offer. This payment structure ensures that anyone who is interested in attending classes can do so.
Some events and workshops, and all Trainings, are listed for an affordable donation amount. No one will ever be turned away for lack of monetary funds. For the classes offered by Spirit Guided Donation, if you are unsure about what to give, take note of prices for comparable services and ask within. You will come up with the perfect offering. Some workshops and trainings are offered for an affordable donation amount. If you are interested in a circle that has an amount listed, and the amount is a problem for you, contact the host of that circle through our meetup group.
All monetary donations offered help pay for expenses, programs and endeavors of Earth Web Media, as well as the wellbeing of the facilitator. Thank you for all gifts offered!
At ISA, you receive individualized, useful training and support that helps prepare you to live a more spiritually centered and purposeful life, if you choose to accept the call.
"Being involved with ISA has been a deeply enriching experience on a personal and community level. ISA has helped me discover and develop my own abilities and connections with my helping spirits as well as my own highest self. My confidence in the tools and techniques of shamanic practice has grown and continues to be nurtured. I am so grateful to offer circles and teachings to others because I know how transformative this shamanic experience can be."
One of the great things ISA circles have shown me is how there are so many other people that talk with the spirits, and explore the spirit worlds. I thought I was so alone before, and hence strange! Now I have heard hundreds of people's stories. Directly, this has shown me many people's patterns of health and disharmony, which has been good learning. Indirectly, the circles have shown me that the world is full of people like this, and that most people are something else besides what they pretend to be for a living.
If you are interested in connecting with the rhythms of the Earth that connect us all, as well as your personal Earth Tribe, use the oldest tools…
Human's first religious understandings (generally now called "Animism") are incredibly similar.
All people understood that:
–Blessings and lessons come from Nature
-The world talks to us through Dreams and Synchronicity
-Ancestors guide and care for us, even after they pass
-There are many layers of reality, and we can access them with particular techniques
-We honor, and are ruled by, the natural cycles of the Earth
-Heritage is passed on through the women of the tribe and men help pass on sacred heritage
-The Circle is sacred
The list goes on and on…
To those of the Animist and Pagan path, in all of its beautiful diversity, welcome!


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Germany Delays Plan to Sign Anti-Piracy Agreement
A controversial anti-counterfeiting trade agreement is running into some problems in Europe, with five EU member states delaying plans to approve the deal.
Germany today said it has no immediate plans to sign off on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), according to AFP. That follows similar decisions from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Latvia.
"The signing has not happened, to give us time to carry out further discussions," a German foreign ministry spokesman told AFP.
ACTA was first proposed in 2007, and formal negotiations were launched in June 2008. The United States, Australia, Canada, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Morocco, and Singapore signed ACTA on Oct.1 and 22 of the 27 EU member states followed suit on Jan. 26, but it must still be ratified by the European Parliament.
According to the AP, the European Parliament is expected to debate ACTA this summer.
Germany's move appears to have been driven in part by public outcry over the agreement; anti-ACTA rallies are scheduled to take place on Saturday throughout the region.
Like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) here in the U.S., ACTA has drawn fire for how it might affect Internet freedom.
The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) describes ACTA as a "groundbreaking initiative by key trading partners to strengthen the international legal framework for effectively combating global proliferation of commercial-scale counterfeiting and piracy." But secrecy surrounding the drafting and approval of the measure has made it difficult to really understand its impact. Back in 2009, leaked documents suggested that stakeholders were looking into a "three strikes" policy for ISPs.
The document that was released, however, says that countries that sign ACTA can force infringers to hand over profits gained from pirated works to the rightsholders. They can also crack down quickly once evidence of infringement is presented, but must reimburse businesses that are found to not have actually trafficked in pirated goods.
Last month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation slammed ACTA as unconstitutional and a threat to the Internet.
Hacker collective Anonymous has also gone after the Web sites of governments that have supported ACTA, including those in Poland.
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"The Englishwoman's Garden" has become a seductive catchphrase. Nobody has yet sent me a book titled The Frenchwoman's Garden, while The Spanishwoman's Garden would be a very slim volume indeed. What about The Americanwoman's Garden? It sounds sort of right, but not quite. I have been refining my views of it in New York at an excellent exhibition which presents it in several interwoven strands. It has so much to teach and delight us.
Titled Groundbreakers, the show at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx is an easy train ride from Grand Central station. In this ever alluring setting, it follows the impact that six resolute women had on American gardens in the often halcyon years from 1910 to 1955. Three of them were garden designers, the most famous being Beatrix Farrand. Three, fascinatingly, were garden photographers, dominating an art which they made into a career for women. None was born lower than the moneyed upper middle class, but most of the six were in need of a post-matrimonial income. Two of the photographers fell in love with each other, but then fought bitterly. In the 1950s and 1960s, devoted female gardeners in Britain were still detectable by their down-to-earth taste in hats. The American six were there before them, photographed with cushion-like or flowerpotty hats on their professional heads.
The excellently focused exhibition in the NYBG's library sets out the subject. The garden is the ideal place for this show because all three of the designers designed gardens for its themed landscape. Marion Coffin's legacy is still visible in the garden's fine collections of conifers and lilacs. Ellen Shipman first designed its Ladies' Perennial Border. Beatrix Farrand designed its Rose Garden, one of the three best preserved of her original designs. These commissions were a small fraction of their total work. Coffin, an astute businesswoman, designed more than 50 gardens, including work at the sumptuous Winterthur, home of the du Pont family in Delaware. Shipman worked on about 600 gardens, rivalling Britain's own Gertrude Jekyll. Farrand designed 110. Of the three, Coffin was the earliest to train, studying landscape architecture at MIT. Unlike Jekyll, she and Farrand drew architectural features to scale. By associating with the Harvard-trained designer Charles Platt, Shipman, too, soon upped her game.
The photographers steal the library part of the show. Born in 1864, their spearhead, Frances Benjamin Johnston, began by training in the arts in Paris. Like Mattie Hewitt and Jessica Tarbox Beals, Johnston was not at first a photographer of gardens. Her early article for the Ladies' Home Journal is on show, titled "What A Woman Can Do With A Camera". The answer is to photograph other society women looking dreamy. In Britain, the great photographer of gardens was a man, AE Henson, who was deployed by the magazine Country Life. In the US, Johnston and the others realised that garden photography was an ideal niche career for women. It was not just a dainty game. Heavy cameras, boxes and tripods had to be lugged into the open. "More than a fad," wrote Johnston, "it is a vocation that calls for the highest imagination." Like modern garden photographers, they favoured the "golden hours": early morning and late evening.
Here, the NYBG has had a coup. In its archives, the curators discovered the complete set of glass slides that Johnston used to accompany her lecture at the NYBG in the 1920s. Her black-and-white slides were cleverly coloured by her assistant artists, acting on her detailed field notes. They give us a rare view of American private gardens, so lavishly designed in that jazzy era. How our range of plants and subtleties of design have expanded since then. The solid pergolas and garden features look heavy and the flower beds tend to run round the foot of garden walls. These female "groundbreakers" coincided with a golden era of building and garden design. Clients ranged from suburban businessmen to grandees in the age of American Versailles. "They were all very spendy," the show's assistant curator explained to me.
English garden historians never seem to use coloured lantern slides. In the library's storerooms, I appreciated the chilled conditions that have helped preserve them so well. Are there equivalents lurking in the British Library or have these lecturers of the 1920s bequeathed a special legacy?
In its main conservatory, the Groundbreakers show has its high point: an evocation of one of the era's greatest gardens, The Eyrie in Maine. It was designed by Beatrix Farrand for Abby Rockefeller, and August was the month when the Rockefellers decamped there. Farrand's garden had to delight them with August's flowers in colour groupings. This remarkable part of the exhibition is the work of a present-day groundbreaker, Francisca Coelho, curator of the NYBG glasshouses. She is my confident nomination as the best female head gardener at present working under glass. On one side of the conservatory's long main axis, she has grouped paler coloured flowers, from flat-headed Ammi to white lilies, foxgloves and so much else. On the other side she has grouped the warmer colours, from near-black hollyhocks to red dahlias and cleverly arranged strong yellows. The two beds lead up to a transplanted pine tree, evocative of the big pine that was centrally placed at The Eyrie. Shaded beds then back on to a replica of The Eyrie's celebrated Moon Gate, installed after one of the Rockefellers' visits to China. In 1928 the family heard that parts of the Forbidden City's Great Wall were being demolished. They had the yellow tiles from its top shipped to the US where they still cap their Moon Gate wall.
Coelho told me that she staggered the flowering of 50,000 to 60,000 plants in supporting greenhouses so as to keep her show looking fresh until mid September. She was so calm about it all, calling it "Chelsea, but for months". Everything on show is hand-watered at her direction, even in its hidden pots. Monday is her weekly changeover, when up to half of the flowering plants are removed for revitalising. "What else would you like to change?" I asked under the midday glare of Tuesday. At once she pointed to offenders that she, not I, had observed on our walk. Lobelia Cambridge Blue was damned to exile.
Throughout last summer, Coelho took careful note of The Eyrie's summer plantings on invited visits. Her aim was to evoke a similar feel under the challenge of indoor glass and the scrutiny of hundreds of thousands of visitors. Soon after the gala opening, the garden was visited by the senior Rockefeller, David, now aged in his nineties. To Coelho's delight, he referred to her plantings throughout as "Mother's garden".
On open days her plantings are accompanied in the garden by jazz music and by one of the NYBG's celebrated poetry walks. Poems by Edna St Vincent Millay are displayed on boards beside the outdoor walks. "She was so bohemian," the garden's president, Gregory Long, assured me, the flipside of the groundbreakers' lives. She smoked when smoking in public was illegal for women and, according to the catalogue, "she slept with men and women with a sexual daring that captivated the nation". In older age she retired to a 700-acre estate in the Berkshire Hills near New York. There she wrote poems on nature, flowers and herbs. I wonder what our own Jekyll would have made of her.
'Groundbreakers: Great American Gardens and the Women Who Designed Them' runs at the New York Botanical Garden until September 7; nybg.org/exhibitions
Photographs: Robert Benson; Beatrix Farrand Society
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Calling all Green Leaders! Does your school have a Student Green Team? Or maybe you have a Green Team, but what's next? Check out the links below to help you get started today!
Throughout the District over the past several years, CCSD and Charleston County Environmental Management (CCEM) have been working with teachers and liaisons to help foster the formation of student green teams at each school. During the 2013-2014 school year, CCEM launched a green team sponsorship program in order to lend even more support to student and teacher lead sustainability efforts at the school-level. As a part of this sponsorship, staff members from both CCSD and CCEM have developed a green team formation toolkit, as well as offer in-person, educational presentations to both students and staff to help get a team started. As teams are formed and solidified, CCEM can provide student teams with customized t-shirts, water bottles, lanyards, and other gear to help recognize student efforts in sustainability. Below are some of the useful resources CCSD and CCEM have developed to help you and your school start a green team or support existing green team efforts.
The purpose of creating a Student Green Team is to empower and provide leadership opportunities for students to organize and implement sustainable activities at school. Having a Green Team in place will set a standard for environmental stewardship for school stakeholders: students, faculty, administration, staff and parents. With the assistance of a team coordinator, this student based group identifies issues, makes recommendations and takes action towards greening the school. Since many activities, such as recycling and waste reduction, involve the schools administration and maintenance staff, efforts need to be coordinated with school operations prior to implementation.
Each school will be different in their approach to establishing, structuring and engaging a Green Team. An important component of a successful green team is the commitment of a coordinator to promote teamwork and decision making. This person selects members, coordinates efforts, encourages shared responsibility, and oversees implementation of programs.
Consider an application for students to apply for membership. While all students are encouraged to be involved in sustainability and environmental education, it is also beneficial to have a core group of students dedicated to the green team or green program at a school in order to focus on advancement of projects, programs, and platforms throughout the school year and from year to year.
This application is also a useful tool when student response to participate is overwhelming and it is necessary to better determine which students are serious and committed to being a part of the program and which are not as serious about long-term participation.
Interested in organizing a walk to school day? Starting a garden? Auditing your school's energy use? Or maybe educating your peers on best recycling practices? These are examples of a few projects and platforms you and your students can incorporate in your school's sustainability initiatives. Check out our Green Schools Menu for more examples of things you and your students can do this year in the various areas of sustainability at your school!
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Delivering Hope
Samaritan Aviation exists to demonstrate God's love by addressing the health and medical needs of the people who live in the Sepik River Valley of Papua New Guinea. Our Life Flight operations in Papua New Guinea began in March of 2010. Flying the only float plane in the entire country, we are impacting thousands of villagers in the remote areas, who would otherwise have little or no access to any form of healthcare. Before the days of our Life Flights, a trip to the hospital meant several days of travel by canoe. Today, by air, it is a 20-45 minute flight. For the people of New Guinea, our mission represents access and hope.
Our floatplanes open regions in the Sepik River Valley and northern coast islands, allowing Samaritan to provide medical emergency evacuations. We commonly receive emergency life-flight calls from remote villages for breached births, cerebral malaria, broken backs, and deadly snakebites…along with the occasional spear, arrow, and machete wounds.


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Authorities in the Philippines have announced that at least 24 "penitents" are expected to be nailed on the cross on Good Friday, an annual ritual meant to atone for sins and give thanks to God for blessings.
But the country's Catholic bishops warned the faithful against resorting to extreme forms of sacrifice on Good Friday, including crucifixion and self-flagellation.
Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu, president of the Philippine Bishops' Conference, said: "Let us concentrate more on the prayers. These are the wonderful ways of celebrating the Holy Week,"
He added that the real spirit of the observance of the Holy Week is "conversion of oneself".
Bishop Joel Baylon of Legazpi, chairman of the bishops' commission on youth, also reminded the faithful that there are "other forms of sacrifice and suffering that would lead to real conversion".
"The Lord appreciates all these forms of sacrifices, but sometimes the kind of sacrifice that we impose on ourselves is not what the Lord wants us to do," he said.
Although the Church decries the ritual, the government says it cannot stop devotees from crucifying and whipping themselves.
The department of health has already said that those taking part in the rituals to have tetanus shots and must only use sterilised nails.


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The Purdue Black Cultural Center is launching a new electronic publication – Culture Briefs. This fall, the Culture Briefs will be directly tied to the BCC fall semester theme "Gullah Folklore: (Re)membering Our Pathways Through Low Country Legacies." This is week's brief is written by the BCC's very own librarian, Ms. Jamillah R. Gabriel.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
BCC HISTORY: 40 years ago this week
Dear Everyone:
It was a hard transition into the Greater Lafayette area for BCC Director Emeritus, Antonio Zamora and his wife Betty. Someone left snakes in their mailbox. They got calls from the Ku Klux Klan threatening them, trying to scare them out of town. Why? Because Mr. Zamora was the director of the newly founded Black Cultural Center at Purdue University. The cultural center was not wanted by some people, so by default, neither were Mr. and Mrs. Zamora.
So why am I taking this bumpy trip down memory lane? Well, my phone rang last night and it was Mama Betty, as I call her. She asked if I had seen the Journal and Courier, the Sunday paper, page A2. I had not, so she began to tell me what was on the inside.
I learned from her that the Sunday paper featured a photograph from the J & C Archive. Well, that is not just the paper's history, it is Black Cultural Center history too.
Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) was the first keynote speaker invited by Director Emeritus, Antonio Zamora when he was hired to be the director of the Purdue BCC. Mr. Zamora was well informed of the happenings among Black people nationally at this time in our history. He brought artists, intellectuals, politicians, scholars, philosophers and academics to the university interact with students and to keep them and the community informed on the happenings outside of the walls of academe. These happenings would affect their lives.
Stokely Carmichael was at the forefront of revolutionary thought and a member of SNCC, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was married to South African freedom fighter and artist, Miriam Makeba. Makeba used her art to speak out against the atrocities faced by Black people in South Africa.
What is not commonly known is that it was extremely hard for Mr. Zamora to find a place on campus for Stokely Carmichael to speak. Being the consummate administrator, he negotiated with the late Mr. Smalley who approved a space in the PMU Ballroom for Carmichael to speak on October 29, 1973.
All I can say is thanks Mr. Z. None of us would be here, with jobs, access to resources – globally etc., if not for your very hard work and perseverance. There would be no BCC, no programs, no building, no 44 year history at Purdue, if not for you.
For the record… you music lovers will get a kick out of this:
Another incident occurred that academic year. Guests to the university, invited by Mr. Zamora, were to perform a free open-air concert at Slater Hill. The men in the band were asked to NOT use the dressing rooms to change into their performance attire. Eventually, things were worked out and the show happened.
The name of that band is not known, but one of the band members, well, his name was Maurice.
Maurice and a few of the other brothers went on to form another band. Maurice was Maurice White, and the band they formed, it was called Earth, Wind, & Fire and they have been all over the world performing their music and we still hear it today on radio, in movies, commercials and everywhere. Just think, one of their stops on their road to being internationally known was at Purdue University via the BCC.
That photo of Stokely Carmichael stirred up memories in Mrs. Z. I am so glad she called to share those memories with me so I could pass them on to each of you. We must know upon whose shoulders we stand.
Jolivette J. Anderson-Douoning
Zamora, Betty. Phone Conversation. November 3, 2013. Approx. 8:30 pm


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Question for the environmental activists opposing Keystone…moving oil by rail is better than a pipeline?
Oil, whether it is located in the Bakken on the oil sands will move to market. The issue environment protection groups should be worried about is how to do it in the safest and most affordable method possible.
If opposition emerges over the BC pipelines, the alternative that will be used is moving it by rail to Pacific tide port.


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ERIC Number: ED501129
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003-Jul
Pages: 8
Abstractor: Author
Measuring Children's Proportional Reasoning, The "Tendency" for an Additive Strategy and The Effect of Models
Misailadou, Christina; Williams, Julian
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference Held Jointly with the 25th PME-NA Conference (Honolulu, HI, Jul 13-18, 2003), v3 p3-294
We report a study of 10-14 year old children's use of additive strategies while solving ratio and proportion tasks. Rasch methodology was used to develop a diagnostic instrument that reveals children's misconceptions. Two versions of this instrument, one with "models" thought to facilitate proportional reasoning and one without were given to a sample of 303 children. We propose a methodology for examining systematically the pupils' additive errors, their effect on ratio reasoning and how contingent on "model" presentation this is. First we provide a measure on which pupils, item-difficulty and additive errors can be located. We then construct a new measure, which we name "tendency for additive strategy". Finally, we find that the presence of "models" affects this new measure and draw inferences for choices of items in assessment and teaching. (Contains 3 tables.) [For complete proceedings, see ED500857.]
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Methods, Inferences, Misconceptions, Students, Learning Strategies, Models, Problem Solving, Measurement, Tests, Error Patterns, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. 35 Aandwind Street, Kirstenhof, Cape Town, 7945, South Africa. Tel: +27-21-715-3559; Fax: +27-88-021-715-3559; e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com; Web site: http://igpme.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Primary Education
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The side buttons aren't rubberised in the same way as the keypad so how well they protect against water, mud and dust is debatable. There are side buttons for volume control, starting the camera running and toggling on and off a bright LED torch that sits on the top edge of the handset. All phones should have one of these!
The software for outdoor types is not, to be honest, enough to set my world alight. A pedometer counts steps, giving a rough approximation of distance covered and calories burned. A real adventure sports or outdoor activity person probably either cares very little about these things when they are engaged in an activity or has specialist GPS related equipment that can do a far better job than this pedometer does.
The compass and altimeter are potentially more useful though the latter seemed inaccurate to me. I'd always carry a pocket compass myself, too, as it's quicker and easier to use than the one here, can give me degree level accuracy, is easier to use to take a bearing and draw this on a map and, obviously enough, doesn't rely on a battery and so is 'always on'.
Standard phone software not already mentioned includes an FM radio, voice recorder, mobile email, Google Search and Google Mail shortcuts and an email client. There's also an RSS reader, calendar, task manager, memo, world clock, calculator, unit converter, timer, stopwatch and five alarms.
A year on from its predecessor this rugged phone from Samsung exhibits a few improvements, but I am not convinced the B2700 Bound has a place in the rucksack of the serious outdoors type on the basis of the features it offers. Its battery life, though, could buy its passage, because nobody wants to be caught in a sticky situation with a dead mobile phone.
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The goal is to continue the effective reduction of Scope 1 and 2 CO2e emissions to achieve a 40% saving by 2017 (currently over 30% from the 2007/8 baseline) and meet a very demanding energy performance retrofit target for existing buildings of 63GJ/100m3 . Supporting the sustainable growth of the Campus and effectively managing the incorporation of the new Energy Innovation Centre and the additional benefits this will bring from 2016 onwards.
The Trust has an excellent record in actively managing and subsequently reducing energy consumption and improving its efficiency in use (the bulk of the Scope 1 and 2 emissions). Despite significant site growth (from approx 500,000m3 in 2007/8 to almost 670,000m3 in 2012/13, an increase of around 25%), gross energy use from Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions is approximately 16% less than it was in 2007/08 and stands at approximately 153,000MWh (by comparison a fully occupied medium usage 3 bedroom home would use approx 17MWh/year, i.e. heating and powering CUH is equivalent to 9000 such homes or approaching the domestic consumption of a town the size of King's Lynn).
These gross figures are even more impressive when adjusted for growth to produce building energy performance and carbon intensity figures. The former has fallen steadily from 133GJ/100m3 in 2007/8 to 83GJ/100m3 in 2012/13 (a year by year drop of 7-9% with 15% achieved in 2012/13) – for a rolling programme of individual retrofit projects (from lighting, to BMS connections, to heat exchangers to draught-proofing) this is an impressive record compared to the mandatory NHS figure for a full refurbishment of 55-65GJ/100m3. CO2e emissions, have fallen in line with this reduction by over 30% in terms of tonnes of CO2e/m2 since 2007/8 – this compares very favourably with the NHS target of reducing all emissions by 10% by 2015 (CUH local target is 15%) and reemphasises the importance and weighting of Scope 3 emissions.
As an intense energy consumer, the importance of these reductions to the Trust cannot be underestimated. The Trust not only pays directly for its energy use but also for the carbon emissions it is responsible for. Achieving best value from the latter requires a full working understanding of the implications of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) including the new floor price for carbon and the Climate Change Levy (CCL) and any associated Climate Change Agreements (CCAs).
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Opera Desktop Team – Latest Snapshots lets you keep track of the snapshots builds that are available from the Desktop Team blog. This widget (by default) reloads the versions every 5 minutes.
The interval can be set to any thing you want and updates can be performed manually by pressing the "reload" icon.
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Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow in social epidemiology at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Brief Bio: Jasmine is a social demographer interested in the intersection of family demography, social stratification, and health and well-being across the lifecourse. Her previous work has focussed primarily on the social causes and consequences of infertility in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.
At Oxford, Jasmine investigates the links between economic shocks, food prices, and maternal and child health in India.
Penn State's Demography program: The dual-title degree made me much more marketable when searching for quantitative research posts.
Weblink: http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/academic-staff/jasmine-fledderjohann.html


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