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The note had read:
the thirst for blood it is in
their flesh before the old wound
can be healed there is flesh, blood
the thirst for blood it is in
their flesh before the old wound
can be healed there is flesh, blood
It was the first thing Cletus took from the file as he sat down across the table from the suspect. It had been pinned to the body of the first boy.
The table was an 8'x 3' pinewood job. Cletus, McGuire, and the still nameless suspect were at the end farthest from the door. At the other end stood two burly deputies, each holding a sawed-off 20-gauge pump-action shotgun. In the center of the table were all the items found in the suspect's possession at the time of the arrest: a torn Bugs Bunny t-shirt, a yo-yo, a bag of marbles, a baseball cap, a small pair of glasses--
--and a twenty-four inch sickle.
"Most of this stuff belonged to the three boys killed recently," said McGuire. "But look here -- this t-shirt belonged to the Simpson boy and the glasses are Danny Wilson's -- see here? The frame's taped together in the middle, and--"
"--I know," said Cletus. "His father told us how he'd fixed them just that day." He turned toward the suspect. "Where'd you get all these?"
The man didn't respond, only sat hugging himself and rocking back and forth. He was small and very well groomed. He wore an expensive three-piece suit, though the rains had left their mark on the material. He didn't look like a serial killer, more like the vice-president of a bank. But wasn't that always the way? Four years ago this man had butchered two little boys, then disappeared. Now he'd come back for more, and three new boys were dead.
It ended here. Tonight.
Cletus picked up the sickle, examined it under the light. It looked ancient but felt solid. The handle was marble with detailed carvings of mythological figures. Cletus felt a sense of power in the weapon, almost like an electrical charge. It ran up his arm, snaked through his neck, and flooded his brain with the urge to swing out and take this guy's head off. The sickle would give him the strength. He put it down.
"Outside," he said to McGuire. The sheriff followed him.
"What is it?"
Cletus closed the door. "Let me ask you something, Joe. Doesn't all this strike you as just a little too convenient?"
"I don't follow."
"You got yourself this guy who's carrying stuff that can be linked to all five of the dead boys. He's also got a sickle, which had to be the murder weapon."
" ... yeah?"
"How'd you find him?"
"Anonymous phone tip."
Cletus shook his head. "Something's not right. Has he said much?"
"Hardly a word. What're you thinking?"
Cletus raised a finger. "Not just yet. C'mon."
They went back in and found the suspect -- Cletus had decided to think of him as QuietGuy -- looking at the note. He was smiling.
Cletus snatched the paper from the man and sat down. "Something funny you care to share with the rest of us?"
"Maybe," said QuietGuy. Then he hugged himself and began rocking again.
Cletus looked at McGuire. "You read him his rights?"
"Whatta you think?"
"Always the eloquent one." He turned his atten'tion back to QuietGuy. "You feel like chatting now?"
QuietGuy rocked back and forth.
Cletus leaned forward, pounded his finger against the note. "You know what this is from, don't you?"
No response.
"Well, just in case you forgot, it's from The Odyssey by Homer."
QuietGuy stopped rocking. His eyes locked on Cletus's face.
"You surprised a hick like me would know Homer? I read, yessir. All the classics. Modern stuff too. You caught the new William Goldman yet? Hot stuff." He could feel something rising in his gut. His hands gripped the edge of the table. Cletus knew; as soon as QuietGuy's eyes met his own, he knew. The old instincts hadn't faded with time and empty bottles.
QuietGuy wasn't in this alone.
There was more to this than Joe McGuire suspected.
"I'm gonna say three names," whispered Cletus to QuietGuy, "and I want you to tell me if you know who I'm talking about."
QuietGuy sat frozen, eyes unblinking.
"Alecto," said Cletus--
--and QuietGuy swallowed hard--
--started shaking a little bit--
--"and Megaera."
QuietGuy's shaking grew more violent but he didn't utter a sound.
Cletus sat back in his chair and lit a cigarette.
QuietGuy shook his head and giggled.
"Who the hell?" asked McGuire.
"What is it, Joe? Not up on your Greek mythology? Those are the three Furies. Alecto the Endless, Tisiphone the Retaliator, and Megaera the Envious Rager."
"I don't understand what--"
Cletus slammed his fist on the table and jumped to his feet, nearly knocking over his chair. "Goddammit! I told them, didn't I, Joe? When the governor called in the Feds, I told them this guy had some kinda hard-on for Greek mythology, didn't I? Everyone thought I was just goin' off the deep end 'cause Esther had just left me, thought I was grabbing at straws so I wouldn't lose the election."
"They followed up on that, Cletus, they--.
"--they sent one guy to the library for a couple of hours and decided I was full of shit. For a long time I thought maybe I was, but I've had a lot of time these past four years, time to do some reading of my own, some thinking." He spun around and pointed a finger at QuietGuy. "And you know what I'm talking about, don't you?"
McGuire grabbed his arm. "Cletus, this isn't the place to--"
"--yeah, yeah, I know. Your office, right?" He stormed over to the door, unlocked then opened it. "Let's go."
As McGuire came over to Cletus, QuietGuy picked up the note, shook his head, and whispered, "Paris."
"What?" said McGuire.
"Paris," repeated Cletus.
"Is this guy French or something?"
"No. Paris is someone's name."
"Care to tell me whose?"
"Not until you've had a drink. You'll need it."
Helen rolled over in bed and groaned. Her back was throbbing but she refused to let that stop her. She had mythology reports to grade as soon as the agency man left. Her students were always pleased when she handed back papers on time. One of the few pleasures in her life was being treated with respect and not pity by her students. Of course, one shouldn't expect any less when teaching at a grade school for gifted children. They needed her and Helen liked being needed. If only for her mind.
A glass shattered in the kitchen and Helen snapped her eyes open.
"Dammit!" came a male voice. She blinked, trying to remember the man's name. Young fellow, blond hair, gray eyes, twenty-five or so, terrific body ... what did the agency say his name was?
She couldn't remember. After a while they all got to be the same, especially after the lights went out; then they were nothing more than a hot, sweaty body touching her where she needed to be touched, kissing her in places no freewilled lover ever would, slowly and patiently enduring the obstacle course of her body long enough to bring her home. And sometimes, like this guy, themselves.
She reached over to the bedside table, turned on the light, and picked up her purse. "What's your name again?" she called.
"Just call me Paris," said the voice from the kitchen. "Everyone does."
"Would you stop messing around and come here, please?" A few moments later he was standing by the bed, still naked. God, what a beauty he was!
"How much?"
"Usual agency fee," said Paris.
Helen sighed and began counting out the cash. "You were very nice. Most of the men they've sent me aren't usually so ... considerate."
To her surprise, he knelt on the bed, bent down, and kissed her; a long, warm, deep kiss.
He pulled away. "You have the most beautiful face I've ever seen."
Her defensiveness kicked in, telling her that she'd just been patronized. She sat up and covered herself with the sheet. "Thank you. You've got your money, please go now."
"Because we're finished, that's why. Because I have to get dressed and it's a little awkward with--"
"Then I'll just go in the kitchen and finish making our dinner, how's that?"
She stared at him. "Do you always make dinner for your, uh, your ... ?"
"No, but you're ... special."
"I've been making my own meals for almost thirty years, thank you. You may not believe it, but I don't call to have a nurse sent here. I don't want your pity and I don't want any false sympathy. I'll tell the agency that you were nice. There. Now you don't have to suck up any more."
"Don't get nasty with me, Helen. I like you. I loved being with you."
She shot him an angry glance, not sure how to take that. "What is it with you?"
"Let's just say that the traditional female body does nothing for me and leave it at that." There was genuine admiration in his eyes. "Scrambled eggs and bacon, all right?"
He kissed her again. "I really do love your face." Then he went to the kitchen.
Helen was surprised at how quickly she was able to dress. Usually the leg brace gave her trouble but tonight it snapped into place without the slightest discomfort. It wasn't until she was buttoning her blouse and looked across the room that she saw it.
The wall around the bedroom window was cracked. Not the paint, the wall.
And not only was it cracked, it seemed to be bulging inward as if the outside of the house had warped.
But there were other things.
like the chipped plaster on the carpet
like the odd angle of the window
and the gaping, half-inch space between the wall and window sill where a draft sliced through.
The gap ran the entire length of the window as if something had been used to saw through. She reached out with her good arm and touched the window, gasping when she saw it ever-so-slightly swing -- not much but enough to let her know this section of wall was on the verge of collapsing. She stepped back and shook her head.
Not once in thirteen years had there been a problem with the house. This was an old house, they were supposed to be built better, weren't they? Three thousand dollars away from paying off the mortgage and now the place decides to fall apart! She nearly cursed out loud--
--then saw the odd substance that leaked from the gap and ran down the wall. Thick and gummy, white yet almost clear. She wondered if something hadn't gone wrong with the wiring, perhaps causing something in there to melt--
--which would be fine if this house was built with plastic and glue.
She reached out and touched the substance, shivered when her fingers made contact. She looked down and saw it pooling on the floor. There seemed to be quarts of the stuff. She shook her head and wiped her fingers on the skin of her malformed arm.
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Let Them Eat Meat
"…When Hashem, your G-d, expands your borders, as He has spoken to you, and you say, "I will eat meat," because your soul desires to eat meat… However, be strong in not eating the blood…" – Devarim 12:20-23
כִּי יַרְחִיב ה' אֱלֹקֶיךָ אֶת גְּבֻלְךָ כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר לָךְ וְאָמַרְתָּ אֹכְלָה בָשָׂר כִּי תְאַוֶּה נַפְשְׁךָ לֶאֱכֹל בָּשָׂר בָּשָׂר . . רַק חֲזַק לְבִלְתִּי אֲכֹל הַדָּם – דברים יב, כ-כג
According to one opinion in the Talmud (Chullin 16b), Bnei Yisrael in the desert were not permitted to eat any meat other than that of an animal offered as a sacrifice. The Torah therefore states that when G-d "expands your borders," i.e. when Bnei Yisrael will arrive in the Land of Israel, it will be permissible for them to eat meat whenever "your soul desires to eat meat," even from an animal that was not brought as a sacrifice.
The permission to consume non-sacrificial meat upon entering the Land of Israel reflected the shift of spiritual focus that would accompany Bnei Yisrael's departure from the desert and entry to the Land.
Upon entering the Land of Israel, Bnei Yisrael would begin engaging with the world on a natural level, working the land and settling it. Their Divine mission would be to elevate the material world by imbuing it with G-dly purpose.
In the desert, however, G-d provided all their material needs through miraculous means, allowing them to devote themselves entirely to their spiritual development and to the study of the Torah. Therefore, in the desert, there was no justification for eating "mundane" meat, for the job of elevating the mundane had not yet begun. Animals were to be offered to G-d as sacrifices; only in that holy context was meat permissible for consumption.
Non-sacrificial meat became permissible for consumption only when Bnei Yisrael entered the Land of Israel. Now they were permitted to partake of the physical world—even beyond that which is obviously sacred (as the sacrifices were), for they now had the ability and responsibility to infuse even their mundane desires with a G-dly purpose.
The Torah warns, however, "Be strong in not eating the blood." Blood is a metaphor for energy, enthusiasm and passion. The Torah's admonition to only eat meat that has been drained of its blood means that when we utilize what the world has to offer for a G-dly purpose, we must do so without blood, i.e. without excitement or lust for physical enjoyment and pleasure.
—Likutei Sichos, vol. 4, pp. 1108-1110
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Adding an Amazon RDS DB Instance to Your PHP Application Environment
You can use an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB instance to store data gathered and modified by your application. The database can be attached to your environment and managed by Elastic Beanstalk, or created and managed externally.
If you are using Amazon RDS for the first time, add a DB instance to a test environment with the Elastic Beanstalk console and verify that your application can connect to it.
To connect to a database, add the driver to your application, load the driver class in your code, and create a connection object with the environment properties provided by Elastic Beanstalk. The configuration and connection code vary depending on the database engine and framework that you use.
For learning purposes or test environments, you can use Elastic Beanstalk to add a DB instance.
For production environments, you can create a DB instance outside of your Elastic Beanstalk environment to decouple your environment resources from your database resources. This way, when you terminate your environment, the DB instance isn't deleted. An external DB instance also lets you connect to the same database from multiple environments and perform blue-green deployments. For instructions, see Using Elastic Beanstalk with Amazon Relational Database Service.
Adding a DB Instance to Your Environment
To add a DB instance to your environment
Open the Elastic Beanstalk console.
Navigate to the management page for your environment.
Choose Configuration.
In the Database configuration category, choose Modify.
Choose a DB engine, and enter a user name and password.
Choose Apply.
Adding a DB instance takes about 10 minutes. When the environment update is complete, the DB instance's hostname and other connection information are available to your application through the following environment properties:
RDS_HOSTNAME – The hostname of the DB instance.
Amazon RDS console label – Endpoint (this is the hostname)
RDS_PORT – The port on which the DB instance accepts connections. The default value varies among DB engines.
Amazon RDS console label – Port
RDS_DB_NAME – The database name, ebdb.
Amazon RDS console label – DB Name
RDS_USERNAME – The user name that you configured for your database.
Amazon RDS console label – Username
RDS_PASSWORD – The password that you configured for your database.
For more information about configuring an internal DB instance, see Adding a Database to Your Elastic Beanstalk Environment.
Downloading a Driver
To use PHP Data Objects (PDO) to connect to the database, install the driver that matches the database engine that you chose.
MySQL –
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SQL Server –
For more information, see http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.installation.php.
Connecting to a Database with a PDO or MySQLi
You can use
$_SERVER[` to read connection information from the environment.
For a PDO, create a Data Source Name (DSN) from the host, port, and name. Pass the DSN to the constructor for the PDO with the database user name and password.
Example Connect to an RDS database with PDO - MySQL
<?php $dbhost = $_SERVER['RDS_HOSTNAME']; $dbport = $_SERVER['RDS_PORT']; $dbname = $_SERVER['RDS_DB_NAME']; $charset = 'utf8' ; $dsn = "
mysql:host={$dbhost};port={$dbport};dbname={$dbname};charset={$charset}"; $username = $_SERVER['RDS_USERNAME']; $password = $_SERVER['RDS_PASSWORD']; $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password); ?>
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mysql with the name of your driver –
oci, or
For MySQLi, pass the hostname, user name, password, database name, and port to the
mysqli constructor.
Example Connect to an RDS database with mysqli_connect()
$link = new mysqli($_SERVER['RDS_HOSTNAME'], $_SERVER['RDS_USERNAME'], $_SERVER['RDS_PASSWORD'], $_SERVER['RDS_DB_NAME'], $_SERVER['RDS_PORT']);
Connecting to a Database with Symfony
For Symfony version 3.2 and newer, you can use
%env( to set database parameters in a
configuration file based on the environment properties set by Elastic Beanstalk.
Example app/config/parameters.yml
parameters: database_driver: pdo_mysql database_host: '%env(RDS_HOSTNAME)%' database_port: '%env(RDS_PORT)%' database_name: '%env(RDS_DB_NAME)%' database_user: '%env(RDS_USERNAME)%' database_password: '%env(RDS_PASSWORD)%'
See External Parameters (Symfony 3.4) for more information.
For earlier versions of Symfony, environment variables are only accessible if they
start with
SYMFONY__. This means that the
Elastic Beanstalk-defined environment properties are not accessible, and you must
define your own environment properties to pass the connection information to
To connect to a database with Symfony 2, create an environment property for each parameter. Then, use
% to access the Symfony-transformed variable in a configuration file. For example,
environment property named
SYMFONY__DATABASE__USER is accessible as
database_user: "%database.user%"
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Funding for Habitat Restoration, Sound Stewardship & More Fish Among Initiatives
Mystic, CT, Oct. 29, 2007—Gathering together in Mystic, Conn., one of Long Island Sound's most environmentally significant coastal areas, top federal and state environmental officials announced 24 grants to local governments and community groups under the Long Island Sound Futures Fund. The $917,650 will be leveraged by $1.68 million raised by the recipients themselves towards the projects, providing a total of nearly $2.8 million towards on-the-ground conservation in Connecticut and New York.
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Blue Louisa: A blog Covering Central Virginia & national politics from a progressive perspective
The Conservative Myth
In the upcoming elections, voters must choose candidates for public office based upon their values, authenticity and trusts. And the radical authoritarian right wing Koch brother's front group, Americans for Prosperity, is wasting no time mailing out their deceptive propaganda. Expecting voters to believe that they are preserving and promoting American values and yet their actions trample our values and deconstruct the government agencies responsible for protecting our citizens.
In "Conservative" economic mythology the earth resources exist for human profit and for us to consume. Promoting the idea that if natural resources are not privatized, then they are of no value…. The land, water and air that we cherish are being destroyed by "conservatives" who promote privatization and deregulation as a virtue instead of a responsibility of the government to protect our common wealth.
The outsourcing of American elections through wealthy campaign contributors has made profit making our governments primary mission, and spending on public good and safety no longer one of their goals. For example, climate change is happening, yet the "Conservative" agenda is to bury scientific evidence, stop conducting research, gag government agencies and cut budgets for those investigating it, acerbating this global crisis even further.
In the "Conservative" free market world we find multi-billion dollar government bailouts, legalized bribery by lobbyist, and subsidies for industries, plus the auctioning of common wealth land, water, oil rights, etc., to corporations at a fraction of the cost of what privately owned resources cost.
Business decisions and markets driven by profits will often affect human health and life, a subject outside the scope of conservative moral judgments.
In contrast, Progressives believe that markets should serve human values, that government regulations protect the public from harmful products and fraud, they believe in fair taxation wherein the wealthy should pay more to nourish and replenish the common wealth they benefit from, and they believe in a balance of power between worker's and corporation owners to insure a healthy workplace.
Clean drinking water and air quality are NOT commodities and industry should not decide how much contaminants American's ingest. Progressives see fundamental freedoms of markets exist for the common good, the freedom to earn a living wage, freedom from expensive healthcare, freedom from ignorance, freedom from bigotry, hate, and fear, and the preservation of our natural world.
Conservatives see these freedoms as interferences.
So here we are at the beginning of another election cycle filled with the Conservative myths of free markets and deregulation. Do we vote for a "Conservative" party candidate intent on lowering labor costs, providing less health care coverage, abolishing environmental protections, and letting the taxpayer pay for corporate profits?
Or do we vote for a Progressive candidate whom claims the moral responsibility to care for others, believes in using common wealth for the common good not for the wealthy, and believes in protecting the natural and individual resources we share? Your vote IS VERY important for our future.
Mark S. Chapman
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So today's post is all about when a 'What I Eat In A Day' goes wrong.
It started out relatively well. I have been suffering from a disgusting cough but I was up about in the morning with a cup of tea and a smile on my face. But something was up. The cough was making my throat feel all catchy and watery and it was tiring to always need to clear your throat yet never achieve it. Nothing seemed to work.


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Best Novel:
- The Rift by Nina Allan (review at The New Scientist) - Allan's second novel sneaks up on you. For most of its length, it's a well-crafted family drama about a woman whose sister disappears in her teens and reappears as an adult. A long middle segment seems to chart the sister's experiences on an alien planet, but are we to take them literally, or as a metaphor for abduction and abuse, or a as a complete invention? Despite the seeming simplicity of the story, there's a richness here that demands reexamination and thought, in the tradition of the best science fiction. Shortlisted for the BSFA award for best novel.
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid - It's a bit of a long shot, trying to get literary fantasy onto the Hugo ballot, but if there was a 2017 novel that combined a literary fiction sensibility with SFnal elements to greater and more devastating effect than Exit West, I haven't heard of it. Set in a world much like our own, where civil war, economic instability, and climate change are sending waves of refugees in search of a better future, Hamid imagines that randomly appearing doors allow these refugees to immediately appear in richer, safer countries. The result is sometimes tragic, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally utopian. Shortlisted for the BSFA award for best novel.
- White Tears by Hari Kunzru - If Exit West is a stretch, White Tears is even more so, since the Hugos don't tend to recognize horror and ghost stories. But Kunzru's novel is masterful in how it combines the familiar tropes of a haunting with the history of how white culture appropriates black art and commodifies black pain. Its fevered conclusion leaves us uncertain who to root for, and uncertain whether a full exorcism is even possibly until the total extent of complicity and guilt has been explored and expiated.
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (review at The New Scientist) - Along with Exit West, this feels like the genre novel for 2017, encompassing politics, capitalism, and environmentalism as it tries to imagine how humanity might survive in the post-climate catastrophe world, and how the means of that survival could end up being turned into yet another commodity by the financial system that defines New York as much as its culture and community. Told by a rotating cast of characters, New York 2140 is funny, erudite, and invigorating, offering hope for the future even as it identifies the infuriating flaws of the present.
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (review at The New Scientist, subscribers only) - Offering a twist on the generation ship story that really shouldn't work, Solomon not only combines slavery and science fiction, but adds to them a neuroatypical, gender-nonconforming heroine to create a rich stew that nonetheless feels grounded and immediate. An Unkindness of Ghosts touches on so many issues, and makes room for such harsh, heartbreaking emotion, that it's hard to believe that it also works so well as a space adventure and a tale of escape. But at the heart of the story is a simple message--that science fiction is not antithetical to the prejudiced abuses of the past, and that enslaved people can still star in, and direct, a science fictional story. Listed in the Tiptree Award honor roll.
Best Novella:
I have to admit that I don't actually know that any of these works belong in this category, wordcount-wise--the first two might be too long, the last too short. But absent any information to the contrary, I'm nominating them here because that's where it feels that they belong.
- Landscape With Invisible Hand by M.T. Anderson (review in The New Scientist) - Anderson's short, devastating work is a dark comedy about love, art, and economic exploitation. Or rather, it's a dark comedy about how economic exploitation can hollow out love and art until there's nothing left, and about people clinging to their notions of how the world works even in the face of the complete destruction of their system of values. All that, and funny aliens too.
- Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim - I'll have more to say about Lim's weird, experimental volume in the near future, but for now I'll just say that this is a deeply political work that forces the fantasies of agency that pop culture has been feeding us for decades--superheroes, secret agents, psychic powers--on a collision course with the realities of political and economic exploitation. Dear Cyborgs asks, what is the value of disruption--through art, through protest, through defeating a supervillain's dastardly plot--when the system that envelopes you will always co-opt it?
- "Fallow" by Sofia Samatar (from Tender) - After delivering two of the most astonishing fantasy novels of the last few years, Samatar dropped off the radar a bit in 2017, despite releasing a very fine short fiction collection. As a result, there hasn't been as much talk about "Fallow" as it deserves, but this is a very fine portrait of a deeply conformist society and the individual that bucks against it. The narrator--who isn't an iconoclast but loves people who are--is left wondering what's better, preserving the community or making space for those who are different.
Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Novel:
- A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge - Normally I'd feel a bit guilty for nominating in a category in which I've only read one eligible novel, but when that novel is by Frances Hardinge, and is as fine as A Skinful of Shadows, there's really nothing to apologize for. Set in the early days of the English civil war, Skinful follows a heroine with a head full of ghosts, as she tries to survive, escape people who want to abuse her power, and form a family of her own. It's a keen examination of the abuses of power and how it twists both the people it benefits and the people it hurts, as well as a utopian vision of disenfranchised people helping one another and creating a kinder, more equitable future.
Campbell Award for Best New Writer:
Most years, my nominees in this category are short story writers, but because I haven't read a lot of 2017 short fiction, this year they're all debut novelists, each with a very different, but also very exciting, start to their career.
- Jeannette Ng - I had a lot of expectations when I heard that Ng's debut novel, Under the Pendulum Sun, was about Victorian missionaries in fairyland. Ng exploded pretty much all of them, and delivered something much stranger--a Gothic romance full of musings about identity, morality, and theology. It doesn't entire work for me--there's a certain bagginess, especially towards the end, and the book seems to expect an investment in the main characters' obsessions that I didn't quite feel--but despite these issues, Under the Pendulum Sun is so much its own thing, and Ng's work on it feels so assured, that it heralds the arrival of a major new writer. First year of eligibility.
- K. Arsenault Rivera - I wasn't entirely blown away by Rivera's debut novel, The Tiger's Daughter (I'll have more to say about it soon, probably next week). But it is a gorgeously written epic fantasy that places as much focus on its heroines' interior life as it does on their battles with demons and wild animals. And it builds a fascinating world rooted in Asian culture and mythology, and plants a complicated political system in the middle of it. There are a lot of great writers challenging our assumptions about what epic fantasy can and should do these days, and with The Tiger's Daughter, Rivera has joined their ranks. First years of eligibility.
- Rivers Solomon - It should come as no surprise that the author of a debut novel on my Best Novel ballot will also end up on my Campbell ballot. I've already written about why I think An Unkindness of Ghosts is special, and I can only hope that Solomon will follow it up with more work that is groundbreaking and challenging. First year of eligibility.


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Les défis de la République
Genre, territoires, citoyenneté
Challenges to the Republic
Gender, territory, citizenship
Policies aimed at achieving parity, affirmative action measures, establishing time offices to harmonize working hours, reversing the burden of proof in cases of discrimination, ensuring equal access to public spaces... the French Republic is undeniably undergoing tremendous change. These changes have nonetheless been met with strong ideological opposition. Largely voiced by minority groups, such demands for change are often accused of being particularistic. Republican universalism must remain intact — even if that means that 'for things to remain the same, everything must change', to quote Tancredi.
The authors of this volume have wagered on the complete opposite, choosing instead to study the conditions that would allow these new public action mechanisms to be expanded and scaled up.
Drawing on the work of politician and sociologist Françoise Gaspard, a key player in these civic metamorphoses, this volume illustrates how the Republic is not merely a principle of government: it is the very idea being challenged by such new policies. Consequently, and paradoxically, it thus also becomes a possible avenue for transforming the law.


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BRONC / LADY BRONC BASKETBALL - The Sheridan Bronc and Lady Bronc basketball teams open the 2012-13 season Friday at home playing a double header with Green River. The girls varsity game will tip at 5:45 and the boys follow at 7:30 we will have both games live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM ESPN radio.
The Lady Broncs return a strong group from last season and Head coach Sean Yeager says it's game week and all their attention is on Friday night.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012 --- 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
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SC BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Lady Generals split two games over the weekend they beat the College of Great Falls Friday and lost 70-68 against the number two ranked team in the country North Idaho Saturday night.
Head coach Frank McCarthy was pleased with the effort in the game Saturday.
And he says playing the best teams in the country this time of year is good for the players as they move ahead with their season.
SC BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Generals beat the College of Great Falls Friday night 117-37 to go to 7-2 overall, the Generals finish up the Lions club tournament tonight against Colorado Northwestern tip off is scheduled for 7:00.
The Lady Generals blew out the College of Great Falls as well Friday night 91-39 tonight it's a big step up in competition when they take on the 2nd ranked team in the country North Idaho tip off is at 5:00.
SC BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Generals and Lady Generals host the Sheridan Lions club tournament today and tomorrow.
Tickets can be purchased at the door all day adult tickets are 6.00 dollars and students at 3.00 dollars games are at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 and 7:00 both days.
This will be the second straight weekend at home for the Lady Generals Head coach Frank McCarthy.
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SHERIDAN COLLEGE BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Generals lost at home against Eastern Wyoming Tuesday night in overtime 91-82.
The Generals fall to 6-2 they led the whole game until they gave the game away. With three seconds to play and leading 70-68 the Generals turned the ball over and committed a foul.
Eastern converted two free throws to tie the game at 70 then blew the Generals out in overtime, after the loss Head coach Steve Smiley says that's as bad a loss as any team can take.
GENERALS BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Generals play at home tonight against Eastern Wyoming tip off is at 6:00 we will broadcast the action for you live on 14-10 KWYO and 87.7 FM ESPN radio.
The Generals are 6-1 overall coming off an impressive weekend which saw them win two games against two very good JUCO programs in the region Head coach Steve Smiley.
SC BASKETBALL - The Sheridan college Lady Generals split their weekend tournament games, they blew out Salish-Kootenai 107-46 on Friday and dropped a 51-48 game against Eastern Wyoming Saturday.
They sit at 6-2 as they get ready to host the Lions club Thanksgiving tournament Friday and Saturday.
The Generals picked up to impressive road wins over the weekend they beat Northeastern Junior college from Sterling, Colorado 73-62 and Williston, North Dakota 82-77 to run their record to 6-1 overall.
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A new week is here which means it is time for another edition of #mondaynightmiles. I am not sure if it was lack of interest in the two teams or too much turkey but only a few of us picked our team (Seahawks) and we all picked right! I still did a 5 mile run to complete the Fall 5 or 10 series that mommy run fast puts on! I can proudly say I completed the challenge and even ordered myself a medal! Now I just need to win a medal rack- hint,hint pavementrunner.
Anyway back to this week- we have Dallas taking on the Bears. I am picking da bears! How about you?? Get your pick in and get your friend to pick too! Everyone likes a little friendly competition right?!
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With aircraft connectivity in the ascendance and increasingly extending beyond the cockpit, many of aviation's prominent technology providers used this week's Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg to showcase their present and future innovations.
Taking prominence was in-flight entertainment & connectivity products. Among them was Inmarsat, the UK-headquartered satellite telecommunications company which confirmed it has now exceeded 1,000 expected aircraft under signed contracts for its GX Aviation and European Aviation Network (EAN) inflight broadband offerings.
At AIX, Inmarsat expanded its cooperation with AirAsia, with the Malaysia-based airline among the likes of Lufthansa, Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines as Inmarsat users.
The two parties announced a memorandum of understanding to gradually upgrade the carrier's Airbus A320 fleet and begin a brand new rollout of GX Aviation and EAN broadband across its A330 long-haul jets.
Through AirAsia's Rokki entertainment system, passengers will be able to access the IFEC platform through offline devices. Retrofitting of the aircraft is expected to begin in Q4 2017 with a 2018 rollout. "We would like this done quickly as we feel we are behind the curve in this area," AirAsia chief executive Benyamin Ismail told a media briefing in Hamburg.
Other companies with significant IFEC announcements included Panasonic Avionics launching its NEXTTM IFEC platform. "Our global connectivity network, weather services, and maintenance organization are all key examples of how our services and products have evolved into an integrated ecosystem that will exponentially increase the value the NEXT platform delivers to airlines and their passengers," said CEO Hideo Nakano.
But while IFEC systems garnered much attention, the full effect of the connectivity drive will extend beyond just these innovations and into other areas including better maintenance reporting, Honeywell Aerospace's director, cross product marketing & connected aircraft business development Philip Hermann, told Aviation Week's Helen Massey-Beresford.
The surge of aircraft makers in the aftermarket segment also saw another development, with Airbus announcing a new commercial aircraft cabin upgrades business - Airbus Interior Services – to offer retrofit services.
Aside from OEMs, traditional repair specialists also see much opportunity in cabin upgrade work over the next decade. Given the common trajectory of interiors being modified every six to seven years, Switzerland's SR Technics says it is targeting cabin upgrade work to account for between 60-70% of all company work in the next few years from its center of excellence in Zurich.
Michael Sattler, senior vice president aircraft services at SR Technics, which has ongoing reconfiguration A320 cabin projects with Edelweiss and SWISS, said last year's EASA approval for Boeing 777 cabin modifications work was a continuation of its capability expansion.
"From a know-how perspective, the approval allows us to take our experience with the Airbus fleet and transfer it to the 777," he says.
Another MRO, France's Sabena technics, is also experiencing high demand for interiors work. The MRO received EASA STC approval for a Honeywell JetWave Ka-band system to be installed on an Airbus widebody.
Lionel Bacquey, Sabena technics program manager, said differentiating across aviation segments has ensured workflow at its Bordeaux facility has remained robust. "There are a lot of interior projects ongoing right now across commercial, military and VIP programs. This means slots up until the end of the year are limited," he said.


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My friend, Steve, and I have been having lunch together every week for over a decade. I've learned a lot from Steve. There aren't many people who know so much about so many things. Born in rural Alabama, Steve grew up learning how things work and how to make-do with whatever was available. As a … Continue reading
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Iphigene here!
Hi everyone! I'm back for a short visit and its always lovely to come back for Poetry Friday. Fats asked me to visit and take over today's post. So here I am. Today's poem is an original I wrote on 03 February 2017 ( I have made a few edits since then). I was going through an episode and these words found themselves out of me.
For those who are unfamiliar with me, I'm a psychologist and I am diagnosed with Clinical Depression. I believe in talking about mental illness and educating people about it. It's something I'm rather passionate about. However, I do have my days. Today's poem takes you inside my head when I'm caught in my anxiety, when I'm depressed. The poem also aligns with our current theme: Mentally Yours.
For more poems check our today's host Michelle@Today's Little Ditty
Inside My Head
Let me confess:
Sometimes I ran out
Of courage
Of fight
And all I want is an end.
I grow weary,
Of the force I put
To breathe
To push back
The anxiety
Weighing on me
With counts of
One,two, three,
Four, five, six
I am tired of needing a pause—
To slow down my life
As it picks itself up after—
After the waves of panic
After the unfounded fear
And the need to feel
I envy those who need not
Fight or gather courage
To live
and choose
I envy those who
Need not wonder if today's
Sadness is real or not
I envy those who need not
be miserable
Of imbalanced chemicals
in their brain
I envy those who need
Not write these words:
Sometimes I ran out
Of courage
Of fight
And all I want is an end—
To be swallowed whole
By the dragon inside my head
One, two,
Three, breathe
Four, five, six
Breathe Seven,
eight, nine
And in ten
I live through it again.


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Get ready. Your baby banana plant won't be a baby for long. Each stalk of leaves will produce only one bloom, which will stay alive and colorful for weeks. The good news, though, is that long before that bloom ages, your banana will send up at least one new baby banana plant – called a sucker – to grow for you next season. Once the bloom passes, the greenery will stay lovely for a long time, though you may want to cut it back so the plant spends its energy on the babies.
Unpack your plant carefully so as not to damage the tender roots around the bulb, called a rhizome. Bananas don't spread as voraciously as many other tropical plants, so it will do great in a pot or small plot of ground – as long as it is protected from cold. It won't grow much, if at all, when ground and air temperatures are below 50 degrees F.
Your new banana will start strong if planted in a well-drained soil mixture of perlite, peat moss, and potting soil. Notice the line of photosynthesis and plant your banana to the same depth. Water well and put it in a semi-sunny spot for a few days before moving it into full sun. (Most bananas will bloom and fruit in partial sun, however.) Keep the soil moist but not wet or the rhizome may rot. (You'll spot this if the base of the plant starts to soften. If this happens, hold off watering and the plant will usually take care of itself by sending out a new sucker.) Usually, watering every other day will suffice, depending on the humidity and heat in your area.
Within a week or so, you should notice new leaves coming out of the top of the plant. The old leaves may die back. Don't worry; this is simply a reaction to being replanted. Within four to six weeks, your banana plant should be covered in new leaves.
Bananas also love to be fed. A monthly fertilizer of elements below 10-10-10 will keep your banana happy and growing in the warmer months. If you are more of an organic gardener, old banana peels buried in the ground next to your plant gives it a wonderful boost of potassium your plant will love.


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Per Mertesacker's revealing comments about the pressure of modern football have been met with some surprising criticism. DW's Jonathan Harding asks, what is the world coming to?
Per Mertesacker's comments in Spiegel about being so anxious before games he would nearly vomit are startling, but they are also to be respected and appreciated. Anything else would be inhumane.
Lothar Matthäus who might appreciate Mertesacker's world more than most ended up showing why he is in the studio and not the dugout. Speaking on Sky Sports in Germany, the 1990 World Cup winner asked how Mertesacker could possibly approach his job working at the Arsenal academy next season in the wake of these revelations.
The comments of some ex-professionals and other media outlets are part of the problem. They smack of men talking about a game they remember rather than the reality of what it is. They — the voice of the all-knowing expert — are part of the reason athletes don't reveal a deeper truth. They contribute to football's chamber of pressure. They are partly the reason why it's so often "I give my all in training" and not "the experience is draining."
In a world of unimaginable pressure and expectation, athletes are constantly expected to perform superhero feats week in, week out without any care given to their human traits. Why? Because they live in a world of unimaginable privilege? To reduce any athlete to their earnings is anything but human. Money may well change a life but it is still a human life.
Mertesacker's comments are an example of a man not only football needs, but also the world. A good man, an honest man, for whom the world extends beyond the realms of the football field, deserves support. This is a man who was a teammate of Robert Enke, the former Germany goalkeeper who committed suicide.
Anyone brave enough to reveal a truth as startling as his — in a world as unrelenting as his — deserves support.
In an era of football where many fans are being pushed further and further from the game, finances are astounding and come from questionable sources, what could be more necessary than Mertesacker's comments? The personal experience of pressure and how it affected him not only makes him more a tangible sportsman — a rare thing indeed — but also makes him a better coach. Most of all, it makes him more human.
Truth is harder to find today than perhaps ever before. When it arrives, it should be commended. Most of the responses to Mertesacker's moving interview did show that change is already here, that acceptance of the human aspect does exist. But this has to be a start, not an anomaly.
Arsenal center back Per Mertesacker has raised more than a few eyebrows with comments about how much pressure he has felt throughout his career. He also said that he was glad that his playing days were coming to an end. (11.03.2018)


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Transporting, maintaining and installing large aircraft engines is a difficult and risky business for both the equipment and the ground support crews—from lost hardware to risks of damage to the engine or injuries to workers. Safety issues aren't always a primary concern for the shipping container manufacturer—but they should be.
At Champion GSE, we've spent a fair amount of time incorporating commonplace technologies in innovative ways to make our containers and stands safer and easier to use, such as:
- Rotating mounts for the turbine rear support ring in our GEnx-1B/2B stand that allow it to rotate 180 degrees. This capability allows the stand to hold either of the two aircraft engines with just a few simple modifications.
- Compressors that power on-board shock isolation systems. Typically used to convert power into energy for refrigeration, air pumps and more, these built-in compressors inflate the airbags in our air-ride container, eliminating damage to the engine and mitigating the need for add-on equipment.
- Hydraulics that automatically deploy casters, extend cylinders and roll the engine so crews don't have to manually operate equipment during the transport and installation of engines. With manually operated stands, crews risk pinched/sliced fingers, crushed toes and more, even when they fully follow safety procedures. With the addition of this technology to our GEnx-1B/2B stand, we virtually eliminate those risks and make the stand much easier (and safer) to operate and use.
These technologies and mechanisms have been around for decades and are found in many of the things we use every day. The real innovation is in how we applied them.
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Explore the concepts of identity and belonging with your class using Grade 4 and Grade 9 lesson plans for combined social studies and visual arts learning, and an all-grades guide to using "The Raven's Call" story and animation.
"Celebration of
Bill Reid Pole"
The pole was completed
on location at the Bill Reid Gallery
of Northwest Coast Art,
in Vancouver, BC,
on October 23, 2009.
© 2009 James Hart
Grade 4 classes focus on the cultural expression of identity by learning about Haida crest animals, myths and jewelry.
Grade 9 classes discover how the "Celebration of Bill Reid Pole," carved by James Hart of Haida Gwaii, represents and honours the life of Bill Reid and his artistic journey.
Here you'll find ideas and suggestions for both younger and older students to examine the animated film, "The Raven's Call," and create an ending for this unfinished story.
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Afghanistan's much-watched presidential elections are in for more flak after the embattled United Nations special envoy admitted for the first time that there was widespread fraud in the August poll.
Over 5.6 million Afghan voters cast their ballots in the poll
United Nations Special Representative Kai Eide told a press conference in Kabul on Sunday that "it is true that in a number of polling stations in the south and the southeast there was significant fraud."
"It has been claimed that there was 30 percent fraud. There is no way to know at this stage what the level of fraud is. No one knows. I can only say there was widespread fraud," Eide said.
Eide had called the media conference to deny allegations made by his sacked former deputy, Peter Galbraith. The latter had accused Eide of hushing up evidence of fraud in the August 20 elections.
Galbraith had previously said that 30 percent of President Hamid Karzai's votes were fraudulent, echoing European Union election monitors who had labeled 1.5 million votes, including 1.1 million for Karzai, as being suspicious.
Eide denied any interference with the process to conceal the level of fraud, saying that the UN mandate in Afghanistan was meant to support the process, not influence the outcome.
Eide fell out with his former deputy over voter fraud accusations
"The allegations made against me by my former deputy have not only been personal attacks against me and my integrity, but they have been attacks that in fact have affected the entire election process," Eide said.
The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is conducting an investigation and the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has carried out a week-long audit of 10 percent of the suspicious ballot boxes.
Election officials said on Sunday that the sample audit was completed and that the results would be announced within a few days.
Karzai to lose absolute majority?
The incumbent Karzai has been leading preliminary results in the Afghan presidential poll with about 55 percent of the vote, followed by former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah with 28 percent, according to figures released by the Independent Election Commission (IEC) last month.
Should Karzai, who has been bearing the brunt of fraud accusations, drop below 50 percent, he would have to face a run-off with Abdullah Abdullah.
IEC officials have said that a run-off would have to be held three weeks after final results are announced and before winter weather makes rural areas in central and northern Afghanistan inaccessible.
Editor: Holly Fox
Despite claims to the contrary by President Karzai, the Afghan election was marred by massive fraud, an election analyst tells DW and calls for more international pressure on the new government. (08.10.2009)
European Union foreign ministers have discussed a number of issues including the recent Afghan elections and forming closer ties with nations in the Southern Caucasus region. (15.09.2009)


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While at Sirens last year, I sat in a panel devoted to discussing Resources for Writing Fantasy. Even though I've been writing since I learned how, I haven't been writing fantasy for long. I dabbled in the genre a bit when I was young, but hadn't thrown myself into it until about two years ago.
In the mean time I had read my fair share of fantasy books, mostly epics, but none of the major canonical works in the genre. I'd also watched quite a lot of fantasy derived movies and television shows. The latter of which can outline so many 'what not to-do's'.
After reading my first urban fantasy book, Kelley Armstrong's Bitten, I knew that's what I wanted to write. The more I read in the genre, the more attached to it I became. But I had a little problem. It would take me decades to read all the really significant urban fantasy works out there. And, the more novels I read in the sub-genre, the more aware I became of the cut-and-paste tropes constantly recycled. Some worked, many annoyed me because the whole series grew predictable.
Then I discovered I had a personal problem with the genre.
The people who work and write in the fantasy world are hard-core. Fantasy is what they live and breathe. While I adore the genre, I read outside it. Widely. And I no longer watch many fantasy shows because books are so much better. It's no doubt nerves talking, but sometimes I feel like a pretender because I don't know all the significant works and big names in fantasy. I easily get lost in fandom conversations.
Still, I was and am determined to write my own fantasy stories. A researcher at heart, I really wanted the list of titles the women of Sirens could direct me towards.
Thus, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland entered my realm. I am forever grateful.
I literally just finished it this weekend and I need to gush about it. First though, as I've said under my Reading Recommendations tab, this post and my blurb under the tab are not intended as reviews. I want to talk about this book because it has helped me so much and I'm ridiculously excited about it.
The Tough Guide is based on the premise that every single fantasy story anyone anywhere has read all take place in the same locale: Fantasyland. Fantasyland is run by the Management, who love to subject characters and readers to the same tropes over and over.
It's a no holds barred barrel of laughs that opens your eyes wide, like all good comedy does. Genres are built on tropes, that's just the way it is. But sometimes those tropes get so overused they turn into cultural clichés –many of which are exhausted. Jones's Tough Guide not only outlines 98% of the tropes, she illuminates 100% of the tired clichés writers need to stay clear of.
I didn't expect a reference book to entertain me like this one did. I laughed throughout the journey and had many of my favourite fantasy epics flash before my eyes, mostly The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I also came away utterly inspired. Every time I sat down and read it I thought about the different aspects of my own epic fantasy work and wanted to write down notes like a madman.
My absolute favourite entry involves the infamous BATH; it's a long entry so I'll share the best part:
Management Rules state that no one ever steals your clothes/valuables or AMBUSHES you while you are immersed in a Bath. Any lurker will wait until you have finished, take care, however. Baths are the occasion for SEX with one or more of your FELLOW TRAVELLERS. No matter how irritating you have found her/him up to then, after or during the Bath you will find her/him irresistible. It is probably something in the WATER. (17)
The HORSES of Fantasyland also have one of the best entries, as do most of the ANIMALS and types of FOOD. However, I'll have to make you read the book to find out!
Finally, with the breakdowns of each type of character found in Fantasyland, it's apparent the kinds of roles women have been forced into across the history of the genre. The sexist tropes are changing, thankfully, but they still run rampant. For instance, the long entry on VIRGINS shows outright that male virgins are seemingly non-existent while young women shouldn't be anything but.
The only thing I'm walking away dissatisfied with is the lack of focus on aspects of fantasy subgenres, like urban fantasy. The Tough Guide is all about high fantasy that focuses on vast kingdoms, long lost royalty, and great quests.
Still, The Tough Guide is beyond useful and I'm glad I read it. Have you read it? If so, what did you think? If not, has my excitement sent you into its arms? What types of reference books have you found instrumental?


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Identify TV And Movies With IntoNow On Android
Do you remember the first time you saw a Shazam commercial or a SoundHound demo on a mobile phone and thought: "Oh my God! This is fantastic. Now I'll never have to worry about getting stuck for hours trying to remember that song's name!" Well, if you haven't heard of IntoNow, you should prepare to be amazed again, as it does the same level of magic for TV shows and movies.
What Is IntoNow?
IntoNow first came into the picture as an iPhone application that aims to do for TV entertainment what Shazam and SoundHound does for music: almost instant identification.
The magic happens thanks to their servers and algorithms that follow hundreds of TV channels, live, and create an audio signature for whatever is being aired. Whether you're watching an episode that first aired 10 years ago and TIVO'd last night, or a new episode that's being broadcast right now, IntoNow can recognize it from its audio signature and present you with several details about it. IntoNow released their Android application a few months ago, and were recently purchased by Yahoo!
Browsing, Tagging and Sharing
Upon signing into the Android IntoNow application, you're presented with three tabs: Activity, Popular and Profile. The Activity is a stream of shows that were last tagged on IntoNow, while Popular is a list of the most tagged shows in different time frames (current, 24 hours, week, month and all time). Both can be filtered to all IntoNow users or just your friends on the service. The Profile is where you can access your own watched history, most watched shows, friends' profiles, and notifications for new friend requests.
However, the magic of IntoNow happens when you press that green button on the upper right of the screen. You're instantly taken to a TV-like color bars pattern screen, and the microphone starts recording the audio from whatever you're watching. 10 to 15 seconds later – sometimes sooner – the details appear on the screen. Whether you tagged a TV series or a movie, you see an image, a brief description, the cast and genre, and little details like the TV channel it was broadcast on. For TV series, the specific season and episode numbers will also be displayed.
IntoNow also gives you access to the IMDb page of the show, the different people who also tagged it, a discussion board particular to this particular episode or movie, and sharing options for Twitter and Facebook personalized with your comment.
How Well Does It Work?
If it has been on national TV in the USA, it is on IntoNow. That's a simple equation to describe it, but it's quite close to the truth. IntoNow works wonderfully on all the TV series and several movies – from the Godfather to Black Swan – that I have thrown at it. I don't live in the USA so I haven't tried tagging the more indie shows and stations and don't know how well it fares there. However, the mere fact that it can tag live national TV, as it happens, is a wonderful trick that's quite magical.
I have personally started using IntoNow in two situations. The first is when watching TV to quickly identify a movie's name or a series's season and episode, especially when I catch it too late and want to watch it again from the beginning. The second is when the shows downloaded to my computer have their tags messed up and I need to re-label the season and episode correctly.
An App for "Just-in-Case" Situations
Now I reckon you probably won't be using IntoNow every day, and neither will I. However it's one of those applications that screams: keep me on your phone, just in case. And for our favorite price of free, you can't go wrong. Download it, keep it, and when the need arises, it will only be a tap away.


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Saturday, November 7, 2009
PowerPoint Presentation from SC2
Posted by Eve Heaton at 5:12 PM
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2 comments:
- Eve Heaton said...
This is a copy of the PowerPoint presentation that I made at the South Carolina Science Council convention about notebooking.
- November 7, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- Me said...
Awesome! A colleague and I are using notebooks this year in SS. She is teaching 6th grade and I'm in 4th. We are considering doing a presentation to other teachers next summer at the district staff development days. Thanks for a great resource!
- November 7, 2009 at 6:25 PM
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A few months ago, I was given an amazing opportunity to visit Mendoza, Argentina as part of a journalists' and travel professionals' tour sponsored by Uncorking Argentina. I never dreamed in a million years that I would find myself in the heart of Argentina's most well-known wine region. In retrospect, I found this trip very doable within a week of travel and it wasn't as expensive as I thought it might be.
Getting There
While my actual time in Argentina was only a little over three days, you need to allow a couple of days for travel time on each end of your trip, as the longer flights between the United States and South America are overnight. At minimum, you will need to connect in Buenos Aires, Argentina or Santiago, Chile.
In my case, I chose to fly between my local regional airport to Atlanta, Atlanta to Santiago, and finally Santiago to Mendoza. I took the same route back in reverse. Mendoza is just a short hop over the Andes from Santiago. The 40-minute flight over the Andes was one of the highlights of my trip, so I recommend connecting in Santiago.
Things to Remember
Mendoza is in the Southern Hemisphere, so the seasons are the opposite of those in the Northern Hemisphere. Mendoza does not currently observe Daylight Saving Time, so the time difference with countries that do varies depending on the time of year.
If you are a United States, Canadian, or Australian citizen, you will also need to pay a Reciprocity Fee of $160 to enter Argentina. That fee is paid online before you depart and you show the receipt of payment along with your passport to enter the country. The fee is valid for 10 years.
You will also need to have a voltage converter and adapter plugs for your devices that require electricity.
The currency in Mendoza is the Argentine peso. You can easily exchange currency in Mendoza when you arrive, withdraw money from an ATM, or use a credit card for most purchases. Just make sure to let your bank and credit card companies know you are traveling to Mendoza before you leave. Mendoza is also generally safe, but as in many countries, be aware of the risk of pickpockets or someone trying to take your bag or valuables.
Another thing to know is that mealtimes in Mendoza are at different times. Breakfast is around the same time as what we know in the United States, but lunch is generally later in the afternoon, around 2:00-3:00 p.m., and dinners are much later, around 9:00-10:00 p.m. Mendoza still observes siesta, which means businesses are usually closed in the afternoon and early evening.
A Sample Itinerary
Below is the itinerary I enjoyed when I visited Argentina over the course of just over three days. My trip focused primarily on wine tourism, but there are other activities offered in Mendoza, especially outdoor activities such as biking, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, paragliding, rafting, skiing, trekking, and walking tours. I recommend using Uncorking Argentina to assist in planning your customized Mendoza getaway.
Days 1-2
Days one and two were travel days for me, three flights spanning almost 24 hours including layovers. Upon my group's arrival to Mendoza that evening, we enjoyed a wonderful cooking and wine-tasting class at Cordillera, Vinos y Fuegos. The staff of Uncorking Argentina and the restaurant staff provided us with a delicious culinary introduction to Mendoza.
Day 3
A driver picked us up that morning for wine tasting and touring in the Luján de Cuyo area. Our first stop was Domaine St Diego, a small, family-owned and operated winery that does not export to the United States. It was a wonderful introduction to viticulture and vineyard management techniques. The winery is headed by well-known winemaker Ángel Mendoza; his daughter, María Laura Mendoza, leads the tours.
Our next stop was at the larger Bodega Renacer for a tour and more wine tasting. The winery is owned and operated by a Chilean family. Pato (Patricio) Reich led our tour and tasting. The winery produces a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc, Rosé of Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, and an Amarone-style red blend. I found my favorite wine of the trip here, the 2009 Renacer Malbec. I wish I had purchased more than one bottle of this lush, complex integration of acidity, tannins, and aromas and flavors such as blackberry, black cherry, blackcurrant, chocolate, coffee, lavender, toast, vanilla, and violet.
We ended our formal touring that day with an incredible wine pairing lunch at MUN at Casarena and a tour of the award-winning Casarena Bodega y Viñedos. Chef Mun's story of leaving his career in finance to become a world-renowned chef is as inspiring as his food is delicious. My favorite course was Chef Mun's pairing of sushi with Casarena's 2011 Rama Negra Reserva Pinot Noir.
Day 4
Although I am an oenophile, our day of horseback riding at La Quebrada del Cóndor was the highlight of my trip. As I described in my personal blog, this was a life-changing experience for me as I faced a long-time fear and learned to trust the animal-human connection. My group and I were challenged physically as we rode into the Potrerillos area of the lower Andes and experienced unbelievable views. We reached an altitude of about 10,000 feet before heading back to the ranch to enjoy an amazing asado (Argentine barbecue) prepared by our hosts.
Day 5
A driver picked us up that morning for wine tasting and touring in the Valle de Uco area. We first stopped at Bodega Pulenta Estate. The Pulenta family has been making wine for three generations. Sons of Argentine winegrower Antonio Pulenta, Eduardo and Hugo Pulenta founded this winery in 2002. The vines for the vineyard were brought from France and Italy by Antonio Pulenta.
Our next stop was at Bodega La Azul, a small boutique winery that focuses primarily on unoaked and oaked Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec. My group experienced a great wine pairing lunch at the winery's La Azul Resto, seated outdoors with gorgeous views of the countryside and the Andes, and a barrel-tasting of the winery's Gran Reserva offering.
Our last winery of the day was Bodega Gimenez Riili. The family is in its third generation of winemaking. Don Pedro Gimenez began their winemaking tradition in 1945 and it continued with son Eduardo, then grandsons Pablo, Federico, and Juan Manuel. The winery offers a variety of wines, including Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, Rosé of Malbec, Sauvignon Blanc, and Torrontés.
That evening we had dinner and stayed overnight at Alpasión, which was one of the most comfortable, relaxing, and welcoming stays I've ever experienced. The property only has six rooms, so it's a very intimate, home-like experience. It has a community living and dining area, as well as another room which reminded me of a den or family room. Meals are prepared to order by the staff; we had a choice of two dinner entrees. For breakfast the following day, we were provided a continental-style breakfast plus eggs prepared to order.
Days 6-7
Days six and seven were my travel days home, from Alpasión back to Mendoza, Mendoza to Santiago, Santiago to Atlanta, then finally home.
I will never forget my perhaps once-in-a-lifetime experience in Mendoza. If you've thought about Mendoza as a travel destination, don't hesitate. Do it. You won't regret it.
All photos are courtesy of the author.


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We wrapped up the cruise in Barcelona, Spain, but we had one final stop in Marseille, France before we arrived. The highlight in Marseille was taking "Le Petit Train" around the city, with a stop at the highest point, the Notre Dame de la Gard. I realized that my favourite moments in sightseeing are either on the water (like the Cote d'Azur), or at a high elevation to enjoy the best views. The photos can't really give the same "top of the world" feeling you get when you're there in person, staring out over the buildings and sea.
The Notre Dame de la Gard was very beautiful inside - more bright and colourful than most cathedrals we had been in.
Barcelona after the jump!


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Trustee Suzanne Stilson Edgar remembered
A moment of silence will be held at the Grand Opening of the Delaware Campus on Monday, in honor of Board of Trustees member and former Chair, Suzanne Stilson Edgar, who passed away Tuesday, June 22 as a result of a horseback riding accident on her farm in Marysville.
With her leadership and support, during her tenure on the Board Columbus State increased enrollment more than 40 percent, implemented Shared Governance, began offering hundreds of online classes and several online certificate and degree programs, and expanded substantially with the addition of new buildings and the new Delaware campus.
Stilson Edgar, 54, was first appointed to the Columbus State Board in 1994, and would have completed her third, six-year term in 2011 after having served as Board Chair and Vice Chair twice. She served on the President's Search committee in 1996, and she chaired the committee that selected Dr. David Harrison as the next president of Columbus State. She was the board representative on the first AQIP team that attended the workshop in Lisle, Illinois.
Ms. Edgar was a graduate of Otterbein College, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, and received Otterbein's Special Achievement Award in 1994, which is presented to Otterbein graduates whose career contributions have significantly enhanced their profession and organizations.
She was a member of St. John's Episcopal Church, 700 High St., Worthington, where services will be held Friday, June 25 at 11:30 a.m. followed by interment at Green Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call at the Rutherford-Corbin Funeral Home, 515 High St., Worthington, 43085, on Thursday from 4-7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the William A. Edgar Benevolent fund c/o Rutherford-Corbin Funeral Home. Condolences may be sent to www.rutherfordfuneralhomes.com.
Where to find completed Annual Reviews in COOL
For employees who have a completed Annual Review in COOL, it can now be found and viewed by clicking "Historical Reviews" under "Reviews." To see the document, click "view." Once your review is marked complete, the COOL system generates an electronic notice which is sent to your Groupwise email account.
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Hampton presents at conference in Sweden
Renèe Hampton
Renèe Hampton, Director TRIO Programs/ Special Assistant to the Provost for Diversity, recently attended the 19th European Access Network Annual Conference, June 14-16 at Södertörn University, in Stockholm, Sweden. The title of the conference was "From Access to Success: Closing the Knowledge Divide-Higher education for under-represented groups in the market economy."
Hampton was a presenter at the conference, co-presenting with Jerry Thomas from Southern Arkansas University. The title of her presentation was "How under-represented students fare in the higher education marketplace: an alternate scenario"
Hampton was also recently appointed by Chancellor Eric Fingerhut to serve on the International Higher Education Advisory Committee. The role of the advisory committee will be to work collaboratively with the Ohio institutions in developing areas identified by the Strategic Plan. The advisory committee will make recommendations to the Chancellor for setting of policy.
Other members include:
From the Information Security Committee:
Protecting sensitive data when emailing
Columbus State makes every effort to protect personally identifiable information (Social Security numbers, credit card information, HIPPA or FERPA regulated records, etc.)
When writing emails, it is your responsibility to ensure your email does not include personally identifiable information. Some of the things you can do to assist in this effort include:
Rule of thumb: Email is not a secure means of communication.
If you receive a Social Security number (or credit card number, HIPPA/FERPA information) in an email and must reply to the sender, remove the Social Security number from the email thread before sending it back or forwarding.
When possible, use Cougar IDs as the law states Social Security numbers are not to be used as unique identifiers.
If you are asked to provide your Social Security number, before providing it, ask if they'll accept other information as a replacement.
If you don't know your Cougar ID, follow these steps
Log into CougarWeb
Under "Employee Profile," click on "Pay Advices"
Click any pay date under "Current Year"
Towards the top left of the pay advice statement, you'll see your CougarID under "Employee No."
If you have any questions about how to safeguard sensitive information, please call ext. 3777 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. You may also want to visit the Information Security web site at http://www.cscc.edu/infosec/index.shtml for additional information.


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The countdown is officially on with only a week to go until the start of Toronto Fashion Week Fall 2014. I'm getting the feeling that this is going to be one of the biggest and best yet, which is only bolstered by news of all the amazing clothing we can expect to see in the coming season. That being said, if anyone is going to have their best Fashion Week ever, you can almost be certain it will be Montreal-based brand Soia & Kyo, currently celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Debuting the Fall 2014 collection on Thursday, March 20 at 8:00 p.m., Soia & Kyo will continue to move its brand forward through the beauty of contrast, the main inspiration and defining theme behind the new lineup entitled Quiet Storm.
"Our newest collection shows the progression of the Soia & Kyo aesthetic, as we remain dedicated to creating beautiful styles for our customer," says Creative Director Ilan Elfassy. "For Fall/Winter 2014, we adopted a new approach in order to achieve oversized silhouettes, cocoon shapes and dropped shoulders that serve both form and function."
The collection combines sharp men's tailoring with a strong feminine undertone to create modern, effortless outerwear, while the juxtaposition of grainy wools with soft leathers amplifies the disparities featured throughout. Brushed down coats and tweed wool jackets offer a casual yet polished alternative to mass market outerwear, while I love the cool palette of ivory, nude, tan and soft gray, which provides a refreshing alternative to the typical Canadian winter uniform of all-black.
It goes without saying that this Fall 2014 show isn't one to miss as the company celebrates 10 years of sublime styling, but should we come bearing gifts of tin, aluminium or diamond? What's the traditional material for marking a truly fashionable decade?
Images via www.soiakyo.com


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Dayan Qigong is an ancient Chinese martial art for health and longevity. "Dayan" means wild goose. "Qigong" means the practice of qi. It is a complete set of exercises including warm ups, meditation, self massage and 64 movements.
Dayan Qigong promotes health and immune function, increases energy, flexibility and balance, and reduces stress. It is part of traditional healing in that it balances the yin and yang in our bodies, regulates the functions of all of our organs, and helps the meridians, blood vessels and other fluids to flow freely. The form originated 1,700 years ago and has been proven safe and effective through generations and tens of thousands of people practicing in China and all over the world. This course has been taught at Wen Wu School of Martial Arts for 25 years and is coming to the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Mondays, January 11 – March 28, 2016, 5-7 pm
Dates: 1/11, (no class on 1/18), 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, (no class on 2/15), 2/22, 2/29, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21 and 3/28/2016
Robert Rosenbaum, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, a senior teacher of Dayan ("Wild Goose") Qigong assisting Master Hui Liu, and a senior student of Sojun Mel Weitsman at the Berkeley Zen Center, where he has also been shuso (head student), director of meditation retreats and chair of the Ethics Committee. The author of numerous articles and the book, Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy, Bob has given presentations and workshops throughout the United States; in Nepal, India, Australia, Japan, Europe, and South America. Bob has been a Fulbright Professor at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore, India; director of the psychology doctoral program at the California Institute for Integral Studies; Chief Psychologist at Kaiser Permanente (Hayward), and a conference coordinator for the Society for the Exploration
Jeanne Courtney, LCSW is a certified teacher of Wild Goose Qi Gong, First Set, and Wild Goose Qi Gong, Second Set. She has studied and practiced with Master Hui Liu at Wen Wu School since 1999. She also studied Guan Ping Yang Tai Chi, Shao Lin and Qi Gong over many years. She is a lead teacher at Wen Wu School (Wild Goose, second set), teaches first set and second set several venues in the Bay Area, and elsewhere. Jeanne is a Licensed Clinical Social worker & retired from Kaiser Oakland where she worked for many years with the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Department. She attended UC Berkeley.
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Another comedian extends his brand to the printed page.
Though stand-up comics once shared their material primarily in clubs, onstage, the career has gone multiplatform: social media, viral video, TV development deals, film projects and, once sufficient name recognition has been achieved, a book deal. Kreischer doesn't really have a book in him, and by his account, it's unlikely that he's read many, for pleasure at least. On his honeymoon, someone offered him a James Patterson novel, but he didn't see how that could add to the fun of the beach and the booze. (The opening line of the book is, "Bong hits are like strippers: they're best shared with a group of friends.") Some books within the expanding genre of comedian memoir help aspiring readers learn how to emulate the career progression or at least illuminate what sort of character traits are likely to lead to success. Kreischer's path was singular—while still in college (six years without graduating), he received a cold call from a Rolling Stone reporter who wanted a tour guide to partying on campus, which turned into an extended feature in the magazine on the premier party animal, which inspired the movie National Lampoon's Van Wilder, which led to comedy clubs and TV programs. Many of his stories are like many other peoples' stories—fumbling adolescent sex, frat hazing, drugs and drinking—balanced by what appears to be surprising maturity as a husband and father, though he's not above using his daughters for jokes that might make other fathers cringe: "I hope [they] will take advantage of all that college has to offer (except, obviously, for the designer drugs and virginity-saving anal sex)."
The market for this sophomoric book likely consists of men who don't read many others.


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