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Imagine Chemistry 2018 winners: Green Lizard Technology
Imagine Chemistry 2018 winners: Green Lizard Technology
The 2018 finals of Imagine Chemistry recently took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. Ten teams were selected to continue collaborating with AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals or one of our partners. We asked the winners to share their thoughts on Imagine Chemistry and working with AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals. Here we speak with Green Lizard Technology.
"When I go back to my company and explain this experience to the supervisors above me, it's going to be an eye opening paradigm shift for them, because nobody in the US is pursuing collaborative research in quite the manner that AkzoNobel is doing with Imagine Chemistry."
Team name: Green Lizard Technology
Team members: Fergal Coleman and Alex Grous
Location: Uk and US
Mentor: Han Bevinakatti
Challenge area: Zero-footprint surfactant platforms
Award won: Joint development agreement
Green Lizard Technology is a spin-out of Queen's University Belfast specializing in green chemistry. For one of their research projects they have partnered with US-based Dixie Chemical and Felda Global Ventures, a Malaysia-based raw material supplier, to sustainably produce glycidol, an ingredient in green surfactants. The Imagine Chemistry jury was so convinced of the versatility and commercial potential of their process that they decided to award the team with the top prize, a joint development agreement.
Fergal Coleman, Project Leader from Green Lizard Technology, and Alex Grous, Commercialization Manager from Dixie Chemical, represented the project at Imagine Chemistry. In the video below, shot midway through the event, they give a bit of background into their project and what they hoped to get out of Imagine Chemistry.
Given that their aim was a JDA, the team was satisfied and pleasantly surprised with the result. But as Fergal notes, "We actually found out that we were all winners regardless of whether we got a prize." Alex adds, "We got a lot of experience out of this project, and even if we didn't get the JDA we still would have walked away satisfied that we learned a lot more about this industry. Now that we have the JDA we're excited to have a partner to potentially go to market with."
While they may not have been shocked by their award, there were things that surprised them about Imagine Chemistry. Fergal explains, "AkzoNobel didn't know all the potential applications for our products because they're so new, but they liked our idea and were willing to take a risk on it." Alex adds, "I've been involved with several startup competitions and it was always about pitching to financiers. What was really refreshing with this program is that it was technology and idea driven versus financially driven. I know financials played a part in it, but it was really about letting the idea stand on its own and getting a collaborative project going, as opposed to just focusing on who has the best forecasted ROI."
The two hope that their agreement leads to lots of interaction and shared learning and additional R&D projects focused on some of glycidol's many potential applications. But they also hope to make a real world impact.
Alex explains, "I've spent most of my career working with biobased chemicals. You see a lot of fantastic ideas coming out of R&D centers that haven't gone anywhere commercially. What's exciting about this is that it actually has significant relevance in the marketplace. Our platform could be a really good success story for sustainability and biobased chemicals as a whole." Fergal adds, "Having spent several years doing chemistry R&D, I've found that many of the projects I've worked on don't make it past the proof-of-concept stage. To see a real world application of something that we started in the lab is exciting to imagine and would be hugely rewarding."
To get things started, AkzoNobel will set up a team to identify gaps in what is needed to go to commercialization and they will use this as the basis for the joint development agreement. Stay tuned to find out how their collaboration progresses!

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This week, I am in Taipei, teaching Top Gun class. There was concern that another typhoon would hit the island of Taiwan later this week, but it looks like it is now headed for Hong Kong instead.
Elsewhere in the world, there are several events going on next week, so I thought I would bring them to your attention.
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Well, it's Wednesday, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements!
(Actually most IBM announcements are on Tuesdays, but IBM gave me extra time to recover from my trip to Europe!)
Today, IBM announced [IBM PureSystems], a new family of expert-integrated systems that combine storage, servers, networking, and software, based on IBM's decades of experience in the IT industry. You can register for the [Launch Event] today (April 11) at 2pm EDT, and download the companion "Integrated Expertise" event app for Apple, Android or Blackberry smartphones.
(If you are thinking, "Hey, wait a minute, hasn't this been done before?" you are not alone. Yes, IBM introduced the System/360 back in 1964, and the AS/400 back in 1988, so today's announcement is on scheduled for this 24-year cycle. Based on IBM's past success in this area, others have followed, most recently, Oracle, HP and Cisco.)
Initially, there are two offerings:
If you are unhappy with the inflexibility of your VCE Vblock, HP Integrity, or Oracle ExaLogic, talk to your local IBM Business Partner or Sales Representative. We might be able to buy your boat anchor off your hands, as part of an IBM PureSystems sale, with an attractive IBM Global Financing plan.
To learn more, check out the [IBM PureSystems] landing page, follow the twitter handle [@IBMPureSystems] or hashtag #ExpertIntSys, watch the videos on the [YouTube channel], or read the [Expert Integrated Systems] blog.
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Storage Networking is part of the IBM System Storage team. There were several break-out sessions on the third day at the [IBM System Storage Technical University 2011] related to storage networking.
Networking is going to be very important for a variety of transformational projects going forward in the next five years.
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Day 2 - Choosing the Right Storage for your Server Virtualization environment
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Continuing my coverage of the [Data Center 2010 conference], Tuesday afternoon I presented "Choosing the Right Storage for your Server Virtualization". In 2008 and 2009, I attended this conference as a blogger only, but this time I was also a presenter.
Here are my charts on SlideShare.net:
Choosing the Right Storage for your Server Virtualization Environment
View more presentations from Tony Pearson.
I am thankful I had a great turn-out, with nearly every seat taken.
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Next week is [VMworld 2010], so I thought today would be a good day to write a blog post about reporting and managing virtual guest images.
As the original lead architect for IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, I am no stranger to reporting and management tools. Needless to say, if you have lots of virtual guest images, it makes sense to deploy reporting and management software. I had never heard of Veeam before, but I decided to check out Veeam Reporter 4.0, an enterprise-level reporting solution specifically designed for large Virtual Infrastructure (VI3) and vSphere virtual environments that allows you to automatically discover and collect information about your VMware virtual environment. Their 90-page User Guide offered these helpful "First Steps" on page 9 which I used as the master plan for my evaluation.
(FTC Disclosure: I work for IBM, the leader in server virtualization worldwide, and the number #1 reseller of VMware. In this post, I review [Veeam Reporter 4.0] as my official entry for their blogging contest. IBM and Veeam do not have any business relationshiop that I know of, other than both being VMware business partners, so I am treating them here as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Veeam has not compensated me in any manner for this review, this review is not to be taken as an endorsement of Veeam or its products, and I was not provided any full or evaluator license keys. The review is based entirely on my experience using the "Free Edition" available to all for download. None of this blog post was pre-reviewed by anyone from Veeam. IBM, of course, also offers similar software, which I mention below for comparison purposes.)
At this point, you might be thinking, "Doesn't IBM offer something like this?" Of course it does! IBM is the leader in infrastructure reporting, monitoring and management software. Last October, [IBM unveiled IBM Systems Director VMcontrol] software. Not only does IBM Systems Director VMcontrol provide similar support for your VMware environment, it also manages Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen deployments, PowerVM on POWER-based serves, and even z/VM guest images on the System z mainframes. Combined with the rest of the IBM Systems Director, you can manage all of your physical and virtual servers with a single tool from a single pane of glass. How cool is that?
IBM VMcontrol comes in [three levels]:
To learn more, see the [VMcontrol Implementation Guide], take it for a test drive, with a [trial download], or talk to one of the many IBMers at [VMworld 2010] in San Francisco, August 30-September 2.
I would like to think Doug Hazelman, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Veeam, for organizing this awesome blogging contest. If you liked this blog post, click here to [vote for me] to get counted for this contest.
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Tachycardia is a type of abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) in which the heart beats much faster than it should while a person is at rest. Typically, more that 100 beats per minute at rest is considered tachycardia. Electrical signals in the heart initiate each heartbeat. Problems with these signals can cause the heart beat to be erratic (unpredictable), and in the case of tachycardia, cause the heart to beat faster.
What does Tachycardia feel like?
Most people experiencing tachycardia feel the rapidness of their heart beat. When the tachycardia is happening, the heart is not operating efficiently and therefore the body is deprived of oxygen and symptoms such as lightheadedness, weakness, dizziness, chest pain, confusion and even fainting can also be experienced.
A higher than normal heart rate can produce different types of issues in the heart including:
- Atrial Fibrillation- heart beat is not only faster than normal, but also irregular.
- Atrial Flutter- heartbeat is faster than normal but regular.
- Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)- heart beat is faster and caused by the signals above the ventricles.
- Ventricular tachycardia- heartbeat is faster than normal, caused by the signals in the ventricles.
Who is at risk for Tachycardia?
Damage to the heart muscle or valves due to heart disease or congenital heart abnormalities or an overstraining of the heart from things like exercise or fever puts you at greater risk for developing tachycardia. Other medical conditions, such as high blood pressure, stress or anxiety are also risk factors. Age and family history play a role, as well as lifestyle choices such as smoking, drug use or excessive use of caffeine or alcohol.
How is Tachycardia diagnosed?
There are various tests used to diagnose all types of tachycardia including:
- Holter/Event Monitor
- Tilt Table Test
- Electrophysiology (EP) Study
- T-Wave Alternans
- Implantable Recording Device
How is Tachycardia treated?
Depending on an individual's unique medical situation, sometimes tachycardia can be treated with medications designed simply to slow the heart rate down. If the condition is more complex or long term, heart procedures such as cardiac ablation, insertion of a pacemaker or an ICD (Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) or surgery may be a better option.


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I'm still here, I'm just working on my "to-do" list, which, despite my best efforts to eliminate tasks, seems to be getting longer. The good news (always look for the positive, right?) about this is that I will have many fun things to share.
While you wait for me to conquer my list please enjoy this lovely video. I know the stories of the two women featured in the video and putting their faces with these very moving lyrics fills my heart, and well, my tear ducts. We've all had those Beautiful Heartbreaks at some point in time, haven't we?
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I'm here...
3 comments:
- Teresa said...
Yes, we do but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and lovelier I think.
I don't let an heartbreak destroy my trust and hope on human relations.
And I'm thrilled to discover yoru lovely blog.
- November 8, 2011 at 1:38 PM
- Rebecca said...
I love the video...I remember when the plane crash happened....thank you for sharing my Utah friend!
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- November 8, 2011 at 9:38 PM
- Debi Clark said...
still crying :) That was beautiful. And they're expecting their fifth! How awesome :)
The Lord is in charge. I'm so glad.
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Conversations about travel make me nostalgic not just for the place but food too. I may not mark my attendance at the 'must visit' places but I always find my way to the 'must eat'. Little wonder then writing about Scotland has me craving some whisky and the sinful Sticky Toffee Pudding.


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A Song to End Your Day: Matt Gold Sings 'I'm On Fire'Filed by John M. Becker | December 09, 2013 | 6:30 PM |
Until Matt Gold sang it, I wasn't a fan of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire. But Gold's soulful, introspective rendition really sold me on it.Read More
The Craziest 'War on Christmas' Video EvahFiled by Bil Browning | December 09, 2013 | 5:30 PM |
Christmas is a celebration that is slipping down the holiday yardstick so fast that soon it'll be relegated to the back burner with holy days like National Roast Suckling Pig Day (Dec 18) or National Beheading Day (Sept 2).Read More
Anti-Gay Group: We're Not BigortsFiled by John M. Becker | December 09, 2013 | 4:00 PM |
The Ruth Institute, a marriage discrimination advocacy group, has egg on its face today after posting a typo-ridden meme on Facebook this weekend.Read More
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Saint Xavier Takes Down College of the Ozarks, Earns Quarterfinal Spot
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – (Box Score) For the first time in school history as an NAIA Division II institution, the Cougars of Saint Xavier (Ill.) are moving on to the quarterfinals of the NAIA Division II Women's Basketball National Championship, presented by State Farm, by beating College of the Ozarks (Mo.) with yet another balanced offensive attack.
Cougars 87. Bobcats 80.
This 2015 edition of the championship is not only providing Saint Xavier the biggest taste of action the school has ever seen in the competition, but also a little payback to how the school got bounced a year ago by the same College of the Ozarks it just beat.
Similar to Thursday's opening round tilt, the Cougars were an effective offensive machine. Six Saint Xavier players hit the four-point mark or higher in the first half – led by 11 from Kara Krolicki – who tallied three shots made from deep in the process.
Not to be outdone, the Bobcats also notched six players on the score sheet during the first stanza of action. Guard Kayla Kepler led the way with five makes from the charity stripe and 11 total points.
Both teams were almost identical in field goal percentage at 42.1 (16-of-38) for Saint Xavier, while College of the Ozarks was 41.9 (13-of-31). The Bobcats trailed 40-39 at halftime after Mikayla Leyden hit a go-ahead layup with five seconds remaining.
The second half was the same story, second verse for both teams. Each squad chucked up shots that went in at a high-percentage of success, which led to nine ties and 19 lead changes.
In the end, however, the Cougars held the Bobcats at arms-length when the game could have been in limbo.
Each team had five players hit double-digits in the battle. Kepler was out-front for College of the Ozarks and Morgan Stuut had yet another double-double on the year for the Cougars (21 points and 14 boards). Caitlin McMahon – who had a career-high 17 points Thursday night against Oregon Tech – set another mark with 18 points and 12 rebounds tonight.
The Bobcats' 2014-15 season comes to a halt at 24-9. Saint Xavier turns its focus to Saturday's confrontation with third-seeded Hastings (Neb.). Tip is set for 8 p.m., with a spot in the semifinals on the line.


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Do listen when people talk to you? Did anyone say anything to you today that was important, but you weren't listening? Do you genuinely listen to the Word of God? Join Pastor Thomas Overmiller to consider biblical thoughts about the incredible importance of learning to listen both to God and to the important people in your life.
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 01:52:27PM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > >From working on the TCG vector operations patchset, it is apparent that there > are a large number of endian-based hacks in int_helper.c which can be removed > by > making use of the various Vsr* macros. > > Patch 1 is simple enough, and implements the complete set of Vsr* macros for > both big endian and little endian hosts. > > Patches 2 and 3 rework the vector merge and multiply algorithms so that they > no longer require the endian-dependent HI_IDX and LO_IDX macros. > > Patches 4 and 5 then completely remove the HI_IDX/LO_IDX and EL_IDX macros by > replacing the element accesses with their equivalent Vsr* macro instead. > > Patches 6 and 7 tidy up the VEXT_SIGNED macro and fix a potential shift bug > in the ROTRu32 and ROTRu64 macros pointed out by Richard during the review of > v1. > > Finally patch 8 is an inspection-based removal of other HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN > hacks in int_helper.c, again replacing accesses with the relevant Vsr* macro > instead. > > Note that there are still some endian hacks left in int_helper.c after this > patchset: in particular the delightfully evil VECTOR_FOR_INORDER_I macro still > remains in places where the index variable was used for purposes other than > accessing elements within the vector. > > There were also some parts where additional conversion could be done, but I > wasn't confident enough to make the change without access to PPC64 test images > or real big-endian host hardware. Applied to ppc-for-4.0, thanks. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <address@hidden> > Based-on: <address@hidden> "target/ppc: prepare for conversion to TCG vector > operations" > > > v2: > - Add R-B tags from Richard > - Add patches 6 and 7 to simplify the VEXT_SIGNED macro and fix a potential > shift bug in the ROTRu32 and ROTRu64 macros > - Don't require ordered access for VNEG and VGENERIC_DO macros as pointed out > by Richard > > > Mark Cave-Ayland (8): > target/ppc: implement complete set of Vsr* macros > target/ppc: rework vmrg{l,h}{b,h,w} instructions to use Vsr* macros > target/ppc: rework vmul{e,o}{s,u}{b,h,w} instructions to use Vsr* > macros > target/ppc: eliminate use of HI_IDX and LO_IDX macros from > int_helper.c > target/ppc: eliminate use of EL_IDX macros from int_helper.c > target/ppc: simplify VEXT_SIGNED macro in int_helper.c > target/ppc: remove ROTRu32 and ROTRu64 macros from int_helper.c > target/ppc: remove various HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN hacks in int_helper.c > > target/ppc/int_helper.c | 521 > ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- > target/ppc/internal.h | 9 +- > 2 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 307 deletions(-) > -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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For most of us, aging just tends to happen. It's not until there's an abrupt change to our lifestyle as a result of getting older that makes us wonder "Gee, when did I get so old?!" Hilariously, one Reddit user just posed that question to readers — and the responses are all kinds of wonderful.
A lot of the answers revolved around someone suffering an injury. In some cases, a person felt a lot older because their injuries took a lot longer to heal than they once did. For others, accidents sent them to see doctors who, to their embarrassment, were younger than them or even their siblings. There were even those who injured themselves doing something that they could have done with ease in the past, like lifting heavy weights or even going to the bathroom.
"I broke my toe and it healed in the wrong place, which causes me pain when I walk. After several doctors visits have made it clear I can't fix it, I've now realized that this is just the first of those minor things that will go wrong with my body that I'll have with me the rest of my life," wrote Reddit user John_Wilkes.
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Of course, there were a couple of comical responses like one from popop222, who wrote, "When I started looking to see if the women I was checking out had a wedding ring on." (Watch the video below for some more downright hilarious replies!)
A large number of responses were about individuals who didn't realize they weren't young anymore until their companies started hiring people who were the same age as their children.
"I arrived at work one morning, [and] one of the other managers closed the office door and said, 'I don't want 'the kids' to hear this.' I thought to myself, 'Our coworkers aren't that much younger than we are', and then realized yes, they are," said 9bikes.
What about you? When was the moment you realized you weren't as young as you remembered?
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Julian Dibbell's Guide to Gold Farming
There are people who make money by selling things that don't exist.
It is not really all that big a leap for someone to start treating in game items as having real world value. A coin or bill is not actually worth something in the sense that you can eat it or use it for shelter. It's a promise from your government to recognize and back up the amount that the item is worth so that people can exchange it for goods and services with confidence. Dibbell argues, "Money, arguably a virtual reality to begin with, cut its last ties to tangible value three decades ago when the world's currencies went off the gold standard for good. Other financial instruments -- commodity futures, mortgages -- have billowed up into complex derivatives many layers of abstraction removed from the material goods they represent" (22). To give an example of this in action, the basic hourly income of someone playing Everquest was $ 3.42 an hour. Your character, the crap you're collecting, and the gold that you're accumulating all increase in value at a steady rate based on the game's economy because everyone playing values it. The trick to that statement is turning all those virtual goods into value in the real world.
Normally I subscribe to the Richard Bartle idea of why people play MMOs. However, if you're in the gold farming business, you're better off viewing motivation from a more cynical angle. Dibbell recounts the experience of being killed and looted by an upper level player and the stinging shame of the whole experience. The moment proved insightful because it let him grasp the basic social mechanics that an MMO is replicating. He writes that it's the same thing which, "kept most of us going to our jobs each day, or going to school. It was a desire not to fall to the bottom of the social food chain, a desire to rise through the ranks, to achieve and acquire as a way of marking our status within the massive monkey troop that is human civilization" (7), Which is why, outside of the usual diehards who always type the loudest on forums, most MMO players are ambivalent about grey market transactions. You can get the "Magic Knife of Awesome" through long hours of work, or you can buy it from someone in the real world who then gives it to you. Either way, you've made a sacrifice, so what's the difference? (15). All that really matters is that you sustain the hierarchy and scarcity of goods so that there is always a distinct social ladder to climb. In the early days of online games, the experimental titles that let you do anything and started you out with everything in the game were always unpopular. People actually prefer being constrained and will pay money to be in an artificially scarce environment over ones where the world just hands everything to you (41). So, the first step into turning virtual goods into real money is understanding that there is a time and place for the exchange. An MMO cannot be 100% monetized or you destroy the fantasy, but monetization can find a balance with that system.
There are a couple of different techniques for exchanging virtual goods for cash. The first is to play the gold exchange rates off the in game items. Bob Kiblinger, a friend and advisor to Dibbell throughout the book explains, "Buy a million gold on E-bay for $18. Buy a spined runic kit in-game for 1 million. Sell the spined runic kit on E-bay for $30. Rinse. Repeat. You can buy things with gold, and then sell the item for more than the gold is worth in most cases." (138) Like any "buy low -- sell high" approach, you eventually want to start moving high end equipment if you want to make a real profit. Ultima Online was similar to EVE Online in that you could actually buy real estate and build yourself a house somewhere. A tower or developed account is worth $1,500 to $2,000 if you know the right places to unload it and how to nail the deal. The average player is selling it for $500 because it would take too much time and energy to unload it properly (45). This concept even extended to in game money. Ultima Online let people set up NPC shops that they collected cash from, so there was always that player who had a huge gold income and would be willing to get rid of it for cheap. Guilds are also ripe for selling excess gear because once they don't need an item it's just sitting there. You make some friends, you get them paid, and they call you back when they start to trust you (179).
The easiest resource to accrue with the least amount of time is money via bots that play the game on autopilot. A player with a trained eye will troubleshoot an MMO's economy until they find a redundant, riskless activity that requires no complex thinking but produces a steady income of gold. In Ultima Online, it was everything from boiling chickens to producing bandages out of cloth. Raw chicken got you maybe one gold coin. If you boiled it the value went up, and you could sell it for two. Then you just hook an AI up to it, set up multiple computers to have multiple accounts performing this activity, and then go make yourself a sandwich while the money rolls in. Dibbell calculated that one of the more sophisticated set ups was drawing in $3,500 worth of gold per day doing this. The problem with this system is that it produces way, way more gold than the game's economy can sustain. One of the caveats about an MMO is that just because goods are dropping in value does not mean players are going to stop accumulating them. Players will just keep going because they're training skills to level up or just having fun. In theory, a developer dealing with a flooded market should just lower the pay out that monsters provide or introduce more gold sinks to burn money, but that screws over new players and pisses off current ones. So the prices must always be static when buying from NPCs and that means excess gold farming and selling can break the game (206). This is a problem because it won't matter if you have a billion gold pieces if it isn't worth anything in the game. Dibbell writes, "the value of gold, in dollars, slides ever downward while the price, in gold, of the game's scarcest items rises as steadily as a hot air balloon" (89). As much as a gold farmer can be accused of breaking a game, they are also the most aware of how much damage that they can do before they have to quit and sustain profits. For that reason, the average gold farmer is often sitting on billions of gold coins spread over multiple accounts, but they have to pace themselves when selling it.
Developers combat this decay in a couple of ways. They can just release an expansion and introduce a tech bubble to the equation. This is a band aid solution to the problem because it introduces new goods and areas to exploit. In most MMOs, the developers will ban bots caught in the game and destroy such accounts. Some companies get around this by creating sweatshops in third world countries with Dibbell citing $19 a day being the pay rate of one that he planned to visit in Mexico. They usually rely on the same exploits that bots do but many of them farm dungeons for rare items as well. The most obvious solution then is to just fix or "nerf" the exploit that the gold farmer is using.
Whenever a patch breaks an exploit, there's a scramble to find a new one. When an exploit is relatively unknown is when you're going to be able to slam out the most gold. Eventually two things are going to happen: the GMs will notice you, or worse, the competition notices you. At that point, people will start copying the method (increasing the odds of getting noticed) or blackmail you into explaining how the exploit works by threatening to snitch. A rival gold farmer might also have a more sophisticated AI that is harder to detect or better connections depending on the servers that they operate out of. Obviously, a cartel of gold farmers that regulated the sale of gold and services could manage prices effectively and maximize profits, but these fall apart the same way that any organized conspiracy does. Someone gets busted, something goes wrong, people talk, and everyone just goes back to fighting (121). Dibbell narrates one incident where a cartel tried to blackmail another into giving up their exploit or else be turned in. The farmers sucked as much gold as possible out of the system, moved it into safe accounts, and turned the exploit over to the GMs just to spite the rival group (242).
Latter portions of the book are just Dibbell reposting stuff from his blog, which is a bit whiny and slowly shifts to talking about very personal problems. Dibbell had a rough year in 2004, and he ties all of this into his existential musings while discussing the business of Gold Farmer. The book concludes with his project failing to meet profit goals (255), If you have any fantasies about gold farming full time, Play Money is a reminder that it is a very, very tough business. Ultimately, Dibbell comes across as more writer than entrepreneur, and it shows during the long existential rambles about "What is real?" and whether or not the IRS is going to care about all of this. In that sense, the book is entertaining because you learn along with him how to be competitive in an MMO grey market while questioning the morality of such a thing. To be honest, if you've read one existential diatribe about how we're supposed to feel about virtual goods, you've read them all. People will cough up real money for this stuff, and that's more than enough explanation for most people.


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Calvin Harris has made a career out of producing songs for A-list singers like Ellie Goulding, Rihanna, Florench Welch, Sia and more, giving the Scottish DJ a front row seat to personal concerts from the world's biggest pop stars.
But for Harris' new single "My Way," he decided to go literal and cast himself as the track's vocalist, doing things his way.
This isn't the first time we've heard Harris hit the mic. His track "Summer" is one of his most recognizable hits, while "Flashback" also features Harris pulling double duty as musician and singer.
The release of "My Way" arrives at an interesting time—the dark lyrics sounding like they relate to Harris' famous ex, Taylor Swift. Calvin sings "Why wait to say, at least I did it my way / Lie awake, two faced / But in my heart I understand / I made my move and it was all about you / Now I feel so far removed."
Harris premiered "My Way" on iHeartRadio and opened up about the single, saying, "[The] song's kind of about breaking out of a situation that you thought was a good thing. Then, you're way more comfortable out of it. And it could be anything. It could be a job, or it could be a relationship. I had kind of the idea for the concept for a few years, but I didn't know how to work out how it sounded."
The famed DJ revealed that he doesn't plan on releasing a new album this year, but does have a song with Big Sean that he's hoping will drop before the end of 2016.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Salisbury University volleyball team climbed two more spots in the American Volleyball Coaches Association Top 25 Coaches' Poll, released on Tuesday, reaching No. 15, the highest ranking in program history.
Salisbury went 4-1 in the final week of the regular season, clinching the Capital Athletic Conference regular season title with a 3-0 win against Marymount (Va.) University and a 3-0 win against then-No. 16 State University of New York at Cortland.
The win against SUNY Cortland came at the Christopher Newport University Invitational, where Salisbury went 3-1, the only set back a 3-1 loss to the host Captains, who dropped from No. 4 to No. 5 in this week's poll.
The Sea Gulls were the first team in nearly two weeks to win a game against CNU.
Salisbury received 260 points in this week's poll, just three behind No. 14 Pacific Lutheran University.
The top three teams in the poll remained unchanged with Washington University of St. Louis (593 points and 20 first-place votes), Calvin College (560 points) and Wittenberg University (540 points and four first-place votes) remaining in their spots. Hope College (516 points) moved up one spot to No. 4, just ahead of Christopher Newport (513).
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San Diego's world-renowned biotech industry began with dreams.
The founders were nonconformists, idealists and go-getters, the kind of people who oppose bureaucracy and take significant risks. They left comfortable jobs with big medical companies or respected academic centers in their quest to create something different.
As the Biotechnology Industry Organization's annual convention returns to San Diego this week for the third time, that history will come in reach of an estimated 15,000 attendees from 47 states and 65 countries.
San Diego's biotech legacy started in 1978 with its first biotech company, Hybritech. A tremendous success that made millions for its creators and investors, Hybritech set a pattern that continues today.
Hybritech adopted the then-new technology of monoclonal antibodies to develop superior diagnostic tests that put it — and San Diego — on the national biotech map. Purchased by Eli Lilly and Company in 1986, Hybritech then declined due to a clash of cultures and visions. The notably staid conglomerate didn't understand the younger and more eccentric members of Hybritech.
" 'Animal House' meets 'The Waltons' " is how Hybritech veteran Tina Nova characterized the disconnect in an interview several years ago.
Like Nova, other innovative misfits have faced the delicate balancing act of building San Diego's biotech hub into the powerhouse that it is today while still maintaining an independent, rebellious streak of entrepreneurism. They must if they want to stay alive in this often boom-or-bust sector.
Successful biotech companies are almost invariably bought by pharmaceutical and scientific giants. Then the investors and executives are back at work, developing the next big thing.
The tally of mega-purchases in San Diego County keeps getting longer. The biggest to date, concluded this year, was the $13.6 billion purchase of Life Technologies in Carlsbad by Thermo Fisher Scientific. In 2012, Bristol-Myers Squibb bought Amylin for about $7 billion. The list of acquired companies also includes SkinMedica, Dura Pharmaceuticals and Pyxis.
Latest advances
The biotech frontier has moved to fields such as genomics, which harbors the promise of identifying causes of disease and guiding development of new therapies with unprecedented precision.
Genomics is dominated by San Diego's Illumina, itself the target of a failed takeover bid by Roche in 2012. Illumina's market value of more than $20 billion makes it by far the biggest biotech company in the San Diego region.
Other advances in the local biotech scene include:
• Wireless and digital health, which has received an enormous push thanks to the popularity of smartphones. Continuous monitoring can detect problems in real time, which can help patients better adhere to doctors' advice.
• Gene therapy and regenerative medicine. These technologies originally fell short of their promise due to some setbacks but they have taken off recently. Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and the Scripps Clinic, both in La Jolla, have developed a therapy for patients with Parkinson's disease that's derived from artificial embryonic stem cells. They may receive federal authorization to test the treatment in humans next year.
• Monoclonal antibodies, which have been boosted by advances such as development of antibody conjugate drugs in which the antibody seeks out diseased tissue to deliver a therapeutic payload attached to it.
Such progress had led to major economic benefits for greater San Diego, once known mainly as a military and tourist area.
The county's life-sciences industry employs nearly 60,000 workers, according to a 2013 report from Biocom, the San Diego-based life-sciences trade group.
Many of those professionals are paid well. Biopharmaceutical employees earn an average wage of nearly $139,000 per year, while those focused on medical devices and diagnostics bring in an average of nearly $99,000 annually. People with specialties in industrial biotech and biofuels earn nearly $49,000 a year.
The average wage for all life-sciences positions in San Diego County is more than $123,000 per year. The total economic activity of life sciences, direct and indirect, amounts to $36.6 billion in this region.
And just to show that it's not all about dollars and petri dishes, the aesthetic side of San Diego biotech is on display for those arriving at Lindbergh Field. An exhibit of science-as-art photos was recently installed in Terminal 2. The photos show a range of work conducted by local researchers.
Who knew that the endoplasmic reticulum and macrophages could be so beautiful?
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Today's mega biotech footprint started out small in the late 1970s.
Lacking bureaucracy, small companies could innovate more freely. And for the startups that succeeded, the payoff was personal satisfaction as well as financial reward.
From across the country, scientist-entrepreneurs came to San Diego for that opportunity. Relatively few of the pioneers were native San Diegans.
One visionary transplant was a soft-spoken, young medical industry executive named David Hale.
He arrived in San Diego in 1981 to interview at Hybritech, considering whether to help commercialize the company's monoclonal antibody-based diagnostic products. Hale was doubtful about taking the job, as was his wife.
Hybritech was established by Dr. Ivor Royston and Howard Birndorf, then at the University of California San Diego. This duo saw the potential of using monoclonal antibodies to revolutionize the diagnostic industry with faster and more effective tests. The venture-capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers recognized that promise and provided funding to turn the dream into an actual business.
Hale ultimately agreed to contribute to the Hybritech vision. And as with so many other San Diego converts, the weather didn't hurt.
"I was working at Becton Dickinson, a large diagnostic and medical device company, and we were evaluating monoclonal antibodies. Our division recommended we pursue the development of monoclonal antibodies and corporate turned us down," Hale recounted.
"I was sitting in my office in Baltimore, Maryland, watching the sleet and snow. I got a call from a recruiter for the third time who said, 'What's the weather like in Baltimore?' Which of course he knew.
"He said, 'I'm standing on the beach in San Diego and it's 75 degrees. Why don't you and your wife come out for a vacation?' "
Invitation accepted.
Hale eventually became the president of Hybritech. In 1986, he negotiated the sale of the company to Eli Lilly. The Hales could have left San Diego afterward, but by that time they had become emotionally attached to the city.
As it turns out, that time period marked only the early phase of what would amount to an extensive biotech career in San Diego for him. He has logged both successes and failures, but over time the successes have been greater. Hale's most recent coup was the sale of Santarus, a developer of specialty pharmaceuticals, to Salix for $2.6 billion.
Other misfits
Guy Iannuzzi, a marketing veteran at Young & Rubicam, moved to San Diego around the same time as Hale to found the marketing agency Mentus. And like Hale, Iannuzzi had had enough of East Coast weather.
"I can be wherever the heck I want," Iannuzzi said. "I lived in Connecticut for 15 years. And I'll be honest — I got tired of how cold and miserable, and how brown and gray it was. I just decided, 'I don't need this.' Out West was a new future, a new world."
Iannuzzi hung out with the Hybritech folks, not just for business, but socially. The company's unstuffy atmosphere welcomed newcomers. It set the pattern for more biotech launches in San Diego.
"We have a rich history of attracting and keeping misfits," Iannuzzi said. "Entrepreneurs tend to be misfits. Entrepreneurs usually have a very big sense of control in their lives. And one of those controls is, 'I'm going to live where I want to work, and I'm going to work with the people I want to work with, to do the things I want to do.' And they tend to not like being employees. They end up getting fired or they quit their jobs."
Iannuzzi said he definitely embodies the misfit spirit.
"I had 25 jobs in 10 years in the '70s, and I was not fired from one of them," he recalled. "I was the employee from hell, and a lot of entrepreneurs are like that. They bug their bosses to ask questions. They have a hard time following the rules."
Viewed from another perspective, these personality traits are essential for building new businesses, Iannuzzi said. Creators of new companies have to ask deep and broad questions to find the answers, he explained, and it's impossible to follow the rules in many cases because they don't yet exist.
Freed from the past
Jerry Caulder, a longtime agricultural biotechnology executive and venture-capital investor, also came to San Diego after leaving a bigger company, Monsanto. Like Hale, he also disagreed with corporate priorities at his previous workplace.
"Monsanto in those days was hellbent for leather to be in the biopharma area," Caulder said. "Agriculture was not one of their top priorities, even though it was paying all the bills for the people doing the work in biotech. I was working in Monsanto's internal venture-capital group, and I saw an opportunity in agriculture that no one else was pursuing."
That opportunity turned into Mycogen, a company already being formed in San Diego. Caulder liked the business plan — to develop natural pesticides that aren't toxic to humans and other mammals. These pesticides made by bacteria could be turned into long-lasting products that are applied to plants.
"Most innovations come out of small companies," Caulder said in a 1989 article in The Tribune. "Mycogen has absolutely nothing to lose by adopting a new technology. DuPont, Monsanto have lots to lose. We're not prisoners of the past."
In 1998, Dow Chemical purchased Mycogen for just over $1 billion.


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Sorakaya Pulusu | Anapakaya Pulusu | Bottle Gourd Stew
Sorakaya pulusu (bottle gourd stew) is a South Indian dish that is prepared by Telugu's. Pulusu or stew means mild flavored tamarind juice brewed with few spices. Sorakaya pulusu is soft and juicy, made from tamarind gravy and tastes yummy when served hot with steamed rice and dal.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
Total time: 30 minutes
Course: Main
Serves: 3-4
Main ingredient: Bottle gourd
1 bowl measurement: 250 ml
Flame used: Medium
Bottle gourd (lauki, sorakaya, anapakaya)
"Rich in fiber and low-calorie vegetable (14 calories per 100 grams)"
Peeled and chopped bottle gourd: 250 grams
Tamarind (Chintapandu) paste (step by step recipe): 2 tbsp
Or big lemon size tamarind soaked
Chopped onion: 1 medium size, green chilies: 3 or 4
For talimpu:
Dry red chilly: 1, urad dal: 1/2 tbsp, fenugreek seeds: 1/4 tbsp, mustard seeds: 1/2 tbsp, cumin seeds: 1/2 tbsp, garlic pods: 2, curry leaves: Few
Oil: 2-3 tbsp
Ghee (Clarified butter): 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder: 1 tbsp
Salt: As per taste
Red chilly powder or kaaram: 1 tbsp
Jaggery (mashed): Small lemon sized or 1 tbsp
Water: 300 ml or 1 and 1/2 bowl
Step 1: Heat 2 tbsp oil, saute (fry) spices one by one in low flame (prefer thick base kadai)
1 red chilly (endumirapa) and 1 or 2 garlic pod (optional)
Fenugreek seeds (menthulu): 1/4 tbsp
Cumin seeds (jeelakarra): 1/2 tbsp
Mustard seeds (aavalu): 1/2 tbsp
Urad dal (minapappu): 1/2 tbsp
add onions and green chilies
Add curry leaves and mix
Step 2: Add turmeric powder and mix well
Step 3: Add bottle gourd pieces
Step 4: Add little (50 ml) water, let it cook for 2-3 minutes
Step 5: Add salt (uppu), 1 tbsp red chilly powder (kaaram), soaked & filtered tamarind juice or 2 tbsp tamarind paste (Chintapandu gujju).
Jaggery (bellam) "optional"
Step 6: Add and mix 1 glass (250ml) water (just enough for the pieces should sink). Taste the stew and adjust any ingredient (tamarind paste, salt, red chilly powder) if required
Let it cook for 10-15 minutes till bottle gourd is cooked
Add 1 tbsp clarified butter (ghee) and turn off the flame when it comes to required thickness.
Put it in a serving bowl :)
Serve hot with steamed rice, plain dal and clarified butter or ghee (annamu, mudda pappu, neyyi)
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The drivers for growth would be reforms and governance, inclusive growth and affirmative action, innovation, entrepreneurship and growth of MSMEs and transformation of sectors: S Gopalakrishnan, President CII
India ranks 132nd among 185 countries on the parameter of 'ease of doing business'; this needs to be improved: S Gopalakrishnan, President CII
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Book Reviews! – Keith Knight old and new!
Omg, omg, omg Keith Knight is totally awesome.
I got into his comics a few years back (let's be honest, it was more than a few. It was the Bush (#2) era), bought a couple of his books at the Anarchist Book Fair and a library reading, read them and reveled in their awesomeness, and then, naturally, got distracted.
The Complete K Chronicles is a compilation of a few books and weighs in at 510 pages and contains strips from 1993 – 2004. Knight Takes Queen is a single book and was published in 2014. They're both so good!
Knight has a really exciting and unusual ability to mix politics, potty humor, and pure heart– for example, he'll be writing about violent racist cops in one panel, and the joy of yummy food in the next. Oh, and you're laughing for both (even though sometimes it's an LOL!, and other times it's a resigned, head-shaking omg he's so right, ain't that tragic kind of laugh.
We should totally support rad cartoonists; of course check your library (and check the items out! Shelf-sitters (i.e. books that don't get checked out) often get weeded when library shelf space is limited! Do your part to keep good stuff in the libraries)– but also buy his books and art! You can most easily do this on his website (which also has more comics!).
Book Review: After Tupac and D Foster
D Foster is the mysterious new girl that randomly wandered down Neeka and her best friend's block one day and befriended them. Tupac is, well, Tupac. The three girls become BFF's and bond over girlhood and a reverence for Tupac and his music (in terms of era, we begin before Tupac non-fatally gets shot the first time, and we end after his death from a different shooting). You may be thinking that sounds silly, or I don't even like Tupac so why should I read this. But you should check it out! The author KILLS IT when writing about the effect that song lyrics or a performer's persona has on you in those early teen years. The persona of Tupac is like a beacon and a friend in the lives of the girls, even though he lives nowhere near them and they listen to his music on a crackly tape of a tape, he's just as present as, say, a mother or brother in their lives.
This children's fiction (classified as "JF" at my library, probably best for 5th to 8th grade, but I'd also recommend it to older teens who are reluctant readers– or Tupac fans). It's a short read, and is not just about 'Pac– it also weaves in narratives of options for young black males, foster care, race, undeserved incarceration, having a gay family member, the fact of being female and growing up.
Check out a copy here!
Book Review: Red, White, Black & Blue by Keith Knight
Blast from the past!
If you're not familiar with Keith Knight, his work is totally awesome. I have a few of this books which I totes love, and I recently picked this one up at the library since I hadn't read it before.
Published in 2004, it's basically political comics from the thick of the Bush era. They're spot-on to how things were at the time.
My first thought was Whew! Thank goodness we're under a new regime, shit was so fucked up then! And then I realized that we're basically still at war, we're still crowded by racism that's institutional AND and home-born, government surveillance has been proven (hiya NSA), and everything is now so connected that there's a pretty serious chilling effect over activism and free speech. People's passion is gone. Remember when everyone was going to rallies all the time, and it wasn't considered in bad taste to critique the gov? But basically, other than the demise of MJ and the mass-forgetting of a few public figures' names, the book's still hella relevant. Buy his other books (this one's sold out) or check this one out!
Book Reviews: double teen-dream-problems edition!
So I had this giant stack of well-respected adult literature that I was intending to read– and instead I gravitated toward teen stuff (and returned the adult stuff to the library). So much for faking like I'm fancy and grown up. Here goes:
45 Pounds (more or less) by KA Barson
So teenage Anne has been told that she is 45 pounds overweight, her (super skinny) mom is a total jerk about it, and as a result, she has a pretty big complex. Her lesbian (!) aunt's wedding is in a few months and she wants to lost the weight so she can look thin in the ceremony, so she goes through some extreme measures to start– and ends up having to get a job to support these new measures, and meanwhile there's a boy she likes and her little sister is starting to get emotionally distressed about something, and there's a mean girl out to sabotage her…
Ultimately lots of the right lessons are taught, but I really wish the "happy ending" could have been made happy without the stereotypical things that it ended with. I kind of also wish that we'd gotten to know Anne a little better. BUT this teenage "problem novel" is still solidly multi-dimensional, entertaining, and interesting.
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Hot Girl by Dream Jordan
14 year old Kate's had a tough life. She's been bounced around group homes and foster families, is a former gang member and former pot smoker and all-around tough girl– but she finally had a good social worker, good grades, and an ok (but strict) family she lives with. But when her BFF goes away for the summer, she befriends Naleejah, a super-fancy girl who has tons of money and designer clothes– and sleeps with guys to get them. Naleejah gives Kate a makeover, and the kind of attention that she gets starts to change… Will she fall in too deep with her new friend and risk losing everything that she's worked so hard to make stable in her life?
This is a decent YA novel. It features multiple characters' complications and complexities, and is realistic in the sense that it doesn't try too hard to clean up supporting characters' messes. Kate is weird enough that we can actually believe that she's a real person, and while some of the other characters might be jerky, they still elicit some empathy.
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Book Review: Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson
I'm really glad that I found Dana Johnson! I forget how I found out about her as an author– Maybe Library Journal reviews, maybe Amazon recommendations, maybe an old photocopied book list. I wrote a bit about her short story collection, Break Any Woman Down, about a week ago. My write-up was really disjointed because I got all distracted in between reading and writing– but I was interested enough to read more by her.
Break Any Woman Down has two stories about a character named Avery– one as a child, and one when she's older. Elsewhere, California is a more fleshed out meditation on Avery's life, flip-flopping between the present and the past to illustrate that your personal history never entirely leaves you. Avery did most of her growing up as an African American female in the suburbs of LA, often in a sea of white kids. As a grownup she's an artist and a stay-at-home girlfriend to a wealthy Italian immigrant who's white. The publisher and cataloging descriptions of the book that I've found aren't really the greatest– they tend to be kind of essentialist, I think in hopes to "package" the book nicely for specific "sets" of readers. Basically a lot of stuff that is often rather poignant happens. These happenings involve gender, class, art, and most prominently the state of race and racism in America. These details aren't really spelled out– it's more like they're positioned in a ways that the reader will hopefully notice.
The book is well-written, engaging, and doesn't take too long to read. The structure of flipping between the past and the present is not problematic, and I found that I was disappointed when it was over.
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Book Review: Break Any Woman Down (stories) by Dana Johnson
Looking for short stories that read easy but actually make you think? Dana Johnson's collection, Break Any Woman Down will do the job. I read this a couple weeks ago and a lot of stuff happened since then, so I don't remember the details perfectly. BUT the stories in the collection are super diverse, with lots of different types of characters, and take place in multiple eras. They all showcase the Black female experience in the US, and touch on stuff like family, relationships, racism, school, work, abuse, AIDS, dating, love, etc. It won a Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and according to the internet, seems to have been pretty popular when it was published a bit over a decade ago. Check it out!
Book Review: Ghetto Cowboy by G. Neri
I found this one on some librarian Juv/YA booklist, and I'm glad that I checked it out! I recommend it for all ages. Though intended for kids age 12+, I think it would work well for teens also as well as adults who like YA books).
Ghetto Cowboy is the story of what happens to 12-year-old Cole who gets in trouble one time too many at his mom's house in Detroit, and is sent to stay with his father (whom he has never met) in Philly to help clean up his act. But as soon as Cole's mom's car pulls into town to drop him off, he realizes that his dad doesn't live in an ordinary place. Nestled in the middle of the inner city are barns, horses, and bona-fide African American cowboys. At first he's freaked out. But then things start to come together…
The storyline is fairly typical to what an experienced adult reader would expect, but the parts of this novel that were the most interesting to me are as follows:
1) The author has Cole narrate with a natural urban conversational tone (you know, the way real kids talk) without apology
2) Inner-city black cowboy associations are totally a real-live thing. Read about one HERE.
3) Technically a children's book, Ghetto Cowboy doesn't pussyfoot around things like institutional racism, gentrification, gangs, etc. The author does a good job of trusting that the reader can handle it all
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Book Review:: Drama High: Second Chance
The Drama High series kept on getting mentioned as one of the few contemporary book series' out there about African American teenage girls. So I picked up Second Chance to see if it was something that that the teenagers at my library would be into (and, um, because I like YA fiction).
So yes, Second Chance is a recommendable book. In all honesty, I think that being a teenager would have enamored me to it more (the author does a great job of capturing that certain breed of awful anxiety that comes with relationships when you're a teen– and it's so nice to be free of that as a grown up– also, there's a good deal of interpersonal friend drama that was more teen-style than I was into (but I'm not a teen)).
So the story is that Jayd is African American and lives in Compton and wakes up every morning to take the bus to a mostly-rich-and-white school in LA. She's in AP classes and has a handful of African American classmates who are also from her part of the city. Amongst them are her 2 best friends, her sworn enemy, and the manipulative boy who she used to date. Jayd starts dating a rich white boy, and drama of course ensues. Unlike a lot of paperback teen novels in general, Jayd and her surrounding life gets a fair deal of dimension. Her grandma who she lives with works making potions and magic satchels (and it's treated totally normally in the book). The school has some notoriously racist teachers, and Jayd tries to bring charges against one of them. Jayd also works on the weekends and has difficulty with her dad and his side of the family. She's likable, typically says the right thing, and has a strong sense of self.
This is not the first book of the series, and I would recommend starting with book one, as I felt a little bit in the dark about some of the characters. On a similar note, it is definitely part of a series– so there is not a tidy conclusion.
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Book Review: Seasons Change by Jennifer A Lightburn
Book Review: Seasons Change by Jennifer A Lightburn
I found this book on an LGBT reading list, and I was pleased to find that my library had it! It is the story of what happens to Annette after she leaves a really messed up abusive relationship with her ex, Montel, and starts to get on with her life. The narrative itself has multiple layers: there's a court custody battle, a back story about the local homophobic police department, a new same-sex relationship with an old friend, friendship, family drama, deceit, private investigators, and more.
This book is addictive reading– Lightburn really knows how to immerse a reader into a character's entire world. It's self-published and you can tell that it was really an effort of love. There are a couple of minor misspelling/editing issues– but they are not big enough to disrupt the story or crack the author's credibility. The book came to a slightly abrupt end and left me wanting a part 2!
Find a copy here. If you're a Kindle person, it's only $2 on amazon!