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Target id: 2829
Nomenclature: indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1
Abbreviated Name: IDO1
Family: 1.13.11.- Dioxygenases
Annotation status: Awaiting annotation/under development. Please contact us if you can help with annotation. » Email us
|Gene and Protein Information
|Chromosomal Location
|Gene Symbol
|Gene Name
|indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1
|indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1
|indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1
|Gene and Protein Information Comments
|Two isoforms of mouse Ido1 have been identified. We list the longer of the two, isoform 1 in the table above. The shorter isoform has only 316 amino acids.
|Previous and Unofficial Names
|INDO | indoleamine-pyrrole 2,3 dioxygenase | IDO-1 | IDO | indoleamine 2
|Database Links
|ChEMBL Target
|CHEMBL4685 (Hs), CHEMBL1075294 (Mm)
|Ensembl Gene
|ENSG00000131203 (Hs), ENSMUSG00000031551 (Mm), ENSRNOG00000031189 (Rn)
|Entrez Gene
|3620 (Hs), 15930 (Mm), 66029 (Rn)
|Human Protein Atlas
|ENSG00000131203 (Hs)
|KEGG Enzyme
|KEGG Gene
|hsa:3620 (Hs), mmu:15930 (Mm), rno:66029 (Rn)
|147435 (Hs)
|RefSeq Nucleotide
|NM_002164 (Hs), NM_008324 (Mm), NM_001293690 (Mm), NM_023973 (Rn)
|RefSeq Protein
|NP_002155 (Hs), NP_001280619 (Mm), NP_032350 (Mm), NP_076463 (Rn)
|83385 (in complex with NLG919)
|P14902 (Hs), P28776 (Mm), Q9ERD9 (Rn)
|IDO1 (Hs)
|Selected 3D Structures
|Enzyme Reaction
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|Immunopharmacology Comments
|The indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase (IDO) branch of the kynurenine (KYN) pathway of tryptophan metabolism has been intensely studied in relation to immune tolerance and allergy. IDO is generally considered to be a tolerogenic, immunosuppressive enzyme, that is induced by IFN-γ. It provides a negative feedback pathway that limits uncontrolled immune responses. Its immunosuppressive actions arise from its promotion of tryptophan depletion, and elevation of KYN metabolite levels. The aryl hydrocarbon receptor serves as a receptor for KYN and should be considered when evaluating the IDO-KYN pathway in immune homeostasis and its potential to modulate innate and adaptive immune responses [8].
IDO1 expression is increased by IFN-γ and IL-6 [11] (the latter in the presence of a histone deacetylase inhibitor). It is proposed that upregulating IDO1 via HDAC inhibition may be a therapeutic approach for the acute lethal idiopathic pulmonary syndrome that is a complication following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation [11].
In the tumour microenvironment, depletion of tryptophan (catalysed by tumour-expressed IDO1) promotes Treg cell differentiation, suppresses the immune response and decreases dendritic cell function, thus creating a tolerogenic environment in which the cancer cells can survive and proliferate. Since IDO1 inhibitors have been shown to reverse this escape mechanism, ID01 has emerged as a promising molecular target for the development of novel agents as cancer immunotherapeutics [7], as well as for the treatment of other diseases that are characterised by the reduction of local tryptophan levels. The applicability of ID01 inhibition has been shown in preclinical models of diseases including arthritis, ischemia-reperfusion injury, endotoxin shock, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection, airway inflammation, and cancer [6,19]. However, clinical therapeutic efficacy has proven elusive [9].
|Cell Type Associations
|Immuno Process Associations
|Physiological Functions
|General Comments
IDO1 is a rate-limiting enzyme of tryptophan catabolism along the kynurenine pathway. IDO1 catabolises both the L- and D- enantiomers of tryptophan, but shows preference for L-tryptophan. Additional IDO1 substrates include indoleamines such as serotonin, melatonin, and tryptamine [17].
IDO1 emerged as an important new therapeutic target for the treatment of cancer, neurological disorders, and other diseases that are characterized by pathological tryptophan metabolism. Despite encouraging anti-tumour activity in preclinical models and early stage clinical trials, and especially in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors, the potential of IDO1 inhibitors may not be translated to later stage clinical efficacy. No clinical trial results have yet been published, but insiders commenting online suggest that IDO1 inhibitors may not deliver on their promise (see IDO Inhibitors Hit a Wall on Derek Lowe's In The Pipeline blog, April 9, 2018)
1. Crosignani S, Cauwenberghs S, Driessens G, Deroose F. (2015) Pyrrolidine-2,5-dione derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for use as ido1 inhibitors. Patent number: WO2015173764. Assignee: Iteos Therapeutics. Priority date: 15/05/2014. Publication date: 19/11/2015.
2. Dai W, Gupta SL. (1990) Molecular cloning, sequencing and expression of human interferon-gamma-inducible indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase cDNA. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 168 (1): 1-8. [PMID:2109605]
3. Dolušić E, Larrieu P, Blanc S, Sapunaric F, Norberg B, Moineaux L, Colette D, Stroobant V, Pilotte L, Colau D et al.. (2011) Indol-2-yl ethanones as novel indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitors. Bioorg. Med. Chem., 19 (4): 1550-61. [PMID:21269836]
4. Fu R, Zhang YW, Li HM, Lv WC, Zhao L, Guo QL, Lu T, Weiss SJ, Li ZY, Wu ZQ. (2018) LW106, a novel indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 inhibitor, suppresses tumour progression by limiting stroma-immune crosstalk and cancer stem cell enrichment in tumour micro-environment. Br. J. Pharmacol., 175 (14): 3034-3049. [PMID:29722898]
5. Heitger A. (2011) Regulation of expression and function of IDO in human dendritic cells. Curr. Med. Chem., 18 (15): 2222-33. [PMID:21517757]
6. Holmgaard RB, Zamarin D, Munn DH, Wolchok JD, Allison JP. (2013) Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase is a critical resistance mechanism in antitumor T cell immunotherapy targeting CTLA-4. J. Exp. Med., 210 (7): 1389-402. [PMID:23752227]
7. Hornyák L, Dobos N, Koncz G, Karányi Z, Páll D, Szabó Z, Halmos G, Székvölgyi L. (2018) The Role of Indoleamine-2,3-Dioxygenase in Cancer Development, Diagnostics, and Therapy. Front Immunol, 9: 151. [PMID:29445380]
8. Koch S, Stroisch TJ, Vorac J, Herrmann N, Leib N, Schnautz S, Kirins H, Förster I, Weighardt H, Bieber T. (2017) AhR mediates an anti-inflammatory feedback mechanism in human Langerhans cells involving FcεRI and IDO. Allergy, 72 (11): 1686-1693. [PMID:28376268]
9. Komiya T, Huang CH. (2018) Updates in the Clinical Development of Epacadostat and Other Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase 1 Inhibitors (IDO1) for Human Cancers. Front Oncol, 8: 423. [PMID:30338242]
10. Kumar S, Waldo JP, Jaipuri FA, Marcinowicz A, Van Allen C, Adams J, Kesharwani T, Zhang X, Metz R, Oh AJ et al.. (2019) Discovery of Clinical Candidate (1R,4r)-4-((R)-2-((S)-6-Fluoro-5H-imidazo[5,1-a]isoindol-5-yl)-1-hydroxyethyl)cyclohexan-1-ol (Navoximod), a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase 1. J. Med. Chem., 62 (14): 6705-6733. [PMID:31264862]
11. Lee SM, Park HY, Suh YS, Yoon EH, Kim J, Jang WH, Lee WS, Park SG, Choi IW, Choi I et al.. (2017) Inhibition of acute lethal pulmonary inflammation by the IDO-AhR pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 114 (29): E5881-E5890. [PMID:28673995]
12. Li J, Li Y, Yang D, Hu N, Guo Z, Kuang C, Yang Q. (2016) Establishment of a human indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase 2 (hIDO2) bioassay system and discovery of tryptanthrin derivatives as potent hIDO2 inhibitors. Eur J Med Chem, 123: 171-179. [PMID:27475108]
13. Meininger D, Zalameda L, Liu Y, Stepan LP, Borges L, McCarter JD, Sutherland CL. (2011) Purification and kinetic characterization of human indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenases 1 and 2 (IDO1 and IDO2) and discovery of selective IDO1 inhibitors. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1814 (12): 1947-54. [PMID:21835273]
14. Mellor AL, Munn DH. (1999) Tryptophan catabolism and T-cell tolerance: immunosuppression by starvation?. Immunol. Today, 20 (10): 469-73. [PMID:10500295]
15. Muller AJ, DuHadaway JB, Donover PS, Sutanto-Ward E, Prendergast GC. (2005) Inhibition of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, an immunoregulatory target of the cancer suppression gene Bin1, potentiates cancer chemotherapy. Nat. Med., 11 (3): 312-9. [PMID:15711557]
16. Najfeld V, Menninger J, Muhleman D, Comings DE, Gupta SL. (1993) Localization of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase gene (INDO) to chromosome 8p12-->p11 by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Cytogenet. Cell Genet., 64 (3-4): 231-2. [PMID:8404046]
17. Shimizu T, Nomiyama S, Hirata F, Hayaishi O. (1978) Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase. Purification and some properties. J. Biol. Chem., 253 (13): 4700-6. [PMID:26687]
18. Tojo S, Kohno T, Tanaka T, Kamioka S, Ota Y, Ishii T, Kamimoto K, Asano S, Isobe Y. (2014) Crystal Structures and Structure-Activity Relationships of Imidazothiazole Derivatives as IDO1 Inhibitors. ACS Med Chem Lett, 5 (10): 1119-23. [PMID:25313323]
19. Uyttenhove C, Pilotte L, Théate I, Stroobant V, Colau D, Parmentier N, Boon T, Van den Eynde BJ. (2003) Evidence for a tumoral immune resistance mechanism based on tryptophan degradation by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase. Nat. Med., 9 (10): 1269-74. [PMID:14502282]
20. Yang S, Li X, Hu F, Li Y, Yang Y, Yan J, Kuang C, Yang Q. (2013) Discovery of tryptanthrin derivatives as potent inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase with therapeutic activity in Lewis lung cancer (LLC) tumor-bearing mice. J. Med. Chem., 56 (21): 8321-31. [PMID:24099220]
21. Yue EW, Douty B, Wayland B, Bower M, Liu X, Leffet L, Wang Q, Bowman KJ, Hansbury MJ, Liu C et al.. (2009) Discovery of potent competitive inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase with in vivo pharmacodynamic activity and efficacy in a mouse melanoma model. J. Med. Chem., 52 (23): 7364-7. [PMID:19507862]
1.13.11.- Dioxygenases: indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1. Last modified on 30/07/2019. Accessed on 29/01/2020. IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY, http://www.guidetopharmacology.org/GRAC/ObjectDisplayForward?objectId=2829.


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I finally have a sewing room all to myself! I have taken over the second bedroom and converted it into my studio!
Before taking over this room, my husband and I shared our loft as both of our offices and my sewing stuff. I was so cramped before that I had trouble finding anything and it stressed me out. My quilting stuff also had a tendency to overflow onto my husbands stuff and would stress him out. Now our loft is only used as our office and I have my own space and we are both so much happier!
I love my corner desk because it utilizes the space in the room so well. I essentially use it as 3 spaces. The left for cutting, the middle for my sewing room (which is really nice because there is a lot of room behind it for pushing through big projects), and an open space to the right. I actually have extra space!
I made this cork board a long time ago but switched out the fabric that covers it when I moved it into the new wrong. How could you not be inspired by pink and orange squirrels?
The room has shelving on both sides which really helps with organization!
And of coarse, having a big closet doesn't hurt! I can't get a picture of both sides of the closet because it's glass, so you can only have one side at a time open, but you get the idea. Now I have all my fabric organized into bins instead of crammed onto a overflowing book case!
I love this wall art! All it is, is scrap-booking paper that I bought very cheap frames for. It's a super inexpensive way to decorate a large wall space, not to mention that whenever you get tired of the prints, just flip them out for new prints and put the old prints back into your stash! You don't even waste the paper!
My absolute FAVORITE addition to my sewing room is this pressing table! I followed the tutorial at Oh, Fransoon!. It's made from a desk I got at Ikea for $20 (the legs come in multiple colors, but I LOVE the red). It's a pieced of plywood on top of the table, 3 layers of low-loft batting (removable) and then the removable cover! The fabric is a Amy Butler print, and that is easy to change out as well once it get damaged and dirty the way ironing surfaces do over time.
In case you were wondering how big of an upgrade this is for me, here is the little ironing board I have been sewing on for the past two years! It was all that would fit in the space I shared with my husband in the loft. This little ironing board has no padding and is just worn to pieces! I appreciate the two years I had it but am so happy to be past it! I think I have about 3 times more space with so much padding and stability! I couldn't be more pleased!

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Jessica Alba is in Paris this week going to fabulous fashion shows, aren't you jealous?? I am! Here she is with a friend/assistant (?) going to the Dior Show and I gotta say I'm LOVING these outfits! I think I prefer her friend's outfit just a tiny bit more but they're both great. Do you like them? Here's my look for less breakdown:
Jessica Alba Look:
Floral Dress: $26.50 (Delias)
Woven Belt: $37.20 (ASOS)
Gold Clutch:$26.53 (Endless)
Peep toe Pumps: $49.95 (DSW)
Friend Look:
Chiffon Top: $68 (Nordstrom)
Motorcycle Jacket: $39.50 (Old Navy)
Skirt: $38 (Urban Outfitters)
Peep Toe Pumps: $78.95 (Nine West)
Studded Belt: $6.80 (Forever 21)
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Jessica Alba & Friend. 2 Looks for Less!
XOXO, Unknown
Labels: Look for Less
4 comments :
cute look. I've been revamping my style for the summer and I'm starting to think about the fall. Can't wait to see what's gonna be in and how I can integrate it all into my wardrobe!ReplyDelete
I wish I looked that good in a little strapless dress...ReplyDelete
MZ: I'm dreaming of fall right now. Not only is it my favorite time of the year but I don't know how much longer I can take this Florida heat!!ReplyDelete
that motorcycle jacket is killer, especially for that price!ReplyDelete
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Hello friends! Welcome to another episode! First, Travis has a couple big announcements! Travis and Allegra both have Dogs We Met This Week and Travis shares some of his pet pet peeves! Allegra tells us all about the Chinese Crested in Mutt Minute! We're joined by hilarious comic and podcaster Matt Braunger to hear about his loud neighbor (and their illegal dog hotel) and his childhood dog Copper! Finally, hear from Renee the Temporary Dog Owner Pt. 3: The Final Countdown. Thanks for stopping by and be sure to share with a friend!
Hello friends and welcome to a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE!!! We're joined by our twin MaximumFun podcast We Got This! (And we joined them on their episode this week, go listen!) Hal and Mark are super Super Guests and join us for the WHOLE EPISODE! In Dogs We Met This Week, hear about Warlock the baby Corgi, a dog in a Bjorn, and a dog in a vortex named Judy! In Mutt Minute, learn all about the wonderfully named Bouvier des Flandres! Then we get right down to it and Mark and Hall tell us their dog life stories! For even more CIPYD/WGT, be sure to check us out on their show too!
Hello there friends! Guest producer Rob Pera is sitting in for Travis this week, and things are getting crazy around CIPYD HQ. Allegra tells us about Blue Heelers, Renee tells us about being a temporary dog owner as she dogsits Norma and Gizmo, and there's a new Bat Dog at the plate for a College Baseball team in Savannah! Enjoy the chaos that happens when Renee and Allegra are left unsupervised! Don't forget to share and tell all your friends to check us out!
Well, hey there! Thanks for stopping in! We're so excited to share today's episode with you! You'll get to hear about Duchess the coffee shop dog and Remy the French Bulldog in Dogs We Met This Week! Learn all about Newfoundlands and their amazing swimming/couch sitting abilities in Mutt Minute! We are so excited to be joined by amazing actor and enthusiastic dog lover Alison Becker! She tells us all about her dog Dignan and we couldn't be happier to hear it! This is a good one folks! Enjoy and don't forget to tell a friend!
Hey there everyone! Welcome to another great episode! In Dogs We Met This Week, it's been a great big-dog week for the Colvert family! A big Noodle and a new Great Dane! In Mutt Minute, learn all about Bull Terriers and the "original party animal"! We'rejoined this week by the incredible Julie Klausner! She's an actor,show creator and most importantly: A Basset Hound fan! Also, we have some very exciting news regarding pet shop dogs! We're so glad you joined us for another good one! Enjoy and be sure to tell a friend!


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As Vancouver recovers from the shock of the Cody Hodgson trade, it is obvious that this was a truly emotional move made by the Canucks. Angry callers ranted on local radio stations, while many others silently mourned the loss of the youngster they had fallen in love with over the last five months.
Coming back the other way is Zack Kassian, a young power forward who had been playing his rookie season for the Buffalo Sabres. A year younger, he is nowhere near the development of Hodgson.
There is understandably the fear that this will be a repeat of Neely-for-Peterson, the deal that saw the Canucks ship out a future Hall-of-Famer for a guy whose name would be forgotten if not for his part in this very trade.
Comparing Hodgson to Cam Neely is premature to say the least. Even more unfair is calling Kassian another Barry Peterson. It is easy to write off this unfamiliar name as an inferior talent, but this great unknown boasts a ceiling every inch as high as Hodgson's.
Zack Kassian was drafted 13th overall in the 2009 draft. He is widely considered to be the cream of the prospect crop when it comes to power forwards. Scouts portray him as an extremely complete player, with imposing size and strength and a willingness to throw punches, while possessing uncharacteristically soft hands and exceptional skating ability.
He showed off his abilities largely while playing for the OHL dynasty Windsor Spitfires. After joining them during the 2009/10 season, Kassian was an impactful piece in the second of back-to-back Memorial Cup championships for Windsor.
This is where he begins to separate himself from Cody Hodgson. His tough, gritty game contrasts the finesse of Hodgson. There is no player in the Vancouver Canucks organization like Zack Kassian. And while he may not be ready by then, there is a hope that he will help the Canucks this spring to fill the void that was so exploited by the Boston Bruins a year ago.
The Vancouver fan base has been begging management to toughen up their squad. Instead of a Band-Aid rental player, Gillis went for the Cadillac of gritty young stars. It should be seen as a success, but it seems nobody was prepared for the price the Canucks would have to pay.
Cody Hodgson was the oasis in the desert that is the Canucks' farm system. He was the next Trevor Linden, the one who would lead Vancouver through the next era of prosperity. He was someone you could build a franchise around.
For such ridiculous dreams, it is amazing how widespread these notions are in the wake of his departure. In their fury they overlook the fact that Kassian is even more capable of meeting such expectations.
Zack Kassian is definitely not a sure thing. There is a substantial chance that he could be a bust. However, it is exactly this heavy risk that works in this favour. Hodgson is a safe bet, he will not disappear, but he does not have the same upside that Kassian does. Kassian's potential calibre has a significantly wider range, including a higher ceiling.
That ceiling would look a lot like a Milan Lucic, which should have Canuck Nation salivating. People talk about changing the team's culture; becoming bigger, nastier, a club that nobody would mess with. Zack Kassian is the kind of player who is capable of that kind of impact. If he hits his potential, the Canucks will be able to build a very impressive team around him down the road.
Yes, Gillis did make this move for the present. A big part of this decision was improving Vancouvers chances in 2011. Just do not confuse that with being short-sighted. Kassian may contribute to a post-season run this year, but he has the ability to help the Canucks to many more deep runs at the Stanley Cup after the Luongo-Sedin era is long gone.
A Cody Hodgson team would be a skill team, much like the one of today, bound for regular season success, and not much else. With Zack Kassian as a cornerstone of the franchise, Vancouver could be a team built for the playoffs.


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Follow a brave girl on her mission of mystery, meet a robot ready to break the rules, enjoy Halloween thrills with a master of horror, share adventures with a deaf girl, and go exploring in a haunted house in a dazzling collection of half-term books.
Follow a brave girl on her mission of mystery, meet a robot ready to break the rules, enjoy Halloween thrills with a master of horror, share adventures with a deaf girl, and go exploring in a haunted house in a dazzling collection of half-term books.
Age 8 plus:
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone
Jaclyn Moriarty and Karl James Mountford
Imagine a world made up of magical kingdoms… and that you are on a mission to unlock their mysteries!
Australian writer Jaclyn Moriarty, the prize-winning author of novels for young adults, uses her vivid imagination, storytelling skills and love of language to unleash a thrilling, epic adventure full of fantasy, fun and wickedly clever wordplay.
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone is her first book for younger readers and it's a witty and wonderful tale starring a ten-year-old girl and her quest to visit all her ten aunts to discover the fate of her parents.
Steeped in the dark atmospherics and wry humour of Lemony Snicket, full of intriguing clues and conundrums, and with the vibrant, graphic-style illustrations of Karl James Mountford to bring Bronte's daring exploits to life, the book has all the perfect ingredients for middle grade readers.
Bronte Mettlestone is not too bothered when she learns that her parents have been killed by pirates. They both ran away to have adventures when Bronte was a baby and she barely even remembers them. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle, with assistance from the Butler, and has spent a pleasant childhood of afternoon teas and riding lessons.
Now, however, her parents have left detailed instructions about what Bronte must now do in their will (instructions that, annoyingly, have been reinforced with Faery cross-stitch, which means that if she doesn't complete them, terrible things could happen).
Bronte must travel to the different kingdoms alone, delivering gifts to ten other aunts… a farmer aunt who owns an orange orchard, a veterinarian aunt who specialises in dragon care, a pair of aunts who captain a cruise ship, and a former rock star aunt who is now the reigning monarch of a small kingdom.
But as she travels from aunt to aunt, Bronte encounters an Elvish football match, solves a case of mistaken identity and learns to ride a dragon. Soon she suspects that there might be more to this journey than the simple delivery of treasure… although she little suspects that she will have to play such a big part in the extraordinary events that follow.
Expect dragons, witches, whisperers and water-sprites as the insouciant Bronte embarks on an adventure to discover if her parents really were killed by pirates at sea.
Moriarty's story – classic in its style but with a deliciously contemporary twist – is rooted in the strong ties of kinship, the power of words, the bravery of one inspirational girl, and the giant steps we must take in order to come of age.
Funny, quirky, and clever, this outrageously entertaining story will have youngsters already counting down to the next instalment, The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars, due to be published in autumn next year.
(Guppy Books, hardback, £12.99)
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Rachel Renée Russell
Nikki Maxwell, Queen of the Dorks, is back for more adventures full of dorky dramas in this amazing fourteenth instalment of the blockbuster, bestselling Dork Diaries series.
Nikki and her BFFs Zoey and Chloe are the giggling, gossiping stars of Rachel Renée Russell's much-loved series which chronicles the daily dramas of the 14-year-old's life inside (and outside!) school, and is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.
Russell, a US lawyer who prefers writing children's books to legal briefs, also illustrates the fabulous Dork Diaries, filling Nikki's entertaining meanderings with drawings, doodles and comic strips. There are an amazing 45 million Dork Diaries books in print worldwide… proof that Russell is in perfect communion with her middle grade readers.
The books were inspired by Russell's own middle school experiences as well as those of her two daughters, Erin and Nikki. Elder daughter Erin assists with writing and Nikki helps with the illustrations.
In this latest outing, Nikki Maxwell and her bandmates are looking forward to an awesome time on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! The only downside is that Nikki's frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, has weaselled her way on to the tour as a social media guru.
Nikki is determined to stay out of MacKenzie's way to avoid any drama, but then she learns that MacKenzie is going to be her room-mate. Total disaster! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from awesome to awful?
Friendship, fun and boyfriend gossip… what more could a girl want?
(Simon & Schuster, hardback, £12.99)
Age 9 plus:
The Velvet Fox
Catherine Fisher
Embark on a thrilling adventure, full of Welsh-flavoured magic, folklore and fantasy, with Catherine Fisher, an acclaimed poet and children's author who lives in Newport.
The Velvet Fox is Fisher's exciting sequel to The Clockwork Crow, which was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award and winner of the Tir na N-og Welsh Children's Book Award, and delivers the same addictive brand of chills, thrills and masterful storytelling.
After rescuing Tomos from enchantment, orphan Seren Rhys is enjoying her first summer at Plas-y-Fran. But as autumn arrives, it brings with it a mysterious new governess who seems intent on drawing Tomos away from Seren and his family.
Dangerous figures from a bewitched toy carousel stalk the house and, fearing the worst, Seren calls on the clockwork crow to help her. But can he reach her in time, and will Tomos be able to escape the magical creatures threatening to ensnare him, led by the Velvet Fox?
Expect darkness, sorcery, full-throttle adventures, and a big helping of fun as Welsh wizardry proves once again to be utterly bewitching!
(Firefly Press, paperback, £6.99)
Age 9 plus:
The Last Human
Lee Bacon
A robot who has never questioned the rules, a human who shouldn't exist, and a journey that will change everything…
American author Lee Bacon's through-provoking and heartwarming middle grade novel challenges young readers to consider just what it means to be human in a world that is now full of screens, robots and technological devices.
The Last Human, Bacon's first novel to be published in the UK and soon to be an animated film, imagines a world now ruled by machines after humans became extinct thirty years ago.
Twelve-year-old robot XR_935 is just fine with no humans. Without humans around, there is no war, no pollution, no crime, and every member of society has a purpose. Everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Until the day XR discovers something impossible… a twelve-year-old human named Emma.
For its whole life, XR has been told that humans were evil and that the world is better without them but Emma doesn't seem evil. In fact, she seems scared and now she needs XR's help. Emma must embark on a dangerous voyage with an unlikely new friend and two other robots in search of a mysterious point on a map. How will they survive in a world where rules are never broken, and humans are not supposed to exist?
Bacon blends humour, adventure, themes of prejudice, friendship and acceptance, and moments of heartfelt emotion in a clever, compelling story that explores the complexity of being human through the objective eye of a robot.
(Piccadilly Press, paperback, £6.99)
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Seven Ghosts
Written and illustrated by Chris Priestley
As Halloween draws ever nearer, get your goosebumps well and truly raised with seven ghostly spine-tingling tales from the master of horror Chris Priestley.
The award-winning author of the Tales of Terror series and the hugely popular and award-winning Mister Creecher, Priestley is also a talented artist and illustrator, and his cartoons have been published in The Independent as well as other national newspapers.
Seven Ghosts, featuring a multi-narrative story and lots of hair-raising horror, comes from innovative publisher Barrington Stoke and is produced in a super readable format especially suitable for struggling, reluctant or dyslexic readers.
Jake and the other finalists in a writing competition have been invited to stately house, Grimstone Hall, for a tour like no other. As their guide leads them through grand rooms, hidden nooks and magnificent grounds, they hear the stories of seven ghosts who haunt the halls.
But strange shapes and shadows follow Jake as he journeys through the house and with each tale that Jake hears, he begins to feel more uneasy. All is not as it seems and soon Jake will discover that old ghosts have been stirred up and something is very, very wrong…
Priestley's atmospheric, black and white illustrations are the perfect accompaniment to super scary stories brim full of chills and thrills!
(Barrington Stoke, paperback, £6.99)
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Harriet Versus the Galaxy
Samantha Baines
Just because you can't hear very well doesn't mean that you can't save the planet!
Harriet Versus the Galaxy is a hilarious and heartfelt debut novel from multi-award winning, hearing aid-wearing, comedian, actor and author Samantha Baines who is determined to put deaf youngsters firmly at centre stage in her stories.
Baines, who first experienced hearing loss three years ago, is an Ambassador for Action on Hearing Loss and the British Tinnitus Association, and champions representation of the deaf to raise awareness of this 'invisible disability.'
This exciting intergalactic adventure starts at home with Harriet, who has moved in with her Gran and discovered that her hearing aid can do more than she ever bargained for. It all started when she found an alien in her room and learned that her family secretly work for a secret agency.
Harriet is the Earth's first line of defence as the only one who can understand the invaders and she must save the day for the intergalactic SAS agency with her new non-binary friend Robin. Her hearing aid certainly helps her understand aliens from across the universe… if only she could understand her own feelings.
Full of warmth and humour, Harriet Versus the Galaxy – beautifully illustrated by deaf artist Jess Maria Flores – is a tale of friendship, empowerment, disability and one little girl's fight to save the planet.
(Knights Of, hardback, £12.99)
Age 5 plus:
The House of Madame M
Clotilde Perrin
If you go down to the woods today… you'll find a haunted house!
Enjoy the scares and dares of Halloween with a fabulous, interactive book that lets youngsters explore every dark nook and cranny in the thrilling, chilling home of the strange and shadowy Madame M.
There's creepy fun, hidden jokes and spine-shivering surprises to uncover in a super, large-format, lift-the-flaps book from talented French illustrator and author Clotilde Perrin who has published over thirty books, including the international lift-the-flap bestseller Inside the Villains.
The House of Madame M comes from Gecko Press, a lively independent publisher of 'curiously good' children's books based in Wellington, New Zealand, which prides itself on championing eclectic stories, rich in language and illustration, and with a strong 'heart factor.'
And this entertaining book is certainly full of exciting innovation as youngsters are invited to step into the house of Madame M, with a warning to be as quiet as they can, and to be very, very careful as they explore the hallway, living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Each room is full of surprises to make even the bravest shiver. Are we in the house of an ogre, a witch or something else altogether?
Children will love lifting the flaps, pulling the tabs, reading the hidden jokes, and finding what lurks in the wardrobe, behind the door, and tucked under the furniture in a book full of humour, rich detail and atmosphere.
A brilliant box of tricks for all the family!
(Gecko Press, hardback, £16.99)
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The Adventures of Moose and Mr Brown
Paul Smith and Sam Usher
Comedy is all the fashion in an inventive and beautifully creative picture book from international fashion designer Sir Paul Smith and star illustrator Sam Usher.
This exciting and artistic duo have stitched together The Adventures of Moose and Mr Brown, a cleverly produced, laugh-out-loud story of animals, travel, design, and finding inspiration in the most unlikely of places.
Smith is renowned for his creative spirit and this delightful debut children's book, the first in a new and exciting series, features a cast of curious and charming characters, inspired by toys that he has owned for many years.
Mr Brown is an international fashion designer who meets Moose on a plane travelling to London. Moose is distraught as he has lost his twin brother Monty who got on the wrong plane. Mr Brown agrees to help Moose track down Monty, and in return, Moose helps bring even more inspiration to Mr Brown's business. They travel around the world, helping other animals with their designs, including slippers for sloths, parkas for penguins and scarves for giraffes, while looking for Monty. Will Mr Brown and Moose find Monty before Mr Brown's big catwalk show?
Usher's vibrant, colourful and characterful illustrations capture all the exuberance and spirit of adventure that mark out Smith's captivating story about the joys of friendship and the power that comes from using your creative talents.
(Pavilion Children's Books, hardback, £12.99)
Age 3 plus:
Beaver's Big Adventure: A Journey Home
Magnus Weightman
Inspired by becoming a father, architect and urban designer Magnus Weightman uses his love of architecture, drawing, nature and travel for an enchanting, rhyming picture book which aims to nurture every child's dreams of exploring and adventure.
Beaver has big dreams so one day he makes himself a sturdy boat and heads off on a big adventure to explore the world. Down the river and over the rapids he goes until he's far from home, but when he gets lost along the way, he starts to wonder how he will get back. Fortunately, Akita the dog offers to help Beaver find his way home and together they take off in in a hot-air balloon to travel the globe and look for Beaver's home.
Packed with jaunty rhymes and wonderfully detailed pictures of animal houses from around the world, this clever colourful book is brimming with fun, friendship and fascinating facts about different animal habitats.
Ideal for discussing environmental themes with young children, the book also includes a world map and charts Beaver's amazing global journey.
(Five Quills, paperback, £6.99)
Age 2 plus:
Sea Lights
Ruth Symons and Carolina Rabei
'At night we sail over the inky black sea,
me and my dad, in our little red boat.
We cast out our nets, and we wait in the dark,
and the star light shines above us.'
Follow the journey of one little girl and her father as their fishing boat comes back home….
Little ones will love to turn the pages and watch the night sky light up in this gentle, heartwarming book that was just made for bedtime reading.
Clever paper engineering makes object appear to 'light up' on every spread, from the roaming beams of the lighthouse and the warm yellow lights of the fishing village to a firework display seen through the window of a warm and cosy bedroom.
With Ruth Symons' lyrical, repetitive text and the richly detailed art of The Ride-by-Nights illustrator Carolina Rabei, coupled with the love between a father and his child, this twinkly tale will have toddlers feeling sleepy in no time.
And with a sumptuous silver foil cover, and the gorgeous light and shade atmospherics of dark winter nights, this is the perfect Christmas gift.
(Templar Publishing, hardback, £12.99)
Age 2 plus:
Oi Puppies!
Kes Gray and Jim Field
The exciting team of writer Kes Gray and illustrator Jim Field are up to their wonderful word tricks again as they play puppy love with a new rhyming extravaganza.
The bestselling, multi-award-winning creators of Oi Frog!, Oi Dog!, Oi Goat! and Oi Duck-billed Platypus! will have children laughing their socks off as they join in the fun of a riotous romp starring a cast of out-of-control pups who simply refuse to sit still.
A masterclass in the absurd, this clever, comical picture book stars our familiar friend Frog and the long-suffering Dog who is looking after some puppies. Well, quite a few puppies, actually, and none of them will sit! Not even on guppies, like they're supposed to. Puppies are far too busy being puppies to sit but they're getting a little out of hand. Luckily Frog has got a cunning idea and it involves a 'seating' plan built on rhyme…
With increasingly outrageous word combinations on each page and a gorgeous gallery of Field's bold and amazingly expressive illustrations to enjoy, youngsters will be joining in the rhymes, laughing out loud and begging for more the moment the last page has turned.
Comedy capers for all the family!
(Hodder Children's Books, hardback, £12.99)
Age 2 plus:
Iguanas Love Bananas
Jennie & Chris Cladingbee and Jeff Crowther
Take a fun lesson in rhyming words, foods and animal names with a clever, comical picture book from debut author duo, Jennie and Chris Cladingbee.
Did you know that cheetahs like fajitas, iguanas love bananas, kangaroos love vindaloos, albatross scoff candy floss, tufted puffins like blueberry muffins and cockatiels like jellied eels? Lots of animals are going bananas for their favourite foods, causing havoc and confusion to everyone around them! Can anything stop them?
The Cladingbees ingeniously inventive rhyming story comes with tray-loads of quirky food and a host of familiar and unfamiliar creatures which will have little ones poring over both words and pictures.
Jeff Crowther provides a gallery of gloriously colourful, richly detailed and characterful illustrations which help to cook up a storm of chaos, comedy and captivating creatures.
(Maverick Publishing, paperback, £7.99)


text: Which steps does one usually go through to complete a feasibility study for my company? There are five steps you would usually take when completing a feasibility study as part of the overall project management process. The first step is to research the business problem more fully than described in the business case. Once the business problem is known and a Route Cause analysis has been completed then the requirements for the project should be identified and the feasibility of producing a solution which solves those requirements should be determined. For each solutions and its associated level of feasibility you should identify the overall rank and priority of those solutions and then finally determine which one of those solutions can be implemented for your project.


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Dan Hannan For President.
The video of Dan's speech has struck a chord the other side of the Atlantic.
Over 160,000 views of his video
More than 1,600 comments
Front page on Drudge.
Suggestions that he be invited to take over as President in the comments on youtube.
The MSM busily ignoring the whole affair.
James Forsyth at the Spectator wonders if the Internet will make this into a story.


text: BUSINESS Tom Cruise's son playing young Will Smith 5:00 AM PDT 4/23/2008 by Associated Press , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty The 13-year-old son of Tom Cruise is following in his father's footsteps. Connor Cruise, the adopted son of Tom Cruise and ex-wife Nicole Kidman, has a minor, non-speaking part in the upcoming Will Smith drama "Seven Pounds," a spokesman for Columbia Pictures confirmed Tuesday. Connor Cruise shot his part over two days more than a month ago, playing Smith as a young man and mostly shown in photographs. The movie, which is still in production, co-stars Rosario Dawson and is directed by "The Pursuit of Happyness" filmmaker Gabriele Muccino. The drama follows the story of a man who affects the lives of seven strangers. Calls and e-mails to publicists for Kidman and Tom Cruise were not returned Tuesday. They also have an adopted daughter, 15-year-old Isabella. Kidman is pregnant with her first child with her husband, singer Keith Urban. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Associated Press firstname.lastname@example.com @thr AP email@example.com @thr


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I want a fish tank, not a bag of towels!
This is me on one of my favorite spots at our old place. I always checked our fish tank when Mom was doing the laundry. And yes, I was sleeping there even though the noise was loud, at least in the beginning. It always started with a warm and vibrating massage, but after an hour the noise became too heavy.
Mom made two big mistakes when signing the lease for our "new" apartment. 1. She forgot to check for squirrels! 2. We don't have a fish tank anymore!
Bummer. Mom says that our house has a huge laundry room which she can use for free. Our bathroom is too small for a washing machine, but apparently we don't need one here…. Bah. What's about me??
Mom thought she could make it up by offering me a bag full of tumble-dried towels. We didn't have a dryer at our old place, but she had read somewhere that we cats like tumble-dried clothes. I was of course ignoring her offer. I'm a very busy and important cat, and my duties are enormous, who's for example doing my balcony duties when I take a dryer break??
Oh, and she seriously doesn't suggest that I cut down on my extensive litter tray sessions?
I want a fish tank. Not tumble-dried clothes. So I went to have a good nap on the book shelf after the last picture and ignored her "precious" bag.


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Marriage equality kicks off early in South Carolina
Though the nation's highest court has yet to give the final go-ahead on marriage equality in South Carolina, a Charleston County probate judge has begun issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples – the first to wed in the Deep South.
Kayla Bennett and Kristin Anderson said "I do" immediately after receiving their marriage license at the Charleston County Probate Court Wednesday morning. Theirs is the first legally recognized wedding ceremony between a same-sex couple in South Carolina, one of the most conservative states in the nation that still flies a Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds.
Related: "South Carolina lawmakers advance college cuts for promoting gay-themed books"
"It's the beginning of a new chapter I guess," the couple said, according to WCSC. "Everything will be the exact same, except we can get benefits, so that's awesome."
Judge Irvin Condon began issuing the licenses to same-sex couples Wednesday at 8:30 a.m., less than 24 hours after the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to stay a federal ruling that struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban. Last week, U.S. District Judge Richard Mark Gergel, a President Obama appointee, wrote that South Carolina's constitutional amendment defining marriage as an institution between one man and one woman interfered with same-sex couples' "fundamental right to marry," and offered "no meaningful distinction" from Virginia's same-sex marriage ban, which was declared unconstitutional at both the federal district and appellate levels earlier this year.
Gergel stayed his own ruling until Thursday at noon, meaning gay and lesbian couples weren't supposed to begin marrying until then. But on Tuesday, another federal district court also dealt a blow to South Carolina's ban, ruling that officials had to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Judge Condon likely interpreted the two rulings together as a stamp of approval to issue the licenses ahead of schedule.
"There's some uncertainty as to whether the licenses that are issued prior to [Gergel's] stay being lifted are going to be honored," Beth Littrell, an attorney at Lambda Legal, told msnbc. "But it's clear that these [marriage] laws are going to be stricken from the books, so it would not surprise me if judges across the state are recognizing the writing on the wall and moving forward now that federal judges have given them some guidance."
Related: "Meet the couple challenging South Carolina's marriage ban"
The 4th Circuit's decision allowing marriage equality to go forward in South Carolina came as no surprise. That appeals court had already ruled in favor of marriage equality earlier this year in a federal challenge to Virginia's ban – a decision the Supreme Court made final when it declined to hear an appeal last month.
South Carolina's Republican Attorney General Alan Wilson has a request for a stay pending with the U.S. Supreme Court, which could conceivably block further same-sex marriages from taking place in the state. But given that the high court recently rejected a nearly-identical request from Kansas officials, clearing the way for the Sunflower State to become the 33rd in the nation to legalize marriage equality, it's unlikely the justices would stand in the way of South Carolina's march to No. 34 – at least not for any meaningful stretch of time.


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Back at it again with the travel posts! I swear that's all I have the energy for these days. To be honest there's lots I could have blogged about so far, but I prefer to micro-blog it on my personal Twitter and Facebook as I don't want to deal with ignorance or trolling in my comments. I'm finding that even on those platforms I'm still dealing with the wildest ignorance, and that's largely from people I know, let alone inviting the whole internet to spin my spirit. The world is in a dark era right now, and even as a social commentator, you need to work out for yourself when to speak, where to speak, and what to speak. And above all, how to do all of that whilst protecting your mind from repetitive negativity. For now, in this particular space, I'm choosing to share carefree things; things that hopefully inspire people to know that all these issues may consistently be attempting to drown you, but there will always be days where you'll be able to get up and swim, and on those days you need front crawl to your place of peace.
Category Archives: Observations
God forgives, the internet don't
We live in a culture where there is almost a savage thrill which comes with exposing other's folly, stupidity, insensitivity, or down-right polluted opinions. Recently it seems like this kind of action has become the bread and butter of some individual's/group's social media fame achievements, and the most cunning of all have even managed to monetize it *ahem* TMZ.
It's got me thinking. It's got me thinking about sometimes there are things said online that need exposure, correction, challenging and perhaps a controlled chastisement or two (e.g. unprovoked personal attacks). But it's also got me thinking about what happens after the fact; to the person in the firing line, and the snipers doing the shooting. Continue reading
Audio Delight
Firstly…Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Happy Easter! It has literally been that long, but you know how it is…life…writer's block etc. In truth I didn't completely stop writing, I just relocated my musings to a more abstract and free-writing space, another blog of mine www.inpursuitofequilibrium.tumblr.com – follow if you wish.
Now to cut to the chase – an approach that the older I get, the quicker I am employing it, and the more I appreciate those who don't dibble and dabble in unnecessary waffle,
expect shorter blog posts…maybe…
…this post is about what's piqued my audio interest. It's funny because I used to have a job where a significant proportion of each week was to produce, record, edit, and research podcasts. Was I listening to any at that point in time? Zip zero. Nada. Now if you've been following this blog awhile, you'll know that I am the TV show fiend of fiends, I am basically the human embodiment of Sidereel. When it came to podcasts though, I was highly unmotivated to engage with any. Even after several recommendations of Serial.
Thoughts on Jazz & Neo-Slavery
When I was a younger, I used to have a book that was basically a collection of biographies of all the greatest black jazz musicians and artists. It was filled with stunning black and white pictures of elegantly dressed young black women, and dapper young black men. Pictures of them in their element; happy, fulfilled, killing it. People like Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Lester Young and Nina Simone. I loved looking at the pictures, reading through it, getting to know some of the artists who had inspired people for generations, some I'd heard of, some I hadn't – I loved being able for the first time (this was before Wikipedia was a thing for me), being able to get some insight into who they were personally.
And I hated it. Yes, I grew to dislike that book as it became for me an encyclopaedia of a predictable cycle of disaster, tragedy and abuse.
Ba wo ni and Salaam Alaikum
It's been a while since I wrote a proper post so hello and thanks for sticking with me. I have many excuses, two of which I'll be expanding on in this post 🙂
I need travel, and travel needs me…at least that's what I tell myself, and so in the months of May, June and rounding up in July, I went to the continent (Hi Raven Simone) of Africa for the first time. 'What?!' I hear you say. Yeah…don't @ me, I don't want to explain.
The first place I went to was Nigeria.
Like I said, this was my first time going, and as soon as I landed in Mohammed Murtala International Airport, I thought 'I really fit in here' hahaha. I went for a family wedding, and people kept asking me 'How does it feel? Is it a culture shock?' and my response was 'No'. Listen, when you grow up as a Nigerian, though nothing compares to actually being in Nigeria, everything else is the same; the language, the haggling, the culture…etc. Literally it's just a shift in location.
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I feel like I need a mental break on a regular basis, and I'm wondering is it just me or a symptom of my generation? Are we just lazy and weak?
Our parents were the kind that worked 2, 3 even 4 jobs at a time, with years going by without a holiday, yet never complained or took 'time out' or 'sabbaticals'.
In my generation, we have one or two holidays a year and we are being diagnosed with depression, exhaustion, burn out etc in the thousands.
Of course the other element of it is maybe our parents did feel like that and just said nothing.
I don't know.
Další Zastávkou Praha
Where and why
As you guys probably already know, I try to do at least one solo European trip each year (or at least a European trip), and this year's destination was Czech Republic. Prague to be precise. Shoutout to BA on Facebook for enabling me to get the package deal of life. It was actually cheaper altogether than any European trip I've ever done – and I'm usually on that budget airline and hostel tip O_O – so yeah…within approximately 5-15 minutes of seeing it advertised, I'd bought and booked my trip.


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Beyonce's New Campaign To Empower Young Girls: 'Ban Bossy' — Watch PSA
Beyonce wants young women everywhere to stop being afraid of being a leader. The superstar mom is ready to spread Ban Bossy's message with the world. Watch it here!
Why do women get labeled as bossy while men get labeled as leaders? Beyonce tackles the topic while empowering young female youth in a new PSA.
Beyonce Wants To 'Ban Bossy'
Have you ever been called bossy? What about stubborn or pushy? These are common labels associated with girls in school, and Beyonce's Ban Bossy campaign is shedding light on how these labels often make young girls lose any and all interest in wanting to grow up and be powerful leaders.
"By middle school, girls are less interested in leadership than boys, and that's because they worry about being called 'bossy.' We need to tell them it's okay to be ambitious," the stars in the Ban Bossy PSA declare.
Beyonce is joined by Jennifer Garner, Jane Lynch, Diane Von Furstenberg, and other powerful men and women in this new PSA calling for a ban on the label 'bossy.'
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With a romanticism tempered by black comedy and an unmitigated respect for the sublime, Kelly McLane's meticulous, meaty drawings and paintings conjure the forces of nature and fate, as manifested in deserts, forests, mountaintops, vistas, plains and night skies that will forever remain bigger than we are. Centered around the surreal bio-scape of the L.A. River, her new work pushes her investigation of the freakish, trashed and pathetic state of American culture to even deeper levels. (MD)


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Choosing The Right Breed/Breed Mix
Whether you are buying from a breeder or adopting from a shelter/rescue group, you need to do a good bit of research on what breed or breed mix of dog you are looking for. The wrong pet in a family situation can be stressful on everyone.
Pre-Selection To-Do List
- Do research online about dog breeds and what to expect in terms of size, shedding, temperament, common health problems, and longevity.
- Talk to people who have a dog that is the breed or breed mix you are interested in.
- Do not get a dog whose breed's energy level or temperament is incompatible with your lifestyle.
Should you consider a working breed dog?
Working breeds like Border Collies and German Shepherds are beautiful, intelligent, and are popular pets, but they may not be the best fit for your family.
- Working breeds tend to be high energy and require a higher level of physical and mental stimulation.
- If left unattended for long hours or understimulated, many working breed dogs can become destructive, anxious, or aggressive.
- Herding breed dogs, especially those that do not receive regular exercise, can become nippy and 'herd' members of their human family.
- If you are going to bring home a working breed dog, be prepared to give the dog a 'job'—unemployed working dogs are often miserable.
What other factors should I consider in a breed or breed mix?
- How big will the dog be when full grown?
- How much does the breed typically shed?
- What is the typical energy level of the breed?
- What was the breed originally bred to do?
- What is the typical prey drive level of this breed?
- Is this breed typically good with children and strangers?
Beware of Breed Generalizations
It is important to be aware of breed characteristics, but don't fall into the trap of assuming every generalization you've heard about a certain breed is true. For example, many people assume pit bull type dogs do not make good pets, but they can be some of the most loyal, loving companions in the dog world.
Bottom Line
You can save yourself a good deal of stress by doing your research about your new dog before taking a trip to a shelter or breeder. Know what you are looking for in advance, and you are less likely to bring home a dog that is not a good fit for your family.
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Her laugh was what I heard at first
An evil noise with hint of mirth,
A sound that said she'd watch a fall,
And stand and grin, not help at all,
My darling Anna Key.
With wicked smile she turned around
And there she stood on sodden ground,
A face that launched a thousand ships,
But all beneath the waves to slip,
My darling Anna Key.
Gave not a jot for those a fool
Was free with comments mean and cruel,
So quick to cut down stupid men,
With just a word from lips or pen,
My darling Anna Key.
My heart it glowed as breaking day
Though sense would council, stay away,
A beauty dark in form and soul,
My sweet demise her only goal,
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So my proof came-
And while my family and friends were ecstatic, I took it in hand and scoured over it like a mason over his last layer of brick work. They're dying to look through it and show it off, and all I'm thinking is, "Ugh! Do I have to read it again?!"
See. It took many many many hours of comparing fonts and typesets and spacing and margins-blech! But I finally got, I think, it all done. However, I still have to go over it all and make sure-groan!
And the book looks really nice. Really nice.
But during this process, I noticed something about myself. I already knew that I am horridly picky about what I will read. And all this time, I thought I was a snob thinking, "I can do better than that!" But the good news is, I'm not, or I can't, or… hmm…
I started reading my book for the first time as a book, and I knew I would find things in it I wouldn't find before. But the good news, like I said, is that I was just as harsh about it as I am with everyone else's. This is why I don't do reviews of the books I read like most authors do. Because I rarely, if ever, have anything nice to say. And the last thing I want to do is invoke a bunch of evil reviews of my own writing! But as I found myself being as horribly horrid about my own writing as I am about everyone else's, it made me feel a little better. Maybe I'm not such a snobby reader after all! 😀 !
I also discovered something that needs to be added to my list of formatting reminders: Once you have FINALLY finished formatting the inside of your book, recheck the page numbers on your TOC. My loving husband was going through it and immediately noticed that chapter 2 did not, in fact, start where it was supposed to. Duh! I should have realized it and didn't, but those page numbers are going to change when the margins and fonts do.
CS suggests that you review your proof three times.
- Check format: headers, spacing, footers, page numbers, TOC, index
- Review images and graphics
- Look for grammatical errors and typos
I'm just on chapter 2, and I'm already marking my proof up with an orange pen. I'm having to force myself not to go into full edit mode, but I am marking legitimate typos and the like. (Oh November 14th, November 14th, wherefore art thou?)


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1. Do you have an iPhone and, if so, how do you get apps and what are your favorites?
Nope, I don't have an iPhone just an iPod. No apps. Which is fine by me! :)
2. What is your fondest memory of K-3rd grade?
Hmm. That's a tough question. I can honestly say I don't have one particularly "fond" memory of that time. I mean, I enjoyed all my teachers and I had nice little friends…but one fond memory doesn't really stick out for me.
3. What makes you cringe at the thought of touching?
Eeewwww….lots of things. Like blood. Vomit. Doggy pootie. I faint at the sight of blood, and gag profusely at the sight of vomit and doggy poo. I also can't stand the texture of silk. (Weird, huh?)
4. If you could have any celebrity show up on your doorstep who would it be and why?
Oh that's easy! Jillian Michaels! I think she's amazing and I'd love to workout with her at least once. Of course, I'd probably keel over and die when it was over but it'd be fun while it lasted. ;)
5. What would you say is your best physical feature?
Uhh……hmm…That's a toughie! :-/ Maybe my ears? They don't stick out when I wear my hair in a ponytail.


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A photo locket can be worn to keep that special someone close to your heart, or can be a gift to your girlfriend, wife, mother, grandmother or daughter so that they can do the same. Reduce the size of a photograph if the image needed for the locket is too large fit. Resize the image in a digital photo program such as iPhoto, Picasa or Photoshop. If the image in question is a print or negative, first have it scanned to digitise it. To get started, measure the square dimensions around the locket to determine what size the image needs to be. After printing, trace the shape of the locket around the image for cutting it out.
Select "Print" from the "File" menu.
Pull down the "Print Size" menu and select "Custom."
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Click on the "Export" button in the "Photo Tray."
Select "Resize To" in the "Export" dialogue box.
Change the size by either moving the image slider or by entering the proper dimensions in the image size fields.
Click "OK" to save the image to your hard drive.
Select "Image Size" from the "Image" menu.
Check "Constrain Proportions" to keep the height-to-width ratio the same when resizing.
Enter the correct dimensions in the "Document Size" section of the "Image Size" dialogue box and click "OK."
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RPG Superstar 2015: What the heck is a map, anyway
UPDATE: The Round 2 entries are public! Go view them and vote!
Designer and host Owen K.C. Stephens provided some hella vague hints about the next round of this year's RPG Superstar: maps!
Namely, some key points about the submissions included:
... a full-page map, of a previously unmapped fantasy-themed location in Golarion ...
... having enough information for a cartographer to be able to create a publishable map from your entry ...
... No one needs a map of a 20-foot by 20-foot room with a door centered in the north and west walls, or of a forest that's six miles long and three miles deep with a single road and one town in the middle ...
... it must be something that could be used by a GM to run a game set in the mapped location, and it must have all the information a cartographer needs to make the final map ...
That doesn't narrow anything down much. No scope limits except that it be on Golarion and fits on a letter-sized piece of paper, which isn't much of a content limit considering a map of the entire passage of souls from creation to death and encompassing all of space and time fits on a letter-sized piece of paper, much less Golarion's entire solar system, much less all of Golarion.
So let's look at equivalent examples in actual Paizo products of "full-page maps" of "fantasy-themed locations in Golarion" that "have enough information for a cartographer to be able to create a publishable map," encompassing any scale as long as it "could be used by a GM to run a game set in the mapped location", with the caveats that:
- Paizo products are not necessarily "Superstar quality".
- Ready-to-publish maps like most of these are not what Paizo's looking for.
- I don't have perfect knowledge of all locations in Golarion that have already been mapped in previous products.
To keep references simple, I'll link to maps already released under the Community Use Policy and uploaded to PathfinderWiki so they're easy to view.
Places that could technically fit this definition include:
Supercontinental and continental maps, like The Inner Sea region. The linked map is poster sized, but page-sized maps of the region show up in many products.
- Does it fit Owen's parameters? Yes---sort of. Garund, Avistan, Tian Xia, and the Crown of the World have been mapped. The levels of the Darklands are sort of a toss-up as their nature makes them much more difficult to map. A continent on another world or plane, even one previously described or broadly mapped by Paizo, doesn't seem to fit the letter of the (suggested) rules. Otherwise, Casmaron, Arcadia, and Azlant could potentially be mapped on a single page. (Sarusan, while a continent, is small enough to be a nation-sized map. Maybe. Nobody really knows; the closest thing to an official world map has in-character question marks on it.)
- Would I make this map for Round 2? No. Since the goal is
to "be something that could be used by a GM to run a game set in
the mapped location," I wouldn't make such a map for Round 2.
Continent-sized maps provide a geographic reference for locating
places in relation to other places. How far is Absalom from
Egorian? What's between the Worldwound and the Hold of Belkzen?
Especially in a kitchen-sink setting like Golarion, it also
serves to create relationships between each mini-setting within
it---the Nirmathi Robin Hoods and Molthuni Generals can't be
~~in the same Inner Sea Football League division~~ uh, at war
with each other if they're on opposite ends of the setting.
As a game reference, though, it doesn't do much to inspire me as a GM unless I'm running a very broad sandbox campaign---at this scale there's too much in the space between places, and too little detail in the few clearly marked places, to run a game out-of-the-box with a letter-sized continent map alone. What's the difference between the Hungry Mountains and the Bandu Hills? What's unique about Absalom and Egorian? You have to come up with it on your own, which makes it harder to "run a game set in the mapped location."
National or nation-sized regional maps, like Varisia: This map of Varisia is in the back of the original Rise of the Runelords Player's Guide, which is a free download.
- Does it fit? Yes---sort of. Most parts of the Inner Sea region have this scale of map in The Inner Sea World Guide and Pathfinder Campaign Setting books dedicated to individual nations. I haven't found any maps of this scale for Tian Xia (the Dragon Empires Gazetteer contains two full-page continental maps, one color-coded to identify individual nations). Other continents' nations are unmapped, and Sarusan is about as large as some large nations.
- Would I make this map? Not likely. To create a map of this
scale that doesn't already exist, I'd have to pick a nation on a
continent that hasn't been mapped. It's sort of a
chicken-and-egg problem, and while Owen's suggested rules would
technically allow it, it would be a dangerous sort of space to
work in. How would the judges view a map of a nation that's
already been mapped internally by Paizo? And even at a national
scale, you're still mostly providing a relational reference for
detailed locations; it's difficult to put a story into dots on a
map for cities and lines for roads and rivers while keeping
their structure organic and sensible. I'd have to have a killer
idea to go this route.
On the other hand, this is the minimal map size for a far-reaching campaign. (Many APs, which run from 1st to 17th-ish level, spend most or all of their time in a nation-sized area.) The hard part would be communicating an AP-worthy plot in a single letter-sized map. Do you show a map of two nations at war, with disputed borders and battleground locations? Illustrate the unstoppable expansion of a corrupting force?
Local and small regional maps, like Bloodsworn Vale: I'd prefer to use the Sandpoint hinterlands map that appears in Rise of the Runelords and the Beginner Box Game Master's Guide, but there's no CUP-friendly version to share. These are sometimes full-page but often run on half a page.
- Does it fit? Yes. By limiting yourself to a town and its surrounding area, or one or two small islands, you open up most of Golarion outside of the major cities and Shackles while avoiding many concerns about places with unmapped surroundings.
- Would I make this map? Maybe. Again, even at this scale,
you're struggling to do more than say "this awesome place where
things happen is 2 miles from this other awesome place where
things happen." But you have a bit more to work with---you're at
a scale where novel harbors, massive creatures, and sprawling
locations aren't just dots on a map, they can be visible
features that suggest specific things to do.
This is the scale where it starts to get easier for "a GM to run a game set in the mapped location": PC travel time is simple at all levels, the game's scale is limited to a few encounters in a handful of environment types, and locations can be just evocative enough for a GM to run them with relatively little prep---at least if the map is clear and interesting.
City maps, like Sandpoint: These are usually a full page in a book where most of the action is set in that city. A few are half-page maps.
- Does it fit? Yes. There are lots of cities and towns in Golarion that haven't been mapped, including some metropolis-sized cities. The problem is figuring out whether they've already been mapped. You'll have to do some research to be sure; PFWiki is a good starting point, as is searching the Paizo store for the city's name.
- Would I make this map? No. Even though city maps are a step down in scale, they're right up there with national maps in density. There's a lot going on in a city, and a map that shows an entire city struggles once again to do more than show that city hall is six blocks from the meat market, or the graveyard is 200 feet by 100 feet in size. The bigger the city, the tougher it is to present "a game set in the mapped location". For me at least, smaller towns have more room to be evocative; you can zoom in closer, show more detail, and come closer to telling a specific story. For instance, compare Sandpoint to smaller Falcon's Hollow, larger Riddleport (which shows off some particularly cool city-map features), and gargantuan Absalom.
Location maps, like Foxglove Manor: This is from Richard Pett's The Skinsaw Murders, the second Rise of the Runelords AP issue.
- Does it fit?
The possibilities at this scale are endless. You can carve one of these out of nearly any place in Golarion, regardless of whether it's already on the map.
- Would I make this map?
This is grid scale, and it's where GMs run games. Period. Larger maps are great for campaign-scale play, but they're literally the big picture of the story, the whole book. This map scale is the chapter of your book, and it's where you can tell stories with nothing more than walls and labels.
Foxglove is an especially nice example as it uses one scale to show three different types of map. One page gives a GM three maps worth at least an entire session of play. You have lots of flexibility, you can still tell stories with some scale to them, and you don't have to worry nearly as much about whether you're tripping over the "unmapped" rule.
The hard part is avoiding the "20-foot room with a door" suggestion: just because a location you map is interesting to you, that doesn't mean it's interesting to other GMs, even if you play the map at your table and your players have a blast. The map itself has to communicate what makes it interesting, and it has to be flexible enough for any GM and any party. That means providing options, avoiding a single linear path, and/or creating unusual situations that take advantage of (or at least allow) creative tactics.
Because this is so wide open, your options are particularly diverse. They don't have to be overhead with a 5-foot grid; they can have a 20-foot grid, or be a side view with a 50-foot grid.
Single-floor, single-building maps, like Cayden's Hall: The linked map is Tim Hitchcock's turnover for PFS scenario #40: Hall of Drunken Heroes, from Joshua J. Frost's Paizo blog post back in 2010 about how, well, Good Maps Make for Good Adventures, which is a nice segue to wrapping up this too-long post:
A good map, like Tim's, tells us immediately everything we need to know about the location. I don't have to redraw his map and I don't have to send a novel with the map order that includes tags and descriptions for every room so the cartographer can get the map right. Were we to send our cartographers the bad map example from above, without also sending along the entire article that goes with it, we'd get back a nicely drawn, full-color drawing of 5 box shapes, a circle, and a few smudges. Our cartographers are awesome, but their base for quality is only as good as the hand-drawn map they receive. A cartographer should be able to open the author's map and immediately get to work turning a good map into a great map rather than reading a wall of text and then turning a terrible map into a mediocre map.
- Would I make this map? I wish! Tim's map is an excellent example of freelance map turnover, but I'm not sure how voters would react if this was submitted in Round 2. That's where the "game" of Superstar seems to diverge from freelancing---no matter how much Owen says "voters are asked to vote not on artistic talent, but on clarity, imagination, and usefulness," I'm not entirely certain enough voters are going to buy as much into an entryway to a Cayden Cailean temple made of two back-to-back bars called the Hall of Thrones as much as I would.
Is this novel enough? If enough of the Top 32 submit colored, textured, pretty, evocative maps that aren't more imaginative or as turnaround-friendly but capture voters' imaginations, would they bump this designer out of the Top 16?
In other words, clean maps like these are freelance bread-and-butter, but can they be Superstar enough?


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YMCA Conference on National Affairs
This program offers unusual opportunities for a young person to do research in the area of National and International concern; to organize this information into a proposal; to engage in intensive discussion and to debate these proposals with understanding young people from other states.
Young people who have participated in the YMCA Young Conference on National Affairs are unanimous in their belief that this experience makes a vital contribution in helping young citizens to learn more about the democratic form of Government.
Objectives of the program are:
- To gain an awareness of National concerns and issues.
- To increase understanding of Federal Government and its relation to State, National and International matters.
- To have and use a means for communicating concerns about National Affairs to appropriate persons and groups at Federal Government levels.
- To develop increased understanding of needs, responsibilities and opportunities.
- To work creatively together with young adults and adults.
- To help youth and adults to better understand and strengthen their values for living through the Christian objectives of the YMCA.
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- Participated in YMCA Michigan Youth in Government
- Draft a proposal of national or international concern
- The proposal must express the views of the author and the objectives and content of the proposal are far more important than form.
- The selection process is highly competitive and no more than 25 students will be chosen to represent Michigan.
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Appellate teams must be 2-4 students
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Parent Voice is run by the parents of Island Innovation VI Form Campus students for the parents, with direct links to the VI Form leadership and staff ; and the Island Innovation Trust governors. It provides a forum for parents to keep up to date with events and changes at the VI Form.
We firmly believe that students achieve more when their parents/carers are involved in their education and have a constructive relationship with their place of study.
Am I automatically a member?
Any adult who is a carer or parent of a student at Island Innovation VI Form is automatically a member.
When and where does it meet?
Parent Voice meets once every half term. The date is included in the VI Form calendar. Currently we combine our meetings with Medina College Parent Voice and meet at Medina College. We invite the Head teacher or the Director of Progression to our meetings, so they can ask for our feedback on what's being planned, and answer our questions. We also invite a governor to attend.
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Custody mediation can be a great tool for parents to work out their custody issues. To get the most out of mediation, it's important for parents to prepare. Here is how to prepare so that your mediation session goes better.
Research the custody laws and guidelines in your state. You can go online, visit the library, or go to the courthouse to find information about how you should set up your agreement. Find this out before you come up with a custody plan so that you know it is acceptable.
Before the day of custody mediation, take some time to think about what type of custody arrangement is best for the child and what will work for you.
Write down a basic outline of what you envision for the custody arrangement. The first part of this is to think through which parent should have custody or if the parents should share joint custody. Write down why you think your suggestions are the best and how they will work.
Next come up with some ideas for a custody and visitation schedule. You want to have a few variations to show the other parent. It is most likely that the schedule will change because the other parent will have input, but it's important to have somewhere to start. Create a few repeating cycles that are acceptable for you.
Write out how you want to handle visitation issues. For example, think about the transportation of the child to and from visits. What parent will be responsible for that? Would it be better to have a neutral meeting spot?
Write down any other issues you want to discuss and resolve with the other parent. You will want to think of a way that the parents can communicate with each other about the children, any provisions you want the other parent to agree to about raising the child, how you will divide up extra expenses and handle things financially, etc. Write down some tentative plans for these so you have a place to start the discussion.
Keep all of your information organized and together--perhaps in a folder. On the day of mediation, dress professionally and bring all of your documents.
Don't stress or worry about your mediation session. If necessary, do some relaxation techniques (deep breathing, etc) before the session. Remember that you want to create an arrangement that works for the children. Go into the mediation session with an open mind and a willingness to be flexible.
- Custody software can help you prepare for custody mediation.
- It may take more than one mediation session to work out your custody agreement. Take as long as you need to work out the issues--it will pay off in the end.
- Some states require that parents attend custody mediation before going to court. Check your local laws to see if this is the case.


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How to Monitor?
You can set up a scheduled email to be sent to an administrator or to a group of administrators responsible for monitoring the Data Vault loads. ODE sends an email on procedure [dv_scheduler].[dv_report_email_manifest_progress] execution. SQL Server database mail profile needs to be set up to enable emailing from SQL Server. Email procedure could be scheduled for execution via the SQL Server Agent.
Procedure parameters are:
- @vault_offset_in_days – how many days back report should cover. Default is 1 day, i.e. last 24 hours
- @vault_recipients – list of email addresses separated by semicolon
- @vault_profile_name – SQL Server database mail profile name
- @vault_output_results – if set up to 1, procedure execution results will be shown on screen
- @vault_email_results – if set up to 1, procedure execution results will be sent via email
- @vault_top – the maximum number of records to show in the report. Default is 50. E.g. if there were more than 50 executions within the timeframe report covers, only top 50 will be reported.
- @vault_html_string – output parameter of HTML that is sent via email.
The simplest example:
EXECUTE [dv_scheduler].[dv_report_email_manifest_progress] @vault_recipients = 'email@example.com;email@example.com' ,@vault_profile_name = 'SQL Server Database Mail Profile' ,@vault_output_results = 0 ,@vault_email_results = 1
The email generated by ODE contains the following sections:
- ODE scheduled executions started within the timeframe the report covers. Unfinished or failed DV loads are highlighted. Administrators could check daily if executions duration is within the expected timeframe.
- ODE tasks not completed within the timeframe the report covers. If one or more executions covered above have unfinished tasks, they are listed in this section. Task could be attributed to the correct execution by the name and the run key. Individual tasks started manually by developers withing the report's timeframe are not included in this section.
- ODE errors within the timeframe the report covers. This section includes any errors happened within this timeframe, including those which were not caused by scheduled executions. Report includes an exception description.
- ODE duplicates removed within the timeframe the report covers. Satellite settings allow to set up duplicates threshold. If there are multiple records with the same key on the load, but number of these records per key is equal to or less than the threshold, ODE will load only one record per key, but the fact of duplicates removal is captured in this report. If threshold is set to 0 or number of duplicates is greater than the threshold number, DV load will fail.
That's how email looks like if daily load run fine:
As mentioned above, the same procedure could be used for generating the report output to the query screen. Set parameter @vault_output_results to 1 and @vault_email_results to 0 for the one-off execution.
How to troubleshoot?
If there were unfinished tasks in email, you can re-check the current status of unfinished tasks from the email by executing the following query. Use the run key for the scheduled execution specified in the email.
SELECT * FROM [dv_scheduler].[vw_manifest_status] WHERE run_key = 37 AND run_manifest_status != 'Completed'
All the tasks which are in progress, queued or scheduled should finish execution eventually. Delay in execution could be caused by insufficient server resources. In case of error task execution fails and none of the dependent tasks are processed within this load. You can find how to check processes and queues in this article under the "Monitoring the Run" section.
In case of error, you can find details in the ODE_Config.log4.Exception table.
SELECT * FROM [ODE_Config].[log4].[Exception] ORDER BY SystemDate DESC
This table provides error context, error message generated by SQL Server or by ODE, stored procedure where the error happened, date, user and execution stack as well. These fields are also available in the email.
In most cases Exceptions table provides enough information for fixing the bug that caused a failure. If an error message is not helpful, there is a way of logging each step of execution. In the table [ODE_Config].[log4].[JournalControl] set OnOffSwitch to "ON" against the procedure that caused the error. Next execution will record every step when this procedure is executed. Here you can find how to restart tasks under the "Dealing with Failed Tasks" section. Table [ODE_Config].[log4].[Journal] stores messages generated by ODE procedures. Table [ODE_Config].[log4].[JournalDetail] stores all the SQL queries executed during the procedure's execution. These two tables could be joined via the JournalID field.
You can leave Journal Control set to "ON" after the problem is identified and fixed, so that if another problem happens next time, you will have a track of everything happened including errors. Error details could be found in Journal by ExceptionID which is recorded in the Exceptions table.