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First up, Holly Thompson talks about food, influence, life in Japan, operating in two cultures, and more on Gathering Books.
On Playing By the Book, Victoria Griffith, author of The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos Dumont, talks to Zoe about her journalism background, research, and books that inspire her.
A five-way interview with Candlewick authors Paul Janeczko and Ruth Thomson, editors, and a publicist on The Whole Megillah, the writer's resource for Jewish-themed books.
Watch for additional interview links during the day.
This post itself will be an all-day group interview in response to a single question. Years ago, Mem Fox wrote a piece in Bookbird journal titled "For Whom Do We Write?" It can also be found in variant grammatical mode under the title, "So Who Are We Writing For?" In it she talked about sending all potential readers out of the room when you write a book--silencing all those possible voices that hover around the writer, seeking to influence the work. She says only then can she allow the work itself to take shape. Audience has always been of interest to writers, perhaps most of all to those whose work is read by young readers. Maurice Sendak once used to hate being called a children's writer.
I'm asking a group of children's and YA writers to think of one of their books--any one--as they answer these two questions:
- Who was your audience when you wrote this book?
- At what stage in the life of the work in progress did you allow that potential audience into your mind?
My original audience was a boy, someone who resembled my own son when he was around thirteen or fourteen years old. It was an incident that occurred with him that gave me the impetus for the story to begin with. So I had him in the back of my mind over the course of writing, but I confess that as I got deeper into the story, I actually lost track of any audience at all. It felt as though I was writing for the story itself and the characters in the story, as if they were the only "audience" that mattered. I kept writing and writing and writing until it seemed like I got the characters' stories right within the context of the bigger story. I was writing to find the stories that my characters had to show me. It seems like the intended audience was the first and then the last thing that I kept in mind.
Halfway around, gazing up at yet another stunning view of the iconic peak, it suddenly occurred to me that although I loved mountains and scaling them, I had, in fact, never written anything with a climbing focus. What was with that? Why not combine two of my passions -- writing and the alpine realm? It was a head-slapping moment, and in it a book idea was born. I'll write a middle-grade adventure story, I declared, set in the high Cascades. So the audience, middle grade readers, was set in my mind very quickly.
Shutta Crum comments on the differences in audience awareness between novels and picture books. Her picture book, Mine! just made School Library Journal's list of Best Books of 2011.It wasn't until I was well into the first draft that it began to dawn on me that this wasn't just a climbing adventure, it was also a story about the grief that the protagonist, Cat, feels at the loss of her father. My father died when I was young. I never really processed his passing -- I didn't know how -- and instead pushed the pain aside and moved on with my life. Writing Storm Mountain became a conduit for finally dealing with a scarred-over wound. In the end it was a much for an audience of one -- me -- as it was for kids.
I'd hazard a guess that most writers don't think of a particular audience--other than themselves--when they are first creating. I don't. Sometimes I don't even start to think about the audience until my editor makes me think about it. At some point, when a novel is ready to submit, I simply give it over to my agent/editor. I always figure that a good book will find its audience. It is not until after the editor has her hands on it that I worry about word choice, white space, sentence length, etc., all those kinds of things that one worries about with an audience of a particular age. The one exception to this, I find, is when I am working on a picture book for the very young, such as Mine! (Alfred A. Knopf, 2011). For that book my editor challenged me to write for the very youngest of audiences. So I had my audience firmly in mind. The book ended up only having 10 1/2 words.When Sharon Darrow was writing her YA novel Trash, she thought the audience might be the same people who read The Painters of Lexieville because they had some characters and settings in common. But, she says:
I found that Trash had more boy readers than Painters did, at least I got more mail from boys. At first I thought that might be because of the graffiti writing in it, but later I learned that the boys liked the poetry, too. Just about all the readers who wrote to me mentioned liking the white space on the page.Jane Kurtz has written two picture books with her brother, Only a Pigeon (soon to have a new edition with a new title, Pigeon Boys of Ethiopia) and Water Hole Waiting. They've also worked on a novel together. Here's Jane's take on audience and co-authorship:
I thought a lot more about the audience when I was writing Trash than when I was writing Painters, partly because I was thinking about how the words looked on the page, almost as if that were a part of the graphic aspect of the book and I was hoping my audience would enjoy that.
When I was writing Painters, I felt like I was the audience for the character as she 'told' me her story, then when I was revising the words for the readers so that they might be able to 'hear' her voice, I thought about how words sound when spoken and about how feelings come through the sounds a voice gives to words. I hoped my audience would be able to experience Pert's voice in a way similar to the way it had come to me, except I wanted the reader to feel much more like she or he were living the story along with Pert as it happened. The revisions were for my imagined young teen-aged reader, mostly girls I thought, but, in a way, I imagined Pert herself reading and deciding if I'd done a good job writing her story!
We've also worked on a novel together. One of the interesting things that happens with a co-author is that we both get audience reaction right away...from each other! I will think some word or sentence is funny or apt or touching or just right in some other way, only to discover that it falls flat for Chris--and vice versa. We argue for our choices. Often we talk about audience as part of that because it's useless to say, "Well, I'm doing this because it pleases ME" if it doesn't please the other person. With this new edition of Only a Pigeon, we had the advantage of having tried our story with lots of actual elementary aged kids so we talked about what confused or frustrated or interested or amused kids as we revised. I kind of wish I could now re-do all my books.Julie Larios says she wrote her second picture book, Have You Ever Done That? in response to a prompt at a small writing workshop conducted at the home of her friend and colleague Laura Kvasnosky:
As a general target audience, I had in mind young children who have hesitated when asked to do something brave, as a way to suggest that courage often comes in small packages and doesn't look like what we think it's going to look like. I knew right away that what I had to say was for a young audience, picture book age, because I imagined it as a series of questions that could be talked over at bedtime. I love questions, no matter what the age of the audience, and the read-aloud moments before bed, when a parent lingers and talks over what's been read, those feel especially important to me. Why not put the kind of questions out there that can be pondered while falling asleep? And if I'm going to be perfectly honest, I'll admit that the specific target audience was actually the child I was at about four years old, staying with my family at the beach cabin my grandparents built. One hot summer night, I was granted the special privilege of sleeping outside on the open porch; I could hear the waves and see the moon and stars. It should have been Heaven, but I was terrified. So I wrote the book for the little girl I was that night, as a way of holding her hand across the years and telling her it would be alright. And I knew from the moment I had the idea - before a word was ever written - who the audience was.David Lubar (Attack of the Vampire Weenies and Other Warped and Creepy Tales--see this great review on A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy)says:
I am going to answer the question by explaining that I have no answer. (So let's call this a meta-answer.) Perhaps it marks me as a mutant, curmudgeon, or semi-solipsist, but I generally write with no audience in mind. I have a story to tell. It seizes me, and I set out to write it. The only time an imagined audience becomes an issue is when I get sidetracked by worrying that some group, such as the award givers, or the fans of whatever genre my last book fell into, will not like my current work. Then, I have to heave that audience from my mind and get back to telling a story. That approach seems to be working out pretty well, so far.Leda Schubert admits to having trouble with the idea of audience when she wrote Ballet of the Elephants:
I think, as many writers seem to think, that I write for myself. I become passionate about something and have to get it down on the page. Then I try to figure out what I've got. With Ballet of the Elephants, for example, I didn't know what I would find when I began to do what would turn out to be months of research. It took a very long time to figure out how to tell the story in a way that might make sense for children, knitting together disparate elements into a whole. When I realized the story was in the performance itself--in the coming together of all these geniuses (including Modoc, the elephant and prima ballerina)--I began to think about the child reader. I'm still not entirely positive that it's a children's book, and I always promise myself to do better next time. With my three newer books, Reading to Peanut, The Princess of Borscht, and Feeding the Sheep, I began with the idea of the child.Keep coming back, audience! There may be more.


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Pina Bausch is divisive. Some adore her work. Others reject it as sexist, classist, and cruel (or "torture" as Joan Acocella states in her New Yorker review). For me, if cruelty is present in Pina's work, it is there in an Artaudean sense, not a literal one (by the same token, would these people likewise say Monty Python is about torture and humiliation?). Watching Wim Wenders personally introduce his film, and listening to the interviews in the film, it is striking how Pina is surrounded by love. In one moving moment, a dancer points out (I'm paraphrasing) that Pina had watched her for more hours than her own parents had... who would watch her now? For me, it is Bausch's watchfulness that informs her work, not any desire to depict torture.
Of Wender's film I had mixed feelings. The way the interview segments cut into the dance segments often left me frustrated. Some of the interviews appear to be included for inclusiveness' sake, rather than because they inform us about a new aspect of Pina's life. I didn't like the 3D: I would have preferred to see the images brighter and clearer and without the reflections of smeary plastic glasses in front of my face. And where Pina's performances were peppered with textual elements, these were largely missing from Wender's tribute. All this said, I left the film with the same sense I have when I went to see Pina at BAM. Yes, I remain very resolutely a Pina fan.


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The Renaissance of Hahn-Bin
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The Kaleidoscopic Classical Star Returns From the Dead in His Latest Opus
Filmmaker Alison Chernick ushers us into the colorful universe of 23-year-old violin virtuoso Hahn-Bin. The Korean prodigy has been resuscitating a dozing classic music scene and capturing the imagination of new generations of young people with his technical brilliance and provocative visual performances. Till Dawn Sunday is a "hybrid music theater work where a gender-defying storyline meets a genre-defying musical kaleidoscope," explains the musician of his latest theatrical opus, a myth of resurrection from metaphorical death through the power of music, showing in New York and London. The youngest person to be accepted to Korea's University of the Arts at age 9, Hahn-Bin brought the crowd to their feet with his US debut at The Grammy's a mere three years later. Under the tutelage of the legendary Itzhak Perlman, the self-proclaimed "strange fruit" learned to channel the emotion of his personal experiences into the complex compositions, choreography and stage production of his recent multi-faceted works. Hahn-Bin's magpie references have been plucked from fellow creative polymaths Laurie Anderson, Andy Warhol and David Bowie, and are nimbly interwoven with Bach, Saraste and Tchaikovsky to form his own brand of avant-pop classical. "It was the first time I interviewed someone dead—who was also neither male nor female," remarked Chernick. "His music comes from a deep dark place inside himself and you can feel it." – For Nowness


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ST. CLOUD, Fla., June 5 (UPI) -- A pair of mothers have been banned from a Florida elementary school after their verbal sparring turned into a fistfight at a school talent show.
St. Cloud police said Latisha James and Jessica Tyler were attending the Lakeview Elementary School talent show Friday when Tyler complained that James, who was videotaping the performance, was blocking her view, WKMG-TV, Orlando, reported Wednesday.
Tyler alleged James "grabbed her by her neck with one hand and began punching her multiple times."
Police said they believe James instigated the fight, but both women were attacking each other and swearing in front of children by the time another parent was able to separate them.
James was arrested on a battery charge and police said they have recommended the State Attorney's Office also pursue a battery charge against Tyler.
Tyler said she believes she was a victim in the incident and is upset because the ban means she will miss her daughter's fifth-grade graduation Thursday.


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Finally! Valve's Steam summer sale has begun. Current discounts include Portal 2 for $US5 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for $US30.
There are also some ridiculously cheap company packages, including a Bethesda pack for $US50 (featuring Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas, and more) and a $US50 Ubisoft collection that will give you Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Might and Magic Heroes VI and more.
"The annual Steam Summer Sale is on now," Valve said in a press release today. "Gamers will find amazing deals on thousands of games. The Summer Sale will again feature more than straight discounts, offering Daily Deals, Flash Sales and 'Customer Choice' Sales, the latter allowing gamers to vote for a title on a given list to be put on sale for a limited time."
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text: The Five Guys We're All Talking AboutGallery5 SlidesBy by Anna MoesleinJanuary 14, 2013FacebookPinterestTwitterThey're cute, they're funny, and they made the Glamour Hot List!PinterestPhotographs by Jennifer Livingston1/5The PBS Crush: Dan StevensActor, Downton Abbey, 30As the hit series' well-mannered heir, Matthew Crawley, Stevens makes post-Edwardian England look good—but we're also fans of his 2013 style. In real life, Stevens is as impressive as Crawley: The Cambridge grad writes for Britain's Sunday Telegraph, judged last year's Man Booker Prize, and is now on Broadway in The Heiress. Oh, and he's also a doting father of two who has date nights with his wife. Which isn't to say he's all nicey-nice. Stevens calls his DA character "a bit too straight down the line... I hope I differ from him in that sense."PinterestPhotographs by Jennifer Livingston2/5The Music Lover: Austin ButlerActor, The Carrie Diaries, 21The dreamy Butler plays Sebastian Kydd, young Carrie's crush in the new Sex and the City prequel series. But when he's not on set, Butler records tunes in his home studio. "I love music from the sixties and seventies, like the Beatles," he says. And in spite of the James Dean hair here, he's anything but a bad guy; "My biggest pet peeve is when people aren't nice to waiters," he says. Looks like girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens picked a good one.PinterestPhotographs by Jennifer Livingston3/5The Team Player: Victor CruzWide receiver, New York Giants, 26Sweet, giving, humble—yep, we're describing an NFL superstar, not the Dalai Lama. But seriously, get a load of Cruz's résumé: He's famous for dancing the salsa in the end zone; he's been with his girlfriend for 10 years (their secret: "Tell each other everything!"); and he adores their baby girl, Kennedy. Cruz also designs a clothing line, Young Whales, and runs a foundation that helps underprivileged kids, fire departments, and cancer victims. (Plus, you gotta love an athlete who's willing to be photographed in a toy store.) "I want to be a vessel of positivity," he says.PinterestPhotographs by Jennifer Livingston4/5The Funny Guy: Taran KillamComedian, Saturday Night Live, 30Killam's parodies of Brad Pitt's Chanel commercials kill. As do his impressions of Michael Cera and singer Robyn—belly-baring fuzzy sweater and all. So we can't wait to catch him in April's comedy flick The Heat. Killam and movies have a happy history: His first date ever was seeing Jurassic Park; movie nights with his wife, actress Cobie Smulders, are a must; and the cinema in this picture is his own lucky theater: "I saw The Expendables here just before I got the call from Seth Meyers offering me a job on SNL." Couldn't have scripted it better.PinterestPhotographs by Jennifer Livingston5/5The Dapper One: Ethan PeckActor, 26Peck, who recently did a swoon-inducing short film for Louis Vuitton, gets our vote for Most Determined to Be on Time. The grandson of Gregory Peck braved Superstorm Sandy to fly to NYC for his shoot at The Standard hotel. His room, shown here, was on the sixteenth floor, and "you could feel the building swaying," he says. But if anyone can look dashing during a storm, it's Peck. His ideal girl: "Someone with passion." And maybe a chef. "I like to cook, so I could meet someone at the farmer's market."Topicscelebritieshot guysmoviestvdan stevensdownton abbeythe carrie diariestaran killamsaturday night liveRead MoreiconPlayEntertainment3 Ex-Girlfriends Describe Their Relationship With the Same Man - ShawnBy GlamouriconGalleryStyleTarget Just Rereleased Its Best Designer Collaborations of All TimeBy Julyssa LopeziconGalleryStyleAll the Brands That Have Expanded Into Plus Sizes in 2019By Gina MarinelliiconGalleryEntertainmentThe 21 Biggest Moments in VMA HistoryBy Hannah Huber


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Over the past few weeks, many people have started receiving their tax returns if they filed their income taxes early in the year.
It can be an exciting time, particularly if your income tax refund check is the largest check you receive all year. One member of my family gets a check that's about four times his normal weekly paycheck when his tax return comes in.
With that kind of cash in hand, it can be really tempting to splurge on something. I've seen people buy ATVs, televisions, computers, clothes, jewelry, and other such frivolous things with their check. Another person I know uses his check to go on a trip.
Here's the reality, though. If you ever want to put yourself onto firm financial ground, you cannot afford to treat your tax refund check like a Christmas present.
Yes, it's fun to splurge. Sure, it's great to buy something big and flashy. The problem is that after you've spent the money, your life is right back in the same place where you started except you now have an overpriced toy.
If you were facing debts before, you're facing them now. If you were struggling to escape a paycheck to paycheck loop, you're still struggling. If you were spending restless nights tossing and turning because of your worries about your bills, blowing your income tax return isn't going to help you sleep. If you felt like financial security was just a dream, it's still going to be a dream after you blow your tax check.
Spending your tax refund on improving your financial situation might not be flashy, but it will have a far greater lasting impact on your life. This is particularly true when you couple it with a personal commitment not to undo the positive effects of the tax refund in your life.
4 things To Do With Your Tax Refund To Turn Things Around
Yes, they're not fun, but they will help you breathe easier at night, lower your stress level, and perhaps help move you away from a paycheck-to-paycheck cycle where you're tied to your job.
Pay off some debt. American Debt Advisor estimates that about 80% of Americans are carrying some form of debt. Debt has a lot of negative consequences in your life: it's an extra monthly bill, for starters, and you often have to repay far more money than you borrowed.
Use your entire tax refund to pay off some debt. Find a debt you can pay off entirely and simply pay it off. Just like that, a monthly bill disappears. If you can't do that, throw all of it at whichever debt has the highest interest rate.
At the same time, commit yourself to not building up any more debt. Simply make a rule for yourself that you're not going to increase your debt load, no matter what.
Build an emergency fund. An emergency fund is simply cash you have easily available (such as in your savings account) so that when an emergency happens, you can just pay for it without getting into debt or having to make hard choices. Everyone loses a job or has a car break down at some point in their lives. An emergency fund keeps that kind of thing from being a disaster.
Just stick the check in your savings account and forget about it. You can then sleep better at night knowing that if something disastrous happens, you can just deal with it without skipping a beat.
Commit yourself to not touching that money for anything other than a real emergency. A real emergency doesn't mean poor planning, either.
Save for your children's education. You can sock that money away in a 529 account for your child. A 529 account is a special type of savings account with many additional benefits for educational savings. It's pretty easy to set up – if you're unsure, go to Google and search for "best 529 account" to find out the specifics.
Put the check into the 529 account, then forget about it. While it won't cover your child's education, it will certainly provide a very big help down the road when that child chooses to go to college.
It's one less thing for you to worry about.
Save for your retirement. You can essentially repeat what I said above, except that you'll be saving your money in a Roth IRA for yourself instead of in a 529 for your child. The vast majority of Americans are eligible for a Roth IRA, which is essentially just a special account with tax benefits for retirement. When you start taking money out of that account when you're retired (59 1/2 or older), all of it is tax free.
Again, just put that money right into an account. If you're overwhelmed by the setup, don't be afraid to contact a fee-based financial advisor with questions. Again, one less worry in your life.
If you have all of these bases covered, you're in better shape than the vast majority of Americans and you likely already have a good plan for that money. If you don't, strongly consider using your return for one of these options. It won't provide a short-term good time, but it will significantly lower your stress and improve your peace of mind over the long run.


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India vs Srilanka ICC Champions Trophy 2013 Warm up Cricket Match
Srilanka vs India warm up match schedule to start at 09:30 GMT | 10:30 local | 15:00 IST on 1st June, Saturday 2013. Srilanka vs India practice match live streaing is broadcasted from Edgbaston, Birmingham. Watch Srilanka vs India warm up match live streaming on Star Cricket, ESPN, DD and NEO Sports.
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MS Dhoni (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Dinesh Karthik, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Ishant Sharma, Murali Vijay, Umesh Yadav, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Amit Mishra, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Vinay Kumar.Srilanka Squad
Angelo Mathews (Captain), Dinesh Chandimal, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Shaminda Eranga, Rangana Herath, Mahela Jayawardene, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Jeevan Mendis, Kushal Janith Perera, Thisara Perera, Kumar Sangakkara, Sachithra Senanayake, Lahiru Thirimanne, Chanaka Welegedara.


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But if you want to limit costs in medicine, it seems the government is intent on looking the other way:
At stake in the Harkonen case is a much broader debate over the standard for drawing clinical conclusions from scientific data. FDA typically requires two forward-looking or prospective trials, in which patients are randomly picked to get either an experimental drug or a placebo. That might be an appropriate standard for FDA approval, but it's an excessive burden for private firms that merely want to share their truthful research conclusions with doctors. The restrictions may also violate the First Amendment; Dr. Harkonen is appealing on those grounds to the Ninth Circuit.And it doesn't stop there.
At the same time government is limiting what private companies can legally communicate about their drugs, it has set a much lower standard for federal health agencies. President Obama has created new institutions with the sole mandate of running trials based on softer statistical standards. Retrospective studies will be the core occupation of a new "comparative effectiveness" research agency that has $4.1 billion to conduct government studies on medical products. The results will be used to inform federal treatment guidelines, as well as Medicare's payment policies.
At least $100 million of that $4.1 billion is being spent on promoting research results. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently paid $26 million to the PR firm Ogilvy to "market and promote the adoption" of the findings.
Our clinical treatment "guidelines," now number some 2,766 for physical and psychiatric treatments according to the government's "Guideline Clearing House" (even, ironically, one for "Wandering"). These prescripts for care use a cornucopia of non-scientific methods, including opinions and case studies to formulate their recommendations, stating:
"Research findings and other evidence, such as guidelines and standards from professional organizations, case reports, and expert opinion were critiqued, analyzed, and used as supporting evidence."So when scientific rigor is given only lip-service by our government regulators, what will happen to the quality of care provided to our patients?
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Long-term follow-up and survivorship after completing systematic surveillance in stage I–III colorectal cancer: who is still at risk?
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text: Aids on the heroin road People & Power investigates the spread of HIV in Central Asia. 04 Apr 2010 10:30 GMT | Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan When Nato and its allies went to war in Afghanistan, the alliance promised to curtail the export of drugs to Europe. Since then, the West has spent hundreds of millions of dollars setting up local agencies to fight drug trafficking, not just in Afghanistan but also along the main opium and heroin route through the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. As filmmaker Michael Andersen reports, the region is now facing another danger, a potential epidemic of HIV infections. Madina is four years old. Her mother took her to a hospital one year ago because she was running a fever. Like many hospitals in Central Asia, this one too was sorely strapped for supplies. Although Madina's mother paid for a fresh needle, the one that was used on her was not and she got infected with the HIV virus. In 2008, about 170 children in Kyrgyzstan were infected in the same manner and there are similar cases throughout Central Asia. Fourteen doctors were fired – but nobody was indicted and families are still waiting for compensation. "I didn't know that this disease even existed in Kyrgyzstan. I brought my daughter to the hospital, because she had pneumonia. I think she caught the virus from an IV drip which they put in her arm. I saw the nurses use the same syringe for several children," Dinara, Manira's mother, said. "My husband did not understand this illness. When our daughter was diagnosed, he left me," the mother of another infected child says. "People here think we are to blame, that the illness is caused by the mothers not behaving properly." Poverty The drugs are smuggled from Afghanistan through Central Asia and Russia to Europe The fate of the children has resulted from poverty and a lack of information, but also geography: These children live on a modern day version of the silk road - the route that the heroin and opium now travel - from producers in Afghanistan to buyers in Europe. "It is a fact that HIV spreads in the wake of drugs in Central Asia, so the places where drugs are smuggled, that's where you find the HIVs. "The drugs go all the way through Afghanistan, through Tajikistan, through the rest of Central Asia which is a hub for drug smuggling, further on to Russia and to Europe," Pia Dyrhagen of Dan Church Aid in Kyrgyzstan said. However, Central Asian governments tend to ignore - even suppress - information about HIV. Officially, only two persons per 1,000 are infected with the virus. "Experts say you can easily multiply that number with up to 10 and then you get the actual number of HIV infected, meaning actually more than two per cent of the population could be HIV infected," Dyrhagen said. Two to three per cent infected among 50 million means that there is potentially one million people with HIV. Dyrhagen said: "The last 10 years maybe 15 years since HIV broke out in the region it was limited to risk groups. Limited to injecting drug users, to comercial sex workers, to men having sex with men, but what you see these years is that it's bridging to the general population. "It's bridging through women having sexual relations with injecting drug users, it's labour migrants coming back from Russia where the HIV prevalence is higher, and you also have these cases of children getting infected in hospitals. Combined with a quite low level of awareness of HIV and how to protect yourself, this is like a bomb." Local drug agencies The UN says that Central Asia's drug control agencies seize two per cent of the drugs In order to stop the drugs coming from Afghanistan through Central Asia to Europe, the West has spent tens of millions of dollars setting up local drug control agencies. Stopping the drugs at source was one of Nato's justifications for the war in Afghanistan. But so far, with very limited success. According to the United Nations six million doses of heroin enter Tajikistan every day, and the government agencies in Central Asia seize only two per cent of the drugs travelling through the region.Khushnud Rakhmatullaev, the spokesman for the Tajik border police, said it was fairly easy to cross the 1,300 km border with Afghanistan."Our border guards are patrolling on foot. Sometimes they have to walk 20-30km a day, and they're only young kids. I would estimate that we confiscate maybe 10 or 12 per cent of the drugs which are smuggled into Tajikistan. "Tajikistan is just a transit country. Most of the drugs just pass through our region and go on to destroy somebody's life in Russia, Europe or the America," he said. Entangled in criminal networks The responsible UN agency believes that another problem is also significant. "The police have themselves become closely entangled in criminal networks engaged in contraband and drugs trafficking," the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports.As we travelled further along the drugs route, this view was supported. Although the police would not speak to us, some drug users alleged police involvement in the drugs trade. "If you're a new face round here, trying to buy drugs, the police will arrest you in a second. They will arrest you, so that they can come to an 'agreement' with you. Get a bribe from you. You pay them and they let you go. Without the police there would be no drugs here," one former addict in a drop-in centre for recovering drug addicts in Khujand said. Another addict said: "They say that there are no drugs in the prisons. Officially there are no drugs in the prisons here. But practically in all prisons there are drugs. "But how can the drugs get in when they are heavily guarded and allow no visitors. The only explanation is that the police bring it in. This is a simple proof that the police themselves are involved in drug dealing. Where I was in prison, 80 per cent were drug addicts." The UN estimates that there are almost half a million drug addicts in Central Asia, the huge majority injecting heroine. Experts warn that it is a particular worry here in Central Asia that addicts often share needles. "Sometime you don't have a choice. You're sitting there in the prison and there's only one needle. And that needle will be used by 50 or 100 people in one day." In Osh, in southern Kyrgyzstan, we had agreed an interview at the drugs control agency. But when we arrived, the agency had been closed down by the Kyrgyz president - no official reason was given. As a result, Kyrgyzstan, a key point on the drugs and HIV trail, is now left without a special agency for combating the drugs trade. Lack of information Prostitution plays an important role in the spread of HIV in Central Asia Often drug addiction drives women into prostitution. In Osh - a town with half a million people - and maybe as many as 10,000 drug addicts, there are now more than 1,000 commercial sex workers. The organisation, 'Podruga', runs information sessions for them about the importance of using condoms. Prostitution is a key factor in the spread of HIV. Nevertheless, many men here will pay double the fee for sex without a condom. According to experts the lack of information is one of biggest problems when trying to combat Aids in Central Asia. "One thing that is still a taboo here, is the use of condoms. And if you start talking about condoms, it implies that you are not faithful to your partner, that you have other partners," Dyrhagen said. "We made a survey, of the population in the southern regions, where HIV is most widespread, showing that 30 per cent of the respondents said that they didn't believe that condoms prevented HIV." With poverty forcing millions of young men from Central Asia to go and work in Russia, many come back with more than just money. "We have numbers on HIV prevalence among commercial sex workers, street prostitutes, in St. Petersburg in Russia, that 92 per cent of the street prostitutes are injecting drug users, and 50 per cent of them are HIV positive. These are the cheapest prostitutes, prostitutes on the street, and those are the ones that Tajik, Kyrgyz, whatever, labour migrants would go to. "This is what is happening, Central Asia labour migrants will go to prostitutes, in Russia, without using condoms, getting infected, coming back to their family, wife, etc. in Central Asia, and of course transfer the HIV to them," Dyrhagen said. Imams inform about HIV Some Tajik imams started raising issues like drugs and the spread of HIV in the mosque This situation has now convinced a group of 30 imams in Tajikistan to bring information about HIV into the mosque. It was Manizha Haitova, the director of the Centre of Mental Health and HIV/Aids Takikistan, who came up with this unique project which is supported by Christian aid organisations."The imams and Islam, this is the only way, the only instruments for influence, deep influence to the people. "In the Muslim society using condoms can only be between wife and husband. "After our training, our participants, the imams, they provide information that if you have some behaviour, risky behaviour, abroad from the country, you should use condoms with your wife," Manizha says. Before the Friday prayer, a leading imam told us about his participation in the project. The imams are now mentioning condoms in their services, but most are still more keen on stressing abstinence and monogamy. "Our responsibility is to warn our congregations against using drugs and having improper sexual relations. The only guarantee is to live by Sharia law, and by the law given by God in the Quran, in the Torah and in the Bible. "Using condoms is one way of avoiding the disease, but a condom can break. There is a Tajik saying: if you do not want to be bitten by a mad dog, just do not go close to any mad dogs," Abdulbasir Saidov, the imam of Shomansur mosque, said. Aids on the heroin road aired from Wednesday, March 24, 2010.Source: Al Jazeera


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Coulter, Janet and McKeag, Dennis (2013) Thinking outside the square: Creating value and emotion in ceramic tiles through design-led innovation. Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal of Designed Objects, 6 (1). pp. 31-42. [Journal article]
Curran, K, McClintock, A, Young, C, McKeag, Dennis and Killeen, G (2013) RFID in the production line for work flow improvement. International Journal of Agile Systems and Management, 6 (1). pp. 83-112. [Journal article]
McClintock, A, Young, Charles, Curran, K, McKeag, Dennis and Killen, G (2011) Incorporating Radio Frequency Identification into the Production Line for Work Flow Improvement. The International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 1 (1). pp. 33-60. [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis (2011) Developing a template for optimizing return on investment in product and process innovation. Proceedings of the 2011 New Zealand Rapid Prodict Development Conference, 1 . pp. 1-6. [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis (2010) Developing Skills in Creativity and Innovation Through New Product Design. ConnectED2010 International Conference on Design Education, 2010 (1). pp. 1-9. [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis and McKnight, Wesley (2010) ANALYSIS OF HOW A GRANT AIDED INDUSTRY/UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIVE PROJECT CHANGED COMPANY CULTURE AND HOW THEY DO BUSINESS. Proceedings of the 11th International CINet Conference, 1 . pp. 718-733. [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis and Owens, Frank (2010) International Fachhochschule-University Collaboration in the Delivery of a Professionally Accredited MEng Programme. Proceedings of the Joint International IGIP-SEFI Annual Conference 2010, 1 . [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis (2009) How engineering education can contribute to a revival from the economic downturn. Proceedings of the SEFI Annual Conference 2009, 2009 (1). pp. 1-9. [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis (2009) Improving Competitiveness by Adopting a Creative Approach to Product and Process Innovation. Proceedings of the 10th Continuous Innovation Network Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 6-8 September 2009, 2009 (1). pp. 1-12. [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis, Blakley, James and Hanson, Nigel (2009) University Industry Collaboration in the Development of PLC Training Material for Use in the Design and Development of Quarry Plant. Lightening Source UK Ltd, Milton Keynes UK. 85 pp ISBN 978-1-904670-18-6 [Book (authored)]
McKeag, Dennis (2008) EMBEDDING CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM. Processings of the SEFI Annual Conference, Alborg, Denmark, 30 June - 3 July 2008, 2008 . [Journal article]
McKeag, Dennis (2008) How Engineering Education can contribute to a Revival from the Economic Downturn. In: SEFI Annual Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Sense Publishers. 9 pp. [Conference contribution]
McKeag, Dennis and McKnight, Wesley (2008) CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN ELECTRONIC PRODUCT DESIGN. School of Manufacturing & Design Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology. 351 pp ISBN 1-900454-28-9 [Book (authored)]
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Whose Afraid Of An Empty Holster?
Should students have less freedom and safety than other citizens simply because they attend college? Many students at America's universities are asking this same question: Why are they not allowed to defend themselves from campus attacks?
College students are mature and responsible enough to cast a vote, fight a war, own a gun, carry a gun, and exercise every other right of citizenship exercised by other adult citizens … then why should they be forced to go unarmed and be defenseless at institutions of higher learning?
While our law makers debate, delay, argue and defend the status quo, far too many college students are being raped, mugged, and robbed at gun and knife point … or they are caught alone and outnumbered by punk gangster wannabes!
There is no need to change current gun laws … simply give people on college campuses the same rights they have everywhere else.
Of course … anti-gun nuts will argue that guns will start going off randomly and students will break out into gunfights all the time. This argument, of course, ignores the fact that people who get concealed carry permits are law-abiding citizens … and the gangster wannabes already have illegal guns anyway.
Many law-abiding citizens with concealed carry permits are already permeating the society … folks just don't realize it because of the "concealed carry" part … and they do not "break out into gunfights." However … they can protect themselves.
A group called Students for Concealed Carry on Campus are leading the fight and wearing empty holsters to protest state laws and student codes of conduct that prohibit them from exercising their Second Amendment rights even though they have a concealed carry permit.
So far, Utah is the only state that expressly allows the Right to Carry on public college campuses thanks to a 2004 law allowing the Right to Carry on all state property … and Utah has not disappeared in a blaze of gunfire.
Sadly … a bill that would have required colleges in Virginia to allow Right to Carry permit holders to exercise that right on campuses died in committee not long before the Virginia Tech tragedy where an armed maniac killed 27 students and 5 faculty members. If a few of those students or faculty members had been legally armed … perhaps there would have been a few less funerals to attend.
Though no longer a student, I am a staff member at an American university … I applaud their efforts and am supporting them!
Obama the Unifier!
The independent National Journal ranked John Kerry as the "Most Liberal" the year before he lost the race for the Presidency.
Senator Barack Obama, now in his 3rd year of serving in the Senate, has taken the title of "More Liberal than Kerry, Kennedy and Hillary." According to the ratings, Hillary Clinton comes in at #16.
I will never understand Obama's claim that he is a unifier … and that only he will be able to bridge the gap between conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. Obama's policies and priorities come straight from the progressive liberal play book.
Of course Obama talks about bringing together Republicans, Independents, and Democrats … but how exactly is that going to work? Is Obama somehow going to retreat from the positions that Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, or John Edwards held. I think not!
I might buy some of the unifier rhetoric if Obama became willing to discuss vouchers for School Choice … or dismantling the NEA and its disastrous effect on our public school system, … or when he decides that entitlement programs need real reform that include ideas like personal individual retirement accounts.
Homeless American Soldiers
This is an absolute disgrace to this country! A true American tragedy! Let me say that when I first read this … being a veteran myself … I was really angry … and I mean jump up and down, punch a hole in the wall, storm the White House kind of angry!
The Veterans Administration estimates that there are about 193,000 homeless veterans living in the U.S., veterans who have served this country when asked. Col. David Hunt thinks the number is closer to 500,000.
The fact that there are homeless people in this country is certainly tragic … but I have to agree with Col. David Hunt … the fact that there are homeless veterans in this country is criminal.
These veterans, mostly men, put themselves between us and harms way, fought our wars, spent countless days and nights in the worst hell holes to be found around the globe, and stood at a wall and said "not on my watch." They have been wounded, tortured, lost limbs, and lost many close friends while protecting our way of life … then they return home to live under a bridge? That simply should not be!!
This is not President Bush's fault … nor President Clinton's fault … nor President Reagan's fault! According to Col. Hunt, this is every administration's fault since Valley Forge.
I say that a nation that does not take care of its veterans does not deserve to have them and eventually, is doomed to fall!! I am going to take a close look at what I can do to help … won't you?
Iran Goes Nuclear!
Some French folks do still have guts! Thérèse Delpech is the director of strategic studies at the French Atomic Energy Commission. She recently delivered a blistering critique of all the key players in the Iran nuclear controversy including Great Britain, France, Russia, China, Germany, and … of course … the United States. She also body slams the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Her review of Iran's nuclear program demolishes the notion that the program was designed for peaceful purposes . Launched in secret 20 years ago, pursued in violation of Iran's legally binding safeguards obligations, and with no economic justification for the immense investment required … Iran's program only makes sense as a nuclear weapons program.
Why isn't Moscow more concerned with a Muslim fundamentalist state on its borders with nuclear armaments? In private, Russian officials agree that Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons … but still has provided considerable nuclear assistance to Iran over the last 15 years and continues to block meaningful action against Iran at the UN.
In Moscow, it is sometimes very, very hard to tell the difference between strategic issues, commercial issues, and outright criminal activities!
China has a similar record … but China relies on Iran for 15% of its oil imports and is the world's second largest consumer of oil. China is also working to establish a diplomatic foothold in the Middle East … and does not want to rock the Iranian boat.
Great Britain, France and Germany lead the international effort to negotiate with Iran, but their efforts have more to do with attempting to prove the superiority of "soft power" to the muscular foreign policy of the Bush administration, than any real attempt to end Iran's nuclear weapons program. So far, due to Russia and China's efforts in the UN Security Council, their negotiations have met with no measurable success.
And … the U.S.? Distracted by War in Iraq and burdened by all the tragic developments in U.S. – Iranian relations since the fall of the Shah … is, in fact, secretly unwilling to use military force despite all the saber rattling.
It looks to me like last month's National Intelligence Estimate is far from the last word on this issue … in fact, it is pointless.


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Imagine the return on investment for robotic space exploration! With concerted effort, we can start a fourth industrial revolution. Robots can take over the most mundane of human jobs enabling us to do what we do best. Unfortunately, we're really good at killing each other.
I really don't get it. The best I can figure is that you can use your watch to send a signal to your phone, but I can't figure out why you'd want to do that. I mean, what's the advantage over using just your phone?
I know far too many people who've given up their watches because their phones do a better job with time.
I used to have a voracious appetite for science fiction and read countless books on the near and distant future. The one thing I can say about them is that they do a lousy job at predicting the future.
One case in point is the internet. There is not a single story I can remember that predicted this, arguably the most important media advance since movable type. There were plenty of stories about gigantic databases that required special skills to pull information, plenty more stories with artificial intelligences of varying ability and lots of high-tech communication tools, but nothing that came close to the internet and what it accomplished.
As another poster pointed out, the hard science fiction writers do a good job of describing future technology (e.g., Clarke's space elevator), but as far as predicting how those technologies affect our society? Not so much.
Let me get this straight, Mr. Attorney General. You're saying that constituents are more concerned with real-life issues than with home entertainment imaginary worlds, right? So, uh, why are you spending so much energy controlling access to these imaginary worlds?
She wants the master copy? Fine. In a digital world, there are no "master" copies. They want to review the content and demand changes. Sure, but those demands must be recorded to video. Of course the producers don't HAVE to make the changes, right? The clips (or even transcripts) of their demands will certainly make things interesting (and possible drive up sales).
I'd never heard of Harvey Danger before seeing this video. I'd never heard the song, either. Thanks to this viral advertisement, they just made a sale. Tell me again, EMI, how this is a bad thing.
So, that's what a hobbyist can do for pocket change, eh? What can he do with a few million? Well, a much more interesting question would be "How much would it cost Hollywood to produce that clip?" I think the biggest problem facing traditional filmmakers is a perception that you have to throw money around like a chimp flinging feces if you want to get anything done.
Am I so in the minority? That was really, really awful! How about an auto-tuned text-to-speech application instead?
Surely a contender.
But why a WALL? There must be other forms of crowd control barriers that can keep people from rushing a stage fer Pete's sake!
Has anyone looked into the fact that this is a double-edged sword (if I may mix my metaphors). If all it takes is three accusations to be kicked off line, who is allowed to do the accusing? What if ANYone's accusations are acceptable? What if a corporation is accused? How would the RIAA feel if it lost its internet connection for infringing on the copyright of an artist. I suspect they'd be singing a very different song, so to speak.
I'm betting the copyright is there to prevent someone from using a portion of an image of the bill for advertising or something similar. For that matter, it could be to prevent someone from using an image that is clearly not counterfeiting, but still infringing: say, a billboard of a bill with advertising text across it.
Now why even bother with PDF files when HTML is far more versatile(notwithstanding any images they may use). As I move further and further from paper, I want a format that works on any size screen.
If they can copyright the output of the algorithm, it's only fair that we copyright the input. Let's see how useful the service is after a few weeks of THAT.
C'mon guys. What was that you said about how people overestimate their own value?
I can't help but imagining a parody of Wexler's comments set sometime around the early 1770's in colonial America. I picture him addressing a house of lords or some loyalist gathering and claiming that the colonists just don't appreciate how important it is that they pay tax and that everything must be taxed and that it's all for the colonists' own good and those extremists like Jefferson and Franklin are totally misguided. The assembled crowd all nod in agreement, unable to imagine themselves anywhere but in a position of authority.


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