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Django sprint in the Washington DC Metro Area, August 1st
We'll be holding a Django development sprint somewhere Metro-accessible in the Washington DC Metro Area on August 1st from 9am to 5pm.
This sprint will be focused on Django 1.0 beta 1 (scheduled to be released August 5th). More details will be posted here and announced on django-dev as we get closer to the time of the sprint.
This sprint is sponsored by GeniusRocket.
What's a sprint? How do I participate
See Sprints for information about how sprints work, how you can participate, etc.
Anybody, anywhere around the world, can participate and contribute. We'll be gathering in person in the DC Metro Area with the exact location TBD shortly, but if you can't make it you can also help out in IRC.
You can find all the gory details on the Sprints page.
If you plan to participate in the sprint, please add your name to the roster below. We have space for around 30 attendees, so if things fill up we might have to cap attendance.
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The exact location is still being finalized, but the sprint will be held 'somewhere accessible by Metro'.
If you're coming in from out of town, there are many travel options.
- Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)
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Final week, Kim Dotcom indicated that he'd like his extradition listening to to be broadcast stay on the Web.
"Due to international curiosity in my case we now have requested the Excessive Court docket to permit live-streaming of my 6 weeks of copyright extradition hearings," he wrote on Twitter.
Yesterday morning, simply earlier than the listening to bought underway, Dotcom's lawyer Ron Mansfield once more raised the problem. He stated that a complicated case of this nature may not obtain truthful reporting so a reside stream might assist restore the stability and guarantee public scrutiny. Mansfield recommended YouTube as the right platform.
Maybe unsurprisingly, the U.S. authorities opposed Dotcom's software, stating that the protection may prejudice the prison trial in america ought to Dotcom be extradited. Specifically, the U.S. stated footage from the listening to may threaten a possible jury pool.
However regardless of U.S. objections, earlier as we speak Justice Murray Gilbert stated the stream may go forward, on YouTube. There will likely be some restrictions, nevertheless.
Pointers for broadcasting from New Zealand courts mandate a 10-minute delay, however in Dotcom's case that will probably be prolonged to 20 minutes. It will make sure that the court docket has the chance to suppress something deemed unfit for public consumption.
Dotcom took to Twitter to rejoice.
Reside streaming of my listening to is a milestone. We're breaking new floor. Please deal with the courtroom with respect. Let's make this the brand new regular.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) August 30, 2016
In fact, neither possibility might be doable to regulate fully. Dialogue of dwell occasions can simply happen elsewhere, notably on Twitter the place the motion takes place in real-time. Moreover, folks will undoubtedly rip the dwell stream from YouTube, so conserving that offline after the listening to has handed will show totally not possible.
However, the transparency the stream will present is being welcomed by many, not least Dotcom's US-based lawyer Ira Rothken.
"It offers everyone on the earth with a seat within the gallery of the New Zealand courtroom," Rothken stated. "It's democracy at its most interesting."
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BEVERLY, MA--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - Cellceutix Corporation (
The Phase 1 clinical trial of Kevetrin targeting solid tumors at Dana-Farber Cancer Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is progressing as expected with the next cohort to begin treatment at escalated dosing levels. Studies evaluating the p21 biomarker will soon begin and the first data report is expected in mid-March.
"We are excited by the advancement of the clinical trials of Kevetrin as we move toward finding the MTD (maximum tolerated dose)," said Dr. Krishna Menon, Chief Scientific Officer of Cellceutix. "While we are still early in the trials, we are eager to receive information on the p21 biomarker as it could represent a major breakthrough in cancer research. There has been no shortage of commentary and discussions in the scientific community recently about the latest initiatives of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to further expedite novel drugs to market for areas of great unmet medical need. Obviously, we will be exploring this option for Kevetrin, however an application for this type of rapid movement through the regulatory process can only be made after the completion of the phase 1 clinical study."
Regarding Prurisol, Dr. Menon and Cellceutix Chief Executive Officer Leo Ehrlich have recently returned from meetings with Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd., ("Dr. Reddy's"), a New York Stock Exchange listed company, at Dr. Reddy's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and headquarters in Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Reddy's has completed the process development of Prurisol and is now in the formulation stage for the manufacturing of Prurisol for the upcoming clinical trials in Europe planned for the second quarter of 2013.
"At our meetings with Dr. Reddy's, we met with over twenty scientists working on the Prurisol project. I was very impressed with the comprehensive scientific team that they have dedicated to our project," said Leo Ehrlich. "While they had already informed us that they had reduced the number of manufacturing steps, Dr. Reddy's has now advised that they have further condensed the process, which is delivering much higher yields than originally anticipated that ultimately will save us valuable time and money in the production of Prurisol."
The Company is pleased to report that the recently filed registration statement with the Security and Exchange Commission is now effective, thus concluding the imposed "quiet period."
Additional updates on the planned studies testing Kevetrin against Acute Myelogenous Leukemia at the University of Bologna as well as other corporate developments relating to research on Kevetrin at a world-renowned cancer center in the Southwest United States are forthcoming shortly.
About Kevetrin™
As a completely new class of chemistry in medicine, Kevetrin™ has significant potential to be a major breakthrough in the treatment of solid tumors. Mechanism of action studies showed Kevetrin's unique ability to affect both wild and mutant types of p53 (often referred to as the "Guardian Angel Gene" or the "Guardian Angel of the Human Genome") and that Kevetrin strongly induced apoptosis (cell death), characterized by activation of Caspase 3 and cleavage of PARP. Activation of p53 also induced apoptosis by inducing the expression of p53 target gene PUMA. p53 is an important tumor suppressor that acts to restrict proliferation by inducing cell cycle checkpoints, apoptosis, or cellular senescence.
In more than 50 percent of all human carcinomas, p53 is limited in its anti-tumor activities by mutations in the protein itself. Currently, there are greater than 10 million people with tumors that contain inactivated p53, while a similar number have tumors in which the p53 pathway is partially abrogated by inactivation of other signaling components. This has left cancer researchers with the grand challenge of searching for therapies that could restore the protein's protective function, which Kevetrin appears to be doing the majority of the time.
Further information on the clinical trial, titled "A Phase 1, Open-Label, Dose-Escalation, Safety, Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Study of Kevetrin (Thioureidobutyronitrile) Administered Intravenously, in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors," is available at: http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01664000?term=cellceutix&rank=1
About Cellceutix
Headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, Cellceutix is a publicly traded company under the symbol "CTIX". It is an emerging bio-pharmaceutical company focused on the development of its pipeline of compounds targeting areas of unmet medical need. Our flagship compound, Kevetrin™, is an anti-cancer drug which has demonstrated the ability in pre-clinical studies to regulate the p53 pathway and attack cancers which have proven resistant to today's cancer therapies (drug-resistant cancers). Cellceutix also owns the rights to seven other drug compounds, including KM-133, which is in development for psoriasis, and KM-391 for the treatment of the core symptoms of autism. More information is available on the Cellceutix web site at www.cellceutix.com.
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Black and Hispanic students, on average, experience higher rates of school suspensions and other serious disciplinary actions -- there is little doubt or debate on that score. A Washington Post study last year found that in the D.C. region, black students were far more likely to be suspended from school than whites or Asians. In Montgomery County, a suburban Maryland district just outside of Washington, 6 percent of black students were either suspended or expelled from school the previous year, while only 1.2 percent of white students suffered the same punishment. The most recent national school suspension statistics available show that some 15 percent of blacks, 7 percent of Hispanics, 5 percent of whites and 3 percent of Asians are suspended at some point in their school life.
But the real question is: Why? If black and Hispanic students engage in behavior that is punishable by suspension at higher rates than whites or Asians, then we shouldn't be surprised that their punishment rates are higher, as well. On the other hand, if behaviors don't differ or if black students who commit the same infractions as whites receive harsher treatment, discrimination is likely the cause.
Unfortunately, the DOJ and DOE guidelines go far beyond discouraging actual racial discrimination. In essence, what the Obama administration wants school districts to do is guarantee that minority students don't experience higher rates of suspension or other serious punishments for disciplinary infractions. It is certainly laudable to try to bring down suspension rates for black and Hispanic students -- but there are right and wrong ways to go about it, and the Obama administration has chosen the worst way.
The guidelines tell school districts that any discipline policy that results in an "adverse impact on students of a particular race as compared with students of other races" is problematic. The school district must prove that the policy is "necessary to meet an important educational goal" and that there are not "comparably effective alternative policies or practices that would meet the school's stated educational goals."
In the D.C. area study, for example, minority students were far more likely to be suspended for "insubordination" than whites. The easiest way to fix the statistical disparity would be for school districts to eliminate insubordination as an infraction punishable by suspension. But whom would such a change benefit?
Students who refuse to follow the rules and behave disrespectfully to teachers and administrators would learn they could get away with it with no consequences, setting them up for future failure in the work world. Students who behaved would find themselves in unruly classrooms, and teachers would find their authority and ability to teach undermined.
Meanwhile, the real culprit for racial differences in disciplinary problems among students would go unexamined. More than 70 percent of black babies are born to single moms, as are about 60 percent of Native Americans and 50 percent of Hispanics, but less than 30 percent of whites and 20 percent of Asians. Children who grow up in fatherless homes are exponentially more likely to face school suspension or engage in early criminal behavior.
According to the Fatherhood Coalition, fatherless teens are three times more likely to be suspended from school and fatherless teen boys are 10 times more likely to become chronic juvenile offenders than those raised in homes with two parents. Forcing school districts to weaken disciplinary policies or set racial quotas in implementing them serves no one. And those who would suffer the most would likely be underachieving minority students stuck in undisciplined classrooms.


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- Chinese Army Building in the Era of Jiang Zemin. Authored by Dr. Andrew Scobell.
- What are the national security and national military goals of China s leaders? What strategies are Chinese leaders considering in pursuit of these goals? What is the likelihood that these goals will be attained?
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- Conference Report: International Workshop on the U.S.-ROK Alliance. Edited by COL Donald W. Boose, Jr..
- The principal focus of the papers collected in this book is the Republic of Korea (ROK)-U.S. alliance, the effects of the alliance partners' interaction with North Korea, and the economic pressures that affect the alliance. Each of these papers reflects the enduring historical forces, geopolitical realities, and national interests that affect Northeast Asia, the Korean peninsula, and the ROK-U.S.
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- Mexico in Crisis. Authored by Dr. Donald E. Schulz.
- Author argues that the United States has few foreign policy concerns more profoundly consequential for its national interests and security than Mexico. Therefore, it is important to understand the nature of the Mexican crisis that has been emerging since late 1970s.


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Rabbi Daniel Gordis discusses the absolute failure of the Jewish-American progressive community to deal with the realities of the Middle East. As I wrote HERE, the US Jewish-progressive community lives in the safety, security and wealth of the United States, all the while trying to tell Israelis that they must risk the lives of their children on the altar of US-Jewish- progressive politics. This is more than myopia. This is even more than hubris. It is a repugnant kind of egomania. Gordis is being kind to these individuals by only using the word myopic and attempting to be diplomatic in his article. It is a must read….
From coast to coast, as Progressive American rabbis continue to call for peace, they are inadvertently revealing their tragic inability to acknowledge that the world in which they once formulated their positions on Israel has changed almost beyond recognition. The gaping disconnect between the world that these rabbis pretend exists and the one that actually exists renders their message both irrelevant and myopically dangerous. For the goal of religious leadership ought to be to get people to do something. Yet, acting while denying reality can lead only to grievous, and, perhaps, irredeemable mistakes.
Jews do not easily surrender our hopes for peace. But increasingly, beginning with the Second Intifada, Israelis have come to doubt the possibility of a "land for peace" deal. That doubt increased when Gazans voted Hamas into power after Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. In recent years, as more Israelis have come to understand that there is no placating Gazans, who see themselves as descendants of 1948 refugees from the Negev and the coastal plain (precisely the places that Gazans shelled during the recent conflict), Israeli despair has only hardened.
That the situation is both dangerous and depressing is undeniable. But responsible leadership does not deny reality, no matter how sad it may be. It first acknowledges what exists, and only then tries to imagine what we can do to create a better world.
Yet that is precisely too many American Progressive Jewish leaders refuse to do. As Operation Pillar of Defense was raging, the rabbi of Ikar in Los Angeles wrote to that community saying that what Israel needed to do was "engage earnestly and immediately in peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority," demonstrating an utter lack of understanding of the power balance between Hamas and Fatah, or of the hatred of Israel that is now systemic in Palestinian life. When the UN General Assembly voted to upgrade the Palestinians' status to that of non-member observers, the rabbis of Bnai Jeshurun in New York wrote their community saying that "The vote at the UN [was] a great moment for us as citizens of the world. … This is an opportunity to celebrate the process that allows a nation to come forward and ask for recognition."
Do these rabbis imagine in their wildest dreams that any parallel sentiment will emerge from the other side? The ink was hardly dry on that letter when Hamas' political chief Khaled Meshal said that "Palestine is ours from the river to the sea and from the south to the north. There will be no concession on any inch of the land… there is no legitimacy for Israel." Meshal continued: "We will free Jerusalem inch by inch, stone by stone. Israel has no right to be in Jerusalem." Does anyone really imagine that Israeli concessions in the West Bank can curb this sort of hatred? Would an Israeli willingness to deny Meshal's view and his popularity strengthen Israel or weaken it? Shortly after that, it was reported that PA forces in the West Bank have ceased all operations designed to curtail Hamas' influence in the West Bank. Can anyone doubt what that means?
Some responsible American Jewish voices are coming to terms with this new reality. Leon Wieseltier recently wrote in The New Republic that "I no longer believe that peace between Israelis and Palestinians will occur in my lifetime. I have not changed my views; I have merely lost my hopes."
Wieseltier is, sadly, where most Israelis are. Progressive American voices, tragically, are in a very different place. "We are deeply entrenched in our narratives of good and evil, victim and perpetrator," Ikar's rabbi wrote, unwilling to take a stand on whether Hamas was good or evil, victim or perpetrator, while Bnai Jeshurun's followed with that note that the UN vote was a great moment for them "as citizens of the world."
Jews have always seen ourselves as citizens of the world. But key to Judaism's survival has been an ability to couple that universal concern to a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges and dangers facing the Jewish world. The mark of great religious leadership is not simply its ability to imagine a better world, but to imagine how we might get to that world from the one that actually exists. We will know great Progressive religious leadership is emerging when we see the world that they describe bears at least some resemblance to the one in which Israel has to try to survive.
Daniel Gordis is Senior Vice President and Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem. His book, Saving Israel, won the 2009 National Jewish Book Award; The Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness is Actually Its Greatest Strength was published in 2012.
Read the original article in Haaretz HERE.


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As a frequent traveler, I have crossed political borders in many ways: by plane, train, bus, car, and boat. On our day trip to Macau yesterday, I walked across a border for the first time after taking a bus from Zhongshan to the Chinese/Macau customs. On the other side lay a place that is very much Cantonese in lifestyle and language, but where you will find a huge amount of culinary diversity.
Macau was a Portuguese colony until 1999, when it was returned to China. It remains a Special Administrative Region like Hong Kong, which means it gets its own Special boundaries, laws, and Special access to bulk imports of Portuguese sausages. The thought of delicious cured meat compelled me to wander the narrow hilly streets in search of Portuguese and Macanese fare, which is a combination of Portuguese, African, and Southeast Asian cooking.
During the day we ate wherever we walked, as street food in Macau is abundant and delicious. At night I wanted a long, relaxing sit-down dinner. Unfortunately it started to rain just as we were about to walk towards a couple of restaurants in the southern part of the peninsula. Looking for shelter, we turned onto a narrow cobblestone street off Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro, and saw a charming little building strung up with lights. Restaurante Escada, said the swinging sign. The daily specials chalkboard listed bacalhau, seafood stew, and a range of grilled meats. We asked to see the regular menu too, and immediately 3, 4, 5, 10 dishes popped out as something I wanted to try. Sold.
For an appetizer we ordered a Portuguese sausage that came out on a flaming dish. The waitress turned it over so we could see how it blistered oh-so-deliciously on the open flame. Tasting the sausage three years after my last trip to Spain and Portugal reminded me just how adept Iberians are when it comes to curing meat.
I ordered Galinha à Africana for my entree, a roasted chicken covered in piri piri, or African bird's eye chili, sauce. The half chicken portion size was more than I could comfortably eat, but definitely sated my appetite for tender and subtley spiced meat. Jacob loved his beef in cream sauce entree; while I am not a huge fan of rare meat, I did steal more than a few french fries, crisp and lightly dusted with pepper, off his plate.
It was a wonderful meal to end a day of exploring Macau, a place so physically close to Guangdong Province, but culturally and culinarily different.
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Lyrical, romantic, and at times heartbreaking, this is the moving story of an inexperienced medical student conscripted to a skeletal field hospital during the First World War. In this brutal crucible, Lucius learns what he is capable of -- hard work and determination, occasional heroism, and, more often, human frailty. Against a bleak background of wartime hardship, this is a magnificent tale of resilience, atonement, and love— From Gillian
A Washington Post Best Book of 2018
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2018
An NPR Great Read of 2018
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"The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." --Anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review
"A dream of a novel... Part mystery, part war story, part romance." --Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.
But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.
From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone.
About the Author
Daniel Mason is a physician and author of the novels The Piano Tuner and A Far Country. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and adapted for opera and theater. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, he is currently a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in the humanities and medicine. He lives in the Bay Area with his family.
Praise For…
"The Winter Soldier brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement--and charging cavalries, false identities, arranged marriages, scheming industrialists and missing persons...Within the meticulously researched and magnificently realized backdrop of European dissolution, Mason finds his few lost souls, and shepherds them toward an elusive peace. Lucius's 'dream of being able to see another person's thinking' is not only the controlling metaphor of The Winter Soldier, but the work of literature more broadly. Lucius may fail, but the novel he carries is a spectacular success."—Anthony Marra, New York Times
"The beauty of Mason's new novel persists even through scenes of unspeakable agony. That tension reflects the span of his talent...The story that unfolds in this forsaken place is so captivating that you may feel as unable to leave it as Lucius does."—Ron Charles, Washington Post
"I have been a Daniel Mason fan since The Piano Tuner. His abilities as a storyteller and a writer of the most gorgeous prose leave you wanting more. The Winter Soldier is a tour de force. I was immersed in the grandeur of Imperial Vienna and the frozen battlefields of the Eastern Front, and in this beautiful tale of love and war, and of our frailty and resilience in the face of both."—Abraham Verghese, bestselling author of Cutting for Stone
"Epic...Urgent, cinematically beautiful...Lucius is an irresistible protagonist...Not only does Mason make every crumb of pertinent history, culture, and geography so real throughout this saga that a reader feels instantly teleported into all of it, [but] The Winter Soldier delivers, in shocking detail, a relentless inventory of the era's medical knowledge and practices...Mason has created a magnificent world, urging us to savor every grain of it."—Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle
"As lyrical as a Viennese waltz and as delicate as crystal, Mason's riveting novel examines the human heart and the wounds of war with clear eyes and compassion."—People
"The Winter Soldier held me by the throat from the first lyrical page to the last. A story which manages to be as original as it is timeless, and above all, credible."—Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room
"Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel--impeccably researched and totally immersive. The unsinkable Margarete is a mesmerizing character, and the book's investigation into the psychiatric toll of war on its combatants could not be more timely. This novel convinces you with every sentence."—Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See
"What I've found most remarkable about Mason's fiction is the quality of his revelations, his ability to unveil temperaments, habits, natures...Although The Winter Soldier contains some of the most brutal moments of suffering I've encountered in fiction, they're never there just to move the story along. They allow the reader to sit very close to someone in great pain and listen to him."—Wyatt Mason, New York Times Magazine
"So real, so rich and detailed, that the room in which I was reading vanished. I was transported to a lost world of the past. Suspenseful, thrilling, aching with emotion. Living with Lucius and Margarete, it was the First World War as I have never felt it."—Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
"In the tradition of Cold Mountain and Doctor Zhivago, Daniel Mason's new novel is a gloriously gripping story of love, war, and the marvel of human endurance. Sweeping yet intimate, brutal yet tender, it kept me up, it broke my heart, and it made me remember yet again just how a good book--a really good book--rekindles our love of life."—Julia Glass, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes and A House Among the Trees
"In The Winter Soldier, Daniel Mason achieves a deeply affecting balancing act, drawing us into the crushing agony of war while simultaneously stirring our hearts with an inspired and touching love story."—Georgia Hunter, bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones
"With a physician's precision and an artist's eye, author Daniel Mason captures the emotional and physical upheaval wrought by war. Right from the start, the novel thrums with tension, whisking the reader into the fray...With striking prose and an unencumbered pace, The Winter Soldier makes for a uniquely compelling read."—
Melissa Brown, Bookpage
"The Winter Soldier brings to vivid life the World War I story of a medical student who is taught battlefield surgery by a young nun with a mysterious past. Enthralled by the setting, the characters, and the language, I was held captive by this remarkable historical novel."—Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky
"Daniel Mason is a fine writer... In Mason's powerful tale of individuals caught up in world-changing events, Lucius's search for his lost love also becomes a journey towards some kind of redemption."—Sunday Times Critic's Pick for Historical Fiction
"Utterly convincing and written with a lyricism that belies the horrors it so unflinchingly describes, this is both a moving love story and a profound portrayal of war's physical and psychological effects on survivors."—Mail on Sunday
"A captivating story of a battle surgeon's baptism of fire in love and war. The Winter Soldier is beautifully, elegantly written, the prose pitched at a level where it feels rich and lustrous but at the same time transparent and devoid of pomposity. Constantly carrying the reader forward, it's a novel to get lost in."—The Herald (Glasgow)
"Moving...Mason's old-fashioned novel delivers a sweeping yet intimate account of WWI, and in Lucius, the author has created an outstanding protagonist."—Publishers Weekly
"Mason's lyrical and affecting novel about the costs of war and lost love will satisfy readers of quality fiction."—David Keymer, Library Journal
"A novel of love, war, and medicine set during the grim final two years of World War I...Mason's contribution to war literature involves almost no depiction of fighting but rather its aftermath, the tragically scarred soldiers, and the almost equally traumatized caregivers who sacrifice their health in providing medical help to the wounded."—Kirkus Reviews
"A gripping read that explodes off the page...Breathless, I finished The Winter Soldier in awe, impressed with Mason's storytelling and a surprise at the end I didn't see coming. This is an unforgettable novel from first page to last."—Chris Stuckenschneider, The Missourian
"A sweeping story of love found and lost, steeped in medical details that reveal the full horrors that ill-equipped doctors and nurses faced over years of vicious trench warfare, The Winter Soldier is a vivid account of one man caught up in the epic forces of war, who desperately fights against the tides of change in search of redemption."—Booklist
"The Winter Soldier is a breathtaking and evocative novel on multiple fronts...Few stories handle the human cost of war as delicately and perceptively as The Winter Soldier does. Read it. It's a bravura performance."—Poornima Apte, Bookbrowse


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Mexico hails new militia as bulwark against drug cartels
President Enrique Pena Nieto on Friday launched a highly mobile 5,000-member militia, known as the National Gendarmerie, claiming it would be a potent tool in protecting industry from being looted by crime groups.
The force, a scaled-down version of what Pena Nieto originally proposed, is the latest effort by Mexican authorities to create a corruption-free branch of police.
"The Gendarmerie will contribute to the protection of Mexicans, their assets and their jobs when these are threatened by criminals," Pena Nieto said from a reviewing stand before formations of the newly trained agents.
What the Gendarmerie won't apparently do – because of its small size – is allow Pena Nieto to fulfill a campaign pledge to pull tens of thousands of soldiers from the streets of regions afflicted by organized crime, where many have been accused of human rights abuses.
Pena Nieto thanked six foreign nations – France, Spain, Colombia, the United States, Italy and Chile – for helping to train the recruits to the Gendarmerie, which he said would help contain organized crime.
The Gendarmerie will comprise a seventh division of the Federal Police, a force of 36,000 officers, said National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido. He noted that the addition of 5,000 new gendarmes would increase the "operational capacity" of the Federal Police by "18 percent."
Pena Nieto has sharply reduced the scope of the National Gendarmerie since he first proposed it during his 2012 campaign. Originally envisioned as a force as large as 40,000, Pena Nieto said in December 2012 that deployment of the Gendarmerie would allow for the gradual retreat of soldiers back to their barracks.
Pena Nieto's predecessor, Felipe Calderon, began deploying soldiers to help combat runaway drug cartels in late 2006, and an average of 30,126 soldiers have been on the streets monthly since then, according to the Fundar Center of Analysis and Research, a think tank in the capital.
But its mission has evolved from directly combating drug gangs to what Rubido described as protecting "production cycles" of the economy so that "crime groups are not collecting turf tax or transit fees that only serve to increase prices."
Asked for examples of where the gendarmes might be deployed, Rubido, speaking in a briefing earlier in the week, said they could protect sorghum growers in Tamaulipas, mining companies in Sonora and Michoacan states, tourism clusters along the coasts and multinational companies with long supply chains.
One independent security analyst, Jorge Kawas, said the new militia may be partly designed to reassure foreign investors now that Mexico has formally opened up its massive oil and gas industries to direct foreign investment.
"With the energy reform, this seems to make sense as the government needs to be seen as confronting insecurity, just to generate confidence among investors," Kawas said.
Mexico has a recent history of disbanding law enforcement units, renaming them or creating new ones in an effort to battle endemic corruption and to gain citizen trust.
The federal law enforcement agency was once known as the Federal Judicial Police, then the Federal Preventative Police, and finally adopting the name Federal Police in 2009. It was then that authorities did away with the Federal Investigation Agency, 20 percent of whose members were believed to be controlled by organized crime.
Mexico has around 440,000 police at the municipal, state and federal levels, Rubido said. Drug corruption has entirely corroded city police forces in areas with a strong presence of drug cartels, forcing scores of them to be dismantled.
Pena Nieto said earlier Friday that his government has brought down murder rates, noting that intentional homicides fell 27.8 percent in the first seven months of the year compared with the same period in 2012. He said cases of extortion and kidnapping are also beginning to drop.
Some security experts say the downward trend may be overstated.
Fueling their skepticism is official flip-flopping on the number of Mexicans who have gone missing in recent years, their fates possibly decided by the brutal drug war among crime groups or by rogue soldiers and police.
On Thursday, a deputy attorney general, Mariana Benitez Tiburcio, acknowledged that authorities tally 22,322 people as missing. She said 12,532 of them went missing during the final years of the Calderon presidency, while 9,790 vanished during Pena Nieto's 21 months in office.
As recently as May, Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong put the total figure of missing at 8,000 people.


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Electric and hybrid car excitement is all just a bunch of invented propaganda from people pushing their own green-car agenda. I prefer facts and real numbers. You can't replace true hard facts with your own imaginary figures and not expect people to see what's going on. And what do I mean by that? Well, if I were to ask the average American what the number-one selling vehicle in the U.S. is, I might get a few different answers. Based on the misinformation provided by the major news outlets, most responses would likely be some sort of fuel-efficient tin can. But the truth is that it's a pickup. And not just any pickup, a fullsize truck! The number-one selling vehicle in the United States is a ½-ton Ford F-150! Not a Prius, not a Smart Car, not a Volt, nor any of those other poor excuses for an automobile that run on laptop computer batteries or chicken farts. It's a truck, a real honest-to-goodness ½-ton truck that burns gasoline. That's what people are really buying. Trucks!
"Not a Prius, not a Smart Car, not a Volt, or any of those other poor excuses for an automobile that run on laptop computer batteries or chicken farts."
Interestingly enough, most of these hybrid and electric cars come with manufacturer cash-back buying incentives and discounts as well as government rebates. Why? I'll tell you why, because no one is buying them. Right about now you are wondering why the auto manufacturers are even offering these new fuel-efficient cars for sale, many of which are sold at a loss. I can tell you that, too. It's done to meet the government-mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standards. Basically, an automotive manufacturer has to meet the CAFE standards with its entire fleet. For example, in 2017 that across-the-fleet number will be 36.6 mpg. In 2025 it will be 54.5 mpg. Now, in order for the OEs to meet these numbers, the companies have to offset the sales of more popular, less fuel-efficient V-8 cars and trucks with much smaller, less popular vehicles that get much better fuel economy, such as an electric or hybrid vehicle. So yes, the land of the free and home of the brave government is essentially forcing the automotive companies to sell fuel-efficient vehicles, quite often at a loss, so the companies can build and sell what Americans really want and need—large, less fuel-efficient trucks.
Anyway, as I was stewing on all this I received a news release about the new Nissan Titan being offered with the Cummins 5.0L V-8 engine. The Nissan Cummins is said to produce a torque rating in the mid-500s (lb-ft) with more than 300 horsepower. Earlier this year Ram announced its own ½-ton diesel truck with a 3.0-liter V-6 EcoDiesel punching out 240hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. Both engines will surely provide better fuel economy than a traditional V-8 gas engine, yet they are very different powertrain solutions for different customer needs. Nissan is clearly aiming for incredible power and towing torque where Ram is aiming for ultimate fuel economy. Will the Cummins-powered Nissan Titan be able to keep its ½-ton frame, suspension, transmission, and axles in one piece? Will the EcoDiesel Ram make enough power to haul the heavy loads demanded of its customers? We'll get behind the wheels of both trucks as soon as possible to get those answers. In the meantime, Ford, GM, and Toyota have some catching up to do. With all of the record sales numbers and advanced powertrain technology emerging in the light-truck segment, it sure is going to be an interesting ½-ton-truck fist-fight over the next couple of years.


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NEW ORLEANS — As this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival's detailed lineup was released Tuesday, a month before the gates open, organizers said they are energized and expecting to build on last year's growth in attendance.
"Last year's festival was really special," festival producer Quint Davis said at a news conference. "It was the first to show attendance going up a notch. We came out of last year with tremendous momentum and after 44 years to be relevant and growing is a tremendous accomplishment."
He added, "This year's festival has reinvigorated and reignited people and the anticipation has taken off again and that's exciting that people are still energized about going to the festival."
That's thanks in part to a lineup over seven days with more than 80 acts on 12 stages including Billy Joel, Jill Scott, Fleetwood Mac, B.B. King, Frank Ocean, Maroon 5, Gary Clark Jr., Earth, Wind and Fire, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Aaron Neville.
"There is no other festival that really is as broad as this, that's as deep as this, as indigenous as this, and as close to the community as this is," Davis said.
The festival, April 26-28 and May 2-5, released the coveted schedule "cubes," which show what acts are playing when and where.
"Today is the day that the festival really is defined ... by the unequaled talent of New Orleans because today, with the cubes, you see the shows on each stage," Davis said. "And for every so-called national guest there's a New Orleans equal and New Orleans match. No other city and no other festival can match that."
Davis urged fans to dig deep into the schedule to find the "nuggets and gems" and get beyond the festival's surface.
"I mean, I can't wait for Kermit Ruffins and B.B. King," Davis said, "but as you look through your cubes, think about each day, because nowhere else has this level of talent. Dig deep. There are little things buried everywhere like Earth, Wind and Fire in discussion on the Allison Minor stage and The Selvy singers in the gospel tent."
Davis also showed off the 2013 jazz fest poster created by artist James Michalopoulos and featuring Aaron Neville as well as the 2013 Congo Square poster featuring Buckwheat Zydeco created by R. Gregory Christie.
In addition, the festival will spotlight Native American culture, musical talent, crafts and food. "Our celebration will require a reconfiguration of the festival layout. The entire center of the festival, from the flag pole to the food booths, will be turned into a Native American environment, a village if you will," he said.
He singled out native American flue player Robert Mirabal and a Canadian group, A Tribe Called Red — electronic music DJs who do Native American chants over the music.
"It's really a festival within a festival and one of the greatest Native American exhibits that we've very put together," he said.
The Dirty Dozen brass band, which plays the festival on the second weekend, provided music for Tuesday's news conference. Hasting Stewart, a spokesman for Shell's Deep Water division, the festival's presenting sponsor, and members of the New Orleans City Council also were on hand.
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The Tao of Being A Technology ExecutiveBy Sheldon Laube | Posted 2001-10-29 Print
It starts with knowing you aren't the only intelligent life in the universe. It ends with an ability to inspire.
The greatest challenge you face as a technology manager in a large enterprise is that most of what you do is damn invisible. It's like a lot of house repairs: You fix the plumbing, you do the foundation, you spend $100,000—and everything looks the same.
IT management is a lot like that; half the time, nobody knows you've done anything. The simple fact that you kept it all working, from a technical perspective, is a miracle. It's like, Holy Toledo!—we made it through another day and nothing happened.
To be a great technology manager, I believe you have to have done it at some level. Otherwise, you have no way of distinguishing what's hard from what's easy. That's the rub—the things you know should be easy are hard, and things that seem hard, turn out to be really easy. If you can't make those judgments, you're not going to have the respect of the people who work for you.
Ray Ozzie is the best technology manager I've ever known. Ray was at Iris, working on Notes when I met him, and I was at Price Waterhouse as director of information and technology. Ray was incredibly inspirational and deeply technical—he was up in the stratosphere. But he wasn't just a brilliant technical guy; he was someone who could aggregate and motivate and build teams of people. Very few people can balance that.
Being able to inspire isn't important just for people who run high-tech startups, like Groove (where Ray is now), or CenterBeam, where I work. It's something every CIO has to do. You have to shape what your people are doing as a breakthrough, even if it's actually dull as dishwater. Because that's an inherent desire of all technical people: They want to participate. But not everyone can be the lead architect of Windows XP.
I got some of my best advice about managing from a college adviser I had, the famous computer scientist Edward L. Glaser. It was 1968, and I had just started a programming company with my roommate. My adviser, Mr. Glaser, said, "Just assume that other people aren't as smart as you—take that as a given. You still can't accomplish anything big on your own—the only way you can do anything big is through the work of others." Of course, only a fool goes through life believing he is the smartest guy around. But Mr. Glaser knew the conceits of youth—he knew how to talk to a 17-year-old.
Even with that advice, my worst mistakes have all come from thinking I knew it all.
I was running technology at a little company called the Consumer Financial Institute in Boston when the first IBM PC came out in 1981. We had an IBM mainframe and a Unix machine—which I thought was the greatest thing. I was convinced the PC would never be anything more than a game machine—that the technological purity of Unix would win out. Because of that, we didn't embrace the PC for far too long.
My other big miss came in the early days of the Web. I was the CTO of a startup Internet company, and to save costs at a conference, we decided to share the platform with some other company. So this kid gets up and starts talking about his idea. He has this company that lets you do garage sales on the Web. And I'm absolutely mortified. I can't believe I've got to get up on the stage after him. It's an embarrassment to have to share the stage with some guy doing garage sales.
Of course, that kid was Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay and now a billionaire. And there it is. It happens to you over and over in life.
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The daughter of TV and radio legend Casey Kasem is adamant her father has been "kidnapped" by his wife and is planning to file a missing persons report by Wednesday.
On Monday, a Los Angeles judge ordered an investigation into the whereabouts of 82-year-old Kasem, who suffers from advanced Parkinson's disease and can no longer speak, after an attorney for Jean claims he has "no idea" where the entertainer is, except that he is no longer in America.
Kasem's daughter Kerri, who has been seeking a temporary conservatorship, was appointed her father's caretaker on Monday, and is taking the necessary steps to file a missing persons report for her dad, whom she believes might be at a Native American reservation in Washington state.
A statement from the family reads: "Adult Protective Services, the courts and family are currently looking for Mr. Kasem. As soon as the paper work for the conservatorship is done, Kerri Kasem will file a missing persons report, which should be done by tomorrow morning. Thereby allowing the FBI and local law enforcement to get involved."
Kerri, who has claimed that Jean has refused her and her siblings access to their father, tells the New York Daily News that she's extremely concerned for her father's health.
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The main ingredients in this cake are German's sweet chocolate, coconut and pecans. It's quite rich, and the "Kraft Kitchen Tips" on the recipe I followed had me laughing.
- "This beloved and classic 3-layer cake is the perfect choice for a special occasion. Plan ahead and eat accordingly before enjoying a slice of this cake."
- "Enjoy this rich, classic BAKER'S recipe. A small amount goes a long way so keep tabs on portions."
Having never made a layer cake before, I consulted The New Best Recipe by America's Test Kitchen because I love their step-by-step illustrations. Here are some tips I found helpful on pages 848-853.
Parchment Rounds -
- Trace the bottom of your cake pan roughly in the center of a sheet of parchment paper. Fold the traced circle in half and then in half again, then cut just inside the outline of the quarter circle. The resulting rounds of parchment will exactly fit in your pan.
Portioning Layers -
- To ensure that you put equal amounts of batter in each cake pan, use a kitchen scale to measure the weight of each filled pan.
Frosting Layer Cakes -
- To anchor the cake, spread a dab of frosting in the center of a cardboard cake circle. Center the first layer of cake on the cardboard, bottom-side down.
- To frost, place a large blob of frosting in the center of the cake and spread it to edges with an icing spatula. Push the filling into place, as opposed to scraping it.
- Using a second cardboard circle, slide the second cake layer, bottom-side up (place the cardboard on top of the cake layer and flip it), on top of the frosted bottom layer, making sure the layers are aligned. Then, press the cake firmly into place.
While browsing online for German chocolate cake recipes, I came across a photo I liked on Joy of Baking, and decorated the top of my cake in a similar fashion. I recommend pulling out the most intact pecan halves before chopping them for the frosting.
2-Layer German Chocolate Cake
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients (16 servings)
- 4 oz package German's Sweet Chocolate
- 1/2 cup water
- 4 eggs, separated
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 egg yolks
- 6 oz evaporated milk
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1 1/3 cups (3.5 oz) sweetened coconut
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans (5oz package, if you want to decorate with pecan halves)
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Cover bottom of two (9-inch) round pans with parchment paper and spray sides with cooking spray. To cut parchment rounds, trace the bottom of the cake pan on a sheet of parchment paper. Fold the traced circle in half and then cut just inside the outline of the circle.
- Microwave chocolate and water in large microwaveable bowl on high for 1 1/2 minutes, stirring after 1 min. Remove from microwave, and stir until chocolate is completely melted.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt.
- In mixer bowl, beat egg whites on high speed until stiff peaks form, then transfer to a small bowl and set aside.
- Next in the mixer bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Then add melted chocolate and vanilla, mixing until incorporated.
- Next add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating until well blended after each addition. Finally add egg whites, stirring gently until well blended and then pour into prepared pans.
- Bake 30 minutes or until cake tester inserted in centers comes out clean. Remove from oven to wire racks, and immediately run a small spatula around cakes in pans.
- Leave cakes in pans and cool for 15 minutes, then remove from pans to wire racks. Cool completely.
- Spread coconut-pecan frosting between cake layers and on top of cake, leaving the sides exposed.
- In a large saucepan, add egg yolks, milk and vanilla. Then whisk until well blended.
- Add sugar and butter, then cook over medium heat for 12 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat, then add coconut and pecans. Mix well.
- Cool to desired spreading consistency.
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Sam's Club
Frequently, a bakery will receive a kit of plastic flotsam to construct a cakey character. This past week, the character of choice has been dear old Uncle Sam. Or at least, I think it has.
I was unaware that Uncle Sam had access to my grandfather's closet:
Here Uncle Sam stars (and stripes) in "Red, White, and You!: A Musical"
Sweet Betsy Ross' ghost, are those cannonballs in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Ug, I can't look at these wretched CCC's any longer. I need to see a real cake that actually looks somewhat like the famous personification of our Federal Government, Uncle Sam. C'mon, bakers!
You know, Asia P, Shelley B., Kayla T., Jordan J., and Beckie, that last cake could also be rock guitarist Buckethead, famous for shredding out tunes while sporting a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on his head. Hey, I smell a conspiracy! Or maybe just too much icing...


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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
What to do with ARCs?
Kelly at Stacked on the line between Blogger and Librarian
Kelly also has a great post about the ethics of what to do with ARCs and selling them (which is unethical-I agree!)
Jennie at BiblioFile on greediness at conferences
Colleen at Chasing Ray on "Winning ALA"
April at Good Books and Good Wine on Professionalism and Blogging
Since there's been some discussion about ARCs, I thought I would share about what I do with ARCs. Most I get by attending ALA, but I also have built my blog up after four years of blogging that I am sent books from publishers as well. Not a lot, but enough to provide a good TBR pile. (Plus add in all my library books, books I buy and books I already have owned and I have a very large, ever growing TBR pile!!) I didn't start my blog with ARCs and I actually didn't start receiving ARCs until about two years into my blogging. I still feel weird about requesting a book from a publisher because I know I already have a million other books to read and I don't need to read it right now-I can wait until it comes out! So what do I do with the ARCs I do receive?
A few years ago, I attended my first ALA. It was overwhelming, and yes, it was easy to come back with a car full of books (that's the downside to driving-more space for swag!) I had noticed that attendance in our Teen Library Council was down and the teens were really interested in discussing books. So I made a galley check out list for the teens and if they attended TLC, they could "check out" an ARC from the YA Office. In return, they had to fill out a short review form. They could have three a month, and then each meeting they'd tell me what they liked, didn't like, who they would recommend the book to, should we buy it, etc. This was a great way to get feedback from the teens and it was the incentive the teens needed to attend TLC Meetings. It also worked well because I had some teens who had fines on their library cards and weren't allowed to check books out because they were over the limit, so the ARCs gave them a way to still get books from the library.
Word also got around to my co-workers that I had a stash of ARCs and if there was a popular book the staff wanted to read, they would pass it around and build buzz. This was a great way to get staff reading YA and it also kept the hold list lower because staff wasn't having to place holds on the book, freeing library copies up for patrons. We passed around an ARC of Divergent after the teens read it and loved it and it was so great to see my library staff talking up a YA book with each other and with the patrons who would come in looking for a new book to read.
Most ARCs didn't stand up well-after about three teens borrowed it, it would be falling apart (ARCs are not nicely bound copies so they are not meant to wear well). The ones that fell apart we would recycle. The ones that were still in good condition would sometimes be prizes and most would get donated.. My teens also love doing Read-A-Thons and I provide prizes for these events, some of which are ARCs so they can leave with a new book to read. I also use ARCs as prizes if we have a special program-like if we're doing a zombie program and I have an ARC about zombies, I'll give it as a prize.
After the teens have had a chance to read them and I've used some as prizes, I donate the ARCs. ARCs can not be sold and should not be sold to used book stores. They are also not supposed to make their way onto library shelves as part of the collection. So where can you donate them?
I donate mine to a Teen Crisis Organization in my hometown that works to help homeless teens, teens caught in domestic violence, and teens needing a safe place to go for respite care. When my mom delivered the boxes of ARCs-and some finished copies I had, the workers were so amazed that someone would think of them and their services to teens. This is an organization that doesn't get a lot of people thinking of them and donating them. These are teens who need books and may never have a chance to have a book of their own and now they can.
My mom also told me about a local juvenile court judge in her area that has bookcases in his courtroom. As he sees each case, he encourages the kids and teens to take a book from the shelf and keep it. She inquired about how they get books to put on the shelf and they come from donation, so I've started donating my ARCs and other books I want to clear off my shelves to this judges bookshelf.
And last, I donate some books to local teachers who are struggling to maintain a classroom set of books to encourage their students to read during free reading time. These teachers have no budget and are often purchasing books from their own personal funds to get their students to read.
There are lots of ways to donate your ARCs if you have them. And if you don't have an ARC, guess what? It's OK. The book will come out and you can check it out from your library. You'll still get a chance to read it. But if you have ARCs, think about donating them to someone in need-you'll make their day and you'll feel good about sharing the joy of reading.
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I really, really like the idea of donating to teen crisis centers. A lot. I'm going to have to investigate if my community has something similar. Most of the ARCs I have left have been picked through by my teens and are ready for new homes.ReplyDelete
Funny you should bring this up. My husband and I were with some friends wandering around Half Price Books. I spotted several ARCs on the shelves. (I didn't say anything to the employees.)My husband came over to me with an ARC to buy. He knew what it was, that was the appeal to him... the fact that there are few copies out there. He paid $8 for it. Even though it clearly stated on the front cover NOT FOR SALE.ReplyDelete
I still didn't say anything to them because I would have embarrassed my husband and our friends.
Sarah-Me too. I'd rather donate them to a place like that that doesn't often get thought of when it comes to donations and they really want to provide for the teens.ReplyDelete
YA Reader-I've seen some ARCs in Half Price Books before as well. It drives me crazy, since it so obviously says "not for sale" on the cover. Plus, I can't believe they would sell it for that much when it's not even a finished book!
Teen Crisis center is brilliant. I use to donate to an organization like that one. GREAT post.ReplyDelete
I use them (mostly the ones I get from BEA) for summer reading prizes. and the teens enjoy them. Sometimes they're even signedReplyDelete
I give some to other librarians and I pass others along to family members.
When I volunteered at a juvenile detention center in college, they weren't allowed to have hardcover books in the center (weapon potential), so that's an area that definitely need ARCs so the teens there can read newer releases.ReplyDelete
I use to donate the few ARCs I received to my public library thinking they would make great giveaway prizes for their reading program but found out that they really don't want them. Instead I pass them onto school librarians who have their own TAB-like boards as well as to charity organizations.ReplyDelete
I'm always appalled whenever I see ARCs on sale at a library used book sale!
Juju-Thanks! I have to give my mom the credit for thinking of it!:)ReplyDelete
YABookNerd-If I have signed ones, those always make great prizes.
Katie-Yes-that's a great idea! I've seen posts on the YALSA listserv about that and paperbacks are all they can have.
Rummanah-Me too! That's why I started putting a sticker on my ARCs that I loan out to the teens that says "Please return to the teen librarian" and the library name and my name. I've also highlighted the sticker in bright yellow-can't be missed! More of them get returned instead of dropped into the bookdrop that way.
I donated most of the ARC's that I got from BEA to my library. They gave them away to teens that attended their Teen Book Fest. I love giving them away to libraries because they are so grateful. I still do giveaways from time to time on my blog, but have stopped a lot of that because I just can't afford to do that much shipping.ReplyDelete
My middle-school level ARCs go to my teacher friends to supplement their classroom libraries for silent reading. The kids love finding the mistakes in the books, apparently, and think it's "awesome" they can read something before it comes out.ReplyDelete
SO MANY GREAT IDEAS HERE. I love Stacked and I thought Kelly has done a great job of talking about ARC issues. You just gave me TONS of great ideas for what to do with ARCs if/when I ever get some of my own :)ReplyDelete
I have a coworker whose husband works at a detention center as a psychiatrist. I give hime my ARC's to put in their library and/or to give to the teens.ReplyDelete
AWESOME post! I am in the process of cleaning up my bookshelves and I have a few ARCs that need new homes. I do not know if my local library will have use of them, but I would not have considered a teen crisis center! I will have to check all these other suggestions out :)ReplyDelete
I love how you use your ARCs. Great ideas, especially the thoughtful donations.
As an author, I seethe when I see people selling ARCs. It is unethical . . . especially when there are innovative ways to use them so well.
All best,
There are so many children who don't have their own books that it's great to donate them somewhere. Great minds think alike-- I posted about this on the same day! And if I haven't said it already, I love the green and orange background. I'm a bit jealous!ReplyDelete
I've followed your blog for a few years now and I've always been impressed by the ways you share books, ideas and inspirations for reading. The teens are lucky to have you for their librarian!ReplyDelete
I've never attended any of the book conferences (although I hope to!) and we don't have any bookstores within an hour of us so my library has always been very important to me and I'm there every week. I do get ARCs sometimes to review on my book blog and when I'm done with them I always pass them on and have never, ever sold one. I give them to someone I know, to my library or I host a contest on my blog. I do that with many of the books that I've won also. My TBR pile is large and I'm not getting through it as fast as I'd like but I'm happy to share them once I finally finish them. Thanks for a great post!
I love hearing about what everyone does with ARCs. It can be a tricky thing to follow. I also love that there's so much library love in the comments-you guys are awesome!:)ReplyDelete


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Experts suspect new Dead Sea Scroll fragments are fake
American Steve Green, the evangelical Christian heir to the Hobby Lobby craft chain fortune and the force behind the Museum of the Bible, an endeavor Newsweek covered earlier this year, has spent millions on the new finds. One fragment sold to the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary conveniently refers to the biblical prohibition against homosexuality in the Book of Leviticus.
The problem is, experts suspect many of these sensational and pricy new fragments are expertly crafted fakes. For example, the fragment references passages in Leviticus 18 and 20 that contain the two strongest condemnations of homosexuality in the Bible. Such a strong coincidence is a flag of fakery.
"It is extremely unlikely that a small Dead Sea Scroll fragment would preserve text from both chapters" of Leviticus, says religion scholar Arstein Justnes, at University of Agder in Norway, who called the new fragments "amateurish" imitations that seem to have been copied from modern textbooks about the scrolls. "I think this fragment was produced for American evangelicals."


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