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This Week's Corrupt Cops Storiesby Phillip Smith
Aug. 28, 2013
Italian Prosecutor: Wiretaps Reveal NGOs Working With Human Smugglers to Flood Italy
Trump: "I'm a Nationalist and a Globalist"
French Mayor Found Guilty Of Incitement For Saying 91% Muslim Classrooms Are a 'Problem'
Red Bull Founder Starting New Conservative Media Outlet
Bill Nye Show: White People Need to Stop Using 'Asian Wallpaper,' Ruined Yoga With 'Their Lululemon Hands'
Two Texas cops lose their jobs, a California jail guard gets busted at the playground, a Tennessee sheriff's lieutenant cops to slinging pain pills, and an Arizona Customs officer is headed for the pen. Let's get to it:
In Blue Mound, Texas, one Blue Mound police officer was fired and another resigned Monday after they were accused of tipping off the mayor that his name had been mentioned in a drug investigation. The mayor has denied any drug involvement, but his name came up during an investigation into drug sales at a local business by the Tarrant County Drug Task Force. Task force members tried unsuccessfully four times to purchase drugs at the business. Officer Robin Wall told Officer Fred Jepsen a task force member had asked him if he had ever seen the mayor going into the business, and Jepsen then informed the mayor, who promptly called the deputy chief of police to tell him one of his officers was divulging information about an investigation. Jepesen resigned his position and Wall was fired.
In Merced, California, a Merced County jail guard was arrested last Friday not for smuggling drugs into the jail, but for selling drugs to a minor. Officer Micha Justin Imler, 34, is charged with selling to a minor on or near a school's grounds. Three other suspects were arrested on similar charges at the same time. Imler is on paid administrative leave pending a full investigation.
In Knoxville, Tennessee, a former Cocke County sheriff's lieutenant pleaded guilty last Tuesday to peddling pain pills. Richard Caldwell, a former lieutenant and shift supervisor with the Sheriff's Office, pleaded guilty to delivery of the Schedule III controlled substance hydrocodone. Caldwell went down after an FBI investigation two years ago showed he was involved in illicit prescription drug distribution. Under his plea agreement, he will be sentenced to two years in prison in October.
In Tucson, Arizona, a former Customs and Border Protection officer was sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison for allowing loads of marijuana to enter the US. Luis Carlos Vasquez let the loads pass through the lane he monitored at the Douglas, Arizona, port of entry. Prosecutors had sought 19 years; the defense argued for the mandatory minimum five years.


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Russian men losing years to vodka
Geege Schuman stashed this in Russia
Stashed in: Alcohol!, Drugs!, Russia and Friends, Alcohol, Vodka!
The risk of dying before age 55 for those who said they drank three or more half-litre bottles of vodka a week was shocking 35%.
Overall, a quarter of Russian men die before reaching 55, compared with 7% of men in the UK and fewer than 1% in the United States. The life expectancy for men in Russia is 64 years, placing it among the lowest 50 countries in the world in that category.
It is not clear how many Russian men drink three bottles or more a week. Lead researcher Sir Richard Peto of Oxford University said the average Russian adult drank 20 litres of vodka per year while the average Briton drank about three litres of spirits.
"Russians clearly drink a lot but it's this pattern of getting really smashed on vodka and then continuing to drink that is dangerous," Peto said.
"The rate of men dying prematurely in Russia is totally out of line with the rest of Europe," he said. "There's also a heavy drinking culture in Finland and Poland but they still have nothing like Russia's risk of death."
I am coining the term "potato widow" right here, right now.
If only they would smoke marijuana instead of drinking vodka, they would add years to their lives.
Russia also uses 21% of the heroin yearly, the largest amount of any single country. Something is not right over there.
It took me a year, but I'm doing a double take.
I guess that makes Afghanistan strategic to Russia, doesn't it?

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TLE Personal Harvest Stashes to Get a Boost
The EQ2 team are slowly unlocking various creature comforts on the Time-Locked Expansion servers, including a few fluff Marketplace items, while Veteran Rewards and XP/Vitality potions currently remain off-limits. Some of these items were the subject of an in-game poll.
One of the items that got the thumbs up from players were Personal Harvest Depots/Stashes for player housing (Guild Halls remain unavailable, possibly forever). Players were disappointed at the status cost and the very limited number of slots (30) stored by the 1,000 DBC ($10) item. Fortunately, we can expect an improvement to these items.
From Caith on the EQ2 Forums:
We'll be upping the numbers on the harvest depots in the next hotfix, at the same time as removing the errant status and rent increase on them.
There will also be new depots with the current capacity made available, appropriately priced.


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after a car accident that was deemed my fault , my insurance company is asking me to sign an affidavit on which one question was how much are your assets over $5,000.Do I have to give this information and what kind of lawyer do I need? My insurance company is saying the injured party's lawyer is asking for this.
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If you have low insurance limits them you should talk with a local personal injury attorney because your insurance company has a good faith duty to settle the claim within your policy limits.
Good luck.
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I would strongly suggest that you contact an attorney as soon as possible to assess your situation and protect your rights.Ask a similar question
The injured parties attorney wants to know about your assets because most likely your insurance company has tendered your policy limits and the attorney wants to know whether you have any assets that would make it worthwhile for him (his client) to pursue you for an amount above your policy limit. Basically, he wants to make a determination as to whether or not you are judgment proof.
Definitely consult an attorney about the questions that they are asking you to answer and if you get clearance to answer the questions, answer them truthfully. The plaintiffs attorney is only doing his job in asking these questions. If she does not ask these questions and it turns out that you have assets that she could have attached had she pursued and won a lawsuit, then she would have committed legal malpractice. It is a double-edged sword for you. If you refuse to answer these questions and she feels that you have assets, then she may file a lawsuit against you to discover these same facts during the discovery process. Again, do not answer ANY questions until you have gotten clearance from an attorney.Ask a similar question
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AssyriaVision KBSV Channel 23 is now broadcasting in 5 more California cities on the local cable. ComCast cable's expansion went into effect on April 5, 2005 benefiting the cities of Newman, Crowslanding, Grayson, Patterson, and Merced.
In addition, AssyriaVision will soon be added to the DirecTV Satellite Network, as per FCC's regulation for "must carry channels".
AssyriaVision encourages residents of other U.S cities and States to draw a petition requesting their local cable companies to add the AssyriaVision KBSV channel 23's signal to their cable.
The staff of AssyriaVision and AssyriaSat will not rest until every Assyrian in the world has access to this educational media which protects, preserves, and promotes the Assyrian identity, language, culture, and values, as well as defends the Assyrians' human, national, and political rights in Iraq and Diaspora.


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Looking for a babysitter to come to my home to watch my 16 month old! We live in a good neighborhood and would like for him to stay at our house! We are aboutbfo3 start potty training him. He loves being out doors and loves to play! Looking for someone to look after him and care for him while we are... More
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Pontiac Problems? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
Hello, Eddie here and I will do my best to help. Is the security light flashing with key ON? or are you getting a security message? There is no way to bypass it actually. It's wired into the ECM. so it kills fuel injector pulse. it's fairly sophisticated system to keep a thief from stealing the car. Are you sure it's the immobilizer as to the reason it won't start? have you checked for codes by chance? Let us know, Thank you.
I follow you, is the security light blinking? with the key on? or have you checked codes by chance? Do you have just 1 key for this vehicle or is there a spare key somewhere you can try as well?
I follow you, I hate to be the bearer of bad news on this one, but, if it's an immobilizer problem, You will have to check the codes first, and depending on what code is stored, you will need to fault trace the system to properly diagnose it. It's likely either the transceiver, or the key itself. I really wish you had another spare key to try, but since you don't, we can't rule out the key transponder itself as being the culprit. You can try this, in case the TDM (Theft deterrent module) has lost key memory, maybe trying this programming procedure might work. First thing to do, unhook the negative battery cable for about 5 minutes, then reinstall the cable, close all doors and hood and trunk, put the key in the door and lock and unlock the drivers door a few times, see if that helps, that should reset the alarm system if that is the culprit. If that doesn't help, try these instructions.
If none of those suggestions help, Then I would suggest contacting a mobile locksmith in your area. Tell him what make model vehicle you have, and likely they can send someone out to either replace the transceiver, or program you another key. Most of them have invested in the equipment necessary to perform these operations on newer vehicles. And they will be much less than a dealer. Let me know if you have any further questions. Thank you.


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To further the HWA's focus on education, we are devoting a significant part of our programming to a curriculum run by some of the best and brightest in the horror field. Horror University is a series of workshops and presentations offered at StokerCon2017 on The Queen Mary in Long Beach CA.
Horror University workshops are hands-on, intensive, two-hour classes.
Would you like to apply for The Scholarship From Hell? The application period will open on February 1st, 2017 and run until March 15, 2017. For more information, please go to The Scholarship from Hell page. The winner of The Scholarship From Hell will receive coach airfare (U.S. or Canada) to and from Long Beach CA, a 4 night stay at The Queen Mary, free registration to StokerCon2017 and as many workshops as you'd like to attend! Be sure to follow us on Facebook or Twitter so you don't miss out!
Friday April 28 11am-1pm Royal Salon
Gretchen McNeil: Character-Driven Plotting and the 3-Act Horror Novel
Have you read Save the Cat? Have you poured over Story? Can you quote passages from The Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Writer's Journey, and Story Engineering? Are you looking for a new approach to plot? If your answer to these questions is "YES" then Gretchen McNeil would love to introduce you to Constantin Stanislavski. Known as the godfather of modern acting techniques, Stanislavski's approach to character reaches far beyond the acting stage. Gretchen will demonstrate how she uses Stanislavski's fundamental questions, super-imposed upon 3-Act Structure, to plot her young adult horror novels. The class includes a lecture, exercises and a crowd-sourced plot demonstration.
Gretchen McNeil is an opera singer, writer and clown. Her YA horror Possess about a teen exorcist debuted with Balzer + Bray for HarperCollins in 2011. Gretchen's follow up Ten – YA horror/suspense about ten teens trapped on a remote island with a serial killer – was a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, a Romantic Times Top Pick, a Booklist Top Ten Horror Fiction for Youth, a finalist for Washington state's 2015 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award and Vermont's 2014-2015 Green Mountain Book Award, and was nominated for "Best Young Adult Contemporary Novel of 2012" by Romantic Times. In 2013, she released 3:59, a sci-fi doppelganger horror about two girls who are the same girl in parallel dimensions who decide to switch places. In 2014, Gretchen debuted her first series, Don't Get Mad, also with Balzer + Bray. Get Even and Get Dirty follow four very different girls who form a secret society where they get revenge on bullies and mean girls at their elite prep school. Relic was released March 8, 2016 and I'm Not your Manic Pixie Dream Girl, a YA contemporary novel will be out in the fall. Gretchen's novels have been optioned by Hollywood production companies, and have sold internationally in Chinese, Spanish and Turkish.
Friday April 28 9am-11am Queen's Salon
Jonathan Maberry: Act Like a Writer
The writer is the brand. The writer is the face and voice of his/her business. Successful writers know how to create a brand that both sells their product but also protects their privacy. Act Like A Writer is one of NY Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry's most successful programs. It teaches writers –however reclusive or introverted they might be– how to create the public version of themselves so that their careers have a winning and manageable face. This program includes business etiquette, branding, public appearances, readings, how to be a good panelist, giving interviews and more.
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, and comic book writer. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action, for adults, teens and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger Thrillers, X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate, Mars One and many others. Several of his works are in development for film and TV. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies including The X-Files, V-Wars, Scary Out There, Out of Tune, Baker Street Irregulars, Nights of the Living Dead, and others. He lives in Del Mar, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com
Saturday April 29 11am-1pm Royal Salon (Sold Out)
Jack Ketchum: Writing from Experience, Writing from the Wound
Writing from Experience, Writing from the Wound is an exploration of using your darkest secrets and fears, along with your past experiences, to bring them to life in your work.
Jack Ketchum is the author of 32 books to date — novels, novellas, story collections, nonfiction, plays and poetry. Five of his novels have been filmed – The Lost, The Girl Next Door, Red, Offspring, and The Woman – the last written with Lucky McKee, their script for which won the Best Screenplay Award at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain. He is the four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award (R) from the Horror Writers Association and was nominated three times more. He was named Grand Master at the 2011 World Horror Convention. He lives in New York. Visit his website for more information: http://
Saturday April 29 3pm-5pm Royal Salon
Linda Addison: Scary Forms: The World of Structured Poetry for All Writers
Scary Forms: The World of Structured Poetry for All Writers is a workshop to play with the different constructs of poetry (haiku, sonnet, villanelles, free verse, etc.) to hear variations of 'music' that can add to your own creative voice. We will explore several poetry forms and their rules to understand how they are created. Some time will be available for attendees to practice writing.
Linda Addison is an award-winning author of four collections including How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend and the first African-American recipient of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®. She has published over 300 poems, stories and articles and is a member of CITH, HWA, SFWA and SFPA. Visit her website for more information: www.lindaaddisonpoet.com .
Friday April 28 11am-1pm Queen's Salon
Nicole Cushing: How to Give a Great interview
Author interviews can be a powerful tool to let readers know about your book, your personality and your unique take on your genre. They can also be difficult to do well. How much energy should you spend on an interview for a blog? How long should you make your answers? How comfortable are you with appearing on recorded interviews (whether they're done by audio or video)? Would you ever do an interview that was broadcast live? How does a small press or self-published author get interviewed by venues with large audiences? How can you face your fears of public speaking and give a great interview even if you're scared? Once your interview is complete, how do you promote it so it has the greatest possible impact? Are there ever any interview requests that you should turn down? This workshop will help you answer these questions. It will also include actual practice sessions in simulated blog and in-front-of-a-camera interviews.
Workshop instructor (and Bram Stoker Award winner) Nicole Cushing has been interviewed by Rue Morgue, LitReactor, Black Static, the Lovecraft eZine video chat, Zombiepalooza Radio Live, and more blogs and podcasts than you can shake a stick at. Over her eight years in the field she's developed a successful strategy for interviews that she's more than glad to share with those who attend this workshop.
Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of Mr. Suicide. She has also written the Stoker-nominated short story collection The Mirrors and three stand-alone novellas (including her Shirley Jackson Award nominated book Children of No One). Her work is noted for its use of horrific, surreal, transgressive and absurd content to explore themes of alienation and loss. Readers and reviewers sometimes liken her books to the early work of Clive Barker. They are not for the easily disturbed. She has garnered praise from various sources in the literary and genre publishing communities, including Jack Ketchum, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Thomas Ligotti, John Skipp, S.T. Joshi, Poppy Z. Brite, Ray Garton and Ain't It Cool News. Nicole has previously taught writing workshops at Context (Columbus, Ohio) and the Indianapolis Speculative Fiction Guild's annual retreat. For more information, visit her website: www.nicolecushing.com
Saturday April 29 11am-1pm Royal Salon
Joe Nassise: Story Engines
Write better stories faster with this workshop on the art of structuring your novel. Students will learn the four key phases and three game changing moments of story structure and then will work to develop a new concept, beginning with an initial premise and ending with a working outline they can use to prep a new project. Focus will be on creating a purposeful structure that will provide a powerful emotional experience and deepen reader satisfaction overall.
Joseph Nassise is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than a thirty novels, including the Templar Chronicles series, the Jeremiah Hunt trilogy, and the Great Undead War series. He also writes epic fantasy under the name Matthew Caine.
In addition to being a novelist, Joe is currently a writing instructor at Arizona State University, where he teaches in the Your Novel Year program developed by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. He is a former president of the Horror Writers Association and a multiple Bram Stoker Award (R) and International Horror Guild Award nominee. Visit his website: http://josephnassise.com
Friday April 28 5pm-7pm Royal Salon
John Skipp: How to Write Like a Scenarist (And Adapting to Stage, Screen and Comics)
Vivid scenes are tricky. John Skipp's new workshop focuses on how to inhabit scenes with a sense of you-are-thereness. Grounding them from the inside. Feeling the world through their skin. And then making it "playable," for actors and comic characters alike!
Our written assignment is a story or scene in first person, using a pre-described scenario. From there, we'll do exercises from live dialogue readings to situational role-play to "casting" your characters. Fun will be had. And tricks will be shared, for all students of human (and non-human) moves.
John Skipp is a New York Times bestselling novelist, two-time Stoker award-winning anthologist, and co-director (with Andrew Kasch and a host of others) on the feature film Tales of Halloween. A born troublemaker and compulsive collaborator, his early work was at the forefront of the '80's splatterpunk revolution. His 1989 anthology Book of the Dead laid the foundation for modern post-Romero zombie literature. And he continues to inspire and foment insurrection as acquiring editor for Eraserhead (bizarro), Deadite (cult horror), and his own Fungasm Press, dedicated to works of unclassifiable genre-breaking asskickitude. You can read his thoughts on the state of the art in his regular column, Nightmare Royale, at Fangoria.com, where he is noisily advocating for the noble cause of "Women In Horror Century". He also loves teaching in the crash course format, and, as a multi-instrumentalist, can jam all night. His latest book is a solo short story collection, The Art of Horrible People. Follow him on Twitter @YerPalSkipp
Friday April 28 3pm-5pm Royal Salon
Josh Finney / Kat Rocha: Writing for Comics and Graphic Novels
Hosted by writer/artist Josh Finney (World War Kaiju, Casefile: ARKHAM, Batmant Giantsize 80) and Editor in Chief/artist Kat Rocha. This workshop will walk writers through the process of thinking visually when writing a script for a graphic novel or comic. Creators will be encouraged to come up with a story and then try to fit that story into premade comic pages. We will analyze scripts from some of the medium's finest creators and discuss how to talk to your artist to best communicate what you want from them.
Kat Rocha began her publishing career as a collaborating artist on such graphic projects as Titanium Rain for Archaia Studio Press and a Catwoman stand alone story in Batman 80pg Giant for DC Comics and She produced numerous concept designs for Spartan Games and has had work featured in Interzone magazine.
In 2011 Kat founded 01Publishing with the goal of producing the best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror of both prose and graphic story telling without the crutch of a "safe space." 01Publishing's catalog of books have received acclaim from the Huffington Post, SF Signal, Kirkus Reviews, Innsmouth Free Press, and The Examiner.
Kat Rocha is a founding member of the San Diego chapter of the Horror Writer's Association. Find out more at www.01publishing.com
Josh Finney is an author of horror, gritty sci-fi, and neo-noir. He is 5'6", weighs 155 lbs on a full bladder, and has black hair that is slowly going silver. If someone was to play Josh Finney in a movie of his life, it would be a young Brad Dourif, best known as being the voice of Chucky—although Josh is more akin to Brad's portrayal of the Twisted Mentat Piter De Vries in the film Dune.
If Josh were a beverage, he'd be a cup of scalding coffee. If Josh were a celestial body he'd be a planetoid in the Oort Belt. Josh's best friend is a rodent. He gets his best ideas while in a half-awake state. He eats raw oatmeal. Every day. He listens to music that could be mistaken for a factory collapsing. He's seen ghosts, spontaneous human combustion, and a UFO in broad daylight. One of those prior statements is not true. Josh does not believe in ghosts. The UFO was a silver disc gliding over an Air Force Base. Spontaneous human combustion is impossible.
If you were to break Josh down into his key chemical components he'd be at least 3% coffee. The rest would be piss and vinegar. His atomic number is 60: Neodymium. When Josh throws parties he serves heavy water and yellow cake.
His body of works includes: Batman 80pg Giant, Casefile: Arkham, Titanium Rain, Utopiates, and World War Kaiju.
More information can be found at www.01Publishing.com
Saturday April 29 9am-11am Royal Salon
James Chambers: Picturing Fear: Writing Horror Comics and Graphic Novels
The medium of sequential art offers endless opportunities for great horror stories—but writing comic books and graphic novels is unlike writing for any other medium. Although they share some common ground of visual storytelling with films and television, comics and graphic novels have unique elements of design, characterization, pacing, and creating suspense. Blending words and pictures to tell a story requires an understanding of the storytelling techniques that comprise the "comics vocabulary" and how to use it. Drawing on twenty-five years of editing, writing, and publishing comics, James Chambers will explore the elements of sequential art storytelling, how to break out of the "prose perspective" to tell visual stories, and how to write strong scripts.
James Chambers started in the comics industry writing for Comic Book Collector Magazine (later renamed Combo Magazine), covering the collector's market, writing reviews, and providing features and interviews in the early 1990s. He interviewed creators such as Dan Brereton, Howard Chaykin, Michael Jan Friedman and Rob Liefeld and twice visited the offices of Valiant Comics to interview staff and creators during the company's original heyday. He went on to Tekno*Comics to edit Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe, Isaac Asimov's I*Bots, the graphic novel adaptation of From Dusk Till Dawn, and Leonard Nimoy's Primortals, which he also wrote for several issues, including two special issues co-plotted with Mr. Nimoy. At Tekno, he worked with many top comics creators, including Art Adams, Dan Brereton, Howard Chaykin, Steven Grant, Paul Jenkins, Gil Kane, Jae Lee, George Perez, Walt Simonson, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Kirk Van Wormer and contributed to Tekno's shared worlds which included Neil Gaimain's Lady Justice, Mr. Hero, and Teknophage; Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger, and the Wheel of Worlds. After leaving Tekno, he co-created and wrote The Revenant with artist Pat Broderick, which ran in Shadow House, a critically acclaimed, independent horror comic he co-published, with Christopher Mills, Dan Brereton, Kirk Van Wormer, and Fred Harper. Other projects include the web comic, Tabula Rasa, for Adventurestrips.com, and a four-issue adaptation of a horror screenplay (not yet published) for CinemaGrafix. Most recently he has written the graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, published by Moonstone Books. www.jameschambersonline.com
Friday April 28 1pm-3pm Royal Salon
Tim Waggoner: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Horror
This session presents techniques for creating original, effective horror fiction. Topics covered include:
· The difference between crime, suspense, thriller, and horror.
· The difference between dread, terror, horror, disgust, and shock.
· The horror equivalent of the hero's journey.
· Avoiding clichés.
· Making your horror personal.
· Taking new approaches to old archetypes.
· Avoiding clichéd story patterns.
· What, if any, are the limits in horror fiction?
· How much – or how little – should you reveal?
· Using the techniques of suspense to build horror.
Shirley Jackson Award finalist Tim Waggoner has published over thirty novels and three short story collections. He writes both original and media tie-in fiction, and he teaches creative writing at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. Find out more about him at:http://www.timwaggoner.com/
Thursday April 27 1pm-3pm Queen's Salon
Ace Antonio Hall: Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers
Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers will show you how to take a day-by-day approach to living a healthier lifestyle. You'll learn how to unleash hidden energies that can alleviate stress and disease in your life and improve concentration. Finding time to be more active can help you overcome writer's block and procrastination caused by fatigue. Starting today, you are on your way to doing just that! By adding just fifteen to thirty minutes of physical activities to your day, you not only add years to your life and lower the risk of many common health problems, you'll improve your focus and concentration and make your mind sharper.
Ace Antonio Hall (born July 4th, 1966) is an American urban fantasy and horror writer. He is best known as the creator of Sylva Slasher, a teenage zombie slasher who also raises the dead for police investigations, which includes novels and short story collections. He was born in New York, but grew up in Jacksonville, Florida with his grandmother, Sula G. Wells. He is the youngest son of artist and jazz songwriter, Christopher Hall and RN Alice Hall (Thomas). A former Director of Education for NYC schools and the Sylvan Learning Center, Hall earned a BFA from Long Island University. While teaching English, he studied to be a certified ACE personal trainer with the Equinox Fitness Club one summer, but never pursued it professionally. Hall currently lives in Los Angeles with his bonsai named Bonnie.
Photo by Kate Szatmari
Thursday April 27 5pm-7pm Queen's Salon
Patrick Freivald: Saying More with Less
Writing styles are as varied as writers themselves, but a common complaint among editors and publishers of horror fiction is that writers use too many words to say what they mean to say. This interactive workshop will focus on squeezing every ounce of meaning from each word. Participants should bring a 200-300 word prose sample from a work in progress.
Patrick Freivald is the four-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author of Jade Sky and Black Tide, where he used the word "was" only in dialogue. His now-defunct blog, Word Soup, focused on boiling all the excess words from prose, and his beta reading group were a featured panel at the 2015 World Horror Convention and StokerCon 2016. For more information visit his website: http://patrick.freivald.com/
(Photo credit: Seth Binnix, Messenger-Post Media)
Saturday April 29 1pm-3pm Royal Salon
Sèphera Girón: Tarot Cards and Writing 101
Does the Death card mean death? Is the Lovers card all about hot sex and romance? Does the Hermit card mean you vant to be alone? Tarot cards have been used as a tool for thousands of years to make sense out of our crazy world. However, tarot cards aren't just for divination and self-reflection. You can create interesting characters and plots with the use of tarot cards. Using tarot cards as a creative tool can open up the world of possibilities for your writing project. The cards may help you visualize or discover choices for your characters, settings, and plot that you may not have considered. For this introductory course, you don't need to know anything at all about tarot cards as Sèphera Girón will lead you through a series of exercises. This class will consist of a short introduction to tarot cards, and then will dive right into creating an interesting character, a setting, and then a very basic story plot or chapter description.By the end of the class, you will have a new character, setting, and rough outline of a new story. If you happen to have your own pack of cards, you can bring them in to show the class! Be certain to bring pen and paper or some sort of writing device.
Sèphera Girón is the Ontario Chapter Head of the Horror Writers Association and the author of over twenty horror novels. She has been a professional tarot reader for fifteen years and has given several presentations on how to combine writing with tarot cards. Sèphera has a B.A. from York University in Toronto. Her recent work includes "The Next Big Thing" in Intersections: Six Tales of Ouija Terror and the Witch Upon a Star erotic horror series. Her Leisure books backlist is now being published by Crossroads. Sèphera often posts free weekly tarotscopes at http://www.youtube.com/sephera Other sites: http://sepheragiron.ca http://www.patreon.com/sephera
Thursday April 27 1pm-3pm Royal Salon
Hank Schwaeble: Saying More With Less
Saying More With Less—how to make your (and your characters') words be worth a thousand pictures.
"Omit needless words" is as close to a Prime Directive as we authors get, but how do you as a writer decide what is and isn't needed? In this class I'll focus on tips and techniques for energizing your prose through economy and efficiency, the power of verbs and the huge exception to the rule regarding them, understanding how tight dialogue both establishes and reveals character, how to write action scenes that propel the reader through them, and how understanding the reasons some stories resonate while others fall flat can free you from a tendency to overwrite.
Friday April 28 3pm-5pm Queen's Salon
Jason V. Brock: Take Your Writing to Another Level
Thursday April 27 5pm-7pm Royal Salon
Johnny Worthen: Mistakes Were Made
Concrete advice on tightening your writing from an editor, author and student of the craft. We'll concentrate on specific issues and hot buttons. See what doesn't work. See how to fix it. From passive voice to head-hopping to adverbs and scaffolding, a dense class in modern style to please editors, readers and writers.
Johnny Worthen grew up in the high desert snows and warm summer winds of the Wasatch Mountains. He graduated with a B.A. in English, minor in Classics and a Master's in American Studies from the University of Utah. Johnny is best known for his award winning, nationally acclaimed, best-selling young adult novel, Eleanor, The Unseen. Then you can pick up Celeste, The Unseen Book 2 and know what's going on so you won't be lost when you read David, The Unseen Book 3. Johnny entered the world of mystery with his award winning novel, The Brand Demand, a tale of blackmail, activism, and ethics. He followed that up with The Finger Trap, a genre-bending, coming-of-age, mid-life crisis, social satire, comedy noire (with quiche) that introduces Tony Flaner, a slacker, every-man detective who can't throw a punch but will slay a room with sarcasm. Johnny's debut novel, Beatrysel, an occult horror, and its companion story, Dr. Stuart's Heart explore the dark sides of love and Magick "I write what I like to read," he says. "That guarantees me at least one fan and a hectic job for my publicist." When not pounding on his keyboard, attending conferences and conventions, Johnny Worthen can be found with his wife and two boys in Sandy, Utah.
Saturday April 29 9am-11am Queen's Salon
Michael Arnzen: Making Readers Squirm
This two hour workshop will cover insider tricks and tactics for crafting horror imagery—not just icons of the genre, but direct appeals to the reader's sensorium— images that really hit readers in the guts. It will include a live writing activity with the aim of improving description of a gory or scary scene. Open to novelists, poets, flash fiction writers … anyone looking to sharpen their writing skills—from the crafty suspense writer to anyone eager to "go for the gross out."
Amityville-born horror writer Michael Arnzen holds four Bram Stoker Awards® and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing fiction and poetry. A 10th anniversary edition of his Stoker-award winning story collection, Proverbs for Monsters, was recently re-released by Dark Regions Press to celebrate its 10th Anniversary. Other recent Arnzen titles include his novel, Grave Markings (Raw Dog Screaming Press) a non-fiction study, The Popular Uncanny (Guide Dog Books), and a helpful collection of "story starters" for dark fiction authors called Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side (Mastication Publications). Arnzen holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon and since 1999 has taught full-time at Seton Hill University, near Pittsburgh, in their MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. Always experimenting, Arnzen's work in the genre has appeared in everything from poetry magnets (Fridge of the Damned) to Palm Pilots (Gorelets) to playing cards (Play Dead) to moving pictures (Exquisite Corpse). Learn the latest and sign up for his newsletter: http://gorelets.com
Saturday April 29 11am-1pm Queen's Salon
Tom Leveen: How to Write Awesome Dialog
Author and theater veteran Tom Leveen brings his standing-room-only class on crafting excellent dialogue to StokerCon. Dialogue is often cited as the most difficult aspect of storytelling craft, no matter what format you're writing in. This class includes both long-term craft advice and some quick-and-dirty tricks to make your dialogue stand out.
Tom Leveen is the author of eight novels with imprints of Random House and Simon & Schuster, including the YA horror novels Sick, Hellworld and the thriller Shackled. A twenty-two year veteran of acting and directing for the stage, Tom's passion and excitement for fiction of all kinds shines through in his frequent gigs speaking and teaching at high schools and libraries, as well as several cons and conferences including RWA, SCBWI, AETA, AzLA, Tucson Festival of Books, Vegas Valley Book Fest, Phoenix ComiCon, and many others. He has also teamed up with Todd McFarlane writing Spawn, the comic book series. He recently did a ten-day tour in Germany for his novel Random, and is an instructor for Arizona State University's Your Novel Year certificate program.
Short Story Edit
First 4 Chapters Novel Edit
Kate Jonez: Editing Intensive
Each editing package includes a critique of the manuscript with light annotation and line-editing. These discounted packages are offered as a StokerCon2017 exclusive to registered guests of the event.
$45– Short Story critique package
A critique of a short story manuscript, up to 7,000 words. Includes light annotation and line-editing.
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A critique of a novel manuscript up to 20,000 words. Includes light annotation and line-editing.
A 20% discount on my regular rates if you choose to have me complete the editing of this manuscript.
Kate Jonez is a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author and the chief editor at Omnium Gatherum. In the six years Omnium Gatherum has been in business she's worked with many authors to produce over 60 outstanding books, many nominated for awards. You can see them here. Kate is also a freelance editor who has worked with many clients to get their books and screenplays in shape for publication or production.
"Having worked with Kate Jonez on multiple occasions, I can say with full confidence that she is an impeccable editorial talent: precise, clean, thorough, and devoted to nothing less than perfection. Her work has zero kinks or blemishes. She is always the first one I call." –Eric Shapiro, Ghost Writers Central
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Thursday April 27 3pm – 5pm Queen's Salon
Kate Maruyama: Tension & Scene: The Basics of a Uniquely Terrifying Screenplay
Crash course in two hours: How to up the ante for your screenplay to get it noticed. The gatekeepers of Hollywood, the ones who decide if your script meets the eyes of a producer or executive or an actor, all read thousands of scripts for a living. And they are tired and they have seen it all. This two hour class will focus on the elements of scene, character, and tension and those ever important First Ten Pages. Using examples and in class exercises, you will come up with something new, different and engaging that will get your screenplay noticed.
After 20 years in the film industry working for William Morris, Peters Entertainment, Sylvester Stallone's White Eagle Productions, Village Roadshow and Demarest Entertainment, Kate Maruyama turned to fiction. Her novel Harrowgate was published by 47North and her short work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She teaches for Antioch University Los Angeles's MFA and BA Programs, for inspiration2publication.com and for Writing Workshops Los Angeles.


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If I Die was probably one of the most touching songs from Da Grin considering it was recorded not long before he passed. The Eva Blazing DJ Neptune, a close friend of Da Gring does his thing by producing a remix of that track featuring other rap legends, Biggie & 2pac.
Truly is a tale of some of the finest the hip-hop game has brought to us. RIP Da Grin, RIP 2pac, RIP Notorious BIG.
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For now though, be sure to check this track out with some of the most chilling verses from Da Grin, 2pac & Biggie.
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Our quest for creating a safe and healthy dog treat began in 1999 when Lucy, Breann's 11 year old English Cocker Spaniel, became extremely picky about what she would eat. She had developed food allergies that prevented her from eating just any treat. We tried most of the treats on the market looking for one that was not only safe and healthy, but one that Lucy would eat. After little or no success, we began reading about what was in pet food and treats. We were surprised to find the inferior quality of ingredients that are typically used in pet food products. As a result of these findings and numerous conversations with veterinarians and pet nutritionists, we began to home cook Lucy's meals and treats. She deserved the same quality food as the rest of the family. Surprisingly for a dog that had become very picky, she loved her home cooked meals and treats. The next step seemed natural; we wanted to be able to share with others the healthy and safe treat we were cooking for Lucy.
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Yesterday was Day 9 of the 2012 World Championship Of Online Poker on PokerStars, with Darren Elias becoming the winner of the biggest cash out so far in the tournament. On another note Liv Boeree nearly broke her duck by winning her very first WCOOP event.
There were six events being run in total on the PokerStars site, with a good few million being handed out in prizes in the process.
One of the biggest stories of the day was that of the Norwegian "mikal12345" winning his second event of the tournament. He won Event number 12 just four days ago.
$10,300 NLHE Event 22 Day 2
Big name poker professional Darren Elias managed to come out on top in the biggest event of the tournament so far winning a cool $574,965. He achieved this by defeating the entire 297 players in the $10,300 buy-in event 22.
The buy-in guaranteed that there were some top class players taking part, including both PokerStars Team Pros Daniel Negreanu and Leo Fernandez. They both managed a payout too, though only $17,820 a piece.
Once the final table was established, there were some real heavyweight grinders sat on it. There was Jonathan Karamalikis, Chris Oliver and Matt Kay all looking confident of securing the win. However, they were actually the all the first of the players to be eliminated.
The event finally got into heads up between Elias and "ShhhOOkem" with Elias hitting a flush to win against his opponents pocket sevens.
The Final Standings:
1. darrenelias – $574,695
2. Shhh00kem – $430,650
3. Nandor82 – $326,700
4. Paolo69 – $245,025
5. Skykoen – $169,290
6. Artem205 – $130,680
7. Ch0ppy – $100,980
8. ImDaNuts – $71,280
$215 NLHE 4-Max Event 24
Liv Boeree came the closest she has ever done to securing her first WCOOP bracelet here in the $215 Event 24. The Team PokerStars Pro made finished just six places from the final table, which is still a pretty good achievement considering there were 2,800 starters.
She had actually been the chip leader for a long spell in this event but lost a major chunk of her stack after losing with a K-Q versus an A-J. She then lost after flopping a straight just to be outdone by a flush on the river. She took home $4,699 for her tenth place finish which is still a very good profit for her $215.
The Final Standings:
1. majus26 – $81,015
2. Moh65 – $49,293
3. Artem205 – $28,574
4. Pitaoufmg – $17,349
There is still plenty of action to come from the world's biggest online poker series, of which we will be here to let you know about it as and when it happens.


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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the state government had recommended to the Centre the handing over of inquiry into the killing of a Patna-based transporter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
After my approval, the state home department has approached the union home ministry for a CBI inquiry into the killing, Kumar told a press conference.
A local transporter, Santosh Tekriwal, was gunned down by unidentified assailants here a fortnight ago.
Denying reports that the traders were shifting their business establishments to other states because of sudden spurt in the incidents of murder, kidnapping for ransom and loot, Kumar said the law and order situation was fully under control.
Excepting for a few incidents of killing and kidnapping after the lok sabha elections in Bihar, which also used to occur in other states as well, no major untoward incident was experienced, he said, adding the state police were alert to rein in the activities of the criminals.
The reported exodus of traders from Bihar to other states is false and misleading, he added.


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Stubba Nature Reserve, Laponia, Lapland, Sweden.
Arctic fox cubs, Alopex lagopus, playing.
Dovrefjell-Sunndalsfjella National Park, Norway.
Snow-covered landscape in Plitvice Lakes National Park.
Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia.
A Siberian jay, Perisoreus infaustus, in flight in Stora Sjoefallet National Park.
Stora Sjoefallet National Park, Sweden.
A view with the moon in the sky over the coastal landscape of Sula Island, Norway.
Sula Island, Norway.
The village of Reine, Norway with snow-covered mountains in late autumn.
Reine, Norway.
A northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula, perched on a branch in a birch forest.
Sarek National Park, Laponia, Lapland, Sweden.
Portrait of a male Arctic fox, Alopex lagopus, in its brown winter coat.
Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, Iceland.
View over the Lysefjorden from Kjerag mountain, Norway.
Kjerag Mountain, Norway.
A cabin on an island seen through trees in the Lovrafjord, Norway.
Lovrafjord, Norway.
Two Arctic fox cubs, Alopex lagopus, playing.
A landscape of a snow and frost-covered Norway spruce forest.
Muddus National Park, Sweden.
Piatra Singuratica in the Carpathian Mountains.
Piatra Singuratica, Romania.
Snow and frost-covered spruce trees, Picea abies, in the Carpathian Mountains.
Transylvania, Romania.
The Sarvesvagge River flows in a deep canyon in the Sarvesvagge Valley.
Sarek National Park, Sweden.
The Lysefjorden viewed from the Preikestolen, Pulpit rock, in a misty summer morning.
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Two Alpine ibex (Capra ibex ibex), Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, October 2008
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A rain shower in the mountains of Norway makes a rainbow.
Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) in alpine landscape in snow, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, November 2008
A king eider duck, Somateria spectabilis, male in winter.
Batsfjord, Finnmark, Norway.
Atlantic puffins, Fratercula arctica, in a coastal landscape partly covered by sea fog.
Runde Island, Norway.
Snow and frost covered Norway spruce forest in Sweden's Stubba Nature Reserve.
Stubba Nature Reserve, Sweden.
A female rock ptarmigan, Lagopus mutus, in winter plumage.
Rapadalen, Sarek National Park, Laponia, Lapland, Sweden.
Puffins, Fratercula arctica, in a coastal landscape partly covered by sea fog.
The Laitaure delta in fog.
A northern hawk owl, Surnia ulula, perched on a tree branch in a birch forest.
Water from one of the branches of the Seven Sisters waterfalls, before falling into the Geirangerfjorden, Norway.
Geiranger Fjord, Norway.
An Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, in a split tree trunk.
Stora Sjofallet National Park, Laponia, Lapland, Sweden.
A female European elk, or moose, Alces alces, in a snowy landscape. So on face from foraging.
Tjamotis, Lapland, Sweden.
A male rock ptarmigan, Lagopus mutus, in winter plumage, doing a vocal territorial display.
Two Arctic fox kits, Alopex lagopus, playing.
Rock ptarmigans, Lagopus mutus, in winter plumage.
A female rock ptarmigan, Lagopus mutus, in winter plumage, yawning.
Portrait of a pair of Arctic fox cubs, Alopex lagopus.
Portrait of a male moose, Alces alces.
Basalt columns at the Aldeyjarfoss waterfall.
Aldeyjarfoss Waterfall, Iceland.
A mountain hare, Lepus timidus, in snow.
Vauldalen, Norway.
A mountain hare, Lepus timidus, in spring.
The Geirangerfjord in Norway.
Geirangerfjord, Norway.
Near the ice front of Engabreen glacier, curved layers of marble and calcium-silicate flow around mica schists.
View from Hermandalstinden looking north-north east. A man and his camping tent.
Moskenes, Lofoten Islands, Nordland, Norway.
A man stands on the Kjeragbolten in Norway.
Kjeragbolten, Norway
Mountain hut at Blomberg in the Geirangerfjorden in Norway.
Blomberg, Geirangerfjord, Norway.
A pair of mountain hares, Lepus timidus, in snow.
The village of Lysebotn, Norway in the very end of the Lysefjorden at night.
Lysebotn, Norway.
A mountain hare, Lepus timidus, feeding on birch.
A pair of mountain hares, Lepus timidus, fighting in snow.
A mountain hare, Lepus timidus, in spring.
The Svenonius Glacier in Sarek National Park provides melt water for the Njoatsosjahka River.
Fresh water pours off the peaks and ridges that surround Naeroyfjorden.
Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.
An Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica, flaps its wings while standing on a rock.
Hornoya Island, Norway.
A silhouetted male Arctic fox, Alopex lagopus, in its brown winter coat.
A pair of rock ptarmigan males, in winter plumage, fight in Sarek National Park.
A Steller's eider duck, Polysticta stelleri, male in winter.
A long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis, female in winter.
A trio of female rock ptarmigans, Lagopus muta, in Sarek National Park.
Rural landscape in the Ciucului mountains.
Harghita, Transylvania, Romania.
Charcoal burners building a pile of wood for carbonizing.
The snow-covered Laitaure Delta, the delta of the Rapa River to the Laitaure Lake.
A tent in the Rapadalen Valley in Sweden's Sarek National Park.
A double rainbow arches above the Sarvesvagge valley and the Lullihavagge valley in Sarek National Park.
Pattern of lichens in Sarek National Park.
A male moose feeds on willows in the Rapadalen Valley.
A mountain birch, Betula pubescens, grows above the Aurlandsfjorden.
A Common Guillemot, Uria aalge, adult with young swimming in the sea at the island of Hornoya, Norway.
A male moose stands in a birch forest in the Rapadalen Valley.
A person walking across a vast expanse of cracked ice.
Moskenes Municipality, Lofoten Islands, Nordland, Norway.
Portrait of a male common or ring-necked pheasant, Phasianus colchicus.
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Female rock ptarmigan, Lagopus mutus, in winter plumage.
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A silhouetted Arctic fox, Alopex lagopus, at sunset.
Two Arctic fox pups, Alopex lagopus, playing.
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When Is Corruption a Substitute for Economic Freedom?
Corruption supposedly reduces economic progress by creating an uncertain contracting environment and by preventing the state from efficiently providing public goods and correcting externalities. However, corruption can be efficiency-enhancing in countries with relatively little economic freedom. Corruption in the military appears to reduce economic growth, while corruption in the educational environment can increase economic growth. Evidence suggests that some types of corruption can increase growth when economic freedom is low.
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- Gerring, John & Thacker, Strom C., 2008. "Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives?," Business and Politics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(03), pages 1-31, December.
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This combination ensures satisfaction of the extremely high safety requirements and the guarantee of results demanded.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda APEX HQ is the official companion app for Mass Effect: Andromeda Multiplayer.[1] Supported by iOS and Android devices, APEX HQ was released on March 15 in Canada, Ireland, Romania and Singapore, and worldwide on March 20, 2017.
Through APEX HQ, players can view their progress in multiplayer, equip characters, assign skill points, manage Strike Teams, and access their friend list. The app cannot be used while signed into the game.[2]
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Remember that "Approaching Storm" I wrote about last weekend; well it has arrived. Last night at about 1 AM EST, New York City Police, some in riot gear, raided and cleared the peaceful assembly of hundreds of American Patriots.
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Report to the Sixth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change GIVEN AT THE IPCC MEETINGS IN THE HAGUE Robert T. Watson, Chairman Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change November 20, 2000 Mr. Chairman, excellencies, distinguished delegates, it is a pleasure and honor for me to address you today as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change values its close collaboration with the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, its Secretariat and its subsidiary bodies, and prides itself on being responsive to addressing your needs.
More of the speech As you debate the weighty issues associated with effective implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol let me remind you that the overwhelming majority of scientific experts, whilst recognizing that scientific uncertainties exist, nonetheless believe that human-induced climate change is already occurring and that future change is inevitable. It is not a question of whether the Earth ' s climate will change, but rather by how much, how fast and where. It is undisputed that the two last decades has been the warmest this century, indeed the warmest for the last 1000 years, sea level is rising, precipitation patterns are changing, Arctic sea ice is thinning and the frequency and intensity of El-Nino events appear to be increasing. In addition, many parts of the world have recently suffered major heat-waves, floods, droughts and extreme weather events leading to significant loss of life and economic costs.
More of the speech While individual extreme weather events cannot be directly linked to human-induced climate change, the frequency and magnitude of these types of events are expected to increase in a warmer world. Climate models, using the latest emissions projections from the IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, project an increase in global mean surface temperature of 1.5 to 6 degrees Centigrade between 1990 and 2100, with land areas warming more than the global average, especially at mid-and high northern latitudes. These changes in temperature will be accompanied by changes in precipitation patterns and sea level rise.
More of the speech As the Earth warms, models project that: arid and semi-arid land areas in Southern Africa, the Middle East, Southern Europe and Australia become even more water stressed than they are today; agricultural production in many tropical and sub-tropical countries decreases, especially in Africa and Latin America; the incidence of vector-borne diseases, such as malaria and dengue, increases in tropical countries;
More of the speech As the Earth warms, models project that: tens of millions of people will be displaced by rising sea levels in Small Island States and low-lying deltaic areas; and the structure and functioning of critical ecological systems, particularly coral reefs and forests, will change affecting their goods and services which are vital for sustainable development.
More of the speech These adverse impacts will severely undermine the goal of sustainable development in many parts of the world, with developing countries, and the poor in developing countries, being most vulnerable. However, it should be noted that some of these projected adverse effects can, to some degree, be reduced through proactive adaptation measures.
More of the speech The good news is, however, that the majority of experts believe that significant reductions in net greenhouse gas emissions are technically feasible, both in the short- and longer-term, due to an extensive array of technologies and policy measures in Annex I countries in the energy supply, energy demand and in the agricultural and forestry sectors. In addition, subject to further elaboration, the flexible instruments of Articles 6, 12 and 17, can be used to reduce cost of greenhouse gas emissions reductions for Annex I countries and Articles 6 and 12 can facilitate the transfer of environmentally sound technologies. Thus the short-term goal of the Kyoto Protocol, and the longer-term goal of the UN Framework on Climate Change (Article 2), stabilization of the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, are technically and economically feasible without the premature retirement of capital stock. Now is the time for the ratification and implementation of the Kyoto Protocol if those commitment targets are to be realized.
More of the speech Given the challenges of improving indoor and outdoor air quality in many parts of the world, and the goals to reduce acid deposition, land degradation and protect biodiversity, policies, practices and technologies that can simultaneously address these local and regional environmental issues, while reducing net greenhouse gas emissions are particularly attractive. Estimates of the costs of mitigating climate change should take into account the co-benefits of switching from a fossil fuel based economy to a lower-carbon intensity energy system. Co-benefits from energy sector interventions could include lower levels of local and regional pollution, while co-benefits from agricultural and forestry sector interventions could include increased soil fertility and reduced loss of biodiversity. Hence, such interventions would have both social and economic benefits at the local as well as global scale.
More of the speech Mr. Chairman, in the remainder of my presentation today I would like to briefly review some of the recent findings of approved IPCC reports which have a direct bearing on some of the issues you are debating:
More of the speech First, the Special Report on Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer concluded that the current efforts and established processes for facilitating the flows of knowledge, experience and equipment among governments, private sector entities, financial institutions, NGOs, and research and education institutions will not be sufficient to meet the challenge of addressing climate change in the context of sustainable development. Enhanced capacity is required in developing countries and additional government actions are needed to create the enabling environment for private sector technology transfers within and across national boundaries.
More of the speech Government actions could include, inter-alia, reforming legal systems, protecting intellectual property rights and licenses, encouraging financial reforms, promoting competitive and open markets for environmentally sound technologies, and knowledge sharing. Mechanisms for technology transfer include National Systems of Innovation, Official Development Assistance, the Global Environmental Facility, Multilateral Banks and the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms (Articles 6 and 12) and the UNFCCC.
More of the speech Second, the Special Report on emissions scenarios concluded that different development paths can result in a wide range of future greenhouse gas sulfate aerosol precursor emissions depending on, inter-alia, the evolution of governance structures world-wide, changes in population and economic growth, and broad technological changes, which are particularly sensitive to the level of investment in research and development. Most projections suggest that greenhouse gas concentrations will increase significantly during the next century in the absence of policies specifically designed to address the issue of climate change, with carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels being projected to range from about 5 to 35 GtC per year in the year 2100, compared to current emissions of about 6.3 GtC per year.
More of the speech Third, the Special Report on land-use, land-use change and forestry concluded that all relevant forms of "terrestrial" carbon can be adequately monitored to implement the Kyoto Protocol; there are many options in both Annex I and non-Annex I countries where cost-effective interventions in the agricultural and forestry sectors could reduce net greenhouse gas emissions and have a wide range of co-benefits consistent with sustainable development; the terrestrial biosphere is currently a net sink for carbon, with an uptake in Annex I countries of about 1.0 - 1.5 GtC per year; and
More of the speech to ensure that changes in terrestrial carbon accurately reflected changes in the atmosphere special attention should be paid to the carbon accounting rules for treating aggradation and degradation in forests and the harvesting-regeneration cycle. In conclusion, I would like to thank you for allowing me to address you today and remind you that if actions are not taken to reduce the projected increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth ' s climate is likely to change at a rate unprecedented in the last 10,000 years with adverse consequences for society, undermining the very foundation of sustainable development. Hence, the welfare of this and future generations is in your hands.
As of summer 2002… Robert Watson was removed as chair of IPCC - under pressure from the US government who felt that he was too effective in raising awareness of climate change
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It's mid-afternoon on a broiling Friday and 10 excitable teenagers are perched on benches in a mercifully air-conditioned film theatre, waiting for a screening to start. Near the back of the auditorium, a group of girls is singing a cappella. Several rows down, three fidgety boys alternate between scribbling on feedback forms and tapping their pencils impatiently on the seats in front.
When the lights finally dim, the room is filled with a chorus of whoops and whistles, followed by a burst of laughter, as the tutor, Mitch Goodwin, uses his lighter to squint at the controls on his laptop computer. At length, the big screen flickers into life and the first of three short films opens with the image of one of the boys at the front thundering down a staircase to the pounding intro of The Spencer Davis Group's 1966 hit "Keep on Running".
We are witnessing the dénouement of one of nine summer schools being run this year by the University of the First Age, a government-subsidised charity set up to offer structured extracurricular activities to secondary school children. UFA is celebrating its 10th birthday, and the 2006 programme is more ambitious than ever - with workshops focusing on everything from creative writing, to being a pop impresario, to designing a new central park for its home city, Birmingham.
As the room falls respectfully silent, parents are ushered in to join their offspring for the premiere. While hardly Palme d'Or material, the films aren't bad. The first, heralded by the ominous capital letters BUM (the initials of a fictitious production company, Bundled-Up Madness) alternates between Reservoir Dogs-style slow-motion, fly-on-the-wall interviews, and surreal slapstick à la cult stunt show Jackass. It's the third, Belief, a cross between Cinderella and Fame lasting substantially longer than the stipulated three minutes, that earns the most laughs (not all, one suspects, intentional).
Afterwards, certificates are presented in a ceremony more like a school assembly than the Oscars. Each child will receive DVD copies of all three films, and they will be aired on a local BBC digital channel.
The University of the First Age has been doing this kind of thing since its inception. Each summer, 100-plus children aged 12 to 17 attend programmes in Birmingham, and out-of-school activities are organised all year in partnership with 45 local authorities. The charity used to charge £50 a child, but waived this in favour of voluntary donations. Costs are met through an annual Department for Education and Skills grant and sponsorship, with many workshops run by volunteers using equipment supplied by partner organisations.
The film course is a case in point: both Mitch and the £1,000 digital video cameras used to make the shorts are "on loan" from the University of the West of England's Technology Innovation Centre. One of UFA's regular partners, this is conveniently situated a floor below it in Birmingham's cavernous Millennium Point building - a futurist's dream, with its industrial-style glass lifts straight out of Terry Gilliam's Brazil and "in-flight" narration by a reassuring voice reminiscent of Peter Jones's in the original radio series of The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
This is UFA's only centre, but the charity also employs a handful of full-time managers whose job is to travel the country training teachers and council education officers in its trademark "action learning" approach.
Though cautious about sounding prescriptive (its literature, despite being riddled with buzz-phrases, avoids terms such as "social inclusion"), UFA's primary concern is to reach children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Its founder, pioneering educationalist Tim Brighouse, was inspired by a conviction that extracurricular activities hold the key to closing the achievement gap between children from rich and poor families. Just 15 per cent of a child's waking time is spent in school, and a study by American theorist Richard Rothstein shows the disparity stays much the same during the academic year but widens over holidays, when affluent families can offer their children better enrichment activities.
Recent research by UFA suggests it is slowly helping to narrow this gap: a survey of the first 600 teenagers to experience it found those who spent 75 hours or more there gained at least one more GCSE A-C grade than children in a control group who didn't. It's hardly surprising the attendance rate for the four-week summer programme is typically 98 per cent - a statistic most schools would kill for.
By way of endorsement, the UFA model is now being emulated in London, with the launch of a new £2m DfES-funded "summer universities" programme. It isn't all plain sailing, though. The value of UFA's core government funding has plummeted over the past decade. It remains frozen at £470,000 - a third of its overall £1.5m annual budget, and exactly the same as when the charity was founded. This summer is also the first in five years when it has had to subsist without help from the Big Lottery Fund, forcing it to reduce the length of some of its schools.
Chief executive Linda Gregory, whose soft Brummie accent and owlish glasses give her the air of a mumsy headmistress, explains: "In Birmingham, the 100 places we offer are a drop in the ocean. We peg ourselves to every big initiative that comes along to try to increase our funding."
The cutbacks haven't gone unnoticed by the children. In a room festooned with coloured paper, Matthew Yearwood, 15, is racing to finish the storyboard for his film presentation with one eye on the clock: "It's difficult to do it in the time we've got available, and they're not too pleased if we don't get it done."
Fellow mogul Chris Hammond, also 15, agrees, recalling that last year's film course lasted a fortnight, rather than a week. But, he adds: "I'm not sure if that's a bad thing, because this is how it is in the industry."
Most of those taking part today seem happy. Charlotte Wagstaff, 14, who attends Cockshut Hill Technical College in Yardley, one of Birmingham's most deprived areas, surveys a model for the city's putative new park. Built from Plasticine, bubble-wrap and card, it looks like something Blue Peter might have made earlier. "This is our sculpture area, and that's a bird's-eye view of the restaurants and live bands we'll need to persuade people to go to the park," she says, pointing to a pair of tights held up with garden wire and a series of paper shapes that represent tables, chairs and some kind of stadium.
The most exuberant member of the group is Robert Sheldon, 14. When asked where he goes to school, he turns sheepish and mumbles: "I don't. I was chucked out."
From behind him, Jan Polack, the UFA manager, chips in with: "You're here to re-engage with school, aren't you, Robert?" So are all these efforts to "reengage" him working? "Yeah," he exclaims, beaming. "If school was like this, I'd want to get an A+ in everything. We all would!"
Recent hiccups aside, the UFA's founder, who retired from its board earlier this year, is certain it will survive to spawn further imitators. Prof Brighouse, 65, who financed the charity's start-up costs by successfully suing former Tory Education Secretary John Patten for branding him a "nutter" in his then role as Birmingham's chief education officer, says proudly: "I think the UFA was in many ways ahead of its time. I was particularly anxious for those from challenged backgrounds to get into it, believing that, for some of them, we would crack the cycle of disadvantage."
His one regret is that he hasn't systematically tracked the progress of the UFA's alumni to find out where they have ended up. But he is convinced that most will have benefited from it - and optimistic that, in time, government will be moved to recognise the "universal right" of every child to structured out-of-school activities.
"I'd like to see a ring-fenced grant introduced by the Government, matched by local authorities, and some of that used to give parental vouchers to those from disadvantaged backgrounds - like with free school meals," he says. Asked if he believes that this will ever happen, he says confidently: "Yeah, one day. Of course it will."
UFA summer schools run at Millennium Point, Birmingham, until August 18. To enquire about availability call 0121 202 2345 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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Since 1996, the University of the First Age has provided activities for 500,000 teenagers and trained 3,000 adults to deliver them
Satellite UFAs exist in 45 areas, from Newcastle to Bristol
The number of summer schools in Birmingham's four-week programme has risen from six to eight since last year - benefiting 110 teenagers aged 11 to 17
A 2001 study found that children who spent 75-plus hours with UFA achieved at least one more GCSE A-C grade than those who didn't
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Added with all the other goodies in the ingredient list, this is one of those meals that I feel good about eating, as well as the fact that I find it very yummy, so if this seems like it could be for you, enjoy.
Cheesy Black Bean Stuffed Sweet Potatoes with Arugular and Poached Eggs
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Serves 4.
Total time: 1-1/2 hours.
4 medium sweet potatoes
1 cup black beans
4 ounces fontina cheese, freshly grated
2 cups fresh arugular
1 teaspoon olive oil
Juice of half a lemon
4 eggs, cooked to your own taste.
Salt and Pepper
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Poke sweet potatoes with a fork and then place on a baking sheet.
Bake for 30 minutes, then reduce the heat to 350 degrees F. and bake for 30 to 40 minutes more. Remove and let cool slightly, at least 5 minutes.
Carefully slice down the center of the potato, pushing the skin open. Stuff each potato with an ounce of fontina. You can pop the potato back in the oven for a few minutes until the cheese is melted.
Season arugular with olive oil and lemon juice, then add a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Add it on top of the black beans, then add your cooked eggs on top of the arugular.
You can cook the eggs when the sweet potatoes have a few minutes left so that they are ready to put on top and ready to serve.
What did I think? A dish I will be making again, it was very tasty. As I made this for myself it was easy enough to cut the ingredients down for one person; 1 sweet potato, 1 oz. cheese, a handful of arugular, a smidgen of olive oil and lemon juice and one egg.
You can see from my photo that there is no egg on top. My stove top decided to flame out and quit working. We will be going shopping for a new when time permits. I baked an egg in the oven in a small ramekin when I tried this a few days ago. It came out perfectly cooked using olive oil after a few minutes. The next time I used cooking spray and it was all rubbery. I don't know what I did wrong but it wasn't a pretty sight, and it could probably have been used to replace a bouncy ball. I have since done them in the microwave and that works out well so until I can get the stove top replaced, that will be my method of choice.
I had no fontina but did have some Wisconsin Cheddar in the fridge.
The same for arugula but I had spring greens that I wanted to use up today.


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