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Caution's Heir is now available at all our internet retailers and also in physical form as well
The Trade Paperback version is now available for purchase here @ $15.99 (but as of this writing, it looks like Amazon has still discounted it 10%)
Caution's Heir is also available digitally for $4.99 @ the iBookstore, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and Smashwords.
The image for the cover is a Cruikshank, A Game of Whist; Tom & Jerry among the 'Swell Broad Coves.' Tom and Jerry was a very popular series of stories at the time.
Teaching a boor a lesson is one thing.
Winning all that the man owns is more than Lord Arthur Herrington expects. Especially when he finds that his winnings include the boor's daughter!
The Duke of Northampshire spent fortunes in his youth. The reality of which his son, Arthur the Earl of Daventry, learns all too well when sent off to school with nothing in his pocket. Learning to fill that pocket leads him on a road to frugality and his becoming a sober man of Town. A sober but very much respected member of the Ton.
Lady Louisa Booth did not have much hope for her father, known in the country for his profligate ways. Yet when the man inherited her gallant uncle's title and wealth, she hoped he would reform. Alas, that was not to be the case.
When she learned everything was lost, including her beloved home, she made it her purpose to ensure that Lord Arthur was not indifferent to her plight. An unmarried young woman cast adrift in society without a protector. A role that Arthur never thought to be cast as. A role he had little idea if he could rise to such occasion. Yet would Louisa find Arthur to be that one true benefactor? Would Arthur make this obligation something more? Would a game of chance lead to love?
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From our tale:
Chapter One
St. Oswald's church was bleak, yet beautiful all in one breath. 13th century arches that soared a tad more than twenty feet above the nave provided a sense of grandeur, permanence and gravitas. These prevailed within, while the turret-topped tower without, once visible for miles around now vied with mature trees to gain the eye of passers-by.
On sunny days stain-glass windows, paid for by a Plantagenet Baron who lived four hundred years before and now only remembered because of this gift, cast charming rainbow beams across the inner sanctum. And on grey overcast days ghostly shadows danced along the aisle.
As per the custom of parish churches the first three pews were set-aside for the gentry. On this day the second pew, behind the seat reserved for the Marquess of Hroek, who hadn't attended since the passing of his son and heir, was Louisa Booth his niece and her companion Mrs Bottomworth.
Mrs Bottomworth was a stocky matron on the good side of fifty. Barely on the good side of fifty. But one would not say that was an unfortunate thing for she wore her years well and kept her charge free of trouble. Mrs Bottomworth's charge was an only child, who would still have been in the schoolroom excepting the fact of the death of her mother some years earlier. This had aged the girl quickly, and made her hostess to her father's household. The Honourable Hector Booth, third son of the previous Marquess, maintained a modest house on his income of 300 pounds. That was quite a nice sum for just the man and one daughter, with but five servants. They lived in a small, two floor house with four rooms. It should be noted that this of course left two bedchambers that were not inhabited by family members. As the Honourable Mr Booth saved his excess pounds for certain small vices that confined themselves with drink and the occasional wager on a horse, these two rooms were seldom opened.
Mrs Bottomworth had thought to make use of one of the empty rooms when she took up her position, but the Honourable Hector Booth advised and instructed her to share his daughter's room. For the last four years this is what she had done. When two such as these shared a room, it was natural that they would either become best of friends, or resent each other entirely. Happily the former occurred as Louisa was in need of a confidant to fill the void left in her mother's absence, and Mrs Bottomworth had a similar void as her two daughters had grown and gone on to make their own lives.
The Honourable Mr Booth took little effort in concerning himself with such matters as he was ever about his brother's house, or ensconced in a comfortable seat at either the local tavern or the Inn. If those locations had felt he was too warm for them, he would make a circuit of what friends and acquaintances he had in the county. The Honourable Mr Booth would spend an hour or two with a neighbour discussing dogs or hunters, neither of which he could afford to keep, though he did borrow a fine mount of his brother to ride to the hunt. The Marquess took little notice, having reduced his view of the world by degrees when first his beloved younger brother who was of an age between the surviving Honourable Mr Booth had perished shortly after the Marquess' marriage. Their brother had fallen in the tropics of a fever. Then the Marquess had lost his second child, a little girl in her infancy, his wife but a few years after, and most recently his son and heir to the wars with Napoleon.
This caused the Honourable Mr Booth to be heir to Hroek, a situation that had occurred after he had lost his own wife. With that tragedy, Mr Booth had found more time to make friends with all sorts of new bottles, though not to a degree that it was considered remarkable beyond a polite word. Mr Booth was not a drunkard. He was confronting his grief with a sociability that was acceptable in the county.
Louisa, however, was cast further adrift. No father to turn to. No uncle who had been the patriarch of the family her entire life. And certainly now no feminine examples to follow but her companion and governess, Mrs Bottomworth. That Mrs Bottomworth was an excellent choice for the task was more due to acts of the Marquess, still able to think clearly at the time she was employed, than to the Honourable Mr Booth. Mr Booth was amenable to any suggestion of his elder brother for that man controlled his purse, and as Mr Booth was consumed with grief, while the Marquess had adapted to various causes of grief prior to the final straw of his heir's death, the Marquess of Hroek clearly saw a solution to what was a problem.
Now in her pew, where once as a young girl she had been surrounded by her cousins, parents, uncles and aunt, she sat alone except for her best of friends. Louisa was full of life in her pew, her cheeks a shade of pink that contrasted with auburn hair, which glistened as sunlight that flowed though the coloured panes of glass touched it from beneath her bonnet. Blue eyes shown over a small straight nose, her teeth were straight, though two incisors were ever so slightly bigger than one would attribute to a gallery beauty painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
She was four inches taller than five feet, so rather tall for a young woman, but her genes bred true, and many a girl of the aristocracy was slightly taller than those women who were of humbler origins. Her back was straight and for an observant man, of which there were some few in the county, her figure might be discussed. The wrath though of her uncle the Marquess would not wish to be bourne should it be found out that her form had become a topic amongst the young men. Noteworthy though was that she had a figure that men thought inspiring enough to tempt that wrath, and think on it. A full bosom was high on her chest, below her heart shaped face. She was lean of form, though her hips flared just enough that one could see definition in her torso. Certainly a beauty Sir Thomas' brushes would wish the honour to meet.
The vicar Mr Spotslet had at one time in his early days in the community, discussed the Sunday sermons with the Marquess. Mr Spotslet had enjoyed long discussions of theology, philosophy, natural history and the holy writ that were then thoughtfully couched in terms to be made accessible by the parish. The lassitude that had overtaken the Marquess had caused those interviews to become shortened and infrequent and as such the sermons suffered, as many were wont to note. There had been dialogues that Mr Spotslet had engaged in with the attendees of his masses. Now he seemed to have lost his way and delivered soliloquies.
This day Mr Spotslet indulged in a speech that talked to the vices of gambling. The local sports, of which the Honourable Mr Booth was an intimate, had raced their best through the village green the previous Wednesday for but a prize of one quid, and this small bet had caused pandemonium when Mrs McCaster had fallen in the street with her washing spread everywhere and trampled by the horses. Not much further along the path, Mr Smith the grocer's delivery for the vicar himself was dropped by the boy and turned into detritus as that too was stampeded over. A natural choice for a sermon, yet only two of the culprits were in attendance this day. The rest had managed to find reasons to avoid the Mass.
Louisa squirmed a little in her seat the moment she realised that her father had been one of the men that the sermon was speaking of. Was she not the centre of everyone's gaze at such a time? Her father having refused to attend for some years, and her uncle unable due to his illness. She was the representative of the much reduced family. Not only was it expected that the parish would look to her as the Booth of Hroek, but with her father's actions called to the attentions of all, it was natural that they look at her again. This time in a light that did not reflect well on her father and she knew that she had no control over that at all.
Mrs Bottomworth, who might have been lightly resting her eyes, Louisa would credit her in such a generous way, came to tensing at the mention of the incident. Louisa did not want to bring her friend to full wakefulness, but Mrs Bottomworth realised what was occurring and the direction that the sermon was taking. Louisa's companion took her hand and patted it reassuringly.
"Perhaps a social call on Lady Walker?" Mrs Bottomworth suggested as they walked back to the house after services. The house which sat just within the estate boundaries was four hundred feet off the main bridal way that led to Hroek Castle. A small road had been cleared from the gatehouse to the house that Mr Booth now maintained, and this the two women travelled.
Louisa generally appreciated visits such as this as she had gotten older, and certainly several of the adults in the neighbourhood showed a kindly interest in her education and the development of her social manners. "I think I shall go to the castle and read to my uncle." A task that she had done each day of the last fortnight but one.
"We have not talked, but you and the Marquess had an interview with the doctors." Mrs Bottomworth had tried to comfort her charge after that, but Louisa had waved her hand and gone to sit quietly under a yew tree that had a grand vista of the park leading to Hroek Castle.
"Uncle will be most lucky if he should be with us come Michaelmas."
"That will be a sad day when we lose such a friend." These were words of comfort. Mrs Bottomworth had been well encouraged in her charge by the Marquess but one could not say that they interacted greatly with one another. The Marquess ensured that his brother heeded the suggestions and advisements of Mrs Bottomworth as the Honourable Mr Booth left to his own devices would have kept his daughter in the nursery and would have forgotten to send a governess to provide her with instruction.
"Indeed, my uncle may not have been one of the great men of England, but he is well regarded in the county." Often with that statement followed the next, "Warmly remembered is it when the Prince Regent came and stayed for a fortnight of sport and entertainment." This had been many years before, and certainly before any of the tragedies beset the line of the Booths.
"Yes, I have heard it said with great earnestness. But come let us change your clothes and then we shall go up to the great house. I shall have Mallow fetch the gig so we may proceed all the more expeditiously."
"That would be good, but we will have to use the dogcart. Father was to take the gig to see Sir Mark today, or so he said at breakfast." Where Louisa knew he would drink the Baronet's sherry for a couple hours before thinking to return, unless he was asked to stay for dinner.


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It's a neat song, but why are they having you learn Spanish from an Italian? That's a little odd. If you're going to learn Spanish with a European accent, why not try this Argentinian documentary on Armenian Christianity?
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
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CALiGeR190 wrote:Formosa wrote:I totally agree, problem is borg can assimilate planets at an exponential rate, and the IOM response time is agonisingly slow by trek standard (even though 40k has faster, if unreliable ships) trek also has much better coms, if shorter ranged (borg don't suffer this issue, as its both better ranged and faster than 40k) and don't suffer the "interpretation" issue IOM coms do, so response time is better for the borg, theyd detect the IOM sectors away and just fade before any response could come.. the response that would be decades away at best.
So Borg have better coms, sensors, exponential growth, can take your best tech, adapt it and improve on it.
IOM has, Faster galactic travel, numbers, better tech (in some areas) but this advantage wont last long.
either way, agree or disagree, it would be a good match up!!
In the long run, yes it would, but any direct conflict in the short or mid term would be laughably one-sided if the Imperium treated them as an adequately high threat.
The Imperium may react slowly, but if they want something gone within their own borders, it gets done with relatively high speed. And if the decision to remove the Borg with all haste is unanimous, an Imperial Battlefleet can be down your throat in less than a week with full Titan and IG support. If its in Space Marine territory, even quicker.
And, again, this is ignoring other factions.
My apologies, but the IOM has NEVER been stated as having a 1 week response time, if a response is even available, I'm not debating your comment that it would be laughably one sided in the short to mid term, I agree, but IOM response time, even when willing, is very very long in trek terms, borg can assimilate planets in days to weeks, IOM response is months to years, unless some battlefleet happens to be passing by or just in the area.
I also agree that the imperials when they want something dead, it happens, but again, slowly, and remember, everything you throw at the borg, they will eventually throw back at you, but better, that's there thing, the IOM would need to stop the snow ball very quickly or simply be outgunned to such an extent there numbers would be worthless, you cant kill what you cant hurt.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Broward Sheriff's deputy who appears on a reality show was arrested in Cooper City Friday night on charges of battery, falsifying records and official misconduct.
During a December 1, 2010 traffic stop, Gerald Wengert, 33, a featured deputy on TLC's show "Unleashed Broward County," arrested Mark Visconti, then 17, the sheriff's office said.
Wengert arrested Visconti on charges of resisting arrest and battery on a law enforcement officer. According to Wengert's arrest warrant, the deputy initially reported that Visconti was driving recklessly on Stirling Road. Once the teen was pulled over, Wengert said he got out of his car and resisted arrest, according to the warrant.
READ: Wengert's arrest warrant with full narrative
An internal affairs investigation indicated that Wengert, who was never dispatched to the scene, arrived while on the phone with his girlfriend, Jessica Mercer. A witness said Visconti and his passenger saw two of their friends on the street and decided to pick them up, stopping at a stop sign and delaying Mercer.
Visconti then drove to a nearby Wendy's restaurant, the warrant said, followed by Mercer. As Visconti and his friends left the Wendy's, Wengert was pulling into the plaza.
Wengert then pulled Visconti over about a half mile away, "yanked him out of the car, threw him against the car and began aggressively searching him," the report said. A witness said Wengert punched Visconti several times and put him in a headlock. Visconti suffered injuries to his face and legs and was taken to the hospital.
As a result of the investigation, Wengert was charged with battery, falsifying records and official misconduct. He was booked at the Broward County Jail and released on $2,000 bond. He has been suspended without pay, according to the BSO.
"When we get a complaint, or there is some sign of wrongdoing, we investigate and take action if policies were violated or laws were broken," Sheriff Al Lamberti said. "It bothers me that we have nearly 6,000 dedicated employees doing the right thing every day and people hear more about the mistakes and misdeeds of a few. But regardless of the effect, we are not going to sweep anything under the rug."


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Welsh writer and friend of the blog Tom Doran's fine essay at Jewish Journal explains his journey to Zionism.
Countless events combined to furnish me with a different, truer picture of the Jewish state. The flotilla incident of 2010 was another. While I initially jerked my knee and condemned the raid as barbaric, I was then struck by the curious nature of the international response. Certain details had a way of going missing on their way into print: the flotilla's ties to Hamas and other Nazis-in-keffiyeh; how the "victims" were armed with iron bars and knives; the legality and original purpose of the blockade itself. My initial overreaction caused me to question my own motives. Was I really giving Israel a fair hearing?
Then, the more I learned about Israel proper (as opposed to the West Bank), the more I liked. In late 2010, former president Moshe Katsav was found guilty of rape by a panel of three judges that consisted of two women and an Israeli Arab. Can we imagine the equivalent happening in any Arab country? Can we, in fact, imagine it happening in most Western countries, given that Richard Nixon enjoyed a rich twilight as an elder statesman? These are not the actions of a fascist state. Nor is the high level of tolerance and acceptance extended to the LGBT community. Nor is the incredible explosion of science and technology Israel has husbanded. Nor are a hundred other things, great and small.
In recent years, the single greatest factor leading me to solidarity with Israel has been the threat of a nuclear Iran. Having studied the Nazi period, in a piecemeal and amateurish fashion, it is difficult not to be sensitive to inaction and complacency from the enlightened West when faced with eliminationist Jew-hatred. Here is a regime that openly compares Israel to a cancer while almost-openly seeking nuclear weapons, just one of which could kill millions if detonated over Tel Aviv. Yet the reaction of many left-wing commentators is to make excuses for the Mullahs as cravenly as they can. This is the subject of another essay, but suffice it to say that the failure of the democratic world to stop the Shoah is our deepest shame as a civilization. If we allowed a second Shoah, it would be beyond shame. Beyond words, even. We could never hold up our heads again.


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Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) can be used to go to places that are impossible to visit (mid Atlantic Ridge), or act as a replacement for students unable to physically attend a field trip. An example of one produced by colleagues at the Open University is previewed in the video below (source):
VFTs have been produced using 3D platforms such as Google Earth but it is only recently that developments in software and hardware have meant that the technology is robust enough to use in everyday teaching.
Tracking Students: One idea we had in our Google research project was to see if tracking students flying around VFTs can be used to inform tutors and students about student's learning. This topic isn't well covered in the literature so worth investigating. A paper Muki, Paolo Viterbo and I have just submitted to a journal describes our work in this area. We collected 4D data (3D with time) using the Google Earth API of students navigating around to complete an educational search task. In some VFTs students are limited to walking but in ours they had access to zoom and pan.
Two Visualisations: In the paper we describes two visualisations which help users' (either tutors or students) make sense of the complex 4D tracking data. One is a static graphic (not covered today), the other is an animation:
The animation links an altitude vs distance graph with a 3D view of the track in space using Google Earth's cross section functionality. We think that these visualisations are quick and effective ways to evaluate student's search activities.
Experiment Summary: In the experiment students:
1. Viewed a Google Earth tour which explained how to identify paleo-geographical features (lake banks surrounding a lake long since dried up).
2. They were then set a task searching for their own example in a defined study area. An important feature of the task was that students could not complete their search without zooming in to check characteristics in more detail. Their route through 3D space was tracked and saved to a server.
3. They marked their answer on the map.
Visualised data: The simple 3D path in space looks like spaghetti thrown into the air (top section above diagram), it's difficult to interpret. However, by plotting altitude against distance along path in a linked graph (bottom part) the actions of the student zooming in and out on targets can be clearly seen. In the main view (top of image) the red arrow shows camera location and the hair line on the graph (bottom) shows the relevant point on the graph. You can control the hair line to explore the path, this page links to a sample KML file and the youtube clip explains how to set it up and what it shows in more detail.
What Does it Show? From interacting with this visualization several aspects of the students' performance can be easily gauged:
· Did the student zoom in on sensible targets (i.e. the 'answer' area and other areas that needed checking out)?
· Did the student get disorientated (stray outside the yellow study area box or spend an overly long time in one area)?
· Were they thorough in their search or just do the bare minimum (did they zoom in on a number of sensible locations, just a few or did they fail to zoom in at all)?
Possible Uses: This technique could be applied to a number of virtual field trip situations. The case study we've already looked at represents a physical geography/earth science application. It also could be used for:
human geography: e.g. if students are taught that poorer neighborhoods are likely to be further from the centre of a city you could then ask students to identify poor neighborhoods in a sample city. Tracking a successful search would show students navigating to sample sites around the edge of the city and then zooming into streetview to check their if they were right or not.
Student created maps: Students are first tasked with identifying volcanoes in a country. They mark three answers on a class shared map in the first stage. In the second stage, they assess their peers' work and are tracked zooming in on each other's placemarks. You could see how good their performance was in the second stage from the tracking animation e.g. did they check out suggestions in enough detail. IMHO This last example has the advantage of representing deeper learning, it challenges students to think critically about each other's work.
Ethics: Learning Analytics is a powerful new tool for teaching, used carefully it has huge potential to assist students and tutors. However, it also raises real teaching issues such as will students react well to the extra kind of feedback they can now receive? Will institutions use it to measure tutors performance in a confrontational manner? IMHO we need to approach this new tool with an open, student focused, frame of mind.


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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday eliminated the Distinguished Warfare Medal, overturning one of Leon Panetta's last acts in the position.
The award — which had come to be known as the Nintendo Medal — recognized drone pilots and cyber operators.
Now, instead of a medal, individuals will receive a pin that will be placed on another existing medal — similar to a V that is pinned to a Bronze Star to indicate an award with valor.
The medal was established to "recognize the achievements of a small number of service men and women who have an especially direct and immediate impact on combat operations through the use of remotely piloted aircraft and cyber operations," Hagel wrote in a statement.
Hagel ordered a review of the medal after hearing feedback from veterans groups, Congress members and others. The review "confirmed the need to ensure such recognition," Hagel said, but "it found that misconceptions regarding the precedence of the award were distracting from its original purpose.
"The service men and women, who operate and support our remotely piloted aircraft, operate in cyber, and others are critical to our military's mission of safeguarding the nation," Hagel continued. "I again want to thank my predecessor, Leon Panetta, for raising the need to ensure that these men and women are recognized for their contributions."
- New military medal for drone operators under fire
- Medals for cyber troops draws Whiskey Tango Foxtrots
- 'Vet ink' shares tales of battle, loss and life-long pride
- Long-missing WWII medals awarded in Los Angeles


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South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity
For over a century, Arboretum staff have explored and documented the natural and cultural resources of Asia.
In 1924, a three-year expedition departed for one of the most unusual areas on earth;the first of many Arboretum expeditions to a region that is floristically one of the richest in the world. Seventy years later, other Arboretum expeditions returned to collect and inventory the flora. Today the Hengduan Mountain region, comprising western Sichuan and eastern Tibet (Xizang), is considered by international conservation organizations to be a hotspot of biodiversity, a term used to designate areas with a high number of endemic species (those found only in a single region) that are under severe threat of destruction due to human activities.
Members of these expeditions returned to the Arboretum with seeds and live plants, dried herbarium specimens, stuffed birds, and images of plants, people and landscapes.
Search expedition collections to learn more about the natural history and ethnographic collections which are now held at Harvard's herbaria, museums, libraries, and archives.
This material depicts the area's natural and ecological resources, and also documents the social and cultural history of China and Tibet.
The Expeditions: Historical and Modern
|1924-1927 Expedition
Charles S. Sargent, first director of the Arnold Arboretum, initiated Joseph Rock's expedition to China in 1924. The three-year expedition resulted in more than 20,000 herbarium specimens, over 1,000 bird specimens, several hundred packets of seeds, 653 photographs, and a correspondence between Rock and Sargent that exceeded 300 letters and telegrams.
|Summer 1997, 1998: Western Sichuan and Summer 2000: Southeastern Tibet
In 1997, under the auspices of the Biotic Surveys and Inventory Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Arnold Arboretum began a three-year program that resulted in the addition of 32,623 specimens, of which 7,970 were unique, of vascular plants, bryophytes, and fungi to the collections of the Harvard University Herbaria and of other herbaria worldwide.
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Arboretum botanists exploring this region have included Ernest H. Wilson (1907-1911) and Shiu Ying Hu (1939-1940). Hu's visit was especially significant because she was the first woman to enter what was at the time a bandit-infested part of China.


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Serious Reads: Breaking Through Concrete, by David Hanson and Edwin Marty
The current resurgence of the back-to-the-land movement has a slightly different twist than the California-based one in the 1970s. The main obstacle facing many would-be farmers is land—which can be expensive. So rather than head to the country to cultivate crops, farmers are breaking ground in the middle of urban areas, where abandoned lots may be anywhere. In their book Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival, David Hanson and Edwin Marty show us community garden and farm projects across the country. The beautiful pictures and inspiring tales paint a picture of blooming cities, where food can be grown even in the cracks of sidewalks.
The authors traveled to Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and beyond to explore small-scale farming initiatives. Some of the projects are community gardens—pieces of land sectioned up into plots that can be cultivated by individuals. These gardens, such as P-Patch Community Garden Program in Seattle, Washington, provide a space for individuals to form communities around growing food. The 73 P-Patch plots total 23 acres of urban gardens across the city, and members collectively donate 100,000 pounds of extra produce to Seattle food banks each year.
Some farms, such as Greensgrow Farms in Philadelphia and Juniper Gardens in Kansas City, are making a profit by selling their crops at local farmers' markets and specialty stores. These small businesses provide employment opportunities to inner-city residents, new immigrants, and individuals looking to supplement their incomes. Employees are equipped with the skills to start their own farming operation, perhaps the most valuable accomplishment of these gardening organizations.
Each chapter ends with a "how-to" - how to compost; how to start a community garden; how to change your city's zoning codes; how to engage your community in education programs. These sections add another level of dimension to the narrative of the book. If you are inspired by the highlighted projects, then you can make tangible steps to starting a garden or farm of your own. There is no preaching or politics—just simple tips for those looking to grow some food for themselves.
The book is full of beautiful pictures that contrast the delicacy and bounty of agriculture with the cement and pollution of busy cities. With skylines and highways in the background, new urban farmers are rejuvenating their towns with jobs, fresh produce, and hard work. Breaking Through Concrete breaks down the new-farmer stereotype of upper-middle class 20-somethings, and reveals that people of all shapes and sizes are participating in this urban farm revival.
About the Author: A student in Providence, Rhode Island, Leah Douglas loves learning about, talking about, reading about, and consuming food. Her work has also been featured in Rhode Island Monthly Magazine.


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The illusive white orchid of the Everglades, also known as the "Ghost Orchid? It has been the subject of numerous articles and even a crime novel.
It can be found, if it can be found, in the Fakahatchee Strand. Small fortunes have been spent trekking through the Strand to locate it, high in the trees, where it escapes normal human view.
Now, you can learn more about the white, ghost orchid when Mike Owen, lead biologist for Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, appears as a special lecturer in Sanibel Island's "Ding" Darling Visitor & Education Center. Owen's free presentation will be at 10 am and 1 pm, Friday, March 21,
Owen will talk about the famous, wild orchid populations at Fakahatchee Preserve, known as the "Amazon of North America" because of its remarkable flora and fauna – 44 species of native orchids, 14 of native bromeliads, royal palms, bald cypress, Florida panthers, black bears, and more.
Admission is free to the lecture, which is sponsored by The Sanibel Captiva Trust Company and "Ding" Darling Wildlife Society-Friends of the Refuge (DDWS), as part of the latter's 12-week FridayAfternoon Lecture Series. Seating for the lectures is limited and available on a first-come basis.
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Joined: 09 Jun 2001
Posts: 67
Location: Samara, Russia
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2001 7:58 am
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Oh My God!
Yesterday night was all devoted to the news from the USA. It happened when it was 6pm in my city. I watched TV with my mouth open and couldn't believe my eyes. Terrible!
I just thought about that episode in Three Kings when Troy was tortured by an Iraq fighter and the latter said something like "imagine your little babe under ruins".
Woo, I hate to think that there are SOME things people CAN predict...
All I'm terribly afraid of is war. If politicians are inclined to think the attack has been prepared by the terrorists from the Middle East there definitely is something to be scared about, because this "area of terror" is much closer to our country than it should be.
Still I'm mourning for those innocent who died during that barbarian attack, for their families and friends. No one can stay away from this disaster. Remember Ernest Hamingway (sp?) with his For Whom The Bell Tolls? - Everybody counts.
As our President said yesterday - we are supporting you....
God bless you all.
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Joined: 09 Jun 2001
Posts: 67
Location: Samara, Russia
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2001 8:01 am
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Oh My God!
Yesterday night was all devoted to the news from the USA. It happened when it was 6pm in my city. I watched TV with my mouth open and couldn't believe my eyes. Terrible!
I just thought about that episode in Three Kings when Troy was tortured by an Iraq fighter and the latter said something like "imagine your little babe under ruins".
Woo, I hate to think that there are SOME things people CAN predict...
All I'm terribly afraid of is war. If politicians are inclined to think the attack has been prepared by the terrorists from the Middle East there definitely is something to be scared about, because this "area of terror" is much closer to our country than it should be.
Still I'm mourning for those innocent who died during that barbarian attack, for their families and friends. No one can stay away from this disaster. Remember Ernest Hamingway (sp?) with his For Whom The Bell Tolls? - Everybody counts.
As our President said yesterday - we are supporting you....
God bless you all.
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Joined: 05 Sep 2001
Posts: 380
Location: London, UK
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2001 8:33 am
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We have had the news on all day here. I still can't believe it. This will effect us all forever - and what I can't get over is how much this did look like a movie - Independence Day or something. It also felt like we were all potentially under attack. Very, very frightening, shocking and unbelievable. But in that movie we were under attack from an alien nation - but this is real, and this is other humans doing this to other humans. I can't comprehend that - surely this is the nearest we will ever get to seeing pure evil at work?
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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2001 11:17 am
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I don't believe that this will be a WWIII-this was a terrorist attack, not an attack based in one of the larger more dominant nations...if anything it may resemble desert storm...still scary and upsetting...
the facts are now that at least 46 confirmed dead...thousands missing...the capacity of the towers was 50,000 people...hundreds of police officers, fire fighters and emergency rescue crews were also killed as the second tower collapsed...the terrorists on the planes held the passengers hostage with either plastic or home-made knives...reports are now leaning towards Osama Bin Laden as the culprit...transmissions were intercepted in the US where some of his group were talking about "having successfully hit targets in the US"...the Palestinians may not be responsible but those who are celebrating in the streets should be ashamed-more than ashamed. If the US attacked the Palestinians, we wouldn't be handing candy out to our children and laughing in the streets...their minds have been propagandized beyond reclamation-they are officially sick-all life is sacred.
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Location: London, UK
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2001 1:29 pm
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I just saw footage of the Palestinians gathering to light candles and hold up signs expressing their sympathy for what has happened. Our news teams here are saying this is more representative of the mood in Palestine and that the celebrations were the small minority. I hope this is the case as I cannot think that other humans, wherever they may be, or whatever they might have endured in the past, could celebrate such horrific events.
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Location: New York
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2001 2:54 pm
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Hi all....does anyone remember me? I haven't been here in awhile. I keep meaning to come to the site and post a message, but have been moving like a crazy person. I'm still a MW fan! I came to the site today to send hugs and best wishes to everyone, especially after the tragedy that happened here yesterday. My cousin was in the World Trade Center in Tower 1 on the 48th floor, when the first plane crashed. She thank god made it out of the building...just before it fell and she has told me there were people still left in her office when she went down the stairwell, her co-workers and friends. She has accounted for many of them but not all. Inside the building they didn't know what happened, they thought it was an earthquake. I can't describe the horror when I saw the big hole in the North Tower and then the second plane crash right through the South Tower, and then realize my cousin was in there and also that my father was working in the subway down below. I also know how many people who have prayed and continue to pray those who have loved ones still inside and those who could not make it out...my heart goes out to them. My cousin told me of horrific things she saw on her way down the stairwell and some people had asthma attacks and couldn't make it all the way down, the fire-fighters and police officers were still going up as so many were still up there. She said as they neared the teens on the floors they began to realize the building was falling all that she thought and everyone else was that it was falling and they had to get out, but the fire-fighters and police officers kept going up to save lives and my heart goes out to them. The ceilings were falling in as they went down on each floor like dominoes, they stopped every floor to let people off the floor. She only realized it wasn't an earthquake when she got out and having finally stopped running when she reached the Brooklyn Bridge turned around and saw the building she just left fall to the ground. She finally got in touch with us when she reached the other side of the Bridge on Flatbush Ave, soaked from head to toe because the stairwell were scorching and covered in soot and ash, when a bus driver took her on to the bus and helped her use her cell phone the only thing she held on to....America will survive because there are to many good people for it not to. My father is ok also, but two subway tunnels collapsed. My prayers and heart and soul go out to those who are still unaccounted for and their families. Peace.
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Location: covingtion,kentucky,united states
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2001 8:21 pm
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it's really sad the way i found out... well i live in kentucky in a catholic school so i have been brough up very religiously, so yesterday morning we're in church and father barns says "i would also like you to pray for the repose of the souls of those who accidently crashed into the twin towers" and when i hear that i got really scared and sad for these people, so when i get back in to my home room my teacher walks in and she's very shaky and scared and she says" teroists are bombing our country" and my stomach just drops! and everyone inmy class got real silent. then we swtiched into my math class and she made us watch the news on tv and all this information about people dying and hijackers and all this flew at me and all i could think to do was pray and cry and i was ssooo scared my mom would get bombed and i was so sad for the people who lost they're loved ones... so everyone pray for the families and friends of yah know these people and pray that you know we dont go to war and this stops.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2001 4:16 am
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All the way over here in Australia we are feeling the terrible impacts this has had on the world. I am as are many, many others, praying for the victims, their families, friends and colleagues and those facing uncertainties whether their loved ones are alive.
This was a shocking and terrible event that will live forever in infamy.
If something like this can happen in the free world, what does that say about our future?
The world and it's people will be changed forever after these terrible events, and we will find it difficult to recover from this.
The terrible images of this tragedy will surely be imprinted in our minds, hearts and souls forever.
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Location: London, UK
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2001 7:09 am
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This absolutely effects every one of us. They have just said on the lunchtime news here that several hundred British people are almost certain to have been killed. I know this is - so very, very sadly - going to be a small figure compared to the loss in America - but it shows how so much of the world will be directly effected as well as the more general sense that our freedom has been attacked. America, you are not alone. We all want to help you, and that includes bringing the people who did this to justice. If that means action, then I for one am very prepared to support my government and NATO in whatever decisions they have to take to help you.
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2001 12:02 pm
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My prayers go out to everyone in the US and around the world...i live overseas in the middle east and i cant even begin to describe the shock everyone here is going through. No one here can believe that someone is this stupid to try and attack the most powerful country. Our school was closed on wednesday for fear of attacks since it is the American School.When we returned today(our weekend is thursday and friday) we had an assembly and a moment of prayer and silence for those whos lives have been effected. All i really wanna to say is that i heard so much negative things about the arabs and middle eastern people and since i am an american living around them i really think you guys should hear me out. You dont even have the slighest guess as to how half these people live. Most of the countries here have been in battles for so long and people have been dying for many years. They live in terrible conditions and they really cant do anything about it. When you see palestinians or other arabs partying on tv you need to remember they live in a whole different life and see things at a different perspective.They have been living in battles all their lives and when they finally see other people getting a taste of what they go trough everyday, they feel good.They really odnt think anyone knows how they feel. They dont live in the same comfort everyday as I do or most of you.
I am not supporting what happend in WTC and the Pentagon, the poeple involved should pay for what they did, but all im saying is dont hate other innocent people just because the terrorist may have come from their country...it doesnt mean they are terrorist aswell...and if you do attack them it doesnt make you any better than the terrorists...
Im an american from Cali and i have lots of arab friends and this is y im telling you this...becuase i know what nice people they r and i know how they feel when they are always steriotyped in bad ways...so please dont blame the innocent.
All my prayers go out to all of you and God Bless You.
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How do you convince a nation to support a war effort? From the draft and rationing, to gardening and military production, propaganda posters influenced the nation during World War II. A collection of authentic 1940s WWII posters from Georgia Southern University Museum make their Colorado debut at the Windsor Art & Heritage Center.
An opening reception for the public will be held on Friday, August 24, from 6 - 7:30 p.m. Light refreshments and complimentary beer from our exhibit sponsor, High Hops, will be served.


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Milwaukee Catholic Latinos react to first Latin American pope
Hispanic Americans in Milwaukee joined in on the celebration Wednesday over newly elected Pope Francis.
Latino Catholics were bursting with pride and excitement at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on the South Side.
"An honor, that's how we feel. Everyone in class, that's what they said today. We are like, on Cloud 9 right now," parishioner Margharita Guerrero said.
Father Jose Moreno's message to his parishioners Wednesday night was a fresh start for the Catholic church and looking towards Latin America to lead that effort.
"First Jesuit, first Latin American and first "Francis," so maybe this is a new beginning; a new way of standing in the church," Moreno said.
Father Hugo Londono is a young priest originally from Columbia. He has been in Milwaukee only a short time, but already knows how special this is for the city's large Hispanic population.
"The election of the pope is a worldwide celebration, but particularly for our Hispanic roots. It's a very exciting moment, joy and happiness," Londono said.
For the youngest members of the Catholic church, they too said they witnessed history Wednesday.
"I told them I'm sure he speaks Spanish, he's from Argentina, and his name is Jorge, and they were all cheering, they were very excited," St. Anthony's Parish School Dean of Students Susana Contreras said.
Many Catholics said they hope the new pope's humble upbringing and focus on helping the poor will also steer the Church in a new direction.


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The White Sox haven't done much damage from the left side all season, and Kenny knows it.
"In hindsight, it's something I should have probably addressed," KW said. "I didn't, so that's why you're sitting here now and everyone's talking about it. However, we've accomplished some things without that piece. It's got to be the right guy for the right price. If it's not the right guy for the right price, I don't think you drop down to another level just to do something."
One tidbit from KW: "There's been a lot that's been talked about about some guys that may be moved and I have no intention of moving them."
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Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal says he will sign an executive order to suspend six of nine DeKalb County School Board members.
Deal made the announcement Monday although federal judge issued an order temporarily preventing him from replacing board members until after a hearing on Friday.
State education officials recommended suspensions for the board members after a roughly 14-hour meeting on Thursday.
Deal says he will appoint a nominating committee to find replacements for the ousted board members, although they will have 30 days to apply for reinstatement after the executive order is signed.
The DeKalb school system was put on probation through the end of 2013 and risks losing accreditation. An audit of the school system found evidence of fiscal mismanagement and unethical practices.


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O.J. Simpson, left, confers with defense team member Dustin Marcello during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Back for a second day of his hearing in Las Vegas, former football great O.J. Simpson entered the courtroom shackled on Tuesday, hoping to prove to a judge that his former lawyer botched the 2008 case that landed him in prison.
The Heisman Trophy winner and one-time Hollywood actor, now graying and stocky at 65 years old, is expected to be in court through Friday for the hearing. Simpson is alleging that his ex-lawyer, Yale Galanter, gave him bad advice that resulted in the 2008 robbery conviction that he is currently serving a 9 to 33-year sentence for.
Clad in his blue prison jumpsuit, flanked by new lawyers now, Simpson was granted one wish on Tuesday: The judge agreed when asked by Simpson's lawyers to free one of hands from his handcuffs so he could take notes and drink water in the courtroom. Shackles remained on his ankles.
But Simpson's bigger request of Clark County District Judge Linda Marie Bell — to let him be a free man on the basis that he had improper legal representation — may not be so easily granted. To try to sway the judge to free him, Simpson could testify as early as Wednesday.
Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in 2007 in a Las Vegas hotel room, an unexpected turn of events in the life of a football legend who was acquitted 12 years before of murdering his wife and her friend.
Simpson testified once in his civil trial in 1995, but this will be the first time he is testifying in a criminal case — albeit just a hearing — and experts say he has little choice.
"He has to. He's making certain allegations about communications with his lawyer, and why he did and did not do things, and that he didn't get a plea offer, and that he thought it was OK to go to the hotel room and do these things" said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who was a commentator during Simpson's 1995 trial and has observed his Las Vegas trial. "If he wants to succeed on his petition, he has to do it."
Simpson is now claiming his ex-lawyer not only rejected defense moves that could have helped him, but Galenter even met with him the night before the robbery and approved of it. Of course, it's his word against Galanter's, who is scheduled to testify Friday.
This type of a proceeding, known as a writ of habeas corpus and often called a "Hail Mary motion," is often attempted by people behind bars, but rarely succeeds, Levenson said.
"Less than one percent of the people who file these succeed. Everybody sitting in prison wants out, and this is how they try to get out. Many of them claim their lawyers have been ineffective," she said. "He may have a good case, but it's going to come down to whether the judge believes him or believes his lawyer."
Whether Simpson testifying on his behalf will help or hurt his case has yet to be seen. In 1995, after he was acquitted in Los Angeles of murder his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, he testified for the first and only time in a subsequent civil case in which he was found liable for civil damages of $33.5 million.
"People may not remember that. He wasn't a very good witness," Levenson said. "He has a range of issues, from anger management to the like."
A previous appeal by Simpson was turned down in 2010. If he stays in prison, he would be eligible for parole when he is 70.
On Monday, a friend of Simpson's testified that Galanter was "dismissive" of concerns Simpson voiced about how the 2008 trial was going.
"Mr. Simpson was ... somewhat intimidated by Mr. Galanter. He was dominated by him. He tended not to question what he told him," said James Barnett, a Las Vegas businessman.
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Jenna Fischer of 'The Office' fame welcomed a new baby girl into the world!
The 40-year-old actress and her husband, director Lee Kirk, added to their family on May 25 with the birth of their second baby.
"We are pleased to announce the birth of our daughter Harper Marie Kirk," the pair told E! News. "Born May 25, 2014. The family is doing great. We are happy, healthy and sleepy."
The couple also shared a photo of the adorable baby sleeping in a pink, heart-patterned onesie. Harper is now little sister to Jenna and Lee's 2-year-old son Weston, making quite the perfect family of four.
The actress' 'Office' costar John Krasinski and his wife Emily Blunt had their own baby girl this past February. Can you imagine if little Harper and Hazel became as close of friends as Jenna and John? Be still, our 'Office'-loving hearts!
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The letter is mailed from Gold Hill, Oregon.
The eleven hundred residents of this lingering gold-rush town, mostly mechanics and carpenters and retail clerks in other places, wake with the sun and end their day with a walk to the aluminum mailbox bolted to a post at the edge of their yard. In between, Carrie Grabenhorst heads out of town on highway 99, follows the Rogue River, and turns right on Sardine Creek Road. She turns left at a large madrone tree and heads up a quarter mile of dirt road, takes the right fork, goes past the sagging red barn to a white clapboard house with green trim, where she takes a dog biscuit from her pocket and offers it to the large golden retriever. It's a Monday, about 2:00 p.m. The dog stops barking. This is the usual peace, negotiated after thousands of visits over eighteen years.
Often Grabenhorst's elderly customers are waiting at the door, or even by the mailbox, for her right-hand-drive Jeep to edge onto the shoulder. Many of them are alone all day. Their postal carrier is that one reliable human contact, six days a week. Some are older veterans. Quite a few have limited mobility, and it isn't uncommon for her to lend a hand with an errand; she's been known to pick up milk in town and bring it along with the mail. Grabenhorst drives seventy miles a day and makes 660 deliveries. On a typical day, that might include fifty packages of medicine.
Her route is one of 227,000 throughout America. On the South Side of Chicago, carriers walk cracked sidewalks, past empty lots and overfilled projects. In the suburbs of Phoenix, mail trucks deliver to banks of mailboxes outside gated communities. In Brooklyn, they pushed their carts up sidewalks and ducked into bodegas on September 11, as they always do. Residents say they were comforted to see their postal workers still making the rounds, the government still functioning. In rural Alaska, mail comes by snowmobile and seaplane. In chaps and a cowboy hat, Charlie Chamberlain leads a train of postal mules down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where a tribe of Havasupai Indians lives. Wearing blue trunks and a ball cap, Mark Lipscomb delivers letters by speedboat up and down the Magnolia River in Alabama.
Want to send a letter to Talkeetna, Alaska, from New York? It will cost you fifty dollars by UPS. Grabenhorst or Lipscomb can do it for less than two quarters: the same as the cost of getting a letter from Gold Hill to Shady Cove, Oregon, twenty miles up the road. It's how the postal service works: The many short-distance deliveries down the block or across the city pay for the longer ones across the country. From the moment Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first postmaster general in 1775, the purpose of the post office has always been to bind the nation together. It was a way of unifying thirteen disparate colonies so that the abolitionist in Philadelphia had access to the same information and newspapers as the slaveholder in Augusta, Georgia.
Today the postal service has a network that stretches across America: 461 distribution centers, 32,000 post offices, and 213,000 vehicles, the largest civilian fleet in the world. Trucks carrying mail log 1.2 billion miles a year. The postal service handles almost half of the entire planet's mail. It can physically connect any American to any other American in 3.7 million square miles of territory in a few days, often overnight: a vast lattice of veins and arteries and capillaries designed to circulate the American lifeblood of commerce and information and human contact.
Grabenhorst sports a few blond streaks in her brown bangs, which curl over her forehead, perfectly framing her azure eyes and chiseled cheekbones. Rural carriers don't wear official uniforms, so today she's in shorts and an Oregon State T-shirt. Letters arrive at the post office in Gold Hill already sequenced in the order Grabenhorst will deliver them, but the "flats" — magazines, catalogs, large envelopes — and packages do not, so in the back of the post office she and her two colleagues stand at their own three-sided bank of metal slots, hundreds of them, one for each address, and merge the separate streams — a process called "throwing the mail."
As the junior carrier, Grabenhorst has the peanut route. Paula Joneikis is the senior carrier, thirty-three years on the job; she took over her route from another lifer named Bev Washburn. That's how these jobs work — when you get a route, you hold on to it, maybe even try to pass it on to someone in your family. Failing that, you take a younger colleague under your wing and share your particular wisdom: the life history of your customers, how this one is related to that one, when so-and-so got to town, when so-and-so split up. Joneikis has a lot of "silver foxes" on her route — she tries to remember who's recently had an operation, and she'll come to the door with the mail. "We're a lifeline to these people," she says.
"All of these people are family," Grabenhorst adds. She color-codes all 660 addresses for her morning sort: a little pink flag affixed to a slot means the customer is on vacation; a yellow flag means the whole family has moved; an orange flag is for customers who don't want packages left when they aren't home; a green flag means an individual has left the family: moved out, gone to college, divorced, died.
When she gets to their driveway, she'll put the bundle into their box, her box. By law, only the postal service can put mail into a mailbox. It's a monopoly that ensures every citizen, in every square mile of the country, has the ability to receive mail and that the government can reach every citizen. No branch of government serves us so consistently, so intimately — a federal employee literally touching every house in America every day but Sunday.
In mid-November, the postmaster general, Patrick Donahoe, reported that the post office had lost $15.9 billion for the year and was operating on just a few days' cash flow, having reached its legal debt limit. He all but begged Congress to take action. Mail was down 5 percent from the year before, and wages and benefits and other worker-related costs were an unsustainable 80 percent of the postal service's $81 billion operating expenses.
But nobody wants to hear that more than 70 percent of those losses were for extraordinary budget obligations mandated by Congress, or that the postal service posted its thirteenth-straight quarter of productivity gains. In a nation obsessed with cutting budgets and government fat, there is no better target than the federal postal worker who will have her route delivering paper mail for life, and then try to pass it on to her daughter.
Eighty-five percent of America's critical infrastructure is controlled by the private sector. We let private companies fight our wars; we have 110,000 defense contractors in Afghanistan compared with 68,000 American troops. We let private companies lock up 16 percent of our federal inmates and instruct 10 percent of our students. They provide our phone service and Internet access and air travel and hospital care. Surely, many believe, private companies can deliver our mail better and faster and cheaper than the federal government.
If you work with actual pieces of mail — if you are a carrier, a handler, a clerk, but not an administrator — it is said that you "touch the mail." The postal service has more than half a million full-time workers and a hundred thousand contract employees, the vast majority of which are mail touchers. Each morning, Grabenhorst enters into a ledger she keeps at her workstation exactly how much mail she's thrown and will be delivering that day. In Washington, D.C., they count in billions of pieces, but carriers talk about mail volume in feet — the width of a mail stack laid on its edge, face to flap.
On this unremarkable Monday, she'd written 14.75 feet. She flipped the pages of the ledger back to the previous year, to the same date: 17.5 feet.
That we're sending less mail is not debatable. Nor is it debatable that the post office as we've known it for the past forty years, one built for speed and brute force in sorting and distributing an ever-surging flood of paper documents, is outdated in our digital world.
This isn't a story about whether we could live without the post office.
It's about whether we'd want to.
Seven years later the guy in the Oval Office is trying to destroy the postal service just to hurt the man who owns the Washington Post.


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My webmistress told me that I needed to answer some questions for my Christie's Info page. Now, this made me wonder what she'd spiked her coffee with that morning. Doesn't she know I'm Southern? Which basically means, not only am I long-winded, but I seldom tell the truth if a lie makes a better story. Nevertheless, against my better judgment, I agreed.
Web Mistress—Question: What are your goals?
Christie's Answer: (Is she kidding? Fine, I'll do it.) I have three goals in life. (Okay, that's a little white lie, I have more than three, but only three are PC enough to share.)
1. To write entertaining books that will make my readers laugh out loud and want to fall in love all over again. Readers may or may not then want to trade in their husbands for some hunky guys like my heroes or my real-life hero, my husband. (Okay that last part about my husband isn't really a lie, but I might be stretching it a bit.)
2. To help other people reach their dream of publication. (You might be thinking that's awfully generous of me, but I'm really not all that giving. I just love the high I get when I see other people meet their own goals. Plus, I figure they will be indebted to me and buy my books.)
3. To grow taller. (Let's just say that I don't get to enjoy all the rides at the theme parks.)
Now, I know that third goal presents a bit of a problem. Being like most women writers in their early thirties (the age thing is just an out-and-out lie,) I spend most of my time at the computer and enjoy working out my brain more than my body. That's why I'm considering altering the third goal to read…"To grow smaller." Smaller, as in pants size and not in height.
Web Mistress—Question: Where are you from and where do you live now? Do you have family?
Christie's Answer: Southern from the tip of my hat (which isn't very high) all the way to my toenails, (which needs a good painting.) I was born and raised in Alabama. I say "Y'all" and "Ain't" and don't apologize for it, either.
In 1986, I was transplanted to Texas—the land of larger tales than even Alabama. I live with my husband, my teenage son—a boy who is six-two and wears a size 13 men's shoe—whom I'm convinced was swapped at birth with the baby of some professional basketball player. Also accompanying me in my abode are my four cats, one dog, and a pond of turtles. My daughter, artist extraordinaire, has already flown the nest, gotten hitched, and regularly brings my grandpuppy for lap-sitting visits. (Trust me. It's not as easy as it sounds.) My son-in-law is a nice guy. I'm pretty sure he's only denied knowing me once. The fact that it was at the wedding stung a bit, but hey…I love him anyway.
Web Mistress—Question: Where did you go to school to get your degree?
Christie's Answer: Well, I went through Harvard. (I was in Boston and we drove right through the campus.) Actually, I graduated from a slightly less prestigious university, The College of Hard Knocks, with a degree in If-You-Want-it--Make-it-Happen and minored in the Art-of-BS—which I prefer to call fiction. Formal education aside, I'm a how-to book junkie, and an advocate of "never stop learning."
Web Mistress—Question: Did you always know you wanted to be a writer?
Christie's Answer: Actually I had my heart set on Pro Basketball. But I always was a dreamer. Writing didn't come naturally, but the art of storytelling—AKA B-S'ing—did. (It might be a southern thing.) Of course, my dad swears up and down that I inherited my talent of making up crap from him. Hey…he is a contractor.
Web Mistress—Question: When and how did you start writing?
Christie's Answer: I started writing in '84 when my husband was trying to get me to go to college to become a Spanish teacher. In addition to BS'ing, I also have a knack for languages. I can say "Where's the bathroom in about six languages." Any how, when husband approached about the being a Spanish teacher, I had to come up with something I wanted to do real fast or he was signing my butt up for school.) So I blurted out the first career I could think of using the Alphabet as my guide. Animal Husbandry? I skipped that one. Attorney? Nah, I'm a better person than that. "Author! I want to be an author." How perfect was that? I get to stay home and sit on my butt and write. Write? Well, there was that little problem. I'd have to learn how to do it first.
That little problem turned into a bigger one than I anticipated. But not being a quitter, I persevered and my Silhouette Romance was published in '94. Then things happened, editors quit, and the magazine publishing business called my name. Six years later, with almost 3000 national magazine credits and tired of being a one-book wonder, I started writing novels again. Breaking back in wasn't a piece of cake. For almost six years, I kicked, screamed and bit (I profusely apologizes to that one editor, too) until I found my break.
And what a break! Four books sold in one day. Still wearing pajamas, I got off the phone with my agent that morning, and sat there and stared at the cursor blinking on my computer screen. When my husband came home seven hours later, I was still sitting there in my PJs, staring at the blinking cursor. And the only thing I could say was…"Boy, I'm glad I didn't go into Animal Husbandry."
Web Mistress—Question: Where do you get your ideas?
Christie's Answer: Generally, on the clearance rack at Wal-Mart. I hate this question, I'd rather tell someone my weight. (Okay that's the biggest lie I've told.) The truth is my answer is sort of sappy. And the last thing a southern woman wants to be accused of is being sappy. But here it goes… My stories are gifts—little gifts that sometimes show up out of nowhere. I'm not actually saying I have a writing angel who pops in with plots, but I do notice I get a lot more ideas when I'm maintaining a full life and not neglecting my friends, family, pets, or the spiritual side of life. And, yes, I also believe in karma.
Web Mistress—Question: Have you met all your goals?
Christie's Answer: I've met some and I'm working on some. My second goal of helping other writers is in the making. My nonfiction book, co-authored with Faye Hughes, THE EVERYTHING GUIDE TO WRITING ROMANCE NOVELS, is scheduled to hit the stores in September of 2008. I also offer writing workshops that are educational, motivational and entertaining. I love to share what I've learned and if you need to know how to ask about the whereabouts of the bathroom, I've got you covered.
Now, for that third goal, getting taller and making the BIG team? Well, I called the Rockets and informed them not to wait up on me. I'm pretty sure that writing novels is about as good as it gets.
So . . . that's a little bit about me—my goals, my family, and the fact that I always like knowing where the bathroom is at. And to be honest, I'm big on goals. So tell me, do you have some goals you're working on? What do you want to do when you grow up?
--Crime Scene Christie


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