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INTERVIEWS and EVENTS at SciFiGuy.ca:
Contests:Needless to say my Halloween Contest ends tonight. Three winners of five books each. Also you can win copies of signed copies of Dark Haven and The Blood King by Gail Z. Martin. Details in my interview with Gail. You have until Midnight Monday. I have just added a giveaway for Bound to Shadows by Keri Arthur. Details here.
Author Events:
- November 2 - Romance author Susan Blexrud will be visiting to talk about her writing and her newest paranormal romance Real Men Have Fangs.
- November 4 - Julie Kenner will be visiting to introduce her new urban fantasy series The Blood Lily Chronicles and the first book Tainted. We'll also be doing a giveaway of an an ARC of Torn and a signed copy of Carpe Demon. You can read my review of Tainted here.
AUTHOR and BOOK NEWS:
Marjorie Liu has joined the Clockwork Storybook group author blog and you can read her first post here. Other members include Mark Finn; Daryl Gregory; Paul Cornell; Chris Roberson; Mattew Sturges; Bill Williams and Bill Willingham
For fans of the Kitty Norville series, Carrie Vaughn answers the question "How many Kitty books will there be?"
And for fans of the Riley Jenson Guardians series, who ask the question " How many books will be in the Riley series?", Keri Arthur's FAQ says -
Nalini Singh says she will have a story in a new anthology next year called Burning Up along with Angela Knight, Virginia Kantra and Meljean Brook.I have nine books planned in total. There will be an offshoot series, set in the same world and featuring Risa, Dia's little girl. It'll focus more on the Aedh and demons rather than vamps and werewolves.
Burned, the next House of Night book will be out May 27, 2010 according to P.C. Cast.
- Free prequel scene to the forthcoming Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
- Seanan McGuire (Rosemary and Rue) at Genreville
- Jessica Slade (Seduced by Shadows) is at Number One Novel talking about writing and reading, and at In Search of Heroes interviewing her hero, Ferris Archer.
- Alexandra Ivy at Literary Escapism
- Nicole Peeler (Tempest Rising) at SciFiChick, at Whatever and at Falcata Times
- Marie Brennan (Onyx Court series) at I Am Write
- Charles de Lint at Genreville
- Jackie Kessler on Blog talk Radio
- Lori Devoti (Amazon Ink) at Silk and Shadows
- Lilith Saintcrow at Genreville
- Cherie Priest (Boneshaker) at If You're Just Joining Us
- Diana Pharaoh Francis (Bitter Night) at Whatever
- Gail Z. Martin (Chronicles of the Necromancer) at Solaris
- Kelly Meding (Three Days to Dead) at Dark Fairie Tales
- P.C. & Kristin Cast television interview at PIX TV (New York)
- Mark Henry guest V-log at Bitten By Books
- Jenna Maclaine (Bound by Sin) at Wicked Little Pixie
- Scott Westerfield (Leviathan) at Tor.com
We're all part of a terrific interview author Jonathan Maberry did this month called "Still Scary After All These Years" that went live this morning over at his blog - and just in time for Halloween too! Jonathan asked the eight of us to examine such questions as "What defines a horror story?", "What makes readers shy away from modern horror?" and "Who's writing good horror today?"Lynn Viehl The pitch for my third Kyndred book (title pending approval) has been accepted, and it will be a crossover Kyndred/Darkyn novel (and to avoid spoilers that's all I'm going to say about it for now), tentatively scheduled for release in late 2010.
This past week the Chicago Sun-Times ran a terrific profile of author Chloe Neill (Friday Night Bites).
League Novel #2 - Born of Fire by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Released October 27, Book trailer for Sins of the Flesh by Caridad Pineiro
Trailer for the new Hearts at Stake YA novel by Alyxandra Harvey coming December 22:
- All Things Urban Fantasy is having a triple giveaway to celebrate hitting 50+ followers. Abigail is giving away Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs, Dark Time by Dakota Banks and Red-headed Stepchild by Jaye Wells. Contest ends Nov. 4. She also has a terrific round up of contests around the blogosphere here.
- SciFiChick has autographed copies of Bite Marks, Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Another One Bites the Dust and Biting the Bullet by Jennifer Rardin. Contest ends November 20.
- The Story Siren has a terrific contest for a copy of Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, a copy of Fallen by Lauren Kate, and a double sided Hush, Hush poster. Deadline is December 8, 2009.
- Jeri Ready-Smith has a copy of Temped by P.C. & Kristin Cast. Ends Nov. 5.
- Fangs, Fur, and Fey is holding Happy 3-year FFF Anniversary contest with some incredible prizes. Ends Nov. 13.
The Book Smugglers celebrate Halloween week with a review of The Films of John Carpenter plus a post by Meljean Brook on the film Silver Bullet.
Apparently the hit BBC show Being Human about three supernatural roommates (a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost) has been picked up by the SyFy Channel. According to The Hollywood Reporter [via Living True Blood in Dallas] -
The misfits from the hot British dramedy "Being Human" will face another challenge: being American. Syfy has handed out a 13-episode order to a U.S. version of the BBC show from RDF Media USA.Because it's Halloween I had to include this trailer for the spoof Stan Helsing:
Anna Paquin (True Blood) Interview [via Loving True Blood in Dallas]
Here's the 2nd trailer for James Cameron's Avatar - sorry about the commercial up front.
Preview for next weeks Supernatural episode -
Preview for next weeks episode of The Vampire Diaries -
Catherine Karp at Suburban Vampire features a profile of writer/director/actor/musician Annalee Autumn. Autumn's short film "Blood Bound" was a part of this past weekend's Vampire Film Festival in New Orleans. Definitely worth a look. Read the interview.
http://kellygay.blogspot.com or http://chaostitan.blogspot.com ) for information on giveaways, interviews, and a quiz! They'll be giving away several signed copies of their upcoming releases, as well as other prizes.
NOTE: I will be having both Kelly's here on December 2 for a joint guest interview. Don't miss it!
COVERS and ART:
Lurv a la Mode does a terrific profile of Young Adult releases over the next few months. My TBB is groaning already.
Richelle Mead has the French cover for Succubus Dreams.
Dark Faerie Tales has the cover for Glimmerglass by Jenna Black.
Here is a blurb created by Jeri Smith-Ready to go with the cover of Shade that was revealed last week -
16-year-old Aura can see ghosts. Then again, so can everyone around the world who was born after her. In fact, they have a word for the moment of her birth: the Shift. Aura suspects that the Shift might be connected to her missing mystery dad and an event that happened at Newgrange tomb in Ireland a year before her birth.
Ghosts can be annoying at their best. At their worst, as dark, powerful "shades," they can be deadly. So Aura's major goal in life is to undo the Shift and make the ghosts go away.
And then, her boyfriend dies and becomes a ghost.
Release date: May 18, 2010, from Simon Pulse
Chloe Neill has posted the cover copy for Twice Bitten, the third Chicagoland Vampires novel -
Merit, Chicago's newest vampire, is learning how to play well with others. Other supernaturals, that is. Shapeshifters from across the country are convening in the Windy City, and as a gesture of peace, Master Vampire Ethan Sullivan has offered their leader a very special bodyguard: Merit. Merit is supposed to protect the Alpha, Gabriel Keene—and to spy for the vamps while she's at it. Oh, and luckily Ethan's offering some steamy, one-on-one combat training sessions to help her prepare for the mission.More cover silliness over at Odd Shots. Meljean Brook's Demon Forged is again the victim.
Merit must accept the assignment, even though she knows that she'll probably regret it. And she's not wrong. Someone is gunning for Gabriel Keene, and Merit soon finds herself in the line of fire. She'll need all the help she can get to track down the would-be assassin, but everywhere she turns, there are rising tensions between supernaturals—not least between her and a certain green-eyed, centuries old master vampire.
Abigail at All Things Urban Fantasy asks the question How Much Do UF Covers Influence your Purchases?
Watch this terrific sci-fi painting by Donato Giancola called "The Mechanic" come to life. [via Irene Gallo]
Check out the Dan Dos Santos cover for Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs with out the lettering.
Cover art featured at SciFiGuy.ca this past week includes:
- "The Devil in Me" by Michelle Rowen
- "Through Stone and Sea" by Barb and J.C. Hendee
- "Burning Up" Anthology
- "Bewitched & Betrayed" by Lisa Shearin
- Chimera by Rob Thurman
- "Twice Bitten" by Chloe Neill
- "Ghosts & Echoes" by Lyn Benedict
AROUND the BLOGOSPHERE:
I am in awe of the Book Smugglers who have been running a week long series of Halloween themed posts. Here is a sampling of some of the terrific posts -
Very short stories, courtesy of Wired. com. [via Lilith Saintcrow]
BABBLING ABOUT BOOKS, AND MORE! has a very finny Intercourse With A Vampire *Video Spoof*
Forbes Traveller Magazine profiles 10 fabulous vampire vacations [via Loving True Blood in Dallas]
Vamps invade BBC Radio in this 30-minute look at bloodsuckers in books, TV, and films. [via P.N. Elrod]
You have to love statistics like these [via Publishers Weekly] -
According to Forbes, the creator of Middle Earth is the 5th top-grossing dead celeb.Jeaniene Frost points us to this halloween video of urban fantasy / paranormal romance authors Jill Myles, Ilona Andrews, Meljean Brook, Nalini Singh, and Patrice Michelle, as you've never seen them before.
Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings has a great post with Author News, Interesting Tidbits and More for 10-28-09
As long as I've been working on it, I thought I would feel miserable to end my story. I really expected that typing "forever" would have me busting out in tears. Instead, I felt a moment of overwhelming satisfaction – the kind you can't fake – and then a sense of peace.
- Lynn Viehl commenting on concluding her StarDoc Series.
Carrie Vaughn Goes Steampunk
Nancy Holder at the Finger Lakes
Tracey O'Hara at her first book store signing for Night's Cold Kiss
Charlaine Harris with dogs Oscar (dachshund), Rocky (boxer-spaniel crossbreed), and Scrunch (terrier). [via Loving True Blood in Dallas]


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Black Box Theater | Reel Injun Screening
Thursday, December 1 | 11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm
Free with Admission
13 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
In support of our exhibition Cement Prairie: The History and Legacy of the 1952 American Indian Urban Relocation Program, NUMU's Black Box Theatre will be screening Reel Injun.
Reel Injun (2009) is a 2009 Canadian documentary film directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, and Jeremiah Hayes that explores the portrayal of Native Americans in film.
Rating: PG Running Time: 1 hour 26 minutes Genres: Documentary, Western
Trailer Available Below:

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Hey Moron: Taking a First Date to a Super Bowl Party Is a Terrible Idea
Team pride. Trash talk. The aroma of chicken wings. Many things may be in the air at a Super Bowl party, but romance shouldn't be one of them.
A recent survey by the dating service Just Lunch found that 53% of single people feel it's a bad idea to bring a first date to a Super Bowl party. Well, duh. Between rooting for your team, making sure your bets are covered and scarfing down the five different types of subs stashed in the kitchen, reminding your date that she looks nice isn't exactly the meat of your game plan on such an epic sports day.
Just Lunch spokeswoman Irene LaCota earned her paycheck by explaining what is painfully obvious:
The Super Bowl makes a lousy first date because you're paying more attention to the TV set than the person you're with."
Cris Collinsworth couldn't have broken it down any better himself.
The rules for people who have already been going out for some time seem to be a whole lot clearer than Ray Lewis' experience with PEDs. Eighty-eight percent of men and 75% of women who are dating someone say they're fine going to a Super Bowl party together.
If you have designs on meeting the love of your life at a Super Bowl bash, you may want to reconsider. Much like a Cleveland Browns Super Bowl victory, it's probably never going to happen; a measly 5% of men and 6% of women report that they've dated someone they met at a Super Bowl party. Wow, that means there's a better chance you'll drop a pound or two after eating at one of these bashes, than pick yourself up a new babe.
It also seems that men would prefer watching the Super Bowl the same way you spent your Saturday nights growing up: at home. A surprising 53% of men claim they'd rather watch the game in their abodes, while the same number of women would choose going to a Super Bowl party – probably to complain that their man refuses to be social.


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Maybe the Arduino guys have converted the EEPROM library to do this.
- To modify a single byte of flash memory you are forced to rewrite an entire "page", (that is 256 bytes).- Before writing a "page" of flash memory you need to erase it, so you should read temporary in RAM the old flash content, start erase, apply the changes in ram and finally write the updated page.
Just do not understand how important things like this were not implemented before the release of the product.
Hi there!I just got my brand new Arduino Due and realized the hard way that the EEPROM library is no longer supported.Are there any news on EEPROM-equivalent functionality being supported?Thanx in advance!
// write the value 123 to address 0dueFlashStorage.write(0,123);// read byte at address 0byte b = dueFlashStorage.read(0);
Fantastic! The in ability to save to a permanent store on the DUE has always been its down fall in my eyes.Ill be trying this out for a few projects soon Question, there's 512KB of Flash on the DUE.Does this library use the final (1kb? 2KB? 5KB?) for use with the library or do you define this during initialising of the sketch?


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Galaxy Stakes (2004) Spinster Stakes (2005) Maker's Mark Mile Stakes (2006) Sunshine Millions Turf (2006) Eatontown Handicap (2006) Gardenia Handicap (2006) Sorority Stakes (2006) Sunshine Millions Distaff (2007) Molly Pitcher Stakes (2007) Just A Game Handicap (2007) Spectacular Bid Stakes (2007) Lamplighter Stakes (2008) Longfellow Stakes (2008) Indiana Breeders' Cup Oaks (2008) Mac Diarmida Handicap (2008) Bonnie Miss Stakes (2008) Dearly Precious Stakes (2009) Jersey Shore Breeders' Cup Stakes (2009) Pennsylvania Derby (2009)
Eddie Castro (born April 10, 1985) is a Panamanian-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing. He grew up on a produce farm in Panama where he learned to ride saddle horses. Influenced by the accomplishments of other local jockeys, Castro attended the Panamanian jockey school and began riding in races in December 2002. In just over three months he rode thirty-six winners in Panama then decided to move to the United States where he debuted on April 16, 2003 at Gulfstream Park in Florida. Although his fellow apprentice jockeys had more a three-and-a-half month head start, Castro wrapped up the year as the winner of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. And 2003 was his big break.
On June 4, 2005 at Calder Race Course, Eddie Castro set an American record with nine wins on a single race card and on November 15, 2006 at Churchill Downs won his 1,000th race. That year, he rode Miesque's Approval to victory in the Sunshine Millions Turf and the Breeders' Cup Mile.


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VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) – Winning the U.S. Open last year didn't just earn Rory McIlroy his first major title, it made him believe he was ready to become the best player in the world.
McIlroy justified his long-held reputation as golf's new star and possible heir to Tiger Woods by rolling to an eight-shot victory at Congressional last June.
Since then he has topped the rankings, overtaken Luke Donald and Lee Westwood, and the 23-year-old Northern Irishman believes there is no reason he can't stay there.
"I think maybe after Congressional last year, I started thinking of myself as definitely one of the elite players,'' McIlroy said.
"You have to believe that you're the best and I certainly do believe that. And it's just a matter of going out there and showing everyone what I believe.''
What McIlroy has done since his record-breaking exploits at Congressional is plant some consistency into his game, putting himself on a par with Donald in that regard.
From the European Masters last September through to his most recent win, at the Honda Classic at the start of March which lifted him to No. 1, McIlroy chalked up two victories, eight top-five finishes and an 11th place. His missed cut at The Players Championship two weeks ago was the first time he failed to make the weekend in 23 tournaments.
No wonder he is so bullish.
"I think you have to believe that you're better than anyone else,'' he said. "On my day, I believe I can beat anyone in the world – it's just finding that capability of when you're not playing the best, to still come out on top.
"That's the thing that I'm trying to learn how to do, because I've proved in the past that when I'm on my game, I'm pretty hard to beat.''
His comments contrasted sharply to those of Donald, when asked if he was the best player in the world. Unlike McIlroy, Donald took the diplomatic route.
"I don't really think in terms of that. I think my focus is to try and always continue to improve and be a better golfer,'' Donald said.
Donald described McIlroy as "the most naturally gifted player there is.''
"He just has that look about him – free-flowing, hits the ball far, just seems really effortless,'' the Englishman said. "I feel, personally, if I don't work hard and grind it out, I'm not going to be that successful. It's just not that easy for me.''
This week's BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth will be McIlroy's first appearance at a European event in seven months, since the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland last October.
Now based in the United States, he has limited his trips back over the Atlantic but always relishes a return to the home of European golf, which he visited regularly as a kid when the World Match Play Championship was hosted at Wentworth.
"This is a golf course I love, a golf course I came to every year since I was 10 years old,'' McIlroy recalled.
"I ran 36 holes every day. My mum and dad left me at the first tee at 8 a.m. and I didn't see them until 6 p.m. It was great.''
McIlroy plays alongside Ernie Els and Martin Laird for his first two rounds at an event where he has only one top-10 finish in four starts.


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Fernandez's off-field energy translates to mound
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The first pitch on Wednesday afternoon was scheduled for 1:10 p.m. ET, but Jose Fernandez's mental alarm was already going off several hours earlier.
In fact, the Marlins' ace was so eager for his second Grapefruit League start, against the Mets at Tradition Field, that he tossed and turned through a restless night.View Full Game Coverage
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The first pitch on Wednesday afternoon was scheduled for 1:10 p.m. ET, but Jose Fernandez's mental alarm was already going off several hours earlier.
In fact, the Marlins' ace was so eager for his second Grapefruit League start, against the Mets at Tradition Field, that he tossed and turned through a restless night.View Full Game Coverage
"I went to sleep about 8:30 thinking it was the biggest game of my life," Fernandez said. "I kept waking up, like, at 4 in the morning, and I looked at the phone. I was like, 'I still have time to sleep.' I keep waking up, waiting for the game, excited that I was throwing three innings."
Yes, Spring Training is a big deal to Fernandez, the 21-year-old who treats every day in a baseball uniform as if he is living a dream.
Fernandez makes it clear that he isn't just using his Grapefruit League starts to go through the motions. He is approaching every trip to the mound as if the results matter.
From a performance standpoint, Wednesday was another typical day at the office.
Fernandez breezed through 3 1/3 scoreless innings. He scattered two hits and struck out two without issuing a walk. He exited after 43 pitches.
"I'm feeling good," he said. "I'm enjoying it."
His fastball hit 97 mph, showing the arm strength is there. And he threw fastballs in several two-strike counts, just to give hitters something else to think about.
"The ball feels right coming out of my hand. I'm not overthrowing," he said. "I'm really happy about that. I'm not scared. Some people say, 'Oh, you're throwing too hard.' I'm not scared. That's what I'm working to do, to throw without effort, and the ball goes.
"What I work on is being confident with all my pitches. I don't want anybody to know what I'm throwing, except for the catcher. That's what I'm trying to do out there."
Fernandez has now thrown 5 1/3 scoreless innings in two Grapefruit League starts, and he is right on pace to make his first Opening Day start, which will be on March 31 against the Rockies at Marlins Park.
His energy is catchy, and it continues to rub off on his teammates.
In terms of being upbeat and always himself, Fernandez reminds catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia of David Ortiz.
Saltalamacchia was part of Boston's World Series title team a year ago, and he sees some of Big Papi in his team's young ace.
"He's a lot like Ortiz, personality-wise," Saltalamacchia said. "What you see is what you get. How he is on field is how he is off the field. Super nice guy. Always energetic, having fun. But he's young. You see a lot of guys like Pedro Martinez, who were young and acted like that. Then, 20 years later, they still act like that."
Fernandez mixes passion with intensity. He's upbeat, honest and focused on being the best, all at the same time.
"It's good," Saltalamacchia said. "It's a good personality to have in the clubhouse. You want to have fun. It doesn't need to be serious 100 percent of the time."
Pitching certainly is fun to Fernandez.
Only a team-imposed innings limit shut down his remarkable 2013 National League Rookie of the Year season. His final start came on Sept. 11, so he has so much pent-up energy he is ready to unleash right now. He is wired for every start.
"To me, pitching out there, it was another day in the season," he said. "I'm taking this like it is the season. It was another day out there, trying to work hard, trying to get better. That's what I want to do."
In his mind the offseason lasted an eternity.
"The offseason, I think, took forever," he said. "Now that I'm back playing, I'm really happy that I am. I'm really excited to be out there and play for my team.
"I haven't pitched in so long. I'm so excited to pitch. Now, the four days before my start are taking like, forever."
So much is happening so quickly for Fernandez, but a constant is how revved up his personality is.
The Marlins may have capped his innings a year ago, but they have no intention of limiting his outgoing nature.
"He's got a year of experience under his belt," manager Mike Redmond said. "At the same time, too, his personality is his personality. He's got an energy level that's off the charts. He likes to have fun. Nobody is ever going to take that away from him. That's what makes him great."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter @JoeFrisaro.


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CRESTVIEW � Tom Moody seeks the community's support in giving a facelift to the YMCA in downtown Crestview.
CRESTVIEW � Tom Moody seeks the community's support in giving a facelift to the YMCA in downtown Crestview.
Membership fees and dues cover just enough to pay utility bills, he said.
"We need to generate some money," he said. "We need to paint the place and the outside (of the building) needs pressure washing."
In addition, the facility could use a storage area for sports equipment, which currently is placed in crowded offices.
To raise money, Moody organized the "Be a Cowboy or Cowgirl for a Day" at Old Warrior Ranch.
Families up to four members can attend for $20; all funds raised benefit the Crestview YMCA, which has more than 3,000 members.
Ticket sales are limited to 200.
Families are encouraged to wear their cowboy hats for horse and pony rides, a petting zoo, line dancing, archery and fishing; anglers should bring a fishing pole and bait. Children can play in a bounce house and attendees can swim in the ranch�s pool. Hot dogs and refreshments will be available.
"It's going to be a family-oriented day," Moody said. "We are going to have all sorts of fun and western activities."
Want to go?
What: "Be a Cowboy or Cowgirl for a Day,� a Crestview YMCA fundraiser
When: 2-6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 29.
Cost: $20 for up to a family of four. Purchase tickets 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday or 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Crestview YMCA, 298 N. Wilson St.
Where: Old Warrior Ranch 3229 Audrey Drive, Crestview.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Matthew Brown at 850-682-6524 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbMatthew.


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2014 Outdoor: Did not compete.
2013-14 Indoor: Competed in the 400m dash at the season-opening Bison Opener at Bucknell, clocking in with a time of 52.36.
2013 Outdoor: Competed in the 200m and 400m dash events at the Big Dawg Invitational held at UMBC Stadium on March 30… Placed ninth in the 400m race on his home track… Finished 21st in the 400m dash at the 2013 America East Outdoor Championships... Named to the America East Honor Roll.
2012-13 Indoor: Placed ninth in the 400m dash at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… Recorded his top time in the event (50.08) at the Gotham Cup in New York City… Also competed in the 500m run and the 200m dash during the season… Finished 11th at the Penn State Relays in the 500m event with a top season time of 1:08.61.
Background: 2012 2A Regional champion in the 400m dash for Largo High... Finished second at the state meet... Also victorious in the 500m dash for Largo... Won the 300m dash at the 2011 3A championships... Helped Largo win the state championship in the 4x400 three times.
Personal: Son of Allen and India Coaxum... Has one sister, Nia... Undecided in his major... Born July 3, 1994.


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Licensing | About CDE | State Board | Offices | Staff Directory | Careers at CDE
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Senate Bill 10-191 Timeline
CDE is committed to supporting all Colorado school districts during the development and implementation of Senate Bill 10-191.
Sample District Educator Evaluation Work Plan
To guide districts in implementing the new educator evaluation requirements, CDE has created a timeline and optional work plan: Sample District Educator Evaluation Work Plan
High-Level and Detailed Implementation Timeline
Educator Effectiveness (SB 191)
- The State Model Evaluation System for teachers and principals is being piloted (the model system for principals was also piloted in the 2011-12 school year).
- CDE is collecting data, information and feedback and meeting with pilot districts to gather lessons learned, analyze data and make adjustments to the system as needed.
- Criteria for evaluating Specialized Service Professionals (SSPs) will be determined. SSPs (also known as other licensed personnel) include school audiologists, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, psychologists, social workers, speech-language pathologists, counselors and teachers on special assignment.
- All probationary and non-probationary teachers must receive a written evaluation at least two weeks before the last contract day (districts may use current evaluation system to meet this requirement). Districts are encouraged to practice applying student learning to educator evaluations.
- The Colorado Content Collaboratives work to identify assessments for the CDE Resource Bank . CDE Resource Bank launches with measures of student learning over time which can be used for educator evaluation. Assessments go through a pilot and peer review process and adjustments are made.
- Every school district in Colorado is required to provide annual assurances by July 1, 2013 that shows they are implementing the State Model Evaluation System or a locally developed system that meets all statutory and regulatory requirements.
- The new evaluation requirements, based on the Quality Standards, will be implemented statewide. Because it's the first year, a final rating of partially effective or ineffective will not count towards the loss of non-probationary status. Therefore, this year is a hold harmless year.
- Rubrics for evaluating Specialized Service Providers (other licensed personnel) will be tested (tentative).
- CDE will continue to meet with districts to improve the State Model Evaluation System based on feedback and educator experience.
- The Colorado Content Collaboratives will continue to refine and build the CDE Resource Bank with assessments and instructional tools.
- Evaluations based on the Quality Standards continue to be implemented.
- This will be the first year that a final rating of partially effective or ineffective will be considered in the loss of non-probationary status (after two consecutive years of similar ratings).
- CDE will continue to meet with all districts to improve the State Model Evaluation System based on feedback and educator experience.
- CDE will continue to support districts as they implement S.B. 10-191.
- The Colorado Content Collaboratives will continue to refine and build the CDE Resource Bank with assessments and instructional tools.
- In the 2014 legislative session, additional flexibility was passed for districts/BOCES regarding the 50 percent measures of student learning/outcomes portion of the evaluation for the 2014-15 school year only.
Standards (SB 212)
- Districts use and refine curricula based on the new standards.
- CDE disseminates model instructional units and web resources for educators.
- First year of full standards implementation.
- CDE supports standards classroom implementation.
- CDE supports transformation of teaching and learning through the standards.
Assessments (SB 212)
- Colorado joins PARCC (multi-state assessment consortium) as governing member. Consortium is developing computer-based English language arts and mathematics assessments in grades 3-11.
- TCAP continues to be administered.
- New assessments for science and social studies begin (CMAS).
- TCAP continues to be administered.
- New statewide summative assessments for math and English language arts administered (CMAS).
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Luke Greiner had a pair of goals Sunday against the Big Green (Gil Talbot).
Game Highlights: Game 3 at Dartmouth
HANOVER, N.H. – Despite ending the first period with a 1-0 lead, the Harvard men's hockey team saw Dartmouth score three goals in the second and three more in the third en route to a 6-3 loss to the Big Green in the final game of the ECAC Championship first round best-of-three series. The Crimson ends its season with a 10-19-3 overall record, while Dartmouth (15-12-3) advances on to play fourth-seeded Union next weekend in the quarterfinals.
It was clear the teams both had a defensive mindset to start the game as the play was solid in the defensive ends but both offenses struggled to string passes together. Luke Greiner had Harvard's best look early, driving hard with the puck on his backhand, only to be denied by goalie Charles Grant. Harvard netminder Raphael Girard was sharp through the first period, notching six saves in the frame and denying a couple promising chances for the Big Green later in the period.
With less than a minute to play in the period, it was Greiner who made a heads-up play to give the guests a 1-0 lead. Desmond Bergin whipped a puck down low from the blue line, but out of a scrum against the boards, the puck ended up on a Dartmouth stick. The Dartmouth defender flicked the puck behind his own net and Greiner intercepted the pass, weaved to the front of the net and lifted a shot over Grant's glove that hit the underside of the crossbar and went in. The goal came with just 32 seconds to play in the frame and Harvard was sure to secure the 1-0 edge heading into the locker room.
The defensive mindset shifted quickly towards the offense for the Big Green in the second and the hosts were rewarded with a trio of scores. Just 2:28 into the middle frame, Dartmouth tied the score when Brad Schierhorn battled for a puck hovering around a sprawled-out Girard and inched it across the goal line for the equalizer. A similar play resulted in Dartmouth's go-ahead strike with 6:37 gone in the period, with Tim O'Brien stuffing home a floating rebound just off the Crimson crease. Eric Robinson stretched the lead to 3-1 on a heads-up play just 49 seconds later, swatting a lifted puck out of mid-air and past Girard's glove.
The physicality of the game increased through the latter stages of the second period with the teams getting booked for matching roughing minors. The Crimson ended the period on a power play thanks to a tripping penalty on the Big Green, but a 17-5 shots disadvantage in the stanza saw the Crimson take the 3-1 deficit into the second break.
A fourth Dartmouth goal came just 3:37 into the final period when Nick Bligh converted a Connor Dempsey feed, pushing the Big Green lead to 4-1 and forcing Harvard to insert freshman Peter Traber in goal. The Crimson would not go down without a fight and Greiner cut the lead back two with his second goal of the game four minutes later. Dartmouth looked a bit confused as it approached mid-ice on a broken clearing attempt and Greiner swooped in, stole the puck and fired it on net. While Grant made the initial save, Greiner followed his shot well and put home his own rebound to make it 4-2.
More than seven minutes passed before the next goal came, but it was Dartmouth once again with Dustin Walsh shoving home a short rebound, despite two brilliant saves from Traber immediately before. The Crimson earned a power play with 3:59 showing on the clock and pulled Traber to gain a 6-on-4 advantage. The strategy paid off when Greiner and Alex Fallstrom worked the puck back to Desmond Bergin near the blue line, and the freshman ripped a shot that ricocheted off a Dartmouth defender's hand and past Grant into the net.
That is as close as the Crimson would get, however, as Schierhorn iced the game with an empty-net score to seal the 6-3 win for Dartmouth.


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Tuesday, December 7, 2010
PlanetBox lunch - snowman sammy
In this wintry themed lunch we have:
- snowman sandwich
- Goldfish holiday mix
- cucumber pine trees
- clementine orange pieces and Honeycrisp apple chunks
- dry roasted edamame (because the snowman already had enough treats on it!)
To say Paige was thrilled with her snowman would be an understatement. :)
The "body" of the snowman was made with just a plain little circle cookie cutter. I had planned to use an actual snowman shaped cutter, but I couldn't find it! The face is made with icing eyes, a candy corn (I looked through the bag to find one missing the white tip!), and a fruit leather smile. The buttons on the snowman are from a candy bracelet and the scarf is a strip of sour candy. I tried to fringe the ends, but I don't think you can really tell. All this candy is leftover from Halloween. I don't toss it out until after we are done decorating our gingerbread house(s) and gingerbread men. So that scarf candy was a bit on the stale side and not very pliable. It didn't want to lay down flat, so I stuck a little bow bento pick in it to hold it down. The hat is from the same pack of winter hat cupcake picks I used on the snowman egg fellow (purchased from an online baking supply store), I just stuck it into the middle of the sandwich. The rest of the candy pieces are "glued" on with tiny dabs of peanut butter. :) Oh! I almost forgot - the stick arms are almond-chocolate Pocky! Yum!
This lunch is packed in a PlanetBox. I hear they are having a sale on the green lunchbag sets and just added some new magnet designs. Cool beans! Will there be any shiny PlanetBoxes under the Christmas tree this year? Or bento picks and other bento goodness filling Christmas stockings? :)
15 comments:
- Wendy said... [Reply to comment]
SUPER cute, Melissa!
- December 7, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- EP said... [Reply to comment]
Very cute!
Do you roast your own edamame? Or do you buy it like that?
- December 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM
- Sarah said... [Reply to comment]
That is extra cute!!!
- December 7, 2010 at 5:08 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks, gals! :)
EP, I buy it. I can't remember where I got it from - Trader Joe's or Whole Foods, I imagine. Maybe World Market?
- December 7, 2010 at 5:48 PM
- Mindy said... [Reply to comment]
Love it!
- December 7, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- slovakiasteph said... [Reply to comment]
Kawaii! Almost the first thing I noticed was that there was fringe on the scarf. ;)
- December 7, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- mermaidprincesa said... [Reply to comment]
So very cute! I love the hat picks!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- mermaidprincesa said... [Reply to comment]
So cute I love the hat picks!
- December 7, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- The Harper Family said... [Reply to comment]
That is the cutest sammy :) I have ever seen!!!
- December 7, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Adorable! And I can completely see the fringed edges. No wonder she was so thrilled to find that in her lunch - Who wouldn't? :-)
- December 8, 2010 at 6:53 AM
Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your posts, Melissa! Today's is especially cute!
- December 8, 2010 at 7:03 AM
- Caren said... [Reply to comment]
Ok, that snowman is about the cutest thing EVER!! The scarf makes it. I love the hat picks too. Where did you find them?
- December 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
Caren, I bought the hat picks from bakeitpretty.com :)
Thanks for the nice words, everyone! :)
- December 8, 2010 at 4:24 PM
Melissa, it's so nice knowing others enjoy food presentation for their children as much as I do. It's wonderful to read your blog and the comments from others too. I am a Bento fan, and can better indulge my appreciation for it with your blog and your links. Thank you!
I am wondering if the Holiday Goldfish Mix is available in stores? I just Googled it as you referenced it, but came up with the holiday colors in snack mix recipes.
- January 3, 2012 at 3:07 PM
- Melissa said... [Reply to comment]
The Goldfish were in a box, in the holiday food section of Target - it looked like a normal box except in the corner is says "holiday shapes inside" or something like that. The goldfish cartoons on the box were wearing santa hats, if that helps! :)
- January 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM


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Of all the sentences you never want to read from scientists running a study of a promising new medical treatment, high on the list has got to be, "the trial was terminated early for futility."
Yet there it is, describing what happened when researchers assessed a surgical procedure that had "slam dunk" written all over it. The idea was to take patients who had complete blockages of the internal carotid artery, which carries blood to the brain, with the not-surprising result that they had insufficient blood flow to the brain. The patients had also had at least one transient ischemic attack (TIA), or "mini-stroke," as a result of blood supply to a part of the brain being temporarily reduced or blocked altogether. Half the patients in the study received standard medical treatment, such as aspirin and other anti-clotting drugs plus anti-hypertension drugs, while the other half got the promising surgery: bypassing the blocked carotid, in the neck, with an artery in the scalp. Surely, went the rationale, steering blood around a blockage would lower the subsequent stroke rate. Expectations were high: leaders of the Carotid Artery Occlusion Surgery Study (COSS) projected that there would be 40 percent fewer strokes on the same side as the blockage in patients who had the surgery.
The experimental surgery was nifty but not effective.
Courtesy of Powers, et al., and JAMA
Not so much. In yet another example of how human biology continues to thwart what seems like compelling medical logic (more on which below), the 97 patients receiving the surgery had no fewer strokes than the 98 receiving standard medical care, the COSS team reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Things began to go south early. After one month, 14 of the 97 surgery patients had another stroke, compared to 2 of 98 controls. After 2 years, things merely evened out: 20 patients in each group had had a stroke. (A 1985 trial of the surgery had also shown no benefit, in 808 patients.) At that point, the Data Safety Monitoring Board advised halting the trial, which was done in June 2010. (It seems small comfort that if you survived your first month post-surgery without a stroke, your risk of subsequent stroke fell by about 75 percent.) Bypass, concluded the COSS researchers, "provided no additional benefit over medical therapy for preventing recurrent stroke."


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A rainforest time capsule in Madagascar, a lava tube system in the Republic of Korea and primeval beech forests straddling Slovakia and the Ukraine are among five natural sites being recommended for inclusion on the World Heritage List by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
As the official advisory body on natural World Heritage sites, IUCN has carried out expert missions to 12 natural and mixed (cultural and natural) sites nominated for inclusion on the World Heritage List and will recommend to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee five new natural sites, one mixed site and the extension of one natural site.
The Committee will consider 37 new cultural and natural sites nominated for UNESCO's prestigious World Heritage List at its 31st meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 23 June - 2 July.
IUCN will also propose actions for current World Heritage sites under threat. Out of 186 natural and mixed World Heritage sites, 13 are currently on the so-called danger list, threatened by civil unrest, illegal activities such as poaching, mining and logging, inadequate funding, or poor management.
Among the sites IUCN will report on are the 14 to which it conducted joint monitoring missions with UNESCO. The missions included the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, where tourist numbers have increased from 40,000 to more than 120,000 since 1991, and the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Oman, where the size of the reserve protected under law has been reduced by 90%.
IUCN will also report on the Selous Game Reserve in the United Republic of Tanzania, the second largest protected area in Africa (larger than Denmark), which benefits from keeping 50% of the revenue from hunting concessions. The money is then used to manage the park and develop and maintain tourism and park infrastructure.
New natural sites recommended for inscription:
South China Karst, China
The South China Karst is unrivalled for the diversity of its karst features – a distinctive rock formation – which extend over 500,000 km2. There were seven protected areas in three separate clusters up for nomination. IUCN is recommending two clusters, Shilin and Libo, for inscription on the World Heritage List. The stone forests of Shilin are considered exceptional natural phenomena and the tower karsts of Libo are seen as the world reference site for these types of karsts.
Rainforests of Atsinanana, Madagascar
These forests are critically important for maintaining the island's unique plants and animals, 80 to 90% of which can only be found in Madagascar and some of which date back to glacial periods. Deforestation in the eastern part of the island has left just 8.5% of its original forests and the proposed World Heritage site would protect this remaining habitat. The site comprises a representative selection of the most important habitats of unique rainforest life, including many threatened and endemic plant and animal species.
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes, Republic of Korea
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes is comprised of a shield volcano which is about 1.2 million years old and rises to 1,950 m with Mt Hallasan, Korea's highest peak. The Geomunoreum lava tube system is the most impressive and significant series of protected lava tube caves in the world and includes a spectacular array of stalactites and stalagmites. The site is 18,846 ha and covers 10.3% of the island.
Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, Slovakia and Ukraine
The Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians represent an outstanding example of undisturbed, complex temperate forests. They demonstrate the most complete ecological patterns of European beech across a variety of environmental conditions. They also contain an invaluable genetic reservoir of European beech and the many species associated with and dependent on the forest.
Teide National Park, Spain
Teide National Park is situated on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The site covers 18,990 ha and includes rich and diverse volcanic features and landscapes concentrated in a spectacular setting. The park is home to the world's third tallest volcano, the 3,781 m Teide-Pico Viejo, the highest peak in Spain. The park is an excellent example of a mature, slow-moving and geologically complex volcanic system. It is of global importance in providing diverse evidence of the geological processes that underpin the evolution of oceanic islands.
New mixed site recommended for inscription:
Ecosystem and Relic Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda, Gabon
This landscape represents a very unusual boundary between dense and well-conserved tropical rainforest and relict savannah environments. The site preserves a record of biological evolution over the last 15,000 years in the rainforest-savannah transition zone. Many threatened species of large mammals find an important refuge in Lopé-Okanda, such as gorillas and elephants. It is also one of the most outstanding areas in relation to plant and forest diversity in the Congo Rainforest.
Natural site recommended for extension:
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
The current Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn World Heritage site covers 53,000 ha on the territory of 15 communes in the Swiss Alps. The proposed extension would increase the area by 53% to 82,400 ha over 26 communes. The site is the most glaciated part of the European Alps, containing Europe's largest glacier and a range of classic glacial features. It provides an outstanding record of the geological processes that formed the High Alps. A diverse range of flora and fauna is also represented in the site and plant colonization in the wake of retreating glaciers provides an excellent example of plant succession.
Notes to editors
The IUCN delegation present in Christchurch, New Zealand, will be reporting back from the meeting on a regular basis between 23 June and 2 July. Regular updates can be found on www.iucn.org.
More information on the World Heritage Convention and the List of World Heritage sites can be found at: whc.unesco.org
The World Heritage List currently includes 830 sites in 184 States Parties: 644 cultural, 162 natural and 24 mixed (cultural and natural) sites.
IUCN, whose independent advisory role is enshrined in the text of the World Heritage Convention, has been involved in the Convention since its inception, having played a major part in drafting the text with UNESCO in 1972. IUCN undertakes technical evaluations of the natural values of the sites nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List and has evaluated over several hundred nominated sites. Further information on IUCN's World Heritage work is available at: web
Additionally, each year IUCN reports to the World Heritage Centre on the conservation status of certain natural and mixed World Heritage sites under threat. IUCN's assessments on what is happening in World Heritage sites are derived from a variety of sources: IUCN members, indigenous peoples groups, the scientific community, experts from IUCN commissions and concerned individuals and organizations.
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact:
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Sarah Halls, Global Media Relations Officer, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Tel: +41 22 999 0127, e-mail: [email protected], Web: www.iucn.org
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Bastian Bomhard, World Heritage Officer, The World Conservation Union (IUCN), Tel: +41 79 716 5401, e-mail: [email protected], Web: www.iucn.org
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About the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Created in 1948, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) brings together 84 States, 108 government agencies, 800 plus NGOs, and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The Union is the world's largest environmental knowledge network and has helped over 75 countries to prepare and implement national conservation and biodiversity strategies. The Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1,000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland.
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
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David Malpass: The Bigger Battle Behind the Shutdown
A staggering $250 billion per month, 80% of spending, runs on autopilot without congressional control.
At its core, the shutdown is part of a much bigger battle to restrain the federal government. It is spending $3.6 trillion per year without a budget, and its expenditures are expected to increase rapidly in the years ahead.
Meanwhile, the government has piled up $17 trillion in debt and $60 trillion more in unfunded spending promises. The Federal Reserve will borrow $1.1 trillion in 2013 alone to buy bonds—and it reserves the right to borrow unlimited amounts for future bond purchases without congressional or presidential permission.
These are crisis-level problems. Whether the government is open or closed, they are surely grounds for immediate talks between the president and Congress on ways to pare ineffective federal programs, restrain spending and reduce borrowing.
Ducking governance decisions year after year will leave the U.S. too weak to face global challenges. Big government has meant slow growth, painfully high youth and minority unemployment and falling median incomes—except in the Washington, D.C., area, which recent census data show is growing ever richer.
Under current law, the federal government and Federal Reserve are in a sharp upward trajectory in their power and the riskiness of their policies. Federal domination of the economy and financial markets is only increasing. The government shutdown reflects a Republican demand for permanent new checks and balances—to restrain a government that spends wildly without a budget, buys $1 trillion per year in overpriced bonds from an already-rich Wall Street, and micromanages federal medical care but exempts unions and Congress from the sting of regulations that affect others.
Washington's panic prior to the budget sequester that took effect earlier this year gave a glimpse of the truth: Much federal spending can't be justified. The government shutdown is giving more insight into the problem—a staggering $250 billion per month, 80% of spending, runs on autopilot without any congressional involvement or control. So much for the Constitution's bedrock principle that "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law."
To break the impasse, and to address the government's disastrous finances, the president must lead the way. Mr. Obama has made clear that he will not change ObamaCare, but given the challenges the country faces, a blanket insistence on keeping the whole government unchanged isn't defensible.
One good starting point for presidential leadership is the fraud-plagued federal disability programs that cost taxpayers $200 billion annually. There are innumerable other such programs, as well as roughly 200 independent federal agencies, many with little purpose and certainly not enough purpose to justify more debt.
To avoid future stalemates like the current one, making a legislative change is clearly imperative: The current debt-limit law, despite its name, operates to make the debt larger, not smaller. The law should be rewritten to mandate continuous spending restraint when debt exceeds the ceiling.
Fortunately, an actual default is a red herring. The president has sweeping powers through Treasury to continue paying the national debt. Mr. Obama alluded to this on Tuesday by listing the non-debt obligations that might be paid late, including government contractors, veterans and Social Security recipients (whose checks are due Nov. 1). In effect, the government would choose to pay them late and use newly arrived tax revenues to maintain debt payments.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's weekend appearances on four major networks made the same point. He complained about Republicans extorting the president—then defined default as "choosing not to pay bills on time."
The administration is frustrated that Wall Street is largely ignoring its talk of default, hence the president's cautioning the stock and bond markets—on Tuesday afternoon, in the heart of the trading day—about the potential for catastrophe.
Democrats are hoping that the political consequences of a broader shutdown of government payments, what the president is calling an economic shutdown, will force House Republicans to allow a vote on a short-term extension of the debt limit.
Maybe so, but the president might have a tough time convincing House Democrats to vote for more debt with no reforms. The better course would be to agree on reforms now—there's ample common ground—and put an end to the downward spiral in rhetoric.
Rather than discuss restraint, the administration has increasingly turned to the Federal Reserve as a crutch. The Fed is borrowing and spending $85 billion per month on bonds, and it claims the legal authority to increase its debt at will. Wall Street is intensely focused on supporting this profligacy and profiting from it. The Fed's debt will reach $4 trillion at year-end, with at least $200 billion of it not counted properly in the national debt.
The Fed is choosing to buy long-term bonds with short-term debt. The result is a rapid shortening in the effective maturity of the national debt that benefits current politicians but puts taxpayers at risk. Like an adjustable-rate mortgage, the borrower, in this case the government, gets a lower interest rate now but will have to refinance at higher rates later.
Compounding the taxpayer risk, Treasury has scheduled a November launch of a new class of floating-rate debt that will compete with the Fed's debt when interest rates begin to normalize. This leaves a huge portion of the national debt exposed to higher interest rates. And as Europe's weak southern flank demonstrated in their 2010-12 crisis, financial markets treat floating-rate and short-term debt like blood in the water.
The president keeps telling the public that Republicans would, in effect, "burn down your house" if he doesn't negotiate. Republicans should ignore the outrageous charges of extortion and blackmail coming from the other side and continue to seek positive change. The upside is clear: Growth, jobs, the dollar and financial markets would surge if the shutdown leads to restraint.
Mr. Malpass is president of Encima Global LLC. He served as deputy assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan administration.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...hoes-from-2017 - "Adidas to make shoes in Germany again - but using robots"
I read this at the same time as I was reading "Inventing the Future" by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, which I'd recommend to anyone. The basic thesis of the book (ridiculously simplified) is that 'the Left' needs - desperately quickly - to come up with a universalist proposition that stands in opposition to neoliberal capitalism, if the future is not to be progressively harsher neoliberalism all the way. A large part of the book discusses the changes that will be wrought as many industries become automated, but how this needs to be seized as an opportunity to free people from work, rather than used by neoliberals to achieve the dual purpose of (i) impoverishing yet more people and (ii) terrifying those currently in work into utter subservience. So Srnicek and Williams talk a lot about universal basic income as one of the cornerstones of such a Leftist universalism (of course, incidentally, Switzerland is holding a referendum today on universal basic income, which is very heartening in a way, though the fact that no prospective level for the UBI has been set, suggests that the proposal is not as radical as it initially seems).
So, given Adidas's decision, which no doubt has been taken/is about to be taken by many other companies I don't know about - it seems that automation and the future is pretty much upon us. Any thoughts?
[And presumably Adidas's decision also acts as a kind of nationalist coup of 'bringing industry back home' (except without the jobs)]


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RICHMOND — Yolanda Lopez stood in front of her ranch-style home, beaming a smile thanks to the Internet connection tower mounted on her roof.
"All my neighbors are coming up and thanking me for the free Internet," Lopez said in Spanish. "A lot of people can't pay $50 per month."
Lopez's house is one of two pilot locations for a grant-funded program to expand free high-speed Internet signals to about 400 houses in the city's low-income Iron Triangle neighborhood. The free service is made possible by Building Blocks for Kids (BBK), a collaborative of about 30 government agencies, nonprofit groups and local leaders, and funded by a $500,000 grant from the California Emerging Technology Fund aimed at increasing digital literacy in the Internet-starved areas of Richmond.
The Internet tower installed on Lopez's house receives signals from Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization that has a 40-foot tower at 2512 Florida Ave. Lopez's transmitter sends free Internet signals for a radius of a few hundred yards, providing the web to dozens of neighbors, said Internet Archive engineer Ralf Muehlen.
The ongoing costs to provide the signal, now that the hardware is in place, is "negligible," Muehlen said.
By summer, BBK partners hope to outfit 20 houses in the Iron Triangle with signal towers, providing free high-speed Internet signals to more than 400 homes, said BBK Executive Director Jennifer Lyle. A second tower has already been installed at a home in Atchison Village, Lyle said.
The installations are part of a multiyear effort to increase Internet connectivity in Richmond.
Last year, a BBK working group surveyed nearly 500 Richmond residents about their technology needs. According to a new 58-page study BBK released titled "Community Connections: A Road Map for Advancing Digital Literacy and Access in Richmond's Iron Triangle," one-third of local residents do not have access to the Internet at home and 40 percent do not own a working computer.
"The report reflects what we've known about our residents," Lyle said. "The cost of getting Internet is too prohibitive for our families."
Also funded by the grant, BBK has provided more than 900 families with Internet training and distributed about 1,000 free computers refurbished by ReliaTech, a local nonprofit, Lyle said.
The city's Information Technology and Library departments are among BBK's partners, and played a role in engineering the Internet hardware.
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin also visited Lopez's house Tuesday, praising the collaborative for helping link more residents to the web, which she said will enhance education and connectivity to local city services.
"Together we are going to show that Richmond is a high-tech city," McLaughlin said.
Earlier Tuesday, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors expressed interest in expanding the free Internet countywide as part of efforts to bridge the digital divide and help cut poverty in half by 2020, said Terrance Cheung, Supervisor John Gioia's chief of staff.


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There was a moment, early in what possibly ranks as the spikiest press conference of Arsène Wenger's 16 years at Arsenal, when he turned his head sharp-left, fixed his eyes on an unwitting member of his audience and it started to become apparent this was not going to be any ordinary event. He was almost grey with anger. "Why do you look at me?" he wanted to know.
That was in the broadcast section but it was when the television cameras moved away that he properly let out all that pent-up frustration and we saw Wenger in a way that nobody in that room had witnessed before. It was a mix of anger, defiance and confrontation and it is just a shame, perhaps, that not all of his players can show the same passion. If he could bottle it and pass it to his team before their game against Bayern Munich, then maybe it will not be the ordeal that so many anticipate.
Equally, had anyone from Munich been in that room to see, close-up, Wenger on the edge of full-on rage they would have been perfectly entitled to conclude that Arsenal might actually be in a worse place than they had been led to believe. Bayern, in stark contrast, arrive in London with a 15-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga, easing to their 23rd championship. In their 22 games they have conceded only seven goals, and none since 14 December. Away from the Allianz Arena, they have accumulated 10 wins and one draw from their 11 games, with 27 goals scored and one against. For Arsenal to reach the quarter-finals, it is going to require two monumental performances and few can see that kind of ability and resilience, either tactically or mentally, in this current team.
Wenger was doubtless trying, through a show of strength, to demonstrate that Arsenal are not finished yet and that anyone who writes them off does so at their own peril. At times, he was deeply impressive, arguing his case coherently, pointing out that we "live in a democracy of experts and opinion" and that, put bluntly, he is sick of misinformed opinion and lack of expertise.
Unfortunately for him, there were also moments when he floundered badly and resorted to the default setting of going back through history to make his point. In doing so he ignored the fact this is the problem for his club's supporters: everything is in the past tense. Wenger pointed out that Arsenal were still the only team to qualify for the Champions League final without having conceded a goal and, voice thick with sarcasm, that they had done it "despite the fact that we have never a good defensive record". That is not a great consolation, however, when the team have just lost to Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup, been eliminated from the Capital One Cup by Bradford City and are 21 points off the top of the Premier League, facing the possibility of an eighth year without a trophy. Wenger actually offered an apology for Arsenal's league form – "I can only say I'm sorry" – but what he did not give was a proper explanation or an assurance it will get better.
What can be said with certainty is that Wenger can hold a room when he gets going. It is just a pity that he did not make his point more lucidly. It did not help for starters that the journalist he picked on at the start was a case of mistaken identity. Wenger shot down one reporter from Al Jazeera – ironically, the television channel that pays him so richly – for asking about the Blackburn defeat, sternly pointing out it was a press conference for the Champions League. "Can we get some questions about tomorrow's game? That would be very nice." A German reporter politely asked what he thought of Bayern. "I don't talk about Bayern Munich today," Wenger replied.
It then transpired Wenger was willing to discuss the Blackburn game. He said the Championship side had mustered one attempt at goal – it was actually seven – and defended his right to rest key players. "I've been accused of not taking the FA Cup seriously. I've won the FA Cup four times. Who has won it more? Give me one name." Everyone knew what he was getting at. Nobody had the heart to point out that Sir Alex Ferguson has five. Or Ashley Cole seven. Or that the 25 players who have left Arsenal since the club last won a trophy, in 2005, have amassed 75 medals between them.
Even the example Wenger seized upon to illustrate his belief that the media was deliberately setting out to destabilise him – "hunted" was the word he used – seemed an unusual choice. The story that had got under his skin so much, from The Sun, had stated that Arsenal still backed him and wanted to give him a contract extension. It was, in other words, a positive slant from a wretched weekend. Wenger's reaction was more in keeping with someone who had read that he was on the brink of being escorted off the premises, with his belongings to follow in a crate. It was, he said, a "lie targeted to hurt".
The truth might be that any hurt he feels right now stems more from the fact that he cares so deeply about Arsenal and takes it personally, as every once-successful manager does, when the old magic no longer seems to be there. His team need to do what Chelsea did last year and find something in adversity but the question is whether they have the same mental fortitude. "I don't know," was Wenger's first reaction to that question before one last show of defiance. "We have been in the final and consistently in the quarter-final, semi-finals, for years. People will say it is not the best opportunity now to do it. I think it is a fantastic opportunity because I feel I have a strong team. And I am sure they will prove me right."


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I know I'm not the only one with two projects in a two-car garage and who spends an inordinate amount of wasted time moving one or the other around to work on them. My roadster pickup runs and can be driven out of the garage, but the Purple Pig '49 Chevy isn't a runner yet (it's close, but I know what I'm like, and if I get it running I'll start driving it and never finish it!) and I can't push it back in my garage on my own if I move it out. While I have a set of four-wheel dollies, not only are they hard to move over rough ground (and my garage floor ain't the smoothest concrete; I've even been asked if it's a dirt floor by people who've seen pictures of the car in there!), but invariably I'll have the car up on jackstands and have to lower it onto the dollies to move it over just so I can get the pickup in at night.
The combination of maneuverability and wishing to keep the car at a working height for the excessive amount of bodywork I'm about to tackle, brought me, in the best "Necessity is the Mother of Invention" way, to the following solution: Four-wheel dollies that offer adjustable height and bolt to the car's axles, giving access to the inner wheel arches, ease of working on the lower bodywork sections, the ability to simply push the car against the wall at the end of the day, or even turn it around in the garage without having to open the main door. Also, with the car raised off the ground, it'll save my aching back while prepping the bodywork. So with the plans in my head, I went steel shopping.
Now, be warned, if you feel like following and making a set of these yourself—and they really do save an awful lot of time—there's quite a bit of fabrication, with 56 holes, 12 countersinks, and a bunch of plasma cutting in each dolly—and you'll need four of 'em! There's also a fair amount of welding. While the finished article doesn't look like much effort went into them, it's more than a hard weekend's worth of work.
When looking at the dollies, you may wonder why I chose to make the plates that bolt to the axles removable. Even though two of my cars have Chevy bolt patterns, the third is early Ford, and I wanted the dollies to be universal. With removable plates I have the option of fabricating another set for four-lug patterns, a jackstand-style top to clamp around rearends or framerails, or even a set of clamps that grab the lip along the bottom of rocker panels, as with many collision repair body jigs. While I don't require any of these now, it pays to have the option later.
Footnote: Once completed, I realized there was a design flaw with the front pair of dollies. They will only work if there's 0 degree of camber. As the Pig has a little negative camber, and early Ford frontends have a little positive camber, I'm going to have to add an adjustable pivot between the uprights and the axle plates for use on the frontends. That'll have to wait however, as I ran out of time and energy prior to deadline.