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Title: Hot Houston Nights: Graham & Isabella PART 3
Author: S. N. Garza
Expected Release Date: Feb. 10, 2015
Hosted by: Lady Amber's Tours
Hosted by: Lady Amber's Tours
Sometimes hidden pasts have a way of surprising you.
Sometimes hidden pasts have a way of surprising you.
Graham knows it was too good to be true when a year goes by and no word from the ex-boyfriend and the father that hunted him finally surface close to home. Together.
Isabella has no idea that the man she loves has a past that could be more dangerous than she's ever dreamed of. It could destroy the very foundation they have built their future on.
In this thrilling conclusion, Graham and Isabella have to fight to the last breath to keep their love alive. There's something more precious to lose if their happily ever after burns and crashes
***For mature readers, contains explicit sexual content, language and violence. Readers 18+.***
S. N. Garza is from Southeast Houston, Texas, with her husband and two small children. She is a full time Chilihead employee at Chili's Bar & Grill. Author of steamy, sexy, sinfully beautiful stories about strong alpha men and the women who fall for them.
When she's not taking care of her family, working her tail off at her all day job, you can find her writing well into the night, and reading another steamy romance novel, attaining another fictional boyfriend.
Where the men are strong, the women, stronger.
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I stripped down and went to his dresser to grab one of his shirts. Feeling the way I did, I wanted him close to me. His shirts always smelled so woodsy and masculine. I slipped on the Victoria Secret Kimono robe Grant bought for Graham as a Christmas present last year. Which of course was really for me, but since I knew he definitely couldn't give it to me without Graham smacking him around a bit. Well, he did that anyway.
I've never had a Christmas been so much fun before. It was just Graham, Grant, Carrie and me. Graham had gotten Carrie a beautiful diamond necklace with the word 'Mom' in a diamond pendant. Which Grant, who was sitting next to me, leaned and not so quietly said, 'fuckin' momma's boy'. Which had brought out a laugh from me and a scowl from Grant.
But then, Grant had given her a James Avery charm bracelet full of charms. In which Graham boldly said, 'wannabe momma's boy.' That made all of us laugh and when Graham opened Grants gift, his eyes had widened and he hurried to close the box up. He hadn't showed us what it was, but he got up, and Grant got up with this mischievous smirk and they proceeded to wrestle around with each other. It wasn't until later that Graham had showed me and I couldn't' help but tease him.
"Why don't you put it on? I mean, you do look great in red. I've never seen you in silk before. I mean, on me, it feels satiny, silky and smooth. I've never felt so sexy before in my life. Especially the way it feels against my skin."
"Ha. Ha. You know damn good in well who Grant really got that for. And I know exactly how it's making my dick feel the way you're wearing that little slip of nothing."
"Hmmm…I see the way it's making your dick hard and throbbing. What do you plan on doing with that?"
He laughed and lunged at me, picking me up and we had slammed into the wall where he gripped the strip of the thong and yanked it, snapping the material. In which I was grateful, I hated those things. Then Graham had freed his turgid flesh and proceeded to fuck me senseless.


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Got this in the post today.
I wandered into The Queens for a quick drink the other night and, while I was waiting to be served, this bloke at the bar started talking to me. He was about my age, my height, my build: a little worn, intense, well-spoken, a bit stand-offish at first but, after a couple of pints, twinkle-eyed, sharp and funny. Sat down next to a gentle fire, we talked about Taylor Swift and Kanye for a while, then about Breitbart and Brexit, about ISIS and Trump, about the ongoing destruction of the NHS. We disagreed – amicably – about whether Pochettino was the right man to take Spurs to the next level and about the relative merits of Stax and Motown; we did that lazy, disingenuous male-bonding 'can't-live-with-'em . . .' thing men in pubs do about women. We bought each other beer after beer, whiskey after whiskey; as evening slurred into night, he said he was from Enfield too, 'sort of' – we even knew one or two of the same people – though he seemed to dislike this city, this country, this slippery, hollow age much, much more than me: he loathed our lack of curiosity and wonder, our celeb-worshipping superficiality, our disconnections, our casual violence.
I liked him and he seemed to like me. And then things got serious.


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Whois is an intelligent — pure Ruby — WHOIS client and parser.
It provides a flexible and programmable API to query WHOIS servers and look up IP, TLD, and domain WHOIS information. It also offers command-line interface to run WHOIS queries from the console.
Whois was extracted from RoboWhois and RoboDomain, and it's now in use at DNSimple. It has been performing queries in production since July 2009.
- Ability to lookup WHOIS record for IPv4, IPv6, TLDs, and ICANN new gTLDs
- Ability to parse WHOIS responses
- Flexible and extensible interface (e.g. You can define custom servers on the fly)
- Object oriented design, featuring 10 different design patterns
- Pure Ruby library, without any external dependency other than Ruby itself
- Successfully tested against different Ruby implementations, including Ruby and JRuby
You can install the gem manually via RubyGems:
$ gem install whois
Or use Bundler and define it as a dependency in your Gemfile
gem 'whois', '~> 4.0'
Install the newer version via RubyGems:
$ gem install whois
The CHANGELOG file contains a detailed list of all the changes, grouped by version.
This library is versioned using the rules of Semantic Versioning.
Getting Started
This section covers the essentials of the Whois library. For a more deep explanation visit the complete usage section or read the whois manual.
Querying a WHOIS
This is the simplest way to send a WHOIS request is using the #lookup
c = Whois::Client.new
# => #<Whois::Record>
The method returns a Whois::Record
instance which essentially looks and behaves like a String
but it's way more powerful than a string (see Consuming the Record).
You can print, compare and modify it exactly as a string.
c = Whois::Client.new
r = c.lookup("google.com")
puts r
# the full whois record response
# ...
# ...
If you don't need to customize the Whois::Client
, you can also use the Whois.whois
shortcut (see Whois::Client
shortcuts section for more information).
r = Whois.whois("google.com")
puts r
# the full whois record response
# ...
# ...
Whois provides the ability to get WHOIS information for TLDs, domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses. The client is smart enough to guess the best WHOIS server according to given query, send the request and return the response.
c = Whois::Client.new
# Domain WHOIS
# => #<Whois::Record ...>
# => #<Whois::Record ...>
# IPv4 WHOIS
# => #<Whois::Record ...>
# IPv6 WHOIS
# => #<Whois::Record ...>
Consuming the Record
Any WHOIS query returns a Whois::Record
. This object looks like a String, but it's way more powerful.
The Whois::Record
encapsulates a WHOIS record and provides the ability to parse the WHOIS response programmatically, by using an object oriented syntax. Yep, you're not dreaming: no more regular expressions!
r = Whois.whois("google.it")
# => #<Whois::Record ...>
# => false
# => true
# => Fri Dec 10 00:00:00 +0100 1999
t = r.technical_contact
# => #<Whois::Record::Contact ...>
# => "Technical Services"
r.nameservers.each do |nameserver|
puts nameserver
This feature is made possible by the Whois::Record::Parser
. Unfortunately, due to the lack of a global standard, each WHOIS server requires a specific parser. For this reason, the library doesn't currently support all existing WHOIS servers.
If you create a new parser, please consider releasing it to the public so that it can be included in a next version.
More Information
- RubyGems - the RubyGems project page.
- Issues - the issue tracker.
- Documentation - the official documentation.
- Stack Overflow - if you need help, ask a question.


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Women Of Courage on CNN's Internaiontal Correspondents
"Here are the women that no one sees. Katherine Kiviat and Scott Heidler take you on a journey through the lives of Afghan policewomen, paratroopers, artists, actresses, and scores of others who for too long have remained hidden under the burqa. The ghosts have emerged and at this moment, they are triumphant. Will their freedom last? This is a beautiful book."
- Marie Brenner Author, Great Dames: What I Learned From Older Women
What has changed for the women of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban? In their own words and illustrated with some beautiful photographs, dozens of Afghan women, old and young, lift the veil on the reality. There are some inspiring stories of hope here. But many that show how hard it still is to be a woman in Afghanistan, especially in rural areas. It's written and photographed by two very committed journalists who took the time to get to know Afghanistan well. The story of the teacher who told her female students to keep quiet
about their vote to throw off their burkas - even though she supported them - sums up the situation for women in Afghanistan today. The teacher feared the parents would stop their daughters from coming to lessons.
- Andrew North, BBC Afghanistan Correspondent 2004-2005
"In Women of Courage Scott and Katherine have given a voice to the girls and women of Afghanistan while providing the reader with a glimpse into an unknown world. Knowing them when they lived in Afghanistan, I experienced first-hand the impact they had on Afghan women and the positive energy they brought to the book and a to struggling nation. I would recommend this book as a visually stunning and inspiring first step for all of us on the journey to better understand the courageous women of Afghanistan".
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- Electronic HSR Filings and No Early Terminations: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) are continuing to accept Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) merger filings through a temporary electronic filing system that was launched on March 17th. Hard-copy filings will not be accepted during this period. While the temporary electronic filing system is in place, no Early Terminations will be granted.
- Extended Timing Agreements: For mergers currently pending or that may be proposed, the DOJ is requesting, as part of any timing agreement, that merging parties afford it an additional 30 days to complete its review of transactions after the parties have complied with document requests. (Although the DOJ has not stated it expressly, this likely means 30 days in addition to whatever period of time the parties have agreed to delay their closing beyond the 30-day post-compliance period already provided for by the HSR Act itself. Thus, for example, if the parties have committed not to close for 60 days after compliance, the DOJ will request that they extend that commitment to 90 days.) The DOJ has cautioned that it may revisit its timing agreements with merging parties in light of further developments.
- No In-Person Meetings & Depositions: Meetings at both agencies will be conducted by phone or video conference (where possible). The FTC has announced that Bureau of Competition meetings, including Front Office meetings, will be held remotely until further notice. And, the DOJ has postponed all scheduled depositions, and they will be rescheduled using secure videoconferencing capabilities.
- DOJ Proposal to Extend Merger Timelines and Pause the Statute of Limitations for Price-Fixing Cases: According to a press report, the DOJ hopes to have included in the next round of pandemic legislation, a proposal that would let it and the FTC add 15 days onto merger timelines during emergencies, such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters, or government shutdowns. The proposal also seeks to toll the statute of limitations for price-fixing and bid-rigging cases for at least six months because of the pandemic.
2. Government Investigations / Compliance Considerations
- Antitrust Laws During Public Health Emergencies: The tremendous uncertainty created by the current public health crisis may increase the opportunity and temptation to coordinate with others in the industry or substantially increase prices – but the antitrust laws still apply in full. There is no collusion exemption for public health emergencies. For example, DOJ recently announced its intention to "hold accountable anyone who violates the antitrust laws of the United States in connection with the manufacturing, distribution, or sale of public health products."
- Antitrust Counseling: The antitrust laws allow for beneficial, pro-competitive collaborations and exchanges of information between competitors, and the needs of responding to a health crisis or other public emergencies are relevant to that determination. Nevertheless, the antitrust laws apply, and it remains prudent to obtain antitrust counsel regarding communications with competitors and other competitively sensitive activities.
- Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission Announce Expedited Antitrust Procedure and Guidance for Coronavirus Public Health Efforts: In a joint statement issued on March 24th, the DOJ and FTC announced that they will aim to respond expeditiously to all COVID-19-related DOJ Business Review Process and Federal Trade Commission Advisory Opinion Process requests, and resolve those addressing public health and safety within seven (7) calendar days of receiving all necessary information. The expedited procedure requires, among other things, that an applicant provide the agency an explanation of how the arrangement is related to COVID-19 and a description of the nature and rationale of the proposal. This expedited procedure is for use solely for coronavirus-related public health efforts and may be invoked at the option of the requestor, in lieu of the agencies' standard procedures for handling requests for advice. The agencies will also work quickly to process joint venture filings under the National Cooperative Research and Production Act (as amended by the Standards Development Organization Advancement Act).
- Ongoing Investigations: Both DOJ and FTC are conducting a matter-by-matter review of investigations to consider appropriate modifications of statutory or agreed-to timing. Parties and their counsel should expect the agencies to be in touch to discuss proposed modifications.
- Price Gouging: Several states have moved to limit price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, the Massachusetts Attorney General issued an emergency regulation banning price-gouging in certain products necessary to public health and safety in light of the corona virus pandemic.
3. Antitrust Litigation
- Courts Slowing Cases: Courts around the country are reacting to the public health crisis by closing facilities and postponing court activities. The Northern District of California, for example, stopped the high-profile Capacitors antitrust case in the middle of trial out of concerns for the health of the jurors and other participants. That court, like many others, is also postponing new trials until May 1st at the earliest, and it also announced that all pending civil motions—including those in antitrust cases—will be decided without in-person hearings. The Chief Judge of the New York State Courts entered an order on March 22 that puts a stop to all non-essential filings effectively immediately. Additionally, the deadline for commencement, filing, service of any legal action, notice, motion or other process or proceeding prescribed by any procedural law of NY State, is tolled until April 19, 2020.
European Union
1. State Aid
- Process: As Member States are putting financial support measures in place to support their economies, a wave of state aid notifications has started. DG COMP opened a 24/7 hotline for public authorities to raise questions or request advice.
- Substantive appraisal:
- On 19 March 2020, the Commission has adopted its Temporary State aid Framework to support the economy in the current COVID-19 framework. It will provisionally be in place until the end of December 2020. It provides for five types of aid:
- Direct grants, selective tax advantages and advance payments: Member States will be able to set up schemes to grant up to EUR 0.8 million (which is higher than the initially proposed EUR 0.5 million) to a company to address its urgent liquidity needs.
- State guarantees for loans taken by companies from banks: Member States will be able to provide state guarantees to ensure banks keep providing loans to the customers who need them.
- Subsidised public loans to companies: Member States will be able to grant loans with favourable interest rates to companies. These loans can help businesses cover immediate working capital and investment needs.
- Safeguards for banks that channel state aid to the real economy: Some Member States plan to build on banks' existing lending capacities, and use them as a channel for support to businesses – in particular to small and medium-sized companies. The framework makes clear that such aid is considered as direct aid to the banks' customers, not to the banks themselves, and gives guidance on how to ensure minimal distortion of competition between banks.
- Short-term export credit insurance (which was not provided for in the draft proposals): The framework introduces additional flexibility on how to demonstrate that certain countries are not-marketable risks, thereby enabling short-term export credit insurance to be provided by the state where needed.
- The Commission will be using a number of provisions of the Treaty to assess State aid measures:
- The decisions will mainly be based on Article 107 (3) (b) TFEU which allows the Commission to clear state aid measures that intend to remedy a serious disturbance in a Member State's economy. The State aid decisions adopted in the last 24 hours have been based on this provision;
- The Commission also refers to Article 107 (3) (b) TFEU which allows rescue and restructuring aid. There is already a framework in place for this aid. However, very importantly, the principle of 'one time last time' of these guidelines does not need to apply;
- In the new Framework, the Commission also refers to the less used Article 107 (2) (b) TFEU which allows the Commission to clear state aid on the basis of an "exceptional occurrence". This provision has been used in the past in the context of the mad cow disease crisis and the financial crisis.
- On 19 March 2020, the Commission has adopted its Temporary State aid Framework to support the economy in the current COVID-19 framework. It will provisionally be in place until the end of December 2020. It provides for five types of aid:
- State aid clearances : Since early last week, the Commission has cleared a variety of schemes, including:
- A Danish aid scheme to compensate organisers for the damage suffered due to the cancellation of large events with more than 1,000 participants;
- Four Portuguese guarantee schemes for small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-caps with a total budget of EUR 3 billion;
- A EUR 50 million Italian aid scheme to support the production and supply of medical devices and personal protection equipment;
- Two German State aid schemes to support the German economy;
- A EUR 130 million Danish guarantee scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises;
- Three French State aid schemes for a total amount of EUR 30 billion to support the French economy;
- A EUR 200 million Latvian loan guarantee scheme and subsidised loan scheme;
- A EUR 300 million Luxembourg support scheme;
- A German direct grant scheme not exceeding EUR 800.000 per company;
- A Spanish EUR 20 billion guarantee scheme for companies and self-employed;
- Two UK schemes providing direct grants and guarantees for SME's.
2. Mergers
- We understand DG COMP is no longer allocating case teams for new matters and has urged companies to postpone notifications. This is, in part, driven by the fact that all non-essential DG COMP officials are now working from home, and, on the other hand, the fact that there is a high likelihood that third parties will not respond to RFIs. Case teams are continuing to engage with parties already in pre-notification, albeit at a slower pace. On 23 March, a number of merger notifications have been formally filed (three simplified and one non-simplified) which indicates DG COMP is again ready to accept notifications.
- There is currently no clear position on on-going merger cases so the timelines on those are running. We understand the Commission is assessing whether there are ways of pausing timelines on on-going cases (beyond stopping the clock on a case-by-case basis).
- We understand a number of national authorities are taking a similar approach (no new cases, on-going cases as per normal, including pressing ahead with hearings (using multi-party video calls)). More specifically,
- the French Competition Authority has announced that it will continue to progress its merger cases. However, the FCA anticipates that the deadlines and review procedures of deals could be adapted in the near future. Companies are advised to delay any non-urgent plans to notify;
- the Danish Competition Authority has suspended deadlines for merger control for an initial – possibly extendable – period of 14 days as of today (18 March);
- the Belgian and Irish Competition Authority are encouraging companies to delay non-urgent notifications;
- the CMA has announced it will continue to progress its cases, subject to the potential extension of statutory deadlines where necessary. Meetings and hearings will be conducted remotely;
- the Italian Competition Authority has suspended all deadlines (including for mergers) from 23 February until 15 April; the clock will restart on Monday, 16 April;
- the Austrian Competition Authority has decided that all time limits for merger review will start on 1 May 2020;
3. Abuse and Cartel Investigations
- The tremendous uncertainty created by the current emergency may increase the temptation for employees to align with others in the industry, or substantially increase prices — but the antitrust laws still apply in full. A number of national competition authorities have already issued statements to remind companies of the full application of antitrust laws.
- Some industries might be able to benefit from enhanced cooperation and coordination to raise efficiencies when addressing specific COVID-19 scenarios (such as the logistics and health care/life science sectors). This needs to be analysed on a case-by-case basis. In addition, antitrust agencies might be willing to grant comfort for such projects on a temporary basis. For example, the CMA announced it is relaxing some elements of competition law to help supermarkets work together to the extent that this is necessary to protect consumers – for example, by ensuring security of supplies.
- The European Competition Network (composed of the European Commission and NCA's) issued a statement recognising that additional industry cooperation might be needed given the crisis, for example to ensure continued supplies, but warns against price gouging. Competition authorities will be quick to act against perceived cartels or abuses of dominance. The statement also notes that producers can set maximum prices to reduce the risks of price increases by distributors or retailers.
- The cases that are close to finalisation are still being progressed.
- Some on-going cases are on hold. Others are being progressed but at a substantially lower pace.
4. Private Enforcement
- A number of courts around Europe are postponing hearings and halting the progress of damages cases. In the UK, The Courts remain open but are encouraging the use of remote hearings where possible.
- The staff at most major arbitral institutions are working remotely but remain operational.
5. General Court and CJEU
- The General Court and CJEU have suspended all hearings.


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Revealed: Watch shocking abuse on Yorkshire firefighters targeted by fireworks and bricks
At least 300 cases of verbal and physical abuse - including live fireworks being launched and staff being bitten by dogs on call-outs - have been recorded by Yorkshire's fire services over the last three years.
The new figures, obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests, come as West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service yesterday revealed that attacks on its firefighters have doubled during the period, as the service launched a new campaign in the run up to Bonfire Night.
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Dave Walton, deputy chief fire officer at the service, said: "The rise in attacks on our crews is gravely concerning to us and as we approach the bonfire period, when we tend to see a flurry, we are delivering a clear message that it will not be tolerated.
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For the financial year 2016-17, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service recorded 95 incidents of violence against operational crews.
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Gov.-elect Rick Scott brought his "Let's Get to Work" jobs tour to Jacksonville Tuesday with a stop at Flightstar Aircraft Services at Cecil Commerce Center on the City's Westside.
Scott is touring the state to talk with business leaders and citizens to find out what future they would like to see for Florida.
Flightstar headquarters was also the site for a private roundtable discussion with business executives from Boeing, Lockheed, LSI, Medtronic, Swisher, Georgia-Pacific, Florida State College at Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission. News reporters were not allowed to attend.
"It appeared that he wanted to have time to talk to business leaders of Jacksonville and give us time to ask him questions," said Tucker Morrison, executive vice president of Flightstar.
"Each business had their own questions about where the governor stood on taxes and capital investment," said Morrison.
Instead, employees of Flightstar and the media were allowed to ask Scott questions inside the hangar where Flightstar refurbishes and performs conversions on commercial aircraft. AirTran and FedEx are two of Flightstar's more recognizable customers.
The company has about 300 workers at the facility for the morning shift and the town hall meeting was scheduled for their break. The meeting was scheduled to take about 20 minutes, but Scott talked to attendees for about 35 minutes.
"It speaks to his effort to making the time to listen to the people of Florida," said Morrison.
Scott began the town hall meeting by telling attendees what opportunities Jacksonville presents to business leaders.
"Cecil Field is a great opportunity. There are a lot of companies that are starting and expanding here," said Scott.
"It's a wonderful location because you have the third largest runway in the country. There are not many places like this because there are not many opportunities to build businesses around an airport," he said.
"It is my job to let the country and the world know that Florida is open for business," he said.
When asked about the future of gas prices and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, he wanted the decision back in his hands.
"Gas prices have gone up 10-12 cents just in the last week, so we have got to become energy independent," said Scott.
"What was disappointing to me was that I was invited to the White House to meet with Cabinet members on Thursday. On Tuesday they put a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf and they didn't talk to Governor Crist and they didn't talk to me," said Scott.
"We have rights. But I am optimistic that we will be able to work with our legislators to move forward," he said.
The tour will include 10 cities in five days.
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Book Title: Lesbians on the Loose: Crime Writers on the Lam
Editors: Lori L. Lake and Jessie Chandler
Genre: Lesbian Mystery Anthology
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These tales of murder, mayhem, and suspense by some of today's finest crime writers will keep you up way past your bedtime!
The lesbians on the loose in this collection are an entertaining mix of protagonists: cops, amateur sleuths, a PI, a judge, a bounty hunter, and one very insightful dog. There's even an intrepid high schooler and a mystery writer.
Despite greed and grief, rage and revenge, secrets and lies, many of the stories feature humor from a variety of characters trying to find their way in a difficult world--cops who've seen too much, revenge seekers, and women who want justice for themselves and others.
You won't regret going on the lam with these terrific writers: Elizabeth Sims, Carsen Taite, SY Thompson, Andi Marquette, Linda M. Vogt, VK Powell, Kate McLachlan, Lori L. Lake, Lynn Ames, Sandra de Helen, Jen Wright, Sue Hardesty, Jessie Chandler, J.M. Redmann, and Katherine V. Forrest
Excerpt from The Falcone Matese by Andi Marquette
"Did you hear? One of Mrs. Falcone's show dogs is missing." Fred lowered his voice to sound like he was all conspiratorial or something. "Big city problems come to a small town. Next thing you know, we'll be the center of a missing dog black market." He was currently going through a Duran Duran phase, as evidenced by his mass of messy hair streaked with blue, black Simon LeBon pants, as he called them, and modish black boots. He wore a deep red button-down shirt and a black skinny tie. The Union Jack took up the bottom half of the tie. His book bag also had a Union Jack on it, along with several pins of bands he liked.
"That's majorly bogus. Which dog?" Nattie took her biology book and notebook out of her locker. She feigned only passing interest but she thought immediately of Jo, Mrs. Falcone's daughter, and one of Nattie's classmates. And also her current crush. She glanced at the lockers next to her to make sure nobody was listening to their conversation. The locker to her right was open and the inside of the door was plastered with various sheets of paper that said "Seniors Kick Ass" and "Class of '85" in different colors though this was the juniors' hall. The locker's owner had a crush on a senior boy.
"Giorgio. But they call him Gigi. The paper said if you see him running around, try calling him with both names."
"How did it happen?" Nattie asked.
"Cops said somebody broke in."
Nattie closed the locker door with her foot. "So the dog was stolen."
"Way." He twirled his sunglasses in one hand.
Nattie shoved a pen into her back pocket next to her comb. "Who would steal a dog out of somebody's house?" And in this town, where everybody knew everybody else?
"Therein lies the mystery." He leaned in, like he was about to share a major secret. "You should totally take the case. Nattie Brew, Detective at Large."
She laughed. "Oh, right. Because I didn't get in enough trouble the last time."
"Since when has that ever stopped you?"
"Since I was totally grounded for a month."
"This is different. You probably wouldn't have to break into anything. Plus," he added with a smirk, "I'm sure you'll have Jo Falcone's undying gratitude." He pretended to swoon.
Nattie's cheeks flared with heat. "Shut up."
"Undying gratitude," he repeated, grinning.
"Hey, fag. This hall is now for seniors. Not butt ugly faggy juniors."
Nattie's stomach clenched. Josh Jacobs was a major dickweed. And always with a few other dickweeds from the football team. Three, today, and they all guffawed at the insult.
Fred gave him an "oh, please" look. "Really? That's the best you can do?"
Josh's fake smile disappeared. "Flamer." He shoved Fred hard, knocking him into the locker next to Nattie's.
Several other students stopped to watch.
"Takes one to know one," Fred said..
The crowd uttered a collective "ohhh" in acknowledgement of a good comeback.
Josh reached for him. "Piece of—"
"Leave him alone," Nattie said. Her voice didn't sound as scared as she felt. Her knees were shaking.
Josh turned, puzzled, as if it never occurred to him that anybody would say anything. "What?"
"Leave him alone. Go waste somebody else's time." Her heart pounded in her ears and she forced herself not to run down the hall.
He glared, his hands clenched into fists. "You a fag, too?"
"Not likely, since 'fag' is an insult most often applied to guys. Or, in England, a term used for cigarettes."
Several students snickered. Josh shifted his glare to the small crowd. The giggles died immediately.
"Is there a problem here?"
Nattie's knees almost buckled in relief as Mr. Grafton approached from his classroom down the hall.
"No," Josh said.
Mr. Grafton looked at Nattie.
"Not anymore," she said.
Fred shook his head.
"All right," Mr. Grafton said. "Everybody get to class."
Josh gave Nattie a final glare before he walked away, his posse of teammates right behind him.
Nattie looked at Fred and they stared for a moment before bursting into nervous laughter.
"Major dickweed." Fred adjusted his bag and smoothed the front of his shirt.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah. You're so big and strong," he teased. "Jo will totally appreciate it."
Nattie rolled her eyes. "Be careful, okay?"
"I'll just run and find you. Nobody messes with you 'cause of your dad." He batted his eyes.
"If that's what it takes." She gave his arm a gentle squeeze. Nattie rarely talked about her dad at school, but everybody knew he was with the sheriff's department. She never talked about her mom, either, who had died when she was a toddler.
"Gotta go," Fred said. "Catch you later."
She watched him, since Josh was right down the hall leaning against a locker. But he was busy hanging all over—Nattie stared a few more moments—Pam Howard? Pam was back with that jerkoff? Gag. She checked to make sure Fred had gotten past Josh then went to class.
"Hey, Nattie," Jo said as Nattie approached the door to the biology classroom. She was leaning against the wall, holding her books in front, flat against her waist. She wore her basic Jo uniform, as Nattie categorized it. Loose jeans pegged at the ankles above her black high top Chucks and a light blue T-shirt rolled up at the sleeves. She also wore a men's black vest over her shirt, which added to her boyish look but in a good way. She'd started streaking her dark hair blonde in the front, which only made her cuter.
"Hi." Nattie hoped she sounded calm and cool.
"Got a sec?" Jo pushed off the wall.
"Yeah." Ohmigod.
Jo stepped away from the doorway and the students filing in. She moved closer and lowered her voice. "My mom's best show dog was stolen."
"I know. I heard. I'm really sorry."
"Um. So, do you think you could help find him? I mean, if you want to. I wouldn't want you to get in trouble or anything."
Nattie stared at her.
"I mean, after the last time you solved something, I wasn't sure I should ask, but you're really good at finding stuff, so—"
"Yes," she said, and immediately regretted it, but only a little. Her dad didn't have to know.
Jo grinned. "Really? Awesome. Could you come over after school today?"
"Uh—" Nattie had never been inside Jo's house and the thought made her nervous, but giddy, too.
"To see where it happened. The scene of the crime."
"Oh, yeah."
"Awesome. Meet me after school by the parking lot."
Nattie followed her in and took a seat on the opposite side of the room. Jo sat nearer the back, and Nattie wished the order was reversed so she could see her during class. She opened her notebook and started listing potential suspects in Giorgio's dognapping and possible motives. Jo would have some ideas, too. She shoved the other thoughts she had of Jo out of her mind. This was an investigation, after all.
LORI L. LAKE's mystery stories have appeared in many anthologies including Women of the Mean Streets: Lesbian Noir; The Silence of the Loons; Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Malice; Once Upon a Crime; and Writes of Spring. She has edited three other anthologies including the Lambda Literary Award Finalist, The Milk of Human Kindness. Her novel-length fiction has received Golden Crown Literary "Goldies," Rainbow Awards, the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, and multiple StoneWall Society Awards. Her body of work has also received the prestigious Alice B Medal. Lori lives in Portland, Oregon.
JESSIE CHANDLER's short stories have appeared in Why Did Santa Leave a Body; Women in Uniform; and Writes of Spring. Her popular Shay O'Hanlon Caper Series has received many awards including the 2014 USA Book Award for LGBT Fiction, Golden Crown "Goldies," the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, and an IPPY for Best LGBT Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. This is Jessie's first foray into editing an anthology. She lives in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.


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Etihad Airways, a national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will expand its network in South East Asia with the launch of a non-stop daily service between Abu Dhabi and Phuket.
Phuket is the largest island in Thailand and has emerged as one of the world's most popular destinations for both holidays and retirement. Located in the Andaman Sea, tourists flock to the island for its pristine natural beaches and year-round sunshine.
The new route will launch on 26 October 2014 using two-class Airbus A330-200 aircraft, with 22 Pearl Business seats and 240 Coral Economy seats. The flights have been scheduled to provide optimal connectivity between Phuket and key markets across Europe and the GCC.
Phuket will become the second destination in Thailand to be served by Etihad Airways, and the seventh in South East Asia, alongside Bangkok, Singapore, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City and Jakarta.
James Hogan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, said: "We have a very successful track record in Thailand. The capital city, Bangkok, has ranked as our most popular route for the past four years, with 742,759 passengers flown in 2013 alone. Expanding our reach in the country with a daily service to Phuket is therefore natural progression.
"The island is a strong addition to Etihad Airways' leisure portfolio and we will offer attractive arrival and departure times, with seamless connections to 25 European and GCC cities.
This includes daily connections from London, Manchester, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich and Paris, in addition to key GCC markets such as Bahrain, Doha, Muscat, Kuwait and Riyadh."
Phuket is the ninth route to be announced by Etihad Airways in 2014. Services commenced to Medina on 1 February, and will be followed by Jaipur (1 April), Los Angeles (1 June), Zurich (1 June), Yerevan (2 July), Rome (15 July), Perth (15 July), Phuket (26 October) and Dallas (3 December).
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In 2000, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes e.V. (EASD) increased its commitment to stimulate diabetes research in Europe by creating the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes (EFSD). The Foundation is closely related to the EASD; it is governed exclusively by the Board of the EASD, which itself is under the close supervision of the General Assembly of the EASD.
EFSD operates on a strictly non-profit basis under the control of the relevant authorities for charity and taxation in order to support diabetes research.
The EASD, as an academic non-profit association, benefits from the possibilities offered by the legal status of its Foundation to advance diabetes research by various methods. Since its inception, EFSD has committed over Euro 100 million to diabetes research in Europe by various funding means. In the last five years, the Foundation has become a significant European funding agency for diabetes research, and is continually striving to enhance awareness in Europe of the severity and magnitude of this devastating disease.
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I was having pre-dinner drinks at Peppers Cafe earlier today before finally capitulating and ordered the Sibu Famous Jelly Pisang (RM 7). It is described as "Fresh banana slices with strawberry jelly in sugar syrup topped with shaved ice, finished with Ideal milk and laced with strawberry syrup".
I'm from Sibu and I've never heard of such a concoction before, much less with a "famous" tag preceding it. *squints suspiciously
However, it seems that there really is such a dessert despite my initial skepticism and dark thoughts about fleecing unsuspecting tourists. Eddy told me that Jelly Pisang was a very big thing back when he was a teenager – all his Malay friends would eagerly go for a bowl on a particularly hot day.
I'm not sure if it's a Sibu thing or more of a Sarawak thing but anecdotes seem to suggest the former. This is further confirmed by Arthur's blog post about it and a mention of it being a specialty of Ban Chuan Coffee Shop way back in the days.
Jelly Pisang (banana jelly) is delicious – there is no sweetener in the iced concoction, the shaved ice only has cordial (for color) and evaporated milk.
However, when you bite into the huge mass of jelly, you get an intense sugar rush. The jelly forms 1/3 of the entire dessert and sets at the bottom. You scoop up large chunks of it like ruby red sugar icebergs when you dip your spoon down. There's no fine dicing (a sure indicator of mass production) here, which is a good thing.
The Jelly Pisang is really quite nice, as the unsweetened shaved ice contrasts nicely with the saccharine sweet in-house made jelly. The banana slices are lovely too. However, it seems that time has not been kind to this particular dessert.
It has largely fallen out of favor and is now mostly available in cafes and restaurants under "Local Desserts" as a historical ode to days gone by, instead of stalls.


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Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter is so concerned about the NSA spying scandal that he thinks it has essentially resulted in a suspension of American democracy.
Carter's remarks didn't appear in the American mainstream press but were reported from Atlanta by the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, whose Washington correspondent Gregor Peter Schmitz said on Twitter he was present at the event. The story doesn't appear in the English-language section of the Spiegel website and is only available in German.
The 39th U.S. president also said he was pessimistic about the current state of global affairs, wrote Der Spiegel, because there was "no reason for him to be optimistic at this time." Among the developments that make him uneasy, Carter cited the "falling of Egypt under a military dictatorship." As president, Carter managed to get then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to sign the Camp David peace agreements in 1979.
Carter said a bright spot was "the triumph of modern technology," which enabled the democratic uprisings of the Arab Spring; however, the NSA spying scandal, Carter said, according to Der Spiegel, endangers precisely those developments, "as major U.S. Internet platforms such as Google or Facebook lose credibility worldwide."


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The last TRADE event of 2016 is kicking off at Berlin's OHM on November 2.
Having celebrated one-year anniversary with a party in September, the mostly mid-week club night is now closing out the year with a live performance from Jam City, who released his second album Dream a Garden on UK label Night Slugs in March last year. Also performing will be Montevideo-based producer Lechuga Zafiro, of SALVI∆T∑K and Mexico City's NAAFI, accompanied by Jackie Poloni, Niclas and Simon Kaiser and more.
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I am looking for an authentication mechanism that works best with low memory, low computing power devices. I came across a paper "A Practical Zero-Knowledge Protocol Fitted to Security Microprocessor Minimizing Both Transmission and Memory" which is released in 1988.
Couldnt find any recent papers. Is it the best one or am I missing some ?
I have a case where I have few processors connected to a gateway processors. I can send upto 64 bits of data at a time. Computing power is low in the sense that I cant employ something like AES-128 algorithm in all chips. I also need to minimize the number of bits of data send for authentication


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I remember when the seven of us here at Supergiant were days away from revealing our first game, Bastion, back at PAX Prime in 2010. The game had been in development for about a year but we were only just figuring out how to talk about it to the public. When people would ask us "what is this game about," what would we say? We weren't sure at first, because Bastion is an action RPG where an old man talks to you the whole time — and that sounds really, really terrible.
Thankfully, those who played it tended to come away with a much more positive impression. We eventually came up with stuff we could say about Bastion with a straight face, but by far our favorite way of presenting the game to people was to invite them to play it.
Now here I am trying to tell you about our next game, Transistor, and I wish I could just hand you a controller and let you try it for yourself. We revealed it earlier this year at PAX East, and today we've announced it will be making its console debut on the PlayStation 4 when we're finished with it sometime early next year.
If you check our reveal trailer you'll get a feel for what Transistor is like, though let me give you a little more background.
At Supergiant our games take inspiration from many of the most memorable games we played when we were kids. In my case it's a very long list, everything from RPGs like the classic Ultima and Final Fantasy games, to fighting games like Street Fighter II and Samurai Shodown. Those games challenged my preconceptions of what games could be, and introduced me to unforgettable worlds and characters.
Rather than throw back to the classics, though, we're much more interested in capturing the experience of playing games like that for the first time. It's that rush you feel when you find a game that's incredibly novel but turns out to have a lot of depth there too… the kind of game you lose yourself in, and that leaves a lasting impression long after you're done playing.
Bastion was our first attempt to act on this aspiration, and fortunately, it got a great response from around the world. It's sold more than two million copies and earned more than 100 industry accolades, and put us in a position to maintain our independence, stick together as a team, and make something new. And, when it came to making something new, that's exactly what we wanted. With Transistor, our aim is to create a unique-feeling game with its own strong, distinct identity, and many of its own surprises.
We've been working on Transistor for about a year and a half now, and most of the time has gone into finding that identity for the game. The result is a play experience that merges the kind of immediate moment-to-moment action we love, with a much more deliberate and thoughtful strategic layer that lets you dictate the pace of a battle.
We took inspiration from our favorite turn-based games and tactical RPGs, and aimed to capture the inherent drama and suspense of that style of play but in the context of an easy-to-learn action RPG. There's nothing like turning the tables from the verge of defeat with some sort of spectacular last-ditch reversal, and the moment-to-moment play in Transistor should be packed with those kinds of opportunities. It's all presented in a way that we think is unique to our game, and deeply connected to the story of this mysterious and powerful weapon you'll be using throughout.
While I still sometimes struggle to find the words to describe the game I'm working on, I love talking about it almost as much as working on it, and I'd be happy to answer your questions right here in the coming days.
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BEIJING — A court in China has sentenced Canadian businessman Michael Spavor to 11 years in prison for espionage, days before Canada is expected to announce whether it will extradite a Chinese executive to the United States for trial.
The Intermediate People's Court of Dandong City, near China's border with North Korea, said Spavor illegally provided state secrets to overseas contacts.
The ruling also said Spavor's personal property in China would be confiscated and that he would be deported, but did not say when that might happen. Spavor has already spent 975 days in detention with nearly no contact with the outside world.
Dominic Barton, Canada's ambassador to China, said earlier this week that the timing of Spavor's sentence was "not a coincidence." It comes just as Canada is entering the final stretch in deliberations on whether to send Chinese executive Meng Wanzhou to the US, where she would be tried for allegedly breaking US sanctions on Iran by selling the country telecoms equipment.
Western diplomats have accused China of political hostage-taking and of having arrested the two Canadians as retaliation for Meng's arrest. By dangling the possibility of deporting Spavor back to Canada, China may also be seeking leverage to block Meng's potential extradition to the US.
Spavor once helped organize travel between China and North Korea and is an expert on the Korean peninsula.
He and another Canadian, former diplomat Michael Kovrig, were detained in December 2018, just days after Canada arrested Meng, who is a senior executive at Chinese telecom firm Huawei and the daughter of the company's well-connected founder.
Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau has decried the espionage charges against Kovrig and Spavor as "trumped up" but has said he will not bow to Chinese pressure to release Meng: "We, of course, are a country of the rule of law. We will not do that. We live by our treaties and live by the rule of law."
As news of Spavor's sentencing was announced Wednesday morning, diplomats from 25 countries, including Japan, the "Five Eyes" countries of Australia, the United States, Great Britain, and New Zealand, and a representative from the European Union gathered at Canada's embassy in Beijing to show support for Spavor and to protest the sentencing.
"While we disagree with the charges, we realize that this is the next step in the process to bring Michael home and we will continue to support him through this challenging time," Spavor's family said in a statement.
Meng Wanzhou is currently out on bail in Canada and is able to move around with a GPS tracker strapped to her ankle. Her posh living conditions – she currently resides in a mansion in an upscale Vancouver neighborhood – have stoked anger in Canada.
By contrast, Spavor and Kovrig have been held in secretive Chinese jails. Both men were put on trial this March, but they were closed to the public and Canadian diplomats were barred from observing the trial because China said the contents concerned national security.
Kovrig is still awaiting a verdict.
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If you were a passenger aboard the meteorite from Mars bearing down on the town of Tata, Morocco in July 2011, you would be in a decidedly unenviable position. For one thing you'd be a bacterium — a nifty Martian bacterium, to be sure, but still. For another thing you'd be either freeze-dried or in a state of suspended animation — the better to survive the thousands or even millions of years you might have spent in space. And the odds are that even if you were alive and well when you stowed away on the rock while it was on Mars, the life would have been snuffed out of you the moment the asteroid hit that blasted you into space in the first place.
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On the other hand, maybe you'd survive — maybe the shock would not have been so great or you'd be tucked away deep enough in the meteorite that you were spared its full power. And if you did survive and arrived on Earth a few billion years ago, maybe you'd have have adapted well to your new home and grown and thrived and served as the seed for every organism that ever populated your new planet including, eons later, the human species itself. In which case, modern humans never have to contemplate meeting Martians again because we are the Martians.
That, anyway, is the thinking behind panspermia — the theory that life on Earth may have come from beyond, if not bacteria from Mars, then organic raw materials from comets or asteroids that rained down on the planet back in the heavy bombardment days of the early solar system. It's an idea that's spawned a lot of faculty-lounge theorizing for more than a century, but in recent years, it's attained a new credibility. Observations from both space-based and Earthbound telescopes as well as interplanetary probes have shown that organic chemistry is common everywhere in the cosmos. Space is rich in hydrocarbons, water and even the amino acids essential to life. Nucleobases, amino acids and sugars have been found in meteors that have crashed to Earth. Our planet's water itself is thought by many scientists to have been imported to us aboard ice-heavy comets long ago, preparing the planet for the life it would one day support.
(More: Did a Distant Solar System Send Life to Earth?)
Panspermia is quietly becoming a go-to area of study for astronomers and astrobiologists, and a new paper published in the current edition of Science is a very good example of what the field is doing. A team of investigators got their hands on a few bits of that Moroccan meteorite — known as the Tissint meteorite for its mineral composition — and subjected it to both mineralogical and chemical analyses, and while no traces of bacteria were found (and none were expected to be found) the scientists did learn more about what it would take for such a planetary tissue exchange to occur.
Martian meteorites look like any other meteorite, but decades of samplings of the Mars's air and soil by NASA probes have made it easy for scientists to match the chemistry of a space rock with the chemistry of the Red Planet — and the Tissint meteorite is a perfect fit. The debris the researchers studied has what's known as a fusion crust, a black outer skin that was the result of the super-heating that occurred when the body entered Earth's atmosphere. The interior is shot through with black glass veins that are rich in traces of Martian air. It's the glass that makes the meteorite so improbably lovely — to geologists, at least — and also reveals the most about its past.
"You've got a rock sitting at the surface of Mars, the impact takes place and the shock wave passes through and kicks it up into space," says Chris Herd, a meteorite expert at the University of Alberta and one of the co-authors of the paper. "But the shock wave can also cause very local melting where there are open fractures or cavities in the rock. That space collapses and it melts."
(More: Space Discovery: Long Before Earth, Asteroids May Have Served as Incubators of Life)
That would be bad news for any Martian bacteria that happened to be aboard. "Where would you expect microorganisms to be?" asks Herd. "You'd expect them to be in the fractures. Maybe water percolates there. Maybe they set up shop there like organisms that live in rocks on Earth do. Those guys would be vaporized when the melt pockets form."
That doesn't stop scientists like Herd from looking for such signs of extraterrestrial life in meteorites both from Mars and elsewhere in space — nor should it. For one thing, just because some bacteria would be flash-cooked when the fragment takes off doesn't mean all of them would; and some rocks, Herd points out, undergo less peak shock than others. The shortest transit time from Mars to Earth for a randomly drifting meteor would be about 10,000 years — survivable for bacteria that can enter a state of self-protective suspended animation, which some bacteria on Earth do in harsh desert or polar climates. And while such a long time in interplanetary space exposes any organism to lethal levels of cosmic radiation, at least one species of Earthly bacteria, known as Deinococcus radiodurans, has been found to shrug off even the most high-energy radiative roasting. "A lot has to go right," for bacteria to make a planet-to-planet trip, Herd concedes, but it's by no means an impossible scenario.
The idea that organics — or even organisms — drift from world to world like spores on the wind is an unfamiliar one for most people. But unfamiliar ideas have a way of becoming familiar, and even commonplace, quickly. The great, thriving terrarium that is Earth may be unique in our solar system. But if the new findings show anything, it's that our planet may not be at all unique — or even terribly special — in the cosmos as a whole.
More: Alien Life Discovered in a Meteorite! Or Maybe Not


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Deep Learning
Deep Learning – What Exactly Is Depth of Knowledge?
Deep Learning – By: Erik M. Francis , Author of the book Now THAT'S a Good Question! How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning
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Deep Learning – Depth of knowledge. It's a concept we in education have heard a lot about since our states transitioned to college and career ready standards. It's also one of the most misinterpreted and misrepresented concepts in education that is not only confusing but also frustrating us educators. Most of it is due to the DOK Wheel.
Educators can use to plan and provide teaching and learning – for higher order thinking. It categorizes the levels of thinking students are expected to demonstrate, which is what cognitive taxonomies such as Anderson and Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's Taxonomy, Cognitive and Metacognitive Systems of Marzano's New Taxonomy, and Biggs and Collis's SOLO Taxonomy. In fact, out of all the taxonomies that categorize higher order thinking, the DOK Wheel is most aligned to the SOLO Taxonomy and its four quadrants. This should be called the HOT Wheel or even the SOLO Wheel and could be used to plan and provide instruction that marks and measures higher order thinking.
However, it does not designate the depth of knowledge students are expected to communicate – or, at least, how Webb's Depth of Knowledge Model designates these levels.
(You can click here to read further about why the DOK Wheel does not accurately depict Webb's Depth of Knowledge.)
The concept of depth of knowledge that is addressed in the college and career ready standards was developed by Norman Webb (1997; 2002). Webb designed his model as a means of increasing the cognitive complexity and demand of standardized assessments. Traditionally, standardized assessments measured students to think deeply about the academic content, concepts, ideas, and procedures they were learning. However, these assessments were limited in measuring students ability to transfer and use what they were learning in different contexts. They were also limited in measuring the depth of understanding students must develop and demonstrate. Students were challenged to demonstrate – or show – the ability to think deeply about how to answer questions, address problems, accomplish tasks, and analyze texts and topics. However, they were not being challenged to communicate – or tell – how and why they could transfer and use what they were learning in different contexts.
Webb first introduced the concept of depth of knowledge in his paper "Research Monograph No. 8: Criteria for Alignment of Expectations and Assessments in Mathematics and Science Education" (1997). The purpose of this monograph was "to define criteria for judging the alignment between expectations and assessments" (Webb, 1997). He explains how depth of knowledge consistency serves as attribute under the criteria of content focus, explaining how DOK can vary on a number of dimensions such as the following
- the level of cognitive complexity of information students should be expected to know
- how well they should be able to transfer this knowledge to different contexts
- how well they should be able to form generalizations
- how much prerequisite knowledge they must have in order to grasp ideas
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I Kissed Alice
Anna Birch
Published by: Macmillan
Publication date: July 28th 2020
Genres: LGBTQ+, Romance, Young Adult
For fans of Leah on the Offbeat and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Anna Birch's I Kissed Alice is a romantic comedy about enemies, lovers, and everything in between.
Rhodes and Iliana couldn't be more different, but that's not why they hate each other.
Rhodes, a gifted artist, has always excelled at Alabama's Conservatory of the Arts (until she's hit with a secret bout of creator's block), while Iliana, a transfer student, tries to outshine everyone with her intense, competitive work ethic. Since only one of them can get the coveted Capstone scholarship, the competition between them is fierce.
They both escape the pressure on a fanfic site where they are unknowingly collaborating on a webcomic. And despite being worst enemies in real life, their anonymous online identities I-Kissed-Alice and Curious-in-Cheshire are starting to like each other… a lot. When the truth comes out, will they destroy each other's future?
IlianaIt was the end of our junior year when everything between Rhodes and me came to be as it is now.
It was May, and we were at a pop-up installation on the edge of campus. Clouds of heavy, weed-scented smoke hung up around the light fixtures of an old gas station with bars on the windows, and rain was falling in through a spot where the roof had caved, leaving puddles on the dirty tiled floor.
Behind each ancient cooler door was an installation: women with tape over their mouths. Women with their hands bound. Women dressed like schoolgirls, and dressed like moms, and dressed like frumpy old ladies with curlers in their hair. There was a gas station attendant behind the dilapidated old counter, a girl barely older than us with shiny red lip gloss and breasts begging to escape from a Play- boy Bunny costume. Word around campus was that participants had to be eighteen so they could sign the liability waiver provided by the lead artist.
Men wandered from one cooler to the next, shopping quietly, selecting someone to take with them along with six-packs of beer and packs of beef jerky.
Rhodes and I had become friends, sort of.
We weren't talk-on-the-phone friends, or even text-on-occasion friends.
But Sarah had been my best friend since the third grade, and Sar- ah and Rhodes had become completely symbiotic during their first and second years as roommates at the Conservatory. It had taken weeks of begging for Sarah to even suggest to Rhodes that I come along—no matter what I did, Rhodes thought my work was "pedestrian."
She didn't think I'd understand the show—called Quickies at the Kwickee Mart, clever them—or that the art installation would speak to me the way it spoke to her and Sarah.
But by some force of nature, I had been the one to win a scholar- ship at the Savannah College of Art and Design only a week before. My art wasn't an existential crisis played out with paint and canvas, and it didn't make any grand political statements, but it was going to pay for my college—and apparently it meant I was allowed to play with the big girls now. Only two days later, Rhodes invited me along herself.
A week after that, we stood side by side, stoned out of our minds and attempting to make sense of the little theater that played out in front of us. Some of the girls in the cases were seniors at the Conservatory, and I knew about half of the people standing around us from campus as well. The rest were unimaginably sophisticated, worldly looking artist types—people with ink-stained hands and tattoos that crept up from under the collars of their shirts and onto their necks.
If my perception hadn't been completely altered, I would have thought to be a little embarrassed by my own clothing choices. I felt so metal sneaking out in my tattered-on-purpose Slipknot T-shirt and my tattered-on-purpose acid-washed shorts and my tattered-on-pur- pose pink-and-white-striped tights.
"It's, like, feminism—" Rhodes said.
Her brows were knit together; her cogs were turning.
She didn't understand. I didn't want to tell her otherwise, to ruin the night like I always do. It wasn't enough to say it was about "like, feminism." Anything can be about feminism, because in everything there's an imbalance of power. There will always be one person in the room that has more privilege than the rest, and that person is almost always an Ingram.
It didn't surprise me that Rhodes didn't understand then, and it doesn't now—she doesn't really know what it means to be a little further down the food chain than everyone else. I'm not much further down than she is—I'm just as white, Christian-adjacent, abled, and straight-passing as she is—but I'm aware of it.
"Yeah, just, you know—" Sarah's pupils were blown out. She held on to me for dear life, the way Rhodes's barely-younger brother and then-dance-track student, Griffin, clung to Rhodes's arm. Sarah liked Griffin then—she was infatuated, really. I think she thought he'd be an easy segue into being a fixture in Rhodes's life forever.
She thought wrong.
"The motherfucking patriarchy," said Griffin.
The motherfucking patriarchy. As if that phrase in and of itself wasn't the purpose of the installation, the fact that women are continuously victims of sexual violence in Western culture, so much so that it has permeated our patterns of speaking and even the way we curse.
Rhodes sighed, and nodded appreciatively. Sarah sighed, and nodded appreciatively. Griffin sighed, and nodded appreciatively.
This is art, they communicated, with stoops in their shoulders and ennui-burdened frowns. This is life.
This is suffering.
Pot only ever makes me more philosophical. Everyone around me was melting into puddles, and I was practically writing ninety-nine theses on third-wave feminism on the back of a fifteen-year-old Kwickee Mart napkin that had been stuck to the bottom of my boot.
Author Bio:
Anna Birch is the author of I Kissed Alice. She was born 'n' raised in a rural area on the outskirts of Birmingham, Alabama. She traded thick forests and dirt roads for the heart of the city, where she lives now with her husband, three children, and dog. She loves knitting, brie, and hanging out with her family.