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Most people won't run to the doctor every time they get a cold. But knowing what to do about one at home isn't always easy. This guide will give you some ideas of what may work for you and help you feel better and back to your old (healthy) self before you know it.

Get Plenty of Rest

It may seem ridiculous to get extra sleep because of a cold, but it really is important. When you sleep, your body is able to fight infections more effectively, even minor ones like colds. So just going to bed an hour or two earlier will help your body recover more quickly.

Drink Plenty of Fluids

This means water and sports drinks people. No alcohol, sodas, or coffee. Water and sports drinks rehydrate your body and help clear congestion and enable your body to fight the infection. Drinks with caffeine and alcohol in them only dehydrate you and make the problem worse. Alcohol may also interact with some over-the-counter cold medications, just one more reason to avoid them while you are sick.

Take Over the Counter Medications to Relieve Symptoms

No medication will cure the common cold. There are several that make this claim, but none have been proven effective. Over-the-counter cold medications will usually help relieve your symptoms so you can function and feel better, even if it is just for a little while. But remember, they are not killing the virus, just helping you cope with the symptoms.

Using Other Remedies to Relieve Symptoms

Using things such as humidifiers and even chicken soup can go a long way towards making you feel better. Standing in a steamy bathroom may help congestion and even calm a cough. Of course, none of these remedies are actually curing your cold either, but they can help you feel better, which of course is everyone's main objective when they are sick.

Knowing When to Visit the Doctor

Most of us will not need to go to a doctor when we get a cold. Occasionally, though, symptoms will hang on longer or get worse and you may start to get concerned. Perhaps that cold has caused another infection, such as pneumonia or it wasn't a cold at all. Knowing when to call the doctor may be the most important information you can have.


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(COLA is cost of living adjustment it's a yearly raise for Social Security beneficiaries to account for inflation and expecting bills to go up for the new year as well.)
This is the worst time of the economy to do this…..the bills in 2010 and 2011 will still go up but now their income won't.
They claim that they make up with it with a one-time 0.00 payment in 2009 (2010 for some).
How about suspending the COLA for members of Congress (who by the way vote yes every year to give themselves substantial raises in salary) or the COLA for federal employees who receive substantial salaries (I used to be a federal employee so I know they make good money)? Rather than the people who need it the most.
If you oppose this, send a simple email to your Senators and Representatives or you can write a letter in more detail asking them to oppose the no cost of living adjustment for 2010-2011 for SSA recipients. Here is a template that will help if you need ideas or guidelines for your letter or email: http://www.ncpssm.org/pdf/cola_senate_20… and if you need assistance in locating the Representatives and Senators for your state and districts go to http://www.congress.gov. Please write to all your Reps and Senators despite their or your political affiliation.
Please don't comment or answer if nothing like this has ever happened to you and all you want to do is complain about people on SSA or the system itself because no one cares. Speak from experience only if you have been on SSA or are currently on SSA. I don't want to hear from those who have no experience in dealing with SSA or have never had to use it.
SSA is NOT a scam I used to work there, I know every detail how it works. The problem is there isn't enough money for the generation after the baby boomers. However this decision not to pay the COLA HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SSA SYSTEM or its debt! They are trying to save money but instead could be taking the COLA from the rich congressmen and representatives or take the COLA from federal employees who make good money anyway. SSA was created to help the people not to hurt them. I wouldn't want to live in a country where we didn't take care of our sick, poor, or aged. This is mostly regarding the disabled which is unexpected. Most elderly did save for retirement but its not enough or recent invest scams or IRA that isn't worth anything due to economy plummeting.
Get involved against taking the COLA from SSA and SSI recipients by emailing or writing your Representative or Senator with the info above. you can also email CREDO at info@credo action.com to ask them to get involved against taking the only raise from SSA beneficiaries when our bills will still go up. GET INVOLVED ESPECIALLY those who are on the program. This effects you so I hope you decide to get involved and do what you can to get this decision reversed!!!!!
Focus on the issue of taking the only raise from SSA recipients. They are doing this to pay for health care reform and the national debt and they are not put it back in to the SSA system. That wouldn't even make a dent.
Instead of talking about the SSA system itself, lets talk specifically about taking the COLA from the people who need it the most on SSA.

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In this espionage film, set just before the Germans invaded France, a chemist in Paris moonlights as a Soviet spy. To escape the Nazi invaders, the chemist and his wife steal government money and try to escape to South America. En route, their ship stops in Trinidad where they two cannot pass unless they fork over all of the money. Suddenly 24 years have passed and the man who obstructed them is still working as a British agent. He is investigating a formula that has leaked through to the enemy. This brings him in contact with the chemist again. This time, the agent helps the chemist escape the Soviet agents who pursue him.
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text: Olga Lah, an installation artist and Fuller Seminary alumna (MAT '06), was recently featured on KCET's Arts page. The coverage included photos of several of Lah's pieces that have been exhibited across Southern California and as far away as Slovenia. The KCET story highlighted the theological layers intrinsic to Lah's work. "A very pivotal moment early in my art practice was learning about Karl Barth's idea of thaumazein, which is an ancient Greek term for 'wonder,' a wonder that pointed specifically to something higher," Lah is quoted as saying. But her art found itself on the back-burner while caring for her ailing father: "I turned my back on art and I really thought, I must have a higher purpose, and it must be about something else. That's why I went to seminary." After completing her degree, Lah audited classes from Fuller's Brehm Center and found a convergence between her art and her religious life. Her art now acts as a means of processing and expressing the questions of faith, and she was recently honored with the distinguished Korea Arts Foundation of America (KAFA) Biennial Award.Click here to read the whole story about Olga Lah and her work.


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I made my first foray into healing after 7 years a few months ago. I've been fine tuning it since then. Last night was my first time in 10s and we cleared wing 1 with no problems and I didn't have to use Innervate much. Once we got to Galakras, though, I ran out of mana (with 2 innervates during the fight) by the time he was shot down.
I've been using Ask Mr. Robot with custom weights. I'm doing 13163/37.52% haste and set my Spirit to 12000 using the Total Effective Spirit option (including trinket/meta/enchant procs) which gives me 8566 Spirit in character sheet value.
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It takes a storm like Sandy to realize I'm still my parents' baby — even at 46.
The calls started Sunday night as the storm was moving up the coast and predictions were calling for flooding, massive power outages and high winds from Delaware up to Boston. My parents live in Wilmington, on the coast of North Carolina, so they know how to worry about hurricanes.
I told them we were fine, had extra batteries, candles, non-perishable food and wood.
My mother called Monday morning to check again. Then she called again later in the afternoon when I was at work.
Still nothing, I told her. In fact people who had gone out to lunch wore their sunglasses.
She called again around dinner time and I told her I would definitely let her know if there was something to worry about.
This morning, it was my dad who called and I was glad to tell him we didn't even lose power. The girls had just walked to the bus stop without umbrellas.
A friend on Facebook, who is also my age, said her parents had called and offered to ship a generator to her and her family.


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For the last week of regular lessons this spring (the week before the Year-End Evaluations), I let each student choose whatever he/she wanted to do for the lesson. It was kind of fun to see what they chose! Some opted for a bunch of improvising, some wanted to play through their regular assignments, some wanted to do listening activities, and a great many wanted to play games!
Landon and Hayley both wanted to do games for their lesson, so we played several different ones. They really liked working together on this rhythmic dictation one. I just gave them a set of note and rest rhythm cards and then played a 2-measure rhythm pattern on the piano. They had to lay out the cards to correspond to what I played. It was a bit of a challenge at first, but they caught on really quickly! This is a great activity that is easily adaptable for individual lessons or with multiple teams in group lessons. Click here to download a set of single note and rest rhythm cards.


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Jonathan Forrest on His Art & Exhibition (Newzones, Calgary: March 13 – April 17)
Some thoughts on my studio practice…
In the early 1980s, when I was a young art student, I got to know Saskatoon artist Robert Christie whom I owe a large debt of gratitude for his insights and ongoing support. Through him I met and saw the work of other senior Saskatoon artists including William Perehuddoff and Eli Bornstein as well as a host of others. The Saskatoon art community in the 1980s was very supportive and paint-friendly and was a great place to "grow-up" artistically. This place and its history taught me some great lessons and one of the most important was to use the materials to express yourself – how to put a painting together and give it presence, weight, and impact. Sounds simple enough but I think this is quite rare and I am lucky to have had that education
Part of my personality is that I have an innate kid-like desire to muck around with paint – to make things, try it out, and see where it will go. I like to personalize every part of the picture, touching it all, putting my handprint, so to speak, on the painting's surface. While I often will draw the layout of the painting, it's the painterly incidents that give the piece character. This happens on the canvas as I am engaged in the process. The best painting times are when I can take off the censor brakes and go where the work leads me, enjoying the journey and delighting in the results.
I have noticed how your particular situation, circumstance or environment can influence your work and that this can be cultivated as a means of change. An example is the Emma Lake workshops held every two years in Northern Saskatchewan, which I have attended intermittently since the mid 1980s. The workshop somehow gets recorded in the work I do up there. The paintings are directly related to what happens around me, the people there, what they are painting, what they are talking about, the feedback and the off-cuff comments. Somehow, this all gets filtered into my work and it becomes a distinct group of paintings capturing the two week "zeitgeist". An example of this is my recent show at The Gallery / Art Placement called "More Pieces of the Puzzle" where most of the small scale works were painted at Emma Lake in the summer of 2009.
A more specific example of influence is my out of town studio. I drive out there through all seasons and notice the changing landscape, colours and things like weathered buildings, curves and dips in the highway, traffic signs, grid roads crossing, stop signs blacked out by a setting sun, dusk. These things all seep into my paintings and were reflected in a couple of shows ("Off the grid" and "Cross Section" both in 2008). It would be crazy if this didn't affect my work. Sounds obvious, but in a sense every conversation you have affects you in that way, every show you see, anything that grabs your mind and sinks in. And often it's not overtly grabbing your mind – it's more "out the corner of your eye", intuition, what seems right – rather than what is justifiably theoretically provable as being right!
Then there are the visual ideas that morph into new possibilities, which has to do with having a creative visual mind. A vertical pillar becomes a curving road, which becomes a figure. Or a painting triggers an idea about folding over the corner of paper, and once I'm lost in the work it triggers childhood memories of folding newspapers and floating them on a pond. A small painting like "Paper Hat" from an exhibition "Power Play" at Michael Gibson Gallery is a formal abstraction, a technical curiosity, a whimsical image, an acknowledgment of painterly ancestors, a reference to childhood memories, and a nod to family disappointments and unfulfilled hopes. A happy but poignant painting to me.
But geometry is supposed to be cold and anonymous – right? How can it be personal? An example I have used is my son and his obsession with juggling a soccer ball. When he was 8 or 9 he started playing soccer. He stuck with it and he started doing this juggling (kicking a ball up and down and doing "moves" as the ball is in the air). He kept doing it and over the years he got very good at it. I started looking at the very simple act of kicking a ball – how it somehow acted as a benchmark or consistent reference point as he went through a number of life changes in his teenage years. Years of doing that one act, so now when he juggles there's an explicit and implicit act – on the one hand, he's just kicking the ball – on the other hand, that ball has somehow has been personalized and has become meaningful, containing his life experience, the highs and the lows, the successes and the failures. That's abstraction!
Sometimes very simple observations can be used as starting points. On a recent trip out east I visited a colleague's studio. Walking to a close by gallery we started talking about visual cues for paintings – the repetitive break in the side walk concrete, the length of a stride, some kids artwork on a playground wall across the street. It was all there and completely valid and real.
Trouble is all of these things don't guarantee a painting that visually moves you. They give a back-story but this has to be meshed with the act of making a painting – a visual object that somehow captures an aesthetic moment, and that can re-communicate that aesthetic moment back to the viewer. Hopefully my work does contain the emotional force of that back-story, if not its literal depiction.
The work in my current exhibition "Splinter Group", at Newzones Gallery in Calgary, focuses on larger scale work painted over the last six months. A number of the works come out of ideas started in the summer of 2009 up at Emma Lake. Taking those ideas back to the studio has allowed me time to explore a rich and varied paint application as well as a colour range with more nuance than I have recently used. There is a light-hearted, humorous play between chaos and order, attention grabbing image versus subtle painterly incident and hopefully, a personal take on contemporary abstraction and its future potential.
Jonathan Forrest, March 2010
To see more of Jonathan's work, please visit his website: www.jonathanforrest.com


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Google warns of 'state-sponsored' attacks in China
OPENING GOOGLE's Gmail service in China was an alarming experience yesterday, as a strap headline across the top of the inbox said: "Warning: we believe state-sponsored attackers may be trying to compromise your account or computer."
Google has added a feature to warn users whose accounts it believes are targets of "state-sponsored attacks", but the internet giant did not specify which government.
However, relations between Google and the Chinese government have been strained for many years, and China is regularly cited by western security consultants as a major player in cyber-warfare research.
In a company blog posting this week, Google's vice-president responsible for security engineering, Eric Grosse, said the message was aimed at users who have been targeted.
"We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attempts by third parties to log in to users' accounts unauthorised. When we have specific intelligence – either directly from users or from our own monitoring efforts – we show clear warning signs and put in place extra roadblocks to thwart these bad actors," Mr Grosse wrote.
Google could not go into the details of how they know the activity was state-sponsored without giving away details that would help those doing the targeting.
"But our detailed analysis – as well as victim reports – strongly suggest the involvement of states or groups that are state-sponsored," he wrote.
A couple of years ago a number of Yahoo email accounts in China, including this correspondent's, were hacked into by what were suspected to be government-sponsored agencies. Last year Google said hackers in China had broken into the personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior US government officials, military personnel and political activists.
Using the internet can be an extremely frustrating experience for users in China. There is a rigorous system of controls aimed ostensibly at stopping pornography but which seems chiefly used to block access to politically sensitive websites and search terms.
Google closed its search engine in China in 2010 after saying it no longer wanted to co-operate with Beijing's internet censorship following hacking attacks traced to China. The company said some of its intellectual property also was stolen in an attack that targeted at least 20 other large companies.
Although China has repeatedly denied having links to hacking attacks, foreign governments and private security firms have long said Beijing uses computer hacking attacks to target rivals and glean intelligence.
A report last November by US intelligence agencies said Chinese and Russian intelligence services and companies with state ties systematically break into US computer systems to steal commercial information.
In August, a Chinese television clip gave an insight into how cyber attacks can be used by the People's Liberation Army against specific targets. Researchers at the McAfee internet security company said they had discovered a massive series of hacking attacks targeting the networks of 72 organisations including the United Nations and the governments of the US, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Canada.


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Lindy's Knits and Laces is a site dedicated to sharing information about three of my favorite home crafts: crocheting, hand knitting and machine knitting.
I enjoy creating lace items in both crochet and knitting. You might say my passion is lace knitting, but then there are socks, and scarves, and baby items ...
This information will be updated periodically, so be sure to visit regularly.
Free patterns are available on the Patterns Page.
My featured pattern is Mabel Lang's Motif.
The References page contains recommendations for knitting and crocheting books as well as websites & blogs I feel provide useful information.
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Joshue O Connor <email@example.com> wrote: > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 8:26 AM, John Foliot<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> >>> Joshue O Connor wrote: >>>> >>>> I think we need to step back further John. We need to work out what it >>>> should be before we ask any vendor to implement a solution. They will >>>> certainly support some form of long descriptor if it is present in the >>>> spec. >>> >>> If that were only true Josh. We've had a "solution" for this issue for >>> over >>> a decade in the previous Specification, and have not seen any >>> implementation >>> in browsers worth noting. Instead I sadly note that many engineers at the >>> various browser vendors want to instead obsolete a solution they've never >>> even tried to implement, and yet have not come forward with anything to >>> replace it. >> >> >> The thing is: if you read the HTML4 spec, there really is nothing >> stated about how the UA is supposed to expose it. >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/objects.html#h-13.2 > > [...] > >> >> This paragraph creates a problem without solving it. It states that >> the UA should expose a longdesc link differently when on an img than >> when on an a. But there is no hint as to how that can be done. > > [...] > > >> If we re-introduce it into HTML5, we need to be quite clear about how >> this has to be implemented. Otherwise we will fall into the same trap >> again. > > > To be frank Sylvia, in my experience, the previous editor of the HTML5 spec > was rather ambivalent/ambiguous about where and when the spec would/should > define the user experience. There are parts of the spec where this is > defined in a granular way, and then other parts where Ian would openly say > "We should not define the user experience". > > Note, this was usually when talking about a11y, and when he may not have > fully understood the implications of that mantra. So do you think that the > HTML5 spec should clearly define the user experience of its a11y related > elements? > > Would it help you if we did try to define it more clearly? > > It would be great if so, as it makes this whole conversation more practical. Please note that I was not speaking as an editor here and I do not want to influence the outcome of this discussion by using whatever (perceived) influence I have as an editor. Ian also was not in a position to stop text from getting into the W3C HTML spec - what the WG decided was what happened, even if Ian disagreed and did not apply all changes to the WHATWG spec. Similarly, I will apply whatever changes the WG decides are necessary to clarify the situation and help resolve it. This is independent of whether I agree or disagree with the decision. In this discussion I was merely voicing my opinion as a participant in this task force, as I have done before becoming a co-editor. Regards, Silvia.Received on Tuesday, 18 September 2012 07:04:39 UTC
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Michelle Dockery
Michelle Dockery: born December 15, 1981 (Sagittarius)
On the David Lettermen show, Michelle Dockery said men are terrified of having sex with her after Mr. Pamuk the Turk dropped dead during their Season One dalliance on Downton Abbey. Dockery's current live-in architect boyfriend in London may be the exception.
Dockery is best known for playing Lady Mary Crawley on Downton Abbey, but she made her television debut in 2005 in Fingersmith. Dockery was born and raised in East London. She went to school at Chadwell Heath Academy and moved onto Finch Stage School. At 18 year old, Michelle Dockery attended London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama and graduated in 2004.
Dockery performed in London theatres and on British television before landing her big role on Downton Abbey. Dockery is also a jazz singer performing occasionally with Sadie and the Hotheads – Elizabeth McGovern's band. McGovern plays Lady Cora, Dockery's mother on Downton. Michelle's musical influences include Peggy Lee and Billie Holiday.


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Hello, my name is Linda Crane. Welcome to my main website. I assist people with self healing and find solutions to the problems in their lives. I was born with natural psychic, mediumistic and healing gifts. I bring years of extensive intuitive spiritual expertise into my work with clients from every walk of life and in many countries throughout North and Central America, Europe, and Asia. I am specifically guided with each individual. My spiritual coaching and energy healing work have enabled clients to move through defeating and life-destroying energies into successful and joyful living.
In my quest to master secret knowledge, I have traveled the world and studied many forms of healing and spiritual practices. I hold certifications in many natural healing disciplines, including Bach Flower Registered Practitioner, Certified Hypnotherapist, Holistic Alternative Psychology Practitioner, Reiki and Karuna Reiki Master teacher, former Hospital Advocate and Crisis Services Counselor, and Ordained Minister.
On this site you'll find a list of services and products which have helped many people in business and in life, and may help you as well. My blogs give you information and tips that you can use in your daily living. Feel free to spend time, explore, and enjoy!
My Latest Articles:
Keeping True To Your Goals
If you are keeping true to the goals in your life from a 'Heart Centered Approach', this quote supports you: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." — Mahatma Gandhi. For all the struggles we all have endured in 2016; may the struggles given each one of us bear… Read More
Reaping Blessings
On this Thanksgiving Day it is my pleasure to send blessings to all my family and friends. And to all my wonderful clients who have been devoted to bettering their lives through love and giving of their unique gifts and talents. Reaping Blessings is assured when you de-stress by continuing to be positive and loving. that's when the dreams… Read More
Holding Yourself Back
Maybe you have some goals that have never been realized that you are longing to be experienced? Or maybe your inner core strength needs a boost? Whatever it may be…there are goals that want to come alive, be expressed, and for the joy of it all…wants to see what possible effects these goals can create… Read More
Reiki For Stress Reduction
Reiki For Stress Reduction Traumatic stress is much more common than recognized or acknowledged. Here is where Reiki for stress reduction can come into play to reduce the burden and relax the tension these problems affect. There is a growing public health and economic burden of chronic disease resulting from the adverse effects of traumatic… Read More
Disappointment and Frustration
Our external life is highly complex, and an important part of our external life, is a reflection of our inner programming and ancestral family patterns. So I ask you,"who's running the show of your life?" Depression, disillusionment, disappointment and frustration? I'm not referring to your parents, partner, children or teachers. I'm talking about YOU. Your… Read More


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What Inspires Us
Street-Works Studio designs and consults on built environments for residential, retail, office and public use. Our passion is urban spaces that honor the past and innovate the future. We believe that cohesive, vital places are the foundation for thriving communities that enrich the quality of life.
What We Have Worked On
Street-Works has done award-winning design and planning for nearly 100 neighborhoods nationwide, with both public and private sector partners – including Santana Row (San Jose, CA), Rockville Town Square (Rockville, MD) and Blue Back Square (West Hartford, CT).
What We Can Do Together
Developers, brokers, investors and governments work with us to reenergize urban cores and regenerate old sites with new potential.


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How-To: Enable Rosetta Opening in iLife '06 Applications
Written by: Plasm
Many, Many Thanks: Krazubu, Takuro, sportman, & JaS
This is a small tutorial on how to enable the option of "Open Using Rosetta" for iLife '06 applications. Here's how you do it. For this example, we will be using iMovie:
1. Right-click on the iMovie application.
2. Click "Show Package Contents"
3. A Finder window should show up entitled "iMovie HD", and there should be a folder called Contents.
4. Open Contents, and double click "Info.plist"
5. Scroll down a ways to the bottom, and look for:
6. Change <true/> to <false/>, or just delete it.
7. Save the file.
8. Then, open "Disk Utility" and repair disk permissions.
9. After permissions are repaired, go to /System/Library/ and delete Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext.
10. Simply reboot, and...
...Voila! The "Open Using Rosetta" option should now be under there in "Get Info". This works for all of the other iLife '06 applications.
EDIT: If deleting Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext doesn't do anything, try moving the application from one directory to another. Also, what will definitely do it, is duplicating the file, however that may take a while depeneding on the speed of your computer and the side of the file.
[HowTo] Enable Rosetta for iLife '06 Apps
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Posted 15 January 2006 - 12:33 AM
0.0 i tho iLife '06 is universal binaries. so it does need Rosetta.
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Eagerly awaiting the angry call from Mom...
Hey guys, there've been a few concerns about the new store I wanted to address:
1) The shirts are roughly the same price as any other custom made shirts. It just seems large because the cost of shipping is already factored into the price. So, the shirt is 18.50 + $4 for shipping.
2) I'll set it up so Australians can order this weekend.
3) A few people have concerns that their favorite comic wasn't put on the site. In the future, I would like to have several more designs, but I can only do that if enough people are willing to purchase this set.
4) The copyright notice on the comics will be smaller than it appears in the image on the store. It looks that way because of the way photoshop shrunk it down. On the final version, it'll be around size 9 font or less.
I hope you guys are enjoying the new possibilities. I haven't gotten an overwhelming number of orders yet, but there's a slow and steady trickle. I've never sold merch online before, so I hope you guys can bear with me through the birthing pains.
No, this is not an April fools joke.
We have three different designs based on some favorite SMBC strips. I'm gonna try for 100 purchases of each design before buying. If this goes well, I'll introduce more designs every month or two.
And, on a more personal note, I want to thank all you guys for making this happen. A few of the more diehard among you may remember the last time I sold merch, in Summer 2001. I had maybe 1,000 regular readers back then (compared to more than 50,000 now), and I managed to sell about 3 shirts. Since then, I've been wary of coming out with merch. SMBC is most likely the largest comic never to have a real store.
The last year has been very fruitful for me as an artist. I've made enough money off this site to live my dream of being a full-time cartoonist, and to buy the luxury of a trip back to college for further education. None of this would be possible without each one of you reading, sharing, and laughing along with me for the past few years.
With the launch of the new store, I'm hoping to take things to the next level, and really establish SMBC as a brand name. That way, five years from now, all of you can say you liked it BEFORE it was cool.
Thanks everyone,
Keep your eyes and wallets peeled for the forthcoming store launch.


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I am a postdoctoral scientist working jointly at the United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science group at Microsoft Research, both based in Cambridge, UK. My research interests span biogeochemical cycles and atmospheric chemistry, through human harvesting from natural systems and farming to climate policy and market instruments.
My current focus is principally the development of a global ecosystem model, which represents all trophic levels, is scientifically robust and process based in nature, and provides policy -relevant, predictive outputs. In particular my interest in this model is the cycling of nutrients through ecosystems and the natural limitations and patterns that emerge from fundamental ecological processes. In addition, I am working to understand and constrain exogenous human drivers of the global ecosystem that will feed into the model. These include human land conversion and a global estimate of the magnitude of harvesting from natural systems, for example as bushmeat.
Peer-reviewed journals
1. Beerling D. J., M. Harfoot, R. A. Berner, F. T. Mackenzie, M. B. Harfoot, and J. A. Pyle (2009), Methane and the CH4-related greenhouse effect over the past 400 million years, American Journal of Science, 309, doi:10.2475/02.2009.01.
2. Harfoot, M. B, J. A. Pyle, and D. J. Beerling (2008), End-Permian ozone shield unaffected by oceanic hydrogen sulphide and methane releases, Nature Geosciences, doi:10.1038/ngeo154.
3. Lomax, B. H., W. T. Fraser, M. A. Shepton, T. V. Callaghan, S. Self, M. Harfoot, J. A. Pyle, C. H. Wellman, and D. J. Beerling (2008), Plant spore walls as a record of long-term changes in ultraviolet-B radiation, Nature Geosciences, doi:10.1038/ngeo278.
4. Harfoot, M. B. J., D. J. Beerling, B. H. Lomax, and J. A. Pyle (2007), A two-dimensional atmospheric chemistry modelling investigation of Earth's Phanerozoic O3 and near-surface ultraviolet radiation history, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007372.
5. Beerling D. J., M. Harfoot, B. Lomax, and J. A. Pyle, The Stability of the stratospheric ozone layer during the end-Permian eruption of the Siberian Traps (2007), Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society A, 365, 1843 – 1866, doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2046.
Other articles and papers
6. P. Wooders, G. Cook, P. Zakkour, M. Harfoot, S. Stiebert (2009), The role of sectoral approaches: focus and the steel sector in China and India (Climate Strategies Report).
7. J. Bates, M. Harfoot, J. Webb (2009), Sectoral Emissions Reduction Potentials and Economic Costs for Climate Change: Agriculture, methane and nitrous oxide emissions (on behalf of European Commission- DG Research).
8. M. Harfoot, M. Johnson, K. Fletcher, A Gardiner and T. Angelini, (2009), Future Carbon Reduction Commitment caps, Environment Agency Science Report.
9. Johnson, M. J., I. Skinner, and M. B. J. Harfoot (2008), Study on future elements of the EU emission trading scheme, European Parliament briefing note.
10. M. Johnson, M. Harfoot, C. Musser, T. Wiley (2008), Cap and Share: Policy options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Interim Final Report, Comhar Sustainable Development Commission
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Wellesley-based coaching firm's co-founder honored with regional award
The annual award is determined by peer nomination and voting, and recognizes coaches who have demonstrated professional mastery with senior level executives.
The New England chapter is the largest and most active of the organization's, which seeks to advance the coaching profession through both personal and business coaching.
O'Donnell was selected as a co-recipient along with New Hampshire-based Get Your Edge executive coach Ted Gorski.
"This is an extreme honor from my peers and I'm reminded of the fact that I love the work I do every day, and how professionally satisfying it is to partner with each unique leader," O'Donnell said in a statement.
O'Donnell has coached more than 100 leaders and a variety of leadership teams, including those in the industries of biotech, financial services, technology, professional services, and nonprofit organizations. Her coaching team has worked most recently with Biogen Idec, Citizens Financial Group, PTC, Harvard Business School, Kiva Systems, State Street, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals and several early stage venture-backed companies.
Over the past 10 years, O'Donnell has taught in two executive coaching programs and continues to serve as a mentor coach. She completed her professional coaching certifications with New Ventures West and Team Coaching International, and received her MBA from Babson College.
For more information on 3D Leadership Group, visit the company's website.
Follow us on Twitter: @yourwellesley, @jaclynreiss
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In order for you to understand my excitement about this weekend's Vagabond Swing show at Tequila Rok, we'll have to travel back in time to July 12, 2010.
In those days, while still a night breaking news reporter for the Enterprise, I'd typically head home exhausted at 10:30 every night and promptly fall face-first into a pizza, then bed. But just as I left the office that quiet Monday night, a friend's Facebook post caught my eye: Lafayette band Vagabond Swing is at Star Bar. Right now.
Feeling skeptical and anti-social, I wandered over and greeted a local bartender friend who was already posted up on the empty dance floor, pie-eyed and clearly excited as the band set up.
"You have no idea what you're about to see," she said. "You just have no idea."And with the first note from this veritable wall of sound, so began what is one of the most magical and memorable nights of music I've ever experienced. And I see more than a hundred shows a year.
Hours went by like minutes as we all fell into an undulating sea of sounds that harkened New Orleans brass bands, gypsy camps, filthy punk, old-school swing and wild-eyed circus rock. The sound was as clean and precise as it was animal and uninhibited. It was drunk Django Reinhardt swing dancing at a New Orleans gypsy circus on Mardi Gras itself.
It was completely amazing.
I've been a pie-eyed fan myself since that night, so much so that local promoters roll their eyes every time I beg for a repeat performance. This band's energy, ingenuity and sheer musical craftsmanship will make every cell in your old bag of bones feel alive and young again, if only for the length of one set. And who doesn't want to feel that for a night?
A few months back, Vagabond Swing returned for SxSETX at The Back Room at Whiskey River and that night I saw just how far this band has come in the time since the July 2010 show. Their presence was even bigger this time, with a bit more punk and rock tinges mixed with their standard gypsy-circus-swing-jazz fare. The room filled with sound as we crowded the stage to feel the sweat and energy of a drummer who looks — and performs — like a rogue gypsy version of Animal from The Muppets.
We laughed and danced and screamed like we were 12-year-olds trying to tear down Chuck E. Cheese from the inside out. We left with hoarse voices and armfulls of CDs, T-shirts and whatever else we could buy from the band before they hit the road.
I expect similar — and perhaps even livelier — antics at this weekend's show. In anticipation of the festivities, I interviewed vocalist and violin/mandolin player Jon Stone about Vagabond Swing's past, its perceived future and just how they tour with six musicians and instruments ranging from upright bass to violin to trumpet and melodica and just about everything in between.
Q. Where was Vagabond Swing as a band when you came through Beaumont for the first time in the summer of 2010?
A. At that time we were merely jumping off a cliff. Luckily our parachute opened and we landed on the ground in a manner that only broke a few bones and resulted in one concussion.
Q. According to your bio you had your first national tour this year. How did that go?
A. Actually your sources are incorrect, we had our first intergalactic voyage tour. We got caught in some sticky situations when circling around the moon of Jupiter. You know, gravity and what not … but our shuttle is stronger because of it.
Earth's gravity is now no match for us.
Q. Tell me about the album you released earlier this year.
A. "Soundtrack to an Untimely Death" was written for a movie that we have not produced yet. The idea was implanted in our brains by sources we cannot reveal. The message was clear: "So do."
Q. One of your band members is also in GIVERS, an indie pop/rock band which really seems to be taking off right now. How have you guys worked that out, or are you really awesome at sharing?
A. Well one of our members is a GIVER and we love him and his other band. His problem is he's a mere mortal and modern science could not allow for him to survive our voyage.
But we have two trumpet players so it has not affected our ability to schedule in any way.
Q. Y'all have quite a few members and even more instruments. How do you tour (and load in and out at gigs, for that matter) without losing your minds?
A. We tour with six of the finest men in existence and literally one million instruments. We do lose our minds in the set up and travel process, but we use that for a better show for all.
Q. What's in the works for Vagabond Swing in 2012? More touring? Another album? Recreational space travel?
A. In 2012, the year of Vagabond Swing, we plan to tour as relentlessly as possible. Another album is a definite possibility … but you can be sure that it happens.
Q. Have you guys reached the point yet where Vagabond Swing is your job, or do you do other things to pay the bills?
A. Vagabond Swing is the only job. But we do not do it, it does us … I mean the "work" Vagabond Swing does is music playing and playing music is done. By the job.
Q. Describe your live shows for those who've yet to have the pleasure.
A. Our live show is the re-occurring circus of music that depends on you and we aim to have that circus as our life and not have a life outside the circus. Where am I?
Q. Any hilarious stories of tragicly funny touring or show mishaps?
A. Everything that involves us is hilarious and tragic.
Q. Lafayette has an incredibly robust and diverse music scene, as evidence by the existence of your own particular brand of sideshow. What are some other notable Lafayette bands we should be keeping an eye on?
A. Any band from Lafayette will sure to dazzle you. We have many friends in many bands: The Howdies, Circus Genetic, Brass Bed, GIVERS … too many great ones to list and we are glad to be a part of that perfect list.
Vagabond Swing with The Ramblin' Boys
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Tequila Rok, 260 Crockett St., Beaumont
Cost: $5


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What if you could pre-register to vote when you turn 16 and make that first breathtaking trip to the DMV? What if every time you moved within the state you didn't also need to move your registration because it was attached to you and not your house, which can't even vote?
If this sounds like the kind of state you wanna live in—and, frankly, you're a little bummed to learn that it doesn't already work like this—you can help make it happen.
Over the next two weeks the Oregon House is taking a good long look at a slate of bills meant to make voting in Oregon more free, fair and accessible. And we want—nay, we need—you to be right in the heart of the action.
Read on for a quick intro to the policies and a couple ways you can help.
The Bills
- HB 2988, 16 Year-Old Pre-Registration: 20,000 16 year-olds get their driver's licenses at the DMV every year. This bill would allow them all to pre-register to vote in the same trip (just like 17-year-olds already do).
- HB 3175, Improving College Voter Registration: Offers students more opportunities and information to register to vote at all public colleges and universities.
- HB 2017, Online Voter Reg. Update: Allows currently registered Oregon voters without a driver's license to update their voter registration online using their Social Security number.
- HB 2198, Portable Voter Registration: Keeps your voter registration up-to-date when you move, so you get your ballot at your new address without needing to fill out a new voter registration.
For more details, head over to our Makin' Laws page.
How You Can Help: Attend a Hearing
Wednesday, March 13, 3 PM: The House Rules Committee will be taking a look at bills #1-3 from above. This is a big day for getting young people even more engaged with politics in our state.
Wednesday, March 20, 3 PM: The House Rules Committee is back at it, this time looking at the Portable Voter Registration bill. Because who has two thumbs and wants to re-register every time they move? Probably no one (just guessing).
We want to fill the hearing room on both of these dates with your beautiful faces and infectious love for democracy. Click here to save your seat in a carpool from Portland on the 13th. And click here to save your seat on the 20th.
How You Can Help: Call your Representative
Can't make it down to Salem for the day? Give your legislator a phone call or write them a letter. Legislators love hearing from their constituents. Click here to find your legislator.
Together we can make Oregon a state with convenient, secure, hassle-free voter registration. Because when more people do democracy, democracy does more for all of us.
P.S. Can't do either of the above but want to help fuel the work? Click here to become a Bus Driver and totally make our day.


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FROM Pc Murdoch and Dixon of Dock Green right through to Reg in The Bill, the community bobby has been part of our national life for generations.
We often think of these characters as being consigned to the history books by ever more sophisticated methods of fighting crime.
Today, for instance, we report on the use of cadavar dogs in the tragic search for the body of Suzanne Pilley.
Such ground-breaking techniques are always bound to grab our attention and stick in our imagination.
But today we also report on forward-looking plans to base a police officer in each of the city's 23 high schools.
This really is back to the future stuff, designed to build good relationships between our police and young people.
Early intervention and preventative measures are the buzz words to describe it, but it really is just common sense.
The initiative will be welcomed by parents across the Capital, but it is not an isolated example of today's police working in the community.
So much is done quietly every day by local beat officers to make life in the city more safe and secure.
Too often that good work is overlooked. That is why the Evening News has teamed up with Lothian and Borders Police to stage the Force Excellence Awards again this year.
Please help us recognise the work of some of Edinburgh's unsung heroes. You can find full details of how to nominate your officer for their work on page 20.
Coffee mile
VisitORS to Morningside these days are likely to be greeted with a call of "you'll have had your coffee".
There are an incredible 57 different outlets on a one-mile walk from Comiston Road to the Bruntsfield Hotel where you can get your caffeine fix.
Little surprise then that news of yet another coffee shop opening – this time a Costa Coffee – does not fill local traders with joy.
And, as we have seen with Sainsbury's move into Bruntsfield, the seemingly unstoppable march of the multi-nationals into once eclectic local shopping areas is guaranteed to provoke strong feelings.
Of course, customers will, at the end of the day, vote with their feet. Local traders will once again have to rise to the challenge of forcing a change in our shopping habits by offering a reason to body-swerve the big guns.
We hope they succeed because Morningside and so many other neighbourhoods would be much the poorer without their mix of independent shops.


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I have been running a series of interview with female fantasy writers to redress a perception I came across – that fantasy was a bit of a boy's club. It really isn't like that here in Australia. We have many wonderful fantasy writers who just happen to be female.
Today I'm interviewing Sean Williams. He's a wonderful writer, supportive of the community and a real professional so I thought I'd ask him the same questions I've asked the female writers about fantasy writing and gender, to get his perspective as a male fantasy writer.
Watch out for the give-away at the end.
Q: Sean Williams, I see your second name is Llewellyn. Are you of Welsh extraction? Is there a wonderful story about your people coming out to Australia?
My father David was very proud of his distant Welsh background. He came from a long line of Owens and Selwyns and Bronwyns, but apart from his great and sometimes very intrusive love of male voice choirs it didn't impact on my life terribly much. I've only been to Wales once, and that was this year, for one day. I felt more connected to my mother's father's German heritage (he was descended from the writer Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller) and my father's mother's Scottish heritage (I have a tartan tie somewhere). I'm absolutely positive I don't pronounce "Llewellyn" properly, but at least I know how to spell it.
Q: You have a page on Wookieepedia (the Star Wars Wikipedia). That is so cool. With 6 Star Wars books out now, you must be really comfortable writing in this world, or do you still have to do a lot of homework before starting a new book?
Every Star Wars novel is different–which sounds a bit pat, but it's true. In my case, the obvious difference is that I've written in three quite different periods of Galactic history: the Old Republic era, three and a half thousand years before the Clone Wars; the dark days when Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader were in charge, just before Episode IV; and the New Jedi Order era, when Han and Leia have kids who are themselves becoming Jedi Knights. Each period has its own flavour, its own crises and characters, its own rich set of assumptions. Research is essential when it comes to embedding oneself creatively in these worlds. Luckily, it's research I greatly enjoy. I can get lost in Wookieepedia for days if I'm not careful.
(Aside: one of the greatest thrills for me, as both a creator and a Star Wars fan from way back, is to see pages in Wookieepedia relating to elements of canon that I've created, be they characters, scenarios, weird aliens or whatever. There are no words for the sense of validation that brings.)
Q: You write for kids and you write for adults. (See TroubleTwisters with Garth Nix).Is there anything you do to get yourself in the right frame of mind when writing for kids? (hang out at the park, think back to your childhood, visit your friends' kids?)
Having kids in my life really helps. And being childish at heart helps, too. I've written eight books for kids and four for young adults, and I'd have to say that I find the YA mindset much more difficult. I like to write characters who see the world through a fairly rational lens, and of course being a teenager isn't really about being rational. That's one of the reasons why it's such a wonderful, terrifying time, and why it's such a rich vein to mine, creatively speaking. I'm drawn to doing difficult things–each book is a new challenge–hence my focus on YA in my solo work at the moment.
Speaking more generally, I read to get in the right frame of mind. With every project, I'm hunting for a genre or author that will be the right fuel for my own writing. Sometimes it's the Gothic or 19th Century romances. Sometimes it's the books I loved as a kid–Weirdstone of Brisingamen or The Dark is Rising, as it was for Troubletwisters. For the next book it could be Tim Powers or Octavia Butler or someone completely know. I never know until I start. But I know when it's working.
Q: You have a Masters in Arts in Creative Writing. I see you are currently working on your PHD. What's your research question? Is it something really interesting to do with the craft of writing?
I'm examining the use of the matter transporter in literature. Sounds pretty dry, doesn't it? I chose it because my own work has often returned to this trope, from my first complete (and unpublished) short story to my latest novel, Twinmaker, which is so fresh it hasn't even hit the market yet. It's a trope that can be used to examine identity and humanity in so many interesting ways–and that, I think, is what science fiction is all about. Crime, too. The Resurrected Man, my second novel, just wallows in these issues, and so does a short story I have coming out in an anthology called Armored next year, "The N-Body Solution", but in a very different way. I'll probably keep exploring the trope until I die, or until someone builds a working version so we can explore it in real life.
Q: I see you'll be at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego in October. Lucky you! I've never been. Can you give us a glimpse of what it's like?
You should come one day! It's my favourite con. There are so many great people there, so many friends and writers and new people to get to know–the massed creativity is electric. Whether you go for the panels, the parties or the bar, there's always someone fascinating to learn from. I go with the intention of hanging out, basically, but always return more energized and better connected than when I left. It's well worth the effort and expense.
Q: There's an Australian called Sean Williams on Smashwords. Is that you? Are you planning on releasing some of your backlist as e-books?
I have no recollection of being on Smashwords, so it's probably not me. I have two other writer friends also called Sean Williams. One's a musicologist who writes such wonderful books as The Sound of the Ancestral Ship and The Ethnomusicologist's Cookbook. The other works in LA. We often talk about collaborating, but can't agree on which name goes first. Boom-boom.
I think ebooks are the best thing to happen for readers since, I don't know, the invention of the mass-market paperback? Public libraries? Whatever, it's very cool. Some of my back-catalogue is already available through E-Reads and more is coming. I'm still pondering what to do with the rest. The immediate temptation is to start monetizing everything–short stories, novellas, all that–but I'm not sure I admire that impulse very much, so I'm being patient, waiting to see where it all goes. One day I'll do something with my first novel, Metal Fatigue, which has been hard to get for a long time. What I decide to do with that, and how well it goes, will probably set the precedent for the rest.
Q: On an interview with Angela Slater, when asked what would you be if you weren't a writer you said: 'Dead bored", because that's what I am when I'm not writing.' And then you followed it up with, if someone held a gun to your head and said you couldn't write, you'd go back to your other love, music. (You won a Young Composer Award in High School). I know you make up play-lists for certain books. Are you doing anything with your music at the moment?
Nothing at all, I'm afraid. It's a bit depressing. I keep saying that one day I'll get back to it, but that day just never comes. If I really wanted to, I suppose I would make time, but given the RSI issues I have, the last thing I need is another hobby involving computers . . . .
Still, I'm always on the look-out for new music (current favourite is Erik Wøllo's live set Silent Currents), and I'm still DJing occasionally, when people let me. I have the illusion of a relationship with my other lover, and that's better than nothing.
Q: With over 70 short stories published and 35 novels you must be some kind of writing power-house. I once heard you say that you had to write 9 novels in 2.5 years, so you calculated out how many words a day you had to write and no matter what, you wrote them. At the time I asked you, What if you went wrong? And you said, I couldn't go wrong. Are you still working yourself to such a hard self-imposed deadline?
It's easy to be a powerhouse if you do something all the time and never stop. I don't think I'm especially creative or anything. Just stubborn, and a bit OCD, and easily bored. Still, RSI has forced me to be more easy-going lately, wordcount-wise. I'm down to about 150k of new fiction a year, which is not a huge amount compared to what I managed in the past, but still pretty reasonable. Of course, not going for quite so much quantity means I can now engage with the quality side of things in a different way. I'm enjoying the time to rewrite more than I normally would. Although that's still hard on the wrists, harder in some ways, it does demand more time spent pondering what the hell I've done and how I can make it better. Normally I'd have to squeeze this process into very short periods, and while I'd never suggest that I approached this kind of thing in a cavalier kind of way in the past–each book received the identical degree of commitment and passion, whether it was Star Wars or a collaboration or something entirely my own–I do sometimes think I could have done more if I'd had more time to do it in. Now I do have the time, I'm making the most of it, and finding new ways to be obsessive.
Q: As someone who has been shortlisted for and won genre awards, and someone who has taught at Clarion, you really know your writing craft. (Here's the link to Sean's list of useful advice for aspiring writers). The industry is changing so rapidly now that things professional writers would never have done (self publish) are now real options. Barry Eisler turned down half a million advance to self publish. Are you scrambling to keep up with the changes?
The industry has always been a bit of a scramble. I started publishing SF in the dying days of cyberpunk, and then space opera was hot, and then it was YA and zombies or whatever. Who knows what it'll be next year? Meanwhile, publishers and magazines constantly fold or merge, the internet's always changing the game, writing software and computers are constantly evolving. And that's all good. Change keeps us awake. It keeps our eyes open. That's the trouble with dreaming for a living: if you get too comfortable, you might nod off and miss something interesting
Q: You're a member of the RIAUS. (An organisation to bring Science to People). You must feel very strongly about the role of science in the modern world. What do you hope to see this organisation achieve? (Feel free to fiddle with this question, Sean).
I'm enormously proud that we have the Royal Institution of Australia right here in Adelaide. As the only offshoot of the Royal Institution in the world, its aims are at the same time enormously simple and enormously broad. Scientific thinking has changed everything about human society and is in the process of shaping our entire world, for better or for worse, yet so many people still regard as something outside of them, something to be frightened of, to stay away from, to reject. As part of its brief to bring science to people and people to science, RiAUS performs a role very similar to science fiction–that of familiarising the mainstream with what might once have seemed very strange, and to have fun doing it. Hence things like art exhibitions at the Science Exchange, sci-ku contests (haikus based on science), talks on science in pubs, and so on. As someone who has never formally studied science but is immensely interested in it, being involved is a natural fit for me, and I'm proud to have been on their program several times now. If we can expand people's understanding of the world we live in, in even a small way, I think that's a win.
Q: Last time we spoke you were the 'CurryKing'. Are you still into curries? (If you are, the next time you're in Brisbane, I'll take you to our fave Indian restaurant).
Which one is that? I've been to a few up there, now, and they've all been delicious!
I still love curries, although I've been a vegetarian for two years now, which has sadly meant no more lamb kormas. My favourite recipe at the moment is for a pumpkin, chick pea and Brussels sprout curry that most people regard with horror. Their loss, I say, and all the more for me.
Q: I was prompted to start this series of interviews because there seems to be a perception in the US and the UK that fantasy is a bit of a boy's club. Do you think there's a difference in the way males and females write fantasy?
My gut feeling is that there's more variation within the sexes than there is between them–that is, the way I write fantasy versus the way Garth Nix writes fantasy, say, might be greater than the differences between me and Sara Douglass–and if that's the case then bemoaning boy's vs girl's clubs is a bit, I don't know, off-mission for me, much like the talk about genre itself and its impact on what readers want. Some readers and editors undoubtedly have biases towards particular types of writers, but on the whole, I think, we are all genres of one. (I'm avoiding the word "brand" because that might lead us to a whole different conversation.) Every book I pick up is its own experience, and if I like that experience then I'll pursue the author further. If I don't, I won't. So there are fantasy authors I've read lots of and others I've read almost nothing. Some of both categories are male, some are female. Some I have no idea (for years I thought Julian May was male) and it doesn't matter. Each writer is different to my eyes not because they're male or female, Australian or Alaskan, write fantasy or literary fiction, but because they're different people.
I'm talking about my own perceptions and experiences, of course. I haven't studied the field in enough depth to have a solid opinion on the subject. If there is a bias, I hope I haven't contributed to it. All I can do is take hope from reviews like this one, in which Garth and I are praised for achieving "a level of gender-neutrality that is pleasantly surprising coming from two male authors", and avoid despairing that such a thing should be surprising.
Q: Following on from that, does the gender of the writer change your expectations when you pick up their book?
I prefer to have no expectations. I'll avoid reading the blurb and would love it if books had no covers at all (another reason why I love ebooks and the old Gollancz yellowjackets so much). I want to mainline the story in the purest possible form, and while I know that 100% purity is never possible, that I'll always be lurking in the mix somewhere, I do figure it's worth aiming for.
I feel this way because I know I know that expectations are unavoidable. Much as I hate it, I do judge a book by its cover. Bad clichéd cover art (from tramp stamps and leather pants to metal phalluses shooting fiery ejaculate) are an utter turn-off, and it can take ages to get past that, even for writers I love, books I'm really enjoying. And I can be kinder, too, to books that don't deserve it, because I love the way it's packaged. Mind you, I think that's not quite so bad a thing, because every book is a sacrifice offered up by someone. Every book is a gift. That should always be celebrated, even if it involves a little delusion at times.
Q: And here's the fun question. If you could book a trip on a time machine, where and when would you go, and why?
Much as I'd dearly love to see what really happened on Golgotha, I think I'd have to go forward. No specific date, no specific place. As long as there are ftl spaceships, I'll be happy.
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Ivan Eland has offered a new approach to ranking the U.S. presidents, and it's one that I both applaud and have reservations about.
His book is called Recovering Rushmore (2014, now updated to include Obama) and its hall of fame/shame is based on (1) the degree to which a president's policies promoted peace, prosperity and liberty, and (2) the president's adherence to the Constitution's limitations on presidential powers. This opposes the criteria used by most historians, who tend to reward a president who happens to serve in a time of crisis and by expanding his presidential power. And herein lies the rub. As a libertarian I largely approve Eland's criteria, but as a left-leaning libertarian I'm not as hostile to executive activism when it comes to fiscal benefits (the prosperity category) for the common good.
I agree with Eland entirely when he criticizes rankings based on a president's charisma, oratory skill, and/or management style. People who want an inspiring speaker basically want a class president instead of a real president. Charisma is a nice bonus, but that's it.
Eland also scores for non-partisanship. For example, he skewers the Republican Bush and Democrat Obama for their many indistinguishable policies. Both started and escalated needless wars, toppling Islamic dictators which paved the way for jihadist groups that have been far worse. Both restricted civil liberties in the fight against terrorism, and both ignored the plight of the working middle class. Precisely because of all of this we now have a demagogue (Trump) who will likely be the worst president in history.
Meanwhile, in Eland's judgment, the Republican Eisenhower and Democrat Carter come off rather well. Eisenhower minimized American involvement and intervention, and made sound decisions that helped the economy. Carter, while inheriting the stagnation caused by the Vietnam War, fostered economic policies that eventually led to the prosperity of the Reagan years and set a precedent for renewed prosperity during the Clinton years.
Anyway, here's Eland's list, followed by a list from the American Political Science Association for comparison. The greatest value to be taken from Eland is his critique of charismatic activists. As a species I believe we are drawn to such figures. We experience the pull of "good leaders", forgetting that bland personalities who show executive restraint can be just as good leaders — and often better ones. Right now we have a president who doesn't understand the meaning of restraint at all, and precedents for executive overreach don't help matters.
The Excellent
1. John Tyler (1841-1845)
2. Grover Cleveland (1885-1889; 1893-1897)
3. Martin van Buren (1837-1841)
4. Rutherford Hayes (1877-1881)
The Good
5. Chester Arthur (1881-1885)
6. Warren Harding (1921-1923)
7. George Washington (1789-1797)
8. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
9. Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)
10. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
The Average
11. Bill Clinton (1993-2001)
12. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
13. Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
14. Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
The Poor
15. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
16. Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
17. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
18. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
19. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877)
20. William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
21. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
22. John Adams (1797-1801)
23. James Buchanan (1857-1861)
24. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
The Bad
25. James Monroe (1817-1825)
26. Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
27. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
28. James Madison (1809-1817)
29. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
30. Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
31. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
32. Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969)
33. George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)
34. Barack Obama (2009-2017)
35. Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
36. John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
37. George W. Bush (2001-2009)
The Atrocious
38. James Polk (1845-1849)
39. William McKinley (1897-1901)
40. Harry Truman (1945-1953)
41. Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
What catches the eye in the "Bad" category are the placements of figures like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. According to Eland, Jefferson claimed to be for small government, but did things that proved otherwise, such as imposing a trade embargo that stifled liberties and led to hunger and starvation. His Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional, and his ethnic cleansing of the Native American Indians set a bad precedent (followed especially by Andrew Jackson). As for Lincoln, he pursued the Civil War ineptly, and if it ended slavery, African Americans hardly experienced more freedom in the face of white southerners who were bitter over the war. In Eland's very strong view, peaceful alternatives to Lincoln's policies would have achieved better results and far more quickly.
As for the last four, they earn their shameful slots on Eland's list for steering America into completely needless wars that changed us for the worst. (1) Polk started a war with Mexico to steal a third of its land and by doing so inflamed regional tensions that eventually led to the Civil War. (2) McKinley made America into an imperialist Britain by prosecuting the Spanish-American War and acquiring colonies. (3) Truman turned a local war in Greece into a cold war against the Soviets, which led to the creation of the security state, an imperial presidency, and trashed the traditional requirement that the American people, rather than the president, decide if war is needed. (4) Wilson (besides being an overt racist) took America into the disastrous World War I, which laid the seeds for the Bolshevik Revolution and Hitler's rise to power. I think Eland is too hard on Truman, but most of this is right, and in particular McKinley is the one who laid the foundations for turning America into a trans-world empire.
The American Political Science Association
Compare Eland's list to a more standard ranking from the American Political Science Association based on a survey of historians and scholars.
… I may do my own ranking of the presidents, which would mediate between the approach of Eland and the one above. The peace/liberty criteria is at odds with the hero/hands-on model, yet I believe each has its place.
I can at least agree with the combined assessments of Recovering Rushmore and The American Political Science Association on this point: Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were the best two presidents of my lifetime (post-1968), and George W. Bush was the worst. So they're each doing something right.


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The problem gives an opportunity for learners to make a conjecture and then to test whether their conjecture holds, and totry to prove it.
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By Jayme Fraser
An artist's rendering depicts the concept for Patriots by the Lake, the veterans-themed Lake Houston project shelved by the Harris County Housing Authority.
An artist's rendering depicts the concept for Patriots by the Lake,...
The Harris County Housing Authority is in negotiations to sell its ill-fated Patriots by the Lake property, putting the agency closer to ridding itself of the last vestiges of a controversial project that sparked two scathing federal audits and led to the downfall of its executive director.
Whether the authority will recoup the initial $6.5 million it paid for the property in 2009 remains in question. Real estate professionals last year told the agency the 91-acre property, located on the shores of Lake Houston, could be worth as little as $3.6 million.
But agency CEO Tom McCasland was optimistic on Wednesday after the group's governing board voted to allow him to begin negotiations with bidders.
"We have a number of offers we're considering, and we are hoping to have a contract signed within a few weeks," he said.
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Officials would not say what the top offer was on the property, which was originally envisioned as a grandiose, veterans-themed mixed housing complex. The project would have included about 160 subsidized apartments for the elderly, more than 600 market-rate town homes and single-family houses, a nursing home and other facilities for veterans and their families.
A community center, hotel, shops, restaurants and 13 memorials, such as a replica of the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising sculpture, also were planned, along with a black granite wall with laser-inscribed images of soldiers killed in action.
Former authority executive director Guy Rankin IV left the agency in 2012 amid numerous allegations about operations, including $8 million put into the Patriots project before ever turning a shovel and acting, at times, without board approval.
Questionable spending
Two audits released in June by separate offices of the federal housing agency concluded former housing authority leaders mismanaged up to $27.5 million in federal housing funds during a three-year period ending in April 2012, attributing nearly a quarter of the questionable spending to Patriots by the Lake.
The audits were conducted after the Houston Chronicle published a series of stories detailing mismanagement, overspending, lavish pay and nepotism at the agency, leading to the replacement of Rankin and four of five members on the agency's governing board.
Under new leadership, the county agency has responded to the audits with financial reforms and by proposing a repayment plan, which are still under review by federal authorities.
The housing authority's previous effort to sell the shoreline property was unsuccessful, in part, because of concerns it needed pricey improvements. Wetlands limited the land that could be built on since some of it needed to be reserved for flood control. There also was no agreement in place to guarantee toilets could be flushed.
Before listing the property again, the authority worked to make it more desirable. It adapted the wetlands mitigation plan to increase the usable footprint to nearly 74 acres and negotiated for sewage to be processed at a nearby treatment plant.
The property went back on the market early this year but without a listing price, which McCasland said allowed "the market to set the price."
"We viewed this as a recouping of taxpayer money that had been spent on this, and we want to maximize that for the taxpayer because that's who's actually footing the bills for Harris County Housing Authority," he said.
Agency board 'hopeful'
Houston-area real estate experts said earlier this year the authority's improvements and the hot market around Lake Houston could make it possible for the county to recover its money. They cautioned, however, that details of the utilities setup and usable acreage would greatly affect the sale price of the shoreline property.
Board Chairman Kerry Wright said he was confident sending McCasland into negotiations with bidders.
"As you know, property values have been going up," Wright said. "We're hopeful."
Whatever money the county agency does recoup from the sale likely will be sent to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a down payment on millions of dollars the federal agency demanded be repaid last year after uncovering years of mismanagement.
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A poor diet may be bad for your memoryJune 19th, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 19 (ANI): A new study in mice has linked memory loss to a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol.
Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Arizona State University found that rodents that were fed a diet high in cholesterol and saturated fat displayed impairment in working memory.
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I don't know whether or not is rational or not, but there is an interesting proof in which this quantity figures.
Problem: Can be rational if a and b are irrational?
Consider . If x is rational then we have our example. If not, and x is irrational, then consider , and we again have an example of rational with irrational a, b. So whether x is rational or not, we have the required example.
This is an example of (to me) an absolutely infuriating proof. We know either x or is an example of rational with irrational a and b, but we don't know which, and the proof gives us no clue!
This proof is discussed in "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics".


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Developing a series of works is an interesting journey.
Working in this way with a theme or an image, can produce work that contains a lot more depth than working on a range of dissimilar subjects.
A case in point is the clothing series that I began working on recently. I began with dresses in a wardrobe. The dresses emerge out of the darkness into view. They tantalize our thoughts to tease out their story. In fact they began to take on a life of their own quite early on in the piece.
This drawing, also in charcoal, gave birth to some other ideas which I have begun exploring.
And then there was
Paintings are proceeding from all of these drawings, so stay tuned for the updates.
Next Thursday's Post: Preliminary paint work
Next Monday's Post:
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Welterweight Sensation Dusty Hernandez-Harrison Scores Dynamic TKO Win Over Eddie Soto Before Near Sell Out Crowd in Washington, D.C. 2013 Debut
In round-two Hernandez-Harrison scored a knockdown with a perfectly timed overhand right with just seconds remaining in the round. Over the next three rounds Hernandez-Harrison patiently picked his spots and broke his opponent down before landing a crushing right hand that ultimately ended the bout in the fifth round.
"It was an awesome atmosphere for my first fight at home in six-months," Hernandez-Harrison said. "The fans seemed to really enjoy themselves and I am glad I was able to deliver a good show for them."
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{ I love everything about this look }
{ …and this look }
{ Black Jeggings | Pullover Sweater | Flowy Cowlneck Top | Olive Dress | Panama Hat | Knotted Necklace | Ivory Trench | Liquid Lipstick | Night Balm }
This is what I've had my eye on lately… So naturally, they've made my Wednesday Wish List Series. I usually accumulate a list over the course of a couple of nights. I like browsing around online while sipping on tea.
I noticed I actually like a lot of outfits from Splendid. I didn't really notice that until I started working on this post. But I like that the looks are still chic but comfy. I can see myself wearing those cute new jeggings with a slightly oversized lightweight sweater, while running errands. I would still look put together but be COMFORTABLE. Which is EVERYTHING to me as a stay-at-home-mom! Of course here in Florida we don't get a typical Fall or Winter (*sigh), but I definitely like to dress the part as much as I can!
The Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in the shade DAMNED – a black cherry color, is a cool vampy shade + perfectly on trend for the season. I'm not afraid of dark or bright lip shades. I have fun with makeup + enjoy trying something new!
This SLEEP TIGHT FIRMING NIGHT BALM by Farmacy, is a new product at Sephora. I'm all about getting benefits while sleeping! I love trying night treatments and sleep masks. This one has good reviews thus far online…something to try.
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That brings me to the humidex. Don't believe it. When they say it's 33 degrees but "feels like 44," they mean there's moisture in the air. Hey, this is Ottawa. There's always moisture. We're in a river valley. Maybe 33 here compares to 44 with no moisture, but where do you find air with no moisture -- the Sahara? It does not compare to any experience here, and is a non-scientific judgment call that true meteorologists roll their eyes at, used only by TV and radio types to sound important. Yes, it's hot. It's 33 degrees, and you know what? This is what 33 feels like, without the need to inflate it. Read more from his blog...Related: Ottawa Weather Guide
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Tom Spears is skeptical about the whole "feels like 44" humidex thing
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- Dawn1:43 PM
I don't entirely agree with this, I've definitely felt a day of 33 with low humidity and a day of 33 with high humidity, both with and without sun- There has been a major difference. I think they key the term "Humidex" or "Humidity factor" to give people an understanding that the humidity has a play in how you'll feel and how much more quickly you'll become dehydrated. I've also felt it at close to 40 in other places with no humidex, it's a very different heat. So though it may not be exact or scientific, there is some truth behind it the fact that the humidity (and some will argue the dewpoint is more accurate to follow) levels DO make a great impact on how a person will feel from day to day.ReplyDelete
- armel11:36 AM
environment canada meteorologists do in fact use the humidex on the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) website. similarly to the windchill factor, the humidex is an approximation to what the day will feel like. and by the way, Tom, we don't have high humidity because of the river valley (that only contributes a small part to the humidity in the air), we owe it to the synoptic movement of larger masses of air coming up from the gulf of mexico. Even the Sahara desert air has moisture, more than you would guess. I would suggest getting your facts straight then make your opinion heard. I usually enjoy your pieces but this was a little ignorant.ReplyDelete


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Now, Nats Park seems to be a popular destination for government heavyweights. Vice President Joe Biden's visit this week reminded me that I recently saw a list of a whole bunch of bold-faced government-type names who have visited the park this season. Among them:
* Army V ice Chief of Staff. Lloyd Austin
* Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer
* Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Martin Dempsey (pictured below)
* Attorney General Eric Holder
* EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
* Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
* Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
* Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood
* Secretary of the Army John McHugh
* Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
* Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
* Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki
* Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
* Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (pictured below)
That's seven members of the Cabinet and five Supreme Court justices, which is probably more than have been to [random small-market Midwestern team whose fans will soon send me angry e-mails] games.


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