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Tracy: Iain, let me first say that I'm a huge fan of your writing. You show and incredible depth of character, atmospheric settings and gripping, haunting plots. You've recently released HOLES IN THE GROUND with Joe, which is doing very well. Congrats! But your next novel is a departure from the horror genre.
Iain: Thank you, Tracy. The last few years have been great fun and I just wish I could write fast enough to get out all of my ideas. I've chosen to write a thriller for my next novel as I want to challenge myself to write outside of my comfort zone.
Tracy: Can you tell us about SOFT TARGET?
Iain: Well two shows I love are 24 and House MD. My main character, Sarah Stone, is a bit like a female cross between Jack Bauer and Dr House. She is badly scarred both physically and emotionally, which puts a huge chip on her shoulder. The plot concerns an agency called the Major Crime Unit (MCU) and their quest to stop a terrorist plot that emanates from Sarah's past. The book takes place after a successful attack on the UK, so it's all about trying to stop an already dire situation from getting worse. Sarah teamed up with Konrath's hero Jack Daniels in our short STRAIGHT UP.
Tracy: Many writers describe how often times characters start talking to them. How did Sarah Stone materialize for you?
Iain: I like writing female characters. I find that female heroes are even stronger than males, because they have to fight against their own negative stereotypes. It's much easier for a female character to surprise you as society still binds women with more rules than it does men. As I wrote the character of Sarah, I began to feel her pain and fought her battles with her. She is definitely the most well-defined person I have ever created.
Tracy: What made you decide to write an action adventure?
Iain: I love horror, but I also love thrillers like 24, Revenge, Prison Break, as well as book series like Jack Reacher, Repairman Jack, and the Pendergast novels (although BOO! Douglas Preston). When I love something I want to write about it, and so I have many thriller plots bouncing around my skull as well as horror ones.
Tracy: Do you see yourself combining elements of horror within the action adventure genre or is this breaking new ground for you?
Iain: I think I might eventually settle on a cross between horror and thrillers, a bit like the X Files did on television. I think F Paul Wilson does this really well with the Repairman Jack novels. He can take his Jack character into stories both mundane and supernatural. I want to try and find that freedom with a character of my own.
Tracy: What is next for Iain Rob Wright?
Iain: After my first Sarah Stone novel, I will be writing the first book in an epic trilogy, called THE GATES. In a nutshell it is about humanity's fight for survival after the gates to Hell literally open up all over the earth.
Tracy: Is that a spin-off of HOLES IN THE GROUND?
Iain: No, I have completed my existing canon. Going forward I will be writing within a new universe for all of my books. No more sequels to my existing work. I feel I have moved on from my earlier work and am ready to evolve.
Tracy: There is an independent movie in the works for your first novel, THE FINAL WINTER. Can you tell us about this project? For anyone who would like to see THE FINAL WINTER in production, here is the link to sponsor! Fantastic, wonderful project!
Iain: It would be great if it happened. The chap involved with it asked my permission some time ago if he could write a screenplay for THE FINAL WINTER. I was happy to accept. Although the movie is based on my work, I am not closely involved with the project. If not for my own commitments and just having had my first baby, I might have tried to contribute a little more; alas I am only one man, and sometimes I have to sleep. All I would say is that the screenplay was written by someone who genuinely loved the book. I think that when movies are made by directors who truly appreciate the source material, you get gems like The Shawshank Redemption and Jurassic Park. Give the guy your support and I have no doubt he will make a movie everyone will love.
Tracy: What marketing tips do you have for writers. What has worked for you?
Iain: You should do everything you can to be 1) professional and 2) approachable. Set up a decent website, make sure all of your books have great covers, and use social media to get yourself out there (especially to begin with). Use these tools to make sure people can get in touch with you. If someone emails you or reaches out on Facebook, and you respond kindly, you can be sure that that fan will go out and get more people to read your books. Your fans matter, so make sure you show them that. That's marketing 101 as far as I'm concerned. It's not enough to want to succeed, you need to make other people want to see you succeed.
Tracy: You've written a lot in a short amount of time. How do you stay so prolific?
Iain: I write fulltime, Monday to Friday. Treating writing like a job is the best way for me to stay motivated and consistent. My minimum word count is 3k a day (it used to be 2K), but I will write as much as I can and will often hit around 5k. It's a bit of a catch 22, as the best way to go fulltime is to write lots of books, but it's hard to write lots of books when you're not fulltime. I'm lucky that I went fulltime after just one book, THE FINAL WINTER. Hitting the market so fast and so hard has definitely helped me and it's one of the few advantages I had over other upcoming writers.
Tracy: Would you ever take a legacy deal? If so, under what terms?
Iain: Yes, of course. I'm human and I have a family, so I can be persuaded. But thanks to guys like Joe Konrath and Hugh Howey, it would have to be a fair deal that was in my own best interests. I earn a good living so I am in no way inclined to take a deal that doesn't benefit me in both the short and longterm. There is nothing long with a legacy deal if it is attractive and fair. The problem with the legacy industry is that deals like this are few and far between. I have turned down several deals in the past, and have just laughed and said to myself 'Yeah, they wish!' I feel like I can benefit them more than they can benefit me, yet every approach so far has been the reverse of that. They come in acting like they are prepared to do me a favour. No thanks.
Tracy: Any advice for newbie authors?
Iain: Just keep going. If you quit every time it gets hard or looks like it's not going to happen, then you're done. The only thing you can do to stack the odds in your favour is to keep writing and releasing books. Everything else is out of your control.
Tracy: What's the best piece of writing advice you've ever heard or gotten?
Iain: Don't use adverbs.
Tracy: Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us here on Joe's blog, Iain! Congratulations to you and your lovely wife, Sally, on your beautiful new son!
Iain's book ANIMAL KINGDOM is currently free for Kindle.
Iain: Thank you so much. It's the happiest I've ever been and I owe so much of it to my fans. It's nice getting the opportunity to share the platform with a respected peer.
When conducting a search for your books, the first thing that strikes me about your work is how professional they look. Your covers are great and they really set you apart. Who does them for you?
Tracy: Thanks, Iain. The incredible Carl Graves did the covers for the first three Leah Ryan books, as well as for the novella collaboration with Joe, JACKED UP, which featured Leah and Jack Daniels. RED SURF was done by Cheryl from CCR Covers, who stayed with the same look and feel of Carl's covers. Carl is very high in demand. He's an amazing designer.
Iain: You seem pretty committed to your Leah Ryan character. Can you tell me a bit about her, and why you enjoy working with Leah so much?
Tracy: Leah is a reformed car thief, turned repossession agent, turned private investigator. She's a thrill-seeker with a social conscience, who can't stand bullies. Leah is flawed. She has serious impulse control, and is just emotionally damaged enough to put herself into some pretty precarious situations in order to help others. She has a rescue complex that puts her life in danger. That is why she's so much fun to write. She surprises me at every turn.
Iain: What can fans expect from Leah going forward? Does she have a long term future, will she stay the same as a person?
Tracy: Leah is changing a little with each book. She's growing up a little, but still struggles with relationships. I'm not sure what will happen in her future. I prefer it that way, because I like to be surprised.
Iain: So, if Leah Ryan took a vacation, what others characters would come to the forefront? Do you have anything completely new you are working or planning on?
Tracy: Well, Leah is on a vacation in the current release, RED SURF. Leah is a loner, with the exception of her best friend and partner Jackson. She heads to Maine alone on vacation to get some R and R, but it doesn't turn out that way. Her first day there she nearly swims into the floating body of a dead girl, and of course, ends up in a murder investigation.
I'm actually working on a straight horror novel right now that is enormous fun. It's a psycho thriller called JITTERS, which features a couple of very twisted and frightening brothers who love to use venomous creepy crawlies as their murder weapons of choice. It's a blast to write.
Iain: So, in addition to Joe Konrath, who are the guys and gals you really love in the industry right now?
Tracy: I really love Toby Neal, Theresa Ragen, Blake Crouch, a fantastic horror writer named Iain Rob Wright, you may know him, Kealan Patrick Burke, Alexandra Sokoloff, and Ann Voss Peterson, who currently has a new release, BURNED TOO HOT. There so many, though. So much talent out there. It's a fantastic time for writers and readers. Very exciting.
Iain: What is your plan as a writer for the next five years. Do you have a master plan, or are you just taking things book by book?
Tracy: I have no master plan. I just take it book by book. I love not knowing what will happen in the future. Anything can happen.
Iain: Any message you would like to put forward to your fans? What would be the best way for a newbie to get a taste of your work?
Tracy: All my books are currently enrolled with KDP select, so they are only available for kindle. I'd start with JACKED UP, the collaboration with Joe. JACKED UP gives a taste of Leah Ryan without being too long, and it's a thrilling and funny little short novel and a great introduction to Leah.
The new release, RED SURF is currently on for an introductory price of .99 cents.
Iain: What have you done to market your work? What you you recommend (or tell other writers to steer clear of?)
Tracy: Make sure your covers are professionally done, your books is professionally edited and formatted, and present yourself in a professional matter. Steer clear of spamming people's pages. Don't beg. Be gracious. Be professional. There is such a thing as telling too much personal information.
Giving books away for free has helped me a lot, combined with using Ebook Booster Link: http://www.ebookbooster.com/. Also, using the submission tool at Author's Marketing Club: http://authormarketingclub.com/members/submit-your-book/ helps. Especially if you don't have the extra cash to throw around.
The first promo I did for REPO CHICK BLUES, I only used the Author's Marketing Club's submission tool and had 13,000 downloads. Repo made it to the top of the top 4 of 100 free bestsellers list that weekend.
Iain: Did you see a boost in sales as a result?
Tracy: Yes, my Leah Ryan books started selling better. I still say that giving books away for free is one of the best forms of marketing a writer can do. It's a great way to introduce your books.
Iain: This isn't an easy profession. There is a lot about it that is discouraging. What's hardest for you?
Tracy: Juggling family with the writing is challenging. When I was working and juggling family it was even harder, but I managed it by being very resourceful with arranging writing time. What is difficult is turning off the self-doubt that often plagues me.
It's a solitary business, and I spend so much time in my head that it's hard to know if I'm doing this right most times. But there is no right no right way. You just commit to it and you do your best, and be disciplined. And read Joe's blog! Excellent advice. Just keep trying to be a better writer. Learn what you can. Read a lot of books. Books are your nourishment as a writer.
I also found Alexandra Sokoloff's Screenwriting Tips to be very helpful.
Iain: So how do you juggle writing with a job and family? Any tips for working parents to get more words written?
Tracy: Either stay up late or get up early. Sleep is a luxury when you don't have much time. Sacrifice is the name of the game. You can miss that tv show you love so much. Time with friends. Whatever it is that is sucking up your time, you need to ditch it in favor of the writing, if the writing means that much to you.
How badly do you want it? Time with family is important, but you need to carve out that time to get the book done. Write when you're sick, when you're tired, when you just don't feel like it. Just get it done.
Also, turn off the internal editor when you write that first draft. You don't have time to tinker, and editing while you are creating stops that stream of consciousness kind of flow you get when you just let the story come. Even if you are a plotter, and I'm both panster and plotter, turn off that editor. Edit in the second draft. Get the story down in the first.
Iain: Would you ever take a legacy deal? If so, what terms would you insist on? What would be deal-makers vs. deal-breakers?
Tracy: No. No legacy deals for me. I like having total control of my books far too much to ever take a legacy deal. I love controlling the content, the cover, the editing, formatting, when the book is released, pricing. Everything. And I get to change things anytime I like. Also, I like to keep my rights.
Iain: What advice would you give a newbie author just starting out?
Tracy: First and foremost, and I've told newbies this, read Joe's blog. It's a wonderful resource, full of information essential to any new writer. Also, commit. Just do it. No excuses. When someone starts telling me about all the things standing in the way of their writing, my eyes veil over.
I know all about not having much time. Believe me. Before I left my job, I wrote in parking lots much of the time, before work. I still do, on the weekends. Even in the cold. I wrote during lunches in quieter areas of the building with employees walking by. You can do it, you just have to be serious.
And yes, I write on my birthday. It messes me up if I take a day off. My brain gets all foggy. Worse than usual :)
Iain: You've met Konrath. What's he like in person?
Tracy: The physical scars will heal. But the emotional ones will never go away. Kidding! He's funny! Very nice, very approachable. And he loves his beer!
Joe sez: If you haven't already, buy all of Tracy and Iain's books. Ann's latest is also well worth picking up.
So go forth and support your fellow authors.


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His motormouth. (Which is a stand-in for his narcissism, not necessarily a bad thing in a man gunning for the grandest of thrones.)
I've know quite a few socially savvy, silver-tongued men who, like Trump, were skilled in the art of
the deal pickup persuasion. These men knew they had a rare talent, and exploited their advantages ruthlessly. But that talent was also, sometimes, their undoing. A man in love with his voice and the effect it has on people will find it hard to resist the temptation to use it to excess.
If CH were Trump's campaign adviser, this is what I would tell him. "Don't second-guess yourself, but equally don't become too publicly enamored of yourself. You'll get sloppy. Keep it tight and quietly, to yourself, check your pride on occasion. And cut back on the late night Tweets."
Giving Trump the benefit of the doubt (and why not? he's earned it), he may be rightly calculating that it's crucial to make a big splash in the early rounds, pick up momentum, and later, when his frontrunner status is secure, dispense his fighting words more sparingly, and delegate more of his broadsides to subordinates he can trust not to fold like weepy vaginas, because a King — or a King-in-waiting — doesn't get into the mud with his yapping toy dog antagonists.

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Bernanke keeps U.S. economy on drip feed
(MoneyWatch) The Federal Reserve is continuing its therapy of low interest rates and bond purchases to nurse the U.S. economy back to health. The policy comes amid considerable uncertainty about the strength of the recovery, fiscal policy and European financial stability.
Closing a two-day meeting, officials with the central bank's policy-setting committee expect the recovery to "proceed at a moderate pace" and for unemployment to decline "gradually." However, the Fed acknowledged
that the jobless rate, at 7.7 percent, remains elevated and still
far above the 6.5 percent threshold the bank has set before it considers changing its interest rate policy.
- Bernanke: Stimulus hinges on sustained improvement
- Fed: Unemployment to remain high through 2014
- Is a stock market bubble brewing?
The Federal Open Market Committee also said that inflation has been running "somewhat below" its longer-run goal of 2 percent, while "inflation expectations have remained stable" and well below the Fed's 2.5 percent threshold. This also points to a continuation of present policy.
The Fed noted that "fiscal policy has become somewhat more restrictive," which works against the recovery, a theme that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke echoed in press conference after the meeting. Bernanke said that monetary policy can partially, but not fully, offset the economic drag from fiscal policy. This deterioration in the economic outlook gives the Fed yet another reason to continue to try to stimulate the economy through monetary policy, he said.
The banking and fiscal crisis in Cyprus, which has sparked fresh concerns about financial contagion in Europe, adds further uncertainty and risk. Bernanke said the Fed has taken steps to ensure that financial shocks in Europe do not significantly affect the U.S.
Such pledges, even if the U.S. economy escapes unscathed, are not entirely reassuring. Prior to the housing market bubble and financial crash, then Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan assured that if problems developed in these markets the costs could be contained. That forecast turned out to be dead wrong. So despite the Fed's public assurances that the costs can be contained within Europe, considerable uncertainty remains.
With all these risk, uncertainties, and drags on the recovery, shouldn't the
Fed follow the advice of many outside analysts and try to do even more to help the economy and the unemployed? In the press conference, Bernanke said that it comes down to weighing the costs and benefits of more
aggressive action. The Fed does not believe that, with all it has done already,
the benefits of doing more would be very large.
But the bank does see the
potential for bubbles in some financial markets. Some markets appear -- to borrow a word from the Greenspan Fed -- frothy. The Fed is wary of how additional
quantitative easing -- a policy under which it is buying
$85 billion per month in bonds -- would impact financial markets. In the Fed's view, policy has been
calibrated to optimally balance these costs and benefits, and unless conditions
change significantly and unexpectedly, there is no reason to alter its present
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boydy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
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Im a 23 year old bloke who's just started my own carpentry business. I do 1st and 2nd fix carpentry, renovations, extentions, pergolas and decks. I do private work as well as work for some big named companies. All of my work is residential work!!
My target audience is very large as my big expensive jobs are usually with 40-50yr old with families and building companies, and my smaller jobs are usually for my mates around the ages of 25-30yrs.
Im looking to have my business name Boyd Carpentry and a picture, totally up to what you designers come up with but please no cartoons. The design will go on my business cards, trailer and will be also put on my t-shirts. I'd like it to be a young, modern, cutting edge looking design that people look twice at, as most builders trailers i see are boring and have standard looking lettering and a dull picture. My car and trailer are both black so i'd like the design to incorporate black, orange and white or black, yellow and white because it needs to be bright and stand out!!!!!!! Any other questions please dont hesitate to ask
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Keeping your equipment on a rack is a great way to maintain all of your components in a single place, but installing and servicing equipment on a rack required moving the entire rack to get behind it. Middle Atlantic's Rotating Roll-Out Rack dispenses with these difficulties. Since the racks not only pull out but also rotate, you'll have enhanced rear access to your equipment and cabling whenever you need it, thus significantly shortening your installation and service time.
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Rams Run Roughshod Over Cowboys, 52-22, in Border War
Kapri Bibbs ran for a career-high 201 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Colorado State Rams to a blow-out 52-22 win over the Wyoming Cowboys Saturday at War Memorial Stadium. It was CSU's first win in the Border War since 2008, as the Bronze Boot heads back to Fort Collins.
Colorado State (3-4, 1-1) scored on three of its first five possessions, as they jumped out to a 21-0 lead. The Rams also capitalized on three Wyoming turnovers that directly led to three CSU touchdowns.
Bibbs had t-d runs of 7, 59 and 9 yards, while Donnell Alexander added a 3-yard score on the ground and Garrett Grayson threw for 219 yards and tossed three t-d passes, one of which was to Alexander.
Wyoming (4-3,2-1) managed only a Shaun Wick 11-yard t-d run in the second quarter, a Brett Smith to Dominic Rufran 71-yard scoring strike in the third and Tedder Easton's 67-yard scamper in the fourth.
The Cowboys trailed 21-7 after Wick's score on the ground, but CSU answered with a field goal right before half for a 24-7 edge at the break. A tipped pass resulted in an interception on UW's opening drive of the second half that led to a Grayson t-d toss for a 31-7 lead. Rufran's catch and run for a score, plus a two-point run got the Pokes within 31-15 at the 12:35 mark of the third.
Colorado State came right back with a 12 play, 75 yards drive that culminated with Grayson hitting Alexander down the right sideline from 34-yards out. That was the first of three straight scores by the Rams that put the game out of reach. CSU finished with 509 yards of total offense, including 298 yards rushing. They also held the ball 11 more minutes than Wyoming.
The Cowboys were held to 416 yards. Smith went 21-of-36 for 246 yards a touchdown and two interceptions. He was also sacked three times. Rufran finished with a career-high 135 yards receiving. Jordan Stanton and Lucas Wacha led the UW defense with 18 and 13 tackles, respectively.
Wyoming returns to MW action next Saturday at the San Jose State Spartans. Kick-off is set for 5 p.m.


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In defence of neoliberalism
Here's a bit more context about the elephant graph excluding ex soviet countries and japan:
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No Sympathy for the Hillbilly
Democrats need to stop trying to feel everyones pain, and hold on to their own anger.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...hillbilly.htmlBut for those of us who want to bring down the curtain on the Trump era as quickly as possible, this pandering to his voters raises a more immediate and practical concern: Is it a worthwhile political tactic that will actually help reverse Republican rule? Or is it another counterproductive detour into liberal guilt, self-flagellation, and political correctness of the sort that helped blind Democrats to the gravity of the Trump threat in the first place?
While the right is expert at channeling darker emotions like anger into ruthless political action, the Democrats default inclination is still to feel everyones pain, hang their hats on hope, and enter the fray in a softened state of unilateral disarmament. Stronger Together, the Clinton-campaign slogan, sounded more like an invitation to join a food co-op than a call to arms.
After the debacle of 2016, might the time have at last come for Democrats to weaponize their anger instead of swallowing it? Instead of studying how to talk to real people, might they start talking like real people? No more reading from wimpy scripts concocted by consultants and focus groups. (Clinton couldnt even bring herself to name a favorite ice-cream flavor at one campaign stop.) Say in public what you say in private, even at the risk of pissing people off, including those in your own party. Better late than never to learn the lessons of Trumps triumphant primary campaign that the Clinton campaign foolishly ignored.
Say what you like, they have excellent taste in porn:
Ted Cruz commemorates 9/11 by endorsing stepmom-themed hardcore porn video.
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They also have a way with memorable political criticism. First thing I've read in the papers for a while that made me do a double take (because almost nothing is surprising any longer):
Republicans/right wingers moralising about sex while secretly fapping to porn and paying hookers to shit on them is a given. As often with right wingers, I wonder if they are genuinely (spiritually, you might say) hypocrites or if they just know that being anti-sex sells.
Social conservatism is certainly electorally necessary for republicans given the unpopularity of fiscal conservatism.


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A "raging" Neil Lennon warned some of his players they were in danger of being shipped out of Celtic Park following their attitude in the 2-1 defeat at Motherwell.
The Celtic manager described his side's attacking display as "insipid", although he absolved James Forrest of blame, after leaving Gary Hooper on the bench.
Lennon, whose side are now 19 points ahead of second-placed Motherwell in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League, said: "I'm raging. I made changes with games in mind but still put a strong team out. People keep coming to me looking to play - they got the opportunity and didn't play."
He added: "It seems to me if I leave Hooper out the team then we suffer. We were very, very poor going forward in the first half."
Georgios Samaras, who started up front alongside Anthony Stokes, headed Celtic level in the 63rd minute following Chris Humphrey's opener but Michael Higdon soon volleyed the winner.
When asked whether there was a lack of hunger among his players because they feel the SPL title is already won, Lennon said: "If that's the case they won't play here again. They can find another club and I'll play the kids. If they waste any game at this club and I detect that in their play, which was apparent in some cases, then it gives me a lot to think about.
"I'm pretty angry with some of the performances."
Motherwell manager Stuart McCall was rewarded for an attacking 4-4-2 formation which saw James McFadden line up in left midfield on his first start since re-signing for the club.
And Nicky Law proved the key man as his breaks from central midfield and composure set up both goals.
McCall said: "We play him and Las (Keith Lasley) in there and they both want to get forward and sometimes it leaves us a little bit open. It was a really attacking side with two up front and Faddy and Humph wide. But I thought at the back Shaun Hutchinson and young Adam Cummins were outstanding and Lawsy did what I know he is capable of - he has got that little bit of magic."


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Is Toyota Building A Raptor Killer Tundra?Posted in News on January 24, 2014
We just came across a very short Toyota commercial that we think they'll be using as part of their Super Bowl marketing strategy and it definitely caught our attention. Why you ask, well - it's really quite simple. A group of Toyota trucks speeding across the desert making some serious dust and what looks to be like Toyotas latest off-road offering.
Were not sure what the TRD PRO models will pack under the hood or even under frame but it could be Toyota's attempt to corner the off-road market. Ford pretty much dominates that category with their SVT Raptor which everyone agrees is probably the greatest truck to ever roll off a production line but with no plans to build it past 2015 as of yet, Toyota could potentially have a Raptor killer in the works ready to be unleashed to dethrone the current king of the desert.
If that's not enough, they also show a TRD PRO Tacoma as well as a 4Runner so this could be the start of a new push to dominate the desert scene. From the looks of it, the trucks feature body colored bumpers with sleek blacked out grilles and the Tundra even features an awesome TOYOTA lettered grille that we've been wanting to see for quite a few years. It also appears that the tires might be an aggressive off-road tread so we're hoping the suspension is up to the task. Who knows, maybe there's a set of Bilstein or King Colivers up front with smooth body shocks in the rear to get it through the whooped out desert roads faster than the Raptor can. At least that's what the Tundra enthusiasts are hoping for on the Tundra forums.
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For the CEOs of companies such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, talk of cyberweapons and cyberwar could have been abstract. But at a classified security briefing in spring 2010, it suddenly became quite real.
"We can turn your computer into a brick," U.S. officials told the startled executives, according to a participant in the meeting.
The warning came during a discussion of emerging cyberthreats at a secret session hosted by the office of the Director of National Intelligence and the departments of Defense and Homeland Security, along with Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. military's Cyber Command.
The meeting was part of a public-private partnership dubbed the "Enduring Security Framework" that was launched at the end of 2008. The initiative brings chief executives from top technology and defense companies to Washington, D.C., two or three times a year for classified briefings. The purpose is to share information about the latest developments in cyberwarfare capabilities, highlighting the cyberweapons that could be used against the executives' own companies.
"We scare the bejeezus out of them," says one U.S. government participant.
The hope is that the executives, who are given a special one-day, top-secret security clearance, will go back to their companies and order steps to deal with the vulnerabilities that have been pointed out.
"I personally know of one CEO for whom it was a life-changing experience," says Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer for Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm. "Gen. Alexander sat him down and told him what was going on. This particular CEO, in my opinion, should have known [about the cyberthreats] but did not, and now it has colored everything about the way he thinks about this problem."
The Virtual Tools Of War
Among the computer attack tools discussed during the briefings are some of the cyberweapons developed by the National Security Agency and the Cyber Command for use against U.S. adversaries. Military and intelligence officials are normally loath to discuss U.S. offensive cybercapabilities, but the CEOs have been cleared for some information out of a concern that they need to know what's possible in the fast-evolving world of cyberwarfare.
Alexander himself hinted at the rationale for the briefings during testimony in March, before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"When we see what our folks are capable of doing, we need to look back and say, 'There are other smart people out there that can do things to this country,' " Alexander said. "We need to look at that and say, 'How are we going to defend [against them]?' "
The fear is that cyberweapons developed by the U.S. military could at some point fall into enemy hands and be turned against a U.S. target.
"There are nation-states, to include the United States, who are building cybertools to prevail in a ... disagreement," Mike McConnell, the former U.S. director of national intelligence, said during a recent cybersecurity conference hosted by Bloomberg. "The worry is, what happens when some of those tools, and there are thousands of them, get released inadvertently, or somebody steals [them] to sell to a terrorist group?"
The 2010 revelation that U.S. cyberwarriors could turn a computer into a "brick" stemmed from research into a design flaw in U.S. computers, according to several sources. It was determined that an adversary could conceivably update computer firmware — the low-level software that dictates how the hardware works — to make the machine useless.
Computer manufacturers had known about the firmware design issue previously, but they had not realized it would be possible for an adversary to exploit the flaw by actually getting into the machine and destroying it.
The manufacturers subsequently ordered a reconfiguration of their computers to fix the flaw, and no damage was done. But two participants in the 2010 meeting say the CEOs were sobered by what they learned there.
Need To Work Together
To government and industry officials alike, such incidents underscore the importance of public-private partnership in the effort to address cyberthreats. But the Enduring Security Framework collaboration remains limited to a select few executives, and much threat information remains secret.
"That's the policy dilemma," McConnell said during the Bloomberg cybersecurity conference. "How do we establish a regime where that information can be shared with corporate America at the unclassified level in real time?"
Proposals to promote greater information sharing between government and industry are a key part of new cybersecurity legislation being considered on Capitol Hill.
On MORNING EDITION this week, we're looking at preparations in the United States for a possible cyberattack against key computer networks. Security experts say if an all-out cyberwar broke out today, the U.S. would be vulnerable, and here's one problem: The government knows the most about what weapons might be used, but it is the private sector that's most likely to be targeted. As NPR's Tom Gjelten reports, the two sides need to talk.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: Cybersecurity has become an urgent priority, partly because there's a cyberarms race going on right now. The United States, its allies and its adversaries are all developing evermore sophisticated computer weapons. The U.S. military has its own cyber command, headed by Army General Keith Alexander. He knows as much as anyone about the computer weapons being developed on the U.S. side. And at a Senate hearing in March, he guessed other countries are not far behind.
GENERAL KEITH ALEXANDER: When we see what our folks are capable of doing, we need to look back and say: There are other smart people out there that can do things to this country. We need to look at that and say: How are we going to defend?
GJELTEN: After all, if the U.S. military develops an especially lethal computer weapon, someone else could, too. Here's Mike McConnell, a former U.S. director of national intelligence.
MIKE MCCONNELL: There are nation-states, to include the United States, who are building cybertools to prevail on a disagreement. The worry is what happens when some of those tools - and there are thousands of them - get released inadvertently. Or it's - somebody steals it to sell to a terrorist group, somebody who has a different view of the world order and wants to change things.
GJELTEN: So, if the people defending U.S. computer networks are to be well-prepared for cyberattacks, it would help if they knew what cyberweapons the U.S. is itself developing, just in case those weapons end up on the enemy side. But cyberwar tools are not something the government generally wants to say much about. Mike McConnell, speaking recently at a cybersecurity conference, pointed out that most of what the U.S. cyber command does in this area is classified top secret. It can't be revealed.
MCCONNELL: How do we establish a regime where that information can be shared with corporate America at the unclassified level?
GJELTEN: Information first about what cyberweapons U.S. adversaries are developing, but also what might be in the United States' own cyberarsenal, information that could be critical if corporate America is to defend its own computer networks. There is at least one important initiative in this area. It's about four years old, but until now, little has been said about it. It's part of what's called the enduring security framework. Chief executives of top U.S. corporations are brought to Washington two or three times a year for a one-day, classified briefing by General Alexander and other officials.
For each session, the CEOs get special, top-secret clearances so they can be told about the latest in cyberweaponry. They can then go back to their companies and take steps to deal with the threats they hear about, threats they may not previously have taken seriously. In the words of one government participant: We scare the bejeezus out of them. Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at the Mandiant Company, says for one CEO he knows, the Alexander briefing was a life-changing experience.
RICHARD BEJTLICH: He got a one-day secret clearance. General Alexander sat him down, told him what was going on. This particular CEO, in my opinion, should have known, but did not, and now it's colored everything about the way he thinks about this problem.
GJELTEN: At one session in the spring of 2010, tech company CEOs were told, quote, "We can turn your computer into a brick," unquote. U.S. cyber experts told the execs that they'd learned how an adversary could rewrite computer firmware - the low-level software that dictates how the hardware works - rewrite the firmware so that it would disable the computer.
Manufacturers had known in theory about that design flaw, but they had not previously realized an enemy could exploit that flaw in such a way as to actually get into a machine and destroy it. The computer manufacturers subsequently redesigned their machines and fixed the flaw. No damage was done. Still, it was a close call, according to two participants with knowledge of the incident. And there was a lesson. It showed how important it is for the government and industry to work together in addressing cyberthreats. And that principle is now at the heart of cybersecurity legislative proposals under consideration in Congress. Tom Gjelten, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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August 2012
Fresh Water Feeds Hurricanes' Fury
Hurricanes and tropical cyclones become up to 50 percent more intense when passing over oceans inundated with fresh water
Hurricane Omar wreaked destruction on the eastern Caribbean islands. As Omar approached the islands, it covered a huge expanse from the northern edge of South America to well past Puerto Rico. Image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite, October 15, 2008. Photo courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory. Enlarge Image
Still images looped into video show Omar's rapid intensification to a Category 4 storm. Hurricane Omar in 2008 ripped through the eastern Caribbean with winds up to 135 miles per hour, causing death and extensive damage. Images courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Results: When hurricanes blow over ocean regions swamped with fresh water, the storm can unexpectedly intensify. According to a new study led by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, though the probability that hurricanes will hit these conditions is small—about 10 to 23 percent—the rate at which they intensify can be relatively higher when they do, by as much as 50 percent on average.
"Sixty percent of the world's population lives in areas affected by tropical cyclones," said Dr. Karthik Balaguru, lead author of the study and oceanographer at PNNL. "Cyclone Nargis killed more than one hundred and thirty eight thousand people in Burma in 2008. We can predict the paths cyclones take, but we need to predict their intensity better to protect people susceptible to their destructive power."
Why It Matters: Satellites are useful for tracking and helping to predict the path of tropical storms as they move across the ocean and develop into cyclones or hurricanes, as well as predicting where the storms will hit land. But current technology isn't as good at predicting how intense the storm will be when it does hit land. This study provides new insight into the conditions that make these storms, which affect millions of lives around the world, more intense and destructive.
"A 50 percent increase in intensity can result in a much larger amount of destruction and death," said Balaguru.
Methods: Balaguru and the research team looked at Omar, a Category 4 hurricane over the eastern Caribbean Sea in 2008. They found that regions of the ocean where there is a large influx of fresh water sets up conditions that form a layer between the surface and the colder ocean below, termed a barrier layer, preventing typical ocean mixing and cooling of the surface layer by strong winds. The most intense activity of Omar occurred when the storm traveled over this thick layer.
Balaguru and colleagues then examined 587 tropical storms and cyclones between 1998 and 2007 in the western tropical Atlantic, the western Pacific and the northern Indian Oceans. They found that when tropical storms passed over thick ocean barrier layers, the storm cooled off 36 percent less than storms passing over areas lacking barrier layers, and barrier layer storms drew 7 percent more heat from the ocean than other storms. The team supported their analysis with a computer model, comparing tropical cyclones over regions with and without barrier layers.
What's Next? Researchers have shown how the barrier layer affects hurricanes now. Future research topics may explore how the distribution of ocean barrier layers around the world may affect storms in a warmer world.
For more information, see the PNNL News Center, "Fresh water breathes fresh life into hurricanes"
Acknowledgments: This research was supported at PNNL by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Integrated Assessment of Global Change program for the Regional Integrated Assessment Modeling project and the BER Regional and Global Climate Modeling program for a collaborative project between PNNL and Texas A&M University. Additional support was provided to Texas A&M by the DOE BER's Regional & Global Climate Change program, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Science Foundation of China, and the Chinese Ministry of Education. The work was performed by Drs. Karthik Balaguru and L. Ruby Leung of PNNL; Drs. Ping Chang, R. Saravanan and Jen-Shan Hsieh at Texas A&M; Zhao Xu at Texas A&M; and Dr. Mingkui Li at Ocean University of China.
Reference: Balaguru K, P Chang, R Saravanan, LR Leung, Z Xu, M Li and JS Hsieh. 2012. "Ocean Barrier Layers' Effect on Tropical Cyclone Intensification." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(36):14343-14347. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1201364109.


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The Mount Lebanon Shaker Society, now the Shaker Museum/Mount Lebanon, in New Lebanon, New York, was
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Swans end Bantams fairytale
Ten years after they teetered on the edge of oblivion, Swansea City will stride into Europe after a 5-0 Capital One Cup final stroll against 10-man Bradford.
After beating three Barclays Premier League outfits on their way to Wembley, League Two Bradford found Swansea an altogether different proposition.
Nathan Dyer scored twice, Michu found the net before the break and Jonathan de Guzman's double confirmed the biggest win in final history with Bradford's evening also made sour by the dismissal of goalkeeper Matt Duke for conceding the penalty that brought Swansea's fourth goal.
The scene was set inside the first minute, which Bradford spent chasing the ball as Swansea zipped it around with relish. Swansea did not actually threaten Duke's goal until Ben Davies won a towering far-post header which he sent inches wide.
Swansea broke with pace, Dyer to the excellent Wayne Routledge and on to Michu, two passes taking them from the edge of one area to the other. Michu arrowed his shot for the far corner. Duke dived despairingly to his left, failed to get a firm enough touch and allowed Dyer to slide in from an acute angle.
Leon Britton should have doubled Swansea's lead when Bradford cleared a corner invitingly into his path, but the sliced effort flew wide. It was only a matter of time before the West Yorkshire outfit cracked again though. Pablo Hernandez placed the ball through Gary Jones' legs before Michu curled it between Carl McHugh's in the bottom corner.
Phil Parkinson desperately needed to stabilise the situation. Unfortunately, within 15 minutes of the restart it had careered completely out of control as more intricate Swansea passing opened Bradford up, with Routledge providing the pass which Dyer stepped inside off before slotting home his second.
Dyer then slid a pass through to De Guzman, who nipped round Duke only to be taken down by the keeper. Referee Kevin Friend brandished a red card but the drama came with Dyer's furious reaction to De Guzman's refusal to stand down as penalty taker, even though his team-mate stood on the brink of becoming the first man in history to score a hat-trick in a final.
It was an argument that continued for the entire length of time it took Jon McLaughlin to replace Nahki Wells and thankfully for De Guzman, he kept his cool to score, with Dyer then offering his congratulations.
Thankfully, Bradford avoided complete catastrophe, their loyal supporters cheering their first corner on 83 minutes and even a shot not long afterwards. They stayed to cheer their team up the steps too, when most losers head straight off into the night. By then De Guzman had his second and Swansea had the record - and, most joyously, the cup.


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LAS VEGAS – For Hawks rookies Dennis Schroder and Lucas Nogueira, speaking different languages hasn't hurt their connection on the court.
Schroder, the team's German point guard and Nogueira, the big man out of Brazil, connected several times on alley-oops in the team's five games, giving Hawks fans a glimpse of what could become an exciting pairing at Philips Arena.
"We had a very, very good connection," Schroder said. "He runs the pick-and-roll very well, so every time he looks at me I know he's ready for the pass. That's great for me having a guy like him I can throw it to."
That connection may have to wait, however. Schroder is signed with the Hawks and will likely see time backing up Jeff Teague this season. Nogueira's future, though, isn't as certain. Nogueira, the No. 16 pick who famously — and briefly — donned a Celtics cap on his afro before being traded to the Hawks on Draft night, was a last-minute addition to the Summer League squad and management was using the time here to get a feel for their 7-foot (7-foot-3 with the afro?) big man.
"It was a really good learning experience for both of them," said Hawks assistant Quin Snyder, who ran the team in Las Vegas. "I thought Lucas got better as the week went on and Dennis had a few really good challenges that he handled really well."
Schroder showed a patience and ability to find the open man on offense, but shined defensively, where he was constantly hounding opposing point guards.
"I think being a point guard in Summer League is harder than any other position because there's so much you have to control," Snyder said. "He did a really good job defensively this week. He works incredibly hard on defense and he's so long, so he's tough to play against."
Schroder finished his run averaging 10.8 points and 5.6 assists (against 3.4 TOs) while struggling a bit with his shot (34 percent overall, 7-for-24 on 3s). Schroder improved with each game, though, and seemed more comfortable offensively as the week progressed. Still, all the 19-year-old German wanted to talk about was his defense.
"The first thing I do is try to play good defense," said Schroder, who led the Hawks with eight steals in five games. "Hopefully my teammates see that and play hard defense, too."
Nogueira said he took notice of Schroder's defense, and had his best game defensively Friday, bringing energy and tallying five of his 12 blocks in the Hawks' finale.
"I like my progress this week," said Nogueira, who says he plans to be in Atlanta by August and is preparing as if he'll be with the team in the fall even though management may choose to keep him overseas. "I started slow, but I'll go home happy with my progress."
Nogueira admitted he didn't know Schroder's game before the Hawks took him with the No. 17 pick, but said he watched "all his YouTube movies" to better prepare for Summer League.
"He's a very good guard, makes great passes and has great vision, so that's good for me," Nogueira said with a laugh.
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Carrie Underwood Says Onstage Kisses Won't Become 'A Thing'
Even though Carrie Underwood gave 12-year-old Chase his first kiss during a concert in Louisville, Ky. recently, fans shouldn't expect more singer/audience member liplocks at future shows.
Underwood told the Orange County Register that the onstage kiss won't become "a thing" on her Blown Away Tour. Still, after media got hold of footage from the Louisville show, the requests from fans in subsequent concerts kept coming in — more homemade signs asking for an onstage smooch, as well as plenty of posters requesting that Underwood sing 'Happy Birthday' to them, or asking for a chance to perform onstage with the 'Good Girl' songstress.
Underwood admits that though she appreciates her fans' hard work, trying to read the signs can be a bit of a distraction while she's performing.
"I have a hard time reading and singing at the same time and I cannot do both successfully," she reveals. "I read one the other night that was something like 'I missed my homecoming to come here.' I felt bad. I was like, 'You shouldn't have done that!'"
Though the 'Blown Away' hitmaker — who married hockey star Mike Fisher in 2010 — will refrain from giving more kisses onstage herself, she had different advice for her opening act, 21-year-old Hunter Hayes. It seems there have been equally as many homemade signs in the audience requesting smooches from the 'Wanted' singer.
"He's young, he should have fun," Underwood said with a laugh. Hayes' fans no doubt hope he takes the superstar's advice seriously.
Still, Underwood mostly wants fans to enjoy the concert the hard work she's put into it. "I really enjoyed putting all of this together and more than anything I want people to feel like they get their money's worth, because money is tight and there are not a lot of extra funds lying around," she explains. "If someone spent that money to come see us play, I just want them to feel like it was so totally worth it."


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Clint Eastwood's discussion with an empty chair thrilled late-night talk-show hosts.
Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend, but not all of his movies were smash hits. He's no stranger to getting poor reviews.
But he may never have received worse reviews than the ones he's hearing from late-night talk-show hosts after his performance at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, where he spent quality time on national television in spirited debate with a figment of his imagination.
"Amidst the tired rhetoric, empty platitudes and overwrought attacks, a fistful of awesome emerged in the night … where it spent 12 minutes on the most important night of Mitt Romney's life yelling at a chair," Jon Stewart said on "The Daily Show."
Much to the Romney campaign's dismay (and to Sen. Marco Rubio, who might have otherwise earned headlines for his introduction of the nominee), Eastwood's argument with an invisible man was the story of the day.
"I don't care how many Marco Rubios you put in between Clint Eastwood and Mitt Romney, Romney ain't outshining this playlet I call The Old Man and the Seat," Stewart said.
And to the "Daily Show" host, it explained a lot.
"We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks, not only because it was a truly hilarious 12 minutes of improvised awesome in a week of scripted blah, but because it advanced our understanding," Stewart said. "This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates to be had about his policy and actions and successes and/or failures -– I mean, tune in next week –- but I could never wrap my head as to why the world and the president that Republicans describe bears so little resemblance to the world and experience that I experience.
"And now I know why. There is a President Obama that only Republicans can see."
Steven Colbert went so far as to bring on a chair of his own to debate on the "Colbert Report." This invisible foe was more convincing than the one Eastwood debated, as it had the house spouting Democratic slogans by the time the skit ended. So at least he showed the RNC that it could have been worse.
Colbert also had to go back in time for something comparable, arguing "there has not been a political speech this powerful since the famous Lincoln-Bookshelf debates." And he and guest James Carville differed on the impact the convention would have on the polls, with Carville predicting a 2-3 point increase.
"The Romney people are privately predicting 11," Colbert said
"The Romney people put Clint Eastwood out there," Carville replied.
Jay Leno was no kinder.
"Wasn't that bizarre? The only time I ever talked to an empty chair is when we had Paris Hilton on the show," he said on his "Tonight Show" monologue.
Leno also speculated, "Clint Eastwood said he got the idea earlier in the day when he saw John McCain talking to an empty chaise lounge at the hotel pool." But McCain's running mate looked better by comparison.
"Be honest. After watching Clint Eastwood last night, Sarah Palin isn't looking so bad, is she?" Leno said.
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French artist Celine Artigau is never really alone. In her series of manipulated photographs, "Goodbye Childhood", she inserts spectral neon figures into photos of places with personal resonance. She says:
"These luminous characters are the souls of these places and ghosts of my childhood. They are like some lonely and abandoned imaginary friends that still follow me and haunt my life."
Sometimes sweet, sometimes sad, the figures are simple outlines rendered with a neon glow. Their simplicity is what makes them work. Photoshopping "ghosts" into images—copying and pasting figures from one photo to another and lowering the opacity—has been done and done. With Artigau's lost souls, the artifice is intentional; these wandering ghosts are meant to look illustrative and not realistic.
"Concerning the process, I use Illustrator to create my character and then Photoshop to integrate it into my picture. For my light effects, I use a mixture of layers and blur effects but the precise process is always different from one project to the next." (Source)
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When Kern and Harbach wrote "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" nearly 80 years ago, they were playing bards, not doctors. But a new study shows that smokers are at substantially increased risk for developing age-related blindness.
The research, by scientists in Japan and the United States, shows that Japanese smokers face four times the risk of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, than non-smokers.
In AMD, the light-sensing cells in the retina die off over time, causing progressive vision loss.
The disease is much more common in Japanese men than woman, but that sex difference may really just reflect the fact that men in that country smoke more than women, according to the researchers.
"The bottom line for people worried about age-related macular degeneration is that there is a modifiable risk factor that is very, very strong, and that's smoking," said Dr. Peter Gehlbach, an ophthalmologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and a co-author of the study.
"It may well be that a significant portion of macular degeneration is the result of prior significant exposure to cigarette smoke," Gehlbach told Reuters Health.
Just less than a third of Americans over 75 have AMD, according to the National Institutes of Health. The condition takes two forms, a quick-onset "wet" type marked by leaky blood vessels in the retina, and, more commonly, a "dry" version that progresses slowly.
Although macular degeneration has no cure, several treatments, including drugs and surgery, can delay its progression. The wet form in particular can respond to medications such as Roche's Lucentis, which acts by preventing the formation of abnormal blood vessels in the eye.
In a recent study, another Roche drug called Avastin proved to be equal to Lucentis at preventing vision loss, although possibly with greater risk for side effects.
Avastin, which is not approved for AMD but is the most frequently injected drug for treating the condition, costs about $50 a dose, compared to $2,000 for Lucentis.
Previous studies have looked for a link between smoking and AMD, with mixed results.
The Japanese study, published in the journal Ophthalmology, included 279 men and women with AMD and 143 people without the disease.
Tobacco use had the strongest association with blindness, with 75 percent of AMD patients smoking compared to only 40 percent of the comparison group.
After taking other differences into account, smokers had four times the risk of AMD relative to nonsmokers. They also had a nearly fivefold increase in risk of developing a vision disorder called polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, which also leads to bleeding in the retina.
Having high blood pressure and being overweight also seemed to be associated with a greater risk of AMD, although to a lesser extent than smoking.
A study like the current one doesn't prove that smoking causes AMD, but scientists believe that is likely to be the case.
Simon Kelly, an eye surgeon at Royal Bolton Hospital in England, and author of two reviews of the link between smoking and vision loss, said the latest study supports the connection.
"The public health need is now, in my opinion, to highlight this link of smoking and to patients and the public all over the world. In Europe we are calling on governments to put the message 'smoking causes blindness' on tobacco products."
Kelly, who was not involved in the new study, said that in his experience, smokers seem willing to quit the habit when warned of the risk of blindness later in life.
"We have found that such a message has traction amongst teenagers," he added.
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Virginia Avenel Henderson
"First Lady of Nursing"
"First Truly International Nurse"
"The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the newly blind, a means of locomotion for the infant, knowledge and confidence for the mother, the mouthpiece for those too weak or withdrawn to speak and so on."
Life Story
Born in
World War I developed her interest in nursing in 1918.
She was educated at the U.S. Army School of Nursing (1921) then worked as a staff nurse of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service in
1922, began teaching in
1929, teaching supervisor in the clinics of
Teachers College,
As a researcher, writer and author:
- Bertha Harmer's Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing, 4th edition, 1939.
- Bertha Harmer's Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing, 5th edition, 1955, contains her definition of nursing.
- Basic Principles of Nursing Care, 1960.
- The Nature of Nursing, 1966.
- The Principles and Practice of Nursing, 6th edition, 1978.
In 1953, she joined Yale School of Nursing.
Nursing Studies Index (4 volume) (Director)
Interagency Council on Information Resources for Nursing (co-founder)
New England Regional Council on Library Resources for Nursing (co-founder)
International Nursing Index Editorial Advisory Committee (Chairperson)
Honorary doctorates from University of Western Ontario, University of Rochester, Rush University, Pace University, Catholic University of America, Yale University, Old Dominion University, Boston College, Thomas Jefferson University, Emory University, and many distinguished lectures from Great Britain's Royal College of Nursing to the Sorbonne to the Japanese Nursing Association.
June 1985, she awarded the first Christianne Reimann Prize by ICN.
Fellowship of the American
Honorary Membership in the
Fellowship in the Royal
1983, Sigma Theta Tau International's Mary Tolle Wright Founders Award for Leadership, one of the honor society's highest honors.
1988, ANA citation
She recognized early on the importance of an outcomes orientation, health promotion, continuity of care, patient advocacy, multidisciplinary scholarship, integration of the arts and sciences, and boundary spanning.
Her elegant definition of nursing, with its emphasis on complementing the patient's capabilities, provides a clear direction for what nursing should be.
With her silky drawl, bright blue eyes, wispy curls, and beautiful clothes, Miss Henderson was the embodiment of an impish Southern gentlewoman. She was the most gracious hostess I have ever encountered, and had a wicked sense of humor.
She was the incarnation of those Greek verities--the good, the true, and the beautiful. She was shaped by the aesthetic that produced beautiful surroundings in honey and rose colored tones (she gave up the idea of becoming an interior designer/architect when there was a need for nurses in World War I), as well as elegant arguments embellished by references to a literature much broader than just the nursing literature.
Even when her memory and hearing started to fail, she was not limited, because her curiosity and interest in people elicited from them an engagement in the issues that then set in motion her own creative juices.
Virginia Henderson was arguably the most famous nurse of the 20th century. Because that was the case, Sigma Theta Tau's International Nursing Library bears her name. She was only willing to permit use of her name if the electronic networking system to be developed would advance the work of staff nurses by getting to them current and jargon-free information wherever they were based.
Died on March 19, 1996 at the age of 98, after partaking chocolate cake and ice cream and saying goodbyes to her family and friends. A family-sponsored memorial service was held at Battel Chapel on the campus of
An accomplished author, avid researcher and a visionary.
Definition of Nursing and 14 Basic Human Needs
Theoretical Sources
- Bertha Harmer's Textbook of the Principles and Practice of Nursing.
- Involvement as the committee member in a regional conference of the National Nursing Council, 1946.
- Annie W. Goodrich, Caroline Stackpole, Jean Broadhurst, Dr. Edward Thorndike, Dr. George Deaver and Ida Jean Orlando (Pelletier).
Use of Empirical Evidence
- Stockpole – maintaining physiological balance
- Bernard's psychosomatic theory
- Thorndike and Maslow's human needs
Key Concepts
Components of a person is operationalized by the 14 basic human needs, which under conditions of ill-health will require assistance by the family and/or nurse.
14 Fundamental Needs of Human
1. breathe normally
2. eat and drink adequately
3. eliminate body wastes
4. move and maintain desirable postures
5. sleep and rest
6. select suitable clothes—dress and undress
7. maintain body temperature within normal range by adjusting clothing and modifying the environment
8. keep the body clean and well groomed and protect the integument
9. avoid dangers in the environment and avoid injuring others
10. communicate with others in expressing emotions, needs, fears, or opinions
11. worship according to one's faith
12. work in such a way that there is a sense of accomplishment
13. play or participate in various forms of recreation
14. learn, discover, or satisfy the curiosity that leads to normal development and health and use the available health facilities.
Nursing Metaparadigm
A complete and independent being with biological, sociological and spiritual components
The function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery
The patient's ability to perform independently the 14 basic needs
The effects of 7 components (light, temperature, air movement, atmospheric pressure, proper waste disposal, absence of injurious chemicals, cleanliness of surroundings) on the life and development of a person
Nurse Functions in Relation with the Patient, Physician and the Health Team
- Nurse-Patient Relationship
- As a substitute for the patient
- As a helper for the patient
- As a partner with the patient
- Nurse-Physician Relationship
- Nurse as a Member of the Health Team
- Assessment phase – assess the patients for 14 fundamental needs and what is/are lacking.
- Planning phase – plan to meet the needs fit to the doctors prescribed plan
- Implementation phase – uses the 14 basic needs in answering the factors contributes to the illness
- Evaluation phase – decides whether goals are met or not
Development of 3 phases of curriculum development that students should progress in their learning.
She supported developing nurses at baccalaureate level and advocated the use of library for research purposes. Development of the nurses responsibility to identify problems, validates practice and improving methods of care and reassuring the effectiveness of care. The concept that illness arise from the lacking needs gives rise to different researches.
- It is considered as a grand theory or philosophy in the early days.
1. Simplicity
2. Generality
3. Derivable Consequences
Octaviano, E.F. & Balita, C.E. (2008). Theoretical Foundations of Nursing: The Philippine
Perspective. Philippines: Ultimate Learning Series.
Tomey, A.M. & Alligood, M.R. (2002). Nursing Theorists and Their Work. 5th ed. Missouri:


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Five shows to see
"This Show Might Be Terrible"
Kelsie Huff and Square Product Theatre
The idea that Kelsie Huff's newest solo offering might be terrible seems unlikely. The winner of a 2008 Camera Eye Award brings heartfelt and personally poignant hilarity to the Fringe for the third time with this new show about a loudmouthed gal in the Windy City. She explores the line between coping and having a nervous breakdown that comes with big city living with a hobo genius, public transportation, a mother-daughter-nervous-breakdown-road-trip, and a Mexican vacation-vacation (not a wedding, NOT A WEDDING — you'll have to see it), great mermaid debate, Gap fitting rooms, OA, and the Amish, rebounding into her next brilliantly terrible moment. Dairy East Theatre.
"Sticks and Stones"
Choreographers Rachel Oliver and Kate Speer with Ashley Embry, Britt Ford, and Margaret Behm
"Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt me," a saying heard on the playground with false meaning. Words do hurt and often cut the deepest. In this full-length dance work of the same title, co-choreographers Rachel Oliver and Kate Speer craft movement poetry, both the tender and the cruel, of shifting relationships among a cast of five women. Featuring tender partner work, intricate gestures, and full-bodied dancing, "Sticks & Stones" is an escape into childhood touching upon our collective need for belonging. Dairy East Theatre.
Mick Renner
In a one-man show, Mick Renner recounts the events of his childhood, channeling the key characters that make up his journey from an all American life in the '50s through the difficulties that surface when his narcissistic mother divorces and remarries. In a series of vignettes, the emotional journey of his childhood and the people who influenced him are revealed. Wesley Chapel.
"How to Open a Cupboard"
Bare Bait Dance
Joy French, company founder describes this brand new work in this way: "How to Open a Cupboard" is the physical manifestation of our inner nostalgia, both crippling and jubilant. It uncovers what we bottle in, what we eradicate, and what we coffer away forever. Through dance and storytelling, the five performers fully embrace the very human capacity to hide from one's self. Whimsically honest, you may never look at a cupboard the same way again!" Dairy East Theater.
"Magical Mystery Detour"
Gemma Wilcox
Gemma is a nine-time winner of the Best-of-the-Fest award. In her newest show, life takes an unexpected detour when the heart gets involved in the journey. Gemma's exploration of the conflicting internal experiences of heart vs. mind in this one-woman act where the road goes in the most unexpected directions. Carsen Theatre.
—Liza Williams


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