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As you likely know, I love Goodreads. It's the perfect way for me to track books I've read and – more importantly – books I want to read.
If you're a Goodreads user, first: add me. Second: you know about their year in review feature.
Read on to discover the books I read in 2016 – which ones I loved, and which ones I wasn't so crazy about.
To be fair, I didn't finish The Bees by Laline Paull (which I acquired during a book haul this year) because…I hated it. So much. There was one line in particular that acted as the cliched straw that broke the camel's back. (Curious? Read my brief The Bees review here). So really, I only read twenty-five books this year, Goodreads. Sorry about that. I couldn't not give that awful writing one star.
That's Right – We Have a Top-Five List
Out of the twenty-five books I did read, here are my top five (in no particular order):
- HEX, Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson
- Barbara the Slut and Other People, Lauren Holmes
- The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
- Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
It may have been a shitty year for yours truly in other ways, but it was a kickass year with regards to reading. Let's hope 2017 is even better.
What was the best book you read in 2016?
*Want to buy any of the books mentioned here? Click on the links to purchase from Amazon; since I'm an affiliate, your purchase will help me keep this blog going (i.e., I'll earn money to buy books that I will then write about).*
Filed under: Books, Literature, Reading | Tags: Amazon, book club, book haul, books, Dirge Magazine, Laird Barron, Neil Gaiman, Octavia Butler, reading, Shirley Jackson, Stacy Schiff
By the title, you know what's coming: a list of books I recently bought in one of my I-don't-need-this-book-but-I-NEED-this-book moments.
Enjoy the spoils of my latest book haul, via Amazon.
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
I fell in love with Neil Gaiman after reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It totally blew my mind and convinced me that this man is a genius.
Since then, I've been devouring his books, and Anansi Boys is next. I mean, look at the back cover:
Who wouldn't be intrigued?
Push, Sapphire
Yeah, yeah, I know: I'm super behind because I have yet to see the film Precious. I decided reading the book first was in order.
Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson. What a master of horror and the bizarre. I'm pretty damned excited to read this novel. Check out the back cover blurb to get an idea of why:
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, college life doesn't bring the happiness she expected. Little by little, Natalie is no longer certain of anything—even where reality ends and her dark imaginings begin. Chilling and suspenseful, Hangsaman is loosely based on the real-life disappearance of a Bennington College sophomore in 1946.
What's that you say about Natalie's father…?
Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler
I first read Octavia Butler when I was fourteen years old, and I immediately loved her. For some reason I don't understand, though, it's only now–almost two decades later–that I picked up another book by the sci-fi queen.
I can't wait to dig in.
Oh, and by the way, Butler predicted Donald Trump's campaign slogan over twenty years ago in The Parable of the Talents. <Cue creepy music>
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Laird Barron
I recently joined an online book club run by Dirge Magazine (if you don't know what Dirge is, I encourage you to check it out), and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All was one of August's books.
I'm about halfway through it (late, as usual), and so far, it's…meh. Follow me on Goodreads to find out my final opinion of the short story collection.
The Witches, Stacy Schiff
Another August Dirge Book Club book, The Witches focuses on the Salem witch trials of 1692. Check out the illustrations…
…and the inside cover:
I'm typically a fiction-only reader, but I have always been interested in the Salem witch trials (I blame my childhood field trip to Salem, Massachusetts)…so I'm fairly certain this is one nonfiction tome I'm going to love.
That's it for this book haul! What books have you purchased or borrowed recently?
And a Little Something Extra…
- Writers, take note: Michael Cristiano's list of fiction clichés should be read…and then those clichés should be avoided like the plague (like what I did there?). Read the post over at A Writer's Path.
- Ari Sytner did something that few of us (likely) would even think about: He donated a kidney to a complete stranger in need. During his experience, he realized that kidney donation is quite the taboo topic. For that reason, he wrote The Kidney Donor's Journey: 100 Questions I Asked Before Donating My Kidney. It's the first Q&A book on the subject and includes a wealth of information. To support Sytner in the publication of this book, check out his Kickstarter campaign.


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Every few months for the last +5 years I have watched Daniel Kahneman's TED Talk titled "The Riddle of Experience Versus Memory." Kahneman, you may recall, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics despite having no degrees in the subject. That freedom from traditional dogma gave him and partner Amos Tversky an open field to develop Prospect Theory – the notion that humans make decisions based on potential losses and gains rather than rational expectations of final outcomes.
A quick example. Would you rather:
Receive $100, no strings attached…
Or flip a coin where heads means you get $0 but tails nets you $250
The expected value of the game is $125, and therefore greater than the $100 sure thing; classical economics says everyone should always take the coin toss. But in real life, many people choose the sure $100 because they anticipate the sense of regret they will feel if they lose the coin toss ("I just walked away from free money…"). Prospect Theory explained in a rigorous way – and for the first time – why humans don't maximize utility at every turn.
Kahneman's TED talk is about a seemingly easy topic in comparison to Nobel Prize winning work: "Happiness". What makes us happy? What should we do to be happier?
As with Prospect Theory, Kahneman's perspective is that human mental processing makes these questions more complex than we realize. His work concludes that we have two "selves" and the dichotomy between them is large:
The experiencing self. Right now your experiencing self is reading this note. After you are done, that same "in the moment" self will likely open another email and read that. Then it might talk to a friend or colleague or watch TV.
The remembering self. This part of your personality sits in the background of your daily existence, creating and refining stories that help you make sense of your life. Unlike your experiencing self, it deeply anchors your perceptions on change, emotion, and (most importantly) on how a given story ends.
In the narrow confines of the "What makes us happy?" question, these two selves are very different.
Your experiencing self wants to be out with family and friends having a good time, however you choose to define that. If a survey taker happened to ask you "Are you happy in this moment?" you would reply with a hearty "Yes." It would be true; the research shows such environments create "Peak happiness" for the experiencing self.
Your remembering self is very different. The analog survey question here is "Are you happy with your life?" That requires you to assess different questions, like "Am I achieving my life goals?" and "am I financially secure?"
Kahneman's work shows just a 50% correlation between respondents who say they are happy "In the moment" and those who are happy "with their lives". The two concepts are both important but are clearly not the same. We make a grave error when we try to conflate them.
As investors, we all try to use our "remembering selves" and limit the impact of the "experiencing self". The latter would sell everything after a few rough days. The former is supposed to be the rational, goal driven self that keeps us to our strategy and vision.
That would work well if the "remembering self" were a robust and consistent partner, but it isn't. Here are three major problems with it:
#1. It is highly selective, and arbitrarily so. I remember exactly where I was during the March 2009 lows, and the Monday morning of the August 2015 flash crash. By contrast, I literally do not remember any individual trading day last year. Why? No volatility means no standout memories. And therefore nothing upon which the remembering self to build a story. I know the S&P 500 was +20% on the year, but only because I have run the numbers.
#2. It is heavily dependent on how stories end. Like most investors and traders who have been in the game for a while, I have a "Do Not Trade" list. These are securities where I have tried to make money over the years and lost every time. Enough bad endings and the "remembering self" convinces you to alter your behavior. Go back to the Great Depression, and a whole swath of Americans swore they would never invest in the stock market again after being wiped out in 1929. Fast-forward to millennials today, and you see some of the same caution.
#3. It sways decision making towards "Anticipated memories". At one point in the TED talk, Kahneman poses a question: when planning a vacation, would you take the same trip if I told you that once completed I would wipe all memory of it from your brain?" If the answer is "No", then you are taking the wrong vacation. Your "remembering self" is trying to hijack your "experiencing self" in that case.
Take the recent market volatility as a case study in these points. Despite a different environment from 2008/2009, it was all too easy to anticipate a memory of another market decline like that one (Point #3). Last year's low volatility environment made the early February swoon seem like a bolt out of a clear blue sky (Point #1). And there was certainly enough market commentary likening the action in volatility ETFs to past derivative-based market meltdowns that the "ending" seemed clear (Point #2).
In the end, we find the best two ways to short-circuit these mental challenges are:
Don't let the highly selective "remembering self" dismiss or delete important "market memories". Jessica's note below about historical market volatility is a good example of how to avoid that pitfall.
Banish the notion that "It's never different this time" from your thought process – it is too powerful a call to elicit "anticipated memories". That's not a free pass to ignore the lessons of history (see the prior point), of course. But recognize that the "remembering self" is essentially lazy and forgets large chunks of time. Unplug it as much as possible, and follow your process.
And, of course, don't forget to let your "experiencing self" out as frequently as you can in your personal life.

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2017 NFL Week 13 Power Rankings
December 5, 2017 by Brad Oremland • Print Story •
Dear readers: I'm preparing my annual Pro Bowl column, which will post tomorrow, so this week's power rankings are abbreviated. We'll begin, as always, with Game Balls and Five Quick Hits. Then you'll get my take on the Giants firing Ben McAdoo and Jerry Reese, followed by a list form of my usual power ratings. The usual column format will return for Week 14; I hope you enjoy this week's edition in the meantime.
Week 13 Game Balls
Offense — Russell Wilson, QB, Seattle Seahawks. Repeatedly bought time and created positive plays, finishing with 3 touchdowns and a 118.6 passer rating in Seattle's upset of the Eagles.
Defense — Xavien Howard, DB, Miami Dolphins. Five passes defensed, 2 interceptions, and a touchdown.
Special Teams — Ryan Switzer, PR, Dallas Cowboys. His 83-yard punt return touchdown put Washington in a huge hole and gave Dallas lasting momentum.
Rookie — Alvin Kamara, RB, New Orleans Saints. Gained 126 yards from scrimmage and scored 2 touchdowns, against a top-10 defense. Kamara has 8 TDs in the last five games, with over 100 YFS each week.
Honorable Mentions — QB Alex Smith, ER Eric Lee, PR Tarik Cohen
Five Quick Hits
* Rob Gronkowski had 9 catches for 147 yards, and a dirty hit on Tre'Davious White. Gronkowski is suspended for next week's game, which is absolutely the appropriate decision.
* Three teams this week gained under 100 net passing yards: the Bears (85), Bills (85), and Packers (77). Other than maybe Curt Menefee, I don't think anyone is calling for Brett Hundley to supplant Aaron Rodgers.
* Matthew Stafford and Tyrod Taylor both left the field on Sunday with worrisome injuries, but both appear to have avoided season-ending damage. Early indications are that Stafford will play in Week 14, with Taylor day-to-day.
* Following a Dallas TD, NFL Network went to commercial at 10:58 pm Eastern on Thursday night. At 11:01, they showed a kickoff for a touchback, then went to commercial again. At 11:04, viewers saw two plays before an injury timeout and another set of commercials. Between 10:58 and 11:08, viewers saw two plays and a dozen ads. That's inexcusable, I think.
* I loved Tony Dungy's dismissal of the Titans as a serious contender: "This is not a Corvette, this is a dump truck." Harsh, but funny.
The Giants Clean House
One week after head coach Ben McAdoo tried to save his job by benching longtime QB Eli Manning, the New York Giants have fired both McAdoo and general manager Jerry Reese.
McAdoo's firing has been inevitable for weeks; the only question was whether he might make it to season's end. I don't disagree with the decision, but I think the team may have acted prematurely in parting with Reese, and I believe criticism of McAdoo has been harsher than his record merits. In 2013, the Giants went 7-9. In 2014 and 2015, they went 6-10. Last year, a lot of things went right and they finished 11-5. For reasons I still can't understand, that led many people to project the Giants as Super Bowl contenders in the 2017 season, and it's the shortfall relative to expectations that really doomed McAdoo and Reese.
In his final 28 games with the Giants, Tom Coughlin went 10-18 (.357). Coaching the same team, with the same key players, McAdoo went 13-15 (.464). That is an improvement. This season has been a disaster, obviously. But with Eli Manning 36 years old and visibly declining, with a running back corps led by Orleans Darkwa and an offensive line that it was Reese's responsibility to rebuild, with Odell Beckham out for the year, with no adequate linebackers on the roster, playing in a tough division and a tough conference and getting a few bad breaks, a 2-10 record is hardly unfathomable.
To me, the argument for firing McAdoo is that — for all the things that have gone wrong, and aren't his fault — he has mismanaged his players. He doesn't seem to have good relationships with them, and some of the Giants' struggles appear to be driven by lack of effort rather than lack of talent. That's a coach's responsibility.
It's not my intention to absolve McAdoo of poor coaching, or to argue that he should have kept his job. But McAdoo took over a bad team — a team that had three straight losing seasons — and the Giants' Super Bowl expectations this season were neither realistic nor fair. Defensive coordinator and former Rams head coach Steve Spagnuolo takes over as the interim coach. That's a sensible choice based on experience, but the Giants rank worst in the NFL in yards allowed, and they have good players on defense. The offense is the side of the ball with a talent deficiency.
That brings us back to Eli Manning. McAdoo's decision to bench Manning appears to have been the impetus for his termination, and it appears likely that Manning will return to the starting lineup for the final four games. I frankly don't understand any strong opinion about the Giants' starting QB over the next month. I guess I don't see the downside to playing Geno Smith, who offers versatility and upside that Eli doesn't at this point in his career. The team is out of the playoff race and has no productive future with Manning, so unless you value a sentimental send-off on a terrible team or you're convinced that Geno is unplayable, I'm not sure what the team gains from reverting to Manning. Smith was adequate on Sunday against the Raiders.
Few people were surprised by the decisions to sack McAdoo and start Eli. I am a little surprised that the team parted with Reese, who had been with the organization since 1994. Reese replaced Ernie Accorsi as general manager in 2007, leading the Giants to a 90-82 record and two Super Bowl victories. Reese was roundly and rightly criticized for failing to address deficiencies in the offensive backfield and line during the offseason, and he deserves some blame for hiring McAdoo (though Giants fans would have revolted if the team let McAdoo leave two years ago). The Giants never traded down in any round of the draft with Reese as GM, which is not an efficient use of resources. But Reese also drafted Odell Beckham in 2014 and Landon Collins in 2015; he signed Damon Harrison, Janoris Jenkins, and Olivier Vernon in 2016. I understand why the team changed directions, and I understand the appeal of a top-to-bottom overhaul, but throwing Reese out with McAdoo strikes me as an overreaction, and something the team might regret a few years from now.
Week Thirteen NFL Power Rankings
Brackets indicate last week's rank.
1. New England Patriots [2]
2. Minnesota Vikings [3]
3. Philadelphia Eagles [1]
4. Pittsburgh Steelers [4]
5. Los Angeles Rams [5]
6. New Orleans Saints [6]
7. Los Angeles Chargers [7]
8. Carolina Panthers [8]
9. Atlanta Falcons [9]
10. Jacksonville Jaguars [10]
11. Baltimore Ravens [13]
12. Seattle Seahawks [14]
13. Detroit Lions [11]
14. Tennessee Titans [15]
15. Cincinnati Bengals [16]
16. Oakland Raiders [19]
17. Washington [12]
18. Green Bay Packers [21]
19. Buffalo Bills [17]
20. Dallas Cowboys [23]
21. Arizona Cardinals [20]
22. Houston Texans [22]
23. New York Jets [25]
24. Tampa Bay Buccaneers [24]
25. Miami Dolphins [27]
26. Kansas City Chiefs [18]
27. San Francisco 49ers [29]
28. Chicago Bears [26]
29. Indianapolis Colts [28]
30. New York Giants [30]
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We basically needed a way to share up-to-date info on the happenings of The Pub Church (TPC) without bombarding folks with too many emails...So here it is, a blog to serve the purpose! This will be the place you can come to and get the "latest"!
For example, here's some of the latest:
At our next gathering of TPC - Saturday, May 3rd at The DougOut - Andrew Prete will be providing the musical inspiration! All I can tell you about him is that I saw him playing in the Orange Line (if I remember correctly - it was a while back!), he was singing one of my favorite songs, The Weight , by The Band, and I immediately thought that it would be awesome if we could have him play at pub church one day - And now he is! Yay :-)
Also, last week at TPC we decided to help out a family who just recently arrived from Cuba. As with most people who leave Cuba, they arrived in this country with nothing more than what they were wearing. So people who were able shared from their resources and this week I mailed off a card to the family with our gift to them. I'll let you all know what I hear back!
Here's a picture, but of course I wrote the card in Spanish.
So, there it is, our blog with the latest! Enjoy and come often!
Update: Andrew Prete's website!


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Today our friend Mark Ledbetter joined us to teach a class on how to effectively market ourselves and grow our business using social media!
We had a good turnout with Andrew from Naples Drone Solutions sponsoring our lunch! If you would like to attend any of our weekly lunch and learns (on Thursdays @ noon) drop Nick a line to RSVP.


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LAFAYETTE – A new law designed to help battle the state's opioid crisis is now on the governor's desk.
Currently, hospice patients' family members are responsible for disposing of their drugs after the patient dies. If signed into law, the legislation by Senator Fred Mills would require hospice providers dispose of said drugs.
The state is providing a new tool for hospice providers to get rid of opioids. "Once you put the opioids in this bag and seal it up, they become household waste," says Mills.
Mills and Attorney General Jeff Landry are hoping these bags will ease the state's opioid crisis by keeping prescription drugs out of the wrong hands. Mallinckrodt, a British pharmaceutical company is donating 30,000 bags for hospice companies to use.
"Free of charge, nurses are going to have an opportunity to take some of the deadliest opioids to hit the street, off the street," Landry said. "And why is that important? Think of this statistic, 60% of opioid addicts start their addiction using someone else's prescription."
The donated bags will provide an opportunity to try them out in the real world (as opposed to a controlled environment). "We will see how it works and if the data comes back and it improves the opioid epidemic then that will be great too," Director of Hospice at Bridgeway Nursing Hollie Carlson said.
The opioid disposal bags are environmentally safe and will keep unwanted drugs away from pets.
"Some people flush, some people mix it with kitty litter and mix water in it but there's always questions about can animals get to that so I think this is definitely a sure fire way to know our medicines are being disposed of properly," Carlson said.
This is just one way of combating the state's drug problem and officials are continuing to explore other methods as well.


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It's very easy to "move past" an atrocity when you're not the group on the receiving end.
American settlers both systematically (via genocide) and passively (via disease) slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Native Americans, about a thousand culturally rich tribes, and over seven hundred languages. That's a millenia of sustained, natural living wiped out in less than a century. And now we argue about how to achieve sustained living? We smugly eradicated it for the system we hold so dear!
Now we're concerned the "Redskins" is too offensive of a name for a professional football team? Why not look at why we named them that in the first place, be honest with ourselves about the origin and status of our thoughts and feelings, then let their culture lead us toward sustainable living? Simply changing a name for politics and sensitivity purposes isn't going to change our future, justify our past, or clean up our human-centric mess.
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There's a mountain of information online about what Downs Syndrome is and how it comes about, so I thought I'd cover the history and changes in society. This is an chapter from the book "This Way Up" (which you can buy as an e-book by clicking here!).
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." – Maria Robinson
Freddie had the good fortune to manage to be born in something of a golden age for people with Downs Syndrome. Well golden age is probably a bit too optimistic as there are still barriers to break down, but compared to a generation ago things are infinitely better. The outlook for people with Downs Syndrome has changed almost beyond recognition. There are of course people with Downs Syndrome in their 40's and older who have had wonderful and fulfilling lives, but not many for a very simple reason; most of them died. Downs Syndrome is associated with a raft of medical complications including heart defects, a higher incidence of infections, thyroid conditions, leukaemia and pneumonia. Without modern medical treatment, many of these conditions proved to be fatal.
It seems that people with Downs Syndrome have always existed; certainly, there's no evidence that they suddenly popped into existence. However, it wasn't until 1866 that the English doctor, John Langdon Down published a description of the condition which is recognised today and subsequently took his name. It took until 1959 for it to occur to Professor Jérome Lejeune that it might be interesting to use recently discovered techniques for counting chromosomes to check the number of chromosomes his Downs Syndrome patients had. He subsequently proved that Downs Syndrome is a chromosomal irregularity and with an extra chromosome on pair 21.
John Langdon Down referred to the children with Downs Syndrome as Mongoloid because he thought their characteristic upward slanting eyes were similar to the eyes the people native to Mongolia. During the last century, the term was increasingly seen as offensive and was generally dropped from use by the early 1970's. This was around the time that opportunities for people with Downs Syndrome started to be transformed by three factors; medical advances, education and the acceptance of inclusion in society. By the 1970's, inspired by the success of civil rights movements for racial and gender equality, people with disabilities became very active in fighting for legal rights. Pressure groups had a significant effect on Government policy and from 1970 a number of new Acts were passed to increase the entitlement of people with disabilities to be included in society.
Advances in medicine have had a profound effect and the subsequent rise in life expectancy is striking. In the 1950s a baby born with Downs Syndrome was considered lucky to live into their teens and had a life expectancy of 12 to 15 years. In the 1960s it was only 18 years. The figure rose sharply in the 1980s as techniques to repair heart defects common in people with Downs Syndrome were perfected and increasingly performed. Nearly 50% of people with Downs Syndrome have a heart condition and many would die, or be severely disabled if the condition wasn't treated. In the 1950s many of the conditions simply couldn't be treated. The repairs required open heart surgery and techniques which have only been practiced in recent years. Sadly people with Downs Syndrome have also faced prejudice and discrimination and have been denied life saving treatment on account of their disabilities. It would be good to be able to report that this is in the distant past, but a survey by the Downs Syndrome Association in 1998 uncovered a shocking level of ignorance and prejudice amongst health professionals. Today life expectancy is 50 to 60 years on average and most studies conclude that they don't really know what will limit the life expectancy of those born today who survive infancy and receive appropriate medical care.
This was all powerfully brought home to me one day in a shopping centre when Freddie was a baby. I was having lunch in a huge Mall restaurant area, absentmindedly shovelling food from a jar into Freddie, who was sitting in a high chair grinning at all the passers by. As I was feeding him, I started to get the uncanny sense that we were being stared at. At that stage I was still quite sensitive to Freddie's appearance and felt very uncomfortable when I thought people were staring. I looked at all the people sitting around trying to work out who it was that was disrupting our lunch. An elderly lady caught my eye, smiled and came over. "Oh, I hope you don't mind me looking" she said looking at Freddie, "but I used to have one of those". I didn't know what to say – Freddie? "one of those?" but something in the way she was looking at him stopped me launching into a lecture about correct terminology. "Mine was called Katy" she said wistfully.
She paused for a short time and held Freddie's hand while he looked at her solemnly. "I think it's so wonderful that you can take him out, I could never take Katy out" and she started to tell me Katy's story.
The lady was at least 70 so Katy had probably been born in the 1950s and was her first child. No one told her that she was a Mongol (her words) at first, and when they did, it was when they came to take her away to send her to an institution. She'd refused to let her go and her family had been horrified. She and her husband brought her home and everyone told them they were making a huge mistake. She had a friend who had a baby at the same time, but the friend would never let the children play together because she was frightened that her daughter might catch "it". She couldn't go to any coffee mornings or toddler groups for the same reason. When she took Katy out for a walk in a pram she would cover her up. Katy never went to school. She stayed at home all day, every day until she was 12; when she died. "You are so lucky; I'm so pleased to have met you. Thank you" she said smiling, picking up her bags and walking off out of our lives. My coffee went cold and I never finished the sandwich.
Having a longer life expectancy was great on the one hand, but could have been more of a burden than a blessing without two further upheavals. One was the move to include people with disabilities in society and the other was education.
If I had left hospital with Freddie in 1968, the year I was born, I would have left holding a piece of paper officially deeming him "uneducable". Even my spell checker doesn't recognise it as a real word, but that's how it would have been written on the form. From that point on he would have had no right to an education and it would have pretty much been left entirely to us as a family to do what we could for him. He almost certainly wouldn't have gone to a mainstream school and probably would not have had any education at all. There would have been two options; to send him to an institution, or stay trapped together at home with no escape and no help. It seems almost unbelievable that it wasn't until the 1971 Education Act that it was decided that no one was "uneducable" and children with Downs Syndrome started to be entitled to any education at all. At that time people with learning difficulties were categorised as "educationally subnormal – medium" or "educationally subnormal – severe" and sent off to an appropriate special school. In 1981 parents were for the first time given the opportunity to send their child to a local mainstream school, but it was unusual, there was little specialist teaching and schools were given little help.
Astonishingly, it wasn't until 1995, shortly before Freddie was born, that the Disability Discrimination Act entitled children with Downs Syndrome to attend their local mainstream school and not until 2001 that the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act put in place a framework that would actually give the system a chance of working.
That's a lot of change in a very short time.
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About MDRC
Schaberg joined MDRC in 2012 and is a quantitative researcher in the Low Wage Workers and Communities policy area. She is on the data teams of several workforce development projects, including WorkAdvance and the evaluation of the TechHire and Supporting Working Families Initiative grant programs. She is also the lead programmer on the Subprime Lending Data Exploration project, which is using "big data" to examine the patterns of and needs for subprime loans, and on a project focused on microlending in the United States. Across these projects, Schaberg's responsibilities include data acquisition and processing, impact analyses, and report writing. Schaberg holds an MS in urban policy analysis and management from Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at the New School and a BA in English from Miami University.
MDRC PublicationsBrief
Three-Year Impacts from the WorkAdvance DemonstrationSeptember, 2017
WorkAdvance offers training and placement services to help prepare individuals for quality jobs in sectors that have strong local demand and advancement opportunities. In this update on employment and earnings only, the most experienced provider continued to produce substantial impacts on both; one other provider increased earnings for late enrollees.Report
Two-Year Impacts from the WorkAdvance DemonstrationAugust, 2016
WorkAdvance provides demand-driven skills training and a focus on jobs with career pathways. As detailed in this full report, all four programs studied greatly increased training completion and credential acquisition. Employment outcomes varied by site, with large, consistent impacts at the most experienced provider and promising results at two others.Report
A Preview Summary of Two-Year Impacts from the WorkAdvance DemonstrationJune, 2016
WorkAdvance provides demand-driven skills training and a focus on jobs with career pathways. This preview summary finds that all four programs studied greatly increased training completion and credential acquisition. Employment outcomes varied by site, with large, consistent impacts at the most experienced provider and promising results at two others.Report
Who Uses Them and Why?June, 2016
Funded by MetLife Foundation, this paper uses a large and unusual data set, combining administrative data provided by subprime lenders with survey and in-depth interview data, to gain a better understanding of the backgrounds, experiences, and needs of people who use online subprime small-dollar credit.Report
Implementation of a Sector-Focused Career Advancement Model for Low-Skilled AdultsOctober, 2014
The WorkAdvance program model aims to prepare individuals for good jobs in high-demand industries and to increase their prospects for staying employed and moving up. Participants receive career readiness and occupational skills training, job placement, and advancement coaching. This report looks at how four providers translated the model into workable programs.
Other Publications
ProjectsGayle Hamilton, Barbara S. Goldman, Frieda Molina, Donna Wharton-Fields, Stephen Freedman, Richard Hendra, David Navarro, Alexandra Pennington, Susan Scrivener, Betsy L. Tessler, Jonathan Bigelow, Keith Olejniczak, Kelsey Schaberg
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — formerly the food stamp program —is a critical work support for low-income people and families.
Payday loans are short-term loans geared toward working-class and lower middle-class households that possess access to bank accounts and can prove sustained employment. People may use them and other alternative credit instruments to deal with unexpected expenses or simply to make ends meet between paychecks.Frieda Molina, Barbara S. Goldman, Richard Hendra, Betsy L. Tessler, Gayle Hamilton, Alexandra Pennington, Keith Olejniczak, Kelsey Schaberg
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Audio Blogging With Your Phone
I tried mobile blogging via sms text, and it can be quite frustrating. Thankfully, you can now post mp3 audio blogs with the help of your phone!
AudioBlogger allows you to call a phone number in the U.S., speak and have your voice recorded into an MP3 file, and then automatically post an entry on your blog (assuming it's hosted at Blogger.com) with a link to the MP3 file (hosted at the Audioblogger servers).
Imagine, you can blog just by using your voice and your phone. No need to be in front of a computer and keyboard!
If you use other blogging tools like MovableType or Typepad, or if you want the MP3 recording delivered to your email, you can also try AudBlog.
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Contest to Celebrate 100th Post (and because it's almost Christmas)
Enter to win unique jewelry and other special goodies from Lulu McCleary
Maybe something from the online store, or maybe something specially made, plus extra vampire treats!
Perfect for a gift for yourself or a friend!
To enter:
Leave a note or email me what's something you like about this blog or something you would like to see on here.
Deadline December 19th at 8:00am
Winners will be choosen at random
10 comments:
- Wicked said...
Honestly, I love your blog. All of it. Going back through the archives were great fun, and the only thing I would possibly want to see.. is just more! I enjoy your posts because we have roughly the same likes and dislikes when it comes to vampire novels. So I would love to see more. Plain and simple.
- December 11, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Jackie Ballway said...
Those necklaces are absolutely beautiful!
- December 11, 2008 at 8:05 PM
- Lori T said...
Congrats on the 100th post!!!
That is beautiful jewelry. I enjoy visiting your site daily to just read the reviews or the information that you have listed. I may be a lurker, but I do stop by daily.
Again, congrats on the 100th post.
- December 11, 2008 at 8:12 PM
- Carmen R said...
I love the fact that you have music on your page that I can listen to while reading the new post.
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- December 11, 2008 at 8:49 PM
- HylianVampire said...
Congratulations! 100 posts is awesome. I enjoy reading your blog. It's interesting to learn about the different vampire-related things of today, and sometimes compare them. Vampires are just neat, and deep down, everyone likes them: their immortality, the romance, the power. I can't think of anything i'd want to see on your blog, but if i think of something, i'll let you know. The jewlery is so pretty!
- December 12, 2008 at 12:52 PM
- Dracenea said...
I just started visiting your page a couple weeks ago and so far, it's great. I check every day to see if there is anything new. We have some of the same taste in music so it's nice to come here and listen to some good tunes while catching up. Keep up the great work!
- December 12, 2008 at 6:08 PM
- Shooting Stars Mag said...
Well, I just kind of came across your blog...so I don't know if I can enter or not, but I'll still leave a note.
I love vampires and am trying to read more books dealing with them, so this is awesome! I love the music you have playing on the side as well. I'm such a music fan!
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
- December 12, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- cfisher said...
Congrats on your 100th post!!! I love your blog.
- December 16, 2008 at 4:13 AM
- Lexie said...
I just started reading your blog as well (I just finished the Jennifer Rardin interview actually), but I like the music on the side. Its different from my own tastes (which leans more towards Japanese Pop and Yoko Kanno), but its already given me some choices for when I read vampire novels ('cause let's face it listening to Maaya Sakamoto while reading Anita Blake? Just a tad bit...off).
And I like the fact you have BPAL listed on the sidebar. Can I tell you how much love that site needs? Beth and Co. make such fabulous products! Have you thought of highlighting your favorites or ones you think match with certain characters?
- December 17, 2008 at 5:44 PM
- donnas said...
Congrats on your 100th post. I just found this blog and already love it. The reviews and interviews are great. I am always looking for new input in finding new authors esp in the paranormal genre.
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Registration NOW OPEN become a 2019 Houston County Women Build Team Member
06/27/2018 - HHJ - Houston County Habitat for Humanity receives house sponsorship
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There is not a shortage of scammers who would like to cheat others for money. Blackmailing, money laundry, Online scamming, cyber-extortion and there are many ways for the scammer to cheat others. Now scammers have also learnt to use the technology in their favor, as you may know, that Mr IlanTzorya has involvement in the online frauds and scams.
What is considered extortion?
It is a criminal offence, in which a scammer uses illegal ways of obtaining money through blackmailing, threats, cheating, coercion etc. Online extortion has become quite common these days, as scammers use emails to threaten victims and ask for ransom amount in the form of crypto-currency.
What to do if you are getting extorted?
If you have ever been in a situation, where someone has tried to send you threat messages or blackmailing you for ransom or if your system is hacked with a ransom-ware, which is having important data. Then you should call the cyber cops to investigate the whole situation.
Here are the stops which you should follow for reporting extortion crime against you:
- Collect all the documentation, which shows that someone is trying to blackmail you.
- Report about your problem to the local authorities. By doing so, it will be easier for you to file a complaint against the scammer.
- In case, if you are afraid that someone is misusing your data by hacking your computer, then you ask for the help of cyber police also. As they can be able to track the misdoing of the scammer.
How to deal with a scammer?
Giving the ransom is not a solution, it is better to take help from the law. You should also consult your Internet provider that is there any outsider you tried to hack your system. By doing so, you might be able to get a hint about the real scammer.
How can you avoid extortion?
Here are shown a few steps using which you can be able to protect yourself from extortion:
- Use antivirus softwares, to safeguard your computer. While you should browse online using firewall protection on your system.
- There are some personal things which you should not share with anyone. As there is also a chance that someone else can be able to hack the data from the device of that person.
- Be aware of the mails which may contain ransom-ware and threat messages.
If you are following the above shown practices, then it will never be easy for scammers to exploit you. While you need to be careful while dealing with such scammers.


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Tag Archive: Red
RED's graphic novel The Ever, which ties into the storyline behind their last album Of Beauty & Rage, is now available online and at shows.
The graphic novel was a part of the band's PledgeMusic campaign for Of Beauty & Rage, which released in February 2015. As part of their pledge rewards, some fans were actually drawn into the graphic novel, which made the creative process to complete the project lengthy. The band has shared some images from the final product on their facebook page.
"Inspired by the mysterious and epic storyline that has been running through the band's musical and video content over the past decade, platinum-selling rock band RED has co-written the graphic novel entitled The Ever with their producer, Rob Graves," the band shares in their official description of the book. "The graphic novel follows and precedes the action-filled and self-reflective journey RED has created for their fans and inspired songs on their latest album, of Beauty and Rage. The Ever depicts RED as they encounter the darkness that we all face, follows their tumultuous path through, and ends with a surprising twist."
You can purchase the graphic novel online through RED's official merch store. You can also find it at their merch table as they continue to tour across the country with WinterJam through April.
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There's nothing quite like a tender, bromantic moment to warm the cockles of your heart. Especially when it's a legend squeezing his younger opponent. Man Hugs were a touch thin on the ground this week. But that's ok, we were treated to a really special one at Night of Champions.
Christian had just recaptured the ECW title and was offered the hand of Tommy Dreamer to close the match. But, oh no, Christian doesn't do cordial handshakes. He does great, big "I LOVE YOU, MAAAAAAN! hugs.
Feeling chilly? Puts your hands out in front of your monitor and feel the warmth oozing out of this……………………………


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InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Economic observer from Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (INDEF), Bhima Yudistira Adhinegara, said, palm oil industries nationally have four superiorities for the economy in Indonesia. The first is, palm oil plantation could hire up to 8,2 millionmen–about more than 4 millionsmallholders involve in it, and more than 13 millionare indirect workers.
The second, based on some international study, the income of the people out of Java island working in palm oil plantation sector is four times higher than the poverty. The third, palm oil could increase the work of manufacture sector, namely to increase the food and drink industries reaching 9,23% in 2017.
The fourth for sure, palm oil is the biggest exchange provider in Indonesia. He continued, the exchange in 2017 reached Rp 300 billion. "The portion of palm oil export to the total non oil and gas export reached 15,1%," he said in a discussion that Forum Wartawan Pertanian did andInfoSAWIT also attended, Wednesday, (7/3/2018) in Jakarta.
He also mentioned, having such superiorities to support the economy and exports, the government should rely on palm oil to help the target of export progress reaching 11% in 2018.
But palm oil is not full of innovation. He thought, in 2017, according to Global Innovation Index, Indonesia was in the 87th rank, while according toGlobal Competitiveness Index, Indonesia was in the 36th rank. It means, he continued, it needs many innovations to increase palm oil competitiveness.
In addition for now, it is hard to get the area to develop palm oil plantation in many regions in Indonesia. "Palm oil industries could support the target of Joko Widodo era to increase the exports and the economy nationally if the commodity gets facility to do business and it is not burdened by the contra-productive regulations," he said. (T2)


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TurboCASH .7 comes complete with an integrated Point-of-Sale invoicing system. It allows the user to connect a cash till and barcode scanner directly to the accounting system. It is aimed at users that sell to end users and want to produce invoices or till slips quickly.
The aim is to keep the system as simple as possible, so TurboCASH deals only with finished goods. More complex systems are planned with plugins such as serial tracking and product assemblies.
The Point-of-Sale interface is extremely simple to use and allows quick entry of transactions.
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For myself, I got the cream pigment in 'Androgen' and the cream blusher in 'Seduce', mostly to quiet that inner voice telling me it is a good deal. Surprisingly given the height of postal traffic nearing Eid, my order arrived very quickly. This review is for Androgen.
Below is a comparison with Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge 'Calypso Coral' (an old version when it was still in the pot). Obviously they are quite different, with Calypso Coral being redder and with a dewy finish. Incidentally, my Calypso Coral is probably more than four years old, and it's holding up quite well. I don't use it often, but periodically I wipe off the top layer and drench it in alcohol for a few seconds. i do this randomly to all my cream blushes and old(er) lipsticks, to extend their life a bit. The ideal solution, of course, is to have a dedicated makeup fridge.
Left: Bobbi Brown 'Calypso Coral'; Right: Illamasqua 'Androgen'
Left: Bobbi Brown 'Calypso Coral'; Right: Illamasqua 'Androgen'
Androgen is quite a lovely orange-y coral. It is solid to the touch, creamy upon swipe of a finger, easily blended and dries quite matte. Its lasting power on my oily skin is quite good with primer.
I also quite like it on the lips; there is a mod feel to the color. Androgen is also lovely layered under gloss. I haven't tried it on the eyelids, but I think this would be a good base for peach, lighter browns, and orange eyeshadows. Will need to try that soon.
When I bought it, Androgen was priced at £10. Now it's down to £7.50. For such a fun and versatile product, I think it's one of the best values you can find in Illamasqua's current summer sale.


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[1]Will Gosling, New York, 2013
[2] – Dale Frank, 2014


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Nigel Watson speaks to ITM about SDL's position as a leader in global customer experience and translation and provides readers with his top translation tips.
Introduce us to the company and what makes SDL a leader in global customer experience and translation?
Exceptional customer experiences means delivering the right information, in the right context, at the right time to customers. Organisations are faced with the increased challenge of meeting growing consumer expectations and delivering a superior, relevant experience.
The explosion of digital content and channels, and the way people gain knowledge and make decisions is forcing companies to change significantly and language is increasingly being recognised in importance throughout the customer experience journey.
With over two decades in the localisation and customer experience space, SDL supports businesses by helping them to meet customers' needs and deliver a relevant product and brand experience. It's by using our technology and services that enable companies to deliver great experiences across channels, devices and languages.
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To this end, SDL has put in place, at all levels of the organisation, the people and technologies that allow us as a company to ensure we know our customers' needs and challenges. This encompasses account management; dedicated teams working in industry verticals; use of an external annual customer survey; sponsoring and attendance at industry conferences / customer success events; use of SDL's own technologies e.g. Customer Journey Analytics to understand what the market thinks.
It is for these reasons that 79 of the top 100 global companies trust SDL to help them create authentic customer experiences in any language.
Why is an effective translation solution essential to businesses looking to grow internationally?
Regardless of your business, success on an international level requires you to engage prospects and customers in the right language at the right time.
Research conducted by the Common Sense Advisory, shows that 20 languages are required to reach 80% of the global online population. I suppose it's no surprise that when given the choice, consumers today will choose products and services from companies who speak in their language and abandon those who don't.
However, for most companies, language is an afterthought. Recent research from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows us that 64% of executives say language barriers make it difficult to gain a competitive foothold in international markets. Further to that, 49% say that a language barrier has stood in the way of a major international business deal.
So, it's safe to say localisation and communicating in a consistent voice are important topics for all companies aiming to expand beyond their current domestic market. Regardless of country or language, customers require product or service information to be delivered in the right language, across many channels, so that their purchase decision is well informed and contains a level of purchase reassurance.
Without relevant and localised communication, as the research shows, expansion into new markets could be an uphill struggle for growing businesses.
Why should companies choose to work with SDL as a Language Service Provider – how much experience does SDL have, which new technologies are you making use of?
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It's why, as we mentioned previously, 79 of the top 100 global companies trust SDL to support them in their customer experience and localisation journey.
At SDL, we pride ourselves on our network and infrastructure of in-house, in-country, industry trained translators and linguists providing our translation services. This means more control in translation quality, with native speakers who provide a higher level of linguistic expertise in their own native languages. Keeping translation in-house also provides us with a full audit trail and the ability to strictly monitor quality and ensure that the linguists assigned to a project have the relevant experience and industry expertise to provide the best quality translations.
As well as this, as we continue helping businesses drive growth, manage their brands and increase global revenues, SDL is focused on providing innovative solutions for managing language and global customer experience requirements.
Some key up-and-coming highlights include:
XMT: SDL's next generation Machine Translation (MT) offers higher-quality translation through Language Learning with advanced algorithms and enhanced post-editing. In other words, the MT engine learns and improves during the translation process. With SDL's next generation MT engines, we can see up to a 63% improvement in social and informal language translation.
Customer Journey Analytics: SDL Customer Journey Analytics provides business decision makers with market knowledge to enable them to raise awareness, convert shoppers into customers and customers into advocates. SDL's SaaS-based social insight technology paired with professional services provides a holistic, actionable, fully contextual view of the customer. SDL is able to accurately extract topics and themes that due to data volume are unrealistic for human analysis.
SDL Translation Management Systems – Both SDL WorldServer and SDL TMS are leading technologies in the translation management space. Each product has supported localisation workflows and linguistic functionality for over a decade. The fact that both SDL translation management systems are ISO 27001 certified is particularly important for companies that deal with personally identifiable information and/or confidential intellectual property.
Tell us more about SDL Language Cloud
The concept of SDL Language Cloud and Managed Translation is very simple: Provide companies with easy access to translation options for a variety of content needs, summarised in a simple, easy-to-use dashboard. With access to multiple translation options, companies can quickly achieve the required quality for any type of multilingual communication, at the right cost.
I think the great thing about SDL Language Cloud Managed Translation is access to first-class translation technology as well as in-house, in-country, industry trained translation services; the benefit of which we highlighted earlier – the importance this provides in controlling translation quality.
As well as the assurance of great quality translation, in a simple platform, there are no upfront costs or investment in using SDL's Language Cloud Managed Translation, the solution offers a transparent, fixed price per word per language for each translation type (machine translation, post-edited translation or professional translation) and the platform is free to access.
I think what's also important, that our current Language Cloud customer base really appreciate, is the access to full spectrum of translation options: human, machine and specialist machine translation, allowing greater flexibility on pricing and the quantity of content that can be translated. It means that companies of any size – regardless of the scale of their translation needs – can access SDL's first-class translation technology & services without a capital investment.
What are your top translation tips for our readers?
1. Categorise your content
Categorising your content and its value to the business is a good way of ensuring you can translate all of your content within budget and time constraints. Choose the best translation method for your content based on its value within the customer journey. Take into consideration its worth to customers, its shelf life, how it is used and even the brand impact.
2. Consider all channels
Have you considered how you will manage translating content over more than just traditional channels? E.g. SEO, Mobile and Video. There is more than just quality translation to consider here: word length – words contracting/expanding and choosing appropriate, relevant search engines for different international markets are just some of the areas to consider here.
3. Standardise your terminology
Managing terminology supports every part of the business that uses a non-native language, as well as all those who use corporate language as part of their work. By defining a concept and assigning one allowed term per language to it, a company can make sure that everybody involved in the communication process is clear and consistent – the beginning of any good translation strategy.
4. Incorporate different translation methods into your strategy
The more you utilise the different translation options (human, machine, post-editing), the more content you can affordably translate at a suitable service level. Many organisations consider only one translation option (human) but access to multiple levels of human translation and real-time machine translation will satisfy a range of quality needs – at affordable prices.
5. Invest in an LSP (Language Service Provider)
Delivering a culturally relevant and personalised experience to international customers relies on your ability to speak their language. You need a reliable service provider who has the scalability and experience to support your industry and the types of content you're producing. SDL has been working in the localisation space for over 20 year with over 1,500 enterprise customers and 400 partners who rely on us every day. With a global infrastructure of 70 offices in 38 countries, as well as 1000+ team of native translators and linguists, we help businesses connect with their customers in the right language, at the right time.
About Nigel Watson
With over 18 years of experience in the localisation industry, Nigel leads a consulting team advising and supporting customers with their strategies for international expansion. Nigel's extensive knowledge in latest localisation software, services, processes and integration has been instrumental in choosing the most effective language solutions for our customers.


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