text: Free Research in Brief | June 01, 2010Pediatric Practice: New Research and Online Resources Author Notes © 2010 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Article Information Hearing Disorders / Swallowing, Dysphagia & Feeding Disorders / Special Populations / Genetic & Congenital Disorders / Early Identification & Intervention / Telepractice & Computer-Based Approaches / Research in Brief Research in Brief | June 01, 2010 Pediatric Practice: New Research and Online Resources The ASHA Leader, June 2010, Vol. 15, 20-21. doi:10.1044/leader.RIB.15072010.20 The ASHA Leader, June 2010, Vol. 15, 20-21. doi:10.1044/leader.RIB.15072010.20 View Article Figures Tables Supplemental Data Supplements Multimedia Share Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Tools Get Citation Citation Pediatric Practice: New Research and Online Resources. The ASHA Leader, 15(7), 20-21. doi: 10.1044/leader.RIB.15072010.20. 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Correlation analyses were conducted between scores for seven word-based predictor variables and percent-intelligible scores derived from listener judgments of stimulus sentences. Six of seven predictor variables were significantly correlated with percent-intelligible scores. However, no single predictor variable or multi-variable model accounted for more than 25% of the variability in intelligibility scores. These findings confirm the importance of assessing connected speech intelligibility directly. The study appears in "Papers in Press" of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (search "word articulation scores"). Early TV Exposure Lowers Child's Well-being According to a study published in the May 4 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, preschool children who experience excessive television exposure may attain lower levels of overall well-being later in childhood. Researchers collected data from 1,314 children and parent reports of weekly hours of television at 29 and 53 months of age. For each additional hour of television exposure at 29 months old, researchers found that a 10-year-old child had 7% and 6% unit decreases in classroom engagement and math achievement, respectively; a 10% unit increase in victimization by classmates; a 13% unit decrease in time spent doing weekend physical activity; and a 9% unit decrease in pursuing activities involving physical effort. These children also were 9% to 10% more likely to consume soft drinks and unhealthy snacks and had a 5% increase in body mass index. Brain Differences in Fragile X The brains of young children with Fragile X syndrome (the most common known cause of inherited intellectual disability and autism) are anatomically different from the brains of children without the condition. Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill used high-resolution MRI to obtain detailed brain images of 69 boys from 1 to 3 years of age, including 21 with Fragile X syndrome, 41 without, and seven with developmental delays not related to Fragile X. The children were followed up two years later with another imaging session. The results demonstrated that although the children with Fragile X had similar brain scans during the first imaging session, they developed an overabundance of gray matter in the caudate and thalamus regions of the brain and the vermis part of the cerebellum showed diminished gray matter at the second imaging session. For more information, visit Stanford University's Web site. 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The children were tested with the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS), a widely used tool to assess language comprehension and expression. An average OWLS score is 100; hearing loss in one ear caused about a 10-point drop in scores. The strongest effect from hearing loss in one ear was found in children living below the poverty level or with mothers who have little education. The researchers say that the study results should raise awareness among parents, educators, and pediatricians who assume that having hearing in one ear means children won't need additional assistance. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, appears in the June issue of Pediatrics. 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Such clear thinking and elucidation around concurrency!
I'm all about intellectual curiosity. What are you curious about?
Such clear thinking and elucidation around concurrency!
Because of constant badgering from loyal isbn.net.in users (Navdeep, Chinmay, Hari, Sandip, Vidyaraj, Kartik, Vivek, Arjun, Leo, Ravi and others), I finally had to dedicate a weekend to fixing up isbn.net.in. However, instead of just fixing up the old code base, I rewrote it to use Compojure instead of the deprecated Noir library, and along the way, I re-did some of the code design to make it more flexible for editing and debugging.
I can't believe people still use the site 3 years after I wrote the first version and put it up, especially with so many comparison shopping sites for India announced in these 3 years which are more functional and cover more categories. But, hey, can't argue with those users :)
Caveats: It's still a work-in-progress, the JSON API, etc. are still not present in this version and more ecommerce stores have to be added, will work on those going forward. And I can use the help if anybody has time, it's open-sourced at https://github.com/swaroopch/isbnnetinclj2.
We have "database APIs" such as abstraction layers over multiple SQL databases and ORMs. But why not take it to the next step and make it a REST API like any other network call that we can make?
Advantages would be:
Did we just sort-of reinvent Datomic?
Of course, this is not a new idea at all, take restSQL as an example – my question is why is this not talked about more often?
Do most frameworks support this? If not, why not? If so, why don't most frameworks don't talk about such a use case in their documentation? If I use Django, I'll start writing the models and use South to create migrations, and that's that. If I have to reuse those model, from say, Java, then you're on your own. The point is that, by default, Django (or Rails) doesn't encourage you to do such a thing. If you go for a lighter framework such as Flask, then this becomes easier because the ORM is anyway not part of the framework.
Is this concept felt needed only in a polyglot case (multiple database systems, multiple programming languages)?
P.S. Also read Stevey's Google Platforms rant.
Update on [2013-04-28 Sun]: Also see the very useful tech talk Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API.
Recently the Obama re-election campaign employed similar population-wide behavioral analytics to micro-target voters to ensure his re-election. There is no reason why we in India must not look to technology to devise ingenious methods for near real time data collection and population-wide analytics of social performance. This will not only help micro-target and localise welfare Interventions by local Governments (as opposed to centralised schemes) but it will also shift the focus away from agenda-driven politicking based on lagging indicators and towards a debate on actionable interventions that can make a difference here and now.
I love this idea in this article in Niti Central on how we can leverage technology for social welfare.
The bit about Obama's re-election campaign is best read about in this article called The nerds go marching in, although I still haven't been able to find specifics about the tools that they built.
P.S. Also see Wikipedia article on Microtargeting.
A HBR article titled Smartphones, Silly Users perfectly describes why I have moved my personal information management system away from apps that sync across desktop and mobile:
Till this month, I was obsessed with syncing everything across my desktop and mobile. The problem was that I became obsessed with the mobile phone unnecessarily and once you're using the phone, Point no. 3 kicks in – the infinite notification loop swallows a lot of time and attention.
Once I shifted my system to laptop-only, I don't have all my tasks and calendar at hand, I'm forced to remember things (see point 1 above), and strangely, I'm more likely to remember things to pick up from the grocery store now than I was likely to remember to check my mobile phone app for things to buy when I was near a grocery store!
The most important thing is that notes and todos are in the same place, for example, if I'm on a call, I can take notes and then I can keep referring back to those notes while creating todos and working on tasks. The tasks come out of notes, they're not separate! It really helps to have one system that can handle and encourage the normal flow instead of being forced to use separate notes and tasks apps.
Today, I'm all OrgMode. Again.
Recently, I finished reading the latest "early access" version of the Big Data Book by Nathan Marz.
Let's look up Wikipedia:
In information technology, big data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, analysis, and visualization.
So, Big Data is relevant for any technical and business person whose company deals with lots of information and wants to make use of it. For example, Gmail search, etc.
The book has been a fascinating and engaging learning for me because of two reasons:
First, it has a strong and simple "first principles" approach to an architecture and scalability problem, as opposed to the confusing (to me) and mushrooming complexity and treating Hadoop as a panacea in the Big Data world.
Second, Nathan Marz was one of the only 3 engineers who made the BackType search engine (the company was acq-hired by Twitter):
BackType captures online conversations, everything from tweets to blog comments to checkins and Facebook interactions. Its business is aimed at helping marketers and others understand those conversations by measuring them in a lot of ways, which means processing a massive amount of data.
To give you an idea of the scale of its task, it has about 25 terabytes of compressed binary data on its servers, holding over 100 billion individual records. Its API serves 400 requests per second on average, and it has 60 EC2 servers around at all times, scaling up to 150 for peak loads.
It has pulled this off with only seed funding and just three employees: Christopher Golda, Michael Montano and Nathan Marz. They're all engineers, so there's not even any sysadmins to take some of the load.
Note: BackType's (now open sourced) real time data processing engine Storm powers Twitter's analytics product and real-time trends among other things.
When my wife was editing my books, she used Mou.app for live preview of the text so that she knows what the output is going to be like. The caveat was that Mou.app does plain Markdown and not Pandoc format which would mean the preview would be screwed up whenever there was a code block, etc., so, today morning, I hacked up an app called "Kalam" which does exactly that – live preview for Pandoc text.
Update: There's also AppJS which is the same concept as node-webkit but looks more polished (via @aravindavk)
I'm astounded on how popular Whatsapp (messaging app for phones) really is:
I could go on and on, the point remains that the pervasiveness of it still surprises me. And it surprises many of my peers who grew up with email, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, etc.
So I was imagining what could be the reasons that Whatsapp is so popular, and here are some wild guesses:
These are just my rough line of thought about this whole thing and I just wanted to write it down because many of my friends have asked the same question.
What are your thoughts?
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a wiki" Now they have no idea how many problems are there.
The above quote summarizes my experience in the past years in having converted A Byte of Python book into a wiki. I was hoping to make it much easier for readers to make corrections and contributions to the book. The only thing it enabled is tons of spam.
The second issue was that lots of readers kept emailing me to ask about ebook and kindle versions of the book which I could not do because it was stuck in a wiki format.
The solution was obvious – Pandoc, but it just seemed too daunting a task to do and hence I delayed it for years. It has been done now, thanks to my wife who did the conversion from the earlier Mediawiki syntax.
I also wrote a small Fabric file to update the websites in a single command invocation – so now I can edit the book and by running one command, it will update the book chapters pages on the WordPress site as well as generate and update the PDF and EPUB files stored in AWS S3.
I have also made a few quick changes to the text:
nonlocal, metaclasses,
exec and
eval, etc.
I haven't done an exhaustive review of the text yet, because frankly, that is draining, but I hope this is the start of me responding to readers' suggestions on how to improve the book.
Enjoy the new EPUB and PDF formats. The sources are at http://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python. Kindle edition, etc. coming soon.
I once happened to attend a RubyConfIndia talk by C42's Steven Deobald who said:
data > functions > macros > compilers
That kind of stuck in my head even though I didn't know what it meant at that time. I understood it only after learning Clojure and "The Clojure / Lisp way". I realized it when I was writing Python code for work, and I suddenly noticed I was writing code differently and I had one of those good aha moments that is supposedly the start of a person's Lisp journey.
I'm now amused at how often I break down my Python or Java code into lots of little functions instead of the 100-liner functions that I used to write before and am still surprised that I never realized I was writing them! The good thing about the "lots of little functions" is the modularity and the ease with which I can write, read, understand and importantly test the code without having to build an object hierarchy first.
For example, my code has now suddenly started looking like this, where data structure is explicitly written down and the processing code is separate from it – this makes the code really reusable. It is a contrast to my earlier programming style where I would've probably had the data structure implicit in the parsing code (which makes it less maintainable) or worse, had classes and objects to do the same and it would certainly have not been so reusable! Think of a typical Java programming workflow where I would have had to create a class to represent the data input and passed that to a processor class instance and so on.
# http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.html import xlrd DATA_SHEET_NUMBER = 0 START_ROW = 3 # skip headings # Explicit structure of the data COLUMN_MAPPING = { 'name' : 0, 'class' : 1, 'maths' : 2, 'geography' : 3, 'english' : 4, } def row_to_dict(sheet, row_number): assert isinstance(sheet, xlrd.sheet.Sheet) assert isinstance(row_number, int) and row_number > 0 and row_number < sheet.nrows # Code that will work with changing structure return dict([(key, sheet.cell_value(rowx=row_number, colx=COLUMN_MAPPING[key])) for key in COLUMN_MAPPING.keys()]) def import_excel(content): book = xlrd.open_workbook(file_contents=content) sheet = book.sheet_by_index(DATA_SHEET_NUMBER) # Code that will work with different spreadsheet formats sheet_data = [row_to_dict(sheet, row_number) for row_number in range(START_ROW, sheet.nrows)] sheet_data = [data for data in sheet_data if len(data['name']) > 0] # Ignore empty rows return sheet_data if __name__ == '__main__': from pprint import pprint pprint( import_excel(open('test.xls', 'rb').read()) )
To be clear, Python was a good first step, what changed was the mindset after attempting to learn a Lisp language. As Peter Norvig once said:
Basically, Python can be seen as a dialect of Lisp with "traditional" syntax (what Lisp people call "infix" or "m-lisp" syntax). One message on comp.lang.python said "I never understood why LISP was a good idea until I started playing with python." Python supports all of Lisp's essential features except macros, and you don't miss macros all that much because it does have eval, and operator overloading, and regular expression parsing, so some–but not all–of the use cases for macros are covered.
A good friend of mine once said that Python is more popular because it is more approachable by traditional programmers and hence a more "social" programming language, whereas Lisp is a powerful language but not for everyone. That is explained in detail in the Lisp Curse essay.
So first good thing about Clojure is that it is a Lisp. Second is that it runs on the JVM which has solid performance, sometimes 20x better if you use it right. Third is solid Java interoperability. This was important to me because as a consultant, Java is unavoidable and I've written more Java code this year than I ever have. And using a good dynamic language on top of JVM with good Java interoperability is a path to making my work go faster. At least, that was how I got started. After all, your code will end up reflecting your company.
The downside I felt when I was grokking Clojure is that syntax is not simple even though that is the claim of traditional Lisps, for example #"" is regex, #{} is a set, #_() elides the form (compiler checks the code but acts as if it was commented out), #() is an anonymous function, #' derefs to vars, and so on.
Here is a quick idea about Clojure's philosophies that I was pointed to:
Another interesting point is that functional programming languages are growing and it is probably because the future is DSLs again.
If you're still not convinced, you should watch The Curious Clojureist. And you should definitely watch all the Rich Hickey talks.
The O'Reilly Clojure book is best book that I've come across yet.
However, equally important, my strong recommendation is that Clojure is good only when combined with Emacs and ghoseb's emacs setup. After learning Clojure in that environment, writing Python again makes me miss so many goodies (To get up to the same productivity in a few ways, I'm using PyCharm these days and am enjoying that).
To make my learning solid, I rewrote isbn.net.in for the third time in Clojure. The source code is at https://github.com/swaroopch/isbnnetinclj – be prepared to read some amateurish Clojure code.
I got a lot done in ~280 lines of Clojure code compared to 480+ lines of code in Ruby/Rails and a ton more boilerplate code. This difference in number of lines of code repeats often.
One interesting point is that because of the Clojure way of thinking, I ended up using a simple combination of future and core.cache to do the fetching of prices from book stores in parallel rather than bringing a full-fledged background jobs processor (delayed_jobs) to do that which vastly simplified the system. You can read that code in stores.clj.
I got started with this journey because of frustrations with Java and at the same time I was trying to be not be narrow-minded with experience in just Python/Ruby/Perl languages (they are so similar). I kept reminding myself of what Douglas Crockford said:
That's an easy one—lack of curiosity. They were so satisfied with the work that they were doing was good enough (without an understanding of what 'good' was) that they didn't push themselves.
I'm much more impressed with people that are always learning. The brilliant programmers I've been around are always learning.
You see so many people get into one language and spend their entire career in that language, and as a result aren't that great as programmers.
This is best explained by Alan Kay himself:
Q: What should Java have had in it to be a first-quality language, not just a commercial success?
Alan Kay: Like I said, it's a pop culture. A commercial hit record for teenagers doesn't have to have any particular musical merits. I think a lot of the success of various programming languages is expeditious gap-filling. Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. Basically, a lot of the problems that computing has had in the last 25 years comes from systems where the designers were trying to fix some short-term thing and didn't think about whether the idea would scale if it were adopted. There should be a half-life on software so old software just melts away over 10 or 15 years.
It was a different culture in the '60s and '70s; the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) and PARC culture was basically a mathematical/scientific kind of culture and was interested in scaling, and of course, the Internet was an exercise in scaling. There are just two different worlds, and I don't think it's even that helpful for people from one world to complain about the other world—like people from a literary culture complaining about the majority of the world that doesn't read for ideas. It's futile.
Did you know that Lisp and Smalltalk are not so much in vogue because they were killed by bad hardware!?:
Alan Kay: Yes, actually both Lisp and Smalltalk were done in by the eight-bit microprocessor—it's not because they're eight-bit micros, it's because the processor architectures were bad, and they just killed the dynamic languages. Today these languages run reasonably because even though the architectures are still bad, the level 2 caches are so large that some fraction of the things that need to work, work reasonably well inside the caches; so both Lisp and Smalltalk can do their things and are viable today. But both of them are quite obsolete, of course.
Lastly, I wanted to mention that my Clojure journey would not have sustained if it wasn't for Baishampayan Ghose (a.k.a. @ghoseb, a.k.a BG) whose untiring answers to my dumb questions was instrumental in me finally gaining some understanding of Clojure and Lisp in general. Thanks BG!
P.S. Watch this 2011 talk by Alan Kay. As @ghoseb would say, Be prepared to blow your mind.

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The loss of a limb as a result of a Georgia car accident can be a life-altering experience for an individual. No matter what the loss is, whether it is a finger or limb, it can be psychologically devastating.
In some circumstances, an amputation may also result in the need to stop working or change jobs, or even to lose the enjoyment of activities once a part of your life. No matter the details, if you have sustained a severe accident injury such as an amputation, you may be entitled to seek compensation through a claim.
Overview of a Traumatic Amputation
A traumatic amputation occurs when an individual is injured in a serious accident resulting in the loss of a limb. The amputation is considered to be partial if there is still some remaining soft tissue or complete if there is no remaining soft tissue.
Treatment of a traumatic amputation may include reattaching the limb or the use of a prosthetic device. No matter what type of treatment an individual faces, it is going to result in expensive medical bills. However these may be recoverable if the severe accident injuries were due to the negligence of another.
Proving Negligence in a Georgia Car Accident
You will need to be able to prove someone else was negligent in your Georgia car accident in order to file a claim for your severe accident injuries. This will require evidence, which can be collected by a Mount Zion personal injury lawyer.
Some of the types of evidence that may be used in your case include:
- accident/police report;
- medical records;
- medical bills;
- accounts from witnesses to the accident; and
- pictures of the accident scene.
It is important to keep a file of all documentation related to your Georgia car accident and your injuries so you can build a solid case.
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We did it! On September 1st, 2017 at the presence of the local authorities and the President of the association Arca Solidale, Sergio Pero, the Director of the Kuchynivka School in Ukraine inaugurated the academic school year 2017/18 along with the new school kitchen. The kitchen's important renovation has been possible thanks to the intervention of Arca Solidale, whose project has been funded by SPEA S.p.A together with the donations received from members and sympathizers.
The village of Kuchynivka is located in the Ucraine Region of Chernigov, 200 kilometers north-east of Kiev. It is home to little more than a thousand people and it is primarily an agricultural village.
The school's building dates back to 1904 and houses nearly 100 children. Over the years it has undergone little, if no maintenance at all and as a result the kitchen was in an overall deteriorated and poor condition. The two kitchen areas have now been completely dismantled, rebuilt and equipped with modern appliances, including an industrial dishwasher.
This intervention is very important for the village of Kuchynivka as finally the school's children will be able to benefit from meals cooked in modern, clean and efficient facilities.
During the inauguration speech, the Director of the School Mrs. Svetlana Shchevcheko and the Mayor of Kuchynivka, on behalf of children and their families, expressed words of great gratitude towards Arca Solidale and SPEA: "We are all moved" - said the Director - "The Regional Administration has no funds and our children are the first who suffer as a consequence of this" - Svetlana said - "Arca Solidale and SPEA are for us like angels from Italy that helps Kuchynivka".
Evidently Svetlana's words was overemphasized, moved by the important result. In any case, we're truly happy to have helped these children!


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This is Steve Blank's classic that began the Lean Startup revolution. If you have read Lean Startup or think you really understand customer development but haven't read this book, you are missing out. It's thick and chewy, but worth it.


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Orvieto is a stunning medieval town one hour by train out of Rome!
From the train station you take a wonderful short trip in the funicular up to the peaceful town.
It is an absolutely beautiful, historical and peaceful place, and is the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of busy Rome.
Here is the perfect day plan!
Train to Orvieto at about 9.30 in the morning (the train is usually delayed a little while as it is Italy... and things are rarely on time here)
Take the Funicular up to the town from the train station and get lost walking around in the beautiful alleyways which all lead to either gob-smackingly beautiful views of the surrounding countryside or back in to the town's majestic cathedral and town centre.
I usually have lunch at the oddly named cafe "Internet Cafe", which has a really great vibe and has amazingly good cakes and lunches.
Take a tour of the unbelievable caves which exist under all of the houses and where medieval societies produced everything under their houses from cheeses to cellaring wine. This photo shows hundreds of holes in the walls of the caves where the medieval society kept their pigeons. The pigeons would fly away during the day and always come back to their holes at night. Pigeon is the specialty dish in Orvieto and well worth a try.
After your tour, relax with a glass of wine and some antipasto and then head home or if you are staying a night (good decision) there are an abundance of good restaurants to pick from, and the town has a really great calm vibe at night.
Here is a beautiful cathedral view from my hotel room at my favourite family owned hotel in Orvieto.
Orvieto is a magical place and definitely worth a visit if you are planning a trip to Rome!


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What you need to Know about Honor Society
honor society
is an organization which in most cases it is looking forward to ensuring people are honored for their best doings in the community. It is mainly concentrated on the people who excel academically and therefore there is a need for people to take care of them. It also recognizes some of the skills which are taught outside the class and they are unique trainings in the community like scouting and others which helps the students to gain the leadership qualities which should be in them.
It is therefore essential to ensure that every person knows the criterion of what they are expected to do so that they get into the society. In most cases, the honor society will be the one to invite people into it, and in some cases, people need to make an application showing they want to be part of it. But it is not possible to be part of the society if you are not aware of the disciplines which are represented and which people should ensure they will be able to excel in.
Since it is something that is meant to instill some leadership and self-reliance to the students, it is possible for people to make sure they do the best to maintain the excellent character which is also among the criteria that are used for bringing the people to the society. Most of the honors are divided into disciplines and when the students are joining they should join depending on their training. Most of the organizations will invite the students to participate depending on the classes, and the grade point of the average of the students and everyone is supposed to make sure they are in the discipline which they will get the recognition from the honor society.
In some few cases where the academics are not used people are supposed to have some unique skills which come due to specific training by which the honor society recognizes. The most significant work for the organization is to make sure they can create an honor for the scholars and also to give scholarships to the members as well as preserve the history of the foundation. They have a museum which is a real sense is one of the things which is used to maintain the history of the organization which has existed for over 200 years now. They have chapters in most of the universities and other learning institutions in the different states.
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So, I'm a wee bit behind on everything, especially my book reviews, this month! I'm trying to finish writing my "Queen of Shadows" review, which is a novel in itself, and I desperately need to edit it *stares at word count* before the days run away from me anymore. I am also writing an ARC review for "Illuminae" by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, which I read back in late July. Added to my list of time management fails is my review of "The Storyspinner" by Becky Wallace, a book I had read back in March and really enjoyed, but one that I never finished my review of. *dramatic sigh* I promise that one day I will have a review of these books for you, but today I wanted to just share some fangirl worthy items with you that came out this month!
Last week me and my sisters went to Barnes and Noble to look around, and I got to see in person the new recovered paperback editions of Cassandra Clare's "The Infernal Devices"! They were even more gorgeous than I had expected, so I went home and bought the boxed set of this series even though I already own the hardcover editions of these books. I know I didn't need two copies of each book, but how could I resist their beauty?
That same day, I also saw "Sweet Temptation" by Wendy Higgins on the YA shelf, and low and behold, it had a bookmark in it and was signed by the author! *squeals* Wendy had commissioned her 'Sweeties' this past August to go into book stores and put these goodies inside as many copies of "Sweet Temptation" as they could on its release day, and it was so exciting that someone did it at the Barnes and Noble in our area! My sister and I were ecstatic when we saw it, and this week my sister took me back to Barnes and Noble and bought me a copy with all of the fun swag in it. Yeah, I was pretty friggin' excited!
There was a lot of fangirling for me this week, and I was so excited to add so many gorgeous new books to my shelf! I'm going to be honest, I felt like a real winner in the book realm.
Thanks for reading, everyone, and I hope you all have a good weekend!


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AMC announced today The Walking Dead Season 3 Preview Weekend on Sat., JULY 7th and Sunday, JULY 8th beginning at 11:30AM/10:30c each day. Airing just one week before Comic-Con, the two-day programming event will feature a marathon of all 19 episodes from the series' critically acclaimed first two seasons, culminating with a Talking Dead live primetime special on Sun., Jul. 8 at 9/8c. The one-time-only airing of Talking Dead, hosted by Chris Hardwick (Nerdist), will be followed by a never-before-seen black and white version of The Walking Dead pilot episode at 10/9c. The special version of the series' first episode was created specifically for fans of The Walking Dead, as it holds true to the original black and white comic book, written by Robert Kirkman.
Throughout The Walking Dead Marathon, Hardwick will introduce each episode from the set of season three in Atlanta, giving viewers a glimpse of the new sets. Along with several cast members and producers, he will set up the storyline from each episode, and discuss the classic moments and unique characters featured. In addition, every episode with be wrapped with exclusive character and scene-specific content from the first two seasons, including behind-the-scenes footage and sit-down interviews with the cast.
In the hour-long Talking Dead event, shot live in Los Angeles, Hardwick will give fans a first look at The Walking Dead Season 3, including a scene from the new season, and brand new video interviews with the cast, a tour of the new set and a sneak peek at the props and wardrobes featured in Season 3. Hardwick will also sit down with in-studio guests including the show's executive producers and other celebrity fans. Viewers will get information on the show's presence at this year's Comic-Con, including a look at the construction of The Walking Dead booth, updates on AMC's The Walking Dead Social Game, and other show-related news and topics.
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The woman has wounds to the neck and torso.
The separatists shelled the village of Iron in the Donetsk region, bringing the injured 48-year-old woman. On Monday, October 16, on his page on the social network Facebook wrote the Chairman of the Donetsk military-civil administration Pavlo zhebrivskyi.
The shelling occurred at about 14.00.
"Fashistskie orcs from mortars fired at the town of Iron, and wounded 48-year-old woman. As reported to me Yaroslav Rudenko, Chairman of the military-civil administration in Turecka, the firing began around 14 hours. Mortars Pro-Russian terrorists fired from the occupied territory – from the mines of Gagarin. The bombardment lasted about 40 minutes. As a result of numerous "arrivals" shrapnel injuries has received 15 private houses" – wrote the head of the Donetsk CAA.
According to him, suffered a woman born in 1969. She was wounded in the neck and torso.
"It has operated in Turetskoi city hospital, now doctors estimate its condition as stable," said zhebrivskyi.
We will remind, for the last day separatists 16 times broke the truce.


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