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Title: International Volunteer Dental Projects
Speaker: Dr. Francis G. Serio
Date: Sunday, November 26, 2017
Time: 8:30am - 11:30am
Location: Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Course Number: 3300
Cost: $35
Credits: 3
Recommended For: D, H, A, R, L, S
CLICK HERE to register on GNYDM website! You must register for the Greater New York Dental Meeting before registering for the seminar.
Course Description:
This program is designed for those who want to learn more about the nuts and bolts of volunteering around the world or around the block. It is useful for those with some volunteering experience looking for new ideas or just validation of what they are doing. Topics include the nature of volunteer activities, cross-cultural issues, comparison of service and teaching projects, how to get started either at home or abroad, the nuts and bolts of volunteering overseas and at home, as well as where to find these volunteer opportunities. This program provides ample time for interaction with the clinician and other experienced members of the audience.
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- Identify why you are interested in volunteering.
- Compare and contrast the nature of teaching and service projects with the advantages and disadvantages of each type.
- Describe the nuts and bolts of volunteering including what to do and resources to support the project.
These seminars are financially supported by USA Sections of both the International College of Dentists (ICD) and the Academy of Dentistry International (ADI).
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At last week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, NSA chief Keith Alexander defended the agency's information-harvesting practices (while enduring mild heckling). Meanwhile, on sidewalks in Henderson, neon chalk warnings insisted that the NSA is watching us. A sweep of related news provided some spicy number soup.
54: Terror plots Alexander claims have been foiled through government collection of phone and email data since 1993. (Source: AP)
13: Terror plots of those 54 that purportedly would have happened in the U.S. (Source: MIT Technology Review)
22: NSA officials with the power to approve phone numbers for querying in the database of U.S. call records. (Source: techcrunch.com)
35: NSA analysts authorized to run related queries. (Source: cnn.com)
300: Suspect phone numbers approved for NSA queries in 2012 (Source: The Washington Post)
0: Names, addresses and credit card numbers in the database, according to Alexander. (Source: AP)
18,000-19,000: Facebook accounts from which data was requested by local, state and federal government entities in the last six months of 2012, related to everything from NSA investigations of terrorist threats to "a local sheriff trying to find a missing child." (Source: newsroon.fb.com)
30: Days metadata culled from Internet activities can be stored, as the NSA's XKeyscore system "is continuously collecting so much Internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time." (Source: The Guardian)
5: Years the NSA can keep collected phone records. (Source: The Washington Post)
2.5 million: Americans whose records the NSA is allowed to access using "three-hop analysis" of the records of 40 individuals who've been in contact with one suspected terrorist. (Source: AP)
9: NSA Core Values—lawfulness, honesty, integrity, fairness, accountability, loyalty, collaboration, innovation and learning. (Source: nsa.gov)
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HDV's Coming Up
Issue: Volume: 28 Issue: 2 (Feb 2005)
HDV's Coming Up
HDV is nothing more than a format-a future format at that-and so it is perhaps not all that interesting to the active videographer or designer. But HDV is arguably the most intriguing format to come along since MPEG-2 (which also got a lot of press before there were really any usable products). Simply put, HDV is an industry-standard way to write high-definition MPEG-2 video, either 720p or 1080i, onto standard DV tape.
The promise of HDV and, thus, the anticipation is very much like that of early DV nearly a decade ago. DV brought professional-quality digital acquisition to handheld camcorders and immediately shook up the high-end versus low-end industry caste system. DV's quality rivaled that of the then-standard professional tape format, Betacam SP, and while there was debate about which was better, more professional, and appropriate for what purposes, DV was an eye-opener on price alone. In the decade since, regardless of that debate, DV has found a comfortable place among the tools of the trade. Now HDV is likely to travel a similar course for high-definition acquisition.
The basics of HDV are actually remarkably straightforward. Instead of the 25Mb/sec intraframe compression of standard-definition DV, HDV uses the temporal, interframe compression of MPEG-2 to squeeze higher resolution into the same 25Mb/sec (for 1080i, 19Mb/sec for 720p) bitstream of standard DV. There's greater compression at work, but mostly it's just more efficient use of the available storage capacity.
Makers of professional editing systems have long favored intraframe compression formats, such as Motion JPEG and DV for editing, and there are a couple of important reasons why. First, since most individual frames don't exist separately in interframe compression, and instead use data from neighboring frames, they often have to be re-built on the fly for an editor to be able cut on an exact frame, or to step or shuttle forward or backward through a specific clip or transition. Historically, re-creating frames that fast has been difficult to do. But with today's CPUs churning through data so quickly, it is becoming less of a concern.
Interestingly, it's the editing systems vendors-especially editing software companies that cater to a more price-sensitive audience-that are the most anxious for HDV camcorders to hit the market. While they focus on what is here today-most of them privately, and some not so privately-all see HDV as a big part of their future.
Sony's new HVR-Z1 HDV camcorder could help bring about the next major acquisition revolution.
The second reason MPEG and other interframe codecs often get scoffed at for professional editing has to do with the potential loss of quality through the concatenated artifacts and errors that arise from the decompression-recompression cycles of rebuilding frames. On average, only one of every 15 MPEG frames is a self-contained intraframe, or I-frame, and no serious editor wants to be limited to cutting every 15th frame. MPEG-2 editing systems can build new I-frames and reconstruct the MPEG GOPs (Groups of Pictures between I-frames), but that means building new I-frames based on the most heavily compressed frames of the original footage.
Some editing software companies, such as Canopus and Avid, have created proprietary intraframe HD codecs specifically for editing. By transcoding HDV into an intraframe codec during import, they effectively limit that artifact concatenation by working in higher quality throughout, albeit while dramatically increasing the storage requirements compared to native HDV. Still, at a basic level, that is simply fodder for a "what's good-enough quality" argument much like that of the early DV days. HDV faces the same scrutiny, and that will surely leave many, at least at the higher levels of production, staying with more expensive HD acquisition formats.
On the other hand, at expected camcorder price points under $5000, HDV seems destined to follow a similar path as DV, with a strong appeal to DV filmmakers, documentarians, and small studio professionals, as well as in-the-field news gatherers and other high-end professionals for whom an essentially disposable camcorder has value. Exactly how high HDV goes up the professional video food chain remains to be seen, but the basic level of excitement is obvious. And that's been true for nearly two years, ever since JVC introduced its single-chip, consumer-focused JY-HD10 using the HDV format.
Essentially, HDV has been all theory for the past couple of years, with the exception of the JVC JY-HD10, although it is considered under-featured by professional standards. But this past fall, Sony introduced not one, but two, sub-$5000 HDV camcorders: the HDR-FX1 and the more professionally oriented HVR-Z1. And while that brings the total number of available HDV camcorders to a mere three, it feels like the start of the next major acquisition revolution.
Both Sony models use the familiar design of the venerable VX1000/2100 series. Both models can record in either standard-definition DV or high-definition HDV. (Sony's chosen HDV resolution is 1080i, while JVC's is 720p, and neither supports both formats.) And both capture image data through the same 3 x 1/3-inch native 16:9 CCDs and have the same 0.44-inch viewfinder.
The differences between the two are features that cater to either consumer or professional users. For example, the $3699 HDR-FX1 supports recording in HDV, DV (SP), and DV (LP, or long play) whereas the $4900 HVR-Z1 drops LP recording in favor of DVCam support. The Z1 also shows an action safe zone, as well as 4:3 safe zone, and it has more color adjustment and correction features for set-up levels.
Is HD acquisition finally hitting the mainstream? Will this "low-end" HD be good enough for professional work? These questions have surrounded HDV for the past year, and industry pundits have taken sides. But with the release of these two camcorders, the marketplace is about to speak. It's time to listen and to look for yourself.
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BWP's Gender and Macroeconomics project launches a booklet on Gender-Just Macroeconomics; the World Bank's privatisation push
Social services
Civil society still waiting for 'IMF Spring' to blossom
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Public-private partnerships are pushed in Africa, but the risks and costs must be fully understood and minimised, including the impact on the poor.
Social services
PPPs as a model for development: An analysis of the African context
New report reveals IMF policy in the MENA region has remained unchanged after the 2011 Arab uprising, despite its rhetoric for change towards inclusive growth.
IMF policy in the MENA region: Lessons unlearnt
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IMF and World Bank's support for privatisation condemned by UN expert
A new UN report shines light on how IMF and World Bank support for privatisation contributes to the elimination of human rights
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Civil society fights Jakarta water privatisation during Annual Meetings in Bali
The Coalition of Jakarta Residents Opposing Water Privatisation (KMMSAJ) calls for civil society groups globally to join them during Annual Meetings in Bali in protest against water privatisation
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Privatised profits, socialised losses: European reports call World Bank's PPP push into question
Reports expose the scale of damage caused by PPPs, adding weight to broader concerns around the Bank's aggressive promotion of them.
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CSOs urge IFC to divest from for-profit school chain
CSOs urge investors to divest from private school provider Bridge International Academies; IFC remains investor, despite WDR's concerns with private education.
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A critical analysis of the World Bank's World Development Report on education
While the World Development Report (WDR) 2018 on education has some redeeming features, it is part of the Bank's longstanding very narrow view of education, and is silent on education financing.
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World Bank's approach to education financing
Notes from the 2017 World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings session on World Bank's approach to education financing, 10 October.
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World Bank's cascade into education: Liberia's public-private partnership
Report by global union found privatisation and corporate capture are obstacles to progress on 2030 agenda. Independent research of education PPP trial in Liberia finds unsustainable costs.
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Human Rights Council resolution challenges World Bank approach to education
Abidjan Principles recognition by UN HRC states confronts World Bank privatization push in education.
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Lagos water rights summit rejects World Bank privatisation
World Bank water privatisation push in Africa criticised by civil society that are calling for a rights-based approach.
CSOs express concern about IMF's "strongly divergent" social protection approach
Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors submits letter to the IMF expressing concerns about impacts of Fund's policies on social protection.
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CSOs call on World Bank to halt its aggressive support of PPPs
152 CSOs call demand World Bank halt its aggressive support of PPPs, publicaly recognise their significant risks.
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Learning to Realize Education's Promise: World Development Report 2018
Notes of the Spring Meetings 2017 session on the WDR18 of 18 April.
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WDR on governance: paradigm shift or cosmetic procedure?
World Bank's 2017 World Development Report on governance introduced the importance of politics, but its impact has been questioned.
World Bank-funded Kenya company targets complainants
Community representatives involved in a World Bank Inspection Panel complaint have been targeted with a court injunction by a Bank-funded company.
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Notes from a side event on privatisation of education and low-fee private schools, which took place during the World Bank-IMF 2016 annual meetings.


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Berlin: Sally Potter Says Big-Budget Movies Have a "Numbing Effect" on Audiences
During a press conference at the film fest, the British auteur also discussed how the opening of 'The Party' is a deliberate political statement on Brexit: "Truth-telling is so central to the politics in this story."
Sally Potter says her latest movie is a pared-down and more human alternative to Hollywood's usual fare.
"It's kind of an antidote to massive budget films with millions of special effects and stuff, which in the end creates a kind of numbing effect: I want more, I want more, I want more," the British auteur said Monday at a press conference for The Party, ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
The political comedy — which captures highbrow friends played by Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson over one evening in a London house — was shot on the hop and sparingly over two weeks, and after only three days of rehearsals.
"With this [film], I want to get the feeling of taking away, and finding something peculiarly human and going as deep as we can in a short space of time," Potter added about the film, which also features Cillian Murphy, Bruno Ganz and Cherry Jones in the ensemble.
Intending the intimate house party portrayed in her film to unfold in real time, Potter noted the irony of writing and shooting the script for The Party against the backdrop of the UK's Brexit debate and referendum vote. "Brexit happened during our two-week shoot — half the crew and cast turned up weeping that morning as we found out the result," the Orlando director recalled.
And including the uplifting English hymn "Jerusalem" at the opening of the film was a deliberately political statement, Potter revealed. At one point, she even took a jab at Britain's Labor Party for losing sight of its founding working class principles before last year's national election, before returning to them under new leadership.
"I did start writing this [film] just before the last general election in the U.K., at a point when it seemed like the left in the U.K. was very much losing its ability to be sincerely brave about its policies and was trying to disguise itself as something very centrist," Potter explained. "Things have changed, and things became quite polarized as I was writing. But what was central to it was the feeling that people were losing the ability to know even what the truth was. That's why truth-telling is so central to the politics in this story."
The Party is financed by Great Point Media and produced by Adventure Pictures, Potter's production shingle, along with her long-term producer, Christopher Sheppard, and Kurban Kassam. Sally Potter is represented by ICM Partners, which represents the domestic rights for The Party.


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Just a quick update to say I am still alive. I'm super busy with university work at the moment and haven't had the time to make many updates here. I hope to post something new soon, but in the meantime feel free to check out some of the work I've been doing over at Film Inquiry!
Here is a Beginner's Guide to one of my favourite directors, Danny Boyle. I also wrote an essay about the place for screwball comedy in modern cinema, which you can check out here. Lastly I wrote another Beginner's Guide for the late, great John Hughes, which you can read on this link.
Expect some new updates both here and on Film Inquiry in the very near future. In the meanwhile, here are some trailers for my most anticipated films in the coming months…


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Library Teacher: Whitney Fessler
Links for parents and students
- Click Chattanooga Public Library cards arrive at LMS to read about the new Chattanooga Public Library cards for LMS students.
- Click https://Hosted66.renlearn.com/83533/HomeConnect to follow student progress in Accelerated Reader.
The library at LMS is open to all students and parents for check-out privileges. Every class at LMS comes to the library twice a week for 30 minutes at a time. They will come once for checkout and once for library lessons/storytime. Your child's checkout day will be the same every week.
This year we will also have a daily open check-out time from 7:55-8:10. This will allow our avid readers at LMS to come DAILY for new books. It will also allow your child to turn books in any day, especially if they forgot to turn their book in on their checkout day. Students will be allowed fewer books at a time than as in the past, but with a daily open check-out time, remember they can return books and check out books everyday.
We have talked a great deal about taking care of our library books during our library lessons. Please help to reinforce the following behaviors with our books at home that we have talked about in class:
- Reading with clean hands.
- No eating or drinking around our books.
- Always use a bookmark.
- Leaving our books in our backpack when it is not being read, so it is ready for checkout day.
- Finding a comfy spot to sit and enjoy our new books!
AR Reminder:For 2nd-5th grade students and parents, the AR HomeConnect URL is https://Hosted66.renlearn.com/83533/HomeConnect. Your child can tell you his or her user name and password to enter HomeConnect online to check AR progress of the student. The AR program is a classroom-based reading incentive program, which the LMS Librarian facilitates by performing collection development in a way that insures the selection and purchase of great AR fiction books. Please contact your child's classroom teacher for questions concerning the AR program at LMS.


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Modern by Design Showhouse 2009: Last Stop/
The Top Floor of the Modern by Design Showhouse was a show stopper! At the top of the stairs was the large Family Room designed by that purveyor of "Sophisticated Fun", Jay Jeffers. Jay has been noted in House Beautiful's Top 100 and has graced the pages of Metropolitan Home and Elle Decor numerous times.
His room for this Showhouse shows off his talents yet again. A sunshine-y color palette makes you feel immediately upbeat, and there was an abundance of great ideas.
Remember that sofa back? Well, it is echoed again in the design of the fireplace surround. And I loved the side table between the chairs: a vintage scale from Coup d'etat.
Jay put in a couple of seating areas in this loft space. Kind of a fun little hideaway! Fun faux wood grain fabric on the chaise is from Dogwood Fabrics. And the Ikat fabric on the drape is from Belfour. Interesting lighting idea: lining up a series of spyglass sconces from Circa Lighting. I have never seen this done before.
There was so much here to see, I could not capture it all! You will just have to come in person!
Jay Jeffers, Jeffers Design Group
Jay was so gracious and quite dapper in this picture, I think. His tie fits in perfectly with the scheme. He was so fun to talk to and had so many fantastic ideas in this room!
There were two "his and hers" bedrooms off of the Family Room designed by the architectural partnership of Min Day. E.B. Min and Jeffrey L. Day created duel spaces that are young and fresh. They designed a pierced panel closet door in a sort of wave pattern that hides a Murphy bed. Nicely set off by the blue green desk area. Fun carpet tile by FLOR. Wood stool designed by Min Day.
In the "girl's" room, the dot idea was carried out with paint stenciled in a cloud pattern. Really a great idea for a child's room! More "dots" on the floor (FLOR carpet tile)
The bathroom was an "ode to green" with it's apple green paint and glass tile (Walker Zanger) Happy and striking in it's monochromatic palette.
But there is more outside!!! Surfacedesign is the genius behind the outside spaces. This first space is the rooftop terrace which was decked in an angled pattern and furnished with soft "sculpture".
The downstairs patio was a study in black and white. There was modern wood paneling installed as sculpture and stained black Throwing Rock Studio created the concrete pads and bench. The white strips in the concrete are LED lights that glow with a blue light at night. Quite stunning.
The space had a very liveable quality but at the same time was a sort of interactive art piece in and of itself. Quite beautiful.
The birdbath was formed out of the end of the bench. It reminded me of Indian grinding rocks filled with rain water.
And one of the talents behind Surfacedesign is principal Roderick Wyllie who was on hand to chat about the landscape design and his company. Do check out the Surfacedesign website to see more genius at work.Roderick Wyllie, Surfacedesign
I hope you have a chance to get over to the Modern by Design Showhouse this weekend….the last weekend BTW! There is so much I was not able to show you (my little camera can only do so much!) And so much more you really should see!
I wanted to thank all of the designers I was able to meet for being such great hosts in the very hectic hours before the opening Gala. It was truly a pleasure meeting them all. As varied as their styles are, there were clearly traits common to them all. They are all passionate about what they do every day, and the enthusiasm for the clients with whom they work is palpable. It was inspiring to see their designs….but perhaps even more inspiring to see the kind of people they are: really interested in the world and the people in it.
(And a special thanks to Cheminne Taylor-Smith of Metropolitan Home!)


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Can you believe 2015 is almost over? I can't believe it. Where did it go? All this writing and reading and BAM! another year gone. Curiously, since I started writing full-time, I also started reading full-time. Goodreads gave me this statistic. The number of books I read per year.
- 2012: 16 books
- 2013: 33 books
- 2014: 58 books
- 2015: 102 books
Staggering, eh? As you can see, it escalated quickly. I don't know if I'll be able to top 100+ books per year in 2016 and read, say, 120 or something, but it's a worthy goal for the New Year's resolution. More than ever books help me write better, and I wish I could read even faster. I wish I could eat books, drink books, swallow books, as they give me everything I need to know about writing and more.
You have asked me to share my opinion on the books I read. Mostly you Instagram junkies. So apart from posting silly pictures of my hair and whatnot, I started posting selfies with the books I'M ABOUT TO READ, but you told me I should post selfies with the books AFTER I READ THEM and include a little review. I did, and so far it's been great. You love it. I love it. Well then, the best of the books I read in 2015 are below, the books that twisted my gut silly or struck me right in the brain or turned me inside out. You know, poignant stuff.
I have read Anna Karenina in Russian, back in my teens, and this was a re-visit in English, while riding the train during the Amtrak residency. A superb new translation. What can I say that hasn't been said already? A masterpiece. Read it. But only read Pevear & Volokhonsky's translation, no other, please. It rings true to the original (take it from a Russian).
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Takami blew me away with his storytelling skills, and lo and behold, when I read the little interview in the back (I highly recommend you read it, it's very interesting to peek into the writing process of this bloody mammoth) it turns out he was influenced by Stephen King and Robert B. Parker. I haven't read Parker, but I devoured King in my teens in Russian. Read this book. There is an incredible depth to it, if you dare to dive under the gory stuff.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Poetry of footnotes. Of geometry. Of architecture. Of love. Love is light. Without seeing darkness you can't see light. Welcome to the house that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Don't try making sense of this book, simply read it and feel it, the cold, the darkness, the fear. 10 years of labor. It took my breath away, and it smothered all of my notions of what a novel should be. To never dare is to never enter the darkness.
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
I recommend this book to every writer, simply to see what you can do with prose (and fuck the rules). Here is a woman who dared. This book she wrote, her first...it's brilliant. Heartbreaking. Breaking all the rules, all the writing rules. Yes, you heard that right. Read it. You must. It will crush you and put you back together. (You can see a trend here, I love books that break rules.)
Best post-Soviet dystopian tale, hands down. Weird fantasy. Surreal. Almost fable-like. And funny as hell. Everything you ever wanted to know about Russia is in this book. Everything. And what is it, really? Let me try again. A satire. A fable. A fairy tale. A dystopian fantasy with a bit of weirdness. A history. A future. All rolled up neatly into a tale. With a tail. And mice, lots of mice. I'll be rereading this book in both languages many times. The translation is superb. The dialogue will make you pee in your pants. You better believe me.
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
Raw. Fierce. Bold. It has gotten under my skin and it will live there, and I wept when it did. I wept and wept and wept. Please read this book. It's important. Like air. Like breathing. And read it to see how you can write a book without a main character, how you can combine your own voice with the voice of the story, how (again) you can break all writing rules and get away with it and create something stunning in the process.
Books of Blood by Clive Barker
Beautiful bloody bizarrerie. I'm in absolute awe. Wish I discovered Barker earlier! I didn't just read these 3 books, I read all 6 of them, and I cried when I finished. His words at the end hit home. Big time. "It was a great relief to tell the story. Not because he wanted to be remembered, but because the telling relieved him of the tale. It no longer belonged to him, that life, that death. He had better business, as did they all."
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway has validated the way I write. I was floored. I didn't know you could write like this. I didn't know you could get away with these long winding sentences! This book, and 4 more I read, has forever changed the way I write. It told me it's okay to strip everything down to pure story THE WAY I WANT TO TELL IT. My only regret is that it took me so long to get to it. If I knew, I'd read it sooner.
This book was gritty, face-punching, gut-wrenching. It's like if you took Tarantino and screwed him through the eye sockets of a teenage girl and sprinkled it with acid and added a bunch of knives and a helluva good spicy writing and you've got this. How did I not know about Lynda Barry before, I have no idea, but I know now, and I'm a fan.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It wrung me dry. It turned my heart inside out. Superb. As an immigrant, I could relate. More. I got to put on black skin and feel what it's like to be black in America AND an immigrant. (Great research for Janna.) Don't just read this book but watch this TED talk on feminism by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and marvel at her genius and finesse and intelligence and get inspired.
I don't usually like thrillers. I guess it's because I never read a good one. This one was so crazy good, it made the hair move on my head, it made my heart race and my stomach flip, and in the end it fooled me, it fooled me like a little girl. I didn't see it coming, dammit, I didn't. Thomas Harris, you win. And Hannibal Lecter is a charming sweetie. I have read the rest of the Hannibal books and am now reading Black Sunday and after it will read Making Murder: The Fiction of Thomas Harris by Philip L. Simpson.
Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane
Another "rule-breaking" book. It's a collection of short stories but they are all about one character and are spaced out in 13 years so it reads like a novel with chapters scattered in time. Moldy dreamland is what it is. If Alice goes down the rabbit hole, the policeman in these stories goes down a rotting tunnel slick with silt and mold and populated with body parts wrapped in newspaper or stuffed with rat poison. Quiet and chilly and mesmerizing.
Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives by Vernon J. Geberth
Every writer who wants to portray a serial killer, specifically a sexual predator (and over 60% of serial killers are), should read this. However, if you're easily impressionable and can't stomach color photos of crime scenes and mutilated bodies, DO NOT READ THIS. It's brutally graphic. But if you can, the facts you'll glimpse, the torture tape transcripts and the investigative interviews and the offender diaries will be crucial to understanding how the mind of a killer works.
Aside from those listed above, authors I have discovered in 2015 and plan to read more of: Toni Morrison, Edward Gorey, Joyce Carol Oates, Kurt Vonnegut, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Khaled Hosseini, Anne Rice, Anne Sexton, Adam Neville, George Orwell.
Authors I'm excited to discover and plan to read in 2016: Marilynne Robinson, Paulo Coehlo, Katherine Dunn, Charles De Lint, Joseph Conrad, Alice Munro, Zadie Smith, Neal Stephenson, Albert Camus, Charles Bukowski, Frank Herbert, William Faulkner, Donna Tartt, Milan Kundera, and many more. If I manage to read 100+ books, that is.
What are your best books you read in 2015? What has kicked up a storm in your brain and last a lingering impression that you will never be the same after reading THAT AMAZING BOOK?


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22 November 2016
15 comments:
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 13:16
Already down.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 13:50
tapusin mo muna laro bago ka magcomment ng ganyanDelete
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 16:20
nag update lang naman siya.Delete
pero draw ok lang nasalvage 1 pt. pero kung ganiyan klase team natin, huwag na tayo umasa ng magandang resulta kontra sa Thailand. hindi tayo makagoal!
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 14:31
Fil foreign playing without midfield.ReplyDelete
Azkals is shit agaisnt teams that are tactically discipline.
Fil foreign are poster boys for palami to milk to get money.
Till when will the fans realise this.
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 15:05
Walang kwenta 3-5-2 na yan kailan ba magigising itong coach na ito walang kwenta yang 3 defenders lang tapos dalawa pa sa defenders na ito ay mga midfielders. Akala ko ba pinaghandaan ito bakit walang mga defenders?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 15:05
2-2 FTReplyDelete
Not bad at all. With tonight's results, Thailand confirmed group topper, and therefore they will most definitely rest their key players in the last game. Azkals will have a great chance of defeating Thailand, which will a Semifinals ticket regardless of SIN-INA result.Replies
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 16:18
who says they will rest their key players? did the thai coach tell you? did you sleep with him and he told you?Delete
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 18:12
Well, just let your useless brain work sometimes. Again, Thailand has already confirmed no.1 in the group, which means their last game vs Azkals is completely meaningless to them. And their regular players are tired cuz they played 3 games, including a WCQ game vs Australia, in last 8 days. Plus you always have to risk injury or yellow cards to play additional games, which is completely unnecessary. So, anyone but hopeless idiots like you would easily come up with a simple strategy, REST KEY PLAYERS AND GIVE CHANCES TO BENCH PLAYERS. And i don't believe Thai coach is an idiot.Delete
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 15:11
Congrats germany team bReplyDelete
- Anonymous22 November 2016 at 18:10
RANKING 11 SOUTHEAST ASIAN TEAMS IN 2018 WORLD CUP QUALIFICATION.ReplyDelete
1.thailand2.philippines3.singapore4. vietnam5.malaysia6.myanmar7.laos8.cambodia9.timorleste10.brunei11.Indonesia (fifa suspension).
imagine we are in top 3 best performing Asean squads in Group A. At least not bad.
still we always ended draw results,how many times we face indonesia?,still we have no creativity inside the box. boaz creates hole in our defense,hard to stop him,because they have 3 lungs superior stamina.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous23 November 2016 at 06:33
Let us not guess that the THAIS will rest their team A against the Azkals on Friday but even if their team B will play, we still have bigger problems as we know Thailand football players are very technical and disciplined in attack and in defense. The problem with our Azkals is we only have one legit Striker in the presence of Phil Younghusband and he's already marked while our backline is very shaky only Amani is the only big guy left.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous23 November 2016 at 22:52
Phil was marked all game even when he was already dropped back as a mid. It will be tough for us w/out a real backline going forward. I thought our L&R flanks defense were easily exposed. Tough situation going forward.ReplyDelete


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