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Prior to taking on the role of CLCC Chairperson in June 2018, Bindy was Chair Elect for two years. From 2014-2016 she coordinated the Ethics and Appeals Committees, and prior to that time served on Exam Assembly, Practice Analysis Task Forces, Academic and other summits as well as participation in other certification-related positions. Her first experiences as an ACLP volunteer were with Item Writing and Review as early as 1998, preparing for the first certification by exam. She also worked as Chairperson of the Certifying Committee from 1999 until 2001.
The quality and quantity of work completed in the past two years challenges all those cumulative years of CLCC volunteer work prior to 2016. Although it has been challenging to come up to speed and respond with the rapidity with which CLCC performs, she looks forward to the next two years as Chair with a hardworking group of volunteers. Between stints with certification, Bindy was involved with the Internship and Practice Standards Task Forces, also completing 22 years as a clinician and 10 years as a child life instructor before retiring in 2011. Bindy's personal interests including books, music, cooking, a love of nature and a fond admiration for winter sports, most of which she is terrified! She is the loving single parent on one wonderful grown son.
Dr. Sherwood Burns-Nader is an associate professor and coordinator of the child life program at The University of Alabama. Sherwood has been a CCLS since 2006 and started her current position at The University of Alabama in 2011. Sherwood is a researcher who examines the psychosocial issues impacting children and families in the medical setting, the benefits of child life interventions during medical procedures, and the value of play in children's development and coping. Sherwood began volunteering on the Child Life Certification Commission in 2013. She has served on the item writing, item reviewing, recertification audit, ethics, and certification communications committees. Currently, Sherwood is the chair-elect- of the commission. For fun, Sherwood loves spending time with her husband, Philip and their five-year-old son, Trip and cheering on the Crimson Tide in any sports.
Nancy has been a member of CLC since 1990, was certified in 1991 and by exam in 2003. Nancy's involvement with CLCC began in 2004 when she began as an item writer. From there, she spent time lending her expertise to the Item Review, and Exam Assembly committees. Prior to her position as CLCC Chair, she served on the Ethics Committee and Appeals Committee. From 2014-2016, Nancy served as Chair-elect to the CLCC, followed by her role as Chair from 2016 to 2018. In addition to her committee duties, she has been part of several other projects including being a panel member for the 2013 and 2018 Job Analyses, the Strategic Planning process in 2015, and helped lead the Academic and Clinical Summit in 2016. In conjunction with her role as CLCC Chair, Nancy became a member of the ACLP Board in 2016.
She co-presented a webinar for ACLP in 2017. She has been a presenter on two occasions at the Delaware Valley Association of Child Life Professionals. Nancy has authored patient education materials in relation to surgery preparation, coping and parenting. Currently, Nancy is a Certified Child Life Specialist on an infant and toddler unit. She has been practicing clinically at the Janet Weis Children's Hospital since 1991. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, Nancy has led or been a part of numerous committees and tasks including camps for children with medical needs, Children's Miracle Network-related events, and education for employees.
Stephanie's journey in child life includes over 25 years of experience as a child life specialist, trainer, educator, and leader. She has been highly engaged in the ALCP serving in several capacities. In May of 2013 Stephanie received the Mary Barkey Clinical Excellence Award from the ACLP in recognition of her exemplary child life work and high level of clinical skill. Stephanie has worked at several well-known hospitals and taught at two universities as adjunct faculty. In the past four years Stephanie worked internationally in the Middle East to support child life program development and education. Among her many accomplishments is the delivery of international and national presentations on the topics of child life, leadership, reflective practice, professional care, resiliency, reflective supervision, race, ethnicity and culture. In addition to her professional commitments Stephanie's dedication to child life includes volunteering with Operation Smile traveling with a multidisciplinary team to provide child life services in Kenya, the Philippines, and Malawi. Stephanie is deeply committed to the advancement of psychosocial care, and this passion and profound commitment to children and families continues to inspire and motivate others.
Melissa Schotthofer is a Clinical Instructor and academic advisor for the Undergraduate Child Life Program at Missouri State University. Melissa has been a CCLS since 2005 and started her current position at Missouri State University in 2013. Melissa enjoys training and preparing the next generation of Certified Child Life Specialists through her work at Missouri State University. Melissa is also currently pursuing a PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in Cognition and Instruction in Higher Education. Melissa's dissertation research focuses on the influence of transformative experience on the academic persistence of first-generation college freshmen. Melissa began volunteering with the ACLP in 2015 and has served on the Item Writing Committee. Currently Melissa serves as the Chair of the Item Writing Committee. For fun, Melissa enjoys traveling to visit her two nephews and three nieces.
Amanda Honeyman is currently a CCLS in the outpatient clinics, at Children's Hospital Colorado. She has been working as a CCLS for almost 15 years, in a variety of inpatient and outpatient medical units, and has experience as an intern/practicum coordinator and currently mentors new hires. Amanda has been active in volunteering for ACLP including serving as a Co-Chair of the conference local host committee, member of Education & Training, Item Writing & Reviewing, and Recertification Audit committees. At this time, Amanda is Chair for CLCC Appeals Committee and a member on the Ethics Committee.
Todd R. Philbrick, CAE, Credentialing Specialist is the Director, Certification for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Rockville, Maryland. He is a non-profit certification and association executive with over fifteen years of experience in creating and managing certification programs for stand-alone and managed associations. He is committed to promoting best practices in credentialing, financial and meeting management, governance, and growing associations through strategic planning. Todd also serves as the public member on the Certified Financial Aid Administrators Commission.
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Ame Enright is the Director of Certification for the Association of Child Life Professionals. Ame has worked on all aspects of the Child Life Certification Program since 2006. For a brief period in 2016, Ame worked as the Associate Director of Certification for the Security Industry Association, but her passion for the child life profession called her back to ACLP in 2017.


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Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/652/10865
From The Socialist newspaper, 5 January 2011
A real strategy to fight the cuts
The following open letter has been sent to Joe Anderson, leader of Liverpool City Council, by members of the 1983-87 group of 47 surcharged councillors.
Dear Joe,
We note in your declarations that you claim there is nothing the council can do other than implement the Con-Dem cuts more humanely than government commissioners.
Workers and their families will not notice the difference between you and Tory commissioners, the effect will be the same.
We would suggest that there are several steps you could take as part of a strategy to fight the cuts.
You claim that, in addition to the projected shortfall of £120 million, the government proposes to cut up to a billion pounds over the next four years.
We reject the notion that cuts of such magnitude can be managed without savaging the incomes, employment and living standards of workers.
The alternative strategy we propose is a bold campaigning one, which the city council of 1983-1987 pursued.
The first step should be to use the council's budget reserve, reported in the Echo as £80 million, to maintain current funding levels in areas which the Con-Dem alliance is cutting.
This would buy time for more decisive measures to defeat the cuts. We understand that your figures for reserves may differ, if so then please explain the situation according to council figures.
In addition you could take Liverpool Direct back in-house thus saving a reported £29 million a year.
Then, as we did in 1983-87, you should work out how much is required to fund the existing council services in 2011 and pass a budget in line with inflation.
This would no doubt produce a short-fall in the council's income. The amount of the shortfall could be identified, say £50 million.
A campaign could then be launched to oppose the cuts with the specific demand that £50 million be restored to the Liverpool City Council as a means of defending jobs and services.
You could issue a call for all local authorities to embrace the same strategy, and call for support from the local authority trade unions and the wider labour movement, in concert with community organisations which are planning to resist any cuts in their own localities.
If Liverpool makes a courageous stand, this could act as a beacon to other local authorities and campaigning organisations to join the campaign.
If a number of the main local authorities adopted this strategy of refusing to cut jobs and services to compensate for Tory cuts, backed up by a campaign of mass demonstrations and industrial action, the Tories would be compelled to retreat.
Already the magnificent action of the students has created chaos in the ranks of the Lib Dem wing of the government which, let us remember, is ruling without a popular mandate.
We call on the Labour group to totally reject the cuts and to join, not with the Lib Dems, but with the trade union and labour movement in defending the mass of Liverpool's working people.
It was such a campaigning strategy which resulted in the Thatcher government releasing funds to the city worth some £60 million which allowed us to carry out our electoral promises.
The alternative is a programme of cuts which will devastate the jobs and services which thousands of working families rely on, and signal a return to the dark days which we inherited in 1983.
Those dark days resulted from a catastrophic 65% collapse in the Liverpool economy between the mid-seventies and 1983, made worse by the £30 million which the Tory government cut from Liverpool's rate support grant.
If the Con-Dem cuts are implemented in Liverpool we will see a return of those dark days which we should all campaign to avoid.
Signed: Paul Astbury, Harry Smith, Tony Mulhearn, Alan Fogg, Felicity Dowling, Frank Mills, Tony Rimmer
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These are some of the spirits of the Forest. Every year they gather for a picnic and poses for a family photo.
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The day the Sadecs arrived on Earth was the day that Kenzi's whole life changed. As one of the rare and valuable Pain Receivers that the alien warriors need to balance their sadistic ways, she has volunteered to become a willing slave to their lusts. She soon finds herself kneeling at the feet of her new Master as they travel far away from everything she'd ever known.
There is a lot to love about her new life and the way he excites her with pain and pleasure. But the Sadecs share that which they value and as the General's most prized possession she's not exempt from experiencing the touch of his trusted warriors–whether she likes it or not.


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Telecom API Market is expected to progress at an extremely positive CAGR of 23.6% within a forecast
Posted: Dec 14, 2018
The highly fragmented market of telecom API holds a staggering number of service providers and aggregators that are already offering their APIs to various telecom carriers. Alcatel Lucent, Apigee Corp., and Fortumo OU were the leading providers of telecom API from a global perspective in 2014. Telecom carriers have partnered with them and other prominent players in the past to launch APIs in the market.
According to Transparency Market Research's latest publication, few players are currently dominating the scene in payment and location APIs owing to the high amount of credibility required for them to succeed here. On the other hand, a large number of players exist in voice, MMS, SMS, and WebRTC APIs.
The global market for telecom API is expected to progress at an extremely positive CAGR of 23.6% within a forecast period from 2015 to 2022. By the end of 2016, its revenue is expected to reach US$97.06 bn and US$323.44 bn by the end of 2022.
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North America to Dominate Telecom API Demand
North America, with its large number of both enterprise developers and long-tail developers, is expected to retain its leadership in the demand for telecom API services. By the end of 2022, North America is expected to generate US$113.53 bn in telecom API. North America also houses a very large base of unique subscribers of mobile internet along with a high penetration of 4G LTE networks, thus promoting a greater degree of utility for telecom API services.
On the other hand, Asia Pacific is showing a massive growth rate in the demand for telecom API, owing to a booming IT industry and its demand for applications development and management. This region is also showing a strong growth in the number of unique subscribers over the coming years, coupled with the promising development and improvement of mobile connectivity.
In terms of users, enterprise developers are expected to be the leading segment till 2022, reaching a projected value of US$116.08 bn by then. Meanwhile, long-tail developers, thanks to the extremely high demand for open source API platforms, are leading in terms of growth rate at a CAGR of 25.9% from 2015 to 2022.
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A massive number of new and upcoming apps are going to be cloud-based and the use of telecom API can provide a more efficient method of managing all the data transfer.
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Gold remains extremely under-owned by investors despite having a solid track record as a currency of last resort in times of uncertainty, and despite the current global environment being arguably more uncertain than any point since the second world war.
Current gold ETF holdings as a percentage of global ETF assets are tiny. An ETF (short for exchange-traded fund) is a security that tracks an index.
However, "Market complacency could bolster the case for gold" and the positive investment cycle in the asset class potentially has many years to run.
What do we mean by under-owned?
As the chart below shows, in 2012 gold was relatively well-owned, with gold ETFs over 10% of all ETF assets (including equities, bonds, etc).
Since then ETFs have expanded across asset classes and we have seen strong bull markets in bonds and equities. At the same time, and partly as a result, gold ETF holdings have fallen from over 85 million ounces in 2012 to around 68 million ounces (in August). Gold ETFs as a percentage of all ETF assets are now closer to 2%.
For gold, in a world still awash in liquidity and with financial asset values very high, this is positive.
We are not suggesting that ETF holdings in gold are not increasing. We have already seen total ETF holdings of gold increase by 32% in 2016 and by a further 8% year-to-date 2017.
What we are saying is that around $15 trillion of liquidity has been injected into global financial markets from central banks since 2008. So, when investors start meaningfully allocating to gold again, gold ETF holdings have the potential to grow at significantly higher rates than we saw during the 2004 to 2012 period.
Gold equities
Now, if we look at gold equities, we see a similar picture (see chart 2). The current weighting of North American gold equities in the S&P 500 and Toronto's TSX has fallen to just 0.6% after reaching a peak of over 2% in 2012.
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To put this low weighting in perspective, the entire North American (US & Canadian) gold producers have a combined market cap of less than $150bn.
This is tiny and highlights the scarcity value of gold equities if a bull market in gold gets going. Essentially, this extremely low weighting reflects investors' current low positioning around gold and gold equities, as well as the very high valuations of other more mainstream sub-sectors.
This relatively low weighting surprises us given increasing geopolitical risk, increasing risk of inflation and therefore negative real rates. It is also surprising given that the majority of the companies we invest in have improving fundamentals and are trading at the lower end of their historical valuation range.
Relative to gold, we believe gold equities still look cheap and we would stress that our equity holdings are currently discounting gold prices of less than $1,200/oz, at a time when the actual gold price is $1,327 (as at 12 September).
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As it turned out, this was my last full-length recording involving the cello, so obviously it's now become very special to me. I honestly believe I was playing at the peak just before I was forced to stop playing through injury – so it means a lot to both of us. I feel very fortunate we were able to make this together."
- Julian Lloyd Webber
The first arranger of Vivaldi's concertos was Vivaldi himself, and Julian Lloyd Webber's new versions on this recording reflect the composer's pragmatic attitude and zest for experiment. Vivaldi's Concerto in G minor RV 531 is his only original concerto for two cellos. Alongside this appear works both popular and recently discovered, the mercurial moods of the cellos representing instruments from mandolins to hunting horns. Piazzolla's Milonga displays all of his most distinctive hallmarks. Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber's acclaimed album A Tale of Two Cellos can be heard on Naxos 8.573251.
"This is expressly a CD for those who enjoy a pair of cellos, beautifully played and blended together in slow lyrical tunes, with a stylish piano accompaniment…" – Gramophone
"…this is a marvelous undertaking and a boon to Vivaldians and lovers of the Baroque concerto in general. The modern-instrument performances are up to the task, and the sound is excellent." – Fanfare
"Julian Lloyd Webber brings an especially sensitive 'voice' to the Barjansky-Stradivarius cello… in the subtle changes of register and tone he lends to his own arrangements...with the legerdemain of John Lenehan's delicate accompaniments…this is an ideal collection to while away the summer evenings." – Gramophone
"Wallfisch's pointed, erudite and spirited playing is supported with enlightened restraint by the CLS... With performances of this calibre, and in demonstration quality sound, one marvels that Naxos can offer so much for so little! A triumphant debut for what seems destined to become one of the legendary recording projects of the decade" – BBC Music Magazine


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San Juan, Puerto Rico(CNN) Sammy Rolon is living in a makeshift clinic set up at a school. He has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and is bedridden. He's waiting for surgery that was scheduled before Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico. Now, he can't even get the oxygen he needs.
There is help available for the 18-year-old -- right offshore. A floating state-of-the-art hospital, the USNS Comfort, could provide critical care, his doctor says.
But nobody knows how to get him there. And Sammy is not alone.
Clinics that are overwhelmed with patients and staff say they don't even know how to begin sending cases to the ship. Doctors say there's a rumor that patients have to be admitted to a central hospital before they can be transferred to the Comfort.
Only 33 of the 250 beds on the Comfort -- 13% -- are being used, nearly two weeks after the ship arrived.
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the official protocol is for patients in need to go to their nearest medical facility. If that facility is unable to provide care, a doctor there should contact the medical coordinating center in San Juan.
Someone there will then determine whether a patient needs to be transferred to a hospital on the island and which one. In some cases, a determination will be made to transfer a patient to the US Army Combat Support Hospital in Humacao, which has 44 beds and has been operational since Sunday.
The remaining option is for patients to be transferred to the Comfort.
"Only patients with critical needs requiring specialized care will be transferred to USNS Comfort," said Coast Guard Lt. David Connor in an email. He is working at the FEMA Joint Information Center in San Juan.
"Over 100 patients have been treated to date, conducting logistics and medical support operations in Arecibo and Aguadilla," according to briefing issued by FEMA on Tuesday.
The hospital ship was deployed as part of the federal response to the storm and its aftermath that has left 3.4 million Americans facing power and communications outages, water and food shortages and at risk for worsening health conditions.
The USS Comfort is waiting; the process laid out by FEMA for patients does not seem clear to local health-care providers.
Puerto Rico's Department of Health has to decide which patients can get care aboard the ship. And referrals have been minimal.
CNN asked Gov. Ricardo Rosselló why so many are in need of help and yet a ship with operating rooms and intensive care units sits nearly empty.
"The disconnect or the apparent disconnect was in the communications flow," Rosselló said.
He acknowledged that the system must get better.
"I asked for a complete revision of that so that we can now start sending more patients over there," Rosselló said.
For doctors and medics in hospitals and makeshift clinics, time is of the essence. It is difficult for them to watch patients suffer, and not be able to provide answers or direction about whether the USNS Comfort is an option.
Dr. Jorge Rosado, who oversees Sammy's care at the clinic and works at San Jorge Children's Hospital, says the young man is a prime example.
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Capt. Kevin Robinson, the Comfort's mission commander, says help is waiting.
"I know that we have capacity. I know that we have the capability to help. What the situation on the ground is ... that's not in my lane to make a decision," he said. "Every time that we've been tasked by (Puerto Rico's) medical operation center to respond or bring a patient on, we have responded."
For Sammy's father, Jose Cruz, the waiting for a plan is heartbreaking.
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Null tests of the cosmological constant using supernovae Yahya, Sahba; Seikel, Marina; Clarkson, Chris; Maartens, Roy; Smith, Mathew (American Physical Society, 2014)The standard concordance model of the Universe is based on the cosmological constant as the driver of accelerating expansion. This concordance model is being subjected to a growing range of inter-locking observations. ...


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Hop King
- Location:
- Clapham
- Year Founded:
- 2017
See up by brothers Ben and Ludi Hopkinson (Ed - great beer name there!), Hop King combines two passions.
The first is great, easy drinking beer, inspired by Ben's search for a nice easy drinking pale ale he could share with friends when faced with over-hopped alternatives.
The second is skateboarding - Hop King is a fully fledged beer and skateboarding brand with it's own range of skateboarding merchandise.
We look forward to seeing how the brand develops (especially the future beer plans beyond the initial Pale Ale) and the planned office/bar/skatepark combo which is due to open soon.


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The classic recording The Modern Lovers has been released lots of times, lining pockets of record labels but not The Modern Lovers. In 2005, Jonathan Richman et al sued Sanctuary Records:
Charging that they have not been paid in 30 years for the punk rock classics "Roadrunner" and "Pablo Picasso," along with 83 other recordings, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers are suing Sanctuary Records, Bomp Records and producer Kim Fowley for the rights to the band's recordings.
Richman and his original bandmates -- Jerry Harrison, David Robinson and Ernie Brooks -- are also seeking restitution of the defendants' gains and profits. Lawsuit was filed in Superior Court of California in L.A.
Suit charges that Sanctuary has issued three albums, licensed the music to another record company for another album as well as film and TV but never paid any royalties or supplied royalty statements.
Sanctuary, a U.K. company with U.S. offices, took ownership of the original recordings of Richman and the Modern Lovers in 2000.
-- Phil Gallo Variety
In 2007 Castle Music (owned by Sanctuary Records Group) re-released The Modern Lovers (02182-36294-2). Here's a review:
Excellent reissue of a kick-ass classic. Only thing better would be seeing this on vinyl. But for a CD version, Castle Music superbly re-creates this masterpiece, keeping the original song order intact and the bonus pieces at the back--unlike the late-1980s Rhino CD. The bonus cuts are all well-chosen, too. Appearing again is the original cover (the heart around the words "The Modern Lovers"), sans that ugly blow-dried-haircut photo Rhino slapped on their cover. The cover is a weird purple, and this has been problematic for the album's reissues all along--nobody seems to want to recreate the original Beserkley cover intact, meaning the simple heart cover in plain black and the concert poster on the back cover. Your best bet for a near replica is the 2000 gatefold Get Back Records LP reissue, which, though a gatefold while the original was not, nevertheless replicates the poster inside the gatefold--though oddly, Get Back's single-fold version does not include the poster copy on its back cover. Welcome to the strange world of reprints. In any case, Castle does a superb job here, including a huge foldout CD packet with more history on the Modern Lovers than we have a right to expect. Of the bonus cuts, Dignified & Old, and I'm Straight, would not seem out of place on the original issue, but Government Center forecasts the goofier Modern Lovers that fills Richman's catalog after this one-hit wonder. The remaining bonus cuts range from forgettable (Dance with Me, and I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms) to jitteringly fascinating alternate verisons of key original LP cuts--Roadrunner, Modern World, and Someone I Care About.
This is the fifth copy of this lovely gem I've owned, including my "disappeared" original Beserkley LP purchased for a mere 8 bucks in a Minneapolis Wax Trax in 1980, the ugly Rhino CD that was stolen from my home, and the two recent Get Back reprints. If any of those versions of this great work of art has ever gotten under your skin, you'll understand the compulsion to add yet another incarnation to your collection. If you've not yet been smitten by the Lovers, there's a big juicy kiss waiting for you in this jewel case. Pucker up! And join the modern world, with me.
-- Gary Kuhlmann (originally posted here)
Thanks Gary!
The Modern Lovers Castle Reissue 2007
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Broadcast News,1987,USA
Director:James L Brooks
Stars:William Hurt, Albert Brooks and Holly Hunter
Broadcast News tells the story of two rival Male TV reporters,One Handsome and The other Talented,Both fall in love with a virtuoso television news producer.
The film is directed by James L Brooks in his second directorial effort after winning three Academy Awards in 1983 for "Terms Of Endearment",Brooks has managed to make a smart and funny romantic comedy where none of the main characters end up together and strays from the regular Romantic Comedy mould.
The film features brilliant performances from the three leads,William Hurt is terrific as Tom playing a genuinely nice guy with a deceptive side coming from a difficult background.Albert Brooks plays Aaron Altman a brilliant reporter secretly in love with Jane and scorning her rejection of him,Holly Hunter plays Jane a talented and complex Television Producer who suffers from daily emotional breakdowns,all three are brilliant and work really well together and have terrific chemistry,also in the cast is Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack and the legendary Jack Nicholson.
The film has plenty of humorous moments mainly supplied by Brooks character,the film also has its fare share of touching and emotional moments,i definitely found the last scene showing where the characters ended up seven years later was touching.
Overall Broadcast News is a great film by James L Brooks,It showcases terrific acting from its cast especially its three leads,Recommended


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06 June 2011
Book Review: The Girl in the Steel Corset
Author: Kady Cross
Publisher/Year: Harlequin Teen / 2011
Date Finished: 1 June 2011
Source/Format: NetGalley / ebook
Buy | Borrow | Accept | Avoid
Challenges: Steampunk Challenge,
The Short and Sweet of It
The first in a new series, this steampunk thriller offers the usual: a girl still coming into her own power, fun gadgets and gizmos, a love triangle (two actually), and an intriguing bad guy. The story kept me entertained, and the characters kept me interested.
A Bit of a Ramble
When Finley Jayne is assaulted by her employer's son, she doesn't swoon or cry. She kicks his ass. I love her. Unlike many other YA books I've read in the past few years, this one has a protagonist who may be sweet and a bit unsure, but she does not hesitate to stick up for herself and demand respect. Her ability to toss around, leap over, knock out, or otherwise incapacitate anything or anyone thrown in her path certainly aids in her kickassery, but there is something about her personality which tells me that Finley would not stand for any amount of violence, asshatishness, or disrespect (as so many female heroines do in YA).
The other characters are just as intriguing. After beating her employer's son senseless, Finley realizes her actions may bring on attention of the police persuasion, so she runs. In her hurry, she is nicked by a velocyle driven by Griffin King, a Duke who is no stranger to extra abilities. Griffin can manipulate the Aether, use it for added strength, harness it as a weapon, and enter it to communicate with the dead. Soon Finley is living with him, and his "team": Sam, whose skeleton is partially metal, Emily, who has a strange connection to machines, and Jasper, who can move with surprising speed. Shortly after, she is helping them track down The Machinist, a man modifying automatons to his own nefarious purposes.
And then there's Jack Dandy, the third leg of the love triangle. He is set up as a rather enigmatic character: a sort of prince of the underworld. His house mirrors the dual nature of Dandy himself. Dirty and rundown on the outside, the inside is fancy. Dandy himself displays characteristics of a commoner, such as a Cockney accent "murdering" the English language, but the words he uses suggest a high level of education - and sometimes that accent disappears.
It is obvious that Griffin and Jack represent the dual nature of Finley, and it also seems obvious that Griffin is the one she is meant to end up with. Honestly, I am very very tired of love triangles. I think the whole situation is overdone, and the way these love triangles are portrayed indicate a wishy-washyness in the female character which I find mildly insulting. I am not saying females can't fall in love with multiple men; I am saying that the way YAL sets it up is a bit iffy. And I have a really brilliant idea (a wish I know will never happen). How about Finley ends up with both of them?
Griffin, Finley, and Jack happily living out their days together in a polyamorous relationship is what I'm hoping for. Let's do something new. Something original. Something representative of a real, but predominantly ignored, lifestyle. I'm betting that's as likely as Michelle Obama putting on a strip show for 20/20. But one can dream....
Despite my love-triangle burnout, I really enjoyed the book, and I am excited to start a new steampunk series (as if I don't have enough series going right now). This is one I may have to buy a print copy of!
Question: Is anyone else ridiculously tired of love triangles?
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"Griffin, Finley, and Jack happily living out their days together in a polyamorous relationship is what I'm hoping for. Let's do something new. Something original. Something representative of a real, but predominantly ignored, lifestyle."ReplyDelete
Oh gosh, YES. I'll do cartwheels the day I come across a book that actually represents that. I'll even VLOG myself doing them.
I like the sound of this book, and I really love books with a strong female lead. I also am a little bit over the love triangle thing and would love to see a book that doesn't throw that into the mix. The love triangle seems to get just as much play as infidelity does in literature these days, much to my chagrin.ReplyDelete
OK, "asshatishness" is my new favorite word. I often use "douchebaggery" and even "fuckery" but your word takes it to a whole new level!ReplyDelete
I've been completely sick of love triangles for awhile now. I want something NEW to create conflict in relationships. I mean, come on!ReplyDelete
The love triangle aspect definitely sucked. But the rest of this book? Pretty darn good, I thought. Glad you liked it as well. =)ReplyDelete
The love triangle seems to get just as much play as infidelity does in literature these days, much to my chagrin.ReplyDelete
Tried to leave a comment the other day but blogger was hating the embedded comment form so I'm back. ;)ReplyDelete
Yes, tired of love triangles. I'm boycotting the next two Hunger Games books solely because of it. One day I'll cave but I'm scared what I'll find between Peeta and Gale.
Been meaning to try steampunk but keep forgetting. Love the cover of this one.
We have this in our library, and I keep looking at it and trying to decide if I want to read it. I might have to check it out, even though I, too, am tired of love triangles. You know what I'd like to see? A love triangle where she ends up with NEITHER OF THEM. Or they end up with each other. That would be fantastic.ReplyDelete
I can't do cartwheels, so I'm not going to offer to do them if I ever find a book like this. I'll cheer wildly, though :)


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Over the years I have reported on some interesting creatures that I have found, or that have found me, but the latest is remarkable.
I was walking on Urquhart Bluff beach one afternoon during the February–March heatwave and found a brown lump at the high tide mark. It could have been a lump of rolled up seaweed, of which there was a lot just 50 m back, but I picked it up. It was dense, coarsely hairy on the back, waving spines around the perimeter and had a ribbed 'foot'. I took some photos and returned it to the water, though I don't think it would have survived long.
What was it? I checked my ID book without luck. Instead of asking the museum as I usually do, I thought Mark Rodrigue at Parks Victoria might know, but he referred me to the museum and at the same time passed on my photos to them. Almost immediately I had a reply—It surely is one of the several families of scale worm (Aphroditidae). It is a species of Aphrodita ('sea mouse'). There are three species commonly recorded in Victorian waters, I would need to put the specimen under the microscope to be sure of an identification but Aphrodita australis is the one most commonly found beach washed (usually after some onshore weather).
Following up on this, I checked the Atlas of Living Australia and found that there is only one other record of any Aphrodita species in western Victoria, being at Portland on an unspecified date. The genus was named in 1758 by Linnaeus, the inventor of the whole naming system for plants and animals, indicating sea mice were known before Captain Cook came here!
Perhaps not as peculiar as the above, at (dry) Lake Dubban at Modewarre, a few days earlier I found what looked like a wasp on a flowering Sweet Bursaria. I Googled flower wasp and found a likely candidate. I checked with the museum and they confirmed it as a Flower Wasp, Austroscolia soror. It is also a new recording for western Victoria.
Flower Wasp
These two finds are now on Atlas of Living Australia at https://www.ala.org.au/
Neil Tucker
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The effects of semi-starvation cause physiological changes that perpetuate the disorder. Understanding the causes of eating disorders is further complicated by the fact that behaviors associated with weight loss within eating disorders can create additional symptoms. For example, chronic severe dietary restriction can worsen depression and anxiety, as well as trigger binge eating. Also, the original causes of the eating disorder are unlikely to be the factors that keep it going. Often dieting is initiated in the hopes of producing changes that will make the person feel better about herself or as a way of coping with negative emotions. Ultimately, the behaviors that start out as a way of demonstrating self-control end up out of control.
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by Tracy Darlington
KJ-52 Interview
always encourage people to find out who Jesus is for themselves.
Don't base your relationship on a pre-conceived notion of what
church is or what your parents teach you."
Five albums of material as a hip-hop artist is a feat in and of itself in an age that has been characterized by many as the dead era of this genre. Three of his four titles have scanned over 100,000--the only Christian hip-hop artist in history to do so. KJ-52 has become one of the most trusted names in music as a songwriter, producer, minister, and comic poet, in spite of many seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Let's not forget: He is an unabashed follower of Christ, he is white, and he is a rapper.
Tracy: How did the segmentation of Christian rap happen?
KJ: A lot of it has to do with the fact that because it comes from an urban context, if you meet people in the "hood" of Atlanta, GA vs. someone in the "hood" in Seattle, their tastes are going to be very different because of where they're from. So you have very segmented styles. But that really just has to do with rap's growth. As rap grows, each region, area, culture, even country adopts it in their own way and puts their own flavor to it. I would say that a lot of those rigid borders have changed over the years. We're not in the mid-nineties where an East Coast artist goes to California and gets shot, ya know what I mean? We're not at that point anymore. Rap goes through cycles; the south is big right now, but that could change. I celebrate it. I think it's great. You can reach all kinds of people. I know what role I play, and I'm content with that role. TobyMac does his thing, and he does it well. Grits does their thing, and they do it well. Hopefully I do what I do well. I still need to grow. I'm not there yet.
A lot of parents and pastors feel that rap/hip hop as a whole is of the world and inherently non-Christian. What would you say to them?
I wouldn't say anything to 'em. If that's how you feel, I'm not gonna change your mind. I have to focus on what God has called me to do. If you are approaching it with the attitude of "maybe I'm wrong" I would say our opinions should really be based on the Scripture. If you think rap is of the world, why do you think that? "Well, their pants are sagging." OK, tell them to pull their pants up. (Laughs.) That's not a Biblical reason. I mean, it's the same thing they said about Christian rock back in the 80's. And now Christian rock dominates everything. We're just taking baby steps still. I wouldn't say anything. I wouldn't worry about it. I just do what I do and leave it at that.
As a former youth pastor, you had the ability to relate to youth on a very personal level. Now that you're into music, do you find it hard to reach them?
No, actually I don't. A lot of what I did as a youth pastor I still do with my music. People ask "Why do you have the silly stuff in your music along with the serious stuff?" Because honestly, that's exactly how I used to build my youth group ministry. My kids were all housing project kids. No church backgrounds whatsoever. If I had gone in there and gone, "Alright, it's time to worship." You just can't do that. So a lot of what I did was a lot of fun stuff at the beginning of my service to bring them to the point of being able to listen to me. People would walk in and go, "I can't believe you have a hundred project kids dead quiet for fifteen minutes." They can't sit still in their class, but I wore them out; that's why. I do that a little with my music. All of that kind of ties together and becomes the framework of what I do. I feel just as connected with youth, if not more.
Tell us about The Yearbook Project - the balance between your reminiscencing and your goal to encourage young people right now?
I always look at a yearbook as a capsule of that time period. You can look back at the year you graduated like "Oh man, I can't believe I wore that!" So much of this record was a time capsule of last year. There were certain songs on the record that I just did for me. I wrote a song to my son. I just wanted to write a song to my son. Maybe some people would get into that, but for the most part, I just wanted to write a song to my son. That would be a kind of self indulgent song. Whereas a song like "Fanmail" was written with the fans in mind. I get letters from cutters, from kids who don't know Christ. I get letters from that semi-Christian kid who goes to church every once in a while - this particular one was addicted to pornography. Then I get a letter from a church girl who writes and says "I've fooled everybody. They all think my life is great, but really I'm just living like all the rest of my friends." This is the idea; this needs to be dealt with. I think it's about balance. The Yearbook to me was kind of a way of going "Here it is. You just saw my last year, everything I went through." That's what a yearbook should represent - everything you went through that year.
If you weren't a musician, what would you be doing?
(Laughs.) I'd probably be homeless right now! No, I would probably be in some kind of youth ministry. Maybe I'd be a youth speaker. I felt the call of the ministry right after I got saved, when I was sixteen. I don't think I'd be happy doing much of anything else. Honestly, I've thought about that, like "How long can I do this?" Then again, Toby is like.... ya know! (Laughs.) And he's killin' it! So, there's hope!
Five Two Productions. Where is that exactly, and what do you plan on doing with it?
Part of that was a combination of things. It's me looking beyond this music and realizing I'm not gonna rap forever. I had a burden to produce. That's where I really find my joy right now is producing, making tracks. For me Five Two Productions was a way of going "OK, how can I help out other emcees or artists who are in the same spot I was in back in the day?" And I know for me to go beyond what I do now, to go beyond just being KJ the artist but KJ the producer, I have to find other people to work with. I really wrestled with this, because there is very little money in Christian hip hop. There's pretty much no money in Christian hip hop. So I thought that if I was in the mainstream, like if I was in Miami, that's really the Mecca of hip hop right now . . . So I thought "Man, I could go over there and just start shopping the beats around and make a lot more money. God really checked me on it, like "What are you really doing this for?" so I've been able to offer high quality production at a very affordable rate to artists who I see God's hand on and who have the talent. I want to start executing that in the next few months. It's a combination. I've started a radio show called Five Two Radio, I want to start Five Two Television and Five Two Productions. I teach a class after church called Five Two Academy. It's my way of teaching young kids how to write songs, how to make beats, how to perform on stage, and how to be a man of God.
If you could say one thing to this generation, what would you say?
I always encourage people to find out who Jesus is for themselves. Don't base your relationship on a pre-conceived notion of what church is or what your parents teach you. A relationship built on your own personal relationship with Christ lasts way longer than dogmatic rules, regulations or even doctrine of a particular denomination. Not that there's anything wrong with those things. They have their place and are important. All I know is for me I didn't really grow up in the church so finding out who Jesus was at fifteen helped me kinda go further than the "youth group kids" who just coasted by. So discover the Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of American Christianity or whatever we paint him as. Pick up the Bible and go talk to God. It doesn't get more un-complex than that. And get some people to help you too. Those answers that you're looking for, they're found in Him.
Tracy Darlington is a freelance writer, and her work has appeared in Brio, Breakaway, YS, CCM Magazine, Insight, Susie Magazine, and other publications. She has interviewed countless Christian musicians including Rebecca St. James, Delirious, Newsboys, Leigh Nash, Barlowgirl, Krystal Meyers, Joy Williams, Pillar, Michelle Tumes, and many others. In her spare time she can be found riding horses or listening to music and sipping a Venti 3-shot sugar-free vanilla latte. Visit her online at her blog where she talks about Music, God, dogs and coffee. You can also look her up at Twitter and Facebook.


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I explain how Steve Jobs changed my direction and what we, at FPL Connect, are looking to bring you over the course of the Fantasy Premier League season
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On the day Steve Jobs was sadly taken before his due time, I sought to find more videos of him with the hope of understanding this amazing man a little better.
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I'm not normally one for life-quotes, as I believe you should be who you want to be rather than modelling yourself on the success of others.
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This year, I wanted to take a step up in content, as I look to take the next step in the FPL Connect journey.
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- Profiling New Transfers – We'll cover the new transfers of note and provide a full breakdown of the player and analyse his prospects from an FPL perspective to keep you up to date on the transfer activities of the Premier League teams.
- Friendly Surveillance – Our dedicated team will be staying up late to view any televised friendlies around the world to bring you the latest formations and tactics from the Premier League teams, including some live match reports on some Norwich friendlies.
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- Player Value – I developed a new 'Player Value' metric last season, and have already released it again for this season, to make it more representative of what value actually constitutes in the context of FPL to help aid choices for your team before the start of the season.
- Fixtures – There will be some articles going out identifying which teams you should focus on getting players from based on their opening fixtures, and which teams you should probably steer clear of based on their opening fixtures.
- Creative Football Pieces – These will be sporadic journalistic pieces based on football rather than focusing solely on FPL given the quality of some of the new writers in our team.
- The Pressers – reviewing the key points of the press-conferences from an FPL perspective, including injuries and talk on rotation policy.
- Captain Metric – reviewing the best options for the armband, including the results of our captain poll on Twitter and our very own 'Captain Metric'.
- Live Match Reports – Our new team are dedicated to watching as many live televised games as possible, as we understand that whilst FPL is a healthy obsession, some don't have the time to watch the games live and whilst Match Of The Day is great for quickly catching up, you can't see everything in those highlights. Our guys will be watching everything attentively ready to report on any new interesting information, like a player who's seen to score a great goal in the Match of the Day highlights, but actually, he only got into that attacking position once in the whole game and probably isn't a great prospect – something you wouldn't catch watching Match of the Day.
- Auction House – We'll be exploring who's forecast to rise/fall in price, when that's likely to happen, which assets are a priority target to buy/sell as a result, who's good/bad value at a new price to help keep you on top of the price changes and to help build the value of your team.
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- Hot Topic – We'll be picking up on the hot topics within the community and will explore anything of interest on a weekly basis.
- Creative Football Pieces – And again, as in pre-season, there will be sporadic journalistic pieces on football in general throughout the season.
Our Vision – FPL Connect Ltd
The blog and offering content is just one small part of what we're ultimately aiming to bring you. The main concept will be a brand new interactive website that we're looking to launch around 1st September this year.
It will be an open BETA and we invite everyone to get on the site and have a play and give us as much feedback as possible, so that we can create the best possible experience for everyone who loves playing FPL.
The blog will be integrated into the new site so you will still have all our high quality free content, but the main concept centres around customisable FPL mini-leagues.
I'm very excited about the development of this new website. I truly believe it will be a hit and provide the answers to a problem that currently exists in Fantasy Premier League, as well as further enhancing our overall experience of playing the game we have all come to love, but in the mean time, our blog is here to keep you entertained, like the hosting area before you go into a swanky party!
So sit back, relax, and welcome to FPL Connect – I hope that our content provides you with interesting insights and is overall, helpful.
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We run a Twitter account that provides updates and that is generally very interactive with our followers and the FPL community. If you like what we do, give us a follow here >> https://twitter.com/FPL_Connect