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Every form was given a shoe box to decorate and fill with items that would aid a homeless person in Peterborough. The shoe boxes have been collected by Peterborough Soup Kitchen and will be given out by them too! The school made a fantastic effort and we have managed to fill 27 shoe boxes. In addition to this we also have several bags of extra donations too.


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One of our favorite family activities in the days leading up to Christmas is to pick out a kids advent calendar to help count down the days until Christmas Day. Each year we try and select something different and something that is reflective of what our kids love that year. We have had the friends advent calendar, the lego city advent calendar, a hot wheels calendar, my personal favorite was the lego star wars calendar.
These few minutes spent each day opening doors or getting a treat in anticipation of the holiday season are some of my treasured memories of time spent with the kids. The looks on their faces when they open the day of the month and the chatter they have between themselves about Christmas advent calendars gone by makes me sentimental.
Lego Advent Calendars
LEGO Star Wars 2019 Advent Calendar (280 Pieces)
LEGO Harry Potter Advent Calendar,New 2019 (305 Pieces)
LEGO City Advent Calendar, New 2019 (234 Pieces)
LEGO Friends Advent Calendar, New 2019 (330 Pieces)
LEGO City Advent Calendar, 2018 Edition, (313 Pieces)
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LEGO Star Wars 2018 Advent Calendar
Do you start at 1 or 24 on the Advent calendar?
It is truly up to you if you start at day 1 counting up to 24 or start and 24 and count down to day 1. Personally, we start at by opening the 1 first and ending on the 24. It is easier for our little kids to match the day of the month to the day on the advent calendar.


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Being married for five years to Shaina has been nothing short of fantastic. We have done a whole lot in that short amount of time. We moved from Spokane, to Soap Lake due to my work, and from there we bought our first house here in Ephrata Washington and are in the process of turning it into a home. We are just starting to learn Russian so we can help out in the territory where we live and preach. We've learned ASL to also help in that regard. I love learning with Shaina, she is so fast and sharp, where as I'm more of an intuitive learner. Problem is my intuition can be way off sometimes. We balance each other out though. Where I am weak she is strong and where she is weak I am strong. We've also learned how to take turns in that regard. When all in the world seems wrong, and everything I put my hand to seems to fail, she is right there to pick me up, or let me sleep it off, whichever I seem to need. When she feels like the whole world has turned on her, and everything she's trying to accomplish has gone awry, I get to be the strong one and lift her up.
Here are some specific memories that bring a smile to my face that we haven't told yet. Here is the exact moment I fell in love with Shaina. We found ourselves at this party in Chelan that turned out just ridiculous. There were minors being given alcohol. People, who were supposed to be setting a good example as Christians, were doing the exact opposite. People who were vulnerable to overuse of alcohol were being negatively affected. Shaina and I looked at each other, and knew we both felt uncomfortable being there. We made our separate excuses and left in separate cars and went to the beach in downtown Chelan. There, sitting at a picnic table we watched the sun set, and talked a long time about what we just saw, how we felt about it, and many other things. From that point on I knew I was in love. I knew I had found the woman I would marry.
Another fun story is, if some of you don't know, Shaina is deaf in her left ear. That's not the funny part, of course. The funny thing is of the two of us, I say "WHAT", way more often. Sometimes I will say back to her what I thought I heard her say, and she gets this look on her face, like: "How did you get that from what I just said?" What's remarkable about this is they test my hearing at work every year. Every year I score way above average. I have really good hearing; apparently what I hear at times gets scrambled around pretty well. I've had to develop the habit of waiting a half a second to unscramble and then respond to what I heard. It doesn't always work though. For example, once I heard "I would like to buy a stalactite." What she really said was, "What would you like to eat tonight?" It keeps us laughing, that's for sure.
In 2008 we bought our first new car. It's Shaina's car, and it's a kiwi green Ford Focus, and her name is Chloe. The Idea of owning a new car was foreign to me. I had never owned a new car, the idea never occurred to me. I had repaired credit, which is almost as bad as no credit, or bad credit. My score was atrocious somewhere in the five hundreds, really bad! It was this however that got the ball rolling in the idea of buying a house. We improved my credit score to up into the mid to high six hundreds in under a year and then the search began, we got a great deal on a little three bedroom, two bath. Brand new stick built home. We love it and it beats the pants off renting. If I have the option, I will never have a landlord again. I love being a homeowner, and I have Shaina to thank for it. She is so good with money, and has taught me so much about controlling my impulsive spending habits, and really taking care of our money. We work as a team on this. We always let each other know if we are going to spend money, and we always save the receipts.
We have learned so much together, and every step has been a joy in retrospect. That's not to say things haven't been rough at times. But the one thing I think we have learned that is most useful is that we have each other, no matter what! We are never alone, no matter what distance may separate us, we will find a way to be there for each other. We have developed a mental hug for just such times. When Shaina is having a real rough day at work and I can't be there physically, I give her a mental hug. I picture her in my mind, and then I picture gently wrapping my arms around her and squeezing. I throw all my mental energy, every ounce of positive energy I have into the mental act. It works. It makes her feel better to know I care enough to pretend to hug her in my mind. I like to imagine that that energy finds its way to her through the phone receiver. It makes me feel good to know that I can help a little. And it pushes me to get back to her as fast as I can, so I can give her the real thing. These are a few of my favorites and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.
PS. I need the mental hug too from time to time and she gives them right back, and I always feel just a little better!
When I stop and think about how fast these last 5 years have gone by it makes me so glad that I'm a blogger and a scrapbooker and a photographer. I have documented so much of our life together in these 3 ways. But for today I just want to share a couple things that I love about our marriage.
We get to spend so much time together. I work in an office by myself most days so when he gets off of work he comes and hangs out with me for the afternoon. This worked when he was driving school bus and now that he drives garbage truck too. I love it. We are best friends and really close companions. We started our relationship long distance and so its foundation is communication. Back then everything we talked about was on the phone and that's continued to be a way we like to communicate. Because Chris drives garbage truck for work he has a weird schedule and his days start at 3am. That leaves me to wake up alone in bed a few hours later. So we've formed a routine where we talk on the phone every morning when I wake up. Sometimes just a few minutes to say good morning, but most days this is when we have our heart to heart conversations. I look forward to our talks every morning and cherish starting my day being reminded of the love we share.
We love to talk to each other, to share our feelings, discuss things and laugh. We laugh a lot. That is something I distinctly remember from every chapter of our lives together…laughing. It helps us to keep a healthy perspective on life and not to take things to seriously. And it always brings us together when we're going through something hard. We talk together, we laugh together, we pray together and we just are together.
I think that because of how much time we've spent together over the years and how well we know each other, its led to our ease in decision making. We are usually "of one mind" on things and can make decisions fast. I remember how surprised our real estate agent was when we were picking out the color to paint our new house. It was literally: "This one?"... "Hmm…What about this one?" … "Nope…this one!" "Yes, that's the color of our house!" Probably under a minute. I like that about us. We don't really argue about many things because we feel the same way about most things. And we've taken the bits from my way of doing things that work, and the bits from Chris' way that work and melded them together.
And we both work to our strengths, even though they're a little different from the norm. For example, Chris does our cooking. He loves to cook, always has. And he developed skill and knowledge from his mother and living on his own before we met. And that's what works for us. It took me some time to get over feeling like I was less of a wife because I couldn't really cook. But if he likes to do it and is good at it, then why push to make our lives match a social norm? I do help out a lot in the kitchen, even though I'm not doing the cooking really. Chris calls me his Sous Chef. I'm glad we have a big kitchen in our new house so we can be in there together. Its another time we get to share.
Singing has also been a big part of our life together. We both love to sing! We've actually found the best karaoke DJ around in a little dive in Soap Lake called the Del Red. They have karaoke every Thursday and Saturday night. And Chris and I love to go. Since I've been sick we haven't been very often, but when we lived in Soap Lake you could find us there most weeks. I love to sing a little Jewel or KT Tunstel or Adele and Chris sings a mean version of "I believe in a thing called love" by The Darkness. And we do "Falling Slowly" from the movie Once together.
Our love of singing actually led us to get involved with the local community theater. They were putting on a production of "Once Upon A Mattress" which was one of my favorite plays from high school, and so I wanted to try out. Chris came with me and with the encouragement of everyone there, he tried out too. We both got cast, but I was unable to stay on for that show. Chris however, got bitten by the acting bug. He thoroughly enjoyed that first production and together we were able to do 2 other plays, "Razia's Shadow" in 2010 and "The Doctor In Spite of Himself" last June. We love to support our local theater and go see the plays that are put on, even if we're not in them. We go and usher for at least one performance and see our theater family again. We've made a lot of close friends through the theater, and we're glad it's something we did together.
I also fondly remember many road trips. We've made the trip up to Northern BC (where I'm from) two times since we've been married. That's a 10 plus hour trip. And we go to see Chris' family on Whidbey Island too, which is about 7 hours. We got to go to Portland in 2010 which was so much fun. And whenever there is an assembly we travel back and forth from home. I love to travel with Chris. This is getting a tad repetitive, but I like spending the time together. We listen to our favorite songs, or buy a new album and learn all the words. Or we take turns driving and read to each other. Or we just talk. And we take a lot of pictures. In June 2010 when we went up north I was in the middle of my 52weeks project. I had this idea for an image with the fields of small yellow flowers growing alongside the road. So we pulled off the road and Chris helped me make my idea come to life. We love to take pictures on Deception Pass Bridge that leads to Whidbey Island, too. One time we posed by some darling graffiti. I love that Chris gets my love of photography and likes stopping to take pictures on our trips.
These past 5 years have been so good. I love being married to this man and sharing my life with him. We make a great team. I am excited for where the future will take us and the many adventures we have yet to experience. I'm glad my best friend is at my side.


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Dane Baptiste confirmed as headliner of Comedy Night in aid of local charity
Dane Baptiste confirmed as headliner of Comedy Night in aid of local charity
Fancy a feel-good laugh? You're in luck, as tickets are now on sale for a comedy night with a cause. Taking place at The Stand Comedy Club on Monday 19 November, the Men's Comedy Night is in aid of Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland – and it's one not to be missed!
The entire evening will be hosted by the fabulous, Lou Conran – superlative storyteller and a regular on the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. A habitual performer at the Edinburgh Fringe, Conran will ensure the audience is in good hands – thanks to her masterful ability to tease audience members while becoming their best friend for the evening.
Headlining on the night is London-born stand up, Dane Baptiste. Original, provocative and exceptionally prolific, Baptiste has been hailed as one of the most exciting acts to break the circuit in years. Making history in 2014 as the first black British act to be nominated for a Comedy Award at the Fringe, Baptiste's long list of credits include hosting Live at the Apollo on BBC Two and Live from the Comedy Store on Comedy Central; Tonight at the London Palladium; BBC Two's Mock the Week; Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, as well as his own BBC sitcom, Sunny D. In 2018, Baptiste set out on a massive World Tour with his smash hit stand up hour, G.O.D. (Gold. Oil. Drugs.) and now, the critically-acclaimed comic is set to delight at Newcastle's very own The Stand Comedy Club.
Says Dane Baptiste:
"I'm very excited to be part of this show, and for the opportunity to raise awareness for this issue. Over 70% of women are subjected to some form of sexual trauma before they're 19, and we need to address and stop all sexual abuse. Hopefully, we can provide enough support and laughter to help raise spirits and awareness!"
Joining Baptiste is Hal Branson, an established comedian on the North East comedy circuit. Fresh from a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Branson has been described by NARC Magazine as 'effortlessly watchable' and counts The Huffington post amongst his fans. With recent support slots for Dylan Moran and Sam Simmons, Branson is guaranteed to win audiences over with his self-referential storytelling and heart-warming wordplay.
Says Hal Branson:
"I'm very honoured to be involved in this event, highlighting the incredible work of this amazing charity. In the current climate it's really important that awareness is raised around the issues that Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland deal with, and the support they offer to people in community who have suffered. The line up of comedians for the evening are a must see and it's a great opportunity to raise money and enjoy a great night's entertainment."
Following on from Branson is former professional wrestler-turned-comedian, Lee Kyle. Described by the BBC as a 'top up-and-coming comedy performer,' Kyle has just returned from his third Fringe performance and, off the back of his hugely successful book, Spandex Ballet – How I Wasted My Twenties Wrestling, will bring his delightful silliness to Newcastle this International Men's Day.
Third on the bill is Gavin Webster, who started his comedy career as half of a double-act, before going solo in 1993. Webster was a regular team captain in Channel 4's Does Doug Know? and is an established name on the comedy circuit. Named UK Circuit Comedian of the Year in 2014 (as voted for by fellow professional comics), Webster has supported the likes of Lee Evans, Jack Dee and Phill Jupitus on tour. With no less than 11 stints at the Fringe, Webster is somewhat of a Geordie legend when it comes to comedy.
Says Gavin Webster:
"It's a real honour to be supporting Rape Crisis once again; we've worked together once before, and they were really supportive and friendly, so it always warms your heart that they ask you to come back and help with more fundraising! Obviously, it's a fine cause – that goes without saying – but it's a proper good bill of great comics, and a varied bill at that. I'll certainly be doing lots of new stuff, but I'll mix it up with some of my greatest hits, as well. Do come along; you're supporting something decent and worthwhile!"
The Men's Comedy Night is just one of a string of events, throughout 2018, aiming to raise funds for Newcastle-based charity, Rape Crisis Tyneside and Northumberland. Now in their 40th year, the charity is looking to raise £40,000 in 2018, enabling them to continue their work with women and girls affected by sexual violence.
The Men's Comedy Night will take place on Monday 19 November from 7pm – 10pm at The Stand Comedy Club, 31 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EW. Tickets are £20 for general admission and £15 for concessions. Please note that an additional Eventbrite Booking Fee will be charged. Tickets: www.2018comedy.co.uk.
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Ramblings: Barbashev Suspended, Skinner Contract Signed, Ranking Leafs (June 8)
Ian Gooding
The NHL has suspended Ivan Barbashev one game for his hit to the head of Marcus Johansson during Game 5. See the hit below, which the officials seemed to miss. Fortunately, Johansson was able to stay in the game.
Barbashev was credited with a total of six hits in this game, which places him second in the entire playoffs in that category (80). Evander Kane is the leader with just one more, so Barbashev will only be able to pass him if the Blues lose Game 6 and he returns for Game 7. Barbashev has been part of a hard-hitting fourth line with Oskar Sundqvist (68 hits), which deserves much of the credit for St. Louis' ability to batter its opponents on its march toward the Stanley Cup.
Barbashev finished ninth on the Blues with 86 hits during the regular season in spite of playing 80 games, so this seems to be a newfound element to his game. If Barbashev can carry this hard-hitting style into next season and beyond, he could be an attractive option down the road for multicategory leagues in particular.
As for who will replace Barbashev for Game 6, Robby Fabbri is a possibility. Fabbri hasn't played since Game 3. The more physical Jordan Nolan could also draw in.
The Jeff Skinner contract is a done deal. The Sabres have locked up the winger for eight years at a total of $72 million (AAV $9 million). Skinner is now the second-highest-paid player on the Sabres, just $1 million per season behind Jack Eichel. In his May 17 Frozen Tools Forensics, Grant mentioned that Evolving Wild predicted an eight-year contract worth $8.5 million for Skinner, who was listed as a tier-one free agent in this article. This sizable contract could push the asking price for the likes of Artemi Panarin and Mitch Marner even higher (beyond $10 million), with a potential domino effect on lower-tiered free agents as well.
I profiled what Skinner staying in Buffalo means from a fantasy perspective back in my May 31 Ramblings. With shooting percentage likely to regress somewhat (14.9% in 2018-19 compared to 8.7% in 2017-18), it's going to be difficult for Skinner to score 40 goals again, even with top-line minutes alongside Eichel. This might not be an ideal contract, but Skinner and Buffalo seem like a great fit for each other anyway.
The Skinner signing also reinforces Eichel's fantasy value and will also make his fantasy owners sleep easier. A points increase for Eichel might have been inevitable anyway, but nearly two-thirds of Eichel's even-strength minutes and even-strength points in 2018-19 were with Skinner on his wing.
Just to clarify something else I wrote on May 31, Brock Boeser is not eligible for an offer sheet. Neither is Charlie McAvoy. See the post from Cap Friendly on the difference between Group 1 players and Group 2 players (this is why I prefer breaking down fantasy hockey more than the finer details of contracts). Group 2 players are eligible for offer sheets, while Group 1 players are not. You can read the entire Twitter thread for more details.
Boeser is a Group 1 RFA (or 10.2.c). He signed as EL 20 year old, meaning he needed 3 pro seasons to qualify for Group 2 RFA at expiry. To earn 3 pro seasons at 20, he needed to play in 10 or more pro games in each of those 3 years. Boeser only played 9 games in his first season.
— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) June 6, 2019
Charlie McAvoy in Boston falls into the same boat.
— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) June 6, 2019
You can read more about what a potential Boeser contract could look like in this week's Frozen Tools Forensics.
Before this next section, I'll mention that the Top 100 Roto Rankings will be back in one week. Throughout the periods of the summer where hockey news is few and far between, I'll discuss the rationale behind a few of my choices while they're fresh in my mind.
Deciding where to rank the Leafs' top three forwards isn't easy, and I might be setting myself up for criticism from Leafs' fans who watch their team more closely than I do. In the end, it looks like I'll be able to squeeze all of John Tavares, Mitch Marner, and Auston Matthews into the top 25 of my roto rankings. I currently have Matthews as the lowest of the three, but I could easily envision a scenario in which he is the top-ranked of the three by the end of the season. In case you think he should be the highest-ranked of the three, I'll explain my perspective.
Past injuries aren't necessarily a reflection of future injuries, but certain players receive an injury discount because of a usual number of games missed per season (Evgeni Malkin is an example). As it stands, Matthews has averaged 65 games missed over the past two seasons, which might be enough for him to land on the Band-Aid Boy Trainee list. In comparison, neither Tavares nor Marner have missed a game over the past two seasons.
Durability matters, and sometimes it can be the difference if everything else remains equal. Notice that Matthews' and Tavares' goals-per-game and points-per-game numbers were nearly identical in 2018-19.
In a pure points league, I might go with Marner over the other two next season. I've watched more Leafs' games than I'd care to admit (yes, I sound like a true Western boy), and I've often left thinking that Marner was the Leafs' best player in that game.
Having said that about Marner, Tavares' goal total far surpassed that of Marner, which matters in leagues that separate goals and assists because goals are harder to come by than assists. So I would prefer Tavares over Marner in multicategory, and I have to discount Matthews slightly because of the recent injury history. Again, that could change as the season starts. Also, these aren't major difference between the three Leafs.
Of course, all of this assumes that Marner re-signs in Toronto. It'll be a lot of money, and it's fun to imagine the drama that an offer sheet would create, but I think he'll be back in TO.
Having said I'd watched more Leafs' games than I'd like to admit, I'm genuinely happy for the Raptors, who are just one win away from an NBA title! The heightened interest in the NBA Finals in Canada might be taking away from the Stanley Cup Final, but there's nothing like a blown call to revive NHL discussion, isn't there! There might be more eyeballs on Game 6 not only to find out if the Stanley Cup is awarded to the Blues, but also to see how the officials call the game. Will Cassidy's criticism of the officiating result in Boston receiving enough favorable calls to force a Game 7? It should take much more than that, of course. But with the playoffs having gone the way they have, you never know.
For more fantasy hockey information, or to reach out to me directly, you can follow me on Twitter @Ian_Gooding.
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For my first project I used this super adorable image from Sami Stamps called "I Love Books"
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Easy when you get some help eh? they did a little bit better on WP 2 /4 but well done Terry, were you right? and thanks for explanation , I recall seeing it now.
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My goodness, I really had to look hard at the place you have marked to see the cat!! It is very well camouflaged (is that how you spell it?? lol) I would never have found it!! Thanks for putting us out of our misery :)xxReplyDelete
Totally amazing how your cat can blend into the background like that. I looked at that photo for 20 minutes and I could not find him.ReplyDelete


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Book review: My Greatest Defeat
I'm not in the habit of writing reviews of other books on this blog, but Will Buxton's My Greatest Defeat makes for a worthy exception.
Over the last 20 years I've been hunting down the world's greatest sportspeople in a bid to understand what goes through their minds when they find the magical state of peak performance. But it's time to admit I may have been missing a trick, because it's in our moments of despair that we learn the most – and the greats are not exempt.
Buxton has spoken to 20 of global motor sport's all-time legends about their lowest points. As it happens I've been lucky enough to interview all but two of them myself, yet such is the quality of these exchanges I've learned something new about every single one of his subjects – from Alex Zanardi to Jimmie Johnson, Alain Prost to Sébastien Loeb.
Each of the drivers opens up about what they learned from their personal disaster, showing how willing they were to buy into this project – not to mention the author's skills in putting them at ease to talk. And it's not just about the racetrack, with the late Niki Lauda notably delving into his own darkest hour after one of his Lauda Air planes crashed in Thailand, killing everyone on board.
I'll resist being the source of any spoilers, but there is plenty of wisdom to be found from Mika Hakkinen, Jeff Gordon et al, plus some surprising revelations along the way from the likes of Rick Mears. What becomes abundantly clear is that every one of these drivers is a human being like the rest of us. And it is a steady diet of defeat that sets each of them up for any eventual, hard-earned, oh-so-sweet taste of victory.
The best part is that Buxton lets them speak for themselves and allows the conversations to flow out onto the page. It's a throwback to the extended form of interviewing that we could see even on TV chat shows back in the days before it was deemed that we don't have the attention spans to cope.
Rest assured we do.
To be really picky, we might want to hear from more of the current crop of F1 megastars, because defeat is no stranger to any of us, young or old. But no doubt Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel are already being lined up for the sequel.
A final point: the book itself is a work of art thanks to the striking cover design and brooding individual portraits of each driver by DC and Marvel comic book artist Giuseppe 'Cammo' Camuncoli.
A man used to depicting superheroes with a dark tale to tell…
My Greatest Defeat by Will Buxton is out now
Thank you very much to Race Driver Coach Enzo Mucci for posting the first video review of In The Zone as part of his outstanding podcast series. Enzo is an expert in the field of racing driver training, having worked with many current stars of motor sport all the way up to Formula 1. Now he is working to spread what he has learned from his decades of helping the elite to the rest of us - all via his new project The Striver's Club. If you need a dose of motivation to get going with your own dream there is no better place to get started...
Get it while it's hot! In The Zone in Amazon Kindle Monthly Deals for September...
We're thrilled to announce that In The Zone has been included in Amazon Kindle's Monthly Deals for September. Now's your chance to read the thoughts of 100 sporting superstars on how they live their dreams and peak for their big moments - including Bolt, Phelps, Djokovic, Hamilton, Comaneci, Desailly, Ennis-Hill, McCaw, Hoy, Moses, Hagler, Klammer and Freeman - all for £1.19!
This fantastic news follows last month's interview with the wonderful Chris Evans on the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show which remains available on iPlayer for the next few days...
Thank you to the Red Bulletin for running a ten-page feature in their August edition (above) with quotes from many of the sporting superstars who I interviewed for In The Zone. You can read all about it in their UK, Switzerland and Mexico editions. You can also read the online version here...
Elsewhere Runner's World kindly made In The Zone their Book of the Month for August. The book also received a mention in August's F1 Racing while Autocar ran a British Grand Prix preview feature (below) on the racing mind based on my interviews with Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Mika Hakkinen and more. It can now be f0und online here...
I'm extremely grateful to all the media outlets who have given space to helped publicise the book and its message.
Reviews of In The Zone now online
The first online reviews of In The Zone have now appeared, so thank you very much to motorsport.com and LoveTennisBlog.com.
'In The Zone is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the psychological principles behind a Who's Who of great athletes, from Novak Djokovic to Nadia Comaneci to Usain Bolt to Michael Phelps. But the conclusion is that anyone can attain the Zone... as long as we dare to dream big.'
Read more at motorsport.com
'In this fascinating read, Clyde Brolin reminds us just how powerful our mind is. The descriptions of being in the Zone are almost spiritual and Brolin uncovers fantastic nuggets of advice for those who "dare to dream". This book is hard to put down…'
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How the three-pound lump can be controlled (by Edd Straw, Editor-in-Chief Autosport magazine)
It's rare that Autosport reviews a 'general' sports book. But while myriad voices and case studies are drawn in from a wide range of disciplines, author Clyde Brolin never loses the grounding in motorsport that you would expect from someone who worked for so long in Formula 1.
In among the sprinters, tennis players, skiers and gymnasts are plenty of familiar names from motorsport. And with the central theme being a study of what happens when athletes are mentally 'in the zone', this is a book that gives anyone with a desire to understand what goes on in the brains of the world's top racers real insight.
In The Zone is the sequel to Overdrive: Formula 1 in the Zone. Published in 2010, this was based on more than 100 interviews with racers, and this new book builds on that groundwork. Brolin was inspired by veteran F1 journalist Gerald Donaldson's famous interview with Ayrton Senna, in which the Brazilian talked about the out-of-body experience of being in the zone on his legendary pole lap for the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix. This is the phenomenon explored to the nth degree and broadened to encompass all of sport.
That there are so many voices in this book could result in a disjointed read, and perhaps some may find it that way. But the joy of In The Zone is that, while you know you're going to end up delving into the mind of yet another big name when you turn over the page, you never know what character is waiting around the corner. At one stage Brolin takes us in the space of a few paragraphs from Derek Warwick qualifying an Arrows sixth for the 1989 Monaco Grand Prix to Nigeria-born concert pianist Glen Inanga. Via a wedding.
The thematic connections, like the neural connections of top athletes, work well. Although built around a structure of chapters grouped into sections entitled 'conceive, believe, achieve', the linear progression is secondary to what is more of a web of insight that's built up with ideas and experience tying into each other.
For example, early on alpine-skiing legend Franz Klammer explains that "being in the zone is when everything is in slow motion so you have all the time in the world… it's not about the skill. Of course you have to have some ability, but basically it is the will. It's also crucial to have no fear of defeat."
Later, there are echoes of this from 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner Alexander Rossi. "At such high speed, if you operate solely on a conscious level you'd be too slow to react. So you no longer think about driving, until it becomes second nature. That's when you perform at your best."
Then there's Red Bull Air Race world champion Paul Bonhomme, who connects to Klammer's point with a telling aphorism.
"Say you're a point off your rival," says Bonhomme. "Do you have it within you to say, 'I'm not going to try too hard. It doesn't matter whether I win or lose?' You need an 'I don't need to win' pill."
Imagine layer upon layer of such insight, and you have a feel for what In The Zone offers. With regular appearances from big names in motorsport (the introduction zeroes in on JR Hildebrand throwing away the 2011 Indy 500 at the last corner), this is a must-read for anyone who craves a deeper understanding of how the three-pound lump in the driver's head can be controlled, or cause you to lose control.
Clyde Brolin spent over a decade working in F1 before moving on to the wider world of sport - all in a bid to discover the untapped power of the human mind.
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You know what the most painful part of the last 20 years of my professional life has been?
Its feeling like I was not living my full potential.
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Like I was stuck in positions that I made the decision "that's what I am going to do" in my late teens/ early 20.
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I felt like I was to do more with my strengths and ability, and where my heart was leading me.
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Those baby steps.
From position to position and consultancy to consultancy - I learnt SO much about myself.
Those baby steps in the direction of our curiosity...have to be taken, if we are to be led to the direction of our dreams.
Those steps took me away from working for Government and other organisation - to start my own business, and create my day to day life.
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August 10, 2014 by Robert Franklin, Esq.
Often one of the best aspects of small-town newspapers is that they're not so bent on promoting the usual narratives that we see daily in the large-circulation dailies like the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, etc. Noam Chomsky described those narratives as "manufacturing consent" for elite policies and perspectives, accomplished by repeating favored themes and eliding or marginalizing points of view deemed beyond the pale. News sources with large numbers of readers or viewers seem obliged to do the job Chomsky described while smaller outlets often appear to be free from the strictures of "keeping the rabble down." So it's not unusual to actually get a better perspective on the news from smaller, less prestigious news media than from the big names.
Sadly, such is not the case here (Rockland County Times, 8/6/14). The piece is written by someone named Stephanie Dolce and, to put it charitably, it's a mess. We'd be inclined to take it more seriously if Dolce could spell and manage to get her subjects and verbs to agree, but still, hers is proof positive that, just because a person writes for a small paper, doesn't mean she hasn't been infected by radical feminist misandry and good old fashioned stupidity.
As is so often the case with extremists, Dolce doesn't hesitate to lie or mislead, tell half-truths or simply render opinions based on nothing whatsoever. Indeed, fully half her piece consists of the last of that list. And, as is also often the case, she figures that, in some way, falsehoods, dogmatically stated, become facts. She's writing, so she can't shout, but much of her piece is the pen-and-ink version of just that.
When you touch a nerve talking about Feminism and the Men's Movement centered against it, you're going to get men who are going to tell you that you don't know your behind from your elbow.
I guess that would be me.
Men still make more money than women. In 2011, female full-time workers made only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 23 percent.
Yes, men make more money than women because of two primary factors – they tend to work longer hours at paid employment and they tend to work at higher paying jobs. Those two factors explain all but about 5-7% of the difference in aggregate earnings between men and women who work for a living. Those are facts found by dozens of studies all analyzed by CONSAD on behalf of the United States Labor Department and admitted by none other than former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. The simple fact is that, when women change their work habits, they'll start earning as much as men. Indeed, those who've done so already do.
Just 4% of cases actually go to trial. And mothers often get custody in large part because, on average, they're still the primary caretakers of children. That's not bias, and it's not even necessarily a good thing. It's just a fact.
No, actually bias is exactly what that is. It's bias in favor of primary caregivers. The reason it's bias, and inappropriate bias at that, is that the practice is so bad for children. If there were any evidence – even a little bit – that giving primary or sole custody of children to the parent who did the bulk of the hands-on care benefited children, Dolce, and the rest of the anti-dad crowd might have a point, but there isn't. Indeed, when Canadian researcher Paul Millar was granted first-ever access to the raw data on families and child well-being by Stats Canada, his analysis revealed that there was literally no evidence for the proposition and some for the opposite one. The practice of giving custody to one parent while marginalizing the other in the life of the child is wrong and wrongheaded regardless of who the custodial parent turns out to be. The fact that, in the U.S. about 83% of custodial parents are mothers is bad for children, bad for fathers, bad for mothers, bad for society generally and the public purse. It's indefensible on any level. Unsurprisingly, Dolce does nothing to change the fact.
Bad as it is so far, Dolce's piece gets much worse.
When men do seek primary physical custody in a disputed divorce, about half, 50% get it.
Wrong again. Worse, it appears that Dolce is just making up figures.
Years ago, Eleanor Maccoby and Robert Mnookin performed what's still the most authoritative study of, among other things, what parents want out of their custody case, what they ask for and what they actually receive. The chapter of their book on what parents want and what they get from the court is virtually an unbroken litany of pro-mother outcomes. Amazingly, for example, when a father requests sole custody and the mother agrees he should have it, he gets it in only about 75% of the cases. You'd think he'd get it every time, but no. But apart from that, again and again the authors find and report the pro-mother tendencies of courts.
So what happens when fathers want and request custody versus when mothers do? Maccoby and Mnookin's answer directly contradicts Dolce. The authors analyzed 198 cases in which the parents made conflicting requests regarding custody. Of those, mothers got what they wanted in 117 cases (59.3%) and fathers in 52 cases (26.2%).
So Dolce is flat wrong, but Maccoby and Mnookin overlooked one thing that likely makes the outcome they found misleading. As countless fathers can tell us, the perception of family courts is that they're anti-dad. That leads fathers to refrain from asking for the custody they actually want, a conclusion suggested by the two authors. But what that also means is that when the do ask for what they want it's because there are unique facts suggesting to them and their lawyers that they can get it. So a dad who's being divorced by a responsible wife and loving mother likely sees the writing on the wall and lets her have custody without an expensive and unproductive legal fight. But one who's being divorced by a woman with a lot of maternal deficits – drug or alcohol abuse, a criminal record, a record of child abuse or neglect, etc. – is more likely to dare to ask for what he wants. In short, those 198 dads who asked for what they wanted almost certainly had exceptional reasons for doing so, but even then only 26% of them got what they asked for.
One interesting aspect of Dolce's claim is that she seems to be working from Maccoby and Mnookin. Her statement "82% of mothers want sole custody for themselves, while 33% of fathers want sole custody" is lifted directly from the chart on the second page of the applicable chapter. So she seems to know about the book, but, instead of quoting the figures that don't support her claim, she just makes stuff up that does.
But it gets worse.
Numbers are hard to pin down, but estimates converge at between 2 and 8% of allegations of rape being false. Remember though, there are many false accusations for many different crimes that are committed daily, not just rape.
Yes, numbers are slippery little things. Maybe that's why Dolce decided to ignore those that don't agree with her thesis. She doesn't mention the Kanin study or the one done by the Air Force that respectively found 41% and 27% of rape claims to be false. Interestingly, both those studies set the bar for a claim to be found false extraordinarily high. Kanin required that the accuser voluntarily recant and that she pass a polygraph examination to make sure her recantation wasn't false. The Air Force study required a recantation and a vote by a three-person independent panel that it was done voluntarily for an accusation to be considered false.
But whatever the rule of thumb for false rape claims should be, Dolce's claim about false claims for other crimes doesn't ring true and, predictably, she cites nothing to support it. The simple fact is that rape and sexual assault claims are virtually unique in the vast array of criminal behavior and that uniqueness is exactly what makes them far more likely than other crimes to have high rates of false allegations.
In almost all criminal activity, there's some objective evidence a crime has occurred apart from the say-so of the complaining witness. If A steals B's car, the police can verify that B's car is missing and often that A has or had it. If the crime is murder, there's a body. If it's pot possession, there's, well, pot and possession. If it's insider trading, there are records of the trades and the trader's access to non-public information.
Not so with sex crimes. Men get arrested every day on the word of women who say they've been assaulted and usually they have been. But our willingness to send men to prison on no evidence but the allegations of the complainant is an open invitation to women to engage in the behavior Dr. Kanin discovered in his study of false claims.
I know Dolce will never do it, but she might consider going to the website for the Innocence Project. At last count, there were 287 former prisoners, almost all of them men, who'd been found to be factually innocent of the crimes they'd been found guilty of committing. Of those, an astonishing 237 (83%) had been convicted of a sex offense. So not only are rape and sexual assault easy to falsely claim, they seem to be uniquely easy to get a conviction for.
But of course Dolce's not interested. No. she's speeding on to her next false statement.
Did you know that men made up about 40% of domestic violence victims; not attackers.
No, actually they make up 50% or more. By now there's plenty of data on this. It's far past time special pleaders like Dolce stop singing the same old song. As but one example in an astonishingly long line of them, this 2013 study about which I blogged here, found the same thing.
Table I shows that women were significantly more physically and verbally aggressive to their partners than men were. Table I further shows that men used significantly more physical and verbal aggression towards non-intimate members of the same sex than women did. Table I further shows that women reported perpetrating significantly more controlling behavior overall than men did.
I'd urge someone to inform Dolce, but I suspect it wouldn't make any difference. By the mid-point of her article, she's already proven she has little interest in the realities of the issues she touches on.
But that's all the good news. It really does get worse. In fact, she finally gets down to the nitty-gritty of letting her rather alarming misandry out to play unsupervised.
Men are more concerned about bruised egos. If you think about it, men take pride in being the top dog. They need the attention, the paycheck, they need to be the one to ask a girl out, and they need to be the one who "takes care" of a woman. Heaven Forbid, a woman wants to take care of a man!
Men are becoming increasingly upset about being rejected by women they had an interest in years ago ( or their recent ex's) and continue to blame the entire gender for everything that has happned to them. Girls don't reject you for their own amusement. Get over it. I know there are women out there who manipulate men and try to use them to their advantage but I am not that girl. Neither are my friends. So when you try to play games in order to avenge your broken heart, you're hurting both of us. I have opened myself up to you and made myself vulnerable. I've put everything I value on the line, that doesn't mean that I am never going to disagree with you or vice versa, but don't blame me for your shortcomings in the relationship section of your life. All women are NOT the same!
Men are mad at women for being so damn superficial and they wish they would realize what an awesome person you are. I hate to break it to you, but men are more superfical than women. If you are getting mad at a girl for being picky, why don't you try her less-fortunate looking friend sitting in the corner. You won't because she isn't "hot" enough for you.
Stop wanting to date a supermodel and base everything on looks. Look to what a woman can provide for you through her personality and how big her heart is. That is who is going to not only take care of you, but also maybe your future children.
I'd kvetch that Dolce needs to invest in a spell checker and possibly even an editor who can point out things like the fact that sentences need verbs. But the truth is, none of that would do any good. The dogs are in full cry and nothing's bringing them to heel.
As usual, nonsense like Dolce's reveals much about the writer and little-to-nothing about the issues. Has Dolce ever met a man? If so, it's not obvious. The fact is that almost no men conform to the "top dog" stereotype imagined by her. A lot of those guys play in the NFL, are CEOs of corporations or reside in prison. Most of those top-dog guys aren't very well liked by anyone, including men. The overwhelming majority of men come to understand early in adulthood that (a) that sort of behavior is too much work, (b) that sort of behavior doesn't fit their personality and (c) as good as you are, as tough as you are, as smart as you are, there are plenty of people who outperform you in every category. So they wisely opt for greater contentment, more friends, a better family life, and less money and fame.
Dolce's just trafficking in a caricature of men that's become popular in recent decades mostly because it assists feminist discourse in marginalizing the male half of the population.
The rest of her screed is not only made-up but becomes increasingly incoherent. Claiming that "Men are becoming increasingly upset about being rejected by women they had an interest in years ago (or their recent ex's) and continue to blame the entire gender for everything that has happned to them," is as close to unhinged as it gets. What's her evidence for the assertion that men in general are doing anything of the kind? None, of course. What men are blaming "the entire [female] gender" for anything? No one I've ever heard of. But again, Dolce has no real ideas, just personal beefs that, unsurprisingly, she goes right into as if they have anything to do with anything other than her own life.
All in all, it's a shoddy a performance as I've seen in a long time outside of mainstream feminist publications like Slate's XX blog and whatever Jessica Valenti's come up with lately. You'd hope someone writing for a small publication could do better, but not Dolce.
Still, I think I know what she's up to. My guess is she's hoping for a gig at the New York Times. After all, they have editors who can fix those tricky things like grammar and punctuation that repeatedly elude Dolce's grasp. But with attitudes like hers, I think the Times might not be far off for her.
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"Good morning, Mrs. Bush. You are endometriosis free."
I don't normally appreciate any greeting, in person or electronic, before 8:00am. Particularly any that refer to me as formally as "Mrs. Bush". I also don't normally hug and cry in front of grown men I've known for less than 36 hours. Friday, April 17th was a weird day.
It's been ten years since I was last in Atlanta. Ten years ago, I was doing one of my first and biggest "grown up" things by hopping on a plane with my best friends and spending the next 3 weeks visiting friends in Germany. While at the airport in Atlanta, I got super nervous, started pouring sweat, and then emptied my stomach into three (yes. Three) "turbulence discomfort" bags, all before taking off. I've done a lot of growing up since then, but my somatic anxiety tells haven't changed one bit.
Last Wednesday, after meeting my parents at Big Bad Breakfast in Birmingham (excellent recommendation, Brittany!) for my last real-food meal (for a whole week), we hopped in Favre (my sweet new Southern Miss gold Jeep) and headed to Atlanta for my pre op appointment with the Center for Endometriosis Care.
I was given the opportunity to enroll in two separate studies regarding endometriosis, with one aiming to genetically link endometriosis and infertility. All of the "awareness" noise we make is meaningless without action behind it. I'm very excited to be a part of the action.
After a conference with my wonderful doctor (he likes to meet you formally before he meets you on his exam table), I had a rather painful exam. Doc diagnosed me with pelvic floor dysfunction. I'm still learning what that is and what that means, but here's the short (and Internet appropriate) version: my pelvic muscles have been spasming like crazy for a long, long time. When a part of your body feels pain, it contracts. This part of my body has been feeling a lot of pain, for a long time. It keeps contracting, over and over. Now, it has a hard time knowing when that's appropriate. This is one of the main causes of my daily pain with things that shouldn't be painful. Next month, I will start a very specific form of physical therapy to help reprogram my muscles. More on that at another time.
I was sent to our hotel with a lovely gift bag. Inside was a humongous bottle of Miralax, some Dulcolax, lots of Gatorade, and a Fleet Enima. This goes to show that with proper southern hospitality and etiquette, a colon cleanse can look like a spa gift basket. Sounds like a party, right? It wasn't that bad. Not something I'd actively choose to do on a Wednesday night, but I know it could have been a lot worse.
As mentioned above, my anxiety lives in my tummy. Occasionally, it pops up to make itself known to everyone else. My anxiety heaves made their appearance once I was in the pre op area, putting on the awful gown and getting my IV Thursday morning. More props to my nurse for being Johnny on the spot with the bag and ear sticker. Considering I had just emptied the contents of my entire digestive system a few hours earlier, there wasn't much to put in said bag. They started giving me ALL of the anti-nausea and anti anxiety drugs, which was super. Shortly after, my doc came in, cracked a few jokes, and then did the most wonderful thing. He took my hand and put a hand on Mister's shoulder, and he prayed over us before surgery. After a kiss from mama and daddy, they gave me the real good stuff, and I woke up a few hours later with searing pain in my right side. This was odd to me, even very drugged, as 99% of my pain has always been on the left.
I have very vague memories of the remainder of Thursday. I know I had a pain medicine pump with a button. I know that button didn't work for the first few hours, and Nurse Melinda was very impressed with my pain tolerance. I know I made mama text Student Doctor Bestie and ask her why I could taste everything they put in my IV. I know I hated those leg compression things, almost as much as I hated the hospital gown. That thing went as soon as I had the faculties to sit mostly upright with some assistance, and on went my leopard print gown with matching robe. Leopard is a neutral and is flattering on everyone.
I was informed later Thursday and again on Friday morning what all happened on the operating table. I had a cystoscopy and a hysteroscopy (a look around inside my bladder and uterus, respectively), and those areas were clear and free of endometriosis, fibroids, or polyps. I had three small incisions: belly button and one near each hip, where my doc excisised all the endometriosis he found. I had a presacral neurectomy, and a surprise appendectomy. Turns out, my appendix had endo on it, and was "glued down" to my intestines. Doc didn't like how it looked, he was in the neighborhood, so PEW PEW! There it went. I'm sure God gave us those things for a reason, but I can't say I miss mine. This explains the pain on my right side when I woke up.
The presacral neurectomy has been the biggest adjustment for me, so far, and was my biggest obstacle in the hospital. Nerves are important, and the ones down there are in charge of a lot of stuff. It took me a solid 24 hours before I regained the noggin to muscle control that one needs to go to the bathroom. It took some serious focus and a catheter at 3:00 am before my body figured out how to empty my bladder all by itself. I got a high five from Nurse Melinda once I did figure it out, though. Friday morning, my doc came in and gave me the only news worth waking up at 7:15 with a catheter taped to your leg to hear. I am endo free. He got it all. The chance of recurrence (regrowth) is less than 5%. My endometriosis is in remission. The good news didn't stop there. Doc had originally told us that we could start IVF a month after surgery, so we scheduled our first cycle to start in June. However, he has encouraged us to wait 3-4 months. Not because of healing time or because I wouldn't be able to handle the treatments, but because he thinks he has fixed our problems. He has encouraged us to give the good old fashion way of conceiving a few months, because he believes it to be possible now. He hugged me again, blessed us both, I cried, and then Mister took me home to nap where nurses wouldn't bug me or poke me. Saturday we went to Steak and Shake where I had a cookie dough milk shake, and on Sunday, Favre brought us home.
I went back to work yesterday. I've gotten a lot of surprise about returning so soon, but I promise, doc said I could sit at my desk and do stuff. It helps that I love my job. It helps that my property is small, and I can plan my day around specific needs (like being still). It also helps that I have a rock solid work family. I work in a relatively new company that makes a point of rallying around each other and supporting their managers and properties in any capacity. I knew this on the professional level already, but they have gone above and beyond anything I expected with this surgery and potential IVF. I have personally heard from my direct supervisor, my counter parts at other properties, the president of my company, and a few of the owners, multiple times over the last week. Each time they have made it a point to be encouraging, supportive, and to make this time as easy as possible. They didn't judge me when all the feelings came out and I cried after a simple "safe travels", either.
I am still sore and moving a little slow. I probably will be for another week or so. I come home from work and immediately sit down, with the intentions of doing nothing for the rest of the day. So far, that's working out great. We have wonderful friends bringing us meals while I continue to heal and figure out what "normal" is. I have hurt every day for so long, I have no idea what endo-free life is going to look like in practice, but I'm pretty excited to find out.
While this month has been immensely stressful, it has been full of encouragement and hope. There are a few uncertains still, and I have a feeling that pelvic floor therapy is going to be another adventure. We are healing. We are encouraged. We are hopeful. We are well fed. And we are His. To God be the glory, great things He has done.


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Original Publish date: March 9, 2017
DELPHI, Ind. (WLFI) — The grandfather of one of two teens killed in Delphi three weeks ago made an emotional plea to the public Thursday.
Mike Patty spoke to the media about the death of his granddaughter, 14-year-old Libby German, and her best friend, 13-year-old Abby Williams, at a news conference held at the Carroll County Courthouse Thursday morning. Investigators were also on hand to answer questions. They started the event with a prayer.
Carroll County Sheriff Tobe Leazenby started by sending out his gratitude and thanks to everyone involved and for the community support, then he turned over the mic to Patty.
Patty started off by reading a statement from the family of Abby Williams, who chose not to speak to the media Thursday.
"Abby and Libby loved each other. Throughout this tragedy, we have honored their memory by caring for and respecting each other. We respect Libby's family's decision to speak publicly at this time, just as they respect our family's decision not to speak publicly."
Patty also added that the media trust the choice of the Williams' family and wait for them to reach out to you if they so desire.
"This horrible crime has torn a hole in our families that will never heal," Patty said. "It's the small things that seem to hurt the most."
He talked about how the girls were getting ready for the upcoming softball season, and added there are too many ways the girls have impacted their lives to share them all.
Patty thanked Pat McAfee and Jim Irsay among other businesses for helping boost the reward fund to close to $220,000. He also announced additional donations will be used for a scholarship fund and, hopefully, a softball field and park in the name of Abby and Libby.
Patty turned his attention to asking people to help in the investigation. Someone knows this man and investigators need your help, he said. Look for changes in appearance or behavior in people and report information to the tip line.
"Obviously, we would like to see someone responsible for this," Patty said to questions from the media. "But I'm relying on law enforcement, ya know, and the efforts they are putting forward. ... Trust me – every call, every tip is checked!"
Patty later said, "The pain will always be there forever, but this is a hurdle that needs to be knocked down. ... Somebody out there knows something, somebody has to know this person, recognize this voice and I encourage them to call in and give us that vital piece of information. No matter how small it may seem, it may fit into another piece of the puzzle that will help put closure to this."
Patty said German was a smart girl and they talked often about having the presence of mind to your surroundings. He also joked she was kind of a photo buff, and that's the reason the girls were out hiking the day they died was to take pictures.
"But obviously, she had presence of mind to sense something a little strange there," Patty said about German recording the suspect on her cellphone. "I'm glad she did, very glad."
Toward the end of the news conference, Indiana State Police Sgt. John Perrine took over and announced the Delphi reward has now increased to $224,000 through additional donations and more than 11,000 tips have come into the command center. Out of the 11,000 tips, Perrine said 2,000 have been positively cleared with no connection to the case.
Perrine said investigators are asking people to make sure your information comes from a reliable source, such as state police. He said if the information doesn't come from law enforcement, please hold off on spreading rumors because it could slow down the investigation.
"Spreading unconfirmed information or rumors could be detrimental to our case, just because it could lead people to believe, people who might have information about this case to believe, that we're closer to solving it or that we have information that we don't," Perrine said.
Police are still looking for information in this case. If you would like to report anything, you are asked to call the Tip Line at 844-459-5786 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Perrine confirmed there has been no arrests related to the Delphi case, but he's very optimistic there will be a resolution in the case.
Perrine said the motto around headquarters is "Today is the day."
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Carol Tenopir answers questions posed during the April 16, 2015, webinar Building a professional identity - From research to impact. Carol based her presentation on the new ebooklet Librarians Do Research Too!
Could you elaborate on collaborating with faculty?
As libraries continue to shift emphasis from focusing on collections that can be found in other ways (for example, open access or at other libraries), personalized and unique services from librarians become more important. For faculty and students, this includes digitization, web guides, and instruction, but for faculty it can also include becoming a partner in research projects. As time allows, it may be by participating in a faculty-led grant contributing your expertise in finding information, or building databases or websites, assisting with data management plans, or digitizing historical resources, or researching information needs or … (Each person has to fill in this blank with their own area of specialty.) Collaboration may start with your Office of Research or with the faculty members themselves.
Do you think that doing action research is suitable for librarians?
Almost any kind of research is suitable for librarians; it depends on what you're interested in. I am ecumenical when it comes to different kinds of research methodologies. With action research, you do something and see how it influences the community. In a sense we do that all the time. For example, if you're trying out a new method of instruction and then you're testing to see if it was effective or how it influenced your users or community. I personally do not do action research, but that is only because I have focused on other things in my career.
Do you have any advice for librarians working outside of academic libraries interested in getting started in research?
No matter what kind of library you're in, the first rule is to find good collaborators. In a public library your mission is different, so I would look at community groups and research that would serve them. Ask yourself how you can develop services that would improve your citizens' quality of life. In an academic setting, you might partner with other librarians or departmental researchers, but in a public setting the partners might be a museum or community center. Action research (mentioned above) is quite appropriate in the public library community if done well. You can offer a service that can have transformational effects on members of your community.
I am a solo librarian in a corporate setting supporting an R&D department. How do you build the case for time to work on research or similar career development goals?
I started as a corporate librarian at a pharmaceutical firm and then subsequently moved to an architectural firm. In a nonacademic setting, it's critical to ensure that your research will improve the efficacy, efficiency and quality of the services at your corporation or organization. It can't be a personal interest with no professional outcome to further the mission. It should be practical and tie into other services and aims, for example, research data management. Also like any other setting, it's very important to have a good relationship with your boss.
Do you have any ideas for librarians working in a special library that caters to biodiversity?
Research data management is huge in biodiversity right now. In projects such as DataONE, the University of California DMPTool, and others, the role of the information professional has been key in making sure that biodiversity researchers know the value of data management planning, good metadata, and preserving/depositing their data. There is still a long way to go, as a majority of scientists do not yet do any of these (except when a grant proposal requires it.) You might start with education; check out the education modules on the DataONE website that are freely available to use or adapt. Offering to help researchers get their data ready to be preserved (finding a repository, assisting with metadata) can make you very popular!