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This Thursday (May 11) the #mglitchat on Twitter will be about modern classics. If you want to join the discussion, hop on Twitter at 7 PM Mountain Time, 9:00 Eastern and search for #mglitchat.
In case you haven't heard of #mglitchat before, I'll explain what it is. Several writers (many published--you might even recognize some of them) and even some editors and agents get together weekly to discuss a topic having to do with Middle Grade books. I usually keep Amazon open in another tab to keep track of all the book recommendations that come up in the chats.
For those of you who do the #pitchwars thing, several of the mentors participate, so this is a good opportunity to get to know them and what they like.
#mglitchat has become a part of my weekly routine. It is always worth the hour spent reading tweets.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Great Deal! Scrivener 50% Off!
I'm popping in today to let you know about a great deal I found. For the next five days, Scrivener 2 is available from AndroidPit for $22.50 for Mac, half off the usual $45 price tag. For Windows, it's $20, half off the usual $40. So if you've been wondering whether to try Scrivener, you might want to jump on this deal.
Android Pit also has Scapple, the mind mapping and white boarding tool from the makers of Scrivener for $8.99, 40% off, for both Mac and Windows. This deal only lasts four more days. I've been using the trial version of Scapple the past week for a school project and I really like it, so I'm taking advantage of this deal.
Android Pit also has Scapple, the mind mapping and white boarding tool from the makers of Scrivener for $8.99, 40% off, for both Mac and Windows. This deal only lasts four more days. I've been using the trial version of Scapple the past week for a school project and I really like it, so I'm taking advantage of this deal.
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Friday, March 25, 2016
Continuing the discussion
As you've no doubt noticed, posts have been scarce on our little blog recently. Our regular contributors have dropped off due to busy lives and, in some cases, the demands of the increasing success of their writing careers.
We will continue to post to this blog from time to time, but we're basically on hiatus for now. We're not going away, but the infrequent posts will likely stay that way for a while. If you're interested in becoming part of a rejuvenated blog writing team, drop us a comment. In the meantime, I recommend that you continue to find help in our archives. There's a ton of great info to be found.
For more current information and quick feedback, I encourage you to visit the Utah Children's Writers Facebook page, where several blog readers and contributors hang out. I would like to see that page become more active as a meeting place for members of our large writing community. Like any Facebook page, the UCW page is only as active as the people who post to it, so help us help you by joining in or starting new conversations.
Thanks to everybody who has participated in this blog, either as a writer or reader. We have a large, active community, and I hope to see all of you on Facebook and in other places.
We will continue to post to this blog from time to time, but we're basically on hiatus for now. We're not going away, but the infrequent posts will likely stay that way for a while. If you're interested in becoming part of a rejuvenated blog writing team, drop us a comment. In the meantime, I recommend that you continue to find help in our archives. There's a ton of great info to be found.
For more current information and quick feedback, I encourage you to visit the Utah Children's Writers Facebook page, where several blog readers and contributors hang out. I would like to see that page become more active as a meeting place for members of our large writing community. Like any Facebook page, the UCW page is only as active as the people who post to it, so help us help you by joining in or starting new conversations.
Thanks to everybody who has participated in this blog, either as a writer or reader. We have a large, active community, and I hope to see all of you on Facebook and in other places.
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Author website ideas
Because I need to redesign my own author site, I looked at several writers' sites to find ideas. Here are some of my findings.
John le Carré
I like how the author's site captures his genre, with recent tweets showing on his home page as "intercepted" messages.
I also enjoyed le Carré's Bio page, which was humorous and revealed enough personal information to make me feel a connection, without oversharing.
E L James
I have no interest at all in James' books. However, her site is attractive. There is one feature I really like and might borrow for my own. Tucked under the "Gallery" section, where I wouldn't expect it, she has a "Soundtracks" page. This page lists music she associates with her stories.
This is a fun way to reveal something about the work, as well as about the author. James links to a soundtracks collection on YouTube, so fans can hear the music.
Joe Abercrombie
I'm not familiar with Abercrombie's work, but his site gives me a way to change that. He provides sample chapters from his books, available on-screen or as epub, mobi, or pdf files.
My old site had some chapters, and one caught the attention of an agent's assistant who was trolling the Web. She requested more. Ultimately, the book was for a younger audience than her agent repped, so nothing came of the request. However, I did learn that providing chapters can attract attention and interest, even for an "underpublished" author.
J.K. Rowling
Rowling's site does not create a feel for her books, but it may well reflect her own personality. The design is clean and sparse and looks like something a writer who is as organized as she reportedly is might create.
When you first click deeper into her site, you are presented with coach marks that provide hints to help navigate the site.
Although I don't think her site is complex enough to require coach marks, I think it's interesting that she provides them. Coach marks can be useful to orient visitors and show them what to expect when they click on page elements.
Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell has striking and attractive banners (or mastheads) that instantly tells me what I can expect from one of his books.
The banner for each page is different, which can be a little confusing, but the design is the same on each page despite the image changes so I don't feel like I'm being thrown to a different site. Each banner is attractive, and I feel like I know what his books are like just from clicking to a few pages.
Besides the attractive images, which displays his brand, Cornwell provides nav links that are easy to understand and almost beg me to click them.
I really like that he has a page where he responds to reader questions. Of course, this is of limited use to an author who has yet to interest enough readers to generate questions, but even an unpublished author could use a Q&A format to provide information about his or her work and why potential readers and publishers might be interested. This is a way to enhance the brand and demonstrate a platform or other qualifications.
Marcel Theroux
Theroux's site has a charming feature I didn't see anywhere else: drawings of his study and items that mean something to him.
The only thing that bothered me about these drawings is that there are so few of them. The same few drawings are repeated on different pages throughout the site. He doesn't have that many pages, so he could have used a different drawing for each page. This is an interesting way to reveal something about the author and to create a connection with readers.
Theroux's site is unusual in that the navigation links are in the center of the page, something I haven't seen much. I think it works with his design.
Whether you are designing your new site or tweaking an existing site, it's a good idea to examine the sites of other authors, especially those in similar genres.
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The antagonist: Hero or villain?
In many stories, the antagonist may even be more important than your main character. Your main character cannot become sympathetic without an opposing force.
The antagonist is more than just a bad guy who tries to stop the good guy. A good antagonist actually pushes the protagonist to action. The bad guy gives the good guy a reason to behave like a good guy. Because he is so important, your antagonist has to be every bit as real, every bit as well-rounded, as the protagonist.
The Antagonist is Evil
No. The good antagonist is not evil. OK, he could be, but not for the mere sake of being evil. It's fun to write the bad guy who ties maidens to railroad tracks for fun, and throws the hero's One True Love on to the conveyor belt at the saw mill just because he can. The kind of bad guy who spends his time laughing maniacally while he twirls his 'stache. There's one secret, one thing you need to remember, if you want your antagonist to be truly interesting:
The antagonist honestly believes he is the good guy. Everything he does has a reason, and to him, those reasons are Right. They are Correct. They are Good.
Your good guy needs flaws and your antagonist needs positive characteristics. In some stories, the reader might even start to wonder just which character is the good guy and which is the bad guy. Few characters are as dull as the arch-villain who is evil just because being evil is evil. People aren't like that. Even people with a warped sense of reality (another little secret: we all have a warped sense of reality, shaped by our imperfect perceptions), do things for a reason. There are truly evil actions, and your bad guy might do some of them. But we humans have an almost unending supply of rationalizations for what we do.
A Rebel With a CauseYour antagonist has his own character arc. Give your antagonist a cause. She wants to accomplish something, wants that more than anything else. And, like your protagonist, she is prepared to do what she has to do to achieve it, because that's what people do when something is of ultimate importance. Even a bad guy who wants to do something truly awful, like blow up a stadium full of innocent people, does it because he believes it has to be done to achieve the end result, which he believes to be for the ultimate good.
- Sauron thought he was doing Middle Earth a favor by taking dominion.
- Saruman thought he was doing good by trying to stop the Black Lord and taking the power himself.
- Darth Vadar probably saw the Jedi as nefarious upstarts who wanted to thwart his plan to make the universe a better place.
A Hero in His Own MindThe antagonist believes he's the hero. Your protagonist, who stands in his way, is the villain.
We are both nice people. The last cookie is sitting on the counter. You want it. I want it. Boom: conflict! In my story, you are now a villain because you want what I want.
My favorite example of this principle comes from politics. No matter what your political position is, your side is right and the other side is wrong. Maybe even evil. The thing is, the other side looks at you the same way. Why? Because each side believes it is right. If they were allowed to have their way, the world would be a spectacularly better place. It's the same with your hero and villain.
|Which one is the bad guy?
Molly has a new puppy. This puppy is so naughty. When she takes it for walks, it pulls at the leash and tries to go its own way. It doesn't follow Molly's perfectly reasonable rules. When the puppy runs away, Molly is devastated. How could her puppy be so wicked?
But what is the puppy doing, really? It's being true to its own puppiness. It doesn't understand Molly's unnatural rules. All she does is try to to restrain it and she scolds it for simply being what it is.
Let your reader sympathize with the villain, and understand why he wants what he wants, and maybe even see his point. If your reader can sympathize with both the hero and the villain, the conflict becomes more real, the stakes are raised, and your reader is more engaged.
Read More About It
- Writer's Digest: "6 Ways to Write Better Bad Guys" by Laura DiSilverio
- Writer's Digest: "3 Techniques For Crafting a Better Villain" by Hallie Ephron
- springhole.net: "Basic Tips To Write Better & More Despicable Villains"
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Monday, November 23, 2015
7 tips for writing fiction even if you think you're not a writer
When I mention that I write, I often hear responses like:
- I'd like to write a book but I don't know where to start.
- I'd like to write, but I never have any good ideas.
- I could never be a writer. I'm not creative enough.
There's nothing wrong with not writing if you're not going to enjoy it. But if it's something you've always wanted to do, go for it.
1. It only takes one idea.
Ideas are everywhere. Keep your eyes and ears open. Most people who write have folders and notebooks full of ideas, often too many for one lifetime, but you only need one. We find ideas in:
- Our real life
- The news
- The books we read
- Overheard conversations
- Travel
The smallest spark can become a story. When you see or hear something, ask yourself "what if?" What if that strange-looking person is really a ghost? What if Macbeth took place on a distant planet sometime in the future? What if those kids talking about their homework at Burger King were actually aliens sent to spy on their school?
2. Practice. Practice. Practice.
You wouldn't expect to pick up a guitar or sit at a piano for the first time and immediately sound like a master. Writing, like all the arts, requires practice. The more you write, the better you get.
Here are some practice ideas:
- Look for writing prompts online. Several sites provide them.
- Write about anything. It doesn't matter what.
- Work on one element of writing at a time.
- Write badly on purpose.
Give yourself permission to suck. Practice means taking baby steps. It means working through frustration. Being bored. Getting impatient. And always improving, even if you don't notice the change, until one day something clicks.
3. Imitate your favorite writers.
Every writer begins by imitating the writers they like. It doesn't matter if it borders on plagiarism. When you start, you're writing for practice, not publication, so copy all you want. Write fan fiction. Copy style. It takes a lot of imitation before you start to develop your own voice.
4. Set reasonable expectations.
Don't expect your first idea, no matter how excited you are about it, to be the Great American Novel. Start small and think small. Think in terms of a project, a story, or "that little thing I'm writing." A book is a Big Thing, and it's easy to intimidate yourself out of finishing, especially when the inevitable Inner Editor kicks in to remind you that you're not good enough, and just who do you think you are anyway trying to write a book?
Few writers publish their first attempts. It's incredibly difficult to get published, and we don't all have what it takes to self-publish successfully. Fantasize about it all you want, but don't expect it. Not yet.
Don't expect greatness. Expect to entertain yourself. Expect to have fun. Expect to learn something. Expect it to take a long, long time. Expect to think you suck more than you do. Expect to think you're even better than you are.
5. Read widely.
You don't like romance novels? Read one anyway. It might help with a romantic scene you weren't expecting to write. Read classics. Read current best sellers. Read history and science. Read about words. Read about writing. Read author biographies. Read true crime fiction. Just read.
It's especially important to read in the genres and age groups you want to write, so you understand the elements of those kinds of stories. But don't stop there.
You'll generate ideas. You'll understand how people work so you can make your characters more realistic. You'll learn about the ways you never ever want to write.
6. Write.
If you want to write, you have to write. You'd be surprised how many "writers" try to skip this part.
Write for yourself Write every day. If your life doesn't allow you to write for an hour, write for fifteen minutes or ten. Give yourself permission to miss a day now and then so you don't quit when you realize you've been so busy that a week has gone by since you last wrote.
7. Set a goal and persist until you reach it.
Never give up. Start small. Your first goal should be to finish a paragraph, then a scene. Then the next one. Eventually you'll have a story. Even if it's no good, you wrote one. The vast majority of people who start writing a story never finish. Probably 95% or more. Finishing that first draft puts you in an elite company of writers. That's something to be seriously proud of.
Pat yourself on the back. Throw a party. Take a break. Then start revising.
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Saturday, November 21, 2015
Enneagram: Create Characters Based on Personality Types
Today I'm going to show you how to use personality tests to flesh out the people in your stories. My favorite system for this is the Enneagram.
Image source: The Canadian Institute for Enneagram Studies
I'm not a fan of those quizzes in magazines or on websites that claim they can fit me into some narrow category that defines who I am. In general, I don't trust anything that takes real people and shoves them into tight little cubbies. People are too complicated for that.
When I create fictional characters, however, these things can help me determine my characters' desires and how they will act in the various situations they'll face.
Discover how your characters tick
The Enneagram categorizes personalities into nine types:
|The Reformer
|Rational, idealistic
|The Helper
|Caring, nurturing
|The Achiever
|Adaptable, success-oriented
|The Individualist
|Intuitive, reserved
|The Investigator
|Perceptive, cerebral
|The Loyalist
|Committed, security-oriented
|The Enthusiast
|Enthusiastic, productive
|The Challenger
|Powerful, aggressive
|The Peacemaker
|Easygoing, accommodating
I recommend doing an Enneagram quiz for your main characters. For your first test, answer for yourself so you can get an idea of the questions and how the test and the Enneagram works. Then, think about your characters and take the test for each of them.
The act of taking the quiz forces you to think about your character's personality. This quiz is made up of 37 questions, with two possible answers for each. Before you take the quiz, spend some time thinking about your character so you're not just making stuff up as you answer the questions.
Hint: At the end of the quiz, I suggest printing the page before you click to calculate the results. Then you can go back and look at how you answered the questions. Include the printed quiz in your character profile.
Deepen your characters
For a character to seem real, he or she has to react to situations in a way that is consistent with his or her personality. And, because certain character types naturally conflict, pairing a protagonist and antagonist with clashing personality types creates the tension you need for a successful story.
What I like about this system is that it doesn't say a person is one type and that's it. It assigns a number value that shows how firmly a person fits into each type. In other words, it acknowledges a challenger might be a peacemaker as well as a reformer, with strong individualist tendencies. It also defines which types bring either comfort or stress to each type.
I took the test for one of my characters and got these scores:
|Type 1: Reformer
|Type 2: Helper
|Type 3: Achiever
|Type 4: Individualist
|Type 5: Investigator
|Type 6: Loyalist
|Type 7: Enthusiast
|Type 8: Challenger
|Type 9: Peacemaker
This tells me Aellin is primarily a Helper, with strong Loyalist tendencies. She is not a Reformer or an Investigator.
So what could I do with this character? As the first table above shows, a Helper is stressed by a Challenger, Aellin obviously needs to be pitted against a powerful authority figure. Her sidekick should be an Individualist, because a 2 is comforted by a 4. And Aellin should be forced into a situation where she needs to be an Investigator. Maybe she needs to plot revenge against the leader. As it turns out, this is a major part of the story I've come up with, so the test tells me I'm on the right track.
Why does the test tell me that? Well, if Aellin is clearly not an Investigator, then having to become one means that there will be conflict, not only against her powerful enemy, but also internal conflict with herself as she is forced to act in a way that is unnatural for her. She'll revert to her natural personality, which works against what she has to do. She'll struggle constantly to achieve her goal because she's fighting against her own nature.
Wash, rinse, repeat
As legendary editor Sol Stein said, each character needs to have his own script. So, if I take the same quiz for each major character in my story, I'll get a good idea of their inner and outer conflicts, and how they'll react to various situations. I'll create characters with their own consistent lives, and I'll see how to create personality conflicts.
Learn more about it
The Enneagram is a complicated system. I've presented a simplified explanation. You don't have to understand everything about it to create strong characters. If you want to know more, I suggest starting with the Wikipedia article. For an even deeper dive, I recommend9types.com or The Enneagram Institute, where you can learn more about the personality types and find additional tests.
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Creative Inspirations: Jason Bentley, Radio DJ and Musician
A true tastemaker, Jason Bentley is one of the music industry's most influential radio and club DJs. During his fifteen years at L.A. stations KROQ and KCRW, he has helped such artists as Portishead, Jamiroquai, and The Chemical Brothers get a break in the music industry. Jason has reached a worldwide audience working as the music supervisor for video games, TV commercials, and major Hollywood films such as the Matrix trilogy. He continues to be a driving influence in the LA music scene through his popular radio programs, appearances at clubs and events, and remixes of current music. Jason is known for his commitment to electronica, and he helped introduce the Best Electronic/Dance Album category to the Grammy Awards. This installment of Creative Inspirations shows how Jason works his magic as he takes us behind the scenes at KCRW and gives us a peek at his home studio in Venice, CA.
Use of Silversun Pickups "Lazy Eye" courtesy of Dangerbird Records
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- Audio + Music
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- Jason Bentley
(techno music) - I'm Jason Bentley on subscriber supported 89.9 KCRW Santa Monica. Look at this, it's a CD-R of my own remix of Bittersweet. Guest vocalist, collaborators on this new album from Thievery Corporation.
It's not easy to bring a club into a museum, so there's always a little bit of a disconnect, but it's more about an experience for people. That's called audience number two from Transit Transit's forthcoming album from Auto Locks. My position was, I didn't want to take it too far out, it was just taking it in a new, and sort of a dance and electronic direction. Including Justice, Soul Wax, (mumbles) Mobile Disco, Boys Noise and more.
That's been my British invasion, my punk punk rock movement, you know, my movement has been the club music explosion.
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text: We've Played Mario Tennis 3DS... PoorlyJason Schreier3/07/12 7:00pmFiled to: Mario TennisMario tennis openNintendoNintendo 3dsFbtweet35EditInvite manuallyPromoteDismissUndismissHideShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Here's a hands-on look at Mario Tennis Open, a goofy upcoming sports game that will be out this May for Nintendo 3DS. And by "hands-on look," I mean Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo demonstrating a serious lack of ability to play video games. As you can see, Mario destroyed him. Totilo wants me to note that it was his first time playing the 3DS game, but we all know that's a terrible excuse.Reply35 repliesLeave a reply


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Can You Eat More to Grow a Bigger Butt?
Among the most typical guidelines I notice on the best way to develop a larger bottom from everybody would be to "consume grain" starchy food, or various other carby to achieve fat, or even to do exercises like squats or operating. The previous is meant to provide more gentle bulk for your butt, and also the latter to make the gluteus (butt) muscle larger.
Nevertheless, this guidance is at worst, and at best misguided, a method. Developing a larger bottom is more delicate than tightening the sofa muscle or just supplying on fat. You may wind up with perhaps a weak belly and sagging fat bottom or a dimple butt, and none of the female number or form that you simply were searching for to start with in pursuing that misguided guidance!
Let you know why it isn't likely to function and I am likely to reduce towards the pursuit!
Consuming lots of food to achieve fat and simply operating or performing weight devices fails for that purpose that is following:
You-can't merely consume the right path without obtaining a larger stomach to using a larger bottom.
In case your bottom is regular and little, the main reason might be that the body isn't willing to place fat inside your butt. It might even be totally possible that after you need to do acquire fat, the body places it directly on your belly. This really is accurate; also it occurs to a lot of people! It used to occur in my experience. And simply because we would like a pleasant, shaped bottom does not imply that the plan of the body is on a single monitor as us.
Probably the most reasonable response to our small tushie problem would be to transfer the fat to the butt from our stomach. You may be stating "this really is difficult without surgery" but there are several tried and tested techniques that may deliver your fat to round the sofa out and reduce your stomach to some attractive number.
I did so the secrets and also some study to obtaining that shaped female number boils down to some of elements. They function, although the best way to impact these may appear unusual to a lot of in the beginning!
Simply continue reading:
- The very first crucial section of bottom dimension and fat submission needs to do together with your general exercise and your metabolism. Female hormones would be the crucial component necessary to provide the body distribution and a shape – the "hourglass" or "pear" form, and these will be growing without medicines.
And notice: your wellness may significantly take advantage of the program; although a few of the methods and methods won't just assist the sofa develop!
- The 2nd element in fat submission and bottom dimension needs to do with workout. No, this isn't some of those gym-bunny treadmill workouts; it entails weight and tightening training! And it is as easy as it appears.
Your primary workout is targeting the thighs and squats, since these muscles will have to be there to provide a of a form along with tone to the recently dispersed fat muscle. Workout helps you to reset your metabolism – the hormones accountable for providing how to make your butt bigger along with a form.


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Forensic Evidence Isn't As Reliable As You Might Think
CREDIT: Associated Press/Hal Yeager
Earlier this month, former death row inmate Beniah Dandridge was exonerated and freed after spending 20 years in prison. Dandridge was convicted for murder when three examiners claimed his fingerprints matched prints found at the crime scene. In reality, the fingerprints were not his, and strong evidence suggests they actually belonged to the victim's son.
Anthony Ray Hinton, another death row inmate in Alabama, was similarly exonerated and released in April. His conviction for the murders of two restaurant managers during a string a robberies hinged on ballistics evidence. A gun found at his home was linked to bullets found at three robbery locations, and Hinton was sentenced to die. But in 2014, the Supreme Court called for a new trial, and three experts testified that the bullets found at the crime scenes did not actually match each other. The examiners concluded that the previous ballistics results were botched, and Hinton was freed after spending 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
Sadly, neither story is an anomaly. For decades, flawed forensic evidence has been used to convict innocent people like Dandridge and Hinton. And across the country, courts and officials refuse to re-examine questionable cases.
CREDIT: Associated Press/Kim Chandler
If you were to judge the criminal justice system based on TV shows like Law and Order or CSI, you might think forensic evidence is conclusive proof of a person's guilt. Reality is much messier. DNA is widely considered an accurate indicator of a defendant's involvement in a crime, but prosecutors also turn to less trustworthy evidence, including hair microscopy, bite mark comparisons, firearm tool mark analysis and shoe print comparisons. There is little research to suggest that forensic matches are scientific and infallible.
The FBI and DOJ recently admitted that hundreds of convictions involved flawed hair comparisons, even though research about how common it is for different people's hair to look the same does not exist. Similarly, there are no scientific studies proving that individuals have unique fingerprints or dental prints. There are no guidelines to determine a match between a shoe print found at a crime scene and that of a suspect. And there is no proof that bullet marks are uniquely connected to a specific firearm.
But according to Senior Attorney Charlotte Morrison of the Equal Justice Initiative, who worked on Dandridge and Hinton's court challenges, forensic science is not the only problem that arises during an investigation. Evidence is problematic, but so are the examiners who rely on it. Morrison pointed out that certain protocols are crucial to make reliable findings, but examiners do not necessarily follow them.
"It's the kind of gross overstatement that we know leads to unreliable convictions: saying that fingerprint evidence is infallible, that a match is an indisputable thing like a bar code," she told ThinkProgress. "Examiners are trained to not give that type of testimony because of the risk of producing unreliable convictions, but we see that time and time again. Where men and women are wrongfully convicted, the examiners' statements are over the top in terms of their reliability and their confidence level."
Studies also show that examiner biases play a significant role in the collection of evidence and the assessments that they make. In many cases, forensic experts are motivated to reach certain conclusions, because they are offered rewards or face pressure from law enforcement and prosecutors to do so. Some people make assessments based on cognitive bias, meaning their conclusions are based on what they anticipate the findings will be. Others demonstrate confirmation bias, meaning they report findings that align with their personal opinions about a case.
Biases against specific groups of people also come into play.
One of the most egregious cases Morrison is familiar with involved the dehumanization and imprisonment of a woman because she was poor. In 2007, Marsha Colby gave birth to a stillborn. However, a forensic pathologist botched the autopsy and claimed Colby killed her newborn child, despite no evidence that the baby was born alive. Colby was sentenced to die until additional forensic experts re-examined the evidence and concluded the original pathologist lied.
"This directly deals with poverty and how poor mothers are demonized and criminalized in the system," she said. "This willingness to call this tragic loss of a baby a homicide and to blame the mother is only possible if you see poor women, women who are struggling, as something less than. That's what happened in this case. She was not seen as fully human when the examiner arrived at her home."
Despite the fact that certain types forensic evidence are imperfect, as well as the people who collect and present that evidence, officials remain reluctant to re-examine cases.
"Even with science that is established and accepted in the courts, there's been a failure to take the code of ethics that governs experts seriously," Morisson said. "In our political climate, finality is valued more than accuracy. To acknowledge a mistake is typically seen as weakness."
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"We need prosecutors and state officials who are willing to prioritize justice, fairness, and reliability — and acknowledge mistakes when they happen," she said. "In Mr. Hinton's case, it's been 16 years since we presented the evidence and asked the state to look at the evidence that exonerated [him]. And yet, to this day, we have not had any state official who's been willing to talk about that."


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AGNEW, Gary, GRIER, Andrew, TAIMRE, Thomas, LIM, Yah Leng, BERTLING, Karl, IKONIC, Zoran, VALAVANIS, Alexander, DEAN, Paul, COOPER, Jonathan, KHANNA, Suraj P, LACHAB, Mohammad, LINFIELD, Edmund H, DAVIES, A. Giles, HARRISON, Paul, INDJIN, Dragan and RAKIC, Aleksandar (2016). A model for a pulsed terahertz quantum cascade laser under optical feedback. Optics Express. (In Press)
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SUGUMARAN, A.A., PURANDARE, Yashodhan, MANDAL, P., EHIASARIAN, A.P. and HOVSEPIAN, Papken (2013). Effect of the degree of high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) utilisation on the corrosion properties of TiN films. In: Society of Vacuum Coaters 505/856-7188. 56th Annual Technical Conference Proceedings,. Society of Vacuum Coaters.
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With a stay at Grand Park Hotel in Ramallah, you'll be minutes from Tomb of Mahmoud Darweesh and Ramallah Palace of Culture. This 5-star hotel is within close proximity of Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center and Ramallah Park. Enjoy recreation amenities such as an outdoor pool or take in the view from a terrace. Additional features include wedding services and tour/ticket assistance. Make yourself at home in one of the 83 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
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Emil Habibi Street, Ramallah, Palestine
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24 Jaffa Street, Ramallah, Palestine
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Penguin, May 27, 1971 - Fiction - 256 pages
One of the best and most popular of Kerouac's autobiographical novels, The Dharma Bums is based on experiences the writer had during the mid-1950s while living in California, after he'd become interested in Buddhism's spiritual mode of understanding. One of the book's main characters, Japhy Ryder, is based on the real poet Gary Snyder, who was a close friend and whose interest in Buddhism influenced Kerouac.
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A sort of sequel to _On the Road_, this one tells of his encounters with Gary Snyder (the poet) and also recounts the tale of Ginsberg's reading of "HOWL." The outdoors in his life is at conflict with his indoor delvings into the drunkeness of city life. Do we write poetry or do we just enjoy life? Read full review
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For the entirety of this book I had an image looping in my head of M. Night Shyamalan saying "What if we're all Buddhas?" I was more interested in '50s Berkeley than the Buddhist elements of this book. Is it bad if Dharma Bums made me want to get a job? Read full review
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Race, socioeconomic status, and breast carcinoma in the U.S.
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Version of Record online: 25 OCT 2002
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10830
Copyright © 2002 American Cancer Society
Volume 95, Issue 9, pages 1988–1999, 1 November 2002
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Cross, C. K., Harris, J. and Recht, A. (2002), Race, socioeconomic status, and breast carcinoma in the U.S. Cancer, 95: 1988–1999. doi: 10.1002/cncr.10830
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- Issue online: 25 OCT 2002
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Whether African-American women have biologically more aggressive breast carcinoma compared with white women and whether race acts as a significant independent prognostic factor for survival have not been determined. Alternatively, race merely may be a surrogate for socioeconomic status (SES).
A literature review was performed of clinical trials and retrospective studies in the U.S. that compared survival between white women and black women with breast carcinoma after adjustment for known prognostic factors (patient age, disease stage, lymph node status, and estrogen receptor status) to assess the impact of race and SES.
Single institutional and clinical studies suggest that, when black patients are treated appropriately and other prognostic variables are controlled, their survival is similar to the survival of white patients. Twelve retrospective studies and 1 analysis of a clinical trial included SES and race as variables for survival. Only three of those studies revealed race as a significant prognostic factor for survival after adjusting for SES.
SES replaces race as a predictor of worse outcome after women are diagnosed with breast carcinoma in many studies. However, black women present with more advanced disease that appear more aggressive biologically, and they present at a younger age compared with white women. Further research should be conducted concerning the precise elements of SES that account for the incidence of breast carcinoma, age at diagnosis, hormone receptor status, and survival to devise better strategies to improve outcome. Cancer 2002;95:1988–99. © 2002 American Cancer Society.
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Some people look in a pastry case and see sinful excess; others see delectable taste treats. The authors of Butter Sugar Flour Eggs see ingredients. They have named their book "after the first and most important elements of any dessert recipe.... Butter brings flavor and richness; Sugar lends sweetness and melting textures; Flour provides substance; and Eggs bring it all together. Afterward the flavorings take over: Chocolate, Citrus, Fruit, Nuts, Cheese, and Spice complete the dessert making pantry." Most desserts, the authors allow, have one strong characteristic flavor, or one strong characteristic texture that sings louder than anything else. It's how the authors have ordered the recipes in Butter Sugar Flour Eggs, a clever idea.
So, in Butter, you'll find the likes of Millionaire's Shortbread, while in Sugar, you'll find Brown Sugar Shortbread. In Eggs you'll be tempted by Mango Flan on Chocolate, but in Flour it's more likely going to be Chocolate Chip Pancakes. And that's just to get you started. Because there are chapters for all the basic flavorings, too (Oranges Simmered in Red Wine, Brooklyn Blackout Cake, Nectarine Beignets, Roasted Pecan Ice Cream, Montrachet Cheesecake, Moist Ginger Cake with Orange Icing). And then because holidays tend to pull out all the stops, there's a separate chapter for them as well. Ever get in trouble for playing with your dessert? With Butter Sugar Flour Eggs Gale Gand, Rick Tramonto, and Julia Moskin give you permission to do just that. --Schuyler Ingle
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Almost an embarrassment of riches for dessert lovers, here are new books from four talented bakers. Gand and her husband, Rick Tramonto, are the pastry chef and chef, respectively, of their two popular Chicago restaurants, Brasserie T and Tru. Their first book, American Brasserie, included some of Gand's delicious desserts, and now they offer a generous collection of almost 175 recipes, from Millionaire's Shortbread to Sweet-Hot White Pepper Ice Cream. The writing style is slightly precious (e.g., "Butter is a true aristocratAand a modest one"), but the recipe instructions are clear and the headnotes informative. For all baking collections. Medrich, the well-known author of Cocolat and Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts, now presents 50 delicious recipes for favorite cookies and brownies, many of them shown in mouth-watering full-page color photographs. There's a good introduction, and each chapter opens with "Here's What I Learned," a brief but informative collection of clever tips. Many of the recipes are classics, and all of them seem irresistible. An essential purchase. Purdy's A Piece of Cake and As Easy as Pie have become classics, and her two recent low-fat cookbooks, including Let Them Eat Cake, have been very popular. Her new book features recipes for all sorts of homey desserts and other baked goods, from Old-Fashioned Chocolate Pudding to Blue Ribbon Cherry Pie to Sour Cream Spice Cake. The recipe instructions are detailed and thorough, and there are many thoughtful technique tips and other useful hints, as well as variations. For all baking collections. Wilson is a baker and food writer, and her specialty is wedding cakes, the topic of her first cookbook (The Wedding Cake Book). Unlike her extravagant wedding cakes, a number of the desserts in her new book are fairly simple, although many of them feature a "Bake It to the Limit" version, an optional final step for a more elaborate presentation or variation. (The cake recipes, perhaps not surprisingly, are far more complicated than the other desserts.) With recipes for sweets like Chocolate Peanut Butter Tart and Sour Cherry Bars, this is recommended for most baking collections.
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The author has a background of somewhat mixed ethnicity, which shows up in the wide range of recipes. Everyone will find something they like, whether it's German, Jewish, Italian, French, Scandinavian, or just good old American favorites. The use of unique combinations of ingredients is also nice, with combinations like grapefruit-cream cheese, lemon-strawberry, and ginger-orange.
Some of these recipes may be a bit advanced for beginning bakers, but that's not really a problem. Follow these directions, and I'll bet that the worst of your flops will still be good to eat.
It didn't disappoint. There are many more outstanding recipes in here! For starters, the cover recipe: Pavlova with the Down Under Fruits is easy and sensational to set before guests in the warmer months. The Pumpkin Creme Brulee, Warm Taffy Apples with Cinnamon Pastry Twists, Montrachet Cheesecake with Winter Fruit Compote, Sugared Walnut Sundaes in Chocolate Cups, Three Color Poached Pears,Lana's Chocolate Chip Mandlebrot, and the Brown Sugar Shortbread are but examples of the scrumptuous, imaginative gems in this collection.
Drink suggestions are usually provided with each and the sidebar excursions to the source or background to the recipe is very fascinating. Cookbooks make good reading as exemplified by this fine one.
The recipes are thoughtful and easy to follow and the results delicious and fun...an unbeatable combination.
AND, can we talk about he BLACKOUT CAKE! It appears that Gale has cracked the code and figured out the secrets of this legendery New York icon. For that alone, buy the book!
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Simple recipes, basic ingredients.... this book is amazing! I'm new to baking and cooking but this book has so many creative ideas for anyone on a budget, I love it!Published on Aug. 11 2012 by Hailz
Great book! The recipes are delicious. Her pie crusts turn out perfect for me everytime (who would have thought red-wine vinegar in pie crust?) Ms. Read morePublished on June 6 2002
gale gand has long been the name i look to for something different when it comes to sweets and pastry. Read morePublished on Oct. 22 2001 by skrattypants
While I was really interested in seeing this book. I tried some of the recipes in here and they were a bit too complicated for the everyday person. Read morePublished on Sept. 6 2001
did anyone else find that her cooking times are all off? try the quick sour cream coffee cake or pumpkin creme brulee following her direction exactly and you will see. Read morePublished on Dec 13 2000
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