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Adjunct Professor of PR, The Newhouse School, Syracuse University
Adjunct Professor of Marketing, The Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Contributor, Forbes
Mentor, StartFast Accelerator
Advisory Board, Social Media Breakfast Syracuse
Board Member, Cazenovia Ski Club
MBA, Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta GA
Fields: Entrepreneurship; Marketing
- Co-President of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club
- First-year Representative of Goizueta Women in Business
- Teaching Assistant at undergraduate and graduate level for Ethics in Leadership, Ideation and Entrepreneurship courses
- Co-organizer of Servant Leadership-based LEAD week
MA in International Relations, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Medford MA
Fields: Southwest Asia & Islamic Civilization; Security Studies
- Teaching Assistant at the graduate and undergraduate levels for Introduction to International Relations, Epidemiology and Society, and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East courses as well as GMAP Executive Education Program
- Independent research for the Jebsen Center for Counterterrorism Studies, focusing on the Bangladeshi madrasas and possible links to terrorism. Findings presented at the NPSA Conference in November 2006
BA, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
Double Major – Political Science, History
Minor in French, Certificate in International Relations
Certificate in Contemporary Europe, Syracuse University DIPA Program
untapt, 2015-present
Chief Content Officer
Next generation digital hiring platform that uses machine intelligence to match tech talent to open roles in the FinTech industry.
- Lead all marketing, branding and content efforts across the organization
- Develop short-, medium- and long-term strategies for all external communications, as well as internal candidate and client communication experiences
- Manage marketing and advertising budget that focuses on client/candidate acquisition and brand awareness
The Whitman School at Syracuse University, 2013-present
Adjunct Professor of Marketing
- Teach undergraduate level Digital Marketing course
The Newhouse School at Syracuse University, 2013-present
Adjunct Professor of PR
- Teach graduate and undergraduate level Data & Analytics course and Advanced PR Writing and Social Media course
Forbes, 2012-present
- Write pieces on women in business, entrepreneurship, technology and leadership
Girls in Tech, 2008-2015
Global non-profit for women in technology and entrepreneurship.
- Led and directed all aspects of organization's 50-Chapter network
- Developed short-, medium-, and long-term organizational strategy
- Led all efforts around branding, marketing and messaging
- Created the strategic direction and directed the implementation of global programming, including industry conferences, mentorship programs, hackathons and online learning
- Oversaw and supported 100+ Managing Directors around the world
- Cultivated key relationships with partners, sponsors and donors
- Led the organization through non-profit filing and intensive, 12-month internal organization process
*A note on timeline: Girls in Tech was part-time/volunteer until early 2014, at which point it was full time, hence the overlap in positions with the below.
W2O Group Center for Social Commerce at The Newhouse School at Syracuse University, 2013-2014
Center focused on the use of social, digital and mobile data in understanding audience behavior and creating effective engagement points between brands and audiences for marketing and communication programs.
- Led efforts to get Center "off the ground" in its initial stages
- Developed full strategic outline, goal-setting and budget for the Center
- Managed marketing, brand message and website
- Created Student Ambassador program for undergraduate PR students
- Developed external relationships to benefit student/industry connections
Syracuse University, 2012-2014
Social Media and Content Marketing Training
- Led community-focused workshops and training programs on social media, blogging, online writing, wordpress and strategy-building for the TEDCenter at Syracuse University
Syracuse University, 2011-2013
Executive Director of Digital and Social Media Marketing
- Developed first university social media marketing strategy
- Led the process of integration of social media into existing marketing, web and PR processes
- Oversaw network of university social media platforms, and increased presence on additional, relevant platforms
- Worked heavily on integrating marketing strategy and brand management cross-functionally (marketing, web development, PR, news services, etc) and cross-campus (admissions, student affairs, alumni affairs, etc).
- Managed 10-student social media team
- Created university social media guidelines
- Increased team use of data analysis and reporting
- Acted as digital and social media marketing consultant to separate schools and programs in the SU system
- Received multiple media write-ups, speaking/training requests and accolades as recognition for being at the forefront of social media marketing in the higher education space
Other Side Group, 2008-2011
Founder & Principal
Integrated marketing & communications strategy firm that worked primarily with technology companies ranging from large software companies to 10-person UX shops.
- Started, grew and managed 5-person firm
- Led client acquisition and client management
- Ran all aspects of the business and led strategic marketing planning
- Company focused on creating and implementing full marketing strategies, including (but not limited to) effective digital and/or social media programs, online brand development and management, website optimization/SEO through content production, thought leadership, and reporting and metrics
Bose, 2007
MBA Product Marketing Intern
- Responsible for sales analysis and customer satisfaction analysis for premium product line
- Projects included compilation and dissection of data, presentation of findings to upper management, and initiation of action items stemming from findings
- Other projects included product phase out, analysis and implementation of one-month promotional program, construction of additional customer satisfaction surveys and in-store test proposal
Kate Brodock, 2005-2006
Market Researcher
- Launched a market research consulting practice specializing in business plan development, competitive analysis and market due diligence
Priority 5 Group, 2005
Senior Analyst, European Markets
Start-up focusing on Critical Infrastructure Preparedness for private firms using simulation software
- Proved a major decision-maker in firm, and part of the three person founding team
- Conducted heavy market and business research in all applicable areas, including security, technology and terrorism
- Executed communication and planning with top-level US and UK executives and experts in the field
- Managed the Cambridge MA office
Harvard University, 2003-2005
Research Assistant, History of Science
- Conducted academic research under Professor Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History as part of her John D and Catherine T MacArther Foundation Fellowship
- Research focused on history of the written and printed word, with a heavy focus on recording mechanisms
Ignition Ventures, 2003-2005
Technology Transfer firm focusing primarily, but not exclusively, in the biotech field
- Performed major qualitative and quantitative research for a small technology transfer firm, including market intelligence, technology research and analysis, competitive analysis, business plan formation and final presentations
Increasing Diversity in Tech (Al Jazeera America) Guest, 12 September 2015
Social Media Marketing (SMB Syracuse) Moderator, 7 May 2015
Adoption of Digital Marketing and Social Media in Healthcare (Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University) Panelist, 11 April 2015
The Power of Women in STEM (MedTech) Panelist, 9 April 2015
The Ongoing Issue of Funding Women Entrepreneurs (SXSW) Panelist, 8 March 2014
Student Startups: The Ultimate Educational Experience (SXSWEdu) Moderator, 6 March 2014
How Big Data & Analytics are Transforming our Strategic Thinking (CuseCon – PRSSA Regional Conference) Moderator, 1 March 2014
Winning with Analytics (Social Media Week NYC) Moderator, 20 February 2014
The Use of Pinterest in Higher Education (Penn State, Professional Development) June 2013
Lean In: Women in Tech (Canada3.0) Panelist, 15 May 2013
Ok, Women Can't Have it All, But Maybe No One Can (SXSW) Panelist, 11 March 2013
The Gender Agenda, Gaining Momentum (United Nations Association) Emcee of International Women's Day event, 8 March 2013
Work Hard. Play Hard. Love Hard. (TEDxYouth) Speaker, 17 November 2012
Managing Student Staff and Contributions to Social Media (Academic Impressions, .pdf) 19 September 2012
Developing a Content Strategy (Academic Impressions, .pdf) 18 September 2012
Staffing Social Media in Higher Ed and Required Skill Sets (Academic Impressions, .pdf) 17 September 2012
Developing a Content Strategy for Your Institutions (EduWeb) 29 May 2012
Generation Flux – (Fast Company) Innovation Uncensored Panelist, 18 April 2012
Everybody's a Bloody Entrepreneur. Or Are They? (SXSW) 11 March 2012
"GCACC members learn to 'tweet,' 'blog:' April monthly members meeting included presentation on online marketing" – (Cazenovia Republican), 21 April 2011
"Leveraging Digital Media in a Down Economy," (Emerson College), 6 October 2009
"Nigeria Chibok Kidnapping Update: One Year After Bring Back Our Girls Campaign, Still No Sign of Missing Students" (International Business Time) Quote, 13 April 2015
"Tech Leaders Share the Secret to Their Success" (American Entrepreneurship Today) Interview, 2 March 2015
"Women in Business Q&A with Christine Perkett" (Huffington Post) Highlight, 10 December 2014
"Celebrating the Power of Social Media in Society" (TWCNY, quote) 30 June 2014
Kate Brodock of Girls in Tech: There is a Place for Women Leaders in the Tech Fields (TechCocktail) Interview, 13 March 2014
Keeping Up With Kate (CNY Woman Magazine) Cover Feature, December 2013
Pinterest for Business: How to Pin your company to the top of the Hottest Social Media Network Quoted in section on non-profit use,18 August 2012
"Blogging Consistency" (BlogWorld) Video interview, 18 May 2012
"Female CEO breaks glass ceiling at IBM" (MSNBC, quote) 31 October 2011
"Content Curation: What Does it Take to be Successful" (WebProNews) 29 October 2011
"2.5 Minutes with Kate Brodock," (genConnect), 15 March 2011 at SXSW
Guest on HubSpot TV, 6 November 2009
"Taking Initiative in the Workplace Will Help You Get the Position You've Worked For" (Forbes) 25 June 2014
"Rules for Hiring a Startup Team that Believes in Your Brand" (Entrepreneur Magazine) 10 March 2014
"Financial Know-How is Important for Both Personal and Professional Success" (Forbes) 26 January 2014
"Style, Entrepreneurship and Flexibility in the Stella Dot Sales Model" (Forbes) 23 November 2013
"How Does Technology Make It Harder To Lead, and How Does It Make It Easier?" (Fast Company) 5 November 2012
"First Impressions, Compliments and Sexism in a World of PC and Semantics" (Forbes) 3 November 2013
"Networking, Mentorship and Careers: Let's Add Men to the Equation" (Forbes) 21 July 2013
"Women in Leadership as an Economic Imperative" (Forbes) 6 May 2013
"Equality is Great, But What About the Real Benefits of Women in Leadership?" (Forbes) 26 September 2012
"Women Can't Have it All, But Maybe No One Can" (Forbes) 25 June 2012
"Women in Tech Debates: Paying respect to the real issues at hand with a bit of journalistic integrity" – (Forbes) 4 June 2012
"Location Apps: 4 Privacy Settings You Need to Know" (Mashable) 4 June 2012
"3 Reasons Why Pinterest is All the Buzz" (Agency Post) 4 June 2012
"Coding And Tech Skills As The Next Need-to-know Skill Set?" (Forbes) 28 March 2012
"What is Generation Flux?" – (Fast Company) 27 March 2012
"9 Ways Students Can Use Social Media to Boost Their Careers" (Mashable) 10 February 2012
"Getting Your Published Content Read" (WebProNews) 3 November 2011
"How to use social media" (Mass High Tech) 20 July 2011
"TEDWomen: Two Days of Empowerment," (Owni), 29 December 2010
Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, Chapter on the Digital Divide, 30 June 2010
"A hand up: The importance of bringing girls along," (Boston Herald), 1 January 2010
"Your Customers are Talking to You. Are you Listening?" (Pink Magazine), 19 October 2009
"Community tools needed to improve STEM education," (Mass High Tech), 2 July 2009
"Top 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs," (Strategy Magazine), March/April 2009
"New media has something to teach the area's universities," (Mass High Tech), November 2008
"Women and Education: The importance of women in the Bangladeshi madrasa system," (Presentation at NPSA Conference), November 2006
Digital Activism Survey Results, July 2009 (.pdf format)
Research on how digital technologies are being used in both worldwide grassroots efforts and in global democratic initiatives, (DigiActive), 2008-2012
"Documenting Kenya's Elections Using Crisis Mapping Techniques," (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative), 2008
"To Outsource or Not to Outsource: The strategic decisions involved when considering outsourcing as a viable firm option," (The Fletcher School Master's Thesis), 2008
Terrorism in the Bangladesh madrasa system, (Jebsen Center for Counterterrorism), 2006
Cazenovia Ski Club, 2015-present, Board Member
Social Media Breakfast Syracuse, 2013-present, Advisory Board
StartFast Venture Accelerator, 2012-present, Mentor
Willowbank Yacht Club (WBYC), 2012-2014, Board Member
The Meta-Activism Project (MAP), 2010-2012, Director of Strategy and Outreach
The Red House Arts Center, 2011-2012, Board Member
Fletcher Women's Committee on Public Outreach and Social Action, 2010-2011, Chair
Boston World Partnerships (BWP), 2009-2010, Board of the Strategic Group and Connector
DigiActive, 2008-2010, Director of Marketing Strategy and Outreach
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), 2007-2009, Co-Chair of New Marketing Special Interest Group, Boston Chapter
ATASK, 2009, Steering Committee Member for Annual Gala
Business, New media, Technology, International Relations, Music, Hiking, Biking, Skiing, Red Sox, Craft Beer, Anything outdoors, Cooking, Trying new things, Hops, Family, Friends, Life.


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...me. We all know how that went.
Why hasn't the DOJ or a smart young lawyer slapped Apple with a Class Action for the Ipad. Why can't you sync...
...be a pretty bizarre place to live in and the feud of a Tennessee lawyer proves just that. Mister Chris Sevier is apparently suing Apple...
Lincoln lawyer
Just saw Lincoln Lawyer last night. Pretty good!
Sent from my iPad 2 using iPF
If you go to your lawyer, do you think he will do your will for free?
Whew, thanks Bob, I needed some more lawyer fodder.
ive always wanted to see lincoln lawyer but never got the chance too
Limitless has some bad reviews. Went and seen Lincoln Lawyer excellent movie.
Lincoln Lawyer yesterday.. It was very good. Not intense but not boring. can't wait for insidious
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24. Exec
25. Professor
26. Lawyer
27. Real Estate Agent
That explain a lot! :)
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"New Worlds Are Our Oyster."
L. A. Banks
L.A. Banks, the author of The Vampire Huntress Legends series, has written over 30 novels and contributed to 10 novellas, thus far, in multiple genres under various pseudonyms. She mysteriously shape-shifts between the genres of romance, women's fiction, crime/suspense thrillers, and of course, dark vampire huntress lore. A graduate of The University of Pennsylvania Wharton undergraduate program with a Master's in Fine Arts from Temple University, one never knows how or when this enigma will appear… her forms are many, her secrets of crossing genres vast, and she does this with her teenaged daughter and a dog from some remote, undisclosed lair in Philadelphia.
Also writing as Leslie Esdaile-Banks:
An Interview with L. A. Banks
PNR: Have you always wanted to be a writer, what led you to pursue writing as a career?
L.A. Banks: I wish I could say that I had always known I wanted to become a writer, but I really didn't. Fate pushed me into this profession. Back in 1991 my 6 month old daughter was involved in a serious daycare center accident, whereby she pulled down on the cord dangling from a hot iron that had been left up on the ironing board while the babysitter ran to the bathroom. The result was that the child was severely burned by scalding water, and after 17 surgeries and the loss of three fingers, I found myself home, jobless, in the midst of a divorce—and badly needing money that I couldn't go out and earn via a traditional job. A short story contest in a magazine sparked the idea, and I haven't looked back since. (My daughter is now a happy, funny, beautiful, 17 year old and doing fine, probably wondering why her Mom is this crazy writer—BIG SMILE!)
PNR: Could you tell us about your writing routine, how do you balance writing and personal time? What do you enjoy doing when you are not writing?
L.A. Banks: I begin my writing day the exact same way most people begin their work day—I'm up at 6:30am when my daughter gets up to go to school. I put on the coffee (or green tea, depending on my mood), and I make sure I'm at my desk by 8:30am. At the top of the day, I clear off e-mails for like 1-2 hours, and then I begin doing research on-line or editing what I wrote the day before. My Muse tends to work better at night for original creative content, but my mental "editor" is ruthless in the cold light of day. I take a lunch break and wrap up my day about 4:30pm-ish. This way I can sit with my daughter, find out how her day was, and we have dinner together. When she goes up to do her homework, I close my office door and create until about 10pm—then watch the Ten O'clock News, and I'm down for the count by eleven. When I'm not working, I LOVE to go to the movies, take salsa dancing classes (I'm a newbie but love the music), go to my yoga class… and you can always tempt me to go to a good metaphysical workshop or street festival.
PNR: Who is your favorite author(s)? Who or what has most influenced your work?
L.A. Banks: A fav author is hard, because it really depends on genre. For Sci-Fi there's Octavia Butler and Steven Barnes… but I also loved Tananarive Due's, "The Living Blood." Her prose is gorgeous. Then Sherrilyn Kenyon—standard (BIG SMILE) But I also can read Walter Mosely as easily as I could Tina McElroy Ansa's, "The Hand I Fan With" (I adored her supernatural character, "Herman.") I pretty much read across the board when I get a chance to read for pleasure—anything from non-fiction biographies to steamy romances. Right now I'm loving, "Casanegra," by Tananarive Due and Steven Barns with Blair Underwood—a mystery that is like exotic Belgian chocolate. About a month ago I got to The Historian and stayed up two nights in a row to inhale that masterpiece. Therefore, the who and what influences my work are many elements. For example, I might take the world-building and sci-fi basics from Butler, Barnes, and Kenyon… but would keep a lot of the Old World legends in tact, while looking at the way established mystery writers handle suspense. The movies, which I am addicted to, also play a big role for me visualizing scenes and creating tension. One of my favorite movies, Goodfellas, is excellent for doing that manic day in the life of a day that has everything going wrong. I love that Ray Liota scene when he's driving around losing his mind just like I can recite lines from Alien (ala, "Game over, man.) Hey, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, From Dusk To Dawn, Salem's Lot, The Lost Boys, Blade, et al, you can add those types of flicks into the influence pile, too, for me—so it's hard for me to narrow down "an influence."
PNR: What do you feel are the essential elements of a great story?
L.A. Banks: Oh, action, movement, character depth and development… and ya gotta make me believe it. Do the emotions ring true, are they deep enough, is the question I always ask.
PNR: Your Vampire Huntress Legend series has received much recognition and your work is very popular with readers and reviewers; how does it feel to have such positive recognition for your work?
L.A. Banks: Like I've died and gone to heaven. Seriously. Is there any greater place to be than to be able to do what you love, what you're passionate about, and have others enjoy it? I feel deeply honored and sooo appreciative, there are no words.
PNR: For readers who are not familiar with your Vampire Huntress Legend series, could you give us an overview?
L.A. Banks: In short, this is a story about good versus evil, whereby a young woman is called to become the Neteru. She doesn't want this job, it has severe limitations, but humanity requires that she step up to her role. There's also a very hot romance threaded through it that begins on the dark side—her one extremely hard-to-ignore temptation. But with the Armageddon so near, she and her family of Guardian warriors must try to find a way to beat back the scourge of evil to give humankind a fighting chance. Each book is set up to run as an building block based on the action in the previous book, almost the way one would think of a running epic. If readers go to www.vampire-huntress.com they can click on the legend and see the characters, and under web exclusives there's a Book Trailer and some info on the major themes behind the legend.
PNR: Your writing features complex plots and characterization, moral and ethical dilemmas and an exploration of the commonality of religious ideologies; where do you get the ideas for your books? How much research is involved?
L.A. Banks: Of all the projects I've ever embarked upon, this project, by far, requires the most research I've had to do. I generally glean the story-lines based on large, global events happening in the world (the tsunami, global warming, things that affect people on a massive scale.) Then what I'll try to do is match them up to passages found in the three major religious texts (the Bible, the Q'uran, the Tora), and then will research the politics and history of the region I'm working in… it gets crazy. Then there's weapons research, biology, logistics—basic stuff like the name of the hotel in Sao Paulo that I can have the team stay at, or going into Map Quest to track the route of a potential chase scene and have accurate streets mentioned. It's an integrated approach.
PNR: The plot in your Vampire Huntress series centers on the struggles of good vs. evil; could you tell us about the development of this storyline? Do you feel this is a universal theme, regardless of setting?
L.A. Banks: Yes, I absolutely do believe it's a universal theme. Each book has an overarching theme of good versus evil, which I think is the human condition—people always trying to figure out how to (or not to) do the right thing, and how to bring fairness and justice to their landscape. But within each book, I may play out those struggles differently. For example, in book one, the anti-hero was struggling with his vampire urges versus his love for a woman, while she is trying to decide whether or not to slay him for the good of the community or to try to help him find a way out of his dilemma. Every plot and subplot has this struggle embedded in it—and often the answers (just like in real life) aren't clear cut. My forum boards keep raging debates going, because what's right or wrong for any character's decision is largely a matter of perspective. That's also by design… while I'm dealing with the subject of good versus evil, the last thing I want to do is preach to people. I'd rather my work give folks pause and make them think and open dialogues about issues they may not otherwise want to talk about. Having the conversation about fictional characters is safer for people, in a way, which I think is cool if it can open mental doors to get people to see things from a broader perspective.
PNR: THE CURSED, the ninth book in the Vampire Huntress Legend series will be released in July 2007 from St. Martin's Press; can you tell us about the challenges of keeping a long running series and its characters fresh for readers?
L.A. Banks: Ah…. The great challenge is not repeating yourself. As an author you have to dig down real deep and bring new dilemmas, issues, and struggles to each book or else it won't feel authentically new to the reader. I believe as authors we owe readers that. Who wants to read the same problem hashed and rehashed. The challenge, therefore, is to give your characters room to grow and evolve into different people throughout the series, which means you have to push them, break them. And take the risk to experiment with them to keep them edgy and the story moving forward.
PNR: Readers are enthralled with your world building. Tell us about the challenges you face in world building and making it work with the ideas you have in mind for the progression of your characters and the series? Do you write your characters to fit the world you have created or vice versa?
L.A. Banks: Wow… that's a tough question (LOL!) I think, for me, world-building and character-building is a symbiotic process. I will develop the world first, in most cases, I think, and then work the characters into it… but upon occasion there's a character that just seems to straddle the fence of the world I've built and the one he/she wants built—and that's when I expand the boundaries of the world. Carlos Rivera was just one such character. I tried to keep him within the vampire paradigm I'd built, but he kept doing things that made him so borderline that I had to expand the world just for him! LOL! But once I did that, then it meant I had to expand the world of his Neteru mate… and the danged thing just kept going and getting wilder and wilder until I ended up in The Land of Nod. Go figure?
PNR: Readers cannot get enough of the dark worlds you create but it is your characters that capture the imagination; can you tell us what inspires their development?
L.A. Banks: the characters come from compilations of people I know or have known (BIG SMILE!) That is the most fun. For example, growing up, I had all these huge male cousins that could have doubled for bouncers… tall, good looking, and would be sent to etch us from a house party that we'd snuck into. Those guys are the foundation of the wild Guardian brothers around Damali. And my heroine is a young, impulsive, combined version of me, my sister, and best girlfriend—yeah, back in the day we'd jump off the stoop and open up a can of whoop-ass in a minute. My mother had a devil of a time refining us into 'ladies" (God rest that women's soul in peace!) Marlene is my mom with all my favorite, ribald, and wise aunties and grandmothers all rolled up into one—and when we were kids I swore my mother was psychic. She knew what I was going to say before I said it and would give us "the eye." Most of the characters in the series are from that old school neighborhood system of checks and balances. They are homage to the community village that feels like it's currently falling apart, and to those old men (now) who were once dapper cats and-or street corner philosophers that kept a lot of neighborhood drama at bay. My inspiration harkens back to a time when you could leave your door unlocked and walk down the street at night feeling relatively safe, even in a so-called poor neighborhood, because folks looked out for each other. Conversely, my vampires are easily gleaned for many ex-bosses, attorneys, and wanna-be business managers I've had, LOL! Easy!
PNR: Your Vampire Huntress Legend series features a strong heroine, Damali Richards, that readers really connect to, would you describe your writing as female focused? What is her appeal for readers?
L.A. Banks: I'm not sure that the writing is female focused, albeit Damali is a really strong leading character. I guess I say that because she's balanced by a core of strong male Guardians and her partner, Carlos. But I think her appeal is that she's complex: feminine but tough, tough, yet sensitive; confident about some things and very insecure about others… she embodies polarity, struggle, imperfection and a good heart. To me she's what we all are—too many facets of emotion to catalogue and vastly misunderstood by most of the people around us.
PNR: Your books are fast paced and action filled, do you feel your writing is plot or character driven?
L.A. Banks: I'd have to say character-driven… even with the fast-action plots. The reason I'm leaning in that direction to answer this question is because there have been too many times when I knew the overarching plot and the actions that needed to happen, only to have them shift and change because a character moved a little differently than anticipated. I couldn't force the character down a specific path because it wouldn't have emotionally rung true—and as a result I've had to re-blueprint scenes on the fly to accommodate the characters' shifts and demands.
PNR: Your stories are dark and very sensual; do you find it challenging to write the love/sex scenes in your books?
L.A. Banks: LOL! No… I go get a glass of wine, put on my fav CDs, wait until the house settles and gets real quiet (always after midnight), then work from memory (wink!)
PNR: Paranormal romance is experiencing an incredible surge in popularity, what do you feel accounts for the sudden interest in the genre? What is it about the paranormal genre that captures your imagination?
L.A. Banks: I think what does it for me is the ability to stretch one's imagination to the limits and beyond. In the paranormal genre there are no limits, per se… if you build the world, they will come. There may be rules you've self-imposed in creating your world, but you have control over that which you've created. Now, this is mere speculation, of course, and I have no hard scientific or polling data on the subject, but I think when people are going through particularly tough or uncertain times, the concept of superheroes and heroines, other worlds and other alternative dimensions, takes one out of the mundane drudgery into the fantastic. It is a wondrous escape and a thrilling ride.
PNR: You have written in the crime thriller, women's literature, romance and paranormal genres; what is your favorite genre to write? Is there any style or genre of book that you would like to try but haven't yet?
L.A. Banks: I have to say, bar none, I love the paranormal the best—because you have reality but can set the terms and conditions on what so-called reality is. I think I'd love to one day try my hand and a grand, sweeping, historical epic in the paranormal genre. Not sure.
PNR: Could you tell us about your "alter egos" Leslie Esdaile Banks, Leslie E Banks, and Leslie Esdaile; why did you decide to use pseudonyms for different genres?
L.A. Banks: (What, aside from the outstanding warrants? Just joking!) These other names actually were marketing decisions, because I started in romance. I began in the early nineties as Leslie Esdaile, writing for Kensington/Arabesque and then BET and others. What my publishers and I discussed as my scope broadened was, people who buy romances generally want to be sure that the book they've purchased by the author who writes their fav romances is going to deliver just that—a solid romance. The paranormal doesn't always guarantee the happy ending with the couple in tact. Hell, in the paranormal, you might just kill them off, who knows—same holds true in the crime genre. So, when I moved to crime thrillers, I had to be very careful to "brand" myself away from the romances I was doing so that a romance buyer didn't inadvertently say, "Oh, Leslie's got a new book out," and pick it up to be sorely disappointed that the ending (according to romance conventions) sucked. Conversely, those who read crime or paranormal might be looking for the smoking gun and the fangs, respectively, when they'd accidentally stumble upon my romance backlist. Therefore the simplest thing to do was to break it down into categories for readers: Leslie Esdaile = romance titles; Leslie Esdaile Banks = crime/mystery/thrillers; L.A. Banks = all things that go bump in the night.
PNR: In July 2007, THE CURSED, the ninth book in the Vampire Huntress Legend series will hit the bookstore shelves. Could you give readers a peek at this latest offering? What are your plans for the "Vampire Huntress" series?
L.A. Banks: I'm planning on taking the series to 12 books, with a heavy emphasis in 10, 11, and 12 on the whole end of days subject matter found in Revelations, and seasoning that with Nostradamus predictions. But below is a brief synopsis of that July 2007 release:
Chairman has been killed and now Lilith, Satan's
Consort sits on the vampire throne as the Vampire Council's
new Chairwoman. She raises all the dark covens—calling
every major dark witch and warlock to do her bidding. Her
goal is to distract the team members, while the unborn heir
to the Dark Realms awaits his own birth. All Lilith needs
now is Damali's newly discovered angelic powers to make that
come to past. That will allow her evil progeny to walk
through the veil between worlds and take his throne as the
true Anti-Christ.
PNR: Could you tell us about your current projects, what can readers expect to see in the coming months?
L.A. Banks: I've been dabbling with werewolves, BIG SMILE—and in the coming months expect to see: an anthology by Harlequin, "Creepin'", that I participated in and my story has a werewolf bent, "The Cursed," book 9 from the St. Martin's Press VHL series, plus under Leslie Esdaile Banks the last of four books in the "Betrayal of the Trust" crime series (Kensington) will be out, entitled, "No Trust,", and in April 2008 = "Bad Blood," the first book in a sizzling, hot new werewolf series for St. Martin's Press. I've had a blast writing that!
PNR: Thank you Ms. Banks, for taking the time out to talk to us. Where can readers find out what's new and how can they contact you?
L.A. Banks: I'm on the web in two locations at: www.vampire-huntress.com and www.LeslieEsdaileBanks.com
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St. Martin's Griffin
July 10, 2007
512 pages
A Vampire Huntress Legend: Book 9
The Chairman has been killed and now Lilith, Satan's Consort sits on the vampire throne as the Vampire Council's new Chairwoman. She raises all the dark covens—calling every major dark witch and warlock to do her bidding. Her goal is to distract the team members, while the unborn heir to the Dark Realms awaits his own birth. All Lilith needs now is Damali's newly discovered angelic powers to make that come to past. That will allow her evil progeny to walk through the veil between worlds and take his throne as the true Anti-Christ.
Damali and her crew race to stop Lilith. However, raising not only the dark covens, but all vampires that had not been slain by Damali, puts the world out of balance and kicks off the Armageddon.
St. Martin's Griffin
February 6, 2007
432 pages
A Vampire Huntress Legend: Book 8
Damali and Carlos have finallty tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after. There are bigger problems on the horizon. Eve's son, Cain, has escaped his banishment in order to assume his father's throne and is now the new Chairman of the Vampire Council. He is amassing a new army, which includes resurrecting one of the Neterus' old foes--the deadly Fallon Nuit. But Carlos isn't about to let that happen. The coming battle will be the battle to kick off Amageddon.
St. Martin's Griffin
June 1, 2006
448 pages
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A Vampire Huntress Legend: Book 7
The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned strategy—one that not even Damali will anticipate—has been developed. There is only one entity who can best Damali, send Carlos packing, and put the Guardian team at mortal risk. This powerful being was once banished into a forsaken land and possesses everything that would bring a Neteru to his or her knees. This time the fight is not so clear-cut, and it is not only Damali's soul in the balance but her body and heart as well.
St. Martin's Griffin
January 1, 2006
496 pages
Trade Size
A Vampire Huntress Legend: Book 6
Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, has released the Damned, tortured souls from all levels of Hell, to walk the streets as the living dead. A dark chaos leaks onto Earth, taking the form of a deadly contagion that not even the Neteru team can handle. One touch from these deadly creatures infects a human, driving him to madness, death...and worse.
This time, Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress (aka the millennium Neteru), Carlos, and the Guardians cannot effectively close ranks. The infection spreads to key team members and threatens to wipe out the entire squad. Even the Covenant is infected. They must track down the Chairman before members of the Neteru-Guardian team are lost and the team implodes. The only antidote is to behead Lilith. But first they must find her.
St. Martin's Griffin
July 1, 2005
480 pages
A Vampire Huntress Legend: Book 5
After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection of her council-level vampire lover, Damali is called before the Council of the Neterus to answer for her actions. It is there that she discovers there are consequences even she could not foresee. She also learns that the consort of the Un-Named One, Lilith, has come up from the seventh level to set the affairs of the Dark Realms in order. However, Lilith has a hidden agenda of her own and it involves the unborn child Damali thought had been taken from her. The news devastates Damali until a cold and deadly determination leads her to map out a plan for Lilith's destruction. An evil force beyond recognition, Damali's newest nemesis literally brings men to their knees. But Damali will not be stopped---not even by someone as dangerously powerful as Lilith. It is a battle that spills over into the streets and involves the people Damali has sworn to protect, leaving fewer standing before it's all over.
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Philosophy reading reccomendations on "Notion of freedom and humanity"
A friend of mine recently quit his job and has found himself with a lot of free time. As a method to explore his mind and world he has set himself a task to write an essay on : - "The Notion of Freedom and Humanity" I am no philosophy veteran but I am sure that there must be some great texts already dealing with this subject. What research and reading material can I recommend my friend for his essay?
Where can I find this old pamphlet?
I am looking for a copy of a 1938 pamphlet called "Gratitude" written by Dr. Harry L. James of Chicago. There was a copy on Ebay, but it's sold now. Any chance I could find another copy (or PDF) of this thing? [more inside]
Are "silent migraines" associated with stroke risk?
Common Migraine + Aura Sans Pain = oh noes your brain explodes? (Or, is there an increased stroke risk, and is something to be discussed with a doctor?) [more inside]
PhD students: Where, when and how do you study?
PhD students: Where, when and how do you study? [more inside]
Do you know about any researchers studying human behavior with regard to motivation, habits, and goal-setting, or books/papers about those topics?
Do you know about any researchers studying human behavior with regard to motivation, habits, and goal-setting, or books/papers about those topics? [more inside]
I want to be the next Professor X.
I know I want to study genetics but I don't know where to go from there. What kind of things in genetics did Professor X and the Drs. Suresh on Heroes study? I want to study that. [more inside]
Blind me with science.
Help me discover recent 'Best Seller' scientific journal articles to read in 2013. [more inside]
Is there a better/faster way to operationalize the coding of messy text data?
I'm trying to tag and code about 4000+ unique paragraphs of data. These are opinion responses to two similar questions. I manually went through the first 4000 responses and it took weeks using Google Refine. I'm wondering if there's a way to operationalize this to be a bit easier and less time consuming? [more inside]
Am I doing the wrong thing here?
Science grad school application filter: I have informally (but explicitly) accepted a graduate assistant position (in conservation biology) at my current undergraduate institution. I am now having second thoughts and am wondering what, if anything, I should do about it. Help me, Hive Mind! I don't know what to do! [more inside]
Political affiliations of MPs
Research help: I'm trying to find political affiliations for specific members of the British House of Lords in the 1850s and 1860s. [more inside]
Since the position of "Prince William's Wife" has been filled...
I want a job where I can: research/gather information, organize and do basic, preliminary analysis on said information, write reports. But not a paralegal, not in academia, probably not in tech. What field with a decent employment outlook would allow me to utilize my strengths? [little long inside, sorry!] [more inside]
what tools and models do we have for collaboration in the humanities?
what tools and platforms exist right now which humanists can use to do collaborative research? what models exist of successful humanities collaboration? [more inside]
Which of these paths will point me in the best direction?
Please help me pick the most relevant program for my career/education goals. [more inside]
Awkward neighborhood research party
Awkward neighborhood party, but a little bit more complicated than that. [more inside]
Can I cold-email a researcher?
Would it be out of line to email a researcher asking how they got into their field? [more inside]
What are my options for doing a PhD long distance?
What are my options for doing a PhD long distance? [more inside]
How to find a Federal Indictment
I want to download and read the full unsealed indictment written about here. The PACER website gives me a headache and I'm not clear if I'm allowed to use it. What's my best course of action?
Seeking good writing/research on Internet memes
Authoritative\scholarly sources for the history and culture of Internet memes? [more inside]
What should I bring for a three-month field expedition to Central Africa?
I'm going to be doing fieldwork in Central Africa next summer. What do I need to bring? [more inside]
If someone says Tricorder....
Researchers, Writers, Grad Students, and Professors: Tell me about your technical setup (hardware and software). What do you use, and what couldn't you live without? [more inside]
What's some of the best, most illuminating, and most entertaining writing about conservation bio on the net?
What are some of the best technical blogs out there in conservation biology, biogeography, evolutionary biology, and ecology? [more inside]
Hiring a remote research assistant: is this even a real thing?
How do I find and hire a remote research assistant for a one-off task (in Goshen, IN)? [more inside]
Where can I study bonobos in the United States?
What U.S. research labs conduct bonobo research, preferably at nearby research facilities? I'm looking into summer internships and graduate schools. [more inside]
Please give me a job. And a Master's degree.
Be my career counselor: Help me tailor my resume toward a job in higher education administration or research, and a couple of questions. [more inside]
Looking for the best software and tools for academics working with digital files
I'm giving a workshop to a group of humanities scholars (historians, philosophers, etc) on how to work with digitized sources that they have collected from various archives. What killer software/apps should I highlight? [more inside]
Find a set of recordings based on an example
I found an audio file years ago that talked about the long-distance phone network in the USA in the 1970's. Can anyone tell me where it's from? [more inside]
What is the best electronic device for this task?
Help me find a device (or two devices) that will take pictures, and then easily convert these pictures to PDFs. Alternatively, persuade me to buy an iPad! [more inside]
Web page about recording research path, pre-computer age?
Machine for recording research path, pre computer-age? Library books on a waterwheel device? Please point me to the right web page... [more inside]
Admin and Research, switched.
A cartoon about academia from the 1990s (or even before). Is it online, offline, anywhere? [more inside]
I have a B.S. in Engineering. How can I get into a great Computer Science PhD program?
I have a B.S. in a mostly unrelated field. How can I work towards getting into the best Computer Science graduate program possible? [more inside]
You mean *I* get a say in salary talk? Wha?
I was recently contacted by a recruiter and in the last month have been through several interviews, the last taking place today. Now, the recruiter's called to ask if I am ready to take the next step and has asked about my salary expectations. What? [more inside]
How soon should they tell donors they're spending the money?
Scientists / medical researchers (and donors), how long should a nonprofit take to publicize new grants? [more inside]
How to track the sources a website pulls news from?
I'm wondering if anyone could suggest a tool or website that allows me to see a list of sites that a particular website is pulling news from. I know I can do this manually by looking at articles and noting the sites that are sourced, but I'm wondering if there is an easier way to do it. Any ideas? Thanks, - Michael
Quantifying the Effect of Gamification?
Is there good quantitative research on the behavioral effect of gamification and achievements? [more inside]
Is this an offer I'd be a fool to refuse?
I am a senior undergraduate biology student who wants to become a conservation biologist and a professor. I work part-time in a lab at my university, and my principal investigator recently made me an offer that on the face of it seems pretty great. Should I take it? [more inside]
I'll take "Things I Should Have Learned in College" for 500
I write creative nonfiction and I'm getting to the point where I've almost exhausted myself on straight up memoir/personal essay. I have ideas in mind for essays that I want to write, but they require a good deal of research. Problem is, I never really learned how to research properly. [more inside]
East in the West?
Did Eastern Bloc countries do on-the-ground historical research in the USA during the Cold War? [more inside]
Oh the Mysteries of the Massive Internet of Congress
How to research a mortgage lender and real estate developer
How do I research a real estate developer and a mortgage lender (in Brooklyn) to make sure they're trustworthy? (more detail below) [more inside]
1-s2.0-S0958166910000443-main dot PDF
Does anyone know why academic PDF documents downloaded as full text seem to universally download as poorly documented/difficult to sort files? [more inside]
Who wrote this LGTBQ theory?
Help me figure out who wrote this LGTBQ theory? [more inside]
How to find good information.
How do I find reputable, factual, unbiased sources of information? Anything from breaking news (global or local) to current issues to scientific studies. I'm looking for the kinds of sources that will give a good overview or analysis of a topic, and then show me their sources so that I can investigate further if I wish. Websites and printed sources are the most helpful for me as a student, but I welcome any suggestions. [more inside]
Research experience for grad school
As an undergrad looking to apply to grad school, I have been looking into getting some research experience in my field (Psychology) for all the obvious reasons. I possibly have a lead and now a question. [more inside]
To prof or not to prof
Recommendation Letters filter: grad school in MPH and no academic references? Snowflakes within. [more inside]
How is webbe formd?
Durrrrrrr... What's a startup? [more inside]
You're a market researcher. What do you do all day?
How do you market researchers do what you do? I'm curious about the profession and I'd like some information on how researchers actually spend time. Special projects at my design service firm often include an element of conjecture about potential audience. When we work on projects that might be legitimately useful or tool-like, I'd like to introduce some rigor into our process and know better when to think about hiring a contractor or outside vendor for research. [more inside]
no digital love
Index card lovers unite! Looking for non-digital ways to manage citations, sources, etc. for academic research projects. [more inside]
What happened here? How do I research my hometown?
History/Librarian Filter: Inspired by all the interesting London history coming out here, I'd like to start researching my own backyard, but I have little idea where to begin. What resources are typically available if wanted to research an area (US)? [more inside]
Finding interesting soc/psych research to discuss
A group of friends and I, all recent college graduates, have decided to meet weekly to discuss interesting recent sociology and psychology research. How would we go about finding it outside of ScienceDaily, and - more importantly - how can we access it now that we're all without database access?
Speculative Realism 101
Speculative Realism: What are the key texts I need to read. [more inside]


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When Advanced Custom Fields is activated, the check boxes for my post do not work. They work when the plugin is deactivated, so I know this is the root of the problem.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem, so that the category check boxes will work again when adding a new post?
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Shame on ARU for entertaining Hayne deal
The Waratahs, run by a pair of New Zealanders, have done the ARU's job for it by putting an end to the Jarryd Hayne folly.
The Waratahs, run by a pair of New Zealanders, have done the ARU's job for it by putting an end to the Jarryd Hayne folly.
Will Genia reveals why the Wallabies need Matt Giteau for the Bledisloe Cup next month and why Digby Ioane is New Zealand bound.
The Crusaders have confirmed former Wallabies winger Digby Ioane is heading to Christchurch to join the squad in 2017.
Small crowd due to the weather gives Brumbies a likely loss from Super Rugby final.
The Chiefs have delivered a lesson in intensity to the Stormers, turning on the razzle-dazzle in a 60-21 quarter-final win.
Larkham will make a decision on his coaching future as early as next week.
Steve Hansen has had his All Blacks coaching position extended through to the next World Cup.
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Güzel bir manzara, Deniz, kuşlar, bisikletli ve rekler çok beğendim. başarılar dilerim. (sende resminde çok şirin gözüküyorsun :).) Selamlar Fatih Erbişim
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Witaj Google to mordercy Panoramio. Prześlij dalej. Serdecznie pozdrawiam. Jan
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I was searching through the internet trying to solve this problem and saw an answer in this site and it looked you really now about this subject. Of all the other webs I checked, this one seemed that had a better solution. I tried to understand the process you answered to someone else using TestDisk but wasn't really sure if it applied to my case. I don't know how rewriting of the corrupted sectors can restore the partitions, cause I'm a novice concerning HDD repairing. Now I'll try to explain the details as clearly as I can. Hope you can guide me a bit.
This IDE HDD is one I had as internal HDD in my PC with Windows XP. One partition was for WinXP and the other for general files. Once I traveled, I took this HDD with me and bought an USB/IDE-SATA adapter. I used 2 times with a Windows 7 laptop and the 2nd time it presented problems. W7 would ask me to format one of the partitions, which was weird because I only used it play mp3's (Partition 2) and used .lrc files (Partition 1). Then I just ignored that request cancelling it and when I was done, I just shut down properly and disconnect everything likewise.
After I got back (didn't use it since), I tried to plug it in the same way in a W7 laptop, hoping it had been a lapse last time and now "fixed" itself. It didn't and all the HDD now appears as unallocated.
Until yesterday, I was really hesitant for not having done this in the past. I have decent knowledge in computers, but I care about my data, so I didn't do anything until yesterday when I started to do scans with EASUS Partition Master, MiniTool Partition Wizard and now Paragon Partition Manager (scanning for Partition Recovery) . With the first two I did Quick and Complete scans with no results and with Paragon already did the Quick one and now, like 1 hour ago, started the Complete Scan and so far it hasn't shown any progess at all. I did use TestDisk once for this problem, but I didn't know much about its tools, so I didn't risk it. By the way, I'm using WinXP and have a brand new external USB HDD if backup needed.
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Empathy --
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I find a Porsche --
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I drop out of high school --
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One with the machine --
Rock and roll all night --
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i luv my syg so much… u r my life da
im dedicating dis song 2 my luv… luv u so much
im dedicating dis song 2 pattu mamme!! pattu mamee, u rock!
Just for the sake of sending those SMS'es, it cost around RM0.50 + Normal Telco charges for users who sent them! WOW, now that's nice!
It is really sickening to see the same lame messages being posted repeatedly in that channel, with the famous one being:
"17/m/jb here. any single gal pls pvt me."
No, I don't have any cholers against those JB fellas but each time I came across this kind of messages, most of the dudes would be from JB. And no, I'm not saying there are no KL dudes doing the same thing either. After all, guys are guys irregardless of where they are staying!
With that kind of language and "notations", no girls would fall for you!
Guess what….? I'm wrong! I believe there ARE some girls who would fall for these kind of
idiots boys, and I wonder, what kind of girls would fall for them? Those heartbroken? desperate single girls? bitches? 'girl' impersonators?
At times, Sun Music would be airing some of my favorite songs and with the existence of the SMS shit at the bottom, it is irritating and annoying to enjoy our song and having a glance at their SMS'es at the same time. It is like a magnet, as my eyes would be forced to read their SMS'es though I tend to concentrate on the music that is being played. I just can't! Arghhhh!
And, what kind of SMS'es would appear at that time?
wow.. i luv dis song.. hw abt u priyacute?
And our priyacute would reply:
i like anotha song from d same film, d XXX song… very nice… u lyk dat song arh, MachoGuy
And our MachoGuy replies:
yea… i like dat too… so, saptinggila???… hehehehe!… wanna pvt arh?
And their conversation goes on and on, and the best part is, it goes PUBLIC! Is it our "thalei yeluthu" to read their stupid messages while watching our favorite video song concurrently?
And, in the middle of nowhere, all of a sudden a moron would be popping out with his SMS:
Man U ROCKS!!!….. LIVERPOOL SUX!… HAHAHA!
And another jerk would reply accordingly:
Liverpool is the king of footballers lar!…. You'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!…HAHA!
And in the midst of our football fans, there comes our hero solving their dispute:
hai gals.. any1 wanna chat… pls pvt me. im 22/m.
Is this some sort of a repetitive process on a daily basis? Why can't that SUN MUSIC channel provide us with an option for TURNING OFF that SMS screen shit, so that we could just see and enjoy those songs without being irritated or turned off with their retarded SMS'es?
*I do understand there are many desperate guys out there who wanna try for some girls via this way in hoping that the actual priyacute or lovelygal would really be CUTE and LOVELY in reality and vice versa. And I know that you might be thinking that "It is my handphone, my credit, my life, my suka hati… and what this idiot gotta rant about". Well, I'm just pissed. That's it!


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Milk Munny EP
- Artists Demas, Berk Offset, Alicia Hush
- Release Date 2011-07-17
- Labels Klangscheiben Records
- Catalog KSRDIG023
- Description Mr. Thomas Baz aka Demas and his frickel-funk-booth Klangscheiben couldnt help doing it once again, to throw a magnificent portion of releases-insanity amid the devotees. Thats the way it should be, when it sparks and tingles between the knee joints... This time all spots are directed toward the Canadian sound artist Alicia Hush from Toronto, which operates her own platform "hushlamb productions" together with like-minded people. Canada, there was nevertheless something in history - Yes baby, frickel your hair for me, held it pointing the way in the first half of the millenium particularly from Quebec and Ontario. The Hype is past, but the soul and passion of the music stayed, as you can clear recognize also by the work of this young lady. Madame Hush belongs in her hometown to the activists of the good taste with jagged vibe and without trend dictation. Her "Milk Munny EP" garnished with remixes of Demas and Berk offset (9Volt, Musikkrause) is a varied and swinging certification of club entertainment between experimental and peaktime music. Voice-samples, chaff-groove, darkside melodies, limbo-beats,... Its everything in it. The tracks sound itself very familiarly. Yes it is - however the tracks come along very freshly and sexy. It fits like a glove to breathe and dance!Written by Oliver Goldt


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Union at Odds With FAA Over Pilots' Penalty
Union anger over the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to revoke the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots threatens to disrupt voluntary safety-reporting programs used by many carriers, according to industry officials.
FAA regulators Tuesday revoked the licenses of both pilots aboard Northwest Flight 188, which failed to respond to air-traffic controllers for about 90 minutes. The union isn't defending actions of the pilots, who asked to be protected under voluntary reporting rules. But officials of the Air Line Pilots Association claim regulators jumped the gun and disregarded voluntary procedures worked out over many years among regulators, airlines and unions.
Recent Articles
- FAA Pulls Licenses of Northwest Pilots
- Pilots' Use of Laptops Violated Policy
- Pilots Say They Were Distracted
- Voice Recorder Could Hinder Jet Probe
The union contends the enforcement move violated the spirit, and probably the letter, of voluntary arrangements in place at Northwest parent Delta Air Lines Inc. and other carriers.
FAA officials have rejected such claims, asserting that voluntary-disclosure programs were never meant to cover violations such as those committed by the Northwest cockpit crew. An FAA spokeswoman said certain types of behavior, including crimes, intentional violations, and alcohol and drug abuse, are beyond the purview of such programs.
The pilots have told investigators they became distracted, engaged in extensive conversation, opened up laptops in the cockpit and failed to monitor their aircraft's position or radio transmissions from controllers while cruising at 37,000 feet. They overshot their Minneapolis destination by more than 100 miles before circling back to land safely.
Voluntary incident-reporting programs are widely regarded as powerful tools to help airlines, pilots and regulators identify safety hazards. Each carrier has set up procedures allowing pilots to confidentially disclose safety lapses and mistakes without fear of punishment from airline management or government officials.
A review committee at each airline -- usually consisting of pilots, management and FAA representatives -- is authorized to analyze the data, interview the pilots and determine whether the incident qualifies as a voluntary-disclosure event that can be dealt with by the panel.
All three groups must agree, otherwise the FAA is free to proceed with possible enforcement.
In the Northwest case, the union contends the FAA summarily punished pilots who voluntarily answered questions from investigators. The incident-review committee was slated to meet Thursday, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The union, which represents more than 50,000 pilots in the U.S. and Canada, on Thursday sent letters to the FAA complaining that the punishment was premature. Deviating from established rules safeguarding voluntary data runs "counter to the goal of identifying safety improvements," according to the letter. The union also criticized media pressure to disclose incident details, which it said is leading "our industry in a direction that is detrimental to the goal of accident and incident prevention."
Union officials adopted a resolution calling on John Prater, the union's president, "to use all available means" to ensure that the FAA understands the extent of their concern and takes steps to "recommit to protect the integrity" of existing voluntary-safety programs.
A union spokeswoman declined to comment.
One union faction contemplated temporarily pulling out of such programs as a symbolic gesture of protest.
If the union ratchets back participation in these programs, "it would be a major loss for the FAA" and could slow the global drive for safer skies, according to John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, which is leading the investigation into the Northwest incident.
Senior FAA officials for years have credited the voluntary programs with helping to lower accident rates in the U.S. and elsewhere. But the programs have had a rocky history, with different airlines opting out at various times. '
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James Patrick McCulley
Published: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 12:03 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 at 12:03 p.m.
Terrebonne Sheriff's Office, Aug. 6, 2011
James Patrick McCulley, 27, 165 Morgan St., Wisner, holding for other agency.
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I had never been to an IKEA until last week, so I made this based on my experience. (full size image here: http://endofthepad.tumblr.com/image/33374093511)
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Raymond A Danowski Sr. (on right in uniform): Wedding day in New York with his brother Paul Danowski, sister-in-law Catherine Malcolm, and wife Jean Malcolm Danowski. Then he went to WW2, in the Army, under General Patton. After 3 + years he returned and saw his son for the 1st time and had 3 more children (all girls).
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San Diego-based Zephyr Partners has paid a reported $21.1 million for a 60,000-square-foot block on Broadway between Seventh and Eighth avenues in downtown San Diego for a major mixed-use development.
Plans call for as much as 750,000 square feet of building expected to consist of two 40-story towers housing residential, boutique hotel and retail space. Groundbreaking is slated for the end of 2015. The proposed completion date wasn't immediately available.
The property, which Zephyr notes consists of underused retail, parking and office space, will be demolished to make way for the project.
Zephyr co-CEO Brad Termini said the project should revitalize an area between Gaslamp Quarter and the Financial District.
"This transaction offered a rare opportunity to acquire property in urban San Diego," Termini said in a statement. "The site spans a full city block, and is one of the few remaining underdeveloped areas in downtown's core. After studying the layout of other major urban areas such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, we think this project will accelerate the transformation of downtown San Diego, as it continues to evolve into a more walkable and accessible neighborhood."
The goal, Termini said, is to create an urban living and retail destination that residents, locals and tourists will enjoy.
The original eight-property portfolio was built in the 1950s and has fallen into disrepair over the past 30 years, Termini said.
"We are excited to further the renaissance of San Diego's downtown core, and transform a once-neglected property into a vibrant and appealing community," he said.
Termini estimated the project will cost more than $250 million, making it Zephyr's largest development and one of the largest planned for downtown. It is Zephyr's second condominium project; the company will also build 60 high-end condominiums at 2850 Sixth Ave., in Bankers Hill that will be completed in 2015.
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Translation of lifeless in Spanish:
- 1 (listless)(appearance/prose)
sin vida(hair/painting)
sin vida(eyes)
sin vida(debate/party)
poco animadoExample sentences
- The left wing think tanks, for instance, are now lifeless, dull and lacking in ideas.
- The man who looked back at him was well-muscled and tall, but his eyes were tired and dull, his light brown hair flat and lifeless.
- Generally dry hair is unmanageable, lifeless, dull, frizzy and/or flyaway.
- 2 (body) (dead)sin vida
inánime [formal]
exánime [literary](unconscious) inerteExample sentences
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- Sitting on his knees he embraced the dead bloody woman in his arms, feeling her cold lifeless body against his hot chest.
- The dirty grey pavements were littered with cold, lifeless bodies and the only sound came from the biting autumn wind as it ripped through the trees and chilled him to the bone.
- She pressed her forehead to his own, and his entire body was cold, lifeless.
- There was a long pause as the two stared out over the grim and lifeless landscape.
- The landscape appears to be lifeless, but is home to an array of insects and wildlife.
- The cave is not a lifeless place, it is a living thing to which we have to give ourselves; a thing that can be gentle and also be a savage whom changes in temper can render dangerous.
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Writers in the Schools (WITS) inspires public high school students to write, revise, edit, publish, and perform their own creative writing.
WITS programming reinforces the real world importance of reading and writing in all professions, is designed to meet state and national standards for the arts and language arts, and helps schools reach their goals of teaching writing across the disciplines.
WITS Serves High School Students
WITS currently serves public high schools and alternative high school programs throughout Multnomah County. In 2014/2015, the program served more than 3,600 students with a variety of literary opportunities, including:
- Semester-long writing workshops in high school classrooms
- One-day visits by local and world-famous authors
- Mentorships for students to work one-on-one with writers
- Books for classrooms and school libraries
- Public student readings at local bookstores and cafés
- Publication of student work in annual print and digital anthologies
- Transportation, books, and tickets for school groups to attend Portland Arts & Lectures and Special Events
- Verselandia! high school poetry slam
- Mentoring to help students with college and scholarship application essays
WITS Annual Report
WITS Works
Last year WITS served more than 3,600 Portland high school students by teaching writing, extending literary experiences beyond the classroom, publishing student work, and coordinating student readings throughout the city. Read more about the work of Writers in the Schools and about WITS sponsors and evaluations in our 2014-15 WITS report.


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Hendersonville woman enjoys start to inauguration
Published: Monday, January 19, 2009 at 11:20 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 19, 2009 at 7:35 p.m.
Hendersonville resident Jane Apple spent yesterday with thousands of people in Washington, D.C., taking part in the pre-inauguration festivities.
"It was an amazing day yesterday," Apple said in an e-mail to the Times-News. "My daughter, Lesley, and I went to the We Are One concert that kicked off the Inaugural events. The crowd extended from the Lincoln Memorial past the World War II Memorial up the hill to the Washington Monument and beyond. People seemed to organize themselves into villages around the massive screens to celebrate with strangers sharing a common spirit of celebration."
She said the event was organized and the crowd was well behaved.
"Spirits are high," Apple wrote. "D.C. is doing a spectacular job of crowd control with professional and volunteer help. Details have been carefully followed. For instance, there is a volunteer group serving the animals that participate in the effort such as Park Service horses, the guide dogs and service dogs. It seems no stone has been left unturned."
The crowd was entertained by a star-studded lineup, including President-elect Barack Obama.
"Particularly poignant was the replay of Marion Anderson's 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert set up by Eleanor Roosevelt as an American Lesson of Tolerance," Apple wrote. "Of particular fun was singing along with Garth Brooks to 'Took my Chevy to the levee... The screen showed the president-elect singing along as well."
Apple said she is going to an inaugural ball tonight with her son, Jason, and daughter, Kirsten, both Hendersonville High School graduates. She has tickets to the ceremony tomorrow.
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Speech Data Compression Using Vector Quantization
Transforms are used for speech data compressions which are lossy algorithms. Such algorithms are tolerable for speech data compression since the loss in quality is not perceived by the human ear. However the vector quantization (VQ) has a potential to give more data compression maintaining the same quality. In this paper the authors propose speech data compression algorithm using vector quantization technique. They have used VQ algorithms LBG, KPE and FCG. The results table shows computational complexity of these three algorithms. Here they have introduced a new performance parameter Average Fractional Change in Speech Sample (AFCSS).
Provided by: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Topic: Networking Date Added: Sep 2010 Format: PDF


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Ernest Wildfoerster, 81
Published: Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 4:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 12:00 a.m.
Ernest "Ernie" Wildfoerster, 81, of Hendersonville died Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005, at Carolina Village Medical Center.
He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and attended Bucknell University. He was an Army Air Corps of World War II, enlisting during his freshman year. He flew a P-51 fighter plane in the European Theater and developed a lifelong respect for its capabilities and the role it played in the war. After his discharge, he graduated from Bucknell.
He spent most of his life on Long Island in the communities of Malba, Flushing, Floral Park and Centerport, where he raised his family. In 1980, he retired from a long and varied career in the insurance field and moved to Hendersonville.
He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years, Alma F. Wildfoerster; two daughters, Patricia Turner and husband, Dennis, of Madison County and Susan Hughes and husband, Michael, of Sayville, Long Island, N.Y.
The family would like to thank the staff at Carolina Village Care and Medical Center for the excellent and loving care; and the many people from Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, who supported him and his family.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Village Hall of Carolina Village. Father John Aurilia will officiate. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Four Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care, P.O. Box 2395, Hendersonville, N.C. 28793 or to Immaculate Conception Church, 208 Seventh Ave. W., Hendersonville, N.C. 28791-3602.
Shuler Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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#5538 closed (fixed)
assertRedirects should assume http://testserver if it isn't provided
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Description (last modified by russellm)
[6164] fixed #987, a problem with redirects allowing relative URIs. The fix is correct, but it makes the testing API slightly unwieldy; all calls to assertRedirects() now require that 'http://testserver' be part of the asserted URL.
The vast majority of redirection tests will be internal to the site, so requiring the full dummy host prefix only serves to muddy the tests. This is made worse by the fact that urlresolvers.reverse() doesn't include the testserver component, so assertRedirects(reverse('some_name')) doesn't work.
assertRedirects should be modified to inspect the test URL; if no ':' doesn't occur in the test url, 'http://testserver' should be prepended for test purposes. i.e.,
assertRedirects('/some/url') is equivalent to assertRedirects('http://testserver/some/url')
assertRedirects('http://otherserver/some/url') would be untouched
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by russellm
- Description modified (diff)
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by SmileyChris
- Triage Stage changed from Accepted to Design decision needed
Uh, I don't think I changed the requirement on assertRedirect tests, since the test server doesn't set HTTP_HOST or SERVER_NAME
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by russellm
Changed 9 years ago by pat.m.boyd@…
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by patrickb
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- Status changed from new to assigned
I attached a solution to only match parts of the url that were defined in the expected_url. It fixes our tests but I'm not sure if its good/clear/readable/up to django standards.
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by mtredinnick
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- Status changed from assigned to closed


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Gjallarhorn (Nordic folk band)
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Gjallarhorn (Swedish pronunciation: [jalaɹhuːɳ]) is a band that performs world music with roots in the folk music of Finland and Sweden. The group was formed in 1994. The band's music echoes the ancient folk music tradition of Scandinavia with medieval ballads, minuets, prayers in runo-metric chanting and ancient Icelandic rímur epics in a modern way.
The group is named after the Gjallarhorn of Norse mythology.
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Joost, I would like to see a change in how the Custom Post Type label is queried within the WordPress SEO breadcrumbs plugin. Currently, it queries the CPT 'menu_name'.
I would like to have a slightly different (or shorter) 'menu_name' within the WordPress admin.
Would you consider changing it to 'label' or 'label->name'?


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The flagship of our fleet, this 100' multi-level modern entertainment yacht was designed from the bottom up for corporate events, weddings and celebrations, and has hosted more parties than any other charter yacht in Kemah.Read more
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I have problems with the "imagettftext" function. The following code works if I comment the problematic line (I see a yellow rectangle).
$text = $_SESSION['code'];
header("Content-type: image/gif");
$image = imagecreate(150, 15);
$red_bg = 255; $green_bg = 255; $blue_bg = 155;
$bg_col = imagecolorallocate($image, $red_bg, $green_bg, $blue_bg);
$red_txt = 0; $green_txt = 0; $blue_txt = 0;
$text_col = imagecolorallocate($image, $red_txt, $green_txt, $blue_txt);
$font = "LucidaSansRegular.ttf";
$link_col = imagecolorallocate($image, 0, 0, 255);
//imagettftext($image, 10.0, 0.0, 5, 5, $text_col, $font, "aaaaa");
But if I uncomment the problematic line (to show some text) I get a problem. Mozilla writes me "The image cannot be displayed, because it contains errors".
May be this is related with the access to my font file (LucidaSansRegular.ttf). All files in my directory have "-rw-r--r--" (including the fond file).
Any suggestions? I need to add that on another server this code worked.


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The Wookiees are four nuts from Warrington that feel there is a need to change the music industry. Getting influences from Funk, Rock and the down right strange, The Wookiees have become Warrington's most respected and only diverse Funk band. Having spread their sound across the North-West of England, they are now on the hunt to break free from the same locations.
So far they have blown the roofs off venues in Warrington, Manchester, Crewe, Liverpool, Chester, Runcorn and Wigan (+ many more) and supported bands such as Goldie Lookin' Chain, The Amazing Kappa, Twenty Twenty and shared Festivals with Pulled Apart By Horses, Hadouken! and Ash.
The birth of The Wookiees began Monday 7th September 2009 at Warrington Collegiate college where they were assembled by college tutor Sue Quin.
13th June 2012 the alliance took a break from their reckless route to concentrate on their individual needs, such as alcohol, money and a degree!
..A year later, The Old Town House re-opens and The Wookiees RETURN! elevating straight back to the top of their game.
Expect nothing less than fresh destructive Funk/Soul originals just as you love, combined with inevitable toe-tapping party anthems performed with staggering energy causing chaos throughout any venue!
Happily un-employed cluster of four best friends that spend all their time in the rehearsal shed perfecting the colourful drive and colossal grooving sounds of their fresh view on original Funk.
A band that do it for the love of music and more importantly, their music. Playing every show as its their last, it's sight that everybody needs to witness!


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Do something. Usually with purpose.
You wanna fight? Let's do it up bitch!
od uživatele connick 04. březen 2003
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Meaning go for it.
Jim: I'm tired, I might go lie down.
Dani: do it up.
Dani: do it up.
od uživatele duhani 20. únor 2009
A somewhat half-hearted verbal command used when a person agrees with another person's inclination to perform a task. The phrase is usually said hastily, and can also be stylized by stretching the first or the last vowel, depending on preference.
"Yayuhh, im tryin to get with herrr."
"doitup man."
"I should heat up those nachos."
"Good1 doituuup."
"doitup man."
"I should heat up those nachos."
"Good1 doituuup."
od uživatele slazer 22. listopad 2007


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Author was one of Bergholz Beard Cutters in Amish community.
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