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10g vivarium
I have a cornsnake in a 10g tank right now, not a fish tank though, a reptile one with the locking screen top. since i am going to be moving him to a bigger tank sometime this summer, i was wondering if i would be able to make a small vivarium out of the tank.
You can.:) What creatures do you like?:)
i was thinking some small frogs but idk i have a while to think about it, my snake isnt that big yet.
hey check out fire belly toads, their really easy to take care of, and you can have 3ish in their comfortably...but make sure its mostly water because they LOOOOVE the water!! and you have to keep it clean!
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Cesc Fabregas reveals Arsene Wenger told him he wasn't needed... because Arsenal manager already had Mesut Ozil instead
- Cesc Fabregas was told his position was already covered by Mesut Ozil at the Emirates before opting for Chelsea
- Arsenal had first option of signing former player Fabregas
- Fabregas talked with Arsene Wenger but he would 'find it difficult to make a place for me on the pitch as Ozil had my position covered'
Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas has revealed he spoke with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger before joining Chelsea and was told his position was already covered by Mesut Ozil.
Arsenal had first option on their former player when he decided to leave Barcelona at the end of last season, but Fabregas opted for Chelsea in a deal worth £30million.
'We talked with Wenger but he said that he would find it difficult to make a place for me on the pitch as Ozil had my position covered,' Fabregas told a news conference at Spain's World Cup base.
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Revealed: Cesc Fabregas held talks with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger before joining Chelsea but was told there was no room for him because of Mesut Ozil
Surplus to requirements: Arsenal could have opted to bring back their former player
Replaced: Fabregas was not needed at the Emirates because Mesut Ozil (pictured) had his position covered
On your bike, son: Fabregas cycles into training in Curitiba on Sunday
'There were some very good options and I chose between the best two or three,' added the 27-year-old.
'I spoke with Jose Mourinho and he said what I wanted to hear and things went very quickly from there.
'This is not the right moment to talk about this, though, as we need to be focused on the national team and the World Cup.'
Moving: Fabregas signed for Chelsea in a £30million deal instead after speaking with Jose Mourinho
Rivalry: Jose Mourinho jumped at the chance to sign Fabregas after Arsene Wenger's (right) snub
Fabregas was a second-half substitute for Spain as they crashed to a 5-1 defeat against the Netherlands in their opening Group B game of the World Cup.
He said he and his teams mates were seeking inspiration from the last World Cup four years ago in South Africa when Spain went on to beat Chile in the group stage, having lost their opener 1-0 against Switzerland.
'We need to think about what we have achieved over the past six years,' said Fabregas, referring to Spain's European Championship triumphs in 2008 and 2012.
'You can't live in the past but there are positive things that can be taken from four years ago when we also played Chile and we won 2-1.
'It was a different situation as we didn't need as many goals and Chile were also qualified so they didn't need to fight but there are similarities.
'We will play our usual football style of keeping possession but we need to be more dynamic with the passing.
'There are different ways to play. We are known for our passing game and this is the moment to attack and be brave. We need to control the game and score a lot of goals.'
World Cup: Fabregas is in Brazil with Spain but lost 5-1 to the Netherlands in their tournament opener
Team-mates: Fabregas (right) has joined Fernando Torres (Centre) at Chelsea instead of Arsenal
Cesc Fabregas factfile
May 4 - Born in Arenys de Mar, Catalonia.
1997: Joins Barcelona youth set-up.
August - Top goalscorer and wins adidas Golden Shoe for being best player at the FIFA Under-17 World Championship.
September - Signs for Arsenal.
October 28 - Becomes the youngest player in Arsenal's history when he plays against Rotherham in League Cup.
May - Helps Arsenal win FA Cup.
Youngster: Fabregas helped Arsenal to win the FA Cup final against Manchester United in 2005
March 1 - Wins first cap for Spain, featuring against the Ivory Coast.
May 17 - Plays as Arsenal are defeated by Barcelona in the Champions League final.
June 14 - Became youngest player in Spanish history to participate in a World Cup when he features against Ukraine.
October 19 - Agrees new eight-year deal with Arsenal.
May - Voted the PFA's Young Player of the Year.
June 29 - Starts as Spain win Euro 2008 final 1-0 against Germany.
October 7 - Reveals it would be a 'dream to return to Barcelona some day'.
November 24 - Named Arsenal skipper after William Gallas is stripped of captaincy.
Talent: The Spaniard won the PFA Young Player of the Year in 2008
March 17 -
Denies an allegation of spitting at Hull assistant manager Brian Horton
after Arsenal's 2-1 FA Cup semi-final win, although he is later charged
and then cleared.
April 26 - Included in the PFA Team of of the Year.
June 2 - Arsenal release a statement saying they have rejected the offer from Barcelona and have no intention of selling.
- Makes four substitute appearances in seven games in Spain's
triumphant World Cup campaign, setting up winning goal for Andres
Iniesta in the final.
March 8 -
Apologises to Gunners fans after making mistake in the build-up to
Barca's first goal in a 3-1 Champions League win over Arsenal at the Nou
August 15 - Passes medical and signs five-year contract to complete transfer to Barcelona, sealing a return to the Nou Camp.
August 26 - Scores his first goal for the club in the 2-0 UEFA Super Cup victory over Porto.
December 18 - Again gets on the scoresheet in a final as Barcelona beat Santos 4-0 to win the FIFA Club World Cup.
May 25 - Comes off the bench as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao to win
the Copa del Rey and finishes his first season at Barcelona with four
pieces of silverware.
- Plays a more advanced role for Spain as they retained the European
Championships. Scores in group stages matches against Italy and Ireland
before netting the winning penalty in the semi-final shootout success
over Portugal.
Team to beat: Fabregas will be hoping Spain can retain the World Cup in Brazil
April 6 - Scores the first hat-trick of his career in a 5-0 win over Real Mallorca.
May 11 - Wins the Premiera Division title, the first league winners' medal of his career.
- Is the subject of interest from Manchester United, with manager David
Moyes confirming the Premier League club have lodged a bid.
August 18 - Provides five assists as Barcelona hammer Levante 7-0
April 16 - Starts Copa del Rey final defeat against Real Madrid.
17 - Included in starting line-up as Barcelona can only draw final
league game of the season at home to Atletico Madrid, who win the title
as a result.
June 12 - Signs for Chelsea after being linked with a host of Premier League clubs throughout the summer
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Book Review: Bossy Flossy
Book Description for Bossy Flossy:
Flossy is the bossiest girl around. She's bossy at home and she's bossy in school. She's bossy to her friends and she's bossy to her cat. Sometimes she's even bossy to her teacher! Flossy doesn't understand why no one will listen to her. One day, Flossy meets Edward, a boy who may be just as bossy as she is. Has Flossy finally met her match?
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My Thoughts:
My four-year-old son and I read this book one afternoon cuddled up on the living room couch. My son is not bossy or rude, but he really enjoyed how the characters misbehaved in this book. In fact, he asked me to read it to him repeatedly. The main character in the book Bossy Flossy is quite rude to everyone she knows. She tells her mother, teacher and friends what to do and how to act and feels quite disgruntled when they fail to heed her words. In fact, she is a bit flippant when she is punished for bossing others around. My son never behaves in this manner, so I was surprised by how much he enjoyed reading about characters that boss each other around.
This might be a good book for a child who is bossy, but I'm not sure what message it might give to a child who is not. I suppose it is a good way to introduce the subject to him in case he meets a friend in school or on the playground who is acting similarly.
If you have a child with behavioral issues, most specifically one that is bossy, then this book might be a perfect way to create an open forum to discuss these problems. I can imagine talking about the characters, their actions and ultimately how they come together to change their behaviors. In the end, there are two bossy characters, which would also teach children that they are not alone in their actions and ultimately these two characters need each other to change their ways.
Author's Bio:
Paulette Bogan admits she was bossy as a child. She is the author and illustrator ofVirgil & Owen, which was chosen as one of Bank Street Best Children's books of the Year 2016, Virgil & Owen Stick Together, which won a Mom's Choice Award Gold Medal for Picture Books, and Lulu The Big Little Chick, which won a Children's Choice Book Award. She lives in New York City with her husband, three daughters, and two dogs. They ALL think she is STILL bossy. But they've never told her to go to her room!
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Book Review: DREAM: Clarify and Create What You Want
Book Description:
Do you dare to dream? If so, you are a results-oriented person. Dream is designed to help you both transform your own life and contribute to making the world a better place. Dreaming is something you do—or should do.
You were created to create, and your ability to dream is paramount and fundamental when it comes to living a dream-come-true life. Dream will help you design a life that is the highest expression of your purpose by creating dreams in every area that matters to you, both personally and professionally.
This book will help you take real steps toward creating and achieving the dreams that matter to you most. It will help you to uncover, or recover, your purpose so that you can live with purpose—and there's nothing that will bring you greater fulfillment.
Reading this book will help you to fully understand:
• Who you really are
• How you want your life to be
• How to develop dreams that inspire you
• How to look at your life with a fresh perspective
• How to remove fear, doubt, or other obstacles
• How to implement shortcuts and the techniques you will learn
Dream will teach you exactly how to do these and so much more.
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My Thoughts:
I never imagined I would leave college with a bachelor of arts in English and end up writing software for a large financial institution. What did I think I would do? After various internships throughout my junior and senior years I assumed my path was set in marketing or advertising. Was that my dream job? No, most definitely not.
Software wasn't a dream either, but the year was 1999 and Y2K resulted in a need for talented developers. After two interviews with that financial institution my career trajectory changed completely. Software wasn't my dream either, but I realized that a high paying job could help fulfill other desires.
Those wishes included owning a beach house and becoming a stay-at-home parent, but now, as I stay home with two young boys, I try to envision my future and realize I don't seem to dream anymore.
If you feel like you are going through the motions of life, but not really enjoying it this book might be for you. If you feel like every day is the same as the next, but you aren't sure how to achieve anything better this book might be for you.
If you had a choice how would you spend your days? I'm not just talking about professions and careers, but the larger aspects of your life too. What excites you? What would make you hop out of bed each morning with a smile on your face and a lightness in your soul?
If you have a dream you want realized or simply want to dream again this book might be for you.
Author's Bio:
Dream University's CEO, Marcia Wieder is a long established thought leader on visionary thinking. As Founder of The Meaning Institute, she teaches people to create and live fulfilling lives. She's been a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, writes for Huffington Post and is the author of 14 books. She appeared often on Oprah and was featured in her own PBS-TV show called Making Your Dreams Come True.
She has taught at Stanford's Business School and as president of the National Association of Women Business Owners, she assisted 3 U.S. presidents. She is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and on the advisory board for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
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Book Review: Mukhabarat, Baby! My Life as a Wartime Spy for the CIA
Book Description:
This is the story of a young American who would eventually fulfill his dream of becoming a CIA Case Officer, only to have a promising career cut short after having been purposely poisoned by a contact.
Eric Burkhart was raised in Europe in a bilingual household, and accepted a job in Africa right out of college. Upon his return to the United States, he was hired as an Immigration Agent in Laredo, Texas, working Inspections on one of the busiest port-of-entries connecting the United States and Mexico. This experience is detailed in this humorous, occasionally heartbreaking memoir about choosing to be a survivor.
In 2000, Burkhart accepted a position as a Case Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. The book includes details of both the notoriously arduous hiring process and the rigorous training program, including Burkhart's eventual successful completion of the Espionage Course taught at the famous "Farm". Burkhart's first overseas working experience was in war-torn Kosovo, where he was unwittingly poisoned by an unstable intelligence contact. Burkhart would struggle with the repercussions of this episode for the remainder of his career, and eventually be obliged to accept full medical retirement from the CIA.
However, before retiring, Burkhart completed tours in Iraq and Africa. His time spent in the Green Zone almost immediately following the occupation of Baghdad, constitutes the majority of this enlightening book. Burkhart exposes the reader to the human element within the CIA, and we are introduced to a variety of characters, some who will seem familiar, and some who reveal the eccentricities we expect with this kind of occupation.
Follow Burkhart through the battlefields of Iraq, past the Iraqi Insurgency, and to his next assignment in Africa. Burkhart leaves no emotion unexpressed as he details his medical struggles with the horrific damage caused to his body from Toxic Exposure. Wracked by pain, Burkhart reaches the point where he must consider quality of life issues, and has to accept retirement as a necessary decision. Burkhart has a story to tell, and leaves no stone unturned during this turbulent time both in his life, and in our history.
My Thoughts:
When I was in college I attend a career fair where representatives of the CIA came to speak with prospective graduates. I was intrigued by the idea of becoming a CIA agent. I mean who doesn't want to travel the globe tracking down bad guys?
Obviously I never followed through on this desire. Instead I eventually attained a job sitting in a cubicle writing software for a large financial institution. That's about as far from CIA as one can imagine. I forgot all about that career fair until I read this memoir.
Isn't it true that our vision of a job rarely matches reality? Reading Burkhart's story showed me just how unglamorous a job with the CIA might be.
In this very down-to-earth account Burkhart details his missions and the horrible aftermath of a career with the agency.
While the first part of the book details his trips abroad the later half talks about medical problems that arose from operative poisoning. The details of his missions aren't particularly disturbing, but the aftermath of his time with the organization is really quite awful. The toxic chemicals he incurred from poisoning wreak havoc on his body.
As someone who has endured pain from an unexpected medical problem I was saddened to read that the author was in so much pain that he was nearly housebound and considering suicide as a possible escape from the difficulties that plagued him.
As his medical bills rack up from unexpected complications, doctor visits and medical tests he is forced to ask the agency and government for money. Its a shame that Burkhart is put into this position. The physical pain is bad enough it seems rather unfair that he must also deal with emotional battles over pride and money.
This is an interesting personal account of life with the CIA. If you've ever wanted to know the truth of what its like to work for the agency this might be the book for you.
Meet the author:
Eric Burkhart was born in North Carolina in 1965, and raised in France by his mother while his father was serving in Vietnam. Eric's parents retired to San Antonio, Texas in 1978, and Eric has considered himself a Texan since that time.
After completing college, Burkhart relocated to South Africa for a job in community planning and design. After returning to the United States in 1994, Eric started a career in federal service by becoming a Federal Agent. In 1999 he moved over to the CIA, which became his passion and focus in life. After being poisoned by while working in Kosovo in 2001, Burkhart was eventually obliged to medically retire, but not before extending his career to include tours in Iraq and Africa. Mukhabarat, Baby! is Burkhart's first book.
Book Review: How To Be Alive
Book Description:
The author of No Impact Man and founder of the No Impact Project returns with this trailblazing guide to living a meaningful and fulfilling life while also contributing to the wellbeing of our communities and the planet.
When Colin Beavan embarked upon a yearlong experiment to lead a zero net-impact existence in the middle of New York City, he had no idea what a profound effect it would have upon himself and others around him. For Colin, the project—chronicled in a book, a documentary, and an ongoing lecture series—formed the basis of a radical "lifestyle redesign" that reached beyond just environmental activism. And, in the course of his travels and lectures, he encountered scores of people who were similarly breaking from traditional ideas about work, home, and even family in order to take their futures, and the planet's, in their own hands. In the process they made a startling discovery—a happier way of life that is also having a deeply positive impact on the world.
For most of us, though, even contemplating this kind of transformation is overwhelming and confusing. In How to Be Alive, Beavan shares his insights on finding the path that's right for you. Drawing on everything from classic literature and philosophy to current science, and combining that with his own experiences alongside those of the many people he has met along the way, Colin explores a broad array of transformational lifestyle adjustments—small and large—that offer security and meaning in a world confronted by ecological crises, economic upheaval, and ongoing war and social injustice. In the process, he helps readers embark on the quest for a "good life" of their own—lives both better for them and the planet.
My Thoughts:
It's the beginning of a new year, which seems like a fitting time to read a self-help book. Although I didn't write a single new year's resolution I still wanted to reflect on my life. What is working for me and what isn't? What should I change, if anything, and what should remain the same?
When I received an invitation to review this book I jumped at the chance. After all it's difficult to refuse a book promising to be "a guide to the kind of happiness that helps the world."
I don't know the author, but I bet Colin Beavan and I would be good friends in real life. I could picture us sitting across the living room on comfortable, but ordinary living room chairs discussing the "Own What Really Makes You Happy" chapter in great detail. Over the years I have pared down my belongings, minimized my wardrobe and curtailed my spending. As time goes on I am less and less attached to things. I find it easier and easier to rid my house of unwanted stuff and to ensure that unwanted stuff doesn't find its way back in. While I found myself nodding along in this chapter I think the advice is sound: understand your relationship with stuff and focusing on owning only what makes you happy.
As a personal finance blogger I felt most connected to that chapter, but I enjoyed Beavan's advice overall. This book guides you through the baby steps to a more enjoyable life. Many of us have big dreams and goals, but simply don't know how to make any progress on them.
Beavan's advice is to take baby steps and he sums it up in a wonderful example. Beavan meets a man who wants to play the guitar, but that man never buys a guitar or takes lessons or makes any attempt to learn how to play. The man says its a goal, but never takes a single action to meet that goal. Then one day he meets a woman playing the ukulele. In a few minutes he learns how to play a song on it and quickly realizes he doesn't need to buy a guitar that may involve spending a lot of time and money on equipment and lessons. Instead he feels quite fulfilled playing the ukulele.
It's an instrument that is inexpensive and easy to play. He can learn songs easily and gains immediate enjoyment. It's not a guitar, but it meets his goal of making music in a fun way. Will he ever meet the goal of playing guitar? Maybe, maybe not, but the point is we can take baby steps to find fulfillment.
Beavan writes of other examples of this. Rather than deciding you need to exercise, cut out all sugar, never eat a carb or whatever else your health goal might be, just take it easy one step at a time. One day drink a little less soda, the next go for a short walk, the next make dinner from scratch. Rather than changing everything at once, make a tiny change and let the momentum build.
If you are looking for inspiration to make changes in your life, think baby steps, then read this book.
About the author:
Colin Beavan is a writer and activist best known as the author of NO IMPACT MAN: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process and founder of THE NO IMPACT PROJECT. He is the author of two previous books that have absolutely nothing to do with the environment: Fingerprints: The Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science and Operation Jedburgh: D-Day and America's First Shadow War. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He lives in New York City.
Find out more about Colin at his website, and connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Book Review: Celebrity and Entertainment Obsession: Understanding Our Addiction
Book Description:
"Our celebrity captivation seems out of proportion," says Michael S. Levy, PhD, addiction expert and author of CELEBRITY & ENTERTAINMENT OBSESSION: Understanding Our Addiction
Dr. Levy wrote CELEBRITY & ENTERTAINMENT OBSESSION to shed light on why we as a society are obsessed with people who work in the entertainment field—movies and television in particular—but singers, musicians sports figures and people on reality TV as well. Dr. Levy, whose previous book, Take Control of Your Drinking…and You May Not Need to Quit, resonated with many people, finds it remarkable that people who work in the entertainment field get more recognition and adoration than a competent brain surgeon who saves people's lives, or a pathologist who has made inroads in cancer treatment.
This wasn't always the case. Sixty years ago, a Gallup Poll study showed that people who were most admired included Einstein, Winston Churchill, Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur. Not one entertainer, sports star or media personality made the list. Fast-forward to 2000 – 2009 and we have stars like Bono, Tiger Woods, and Denzel Washington making the list.
Dr. Levy can discuss society's obsession with beauty, how our vulnerability to addiction, our need for idols and our voyeuristic predispositions all contribute to our celebrity obsession as well as:
• How the mass media controls our thinking, the nature of our social intercourse and interactions with each other and our preoccupation with celebrities
• How the media exploits our voyeurism and how our voyeurism serves as a form of distraction and amusement
• Why being entertained has become our primary preoccupation
• Why celebrities' real-life, off-screen stories get more publicity than anything they have done in their careers
Dr. Levy laments that television news programs focus as much, if not more, on the lives of high-profile celebrities than about other more important issues of the day. He believes that our obsession with entertainers is something to be concerned about since we will have missed opportunities to learn from others who could provide us with valuable ideas and standards for our young people. While the entertainment machine has given us a quick fix to feel good, Dr. Levy asks: "is our obsession with celebrities the best use our time? What will be important to reflect on at the end of our lives: Will it be what we knew about some celebrity or might it be something else?"
My Thoughts
As a child I vividly remember looking at the cover of tabloid newspapers on my neighbors dining room table. There always seemed to be some story about big foot or aliens or some other far-fetched creature that someone had captured on film. My friend's mom couldn't seem to stay away from this stuff. Every time I came over to play a new edition of that same newspaper sat right on the edge of the table where the previous version sat a week or so before.
Eventually junk magazines replaced those tabloids. You know the type I'm talking about. The ones that claim Jennifer Aniston is still upset with Angelina Jolie or secretly married or expecting her first baby. Poor Jennifer Aniston has been on the cover of those magazines since Brad Pitt left her so many years ago. Why does the public have such a fascination with her love life or her desire to have a baby?
Why do Americans love to watch The Kardashians or any other celebrity family? Doesn't Facebook seem like it's own little celebrity show? Show me the beautiful pictures of your glamorous vacation, gorgeous children or sparkly new wedding ring. How many of us seem to strive for our own limelight these days with pictures of our children's straight A's and prom pictures?
Have you ever wondered why our culture is so obsessed with celebrities? With all that we have going on in our own lives why do we spend any time watching, listening and learning about the lives of people who aren't all that special anyway?
Michael S. Levy's new book Celebrity & Entertainment Obsession Understanding Our Addiction gets to the heart of this very interesting phenomenon. Why are people so interested in the lives of the rich and famous? Are we all trying to live vicariously through the images projected on film and video?
How has our perspective on celebrities changed over time? Why does it seem like people now care about the famous just because they are famous, not because their fame is warranted by some great accomplishment? If you've ever wondered why our culture seems so addicted read Levy's book. It's an interesting look into the psychology behind this growing obsession.
Meet the author:
Michael S. Levy, PhD is a clinical psychologist who is the director of substance use services at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Massachusetts. He also maintains a private practice in psychotherapy in Andover, Massachusetts and is a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has often been interviewed on radio and television. Levy has published numerous articles and book chapters, gives many lectures and workshops, and is the author of one previous book, Take Control of Your Drinking…And You May Not Need to Quit.
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Book Review: I Love My Pet Elephant
Book Description:
A colorful tale of friendship and fun between a little girl and her best friend – her pet elephant! I Love My Pet Elephant is a delightful medley of reality and fantasy, with shenanigans and adventures brought to life through vibrant illustration and simple rhyming text.
Meet the author:
Lauren Micchelli is a newly published author, having penned her first book in 2014. She has since continued the Snootzytime Adventures of Maddie and Murphy series, and went on to publish A Day Of What Ifs and I Love My Pet Elephant.
Impressively, she was the recipient of New Book Award 2015 for I Love My Pet Elephant.
Lauren Micchelli grew up in West Caldwell, New Jersey and currently resides in northern New Jersey.
Author Interview:
What inspires you?
I'm inspired by the world around me, cliché as that may sound. I'm inspired by the people that I've had the good fortune of meeting, the places that I've been, the memories that I've made- it all drives my energy and fuels my imagination.
Where and when do you write?
I write when I feel inspired, whenever and wherever that may be! I keep a small notebook with me wherever I go to capture a burst of creativity. In fact, I was inspired to write I Love My Pet Elephant while I was on a train coming back from Manhattan. The concept came to me seemingly out of nowhere, so I grabbed my notebook and had the entire story on paper before the train ride was over!
Do you have another profession besides writing?
Writing is one of my many hobbies and an outlet for creativity. By day I work full time in business and have been continuing my education in holistic nutrition studies, which has made for a hefty schedule! Down the road I aspire to write about health and wellness in addition to children's stories. Who knows, perhaps my next adventure could be writing about health as pertains to children!
What's your fondest memory from your writing adventures thus far?
My first book, The Snootzytime Adventures, was released early December 2014. Shortly thereafter I received an email from a friend which included a picture of his four year old daughter snuggled in an oversized chair, engrossed in my book. He said his daughter loved my book so much she wanted to read it every day. That candid picture, and love of a story that I worked so hard to bring to life, was incredibly surreal and heartwarming.
Name someone – past or present – that you would like to meet if given the opportunity.
That's a great question, and while there are many people I'd love the opportunity to meet one person that's top of mind is Ellen DeGeneres. Not only does Ellen crack me up but she always appears to be having fun, and people seem to have a great time with her! I'd love to see what kind of humor she would bring to my book, if given the opportunity to chat with her about it!
What are you most proud of?
I'm extremely proud of myself for swinging pendulum from apprehension to excitement and pursuing my dreams. I didn't anticipate it would be easy to publish and market a book, but I didn't let that stop me! I'm proud of how much I've accomplished in such as short amount of time. In addition to publishing four books in six months, I was a recipient of New Book Award 2015 for I Love My Pet Elephant! While I still have a long way to go I'm happy of how far I've come in the last year!
What advice would you give budding writers?
Follow your dreams and don't take no for an answer! Be aware that the road ahead may be filled with twists and turns, and don't be afraid to ask questions to help you along. It may not be easy, but if it's something you want to pursue then find a way to make it happen!
My Thoughts:
When my oldest was just a few months old we started a bedtime routine that involved a bath, snuggling, nursing and reading three stories. We removed the nursing component at some point, but we've continued the rest of the ritual every night since. At just over four years old he knows the routine by heart and happily selects three books off his bookshelf before climbing into bed each evening.
Now that his baby brother has joined our crew we switch between more complex books he enjoys and colorful stories that will capture the interest of our littlest guy. When I received I Love My Pet Elephant in the mail I knew it would be the perfect story for both of them. On every other page there is a brightly colored illustration of a little girl and her pet elephant. The opposing page includes a short rhyming verse detailing the adventures they experience together.
The story is told from the perspective of the little girl who loves to go on adventures with her favorite pet. There are every day experiences a child might share with a pet dog like washing him and feeding him and of course more mystical adventures like sledding, playing hide and seek and even flying.
This book has a good rhythm to its rhymes. It reads rather easily and the words roll off the tongue quite nicely. The pictures of the girl and her pet elephant are colorful without being too bright. I especially love the expressiveness of the little girls eyes as they light up with each adventure. Best of all both children really seem to enjoy this story!
Book Review: The Travel Adventures of PJ Mouse
Book Description (The Travel Adventures of PJ Mouse – in Canada) :
PJ Mouse, an adorable little stuffed animal, was lost and alone until young Emily heard his cries for help. Now, along with his new family, PJ gets to travel the world-discovering exciting new places and people along the way!
Come join PJ on his first adventure across Canada as he hikes on a glacier in the Rockies, finds a salt lake in the prairies, and walks on the ocean floor in Nova Scotia.
Book Description (The Travel Adventures of PJ Mouse – in Queensland ):
PJ Mouse, an adorable little stuffed animal, was lost and alone until young Emily heard his cries for help. Now, along with his new family, PJ gets to travel the world – discovering exciting new places, people, and animals along the way!
Come join PJ on this, his second adventure, along the coast of Queensland, as he snorkels at the Great Barrier Reef, chats with a Loggerhead turtle in the midst of a great undertaking, and explores the tropical rainforest- until he has to be rescued by one of the local friendly wildlife.
Meet the author and illustrator:
Gwyneth Jane Page (Jane), who holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University, has called many countries home. She grew up in such places as England, Peru, the USA, and the Caribbean, and has also lived in Australia and Canada. She now resides in Victoria, BC with her husband and four children. The PJ Mouse books are based on Jane's family trips with the real stuffed animal, PJ, who was found by Emily, Jane's youngest daughter.
Megan Elizabeth, Jane's second oldest daughter, has lived in Canada and Australia and travelled extensively with her family and PJ. Having been artistic since she was a little girl, illustrating the PJ Mouse books has enabled her to combine her love of travel with her love of art. Megan completed her studies at VanArts and is now building her career as a professional photographer as well as an illustrator. She currently resides in Victoria, BC with her family.
My four-year-old son is graduating into books with more words and fewer pictures. Where he was once more interested in the images on the page then the words, he is now much more interested in the story line then the pictures set out on the pages before him.
When the Travel Adventures of PJ Mouse arrived on our doorstep I knew he was just the right age and at just the right stage to enjoy them. I typically read books while he eats breakfast in the morning. While he actually enjoys reading multiple times throughout the day, morning and nighttime have always been his favorite.
I started the book in the morning before he went to school, but told him it was too long to finish before we piled into the car. I read the first two chapters of The Travel Adventures of PJ Mouse – in Canada before we left in the morning and the minute we arrived home he asked me to finish the story. He loved how PJ Mouse kept getting into trouble on his adventure. His favorite parts occurred when PJ got caught up in a wave,and when he fell into a crevice in the ice. He asked me to read those chapters two or three times before we could move on to the rest of the book.
The same thing happened when we read The Travel Adventures of PJ Mouse – in Queensland. Although he was interested in many parts of the book there were a few chapters that he absolutely loved. After reading them he'd flip back to the beginning of a chapter and ask me to read it all over again.
Both books were a huge hit at my house. We even used our imaginations to think of adventures my son's own stuffed animals might like to take.
Book Review: Stop and Smell Your Children
Book Description:
Ready to laugh about motherhood and be encouraged? Tired of feeling overwhelmed and stressed out in the baby and toddler season? Need some fresh vision and perspective so you can enjoy—not just endure—your young children?
Stop and Smell Your Children: Laugh and Enjoy the Little Years offers moms-to-be and moms of young children short, real-life parenting stories that encourage and inspire. Leah Spina, mother of three children ages five and under, and former journalist, unleashes humor and perspective for tired moms who are parenting the "little" years. From the excitement of the positive pregnancy test to morning sickness and the banes of pregnancy, to childbirth, babies, toddlers and new parent struggles, the stories will make you laugh and see beauty in the chaos. Each story also includes thought-provoking takeaways to help busy moms gain a fresh outlook.
Strangers remind us that our children will be small only for a short time and to enjoy each moment. But then we return to the wild reality of parenting young children! All-night crying sessions. Never-ending laundry. Every-three-hour feeding schedules. Diaper explosions and projectile spit-up. Teething. Potty training. Yes, we enjoy our children, but we'd also like to enjoy a shower that lasts more than two minutes, or a meal that isn't lukewarm (if we're lucky). The truth is, pregnancy and parenting young children can be hard at times. But it can also be one of the best chapters of our lives, if we can learn to laugh and change our mindset.
Young children are one of life's greatest gifts. Each page of this easy read will help you truly enjoy the "little" years!
Meet the author:
Leah Spina is a former journalist of a national newsweekly magazine and also worked as a childbirth coordinator at a large adoption agency. She has her B.S in Business Administration from Thomas Edison State College. She has two adorable children – Samson and Esther – and resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband, David. When she's not changing diapers, she enjoys singing Broadway, sun tanning on Italian beaches and riding horses.
Interview with Leah Spina:
- Tell us a little about you. Sure! I am a former journalist of a national news magazine turned stay-at-home mom. I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area with my husband, David, and three children, age five and under. Samson is five, Esther is two and we have a baby that's only five-weeks-old. Whew!
- What's your book about? My new book, Stop and Smell Your Children: Laugh and Enjoy the Little Years is a short, easy read for busy moms of young children. It's full of real life parenting stories to help overwhelmed parents laugh and change their parenting perspective so they can enjoy, not just endure, the little years. It's full of encouragement and inspiration for the tired mom!
- Why do you feel your book message is important? I feel that so many parents, including me, can easily get bogged down in the constant caretaking that young children require. It's not a fun way to live and you can start resenting your children because you are not enjoying it. I believe, with all my heart, that if we can STOP in our busy day to find and enjoy ordinary, extraordinary moments with our little ones we can truly enjoy this crazy but wonderful season of young children!
- What are some of the topics of your book? Oh, the chapters titles are topics all parents can relate to! Pregnancy, labor and delivery drama, sleepless newborn nights, teething, potty training, traveling with children, eating out with children, nursing, etc – it's all there. The nitty gritty of new parenthood.
- Who is your target audience? Expectant parents and parents of children age zero to five years old is my target audience. But have I have also had grandparents and parents of older children read it and say it was fun to relive the little years through the stories.
My Thoughts:
I must admit that the first few chapters of this book made me want to close the cover and walk away. The author begins this book with a laundry list of complaints about pregnancy, childbirth and the experiences of mothering her first child. I believe the author was writing honestly about her feelings, but I was turned off by her tone, and I would imagine other new mothers might feel the same. She writes about the inability to adventure on her 'babymoon,' about driving around in her Suburban and about being grossed out by breast milk and other bodily fluids. It sounded like a whole lot of grumbling by a woman living an overly privileged life.
The first few chapters were a torture for me to read, but thankfully my feelings changed quite a bit around chapter eight. In that chapter the author describes an experience with miscarriage that altered her view of mothering. As a reader this chapter changed my perspective of the book and I found the words that followed much more enjoyable to read with interesting tidbits on treasuring the moments parents experience.
The takeaway from this book is to cherish the time we have with our children. Even in those early days and years of motherhood when our bodies are misshapen and our brains are tired from lack of sleep.
After years of infertility I never felt resentful or unhappy with my children so this book did not speak to me, but I would imagine the later chapters might speak to a mother struggling with the transition to motherhood. If you are unhappy with this phase of life I would imagine the author's words would ring true:
"Unless you purposely stop in life to appreciate the here and now, you'll rush through each day often unhappy and unsatisfied. Instead of resenting the new-parent pace of life, be grateful for this temporary, once-in-a-lifetime magical slow season of young children. Try to find times in your day to stop and relish the moment with your children… Savor today's special moments and anticipate tomorrow's rainbows. You'll only find them if you look for them."
Whether you or unhappy or not it never hurts to look for the special moments of motherhood. Over the years I've found it helpful to keep a journal for each of my children. I want to capture my thoughts and create a record of feelings as my children grow.
I liked some of the lessons in this book, but I wasn't a huge fan of the tone in which those lessons were presented. Perhaps a mother struggling with her new found parental status would enjoy it more than I did.
Book Review: Ditching the Drive-Thru
Book Description:
After an exhausting day at work, hitting the drive-thru or nuking a pre-fab meal is all too often the go-to decision for feeding a family. Cooking a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients can seem beyond the average person's time, energy, or financial means. But with mounting evidence pointing to processed food and our industrial food system as the culprits behind many of our nation's health problems—including obesity, diabetes, and cancer—it's now more important than ever to be fully informed about what goes on your family's dinner plates.
If you're ready to take control of your food choices but don't know the difference between grass-fed versus grain-fed, pastured versus free-range, or organic versus sustainable, read this book to discover:
• How to create your own thirty-month plan to convert your family from junk food to real food, without a revolt!
• Recipes and advice on planning and prepping meals so you can make homecooked a habit for your family
• Instructions for getting the most out of produce using techniques such as lacto-fermentation, dehydrating, and canning
• introduction to the world of farm-direct sales, including tips on locating local farms, seeing through marketing buzzwords, and shopping with CSAs Ditching the Drive-Thru exposes the insidious hold the commercial food industry has taken over the fast-paced lives of the average American and the danger these processed foods and diet plans pose to our health, environment, and emotional wellbeing.
Learn how to break free from the grind and return to a simpler relationship with food from farmers, not factories, and home-cooked meals that are created in your kitchen, not on a conveyor belt.
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An Excerpt:
Modern Tools Help You Source Better Food by J. Natalie Winch
Once I was married, I never ate commercial beef at home. My husband's family, who live in Minnesota, had been getting their beef from the same in-state farmer for fifty years. As insane as this sounds, we too began getting our beef from this same farmer, in Minnesota. Did I mention we live in New Jersey? My in-laws would pack it all up in their car and drive it out to New Jersey every year at Christmas time, and this was our supply for the year. We were all very sad when we were told that the farmer was retiring and none of the children were taking over the farm. We needed to find a new meat source, because the steaks we picked up at the grocery store just didn't have the same flavor or consistency, and we weren't happy with the rather expensive meat from a local butcher shop, either. It was all very depressing, but this cloud had a platinum lining!
Where does one go to find a new source for beef? The internet, of course. Even if you don't have internet at home, I would venture a guess that your local library does. My search for local, sustainable meat at last landed me at the website Eatwild.com, founded by Eating on the Wild Side author Jo Robinson, dedicated to providing research-based information about the benefits of choosing modern foods that are nutritionally similar to their wild, natural forebears. The site's directory of pasture-based farms and dairies led us to places like Nature's Sunlight in Newville, Pennsylvania, and our CSA at Fernbrook Farm in Chesterfield, New Jersey. That was back in 2004, and we found quite a few farms where we could purchase pastured meat products. When I accessed the site about a month ago, I was awed by how it has grown. There are so many farms listed! How do you sift through? Slowly. Decide what you would like to try first, read through the listings for your area, and give the farm a call. The farmers are friendly people who want to do business with you. They will answer your questions. Just be aware that, unlike a grocery store, you can't call the farm on a Monday and expect to go pick up a side of beef on Tuesday. Many of these farms take orders well in advance (six months to a year in some cases) and raise animals to fill those orders.
Ditching the Drive-Thru by J. Natalie Winch (2015, Spikehorn Press, ISBN 978-1-943015-06-1, $19.95).
Author's Bio:
J. Natalie Winch lives in southern New Jersey, not far from where she grew up, with her husband, two children, and dogs. When she isn't mothering, teaching, grading, or making lesson plans, Natalie runs the Hebrew School at her synagogue, coaches soccer, teaches lacto-fermentation classes, writes the occasional entry for her blog Food Empowerment (tradsnotfads.com), and fights the dust bunnies that threaten to take over her family room.
Connect with the author: Website
My Thoughts:
Ditching The Drive-Thru is a book about real food. Do you want to know where your food comes from, when it was cut from the trees and plants it grew from and how it was processed? I know I do. At this point, in the year 2015, we are more abstracted from food then ever before, but Natalie Winch, the author of this book, wants to broaden our minds. She wants us to understand more about the items we eat. After all, we eat for sustenance and nourishment every day. Shouldn't we understand what it is we are biting into?
Winch hopes this book will help readers regain control of the food we eat, by understanding where food comes from, how it is processed and ultimately how what we eat impacts us each and every day.
This book steps the reader through the every day catch phrases of food and distinguishes the differences between categories like all natural and organic. The author talks about the perimeter of the grocery store, why it's important to pass by boxed, ready-to-serve meals in favor of real food that must be cut and cooked.
After my children go to bed my husband and I prepare dinner two nights a week. You can find us in the kitchen at 10 o'clock at night mixing up sauces and sauteing chicken. It is a time to fill the house with warm smells and to prepare meals that can be heated up throughout the week.
I purchase a lot of organic meat, fruits and vegetables I didn't realize how much there was to learn about food and the means by which it gets from the farm to our table.
One moral of Winch's story is to place more importance on the value of time. You can spend hours mindlessly surfing the Internet and checking Facebook or you can purchase real food and learn how to prepare it.
As a personal finance blogger I would add that we all need to eat, but when money is saved in one place it can be spent in another. Unless you live paycheck to paycheck you can choose to avoid unnecessary spending and to use the money saved to purchase food that truly nourishes you.


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Sequence alterations that change the meaning of a tRNA in decoding are part of a growing number of post-transcriptional changes collectively known as tRNA editing. Editing can be influenced by the structural context of an editing site and in the case of tRNA can be modulated by posttranscriptional modifications. In trypanosomatids, tRNAs are transcribed in the nucleus, exported to the cytoplasm, and later a subset of cytoplasmic tRNAs is actively imported into the mitochondria. However, before tRNAs can be rendered functional in any cellular compartment, they face many enzymatic reactions including end trimming, intron splicing, tRNA editing, and chemical modification. Some of these processes, for example those involved in trimming of extraneous sequences at the tRNA ends, occur in the nucleus, usually preceding cytoplasmic export. Others, like editing and modification, may occur at any point in the tRNA maturation pathway and in any of the tRNA-containing compartments. Despite much progress made in last few years, it is still not clear how editing and modification pathways are integrated both at the molecular and cellular levels. We have proposed that tRNA editing and modification events can be highly coupled and exploited by some organisms to control gene expression at the level of tRNA specificity. This is especially important in single-cell eukaryotes like trypanosomatid parasites where is well accepted that the bulk of the genetic regulation occurs post-transcriptionally. In this proposal, we have continued our studies on the very unique tRNA editing enzyme of T. brucei but now prompted by our newly solved crystal structure we ask new questions of what makes this enzyme so unique. We also focus on a newly discovered set of methyltransferases, which surprisingly target the editing site providing a wonderful testing ground for our hypothesis of the interrelation of editing and modification and what this coupling may mean in terms of cellular function. Significantly, reconstitution of methylation activity in vitro requires addition of the recombinant editing enzyme a finding that is without precedent in the tRNA editing and modification field. As essential steps in tRNA maturation in trypanosomatids (Leishmania and Trypanosoma), these types of editing and modification events also provide very attractive targets for therapeutic intervention against parasites of very major medical importance. Given the link between tRNA maturation and disease, these studies will further expand our knowledge of the role tRNA takes as a central player in cellular metabolism. !
Members of the genus Leishmania and Trypanosoma infect millions of people worldwide. In these organisms, tRNAs undergo post-transcriptional modifications and editing changes that are unique to this system. The enzyme responsible for tRNA editing changes in trypanosomatids possesses substrate specificities that are not shared with any other member of this family of proteins. We have now discovered two new enzymes (tRNA methylases) whose functions are tightly coupled to the previously described editing deaminases. The propose studies will determine the basis for substrate specificity of the T. brucei enzymes which in the future may open doors towards the development of drugs against this unique and essential activities. These studies will also provide functional and evolutionary insights into important members of the cytidine deaminase (CDA) superfamily.
|Helm, Mark; Alfonzo, Juan D (2014) Posttranscriptional RNA Modifications: playing metabolic games in a cell's chemical Legoland. Chem Biol 21:174-85
|Jackman, Jane E; Alfonzo, Juan D (2013) Transfer RNA modifications: nature's combinatorial chemistry playground. Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA 4:35-48
|Paris, Zdenek; Horakova, Eva; Rubio, Mary Anne T et al. (2013) The T. brucei TRM5 methyltransferase plays an essential role in mitochondrial protein synthesis and function. RNA 19:649-58
|Rubio, Mary Anne T; Paris, Zdenek; Gaston, Kirk W et al. (2013) Unusual noncanonical intron editing is important for tRNA splicing in Trypanosoma brucei. Mol Cell 52:184-92
|Ragone, Frank L; Spears, Jessica L; Wohlgamuth-Benedum, Jessica M et al. (2011) The C-terminal end of the Trypanosoma brucei editing deaminase plays a critical role in tRNA binding. RNA 17:1296-306
|Alfonzo, Juan D; Lukes, Julius (2011) Assembling Fe/S-clusters and modifying tRNAs: ancient co-factors meet ancient adaptors. Trends Parasitol 27:235-8
|Spears, Jessica L; Rubio, Mary Anne T; Gaston, Kirk W et al. (2011) A single zinc ion is sufficient for an active Trypanosoma brucei tRNA editing deaminase. J Biol Chem 286:20366-74
|Spears, Jessica L; Gaston, Kirk W; Alfonzo, Juan D (2011) Analysis of tRNA editing in native and synthetic substrates. Methods Mol Biol 718:209-26
|Rubio, Mary Anne T; Hopper, Anita K (2011) Transfer RNA travels from the cytoplasm to organelles. Wiley Interdiscip Rev RNA 2:802-17
|Paris, Zdenek; Hashimi, Hassan; Lun, Sijia et al. (2011) Futile import of tRNAs and proteins into the mitochondrion of Trypanosoma brucei evansi. Mol Biochem Parasitol 176:116-20
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why was auto.offset.reset default changed (so late in the game)?
Jason Rosenberg
2013-06-18, 16:02
I'm wondering why the default setting for auto.offset.reset in the
ConsumerConfig class was changed from 'smallest' to 'largest', so late in
the game (looks like a commit on June 3 changed the default). This is an
extremely major change, I should think. Consumers now by default only get
messages newer than when the consumer starts?
What use cases are there for that? I can think of one off cases, where you
just want to start consuming the latest feed, etc., to bootstrap things.
But in the normal case, where you want to take a consumer down for an
update, and bring it back up, you'd always be losing messages in that case.
The default of the old (now renamed) "autooffset.reset" property in 0.7.2
is "smallest", so this is a major change.
Sadly, this one change caused me many hours of consternation with some
broken tests (e.g. KAFKA-945). I don't see any mention of this change
listed in any messages to the group, etc.
It might be good to have a configuration migration page outlining changes
from 0.7.2. This change is particularly difficult since it is in a default
setting that in most cases people had been using the default (and now will
override the default in most cases).
Jun Rao
2013-06-18, 19:50
Hi, Jason,
The reasons for this change are: (1) This is probably the most convenient
setting for people to migrate from 0.7 to 0.8. The process is to build an
0.8 shadow cluster using our migration tool, upgrade all consumers to 0.8,
and finally upgrade all producers to 0.8. Since most consumers are likely
real time, when moving from 0.7 to 0.8, it's better for them to pick up the
latest offset in 0.8 so that they don't get too many duplicates (there
could be a small number of message loss for those consumers). (2) This
matches the default behavior of console consumer which is the first thing
that most new users experience. Does that make sense?
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Jason Rosenberg
2013-06-18, 20:28
I just think it's a major change, that might have warranted a heads up, but
it's all good (I've got things looking good with it now). I simply changed
the default behavior everywhere to explicitly initialize consumers with
'smallest' by default (whereas previously this was an ignored config value).
I don't quite see the migration use case as rationale for the change.
Since in the steady state, after people are done migrating from 0.7 to
0.8, this default setting will be the norm for a long time to come.
Instead, it would make sense for people to use this mode explicitly when
building a migration plan, etc.
I wouldn't have thought that real-time consumers (which never care about
past, stored data) would be the norm. (It's not in our deployment anyway).
The console consumer case probably makes no difference either way, since in
that case you are usually starting with a fresh topic queue regardless (and
there I think it's a better user experience to have messages delivered even
if sent from the producer console, before the consumer console is fired up
for the first time).
It seems intuitive to me that by default, I should be able send a message
to a topic, then consume that message from that topic (without explicitly
having to set "auto.offset.reset" -> "smallest").
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Jun Rao
2013-06-18, 23:05
If we default to smallest and a consumer doesn't override this, when it
migrates to 0.8, it will likely reconsume a lot of data. Quite of few
consumers are real time since they feed data to systems like Storm.
What do you think is the best way to communicate such config changes in the
future? It's discussed in the jira a bit. We can send it to the user
mailing list. However, I am not sure if everyone is paying attention to all
the emails.
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