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It was a year of highs and lows for Amazon, with the technology giant seeing rapid growth in some markets while also witnessing its stock sink lower and lower.
IT Predictions For 2015IT insiders cast their predictions for the year 2015. The overall sentiment? Cloud will continue to dominate.
Zenoss Launches Channel ProgramThe open-source IT monitoring and analytics vendor is recruiting for the Zenoss Partner Network.
Q&A: Cloud Technology Partners CEO Discusses Plans for VC SpoilsCloud Technology Partners CEO Chris Greendale discusses how his company plans to use the $9.1 million procured in the most recent round of funding.
The 10 Biggest Cloud Outages Of 2014No matter how good the underlying technology, no matter how competent the hosting provider, clouds sometimes suffer outages. This is the list companies don't want to make. Here are CRN's top 10 cloud outages of the year.
Rackspace Adds Board Member With SaaS BackgroundKevin Costello comes to Rackspace from Ariba, where as president he drove channel integration after SAP acquisition.
MSP Launches Local, Private Cloud ServiceInhouseIT has launched a private cloud service that relies on a local data center to enhance speed and flexibility while maintaining a predictable monthly cost.
Tech 10: Must-See Cloud Solutions Transforming BusinessThe CRN Test Center presents 10 cloud solutions that are transforming the way organizations conduct business.
The 10 Biggest Cloud Stories Of 2014The cloud landscape grew more complex in 2014, with legacy vendors in turmoil, new technologies taking of and cloud channel partners who got ahead of the curve enjoying phenomenal business growth.
OpenDNS Partners With Three Security Vendors To Mount Unified Defense Against CybercriminalsThe DNS provider has developed a platform that integrates threat detection data from FireEye, Check Point and ZeroFox in the cloud.
IBM SoftLayer Joins Equinix Cloud ExchangeEquinix adds IBM SoftLayer to its burgeoning network of partners, bringing with it direct access to IBM's full portfolio of cloud-based enterprise applications -- a first for Equinix's emerging platform.
Oracle CTO Ellison: Watch Out Salesforce, We're On Track To Be A $1 Billion Cloud VendorOracle got into the cloud computing game fairly late, but it's now growing much faster than some of its key competitors, its top executives said during its Q2 earnings call.
Covata CEO: New Safe Share Cloud Platform Is Key To Data SecurityTo protect against tfiles becoming compromised, Covata's software issues keys for accessing data on a onetime basis after vetting users, says CEO Trent Telford.
Investment Firm: Amazon Will Spin Off AWS In 2015The Edge Consulting Group, which forecast the eBay and Symantec breakups, said an Amazon Web Services spinoff could be worth as much as $38 billion.
Rackspace Puts Intel Aside, Makes IBM OpenPower PledgeIBM gains an important ally -- Rackspace -- within its OpenPower Foundation, which offers an alternative to Intel x86 server microprocessor technology.
Microsoft Bundles Up Azure Active Directory Beta Tools, Releases Public PreviewMicrosoft wants to make it as easy as possible for customers and partners to use its Azure cloud, so it's revamping a tool for connecting on premise Windows Servers to the public cloud.
Q&A: How U.S. Companies Can Overcome European Regulatory HurdlesCloud provider Interoute's new Los Angeles facility is intended to help American companies tackle Europe's hodgepodge of data sovereignty laws and regulations.
The IT Buzzword of 2015 Will Be ...IT professionals predict what the buzzword of 2015 will be. Here's a hint: It looks like cloud is here to stay.
Atlantic.Net Opens First West Coast Data Center, And Donates Its First Month's RevenueFlorida-based Atlantic.Net is donating to the Bay Area's Project Homeless Connect, wanting to start its relationship with its new community by helping its least fortunate residents.
Industry Experts: Cloud Is Blurring Boundaries Between IT and Telecom ConsultantsIn a panel at the recent PlanetOne Communications Telecom Tour event, representatives of telecom and cloud service providers weigh in on how solution providers can win business.


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By Ryan Divish The News Tribune
SALT LAKE CITY — Brad Miller knows in the next few days his big-league dream aspirations will go back to being just a dream. But for the Mariners' infield prospect, he's going to enjoy one last game with the big boys before heading back to the minors where he'll resume his climb back to where he is now.
Miller will suit up in Seattle's final spring training game today when the Mariners take on the Colorado Rockies at Spring Mobile Park.
After the game, he will be optioned to the minors, most likely to Class AA Jackson.
Still, it's been one heck of a spring for him, vastly exceeding his wildest expectations.
And to be one of the last minor league guys remaining with the big league team says something of his performance this spring.
"My goal was to stick around as long as I can," Miller said.
While more heralded infield prospects like Nick Franklin and Carlos Triunfel were cut from big league camp weeks ago, Miller stayed and played till the very end.
"It should say a lot to him, and we told him that," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said. "That's how strong we feel about him. That's how well he showed himself in this camp. That's how well he's handled himself in camp."
Miller has impressed Wedge from the very beginning with his athleticism, his hustle and his old-school approach to the game. He played in 20 games this spring, seeing time at shortstop, second base and third base. He showed the ability to play all three at a solid level.
"We look at him as a true shortstop, but we still want him to get some time at second and third base, too," Wedge said.
At the plate, Miller hit .222 (10-for-45) with three doubles, two triples and a homer.
Miller's goal this was to be seen and not heard, while soaking up everything he could in the big league clubhouse.
"You want to take advantage of the opportunity," he said. "Just being over here for the games and practicing with them in the morning has been awesome. Everyone has been welcoming and helpful, I couldn't ask for anything more."
Perhaps the biggest thing Miller learned was the daily work it takes to be successful at the big-league level. He thought he understood it, but it was a little different when he experienced it.
"I learned so much more abut preparation," he said. "I see how everybody goes about their business — how Raul Ibanez, Kyle Seager and Brendan Ryan practice every day. They are there for a reason. They perform that way for a reason. They get ready as professionals and they perform like hat. That's the biggest thing I learned. I want to be like that."


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When the boyfriend is away, the blocks will play--while he is soaking up the sun and shore of Rio de Janeiro I get free reign over the kitchen table. Which means that some boring cotton fabric was given a new life over the weekend and my hands have been left in need of an intensive manicure. You see, when it comes to "handcrafted" textiles I pretty much take the most labor intensive approach and hand paint (with a stencil brush) every single block I carved before pressing them in to the fabric. Although very cathartic, this is not the approach that leaves ones hands paint free--a labor of love, I suppose!
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The great melting pot that is New York City has always been known for its vibrant immigrant cultures - and many of these cultures are now reflected in the city's finest restaurants. In this podcast, Chef Daniel Humm and General Manager Will Guidara of acclaimed restaurant Eleven Madison Park discuss their method of melding Jewish, Italian, Irish, and other cultures' culinary traditions into contemporary fine dining.
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Learn more about aye-ayes, unusual mammals with "continuously growing front teeth, batlike ears, a foxlike tail, abdominal mammary glands, claws on most digits, and spindly, dexterous middle fingers," in an essay excerpted from Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from the American Museum of Natural History Library (Sterling Signature, 2012).
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Jazz is very different from rock music- but does the brain of a jazz musician act differently than that of a rock musician? What about the brain of a painter, or a dancer? In this podcast join musician and surgeon Charles Limb, of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as he discusses musical creativity in the brain in this final SciCafe of the spring 2013 season.


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Chemring Technology Solutions has developed miniaturized GPS anti-jamming technology it has dubbed GINCAN. GINCAN is designed to combat illegal GPS jammers and is based on the adaptive antenna concept used by military systems. GINCAN has a chip footprint of six millimeters squared. GINCAN's reduced size and weight will significantly cut power usage and cost, the company said, making it ideal for combatting the... read more


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Joan Jett demands SeaWorld stop using her music
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Joan Jett isn't happy to learn that SeaWorld has been using her hit "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" to open the "Shamu Rocks" show.
CNN says the rocker has sent SeaWorld CEO Jim Atchinson a "cease and desist" letter, saying she's "sickened" that her music "was blasted" without her consent "at sound-sensitive marine mammals." She also calls "Shamu Rocks" a "cruel and abusive" show, adding that the whales are "intelligent and feeling creatures" that "communicate by sonar and are driven crazy in the tiny tanks in which they are confined."
Jett is insisting on receiving "written confirmation" that SeaWorld has stopped using any Joan Jett and the Blackhearts song.
SeaWorld is hearing her loud and clear. Spokesman Nick Gollattscheck tells the "Orlando Sentinel" "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" was featured "as walk-in music" for the nightime performance of "Shamu Rocks," which is typically staged during the summer and not currently being staged. He also says a new Shamu show is in the works that does not feature Jett's music. Gollattscheck adds that SeaWorld Orlando "was fully licensed" to use Jett's music.
Jett is the latest artist to sever ties with SeaWorld in light of the controversy surrounding the film "Blackfish." Over the past week Heart, Barenaked Ladies, and Willie Nelson have all backed out of scheduled performances at the park.
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50 years ago (1963)
The trombone section of the Everett Junior college summer band would get a workout in the second Concert on Campus. Several marches and bright, brassy numbers were on the program. Trombonists were David Gilliland, Ed Crull, Larry Braden and Dennis Mills.
Kathy Engstrom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.W. Engstrom, 6920 Beverly Blvd., was honored with the national torchbearer in social leadership award, the highest honor a member of the Camp Fire Girls organization could receive. She would be a senior at Cascade High School this fall and vice president of the Girls Club.
25 years ago (1988)
Chris Lobaugh hit a three-run homer and pitcher Todd Cort struck out nine as the Everett Merchants defeated the University of Puget Sound 10-2 to remain in first place in the Western International League semi-pro baseball standings. Others contributing to the victory were Rick Soriano, Scott Carpenter and Gary Thompson.
Eastside Tire &Muffler at 1125 Ave. D in Snohomish had sales on all-season radial whitewalls, 10-point brake specials, dual exhaust installations, wheel alignments and oil changes and lubes.
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This is the watch that indicates the time by illuminating LEDs across four vertical columns. With a display that stays inscrutably dark until activated, the watch appears to be an ordinary bracelet. The touch of a button initiates an animated sequence of scrolling numbers, after which just the digits for the current hour and minute remain illuminated across four columns numbered 0 through 9 ascending. Subsequent touches of the button display the week and date, and year. The bright blue LEDs stay lit for 10 seconds before the watch reverts to its enigmatic appearance. The substantial stainless steel body and wristband are electroplated for a glossy black finish. With fold over clasp. Links to be adjusted by a jeweler. Face: 2 1/4" H x 1 5/16" W x 3/8" D. (5 oz.)
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The watch is unique in all aspects.
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When I saw the watch it was a must for my collection. It is comfortable to wear and is great for special occasions. The only thing I found that I did not like was the difficulty in setting the watch. I would surely recommend it to someone who appreciates items that are unique.
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As a watch collector I look for unique watches. This one fits the bill. It looks like a bracelet until you press the button and bring the digits to life. This might not be the most expensive watch you ever buy, but it looks cool and chances are you will be the only one wearing one. A good value for under $50!!
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The watch is nice looking, but after a couple of days I just couldn't get it programmed so I decided to return it. It was a little large and bulky for me also.
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This watch is really cool and unique, and I'm happy with the purchase. I am a little disappointed in the construction of the band though. The end links are not solid, and give the watch a loud, cheap sounding, rattle that is pretty annoying. I'm going try and fix it this weekend.
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Cards To Face Houston Without Chris Jones
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Louisville men's basketball team will face Houston on Thursday without one of their usual starters.
Junior Chris Jones will miss the game after tweaking his oblique muscle during the SMU game. Head coach Rick Pitino says Houston plays a lot like SMU, who kept up with the Cards for most of the game.
Pitino also announced he had promoted assistant coach Kevin Keatts to the role of Associate Head Coach.
The Cards and Cougars tip-off at 7:00 p.m. Thursday night with pre-game coverage starting at 5:30 p.m. on 84WHAS.


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HISTORIC DOCUMENT–This Feb. 18, 2005 photo shows the original Emancipation Proclamation on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
by Brett Zongker
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free."
A tradition began Dec. 31, 1862, as many Black churches held Watch Night services, awaiting word that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation would take effect amid a bloody Civil War. Later, congregations listened as the president's historic words were read aloud.
The proclamation would not end slavery outright and at the time couldn't be enforced by Lincoln in areas under Confederate control. But the president made clear from that day forward that his forces would be fighting to bring the Union back together without the institution of slavery.
Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862, after the Battle of Antietam, announcing that if rebel states did not cease fighting and rejoin the Union by Jan. 1, 1863, all slaves in rebellious states or parts of states would be declared free from that date forward.
This year, the Watch Night tradition followed the historic document to its home at the National Archives with a special midnight display with readings, songs and bell ringing among the nation's founding documents.
The official document bears Lincoln's signature and the United States seal, setting it apart from copies and drafts. It made a rare public appearance from Sunday to Tuesday — New Year's Day — for thousands of visitors to mark its anniversary. On New Year's Eve, the display remained open past midnight as 2013 arrived.
"We will be calling back to an old tradition," said U.S. Archivist David Ferriero, noting the proclamation's legacy. "When you see thousands of people waiting in line in the dark and cold … we know that they're not there just for words on paper.
"On this 150th anniversary, we recall those who struggled with slavery in this country, the hope that sustained them and the inspiration the Emancipation Proclamation has given to those who seek justice."
The National Archives allows 100 visitors at a time into its rotunda, where the Emancipation Proclamation was displayed along with the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. On the busiest days, 8,000 people file through for a glimpse of the founding charters.


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Well, you know the holidays are coming and for us crafters its time to get moving. I love the tradition of sending holiday cards. So...for this month's challenge - we want to see your Holiday cards. Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa - even New Year's - any Holiday card is fair game. The only rule is that you link up a project newly created for this challenge, although feel free to combine it with other current challenges out there in blogland. Although we would love to see all the art you care to share, everyone will be entered in the prize drawing only once.
One winner will be drawn randomly to win the prize. You have until midnight (EST) on Saturday, October 30th to link up your project. Just click the little froggy face at the bottom of this post to add your project.Your prize this month is this super cute Eat Cake Graphics cling stamp.
Can't wait to see what you create!
Here are my projects to share and it is just a reminder that we are so close to all of the wonderful holidays...
With this box I began with a clear box and felt ribbon (which I found each of these items in the $1 bin at Michaels...oh so long ago). I began to wrap the felt ribbon around bottom portion of the box and applied glue to the end to keep it together...covered the top portion with paper, used the festive fall wreath stamp to create a Christmas wreath and used the sentiment from the wonder stamp set to add a tag.I have been making many new Christmas ornaments in the past few days and loved making this little tree. Supplies used (from Paper Garden Projects) for gift set: the wonder clear stamp set, festive fall clear stamp set, copic markers.
This card is using the new digital cardinal set offered in the shop as well. I love the small lines, precious bird and ease of cutting. The sentiment comes from the fox set which seemed perfect for this card.
Enjoy, have fun and make sure you head on over and take part in this week's challenge!
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He describes in
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, "Even when it feels like your computer is running all your software at the same time, it is just pretending to do that, flicking its attention very quickly between each program. Nature isn't like that. Its processes are distributed, decentralised and probabilistic. And they are fault tolerant, able to heal themselves. A computer should be able to do that."
So the pair set out to make a new hardware and a new operating system, capable of handling tasks differently from most current machines, which even if "parallel" deal with instructions sequentially.
The new machine has instruction set pairs that tell what to do when a certain set of data is encountered. The instructions-data pairs are then sent to multiple "systems", which are chosen at random to produce results. Each system has its own redundant stack of instructions, so if one gets corrupted, others can finish up the work. And each system has its own memory and storage; so "crashes" due to memory/storage errors are eliminated.
Comments Prof. Bentley, "The pool of systems interact in parallel, and randomly, and the result of a computation simply emerges from those interactions."
The results will be presented at an April conference in Singapore.
The team is currently working on coding the machine so that it can reprogram its own instructions to respond to changes in the environment. That self-learning, combined with the redundant, pseudorandom nature of the system would make it quite a bit more
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Remington Versamax Sportsman Turkey
I've been testing Remington's newest gas-operated autoloader for a few seasons and it has quickly become my go-to scattergun due to reliable operation with basically any shell I stuff in it. It's also one of the easiest shooting shotguns I've ever fired. Even heavy 3½-loads are, if not comfortable, at least tolerable thanks to a SuperCell recoil pad. The new-for-2013 Sportsman series forgoes a few features of the original Versamax—most of which hunters won't miss, to come in closer to the $1,000 mark. What you do get is a 26-inch hammer-forged steel barrel, reliable Versaport gas system and durable synthetic stock finished in Mossy Oak Obsession. The one head-scratcher is the use of competition-style Pro Bore chokes, rather than the standard RemChokes of which there are a million aftermarket turkey-specific models available. As it is, the Sportsman Turkey includes an extra-full turkey choke of the Pro Bore variety. ($1,175; remington.com)
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Lecture 1 – 2013
Goal #1 Build Good Habits
Goal #2 Learn Your Style
Goal #3 Learn to Workshop
Writing Group Rules of Thumb
Writing Group Structure
Goal #4 Write a New Story
Brainstorm on Setting
Brainstorm on Plots & Characters
Turning Ideas Into a Story Pt 1
Turning Ideas Into a Story Pt 2
Lecture 2 – 2013
The Problem With New Writers
Info Dumps & Learning Curves
Blending the Familiar & Strange
Generating Physical & Cultural Setting
Strategies for Showing Not Telling
An Appeal to Start Small
Magic & Satisfying Resolutions Pt 1
Magic & Satisfying Resolutions Pt 2
Lecture 3 – 2013
What Makes a Great Character
Ways to Humanize Characters
The Superman & the Everyman
Character Flaws & Handicaps Pt 1
Character Flaws & Handicaps Pt 2
Making Characters Proactive
Limitations are More Interesting
Lecture 4 – 2013
Subverting Expectations in Humor
The Many Routes to Funny in Humor
A Practice Exercise on Humor
The Comic Drop
Humor is Learnable
Comedic Foreshadowing
Q&A: Unlikable Characters, How to Practice Humor
Q&A: Humor in Novels, Brevity, Audience, Talent
Q&A: Prototyping, Alpha Readers, Hard Work
The Business of Web Comics
Lecture 5 – 2013
Misc Tips & Tools for Engaging the Reader
Pacing & the Importance of Breathers
Some Thoughts on Outlining
Getting Just the Right Amount of Description
Novice Mistakes in Beginning Chapters
Lecture 6 – 2013
The What & Why of the Short Fiction Market
Tips on Keeping Short Stories Short
Tips on Submitting Short Stories, Category Length
Q&A: When It's Ready, E Shorts, New vs Familiar
Q&A: Novel vs Short Story Ideas, Shorts Into Novels
More on Keeping Short Stories Short
Winning Writers of the Future & the Nebula
The Editorial Process at Short Fiction Venues
Some Short Fiction Economics
Q&A: Overcoming Self Doubt, Anachronisms in SF
Lecture 7 – 2013
Revising, Esp. When You Don't Want To
Viewpoint & Tense Overview & It's Importance
Choosing Between First & Third Person Pt 1
Choosing Between First & Third Person Pt 2
How to Not Break Viewpoint
Concreteness, Immediacy, & Precision in Prose
Revising for Concreteness, Immediacy, & Precision
Lecture 8 – 2013
A Novel's Capital P Plot
Promises & Progression in Plot
Relationship & Big Problem Plots
Training, Time Bomb, & Travelogue Plots
The Danger of Not Delivering on Promises
Ways of Structuring Plot
Lecture 9 – 2013
Traditional vs Self Publishing
Cover Art, Layout, & Editorial in Self Pub & Traditional
Book Publicity Via Publishing Houses
What to Expect with Advances
Contract Law Pt 1
Contract Law Pt 2
A Short Self Pub Success Story w/ Tips
Lecture 10 – 2013
Elements of Fight Scenes
The Role of Agents & Entertainment Lawyers
Writer Beware: Agent Scams
Arguments Against Agents
A Brief Breakdown of the Book Market
A Tour of the Major SF/F Publishing Houses
How to Network with Editors & Agents
Brandon's Advice for After the Class
Lecture 11 – 2013
The Class Final
Self Promotion & Platforms Pt 1
Self Promotion & Platforms Pt 2
Taxes on your Writing Income
Business Deductions as a Writer
Protecting Yourself with a Legal Entity
Writing Good Query Letters
Movie Deals on Your Stories
Lecture 12 – 2013
Critiques by Joshua Bilmes, Literary Agent Pt 1
Critiques by Joshua Bilmes, Literary Agent Pt 2
Joshua Bilmes, Literary Agent, on Plotting
Lecture 13 – 2013
Q&A: How Brandon Gets Ideas, Reader Trust
Q&A: Non Traditional Story Arcs, Collaborative Fiction
Q&A: Keeping Options, Conflict, Day Jobs
Q&A: 80-20 Rule in research, Presenting ALL Viewpoints
Q&A: Engaging Villains
Q&A: Builder's Disease, Deciding on Publishing, Viewpoints
Q&A: What Separates Published Authors, Family & Writing
Q&A: Writers Block, Fixing Broken Stuff, Getting Feedback
Q&A: Getting Feedback, Scrapping Books, the Cloud
Lecture 14 – 2013
Getting Published: Standing in Line
Getting Published: The Pre-audition
Getting Published: Being in the Wrong Line
Getting Published: The Audition
Getting Published: Sealing the Deal
Lecture 15 – 2013
Q&A: What Next, Approaching Agents & Editors
Q&A: Writing for Programmers, Pseudonyms
Q&A: Fantasy Books By Tradition You Should Read Pt 1
Q&A: Fantasy Books By Tradition You Should Read Pt 2
Q&A: Why Books you Hate Get Published
Q&A: Discovering Chars, Books on Writing, Diagnosing
Lecture 1
Intro to the Class
Ideas are cheap
Brandon's Class Format
Gardeners vs Architects
Writing group essentials
Lecture 2
What makes a good plot
Plots by outlining
Plots by discovery
YA Genres
Adult Genres
Lecture 3
Intro to Prose
First person viewpoints
Third person viewpoints
Description part 1
Description part 2
Lecture 4
Sympathetic Characters Part 1
Sympathetic Characters Part 2
Show us the Character
Giving Characters a Life Beyond the Plot
Character Creation Example Part 1
Character Creation Example Part 2
Lecture 5
Short Story Master
Lecture 6
Networking Via Conventions
Some Alternatives to Cons
Meeting Editors and Agents
Three Goals When Meeting Agents
Some Questions and Statistics
Lecture 7
A Success Story Part 1
A Success Story Part 2
The Three Act Format
Try/Fail Cycles
The Hero's Journey
Brandon's Plotting Method
Lecture 8
Random Questions
Agents and Contracts
Agents and New York
Agents and Translation Rights
Misc. Agent Duties
A Little on Getting a Good Agent
Book Advances and Royalties
A Tidbit on the Fiction Industry
Lecture 9
Misc Questions
Thinking of Setting as a Character
World Building Geography Part 1
World Building Geography Part 2
Creating Interesting Nations & Towns
Sanderson's First Law of Magic
Sanderson's Second Law of Magic
Lecture 10
Misc Questions
Dialogue Mechanics
Replacing Adjectives and Passive Voice
Orwellian Prose
Intro to Modern Self Publishing
Mechanics of Self Publishing Online
Business Models For Self Publishing
Some Final Thoughts on Self Publishing
Lecture 11
Misc Questions
Making Stories Meaningful
Three Rules for Fight Scenes
Things Movie Fight Scenes Can't Do…
The Larger Narrative Flow of a Scene
Realism vs Hollywoodification
Plotting Romances
Lecture 12
Avoiding Being Scammed
RoFR's, Advances, & Royalties
IP Rights & Publishing Firms
Ebook vs Traditional Contracts
Small But Important Clauses
Getting a Good Agent
Lecture 13
Misc. Questions
Brandon's Revision Process
Misc Questions on Revising
Revising for Discovery Writers
A Little Writerly Psychology
Thriller Plotting
Linguistic Variation
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This is a carefree, open-air oasis with buckets of cut flowers and bins of produce at your fingertips as you stroll along the sociable Calle Ocho sidewalk. Coco frio is said to be the specialty here, and there's something naturally wonderful about grabbing a freshly slashed coconut and sucking down the sweet juice. The rest of the juices and batidos are just as fresh, tasty, and invigorating. Highly recommended: mamey and mango batidos.
This is junkyard heaven, the place where cool, funky things go to die or to be bought or rented as the case may be. Chandeliers and traffic lights hang from the ceiling while stained-glass windows, Coca-Cola vending machines, marble busts, golf clubs, and bookshelves line the walls. Looking for a life-size bronze boar sculpture with green patina? It's here. A vintage, Jetsons-style Philco Predicta television set from the Fifties? Yep, right over there. A giant Head and Shoulders shampoo display bottle? Check the back. Old gas station signs, telephones, typewriters? Got 'em. Don't know what you're looking for? Give yourself at least an hour to walk through this Smithsonian-scale emporium. If you feel yourself getting tired, plop yourself down in that row of movie-theater seats over by the door.
If Laurenzo's were nothing more than the area's best Italian market (and most people say it is), it would still be worth writing about. But the 50-year-old institution is so much more: a slice of Little Italy in Miami-Dade County, an oasis of Old World charm, a portal onto the past. Laurenzo's isn't just a store. It's a milieu. And it comes with its own soundtrack, piped in direct from the Fifties and featuring a couple of Italian crooners you may have heard before. Where else can you get "Volare" with your veal? "Memories Are Made of This" with your mozzarella? "Sway" with your spaghetti? Ah, Laurenzo's. "That's Amore!"
"From the womb to the tomb and all moments in between." Those are the appropriate times for flowers and plants, according to the ebullient Jenny Kallert, who has run her famous flower shop since 1973. With the fastidious zip of a German-accented bee in pollination mode, she works in her environs making "creations," not mere arrangements. To Jenny, who in 1959 escaped communist East Germany with her family (all of whom were also florists), flowers are not just luxuries to be appreciated on special occasions. They are necessities, as vital to life as air, food, and water. She keeps things intimate by customizing each piece and working only with independently owned greenhouses instead of large-scale flower growers; Jenny's stock includes a variety of tulips, azaleas, orchids, and roses not normally sold at your everyday FTD stand.
Broward has Bob's and we have Worldwide. That's the best way to explain this store's perennial lock on this category. If you're looking for an obscure magazine or an out-of-town newspaper, this is where you must come. And if Worldwide doesn't have it, you're out of luck, bub. Regardless of what you were searching for initially, it's hard to imagine leaving Worldwide empty-handed. Several well-organized aisles offer up everything from the Observer (both London's and New York City's) to more colorful publications such as Paranoia! and Bitch. Best of all is an owner who is not only familiar with virtually every title in his store but the precise day of the week they're set to arrive. Never again will you miss an issue of Asian Cult Cinema.
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The term "big data" paints a picture of the terabytes, or even petabytes, of data that large enterprises use to glean sharper insight and make better decisions. But how relevant is big data to a small or medium-sized business? How much of the big data promise is accessible to a company with limited resources?
According to Paul Zikopoulos, Vice President of Information Management Technical Sales and Big Data at IBM, big data is highly relevant to small and medium-sized businesses. Zikopoulos, who works with companies both large and small to incorporate the benefits of big data into their businesses, believes that smaller companies have been analyzing their existing data for years and that big data simply takes that analysis to a more advanced level, giving these businesses the opportunity to broaden the aperture on data they may already have or data they could easily get.
ForwardView spoke with Zikopoulos about the advantages that big data presents, as well as the latest related technology and tools that are available for small and medium-sized businesses. Read excerpts from the interview below.
How would you define "big data"?
Paul Zikopoulos:
I like to always respond to that question with my personal disclaimer: I really dislike this term because it brings with it an implicit myth – that big data, as the name implies, is just about large data sets. I want to start out by noting that big data isn't only about the volume of data, it's about bringing data together that hasn't been correlated in the past. Big data can indeed be about more data, but it doesn't have to be.
On the "more data" theme, I would suggest that it's about data sets that are larger than what you have today. And especially for the SMB community, that's important. You don't have to ingest petabytes of data to get some value. I think a lot of people think that big data just means Hadoop and that's it. That's absolutely not true. I've seen a client with a 100-node Hadoop cluster that housed over 300 TBs of data and zero analytics – that isn't big data, that's the ability to store a lot of data.
If I had to define big data for you, I'd zone in on four [components] that I think will give everyone a really good framework in which to understand big data. The first is pretty obvious – it's volume. Another one is variety – you start to look at analyzing different kinds of data; imagine the effect of being able to correlate a blog post I made about your product with my customer record when I call you up with a problem! The next one is veracity, [which] really stands for the trustworthiness of the data; where did this data come from? is the first question that leads you down into this genre. Finally, and I think perhaps one of the most overlooked components in the way that I would define big data, is velocity. Velocity is a game changer, because it's not just how fast data is produced or changed – it's the speed that it has to be received, understood and processed. Most people talk about velocity as how fast your data volumes are growing. I see velocity as about moving your business from a forecasting model to a "now-casting" one.
How relevant is big data to small and medium-sized businesses?
Paul Zikopoulos:
I think it's incredibly relevant, because when we think big data, we actually want to think analytics. Whenever I talk to customers of any size, I suggest [that they've] probably been doing big data for a long time.
And the reason why I'll suggest that is because if we can come to the agreement that [big data] is about analytics and deriving value and monetizing data, then my suggestion is that you have an analytics IQ. You've [already] been landing data and cleansing it and maybe aggregating it into cubes; you've done that to establish your IQ. What big data is in the new modern era, if you will, is an opportunity for you to increase your analytics IQ. You can increase your IQ by looking into raw data to find things you never dreamed about; you can connect the dots between your systems of record and systems of engagement; and more.
What are the competitive advantages that big data creates for a small or medium-sized business?
Paul Zikopoulos:
The competitive advantages are the same advantages they can create for large businesses. [All companies from] SMBs to [large] enterprises can benefit from a 360-degree view of your customer.
They can also benefit from log analytics – something I often refer to as "data exhaust." Data exhaust is all those click streams that go on. I bet you 95 percent of SMBs take this gold mine of data and throw it away like it's the exhaust of an engine – their operational engine. What big data allows you to do is get more out of it and recycle it into valuable insight.
Can you talk a little bit about IBM's big data analytics capabilities?
Paul Zikopoulos:
If I look across vendors that are out there from a breadth and depth perspective, it's just really unparalleled. We've done a number of acquisitions as well as [all] kinds of homegrown technologies and really integrated them together into an analytics platform.
And, of course, we have our data warehouses – so you think of things like Netezza or DB2® or BLU Acceleration – and that's where I can store all kinds of traditional data at rest in a "Load and Go" fashion. And then we provide an engine to perform analytics on data in motion called InfoSphere® Streams. And the neat thing is a lot of the analytics that you build at rest can be instantly deployed in motion using Streams.
Of course, let's not forget about Hadoop. IBM has brought to market a nonforked Hadoop engine we call InfoSphere BigInsights. It has other features that make it easy to get analytics out of it: for example, a number of accelerators to get you going faster with log data and social media analytics, a spreadsheet data discovery tool, management tooling, and a set of features to harden it for enterprise use, among other things.
Finally, data exploration is becoming all the rage for big data. IBM made a major investment in this space a number of years ago when we purchased the leader in this space, Vivisimo, and integrated it into our big data platform as InfoSphere Data Explorer.
And, [whether] you are a large or small company, you need to be governing this data, so our suite of products – for example, InfoSphere Guardium® and InfoSphere Information Server – is integrated as well. Now, consider the rest of IBM and you really get an eye-opener. SPSS® models can be deployed on our streaming engine, Cognos® is integrated, hardware reference architectures are built, we've "appliancized" our at-rest engines, and more: it's really a great story.
IBM PureData™ System for Analytics is designed specifically to help with big data. Can you talk a little bit about that?
Paul Zikopoulos:
When you start to look at what folks are trying to do with their data, this technology plays an incredible role because it provides a very deep analysis of data at literally immense amount of speeds. IBM PureData™ System for Analytics is going to give you an incredible opportunity to take data that you know to be trusted and true – or that you want to be trusted and true – and provide deep analytics on detailed data. You're just going to plug the machine in. You're not going to create indexes and you're not going to create partitioning keys. You're just going to start writing analytics. In fact, this analytics powerhouse has more built-in functions for mathematical, geospatial, time series, predictive and other analytic genres than its next three competitive offerings combined! It's like turnkey analytics for immense volumes of data.
How convenient would it be for a small or medium-sized business to get started or switch over to IBM's big data analytics?
Paul Zikopoulos:
You know, I think it's probably pretty easy. We've seen a number of customers really knocking at our doors complaining of skyrocketing costs and maintenance costs. We have business partners and SMBs that work together. And we have an entire ecosystem that gives you lab quality–like development skills with direct communication lines back to our development labs [that will] be there as a partner.
How quickly have companies successfully achieved ROI using big data?
Paul Zikopoulos:
I can tell you with IBM PureData for Analytics, we walked into one client, did a proof of concept, and two days later they bought the box because they didn't want us to take it out.
Just the other day, [we met with] this company that does fraud detection on credit cards. They were struggling with a competitor's in-memory columnar technology. It had been there for two weeks, they couldn't get much going – that's a really steep time-to-value curve. Our technical team just happened to be on-site when feelings of exasperation were shared and they said, "Listen, do you mind if we use this box and put BLU Acceleration on it?" Well, in 48 hours, we were running a query. The very first query we ran found this organization tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent transactions. The customer was just over the moon – we call it flattening the time to value. ROI has to be quick these days.
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Jann Arden
Canadian singer/songwriter Jann Arden was born Jann Arden Richards in Calgary, Alberta in 1962. Two of her biggest musical influences during her childhood were John Denver and Karen Carpenter. Arden didn't have abundant dreams of stardom back then, but she did love music and began writing her own songs when she was only 13. At 17 she recorded a debut single, "Never Love a Sailor," released in 1980 under the name Jann Richards. After the single, she spent years performing at numerous clubs and festivals. As a singer, she joined bands like Factor 4 and Hip Hugger, perfecting her skills over time. It took Arden 13 years to move from that first independent effort to a full-length release, Time for Mercy, on the A&M Records label. A couple of the singles from the debut album became hits and helped Arden claim a Juno. In 1994, she completed a sophomore offering, Living Under June, proving she was no fleeting success.
The album Happy? followed in 1997, and Blood Red Cherry came out in 2001. A greatest-hits comp emerged soon after, as did Live with the Vancouver Symphony. The next few years found Arden writing and trying her hand at reality television. She came out with a couple books of poetry and personal narrative during this time; If I Knew, Don't You Think I'd Tell You was published in 2002, and I'll Tell You One Damn Thing, and That's All I Know followed in 2004. She also went on to author an advice column for Elle Canada. On top of all this, the musician started a diner in Calgary, The Arden, which in 2003 spawned a reality TV show called The Arden Diner. In spite of all the publicity, the restaurant closed in early 2005. As busy as she was, Arden's extracurricular activities didn't keep her out of the studio; she released another album, Love Is the Only Soldier, in 2003 and a self-titled full-length two years after that. Arden released a covers album in early 2007, the aptly titled Uncover Me, and followed it up with a Canadian tour. Her tenth studio album, Free, arrived in 2009, followed in 2010 by the live CD/DVD Spotlight. A second album of covers, Uncover Me, Vol. 2, arrived the following year. ~ Charlotte Dillon
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You Don't Know Me
My Best Friend's Wedding (Music from the Motion Picture)
Living Under June
Hangin' by a Thread
Greatest Hurts: The Best of Jann Arden
You Don't Know Me
Greatest Hurts: The Best of Jann Arden
Will You Marry Me
When It All Goes South
To Sir With Love
Love Is a Battlefield
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By Steven Fenberg
The article in the Spring 2012 Jones Journal traced Jesse Jones's early life
from his family's tobacco farm in Tennessee to his emergence as Houston's
preeminent developer, up to his entry on the national stage, where he would
eventually become the most powerful person in the nation next to President
Franklin Roosevelt.
Jesse Jones's development of Houston
and the Ship Channel, his determination
to simultaneously build his businesses
and his community, and his embrace
of government appealed to President
Woodrow Wilson. The President
offered "Mr. Houston" ambassadorships
and cabinet positions, but Jones
declined so he could build his
businesses and his city. World War I
changed his mind.
When President Wilson asked Jones to
organize battlefield and home front
medical aid through the American Red
Cross, he moved to Washington, D.C.,
and recruited thousands of nurses and
doctors for the battlefields, organized
hospitals, canteens and ambulance
networks throughout Europe and
established rehabilitation centers in the
U.S. for wounded soldiers. Jones, called "big brother to 4 million men in
khaki," was also an early advocate for women. His Houston Chronicle had
endorsed women's right to vote since 1915, and in Washington Jones
lobbied President Wilson to give Army nurses military rank, a status
they finally won in 1920, along with the right to vote.
Jones accompanied President Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference and
stayed after to help reorganize the Red Cross from loosely confederated
local societies into the international relief agency it is today. An impatient
business colleague in Houston begged him to return, but building his
community, whether local or international, took precedence over material
gain, and Jones replied, "Am not willing to leave what I am doing here
for a money consideration." After he had completed his mission, he
returned to Houston, embarked on the most ambitious phase of his
building career and married Mary Gibbs Jones, a doctor's daughter from
Mexia, Texas, who had attended college when few women at that time
finished high school.
During the 1920s, Jones filled Houston's Main Street with the city's tallest
office buildings, its grandest hotels and its most ornate movie theaters.
As the Democratic National Committee's finance chairman, Jones erased
the Party's persistent debt and captured the 1928 national convention for
Houston — the first major political
convention to be held in the South since
before the Civil War and one of the first
to be widely received over the radio.
The convention put Houston on the
map and filled up Jones's buildings.
From early on, he knew he would
prosper only if his community thrived.
Jones completed Houston's tallest
building, a 35-story Art Deco tower for
the Gulf Oil Company and his National
Bank of Commerce, right before the
nation plunged into the Great
Depression. When two tottering
Houston banks were about to fail and
bring down the rest, Jones gathered the
city's business leaders and hammered
out a rescue plan. He explained to an
opponent of the plan, "I believe that all
we have done, are doing and must
continue doing is necessary for the
general welfare, and we cannot escape being our brother's keeper." As a
result of Jones's leadership, no bank in Houston failed during the Great
Depression. Other cities were not so fortunate.
In 1932, President Herbert Hoover created the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation (RFC) to make government loans to desperate banks,
insurance companies and railroads, and Jones accepted the President's
invitation to join the bipartisan board. Willing for government to be a
catalyst when required, Jones complained Hoover's RFC was "too timid
and slow." With great relevance now, Jones later observed, "A few billion
dollars boldly but judiciously lent and invested by such a government
agency as the RFC in 1931 and 1932 would have prevented the failure of
thousands of banks and averted the complete breakdown in business,
agriculture and industry." President Franklin Roosevelt expanded the
RFC's powers and made Jones its chairman.
Like today's TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), Jones and the RFC
bought preferred stock in banks and recapitalized them, hoping the banks
would lend the fresh money and revive the moribund economy. The
bankers hoarded the cash instead and forced the RFC to become the
nation's lender of last resort. The RFC's judicious loans saved millions of
homes, farms, banks and businesses; built aqueducts, bridges, tunnels
and schools; and developed the latest in high-speed diesel-electric trains.
Contrary to some current commentary about the New Deal, the RFC in
fact salvaged capitalism, benefiting every citizen and business in the
nation, and remarkably made money for the federal government while
doing so.
Roosevelt and Jones shifted the RFC's focus from domestic economics
to global defense eighteen months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The
RFC began financing and building the massive factories that would
manufacture the tanks, trucks, airplanes and ammunition required to
win World War II. Astonishingly, the RFC orchestrated the development
of synthetic rubber from the lab to mass production in less than two
years. Without such government initiative, the Allied forces would have
been stuck in place and unable to fight.
After the war, the Joneses returned to Houston and focused on philanthropy
through Houston Endowment, the foundation they had established in
1937. One year before Jones's death in 1956, Houston Endowment donated
$1 million to build Rice Institute's Mary Gibbs Jones College so women
for the first time could live on campus. In more recent years, Houston
Endowment has donated more than $50 million to help establish and
support the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. Since its inception,
the foundation has donated more than $1.6 billion to Houston area
nonprofit organizations and educational institutions to help fulfill the
Joneses' vision of a vibrant community where the opportunity to thrive
is available to all.
Steven Fenberg is the author of Unprecedented Power:
Jesse Jones, Capitalism and the Common Good, a
biography recently published by Texas A&M University
Press. (For information about "Unprecedented Power,"
see jessejonesthebook.com). Fenberg was the executive
producer and writer of PBS's Emmy Award-winning film
Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? The Story of Jesse H.
Jones, which was narrated by Walter Cronkite. He produces
Houston Endowment's annual report and makes frequent
presentations about the foundation and Jesse Jones. — Jones Journal - Fall 2012


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Bruce Springsteen launching U.S. tour
Listen to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band on iHeartRadio
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are back on the road in the U.S. The group is following their appearance over the weekend in Dallas with a 15-date trek.
Their upcoming dates begin in Cincinnati, Ohio on Tuesday. The tour includes a stop at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 3rd. They'll wrap up the run with a two-night stand in Uncasville, Connecticut on May 17th and 18th.
Bruce and the Band was the headliner Sunday at the March Madness Music Festival in conjunction with the men's college basketball championship series. They last toured in the U.S. in 2012. Earlier this year they released the new album, High Hopes.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 2014 U.S. Tour Dates
April 8 -- Cincinnati, OH - U.S. Bank Arena
April 12 -- Virginia Beach, VA - Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
April 15 -- Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena
April 17 -- Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
April 19 -- Charlotte, NC - Time Warner Cable Arena
April 22 -- Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center
April 24 -- Raleigh, NC - PNC Arena
April 26 -- Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
April 29 -- Sunrise, FL - BB&T Center
May 1 -- Tampa, FL - MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre
May 3 -- New Orleans, LA - Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 6 -- Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
May 13 -- Albany, NY - Times Union Center
May 14 -- Hershey, PA - Hersheypark Stadium
May 17 -- Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
May 18 -- Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun
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27th June 2012 11:35 AM #1
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They said my son is sick
My middle child's teacher ask me to go to school because the Guidance Counselor needs to talk to me about my son's situation. I immediately go to school thinking my child did something bad to his classmate. The counselor told me that my son possibly has ADHD. I really don't know what is ADHD means, so when I got home I searched it through the internet and I found out that it's all about his attitude. Please I want some advice on how to deal with this. Thanks!
27th June 2012 11:53 PM #2
Hi Chay,
ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. I have working with a number of children in the past who have ADHD. Typically, children who have ADHD have difficulty concentrating on tasks and seem 'hyperactive'. It is not an attitude problem - it is now thought to be a medical condition which causes the child to behave in this way. It's not the child's fault that they find it difficult to concentrate; many children with ADHD are easily distracted from a task or fidget a lot.
Did the school talk about how they can help to support you in this? I would advice going to see your doctor about it. It can be difficult to diagnose ADHD but your doctor can start to assess your son for this. Your doctor or school may also be able to teach you techniques for dealing with your son's ADHD and you could also ask if there is a local support group for parents of a child who has ADHD as other parent's experiences with this can be invaluable. In some cases, the doctor will prescribe medication for the ADHD or your doctor may advice behavioural therapy or social skills learning.
There is also evidence that ADHD is better controlled in children who eat a balanced, healthy diet. It may also be the case that certain food types make the ADHD worse in your son (for example, those high in sugar or caffeine). You could keep a note of the food he eats on days when his behaviour seems more difficult and then trial eliminate any likely causes.
ADHD effects around 5% of children so you are not alone in this. I think the first step should be to ascertain if your doctor (or other medical professionals) feel that your son does have ADHD and then to explore the therapy/medication options from here. Some of the medications offered do have side effects. It may be helpful to start analysing his diet now, regardless of whether he is diagnosed with ADHD.
I hope this helps and let us know how you get on.
Best wishes,
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28th June 2012 04:58 AM #3
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Hi LJ! Thank you for that beautiful advice. We are actually scheduled to see his doctor next week. But it's actually way too much
28th June 2012 09:57 PM #4
You're very welcome - I'm glad you find it helpful.
What's way too much? I hope you can see the doctor together soon and get the help and support you need.
Thinking of you,
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There will likely be some cost, whether it's in the form of doctor visits and drugs, or in the form of purchasing healthier foods and paying for the proper tests to address the underlying cause of the ADHD.
Here are two videos that have a lot of very good information on how you can treat ADHD naturally. Please watch them and then post back with any comments or questions you may have. We're here to support you in the choices that will make life happier and easier for you and your family.
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CFP: Places and Non-Places of English
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0146 Thursday, 4 April 2013
Date: March 30, 2013 5:54:25 AM EDT
Subject: CFP: Places and Non-Places of English
Shakespeareans may wish to be aware of the upcoming 12th Nordic Conference of English Studies to be held at Uppsala University, Sweden, 10 - 13 October, 2013.
Our theme for this conference is 'Places and Non-Places of English'. The plenary speakers are Jorie Graham, Harvard University; Andrew Hadfield, Sussex University (an early modernist known to many of you); Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich: and Bruce Robbins, Columbia University.
It would be good to have at least one strong panel on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries, especially with regard to our theme. The deadline is being extended one last time.
For more information, go to http://www-conference.slu.se/naes2013/index.htm
Cheers to all,
Robert Appelbaum
Professor of English Literature
Department of English
Uppsala University


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Catholic leaders from some of the world's worst conflict zones gathered in Rome on May 29 and 30 to discuss ways to make peace. "In South Sudan, the Philippines, and Congo, in the Middle East and Central America, the Catholic Church is a powerful force for justice and reconciliation," said Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. "But this impressive and courageous peacebuilding often remains unknown, underanalyzed and unappreciated." Anticipating the 50th anniversary of Pope John XXIII's encyclical "Pacem in Terris," the seminar, "New Challenges for Catholic Peacebuilding," examined the best practices of contemporary Catholic peacebuilding as carried out in places where hatred has led to mass killings and destruction. "'Pacem in Terris' remains a living teaching," said the Rev. Pierre Cibambo of Caritas Internationalis. "Situations of violence and terrorism have changed over the past 50 years, but the will and the ability to build peace remains."
Peacemakers in Rome
This article also appeared in print, under the headline "Peacemakers in Rome," in the June 18, 2012 issue.


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