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R&D IT Lead Architect
Lexington , Massachusetts
March 14, 2017
Primary Role:
The R&D IT Lead Architect will establish the application/integration blueprint and standards across the R&D business domain. Work in collaboration with Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects and other Solution Architects to establish an overarching Enterprise Architecture that leverages and integrates shared and common technologies.
He or she will provide business domain and technology or process knowledge/experience to advise on appropriate technology options suited for the business capability to be delivered. Ensure that the architecture design satisfies the architecturally-significant requirements and collaborate with technical and enterprise architects as appropriate in the design process. The R&D IT Lead Architect can be directly responsible for the technical design of a new capability based on the strategic value/impact of the solution for the R&D organization (e.g. system of differentiation)
The R&D IT Lead Architect will continually evaluate the portfolio of applications within the R&D business domain and work in collaboration with Business Partners, Solution Architects and Service Managers in developing system lifecycle refresh plans.
He or she will work in collaboration with Application Service Managers to ensure the state of the system (application and underlying infrastructure components) is captured and technical, operational, demographic and architectural attributes of the systems are accurately maintained in Shire's systems of record. Work in collaboration with IT Business Partners to ensure alignment of technology roadmaps to business strategies.
Drive or participate in innovation initiatives to deliver new capabilities that benefit or add value to the R&D business community.
Create a culture of innovation within the R&D IT organisation to ensure progressive and advancing technologies are introduced into the IT landscape.
The R&D IT Lead Architect can also act as a consultant/advisor to the business functions on demand.
Define standards and strategy
- Create application/integration blueprint and standards for the R&D systems
- Assist in the creation, development, management and performance of the defined IT service organization
- Identify construction sourcing options as part of the project planning process
- Annually, the incumbent will participate in the IT portfolio planning process to plan for current and anticipated project requirements.
- Share best practices and be consultative to clients throughout duration of the project
- Participate in relevant road mapping and business case development activities to provide input on new projects (e.g. for new capabilities, lifecycle refresh and enhancements)
- Collaborate with other teams on innovation and ideation oportunities
Design of the application and mapping client business requirements to systems/technical requirements
- Formulate and define scope and objectives pertaining to the IT systems
- Ensure service metrics relating to performance, scalability or resilience can be adhered to
- Possess and maintain broad technical and business knowledge of all aspects of the service
- Provide design input on new services and solutions (e.g. solution architecture, app security, support model)
- Provide current best practice and 3rd Party solution alternatives as part of the functional design document
- Ensure Disaster Recovery requirements, both RPO and RTO are incorporated into system designs and standards as and where appropriate
- Develop and document the system design specifications as part of any new project and then maintain thereafter.
- Participate in process flow analysis and process redesign along with the Business Analyst
- Assess and review innovation and ideation oportunities during the design phase
- Manage and maintain SEAMs to ensure it is up to date and representative of the R&D business processes
- Manage and measure quality of service delivery through service metrics
- Create and then maintain the System Design Specification for every responsible system
- Responsible for ongoing lifecycle management of relevant systems and applications, including potential decommissioning
- Manage and maintain the system roadmap and provide input and awareness of future upgrade plans and projects.
- Responsible to stay current on infrastructure changes (internal or external), relevant vendor roadmaps and managing the appropriate remediation/mitigation efforts
- Monitor the relevant information technology domains and trends and feed or support the innovation portfolio with novel technologies able accelerate innovation, drug development or market access. Take accountability for innovation POC.
- Establish strong working relationship with all required vendors to ensure upgrade paths, system dependencies and retirement plans are understood and accommodated for.
Develop partnership, team work and communication
- Assist key IT stakeholders in the capacity forecasting and planning estimates relating to the portion of the IT project portfolio that falls within the R&D IT Lead Architect's associated applications
- Development and enforcement of architectural standards
Education & Experience Requirements:
-Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or other related field (or equivalent work experience).
-Pharmaceutical experience specific to and with knowledge of R&D business processes
-ITIL certification and project management training certification (preferred).
-Typically at least eight to ten years of IT work experience and five to seven years in an R&D organization related to application architecture and related technologies, in an environment similar in size and complexity to the organization (required).
-Demonstrable and recent experience in architecture design and standards.
-Strong knowledge of IT Computer Systems Validation processes is required.
Required knowledge and skills:
• Proven software architecture and software development knowledge
• Strong computer sciences and engineering background
• System integration experience
• Data Architecture & Management
• Experience with BioPharma Research and Development recommended
• Computer system validation and SDLC
• Good communication and reporting skills.
• Experience with cloud computing, social software, analytics, mobile applications
• Consultative skills and an ability to discuss technology and architecture in business terms
• Ability to operate in a matrix organization, Innovative thinking and ability to execute on innovative ideas to deliver results
Key behaviors:
• Mature and self-motivated professional able to work in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
• Ability to relate the goals of IT technology to business goals.
• A focus on customer satisfaction with strong interpersonal skills and responsiveness.
• Adherence to IT policies , processes and standards to ensure consistency
• Capacity to develop strong personnel performance goals.
• Innovate
About Shire:
Shire is the leading global biotechnology company focused on serving people with rare diseases and other highly specialized conditions. We strive to develop best-in-class products across our core therapeutic areas including Hematology, Immunology, Neuroscience, Ophthalmics, Lysosomal Storage Disorders, Gastrointestinal/Internal Medicine/Endocrine, Hereditary Angioedema, and Oncology.
A little about us:
At Shire, we help people with rare diseases and specialized conditions live their lives to the fullest.
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Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Regional Municipality
Mr. Andy Fillmore, M.P. for Halifax, House of Commons, Ottawa
Barbara Turley-McIntyre, Vice President, Sustainability and Citizenship, The Co-operators – Working Together Towards a Vision for Resilient Communities
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Gino Van Begin, Secretary General, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
10:15 – 12:00
From Planning to Action: Bridging the Implementation Gap
While climate change adaptation has received increasing attention over the past several years, the focus has largely been on the planning process and less on implementation. Although adaptation planning is a process that is often capable of delivering positive outcomes, it can also overestimate the capacity of planning to deliver the intended outcomes of adaptation. Strengthening our understanding of the drivers and constraints to implementation, as well as our knowledge of available tools and resources, can help municipalities in implementing tangible on-the-ground actions. Join us to hear about innovative approaches utilized by municipalities to bridge the implementation gap!
Kathy Edwards, Wellfield Protection Officer, City of Fredericton – Planning for Climate Chance Resiliency while Tackling Infrastructure Deficit
Trisha Henderson, Environmental Policy Coordinator, Town Of Oakville – Town of Oakville's Climate Change Strategy: From Development to Implementation
Sharyn Inward, Director of Water Programs, Green Communities Canada – Soak it Up! Neighbourhood Action to Reduce Flooding
Michael Houle, Adaptation and Resilience Project Coordinator, ICLEI Canada – Making Strides on Community Adaptation
Room: Commonwealth B
Climate Change in Atlantic Canada: Issues and Responses
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Karena D'Souza and Mitchell Downton, Graduate Students, Dalhousie University – Climate Change Adaptation in Nova Scotia's Coastal Zone
Amanda Dean, VP Atlantic, Insurance Bureau of Canada – Making the Case for a National Flood Strategy
Vincent Leys, Coastal Engineer, CBCL Consulting – Engineering Considerations for Coastal Adaptation: Recent Examples from Atlantic Canada
Jonas Roberts, Climate Change Consultant, Amec Foster Wheeler – Climate Change Adaptation Tools and Barriers in Newfoundland and Labrador
Room: Lunenburg
The Economics of Resilience: From Business Case to Financing
Climate change adaptation can save us money by reducing the physical, social, and economic impacts of climate change. How much adaptation might cost, and how fruitful its benefits might be, are issues that are becoming increasingly relevant both for on-the-ground projects and in national and international contexts. This session will explore the economic risks of climate change, new practical tools and mechanisms to measure the costs of adaptation options, and ways the financial sector can be engaged in the adaptation conversation.
Jonathan Rosborough, Director, Climate Lab, University of Prince Edward Island – Coastal Adaptation: CBA Results from Select Locations in Atlantic Canada
Will Green, Manager, Climate Change and Air Quality Unit, Province of Nova Scotia – Economics of Climate Resilience in Nova Scotia
Julius Lindsay, Community Energy Specialist, City of Mississauga & John Charles, Planner, Energy & Environment, Halifax Regional Municipality – Study of Future Economic Impacts of Climate Change: A Municipal Perspective
Edward Nichol, Senior Researcher, Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) Adaptation Financing for Local Governments in Canada
Room: Harbour Suites
Legal Liability and Regulatory Mechanisms as Catalysts for Action on Climate Change
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Laura Zizzo, Founder & CEO, Zizzo Strategy Inc. – Legal Drivers for Climate Change Adaptation
David Lapp, Practice Lead, Globalization and Sustainable Development, Engineers Canada
Julie Lax, Senior Policy Analyst, Strategic Policy Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada – Pan-Canadian Framework for Clean Growth and Climate Change
Room: Atlantic Ballroom
Keynote Address:
The Honourable John Godfrey, Special Advisor on Climate Change, Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change
1:30 – 3:00
Innovative Practices in Paying for Stormwater Management
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Peter Duncan, Manager, Infrastructure Planning, Halifax Regional Municipality – Moving Towards Green Infrastructure in Halifax
Victoria Kramkowski, Stormwater Charge Program Coordinator, City of Mississauga – Building Resilience Through User Fees: Mississauga's Stormwater Charge
Sara O'Neill, Senior Research Associate, Sustainable Prosperity – New Solutions for Sustainable Stormwater Management in Canada
Kenda Mackenzie, Director, Regulatory Services, Halifax Water – Stormwater Billing – Lessons Learned
Room: Atlantic Ballroom
Assisting Municipalities in Combatting Extreme Rainfall
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Andrew Binns, Professor, University of Guelph – Lot-level Protection Measures to Improve the Resiliency to Basement Flood Events
Peter Nimmrichter, Associate and Climate Change Specialist, Water Resources, Amec Foster Wheeler – Mitigating Urban Flood Risk in New Residential Subdivisions
Barbara Robinson, President, Norton Engineering – Inflow and Infiltration in New Subdivisionsis Costing us a Fortune!
Dan Sandink, Manager, Resilient Communities and Research, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction – Urban Extreme Rainfall Flood Risk Resources and Tools to Support Action
Laura Zizzo, Founder & CEO, Zizzo Strategy Inc. – Assessing Mandatory Measures for Existing Residential Properties to Reduce Flood Risk
Room: Commonwealth B
Exploring the Connections between Health and Climate Change
There is growing evidence that our climate is changing and that these changes are affecting the health and well-being of residents throughout Canada. More intense heat events, invasive species, and extreme weather events are just a few of the climate changes affecting human health, especially among vulnerable populations. This session will look at the connections between climate change, resilience, and health, and what we can do to adapt.
Melanie Goodchild, Senior Counsel, Indigenous Relations at National Office, Canadian Red Cross – Four Lenses of Wellbeing
Theresa McGuire, Registered Nurse and Clinical Instructor in Community Health, Dalhousie University – Better Living in Cities: How does Urban Green Space Planning Affect Human Health?
Gregory Richardson, Policy Analyst, Climate Change and Innovation Bureau, Health Canada – Helping Canadian Communities to Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect
Gaynor Watson-Creed, Medical Officer, Nova Scotia Health Authority – The Many Tentacles of Climate Change
Room: Lunenburg
3:30 – 5:30
Transformational versus Incremental Adaptation: Can we move Light-years Ahead?
There is a growing tendency within the climate change adaptation research community to think about adaptation using the language of transformation – suggesting that the current way of doing business will not be enough, especially in light of the lack of sufficient progress to mitigate the causes of climate change. Contrast this idea of transformational change with the realities on the ground of financial constraint, limited staff capacity, and difficulties with securing political will, and one is left with the question of whether all communities can really move 'light-years ahead'? Join presenters in this session exploring the realities of transformative versus incremental adaptation and what it means in Canada's cities, regions, and towns.
Elizabeth English, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo – ADAPTATION & AMPHIBIATION: FLOOD MITIGATION, COMMUNITY RESILIENCE & THE BUOYANT FOUNDATION PROJECT
Daniella Hirschfeld, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley – Transformational Capacity: Exploring a Place's Ability to Change
Stephen Sheppard, Director, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning – Getting Ahead of Disaster: Overcoming Public Perception Barriers with Future Visualization
Jon Philipsborn, Associate Vice President / Climate Adaptation Director, Americas, AECOM
Room: Lunenburg
Small Town Success Stories: Lessons Learned from Small and Rural Municipalities
In Canada, small and rural communities are likely to be among the hardest hit by the effects of climate change because of their geography, their economic and social connections to the lands, and potentially limited resources. However, small and rural communities can also have some unique advantages, such as strong cross-departmental collaboration, communication, and community support. This session will discuss challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation in small and rural municipalities, while highlighting several success stories throughout Canada.
Jeff Birchall, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta – Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Lessons from Nome, Alaska
Lori Ackerman, Mayor, Fort St. John, British Columbia – It's not Easy Being Green
Rebecca Francis, Continuous Improvement Manager, District Municipality of Muskoka – Shhh – Don't Say Climate Change! Lessons Learned from Huntsville and Muskoka, Ontario
Patricia Manuel, Director, School of Planning, Dalhousie University – Adapting to Heat Stress in Small Rural Towns: A Case Study of Middleton, Nova Scotia
Room: Atlantic Ballroom
Finding the Synergies between Low-carbon and Resilient Communities
For some time now, we have come to understand climate change mitigation and adaptation as two sides of the same coin. While mitigation efforts work to contain the long term impacts of global warming, adaptation measures are needed to address the degradation of ecosystem services that is already happening. At the same time, the limits of adaptation highlight the ongoing importance of the task of building low-carbon communities. From this point of departure, this session will highlight notable examples from across Canada of planning communities that are simultaneously low-carbon and resilient to the effects of climate change.
Michael Dean, Climate and Energy Project Coordinator, ICLEI Canada – Better Together: Exploring Mitigation and Adaptation Synergies
Edward Nichol, Senior Researcher, Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT) – Low Carbon Resilience: Transformative Climate Change Planning for Canada
Ben Themens, Director, Lonsdale Energy Corporation – LEC's Innovative Approach to District Energy
Ryan Zizzo, Technical Director, Zizzo Strategy Inc. – Codifying Resiliency: LEEDs New Resiliency Pilot Credits
Unexpected Viewpoints: Four Fresh Perspectives on Climate Change
Climate change can be understood from a variety of disciplines: climate science, hydrology, planning, engineering, and countless others. In this ever evolving field, there are new and emerging perspectives on climate change and its impacts that highlight the need to continuously reshape and rethink our responses as municipalities and wider communities. In this fascinating session, speakers will present examples and share insights relating to tourism, displacement and communications.
Mark Groulx, Assistant Professor, University of Northern British Columbia – Loving a Place to Death: Exploring the causes, impacts and opportunities of last chance tourism in the context of Canadian communities
Bob Maber, Associate Director – Emergency Management, University of Calgary – Learnings from the Support Efforts for Fire and Flood
Anita Walker, Manager, Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada – Adaptation in First Nation Communities
Tõnu Laasi, Leading Specialist of Nature Protection, City of Tallinn – Tallinn-Halifax Partnership
A chance for forum delegates and invited guests to network over drinks and dinner with Halifax Mayor Mike Savage!
Location: The Westin Nova Scotian, Commonwealth Ballroom
Day Two
Tuesday, September 13
7:30 – 8:30 Buffet Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15 Morning Plenary
Tuesday's morning plenary will focus on bridging the gap between research and practice in building community resilience. The panellists, moderated by Bob Bjerke, Chief Planner at Halifax Regional Municipality will explore the conference themes through the lens of how the research community can support practitioners and vise versa. Themes include:
- Preparing Canadian communities for the impacts of a changing climate;
- Responding to extreme weather and climate change;
- Mainstreaming action on climate change in communities; and
- Measuring progress on climate action and resilience.
Bob Bjerke, Chief Planner, Halifax Regional Municipality
Jean Andrey, Dean, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo – Powerpoint slides available here
Paul Kovacs, Executive Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR)
Charlotte MacAlister, Senior Program Officer, International Development Research Council (IDRC) – Powerpoint slides available here
9:30 – 11:00
Fishbowl! Having the Climate Conversation
Join us for an innovative, interactive discussion on how different professionals communicate key messages about climate change and adaptation. Learn creative and achievable ways to engage both important stakeholders and new audiences in the Climate Conversation – and be prepared to jump into the fishbowl yourself!
Ewa Jackson, Manager, ICLEI Canada
Liz Nield, CEO, Lura Consulting
Room: Atlantic Ballroom
Role of the Private Sector in Building Resilience
While climate change poses a number of risks to vulnerable communities and businesses around the world, many opportunities are unfolding for private companies to implement actions towards reducing their business operations, as well as investing in adaptation actions in a sustainable and profitable matter. These activities may relate to ensuring the resilience of business continuity, or the provisions of technologies or services that assist with adaptation in vulnerable communities. This session will explore private sector perspectives on climate risks and opportunities in a competitive market, as well as the role and capacity of the private sector to improve climate change adaptation in Canada.
Gord Beal, Vice President, Research, Guidance and Support, Chartered Professional Accountants Canada – Resilience – Managing Risk and Seizing Opportunity
Scott MacCallum, Director of Operations, Clayton Developments Limited – Green Infrastructure Planning for Master Planned Communities
Jon Philipsborn, Associate Vice President/Climate Adaptation Director, Americas, AECOM – Building Disaster Resilience in Small and Mid-Size Businesses
Barbara Turley-McIntryre, Vice President, Sustainability and Citizenship, The Co-operators – Business & Society: Building Resiliency for Canadians
Room: Harbour Suites
Dealing with Water: Flood Preparedness Policy and Governance in Canada
In Part One of a two-part series, panellists from across Canada will discuss policy and governance measures that can be or are being used to protect Canadians from flooding. What sort of policy and governance tools can we use to increase municipalities' preparedness in general, but also on the frontlines when a flood hits? Find out what exists, what is missing, and what is needed to ensure that Canadian communities can increase flood preparedness and manage flood risk.
Shawna Peddle, Director, Partners for Action – Informing Flood Management Policy in Canada: Experiences and Opinions of Homeowner
Natalia Moudrak, Director of Natural Infrastructure Adaptation Program, Intact Centre on Climate Change Adaptation – Building Flood-Resilient Homes and Communities: A Critical Issue for Canada's Mortgage Market Stability
Micaela Gerling, Program Coordinator, Alberta Community Resilience Program, Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta – Paradigm shift in southern Alberta: Innovation in flood mitigation
Tom Lancaster, Division Manager, Planning & Analytics, Regional Planning, Metro Vancouver – Utilities, Services, and Risk in a time of Climate Change
Dave Murray, Principal, Water Resources Engineer, Kerr Wood Leidal Associates/CWRA – The Hydro-illogical Cycle and the case for Integrated Flood Hazard Management
Room: Commonwealth B
The Data Divide: Working with Data to Enhance Resilience
Our ability to predict, manage and cope with climatic changes is not only challenged by the uncertainty surrounding climate change and traditional methods of data analysis, but also our capacity to properly translate these data into comprehensive information to inform planning processes and decision-making. This session will examine the importance and limitations of data, and how they can be used to build a shared under-standing of risk and create opportunities to increase the resiliency of communities. This panel will explore different uses of new initiatives centred on the collection and use of data!
Nathalie Beauvais, Climate Lead and Adjunct Professor, Kleinfelder; and Peter Nimmrichter, Associate and Climate Change Specialist, Water Resources, Amec Foster Wheeler – Leading-edge Climate Change Science Informing Real-World Needs The City of Cambridge as a case study
Isabelle Charron, Climate Scenario Specialist, Ouranos – Examples of co-production to enhance data integration and adaptation
Paul Kovacs, Founder & Executive Director, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction – Prepare for the worst – Hurricane case study
Jackie Yip, Post-doctoral Candidate, Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, UBC – Sharing Resilience Knowledge Among Coastal Communities: Resilient Coasts Canada Online Platform
Room: Lunenburg
11:30 – 1:00
Nature as a Vital Tool for Canadian Community Resilience
The natural environment plays a key role in community resiliency, even in large urban centres across Canada. Natural systems offer several means of improving an area's adaptive capacity. This session will explore the value of the natural environment when it comes to community resiliency, as well as innovative ways that practitioners have worked with nature to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Peter Duinker, Professor, Dalhousie University – Trees: An Indispensable Tool for Livable and Resilient Cities in a Changing Climate
Larissa Holman, Water Coordinator, Ecology Action Centre – Living Shorelines: Managing Sea Change Through Shoreline Naturalization
Peter Labor, Director, Protected Areas and Ecosystems, Nova Scotia Environment – Building Resilience to Climate Change Through Nova Scotia's Protected Areas
Holly Richardson, Policy Coordinator, Parks and Recreation, Halifax Regional Municipality – Halifax Green Network: An Open Space and Greenbelting Priorities Plan for the Region
Room: Commonwealth B
Crossing Paths: Building Partnerships to Improve Resilience
Sharing climate change adaptation knowledge and developing collaborative adaptation actions contributes to the creation of a more effective and streamlined approach for managing a changing climate. Partnering with multiple institutions and stakeholders such as community groups, non-governmental organizations, private businesses, as well as local, provincial and federal governments, can help an organization to secure predictable and sustainable financial resources. However, the diverse needs of climate adaptation require more than funding resources alone. Partnerships also provide the opportunity to capitalize on outside expertise and experience to better leverage implementation and ensure that every single step of implementation – from design, to monitoring and evaluation, to operation and maintenance – are met with great success. Join us for this to learn about some unique partnerships that have been used for implementing adaptation projects across Canada!
Room: Lunenburg
Elizabeth Atkinson, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, University of Waterloo – Building Adaptation Capacity in the Professions
Jennifer Dougherty, Manager, Water Quality Protection, Credit Valley Conservation Authority – Building Bridges: Implementation of innovative stormwater management through partnerships
Curniss McGoldrick, Climate Adaptation Coordinator, City of Thunder Bay – Building resilience through community-municipal partnerships: The example of EarthCare Thunder Bay
Carolyn Rennie, Managing Director, Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. – Collectively Smarter: Quantifying Canadian Catastrophes
Moving Towards Alternatives - Green Building Practices and Renewable Energy
As climate change becomes increasingly disruptive to large-scale energy generation and distribution networks, small-scale resilient technologies will become increasingly vital. Two key components of the shift to low-carbon communities – local renewable energy generation and green buildings – can also contribute to the capacity of communities to withstand the impacts of climate change. This session will explores the ways that these technologies can contribute to the creation of low-carbon, resilient communities and will highlight some of the ways they are currently being implemented by municipalities in Canada.
Simon Mitchell, Senior Specialist, WWF-Canada – Moving toward Alternatives: Green Building Practices and Renewable Energy
Lori Ackerman, Mayor, Fort St. John, British Columbia – The Little City that Went Passively Aggressive
Adam Hayter, Energy Specialist, Halifax Regional Municipality – A Municipal Action for a Low Carbon Community: HRM's Solar City
Lara Ryan, Regional Director – Atlantic Chapter, Canada Green Building Council – Green Building As a climate change solution
Tony Wright, General Manager, FORCE – FORCE Update – Tidal Energy
Room: Harbour Suites
Challenges and Opportunities in Building Resilience with First Nations Communities
Ensuring that First Nations have the tools they need to fight and adapt to climate change is an imperative across Canada. This session will look at the state of climate change adaptation in First Nations communities across the country, with a particular focus on Atlantic Canada. This session will also seek to set the direction for how better to engage First Nations in climate change adaptation planning and implementation.
Kerry-Ann Charles, Environmental Coordinator, Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation
Catherine Béland, Planning Coordinator, First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Sustainable Development Institute
Myriam Beauchamp, Chargée de projets en changements climatiques, Grand Conseil de la Nation Waban-Aki
Randall B. Angus, Director of Integrated Resource Management, Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI
Jennifer Copage, Senior Associate, Mi'kma'ki All Points Services – Change in the Indian Brook Community: A Multi-year Research Project to Identify and Adapt to Changes in Climate in the Indian Brook Community
Robert Bernard, Pitu'paq Partnership
Angeline Gillis, Environment and Natural Resources, The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq
Room: Atlantic Ballroom
1:00 – 2:00 NETWORKING LUNCH – Sponsored by Aviva Canada
Lunch time address:
Gordon Murray, Vice-President Business Development, Atlantic Region, Aviva Canada
2:00 – 3:30
Blue-Green Cities: Integrating Water Management with Urban Greenspace
To fully realize the benefits of blue-green infrastructure (BGI), one must evaluate the interdisciplinary bene-fits to the air, environment, waste water, built environment, energy system, and social and ecological sys-tems. Even though BGI has the potential to transform city environments into more sustainable, resilient, and attractive ones, they are still far from the standard for urban water management and most benefits are not recognized in current legislations and policies. Join us to discover the benefits and added values stem-ming from BGI and how some municipalities overcame the social, political and technical challenges of BGI implementation.
Camilla Melrose, Water Program Coordinator, Clean Foundation – Clean Foundation: Inspiring environmental change
Dave Murray, Principal, Water Resources Engineer, Kerr Wood Leidal Associates, and National President, Canadian Water Resources Association – What are Blue Green Cities? and Reversing the Hydro-illogical Cycle: Blue-Green Water Management Advances in BC
Emily O'Donnel, Research Fellow, Geographical Sciences, University of Nottingham – Overcoming barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure through multiple benefit evaluation
Carl Yates, General Manager, Halifax Water – Integrating the Water/Energy Nexus – A Practitioner's Tale
Room: Atlantic Ballroom
Engaging the 'Unusual Suspects' in Climate Change Adaptation
Engaging the right people, in the right way is vital to the success of any climate change adaptation effort. Too often efforts around climate change engagement have centred around municipal staff hosting a community meeting where a limited number of people attend or participate. This session will focus on engaging the "unusual suspects" in climate change adaptation – from farmers to accountants to faith leaders – the session panellists have found creative, targeted, and mutually beneficial ways to engage stakeholders in ways that are meaningful to them and sensitive to a variety of perspectives.
Gordon Beal, Vice President, Research, Guidance and Support, Chartered Professional Accountants Canada – Accountants … not just a bunch of number crunchers!
Lucy Cummings, Executive Director, Faith and the Common Good – Engaging Faith Groups as Partners in Extreme Weather Response
David Sauchyn, Professor, University Regina, and Researcher, Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative – Engaging Farmers: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Rural Prairie Communities
Room: Commonwealth B
Lessons Learned from the Municipal Climate Change Action Plan Process in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is the only Province in Canada to mandate 'Municipal Climate Change Action Plans,' by using the federal gas tax as a monetary incentive for initiating the development of municipal plans designed to mitigate and adapt to climate risks and impacts at the local scale. This panel provides an opportunity for discussion with representatives from Nova Scotia's Provincial and Municipal governments, as well as NGO and consulting sectors, in order to reflect on the MCCAP process and to discuss the broader barriers and opportunities for enabling the integration of climate adaptation plans into municipal decision making and governance strategies.
Jeanne Bourque, Planner, The Municipality of the District of the West Hants
Graham Fisher, Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Affairs, Province of Nova Scotia
Yuill Hebert, Founding Director, Sustainable Solutions Group
Terry Thibodeau, Renewable Energy Program Coordinator, Digby, NS
Brennan Vogel, Post Doctoral Candidate, Western University – Municipal Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Nova Scotia: Lessons and Opportunities
Room: Harbour Suites
What's Measured: Using Indicators to Measure Progress and Change Courses
Adaptation actions require ongoing and consistent monitoring in order to:
1) Identify and initiate necessary course corrections;
2) Change the timing of implementation;
3) Create mechanisms for alerting stakeholders to emerging data and information; and 4) Ensure that desired objectives are achieved.
This session will explore how adaptation indicators can be used as a means to track and assess where you are in relation to an adaptation action, determine whether you are headed in the intended direction, and assess how far away you are from the desired adaptive outcome.
Travis Allan, Partner, DeMarco Allan LLP – What's Measured:Progress, Indictors and Regional Planning for Adaptation
Susan Evans, Senior Specialist, Science Research and Innovation, WWF-Canada – Identifying Determinants of Resilience: the importance of applying a social-ecological systems frame
Ian McVey, Project Manager, Ontario Climate Consortium – Measuring Climate Action at a Regional Scale – Addressing the Challenges of Coordination and Collaboration
Patrick Regan, Professor and Associate Director, Notre Dame-Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) – Measuring Climate Change Adaptation
Room: Lunenburg
Engineering Solutions to Flood Resiliency Across Canada
In this session, participants will learn about how Canadian municipalities have put theory into practice and have used innovative partnerships, approaches, project tools and solutions to improve community flood resiliency. Case studies will be presented from three Canadian projects to showcase how these partnerships play a key role in advancing adaptation and lessons learned from on-the-ground practitioners and municipal staff.
Allan Magi, Executive Director, Capital Works, City of Burlington, and Ron Scheckenberger, Principal Water Resources, Amec Foster Wheeler – Weathering the Storm: The City of Burlington learns from the August 4th, 2014 flood
Peter Nimmrichter, Associate and Climate Change Specialist, Water Resources, Amec Foster Wheeler
Marvin Ingebrigsten, Infrastructure & Development Services Supervisor, Infrastructure Services – Engineering Division, Corporation of the City of Welland – Planning for Extreme Precipitation: Assessing Alternatives for Stormwater Infrastructure Resiliency
Chris Milley, Town Manager/ Engineer, Town of Portugal Cove—St Philips, Newfoundland and Labrador – Portugal Cove: Climate Change Adjusted Flood Risk Maps – A New Planning Tool
Room: Harbour Suites
Are We on the Right Track? Tools and Indicators to Measure Progress Towards Resilience
After a full program on preparing, responding and mainstreaming, the Are We on the Right Track Workshop will advance the thematic discussions on measuring progress to take a deep dive into the tools and indicators we can use to monitor and evaluate progress on climate change adaptation and resilience. Knowing where we are and where we want to go is an important part of advancing our resilience. This session will explore current trends in the development and application of indicators both nationally and internationally as well as the practical application of resiliency building tools and frameworks. Participants will engage in discussions on the process of selecting appropriate monitoring and evaluation frameworks (including indicators, performance metrics, and benchmarks), how to integrate measurement and evaluation into the early stages of planning, how to look at the indicators of resilience at a systems scale, and examine how they can be operationalize these concepts when they return home to their communities.
Megan Meaney, Director, ICLEI Canada – Are We There Yet? Applying Indicators to Measure Progress on Adaptation
Susan Evans, Senior Specialist, Science Research and Innovation, WWF-Canada – Are we Measuring What Matters?
Patrick Regan, Professor and Associate Director, Notre Dame—Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) – Urban Adaptation Assessment Methodology
Ian McVey, Project Manager, Ontario Climate Consortium – What's Measured, Improves: Indicators and Benchmarks to Support the Integration of Climate Change Resilience into Regional Scale Land Use Planning
Adaptation Solutions and Innovations from the South: How can Canada-South Collaboration Inform Adaptation at Larger Scales at Home? (TBC)
Communities, municipalities, food producers, and policymakers need access to climate information for helping to inform planning and decision-making around strategies for adapting to a changing climate. Researchers have a responsibility to communicate climate science, including embedded risks and uncertainties, in an accessible format to those who are affected. This panel will present examples from Canadian research on climate change adaptation solutions and innovations in developing countries. Examples will demonstrate how climate information and solutions communicated to different audiences – ranging from school children to small scale farmers, and from planners and development banks – were brought to larger scales. A wide range of outreach techniques were tested through these research projects, including leveraging the public education system, agricultural extension, flash mobs, video and social media, and cutting edge mobile and sensor technologies. In this workshop, speakers will put forward the case for effective communication on climate change adaptation. Canadian adaptation specialists will respond by sharing their perspectives on the application of innovative communications for the Canadian context, from both a rural and municipal perspective. The audience will be engaged to discuss the applicability of lessons learned from the developing world for Canada's changing climate.
Charlotte MacAlister, Senior Program Officer, IDRC – Adaptation solutions and innovations from the South: How can Canada-South collaboration inform adaptation at larger scales at home?
Ewa Jackson, Manager, ICLEI Canada
Quynh Anh Nguyen, National Institute for Science and Technology Policy and Strategy Studies, Vietnam – Communication Matters: Lessons learnt from project on"Communicating Climate Change Risks for Adaptation in Coastal and Delta Communities in Vietnam" funded by IDRC
Willemien van Niekerk, CSIR Built Environment, South Africa – The Green Book
Adrian Cashman, CERMES, The University of the West Indies, Barbados – Engaging Stakeholders or Listening to Idiots? Sustainable Water Management under Climate Change in Small Island States of the Caribbean
Louis Lebel, Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai University, Thailand and Phim Lebel, Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai University, Thailand – Communication and management of climate-related risks in the aquaculture sector
Room: Atlantic Ballroom
Resilientville: A CLARION Resilient Communities Role Playing Workshop
This workshop will immerse you in the potential for community-based emergency preparedness. Designed by San Francisco's Neighborhood Empowerment Network, "Resileintville" is a role-playing exercise which advances participant awareness of the short and long term benefits of problem solving at the neighborhood level. By working together as a community on issues that present themselves on a daily basis, the exercise demonstrates how residents can develop crucial decision making skills and relationships that over time strengthen their ability to respond to a wide variety of unforeseen challenges and opportunities
Lucy Cummings, Executive Director, Faith & the Common Good
Alain Normand, Manager, Emergency Management Office, City of Brampton
Daniel Homsey (via Skype), Director of Neighborhood Resilience for the City Administrator's Office of the City and County of San Francisco
Michaël Houle, Adaptation and Resilience Project Coordinator, ICLEI Canada
Hana Lapp, Adaptation and Resilience Planner, ICLEI Canada
Room: Lunenburg
A chance for forum delegates and invited guests to network over cocktails.
Location: The Westin Nova Scotian
Day Three
Wednesday, September 14
7:00 – 8:00 Buffet Breakfast
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast Plenary
9:00 Study tour meet up and depart
City Cycling Tour - Coastal Impacts and Adaptation
Join a cycling tour of Halifax and Dartmouth to see a range of examples of extreme weather impacts and adaptation as well as some areas of opportunity for action. This session will be led by the Ecology Action Centre's Coastal Adaptation Coordinator, Robin Tress. A short cycling safety briefing will be led by the Ecology Action Centre's Making Tracks transportation leaders. Bikes provided.
City Walkabout - Urban Forests and Point Pleasant Park
Enjoy a guided scenic walk in Halifax beginning at Dalhousie University and winding down into Point Pleasant Park at the Halifax Harbour. Guides will discuss Halifax's award-winning Urban Forest Master Plan as well as the Point Pleasant Park Masterplan and the management of the park since it was heavily impacted by Hurricane Juan in 2003.
Led by: Peter Duinker, Professor, Dalhousie University
Prospect Village Day Trip - Hiking and History of a Traditional Fishing Village
Prospect Village is located on the granite headlands of the Prospect Peninsula on Nova Scotia's southwest shore. For over 250 years the residents of this traditional fishing village have witnessed the rise and fall of the Atlantic fishery and have had to discover new job opportunities and ways of life while maintaining their connections with the past. Come and join us for a guided tour of this spectacular coastal village. We'll meet with local residents who will share their stories of the history of Prospect and also tell us about the present day challenges and opportunities of living in a coastal community. The day will start with an exciting shoreline hike through the majestic granite barrens of the Prospect High Head conservation area. After a hearty fish chowder lunch break at the community hall we'll tour the village and meet local residents who will tell their stories of living in Prospect. Transportation provided, full day session, Tour Size minimum of 10, maximum of 20.
Partners for Climate Protection World Café: Tools, Capacity Building and Current Issues
Since 1994, over 250 municipalities from throughout the Atlantic provinces and across Canada have participated in the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program to account for their greenhouse gas emissions, set targets to reduce GHGs, and develop and implement local climate change action plans. Join us at this workshop where we want to hear from you – what challenges are you facing? What opportunities are you about to seize to move forward on climate change work? What tools do you wish you had to continue to act? We know that while there have been great success stories to date, climate change mitigation is continually evolving and new approaches need to be adapted to ensure best practice. At the Partners for Climate Protection World Café, we will present some of the latest developments from new international standards for emissions accounting, new networking opportunities and platforms, new PCP Tools, and more while at the same time we want to learn how we could better serve the Atlantic PCP members and continue to build capacity for even deeper climate change action.
Devin Causley, Manager, Climate Change Programs, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Michael Dean, Climate and Energy Project Coordinator, ICLEI Canada
Samantha Peverill, Caucus Coordinator, QUEST Nova Scotia
Yuill Herbert, Founding Director, Sustainable Solutions Group
Eddie Oldfield, Caucus Chair and Coordinator, QUEST New Brunswick
Room: Harbour Suites
Integrating Climate Change and Health into Community Adaptation Planning
A discussion of climate change and the impacts on communities cannot be had without the inclusion of the effects on human health and the ability of communities to respond to these. Flooding, heat waves, and emerging viruses are just a few of the climate change impacts that are affecting the health of Canadians and especially vulnerable populations. This workshop, combining both presentations from subject-matter experts and practitioners with hands-on workshop activities, will look at the linkages between climate change, resilience and health from the city to the national level. The aim of this workshop is to explore how we can mobilize Canadian communities for health resiliency in a changing climate – through both assessing priorities and identifying best practices in addressing these.
Peter Berry, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada
Gregory Richardson, Policy Analyst, Climate Change and Innovation Bureau, Health Canada
Louise Aubin, Manager, Environmental Health, Peel Public Health
Room: Lunenburg
Program Themes
Preparing Canadians for a changing climate: Explore different ways to prepare and engage Canadian communities in climate change adaptation. Topics include best practices in adaptation, new and emerging risks, assessing vulnerability and risk at a local level, and communicating climate change impacts.
Responding to extreme weather and climate change: Learn about the changing nature of roles and responsibilities, integrating climate change into emergency management, and best practices from across Canada.
Mainstreaming implementation in Canadian communities: Discuss how communities are implementing adaptation actions into planning, policy, and community engagements, while also building partnerships, and pursuing innovative practices for integrating resilience into communities.
Measuring progress on climate action: Learn about best practices in monitoring and evaluation, using indicators to measure resilience, and applying tools to measure municipal progress on adaptation


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Hi Pam!ReplyDelete
How are you! nice jacket, nice on you- so cute - love it! i like that you wear it with a skirt - i have a couple of military jackets they are versatile and fun to wear - Getting real- cold here, how is it in Texas?
Yes lets have a tought for our world war veterans today!
What a great homage to our people in the military! Great idea and great outfit~ReplyDelete
Wonderful post, Pam, and a great tribute to our brave military women and men. I really like this jacket, and how great you must feel wearing your father's scarf. Thanks for sharing it with Visible Monday.ReplyDelete
I agree! What a great post, Pam!ReplyDelete
What a lovely tribute to your father as well by wearing his scarf. I love your jacket!
My father-in-law, a paratrooper in the Canadian forces in WWII until he was seriously wounded, also suffered from nightmares for the rest of his life. According to Argentinian writer, Jose Narosky, "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." How very true that is.ReplyDelete
You are so right. Although I often don't agree with the military policies of this country, I have huge respect for those who have served honorably. They deserve all the support and acknowledgement we can give them. My dad flew in the Naval Air Corp in WWII and my aunt's husband was killed in a plane crash in Florida shortly after returning from France where he'd been shot down in WWII. I admire the women as well, who serve with equal bravery in an environment that doesn't always support them as it should, although hopefully that's changing.ReplyDelete
Your outfit is a wonderful composition of color and style. You look beautiful.
Love this. The brown with the tomato-red shirt is beautiful and the scarf. Just so classy. Loved this post.ReplyDelete
I love a good military jacket / blazer. Such a fun look. You know you blog too much when you have dreams about blogging. This is so silly: I dreamt Gigi made a blog. Ha ha. xoxoReplyDelete
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Pam--what a wonderful scarf and story!!! I love your military look!!ReplyDelete
Sargent Pepper ... that works. It's absolutely military (ditto your remarts to the real honorees of the day.) I thought at first look about Adam Ant. Remember him? You look lovely, regardless. Thanks for blogging!ReplyDelete
Pam, the jacket still looks great on you. The scarf is a special treasure as is the story with it. The jacket looks great with the red top.ReplyDelete
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London: Domestic league champions Arsenal, Borussia Dortmund and Valencia were the latest clubs to make it to the last 16 of the Champions Cup on Wednesday while nine time defending champion Real Madrid got there despite losing 1-0 at home to AS Roma. The Gunners qualified despite losing their fourth game in a row, 2-1 at Dortmund, while Valencia completed its second shutout over Liverpool by winning 1-0 at Anfield. Madrid, despite fielding its Fab Five of Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Roberto Carlos and Raul Gonzalez, was beaten by a first half goal by another world-class player, Francesco Totti. The result means Madrid and Roma are tied on eight points at the top of Group C. But the Spanish giant reaches the second phase because of its head to head results against third place AEK Athens. Madrid tied 3-3 and 2-2 with the Greeks to have a better away goals record. Madrid, Valencia, Arsenal and Dortmund join AC Milan, Manchester United, Barcelona, Juventus and Bayer Leverkusen in the last 16 and the other seven places will be decided in two weeks' time. The other group in action on Wednesday remains wide open. Inter Milan scored a 3-0 victory over last place Rosenborg while Ajax scored a 2-0 victory at French champion Lyon, which was pushed down from first to third. Just one point covers the top three, with Ajax hosting Inter and Lyon visiting eliminated Rosenborg in the final round of games. In a meeting of the German and English champions, Arsenal went ahead through a Thierry Henry free kick after Dortmund had twice hit the post. A free kick by Tomas Rosicky was flicked past goalkeeper David Seaman by his own teammate, Brazilian World Cup star Gilberto Silva, and, after the veteran 'keeper had brought down Jan Koller, Rosicky netted the winner from the penalty spot. The result, the Gunners' fourth loss in a row in domestic and European action, put Dortmund top of the standings, with Arsenal second but still out of reach of Auxerre. Goals by Arnold Bruggink, Dennis Rommedahl and Arjen Robben gave PSV an easy win in Eindhoven. Valencia, a 2-0 winner over Liverpool six weeks ago, dominated the return at Anfield and scored the only goal through Francisco Rufete in the 34th minute. The result means that the Spanish champion is Group B winner and Liverpool has to see what happens next week between Spartak Moscow and FC Basel. That game was postponed by a week as a mark of respect to the victims of the Moscow theatre siege. Liverpool leads Basel by two points and the two teams meet in Switzerland for the second place on November 12. Real Madrid's slump continued with a home loss to Roma. After two ties in a row with AEK Athens and another domestic draw at home to Villareal on Saturday, coach Vicente del Bosque hoped that a star-studded lineup would bring some zest back into the team. But Totti returned after injury to net the winner after 26 minutes. Fortunately for Del Bosque, AEK's inability to beat Racing Genk meant his team squeezed into the last 16 at last. In the other Group C game, Wesley Sonck gave Genk a 22nd minute lead only for Vassilis Lakis to reply eight minutes later. AEK, held 0-0 at home by Roma a month ago, can capture second place by beating the Italians in Rome in two weeks' time. Italian league leader Inter cruised to a 3-0 victory over Norway's Rosenborg at San Siro with strikes by Uruguayan international Alvaro Recoba, a Janne Saarinen own goal and a third by Argentine forward Hernan Crespo. Ajax pulled level on points with goals by Steven Pienaar and Rafael van der Vaart but the Dutch stars had Christian Chivu sent off for a studs-first challenge on Tony Vairelles and the Romanian misses the game against Inter through suspension. (AP)
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The Serpent Sea (Vol. 2, The Books of the Raksura) (original 2012; edition 2012)
by Martha Wells
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The Serpent Sea by Martha Wells (2012)
I'm really enjoying this series. There's some very creative world-building and development of cultures for the various peoples in said world. Females among the Raksura are both leaders and stronger than males, so the books also really explore ideas of gender.
In this book, our main character Moon and his compatriots head back to their source tree to rebuild it as their home, but things don't quite go as expected. Moon remains a courageous, independent hero in the face of all that follows.
I think these would probably be classified as young adult lit, though I'm not sure. She's a good storyteller, and I love the characters she's created in these books. I'll keep reading the series. One of the interesting things about the series is the fun she's had messing with our "traditional western" concepts of gender and strength and vulnerability - I've really enjoyed that aspect of the story.
The Serpent Sea is the sequel to The Cloud Roads, which you should probably read first as an introduction to Wells' characters and world.
In The Cloud Roads, the court of Indigo Cloud set off to find their ancestral home. In The Serpent Sea, they've found it, a giant mountain tree more than capable of housing the entire court. Unfortunately, the heart seed of the tree has been stolen, leaving it rotting out slowly from the inside. Moon, Jade, and a few others will have to travel all the way to the Serpent Sea to retrieve the heart seed.
The Serpent Sea had a slow start and didn't really pick up until Moon and the others were actually at the Serpent Sea and going after the seed. Once they found the moving islands seen on the cover, I was hooked.
By far the best thing about the series is the vivid, imaginative world Wells has created. It's fantastical, alien, and often beautiful. The setting is breathtaking, and Wells populates it with a wide variety of otherworldly creatures, such as the Raksura, the protagonists. The Raksura are human enough in their thoughts and feelings to be relatable, but these scaled shapeshifters have a very different biology and social system that reminds me more of bees than anything else.
Moon's still trying to fit into Court life and feel like he belongs. He can't quite get over his past as a permanent outsider, and he's completely baffled as to the customs of the court and what's expected of him.
Characterization sometimes felt a bit thin. There were so many different Raksura that it could be hard to keep track of all of them. I felt like I had a good handle on who Moon, Jade, Stone, Pearl, and Chime were, but I had difficulty remembering all the others.
I will most certainly be returning to the world of the Raksura, and I'd recommend this series to anyone looking for highly original fantasy.
Originally posted on The Illustrated Page.
I definitely enjoyed this book, pretty much for the same reasons I liked nr. 1, The cloud roads: nice world, nice shapeshifters, nice characters. I particularly liked the Raksuran society, where no-one is less because they are female or male, or because they are Arbora or Raksuran, or because they are groundlings or not. So why not more than 3.5 stars? Well, the world is very different from our own, with many different species and habitats. I'm ok with some description where necessary for the story, or when it involves the new Raksuran home, where we can expect to spend quite some time. But on the quest Moon, Jade, Stone and some others undertake after arriving at their new home, there is just a bit too much of it. I liked the conversations and the discoveries, but when you describe loads of strange things, and only one of them is relevant, it distracts from the story. In the second half of the book, there are few long chase scenes, and again there is too much description of where which tunnel or hallway leads and where it ends up. I had some trouble picturing it, and in the end didn't read it as carefully anymore. That actually worked out fine, showing that the detail wasn't necessary. Despite all that, it was still a very nice book, and I love the Raksuran as a species. It's nice to find out about their society through Moon (who lived as a solitary since his childhood). I'll definitely read nr. 3!
In this book we will again have an opportunity to enjoy in descriptions of wonderful world that Martha Wells created.
Indigo Court is moving to a new location and of course there will be a couple of problems that will need to be fixed. But when Stone, Moon, Jade & other Raksura join forces you know that there is HEA lurking in the end. :)
My only complaint is that I felt this book a bit more stagnant than [b:The Cloud Roads|9461562|The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura, #1)|Martha Wells|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1317017378s/9461562.jpg|14346450], so we do not get to visit as much new places as before. (Yes, I am spoiled by previous book I admit it.)
Also the same can be said for relationship between Moon and Jade. I did not feel any new depth of feeling developing between them, as is normal for a couple.
But if we ignore this, the book was great. As before we have original and interesting world, species, customs... When will you have an opportunity to read a fantasy book where a main hero looks like this?
Moon by Jessica Peffer
I will definitely read the next book when it is published. :)
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Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for their colony. Moon finally feels like he's found a tribe where he belongs. But when the travelers reach the ancestral home of Indigo Cloud, shrouded within the trunk of a mountain-sized tree, they discover a blight infecting its core.… (more)
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Tila Tequila Died:Rumors are also flying that Tila Tequila is also dead but all the rumors are false she is not dead. The rumors are always false about the celebrities.
Casey Johnson the girl friend of Tila Tequila has died. She was the daughter of New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and was found dead on Monday. She was found dead in Los Angeles and the cause of her death is still not confirmed. Her body was discovered from her home.
Casey Johnson was 30 year old and the cause of her death is unknown but the investigations have started. Los Angeles Police Department Officer Sara Faden said that officers are conducting the investigations and the death seems to be natural one.
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On Saturday the largest WSEH team for years competed in the English Cross Country Relays at Berry Hill Park , Mansfield . For most of the 35 strong junior squad it was their first experience of this high quality event and they all rose to the occasion.
In similar fashion to the start of the season, the closing match for track and field fell to the Alder Valley Girls League with the Trophy & Plate Final held at Windsor, Slough, Eton & Hounslow AC's home track at TVAC, Eton. With near perfect conditions, uncharacteristic sunshine and little wind, the girls of WSEH rounded off the season by becoming Trophy Champions. Leading from the early stages of the match, WSEH kept local rivals Guildford & Godalming AC, Reading AC and Aldershot Farnham & District at bay throughout.
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The British Olympic Association (BOA) today selected the first draft of athletics (track and field) members of Team GB for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Amongst this first wave is World 400m Silver Medalist, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow AC's Nicola Sanders, selected for the 400m and 4x400m Relay and club HCA, Laura Turner, selected for the 100m and 4x100m Relay Team.
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Pinterest, then because I was up until two yesterday (or, today, I guess; it's Tuesday) writing about teen pregnancy as an issue that should have been discussed at Camp Half-Blood.
That's the sort of thing I can talk about: details. My dad said something to that effect when he read my philosophy final, like, "You watch too much TV." And he meant that as like, I watch too much TV, but also, I read WAY into the story.
Usually I just talk about fandom stuff with my best friend, but I could probably host some interesting discussions about stuff. I was thinking about making it a Saturday feature for the duration of the summer.
So, I have two questions. What do you think? Would me reading into random details sound cool?
And, two, what fandoms do we overlap on? These are mine, and I know that I can talk about them… Which ones would you like to listen about?
(Heads Up: The book part of the deal might not be as fluid as I'd like just because all of my books are packed up right now and it's hard to write stuff away from the source.)