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This thread dates back to 2004, BEFORE Canon installed the now ubiquitous "AF ON" button.
In those days, we used the * button.
Modern EOS starting with the 1D MkIII and 40D use the AF ON button instead with a lot of additional options.
This thread is a "Split" from the FAQ topic re: favorite custom functions;
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The Custom Functions Thread went a little bit O.T. with the subsequent discussion on the benifits and dislikes of using a particular Custom Function.
The debate over CF # 4 is certainly worth its own thread
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CF # 4 Get that focus control onto the * button ASAP
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Culture Feature: Navajo Shoe Game
Winter: the Season of hot chocolate and warm sweaters. It also happens that winter is the season of the Navajo Shoe Game. The Shoe Game is a game that is not played after early spring and not before November. The Shoe Game is when a small yucca plant is uprooted, the leaves are torn off, and the yucca root is fashioned into a ball. The yucca ball is then taken and hidden inside of a boot buried in the sand by one of the two teams. The opposing team will then send one member up to discover which boot the yucca ball is hidden in. This is done by striking the boots with a stick of a pinon pine and by asking the other team questions. Each team has a limit of three guesses. If one team guesses right the first time they will receive ten yucca leaves, if they guess it on the second time they will receive eight leaves, and if they guess it the final time they will receive four leaves. If the root is not discovered the team that hid the ball of yucca will re-hide it. The Shoe Game is typically played all night until sunrise.
The Navajo play the Shoe Game in remembrance of one of their legends. According to legend, night creatures and day creatures did not understand the importance of cycles in the universe. Each group either wanted it to be all day or all night. Because of this the first Shoe Game was played. The two groups of animals took turns hiding a yucca ball in four boots that were almost completely buried under the sand. A member from each group was send up to guess which boot the yucca ball was concealed in. Both groups played all night until the first rays of sunlight came up from the east. Neither of the teams had won and the animals learned that all seasons and cycles mattered.
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BL- "Balloon Rally started in 1981 and was started somewhat as um a challenge between some balloonists here in Gallup and in Farmington. Farmington was claiming they had the best place to fly and we believed we did. So 36 years later we're still running it and um they aren't. It was just a friendly competition that stayed for a while."
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You really captured the feel of the board, Teresa! Beautifully done!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card Teresa :-) the deer are so cute and the colours and details are fabulous. I love how you stapled the sentiment and added a star to the twine ! :-)ReplyDelete
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Your color scheme is breath-taking!! Love the deer scene that you created! Gorgeous card, Teresa!ReplyDelete
This is so pretty! I love this one!ReplyDelete
I love your frosty, rustic design! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
Cool design and I love the snowflake patterned paper :)ReplyDelete
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Such a stunning winter card!!! So pretty!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card Teresa!! Great design! Love your style! Have I told you this before? :) LOLReplyDelete
Loving your very pretty card. Those deer look so playful together.ReplyDelete
Wishing you a very happy Christmas.
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Thank you so much for your comments, they mean so much to me. Have a wonderful day! Teresa
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Midnight: Access my Del.icio.us bookmarks to find the name of the 'wakeup call' website I'd recently bookmarked.
12:02 a.m.: Set up a 7 a.m. wakeup call at http://www.wakerupper.com/
7:00 a.m.: Awake to the sound of my cell phone ringing... Upon answer, a mechanized voice reads back to me the message I'd posted 7 hours earlier.
7:10 a.m.: Load Camino web browser and with one click, open my 'Daily' bookmarks folder to read the news of the day.
7:20 a.m.: Quick check on Twitter to see who was up to what last evening...
8:00 a.m.: Early arrival at the workshop site provides me with time to a few recent skating photos from iPhoto to my Keynote presentation
8:10 a.m.: My district e-learning contact is not yet on site, so I decided to select a topic from my Xpad notebook and to record a quick little Podcast using Garageband
8:18 a.m.: Convert podcast to MP3 format in iTunes.
8:20 a.m.: Upload podcast to Libsyn and ping the iTunes server.
9:00 a.m.: Share Keynote presentation with workshop attendees (various 'photos of ice-skating', zamboni, shovel man... as a metaphor for e-learning).
9:15 a.m.: Open multiple tabs in Camino to highlight e-Learning tools in Ontario. Work with participants on course customization in their browser of choice: MS Explorer (yuck!)
10:30 a.m.: Highlight for participants how Flickr and Audacity can be used to create more memorable communications in the online course environment.
11:00 a.m.: Tweak 'how to' documents in ScreenSteps and send PDF versions to participants via First Class
11:45 a.m.: Check on my work mail for urgent messages via First Class
1:00 p.m.: Assist district ICT consultant in mini-workshop to tame Google Documents, and Wet Paint wikis as places to host online course materials. My take is that these tools can be leveraged by students for electronic portfolios.
1:30 p.m.: Assist district e-learning contact in enrolling students in courses by using an Excel spreadsheet (csv format)
1:45 p.m.: Phone Desire2Learn to investigate internal email issues in the learning management system.
2:00 p.m.: Partner with district ICT consultant to highlight how Google Analytics tracks web traffic (my RPT site has hits from 162 countries to date!)
2:30 p.m.: Review evening ice skating in Komoka movie created in iMovie and uploaded to blip.tv to complete the metaphor: "If you build it, they will come."
2:45 p.m.: Time to drive home... Catching up on my favourite CBC podcasts on the 2 hour drive
7:00 p.m.: Visit the recording of an Adobe Connect e-learning session on 'course customization' that I missed while driving home
7:20 p.m.: Open Flock to check on my 'network' of education bloggers, twitterers, and social learning networkers
7:40 p.m.: upload new links to my my Del.icio.us bookmarks
7:45 p.m.: type this blog entry in Flock
8:20 p.m.: upload blog entry to Blogger
There is nothing exceptional about this day... in most ways it is a mirror of my 'normal' working day. My exposure to multiple applications the past ten years or so make this seem all so natural and seemless. I'm sure that this is far from a 'normal' day for a teacher, but with the way my day flows, I rarely reflect on the apps I'm using. Then again, maybe I'm just a 'geek'?
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Best PC gaming deals of the week
Adventure games and Vault accessories
This is the second week in a row where we've been essentially spoilt for choice when it comes to PC download discounts around there on the wild, wild web. While I still haven't quite gotten over the excitement of Full Throttle Remastered being a month away, there's plenty still to check out here. Grim Fandango, anyone? Let's check out the best of this week.
As we tend to do most weeks, we've got deals that'll work in the UK, deals that'll work in the US and some deals that will work in both the UK and US, as well as presumably many other places. It's a small world after all. Let's get started.UK & US Deals
Telltale, known for narrative-heavy and weirdly cel-shaded adventure games is the subject of a sale this week over at the Humble Store. If you've missed out on games like The Walking Dead, Batman: The Telltale Series, The Wolf Among Us or Puzzle Agent, you can pick a few of them up now with a nice discount.
Batman: The Telltale Series for £11.39 / $14.99 / €13.79
The Walking Dead: Michonne for £2.74 / $3.74 / €3.74
Minecraft: Story Mode for £9.49 / $12.49 / €11.49
The Wolf Among Us for £4.74 / $6.24 / €5.74
Jurassic Park: The game for £2.99 / $3.99 / €3.99
You can find them all at the link below.
Telltale Games Week from Humble Store
Grim Fandango is one of the greatest adventure games ever made and if for no other reason, this Double Fine Sale over at GOG.com is absolutely worth taking a look at. You can get the remastered version for £2.09 / $2.48 / €2.39 and it's absolutely worth that. There are other games available too, conveniently timed after the announcement of Full Throttle Remastered's release date. Here are some highlights but feel free to head over to GOG and check out the range for yourself.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered for £3.69 / $4.53 / €4.29
Grim Fandango Remastered for £2.09 / $2.48 / €2.39
Broken Age for £3.79 / $4.71 / €4.49
Psychonauts for £1.69 / $1.99 / €1.89
Massive Chalice for £2.99 / $3.71 / €3.49
Steam's having itself a 2K publisher sale this weekend with a reported 'up to 85%' off some of the company's biggest titles. For those not keeping up with 2K specifically, this means Civilization 6 is down to £39.99, Mafia 3 is down to £11.54, XCOM 2 will cost you £13.99, Sid Meier's Pirates! Costs just £1.49 and, um, WWE 2K17 is available for £29.99. If that's your thing.
In case you missed it, this month's Humble Monthly big-deal game is Jonathan Blow's island puzzler The Witness. You'll get that, along with a stack of other PC games when you sign up to Humble's monthly subscription for $12 (around £10), which is rather nice. The folks at Humble say you can cancel at any time, too, in case that helps.
Humble Monthly with The Witness and more games for $12
US Deals
If you have yet to get your VR on in a big way but you're considering it seriously, you can grab a Vive right now from NewEgg and get a Radeon RX480 4GB graphics card for free. That is, as long as you order before Monday. That card is around a $185 value, too, so it ain't half bad as a freebie.
HTC Vive VR headset with free Radeon RX480 4GB graphics card for $799
PC accessories come in all shapes, sizes and styles. If your particular style choices lean towards eye-burningly bright blue, you may want to pick up a Fallout 4 themed SteelSeries gaming mouse or Siberia headset while they're on a clearance sale at the Bethesda Store. The mouse will set you back $20 (down from around $70) and the headset costs $30, down from $115.
Fallout 4 Vault 111 SteelSeries gaming mouse for $19.99 from Bethesda Store
Fallout 4 Vault 111 SteelSeries Siberia headset for $29.99 from Bethesda Store
With that, we're done for another week. Keep in mind that deals, prices and availability can change at the drop of a hat, so apologies if you miss out on something you wanted. I'll be over at Jelly Deals, scouring the world wide web for more deals. Feel free to visit, or follow us on Twitter and give us a like on Facebook.
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Coming to theaters this week are two movies. The movies are The Gunman and Insurgent.
The Gunman:
Here's a synopsis for The Gunman provided by IMDB.
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Here's a synopsis for Insurgent provided by IMDB.
[quote]Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.[/quote]
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Winters been long and without a shop, or a job to keep me busy I have had a lot of time to revisit all the woodworking magazine and books that I own. not to long ago on one of my sleepless night I ran across a article in a Fine Woodworking book on Proven Shop Tips by Jim Richey based on their methods of work section of their magazine. It was an article on a home made wooden scraper plane by Brady C Blake from Redwood Miss, and based on his ideas I came up with a version of my own,
I plan on using one of my old scrapers on its side, so the plane body will need be 3″ wide to accommodate the 2 1/2 " scraper blade. I laminated it out of two pieces of 1 3/4″ maple scrap that I have been saving just for such an occasion. I first cut two chunks wood to 3″ by 12″ and cleaned them up with my favorite #4 plane, and then glued them up in to a blank, then I sliced two 3/8″ pieces off of each side.
The front of the throat needs to be cut at a 45 degree angle with a small 45 cut at the bottom, this is a exit for shavings. then a conclave that is about 1/32 for the 2 1/2″ width, needs to rasped into the block, the wedge needs to match this conclave. this will bow the scraper blade and that is what makes it cut. the rear section of the throat is cut at 30 degree.
The blade needs to ground on a 45 degree, and honed as you would a plane iron.
The rest is just shaping the plane so it is comfortable to use and pleasant to look at, I thought about putting a handle on it, but I really think just a rounding it over will be comfortable to use. if not I can upgrade on my next one.
I use a scraper a lot and I am really looking forward to finishing and using this plane. I have been looking for a scraper plane for some time at the flea markets, not wanting to pay the $200 for one of the high end ones on the market, although it would be the one plane I think I would get my money out of.


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I'm a human who grew up near Philadelphia, PA, played sports and did well in school, hates that JFK, MLK, and RFK were assassinated, and had a Civil War fascination that nearly ruined my high school experience.
In 1988, I came to Penn State as a Political Science major with the goal of becoming a lawyer and director of political campaigns. Two years later I took an Introduction to typography class and realized I'd been a graphic designer my entire life without even knowing it.
So far, my career has spanned almost 25 years, and I've helped solve diverse design problems for equally diverse clients in many different mediums. My early career was about museum and information design as well as corporate identity and publications. For several years I was the founder and owner of a design studio working for public institutions and internet/technology startups. The bulk of my experience has been at both Nike Inc. and Converse, where I currently work as the Vice President of Global Brand Design.
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January 2008
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March 2008
- March 14: NISO Digital Preservation Forum: Planning Today for Tomorrow's Resources
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May 2008
- May 5-6: Digital Resources: Working with Formats Beyond Serials (San Francisco, CA)
- In the information community, a great deal of focus has been on the more traditional journal, yet creators, libraries, and users today are working with content ranging from e-books to audio and beyond.
- May 31: Bridging the Gap Between Publishers and Libraries: Standards to Help Manage Licenses and Use NISO/BISG Program at BookExpo America (BEA) (Los Angeles, CA)
- This session will include updates on the Shared E-Resources Understanding (SERU), the ONIX system for Publication Licenses (ONIX-PL), the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP), and the Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI).
Presentations available here.
June 2008
- June 4: Metadata in a Digital Age: New Models of Creation, Discovery, and Use -- NISO One-Day Pre-Conference at NASIG (Phoenix, AZ)
- This session will discuss the role that metadata plays in the lifecycle of content, from publisher to end user, including looking at the shifting bibliographic supply chain, various needs that metadata answers, and questions around exchange processes and how different metadata is used.
- June 18: NISO/ALCTS Webinar: Demystifying Library Standards
- 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
- The first in a series of webinars on standards in the library environment, this overview session will place standards in context.
- June 27-30: NISO at ALA Annual Conference (Anaheim, CA)
- Friday, June 27: NISO/BISG Forum: The Changing Standards Landscape (Anaheim, CA)
- Friday, June 27: AVIAC Meeting
- Sunday, June 29: NISO Update
- Monday, June 30: Z39.7 Advisory Committee Meeting
August 2008
- NISO Webinar
August 21, 2008 - 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (eastern)
OpenURL Implementation: Link Resolution That Users Will Love
- Phil Norman
Director Reference & Resource Sharing, Enterprise Development and Engineering, OCLC, and member of the OCLC Maintenance Advisory Group for the OpenURL standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.88 - 2004 / http://www.niso.org/standards/z39-88-2004/)
- Peter McCracken
Co-founder and Director of Research, Serials Solutions, and Co-Chair of the NISO/UKSG KBART Working Group
- Phil Norman
September 2008
- NISO Webinar
September 10, 2008 - 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (eastern time)
ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL): Simplifying License Expression
- Jeff Aipperspach
Senior Product Manager, Serials Solutions
- Rick Burke
Executive Director, The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)
- Alicia Wise
Chief Executive , Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) and
Chair, NISO ONIX-PL Working Group
- Jeff Aipperspach
International Conference 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
16:00 - 17:30 p.m. (BST)
Journal Industry Updates (A)
This session will provide updates on a number of important industry initiatives in journal publishing. Track A (chaired by John Cox) looks at licensing and legal issues, while Track B (chaired by Louise Tutton) examines initiatives of a more technical nature.
- Track A:
- SERU - Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (Todd Carpenter, Managing Director, NISO)
- ACAP - the Automated Content Access Protocol (Jens Bammel, Secretary General, IPA)
- Track B:
- Project Transfer (Ed Pentz, Executive Director, CrossRef)
- Journal Article Versions (Todd Carpenter, Managing Director,
October 2008
- NISO Webinar
October 2, 2008 - 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (eastern time)
SUSHI: Beyond Trial Into Real Use
- Adam Chandler
Coordinator, Service Design Group, Cornell University Library, and
Co-Chair, SUSHI Maintenance Advisory Group
- Hana Levay
Information Resources Librarian, Collection Management Services, University of Washington Libraries
- Adam Chandler
- October 6-7, 2008: Collaborative Library Resource Sharing:
Standards, Developments, and New Models for Cooperating
Atlanta, GA
- October 29, 2008
NISO Webinar:
Identifiers for Institutions, Public Identities, and Researchers
- Introduction: Helen Henderson, Managing Director, Ringgold, Ltd.
- Institutional Identifiers
Grace Agnew, Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers University Libraries, Co-chair, NISO Institutional Identifiers Working Group
Tina Feick, Director of Sales and Marketing, North America, Harrassowitz, Co-chair, NISO Institutional Identifiers Working Group
- Researcher ID
Reynold Guida, Director, Product Development, Thomson Reuters
Ellen Rotenberg, Manager, Product Development, Thomson Reuters
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
Angela D'Agostino, Senior Vice President, Business Development, R.R. Bowker
Andy Weissberg, GM, Identifier Services, R.R. Bowker
November 2008
- November 14, 2008
NISO Webinar: Performance Measures
- Johan Bollen
Staff Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
- Dianne L. Carty
Head of State Aid & Data Coordination Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
- Johan Bollen
December 2008
- December 11, 2008
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
NISO Webinar: ONIX for Serials: Case Studies of Use
- Tim Devenport
Nature Publishing Group
- Jerry Ward
ProQuest Platform Product Manager, ProQuest
- William Hoffman
Information Architect, Swets Information Services


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Please be in prayer for our churches in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
As you may have heard p.Matti speak on Grace Hour of the violence and ethnic conflict on the Uzbek and Kyrgyz border; please continue to keep our churches in both countries in prayer as the conflict could easily spread into the regions where we have our churches. At present our people there know people that have died and lost loved ones in the violence. In Osh and Jalalabad where the conflict has been we hold contacts.
One article states today that Roza Otunbayeva, Kyrgyzstan's interim leader, says the death toll from ethnic clashes in the country's south could reach 2000, manifold higher than the official figure of 200. 1 million people have been affected in the region and 400,000 are now with out homes. 100,000 ethnic Uzbeks have fled from Kyrgyzstan acroos the border into Uzbekistan. Her comments on Friday came shortly before she visited Osh, the southern city wracked by clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks over the last few days. "I would multiply by 10 times the official figures," she told the Russian daily Kommersant - "Because there were very many deaths in the countryside, and our customs dictate that we bury our dead right away, before sunset."
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Nov 17 - U.S. President Barack Obama says U.S. military will expand its role in the Asia-Pacific during his address at the Australian parliament. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Thursday (November 17) that the U.S. military would expand its role in the Asia-Pacific, despite budget cuts, declaring America was "here to stay" as a Pacific power to help shape the region's future. "As we end today's wars, I have directed my national security team to make our presence and mission in the Asia Pacific a top priority. As a result, reductions in U.S. defence spending will not, I repeat, will not come at the expense of the Asia Pacific," he said. The U.S. military, turning its focus away from Iraq and Afghanistan, would be more broadly distributed in Asia, particularly Southeast Asia, more flexible and would help build regional capacity, Obama told the Australian parliament. "The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay. Indeed, we are already modernising America's defence posture across the Asia Pacific. It will be more broadly distributed, maintaining our strong presence in Japan and the Korean peninsula, while enhancing our presence in South-East Asia," he said. The winding down of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has opened the door to greater U.S. attention to simmering tension over the South China Sea, a shipping lane for more than $5 trillion in annual trade that the United States wants to keep open.


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Hello Reader!
Thank you so much for visiting. My name is Selene Castrovilla and I'm pleased to offer you three gifts:
- My novel SAVED BY THE MUSIC in its entirety.
- The opening of my novel MELT.
- And an exclusive peek at the sequel to MELT: SIGNS OF LIFE!
SAVED BY THE MUSIC was a both a painful labor, and a labor love. It's about me, raw and unfiltered, when I was a teen. It's something I fought to keep inside because I felt if I let it out it would kill me, until my thesis advisor at THE NEW SCHOOL said, "Keeping it inside is killing you."
She was right.
Below, please find a synopsis, and an interview Embracing The Child did with me when the book was released:
Saved By The Music
Publisher: ASD Publishing
Publication Date: May 13, 2013
(WestSide Books, 2009)
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ETC: Your story begins with fifteen-year-old Willow sent off to spend the summer with her free-spirited aunt in a boatyard, on a barge. How did you come up with such a unique setting?
Castrovilla: I can't take credit for creating the setting – I lived in it. When I was a child I helped my aunt Olga Bloom transform a dilapidated coffee barge into a floating concert hall. It's called Bargemusic, and it's been offering concerts for more than thirty years. I used this metamorphosis as the premise for my book.Selene Castrovilla
ETC: So is it fair to say that the relationship between Willow and Aunt Agatha is true?
Castrovilla: Yes. While the story is fictionalized, that portrayal is dead-on. People who know us comment on how accurate our voices are. Among other things, this book is a testament to the relationship which taught me that anything is possible if you believe in it and are willing to follow it through. I wouldn't be the writer or the person I am if not for my experiences with Aunt Olga.
ETC: What else is this book about?
Castrovilla: It's primarily a coming of age story, about Willow's struggle to fit in. When Willow meets two boys – one mysterious, one an obvious "bad boy" – and she makes the choices that she does, teen readers will see that there's far reaching consequences to the decisions they rush into, and maybe a boy's attention isn't as vital as their own self-esteem.
ETC: Axel, the mysterious boy you mention, lives alone on a sailboat and has some major issues. Combining these with Willow's problems, would you say this book is issue-driven?
Castrovilla: No. The issues are there but they don't pound you over the head. The book is character-driven, and the issues are factors which affect characters and hence the story. It's not the issues which are paramount, but rather, it's the characters' reactions to these issues which builds tension and keeps readers turning pages. Literarily speaking, the issues are practically interchangeable, because what's necessary is to see a character under duress and how they handle that stress – and pretty much any issue will do.
ETC: What do you want teens to take away from this book?
Castrovilla: Teens tend to live in a dark bubble of solitude. Often, they think they're alone, and that no one else could possibly feel the same way. It's hard for them to see past their problems – everything's the end of the world. Ultimately, this book is about two teens who discover that they're not alone at being alone – and that life's not so dark after all.
ETC: What do you most want to tell people that no one has ever asked?
Castrovilla: Writers write for themselves, and any accolades they receive are a bonus. I've gotten great reviews which of course I appreciate, but the best feeling comes when I hear from teens about how much the book affected them. I have a fifteen year old son who is an honor student, but also what I would call a reluctant reader, because if he doesn't like a book he'll be quite reluctant to read it. When he read the first chapter of SAVED he called me and said, "Wow, Mom, I'm impressed. I had no idea you had this in you." When he finished he told me, "Anyone who reads this book is going to fall in love with it." That was the greatest reward I could get.
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My novel MELT came to me at a time when I was frustrated with EVERYTHING, and I was taking boxing lessons. One day my boxing coach looked me in the eye and told me, "My dad used to come home every day and shove a gun down my mom's throat in front of me."
Thus, MELT was born.
MELT (Rough Romance #1)
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Told in dual first person, Joey's words are scattered on the page – reflecting his broken state. Dorothy is the voice of reason – until something so shattering happens that she, too, may lose her grip. Can their love endure, or will it melt away?
Melt is based on true events. It is both a chilling tale of abuse, and a timeless romance. It will hit you like a punch in the face, and also seep through the cracks in your soul.
Here are some editorial review quotes:
"A fresh, emotionally complex bildungsroman of young American love that looks long and hard at violence, and at what can overcome it." — Kirkus Reviews
"Poignant, moving, and riveting, the narrative switches seamlessly between both of their perspectives, capturing the angst of adolescence and young adulthood, while handling a heavy thematic element with incredible verisimilitude." — IndieReader
"[Selene Castrovilla] is a writer to watch." — Jacqueline Woodson, author, Brown Girl Dreaming
"Raw, lyrical, and darkly humorous—and uncompromisingly honest—Selene Castrovilla's work is poetry and prose combined to the utmost. This is a writer to watch out for." — Daniel Ehrenhaft, author, The Last Dog on Earth
"Melt is evocative, emotional, vivid, and powerful. Beautiful, painful, and ultimately healing, Melt is a gripping read that will make you feel and care about the characters." — Cheryl Rainfield, author, Scars
I am most proud of the reader response for MELT, which has touched hearts far and beyond what I'd dared hope. Check it out on Goodreads, and you'll see what I mean.
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Leading up to the release of MELT, I wrote a series of Meltdown blog posts where I shared tidbits of "insider information" about MELT: its content, its inspiration and my writing process creating it. You can start at the beginning, here, and then click the "next post" button at the bottom to click through the posts. Or if order doesn't bother you, you can see all the Meltdown tagged posts here. Enjoy!
Reader response has also lead me to the sequel: SIGNS OF LIFE. I thought I had nothing more to say about Joey & Dorothy. I was wrong. Click on the cover for SIGNS OF LIFE (Rough Romance #2), below to read the synopsis and another opportunity to download the sneak peek! WARNING: If you haven't read MELT yet, you may want to wait as there are spoilers!
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The SF K Files is a place for parents who are seeking a school in San Francisco. The site offers up reviews of public, private and charter schools, as well as lots of advice and opinions from the community.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
How Can You Tell If the Staff Is Going to Give up on Your Special Ed Kid?
This episode crystallizes for us our worry about what might happen to Ben in a middle school. Either the teacher and para were incredibly poorly trained or had given up on those kids. Now it is possible that they were worried about a defiant response from some of the kids (these are middle schoolers after all) and didn't want to have something negative happen in front of parents. But I'm afraid it is emblematic to us of how staff at a middle school might end up giving up on special kids like our Ben. Middle schools are dealing with an array of kids who come in with all sorts of issues. They've got discipline problems, kids coming from troubled backgrounds, and then they've got special ed kids. (And, yes, some of the special ed kids are discipline problems and come from troubled backgrounds.) And then they've got non-special ed kids who they are also trying to teach. To us, it just seems like a situation where some kid is going to fall through the cracks.
It seems to us most likely that this could happen in one of the larger public middle schools. Of course, it is entirely possible that there will be teachers and paras at smaller-grade K-8's or charter middle schools who will behave similarly. We could opt for special day classes, but, at this point, we really feel Ben can function in a regular class and want to keep him mainstreamed. Private schools that specialize in kids with learning issues are not an option because financially we really cannot go the private school route.
So, we are now kind of lost as to what we should be looking for to find a middle school for our kid. We can't interview each and every teacher and para. So I'd like to ask if parents out there could help us come up with "markers" or traits of what a good public middle school for a special ed kid should look like to help us in our search. Should we be interviewing the administrators and special ed teachers and, if so, what should we be asking them? Is it better for a special ed kid to go to a school that separates out honors students from gen ed students or not? Does class size matter -- is it better for a special ed kid to be in a class with 25 versus one with 33-35? Does grade size matter or is there really no practical difference between a middle school with grade sizes of 100 or so versus 400 or so?
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- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 11:38 AM
How hard is it, really, to simply hand out some papers and pencils?ReplyDelete
I realize you are talking about kids who are in special ed, but it really doesn't matter.
The teacher and the para professional should be warned, and then next time, walked out.
But of course, with the union, this teacher has no fear (and clearly no love for her students.)
This must go on everyday.
If you are a teacher who is doing something like this, please exit the profession. Find another job.
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 12:34 PM
Don't think this is limited to special ed. After 3 years in one of the larger MS, I'm really wondering if we did the right thing for our older kid (the younger one is sailing through.)ReplyDelete
Interesting about taking notes: No one taught my 8th grader how to do this. Seems to be hit or miss if teachers do it at our school. My younger kid hasn't had any instruction but a friend of hers could tell me in great detail the mechanics of Cornell notes - which neither the 8th or the 6th grader had ever even heard of.
I sympathize with you in your search.
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM
I don't think your concern is limited to a Special ED kid. There are engaged teachers who do a great job and there are poor ones. Talk to as many parents as you can about the schools you are interested in and go with your gut.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 1:43 PM
Ugh. Sounds like Giannini.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 1:55 PM
If I saw what you desctibed I would go straight to the principal and let her know what I had observed. I would write a complaint letter to the district and ask to speak with the assigned assistant superintendent.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 3:45 PM
"If you are a teacher who is doing something like this, please exit the profession. Find another job."ReplyDelete
If you are a teacher that is NOT doing this - stand up to your union!! Tell them you want bad teachers fired. Tell them you want an expedited process to evaluate and remove poor performing teachers. The bad teachers are making you all look bad.
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 4:16 PM
Hi Joseph, I think that I was on the same tour with you this Monday at James Lick, where the male para seemed to be hoovering over two boys in the back of the room (hoovering, and not really assisting), and also walking up the aisle to hoover near some other boys. Present, but absent, if you know what I mean. As you said, some of these boys did not have paper, pencil, or even have the text book for the assignment!ReplyDelete
I tried to rationalize why they were allowed to sit there, with nothing to do but be disruptive. Did they forget their books again for the 15th time (oh Lordy) and was this was some sort of "punishment" so that they would remember tomorrow? Whatever the reason, the teacher should have provided pencil and paper. She could have loaned a book or asked some of the students to double up with a neighbor--the desk layout would have permitted sharing.
I am crossing Lick off my list.
Signed: Another parent in search of a middle school.
- devil's advocateOctober 20, 2010 at 5:10 PM
I'm not sure if it makes sense to write off an entire school based on the behavior of one incompetent para.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM
I have to timidly point out that it's at least possible that there's some reason that certain kids were left alone when they didn't get with the paper and pencil program. I can't even speculate on what that might be, but on the other hand, could a stranger helicoptering into the class really have full knowledge of each student's situation?ReplyDelete
Also, you honestly have no idea how disruptive it can be when a batch of strangers come in to watch a class -- quite likely more so with disabled kids.
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM
"it's at least possible that there's some reason that certain kids were left alone when they didn't get with the paper and pencil program"ReplyDelete
Perhaps. But as a teacher, I can't think of a decent pedagogical rationale for it: you screwed up, therefore you don't get to learn? It's what we all fear -- our kid being warehoused, whether for a period or for the duration of their education -- and special ed and learning-disabled kids are especially vulnerable. I say go with your gut on this one.
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2010 at 9:29 AM
I haven't been in your shoes. But I think I would ask the principal of each school I was considering for the names of parents of several kids who have special ed needs and are in the regular classes. I would talk to as many of them as would talk to me. And then I would talk to the person in charge of special ed at each school and ask some specific questions about specific scenarios. A lot of work, I know.ReplyDelete
Best of luck. I will be thinking about you and Ben and hope this develops very well.
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM
This is why our friends with a special needs child have back-burnered (though not completely abandoned) their careers to be sure they can spend at least 2 days a week in the classroom. You can fight and litigate to get your plan, but it's an ongoing struggle to be sure it's implemented on a regular basis. Hope you have a better experience than they have had.ReplyDelete
This problem is not limited to special needs kids. Our unassertive kid was pretty much ignored in a highly-ranked middle school.
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Sending your child to a smaller school with give you more information about the paras. Have you looked into Rooftop? I am the SPED staff person who commented earlier that you should be able to get a school named in your transition to middle school IEP (which the school should hold for you). You should also be able to write in during exactly what activities and times of day (such as: lunch recess, small group activities involving language skills, or PE) you child should get inclusion support.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 26, 2010 at 9:22 AM
There must be private programs that offer financial aid?ReplyDelete


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Most of these copies of Runescape will have edited codes, so you will be able to do insane things, such as walking through walls. They will usually have a faster rate of experience points, easier levels, cheap weapons, and so on. This is useful for a lot of thieves, because they can take pictures of their players with dragon on in Moparscape and claim them to be real, and then try to sell them to people. Which breaks rule 6, no account sharing or trading. This is a great rule; it protects a lot of members from buying stolen accounts, and loosing their accounts to the ones they share to.
Another term for these hacked versions of Runescape is Runescape Private Servers. Keep in mind that no matter what they say, these are not linked with the real Runescape in any way. Jagex is suing the makers of every copy they find, but there are thousands, and a lot of them are not online all the time, as they are ran off of someone's computer. Jagex wants these gone for many reasons, one being that a lot of these so called "Moparscape Downloads" are really just keyloggers.
Keyloggers are a type of computer virus that will "log" they keys you type and send them to the creator. Therefore, if you were to get one and type your Runescape username and password, they would instantly have it, and be able to hack your account. These are very dangerous, as they can get things like your credit card information. It really is not worth the effort of going out and risking getting a virus, just to use an illegal program. If you still think it is worth the risk, a simple Google search will do the trick.
So why are these illegal copies so full of people? Perhaps because they can have all the things they cannot in the real Runescape. So basically, Moparscape is for lazy people who wont work in the real Runescape. Think about it, level 126 with all stats 99, is it any fun? Sure, you will have a few minutes enjoying doing things, but everything is already maxed out! You cannot go PKing, because everyone else is the exactly the same. There is no point in getting money, because all the items are already there! In these copies, there is no point in playing. Personally, I have never even been on a Moparscape server, because to me, it looked boring. Why would I want to go to an illegal rip off of Runescape to have everything, when I can get it from hard work in the real thing? Its not like you can show off to noobs there, because everyone has the exact same thing. How to make moparscape servers?