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The overnight hostage crisis at a café in Dhaka ended on Saturday morning after an hour-long operation by armed forces' commandos.
The crisis begun around 8:45pm on Friday at the Holey Artisan Bakery and O Kitchen at Road No. 79 of Gulshan-2 when around men, armed with firearms and bombs, raided the cafe that is popular with foreigners.
With around 20-22 guests, including foreigners, trapped inside, police moved in soon. But they pulled back after two officers – DB's Assistant Commissioner Robiul Karim and Banani police OC Salahuddin - were killed in the first exchange of fire.
After that, law enforcement agencies had sealed off the area.
After waiting through the night, following directives from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, armed forces joined RAB and police in the morning to launch the final assault.
Then they chalked out the raid, 'Operation Thunderbolt', with the other security agencies.
Around 7:40am, security forces stormed the cafe in the Gulshan diplomatic zone and several hostages were rescued minutes after the offencive began, a witness told bdnews24.com.
Heavy firing and explosions continued for at least an hour after the operation had begun to free the hostages.
A witness who saw the assault from an adjacent building said army men in two armoured personnel carriers (APCs) tore down the wall of the café and the commandos galloped into the cafe through the breach.
More than 1,000 rounds were fired and nearly 1000 explosions were reported in the 30 minutes of the raid.
A resident at a building, just 50 yards from the scene reported spotting snipers on the roof of another building, firing from their guns.
At a media call later in the afternoon, Bangladesh Army's Brig Gen Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury said that 'Operation Thunderbolt' ended around 8:30am.
He said they had found 20 bodies of foreign citizens, but did not disclose their identities. He said all of them were murdered late Friday night using sharp weapons.
Chowdhury, director of military operations at the Bangladesh Army, said that 13 people, including a Japanese and two Sri Lankans, were rescued from the restaurant.
The commandos took less than 15 minutes to complete the operation. "Within 12 to 13 minutes our men were able to take out the terrorists and took total control," he said.
Brig Chowdhury said that there were seven attackers, one of whom was captured alive, and the rest were killed during the assault.
Earlier, around 9pm, RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed was seen talking to security personnel outside the restaurant, which was heavily damaged.
Officials of different security agencies were seen moving around the lawn of the café. Fire-fighters were seen rushing to the spot with extinguishers and hosepipes, but no fire could be spotted.
A medical team was also seen rushing to the scene with stretchers.
After a while, a loud bang rocked the area, but the security personnel in the café were indifferent to it, suggesting these were controlled explosions of the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) recovered at the scene.
Around the same time, members of different forces who had taken position in different buildings in the area before and during the raid came out and were seen embracing each other.
Blood was seen in front of the gate of the café's main building when security officials were leaving it. A police official was shot in that spot Friday night.
A little later, RAB media wing's Assistant Director Mizanur Rahman confirmed bdnews24.com of the conclusion of the raid, saying: "The operation has ended."
Army men, RAB personnel, members of the bomb disposal unit, staff of Holey Artisan Bakery and O Kitchen were also seen standing in the lawn of the café.
Around 9:40am, another loud bang was heard as the bomb disposal unit continued to explode the seized bombs in controlled environment.
After the raid ended, several youths, who appeared to be handcuffed, were seen lying in the garage of a high-rise building beside the café. But they could not be identified.
Since 8:15am, hostages, including women and children, were seen rushing out of the eatery one after another. They were taken to hospitals in ambulances right away.
After the operation, IGP AKM Shahidul Hoque said that 18 people had been rescued alive. But he left without answering how many died.
However, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said at a programme later in the morning that 13 hostages had been rescued alive.
She added that one of the seven gunmen was captured alive and the rest were killed during the raid.
Calling the incident a 'militant attack', Hasina said, "We have rescued 13 people alive, but some have been killed. Some of the injured have been admitted to CMH (Combined Military Hospital)."
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Amazing inground fully tiled pool with spa and amazing views.
Glass fenced for safety with bluestone decking.
A true beach house that caters for two family's with 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
Our beach house does not allow for parties/ events or functions ever !.
Sorrento Avenue is only for the paying 14 guests who reside for their Stayz booking.
Additional costs
- to heat the spa for a weekend is $120, for 5 days midweek $300.
- to heat the pool for a weekend is $500, a week $990 however there is very effective solar heating when the sun shines.
- Bedlinen dressed on all beds along with bath towels can be hired for an additional $350 so no laundry after your stay !!
MASTER 1 : Located upstairs, the master bedroom has a stunning view to wake up to each morning. It has a private balcony. adjoining walk-in robe and freshly renovated ensuite. This room has a queen sized, TV and a split system air conditioner..
MASTER 2: Separate to the main home, the second master bedroom is accessed from the ground level deck. It features a King sized bed and luxuriuosly appointed ensuite with a large double ended bath. A new flat screen TV is mounted on the wall and this room is super quiet with double glazed windows.
BED 3: A large bedroom with a queen sized bed and built in robes. There's heaps of room for all your gear and the room has quite a nice outlook over the valley toward the Sorrento back beach.
BED 4: located upstairs, the fourth bedroom has another queen sized bed and built in robes with plenty of wardrobe space. This room is currently also set up with a porta-cot.
BED 5/RUMPUS: This very large bedroom is currently set up as a rumpus/TV games room with two sets of bunks (bottom double bed, top KS single and trundle single bed and a king single top & bottom). There is also a TV with DVD player, Wii and a couch. There is a separate external sliding door out to the garden along with the internal access. A porta-cot is permanently set up for guests use and may be moved to any room. Please be aware that whilst there are beds for 14 people the dining table is only set up for 10 - additional outdoor dining chairs can be used inside.
The property is centrally located in a quiet no-through road in Sorrento. The views from the newly renovated decking toward the back beach dunes are a fantastic place for sunset cocktails. There is plenty of room for off-street parking (room for up to 8 cars). The property is fully fenced with large steel "rusty" gates to give you peace of mind if you have small children or pets. There is also an outdoor shower which is always popular after a day at the beach and a "webber" BBQ.
Indoors there are 2 large living zones (main living room and rumpus/bedroom 5). Downstairs is an open plan Kitchen/Dining/Living area together with a breakfast bar with stools. There is a large wall mounted 50 inch LCD TV, DVD/Blue ray player, Stereo system, wood heater, double glazed windows, split system air conditioning, ceiling fan and comfortable lounge suites. The recycled dining table seats 10. This room has a lovely outlook over the large deck toward the back beach.
Also located on the same level down a short hallway is the family bathroom with shower, bath and toilet. This is adjacent to the generously sized Rumpus room/Bedroom 5.
The kitchen is appointed with electric hot plates, dishwasher, coffee machine, 90cm oven, SMEG fridge and second retro beverage fridge. The laundry has a front loading washing machine and dryer.
Happy for you to email me directly on any questions on the beach house :)
The property is the perfect place to get away from it all yet still have everything on your doorstep.
Sorrento oval - 5 minute walk
Sorrento Shops - 8 minute walk
Bay Beach - 10 minute walk
Ocean Beach/"Coppins lookout" - 10 minute walk
Sorrento Hotel - 12 minute walk
Sorrento "wooden park"-12 minute walk
Well trained dogs only are welcome with prior permission of the owner. Smokers are respectfully asked not to smoke inside the house and to thoughtfully dispose of cigarette butts.
LINEN: Linen is not included. Most guests bring their own linen (including sheets, pillow cases, tea towels), however a linen hire service is also available. Expect to pay around $350 to cover the linen needs for all guests. All beds come with doonas and pillows.
HOUSECLEANING: As with all private holiday homes guests are expected to leave the house clean and tidy as per your arrival. Excess cleaning will be deducted from your bond at the rate of $75 per hour.
GARBAGE: Garbage is a big problem with guests particularly in peak periods. Excess rubbish must be taken with you or contact us to arrange for excess garbage to be taken away. As a courtesy to the owners and next guests please do not vacate without taking care of excess rubbish. Bins are to be left on the curb Sunday night for a Monday morning collection. Note: A garbage hopper is located at the end of Normanby Road, Sorrento (open 10 am to 4 pm every day from December 26 to January 31 and for the rest of the year, Saturdays and Sundays only). Alternatively, excess rubbish can be taken to the tip at Truemans Road, Rye (open 8 am to 4pm Monday to Friday and 8 am to 5 pm Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays).
No SCHOOLIES sorry
NO PARTY CLAUSE: We welcome groups of friends to the house and hope that you enjoy your stay however we do not permit the use of the house for parties and functions only the 14 paying guests, no visitors.

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Not exactly starting off on a good note as this post was meant to come out yesterday but I was Easter hosting so forgive me please. I'll try not to let it happen again.
I hope you all had an amazing Easter and remember the reason for the season. So in the spirit of Easter and new beginnings, I thought I'd take it back to the basics and reintroduce myself in a less normal way, because I'm not exactly the most normal person which you may have guessed by now haha.
So here are 12 random facts about me…
I didn't star talking until I was about four…
As much as I talk this is probably hard to believe but it's very much true lol. Apparently I didn't say a word but I would act out A LOT (I was even banned from the doctor's surgery, the doctor would have to do home visits because of my terrible behaviour…). Because I couldn't express myself verbally, the only other option was to be physical I guess…. My mum got so worried and started taking me to speech therapists for help when I was around four and before we got deep into the sessions, I just started talking, so she says. I was the best behaved child from then on, well until I hit my teens that is…
I hate avocado
I just can't fathom why anyone would find it tasty. I actually find it repulsive, like I can't even sit next to anyone eating avocado. I hate the smell and the texture. I've been called strange for this on many occasions but yeah, I hate avocado.
My guilty pleasure is trash Reality TV
Not sure whether this will come as a surprise to anyone but in my downtime I LOVE watching trash television. Real Housewives of Atlanta and Potomac, Basketball Wives LA, Married to Medicine, Love and Hip Hop New York, Atlanta and Hollywood, I love them all. I'm judging them as I'm watching them but I should probably judge myself more for watching it lol.
I ORiginate from Ogoni, Rivers state, Nigeria
Yes I had to add Nigeria as not all of my readers are Nigerian so may not know where Rivers state is. So I was born and raised in London but both parents are from the oil rich land of Ogoni. (Never heard of it? Think Ken Saro Wiwa and footballer Joseph Yobo…). I first visited Nigeria when I was 10 years old and my mum made it her mission for us to make annual trips home to get me more familiarised with my culture and people. Guess it worked. But that brings me to my next point…
I can't speak my mother tongue
Didn't really see this as a problem until I first visited Nigeria when I was 10. We only spoke English at home, my mother didn't speak any other language to me so of course I won't magically start speaking this language that I've never been taught. But with the help of my grandma, who wasn't amused at all, I can hear quite a bit of my mother tongue now (which is Khana, sorry should have said that earlier lol). She made it her mission to get me to understand it. I can string a few sentences together, sounds funny with my British accent so I don't bother, but most importantly I can understand most of the language now. So they can't insult me or talk about me in front of me without me knowing even though some still try…) so yayyy me!
I've never been fired
That's a good thing right? lol. I've always been the one to resign and never on a bad note thankfully…apart from one occasion which shall not be talked about hehe. That's a story for another day maybe.
I'm an only child
If you're not new to the blog then you probably know this. If you are then have a read of my post on life as an only child.
i have a huge fear for needles
Of course I know I'm not alone here but I still think my case is special. Needles are literally my worst nightmare. I have to be super ill before I get any sort of injection. It's this same fear that's stopped me from getting a tattoo, something I've always wanted to do lol. I don't even know how I got my multiple ear piercings. I'm better than I was like five years ago but I still get freaked out at the sight of a needle.
I'm not a big fan of EVERyday casual phone calls
I don't mind the occasional long phone call with my girls, like once a week or other every other week to catch up. But to talk on the phone everyday just because? Not me at all. I used to be able to sit on the phone all day, every day, but it bores me now. I just see that as time that could easily be spent doing something productive, or I'd even prefer to actually hang out with you. As we've gotten older, life has obviously gotten busier as we have more responsibilities. Luckily I'm blessed to have friends who don't measure the strength of our friendship by how often we speak because they know that when we do, it's just like we never left each other and it's allllll love!
I'm a bit of a neat freak
Major reason why I couldn't go into something like Big Brother (for my Nigerian readers – I get where TBoss was coming from SOMETIMES). It bugs me when people don't clean up after themselves, especially if I've just cleaned up. I find it hard to ignore when people don't flush the toilet after they're done, leave the sink dirty, just generally leave the place I'm sharing with them in a state. I just can't understand why it is so difficult for you to wash a plate that you've used, particularly when you're not living alone, it bugs the hell out of me. The only person that I can ever make an exception for is my husband lol.
I can't WHistle
This has always bugged me and so many people have tried to teach me but sadly to no avail…hopefully one day I'll be able to…
I really want to explore Africa
I've been to quite a few parts of the world luckily enough – Asia, UAE, Europe, North America and Africa of course. But I've actually seen more of the other continents than I have of my motherland Africa. I can only tick off Nigeria and Ghana from my list. I really want to travel across Africa and go to places Kenya, Rwanda, Botswana, Guinea, South Africa. So that's my goal for my next holiday destinations :-).
So there you have it, 12 things you may not have known about me.
So now it's your turn! Tell me in the comments. Can you relate to any of my 12 random facts? What do most people not know about you?
Yes I'm being nosey, it's allowed 🙂


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Many and varied – KTP is an excellent scheme to propel good graduates into leaders of tomorrow.
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Monday, June 08, 2009
For the 3rd year in a row we went to the fair! I really wanted to go b/c Naughty by Nature (among other "old skool all stars") was going to be playing & they are a lot of fun & I always had a crush on Treach. So we went, with all the kids, my brother & Ramsay's godparents. It was easier than I imagined b/c little guy slept the whole time, only waking up to eat at the end. Naughty by NAture was awesome, but the kids hated it. I always say there's no such thing as too much bass, but I think I heard too much bass, it was really thumping! My friend Jen said it sounded like the space shuttle being launched!
The big boy holding Joaquin in the pics is the teenage son of Ramsay's godparents, my boys love him. Joaquin is the only one who would go on rides, my other boys wouldn't ride a thing, they just wanted to eat fair food & people watch :)
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Software titan Microsoft has collaborated with German engineering firm ThyssenKrupp to develop a new elevator system which is expected to save tens of thousands of years in waiting time each year by availing itself of latest Internet of Things (IoT) technology.
The MAX elevator employs Microsoft's Azure Internet of Things platform to provide data-driven real-time predictive maintenance services, thus dramatically reducing repair time and raising availability levels.
The elevators dispatch data on their operating conditions in real time to Microsoft's Azure cloud system, where sophisticated algorithms can then determine the remaining operating life of machine parts and components and predict maintenance problems and breakdowns prior to their actual occurrence.
The use of a cloud platform to collate real-time data means that a single maintenance and control hub can amass unprecedented volumes of detailed information on the operating condition of elevators located around the globe.
According to MAX's developers, the system will enable ThyssenKrupp's service technicians, who number more than 20,000 around the world, to better perform "real-time identification of repairs, component replacements and proactive system maintenance," and cut down on elevator downtown periods by as much as a half.
Given that elevators are the world's most widely utilised form of transportation, employed by as many as one billion people each day, and are globally out of service for as many as 216 centuries combined during the course of a single year due to service disruptions, any significant efficiency gains have the potential to save hundreds of millions of hours in aggregate waiting times.
The MAX system is the product of two years of collaboration between maintenance engineers from ThyssenKrupp and Microsoft data scientists, and could represent a major breakthrough in the incorporation of IoT solutions and modern elevator systems.
Should IoT solutions prove effective in improving the operation of the built environment systems, it could have a dramatic impact on the liveability and efficiency of cities, particularly giving the ongoing expansion of the world's urban population.
Some 70 per cent of the world's population is expected to reside in urban areas by the end of the century. This shift will inevitably result in dramatic changes to the nature of cities themselves, resulting in far greater densification and high-rise developments, and heightening the need for more efficient infrastructure and transit systems.
German engineers are already making use of similar big data systems to anticipate the maintenance and repair requirements of rail vehicles operating in both the Eurozone and adjacent regions, thus raising efficiency and reducing downtime.


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For years, Benelli has lain dormant, at least in the US market. That changes with the Chinese owned, but Italian-run, firm releasing the first of many street bikes for American consumption. It kicks things off with the 2018 Benelli TnT 135 ($2,499).
US importer, SSR Motorsports, hosted a quick day ride that began atop Southern California's Ortega Highway, and concluded in Newport Beach.
Renowned for its twists and turns, Ortega Highway is an amusing, but also very high-traveled ribbon of blacktop that links the bustling inland and beach communities.
This stretch of roadway is known for accidents as well – would the tiny TnT be able to keep up with "always in a hurry" SoCal drivers?


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Everything is connected
Le wifi au Palais de Tokyo (et même autour, quand un idiot de conducteur de bus m'empêche de déscendre), ça marche !
I'm writing this sitting on a bit of lawn under a … well, some kind of tree (there's a chestnut and a ginkgo nearby — have I ever said that I've liked ginkgo trees since we planted one with my high school class?). Behind me roars the traffic, ahead of me I get a glimpse of the Seine (and hear loads of urban rumbling), on my right the Eiffel Tower, and I'm upwind from the public toilet.
It's quite impressive how the free-for-the-moment wifi access around the Palais de Tokyo can change a stroll to the nearest mini-park.
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State College school board to review high school project survey results
The high school project is again on the docket for the State College Area school board at its work session Monday, and the plans are expected to start moving faster.
The board will be getting the results of 1,600 returned community surveys, which will directly begin to eliminate building options that don't have the required community support. The first official elimination will occur as an action item at the July 22 meeting.
After the survey results, viable concepts that move forward will be scored using an evaluation matrix to come up with the referendum figure. The combination of the two elements will aid the board in refining the referendum question.
"This is really setting us up to do our part, which is to make a final decision," board member Jim Pawelczyk said at the last meeting.
Survey management company Social Science Research Solutions will have representatives on hand Monday to present the findings and break down the numbers.
Survey results are also expected to determine a budget cap for a referendum question based on how much the majority of the community is willing to spend.
The board plans to come up with a final decision on options at the Sept. 9 meeting.
There will also be an update on the Memorial Field construction project Monday. At last update, the project was on schedule to be completed by the fall sports season.


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Published: 7th November 2011
Number Of Pages: 506
For Ages: 18+ years old
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'Here am I, ready to obey you, your slave and the slave of all those who hold the lamp in their hands'
To stay the hand of her husband and postpone her execution, the vizier's daughter Shahrazad must tell stories. Her tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder, of jinns, sultans, princes and slave girls are some of the richest in literature, known throughout the world, and influencing writers from Dickens to Rushdie and Joyce to Poe. Fantastical and enchanting, this essential one-volume edition of the finest and most famous of the 1,001 Nights includes Aladdin and his lamp, Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves and the journeys of Sinbad.
Taken from the 'the most ambitious and thorough translation into English of the Arabian Nights since the age of Queen Victoria' (Guardian), these tales are accompanied by an introduction by Robert Irwin on the reception and influences of the Nights throughout their history. This edition also includes maps, a glossary and suggested further reading.
Translated by MALCOLM C. LYONS and URSULA LYONS with an introduction and notes by ROBERT IRWIN
About The Author
Malcolm C. Lyons has been Sir Thomas Adams Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University, is a life Fellow of Pembroke College and a specialist in classical Arabic literature. Ursula Lyons, formerly an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Oriential Studies at Cambridge University and, since 1976, an Emeritus Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, specializes in modern Arabic literature. Robert Irwin is a novelist, publisher, Middle Eastern Editor of the TLS and author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion, among many other books.
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: General
For Ages: 18+ years old
For Grades: 12+
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 506
Published: 7th November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.5 x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.37
Edition Number: 1
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This proposed front cover image fits with Aspreva's clean, white brand and encapsulates the company's strategy for the year: growth through nurturing partnerships.
This spread extends the growth metaphor and explains the company's philosophy of improving lives for patients with unmet medical needs. These conditions are less attractive to larger for-profit organizations because the patient populations are smaller.
Here, the company's executive team outlines its partnership strategy for the past year and explains how it will drive future growth for the company.
This image extends the plant, growth, and opportunity metaphors previously visualized while also representing the sequential nature of clinical trials.
Aspreva concludes their narrative with this stunning image that emphasizes the nurturing metaphor while also representing the company's solid foundation.


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Published: 2011
It's about: In the words of the subtitle, this is a collection of essays by "your favorite [young adult] authors on Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy."
I thought: If you remember, a few months ago, I reviewed the entire Hunger Games trilogy, and while I felt very confident in praising many of its merits, I wasn't convinced that the series qualifies as especially literary. In response to that review, I was contacted with an offer to review this book, which takes a critical look at the trilogy to extract its various applications to modern life.
I enjoyed reading this book. Most of the essays were well-written, at times funny, and usually insightful. However, there were a couple of essays that were less interesting or insightful than others, one that was especially lengthy and boring, and one that seemed to use the essay as an excuse to promote the author's political agenda.
Overall, however, this book accomplished the purpose I think the publisher had in recommending it to me -- it made me rethink my opinion of the series, recognize a bit more literary merit than I had previously attributed to it, and want to reread the entire series through fresher eyes. I still generally stand by my original opinion:
"Enjoyable? Yes. Difficult to put down? Yes. Great characters? Yes. But is this rife with literary merit? ...I'd say no. It has its moments, but it is certainly too flawed to be at the level of The Book Thief or even the Harry Potter series in terms of its universality, writing quality, and ability to tie its themes and emotionally frayed edges together into a neat work of wonderfulness."But I'm definitely more willing to reread the series with greater appreciation for aspects of it I originally may have overlooked.
Verdict: Stick it on the shelf
Reading Recommendations: For the Hunger Games trilogy lover who is also literary minded, this book is a great read!
Warnings: none
Favorite excerpts:
From the introduction (HUNGER GAMES SPOILER ALERT!!!)
"The world is better than it was, but there are hints that this improvement is only temporary -- that the kind of inhumanity we saw in the districts under the Capitol rule is the true status quo, and that the current peace is ephemeral, precious, something toward which Panem will always have to struggle. In other words, the Hunger Games ends in a way that feels surprisingly adult -- bleak, realistic, as far from wish fulfillment as one can imagine. Such a conclusion only emphasizes something YA readers have known for years: that there is serious, engaging, and transformative work going on in YA literature."
What I'm reading next: The Most Beautiful Walk in the World by John Baxter
*Disclaimer: I received a review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review


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Even when they have cradle cap, a blue tinge, infant acne, and a mullet, 99 percent of mothers think that their newborn baby is beautiful. Ugly Babies R Us is devoted to the other 1 percent.
Those scrunchy faces, feathered mullets, bug eyes, and noses that sit slightly askew -- ugly? Maybe. Cruel? Perhaps. It's also uproariously funny. Being mean is kind of hilarious, it seems.
I have always been one of those people who thinks all babies are lovely, but this site may make a convert out of me. And I must admit that even the photos of my own son at about 2 months (seen here) are slightly terrifying in a prehistoric way. Of course, at the time, I thought he was stunning. Which I guess he was, just on the opposite end of what I thought.
Research shows that ugly babies get less love than their beautiful counterparts. According to an article from Time, "An oft cited -- and deeply disturbing -- Israeli study once showed that 70 percent of abused or abandoned children had at least one apparent flaw in their appearance, which otherwise had no impact on their health or educability."
Hmmm ... ugly babies? Maybe not so funny after all? Nah, never mind. Still pretty friggin' funny.
One of the comments on the site alluded to the fact that "all the ugly babies were white," which made me laugh because one of my friends (who is Asian-American) told me quietly that my daughter was the only white baby she ever thought was cute.
Is that true? Are white babies "uglier" than others?
So many questions. So many ugly babies. Maybe I need to change my "all babies are cute" model?
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7 June 2017
On 07 June 2017, the Free State Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation convened a Social Cohesion Church Leaders Summit at the Kingdom Ministries in Welkom where over 1000 delegates dressed in black and red from various church denominations, community and public sector institutions attended.
This summit was convened after the Department noted with great concern, the recent outcry of our society as a result of the continuous acts of women and children abuse across our country and our province. Believing that the abuse of women and children is a societal problem, the department then took a decision to convene a Social Cohesion Church Leaders Summit.
"We should at all times seek to promote our national identity and protect the rights of vulnerable citizens towards achieving the goal for a social cohesive nation. The unity of all South Africans is sacrosanct in defeating the patriarchal patterns that are still found in many quarters of our society" said MEC Mathabo Leeto.
The objective of the summit was to create an opportunity for all sectors to present their programs and campaigns that focus on combating the abuse of women and children. This summit received messages from the Free State Premier as well as Member of the Executive Council. Part of the presentations included the role of the church in the fight against crime in communities. In general, the summit served as a platform where messages of hope and concrete experiences were shared by various sectors on how victims and perpetrators are assisted through institutions such as the South African Police Service, Correctional Services, Social Development victim support centers etc.
A pledge by the Free State Executive Council was also signed which committed the
Free State Provincial Government to be active in combating all forms of abuse. The
pledge read as follows:
"As the Free State Provincial Government, we are firmly committed to combating all
forms of abuse against women, children, and elderly citizens of our province. We
therefore promise to mobilize our society to act against abuse wherever it occurs.
We shall utilize the Constitution of South Africa and all legislations to fight this
scourge. We will strive to promote peace and harmony throughout the Free State
province and South Africa. Furthermore, we commit ourselves to protect the rights,
freedom, and human dignity of all our citizens. We strongly condemn the abuse of
our mothers, sisters, and daughters. This is our pledge to the women and children in
the Free State and South Africa."
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Gene Forehand, age 70, of Clarksville, passed away Sunday, June 10, 2018, at his residence.
Gene was born March 18, 1948, in Davidson County, TN, to the late Eugene Marshall Forehand and Inez Parker Forehand. He was also preceded in death by one brother, Richard Forehand.
Mr. Forehand was a graduate of David Lipscomb University and a member of Hilldale Church of Christ. Gene was a retired teacher from the Metro Nashville School System. He also preached at several churches in Tennessee and Alabama.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held Thursday, June 14, at 11:00 AM, at Hilldale Church of Christ, with Bro. Steve Kirby officiating. Visitation will be Wednesday, June 13, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM, at Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home, and Thursday, June 14, from 10:00 AM until the hour of service, at the church.
Gene is survived by his wife, Jerri Halliday; son, David Matthew Forehand, of Nashville; two daughters, Christy Hannah Forehand and Susan Ruth Sherman, both of Nashville; stepson, Chad (Katie) Halliday; one brother, Wayne Forehand of Goodlettsville, TN; two grandchildren, Emily Tanley and Zoey Sherman; and the mother of his children, Marsha Forehand.
Pallbearers will be Bobby Powell, Chad Halliday, Pat Sawyer, Jerome Bell, Henry Rittenberry, and Jimmy Parker. Honorary pallbearers will be Wayne Forehand and Matt Sherman.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Clarksville Christian School, 505 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, Clarksville, TN 37043.
Arrangements are entrusted to Neal-Tarpley-Parchman Funeral Home, 1510 Madison Street, Clarksville, TN 37040; (931) 645-6488. Online condolences may be made at www.nealtarpleyparchman.com.


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In earlier days when computer was newly invented, many people wanted to come up with a user friendly language. At that time, there was lot of confusion as to how to make a computer work as per the user commands. Slowly, high level languages were developed which has simple instructions written in English. These instructions were transformed into machine language by a compiler. Pascal is one of the languages which was used in this pattern in the early stages of computers.
Niklaus Wirth was one of the first persons to start working on Pascal. He was responsible for Pascal to be a fully loaded programming language. In the year 1970, Niklaus completed the development of Pascal programming language. The language was named after the famous French mathematician Blaise Pascal. It is an imperative and procedural programming language. He later on added a feature where the programming is to be done with the support of data structuring and structural programming. This version of Pascal was an object oriented programming language. This version was known as Object Pascal.
Pascal was the main source of application development in the initial years of Macintosh. It was used to even develop operating systems of Apple Lisa. Even today Object Pascal is used to develop some of the Windows applications like Skype.
Pascal is a high-level programming language. Pascal, as it was developed long time back, is the primary source of syntax to most of the hybrid languages. Therefore the language is very simple to understand and learn. Declaring the values of variables is very simple when compared to the modern languages. Some of the striking features of the language are it is strongly typed, block structured programming language. Recursion is a computing tool which helps in simplifying prolonged programs. It is a tool which allows a function to recall itself within a program. Pascal is the first language to support this computing tool in programming.
Pascal is considered to be very user friendly and neat. The reason it is called neat is, it has no clumsy statements in it programs. There is an order which is maintained the algorithm and statements like "goto" are substituted by REPEAT/UNTIL, WHILE/DO and FOR loops. This gives the program a professional and better look. Also, with the usage of simple English, the program is easily understood. Some more basics features of Pascal are given below-
Pascal programming language was only developed to explain how a programming language works. Most of the students who wanted to pursue Masters in Computer Programming, chose Pascal as it was were easy to learn. From the late 1970s to 1990s, Pascal was opted by many universities to teach programming language. It was very helpful for many lecturers in teaching the various programming techniques by using Object Pascal.


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Monday, April 30, 2007
April 2007
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Stampede! (Little Joe the Wrangler)
Stampede by Tom Lea, mural at Odessa Main Post Office
Driving home after a long day, I decided to stop at the Post Office to see if I could sneak a photo of this local treasure for today's Photo A Day. It's interesting that not only do these PADs work out as a sort of scrapbook of my life, but frequently, like today, they also provide a good way to unwind.
Here's some close up pictures and the text from a Historical Marker there:
Rendered by El Paso artist Tom Lea (born 1907), the painting was commissioned by a Depression era program which placed murals in federal buildings. Chosen in national competition, Lea created the study of Texas Longhorns for Odessa's 1940 Post Office Building. Moved in 1970, the linen-backed mural weighs 700 lbs and measures 16'9" by 5'7".
Over a 70-year career Lea executed other murals and many paintings. He worked as a correspondent during WW II for Life magazine. A noted illustrator, he authored and collaborated on numerous books.
The artist was partly inspired for his theme by the old ballad, "Little Joe the Wrangler." To capture the energy and action of the legendary cattle, Lea camped among herds on the range. With a flash of lightning in the background, the herd of longhorns thunders across the canvas and one of the wranglers, caught in the maelstrom, is being thrown from his horse.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Rainy Sunday
Composition in the birdbath.
Rainy Sunday: I don't mind. Not one bit. And the best part is that I put all the rose cuttings from yesterday in the ground, so this rain couldn't come at a better time.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Snow White loves tomatoes
Did you know that Snow White loves tomatoes? She had her choice to dig into a big package of strawberries, or a big package of tomatoes while her mom and I rustled rose cuttings. Katlynn chose the tomatoes because that's what she loves best.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Bluebird Cafe
Pretty much everyone eats at the Bluebird Cafe. It's one of the few, maybe five, restaurants we have here Out West, and does a steady business from 5 a.m to 9 p.m.
"Meatloaf, mash potatoes, corn & green beans or pinto beans, soup or salad, & desert." This is not haute cuisine.
Thursday, April 26, 2007
J & G Feed & Supply
Another neighbor is the J & G feed store at the corner of my street. A sweet young couple, Cody and his wife, bought the business a few months back. Everyone around here loves them and it is a pleasure to buy our feed and also to visit with them. (I buy just dog food. Jorge buys his dog food and chicken feed. And Antigone buys dog food, hay, and horse feed.) We wish them all the best success with their business.
I also featured Cody and his beautiful horse Shawnee on a previous blog post, Old Blue Eyes.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Whachu want?
I had my granddaughter Katlynn over for the evening. She made messy mud pies. Her favorite thing to play is, "Whachu want? Hamburger? Taco?"
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Unusual neighbors
Yes, zebras are neighbors of mine.
Around my home, it's common for me to hear horses, donkeys, turkeys, chickens, and goats. But uncommonly, I also sometimes hear a lion roar in the morning and the evening, at feeding times. The lion lives with zebras and other exotics, like wallabies and various antelopes, about a mile down the road from me, at the Pradon's place.
When I first moved out here nine years ago, I thought they were one of those places that raise exotic animals to stock hunting leases. But, through the grapevine and by observation (no animals mysteriously disappear) they seem to be merely animal lovers. It's not a zoo, although they do have a well-worn vehicle path around the fence line where lots of people have taken a mini-tour. Still, I'm not sure what their story is. Recently, they added a sign at the entrance, "Official USDA Research Center."
Sorry that there is no picture of the lion. The lion is on the interior and not visible. Only audible.
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One theme was apparent in every discussion at the inaugural Alumni Society Leadership Summit: Diversity is not an option; it is an imperative. The 2015 leadership summit, which was held at Tribeca Rooftop in New York City, served as the exclusive launch event of The Alumni Society and brought together over 200 Latino executives who share the distinction of having graduated from America's top universities: Brown, University of Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, and Yale. View video and photo highlights from our first summit below.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear any of a variety of cases related to state bans on same-sex marriage. Here the story.
Experts believe that, by declining to do anything, the court essentially opened the way for marriage of people of the same sex in 30 states. Florida isn't one of them, but expect that this ruling also will impact the Sunshine State soon.


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Dog Survives Nine Days Accidentally Stuck In Car Trunk
Gale, a border collie, survived a nine day ordeal being stuck in a car trunk.
When Tamar Jones, Gale's owner, couldn't find Gale, she thought that her dog had been stolen or killed. Neighbors and friends searched all over for the ten-year-old dog, but Gale was nowhere to be found in the neighborhood.
Instead she was found inside the trunk of a car.
The ordeal started when Gale jumped into the trunk of a worker's car who was doing some odd jobs at Jones' property. The dog became startled when she heard a plane and jumped into the trunk for safety.
Jones saw Gale jump in the car, and five minutes later, the border collie wasn't there anymore. But in actuality, Gale was hiding behind a tool box and couldn't be seen.
The worker drove off in his car, with no idea that Gale was taking a ride in his trunk. The man went on a week-long trip to London, and when he got back nine days later, he opened up his trunk to see Gale inside behind the tool box.
Fortunately, Gale survived without food and water for nine days. Jones said that Gale perhaps was able to get some water that leaked into the trunk or from condensation.
Her vet suspects that this border collie shut down her body completely to conserve energy to keep the blood pumping.
Trevor Turner, Chief Vet for Crufts said: "The longest a dog can survive without food is for 14 days, but without water they rarely last longer than 48 hours. I can't quite believe she is alive."
Gale is now back to her usual happy self and stays by Jones' side all the time.
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Dont think its an overreaction.SG90 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:07 pmWow talk about overreaction. Yes we were poor and got what we deserved, but we're allowed one bad performance and we're still in a good position, that doesn't make the players sht all of a sudden. West Brom had their big cup final performance, just like everyone else does, no doubt they won't play that well again, but it was a day when everything clicked for them and didn't for us. But one thing is the players should've learned by now to just shoot rather than overplay all the fcking time.
We lack individual quality in key areas, was always going to show eventually.
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In late summer, sisters Sherri Thomas and Ann-Marie Morley and their mother Cynthia Portland did what thousands of Canadians do each year and went on a road trip. Their vacation included a family wedding in New Brunswick and sightseeing in P.E.I. But instead of taking the more direct route through Maine from their homes in Cambridge, Ont., they drove the long way around through Quebec. The reason? They weren't prepared to travel in the U.S., even for a day, without travel health insurance. Though in good shape, Blewett is 90 and age is a pivotal factor when insurers set premiums. "The cost would have been prohibitive," says Tietz. "We figured, we'd stay in Canada. That way, we're covered." (Names have been changed to protect privacy.)
Actually, not necessarily. Universal health care, it turns out, may not mean what many Canadians think it does. William Shung, a senior insurance advisor with LSM Insurance Services in Markham, Ont., says few Canadians appreciate the importance of having insurance for travel within Canada. "They don't realize they could incur very high costs should something happen when they're in another province."
Universal health care, it turns out, may not mean what many Canadians think it does. William Shung, a senior insurance advisor with LSM Insurance Services in Markham, Ont., says few Canadians appreciate the importance of having insurance for travel within Canada. "They don't realize they could incur very high costs should something happen when they're in another province."
Two recent high-profile cases underscore just how high. In the first, a pregnant Alberta woman vacationing in Ontario went into labour two months before her due date. The hospital where she gave birth wasn't equipped to handle such a premature baby, so the two were airlifted to a larger facility. Ontario sent her a bill totalling in "thousands of dollars." In the second incident, an Ontario man became seriously ill while visiting Yukon and was flown to Vancouver for treatment. The territorial government billed him $18,000.
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The Canada Health Act may set the federal framework but delivering health care is up to the provinces and territories. These jurisdictions have reached a series of bilateral, reciprocal billing agreements so their residents can access hospital and physician services if they need emergency care wherever they are traveling in Canada. If all goes as intended, you can present your health insurance card in lieu of payment. But in actuality, it can be far more complicated.
Not only does the cost of medical services vary across Canada, provincial health insurance plans may fund supplemental services, such as physiotherapy or dental care, beyond the core services stipulated in the Act. Finally, the re- ciprocal agreements are not uniform. So there are any number of ways you can find yourself out of pocket in a medical emergency. In specific cases, you can apply to be reimbursed but your home province will only pay up to its pre-set rate for the treatment, regardless of how much you actually paid.
It's probably not surprising then, that the federal government, as well as many provincial health ministries, have statements on their websites that recommend buying insurance for interprovincial visits. Some people may already be covered through a health plan at work, or be able to top it up for a nominal fee.
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For those who need to purchase supplemental coverage, travel agents sell plans, as do insurance brokers. And there are many options for choosing a plan that fits your budget, notes Shung. A good starting point is the website kanetix.ca, which lets you compare quotes from various providers.
Basic premiums can range from under $3 a day for a healthy 20-year-old to nearly $40 a day for someone who is 90. For some- one aged 40 to 54, the cost will range from $26 for a four-day trip to $65 for a 30-day trip. For those who travel frequently, a multi-trip plan can often be the most cost-effective option, providing coverage for every trip you take within 12 months of buying your policy. While premiums can be half of those for international travel, eligibility requirements, notably those covering pre-existing medical conditions, are the same.
Alex Bittner, president of the Travel Health Insurance Association (THIA), cau- tions against purchasing a plan based solely on its cost. "We all need to be better consumers," he says. "Price is secondary. Coverage is primary." If you still think buying travel health insurance is not worth it for visiting another province, Bittner has one more thing for you to consider: "Accidents can happen to anyone, any time, anywhere," he says. "It could be the best investment your ever make."


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we finally found the time to go through all our emails and look what we found! (in the junk pile, no less...). read this, then watch the videos:
One of the most famous and loved homegrown labels will soon launch a collection in collaboration with one of the country's celebrated designers. In line with this, they are currently posting webisodes on the various steps the designer and brand are undergoing, leading to the official collection launch in March.
episode 1: inspiration
episode 2: research
there will be a total of 11 webisodes. we'll be posting each one as it is released. so cool!! who writes this stuff??
any guesses as to who the designer is and what the brand is?
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Sunday, February 06, 2011
mystery webisodes
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It looks like Rajo Laurel's 2nd collaboration with Plains and Prints.
- Sunday, February 06, 2011 5:49:00 PM
- candicetan said...
Plains and prints! Saw their billboard. I'm guessing the designer starts with an R! rajo? Randy ortiz? Can be rajo since his last theme was aliens and space is almost connected with aliens??? :)
- Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:10:00 PM
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Almost but not quite blogged out
Happy Friday!
Still finishing up blog posts and interviews for Kissing Kendall and A Little Bit Cupid.
Note to self: do not try to do two blog tours at the same time ever again.
As a result, I haven't had a chance to work on my WIP or work on anything new. Wah.
But here's some other blog fodder for you:
Did you happen to see my tweet on Wednesday?
Women look their oldest at 3:30PM on Wednesdays.
Good to know?
I'm knee deep in reading because I'm helping judge the RITAs. I have only read one of these authors before and they're all very eclectic romances.
So this should be interesting.
(When it rains, it pours, folks)
This has obviously been a busy few months for me. :)
And lastly, I have a picture of Rocco, my new guinea pig.
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Melissa Rycroft and Jillian Harris went through "The Bachelor" grind together, and both of them appeared to come out the other side pretty well. Which is why Rycroft is so surprised that Harris and her "Bachelorette" fiance, Ed Swiderski, have called it quits.
"I really thought Jill and Ed were going to make it," Rycroft tells Zap2it. "The several times I talked to her, they were very happy. She moved to Chicago; she left her life in Canada behind to come here and make a life with him. I know they were moving to San Francisco for her job, and they seemed to make each other a priority.
"It is a surprise that they didn't make it. I had my money on them."
Now married to Tye Strickland, Rycroft admits relief over being off the "Bachelor"/"Bachelorette" path, though she rejoins Chris Harrison to host the ABC spinoff "Bachelor Pad" starting Monday, Aug. 9. She says her time as a "Dancing With the Stars" contestant enhanced her identity with the public, especially coming right on the heels of her "Bachelor" stint.
Rycroft says she watched Monday's (July 5) breakup interview with Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi on "The Bachelorette." She's glad that controversy has thrust her own Jason/Molly/Melissa triangle farther into the "Bachelor" past, but she questions the impact of Pavelka joining "Dancing" so soon after his "Bachelor" finale.
"I guess the only concern I'd have had would have been about his relationship with Vienna," she says. "When ['The Bachelor'] is airing, it's probably three months after it actually happened … so in terms of the relationship, they couldn't see each other those three months.
"Once the show aired, and he then went to do another one, there was that fear of whether they actually had time to be a real couple. And nobody knows what happens behind closed doors."


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But the same DMCA applies don't it ? that end user who uploaded to youtube, he can request for his content to be taken down...
I would think embedding is okay because if the original video is taken down, your embedded code won't work any more.
Eventually you are going to have to learn that if it seems shady, then it probably is. There is legit money to be made out there.
And no, the DMCA would not provide you the same protection as YouTube has. There is a reason why that is, but I'll let you research it and figure it out...
I'm new here but that reply is hilarious, reminded me of finding nemo.
Anyway, embeding and downloading are two different thing. I belive downloading and reupload somwhere else is a no no..
Even with embed there certain rules you need to follow. Have a read at the video site TOS. Just because it has embed features doesnt mean yo can do whatever you please with it, just like RSS Feed.
I do have site that embed youtube videos, and some of the videos do get taken down by youtube, and as the bove poster say, in that case, you just dont see the videos anymore, the place holder would just say that the videos been taken down..
Ok folks, there is absolutely no need for name calling. Inciting fights is against NamePros policy, and will not be tolerated in this forum not under my watch (or Dave's).
I've cleaned up the comments, please keep everything civil. Everyone is entitled to ask appropriate questions, no matter how ignorant they may be to someone else.
Please, continue on topic...


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Portland City Council to consider giving independent watchdog group 'keys to kingdom' of city water, sewer bureaus
Andrew Theen in The Oregonian
Portland considers giving group access to analyze water, sewer services
KATU News
Portland utilities OK watchdog access
Chris Woodard on KOIN
Another Set of Eyes on Portland's Controversial Water and Sewer Spending
Dirk Vanderhart in The Portland Mercury
The Portland Building needs $95 million overhaul to fix structural problems, water damage
Brad Schmidt in The Oregonian
Utility advocate could assume huge Portland water management role
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Citizen Utility Board asked to review water and sewer bureaus
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Charlie Hales: What others said about the Portland mayor's performance in 2013
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As I said when writing my previous interview from last week (Darren Shan), every book-loving teen has authors who shape those years with the words and images they put onto paper. Barry Lyga was one of those writers for me when I was younger. In fact, I can honestly say I reread Hero Type for the umpteenth time two months ago!
Barry Lyga is a New York Times bestselling author for young adults, older teens and children alike with his numerous novels (a few of which I enclosed photos of). His novels Boy Toy and The Astonishing Adventures Of Fanboy And Goth Girl were controversial and yet easy to relate to, dealing with sex, drugs, suicide and depression.
Yes, Mr. Lyga also deals in humor and comic books. Yes, comic books. In fact, one of the things I liked when I picked up Fanboy when I was about thirteen or fourteen was that it involved a kid who loved comic books, which is what you'll find a lot of in his writings.
I am honored to have been able to interview Mr. Lyga, who has always been kind to his fans (I should know!) and who has written so many amazing novels that kids, teens and even adults can enjoy.
I hope you all like the interview; it was a dream come true to do this!
1. Why did you choose young adult fiction as opposed to other genres/styles?
It wasn't really a conscious choice. I just wrote a book about a teenager and then had ideas for more books about teenagers. I've also written middle grade and will probably have an adult novel out fairly soon.
2. You touch on some serious issues in your novels: murder, suicide, statutory rape, etc.. What do you want the readers to take away from your work about such things?
I don't want to moralize or be pedantic about any of these issues, or about any issues at all. I write stories that I hope will make people see the world from a different perspective. And since those topics are pretty extreme, I hope that they will jar people out of their own viewpoint and make them receptive to seeing the world through new eyes.
3. Your books crossover from YA to being more universal. Was that your intent--for adults to enjoy them, too--or was it a surprise to you?
I never really think about the audience when I write, but of course I was aware that my books were being tagged as YA, sold in YA sections, sold to teens, etc. Given that all of the marketing and promotion was geared towards teens, I was very pleasantly surprised to find adults discovering and reading them, too!
4. Many of your novels revolve around superheroes (Archvillain) or, at the very least, superhero-lovers (Fanboy And Goth Girl) and you have claimed to be a comic book fan. What were your favorites and do you still enjoy comics today?
My favorite comic as a kid was LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, which, sadly, has just been canceled. I still enjoy comics today, but not with the obsessive verve of my youth!
5. Kirkus reviews called you a "YA Rebel Author" at one point. Do you think of yourself as a rebel to the common YA novelist?
I think if you start calling yourself a rebel or thinking of yourself as a rebel, that automatically disqualifies you. I was surprised when Kirkus said that. I just sort of keep my head down and write the stuff I want to write. It's for other people to decide if I'm a rebel or not. I guess I should buy a cool leather jacket…?
6. Each character you create has his/her own distinct look, personality and thought process. Were any of them based on real people or did they come straight from your head to the page?
Most of them have at least some basis in a real person, but there are certainly characters that popped right out from my head. Fanboy is pretty much me at that age, and Kyle Camden is a grotesquely exaggerated version of me as a young kid.
7. Out of your eleven novels, do you have a favorite story and/or favorite character? Why?
I tend to like the extreme characters, the uncomfortable ones. So Eve from Boy Toy and Billy Dent from I Hunt Killers rank up there. So, too, does Kyra [Sellers, the anti-heroine of Fanboy And Goth Girl and Goth Girl Rising].
8. A bulk of your stories takes place in the same high school in Maryland. Why did you choose to have the stories all use the same town, school and teachers (thus giving them a common link though the stories were different)?
Easy answer: I thought it would be fun! I'm a comic book guy, so I'm used to stories that interconnect and cross into each other, and I thought it would be fun to build my own sort of universe. When readers discover the little references, they get that same little thrill I used to get when I would recognize a comic book character from one book crossing over into another. And for the readers who haven't read enough of my books to get the "joke," it's harmless -- they don't know they're missing something.


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Transcript: Everyone knew that despite Sofia Lamb's imprisonment, Sinclair had her treating his more... unstable guests in that horrible facility of his. And I knew that the protectors went back down there at night. But somehow Lamb quietly gained control of Subject Delta, right under everyone's nose. He stalked into my office one day, trembling ...as if fighting some inner demon. But then from a radio concealed in his suit, I heard Lamb's voice. She said she had something to tell me... about her daughter.
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A great blog I follow posted some wonderful wonderings yesterday.
Today they had me wondering too and I decided I had wondered too long and had to know too.
Here are Barbilou's questions that had me pondering and asking Mr Google .
Why do only CATS purr? Why don't dogs purr?
Chickens and eggs. How long does it take for an egg to form? If a chicken lays one every day, and you were to cut her open, would she be full of eggs in various stages of development?
How do spiders not get caught in their own webs?
How nutritious is hay anyway? How can animals as big as cows get that big just eating hay?
Apparantly two species of genets purr as well.Genetta tigrina, and most likely also Genetta genetta, had been documented to purr, but other than that only cats .I didn't knw what a gennet was so there is a pic here, so now you know too.apparently they live in Africa.
Dogs don't purr because they dont have the same vocal folds and harmonics on breathing in and out that cats do.
cChicken and eggs ...easy... 21 days till egg ready to hatch :)
On average they only lay one egg a day,so there wont be a belly full of eggs, if it's killed before the first egg is laid maybe there would be the one just starting to form,getting ready for the next day and one on its way out.You'd have to have the timing and the axe just right.
Spiders are clever, they make 2 kinds of webs,one sticky one for catching flies and one non sticky for walking about on. Why don't they get mixed up ? I don't know. Perhaps they do occasionally, but if they do get one leg stuck theres another 7 they can drag themselves off with.
Hay is high in protein and energy so apparently it is especially great for long in the tooth horses and pregnant ones.
People can and do apparently eat oat hay! I wonder if they are as big as horses?
but mostly we eat whole oats...for breakfast. Porridge anyone?
A reputable Hay nutrition site assured me people eat Hay but I cannot find any recipes via Mr Google so I hope this will help.