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So, viewers laugh with him, right? Wrong
The media shouldn't shirk their responsibility for promoting attention seekers who will do anything to get our notice.
So, with great hesitancy, I will once again write about Christopher S. I won't use his full name or mention his online identity because I don't want to encourage his behavior.
He's the local guy who chained himself to the University at Albany fountain to protest the school's decision to cancel Fountain Day. In March 2011, Christopher, who claims he is an Army veteran from Pittstown with a wife and two children, chained himself to the fountain equipped with a blanket, adult diapers and water. Newspaper reporters and television cameras descended. But he left a short while later and posted a video about his antics on his YouTube account, laughing at how he had duped the media into thinking his protest was genuine.
But Christopher has not given up his larger attempt for attention. In the 18 months since that protest, he has exponentially grown his Internet fame. He stares at the camera with his bright blue eyes, speaking in a gentle hushed tone and then eats tampons, deodorant and raw eggs with the shells, or downs what appears to be an entire bottle of vodka and Wild Turkey 101.
At the time of his "protest," the guy had a few hundred viewers. Since then, his YouTube account has grown to 160,000 subscribers and 42 million views. Now, Cracked.com has played into his game by listing him as among the weirdest patron saints of the Internet.
What is unclear is the state of Christopher's mental health. It it clear, however, that there's a very real possibility one of his attention-getting stunts could actually kill him. And among those who are at least partially responsible is everyone who laughs at him, thereby perpetuating his infamy, and those of us in the media who gave him the attention he so desperately wanted in the first place.
SUNY ranks high
The four university centers in the State University of New York are among the best higher education institutions in the world, according to a London-based magazine.
The University at Albany, Binghamton University, University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University were included in a list of the world's top 400 universities, according to the 2012-13 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
"The Power of SUNY resonates worldwide," SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said in a statement, "and this prominent international ranking of our four university centers by Times Higher Education serves as the most recent showcase of the outstanding work and remarkable impact that SUNY has on students and communities throughout New York State and across the globe."
According to SUNY, the ranking was based on 13 performance indicators including teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Stony Brook University and the University at Buffalo made the top 200, at 162 and 198, respectively. The final 200 schools were ranked in groups and Albany was included in the 301-350 group with Binghamton included in the 351-400 group.
And while I've been critical of university ranking systems in general, including the coveted U.S. News and World Report ranking, their power to sway cannot be denied. They are incredibly influential and many students are devouring them right now as they send out college applications. Plenty of college students will actually pick their top schools based on its U.S. News ranking, rather than whether those schools are the best fit.
It's certainly a coup for SUNY to be included in this elite list.
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It's a PHP app. How can I minimize the downtime while updating the entire codebase?
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What we generally do, at work is :
All this process is done via an automatic script (the only not-automatic thing is us launching it when needed). This means :
Of course, this doesn't prevent you from testing the new version on your staging server before putting it to production -- but, who knows... Sometimes, there is a really big bug that no-one has been able to see while testing :-(
Here is some kind of a quick example : suppose I have this VirtualHost in my Apache configuration :
Pretty "standard"... The only thing is
Notice that the symlinc points to the "old version"
Now, that the new version has been totally uploaded to the server, let's switch :
And, now, the
And we just have to restart Apache :
The three steps "remove the link ; create the new link ; restart apache" should be made quickly ; ie, by an automated script, and not by a human being.
Using this solution :
And if using some opcode-cache like APC with the stat option at 0, it can mean even less risk of downtime, I suppose.
Can't you take the existing code, copy/paste it into a separate test php file, and use that while you are making your updates?
First off, I often use and like a method similar to Pascal MARTIN's response.
Another method that I also like is to use my SCM to push new code. The exact process depends on your type of SCM (git vs svn vs ...). If you're using svn, I like to create an "online" or "production" branch that I checkout as the document root on the server. Then, whenever I want to push new code from another branch/tag/trunk, I just commit the new code into the "online" branch and run svn update in the document root. This allow for very easy rollbacks as there is a complete revision log of what's gone up/down to the server and who did it and when. You can also easily run that "online" branch on a test box, allowing you to vet the app you're about to push.
The process is similar for git and other styles of SCM, just modified to be more natural for their style of work flow.
Want to pull/poll instead of pushing updates? Just have a cron job or other, smarter mechanism automatically run svn update.
Extra: You can also use this process to backup files that your application wrote to disk. Just have a cron job or some other mechanism run svn commit. Now the files your application created are backed up in your SCM, revision logged, etc. (ex., if a user updates a file on disk, but wants you to revert it, just push the old revision).
Set up a second server with the updated codebase and switch them as fast as possible. :-)
If not possible, make sure your codebase is divided into dozens of smaller parts. Then the downtime would be limited to just one subpart one at the time. The smaller codeblocks are easier to replace and most will just continue to run without problems. Just try this on a test environment first, though!
I use a similar approach to Pascal MARTIN's, too. But instead of uploading multiple versions of my app to the production server, I keep the "builds" behind my firewall, each in a separate directory with the build number and date. When I want to upload a new version I use a simple script that includes "rsync -avh --delay-updates". The "delay=updates" flag will upload everything (that's different) to a temporary folder until all the updates are there, and then move everything over at once at the end of the transfer to their proper paths so the app will never be in a half-old-half-new state. It has the same effect as the method above, except I only keep one version of the app on the production site (best to only have only the bare essential files on the production server, IMO).

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CARLINVILLE, Ill. – Senior forward Andy Traeger led four Panthers in double-figure scoring, pouring in a game-high 28 points to lead the men's basketball team to a 95-84 victory at Blackburn Wednesday night.
Traeger and the Panthers got help from junior Markeith Brown who dropped 24 points and added four rebounds to aid Greenville in the winning effort.
Senior guard Jonas McBride netted 19 points of his own to go along with seven assists.
Greenville trailed the Beavers of Blackburn 42-34 at the half but shot 20-of-22 from the charity strip to edge Blackburn in the second half play and clinch the conference win.
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This is great, but it doesn't look much like Michael...
oh my god.. IT LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE HIM!
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what happened to his fingers?! lol
Only FOUR fingers! But great drawing!
another fantastic drawing! you areprobably the BEST celebrity drawing artist on RMD!!! :)
Really awesome! Though the eyes are narrower I really like it! ^^ I can only draw anime, and even that isn't my forte. I kinda jealous!
Award: Skillful draw. Liked: very good! i love the hair. Tips: he only has 4 fingers and the thumb looks kinda weird


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Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies, Emeritus
Community and ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, global change
Historical and projected changes in carbon export to the Gulf of Maine from land use and climate change. NASA Earth Science Division Research Grant (2011-14)
Soil carbon chemistry and dynamics under elevated CO2 at the Duke Forest FACE experiment. NSF Research Grants (2003-07) (2008-2011) (Duke University FACE research site)
Ecological and economic recovery and sustainability of the Kennebec and Androscoggin rivers and their common estuary and nearshore marine environment. Sustainability Solutions Partner with U. Maine-Orono (2009-14; NSF-EPSCoR Program) (Merrymeeting Bay / Kennebec Estuary Research Program)
Not Just a Fish Tale, An exploration of the the connection between river spawning fish and offshore fish populations.
Student contributions in bold
Ames, E. P. and J. Lichter. 2013. Gadids and alewives: structure within complexity in the Gulf of Maine. Fisheries Research 141:70-78.
Lichter, J. and E.O. Ames. 2012. Reaching into the past for future relilience: Recovery efforts in Maine rivers and coastal waters. Maine Policy Review. 21:96-102.
Lichter, J., M.E. H. Burton, S.L. Close, J.M. Grinvalsky, and J. Reblin. 2011. Waterfowl habitat change over five decades in a freshwater tidal ecosystem in mid-coast Maine. Northeastern Naturalist 18: 161-176.
Drake, J. E., E. H. DeLucia, A. Gallet-Budynek, K. S. Hofmachel, E. S. Bernhardt, S. A Billings, R. D. Jackson, J. Lichter, M. L. McCormack, D. J. P. Moore, R. Oren, S. Palmroth, R. P. Phillips, J. S. Pippen, S. G. Pritchard, K. K. Treseder, and A. C. Finzi. 2011. Increase in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO2. Ecology Letters 14: 349-357.
Billings, S. A., J. Lichter, S. E. Ziegler, B. A. Hungate, and D. B. Richter. 2010. A call to investigate drivers of soil organic matter retention vs. mineralization in a high CO2 world. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42: 665-668.
Lichter, J. S. Billings, S. Ziegler, D. Gaindh, R. Ryals, A. C. Finzi, R. B. Jackson, E. A. Stemmler, and W. H. Schlesinger. 2008. Soil carbon sequestration in a pine forest after nine years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment. Global Change Biology 14:2910-2922. *Nature Reports-Climate Change (January 2009) 3:2.
Koster, D., J. Lichter, P. D. Lea, and A. Nurse. 2007. Historical eutrophication in a river-estuary complex in mid-coast Maine. Ecological Applications 17:765-778.
Lichter, J., H. Caron, T. Pasakarnis, S. Rodgers, T. S. Squiers, Jr., and C. S. Todd. 2006. The ecological collapse and partial recovery of a freshwater tidal ecosystem. Northeastern Naturalist 13:153-178.
Finzi, A., D. Moore, E. DeLucia, J. Lichter, K. Hofmackel, R. Jackson, H. Kim, R. Matamala, H. McCarthy, R. Oren, J. Pippen, and W. H. Schlesinger. 2006. Progrssive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest. Ecology 87:15-25.
Peterson, T. S., A. Uesugi, and J. Lichter. 2005. Limitation of tree regeneration by introduced snowshoe hare on Kent Island, New Brunswick. Canadian Field Naturalist 119:569-572.
Lichter, J., S.H. Barron, C. E. Bevacqua, A. C. Finzi, K.F. Irving, E.A. Stemmler, and W.H. Schlesinger. 2005. Soil carbon sequestration and turnover in a pine forest after six years of atmospheric CO2 enrichment. Ecology 86:1835-1847.
Phoebe Aron. (with Dharni Vasudevan) 2012-13. "Sedimentary sulphur from Merrymeeting Bay as a record of regional drought."
Chris Kan. (with Vlad Douhovnikoff) 2012-13. "Population genetic diversity among river herring in southern Maine."
Annie Sneed. 2011-2012. "Battered alewives: the long climb to recovery."
Catherine Johnston. 2011-2012. "Assessing ecological recovery in the Kennebec estuary."
Holly Jacobson. 2010-11. "Juvenile anadromous fish recovery in the Kennebec river system."
Shirley Wu. 2010-11. "Soil carbon dynamics in a pine forest under elevated atmospheric CO2."
Andy Bell. 2010-11. "Habitat fragmentation in estuarine ecosystems: food-web implications."
Rebecca Austin. Soil carbon and nitrogen turnover under elevated atmospheric CO2.
Norris Wong. 2009-10. Chemical fractionation of soil organic matter under elevated and ambient CO2 concentration.
Adam Hall (with Dharni Vasudevan). 2008-09. Phosphorus source-sink dynamics in the intertidal sediments of Merrymeeting Bay.
Alexa Kaubris. 2008-09. Soil carbon sequestration and turnover in a pine forest under atmospheric enrichment.
Kendra Neff. 2007-08. Constraints on tree recruitment on Kent Island, New Brunswick, following snowshoe hare eradication.
Keirnan Willett (with Bruce Kohorn). 2006-07. Soil microbial response to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization along an estuarine salinitiy gradient.
Mark Burton 2006-07. Spawning and nursery habitat of anadromous fish in Merrymeeting Bay and the lower Androscoggin River.
Thomas Buehrens 2006-07. Use of nearshore habitat by migrating Pacific salmon.
Sarah Close 2005-06. Nutrient dynamics of Lake Tanganyika.
Lucy Van Hook 2005-06. Snapping turtle population ecology and conservation in Merrymeeting Bay.
Christina Souther 2004-05. Primary productivity and nutrient cycling along the Kennebec estuary salinity gradient.
Greg Goldsmith (with Lindsay Whitlow). 2004-05. Impacts of long-term research on the seedling dynamics of a permanent sample plot on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Forest Ecology and Management 234:34-39, Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 4:122-123.
Katie Irving. 2003-04. Soil carbon turnover and chemistry under elevated atmospheric CO2 at the Duke Forest Free-air Enrichment experiment. Ecology 86:1835-1847.
Mark Roberts (with Beth Stemmler). 2003-04. Soil microbial composition and biomass at the Duke Forest Free-air CO2 Enrichment experiment.
Julie Grinvalsky. 2003-04. Population ecology of Eriocaulon parkerii in Merrymeeting Bay and its tributaries.
Pasakarnis, Tim. 2002-03. Carbon and nutrient content of intertidal soils of Merrymeeting Bay. Northeastern Naturalist 13:153-178.
Barron, Stacy. 2002-03. Soil carbon sequestration after six years of experimental CO2 fumigation at the Duke Forest FACE experiment. Ecology 86:1835-1847.
Peterson, Trevor. 2001-02. The effect of snowshoe hare browsing on tree recruitment in maritime boreal forest. Kent Island, New Brunswick. Canadian Field-Naturalist 119:569-572.
Bangor Daily News: Eelgrass study seen as key to protecting Maine clam flats from green crab devastation (Slideshow)
WCSH6: Researching a route to economic and ecological recovery (Video)
Bangor Daily News: Bowdoin college student wrestles American eels in the name of science (Slideshow)
The MPBN documentary Desperate Alewives has been nominated for a New England Emmy in the category of Outstanding Environmental Program. The doc looks at how populations of alewife — also known as sawbelly, mooneye, gaspereau and big-eyed or spring herring — have plummeted, prompting research by a group whose members include Coastal Studies Scholar Ted Ames, professors Phil Camill, Guillermo Herrera, John Lichter and David Vail, and Environmental Studies Program Manager and geographic information systems analyst Eileen Johnson, many of whom are featured in the segment.
Watch Desperate Alewives on PBS. See more from Sustainable Maine.
The Bowdoin group is collaborating with faculty from Bates and the University of Southern Maine on the project "Maine Rivers, Estuaries and Coastal Fisheries," funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ESPCoR) through a grant to the University of Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative. Read more about the project on a website created by Hunter Clark '13. The 35th Annual Boston/New England Emmy Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Boston/New England, will be presented June 2, 2012, in Boston.


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Graziano da Silva meets Yemeni Minister of Planning and International Cooperation
14 February 2014, Rome - FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva wished Yemen success following the country's recently announced move to become a federal state as he met with Mohamed Saeed Al Sa'adi, Yemen Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. The Minister noted that Yemen is now in need of the support of all international organizations and entities with experience in the management of regional and federal structures, especially in the field of food security.
Graziano da Silva said that since his visit to Yemen one year ago, FAO has given special attention to assisting the Yemeni Government in a number of fields, citing the assistance in controlling desert locust outbreaks and the introduction of Quinoa as examples.
Regarding the desert locust threat, the Minister informed the Director-General of a recent meeting with the president of the Islamic Development Bank in which $ 300,000 were granted to Yemen. The Minister indicated that this sum would be made available to FAO to use in its work to combat the desert locust in Yemen.
The Director-General also confirmed FAO's readiness to contribute to agricultural emergency programmes developing from the UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen of 2013, which appealed for over $702 million targeting over 7 million people.
The Director-General mentioned the Special Event on Yemen, which will take place during the upcoming Regional Conference for the Near East at FAO Headquarters in Rome. The Minister expressed his satisfaction with the organizing of such an event.
The Minister informed Graziano da Silva that he met the new FAO Representative in Yemen, Hajj Hassan, and expressed satisfaction with his continuous efforts and active engagement to assist the country.
Both leaders agreed on the paramount importance of South-South Cooperation for Yemen in areas such as agriculture production, fisheries and aquaculture.
The Director-General said that FAO is ready to provide technical support to Yemen in developing and implementing its national fisheries and aquaculture strategy.
During the meeting, the Minister informed the Director-General of the creation of the Supreme Council for Food Security in Yemen.
He also shared the view of the Director-General that the problem of migration that Yemen faces requires a regional approach, and that the involvement of the international community in addressing this issue is crucial.
The Minister invited the Director-General to visit the country again soon.


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SETTING: Bedroom at night.
(Humans are asleep in bed. Monsters are asleep underneath the bed. Kenny-Monster is snoring.)
Caroline-Human:(Wakes up scared.)
Zoe-Human:(Mumbling, half asleep.)
I don't want to wake up.
Caroline-Human:Zoe! I hear a monster under the bed!
Zoe-Human:There's no such thing as monsters, go back to bed.
(Zoe-Human snores, waking up Alisa-Monster.)
Alisa-Monster:Kenny! I hear something! I think something's up there! I think it's a human!
Kenny-Monster:There's no such thing as humans.
(Rolls around.)
Thanks! Now I can't get back to sleep.
(Kicks top of bed, waking Caroline-Human again.)
Caroline-Human:I really hear them. There are monsters down there!
Alisa-Monster:Shhh! Don't you hear them! There are humans up there!
Zoe-Human:There's no such thing as monsters.
Zoe-Human and Kenny-Monster:There's no such thing as humans/monsters.
Caroline-Human and Alisa-Monster:Fine! Then let's check.
(They all look and scream when they see each other.)
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The Bali International Convention Center, Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center, And Nusa Dua Hotels
Located 40 kilometers from Denpasar, the provincial capital of Bali, Nusa Dua is known as an enclave of Convention centers and large international 5-star resorts in south-eastern Bali. Within its vicinity, the Bali International Convention Center and the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center stand prestigiously at a picturesque landscape completed with all its modern facilities. Here, one will also find some of the international star rated hotels, such as the Grand Hyatt, the Westin Resort, the Laguna Resort & Spa, and the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel & Spa.
The Bali International Convention Centre
The Bali International Convention Centre at Nusa Dua is widely accepted as the venue to choose for prestigious and successful international Summit Meetings. Its prime location among luxurious hotels set amongst spacious gardens on the exclusive Nusa Dua Peninsula facing the Indian Ocean ensures that more often than not tough disputes find positive solutions here. In these magical and peaceful surroundings, world leaders and delegates calm down from their hectic diplomatic pace to return refreshed and inspired to meetings.
This is the only South East Asian conference centre on the beach that offers an exotic yet safe and comfortable environment away from the hustle and bustle of busy city life yet staying connected to the world. Its beachfront location, tropical setting, the unique and vibrant culture of Bali, – all make up a conducive atmosphere, not easily forgotten.
The Nusa Dua Peninsula has no less than 9 de-luxe hotels offering more than 3,000 rooms and suites, with each one itself providing large function and meeting rooms, first class international cuisine and service, and some of the best, world renowned Spas of Bali.
Here the Bali International Convention Centre holds centre stage. The Centre has held many international Summits, the largest of which was the December 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference that produced the Bali Roadmap and the Bali Action Plan. This Conference was attended by no less than 10,000 delegates from 180 countries, comprising heads of governments, ministers, international organizations and NGOs.
Situated some 30 minutes from Bali's International Ngurah Rai Airport, BICC has the largest, best equipped and most flexible conference and exhibition facilities on Bali. BICC also offers an exclusive bonded warehouse that greatly facilitates custom clearance and delivery.
The Convention Centre itself is a two storeyed red-brick building, where on the ground floor are the Nusa indah Plenary Hall, an Exhibition Hall, VIP room, an Auditorium, and a number of boardrooms and smaller meeting rooms able to seat between 150 – 300 delegates for break-out sessions. The main 2,000 square meters, Nusa Indah Hall at the Convention Centre seats 2,500 theatre style or 1,200 in classroom configuration, while the Auditorium can seat 506 persons with folding trays. Its unusually high 10 meters ceiling accommodates virtually any kind of production or exhibit.
On the upper floor are more function and meeting rooms, the largest of which, the Nusantara Room, can seat 1,500 participants theatre style or 1,000 classroom style.
The Convention Centre is directly linked to the Westin Resort, with 350 luxurious rooms. Eight other Resorts within the Nusa Dua complex are within a short distance from the Centre.
For information on the Convention Centre contact:
Bali International Convention Centre (BICC)
Nusa Dua Beach 80363 Bali, Indonesia
Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center
The recently completed Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center (BNDCC) is the latest top rated Conventions, Meetings and Exhibitions facility in Bali. Next to the earlier established Bali International Convention Center (BICC), the Nusa Dua area now has two large complexes to house the increasing number of high profile international conventions on the island.
Made ready for the ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit in November 2011, BNDCC covers an impressive 70,000 sq.m garden landscape with breathtaking Balinese architecture, including a total 25,000 sq.m building area, which are all integrated to create a complete infrastructure for any kind of events.
Its large convention hall when completely opened can seat around 5,000 theatre style. This hall is dividable into 5 smaller units with capacities ranging between 270 seats to 2,200 seats theater style.
Strategically located in the Southern Bali, BNDCC is only 20 minutes away by car from the International Airport and has an easy access for any transportation. This center is perfectly located with many major roads connecting the centre with various landmarks on the island.
This fully equipped, multi functional convention center has all world class facilities, an extensive exhibition space, excellent outdoor facilities and a dynamic accommodating area that makes it a part of the top league of convention centers in Indonesia. Along with the fact that it wonderfully caters to the needs of all kinds of events, an extra factor that enhances the worth of this strategically located venue is the magnificent beauty of the location and a host of touring options available nearby.
BNDCC has a pre function lobby of 2000 square meters and 17 meeting rooms along with the extremely spacious Nusa Dua Convention Hall in the ground floor. Added to this is the open air facility and meeting room foyer that is air conditioned with natural lighting. The specialty of this venue is in its manpower that is dedicated to provide best Convention Services and its Audio Visual Team. The Wi Fi connection, Broadband internet access in all meeting rooms also makes it a technologically sound venue. It also has a parking space of 600 lots.
Contact Address: Nusa Dua Resort Block NW/1, Badung,Bali, Indonesia
Bali has more de-luxe hotels and exclusive venues outside the Nusa Dua that area that are ideal for conferences, weddings, exhibitions and performances.
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Plot and structure are so important to a story. Heck, that's the key word to all this: story. A plot and structure is essentially your story's framework. Many whole books have been written on plot because it's such a tricky complicated thing. How can you keep people turning the pages? How can you affect their emotions and get them to continue reading? Plot factors in huge.
Luckily for us, we've got literary agent and instructor extraordinaire Kate McKean of Howard Morhaim Literary to teach "Find, Fix and Finesse Your Plot into a Winning Idea" — a brand new webinar at 1 p.m., Thursday, Fe. 28, 2013. It lasts 90 minutes and comes with an awesome critique of your entire synopsis!
Kate will critique the synopsis of every attendee! This is a big deal because synopsis critiques via a literary agent are not easy to come by.
There is a lot to this webinar, and you can see Kate's official rundown on the webinar page … but for starters, attendees will learn the following:
- The seven elements every plot has to have
- How to respect the reader in regards to your plot
- How, if, and when to chart, outline, and plan your plot
- How to let your plot and characters roam free on the page
- Why people say there are only seven plots under the sun
- Why doing the exact opposite of those seven plots is not necessarily the answer
- Why "But it happened that way in real life!" is the worse excuse for a plot point
Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, NY, where she has worked for over six years. She earned her Master's in Fiction Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi, and enjoys both the creative and business aspects of her job. Her clients include the New York Times bestselling humor book I Can Has Cheezburger?, YA and Adult Fantasy writer Delilah S. Dawson, and blogger, designer, and creativity expert Noah Scalin. She is most interested in contemporary women's fiction, middle grade and young adult fiction.
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text: �By Ed email@example.com � After struggling on offense in the first half, the Reading High School girls basketball team regained its composure at halftime.Settling down paid off for the Rangers as they found their rhythm in the second half and pulled away for a 44-26 victory over the Jonesville Comets in a Big Eight Conference game Tuesday.Reading (6-3, 3-2 Big Eight) took control of the game by opening the third quarter with a 9-0 run. Jonesville (2-8, 0-5 Big Eight) kept itself within striking distance with a surge late in the frame, but the Rangers tightened up defensively in the fourth and closed the game on a 14-5 run thanks to key free throw shooting by Jami Hubbard and Brittany Marquart."The girls settled in nicely in the second half and didn't panic," Reading coach Ryan Mulnix said. "We got our legs under us then attacked the basket more. We had a good second half, and I was happy with how we played defensively."Neither team had played since the Pat Patterson Holiday Classic Dec. 27-28, and both were sluggish offensively throughout the first half. The Comets scored the game's first five points with a putback by Taylor Dunn and a 3-pointer by Calin Deck. The teams exchanged turnovers until Ashley McCarley got the Rangers on the board with a layup with 1:20 left in the quarter. A pair of free throws by Marquart pulled Reading to within 6-4 at the end of the frame.Jonesville continued to force the Rangers into turnovers and missed shots early in the second quarter, and a jumper by Emily Dawson restored its lead to four. Hubbard answered with a 3-pointer and free throw to tie the game, but Kalie Spencer's hook shot midway through the frame gave the Comets a 10-8 lead.Reading recovered after that, and Hubbard's putback with 1:48 remaining gave the Rangers an 11-10 halftime lead."It was our first game after break, and we tend to get a little impatient," Mulnix said.While Jonesville went cold from the floor, the Rangers built momentum early in the third quarter. A missile from McCarley, a jumper by Michelle Davis and free throws by Marquart and Hubbard lifted Reading into a 10-point lead. Minutes later, consecutive baskets by Davis and Taylor Coe increased the Rangers' lead to 24-13."We played well in the first half, but we struggled to score in the second half," Jonesville coach Tom Dunn said. "We didn't put the ball in the hoop, and that's been a problem for us all year. Defensively we gave up too much penetration and didn't make enough stops."Spencer got hot for the Comets in the closing minutes of the third quarter, hitting a pair of inside baskets before Taylor Dunn's layup off a steal pulled Jonesville to within 26-20. However, Davis and Coe answered in the final minute, restoring Reading's lead to 30-21 entering the fourth.Hubbard finished with 12 points to lead the Rangers. Marquart finished with nine points, all coming from the line, while McClarey had eight points. Davis finished with six points and Coe scored four points.Spencer scored a game-high 14 points to lead Jonesville. Taylor Dunn added four points.Reading visits Concord on Friday, while Jonesville travels to Springport that same night.�


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February 7, 2013 — The Mississippi Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee on Tuesday approved a bill (SB 2795) that would tighten restrictions on medication abortion, the AP/Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. The bill now advances to the full Senate. Meanwhile, a companion House measure died in committee on Tuesday.
The Senate measure, introduced by Sen. Angela Burks Hill (R), states that physicians must adhere to FDA protocols when administering abortion-inducing drugs. In practice, this would prohibit the use of medication abortion after seven weeks from a woman's last period; many doctors currently use the method up to nine weeks.
Felicia Brown-Williams, who lobbies for Planned Parenthood in Mississippi, said, "The FDA protocol for medical abortion is an outdated procedure and it's not commonly used."
The bill also would mandate that a woman return to the doctor's office to take the second of the two drugs used in a medication abortion, rather than taking the second pill at home. In total, a woman would be required to visit the office four times: before she receives the prescription, when she takes the first pill, when she takes the second pill and a follow-up two weeks later (AP/Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 2/5).


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In "The Perfect Peach," a new book by Marcy Masumoto, Nikiko Masumoto and David Mas Masumoto (Ten Speed Press, 2013), the authors celebrate the myriad flavors and ways to serve a peach. I love this peach gazpacho because it is both savory and sweet. The vinegar, garlic and cucumber all help add a piquant layer of flavor. A pretty garnish and tasty topping of avocado and red pepper add another flavor and textural dimension. Serve well chilled in pretty shallow soup bowls. For a bigger group, serve this sunny fruit soup in shooter glasses as your guests arrive for a festive taste of summer.
Sitting on the terrace of a beach hotel, I was served the elegant, refreshing dessert gazpacho below. The chef there prepared a fresh basil sorbet to accompany the chilled soup, but any high-quality fruit sorbet works here. Decorate the soup with the fruit, the sorbet and mint leaves. If you prefer a pure red soup, cook the mint leaves in the sugar syrup and strain them out before continuing.
When the heat is on, I hope you'll try both of these chilled fruit gazpachos. And don't hesitate to change up the fruit. Instead of peaches, try nectarines. If you are in a hurry, use cut up seedless grapes and the mango as garnish for the dessert gazpacho.
SERVES: 6 to 8
- 6 soft to gushy peaches (about 21/2 pounds), peeled, pitted and quartered
- 1/2 cucumber, peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks
- 1 small clove garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon champagne or golden balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh cilantro or flat-leaf parsley
- Red bell pepper slices and avocado slices, for garnish (optional)
1. In a food processor, combine the peaches, cucumber, garlic, vinegar, oil, salt, pepper, and 1/2 cup water and pulse until coarsely pureed. Thin with the remaining 1/4 cup water if needed for a good consistency. Transfer to a bowl, cover, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours to chill thoroughly.
2. Just before serving, taste and adjust the seasoning with more vinegar, salt, and pepper if needed. Stir in the cilantro. Ladle into bowls, drizzle each serving with a little oil, and garnish with the bell pepper and avocado. Serve at once.
Advance Preparation: Can be prepared through step 1 up to 8 hours ahead and refrigerated
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 pints strawberries, hulled
- 1 pint raspberries
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh mint
- 1 mango, peeled and cut into small balls with a small melon baller
- 1 papaya, peeled, seeded, and finely diced
- 1 kiwi, peeled and julienned
- 1 pint fruit sorbet (raspberry or strawberry works well)
- Fresh mint leaves
1. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the water and sugar and simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved. Set the syrup aside.
2. Reserve 1/2 pint of the smaller strawberries for garnish and combine the rest with the raspberries and lemon juice in a blender or food processor fitted with the metal blade. Process until pur�ed. Strain the berry pur�e through a fine-mesh strainer into a large, nonaluminum bowl and add the sugar syrup and chopped mint. Mix well, cover, and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 2 hours.
3. To serve, cut the reserved strawberries into julienne. Divide the berry pur�e among 6 shallow soup bowls, and then arrange the fruits on top in a whimsical pattern. Place a small scoop of sorbet in the center of each bowl and garnish with the mint leaves. Serve immediately.
Advance Preparation:
Can be prepared through step 2 up to 1 day ahead and refrigerated
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Diane Rossen Worthington is an authority on new American cooking. She is the author of 18 cookbooks, including "Seriously Simple Holidays," and also a James Beard award-winning radio show host.


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Used Volkswagen Golf hatchback (13 - present)
What's it like?
Used Volkswagen Golf Hatchback 13- Present
What's the used Volkswagen Golf like?
Very few cars have the classless appeal of the Volkswagen Golf and, with this seventh-generation model, VW managed to come up with a car that's not only as multitalented as its predecessors but improves on them significantly.
For starters, there's the range of low-capacity turbocharged petrol engines, which punch far above their weight in terms of performance yet return impressive fuel efficiency.
Then there's the dashboard, built out of even more upmarket-feeling materials than before and laid out almost ideally, with all the major controls right where you need them to be.
To drive, the seventh-generation Golf is deeply impressive; comfortable and stable at any speed, yet also offering enough response from the chassis and sharpness from the steering to make it enjoyable.
What's more, most versions come with more than enough equipment to satisfy the majority of used car buyers. And because of the Golf's ubiquity, it's easy to find an example that suits your wants and needs.
For all this, there is of course a price to pay – the Golf is a little more expensive to buy than most of its contemporaries when compared like for like. What's more, some rivals such as the Skoda Octavia are even more spacious.
But the Golf still offers more than enough space for the average family. And when you take into account all that it offers, the Golf starts to look like it's worth every penny of its higher price.
The Golf was substantially updated in 2017, with some styling tweaks to the exterior, a range of more efficient engines, some additional trim levels and a new infotainment system for the interior.
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This spring's flush of mustards and other weeds is a likely harbinger of heavy pressure from yield- and quality-robbing onion thrips on San Joaquin Valley onion fields, warns Rich Coviello, Fresno County farm advisor.
Both onion thrips and western flower thrips (WFT) have a wide range of hosts, from various weeds to cereals and broadleaf crops, but the onion species, which can claim half a crop, is considered more damaging to onions than WFT.
Onion thrips is also suspected of vectoring a "new" disease to the SJV, iris yellow spot virus.
Coviello told those at the recent California Onion and Garlic Conference at Five Points that with ample vegetation the thrips build high populations and as soon as mustards and other hosts dry down, adults and nymphs will head for onion fields.
The sucking insects first attack undersides of leaves and in the whorl of the onion plant, creating an abraded effect. Later, as populations swell, they move on to exposed leaf surfaces. Severely damaged foliage has a silvery appearance.
"You can find both species, but in recent years I've seen more onion trips on onions around the west side of Fresno County. You need a 20X magnification lens to tell the difference. One distinguishing feature is onion thrips have spines farther back from the head than WFT," he said.
Another distinction is populations of WFT tend to appear early and then level off as springtime temperatures climb. From then through the growing season, as bulbs develop, onion thrips are most active. Their scarring of leaves of fresh onions is a serious problem.
Thrips/bulb size
Coviello said the higher the thrips populations, the higher the percentage of under-sized bulbs. In his small plots to evaluate insecticides at Five Points he saw harvestable onion yields slip from 135 pounds in treated portions to 60 pounds in untreated controls.
"There may be some discussion in other onion-growing areas about whether thrips cause significant damage, but I think this demonstrated that they can be damaging around here," he added.
In approaching management of onion thrips, Coviello said a defined threshold for treatment has not been worked out. However, by sampling at least five plants from four parts of a field, an average count of 30 thrips per plant has been used successfully for dry bulb fresh market and drying onions.
For processing onions, when weekly population sampling, as detailed in University of California Management Guidelines for thrips, reveals 500 to 600 cumulative thrips days, or the equivalent of 20 per plant, significant losses can occur.
Applications of synthetic pyrethroid insecticides have shown the best longevity, while organophosphates and carbamates have been less effective, Coviello said.
Thrips resistance to organophosphates has been documented in other states and is suspected in California, so use of alternating classes of chemicals is recommended.
Organic materials may give some protection for a few days, but Coviello said "the aerial flotsam of thrips" coming off drying crops and weeds is overwhelming to most of these materials.
He said there is anecdotal evidence that sulfur, either wettable or dusting, gives some control of onion thrips, although precautions to avoid contact with watermelons or other surrounding, susceptible crops need to be taken.
Thorough coverage
Regardless of the material applied, thorough coverage is vital, since most thrips activity is in protected portions of the plant.
Grant Poole, Los Angeles County farm advisor, said his trials at Lancaster screening several chemicals demonstrated that aerial applications of Lannate gave the best performance against thrips. The insects, he added, are beginning to show resistance to Warrior, a compound used in the area for the past five years.
Another speaker at the conference, Joe Nunez, Kern County farm advisor, said reports been made of a new onion disease identified as iris yellow spot virus (IYSV).
It was reported in Brazil in 1981 and has also been found in Israel, as well as several onion-growing regions in the U.S., including Oregon and Washington, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Nunez said the pathogen turned up in Idaho seed-onion fields in 1991 and although it was not lethal, it did reduce bulb size. Two strains of the virus have been identified.
ISYV, a topovirus, is vectored by various thrips species, including onion thrips, and also goes to garlic and other alliums. The thrips commonly move from drying grain and bean fields into onions.
Symptoms are straw-colored lesions on leaves. Some lesions have a distinct green center surrounded by yellow-tan borders, giving an "eye" effect. Others are concentric rings of alternating green and yellow-tan tissue.
Management strategies in other states, such as Colorado, have included sanitation and destruction of onion debris and volunteers, use of clean seed, crop rotation, selection of varieties less susceptible to thrips, and thrips control.
Value-added onions
Marita Cantwell, Cooperative Extension vegetable specialist at the University of California, Davis, told the conference that "fresh-cut," value-added onion products need special care from the field through processing.
Fresh-cut vegetables made up nearly a third of all pre-packaged produce retail sales in 2003.
"We are making these products more convenient for the consumer, but we have to realize they are more perishable after they are sliced or chopped," she said.
Fresh-cut onions can be stored for about 21 days if they are cut with sharp blades and maintained at 32 to 41 degrees with the proper atmosphere.
Growers, she said, need to know the shelf life is reduced if fresh-cut onions are damaged, either by bruising or by improper storage, before or during the cutting process. If damaged, they become more translucent and contract microbial growth sooner.
"The industry has quite sophisticated processing, but one of the main problems now is consistency of raw material quality, and we've found a lot of variability in handling that leads to physical damage."
She said she and other researchers are identifying the different variables in onions by variety, chemical composition, and they ways they are grown.
"We've started a project to look into what happens with each of these, we have an annual workshop for fresh-cut vegetables and fruit at Davis, and we are publishing the information on the Web at [email protected]"


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Assembled to bring together short and broken runs of periodicals produced by activists and movements for social justice, the Social Change Periodicals Collection touches on a wide variety of topics. Much of the original collection came from subscriptions held by the Everywoman's Center at UMass Amherst, however the collection has grown to include materials supplied by many other donors. The bulk of periodicals come from the period 1965-1990 and the subjects covered range from feminism to gay rights, and political radicalism, to peace, prison, labor, antiracism, and the counterculture more generally. The collection has been organized thematically into 19 series.
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Wildness dooms Fisher Cats in loss to Harrisburg
July 24. 2013 10:46PM
Reliever Scott Gracey lost his control just when it looked like New Hampshire had gained the momentum.
Three straight two-out walks by Gracey in the 10th inning pushed across the winning run to lead Harrisburg past the Fisher Cats, 3-2, in an Eastern League encounter Wednesday at the Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.
Harrisburg (57-48), which pulled out a 6-5 win on Tuesday, ended up taking two of the three games against New Hampshire this week. The Senators are the Western Division leaders. New Hampshire, which lost its fourth game in its last 15, falls to 52-50. The Fisher Cats are in sole possession of second place in the Eastern Division, a half-game ahead of third-place Trenton.
New Hampshire opens a four-game series against Altoona today in Manchester at 7:05 p.m.
In the 10th inning, Gracey (3-1) fanned the first two batters before Jeff Howell tripled to right. Then walks to Brian Goodwin, Jose Lozada and Steven Souza pushed Howell across the plate for the winning run.
Matt Grace notched the save and Neil Holland (1-3) was credited with the win.
New Hampshire rallied to tie the game with a two-out mini spurt in the ninth inning against reliever Aaron Barrett. Gabe Jacobo singled to left and scored on a clutch double from Ryan Schimpf. It was his 17th double of the season.
The Fisher Cats led 1-0 in the second inning. Nashua native Kevin Nolan reached on a fielding error by center fielder Goodwin, ending up on third base. He quickly scored on a single to right by Jacobo, who had three hits in the game.
Harrisburg made it 2-1 in the fourth inning on Goodwin's eighth homer of the season to lead off the frame.
The Senators tied the game in the fifth inning. Rick Hague singled to center and, with Destin Hood batting, a passed ball advanced Hague into scoring position at second base. Hood delivered an RBI single to right to knot the game until the home ninth.
New Hampshire starter Marcus Stroman pitched 6-2/3-innings, allowing five hits and both runs. He walked two and fanned 11 batters, lowering his ERA to 2.99.


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Enter the Dragon
How the Dragon, a new privately funded spacecraft, should revolutionize American space exploration.
In 1957, the Soviets beat the Americans into space by launching the world's first orbiting satellite. For Americans, the so-called "Sputnik moment" was a wake-up call that pushed the United States to increase investment in technology and science education. Months later, the United States launched the Explorer 1 satellite, and the space race was on. Children were encouraged to study math and science, and American know-how helped the U.S. meet the challenge.
But the space program has slowed down dramatically since then and in early December, President Obama talked of the need for a new "Sputnik moment" to revitalize America's once-leading role in technology.
Ironically, that moment happened two days later, but with lamentably little media coverage. This Sputnik moment—actually a "Dragon moment"—delivered a somewhat different message. On Dec. 8, an American company, SpaceX, founded by an immigrant and financed mostly by private U.S. investors, successfully launched sthe Dragon spacecraft into orbit and then recovered it from a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
The message is not just that STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education is necessary, but also that this achievement by a private company cost just a fraction of NASA's budget in money and time. Governments are great at funding and carrying out research, but competitive private companies motivated by profit and glory tend to be more efficient and speedier in applying the results.
One example: Right before the launch, SpaceX engineers found a few cracks in the second-stage engine nozzle extension. Rather than haul the spacecraft back to the shop for repairs, they simply analyzed the flaw, trimmed off the affected section, and proceeded with the launch. (To be sure, they might have acted differently had the Dragon been carrying humans.)
The lesson of the Dragon launch is not that NASA is clueless but that government research agencies should not run routine operations that could be better handled by businesses. (NASA in particular has been constrained by years of political infighting and patronage in the Congress, to the point where its mission seems to be employment maintenance rather space exploration.)
I must confess a personal interest in this question. I am writing this from Cape Canaveral, Fla. As a member of NASA's Advisory Council, I am currently visiting its Kennedy Space Center, which is badly in need of upgrading and repairs. Yet right now NASA is spending $475 million on a program that has already been canceled instead of on the space center. The reason: A congressman managed to introduce a provision that prohibits NASA from stopping the spending until a new budget has been approved. Because NASA is still operating under an old budget, the canceled program continues to be funded.
Imagine how those NASA workers must feel: grateful for the paychecks but completely cynical about the value of the work they are doing. Why not pay them the same amount to share their knowledge and skills in high schools? That would be a more useful response.
But back to the Dragon, which succeeded for a number of reasons. First and foremost, SpaceX is a private company. Someone's own money is at stake, so it is not wasted. Its founder, Elon Musk, an immigrant from South Africa (who in his spare time also runs Tesla, the electric-car company), funded it with his own money (which he earned at PayPal, another startup) and that of other private investors. (Yes, SpaceX does have contracts with NASA, but for a fixed price per launch.)
The emphasis at SpaceX is on getting the job done, rather than just doing the job. Whereas governments and government contractors generally enjoy job security, private companies know that the money may run out. Also, private companies compete. Behind SpaceX is a crowd of other private companies developing spacecraft, including Masten Space Systems, Armadillo Aerospace, Blue Origin, and XCOR Aerospace (a company I invest in).
These companies aren't all competing to build precisely the same kind of vehicle. In fact, each considers its own approach superior. This kind of redundancy is actually efficient in the long run, as each player experiments and all of them learn from everyone's failures and successes. In the meantime, each of them is competing not for a single grand prize but for a share of a growing market, risking investors' money and their own reputations.
It is this free-market economy, which rewards useful innovation and purposeful risk-taking, that we should honor and recognize. The U.S. government (or European governments, for that matter) can't get us out of our current economic mess any better than they can get us to the moon at this point. In most areas of endeavor, the government should be a demanding customer rather than a provider (or subsidizer).
In the United States, government fostered the airline business—largely by buying cargo services from private airlines. It also built what became the Internet—and then sensibly left most of the development and day-to-day operations to the private sector.
Now, under Obama's new and sensible space policy, the U.S. government is planning to focus on flying to Mars and so-called "near-Earth objects," purchasing routine transportation to the International Space Station from companies such as SpaceX (instead of from the Russian space program at $60 million or so per astronaut for every round trip). What the Dragon moment makes clear is that the ability to commercialize innovation, not just to create it, is what has made the U.S. economy so robust over the long run.
This article comes from Project Syndicate.


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SIOS Technology has launched its high-performance data replication solution, SteelEye DataKeeper Cloud Edition, which provides real-time SQL Server data protection in Amazon EC2 environments. This solution makes the deployment of high-availability systems in the cloud much easier so companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud deployments. As a result of the company's partnership with Amazon, this is the only solution that enables native SQL Server failover clustering in the Amazon Cloud without requiring SANs.
"SIOS understands the inhibitors that prevent users from taking advantage of disruptive technologies like the cloud," said Celia Cattani, SIOS vice president of Americas Sales. "Through our partnership with Amazon and the introduction of SteelEye DataKeeper Cloud Edition, not only are we the only company to make opportunities like failover clustering in the Amazon Cloud possible, but we make it easy for customers to reap the benefits of a cluster without an expensive SAN," said Cattani.
SteelEye DataKeeper Cloud Edition provides full support for Standard or Enterprise Editions of SQL Server 2012, 2008 R2, 2008, and 2005. Visit the SteelEye DataKeeper Cloud Edition web page to learn more information. To learn more about replication with SQL Server, see the SQL Server Pro articles "SAN Replication vs. Clustering vs. Mirroring" and "How Can I Use Storage Replication For A Data Center Migration?"


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Title: Inside Out & Back Again
Author: Thanhha Lai
Publisher: Harper Collins
May Contain Spoilers
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For all the ten years of her life, HÀ has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by . . . and the beauty of her very own papaya tree.
But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. HÀ and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, HÀ discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape . . . and the strength of her very own family.
This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
I love books about different cultures or ways of life, and Inside Out & Back Again delivers up an emotionally enthralling account of a young Vietnamese girl's flight from her home country to the US. As I read Ha's adventures, recounted in simple yet moving free verse, I wondered what it would be like to have everything familiar ripped away. Before the fall of Saigon, life for Ha was happy and content, despite the growing hardships caused by the war. Her father has been missing in action since she was an infant, but her family still holds out hope that he will return home one day. She loves her family, she is doing well in school, and she is eager for her papaya tree to finally yield fruit. Her three brothers are happy, as well, and they are excellent students with bright futures ahead of them. Everything changes with the fall of Saigon.
Ha's mother is trying valiantly to raise four children by herself, but life has gotten more difficult. It's harder to make ends meet, and the price of everything keeps climbing. As the communists threaten Saigon, she has a family meeting and asks everyone what they should do. Should they flee, and try to built a new life in a country without Ho Chi Min and the war? Ha and her brother Thoi don't want to go. How can they leave Ha's papaya tree and Thoi's chicken? The pain of leaving their most prized possessions was a bitter pill to swallow for a new life with no guarantees. I don't think I could have done it. Photographs, clothing, memories; all were left behind in Vietnam.
I loved Ha and found her easy to relate to. She has been thrust into a new life that she doesn't want, and one that doesn't seem to want her. Her new neighbors in Alabama aren't very neighborly, she can't understand the confusing language she is immersed in, and her classmates mock and bully her. Her teacher doesn't understand her and doesn't try to make her feel welcome. Instead, Ha, a bright, curious girl, is left feeling stupid and ignorant. As she begins to pick up the language, she wishes she did not understand the names she is called or the jokes that her peers make about her. She is angry, justifiably, but there is no outlet for her rage. Ha is the one who must make concessions to fit in with a group of kids who can only see how she is different from them.
This is a quick read that follows one year in Ha's life. Starting in Vietnam on New Year's, Inside Out & Back Again chronicles her flight from Saigon, life in a refuge camp, and her eventual home in Alabama. I could not put the book down and I read it in one sitting. Highly recommended.
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Pardew still hoping Ba will stay
Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew insists there is still a chance Demba Ba will stay on Tyneside even though the striker has become the prize catch for some of the Premier League's top clubs in the January transfer window.
Reports have claimed talks over Ba's proposed move to Chelsea has stalled as the Senegal international looks to secure lucrative personal terms, but the £7 million release clause in his contract means a move in the January transfer window remains a distinct possibility.
However, Pardew - who gave Ba his chance to prove his worth as a top-class Premier League striker despite injury doubts - is trying to stay positive.
"There is still a chance Demba could stay with us," Pardew says. "There has been lots of speculation around this situation for the last few weeks and the truth is Demba's future is out of our hands because of this clause in his contract. So it is probably his decision whether he stays or not, but that option is there for him.
"His contract terms have been widely put around - that's been the problem. It means people are getting involved who perhaps have no right to be involved because of that situation, but I know how much the Newcastle fans have warmed to Demba in his time here and they want to see him continuing in the black-and-white shirt."
Pardew has spent many a long hour scouting players in France over the last few weeks and he has confirmed he is looking to strengthen his fragile defensive line in the January transfer window, with a deal for Lille full-back Mathieu Debuchy likely to be the first piece of business he does in this transfer window.
"We need some defenders and I have given this message to the board," he adds, after seeing his side lose 4-3 at Manchester United and 7-3 at Arsenal in recent days. "My disappointment after the Manchester United defeat was as big as it has been after any defeat in recent years. To go to Old Trafford, score three times, hit the post and the crossbar and come away losing was hard to take.
"When you consider we were without many of our senior players, the performance we put in against the league leaders was fantastic and yet we continue to give away soft goals and it cost us dearly once again.
"At Arsenal, we showed some good signs again, but some of the goals we gave away were not good enough. This is an area we need to improve on if we are to take strides forward."
Meanwhile, Ba has dismissed suggestions he is motivated by the desire for personal wealth.
"Something which is easy for me to give is money," he told the Daily Telegraph. "I feel detached from it. I look after myself and my family, but I won't forget people who struggle. The money I earn is not just for me - it is made for me to give to the people.
"My father lives in Senegal most of the time, and my mother goes there for five months a year. They are from similar villages, and know how to distribute money to people who need it. For me, it's not about being Demba Ba, or a footballer, or at Newcastle. I'm no better than anybody else."
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker College women's soccer team will be hosting a Spring Break Camp for girls and boys ages 4-13 on Monday, April 2-Friday April 6. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to noon daily at the Coker Soccer Field.
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Design submitted by Sam from Germany.
Sam transferred the "neck bones" of a crash test dummy and the recognizable camera marker to this wrist watch. The display is a derivation of the before mentioned camera marker.
There are three analog watch hands for hours, minutes and seconds and a dial in the same colors. The glass plate on the display carries an LCD display. It is normally off and with the push of a button, it lets your see the date or use a stop watch. To perfect the crash test theme, Sam thought about according sensory. In the end, he decided for an ultrasonic distance meter. This gives the wearer the opportunity to measure the distance of objects as well as calculating their velocity when moving towards of away from the wearer. The distance meter data is also shown on the LCD display.
The distance meter works as follows: The sensory, which is placed above the strap and pointing away from the wearer, emits ultrasonic waves and the internal stop watch gets started. The ultrasonic waves sooner or later hit an object and get reflected by it. The reflected waves reach the sensory again and the stop watch stops. The resulting time multiplied with the sound velocity and then divided by 2 results to the passed distance (d=vt/2). As long as the wearer holds the button, this process gets repeated in a high frequency and the data becomes more accurate. The zero point of the measurement can be set individually (let it be center of the watch or your wrists outer face for example). If the object is moving towards the wearer or away from him/her, the distance difference in a certain time gets measured and the velocity gets calculated (v=Δd/t).
With a proper software, the wearer can also calculate the speed of the car he/she is in for example (using the tachometer principle of a known distance combined with the stop watch) or the distance of a thunder storm (using the stop watch and automatically multiplying the time between flash and thunder with sonic velocity)/ Or one can calculate the average walking speed in a known distance and extrapolate the necessary time for future walks.
This watch design is a combination of a geeky and extrovert watch. There are some different colored straps to appeal to a wider range of people. It is a watch with a high value of recognition and a clever usage.


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SACRAMENTO — With harvest just a few weeks away, Valencia orange trees in California's Central Valley are showing good volume despite the December freeze, according to a survey of growers.
Samples taken in 583 Valencia groves found an average fruit set per tree of 616, above the five-year average of 603, reported the National Agricultural Statistics Service office here.
The average March 1 diameter was 2.571 inches, slightly larger than the five-year average of 2.566, according to NASS' objective measurement survey.
The agency predicts the summertime crop will come in at 24 million cartons, down from about 25 million cartons last year. Valencia acreage continues its precipitous decline; there are about 37,000 acres of the variety this year, down from 68,000 in 2000, noted Bob Blakely, director of industry relations for the Exeter-based California Citrus Mutual.
"It is within the crop range that we've seen in the last couple of years," Blakely said of NASS' prediction. "Valencia acreage continues to decline as more trees are taken out and orchards are redeveloped into more desirable varieties."
The report comes as citrus growers lost about $441 million in revenue because of the early December freeze, as about 30 percent of navel oranges and 40 percent of remaining mandarins were rendered unsuitable for fresh markets, Citrus Mutual estimates.
Valencias with minor frost damage had time to heal and refill their juice sacks, but the NASS survey wasn't necessarily looking for internal damage, Blakely said.
"I don't think you can interpret it that we didn't have damage to the Valencia crop," he said. "I'm sure we're going to find that we do, but nobody has started harvesting that crop yet."
Lots of large, juicy navel oranges are still showing up at farmers' markets and on supermarket shelves, but fresh-utilization rates are starting to drop as growers move into groves that they know sustained some freeze damage, Blakely said.
Growers and shippers are spending more time separating out good oranges for the fresh market and sending others to the juicer, he said.
2013-14 California Valencia Orange Objective Measurement Report: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/Fruits_and_Nuts/201403valom.pdf
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Dakota Fanning is a Navy Nymph
Dakota Fanning is age-appropriately cute in a sleek satin jumpsuit as she tapes a segment for the The Late Show with David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City on Monday (February 2).
The adorable 14-year-old, who finished off her look with BCBGirls platforms, recently chatted about her real and rumored upcoming roles in Coraline and the Twilight series with Parade magazine.
On how she's like and unlike Coraline: I collect dolls and I've been doing it my whole life. I just love them. Coraline doesn't collect girly things. I think she's a bit more tomboyish than I am. When I was a kid I used to imagine those dolls were my children and I'd act out little stories with them. I think that's when I realized that maybe I could be an actor.
On rumors that she'll appear in the next Twilight movie: It's definitely being discussed but it's not set in stone. It would be really cool to be a part of Twilight if it works out. I'm a big fan. I saw the first movie but I haven't read all of the books yet, I'm working on it. I would be a vampire, which could really prove that I can be sweet, little Dakota Fanning and then I can be something different on the screen.
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Scottish Dawn and NS131 will be banned from today after their proscription as terrorist organisations.
An order laid in Parliament will proscribe Scottish Dawn and NS131 (National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action) as aliases of National Action which was proscribed in December 2016.
As a result, fromtoday (29 September 2017) when the order comes into effect, being a member or inviting support for the organisations will be a criminal offence, carrying a sentence of up to 10 years imprisonment.
The neo-Nazi group National Action was banned last year following an assessment that it was concerned in terrorism. The order laid today means that it cannot operate as Scottish Dawn or NS131, which have been identified as alternate names the group has used.
Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, said:
National Action is a vile racist, homophobic and anti-semitic group which glorifies violence and stirs up hatred while promoting their poisonous ideology and I will not allow them to masquerade under different names.
By extending the proscription of National Action, we are halting the spread of a poisonous ideology and stopping its membership from growing - protecting those who could be at risk of radicalisation.
Our priority as government will always be to maintain the safety and security of families and communities across the United Kingdom and we will continue to identify and ban any terrorist group which threatens this, whatever their ideology.
National Actions online propaganda material featured violent imagery and language, inferring that violent acts, including the attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando and the murder of Jo Cox should be emulated.
Decisions about proscribing or extending the proscription of a particular organisation are taken after extensive consideration and in light of a full assessment of available information.


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- Game 16 • Brown (4-11, 0-1 Ivy League)
- Jan. 21, 2011 • 7 p.m. ET
- Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center • Providence, R.I.
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The Yale women's basketball team concludes its home-and-home series with Brown with today's visit to Providence to play the second game of the Ivy League portion of its 2010-11 schedule. The Bulldogs staged a second-half rally behind a career-high 26-point effort from freshman Janna Graf to earn a 66-54 win over Brown at Yale on Jan. 14. The Bulldogs are looking for their first win at Brown since the 2008-09 season (Jan. 23, 2009). If they can pull off the win, it will be the first season sweep for either team in the season since Yale pulled off the feat in the 2007-08 season.
Last Time Out
Trailing 25-22 at halftime, Yale charged past Brown in the second half, outscoring the Bears 44-29 in the period, to pull out a 66-54 win. Freshman Janna Graf scored a career-high 26 points, including 10 in a game-changing 18-3 run late in the second half to lead the Bulldogs to the win in the Ivy League opener for both teams. Senior Mady Gobrecht recorded her second double-double of the season and seventh of her career with 11 points and a career-high 14 rebounds.
Scouting Brown
After starting its season at 2-2, Brown has since lost nine of its last 11 games, including the Ivy League opener at Yale. The Bears are now 4-11, 0-1 in the Ivy League, entering tonight's game, which includes a 2-4 record at home. Brown's only two home wins came against Bryant and an upset over Florida. The Bears are led by Sheila Dixon (11.3 ppg., 21 vs. Yale on Jan. 14) and Lauren Clarke (10.5 ppg., 11 vs. Yale). Brown is the third-best defensive team in the Ivy League, holding teams to 62.3 points per game, and the Bears force teams to shoot just 37.9 percent from the field.
Series History
In a series that dates back to Yale's first season as a varsity program in 1973-74, the two teams have met 71 times prior to Friday's game. Brown owns a 42-29 advantage in the series. However, Yale is now 6-5 against Brown under Head Coach Chris Gobrecht after last Friday's win at Yale. The Bulldogs are looking for their first win at Brown since the 2008-09 season (Jan. 23, 2009). If they can pull off the win, it will be the first season sweep for either team in the season since Yale pulled off the feat in the 2007-08 season.
Fantastic Frosh
Brown freshman point guard Lauren Clarke is already making an impact on the Ivy League leaderboard. She ranks third among league leaders in 3-pointers made. She has made 26 threes in Brown's 15 games this season, an average of 1.7 per game. She is also third in the Ivy League in steals at 2.1 per game and second in minutes played (34.0 mpg.).
Five In The Book
It is a pretty safe assumption that the Brown Starting Five is already set for today's game against Yale. In fact, Bears head coach Jean Marie Burr has stuck with the same five players at tip off in every game this season. Guards Hannah Passafuime, Sheila Dixon and Lauren Clarke, and forwards Aileen Daniels and Lindsay Nickel have started all 15 games for the Bears. All five are averaging at least 8.3 ppg., while only three bench players are averaging more than 1.0 ppg., with the top reserve, Lindsay Steele, at 3.7 ppg.
Dealing With Dixon
Brown sophomore guard Sheila Dixon scored a career-high 21 points against the Bulldogs in last week's meeting. It was her second 20-point effort of the season and the 10th time in 15 games that she scored in double figures. She is also seventh in the conference in rebounding (6.2 rpg.) However, in games in which she is held to less than 10 points, the Bears are just 1-4.
Nutmeg Connection
Brown's Jonathan Parsons, a second-year assistant coach for the Bears, has strong ties to Connecticut. The 2008 graduate of Sacred Heart was a four-year student manager for the men's basketball team while he was a student there. He then served as a volunteer assistant coach at the University of New Haven for a year prior to joining the staff at Brown. He also was an assistant coach for the Connecticut Breeze U-16 AAU program.
Graf Reaping The Rewards
After scoring a career-high 26 points to power Yale to a 66-54 win over Brown in the Ivy League opener, freshman forward Janna Graf became the first Yale player to win both the Ivy League's Player of the Week and Rookie of the Week honors in the same week since Erica Davis won both awards on Jan. 12, 2004. Graf is the first player in the Ivy League to win both honors since Princeton's Addie Micir earned both awards on Jan. 14, 2008. Against Brown, Graf broke her previous high of 22 points, which she set in Yale's historic win over then-No. 15/14 Florida State on Dec. 18. Although she was 10-for-17 overall against the Bears on Jan. 14, she was a stellar 5-for-7 in the second half, including 4-for-6 from 3-point range, Yale used an 18-3 run late in the second half to break the game open. Graf opened and closed the run with a 3-pointer and scored 10 of Yale's 18 points in the run. The effort gave Graf her first Ivy Player of the Week honor and her third Rookie of the Week award in the last four weeks.
Cleaning The Glass
In the win over Brown, Yale outrebounded its opponent for just the second time this season (39-35). Senior Mady Gobrecht was a big reason for the Bulldogs' big night under the glass. Gobrecht grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds in the victory. She secured her second double-double of the season in the win, scoring 11 points to go with the 14 rebounds. She also blocked four shots.
One For The History Books
Yale earned perhaps the biggest victory in its 38-year history on Saturday, Dec. 18, when it stunned Florida State 91-85. At the time, the Seminoles were ranked 15th in the Associated Press Top 25 and 14th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll. It is Yale's first-ever win over a ranked opponent. It was just the second win for the Bulldogs in 10 attempts against an opponent from the ACC. Yale's first win against the ACC came against North Carolina State University on Nov. 22, 2008. Megan Vasquez and Janna Graf each recorded career scoring highs. Vasquez scored 25 points, which was the highest scoring output for a Yale player since Melissa Colborne scored 27 against Cornell on Feb. 20, 2009. Michelle Cashen recorded her first double-double of the season (11 points, 13 rebounds), while Graf tallied the first 20-point effort of her Yale career with 22 points. Aarica West dished out 10 assists, becoming the first Bulldog to record at least 10 since Stephanie Marciano had 10 against Stony Brook on Dec. 7, 2007.
Ending The Streak
The historic win over Florida State halted Yale's seven-game losing streak. It was the longest losing streak during Chris Gobrecht's tenure as Yale's head coach since her first season when the Bulldogs began the 2005-06 season with 10 straight losses. The longest losing streak in Yale's history is 11 straight losses, which was recorded twice in the team's 38 seasons.
Just Around The Corner
The Bulldogs take the week off before starting the Ivy League season in earnest when they play host to Penn (Friday) and Princeton (Saturday). Both games are slated to tip off at 7 p.m. Yale swept Penn last season but suffered the same fate at the hands of Princeton, which finished a perfect 14-0 in Ivy play. Yale last defeated Princeton on the road on Feb. 13, 2009, a 56-54 win behind Melissa Colborne's 17 points.
Yale Sweeps Ivy Awards
After leading Yale to a pair of victories, including its first-ever win over a nationally ranked opponent, Michelle Cashen, Janna Graf and Megan Vasquez were all honored on Dec. 23 by the Ivy League for their efforts. Cashen was named the Ivy Player of the Week and Graf was named the Ivy Rookie of the Week, while Vasquez earned a place on the weekly Honor Roll. It is the first time Yale has swept the Ivy League's weekly awards since senior Erica Davis and freshman Melissa Colborne won the awards on Jan. 2, 2007. Cashen averaged 15.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game in the two wins. She scored 11 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the win over then-No. 15/14 Florida State. Against Quinnipiac, Cashen tallied 20 points, eight rebounds, eight assists, falling just two rebounds and two assists shy of recording the first triple-double in Yale's 38-year history. Graf averaged 16.5 points and 7.0 rebounds in the two games. She scored a career-high 22 points and grabbed five rebounds in the win over Florida State. She fell one rebound shy of her first double-double against Quinnipiac, tallying 11 points and nine rebounds. Vasquez averaged 22.5 points in the two wins. She scored a career-high 25 points versus Florida State and 20 points against Quinnipiac.
WBCA Pink Zone
The Bulldogs' Feb. 12 game against Dartmouth will be the main event of Yale's all-day WBCA Pink Zone event. The annual fund-raiser, formerly known as "Think Pink," is dedicated to raising awareness and donations for breast cancer research, with this year's proceeds being donated to the Smilow Cancer Hospital. The festivities, which will take place throughout Payne Whitney Gymnasium, will once again include a "Battle of the Badges" competition featuring the Yale and New Haven police and fire departments. The Yale gymnastics team will host the Bulldog Invitational, while the women's and men's swim teams will compete against Brown.
Injury Bug
Because of injuries and illness, Yale has yet to play a game this season with its lineup intact. Freshman forward Janna Graf missed the first three games of the season with mononucleosis. Starting guards Yoyo Greenfield and Megan Vasquez, as well as reserve forward Ericka von Kaeppler, all missed time due to concussion symptoms. Freshman forward Alexandra Osborn-Jones also missed time, sitting out the first six games of the season. Greenfield, the team's senior captain, has missed the last 10 games with her concussion, while Vasquez and von Kaeppler both returned to action against Sacred Heart.
The 20-Point Club
With their efforts against Florida State and Quinnipiac, Megan Vasquez, Michelle Cashen and Janna Graf became one of 18 Ivy League players who have scored at least 20 points in a game this season. Vasquez reached the mark in both games, with a career-high 25 points against Florida State and 20 against Quinnipiac. Graf notched 22 points against Florida State, while Cashen scored a season-high 20 points against Quinnipiac.
Stealing The Show
With the injury to senior captain Yoyo Greenfield, sophomore guard Aarica West is making the most of her time on the court. She has earned the starts in place of Greenfield in the last eight games. She is making her mark on both ends of the floor. She is leading the team in assists (3.9 apg.) and in steals (1.7 spg.). Following games through Jan. 16, West was second in the Ivy League in assists per game and seventh in steals per game.
Dish And Assist
Normally, the assists category is dominated by the guards, but in the Ivy League, two Yale post players have found their way onto the leaderboard. Junior forward Michelle Cashen and senior forward Mady Gobrecht are among the top 10 in the Ivy League in assists. Cashen is fourth in the conference with 3.2 apg., while Gobrecht is fifth with 3.1 apg. In fact, Yale players take up four of the first eight places on the top 10 list. Sophomore guard Aarica West is second in the league with 3.9 assists per game and sophomore guard Megan Vasquez is eighth with 2.8 apg.
The Fab Four
Yale has bolstered its lineup for 2010-11 with four freshmen that are expected to make an immediate impact. Guard Amanda Tyson, forwards Janna Graf and Alexandra Osborn-Jones, and center Zenab Keita comprise one of the strongest freshman classes during Head Coach Chris Gobrecht's tenure.
Every Day is Mother's Day
Senior forward Mady Gobrecht is the daughter of head coach Chris Gobrecht. They are the only current active mother-daughter, coach-player tandems in Division I women's basketball. This is the sixth time in Yale's 157-year athletic history that a head coach is mentoring his or her child in a varsity sport, and the first where the combo is mother-daughter (men's fencing: Robert & Maurice Grasson, 1936-38; baseball: Smoky Joe & Joseph Wood, 1939-41; men's basketball: Howard & David Hobson, 1952-55; men's squash: John & Jack Skillman, 1954-55; football: Jordan & Harry Olivar, 1957-59).
Schedule Strength
Seven teams on the Bulldogs' 2010-11 slate participated in the postseason last spring. Florida State and Princeton earned a berth in the 2010 NCAA Tournament. Five others participated in the WNIT, including WNIT champion California.
New Year, New Ivy Season
The first of 14 rounds of Ivy play is now complete, with Princeton, Harvard, Yale and Columbia all winning their 2010-11 Ivy opener on their home courts. The upcoming week features another light schedule of action, including the Ivies' final three non-conference contests along with a pair of League matchups. Penn plays its final two Big 5 games, hosting La Salle on Wednesday at Temple on Saturday. Columbia hosts St. Francis (N.Y.) on Wednesday, looking to pick up its second straight win in it's final non-league game of the season. On Friday, Brown will seek revenge on last week's loss at Yale as the travel partners face off in Rhode Island. On Saturday, Columbia and Cornell also face off for the second straight week. Harvard caps off the week's action with a cross-country venture to face Division I Independent, Seattle University.
2010-11 Ivy League Preseason Poll
Voted on by a panel of Ivy media and women's basketball sports information directors, Princeton received 16 of 17 first-place votes and 135 points and are expected to repeat as the Ivy League champion.
Predicted Order of Finish (First-Place Votes in Parentheses)
School Points
- Princeton (16) 135
- Harvard (1) 115
- Dartmouth 96
- Yale 84
- Columbia 73
- Brown 50
- Cornell 39
- Penn 19
Double-Double Trouble
In games played through Jan. 16, 20 Ivy League players have recorded at least one double-double this season. Yale's Megan Vasquez, Michelle Cashen and Mady Gobrecht are all members of the club. Seven Ivy players have tallied at least two double-doubles, including Gobrecht (2). Dartmouth's Brittany Smith had four and Princeton's Niveen Rasheed had three before both suffered season-ending injuries.
Home Sweet Home
Playing in the friendly confines of their own arena has been advantageous for the Princeton Tigers. Princeton is unbeaten at home this season with a 7-0 record. The Tigers are currently riding a League-best 16-game home winning streak, dating back to a Dec. 12, 2009, win over Lafayette.
Report filed by Jon Erickson Jr., Yale Sports Publicity