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Guthbert Golthammer was the last Zhent-appointed constable of Dagger Falls from c. 1368 DR until the dale's liberation in 1369 DR.
Guthbert was an ox-brained warrior but a member of both the Zhentarim and the Zhentilar. He started as a military commander of Teshwave, winning his position through the influence of his father Elzund Golthammer.[2]
Circa 1368 DR, Guthbert was appointed constable of Dagger Falls, because he fought the Freedom Riders of Randal Morn in Teshendale.
In 1369 DR, he was involved in the kidnapping of Randal Morn himself under orders of the Zhent wizard Ilthond. In the end, the situation went bad for the Zhentarim and the Freedom Riders attacked the town, defeating the Zhent soldiers. Guthbert was likely killed in the fighting.[3]
Guthbert was an amiable fellow, fearless in battle but was very slow in thinking. Thus he usually had with him a more capable second-in-command, such as the Cyricist cleric Asdag in Teshendale and the fighter Toren in Daggerdale.[citation needed]


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Recently I drove by and it hits me that the clinic is close the motel near Marquette Road & King Drive that had been recently demolished thanks to the activism of a local minster Corey Brooks - who incidentally was interested in succeeding Jesse Jackson Jr. for the 2nd congressional district seat. In driving by, on that motel property was a rendition of how the new community center Brooks hope to build would look.
Then it also hit me, I wonder if Brooks might find a way to thrown in some health care services at his future community center. Indeed perhaps he could find a way to take over the Williams Clinic property which is currently a church.
I do wish to know what happened to Williams Clinic. My dad used to patronize their practice back in the day and continued to do so until it appears that the Williams family were no longer involved in that business. I'm not entirely certain when they closed but surely someone could fill in some details.
BTW, this post is going into some unfamiliar territory as far as a particular issue such as health care. Medical services are necessary no matter your income level and this area around the former clinic is considered a low-income area. The question to ask here is whether or not it's possible for an independent clinic such as this could exist today. Would the economics of health care today keep independent medical professionals from operating?
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Topic: Steve Jobs
Tim Cook tweets support for World AIDS Day, tints Apple Store logos red
12/01/2013, 12:12 pm
Apple's chief executive Tim Cook called attention to World AIDS Day via Twitter, noting that the company would be "turning Appe's logo red" in support of achieving an AIDS-free generation.
Steve Jobs biopic 'Jobs' now available to purchase and rent on iTunes
11/26/2013, 08:11 pm
Ashton Kutcher vehicle "Jobs" has landed in virtual and brick-and-mortar stores across the U.S., including options to buy or rent the movie on Apple's iTunes.
Apple's increasing cultural influence colors "Obama crash"
10/31/2013, 01:10 pm
Apple's increasing visibility on the PC desktop, and in national politics and global culture, has resulted in the Mac's multicolored "beach ball" wait cursor becoming more recognizable to a general audience than the icons used by Windows.
Steve Jobs's childhood home gains official landmark status
10/29/2013, 02:10 pm
The Los Altos, Calif. home that sheltered Apple during its formative years has been designated as a "historic resource" by the Los Altos Historical Commission after a two-year effort.
Behind-the-scenes details revealed about Steve Jobs' first iPhone announcement
10/04/2013, 03:10 pm
While Steve Jobs was on stage unveiling the first iPhone for the world, the engineers behind the device were in the audience halfway drunk, says a new report that takes a look behind-the-scenes of the development of the most popular smartphone in the world.
Apple CEO Tim Cook profiled as a 'methodical, no-nonsense' leader who isn't afraid to make tough decisions
08/22/2013, 09:08 am
Apple under Tim Cook has become a kinder, gentler company than it was during the regime of Steve Jobs, but the current chief executive still has the ability to strike fear into his subordinates, a new profile reveals.
First 7 'Steve JobsSchools' open in Netherlands, tout education through iPad
08/21/2013, 08:08 am
The first seven "Steve JobsSchools" officially opened their doors in the Netherlands on Wednesday, kicking off an ambitious experiment in child education where Apple's iPad is the main cog of the learning apparatus, acting as a hub for all daily activities.
'Jobs' biopic disappoints at box office in opening weekend
08/18/2013, 03:08 pm
Released last Friday to mostly negative reviews, "Jobs" starring Ashton Kutcher earned less than its studio hoped it would over the weekend.
Early Apple employees Kottke, Fernandez comment on new film 'Jobs'
08/16/2013, 01:08 pm
Daniel Kottke and Bill Fernandez were around in the early days of Apple, and the two former Cupertino employees sat down recently to talk about what the new Ashton Kutcher film "Jobs" got right and wrong about the founding of one of the world's largest companies.
Battle of the billion dollar buybacks: Apple, Inc. vs Microsoft Corporation
08/16/2013, 03:08 am
Over the past fifteen years, both Apple and Microsoft have invested in Apple, while Microsoft has also invested in itself. Here's a look at how those investments worked out, with particular attention to stock buybacks, a panacea certain billionaire investors are prescribing for Apple.
Steve Jobs's $1.1 billion AAPL windfall & Steve Ballmer's $11 billion MSFT blunder
08/14/2013, 04:08 pm
After taking over as Microsoft's chief executive in 2000, Steve Ballmer presided over the liquidation of Apple's stock his company had acquired three years earlier in its $150 million investment in Apple. In retrospect, that was a fantastically bad idea.
Larry Ellison sees dismal future for Apple without Steve Jobs
08/12/2013, 09:08 pm
In an interview with Charlie Rose set to air on Tuesday, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison gave a bleak outlook when asked how Apple will fare without his close friend Steve Jobs at the reins.
Steve Jobs reportedly mulled axing Apple's pro products
08/09/2013, 07:08 pm
In a blog post on Friday, former Apple ad consultant Ken Segall reveals Steve Jobs once considered killing off the company's professional product offerings, including the Mac Pro and software like Final Cut Pro.
New 'Jobs' trailer reveals a few new scenes from upcoming biopic
08/06/2013, 09:08 pm
A new trailer for the Steve Jobs biopic "Jobs" was released on Tuesday, showing a bit more of the movie slated to hit theaters on Aug. 29.
'Jobs' featurette offers closer glimpse at the upcoming movie
07/31/2013, 02:07 pm
A newly released featurette offers a quick look at the upcoming film "Jobs," including new footage and interviews with the movie's stars.
Opera says iPad takes 91% of tablet ads, iPhone ad share leads all Android phones
07/23/2013, 03:07 pm
Opera Mediaworks has released its latest "State of the Mobile Web" report, noting that Apple's iOS platform continues to generate the most revenue, with iPhone maintaining a slight lead over all Android phones combined and the iPad capturing over 92 percent of tablet ad revenue.
Costume designer used around 60 pairs of Levi's 501 jeans for 'Jobs' movie
07/10/2013, 10:07 am
To make Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs as accurate as possible, the costume designer behind the upcoming "Jobs" movie obtained the exact style of New Balance sneakers and Levi's 501 jeans the Apple co-founder famously wore.
Inventor of the computer mouse dies at 88
07/04/2013, 09:07 am
Though the mouse didn't become the standard way to control a desktop computer until Apple released the Macintosh in 1984, it was first invented 20 years earlier by a visionary World War II veteran named Douglas C. Engelbart, who passed away this week at the age of 88.
'Jobs' movie poster shows Kutcher as technicolor vision of Apple founder
07/03/2013, 12:07 pm
Two weeks after the theatrical trailer debuted for the Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher, the promotional poster for the movie has also been released, showing the former 70's show star rendered as a colorful version of the Apple co-founder.
Dutch 'Steve Jobs schools' to use Apple's iPad for entire education experience
07/02/2013, 09:07 am
This August, 11 so-called "Steve Jobs schools" will open in the Netherlands, serving 1,000 students primarily through educational apps on Apple's iPad, replacing everything from books to blackboards.


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Wow I can definitely remember the times when school was just about to end and there is excitement of summer in the air! I can imagine the kids are getting pretty excited! Keep focused for the finals! And I just cannot believe the life Code's is living these days. Great interesting job, apartment, roommates who take you to the beach, I guess that is the reward after a misión well served haha! Let's hope! Thanks mom and dad for the great updates every week. It is weird however when you guys talk about the weather, seeing as how I left in the Summer and it hasn't changed since I've been here haha. Oh, and my watch did break mom it almost made it halfway! I'll just get another one here. And dont worry about the wáter problem, we get a huge jug of wáter from the dueño of our house so I don't usually ever drink the water.
Well things are just dandy here in Buenaventura, the animo (encouragement) of the branch has gone way up after the changes. We have had some really succesful activities these last couple of weeks and we have seen the highest attendance in the history of Buenaventura the last two weeks... such a good feeling to see the fruits of all the work we put into the branch. I love this type of work because you get such a close relationship with all of the members, and you get to see more how the church works because you are constantly teaching and training leaders how things are done in that organization. I am amazed at the "leadership training program" on lds.org, it is helping so much, you should all check it out!
I had a pretty amazing experience yesterday, we were teaching a Young man named Bryan Solis, who had recieved a testimony of the truth a while ago, had changed so many of his old habits, and had been ready for baptism. The problem was that he wasnt accepting it, for some reason. Every time we talked about it he would hesitate saying that now wasn't the time, and that he wasn't prepared.
We prayed, fasted, and studied a lot to try to find out what he needed because he just had to enter the water, he is that solid. Nothing came, and we had no idea what to do. We went to his house yesterday after church to try to find the problem. We tried sharing Mosiah 18:8-10 trying to help him understand that he met the requisites for baptism. We asked the same question as Alma:
"Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord.."
He responded that it was fear that was holding him back, that he didn't want to let the Lord down after having changed so much. We tried everything knowing that this Saturday was his day for sure, but he kept on saying that he needed more time.
Then a scripture came to mind, and I knew what was going on, the trial of faith had arrived. Bryan had been given evidences that this is the correct path with the way he had been changed being the biggest. But the Lord will never make the decision for us.. we must act in faith being a little unsure trusting that the Lord will come through. We shared Ether 12:6 and he began to sob, he read that scripture about 3 or 4 times and it was obvious the Lord had given His answer. Bryan received revelation! He said he didn't feel any more sure about the decision, but he knew that was what the Lord wanted him to do. Now, it was nothing that I did that makes this experience special for me. It was the fact that I was given an opportunity to see the Lord's hand in action from a front row seat. I felt like the Brother of Jared, being edified by feeling of the Lord's hand right in front of me. I love being a missionary!
27 But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good acheer; it is I; be not afraid.I think we are like Peter a lot, wanting to be like the Savior taking an initial step of faith in his direction, recieving His Grace to do amazing things, but like a little child learning to walk, we fall.
28 And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
29 And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
30 But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was aafraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little afaith, wherefore didst thou bdoubt?
Luckily, He will always be there to stretch forth His hand, pick us up and teach us something new. If I could tell you all of the times I have felt like this on my mission! The important lesson I take from this is that with faith in Him who is perfect, there is so much we can do. It is when we doubt or think about it a little bit, that we start to sink. I apply that to Bryan a little bit. When he thought about it too much and doubted his worthiness, he sunk. But when he acted in faith, he felt the Spirit and chose to walk
So we will be having the baptisms next week and we are very excited about it. We also had Zone Conference this past week, those are so great I learn so much and it gives us extra excitement for the Work. Elder Inga and I gave a training last week to the Elders here about the "why?" of missionary work. A lot of the time we get too caught up in the "what" we do that we forget why we do it. Behind all the study, finding, key indicators, area books, leadership roles, and manuals, there are people being prepared, found, taught, and saved.
It is a huge responsibility to be a missionary, and we must put our hand to the plow the hardest we can to be able to say at the end that we worked with all our heart, might, mind and strength. It was inspired by the talk by Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf a few priesthood sessions ago. "The what informs, the why transforms." If we always keep in mind the why of our work, we won't just be filling out planners every night, but we will be prayerfully seeking revelation to find out where to use our time the next day. I think we got the Elders to really focus and we saw the results this past week!
Good news about Juanchaco! It got approved! We will be headed there soon, we just need to find out about the details, send them to president and we head out on about an hour boat ride to Juanchaco, I am beyond excited about the experience. I feel like the missionaries who first reached England, the one who jumped from the boat wanting to be the first one there with the Restored Gospel! What an opportunity!
Well that's all the time I have folks! Love you all so much, keep praying for us here we need it!
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Remember "Paint by Numbers?" You know. They were kits that had little containers of paints and cheap brushes, and they came with a canvas marked with numbers so that when you matched the numbers and painted them where they belonged, you, too could paint like this:
My mother hated "Paint by Numbers." With a passion. She was a fine artist. She was also an abstract expressionist. (She was a student of Hans Hofmann in the 1950's in Provincetown, MA.) I used to tell my friends that the only way you could figure out how to hang one of my mother's paintings was by the way the paint dripped. Mom didn't understand my literal nature, and always told me to "color outside of the lines." I told her that if she painted something recognizable, maybe like dogs - then she might sell some of her paintings.
We bantered back and forth like, well, mother and daughter. Mom wanted me to be a fine artist. I wanted to make a living.
Mom never lived to see my books get published. She had a very sad and difficult life, and she died of cancer, multiple myeloma, six days after I turned twenty-four. She always knew I wanted to be a children's book author and illustrator, and she had no problem with that. She actually had an epiphany before she left this world and became my "Avant-Guardian Angel"- that's what I call her... When I chose to major in illustration at Syracuse University, she told me, in no uncertain terms, that I was going to "become a commercial art prostitute." Those were fighting words! So I sent her to The Society of Illustrators in New York City to see a show.
That show changed mom's opinion of illustration. "It's art," she told me, shocked. "It has composition and good design." "And someone was paid for it," I added.
Many, many years later, though, I began to understand my mother's conceptual idea of commercial art prostitution, as I grew weary of being paid to illustrate for advertising agencies and corporations. Yes, there was money, but there was no soul. I didn't want to be a "wrist for hire" anymore, and that was part of the reason I plunged headfirst into my childhood dream of writing and illustrating my own books.
Writing, unlike painting doesn't have a "kit" you can buy. There is no "Writing by Numbers." I guess the closest you can get, especially for kids, would be "Mad Libs." I loved Mad Libs. When we took road trips- usually driving from Queens, New York to Martha's Vineyard in dad's 1962 VW Microbus- which I had named "Chug-a Boom" because of the way it ran... I was in charge of asking for the adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs. Mom and dad supplied them, and I would try to teach brother David just what adjectives and verbs and nouns were. "No David, orange is not a verb." David loved oranges. I cracked myself up when I read that nonsense back to the family. The nonsense stuck with me. The family didn't. The family cracked in pieces.
But really, the point of this post is that numbers and writing seem to be at odds, yet they become awkward dance partners. You can't write by numbers, yet word count seems to be on everyone's lips.
Meet Word Count:
He's worse than the vampire who sucks the blood out of you and keeps you up all night. Word Count sucks the life out of your story - that is if all you care is how many words it is. Word Count tells you if it is a Middle Grade or Young Adult novel. Word Count tells you that you need to edit down to the essentials if it is a picture book. I keep hearing that picture book word counts are getting lower and lower. I have some picture books that have 1200 to 1500 words. Now they like them in the 300-500 range. Go figure.
When I teach children's book writing people always worry about Word Count. I always try to tell them not to worry and just write the story. It will find the right level and will become the genre it should. I know. That sounds so Zen, and in practice, it is not that simple.
But... once you step out of your picture book shoes, and you put on some adult boots that were made for walking... Word Count welcomes you to his world. His cousin, Word Document will even count those words for you. You can watch as you type each one.
Now I've never thought of writing as a numbers game. But that was before I did this:
Nanowrimo. It is brought to you by some enthusiastic folks in the San Francisco area who seem to love numbers and Word Counts.
The concept is that you sign up (it is free, but you can donate to keep their programs going- you get a halo if you do that) and you challenge yourself to write (at least) 50,000 words from November 1-30th. That is 1,666.66 words per day, every day, for thirty days. That's a lot of words. My husband said, "can it be the same word?"
Some people may cheat. Maybe they copy the dictionary. Maybe they have serious logorrhoea. (My father has had this during manic episodes- he could have written 50,000 words a day then.)
However, honestly, I think most folks see this as a learning opportunity and a chance to stretch their writing wings- in full view of a large audience of eager participants. This is the first writing event that I know of that makes writing a "sport." All you have to do to claim victory is to have at least 50,000 words when you get to the November 30th finish line. Some don't. Some have 300,000 words. Personally I think they must be on something to do that- like Lance Armstrong. I suspect doping.
Last year I wrote through a week of school visits and speaking in Beaverton, Oregon, and of course we all have to get through Thanksgiving. I had a week of David, who still thinks orange is a verb. (Ironically I went to Syracuse U, where we are "The Orangemen.") I did "win" Nanowrimo and wrote over 55,000 words of a novel. I completed the first draft in mid-January and wound up with 62,500 words total.
Of course I realized that it was not about the numbers. It was about the deadline. Most writers, when given the opportunity, would rather procrastinate. We all love to give excuses, and I know that yes, I can actually be working out a story problem while I'm washing the counter top or looking for the one millionth agate on our beach... but if someone says it's "due tomorrow." I'm ready to go. Final polishing be damned. And like that agate on the beach, what you write during Nanowrimo will not be polished.
The beauty of this thing is that it makes you turn off your inner editor and just write the damn thing.
So. I'll be at it again this November. I'm a little less anxious this year. I think. I hope. I'm pretty sure I have a strong thread of a plot that I want to follow, and I know that my narrator is way out there... but I'm going to take the challenge and get it all on paper/screen and watch everyone's numbers as they grow. Word by word. Ann Lamott has that wonderful writing book, "Bird by Bird,"which got its' title when her son had to do a book report on birds and was overwhelmed. "You just take it bird by bird," she told him. And he did.
I know so many of you have a novel in you somewhere. I did a cartoon about that a few years back- it showed a doctor pulling a book out of a patient's gut. "yeah, he said he had a novel in him," was the caption. Nanowrimo may pull it out of you. Join me this year... let me know if you're going to do it. We can support each other and joke about our friend Word Count.
My username on Nanowrimo is Ann Denial. (an angram of my name, and possibly my pen name?)
Giving Birth to a Baby Book
I've never given birth to a child. When I met my husband his boys were two, four and six. Doug, the youngest, was still in diapers. For some odd reason a lot of people seem to assume that you need to have had children- birthed babies- in order to create children's books. That's crazy talk. Maurice Sendak loves his German Shepherds, but he didn't donate his DNA to a little "wild thing" in order to get his creative license. Neither did Dr. Seuss or Beatrix Potter. I'm not saying that I chose to not have kids. It just happened. Life can be that way.
What I am saying is that I believe that in order to create children's books you need to be in touch with your inner child. You need to be enchanted by this amazing world around us. You need to be curious like George, and wild like Max. You need to ask questions like "Why?" and "Who?" (I know I drive my dear huz nuts when I do this, but I can't help it.) You also need to think of your books as your children.
It's an apt metaphor: your books are your children.
You conceive an idea.
It gestates.
You do the labor to create it.
You send it off to a publisher to see if it will "get into school."
In "school" you work hard to make it the best it can be.
It goes off to press and "graduates."
You have to let it go and see what kind of life it will have, helping when you can.
Some will be successful and some not.
You love them all, nonetheless.
I have birthed many books. They are all my children. Each one was a completely different journey. Each one has its' own story. Over time I will share many of these stories here, but I thought that I would start with what I call "The Little Book That Could," my most successful book to date, "Peek-A Who?"
When I decided at about age nine that I wanted to be a children's book author and illustrator for real, I never thought I'd make "baby books." Baby books, also known as "board books" were for babies. My goal was to create illustrated literature. I was a sophisticated little girl who loved books, some way over my head. My mother had me reading James Thurber, Edward Lear and Greek mythology when I was in elementary school.
As I started my career, I focused on fiction, which is my true love. I published "The Night I Followed the Dog," "Private I. Guana," and "When Pigasso Met Mootisse" with Chronicle Books from 1994 through 1998. In 1998 I was thirty-six years old and it seemed like there was something in the water and many of my friends started having babies. I wanted something to give them to celebrate these auspicious occasions, but these babies would have to be little geniuses to get my fiction when they didn't even have teeth... They say necessity is the mother of invention. I needed a cool, hip, intelligent and interactive baby book to give to my friends and I couldn't find one. So I invented "Peek-A Who?"
I wrote the text in about ten minutes. Okay, how much time should it take to write:
Peek-a Who
Peek-a Moo
Peek-a Boo
Peek-a Zoo
Peek-a Choo-Choo
Peek-a You?
But the dummy took a lot longer. I illustrated, designed, folded and cut Bristol board.
This is the original dummy cover.
When you opened it, you saw this.
The inside spreads looked like this.
I glued a piece of aluminum foil to represent the mirror at the end.
I thought the mirror was important because little kids love to see themselves in the mirror, and ending the book on the child made for a very satisfactory ending. Little kids' worlds are all about them, after all.
I sent it off to my editor at Chronicle Books and waited to hear if they wanted to publish it. I don't remember how long it took for a response, but it seems to take weeks if they are interested, and months can drag on and on if they are not. I got a fairly fast response, but it wasn't quite what I expected.
"It's cute. But you can't just have one. You need to create another to go along with it."
Since when were baby books like potato chips and you couldn't have just one? No big deal. I'd come up with something else. Eventually - which was over a year later, I came up with "Ready, Set, Go!" There was no mirror in this one, but I had it end on a "pull-the-tab." I had no idea I was creating "novelty books." I just wanted a surprise, a clever way to end the books.
Chronicle sent me the contract for the two board books. We worked on the design and then I started the illustrations. I tend to change illustration media like most people change clothing. Maybe I have a bit of schizophrenia, but in reality, the book "tells me how it wants to be illustrated." (Books are talking to you? Break out the straight jacket.) Seriously, I knew that chalk pastels were the best choice for "The Night I Followed the Dog." I painted "When Pigasso Met Mootisse" in gouache because it was a book about painters. "Roberto the Insect Architect" begged for mixed-media collage - the illustrations needed to be "built like a house."
But for baby books? I wanted simple, bright, bold color with strong outlines. However I didn't want the art to appear static or boring. I love scratchboard and woodcuts, but they take too long to create. Again Mother Necessity spoke to me. (yeah, maybe I'm losing it, I hear a lot of voices...) She said, "why don't you paint the illustrations to look like a woodcut?"
So I did.
For those of you who are into "art materials"- and you know who you are... (when I was in art school we used to ask the visiting professionals, "what size pen point do you use?" As if that would make us better if we used the same tools...) This is done with Holbein Acryla Gouache on Arches 140lb Hot Press Watercolor paper. (Holbein and Arches- you owe me, how about some free supplies?) Might as well throw in the brushes- I use tiny Windsor & Newton Sceptre Gold brushes. (Athletes get sponsored, why shouldn't artists and writers?) But as you can see, what makes this work is that first I paint my paper black. Then I paint on top of that in color and leave bits and pieces (and outlines) of the black showing to create this woodcut effect that adds "energy."
Apparently it worked. All of it. "Peek-A Who?" is in its' 24th printing as of this post. It has sold well over 300,000 copies. (I don't have exact numbers. I also stopped checking my Amazon rankings and reader comments years ago. I don't watch TV and I only read the newspaper when I'm in the city. Ignorance isn't bliss, it's survival.) I'm astonished and proud of this little book. I love hearing praise from parents and kids alike. The book has a life of its own. I may have birthed it, but once a book is published it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to readers- they decide its' future.
After "Peek-A Who?" and "Ready, Set, Go!" I created "Grow Up!" and "Who Loves You, Baby?" I also sewed up a dummy and created my first cloth book, "Button Nose" to help little kids learn to get dressed by themselves. My other baby books have done well, but not as well as "Peek-A Who?" My only theory is that it was "the pure concept." It was done out of love and need. The others were, too, but they were filtered through the publishing process. Chronicle Books would love me to come up with another "Peek-A Who?" I wish. But you can't create the same book twice. Well... let me rephrase that, I can't create the same book twice. Some people seem to land themselves a franchise.
What I will say, however is that each book is a new opportunity to reinvent yourself, and that is what makes creating children's and baby books so exciting. I have a new one that is sitting on my editor's desk. I hope she will let me give birth to it fully- and then I'll be thrilled if you will take it into your hearts and homes the way you have embraced "Peek-A Who?"
I'll keep you posted.
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Me: Hey, who was the Big Bad in the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
The Queen: What?
M: I'm writing something for the yeti and I've trying to remember who the main villian was in the first season of Buffy.
Q: Dracula?
M: No, although she did meet Dracula once. That's who I've currently got in the post, but I thought it might be funnier if I used the name of the head bad guy in the first season.
Q: The Ubervamp?
M: No, he was in the last season.
Q: It was some super vampire guy.
M: Right. And he had a name.
Q: Fred?
M: So, you're bored of this conversation, is that what you're saying?
Q: Pretty much.


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We are in Palm Desert, near Palm Springs. It is all about golf and relaxation. Mr. Celia planned it. Pamela and I are knitting socks.
It's beautiful and quiet. But the smoke from fires in LA and San Diego blew in here yesterday about the same time we did. Last night, the moon was smokin' orange, and today it's hazy. I feel very lazy.


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Today we talk to Leif Pettersen, travel writer and guidebook author, about traveling, writing, and life as a nomad:
Nomadic Matt: For starters, what gave you the travel bug?
Leif Pettersen: I eased into it. It started with a few trips to visit friends in Mexico in my teens and being shipped off to Norway at 18 for a six week language/culture program. A quarter studying theater and literature in London at 22 is when the bomb really went off. A chance encounter won me a job as a cameraman for a new on-location cooking show. We went to Morocco for six weeks to tape the pilot. I was left on my own while they edited and pitched (and eventually failed to sell) the show during which time I staggered through Spain, France, The Netherlands and Norway yet again. After nine months back in the US working temp jobs and hoarding cash, I did a proper backpacking trip in Europe and I've been incurable ever since.
NM: How did you move from intrepid traveler to travel writer?
I'd been fascinated with travel writing ever since a girlfriend in college made me read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, which still ranks as one of my favorite pieces of travel writing of all time. In my late-20s, I messed around with writing on my own – to this day, I've never taken a writing class of any kind – but I'd never been paid to write, unless you count critically acclaimed application user guides for the Federal Reserve Bank System. So, at 33 I sold everything I owned, bought a plane ticket and blundered into the fray. I strongly suspected that I'd return home unpublished and completely broke in a few years, but good fortune and deranged perseverance prevailed and five years later I'm still at it.
NM: You travel to Romania a lot and country seems to be getting a lot of attention lately. Do you think that will ruin it? Are people going to be talking about the "Romania back then" like they do about Thailand?
After decades (centuries in some cases) of some unseen hand leaning on Romania's 'pause' button, change is happening rapidly. EU membership has brought the usual frantic action: infrastructure, roads, utilities, and freakish inflation. Romania has always been pretty effective at ruining itself without any outside help, but the half-assed attempts at EU appeasement (e.g. enforcing laws that cripple the average farmer or outlawing horse-drawn carts on major roads), while clearly back-pedaling on things like high level corruption has been painful to watch. And quite frankly, until very recently, visiting Romania was a resolve-testing pain in the ass, reserved for only the most patient and dedicated backpackers. But Romania is a huge place by European standards and there's a ridiculous amount of incredible things to see and do, so I don't believe it's in immediate danger of being ruined by tourism, a few select sights notwithstanding. For that to happen, they'd have to actually acknowledge tourism as a legitimate industry and give it the proper infrastructure. Bafflingly, Bucharest still lacks any sort of tourism office.
NM: I'm reading the Thomas Kohnstamm book now. He gives the impression that travel writing, at least for guidebooks, is a real hassle- low pay, rushed experiences, superficial reviews. Do you think that's true?
Not at all. I've only felt a sense of urgency on one guidebook job (so far) and that was only because the first author fell ill and I was rushed in to pick up the thread. By the time I got to work, the project was running almost six weeks behind schedule. But some badass heroics on my behalf, careful work delegation with a second author and a deadline extension gave me plenty of research and write-up time in the end.
As for pay, it doesn't take much time to run the numbers and piece together a fairly accurate estimation of your daily expenses and then tack on what you feel is a fair weekly fee. It's a simple matter of legwork and reasonable negotiation. In the end, if you can't come to an agreement over the fee, there's always the option of saying 'no.' Bottom line, act like a professional and you'll (usually) be treated like a professional.
NM: Most travelers, including myself, use the internet as their main source of information. Do you think the Internet will make paper guidebooks go the way of the dodo?
My very narrow take is that printed guidebooks are king and will probably continue to rule for at least another decade. With the exception of a few rare destination-specific sites, online resources simply can't compete with the reliability, accuracy, completeness and unbiased reviews (versus broad, user-generated content sites which extravagantly fail at all four). But technology, delivery and consumer preferences are going to drastically affect everything in the very near future. While some travel writers fear the death of printed media (because it's the best paying gig at the moment), I actually think the digital guidebook evolution will create more opportunities for travel writers that eventually pay just as well. The catch is that this content won't be nearly as rich in quality until they start to pay a wage that will attract professional writers. But they can't do that until online revenue streams ramp up and that won't happen until print revenue makes a major transition to online… it's a vicious circle. Something has to break eventually.
NM: I've had some crazy things happen to me on the road. As someone who travels so often, you must see it all. What's one story that sticks out above the rest?
You know, perhaps I'm doing it wrong, but I have very few stories that could even be remotely construed as 'crazy'. But on the subject of crazy, what never ceases to amaze me is how people that can't even buy a cup of coffee on their own street without mishap manage to get themselves to international destinations (and presumably home) without accidentally killing themselves several times a day. You know who I'm talking about, those people that should have been stopped at the border when they tried to leave their countries and escorted back to whatever half-way house they escaped from. Where do those people come from? It keeps me up at night.
NM: Any chance you will publish your own book?
That's like asking a crackhead if he intends to score with the $20 he just found. I know I've got the chops to write a book (make that several books) that will be so wonderful and witty that you'll want to smoke a cigarette and change your underwear after every chapter. And with print media's emphysema getting worse with each passing year, I'm feeling a profound urgency to get started. Unfortunately, I haven't found any takers just yet. Sadly, the Bill Bryson Days of going somewhere and bemusedly recounting the high jinks you got into are long gone. These days publishers won't even open your book proposal unless you've been a columnist for the New York Times for 15 years or have a killer hook like how you got pistol whipped after taking a dump in the back seat of a cop car while trying to smuggle a panda out of China to protest the occupation of Tibet and global warming. So the onus is on me to dream up the hook, but quite frankly the allure and practical need to take on paying work has kept me far too busy to give it much thought. Perhaps some nice millionaire reading this would like to support me for as long as it takes for the genius concept to ignite?
NM: Everyone dreams of being a travel writer. What advice would you give to new writers who want to start in profession?
The unfortunate fact is that for every travel writer out there that has the true skill to ask for a living wage, there are 25 cliché-addled, alliteration junkies that will work for practically nothing. And for that price, many editors will swallow, and even encourage, that kind of hack work. So, breaking in and making an honest living means nothing short of maniacal dedication. I'm not gonna advise anyone to quit their day job, but it's almost a necessity. Nights and weekends just aren't enough, unless your only goal is to see your name in print a couple times a year, which is, admittedly, a nice buzz no matter how jaded you become. Writing every day is vital and traveling a lot only fractionally less so. Find an uncrowded niche, especially in the beginning. In my case, one summer in Romania turned into a Lonely Planet contract, whereas visiting 18 European countries in six months turned into nothing.
If you do decide to quit your day job and jump in the deep end, unless you start off with good contacts, exceptional talent and/or a clue, it's likely you'll lose money for at least a year while you build your name, so prepare yourself. Finally, pitch carefully. You're more likely to get published by spending a full day on a single, well-researched, laser-guided pitch than machine gunning 50 blind, generic pitches in the same amount of time.
Leif Pettersen is currently in Romania working on a guidebook for Lonely Planet. You can find his rantings and ravings as well as his sharp wit on his website, Killing Batteries.


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Friday, August 30, 2013
Yes Star Trails.
The great part about the 500 Rule is that it can also work in reverse for the shooter that is looking to capture star trails. For those of you that don't shoot with full frame cameras it is necessary to take this "Crop Factor" into account when performing the calculation. I have provided standard crop factors for different camera models below. For example a full frame 35mm camera shooting at 16mm can capture the night sky for a maximum of 31 seconds prior to showing any results of "Star Trails" in the picture. Once the exposure time exceeds 31 seconds, trails or star movement will start to show up in the shot. The best way to clearly exhibit this relationship is to go outside and experiment, there are a million different acceptable combinations it's just a matter of finding what works for you and your camera. My Free Star Photography Tutorial also provides info on this topic.
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I wrote some devotions for the students attending Winter White Wash this weekend and thought I'd share them here while we're gone.
What are we imitating?
Do you ever think about what you're imitating? Take a second now and think about what you are like… If someone were comparing you to someone or something else, what would they compare you to? That is what you are imitating. Is it what you want?
Several years ago, I took a group of my students to CIY in Ft. Collins. As I was walking down the hall, I heard someone call out my last name. When I first turned around, I didn't see anyone I recognized, but then I noticed a guy who was a friend of my dad. I hadn't seen this guy for over 10 years, since I was about 12 years old. How did he recognize me? Actually, he didn't recognize me, but he recognized my dad in me. As I walked down the hallway, surrounded by hundreds of other people, this guy saw my dad's walk in my walk. I don't mean that in some abstract metaphorical way, he literally thought I was my dad until I turned around and was obviously much younger than the man he was expecting!
I walk like my dad. I never intended to. I never studied my dad's steps and tried to mimic his way of placing one foot in front of the other. I never joined a small group to learn his walking patterns or went on a walk-like-Larry retreat. My dad never took me to a class to learn how to walk his way. I just do. I've imitated him without ever trying to.
Right now, you are adopting behaviors as your own without ever thinking about them. You are doing things that you could never give a reason for. That's not a big deal when we're talking about how a person walks or holds a fork or blows their nose… but what about how you treat others? What about how (and what) you think about God? Many of your behaviors and thoughts will be shaped by what you spend the most time with. (i.e. I spent a lot of time with my dad… ended up walking like my dad.) Think back over the last week – what did you spend your time doing? Who were you with most? What did you watch and listen to? Be careful… because that's what you'll soon be imitating.
That's what makes these words from Paul so critical:
"I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized."
Does your "time budget" reflect those values from Philippians 4? If not, start now to spend more time with people, thoughts, and media that are worth imitating.


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I've been spending a bunch of time recently learning Apache Cordova with an eye towards integrating something within Azure Mobile Apps. I want to have an iOS and Android app that works with my TodoItem backend in Node. I also want it to be written in ES2015. So far, I've done a bunch of the basic work, but now it's time to put an app together. You can see most of the work on my GitHub repository.
What I want to consider today is an asynchronous task list store. Each task in the TodoItem has an ID (which is a GUID converted to a string), a text description and a completed flag. I need to be able to read, insert and update records. I'm not going to deal with deletions right now, but that's coming. To abstract this, I'm going to write an ES2015 class. Let's start with the basics:
import uuid from 'uuid'; export default class Store { constructor() { console.info('Initializing Storage Manager'); this._data = [ { id: uuid.v1(), text: 'Item 1', complete: false }, { id: uuid.v1(), text: 'Item 2', complete: false } ]; } }
I'm creating two example tasks to get me started. I don't need them, but it helps to show off the HTML coding.
At the center of asynchronous programming in JavaScript is the Promise. Put simply, a promise is a representation of something that doesn't exist yet. It will be asynchronously resolved and your code can come back to it later. You can use promises relatively simply:
asyncFunction .then((result) => { /* do something with the result */ }).catch((error) => { /* do something with the error */ });
You can chain multiple promises and wait for multiple promises to complete. This all results in a rather flexible mechanism to make your code asynchronous. But how do you create a promise? My Store class has an array right now. I want to make it ACT asynchronously so that I can add the network code later on. You need to write a method that either resolves or rejects the promise. Here is the insert() method:
/** * Insert a new object into the database. * @method insert * @param {object} data the data to insert * @return {Promise} - resolve(newitem), reject(error) */ insert(data) { data.id = uuid.v1(); console.log('[storage-manager] insert data=', data); var promise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => { // This promise always resolves this._data.push(data); resolve(data); }); return promise; }
Creating a promise is a case of creating a new Promise object with a callback function. The callback will be passed "what to call when you are resolving or rejecting the promise". You then do your processing and call the resolve or reject method to say "I'm done". Note that I'm using "fat-arrows" to preserve the this variable value. If you don't use a fat-arrow function then you have to preserve this by other means. All my other functions are similar. For example:
/** * Read some records based on the query. The elements must match * the query * @method read * @param {object} query the things to match * @return {Promise} - resolve(items), reject(error) */ read(query) { console.log('[storage-manager] read query=', query); var promise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => { var filteredData = this._data.filter((element, index, array) => { for (let q in query) { if (query[q] !== element[q]) { return false; } } return true; }); resolve(filteredData); }); return promise; }
This will return a list of tasks that match my criteria.
Using this class is encapsulated in my index.js code:
app.on('deviceready', function () { var taskStore = new Store(); // Get the various pieces of the UX so they can be referred to later var el = { todoitems: document.querySelector('#todo-items'), summary: document.querySelector('#summary'), refreshlist: document.querySelector('#refresh-tasks'), addnewtask: document.querySelector('#add-new-task'), newitemtextbox: document.querySelector('#new-item-text') }; // This is called whenever we want to refresh the contents from the database function refreshTaskList() { el.summary.innerHTML = 'Loading...'; console.log('taskStore = ', taskStore); taskStore.read({ complete: false }).then((todoItems) => { console.log('Read the taskStore: items = ', todoItems); let count = 0; el.todoitems.innerHTML = ''; todoItems.forEach((entry, index) => { let checked = entry.complete ? ' checked="checked"': ''; let entrytext = entry.text.replace('"', '"'); let html = `<li data-todoitem-id="${entry.id}"><input type="checkbox" class="item-complete"${checked}><div><input class="item-text" value="${entrytext}"></div></li>`; el.todoitems.innerHTML += html; count++; }); el.summary.innerHTML = `<strong>${count}</strong> item(s)`; }).catch((error) => { console.error('Error reading task store: ', error); el.summary.innerHTML = 'Error reading store.'; }); } // Set up the event handler for clicking on Refresh Tasks el.refreshlist.addEventListener('click', refreshTaskList); refreshTaskList(); el.newitemtextbox.focus(); });
Note the highlighted line. I call the read() method (above) and wait for it to return the value. This can be asynchronously. Once it completes, the results are passed into the fat-arrow function in the then clause and that renders the list of tasks for me.
The changes to this version are quite extensive, so I encourage you to check out the code at my GitHub Repository. All the ES2015 code is in src/js with the store implementation in src/js/lib/storage-manager.js.
I still have some work to do here. Specifically, I copied (and updated) the Azure Mobile Services Quick Start for Apache Cordova and ES2015. I want to update the CSS3 code to be a little more friendly towards the devices. I also want to implement sorting and filtering. That's the topic for another blog post.


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Migrants laugh as they walk free from court after viciously attacking pensioners on train
THREE asylum seekers caught after being filmed attacking pensioners on an underground train laughed as they walked free from court.
"He spat on the ground between my legs, and when I wanted to stand up and go, he tried to steal my walking stick"Frail pensioner
The three Afghan men were arrested after attacking an elderly man who tried to stop them groping a woman on a train.
They also attacked an elderly woman, a 76-year-old retired doctor.
She said: "He spat on the ground between my legs, and when I wanted to stand up and go, he tried to steal my walking stick. I told him not to grab me, but he did and he kicked me in the backside."
They were caught after cops issued their images around the country.
An eagle-eyed police officer then spotted one of the men and arrested him.
Germany law forbids giving a defendant's second name.
A short while later the 19-year-old, Fardin A, who was also wanted, was spotted by police and arrested.
After the arrest, the third man, aged 25, known as Rahimi A, was arrested after he turned up with a 21-year-old man and wanted to turn himself in over a separate incident.
Officers recognised him as one of those wanted over the underground attack in Munich, Germany, and he was also arrested.
In court, Fardin said: "I had drunk too much vodka. I regret my behaviour, it was wrong."
But as soon as all three were out of the court building, they were laughing and joking about the court appearance.
The footage of the attack went viral and shows the gang roughly grabbing one elderly man by the arms as they shout abuse at him.
The second elderly victim can be seen grappling with one of the gang, before he is held up by the neck and threatened.
Munich man Tom Roth uploaded the footage – captured while travelling from Sendlinger Tor station to the Metro's city centre terminal – to his Facebook page.
He said the fight broke out after a female passenger rejected the advances of one of the gang after he placed his hand on her back.
Angry, the groper smashed his hand against one of the carriage's windows – causing outrage among the shocked passengers.
When one of the elderly men asked the group to stop being so aggressive and leave the woman alone, one patted him mockingly on the head.
Fardin A and Haroon H were both given four weeks youth custody but walked free and Rahimi A was handed a €475 (£375) fine.


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In Dec. 2011, I collapsed unexpectedly & 911 had to be called. My Blood Sugar was 23 at the time. Paramedics brought me out of it. After seeing an endocrinologist & a series of tests, I was diagnosed with an overgrowth of insulin-producing cells in my pancreas, Nesidioblastosis. When I eat a meal with more than about 7 grams of sugar (total), my bs spikes over 300, then quickly crashes into the 20's. I am taking Acarbose with each meal & attempting to follow a strict diet, but I still have these bs fluctuations about once a week. Last month, I had an episode that ended with me on the kitchen floor, having a seizure! Thank goodness, my 8 year old grand-dtr checked my bs, which was 25, then alerted her mom! I am lucky they were visiting, as my dtr is a student in Medical Assisting. She gave me an injection of Glucagon. I was a nurse for 20 years, so I taught all of my grandchildren, including 5 yr old twins, to accurately use a glucometer! When the oldest was 7, I taught her to also give me Glucagon injections, if need be. This disease really frightens me! If we can't control my bs well with diet & Acarbose, the endocrinologist said I will need surgery to remove approx. 70% of my pancreas. Does ANYBODY out there have this problem?? I have a large family history of Diabetes, both type 1 & 2, and have been told by my Dr she believes I have a high probability of developing Diabetes in the future.
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Thank you JSJB! I don't know if i'll find anyone on this site with the same condition I have, but it is nice for the diabetic community to be understanding & supportive. I've really had no one to talk to about this, and according to my primary physician & my endocrinologist, I'll be joining your ranks sooner than later! Take care! Nina :)
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Wow that is scary Nina! I have not heard of that previously. My prayers are with you!
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A few weeks ago I was invited to give a talk on the annual conference on hate speech at the National Museum of Memory and Tolerance in Mexico City. Here are some of my notes:
- Theoretical humanists (and social scientists, not just theoretical philosophers) envy the relevance of practical humanists, while practical humanists envy the precision of theoretical humanists.
- I increasingly doubt the usefulness of using the term "racism" to account for discrimination in Mexico. Given the heterogeneity among phenomena such as the exclusion of indigenous peoples, anti-Semitism and discrimination against dark skinned people, I do not see what is the point of calling them all cases of racism. I do not see well what they have in common that is substantially different from, say, classism or any other sort of discrimination.
- It is very easy to point out the negative effects of the mestizaje myth, but what is really necessary and truly difficult is to objectively evaluate the pros and cons of having built our national identity around this myth. furthermore, it is not necessary to think that this was a mistake to realize that we must repair its harmful effects on indigenous peoples, or that we need to keep looking for better, more just ways of building a national identity.
- As long as our paradigm of the political is explicit and conscious public deliberation considering reasons and interests, we marginalize fundamental aspects of the political realm that are implicit, unconscious private and embodied, like emotions. (Even though emotions also build communities).
- Latin American political thought lays claim to anger as a positive political emotion, but we must recognize that once anger is unleashed there is no way to control it. At most, we may be able to channel it in positive directions.
- The European and American perspectives on free speech and censorship are diametrically different because of their radically different historical experiences, so that the default position is freedom in the United States and prohibition in Europe.
- It is possible – and a good habit – to talk to a person on the other side of the ideological fence without betraying our principles.
- "If you ask me, what would be the only thing I wish you would take away from this talk – if you could take only one thing away – it would be that education makes no difference: we are all capable of producing and being affected by dangerous speech regardless of our education." Susan Benesch
- We respond in a more rational way to messages in a second language than we do to messages in our mother tongue.
- Speech acts are acts: they invovle decision, authority, choice: these demand different conceptual tools beyond semantics, pragmatics, communication, meaning, truth, etc.


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Aww, didn't you wish when you was a kid to be let loose in a shopping mall at night and play with all the things in the store? Yes, I wish I did! And that's what Debenhams did for these kids in this advert... Oh the pleasure of being able to run loose and not having your parents to look for you but not during the daytime when it's so busy... so kids, don't go and scare your parents and doing the things that these children have been told to do for this advert!
Anyway this ad is about kids going on a mission to find hidden gifts around the store and one girl in particular can't seem to find the hidden gift until the very end of the ad. She gets a stuffed toy. In the meantime the other kids are playing around with clothes, bags and furniture. I would love to have been given that much freedom when I was 5 years old. (Don't think my parents would've been appreciative at the time though). :P
At least Debenhams showed one of their stores in the ad, unlike the John Lewis one. This ad is cute but needs a little more zing to it. Song didn't go with it unfortunately.
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Redistricting commission to visit Steamboat
September 8, 2001
Steamboat Springs — Redrawing the boundaries of the state's legislative districts amounts to a mathematical puzzle that is potentially supercharged with partisan politics.
State Sen. Jack Taylor, R-Steamboat Springs, and State Rep. Al White, R-Winter Park, whose districts encompass Routt County, are carefully watching the progress of the Colorado Reapportionment Commission as it works through the puzzle. Both state legislators stand to see their districts change. And both men could see the the boundaries of their districts expand geographically at the same time they lose the required 15,000 constituents.
The commission is charged with redrawing Colorado's legislative boundaries after each census to ensure each House district and each Senate district is within a certain percentage of each other in population. In addition to being nearly equal in population, the districts should be compact and preserve county and city boundaries as much as possible.
Currently, members of the commission, including its vice chairman, Jay Fetcher of Clark, are in the midst of visiting 22 communities statewide to gather public comment.
White is looking at two tentative maps that would carve a portion of Eagle County including the town of Vail out of his district. The second, an amendment to the current map being considered by the commission, and submitted by Fetcher, would greatly expand the geographic boundaries of White's district, while still trimming 15,000 constituents.
"I can live with either plan, but I'd prefer to keep Vail," White said.
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House District 56 currently includes Jackson, Grand and Eagle counties, plus a small portion of eastern Garfield County.
One new plan would remove the eastern half of Eagle County and those portions of Garfield from the district.
A second plan would add large portions of Rio Blanco and Garfield counties, plus all of Moffat County to the new 57th District, which would encompass the old District 56, including Routt County.
White, a freshman legislator, said the amount of travel and the numbers of local governments he would have to coordinate with if he were he re-elected to serve the new District 57 is daunting.
However, he acknowledged the new district would tip the scales further in his favor.
"It would be a fairly strong Republican district," White said.
The current District 56 is about 35 percent Republican and 25 percent Democratic, with the balance being independent voters.
The new district would increase the Republican advantage to 42 Republican, 21 Democratic.
Senate Minority Leader John Andrews, R-Centennial, said he believes the commission, which is controlled 6-5 by Democrats, is deliberately attempting to concentrate Republicans in one district, like the 56th, to dilute their strength in other key districts.
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The current Senate District 8, represented by Taylor encompasses Routt, Jackson, Grand, Eagle, Garfield, Rio Blanco and Moffat counties.
The new plan would remove all of Eagle and part of Grand counties, adding a single precinct in Mesa County and all of Delta County to the district.
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Opening in 3D, 2D and IMAX 3D theaters on March 9, the Andrew Stanton-directed film stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Daryl Sabara, Polly Walker, Bryan Cranston, Thomas Hayden Church and Willem Dafoe.
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While program design plans are underway to propel the Jersey Surf to new competitive heights on the 2012 DCI Tour with its exciting Bridgemania production, intensive logistical planning has also begun, intended to expand the corps' travel schedule to include the DCI Southwestern Regional Championship in San Antonio, TX next July.
"It has long been our dream to provide our members with the opportunity to perform before one of the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable audiences on the DCI Tour at the Alamodome in San Antonio," said Bob Jacobs, Executive Director of the Jersey Surf. "We've had a number of discussions over the past several seasons with our student leadership and corps administration pertaining to further expansion of our tour, and we are excited at the prospect of taking this next growth step, by hopefully adding the Southwestern Regional Championship to our itinerary, along with our regular visits to the Southeastern Championship in Atlanta and Eastern Classic in Allentown. We will have considerable work to do to manage the logistics of this expansion, and of course ensuring that we have adequate funds in place to offset the additional expense, but our intent is to bring our Bridgemania production to a new audience in Texas and the deep south, and to "Share the Love" with tens of thousands of new friends that we've yet to meet!"
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One of humanity's greatest traits is our unflagging desire to achieve new heights. Tired of traveling hither and yon by foot, man created cars. Tired of driving and also drowning in the ocean, man created airplanes. Tired of eating tiny-ass jive-turkey food -- MAN CREATED A 45-POUND CHICKEN NUGGET.
I think when a chicken nugget can be laid out flat in your driveway and mistaken for a dead human, it has probably left the territory of nugget-hood. Still, the achievement is great. What can I say? We are an almost sacredly awesome creation -- good on us, mankind. When it comes to food, we understand that bigger is better -- especially in America.
We are the land of refillable sodas the size of your head! We relish our gallon buckets of popcorn at the movie theatre! We wrap our burgers in donuts and substitute bacon for bread! We love food, and we love it big -- which is also very much what she said. She being the protagonist of 9 1/2 Weeks. Food sex humor, yeah!
If there is a food the world has deemed to be delicious, there is a group of people who have sought to make it bigger. Behold, here are five such foods made giant by the splendid innovations of man. Check them out -- and I dare you not to finish feeling famished.
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