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Alibaba, which is planning for an IPO later this year is reportedly paying $75 million for a minority stake in ShopRunner, While Mr. Thompson is no longer at the company, Yahoo owns almost a quarter of Alibaba so some relationship apparently persisted.
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Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities the Hon. Tony Burke MP
Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry the Hon. Dr Mike Kelly AM MP
Australians involved in managing our natural resources have been invited to have their say on the future of Caring for our Country.
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Tony Burke, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator Joe Ludwig, and Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Dr Mike Kelly today welcomed the release of a discussion paper on Australian Government investment in natural resource management.
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As the initiative approaches the midpoint of its current funding cycle, it is important that we receive the views of our stakeholders and discuss how Caring for our Country is meeting its objectives, Minister Ludwig said.
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I've been having so much fun with this little DIY project that I had to share it with all of you because I know you will love it, too. These beautiful "snow" candles are pretty, easy and cheap to make.
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- Or, go to Setup > Application Setup > General Settings.
- See SCENE7 FTP account. Server details are displayed there.
- Now ftp to the server with the user id and password you created.
- Put your files there.
When you upload the file from ftp server to Scene 7, you can't really select the files. So put only those files that you want to push to a specific folder.
- Log in Scene 7, and upload the files from ftp server.
- Select the folder > Upload.
- Select Via FTP from the top bar. This option is enabled only after you enable the ftp account.
- Select the folder displayed and click Submit Upload.


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The French Opera House, before and after. The Opera House burned in the
early morning hours of December 4, 1919. By dawn, the building was in ruins. The
cause of the fire was never determined, although it was widely believed to have begun
in the restaurant housed in the building. For years, New Orleanians cherished hopes
of rebuilding the theater and resurrecting the elegant days of French opera, but in the
1960s a modern hotel (now the Inn on Bourbon) was erected on the site. Until the
construction of the Theater of the Performing Arts in 1973, New Orleans was without a
permanent home for opera.
The heart of the old French quarter has stopped beating.
The heart of the old French quarter has stopped beating.


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Well nuts, Everything was working for the last few days and I paid to purchase.
Now ...I find out I can't do my normal routine of sending PDF invoices from another program to a POCO email because this program is not MAPI compliant.
Somebody is going to say it's a security issue. How bad can it be? I have done this for the last decade without a single issue.
What a Pity. Well...back to Eudora.


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Staying true to the premise of a Filipino household, Matutina Pensionne provides a rather relaxing ambiance and warm hospitality in its quaint house that withstood the test of time since the 50s.
Matutina Pensionne is a 5-minute drive from Puerto Princesa International Airport and a 5-minute walk from Baywalk Boulevard.
The Philippines are an archipelago of more than seven thousand islands off the southeast coast of Asia. Only half of these islands have been named and roughly one thousand are inhabited. Look at how beautiful they are! People first arrived here from the mainland around 25,000 B.C. by crossing a land bridge which existed at the time.The name comes from Ferdinand Magellan of Portugal, who explored the Philippines in 1521. He claimed them in service of Spain, naming them after Prince Philip. Spain controlled the Philippines for the next 350 years until the Philippine Revolution of 1896.Here's a picture of Fort Santiago, where the national hero Jose Rizal was imprisoned prior to his execution. He was a poet and novelist who supported peaceful reform, rather than violent revolution, against the Spanish government.This is one of poems in which he describes the creation of the world, as a gift to his mother:"Say they that tell of the world, the first dawn of the sun, the first kiss that his bosom inflamed, when thousands of beings surged out of nothing, and peopled the depths, and to the heights mounted, to wherever his fecund kiss was implanted"Violent revolution broke out anyway and the Philippines changed hands from Spanish, to American, to Japanese control over the next fifty years. Following World War Two they finally became an independent republic.Back to the beautiful ocean! You can dream about the Cafe Del Mar resort next time you find your screen saver kicking in when you're still sitting at the desk staring blankly. There's a series of DJ mixes with this title but I don't know if it refers to the same place. I would not be surprised.Annnnd to really get you buying your plane tickets...the sunset over Borocay White Beach!Text by Steve Smith.


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December 2002
Science literacy strengthens opinions and decisions about science-based issues. Photo: March 2009 BioScience magazine cover, courtesy AIBS.
Newspaper headlines on November 21, 2002:
- Boxing the genome code (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia)
- Scientist to attempt creation of living cell (New York Times, USA)
- 2 black holes may collide, say astronomers (Times of India)
- Ottawa unveils updated Kyoto plan (Toronto Star, Canada)
- 'Death gene' discovery (Daily Telegraph, UK)
We live in an age of constant scientific discovery — a world shaped by revolutionary new technologies. Just look at your favorite newspaper. The chances are pretty good that in the next few days you'll see a headline about global warming, cloning, fossils in meteorites, or genetically engineered food. Other stories featuring exotic materials, medical advances, DNA evidence, and new drugs all deal with issues that directly affect your life. As a consumer, as a business professional, and as a citizen, you will have to form opinions about these and other science-based issues if you are to participate fully in modern society.
More and more, scientific and technological issues dominate national discourse, from environmental debates on ozone depletion and acid rain, to economic threats from climate change and invasive species. Understanding these debates has become as basic as reading. All citizens need to be scientifically literate to:
- appreciate the world around them
- make informed personal choices
It is the responsibility of scientists and educators to provide everyone with the background knowledge to help us cope with the fast-paced changes of today and tomorrow. What is scientific literacy? Why is it important? And how can we achieve scientific literacy for all citizens?
What is scientific literacy?
Scientific literacy, quite simply, is a mix of concepts, history, and philosophy that help you understand the scientific issues of our time.
Scientific literacy is not the specialized, jargon-filled esoteric lingo of the experts. You don't have to be able to synthesize new drugs to appreciate the importance of medical advances, nor do you need to be able to calculate the orbit of the space station to understand its role in space exploration.
Scientific literacy is rooted in the most general scientific principles and broad knowledge of science; the scientifically literate citizen possesses facts and vocabulary sufficient to comprehend the context of the daily news.
If you can understand scientific issues in magazines and newspapers (if you can tackle articles about genetic engineering or the ozone hole with the same ease that you would sports, politics, or the arts) then you are scientifically literate.
Admittedly, this definition of scientific literacy does not satisfy everyone. Some academics argue that science education should expose students to mathematical rigor and complex vocabulary. They want everyone to experience this taste of "real" science. But my colleagues and I feel strongly that those who insist that everyone must understand science at a deep level are confusing two important but separate aspects of scientific knowledge. As in many other endeavors, doing science is obviously distinct from using science; and scientific literacy concerns only the latter.
Surprisingly, intense study of a particular field of science does not necessarily make one scientifically literate. Indeed, I'm often amazed at the degree to which working scientists are often woefully uninformed in scientific fields outside their own field of professional expertise. I once asked a group of twenty-four Ph.D. physicists and geologists to explain the difference between DNA and RNA — perhaps the most basic idea in modern molecular biology. I found only three colleagues who could do so, and all three of those individuals did research in areas where this knowledge was useful. And I'd probably find the same sort of discouraging result if I asked biologists to explain the difference between a semiconductor and a superconductor. The education of professional scientists is often just as narrowly focused as the education of any other group of professionals, so scientists are just as likely to be ignorant of scientific matters outside their own specialty as anyone else.
In considering what scientific literacy is, it's also useful to recognize what it is not. Scientific literacy is often confused with technological literacy — the ability to deal with everyday devices such as computers and VCRs. Technological literacy is important to many pursuits in modern society, but it is distinct from my definition of scientific literacy.
The scope of the problem
By any measure, the average American is not scientifically literate, even with a college degree:
- At a recent Harvard University commencement, an informal poll revealed that fewer than ten percent of graduating seniors could explain why it's hotter in summer than in winter.1
- A survey taken at our own university (George Mason University), where one can argue that the teaching of undergraduates enjoys a higher status than at some other institutions, shows results that are scarcely more encouraging. Fully half of the seniors who filled out a scientific literacy survey could not correctly identify the difference between an atom and a molecule.2
I suspect that these results are the rule, not the exception. Most colleges and universities have the same dirty little secret: we are all turning out scientifically illiterate students who are incapable of understanding many of the important newspaper items published on the very day of their graduation.
The problem, of course, is not limited to universities. We hear over and over again about how poorly American high school and middle school students fare when compared to students in other developed countries on standardized tests. Scholars who make it their business to study such things estimate the numbers of scientifically literate Americans to be:3
- fewer than 7% of adults
- 22% of college graduates
- 26% of those with graduate degrees
The number of Americans who are scientifically literate by the standards of these studies is distressingly low. The numbers, then, tell the same story as the anecdotes. Americans at all academic levels have not been given the basic background they may need to cope with the life they will have to lead in the twenty-first century.
Why is scientific literacy important?
Why should we care whether our citizens are scientifically literate? Why should you care about your own understanding of science? Three different arguments might convince you why it is important:
- from civics
- from aesthetics
- from intellectual coherence
The first argument from civics is the one I've used thus far. We're all faced with public issues whose discussion requires some scientific background, and therefore we all should have some level of scientific literacy. Our democratic government, which supports science education, sponsors basic scientific research, manages natural resources, and protects the environment, can be thwarted by a scientifically illiterate citizenry. Without an informed electorate (not to mention a scientifically informed legislature) some of the most fundamental objectives of our nation may not be served.
The argument from aesthetics is less concrete, but is closely related to principles that are often made to support liberal education. According to this view, our world operates according to a few over-arching natural laws. Everything you do, everything you experience from the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you go to bed at night, conforms to these laws of nature. Our scientific vision of the universe is exceedingly beautiful and elegant and it represents a crowning achievement of human civilization. You can share in the intellectual and aesthetic satisfaction to be gained from appreciating the unity between a boiling pot of water on a stove and the slow march of the continents, between the iridescent colors of a butterfly's wing and the behavior of the fundamental constituents of matter. A scientifically illiterate person is effectively cut off from an immensely enriching part of life, just as surely as a person who cannot read.
Intellectual Coherence
Finally, we come to the third argument — the idea of intellectual coherence. Our society is inextricably tied to the discoveries of science — so much so that they often play a crucial role in setting the intellectual climate of an era. For example, the Copernican concept of the heliocentric universe played an important role in sweeping away the old thinking of the Middle Ages and ushering in the Age of Enlightenment. Similarly, Charles Darwin's discovery of the mechanism of natural selection at once made understanding nature easier. And in this century the work of Freud and the development of quantum mechanics have made our natural world seem (at least superficially) less rational. In all of these cases, the general intellectual tenor of the times — what Germans call the Zeitgeist — was influenced by developments in science. How can anyone hope to appreciate the deep underlying threads of intellectual life in his or her own time without understanding the science that goes with it?
So what to do?
The problem has been defined and the need for a solution is real. How can you and your family become scientifically literate? Fortunately, science educators the world over have spent the last decade in an all-out assault on the problem, and a number of solutions are at hand:
K-12 Education
At the level of K-12 education, the National Research Council, in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and national teacher organizations, produced the sweeping National Science Education Standards.4 This farsighted document serves as a building code for new science curricula for elementary, middle and high schools — curricula that emphasize an inquiry-based approach in the context of concepts and principles rather than vocabulary and rote memorization. Gradually, school systems around the country are retooling their science courses, while numerous programs at the local and state levels seek to retrain teachers in this powerful new educational approach. Soon, educators hope, our nation's students will demonstrate a richer appreciation of science than ever before.
Higher Education
Reforms have also been targeted at the college level. In 1990, I joined forces with physicist James Trefil in developing one integrated science course, "Great Ideas in Science." A companion textbook, The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, is now used in approximately 200 colleges and universities.5 And hundreds of other institutions of higher education are engaged in their own experiments to foster scientific literacy among college graduates.
The General Public
And what about those of us who are beyond college years? Today there are amazing resources for continuing education. Scores of books by scientists and science journalists present every field of science to general readers. Wondrous television and radio programs explore the latest advances in scientific research. And the internet abounds with science web sites that elucidate every conceivable scientific topic, from the pure research of space exploration and particle physics to applied aspects of medical technologies, environmental hazards, materials development, drug design, and hundreds of other important topics.
Thanks to these efforts the ball is in your court. With a little effort, you can share in the most extraordinary, transforming challenge of the human species — the adventure of science.
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Our vehicle data terminal exploding due to over use…!
Nearly finished my last set of four nights! Less than half an hour to go!
I am creased! I am knackered beyond belief! I am exhausted! I am twitching!
12 jobs in one shift! So far! On a night shift on a Thursday!
What is wrong with everybody? Has control been ringing people up to ask them if they want an ambulance because I,m on duty?
When I first started on A/E many moons ago, if you did three jobs on a night shift then you was said to have been busy. Now it is getting ridiculous!


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Scheveningen Pier at sunset
With low tide, some rocks emerge from the water, on the beach of SCheveningen, and create a perfect foreground subject for the pier in the distance. It was the end of a warm and nice day, especially for mid October... Such a pity there were really no clouds in the sky, I would hae loved to see some turning gold at sunset!
Spiaggia Sabbie Nere
A wonderful winter sky makes for a great sunset on the island of Vulcano, the third largest island in the volcanic archipelago of Aeolian Islands. The volcanic sand on the beach gives a dark, black look, which contrasts with the blue sea, and the gold color of the sky at sunset.
Sunset in Tonnarella
This image perfectly represents the reason why I love Sicily, and Tonnarella... The sunset on the beach is always amazing, but when the setting sun paints the clouds of gold, that's when the magic happens
Piscina di Venere
Located at the very end of Capo Milazzo, Piscina di Venere is a small natural pool surrounded by a ring of rocks, and a idyllic spot from where to enjoy the sunset, especially on a partially clouded winter day.
Barbarian Figs
The sunset colors contrast with the green of the Barbaray Figs, one of the most typical plants in Sicily. On the horizon, the Eolian Islands. Capo Milazzo is beautiful at all times of the day, but it certainly gives its best during the golden hour.
The sunset on the beach at Torre Faro brought back wonderful memories of my childhood, and provided a terrific scene to photograph.
Sunset on Capo Milazzo
After a rainy day, I saw the sky was getting clear. It was my first day of holiday, and I know the place quite well, so I knew I had to go to this wonderful place to take some photos at sunset. The place did not delude me!
Cathedral Cove at Sunrise
When the first light of the morning starts to paint the sky in purple and gold, you want to be there too, and live the dream with open eyes
Sunset on Te Anau Lake
It was a beautiful night, with some friends met earlier that day joining me during this incredible sunset. I left my heart in New Zealand, and this is certainly one of the reasons for it.
Sunset on Nugget Point
The clouds create a dramatic scenery, while the sun sets behind the Catlins. The lighthouse at Nugget Point is a perfect place from where to enjoy the show.
Sunset near Fox River
A very small bay, on the West Coast of the New Zealandese Southern Island. Some rocks, the ocean, and some clouds running in the sky. The sun setting gives the final touch, and the moment become magical. Like a dream, just real.
Wharariki Beach
The marvelous colours of the sky after the sun has set behind the horizon, on the Wharariki Beach, in the wild northwestern coast of the South Island
Pukerua Bay
The sunset in Pukerua Bay was really amazing. On my 4th day in New Zealand, I eventually had a sunny day, and the sun setting in the Tasman Sea offered me an incredible show.
The reef
Submerged rocks keep the water calm, while the sun sets colouring the sky and the clouds. In the distance, the Kapiti Island. Not far from there, I had a wonderful dinner in a restaurant with an incredible view on the coast.
Kapiti Island
A view on the Kapiti Island, at sunset, from the mainland coast. After a whole day driving south from Auckland, I was rewarded with a wonderful sunset.
A beautiful day
I had just woke up, and by looking out from the window, I saw, in the first light of the dawn, beautiful clouds on the horizon. I knew by then, that it would have been an incredible sunrise.
Therefore, I took my camera with me, while going to work, and I stopped a few hundred meters from my workplace.
I had this image in my mind since months, already. Finally, I was able to be there with the right conditions... and it was really magical!
Stavoren: the Sunset
Sunset time on Ijsselmeer
W Barcelona at sunset
Treshold of the night
Peace on Earth
Sunset in Dingle
At Dún Chaoin pier
Sunset time on Blasket Islands
Sunset from Punta Faraglione
Tiny clouds run in the sky above Punta Faraglione, on the island of Favignana, while the sun sets behind the horizon.
Sunrise in Cala Rossa
With its red rocks, Cala Rossa is one of the many wonderful coves on the island of Favignana. The golden light of the sunrise can only make this place just more stunning
Sunrise in Cala Azzurra
Famous for its light blue waters, the sunset in this cove turned into pastel colors. What a lucky day for the owner of the boats, who could enjoy such a beautiful moment
Sunset on the harbour at Favignana
The blue of the shadows and the red and yellow of the clouds at sunset create a magical contrast which reflects in the sea at sunset.
Cloudy sunset on the Sea
The place where I spent my childhood summers, Tonnarella can offer amazing sunsets, especially after a storm, if the sun appears through the clouds
Sunrise at Lac Gignoux


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May 2010 BSA Theme - In the Spotlight
"It's time to perform and be in the spotlight! This month spend some time making musical instruments to be used in the pack meeting variety show. The variety show could be skits, songs, puppet shows, magic trick - you name it. Have the boys and their parents and families participate in a variety show and have some adults record the show. Dens can create posters announcing the show and make programs to let everyone know what's coming. Commercials could be videotaped by the den during their den meetings and then be shown between acts. (Get the parents involved) Take a photo for the local newspaper or a video clip for the local TV station for recognition of their achievements and put Cub Scouting in the spotlight. Visit a television, radio, or cable station to see how they prepare and produce their shows. Attend a play or musical production. The Cub Scouts can earn the Music belt loop and pin." - Program Helps
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Bruce Pienkny, owner and president of CitySolve, has removed graffiti from gates, brick buildings and storefronts throughout the city since 1995, cleaning roughly 75,000 properties in over 100 neighborhoods to date.
"You can never really stop it because it's a cultural problem, or like a social problem like alcoholism or a drug addiction," Pienkny said.
Ramie Neptune, an employee with CitySolve, sprayed a layer of color-matching silicone paint over the front gates to remove an eyesore from Ming's Laundromat at 110-68 Queens Boulevard, the first of dozens on the short list for removal last Thursday morning.
Pienkny speculated over the possible cause for the growing graffiti problem along Queens Boulevard.
"It comes in waves," he said. "Last winter we had a blizzard in February, and for whatever reason, at 101st Avenue on Queens Boulevard, in [Councilman Jimmy] Van Bramer's district in Sunnyside, they went crazy with graffiti. It's counterintuitive, why they were graffiti-ing through a blizzard is because the cops can't chase them. The streets were closed and they were running rampant. It was unbelievable."
Koslowitz teamed up with Pienkny and CitySolve in response to over 20 complaints in Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Rego Park and Elmhurst over the last three months.
"It's not only a visual eyesore, but it diminishes the quality of the neighborhood," Koslowitz said. "Partnering with CitySolve is the first step in sending a clear message that any form of vandalism will not be tolerated and quickly removed."
Steve Melnick, treasurer for the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce, has recognized the growing number of graffiti-covered storefronts throughout his neighborhood.
"We're adamant that the area is presentable," Melnick said. "People are going to become scared and they're going to think there's some sort of anarchy going on around here because nobody's taking control."
Melnick said he was relieved to see the council member take a step toward recovering the aesthetic integrity of the community.
"People are invested here," he said. "It's important to the neighborhood and to the merchants around here and you don't want to say the place is not being kept up. Something like this can really harm them, whether you are residential or a commercial businesses."


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Colonial Massachusetts, 1775
Abigail Stowell is a rarity for her time. The comely young woman is educated, outspoken, and attuned to the charged political climate around her. She is a staunch Patriot. In short, she is a rebel. So when Gideon Whitlock, and avowed Tory, rides into her village, Abby is not only put off by his politics and arrogance but is also annoyed by her undeniable attraction to him.
When she observes a clandestine meeting between her Patriot father and Gideon, Abby soon realizes that in a world divided by loyalties, not everything is as it seems. Soon she is drawn deeper into political intrigue than she ever dreamed possible. And just as feelings begin to heat up between Abby and Gideon, the shot heard round the world ignites the beginning of war between the colonists and the British redcoats. There is no time for hesitation, and Abby finds herself thrust into a world of intrigue, treachery, and terror. Lives hang in the balance, and Abby will stop at nothing to support the Patriot movement—but will her allegiance to the cause mean losing the man she loves?
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel set around the Revolutionary war. It's been a long time since a book kept me up into the wee hours of the morning! I loved the characters and that Abby didnt fit the mold for a women of her era.
I absolutely loved this book. This well thought out book, kept me wanting for more! The romance and the trials of the story gave it a dumbfounding surprise! This is a have to have book for me!
Such a fun book to listen to. Great characters, strong women, and a well rounded story.
Whenever I read a good book set in Colonial times it makes me feel patriotic and humbled by the men and women who lived during such a turbulent and important era, participating in the formation of our country and fighting for liberty. Petticoat Spy has a strong heroine who is passionate for the cause, and learning to balance speaking out for her convictions with maintaining a ladylike demeanor and schooling her mind to bring honor to her family name. Although Abby has an impetuous nature, she is intelligent and grows throughout the story from her experiences. I liked Gideon from the start and how he admires Abby even when she is at odds with him. There is a suspenseful tension as the danger increases, yet the author weaves in a sweet romance between the two patriots, however inopportune the circumstances. I really loved the historical details that enhanced the setting and gave me a feeling of being there with the characters. Highly recommend to fans of historical fiction and those who enjoyed the books of Amber Lynn Perry and Ann Rinaldi!
(I received a complimentary copy of the book; all opinions in this review are my own)
I've been reading a lot of regency novels lately and this book was a refreshing change in scenery. I love books set during important times in history and this one takes place just before the Revolutionary War in America. The Patriot movement is increasing and strengthening and Abigail Stowell finds herself right in the middle of it.
Abby is a strong and determined girl. She has a keen mind and desperately wants to be a part of the cause she so strongly believes in. This leads her to a few impossibly difficult situations but with the help of good friends she manages to get through.
The story flowed so well. It gave me a chance to know all the characters, their strengths and weaknesses but kept events happening and momentum building so that I never grew bored or disinterested. With every turn of the page I felt my anxiety increasing because I just knew something bad was going to happen but I didn't know when and I didn't know how Abigail and Gideon could possibly get out of the mess they were in. I desperately wanted to know and to get to the end for my own resolution. It is always so good to be compelled to read on and not want to put a book down. :)
If you love historical fiction, you don't want to miss out on this book!
Content: Some mild violence, drugging, abuse. A few instances of kissing. Clean.
-I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions expressed are my own.
PETTICOAT SPY may look like an unsuspecting sweet romance with some minor spying, but the story is so much more. Full of danger, deception, and a fight for the characters' very lives makes for a riveting tale. Then also add in a little whimsy with a wise woman who receives warnings and some predictions, a quaint town, a loving family, a world in turmoil on the brink of war, and a dashing gentleman to charm the heroine's heart. Historical romance and suspense readers are sure to enjoy!
I fell in love with these characters almost immediately. Abigail or "Abby" was such a spitfire. I loved her passion, but also her intellect and wit. I also couldn't help but love the sparks that flew between Gideon and her. The author did a wonderful job of conveying plenty of tension and chemistry. I also appreciated that Abby grew more into herself, that she learned from some prior mistakes. There were a slue of other characters that came alive in this story as well, including a very cunning villain.
The story kept a fairly constant underlying feel of suspense that gradually grew until I literally was holding my breath waiting to see if these characters would make it out alive in the end. The plot may not have been completely realistic all the time, but was definitely plausible. There weren't any places where I felt things were too easy or where characters didn't react consistently. The romance also didn't overtake the story. There were other aspects at play and all the pieces worked well together. It was definitely an engaging story from beginning to end.
In the end, was it what I wished for? Yes. This was actually more than I was expecting and a great combination of romance, humor, and suspense.
Content: Some violence.
Source: Received a complimentary copy from the publisher, which did not require a review nor affect it in any way.
I LOVE this title! What a GREAT BOOK!
I am always intrigued with the men and women who put their lives on the line to help our country and our liberty.
This time in history is amazing to read about and Abigail is such an inspiring character! You will love reading about her!
This book is definitely on the MUST-READ LIST!
This is a great book! I loved it from the very beginning.
I really loved Abigail, I loved the way she was willing to step up in a time that women were pretty much expected to sit in the corner quietly and work on their sewing. She had opinions, strong ones, and she was willing to express them and even get into trouble for them when she acted on them. I also loved that she was willing to apologize when she needed to. And I loved the way she went out of her way to care for her invalid "aunt," and put herself into danger at the same time, because she believed that it was the right thing to do.
Abby's is the only point of view you see in the book, and she has a great outlook on things. It would have been really fun to see what Gideon's thoughts were, especially when she believed that he was a Tory and against everything she believed in herself. I did love the lengths that he went to to protect Abby in any way he could from the danger that was all around her.
I loved the plot of this one, it's full of danger, intrigue and I loved the romance aspect as well. This is a really well-done, fun book!
I really enjoyed Petticoat Spy by Carol Warburton. The Colonial Period isn't one that I've read many novels from, but it was very interesting watching the events unfold as the Patriots built their cause to fight for their freedom from England.
Warburton wrote some excellent characters. Abby is my favorite type of character (one who doesn't fit the mold). Although extremely dangerous, her courage to join the cause and to hide in plain site (who would expect a woman of being a spy?) was admirable. A few times I worried that she was taking too many chances that might cause more harm than good, but it all worked out in the end. Her dedication to Caroline was also heartwarming as she saw a need (much greater than she expected before she arrived) and she put a lot of focus into helping her.
I also really enjoyed Gideon and the other characters, like Prudence Blood. This was a very entertaining story, and one that I can see myself reading again.
If you enjoy historical fiction, give Petticoat Spy a try.
4.5 stars
This book is easy to get lost into. I fell in love with the characters and the plot was intriguing!
The book begins just before the US Revolutionary War. The main character is Abigail Stowell. She is the daughter of a revolutionist. I loved reading the historic events through the eyes of someone who was experiencing them. I realize she is a fictional character, but it had an authentic feel to it.
Abigail is willingly brought into a world of becoming a spy and passing information to someone who is considered to be a Tory, but really working for the Patriots. She has passion for reform and wants to be of help. She is a strong women during a time when women were not supposed to be strong. I loved her enthusiasm, intellect, and courage.
The love interest is dangerous. They develop feeling for each other when it is not safe or prudent. War is on the horizon and the time for romance is fleeting. I liked the sparks between them.
In short, if you enjoy historical fiction with action and romance, you may want to pick up this book. It is written well and runs at a great pace.
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Why Curbing the Climate Crisis Will Take More Than Summits and Divestment
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
—Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If you wanted to design a global crisis that the world's political systems would be particularly incapable of solving, it would be hard to do better than climate change.
Unlike a meltdown of the banking system or an attack from the sky, climate change has not come upon us suddenly, commanding our sense of urgency. It continues to creep closer towards us year-by-year in the form of record heat, decimating storms, and historic ice melt. Most of the measures proposed in response bear the uncomfortable feel of sacrifice—paying more for gas or living less large in our material lifestyles—and sacrifice does not make for good politics. Add in the powerful corporate machinery engaged in protecting coal and oil interests and it is little wonder that the political process is frozen.
As a result, the most significant and irreversible threat that our generation poses to the future is marked by an almost complete political incapacity to act. The only force with any chance of getting the political process to move is citizen action. But what kind, applied where, and with what aim?
Much has been written about the grim consequences of the climate crisis and much has been written as well about what, in an ideal political world, we should do to prevent those consequences. But the question that lingers unanswered is this: What can we do in the political world in which we actually live that can make a significant difference while there is still time?
Global summitry, the dead end
For more than a decade, a major focus of citizen action on climate has been the pursuit of an international agreement that would bind nations to swift and significant reductions in carbon emissions. From Bonn to Doha, climate campaigners have traveled to U.N. summits demanding action. The appeal of a global agreement is clear: setting an international speed limit on global warming with every nation doing its part to meet that goal. Unfortunately, it is also easy to see why a serious agreement on carbon emissions has proven politically impossible to achieve.
A truly binding commitment on carbon emissions would require that the major carbon polluting countries in the world—the United States, China, India, and others—effectively surrender some measure of their sovereignty (over energy policy, for example). To believe that they will ever do so is, unfortunately, a fantasy. Their domestic politics would never allow it. Simply consider the probabilities of President Obama signing such an accord and winning its approval in the U.S. Congress.
For moral and educational reasons it is still important to call on nations to act in these forums, but it is a serious strategic error to believe that global climate summitry will deliver anything approaching a binding and serious agreement to reduce emissions. These summits remain important because they are setting policy on issues like financing for climate adaptation. But they are not where we need to wage the fight for substantial emissions cuts.
The reality is that the political decisions that will most determine the Earth's ecological future are not going to be made internationally. Rather, they will be made nation-by-nation, state-by-state, and community-by-community. These are the places, far more than in international forums, where citizen action on climate must make its stand.
Targeting the climate's enemy
"Movements require enemies," writes climate activist Bill McKibben in a widely read August article in Rolling Stone, "and enemies are what climate change has lacked."
McKibben also has a strong nomination for who that enemy needs to be: the fossil fuel industry and its giants such as Exxon, Chevron, and Shell. He notes further that the fuel reserves that these and other companies have underground ready to market into the atmosphere are five times what the climate could possibly cope with under even the best-case scenarios.
McKibben and his organization 350.org have launched a nationwide campaign aimed at the fossil fuel industry and are rallying people behind a strategy—a demand that universities, public pension funds, and other institutions "divest" their stock holdings in that industry.
Targeting the fossil fuel industry is essential. Like the tobacco industry before it, these corporations have assembled the same powerful arsenal in their defense: fake science ("clean coal" is the new "filtered cigarettes"), piles of political money, and warnings about job losses in tough times (coal miners and pipeline workers are the new tobacco farmers). It also helps to have vast numbers of people addicted to your product. As with tobacco, the fossil fuel industry knows that the damage it causes will eventually become undeniable and restrictions will follow, but the longer the industry can use politics and public relations to delay, the more profit it can take from its sunk investments.
The power of these divestment efforts is their potential to rally public attention to the industry and its role in the climate crisis. But divestment as the target for action raises the same question as global summitry does: Is it a strategy with a chance of delivering the goods or is it a dead end?
The divestment call to action declares, "If we start with these local institutions and hit the industry where it hurts—their bottom line—we can get their attention and force them to change. This was a key part of how the world ended the apartheid system in South Africa, and we hope it can have the same effect on the climate crisis."
Exxon, Shell, Chevron, and the others, however, are very different institutions than South Africa's apartheid government was in the 1970s and 1980s and subject to very different economic and moral pressures. The divestment campaigns aimed at South Africa translated into domestic political pressures on the ruling National Party and helped force it to the negotiating table with the ANC. In the case of the oil giants, even if divestment efforts do succeed in provoking modest sell-offs of stock, by definition the sale of stock requires that someone else buy it. And corporations sitting atop scarce and valuable resources and record profits are likely to have little problem finding eager new buyers. In terms of moral pressure, it seems equally improbable that corporate boards will grow so tired of being despised that they vote to walk away from those profits and shift their investments to renewables. It is not how mega-corporations are programmed.
Bob Massie of the Investor Network on Climate Risk, quoted in the Rolling Stone article, observes, "We must sever the ties with those who profit from climate change—now."
He is right, but the economic ties that bind most of us to Chevron, Shell, Exxon, and their like are not as investors, but as consumers. The lifeline we give them is not from buying their stock but burning their gas. Until that changes, they will be happily content to keep drilling, pumping, burning and raising the temperature of the planet.
In the end, the fundamental challenge remains the same: altering the energy consumption habits of massive numbers of people in deep ways, very fast. We have to make fundamental changes in the ways we transport ourselves, how we power our homes and factories, and how we build lives on a fragile planet that do not depend on relentless consumption of finite natural resources.
All of that requires smart and strategic political action aimed at both corporations and governments—and not just in one forum, but thousands, all at once, worldwide. It's worth noting that strengthening these local efforts has also been an admirable and important focus of 350's new campaign.
Lessons from the front lines
The good news is that there are important climate-related action campaigns underway all across the globe, some winning impressive victories and all offering up valuable lessons. The Democracy Center, where I serve as executive director, recently took an in-depth look at seven climate-related action campaigns around the world, from California to Kosovo, to capture some of that wisdom.
One key lesson is the importance of moving these fights to the fields of battle where citizen action stands the best chance of winning. On climate issues, the more local we make those battles, the stronger we are.
In the United States, forward action is stalled by a combination of corporate cash and deep polarization. However, as these fights become more local, something changes. Instead of claiming a set of divided interests, we become neighbors battling a common threat to local water and air.
Why We're Putting Ourselves on the (Pipe)Line With the Tea Party
This summer, Occupiers, Tea Partiers, landowners, and environmentalists challenged construction of the Keystone XL pipeline's Gulf Coast segment—together.
The coalition fighting coal export plans in Washington State, for example, runs from environmentalists to fisherman to wealthy homeowners, all of whom oppose the prospect of 18 contaminating coal trains a day passing through their communities.
The fossil fuel industry needs complex infrastructure—pipelines, trains, and ports—to move its product across the world, and that infrastructure has deep local impacts. Campaigning for the right of communities to decide their own environmental fate can also be one of the most important battles for the planet's environmental fate as a whole.
A second lesson is about climate issues, speaking both global and local at the same time. Extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy offer "teaching moments" where public officials in particular (as in the cases of Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Cuomo) can and should help the public connect the dots between local devastation and the dangerous, human-caused transformation of the atmosphere. Climate activists need to consistently combat voices denying climate change and work to educate the public. But in the meantime, what is winning climate battles right now is talking about issues that have a much more immediate impact on people's lives.
In 2010 in California, the billionaire Koch brothers and a pair of Texas oil companies launched a ballot campaign to kill the state's climate law (Proposition 23). Environmental and social justice groups beat them by more than two-to-one by talking about issues such as childhood asthma and air pollution created by dirty power plants, as well as the need for new "green jobs" in a tough economy. Activists in India stopped construction of a new coal plant by focusing on the threat to local livelihoods in fishing and farming. As we work to spread word about the larger threat to the planet, climate activists need to build political strength by talking about what people already care about now.
Finally, we need to start connecting climate issues to what really matters to us most: our children and grandchildren. Far too often the climate debate descends into discourses about data and exchanges of ideological rhetoric. When I think of climate change what I think of most is my ten-year-old daughter and all of the other fourth graders around the world. Are we really prepared to hand them a fearsome future of ecological unknowns, where Sandys become commonplace and where drought and food shortages spread across the planet?
As climate activists we can surely make a case as compelling about this threat to their future as others make about the threats posed to them by national debt. Groups such as UNICEF and others are already showing us the way.
Let us also not forget in the midst of our U.S. climate battles that it is across the Global South where vulnerability to climate change runs most deep. New York will now debate plans for a multibillion-dollar barrier aimed at holding back the rising sea. But here in Bolivia where I live, no infrastructure exists that can hold back the melting of the Andean glaciers, attacking not just the water supply but a part of the nation's soul as well.
McKibben Spearheads Plan to Hit Dirty Energy Where It Hurts
Could 350.org's aggressive new strategy bring an end to global warming?
"A Tough Mind"
Half a century ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed from the pulpit, "The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft-mindedness." He said that what was needed for the struggle against segregation was the combination of "a tough mind and a tender heart." In activism, "tough-mindedness" is about being strategic—looking with a clear eye at the powers we need to move and at what will actually move them. In the climate crisis, soft-mindedness on strategy is not an option.
Decades from now our children will look back on this time and will ask how we responded to the climate crisis that was so clearly headed their way. They will not care what summits we attended or how eloquently we voiced our demands. They won't care whether our politics were sufficiently radical or moderate. They will judge us by the only thing that will matter then—whether the actions we took in this time made an actual difference in theirs.
Will the United States ever change its policy of obstructing international action to stop climate change? If so, the political pressure to change the country's role will have to come from the American people.
On November 7, Bill McKibben's 350.org launched its "Do the Math" campaign and began urging universities to fight climate change by divesting their financial holdings from fossil-fuel companies. Unity College in Maine is the first to take the pledge.
It's 3 a.m. and the wind's howling. Do you know your neighbors?