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FAQs - Conflict of Interest
- What is the Political Reform Act and what does it require?
- Am I covered by the Act?
- What are Economic Interests?
- Why is my position designated?
- What is Form 700?
- Why am I required to complete an online ethics training course?
- What if I am a new employee in a designated position?
Q: What is the Political Reform Act and what does it require?
A: The State of California's Political Reform Act of 1974, (Gov. Code, § 81000, et seq.), (the "Act"), prohibits public officials from participating in governmental decisions when personal financial interests may be affected by those decisions. The Act requires that all government employees and officials disqualify themselves from participating in a governmental decision when a financial conflict of interest is present.
Q: Am I covered by the Act?
A: All CSU employees are public officials subject to the Act. However, certain designated positions are identified in the CSU Conflict of Interest Code (COI). This designation requires employees appointed to these positions to annually file a Statement of Economic Interests, Form 700: 2018/2019 Statement of Economic Interests (.pdf) and complete ethics training every two years.
Q: What are Economic Interests?
A: Personal Finances
A personal financial interest extends beyond the public employee's own finances or investments. A public employee has a personal financial interest in a university decision if it is reasonably foreseeable that the decision will have a material financial effect on the employee, a member of his or her immediate family, in any one of the five economic interests. Gov't Code § 87103.
Five Economic Interests
If it is reasonably foreseeable that any of the following will be materially affected by the decision, a conflict may exist:
- Any business entity in which the employee has a direct or indirect investment worth $2,000 or more, including ownership of stock by the employee or the employee's spouse or dependent child.
- Any real property in which the employee has a direct or indirect interest worth $2,000 or more. One's home is not included but any other investment property is.
- Any source of income which provides $500 or more in value promised to, or received by, the employee within 12 months prior to the time when the decision is made.
- Any business entity in which the employee is a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or holds any position of management.
- Any donor of, a gift or gifts totaling $500 or more, received, or promised to the employee within 12 months prior to the decision being made. Meals, travel costs, or anything else of value are included in the $500. (This amount is tied to a consumer price index and is occasionally adjusted.)
Q: Why is my position designated?
A: The specifically designated CSU employees to which the CSU Code applies are those who are considered most likely to be involved in university decision making or influence decisions where potential conflicts may be present that could significantly affect personal economic interests.
Q: What is Form 700?
A: The Political Reform Act requires most state and government officials and employees to publicly disclose their personal assets and income. The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) is the state agency responsible for issuing Statement of Economic Interests, Form 700, and for interpreting the law's provisions. A Form 700: 2018/2019 Statement of Economic Interests (.pdf) is provided to employees by the university's Conflict of Interest Officer or electronically by clicking on forms.
Q: Why am I required to complete an online ethics training course?
A: Employees who are required to file a Form 700: 2018/2019 Statement of Economic Interests (.pdf) or Form 700-U: Statement of Economic Interests for Principal Investigators (.pdf) (requires SJSUOne/CSU login) each April are in designated Conflict of Interest positions. Employees in designated positions must take ethics training course every two years. This course is required by law.
Q: What if I am a new employee in a designated position?
A: Newly appointed employees into a designated position are required to complete a Form 700: 2018/2019 Statement of Economic Interests (.pdf) within 30 days and complete ethics training within 6 months of assuming the position.


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A.Y. Jackson: Winter, Quebec, 1926 (National Gallery of Canada. Courtesy of the Estate of the late Dr. Naomi Jackson Groves. Photo © NGC)
F.H. Varley: Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, 1921 (© Varley Art Gallery / Town of Markham. Photo © NGC)
Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine, 1916–1917 (National Gallery of Canada. Photo © National Gallery of Canada).
Franz Johnston: The Fire Ranger, ca. 1921 (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo © NGC)
The images are made available for the press at the National Gallery's website.
HM Queen Sonja Norway attended the opening of the exhibition "Painting Canada. Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven" at the National Gallery (a department of The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) in Oslo on Thursday 26 January 2012. She was accompanied by the charge d'affaires at the Canadian embassy in Oslo, Gilles Normann, the vice director of the National Gallery of Canada, Karen Colby-Stothard, curator at the National Gallery of Canada Charles Hill, director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Ian Dejardin, besides representatives of the National Museum/National Gallery in Oslo.
I visited the exhibition on Sunday 29 January and really enjoyed it. I visit art exhibitions from time to time, but more often while I am on vacation abroad. But I was attracted to this particular exhibition because of its topic - I must admit that I have got a soft spot for Canada ever since my visits to Canada in 2006 and 2008. At the moment I am improving my knowledge of USA's big, little brother by reading the 6th edition of A Short History of Canada by Desmond Morton (Kindle Edition, 2008). Another reason for my interest in Canada is that I also had relatives who lived there: My great-uncle Herulf Ekeli (1905-1983), who settled in Ontario, but I haven't been able to find out too many details about him, and my great grandfather's younger brother Salve Trygsland (1874-1964), who was a farmer at Youngstown, Alberta, and is buried at Cottrell Cemetery in Cereal. Neither of them got their own family in Canada, though. It should be added that Queen Sonja's uncle Halvor "Havven" Haraldsen (1893-1970) and his wife Inger Elisabeth "Lisbeth" Haraldsen, née Rydgren (1904-1994) lived at Fredericton, New Brunswick, for many years, but are buried together with Sonja's parents at Ris cemetery in Oslo.
But back to the exhibition again! According to the press release it presents works by the most important pioneers of Canadian landscape painting from the early years of the 20th century. The love the painters - Tom Thomson (1877-1917) and the group of seven, Lawren Harris (1885-1970), J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932), A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974), Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945), Frederick Horsman Varley (1881-1969), Frank Johnston (1888-1949) and Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) - had of their homeland "encouraged them to explore the wilderness of Canada's national parks". The Group of Seven - they begun to exhibit collectively in 1920 and got their great breakthrough at the British Empire Exhibition in London in 1924 - laid the foundations for Canadian modernism, and were inspired by their counterparts in Scandinavia and the "dream of the Nordic".
The exhibition is put together by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, which I visited in 2008, and the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and shows more than 120 paintings from major museums and collections in Canada and thus provides a representation of this particular chapter of Canadian modernism. The exhibition in Oslo lasts until 13 May. Before that the British could enjoy the paintings at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from 19 October 2011 to 8 January 2012, and after Oslo the exhibition moves on to Groningen (3 June-28 October 2012).
Now, I have never studied arts history, so please don't expect me to go into depth about different styles and periods. I just enjoyed this exhibition because of its topic and the period it represented and because it was well organised with good introductions to the different artists. The paintings showed magnificent landscapes, but were fortunately not photographic representations. It was something about the colours and the light that particularly appealed to me. Tom Thomson is of course an example of this - A Northern Lake (c. 1916), Birches (several paintings!), Northern Lights (1916 or 1917), Path behind Mowat Lodge (1917) and Spring in Algonquin Park to mention a few. Franklin Carmichael's Autumn Hillside (1920), October Gold (1922; just think about the wonderful title!), Lawren Harris's Trees and Pool (1920), Frank Johnston's The Fire Ranger (1921; see above) and Serenity, Lake of the Woods (1922), MacDonald's Fall, Montreal River (1920) and Jackson's Winter, Quebec (1926; see above) were other favourites. Lawren Harris's paintings of the Canadian north and Arctic were very different in style from the others, but the light was wonderful! One example is Albert Harbour, North Baffin Island from 1930. Don't miss out on this!
Along with the exhibition goes the catalogue with the same title, Painting Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, which gives a great introduction to the painters and the period they represented and with a wonderful gallery attached. The price is only NOK 198. ISBN: 978-0-85667-686-4.
See also the reviews of the exhibition in London by The Guardian and The Telegraph as well as the blog Making a Mark.
Updated on Saturday 4 February 2012 at 11:40 (links added). last time updated on Monday 13 April 2015 at 00.25 (small error corrected).
3 February 2012
Painting Canada
Posted by Dag T. Hoelseth at 20:41
Labels art, Canada, Ekeli, genealogy, Haraldsen, Norway, Oslo, Queen Sonja, royalty, the Norwegian Royal Family, Trygsland
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Hello Dag,ReplyDelete
I had the pleasure of seeing an exhibit of Tom Thompson and The Group of Seven at the National Gallery. I am not an expert regarding painting, so all I can say is that I enjoyed the pictures and they evoked a wonderful feeling of the beautiful Canadian outdoors.
Looking at it really feels nice. Great art works. Congrats to the artists.ReplyDelete
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Beyonce Shares Her Pool-Playing Etiquette
Cue up, boys and girls, Beyonce has shared her tips and trick on how to rule not at just life, but at billiards. It's a noble pursuit, so the singer shared her pool-playing etiquette in this black and white 'How to Play Pool' video, the origins and date of which are unknown.
So how do you dominate pool?
First, BEY Confident. Watch the Queen B chant, "I will not lose." Bey has a track record of winning like Charlie Sheen, and it's likely enhanced by her confidence.
Secondly, and equally as important, psych out your opponent by talking smack. Mmm hmm.
Third, always be a gracious winner. That's when the camera cuts to Bey saying, "I whooped him. It does not matter boo, I whooped you." Gracious? No, not at all. But super cute? Oh hell yes.
Lastly, finish with a victory dance … But never gloat too much. Bey busts a move like she rehearsed it and gloats a little, before closing out the video by getting up close and personal with the camera, chomping gum and saying, "What?"
While we normally think of Beyonce as the most glam diva out there, it's refreshing to see her shake loose, dress down and have a good time.
Know what else Bey will soon be sharing? Her talent, as she is set to return to the stage this weekend for the Memorial Day celebration at Revel in Atlantic City.
Watch Beyonce Pool Lesson


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Resolving Emotional Conflict in Your Relationship
Conflict and arguments are unavoidable in relationships; you won't always be able to agree with your partner on everything. However, learning how to resolve conflict positively not only fosters communication, it also helps builds trust, happiness and security within a relationship. Here are some ways you can use emotional intelligence to help bring you and your partner closer together.
Taking your own emotional temperature
By getting a better handle on your emotional strengths and weaknesses through emotional intelligence, and by working to improve the most important areas, your intimate relationships can become more satisfying. You and your partner can become closer, overcome obstacles more easily, and enjoy each other more.
Using your emotional skills in your relationship can provide you with a number of different action plans:
Become more aware of your own emotions and how they can sometimes get in the way.
Develop skills to manage those emotions. Those skills can be simple, such as knowing when to hold your tongue, or more complicated, such as getting a good feel for where your partner is coming from. Of course, one cardinal rule involves knowing which battles are worth fighting.
Learn to differentiate real issues from minor annoyances in order to avoid unnecessary conflict in your relationship.
One of the toughest aspects of managing your relationship involves dealing with conflict. In intimate relationships, your emotions can really get out of control, and you're more likely to say things that you later regret saying.
Whenever disagreeing with your partner, you need to take your own emotional temperature. When you feel your anger rising, stop and take a break. Hold back from getting into a screaming match with your partner. Count to ten. Take a deep breath. You have to prevent yourself from losing control.
By paying more attention to your emotions — the feeling in your gut, your heart rate, your skin sensation, shortness of breath, and the thoughts racing in your mind — you can effectively recognize what you're feeling. By recognizing your feelings, you can more effectively control yourself.
When you start feeling out of control or overwhelmed by your emotions, you can appropriately intervene if you recognize those feelings. The sooner you recognize your feelings, the more easily you can change your direction.
Also, you can develop the ability to recognize, maintain, and increase positive feelings, such as happiness, love, surprise, wonder, relaxation, calmness, optimism, contentment, and others. Although life throws you nasty curves every now and then, you can become more resilient if you figure out how to recognize and cultivate these positive feelings. The more you experience positive feelings, the more easily you can draw on them, when needed.
Knowing what battles are worth fighting
All intimate partners have disagreements. Those disagreements can be over small things — which clothes to wear, where to go for dinner, what movie to see, what color looks better on you, and so on. Or they can be over the big things — I hate your parents, you're too lenient with the kids, you're spending too much money, you're irresponsible, and so on.
Trying to change even one thing about another person is a big task. Trying to change a number of things about a person can be monumental. If you have disagreements with your partner, pick one that you want to tackle first. Here's how to select the battle that you want to focus on:
Pick something doable. For example, don't try to change beliefs that she's had since childhood or convince him to lose 100 pounds on a diet.
Pick something meaningful, not trivial.
Select a behavior that your partner can change. Don't pick a fundamental personality characteristic.
Define the change that you want as a behavior that you want your partner to increase.
Set a goal for how frequently you want this behavior to occur.
Be prepared to make a change in your own behavior, in return.
Put aside some of the small and relatively unimportant disagreements that you have with your significant other. Focus on one area in which you can make a difference. Set aside a time and a neutral place to discuss the issue. Have a calm discussion about what behavior you want to see your partner increase. Be prepared to state how that change can improve the relationship. Gauge your partner's willingness to change.
Now, here's an important part. In order to help motivate your partner, you need to offer some reward in return. Make this reward something that your partner values. Here are some examples:
Giving a back massage
Being intimate at certain times
Eating dinner out at a restaurant of your partner's choice
Preparing a specific meal for your partner
Attending a certain cultural event (such as the opera or symphony) or sporting event (such as a baseball, basketball, or hockey game)
Cleaning up a part of the house
Giving your partner clothing or jewelry
Not nagging for a week
Make the reward meaningful and proportionate to the change that you're asking for. Of course, be prepared to carry out the reward before you offer it. In your change-for-reward agreement, be as specific as possible. For example, you could say, "If you increase your behavior to four times over the next week, then I'll give you three rewards on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening before bed next week."
Knowing when to hold your tongue
If you want to maintain a good relationship, you need to know when to shut up. Don't try to win every argument, correct every wrong, or always be on top. Once in a while, you have to sit back and listen, even if you don't like what you're hearing.
After you take in an earful, then you can calmly think about what your partner said. Some of it might be wrong, vindictive, ugly, unfair, or demeaning. However, she may have presented a kernel of truth in the criticism. Okay, relax.
By keeping civil and not getting drawn into an argument, you're not admitting guilt. Often, people think that if they don't respond at least as noisily, they're accepting the blame. Keeping your cool is a virtue. Being a hothead doesn't win points in the long run. In fact, people who constantly lose their temper often aren't taken seriously by others. They tend to be regarded as immature. Many people learn to avoid them.
Using empathy to enhance your relationship
By being empathic, you chalk up credits in your marital bank account. You avoid debits — because you're not negative. You gain credits — because you're positive, caring, and working towards the good of the relationship.
Being empathic doesn't mean that you give in or admit that you're wrong. Instead, using empathy means that you're truly trying to understand the other person's point of view and validating your partner's feelings. Being empathic doesn't necessarily mean you're going to solve the problem. But it puts you in a more conciliatory state. It allows you to focus on the problem and not create another problem — yelling and shouting at each other — which often causes more harm to the relationship than the original problem.


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WESTMINSTER, Md. – As the 2013 outdoor track and field season enters the home stretch, McDaniel will host its annual home twilight meet on Wednesday, competing for the first time at the newly renovated Kenneth R. Gill Stadium.
The Green Terror will host its annual midweek invitational, beginning with field events at 4 p.m. The track events will commence at 6 p.m. with the sprint medley relay – one of four relays that will be part of the 13-event track schedule. Field athletes will compete in three jumps (long jump, triple jump, high jump) and three throws (shot put, discus, javelin).
McDaniel has already had 26 different athletes hit Centennial Conference (CC)-qualifying standards across 44 events but will use Wednesday's meet to either improve those seed times or attempt to hit new qualifying marks.
Montgomery College, Hagerstown, Washington Adventist, Hood, Mt. St. Mary's and Navy are expected to join McDaniel at the meet.
Four Green Terror athletes have already hit CC marks in the shortest three events on the track. Arthur Williams (Baltimore, Md./Cristo Rey Jesuit) and Gary Smith have qualified on the men's side while Katie Corson (Ocean View, N.J./Ocean City) and Taylor Stillings (Eldersburg, Md./Liberty) have reached the necessary standard on the women's side.
Williams has a qualifier in the 100, running a season-best 11.66 seconds on Saturday while Smith has hit the mark already in the 100 (11.97) and 400 (53.35) among his team-high five qualifying marks. Stillings hit the 100 qualifier at Millersville, running a time of 14.36 on Apr. 6 while Corson recorded her best 400 time of the season on Saturday at Johns Hopkins and now ranks eighth in the conference with her time of 1:01.45.
Carlos Thomas (Wilmington, Del./Brandywine) is within 0.08 seconds of the necessary time of 12.02 seconds to add another qualifier in the 100.
He will be among the Green Terror's two entries in the 100. McDaniel will also have three entries in the 400. A 200 will be contested without any McDaniel entries.
Chloe Allen-Gorman (Portland, Ore./Lincoln) and Becky Kaler (Jefferson, Md./Brunswick) led a quintet of CC qualifiers in the 800 and up, joining Emily Gross (Red Lion, Pa./Red Lion), Chris Jones (Centreville, Va./Centreville), Colin LaPenta (Morristown, N.J./Morristown).
Allen-Gorman has hit the mark in the 800 and 1,500. Her best time in the 800 came at Millersville on Apr. 6 (2:27.72) while her best 1,500 time was in season-opening action at Mary Washington (5:07.67). Both are the best times put up by any Green Terror harrier this season.
Kaler has hit the marks in the 1,500 and 5,000. She recorded her best 1,500 time at Hopkins on Saturday (5:08.13) while her only 5K race came at Millersville, where she ran a time of 19:17.01.
Allen-Gorman will just be competing in relays on Wednesday as part of the sprint medley and the 4x1600-meter relay. Kaler has an opportunity to better her 1,500 time and is also entered in the 3,000 and as a leg on the 4x1600 relay.
Gross rounded out the qualifiers on the women's side, hitting the 800 mark with her best time of 2:33.69 coming at Millersville. She will attempt a 1,500-meter qualifier as well as attempt to better her 800 time on Wednesday.
LaPenta and Jones led the way on the men's side. LaPenta has an 800 qualifier, hitting a time of 2:02.98 at Goucher on Mar. 30 while Jones has hit both the 800 and 1,500 qualifier. He turned in a time of 2:01.50 at Hopkins and 4:09.21 at Millersville.
Jones and LaPenta will both try to run a time of 54.33 and hit the 400 mark as well as be part of both the medley and 6,400-meter relays.
Amelia Lawrence (Cabin John, Md./Walt Whitman) and Sarah Holbrook (Winchester, Va./John Handley) are both within striking distance of an 800 qualifier and will attempt to his the mark of 2:36.06.
Peter Merkel (Ellicott City, Md./Homeschool) will go for a qualifier in the 1,500m trying to better his time of 4:17.67 by four seconds to hit the mark.
McDaniel will have 19 entries among the 800-, 1,500- and 3,000-meter runs on Wednesday night.
Smith joins Ben Munyan (Middletown, Md./St. Johns Prep) to lead the way on the men's side. Smith has qualifiers in the 110 and 400 hurdles, recording his best time of 17.24 and 1:01.47, respectively, at Goucher. Munyan has hit the 400 hurdles mark with a time of 1:06.76 at Goucher.
Claire Lawson (McMinnville, Ore./McMinnville) joins Smith as a Green Terror qualifier in both hurdle distances. Lawson has a season-best time of 17.13 in the 100 and 1:11.33 in the 400, which were both set at Goucher. Lawson's time currently ranks eight in the conference in the 400 hurdles. Corson joins Lawson as a 400 hurdle qualifier, reaching a time of 1:14.75 at Mary Washington as one of her three qualifying marks attained.
Laura Shinn (Weehawken, N.J./Pennington Prep) will attempt to better her qualifying time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. As the first individual event on the track on Wednesday, Shinn will attempt to better her time of 13:11.81 from Goucher.
The Green Terror has five entries over the three events.
McDaniel has a men's and women's sprint medley relay entered to open the meet.
The women's will put a 4x100-meter relay on the track while the men will put two traditional relays on the track as well as at least one entry in the "larger than usual sprinters" relay, featuring a contingent of throwers.
The men's and women's team will also have one entry into the 4x1600-meter relay while the women will put a 4x400-meter relay on the track to close the meet.
Corson and Alva Ecker (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg) join Smith and Jordan Birden (Baltimore, Md./Cristo Rey Jesuit) as current qualifiers in the jumps.
Ecker has hit the standard each time she has jumped this year. She cleared 8-11 ¾ in the pole vault on Saturday to rank sixth in the CC. At Goucher, she reached 15-6 in the long jump while leaping 33-10 ¼ in the triple jump at Mary Washington. That distance still ranks seventh in the conference. She will have the opportunity to better both marks in the horizontal jumps and attempt the high jump for the first time this season on Wednesday.
Corson hit the long jump standard with a leap of 14-10 ¾ on Saturday.
Smith has cleared 5-8 in the high jump (Goucher) while Birden cleared 6- ¾ on Saturday. Birden also has a long jump qualifier, hitting 20-1 ½ on Saturday. Birden currently ranks second in the high jump and ninth in the long jump in the conference. Smith is tied for eighth in the high jump.
Stillings will attempt a long jump qualifier on Wednesday, trying to add four inches to her jump of 13-3 ½ on Saturday.
The Green Terror has 11 entries over the three jumping events.
As has been the case all season, McDaniel will put out its full contingent of throwers, looking to improve on an already strong showing through the first four meets of the season.
The men currently have two of the top four CC performers in the shot put, two of the top five in the discus and a top-five showing in the javelin.
Carlos Hernandez (Derwood, Md./Magruder) is currently second in the shot put and third in the discus. He threw his best in both at Goucher, reaching 44-0 in the shot put and 132-3 in the discus.
Diego Weiner (Miami, Fla./Riverside Military Academy [Ga.]) ranks fourth in the shot put, throwing a season-best 42-3 ½ at Millersville.
Nate Bell (Union Bridge, Md./Francis Scott Key) currently sits fifth in the discus, throwing his best on Saturday with a toss of 129-10.
Chuck Kronmiller (Norristown, Pa./Methacton) leads the way in the javelin, ranking fifth with a toss of 165-1 at Goucher.
Kyle Dunn (Crofton, Md./South River) and Kronmiller have also hit the shot put standard. Dunn hit 39-10 ¾ at Goucher while Kronmiller threw 38-11 ¾ the same day.
Steve Wetherhold (Catasauqua, Pa./Catasauqua) and Dunn have also hit the discus qualifier. Wetherhold hit 117-9 and Dunn reached his best distance of 110-1 at Millersville.
Andy Gilford (Taneytown, Md./Westminster) and James Ways (Westminster, Md./Winters Mill) have joined Kronmiller with javelin qualifiers. Gilford hit 143-7 at Goucher while Ways reached 136-0 at Millersville for his best throw of the season.
Dunn needs just nine inches to add a javelin qualifier to his resume. His best throw came at Goucher when he tossed a throw of 134-7.
Kelsey Dickman (Abington, Md./Bel Air) leads the way in the throws, hitting both the necessary mark in the shot put and javelin. Her tosses of 34- ¾ in the shot put and 88-6 in the javelin on Saturday were good enough for the qualifiers.
Jasmine McCormick (Antioch, Calif./Holy Name) joined Dickman, qualifying in the shot put on Saturday with a throw of 28-11 ¾.
Danielle Fatzinger (North Catasauqua, Pa./Catasauqua) and Katie Krishan have joined Dickman with javelin qualifiers this season. Fatzinger hit her javelin qualifier on Saturday with a toss of 88-1 while Krishan did the same thing with her throw of 76-4.
McDaniel will have 35 entries in the three throws, which will start with the javelin on Wednesday night and progress to the discus before concluding with the shot put. Eight different Green Terror throwers are approaching a qualifier in one of the three throws.


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Butternut Squash Ravioli with Sage Browned Butter | Fall Entertaining
You might remember a few short days ago when I said that I really don't get excited aout butternut squash. Well, that was before I had had it mixed with parmesan cheese, stuffed in ravioli and smothered in sage browned butter.
Turns out... I do like butternut squash. Butternut Squash Ravioli, at least. We both loved the subtle sweetness of the squash mixed with the creaminess of the parmesan cheese and gentle spice of nutmeg. The Sage butter was the perfect compliment - you don't need much of a sauce with such a bold ravioli.
Please, do not be intimidated by making homemade ravioli - it is so easy, I promise! All you need a rolling pin or this easy hand-crank Pasta Machine from Williams-Sonoma. If you absolutely do not want to attempt the homemade ravioli, use the filling and stuff it into giant shell pasta and serve it with the sauce drizzled over.
Visit my Fall Dinner Party Post for a complete Menu, Table Setting & Tips for an easy, casual Fall Dinner Party.
I am thinking Caramel Apple Dumplings with Cinnamon Ice Cream for dessert, for sure.
Back to the Butternut Ravioli...
You can see the tiny flecks of nutmeg in the squash filling. The Sage and Nutmeg made my kitchen smell sooo good - it smelled like Fall!
Butternut Squash Ravioli
a new fall favorite
New! Printable Recipes, here.
1 pound of Butternut Squash
Olive Oil
1/4 cup of parmesan cheese, grated
1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg
salt & pepper
1 recipe of Homemade Pasta, rolled into sheets (below)
1 stick of butter
10-12 sage leaves
Begin by cutting the squash into cubes and placing them on a baking sheet. Coat them with olive oil, salt & pepper. Roast the squash at 425 degrees for 25 minutes until it is tender. Put it in a bowl and mash it with a fork. Add parmesan cheese, nutmeg and salt & pepper, if needed.
Place tablespoons of the filling down the center of the pasta dough that has been rolled into long sheets. Brush the dough around the filling with water, then fold the dough over lengthwise (making the filling of each ravioli be on one side, surrounded by dough on three sides. Cut the ravioli apart.
Heat a large pot of water for the ravioli.
For the sauce, melt the butter in a sauce pan. Add sage leaves. Cook on medium-low for 2-3 minutes, just until the butter starts to brown. Remove from the heat and set aside.
Cook the ravioli in the boiling water for 2 minutes, until it is floating. Remove from water and add directly to butter sauce.
Pasta Machine and doing the rolling out.
We got this old fashioned pasta roller and cutter after our honeymoon in Italy - we came back hungry for homemade pasta! I bought the hand-crank style because I thought the KitchenAid pasta roller attachment was too much of an investment, not knowing how much we'd use it. However, I have found that this hand roller pasta machine is no trouble at all - very easy to use!
Put tablespoons of the filling down the middle of the long strips of dough. Space them about 2-inches apart.
Fold the dough in half length wise over the filling and pinch down over the filling getting rid of air bubbles. Cut the ravioli into pieces. Homemade ravioli shouldn't look perfect - any shape is fine!
For the sauce, melt the butter on medium low, then add sage leaves. Cook for 2-3 minutes until the butter starts to brown. Remove from the heat immediately.
Homemade Pasta Recipe
easier than you think!
2 cups of flour
3 eggs
Start with a KitchenAid mixer fitted with the dough hook. Dump in the flour, then top with the eggs. Put the mixer on medium and let the ingredients roll together until they form a ball.
*You may need to add a little bit (1-3 tablespoons?) of water or flour if the dough is too wet or too dry. After a ball is formed, let the dough 'knead' on low-medium in the mixer for 5-7 minutes until the dough is elastic. Cover it with plastic wrap and let it sit for 20 minutes.
When it is finished kneading, turn the dough out onto a floured board and kneed it by hand a couple of times.
From this stage, you can roll it out by hand with a rolling pin (or bottle of wine!), or put it through a pasta rolling machine. Either way is pretty simple. I've recently invested in this pasta machine that was very inexpensive. If you plan to make a lot of pasta in the future it can make things a little easier.
By Hand : Roll the dough, flipping it, folding it and rolling it until it is about 1/8 of an inch thick. Cut it into 1" pieces with a knife, or a pizza wheel. After cutting, you can cook it immediately, or let it dry on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour too keep the dough from sticking.
With Pasta Machine : Separate the dough into 6 pieces. Flour the machine and dough well to keep it from sticking. Feed it through the rolling/flattening part of the machine starting on the largest setting and progressing to a smaller setting each time you feed the dough through. I find that flouring it each time helps to keep it from sticking. After it has gone through the smallest (or 2nd to the smallest) setting, lay it flat. It is ready to but cut into any shape or used for ravioli!
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This is one of my favorites! Yum! I think I even had it in Boston!ReplyDelete
Wow! looks amazing! I just recently fell in love with Butternut Squash! Will have to try!ReplyDelete
This might be a silly question, but do you peel the butternut squash?ReplyDelete
This looks so delicious - I've never attempted homemade ravioli before, but you make it seem fairly simple!
- Maggie
I looove butternut squash ravioli! Never thought to make it myself.ReplyDelete
Your ravioli looks fantastic!!! I think butternut squash and sage work so well together.ReplyDelete
- Dan8:44 PM
If you like the butternut squash and parmesan combination, try them together in a creamy risotto. It's one of my favorites on its own, or next to a slice of rosemary garlic pork loin.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:55 PM
this is the perfect Fall dish. it looks so delicious. my mom used to make something similar and would sprinkle crumbled amaretti cookies on top!ReplyDelete
Mouth watering!!! looks delicious. will have to try butternut squash with cheese together.ReplyDelete
Feel free to stop by my site am giving away a free babycake cupcake maker :)
Am hosting a lunch in November and was thinking of making homemade pasta, so this would be prefect to serve.ReplyDelete
- A question..4:51 PM
Just wondering how many servings or how many individual raviolis does your recipe make?ReplyDelete
- Jenny10:17 AM
A Question,ReplyDelete
Depending on the size you make them, it should yield about 24-30.
So delicious.. If your a college student without the tools to make homemade pasta (such as myself) these still taste fantastic using wonton wrappers!! Plus i threw some goat cheese crumbles on top.. YUMReplyDelete
- Anonymous2:18 AM
Do you have any suggestions for a healthier sauce than the butter sauce? Would tomato sauce work, or maybe olive oil tossed with sauteed garlic?ReplyDelete
- danistet8:05 AM
i add marscapone cheese, fresh grated locatelli and an egg to my filling, delish!ReplyDelete
Will definitely try your recipe. Always looking for easy recipes.ReplyDelete


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Fans of Demi Lovato were called upon recently with a unique mission: It would be up to them, and them only, to unlock her new lyric video for hit single "Heart Attack." Should they fail? The video will remain under lock and key!
Now, that was enough to give Lovato's hordes a heart attack, so they rose to the challenge and followed instructions--which consisted of tweeting out the lyrics at various intervals. When certain numbers of tweets were reached, the video was launched for them to enjoy.
It seems there were plenty of music fans out there who were itching to see the video, as #unlockheartattack actually became the top worldwide Twitter trend for several hours!
But that's not all. When the video was finally made viewable, Lovato made sure to thank her fans in an appropriate way. The clip consists of clusters and swarms of Lovato-specific global Twitter trends, which--of course--her fans made popular.
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Perhaps you can have your buddy Rich make a video for you - proving that the vicsims are, in fact, just as real as vanilla sundae ?
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Christopher Bollyn wrote : ( on his website: http://www.bollyn.com/understanding-the ... -of-wtc-6/ )
"I contacted the archives of CNN during the summer of 2002 to inquire about the precise time of their video footage of a huge dust cloud coming from a mysterious blast that appeared to have occurred at the U.S. Customs House (WTC 6) at about 9:03 a.m. -- the same minute that the second plane struck the South Tower on 9-11. The raw video material has precise time markings, which they provided."
"The mysterious explosion at the U.S. Customs House (WTC 6) occurred at 9:04 a.m. on 9-11, at exactly the same time as the second plane crashed into the South Tower."
So here we have all of THREE "prominent 9/11 researchers" - all apparently independent and unassociated - promoting a totally bogus - and easily debunkable - photo analysis of the 9/11 "LIVE" TV imagery. If the three of them are not shills, they are at best piss-poor researchers and represent a dire liability to the crucial scrutiny/exposure of the fake 9/11 imagery.
brianv wrote:
Wow! Great find. They all made the same "error", very interesting! How?
WXTV-DT channel 41
"WXTV-DT channel 41 is a Univisión flagship television station for the East Coast, licensed to Paterson, New Jersey and serving the New York metropolitan area. WXTV's studios are located in Teaneck, New Jersey, and its transmitter is on the Empire State Building in Manhattan."
"The September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center did not affect WXTV's [channel 41]over-the-air signal, as WXTV's transmitter has always been at the Empire State Building. WXTV 41 and WCBS-TV, who had a full-powered backup transmitter at the Empire State Building, were the only major New York City stations whose over-the-air signals weren't lost. In fact, channel 41's news anchors gave information and updates in English as well as Spanish on the attacks for the benefit of viewers without cable that lost access to the stations with transmitters at the WTC."
repentantandy wrote:Brianv, you amaze me. After nearly eleven years you imply you are unaware of any Israeli-connected aspects of 9/11?
And your claims of British culpability (which I don't doubt) very much echo a main talking-point of the very researcher you just called "slimy," Webster Tarpley!
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Ladies, gentlemen and Kiwis of all ages. With the assistance of New Zealand native son Craig Martin, author of the Travelling Europe ebook, I present to you the Seven Wonders of New Zealand!
White Island
Known as Whakaari in the local Maori dialect, the name "White Island" came from Captain Cook who thought it was always in a cloud of white steam. Located in the Bay of Plenty near the North Island, it is an active volcano and was the former location of a sulfur mining operation which ended in disaster. Helicopter and boat trips to the island leave daily from Whakatane.
Milford Sound
Perhaps the most magnificent location in all of New Zealand, Milford Sound is technically a fijord. Viewing the sound is done via many boat tour operators which operate from the harbor. Day trips leave from Queenstown, which is the closest major city to Milford Sound. The Milford Track is also one of the most popular hiking trails in the country. The number of hikers on the track is limited to 40 per day. If you visit during a rain storm, you can witness hundreds of waterfalls which will appear on the walls of the sound.
Fox and Franz Joseph Glaciers
The only glaciers in the Pacific, Fox and Franz Joseph glaciers have the unique distinction of being the only glaciers in the world which flow into tropical forests. Only a 30 min drive from each other, the glaciers can be accessed from the town of Franz Joseph Glacier. Both glaciers are very accessible by walking, though it is not recommended to get to close because of dangers from falling ice. Also unlike many glaciers around the world, both glaciers have been advancing since the mid 1980s.
Poor Kinights Islands
The Poor Knights were named by Jacques Cousteau as one of the 10 best dive locations in the world. He probably knew what he was talking about. Located in the north end of the North Island, the Poor Knights shows the diversity of the geography of New Zealand, as you can go diving in tropical waters one day and visit fjords and glaciers the next. The Poor Knights are a protected marine reserve. The Poor Knights are best accessed from Whangarei or Tutukaka, north of Auckland.
Rotorua is one of the most active geothermal areas in the world. You can find boiling mud and pools of scalding water in the city parks. There are also geysers and geothermal spas nearby. You will know when you are close to Rotorua because of the strong sulfur smell in the city. In addition to the geothermal attractions, Rotorua is also a hub for adventure tourism as well as water sports on Lake Rotorua. Rotorua can be reached in a days driving from Auckland.
Tongariro National Park
Home of the real Mount Doom and many of the landscapes from The Lord of the Rings, Tongariro National Park is home to three active volcanoes: Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro. The park has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Tongariro Track is one of the most popular hiking destinations for backpackers in New Zealand, and Tongariro also has one of the most popular ski slopes in the country.
All Blacks
While not a traditional type of selection, the All Blacks are perhaps the sports team which is most closely associated with a single country. The three most popular sports in New Zealand are rugby, rugby and rugby. The All Blacks are the New Zealand national rugby union team and have been playing for over 100 years. The team name is believed to have come from a typo in a British newspaper who wanted to describe the Kiwis as all backs. Always ranked near top of world standings, they have sadly only won a single world cup. They are famous for the haka, a Maori war dance, which they perform before every match. Watch a video of the haka.
Other articles in Gary's Wonders of the World series:
Seven Wonders of the Philippines | Seven Wonders of Australia | Seven Wonders of New Zealand | Seven Wonders of Japan | Seven Wonders of Egypt | Seven Wonders of Spain


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Lyndsay's birth was an emotional triumph. It had been a challenging pregnancy, but she faced it one day at a time. She gathered together her team - family, friends, doula, doctor. On the sunny birthing day, my memory is of so many women (including her sister and her dear friend, who had also been my client) - our hands, our quiet voices, and our hearts, helping Lyndsay through the waves. I say waves because most of her time at the hospital was spent in the bath. Low toning, the splash of the water...our words...you are safe...you are safe... Those are my memories of the day. I don't think her eyes ever opened until her son was born into her arms. What joy! Her birth was open, raw, supported, undisturbed. It was a day that I will never forget!
Here are Lyndsay's words describing how I helped her on that day...and how we are still connected now:
Jacquie is an incredible woman. Her strength, knowledge, compassion, empathy, understanding, calm, wisdom and experience carried me through my nine months of pregnancy. I had a particularly rough one, emotionally, as at the time I was on my own. Jacquie was never judgemental, always empathetic to the diversity and complexity of humans. She always, always had words that were so wise and thoughtful, words which would would allow me to feel supported and just a little bit stronger. I called her many times in tears, unsure if I could do it, overwhelmed by the uncertainty of my situation and the unknown world of pregnancy and childbirth.
The day of my son's birth arrived and Jacquie led me through every contraction, movement, sound, emotion, sensation. It was her words that calmed me and allowed me to realize that my body was just doing its thing. "Feels crazy but it's safe." She would tell me I was safe, that my body was doing what it was meant to be doing, that even though it felt like I was trying to pass a bowling ball out of my vagina that this feeling, this immense and unbelievable physical pressure, was normal. I felt no fear - I closed my eyes, gave in to these unknown sensations and knew I was in a safe place. Just had to move through. I must have crushed Jacquie's hand about 50 times through the labour.
After it was all over Jacquie told me she knew from the moment she met me that my birth would be as it was: powerful, strong, no complications. I apparently birthed like a champ. I needed to feel that - I needed that insane strength, to feel that power of being a woman warrior, to overcome my emotional and personal sadness and to embrace labour and birth. I thank Jacquie for this. Jacquie will forever remain a huge part of my memory of my pregnancy and birth experience! She was also so helpful in postpartum -nursing issues and ongoing personal issues - and I truly felt cared for by her. I can't recommend Jacquie enough!
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Aarti C Rajaratnam has a Masters in Applied Psychology with specialization in Clinical Psychology - Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health from the University of Delhi, South Campus. She completed a special 14 month internship at the prestigious Rajkumari Amrit Kaur Child Guidance Centre at New Delhi. She is a Master Practitioner and Trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and is also trained in Transactional Analysis (TA), Dream Analysis and Counselling.
She also works closely with Learning Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities and Pervasive Developmental Disorders like Autism. She has a Child Guidance Centre and a Counselling Clinic in Salem where she uses a combination of therapies from the west and the east, to touch the lives of children with varying degrees of psychological and educational problems. She also counsels adults with problems and mental illness.


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(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), section four hundred one of this article, a protective order, entered by the family court pursuant to this article, is effective for either ninety days or one hundred eighty days, in the discretion of the court. Upon receipt of a written request for renewal from the petitioner prior to the expiration of the original order, the family court shall extend its order for an additional ninety-day period.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the court may enter a protective order for a period of one year if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence, after a hearing that any of the following aggravating factors are present:
(1) That there has been a material violation of a previously entered protective order;
(2) That two or more protective orders have been entered against the respondent within the previous five years;
(3) That respondent has one or more prior convictions for domestic battery or assault or a felony crime of violence where the victim was a family or household member;
(4) That the respondent has committed a violation of the provisions of section nine-a, article two, chapter sixty-one of this code against a person protected by an existing order of protection; or
(5) That the totality of the circumstances presented to the court require a one year period in order to protect the physical safety of the petitioner or those persons for whom a petition may be filed as provided in subdivision (2), section three hundred five of this article.
(c) The court may extend a protective order entered pursuant to subsection (b) of this section for whatever period the court considers necessary to protect the physical safety of the petitioner or those persons for whom a petition may be filed as provided in subdivision (2), section three hundred five of this article, if the court finds by a preponderance of evidence, after a hearing of which respondent has been given notice, that:
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(2) Respondent has committed a material violation of a provision of a final order entered pursuant to subsection (c), section six hundred eight, article five of this chapter has occurred.
(d) To be effective, a written request to renew a ninety or one hundred eighty-day order must be submitted to the court prior to the expiration of the original order period. A notice of the extension shall be sent by the clerk of the court to the respondent by first-class mail, addressed to the last known address of the respondent as indicated by the court file. The extension of time is effective upon mailing of the notice.
(e) Certified copies of any order entered or extension notice made under the provisions of this section shall be served upon the respondent by first class mail, addressed to the last known address of the respondent as indicated by the court file, and delivered to the petitioner and any law-enforcement agency having jurisdiction to enforce the order, including the city police, the county sheriff's office or local office of the West Virginia State Police within twenty-four hours of the entry of the order. The protective order shall be in full force and effect in every county of this state.
(f) The family court may modify the terms of a protective order upon motion of either party.
(g) The clerk of the circuit court shall cause a copy of any protective order entered by the family court pursuant to the provisions of this article or pursuant to the provisions of chapter forty-eight of this code to be forwarded to the magistrate or magistrate court clerk and the magistrate or magistrate court clerk shall forward a copy of the protective order to the appropriate state and federal agencies for registration of domestic violence offenders as required by state and federal law.


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With a publishing industry that is ever in flux, it can be hard for an aspiring author to figure out what information is relevant and what she needs to do to be successful. Recognizing this, literary agent Andrea Hurst and writer and blogger Katie Flanagan will be introducing a series of weekly interviews with publishing industry specialists. The AUTHORNOMICS Series features literary agents, editors, authors, marketing experts and more talking about their opinions on the publishing industry, writing, and what a writer needs to know.
Interview with Literary Agent Laurie McLean
At Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents in San Francisco, Northern California's oldest literary agency founded in 1972, Laurie represents adult genre fiction (romance, fantasy, science fiction, horror, nouveau westerns, mysteries, suspense, thrillers, etc.) as well as middle-grade and young-adult books. She looks for great writing, first and foremost, followed by memorable characters, a searing storyline and solid world building.
For more than 20 years Laurie ran a multi-million dollar eponymous public relations agency in California's Silicon Valley. She is passionate about marketing, publicity, negotiating, editing and a host of other business-critical areas. She is also a novelist herself, so she can empathize with the author's journey to and through publication.
Check out her blog, www.agentsavant.com, for tales of the agenting life, and www.larsenpomada.com for valuable information and links, plus her submission guidelines. Query her at email@example.com.
1. What is your favorite part of being an agent? What is your least favorite part?
First of all, I have to say, I love being a literary agent. I get to work with smart/creative authors who are passionate about their prose. I get to work with smart/creative editors who are just as passionate about making great books even better. And because I also enjoy marketing, I love helping my clients become better known so their books find their way into readers' hands to change lives. I like the variety, pressure, intellectual stimulation, friendliness, support, the reading, the writing and pretty much most of what an average day entails for me.
My least favorite part, by far, is having to reject so many hopeful writers. The ones who have written something good, but not good enough (for sometimes capricious reasons), for me to believe I can sell the manuscript to a large New York publisher. I expect I will be coming back as a slug or ant in my next life because of all the bad karma I'm generating as a literary agent. (Writers I've rejected can at least take heart with that image in their mind's eye!)
2. What is different now about being an agent than when you first started?
The disruptive force of technology. Digital publishing is transforming an industry that hasn't changed much in hundreds of years. When I first became an agent seven years ago, the process was this: the client made six copies of a manuscript and shipped them to our office. I placed that manuscript in a box, created a custom cover letter, put it on the outside of the box, put a rubber band around the box and letter, stuffed all of that in a huge envelope, addressed it and shipped it off to an editor. On average, two months later, I received the smashed up box, wrinkled up manuscript and a rejection notice. Rinse and repeat. Today everything is done via email. The initial pitch to the editor, the manuscript "shipping", the conversation about the project, even the deal memo (and sometimes the contract!) .
All areas of publishing have been affected by digitalization…from pitching to publishing to promotion. Social media, eBooks, production (I saw the Espresso Book machine while I was in New York in May and was astounded at the quality of the books it produced in ten minutes while I watched), everything. I am excited and terrified by the rapid rate of change this tradition-bound industry is attempting to absorb. But I come from a high tech background so I know that change is ultimately good, regardless how painful the process may be.
3. What is the most important part of submissions for you: the query, the synopsis, the manuscript, or the platform?
Since I handle adult genre fiction along with middle-grade and YA children's books, I care the most about the writing. As in, the manuscript. But close on its heels these days is the author's social media presence and proficiency with this new promotional technology. I just signed up a new client who had not even finished her first full-length novel. I found her through her comments on another author's blog, tracked her back to her website, read some of her paranormal romance novellas (one was free the other was 99 cents), and then had a surreal conversation as I explained the benefits I could provide to someone who was making a nice chunk of change just by selling her eNovellas. It's a conversation I won't soon forget. But I did manage to convince her that I could help with expanding her audience to bookstores far and wide, negotiate foreign rights and movie deals and give her great career advice. We ultimately signed a contract that allowed me to handle her novel-length fiction while letting her continue to create and sell anything shorter than that on her own online. I think we're both going to make a lot of money.
4. Do you have a favorite genre to read, and is it different from your favorite genre to represent?
My favorite genre to read is fantasy, with romance and science fiction close seconds. I work so many hours I don't have much time to read for fun. But when I do, I prefer fantasy (that was said with the accent of the Most Interesting Man in the World from the Dos Equis commercial.) There's something about the escapism that I adore. Plus my dreams afterwards are always great adventures.
5. What are some of the ways you work with authors and publishers that that make you such a successful agent?
First of all, I limit the amount of clients I have so I can spend a lot of time on each of them. I enjoy advising them on marketing and promotion as well as offering career counseling. And I have been an editor most of my professional career, so I believe I can always help an author make a book even better. I also like to think that I'm a nice person with a great sense of fun, so I'm enjoyable to work with. Publishers find me knowledgeable and fair.
6. If you had to give an aspiring author one piece of advice, what would it be?
Six words. Read. Read. Read. Write. Write. Write.
7. As an agent do you consider self-published/print on demand books?
Absolutely. In fact I am in the process of creating two publishing companies for backlist books with two of my clients. Both will launch later this Fall. The first is Joyride Books with Linda Wisdom and will feature only backlist romance novels from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Closed door, sweet romance. The market there is older women. The other company is being named as you read this and my partner is award-winning children's book author Douglas Rees. We envision that will be only backlist once again, but midlist children's book titles that have long been out of print. We'll give them a new life.
And for my agenting clients, I make sure that they each have a digital component (eBooks and POD) as a strong part of their career plan as an author. eBooks are great for testing the waters on new material, for shorter fiction, new markets, etc. We're only dipping our toe in the water of what these new eBook capabilities will blossom into. I've very excited about digital publishing.
8. Are there any books you suggest aspiring novelists read?
Oh, dear. I'm so heavily into genre fiction I'm not sure I'd give any good advice to authors writing outside of it. But Stephen King's On Writing, Orsen Scott Card's How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, Deb Dixon's Goal Motivation and Conflict, and maybe Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life. 🙂
9. What does it mean when you reject a manuscript because you really did not fall in love with it?
It takes so much effort and blood, sweat and tears to sell a book these days, I have to be fully committed to see it through to the end of a deal. Ergo, I have to feel passionate about the book to transform it from a dream to a reality.
10. What genres are hot right now? Do you have any predictions for what publishers will be looking for in the future?
I absolutely hate telling authors which subgenres are hot or trending. Yet that is the number one question I get at writers conferences across the country. So, let's see. In romance, contemporaries are on the rise, paranormals are still riding high, historicals in the Regency era continue to sell steadily while medieval romance is down a bit and romantic suspense is tanking. In fantasy, epic fantasy is coming up again after nearly a decade of being trod upon by urban fantasy (thank you Game of Thrones!). In science fiction, steampunk is the new darling, cyberpunk is nearly dead (some say because we have already integrated the computer into our lives so deeply), hard science fiction is small but steady, and space opera is also still popular. Westerns continue to struggle to find an audience. Historical mysteries, cozy mystery series with a unique/memorable/strong protagonist, all types of thrillers and suspense novels are trending up.
What will publishers be looking for in the future? How about this. More of the same, but slightly different. That's what it seems like to me anyway!
11. How much are you willing to work with a potential author if you loved the plot but the book needs work?
I used to do more of it, grow my own bestsellers. But I just don't have time to do a lot of that anymore. Especially in genre fiction. Usually I give them a bunch of tips if I think they've got something worthwhile, but I leave it up to them to either work with an independent editor or a critique partner or something to edit their own work.
12. What is the best way for a fiction writer to build their platform and reach their audience?
Social media. This is, bar none, the best way for authors to market their work and broaden their audience. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the best way for an author to get noticed.
13. I see you have a new service through Agent Savant. How does it assist writers?
While I am super excited about the potential inherent in self-published eBooks, I feel that if an author doesn't market themselves through social media vehicles, they will not sell very many copies of their books regardless of how great they are. And since I spent the bulk of my professional career in marketing, I have created what I hope is a win-win scenario with Agent Savant Inc. (www.agentsavant.com, click on Agent Savant Inc.) I work closely with the author to discover their unique author brand, then create a marketing plan that they can implement to promote their books. I don't do the work, I just create the plan for them to follow. Because with social media, it really doesn't work if someone else does it for you.
Thank you for interviewing with our blog series.
Thanks for having me Andrea and Katie!
Andrea Hurst has over 25 years experience as a published author, developmental editor for publishers, and skilled literary agent. She works with both major and regional publishing houses, and her client list includes emerging new voices and New York Times best-selling authors. Andrea represents high profile Adult Nonfiction and well crafted fiction. Her clients and their books have appeared on the Oprah Show, Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, National Geographic network and in the New York Times.
Katie Flanagan is a fiction major at Northwestern University. She is currently an editor with Booktrope and a reader for Pink Fish Press. In the past, she has interned with Andrea Hurst Literary Management and the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. Her favorite genre is women's fiction, but she reads any fiction put in front of her. Check out her blog about the writing life at katieflanagan.wordpress.com and follow her on Twitter at @K_Flanagan.


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Omen Birds are a large black bird with blood red hooked beak, sharp claws, feather crest, and wingtips. Their eyes are red and black. Omen Birds are their own unique Orders, somewhere between Passeriformes (crows/ ravens) and Accipitriformes (Eagles/ Hawks/ Raptors). They exhibit traits of both. They travel in "plagues" of 20 to 100. While they are effective hunters, they prefer to scavange meals from the kills of others. (Their raptor-esk advantages allowing them to defend their meals from other scavengers). They are quite perceptive and highly intelligent. A Plague will roughly follow an army or militia unit, large carnivores (monsters), and groups of hunters (human or animals). They seem to know these things will provide them carrion. If their scouts find a "food source" for the given group or creature they are following, such as another army/ bands, villages, or food animals, they will often circle or roost near them, as if they were staking out the future kill. They also seem to be quite aware of the world below them, as they will flock towards areas with less water and food, waiting for the weak to die. Their cunning in this regard is quite marked. It shows a level of intelligence that makes most people uncomfortable.
Every now and again, a plague will sheer off a person from a village or small group, herding them to a place where the plague can take them down undisturbed. It is unclear if they are doing this only for food or beause the plague is bored.
When pressed for food, or when under a certain madness (perhaps signals that only they can sense), a Plague will actually descend on a target or area, attacking and killing for food. It is in this mode that their raptor like abilities come to the fore. Normally they will attack a group of people or animals, but then stop and eat the first kill. Sometimes they will hunt a single individual, and not give up for weeks. (There are tales of people who have hidden indoors for weeks waiting for a Plauge to leave, only to leave months later and be attacked). There are abandoned small villages that were killed off by an Omen Bird Attack.
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These animals are strong carriers of mammal disease. Their feces is often so germ filled, that it can infect water source or even cities/ villages/ camps. So the presence of Omen Birds can start diseases and even plagues.


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Hubert von Herkomer is regarded as a British artist, although he was born in Germany. He started his early career as an illustrator for the Graphic Magazine in London, producing wood engravings of scenes of everyday life. The famous Dutch painter Van Gogh admired Herkomer's work for its expressive qualities.
Eventide depicts inmates of the St.James's Workhouse in Soho, London. Workhouses were the last resort of those - often the old - who through extreme poverty were unable to support themselves. Herkomer was drawn to the subject because of his sympathy for what he called "the sorrowful side of humanity".
The workhouse scene appears to be quite comfortable with its table cloth, vase and prints on the wall. The women look cheerful engaged in their sowing: one holds a bible on her lap, another enjoys her tea. The inclusion of a young woman in their midst shows the contrast between youth and age, a popular Victorian theme.
Eventide was considered as the female companion picture to the Last Muster (now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery), which shows elderly Chelsea pensioners and Crimean War veterans.
Eventide was purchased from the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition in 1878. The Walker also owns a watercolour study of Eventide.
Hubert von Herkomer was born in Bavaria in 1849. His family left for the USA in 1851 and, after spending a few years in Cleveland, returned to Europe to settle in England in 1857. Herkomer studied at the Southampton School of Arts; in 1865 he briefly attended the Munich Academy and later on the South Kensington Art School in London.
He began his career as an illustrator and preferred real life subjects, especially the lives of the poor and disadvantaged. Nevertheless, he also completed several portraits of famous people and romantic landscapes taken from his travels to rural England, Wales and Bavaria.
Herkomer was a multi-talented artist; he enjoyed experimenting with new media, such as enamel painting, and developed what he called "pictorial musical plays" designing props and directing plays. He also founded a successful art school in his home in Bushey, Hertfordshire. In 1913 Herkomer became involved in filming and must have made several films, at least two of which are known.
Eventide was considered as the female companion picture to the Last Muster, now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery. Both paintings describe the life of the old and entail notions of death. Eventide was based on three more realistic drawings that Herkomer had made for the Graphic magazine in which he focused on the hardship of the women's lives.
In Eventide the workhouse appears as a comfortable and sociable environment, despite the poverty. Nevertheless, one of the prints on the wall has been identified as two figures from the Last Muster - the dead pensioner and his companion - and Herkomer may have included this detail to stress the relevance of the two paintings as well as to allude to death.
When first exhibited, Eventide was well received by the press: the truthfulness of the faces and Herkomer's ability to capture their character as well as to appeal to the viewers' sentiments was greatly praised. In another review the theme of Eventide was criticised as an unhappy one, probably because the idea of art as serving beauty and idealism was still persistent in Victorian art.
It was when Eventide was exhibited in the Paris Salon of 1879 that it was most admired: its distorted perspective with the pressing foreground cluster of figures was considered extremely innovative and powerful while the natural expression of the elderly women was equally praised.
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Nancy O'Dell and Jewel Out of DWTS – Holly Madison In
I'd been reading rumors about Nancy O'Dell and Jewel being out of Dancing with the Stars. I even posted about Jewel's injury previously, but it's now official that both Nancy and Jewel are out of Dancing with the Stars.
Let's take a look at a number of quotes I found around the web from Jewel and Nancy O'Dell about not being able to compete on Dancing with the Stars.
First a quote from Jewel about her injury and Jewel's ongoing participation on DWTS.
"I originally thought it was tendinitis or ligament strains," Jewel said before a concert appearance Thursday night in Highland, Calif. — which she would do sitting down. "It was painful enough for a doctor to put me on cortisone. When I went in for an MRI, it turned out to be something else. I had no idea something like this was possible."
Jewel's stress fractures are just below her knees, which had been swelling from a practice regimen of up to eight hours a day. They'll heal in six to nine weeks, says Jewel, who is using crutches to get around.
"Hopefully I'll get to sing on the show and come back and (compete) again," Jewel says.
Now, a quote describing Nancy O'Dell's injury:
"Beyond disappointment doesn't even being to describe how I feel about not being able to continue on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It has been one of my favorite shows since season one!" O'Dell revealed. "But I have torn the meniscus in my knee in two places, which requires surgery. According to the doctor, one is a 'significant' tear and it will require my getting knee surgery within the next couple of weeks."
Looks like Nancy O'Dell might return to another season of Dancing with the Stars and still enjoyed the short time she did have with Tony:
"DWTS' was a great experience. I'll miss working with my partner, Tony Dovolani, and all the other wonderful people on the amazing production that is 'Dancing With the Stars,'" O'Dell added. "Tony has been an amazing teacher and dance partner and I feel horrible I can't continue for him… Although short, it was a great experience. I challenged myself to take risk at doing something I had never done before!"
And don't rule out a possible return to the show somewhere down the line.
"After I have surgery and eight weeks of rehab, my doctor tells me my knee will be back to how it was," O'Dell said. "So that means if I have the opportunity to go back, I could!"
Dancing with the Stars executive producer Conrad Green said the following about injuries on Dancing with the Stars:
"We'll re-look next season to limit the training in the early weeks, because I don't want people to get injured," he says. The 15-week-long show "is a marathon, not a sprint."
There have been a number of injuries to stars and the professionals on Dancing with the stars. Among DWTS celebrities injured in previous seasons: Olympic volleyball player Misty May-Treanor (torn Achilles tendon); comic Jeffrey Ross (eye injury); actress Susan Lucci (fractured foot); and actor Cristián de la Fuente (torn arm tendon). Also, Julianne Hough had an operation, Derek Hough was taken to the hospital and Karina Smirnoff had some ankle or back issues if I'm remembering correctly. Seems like there was one other I'm leaving out.
Reports are saying that Holly Madison from Girls Next Door will be one of the replacements, but producers of the show are keeping quiet until the DWTS premiere on Monday. The report says that Bridget Marquardt (Holly's costar on Girls Next Door) let it slip on live TV. This is what Bridget Marquardt had to say about it:
"I'm so excited for her," Marquardt — who next stars in a Travel Channel show called Bridget's Sexiest Beaches — told FOX's Strategy Room Wednesday.
"She's wanted to do it for so long," Marquardt added. "It just never worked with her schedule and Hef was always like 'I don't want you to do that,' and now it's her time, so I'm really happy for her."
Jewel and Nancy O'Dell are suppose to be at the premiere. Should be an exciting premiere, but I'll admit that I'm personally sad that these 2 are off the show. They were 2 of the stars I was most excited to see on the show. They'll definitely be missed. It will also be interesting to see how the judges score the 2 replacements who will have had less time to practice their dances for the show.
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When we talk about big e-commerce companies, we think of the usual Flipkart and Amazon, in India. While these companies were the ones that introduced the concept to urban Indians, little did they realize that next generation of online customers would need an e-commerce portal which could cater to their specific needs.
Shopclues is one e-tailer targeting Indians living in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, but Voonik is trying to be the fashion destination for non-brand conscious Indians who prefer value for money.
With a 'lean' marketplace business model operating without inventory and fulfillment centers, Voonik.com has entered the big picture delivering goods to consumers in over 28,000 pin codes all over the country. They have been a profitable forum for unbranded labels to compete with the big names in the online business and the start-up is also dynamically growing the networks in Handloom and Rural penetration.
Sujayath Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Voonik, the leader in the unbranded fashion category with an annual GMV rate of over 120 Million USD.
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It has over 20 Million registered users, with 18 Million app downloads and Mr. Ali talked to Business Insider to give an insight about e-commerce that is not glitzy but practical,"We are very focused on the kind of people we want to attract. For an average Indian, fashion is practical and while they want to wear traditional garb, the definitely don't want garbage. We have over 15 Lakh products from more than 25,000 sellers, from all parts of India. Our sellers are the masters of their craft; whether it is leather footwear from Agra or Silk sarees from Chennai, we put retailers online."
Voonik has built deep technology to enable personalization that made it the most engaging eCommerce app in India with you finding a lot of options in the same app.
Ali sees the retail sector as a part of online commerce and that's why Voonik is all-encompassing Indians at its core.
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Surgery may be used to treat a
rotator cuff disorder if the injury is very severe or
if nonsurgical treatment has failed to improve shoulder strength and movement
The rotator cuff is a group of four tendons and the related muscles
that stabilize the
shoulder joint and allow you to raise and rotate your arm. The shoulder is a
ball-and-socket joint with three main bones: the upper arm bone (humerus), the
collarbone (clavicle), and the shoulder blade (scapula). These bones are held
together by muscles, tendons, ligaments, and the joint capsule. The rotator
cuff helps keep the ball of the arm bone seated into the socket of the shoulder
Surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff tendon usually
In open shoulder surgery, a surgeon makes an incision [2 in. (5 cm) to
3 in. (7.6 cm)] in the shoulder
to open it and view the shoulder directly while repairing it. A smaller
incision can be done with a mini-open procedure that allows the surgeon to
reach the affected tendon by splitting the deltoid muscle. This method may
reduce your chances of problems from a deltoid injury.
Open-shoulder surgery often requires a short stay in the
General anesthesia or a
nerve block may be used for these types of surgical
Rotator cuff tears can sometimes be repaired with
arthroscopic surgery.
Discomfort after surgery may decrease with taking pain medicines
prescribed by your doctor.
The arm will be protected in a sling for a defined period of time,
especially when at risk of additional injury.
Physical therapy after surgery is crucial to a successful recovery.
A rehabilitation program may include the following:
Surgery to repair a rotator cuff is done when:
Rotator cuff repair surgery for a tear from a sudden injury works
best if it is done within a few weeks of the injury.1 But repairs of very large
tears are not always successful.
Rotator cuff surgery to repair frayed or thinned tendon tissue is
less likely to work than surgery to repair an injury to a healthy
In addition to the risks of surgery in general, such as blood loss
or problems related to anesthesia, complications of rotator cuff surgery may
Very large tears [greater than
2 in. (5 cm) or involving more
than one rotator cuff tendon] often cannot be repaired.
Grafting and patching procedures are possible. But
they are not much better at restoring strength than debridement and smoothing,
which are less risky and require less rehabilitation.
Less active people (usually those older than 60) with confirmed
rotator cuff tears that do not cause pain, significant weakness, or sleep
problems can safely go without surgery unless symptoms get worse.
Complete the surgery information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you prepare for this surgery.
CitationsAmerican Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and American Academy of Pediatrics (2010). Rotator
cuff tears. In JF Sarwark, ed., Essentials of Musculoskeletal Care, 4th ed., pp. 311–316. Rosemont, IL: American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.Other Works ConsultedBeasley Vidal LS, et al. (2007). Shoulder injuries. In
PJ McMahon, ed., Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Sports Medicine, pp. 118–145. New York: McGraw-Hill.Devinney DS, et al. (2005). Surgery of shoulder
arthritis. In WJ Koopman, LW Moreland, eds., Arthritis and Allied Conditions, 15th ed., vol. 1, pp. 995–1015. Philadelphia:
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Husni EM, Donohue JP (2005). Painful shoulder and
reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome. In WJ Koopman, LW Moreland, eds.,
Arthritis and Allied Conditions, 15th ed., vol. 2, pp.
2133–2151. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.Lin KC, et al. (2010). Rotator cuff: 1. Impingement lesions in adult and adolescent athletes. In JC DeLee et al.,
eds., DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Principles and Practice, 3rd ed., vol. 1, pp. 986–1015. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.Murphy RJ, Carr AJ (2010). Shoulder pain, search date August 2009. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.
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Before proceeding, please ensure that you have read Section 5 and Section 6.
These installation notes are based on a single-partition installation using the 2.6.15-17 kernel.
Since you cannot log in as root directly with an Ubuntu system, this DB2 installation is run as the default user created during Ubuntu setup (i.e. the regular user account with 'sudo' capability).
There are two ways of installing DB2 Express-C 9 on Ubuntu. The harder of the two methods is to use the default DB2 db2setup, and then make adjustments to the Ubuntu system afterwards to handle the slight differences of Ubuntu's Debian-based packaging system. For reasons of clarity and brevity, I will omit the instructions for doing it this more difficult way; however, if you would like to see these instructions, please send me an email (firstname.lastname@example.com) and I will pass them along.
The easy way to install DB2 Express-C on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is to use the Synaptic package installer, and almost everything is done for you, from downloading to installation and configuration. Here's how to do it:
Under the Applications menu on the Ubuntu menu bar, choose Add/Remove.
Once the Synaptic package manager application has started up, click the Show commercial applications checkbox.
In the Search bar, type "DB2" and hit the Enter key.
DB2 Express should show up as the only result. If you don't see it, make sure that Synaptic is displaying All Applications or Third party applications.
Enable the dapper-commercial channel if requested by clicking the "Enable channel" button.
Click "Apply".
After installation by Synaptic, there are a few steps required to get DB2 up and running smoothly.
Usable passwords for the DB2 default accounts.
To actually log in or connect to the DB2 databases and servers using the default DB2 users (db2inst1, db2fenc1, and dasusr1), you need to modify the initial passwords. To do this, open a terminal (as the regular user), and type sudo su - to get root access. Then run these three commands:
passwd db2inst1 passwd db2fenc1 passwd dasusr1
Change the default shell for the DB2 default accounts.
The default command shell for the DB2 accounts is set as just a plain old /bin/sh. To get the handy features of the BASH shell, you'll want to change it for these three accounts. In the same root access command window, open the /etc/passwd file in your favorite text editor and change:
db2inst1:x:1001:1001::/home/db2inst1:/bin/sh db2fenc1:x:1002:1002::/home/db2fenc1:/bin/sh dasusr1:x:1003:1003::/home/dasusr1:/bin/sh
db2inst1:x:1001:1001::/home/db2inst1:/bin/bash db2fenc1:x:1002:1002::/home/db2fenc1:/bin/bash dasusr1:x:1003:1003::/home/dasusr1:/bin/bash
Enable DB2 service ports for remote connections.
To enable outside users to get to your DB2 databases, you'll need to set up the DB2 service port, as it is not configured by the Synaptic installation process.
As the regular user, run sudo vi /etc/services and add this line to the end of the file and save the changes:
db2c_db2inst1 50001/tcp # IBM DB2 instance - db2inst1
db2 update dbm cfg using SVCENAME db2c_db2inst1 db2set DB2COMM=tcpip db2stop db2start
Enable remote DB2 administration connections.
To allow remote administration of your DB2 server, you'll need to set up the DB2 DAS connection port, as it is not configured by the Synaptic installation process.
As the regular user, run sudo vi /etc/services and add this line to the end of the file:
ibm-db2 523/tcp # IBM DB2 DAS ibm-db2 523/udp # IBM DB2 DAS
db2admin stop db2admin start