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The Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington and D.C.'s Different Drummers on their first full rehearsal, Tuesday, November 18th, 2003.
"When writing anything, you come up with what you came up with on that day," says classical composer Robert Maggio of his craft. "If I was going to write this ten years ago, it would have been totally different. If I were writing it ten years from now, it'd be different. But I think this piece was commissioned at the right time for me."
The piece to which the 39-year-old gay composer refers is Quilt Panels (for my love, for my grief, for my letting go), a joint commission by the D.C.'s Different Drummers Symphonic Band and the Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington. Formerly known as "The December 1st Project," the 40-minute choral/symphonic composition will get its world premiere on World AIDS Day, in the Dekelboum Concert Hall at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland.
"The project started because of a conversation I'd had a couple years ago with Bonnie Ullmer, who was working at the D.C. chapter of the Names Project at the time," says Scott Barker, director of the DCDD Symphonic Band since 1998. "We started talking about the legacy of the Quilt, what it's meant for our community and the heritage it represents. And we were lamenting the fact that the Quilt was not likely to be seen again in its entirety, that it's stored in a warehouse in Atlanta.
"I had wanted to commission a work relevant to the gay and lesbian community for a long time," continues Barker. "After that conversation with Bonnie, a light bulb went off."
DCDD joined forces with LGCW and, following a six month review of more than a dozen applicants, settled on Maggio to create the work.
"One of the things that stuck out about Rob Maggio," says Barker, "was his approach to involving our members in the process of the composition. It really made him a good fit from the community perspective. Not to mention the fact that his credentials are impeccable as a major composer."
"I didn't know how I would do it on my own," says
Maggio, who initially wanted to hire a poet to create a libretto for the composition. He quickly realized poetry wouldn't suit the material.
"The Quilt isn't poetry in a fine art way," he says. "It's more like memoir, more like folk music. And that's why poetry seemed wrong for it. It didn't seem to capture what the quilt really is."
Maggio found "a tremendous amount of insight and direction" in Stitching a Revolution, a history of the Quilt written by Names Project founder Cleve Jones.
"I spent a long time not writing music," recalls Maggio. "I spent a long time writing down words about what I thought would be a really interesting way to present some kind of representation of the Quilt in a musical setting. And I realized that one of the most important thing was names. So I asked the chorus and the band to supply me with names of loved ones they'd lost to AIDS." The names were then used in two movements within the piece — "Stitching No. 1" and "Stitching No. 2." "The names are read by two narrators," says Maggio, "are spoken by the choir, they're whispered, they're sung, they're shouted."
"Robert removed the surname," says LGCW General Manager Jill Strachan. "But if there were four or five Pauls submitted, he then repeated that name Paul as many times as it was submitted. So it is personal, because we know that there's a place marked for each person we submitted. At the same time, by taking away the last names, Robert made it universal for people in the audience who don't know these particular people who died but know other people who died who might have these names. It's one of the reasons I think people will connect with the piece."
One of the evening's most poignant movements is entitled "Letters," drawn from portions of letters submitted with individual Quilt panels.
"I chose sentences out of the letters," says Maggio. "For instance, the altos will sing 'I first met Bob in the summer of 1985,' then the basses sing, "I first met her in the hospital,' then the sopranos sing, 'We met for the first time at a press conference,' and finally the tenors sing 'I met C.J. a month before he died.' Then they move on to 'He was my favorite teacher, we were best friends. I am a mother. I am a father. We were in high school together.' Then it gets kind of passionate as people start talking about the impact of the disease: 'During all this time, I felt my body changes. This is for my love, this is for my grief, this is for my letting go.' That was the line that killed me."
When Strachan first heard "Letters" performed at a preview of the movement, she says quietly, "I was in tears."
"I didn't ever think specifically about the specifics of the illness," says Maggio. "What it was that took people, how people died. It was more about the process of grieving and letting people go."
The project was hardly an inexpensive undertaking, averaging out to about $1,000 per minute. Each group committed to raising $10,000 on their own with the additional $20,000 from outside funding sources, such as Brother Help Thyself and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. "We're still a little short of the full forty thousand," says Strachan.
"It was and is a huge undertaking," says Barker of the fundraising effort. "There was concern about our ability to do it, but we just believed that what we were doing was the right thing to do, and that with that belief and determination and a little bit of luck, we would succeed."
In the end, the cost was ultimately worthwhile.
"We've given something back to our community in a way that we couldn't have without commissioning a work like this," says Barker. "And working together with the chorus has been nothing short of a miracle. I think the concert is going to be immensely powerful."
Quilt Panels will receive its world premiere on Monday, December 1, at 8 p.m. at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, located on Stadium Drive near the intersection of University Drive (Route 193) in College Park, Maryland. Tickets are $30 for the general public, $5 for students, with discounts for seniors and groups. The performance will be sign interpreted. Call 301-405-ARTS or visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.


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MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Italian Fabio Fognini is to meet Argentina's Carlos Berlocq in the first match of what is expected to be a tightly contested first-round Davis Cup series.
Italy's singles players Fognini and Andreas Seppi are in the Top 31 of the rankings while Berlocq and Juan Monaco, slated to play singles for Argentina, are in the Top 40.
Even the doubles nominees -- Simone Bolelli and Filippo Volandri for Italy and Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos for Argentina -- have comparable rankings.
The winner of the Italy-Argentina series advances to the Davis Cup quarterfinals April 4-6 against the winner of a first-round series between Great Britain and the United States.
Seppi is 15-14 in Davis Cup play, going 2-2 last year. Berlocq is 3-4 (0-2 in doubles). Seppi won the only time he and Berlocq played.
Monaco won all three of his previous matches versus Fognini and is 11-11 in Davis Cup play. Fognini's Davis Cup record is a healthy 12-4 (10-3 singles) with two loses in last year's quarterfinals against Canada.
Berlocq and Seppi begin the best-of-five series with Fognini and Monaco also playing Friday. Saturday's schedule calls for the Bolelli-Volandri versus Schwank-Zeballos doubles match with the series ending Sunday with Fognini meeting Berlocq and Seppi going against Monaco in the series finale.
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Last December, we invited independent filmmakers and motion design enthusiasts on Zooppa.com to help us tell the "From Chemistry to Energy" story — and to illustrate why that story matters to America's energy and economic future.
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Of the 38 videos submitted, we found none to be more unique, visually surprising or thought-provoking than Tyler Depke's paragon of stop-motion animation "From Chemistry to Energy," earning Tyler the $10,000 grand prize. The video really holds the viewer's attention from start to finish — a difficult thing to pull off with this kind of subject matter.
Coming in at second place was "Energy in the Modern World" by Jennifer Chiu, creative director at Motion Sickness — a collaborative band of artists based in Los Angeles, CA that we thought put together the most elegant motion graphics in the lot.
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Finally, creative director Jeff Buss submitted a professionally shot and expertly produced video in "Chemistry to Energy," which we thought really drove the manufacturing story home, earning Jeff the fourth place spot.
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About sitelink extensions
To add more links to your ads, create sitelink extensions. Sitelinks can take people to specific pages on your site—your store hours, a specific product, or more. When someone clicks or taps on your links, they skip right to what they want to know or buy.
This informational article provides an overview of sitelink extensions. Learn instructions about how to add sitelink extensions.
How they show
Sitelinks will show in a variety of ways, depending on device, position, and other factors. When your sitelink extension appears with one of your ads on a computer, your ad will show no fewer than 2 links due to the minimum 2-sitelink requirement to serve an ad. Your ad can have up to 6 links. Sitelinks may appear on the same line or fill up to two lines of your ad.
Your ad can show up to 8 sitelinks on a tablet or mobile device. These sitelinks will appear side-by-side on a single line in a carousel format. People can swipe left or right on the carousel to browse your various sitelinks. If your ad appears in the very top position, your sitelinks are eligible to show in a more prominent tappable row, with only one sitelink on each line.
Sitelinks appear in ads at the top and bottom of Google search results.
Example of a Search ad with sitelink extensions as it would appear on a computer
HoursFind Out When You
Can Get Our Treats.
SpecialsThe Deal of the Day
Should Satisfy Your Dog.
BiscuitsOur Special Biscuit
Recipe is Tried and True.
Healthy dietsLearn How Our Treats
Are Loaded with Nutrition.
How they work
You can add sitelinks at the account, campaign, or ad group level. You specify the link text (what shows to people) and URLs (the pages they click to).
In some cases, Google might supplement your sitelinks with descriptions that you've provided about those pages. Either you can add those details yourself when creating or editing sitelinks, or we can automatically use information within your account related to individual sitelinks—for example, from various ads in your account. By showing additional information with your sitelinks, your ads can be more relevant to potential customers.
Here are a few reasons to consider adding sitelinks to your ads:
- Update easily: Change link text and URLs whenever you want, keeping them up-to-date for sales and special offers. You don't need to make new text ads or edit them to include sitelinks.
- See detailed data about your clicks: Find out how many clicks occurred on your ad when sitelinks appeared. Break down the statistics by campaign, ad group, or ad. Segment your statistics to see the number of clicks that occurred on the individual sitelink versus another part of the ad (the headline, other sitelinks, or another extension, for example).
- Edit your sitelink extensions without losing data: Edit your sitelinks without resetting their performance statistics.
- Customized sitelinks for mobile: Create mobile-optimized sitelinks to show on mobile devices.
- Schedule with start and end dates: Specify the dates, days of week, or times of day your sitelinks are eligible to show.
Cost of clicks
Sitelinks are free to add—you're only charged for clicks from people viewing your ad. The cost of a click on a sitelink equals the cost of a click on the headline in the same ad. In other words, you'll be charged the same amount no matter which link in the same ad—the landing page or a sitelink—someone clicks. Sitelinks offer more opportunities for your customers to click on and within your ad, but you won't be charged for more than two clicks per ad impression. However, if someone quickly clicks on more than one link while viewing an ad, this gets treated as a duplicate or invalid click and you won't get charged.


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Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) yesterday stood firm on his opposition to the continued construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, amid concern from the Presidential Office and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) about his stance on the issue.
Hau became the first local government head from the pan-blue camp to declare his stance on the nuclear issue by saying on Thursday that he would vote "yes" in a national referendum asking voters if construction and operation of the plant should be suspended.
His announcement prompted President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) to call him on Thursday night to discuss his stance on the power plant. Ma met him yesterday in the Presidential Office to continue their discussion on the issue.
Presidential Office spokesperson Lee Chia-fei (李佳霏) said Ma and Hau exchanged opinions on the construction of the power plant, alternative sources of energy and the potential impact on the economy if the plant is suspended.
"The president said whether or not the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should be suspended is a crucial issue, and the public must be given sufficient information to help them make the final decision," she said.
Hau yesterday said he opposed the construction of the power plant because of the state-owned Taiwan Power Co's (Taipower) poor quality control over the plant and its failure to solve the problem of storing nuclear waste.
"I told President Ma that under the current situation, I would support suspension of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant if the referendum is held tomorrow. My stance will not change," he said.
As the government prepares for a national referendum on the issue, Hau said he believed the public would gain a better understanding of the power plant's operations and its safety issues, and that a public consensus could be formed gradually.
"If more and more people oppose the plant's construction, or local city councilors voted to oppose its construction, the government can reconsider the necessity of holding a referendum," he said.
At a question-and-answer session at the legislature yesterday, Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) said that he, the president, New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) and Hau were in frequent contact with each other to exchange views about the power plant.
"We all share the same position," Jiang said when answering questions from KMT Legislator Hsu Shao-ping (徐少萍).
Hau's statement that he would vote for halting construction was predicated on the "referendum being held tomorrow," Jiang said.
"We understand that people are concerned about the nuclear power plant's safety, which is why the government is set to invite internationally recognized experts to conduct a comprehensive safety assessment of the power plant," Jiang said.
Once the safety assessment is completed and related information on nuclear safety is made public, people will be more well-informed before the referendum, he said.
Separately yesterday, KMT Secretary-General Tseng Yung-chuan (曾永權) led about 30 members to visit the plant in New Taipei City's (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮).
KMT spokesman Yin Wei (殷瑋) said party members visited the plant's pumping station and control room and asked Taipower to ensure transparency in disclosing public information about the plant.
The KMT's nuclear policy remains the same, which is to ensure nuclear safety and to reduce the nation's dependence on nuclear power gradually, he added.


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Marriott Vacations Worldwide Named One of Utah's 'Best Places to Work'
ORLANDO, Fla. – February 6, 2012 – Marriott Vacations Worldwide's (NYSE: VAC) Owner Services department was recently named one of the 'Best Places to Work' by the Utah Department of Workforce Services' Work/Life Awards for the fourth year in a row. Utah's Work/Life Awards recognize excellence in the workplace and is known nationwide for its rigorous evaluation and application process.
"It is an honor to be recognized as one of Utah's 'Best Places to Work' for a fourth consecutive year," said Lee Hall, general manager of Owner Services for Marriott Vacations Worldwide. "One of our most enduring principles continues to be taking care of our associates who then take great care of our customers. It's these practices that continue to lead us to high levels of excellence."
Marriott Vacations Worldwide's Owner Services is home to more than 500 associates and focuses on providing excellent customer service, worldwide reservations and Marriott Rewards assistance to over 400,000 Owners and Members worldwide. Owner Services prides itself in offering flexible work schedules that allow associates to balance their work/home life; internal advancement and career growth opportunities; and direct manager to associate relationships. Giving back to the community is also a key component of the company's culture and few have been more committed to serving the greater Salt Lake City community than Owner Services.
About Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation is the leading global pure-play vacation ownership company. Since entering the industry in 1984, we earned its position as a leader and innovator in vacation ownership products. In late 2011, Marriott Vacations Worldwide was established as a separate, public company focusing primarily on vacation ownership experiences. The new company preserves high standards of excellence in serving its customers, investors and associates while maintaining a long-term relationship with Marriott International, Inc. Marriott Vacations Worldwide offers a diverse portfolio of quality products, programs and management expertise with more than 60 resorts and approximately 400,000 Owners and Members. Its brands include: Marriott Vacation Club, The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club and Grand Residences by Marriott. For more information, please visit www.marriottvacationsworldwide.com.


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I wasn't sure if to post here or in the Linux forums. I'm living in China which means while I have 10Mbs fibre connection to my apartment it is useless for http and httpd traffic. I pay for a VPN service that solves the problem by restoring the ability to access censored web sites such as Google. The problem is I don't want to send all my Internet traffic thru the VPN for several reasons. I run a CentOS 6 server as my gateway. On it I have:
eth0 - An Internet facing fibre with a static IP address.
eth1 - An internal facing LAN connecton on the traditional private range 192.168.1.x with the server at 192.168.1.3.
ppp0 - The PPTP VPN connection on the Internet with a different static IP address.
What I want is for all port 53, 80 and 443 traffic to go out to the Internet via the ppp0 interface and everything else via eth0. With Linux's powerful networking features you would think this would be easy, but after months of trying it is seeming increasingly difficult to the point I wondering if I should be looking at other OSes.
In order of increasing complexity (I like the KISS principle of problem solving):
1. I looked iptables but there is no rule, I could find, that say for destination port use a specific gateway or interface.
2. I looked at Squid on the gateway server but Squid can not be bound to a specific interface for external traffic.
3. Now it get complicated. I shutdown the ppp0 interface and squid on the gateway server. I built a second CentOS 6 server as a proxy server on the LAN at 192.168.1.5 with the ppp0 VPN on it as it's default gateway. It has the gateway server as it's route only to the VPN end point. On this second server I run Squid. This set up works well with Firefox and Chrome when they are manually set up to use it and it handles the http and httpd traffic well. However other apps, such as package managers etc still use the non-VPN'd interface. Also setting up proxies on older mobile devices is a pain.
4. To support all devices I attempted to set up transparent proxy on the gateway with the iptable rules:
-A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.5:3128
-A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.5:3128
-A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE
This works well for http traffic but not https which fails.
5. To simplify the https proxing (since I really only want routing) I installed tinyproxy on the proxy server at port 3130 and changes the gateway server iptable rules to:
-A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.5:3128
-A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.5:3130
-A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE
Again this works fine for manually configured browsers, but the https traffic fails, with a different error of 'ssl_error_rx_record_too_long'.
This post is already quite long so I wont fill it will config files now, but can post them as requested where someone has a suggestion of what path to try next. I really can't believe this should be this difficult but I find I am running out of ideas and would welcome some suggestions of what to try. I have read the "Linux Firewall (iptables) Tutorial" thread which is very well written but doesn't go deep enough to help me.


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October 12, 2016
Windermere Foundation Dollars at Work: 2016 Summer Report
Posted in News from the Foundation by Christine Wood
We are excited to announce that as of third quarter of this year, the Windermere Foundation has collected $1.4 million in donations, which means we are well on our way to reaching our goal of raising $2 million by year's end!
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September 02, 2016
Raising money for those in need—one putt at a time.
Posted in Events by Marilou Ubungen
Thanks to fundraisers like these golf tournaments, as well as a variety of other fundraisers held by our offices throughout the year, the Windermere Foundation is able to continue to support non-profit organizations that provide services to low-income and homeless families throughout the Western U.S.
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August 10, 2016
Helping Children and Families Gear-up for Back to School
Posted in Collections and drives by Christine Wood
Getting your children prepared to go back to school is stressful enough. We all want to make sure that they are adequately prepared for the upcoming year. Now imagine that you also have to worry about how you're going to pay for new clothing, shoes and school supplies—it can be quite overwhelming! Many parents just aren't able to afford all of the back-to-school necessities.
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July 13, 2016
Windermere Foundation Quarterly Report
Posted in News from the Foundation by Christine Wood
Thanks to your generous donations, the Windermere Foundation has collected nearly $818,000 in donations during the first half of 2016. This is an increase of 11 percent compared to this time last year!
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June 14, 2016
Support Your Local Food Banks During the Summer
Posted in Collections and drives by Marilou Ubungen
Did you know that June is fresh fruits and vegetables month? That's great if you can afford them. However, they are a luxury for people who struggle to provide even just the basic necessities for their families. Many families rely on their local food banks as a regular supplemental food source. And of those families, 84 percent of households with children report purchasing the cheapest food...
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May 18, 2016
Summer camps provide invaluable learning and socialization opportunities for youth
Posted in Grant recipients by Marilou Ubungen
Summer camps and summer programs for youth not only keep them occupied while on break from school, it provides them with a safe place to be while their parents are at work, and gives them learning experiences that will help them throughout their lives.
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April 20, 2016
Windermere Foundation Quarterly Report
Posted in News from the Foundation by Christine Wood
Thanks to you and the wonderful support that the Windermere Foundation has received so far this year, we have disbursed nearly $470,000 to non-profit organizations dedicated to providing services to low-income and homeless families throughout the Western U.S.
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March 03, 2016
Windermere Foundation 2015 Infographic
Posted in News from the Foundation by Marilou Ubungen
The following infographic shows the types of services funded by the Windermere Foundation, and illustrates how even a small amount can make a big difference for low-income and homeless children and their families.
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February 25, 2016
YMCA Kids Hoop It Up at Half-Time Fundraiser Show
Posted in Events by Marilou Ubungen
Three youth from the University Family YMCA participated in this year's event on Saturday, February 20th. The Foundation donated $100 for each free-throw that was made during the special half-time event, with a minimum $1,000 donation. The three YMCA kids put on a great show this year, wowing the crowd by making 12 baskets!
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February 08, 2016
Windermere Foundation 2015 Year in Review
Posted in Windermere Foundation by Christine Wood
2015 was an incredible year for the Windermere Foundation. We reached a goal that we set back in 2013, which was to raise $30 million in total donations by the end of 2015. Not only did we reach that milestone, we did it three months early, thanks to the support of Windermere owners, agents, and staff that increased their giving, held more fundraisers, and brought new donors into the fold.
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- Isabel Spellman, the uncompromising—okay, obstinate—twenty-eight year-old San Francisco private eye in Lisa Lutz's riotous debut novel, The Spellman Files has her share of problems. And those problems all happen to be named Spellman. Her parents, Albert and Olivia, co-owners of Spellman Investigations, think nothing of placing their daughter under 24-hour surveillance simply to find out if she has a new boyfriend. David, her perfect older brother, who escaped the family business by becoming a lawyer, is hypercritical of just about everything Isabel says, wears, or does. Fourteen-year-old sister Rae lives on sugared snacks, considers recreation surveillance her favorite hobby, and believes that life is one endless opportunity for intra-familial blackmail. And good-natured Uncle Ray, a former cop and health food nut, now embraces gambling and drinking; and when he's not in battle with his niece Rae over the whereabouts of his favorite shirt, must be rescued from "lost weekends."
Welcome to Izzy Spellman's off-kilter world. Equal parts Sam Spade and Bridget Jones, she's a damn good investigator—if only her dysfunctional family would back off and let her do her thing.
There has never been a heroine quite like Isabel Spellman, or a fictional family exactly like the Spellmans. Once you are hooked on her adventures, you'll greedily snatch up copies of the rest of the series: Curse of the Spellmans, Revenge of the Spellmans, and the recently-published The Spellman's Strike Again.
About the Author
Lisa Lutz grew up in Southern California. After graduating high school, she attended UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, University of Leeds in England and San Francisco State University, although she still does not have a bachelor's degree.
Lisa spent most of the 1990s hopping from a string of low-paying odd jobs while writing and rewriting a mob comedy called Plan B. After it was made in 2000, Lisa vowed she would never write another screenplay. She began working on The Spellman Files in January of 2004. In the fall of that year, she drove across the country and moved into a 200-year-old house in the town of Westernville, New York (pop. 300). It was there Lisa shoveled snow and wrote the bulk of her first novel.
After her months in Westernville, Lisa returned to the west coast—and moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco to Seattle where she stayed for a while to write Curse of the Spellmans. She's recently returned to San Francisco and has promised her friends and family that they won't have to update her entry in their address books again for a long while.
"Cracking the case can get complicated and outrageously wacky when a family of detectives is involved, but Lutz has a blast doing it in her delicious debut….Can the family that snoops together stay together? Stay tuned as a dynamic new series unfolds." —PW
"Fast-paced, irreverent, and very funny, The Spellman Files is like Harriet the Spy for grown-ups." —Curtis Sittenfeld, author of The Man of My Dreams and Prep
"The Spellman Files is hilarious, outrageous, and hip. Izzy Spellman, P.I., is a total original, with a voice so fresh and real, you want more, more, more. At long last, we know what Nancy Drew would have been like had she come from a family of lovable crackpots. Lisa Lutz has created a delicious comedy with skill and truth. I loved it." —Adriana Trigiani, author of Lucia, Lucia and Big Stone Gap
"A spirited, funny debut...a rush of humor and chaos...casual, swift, and hip...A fresh story that works real issues through an offbeat premise." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


text: TEXT Literature Supermom Saves the Day Who says girls can't be superheroes? Sheila and her classmates learn that both girls and boys can be superheroes, thanks to their teacher, Mrs. Miller. Grade Level K-2 3-5 Joi Miner & Kate Sutton (illustrator) Topic Gender & Sexual Identity Social Justice Domain Identity Diversity Justice