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PELLETIER, LOUIS-PHILIPPE (baptized Louis-Thomas-Godfroi), lawyer, journalist, newspaper owner, politician, professor, and judge; b. 1 Feb. 1857 in Trois-Pistoles, Lower Canada, son of Thomas-Philippe Pelletier, a merchant and later a legislative councillor, and Caroline Casault, sister of Louis-Napoléon Casault, a politician and future chief justice of the Superior Court of the province of Quebec; m. 11 Jan. 1883 Adèle (Adélaïde) Lelièvre at Quebec; they had no children; d. there 8 Feb. 1921.
Raised in a rather intellectual and conservative family environment, Louis-Philippe Pelletier entered the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière at the age of 11, together with his brother Alphonse, who was 13; one of his fellow students was Thomas Chapais*. In 1877 he began his studies in law at the Université Laval in Quebec City. Three years later he obtained his degree "with great distinction," along with the Tessier prize and the gold medal awarded by the governor general, the Marquess of Lorne [Campbell*]; he was articled to Auguste-Réal Angers*, an influential Conservative lawyer with whom he would become friends.
Called to the bar on 17 July 1880, Pelletier embarked upon a long and fruitful career in law. He practised in Quebec City first in the office of Blanchet, Amyot et Pelletier, then in 1889 with the prominent firm Amyot, Pelletier et Fontaine, and in 1903 with Drouin, Pelletier et Baillargeon. In the end he became head of the firm Pelletier, Baillargeon et Alleyn, before being named a judge in 1914. In the meantime, he was appointed a qc on 7 March 1893, was given an honorary doctorate by the Université Laval on 10 June 1902, and was chosen as legal counsel to several banks and firms. He sat on various boards of directors, sometimes even as president, notably of the Canadian Electric Light Company, which used the hydroelectric power of the Chaudière falls, near Quebec City. From 1907 until his death, he was a professor in the faculty of law of the Université Laval.
It was, however, through his political activity on the provincial and federal levels that Pelletier gained renown. In 1885 the Riel affair [see Louis Riel*] moved him to side with those who condemned the hanging of the Métis chief, considering it an affront to French Canadians. President of the Club Cartier of Quebec, he resigned from that body and joined the "national alliance" led by Honoré Mercier*, which was made up of dissident Liberals and Conservatives. From 1886 to 1891 Pelletier supported the national program through La Justice, a newspaper he founded in January 1886 at Quebec with other National Conservatives. Idealistic and ultramontane, he believed in an alliance reaching beyond partisan lines and private interests which would uphold the fundamental principles of French Canadian society, and he was unrelenting in his efforts to demonstrate the importance of the church in the social fabric. He ran in the provincial election in Témiscouata on 14 Oct. 1886, but was defeated by a Conservative, Georges-Honoré Deschênes*; a candidate again in the federal election of 22 Feb. 1887, he lost in Trois-Rivières to Sir Hector-Louis Langevin* by only 30 votes. To reward him, Mercier, who had become premier, named him to the Legislative Council on 11 May 1888. He thus received the title of honourable and could now participate in the legislative process. Dissatisfied, he managed to switch places with Louis-Napoléon Larochelle*, the mla for Dorchester, a seat Pelletier won by acclamation in a by-election on 20 December. A crucial period in his career began then. An ordinary backbencher, he was entrusted by Mercier with the task of ensuring that Lieutenant Governor Auguste-Réal Angers cooperated in providing royal assent to bills.
Pelletier again won in Dorchester in the election of 17 June 1890 which gave Mercier's Parti National a comfortable majority. Anxious to put forward his more liberal ideas, Mercier soon found him an obstacle. He publicly rebuffed Pelletier because he expressed reservations about the bill to ensure medical control of insane asylums by the state; then, because La Justice did not give unqualified support to the government, he had him removed as editor of the paper early in 1891. Ousted thereby from the Parti National, Pelletier naturally turned to his former party and before long his influence on its ideology and strategies was noticeable. He managed to establish a party newspaper, Le Matin (Québec), to counterbalance L'Électeur, the organ of the Liberals in Quebec; the paper was published from January to September 1892.
In December 1891 the Baie des Chaleurs scandal led to the downfall of the Mercier government, and the Conservatives under Charles Boucher* de Boucherville took power. At 34, Pelletier, who was known to be hard-working, well informed, and full of fighting spirit, was named secretary and registrar in the new administration as of December; he retained this office under Conservative premier Louis-Olivier Taillon from 1892 to 1896, and then was attorney general in Edmund James Flynn's ministry from May 1896 to May 1897. As minister, Pelletier demonstrated his tendency to embrace the ultramontane vision of an orderly management of finances and a minimally interventionist administration; this approach to governing was based on traditional French Canadian values and sought to maintain the status quo for the structures of power and social organization, particularly in areas under the control of religious institutions.
Re-elected on 11 May 1897, despite the Liberal wave that swept across Quebec, Pelletier entered a long period in the opposition. Late in 1904, when Premier Simon-Napoléon Parent* precipitated a provincial election, he backed his party in its decision not to participate. He would try, but without success, to get elected to the provincial, and then to the federal parliament in 1908. Chief organizer of the federal Conservative party for the district of Quebec from 1903, Pelletier gradually let himself be seduced by the nationalist ideas of Henri Bourassa* and the Ligue Nationaliste Canadienne, which had been founded that year by Olivar Asselin*. Reconciling Conservative principles with nationalist ideals then became the key that would enable Pelletier to act on the federal scene as an advocate for a form of pan-Canadian nationalism based on traditional values. Through L'Événement, of which he was one of the owners from 1903 to 1914 [see Louis-Joseph Demers*], he supported the alliance between Bourassa and Frederick Debartzch Monk* and the new Conservative-Nationaliste formation resulting from it in 1910. The newspaper even clearly distanced itself from Conservative leader Robert Laird Borden* with regard to Sir Wilfrid Laurier*'s controversial plan for a naval service; the paper held that the leader "is mistaken, is deluding himself about the dangers to the empire, about Canada's obligations to the mother country." In the federal election of 21 Sept. 1911, which brought the Conservatives to power, Pelletier won in the riding of Quebec as a Conservative with a Nationaliste allegiance. He represented a minority faction within the Borden government, but remained confident of getting along well with the Conservative party from which he had come. Postmaster general from 10 Oct. 1911 to 19 Oct. 1914, Pelletier applied himself to improving rural and regular postal delivery, the various services in post offices, and the working conditions of employees.
Two major questions quickly brought Pelletier into conflict with those within the Borden government who supported an imperialistic nationalism. Strongly influenced by a type of imperialism extolled by Britain, this nationalist approach showed little sensitivity when it came to the rights and institutions of French Canadians. The issue of protecting the educational rights of Keewatin's francophone Catholic minority emerged in 1912, when part of this large district was to be joined to Manitoba. Faced with the intransigence of his cabinet colleagues, who refused to put guarantees for the Catholic minority in the act transferring the area to that province, Pelletier had no option but to give in or resign. He chose to accept the negotiations that were going on at the same time with the Manitoba government of Sir Rodmond Palen Roblin* with the objective of obtaining a promise to reduce school taxes for Catholics throughout the province. Then, the Borden government's plan to provide financial aid to the British navy again brought his nationalist convictions into play. A trip to Britain along with Borden in the summer of 1912 convinced him of the threat posed by the Germans and of his slim chances of preventing the adoption of this plan. Again he tried the route of compromise, endeavouring to have every military aid project subjected to a plebiscite, which would make it more acceptable in the eyes of the nationalists. Despite Borden's firm refusal and Monk's resignation on 18 October, Pelletier chose to remain in the cabinet. To some people his decision looked like a definitive abandonment of nationalist ideals. It seems, however, that Pelletier was more the victim of political circumstances militating against advocacy of his ideals and that he preferred to stay to ensure the presence of a nationalist in the cabinet, rather than resign and let the protagonists of the imperialist and Orange ideal retain power by themselves. In October 1914 he submitted his resignation, before being named a judge of the Superior Court for the district of Montreal on 18 November; he was transferred to the Quebec Court of King's Bench on 20 Aug. 1915. He presided, notably, over the trial in April 1920 of Marie-Anne Houde, who was accused of murdering her stepdaughter, Aurore Gagnon*, known as Aurore the martyred child.
Louis-Philippe Pelletier's triple career, which pursued legal, journalistic, and political paths, was impressive although not unusual for its time. It is, however, the period he spent in the federal government that is of particular note, for it illustrates Pelletier's inability to give effect to his nationalist ideals as well as the difficulties he experienced in upholding a French Canadian vision and French Canadian values within a government strongly influenced by imperialist ideology.
[A detailed study of Louis-Philippe Pelletier's political career, including relevant primary and secondary sources, is provided in the author's dissertation "Louis-Philippe Pelletier: un exemple du douloureux mariage du mouvement nationaliste et du Parti conservateur fédéral (1911–1914)" (mémoire de ma, univ. Laval, Québec, 1991). d.g.]
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Even without B-Corp status, entrepreneurs are speaking out more on the positives to support business models that benefit not just shareholders, but customers, workforce, the environment, and the greater community. Several good discussions take a whole chapter in the classic book "Mind Your Business: Thoughts for Entrepreneurs," by international entrepreneur Toine Knipping:
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More and more, the goodwill of the relevant customer community, in large measure, contributes to the success of any product and any company. For some business opportunities, like Facebook and Twitter, the community is the value.
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President Barack Obama today named Georgia Tech President G. P. "Bud" Peterson to the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership steering committee. The partnership will bring together industry, universities and the federal government to identify and invest in the key emerging technologies, such as information technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. The national initiative is designed to help U.S. manufacturers improve cost, quality and speed of production in order to remain globally competitive.
"We applaud this initiative, and Georgia Tech is honored to collaborate to identify ways to strengthen the manufacturing sector to help create jobs in Georgia and across the United States," said Peterson, who also serves as a member of the Secretary of Commerce's National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
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In a recent radio interview, Pinsky said that he has no plans to air another season of VH1's Celebrity Rehab because he's "tired of taking all the heat" following the deaths of five former cast members.
"It's very stressful and very intense for me," Pinsky said in an on-air interview with Zach Sang and the Gang. "To have people questioning my motives and taking aim at me because people get sick and die because they have a life-threatening disease, and I take the blame? Rodney King has a heart attack and I take blame for that?"
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"Kafkaesque" has become an overused term in the decade since 9/11. But when it comes to the tragic story of the Uighur detainees who were trapped in Guantanamo - the last of whom were finally transferred last week - it is a fitting description.
What does "Kafkaesque" mean? Frederick R. Karl, the author of a biography of Franz Kafka, gave this description to the New York Times. He said, it is not, say, missing your bus and finding out they have stopped running. That's annoying, but hardly defies logic. "Kafkaesque," he said, "is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world.
"You don't give up, you don't lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don't stand a chance. That's Kafkaesque."
American interrogators told some of the Uighur detainees after their capture in 2001 that they would be released soon. They said, according to many of the 22 Uighur men I've interviewed over the years, that the American interrogators appreciated that they opposed China, not the U.S.
Uighurs are Muslims who are persecuted in China and strive for independence. They did not fit the "enemy combatant" definition introduced after 9/11 and Guantanamo's military tribunals, the U.S. federal court and the Pentagon under both the Bush and Obama administrations agreed.
Yet, they remained trapped for years as the U.S. refused to settle them due to Congress restrictions and other countries, including Canada, would not offer refuge at the risk of hurting relations with China. And China is clear in its opposition. A day after news broke that the last three detainees were freed from Guantanamo, China's foreign ministry spokesperson Qin Gang slammed Slovakia.
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If you don't currently have a Pinterest login, you'll have to request one as the site is still invite-only. Luck for you, it shouldn't take more than a few days for Pinterest to send you an invitation to join. Once you get it, you'll be asked to log in with either your Facebook or Twitter account. Don't worry too much about which to choose as you'll have the option later to switch it or to have your account tied to both.
With your account created, go into your Settings and take some time to fill out your profile. You'll want to set your email settings, fill out your About section, include a Web site and then decide how you want Pinterest to interact with your other social media accounts.
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Life on Pinterest starts here. When you start creating boards, focus on putting together boards that show off the lifestyle and beliefs behind your brands, not your actual products or services. The key to mastering Pinterest is to realize that it's less about promoting your products and more about promoting how you do what you do and how you see yourself in your market. That means creating boards to show off your company beliefs and culture, not your inventory.
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These types of boards are related to what you do in your day-to-day business, but they also go a step further to show people what you believe and what you represent. That's what users are looking for.
Do your best to come up with creative and compelling board names, as these will get shared when people pin your content. Similar to titling your blog posts – putting something eye-catching in there will help your content spread faster.
Assessing Your Pin-able Assets
This is where many business owners start to freak out. Don't! It's easy to think that if you're not in the business of pretty or quirky pictures that Pinterest can't work for your brand. But it absolutely can! Every site has visual assets that they can take advantage of. Sometimes you just have to think outside the box. For you, pinable content may come in the form of:
- Infographics or other data visualizations
- Video stills that link off to media where you appear
- Covers of books or eBooks you've written
- Eye-catching visuals for blog posts
- Images of customers using your products
- Images of how your product could be used
Take a look through your site to identify assets you already own. Once you do that, think forward to brainstorm new ways to incorporate visuals into your Web site. For example, you'll want to make sure that you're using images in every blog post or newsletter article you're creating so that you (and your readers) will have something to pin. Maybe you'll want to build more data visualization into your content strategy or focus on creating things that lend themselves to visuals. Build the assets you'll need later.
Get Your Team Involved
One of the fun features Pinterest offers is that you can add contributors to any of your boards to help keep them updated and engaging. As a small business owner there are a lot of neat ways to take advantage of this. You can:
- Add employees as contributors to boards about company culture
- Add frequent blog commenters/community members to boards related to content/ industry finds
- Add your executive team as contributors to charitable pursuits.
The more people you get involved, the more life you'll add to your Pinterest account and the more others will want to follow what you're doing. To add board contributors, go to the board you want to add a contributor to and click Edit. On the board's settings menu, select "Me + Contributors." You must follow at least one board belonging to a user in order to add him/her as a contributor. Once you're there, start typing his/her username into the text field. Once potential matches begin to load, click Add when you see the person you want to add as a contributor. Then save your settings.
Build Followers
The best way to build new followers is to become an engaged Pinterest user. That means following other users, pinning content, repining content others share, etc. Each time you follow someone or engage with their update on Pinterest, by default, they'll receive a notification email letting them know. This is a good way to build up your followers because, if you have good content, they'll check you out once they see the email and follow you back. It's also a good way to show others that you're interested in the community and what other people are sharing.
If you're looking for potential people to follow OR simply looking to understand what type of content you should be following, try going to http://pinterest.com/source/yoursitehere. This will show you what content on your domain has already been pinned and whose pinning it. You can also do the same for competitor URLs to see who is pinning and sharing their content.
Promoting Your Account
Once your account is set up, you want to do your due diligence and promote it so that your audience knows it exists. This may include adding a Pin It! button to your blog posts so content can be easily shared, syncing your Pinterest account to Twitter and Facebook, encouraging people to subscribe to your Pinterest RSS feed, mentioning your account in company promotions/emails, etc. The more ways you can make Pintest part of your marketing efforts, the bigger the account will grow and the easier it will be to make content spread.
The above tips are designed to help any small business get involved with Pinterest. How are you using the site to market your business? Any lessons you want to share?
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A pair of new long-term studies tracking the orbits of stars at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy further refine the evidence that a supermassive black hole lurks there. The two teams of researchers used data going back to 1992 and were even able to track a full revolution of one star, known as S2, around the theorized black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, some four million times the mass of the sun.
Both papers provide new, closely related estimates for the mass of the suspected black hole and the distance between our sun and the galactic center, roughly 26,000 light-years away. These two figures "are fundamental parameters for the Milky Way," says astrophysicist Stefan Gillessen of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, lead author of one of the studies.
The other study's first author, Andrea Ghez, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, agrees. "Much of our knowledge of the structure of the Milky Way is tied to...the distance between the sun and the center of our galaxy," she says. To sharpen that knowledge as much as possible, she adds, "you'd really like that number nailed down very precisely."
The study by Ghez and her team appears in the current issue of The Astrophysical Journal; Gillessen and his colleagues are set to publish their findings in an upcoming issue of the same journal.
Direct study of a black hole such as the one widely suspected to exist at the center of our galaxy is tricky, as black holes swallow up nearby light, rendering themselves virtually invisible. But researchers can infer properties of a black hole from its hearty gravitational influence on nearby stars.
Ghez says that tracking the orbits of stars is the most direct way to study the black hole's properties. "The physics is simplest if you can just look at the motions of stars," she says. "Anything else requires much more theory, so you're basically building up a larger house of cards. The beauty of this experiment is that it has very few assumptions."
To limit inherent systematic uncertainties, Ghez's group accounted for overlapping light sources when one star passes in front of another or near the black hole itself, where infalling material emits radiation. The team also had to account for any drift by the bodies in the absence of a fixed reference point, a process that Ghez describes as "more subtle than I could have ever imagined." Gillessen's group took similar steps to identify potential sources of error, refining their coordinate system and examining the effects of image distortion and light-source confusion on the estimates.
In earlier approaches, Ghez says, "we had sort of the teenage view of things. We were very excited, we were very emphatic about what we could do, but a little naive." The new papers, she says, try to adopt a more sophisticated view. "What we learned is that we were less knowledgeable than we thought we were," she says. "So our measurements are better, but we understand that there are systematics, and once you account for them, the measurement of the black hole's properties are, in fact, less precise than we used to think they were."
Ghez's team focused on S2, a relatively bright star with a short orbit around the black hole, whereas Gillessen's group determined the orbits of 28 stars, including S2. "It really is amazing to see that we can describe the motions of that many stars" by assuming one massive central anchor, Gillessen says. "The stars fly around wildly, in all directions, at different radii. But all that governs that is simply Newton's law."
The motion of S2, Gillessen says, gives an outer boundary to the central object, which, combined with its inferred mass, helps prove that it is a black hole. "Having four million solar masses sitting there, not shining...and being confined by [the orbit of] the star S2 is really a convincing case," he says. In 2002, Gillessen says, S2 passed within 16 light-hours of the black hole's event horizon, or point of no return; two years earlier, another star passed even closer, around 11 light-hours.
Sheperd Doeleman, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Haystack Observatory in Westford, Mass., says that pinning down the black hole's parameters is important work and notes that both groups analyzed mounds of data "with particular attention paid to careful error analysis." At the same time, he says, the studies refine rather than redefine prior understanding of the nature of the galactic center.
With more advanced telescopes and optical techniques, Ghez says, these estimates will continue to evolve. A more finely honed picture of the center of the galaxy could even provide a test bed for the fundamental assumptions of Einsteinian physics.
"In principle, these stars could test general relativity, because they get into a very strong gravitational field at the central black hole," Ghez says. "And if the measurements are precise enough, you should be able to see the impacts on the orbit."
Closing In on the Milky Way's Central Black Hole
New studies track the motion of stars to pin down what holds sway at the heart of our galaxy
A pair of new long-term studies tracking the orbits of stars at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy further refine the evidence that a supermassive black hole lurks there. The two teams of researchers used data going back to 1992 and were even able to track a full revolution of one star, known as S2, around the theorized black hole, known as Sagittarius A*, some four million times the mass of the sun.


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Lincoln Henderson, a name that many Bourbonites know from Old Forester and Woodford Reserve, is about to make history again. Lincoln and his son Wes have created Louisville Distilling Company. In the coming weeks they will give us their first expression of Angel's Envy. A unique bourbon whiskey that has been finished in port wine casks.
The word is that the whiskey for this first expression which will be called "Expression 10/10" has been sourced from another distiller, under strict guidelines and quality control from Lincoln, and aged in Lawrenceburg, Indiana at Lawrenceburg Distillers Indiana (LDI). This is a common practice in the bourbon industry in order for new distillers to be able to hit the ground running. We are hearing that the whiskey was aged in new charred oak barrels for 4 years and then finished or matured in port sherry casks for around 6 months.
BourbonBuzz was able to obtain a sample of Angel's Envy prior to release. This whiskey comes in at 86.6 proof (43.3 ABV). It has a wonderful golden amber color with a slight pink hue. The nose is highly aromatic, with sweet notes from the port and an almost maple aroma. The first sip is very smooth, clean and refreshing. It has a mild to medium body that is very well balanced. On the palate it has many sweet and toasty maple characteristics that carry through to a very long, complex and slightly dry finish. Angel's Envy is not a bourbon that you will want to mix in a cocktail. You will want to sip this one neat or with a dollop of branch in order to savor all of it's subtleties.
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Like a protective tent over a colony of harmful bacteria, biofilms make the treatment of skin infections especially difficult. Microorganisms protected in a biofilm pose a significant health risk due to their antibiotic resistance and recalcitrance to treatment, and biofilm-protected bacteria account for some 80 percent of total bacterial infections in humans and are 50 to 1,000 times more resistant to antibiotics than simpler bacterial infections.
"In essence, we may have stumbled onto a magic bullet," said David Fox, a Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher on the project. "Through a robust screening strategy, our research team has identified a unique class of materials, known as ionic liquids, which both neutralize biofilm-forming pathogens and deliver drugs through the skin," he said.
"We extended our current capability in antimicrobial platforms with ionic liquids to new heights by partnering with Dr. Mitragotri at UCSB, who is an expert in transdermal drug delivery platforms. The merger made perfect sense," stated Fox.
"In several cases, we found the ionic liquid was more efficacious on a biofilm than a standard bleach treatment and exhibited minimal cytotoxicity effects on human cell lines (unlike bleach). This has excellent prospects for aiding antibiotic delivery to the pathogen through biofilm disruption but, most interestingly, the ionic liquids themselves are quite effective for pathogen neutralization," Fox said.
This work could have especially useful applications for military medical treatments, he noted, where soldiers in the field can be exposed to bacterial infections that are particularly difficult to treat.
Biofilms often persist in the periphery of an actual wound, beneath an intact, healthy skin layer and the difficulty of their treatment is largely due to the outermost layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, being a natural barrier for drug delivery.
"If the bacterial biofilm can be disrupted, delivery of antibiotics is greatly enhanced, and any dispersed pathogens are generally restored to normal antibiotic susceptibility," said Fox. "Further, many bacterial infestations in wounds penetrate under the outer skin layer, the stratum corneum, and deep into the tissue (epidermis and dermis). These materials are able to penetrate through the skin and effectively carry antibiotics to the deepest layers."
"Clearly, the ionic liquids would be of special benefit to our warfighters where exposure to biological agents in hostile environments is likely. Topical application as a prophylaxis or direct treatment to an open wound could buy enough time to reach the proper medical facilities when in an austere environment," he said. Importantly, ionic liquids can be derived from very cheap starting materials that are FDA approved and are extremely stable to high temperatures and pressures, which are necessary traits for commercialization in real-world applications.
In a groundbreaking manuscript appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, as part of a multi-institutional effort between Los Alamos, University of California Santa Barbara, Dixie State University and Northern Arizona University, researchers explored exploiting ionic liquids both in a concerted effort to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial biofilms in skin, as well as for topical transdermal drug delivery. The comprehensive strategy resulted in the identification of ionic liquids that are effective at disrupting biofilms, neutralizing pathogens, and enhancing delivery of antibiotic into skin.
Biofilms are a major cause of chronic wounds and wound degeneration. Wounds from infected surgical incisions result in 1 million additional hospital days. Additional causes of bacterial infected wounds include traumatic injuries, as well as diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers, and pressure ulcers.
The total economic burden of skin disease was estimated to be approximately $96 billion in 2004, and the prevalence and healthcare costs for skin disease have been increasing over the last three decades. Bacterial infections in the skin are among the most common diagnoses in hospital patients, accounting for some 10% of all hospital visits. Staphylococcus aureus infections acquired in hospitals, which account for only 16% of nosocomial infections, are estimated to result in $9.5 billion in extra patient costs and 12,000 deaths annually.
The comprehensive approach is unique in that the team examined a panel of in-house synthesized ionic liquids and enabled the discovery of one ionic liquid, choline-geranate, which showed excellent antimicrobial activity, minimal toxicity to epithelial cells as well as skin, and effective permeation enhancement for drug delivery. Specifically, choline-geranate was comparable with, or more effective than, bleach treatment against established biofilms of Salmonella enterica and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, respectively. In addition, choline-geranate increased delivery of cefadroxil, an antibiotic, by >16-fold into the deep tissue layers of the skin without inducing skin irritation.
The paper: Ionic liquids as a class of materials for transdermal delivery and pathogen neutralization
Authors: Michael Zakrewsky, Vivian Le, Samir Mitragotri (University of California, Santa Barbara), Katherine S. Lovejoy, Theresa L. Kern, Tarryn E. Miller, Amber Nagy, Andrew M. Goumas, Rashi S. Iyer, David T. Fox (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rico E. Del Sesto (Dixie State University, St. George, UT), and Andrew T. Koppisch (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ).
Funding: This research was funded by University of California, Office of the President Grant 12-LR-237080. FTIR was performed in the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) Shared Experimental Facilities, supported by the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award DMR 1121053. A patent application has been filed on the syntheses and biological applications of the ionic liquids.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences


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Photos of the contentious public meeting held on November 1, 2007 by Tecton Energy, LLC, a gas & oil exploration company. The company has drilled one test well. Tecton is currently pursuing the permitting process to drill numerous additional wells on private lands in the pristine Galisteo Basin, an area known for its rich cultural heritage, wildlife, unspoiled landscapes, and archeological resources. And it is not just the Galisteo Basin. Tecton has obtained the subsurface mineral leases to more than 65,000 acres of Santa Fe County extending from Nambe to Cerrillos. If Tecton is successful in obtaining the necessary permits through the State and County, then the landowners are powerless to stop them. We can thank the atrocious and antiquated Mining Act of 1872 in part for this mess. Approximately 450 angry Santa Fe County residents filled the meeting room and spilled out onto the patio. The message from the Citizens was loud and clear. These photos are the copyrighted property of the creator. However, in this instance, viewers are permitted to download images at no cost, provided a photo credit "Tony Bonanno" is given for any web media or print media use. Call 505.466.0020 with questions. E-mail Tony Bonanno Tony Bonanno's Main WebsiteRead More


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Bakewell's biography of Montaigne takes the form of twenty chapters, each highlighting events from his life that shaped his Essays. Original and thoroughly engaging. — Sarah Donner
"Bakewell has written a thoroughly engaging look at the life and work of Michel de Montaigne, whose incessantly questioning approach to life is both remarkably modern and usefully instructive, even though he composed his famous essays more than 400 years ago."
— Dale Szczeblowski, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
"This is a vibrant and erudite engagement with Montaigne's interrogation of his experience that somehow balances earnestness and cleverness while honoring the nuance of Montaigne's thought. A book that lives up to its seemingly ironic title, teaching us to live a little more fully and a little more humbly."
— Jeff Deutsch, Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, Chicago, IL
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, perhaps the first recognizably modern individual. A nobleman, public official, and winegrower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them essays, meaning "attempts" or "tries." He put whatever was in his head into them: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw readers to him. They come in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment--and in search of themselves.
This audiobook, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of Montaigne's life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, his youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet tienne de La Bo tie and with his adopted "daughter," Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers--who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, "How to live?"
"Lively and fascinating...How to Live takes its place as the most enjoyable introduction to Montaigne in the English language." --Times Literary Supplement
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" Bakewell reveals] one of literature's enduring figures as an idiosyncratic, humane, and surprisingly modern force." --Publishers Weekly (starred)
"A bright, genial, and generous introduction to the master's methods." --Kirkus Reviews
"It is ultimately Montaigne's] life-loving vivacity that Bakewell succeeds in communicating to her readers." --The Observer
"How to Live will delight and illuminate." --The Independent
"This subtle and surprising book manages the trick of conversing in a frank and friendly manner with its centuries-old literary giant, as with a contemporary, while helpfully placing Montaigne in a historical context. The affection of the author for her subject is palpable and infectious." --Phillip Lopate, author of The Art of the Personal Essay
"An intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world." --Saturday Telegraph
"Like recent books on Proust, Joyce, and Austen, How to Live skillfully plucks a life-guide from the incessant flux of Montaigne's prose...Superb." --The Guardian


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But seriously, remove hunger
I make a lot of jokes about removing food, but it's something I seriously think is a good idea, which is why I ended up writing 1,700+ words on the topic, like a crazy person. On the plus side, I promise that I'll let it go after this thread.
From a player's perspective, food causes inventory annoyances and requires a few hundred presses of c and e per game, and that's when you're doing it right; if you've gotten absurdly bad RNG or you're playing sloppily, on the other hand, you get to enjoy one of the slowest, most obnoxious deaths Crawl has available. From the developers' perspective, hunger is wrapped up in so many mechanics and species that it's basically impossible to make the hunger clock matter for decent players without seriously impacting hunger-intensive options and species. So, instead, I think we should just remove it.
Here's a list (that I've collapsed because it's hilariously long) of things that are currently designed around hunger and my thoughts on how they might work in foodless Crawl:
For the most part, this needs no correction; Crawl really doesn't need a clock, though hunger is more of a very lenient parking meter. There would still be piety decay to keep players moving, at the very least.
If scumming is a serious concern, I have a few suggestions. First, and most obviously, anything that currently can benefit a player who just stands still, such as Xom gifts, is moved to an XP timer or removed. Next, all monsters that spawn after a level is generated provide no XP, using whatever flavor justification works best. I prefer a system that ends these spawns when you kill the last XP-bearing enemy. When you leave a level and monsters are in LOS of the stairs, all of those monsters will patrol that staircase as long as you are off the level.
No further changes are necessary for Pan or the Abyss; players who want to scum there already can, and it's miserable, and they should be left to their devices.
on equip, the message says "The [weapon] thirsts for blood," and the vampiric effect kicks in fairly slowly as you kill enemies ("The blood of the [enemy] coats the [weapon]"). When you unwield, "The aura of blood disappears from the [weapon]," and you start from 0.
Trog & berserk
Making berserk cause hunger isn't really a meaningful limit on the number of times you 'zerk, as there's more food than enemies that require it unless you're a Spriggan or terrible at Crawl. I'd suggest replacing it with strength draining, especially now that stat drain is on an XP timer. Trog reduces the chance of str drain with higher piety, but it's still a good chance, and you can't berserk if str falls below some threshold (half str?). This can be a really modest str drain; the goal isn't to kill players via stat zero, but to keep players from 'zerking in every encounter.
starvation penalty
The wiki says it exists, but I doubt it ever, ever matters, so just remove it.
Regen increases hunger, but right now that doesn't matter much unless you're wasting a whole lot of time while having less than full HP. I'm inclined to just let this one go. If there needs to be a better limiting factor to regen, it should be covered by the effect itself, and not the hunger cost it levies.
notable species (Sp, Vp, Gh, Mu)
I think no change is really necessary; if Sp would be overpowered in foodless Crawl, they're overpowered right now, and if a nerf is needed, the food conduct isn't really the place. You could, of course, retain fruit for Fedhas and turn Sp into a species that will die without consuming fruit, and then tune that "hunger" level so that the game generates enough fruit for Fedhas & Sp, but that's only if you really want to maintain Sp's status as the "hunger species."
I mean, remove Vp, but if you can't, then simply leave bottling blood alone until someone comes up with a better idea for Vp. The hunger clock on Vp can be calibrated to whatever Vp players think is a good idea, and just ticks down over time. You could always make an (a)bility like "Bite," which lets Vp control their aliveness without "hunger," too.
Just make it Makhleb: The Species, honestly. If it kills things that would give it chunks now, it gets a shot of healing; if it goes too long without killing, it begins to rot away. Again, the rot timer should be balanced around whatever works for Gh.
Mummies really only get screwed on hungerless channeling and casting, which are two major advantages it doesn't get in foodless crawl. If it's thought that they need a buff, they could have some kind of +wiz or something? "Fast channeling"? Whatever, they're mummies and they're supposed to be bad, and most of these changes only increases the degree to which they're relatively bad.
spell hunger
This is probably one of the trickiest things to replace, since I think a substantial number of people feel that this is a meaningful limitation. I think they're often mistaken -- it takes bad play, a bad combo, or terrible RNG to run into a hunger wall with casting -- but it also seems as though people think this is a good limitation.
First, I'd advocate for simply not having spell hunger anymore. MP is a meaningful limitation for the number of spells you can cast at any one time; if it's felt that players can cast too many spells before resting, reduce max MP instead. If the concern is that players are using high-level spells too early, increase the XP required for higher spell levels, or require that players achieve a certain XL to cast spells of a certain level.
However, if people really want a non-MP/XL limit on spellcasting, I would suggest int drain, in a similar fashion to the way berserk causes str drain above. As your spellcasting skill and intelligence gets higher, the chance you get int drained is lower. A staff of energy prevents int drain, while Necromutation moves down to level 6 and has no effect on this draining.
The hunger cost of channeling is virtually meaningless. Strategically, there's more than enough food for any caster to channel regularly for the whole game. Tactically, I find that the limited MP you get from channeling is a lot more impactful than the hunger cost, especially since it's always easy to just scarf down a fast food item.
If channeling doesn't seem overpowered to you right now, it probably doesn't need a replacement limitation in foodless Crawl. If it's overpowered, though, I'd suggest making each channel take longer than a single turn, with high invo/evo levels required to bring it down to 10 aut.
hungry ghosts
Can just go away, thanks.
No abilities really need to cause hunger, as it's not currently a serious limiting factor. If people are worried about players spamming +blink or =tele, you can increase the contam of either. If +Inv spamming is a problem, turn it into an evocable item that goes inert instead.
rods and special staves
Rod hunger (and staff of Dispater hunger, lol) is pointless, and needs no replacement. Rods are fine; I guess evocable hellfire might need to do more HP damage.
If people like the idea of Spriggan as a "hunger species," you could always keep fruit in the game for them and then retain Fedhas' mechanics. I've also heard people suggest that, when you pray over corpses with Fedhas, you occasionally get fruit instead of mushrooms.
I suspect it would be simpler to just make Fedhas run off piety entirely.
mutagenic chunks
I really don't think there needs to be a replacement for this. If people want to play mutation roulette, they can quaff mut pots. If it absolutely can't be lived without, anything that previously provided mutagenic corpses create a mutagenic cloud over their corpse for a few turns after death (with clouds changed to give random mutations, if they currently lean toward bad ones, I guess?). But that's pretty dumb, so, sorry mut roulette lovers.
Dragons/trolls can simply drop these instead of requiring butchering. Easy!
other gods
I'm pretty sure that it's basically just Trog and Fedhas that have to be seriously looked at for foodless Crawl. Ely already basically works off piety instead of hunger, and piety costs can be adjusted for her abilities if removing hunger makes them too spammable. I guess this is also a Zin buff, since now his food conduct doesn't matter, but it's pretty minor. All other abilities that only have MP and hunger costs should probably just have higher MP costs if they're especially spammable.
To put all that another way: if you've played Trunk and you are moderately good at this game, you've basically played foodless Crawl. It just doesn't feel like it, because nearly every action you take in the game has some trivial hunger cost associated with it that nevertheless merits interrupting play.
Most proposals I've read, including the devs' experiment with chunkless, just seek to solve the player-side problems of food. This would be better than what we've got, but it retains all of the mechanics that are difficult to balance without impacting something else. Likewise, I think calls for a tighter hunger clock fail to wrestle with just how many mechanics are tied into hunger; how do you make a clock that affects, say, a MiFi of Oka that never stashes without completely decimating average play with ranged or casting combos? Plus, and this is just my opinion, running out of food is a lame and boring way to kill players; if a clock is desired, there are more interesting things that could be put in place.
All that said, this proposal calls for massive changes, and I'm a well-known idiot who can't write code to save his life. I also totally recognize and respect the fact that food and hunger are quintessential roguelike mechanics, and that several people have good reasons to disagree with going foodless. But I still think it would lead to a better game, overall.
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Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf
Two ice shelves that existed before Canada was settled by Europeans diminished significantly this summer, one nearly disappearing altogether, Canadian scientists say in new research.
The loss is important as a marker of global warming, returning the Canadian Arctic to conditions that date back thousands of years, scientists say. Floating icebergs that have broken free as a result pose a risk to offshore oil facilities and potentially to shipping lanes. The breaking apart of the ice shelves also reduces the environment that supports microbial life and changes the look of Canada's coastline.
Luke Copland is an associate professor in the geography department at the University of Ottawa who co-authored the research. He said the Serson Ice Shelf shrank from 79.15 square miles (205 square kilometers) to two remnant sections three years ago, and was further diminished this past summer.
Copland said the shelf went from a 16-square-mile (42-square-kilometer) floating glacier tongue to 9.65 square miles (25 square kilometers), and the second section from 13.51 square miles (35 square kilometers) to 2 square miles (7 square kilometers), off Ellesmere Island's northern coastline.
This past summer, Ward Hunt Ice Shelf's central area disintegrated into drifting ice masses, leaving two separate ice shelves measuring 87.65 and 28.75 square miles (227 and 74 square kilometers) respectively, reduced from 131.7 square miles (340 square kilometers) the previous year.
"It has dramatically broken apart in two separate areas and there's nothing in between now but water," said Copland.
Copland said those two losses are significant, especially since the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has always been the biggest, the farthest north and the one scientists thought might have been the most stable.
"Recent (ice shelf) loss has been very rapid, and goes hand-in-hand with the rapid sea ice decline we have seen in this decade and the increasing warmth and extensive melt in the Arctic regions," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, remarking on the research.
Copland, who uses satellite imagery and who has conducted field work in the Arctic every May for the past five years, said since the end of July, pieces equaling one and a half times the size of Manhattan Island have broken off. Co-researcher Derek Mueller, an assistant professor at Carleton University's geography and environmental studies department, said the loss this past summer equals up to three billion tons. Copland said their findings have not yet been peer reviewed since the research is new, but a number of scientists contacted by The Associated Press reviewed the findings, agreeing the loss in volume of ice shelves is significant.
Scambos said the loss of the Arctic shelves is significant because they are old and their rapid loss underscores the severity of the warming trend scientists see now relative to past fluctuations such as the Medieval Warm Period or the warmer times in the pre-Current Era (B.C.).
Ice shelves, which began forming at least 4,500 years ago, are much thicker than sea ice, which is typically less than a few feet (meters) thick and survives up to several years.
Canada has the most extensive ice shelves in the Arctic along the northern coast of Ellesmere Island. These floating ice masses are typically 131 feet (40 meters) thick (equivalent to a 10-story building), but can be as much as 328 feet (100 meters) thick. They thickened over time via snow and sea ice accumulation, along with glacier inflow in certain places.
The northern coast of Ellesmere Island contains the last remaining ice shelves in Canada, with an estimated area of 217 square miles (563 square kilometers), Mueller said.
Between 1906 and 1982, there has been a 90 percent reduction in the areal extent of ice shelves along the entire coastline, according to data published by W.F. Vincent at Quebec's Laval University. The former extensive "Ellesmere Island Ice Sheet" was reduced to six smaller, separate ice shelves: Serson, Petersen, Milne, Ayles, Ward Hunt and Markham. In 2005, the Ayles Ice Shelf whittled almost completely away, as did the Markham Ice Shelf in 2008 and the Serson this year.
"The impact is significant and yet only a piece of the ongoing and accelerating response to warming of the Arctic," said Dr. Robert Bindschadler, emeritus scientist at the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Bindschadler said the loss is an indication of another threshold being passed, as well as the likely acceleration of buttressed glaciers able to flow faster into the ocean, which accelerates their contribution to global sea level.
Copland said mean winter temperatures have risen by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade for the past five to six decades on northern Ellesmere Island.
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Wine with Food: Rioja | Pairing Tips
January 30, 2016
Wine with Food: Rioja By Paul Kalemkiarian Sr. | I am writing this on the eve of departing for Spain. I was motivated to the topic by my expectations of the culinary surprises I am looking for, and maybe some discoveries of wines. Spain is best known for its sherry wine. They are in a… read more »


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The Broncos are exploring the possibility of trading Pro Bowl wide receiver Brandon Lloyd as Tuesday's NFL deadline approaches, The Denver Post reported Thursday.
The newspaper, citing three league sources, said three or four teams are believed to be interested in Lloyd and that the Broncos are seeking a third- to fifth-round draft pick in return in talks. The Carolina Panthers and Tennessee Titans reportedly are among the interested teams.
Panthers GM Marty Hurney refuted the report that his team has any interest in Lloyd, telling the Charlotte Observer on Friday that "We've had no trade discussions with any team about any players."
Several factors have prompted the trade possibility, according to the sources, but chief among them is that Lloyd will be a free agent after the season and he and the Broncos aren't believed to be close to a deal.
The Broncos also will regain wide receivers Demaryius Thomas and Eddie Royal from injury after this week's bye. In addition, Denver is expected to become more of a ball-control, run-oriented offense with Tim Tebow replacing Kyle Orton at quarterback.
Lloyd, 30, is being paid $1.395 million this season, a bargain for a receiver who led the league last season with 1,448 yards. He had 77 catches and scored 11 touchdowns.
Lloyd has 19 catches for 283 yards and no touchdowns this season.


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Coca-Cola's latest drink: No can. No bottle. Flavor drops.
Coca-Cola to introduce Dasani fruity flavor drops. Coca-Cola sees huge potential. Next flavor drops: tea?
Coca-Cola's newest drink won't come in a bottle or a can. And people will only need a squirt or two to quench their thirst.
The world's largest beverage company is introducing its Dasani Drops in coming weeks, which can be squeezed into water for some on-the-spot fruity flavor. And Coca-Cola is betting that there's big potential for growth.
"I think there's an opportunity beyond just flavored waters," said John Roddey, vice president of Coca-Cola's water, tea and coffee business in North America.
Although there are no set plans yet, Roddey says the next logical category for liquid drops would be tea. That's because drinks with higher sugar content are harder to turn into a liquid concentrate.
The Coca-Cola Co. isn't the first to come out with flavor drops. The category was pioneered by Kraft Food Inc.'s MiO, which was introduced in March of last year and has quickly spawned copycats, including by supermarkets that sell store-brand versions.
The drops are popular because they come in small, portable containers that can be easily tucked into a purse or even back pocket. And unlike powdered drink packets, people can decide how much or little they want to squirt into their water. A small bottle can also have more than two dozen servings, meaning people save money they'd spend on bottled teas or enhanced waters.
As with Kraft's MiO drinks, Dasani Drops use artificial sweeteners and have zero calories. That could be a concern for consumers who don't like artificial sweeteners, which often have a strong aftertaste.
Now Coca-Cola is preparing to leverage its scale to stake a claim in the category. Roddey says the plan is to make Dasani Drops available wherever its Dasani bottled water is sold, including on supermarket shelves, in checkout aisles or in the refrigerated sections in convenience stores.
"We're looking to make this as broad as we can," he said.
Dasani Drops, which will cost about $4, will start hitting shelves in early October. The company is starting with four flavors, but is already planning to introduce additional flavors next year. Each bottle has about 32 servings.
Without mentioning Kraft's MiO by name, Roddey said Coca-Cola saw the early success other brands had and realized the category had huge potential.
Kraft has said that MiO sales through the first half of the year have more than doubled to more than $100 million. The name means "mine" in Italian, suggesting users can make drinks however they like.
For a beverage giant, however, the introduction of liquid flavor drops is more complicated. Coca-Cola says the drops will boost consumption of water, whether it's tap water or bottled. Ideally, of course, people would use the drops with its Dasani water, which already saw sales volume rise 13 percent in the first half of the year, according to industry tracker Beverage Digest.
Overall consumption of bottled water has also been growing, although at a much slower pace than in the early 2000s, according to Beverage Digest, which reported last week that Coca-Cola planned to introduce the drops.
The drops may hurt Coca-Cola's other units, however. The company also makes enhanced waters, such as Vitaminwater Zero.


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Special Thanks
A special thank you to Laura Crean for three awards. The Sunshine Award, The Versatile Blogger Award and I Am Part of The WordPress Family Award. You can visit Laura's poetry, art and stories at her wordpress site.
Sunshine Award
This award was given to Unbound Boxes Limping Gods by Jasmine Batchellor-Sequeira who has a wonderfully thoughtful and imaginative blog called Tales Through Time Thank you so much, Jasmine.
Now here's the rules.
Post the Sunshine Award image, answer the following 10 questions and note 10 blogs you wish to nominate.
Ten Questions:
1: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? (answer) Probably the South of France by the Mediterranean.
2: What's your favourite time of year? (answer) Any season but winter. I hate the cold and dark days.
3: Which words do you hate most at this moment in time? (answer) Pop and proctor.
4: Which words do you like most at this moment in time? (answer) Wobbly and befuddle.
5: What are your favourite and least favourite terms of expression? (answer) I can't stand idioms, they make me shiver and feel dead inside. I like unexpected phrases that don't quite rhyme or match, but somehow go well together.
6: Which writers/artists/Musicians inspire you most of all? (answer) Toni Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Frida Khalo, John Martin, Tori Amos, Kathe Kollwitz, Ian Banks, Anne Rice, Margaret Attwood.
7: What is your greatest passion? (answer) Writing and illustrating Unbound Boxes Limping Gods.
8: Who do you love most in the world? (answer) My Mum and my son.
9: What's your favourite animal? (answer) cats
10: Where can you be found online, other than wordpress? (answer) Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google +, Pinterest, Readwave, Wattpad. Linkedin, Tumblr, Stumbleupon.
And now to the bloggers I'm giving this Sunshine Award to:
1: From one left handed blogger to another, a truly inspiring blog, gutsy, candid and uplifting. You deserve the Sunshine Award, Bill, for bwthoughts.
2: Eric Alagan has LOadS of awards, because of his versatility as a writer, but I thought I'd offer him one more for his blog Written Words Never Die.
3: I'd also like the Sunshine Award to go to my fellow writer / illustrator F Kenneth Taylor who weaves history and politics so skilfully into his work.
4: Talented graphic designer and fellow writer, Laura B Williams, also deserves The Sunshine Award, for her very informative and creative blog Laura B Williams Designs
5: Gabriela Blandy, for The Sense of A Journey, an imaginative and addictive blog.
6: I'd like to award John Henry Beck for his smart character observations and short stories, at his blog Free Fiction, I write you read, life goes on.
7: For her fantastically entertaining and witty blog, Being The Memoirs of Helena Hann-Basquiat, Dilettante, I've nominated Helena for The Sunshine Award.
8: I'm nominating Apurva Kandicuppa, for the Sunshine award, as she is a very talented artist and writer, for My Experiments With Words.
The Blog Of The Year Award
I am hugely honoured to receive The Blog Of 2012 Award from a truly great blogmaster, John Clinock. John runs an inspiring and amazingly artistic feast of a blog, known as Art Rat Cafe. Thank you so much John! I am also pleased to receive the second award from Joe at I Am For Change, who writes a very positive and refreshing blog. Thank you also to OA Writings Poems, Paintings for the third Blog of The Year Award. Thank you to a very talented artist, Heekeow, for her Blog Of The Year Award. Thank you so much Tarisai Mzwimbi for his Blog of The Year 2012 Award, which gives me my fifth star! Thank you so much Joe. I will now award this to three very deserving recipients, who are all talented and prolific.. Their names will be revealed after the rules.
1. Select another blog or other blogs who deserve the 'blog of the Year 2012' Award.
2. Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there's no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and 'present' them with their award.
3. Please include a link back to this page 'Blog of the Year 2012' Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these 'rules' in your post (please don't alter the rules or the badges!)
4. Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the 'rules' with them.
5. You can now also join our Facebook group – click 'join' on this page 'Blog of the Year 2012' Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience.
6. As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…
7. There are stars to collect! Yes, there are stars to collect! Unlike other awards, which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different! When you begin you will receive the 1 star award, and every time you are given the award by another blog, you can add another star!
8. There are a total of 6 stars to collect. At which time your "badge" will look like this:
You can check out your favourite blogs, and even if someone else has already given them the award, you can still award them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!
Now for my nominations and the criteria for my decision.
I am always impressed by imaginative and prolific work, which captures artistry, and takes me somewhere else. I love escaping into worlds created lovingly by others, whether they be writers, artists or photographers, if they can translate their vision and allow me to go on that journey with them then I think they deserve this award. My nominations are Chantal Boudreau, for Word Blurb, in which she reviews, interviews, and shares her own very prolific writing and stylish illustrations. Chantal has written in many genres, has been published numerous times and is an amazingly talented writer/illustrator. Ren Garcia For The Temple of the Exploding Head, an insight into his imaginative mythology, The League of Elder. Ren has not only written a mind-blowing series in The League, but has ingenious ways of promoting his world, through mixed media, through art and video, through humour and has even had made models of his wonderful characters. Both Chantal and Ren are talented writers, who also have the good fortune of possessing great business heads (something I lack personally) They also have in common with my third nominee the 'need' to create as if it is intrinsic to their life. Finally but certainly not lastly, Richard Guest for The Future is Papier Mache, in which he takes stunning photography of people in the city around him, capturing moments with them, translating moods and feelings, sharing many real life 'characters' with his viewer. I have become captivated by his work. He has a great rapport with his subjects, which shows in his photography. Richard cares about the people and places he photographs and tells us about them. Because of this his reader/viewer becomes engrossed in his work.
The Imagineer Award
Thank you to Steve K Smy for nominating Unbound Boxes Limping Gods for his Imagineer blog award! You can visit Steve's site Imagineer-ing and adventure in e-books, here.
The Very Inspiring Blog Award
Thank you to Shehanne Moore, for nominating me for this award. Thank you to Rebecca Bond for her Very Inspiring Blog Award. Thanks to Word Wabbit, for their Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Laird William and Lady Glyn of Glencoe for their Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Michael Sheridan for nominating my blog for this Very Inspiring Blog Award. Thank you also to Allison Boroda, for This Very Inspiring Blog Award and to Russell Boyle, from Boyle Poetry for his award nomination and Chandra Lynn for her nomination. Thanks to Joe from I am for change, for his award. You can visit her blog at ChandraLynn.wordpress.com. Thanks to Motivational Talks for this award. Here are the rules.
1. Display the award logo on your blog.
2. Link back to the person who nominated you. You can visit Michael's blog here at bakersfieldlad.wordpress.com. You can visit Allison's blog Sandbag Heart, here
3. State 7 thing about yourself.
(1) I spend most of my free time writing and illustrating
(2) I sleep in the lounge on a 1940's army camp bed (used to be my grandfather's, he'd be so proud…)
(3) I have 4 cats
(4) I wanted to be a marine photographer
(5) As a child, strangers thought I was a boy called Gerald
(6) I'm pescatarian
(7) One night, Katherine De Somme materialised in front of me (briefly) dispelling my belief I imagined her.
4. Nominate other blogs for the Very inspiring blog award and tell them you've nominated them.
(1) Bwthoughts
(2) Art Rat Cafe
(3) Avenues
(4) The Future Is Papier Mâché
(7) The daily blog of Judy Morris
(8) Mark's Studio
(9) Beachmount's Writing Corner
Wonderful Team Member Readership Award
I am very honoured to be nominated by Art Rat Cafe. Thank you John Clinock.
1. The nominee of the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award shall display the logo on his/her post/page and/or sidebar
2. The nominee shall nominate 10 readers they appreciate over a period of 7 days. This can be done at any rate during the week. It can be all on one day or a few on one day and a few on another day etc.
3. The nominee must finish this sentence and post: "A great reader is.."
PLEASE NOTE RULES CAN BE ADDED TO/AMENDED if deemed appropriate; let's be creative, and let's grow & improve, but let's also keep to the spirit of the award
My nominees are:
1: Michele Dacosta, (museum of documentary and fiction) for her inspirational documentary work, overseas.
2: The Amateur's Quill, by Tebogo Ndlovu. Philosophical and poetic, and in her own words; "the phenomenon that we make an impact on the people around us, creating experiences that mold our characters and change our lives adversely or favorably."
3: Nathan Filbert for his beautifully crafted blog exploring language and art. Man of The World.
4: Just A Thought Inside My Head, for a very intimate and artistic peeling back of layers.
5: Lesley Carter, for her ultra adventurous travel blog, making the real world look fun! Bucket List Publications
6: Michael D Woods, Writer and artist. Pest Control Technician.
7: Falling Short of the Absolute Truth is an experiment in story telling.
8: Afternoon Tea, short stories by Darla McDavid.
9: Beautifully written poetry, by Julia Dean-Richards, at A Place For Poetry.
10: Pfugler, mythology and folk law from around our galaxy. Some unusual and creative short films by Cynthia Echterling.
A great reader is… open minded enough to explore new concepts, to recognise themselves in what they read, even if momentarily. Empathy and imagination allows us to place ourselves in the lives of others. Emotion, conjured by a fictional catalyst, can only work if the reader relates to and empathises with the characters. The writer is just a conduit, it's the reader who breathes life into what he or she reads.
The Addictive Blog Award
I was very pleased to receive this award from Sonya Glyn Nicholson who writes an inspirational blog called Ironically: Rare, Acts & Deeds of the Style Prowess.
To accept, I must post the awards on this page, tell who sent the awards, write about why I blog and then recommend others (up to 10) and notify them that they have been awarded.
The reason I write.
Since an early age I've never really felt part of the real world. Although I am interested in real people, I feel somewhat disconnected for large intervals. I felt my body and my self didn't quite belong together, because I wanted to be treated the same way as my brother, but society and nature derailed this delusion. As a child I used to face this inability to be part of a 'group' by becoming different people inside my head, by placing myself into the role of someone I was more comfortable being. Children do this a lot, but for some reason I never quite grew out of this phase. I didn't start my first short story until the age of twelve, but found comfort in writing. It enabled me to express myself in ways that eluded (and still elude) me in real life. This mutated into other reasons through time, with my father's death and all the inevitable questions that occur as a result of attempting to accept something so final. Hope springs from grief, along with many other conflicting emotions, which become fictional cocktails, mixed to create new lives, lived far away from the grimness of something so painful. I learnt to take parts of the real world and place them safely into new people, fashioned from everything and everyone who has had an impact on me in reality. Without this cushion I would be nothing, I would be reduced to feeling inadequately trapped inside the body which didn't fit me as a child. The best thing I've done in reality, is to have created a real son, but in fiction I can create whole worlds, become anything I dream and share that with others in ways my clunky socially inept self couldn't possibly pull off in reality.
Now here are 10 very addictive blogs:
1: Deidra Alexander's Blog. In her own words, "I have people to kill, lives to ruin, plagues to bring, and worlds to destroy. I am not the Angel of Death. I'm a fiction writer."
2: Welcome to The Asylum, by the very talented J.S Chancellor
3: Word Blurb, by Chantal Boudreau, a prolific artist, writer and reviewer.
One Lovely Blog Award
Thank you to Michele Dacosta, (museum of documentary and fiction) who has one of the most inspirational blogs on wordpress; for the photographic and documentary work she produces overseas in troubled countries. I'm honoured to receive the One Lovely Blog Award from her! Thanks also to Tina and Caroline for The One Lovely Blog Award. You can visit their website, A Readers Review Blog, here. Thanks to Mary Myers for The One Lovely Blog Award. Thanks also to Gabriel for the One Lovely Blog Award to, Paharidotme at Discovering myself, and to Tebogo Ndlovu for the One Lovely Blog Award too! Thanks to Steven L Campbell for the One Lovely Blogger Award, and to Sage Doyle for the One Lovely Blog Award and Christopher at Reality Enchanted for his One Lovely Blog Award
Now for "The Rules." Anyone nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award must do the following to keep this unique prize rolling:
- Thank the person who nominated you and link to them in your post.
- Share seven unknown things about yourself.
- Nominate other bloggers and blogs you like or admire… 15 or so if possible.
- Contact the bloggers you nominate to let them know and to link them back to your post so they can read "The Rules," too.
The second "rule" demands that I share seven unknown things about myself, which will not be easy.
Here are the seven.
1. When I was young I thought I was a boy.
2. I still secretly believe I'll meet my characters one day, as they are as real as living people to me
3. I get on better with 'loners' than large groups
4. I used to have a big crush on Glynis Barber (Makepeace)
5. I prefer cats to dogs
6. My family are more important to me than most other things apart from writing and drawing
7. I'm generally quite a confused human being
Now here are the people who I believe deserve to get my vote for One Lovely Blog Award (If I could nominate Michele Dacosta as well, I would!)
1. My good friend Chantal Boudreau for her prolific writing, artwork and reviews.
2. The Unknown Phlogger for some beautiful art photography, poetry and writing
3. The Temple of The Exploding Head, by the very funny and talented Ren Garcia
4. My amazing son, Sam (12) for his ambitious and imaginative poetry
5. Welcome To The Asylum, by J.S Chancellor
6. Appropriately Frayed, by Unsouthern Belle
7. Living In Fairyland, An etiquette guide for sl!!s
8. The Future is Papier Mache by Richard Guest
9. Art Rat Cafe by John Clinock
10. Anelephantcant
12. Steven Leo Campbell, creating new worlds
13. If writing was a child's play
14. Flying over a forest, LC Aisling
15. Nonoy Manga
I discovered today that I have won the Reader Appreciation Award after being nominated by Steven Leo Campbell. This is my first award for blogging, and I'm intrigued that it's a reader appreciation one. I don't know who created the award, but I'm glad to see that Steven was a recipient too.
The Lovely Blog Award, from Elisabeth Berg please visit Elisabeth's blog here elisabethberg.wordpress.com
Thank you to Living In Fairyland for this sunshine award!
Thank you Anelephantcant for this award!
Thank you, Julia at A Place For Poetry
Thank you to One Lovely Blogger award on Talking Tosh by Christopher Farley
Thank you to LC Aisling for the sunshine award
Thank you to Jofelyn at Sleepy Tales and Lucid Dreams
Thanks to F Kenneth Taylor for The Next Big Thing Award. Check out his blog here.
Reviews and interviews
The Thiessen Review by Katharine Griffifths (Interview with me)
The Blurb on other people's words Cheryl Moore: Writer / Artist by Chantal Boudreau
Book Reader's Heaven, interview part 1 with Cheryl Moore by Glenda Bixler
Book Reader's Heaven, interview part 2 with Cheryl Moore by Glenda Bixler
Encountering Cheryl Moore, Her art, her words, a review by Glenda Bixler
Links to friends on wordpress and elsewhere
Word Blurb, by Chantal Boudreau
If writing was child's play by LC Aisling
The American Book of Changes, by Ien Nivens
Diabetic Redemption by Judith Atwood
We Like Humans by Cynthia Echterling
The Temple of The Exploding Head by Ren Garcia
The Future is Papier Mache by Richard Guest
Welcome To The Asylum, by J. S Chancellor
Jasilandia Underground, By Jasmine B Brennan
Justine Hedman, Artist, Writer