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How close do you pay attention to the language that an author uses to weave together his or her story? Enough to catch every idiosyncrasy? Freelance writer and aspiring author Corey Mallonee has John Bellairs – and Lewis Barnavelt especially – to thank for making him a reader and it's Mallonee's reflections on John's use of language that brought him to our attention. Originally from Bangor, Maine, a smallish town not entirely unlike New Zebedee, though with considerably fewer evil warlocks to its history (he's never run up against any of the Windrow clan to our knowledge), Mallonee has been an accidental sports reporter, worked in the book publishing industry, and currently lives in upstate New York.
Q: Tell us about your first encounter with John's books?
A: I think I was in fourth grade, which would have made it 1994 or so. I have very distinct memories of that Edward Gorey cover of The House with a Clock in its Walls; at least one of my friends was reading it, and I have the impression that quite a few were, so it's possible it was assigned reading.
In any case, even at age nine I was apparently attracted to weird, creepy things, and there was no turning back for me. My parents, always very encouraging of reading, bought me some of his books, and I have fond memories of checking out every one I could find from the public library. Except The Trolley to Yesterday, because time travel sounded boring.
Q: You recently wrote a nice piece on Bellairs' use of language, notably in The Face in the Frost. Was this language something that attracted you to his storytelling? Of all his writings, what is your all-time favorite passage?
A: Definitely as an older reader, yes. When I was in college I started rereading a lot of books that I'd read as a kid, and just in general started re-exploring children's literature. At some point in there, I read Clock and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was every bit as good as I remembered, and actually very sophisticated thematically.
Around that time I discovered that Bellairs had written an adult fantasy novel with the very Bellairsian title The Face in the Frost. Happily, my university library had a copy. It's so short that I read it in one sitting, and I was just blown away by it. The writing in Clock is very good, but the voice is so much younger, and the plot so much more complex in just about the same amount of space, that there's not as much room for the kind of language and scene-setting that Frost does, though there are certainly some fantastic passages, like the eclipse scene.
As for my favorite passage, there are many great ones in Frost - Five Dials comes to mind - but it's probably the first one I wrote about:
Around six o'clock, a dark greenish storm-twilight descended, though the sun was not due to set for two hours. Prospero got up and walked out the back door into this unnatural dusk; in the yard behind the house no birds could be seen or heard; the leaves of the trees hung like carved ornaments; and even the splashing of the fountain was strangely muted. The slates of the roof were a flat gray, and the thick-piled clouds seemed to press down on the turreted house.
Not only is that a beautiful bit of writing, but the moment when I realized what, exactly he was doing - when I realized just how precisely he chose the language he used - was like the moment when you finally solve a puzzle that's been frustrating you, or when something blurry suddenly snaps into focus. I felt like I was inside his head for a moment, like he was speaking directly to me as a reader. It was one of those formative realizations as a writer. Almost an epiphany.
There's also some stuff in The Dolphin Cross - mostly having to do with the Bishop, which as you mentioned to me is one of Bellairs's more disturbing villains - that's really strong. (Everything with the leaves, the Bishop's table settings, the fishes…) More on that book in a bit.
Q: You also mentioned his "evolution as an author" in your piece, plus the opinion that his later books becoming somewhat formulaic. Do you feel these later books diminish his legacy in anyway? What do you feel is the pinnacle of his career? Low point?
A: Well, I think I should clarify what I meant, exactly, to try and assuage the hordes of angry Johnny Dixon fans as they sharpen their pitchforks and soak their torches in kerosene; but before I do that I will say, in answer to the first question, no, definitely not. I mean, he produced a couple of phenomenal books and a lot of very, very good ones. Based on Frost and Clock alone I think his legacy is pretty secure. He was a genius, and one who's largely underappreciated.
Anyhow, formulaic probably wasn't exactly the right word to use, but I do think that his later books lack something that his very early work has. There's a temptation to just say 'oh, he started writing children's books' but I think that's a copout and, as someone who a) loves children's fiction, b) briefly worked in the children's editorial trenches, and c) wants to write children's fiction, I vehemently disagree that children's books are inherently less sophisticated or worthy than books marketed to adults.
But let's look at Clock, which is such a bizarre little book, and in my opinion, to answer your second question, his best.
Thinking about Clock, and what I like about it, I think conventional is probably a better word than formulaic. The Johnny Dixon books - which I love - are more typically Gothic horror, I think, than Clock. They have the Catholicism, evil magical objects, demonic presences, that sort of thing. Whereas Clock, while it uses some of the same kinds of images to great effect, is at its core just really, really weird.
The thing that always strikes me is the poker game at the end, where Lewis makes up nonsense rules as a way of creating a magical ritual whole cloth. It's brilliant, and it's so beautifully absurd, but you don't really see anything like it in any of his later books, and especially not once he abandoned Lewis Barnavelt for so long. That kind of humor, so present in The Face in the Frost and in St. Fidgeta and The Pedant and the Shuffly, just fades away. I mean, Professor Childermass is funny, for sure, but he's funny in kind of a more conventional way. That sort of absurdist, madcap sense of humor is one of the things that I think really defines his early work - even Isaac Izard's plan is delightfully bizarre, and the reason he failed in the first place is kind of hilarious - and I wish it hadn't disappeared. When you look at Clock side by side with his later stuff I think the difference is really apparent.
My suspicion, also, based on reading about his childhood here on Bellairsia, and on Ellen Kushner's account of her correspondence with him in Magic Mirrors, is that, out of Lewis, Johnny, and Anthony, Lewis is the closest to Bellairs himself. (I have no trouble believing that a young John Bellairs would have sat awake at night reading John L. Stoddard, for example.)
And there's something really personal about all of the supernatural stuff that happens in Clock, and thematically like I said earlier it's really tight. I mean, Lewis is this lonely kid who's just lost his parents and moved to a new town to live with someone he's never met before. And of course he's bookish and nerdy and overweight and probably has trouble making friends even in the best of circumstances. And everything that happens in the book is driven by his loneliness and, even though it's not addressed directly, his parents dying: he accidentally resurrects Selenna Izard because he's desperate to keep Tarby as a friend, even though their friendship is obviously, heart-breakingly doomed from the beginning. And then he doesn't tell Uncle Jonathan what he did because he's afraid Jonathan will send him away, and Jonathan's the only family he has left.
Basically, I think that gradually the supernatural stuff becomes more external, and so later books don't have the same emotional weight that the early ones do. And like I said, I also think that offbeat weirdness that shows up so much in his early stuff largely disappears after Clock and especially after Bellairs abandons Lewis Barnavelt.
Really, what I wish is that he hadn't been constrained by financial necessity, and that the market for fantasy in the '70s and '80s was what it is now in the post-Harry Potter world. Because lord, I would have loved to read a completed The Dolphin Cross. The introduction to The Dolphin Cross in the NESFA collection is really great, and it has this absolutely heartbreaking observation where Kushner mentions that Bellairs abandoned the book because his children's writing was how he made his living and he felt like that was where his focus needed to be. It's such a shame he had to do that; and I also wonder if some of the decline I've been talking about had to do, on some level, with him writing things he felt he had to write rather than things he wanted to write.
Also, on an unrelated note, I'd love to read the early draft of Clock that he was shopping around, before it was cut down so much and before he turned it into a children's book.
Q: Would you happen to have a fond memory involving his stories you'd like to share?
A: This isn't fond, exactly, but I can certainly look back and laugh at it now: The Drum, The Doll, and the Zombie scared the pants off me when I was a kid. I remember basically being afraid of the dark for at least a couple months afterward, and I have one extremely vivid memory associated with that:
My parents had taken me to a symphony performance one night. It was in this big auditorium with rows and rows of deep red velvet seats. We always sat in the balcony, which, being far away from the stage, felt very dark and isolated. Now, at age ten, I was not much interested in the symphony. And so whenever we went - which, to my memory, was fairly often - my mind would wander.
There's a point in Zombie where Johnny literally says something along the lines of "Look out, professor! There's a zombie behind you!" And for some reason I started thinking about that, and how the zombie in that book was basically indestructible, and how the climax of the story hinged on an unathletic boy managing to hit someone in the face with a snowball, which seemed tremendously lucky; and I became deathly afraid that there was a zombie in the auditorium, stalking me among the rows of seats. I spent the rest of the concert sweating and terrified, convinced it was about to appear behind me.
That one was another one that I reread not long ago, trying to dissect it and figure out why it scared me when I was younger, because it's the only book I've ever read that outright frightened me like that. And I think the reason it was so successful is that Brad Strickland, like Bellairs, understands how to play with those little irrational everyday fears––like, what if there's someone lurking in a dark basement? (Answer: YES THERE IS AND IT'S A ZOMBIE.) And there are all these eerie details, like how the zombie is controlled by a flute, and so there's always music playing when it's around, that really stuck with me.
The other cool thing about that book, which obviously went way over my head as a kid, is that Strickland appears to basically be writing an HP Lovecraft story. The New England setting is similar, obviously, and but more to the point, the villains are a cult that's straight out of Lovecraft. (There's also an explicit reference when Professor Childermass consults a colleague at Miskatonik University, raising the glorious possibility that he, Johnny, and Fergie might tangle with a shoggoth at some point.)
Of course, Lovecraftian cults bring their own rather heavy baggage, what with the racism and all; and so Strickland has cleverly inverted things, made the cult the descendants of white Haitian slave owners who have stolen and perverted various religious traditions, and turned the whole story into a metaphor for cultural appropriation.
Q: You mention your own writings – would you care to share anything about those endeavors?
A: Well, there's not much to tell right now; suffice to say I'm in the 'aspiring' phase of authorship at the moment. I've been working on something for the past couple years that, if all goes well, I'll be ready to send out onto the wild by this summer, and if I'm very, very lucky find an agent. So we'll see how that goes. I have a few other things that I'm working on as well although those are much farther from completion. Hopefully I'll come to an end of the 'toiling in obscurity' phase sooner rather than later.
Bellairs is definitely a huge influence though, both in terms of the kind of tight-yet-complex book that Clock is, and that I want to write (/have tried to write); and also in terms of aesthetics, though I'm not writing horror per se.
I also do freelance work for some local companies, and some sports writing.
Q: What other author(s)/book(s) would you recommend to a Bellairs fan?
A: Neil Gaiman's Coraline: this one, about a girl in an old house who discovers a passageway leading to a parallel house where different versions of her parents live, probably needs no introduction. It's more fairy-tale-ish than any of Mr. Bellairs's work, but it is extremely creepy and has a really goofy sense of humor. It also has the distinction of being the subject of one of the best children's-book-to-movie adaptations ever made. Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is also very, very good.
The Owl Service, Alan Garner: a really weird little book about a girl who finds a set of owl-patterned plates, pulling her, her stepbrother, and another boy into replaying a sequence of deadly, ancient events. Stylistically this one's pretty distinct, too - it's told almost entirely through dialogue, which makes it almost feel like reading a play at times. Garner's other work is well worth checking out, too. The Weirdstone of Brisingamon and its sequel are great.
On the adult side of things, Bellairs always reminds me of Chesterton. Part of that obviously is the Catholicism, but they both write with a similarly eerie sense of place. Chesterton's ability to build mood from setting is unparalleled, and if I were a betting man I'd guess his work was a pretty big influence on Bellairs. The Man Who Was Thursday is a fever-dream of a book, and I quite enjoy the Father Brown detective stories as well. A word about those stories: they are basically religious polemics, with each story addressing a particular strain of scientific thought or Christianity that Chesterton found disagreeable, so if that's not your thing you might not have much patience for them. He also at times indulges in really ugly racism that, though it was endemic to the time, is nonetheless disappointing and off putting. (You can safely skip "The God of the Gongs" for this reason, although it's pretty weak as a mystery story, too.)
Finally, I've found that so-called 'weird fiction' in general, and Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris series in particular, hits a lot of the same buttons that Bellairs does.
Q: Compleat this sentence: you know you've read too much John Bellairs when –
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Especially with the senior bye round, my attention this weekend is turning to our semi-final v Aspley, who knocked out the reigning premiers, NT Thunder, this weekend (and who beat us in the GF in 2014). I hope to make it out to Blacktown this Saturday to see the match. And, ugg, I am impatient for your usual peerless match preview. If we make the GF next weekend, I will try and make it to that too if I'm in Sydney.
Which of the senior team are eligible to play? Can we assume that if a senior player is selected they are not in the frame for selection for the senior team's QF? Is it likely that either Marsh or Cunningham or both or neither would play? I'm guessing neither will play, although might Swampy need to keep building his match fitness? What about Towers? Will any or all of Robbo, Abe, Sinclair and Zak Jones be available to play and try and build some match fitness in the hope they may yet sneak (back) into the senior side this year? What about Talia? He didn't play our last reserves match, did he? If Naismith gets suspended will they hold Nankervis back?
Here's hoping we can avenge our 2014 after-the-siren loss against the Hornets!
On a side note, it's interesting how many of our players from that team have moved on to senior footy both with the Swans (Heeney, Hewett, Mills, Marsh, Mitchell, Jones, Naismith, Richards etc.) and elsewhere (Biggs, Membrey). I wonder if so many of the current team will have progressed in the next two years? Newman? O'Riordan? Foote? Dawson? Leonardis? Murray? And I wonder how many of those will be for other teams? It's sad to lose good players. Conversely BJ and Hiscox are currently stuck in the reserves. Where will they be in 2 more years?

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So Salala people I have an updated #wishlist that I need to share with all of you !!
Both items that I really want are pink and from ZARA.
This lovely cropped jacket will be amazing with anything highwaisted(jeans,shorts,skirts etc.)
For example, highwaisted black jeans , white blouse and black leather booties. Or even better,a crop top with white highwaisted skirt plus killer pointed heels for a night out.
Now what not to love in this shoes . They are t-bar, pointed plus pink .Three trends all at once !! They will look perfect with straight cut, ankle-length pants.
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The Looking Glass.
A Short Story
She was living her life she thought just to make her self happy.Playing what she thought was the game of life.She gather her things together as always for her day,and as she kissed her children and sent them off for school.Turning to give her husband a hug.
She presedes on to her car and starts off to work.She handles all the bosses duties for the day with a smile and no complaints.Not destracted at all by anything outside of her looking glass; you see she knew they were waiting for her at home. As the day end she returns home to the joyful sounds of her children for dinner and conversation.Watching herself in each one of them.It brought joy to her heart.Looking through her looking glass.
Years pass and as the children grew she tells them that her life is not complete until she has complete their life; through the molding of a mother. She tells them that she's been looking through the looking glass of life and that she want to share this looking glass with them as well.
Well as they all start their own life of completeness they to will have a looking glass to address each day with their children.They will share the same smiles of remmebrance of themselves.
Even today she still looks through the looking glass but with a greater depth. It's not about her at all you see, But about the ones that are in her life.
She looks in at the looking glass and see dimension of her life before and after so great and grand.She now have Grandchildren Wow what a greater looking glass to see herself in again.
(c)2009 Sharon Smith
Very well said and with so much depth. I like your style. I plan to read more of your hubs. (smile)
Swiftlyclean, Beautiful! Thank you for sharing, Blessings!
So intricately written and it is amazing how we can see into the looking glass to reflect once more, I found this on the feed and I am certainly glad I did. :)
Just met you today. Now you pop up here. Wondering how this hubfeed works.


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I have an aluminum mold made by Accurate. It's a very nice mold, but I have found that the needed casting pace is faster than I'm comfortable with.
I want to try a different material next time. Next mold I order is going to be a 147gr 9mm mold, and I'm trying to decide between brass and iron. Brass strikes me as fragile; it easily tins and warps. Iron/steel seems like a better choice, with the exception that they rust.
To mitigate rust issues, would I be OK storing an iron mold in an ammo can with dessicant in it? Aside from that, what kind of casting pace could I expect to need to maintain with a 4 cavity iron mold? I found that aluminum makes me go faster than I want; I suspect brass would about fit my pace, but there are too many horror stories of warpage and tinning for me to be excited about them, unless someone can convince me otherwise. A good 10 seconds between casts is my comfort zone, FWIW. I will probably get a 4 cavity mold...the weight should be good for me
Getting it out up front, I do not have a hot plate for preheating molds, also no access to any metal coffee cans (which aren't made anymore) to create a makeshift preheating oven. I have no intention of buying one either, because I already can't keep all my tools organized nicely on my workbench, so no additions are going to be made. Any preheating I do is going to be done by dipping the corner of the mold in the melted lead, or not at all and just go straight to casting to get the mold up to temperature. My perception is that brass molds don't react well to this sort of treatment whereas Aluminum and Iron really don't care.


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Dr. Gitelman at UCSF has started a Phase-II human trial aimed at using ATG to cure (or lessen) type-1 diabetes. The goal of this study is to preserve remaining beta cells for people within 100 days from diagnosis. This study started in August 2007, and is expected to run until June 2011. So far it has enrolled 11 out of an expected 66 patients. It's a four day treatment (in hospital), and 12 follow up visits over a 2 year period. They are recruiting at a total of 9 sites (growing to 13), which are listed in the clinical trial page linked below.
Here is a quick summary of how they hope ATG (Thymoglobulin) will work:
Type 1 diabetes is caused by destruction of insulin-producing beta cells by T cells, part of the immune system. Thymoglobulin is a mixture of different antibodies that target T cells. This mixture includes the anti-CD3 antibody (and anti-CD3 treatments are in Phase-III trials already, having completed successful Phase-I and II trials). The researchers hope that this multi-faceted approach will be even more successful and have a longer lasting effect than with anti-CD3 alone, and may treat diabetes by several mechanisms. First, it lowers the number of T cells, so there are fewer to attack the beta cells. It also seems to alter the T cells remaining behind, rendering them less likely to be destructive. Following this depletion, the T cells that grow back in the following weeks may be reset and have a healthier balance (meaning that a special type of T cells, called regulatory T cells, will help keep the destructive T cells in check).
Using ATG to cure type-1 diabetes is an idea that flows from two sources. The first source is a line of clinical trials aimed directly at curing type-1 with ATG. Eisenbarth's work of long ago, a Phase-I trial done in Europe, etc. But it also has another source, which is Burt's Brazilian research as described below.
Discussion: How to Follow Up Burt?
One of the questions that I'm occasionally asked is this: when will there be a follow up to Burt's Brazilian research? When will there be a Burt, phase-II? This is a natural question, because Burt has -- by far -- the best results of any one. Many patients on that trial went years without using external insulin. No other study comes close. So an obvious question is: how do you move forward with that research.
Burt's research is the opposite of most. Most researchers use the smallest possible doses during phase-I. Phase-I is targeted at safety, so they use small doses to assure safety even at the expense of effectiveness. So for most studies, for phase-II studies, they move forward by raising the dose to try to make a safe treatment a more effective one. But Burt's research is the opposite. The effectiveness is the strongest yet, but there are real questions about safety. So you would NOT follow it up by raising the doses!
One way to follow up Burt's relative success, is by turning down the dose. Trade off a little effectiveness for added safety. Oversimplified a little: Burt's research involves using three drugs (ATG, GCSF, and cyclophosphamide), and reinjecting the patient's own precursor bone marrow cells (previously removed). Dosing with just ATG can be viewed as a "kinder, gentler" Burt. Especially since the cyclophosphamide is the most risky drug of the bunch. (I'll be posting on two GCSF clinical trials in the coming weeks.)
Since I'm a software engineer, I'll use a software analogy: Burt is doing a "hard reboot", Gitelman is trying for a "soft reboot".
One of the complexities of following the research, is that ATG is referred to by many different names by different groups. For example: Thymoglobulin, rATG, hATG, ATGAM, antithymocyte globulin, etc.
The cells that Burt is removing and then reinjecting are sometimes called "precursor bone marrow cells" and other times "adult stem cells".
The lead investigator for this clinical trial is Dr. Gitelman at UCSF. For those of you at Bearskin Meadows: yes, this is the same "Dr. Steve" who is often up there. I'm indebted to Dr. Gitelman for his insights into Burt's research and how it relates to other research, including his own. All mistakes, opinions, and oversimplifications are my own.
Patient oriented information on this trial:
Previous Blog postings on this
http://cureresearch4type1diabetes.blogspot.com/search/label/ATG (blog on ATG)
http://cureresearch4type1diabetes.blogspot.com/search/label/Burt (blog on Burt)
http://cureresearch4type1diabetes.blogspot.com/search/label/Gitelman (blog on Gitelman)
Web pages (but these need updating):
http://joshualevy.pbworks.com/DiabetesCureReadyForHumanTrials#ThymoglobulinalsoknownasATGbyGitelman (Gitelman)
http://joshualevy.pbworks.com/DiabetesCureReadyForHumanTrials#ATGandothersbyBurtatUniversityofSaoPaulo (Burt)
Clinical Trial records for this study:
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00515099 (Phase-II ATG)
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00190502 (Phase-I ATG)
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00315133 (Burt)
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The latest employment report showed signs of hiring slowing down as the nonfarrm payrolls number fell short of analysts' expectations while the unemployment rate managed to tick a bit lower.
Inside the August 2014 Jobs Report
The latest employment report showed the U.S. economy added 142,000 jobs in the month of August, falling short of the projected 228,000 figure. Furthermore, this data release is the first one to come in below the 200,000 mark since January of this year.
Digging deeper, it appears that the slowdown in hiring was largely attributed to a decline in jobs in the retail and auto sectors, which shed 8,000 and 5,000 jobs respectively. Sectors that saw an increase in payrolls were health care, construction, and restaurants.
The unemployment rate ticked lower from 6.2% previously to 6.1%. While this would otherwise be seen as a positive if coupled with a strong payrolls gain, it's evident that this metric inched lower because the labor force participation rate itself dropped; in other words, the unemployment rate decreased because more Americans dropped out of the labor force.
Lastly, average hourly wages increased by 0.2%, bringing their one-year growth rate up to 2.1%.
Mutual Funds on Watch: Small Cap Blend
The table below highlights some of the biggest and best performing mutual funds that offer exposure to domestic small cap stocks.
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Glenmede Small Cap Equity Portfolio
AMG Managers Skyline Special Equities Fund
DFA Tax Managed U.S. Small Cap Portfolio
Fidelity Small Cap Discovery Fund
Small Cap indexes are broadly trading lower following the August jobs report. The well-known Russell 2000 Index is down 0.31% at the time of writing, while its large-cap counterpart, the S&P 500 Index, is down 0.25%.
In the current environment, this asset class is regarded as a better gauge for hiring activity on the home front since smaller companies are more hesitant to expand operations and reinvest profits; large cap companies on the other hand are mature and more concerned about profit margins than growth, which why they are still considered to be in "doing more with less" mode.
As such, given the strong link between the health of the domestic economy and smaller size companies, we're watching this asset class and related funds to get a better sense of the pace of the labor market recovery.
The Bottom Line
Small cap stocks are generally riskier than their large cap counterparts for a number of reasons, the key ones being the difference in scale of operations, greater sensitivity to local conditions, as well as their ability to procure financing when needed.
On the other hand, this asset class stands to offer more lucrative growth potential since these companies have yet to saturate their respective markets. Small caps should make up a portion of your overall portfolio, depending on your risk tolerance, given their ability to improve risk-adjusted returns over a long-term investment horizon.


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Author and friend Schevus Osborne is having a giveaway and is running a flash fiction ghost story contest on his blog. Check it out!
Ok, so maybe it's not quite that exciting, but I am offering up two free kindle copies of Spirits of St. Louis: Missouri Ghost Stories and 100 Worlds: Lightning-Quick SF and Fantasy Tales.
If you would like to enter to win, just leave a comment on this post to earn one entry. In the spirit of both books, I am also adding a further incentive. For one additional bonus entry, include in your comment a 100 word (exact) ghost story. I would like to compile these after the contest and present them together in another post to showcase everyone's work, so leave a pen name and / or website for attribution. Submission of a story means you agree to one-time, non-exclusive electronic rights for me to publish your story on my blog only. You will retain all other rights.
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Elizabeth Woodcraft recommended Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, a novel rich in Caribbean folklore and tradition and post-colonial identity politics.
Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, another of my favourites, along with The Kiterunner, was recommended by Guy Blythman. Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate.


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The dominance of the state bars in legal ethics constricts the profession's ethical vision. State-bar moralism misdirects legal ethics toward enforcing compliance with judges and trivializes legal ethics with over-concern with negligent misappropriation. kanBARoo court will also explore the broader ethical horizons.
Ethical irresponsibility's first face is state-bar indifference to ethical problems bar prosecutors inflict on the profession; the California State Bar is heedless of the ethical morass suspensions produce after the attorney resumes practice. Attorneys disciplined for disobedience to court orders face bias from judges and harassment by opponents who bring the former respondent's State Bar record to the court's attention to support their sanctions' motions.
The State Bar has avoided noting the repercussions of its own operation, where an attorney's client can easily suffer prejudice or loss of confidence in attorney because of prejudice's scent. A client has little reason to anticipate that one consequence of attorney selection is judicial bias the legal apparatus blithely creates; a client legitimately expects that the legal system will strive to avoid prejudicing itself! Judges have so strong an interest in managing attorneys who have troubled the courts that protecting system integrity requires barring judges from accessing disciplinary information without cause.
Opposing a sanctions motion alleging a frivolous filing intended to harass is a serious matter for a previously disciplined attorney, as the former culpability will aggravate the offense. When the motion incorporates Bar-discipline history, the court should presume the mover's intent to threaten, this intent violating Rules of Professional Conduct, rule 5 – 100, barring Members from threatening State Bar action to secure civil-litigation ends:
A member shall not threaten to present criminal, administrative, or disciplinary charges to obtain an advantage in a civil dispute.
The State Bar would never consider applying rule 5 – 100 to punish harassing motions invoking prior-discipline records, and the litigation privilege precludes relief through civil procedure. (See Civ. Code, § 47.) The best immediate response to such harassment is to move for sanctions against the maker of the sanctions motion under the same code section. (See Code Civ. Proc., § 128.7.)


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Caitlyn Jenner & Laverne Cox attack President Trump over transgender military ban
Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner have attacked U.S. leader Donald Trump for banning transgender people from the U.S. military.
Many Hollywood stars have already reacted to the President's latest decision and now America's most high-profile transgender women have added their outrage to the new ban.
Republican Jenner, who voted for Trump at the general election last year (17), admits she's stunned by his latest policy declaration, which was released as a tweet on Wednesday (26Jul17).
She also turned to Twitter to rebuke Trump, writing: "There are 15,000 patriotic transgender Americans in the US military fighting for all of us. What happened to your promise to fight for them?"
Meanwhile, Orange is the New Black star Cox added: "I have met many transgender Americans... who have served or are currently serving our country in the military. I have heard from them humiliating stories of being misgendered and experiencing various kinds of mistreatment when they are willing to put their lives on the line in ways many of us would never do including our current President.
"This latest reversal of another (President Barack) Obama administration policy continues to send the message to trans Americans that our lives, our safety and service are less valuable and unwanted in this country, the country I love and hold so dear."
In his latest policy tweet, Trump wrote: "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will no longer accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military.
"Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail."
Trump's latest ban has also been attacked on social media by gay celebrities George Takei, Dustin Lance Black, Ellen DeGeneres, Andy Cohen, and actor/TV presenter James Corden.
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Founder's Mission
In 2002, I founded Focus America and created a volunteer-run 501(c)3 non-profit after reading a disturbing article in the New York Times about a poor community in Pembroke, IL. It shocked me to know that people in remote sections of our country lacked running water or paved roads or food to eat.
Having grown up in an affluent region of the US, I knew that poverty existed in other countries. I have seen poverty first-hand during my numerous international excursions over the years, including the Shanty Towns in Venezuela, villages in Dominican Republic, and Indian Reservations in Alaska. When I realized that children were starving in our own country strictly because of limited resources, I knew that I had to help in some way. With the encouragement of my senior students at a local college, Focus America was founded.
As we prepare to celebrate our Five Year Anniversary, I'm terribly proud of the journey in which I have embarked. Focus America has morphed over the years, from a volunteer-run charity by my college students with a broad range of interests (and, therefore, projects) to a smaller, more focused organization with specific goals and projects that reflect my own personal interests:
- helping impoverished communities in Appalachia become self-sufficient and
- helping the underprivileged living in my community experience existing athletic opportunities that, due to financial reasons, would be unobtainable without our help.
People help us achieve our goals and mission every day...often not even knowing so. Assisting an elderly person with their groceries or holding a door open for a stranger at the store are simple ways we can make a difference. My hope is that everyone visiting this website will take the next step and help us help other people.
Focus America's mission includes:
- Humanitarian (such as providing food, clothing, and other support)
- Education (such as providing school supplies to children and schools)
- Resource (such as providing information and referral services)
Focus America was founded based upon the following philanthropic objectives:
- To provide humanitarian relief to people living in impoverished communities; and
- To provide assistance with returning children to the classroom in order to complete their education; and
- To serve as a distribution point of information and referral service to help these communities connect with other resources; and
- To develop volunteer opportunities for high school students, college students, corporations and individuals who can manage their own projects to help individuals.
In order to achieve its Mission, Focus America provides the following services through its 100%volunteer network:
- Collects and distributes school supplies to impoverished communities and foster children.
- Collects and distributes food to improverished communities.
- Collects and distributes food and gifts during the holidays to provide a day of cheer and hope for the children.
- Collects and distributes winter clothing for impoverished communities living in northern regions.
- Distributes information to these supported communities to assist them in rebuilding their future (such as providing links to jobs or other social services).
- Solicits donations on a very limited basis with all contributions and gifts supporting the organization's Mission.
Focus America is an exempt organization pursuant section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All donations are therefore tax deductible.


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Will Macka Diamond, whose debut album Money O! drops on Greensleeves next month, break the international monotony of male DJs (like Sean Paul) on the charts? I, for one, hope so. The erstwhile Ms. Lady Mackerel tun' dollar-dress wearing diva is currently slicing the charts up with "Ugly Man" on the Don Corleon-built uptempo "Sweat" riddim.
Also coming in hat is Buju Banton's EP sampler for his next album on his own Gargalmel Music."Pressure Dem" rides the original "Cuss Cuss" riddim to great effect. Run-a-come-come-come! Pressure dem, Cho!
Dubstep Forum is still the best spot to d-l truly ill Rinse-FM sets and other dubstep mixes. We're talking wigs blown–especially by the N-Type + Hatcha & Benga set featuring MC Crazy D. On that tip, don't sleep on the new double-12" from this man:
Skream's "Skreamizm Vol. 1" is as loaded as dubstep gets and then some. Lets call it the genre's first perfect EP. I still rate Horsepower Productions In Fine Style as the genre's guttiest long player. Lookout though as Dubstep All-Stars Volume 4 mixed by Kode 9 is almost upon us! Ee-woy!
If you're needing a reggae update or three--get Gmail, and join the Google reggae groups daily digest. All kindsa links in deh, such as the Jamaican Top 30 singles chart, and how to get all the reggae news in RSS. If that's not enough, check Jamaican Observer's bi-weekly Record Rack column, then you fi know!
For now--hold tight good people. I'll have to regal you with reflections on subbingclasses in a preppy SF city high school school (its good and bad), volunteering as an English TA in struggling public school (rewarding beyond belief). Kids is loosing y'all, and this time the government and the people are to blame.
That, and how I'm soaking up page after page of Nelson George's masterful early '90s tome Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos. Hell yes its required reading for all ForwardEver acolytes, dig? From Magic Johnson, to Harlem druglords, a telling history of East New York, Queens and Brooklyn in the 90s, George got you covered. He's even down with Eazy.


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on January 23, 1897. He was the ninth child of his advocate father Janakinath
Bose and mother Prabhavati Devi. The upright character of both of his parents
had a profound impact on the mental make-up of Bose. A brilliant student, Bose
completed his intial studies at a missionary English school in Cuttack and then
at the Ravenshaw Collegiate School there. It was his close contact with the
headmaster at the latter institution that filled him the idea of a free India.
In 1911, he topped the matriculation examination of Calcutta province and in
1918, passed with a B.A. degree in Philosophy from the Scottish Church College
of the University of Calcutta.
On his father's persuasion, Bose went to
England to appear in the Indian Civil Service (ICS) exams. Though he passed the
exams very well and was offered an ICS role, he resigned from it and came back
to Calcutta to establish the National College of which he became the
But the revolutionary inside Bose ever wanted to express
itself and it was his meeting with the great Bengali leader C.R. Das that
inspired him to fight for the freedom of the country. Mahatma Gandhi's famous
Khadi Movement greatly interested him and he began to sell "khadi" (cloth made
of homespun cotton) on the streets of Calcutta, an action that was seen as
anti-government and landed him in prison. He continued to work with the Congress
along with the Mahatma but the ideals of the latter slowly disillusioned him and
the condescending attitude of the Britishers towards the Congressmen frustrated
him and made him realize that only an organized armed struggle could overthrow
the British Government. He joined the National Volunteer Corps and later was
appointed as its Commander-in-Chief.
He also launched his own party, the
All India Forward Bloc.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Netaji
(as Subhas Bose began to be called by his countrymen) undertook a perilous
journey by submarine and landed in Germany where he met up with Hitler and other Italian and Japanese leaders to seek their
assistance in his fight for India's freedom. He was ably supported. The great
leader waged a war against the British Government in India. His own outfit, the
Indian National Army (INA), fought bravely against the allied forces in Burma
and eastern front of India. Netaji's army captured several key posts and would
have made inroads to India but the monsoon crushed his plans. Lack of training,
inability to cope with the rain in the hills, inadequate ration supplies by
Japanese forces and many other factors forced the INA to retreat.
Officially, Bose died in a plane crash over Taiwan, while flying to
Tokyo on 18 August 1945. But the remains of his body was never recovered which
prompted the British Government to set up a commission to investigate his death.
The Inquiry Commission under Justice Mukherjee obtained clear information from
the Taiwanese Government that no plane crash was reported on the said date and
it also made it clear that the reported ashes of Netaji at the Renkoji temple is
not his. His mysterious disappearance further adds to the enigma that Netaji was
in his lifetime and the search for the great patriot is still on.


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Okay, so we've driven the Ford Fiesta Sport hatchback, complete with all the bells and whistles like the 1.6 liter engine, the advanced dual clutch Powershift transmission, Bluetooth voice control and a USB port. But, for some reason, I'm having much more fun in this Fiesta Trend sedan, with just a 1.4 liter engine, a 5-speed manual transmission and just an simple socket for my iPod.
Why is that?
I have to admit, on the design front, the Sport hatchback is truly the best of the range, and arguably the best looking in the class. There's not much difference between this Trend sedan compared to the Sport, though I do miss the chrome accents on the front airdam that completes the look. I'm also not sold on the design of the trunk, which seems like a bit of an afterthought to me.
Inside, it's a different story altogether. The dash is well and truly busy, with the funky controls and dials. I like the "mobile phone" inspired layout for the audio system, though you do have to reach over quite a bit to change stations or adjust the volume. The quality of the interior is great considering the price range, as you'll never feel that you're shopping in the budget, entry-level car class.
The steering wheel feels great to the touch, and the shifter is light and easy to work. The pedals are perfectly placed and easy to heel and toe if you'd like to be a bit more ambitious, but more on that later. The front seats are a little slim for a plus-sized guy like me, but nevertheless are also the best in the class. The rear seats offer quite a bit of room, and can fold down to stretch the trunk space into the cabin.
For features, it's definitely one of the best in the class, its status as a mid-range model notwithstanding. All windows are powered, same goes for the locks and steering (of course). At the center of the dash is a large LCD with a readout for the audio system and other vehicle functions. It even allows you to select how many flashes the corner lights will do when you tap the indicator stalk to change lanes. How neat is that?
At the heart of the Fiesta Trend sedan is a 1.4 liter engine. The Fiesta's powerplant produces a pretty healthy 95 horsepower nad 126 Newton meters of torque, not bad considering its just a 1.4 liter. Bolted to the engine is a 5-speed transmission, a tranny that proved a perfect match for the engine. The combo gives the Fiesta Trend very decent acceleration, with the transmission's fairly close ratios giving the engine an easy time pulling the car off the line, though it does sacrifice top speed quite a bit.
Like most other subcompact cars, the Fiesta's suspension is composed of MacPherson struts in front and a torsion beam in back. In saying so, it's expected that this car drives just like any other subcompact in the market, but it really doesn't because it drives so much better. In town, the benefits are obvious, as the Fiesta easily negotiates turns at speed with confidence. It's smooth and comfortable inside over the worst potholes in the metro, and doesn't have as much tire noise as you would expect inside a budget priced car with budget priced wheels.
Where the Fiesta comes alive is really up in the mountains. I've made it a habit to take any car with driving potential up to the mountain routes of Tanay, Rizal, and in this case, it serves as a benchmark as I took both the 1.6 Trend sedan and 1.6 Sport hatchback up here. Right from the onset, the Fiesta 1.4 Trend with the manual transmission feels much, much better.
Even though this car only makes 95 horsepower, I can really feel and make use of each and every one of them. I've found that the 6-speed Powershift transmission in the top of the line versions of the Fiesta didn't perform as well as I was hoping it would, especially as it holds on to 2nd (or was it 3rd?) gear a little too long (sacrificing efficiency a bit) and does not shift down as intuitively as I would expect. The manual completely rectified that and, if you were sitting next to me as I take on this road in the Fiesta 1.4, heel and toeing to match the revs and wringing out the engine out of the corners, you'd notice the ear to ear smile on my face.
Sure, I would have expected to have so much fun in a car like a Genesis Coupe or an MX-5, but never would I have thought that I would have had this much fun in a near-base model Ford Fiesta.
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Here's another rough panel from Suits. I've done 4 pages and will finish the other 3 today then inks and washes.
Sticking with yesterday's instrumental them I've picked Max Richter today. This is a much shorter piec but devastating in emotional resonance. Stop for a minute and give it your full attention. Beautiful.


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LA Times: New Pic of Martin Freeman as Bilbo
The Hobbit book: (Chapter 8 : Flies and Spiders.There was the usual dim grey light of the forest-day about him when he came to his senses. The spider lay dead beside him, and his sword-blade was stained black. Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.)
"I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting."
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'You're not going to make a living off of short films.' was one of the first thing out of Chris Tidman's mouth in front of a room full of aspiring short filmmakers. 'they're an investment you make in your next project.'
Shorts International is a global independent short film distribution platform and Chris Tidman is their London based vice president of global acquisitions. His role is to oversee procurement for the Shorts International distribution catalogue. At the BAFTA short film masterclass he discussed Shorts.tv's relationship with the Academy, the anatomy of a Sale and his predictions for the future of short films.
Chris told us that Shorts.TV have a close relationship with the Oscars, releasing and providing theatrical distribution for the nominated short movies. 'The films go into theaters shortly after nominations are announced, and are not released anywhere else except in theaters until a few days before the Oscars.'
Posting content to be viewed free online is generally frowned upon by festivals. Filmmakers are often faced with choosing between getting paid for their shorts, with the help of organisations like Shorts.TV or allowing the biggest possible audience to view their film. Chris weighed in on this saying : 'the internet is problematic for broadcasters, once your short film is on the internet, it cannot be sold to Shorts.tv but there are certain organisations we can't dictate to…' he went on to say that when Disney made their short black and white romantic cartoon, Paperman, free to view online in 2013 there was little shorts.tv could do. In turn every animated film up for the award followed suit causing real problems for the broadcasters. This year, however, none of the shorts have been made available online (legally) with the exception of World of Tomorrow (which is available on Netflix and to rent via Vimeo) meaning the exclusive theatrical release of the Oscars shorts lies in the hands of Shorts.tv once again.
Chris said: 'The recent growth in demand for short films has been unprecedented and Shorts.TV now has over 11 million subscribers. That's a huge number of people interested in viewing high quality short films! The landscape of short film has changed, broadcasters who were once interested seem to have run away. I think this has something to do with Video on Demand, which has lowered the price of short films. This is not to say there isn't hope for the short form. We have seen recently that short films are used as teasers for feature length films, and they're being used to pilot tv series. First and foremost, shorts are a filmmakers calling card and a chance to find out who you are and what your style is as a filmmaker.'
Chris then went on to talk about how he sees the landscape of short film changing over the next 5-10 years. 'I predict that shorts will go back into the hands of the broadcasters. On demand platforms already see the potential of the short form. Canal + have been offering €500-€1,000 per minute for a short. The audience is there and seems to be expending, it is in your hands to produce the quality content.'


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I love when unplanned days turn into something special. After waking early and taking care of some errands, I had the rest of my day free so decided to stop into Restoration Resources on Washington St. in Boston where I like to visit occasionally. I was greeting by Walter, the chatty manager, who is always full of stories about the amazing new architectural salvage pieces they've acquired. He showed me some big, old, sturdy office doors from the 1800s with old script written across the glass plates. He thought they'd be good for 'men' and 'woman's' room doors for a restaurant. I agreed.
He pointed to some impressive marble balusters that were taken from an old mansion on Commonwealth Ave. that is being converted into condos (such a pity.) He then showed me an amazingly large panned oval glass window and matching arched doorway that stood in some grand hallway somewhere near Boston. These had just sold and were being shipped to Florida where someone was going to make a grand table from the window.
I didn't think to take any photos of these amazing things, but I did snap a quick photo of a funky 1950's TV set that apparently still works. (No HDTV here, or color.)
I didn't think to take any photos of these amazing things, but I did snap a quick photo of a funky 1950's TV set that apparently still works. (No HDTV here, or color.)
Next I made a brief stop by Cambridge Antique Market where I have my little antique booth. I needed to do some straightening up and assess if there was any way I could cram some more things into the small space. (Nope.) On my way out, I spotted an old wooden clamp thing that I thought might make an interesting wall sculpture.
Speaking of wooden wall sculptures, I decided to check out the Paul Bowen exhibit at the Clark Gallery in Lincoln that one of my favorite bloggers (Steve from An Urban Cottage) wrote about in a recent blog post. Steve shares my love for old wood things. He has amazing taste and has turned me on to many new artists. I loved the exhibit, especially this piece.
Nearby the gallery is the Gropius House. Walter Gropius was founder of the Bauhaus School in Germany (1919-1933) and is one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. The home is a place I have always wanted to visit so I stopped by and joined an intimate group of four others for the 4:00 guided tour. I learned that the home was built in 1938 shortly after Gropius came to the U.S. to teach at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He did not want to live in the city but longed for a retreat where he and his family could get away from it all and relax. He chose Lincoln, MA because it was half way between Cambridge and Concord College where his daughter Ati was going to attend.
He designed the home in collaboration with his family to meet their modest needs and stay true to the Bauhaus design philosophy of maximum simplicity, efficiency and aesthetic beauty. The home is perfectly situated on four acres of land which was formerly an apple orchard. It's fairly small yet I found it very warm and inviting which goes against all I thought about 'sterile' modern design. Gropius lived in the house until his death in 1969 and everything in it is exactly as it was left when Mrs. Gropius willed it over to become a museum in the mid-80s.
I must say I was very moved being in the house as the lights were being turned on and the sun was setting pink and blue over the snowy field seen through the living room's wall of windows. There was soft classical music playing (from Gropius's personal collection) while we walked through the handful of rooms intimately appointed with furnishings, textiles, ceramics and artwork from the pioneers of the modern design movement including Marcel Breuer, Joan Miro, Josef Albers, Henry Moore, Moholy-Nagy and others. I strongly felt the presence of the family and the simple yet refined life they lived there.
The experience reminded me of another of Steve's recent, very moving, blog posts where he honored the passing of his home's former owner, Mrs. Mastrullo, who lived in the home with her family for over 60 years before Steve purchased and renovated it. He can still feel her presence in the home and lit a candle in her honor up in his attic window to let her know that the home she loved was being well cared for.
The light was quickly fading as the tour ended. As our little group walked towards the front door, a woman appeared asking the guide if she could come in to catch the sunset which was quickly progressing. Our guide said 'certainly'. It was Ati, Gropius's daughter who is now in her late 80s. Our guide mentioned that she stops by occasionally to make sure everything is still in its proper place. As I passed her in the doorway, I noticed she was very frail. There was urgency in her voice when I heard her say "this may be my last time" and hurried past us as we closed the door behind her.
As I walked down the driveway, I imagined Ati rushing to the wall of windows to watch the amazing sunset in the home she loved and where I'm sure she still feels the loving presence of her family. I took a photo of the home and the sunset as I walked back to my car.
I think that moment will be one I remember well into the sunset of my own life.


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Hello again! We have some fab news if you haven't already received our news letter. We are holding a huge Ivy and Piper end of year sale! Saturday the 30th of November at 10am until 2pm at our warehouse studio 1/2007 Ipswich Rd Rocklea. Not only fabrics but quilting and craft supplies, furniture, decor, homewares, lighting, candles, lamp shades, lamps, and loads of stunning cushions. We have been brutally slashing prices to make way for the new year. We will have gift parcels and refreshments to spread the holiday love and say thanks for popping by. Look forward to seeing you there!


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I'm loving the relevance of Robert Kandell's presentation to what we do at The Integral Center and how I've been envisioning the "New Economy". Combining business, community, and world-change is an Integral approach. It doesn't fit into the clean boxes of "for-profit" and "non-profit" that the old economy relies on. I'm reading Janelle Orsi's book "Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy" where she addresses the legal challenges we face. There are also significant social challenges, addressing people's concerns with maintaining both profitability and purpose. Robert's prescription of transparency, communication, and separating finances is right-on.
In This Issue:
- Robert Kandell's talks about running OneTaste as a business, a community, and a world-changing movement.
- Next Thursday's Partner Yoga event will be FREE for everyone.
- Integral Coaching Canada is giving a free talk next Thursday about their upcoming Integral Coaching training in Denver.
There's a lot of great events so look at our online calendar for more info and any last minute changes.
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Running a Business, Community, and Movement
Are you daring to start a revolution, and make it to the other side relatively un-scathed?
Here are some things to consider…
Robert Kandell has been on the front-lines of progressive community organization in some pretty edgy territory. Fortunately he has survived with stories to share for our benefit. His presentation from the Relational Leadership Summit distills some of these important lessons.
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CBSE class 12th results 2017: Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is likely to release the results of Class 12th examination next week. Many media reports are claiming that the result might be out on May 21, considering previous year's release date was same, however, there is no official confirmation by the Board yet.
Though this year, the CBSE exams were postponed due to Assembly Elections held in five states, however, the Board will declare the results on time to avoid any delay in admissions for various undergraduate courses in the universities.
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Moreover, websites like Indiaresults.com are claiming May 24 as result declaration date. Also as per a Hindustan Times report, the Class 12 exam results are likely to be declared on May 25. The reports quote a senior official who said that "the result won't be delayed beyond May 27."
Last year, the results of class 10 were released on May 21 while class 12 results were declared on May 28.
CBSE Class 10 and 12 results 2017 declaration date not decided yet
This year, nearly 10.98 lakh candidates appeared for the Class 12 exams out of which 4,60,026 were girls and 6,38,865 were boys. The highest number of students registered for the class 12 boards exams were from Delhi which is 2,58,321.
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The exams were started from March 9 and will continue until till April 29, 2017.
Last year, a total of 10,65,179 students had appeared for class 12 examination. This year, 10677 schools have registered for the exam which is higher than the last year's number.
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A measure that would create state-funded vouchers for special needs students may soon become law in Mississippi. House lawmakers approved the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act yesterday. If enacted, the pilot program would give 6,500 dollars to parents of 500 special needs students. The funds could be used for private school, tutoring, or any other educational aid. Representative Mark Formby - a Republican from Picayune - is the father of a special needs child. He voted for the bill and spoke with MPB's Paul Boger.
Nick Bain - a Democrat from Corinth - voted against the bill. He tells our Paul Boger it doesn't do enough for enough people.
A pay increase that goes into effect next month at Walmart could mean a significant income boost for employees - and for the State of Mississippi as well. Walmart has more than 23-thousand workers in the Magnolia state. The retailer says it will raise the starting wage to $9-dollars-an-hour this year, and up to $10-dollars next year. Pete Walley is an economic analyst at Mississippi's Institutions of Higher Learning. He tells MPB's Evelina Burnett about the economic impact of the wage increase.
Brian Thomas oversees Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast. He says his associates are looking forward to the pay increase. Thomas also spoke with our Evelina Burnett.
Religion is an important cultural factor in Mississippi, for gay and straight alike. But for many years, churches who are accepting of gay members have been labeled as liberal, accused of ignoring parts of the Bible that seem to speak out against gay relationships. But to gay Christians have to purposely leave out parts of their Bible? Author Matthew Vines says no. Vines joins us with more about that and his book "God and the Gay Christian."
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NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:TINY), an early-stage, active investor in transformative nanotechnology companies, notes the announcement by Champions Oncology, Inc. that it raised $9.3 million in a private placement to existing and new investors at $0.50 per share. The investors were Battery Ventures IX, L.P., PAR Investment Partners, L.P., Harris & Harris Group, Inc., and members of the Company's management team. Harris & Harris Group invested $200,000 in the financing. Proceeds from the financing will be used to grow the TumorGraft™ bank to support the current Translational Oncology Solutions business and future biomarker development efforts, continue to build the senior management team, initiate a validation study for the Personalized Oncology Solutions business and general corporate purposes. Champions' press release may be viewed at http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2013-01-29&val=978664.
"It is clear that innovation in the life sciences arena is critical over the coming decades to address important healthcare needs," said Douglas W. Jamison, Chief Executive Officer of Harris & Harris Group. "The predictability of Champions' TumorGraft technology platform may accelerate the timeline of getting important new personalized oncology products to market."
Champions Oncology, Inc., is engaged in the development of advanced technology solutions and services to personalize the development and use of oncology drugs. Champions' TumorGraft Technology Platform is a novel approach to personalizing cancer care based upon the implantation of primary human tumors in immune deficient mice followed by propagation of the TumorGrafts in a manner that preserves the biological characteristics in order to determine the efficacy of a treatment regimen. Champions uses this technology to offer solutions for Personalized Oncology Solutions, which guides the development of personalized treatment plans, and Translational Oncology Solutions, which assists pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies seeking personalized approaches to drug development to lower the cost and increase the speed of drug development.
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Friday I blogged about opening lines and pages and their importance. (Thanks for those who gave feedback on my lines, btw!) Based on the comments I received, I am clearly not the only one who freaks out over openings. This, of course, sent me to my piles of writing books to see what the pros had to say about the opening scene.
One of my favorite writing books Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time by Jordan Rosenfeld (If you don't have it, get it. The book breaks down the elements of a scene and also goes over types of scenes--dramatic/contemplative/action/flashback etc.) Anyway, the book also has a great litmus test for what needs to be present in an opening scene.
Below are the basic components. I'll put my completed novel to the test as an example and see how it goes.
1. A challenge to your protagonist's status quo.
Ex.) My MC (Willow) finds out that she's received a scholarship to a stuck-up private school out of state. She doesn't want to go. She's found her safe niche at her current school and doesn't want to mess things up.
Thoughts: I think this works. A new school and state would threaten any teen's status quo.
2. An antagonist for your character to encounter. (Doesn't have to be THE antagonist.)
Ex.) Willow's mother wants her to take the scholarship and argues with her.
Thoughts: Perhaps my antagonist and conflict could be stronger. She loves her mother, so although they argue, Willow holds back a lot.
3. Introduce your protagonist's immediate intentions.
ex.) Willow likes to blend in, to play things low key. She has to figure out a way to talk her mom out of moving her to a new school.
Thoughts: I think her intentions are pretty obvious, so this probably works.
4. A glimpse into your MC's history/personality/motivation.
ex.) Willow responses to her mother show her to be sarcastic, smart, and self-deprecating. But also loving and concerned about making her mother happy. In many ways, we see that she has taken on an adult role to offset her mother's flightiness.
Thoughts: I could probably add more heft in my opening for this component to clarify my MC's motivation
5. The protagonist makes a decision that leads immediately to more complications.
ex.) Willow decides to accept the scholarship, which of course leads to the whole rest of the story.
Thoughts: This decision changes everything in her life, so I think this works.
Okay, so putting my scene to these standards definitely shows me some holes I could work on.
What do you think? Are these components a good summary of what you like to read/write in an opening scene? Think back to your favorite books, do they follow these guidelines? Can you think of any other "must haves" in an opening?


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Singer/Songwriter Jason Mraz has recently had a moment of enlightenment that he wants to share with you. "Global warming is no longer a future problem. It's a now event. And it's not a planet problem either. It's a people problem."
In a recent exclusive blog for the Huffington Post Green, Mraz describes his moment of realization and understanding that we are all just one part of nature and that the impact of our materialism could actually be killing us.
Written very much in the same beautiful poetic styling as his songs, he uses the essay to explain his views on how the choices we make and the impact that they are starting to have on the world around us.
"Our very creation of an industrialised system to make our lives convenient and sweet succeeded in the sweetness, but sadly isn't sustainable. The proof is all around us. A billion people live without water. More than that live in extreme poverty. War hasn't found its resolve. And the seasons are only getting stranger," writes Mraz.
This realization and essay come out of Mraz's February trip to the Antarctica where he spent a week with Al Gore and nearly 150 other environmentalists, scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs. They were there to learn about the immediate and harsh realities of climate change and explore some of the current effects being felt by the region. He cited the example of land ice melting and contaminating the water.
Mraz goes on to describe how we can begin to make a change, writing, "If we believe in the idea that everything is disposable than we should be prepared to be disposable too. Single-use plastics, plastic bags, water bottles, sporks, paper coffee cups and their cute cardboard cozies all have alternatives. Carry your own water bottle and drink from the tap. Carry your own coffee cup and get yourself a refill. You'll be saving energy and lots of your own money too."
The essay is a well done example of the line of thinking we all need to have in order to bring about change. Jason Mraz voices a line of thinking many of us have had, but seldom share with those around us. Read the whole essay here.


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Climbing the Temple
There are a few things to see onces on top: A garden with fruits that decrease your health; a frustrating arrangment of blocks; and ofcourse the bridge which leads to the world entrance.
An aggregator of secrets, places and glitches in 'Shadow of the Colossus'
Thank you, there is atleast one person who read your blog here, been poking around sotc and needed info to get to the garden. I had the right starting point but didnt know you could rest or that you were supposed to go right after reaching the ledge. I just beat all 16 on time attack easy, and I am enjoying my flash arrows... alot. Wish I got it on video; blew an eagle/falcon out of the sky with one, hehe. Anyway, thanks for the help. If you've beaten hard time attack i'd like to see the other rewards, mainly the "parachute" I hear about, thanks.
Using the recoil from the Flash arrows, you can propel yourself about 1/4 the way down the tunnel leading to the exit from the forbidden lands if you shoot the ground in front of you.
Unlike everyone else, the FIRST thing I did once I had successfully scaled the tower and gotten to the Bridge was head to the exit. I was much more interested in seeing if you could leave the game, than seeing the secret garden
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You are awesome!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
Should've posted my fruit comment here...
But yeah, the bad fruit, can it help defeat Dormin?
demetae: no.. the developers have confirmed that there are no alternate endings =\
Thx, gnothi. It just bugs me that the fruit up there has no other purpose than to bring your meters down. It just seems so suspiscious!
Sry for all the postage...
There is something strange in the european version. I can not rest on the tiny piece of ground you show in your video. After the frist straight climb, if I jump onto this part, either I fall, or I am automaticly moved on the upper left. I think they fixed that bug for the european version ... argh ! The only way seems to use an action replay cheat code to have infinite grip, thing I do not like to do.
Dark Inquisitor: yeah, a few people have noted that the ledge no longer works. i really thought they wanted people to use that ledge, to make it easier to get up there.. oh well, i guess they considered it a "glitch".
also the jumping in diagonal dosen't work in the Pal version...it takes as much stamina as a upwards jump..
or am i doing it wrong :(
Also the jumping in diagonals dosen't work in the european version...it takes as much stamina as a upwards jump..
or am i doing it wrong :(
nope, the diagonal jump glitch doesn't work in the european version either. in fact i think they'd fixed that by the time the japanese version was released.
just thought i'd let everybody know
that it is possible to get to the garden in the PAL version
i completed the game twice and was on the 15 colossus the first time i reached the top.
Not as amazing as i thought it would be, but don't get me wrong its breath-taking but i expected to reach the true top of the shrine.
A question to the last poster...
I just got up to the garden in the PAL game, it took a LOT of stamina (I was on my third playthrough and had been eating a lot of lizards). Apart from a small shortcut I simply climbed the entire way... The shortcut is (if I remember correctly) when you get off the first ledge and there's a grassy area and a ledge below you, go around the corner only about a third of the way, then jump backwards and sideways to the grassy wall. If you do this correctly, you'll be able to grab onto the grass near the corner of the grassed area and the lower ledge. From this corner, I took a great almighty leap sideways and grabbed on about halfway across, saving me climbing stamina. ^^
It can be done, just takes a lot of patience to build up that much stamina. Hunting lizards is much easier with the flash arrows, though. ^^
hello i've just reached the secret garden in the european version and there are a few block in the temple wich you can climb. Can I get higher with this blocks?
nope, it really doesn't look like you can.
so the only thing you can do in the secret garden is walk around and eat those poisenend fruits?
How many colloses you have to kill to get up there?
I must admit that I have my doubts that anyone with a Pal version of this game has made it to the Secret Garden using the climbing method. I think those who claim they have are bull-shi**ing. I have played through easy, time attack and reminise mode. I have eaten all the lizards. The highest I can climb up the temple is the point were the glitched version lets you rest.
I believe I said I was on the third playthrough - I had a LOT of stamina (in fact, it's nearly transparent after defeating the 15th Colossus). Just playing it through once will get nowhere NEAR the amount of stamina you need... in fact to be able to do it safely I need to finish the game again to get more.
I don't appreciate being called a liar.
re: How many colloses you have to kill to get up there?
you can actually climb the temple without having killed a single colossi. but in that video, i'd played through the game at least once.
This blog is amazing!!! I found it through Wikipedia > Google video > then here. Unfortunately, I don't know how to get to the beach, and the video doesnt load... :(
Anyway, brilliant stuff!
Me again, well the video works now. Thanks :)
I heard from another website that there is a hidden colossus in the garden, I wasn't surprised when I found nothing there, and extremely mad when I couldn't climb any higher with the blocks on the far wall.
I'd be very interested to hear exactly how those people who claim to have reached the secret garden in the PAL version achieved this. I've just completed the game for the third time and I still don't have enough stamina to get more than halfway round the second ledge.
ive had the PAL version a while now and i cant see why you find it so hard to believe we can reach the secret gareden. I completed the game 3 and a half times and hunted lots of white tailed lizards. My pink circle is well off the side of the screen (on widescreen), its about 1/3 across the screen. You do need to go the correct route though, and not waste stamina. after youve tried many times, like me, you will have learnt when to jump how long to bulid up a jump etc. there are no rest points. believe me its not that hard.
ok, thanks. I guess I just made the mistake of thinking that I must have enough stamina after completing it for the 3rd time but obviously I still have a way to go.
Question for the PAL gamers.
Do the Lizards re-populate every time you finish the game?
I'm on my second playthrough and have cleared the map of all Lizards. My grip meter is quite high, but still not nearly enough to reach the top of the tower. As a previous poster said, about a third of my grip meter extends beyond the screen.
I can reach what I assumed to be a resting spot (platform with a tree growing on it, above the second ledge you must shimmy around) but can't jump from the moss up to this platform. Unless there is an alternate resting spot, or the lizards do in fact re-populate I can't see me reaching the top.
To answer my own question, the lizards do re-populate. I haven't yet maxed out my grip so I don't know whether you can get to the top of the tower in the PAL version.
hmmm, they don't repopulate in the american version =\
That's probably because they don't need to. With the verticle jump glitch , you guys never need to max out your grip.
i hav the pal version and i hav made it to the garden. i am on my 2nd run thru and up to the 15th colossus. there is a rest area that i hav found:
1/2 way up the first climb there is a ledge, not the grassy 1, but a sloped 1 to the right of the grassy climbing stuff.. if u climb just past that and then fall onto it, face so ur running up the slope ur stamina meter fills up again, then u just jump a few tyms and grab bak onto the grass and continue climbing. then near the end on the last part to climb there is another reachable rest spot on the last climb, u hav to jump sideways onto an almost imposible spot and keep running again, then jump bak onto the grassy stuff and get to the top.
someone please tell me how to jump diagonally?
does anyone know if there is a limit for the stamina in PAL version? or does it continue increasing endless? (sorry for my english)
Actually, the fruits in the secret garden aren't poisonous...in fact they are helping Wanda to be normal (storyline-wise) since he has pieces of Dormin in him. The fruits are pure and help to rid the dark powers that infest Wanda after defeating a colossus. Wanda doesn't level up after each colossus but rather gains dark powers from pieces of Dormin that exit the colossi to enter Wanda. It's just story for Wanda to unknowingly have the dark parts of Dormin within him. That doesn't mean that it's okay to ask a voodoo-ist for powers to help you in life. ^_^
Could someone please tell me how to get on the resting spot? i tried a few times but i keep deing :0
Could someone please tell me how to get on the resting spot? i tried a few times but i keep deing :0
I've got to the garden, i've completed the game 4 times, which let me enough stamina to reach the top. No were NEAR as good as it's hyped up to be, seriously. I thought i would be able to climb higher, but no. Big let down.
But still, amazing game.
Has anyone tried jumping in the hole that is in the secret garden. I mean isnt that were dormin talks to u evrytime you kill a collosi. just wondering i have yet to make it up there but the diagnol jump is a HUGE help. I can almost make it up there with just beating the game once. haha
ok this is strange i was in the garden i got to the top and those blocks you can get on but you have to beat all the 15 colossus climb up eat all the fruits and wait to battle the 17 colossus
I just beat the game the secong time.. are there things you can get afterwards, LIke the white horse, the mask, or the longer sword? Please help me.. email me at email@example.com, thank you!
is there a way to get on top of the shrine (the very, very top)
if so how?
is true that shi t aboute of the 17th colossus?
ande if it `d be real, how is it?
(sory my english if I wrote someting grong)
I found out today that if you eat ALL the lizards with glowing tails, you get infinite grip.
I actually bought a ps2 this year specifically for this game. My cousin found out about climbing to the garden and I have made seveal attempts. It's very difficult, even with all the diagonal jumping! Oh well, try try again I suppose. Thanks for the post!