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The following is a full listing of the cast for the episode "You Are A Runner And I Am My Father's Son".
- James Lafferty as Nathan Scott
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- Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis
- Austin Nichols as Julian Baker
- Robert Buckley as Clayton Evans
- Shantel VanSanten as Quinn James
- Lee Norris as Mouth McFadden
- Antwon Tanner as Skills Taylor
- Lisa Goldstein as Millicent Huxtable
- Paul Johansson as Dan Scott
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- Danneel Harris as Rachel Gatina
- Allison Munn as Lauren
- Jana Kramer as Alex Dupre
- Stephen Colleti as Chase Adams
- Daphne Zuniga as Victoria Davis
- Logan Anderson as Kelly
- Andrea Moore as Makenna Gage
- Mike Grubbs as Grubbs
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Yes, yes. Size matters. So we've all heard.
Ryan Wendell heard it, too. First, as a kid, he was too big to play football. Then, as a potential NFL draft pick, he was too small, came from a small school. He wasn't expected to get drafted.
Three years later, now a backup center for the New England Patriots, the 2004 Diamond Bar High School graduate will be in the Big Show – The Super Bowl. The Patriots will face the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Size does matter. But only Wendell and his coaches could gauge the size of his heart.
"I knew I was an undersized guy from a smaller school and knew I probably wasn't going to get drafted," Wendell recently told ESPNBoston.com. "There was an outside chance on the last day, in the later rounds, so I was just excited to see what teams were picking what guys. I was just hoping I could go somewhere as an undrafted free agent and try to make a team."
His jersey has been retired at his former high school and he is a member of the school's athletic Hall of Fame, a source of pride for a guy that simply hoped to get to the next level and looked no further than that.
Diamond Bar High School athletic director Kurt Davies coached Wendell in high school and said they texted back and forth after the Patriots victory Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. Now, Davies said, the entire school is full of Patriots fans.
"I hate everything Boston, the Celtics, the Red Sox, but now I have to be a Patriots fan," Davies said with a laugh.
Another former Brahmas football standout, Brett Lockett, is also on the New England roster on injured reserve.
Wendell was an All-CIF Southern Section selection as a senior defensive lineman, with more than 50 tackles, six sacks and caused three fumbles. He earned the same honor as an offensive lineman his junior year. A two-time All Sierra League selection, he was the league's Most Valuable Player as a junior.
Davies said his size doesn't stop him, because his preparation and technique is superior.
"He's probably the smallest offensive lineman in the NFL," Davies said. But he's the best technician I've ever coached. He uses his size to his advantage. The Golden Rule of football is low man wins – he always gets down lower than the guy he's going against.
"It's funny, he's 6-foot-2, but is always the biggest player on the field because of his knowledge and heart."
Wendell earned a scholarship to Fresno State, where he was again a four-year starter and earned numerous accolades. He was named Co-Freshman of the Year in the Western Athletic Conference and was an All-WAC selection and all-academic selection.
Undrafted, he signed with the Patriots as a free agent. He played on the scout team before working his way into the lineup, filling in for injured linemen. His work ethic and ability proven, he has started several games for the Patriots and works closely with future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady.


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Dual THAT-2180 based VCA (8HP)
An updated version of my THAT2180 VCA module.
Unlike some others, this module is built around the THAT2180 Blackmer cell IC - I find it easier to use, and less prone to self-destruction, than the V2164. This is a 100% through-hole build, with everything included including a THAT2180C IC - there are a couple of different versions of the THAT2180 (A and B) but unless you're looking for insanely low levels of THD the C variant gives the best bang for the buck, so that's what I've included.
Unlike the previous incarnation of the module, this one now sits behind a 4HP panel and the layout has been slimmed down a bit too; there's a signal in (obviously) and a single CV input with an associated attenuator. Should you need to perform any additional calibration, there's a trimpot on the rear of the module.
These modules are built with Alpha 9mm potentiometers and Befaco micro knobs. In common with my other modules, the panel is fabricated from laser-cut and engraved 3mm black perspex. A double-ended power cable is also included.
This is the dual version - two boards mounted behind an 8HP panel. Single and quad versions of this module are also available, but note that the quad version is a special order only.


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During his time at OSU his teams made 12 post-season appearances including 7 straight from 2009 - 2015. His teams won 3 national championships and he was named National Coach of the year 4 times, and he was the co-winner in 2005. He was named the coach of the decade and OSU was named the number 2 program of the decade in 2010.
Coach and I got a chance to talk about a lot things like, developing patience and learning responsibility, discipline, valuing time, successful habits, establishing core values and much more. This is an interview you won't want to miss.
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Joe Yevoli (@joeyevoli) is an Entrepreneur and former Professional Lacrosse Player in the MLL.
Joe's a graduate of the University of Virginia, and Syracuse University. He's a two time All-American, 2002 ACC Rookie of the Year, and a member of the 2003 Virginia National Championship team.
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Every Tuesday, Laugh City's Stand Up SF at Executive Order brings you a lineup of established comedians from around the country as well as local up-and-coming talent with happy hour drink specials. Arrive at 8:30 for good seats and drinks. Show starts at 9:00 PM.
Hosted by Lyall Behrens: Stand Up has appeared on Hulu's Comedy Time series, Opened for Paul Mooney, Hasan Minhaj & Ali Wong, Hollywood Laugh Factory & Comedy Store
About the venue: Coffee shop by day, 21+ cocktail bar by night, Executive Order is an American-history-themed bar with antique sofas and revolutionary cocktails and with decor that pays tribute to likes of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
Info & F.A.Q.
What are the happy hour drink prices? $6 beers. $10 wine & champagne. $2 Off Well Rocks drinks, featuring Smirnoff Vodka, Tanqueray Gin, Bacardi Rum, IW Harper Bourbon, Dickel Rye & El Tesoro Tequila.
Is there a drink minimum? Yes. Two drink minimum. It's a free show. We gotta keep the lights on.
How's parking? We are located in Downtown SF next to Bloomingdale's. Using a rideshare app or Bart would be your best bet.
What time should I arrive? 8:45 PM.
Is there food at the venue? Yes! Check out the menu
Is This 21 and up? Every day of the week! Please bring valid I.D.
Is there a dress code? When in doubt dress to impress! We do not have a strictly enforced dress code.
Suggested Donation? Yes. These comedians are coming from far away places such as Los Angeles, Sacramento, Oakland and San Jose. Dropping $10-$20 in the tip jar for the comedians is appreciated.
Comedy Show Etiquette for Stand Up SF
No Flash Photography: It distracts and disorients everyone.
Do Not Heckle the Comedian: Heckling is interrupting the performance to upstage, disparage, or throw off the comedian. It is never acceptable, and the quickest way to ruin the show for everyone. It is also the quickest way to be humiliated in front of everyone.
Do Not Interrupt the Comedian: The common excuse for this is "I'm helping the comedian." Comedians are professionals, they do not need help. That "help" just derails the show and wastes everyone's time, same as heckling. Exception: If a comedian directly engages you in conversation, you are a-ok to respond. Some of the best comedy happens this way, and can make for a memorable experience. Be ready to let it go when the bit is over.
No Recording the Show: Same as a band, recording a stand-up routine violates the comic's copyright on his material. Worse yet, a less-than-stellar performance some jerk puts up on the web can hurt the comic's career. The infamous Michael Richards video is an extreme (justified in this rare case) example of footage released by a third party that ruins the performer's career.


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Day 4, in and out of pavilions
I dragged Abby downtown to see Malajube play at LiveCity Yaletown, but before the concert started we decided to check out a couple of the pavilions that have sprung up around False Creek.
The first we tried was Russky Dom, AKA Sochi House. It's supposed to be the home of the Russian team and a showcase of the 2014 venue for the winter Olympics. The bottom floor had some interesting things in it, like a giant model of the venues and terrain in Sochi and some clowns doing some comically bad magic tricks.
While walking around on the first floor I realized that one of the floors was interactive, so I played hockey with some kids for a while. That was probably the coolest part in the entire pavilion.
Upstairs had a bunch of corporate displays staffed by bored looking hot models and a couple of very sleek, modern looking lounges and bars open to VIPs only.
Overall, not that exciting. I think the most interesting part of the whole thing was the way they had completely transformed the interior of Science World.
Next was Maison du Quebec, which was less exciting. Inside there was a restaurant that they were turning people away from. There was a stage that you could only really access from the restaurant. Outside of that there was a little booth serving $10 microbrewed beer from Quebec. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I kind of expected… more? It's a huge province with a lot of cool stuff in it.
Abby wasn't keen on Saskatchewan House so we skipped it. Unfortunately, I'm now hearing that it's the most interesting one to visit so I may have to go back.
Ontario House claims to have a 4D movie. I'm intrigued but we didn't have time to check it out because there was a huge line. There was no line for the other half of the house though so that's where we went. Inside they were serving Ontario-themed food. We both ordered some beers and then watched the huge LCD screens on the walls.
The three on the end showed the current weather conditions in Toronto, Ottawa and Niagara Falls with live webcams. It was pretty exciting to watch the CN Tower just sit there, doing it's thing. Not to be outdone, the buildings in Ottawa were also pretty motionless. Not even a goose flew by. It was kind of like watching the film Caché, minus the dead roosters. Pretty riveting stuff.
On the adjacent wall, there was another screen showing medical breakthroughs made in Ontario. I must say that watching animated angioplasties and seeing pieces of diseased body parts in kidney dishes really added to my beer-drinking experience.
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Oh my goodness, this post looks hysterical! It looked bad while I was creating it, but after I published it, it looks totally different and much worse. Hello! Where did my paragraph spaces run off to? I'll try to get it fixed soon.
Chris moved my blog. Or something. Not sure what exactly he did, but it's all different now. I can't seem to figure out how to put text above the first picture and it uploaded pictures side by side for some reason and I can't fix them either. So I apologize for this weird post.
Linsey had a workshop in Kemah the week we got back from California, so the kids and I met her one afternoon and we walked around the boardwalk and had dinner with her and a co-worker. She doesn't like carnival rides much, but we talked her into riding the ferris wheel. She thought we were going to get dumped right out and held on tight. I'll be nice and refrain from putting the best picture I got on here
A few days later, one week after getting home from vacation, the kids and I drove to Pecos. My mom was still watching Brody and Cooper and their new puppy Shooter while Linsey was out of town, so my mom had a houseful. The kids got to swim over at Myrt Myrt's house a couple of times and they were in heaven. They played so well together and there was hardly any fighting. They got to play with Linsey's new puppy, who has very sharp puppy teeth by the way, and Cody and Tanya's new litter of puppies. Linsey got back into town on Tuesday and hung out with us and stayed the night before going home on Wednesday afternoon. We wanted a picture of all the grandkids and they were mostly uncooperative. This was the best picture I could get before finally telling them they could act silly. There was a lot more cooperation at that point. Further down you can see the precise moment that Brody and Robert hit heads. And then it was all over. And now I can't seem to write between any of the pictures. This is so weird.
We left Friday morning for the long drive home. Minutes into the trip I realized our DVD player car adapter was broken and I didn't bring anything else for the kids to do. There was a moment of panic, but we survived. Barely. Clara did have some books to read and we stopped at an Alco in Sonora maybe? and got some things to pass the time. We took a detour and stopped in Temple to see Dan who was in the hospital after having had knee replacement surgery the day before. We hadn't been able to see them all summer since he had his first knee replaced at the beginning of the summer and they've been working to get Nanny moved in. Linda went to pick up her mom so that we could visit with her too. We hadn't seen her since Christmas.
We stayed for about an hour and then finished the long drive home, getting home exactly 12 hours after leaving Pecos. Talk about a long day. The next day was Leah's birthday party. It should have been about an hours drive. On the way there, police were diverting traffic away from the highway we needed to cross so I had to turn around and figure out the best way there. Turns out there wasn't a good way and we had to backtrack a lot to get there.
It ended up taking us 1.5 hours to get there. And then I didn't bring her swimsuit. They swim every year, so why I didn't bring her suit, I have no idea. Thankfully they had an extra for her. I hung out and chatted and then left Clara to spend the night with Leah. They've been wanting to have a sleepover forever, but it's difficult to find a time when we can get them together, so this worked perfectly. For me at least She went to church with them the next morning and then Chris, Robert and I drove up after church to meet them for lunch and bring her home. We ended up going over to their house to visit and didn't leave until 8:30! I felt so bad for taking up their entire Sunday afternoon. It was lovely catching up though, so I don't feel too bad The next day, the PTA president called and asked if I could come up to the school the next day to help out with some stuff and asked if I might be interested in being secretary. She has been unable to reach the secretary all summer. So I said I would think about it. We spent most of the day working. I told her I would be secretary around 2:00 and then attended my first meeting at 4:30. That Thursday, Chris and I dropped the Audi off at the dealership to be looked at by an insurance agent. A while back we had some major storms come through. The roof started leaking, but we couldn't tell where the problem was. It completely soaked the floors and the center console, leaving the console inoperable. That's where the radio, a/c and navigation controls are. We immediately got it into the garage and turned on a dehumidifier when it happened, so we managed to minimize any water damage or odor. So, we were leaving it there to have someone come take a look at it. After dropping the car, we headed to The Woodlands for Chris' knee surgery. His knee started bothering him a month or so ago when he started doing a little running, so he had an MRI right before we left on vacation. He saw a surgeon when the kids and I were in Pecos and scheduled surgery for the 14th. He knew he had a torn meniscus from being hit by a car in college, but he also had a lot of cartilage damage. Damage is rated 1-4 and Chris had several 3s and a 1/2 in. diameter spot that was a 4 which means no cartilage at all. So that's what was causing him such pain. The treatment for that spot was to poke little holes in the bone which causes stuff to ooze out and form a barrier. (I know, really technical). It's not ideal of course, but hopefully it will work to ease his pain. Chris hasn't injured that knee any other time, so this was probably damage done from his accident 20 years ago. He will probably eventually need knee replacement, but hopefully this will allow him to hold off for a long time. He had to check in for surgery at 10:15. When they called him back for pre-op, I took the opportunity to take the kids over to the mall for a quick lunch and to pick up a surprise for Chris from the Lego Store to work while he was home recovering. I made sure to tell Robert not to say anything and we would give it to him after his surgery. When we got back to Chris, he was in his gown, all hooked up in bed. I guess the kids didn't know what to expect. They both seemed to be taken aback a little seeing him like that. We talked to him for a bit and then Robert said, "We didn't get you any legos, Daddy." I gave him "the look" and said, "You weren't supposed to tell him!" And he leaned over and whispered very loudly in my ear, "I'm just tricking him." Oh my goodness, we had a good laugh with that one. That boy's a mess. Surgery went well and we got home around 3:00. The insurance company called us back the next day and said they couldn't see any water damage in the car and would be denying the claim. Chris argued with the guy for awhile and told him there was no damage because we made sure to get it in the garage and dried out so it wouldn't be damaged. He asked the guy if we need to just leave it in the driveway and wait for the next rain and not do anything. He said, "Well, no….." So Chris told him to run it through the car wash and call him back. The guy called back not 10 minutes later. He and someone from the dealership sat in the car and then had a hose put on the roof. He admitted he was skeptical. Then a few minutes later it just started pouring into the car, all over the two of them. Ha! Serves 'em right Turns out there are drains inside all sunroofs that drain water down the frame and out by the tires. Ours were clogged. So insurance, after deductible of course, covers the damage done by the water to the console, but not the sunroof drains. So between that and surgery, it's been an expensive week. We laid low the days following his surgery and then Sunday afternoon I met Linda halfway between here and Temple and sent Clara to stay with them for a few days before school starts. They fit a lot into their few short days. A little shopping, some painting, a jumping place, cookie baking, and visiting Nanny's new place, just to name a few. Chris stayed home on Monday and we took Robert to see Planes 2. He was ready to go back to work on Tuesday, but not quite ready to go without pain meds, so I dropped him off at work on Tuesday and Wednesday. I met Linda again on Wednesday to pick Clara up. We had a quick lunch at Subway before coming home. I had to get her back on Wednesday, because on Thursday I drove Chris back up to The Woodlands for his post-op checkup. His car was ready too, so he drove it back. Turns out he wasn't quite up for driving and his knee was hurting after that. And then last night was Meet the Teacher at Clara's school. I got to school at 4:00 yesterday to help set up and stayed until 8:30 to help clean up and count money. It's amazing how much work it takes when you don't have enough volunteers. We even had our kids working. I quickly called Chris to come get Robert on his way home because he was being very not helpful. We didn't stop for those four hours straight. I left long enough to spend 20 minutes meeting Clara's teacher. Some of the mom's didn't go meet their kids' teachers until after it was over at 7:00. So that has been our August in a nutshell. Looking forward to the new school year when things settle down!


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Just launched a new website for accommodation provider Hendersyde in Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Apart from a more modern look and better mobile layouts, it adds their updated booking system, new image galleries, social integration, mobile search options and a much faster loading WordPress theme.
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Steve Douglas has been looking after our website for over 15 years. Steve has amazing imagination and creative talent and has designed a very impressive and professional web site for us. We rely on his help to keep us up to date and his creative flair never fails to impress. We cannot recommend him highly enough and look forward to many more years working with Steve.
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Adolescent Substance Abuse
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Posted on July 7, 2011
This spring, we went back to Isla Mujeres for our second time as a family and my third time overall. I left a copy of Currency at PocNa, the hostel where I stayed when I visited the island as a backpacker round about 1995. In the book, I pasted the same note that I have in the other copies I've sent out into the world:
As the author of this novel, it's one of my great hopes for Currency that people will discover it while on the road. To that end, I've given some copies to traveler-types and asked them to leave the books, when they're through, where other travelers can find them. If you've left or found Currency, I would love it if you'd leave a comment at https://zoezolbrod.com/the-traveling-book/. Happy travels!
I think there are about ten or twelve books that are floating around the globe right now, with most of them, fittingly, in Southeast Asia. I've received only one note from a stranger who has picked up a copy completely by chance, but the story that woman told, in the comments here, was worth way more than a box full of books; it put me on a bus from Cambodia to Bangkok and then on route to Nepal. O World! I miss you! And Piv and Robin, I miss you too. When the two of them come alive for other people, it helps ease the sting—or maybe it just makes it more exquisite, which is perhaps the better goal. If anyone reading this is about to go on a trip and wants a copy of Currency to read and leave behind for someone else, let me know, and I'll send you a copy
I felt sort of like a spy in PocNa, wandering around looking for the lending library I knew they'd have, wondering at the way things change and they don't, checking out the tanned faces bent over glowing netbooks in the shade of the main courtyard. (So many netbooks.) I inferred that a lot of hostelers were using the cushion of Isla and PocNa to recover from more strenuous travels, maybe staying on longer than they'd planned at a place with good wi-fi and a little night life. In 1995, still pretty fresh from the pristine beaches of Ko Chang, each of which could only be reached by boat, none of which featured accommodation other than thatched huts, Isla Mujeres felt urban to me, and almost unbearably commercial. I had never seen yachts and pleasure craft docked near a pier, and I had never had to pass by so many hulking hotels to get to a guesthouse.
But there were recognizable sorts at the hostel, and I quickly made the recognizable alliances, and with them I ended up smoking pot and traversing the more local side of the island for late-night conch and cheap snorkeling. Having found the bookshelf for freebies and slipped Currency among the offered titles—with the endless stream of wi-fi and the portable screens, how many fewer books do travelers read?—I headed back to the street, and I took great pleasure in standing in the entryway remembering the humiliation of having to be rescued from a communication problem at check-out by a know-it-all who'd annoyed me on these jaunts and who spoke Spanish. Mmmmmm nostalgia. I'm hooked on it. The then-and-now simultaneity is sometimes so physical it gives me vertigo, and I put my hand on the cement wall to steady myself. Meanwhile, Mark was waiting in the golf cart outside, dealing with the squabbling kids so I could have my moment. It was on the same island two years ago that he helped me come up for the name of this blog, The Next Youth Hostel. Get it? The journey, the journey. Still on it, in our way.
I haven't been updating this blog much because my world keeps turning. Currency's been out over a year, so I'm not promoting it. I never intended the blog as a place to give personal updates, but to the extent that I did, now I use Facebook more than ever. And when I feel the call to write an essay, I write for The Nervous Breakdown because I love the community there, not to mention the eyeballs. I've posted essays about the my mom being on Facebook, the gang rape of the eleven-year-old girl, my reaction to the proposed opening of a breastaurant in my bucolic town, and my challenges with time.
I am quite time-challenged. I'm working on a new project—a memoirish type exploration that I'm vexed by and drawn toward—and every day I feel its hungry rumble for hours I don't have. A fair number of those I need just to sit chin in hand and stare off into the past. What can I say? Pondering formative experiences is so attractive to me. This time the setting is closer to home. There's a lot about sex and childhood and gender issues, those perennial favorites.
Posted on October 3, 2010
This past Thursday, at the invitation of SheWrites co-creator Deborah Siegel, I appeared at Women and Children First bookstore along with Teri Coyne, Audrey Niffenegger, Amina Gautier, and Emily Gray Tedrowe as part of a panel exploring modern-day heroines. I could diagram that sentence to show about twenty different sources of personal gratification: Women and Children First, where I spent many longing hours in the first years of my life in Chicago; SheWrites, a powerhouse site with an international membership; "at the invitation of," which means I'm acknowledged as a real author by real authors, etcetera. (It seems a little uncool to be geeking out about my excitement, but one of the good things about publishing a novel in my forties after years of aspiring to it is that, although I have a lingering need to acknowledge my awareness of the uncoolness, I'm pretty genuinely OK with it.) To top it all off, the question the panel posed was Why Can't Our Heroes Be Heroines?, a query that's resonated with me for seemingly ever.
I swear on my advanced reader's copy of Currency that ever since I was a kid, I have had a fierce wanderlust. And ever since I was a kid, I was a voracious reader. And ever since I was a kid, I've been looking for books about women and girls who were adventurous, who were traveling the world. Those books have been hard to find.
Thinking about what I wanted to say about heroines, I stumbled upon a dusty but distinct memory of standing in front of the biography section at my school's library searching the spines and covers for a book with a female subject. It was the mid-1970s in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and I was in the third grade. We'd had a couple introductory visits to the library, but this was the first time that we could check out a book, and I was breathless and almost panicky with excitement. The librarian had probably lectured us on the import of this event for many minutes previous, exhorting us that the books we checked out were our responsibility, that'd we lose our privilege if we weren't mature enough to care for them well. I'm sure I would have been sitting up ramrod straight through the whole speech, quivering with readiness to defend with my life any book I might choose. I was a good girl, at that point. I was passionate about following directions. If I recall, I had headed to the biographies at my mom's suggestion, made on the eve of the big day.
But there I still was in the stacks, undecided and confused at feeling slightly let-down, when the librarian started urging us to make our choices because it was time to check-out. Not having found what I was looking for, my state of almost-panic crystallized into the pure form. When she urged us again, sternly–if we wanted to check out a book, we had to get in line NOW—I grabbed the only tome that looked like it had potential, a red cloth-bound hardback with a silk-screened silhouette on the cover in lieu of a title. The figure squinting off toward a distant shore had an undeniably masculine profile, yes, but the fancy hat and poufy costume allowed me to convince myself the person's gender was indeterminate. Maybe I was holding a book about a strong-jawed, sea-faring lady.
The self-deception could only be maintained for a few minutes. Standing in line to get my book thumped, I turned to the title page and saw I had chosen a volume about William Penn. (In that author's telling, not such an interesting character.) The next week, not giving up on biographies, I again followed my mom's suggestion and told the librarian what I was looking for: something about a girl. She showed me the three biographies of women in the library's collection: Betsy Ross, Florence Nightingale, and Molly Pitcher. That was it. In a few weeks, I read them all. Molly Pitcher was my favorite. She had fought like a man! But only in the stead of her husband.
I'm not saying that those of us who grew up in the 70s were devoid of female heroines. Women's lib was affecting pop culture even if it wasn't yet hitting my ill-funded elementary library. Girls like me had Sabrina in Charlie's Angels. We had Princess Leia, who really kicked ass in that first Star Wars movie. And, obviously, like the legions before us and since, we had Jo, in Little Women. I must have read that book a dozen times, and every time I felt sick—throw up, take to my bed SICK—when Amy got to go to Europe instead of Jo. It was probably Little Women that put Travel to Europe up high on my list of life goals—I would avenge my heroine!—even as it introduced me to the non-fairy tale ending.
Of course, Jo wasn't the sole plucky heroine in the children's fiction section (at least at the public library; the elementary library really had a thin collection). There were other spunky girls in kids literature, too. Lucy, in the Narnia Chronicles, was the first one to walk through the wardrobe. Meg, in AWrinkle In Time, was the one to go rescue her brother. Laura Ingalls was anything but delicate or prissy. But when I was considering what books I might want to mention on the panel, I couldn't recall finding many independent, self-defining, adventuresses as I moved into adult reading material around junior high. Maybe it's because I spent a lot of time reading pulp: I was quite familiar with Jacqueline Susan's oeuvre, for example. I was fascinated by a book called The Mating Dance that featured heaving bodices and S&M-tinged sex. On the other side of the spectrum, it was in high school that I began my life-long love affair with Edith Wharton, but, even if their clothes aren't falling off at every turn, her characters are all caught in the prison of their gender. Wharton's books helped me define my nascent feminism, but there was no one I wanted to emulate in those pages. Who I wanted to emulate were the characters in On the Road. That book blew my mind, and I spent hours feverishly underlining the same passages multitudes of other teenagers had feverishly underlined: "The only people for me are the mad ones!" When my father told his editor, Beth Hadas, that I was obsessed with Jack Kerouac, she sent him a book to give to me, Minor Characters, by Joyce Johnson. It was a memoir about the years Johnson spent as Jack Kerouac's girlfriend during the height of the Beat period, and I was fascinated with it. It was another book that helped me articulate some things I'd only up to then sensed about gender, and probably the first book I read in a genre I'm fond of to this day, what I call "I'm with the band" books, including one by that title. But taken as I was with it, I didn't want to be Joyce, on the margins, waiting at home. I wanted to be, well, on the road. I wrote in "hitch-hike across the country" under "travel around Europe" to my list of travel dreams.
Within just a few years after high school, I had accomplished both those things, but I had felt like I needed a guy to accompany me. It wasn't until I escaped from that guy in Barcelona and met two different independent women on the way back to England that I began to think I didn't need male protection, that I could travel by myself. Coincidentally, my friend Sari, was at almost that exact same moment traveling in Egypt alone, and I hung on her words about it when we were roommates that fall. So it was the real women who showed me that I could go to Asia all by myself. And I know that my experience inspired other women I've met to not wait around for a companion if they have an itch to move.
There are times now, as a middle-aged person who's been supporting myself and my family for years and who checks in on a dozen blogs written by women who are independently traveling and working around the world, when concerns about female agency seem dated, at least when it comes to middle-class white Americans, but the SheWrites panel got me back in touch with a wider-lensed view. It also got me thinking again about Robin, the protagonist in Currency. She's a flawed character who makes some really bad decisions. She does not ultimately triumph. But I admire her willingness to take herself far, to get herself out of Florida, to get herself out of a job that she hated, and all without using her sexuality. I deeply admire her willingness to be for Piv, when she can, the provider, to be the pilot that takes them both to the great beyond. She doesn't take her place by the red-hot cannon only after her husband gets shot down. She's out there fighting for herself, on her own behalf. Especially when I was sixteen, or twenty, or twenty-five, it would have meant a lot for me to find a book like the one I wrote.
Anyway, it was a pleasure, in preparing for the panel, to think back on my reading history, and it was a lovely synchronicity, after several days of wandering the dusty stacks in my mind, to hear Audrey Niffenegger read the short story upon which her new graphic novel, The Night Bookmobile, is based. It's a lovely book that will resonate with anyone for whom reading has been important and for anyone who likes to wander dark streets by themselves.
Posted on July 9, 2010
The excellent music/lit blog Largeheartedboy allowed me to create a Currency play list for their Book Notes feature. I've always seen western music as playing an important part of Piv's identity, and it certainly has been an important part of mine, so this was a fun assignment. For one of the entries, the song "Made in Thailand" by the Thai band Carabao, I found I had a lot to say. I edited it down for the play list, but I'm reposting the full thing here, because it gets at a lot that's important to me—the super-vivid memories I still have of my long-ago trip, the differences between the wifi present and the analog past, and the tension between east and west that I tended to see everywhere, whether or not it was unambiguously present.
When I first went to Thailand in the 1994, one thing I found that I hadn't expected to was a campfire scene. All over the country, it seemed, in the more bucolic locations, Thais and tourists could be found gathered around an evening fire, everyone singing along to a Thai guy playing guitar. If the campfire circle included more than a couple Thai people, there'd often be a segment where they sang Thai songs and the foreigners just listened. It was a relief, in a way—a relief not to have to strive for the universal, not to feel the taint of cultural imperialism in the fact that universal meant John Denver. And I thought I detected relief in the Thai voices as well, surer singing in a native language. The Thai song I heard most often was fierce and proud with a slow, pounding rhythm. It contained an English phrase, "Made in Thailand," and it listed the names of the old Thai capitals: Sukhothai, Lopburi, Ayutthaya, which gave me a thrill. I could recognize them! I'd been there! I liked the song's sense of protest, believing it was criticizing tourists, the commodification of the culture. I tried to ask the Thais around the campfire about the lyrics' meaning, but their answers were vague. Sometimes this seemed due to the limits of their English. Sometimes it seemed they were being polite, not wanting to recount lyrics that were telling my kind to sod off.
The way I heard it sung, "Made in Thailand" was the antithesis of the warbling synth pop that was commonly heard in shops and restaurants and busses, and it became my mission to find a recording of it, to add a local band to my trip's soundtrack, which otherwise consisted of the three tapes I carried in my backpack to play on my Walkman on long bus rides: PM Dawn, Freakwater, and Pavement. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to explain what I was looking for to the cassette tape sellers at local markets, I found a guy who could write out for me the name of the artist in both roman and Thai script: Carabao. The next time I was in Bangkok, I went searching. The vendors on Khao San, backpackers' row, didn't have it, but they liked that I was looking for it, and they told me where to go. I wove my way there, to a series of little streets filled with young, arty Thais, close but yet far from the tourist ghetto. Just being there made me feel hipper myself, and the tapes and CDs were sold in an air-conditioned shop, not a market stall. With the sales clerk's help, I found what I was looking for, an album by the same name as the song, released in 1984 but still popular. I treasured this cassette tape for years, until it was destroyed in an apartment fire.
Nowadays, the internet reduces mystery. With the translated lyrics widely available, I can see they're not an admonishment of tourists; the song could care less about tourists, and my belief that Carabao was singing about me reveals the narcissism that's a frequent companion to liberal guilt. They lyrics are more an admonishment to Thais who are too willing to see value only in foreign-made things. Piv certainly falls into this category. He wants to master foreign ways, to win over foreign women, that's where he sees his fortune rising, the arena in which his dreams will come true. The Thais are known for being such nice people. Pleasure-loving, polite, pleasure-giving. I found that to be true. But there's a knowingness, as well. I liked this song because it captured that.
Category: backpacking, CURRENCY, memory lane, Thailand, travel Tagged: backpacking, CURRENCY, memory lane, Thailand, travel
Posted on July 2, 2010
Last night, my excellent editor Gina Frangello was a guest on the TV show Chicago Tonight. Along with home-grown lit stars Audrey Niffenegger and Brigid Pasulka, Gina was supposed to recommend summer reads. Mark and I recorded the program, and I was all atwitter to see my friend and my book on the little screen. But we didn't fast forward to the books segment. I haven't watched TV in a week, maybe two, and I haven't watched a local news broadcast like Chicago Tonight in who knows how long. It was relaxing and fun to sit back and be presented with the local take on local events, with the gentle host Phil Ponce setting a tone and pace not often seen on MSNBC or the Comedy Channel. I can see why people used to do this, I thought.
And then, it was time! Gina looked great, sitting there with a neat stack of half dozen books by her elbow. And there was Currency, in a dignified position at the bottom of the pile because of its generous trim size, title nicely visible on the out-turned spine. Mark and I were drinking glasses of Grand Marnier, and we clinked them. But within moments of the segment, I began to worry. There was no way no how these three authors were going to have time to tout five or six books each, not with the leisurely retro mode of the show. What, there needs to be all this literary banter? ("Is there an optimal length for a summer read?") And why was Audrey Niffenegger chatting so relaxedly about God's Behaving Badly. Just give a soundbite, lady! Phil Ponce was pitching the titles to the guests, and the first one he tossed at Gina was Marcy Dermansky's Bad Marie. Oh no, I thought. Oh well. Maybe they'll show them all at the end, said Mark consolingly. Brigid Pasulka had a lot to say about Josh Wilker's Cardboard Gods. Would they get a chance to mention even two books each?
Why, yes, they would. Yes, they did. And there was the handsome host whose countenance I had admired on the sides of buses saying, within earshot of rock star Audrey Niffenegger, "Tell us about Currency, by local author Zoe Zolbrod." Look, I'm not going for blase, here. I'm collecting authorial thrills, and that was one. Gina knocked it out of the park.
Just in case you don't believe me, a video of the books segment can be found here.
And below I'm listing of all the books on the docket. Actually, I think I'm going to pick up Bad Marie. And Cardboard Gods sounds sort of brilliant. I already know Stations West and Some Girls are great to get lost in—and I've had the privilege of reading with both authors as well as with Marisa Matarazzo, another of Gina's picks, on my book tour. Who has time to watch TV?
Gina Frangello's Picks
Bad Marie– by Marcy Dermansky
Currency– by Zoe Zolbrod
Commuters by Emily Tedrowe (coming July 1)
Stations West by Allison Amend
Some Girls by Jillian Lauren
Drenched by Marisa Matarazzo
Audrey Niffenegger's Picks
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Misfortune, Wesley Stace
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by G.W. Dahlquist
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Time and Again by Jack Finney
Brigid Pasulka's Picks
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker
The Mighty Queens of Freeville by Amy Dickinson
Collected Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Category: CURRENCY Tagged: Allison Amend, Audrey Niffenegger, Brigid Pasulka, CURRENCY, Gina Frangello, Jillian Lauren, Summer Reads, TV
Posted on June 21, 2010
Well, Currency's been officially out for a little over six weeks now. I've read from it maybe a dozen times in a half-dozen different towns. I've gotten some reviews and done some interviews. I've been absolutely drunk on the kindness and enthusiasm of friends and acquaintances, and, despite attempts to keep my focus on my many book-related blessings, I've also succumbed to moments of despondency over the rest of the world's utter indifference. (I know, I know, I shouldn't be comparing myself to anyone. I shouldn't be checking the Amazon ranking. But, um, I can tell you Currency is at #559,688 as I type. Anyone want to boost my number? From what I can discern, a single purchase vaults it above 100,00 for a day or so.)
Anyway, I thought I'd round up a list of links to some of the press I've received, so I have it all in one place.
Gina and I were in the fantastic courtyard of Austin's boho chic Hotel San Jose when she looked up from her iPhone to tell me that all-round indie-lit star Jonathon Messenger wanted to interview me for TimeOut Chicago, and with the way the sun was hitting the garden's huge yucca plants, or whatever they were, this probably constitutes my most glamorous author moment yet. I thought the interview turned out well. Here's a link to it.
And remember when I was so happy when The Chicago Reader ran a good review? Well, I just about cried for joy when I read this one in NewPages, a site that celebrates all things independent in literature. "What follows is a tour de force portrayal by a serious author of the realities of modern-day smuggling and those involved in these activities. Currency not only succeeds in its scope and in-depth research, but also in in its fluid, energetic, and intriguing prose." I think I've discovered my next tattoo. (You have to scroll down to find Currency, but along the way there are lots of intriguing reviews along the way.)
I was also very excited by this review on A Traveler's Library, because I've admired that site for awhile as one of the few that combines a literary aesthetic with a focus on travel. Writer Vera Marie Badertscher says, "I would call it a good summer/beach read, but don't want to diminish it. I also predict that it will be standard fare in every backpacker hostel in Southeast Asia before very long." Ah, that is one of my fondest wishes! This enthusiastic review by Danielle E. Alvarez on GoBackpacking, a site for independent travelers, would seem to head the book in the right direction.
But, man, it's mostly looking to be a hard slog. I wanted to give away some copies of Currency to readers about to embark on trips, with the request that they would in turn leave the book where another traveler would find it. When Jeannie Mark from the well-designed, well-written travel blog Nomadic Chick contacted me about doing an interview, I thought her site would be a great place to launch the traveling book idea. She loved it, and we designed a contest. Jeannie did a great job with the interview (which is here) and the promotion for it, but we received fewer entries than I had prizes to give away. (Here's what she had to say about that.) So, if it's that hard to give-away a novel to an audience that it's pretty much written for… sigh. (By the way, I'm still trying to get this idea off the ground. If you're going on a trip soon and want a free copy of Currency to read and then leave somewhere, click here.)
Still, even if it's an uphill climb, the internet makes networking with traveler-types easier than it would have been ten years ago. Emily Gerson at the site Maiden Voyage Travel just did a nice interview with me. I talked about publishing with small presses on travel writer Alexis Grant's super-useful and professional writing blog. And I identified another site that hits my target audiences, The Lost Girls, which is run by three women who quit their NYC media jobs to travel and blog around the world. (Their book by the same title came out around when Currency did. It's at #3,382 on Amazon. Not that I'm counting. Not that I've noticed they have a list of national reviews on their Amazon page that's as long as my arm.) I was grateful to see Currency's pretty cover and a good review on their homepage last week, right here. The reviewer is the only one so far who didn't love Piv's voice, but she was nice about it.
Not so nice was this review in Chicago's NewCity Lit. I stumbled upon it just the other day, but I reckon some of my friends might have seen it and not told me about it.
Well, actually, I just reread it to post it here, and it's not terrible. And, you know, I used to be the first to say that if reviewers give everything a sunny two thumbs up, then what's the point. But I think I've changed my mind. It's so hard to complete a full-length work. It's so hard to get it published. To find an audience. And then you're going to dismiss it in a couple of sentences? It might be preferable to say nothing.
On the other hand, today I learned that a review of Currency that was supposed to run in a national print publication got pulled. I can't help but wonder if it got pulled because the reviewer couldn't be entirely positive. Better no national press at all than that?
Whatever. Better this—a book in hand, people reading it—than nothing, of that I'm sure. The good reviews I received before the not-good one did help inure me, and I was fairly well steeled for the indifference of the majority: I knew a book by a first-time author from a small press wouldn't be met with trumpets. I knew having a platform was important, and that I didn't have much of one beyond my supportive friends (whose numbers, thanks in part to the book, are growing). It's been a journey, a real journey, in the best sense of word. No matter how much you read about a place, it's different when you visit it. No matter how much you prepare, you'll be swept along on some currents you can't control. I always feel lucky when I get to go on a trip. And if you liked the book and spread the word, that would make me happy, too.
Category: CURRENCY, fiction, travel writing, writing process Tagged: CURRENCY, fiction, reviews, travel writing, writing process
Posted on May 17, 2010
First off, let me say that Currency officially hits the streets right about now. Dear visitor, I beg you not to judge this book on the absence of a dedicated web site. It is a hundred times better than its web presence, and although there's little excuse for that in this day and age, isn't it preferable to the reverse? Currency is exciting yet thoughtful, sexy yet serious. Yet fun! For real, you will want to take this book with you on vacation. But don't take my word for it, you can read this review, or this advance praise. Or watch this book trailer. Etc. The following blog post was brought to you by the above shameless self-promotion!
Speaking of: I've done a few promotional interviews recently (one with myself, up at The Nervous Breakdown), and in them I've talked for the first time about the liaisons I had with Thai guys when I was traveling, and how they influenced the book. Up until now, although I've written about how loaded can be the attraction of tourists for local people in much poorer countries and about my awakening to the charms of Thai men, I've kept pretty quiet about my actual affairs.
There are lots of reasons for this reticence, I think. For one thing, I was involved with someone back home at the time; we had not promised monogamy, but still. Then I met the man I would marry, and it no longer seemed cool to go on about past lusts. But I think the crux is that I was embarrassed by these relationships. I was embarrassed that there was more than one, that they started to become a pattern. I was embarrassed by the disapproving looks that came from many quarters—from people who had seen the pattern play out, or who thought someone was taking advantage, or who simply found the combination of the two of us unsavory for any number of reasons. I could imagine quite a number of reasons. Now, trying to sort through stuff, I wonder if these embarrassments weren't sharper because they reminded me of a racially-charged situation in my junior high years, and also because my attraction to Asian men might have a connection to something even further back, and sticker. I could probably write a whole memoir unpacking this stuff like a set of old dishes, wondering over the continued, solid existence of things I haven't seen for so long and reading the newspaper the items were wrapped in, amazed by the prices of years gone by, or by the wars that waged then, and so absorbed in the past that I wouldn't notice my hands pricking from the dust until they were on fire.
Over the years, to feed or understand my fascination, I've sought out fiction about cross-cultural relationships, ones that include a difference in race and privilege. There's The Lover, of course, and The Quiet American—I love The Quiet American. Less well known is When Mountains Walked, by Kate Wheeler, about a woman who has an affair with a revolutionary in Peru. I highly recommend it. And The River Sweet, by Patricia Henley—she writes so well about guilt-ridden Americans and other countries.
But the best book on the topic I think I've read is The Pickup, by Nadine Gordimer. That novel just dissects—so lyrically, so incisively; well, she's Nadine Gordimer—the currents between a well-off South African white women and the Arab man she takes up with, an illegal immigrant. The needs of both, the hungers of both, the anger, the role of family and future and sex. It's pre-9/11 but it presages 9/11. It's one of those books I can read again and again, just in wonder that anyone could know all that, and say it so perfectly.
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Now that CURRENCY has been published, a number of people are asking me tactful versions of the question How come this took so long? and Why with a small press? In this excerpt from an interview with Leah Tallen, Other Voices editor Gina Frangello explains better than I ever could. You can see the full interview at Knee-Jerk, and if you read it you'll see that patience reaps rewards, and that I just might win the prize for having the world's most passionate and talented editor. Gina has a new short story collection out this spring, SLUT LULLABIES, and we're going to be promoting our books together in Chicago, New York, LA, Iowa City, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, and elsewhere. Shameless self-promotion time. Come to see us! Become a Facebook fan! Buy a book!
OV is getting ready to release a new book this month, right? Can you talk a little about Zoe Zolbrod and her first book Currency?
This novel has been a long time in coming, and I've been acquainted with it since the late 1990s. I fell in love with it in a writing group when I was still in grad school. I thought Zoe was going to make a million dollars and become a rock star with Currency, that's how much I loved it and the other people in our writing group loved it. But the publishing world being what it is, that's not what happened . . .
I think a lot of editors in New York were spooked by the fact that half the novel is narrated by a Thai man, Piv, whose English is not perfect and has a heavy Thai flavor. I mean, it's a big chance to take, I admit. Publishers might think, What if this isn't authentic? What if it offends someone? What if some reviewer says they don't buy it and suddenly that is the party line? Editors at the big houses have shareholders to answer to and they're not big on risk. They don't live by their guts anymore. But I felt like I knew Piv in a way that transcended politically correct rules like that. He was one of the best characters I'd ever read in contemporary fiction. That's not to downplay Robin, his American lover, who is an extremely strong and complicated character herself. But I felt like Piv was someone I had never met before on the page. When Zoe's novel started getting rejected and agents started walking away, I was stunned.
At that time, I ran a magazine, not a press. Then later, when I launched the press, we published books of short fiction exclusively. Only a little over a year ago did Stacy and I decide to launch the Morgan Street International Novel Series, and we kept getting all these submissions . . . but I couldn't get Piv out of my head. I hadn't even seen Zoe in a couple of years, and Stacy had never read the novel, so I was terrified of getting Zoe's hopes up and not coming through—I knew she'd been through enough with this project. But I had to ask her for the manuscript so Stacy could read it. I think I was as nervous as she was, waiting. Luckily Stacy fell as deeply in love with this work as I had, and that was that.
How does Currency represent OV's mission statement?
The Morgan Street International Novel Series grew out of an anthology we did in 2007, that Stacy edited, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. That book featured thirty writers from all over the world, some published for the first time in English and others already major writers like Josip Novakovich, Nathan Englander, Etgar Keret. In that book, we made an explicit point of defining "culture" through relationships—in other words, while Nepalese culture may be very interesting to an outsider, it is not exotic or even always thought of as "culture" per se, by people in an insular community within Nepal, if that makes sense. A lot of books have explored this-or-that culture, which is important, but we wanted to explore culture as a more shifting, active thing, defined by people interacting and realizing their differences, in both positive and negative ways, and grappling that to figure out who they are. Zoe's novel fits in with that way of exploring culture perfectly.
At the magazine, we'd always had an interest in international fiction, but through the anthology project we really realized we wanted to keep going with it—that we didn't feel like the dominant publishing industry was offering enough fiction set outside the United States, only a few heavily promoted titles a year that became "the" Indian novel or "the" Afghani novel, etc. We wanted to provide more options, even if in a limited way given the size of our list.
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February 23, 2018
Among the many effects of Brexit is contemplating the staggering rise in the workload in UK customs run by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). As the UK leaves the EU on May 2019 and its transitional phase and future relationship with the EU unknown at this point, the UK will need to manage a 363 percent increase in customs declarations, from 55 million to 255 million – caused by the rise of items for which tax and duties must now be collected on trade between the UK and EU. HMRC is running against the clock to put in place a new high-tech Customs Declaration Service (CDS). While not a silver bullet given the tight timescales the UK and EU are working to for an immediate agreement, blockchain may help facilitate smoother customs processes in the medium to longer term. It is certainly an important area for consideration in looking at how technological innovation can reduce frictions and costs in the transatlantic trade relationship.
At a time when world trade is growing again and ecommerce has created a tsunami of small parcels crisscrossing international borders – trade in items less than $100 in value grew about ten times faster than world trade in 2011-15 – border agencies need to quickly sort out illicit shipments and fraudulent duty-avoidance, while enabling low-risk shipments to promptly pass through. Securing borders and facilitating trade cannot be done efficiently by hand or with human eye seeking to detect suspicious patterns; rather, the pattern recognition is perfect work for computers.
Savvier customs such as those of the United Kingdom, United States, and Singapore have long used sophisticated risk management techniques such as predictive analytics and machine learning in their work, with life-saving effects. In 2010, U.S. authorities identified a bomb inside a printer cartridge shipped from Yemen to Chicago. The discovery was made on the basis of trade data that showed that Yemen was an unusual provider of office supplies to the location destined in Chicago. Computers at Singapore Customs have spotted underpayment of duty for cigarettes through analytics that revealed the weight of the goods to be lower than the historical norm. Singapore Customs is now analyzing the potential for artificial intelligence to read and learn X-ray images of containers, in order to detect anomalies and alert customs officials to open suspicious items manually. In the UK, predictive analytics are expected to locate £7 billion in additional tax revenue that had been lost to fraud or errors.
But still there is slack. For example, data-sharing among the 28 UK border agencies has been inefficient, as their databases have not been fully connected.
Blockchain can take customs risk management to another level. Invented by one or a group of still-anonymous individuals who in 2014 published its seminal open source code, blockchain is quietly revolutionizing trade finance, supply chain management, and management of property rights, among many other things. It is a decentralized, disintermediated system that retains data on all transactions on ledger that is visible to all stakeholders and updated in real time. Each transaction on blockchain has an IP address attached to it, which enables anyone to view every transaction any given IP holder has ever made and with whom. All users remain private, and transactions are secure and carried out among private parties – but they are also visible from the bird's eye view to all market participants. That each user builds an immutable history on the ledger, mitigates the need for third-party due diligence.
Blockchain's properties are terrific for border clearance, to ensure high-quality, real-time data on shippers and on the authenticity and origin of goods, and that are sharable instantly with all border agencies. In 2017, HMRC announced a proof of concept using blockchain in customs. The system is to reduce administrative costs and delays in trade transactions, coordinate agencies' inspections, and automatically detect anomalies and enable compliant shipments to clear customs fast – and thus ideally accelerate UK's adjustment to the deluge of parcels and customs declarations post-Brexit.
Whether or not blockchain makes it to HMRC by Brexit, UK's effort opens new opportunities to leverage blockchain also in transatlantic trade. In November 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced it had ideated 14 use cases for blockchain, such as using blockchain to keep track of licenses, permits, certificate of origin reporting and free trade agreement product qualifications. The fact that both UK and U.S. sides are now moving to the cutting-edge technology can fuel transatlantic flows and data sharing among UK and U.S. customs. And ultimately with a number of other customs planning on blockchain. In January 2018, 15 countries in East Africa announced they are launching a "Digital FTA" that is a web of blockchain ledgers and enables easy generation of certificates of origin, for example.
What is more, there can be significant synergies between customs that adopt blockchain and the many trade intermediaries, such as shippers and banks, that have been aggressively piloting blockchain in the past couple of years to combat fraud and reduce paper and manual processes in global shipping and trade finance. Korea's Customs is already sailing to leverage these synergies with a consortium of shippers. The governments of Hong Kong and Singapore are launching a blockchain experiment in trade finance with 20 banks in early 2019. Ultimately all parties – shippers, banks, customs and border agencies involved in a trade transaction can be on the same blockchain, with full visibility into any one shipment end-to-end. This is a major opportunity for transatlantic and world trade, and none too soon for the United Kingdom.


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This is part one of a four part series entitled How to Grow Cannabis in a Closet. There are a lot of guides on how to grow Cannabis floating around the internet. But I found the best information was consolidated in Jorge Cervantes' book, The Cannabis Encyclopedia. I got most of my knowledge from that book and adapted it for this small scale, closet guide.
In this article, I will talk about getting your seeds ready for vegetative growth. This includes germination, planting, and tips on how to produce more females. In the next article, I will show you how to set up your closet and grow healthy seedings indoors.
Materials needed:
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4 inch Pots
Selecting Good Seeds
The first step in cultivating your own cannabis plant is to get some seeds. There are a few ways you can get seeds. The most straightforward way is to buy the seeds online. This gives you the freedom to choose your strain, and you can rest assured that you'll be getting high quality, healthy seeds. Many sites which ship to your location can easily be found with a Google search. But you can also get seeds from a grower friend or ask for them at a local cannabis dispensary. Most dispensaries have unwanted seeds laying around in the back room and might give you them for free if you're nice. Another method, if you have cannabis buds at home, is to look through them for seeds. The production process is not perfect, and chances are you will find a seed in every few grams if you look closely.
There are four basic types of seeds to be aware of:
Natural: these are mother nature's seeds. They will produce about 50% male and 50% female plants unless you use methods during early vegetative growth to shift the scales. (More on that in the next section).
Feminized: These seeds produce only female plants. These seeds were developed in 1982 by H.Y. Mohan Ram and R. Sett at the University of Dehli, India. They are a bit more expensive, and work 99% of the time.
Autoflowering: These seeds grow and are ready for harvest in about 75 days after germination, regardless of light conditions. These seeds contain Cannabis Rudelaris genes in conjunction with Cannabis Sativa or Cannabis Indica. They are the easiest to grow, but may produce poorly and are difficult to clone and breed.
Autoflowering Feminized: Same as autoflowering, but produce only female plants and are ready for harvest in about 90 days after germination.
Preparing Seeds for Germination
submerging the seeds for 24 hours
Once you have your seeds, the next step is to put them in the fridge for a week to simulate winter. Get a little plastic bag, put the seeds in, and leave them in there while you prepare the rest of your materials. Make sure your freezer isn't too cold.
After a week has gone by, remove your seeds from the fridge and put them into a mason jar or glass full of water overnight. The water will work its way into the seed and begin the germination process. Make sure to take your seeds out within 24 hours or they may suffer oxygen deprivation and die. A pro tip is to scuff your seeds with sandpaper before putting them into water. This insures that the water will penetrate the hard outer shell.
Germinating Seeds
ethylene gas during germination helps produce more females
Now that the hard shells of the cannabis seeds have been penetrated by water, they need to be introduced to the air again. Take them out of the water and wrap them in a damp paper towel, and place them onto a plate. Put the plate in a dark cupboard with a ripening banana. The Ethylene gas from the banana will stimulate strong growth during the germination stage. Ethylene gas is also important during the sprouting process, since it will increase the chance that the flower becomes a female (and thus produces buds).
Make sure to keep the paper towel damp for the next 2-7 days while the seeds germinate. Never let the towel completely dry out. If anything causes me the most trouble in the beginning, this is it. A good rule of thumb is to moisten the towel once in the morning and once at night. So set an alarm on your phone. The dark cupboard and moist paper towel simulates a wet, underground, but controlled environment: perfect conditions for a young seed.
Once a healthy seed has germinated, it will have a white tail extruding from its shell. This tells you that it is time to plant the seed. The tail should be about 1 cm long, or twice as long as the seed. The seeds will all germinate at different speeds, so make an effort to plant each as soon as it is ready.
Planting Seeds
Cannabis seeds planted in 4 inch pots, 1 cm below the soil.
Go to your local garden center (or supermarket) and buy fine soil. put the soil into the garden, or into small pots. Saturate the soil with water and pre-drill a hole for each seed. The depth should equal twice the length of the seed (1 cm), so that the seed is covered, but doesn't have far to go to reach the surface.
Once your seeds have sprouted white tails, place them into the pre-drilled holes with the tail facing down (the tail is a root tip). Remember to keep the seed as wet as possible while handling and planting it, but do not drown the seed in soggy soil–healthy seeds need oxygen
To increase the number of female plants, add nitrogen to the soil, and make sure the seedling is getting blue light. You can also keep the seedling near a bunch of bananas, which release ethylene gas, the female plant hormone, increasing female tendencies.
This is the quick and easy way to get started with growing cannabis. Now that you have planted your seeds, you have to care for them as they grow up. In the next article, I show you how to do this effectively in your closet.


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