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Study: Early Head Start Raises Parenting Skills, Children's Learning
Early Head Start, which provides federally financed child-development services for low-income infants and toddlers, is benefiting parents as well as children, a study concludes.
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|The report, "Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low Income Families," is available from the Department of Health and Human Services. (Requires Adobe's Acrobat Reader.)
Mothers involved in the program demonstrated "more-supportive parenting behaviors" than mothers in a control group of nonparticipants, according to "Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low Income Families," a report commissioned by the federal government.
Among other benefits, the participating mothers were more likely to read and sing to their children and to have educational toys and books in the home.
"Even those parents who I don't think had ever thought about reading to their children come in almost every day and ask for a book," said Patsy Thomas, who directs an Early Head Start program for teenage mothers in Hall County, Ga.
The study also produced other interesting findings. For instance, the parents in the program reported experiencing less family conflict and stress than those in the control group. And they were also more likely than those not in the program to be involved in school or in a job-training program.
The Effect on Children
Assessments through age 2 show that children participating in Early Head Start programs scored higher on tests of cognitive development than those in a control group of other children, according to the study, which also found the participants were less likely to be developmentally at risk.
What's more, parents reported their children had improved their vocabularies significantly, were using grammatically complex sentences, and had become less aggressive.
"People don't think about infants and toddlers and literacy," said Karen McKinney, the director of an Early Head Start program at the Rosemount Center in Washington. "But that's a large part of our program."
Olivia A. Golden, the Department of Health and Human Services' assistant secretary for children and families, said the study shows that "the Early Head Start blueprint of an early, intensive program can yield significant results and brighter outcomes for children."
The research was conducted by Mathematica Policy Research in Princeton, N.J., and the Center for Children and Families at Columbia University in New York City. The sample includes about 3,000 children at 17 sites throughout the country.
The results draw on a combination of direct assessments, parent reports, and observation by the researchers.
Early Head Start, which began in 1995, was created as part of the 1994 reauthorization of Head Start, the federal preschool program serving 3- and 4-year-olds. More than 600 Early Head Start programs are operating nationwide, serving roughly 45,000 poor families with infants and toddlers.
Services are also targeted to pregnant women. Early Head Start provides services through both center- and home-based arrangements.
Ms. McKinney said her experiences were consistent with the findings of the new report. She just wishes the program could accommodate more children.
"We know we're just serving a fraction of the population we could," she said. "We have a waiting list of 100."
Not All Good News
While the findings of the study are generally positive, the program did not make a difference in some of the areas the researchers evaluated.
For example, mothers involved in Early Head Start did not necessarily have less negative feelings about their children— feelings possibly affected by their children's behavior or the burdens of motherhood—than mothers not in the program. What's more, even though the study found children in the program became less aggressive, it also said there was no impact on their ability to regulate some emotions. Another finding showed the program had no impact on children's attention spans.
The program did not have an entirely positive effect on parents, either. Parents' employment status did not improve at a greater rate than that of parents in the control group—nor did their dependency on welfare drop at a greater rate.
Vol. 20, Issue 19, Page 22Published in Print: January 24, 2001, as Study: Early Head Start Raises Parenting Skills, Children's Learning
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Every once in awhile, a restaurant will change its menu a bit. I suppose we gotta keep things fresh, right? (Pun intended) Well, perhaps my all time favorite Disney restaurant did just that today. Sanaa has released a brand new dinner menu which you can view on the Disney site.
There is no longer Durban Chicken which seems odd to me. Instead, we get Chicken Vindaloo in the slow cooked in gravy portion of the menu - a go to portion of the menu for this diner. Plus, new goan crab cakes are an app. The rest of the appetizers seem similar but the menu does not currently show the option of getting all nine dips for an extra two bucks with the bread service. If that is true, that would be a huge disappointment to me. Stay tuned for confirmation.
For dessert, the coconut cheesecake has been swapped out for a banana cheesecake. Rice pudding is out and tapioca pudding is in. To be fair, I am always to full for dessert anyway so that doesn't really effect my eating here. But there ya have it. Its still a great place to head over to after a morning or a day at the Animal Kingdom, being just a quick bus ride away.
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It is intriguing that the sharpest responses to Mona Eltahawy's Why Do They Hate Us came from two Arab men, while the reaction of the majority of Arab women varied between the lame "both men and women are oppressed in Arab countries" and the redundant "women are oppressed in the West too."
In the first "manly" response, Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf wrote: "Was it God's intent to set gender relations as they were in the seventh century for all time? Or does the Quran's directive reveal a divine intent that striving for gender parity and justice should be perfected in our time?"
To his credit, Rauf said that Islam's teachings should not be taken literally -- that they should be viewed within their seventh century context and be implemented in a modernized form to fit the current time and age. Eltahtawy had complained against these seventh-century teachings, even though she did not take them head-on because she knew that such an attack would allow her detractors to call her apostate and turn the debate away from the issue of women.
Another Arab man, Shadi Hamid, wrote that in the Arab world "democracy and liberalism do not necessarily go hand-in-hand." He argued: "Democracy means that governments need to be responsive to the will of the people. But the will of Arab men, and even Arab women, does not seem to be particularly supportive of the Western conception of gender equality." He added: "What if Arabs decide they want to be illiberal?"
To Hamid's mind, an illiberal post-Arab Spring region reasserts the importance of cultural relativism. Eltahawy had vehemently opposed such a scheme, insisting that women's rights were universal.
While seemingly correct, Hamid's argument on responsive government disregards democracy's known risk: "The tyranny of the majority." That's why the designers of most Western states made it a point to differentiate between a representative government and the nature of the state. The first requires simple majority, the second absolute majority.
In the Arab Spring context, Islamists can sweep every parliament, form every cabinet and appoint every judge. That will allow them to make policies and implement them. But that will never give them the right to amend constitutions, an agonizing process which usually requires four fifths of parliaments in many democracies.
Maintaining the nature of the state, through a hard-to-change constitution, is important because it safeguards personal freedom. Regardless whether Arab liberals end up governing or not, they should be able to express their opinion free of coercion or reprisal, which is still not the case despite all the Arab revolutionary zeal and the presumed hard-earned freedom.
Eltahawy made it a point to over generalize, perhaps to provoke. She made all Arab men hate all Arab women. But as an Arab man, I was not offended. When I read Mona's beautiful treatise on women, I immediately understood what she meant. Her ranting against the "toxic mix" of religion and tradition and those newly elected officials who have just jumped out of the seventh century stood out.
As an Arab man, I've had endless arguments with my peers over the necessity to recognize the urgency of "women emancipation" in Arab countries. And as an Arab man, I can say with certainty that the majority of Arab men enjoy their privileges over women and plan to keep them. Their reasons might go beyond simple misogyny and be more connected to the nature of patriarchal societies where violence is practiced to establish the chain of authority, regardless of gender. This means that those Arab men who beat their wives are themselves oppressed by other men outside the household. Yet this does not put the suffering of both genders on par. In America, the latest census showed that women are paid 77 percent of what men are paid for similar jobs. In Arab countries, women are nobodies compared to men.
The alleviation Arab women's colossal suffering is possible. For a starter, existing laws should be amended to grant women full and equal rights as men.
But that's only part of the story.
When any adult female steps forward to challenge males, whether her so-called guardians (the father, the husband and the brother) or only her peers, the government should grant this woman full protection from physical harm. This is not because the government should violate the teachings of Islam, but because it should be beyond any government's powers, Arab or Western, to implement any religious or social tradition.
The liberty of every adult citizen, woman and man, is a universal right without which the Arab Spring becomes a mere reshuffling of rulers. All coming Arab governments, whether Islamist or liberal, should make sure to safeguard liberty and protect every citizen from harm.
The problem with the Arab Spring has been so far its focus on political affairs. While important, there will be no Arab revolution without a shift in cultural paradigms, and this is only possible when people like Eltahawy take the lead and provoke.
As for those who argue that maybe Arab women are opposed to change, whether radical or incremental, here is their answer: Human, especially women's, rights are not elective. The laws should be there to protect them. Then, in order to observe cultural relativism that I oppose, Arab women can take these laws or leave them.
Saudi women, for instance, can choose not to drive. But it is the responsibility of everyone to make sure that if they ever decide to do so, there will be no traditions or laws -- religious or temporal -- that can stop them.
Thank you Mona Eltahawy for a sobering article that, as an Arab man, I fully endorse.


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Occasionally my mind travels in weird loops instead of the normal linear process that most people enjoy. It's not all bad. Sometimes I get an idea out of the blue and run with it. This morning it was shark cages.
Now I didn't say Shark Tank like the popular TV show. I said, shark cages, you know like the metal ones they drop into the ocean with humans inside who want to 'swim with the sharks'? Crazy mofo's is all I'm saying there. But nonetheless, the idea of shark cages kept darting at my brain like a moth to the softball field lights at Wolffs Softball Haven during the late games of league.
Shark cages. How much does a 'nice' shark cage cost? How much does a cheap shark cage cost for that matter? Who makes a quality product and who has negative reviews (if they survived to post about it)? Can I get one on Amazon.com and get free two day shipping with my Prime membership? Does it come pre-assembled or is there like an 80-page booklet of instructions to go with 361 unique parts to put together? Do they offer an extended warranty?
With the miracle of Google, I was able to cultivate some rough information but most of it is skewed towards people just wanting the dive experience with a company that has existing cages. For example, this one company near San Francisco offers a special $825 price per diver in the cage (max 4 people in cage) but they also do not guarantee that you will see a shark. No refunds for shark no-shows or equipment malfunctions (air tank failure? boat sinks?) to boot. Although, for that $825 price it included a boat charter, time in the water (in the cage) and wet suit with air tank rental. So all-in-all that seemed like a decent time unless Megalodon comes along and swallows your cage with you safely still inside! In hopping from site to site, I did see one place overseas that offered "kids swim for free" (in the cage). Sounds like a great traumatic experience for impressionable young minds!
But eventually I did find some rough pricing for buying a cage. Depending on what size and what bells and whistles you wanted, you could get a 'personal' cage for about $8000 and other more industrial cages went for about $25,000. The caveat being that you needed to have a vessel capable of first hauling, then dropping and withdrawing the cage from the ocean.
Hopefully you found this post both informative and enlightening. If you were on the fence about purchasing a shark cage or swimming with the sharks and this piece didn't sway you one way or the other, perhaps watch the movie 47 Meters Down.
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Raj & Kam got married at Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha in Hounslow and celebrated at Hilton London Heathrow Airport T5 the following day. A lot of thought and effort went into both events to ensure their guests had a great time (kulfi on a hot day at the gurdwara *and* Krispy Kreme wedding favours at the wedding reception: #winning!).
I'm told "a Happy Kam is a Nice Kam", and the bride was certainly beaming throughout – especially when Raj pulled a few moves on the dance floor with Britain's Got Talent's "Signature"!


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This was published 8 years ago
TV watching 'may shorten life': study
Couch potatoes take note. Sitting in front of the TV for hours on end could shave years off your life.
Researchers estimate that for every hour an adult spends watching TV their life expectancy shortens by almost 22 minutes.
Those glued to the box for six hours a day slice nearly five years off their lives compared to those who don't watch TV.
While sedentary behaviour has previously been linked to an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, this study is the first to look how TV habits affect how long you live.
Researchers from the University of Queensland said their study indicated that watching TV could have a similar impact on life expectancy to that of obesity, smoking and low physical activity.
"People don't realise how it all adds up," the study's lead author Dr Lennert Veerman told AAP.
"They should try not to watch too much TV and find alternative things to do, preferably things that are light activities.
"They should watch the news and keep themselves informed, but if in the rest of their lives they are pretty active, I wouldn't tell them not to watch a movie."
The study was based on data from the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle study, which began in 1999 and asked more than 11,000 people aged over 25 about their weekly TV viewing.
The researchers then compared the viewing times with Australian mortality rates.
They found that in 2008 Australian adults watched 9.8 billion hours of TV and for every hour spent in front of the box their life expectancy dropped by 22 minutes.
Those who watched the most TV a day - six hours - lived 4.8 years less than those who watched none.
"These findings suggest that substantial loss of life may be associated with prolonged TV viewing time among Australian adults," the researchers wrote in their study, published on Tuesday by the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
"TV viewing time may have adverse health consequences that rival those of lack of physical activity, obesity and smoking; every single hour of TV viewed may shorten life by as much as 22 minutes.
"With further corroborative evidence, a public health case could be made that adults also need to limit the time spent watching TV."
The federal government recommends Australians spend at least 30 minutes a day doing moderate-intensity physical activity.
Those who are fairly inactive face an increased risk of developing conditions including cardiovascular disease.
The Heart Foundation's national clinical issues director Dr Robert Grenfell said people who sit for long periods of time should regularly get up and move about.
"Because TV viewing is a ubiquitous behaviour that occupies significant portions of adults leisure time, its effects are significant for overall population health," he said.
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Have I ever told you about my bookCLUB? No. Damn
Well, long story short, it is a group of strong, smart, beautiful, upwardly mobile, creative, witty, and independant women. Friends, colleagues, partners in crime and future presidents.
We get together, inspire each other, challenge each other, and we are a formidable group of women who are about to take over the world.
Tuesday bookCLUB get togethers are not as innocent as they sounds – we party like rockstars and fully bring the house down.
Don't be fooled though, we read; …. the cocktail menu and wine list!
Tonight we celebrate Anele's 25th birthday. I'm scurred!!!
It's going to be the party of all parties!! Look out for pics and unforgettable moments in the next few days!


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Spice Pumpkin Cookies
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling
Makes7 dozen
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup canned pumpkin
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 to 1-1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 to 3 tablespoons boiling water
- 2 cups chopped pecans
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and sugars until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in pumpkin and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; gradually add to pumpkin mixture and mix well.
- Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.
- For frosting, in a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, butter, vanilla and enough water to achieve frosting consistency. Frost cookies; sprinkle with pecans.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 86 calories, 4g fat (1g saturated fat), 9mg cholesterol, 62mg sodium, 13g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein.
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Oct 2, 2016
Followed the recipe exactly. They were ok. I'm going to add a bit more spice next time.
Oct 11, 2014
These were very tasty as written, though I did double the icing as suggested. I might add a little cinnamon the next time.
Oct 2, 2014
My family loves these! Every Thanksgiving they're the first dessert to vanish! :) (Tip: Don't judge the cookie until you've topped it with the icing. It makes all the difference. They compliment each other)
Sep 27, 2014
I was disappointed in these cookies. They had very little taste; certainly not a bit pumpkin pie! spice ! I even added extra pumpkin pie spice. They did turn out light, not a bit heavy but the taste was disappointing.
Nov 6, 2012
I really liked how these cookies came out. I added a tbsp of ground cinnamon to the mix and instead of frosting I dipped the tops of the warm cookies into a homemade glaze. Yummy.
Nov 4, 2012
Delicious! I doubled the frosting recipe and it came out just right. I also added cinnamon like other reviewers suggested. Easy and tastes like a bakery in town.
Oct 23, 2012
Probably won't make again. The frosting recipe didn't make enough. Could use more cinnamon.
Oct 21, 2012
These cookies came out great. Perfect pumpkin taste, and nice light cake-like consistency. The icing is perfect as well and hardens enough to pack the iced cookies up. I doubled the icing recipe to have enough and had a perfect amount. I also added a little cinnamon to the icing and sprinkled cinnamon sugar on top instead of using nuts. These are delicious and oh so easy for a fall day of baking!
Oct 8, 2012
Made these cookies last week ... family loved them. My niece liked them better than pumpkin bars and her 12 year daughter asked me if I would make a batch for her Thanksgiving "feast" her class is having next month.
Nov 27, 2011
Super soft and great flavor. I did 1 1/2 of the frosting and still ran out. I sprinkled cinnamon on top instead of copped pecans.


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Instead of a set of rules where "one size fits all", or wordily-phrased "rights", psychologists have looked at a different model: one of, "Is this an appropriate death?"
The most common scenario, where laws are proposed based on certain check-boxes being fulfilled, is deeply flawed. "Two physicians must agree" – yet if the doctors in the area all happen to be opposed on principle, then they are not likely to agree. "Where the patient has six months to live" – and quite apart from the difficulty of determining this, we know that most major headline cases were not terminal: Debbie Purdy, Tony Bland, Terri Schiavo, Ramon Sampedro. Like these cases, when you have a set of fixed rules, the future will often surprise with one that feels morally right but doesn't fall within the strict 'rulebook.'
Exit's response was to commission a University study on feasibility. The researchers found that the best type of law reform, instead of 'legalising' certain types of assisted suicide outright, would simply be to enact powers to the Courts that would allow them to make exceptions to the rule against assisted suicide.
The confusion over law-making stems not from how and when assisted suicide should be allowed, but something more basic: the question of, what is an appropriate death? The indicators would provide clues for all possible deaths, not just assisted suicides.
Psychologist David Lester, from the Center for the Study of Suicide in New Jersey, built on the work of Avery Weisman and Thomas Hackett in considering the sort of criteria that lead us to conclude that a death is 'appropriate.'
- The role of the individual. There is a temptation to just call this 'autonomy' whereas it may not be quite that simple. A person struck by lightning has no autonomous role in the death, whereas a suicide, whether through very understandable causes or through a lack of social support and a place to live, might or might not be judged 'autonomous' – depending how in control we think that person is. But if a person does play a large role in their own death, that would indeed be a factor to consider.
- Consistency in lifestyle. One person might always have been of the outlook, "Just leave it up to the doctors." If they suddenly changed their mind and sought assisted suicide, it would seem less consistent than someone who had firmly believed in their 'right to die' for a long time.
- Timing. We use phrases like, "It was his time." Someone who is very ill, without the prospect of decent recovery, or someone who is very old, may seem more convincing to us than a young healthy person.
- What about the kind of death? Someone who dies alone and isolated, unable to leave their house, suggests to us something inappropriate. Violent deaths such as road accidents also seem inappropriate (although Ernest Hemingway's suicide by firearm seemed at least consistent with his lifestyle). Natural death, when a person's body just gives up, usually seems appropriate. Psychological death, when the brain has completely ceased to function but the body goes on, can in many ways be sensed as death but does not have the finality of physical death. Assisted suicide in cases where the above conditions are recognised tend to be seen as more appropriate than when such conditions are absent.
Further reading
Robert Grimminck, 10 Heartbreaking Right-To-Die Cases
Exit website, Cases in History
Grace Murano, 8 Most Controversial Cases of EuthanasiaBBC News Assisted dying: What does the law in different countries say?
Exit website, A draft bill
Wikipedia Suicide Legislation
American Psychological Association, Psychological research can inform state policies on the controversial measure.
Further References
Weisman A, Hackett T, Predilection to Death: Death and Dying as a Psychiatric Problem
Lester D, Psychological issues in euthanasia, suicide, and assisted suicide


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Discussion in 'Suggestions / Problems / Bugs' started by dyoddyowel, Oct 7, 2008.
^ haha reminds me of Chile's kleptomaniac president
why ?
haven't you heard the news about the Chile's President?
You've mentioned what Obama did say.
aahh . . the one who stole a ballpen infront of many people ??
^yea look at his face when he did it.
he looks very happy with the pen . . i wonder what its brand . .
Oh, sorry for the late reply. I completely forgot about this forum. I only remembered it when I checked my email just now.
Honestly, I don't really care at all. My only concern was that the thread he deleted contained a lot of good information about ISP routing and that it was a good topic which should have been discussed with PLDT directly. Anyway, it doesn't matter now. I was able to find Mr. tsenseless with his dedicated game servers on Steam.
And yes, I would have PM'd duhwho if I knew how. I didn't even know you can PM other users on this forum. Heck, I tried looking for the PM function on your profile just now and I still can't find the damn button.
No hard feelings. Peace out!
I joined here like what? 2008? and haven't been active since there was nothing important that interests me until that topic about PLDT routing came up and is not gone. So did I join this forum to satisfy my own ego?
Act my age, be mature, and don't be a cry baby. Hmmm... I don't see the relevance to what I posted. Was it immature of me to bring up a concern? Maybe that's why the Philippines is stuck with "ok lang" internet services.
All you can do is, walk straight to their office have a little chat with pangilinan, and bust his ass out.
eto na wag nyo baban ip ko dahil nag rereklamo ako
nakakawalang gana tong connection nyo promise ang mahal mahal ng bayad ko tapus laging nagdidisconnect anu ba to paayos naman o nakakapikon kasi e
what the heck are you talking about? pinoy DSL is not an ISP, its a message board and it free. It is also not connected to any ISP
i think you better post in the correct section. Meron naman sections for the major ISP's. And dont act as if connected ang pinoyDSL sa ISP mo. So walang mangyayri if puro reklamo ka lang kasi the officials of your ISP wont hear it. What you want to do is ask for help from the members here
pfsense + lusca topic needs a clean up there are too many misleading post which has derailed the topic.
Nawala nga mga sexy pics ko dto eh. hmpf. .
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The Toxic Avenger
Year: 1986
Duration: 1h 22min
IMDb: 6.2
Country: USA
Actors: Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion, Robert Prichard, Gary Schneider, Pat Ryan, Mark Torgl, Dick Martinsen, Chris Liano, David Weiss, Dan Snow, Doug Isbecque, Charles Lee Jr., Patrick Kilpatrick
This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The devastating results then have a transmogrification effect, his alter ego is released, and the Toxic Avenger is born, to deadly and comical results. The local mop boy is now the local Superhero, the saviour of corruption, thuggish bullies and indifference. Troma classic with good make-up effects and stunts, a pleasant surprise indeed.


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Title: Center Mass
Series: Code-11 KPD SWAT #1
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Luke Roberts came to the small lazy town of Kilgore, Texas with one thing on his mind: Forgetting. He wanted to forget why he left. Forget those emerald green eyes that haunted his dreams. And forget how it felt to have his heart ripped out of his chest by a woman who didn't like the fact that he had a child. It was something he'd been doing a damn fine job of doing, too. Until Reese smashed through every one of his defenses, and made him feel again.
Reese Doherty was just trying to do the best for her little girl. So she moved to the little boomtown nearly an hour from where she grew up to be the school nurse for Kilgore's littlest people. That's where she met him. The SWAT officer and the man that would change her life forever. The sexy man who liked to drive fast, and live life like it should be lived. He drove her crazy, and became something she could barely live without.
But Luke was a hero. A man used to risking his life to make the world a safer place. Something Reese had to decide whether she could handle or not. Preferably before her and her daughter became too attached.
Just when she's ready to give him her whole heart, her world takes a huge hit, and everything she thought she knew wasn't as it seemed.
Luke wasn't a quitter, though. Damn far from it, and he'd prove to her that he'd be there when the dust settled. Whether she wanted him to be or not.
This is the first book in Lani Lynn Vale's newest series, Code 11-KPD SWAT. I loved the Dixie Wardens series, so had to sign up for this one. The characters do have connections to the previous series, but you don't need to read them first. I still need to read the Freebirds series.
Reese Doherty is the new school nurse at the elementary school. She is also a single mom to a 5 year old little girl, Rowen. Rowen reminds me of my own 5 year old little girl. We actually met Reese's sister, Tru, and her parents in the Dixie Warden series. She is a great mom, and a great nurse. I love the interaction between Reece and Tru, I was laughing hard at them.
Luke Roberts is the assistant chief of Police and SWAT team leader. Oh and he is also a single dad to a little girl. He is a great dad and a great cop. He's also an ex-Marine. He is completely alpha.
These two meet because Reece took care of Luke's daughter, Katerina. They started out a little slower, just running into each other around town, but once they got going, it was freaking hot!
Both have to deal with exes though. Reece's ex is also her baby daddy and he has a new wife.
I wasn't expecting the twist with that. It totally surprised me.
Radar and Trance make an appearance and had me crying. Radar is such a great dog.
Just like in the previous books, the life lessons and one-liners at the beginning of the chapters had me laughing hard.
"Men are usually too focused on the cleavage in the shirt to see the crazy in the eyes."
"Nice pants. Now take them off so I can fuck you. Unless you're not fond of them, then I'll take care of them for you."
This is such a great read, I couldn't put this book down. Now to wait a month for Nico's story. Don't know if I can wait that long!
She sat back in her chair, a smile on her face. "So you used her for sex?"
I shook my head. "No. That's not what I said."
"Oh?" She asked. "Then what did you mean?"
"It means that I was having fun. She was an amusement, one that might have turned into something more in time, but wore out her welcome when she told me she didn't like my child," I said coldly.
I wouldn't have said it as coldly if I hadn't seen Lydia stand up in the mirror above Reese's head. Just having her anywhere near me set my skin to crawling. Just as it'd done when I'd left her.
I saw her flinch and turn around, as did Reese, who gave me a sympathetic look.
"You've got this twitch…right above your eye," she said, a grin playing at the corner of her lip. "I think I really like you. I didn't think anyone could be as mean as I could."
"Are you done yet, or are you just going to play with that straw with your talented tongue some more?" I asked, exasperated.
She winked.
"What," she asked, licking the straw completely before sucking it into her mouth. "Does this bother you?"
She was playing with fire.
"You know," I said, standing slowly. "I've had one hell of a week. I'm running on fumes, and you're getting really close to pushing my last button."
She stood too, taking the half eaten milkshake with her.
"And what button's that?" She asked over her shoulder.
I took in the view of her backside. The tight black pants that molded to her ass perfectly. Her long hair that just brushed the top of her butt… just begging for me to sink my fingers into it. A handhold I could pull while I fucked her hard from behind.
"I'm not an easy man." I said softly behind her. "I'm rough. I have a kid. My job's demanding and I won't be able to devote a lot of time to you."
She snorted. "I'm not an easy woman. I'm emotional. I have baggage. I'm loud. My kid requires a lot of my attention. And I PMS once a month."
In one swift move, I pinned her up against the side of my cruiser.
Her body went limp, and her fingers went to my shirt, clutching it in her fists.
My mouth slammed down on hers. Weeks of sexual frustration coming out into the kiss.
She tasted like vanilla ice cream.
Soft and smooth, and oh, so sweet.
"You're so fucking sexy," I said against her lips. "When I get you into my bed, I won't let you up for air for weeks."
She grinned, pulling in the air I'd just exhaled before saying, "We have kids. You've got until ten A.M. Tops."
I leaned forward. "That's enough time…for now."
I'm a married mother of three. My kids are all under 5, so I can assure you that they are a handful. I've been with my paramedic husband now for ten years, and we've produced three offspring that are nothing like us. I live in the greatest state in the world, Texas.


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The grande finale is finally here! This evening, all of our Arabic and Spanish students graduated from their respective MIL Academies. A huge congratulations to our students on four fantastic weeks of language learning! These students were met with challenges, in and out of the classroom, and they all rose to the occasion while sharpening their language skills and building relationships.
This Wednesday, Arabic and Spanish students performed in the "World Expo". Both academies gathered together to present what they had learned and created in their Cultural Exploration courses.
We live-streamed the event, and have a full video of the entire expo. Please follow this link to watch the performances from every Arabic and Spanish student:
Happy Monday! The Spanish Academy started their week with a trip to Middlebury College. At Middlebury, students completed a scavenger hunt around campus, and the older students attended an admissions information session. At the end of the day, the academy watched a flamenco concert before eating a picnic dinner.
Photos of the day at Middlebury can be found in our Facebook album from the day - more photos are coming soon!
Today was the most eventful and jam-packed Saturday at SMC to date! Students in the Arabic and Spanish Academies had a full day of activities.
The Arabic Academy's day started off at a local art studio. Students brought the tracing paper designs they created yesterday and transferred them onto tiles which they painted with beautoful, bright paint. Students created three tiles in total: one a geometric, one floral, and one calligraphy design. After their visit to the art studio, students visited a scenic park in Burlington before heading back to SMC.
The following is a guest post from Alejandro, a Spanish teacher at SMC, detailing his "El Camino de Santiago" CE class:
Just like that, week three of classes has come to a close and students are heading into their last weekend on campus. As always, it was a busy day here at SMC. Students went to class, finished up the last day of their Week 3 cultural exploration courses, called and ended their Friday with fun, academy-wide evening activities.
The following is a guest post from Samantha, a Spanish RA, detailing a "day in the life" here at SMC:
(*Disclosure: the following entry will be in Spanglish)
I'm Samantha, las puertorriqueñas Residential Advisor (RA). Back in 2013 I was a student in the German Academy. My RA's inspired me to later apply for the position and so far this is my second year working as an RA at the Spanish Academy!
Greetings from the shores of Lake Champlain! Today our Spanish Academy took a day trip to a local beach on the lake. Students arrived mid-afternoon and stayed until dusk - it was a full day of fun and relaxation. Though it was windy and the water was cold, students were quick to jump into the lake and swim. They also went for scenic walks around the park, built sand castles, played football, read, made bracelets, played ukulele, or hung out with friends under the sun. They even had a "picnic" dinner with brown bag meals.
Today in honor of our third weeking being underway, I asked our Arabic students to show me their favorite new word that they have learned in Arabic (plus the English translation). Below are some of the results, and check out the slideshow above for a complete album of student responses!


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"In this excellent collection of essays, Gordon (It Came from Memphis), a veteran music journalist on the Memphis scene, masterfully writes about the outlaws, rebels, and tragic figures who provided the spark for the city's entertainment industry. … Gordon's book is a grand, funky musical tour of Memphis." Publishers Weekly
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A celebration of uncommon music and musicians from Memphis and environs, from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion.
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Respect Yourself
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"Gordon's book belongs on the shelf alongside canonical works such as Peter Guralnick's Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley and Nat Hentoff's Jazz Is, not solely because of its subject, but because it does what the best music writing does, and which traditional criticism often fails to do: it gazes beyond the music itself."
— The Los Angeles Review of Books, starred review
"The voices of the members of the Stax family, and Gordon's deep knowledge of Memphis, give the book a significance that extends beyond a single recording studio. Robert Gordon knows the place, and he'll take you there."
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Disruption in Chat
- September 20, 2017
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I recall a day not so long ago when instant messaging seemed like a bit of a sleepy space. There were a few attempts to revive it: Yammer, for example. But it had settled into free services: Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ, and AIM, etc. And it didn't feel like that would change for a long time to come.
Then along came Hipchat and Yammer for more "corporate" messaging. That was so long ago that a recent article on Atlassian starts (emphasis added):
"Hipchat, the venerable team communication app owned by business software maker Atlassian, is making way for a sequel."
Hipchat started in 2010. Along came Slack in 2013 and disrupted this market:
Slack launched in 2013 and rocketed to 5 million daily users and 1.5 million paying customers — a speed of growth that is all but unheard of for business software. Its success has attracted challenges from large competitors including Microsoft, which launched the Slack clone Teams last year, and Google, which reimagined Hangouts as something closer to Slack this spring.
And now here we are again, Atlassian launching Stride – a new take on corporate instant messaging:
Steven Goldsmith, who oversees all of Atlassian's communication products, says Stride is designed to solve three big problems with team chat apps like Slack.
Steve is an old friend, and Atlassian runs Hipchat and Stride out of their Austin office downtown. So I'll be rooting for them for personal reasons and for Austin-pride reasons. These tools are game changers for collaboration in the enterprise. Communication channels during conferences and events have not only allowed teams on the ground to coordinate better, but have also allowed others to follow along at home to keep apprised.
What I find most interesting is Atlassian having to, and being willing to, disrupt itself 7 years into a product lifecycle for Hipchat. That's the world we live in now. Digital disruption and transformation are not just challenges to old school brick-and-mortar companies – it's a real issue for all of us in technology as well.
Taking a big step back – if there's a sleepy corner of tech, watch out. Someone is gunning for it. Instant / Corporate messaging is a great example, but there are many others.


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text: Act now. Big policy changes mean you could save money by rethinking your choices. By Kimberly Lankford, Contributing Editor October 7, 2010 Medicare is changing, and so should your strategy for choosing your health-care coverage. The new health-care-reform law freezes subsidies for Medicare Advantage plans, which means that most of these all-in-one policies will change and some will disappear altogether. In addition, the "doughnut hole" in Medicare Part D prescription-drug plans, which can leave you with a bill for thousands of dollars of drug costs each year, will gradually be eliminated. And starting next year, some high-income seniors will pay extra for Part D coverage.You have from November 15 to December 31 to pick a Part D or Medicare Advantage plan for 2011. While you're at it, review how you fill other gaps in your health-care coverage under these new rules. Sponsored Content Compare all-in-one plans. Medicare Advantage plans, which provide all-inclusive health and drug coverage, are likely to raise their premiums and increase cost sharing to make up for the declining subsidies and added coverage requirements in 2011. Some plans are likely to eliminate extra benefits, such as gym memberships and vision care. Almost one-fourth of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The rest stick with traditional Medicare, and thus they must pay monthly premiums for Part B. Many also buy supplemental medigap policies to cover deductibles and co-payments and separate Part D plans to pay for prescription drugs. Advertisement During this open-enrollment period, review your Medicare Advantage options and focus on the total out-of-pocket cost, including premiums and co-pays, for the types of drugs and medical services you use. "A lower premium may not save you money because the benefits may be cut," says Ross Blair, president and chief executive of Plan-Prescriber. Making the right choice now is more important than ever because you will not get a second chance to switch Medicare Advantage plans for 2011. That's because the traditional second open-enrollment period, from January through March, has been eliminated -- which is likely to cause confusion, says Fred Karutz, of Silverlink, a consulting company that helps seniors make decisions about their health benefits. If you have been covered by a Medicare Advantage private fee-for-service plan, which allows you to use any doctor or hospital that accepts Medicare, you need to be extra vigilant. Many of these plans have gone out of business over the past few years, and more are sure to follow. If your plan shuts down, you may be automatically enrolled in traditional Medicare or your insurer could make it easy to switch to another Medicare Advantage plan (assuming one is available), but your choice of doctors may be more limited. Reshop your medigap policy. Your other option for filling the gaps in Medicare is to buy a medigap policy and a separate Medicare Part D drug policy. Medigap policies tend to be more expensive than Medicare Advantage plans, but the policies let you use any doctor or hospital that accepts Medicare. Two new medigap plans introduced this year provide a good balance of coverage and cost, particularly for refugees from the Medicare Advantage exodus. Advertisement Until recently, insurers sold 12 standardized plans, which were labeled A through L. Although prices might have varied from insurer to insurer, each company's Plan A, for example, offered the same coverage. But those options changed on June 1, when insurers were no longer permitted to sell plans E, H, I and J to new customers. (If you have one of those policies, you may keep it, but you might not want to.) The two new plans, M and N, are similar to the most popular medigap policy, Plan F, with a few cost-sharing differences. But Plan N is usually the best deal. Like Plan F, Plan N covers 100% of the $1,100 Part A deductible, but unlike Plan F, it doesn't cover the $155 Part B deductible. Plus, Plan N requires co-pays for visits to the emergency room and doctors' offices. Even so, the premiums for Plan N are generally so much lower than for other medigap policies that you may still come out ahead. For example, the least-expensive Plan F for a 70-year-old man in Miami costs $211.50 per month, according to PlanPrescriber.com. But Plan N is only $169.20 per month, so you'd come out ahead for the year even if you visited a doctor 12 times at $20 a pop and went to the ER twice. Alan Mittermaier, president of HealthMetrix Research, which provides rankings of Medicare Advantage plans, says that Plan N can be a good alternative to Medicare Advantage, especially if you are switching from a private fee-for-service plan. You can still use any doctor, and you'll pay similar cost-sharing fees. Advertisement But beware of "excess charges." Doctors are allowed to charge a patient up to 15% of the Medicare-covered charge. Plan F covers such excess charges, but plans M and N do not. If your doctors charge extra, your costs could really add up. There is no open season for medigap coverage. You may apply for a new policy at any time during the year. However, you might be rejected or charged more because of your age or health, unless you're within six months of your initial enrollment in Medicare Part B. But don't let that stop you from making the switch to a new plan; several insurance companies will offer you the new policies regardless of your health. Review your Part D options. Medigap policies don't cover prescription drugs, so you'll need to get a separate Part D policy. In 2010, the doughnut-hole coverage gap kicks in when your prescription-drug expenses total $2,830 for the year (including both your share and the insurer's share of the costs). At that point, you generally have to pay all of your drug bills yourself until the total cost of your medicines for the year reaches $6,440. After that, the insurer picks up most of the bill. If you have been paying extra for some drug coverage in the doughnut hole, it's time to review your Part D options. You may be able to switch to a more basic -- and less expensive -- policy and still end up with similar coverage because of the new discounts in the doughnut hole. The gap starts to shrink in 2011. Patients caught in the doughnut hole next year will get a 50% discount on brand-name drugs, and the prescription-drug funding gap will gradually disappear by 2020. Seniors will also get a break in the doughnut hole on less-expensive generic drugs -- they'll pay 93% of the cost rather than the full 100% in 2011. Advertisement Also, premiums for the most-popular plans have increased significantly over the past few years; the plan that was the best deal a few years ago may now be one of the more expensive ones. Average premiums for Part D are expected to rise by just $1 in 2011, to $30 per month, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. But that's cold comfort for the millions of seniors who have seen their Part D premiums skyrocket over the past few years. Consider the premiums as well as the coverage for your specific drugs. A plan with a low premium could cost you more in the long run if you have high drug co-payments. Ask your doctor whether you can switch to generics or other lower-cost drugs. And be aware that the plan with the best deal for brand-name drugs might be different than the best plan for generics (the Doughnut Hole Calculator can help you find generic substitutes). Starting in 2011, individuals who earn more than $85,000 per year (or $170,000 if married filing jointly) will have to pay a high-income surcharge for Part D premiums.


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Lovely, lovely work... so beautiful!!!!ReplyDelete
Sweet greetings,
Saskia :)
Wow Claire this is beautiful, a real work of art, I think this image is definitely one of your best! Lovely colouring too!ReplyDelete
Love, Rose xx
Beautiful art! The image is wonderful.ReplyDelete
Stunning Claire !!!ReplyDelete
What a great gift !!!!!
Peggy xx
Hi Claire wow thats stunning, the colouring is so vibrant and beautiful. With love and hugs ShirleyxxxxxxReplyDelete
Wow Claire, this is stunning. it looks so beautiful. hugs chris xxReplyDelete
This is amazing Claire. What a beautiful creation. I love the way she's hiding away.ReplyDelete
It's been ideal crafting weather here today as well, wet and windy!!
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This is lovely. Love the little roses. Thanks for joining us at TG this week.ReplyDelete
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What a fabulous gift Claire, it is just stunning!ReplyDelete
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Mastering the own data, thanks to automation!
'We spent years implementing an alternative service management automation system internationally that ultimately did not deliver what it promised. With Matrix42, it took less than six months to roll out a unified system that works across all our locations. I am incredibly impressed with the simplicity and flexibility of the Matrix42 solution.' (Roland Hampel, Project Leader at KWS SAAT SE)
With core markets in Germany, Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and China, KWS SAAT SE is one of the world's leading seed producers with 4,950 employees in more than 70 countries. It has been operating independently as a crop breeder for around 160 years. The primary goal of its activities is to provide farmers in conventional and ecological agriculture sectors with efficient, high-yield varieties and solutions that match their needs based on the relevant local climate and geological conditions. The company's 4,950 employees support its activities in more than 70 countries, including its core markets in Germany, Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and China.
KWS SAAT SE attempted to implement a unified global service management automation system but realized, that the solution originally selected was never going to meet their needs. Performance was slow, process mapping and the integration of new features were extremely labor-intensive, and the company's international subsidiaries and partners were unable to use the system. Not only that, the system's interfaces were difficult to use, even for experienced IT professionals.
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The platform was crowded, people on their way home for work, a woman with her two girls, one holding a half-eaten apple, a man slouched forward over his phone, three young women talking excitedly to each other, a man walking through, all of them waiting with her, on the platform across the tracks, the local and express, some glancing up into the tunnel, others barely aware they were there, the electronic board stuck at three minutes and then flashing orange. Ashe closed her eyes. The sound was distant, moving away, echoing out of the tunnel, and then it was above, heavy over the joists, coming through the cement block ceiling and walls. The train was here. It was odd, standing there, as if in a dream, going nowhere, dark and crowded, not scared, not anything, just there. They pushed past one another, some patient, and filled the train. She pressed back against the door to the next car, the cool of metal against her hip, and the train doors closed. It was slow at first, starting, only to lose momentum, starting again, slowing, and then began to gain speed, moving alongside the local train, pulling even, looking back at the people looking at them, and them moving ahead fast, swaying back and forth, clacking over the switches and breaks, flashing past the cement pillars, yellow lights and local stations, until it was almost too fast, and then braking, the woman's mechanized voice announcing Grand Central, clicking into the station, slowing hard, stopping and the door's opening for the swell to go out and in. She stayed as she was and watched, the little man dash of the one empty seat, the older woman pause and stand over him, the young women, still there, rotating around their pole, still talking, the young man moving his head side to side with his music, the hand reach in to stop the doors, waiting him and then another, before moving again, deep into the tunnel.
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What The Hamptons Is & Isn't
When people tell you about their weekend in the Hamptons, remember that the truth of it is all traffic…neighbors blaring Katy Perry…the construction next door…as well as 45-minute deli lineups. And, only if they're lucky, maybe 10 minutes of what they claim.
Overlooked New York: Knickerbocker Post Office
New York native Washington Iriving coined the name Knickerbocker in his 19th Century writing to exemplify the New York character – graceless, indomitable freethinkers – and soon enough the name dotted the city. The Knickerbocker name is ingrained, especially in the older corners, such as the Knickerbocker Post Office, an old brick building on East Broadway in Chinatown. The Google reviews on are less than positive: "Lack of Customer Service! wasted my morning!" "Very negative experience with staff" "The package was either lost or stolen in this USPS location." Knickerbockers one and all.
Lady Smashes Cell With Old-School Receiver
She didn't look that mad as she turned toward the phone booth, cell phone in hand, and then placed it on the dirty metal grill where the phone books used to be. That's when she let it have it – one phone on the other – bringing the pay-phone receiver down like a hammer, once and again, until her cell toppled to the ground, appropriately smashed. She wasn't done. The pay-phone receiver still swinging, useless, she picked up her cell, and walked ahead, muttering, all the way to the corner, and carefully, angrily, shoved it down between the grill of the storm sewer. "Try calling me again! You try that!" She vanished, phone-less, into the subway station.
Overlooked New York: Liberty Park
Liberty Park has recently been opened atop the parking garage immediately south of the 9/11 Memorial in Downtown Manhattan.It has the same design aesthetic as the Chelsea Highline but is much less crowded, although it is also marred by an excessively almost angrily worded memorial, America's Response Monument.And so, while the crowds of the 9/11 Memorial may not be here, this statue can give the feeling of impending doom
Overlooked New York: African Burial Grounds
North of City Hall and the World Trade Center Memorial is a spot much less frequently visited: The African Burial Grounds National Monument. Africans – enslaved and "free" – were buried here, outside the boundaries of what was then called New Amsterdam in 1690-1794. The grounds were rediscovered in 1991 during the planned construction of a Federal office building. It's as good a place as the 9/11 Memorial – and far fewer people.
Safe on the Island
I'll write a book where people scavenge and socialize far from home and then, in the later hours, scurry back to their island. It's going to be called Safe on the Island.
Overlooked NYC: Frank Campbell Funeral Chapel
What do Fatty Arbuckle, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Irving Berlin, Joan Crawford, Mario Cuomo, Judy Garland, John Lennon, Jackie Kennedy Onasis, Igor Stravinsky, Mae West, The Notorious B.I.G, Heath Ledger, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ayn Rand all have in common? A funeral service at the Frank Campbell Funeral Chapel on the corner of Madison and 81st Street – just two blocks from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum. As far as funerals go, this appears to be the last place to be seen.
Battery Park Rally Against Trump's Muslim Ban
This was my first political rally, complete with chants – No Hate, No Fear! Refugees are welcome here! – signs and speakers. New York politicians showed up in force: Senators Charles Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker, Mayor Bill De Blasio, Congressmen Jerry Nadler and Adriano Espaillat, along with a host of city council members. The only thing that Trump's despotic methods have managed to achieve so far is galvanize the opposition against him; the past indifference – liking, tweeting and such – has evolved into activism, protests appearing everywhere in the country and around the world. What wicked thing has he in store next? Week two has only just begun.
Making Grilled Cheese for Claus Meyer
I am not a cook. I only make one thing: grilled cheese sandwiches. I mentioned my grilled-cheese sandwich abilities in passing during a party, and truth be told, I wasn't really aware of who I was talking to, nor even really what I was talking about, but I did not tell the person before me, Claus Meyer, that I was good at making grilled cheese sandwiches.
Surprisingly, he seemed interested. "I would like to try that."
Shortly thereafter I had learned who he was, that he was a famed chef and restauranteur, co-founder of Noma in Denmark, voted best restaurant in the world four separate years.
"You say it is a good sandwich. I would like to try them too."
And so we invited Claus and his wife for dinner, and, yes, I made my grilled cheese sandwiches, or "cheese toasts" as he called them. And he liked them. "The bread is right. It is crisp. The cheese is perfectly melted." He had three pieces. "Yes, they are very good."
My secret you ask? Well, I've just started working on my book, Melted Just Right which should be ready in the fall of 2017.


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This report is about a system that condenses water vapour from air: "First we harness the energy of the wind to make electricity, which is used to motor an air conditioning system in which the humidity of the air is condensed to produce water." The machine sucks air into a system that cools a series of plates on which the humidity of the air condenses, forming water which flows into a collecting tank. "This is nothing more than a machine that makes rain,"
The inventor, Marc Parent, is unequivocal about the importance of IP to his company, Eolewater, especially in terms of attracting investment partners. "Intellectual property is indispensible," he said, "it is the key to the vault". This cannot be done single-handedly, he stressed; finance and industrial partners are needed. Investors, he discovered, were only interested if they could see that the machine worked and if they were sure the technology had been patented. "Without patents there are no investors, no commercialization," he said. "Without a patent it is not possible to make an innovative solution like this operational. Without a patent you can't attract investors, or clients to buy the right to manufacture this machine in different countries. They won't do it without the assurance, the certainty of having an exclusive right in the technology."
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According to this report, the State of California has granted approval for a new solar thermal power plant. The 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project is the first solar thermal power plant to be licensed in the United States in nearly 20 years. Commercial operation is expected to start by the third quarter of 2011.
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As a Griffith Hack client we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Professor Chu-Zhu Li on winning the 2010 Curtin Commercial Innovation Award. Please see details in the Media Release below.
Media Release: 13 August 2010
Curtin University researchers have made a breakthrough in converting biomass, such as mallee, into "clean" combustible gaseous fuels that can be used to generate a continuous source of electricity (base load electricity).
This innovative new technology has the potential to provide a sustainable and economical energy generation alternative, especially in regional and rural areas.
The technology, developed by Professor Chu-Zhu Li and his team from Curtin's Centre for Advanced Energy Science and Engineering, was named the winner of the 2010 Curtin Commercial Innovation Awards announced today.
The annual awards, run by Curtin's Office of IP Commercialisation, acknowledge the best commercially-oriented innovations arising from research by Curtin staff and students.
Curtin's Office of IP Commercialisation Director, Rohan McDougall, said the winning innovation was a great advance in sustainable energy generation.
"The gasifier that Professor Li and his team have developed is able to convert raw solid fuels like biomass into clean gaseous fuel in a highly efficient and economical manner," Mr McDougall said.
"Numerous efforts have been made worldwide to clean up product gas from existing gasification processes in a cost effective way but with only limited success.
"Use of gasification product gas currently has limitations in electricity generation as tar and other contaminants foul up the gas engines and turbines. Curtin's gasification technology is able to produce clean product gas with a high energy content."
The process utilises mallee, abundant in WA and actively farmed to minimise dryland salinity. Other low-rank fuels like lignite, brown coal and peat can also be converted.
"This technology will be particularly useful in the immediate future in rural and remote areas to replace the diesel engines that are currently being used," Mr McDougall said.
"Unlike other renewable energy sources this process can be used to produce base load power and not just peak load so eventually when the technology is fully developed it can be used for clean and cost-effective generation of electricity in cities as well."
A pilot scale gasifier (4kg/hr) has been built and operated successfully. Professor Li is now working toward the construction of a demonstration plant at Curtin.
Curtin's Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Development, Professor Linda Kristjanson, commended the winning project.
"This work is an excellent example of the cutting edge research and innovation taking place at Curtin and a very deserving winner of the top prize in this year's awards," Professor Kristjanson said.
"Curtin staff and students have an excellent track record in conducting high level, industry-relevant research which can provide significant benefits to the community, with many of the projects offering real commercial potential."
The other finalists who won prizes at the awards were:
Professor Peter Teunissen, an ARC Federation Fellow from the Department of Spatial Science at Curtin, was recognised for his next generation global positioning system. It has improved 3-D positional accuracy, reduced convergence time and improved data integrity. His technology can open up a host of applications that were previously unattainable with existing systems, including precision agriculture, offshore positioning, land surveying, and emergency and military services.
Dr Fedja Hadzic and Dr Michael Hecker, Research Fellows from Curtin's Digital Ecosystems Business Intelligence Institute, were awarded an early career prize for a software tool able to clean-up duplications and errors in corporate and government databases. The software can also detect the source of contamination and prevent future data pollution with business process mining.
Contact: Ann Marie Lim; Public Relations; Curtin; 08 9266 4241; 0401 103 532; firstname.lastname@example.com
Note to Editor:
About Professor Chun-Zhu Li: Professor Chun-Zhu Li is a world leader in energy research. He took up the position of Director of the new Curtin Centre for Advanced Energy Science and Engineering in early 2009. Under Professor Li's leadership, the Centre is developing novel low emission energy technologies, covering both fossil fuels and renewables.
About Curtin IP Commercialisation: Curtin established a pre-seed fund in 2005 and a follow-on fund in 2008, each with funding of up to $5 million. The funds are being applied to support early stage commercialisation of innovative new technologies developed at Curtin. The University has invested in 13 companies and a number of unincorporated opportunities. The investee companies are rapidly growing and employ over 80 people in new economy jobs and generate revenues in excess of $10 million per annum.
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According to this report, scientists in Scotland have unveiled a biofuel developed from the by-products of the whisky distillation process.
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According to this report, Miasole, a maker of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar modules, has 105 patents and patent applications and has 50 more coming soon. The company's goal is to file around 100 applications per year.
Now that's a patent portfolio!
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Congratulations to solar PV pioneer Professor Martin Green, from the University of NSW, who won the Leadership prize at the Eureka awards. Read the citation here.
Professor Green is an inventor associated with Australia's highest quality solar patent, according to our analysis.


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Title: Of Sand & Malice Made | Series: The Song of the Shattered Sands #0.5 | Author: Bradley Beaulieu |Publisher: Gollancz| Publication date: September 8th 2016 | Num. Pages: 240 | Genre: Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit
3.5 stars – An interesting concept of a pit fighting, steroid taking young adult.
Many thanks to Stevie F and Gollancz for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
Originally posted on my blog
Çeda is the youngest pit fighter in the history of the great desert city of Sharakhai. In this brilliant new story, a prequel to Twelve Kings, she has already made her name in the arena as the fearsome, undefeated White Wolf. None but her closest friends and allies know her true identity.
But this all changes when she crosses the path of Rümayesh, one of the sadistic creatures known as ehrekh which were forged long ago by the god of chaos. They are usually desert dwellers, but this one lurks in the dark corners of Sharakhai, toying with and preying on humans. As Rümayesh works to unmask the White Wolf and claim Çeda for her own, Çeda's struggle becomes a battle for her friends, her life, and her very soul.
Definitely wasn't what I expected. After reading the blurb I was excited to read about the youngest pit fighter in Sharakhai only there wasn't so much pit fighting as running all over the desert trying to escape from a demonic being who becomes fixated on Ceda.
Ceda is 15 when the story begins and it starts off with her picking a fight with someone who – in the beginning – gives off a secondary character kinda vibe, almost filler but ends up being an integral part of the story later on. Brama had apparently stolen a purse that Ceda wad tasked to collect and Ceda decided she'd rather fight him than find the purse. That came across as quite juvenile particularly when her "boss" pointed out the same thing that I thought.
The story progresses pretty slowly for the first 60 or 70 pages where it does eventually improve but there's a distinctly Middle Eastern vibe to this story. It's sort of like a twisted sci-fi type of Aladdin story.
The pit fighting is few and far between and for a character who is called the White Wolf I would have preferred a little more fighting and a little less talking but the steroidal like properties to the flower petals is amazingly unique, I don't think I've ever read that in a book so kudos to that.
The writing style was a touch different to what I'm used to but it was written quite well. As mentioned above there was a distinctly Middle Eastern vibe to this story and the descriptions of the desert and other areas in Sharakhai were beautifully written and it almost made me feel like I was back on holiday in Egypt which was a lovely experience.
The concept of Rumayesh was really good – a semi corrupt demonic type being who overtakes the body of her "chosen" one – and Rumayesh took an awful big shine to Ceda which is where the story basically followed. Now having not read Twelve Kings I am completely unable to comment on how the story progresses in that book but the plot line in this novella was drawing to the mind and the descriptions of what was happening were very good.
Apart from my initial dubious feeling and the subsequent lack of pit – fighting for a story based on a pit-fighter I did enjoy Of Sand and Malice Made but I don't think that it is entirely my thing and I don't think I'd be continuing the story anytime soon though I do look forward to seeing where this novella leads.
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A short time ago, I had a free ebook on Kindle. "They Can't take That Away From Me," It's a short story, under my alter ego's name (J. A. Menzies), and it's not quite like anything else I've written. Closer to thriller than mystery. I thought I'd use this as a jumping-off place to talk […]Continue reading
Don't let your readers get lost! A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that many writers sort of assume that the reader knows who is telling the story, especially if it's telling a true story. If you haven't read that post, you might want to read it first. As I said then, assuming your readers […]Continue reading
Assuming the reader knows who you are is one of the most common mistakes I see both in personal stories and fiction. When using the first person point of view, many writers just start telling the story, assuming that the reader knows who "I" is. I mean, the writer knows who "I" is, so why […]Continue reading
Yesterday, on my personal website, I posted a character sketch of my "hero" Glen Sauten, the protagonist of my first published book, The Best of Friends. If you're writing fiction, you might want to check it out. The truth is, I broke two key writing rules when I wrote the book, and yet it still […]Continue reading
I speak to a lot of aspiring fiction writers, and I find that the majority of them want to write a novel (or are already writing one). My advice to them is to write at least ten short stories first. Let me explain. Ed Hoch passed away on January 17, 2008, at the age of […]Continue reading
If you've been in one of my workshops where I talk about writing fiction, I usually hand out small cards with these words on them: character, setting, plot, theme. For me, they are the four corners of all good fiction. But when you begin a story, you usually have only of these things: a character […]Continue reading
I'm having lots of warm, fuzzy feelings while finally reading a book I picked up by chance last summer. The book is Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life, by Elizabeth George, author of more than a dozen great mystery novels. Part of the reason I'm enjoying it is that I […]Continue reading


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There are plenty of ways to have EC2 instances within a particular region communicate, since they can use private IP addresses and you can assign them to the same security group, or even mutually trusted security groups.
One thing that I haven't been able to find, however, are any recommendations on how you're supposed to securely communicate between, say, a machine in us-east and another in us-west.
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Iron Men
Teacher: Don Conn
Location: Student Campus – Fellowship Hall A
We are taking a deep and practical look at two Bible books written by King Solomon. Ecclesiastes is a dramatic autobiography of Solomon's life when he was wandering from God. The Song of Solomon is designed to help us find the key to unlocking the "song" of biblical wisdom. It is wisdom's description of an amorous relationship, with practical implications for a man's relationship with his wife and the church's relationship with Christ. Iron Men's key verse is Prov. 27:17 – "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." Please bring your Bible.