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Review: Indignation
By John Corrado
★★★ (out of 4)
The year is 1951, and Marcus Mesner (Logan Lerman) works at his family's butcher shop in New Jersey. At the beginning of Indignation, he is going away to a prestigious college in Ohio, partially to avoid being drafted into the ongoing Korean War, which has claimed the lives of many family and friends.
Detaching himself from his clingy father (Danny Burstein) and caring mother (Linda Emond), Marcus is the first one in his family to seek higher education, with aspirations to become a lawyer. But when he starts dating Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), a young woman who has mental health challenges and is more sexually experienced than him, he is taken unwittingly into a culture clash between his socialist ideals and the old fashioned values of the college.
Although shy and having lived a sheltered life, Marcus is an idealist who comes out of his shell when he is forced to defend his principles, becoming a sort of conscientious objector to the social order. Raised in Judaism, but now an atheist, he is one of only a handful of Jewish students at the college, and takes issue with the school's obligation to attend a weekly Christian service in the chapel, a requirement in order to graduate. One of the film's best scenes finds him going up against the very conservative Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts) in his office, a thrilling and brilliantly acted war of words that is only cut short when Marcus falls physically ill.
We watch as Marcus gains the confidence to stand by his beliefs over the course of Indignation, and Logan Lerman does an exceptional job of carrying the film, keeping us emotionally involved with a quietly powerful intensity beneath the surface of his character. It's one of his finest performances since The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and he shares simmering chemistry with Sarah Gadon. The entire ensemble cast is also excellent, with particularly memorable supporting work from Linda Emond and Tracy Letts, who both get a couple of key scenes to shine.
Adapting Philip Roth's novel to the screen, longtime producer and first time director James Schamus allows the film to have a very literary feel, mostly driven by dialogue and having extended sequences unfold in single locations. The cinematography does a lovely job of evoking the time period, as do the sweaters and autumn-toned production design. The camera also does excellent work subtly revealing power shifts between the characters during many of the two-hander scenes that make up the film, through the actors carefully staged movements within a frame.
Although Indignation is a quiet film, it's an evocative and haunting work with many moments that continue to linger. This is a period drama that utilizes its brilliant performances to draw us deeper and deeper into the involving story of a student slowly unravelled by his strong ideals and objections to the social norms of the day, before reaching a heartbreaking denouement.
Indignation is now playing in limited release at Cineplex Cinemas Varsity in Toronto.


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Founded in 1999, Incite Creative is Standing the Test of Time
Sadly, many of our industry colleagues have had to close their doors as a result of economic hardship. The big ad agency model and reliance on mass media and traditional advertising has caused many local firms to merge or dramatically downsize.
At Incite Creative, we are still going strong due in large part to our strategic process and targeted approach. Coupled with a tenacious and talented team of marketing consultants, creative designers and strategic partners who are ground in best practices but open to innovation, the firm is well-positioned for long term success.
Since our inception, we have worked with companies and organizations, large and small, in almost every major industry. We have particular expertise in the following industry categories:
- Construction & Real Estate
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To view case study examples and a photo gallery of services performed for these clients, click on any of the bulleted links above.
Career Highlights:
- 2014: Brava! Awards, Smart CEO
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Education & Professional Background
Born and raised in Harford County, Dina Wasmer is a graduate of Loyola College in Maryland as well as the University of Baltimore. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the former and her Master of Arts degree from UB's Publications Design program in 1996 when she was honored with the E. John Schmitz first place award for her final seminar (thesis-equivalent) project entitled, A.M. – The Alternative Medicine Companion. Dina was also awarded the prestigious Ampersand Award, which acknowledges excellence in the integration of writing and design for communications.
Before graduating from Loyola with a major in Communications and a minor in Fine Art, Dina interned at The Daily Record and All Types, creating ads, setting type and doing paste-up for the newspaper. During her senior year, she worked in Loyola's Public Relations office designing invitations to alumni events alongside more seasoned professionals. Her passion for visual communication grew which prompted her to pursue a design career full time while attending graduate school to hone her skills.
In 1993, Dina landed the title of Publications Director at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to primarily manage the production of the monthly newsletter and help publicize School events. During the course of her four years at the research school, Dina was able to apply her graduate school knowledge on a regular basis, propelling her to more complex responsibilities such as facilitating a workshop on communications standards, managing the design and production of the annual magazine, creating departmental viewbooks and identity programs, and managing the School's annual publications budget.
In 1997, Dina sought new challenges and assumed the role of Art Director at Callahan & Company, a Baltimore-based Marketing Communications firm. Her main accounts included Coca Cola Fountain, EarthShell Corporation, Hearn Kirkwood, U.S. Foodservice, Columbia National Real Estate Finance, and The Learning Company. Dina was also responsible for many of Callahan & Company's self-promotional campaigns, as well as both internal and external work comprised of logo development, collateral, annual reports, packaging and website design.
Shortly after leaving Callahan & Company in 1999, Dina co-founded Incite Creative with then business partner, Carl Cox.
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The LGBT Center of Raleigh is physically closed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but we continue to meet virtually! Those virtual offerings can be found here. If you have questions or are seeking resources, you can call 919-832-4484 seven days a week between the hours of 12pm and 4pm, and your call will be answered by a staff member or volunteer.
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I also made an ornament with our wedding invitation inside, which was inspired by Pinterest of course! I also made a few more of these for wedding gifts, but I can't find a picture of them! I think that it's a really cool way to keep and display your wedding invitation. One thing that fascinates me about Christmas is that ornaments will stick around in your family FOREVER! I love the nostalgia of opening the giant rubbermaid tote full of Christmas decorations and bringing back all the memories you have of years past. These ornaments are made in the same way as the time capsule ornaments, and again you can see the tutorial here.
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Vermont Update: Pro-Reform Candidate Gov. Shumlin Holds Massive Lead
by Erik Altieri
New polling data released this week from Castleton Polling Institute shows pro-reform incumbent Governor Peter Shumlin (D) holding a massive lead over his challenger, Randy Brock (R). A survey of 477 registered Vermont voters taken from August 11th to 21st found they favored Gov. Shumlin by a full 34 percentage points, 60% for Shumlin and just 26% for Brock.
This is notable considering Shumlin's longterm support of marijuana law reforms while governor and that this data comes just over a week after he contacted NORML to explicitly express his desire to continue his push for decriminalization. Attempts by his contender Randy Brock to cast Governor Shumlin's support for sensible law reforms as "sending the wrong message to kids" seem to have failed in eroding support for the popular sitting politician. And it is no wonder, recent Vermont polling conducted by MPP this February shows that 63% of Vermont citizens support decriminalizing marijuana possession. Perhaps even more telling is that 52% of respondents stated a candidates support of decriminalization made them more likely to vote for them, 21% stated it would not alter their decision, and only 25% said it would make them less likely.
All other candidates take note, as we saw earlier this year in Oregon and Texas, the majority of Americans are ready to see an end to our seven decade failure that is cannabis prohibition. Coming out in support of these sensible reforms will no longer cost you an election, but it just may win you one.
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Huawei's sub-brand Honor has launched a new variant of the Holly 3 smartphone. The Holly 3 3GB RAM/32GB storage model is priced at Rs. 12,999 (MOP) and will be available across India through offline channels.
To refresh, the Holly 3 was announced in India back in October last year with 2GB RAM/16GB storage. The smartphone features a 5.5-inch HD (720×1280 pixels) display. The phone is powered by a octa-core Kirin 620 processor clocked at 1.2GHz. It comes with a dedicated SIM and microSD slot and storage can be further expanded up to 128GB using microSD card. The Honor Holly 3 runs Huawei's EMUI 4.1 based Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It features a 3D textured back cover and comes in three colour options- Black, White and Gold.
In terms of optics, the Honor Holly 3 sports a 13-megapixel sensor on the back panel with f/2.0 aperture and an 8-megapixel front facing camera for selfies. The camera app on the phone offers Pro Camera mode which enables users to manually control the metering mode, ISO, shutter speed, exposure compensation, focus mode and white balance. The smartphone comes with a battery backup of 3100mAh. Honor claims that the battery on the device could last for up to 1.74 days under heavy usage. Connectivity on the handset options include- 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Micro-USB, and Bluetooth v4.0. Sensors on board include- accelerometer, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, compass and G-sensor. The Honor Holly 3 measures 154×77.1×8.45mm and weighs 168 grams. As for the pricing, the Honor Holly 3 2GB RAM model comes for a price of Rs. 9,999 while the 3GB RAM model costs Rs. 12,999.


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New City is committed to the renewal of our city. This means that we are continually looking for pathways to serve the needs that exist in Royal Oak, Detroit and throughout the Detroit region.
One essential consideration is the basic needs people have for food, water, and clothing. Thousands of families in Detroit go without these basic needs each and every day. Often times, the only meals children receive are from their school lunch.
To address this issue, we have adopted Greenfield Union, a Detroit Public School located at 7 mile and Woodward. We provide food in order to help feed impoverished families in the city. We also serve in the Greenfield Union library and provide tutoring to students.
Together, let us seek the welfare of our city!
How can you help? We need to provide specific food items so that we can ensure that each family will receive what is needed for their weekend meals.
- GRAB a New City / Greenfield Union Food Bag on Sundays. (Grab a few to give to friends or neighbors so they can participate, too!)
- COLLECT the amount of food that you are able.
- BRING the food items you've collected to the Royal Oak Middle School on the 3rd Friday of the month during our Youth Night at 6pm.
- GATHER on the 3rd Friday (6pm) to pack bags together. All are welcome to join!
- DELIVER the packed bags to the school.
- CONTACT Matt Luchenbill to get involved in our library and tutoring ministry at firstname.lastname@example.com
The Detroit Project
The Detroit Project exists to be a catalyst for a church planting movement throughout the Detroit region. We envision a movement comprised of churches working together to establish worshiping communities in every neighborhood of Metro-Detroit. In these communities, renewal will be experienced at every level – personally, spiritually, socially, and culturally. We envision a renewal that is rooted in the truth of God's word and motivated by the gospel that moves people into a life of love for God and their neighbors. In short, we envision a network of churches where rooted conviction, real conversation, and renewing the city is the reality.
The People
More than 4 million people live in the Detroit region and it is among the top 10 most populous urban areas in the United States.
It is the largest metro area on any international border in the world and is home to more than 100 ethnic groups representing over 1,000,000 people. Metro-Detroit has the largest concentration of Muslims outside of the Middle East.
The Detroit Project exists to serve these 4,000,000 people by planting churches in strategic epicenters throughout the region devoted to the gospel and to its proclamation in both word and deed.
Motown and The Motor City are two of Detroit's better-known nicknames (so named, of course, because of Detroit's history as the auto capitol of the world.) However, because of its innovative instincts and forward thinking, Detroit has also been dubbed the "Renaissance City". In view of recent struggles, many Detroiters wonder if their city will ever return to its former glory. Manifold strategies abound when the subject of Detroit's re-birth arises. There is no confusion, however, about the deepest kind of renaissance that is needed throughout the Detroit region. The most glaring need is a spiritual one. The Detroit Project recognizes this need and embraces the reality that the only answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we are committed to planting churches devoted to the gospel and to its proclamation in both word and deed.
The Plan
The Detroit Project's first church plant (New City Presbyterian Church) was planted in 2012 in Royal Oak, Michigan. Royal Oak was seen as a strategic epicenter that would lead the way toward planting many more churches in the city and throughout the entire region. In fact, the stated vision called for New City Royal Oak to establish itself as a church committed to serving as the "catalyst for a gospel movement that will plant 10 new congregations in Detroit and Metro-Detroit by the year 2030."
Royal Oak was the site of the first plant for several reasons:
People: The passion behind the Detroit Project is a passion for people. After extensive research prior to launching our first church we discovered the 7 mile radius around Royal Oak was the most densely populated area with the least number of evangelical and reformed churches.
Place: Royal Oak is not only geographically central, but has the opportunity to be a place that bridges the wide cultural and socio-economic divide that exists in Detroit. Located only a couple miles north of some of the most struggling Detroit neighborhoods and only a few miles south of some of Metro-Detroit's wealthiest suburbs, our desire is to see a church that is racially, politically, socially, and economically diverse while also committed to the birth of new church plants in all of these surrounding areas.
In 2013, within one year of being planted, New City Royal Oak began putting plans in place for the next church plant. Ryan McVicar, the church planting pastor of New City PCA, asked Dan and Laura Millward to consider moving to Detroit to serve as the next church planter. Sensing God's call, the Millwards moved from Traverse City, Michigan to Detroit. Knowing the kind of sacrifice and generosity needed to plant a church at this young stage, New City asked many of its members to consider helping with the next church plant. Within a year, New City sent more than 20 people, shared our staff and leaders for whatever needs existed, and gave significant financial support toward the planting of Redeemer PCA in Detroit.
Moving forward, our plan is to continue this pattern of locating strategic epicenters throughout the Detroit area and to give sacrificially of our resources and people toward the establishment of healthy churches that will bear witness to Christ among the 4,000,000 people who call Detroit their home.
The Partnership
The Detroit Project is seeking partners. We trust that God will provide the resources and people necessary for this initiative, and we would like to ask you to prayerfully consider partnering with us.
Initially, here are three ways you might be able to serve the Detroit Project:
If you live in the Detroit region, consider partnering with us to help shape and build this mission from ground level. Contact Ryan McVicar for more information about being a part of New City and the Detroit Project. Ryan serves as the Director of the Detroit Project and can be reached at email@example.com or 248 808 2523.
"Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain." This Psalm brings us to our knees with the realization that we're doomed to failure unless God displays His power in establishing this church. We are fully persuaded that this church planting initiative is from the Lord, and that He is at work preparing the soil for a fruitful work. Many have faithfully prayed that the gospel would take root in Detroit, and it's evident that God is at work in answering these prayers. However, we are also persuaded by scripture of our continued need to rely upon God and seek out faithful partners in prayer. Please consider partnering with us in prayer by joining us in laying specific requests before the Lord and trusting Him to act according to His will. If you would like to take part in this ministry of prayer, subscribe to our newsletter at http://www.newcitypc.church/subscribe
Our goal is to raise the needed funds from other churches and individuals to continue planting new churches, while trusting God to gather people into these churches who will support the church through their generous giving in the years ahead. To give online, please click here.


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I am deeply grateful and humbled to receive this ribbon for the body of my work. Bob Eggleton was the Artist Guest of Honor at LunaCon this year and I thank Bob for choosing my work for this honor. I have been a Bob Eggleton fan almost from the time I started going to conventions. …
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LunaCon 2017 – Best 3D by Popular Choice
Thanks LunaCon attendees for choosing my Dragoon Flintlock for Best 3d. I am deeply honored.
Windycon 2016 – Best of Show Award
Ok, this is getting to be a little embarrassing, I have won "Best of Show" multiple times at Windycon. I am nonetheless appreciative of the honor. Thank you, Windycon attendees for voting for me.
Archon 2016 – Best of Show & Best 3D
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This Week Anime
Akagami no Shirayukihime:
This anime is a cute romance, called snow white with the red hair. It is very cute romance story, something really traditional and western in its telling. The show reminds me a lot of the kind of stories american princess cartoon used to have, in particular this reminds me of the french-canadian cartoon, Princess Sissi, feel free to look it up.
Akagami no Shirayukihime is the story of a charming prince who finds a beautiful girl and they both fall in love. I am a guy, I'm most likely not the target audience for this anime, but I can acknowledge this was a really good show and it makes me want to watch more despise not really liking the genre. I'd recommend it to all fantasy/romance enthusiast and you girl who enjoy their prince charming stories.
Jitsu wa Watashi wa :
We have a boy who is unable to lie and a girl with a terrible secret that must never get out. The two of them meet and there you have Jitsu wa Watashi wa! The premise is very simple, the show is light and fun, things definitively seem to be turning towards the harem setting, but the comedy is the primary factor in the show. When you think of light summer comedy, this is exactly what this show is about, it is the embodiment of what summer show can be imagined to be. I would recommend the show for people looking for something light, it is definitively something very easy to miss if you don't have the time or the interest in the show, it is not a heavy hitter in any way. I might watch it for pure entertainment and then eventually forget it exists.
Chaos Dragon: Sekiryuu Seneki :
The story of a young prince who needs to save his country from the current war that has befall upon it…Chaos Dragon! I felt so distant while watching the first episode of Chaos Dragon, the episode was nebulous and the characters are all too young, it makes it difficult to care for them and take the show seriously. For a show that roots itself in war, everyone seem too happy and relaxed and the music and character all felt really flat. Too much childish stuff, couldn't get into it, it would probably be an awesome anime for kids though. I'd have to pass on this one though, it did not catch my interest at all.
Joukamachi no Dandelion :
Joukamachi no Dandelion is the reality tv show of anime. We follow a family of prince and princess with super powers that tries to gain enough popularity to win the next election for the next king or queen. The show itself is fine, there are decent characters with an idea original enough to warrant this anime existing. The art is looking good and the pacing works fine too, its just not really my cup of tea though. The show is aimed towards girls a lot and it turns me off significantly. A good show for some, but I won't watch it.
Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou :
This anime is set in a universe where monsters have now been recognized as existing and they sometimes join human societies as part of exchange problems. I young man gets his own monster girl to come live with him as he show her how humanity works. In reality, this show is just straight up porn, really weird porn for a very specific kind of fetish, but I'm into it somehow.
I don't know if it is because the show features monster girls instead of real one, but they sure can get away with a lot more in this show than in other kind of ecchi. No censorship, we actually see breast, we even see what might be a monster vagina…although I'm not so clear what a monster vagina should look like in the first place.
The show is actually pretty funny and even if you aren't there for the ecchi there is still value to be had. The main attraction here is the ecchi though and since I'm a deprived individual I will most certainly be watching this show avidly. I won't be covering it since I can't see myself explaining to my poor mother how I got there in life, but I will secretly enjoy every last minute of this show. Recommended to all the horny and the depraved.
OverLord : Read our review, OverLord is a show of a guy who get stuck in a video game world, how original.
Sore ga Seiyuu! :
I will keep this one short, The show focus on a young upcoming voice actress that wants to make it into the anime world. Unfortunately, the show really sucks, the art is subpar, the presentation is childish and while there is some depth to it, there is no reason to watch this show, there are way better anime explaining the process of creating anime, don't waste your time on this one. Not recommended.
Gakkou Gurashi! :
Here's a school life show about nothing! You know you are not going to like a show when the title of the show represents everything you hate about anime. They should have just added Moe somewhere in the title and this would have been the fated anime created to represent everything I think is wrong with the industry. I don't get school life anime or cute girl stuff and this is exactly that. I don't understand any of this, too much smiling, too much happiness, nothing ever happening…get me out of here!
Prison School :Read our review, Prison School is a ecchi, but one unlike the others, it is a high comedy show with a most interesting art style, would highly recommend watching the first episode.
God Eater : Read our review, God Eater is an epic story of human survival, not unlike Shingeki no Kyojin, but with its own twist.
This was our second and main week for the new arrivals, I have not counted properly, but this should be most of the anime for this summer. If there are any more to come they will be featured in Volume 3.
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Strange contortions within the mind. Creatures hidden within the soul, creatures and demons, some of them wild and raging, some of them maddened and screaming. But most creatures, most creatures trapped within are of the nature of jelly, creatures like fish, made of membrane and lacking in rigidness or power. Creatures trapped within the body and soul, animals, and beings with tiny limbs and with smaller and smaller mouths who are unable to speak, to move to walk.
Animals that look like newly born things, with eyes gleaming with empty minds and hearts made of mush. These are the phantoms and the beasts that roam the wild and fearful plains, the plains and the watersides the wilds and the built up wilds, the places where there are those who are fearful and alone.
Animals and creatures in total darkness, not able to see either each other or the light. Their eyes gleaming and immensely widely opened, yet with voidness and total bewilderment, placid like a lake, open like a gorge, eyes awaiting the first sound yet eyes with no ears hear no echos from walls. Eyes with eyes looking on those eyes, immensely wide yet with no body, only mush, only jelly, and contorted fragments of shape.
Magnificent and pure water awaiting for the shapes with eyes. The shapes afraid yet mouthless, only observing with their immense eyes, watching and waiting wondering at the wall of water. Though not wondering at all, shapes, empty shapes in the darkness with yet more shapes and contortions and twisting bodiless mass, unable to see its own self, only look outwards with no form and no thought, no mind and no sight. Just form.
The animals within the creature are strange and watchful, full of fear and love and hate and every emotion at the same time seen in those immense and glistening eyes. Yet mouthless and earless and bodiless, unable to express its sensation of sight, its precarious life and death, within life. Afraid of what, afraid of who? Afraid of discovering its own form? Creatures within the animal full of strange and fascinating strange, and even more fear combined with intense happiness, intense feeling yet with no form of expressing that feeling except through majestic and giant fearful eyes, afraid of what? Afraid of the monochrome world of its existence in one colour and with no purpose or being, with no form except distorted shape.
Form is its aim, knowledge is its pejorative, yet the animal within the creature sleeps despite its huge and frozen eyes being wide like a pair of windows on a house. Form is the aim of the creature, begging for lines, for bold lines and body, for sight and smell and taste and touch. Form and knowledge is the purpose of the animal within the creature of no name, of mere blob like shape, of jelly consistency and of fearful and loving, frightening and joyful, unhappy and intensely happy disposition, with huge and bubble like eyes waiting for the water to hit, waiting for the immense sound of gushing rushing, crashing blustering, thrashing silence destroying, cold enveloping, blood pumping heart racing, mind blowing oceanic cold, and rolling wind driven, form creating Breaking Tidal Waves.
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By: Kieron Dodds
There are so many levels of enjoyment and involvement in this hobby that it's impossible for every aquarist to see things from every other aquarist's point of view, and a tremendous number of "advanced" hobbyists will often frown upon the lack of a beginner's desire to learn certain things. If you are just starting out in the hobby, you may find yourself confused because aquarists with more experience and knowledge are aghast that you don't have an intimate knowledge of the cycling process, despite your success. From the opposing point of view, if you are a more experienced hobbyist, you may think that there is no way another hobbyist can be successful without a working knowledge of the cycling process. From a subjective standpoint, either point of view may be correct for an individual hobbyist. It is important to understand that what works for one hobbyist is not guaranteed to work for all. There is a point to all of this, so please bear with me.
Cycling, in terms of preparing an aquarium for fish, refers to the Nitrogen Cycle, a biological process by which Nitrogen compounds are used and reused as waste products or nutrients by different organisms in a continuous circle. Some of the byproducts of this "circle of life" are toxic to fish, which is why we, as aquarists, need to complete the circle in our aquaria before adding its final animal inhabitants. This article will differ from other articles previously written on the subject in two ways. First, it will differ in its insistence that it is not important for you to understand the workings of the cycling process. Second, it will provide alternative methods not often discussed in print. Of course, understanding the process can be helpful, but it is not necessary as long as you know a very few, very simple facts.
The usual introduction to an article on "Cycling" treads, briefly or in-depth, into the workings of the Nitrogen Cycle. Well, for the purposes of maintaining a successful aquarium, we, as a whole, really do not need to know the intimate processes of the Nitrogen Cycle, nor do we even need to know what Nitrogen itself is. There are a few things we do need to know, however, and these are very simply put and easy to remember.
- 1. Ammonia and Nitrite are byproducts of the metabolism of the animals (and to some extent plants) we keep. These byproducts are toxic to fish at all levels of concentration measurable by commonly available test kits. Some have asserted that Ammonia and Nitrite are more or less toxic depending on other water parameters. Toxicity, however, is absolute in this instance. Any measurable levels of Ammonia or Nitrite will have toxic effects upon the fish or other animals in the tank. How quickly these effects are realized or how badly they are expressed as symptoms may change, but that does not change the fact that these compounds are harmful. Neither does it change the fact that these compounds can and do compromise long term health, sometimes even after very limited exposure. Nitrate, the final byproduct of the nitrogen cycle in many systems, seems to be non-toxic to fish even at very high levels. However, it does promote nuisance algae and bacteria "blooms" and, as such, should be kept as low as possible.
2. Due to the above, it should be our goal to maintain existing aquaria that never reach any measurable level of Ammonia or Nitrite once long term inhabitants are going to be added. It should also be our goal to insure that this does not happen in new aquaria.
3. The process of insuring that Ammonia and Nitrite do not reach harmful levels in new aquaria is called, generally, "cycling", and you need to do it. You need to measure Ammonia and Nitrite throughout the cycling period to insure that Ammonia and Nitrite have both "spiked" (reached a high point) and returned to, and remained at, undetectable levels.
4. The higher the final concentration of animals producing Ammonia and Nitrite will be in your tank, the more "powerful" the biological aspect of your ongoing filtration system needs to be. Biological filtration can be researched online and is an important section included in most of the general aquarium keeping books.
5.Bacteria are responsible for maintaining the cycle. Sterile tanks which are constantly "broken down" and "cleaned", over sterilized through equipment, or under stocked with bacteria due to constant filter media replacement kill the bacteria responsible for maintaining the Nitrogen Cycle. These systems also tend to be instable with respect to the Nitrogen Cycle. These bacteria will colonize naturally and no starter culture is required in most, but not all, cases. Adding a starter culture can help finish a stalled cycle, but will generally not speed up or help in any other way. While it is not usually important to add bacterial starter cultures, it is important to add the nutrients required for the bacteria to feed, live, grow, and reproduce so they can colonize the tank. These nutrients are, of course, the very byproducts in question, Ammonia and Nitrite.
While there is a lot more to the nitrogen cycle, stocking, and filtration than this, this is all you really need to know to start and cycle a tank and keep it running. There are a number of ways to start and complete the cycle in your tank, and this is the purpose of this article. While it is difficult to avoid being preachy about it, there are methods used and recommended by many that are needlessly cruel, sometimes ineffective, and sometimes detrimental. With this in mind, please approach the subjects offered and consider the facts presented before you decide which method will work for you. There are good and bad points to most methods, so you really need to weigh them out and decide what will work best for you and your fish.
The most common method by which new aquarists cycle new tanks is inadvertently through the mass introduction of new fish, and their subsequent replacements, and the replacements' subsequent replacements in newly set up aquaria. This is the blind way in which most of us have entered the hobby, sanctioned by the "experts" at our local fish stores. The problem with this "method" is that it can become extremely frustrating, and needlessly expensive, for the aquarist, and is definitely cruel to the fish and/or other organisms killed during the cycling process. Tanks using this method may never completely cycle until the aquarist gets fed up after many months and stores the tank dry in their garage until the next garage sale. While the fish do provide an initial nutrient load, the constant die off, and reloading of nutrient sources into the system, leads to instable bacterial populations that constantly explode, die back, and explode again. The "clearing" products offered by unscrupulous or unknowledgeable retail store representatives to solve this "clouding problem" for the fledgling aquarist are nothing more than money making schemes. In some instances, these products are also counter productive in that they will actually kill off the very bacterial colonies that should be encouraged to populate, leading to a repeated cloudy/clear circle that does nothing to help keep the poor fish subjected to this unstable environment healthy. Fish stocked in such tanks are routinely dying and/or diseased. Yes, at some point, usually when the tank is left alone for a period of time, things can become stable. Unfortunately, this is usually the point at which another massive load of fish is added, starting the entire process over again. Another consideration when cycling in this manner, or the one following, is that utilizing quarantining becomes a moot point. Disease can be introduced into an aquarium with any fish, including those used for the process of cycling.
The next most common method of cycling is to use "feeder" or other such inexpensive fish to provide for the initial nutrient load. While this can work, it is still harmful to the fish used, and is usually not done in such a manner as to provide consistent results. For instance, as the fish die off, they are removed, leading to less and less nutrient production. So, Ammonia can indeed spike and reach unreadable levels, but such levels may be consistent only with the nutrient load of the last fish or so left alive in the tank, not the initial dozen or more that were added. What this can amount to is something similar to the new aquarist buying fish after fish after fish. Upon the initial introduction of long term inhabitants, the aquarist may discover that Ammonia begins to rise again. While this is not a foregone conclusion, it is very common. To avoid this, the aquarist who has cycled with fish should proceed very cautiously in their stocking plan, adding only a fish or so at a time, commensurate with their final "cycling fish" population. As plainly as can be stated, if you have three 2 inch fish left at the end of your cycle, you can only safely assume that the current biological filter can immediately support three 2 inch fish.
While fairly common up until a few years ago in the case of more experienced aquarists, the next method is falling out of favor with marine aquarists, although freshwater aquarists still seem to be using it as frequently as before. This method is called Ammonia Dosing. What is involved here is the procurement of a pure Ammonia source. Several labs and biological supply houses will have pure Ammonia available. It is extremely important to make sure that this Ammonia is pure and free of any and all dyes and perfumes. There are several sites and hundreds of individuals online who use this method and can recommend sources for pure Ammonia if you're interested. All that is involved is the introduction of Ammonia in the amount of 5ml/day per 10 gallons until Nitrite becomes measurable on your test kit. At this point, you reduce the amount of Ammonia introduced to 3ml/day per 10 gallons until Ammonia and Nitrite have returned to 0 parts per million on your test kit. Finding a source of pure Ammonia may prove difficult for some. Others find the chore of daily measuring and dosing to be unpalatable. This method, however, does offer distinct advantages over using fish, knowingly or unknowingly, to cycle the tank. First and foremost, Ammonia dosing does not harm any animals. Second, the constant measured introduction of Ammonia is preferable to the fluctuating production of ammonia possible in the prior two methods. With a little effort, a perfectly stable aquarium can be reached without ever having had any animal or plant life knowingly introduced.
The last method can be accomplished in a number of ways, but all amount to the introduction of organic matter in order to produce the nutrient loads necessary. The most common way to approach this is through the daily feeding of an empty aquarium with fish food until the cycle is complete. Apart from this having the potential of becoming expensive, it can be very difficult, especially for the beginning aquarist, to judge exactly how much to feed. Constant changing of the amount of food added can lead to fluctuations in the bacterial population similar to what is seen in the first two examples of cycling above. More preferable is the introduction of a mass of organic matter, allowing for the slow decomposition and "time release" of nutrient ammonia as a byproduct. This is usually accomplished through the introduction of one medium sized cocktail shrimp (cooked or raw) per 50 gallons of aquarium water. The cost of a single raw shrimp is usually less than 20¢. This method is the easiest, by far, and is as reliable as Ammonia dosing in producing a cycled tank. In the absence of shrimp, or for those looking for alternative organic sources, fish flesh, shellfish, etc. are all suitable. Using dead fish from other aquariums might seem like a reasonable alternative, but they should not be used. Even a dead diseased fish can introduce undesirable organisms into a tank.
There are several things that the aquarist needs to know that are the same for all methods. Through all methods, Ammonia and Nitrite need to be measured at least every other day, but preferably on a daily basis. Ammonia should spike at around 3-5ppm. Usually this is followed by a Nitrite spike of 2-5ppm several days later. Once both Ammonia and Nitrite have returned to 0ppm and remained there for at least a week, or better yet two weeks, the tank can be considered cycled and stocking with fish can begin. Some tanks may experience a "stalled" cycle where Ammonia and/or Nitrite remain detectable, usually at the same level, for a week or more. If the concentration tested remains the same for this long, it may be beneficial to add either a commercially available "cycle" product containing bacterium cultures, or used filter media or substrate from an established aquarium. In the case of marine aquaria, Live Rock can also be considered. There are some bacteria that can live in both fresh and salt water, but in the interests of producing the best results as quickly as possible, preparations marketed for the cycling tank type should be used. If filter media or substrate from an existing tank is used, either should come from the same type of tank as the cycling tank. If, however, the levels of Ammonia and/or Nitrite remain at nearly undetectable levels, it may be prudent to test the results against another test kit, preferably of a different brand. If the aquarist doesn't want to go through this trouble, most aquarium shops will test their customers' water free of charge.
Regardless of method used, the most common question asked by beginning aquarists is "how long will it take to cycle?" The answer, if not desirable, is very simple: until it's done. Typically, a cycle takes anywhere from 2 to 8 weeks. Shorter or longer cycles are not uncommon enough to be called rare, but there are some issues to consider. First, one should verify the accuracy of the testing kits used. Test kits, especially Ammonia kits, can be unreliable at times, with unreliability becoming more common as the chemicals age. With cycles that seem to have completed in less than 2 weeks, the aquarist should question whether or not the cycle actually occurred and whether or not the result is a stable system. It is easier to test for this with some methods than with other methods. With fish cycling, the aquarist would have to either overfeed for a number of days or intentionally stock more fish into a system of questionable stability. Both methods of testing the cycle can result in the harm or death of the existing inhabitants. With Ammonia dosing, one can simply start from the beginning and attempt to get an increase in measurable Ammonia using the 5ml/day per 10 gallons for a week. If no spike occurs, the tank can be considered cycled. For the last method of organic introduction, one can simply begin adding more organics and measuring for an increase in Ammonia for at least one week. Again, if there is no measurable level of Ammonia after a week, the tank can be considered cycled. With cycles that seem to be taking longer than 8 weeks, the aquarist should suspect a "stalled" cycle. If your tank has not completed cycling in 8 weeks, it would be prudent to introduce bacterial cultures through commercial preparations or filter media or substrate as discussed above.
Once the tank has completed cycling, regardless of which method was used or how long it took, measuring Nitrate becomes a matter of importance. In natural systems that allow for Nitrate to be processed, it is generally customary to view this Nitrate processing as part of the cycle. These would include systems with Deep Sand Beds, those with Nitrate Reductors or Algal Turf Scrubbers, Planted Aquariums, etc. For other systems, the general recommendation is to perform a water change to reduce the amount of Nitrate in the system. In either case, the introduction of fish without first reducing Nitrate to less than 20ppm will most commonly result in algae problems that may continue for months, or even years, to come. Some means of removing or reducing Nitrate should, therefore, be part of a planned regimen of ongoing maintenance before the tank is stocked.
In closing, now that you need to know what you need to know, and what you don't, proceed with confidence knowing that you made your decision based on what is right for you. Hopefully, you'll choose one of the more humane methods. Thankfully, these also happen to be the easier, cheaper, and more reliable methods. Good Luck!


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John Reis fills a void. It's a cynical world and there aren't many true believers in rock & roll anymore. He's the carnival barker that lures you into rock & roll. He believes in rock & roll wholeheartedly and wants you to believe too. He's a genius at guitar riffs. He's evidence that rock & roll is not played out.
I'm one of the ones that think John Reis and Rick Froberg are better together than apart. But Hot Snakes has two drummers that I love, so they win out over Drive Like Jehu. As of now, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From The Crypt and Hot Snakes are all active. Do what'chu gotta do, man.
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The Iridium Queen was a Harrana Class 200-ton, Tech Level 11, Far Trader – one of eight of this class to come out of Laargashu-Sulluvhan Yard 28 at Celephais. This facility, and much of Celephais Highport, had been heavily damaged during the Kalar-Wi War. While repairs to the Highport were still ongoing, the starship yards remained closed for the foreseeable future and this had resulted in the port's downgrade from A Class to B Class.
The Harrana Class Far Traders, Aloin discovered, had a two-parsec Jump range and a 1G Acceleration Manoeuvre Drive. Able to carry 61 tons of cargo, 5 cabin passengers, and 4 passengers in Low Berths, the ship was relatively roomy inside. As he learnt the ship, Aloin met the other members of the crew. Aside from Captain Lukk, whom Aloin had to drive to various meetings in the both the Downport and the surrounding Star Town, and Kiirgun Atmai who cheerfully gave him piles of manuals to read and then quizzed him on them, the crew consisted of Engineer Holi Pradeen, and Navigator Miska Ilurrin. Experienced spacers, both Pradeen and Ilurrin were Celephaizons like the Captain, and shared a familiarity born of long association.
Aloin quickly became bored trekking backwards and forwards between the ship and various office suites on the concourse, and then waiting attendance upon the Captain during long, dull meetings. A lot of these meetings seemed to degenerate into tea-drinking sessions, as far as he could see, where the Captain and whoever she was meeting with gossiped for hours over pot after pot of sweet, black, chi.
"I thought we were looking for a cargo", Aloin said to Kiirgun eventually. "But they just talk. So why am I there?'
"What do they talk about?" Kiirgun asked in reply.
"They just talk about … stuff," Aloin said. "What's happening on Miazan; what the President of Kamperel likes for breakfast; who's top dog in the Hunt of Rronurl this month." He shrugged.
"And what does this tell you?"
Alorin shrugged again. "That these people gossip worse than the Vulpini Holochannel?"
Kiirgun sighed. "Information, lad", he said." Next to credits, information is the hardest currency in Charted Space for a merchant."
A little light seemed to go on for Aloin. "Oh", he said. "Oh! Oh, that explains the guy from Jarzeroon Petrochem."
Kiirgun looked up at him and raised an eyebrow.
"The Jarzeroon guy has been at a couple of these tea-fests", Aloin continued. "He hasn't said a lot, but each time he's moved a seat closer to the Captain, and has made a point of talking to her as the meeting has broken up.
"Today, there was a lot of talk about Miazan and plastics and industrial production numbers. And I think he's expecting a petrochem shipment in from the wells at Jakabsan North – I saw several Olkathi mooching around the Concourse today who I know range that far north and often act as guides for hauler trains."
Kiirrgun laughed and clapped his hands. "Yes! Well done. You see, your eyes and ears take in all this information, and you just needed your brain to make the connections. We did not know for sure that there was a shipment, but we did know that the Jarzeroon representative was suddenly very keen to sell."
Passing Aloin a fizz drink from of the crew common area freeze unit, Kiirgun opened one himself, and then toasted Aloin. "Well done, indeed, young Aloin. You asked why you have been dragged along to these 'tea-fests'. I think you have your answer. If you have the aptitude to be a cargo broker, you have to be able to mingle and talk with a crowd. You have to be able to see who wants to sell and who wants to buy and bring these people, or their factors, together so a deal is done. You have shown me that you can put the information together, now we just have to give you the skills to extract it from the seller and the buyer in a way that both will trust you."
I'm having a bit of fun teasing the story along and showing how "Basic Training" might actually work on a Free Trader. I rolled for cargoes on the Speculative Trading Table and got nothing of interest for four weeks. There is a reason that Captain Lukk can afford to sit dirt-side for four weeks waiting for a spec cargo, and this will be revealed later on – I have run this campaign out over a game year so there is still more story to come.
By "show", rather than "tell", I am trying to reveal more about the characters of the crew of the Iridium Queen, as well as information about the ship, itself. I'm also thinking that a game page on this blog might be a good thing for storing character UPPs and ship USPs as well.


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Greetings, Athenians! We hope you're as excited as we are for the upcoming Athena East 3.0 pitch event that's a week from today!
The event will be at the River Stone Chophouse in Suffolk, VA on October 19th at 1800. You can register to attend right here.
Our Athena pitch events provide a venue for Sailors and DoD employees to present their big ideas to make their organization or the Navy better. Selected presenters will have five minutes to present their idea and then five additional minutes to field questions from the crowd and the assembled panel of leaders. At the end of all pitches, the crowd will vote on the concepts based on impact, actionability and presentation to award the top concept the Admiral Sims Award for Intellectual Courage.
The Purpose of Athena East 3.0 is to connect Sailors with ideas to an audience of professionals from the military, academia, industry, and the community who are supportive of military problem solving and problem ownership. We want to develop a cadre of forward-thinking, creatively confident Sailors for the Fleet of tomorrow and build a diverse, supportive network to help them move forward. Build a sense of problem ownership, where a Sailor sees a problem and develops a solution, and presents to leadership to get specific support. Athena East 3.0 is an informal gathering to hear, support, and celebrate Service-members and/or DoD civilians acting on their passion to improve their unit or service.For more on how Athena works and some of our past events, check out our roundup articles while you're here on the blog!
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Now that the trout tourney is complete (thanks to all for a record turnout), it's time to start thinking about the upcoming season.
September 21 will be our trail clearing work detail and later our annual picnic. We will meet at Colton Point Motel for breakfast at 7am. Trail clearing begins at 8 am and lunch and picnic noon until. Bring saws, trimmers etc. ATV if you have one to get around on the trail. A covered dish if you can to pass during the picnic. Club provides burgers, hotdogs, drinks. Hope you can make it, we appreciate the help! See you then!


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Photo Magician Makes Batch Resizing Images MAGIC!
So if I could specify an entire folder or even be able to drag and drop the images onto Photo Magician's interface and have them auto-magically resized, that would be awesome. And awesome it is!
When you download and run this portable application you will see this screen which is the main user interface. It is very straightforward.
You have an input folder and an output folder. You select or create them by hitting the select button after each field. The Input folder will be where your original images are coming from and the output folder will be where Photo Magician will save the resized images.
Now my biggest pet peeve about most other applications for resizing images is that they do not retain their aspect ratio. This is like checking maintain aspect ratio in Photoshop. When this is not the case your images get all distorted and then the application is more of a hindrance than actually helpful.
Let's take a look at the application's options. After all, an application is only as good as its options right? You can see all the options on the main screen in the bottom right hand corner like so:
Let's run down the options. The Include Sub Folders button allow you to have Photo Magician convert all the files in the root folder and all sub-folders. Do not make a sub-folder in your output directory because that would cause some serious issues!
Overwrite originals is an option that can be used instead of the output folder. This will simply overwrite your original image files with the newly resized images. This is not undoable so it is a risky option! I would not use this one unless I was seriously strapped for hard drive space.
Turn off image preview – This will speed things up a bit and it helps immensely on slower machines.
Include other formats – this will try to resize every image in the directory, not just JPG and GIF.
Exclude images under size – This will let you specify the largest size you want resized and it will leave alone any images falling under that size.
Convert Images to same format – This will allow you to mass convert the images to another format after the resizing. You have these options: BMP, JPG, PNG, TIF and WMF as you can see below:
When you are ready to go all you need to do is click the Process Images button in the bottom left hand corner. Photo Magician will begin sifting through and resizing all the images meeting the options you selected.
After setting up your options you can also hit Quick Convert Mode to process a chunk of images using a profile. The profiles are already set up for you so they can make your life a lot easier.
How do you batch resize your images quickly? We would love to know! Share your favorite free application with us in the comments.
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Howdy there,
Now it's around a month, that Microsoft released the .NET framework 4 to the public – so I wanted to take the occasion to give you a quick view on two nice new features:
1. Optional parameters:
You can specify any parameters to be optional by assigning it a default value directly in the list of parameters (using the assignment operator). It is quite straight-forward:
1: public static void DoSomething(Int32 count = 10)
2: {
3: for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
4: {
5: Console.WriteLine(i);
6: }
7: Console.ReadLine();
8: }
Snippet 1: The DoSomething method, specifying the count parameter as optional
This changes also the way such a method can be called, i.e. by omitting the parameter it still works fine – it just assigns the default value (in our case 10), and the code can perfectly run like that. Hence, a call to the method may look like in the following example:
1: static void Main(string[] args)
2: {
3: DoSomething();
4: }
Snippet 2: Call to DoSomething , omitting the parameter
Even IntelliSense takes notice of the optional parameters, displaying them in square brackets, along with its default value:
Figure 1: IntelliSense displaying an optional parameter
Straightforward so far, isn't it?
2. Named parameters
Now, imagine a case where we have a method that defines two required parameters, followed by an optional parameter and then again followed by another requited parameter. Let's change the DoSomething method so it looks like in snippet 3:
1: public static void DoSomething(String name, String surname, String city = "Munich", Int32 age)
2: {
3: Console.WriteLine(name + " " + surname + " lives in: " + city + " / age:" + age;
4: }
Snippet 3: The changed DoSomething method
Now it is basically possible to change the order of the parameter calling by specfying the correct names followed by a colon and again followed by the value. That's it!
1: DoSomething(surname: "Miller", name: "John", age: 32);
2: DoSomething(age:32, surname: "Miller", name: "John", city:"Berlin");
This feature is especially useful if you use optional parameters, since it may not become clear which parameter is called next if you omit an optional parameter. Again, IntelliSense gives useful hints when calling a named parameter.
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Want To Read More This Year? Here Are 10 Ways To Do It
"To read more" is always a common New Year's resolution How To Turn Your New Year Resolution Into A Success Story Do resolutions last beyond January? It might be impossible to stick to your goal one hundred percent, but with the tips here, you can do a pretty good job of it. Read More .
There are a lot of great benefits to reading — it can help you escape and de-stress, learn new things, connect with people, make you think in new ways, and gain insight into the world. But spending more time reading isn't always an easy prospect.
Here are 10 strategies to do it this year.
Make It Important
This is crucial — if it's not important to you, you're not going to do it. We're all busy, and finding time to read isn't just going to magically happen. You have to make time for reading because you love to do it. If "read more" is one of your goals for the year 5 Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Setting Goals Goal setting is a great way to cut down on procrastination and boost productivity. If you don't have goals, you don't have direction. Without direction, it's easy for you to feel lost and confused. Fortunately,... Read More , write it down and make sure others know about it.
Goodreads has a great "reading challenge" feature that lets you choose the number of books you'd like to read this year and track your progress. Think of how many books you read last year, add a few, and set your goal. Shared goals on this social site for books An Unofficial Guide to Goodreads for Readers and Writers I am digital marketer who works in traditional publishing, and I am also a writer. And though I am not self-published, I have two words for those who are: Goodreads STAT. Read More can be motivating.
You can always find an online community How To Find An Online Community To Support Your New Year Resolutions You've made a great resolution, and you're ready to stick to it in 2015 . . . now what? Set yourself up for success by finding an online community to help meet your goals this... Read More that will help support your goal — whether it's as impersonal as Reddit or as intimate as your spouse making sure you are reading from time to time.
Set A Time To Read
A few things are true of most of the people I know who read a lot, and one of those things is that they read before they go to sleep. You could spend the 30 or 60 minutes before going to sleep checking Facebook on your phone, or you could spend it reading a book!
It doesn't have to be before bed, though — some people read in the morning, some people read after work, some people spend several hours on Saturday and Sunday plowing through their current book. The point here is to be consistent whenever possible. Getting into a pattern will help you keep up your reading habit How To Form A New Habit When It Seems Too Hard To Keep Going Habits don't form overnight. Every year, we make these resolutions that call for major changes. If you want a new habit, you need to be ready for pitfalls and how to overcome them. Read More . Find a time that works for you and try to stick with it.
Read Everywhere
This is another thing that committed readers often do — they don't just read when they're in their easy chair. They read on the bus, while they're in line at the DMV, on their lunch break at work, and at the gym between sets. A few minutes here and there really adds up over a week!
Carrying a book with you at all times is easy when you're reading smaller books, but e-readers What's the Difference Between E-Readers and Tablets? E-readers and tablets are not the same thing. Here's what you need to know about their differences. Read More make it a cinch to carry hundreds of books in your pocket. Fill up your Kindle or Nook with a bunch of books that you want to read, and you'll be set to read wherever you find yourself. Keeping the Kindle app New Kindle For iOS Features Make It A Serious eReader For Studying The latest update adds features to the iOS version of Amazon's Kindle e-reader that makes it more useful than Apple's own iBooks for reading eBooks and PDFs. Read More on your phone, tablet, and computer will enable you to read when you're not expecting to.
Make Reading Social
We generally think of reading as a solitary activity, but there are a number of things that you can do to make it social. You could join a book club or an online discussion group. You can encourage your friends to read the same books so you can all talk about them. There are plenty of communities on Reddit for book lovers, and Goodreads is a great place to find other people reading the same books as you are.
My MakeUseOf colleague, Mihir only reads books that are recommended by friends and trusted book reviewers The 7 Best Book Review Podcasts & Shows To Discover New Books Read More — he knows that they have similar taste in books, and he's confident in their recommendations. He says it keeps him from wasting him on bestsellers that probably wouldn't appeal to him. Seek out people with similar taste and see what they're reading!
Take Part In Fun Reading Challenges
One of the ways that you can make reading social is to take part in a reading challenge with another person or a group (though you can easily do them by yourself). One of the great things about reading challenges is that they encourage you to read books that you might not have otherwise picked up.
For example, this reading challenge on Pinterest includes "a book with a number in the title," "a book set in the future," "a book with magic," "a book your mom loves," and "a play." There are tons of reading challenges out there — just search for "reading challenge 2015" on Google or Pinterest and see what comes up. You might end up enjoying something you wouldn't have picked up on your own.
Read Books That Are Useful To You
This applies mostly to non-fiction 5 Non-Fiction Books Every Technology Geek Must Read You can learn a lot about consumer technology and its effect on society by reading blogs, but online sources have a tendency to follow the latest fad instead of providing exhaustive research of a topic.... Read More , a genre that's often neglected when discussing strategies for reading more. Everyone has issues and topics that they're interested in, whether they're self-improvement, current events, history, business management, math, physics, cultural theory, agile development, or learning new skills. There are books for all of these.
Saikat says that he often reads books that spur him to move outside his comfort zone, as this is something that he tries to do on a regular basis. These books encourage him to step outside of the box in different ways that he may not have thought of otherwise. Think the issues that you'd like to know more about and seek them out in books.
Don't Finish Books You're Not Into
This is a strategy that some people disagree with, but a lot of people find it useful. If you're not enjoying or getting anything out of a book, you can just put it down and move on to something else. Many people find this difficult, but others say it's a huge help in reading more.
If you're not enjoying a book, it's going to be much more difficult to pick it up and keep reading. You're more likely to find something else to do instead of read. By quitting before you get too far into the book, you can start one that interests you and blaze through pages that you enjoy. Some people say that you should give a book 50 pages, but you can use whatever works for you. You can always go back and try to read it again later — some books that I wasn't able to finish the first time have gone on to become favorites.
Reread Old Favorites
Another one that some people will disagree, but one that helps me a lot. Some of my favorite books—Dune, The Passage, Dracula — I've read two or three times. I know that there's a whole world of books out there and that I want to read as many of those books as possible, but there's something really comforting in going back to an old favorite.
I don't have a system for when I go back to a book that I've already read, but occasionally I'll feel the desire to reread a classic that I absolutely love. There's no reason not to do this — if you get that feeling, embrace it. You can always discover new things about your favorite books, especially if you weren't totally engaged with it the first time you read it.
Save Certain Books For Vacation
Another tip from Mihir. Some books are best read when you're on vacation, whether you're at the beach, the top of a mountain, or in an urban resort. Mihir says that crime and thriller novels can keep him engaged on regular days, but that biographies and autobiographies are best kept for when he's on vacation.
Keep your favorite genre of book safely aside for the right time to get into it or conquer it when you can dedicate yourself totally. Picking your books beforehand is a great way to make sure you have a great one ready to go.
Read Different Formats
If your goal is to read more, you probably have books in mind, but don't forget that there are other kinds of reading that can be fun, educational, and very rewarding as well. Magazines Find Great Free Magazines for Your iPad Digital editions emerged at a time when the Internet had already made a sufficient dent in the print industry's funds, but a little too late to stem the flow of free information from new entirely... Read More , newspapers, blogs, and longform articles Too Long But Do Read: 6 Places To Go To For Some Of The Best Reading On The Web TLDR is now an accepted part of Internet slang. Too Long Didn't Read is symptomatic of our attention spans…or rather lack of it. But there's a subtle shift that's happening beneath the layers of the... Read More , all have something to offer. Choosing the right one might be difficult, but with a bit of searching you should be able to find something that you're excited about reading.
Next time you think about signing on to Facebook for a few minutes or checking your work email in the evening, try reading something instead. Here are 8 great places to find things worth reading 8 Great Places To Find Articles Worth Reading On The Web The Internet is arguably the best news morgue on the planet right now. And apart from that great collection of old articles, thousands of new ones are added every day. Find the good ones. Read More to get you started. You could even read longform articles on your Kindle How to Read Great Long-Form Articles on Your Kindle With Delivereads I love my Kindle. Being able to read an endless variety of books on one slim device with a paper-like display makes me feel like I'm actually living in the future. But sometimes, a book... Read More !
Get Reading!
These 10 tips should give you plenty of ideas for where to get started on your goal of reading more 5 Tips To Read More Books Every Year There are just so many amazing books out there. To never have finished at least some is a regret waiting to be felt. Forestall it by reading more and reading smart with the following tips. Read More this year. Whether you're setting out to read a certain number of books (my goal for the year is 30 — there, now it's out in the universe) or just to spend a bit more time learning online, you have the tools you need. Now, find the motivation How to Kill Motivation Sucking Vampires & Finish What You Start Life projects that are stalled? Yes, we all have them. The story is always the same. We start with an idea but never see it through. Break the brittle obstacles and persevere with these tips. Read More . Get out there and do it!
Are you planning on reading more this year? What strategies will you use? What do you recommend to others who want to read more? Share your thoughts below!
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MANILA, Philippines—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the country's new drug czar, has ordered antinarcotics authorities to crack down on big drug traffickers, including her supporters, Malacañang officials said Wednesday.
"There will be no sacred cows," Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said when asked if Ms Arroyo would run after even her political allies suspected of trafficking.
Ermita said the drive would go all the way. "Anyone who will be involved, whoever they may be, they will have to account before the law."
Ms Arroyo on Tuesday declared that she would oversee the anti-drug campaign and serve as anti-drug czar until the bribery scandal besetting the Department of Justice (DOJ) is resolved.
DOJ prosecutors have been accused of dismissing charges against three drug suspects, known as the Alabang Boys, after they allegedly received P50 million. The prosecutors, who have denied the allegation, are on leave and are under investigation.
Ermita said notorious drug rings on the order of battle of the Dangerous Drugs Board and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) would be targeted in the all-out war against trafficking.
Get big-name traffickers
Ms Arroyo expected the "big-name traffickers" to be immediately identified in the fresh campaign, and "brought before the bar of justice," he said.
Cebu Rep. Antonio Cuenco noted that only six of the 32 big drug syndicates identified by the PDEA had been dismantled as of last year.
Cuenco urged the President to bring down during her stint as the anti-drug czar the 26 big syndicates on the PDEA list.
"They have been identified but how come they have not been busted up to now?" asked Cuenco, vice chair of the House committee on dangerous drugs.
He also urged Ms Arroyo to beef up its prosecution of drug cases in view of its poor batting average in convicting drug traffickers and pushers over the past 10 years.
On Tuesday, Ms Arroyo also ordered the implementation of a raft of measures, including random drug tests on high school and college students, to curb drug abuse and trafficking across the country.
"Definitely that (major victories) is the target of our drug enforcement agencies, and with the President at the helm of the drive, you can be sure that we better have some victories," Ermita told reporters.
"Otherwise this problem will linger on, and it's to the detriment of society," he said.
Semblance of permanence
An anticrime watchdog said Ms Arroyo must give her new role a "semblance of permanence" to efficiently get to the bottom of the illegal drug problem in the country.
"The case of the Alabang Boys must not be the basis of the President's timetable in assuming the post. It is just the tip of the iceberg so she must hold on to her new role for a longer period of time," said Dante Jimenez, chair of the Volunteers against Crime and Corruption (VACC).
The VACC is set to pitch this idea to Malacañang in a position paper on Thursday. The decision to submit a recommendation to Ms Arroyo was arrived at a board meeting Wednesday.
The group expects its position to be opposed by various groups and personalities as the elections are just around the corner. "As we all know, illegal drugs are among the best sources of election money," Jimenez said.
He noted that 80 percent of the heinous crimes in the country were drug-related.
Others are not impressed by the President naming herself anti-drug czar.
"It's bad if she will be unable to curb the problem of illegal drugs in the country. She might even be tagged as a recipient of bribes," Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said.
Pimentel said Ms Arroyo should instead give the job to PDEA Director General Dionisio Santiago.
"Santiago has a good reputation and only needs a no-nonsense backing by the President. I think he will be able to do a good job," he said.
No wonder woman
By naming herself as anti-drug czar, the President has turned into "micro-managing," said opposition Sen. Francis "Chiz" Escudero.
"That is not good for somebody who is supposed to run the government. She's no wonder woman who could do everything," the senator said in Tacloban City on his way to various towns in the provinces of Samar and Leyte.
Escudero said similar moves in the past did not lead to results. "There is no such thing as a drug czar in our administrative code. That is only a title and not a position," he said.
He said that every time the country faced a big problem, the President would name a czar. Ms Arroyo earlier named Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap as rice czar at the height of the rice crisis and Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes as energy czar when the country was suffering from high fuel prices.
Escudero also warned of more delays in the investigation of the Alabang Boys' case. "Most agencies in government won't move without her imprimatur," he said.
Only 24 convictions
In the House of Representatives, Ilocos Norte Rep. Roquito Ablan, chair of the committee on dangerous drugs, pointed out that the government had only made 24 convictions out of the thousands of drug cases filed as far back as 1998.
In his report to the President, Dangerous Drugs Board Chair Vicente "Tito" Sotto III blamed the anti-drug war's abysmal performance on the "nonappearance of prosecution witnesses, insufficiency of evidence, irregularity or illegality of arrest, search and seizure, and inconsistencies in testimony."
Jefferson Soriano Ablan, commander of the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force, wrote the House committee about the "seeming unabated dismissal of illegal drug cases especially those of high-valued targets and high profile personalities even at the prosecution level."
Legislative reforms
Representative Ablan said the committee would come up with legislative reforms aimed at strengthening the tools of the drug war and at reconciling the prosecution and enforcement side of the campaign.
The committee members suggested bigger budget allocations for the PDEA and police agents, setting up of an independent prosecution arm for drug cases, and using latest technology such as surveillance cameras to beef up cases against drug pushers and traffickers caught in the drug busts.
The committee would also consider the President's proposal to conduct random drug tests in schools.
Cavite Rep. Elpidio Barzaga suggested that Congress members undergo the same tests to set an example among public officials.
"How can we have an effective investigation of drug cases and legislate laws meant to address the drug menace if the public will perceive some of us as drug users?" asked Barzaga.
Ablan and Cuenco shot down the proposal. With reports from Christine O. Avendaño and Jocelyn R. Uy in Manila, and Joey Gabieta, Inquirer Visayas


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