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Top 9 Most Interesting Team Building Motivation Games
July 30, 2018 0 Comment Countries, facts, famous people, game, jobs, life, world
I found these motivation games for you. These games really great if you are at the office and need to unwind for a few minutes. They are very educational, challenging and fun too. It is also a good way to conquer that stress. #1. Egg Drop Egg Drop is a classic team building game that…
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World Cup 2018 Belgium Team 9 Facts That You Have To Know
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For the first time in World Cup history, the first 27 games of the tournament all featured goals. Romelu Lukaku, with four goals, became Belgium’s top scorer at a World Cup but was taken off after an hour before he had a chance to complete his hat-trick. His departure prompted speculation that he might be rested for the…
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9 Easy Ways to Stimulate a Baby’s Mind and Body
February 13, 2017 0 Comment baby, brain, child, Childbirth, Childhood, family, game, life, love
At birth, your baby's brain contains 100 billion neurons. During his first years, he will grow trillions of brain-cell connections, called neural synapses. New parents obsess over ways to keep their little ones entertained and edified. But when everything in the world is new to them, it might be easier than you think to get…
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September 29, 2016 2 Comments Apps, Countries, creative, facts, film, game, hollywood, playstation, trends, world
The titles produced by the video game industry over the last five years are as diverse and stratified as any other period in the medium's history. With the seventh generation of gaming rapidly coming to a close, the titles that marked the tail end of this era have been some of the most thematically complex…
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Android Nougat, Google Nexus: 9 Facts You Must to Know
August 23, 2016 0 Comment 2016, android, Apps, creative, facts, game, life, photos, places, world
Google has released the seventh version of its Android mobile operating system, named Nougat. The new software includes tweaks that Google says will improve battery life, allow users more options for customising the phone, and improve productivity. After a long time of speculation on the official name of Android Nougat, and after Google threw the doors…
Incredible Facts About PlayStation
February 17, 2016 2 Comments entertainment, game, playstation, sony
The PlayStation (officially abbreviated as PS and more commonly known as PS1) is a 32-bit video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment. The console was released in Japan on December 3, 1994, and was released in North America and Europe in September 1995. #1. Sony rejected dozens of designs before settling on the iconic…
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[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great
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What is in it for Iranian people?!
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:03 am Post subject: What is in it for Iranian people?!
Relations between Islamic Republic and United States
What is in it for ordinary Iranian people?
Once again talks about negotiation between Islamic government of Iran and American leadership have become a hot topic in both countries. Leaders of Islamic Republic, as always, are issuing all kinds of mixed messages through promises of helping Americans in Iraq and willingness to negotiate and also repeating same old rhetoric on issues like nuclear activities and presence of American troops in Persian Gulf region. From the other side, American policy makers have been tangled in a power struggle since last congressional election which has greatly influenced their ability to deal with non domestic issues.
Leaders of Islamic regime in Iran appear to believe that this divide among elements in American leadership is in their interest and openly try to capitalize on that in order to find a support in American government for trouble free extension of their system. This is not the first time and the only instance that, despite all rhetorical slogans in every Friday prayer, Islamic regime has made attempt to get closer to Americans. Islamic Republic government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since more than a decade ago through institutions which were inherited from previous system in order to buy "friendship" of some Americans who show interest in getting close to Islamic regime of Iran.
Formation of institutions like AIC (American Iranian Council) with sponsorship and support of well known and influential figures and corporations in America about 10 years ago, to encourage "dialogue" between leaders of Islamic regime and United States, has been one of the methods that have been tried in this direction with help of some Iranian elements. It is obvious that those who were involved in creation of this organization could not have come up with the idea overnight and having corporations like Shell, Chevron and Exxon on their side to "encourage dialogue" with oil rich Iran is a clear indication that no charity work is involved either!
There is no doubt that "dialogue" in order to resolve an issue is the best option depending on how dialogue is to be handled and by whom. The issue is that "what problems" can be resolved through dialogue between American government and Islamic Republic regime of Iran which have not been resolved so far? Will this resolution have interests of Iranian people as a nation included or just a certain portion of society will benefit from it? There is no question that friendly relation between the two nations have a lot of advantages for both under proper circumstances but let�s see who benefited from "dialogue" and resolution of issues between Islamic government of Iran and others like European governments? Have the friendly relations between Islamic Republic regime in Iran and European governments, Japan and Russia along with their generous contracts with European and Russian companies had any positive effect inside Iran as far as conditions of economy and human rights for the public?
A glance into the day to day events in Iran shows the Islamic regime is always busy with brutal suppression of any kind of objections from working groups like, teachers, public transportation drivers and labors and also students in the name of "national security" and the answer to the above question is definitely "NO"! Despite constant increase in revenue of the Islamic government particularly from oil and gas sector, the quality of living for majority of Iranian population has been in decline and extreme poverty has resulted in opportunities for some disgraceful type of businesses to boom. This makes one wonder if "friendly" business relations of Islamic Republic with all western nations (except United States) and the rest of the world, has not helped to improve the quality of life for people of Iran in the past decades then how the friendly relations with American government and American oil corporations will be helpful to them?
The scandals of bribery with French and Belgian corporations in which associates of high ranking members of Islamic regime�s leadership were implicated is tip of the iceberg on how the business is conducted in Islamic Republic government. Coming of American corporations to Iran under current system will never help anyone but Islamic regime leaders and those who lobby for their own share from this big pie while majority of Iranian people who were robbed of their prosperity by this corrupt regime continue their struggle with poverty and suffer from extreme human right abuses under this brutal and barbaric system. Islamic government of Iran that has never shown any respect for humane values, by clinging to Islamic ideology as an excuse, has made it very clear through unorthodox behavior that it will not hold back of doing anything to protect itself against the will of Iranian people even if it is making a deal with devil himself!
Flood of petrodollars during the years after end of Iran-Iraq war has provided Islamic republic leaders with a big leverage to influence the affairs in the region and also attract many Iranians outside the country to work for the interests of their system. In a world that well reputed magazines and news paper sell their columns and pages to be filled with any kind of material that money can buy, lobbying for Islamic republic has become a very profitable business. Not surprisingly, some of highly educated Iranians have become actively involved in order to make it to the list of rich and famous, fast and with easy money! Interestingly enough, Dr. Amirahmadi, a well known figure in one of these lobbying groups, in his website declares the source of all problems of Iranian society to be "lack of vision and leadership" while listing giant corporations like Shell, Exxon and Chevron as a sponsors of his lobby group to encourage "dialogue" with Islamic government in Iran! Apparently Total of France, Gazprom of Russia and Statoil of Belgium were not good in "encouraging anything" and we now need others to get working on this "innovative vision" to bring prosperity for some people and continuity for a brutal system which is barbarically suppressing the most basic rights and liberties of people in Iran!
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You Are Here: The historic town hall of Aachen
The historic town hall of Aachen
You Are Here:The historic town hall of Aachen
Stadt Aachen
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Institute of History of Architecture and Conservation
Department of Historic Building Conservation and Research
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Raabe
Dipl.-Ing. Marc Wietheger
Granusturm Aufmaßkampagne 1
Granusturm Vertikalschnitt
From the end of the 8th century up to the present the town hall of Aachen in unity with the bordering Granus tower in the north and Aachen cathedral at the opposing south side of Katsch court have been witnesses of the former palatine complex of Carl the Great in Aachen. In addition to the archaeological verified remains of the Carolingian arrangement these buildings, despite numerous deformations and deconstruction, preserve evidence of the imperial palatine complex as well as Carolingian and medieval original substances in their foundations and ascending stonework. Whereas science and research where able to gather a lot of information from the Marien Church, the present cathedral, concerning building history, there was neither a comprehensive documentation nor a systematic building research regarding the King´s hall, on which the gothic town hall was built during the 14th century. This led to the start of a first intensive building documentation and -research in spring 2007 in the Granus tower, the former ?turris regalis? (=? tower of the king?) of the Carolingian palatine complex. Within the scope of the course "Bauforschung als Grundlage denkmalpflegerischer Maßnahmen" (= ? Building Research as Groundwork of building conservational methods?) given by the research assistants Judith Ley and Marc Wietheger there have been multiple documentation campaigns in field surveys containing the buildings systematic measurement, drawing, photograph and scientific description in cooperation with students of architecture, each course lasting a period of a week. Beyond the practical teaching of several methods and techniques of examination in handling historical building substances within the student course at the Department of Historic Building Conservation and Research, the works results being exact architectonical as-built drawings and the analysis of the structural health should be capable to be used in terms of securing as well as restoring the estate. The project was supported by Aachen?s Office for Preservation of Historic Monuments from the beginning. Nevertheless, it is the work´s primary aim to evaluate the estate on-site in combinational use of analyses of historic sources to reassemble the variant construction periods into the buildings initially state and to facilitate the ability of defining the building´s original use. Using tachymetric-CAD- supported online-measurement, photogrammetrically documented stone faced surfaces, 3D-Laserscanning and manual measurement of detail areas, deformation accurate as-built drawings were created. Within a uniform measuring system (3D-Polygonal course) it was possible to generate detailed floor plans of each main and sub floor as well as six vertical section plans. This way it was possible to map the construction joints, used materials, damage patterns and special works on building material in detail enabling a succeeding analysis of the inner complex spatial structure. Especially the examination of the tower´s number of storeys, orientation, accessibility and exposure of the rooms and stairways as well as the connection to the kings? hall and so to the whole composition of the palatine is of major interest. In short-term the advanced work on the Granus tower is going to be expanded to the historic town hall: the external viewed additive layout of building components turns out to be an integral planned complex spatial concept in the inside depending on their multitude of architectural intersections. The analysis of this internal structure is expected to lead to a deeper understanding of the original architectural plan. The interim results and targets of the present building research are being discussed in different panels by expert colleagues and people involved in the project and furthermore influence the work of the newly founded working group for palatine research in Aachen.
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What makes James Corden’s content such a success?
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James Corden and the executive producers of ‘The Late Late Show’ Ben Winston, Mike Gibbons and Rob Crabbe understand how creative content works. In 17 months his show’s YouTube channel has attracted 7 million subscribers and notched up 1.7bn views worldwide, while his Britney Spears Carpool Karaoke is set to become the 33rd YouTube clip from the show to hit 10m+ views. In other words they understand the workings of a good feature and the needs of the viewer. In a recent interview in the Guardian newspaper Corden revealed a key point that as a content maker you should revisit time and time again.
“There’s a great bit in that Jerry Seinfeld doc where someone asks him if being famous helps with doing standup and trying new material, and he says: ‘I get three minutes of good grace from an audience whereas someone else gets 30 seconds, “We very much felt that we just had 30 seconds. So we knew we had to put a stake in the ground early and go: ‘We are a show where people come and do stuff.’
He adds.
“I genuinely couldn’t tell you how many people watch our show, because I feel like in this slot we’re not really in the ratings business, we’re just in the relevance business. My major ambition is just to stay relevant.”
Corden’s features always have a simple premise. He always gets straight to the point and he hops on relevant zeitgeist news stories straight away, putting his unique spin on them.
Audiences don’t want to waste time. How much grace have you earned?
You can read the full interview here
Views expressed do not represent the view of RTÉ.
#carpool karaoke #content #James corden
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Agimet of Geneva Basic Facts:
Jewish merchant who had been buying silks in Venice in 1348.
Was arrested in Chatel, on the shores of Lake Geneva, and tried on October 20, 1348.
Confessed that he had deliberately poisoned the wells of Venice with a 'special powder' which had produced the plague (Black Death).
The confession was extracted after considerable torture, and was almost certainly a false confession to stop the agony he was experiencing.
To prevent further torment before his execution, Agimet was coerced to say that Rabbi Peyret of Chambery (near Geneva) was the chief conspirator of the poisoning plot.
The translation of the official confession (obtained under torture) by Agimet of Geneva is shown here.
In the aftermath of Agimet's "confession," ~900 Jews of Strasbourg were burned alive on February 14, 1349.
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The biggest news story today is about the Pacific Garbage Patch. This is one of the five gyres of concentrated plastic waste in our world’s oceans and this one is four to 16 times bigger than previously thought and growing exponentially. Eeek! This is a global problem that needs everyone to act on. Are you reducing your plastic consumption? Are you supporting bans on plastic bags and single use plastic?
In other news, Mark Boyle is living without technology, of any kind, through a handwritten letter to The Guardian, he describes why. In another comment on society, how planting trees with your neighbour increases a sense of community and reduces crime.
Plastic patch in Pacific Ocean growing rapidly, study shows | BBC News
A collection of plastic afloat in the Pacific Ocean is growing rapidly, according to a new scientific estimate. Predictions suggest a build-up of about 80,000 tonnes of plastic in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” between California and Hawaii. This figure is up to sixteen times higher than previously reported, say international researchers. One trawl in the centre of the patch had the highest concentration of plastic ever recorded.
From other agencies:
– Plastic within the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is ‘increasing exponentially,’ scientists find | The Washington Post
– ‘Great Pacific garbage patch’ sprawling with far more debris than thought | The Guardian
– Great Pacific Garbage Patch plastic pollution dwarfs previous estimates and is ‘growing exponentially’ | ABC News
A sampling of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (The Ocean Cleanup.)
Last year dashed hopes for a climate change turnaround | The Washington Post
After three flat years that had hinted at a possible environmental breakthrough, carbon dioxide emissions from the use of energy rose again by 1.4 percent in 2017, according to new data released by the International Energy Agency on Wednesday.
Coal plant construction extends dive – but not fast enough: report | SMH
Coal-fired power is on track to start shrinking globally by 2022, dimming prospects for exporters of the fossil fuel, including Australia, according to a report by environmental groups. China and India, which have dominated construction of new power plants for more than a decade, both cut new capacity sharply for the second year in a row in 2017, the annual Boom and Bust report by Greenpeace, Sierra Club and CoalSwarm found.
Mexico Forecast to Add 24 TWh of Clean Energy by 2022 | Bloomberg New Energy Finance
MEXICO – Mexico’s 2013 energy reform has changed the corporate power market dramatically. The introduction of a market in clean energy certificates (CEL) will lead to the generation of an additional 24 terawatt-hours of clean energy by 2022, Bloomberg New Energy Finance finds in its 1H 2018 Corporate Energy Market Outlook.
Solar installed on 500 public housing homes in Queensland, focus turns to rental market | One Step Off The Grid
AUSTRALIA – Rooftop solar has been installed on almost 500 public housing homes across Cairns, Rockhampton and Lockhart River in Queensland, as part of a a state government scheme that winds up this week. The scheme is one of a suite of policies unveiled late last year in an effort to open the way for thousands more homes in the Sunshine State – including the largely untapped rental market – to gain access to rooftop solar and battery storage and cut their electricity bills.
‘Dead zone’ in Gulf of Mexico will take decades to recover from farm pollution | The Guardian
The enormous “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico will take decades to recover even if the flow of farming chemicals that is causing the damage is completely halted, new research has warned. Intensive agriculture near the Mississippi has led to fertilizers leeching into the river, and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico, via soils and waterways. This has resulted in a huge oxygen-deprived dead zone in the Gulf that is now at its largest ever extent, covering an area greater than the state of New Jersey.
3 Reasons City Dwellers Should Care About Forests | World Resources Institute
If you’re reading this, you are probably a city dweller. More than half of humanity lives in cities, and the percentage continues to grow. As more and more of us move from the rural landscapes our ancestors called home, we are particularly estranged from forests. Trees have been cut back to the hinterlands, replaced by farms, housing and urban sprawl. But even if you live in the heart of the concrete jungle, you should care about forests. [Wednesday was] the International Day of Forests. This year’s theme is Forests and Sustainable Cities. Take a minute to reflect on how much you depend on these ecosystems, from the park in your neighborhood to the distant Amazonian rainforest.
Even if you were the last rhino on Earth… why populations can’t be saved by a single breeding pair | The Conversation
Two days ago, the last male northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) died. His passing leaves two surviving members of his subspecies: both females who are unable to bear calves. Even though it might not be quite the end of the northern white rhino because of the possibility of implanting frozen embryos in their southern cousins (C. simum simum), in practical terms, it nevertheless represents the end of a long decline for the subspecies. It also raises the question: how many individuals does a species need to persist?
What dolphin teeth can tell us about ocean pollution | NZ Herald
Crucial clues about the contamination of our coasts could be found – of all places – inside the teeth of bottlenose dolphins. Metal contaminants in marine environments are a particular health risk for humans and other animals as they get absorbed into teeth and bones. Now, Dr Carolina Loch, of Otago University’s Faculty of Dentistry, is leading a study to track metal exposure in marine species to help determine pollution in the ocean.
Understanding the risks to Canada’s drinking water | The Conversation
CANADA – March 22 marks World Water Day, an acknowledgement of the importance of safe, clean drinking water. This year, the celebration takes place against the backdrop of water shortages. The United Nations has concluded that there is an international water crisis, and the principal failing is one of governance. Cape Town is the latest crisis, but we can only expect water shortages to become more common. Canada has an abundance of water for its size: It has 0.5 per cent of the world’s population but seven per cent of the world’s renewable freshwater supply. From a global perspective, most Canadians are lucky, but the messages that emanate from academic and popular literature often paint an unsettling picture.
Sustainable shopping: if you really, truly need a new phone, buy one with replaceable parts | The Conversation
Almost 90% of Australians own a smartphone, and almost 40% of us are expected to update our phone in the coming year. The most sustainable mobile phone is actually the phone you already own! This is because manufacturing a phone has far more environmental impact than using it. The circuit board, display and battery are primarily responsible for your phone’s environmental impacts. These contain valuable minerals such as cobalt, gold, silver, palladium and tin. Huge amounts of ore, processing and energy are required to yield small amounts of these materials.
My advice after a year without tech: rewild yourself | Mark Boyle | The Guardian (Opinion)
Having once been an early adopter of tech, I was an unlikely early rejector. But it has now been over a year since I have phoned my family or friends, logged on to antisocial media, sent a text message, checked email, browsed online, took a photograph or listened to electronic music. Living and working on a smallholding without electricity, fossil fuels or running water, the last year has taught me much about the natural world, society, the state of our shared culture, and what it means to be human in a time when the boundaries between man and machine are blurring.
‘When you’re connected to wifi you’re disconnected from life.’ Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
Want to fight crime? Plant some flowers with your neighbor | The Conversation
USA – Neighborhoods struggling with physical decline and high crime often become safer simply when local residents work together to fix up their neighborhood. My colleagues and I at the University of Michigan School of Public Health Youth Violence Prevention Center have spent nearly a decade documenting why. Research from cities across the United States shows how small changes to urban environments — like planting flowers or adding benches — reduce violence. The result is an emerging crime prevention theory we call “busy streets.” Here’s how it works.
War on drugs has failed – Helen Clark | Radio New Zealand News
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark says a bill that would quadruple the maximum prison sentence for people supplying synthetic cannabis reflects a failed war on drugs mentality… Ms Clark said it was time for New Zealand to have a fresh look at its drug policy. “We have to look at the evidence of what works – and if we looked at Portugal or to Switzerland or any number of countries now we see more enlightened drug policies, which are bringing down the rate of death and not driving up prison populations.”
Coalition accuses green groups of misleading public on forestry agreements | The Guardian
AUSTRALIA – The government has accused green groups of deliberately misleading the Australian people by raising concerns about the roll over of long term logging agreements. The accusations from federal assistant agriculture minister senator Anne Ruston were revealed after Guardian Australia reported the government itself had discussed concerns that the agreements were invalid as they are based on old scientific assessments.
Buried, altered, silenced: 4 ways government climate information has changed since Trump took office | The Conversation
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, hundreds of volunteers around the U.S. came together to “rescue” federal data on climate change, thought to be at risk under the new administration. “Guerilla archivists,” including ourselves, gathered to archive federal websites and preserve scientific data. But what has happened since? Did the data vanish? As of one year later, there has been no great purge. Federal data sets related to environmental and climate science are still accessible in the same ways they were before Trump took office. However, in many other instances, federal agencies have tampered with information about climate change. Across agency websites, documents have disappeared, web pages have vanished and language has shifted in ways that appear to reflect the policies of the new administration.
The case for upgrading Melbourne’s poor housing stock | The Fifth Estate
AUSTRALIA – The cost of upgrading Melbourne’s poor-performing homes from 1.5 star NatHERS to four stars could be paid off in energy savings in nine years, according to new research from the University of Melbourne, while a six-star upgrade would take 14 years.
No action on rising seas without law change | Newsroom.co.nz
NEW ZEALAND – People considering buying property on the Coromandel Peninsula may notice something new if they request a land information report: a pointer to an online simulator showing potential future flooding. A Thames lawyer and campaigner, Denis Tegg, has persuaded Thames-Coromandel District Council to include a link in all future LIM reports alerting people to a Waikato Regional Council tool showing how flooding may affect properties after sea level rise.
Battle of the barns | Newsroom.co.nz
NEW ZEALAND – Animal welfare groups can rightly claim a victory over egg producers with the phasing out of battery cages, but a new fight is developing over the replacement – barn-laid eggs.
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Can't Wait Wednesday: Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme (that will help me remember what to buy for my library) that's hosted by Wishful Endings. It's based off the weekly meme Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
Boy I can't wait to read
It’s 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.
Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He’s terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he’s gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media’s images of men dying of AIDS.
Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance… until she falls for Reza and they start dating.
Art is Judy’s best friend, their school’s only out-and-proud teen. He’ll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs.
As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won’t break Judy’s heart—and destroy the most meaningful friendship he’s ever known.
Publication Date: June 4, 2019
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Review:The Oddball Chronicles by Michael Williams
Omar Odd is the kid who sits quietly in the back of the classroom with his headphones on. He is the kid who is always picked last for every team he tries to be apart of. He is the kid who's just searching for a little bit of peace and quiet, in a world full of chaotic noise. Omar Odd is a new transfer high school student to the town of Ridgewood. He prefers to live the life of an outsider, but even outsiders find an in crowd. As Omar grows into young adulthood he finds that his life is a series of trial and error. More often than not, he finds himself on the error side of things. With wittiness, luck, questionable judgment, and the help of new found friends, Omar attempts to navigate the road of life while avoiding oncoming traffic. These are his victories, his defeats, but most importantly, his truths. These are, The Oddball Chronicles.
This book was sent to me by the author in exchange for an honest review.
I was contacted by the author and provided a digital copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
The Oddball Chronicles are about new kid Omar Odd and his high school flubs, social media storms, and basically being 17 in America.
I like the odd ball chronicles. This book was instantly intriguing to me as a Librarian because I can think of about about 4 different types of readers I can give this book to. We meet Omar, learn a bit about his past, and run straight into conflict before we know what’s happening.
While Omar is presented to us as a quiet kid who likes to fly under the radar and avoid crowds, it doesn’t take long before he’s broken the internet and starting news worth national debate over his school presentation, (that was presumably recorded by some kid from the class) on Christopher Columbus. In his speech, Omar, deviates from the information in the class textbook and explains not only did Christopher Columbus “discover” America, he stole land, slaughtered and/or enslaved those native to the country, and apparently was on board with the child sex trade??? (which is news to me and I’m going to look it up asap).
The conflict that Omar’s speech created was pretty indicative of what we see almost every day on the news and peppered throughout Social Media, I just wish we could have gone deeper down that rabbit hole. We were told that Omar’s speech sparked videos made by others, 100,000 views, and goodness knows how many comments, but I think we readers could have connected more with Omar during this backlash if we could have seen more of what he saw. Then we go to the school, and the parents reaction, to the schools reaction, was pretty confusing. That whole moment of the book was a bit touch and go for me, it felt like there were paragraphs missing, but I really liked what was there.
We migrate away from Christopher Columbus and Omar is simply trying to exist in the world and finally meets some friends! There is a motley crew of three boys and a girl, and crazy shenanigans that make you forget they’ve only knew each other for a few hours. I liked “The Crew” as they called themselves, but I’d love to see more of them, figure out who they are as individuals. Right now we have Thiago the party kid, Russ the quiet kid, Zuri the gamer girl, and Kaz the outspoken leader. I hope that as the chronicles continue, this new friendship builds, and they get in more trouble because it was a hilarious hot mess.
I would also like to shout out one of my favorite lines from the book because the imagery is just darn beautiful. “As Kaz ended his sentence I watched all of my hopes and dreams take a nosedive out of the sky and explode into heartbroken pieces of shrapnel.” Our author really knows how to paint a picture doesn’t he!
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Can't Wait Wednesday- The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender.
While her opponents clamor to uncover the secret identity of Miss Sweetie, a mysterious letter sets Jo off on a search for her own past and the parents who abandoned her as a baby. But when her efforts put her in the crosshairs of Atlanta's most notorious criminal, Jo must decide whether she, a girl used to living in the shadows, is ready to step into the light.
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Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.
But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.
I love Jane’s character. She’s tough, defiant, and street smart. It’s easy to only see her bad-assery and miss the fact that she’s a very loving character as well, I’m not sure if I’d write my mother letters for a year even though I never got a response. She’s also an intellectual, she seeks out the written word even though it’s forbidden to her. And while this isn’t necessarily something that we should celebrate, Jane is uncertain of herself and her looks. It can be hard as a dark skinned girl with kinky hair to not feel “less than” when you’re standing next to a country’s “preferred” or traditional form of beauty, tanned skin (whatever that actually means) and loose ringlets, particularly during the time period of this book (although I'm not entirely sure when that is). I’m not sure if this is me, pushing my feelings on the character of Jane, or if this is what Ireland was aiming for, but Jane seems to really like herself 100%, but there’s that little thing in the back of her head that pops out every time she’s around Katherine that makes her feel less than for just a moment. It’s great to see a character that’s tough but also a flawed, real person.
I like the subtle elements of fantasy buried in this Historical Fiction tale. We have the obvious zombies, fantasy all the way, but the penny that only turned ice cold if there was danger nearby was slight but appreciated, and I couldn’t quite visualize those carriages but they sounded cool.
This book is suppose to be a type of alternate history. Slavery “ended” the same way it did in the history books, but these black people were then sent off to work, in a manner that was similar to that of indentured servitude, as zombie slayers. Ireland does NOT shy away from what slavery was and the way black people were treated both in real history and in her rendition, everything from passing, to dumbing yourself down, to the hanging tree. Ireland is amazing.
“The sheriff has taken every opportunity to insult us and remind us of the circumstances of our dark skin and I’d like nothing more than to tell him what I think.”... “I know I am more than my skin color.” I love this quote so freaking much. I want to make a shirt that says I am more than my skin color. Does it already exist?? I will make one!!
This book was amazing. Please read it.
Labels: #BookBlogger, #Diversity, #Fantasy, #HistoricalFiction, #MochaGirlsRead, #OwnVoices, #Scifi, #socialjustice, #Teens, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, #YA
Readers Advisory: My favorite reads of 2018
So this is more my favorites that any books that have been requested by kids who come into the library. A list of my favorite books that I read this year, it wasn't as many as I'd hoped but I'm SUPER sleepy all the time!
They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.
Now we rise.
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.
Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.
Careful--you are holding fresh ink. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve stories with endings that are still being written--whose next chapters are up to you.
Because these stories are meant to be read. And shared.
Thirteen of the most accomplished YA authors deliver a label-defying anthology that includes ten short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play. This collection will inspire you to break conventions, bend the rules, and color outside the lines. All you need is fresh ink.
Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to, who she once thought was on her side.
Determined to put a stop to Hideo's grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo. Someone's put a bounty on Emika's head, and her sole chance for survival lies with Zero and the Blackcoats, his ruthless crew. But Emika soon learns that Zero isn't all that he seems--and his protection comes at a price.
Caught in a web of betrayal, with the future of free will at risk, just how far will Emika go to take down the man she loves?
8 Hours and 5 Minutes
There are three kinds of people in my world:
1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least, I do. They’re in your face so much, you can’t see them, like how you can’t see your nose.
2. Misfits, people who don’t belong. Like me—the way I don’t fit into Dad’s brand-new family or in the leftover one composed of Mom and my older brother, Mama’s-Boy-Muhammad.
Also, there’s Jeremy and me. Misfits. Because although, alliteratively speaking, Janna and Jeremy sound good together, we don’t go together. Same planet, different worlds.
But sometimes worlds collide and beautiful things happen, right?
3. Monsters. Well, monsters wearing saint masks, like in Flannery O’Connor’s stories.
Like the monster at my mosque.
People think he’s holy, untouchable, but nobody has seen under the mask.
Except me.
A remarkable story about the power of choosing tolerance from one of the most important voices in contemporary Muslim literature, critically acclaimed author Randa Abdel-Fattah. Michael usually concerns himself with basketball and hanging out with his friends, but every once in a while, his parents drag him to meetings and rallies with their anti-immigrant group. And it all makes sense to Michael. Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school, and turns out to be funny, smart -- and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. Suddenly, his parents' politics seem much more complicated. Mina has already had a long and arduous journey leaving behind her besieged home in Afghanistan, and the frigid welcome at her new school is daunting. She just wants to settle in and help her parents get their restaurant up and running. But nothing about her new community will be that easy. As tensions increase, lines are drawn. Michael has to decide where he stands. Mina has to protect herself and her family. Both have to choose what they want their world to look like.
Alice had her whole summer planned. Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting--working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). Alice is done with dating--no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done.
But then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and swoons, oh my!).
When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn, and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library employee badge (close enough), Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated—or understood.
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Can't Wait Wednesday: Let's Go Swimmin on Doomsday by Natalie C. Anderson
When Abdi's family is kidnapped, he's forced to do the unthinkable: become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab. In order to save the lives of those he loves, and earn their freedom, Abdi agrees to be embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans. The jihadists trust Abdi immediately because his older brother, Dahir, is already one of them, protégé to General Idris, aka the Butcher. If Abdi's duplicity is discovered, he will be killed.
For weeks, Abdi trains with them, witnessing atrocity after atrocity, becoming a monster himself, wondering if he's even pretending anymore. He only escapes after he is forced into a suicide bomber's vest, which still leaves him stumps where two of his fingers used to be and his brother near death. Eventually, he finds himself on the streets of Sangui City, Kenya, stealing what he can find to get by, sleeping nights in empty alleyways, wondering what's become of the family that was stolen from him. But everything changes when Abdi's picked up for a petty theft, which sets into motion a chain reaction that forces him to reckon with a past he's been trying to forget.
In this riveting, unflinching tale of sacrifice and hope, critically-acclaimed author Natalie C. Anderson delivers another tour-de-force that will leave readers at the edge of their seats.
I reviewed Natalie C. Anderson's first book City of Saints and Thieves here, and I really liked it even though it isn't Own Voices. I'm really looking froward to reading her second novel.
1 comment: at December 12, 2018
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Review: All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton
I was provided a digital copy of this book by Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.
"You can’t keep two people who are meant to be together apart for long...”
Lennon Davis doesn’t believe in much, but she does believe in the security of the number five. If she flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new L.A. school won’t suck. But that doesn’t feel right, so she flicks the switch again. And again. Ten more flicks of the switch and maybe her new step family will accept her. Twenty-five more flicks and maybe she won’t cause any more of her loved ones to die. Fifty times more and then she can finally go to sleep.
Kyler Benton witnesses this pattern of lights from the safety of his treehouse in the yard next door. It is only there, hidden from the unwanted stares of his peers, that Kyler can fill his notebooks with lyrics that reveal the true scars of the boy behind the oversized hoodies and caustic humor. But Kyler finds that descriptions of blonde hair, sad eyes, and tapping fingers are beginning to fill the pages of his notebooks. Lennon, the lonely girl next door his father has warned him about, infiltrates his mind. Even though he has enough to deal with without Lennon’s rumored tragic past in his life, Kyler can’t help but want to know the truth about his new muse.
I'd like to start by saying that I don't have OCD, so any observations that I make in this review were not made through the eyes of someone who lives with this disorder, just someone who ia interested in learning about a variety of marginalized groups.
Lennon has OCD, the recent death of her mother, her move 3,000 from Maine to LA, and her evil stepsister seem to be triggered her OCD and ritualizing but she is managing. When Lennon is paired with Kyler for their English project on a modern version of Romeo and Juliet she stumbles across someone who understands her in a way that she hasn't had since her mother died.
As far as I'm concerned Kyler and Lennon are an A team. Kyler who has had a large burn scar on his face since he was a child is use to being an outsider, he's use to people looking at his large frame, oversized hoodie, and less than pleasant attitude and assume that he must spend his days smoking out back with no ambitions, but they couldn't be more wrong.
Lennon however wears her scars on the inside. She does things in sets of 5, she functions mostly with the assistance of anti anxiety medication, and her mind is plagued horrifying thought that she might be responsible for the death of a loved one.
While Lennon is struggling for control over her mind, that doesn't mean she's a delicate flower. When she's with Kyler and he dishes out sass, she throws it right back. It was lovely to see Lennon a flawed character who didn't completely lose herself to her disorder, she keeps her personality as best as she could and fought hard.
Kyler hid his hurt behind long hair, hoodies, and a snarky attitude, and I thought it was perfect. What I loved about Kyler was that while he had insecurities about how he looked (as anyone would) and did his best to hide is scars, he was always authentically himself. While he fought his own demons (many of which took the form of his dad) he helped Lennon fight hers.
I love Lennon and Kyler's, band names and slogans. I loved the moments when Kyler was able to face his fears head on in front of the whole school. I also appreciated that mental health facilities and therapist weren't villainized. It's okay to address your mental health. It's okay to ask for help. Lennon taught us that.
I will say that I wish we could see more of the relationship between Kyler and his dad. There was a lot left unsaid there and I was hoping for some type of resolution or at least accountability.
I give this book 4 stars and I suggest it to anyone and everyone, mental health concerns or not.
Labels: #AllOurBrokenPieces, #Contemporary, #MentalIllness, #MochaGirlsRead, #Netgalley, #Romance, #Teens, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, #YA
Readers Advisory: Something Interesting
So there's a 7th grade girl that comes into the library, she actually just begun volunteering with us. When she comes in she says "Ms. Kym, can you find me something interesting." And she wont give me ANYTHING else to work with. At this point I think she finds it funny because she knows it drives me crazy. I'm finally beginning to understand what she wants that thought I'd help anyone else who has an preteen who likes to see your gears turn.Also I'll go back and look at this post when she comes back. lol.
This the first book that I chose for her that she really loved!
Meet Scarlett, a smart, sarcastic, kick-butt, Muslim American heroine, ready to take on crime in her hometown of Las Almas. When a new case finds the private eye caught up in a centuries-old battle of evil genies and ancient curses, Scarlett discovers that her own family secrets may have more to do with the situation than she thinks -- and that cracking the case could lead to solving her father's murder.
Jennifer Latham delivers a compelling story and a character to remember in this one-of-a-kind debut novel.
Another book she loved. Can you get where this is going. Weird but not too weird I guess.
Maddie Fynn is a shy high school junior, cursed with an eerie intuitive ability: she sees a series of unique digits hovering above the foreheads of each person she encounters. Her earliest memories are marked by these numbers, but it takes her father’s premature death for Maddie and her family to realize that these mysterious digits are actually death dates, and just like birthdays, everyone has one.
Forced by her alcoholic mother to use her ability to make extra money, Maddie identifies the quickly approaching death date of one client's young son, but because her ability only allows her to see the when and not the how, she’s unable to offer any more insight. When the boy goes missing on that exact date, law enforcement turns to Maddie.
Soon, Maddie is entangled in a homicide investigation, and more young people disappear and are later found murdered. A suspect for the investigation, a target for the murderer, and attracting the attentions of a mysterious young admirer who may be connected to it all, Maddie's whole existence is about to be turned upside down. Can she right things before it's too late?
No idea how she feels about zombies but we'll see I guess!
I'm not sure if this has enough action for this particular girl, but it's certainly interesting.
What if the ordinary things in life suddenly…disappeared?
Aila Quinn’s mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery: vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila’s reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother Miles are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town far from home--and the place where Juliet grew up.
Sterling is a place with mysteries of its own. A place where the experiences that weave life together--scents of flowers and food, reflections from mirrors and lakes, even the ability to dream--vanish every seven years.
No one knows what caused these “Disappearances,” or what will slip away next. But Sterling always suspected that Juliet Quinn was somehow responsible--and Aila must bear the brunt of their blame while she follows the chain of literary clues her mother left behind.
As the next Disappearance nears, Aila begins to unravel the dual mystery of why the Disappearances happen and who her mother truly was. One thing is clear: Sterling isn’t going to hold on to anyone's secrets for long before it starts giving them up.
It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him.
This is my story.
A letter from nowhere.
Sixteen-year-old Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian Outback. This wild and desolate landscape becomes almost a character in the book, so vividly is it described. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype. He is young, fit and completely gorgeous. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force of his love make Gemma love him back?
The story takes the form of a letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't exist--almost.
I have no idea if these books will satisfy "interesting" but I'll do my best. All of these book have an unique aspect to them for the reader who wants something that's just a bit "normal contemporary". Pray for me yall.
2 comments: at December 10, 2018
Labels: #Contemporary, #Fantasy, #HistoricalFiction, #MochaGirlsRead, #ReadersAdvisory, #Romance, #Teens, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, #YA
Can't Wait Wednesday: With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.
Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.
Guy, I'm so excited about this book. I haven't read many books that focus on a teen mom pursuing her dreams. We have a teen mom meeting a new guy, a teen mom trying to get the old guy back, a teen mom and her regrets, but this looks different and I'm READY!
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Readers Advisory: I really liked The Hate You Give...
If I had a dime for every time a kid came to me or a kids moms came to me and said, "I really liked The Hate You Give, do you have a book like that?" I actually wouldn't have a as many dimes as you'd think. I actually had a girl tell me she only reads books that are also movies. I'm waiting until the all figure out The Sun is Also a Star is going to be a movie... that's still happening right?? I might buy more copies of it anyway. Anyway, I was asked this question yesterday and figured I'd do a readers advisory post for those of you who are struggling to think up titles. Sooooo here we go!
So, this book isn't so much social justice as it give the background on a character who goes on to cause people to fight for social justice. This of it as a characters background story, and it's SUPER GOOD.
The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun.
On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life.
But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit’s west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own.
Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost. Trapped at the crossroads of an impossible choice, will she pay the price for the American dream?
Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning debut.
Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy League—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out.
Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up—way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack.
When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes to a party, Marvin decides to tag along to keep an eye on his brother. But what starts as harmless fun turns into a shooting, followed by a police raid.
The next day, Tyler has gone missing, and it's up to Marvin to find him. But when Tyler is found dead, a video leaked online tells an even more chilling story: Tyler has been shot and killed by a police officer. Terrified as his mother unravels and mourning a brother who is now a hashtag, Marvin must learn what justice and freedom really mean.
Rashad is absent again today.
That’s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all…
Well, no, actually, a lady tripping over Rashad at the store, making him drop a bag of chips, was what started it all. Because it didn’t matter what Rashad said next—that it was an accident, that he wasn’t stealing—the cop just kept pounding him. Over and over, pummeling him into the pavement. So then Rashad, an ROTC kid with mad art skills, was absent again…and again…stuck in a hospital room. Why? Because it looked like he was stealing. And he was a black kid in baggy clothes. So he must have been stealing.
And that’s how it started.
And that’s what Quinn, a white kid, saw. He saw his best friend’s older brother beating the daylights out of a classmate. At first Quinn doesn’t tell a soul…He’s not even sure he understands it. And does it matter? The whole thing was caught on camera, anyway. But when the school—and nation—start to divide on what happens, blame spreads like wildfire fed by ugly words like “racism” and “police brutality.” Quinn realizes he’s got to understand it, because, bystander or not, he’s a part of history. He just has to figure out what side of history that will be.
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white.
In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth.
Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.
I hope this helps those of you trying to find other social and racial justice book for your teens, or for those of you who were touched by The Hate You Give and want more! Have a good week friends!
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EI: New BDS fighters recruited to Israeli embassies
Gaza, ALRAY - (Israel) is ramping up its efforts to fight the growing campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS), the Electronic Intifada reported.
Columbia student representatives from a wide array of organizations show their support for a divestment campaign (Photo courtesy of Columbia SJP)
The Palestinian US-based platform committed to combating the pro-Israeli, and pro-American spin quoted Anshel Pfeffer as writing in Israeli daily Haaretz:
"Today’s battle is BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign being waged against Israel. Significant efforts are being invested by the government and pro-Israel organizations to fend off BDS,"
"This week I discovered that in the Israeli embassy in London alone, there are two people (one diplomat and a local employee) whose full-time brief is to monitor and counter BDS attempts,"
"Apparently the Foreign Ministry with its diplomatic corps is not enough and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has added fighting BDS to the responsibilities of Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz,"
This revelation followed a decision by Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year to hand responsibility for fighting BDS to the ministry of strategic affairs.
Netanyahu said the ministry would coordinate “efforts with NGOs [nongovernmental organizations] in Israel and all over the world,” a role which would include “the establishment of a professional special staff for countering delegitimization.”
Reut Institute, an Israel-aided NGO, identified London as one of the major hubs in a so-called “delegitimization network.”
Pfeffer downplayed the importance of the Palestinian campaign “BDS has failed to create any form of pressure on Israel to change its policies and has done nothing to dent Israel’s economy,"
EI added that he acknowledged that BDS has had a deep psychological impact on Israelis from “generals and politicians who feel an unease landing in some countries” where they could face arrest, to “academics looking for a university for their post-doctorate year and business people trying to drum up interest in professional conferences.”
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Chemical apparatus in the 17th century
From Robert Boyle's New Experiments Physico-Mechanical.
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Diagram of the human hand, from Giordano Bruno's discussion of the properties of the number 5 in De monade numero et figura.
De monade numero et figura (On the Monad, Number and Figure) is part of the trilogy of Latin verse works published in Frankfurt in 1591 and considered to be Bruno's philosophical testament. In the De monade Bruno discusses Pythagorean number symbolism and the meanings of the numbers 1 to 10.
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Illustration of Torbern Bergman's chemical apparatus from Opuscula Physica et Chemica.
This translation from the original Latin is by Edmund Cullen. It includes notes and illustrations by Cullen and was published in 1784 by J. Murray, London.
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Portrait of Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Portrait of Cassini from his account of his heliometer in Bologna, published 40 years after its installation in La Meridiana del tempio di S. Petronio..., 1695.
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Cassini's heliometer
The church of San Petronio in Bologna was the site of a solar observatory as early as 1576 when Egnazio Danti, cosmographer to Cosimo I de' Medici, installed the first meridian line there. Unfortunately it did not fulfill its purpose, which was to provide an accurate date for the spring equinox, thence Easter. In spite of uncertainties about the precise length of the solar year, the Gregorian calendar was promulgated anyway, in 1582. We still use it today. Almost 75 years later, the opportunity arose to reconstruct the meridian. Enter a 29-year-old astronomy professor named Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Cassini increased the height of Danti's solar peephole—or gnomon hole—to 1000 inches (based on the French foot) or 27.07 meters above the church floor. The length of the meridian line was increased by x2.5 to 66.71 meters, or 1/600,000 of the Earth's circumference, per Cassini's calculation. The line had to run on the floor between the aisles and columns of the church on a north-south axis without obstruction. The instrument was tested with great fanfare at the summer solstice of 1655 and proved fully successful. Cassini's illustrated account of his heliometer was published 40 years later in 1695 with the title La Meridiana del tempio di S. Petronio. The image shown here is taken from a large foldout plate depicting the design and details of installation.
Engraving designed by Kepler
Engraved frontispiece to Kepler's Rudolphine Tables (Tabulae Rudolphinae) showing the great astronomers (including Kepler) gathered in the temple of Urania. Designed by Kepler himself; engraved by Georg Celer.
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Kepler - Model of the Universe
Model of the universe (the outermost sphere is Saturn's) from Johannes Kepler' s "Mysterium Cosmographicum" (1597, edition of 1621) Count Rocco Collection.
From Kepler's "Rudolphine Tables." (1627).
Frontispiece from book by Hevelius
Frontispiece from Hevelius' "Machinae Coelestis Pars Prior." (1673).
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Hevelius and wife observing at sextant from Hevelius' "Machinae Coelestis Pars Prior." (1673).
Galileo, the moon from Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), Venice, 1610
An engraved illustration of features of the moon's surface, as seen by Galileo with his telescope. He was able to describe the roughness of the moon's surface and the position of spots and prominences on the light and dark sides.
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Galileo, two illustrations of the moon from Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), Venice, 1610
Two illustrations of features of the moon's surface, showing strong light and dark shadings on the light side. According to the prevailing Aristotelian cosmology, heavenly bodies were perfectly smooth and spherical. Galileo's observations of the moon's roughness tended to support the new Copernican system, which no longer upheld the distinction between terrestrial and heavenly bodies.
Equatorial armillary instrument, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae Mechanica
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"Scrooge's third visitor"--Dickens
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"Mr. Fezziwig's Ball"--Dickens
The mural or Tychonian quadrant, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Heliocentric model of the universe
From Copernicus, “De Re. . .”, 1st ed. (pg. 10)
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One of 54 plates by Peter Fabris illustrating volcanis activity in the region of Naples. Sir William Hamilton was at this time royal envoy to the Count of Naples and published his investigations of volcanos for the Royal Society.
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Hamilton, Sir William, “Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies, plate 37.
One of 54 plates by Peter Fabris illustrating volcanis activity in the region of Naples. Sir William Hamilton was at this time royal envoy to the Count of Naples and pubished his investigations of volcanos for the Royal Society.
Illustration from Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi" (Harmonies of the World).
Rocco Collection, History of Science.
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Mamer & Song Yuzhe: opposites attract at Jianghu
by ruby · May 15, 2013
Let me set the scene. In one corner you have a guy sitting on a stool, wearing a black t-shirt and jeans, shoulder wavy length hair sticking out of a black cap pulled down to hide his eyes, emotionless face looking down at the black bass sitting on his lap. In the other, another guy, sitting cross-legged on the floor, in comfy baggy pants, white shirt, long hair pulled up in high ninja bun, large toothy smile and glistening eyes, surrounded by a plethora of traditional instruments. Walking into Jianghu on Monday night, this is the scene that confronted me. For anyone who doesn’t know the two guys I’ve just described, this vision would have been enough to make you walk straight back out the door again, but I knew what I was getting myself into and was excited to hear what was going to come out of this strange but beautiful combination.
The ‘rock’ guy, was Mamer, known for his unusual combinations of experimental bass, industrial music and traditional Kazakh songs with his band IZ. But he also does solo work, last year he put out 5, yes 5, solo records, each completely different, self-recorded experimental compositions and traditional Kazakh songs using various instruments. I found a copy of Elim, with features dombra, guitar and violin, in C Rock last year, but hadn’t managed to track down any of the others around town.
The ‘folk” guy, was Song Yuzhe, veteran of many experimental folk projects, including most recently Dawanggang, another long timer in the music scene. I’m not sure of the names of the instruments he had on hand, but they included stringed, wind and drums, and he was able to evoke the most magical sounds out of them.
Put these two together and what do you get? Well, it was not something I think anyone in the audience expected. They played for over an hour, seemingly just jamming together, layering their sounds to make something quite surreal and beautiful, sometimes barely audible, others with amazing force I wondered if they were trying to get the place shut down by the neighbours. Mamer is a master of getting the most amazing sounds out of his bass. I’ve seen people use a computer to create music that sounds like live instruments, but this was a bass creating almost electronic, computer sounds. If Mamer doesn’t already create soundtracks for horror movies, he should start, I swear if I’d closed my eyes at some points I would have felt like I was in a haunted house. Add his deep, almost demonic, vocals and it was like taking part in a séance, evoking some Kazakhi god. Song Yuzhe, listed on the promo as the opening act, sat Buddha-like on the stage watching him closely, knowing exactly which instrument to select to complement the sounds coming from the other side of the stage. At no point at all did it seem like they were competing for the audiences attention, everything just worked together so well.
Unexpectedly a mystery sax player appeared, (update: thanks @江湖酒吧 for telling me it was actually Li Tieqiao!) joining the two onstage, much to their surprise as well, Mamer calling for the boss and pointing at the new guy with a look of ‘wtf, who is the is guy? this is my show’. Tianxiao quickly came to the rescue taking his sax back and joining the two on stage himself, sax tones mixing seamlessly with the droning bass and Jews harp.
It’s easy to get jaded going to shows in this city, I walk out of many shows feeling like I’ve seen/heard that a million times before, or disappointed when a live show doesn’t live up to the recorded version, but it’s shows like this that remind me that we have such great musical talents here. They’re not filling the house at Yugong or Mao, they’re not playing every other weekend, but when they do, it’s magic. The show was billed under the name Kunakara乐队, which I believe is what Mamer is calling his solo project, although I’m not sure if Song Yuzhe is also part of this, or just joined in for this show. With the crowd split between fans of the two, completely different musicians, I’m not sure they all expected or understood what they were hearing, but I left with a deeper appreciation of both. And an elusive copy of Alika, the experimental bass solo album that I’ve been looking for since last year, tucked in my bag.
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a kiwi, a music lover, a traveller & an IT geek hanging around in the 'jing planning her next adventure.
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Song YuZhe was pretty amazing at MIDI, he came on before us and I really enjoyed his set. Afterwards I talked to him about what kind of instruments he was using, one of them was a home-made electric banjo, really curious instrument, but truly original!
Tato says:
Im a friend of these 3 guys, I played many times in Beijing…I learn a lot from them and through them about that country. Now Im at my country, Mexico… Great guys…Great friends… Great musicians. Thanks guys.
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Real Economies and The Illusions of Abstraction
ARTICLE | October 27, 2011 | BY Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson
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The yawning gap between the real world and the discipline and profession of economics has never been wider. The ever-increasing abstractions in finance and its models based on "efficient markets" and "rational actors": capital asset pricing, Value-at-Risk, Black-Scholes Options Pricing have been awarded most of the Bank of Sweden prizes since they were founded in the 1960s and foisted onto the Nobel Prize Committee. Most of these abstract models, based on misuse of mathematics, contributed to the financial crises of 2007-2008. Now, the family of Alfred Nobel, led by lawyer Peter Nobel, has disassociated itself from the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics In Memory of Alfred Nobel.1,* They point out that Nobel never would have approved of a prize in economics since it is not a science - and would have disapproved even more that most of the prizes were given to Western, neoclassical economists using mathematized, abstract models - far from Nobel's wider concerns.
Nowhere is this abstraction more devastating than in the mathematical compounding of interest rates on borrowed money, now sinking individuals, companies and nations in unrepayable debt as explored in lawyer Ellen Brown's Web of Debt (2007).
In The Politics of the Solar Age (1981, 1988), I warned that compound interest violated the Second Law of Thermodynamics:
"Much confusion arises because economics inappropriately analogizes from some of these models from the physical, social, and biological realms. For example, the best example of a "runaway" can be found in the hypothetical model that economists have imposed on the real world: compounded interest. Here, they have set up an a priori, positive feedback system (based on the value system of private property and its accumulation), in which the interest earned on a fixed quantity of money (capital) will be compounded and the next calculation of interest added on cumulatively. But this "runaway" accumulation process bears no relationship to the real world - only to the value system. However, it has profound real-world effects if enough people believe it is legitimate and employ lawyers, courts, etc., to enforce it!" (p. 228)
I also pointed out that Frederick Soddy, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, decided that economists' dangerous drift into pseudo-scientific abstraction must be halted before they destroyed industrial societies, because their uninformed ideas contravened the first and second laws of thermodynamics. (p. 225)
The mathematical fantasy that money is wealth and can reproduce itself is revealed again in the US housing and foreclosure crisis. Money is a useful information system for tracking our use of nature's resources and scoring the games we humans play, but it gradually became mistakenly equated with the real wealth of nations. Similarly, too often economists and politicians describe money flows in economies as analogous to the human body's circulatory system. Yet human blood's hemoglobin cells do not charge money or interest for the life-giving oxygen they deliver to every other cell in our bodies.
Charging interest for lending money was frowned on by our ancestors and considered a sin in Christian, Judaic as well as Islamic and other religious traditions. This view survives today in Sharia finance where lending at interest is shunned in favor of requiring the investor or creditor to share risks of any enterprise with the entrepreneur.
Generations of scholars since Aristotle's treatises on "just prices" have examined the myths and human experiments in creating money and systems of exchange, from mutual fund manager Stephen Zarlenga's "The Lost Science of Money" (2002) and Prof. Margrit Kennedy's "Interest and Inflation Free Money" (1995) to lawyer Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt" (2007). In my "Creating Alternative Futures", I posed the question: Is there any such thing as profit without some equal, unrecorded debt entry in some social or environmental ledger or passed on to future generations? My answer was "yes," provided all costs of production were internalized and thermodynamic, not economic, measures of efficiency were calculated.
The mismatch is between the real-world economies, where real people grow food, make shoes, clothes, shelter and tools in real factories, versus the human mind's tendencies toward abstraction. Understanding the real world in which we live requires us to recognize patterns and to abstract reality into mental models. The map is not the territory, as we have been reminded by many epistemologists. The danger is that we routinize our perception through these models, forgetting the need for constant updating and course-correcting as conditions change around us. Thus our mental models are memes that crystallize into habits, dogmas and outdated theories such as those in conventional economics and finance. These led to collective illusions: about "efficient markets," "humans as rational actors" and the lure of "compound interest" that still guide the decisions of too many asset managers. New models of triple bottom line accounting for Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) have been adopted by responsible investors and institutional investors, including those engaged with the UN Principles of Responsible Investment, managing $22 trillion in assets. The current US mortgage and foreclosure mess provides a new teachable moment where we can re-examine the obsolete beliefs still at the core of economics and now refuted by physicists, endocrinologists, brain and behavioral scientists.2
The computerized efficiency of digitizing mortgages for rapid securitization in the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) is at the root of the foreclosure and toxic assets dilemma. We must examine how computers, when introduced into Wall Street, financial and housing markets drove economic theories further into mathematization, led by the Arrow-Debreu modeling of national economies in the 1960s, beyond earlier attempts by Leon Walras. Bank of Sweden Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel were given to Arrow and Debreu and others for mathematical models inappropriately applied to economics and finance.3 Similar mathematical models on which economists still rely, accept Arrow-Debreu's assumption of a process of "market completion" where markets could be extended to enclose ever more of the global commons: air, carbon emissions, water, forests, biodiversity, ecological assets and their productivity which supports all life. The newest commons are global communications infrastructure, the internet, the electromagnetic spectrum and space, all of which require massive public investments and underpin global finance and its extensive bailouts. The report of the Global Commission to Fund the UN, "The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives", proposed taxing all commercial uses of the global commons and fines for misuse, including a tax on currency speculation. 4
For any market to efficiently allocate resources, buyers and sellers must have equal information and power, while their transactions should not harm any innocent bystanders. These conditions identified by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776 are now violated everywhere due to the scale and technological reach of global corporations and finance. Examples include the earliest forms of industrial pollution and exploitation of workers to today's toxic sludge dam failure in Hungary; BP's Gulf oil contamination and the growing costs in lives and ecological destruction of coal mining; the Wall Street volatility due to program trading; the financial meltdown of 2007-2008; the May 6, 2010 "flash crash," and the new revelations of US mortgage and foreclosure frauds. An ingenious enterprise, the Open Models Company (OMC) founded by Prof. Chuck Bralver at the Fletcher School of Tufts University, based on Linux principles, provides an open-source platform for global experts and critics in finance to examine the assumptions underlying derivatives and risk models - a huge help for underfunded regulators.5 Mervyn King, head of the Bank of England, called for restructuring beyond Dodd-Frank, Basel III and other recent reforms of today's unsustainable "financial alchemy."6 King reflects most of the issues identified by experts in our Transforming Finance statement of September 13, 2010.
The scale of industrial and financial operations becomes global and ever more computerized and digitized, accelerating the abstraction of management, global supply chains, risk assessment, calculations of accountants for profits and losses, strategies of national governments and central bankers using defunct models such as NAIRU (non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment) to set interest rates, along with subsidies, tax policies, and quantitative easing to "manage" their economies. All are based on levels of aggregation in statistical indicators akin to assessing national economies while over-flying a country's territory at 50,000 feet. The digitization of Wall Street and security analysis is cancelling out strategies for diversification of portfolios. In the post-Bretton Woods, turbulent global casino, the $3 trillion plus daily electronic trading of currencies and sovereign bonds are driven largely by speculation, credit default swaps, and high-frequency trader's algorithms. The proliferation of electronic trading platforms, credit cards and digital payment and credit systems bypass regulatory models of governments and central banks.
Today's ad hoc global financialization cannot be described as a system since it is still driven by the long-outdated assumptions and models in economics and the sloppy generalizations and categories that underlie economics and its theories: "capital" (not clearly defined); "growth" (GDP is the output of goods and services measured in money without subtracting social and environmental costs or adding the unpaid services in families and communities which support official paid production); "innovation" (does not distinguish between new brands of dog food, potato chips, credit default swaps vs. computer chips, gene sequencing or renewable energy); "productivity" (if measured as output per worker, this leads to further automation and technological unemployment); "free trade" (which led to the hollowing out of the US economy, outsourcing of jobs in manufacturing and services, trade deficits); "inflation" and "deflation." Statistical illusions: CPI, "core CPI" (which excludes energy and food), drives Fed policies, Social Security, taxes as well as employment and macroeconomic policies. **
Perhaps the most obvious policy errors were the models used by Alan Greenspan to describe the global economy in the dot com boom and by Ben Bernanke during the period from 2003-2006 as "The Great Moderation" (economic cycles had been tamed) and then, as the global imbalances grew, labeling them "the Global Glut of Savings" (China, Japan and other countries supposedly saved too much). Instead, I and others labeled this a growing global bubble of fiat currencies, led by the US dollar, acting as a global reserve currency. The crisis was one of macro-economic management - sinking under mounting deficits, debt and compound interest, while facing growing systemic risks due to deregulation in the global casino.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb pointed out all these conceptual errors in "Fooled by Randomness" (2005) and "The Black Swan" (2007), digging even deeper into the fallacies of the human mind, including confirmation bias, herd behavior and excessive optimism verified by behavioral psychologists. Mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot warned of the limits of statistical models of probability and risk informed by Gaussian normal distribution "bell curves." Fat tails, black swans and perfect storms entered the language, but instead of examining these human perceptual errors, they became excuses for Robert Rubin and his protégés, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, as well as central bankers, Wall Street CEOs and asset managers - all claiming that "no one could have predicted the financial crises." As Richard Bookstaber described in "A Demon of Our Own Design", Wall Street's financial models were bound to fail.
The truth is that thousands of critics, scholars and market players, including the author accurately predicted and warned of the coming debacle - but were ignored by the leading elites in business, government and academia. 7,8 Mainstream media accepted conventional wisdom, funded by advertising from incumbent industries and their financial allies while their lobbyists took control of Congress. After the half-hearted reforms of Dodd-Frank, the IMF, the World Bank, the BIS and the G-20, how can a paradigm shift allow new voices, new models and more accurate modeling and control of systemic risk to emerge in the global financial system?
First, we must recognize the crises we face are not black swans, fat tails or perfect storms, but symptoms of our limited perception, fragmentary reductionist mindsets, models, research methods and academic curricula , particularly in economics and business schools. Second, we must move beyond economics to capture all their "externalities" in multi-disciplinary frameworks, systems models, multiple metrics and pluralistic research, such as that pioneered by the US Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) on whose founding Technology Assessment Advisory Council I was honored to serve from 1974 until 1980. This useful messenger, with its ground-breaking research, now copied in many countries, was decapitated by Congress in 1996 by Speaker Newt Gingrich and his Republican colleagues. Luckily, OTA's studies are still highly relevant and archived at Princeton University and the University of Maryland. Signs of awakening include new memes, including describing fragmented approaches as "silos" and narrow research as "stovepipe information" with frequent calls to "connect the dots."
Equally urgent are the phasing out of all the hundreds of billions of dollars of perverse subsidies propping up obsolete, incumbent companies and industries still blocking the emergence of cleaner, greener information-rich technologies and new companies. Governments' conceptual confusion over climate issues is evident in still subsidizing carbon-based industries while at the same time trying to cap and price carbon emissions. This Green Transition to the Solar Age is underway as we gradually exit the earlier, fossil-fueled Industrial Era. Ethical Markets Media measures private investments since 2007 in solar, wind, energy efficiency, renewables and smart infrastructure worldwide in our Green Transition Scoreboard®.++
Meanwhile, a below 1% financial transaction tax on all transactions can curb high frequency trading and currency speculators, limit positions by hedge funds and other institutional investors - while sparing legitimate hedging by commercial firms. Such long-debated taxes proposed by James Tobin in the 1970s and Larry Summers in his 1989 paper are now supported by the EU and are on the G-20's agenda. 9,10
To finally correct our money-creation ceded to private banks by Congress in 1913 through the Federal Reserve system, Congress could enact the Monetary Reform Act long proposed and vetted by seasoned market veterans of the American Monetary Institute. This would entail a rolling readjustment in money issuance - now obviously dysfunctional under the Fed and private banks, and return it to a public function as in the US Constitution. Meantime, many states could adopt state banking as in North Dakota, the only state with a surplus and full employment - unharmed by the depredations of Wall Street extractions from Main Street.$$
I agree with others from E.F. Schumacher, author of "Small is Beautiful" (1973), Simon Johnson, author of "13 Bankers" (2009), Laurence Kotlikoff, author of "Jimmy Stewart is Dead" (2009) to Nassim Nicholas Taleb: if systems are too large and interconnected to manage and banks are "too big to fail," then they need to be carefully dismantled and decentralized to restore diversity and resilience following nature's design principles. Monetary monocultures now on a global scale have demonstrably failed. Healthy, homegrown, local economies need protection from global bankers and their casino. Complementary local currencies and peer-to-peer finance are flourishing. && Bloated financial sectors can be downsized and returned to their role of serving real economies. In the USA, small non-profit community development finance institutions (CDFIs) are growing to fill the needs of micro-businesses.11
Trickle down economics has failed utterly, even as the politicians and central bankers still believe that pouring taxpayers funds and printed money into big banks and bloated financial sectors will somehow trickle down to Main Street and local businesses. Instead of creating US jobs, the rest of us see the Wall Street traders and big asset managers investing these funds in China, India, Brazil and other emerging markets where US multinationals have shifted their plants, jobs and research. Worse still, big banks take the Fed's funds and rather than lending to Main Street, use it for gambling on currencies, oil, interest rates and other derivatives. All this money-creation is fueling currency wars. Hopefully, all this together with ballooning debts, deficits and un-repayable compound interest, the foreclosure and mortgage securitization scandals and auditing Fannie, Freddie and the Fed, will provide enough evidence to Washington and voters in many countries of the needed paradigm shift and new policies.
Calls in the USA for facing up to these painful truths are coming from all sides, from Republicans including Congressman Ron Paul to Democrats including Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Independents including Senators Bernie Sanders and Byron Dorgan. Indeed, Republicans and Democrats are now both minority parties as most voters are now independents.
Exposing all the statistic illusions, inoperative models, dysfunctional economic dogmas - including their unsustainable offspring: debt-based money and compound interest - can begin the Green Transition to the emerging economies of the 21st century. The new coalition is now visible: responsible and green investors and companies, environmentalists, Millennials, progressive labor unions and their pension funds, students, independent media and voters, systems thinkers, futurists and academics pioneering new courses in sustainability, as well as dispossessed homeowners, jobless workers, professionals and veterans eager to put their skills to work - all are ready to help grow the green economies of the future.
Peter Söderbaum, "Nobel Prize in Economics Diminishes the Value of Other Nobel Prizes" Dagens Nyheter, October 10, 2004.
Hazel Henderson, "The Cuckoo's Egg in the Nobel Prize Nest, " Inter Press Service, October 2006.
Hazel Henderson, "Abolish the 'Nobel' in Economics? Many Scientists Agree, " Inter Press Service, 2004.
Harlan Cleveland, Hazel Henderson and Inge Kaul, eds., The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives (London: Elsevier Science Press, 1995).
Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Macrowikinomics (London: Penguin, 2010).
"King plays God" The Economist, October 26, 2010.
Hazel Henderson, Building a Win-Win World (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1996).
Hazel Henderson, "New Markets and New Commons," Futures 27, no.2 (1995):113-124.
Larry Summers and Victoria Summers, "When Financial Markets Work Too Well: A cautious case for a securities transactions tax" Journal of Financial Services Research 3, no. 2-3 (1989): 261-286.
Hazel Henderson, "Financial Transaction Taxes: The Common Sense Approach" Responsible Investor, October 19, 2010.
Mark Pinsky, "Help for Small Businesses: Loans are just a start" Businessweek, Oct. 25, 2010.
* See http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/2010/10/22/the-nobel-family-dissociates-it...
** See http://www.calvert-henderson.com/current.htm
++ See http://www.greentransitionscoreboard.com/
$$ See http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/2010/01/08/escape-from-pottersville-the-no...
&& See http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/2009/03/31/democratizing-finance/
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Directory of Utah Artists arranged by media. Painting.
Setsuko Yoshida
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Kristine Zanno-Kratky
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Bonnie Zinanti
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Jerry Fuhriman is a native of northern Utah, where he spends much of his time translating the local landscape into shimmering oil paintings.
Aaron Fritz
Aaron Fritz focuses on Landscapes and Regional land markers. He is expressionist painter using heavy texture, glazing and color. He uses simplistic layers to achieve a contemporary look.
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Teacher Blogs > The Book Whisperer See our Teachers news coverage
Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade language arts teacher in Texas who is said to have a "gift": She can turn even the most reluctant (or, in her words, "dormant") readers into students who can't put their books down. Donalyn is the author of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child (Jossey-Bass/Education Week Press). She first appeared in teachermagazine.org in the popular"Creating Readers" Ask The Mentor column. She writes about how to inspire and motivate student readers, and responds to issues facing teachers and other leaders in the literacy field.
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Famous Collingwood coach has collectibles for auction
Items belonging to the legendary Collingwood player and coach Jock McHale will be a highlight of E.J. Ainger’s special sale from noon Sunday April 6 at 433 Bridge Road, Richmond.
Born in Sydney, McHale moved to Melbourne as a child where he attended the Christian Brothers College in East Melbourne before leaving school to work at the nearby McCracken Brewery (later bought out by Carlton United Breweries).
At the same time, he joined Australian Rules football club Coburg, where he immediately impressed and was spotted by Collingwood.
Huge Portland auction to attract buyers from everywhere
Following its recent successful clearing sale for Peter Brummell, Glenelg Auctions is faced with another huge auction of 1600 lots from 10.30am Sunday April 6 at 109 Learmonth Street, Portland.
The auction features a comprehensive range of Australian art including six works by leading artist Hugh Sawrey, Cathleen Edkins’ Still Life – Her Garden, and paintings by Joseph Frost, Ray Crooke, Ernest Buckmaster, Tom Offord, John Eldershaw, Norman Lindsay, Basil Hadley, Follen Bishop and Taylor Ghee.
Military memorabilia and old lamps among auction attractions
Military memorabilia and old lamps are among the attractions to Young’s Auctions latest sale from 9.30am Friday April 4 at 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.
The lamps include an early 20th century ship’s masthead lantern and old railway workmen’s lights.
Among the military items are German World War I picklehaub helmets and percussion cap rifles.
The auction also contains vintage typewriters from the collection of former champion European speedway motorcyclist Romanian Emeric Somlo who migrated to Australia in 1965.
Blackman auction a rare chance for art lovers
The Charles Blackman Fundraising Auction presents art lovers with a once in a lifetime opportunity to buy one of the iconic artist’s works at prices not likely to be seen again for a long time.
The auction, from 2.30pm Tuesday April 1 at Mossgreen 926-930 High Street Armadale, comprises the bulk of Charles Blackman’s drawings, paintings and editions now left in his studio.
The collection is being auctioned to help pay for the round-the-clock carers the 86-year-old artist now requires for health reasons.
Diamond and turquoise suite - an auction for jewellery lovers
A striking diamond and turquoise suite by ground-breaking American jewellery designer David Webb (1925-1975) will be a major attraction at Sotheby’s Australia jewellery auction from 6pm Tuesday at the company’s new premises Level 9, 41 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.
David Webb, who made the suite (catalogue estimate $230,000-$280,000) about 1970, was renowned for his bold, powerful and colourful designs and paved the way for contemporary designers by creating jewellery as art.
Swarovski crystal a popular auction item
Several Swarovski crystal ornaments will be part of Young’s Auctions latest sale from 9.30am Friday March 28 at 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.
Popular particularly among Asian buyers, the crystal ornaments include a pair featuring the wonders of the sea and several other individual silver crystal creations.
There are still several Royal Doulton character jugs remaining from last week’s massive sale, however, auction goers will no doubt be interested in some of the latest art offerings – which include paintings by A.A. Prout, Brian Nash and Brian Cox.
Ainsworth collection offers several large canvases
Several large scale canvases by some of the most well-known Australian indigenous and non-indigenous artists are among highlights of the K.D.H Ainsworth collection to be auctioned from 7pm Wednesday March 26 by Deutscher and Hackett at 105 Commercial Road, South Yarra.
Three works by leading Kimberley artist Paddy Bedford, who died in July 2007, are in the sale.
Unseen von Guerard heads to auction after 145 years
An unseen colonial Western District painting by Eugene von Guerard entitled View of Mt Sturgeon and Mt Abrupt from the Crater of Bald Hill 1856, 1869 and still housed in its original Isaac Whitehead frame has emerged from obscurity to be the major feature of Leonard Joel’s fine art auction from 6.30pm Tuesday March 25 at 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra.
The painting was never exhibited and until now was unknown to academics and institutions.
Instead, it was cherished for four generations within the one family.
Jewellery auction a showcase for classics
An antique Victorian locket featuring a classic bird and nest design from Harry Emanuel in London and still in its original fitted box is a highlight of Leonard Joel’s jewellery auction from 6.30 Monday March 24 at 333 Malvern Road, South Yarra.
The auction is in two parts with the second segment continuing at 10.30am on Thursday March 26.
Other features include an antique diamond locket and chain, a tourmaline and diamond necklace and a loose pink diamond weighing almost half a carat and with a catalogue estimate of $125,000-$150,000.
Russian silver an auction drawcard
Among Philips Auctions latest decorative arts sale (from noon tomorrow at 47 Glenferrie Road, Malvern) are two collections – one, 19th century milk glassware and small “end of day” vases by various well-known glassmakers, the other Russian and English silver dating from the 17th century.
The glassware belonged to solicitor the late Robert McCracken, whose ancestors, brothers Robert and Peter, migrated from Scotland in 1841 and established a brewery that was eventually taken over by Carlton United.
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Review: Jeff Mizushima's "Etienne!"
Etienne! 2009. Written, directed and edited by Jeff Mizushima. Produced by Giacun Caduff, Joel David Moore, Jeremy Boreing, and Kurt Schemper. Cinematography by Tim van der Linden, Eric Kim, and Jeff Mizushima. Original score by Mark Bachle. Sound design by Katsuyuki Ueno.
Cast: Richard Vallejo (Richard), Megan Harvey (Elodie), Molly Livingston (Molly), Matt Garron (Matt), Caveh Zahedi (Man in Coat), Thibault Debaveye (Backpacker), Marisa Pedroso (Marion), Vittorio E. Razi (Vittorio), Rachel Stolte (Rachel), Solon Bixler (Solon).
The premise of Jeff Mizushima’s debut feature Etienne! at first blush seems almost toxically quirky: Richard (Richard Vallejos), a shy, pudgy introvert, finds out his beloved hamster companion, named Etienne, has cancer. He decides to take the hamster out on a road trip to show him the world (or at least San Francisco) in the week he supposedly has left to live. This scenario seems ripe for the sort of winking, supercilious irony that has infected far too many American independent productions. However, Mizushima refuses to take such an easy route, and instead has crafted a genuinely heartfelt and endearingly earnest film that is as generous to all its characters as Richard is to the beloved pet he dotes on. This, plus a canny evocation of 1970’s cinema in its credits design and visuals, makes Etienne! a uniquely delightful film.
At the outset, Richard has just gotten a job as a maintenance man at a hotel after a decidedly odd job interview and first-day orientation. Richard is a genial, soft-spoken man sporting a distinctive handlebar mustache who talks to and interacts with others, but who clearly is much more comfortable around his constant companion Etienne. In the grand tradition of Benji, Lassie, and Milo and Otis, Etienne (played by multiple hamsters, all named in the end credits) is as instantly memorable a character as the humans in the story, making Richard’s devotion to this creature immediately believable and ultimately very moving.
Although the film’s focus is squarely on Richard, room is made for several other characters, as expertly drawn as the protagonist. One is Richard’s roommate Matt (Matt Garron), as gregarious as Richard is introverted, who spends his time laying down screeching vocals on thrash-rock tracks, and regales his girlfriend with stories about battling ninjas. Richard meets other people during his road trip with Etienne, most notably a French backpacker-scientist (Thibault Debaveye), a despondent man searching for his lost poodle (Vittorio E. Razi), and a traveling musician couple (indie-rock duo Great Northern, who contribute a lovely song dedicated to the hamster). The person Richard meets on his trip who gets the most screen time is Elodie (Megan Harvey), who embarks on a road trip of her own, taking a break from her college studies, and fleeing a failed relationship. Her sadness forms a corollary to Richard’s grief over his dying hamster; the film floats the possibility of the two of them having a more significant encounter beyond the narrative. Another significant character is a pinhole cameraman (Caveh Zahedi, writer/director/star of I Am a Sex Addict), who separately employs both Richard and Elodie to be in his photographs. The sequences with the photographer are the occasion for some strikingly beautiful passages of nature. The photographer opines on how randomness is part of the process in creating his photos; and Etienne! adopts this philosophy as its narrative strategy, showing us how random encounters with others often prove to be life-altering.
Etienne! will play a week-long engagement from September 3-9 at the reRun Gastropub Theater, a wonderful space in Brooklyn that forms the ideal setting for this immensely charming and intimately scaled film. To purchase tickets, visit the theater’s website.
Labels: Jeff Mizushima, New Releases, Reviews, US Cinema
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SudanTribune.com: Sudan’s opposition to give its response on draft framework agreement Saturday
June 22, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The opposition Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) will announce Saturday its position on a draft framework agreement made by the Ethiopian mediator Mahmoud Dirir.
Dirir upon his return to Khartoum on Thursday met with the opposition and handed over a draft Declaration of Principles on Transitional Arrangements based on his consultations with them and the Transitional Military Council (TMC)
In a short statement released late on Friday, the FFC confirmed the receipt of the draft proposal and said they will make public their response on Saturday.
"This document is now subject to discussion within the forces of the Declaration of Freedom and Change, which will meet Ethiopian mediator Mahmoud Dirir on Saturday to inform him about its position on the proposal," said the statement.
Opposition sources told Sudan Tribune that the draft agreement was approved by the FFC factions and they will inform him that during Saturday’s meeting.
However, the sources declined to disclose the content of the agreement as they expect that the Ethiopian mediator will make it after consulting the military junta.
The FFC suspended talks with the TMC on 3 June after the killing of over a hundred protesters by Sudanese military forces who raided the pro-democracy sit-in.
TMC officials seemed inclined to approve the proposal as they insisted in a statement on the need for a national consensus.
The Deputy Chairman Mohamed Hamdan Daglo "Hemetti" said they want a comprehensive solution accepted by all the parties" adding they do not "want them (the FFC) tomorrow resume protest," he said on Thursday.
Previously, he sought to mobilize popular support for the military council saying they want to form the transitional government from all the segments of the Sudanese society.
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council is expected to discuss the situation in Sudan after the end of the delay given to the military council to hand over power to civilian-led administration on 30 June.
The Regional Partners of the Sudan, in a meeting convened by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi explicitly, called on the military council to resume talks with the FFC on the remaining aspect of an agreement reached last May to avoid accusations that they encourage the TMC to exclude the opposition.
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Detail & Scale Books
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Fündekals BOAC PR. Mk.IV de Haviland Mosquito
The de Haviland Mosquito is well known as England’s multi-role bomber, heavy fighter, recce, and night fighter of WWII that was constructed almost entirely of wood. One of the most interesting and secretive jobs the Mossie carried out in RAF servise was as a fast transport. Operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), they carried small high-value cargoes to and from neutral countries while crossing hostile, Nazi-controlled airspace. Some 520 BOAC flights were made between 1942-1945 under the guise of delivering mail, diplomatic pouches, and newspapers and magazines to neutral countries. The thirteen BOAC Mossies were repainted to remove all national insignia and modified to carry up to four passengers – many of whom were OSS and MI6 agents. BOAC flights also carried intelligence data back to the UK, as well as high-quality ball bearings from Sweden. These were also the fastest Mosquitos in the air, by virtue of being stripped of all armament and armor.
Fündekals is a lower-cost but high-quality decal manufacturer who typically does a print run of a subject and then moves on. Most of their releases focus on WWII subjects, but they often go into more diverse territory as well. Their BOAC Mosquito PR. Mk. IV sheet covers two schemes worn by one BOAC Mossie:
Mosquito PR. Mk. IV, DZ411/G-AGFV, BOAC, RAF Leuchars, Scotland, 1943-1944
These decals are beautifully printed and are in perfect register. Carrier film is precisely applied right at the edges of each decal. In all, they look great and receive outstanding scores for print quality, subject matter, and detail. These decals are sized to fit the Tamiya kit.
Speaking of subject matter, this particular airplane, G-AGFV, was the only PR. Mk. IV modified for BOAC missions. And of all the stripped down fast Mossies, this was probably the fastest of them all, at least for a time, owing to additional powerplant modifications. The decals cover the first incarnation of G-AGFV wearing the temperate land camouflage scheme colors as well as the later temperate sea camouflage scheme more befitting flights over the North Sea. The historical notes and photos that accompany these decals are also top-notch, reveal the depth of research done on this subject and add truly fulfilling depth to the history behind this particular airplane and the broader missions it flew.
To keep costs down for the scale modeler, the instructions are not printed and included with the decals. As with all Fündekals products, the markings guide is available as a PDF file that can be downloaded from their website. Here’s the link for the instructions:
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Summary of Vietnam School Milk Programme
Friday, 21 October 2016 12:01 Published in Uncategorised
Tong Xuan Chinh, Department of Livestock Production,
Ministry of Agriculture and rural Development of Vietnam
The Prime Minister did approve the National School Milk Programme for improving nutritional state and enhancing physical conditions of nursery school children and primary school pupils to 2020.
The objective of the programme is to improve the nutrition of nursery school children and primary school pupils through the daily provision of milk in order to reduce malnutrition, enhance children stature and physical strength.
The programme will achieve the following goals:
By 2020, 90% of urban and 60% of rural parents and custodians whose children participate in the School Milk Programme receive nutrition education.
By 2020, 100% preschool children and primary school pupils living in poor districts are participating in the School Milk Programme.
By 2020, 70% preschool children and primary school pupils in urban and rural areas are participating in the School Milk Programme;
By 2020, energy requirements of preschool children and primary school pupils are met by 90%-95%
By 2020, the proportion of animal protein over protein total of children’s diets taken by preschool children and primary school pupils rises by 40%
By 2020, meeting requirements of iron, calcium, vitamin D for preschool children and primary school pupils increases by 30%
By 2020, reducing the underweight malnutrition of preschool children and primary school pupils with average of 0.6%/year.
By 2020, reducing the stunting malnutrition of preschool children and primary school pupils with average of 0.7%/year.
By 2020, an average height of primary school age’s children (6 years old) increases from 1.5 cm to 2.0 cm in both sexes compared with 2010.
Annual budget of the programme will be partly covered by the central and provincial governments. However, it is expecting that the majority of the programme is sponsored by dairy companies, career associations, international organization, individuals, etc. in the framework of annual charity programmes.
The most important issue for the Vietnam School Milk Proramme is how to develop national dairy quality standards and regulationa for the School Milk Programme, to manage liquid milk products derived from 100% fresh raw milk and from reconstituted imported milk powder and to set up technical barriers to support domestic dairy raising.
The ten strategic objectives constituting the Sustainability Framework of Dairy Asia
Meet rising demand for dairy products by sustainable increases in milk productivity and farm profitability.
Integrate small-scale producers in the modern value chain through promotion of fair and efficient markets.
Protect and enhance human health by improving dairy food quality and safety and by enabling consumers to make informed choices on the benefits and risks of dairy products as part of the diet.
Enhance resilience and adaptability of dairy systems by strengthening stakeholder capacity to cope with production (which would include climate risks) and market risks and enhancing innovation’.
Protect and restore terrestrial ecosystems by minimizing the dairy sector’s environmental footprint.
Combat climate change by reducing GHG emissions along the dairy chain.
Enhance levels of education through school milk programmes and transfer of knowledge and best practices to all actors involved in the dairy chain.
Promote gender equality by ensuring women receive proper recognition for their work in dairy production, processing and marketing and by encouraging women in leadership positions.
Improve access to clean affordable energy through promotion of biogas from dairy systems.
Strengthen the means of implementation by building national, regional and global platforms for dairy development.
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Resources for Outside Resources, Disaster
The Psychological Cost of Disasters
PDF slideshow by Richard Bryant from the University of New South Wales on the psychological costs of disasters for victims.
Disaster Action Guide: Reflections on Personal Experience of Disaster
This guide was written by members of Disaster Action, who are survivors and bereaved people from disasters including the Zeebrugge ferry sinking, King’s Cross underground fire, Lockerbie aircraft bombing, Hillsborough football stadium tragedy, Marchioness riverboat sinking, Dunblane shootings, Southall and Ladbroke Grove train crashes, the September 11th attacks, the South East Asian Tsunami and the Bali, London and Sharm El Sheikh bombings.
Disaster Action Guide: Personal Reflections and Guidelines for Interviewers
This Disaster Action guide provides tips for journalists, researchers and university students on approaching victims and survivors of disaster, as well as advice for those who are approached for interviews.
Disaster Action: Leaflet for Survivors
When Disaster Strikes, Disaster Action's leaflet series for survivors and bereaved, was written by Disaster Action members for those similarly affected by all forms of disaster. The leaflets are all free to download, print and distribute.
After the Storm: Louisiana Awaits Help As Media Moves On
There’s been too little coverage of what the Red Cross calls the “biggest disaster” to hit America since Sandy, and what coverage there has been has too often been political, writes Irwin Redlener, Director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
Safety Guidelines for Covering Nuclear Incidents
Journalists who cover news related to nuclear issues are frequently among the first people on the scene when a radiation incident occurs, but their safety is often overlooked, leaving them vulnerable to radiation exposure and other potential harm. To combat that risk, the non-profit group Atomic Reporters, in partnership with the Stanley Foundation, has released a safety guide highlighting basic steps to take when covering these complex issues.
National Center for PTSD - Disasters
A list of resources from the US Department of Veteran's Affairs on the effects of disasters on victims. Included is a section specifically for media covering disasters.
A list of resources and links for studying the effects of natural and manmade disasters on mental health.
Red Cross Disaster Safety Checklist
Fact sheets, preparedness checklists, recovery guides and other helpful information.
CPJ's Journalist Security Guide - Natural Disasters
A section of CPJ's Journalist Safety Guide that addresses disaster specific safety considerations, especially for freelancers.
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Eurozone data signals recovery has peaked
Eurozone economic growth slowed much more sharply than expected this month, a business survey showed. That fact, along with weaker inflation, has intensified concerns there will be no return to the bloc’s recent boom times.
The European Central Bank under president Mario Draghi is expected to end its asset-purchase programme this year and hike interest rates in 2019, a Reuters poll found last month, although policymakers may be concerned to see inflation easing along with growth.
While the expansion still remained relatively strong, growth slowed to a 20-month low in the bloc’s largest economy, Germany, and the lowest in a year in a half in number two economy France, according to the latest IHS Markit purchasing managers’ surveys.
French unemployment also rose in the first three months of 2018, confounding economists’ expectations for a decline, according to separate official data.
The euro fell to a six-month low after the German PMI data, which is released before the eurozone numbers, raised concerns a slowdown in Europe’s biggest economy in recent months was more widespread than previously thought.
“Contemplating the eurozone’s growth perspectives we, unfortunately, might have to refer to the famous Looney Tunes catchphrase ‘That’s all folks!’,” noted Peter Vanden Houte, an economist at ING.
The Eurozone Composite Flash Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), seen as a good guide to economic activity, sank in May to an 18-month low of 54.1 from 55.1, below all forecasts in a Reuters poll which predicted a dip to 55.0.
Figures above 50.0 in the PMIs suggest expansion.
Having outpaced its peers in 2017, expanding at record levels at the turn of the year, eurozone growth has steadily weakened. Forward-looking indicators in the PMIs also deteriorated, suggesting no imminent bounce-back.
“May’s fall in the eurozone PMI yet again partly reflected temporary factors, but the continued softness of the surveys in Q2 is certainly a concern.
“The declines in the forward-looking components are somewhat worrying,” said Jessica Hinds at Capital Economics.
HIS Markit said the PMI, alongside the April reading, pointed to second-quarter growth of 0.4pc, weaker than the 0.6pc prediction in an April Reuters poll.
But consumer confidence in the bloc likely held steady this month, a flash estimate from the European Commission is expected to show. (Reuters)
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Q&A with Jeff Giles
Jeff Giles is the author of the new young adult novel The Edge of Everything. He also is the co-author of the nonfiction book The Terrorist's Son. He has been the deputy managing editor of Entertainment Weekly and worked for Newsweek, and his work has also appeared in Rolling Stone and The New York Times Book Review. He lives in Montana.
Q: How did you come up with the idea for The Edge of Everything, and for your characters Zoe and X?
A: I was still working at Entertainment Weekly when I started thinking about giving a young adult novel a shot. I knew that I wanted it to be a blend of fantasy and reality (more on this in a second).
And then, one day at work, an opening scene popped into my head: A 17-year-old girl goes into a blizzard to save her little brother and their dogs, and stumbles on two men fighting on a frozen lake.
One of the guys is trying to drown the other in a hole in the ice. The girl doesn’t want to see anyone die that way—so she gets involved, and it changes her life. The more I thought about the scene, the more it felt like something I could build on.
The next step was just trying to figure out who everyone in the scene actually was. I decided to set the book in Montana because I’ve spent a lot of time here.
The girl became Zoe, who has just lost her dad, and the “murderer” turns out to be a bounty hunter from a Hell-ish dimension called the Lowlands, who’s come to Montana to take an evil soul.
When I was thinking about what sort of hell I wanted the Lowlands to be, I thought it would be interesting if no one had names, because their captors wanted to strip them of all identity and dignity.
So I decided that Zoe would name the bounty hunter herself (it seemed weird and romantic), and that’d she name him X to reflect the fact that he was an unknown quantity to her.
Q: In an interview with Publishers Weekly, you said, “What I’ve heard is that my book is a slightly unusual mix of realistic contemporary fiction and supernatural.” Is that how you see the book, and what did you see as the right blend of the two as you were writing it?
A: I didn’t realize it was an unusual mix until people kept [saying] that it was. I understand now: most fantasy books take place in a fantastical realm from the first page, or at least there’s not such a stark difference between the real world and the imaginary one.
Obviously, there are exceptions, but people seemed surprised that the parts set in Montana are very realistic and contemporary, whereas the Lowlands are pure fantasy.
I am more comfortable writing the realistic sections, but it was a great challenge and stretch to create an underworld.
Q: Did you know how the novel would end before you started writing, or did you make many changes along the way?
A: I knew there would be a sequel (my contract is for two books), so I knew The Edge of Everything had to end in a place of uncertainty.
I knew the basic plot of Book 2 so I knew what I had to set up in the final pages. And come to think of it, I also knew what the very last sentence would be many months ahead of time. I was dying to type it in. It was a goal I always saw in the distance.
I’m just finishing Book 2 now, and I really wish I had a last sentence already in mind. I guess it will be a surprise!
Q: How was the book’s title chosen, and what does it signify for you?
A: I sold the book with the title “The Mercy Rule,” which is a phrase from kids’ sports (if one team is slaughtering the other, they have to stop the game, basically), and I thought it was a good metaphor for the fact that human beings ought not to victimize and oppress.
Both my agent and editor felt that title made the book sound like it had something to do with sports—and I know nothing whatsoever about sports. So I suggested a bunch of other titles, none of which were particularly good.
My editor suggested “The Edge of Everything” along with a handful of other ideas, and I liked it immediately. I think it reflects everything that’s at stake in the story, and the fact that Zoe is on the edge of adulthood, love, and life and death.
Q: Can you say more about book 2?
A: I have one chapter left to write—and then my editing will help me make it shiny and lovely. Book 2 is mostly set in the underworld, and is a darker book in some ways. I’m really happy with it.
A: Two old movies were stuck in my head while I was writing. They’re both great “fish out of water” stories, which is largely what The Edge of Everything is.
One movie was Witness, with Harrison Ford, and the other was Edward Scissorhands, with Johnny Depp.
Witness is about a tough, city cop coming to understand/respect/love an Amish community. His first impulse is always violence but they teach him a different way.
Edward Scissorhands (about a fairy-tale type young man who gets adopted by suburbanites) is just a joy from start to finish, but the humor of the movie is what stuck with me.
The movies influenced my novel. I wanted to write something that mixed humor, action, and romance—a sort of mash-up of both movies.
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Texaco Filling Station
Maxol Filling Station
Crèche & Childcare
Café & Sandwich Bar
Gocar
Bank of Ireland Workbench
First Floor Restaurant, Block 3, Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Dublin 15
Excellent opportunity to trade in Blanchardstown Corporate Park.
Extensive fully fitted restaurant.
Entire extends to approximately 464 sq.m./ 5,000sq.ft.
Ample car parking.
Highly accessible.
The property represents an opportunity for restaurateurs as it is in turn-key condition which requires minimal initial investment. The restaurant occupies a good location and enjoys a large catchment which includes Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Rosemount Business Park, Northwest Business Park, Stadium Business Park, the two nearby I.D.A. Parks, Millennium Business Park and Damastown Business Park. There is limited competition in the area and the restaurant provides a large and extensive kitchen which is ideally suited to an operator to combine the restaurant business with event catering and corporate deliveries.
The property occupies an excellent position in the Blanchardstown Corporate Park, on the western side of Blanchardstown Road North, close to the Ballycoolin Road, approximately 10km north-west of Dublin City Centre and approximately 1.6km north of Blanchardstown Town Centre. The location offers occupiers easy access to the N3, N2 and M1 and has attracted a wide spectrum of companies from Ireland and abroad. Some of these include AIB, Texaco, Puma, Nike, IBM, The HSE and Superquinn / Musgrave to name a few.
The premises, which forms part of a detached two storey building, incorporates a fully fitted restaurant located at first floor level, accessed via an open thread staircase from the feature entrance. It is fitted out to include plastered and painted walls, spotlighting, wooden flooring, a deli counter, CCTV, ladies and gents toilets located at either side of the entrance and air conditioning. Disabled access is provided by way of a lift, which is also used for the delivery of heavy goods. The entire enjoys the benefit of 15 designated car parking spaces and ample customer car parking.
Description Sq.Ft.
First Floor: 5,000
Total: 5,000
On application.
Available on new flexible lease terms.
The annual rates liability for 2013: €10,944.
BER: D2
BER No.800131294
Enquiries through sole agents
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Direct Tel: +353 1 6382732
E-mail: phipwell@lisney.com
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E-mail: dmahon@lisney.com
hello@corporatepark.ie // +353 (1) 8209577
Channor, Suite 9, Providence House, Blanchardstown Corporate Park, Dublin 15, Ireland
© Copyright Channor Limited 2018
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Too Blue – 2003 (Bell Buckle)
Reviewed by George Hauenstein
Though they fly below the radar of most bluegrass fans and programmers, the Jeanette Williams Band is definitely worth a listen. Formerly Jeanette Williams and Clearwater, this five piece group, fronted by singer/songwriter Williams and her guitarist/writer husband, Johnny, features banjo, mandolin and bass. Becky Buller adds her considerable fiddle talent to many of the songs.
JWB handles different kinds of material here, and they do them all well. Included is an ample offering of hard-driving, tunes, "What You Gonna Do," "Mountain Way of Life," both written by Johnny Williams as well as a pair of Lynn Morris tunes, "Don't Tell Me Stories" and "Love Grown Cold," some gospel numbers, "Stormy Waters and "The Blind Beggar" and a terrific clawhammer banjo instrumental, "Squirrel Tail." The most pleasing selections though, are the slower, heartfelt numbers like "Just One Year Ago," and "I Ought To Know You," about an aging parent suffering from Alzheimers.
Williams does most of the singing. She possesses a fine voice and can sing the fire out of a song or slow it down and effectively bring home a ballad.
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Messages/Message Notes
Healing Place
Generosity + Stewardship
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Our Pastor, Our Elders, Our Leaders
Toby Slough
Toby began his ministry career in San Antonio, Texas, working with high school students after graduating from Abilene Christian University in 1986. During his youth ministry years, Toby traveled around the country speaking to teenagers and youth workers. In 1993 he and his family moved to Southlake, Texas, where he became the Preaching Minister for the Southlake Boulevard Church. It was there that God began to birth in him a dream to plant a church in the rural area of Argyle, Texas.
In 2000, Toby along with 12 families began the Cross Timbers Community Church in the back of a bar. God has seen fit to bless those humble beginnings and Toby now serves as the Senior Pastor for Cross Timbers, a multi-site church of three campuses with over 4000 in attendance each weekend.
Toby and his wife Mika recently celebrated 30 years of marriage. He often says that he married way over his head. His family, including son Ross and daughter-in-law Michelle and daughter Bailey and son-in-law Grant, bring him more joy than any one man could ask for. In his free time, he loves to spend time with his grandkids, fish, read, relax at the beach and garden. Toby has written several books including: Living the Dream, The Great Adventure, God Drives Me Crazy, Normal, and It Is Well.
Follow Toby on Instagram: @tobyms
Find Toby on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tobyslough
Or follow Toby on Twitter: @tobyslough
Elder Team
Our elder team provides spiritual direction to the Cross Timbers family. They meet together regularly to pray for Toby's direction as he leads us towards our vision of “10,000 spirit filled believers walking in freedom, committed to meeting the needs of the poor and broken both locally and around the world.”
From left to right: Bud Stradley, Toby Slough, Dwayne Weehunt, John Chalk, Randy Keene, and Cassidy Lackey
Cross Timbers Community Church, 1119 South US Hwy 377 , Argyle, TX 76226(940)-240-5100info@crosstimberschurch.org
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In which Sly and Doris, who live over 1,000 miles away from us (thank God) call to ask Primo to fix their toilet
No, not really.
They didn't call Primo to have him repair their running toilet. Or their backed-up sink. Or to take the trash out.
They called not once but twice to ask him to repair the wireless connection for their computer.
1. Primo is a PC guy. They have a Mac.
2. Even if Primo were a Mac guy, he is here and they are over 1,000 miles away.
Sly called to ask Primo to repair it. Primo told Sly that he could not fix it - that he was not at their house and he did not know what was wrong and they would have to call someone who is actually - you know, THERE.
Five minutes later, Doris called Primo to ask him to repair the computer wireless.
Primo explained again - because the basic facts of the matter had not changed, that he is HERE and they are THERE.
Which makes me think of the Sesame Street sketch about the difference between HERE and THERE. This is a concept that pre-school children have to be taught but eventually, they do grasp it.
Primo is HERE.
Sly and Doris are THERE.
To do the kind of repair that Sly and Doris wanted, Primo would have to be THERE.
Some computer repairs can be done over the phone. More than once, I have gone through the phone tree with Time Warner to reset the modem when Primo is gone and I can't just consult my resident engineer. It is indeed handy to be married to someone who can fix things. (I highly recommend marrying an engineer for that exact reason: you will rarely have to call a repairman.)
But after Primo explained to Sly, who we all know is the Smartest Man in the World, that Primo could not fix the computer because he was HERE and Sly and the computer were THERE, why did Sly and Doris think the answer would change if Doris called?
Did they think that if Doris called, Primo would be tricked into being THERE? Or did they think that Primo was lying to Sly but would be nicer to Doris because he loves and likes her more than he does Sly? Did Sly, who has a PhD and is not dumb but his PhD is in English which blesshisheart does not grant him an understanding of physics, think that Primo could magically be THERE with just one phone call?
I don't know the answers to these questions. But I do know that I, with a mere BA in English, understand
1. HERE and THERE and
2. some physics
In which Sly and Doris, who live over 1,000 miles ...
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