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There appears to be more than one Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab
On 20 July 2009, we are told that the Mumbai suspect has admitted his guilt
According to the BBC, 20 July 2009, little is known of the background of the alleged Mumbai 'terrorist' Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab.
According to the BBC, "Indian officials originally portrayed him as a middle-class boy who spoke good English.
"But subsequent reports suggested he came from a remote village called Faridkot, where his father sold food.
"He had received little education, the reports said, and had spent his youth alternating between labouring and petty crime."
Qasab reminds us of Lee Harvey Oswald who reportedly was sometimes in two places at once and had two different personalities. Apparently the CIA used two different Oswalds in its work.
Two Oswalds Theories in the JFK Assassination
Qasab reminds us of Mohammad Atta who reportedly had a double.
The Qasab case reminds us of the case involving the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001.
In 2008, in The Guardian, we read:
"It was after the 2001 parliament attack that the first serious questions began to be raised. A campaign by a group of lawyers and activists exposed how innocent people had been framed by the police and the press, how evidence was fabricated, how witnesses lied, how due process had been criminally violated at every stage of the investigation."
Arundhati Roy: Mumbai .
A Pakistani lawyer C M Farooque has claimed that Ajmal Kasab was arrested in Nepal by the Indian security services before 2006.
Ajmal Kasab Was Kidnapped Before 2006 From Nepal By Indian ...
What was the purpose of the Mumbai attacks?
Here is a clue.
On 20 July 2009, India and the United States agreed a defence deal.
This is expected to boost US arms sales.
India also approved sites for two US nuclear reactors.
India, US agree on defence deal, nuclear reactor sites
The Indian authorities claim that they have in custody one of the Mumbai gunmen responsible for the November 2008 attacks.
This 21 year old 'gunman' is Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman, also known as Kasav, Qasab, Kamal, Kasab, Qasab, Qasam, Kasab, Kasar, and Kamaal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajmal_Amir)
Ajmal Amir seems to be being used to disguise the false-flag nature of the Mumbai Attacks.
The reports about Ajmal Amir are contradictory and confusing.
1. One moment we are told he stayed for several days at the Taj Hotel; the next moment we are told he got straight off a boat and started a killing spree.
(NDTV.com: Terrorists stayed in room 630, had many visitors)
2. There are reports that he had bullet wounds and reports that he did not have bullet wounds.
(No bullet hit Kasab, no active treatment on, says hospital's dean)
3. There are reports that one of his fellow gunmen was arrested at Cana Hospital and reports suggesting that nobody was arrested there.
(According to the BBC: "2120-2200: Gunmen raid the Cama and Albless Hospital ... One attacker is captured here." - (BBC NEWS South Asia Timeline: Mumbai under attack)
4. There are reports that Ajmal Amir speaks fluent English and reports that he is a rather illiterate and poorly educated criminal.
5. We are told that 8 gunmen were arrested and then we are told that only Ajmal Amir was arrested.
(“The Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh told Associated Press that two British-born Pakistanis were among the eight gunmen arrested by Indian authorities.” - Four Mumbai terrorists ‘had links with Britain’)
6. We are told that the gunmen at the railway station and elsewhere were white men and yet Ajmal Amir is reportedly from Pakistan.
(BBC NEWS Mumbai attackers create 'killing zone' / Mumbai Attackers were 'Hindus' and 'White Men' )
7. We are told that the gunmen who shot Karkare spoke Marathi and then we are told that it was Ajmal Amir and his Pakistani friend who shot Karkare.
(The Marathi daily 'Maharashtra Times' said the terrorists who targeted Anti Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare were speaking Marathi fluently. (i.e. they were not from Pakistan) Reportedly, traditional Jews from Mumbai, who have migrated to Israel, speak fluent Marathi and are known to have been recruited by Mossad.)
There is doubt, therefore, that Ajmal Amir did the shooting that he is supposed to have done.
At what point may Ajmal Amir have been recruited by people from some group, such as Lashkar-e Taiba, who work for the CIA or Mossad or RAW or ISI or MI6?
Lashkar-e Taiba (LeT) took part in the Bosnian War against Serbia. (http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/lashkar_e_toiba.htm)
LeT is the Moslem group, operating in Jammu and Kashmir, that has been blamed for the Mumbai Attacks.
LeT reportedly has links to the Pakistan and UK intelligence services. (US and UK links to the terrorists in India and Pakistan)
Reportedly:
Ajmal Amir is from a poor family in a poor village called Faridkot in Pakistan.
He went to school until age 13.
He left home after a fight with his father in 2005.
He then became involved in petty crime with his friend Muzaffar Lal Khan, soon moving on to armed robbery.
Reportedly, the security services like to employ criminals to do their dirty work.
In 2007, in Rawalpindi, Ajmal Amir and his friend decided to sign up for training with Lashkar-e-Taiba, ending up at their base camp, Markaz Taiba.
Initial reports suggested Ajmal Amir was fluent in English, and from a middle class background. (Father of gunman, Amir, 'paid by terrorists to hand him over')
Some sources said his father asked him to join Lashkar-e-Taiba so that he could use the money they gave him to run the family (Kasab says his father sent him to LeT )
Ajmal Amir is alleged to be among a group of 24 men who received training in marine warfare at a remote camp in mountainous Muzaffarabad in Pakistani-controlled Azad Kashmir. Part of the training is reported to have taken place on the Mangla Dam reservoir. (Rumours abound as inquiry begins its search for truth")
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, reportedly offered to pay his family Rs.150,000 for his participation in the attacks. (Pakistan now holds the key to probe: investigators)
Another report said the 21-year old man was recruited from his Punjab, Pakistan home in part based on a pledge by recruiters to pay USD $1,250 US (Rs. 62,412.50) to his family when he became a martyr. Other sources put the reward to USD $4,000. (Bombs found in Mumbai train station a week later, National Public Radio, Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to 'Kill and Die' and Become Famous )
According to a media report citing an unnamed former Defence Department Official of the US, the intelligence agencies of the US had determined that the former officers from Pakistan’s Army and its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency assisted actively and continuously in training.
Reportedly Ajmal Amir said to his Indian captors: "We were told that our big brother India is so rich and we are dying of poverty and hunger. My father sells dahi wada on a stall in Lahore and we did not even get enough food to eat from his earnings. I was promised that once they knew that I was successful in my operation, they would give Rs 150,000 [almost USD 4,000] to my family)," said Qasab. (Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to Kill and Die and Become Famous, ABC News, 03-Dec-2008)
Reportedly Ajmal continued: "If you give me regular meals and money I will do the same for you that I did for them."
"When we asked whether he knew any verses from the Quran that described jihad, Ajmal Amir said he did not," police said. "In fact he did not know much about Islam or its tenets," according to a police source. (Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to Kill and Die and Become Famous, ABC News, 03-Dec-2008 )
"Please do not tell anyone that I am caught alive otherwise they will kill me. They had told us that they would shoot us if we ever returned to Pakistan", he said, according to the Asian Age, as quoted by ABC (USA). (Mumbai Terrorist Wanted to Kill and Die and Become Famous, ABC News, 03-Dec-2008 )
Reportedly, Ajmal Amir was captured on CCTV during his attacks at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus along with another terrorist, Ismail Khan.
Ajmal Amir reportedly told the police that they wanted to replicate the attack on Islamabad's Marriott hotel attack, and reduce the Taj Hotel to rubble, replicating the 9/11 attacks in India. (PLANNED 9/11 AT TAJ: CAUGHT TERRORIST)
Ajmal Amir and his accomplice Abu Dera Ismail Khan, age 25, attacked the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus) railway station.
They then moved on to attack a police vehicle at Cama Hospital, in which Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad Chief Hemant Karkare, was traveling.
Azam and Ismail Khan then drove towards Metro cinema and then towards Vidhan Bhavan.
Their vehicle had a tire puncture, so they stole a silver Škoda Laura and drove towards Girgaum Chowpatty. They met a police barricade on Marine Drive. Abu Ismail was killed and Ajmal Amir was captured.
Some reports said that Ajmal Amir was shot and had bullet wounds in his hand or both hands. (Sole Captured Suspect Offers Grim Insights Into Massacre )
There are other reports by doctors who treated him that he had no bullet wounds. (No bullet hit Kasab, no active treatment on, says hospital's dean)
Ajmal Amir disclosed the location of a fishing trawler, MV Kuber, that the gunmen reportedly used to enter Mumbai's coastal waters. He also told investigators where they would find the ship captain's body, a satellite phone and a global-positioning device. (Sole captured suspect offers grim insights into massacre, 2008)
It is reported that Ajmal Amir told the police that he and his associate, Ismail Khan, were the ones who shot Anti-Terror Squad chief Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and Additional Commissioner Ashok Kamte.
Reportedly, Ajmal Amir told the police he entered the Taj Hotel posing as a student from Mauritius and stored explosives in a room. (Arrested terrorist reveals all to police)
Ajmal Amir reportedly revealed that he and his associate stayed in Room 630 in the Taj Mahal Palace hotel and had many visitors. They had booked the room for four days using fake Mauritian identities. (NDTV.com: Terrorists stayed in room 630, had many visitors)
On November 29, Ajmal Amir named his colleagues as Abu Ali, Fahad, Omar, Shoaib, Umer, Abu Akasha, Abu Ismail Dera Ismail Khan, Abdul Rahman (Bara), and Abdul Rahman.
Reportedly Ajmal Amir has told his interrogators that their plan was to get off the dinghy near the fishing village at Badhwar Park, Cuffe Parade, at dusk and strike all targets except Nariman House between 19:00 and 20:00. However, the landing was delayed and they arrived at 20.45. (We wanted to hit CST at peak hour, says arrested terrorist)
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A Little Unsolicited Campaign Advice For Mitt Romney
A lot of former fred supporters, and possible Romney supporters generally, acknowledge that Romney says mostly the right things. The trouble is, he seems to offer these glibly as crowd-pleasing platitudes, and they're not sure if he actually believes them.
Fred, I think, had a lot of enthusiasm because he didn't just say the right thing, he gave the right reason for believing the right thing (and the right subsidiary reason for believing the right reason). His conservatism, to many, was deeper. He didn't just have the conservative answer, but the underlying conservative assumptions supporting that answer.
If Mitt wants to seal the deal with a lot of conservatives out there, he'll offer a "What I Believe" type internet address, maybe 15 or even 20 minutes long, explaining his thinking. Not just the surface conservative conclusions, but the underlying conservative thinking. Heartfelt and inartful (not so much smiling, few applause lines, generally stodgy and somewhat wonky (at least in broad principles, not techno-wonky) and designed to appeal to conservative political geeks, not a general audience) would be the right tone.
It would also be helpful to address the three most frequent knocks on Romney: He's a flip-flopper on abortion; his health care plan in Massachusetts was socialistic; and he's anti-gun.
And, for me, I'd sure the hell like to hear more about his basic foreign policy. This is an area in which it's hard as hell not to descend into gauzy generalities, but I personally would like some reassurance that Romney isn't just a domestic policy wonk but has thought hard about the war we're in and is ready to make the terrible decisions of war and peace.
PS: Offer a five-year moratorium on any legislation designed to grant amnesty or a "path to citizenship." The five years moratorium would be designed to ensure that border security has been achieved before moving on to any sort of "comprehensive" solution.
The point of this, of course, is to make McCain choke, as he will not offer such a guarantee himself.
So Mitt Romney should offer it.
And so should Giuliani. And so should Huckabee, too.
Let the Maverick prove his Maverick stripes and refuse to take any sort of vow to not introduce his piece of shit bill until the public is actually reassured the feds are serious about enforcing the borders.
PS... Before we go jumping on the McCain Electability Bandwagon, let's reflect on why he's so damned electable, supposedly. Because he attacks us with delight at every turn. As he did during the Amnesty fight.
And... wow: Laura Ingraham tears McCain on not just McCain-Feingold, but in filing an amicus brief attempting to shut up Wisconsin Right to Life.
Neither of these are my big issues but Jesus, Laura gets fiery here and convinces me.
Hm: Seems Kaus already thought of this idea of a moratorium on amnesty, though he proposes it as a guarantee McCain can offer and thus guarantee his nomination.
Hey, I thought of this myself. Only it was two days later. Haven't checked Kaus in weeks.
At any rate, he's wrong, McCain, Mr. Straight Shot, won't make that guarantee. So other candidates should begin doing so.
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It seems the New Year optimism has passed, in record time too. This week's grab bag has a bunch of Evil stuff for you to consider. We've got everything dystopian, from the facial recognition app powering law enforcement (and scraping tonnes of collateral data) through a list of the most evil companies to research that proves your cat would eat you if given the opportunity.
On the other hand, there is a website that generates haikus based on map data. So, not all bad.
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Why did they do it? To improve compatibility and get a seat at the cool table with Samsung, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, and so on. The new engine will also make it more suitable for Mac users with Touch Bar features already available.
Why would anyone switch? Microsoft is betting that enhanced privacy features will woo some users back to the fold. Google recently announced that they will end support for third-party tracking cookies, but not for two years. Edge will ship with anti-tracking prevention immediately to bridge the gap with Firefox and Safari. It also comes with some new productivity features, improved login workflows, 4k video, and PDF annotation.
Muddying the privacy waters with Clearview AI. 🙈
Who or what is Clearview AI? The company is emerging as a leader in facial recognition...recognition(?). With a database of more than three billion images the app allows users to match images to people.
Where did they get the database images? The images were scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and many, many more. Better yet (?), when an image is matched you also get a link to the site where it was found.
Surely that's illegal? Dodgy? Yes. Illegal? No. While both Twitter and Facebook prohibit image scraping in their Terms and Conditions, LinkedIn lost a court battle over data scraping just a few months ago. Unfortunately, methods for image scraping are easily available but the EU is currently considering a temporary ban on facial recognition technology while the risks are being considered.
Who's using it? Over six hundred law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year. The app has also been licensed to private companies for "security purposes".
Buy now with 1-Slap: Amazon will soon allow you to connect your hand to your credit card. 🤲
What's happening? Microchipping has come a long way since they started using it to identify dogs. Now you can do more than open your office door. Amazon has started working with Visa to test terminals which approve purchases based on a palm scan.
Who built it for them? It looks like Amazon built this one from the ground up. They patented an identification system that includes a hand scanner in December last year.
What does it mean? My classic trick of forgetting my wallet will need to be upgraded.
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Tangiers: Stealth gameplay meets darker avant-garde
A video game where words have physical power and the sun is your enemy. Drawing their influences from the dark side of the avant garde of 20th century artists, the two person team at Andalusian are struggling to bring their radical stealth gaming project into being, and could do with your support. Josh Davies interviews Alex Harvey and Michael Wright, the team behind Tangiers
J: Could you introduce yourselves and tell us what you do?
A: I’m Alex Harvey, lead on the project. I multi-task into just about everything here – the coding, the graphics, world design, managing everyone else…
M: I’m Michael Wright. I cover most of the more straightforward roles while Alex gets stuck into the more technical pieces. Mostly texturing, general housekeeping on the game files (and the office) and making the coffee.
J: For anyone who’s not come across it, tell us a bit about Tangiers…
A: It’s a dark, atmospheric stealth game. Touching on the surreal but veering more in the absurdist/abstract direction. The design draws on the work of a lot of artists within a darker, more confrontational strain of 20th century avant-garde: William Burroughs, Dada, early Industrial music, David Lynch et al.
So it’s base is a mixture of stealth and exploration. You’re normally either infiltrating your way through bleak, Ballardian cities or traversing expansive, broken landscapes. Layered on top of that is all sorts of weirdness. You can take hold of language, use that to spread disinformation or alter reality. That’s a reality that’s pretty disjointed: the world rebuilds itself based on your actions, creating a unique environment in each game.
J: How did you come up with the ideas that you went with – the setting, the genre, the name, etc?
A: The setting and genre both come from a need to focus. I’ve always wanted to work in the medium, and moving in to start on the project I originally started with making a very lite, streamlined action game. Very disposable.
It touched on the artists I’ve always enjoyed but it never followed with what they were trying to do. It felt too shallow, a big waste of an opportunity. These artists found their way into the fabric of the design, and it was their concepts, their ethos that defined what the world was. Not entirely mind, it both follows them and serves as a love-letter to their work.
Going into the stealth genre was a natural fit to this: the intimate focus, the inherent vulnerability, the necessity of environmental awareness.
As for the name, that came about as a signpost to Burroughs. The city acted as an obvious influence to his writings, becoming the absurdist, grotesque interzone in Naked Lunch. It was originally conceived as a non-diagetic reference, something separate from the game entirely but as development matured it came to embody the world as a whole.
J: We’ll come onto other influences later on but what are some of the gameplay influences?
A: Those are pretty straightforward, and quite apparent in the design – Thief being the obvious one, but also looking at Ico and Shadow of the Colossus in setting a lot of the tone and narrative techniques.
There’s also a lot of influence coming from the more recent flock of indie games – Hotline Miami, Binding of Isaac have added a slight casual slant, while Papo & Yo really showed me the potential games have in creating an emotional dialogue with the player.
J: The stealth genre seems to have had a bit of a revival recently with games like Dishonoured and Deus Ex both coming out fairly recently. Can you think of any reasons for this? Shooter fatigue? What made the stealth genre attractive for you?
A: Personally, I’ve always loved Stealth Games. Thief was the moment I saw games as something that could be admired rather than just a pastime.
The revival, of sorts? I think that it comes from the fact that publishers have spent a lot of time of late pushing their games into the bigger, vastly more expensive blockbuster territory. This has left open a mid-ground that holds a far more exciting balance between production values and risk.
The fact that games such as Dishonored have proven such a success shows how broken the AAA system is! A lot of opportunity and taste for the off-beat, but the bigger publishers and design houses have let themselves become so bloated that they have no choice but to work around the safest, most profit friendly parameters. Just look at Sim City or the Diablo 3 cash cow… they’ve gotten themselves in a corner. This is, of course brilliant for everyone else! It opens up so much room to breathe and operate in the midground.
J: You’ve talked about how stealth enables you to create a hostile and alienating world and this is something that seems central to Tangiers – from the feel of the first trailer to the art design. An alienating and hostile world has obvious gameplay advantages and opportunities to play with, at the same time though Tangiers seems to be trying to communicate something to the player. If pinned down what would you say that something is and how does the world you’ve built help to do that?
A:One of the things that we’re avoiding is writing any underlying message into Tangiers; we don’t want to make it into any sort of fable or conceptual piece. The emotive feelings of alienation, vulnerability and disconnection is the main line of communication here, and that’s a direction that permeates into every aspect of the design.
From the oblique and contrasting player design and the lack of direct interactivity with other characters, to an overall aesthetic that often masks detail and leaves you to rely on form, we’re adopting a slightly confrontational stance throughout Tangiers.
Everything you come across is both cold and particularly hostile towards the player.
J: The screenshots and videos that have been released largely feature dark, threatening urban environments but there’s the occasional bright, open natural scene. This contrast between manmade and more natural reminded me of something like Flower or even Ico. What were you trying to do with it?
A: First off is the purely practical basis around that – it allows us to better pace the game, gives us a good “hub” for the non-linear progression and provides a playground for us to experiment, to try out radically different ideas.
On narrative terms, the duality plays a central role. It gives a slightly… conflicting slant. Emphasizes the oppressive, constricting persona of the urban areas but also leaves the player feeling equally uneasy, almost feeling exposed. It’s playing with two different types of freedom and exploration. One within a more pointed, rigid situation where you’re fighting just as much with the environment, and the other where the surroundings fall back and you’re left entirely in control, albeit with little direction.
J: The natural and manmade theme together with the idea of the sun as a recurring enemy reminded me of Ballard’s The Drowned World, the words mechanic that has been talked about so much obviously connects to Burroughs and the cut up technique, and the influence of sampling in music has been mentioned elsewhere as being influential on the way that the landscape fractures. What connections do you see between these different influences and why are they important/relevant today?
A:There’s a direct line, a lineage of artists and movements at the centre of our design. From Dada to Burroughs and then onto Early Industrial, it was a direct family tree – the idea of the cut-up technique was passed from generation to generation. It sounds very mythical, almost like a family heirloom but that’s actually what happened!
Next to the tone and aesthetic influence, it’s the more anti-art, ant-establishment drive behind them that we’re following. That absurdist, aggressive disregard of commonplace memes and tropes. Less subversion, more sticking two fingers up. That is something that is sorely missing in a lot of media nowadays. Not fully going down that route ourselves just yet, but it’s a large part of what we’re trying to achieve.
J: What kinds of things do you think videogames as a medium can do well in terms of art/communication? How have you taken advantage of them?
A: Well, there’s the interaction that is missing in every other medium! When best used, that interaction – whether social or solitary – can create an incredibly powerful line of dialogue between the player and the developer. The immersion with that is unparalleled.
All too often, games try to emulate other mediums. Be it film, television, literature… shoehorning them in to make for a “cinematic” experience or whatever, but doing it quite badly. Would the “cinematic” elements of AAA games stand alone as a film?
With Tangiers, we made the decision to disregard everything that stands better in other mediums. No cut-scenes, no text-based exposition. Just a focus on gameplay, on creating that dialogue and on player freedom.
M: Before I got on-board with the project, I was a bit sceptical about how viable it is. I mean years of reading Marx and Lenin means you realise how business is basically the big dogs crushing the little ones, and with video games the monopolies like EA and so forth seemed to have the whip hand, but Alex explained how the indies can carve themselves a niche. Obviously you aren’t going to get that much invention from the big studios because they’ll just keep marketing the bejaysus out of the same game with a slight facelift every Christmas, but there seems to be a big enough community to support some genuine creativity in games. Case-in-point: Viscera Cleanup Detail. It’s free, but based on the idea alone, I’d definitely pay for it if I weren’t abjectly poor. You play a cleaner on a spaceship cleaning up the gore after an alien attack.
J: You guys are socialists, right? I first heard about the game through Socialist Meme Caucus of all places. In what way has your politics influenced what you’re trying to do? One of the things I like about the game is that it seems to get across a lot of the issues that socialists think and talk about but without being shallow and propagandistic (though I’m sure I’d still love Revolution: The Game).
M: I am. Alex is a work-in-progress. Before this I was on the dole for about three years, so that’s basically three years handing out flyers and supporting strikes. The game design’s mostly Alex, with a few ideas I toss in, but there seems to be a definite fan overlap between Lenin and William S Burroughs (which is probably how it ties in with the issues socialists talk about). As for ‘Revolution: the Game,’ there’s a free pixel game where you shoot zombie Tories.
A: Steering out of it with Tangiers, but there’s a lot of issues that are rising to the fore within the gaming community at the moment. Equality, acceptance, identity and gender issues et al. I’m enthusiastic about tackling those within a game, but not just yet… I think we’re not quite mature or diverse enough to enter into that debate from where we stand.
J: I’d like to ask a bit about the videogame industry now. It seems like at the moment that there’s two very different trends going on in the industry, on the one hand you have things like the rise of the huge publisher and huge development budgets but on the other you have a revival in indie games through things like Kickstarter, where you’re trying to raise funds. What are your thoughts on the state of the videogames industry?
M: Alex has mostly covered. I suppose I can only really say that the big companies offer a creative dead-end. I suppose you could really draw parallels with the music industry, where there’s always been a tension between the mainstream which churns out lowest-common-denominator crap in search of profit, and the underground which has to head down various alleyways.
J: How has Kickstarter and the way it forces you to engage more with backers and fans affected the game’s development?
A: Only in the positive. There’s a few things that initially struck me as being as being potential hurdles, such as working around a fairly tight budget. That turned out well – it gave the game a channelled focus that it would have lost otherwise, which in turn fostered a tight discipline in our working practice.
Just as importantly, it’s given us a tight, enthusiastic group of supporters. A brilliant opportunity for feedback and bouncing ideas off of that we wouldn’t have working in isolation.
J: Finally, what other games are you both interested in at the moment? Anything you’d recommend for fans of Tangiers?
A: Dishonored is probably the best recent release that comes to mind… I’ve not had much time for playing games lately to be honest, Tangiers has been pretty time consuming! There’s a little curiosity called Kairo that I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on once we’re done with the Kickstarter. It seems to share some common ground with Tangiers, albeit in the form of a first-person puzzle game. Very intrigued by it!
M: I have this tendency to get trapped in nostalgia, if I’m honest. My favourite games on the playstation were always Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot and the Abe series. A couple of years ago I was living with someone with an Xbox, and I noticed how all the biggest games just seemed to play exactly the same, and I thought ‘it wasn’t like that when I were a lad, was it?’ When I was living with Alex for a bit, I got to playing Mirror’s Edge, which really impressed me because it played differently, but sadly the disc was broken, so I didn’t get that far.
You can donate to the Tangiers Kickstarter to help support this project (closes August 13th)
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Divorce of Glenn Close and David Shaw
Glenn Close is famous for starring in The Guardians of the Galaxy and 101 Dalmatians. She also voiced Mona in The Simpsons. It was found out that the actress has quietly parted from David Shaw. He was her third husband and they were married for nine years.
Page Six reports that they decided to end their relationship during summer. Besides, they have been “separated” for some period of time. Glen is said to be moving to NY in order to pay more attention to her acting career. Earlier they lived in Maine together with David. David will stay in Maine.
Close’s spokesperson confirmed the couple’s divorce to the magazine. Besides, it was revealed that David and Glen have been telling pals about the divorce this summer. Things between David and Glen are said to be friendly.
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Land & freshwater primarily used for production & for settlement also supports thriving indigenous biodiversity.
Rare and common indigenous flora & fauna of Banks Peninsula are increasingly abundant.
At least two locally extinct species have been reintroduced.
Banks Peninsula/Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū is effectively free of pest animals.
The Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust (BPCT) was formed in 2001. It is a non-profit organisation that works with land owners, agencies, sponsors and the wider community to promote the conservation and enhancement of indigenous biodiversity and sustainable land management on Banks Peninsula.
We believe that conservation is about people.
We want to inspire people to be passionate about the environment around them, to understand it, their relationship with it, and take action to protect and restore it.
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THIS ELECTION IS FOR EVERY CHILD
Broadcom Foundation Broadcom MASTERS Uncategorized by Paula Golden
The American Dream needs a STEM Literacy Movement
“Just think, your grandchildren are going to grow up knowing a black man and a woman as their presidents,” mused my daughter as we celebrated my grandson’s fifth birthday in a public park on a beautiful fall day, anywhere in America.
Her words gave me pause as I prepare to make one last case for the importance of a STEM literacy movement in the United States during the 2016 election cycle. My image of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on West Front of the Capitol next January stands in sharp relief to the yawning chasm of STEM literacy and workforce preparedness between children of privilege and underserved youth, young men and women, and children whose parents have deep roots in this country and those who perilously crossed oceans and borders to realize the American Dream.
There is a dark undercurrent beneath partisan howls of ‘Make America Great Again’ and ‘Stronger Together.’ The American Dream is eluding many in this country. People feel under siege due in large measure to complex economic forces in a global economy that have dramatically shifted national demographics and diminished industrial manufacturing, extinguishing jobs or shipping them overseas.
Make no mistake about it: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness in the 21st century is completely reliant upon possessing not only reading literacy, but a conceptual understanding of math and science as well as amassing critical thinking skills. STEM literacy is essential for all jobs and careers that we aspire for our children, whether they are college bound, interested in 21st century trades, a service industry or starting a business.
In his article STEM is for Everyone, MIT’s Dr. Richard C. Larson writes that a person has STEM literacy “if she can understand the world around her in a logical way guided by the principals of scientific thought. A STEM-literate person can think for herself. She asks critical questions. She can form hypotheses and seek data to confirm or deny them. She sees the beauty and complexity in nature and seeks to understand. She sees the modern world that mankind has created and hopes to use her STEM-related skills and knowledge to improve it.”
But our nation’s STEM Report Card, which assesses how students are performing in fields considered essential to competing in a global economy, tells a grim tale: on April 27th it showed our kids lagging perilously behind other nations in math and on October 27th that two-thirds are not proficient in science. Underfunded and ill-equipped public classrooms in our country burgeon with kids struggling to learn from teachers who are desperately in need of both time and training to provide them with the vital tools that they need to succeed in our country’s ‘New Markets’ environment.
In a recent White House blog, Jo Handelsman and Megan Smith wrote that despite President Obama’s inroads into closing the STEM literacy gap, there is much work to be done beyond 2016. “[T]o realize the vision of a highly diverse, creative, and sufficient STEM workforce and a STEM-literate citizenry, the Nation must engage all students.” The next president must lead an aggressive, comprehensive national STEM movement that empowers every child to succeed in a changing global economy, no matter what his or her calling.
Ours is a country founded by scientists, engineers and critical thinkers. Creating a STEM literate society must be recognizedas the national birthright of every 21st century child if the United States is to continue its prodigious path forward as the most remarkable human experiment in the history of civilization.
Our next president must bring both the bully pulpit and full authority of the Executive Branch to carry out the STEM literary campaign as one of the highest priorities for our national security. All Cabinet level departments, not just Education, but Labor, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Transportation, Health and Human Services as well as all science-mission agencies – the NSF, NASA, EPA and others – should be charged to coordinate a 360 degree, student-centric STEM literacy campaign that supports formal, informal, after school and parenting hours to achieve this national goal. Tax benefits to businesses who bring money and manpower to STEM education as well as incentives and awards for young and old who volunteer can do much to accelerate this national movement.
President Obama’s White House Science Fair has brought enormous attention and prestige to student achievement in science, technology, engineering and math. To expand upon this, the next president should institute a lucrative national prize structure around science fair and STEM competitions that incentivizes all schools from K-12 to formally re-instate a project-based learning experience every year from 3rd to 12th grade.
And our Congress must get behind enabling every child to be battled-tested and ready for the 21st century by heavily funding the national STEM literacy movement. This not only secures our national preeminence as an economic super power over the long haul, but positively impacts every child within their constituencies.
Come January 20, 2017, there will be no red states or blue states: just the United States of America. “Greater” and “Stronger” can only be realized through a sustained national movement that guarantees STEM literary for every child.
This movement will create a muscular, competitive workforce with 21st century skills required to drive forward American Ingenuity that, since our founding, has been our most powerful attribute, and of which our nation has no peer.
UCI School of Engineering School Bestows ‘Ingenuity Award’ to President Paula Golden
Broadcom MASTERS Alum Wins First Prize from EU
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The Smartwatch For Every Apple, Samsung, and Google Phone User
Get the smartwatch that fits your wrist and your life, whether it’s for sweaty habits, minimalist designs, or extravagant tastes.
Gideon Grudo
Commerce Editorial Strategist
Updated Sep. 25, 2019 2:33PM ET / Published Feb. 16, 2019 11:00AM ET
Smartwatches are everywhere, and sales figures back up their increasing spread across the US. In 2018, sales in that market had increased more than 60 percent over the year before, according to the Verge. And like some other tech, the smartwatch is happening whether we like it or not. If you’re considering getting into the space, find a smartwatch that fits your needs.
Most smartwatches depend to some degree on integrating with our smartphones for the best functionality, whether it’s pilfering GPS from it, alerting you to incoming messages from it, or complementing your apps in a variety of other ways. And in that sense, the smartwatch universe largely splits into the iPhone and the Android, so we’re giving you options from both.
EVERYDAY SMARTWATCH
You’re a casual human being with everyday needs, like getting alerts, checking the time (and calendar), and looking good while doing so.
Apple Watch Series 4, $379 on Amazon: If you own an iPhone, you only have one option, and it’s a good one. The iPhone-compatible Apple Watch flagship has all the goodies anyone could need (and more), like GPS and heart rate monitoring. For extra cash, you can equip it with cell service and use it like, well, a cellphone. Its last edition is a great option for many people’s needs and is selling right now for nearly half the price you’d pay for its successor.
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Samsung Galaxy Watch, $299 on Amazon: In the non-iPhone realm, we have standouts like Samsung Galaxy Watch, which works with Android and iOS smartphones. Obviously, if you sport a Samsung smartphone, this is your smartest bet for seamless integration.
FITNESS SMARTWATCH
Fitness trackers are one thing — fitness smartwatches are another: They combine fitness necessities, from heart rate sensor to GPS tracking, into a smart wristwatch. You’re looking for something that can handle sweat, is rugged, and will report to you the data you need to improve your fitness. The best ones will allow you to work out without your phone. The Apple Watch Series 4 is another leader in this field for iPhone users. It’s got all the fitness features you need, and its heart rate monitoring has been enhanced for this latest edition.
Garmin VivoActive 3, $214 on Amazon: GPS leader Garmin sells what many hardcore fitness enthusiasts consider a must. It runs its own operating system but will let you stream music through Bluetooth and track your run with GPS. Its apps cover preloaded workouts and it integrates with some third-party apps like Uber and AccuWeather.
Samsung Gear S2, $140 on Amazon: The Gear S2 is compatible with your phone, whether iPhone or Android, but itself runs on Samsung’s proprietary operating system. You can get it in a very attractive blue or Midnight Black.
STYLISH SMARTWATCH
Most smartwatches are still on the bigger side but brands are doing their best to stylize these wrist computers to give you an aesthetically pleasing smart experience.
Fossil Q Women's Gen 3 Venture Stainless Steel Smartwatch, $146 on Amazon: the Q Venture is a great example. It’s powered through Wear OS and includes Bluetooth and water resistance but isn’t equipped with GPS. And that’s okay. At $140, this watch is more for a party than a run. I like the simplicity and elegance of Fossil’s Explorist, too. It’s pricier than the Venture but gives you GPS for the added price.
Samsung Galaxy Smartwatch in Rose Gold, $279 on Amazon: Another good example. It also promises days of on-time on a single charge so you won't be scrambling to find your next charging point.
Get the smartwatch that fits your wrist and your needs, whether they’re sweaty, minimal, or extravagant — just be sure you don’t find yourself on the running trail without GPS.
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The unregistered heroics of the Titans place the youth team in government crosshairs, while an old enemy's plans come to fruition…
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With Red Robin on the scene, Raven picks up another untimely telepathic pulse.
Other Characters Referenced: Zatanna Zatara, Batman, The Titans
IC Date: July 16, 2019
IC Location: New York
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Nighttime cover and a brief takedown of a few criminals with its now-normalized set of law-related complications somehow manages to work itself out into a loosely-framed routine. Not every night follows specific steps, but the changes in both the players and their environments help keep Raven on her toes when she isn't dabbling into the magical side of the reality scale.
In fact, she should be grateful there hasn't been many magical mishaps of late. It means there is less to immediately tend to and take care of — less to fret about. Despite the granted benefits, her thoughts have been preoccupied, continuing to play underneath as she watches two police vehicles pull up to the alley she last visited.
Red and blue lights flash, outside of a tuneless rhythm that washes over the surfaces of nearby buildings and cars — a cue Raven takes to slink back into the shadows of the rooftop opposite of the scene unfolding on the street.
She knows there's still a huge risk involved, being outside and using abilities Registration is striving to suppress. She isn't one to run rampant without thinking ahead, nor has she gone off to make a public spectacle of herself. That just isn't her.
Still, being outside gives her a different setting to work with. It lets her feel the pulse of a city that doesn't seem to sleep, its emotional discord erratic yet as normal as breathing. Each individual feeling prick at her, letting her hone in on the strongest out of the handful she picks up.
"I was able to talk to her."
She speaks the non-sequitur to the air, her voice a whisper amidst the nightly ambiance of the city below. She may even be talking to herself to see how she can piece everything together. "I tried to ease her mind, but there was a lot to go through."
It's New York, there's always something.
That's the way of it in any major city, really… Especially in those three crown jewels of the East Coast, though the character of that something is bound to fit the city in question. In Gotham, it would be something horrible most likely. In Metropolis, surely something strange, like a giant robot or an extradimensional imp. In New York, though, it could go either way. It could be almost anything.
It wasn't as though the Titans were the only ones keeping an eye out. There were the Avengers, of course, and the less high-profile group of individuals who'd been so instrumental in keeping the devastation in Hell's Kitchen the year before from being worse than it already had been. But the group of young, defiantly unregistered heroes had both the wide-ranging resources of the former and the closer to the ground outlook of the latter, as well as a good motivation to be out there, fighting the good fight. Making sure people knew that someone was.
The risks, well, there were always risks doing what they did. Maybe you get caught by the police, maybe a lunatic bashes your head in with a crowbar.
Facing the risks was a big part of what made them 'heroes'.
Red Robin's presence was a controlled one, as always. He needed to be calm, level-headed, to do what he did, where the others could afford to be more openly emotional. It wasn't just the leader thing - though the leader thing was for sure a part of it - but more, well, the Batman thing. It was probably hard to sneak up on an empath anyway, but superhuman senses hadn't always stopped him before.
"'Her' who?" he asks, from those same shadows, his voice just as quiet. Of course, the vigilante is hooked into the police and emergency services communications: It was routed through the computers at the Titans' mall hideout, but naturally he had remote access to that through his suit. In red and black and yellow, the Red Knight crouches not far away from Raven, his eyes hidden as always behind those featureless white lenses. Though Raven has never seemed particularly concerned about who was behind the mask in the first place.
The thread of practiced calm is distinct against the cacophonic atmosphere, one Raven finds comforting when all else is out of her control. That stillness is also where she and Red Robin share the burden of dealing with the emotions of their teammates while reining their own emotions in.
"A telepath," she replies, not turning to face Red just yet. "I wasn't able to get a name, but I'm assuming she may be one of several teenagers who went missing in the passing weeks."
A few beats pass before she lifts her violet gaze, glancing over at the Titans' leader and his masked features. She's used to seeing the mask. She isn't surprised, but she also knows that it's reasonable protocol while outside of the abandoned mall on vigilante duty.
Although her tone is evenly paced, she sounds a little exhausted. With a slight tinge of concern. "And if I'm remembering it correctly, there were similar reports made about them…"
Though several of the other Titans are already well aware of his 'real' identity, enough of the team still knows him as just Red Robin that the young man holds to it strictly, even around the mall that's become the Titans' headquarters in exile; even during the holiday party, his civilian clothes had been matched with a domino mask.
Maybe it was silly - it was certain that, for example, Raven would be able to recognise him immediately if she met Tim Drake, thanks to her powers - but it was also something important. It wasn't like those secrets were his alone.
And it wasn't like he was the only one on the team with secrets.
"Those 'bursts of fear' you were talking about?" the Red Knight asks, though really he's pretty sure he already knows the answer. It was obvious that it was troubling Raven, which was a bad sign all on its own; the rather stoic young woman wasn't exactly known for letting it show when something was troubling her. So, he watches the Daughter of Darkness, his hidden dark blue eyes studying her carefully.
"It's definitely something we should be looking into," he says, because it was the simple truth: They were supposed to be heroes, after all… And if young metahumans were being targeted, that put it all the more in the Titans' wheelhouse. "But before that, are you okay, Raven?"
For what it's worth, she only thinks it's a little silly. Just a little bit. (Then again, everyone on the team was a little bit silly in their own way.) But she respects his choices.
More importantly, Red is usually on top of the information swirling about each major city. That is how Raven and the other Titans have known Red Robin to be.
Raven also knows he cares. She can tell, even if he doesn't always show it. It's the main reason why she's able to open up to him with the personal details of her particular background.
She nods, the movement barely noticeable under the deep hood. "Yes." Her message from a while back, back to when it all first started. (It hasn't been that long ago, but it's beginning to feel that way.) "Us and whoever else may be delving into this. I wonder if anyone else has a better lead."
A pause takes place, either out of thought for the case at hand or because Red is asking her if she is okay. The slightest tilt of her chin suggests averting her line of sight, her lips pressing together for less than a second before answering.
"…Maybe. Maybe not." One shoulder half-heartedly shrugs. "My sleep schedule has been more or less wrecked within the past month due to how frequently the bursts of activity used to occur."
Silly he can live with, as long as it works.
He was at least partially raised by a guy who dresses up like a bat and has a long history of punching clowns, after all.
"I can't imagine we're the only ones who noticed, yeah," Red Robin agrees, with a slow nod. Just because there were younger telepaths being targeted didn't mean that was the extent of it. Surely, there were other groups and individuals with an interest in psychic abilities - or who knew people who had such abilities - that would be paying close attention.
The question then was who, and where? And how could they safely make contact with people who would probably be pretty agitated about getting random attention?
The use of the deep hood answers a lot of the Red Knight's questions about Raven's wellbeing, without her even having to say a word - it's all in her body language too, clear as day for someone who knows how to read the signs. Perhaps it's because he's known her for the past year, or that he's such a keen observer of other people, or a mix of both, that the otherwise stoic sorceress gives away more than she might be anticipating.
"You could try talking to Zatanna," he says, on the topic of her wrecked sleep schedule. "Maybe she's got some kind of magic potion that'll help you sleep better. Or, maybe you just need to work this case until you get some closure. Loose ends always keep me up at night."
Actually, lots of things keep him up at night. It's fine, though, four hours of sleep is plenty!
These questions, along with the loss of sleep, have been a repetitive tune in Raven's head. To be able to bring it up within a trusted circle is a step forward, but it also left her standing still.
Even after a year, she has yet to open up even further not only among those she calls friends, but to anyone else she comes across. Basic social foundations, anyway — that was better than hiding away forever.
Speaking of which, the Empath thinks about the suggestion. "Tempting."
The brevity of her response comes with some padding only after she shows the young man a ghost of a smirk. Really now, she isn't the only one who needs the rest, but Red Robin does have the added benefit of lacking empathetic powers that lock onto the strongest emotional vibes.
"Although I hate to admit it, you're probably right." Probably. (They both know he hit the nail on the head.) "I do want to see this through. Talking to Zatanna will be the backup plan— "
The sentence is then left hanging. A hand lifts up from under the Daughter of Darkness' cloak, slipping into the shadow of her hood, her clawed fingertips barely grazing her temple as she shuts her eyes tight.
Indeed, Red Robin is a perfectly normal human being… For certain definitions of 'perfectly normal', anyway.
He isn't one to push too far on other people's willingness to open up, either; far better, he reasons, to give someone like Raven the room to feel safe, to let her hopefully come around to opening up to her new friends on her own. At the very least, now she knows that Zatanna isn't likely to try to kill her because of her demonic heritage, right?
Though that knowledge, of who the Daughter of Darkness was and what it meant, had left something of a pall over things that hadn't wholly retreated even now, even after the Titans' witches had found a new understanding after the invasion of New York.
Red Robin had, of course, tried to help. He even got them cool matching jackets!
Although I hate to admit it, you're probably right.
"Usually am," the vigilante replies, with a rueful slash of a grin. Most people might find the contrast with the unchanging white lenses over his eyes disconcerting; Raven, at least, could tell that he means it. But that amusement fades quickly, when the empathic girl is suddenly wracked by something. A pain only she's aware of, that probably isn't even her own.
One of the Red Knight's gauntleted hands reaches for Raven's shoulder, a deeply human gesture of comfort rendered only slightly surreal by the costumes.
"Something happen?" he asks, though honestly it's more rhetorical than anything else. "You're okay, I'm here."
The real trick is how he makes that not sound like a boast.
Red Robin does help in his own way. Strangely endearing ways, but it's fine. She still needs to find the time to wear the jacket…
If not for the sudden emergence of a headache, Raven would have been fine to continue with the casual joking for a while longer. But to relax and forget she even has empathetic powers is beyond what she can hope for.
Again, it's fear. A dull, throbbing pulse that offers many different interpretations of the same feelings, low and wavering, threatening to spike without making any noticeable change in its pacing.
Her breathing is steady, yet her chest feels tight. The lightheadedness that comes with it could have easily set her off-balance, leaving her a pile of black cloth on a lonely rooftop. Instead, something grounds her — someone, thanks to Red being present and attentive and literally grounding her as she goes through this experience.
You're okay, I'm here.
She can take comfort in the words that lean on the border of boasting, in the way he holds onto her shoulder to keep her upright. Drawing in another breath, she holds onto it, expelling it slowly as she finds the words to tell him.
"The same feeling…but it's coming from another person," Raven rasps, keeping the same hand near her temple as her other arm wraps around her middle. "They're afraid. Except…the pain is even greater.
"And there's another difference," she adds, suddenly lifting her head to look at the young vigilante. Or perhaps she's looking through him, into the distance. "It feels like they're far away."
One of the core lessons Red Robin was taught, from the very first day he started training with Batman, was this: Never let them see you sweat.
Even if you don't really feel confident, act like you do. Act with complete certainty, even if you're making it up as you go along. When it comes to the dangerous life of a costumed crimefighter, 'fake it 'til you make it' is an unfortunate necessity.
So, he projects that confidence, that absolute certainty that yes, Raven is okay because he's there. He provides support both in a literal physical sense, using that hand on the Daughter of Darkness' cloaked shoulder to keep her from collapsing like a marionette with her strings cut, and in a more esoteric sense as he keeps whatever doubts or uncertainty he might have locked up safely in a tiny box in the deepest recesses of his mind, where even an empath might have trouble finding them.
And then he waits. Patience was another important part of what he did, which is sort of funny since so many of his friends are very deeply impatient, in one way or another.
But they have superpowers and he doesn't. It makes quite the difference.
He waits, rather than pressing Raven for more answers. Lets her find her words on her own, instead. His head tilts slightly to one side - the expression might even be called 'birdlike', if you were feeling cheeky - as Raven looks at him, through him, towards something only she can sense.
"Could you find them?" Red Robin asks, simply. The offer that goes with the question is unspoken, but pretty obvious: They could go round up the rest of the Titans and get to work.
"For as long as I can hold onto their distress."
This is Raven's answer, delayed between the pauses used to actively seek out the source. Not exactly a 'yes,' but not a hard 'no.' Her eyes flicker at the headtilt, offering a quick glance at Red Robin despite their renewed absence of color.
The hand she previously held over her middle now finds Red's arm, hovering for a moment before she grasps onto the gauntlet, shifting her stance in a nonverbal way. Although grateful for the vigilante's help (and his intent to seal off any internal emotional turmoil he deals with on a regular basis so that it doesn't interfere with Titan and non-Titan-related work), she's recomposed enough to stand on her own.
"…It's weakening."
Which means their chance to find this person is slipping away. They both know the longer they stay where they are, the more time they waste.
The Daughter of Darkness' brow creases while the lower half of her face continues to express nothing, but the subtle urgency in her tone clearly agrees to calling the rest of the Titans. "We better hurry," she adds, stepping back while letting go of Red Robin so that she can at least take the lead to where they are supposed to go. "There isn't any telling when the broadcast will cease to exist."
Because she isn't sure when it will just shut off. Every pulse at every hour prior was one thing, but this is a different strain, an exception to previous experiences concerning the missing telepaths.
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Mustagata - The Mountain
Cris Coban talks about Mustagata and the Kashgar Province
Mustagata belongs to the highest and most massive conglomerate of mountain ranges in the world, that includes the Himalayas, Pamir and the Kunlun Mountains. Geologists still argue that Mustagata "really" belongs to the Pamir group while "technically" belonging to the Kunlun range. There are multiple correct spellings for the mountain. Although we have adopted the "Mustagata" spelling (for convenience), the mountain is also spelled: Muztagh Ata, Muztagata, Mustagh Ata, Muztag Ata, Muztaghata, Muztagh-Ata, Muztag-Ata, Mustagh-ata.
The mountain is pretty isolated but can be reached from several different spots:
from Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan (via the Turugart Pass)
from Pakistan (via a difficult and lengthy trip over the Karakoram Highway to Tashkergan)
by train from Beijing (4 days!)
from Urumqi (also known as Urumchi - 23 hours)
by flying into Kashgar.
All these approaches are small adventures in themselves and are worth trying. I decided to fly directly into Kashgar (also known as Kashi) because I wanted to maximize my chances of making it to base camp while still in possession of all my mountaineering and video gear.
Why did Cris Choose Mustagata?
In the last few years every climb Cris undertake was a planned stepping stone on the way to Everest, the 7 Summits and the 14 8,000ers. Mt. Mustagata 24,757 ft (7,546 m) in Himalaya, China fit his climbing goals on multiple levels, here's what Cris' said:
Style of Expedition. This was not a fully-catered expedition. A great emphasis is placed on self-reliance at high altitude. That is exactly what I wanted to work on: becoming self-reliant in a high altitude glaciated, not very dangerous environment.
Load Carrying at High Altitude. I had never carried very heavy packs (50-60-70 lbs.) at high altitude (20,000+ ft) on snow and ice for many consecutive days. As unpleasant as it is to carry heavy loads, it is a pre-requisite for expedition style mountaineering (which covers just about all high altitude peaks in the world). Mustagata was an excellent testing and training ground. Now I have the needed confidence in knowing that I will complete and survive long, heavy carries at high altitude, over snow and ice.
Snowshoes. I never used snowshoes before. Not a hard to learn skill, but Mustagata offered an excellent opportunity to add another skill to my toolbox. Also, navigating around crevasses and working on other ice and snow skills in a relatively non-threatening environment was something I was looking for. Mustagata was a perfect training ground!
High Altitude Testing. Mustagata, at 24,757 ft (7,546 m) is a nice high altitude test on the way to the 8,000 m peaks. I passed the test, but not without experiencing "High Altitude Hypoxia on my first summit bid. This not only gave me the necessary confidence in knowing that I will be capable of functioning at 8,000+ m, but it also taught me important lessons in recognizing the symptoms of, and preventing hypoxia.
Adventure. Going to a remote corner of China, visited by very few Westerners had its own exotic appeal. And what a nice place it was to visit!
Unique peak. I didn't know that when I chose Mustagata, but what a nice surprise! There aren't many mountains in the world like Mustagata: a massive rock, creating its own wicked weather, surrounded by desert. At the higher camps you are freezing at minus 30 degrees (or it's snowing) while you look down at the baking hot desert below.
Cris spent about 5 days in Kashgar Not knowing what Kashgar was like, he thought the 5 days would allow him to get over jetlag and rest after a long, complicated two-day trip. Kashgar turned out to be much more than a rest stop: it was one of the most charming, relaxing, culturally rich areas imaginable. Although a Chinese Autonomous Region, ethnically the area is Uyghur.
The Uyghurs are a proud Central Asian Turkic-speaking people, who preserve unspoiled their ancient Moslem culture. Going to Kashgar is as close as one can get to a trip in the Time Machine: erase from awareness the internal combustion engines (everywhere, noisy and smelly) and cell phones (less smelly but also everywhere) and you'll be treated to a world that thrusts you back 1,000 years.
Take time to smell the Na'an bread baked in sidewalk ovens and the shish-kebabs grilled at every street corner; listen to the banging of the blacksmiths shaping metal in sidewalk workshops; listen to the calls of the peddlers selling everything from carpets to sheep; visit the mosques, artfully decorated and vibrant with worshipers; and make friends with the Uyghur people, always smiling, always warm towards strangers, proud of their culture and inquisitive about foreigners. Must visit spots:
Kashgar Main Square with the Id Kah Mosque; adjacent streets lined with shops, small restaurants, blacksmiths, coppersmiths and crafts makers of all kinds; Abakh Hoja Tomb; the Sunday Market (merchants + buyers + "just looking" = 100,000).
the Shipton Arch (largest natural arch in the world).
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Pacific Rim Uprising Spoiler Review
In the sequel to Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim we get jaegers, drones, and Kaiju and things in between. Kate and Adrian bring you through the movie and talk about their likes and dislikes in Pacific Rim Uprising, how Jon Boyega needs to be in more things, and how mechs should move given the laws of anime.
Episode 58: Iron Man Matters...But Why Tho?
In honor of Avengers: Infinity War coming out next month, we talk about a hero has risen from the B-list to the foundation Marvel Cinematic Universe and one of the most recognizable heroes of our time: Iron Man. Matt brings us through his comic book history, appearances in video games and television and tops it off with...
Tomb Raider Spoiler Review
We saw Tomb Raider, the adaptation of the 2013 reboot franchise focused around a new and different Lara Croft. Directed by Roar Uthaug and staring Alicia Vikander as our adventurer and tomb raider, Lara Croft. We a synopsis, our thoughts, and talk about this movie, and game, differ from the classic Lara that Angelina...
Episode 57: Godzilla Matters...But Why Tho?
This week's episode was supposed to be about the Kaiju genre, but through our research one thing was clear: Godzilla is the one that matters. the longest running film franchise ever and over 60 years old, this giant nuclear mutated sea monster is pop culture heavy weight.
Episode 56: Shrek Matters...But Why Tho?
This week, Adrian wanted to get on the lighter side of things so we talked about Shrek and how it kicked off Dreamworks animation. It may seem like a small kids movie, but the numbers and spin-offs solidly put Shrek as a memorable pop culture moment...but why tho?
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Aleem Dar wins the David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year 2011 (3rd consecutive year)
Aleem Dar wins the David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year 2011
Aleem Dar has won the ICC Umpire of the Year award for the 3rd consecutive year ICC Awards 2011 Result
Umpire Aleem Dar has won the David Shepherd Trophy for third time after being named ICC Umpire of the Year at the LG ICC Awards in London tonight.
Dar, who is 43 and from Pakistan, was voted to this award by the 10 Full Member captains as well as the eight-man Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees, based on his decision statistics and officiating skills over the past 12 months.
It is the third year in a row that he has received the ICC award which was renamed last year after the late England umpire David Shepherd*.
Dar accepted his award from ICC Hall of Fame 2011 inductee Alan Davidson and said: "It's a great honour and I'm thankful to everyone at the ICC and also my colleagues on the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires along with the Pakistan Cricket Board. I'd like to also thank all my family for all their support since I'm away nearly eight months of the year umpiring."
Dar beat off strong competition from his colleagues on the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires Steve Davis, Ian Gould and five-time ICC Umpire of the Year Simon Taufel.
Dar, who made his international debut as an umpire in 2000, joined the Emirates Elite Panel in 2004. In the voting period of these awards, Dar stood in five Tests and 13 ODIs. He stood in the ICC Cricket World Cup in the India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, where he was an on-field umpire in eight of the matches, including the final between India and Sri Lanka.
Based on the period between 11 August 2010 and 3 August 2011, the LG ICC Awards 2011 – presented in association with FICA – take into account performances by players and officials in a remarkable period for the game.
For all the individual awards (with the exceptions of the Women's Cricketer of the Year and the Umpire of the Year), a long-list compiled by the selection panel was forwarded to a 25-person Voting Academy made up of former players, respected members of the media, an elite umpire and an elite match referee. They voted on a three, two, one basis (with three being the highest value) and the winners emerged.
That period includes such high-profile events as the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, the ICC Intercontinental Cup final, several ICC World Cricket Leagues as well as several bilateral Test and ODI series.
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New Cover, New Price
The Memoir of Johnny Devine, under new management with WhiteFire Publishing,
has been given a new face. What do you think of the new cover?
AND the kindle version of my 3 novels are now 3.99. Such a deal!
-Camille
Labels: Camille Eide, The Memoir of Johnny Devine, WhiteFire Publishing
$5 Dollar Books (While They Last)
Friends, Readers, Librarians, Book Clubs, Bibliophiles, Bargain hunters, etc...
I’ve acquired a small overstock of my books and they'd love real homes, so I’m shipping them out at my cost. Paperbacks are $5, plus $3 s/h (multi book rate varies).
I also have one Hardcover Large Print of The Memoir of Johnny Devine for a little more.
So, just comment below if you’d like books shipped. There’s a limited amount, so 1st come, 1st served, etc. I hear it’s never too early to start Christmas shopping.
If you’re not familiar with my work, it’s been compared to Melissa Tagg, Becky Wade, Dale Cramer. I write love stories some call “more than a romance,” deep, poignant tales laced with grace, humor, and redemption.
Like There’s No Tomorrow (2014): An amusing, tender love story about two kind, single caretakers, two quirky, old Scottish sisters bent on reuniting, and too many agendas. It’s a tale of family, falling in love, faith, and the gift of each new day.
Excerpt –
There were a number of things Ian had grown to appreciate about his co-correspondent over the last two years. A very natural bond had developed between them. A bond that, until now, he thought he shared with a stout, tenderhearted spinster on the downhill side of middle-age . . . His mind worked frantically to reconcile the Emily he knew from the letters with this one, and to accept the fact that this woman, this very lovely young woman, had been his pen pal for the past two years…
Like a Love Song (2014, Genesis Winner & Romantic Times 4.5 Star Top Pick): A romantic, heart-tugging drama about a social worker turned surrogate mom to a bunch of cast-off teens, desperate to save the group home she’s worked hard to build in Oregon’s outback. She faces foreclosure and heartaches that won't stay buried. Her only hope lies with the last person she’d ever turn to—a brawny handyman with a guitar, a questionable past, and a God he keeps calling Father.
“An oil rigger?” Sue hacked out a laugh. “A roughneck? With my kids? Great. Who are you going to send next, a lumberjack and a couple of bikers? Maybe they can pull night watch in the girls’ dorm.” Sue yanked open the driver’s door of her Suburban, climbed in, and cranked the key. A few feeble chugs, then nothing. Big surprise.
“I’m serious, Sue. Joe is an all-around handyman and knows how to manage a crew.”
“I’m sure he’s charming, Layne. On an oil rig. But I need someone with experience handling kids. Special needs kids. You know that.”
“Yes, in the long run, in optimal circumstances, absolutely. But you’re going to give old Roberta a stroke if you don’t get some help. You have to hire someone.”
Sue rested her aching head on the steering wheel. Pain and fatigue rolled over her in a cold fog…
The Memoir of Johnny Devine (2015, Romantic Times 4½ GOLD Star Top Pick, Seal of Excellence, & Best Inspirational Romance; OCW Cascade Award Best Historical): In 1953, a young war widow hired to write an exclusive memoir lands on McCarthy’s hit list and must clear her name while trying not to fall in love with the born-again, ex-Hollywood heartthrob whose scandalous past keeps him too busy to notice her. Or does it? It’s a love story set at a time when post-war America seeks security in prosperity, Hollywood’s Golden Age is coming to an end, the Red Scare reaches new heights of paranoia, and unrest over civil rights continues to grow. It’s a story for those who enjoy a character-driven, inspirational drama, a strong-yet-tender romance, and a touch of intrigue.
Excerpt-
“I was topping all the charts, but even with so much fame, all I had to show for my life was a stack of films and a long line of women who wished I’d never been born. Even if I’d wanted honor, you couldn’t find a trace of it in me. If there was ever a time in my life I’d longed for true significance, it was long past.”
Eliza’s pencil froze. True significance? The words echoed, taunting her. She had believed everything John said so far, but his last statement struck her as ludicrous. Could a Hollywood star with scores of fans truly have any concept of the quest for significance? Could a man whose name had emblazoned every marquee in the country understand the void that she—a penniless nobody—had so long struggled to fill?
Don’t think, just write…
Labels: Book Clubs, Camille Eide, Christian Fiction, Christian Romance, Large Print, Like a Love Song, Like There's No Tomorrow, paperback
Passing the Baton & VOTE for a NEW Look for Johnny Devine!
And no sooner did I announce that Ashberry Lane is closing its doors than another publisher has stepped in to keep the AL line alive! WhiteFire Publishing has acquired Ashberry Lane and will resume publishing AL titles under the same name, as an imprint.
This means my full length AL novels will continue to be available! I'm not sure if they will be sold beyond Amazon, or if so, when, but I'll share more info when it comes.
One of the first things WFP wants to do is give Johnny Devine a new face, and they want your help! Whether or not you've read the book, you can help WhiteFire decide which cover to use for my novel.
Voting is super easy! Go to: https://goo.gl/forms/9fWaK7qqr4paxK9q2
Labels: Book cover, Christian Romance, Retro era, The Memoir of Johnny Devine, WhiteFire Publishing
To Everything, A Season
Ashberry Lane, the publisher who championed three of my novels, is closing its doors. When other small presses were floundering after biting off more than they could chew, AL sought out special stories and authors in whom they could believe. I'm grateful to AL for their help in bringing Like There's No Tomorrow, Like a Love Song, and The Memoir of Johnny Devine to print.
But the publishing industry is a rapidly changing place, and sadly, is becoming a difficult place for the small press to stay afloat. So this forced transition is the end of a particular publishing season for me, but perhaps, Lord willing, the beginning of another.
Since AL is closing, all of their 24 titles (including my 3 novels), now found only at Amazon, will no longer be available. It is my hope to relaunch these three books under my own indie brand one day. But, until then, these titles will no longer be available in any format after April 30.
So if you've been thinking of getting one of my books for yourself, or for an upcoming gift, or a few for your church library or book club, be sure to get the copies you want before the end of this month (HERE).
I don't have a relaunch date yet, but if and when these stories become available again, YOU will certainly be the first to know. Until then, please be sure to get the copies you may have been meaning to get. (AND for those of you who belong to Kindle Unlimited, they are now available FREE under that program - but only until the end of April.)
And in the meantime, keep an eye out for my next novels, currently under construction, which will be published one way or another... Lord willing.
Thank you, my reading friends, for your support.
Labels: Ashberry Lane Publishing, Camille Eide, Christian Fiction, eBook, Like a Love Song, Like There's No Tomorrow, The Memoir of Johnny Devine
The Birth of A Novelist
I don't know how many of my novelist friends can pin down the day they became a novelist. I can. March 7, 2007. My friend Lisbet and I had been all dreamy-eyed, discussing the cross-continental romance between her sister (in Norway) and my brother (in America) and we decided someone ought to write a story about two people continents apart who fall in love over correspondence. That giddy musing turned into me going home, jotting a couple of notes (HAHAHA!), firing up the old computer in the kids' upstairs den, and sitting down to write. I planned to contact a publisher located in my state, because, after all, we were neighbors, and they would want to publish my book, right? I went to work, excited about what just might be the next best-seller.
*Cough Gasp Cough* Pardon me.
About 100 pages into the story, I realized my story, the one I'd been staying up until nearly dawn each night writing and was now irrevocably invested in, was in serious trouble. I had no clue how to proceed and figured it was time to seek out help. I searched online and found writing sites (www.AdvancedFictionWriting.com) and writer's organizations (www.ACFW.com, www.OregonChristianWriters.org), and from there, soaked up all the coaching, craft books, and critique I could get my hands on. (A word to the wise: not all critiques are beneficial, but ought to be considered for value and weighed against the instinct you must train into your writing gut with an obscene amount of high quality reading.)
In short, eleven years later, I have 3 full length published books (thanks to Rachelle Gardner and Ashberry Lane Publishing) and a Christmas novella (ebook), and a couple of novels in the works. That first story went through the proverbial ringer numerous times, and then came my agent's 10 page revision letter... but that first one did eventually become a book. The title went through several changes, as well as the opening, the storyline, and much more. My writing skill as well as my understanding of the publishing industry had to grow. A LOT.
So, since today marks the anniversary of the day I turned into a novelist, I thought it would be fun to pull out the first page (below) of that very first draft of what is now the book, Like There's No Tomorrow. (For those who know the story, Megan was later renamed Claire.)
Thank you, Gary & Merethe, for inspiring me to become something I didn't know was in there.
Here's the opening of that first draft, started 11 years ago today. :)
~CHAPTER 1~
Megan Kendal sat speechless in the backseat of her own car.
Anyone acquainted with the formidable little Scotswoman, especially those traveling with her now, knew she usually had no trouble unleashing her probing questions and fiery opinions on anyone within reach. But today, she was speechless.
As the station wagon containing her whole family, including her brother Ian, headed toward Glasgow, she was still in shock. And not just Megan, but her teenage sons as well, who couldn’t remember their father ever coming to church with them.
Ian and David had spent today the way they had spent many recent days: fishing at Loch Blane; and now Megan’s mind was churning with questions: What had happened? What did they talk about? How had Ian managed to get David to come to church with the rest of the family? Without thinking, she leaned forward to take a sniff of her husband who sat in front of her in the driver’s seat.
No smell of whiskey.
She sat back, ashamed of her suspicions. Did she really think David would have to be drunk to go to church? She glanced over at 15-year-old Jack and understood the look on his face; he’d had the same thought.
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Johnny Devine, Living Large (Print, that is)
I'm pleased to share the ENORMOUS news that
The Memoir of Johnny Devine is now available in Large Print!
These glossy lovelies arrived in the mail today, compliments of Center Point Publishing.
It's a hefty 415 page hardcover edition and weighing in at a whopping 1.3 lbs, according to Amazon.
(Whose job is it to weigh books? So, what do you do? Uh, I'm a book weigher. But I'm really discreet about it. You don't want the bigger ones to feel self-conscious, so I try to be sensitive and avoid weighing the heavy ones right after the skinny ones...)
So you get a book you can finally see without straining your eyes, but it's heavy enough to pull a hamstring. (?)
Seriously, I love large print. Not only do these books make reading easier, but when I go to reserve a popular title through the library, the large print versions are often available when the regular ones have 187 holds. Win-win!
The Memoir of Johnny Devine (Large Print) is available at Amazon for a hefty price ($36.95), but my guess is those who typically buy large print are prepared for that. Hopefully you've won the lottery or inherited a fortune from book addict. (Oh wait... that's a good one...)
The Memoir of Johnny Devine, a Novel, is a dramatic story-within-a-story of a Hollywood bad boy reformed and a good girl in need of reform. Set in the 1950s, it’s a powerful tale of love, redemption, intrigue, and the miracle of grace. Recipient of RT Book Reviews rare 5-star Top Pick, Seal of Excellence, Best Inspirational Romance 2015, and OCW Cascade Award for Historical Fiction.
I was pleased to find that the Cincinnati Library website includes a feature called Why This Title Appeals to Readers. They took the time to scan the 99 Goodreads reviews and pull the most frequently or commonly used terms people use to describe the "feel" of the Johnny Devine. According to CL, this book appeals in Tone: Moving, Strong sense of place, and in Writing Style: Engaging. I'm delighted to know readers are able to take away some of the things authors work so hard to include in our stories.
I'm happy with the way this edition turned out. If you get a chance to read one of these, let me know how you liked the larger print. I almost expected to see a center section of film stills, autographed photos of Johnny, and his Hollywood Boulevard star.
Labels: Ashberry Lane Publishing, books, Center Point Publishing, Christian Fiction, Christian Romance, Large Print, Romance, The Memoir of Johnny Devine
Passing the Baton & VOTE for a NEW Look for Johnny...
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Pyrite Nominations Are Open!
November 2, 2012 by Someday 48 Comments
Your fearless leaders have special socks! With crowns! To celebrate the Pyrite and because we are just that cheesy. Also, feet shots are trendy and we do like being on trend.
We are at roughly the 50% point for covering the contenda list*, and most of the year’s books are available to readers, so we’ve determined that the time has come (the walrus said) to launch our Pyrite Printz!
The Pyrite is intended to be fun, maybe even raucous, but it’s not just for fun.
Part of the RealCommittee’s process is culling the initial “list” (created through conversations and personal reading lists) down to a formal nomination list, and then, through in-depth discussion, further shrinking that nomination list to the shortlist.
We could just create a shortlist on our own. Certainly we all have a few books we think are the top contendas. But one of our major goals all along has been to make the RealCommittee process more transparent by emulating it as much as is possible via blog, so we need your nominations!
Nominations are open to all 2012 YA books, whether it’s a title we’ve already covered, an upcoming book from the contenda list, or one we haven’t even mentioned. Note: we are artificially limiting nominations to one per person for the time being, so think carefully about what you want to nominate and read through the list before nominating. This is not at all in line with the RealCommittee process, but we also have a lot more than 9 people likely to submit nominations.
A few other technical details: We might vote the list down at some point, much as the RealCommittee uses straw polling, with the goal of a tight list of 10 or so nominations to be revisited in early January (after all the contendas have been covered). We are hoping that everyone who chooses to go the distance with the Pyrite will read all the titles on the shortlist for those January discussions, which is part of why we wanted to get this going now. And then we’ll vote shortly before MidWinter, and see how our process compared to the RealCommittee’s. We will ask that you don’t vote unless you have read all of the shortlist titles, although we may also run an open vote, as we did last year, because it’s always interesting to see those results as well.
So (we say, finally getting to the good stuff) submit your nominations using the comments here!
*Click through for the original contenda list, organized by reason for contenda-ness. If you prefer organized lists, this version is alphabetical by author and subdivided by publishing date. The second version also is frequently updated with links as we write up books and is basically a table of contents for our 2012 posts.
In your comment/nomination, please include title, author, a 1-2 sentence annotation that generally describes the book, and a statement which references or draws on the official criteria to explain why the book you are nominating deserves to win the Printz. (This is effectively the same as the process required to nominate a book for the RealPrintz for both committee members and field nominators, although we’ve cut out the bibliographic data fields to make life easier.)
If you nominate a title we haven’t covered yet and would be willing to write far more than a paragraph or so in defense of that title, we are interested in running some guest posts, especially for those titles none of us strongly support. Just mention your interest in your nomination and we’ll be in touch.
(If we’ve already covered your nomination but you have a LOT more to say, we can run guest posts that counter or expand on what we’ve said in the January discussion period.)
Finally, please recognize that we are totally making this up as we go along, doing our best to find a way to create something that captures at least a little of the RealPrintz experience. This may or may not be exactly the right construction for the Pyrite, so let us know if you have any ideas on how we can improve this, especially as regards emulating RealCommittee experiences.
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You all know my heart has been with Code Name Verity for months now, and I’ll be posting my reasons within the next week or so. But now there is a potential rival! I’m 3/4 of the way through Railsea by China Mieville, and it’s brilliant. So I am going to save my nomination for a few days. Or call blogger privilege and end up nominating both.
I am going to be bold! And nominate:
Title: Chopsticks
Author: Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral
I had a lot to say in my post , so I’ll let that stand for the annotation/statement.
Sophie Brookover says:
Ugh, I can only choose ONE. ONE! And I’m well behind on reading, so like Bjork, I miss them, but I haven’t met them yet (nobody can tell me that Carly Rae Jepsen did not steal and then refine this concept for her immortal line, “before you came into my life / I missed you so bad.”).
Also, this must be brief, as I need to go pick up my daughter from school for trick-or-treating, in BOLD DEFIANCE of Governor Christie’s order to move Halloween to Monday (we are super-fortunate — my county was not hard-hit by the storm this week).
Ok, ok, enough with the stalling: I’m going to go with DODGER, by Terry Pratchett, for the following reasons:
Plot: is he not the master of plot? He never outlines! He just goes with the flow! And yet all the elements of this story click into place so beautifully but not in a forced way. Nothing is jammed in, just beautifully woven. Fantastic.
Characters: real historical personages rub elbows with memorable, well-developed characters invented from whole cloth. But it’s not exactly historical fiction, either. It’s more alt-history, in the vein of Joan Aiken’s peerless WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE series, but way less loopy.
Themes: Ok, not as deep as Pratchett’s Honor-winning NATION, but still: history, truth/lies, community, identity, love.
I will probably write more in a post later, but I think this is a good start for a nomination! Keep ’em coming, friends. Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Karyn, I’ll take care of the Code Name Verity nomination (did not dig Railsea myself, however…)
Code Name Verity.
Story: This isn’t really a plot book, but what plot there is is fantastically developed, particularly developed in terms of all the pieces pulling together–sometimes a couple times, in a couple different ways. And oh, the development of “Kiss me, Hardy!”
Characters: Both main characters are expertly developed through their own first-person narratives and through Verity’s third-person narrative–and these three views provide compelling, complimentary, never contradictory, but distinct portraits of the characters. And the French boy, and the German woman who assists the interrogation–we see them twice, in such different contexts and directions, in ways that build to a believable, fully-fledged character, even though we (appropriately) never see them as whole people–neither do either of the girls.
Themes: One of the most beautiful presentations of the themes of friendship and trust I’ve seen. I’d also like to point out the theme of our public selves, and our public relationships. I’ll go there: who WASN’T shipping/slashing the two of them? But it doesn’t matter if they were banging, or wanting to bang because this is a book about what they *show* of their friendship to the world, and if they were banging, they kept it under wraps. Which makes such sense! And the themes of truth and honesty and persepective were all masterfully created with the brilliant unreliable narrator.
Voice: Again, this goes back to the beautifully written, entirely believable, absolutely unbelievable Verity, and the three narratives–two first-person and the internal third-person, all balanced and beautiful.
Setting: Bleak and minimal and exactly as much detail as was needed.
Not the most organized nomination ever, but I think I got my major points said. =)
(Also, Sophie, I’m glad you’re okay!)
Beth Saxton says:
Sarah covered my quirky one and so I’ll take another obvious one.
Title: The Diviners by Libba Bray
Summary: Evie’s modern ways are too much for her parents and she gets sent to stay with her Uncle Will in New York City. She gets drawn into a creepy murder mystery with an odd mix of friends who have secrets just like Evie’s.
Printzy-ness: The Diviners excels particularly in setting, voice ,and plot. Bray succeeds in developing both the time and place to nearly be characters in the story themselves. Each of the sections of different characters has a distinct feel, and I think over the last few years we’ve seen how hard that is to do. At its base the book is a mystery, and it doesn’t suffer for the other elements, instead it’s well constructed. Bray’s descriptions often had me reading out loud at the language and style.
There are SOOOO many books I want to nominate, but I’ll absolutely kick myself if this one isn’t in the mix:
THE BRIDES OF ROLLROCK ISLAND by Margo Lanagan
Synopsis: a young girl finds that she has the power to create selkies–humans out of the bodies of seals–and soon begins to use this power to sell wives to the men on her island. Over the course of several decades, we see the terrible implications through the eyes of many residents of Rollrock.
Printz qualities: Voice and Style are as always Lanagan’s strongest suit. She almost writes in a language of her own, which she is able to manipulate with extraordinary ease. But really, this novel abounds in absolutely every Printz category: its Themes about sexuality, obsession, oppression, family, and more are deep and rich; the Rollrock Setting is incredibly detailed; the Characters are varied, flawed, and fascinating; and the Story is intricately woven through various character POVs.
The results seem to be mixed on this one, but I really would like to see:
THE DISENCHANTMENTS by NINA LACOUR
Synopsis: Colby is shocked when his best friend Bev abandons their long-term plans, and as he goes on a road trip with Bev’s band, he examines what he wants from life and his future.
Voice and style really stood out to me. No book I’ve read this year was better able to capture what it is like to be young, and the first-person voice was vivid and real. I also think it excels in story, setting, characters, and themes.
Kristin Casale says:
Synopsis: Verity is an English spy writing out a confession to the Nazis following her capture in Occupied France. Is she really a traitor or is something else going on?
The story is particularly gripping, but the style of the narrative and how it unfolds make this story really stand out. The characterization is great, as well, with Wein portraying a friendship that stands the test of a lot of things. The plot (you might say there isn’t one) is actually shown in how the narrative is strung together and how it unfolds. The theme was brilliant in its portrayal of female friendship, with chilling but also evocative setting on top of that. Seriously… the best YA I’ve read this year.
I’m going to be boringly obvious here and nominate THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green.
Synopsis: Hazel Grace Lancaster, a girl with terminal cancer, meets Augustus Waters, in remission from osteosarcoma, at a support group for teenagers with cancer. The two of them fall in love.
Printz-iness: So, so beautifully written. Every line is perfectly formed, every part of TFiOS is funny or heartbreaking or both. Hazel’s voice (sarcastic, melancholy, empathetic) is strong. The themes of love, individual worth and significance, and male and female ideas of strength are rich and well-integrated into the plot. The Amsterdam section struck some as unrealistic, but TFiOS isn’t supposed to be entirely realistic – the descriptions of Amsterdam come thisclose to magical realism, making what comes after it even more crushing. A lovely and unique book.
Thank you, Tess! I called Sarah this morning and said, “It’s been 12 hours and no one has nominated TFiOS! How is that possible??” She basically said patience, grasshopper. So you have proved her right!
Kalen says:
I’ll nominate Keeping the Castle by Patricia Kindl.
Synopsis: Althea is desperately trying to find the money to save her family home, the crumbling Crawley Castle, even if it means marrying into it. When her young, attractive, and most importantly wealthy neighbor Lord Boring returns to town from London, her plan launches into action.
I loved the flavor of this book, as it perfectly captures the style of Regency-era romances. The characterizations of Althea, her step-sisters, and Mr. Fredericks in particular are fantastic and hilarious. The plot seems to evolve naturally, while also incorporating many of the staples of the genre. And it’s fun and light-hearted, which can be a rarity in award books!
There are several titles nominated that I certainly second but am going with The Raven Boys because I think it should be included in the discussion. The “magical realism” that infuses the story is one of the book’s strengths. Characters are textured in such interesting ways. and the names! Who names a bird Chainsaw? The plot pieces fit together in surprising, yet totally logical ways.
That said, this is just one of many titles that I feel could be a contenda. – just want to ensure in stays in the mix. So my nomination goes to Gansey & Blue and the remarkable interweaving of reality, legend, characters- both living & dead, and brilliant language that Stiefvater delivers.
Oops, got so carried away, neglected submission rulles
TITLE The Raven Boys
AUTHOR Maggie Siiefvater
SYNOPSIS. The lives of Blue, a girl whose kiss will kill her true love, and prep schoolmates, searchinf for a dead king, intersect and set in motion a series of potentially life-changing events.
See above for my comments
Just crossing fingers that the other titles that I would love to nominate will find a champion.
Going with one we haven’t discussed here.
TITLE: Personal Effects
AUTHOR: E. M. Kokie
SYNOPSIS: Matt is still struggling to come to terms with his idolized brother TJ’s death when the army sends home his belongings. Letters and objects make it clear that TJ had some secrets and Matt is determined to understand his brother–even if what he learns makes him question everything he thought he knew.
STRENGTHS: Voice and theme. Matt’s voice grabs you right from the first page and never lets go. He makes some bad decisions but you always understand where he is coming from. Themes of loyalty, acceptance, personal responsibility and courage are all part of Matt’s journey and I think the author communicates them in a way that is believable, rather than didactic. In a year with many books that touch on issues of coming out and the acceptance of family and friends (such as The Difference Between You and Me, Ask the Passengers and The Miseducation of Cameron Post) I think this one really stands out.
Nancy Werlin says:
No one has mentioned this tour-de-force debut.
TITLE: Various Positions
AUTHOR: Martha Schabas
PUB: FSG
SYNOPSIS: 14 year old Georgia begins attending professional ballet school — a dangerous, body-obsessed place to begin with. Add to this her witnessing the sad dynamics of her parents’ marriage, wanting to please her ballet teachers, wanting to fit in with the other girls, wanting to be a “good girl” (while her body has other ideas), and her ambition — and the result is disaster. Georgia hasn’t the maturity and experience to keep on the right side of the line between fantasy and reality. As a result, she does great, irreversible damage to someone else, and maybe to herself.
AWARD WORTHY: Various Positions will divide readers, because it doesn’t give the reader a main character to adore or cheer on . . . just one who is real. Reading is like being forced to watch the proverbial train-wreck. This will never be a popular book; it is too emotionally difficult and challenging, likely even distasteful for many. Nonetheless it is is superbly written and imagined; engrossing and heartbreaking. This is realistic girl-fiction at its best; more, this is a book that needs award notice; it will be overlooked without it.
Here is my nomination!
TITLE: Every Day
AUTHOR: David Levithan
SYNOPSIS: A wakes up in a different body every day. His life has always been this. He doesn’t know why but he tries to live each person’s life respectfully for one day and then return it the way it was before. First do no harm is his motto. But then he meets Rhiannon and he starts breaking all of his rules, trying to find a way to be with her when every day he is in a different body.
AWARD WORTHY: The themes of identity, body image and love is done extremely well. The characters were very, very strong. Levithan has A in the body of people from all walks of life, but these characters are not tropes or stereotypes. He makes each of them come to life and we feel along with A what it is like to walk a mile in their shoes. The plot is also very well crafted and the conclustion leaves you feeling it couldn’t have ended any other way.
Kelly Jensen says:
May I be so bold as to talk about one you have yet to talk about yet? Oh yes. Yes I will be.
TITLE: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone
AUTHOR: Kat Rosenfield
SYNOPSIS: Becca is ready to escape her small town, but when the body of an unidentified girl is found on the side of the road, the town — and Becca — are thrown for a loop. Who is she? How did she end up here? While the investigation looms, Becca questions whether or not she’s ready to make the leap from the place she’s always wanted to leave and risk it on her own elsewhere.
AWARD WORTHINESS: This is a lyrical, voice-driven, and literary story that delves into what it means to pursue your dreams (or give them up for something else entirely). The setting is lush, and the mystery itself unfolds in a way that mimics Becca’s growth intellectually and emotionally as she considers staying in town or leaving for something Bigger and Better. Rosenfield doesn’t waste a word or description, and she masterfully handles telling the story not only through Becca’s perspective, but also through Amelia Anne’s before she is dead on the side of the road. This is a thoughtfully-crafted novel about choices and about life and death, as well as how life choices can impact whether you’re living or you’re dying. The book successfully twists reader perceptions when it comes to characters, too: there aren’t clear cut villains or victims (aside from Amelia) but rather, everyone in the story comes to be who they are through the choices they make.
Maureen E says:
Since Miriam took Code Name Verity, I’ll nominate another favorite from this year. It hasn’t been discussed here yet, but I loooove it.
TITLE: Seraphina
AUTHOR: Rachel Hartman
SYNOPSIS: Seraphina, a court musician, must navigate the tricky worlds of human and dragon politics in the kingdom of Goredd, while also keeping her own secrets and discovering who she really is.
AWARD WORTHY: SERAPHINA has all the hallmarks of classic coming-of-age fantasy, but is presented in a fresh way, with plenty of room for discussion about issues like body image, multi-cultural (in this case mult-species) identity, and the use of power. The world of Goredd is beautifully formed, with a lot of attention paid to specific details which render it far more real than the usual pseudo-medieval fantasy setting. Seraphina herself is a wonderful narrator with a clear and vivid voice which makes the story seem contemporary and readable. Her journey is largely an internal one, but her decisions and actions have wider consequences. Without being presented in a heavy-handed manner, the themes of identity, place in the world and in a family, and personal responsibility certainly resonate with many of the concerns today’s teens face.
Since Maureen took SERAPHINA, I’ll nominate:
TITLE: Ask the Passengers
AUTHOR: A.S. King
SYNOPSIS: Astrid gives way her love (“because if I give it all away, no one can control it”) to the passengers in the planes flying 30,000 feet overhead. Her family seems to be falling apart, and everyone in her small town seems to have an opinion about who she should be. With help from her imaginary mentor, “Frank” Socrates, Astrid is trying as hard as she can to be who she is, and not who other people think she is.
PRINTZ-NESS: Astrid’s voice is strong, consistent, and deep. She is a questioning teen in the truest sense of the word, not wanting what others think of her sexuality or her family or anything else to determine who she is. The small town setting is wonderfully depicted, as Astrid knows so much about it, even as she yearns to leave it. The bits of magical realism (Socrates, the airplane passengers) fit flawlessly into the story, helping the reader see Astrid from other angles. Beautifully written, funny, touching, and real.
Are all of these books going to be on the final list? Or are we going to narrow them down further? I just really need to get reading!! 🙂
In reply to @TeenReader;s Q, I think we will narrow them down, because we want a list everyone can hopefully make it through! I’m thinking we’ll leave it open though Thanksgiving weekend, then close it out and vote down as needed. That said, you might want to just start reading anyway!
So Kristin Casale and I both nominated CNV (though I forgot a summary, whoops)–does that mean one of us gets another nomination? Because no one’s nominated DAYS OF BLOOD AND STARLIGHT yet…
Miriam, I think that’s only fair, so go for it!
Alrighty, then!
Karou and Akiva were star-crossed lovers dreaming of peace long ago–another lifetime, literally, for Karou. Now Akiva has killed Karou’s family and is once again fighting in the generations-long war of Seraphim versus Chimaera and Karou is doing what she can to keep the Chimaera alive and fighting. The war keeps getting more and more vicious.
Style and Design:
Everything about it is delicious, from the book design to the the epigraphs to the snarkily-written bits that made me burst out laughing and the beautifully-written bits that made me bit my lip in awe.
It dredges into the deepest level of unstoppable, horrific war, without ever becoming truly hopeless. Many middle books in trilogies try this (think THE ASK AND THE ANSWER), but few succeed this well (only KESTREL succeeds better).
No too-magical Prague to bring this into question! Two worlds, three lands with the suggestion of a fourth, all developed to exactly the extent that need to be developed.
I admit Akiva’s still a but weak, but oh, Karou. And the secondary characters are equally lusciously drawn. And Zuze. Oh, Zuze. I want to give her all of the hugs and listen to all of her words and she is amazing.
Love, war, friendship, inevitability, trust… it’s a rich theme stew, and the flavors are developed and balanced and nuanced.
Apparently, based on all the food-words I used, I think this book is a feast.
Miriam, I just finally got my hands on this yesterday, and it’s two books down in my queue (based purely on annoying deadline-driven reading needs), but you just compared it to Kestrel. Which — oh goodness, my excitement for Days just went off the charts. AND I want to reread the Westmark trilogy. Florian! I love Florian. Damn deadlines!
I mean, Kestrel does it *better* because it’s *Kestrel* and *OMG KESTREL.* But… yeah.
Other people who love KESTREL??
HEART YOU BOTH.
Miss Print says:
I’m going to go with GRAFITTI MOON by Cath Crowley and fervently hope someone else will nominate GRAVE MERCY as I think both really are worth being featured.
Title: Grafitti Moon
Author: Cath Crowley
Synopsis: On the night of her high school graduation Lucy hopes to find a street artist named Shadow, even if she has to get help from the last boy she wants to talk to. Ever. But as Ed walks Lucy through Shadow’s art, the night that promised to be a disaster turns into something else. In a city filled with missed connections and opportunity, Ed and Lucy are right where they’re supposed to be.
Print-ness: Crowley’s writing is always so beautiful. I also think it’s a great coming of age story with nods to lots of artists and authors that add a smart dimension to an already great story.
Hope Baugh says:
I confess that Seraphina is still my fav for the Printz, with The Diviners and The Brides of Rollrock Island as my two definite honor choices, but since those have already been nominated I would like to nominate Long Lanking by Lindsey Barraclough as another title that is worth re-reading and discussing.
It has all kinds of potential in terms of readers’ advisory because it is creepy historical fiction that you can suggest to anyone (anyone that already likes to read) without worrying about gore, sex, cursing or other potential red flags. There’s a creepy old mansion, a creepy old church, and all kinds of creepy old atmosphere (shivering again, remembering!) and the story about an ancient evil could have been a mere melodrama, but I think the writing is sophisticated enough to be Printz-worthy:
It is set in England in 1958. You get a strong sense of time and place without being hit over the head with it.
There is actually a lot of “cursing” without any actual curse words, which is just one of many things that help to make the characters round and believable.
It is told in three voices:
Cora is a girl who has been sent with her little sister, Mimi, to stay with their great-aunt in the country while their father and mother figure out some problems in London.
Roger is a boy that the girls meet when they arrive at Aunt Ida’s house, which is surrounded by a kind of moat. He and his little brother Peter become their friends as they go exploring.
Ida Eastfield does not want want the girls here, can’t have the girls here, can’t have it all starting up again…
The storytelling switches back and forth between the three voices in a way that contributes to the breath-holding pacing.
There is lovely red herring or two, too.
I’ll try to explain my reasons better if this makes it to our list of ten contenders. I hope it does!
Well, drat. I just realized that I put an unnecessary “g” in the title above. The title of the book I nominated is actually Long Lankin. ‘Sorry!
Hi Jenn, thanks for your nomination! We are asking for an annotation and a statement of why the book deserves to be in the running (with reference to the Printz criteria — the link is included in our original post) so please take a moment to write a comment addressing those! (Otherwise the nomination doesn’t make it into the poll.)
Hannah Mermelstein says:
Title: Bitterblue
Author: Kristin Cashore
Synopsis: 18-yr-old Queen Bitterblue, bogged down with meaningless papers and court proceedings, starts to wonder if there is more to her kingdom than she is being told. As the novel unfolds, Bitterblue befriends criminals and uncovers the depth of pain caused by her father’s regime as she tries to make things right.
Printz-worthiness: Cashore is an amazing world-builder with the ability to write about heavy topics of power, torture, justice and injustice using humor and creativity. Engaging and completely unique. Favorite character: Death the librarian (rhymes with “teeth”). This book is a sequel (taking place 8 years later) to Graceling and a companion novel (more than 40 years later) to Fire.
Title: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Benjamin Alire Saenz
What’s masterful and literary about this book is how keenly Saenz conveys the emotions of someone who’s deeply in denial about those emotions; how he takes two Mexican-American boys and explores the ways in which they’re different, as well as the ways in which they’re the same, touching on class identity, ethnic identity, and family; the gorgeous intensity of the Texas landscapes and storms; and how all of that is woven together into a book that’s about sexuality, responsibility, coming of age, and love.
Jennifer Hubert Swan says:
Thank goodness so many like minded folks already named many titles that I would have listed. So I’m going with the wonderful and woefully unstarred MONUMENT 14 by Emmy Laybourne. It’s about a group of kids and teens trapped in a Wal-Mart type store while the apocolypse happens outside in the form of extreme weather and escaped toxins from the local chemical weapons facility. I know what you’re thinking, but I believe that when it comes to awards, nonstop action is often dismissed in favor of deep and loving characterization, (and this book has both!) so I want to give it a shout out.
And I would been torn between Monument 14 and the beautiful SAILOR TWAIN GN by Mark Siegel, but I wasn’t sure if First Second imprints were eligible as YA or if they were considered adult. While there are no teen characters in Sailor Twain, I think it has enormous teen appeal because of the romantic entanglements and well, there are also mermaids. Murderous mermaids. Love to know what the Printz gang thinks about the First Second imprint question.
I have this book on the tantalizing “read after Jan 21” pile, because I assumed, based on price point, that it was intended as an “adult” publication (the YA price point on a hardcover is usually under $20). However, First Second is an all-ages imprint, so I’m not sure there is any clear guideline that would declare Sailor Twain eligible or not. Thoughts, all?
Okay, now all of my Personal Top 6 have been nominated except THE GIRL WITH BORROWED WINGS and I’ve used my nomination so someone else has to. Yes?
Gina W. says:
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE was published by First Second.
I’m looking at First Second’s Spring catalog and they have all the Juvenile/YA titles clearly marked with age ranges.
I don’t have a copy of the catalog that had SAILOR TWAIN but we at Adult Books 4 Teens reviewed it, so I can only assume it was listed as adult, since that’s our primary criterion for review.
I am quite convinced that SAILOR TWAIN is adult even if First Second doesn’t have age designations or, more vitally, there is teen appeal to it. Which I’m not wholly convinced of, even though appeal has nothing to do with Printz. In any case I found that it had adult sensibilities and characters and situations and perspective that didn’t seem teen to me at all.
TK, I haven’t read it yet, but Jennifer has been VERY compelling in her arguments in real life! And she usually has quite the eye for these things (and pretty much called last year’s Printz winner, so we may all want to go read Monument 14 RIGHT NOW), so between that and the AB4T review, I’m convinced that there must be some YA appeal. But I haven’t read it yet, and as you pointed out, appeal doesn’t matter for the Printz anyway.
Jen, I’m afraid the evidence is mounting that you were right not to spend your nomination on an ineligible book.
The book: BOMB by Steve Sheinkin
What it’s about: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon.
Why it should win: It’s rare that a nonfiction book can best novels at their own game, but this one does so. Plot, character, setting, style, and theme are excellent here–and, then, there’s the degree of difficulty: it’s all true.
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL (Jesse Andrews)
The title pretty much sums it up: Greg Gaines begrudgingly befriends Rachel, who has leukemia, and is Greg’s only friend besides Earl, his foul-mouthed, movie-making partner. EARL deserves to be in the Printz conversation for a few reasons, but most importantly is voice. Andrews has a great ear for dialogue and toes the fine line between quirky/clever and twee/obnoxious. On top of that, the writing is highly stylized, yet packed with character development, all of which creates this familiar story–dying girl helps boy come of age–told in a fresh way. Overall, the story just rang true, the characters are authentic, and the plot development is flawed, but I still bought into it.
So hard to pick just one! Jonathan covered Bomb for me (Taking one out of my consideration pile – thanks!) After much debate I’m leaving behind Monstrous Beauty (I fear I am too biased – plus I could never pick it apart the way we will have to for shortlist titles – looking for the tiniest of flaws in order to choose one excellent book over another) and Grave Mercy (Sigh. I loved this, but decided my nomination is better literarywise.) for:
TITLE: The Drowned Cities
AUTHOR: Paolo Bacigalupi
SYNOPSIS: Climate change has turned what used to be Washington D.C. into a drowned city constantly fought over by rival militias mostly consisting of child/teenage soldiers. Mahlia and Mouse are orphans just trying to keep their heads down and survive until they encounter Tool – a killing machine on the run from the militia currently in charge.
Setting: Utterly and frighteningly believable – Bacigalupi paints a future that seems possible and is based in logically brainstorming how people would react to cataclysmic climate change partly based on how people have reacted throughout history. The concept of miliatias populated almost entirely by teens would be far less horrifying if it hadn’t happened before and wasn’t currently happening in some places.
Characters: Mahlia isn’t always likable but she is a fully realized person whose actions are driven by the motivations Bacigalupi builds from her past. In Mouse/Ghost and Ocho, Bacigalupi shows clearly how teens get brought into and caught up in the militia life – an important addition for the richness of the themes explored here. Tool is an amazing accomplishment; he doesn’t think like a human and isn’t motivated by the same things humans would be.
Theme: This is the biggest strength here. Bacigalupi uses his speculative world to explore real human issues that face the world now. Sarah mentions several of these in her post: What does it mean to be human? How do humans come to commit atrocities and still consider themselves human? What is survival worth? What is power worth? Is it better to stick to your morals if it means you die or better to bend so that you can live to fight another day? What and who are the casualties of war? Bacigalupi explores all of this while telling a rip-roaringly good war/survival story that doesn’t flag or slow down one bit under the burden.
I keep coming back to two words: amazing and horrifying. Bacigalupi does them both – I don’t like horrifying war stories, but I would read this again for the setting, the characters and theme. The Drowned Cities deserves a seat at the Printz Discussion table.
Title: TEAM HUMAN
Authors: Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier
Description: The world of Team Human has the same fascination with vampires as our own, but the vampires are real. Mel, however, is not a fan, and thinks her best friend’s obsession with vampires is ridiculous. Then a vampire decides to start attending her high school, and she meets a human boy who was raised by a vampire family, and begins to realize that life is a lot more complicated than she had thought.
Voice: Each author has a distinctive voice in her own right, but they have managed to create a new, unique voice that has a bit of each and feels unified and compelling.
Setting: The world is fully-realized and believable. There is a lot of vampire history and background that is explained when necessary but not annoyingly info-dumped.
Characters: The best part! I really grew to know and care about the characters. Mel is flawed in a realistic way, but still extremely likeable, and she manages to grow believable throughout the novel.
Theme: This book is about growing to understand other people and their motivations, even when those people are in opposition–and the execution of that theme is subtle and well-done.
That doesn’t really explain why the book is so great, but I really like both authors and found that I liked their collaboration even better than their individual works.
Title: TITANIC: VOICES FROM THE DISASTER
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
What it’s about: The story of the Titanic, from before it sails to after it founders, from the point of view of people who were there.
Why it’s Printz-Worthy: Beautifully organized so that the facts fall into place without distracting from the narrative arc. Compelling characters, with a particular emphasis on young people. Fluidly written so that a fairly long book reads very quickly. Lots of helpful tables (now that errors in one have been corrected from the first edition) and well-selected photographs. This is a solid piece of scholarship that seems to be making the case for the Titanic’s value as an interesting narrative subject and a historically significant event to Titanic-skeptics.
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Comment on Chang & Bushman (2019): Effects of outlier exclusion
Recent research by Chang & Bushman (2019) reports how video games may cause children to be more likely to play with a real handgun. In this experiment, children participate in the study in pairs. They play one of three versions of Minecraft for 20 minutes. One version has no violence (control), another has monsters that they fight with swords (sword violence), and another has monsters that they fight with guns (gun violence).
The children are then left to play in a room in which, hidden in a drawer, are two very real 9mm handguns. The handguns are disabled -- their firing mechanism has been taken out and replaced with a clicker that counts the number of trigger pulls. But these guns look and feel like the real thing, so one would hope that a child would not touch them or pull their triggers.
The authors report four study outcomes: whether the kid touches the gun, how long they hold the gun, how many times they pull the trigger, and how many times they pull the trigger while the gun is pointed at somebody (themself or the other kid).
I think it's an interesting paradigm. The scenario has a certain plausibility about it, and the outcome is certainly important. It must have been a lot of work to get the ethics board approval.
However, the obtained results depend substantially on the authors' decision to exclude two participants from the control group for playing with the guns a lot. I feel that this is an inappropriate discarding of data. Without this discard, the results are not statistically significant.
Overinterpretation of marginal significance
The results section reports one significant and three marginally significant outcomes:
"The difference [in handgun touching] across conditions was nonsignificant [...]" (p = .09)
"The gun violence condition increased time spent holding a handgun, although the effect was nonsignificant [...]" (p = .080)
"Participants in the gun violence condition pulled the trigger more times than participants in other conditions, although the effect was nonsignificant [...]" (p = .097)
"Participants in the violent game conditions pulled the trigger at themselves or their partner more than participants in the nonviolent condition." (p = .007)
These nonsignificant differences are overinterpreted in the discussion section, which begins: "In this study, playing a violent video game increased the likelihood that children would touch a real handgun, increased time spent holding a handgun, and increased pulling the trigger at oneself and others." I found this very confusing; I thought I had read the wrong results section. One has to dig into Supplement 2 to see the exact p values.
Exclusion of outliers
The distribution of the data is both zero-inflated and powerfully right skewed. About half of the kids did not touch the gun at all, much less pull its trigger. Among the minority of kids that did pull the trigger, they pulled it many times. This is a noisy outcome, and difficult to model: you would need a zero-inflated negative binomial regression with cluster-adjusted variances. The authors present a negative binomial regression with cluster-adjusted variances, ignoring the zero-inflation, which is fine enough by me since I can't figure out how to do all that at once either.
Self-other trigger pulls outcome. The pair in red were excluded because the coders commented that they were acting unusually wild. The pair in green were excluded for having too high a score on the outcomes.
Noisy data affords many opportunities for subjectivity. The authors report: "We eliminated 1 pair who was more than 5 SDs from the mean for both time spent holding a handgun and trigger pulls [green pair]. The coders also recommended eliminating another pair because of unusual and extremely aggressive behavior [red pair]." The CONSORT flow diagram reveals that these four excluded subjects with very high scores on the dependent variables were all from the nonviolent control condition, in which participants were expected to spend the least time holding the gun and pulling its trigger.
The authors tell me that the pair eliminated because of unusual and extremely aggressive behavior was made on the coders' recommendation, blind to condition. That may be true, but the registration is generally rather vague and says nothing about excluding participants on coder recommendation.
The authors also tell me that the pair eliminated because of high scores were eliminated without looking at the results. That may be true as well, but I feel as though one could predict how this exclusion might affect the results.
This latter exclusion of the high-scoring pair is not acceptable to me. You can consider this decision in two ways: First, you can see that there are scores still more extreme in the other two conditions. With data this zero-inflated and skewed, it is no great feat to be more than 5 SDs from the mean. Second, you can look at the model diagnostics. The excluded outliers are not "outliers" in any model influence sense -- their Cook's distances are less than 0.2. (Thresholds of 0.5 or 1.0 are often suggested for Cook's distance.)
Here are the nonzero values in log space, which is where the model fits the negative binomial. On a log scale, the discarded data points still do not look at all like outliers to me.
Revised results
If the high-scoring pair is retained for analysis, none of the results are statistically significant:
Touching the gun: omnibus F(2, 79.5) = 1.04, p = .359; gun-vs-control contrast p = .148.
Time holding gun: omnibus F(2, 79.5) = .688, p = .506; gun-vs-control contrast p = .278.
Trigger pulls at self or other: omnibus F(2, 79.4) = 1.80, p = .172; gun-vs-control contrast p = .098.
From here, adding the coder-suggested pair to the analysis moves the results further still from statistical significance.
If you're worried about the influence of the zero inflation and the long tail, a simpler way to look at the data might be to ask "is the trigger pulled at all while the gun is pointed at somebody?" After all, the difference between not being shot and being shot once is a big deal; the difference between being shot four times and being shot five times less so. Think of this as winsorizing all the values in the tail to 1. Then you could just fit a logistic regression and not have to worry about influence.
Analyzed this way, there are 6 events in the control group, 10 in the sword-game group, and 13 in the gun-game group. The authors excluded four of these six control-group events as outliers. With these exclusions, there is a statistically significant effect, p = .029. If you return either pair to the control group, the effect is not statistically significant, p = .098. If you return both pairs to the control group, the effect is not statistically significant, p = .221.
I wish the authors and peer reviewers had considered the sensitivity of the results to the questionable exclusion of this pair. While these results are suggestive, they are much less decisive than the authors have presented them.
Journal response
I attempted to send JAMA Open a version of this comment, but their publication portal does not accept comment submissions. I asked to speak with an editor; the editor declined to discuss the article with me. The journal's stance is that, as an online-only journal, they don't consider letters to the editor. They invited me to post a comment in their Youtube-style comments field, which appears on a separate tab where it will likely go unread.
I am disturbed by the ease with which peer reviewers would accept ad hoc outlier exclusion and frustrated that the article and press release do little to present the uncertainty. It seems like one could get up to a lot of mischief at JAMA Open by excluding hypothesis-threatening datapoints.
Author response
I discussed these criticisms intensely with the authors as I prepared my concerns for JAMA Open and for this blog post. Dr. Bushman replied:
We believe that [the coder-suggested pair] was removed completely legitimately, although you are correct this was not documented ahead of time on the clinicaltrials.gov site. We believe [the high-scoring pair] should also have been excluded, but you do not. We acknowledge there may be honest differences of opinion regarding [the high-scoring pair].
As stated in our comment on JAMA Open, “Importantly, both pairs were eliminated before we knew how they would impact our analyses and whether their results would support our hypotheses.”
Again, I disagree with the characterization of the removal of the high-scoring pair as a subjective decision. I don't see any justifiable criterion for throwing this data away, and one can anticipate how this removal would influence the analyses and results.
I was successfully able to reproduce the results presented by Chang and Bushman (2019). However, those results seem to depend heavily on the exclusion of four of the six most aggressive participants in the nonviolent control group. The justification that these four participants are unusually aggressive does not seem tenable in light of the low influence of these datapoints and similarly aggressive participants retained in the other two conditions.
While I admire the researchers for their passion and their creative setup, I am also frustrated. I believe that researchers have an obligation to quantify uncertainty to the best of their ability. I feel that the exclusion of high-scoring participants from the control group serves to understate the uncertainty and facilitate the anticipated headlines. The sensitivity of the results to this questionable exclusion should be made clearer.
See my code at https://osf.io/8jgrp/. Analyses reproduced in R using MASS::glm.nb for negative binomial regression with log link and clubSandwich for cluster-robust variance estimation. Data available upon request from the authors. Thanks to James Pustejovsky for making clubSandwich. Thanks to Jeff Rouder for talking with me about all this when I needed to know I wasn't taking crazy pills.
Nicely written Joe. I am not technically educated and was still able to get the gist of it. You last paragraph was restrained yet clear.
One thing that strikes me is the effect of what the children were taught about firearms before the test. If you were to run an experiment with 8-12 year olds about crossing the street or dealing with snakes, what they had been taught about those things would have profound effects on the results. Firearms are ubiquitous in society, at least in the media, so I would expect it common that parents would have given the children at least some instruction as to how handle any weapons they may find. I didn't read the research article and don't know if that was accounted for but maybe it should have been.
Joe July 21, 2019 at 10:09 AM
Thanks for reading, Anonymous, and thanks for your kind words. I think these are valid questions that could help to contextualize the results. The authors do report that children from households that did own a gun were less likely to play with the study's guns. Maybe that speaks a little to your perspective.
However, I don't think there's much point in contextualizing the results until the results are accurate. The phenomenon the authors report seems to be attributable to their data cleaning process, not randomization to condition. I don't see much value in discussing what the effect *means* when the data seems to indicate that *there is no effect*.
Forgive me Joe, what does randomization to condition mean?
You are right of course. What good is trying to figure why something is out there when there is nothing out there?
From a layman's point of view, the problems with this study seem common in psychological research. It won't change easy if at all will it?
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Planned Parenthood Fights Back
IN THIS ISSUE: Lessons to be learned from a battle with Planned Parenthood in Indiana could have an impact on presidential politics, and pro-life victories continue across the country.
Planned Parenthood Fights Back, Goes to Court Against Indiana Law Restricting Its Funding
Gov. Mitch Daniels & Judge Tanya Walton Pratt
In a week replete with news of presidential candidates entering and leaving the race, a story brewing in Indiana points the way toward greater political cooperation between pro-life and small government activists – cooperation that could be key for politicians working to build broad coalitions.
In late April, the Hoosier state became the first in the nation to prohibit state officials from entering into contracts with or making grants to any entity (including, notably, Planned Parenthood) that performs abortions or that maintains or operates facilities where abortions are performed when Governor Mitch Daniels signed a law that also bans abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy. The effect of the new law is to deny Planned Parenthood about $3 million in public funds unless they decide that providing common preventive care for women (such as prenatal care, pap tests, and screening for sexually-transmitted diseases) is more important than providing abortions.
Hours after the governor signed the bill into law, Planned Parenthood was in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis requesting a restraining order. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt refused to enter a temporary injunction. A full hearing on Planned Parenthood’s request for a permanent injunction against the law is expected in June.
Despite the judge’s initial ruling, Planned Parenthood of Indiana continues to claim that the bill is unconstitutional. To read the legal analysis of the law from AUL’s premier pro-life legal team, click here.
Media analysts have noted that the law defunding Planned Parenthood could improve Gov. Daniels standing among social conservatives as he considers a run for the presidency in 2012, but AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest observed that the cost-cutting bill is a roadmap to success for all politicians.
“The most bi-partisan budget cuts available are those that get the American taxpayer out of the business of subsidizing abortion,” Dr. Yoest noted. “Socially conservative activists stand in agreement with budget hawks and independents in keeping tax money away from the abortion lobby. Politicians will find that the decision to cut such funding has broad support with voters of all kinds.”
Victories at the State Level:
AUL Praises Nebraska Legislature for Passing "Opt Out" of Abortion Mandate in Federal Health Care Law
At left: Daniel McConchie of AUL, Dave Bydalek of Family First, Sen. Lydia Brasch, Former Gov. Kay Orr.
Nebraska took steps to untangle insurance monies from the abortion industry when the state legislature passed LB22, the “Mandate Opt-out and Insurance Clarification Act,” prohibiting both private insurance coverage of abortion and the use of federal subsidies to purchase abortion coverage in the Nebraska Exchange.
“The federal government should not be forcing Americans to pay for abortions or abortion coverage,” said Dr. Yoest. “During the health care debate we learned that more than 70 percent of Americans – pro-life and pro-abortion – do not want to see their tax dollars used to support abortions. This bill is a bipartisan effort to respect their wishes.”
In January, Sen. Beau McCoy (District 39) introduced LB22, which is based on model language from Americans United for Life, to prohibit insurance plans that participate in the soon-to-be-implemented state insurance exchange from covering abortions. The bill also prohibits private insurance coverage of abortion except through the purchase of a separate rider.
Oklahoma's Governor Signs Law Protecting Women and Girls from Dangerous, Off-Label Use of Abortion-Inducing Drugs
Last week, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (at right) signed another pro-life bill into law, HB 1970 — this time prohibiting dangerous, off-label use of the abortion-inducing drug RU 486, also known as mifepristone.
The law was based on AUL’s model legislation and was sponsored by Rep. Randy Grau and Sen. Greg Treat. The new legislation requires that abortion-inducing drugs be distributed in accordance with the FDA-approved drug label and does not allow dangerous off-label use by abortion providers seeking to maximize their profits at the expense of women’s health. To read Dr. Yoest’s reaction to the good news, click here.
Missourians Say "Thank You" to
Last week, Care Net and Americans United for Life joined the Missouri legislature last in praising the work of pregnancy centers. The Missouri House of Representatives passed a “Resolution Honoring Pregnancy Care Centers,” thanking the non-profit organizations throughout the state for their tremendous service to women, children, and the community. Missouri is the sixth state this year to pass such a resolution, a model of which was drafted by Americans United for Life (AUL). Rep. Thomas Long introduced HR 1826 and led the efforts for its passage.
UN Calls for Population Control as
Global Birthrates Decline
At left: William Saunders of AUL.
"At a time when we are experiencing a worldwide decline in birthrates, and many countries find themselves in a demographic crisis that will leave their nations in economic and social ruin if something doesn’t change, the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) continues to call for more population control,” noted AUL’s Sr. Vice President for Legal Affairs William Saunders, in a blog post at Life News. To read the entire analysis of how population policies are hurting nations, click here.
And from the Oklahoma Gazette
AUL’s success at the state level is drawing the ire of pro-abortion activists. Click here to read about their reactions to AUL’s success in Oklahoma.
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Fox’s Kimberly Guilfoyle: I Like Ben Carson Because He Views Immigration As “A Tumor Or A Disease”
During Monday afternoon’s broadcast of The Five, co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle went absolutely gaga for the immigration reform plan that retired neurosurgeon and Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson outlined recently. While appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation this past Sunday, the surging White House hopeful explained that he will make sure that the United States borders would be sealed in his first year as President. He also stated that he’d allow undocumented immigrants six months to register to avoid deportation, but that only the ones with “pristine records” would remain and they wouldn’t be provided citizenship or any “goodies.”
While discussing Carson’s suggestions, Guilfoyle said she really likes the way Carson thinks because he uses his doctor’s mind to recognize problems and solve them as he would in surgery. Therefore, he views immigrants in this country like they’re a disease and he’s discovered a way to remove them, as one would a cancerous tumor.
“I like the way his mind works, the analysis that he goes through to identify a problem. And then he’s saying, of course I would seal the borders. He’s thinking of it almost like a surgeon goes in and deals with, you know, a tumor or a disease. And you try and then seal it off so it doesn’t become metastatic and spread all over, so you control the area. You control the spread. So I understand the philosophy there, because then you can kind of contain the problem.”
Beyond admiring Carson for looking at human beings as medical problems, she also expressed happiness that the good doctor would keep immigrants away from receiving government assistance.
While Carson has criticized GOP opponent Donald Trump’s batshit crazy immigration plan due to the impossibility of rounding up 11 million people for deportation, it doesn’t make his ideas any less insane. He’s claiming that he’ll fully seal the U.S. borders within a year and that he’ll commence rounding up illegal immigrants if they don’t register with the federal government within six months. In essence, he’s saying the same shit as The Donald, but in a sleepy warm tone that makes it appear far less harsh and inhumane.
So, yeah, it makes sense why Fox News and conservatives love him.
Below is video of the segment, courtesy of Fox News:
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