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Did You Know…About the Merfolk?
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Most are familiar with the Disney depiction of merfolk and Ariel's struggle to find love on land, without her voice no less, a sanitized version of the Hans Christian Andersen's tale where she does not have a happy ending, and spoiler, not only does she suffer with every step on land, she also dies a painful death.
This may be a reflection on mermaids' association with misfortune and death, and the common merging of their mythology with that of sirens, luring sailors to their watery graves. But the mermen have also earned a severe reputation for summoning storms, sinking ships, and drowning sailors.
In any case, we see merfolk described as a half-human, half-fish hybrid creature, and we've had mythologies about these creatures for thousands of years, like Babylon's Era and Oannes, the fish gods. Greek mythology tells of the god Triton, a messenger of the sea, and the Hindu and Candomblé still worship mer-goddesses.
An interesting version from the Shetland Islands mixes the merfolk with selkies, telling of strikingly beautiful women whose appearance is a temporary effect of donning fish skin. And if they lose the skin, they will be stuck on land. In one tale, "The Mermaid Wife," a man, Unst, walked along the beach, saw a group of merfolk dancing in the sand under the moonlight with skins strewn across the ground. Unst snatched one and concealed it. When he returned to that spot, he happened upon the fairest of the women, sad over the theft of her skin and her exile. Unst offered protection, married the damsel, and they produced several children. After some years, their children found the hidden skin and returned it to their mother. She hugged them goodbye and sped off towards the sea. Unst returned from a trip just in time to chase after her and witness her magnificent transformation. Before she disappeared under the water with her merfolk family, she called back her love to him, but that her first husband was her true love.
Also in Scotland, the Blue Men of the Minch, are a group of mermen, who have blue-tinted skin and gray beards. They challenge ship captains before sieging the ship. If a captain is quick witted, he may best the Blue Men and save his men. They've also been known to battle against the Vikings and their Norse king, which may coincide with when the Vikings landed, wearing blue, veiled clothes.
The kappa from Japanese myth live in lakes, rivers, and on coasts, but they differ from the traditional merfolk by taking on a more child-like form with ape-like faces and tortoise shells on their backs. When they interact with humans, they, like the Blue Men of Minch, enjoy challenging humans to games of skill that come with a death penalty when lost. They also prefer to kill children or those silly enough to swim alone in secluded places; however, most prominently, they prefer fresh cucumbers, which might make a nice trade for one's life.
The Ningyo, also from Japanese myth, have varying human characteristics, making them more monstrous and uglier with a deformed fish face, human torso, and long, bony fingers with sharp claws. These versions of the mermaids have a bonus: consuming their flesh grants immortality, but this comes with great risk as the Ningyo can place powerful curses on the humans who try to trap or wound them, linked with entire towns being swallowed by earthquakes and tsunamis.
In Norway and the Orkney Islands, they have myths of the Finfolkaheem, or Finfolk, which may be one of the least traditional versions, considered sorcerous shapeshifters. They do maintain negative relationships with humans, often abducting them as spouses or making them servants because if Finfolk marry one another, the Finwife will lose her mystical charm and age increases her ugliness in seven-year increments until she becomes a hag, which is why they prefer to abduct human males as their mates. The best way to escape their entrapments is by tossing a silver coin away from oneself, as they have an affinity for the precious metal.
The earliest rendition of a mermaid-like entity came from ancient Syria and their goddess, Atargatis, who watched over the general well-being of her people and their fertility. Human above the waist and fish below, she was obviously associated with water and had the biggest, most stunning temple, which featured a pond full of sacred fish.
A common thread amongst these myths create an intriguing paradox: the beauty and the beast trapped within the same creature. Some are victims, others are predators, but all manifest magic that affects the humans they interact with. Most commonly to the humanity's demise.
https://www.wired.com/2014/10/fantastically-wrong-strange-murderous-sometimes-sexy-history-mermaid/
https://www.livescience.com/39882-mermaid.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/75471/9-mermaid-legends-around-world
#MermaidCock, UNDERWATER release day!
29 Monday Feb 2016
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Pinocchio really did a number on me when I was young. You know, the part where the whale swallows him, his father, and their cat. I didn't know it at the time, but my irrational fear of water points back to this scene.
I'm completely terrified of drowning. Never mind that I had a pool in my backyard from a young age and swam for the high school swim team in eight grade.
Swimming alone scared me the most. I thought that if I dipped into the water by myself that a whale would magically materialize in the deep end and swallow me whole. Or that I might drown for the mere reason that no one was present to save me.
Natural bodies of water are worse because of fish and seaweed. Now, maybe the fish thing seems a little odd to you, but I assure you, the thought of fish nibbling the toes off my feet can be completely paralyzing. (And now people pay for fishies to eat the dead skin off of their feet. I can't fathom it).
The worse instance of my fear's manifestation was on the nine-plus-hour trip to the UK for my honeymoon. For weeks and possibly months, I annoyed the hell out of my loved ones, colleagues, and students with how afraid I was to crash into the ocean, drown, and have a whale eat my body. Are you noticing that whales seem to frighten me more than sharks.
I mean, am I the only one?
Yet, my husband has reassured me that drowning is not as bad as I've grown believing. He should know. He's drowned twice—once by accident and once on purpose.
You heard me right. I said, "on purpose."
Military training is sadistic.
Speaking of sadistic…nice segue, right? UNDERWATER excites the shit out of me, and the poor authors within had to deal with my form of editing, which is…you guessed it…brutal, cruel, and vicious. I do it out of love, guys. I promise.
These sixteen stories are full of humor, horror, and hedonism, and they build a revealing illustration of our fascination with what lies beneath the surface.
Beyond the fear, I've always loved the mysteries the Aquarian depths hold, especially mermaids, which we have a nice variety of in this anthology. And I need to tell you a secret about them…are you in close? Ready for it?
Eating mermaids will make you immortal.
I know. Mind blown.
And don't be perverted about this. We have enough of that in the stories. In fact, us editors have an inside joke.
#MermaidCock
Yup. You read that correctly.
We keep seeing it in hidden between the lines—in Sister Ursula's habit, tattooed on the inside of a vampire's thigh, among the others in the Pleasure Sphere, swimming along side the radioactive crocodiles—and of course, there is plenty of explicit mermaid cock in these stories, too.
And I challenge you not to let it slip into each of the others as you read through this collection.
Check out UNDERWATER! You won't be disappointed.
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Mini-Author Interviews: Adrik Kemp
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Mini-Author Interviews for UNDERWATER:
What inspired your story?
As a child, I spent a great deal of time 'rock walking' from beach to beach with my family. I've always been fascinated by the beauty of rock pools and the sheer scale of the diversity of marine life, so it was enjoyable to create some of my own. Each pool is an opportunity to see something new and alien swimming around, and while many are filled with standard anemones, shellfish and seaweed, every now and then you find a tiny ecosystem of fish or even an octopus, and it's exhilarating, like hitting a jackpot. I wanted to convey the wonder of discovery that I felt as a child and still feel as an adult when combing rocky beaches.
Did you have to do any research? If so, what kind? What did you learn?
The setting of my story is based on memories, so my research was mainly delving into my own mind while I wrote; however, the more fantastical elements of my story took a little research. I looked into what many would see as unusual mating habits – deep-sea creatures that favour strong, muscular females and tiny, insignificant males, useful only for their sperm. This got me thinking about the potential hierarchy of a deep-sea, marine community of humanoid derivation and it all snowballed from there. Without giving anything away, I also spent some time googling images of whales.
Can you tell me a little bit about your protagonist?
The eponymous Mischa is a teenage boy who has spent his life in a sleepy, coastal town in Australia. He has an older brother, a best friend, Fiona who is about to move away, and an endless fascination with the hidden magic of the sea. A bit of a dreamer, his laid back approach to life allows him to drift along with the current, so to speak.
Where does Mischa's fascination with the sea come from? His obsession with mermaids?
The driving force behind Mischa's daydreams is his subconscious understanding that he's stuck living in a small town, his only constant friend being his brother George and his best friend Fiona. Rather than dealing with this and the fact that his friend is leaving him, he loses himself in fanciful daydreams of mermaids and magic beneath the waves. Making a world for himself within his own world gives him solace.
Can you explain your version of the mermaid? They were terrifying, and I loved that.
There are usually two types of mermaid – the Disney variety and the horror variety. Mine are most definitely on the horror side of things. I'm a little obsessed with the sea, and I think that if mer-people do exist, they would have to do so in the deep. And to do that, I imagine they would have characteristics of deep-sea creatures. I mean, down there, you have things more nightmarish than anything you could dream up, translucent, glass-like teeth, dead, white eyes, bioluminescent lures to trap prey. Not to mention the fascinating life cycles – creatures that are functionally immortal, enormous females that collect tiny males on their bodies as portable sperm banks, worms that live in boiling water over sea vents and more. I took elements from these creatures and fashioned them into a society I thought might come of it if they were mixed with humans.
Tell be about the setting you chose and how it influences your work.
All my life, I have lived on and holidayed all along the east coast of Australia. The ocean and life on its edge are a big influence on this work as they have been, and continue to be in my life. The feeling of the salt and sun on my skin, warm rocks under my feet and the rolling, endless ocean before me is a thing of singular beauty that I hope I relayed in this story.
You also made the ocean a bit horrifying (that may be me), do you find the ocean equally as frightful as it is beautiful?
The short answer is yes. I go to the beach a lot, I live nearby to the ocean and swim 3-4 times a week at it, but I still can't stay in too long before my mind wanders to what else might be sharing the water with me. I have almost a pathological fear of sharks and monsters of the deep. I once snorkeled away from a reef and over what appeared to be an abyss and panicked instantly. So I suppose the long answer is no, I find the ocean absolutely stunning and awe-inspiring, but the things within, some of those can and do strike fear in me constantly.
What would you like readers to know about "Mischa and The Mermaid"?
I hope that when they read it, they can be transported to this idyllic memory and have it torn to pieces along with Mischa.
Adrik Kemp is a published author with short stories appearing in web based and print anthologies. He holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing, which he enjoys looking at from time to time, and is an avid reader, writer and copywriter by trade. He also likes spending his time eating, swimming at the beach and playing house.
You can follow him on facebook, twitter, or his author website.
Excerpt from UNDERWATER: "Mischa and the Mermaid" by Adrik Kemp
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Mischa knelt beside the rock pool, staring through the reflecting sky on the surface to the microcosm of underwater activity beneath. A crab's claws gleamed in the darkness of a crevasse and tendrils of anemone floated around, capturing tiny fish that Mischa could barely see. He leaned in a little closer and planted his hands on the warm, wet rock beneath him. Between a couple of sea snails and an anemone, he glimpsed a tiny, pink hand and grinned with delight.
"There it is. See?" He pointed, his finger hovering just above the surface.
His brother George joined him, pouting his annoyance. "Where?"
A pair of pale arms covered in pink, pearlescent scales reached out from under a crevasse to pull along the rock pool floor. Each arm couldn't have been much longer than one of Mischa's fingers. Translucent webbing attached them to a curved, spindly body. A small head with enormous, black eyes popped out from its neck. Its mouth suction-cupped the floor, feeding on whatever else clung to the rock. It crawled out further, revealing two hind legs and a double tail flapping like a trapped butterfly.
"Holy hell, that is ugly." George shuddered. "What is it?"
"I think it's a mermaid. Look how pretty its scales are."
"Not this mermaid shit again."
Mischa stuck his finger in to touch the creature, but George pulled him back and marched him to the edge of the shore and the ocean beyond.
"Don't touch it, idiot. That mutated octopus is probably poisonous."
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Excerpt from UNDERWATER: "Sylvia's Ashes" by Shannon Rose Leahy
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He stood on the shore, the full moon's light shattering into pearl fragments on the ocean's black face. Sylvia, his darling wife—where in the vast waters had her ashes drifted? Three years had passed since the small and huddled service at the end of the rickety pier, a tinny rendition of "The Saints Go Marching In" huffed out on harmonica while Brendan scattered her ashes into the hungry ocean.
Had her ashes ever wafted pass mermaids, with bare breasts gleaming under the fiery sun, faintly green hair tangled with bright shells, or had they sat in the belly of some gray, dull-eyed fish?
Her funeral changed the ocean. How many more charred human remains churned in those dark waters? The thought of people splashing in that salty brine, shaking the brew of his wife out of their ears and wringing her out of bikinis made his stomach tighten into a hard fist.
The great watery abyss still shattered heart. A selfish, careless instant stole his darling Sylvia from this world. A bloated car full of spring breakers from Alabama, hell bent on partying in putrid Panama City Beach, collided with her motorcycle. During spring break traffic, the streets were paved with beer cans and condom wrappers. Drunken, sun-brunt twenty-somethings hung out the windows, screaming lewd remarks at anything with a pair of breasts. Casualties of alcohol poisoning or falls off fifteen story balconies weren't anything new to this city. Although heartbroken, it didn't shock him that post-adolescent madness ended her life.
Excerpt from UNDERWATER: "Beached" by M. Howard
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The dune circled a brackish pond where fresh water stream met the tide's ebb and flow, and just breaking the rim, Sal saw hands.
He broke into a dead run, and as he reached the crest, hands became wrists, and wrists lengthened to arms. Incredibly broad shoulders curved into a graceful neck all but obscured by streaming black tresses. She lay face down, crusted with drying patches of sand. Her skin was black—a dull, flat black that shared more with killer whales and dolphins than any African or Negrito he'd ever encountered.
Ruben fluttered overhead, landed on the far side of the pool, and croaked, "Hello!"
Sal ignored his feathered buddy, and gingerly placed a hand between the girl's shoulders. Her skin was cool and curiously firm to the touch.
"Well, Ruben, let's have a look at her." God, but she was heavy. He grasped her right elbow with both hands and applied all his weight to roll her over. He saw with a shock that if her back and arms were black, her front, from her upper lip to her chin and down her throat to her sandy tits, was ivory white. Indistinct nipples bulls eyed ivory aureoles without the slightest of color variation. His eyes involuntarily traced her nakedness down to an ivory "outee" of a navel. He stared dumbly at what should have been Venus Mons, but was instead a smooth plumpness which tapered down in curves unbroken by knees or feet, to curve out again into a largish ovoid paddle of a tail.
Ruben croaked "Ouch!" and fluttered his feathers.
"Ouch my ass, Ruben. It's a…she's a…" Sal was nothing if not a pragmatist. He straddled her waist and pressed an ear to her right breast. Nothing. He interlaced the fingers of his left hand into those of his right and tried to remember his emergency first aid training. He looked over at Ruben. "What's the count? Was it five?"
Ruben bobbed his beak. "Perfect."
"One, two, three, four, five." Sal unlocked his fingers and moved in to position for the next step. He wasn't sure what he might be liable to catch, but he was sure it wouldn't be any of the terrifying viruses plaguing the single set nowadays. After all, how could a mermaid catch mono? Or any other human-transmitted disease? He examined her face. The black coloration painted her high forehead, broad and vaguely Slavic cheek bones, and fleshy button of a nose, which squeezed off tiny nostrils. Sal called over to Ruben. "Let's see. Clear the airway; wait, what if she has gills?"
Rubin jerked his beak up and down. "God damn it!"
Mini-Author Interviews: Cape C. Capehart
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Mini-Author Interview for UNDERWATER:
Case C. Capehart
She's All That, and movies like it. We have a creepy abundance of stories about odd, young girls who have a hard time fitting in socially, but they solve all of their problems by losing their glasses and learning to do their make-up better. Whether the authors intend it or not, we're sending a message with these stories to young girls that their value is tied solely to their appearance. I wanted to write a story for readers who had weird thoughts and weird hobbies as teens, because many oddball kids grew up to be very important figures in history. And they didn't have to adopt a new hairstyle or get better at applying foundation to move mountains.
My day job actually helped out with this story, because I deal with troubled and unwanted kids every day. I used some of my training and what I read about children from terrible families to form Murina's background and psyche. At Alisha's suggestion, I looked further into rape victims, for Tetra's story. That was probably the most difficult part, because I don't like to think about those things, but you can't write well if you don't have a clue what you're writing about, and her retelling of the event is stronger due to my research.
Murina is an exaggerated reflection of foster kids. Her thoughts are extra dark due to her childhood trauma; she is literally a different creature than her sisters, and Lord Axelrod is taking a huge risk placing Murina among his daughters. As a Lamia, Murina is a natural predator, which boldly contrasts her natural urges with those of the civilized and amorous mermaids. The features that make her a better predator (bony body, muscular tail, dark colors) are a defect in the mermaid world; one that her sisters are compelled to correct to make her life better.
I kind of messed with the mermaid mythology out of necessity. Traditionally, mermaids dwell in the high seas, far away from land, but Lamias are snakes, even the most aquatic of which still need dry land in close vicinity. The only way I could reconcile this was to create "river mermaids." That's the great thing about fiction, though: you can create and change whatever you need, as long as the writing is done well. "Crushed" isn't about the feasibility of freshwater mermaids or the logistics of dwelling within a moving current; it's about a young girl struggling with her identity.
What would you like readers to know about "Crushed"?
I had to go to some dark places to write it, and I think the excursion paid off.
Also, it used to have a much more pretentious title that was total nonsense. Some writers can easily dream up an awesome title and then have trouble writing the coinciding story. I wrote the entire story, proofread it, and then stared at the screen for thirty minutes, knitting my eyebrows and sipping a beer to come up with something to title the thing so I could submit it.
Case C. Capehart is from a microscopic town in Northwest Oklahoma and currently works for the state. He served as an Infantryman in the U.S. Army for six years and is most proud of his Air Assault wings and Expert Infantry Badge. He is the author of BEYOND THE HELL CLIFFS and BLOOD DAUGHTER, as well as the short story, NIKKI THE BEAST, soon to be released by Cohesion Press. He has a supportive wife and hilarious son, as well as a demonic Xbox One that unceasingly beckons him away from his writing.
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Excerpt from UNDERWATER: "Crushed" by Case C. Capehart
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Murina feared venturing outside of her room. Piaractus distracted her everywhere from everything, and she something would eventually give away her thoughts. Her sisters and classmates would see the inky shadows lurking within her twisted mind, and her foster father would find that his conditioning failed. She visualized the looks of disgust from her sisters, the disappointment of Acei, and the accusations of Arowen and Rachovii. They would call her a traitor and lock her away or maybe put her down like the beast she was.
Murina could not help herself. She wanted to be found by him, somewhere no one could intervene. She wanted to be held down in the sticky muck of the riverbed and gripped with fingers of iron; not like the thin, squirming digits that Fasciatus tried to worm across her breast.
She wanted to be squeezed; to have the life choked from her chest. Nothing else in her foreign world would do.
Murina's desire eventually found a way. Her sisters could only be away from the parties for so long, curfew-be-damned, and she wormed her way into their group. Lying came easier to her than she would have imagined, and when she started to tear up at their initial rejection, Acei quickly put forth the invitation. The anxiety threatened to leak from her pores and poison the waters as she allowed her sisters to paint her into an acceptable image. She could wear the mermaid costume for another night if it meant getting out of that house and the guilt that Tetra's large, accepting eyes inflicted upon her.
Murina planned to break away from her group unnoticed during the party to search the river for him, but they never made it there.
The river flowed vacant and lifeless. No minnows darting around the surface, no curious perch, not even scuttle bugs along the floor. Murina's blood chilled and slowed in her veins. Regret pierced her, sending lightning from her chest through her tail as the shadow spilled across them. She had made a terrible mistake letting any of her sisters leave the security of their home.
Piaractus was a vicious-looking merman, with abnormally large, amber eyes, scarred arms corded with muscle, and a wicked grin full of sharp teeth.
And he had Arowen.
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Cover Reveal for UNDERWATER
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✰✰COVER REVEAL✰✰
Underwater edited by Anthony S. Buoni & Alisha Costanzo @TransmundnePres @bookenthupromo
Genre: Fantasy Anthology
Release Date:February 29, 2016
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#Synopsis:
When was the last time you came face-to-face with a mermaid?
Ever explore a hidden underwater cave or been haunted by an unearthly creature? Did that passionate childhood fantasy turn into a real, sexy encounter? When was the last time you discovered a bell concealing the entrance to a faerie mound? Have you wondered what would happen if New Orleans was entombed in radioactive water?
UNDERWATER features sixteen exploratory tales that delve into decrepit landscapes and strange magic, inhuman heroes and crushing experimentation. Two-thirds of the world is submerged—experience what happens within, from the fantastical and erotic to the horrifying and triumphant, UNDERWATER showcases stories that will inundate readers with uncharted territories.
#MeettheEditors
Alisha Costanzo is from a Syracuse suburb. She earned her MFA in creative writing from the University of Central Oklahoma, where she currently teaches English. She's the author of BLOOD PHOENIX: REBIRTH, BLOOD PHOENIX: CLAIMED, and LOVING RED, and is co-editor of DISTORTED and UNDERWATER. IMPRINTED, her new novel, is undergoing serious edits for its 2016 release. In the meantime, she will continue to corrupt young minds, rant about the government, and daydream about her all around nasty creatures.
Anthony S. Buoni prowls the gas lamp lit streets of New Orleans, playing moonlight hide and seek with Ouija boards in the Crescent City's foggy, above ground cemeteries. Anthony is the author of Conversation Party and Synchrony, co-editor to Distorted volume 1, and editor to both Between There anthologies. His stories and articles have been featured in Meow, Small Happy, North Florida Noir, and Waterfront Living. When not haunting swamps and boneyards, Anthony keeps it scary, writing dark fiction, editing, and watching horror movies, using his afterlife to DJ, write music, and conjure other worldly creatures with tarot cards, elixirs, and dreams.
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#Excerpt
From "The Rainbow Sprite" by Alisha Costanzo:
My vision filled too often with bloody fucking rainbows, and my tongue craved the taste of hot, spring rains. I found myself wired and explosive in my daily duties, biting a claimed renegade but imagining the sprite instead. My queen punished me fittingly for it, caning the bottoms of my feet. I left with a hard-on.
She went easy on me, giving me a lesson in my more preferred manner, because I offered information that pleased her. Now, my orders sent me where I wanted to go: for a way to infiltrate the underwater faerie mound. Mine was through the rainbow sprite.
The woods changed with charms, glittering under the moon like beckons. Nevertheless, I found Nani's watering hole, armed with a bell and her ring—both held the most curious magick.
Spring rain didn't greet me as my toes slipped into the brisk water. Instead, a peaches and cream scent emitted from the waters before a pale, golden fluff bobbed to the surface above the slender face of a boy. His features matched Nani's except that his eyes were a soft orange and freckles kissed the center of his face like a frangipani.
I leaned in as the boy hovered there and coaxed him closer. "Are you the little bugger that dropped a bell in there?"
His minute nod propelled him further forward, close enough for me to snatch him up. My grip found his throat, and I swung him onto land with a thunk of his shoulder blades against the grass. Teeth bared at him.
Sweat beaded along the kid's forehead and wisps of fear wafted from him. Burning seeped into my chest at his touch, slow and eating at my skin like acid. "Will your blood poison me?"
The scent of his fear matured as he nodded again.
I pulled the bell from my pocket and jingled it by his face. "What does this do to you on land?"
"Headache."
"And if it touches you?"
The boy's gaze hopped to the bell and back to me. "Make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I get angry."
Was this pipsqueak quoting the Hulk at me?
I dropped my fangs, flaunted them in his face to the joy of his hyperventilating and pissing himself.
"Pika?" Long, blonde hair slicked back from Nani's wide, rainbow eyes before they slanted and her mouth puckered. "Vampire."
"Is this yours?" I pushed his head back to elongate the boy's throat.
"Nan." The boy's voice so brittle it threatened to break.
"You let him free."
"And why would I do such a thing?"
She tread closer, the water parting to her bare shoulder and dripping down her collarbones. It made me hungrier. "I will make a trade. Me for him."
I wanted her blood more than the boy's. "Out of the water."
Nani climbed into the grass, circling around us and into the tree line.
"It's okay. He won't hurt me."
I will, but I won't kill her. Not yet. "Aw. Isn't this sweet."
Terrified eyes blinked up at me.
"You have five seconds to disappear before this bell hits the pond." I jingled the bell at him for emphasis.
"Go," the sprite told her brother.
He shot out from under me, splashing as I counted, tossing the bell in after him. Rolled onto my back, I smiled up at Nani. "I do believe I scared the piss out of the little bugger."
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Writer's Chatroom Interview, Part I
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Chatroom: Welcome, Alisha! Let's start with your latest project, the urban fantasy novel in your Broken World Series, LOVING RED. How did Facebook play into the creation of this novel?
Alisha: Well, I am a former role-player addict with over 30 active profiles on facebook for a time. Severins Bouvier was literally made for Kaia, and he was based off of a Sherrilyn Kenyon character, Dev Peltier.
See, Kaia and Dev fell in love off screen, and that wasn't allowed. So to fix it, I made Sev, hence the similar names, personas, and physical appearance.
The book doesn't follow the post on facebook yet. Most of them are love-posts or snuggle-scenes. (I've been watching too much Simpsons).
But playing them on facebook first allowed me to dig deeper into their personalities before I wrote the novel. And well, it was fun.
Chatroom: So they both had profiles, run by you, and you played them like real people? Sorry, but I want to make sure I'm understanding this. 🙂
Alisha: Yes and no. I played Sev like he was a real person, and my friend, who I actually call Kaia even though her name is Laura, played Kaia in the same fashion.
It was interesting when time to write the novel.
Chatroom: Please introduce us to your heroine, Kaia.
Alisha: Kaia is a spunky red head that's had her share of male attention, but she's wanted none of it. Instead, Kaia craves adventure, bored sick of her accounting job and repeated conversations with her father about marriage and children.
Essentially, she perpetuates my ideals for strength: smart, resourceful, witty, and sensitive. She's not afraid to cry, and she won't break easy. Finally, her faith powers her through torture, a violent chase, and control over her own mind.
I envy her that, but she's also a bit naive, sheltered by her Swedish heritage, customs, and wealth. Yet, exposure to Severins and his world (as a wolf)–his past–improves her keen awareness and clever mind.
Chatroom: Thank you. I probably should have started with this question, but better late than never! Please give us some background on your Broken World Series. What is it about, and what can we expect to find in your books?
Alisha: Well, the first two in the series are Urban Fantasy novels, and this third is a Paranormal Romance (different characters in the same world). Their world is one run by a vampire queen.
Her army is called the Celampresians. But there is another group, the Assetato, who oppose her. The first two novel follow a newborn's entrance into this world with her human best friend and her maker.
I love playing the mythology and pop culture, so I make a lot of internal references to Buffy, Twilight, Dark Hunters, and others.
So there are a lot of laughs, but also, a lot of snark, dark times, and sex.
For LOVING RED, Sev is a member of the Assetato, so they drop into an on-going war at the start of the novel.
Chatroom: How did you research for your characters? Your descriptions are pretty detailed. You must have been thinking about them for a while before applying a pen to paper, so to speak.
Alisha: For Kaia and Sev, I had facebook for. (And I may have used facebook a bit for my other characters). However, I've been playing in this world for the past fifteen years before I put serious effort into their stories.
This was after graduate school as there were no vamps allowed in writing classes.
For Kaia, I asked a lot questions of my friend before I finally felt comfortable writing her on my own.
And Sev is partially based off of my husband, an Army Sgt.
He even makes a cameo in the novel.
Chatroom: Did you say Sev was a wolf? I almost missed that earlier. 🙂
Alisha: Yes, he is.
I call them bosex instead of weres or shifters.
Kaia is human.
Chatroom: Lines you will not cross as a writer?
Alisha: At this moment, I'm not sure that I have a clearly defined line. I can say I don't like rape for titillation, although it has been a major part of one of my storylines. I enjoy writing death, torture, and sex with varying detail.
But my characters have done some heinous things in my novels—both on screen and off.
Chatroom: You have a lot of fun with character interviews – is it fair to say you have a LOT of voices bouncing around your head? 😀 How do you keep all your various character details straight?
Alisha: I have SOO many voices. Sometimes, they can be overwhelming and keep me from grading papers. But I'm often able to satisfy them all by giving them a few minutes during my week to show me things they feel the need to before I get back the grind.
Also, a character book helps.
Chatroom: On your blog, you've published a recipe related to the novel – do you actually have recipes listed in the book?
Alisha: I do not, which is why I posted it on my blog to share. My editor did suggest creating a cookbook for Sev, who is a trained cook.
I'm meddling with the idea.
Chatroom: Do your English students realize that their teacher has a dark side?
Alisha: Usually. I'm very open with them, some say I might share too much, but I enjoy connecting with them as people and adults rather than keeping that barrier between teacher and pupil.
So, I've mentioned my books and some of the material I've written, but I'm sure they don't know just how dark it is inside my head.
Chatroom: Must be an interesting class.
Alisha: I try.
Chatroom: Do you think your interest in roleplay helps in creating characters? How so?
Alisha: I t does. That's why I have so many. Kaia would often send me pictures of models that would spark a character's voice for me. So, we'd set them up, give them lives, and explore them via interaction with each other on the page.
Most of them have ended as romances because that's the type of writing chemistry we have.
But when we introduce new characters, they have secondary characters, and thus, we create more and more.
Since my character has to respond to hers, I find that I learn more about them than if I pushed them myself.
It's strange, but a fun way to develop, and then I don't have to make them all up myself. (It kind of feels like cheating).
Chatroom: So half the profiles on Facebook are really your fictional characters?
Alisha: Yes, they are! And my friends. I've made a lot of real life friends that way. By the way, I'm trying hard not to be a tangent queen, but sometimes I can't help it.
And I can show you guys some profiles if you're interested. They're all inactive at the moment.
Severins. Kaia. Ria.
Alexandria (Ria) is my newbie vamp in the first two novels, but there are Sev's and Kaia's. And there are spoilers, so beware. 🙂
Chatroom: Do all the FB friends know that they are "friending" a fictional character?
Alisha: That I can't be too sure about, but when I was in a big group, ran by a moderator with a heck of a lot more people, the majority of them knew because they'd read the books.
I wound up creating my own because I'm a control freak.
So, I'd say most of them knew.
I wish I could keep up with them as much as I'd like.
Come back for Part II in January 2016!

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Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus
Now entering its final stages, the evolving COVID-19 pandemic continues to reshape the world around us, and myriad Long Island forces – large and small, corporate and nonprofit, industrial and academic – have risen to the challenge. Innovate Long Island presents Innovation in the Age of Coronavirus as a running journal of this region's resourceful response to the greatest global challenge since World War II. Stay healthy, dear readers. Numbers getting ugly across…
Workforce January 14, 2021
State launches Offshore Wind Training Institute, again
By GREGORY ZELLER // Representing the largest public investment by any state in offshore wind workforce development, New York's Offshore Wind Training Institute is now afloat. Seriously. The State University of New York and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority launched (or is it re-launched?) the $20 million OWTI this week, aiming to train 2,500 workers through an "educational infrastructure" administered by NYSERDA, Farmingdale State College and Stony Brook University. Announced as…
Newsletters January 13, 2021
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Going to be a big day: Welcome to Wednesday, dear readers, as we brave another wintry week of socioeconomic innovation – with the fate of the Republic hanging in the balance, once again. Wish you were here: It's Jan. 13 out there, and while out-of-control pandemics and potential revolutions continue to darken American skies, the rest of the world goes on: Liberation Day in Togo, Constitution Day in Mongolia, Democracy Day in Cape Verde…
Newsletters January 6, 2021
No. 558: Three Kings, two ore extractions and one very unlucky species – plus, the pandemic primer plows on
New and improved: Hello, dear readers, and welcome to a bold new year of socioeconomic innovation on Long Island and around the world. Yes, the pandemic still weighs heavy on our everyday existence, and will for months to come. But dreadful 2020 is kaput and a new year, brimming with hope and promise, has arrived. Like Dave Hamilton says (see below), whatever doesn't kill you … so since we're all still here, let's roll…
Opinion December 30, 2020
After rocky 2020, Island startups set to rock in 2021
By DAVID HAMILTON // What a challenging and tumultuous year! If you'd told the December 2019 me what was going to transpire, I'd have called you crazy – and suggested you'd read one too many sci-fi novels by our favorite Innovate LI editor. There was no way to see this coming: a never-ending pandemic, an unprecedented economic collapse, social upheaval on a national scale, political turmoil unlike anything we've ever seen, endless Zoom calls, three…
Startups December 22, 2020
With Next Cryo, a startup that's really cooling its jets
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Stony Brook University scientist who came in from the cold is getting some serious chills – and this time, he's really got something to cryo about. Slowa Solovyov, a multi-patented, 23-year veteran of U.S. Department of Energy collaborations, is diving into the coldest environments man can create on a quest to improve quantum-level efficiencies. The longtime SBU adjunct professor of electrical engineering is flipping the switch on Next Cryo, a…
Newsletters December 16, 2020
No. 555: Pace pact, time travel and immunization, Island-style – plus, a big first finish for CEBIP
You asked for it: Admit it, dear readers – you griped about last winter's lack of snow and the little tyke buried deep in your pragmatic soul is tingling with excitement. Or maybe you hate snow. Either way, get your milk and bread, 'cause here it comes. The parents strike back: It's Wednesday, Dec. 16, and as we await Long Island's first significant snowfall in nearly two years, we'll issue a heartfelt apology to…
Clean Energy December 15, 2020
In ThermoLift, SBU commercialization done right
By GREGORY ZELLER // The shining star of Stony Brook University's commercialization ecosystem is all growed up – and ready to reshape the global heating-and-cooling landscape. As a client of Stony Brook's Clean Energy Business Incubator Program and a resident of the university's Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center, 2012 startup ThermoLift – co-founded by current Director Paul Schwartz and international engineering stalwart Peter Hofbauer – has advanced the principles of the extreme-temperature Vuilleumier thermodynamic…
Coronavirus December 15, 2020
Targeting healthcare workers, LI vaccinations begin
By GREGORY ZELLER // Americans remain split about receiving a COVID-19 shot – but frontline healthcare workers are squarely in the vaccinate-me-now category. Pfizer's hastily approved COVID-19 vaccine is now coursing through American bloodstreams, and as the earliest shipments arrived this week on Long Island, workers throughout Island hospitals and healthcare systems were gratefully rolling up their sleeves. Phase One of the State University of New York's COVID-19 vaccine-distribution operation commenced Tuesday, with SUNY hospitals…
Newsletters December 4, 2020
No. 552: On magical eggs, Native legends and student comforts – plus history in the Home of the Whopper
You earned it: You've done it again, dear reader – another workweek in the books, another weekend on tap. Take a couple days, why don'tcha. Before you do, go pull the lever in Bethpage Federal Credit Union's 2021 Best of Long Island contest, where Innovate LI is up for Best Long Island Blog (among the Arts & Entertainment categories). Just 11 voting days left – vote today, vote often, and thanks for your support!…
No. 551: Indoctrinating, stimulating and surveillance testing – and bringing the extinct back to life
Reunited: And it feels so good, dear readers, as we're back on schedule and back in your inbox, right where we belong. It's OK to say you missed us. We missed you, too. It's Wednesday, Dec. 2, and we're midway through this busy holiday-season workweek – and, blessedly, into the final stretch of problematic, perplexing and (literally) plagued 2020. Let's finish both in style. Peaceful transition: Speaking of big finishes, less than two weeks…
Biotech December 1, 2020
Applied DNA shoots, scores on multiple COVID fronts
By GREGORY ZELLER // It's been a big week for one of Long Island's boldest biotechs. Applied DNA Sciences, a Stony Brook-based leader in polymerase chain reaction-based DNA manufacturing, has earned New York State approvals for the veterinary trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed in conjunction with Italian startup EvviVax, a spinoff of frequent Applied DNA partner Takis Biotech. The Stony Brook biotech – which focused primarily on DNA-based supply-chain authentication before its 2015 acquisition…
Biology November 30, 2020
Researchers note new Cretaceous species, by a nose
By GREGORY ZELLER // Welcome to Cretaceous Park! And say hello to Falcatakely, a mouthful to be sure – and a bona fide missing link between modern birds and fine-feathered forbearers of eons past. The crow-sized Falcatakely (a combination of Latin and Malagasy words inspired by the prehistoric creature's small size and sickle-shaped beak) was discovered recently in Madagascar, with scientists from Stony Brook University and Ohio University using the latest 21st century tech to…
Newsletters November 20, 2020
No. 550: In which Biden, Beethoven and Baby Moses meet (and the yo-yo rises)
It's their world: We're just living in it, dear readers, as we reach the end of this latest busy workweek and look ahead to another restful weekend. Today is Friday, Nov. 20 – the U.N.'s World Children's Day, when we're reminded (or should be) that we're merely temporary stewards of this planet, keeping it safe for younger generations waiting to do a much better job of it. That's ridiculous: For the record, it's also…
IT November 19, 2020
World's fastest? SBU computer ain't crying wolf
By GREGORY ZELLER // The home of the Seawolves is running with a whole new pack, with the arrival of a new supercomputer that paces the world's fastest. Dubbed "Ookami" (loosely, the Japanese word for "wolf"), the new computer system – which runs on the same processor as Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, recognized as the planet's most powerful – has been installed at Stony Brook University's Institute for Advanced Computational Science. Operated by the IACS in…
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package com.tvd12.ezyfox.testing.codec;

import com.tvd12.ezyfox.codec.EzyByteToObjectDecoder;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.codec.EzyDefaultDecodeHandlers;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.codec.EzyMessage;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.codec.EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder;
import com.tvd12.ezyfox.io.EzyBytes;
import com.tvd12.test.assertion.Asserts;
import com.tvd12.test.util.RandomUtil;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.Queue;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

public class EzySimpleMessageDataDecoderTest {

    @Test
    public void test() throws Exception {
        EzyByteToObjectDecoder d = new ExByteToObjectDecoder();
        EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder decoder = new EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder(d);
        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(12);
        buffer.put((byte) 0);
        buffer.putShort((short) 9);
        buffer.put("012345678".getBytes());
        buffer.flip();
        byte[] bytes = EzyBytes.getBytes(buffer);
        AtomicBoolean called = new AtomicBoolean(false);
        decoder.decode(bytes, data -> called.set(true));
        assert called.get();
    }

    @Test
    public void test2() throws Exception {
        EzyByteToObjectDecoder d = new ExByteToObjectDecoder();
        EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder decoder = new EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder(d);
        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(12 + 6);
        buffer.put((byte) 0);
        buffer.putShort((short) 9);
        buffer.put("012345678012345".getBytes());
        buffer.flip();
        byte[] bytes = EzyBytes.getBytes(buffer);
        AtomicBoolean called = new AtomicBoolean(false);
        decoder.decode(bytes, data -> {
            called.set(true);
            try {
                decoder.decode(data, null);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        });
        assert called.get();
        decoder.decode(bytes, data -> called.set(true));
        decoder.reset();
    }

    @Test
    public void test3() throws Exception {
        EzyByteToObjectDecoder d = new ExByteToObjectDecoder2();
        EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder decoder = new EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder(d);
        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(12 * 2);
        buffer.put((byte) 0);
        buffer.putShort((short) 9);
        buffer.put("012345678".getBytes());
        buffer.put((byte) 0);
        buffer.putShort((short) 9);
        buffer.put("012345678".getBytes());
        buffer.flip();
        byte[] bytes = EzyBytes.getBytes(buffer);
        AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger();
        decoder.decode(bytes, data -> count.incrementAndGet());
        assert count.get() == 2;
    }

    @Test
    public void test4() throws Exception {
        EzyByteToObjectDecoder d = new ExByteToObjectDecoder();
        EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder decoder = new EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder(d);
        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(12);
        buffer.put((byte) 0);
        buffer.putShort((short) 9);
        buffer.put("012345678".getBytes());
        buffer.flip();
        byte[] bytes = EzyBytes.getBytes(buffer);
        AtomicBoolean called = new AtomicBoolean(false);
        decoder.destroy();
        decoder.decode(bytes, data -> called.set(true));
        assert !called.get();
    }

    @Test
    public void decodeWithKeyTest() throws Exception {
        // given
        EzyMessage message = mock(EzyMessage.class);
        byte[] decryptionKey = RandomUtil.randomShortByteArray();
        Object result = new Object();

        EzyByteToObjectDecoder decoder = mock(EzyByteToObjectDecoder.class);
        when(decoder.decode(message, decryptionKey)).thenReturn(result);

        EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder sut = new EzySimpleMessageDataDecoder(decoder);

        // when
        Object actual = sut.decode(message, decryptionKey);

        // then
        Asserts.assertEquals(result, actual);
        verify(decoder, times(1)).decode(message, decryptionKey);
    }

    public static class ExByteToObjectDecoder implements EzyByteToObjectDecoder {

        protected final EzyDefaultDecodeHandlers handlers;

        public ExByteToObjectDecoder() {
            this.handlers = EzyDefaultDecodeHandlers.builder()
                .maxSize(128 * 1000000)
                .build();
        }

        @Override
        public Object decode(EzyMessage message) {
            return message;
        }

        @Override
        public void decode(ByteBuffer bytes, Queue<EzyMessage> queue) {
            handlers.handle(bytes, queue);
        }

        @Override
        public void reset() {
        }

    }

    public static class ExByteToObjectDecoder2 implements EzyByteToObjectDecoder {

        protected final EzyDefaultDecodeHandlers handlers;

        public ExByteToObjectDecoder2() {
            this.handlers = EzyDefaultDecodeHandlers.builder()
                .maxSize(128 * 1000000)
                .build();
        }

        @Override
        public Object decode(EzyMessage message) {
            return message;
        }

        @Override
        public void decode(ByteBuffer bytes, Queue<EzyMessage> queue) {
            handlers.handle(bytes, queue);
            handlers.handle(bytes, queue);
        }

        @Override
        public void reset() {
        }

    }
}


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VFW a place where all combat veterans meet.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1920, Mebane, has just announced the local winners of the American Creative Patriotic Arts Contest.
First place winner was Elizabeth Macias, second place was Gabe Wilson, and third place went to Scottie Hill. The winners are seniors at Eastern Alamance High School and study art under Donna Edgell.
This national scholarship program is open to students in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. Winners at the national level can win scholarships ranging from $10,000 – $500. The first place winner will receive a plaque and airfare plus two nights' lodging to attend the Ladies Auxiliary National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, in July. The first place art will be featured on the cover of the Ladies Auxiliary VFW Magazine and on the Auxiliary website.
At each level of competition, the artwork is not only judged for design, but technique, creativity, contrast and total impact of the work. There is a written component, which accompanies the artwork where each is judged on patriotic expression of clarity of ideas, elicitation of emotion, and can it stand on its own through expression and design.
The Ladies Auxiliary has recently learned the artwork of Elizabeth Macias has won for District 6 NC Ladies Auxiliary and will now compete in the state competition in Greensboro in June. Elizabeth Macias is the daughter of Maria Lozano and Rodolfo Macias and the stepdaughter of Juan Lopez.
The Mebane Enterprise, our local newspaper, featured this story in their April 10, 2013, edition. Contributing Reporter was Diane Sellers.
Happy Veterans Day! from VetFriends.com!
USA Flag Site.org. All things Patriotic.


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Q: Magento cannot upload category images I have installed Magento 1.8.1 and runs smoothly using the Zonda magento theme.
I am able to upload all kinds of images in all kinds of places (products, favicons, placeholders etc).
What doesn't work are the category images, thumbnail AND image.
Anyone has any idea? Everyone seems to have the problem that either no image upload works or all the uploads work.
Please help me out! :)

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Q: Activity getting reset upon displaying an AlertDialog My Activity is getting reset upon AlertDialog display.
I am learning Android and following this tutorial.
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    // Other Code
    submitBtn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.submit_button);
    // Other Code
    submitBtn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v){
            AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
            alert.setMessage("Hello " + name);
            alert.setTitle("Showing content in prompt window");
            alert.show();
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        }

Here is my AlertDialogCode:
//creating the alert dialog
final AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
builder.setCancelable(true)
            .setNegativeButton("Close", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                //Action for close button
                    dialog.cancel();
                }
            });

Activity gets reset as soon as the AlertDialog is displayed
Can you help to tell the reason why the activity is getting reset?

A: You are resetting the XML view of the activity with same layout so
Remove setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
 public void onClick(View v){
     AlertDialog alert = builder.create();
     alert.setMessage("Hello " + name);
     alert.setTitle("Showing content in prompt window");
     alert.show();
     //setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
     //^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ remove
}

A: Comment or remove the line
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

On you first code. Because this is forcing your activity to reload.

A: When you call onCreate method, you need to set content view just once. In your code you have already set the setContentView on the second line. If you happen to set it again, it will reset your activity and also remove your event handlers.
So suggest you to delete the second setContentView. This is also the problem in the tutorial you are following.
alert.show();
//setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); // <-- Needs to be removed


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Kerry Washington covers UPTOWN Magazine December/January Issue
It has definitely been an amazing year for the stunning actress. Popular for her lead role in the series- Scandal, Kerry Washington has become the favorite of many magazines. The gorgeous Kerry covers the December 2012/January 2013 issue of UPTOWN Magazine, Photographed by Nino Muñoz
Read her interview below:
On what drew her to Django and the controversy around the movie:
"I've never seen slavery dealt with this way before in film. So often it's a white character who's the savior of black people."
"We should have a plethora of visions and interpretations of who we are as a nation." But she admits, "This is not necessarily the film I would make about slavery."
On growing up in the Washington household and her multi-culti family:
She still remembers the lively, sometimes heated, discussions on race and society around the dinner table. "My family's very multiethnic," she says. "When we get together for the holidays, it is the U.N., across the board."
On the culture shock when she was enrolled in an upper east side private school:
Prior to Spence, Washington thought her working-middle-class family was balling. "We had a microwave and two cars. We had a dishwasher before anyone in the building," she says. "And then you go to this other world, and it's, 'Oh, we're taking a helicopter to your house in the Hamptons?' For a lot of classmates, I knew the only other black women they'd known were their domestic help."
On leaving the entertainment business:
"Sometimes I feel like I can't do this anymore." Almost once a year, her hair and makeup folks hear it: "I am done! I'm so done."
On why she's no saint:
"If you look at my body of work, I've always taken huge risks. I've played prostitutes, drug addicts, pimping lesbians. I do work I'm drawn to."
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I can't believe it has only been two years. I didn't feel like we got pregnant fast, but since we have an almost 11 month old, I guess we did.
Marriage has been wonderful, difficult, intense and mundane. I do not feel that our cultural backgrounds, he is Iranian, I am a Southern-Yankee halfbreed, really play a huge roll in our marriage.
No place are our cultural differences quite as fun as in the kitchen. We both enjoy cooking and eating. So when he suggested the menu for our Easter/Norooz lunch with an Iranian refugee family, there was no conflict. It was only as it was coming together did it start to seem like an unusual combination.
Mirsah ghasemi, a smoked eggplant dish, and Velveeta-salsa dip.
Pirashki and pigs in a blanket.
We both cooked. Sure, I made the Velveeta dip while he made the mirsah ghasemi. But I made the pirashkis while he made the guacamole.
And what is a pirashki? Well I'm glad you asked. I had no idea, but Google helped. Apparently their are Russian pirashkis and Iranian pirashkis. The main difference seems to be if they include dill as a spice or parsley. We went with the Iranian parsley.
I think this was the first time I have made something having no idea how it was supposed to taste. Plus I had to learn from experince, since Google didn't answer my question, that you can make pirashkis the night before.
Coolest thing about the pirashkis is that the first ingredient for the dough is plain yogurt, then milk and then yeast and a little sugar to make it grow. The link for the recipe I used is at the bottom of all this.
Mine did not look like those on the website, but I think practice will make perfect.
So what did the pirashkis taste like? Surprisingly, they tasted a lot like Sloppy Joe's.
No kidding. All that work and I really think Sloppy Joe's must be related to Iranian pirashkis. Of course, the bread was really out of this world amazing, and so much better, and yet similar, to a soft hamburger bun.
So yes, they went very well with the pigs in a blanket.
I will make them again and try to get them right next time. And by right I mean, I'll roll the dough thinner and put more filling in each one. But sometime in the next year I need to get him to try Sloppy Joe's so that he can see how similar they really are.


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June 28, 2011 — Scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) have developed tools that expand the use of ultrasound during spaceflight and on Earth, especially in rural and under-served locations. They include techniques that streamline training and help remote experts guide nonphysician astronauts to perform ultrasound exams. Ultrasound can be used to assess numerous conditions – fractured bones, collapsed lungs, kidney stones, organ damage and other ailments – in space and on Earth. With an NSBRI grant, they also created an atlas of "space-normal" imagery of the human body, setting the stage for astronauts to provide care without consulting a physician on Earth. This atlas was handed over to NASA earlier this year.
Scott A. Dulchavsky, M.D., the Roy D. McClure Chairman of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, is the principal investigator of these projects and a member of the NSBRI Smart Medical Systems and Technology Team. "The ultrasound imagery techniques came from space program constraints of not having a trained radiologist in orbit or having a CAT [computerized axial tomography] scan or an MRI [magnetic resonance imaging] available, forcing us to use ultrasound for things in which we would not normally use it," he said. "Also, time limitations forced us to put some tight brackets around what is absolutely required for training to be able to obtain a high-quality ultrasound image and to make some sense out of the image."
Dulchavsky and colleagues from NSBRI, NASA, Henry Ford and Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group began their first ultrasound experiment - Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity (ADUM) - by developing exam techniques for use on the International Space Station (ISS). The goal was for ISS crewmembers to collect high-quality ultrasound images to send to the Mission Control Center for analysis. The ADUM research was split into two projects: NSBRI funded the ground portion of the research, while NASA supported the flight segment.
The researchers conducted 80 hours of ultrasound examinations on the ISS and then sifted through approximately 20,000 images and many hours of video collected during ISS expeditions eight through 12 to create the "space-normal" atlas. The researchers developed the intuitive ultrasound guide to give astronauts broader use of ultrasound in additional organ systems and medical problems that were not part of the ISS experiment. Dulchavsky said, "ADUM initially utilized telemedicine and tele-ultrasound operations in which the astronauts were interacting with researchers and flight controllers on the ground during the examinations. The ultrasound intuitive guide allows astronauts to conduct exams when quick communication with an expert is not available due to distance from Earth or other reasons."
One of the first to be trained and perform an ultrasound exam in space was former NASA astronaut and ISS Expedition 10 commander Leroy Chiao, M.D. "We demonstrated on the International Space Station that even nonphysicians can produce diagnostic-quality ultrasound images using remote guidance," said Chiao, who is chairman of the NSBRI User Panel and a member of Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Space Medicine. "These ultrasound exam techniques and atlas will be increasingly important as we venture farther and longer into space. Telemedicine using ultrasound will be an invaluable medical diagnostic tool."
The level of skill needed to accurately analyze ultrasound exam results will vary based on the exam's goal. "To diagnose a broken bone is relatively straight-forward. When we were trialing this at my hospital, we trained the custodial personnel to conduct exams. After about five minutes, they had a diagnostic accuracy in the high 90s," Dulchavsky said. "Alternatively, if you are trying to look at subtle changes in how the heart functions in zero gravity after six months, that takes considerably more expertise, and may take hours or even days of evaluation to do."
As in space, low costs and reduced resource consumption make ultrasound an attractive option on Earth, but until recently, the lack of trained personnel has been an issue. Based on their research for NSBRI, Dulchavsky and his colleagues have spun off the techniques for terrestrial use and published The ICU Ultrasound Pocket Book – a reference guide for conducting examinations.
"The American College of Surgeons, which is charged with continuing education of surgeons in our country, saw the methods we developed for space and has now incorporated these techniques in its ultrasound training courses for all of the surgeons in the United States," Dulchavsky said. "Similarly, medical schools are starting to incorporate this training for all medical students, not just surgeons."
The ultrasound imaging techniques are also being used by athletic trainers for some professional sports teams and the United States Olympic Committee to get point-of-care rapid information about athletes' injuries.
However, it is rural locations, both inside and outside the U.S., that stand to gain the most from the diagnostic ultrasound capabilities and telemedicine. Dulchavsky has been collaborating with the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical UltraSound (WINFOCUS) to train individuals to use ultrasound techniques in under-served regions.
"The use of ultrasound truly enhances people's opportunities to access and provide accurate, immediate, cost-effective healthcare," said Luca Neri, M.D., director of the WINFOCUS Global Ultrasound Program and scientific chair of the Point-of-Care Lombardia Ultrasound project at Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital and AREU EMS Public Regional Company in Milan, Italy. "Particularly, within the resource-scarce communities and healthcare systems, we are successfully building upon the innovative ultrasound and telecommunication technologies developed by Dulchavsky for NSBRI and NASA and integrating their capabilities into the national health and education systems.
"By empowering local personnel to offer affordable, immediate, accurate, portable imaging, we facilitate earlier and more effective diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients on a broader basis and in a more sustainable manner," Neri said.
Some of the countries in which the ultrasound techniques are being implemented to foster sustainable primary healthcare development are Mozambique, Lesotho, Madagascar, India, Brazil and Nicaragua, with programs planned in Honduras, Congo and Malaysia. Tele-ultrasound has also been performed by Dulchavsky's team on Mount Everest and in the high Arctic Circle. During the past four years, Dulchavsky and Neri gave regular updates about ultrasound potentials at the United Nations' Economic and Social Council and the Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication in the Mediterranean and in the World InfoPoverty conferences in Geneva and New York.
In addition to Dulchavsky's work, the NSBRI Smart Medical Systems and Technology Team portfolio contains projects developing other innovative ultrasound technologies. One project is developing an ultrasound system to measure bone density and quality and accelerate fracture healing. Another project is developing a system for bloodless tumor removal, internal bleeding treatment and kidney stone reduction.


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« Yell at THEM
The noose tightens »
Oops we broke it
Aug 21st, 2018 | By Ophelia Benson
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a climate-change driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere.
One meteorologist described the loss of ice as "scary". Others said it could force scientists to revise their theories about which part of the Arctic will withstand warming the longest.
In other words it's happening much faster than the most pessimistic predictions.
The sea off the north coast of Greenland is normally so frozen that it was referred to, until recently, as "the last ice area" because it was assumed that this would be the final northern holdout against the melting effects of a hotter planet.
As well as reducing ice cover, the ocean intrusion raises concerns of feedbacks, which could tip the Earth towards a hothouse state.
Freakish Arctic temperatures have alarmed climate scientists since the beginning of the year. During the sunless winter, a heatwave raised concerns that the polar vortex may be eroding.
This includes the Gulf Stream, which is at its weakest level in 1,600 years due to melting Greenland ice and ocean warming. With lower circulation of water and air, weather systems tend to linger longer.
A dormant hot front has been blamed for record temperatures in Laplandand forest fires in Siberia, much of Scandinavia and elsewhere in the Arctic circle.
As they say…scary.
H/t Acolyte of Sagan in Miscellany Room
Watery Greenland
Faster than the models
Oops, missed a bit
Arctic feedback cycle
Didn't see that coming
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At my former place of employ, a couple of years ago, we had twice-monthly lunches at which guests were invited to speak (including employees; I gave an introduction to quantum physics once that was lukewarmly received). This post reminded me of one in particular, in which a local academic kook of an archaeologist peddled climate-change denial and her bizarre fiction written from the point of view of polar bears. The whole episode was strange, and we didn't really understand the subtext of her presentation until partway through.
At the end, I asked her about retreating ice, and she said some cockamamie thing about how 'scientists have proven that there'll always be ice up around Greenland for the polar bears to retreat to in summer, and it'll re-freeze down to the northern coast in the winter, so it's nothing to worry about'. I never accepted that, and never really understood where it came from.
Now I know. Too bad it was just as wrong as the rest of her nonsense.
(And there are forest fires a lot further south than the Arctic; since I returned from Europe, my city and much of several provinces have been more-or-less blanketed in smoke from the extensive forest fires. It would be alarming if it weren't so predictable, and depressing.)
Karellen
For a bit more information, there was a post about this a week ago on "Arctic Sea Ice Blog":
http://neven1.typepad.com/blog/2018/08/circumnavigating-greenland.html
Interesting, and with nice time-lapse photos.


For the past fifteen years we have raised high production utility chickens. In 2011 we decided to change the focus of our poultry operation from purchasing hatchery bred chickens to breeding and raising our own. To us this was a natural progression in sustainable farming.
We expect a lot from our chickens above and beyond representing their breeds accurately... they need to be excellent foragers, efficient on feed, produce good quality egg color, and have appropriate, non-aggressive temperaments. We have spent months researching and contacting breeders in search of true representatives of each of our chosen breeds, those being evaluated based on the Standards of Perfection (SOP's) as well as being true to the original purpose of the breed.
Although our list of breeds is still a work in progress our main focus will be on those that thrive on pasture, are productive and efficient egg layers, can handle the stress of Virginia's hot, humid summers and cold winters, and who can get along well with the rest of our mixed flock. Aside from breeding time, our flock of 150+ birds live together in a rotational grazing system.
Currently we are specializing in large fowl Rhode Island Reds, Light Sussex, Ameraucanas, Welsummers, and French Black Copper Marans. For now our White Leghorns will continue as a utility breed as we have access to free birds every spring from our local school embryolgy program.
We are also creating a small flock of New Hampshires, Delawares, and Chanteclers, all of which are on the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's list as being threatened by modern food production. We plan on working with all three of these breeds selecting towards true dual purpose chickens that produce not only eggs, but a meaty, tender and flavorful carcass. Somewhere in here we believe is a viable alternative to the flavorless Cornish-Rock Cross broiler that has taken over the commercial industry.
In addition to our wonderful two legged friends, our farm host a wide variety of meat species including Suffolk, Hampshire, and Southdown sheep, British Cross and Shorthorn Cattle, Full Blood Boer Goats, Californian Meat Rabbits, and an occassional Hampshire or Yorkshire Pig. We also grow out and sell over 1000 broilers a year.
On most weekends you can find us at Northern Virginia and Washington DC farmers markets selling our naturally and humanely raised meats, sausages, and prepared entrees, soups, and stews.
Inquiries and questions are always welcome. You will find that we thoroughly enjoy talking about.... raising livestock, ag marketing, and cooking!


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Q: Python numerical magic methods as classmethods I have written a custom Class that mimics physical units like meter, second, etc. Now I have implemented the classes in such a way that the user instantiates the class with a value, e.g.
class Unit(BaseUnit):
    def __init__(self, value, unitinformation):
        super(Unit, self).__init__(unitinformation)
        self.value = value

    def __mul__(self, other):
        value = self.value * other
        return self.__class__(value=value, self.unitinformation)

class Meter(Unit):
    def __init__(self, value):
        super(Meter, self).__init__(value, "stuff that defines Meter")

With BaseUnit being an abstract baseclass that takes care of possible conversions etc. This all works fine, but I would also like that it it possible for example to write
myUnit = 5 * Meter

which should be equivalent to
myUnit = Meter(5)

Is there any way, that the magic methods both accept classes and instances (possibly without using a metaclass)?


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I love all of the quotes that you put in here. Death sure has a way with words. I found myself highlighting half the book by the time I was through!


Artist Patti Bradeis creates heartfelt portraits that touch the lives of her clients. We spoke with her recently about her work.
ABI: Please share the concept and message behind your portraiture.
PB: In February, 2011, with a prayer and a sharpened pencil I endeavored to draw a photograph of my 2-year-old granddaughter with her arms reaching high and her head thrown back with her whole being gushing giggles. Her emotion mirrored my soul's posture of praise and gratitude to our Lord.
So began my quest to draw individual stories without words that reflect wisdom, guidance, encouragement, comfort, discipline, justice, joy, and love that I glean from the Word. I couple each portrait with a Biblical verse that is the essence of what the drawing speaks to me personally.
ABI: Where do you get inspiration and what would you like to impart to others?
PB: Regardless of the season of life through which I have journeyed, my Dad has always reminded me "the sun will still come up tomorrow." While these are simple words, they have always proven to be true. Even when gloomy clouds prevent me from feeling the warmth of the sun or prohibits its light from illuminating my path, the sun IS still present!
Every day of life is an opportunity to transition from mourning to dancing, from sowing to reaping, from hatred to love, from anxiety to peace, from tears to laughter, from selfishness to serving others, from shame to pride, from suffering to joy, from insecurity to confidence, from physical, emotional and spiritual depletion to strong, abundant health. Through my work I hope you receive a glimmer of hope, a spark of humor, a wisp of encouragement or an inspired breath of perseverance to add to your day.
ABI: What is the response you have received?
The most memorable response I observed was of a woman who stood silently crying in front of the portrait entitled "Angst." It depicts a child whose face is contorted with anxiety. This tenderhearted woman revealed to me that the child represented her own life filled with anxiety. she said the scripture that accompanied the portrait resonated deeply with her heart.
Another reaction came from a seasoned firefighter who began unashamedly to weep as he turned the pages of my portfolio. It literally was indescribable to witness such raw, uninhibited emotion. A spontaneous reaction of a father seeing his daughter's memorial portrait by proclaiming "She has life in her eyes again!" which sparked a sense of participating in a healing moment in his grief.
There have been times I've overheard (or, "eavesdropped" if you will) on people's remarks as they view my art. One piece especially, entitled "Two Tu's" is of two little girls holding hands gazing at the ocean. This scene ignites a lot of "remember when…." followed by childhood beach memories and friendships new and old. It is a print that resides in both homes of dear friends.
LOVE her artwork and her passion.
incredibly touching to emotions way beyond words.
it was an honor to meet this artist!


Here we go, the month of eclipses is upon us and shaking things up in a big way. On August 7th we have a partial full moon lunar eclipse in Aquarius. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly behind the earth into its shadow. This only occurs when the sun, moon and earth are aligned. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when only a portion of the moon enters the shadow. Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the planet that is all about change and transformation. That is the big theme of this month, major transformation, especially in the fields of our soul desires, the path we are meant to be on. In order to create this change harmoniously we need to make room for it. It's so true that when we jump into whatever is aligning with our soul no matter how scary it may feel the universe will meet you and honour your courage. Sometimes we may not know the right step to take but we should anyways, knowing that we will be guided back on the right path. Spend some time in meditation and journaling. Be really honest with what it is you want for your life, what brings you the most joy? Write down the answer to this question: if you were given the freedom to do anything your soul desires this year what would it be? What do you need to change in your life to achieve that? When we make shifts in our life that align with who we truly are we can manifest great and beautiful things. This world needs more people who are lit up by life and creating their desires, that is how we spread love and influence others by living our best lives!
I recently quit my day job and will be traveling to Croatia. My life is transforming in big ways and it is scary but also I had to feel settled within myself to make the shifts, I had to be ready energetically. Which is why the emotional effects of the eclipses and the full moon are positives for me, its a freeing feeling of ease. This is the case because I didn't resist the changes, I flowed with them, and because of that my excitement, faith and joy have created manifestations in my life. I have a clear view now of what I want to accomplish and I am holding onto that view no matter what valleys I step into. You can only walk in the valley for some time before you reach the peak.
The cosmos are here to illuminate our lives, showing us that shifts are needed in order to align with our higher selves. Self-awareness is a gift to have during this time. We need to do the work within, the daily meditations, to start to unlock what we truly want. This may come with some confusion, but that is ok! Be gentle with yourself and know that seeking is an important part to knowing. We can look at this as an exciting time of profound growth and really look at our lives and be honest with ourselves if it is the life we want? There is always a better tomorrow, a new possibility, a fresh start, a new direction...it may take a lot of soul searching and hard work but in the end you can feel more like the you you were meant to be!
I will have a beautiful new moon ritual for you on the blog soon! For tonight focus on gratitude, light some candles and thank the universe for all that you have. Write down a manifestation list for this year and feel the joy. Crystals to use for this time are: moonstone, malachite, and garnet.
Happy full moon and high vibing!


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Q: Both methods have same erasures I have read similar questions, and know generic erasures will cause this error IN SAME CLASS. But I cannot understand why following code dont work.
I designed some examples. And found many many things confusing.
public static class Father<S> {

    public void foo(Set<String> s) {...}

    public void bar(S s) {...}

    public void baz(String s) {...}
}

public static class Son<E> extends Father {

    public void foo(Set<String> s) {...} **// error**

    public void bar(E e) {...} **// error**
 // public void bar(Object e) {...} // This works

    public void baz(String s) {...}
}

public static class Daughter<E> extends Father<T> {

    public void foo(Set<String> s) {...} **// error**

    public void bar(Object e) {...}

    public void baz(String s) {...} **// error**
}

As you can see, I got several erros. Here is my questions:

*

*Let's focus on Father and Son. Why does baz work, while foo does not?

*Let's see bar in Son. Why Object e works, while E e fails? I think E will be erased to Object?

*Let's see Daughter, why baz fails, comparing to Son?

Please anyone tell me why this occurs? Many thanks!
(I know I should not use raw classes. But why this causes error? )

A: The issue is that Son<E> extends a raw Father class.
Therefore foo and bar of the Son class don't override
public void foo(Set<String> s) {}

public void bar(S s) {}

of the Father class, which (after erasure) become
public void foo(Set s) {}

public void bar(Object s) {}

and have the same erasure of the methods of the same name in the Son class.
Changing the declaration of Son to
public static class Son<E> extends Father<E>

will resolve the errors.
The baz method has no issues since it has no generic arguments, so baz of the sub-class overrides baz of the base-class.
In your Daughter class, it's not clear where T is coming from. If you change T to E, all the errors go away.
Oh, and void bar(Object e) works in the original example since it overrides void bar(S s) of Father (due to the fact the Son extends a raw Father).

A: Here :
public class Son<E> extends Father {

You are using a raw Father in the definition of the class extending.
It is a bad practice.
You should rather write :
public class Son<E> extends Father<E> {

Using raw types has also consequences in terms of inheritancy.
From the JLS :

The superclasses (respectively, superinterfaces) of a raw type are the
  erasures of the superclasses (superinterfaces) of any of the
  parameterizations of the generic type.

and :

The supertype of a class may be a raw type. Member accesses for the
  class are treated as normal, and member accesses for the supertype are
  treated as for raw types.

As a consequence, Son doesn't consider generics in the parent class.
For Son , this inherited method  :
public void foo(Set<String> s) {
}

is indeed bound as :
public void foo(Set s) {
}

So, the child and the parent methods have the same erasure but the child method doesn't override the parent method as you don't use exactly the same type :
public void foo(Set<String> s) {...} **// error**

If you override in this way to be conform to the raw version of the Father :
public void foo(Set s) {...}

it will compile.
For bar() method with generics, it is exactly the same thing.
This :
public void bar(E e)

will be bound as :
public void bar(Object e)

And you get the same problem...
I will not explain all the points as I don't think that it is helpful.
What you get is the result of bad practices.
The morale is you have not to use raw types for class designed to work with generics as it may create serious side effects on their initial intention and usage of the class.

This
public static class Son<E> extends Father {

should be :
public static class Son<E> extends Father<E>  {

And this :
public static class Daughter<E> extends Father<T> {

should be :
public static class Daughter<E> extends Father<E> {