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Write choice: Author Claire Cook pursued her dream and has never looked back
By Dina Gerdeman
Jun 21, 2007 at 12:01 AM Jun 21, 2007 at 9:13 PM
Writing novels was the career Claire Cook almost didn't have. Cook was busy raising two children, teaching at a Scituate Montessori school and convincing herself that she was being creative enough, that she didn't really need to write that book she had once felt determined to write.
''It's scary and everyone tells you all the negative things and 95 percent of books are rejected,'' said Cook, who lives in Scituate. ''I joke that I never even wrote a thank-you note for years. I tried to pretend it didn't matter, that I was doing enough creative things, but deep down inside I felt really bad about it for a lot of years. I don't think it's that uncommon to hide from the thing you want most to do in your life but you're most afraid of.''
Cook hid from her passion for decades - until she hit her mid-40s.
''One day it hit me that I could live my whole life and never once go for it,'' Cook, now 52, said. ''I was realizing that my kids weren't going to be babies forever. I might be one of those people who dreams about it and never goes for it. I was clearly the person standing in my own way.''
And so she got busy. She wrote her first novel, ''Ready to Fall,'' in her minivan at 5 a.m. outside her daughter's swimming practices, all while teaching at one school and consulting at two others.
She was 45 when that first novel was published in 2000, and at age 50, she walked the red carpet at the Hollywood premier of her second novel, ''Must Love Dogs.''
It's not surprising that Cook can relate to the turning point reached by her 40-something career-confused character Ginger Walsh in her newest novel, ''Life's a Beach."
Ginger is single and back home living in the family FROG (Finished Room Over Garage) after spending a few too many years in sales and hoping instead to start a new career as a sea glass artist. Meanwhile, Ginger's BlackBerry-addicted older sister Geri, who is married with children, is freaking out about turning 50. The sisters spend most of the book bickering - while at the same time searching for themselves and each other.
Cook, who is one of eight children (she's second oldest), said the two women in the book are a combination of her four sisters.
''If you asked my four sisters which was Ginger and which was Geri, they would all have a different answer,'' she said. ''No one loves you more unconditionally than a sister, and yet no one drives you crazier.''
Cook's exposure to Hollywood during the filming of ''Must Love Dogs'' got her creative juices going, and she began writing ''Life's a Beach'' in between visits to the Los Angeles set.
Like ''Must Love Dogs,'' the story is set partly in the fictional town of Marshbury (a Marshfield-Duxbury combo). ''Now people in Scituate say, 'You could have combined Scituate with something,''' she said.
In the book, Ginger ends up accompanying her nephew on the set of a movie about a terrorizing shark. The film ends up taking a detour from Hollywood to Cape Cod - a move closer to home that made the story more fresh, she said.
''When I moved the movie to Cape Cod, it really came alive,'' she said.
There are plenty of Boston and South Shore references sprinkled throughout the book. For example, Ginger's father in the book is a dump picker who is constantly bringing home new treasures. He's a character born from Cook's own experiences visiting Scituate's Take It or Leave It dump.
''I love when people try to unload your car because they want what's in it,'' she said. ''I watch those people. I've gotten a ton of e-mail from readers. Everybody knows somebody who can't stay out of the dump.''
Besides, she said, it's fun to write about people and places her own friends and family find familiar.
''I always think (the books) are extra special to people who live in the South Shore,'' she said. ''I try to put in little valentines for them, little local details, because it makes it extra fun for people. You're always a local author first.''
She can certainly relate to the character's feelings about the small town she lives in, where everybody knows everybody. Cook, who was born in Virginia, has lived in Scituate most of her life.
''It's both the best and worst thing about living in a small town,'' she said. ''Once I ran out of gas driving along the streets of Scituate. I pulled over and the very car behind me stopped and the driver said, 'No problem, Claire, I have gas in my car from my lawnmower.' People are so there for you. I feel so supported. The flip side of that is, everyone totally knows everyone's business. In a town like Marshbury, if you have a disagreement with someone, it's not like New York City where you'll never see them again. People who don't live in small towns don't get that. Everybody is connected to everybody.''
At Cook's book signings, she will look out and see friends, her former students from the Montessori Community School in Scituate and once, even her high school English teacher. And despite her success, many people who have known her all these years still see her as the same Claire Cook they have always known.
''I taught dance aerobics before I taught at the Montessori school, so people will say, 'These books are nice, but I wish you would start teaching aerobics again,''' she said, giggling. ''Mostly, my life is exactly the same. I get to have a normal life and then I go off and do some fun things.''
She has not once entertained thoughts of ''going Hollywood.''
''I loved visiting and dabbling in L.A., but it didn't feel like home at all,'' she said. ''It's really fun to play, but then I'm so grateful to come back and be around sweet, normal people.''
Yet the success of ''Must Love Dogs'' has brought some changes.
For one thing, she no longer has to write in her minivan. She quit her day job after signing a lucrative book deal for ''Must Love Dogs'' and ''Multiple Choice.''
Now she treats writing like a job. When she's working on a novel, she writes in her home office seven days a week. She finds she is most fresh in the morning, so she keeps her pajamas on, pours herself some coffee and shuts out the world, leaving the phone unanswered and e-mail unchecked. She has a defined requirement of herself: at least two pages a day.
''I could write in a garden shed if I had to. It's about being isolated. I like solitude. Every day there's a very good reason not to get your work done: your kids need you, your car needs work. I'm not allowed to go to bed until I finish my two pages. It can take me from an hour to 23 hours.''
Cook's life is split between isolating herself at the computer for six months to traveling, talking and laughing with booksellers and readers the rest of the year.
''When I do go out (on book tours), I'm gregarious and I love laughing,'' she said. ''But by August, I'll be so over it and ready to write the next book. People say, 'I'd love to be your neighbor,' but if you were my neighbor, I'd be hiding from you to get my work done. As an author, you have to be isolated most of the time.''
Cook gets much of the material for her books by being nosy.
''Novelists are great eavesdroppers,'' she said. ''If I'm in a restaurant, I'm listening to the conversation at your table. I'm milking my life for every little detail I can.''
And these days her friends and family members are quick to share their own life stories in hopes of seeing them in print.
''When I wrote my first novel, I thought no one would talk to me again because I write very close to the life we're living right outside our kitchen door,'' she said. ''I thought I'd go to Stop 'n Shop and people would hide. But the opposite has happened. People tell me, 'You'll never believe what happened last week.'''
And Cook is all for soaking up wild and funny stories and writing that wit into her novels. She isn't so much interested in delving into subjects deep and painful.
''There's enough pain and suffering in the world without me adding to it,'' she said. ''I love that my books make people laugh.''
With the movie came greater name recognition. ''Life's a Beach'' is a summer book pick by Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and People magazine.
''My books will stay on the shelves so much longer now,'' said Cook, who has been married for 28 years to Jake Jacobucci, a land surveyor. ''Plus the movie put our kids through college. What's not to like about that?''
Cook's daughter Garet, 23, graduated a couple years ago from Emory College in Atlanta, and her son Kaden, 20, recently finished his sophomore year at Champlain College in Vermont.
Cook is hearing that there is some interest in making a movie out of ''Life's a Beach'' as well.
''If it happens, great. If it doesn't, I won't spend three minutes worrying about it,'' she said. ''It's just about writing the best book I can write.''
And she's not sorry she waited until she was in her 40s to start writing. She majored in film and creative writing in college, fully expecting that the day after graduation she would give birth to a brilliant novel.
''I guess I knew how to write, but not what to write. Looking back, I can see that I had to live my life so I'd have something to write about,'' she said. ''I have no regrets because I appreciate it so much more now.
''I talk to so many people who dust off their dreams at mid-life,'' she said. ''Mid-life makes you want to keep all the good things in your life, but you also know there's a finite amount of time to go after the rest of it, and you want everything else.''
Dina Gerdeman of the Patriot Ledger may be reached at dgerdeman@ledger.com .


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SPECIAL EDITION PROGRAMME ON SALE TODAY
Luke Nicoli
A special edition issue of Seagull, Albion's matchday programme, has been produced ahead of Sunday's FA Cup fourth round tie with Arsenal, and is available now from the Amex Store.
The bumper edition features a host of Albion stars past and present including Liam Brady, Steve Gatting, Leo Ulloa, Ashley Barnes, Rohan Ince and Inigo Calderon.
Cover star Calde takes a look back at our fourth round encounter with the Gunners back in 2013, while the Albion goalscorers that day, Ulloa and Barnes, recall their memories of the tie and tell us about life in the Premier League with Leicester and Burnley respectively.
Arsenal forward Theo Walcott says he's not underestimating Chris Hughton's side in an exclusive interview, while Alan Curbishley and Garry Nelson take a trip down memory lane, recalling the Gunners' last visit to the Goldstone in 1988.
There's a double club connection in the programme, with Arsenal legend Brady recalling his spell as Albion boss during the turbulent mid-Nineties, likewise his FA Cup Final exploits with the Gunners, while Steve Gatting remembers his playing days at the Goldstone and Highbury, and the 1983 FA Cup Final against Manchester United.
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BALDOCK CONFIDENT AHEAD OF ARSENAL
RETRO ROUND-UP: ARSENAL
FAN GALLERY: IPSWICH TOWN
TEIXEIRA DELIGHTED WITH LOAN SPELL
Albion and Arsenal fans discuss Sunday's big game over a swift half or two, while Alan Mullery recalls his days facing the Gunners, both as a Spurs player and an Albion manager.
We also take a look at the programmes and memorabilia which have emanated from games between the two sides, dating back to the 1930s.
Back to Albion news and loan signing Leon Best tells us why he had no hesitation in signing for the Seagulls, while goalscorers Sam Baldock and Joao Teixeira look back at Wednesday's excellent win against Ipswich Town.
Boss Chris Hughton also reflects on the 3-2 victory against Ipswich and reveals his respect for opposing manager on Sunday, Arsene Wenger.
All this and much more can be found in your 84-page Seagull, which is available in-store this afternoon, tomorrow and Sunday, priced £3.50. It will also be available on matchday in and around the Amex Stadium.
Please note, the store is open until 5pm today, from 9am-5pm Saturday and from 9am on Sunday.
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JK Tyre & Industries Ltd appoints Anuj Kathuria as President
JK Tyre & Industries Limited is delighted to appoint Mr. Anuj Kathuria as President (India), reporting to Chairman & Managing Director, Dr Raghupati Singhania and Mr. Anshuman Singhania, Managing Director, based out of Delhi.
Mr. Kathuria brings with him 31 years of rich experience, having worked in senior management positions in leading and reputed auto companies, i.e. Ashok Leyland and Tata Motors. An Engineer and a Post Graduate in Marketing & Finance, he is a Harvard Business School alumni. In addition, he has also worked overseas in auto sector, in senior management positions.
Welcoming Mr. Kathuria, Dr Raghupati Singhania, Chairman & Managing Director, JK Tyre said "I am sure that Mr. Kathuria will provide adept leadership and lead JK Tyre on a new growth trajectory".
JK Tyre, pioneers of radial technology in India, is a leading tyre company with well-known brands viz. JK Tyre, Vikrant, Tornel etc. It has presence in over 105 countries across six continents, having 12 globally benchmarked 'sustainable manufacturing facilities (9 in India and 3 in Mexico) with a capacity of over 32 Mn tyres per annum.
JK Tyre's unwavering commitment towards innovation is reflected through its state-of-the-art global research and technology centre – "Raghupati Singhania Centre of Excellence" – in Mysore, which houses some of the world's finest technologies.
JK Tyre launched India's first ever 'Smart Tyre' technology with Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) which monitors the tyre's vital statistics' including pressure and temperature.
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We, modern humans, have the technology to go even to the moon now. Then why do we always leave out our front and back porch unclean? Why we leave out our technological wonder like car unwashed and rotting with dirt?
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How does a telescoping extension wand for pressure washer works?
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require 'csv'
class Course::Assessment::Submission::CsvDownloadService
  class << self
    # Downloads the submissions in csv format
    #
    # @param [CourseUser] current_course_user The course user downloading the submissions.
    # @param [Course::Assessment] assessment The assessments to download submissions from.
    # @param [String|nil] course_users_type The subset of course users whose submissions to download.
    # Accepted values: 'my_students', 'my_students_w_phantom', 'students', 'students_w_phantom'
    #   'staff', 'staff_w_phantom'
    # @return [String] The path to the csv file.
    def download(current_course_user, assessment, course_users_type)
      service = new(current_course_user, assessment, course_users_type)
      ActsAsTenant.without_tenant do
        service.generate_csv
      end
    end
  end

  def generate_csv
    submissions = @assessment.submissions.by_users(course_users.pluck(:user_id)).
                  includes(:assessment, { answers: { actable: [:options, :files] },
                                          experience_points_record: :course_user })
    submissions_hash = submissions.to_h { |submission| [submission.creator_id, submission] }
    csv_file_path = File.join(@base_dir, "#{Pathname.normalize_filename(@assessment.title)}.csv")
    CSV.open(csv_file_path, 'w') do |csv|
      submissions_csv_header csv
      @course_users.each do |course_user|
        submissions_csv_row csv, submissions_hash[course_user.user_id], course_user
      end
    end
    csv_file_path
  end

  COURSE_USERS = { my_students: 'my_students',
                   my_students_w_phantom: 'my_students_w_phantom',
                   students: 'students',
                   students_w_phantom: 'students_w_phantom',
                   staff: 'staff',
                   staff_w_phantom: 'staff_w_phantom' }.freeze

  private

  def initialize(current_course_user, assessment, course_users_type)
    @current_course_user = current_course_user
    @course_users_type = course_users_type
    @assessment = assessment

    @question_assessments = Course::QuestionAssessment.where(assessment_id: assessment.id).
                            includes(:question)
    @sorted_question_ids = @question_assessments.pluck(:question_id)
    @questions = Course::Assessment::Question.where(id: @sorted_question_ids).
                 includes(:actable)
    @questions_downloadable = @questions.to_h { |q| [q.id, q.csv_downloadable?] }

    @base_dir = Dir.mktmpdir('coursemology-download-')
  end

  def submissions_csv_header(csv)
    # Question Title
    question_title = [I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.note'), '', '', '',
                      I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.question_title'),
                      *@question_assessments.map(&:display_title)]
    # Remove note if there is no N/A answer
    question_title[0] = '' if @questions_downloadable.values.all?
    csv << question_title

    # Question Type
    csv << ['', '', '', '',
            I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.question_type'),
            *@question_assessments.map { |x| x.question.question_type }]

    # Column Header
    csv << [I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.name'),
            I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.email'),
            I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.role'),
            I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.user_type'),
            I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.status')]
  end

  def submissions_csv_row(csv, submission, course_user) # rubocop:disable Metrics/AbcSize
    row_array = [course_user.name,
                 course_user.user.email,
                 course_user.role,
                 if course_user.phantom?
                   I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.phantom')
                 else
                   I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.normal')
                 end]

    if submission
      current_answers_hash = submission.current_answers.to_h { |answer| [answer.question_id, answer] }
      answer_row = @questions.map do |question|
        answer = current_answers_hash[question.id]
        generate_answer_row(question, answer)
      end
      row_array.concat([submission.workflow_state, *answer_row])
    else
      row_array.append(I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.unstarted'))
    end

    csv << row_array
  end

  def generate_answer_row(question, answer)
    return 'N/A' unless @questions_downloadable[question.id]
    return I18n.t('course.assessment.submission.submissions.csv_download_service.no_answer') if answer.nil?

    answer.specific.csv_download
  end

  def course_users # rubocop:disable Metrics/AbcSize
    @course_users ||=
      case @course_users_type
      when COURSE_USERS[:my_students]
        @current_course_user.my_students.without_phantom_users
      when COURSE_USERS[:my_students_w_phantom]
        @current_course_user.my_students
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Merry Christmas - See you in 2017!
Read all about our upcoming courses, events plus more in the final edition of 'The Trainer' for 2016.
SASMA is proud to present a fantastic line up of speakers for the 2017 FAST Conference including Rachel McAlister who will be running a workshop on The Hamstring.


We have used this site as a stopover on several occasions, it is only a couple of minutes off the motorway and always seems to have space, (might be worth checking at weekends as it is so close to Madrid). The site is well equipped with shop, bar, swimming pools (2 x very large ones). It is set with a backdrop of the mountains and is mainly static vans and chalets. The camping area offers a good toilet block with all the facilities. There are elec hook ups available and there is also a large shaded area. The local town has all the shops that you will require to stock up on provisions as well as a selection of bars. The hotel that is near the motorway also has a good cheap restaurant. This could be used as a stopover for visiting Madrid as there is a train station in the next village. All in all a useful site to know about.


If you look at the most revered people in history, the people who have done the most for the world, the people who have pushed society forward, you'll invariably find that a major characteristic of those individuals is courage. But what is courage?
S. J. Rachman, a Canadian psychologist specializing in fear and courage, says that many people think of courage as fearlessness. However, Rachman defines courage as perseverance in the face of fear and stress.
Courage is a personal strength, which equates to the ability to act when others of lesser courage will not. It's the ability to act in spite of fear and overwhelming opposition. It's the ability to act in spite of hardship, despair and sometimes, imminent personal physical danger.
Ask yourself, Who's the most courageous individual you've personally known? Next, who's the most courageous person you can identify throughout history? Now, what were the courageous characteristics that caused you to choose these individuals? My personal favorite is Winston Churchill. At the end of World War I, Churchill was in charge of the British navy. After a major naval defeat, he was removed from office and then had to endure more than 20 years of rejection of his political views. He admittedly suffered some very low times. But he never wavered on his beliefs. His views were eventually proven correct when the Germans swept through Europe, and Churchill was the obvious choice to become Britain's wartime prime minister.
Everyone automatically looked to him in this time of need because they knew where he stood and they witnessed him display courage in battle, putting himself in harm's way over and over again. His personal courage and determination helped inspire an entire nation to continue to resist a force that at the time must have seemed to most … insurmountable. And yet Churchill wasn't a likely person to become courageous. According to Stephen Mansfield, in his book Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill, Churchill didn't have physical strength or towering stature. He was neglected, ridiculed, and misused by friends and family alike. He was brought up in the leisure class, which seldom produces principled men of vision. However, in spite of all that, he developed a staggering moral and physical bravery.
Mansfield is right to say that it would be difficult to teach someone to operate at, as he says, "the staggering level of courage of a Churchill or a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King." However, it's been proven that courage can be learned, and that is incredibly important for any of us who would like to increase our courage in some area of our lives.
Among S. J. Rachman's research, he observed the military bomb-disposal officers serving in the British army in Northern Ireland. He discovered that these men were able to cultivate a great capacity for courage, even if they initially lacked a high degree of self-confidence or a natural ability to persist under pressure. He found that the ability to persist and function well in the face of great danger was largely the result of intense and specialized training for their job. Not only being prepared, but knowing you are prepared.
Denis Waitley describes fear as one of the strongest motivating emotions we can experience. Yet we do have the power to choose an even stronger motivation that can override fear and cause us to act courageously.
It's apparent that we can become more courageous with enough preparation. If we venture, we do so by faith, because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning. Isn't this the ultimate reason that doubt and fear are able to eat away at our courage? We're fearful because we cannot know the end of anything at its beginning, and we start imagining the worst possible scenarios. So, it seems our best chance to overcome fear and become courageous is to prepare and then have faith. Now, in what area of your life would you like to become more courageous?
Vic Conant is the President of Nightingale-Conant Corporation, the world leader in personal development. Read more articles by Vic Conant.


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Making migration work: lessons from New Zealand 16 Nov 2010
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Ever since the 1980s, Australian academics and official reports have called for Pacific Islanders to be given better access to the Australian labour market. To its credit, the Rudd Government introduced the Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme in August 2008. The scheme allows Pacific Islanders to engage in farm work in Australia for up to seven months a year. Unfortunately, the scheme has never taken off, with less than 100 Islanders participating in the two years since its launch. Theories for its failure abound ranging from excessive red-tape to the prolonged drought.
In stark contrast to Australia, New Zealand has always offered preferential migration treatment to its Pacific neighbours. It has granted citizenship to all residents of the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau. The Samoan Quota Scheme set up in 1970 allows up to 1,100 Samoan nationals to become permanent residents of New Zealand every year. And the Pacific Access Category introduced in 2002 allows another up to 750 Pacific Islanders to become permanent residents.
New Zealand also got ahead of Australia in terms of temporary migration, introducing a seasonal workers scheme (the Recognized Seasonal Employer or RSE program) one year before Australia, in 2007. Again in contrast to Australia, this scheme has quickly taken off. In 2009, some 8,000 Pacific Islanders worked in New Zealand under it.
Now World Bank economist David McKenzie and Professor John Gibson of the Waikato Management School in New Zealand have released their long-awaited evaluation of the New Zealand RSE scheme. McKenzie and Gibson note that the scheme has already been evaluated from a domestic perspective, with that study showing little displacement of New Zealand workers, very low overstay rates (1% or less), and only a few isolated cases where concerns about worker exploitation have arisen.
The remaining question for the NZ scheme then is whether it has had a positive development impact in the Pacific. Based on household surveys underway in Tonga and Vanuatu since the scheme's commencement, McKenzie and Gibson answer this question overwhelmingly in the affirmative. They find that the scheme has led to an average increase of over 30% in per capita household income among participating households in the two countries. Participating households also considered themselves better off. The scheme has strong support from community leaders, and has increased child schooling in Tonga though not Vanuatu.
Overall, the authors conclude that the New Zealand seasonal worker scheme is "among the most effective development policies evaluated to date" and "should serve as a model for other countries to follow."
All of which is good news for the Pacific, and a pat on the back for New Zealand. But it also raises the stakes for Australia. Though more analysis is needed, clearly Australia's seasonal worker scheme isn't working, and it needs to be fixed. But we should also look at New Zealand's permanent migration schemes, which are far more flexible and require less bureaucratic intervention, and which also appear to work well, as a 2007 study showed. Fixing our seasonal workers scheme and opening a Pacific window into our permanent migration program should both be on the development agenda in Australia.
Stephen Howes is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School and the Director of the Development Policy Centre.
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If you are in town on a Saturday from April through October, begin your day at the Saturday Farmer's Market on Bentonville Square. Vendors sell everything from coffee to delicious pastries to every imaginable type of produce. The market also features chef demonstrations and live music.
Other days of the week, check out The Hive at 21c Museum Hotel, and if you are a morning coffee person, be sure to grab a coffee at the Pressroom or Kennedy Coffee.
Once you've had a bite to eat, rent a bike at Phat Tire right off the square. Take a bike ride on some of the amazing trails around the city. Rentals include a helmet, a quick fit and suspension set-up, flat pedals, SPD, Crank Brother, SPD-SL, or you can BYOB… Bring Your Own Bike!
After your bike ride, come back to the square and grab some lunch at the Station Cafe, famous for its delicious burgers, or hit the Crepes Paulette food truck.
Browse the art galleries around the square in the afternoon or visit the Walmart Museum, which shows the history of the big box giant and its founder, Sam Walton.
Take a walk on one of Bentonville's beautiful walking trails. There are 3.5 miles of trail around and through the beautiful 120-acre Crystal Bridges Museum of America Art site.
Round out your day with dinner at Fred's Hickory Inn where you will sample some of the best smoked barbecue you've ever put in your mouth!


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Robert Lechêne, né le  à Bourges et mort le  à Saint-Firmin-des-Bois, est un journaliste de la presse communiste française.

Journaliste
Adhérent au Parti communiste français depuis 1946, après des études inachevées en lettres supérieures au lycée Condorcet, Robert Lechêne  entre en  au quotidien communiste Ce soir d'Aragon, où il acquerra une pratique du métier auprès de professionnels tels que Jean-Marie Coldefy, Jacques-Francis Rolland, Pierre Daix et André Stil.

Après la disparition de Ce soir en , il entre dans l'équipe du magazine communiste L'Humanité Dimanche sous l'autorité successivement de Maurice Choury, François Lescure, Jean Récanati, Marcel Verfeuil, puis André Carrel de 1957 à 1981. Robert Lechêne sera ensuite, jusqu'à sa retraite en , affecté à une rubrique de L'Humanité quotidienne travaillant sur des sujets hors-actualité les plus variés.

Vulgarisateur
La pratique journalistique de Robert Lechêne est caractérisée par une polyvalence étendue, de la mise en page du plomb au grand reportage (URSS et Sibérie, Caraïbes, Terre de Feu, Canada, Japon, Mongolie), des spectacles à la vulgarisation scientifique et technique dans de multiples domaines, de l'astronautique à l'informatique, la robotique ou l'imagerie médicale.

Membre depuis 1958 de l'Association des Journalistes d'Information Scientifique, il écrira divers ouvrages accompagnés de conférences pour les éditions dirigées par Lucien Barnier et Michel Rouzé, et pour les éditions la farandole. Plusieurs de ces ouvrages traitant de l'histoire et des techniques de l'imprimerie, il sera demandé par l'Encyclopædia Britannica pour l'article «  » de son édition 1975.

En 1963, il occupe pour un an la rédaction en chef du mensuel lancé par la Jeunesse communiste, Nous les garçons et les filles.

Militant
En désaccord en 1976 avec une nouvelle formule de L'Humanité Dimanche qu'il estime s'éloigner de ce que doit être un magazine populaire, Robert Lechêne sera responsable d'une édition s'adressant aux entreprises, en relation avec le secteur « entreprises » du PCF animé par Jean Colpin.

En , après la condamnation par le PCF de la formule qu'il avait critiquée, Robert Lechêne dirigera jusqu'à l'élection de François Mitterrand en 1981 la rubrique politique de la formule la remplaçant, plus expressive des positions du Parti Communiste.

Tout au long de sa carrière professionnelle, il aura eu ainsi un comportement militant, dans la vie comme dans l'écriture, adhérent de base dans des cellules de Billancourt, Paris  et Ivry. Opposé à la « mutation » engagée par Robert Hue, qu'il considère comme une entreprise de liquidation du communisme en France, il renverra sa carte en 2002 après le  du PCF, se définissant lui-même comme « communiste sans carte ».

Après son départ en retraite, passionné des peuples premiers comme il avait pu l'être lors de ses reportages, il a publié en 1992 Colomb de malheur, une biographie impitoyable pour la légende du découvreur Christophe Colomb.

Robert Lechêne est marié depuis 1953 à Marie-Thérèse Borri.

Œuvres
 La Lune, planète des hommes, Éditions Mondiales, "le demi-siècle de la science", DelDuca 1958
 Mystères sous nos pas, Éditions Mondiales, "le demi-siècle de la science", DelDuca 1960
 Feu vert pour l'espace, Éditions La Farandole, coll. « Savoir et connaître », 1961
 La mécanique des climats, Diagrammes , Ed. du Cap, 1963
 L'imprimerie de Gutenberg à l'électron, La Farandole, coll. « Savoir et connaître », 1965
 L'imprimerie moderne,ou la seconde mort de Gutenberg, Diagrammes , Ed. du Cap, 1967
 L'imprimerie de Gutenberg à l'électron, édition revue et augmentée, préface de Julien Cain, La Farandole, 1972
 Colomb de malheur, Scandéditions/Temps actuels, 1992

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Naissance à Bourges
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The Land Trust Alliance's newest webinar series offers exciting opportunities for land trust professionals to learn about a wide range of topics. Everything from geographic information system mapping to investment policies are covered in this year's slate of expert-hosted talks.
If your land trust hopes to develop a stronger volunteer base, check out our webinar on Feb. 22, Esprit de Corps: How to Ensure Volunteers Are Engaged and Productive! You'll walk away from this session, taught by well-known volunteerism author and trainer Susan J. Ellis, with 12 essential elements of successful volunteer involvement, as well as numerous other tips and tricks to grow and strengthen your land trust's connection to its volunteers!
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Sequestration of carbonaceous species within alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Ag by Raman spectroscopy
Chad E. Taylor, Mark H. Schoenfisch, Jeanne E Pemberton
Raman spectra of hydrogenated CnSH (where, n=3-5,8,9,12, and 18) and C8D17SH SAMs at mechanically polished (MP) Ag indicate monolayer contamination by a small polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). The contaminant source at the unmodified MP Ag surface is identified using Raman spectroscopy, and thus, the contaminant is believed to be placed at this surface during the mechanical polishing procedure. Notably, the PAH contaminant is not completely removed by either solvent dissolution or alkanethiol adsorption, suggesting that it is strongly bound, and more significantly, sequestered within the alkanethiol SAM. Controlled incorporation of pyrene into dodecanethiol SAMs demonstrates that doping of alkanethiol SAMs may be possible for certain systems.
https://doi.org/10.1021/la990061e
pyrenes
Raman scattering
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Taylor, C. E., Schoenfisch, M. H., & Pemberton, J. E. (2000). Sequestration of carbonaceous species within alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Ag by Raman spectroscopy. Langmuir, 16(6), 2902-2906. https://doi.org/10.1021/la990061e
Sequestration of carbonaceous species within alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Ag by Raman spectroscopy. / Taylor, Chad E.; Schoenfisch, Mark H.; Pemberton, Jeanne E.
In: Langmuir, Vol. 16, No. 6, 21.03.2000, p. 2902-2906.
Taylor, CE, Schoenfisch, MH & Pemberton, JE 2000, 'Sequestration of carbonaceous species within alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Ag by Raman spectroscopy', Langmuir, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 2902-2906. https://doi.org/10.1021/la990061e
Taylor CE, Schoenfisch MH, Pemberton JE. Sequestration of carbonaceous species within alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Ag by Raman spectroscopy. Langmuir. 2000 Mar 21;16(6):2902-2906. https://doi.org/10.1021/la990061e
Taylor, Chad E. ; Schoenfisch, Mark H. ; Pemberton, Jeanne E. / Sequestration of carbonaceous species within alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers on Ag by Raman spectroscopy. In: Langmuir. 2000 ; Vol. 16, No. 6. pp. 2902-2906.
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Mom, the heater's on fire!
Resources Lifesavers Smith Family
Fire in the Baby's Room: How Early Detection Helped Save This Family When the Grandchildren Came to Visit
March 5, 2016. Lynn Smith was a teaching assistant, flight attendant and, for ten years, assistant to the federal security director of the Transportation Security Administration. But her favorite job? Grandmother to five energetic girls, ranging from 7 years old to 13 months. "This is my favorite time of life," says Lynn, who lives in a town called Owasco in New York's Finger Lakes region. "There is so much joy." On a recent Saturday, Lynn's daughter Kelly came up for the weekend from New York City with her girls, Olivia, 4, and baby Mila, 10 months. Lynn's son, Stephen, who lives nearby, came by with his three girls. The family had a pizza party and the kids ran around and played. It was freezing outside — about 20 degrees — so Lynn turned on the portable radiator to warm up the back bedroom where Mila would sleep in a folding crib. After bedtime stories, Olivia climbed into "Grandma Lynn's" bed while Kelly carried Mila into the back bedroom. "I kissed her goodnight," Lynn recalls. "She was in her terrycloth onesie, a little angel."
It had been a full day and Lynn was blissfully worn out. So she forgot one small thing. "On a normal night, I would have turned off the heater before we all went to bed. But it was one of those nights. We were just exhausted." Below are the accounts of Lynn, Kelly, ADT Dispatcher Amanda Willoughby, Owasco Fire Department Chief Chris Morabito and comments from State Farm public affairs specialist Heather Paul.
Lynn: It was around 5:30 a.m. and I was half awake. All of a sudden, I heard the hallway smoke detector beeping. I thought the battery must be low. But at the same time the ADT smoke alarm was going off and it got louder and louder. I jumped out of bed and ran to the room with the furnace. I couldn't see anything [wrong] but I had started to smell smoke and a chemical smell.
Kelly: The baby had woken up around 2 a.m. so I had brought her into bed with me. I heard the smoke detector going off but I didn't think too much of it. I figured it was dust or debris in the system. Then my mom came bursting into the bedroom. I smelled what I knew was electrical smoke. I ran into the room that Mila had been sleeping in [for the first part of the night]. I saw that the the portable radiator was on fire. The flames were maybe a foot tall.
"The best thing they did was have an early detection system." - Chief Morabito
'The Heater's on Fire!'
Lynn: Kelly said "Mom, the heater's on fire!" Kelly had Mila in her arms and I ran in and got [Olivia]. I told her we had a fire and we had to get out of the house quickly. She was very brave, she didn't cry. I just grabbed her hand. I don't think it was even two minutes but I remember when I went out the door my eyes were stinging from the smoke. It was that fast.
Kelly called 911. I had grabbed my phone on the way out and the [dispatcher] from ADT called me. She told me the fire department was on its way and asked if we were all safely out of the house. Then I saw fire trucks and ambulances.
ADT Dispatcher Amanda Willoughby, 28, had started her 4 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. shift at ADT's Knoxville, TN monitoring center.
Amanda: It was a fire alarm in New York, where we are required to call the fire department first. Once I called fire dispatch, I called Ms. Smith. I said, "This is Amanda with ADT security. Is everything okay there?" She said the heater was smoking. I asked her if everybody was out of the house. She told me she had two granddaughters, a four-year-old and an infant, and that they had gotten the kids out. She was a little panicked. I told her we were so glad she was out of the house and we had the fire department on their way.
Kelly: I ran back into the house and unplugged the heater. It was still on fire. I tried to smother it with a blanket and then that caught on fire. I ran into the bathroom with the blanket and threw it in the shower and turned the shower on. Then I filled some cups with water from the bathroom and threw it on the radiator and that put the fire out. Then I picked up the radiator and threw it off the front porch into the yard.
Kelly was lucky. Fire safety experts say you should never run back into a house on fire. "I don't recommend that for anybody," says Owasco Fire Department Chief Chris Morabito. "Once you get out of the house, stay out of the house in a safe spot. Don't go back in. You don't know what's in there."
A Tragedy Avoided
Chief Morabito: When we arrived, we found heavy smoke in the house but no fire. We checked the family and they were good — no blood pressure problems, no smoke inhalation. The best thing they did was have an early detection system. It worked for them 100 percent. If they didn't have that, I honestly believe you could have had a tragedy. Most deaths from fire are from smoke inhalation. At that early morning hour, the fire could have burned long before anybody realized it.
Lynn said the house sustained about $4,000 worth of damage, which was covered by her State Farm homeowners' insurance policy.
Heather Paul, State Farm public affairs specialist: We do see a significant number of home fires that are started by alternative heating sources. People often make the mistake of keeping a heater going while they are sleeping. Just like we urge people not to leave candles burning, it's the same with alternative heating sources. It's easy for them to short-circuit, and have a draft blow a curtain or a blanket over it, which could start a fire. And a house can be fully engulfed in flames within five minutes.
Lynn: The fire chief told us the heater probably had a faulty switch. Afterward, it was so surreal. I was traumatized for a couple of weeks. But the first time I went back to babysit for the girls, it hit me: A terrible thing had happened but everything went right and we survived. We could have slept through it. The smoke could have killed us. A few weeks after my fire, there was another fire an hour and a half away; there was a little girl and they couldn't get her out. I was just heartbroken.
The firefighters, they are heroes. Amanda is a sweetheart, very kind and really loves her job helping people. When I met her [at the LifeSaver award ceremony in April], I said, "thank you, thank you, thank you, for helping us."
Amanda: We had a big hug. When you get to meet someone and they are okay because you did what you were supposed to do, that is a great feeling. It gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling and makes your heart beat faster. I told her "We were glad we could be there when you needed us."
A Story for Someday
Lynn: TI have always appreciated my life, my family, my grandchildren. But we had a fire in the middle of the night and we made it out. We are a very fortunate family. And I am even more thankful for the little things. I'm reaching out to old friends and I am talking to Kelly about a trip to Egypt. I always wanted to do it and now I think we really will.
The fire made quite an impression on Olivia, who told her teachers at school about the excitement at her grandmother's house. Mila, of course, is too young to understand. Someday, Lynn says, she may tell her.
Lynn: I would probably say, one cold night we had a fire in the house and a miracle happened — we all got out and survived.
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Romelu Lukaku pictured training with Anderlecht for a second day
United chose not to comment on the matter.
Published: 6 August 2019 - 1.00pm
By Press Association Published: 6 August 2019 - 1.00pm
Football Premier League Manchester United
Romelu Lukaku trained with Anderlecht for the second successive day as the wantaway striker looks for a Manchester United exit.
Two years after arriving at Old Trafford in a big-money switch from Everton, the 26-year-old is hoping to move on to pastures new.
Inter Milan are keen to sign Lukaku and are understood to have seen a 60 million euros (£54million) offer rebuffed last month, while a swap deal with Juventus had been on the cards until Paulo Dybala's prohibitive wage demands put paid to that.
£54million
Bid from Inter Milan for Lukaku that United rejected
While PA understands a move to Serie A remains on the cards, eyebrows were raised on Monday when the striker was pictured training with boyhood club Anderlecht.
United's players had a day off on Monday and it was reported that Lukaku was expected back on Tuesday with the rest of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's squad.
However, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws has published a photo of the striker training with Anderlecht once again on Tuesday – a matter United declined to comment on when contacted by PA.
Lukaku joined the Old Trafford giants on their pre-season tour of Australia and Asia but failed to feature in any of their four matches due to knocks.
The 26-year-old was also absent in the friendlies against Kristiansund and AC Milan upon returning to Europe.
Lukaku got under manager Solskjaer's skin last week when posting on Twitter a video showing internal data of United players' maximum speed in training. The message was swiftly deleted.
Asked about that following the AC Milan friendly, Solskjaer said: "I've spoken to Rom, yeah, to put it that way. And that's case closed."
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Flocks of Words
Wild Labyrinth
Greencoats
The Errant Hours
All the Winding World
Music and Poetry
All the Winding World - The Arrowsmith Trilogy Book Two
All the Winding World continues the story begun in The Errant Hours. It is set ten years later, during the disastrous Anglo-French War of 1294-6, one of Edward I's rare military defeats.
Sir Richard Burnel has been forcibly recruited to lead a division into France in order to regain control of the Duchy of Gascony. But his commanders prove to be incompetent, and Richard is taken hostage along with many of King Edward's most trusted knights.
Meanwhile in the Welsh Marches, resentment boils over into rebellion against crippling taxes and conscription. Illesa, struggling to protect their family and manor, must find an ingenious way to free her husband, before Fortune's Wheel tips them all into death and ruin.
"Rich, intricate, and full of ordinary women finding power in a society that seeks to rob them of autonomy. Second novels rarely live up to the promise of the first, but this delivers wholeheartedly. A fantastic testament to the power of love." Best-selling author- Manda Scott
This widely anticipated sequel set in England and Southwest France was published on the 22nd June 2018.
Fans of The Errant Hours may be pleased to find many of their old friends in All the Winding World, as well as a cast of new characters including, rather bizarrely, a weasel.
The front cover illustration shows The Wheel of Fortune (Ms 1044 Fol.74 French School, Bibliotheque Municipale, Rouen, France/Bridgeman Images). This image of personified, blindfolded Fortune was popular in the middle ages, to express the fact that wealth and power were not necessarily permanent conditions, and that everyone was only one turn away from ruin.
Read the Historical Novel Society Review of 'All the Winding World' HERE
Some of the inspirations for All the Winding World
Winchester Cathedral nave and choir. © 2010 by Johann Bakker; used by permission through Wikimedia Commons
Model of a Medieval Cog in Southampton Old Town
An example of fine Medieval embroidery, known as Opus Anglicanum
Carved capital at St Sever, Aquitaine
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Julieanne Ng's Art Provides a Means to Cope
Julieanne Ng is a multi-disciplinary artist from Valenzuela city. She graduated Magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, with a Fine Arts degree, majoring in Painting. In 2018, she was a semi-finalist in the Metrobank Arts and Design Competition (MADE). She's currently active in participating in different exhibits in the Philippines.
Julieanne held her first solo exhibition with Pablo Gallery earlier this year and has had some original artworks consigned with us at our shop. She has an upcoming exhibition this December with GreySpace MNL. Regarding the works she has for First Edition:
"My works are formed in an arrangement that manifests psychedelic images. In these trying times, it serves as a form of meditation and a means as a coping mechanism."
The Arrangement. 2020. Pigment ink on 300 gsm matte archival paper (100% cotton). Edition of 25.
Unnatural. Pigment ink on 300 gsm matte archival paper (100% cotton). Edition of 25.
What music did you have growing up?
Growing up I loved listening to disney songs and classics like Sarah Brightman and Josh Groban.
What work of art last caught your eye?
The last work of art that caught my eye were the works of Juan Alcazaren and Tiffany Lafuente.
Can you let us in on a current or upcoming project that excites you?
I'm looking forward to next year's art fair events. I'm curious to see how this pandemic challenges the way we respond to the changes at hand.
We're playing charades. What is the hardest thing you could have someone guess?
While playing charades, the hardest thing I could have someone guess is the song title "Superkalafrgalisticexbealidoshish".
What do you think deserves more attention?
Education and Health care system
Anchor photo: Formation. 2020. Pigment ink on 300 gsm matte archival paper (100% cotton). Edition of 25.
These featured works are available as prints in First Edition. Start here.
All images courtesy the artist.


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Reporters Committee honors founders of Chicago's City Bureau with 2019 Rising Star Award
By Amelia Kennedy	Posted on April 24, 2019
Sarah Conway described her first encounter with City Bureau as something she'd never seen before.
She attended one of its "public newsrooms," where the nonprofit civic journalism lab based in Chicago's South Side opens its doors so the community can discuss local issues, share resources and knowledge, and even learn to report and investigate stories.
Harry Backlund, Bettina Chang, Andrea Hart and Darryl Holliday founded City Bureau in 2015 in part because they saw a need to change how local newsrooms reported on and for Chicago's south and west sides.
"They wanted to make sure the news coverage reflected the community that's being covered," said Jen Sabella, the co-founder of Block Club Chicago who previously worked with Chang and Holliday at DNAinfo.
On May 7, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will honor City Bureau's founders with the second annual Rising Star Award in recognition of their work that aims to "model a more democratic way of making media."
Tiana Epps-Johnson, the founder and executive director of the Center for Technology and Civic Life, and a member of City Bureau's board, says this kind of approach helps restore trust in journalism.
"When you can see your perspectives and your neighborhoods in a way that really reflects the dynamic nature of where you live, you begin to have a different experience and relationship with the institutions that are telling those stories, and what those institutions look like changes too," Johnson said.
City Bureau alumna Bia Medious said the public newsrooms help teach the community about what journalism is and isn't, what it should and could be, and how it could be improved.
Medious, who is now at Chicago radio station WBEZ, first became involved with City Bureau as a Documenter — their program that trains and pays citizens to attend public meetings and publish information about what happens at them. That led her to City Bureau's paid fellowship program, which pairs experienced reporters with emerging journalists predominantly from communities that have historically been underrepresented in newsrooms and news coverage.
Since the programs began, City Bureau has trained more than 80 journalists and become a leader in Chicago's nonprofit media landscape.
"They're creating this pipeline of opportunity for a lot of people to get into reporting," said Conway, who also completed the reporting fellowship and is now a reporting resident. "They show that you can create a newsroom where there's more equity and you can do coverage on communities that actually reflects how people in those communities see themselves."
Sabella said she can already see the impact these efforts to identify and train a diverse group of reporters has had on newsrooms across the city.
"They are identifying young people from different backgrounds who care about the city and they're training them," said Sabella. "We have already hired people who come from City Bureau."
So has Jamie Kalven, founder of the Invisible Institute, which has partnered with City Bureau on a number of reporting projects.
"City Bureau has almost become our kind of journalism school, a journalism school of actual practice," said Kalven.
City Bureau fellows and residents also participate in mentorship programs with youth media partners and work closely with local groups to gather input from those most affected by a story's topic.
"If all the media organizations try and incorporate just a little bit of what City Bureau is doing, I think everybody in the public is much better off for it," said Medious.
In addition to honoring the founders of City Bureau with the 2019 Rising Star Award, the Reporters Committee is recognizing the following individuals with 2019 Freedom of the Press Awards: David Bradley, chairman of Atlantic Media; John Carreyrou, investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal; Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News; and April Ryan, Washington bureau chief and White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN.
NBC News' Lester Holt to host 2019 Freedom of the Press Awards
Reporters Committee announces 2019 Freedom of the Press Award honorees
Reporters Committee honors April Ryan with 2019 Freedom of the Press Award
Reporters Committee honors John Carreyrou with 2019 Freedom of the Press Award
Reporters Committee honors David Bradley with 2019 Freedom of the Press Award