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Czech Airlines is the national airline of the Czech Republic which was founded on 6 October 1923. The airline operates scheduled services to 89 destinations in 45 countries worldwide from its head office on the grounds of Václav Havel Airport Prague in Ruzyně, Prague. Along with charter and cargo services, Czech Airline offers scheduled domestic and international services to over 69 destinations in 41 countries, including major cities of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The airline has codeshare agreements with Aeroflot, Aeromexico, airBaltic, Etihad Airways, Finnair, China Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, etc.
The passengers can avail a whole cache of services including refreshments, entertainment packages, engage in duty-free shopping on-board and choose from a wide catalogue of luxury items available at a very advantageous price.
The online check-in service of Czech Airlines is available between 30 hours and 1 hour before the scheduled departure.


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Children's-YA Book Community Strategies for Sharing While Social Distancing
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By Stephani Martinell Eaton
Closed. Canceled. Rescheduled. These are words we are hearing over and over.
As COVID-19 spreads, life is changing each day. With so many closures and cancellations, many within the children's-YA book community are finding ways to use technology to bring people together, sharing their love of books without sharing the germs.
Lauren Tarshis is a children's author and editor of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine. Lauren has posted resources and articles that teach about coronavirus and its spread via Twitter. Scholastic provides resources targeted at grades K-3, 4-5, and 6-12. Lauren also has shared Scholastic's Learn at Home Hub, which offers cross-curricular activities for children to do independently, with families, or with teachers.
Author Kate Messner, a former classroom teacher, has curated a digital "library of resources for kids, families, teachers, and librarians to make sure that reading and learning can happen anywhere this spring." She is continually adding content and links to the site.
Author-illustrator Grace Lin has launched a podcast, Kids Ask Authors. Every week, Grace and a guest author will answer one question. Podcasts will run about five-to-ten minutes.
Susan Tan, a middle grade author, introduced the YouTube channel Authors Everywhere! The channel will feature creators of children's literature talking about books and writing as well as providing some creative prompts for the listeners at home.
Author and illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi is posting a daily creative challenge for kids on Twitter with the hashtag #KidsDailyDebbieOhi. Likewise, author-illustrator and Education Artist in Residence at the Kennedy Center Mo Willems is posting daily videos to his Kennedy Center page encouraging children to write and draw with him.
Likewise, authors such as Anne Bustard, who's releasing Blue Skies (Simon & Schuster, 2020) today, are highlighting educational resources on Pinterest.
In a recent Publishers Weekly article, Bookstores, Children's Authors Respond as Coronavirus Impact Grows, Alex Green describes the impact on conferences as well as author book tours. Publishers Weekly is also maintaining a list of cancellations, closings, and policy changes.
In response to the growing list of conference cancellations and postponements, authors Ellen Oh, Melanie Conklin, Christina Soontornvat and more are working on developing a virtual writing conference called Everywhere Book Fest. The conference website states it is "a virtual gathering of kidlit authors, books, and readers that will bring the book festival experience to everyone." The Everywhere Book Fest is scheduled for May 1 and May 2.
Debut authors, especially, have been looking for new and creative ways to promote and launch their books with the many cancellations.
YA debut author Nora Carpenter said, "Social distancing has really changed the book community's landscape. Authors, particularly debuts, depend so much on conferences, school visits, and in-store events to get the word out about their books. I've had fourteen events cancelled, and that's really tough, but everyone has been really wonderful–asking to reschedule later in the summer or fall.
"Additionally, some heavily-followed authors are going above and beyond to help debuts. Amie Kaufman, for example, is hosting a weekly Twitter chat on Monday evenings 8 p.m., to introduce the next day's debuts. (I'll be on there March 24.)
"Bloggers are reaching out and boosting debuts. And there's a lot you can do with virtual marketing, too. Kelly Anne Blount is still going to interview me about The Edge of Anything (Running Press Teens, 2020), but instead of it happening at Malaprop's Books, we're doing an Instagram Live.
"We're all in this together, and people are really stepping up."
With new cases being confirmed daily and social-distancing practices in place, watch for more of these types of alternatives to pop up. Be sure to follow the authors in this post (as well as Cynthia Leitich Smith) on Twitter as many will post or retweet related resources as they hear about them.
With more time at home, bookish sorts are looking forward to more time for reading and writing. As you comb through your to-be-read lists, don't forget about your local indie bookstores.
While it may not be feasible to shop in-person, many indies are offering free shipping now and will take orders on their websites or over the phone. Bookshop.org is also an online bookseller that supports independent booksellers.
What's more, most library systems have great online resources and digital material like e-books and audio books. Moreover, many libraries are regularly posting important information about the virus for their communities.
Cynsational Notes
Stephani Martinell Eaton holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts where she won the Candlewick Picture Book Award and the Marion Dane Bauer Award for middle grade fiction.
Tagged Amie Kaufman, Anne Bustard, Christina Soontornvat, COVID-19, Debbie Ohi, Ellen Oh, Everywhere Book Fest, Grace Lin, Kate Messner, Kelly Anne Blount, Lauren Tarshis, Melanie Conklin, Mo Willems, Nora Carpenter, Scholastic, Susan Tan
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Eaton's Bussmann division is currently seeking an Operations Manager to join our team. This position is based at our Juarez facility.
The Operations Manager is responsible for managing the overall resource management and production of the manufacturing processes at the Juarez Bussmann facility. The position drives continuous improvement in production, quality, and safety while utilizing the framework of the Eaton Business System (EBS) and the Continuous Improvement Framework (CIF) and directly responsible for the High Five Business Metrics.
Broad responsibilities and leadership of a multi-disciplined, cross-functional team with overall accountability for performance of FF1, FF2, FF3, FF4 and OPEX Departments of the Bussmann plant.
Direct operations, management of budgets, manning, capacity planning, equipment utilization and scheduling in accordance with production plans to meet profit plan.
Provide leadership to the teams to meet or exceed the operational objectives of on-time delivery, past dues, productivity scrap/rework, maintenance, and overtime utilization.
Implement and utilize Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and EBS tools for continuous improvement. Implement and deploy CIF plant wide.
Launch New Product Introduction by utilizing production equipment and flex production personnel and resources in order to stream line reduce time and costs.
Be responsible of production floor layout for lean continuous improvement, product line expansion and future growth.
Be responsible for preventive and corrective maintenance of equipment in order to sustain the level of performance required in productivity and efficiency.
Prove ability to manage exempt and hourly people in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Preferable electrical sector experience.
Record any measurable statistics which your position impacts such a production expenses maintenance expenses, sales volumes, payroll costs, capital expenditures, research budgets, cost of purchases, value of inventories controlled, employees supervised(direct and indirect).
7-10 years of related experience.
7-10 years supervisory/managerial experience within a manufacturing setting.


Change Your Age is a powerful, easy-to-follow program that can help you feel years younger by teaching you new ways to move, feel and think.
In this unique, practical guide, Dr. Frank Wildman offers the revolutionary program he's been developing with students and clients for over thirty years. Based on the principles of the pioneering work of Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais, The Change Your Age program teaches you how to return to the exploratory, creative movements of your youth, engaging your brain and body to maximize your agility, strength, and vitality as you age.
Do you move old for your age?
How young do you want to feel?
Winner of the 2010 New York Book Festival "How-To" Book Award. Change Your Age is in bookstores and available from Amazon.com now!
Read a review of Change Your Age at Metapsychology Online Reviews, Curledup.com, the Sacramento Book Review, INFODAD.com, at HealthNewsDigest.com, and at Tuscon Citizen.
Listen to Dr. Wildman interviewed by Dr. Derrick DeSilva on Healthradio.net, by Dr. Michael Brickey on WebTalkRadio's Ageless Lifestyles, and by Charlie Dyer on KNews Morning Report.
WHAT MAKES a person old? Some people think it's wrinkles; others think it's stodgy attitudes. But, really, the culprit is our habits. When we unlearn these habits and create new ones, we make our bodies and minds younger, stronger, and more flexible. In essence, we create a more youthful and intelligent body at any age. Unlike other members of the animal kingdom, as humans, we only gradually learn how to control our bodies. To survive as infants and children, we must learn to lift our heads, push up our chests, sit, crawl, walk, jump, skip, and run. Once we learn these—and ever more complex—movements, we stop the learning process and our movements become habituated, often in ways that put stress on our bodies or ways that become rigidified and locked over time.
We're left with a lifetime of habits—from how we swing a tennis racket or sit at the keyboard to how we move, when we cook a gourmet meal—that can become harmful to our bodies. The good news is that we can learn new habits that make our bodies and minds more agile and more fit. The easy-to-learn exercises and sequences in this book will help you break away from physically limiting habits and steer you toward feeling as you ordinarily would at your best—and perhaps, youngest—moments. With the Change Your Age program, you will move beyond the idea of doing exercises the "right" way or measuring how well you're doing by looking at yourself in the mirror and instead return to moving as you did when you were younger.
Although exercise and movement in general can feel good and be considered health-related, not many people make the same connection of exercise to their brain. Using the principles of neuroscience, you can learn to guide your body internally in order to discover new sensations, a new and wider range of movement, and new techniques for coordinating your movements for ease and efficiency. You will engage your whole body and your brain in simple but powerful movement sequences that can actually re-groove your brain's neuropathways so you begin to move in healthier, stronger, more coordinated, and even graceful ways. These exercises adapt to you and your exact needs. The results you see in your sense of vitality and youthfulness will attest to their effectiveness. Moving well, and using our whole body, is one of the best ways to reverse the all-to-common effects of aging. You can have a spring in your step, an air of grace, and stability and ease of movement at any age. What it means to be 50 today—how you function, what you are able to achieve, your life expectations, and how you appear—is very different from just 50 years ago.
INTENTION: To find a comfortable and pleasurable way of releasing excess work in stiff muscles of the inner legs and hips.
STARTING POSITION: Lie on your back with your arms down and your legs straight.
Feel the pressure under your heels and notice if you feel the difference in the pressure from the floor touching your left heel compared to your right. Is the pressure more on the outside of one heel than the other? Also, observe the pressure on the calf muscles. Does it help tell you which of your two legs is pointed more to the ceiling and which is pointed more to the outside? Make sure your legs are relaxed. Don't try to hold them in any particular way.
Very gently, turn your right leg further to the right and let the knee softly bend, so that the outside edge of your right foot begins sliding on the floor up towards you. Slide the edge of the foot back down the same track it went up. Repeat the movement several times, very slowly, searching for the path of least resistance and effort as you slide the outside edge of the foot up and down on the floor.
Change Your Age tip: As you slide the foot up and down, make sure the knee hangs open completely, so there's no work in the inner muscles of your thigh. The more unnecessary muscular work you perform, the more difficult, heavy and resistant the movement of the leg becomes. Every so often, let the leg rest with the knee bent and the foot pulled up to make sure you let go of the inner thigh muscles.
After exploring sliding the edge of your foot up and down the floor, rest and observe what's changed in the way the leg is resting on the ground. Is the leg softer? Is it pointing in a different direction than earlier? Does the hip feel softer? You might even find that your lower back has released to the floor on the right side.
Turn both of your legs open, with the knees hanging apart, and slide the outside edges of both of your feet up towards yourself at the same time. As you go up and down this way, slowly and gently, feel what your back and your pelvis do to assist the movement. As the edges of your feet slide up, keep some distance between them.
Rest with your arms on the floor above your head, with the elbows slightly bent out to the sides. Once again, slide the outside edges of both feet up towards yourself and leave them there with your knees hanging open. Now, let your head easily roll from side to side while breathing deeply. Rest in this position, with the knees suspended and the arms open, and feel the comfort of being like a baby sleeping on the floor. Let your ribs move freely as you breath.
Additional educational materials by Frank Wildman.


Sander's Saunter is a heavy 10K (closer to 7 miles) on the North Shore Trails at Clinton Lake near Lawrence, Kansas hosted by the Lawrence Trail Hawks. The race includes two climbs up Sander's Mound. This year's event was a benefit for Loving Paws Animal Assisted Therapy Program. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/LovingPawsAnimalTherapy.


From Concept to Completion: How Long Does It Take to Build an App?
As more and more consumers are switching to mobile over desktop computers, companies are struggling to keep pace with the rapid transformation. But, regardless of the efficiency of the project management methodologies used, most developers need four to six months to develop an app.
There are a lot of factors that could slow down or speed up the process. Let's look at a more detailed timeline to understand what it takes to build an app from inception to completion.


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2. Hindi/Sanskrit upto Matric standard, as one of the subject.
Selection Process: Candidates will be selected on the basis of Written Exam & Socio-Economic Criteria+Experience.
Pay Scale: 16,900-53,500+Applicable spl. pay.
How To Apply: Interested & Eligible Candidates can apply online through www.hssc.gov.in from 29-08-2018 to 18-09-2018(Extended to 24-09-2018) by 11:59 pm.
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Last Date to Apply - 18/09/2018(Extended to 24-09-2018) by 11:59 pm.
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Recovery day promotes health, well-being
Written by on September 20, 2016
Kerjeth Medina, 14, a Silver High School student, tries out the jumping balloon at Gough Park on Saturday during the first Celebrate Recovery Day.
Although it wasn't well publicized, Saturday's impromptu Celebrate Recovery Day event at Gough Park helped shed light on the addiction problem in Grant County.
Jim Helgert, CEO of Recovery Management Center, which sponsored the event, said that the people who did show up made the day's event worth it.
"We've never done this before, but it's going really well," he said. "We just put it together, and called people and invited people over from the Red Hot Children's Fiesta."
Helgert said he hopes it brings awareness to the county's addiction problem and need for recovery centers like his and Grant County Commissioner Ron Hall's project, Tu Casa — which will bring another addiction treatment center to the area. Hall has been working on the project for a number of years, and it is now nearing the construction phase. The facility, which will be located on 32nd Street, will provide a continuum of care for recovering addicts.
"We need to start addressing the treatment of this disease," said Hall. "We can go ahead and have more committees, more judges, more jails, but until we start addressing the problem, we're not going to get anywhere. This is what it's about — the substance abuse, alcohol and drugs is a county-wide problem."
Several organizations were in attendance. Hall was grilling up hot dogs and hamburgers and there was a bouncy house for the kids to play in while their parents socialized with others and picked up information on recovery resources.
"This is a great way to do it," said Helgert. "We're here talking about the stigma of addiction. We want to talk about the possibilities of recovery. This is a step in the right direction — getting people to join us and help our community get healthy."
The event was timely in that September is designated as National Recovery Month.
Representatives from the New Mexico Human Services Department were also in attendance and helped organize the event.
Natalie Rivera, a program coordinator with the Behavioral Health Services Division, said that a first event like Saturday's really helps bring awareness to the problem.
"It's important for us to be out there encouraging people," she said. "Grant County is a bad area. There is a big addiction problem. We want to help others. It's great to see these families and consumers out here to see how they can help their community and encourage recovery. I think increased services are necessary throughout the state."


Across my career I have been something of a strange beast, few and far between quite knowing what to make of me: the gonzo-aficionados love my prose but are confused by offerings left at the crossroads and endless references to Stirner; the Anarchists and Insurrectionists love my theories but are perplexed by my trafficking in spirits and identification as a journalist; the Occult crowd adores my sorcerous inclinations yet seems puzzled by my near-addict level of political consumption entwined with my nihilistic desire to destroy society.
What kind of wizard would I be if I could be explained easily, much less my political inclinations? Still, as sure as wildfire season will choke the skyline of many a Florida town this summer the need to explain oneself will arise.
"I'm an egoist as well, I'd also identify as a post-leftist. I'd say that part of leaving the left behind is leaving behind communism as well. I agree with Wolfi Landstreicher's critiques of it mostly.
In-between labored attempts at meditation and Qigong to heal my damaged liver, I penned a response I figured was strong enough to become an article and with it perhaps a definition of a politics few have heard of.
Firstly I am an Egoist, and call myself one even before an Anarchist. For me Egoism surpasses Anarchism, takes it as a standing point and goes a step further: no hierarchy is above me, however it might dress itself up. This includes the State of course but also the very concept of Law; this includes Capitalism but also the very notions of right and wrong normally lobbed against it as criticisms. All things are indeed nothing to me, all relations exist at my behest. Society is nothing more than a big idea, a game of pretend that's taken itself far too seriously and I do not intend to live my life on this planet beholden to it.
Sorcerers and witches usually live in this space, forever outside the rules and customs of the Waking World. Take a heroic dose of mushrooms, douse yourself in Black Arts Oil, then spend the night at your local cemetery and you'll see why. This existence is one among many, and once you learn that most of human politicking ends up looking like a cruel joke.
I am imprisoned. So are you. I aim not to make our prison "a better place" but advocate its entire destruction. I in no way intend to make the whip on my back "the people's whip" or put it in new hands. I do so without any religious belief that my own burning world is a sure thing on the horizon. I fight, I loathe, I spit venom at a world that seeks to destroy me because it is who I am. The way this system harms others only further incites my rage, the shame of vulgar slavery that surrounds them filling me with righteous fury. I am following me, my own inclinations; my own song that only I can sing.
So why the Communist bit?
As Novatore said "because we — violent cerebralists and passional sentimentalists at the same time — understand and know that revolution is a necessity of the silent sorrow that suffers at the bottom and a need of the free spirits who suffer in the heights." I cannot be free as long as I am owned by Capital and I cannot truly enjoy myself while the screams of the enslaved ring in my ear. I want freedom for me and for you, that we might enjoy it together. When I'm speaking about Communism I'm talking about the original definition: a classless, stateless sense of being. This rules out any "transition" period.
If workers remain workers, producing in separate enterprises, dependent on their relation to that workplace for their subsistence, and exchanging with other enterprises, then whether that exchange is self-organised by the workers or given central direction by a "workers' state" means very little: the capitalist content remains, and sooner or later the distinct role or function of the capitalist will reassert itself.
Markets of any kind mean money, however the Left may try to dress it up. Because of its ease to measure, currencies will always becomes the sole measure of value(how much you did today, how much this thing is worth) so all things end up being measured by this stick: an apple is no longer a treasured gift from the garden, a being unto itself, but a commodity; the family dog isn't your best friend, but simple "property" with a monetary value.
Thus we have a world not of individuals but of human resources.
So, what's an Egoist to do?
This has nothing to do with "humanity" or what's right. I simply want what's mine. This is communism where we can look out over the horizon and say "this is all yours, and mine too," a communism where we can take care of one another because it pleases us to do so and because it ensures we too shall be taken care of.
Technology can be harnessed to provide our every need, an entire galaxy awaits our fingertips, so why should our existence be boiled down to buying and selling? Doesn't that limit our Unique? Can you feed your family alone? Can I? Can we alone provide electricity to our homes and maintain the systems that keeps it going?
If we can't, shouldn't we work together? If we still can't, shouldn't we find others? And when we find them won't they desire to own just as much of that property as we do? Why can't we have individual indulgence with a joyous community life; why not lawlessness with the cause of social justice? I seek the whole me, not a sliver, and to find him I need friends and accomplices to work with. What somebody works ought to be owned by them, plain and simple, and I believe we'd be surprised how much coming together might free up our time for other pleasures.
Egoist-Communism might be thought of as Mutualism without Markets, a honeycomb of non-hierarchical mafias looking to live life as joyously as they can and free from the false divisions of race, nationality, class, or gender. It promotes differentiation, embraces chaos, and takes gangs of individuals as its organizational unit instead of a manufactured society. It is the abolition of all that limits the Unique and the search for other like-minded souls to increase each other's power. How you do so will ultimately be up to you.
Don't let the name fool you, this isn't some radical new idea. This is what humanity has been doing at parties, after disasters, before funerals, and between sheets since the whole damn thing began. Instead of stealing those moments between "work" and whatever else this techno-hellscape forces onto us, we desire to make it our entire mission.
That is Egoist-Communism, its praxis and its goal: life in the pursuit of life, where individual satisfaction and the enjoyment of others rotates endlessly without form.


On Wednesday 27th March, Mr McCombie and Mr Thorsteinsson were asked to attend Little Thetford Primary School's morning assembly to talk to students, as their topic for this assembly was Autism Awareness.
They talked to students from Reception age up to year 6 to help them have a better understanding of what life may be like for people with autism. They made the students aware of people with autism's strengths, what they find difficult in life and how they can perhaps show understanding towards people that they may work and play with.
Well done to both on sharing such positive information with these young people and raising awareness of our school and the autistic community in general.


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H1B Second Lottery 2023 News alert: No Lottery(USCIS Official)
For the 2023 season, USCIS allowed 484,000 people to register. Unfortunately, of all these applications, only 127,600 belonging to the first round were accepted. Because of this, rumors have been being heard regarding an H1B second lottery in 2023, just like in the year 2022. Unfortunately for many, the USCIS issued a statement saying that this second lottery will not take place.
1. What is the H1B visa program?
This is an H1B visa program. Which allows companies and other employers that are in the United States to temporarily employ foreign workers. Workers will be in specialized occupations that require theoretical and practical application. For this, they will need a series of very specialized knowledge and a university degree or the equivalent in a specialty.
The specialized occupations included in the H1B visa program are very varied and include different areas. Among them, you find the fields of architecture, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, and social sciences. In addition, you can also find fields such as medicine and health, education, law, theology, accounting, and arts.
1.1 Registration rule for H1B
Consideration should be given to the DHS H1B registration final rule. This specifies that employers, to make an H1B petition before the USCIS, must first follow a step. First, you must submit all the basic information of the H1B applicant online. For this, you must use the H1B registration tool that USCIS designed.
After completing this, the USCIS would use the information that was submitted online to be able to do the H1B lottery as needed. Once the process is finished, the USCIS will inform the employers of the applicants who were selected in the H1B lottery. This information will reach employers through online notifications.
The employer can only present the H1B petition for those who were selected in the lottery that was carried out during the registration process. Employers of successful applicants will need to submit the completed H1B petition package with H1B LCA. In addition, the filing fee and all supporting documentation, attaching to this a copy of the H1B registration selection notice.
2. How is the registration process for this visa program?
The first thing you should know is that this entire process is done online. Both the first and the H1B 2n lottery must be done by the employer of the company. In this section, you will see all the steps that must be followed to start the process.
2.1 Registration of applicants to obtain the H1B
All business owners who are interested in sponsoring people through the H1B hire must go through a registration process. This is done electronically. You must enter all the data requested by the USCIS on its website. In addition, a fee must be paid for each record that is entered, which is $10. It is important to keep in mind that only one registration can be sent for each applicant; duplicates are not accepted.
During registration, some information will be requested from the company that is making the request. These data are
Company name.
Do business in detail.
The identification number of the employer or sponsor (SSN or ITIN).
Main address of the company where the activities are carried out in the USA.
In addition, the applicant's data will be requested. The information that they have to supply is the following.
H1B lottery applicant's full name and gender.
Choose the type of applicant (general quota or master).
Date and place of birth.
Passport number.
2.2 Review and submit all H1B registrations
Once you have selected the people you want to register for the program; you must wait for the date indicated to start the process. After registration, employers have 14 days to review all records. In these 14 days, the sponsors have the power to edit, delete and modify the details of all the candidates.
2.3 H1B lottery
After the registration and review time has passed, the moment of the lottery begins. The USCIS enters all the applicants' data into a computer app, to make the random selection. It is important to clarify that first the draw for the regular quotas is done and once this is finished, the lottery for the master quotas begins. Generally, before starting the draws, the USCIS separates both applicants.
2.4 Notify the lucky winners of the H1B lottery
USCIS is in charge of electronically notifying all details of successful applicants to employers. Once this news arrives, sponsors must submit H1B petitions within 3 months. For those people who were not selected, that information is kept for when the H1B lottery second round begins, in case it is necessary to carry it out.
2.5 Submit complete H1B petitions
After employers know which applications are approved, they must submit the H1B petitions to USCIS. For this, the traditional procedure is used as before using the LCA and making the payment of fees. In addition, they must provide all the information that corroborates the H1B job offer of the selected applicant.
2.6 Adjudication and Processing by USCIS
After having all the information and having made the payment of the corresponding fees of the applicants, it must be sent to the USCIS. This entity will be in charge of adjudicating the requests following the traditional process. Once everything is finalized, the sponsors will be informed that everything is in order.
3. What does the USCIS statement say regarding the H1B second lottery 2023?
Recently, a statement was issued by the USCIS, giving the H1B lottery news related to the long-awaited H1B 2nd lottery 2023. Currently, many rumors have been heard about this matter. The reason is that last year the H1B second lottery 2022 was held. Below, everything that was said in the statement will be seen in detail.
3.1 Limit of H1B FY 2023 Reached
The first thing that USCIS said in the statement was that the number of H1B applications received was sufficient; exceeding the limit of what is allowed, that is, 85,000 petitions for the 2023 fiscal season. As you know, a total of 127,600 H1B registrations were approved this year, which far exceeds the previously established limit of 85,000.
With this in mind, the second round lottery H1B 2023 will not take place, nor will there be a third round; just like they did last year, with the USCIS H1B 2022 second lottery. Because already in advance, many more applications were accepted than planned. If you wish, you can review the H1B lottery results for 2023.
3.2 How many applications should the USCIS have received?
Generally, first, the number of applications that are sent to the USCIS is studied, and based on this, it is reviewed, how many can be approved. Previously, around 12% to 15% of all requests were received. The rest of the applications can be submitted to the second lottery H1B 2023. That is, only between 95,200 and 97,750 had to have been accepted.
3.3 Sending notifications informing the applicants "not selected"
The USCIS ruled saying that they have already sent in their entirety the "not selected" notifications to those applicants who were left under that condition. These people, after the results of the first round, came out, were placed on the waiting list for the H1B 2023 second round. Given everything that happened, their status was changed and they were assigned "not selected".
After performing the status update, employers could see the status set to "not selected". This applies to those applicants who unfortunately did not have luck with the first round of the lottery. With this, the doubt that many had about whether it will be a second lottery for H1B 2023 is already answered.
3.4 Acceptance of limit-free H1B petitions
Another important thing that was revealed is that the USCIS continues to receive H1B limit waiver requests. Next, you will see what are the types of requests that you are allowed to choose since you cannot apply for the H1B second lottery 2023.
H1B transfers to change employer or sponsor. That is, the employee looks for another boss who can resubmit the request.
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Q: Given a vector $\vec{p}$ = $$ show $$ for $a \ne b$ is not a vector. In the textbook Einstein Gravity in a nutshell by Zee, on page 43, it claims that given a vector $\vec{p}$ = $<p^1,p^2>$ then for any 2 real numbers $a\ne b$ then the object $<ap^1,bp^2>$ is definitely not a vector. Supposedly it's magnitude is not rotationally invariant? I do not understand firstly why it is not rotationally invariant (how would I show this?) I tried using the rotation matrix but I got the same magnitude as before [i.e. I got |R($\theta)(ap^1,bp^2)^T$| = |$(ap^1,bp^2)^T$|, where $R(\theta)$ is the 2D rotation matrix]! Also I'm guessing we can treat these vectors as being in $A^2$ rather than ${R}^2$. But secondly is there any difference between this definition of a vector and the usual definition given in an elementary physics course as something having both  a magnitude and direction?

A: In the context of gravity, a "vector" is defined by objects satisfying the transformation rule under coordinate transformation,
$$ p'^{\mu} = R^{\mu}_{\;\nu}p^{\nu}   \quad \mbox{repeated indices are summed}$$
For an object like $q^{\mu} = a(\mu)p^{\mu}$, given the transfromation property of $p^{\mu}$,
$$ \mbox{in general}\quad q'^{\mu} \neq R^{\mu}_{\;\nu}q^{\nu} $$
For instance, if $\vec{p}=(p^1,p^2)$ is a vector, then $\vec{p}' =(R^{1}_{\;1}p^1+R^{1}_{\;2}p^2,R^{2}_{\;1}p^1+R^{2}_{\;2}p^2) $. However, for $\vec{q} =(ap^1,bp^2) $,
\begin{align} \vec{q}' &=(R^{1}_{\;1}\color{red}{a}p^1+R^{1}_{\;2}\color{red}{b}p^2,R^{2}_{\;1}\color{red}{a}p^1+R^{2}_{\;2}\color{red}{b}p^2) \\
&\neq (\color{red}{a}(R^{1}_{\;1}p^1+R^{1}_{\;2}p^2),\color{red}{b}(R^{2}_{\;1}p^1+R^{2}_{\;2}p^2))
\end{align}
which does not match $\vec{q}'=(ap'^1,bp'^2)$ in the new coordinate system.

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as you can tell, i am experiencing this bug posted on launchpad. my network manager version is 0.9.8.0. i am using a wep hex key. problem was present in 0.9.6.x series for me.
Thats a pretty old ubuntu bug.
Are you using supported chip?
its not THAT apparent of a bug... switching to persistent naming REALLY threw a wrench in the gears.... switching back to wlan0 brought the bug back down to a dull roar. 6 hours per disconnect opposed to loading 1 page then getting kicked.
RTL8187L is the chip wg111v2 uses. i have another thread similar to this one though spawned for other reasons. i was just "chatting" that i had unmasked & installed latest networkmanager & wpa supplicant to try to address it. neither fixed it, and its still broken on some level... though no longer ridiculous to deal with.
What happens if you just disable wicd and networkmamanger and configure the network manually and without encryption?
Is the bug affected by the access point regulatory domain being the same as your card?
i have 2 of them, id GIVE one to a driver developer for the cost of shipping, though at that point you could have one in your hands from ebay (or any other net wifi gear retailer) for the same price.
Strange.. Looks like gimp has a dep on dev-libs/dbus-glib.
I have had problems with gimp bringing in weird dependencies.
your gimp problem probably has to do with your use flags. your post was completely random and off topic of this thread turtles. where are you going with this?
your post was completely random and off topic of this thread turtles. where are you going with this?
Ha funny off topic indeed! I thought I was in another thread!
In the terminal I would modprobe -r the driver. Then reload it to watch for errors.
Check dmesg while you are going through the steps.
What to do if your connection always times out?
The open source driver suffers from a lot of tx excessive retries and invalid misc errors for some unknown reason, resulting in a lot of packet loss and it keeps disconnecting, some times instantly.


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Current graduate students:
Shannon Kitchings. "Inside Voices: Witnessing Oral Disclosures of Trauma," MA in Social Justice & Equity Studies, Brock University. (Thesis committee member)
Syed Khuram Farukh. "Attabad: From a Disaster to an Opportunity in Disguise," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis supervisor)
Stephanie Murray. "Mobile Homes: Van-lifers in America," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis supervisor)
Jackie Gervais. "Understanding Post-secondary Mobility and its Impact on Well-being," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis committee member)
Jennica Giesbrecht. "Rethinking Intimate Geographies of Deathscapes," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis committee member)
Katrina Baxter-Moore. 2017. "For the Benefit of Whom? A Critical Analysis of the Claims of Volunteer Tourism," MA in Popular Culture, Brock University. (MRP)
Benjamin Kwao. 2017. "Sustainable Food Systems in Northern Ghana: Assessing the Influence of International Development," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis)
Michael Ayerh. 2016. "Social and Environmental Impact of Large-Scale mining in Ghana: A Case Study of Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Assembly," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Edna Abanga. 2015. "Access to Health Care Services in Ghana," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Warren Jenkinson. 2015. "Geographical Applications for Sound Walks," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis)
Pushpa Hamal. 2014. "Rural Road Construction in the Global South: How Process Shapes Outcome," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Oscar Kuffour. 2014. "Disaster Risk Reduction in the Human Security Perspective: The Case of Urban Ghana," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Raphael Atanga. 2011. "Tourism and Sustainable Development in Ghana: A case study of the Paga Crocodile Ponds," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Katie Hemsworth. 2010. "The use of personal listening devices on public transit to transform soundscape and place," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis)
Aaron Franks. 2008. ""A minor theory: Transmigration of ecological practice into transformative political discourse, via Campesina," MA in social Justice and Equity studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
Anna Lise Domanski. 2007. "Righteous sounds and reproductive justice: The influence of Ani DiFranco's music for reproductive rights activists," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
Julie Gregory. 2007. "Dancing Politics: Connecting Women's Experiences of Rave in Toronto to Ageism and Patriarchy," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
Lorraine Pannett. 2006. "Found in Translation: Life History and Migration," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (MRP)
Samah Sabra. 2005. "From 1940s Fez to 1990s Paris: Conceptualising Contact Zones and Understanding Autoethnography in a Global Arena of Representation," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
Kathryn Zavitz. 2004. "International Volunteers at a Costa Rican Organic Farm: Sheepish Volunteers, Proud Tourists and Unwitting Developers," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
Kathryn Besio. 2001. "Spatial Stories of Researchers, Travelers and Tourists in a Balti Village: Jangli Geographies of Transculturation," PhD in Geography, University of Hawaii. (Dissertation co-supervisor)
Tania Dolphin. 2000. "The Discursive Construction of Hunza, Pakistan, in Travel Writing: 1889-1999," MA in Geography, Carleton University. (Thesis co-supervisor)
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Connor Dingle. 2017. "Mobile Technology and Place at the Matheson Learning Commons," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Emmanuel Akowuah. 2018. "Farmers' Access to Agricultural Information and its Impact on Smallholder Agriculture: A Case Study of the Asante Akim North Municipality, Ghana," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Diana Owusuaa. 2016 "The Role of TRansnational Funeral Celebrations in Connecting Ghanian (Akan) Women in Toronto to Ghana," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Maame Achiaa Agyemang. 2016 "Climate Change, Food Security and Vulnerability in Ghana's Upper West REgion: Challenges and Adaptation Strategies," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Emmanuel Kyeremeh. 2015 "Exploring the Discourse of Skill/s Mismatch in Ghana," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Richard Lagani. 2012 "Domestic Door Locks and Space: Unlocking Key Knowledge of the Home," MA in Geography, Brock University. (MRP)
Ola Mohammed. 2012 "My Poetry Hails within the Streets, My Poetry Fails to be Discrete: Examining Belonging and Identity in Southern Ontario Diasporic Hip-Hop Music," MA in Popular Culture, Brock University. (MRP)
Ian Wood. 2011 "The Neoliberalisation of Street Vending Policy in Lima, Peru: The Contested Politics of Citizenship, Property and Public Space in the Production of a New Urban Marginality," MA in Geography, Brock University. (Thesis)
Jumoke Isekeije. 2010. "Peeking Through the Opomulero Lens: Tunde Kelani's Women on Centre Stage," MA in Popular Culture, Brock University. (MRP)
Joshua Holt. 2008. "Steeltown Scene: Genre, Performance and Identity in the Alternative Independent Music Scene in Hamilton, Ontario," MA in Popular Culture, Brock University. (Thesis)
Maureen Kihika. 2008. "The United Nations Millenium Development Goal to 'Combat HIV/AIDS in Kenya by 2014'," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (MRP)
Heather Maguire. 2007. ""Citizen Jane: Exploring the Relationship Between Gender and Cellular Phones in Societies of Control," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
Tomee Sojourner. 2006. "From Periphery to Centre: An Exploratory Study of One Black Lesbian's Intersections of Identity and Experiences of Discrimination in the Workplace," MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
Shauna Flanagan. 2003. "Differential Vulnerability to Debris Flow Hazard in High Mountain Communities of the Karakoram Himalaya, Northern Pakistan," MA in Geography, WLU. (Thesis)
Nick Craddock-Henry. 2002. "Risk, Vulnerability and Environmental Hazards in the Village of Darkot, Northern Pakistan," MA in Geography, WLU. (Thesis)
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Heidi Karst. 2016. "Protected Areas and Ecotourism: Charting a Path Toward Social-Ecological Wellbeing," PhD in Geography, University of Waterloo. (Dissertation)
Naila Zafar. 2018. "Monitoring Desertification in Kirthar National Park, Sindh: A Geographical Evaluation," PhD in Geography, University of Karachi. (Dissertation)
Abdul Rauf. 2014. "Immigrants in Bahawalpur City, Their Livelihood and Integration," PhD in Geography, Islamia University of Bahawalpur. (Dissertation)
Ghulam Murtaza Safi. 2014. "Spatial Dimensions of Agriculture in Sibi District, Balochistan," PhD in Geography, University of Karachi. (Dissertation)
Jeremy Thompson. 2010. "Climbers' Perceptions of Sustainable Bouldering Practices in the Niagara Glen," MA in Applied Health Sciences, Brock University. (Thesis)
Jaspreet Bal. 2010. "Children's Rights in Rural Punjab: The Story of a Border Dweller," MA in Child and Youth Studies, Brock University. (Thesis)
David Tavares. 2010. "Informal Urban Citizenship in the Multicultural City: Literary Representations of Second-Generation Youth in Toronto and London" PhD in Geography, University of Ottawa. (Dissertation)
Syed Shahid Ali. 2009."Structure and Spatial Patterns of Agriculture in Pakistan: A Study in Regionalization" PhD in Geography, University of Karachi. (Dissertation)
Shakila A. Rahman. 2009."Poverty in Karachi: Geographical Perspective and Socio-Economic Profile" PhD in Geography, University of Karachi. (Dissertation)
Khalida Zainab. 2003."Changes in the Spatial Structure of Administrative Areas in Pakistan: A Geographical Evaluation" PhD in Geography, University of Karachi, Pakistan. (Dissertation)
Yiping Lee. 2000."A Phenomenological Study of Tourists' Travel Experiences," PhD in Geography, University of Western Ontario. (Dissertation)
Seeking MA students
I am seeking serious students who are interested in completing an MA degree in social or cultural geography to work with me in the following areas.
Mobilities, road construction and social change in rural areas of the global South
In my own current work this interest involves investigating the implications of a newly constructed road for the daily lives, identities, and spatialities of residents in a small agricultural village in northern Pakistan. Opportunities exist for qualified and interested students to work with interviews, testimonial information, archives and photographic evidence relevant to this particular road-building project. I would also be interested in supervising students who would like to work on this general topic in relation to other geographical contexts.
Qualitative research methods, especially ethnography and autoethnography in their various forms
I am eager to work with students who wish either to use or interrogate the use of these approaches in geographical research. Students entering graduate school seldom realize that methodology itself is a dynamic area of research. Ethnography, and especially the place of the self-reflexive researcher-self in ethnographic research, is an especially dynamic area of research on methodology, that I would be interested to help interested students explore.
Geographies of Music
My interests are in (a) sound as a resource for understanding and representing spatiality, (b) music's role in constituting specific spaces, (c) the concept of acoustic space, and (d) relationships among music, identity and place. I have thought about these issues most carefully in relation to reggae music, but my supervisory interests are not constrained by genre preferences. I recently supervised a student who studied how the use of i-pods is shaping the constitution and experience of public transit environments.
Atta abad research
Living with Unexpected Inaccessibility in Gojal, Northern Pakistan: A Case Study of the Effects of the Atta Abad Landslide
On January 4th, 2010 a massive slope failure blocked more than two kilometres of the main Hunza River in the Gojal region of northern Pakistan to a depth of about 120m. The slide also destroyed three kilometres of the Karakoram Highway (KKH), the main transportation route connecting this region to the rest of Pakistan. Nineteen people were killed in the landslide, and most of Atta Abad and Sarat villages were annihilated. About 20,000 people in 25 villages were cut off from vehicular access to the rest of Gilgit-Baltistan province and Pakistan. A lake formed behind the landslide dam; by May 29th 2010, when the lake finally overtopped the dam, it had submerged 27 kilometres of the Karakoram Highway, destroyed at least six bridges, and flooded the homes and fields of about 240 households in five villages. In addition, over 130 shops have been submerged, as well as several schools, hotels, community centres, grinding mills and places of worship. The landslide and lake have together displaced about 380 families, most of whom are staying with relatives or are living in hastily-constructed camps.
Since the KKH opened in 1986, people in the region have come to rely on vehicular transportation, access to services, and the cheap and easy movement of people and goods between their villages and down-country cities. The accessibility provided by the KKH has become woven into the everyday economies and time-space fabric of almost all Gojali households. They are now struggling with the sudden unexpected reassertion of the friction of distance.
Nancy Cook and I are collaborating with Zulfiqar Ali Khan and Noor Mohammad – residents of one of the partially submerged villages and editors of a local news blog called The Pamir Times – to study the effects of landslide-induced disruptions to mobility on households in four Gojali villages. We are using in-depth interviews to develop four small case studies that will be presented individually, and then used to develop a comparative study of the effects of sudden and prolonged inaccessibility on household livelihood strategies, education, mobility patterns, social services, diets, well-being and the like in these four communities.
The project is an extension of our larger research project, A Material Ethnography of the Shimshal Road. Shimshal is a Gojali community some 70 kilometres upstream from the Atta Abad slide.
The Constitution of Spatiality in Reggae Music
From September to May I host a weekly one-hour radio show called Riddim Come Fawaad: Solid Reggae Vibrations on CFBU 103.7FM. The show live-streams Wednesday nights at 9:00 and Saturday afternoons at 4:00.
Several of my research interests coalesce in a project that investigates how spatiality is theorised, communicated, and used as a tool of expression, in Jamaican reggae music. The term "spatiality" here refers to the socially-produced character of space, and the spatially-constituted nature of society and subjectivity. My intent is to examine reggae music as a way to learn about how poor Black Jamaicans conceptualise and articulate their socio-spatial circumstances, and indeed how they construct particular spatialities through music.
The research focuses on this group of people because of the global significance of their general spatial circumstances, especially their history of forced migration and diaspora, and their current subordinate position in a range of national and transnational economic, social and cultural flows. The group of whom, and to whom, reggae music speaks are exemplary of more general – if less extreme – conditions of diaspora, cultural hybridity, displacement, and "double consciousness," which according to many scholars characterise the current period of globalisation. A detailed study of how this group understands, expresses and actively creates spatiality will contribute significantly to the geographical understanding of globalisation's effects on how people understand the world, themselves, and their place in the world. This has the potential to inform policy debates regarding globalisation's cultural implications.
Reggae is an especially appropriate resource for studying these issues, for four main reasons:
first, there is much evidence that music in general has been an especially potent site of cultural expression among diasporic Black cultures;
second, reggae music has consistently and explicitly articulated themes of subordination, suffering, diaspora, migration, displacement and double consciousness. Thus, it offers a rich storehouse of material on the experience of globalisation under conditions of subordination;
third, reggae has developed sophisticated techniques for using sound to evoke spatial associations and disjunctures;
fourth, due to its status as a local music with a global audience, reggae has had to develop ways of speaking simultaneously (but not identically) to cultural insiders and outsiders. This is a characteristic feature of transcultural representation, which prompts me to conceptualise reggae music as "autoethnographic" representation: i.e., as a way members of subordinate groups represent themselves to their own group, while simultaneously representing themselves to members of dominant groups.
As the first detailed geographical examination of reggae music, this study contributes to music scholarship, and to the branch of geography concerned with the spatial attributes of music. It also contributes to current efforts within geography to develop a less visual – and more aural – means of conceiving spatiality. More generally, in tracing the contours of a specific mode of autoethnographic expression, this study will also contribute to the conceptualisation of identity under conditions of transcultural subordination.
Shimshal Nature Trust
I have been involved with research in the community of Shimshal off and on since 1988. When I visited the community for a fourth field season during the summer of 1997, several community elders approached me to solicit my help in drafting a document outlining their endeavour to develop a comprehensive nature trust. The result of our collaborative efforts was the Shimshal Nature Trust Fifteen Year Vision and Management Plan.
My role has been a modest one: merely to take what Shimshalis told me of their plans for a nature trust, and to convey this information in well-constructed English. Thus, none of the ideas are mine, but much phrasing (and, therefore, some of the emphasis) is. In order to convey their primary authorship of the document, Shimshalis encouraged me to write as if they were writing, and to avoid the academic, "bird's eye view", third person. The result is occasionally awkward, but I hope accurately conveys the nature of my collaboration with the community. Everything included in the document has been checked, double-checked, and approved by several Shimshalis who are fluent in English. Nevertheless, I am happy to accept responsibility for any errors or misleading emphases that remain.
A Critical Ethnography of the Shimshal Road
Shimshal is a farming and herding community of about 110 households, located at 3,000m in the Karakoram Mountain Range, in Pakistan's Northern Areas (Butz 1996). For most of the community's 400 year history, travel between the village and its nearest neighbour required a walk of at least a week along a difficult footpath that was impassable even for donkeys and yaks. It was several more days' travel by pony track to Baltit, the capital of the fiefdom of Hunza, and an additional week or so beyond Baltit to Gilgit, the largest centre in what is now northern Pakistan and historically a staging point along the fabled Silk Route (Butz 1998). While these difficulties of travel did not wholly prevent interaction between Shimshal and the rest of the region, they did have a strong limiting and mediating effect. Throughout the 20th century Shimshal's relative inaccessibility increased, as jeep tracks and metalled roads were constructed throughout the region, but not to Shimshal. By the late 1970s Shimshal was one of the least accessible permanent settlement in Pakistan's Northern Areas; it was still a week's walk from the nearest road (the Karakoram Highway, which establishes a road link, through northern Pakistan, from the Punjab to Western China). In 1983 the community began to construct a road from Passu (their nearest neighbour, on the Karakoram Highway) to the village of Shimshal, initially with the assistance of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program, an NGO operating out of Gilgit, and later with funding and engineering support from the Government of Pakistan (Ali & Butz 2005). As road construction proceeded, the time required to travel between Shimshal and Passu decreased, with a commensurate increase in traffic. When I first visited and conducted research in Shimshal in 1987, it was a long four-day walk, which included fording several streams and crossing a glacier. By 1995 the trek was down to three days, and then two days in 2000. When I visited the community most recently in 2007, I travelled the whole way by jeep in three hours; the 40 kilometre road was completed in November 2003, twenty years after construction began. The trip from Shimshal to the regional centre of Gilgit, which would have taken at least two weeks as recently as the mid 1960s, now takes less than ten hours.
The potential implications of this increase in accessibility for Shimshal are great, in terms of the movement of people and goods, the introduction of ideas and technology, the infiltration of government bureaucracy and commerce, the incorporation of the community into a regional economy and political structure, and so on (Butz 1993). One of the advantages Shimshalis identify in 'getting' a road so late, and taking so long to construct it, is that it has given them time to think about how to manage these potential effects with reference to the community's observations about what happened in other communities that went through a similar period of drastically increased accessibility a decade or two earlier. Indeed, the community set up its Shimshal Nature Trustin 1987 largely in anticipation of stresses associated with the completion of the road, and I have been involved in many discussions in the community, at various levels of formality, which focused on how to manage the effects of the road (Ali & Butz 2005, Butz 1995, 2006).
After two decades of informal observations and conversations with Shimshalis about the road, Nancy Cook (Brock, Sociology) and I have recently begun a more comprehensive, historically-grounded ethnography of social change in Shimshal in the context of increases in accessibility facilitated by the road's construction. To the extent that our study will rely heavily on community-members' own perspectives and experiences, it will also be an autoethnography of social change (Besio & Butz 2004, Butz & Besio 2004).
The results of this research – currently in its very early stages – will be important for several reasons. First, road building is a significant aspect of NGO development work and government infrastructure initiatives in northern Pakistan and throughout the developing world, but with little attention to micro-level implications for community members and with the assumption that effects will be generally positive. When implications are studied, they tend to focus strictly on economic benefits without considering social implications, and they seldom attempt to understand the perspectives of the people whose lives have been most directly affected by drastically increased accessibility. Second, while mountainous northern Pakistan is nearing the end of a period of rapid and intense road infrastructure development, little effort has been devoted to assessing whether the predictions of the meso-level models upon which this development was based are borne out on the ground. This study, while not aspiring to provide a regional-level evaluation of the social effects of infrastructural development, will develop a detailed case study that contributes to the early stages of that process of assessment. Third, because we have interview transcripts from a couple of years before the road was finished, which we will complement by conducting interviews a few years after the completion of the road, we will be able to describe shifts in villagers' perspectives and concerns across a crucial transitional period. This is not a systematically longitudinal research project, but it does have a valuable longitudinal dimension that is rare in studies of this sort. Fourth, most studies of accessibility in rural parts of the developing world treat communities super-organically, and thus fail to tease out the variable implications of increasing accessibility for different group within a community. Our study will do that because we will have in-depth qualitative information, and because we already have a strong sense of social (economic, political, gender, household, etc.) organization in the community. Fifth, while Shimshalis have struggled long and hard to construct a road to their village, they are clearly also concerned about its implications for their lives. The results of this study will provide the community with an analysis that will allow community members to plan more carefully and knowledgeably for their future. Sixth, the study will provide a detailed analysis of an indigenous community in a rapid phase of transition. As such it will be a valuable contribution to ethnographic scholarship on the Karakoram region of Pakistan, and also to larger bodies of critical scholarship on development and modernization in rural parts of the developing world.
Portering Relations and Transcultural Interactions in Northern Pakistan
Pakistan's Karakoram mountains are often described as among the world's highest and least accessible. Yet most Karakoram societies are located close to ancient trade routes, including the famed Silk Road. And since the mid 19th century (between 1835 and 1876), Karakoram communities have had regular visits from European soldiers and adventurers, many of whom sought to explore those territories that were removed from well-travelled trade routes. To this day many foreign visitors to the Karakoram (from adventure tourists to rural development workers) seek experiences that cannot be found in the main towns. To a large extent, these visitors to and through the Karakoram relied (and often still do) on local porters (coolies, "sherpas") to transport them and their possessions through rugged and roadless terrain, and to the tops of mountains. For much of the history of European and pre-European contact portering arrangements were mainly subsidiary to traditional corvée obligations to local chiefs. Throughout the 20th century a more autonomous economy of portering emerged, which nevertheless retains elements of its origins in corvée labour.
The research project is motivated by an awareness that, given the above, portering relations have significantly shaped – perhaps dominated – transcultural (insider/outsider) interaction in the Karakoram region. This is especially true of the British period, but also of times before and since. Our main goal, therefore, is to demonstrate how contact structured by portering relations has shaped transcultural interactions in the Karakoram region, historically and presently, and to describe the geographical constitution of those interactions. By transcultural interactions we mean the material relations of contact, and the ideological representations, or discursive formations, that each group takes away from an interaction and brings to subsequent interactions. Four explicit objectives inform the overall goal:
to describe the instrumental political economy of portering in two settings within the Karakoram region, from European contact to the present (e.g., porter regulation, recruitment, remuneration, working conditions, modes of resistance);
to delineate the historical development of specific discursive configurations, indigenous and external, as they provide instrumental portering relations with an ideological context (e.g., communalism, honour, hospitality, masculinity, femininity, clan solidarity, racial superiority, imperialism, civilisation, capitalism, science);
to explain how new discourses (e.g., adventure tourism, sustainable development, indigenous self-determination) recreate portering as a critical site for shaping relations of contact; and
to delineate, at a micro-scale, the spatial distribution and geographical constitution of transcultural relations – both material and ideological – in two Karakoram villages (e.g., spatial sites of interaction, contestation, domination and resistance).
The work my co-investigators (Ken MacDonald and Kathryn Besio) and I have been undertaking since 1995 to achieve these objectives contributes a theoretically informed and empirically based geography of contemporary transcultural relations and transcultural discourses in the contact zone. While studies outside of the discipline are frequently implicitly geographical, our study makes explicit the geographical constitution of these relations and discourses. To the extent that an analysis of portering provides a microcosm from which to gain insight into other areas of North/South discursive interaction, it informs geographical understanding of North/South struggles more generally. In addition, the research comprises the only detailed comparative and regional-scale examination of transcultural relations in the Karakoram region, and one of the few studies of portering. Far from purely academic, the knowledge we create is useful for those Pakistani and international organizations, and indigenous communities, who seek to manage adventure tourism to the advantage of Karakoram societies.
(2017) Autobiography. In, D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, & R. A. Marston (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Washington: Wiley/AAG (8pp). DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0378
(2015) Editorial: Social justice scholarship in a neoliberal governance context. Studies in Social Justice 9(1): 1-6.
(2011) (K. Zavitz and D. Butz) Not that alternative: Short-term volunteer tourism at an organic farming project in Costa Rica. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 10(3): 412-441.
(2011) Introduction: Places post-colonialism forgot (and how to find them). ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 10(1), 42-47.
(2010) (Bauder, H., Belina, B., Butz, D., Gedalof, Z., Lagendijk, A., Mudu, P., Paasi, A., Schuurman, N., Wilson, D.) Critical Practice of Grant Application and Administration: An Intervention. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 9(1), 102-112 .
(2010) Autoethnography as sensibility. In The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Geography. Eds. D. DeLyser, S. Aitken, S. Herbert, M. Crang & L. McDowell. London: Sage (pp. 138-155).
(2009) (D. Butz and K. Besio) Autoethnography. Geography Compass 3(5), 1660-1674.
(2008) Sidelined by the guidelines: Reflections on the limitations of standard informed consent procedures for the conduct of ethical research. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 7(2): 239-259.
(2007) (Pain, R., H. Bauder, L. Berg, D. Butz, C. Desbiens, S. Engel-Di Mauro, and S. González) The Politics of Indexing and Ranking Academic Journals. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 6(2), 131-34.
(2004) (D. Butz and K. Besio) The value of autoethnography for field research in transcultural settings. The Professional Geographer 56(3): 350-360.
(2004) (K. Besio and D. Butz) Commentary – Autoethnography: A Limited Endorsement. The Professional Geographer 56(3): 432-438.
(2002) (Butz, D. and L. Berg) Paradoxical space: geography, men and duppy feminism, in P. Moss (ed) Feminist Geography in Practice: Research and Methods Oxford: Blackwell (pp. 87-102).
(2001) (Butz, D. and D. Leslie) Risky subjects: changing geographies of employment in the automobile industry. Area 33(2): 212-219.
(1998) (Leslie, D. and D. Butz) "GM Suicide": Flexibility, space and the injured body. Economic Geography 74: 360-78
(1995) Revisiting Edward Said's 'Orientalism'. The Brock Review 4(1/2): 54-80.
(1991) (Butz, D., S. Lonergan and B. Smit) Why international development neglects indigenous social reality. Canadian Journal of Development Studies 12(1): 143-58.
Publications relating to work in Pakistan:
(2018) (N. Cook and D. Butz) Gendered mobilities in the making: Moving from a pedestrian to vehicular mobility landscape in Shimshal, Pakistan. Social & Cultural Geography 19(5): 606-625.
(2017) (D. Butz and N. Cook) The epistemological and ethical value of autophotography for mobilities research in transcultural contexts. Studies in Social Justice 11(2): 238-274.
(2016) The dance of transculturation. The Arab World Geographer 19(3/4): 168-183.
(2016) (N. Cook and D. Butz) Mobility justice in the context of disaster. Mobilities 11(3): 400-419.
(2016) (D. Butz and N. Cook) Political ecology of human-environmental change in Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. In, H. Kreutzmann & T. Watanabe (eds.) Mapping Transition in the Pamirs: Changing Human-Environmental Landscapes. Frankfurt: Springer (pp. 197-214)
(2015) (N. Cook and D. Butz) The dialectical constitution of mobility and immobility: Recovering from the Attabad landslide disaster, Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Contemporary South Asia 23(4): 388-408.
(2015) Review of Education for Development in Northern Pakistan: Opportunities and Constraints for Rural Households by A. Benz, in Erdkunde69(2), 191-5.
(2014) (Cook, N. & D. Butz) Road infrastructure for community organisation.Wi: Journal of Mobile Culture 8(1): on-line.
(2013) (Butz D. & N. Cook, eds.) Shimshal Before the Road: Photographic Archive 1988-2000. (This is an exhibit of 128 photographs depicting Shimshal before the Shimshal link road was constructed. The photos were selected from many thousand Nancy and I took during our 6 research trips to the community between 1988 and 2000. The exhibit of 16×20 photos was first displayed in Shimshal in summer 2013 and remains there as a community photographic archive. The exhibit is accompanied by a catalogue of captioned smaller prints of the photos.)
(2013) (N. Cook and D. Butz) The Atta Abad Landslide and everyday mobility in Gojal, Northern Pakistan. Mountain Research and Development 33(4): 372-80.
(2012) (Butz D. & N. Cook, eds.) Living With the Road: Shimshal Autophotography Project 2011-2012. (This is an exhibit of 114 photographs depicting the implications of the newly constructed Shimshal road for the lives of Shimshal residents. The photos were selected from 344 photos made by Shimshalis as part of the autophotography component of out research in Shimshal. The exhibit of 16×20 photos was first mounted in Shimshal in Fall 2012, and remains there as a community photographic archive. The exhibit is accompanied by a catalogue of captioned smaller prints of the photos.)
(2011) (D. Butz and N. Cook) Accessibility interrupted: The Shimshal road, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The Canadian Geographer 55(3): 354-64.
(2011) (Cook, N. and D. Butz) Narratives of accessibility and social change in Shimshal, northern Pakistan. Mountain Research and Development 31(1): 27-34.
(2007) (Dagleish, M.P., Qurban Ali, R. K. Powell, D. Butz, M.H. Woodford) Fatal Sarcoptes scabiei infection of blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) in Pakistan Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43(3): 512-517.
(2006) Tourism and portering labour relations in Shimshal, Gojal Hunza, in H. Kreutzmann (ed) Karakoram in Transition – The Hunza Valley Oxford: Oxford and Karachi (pp. 394-403).
(2005) (Ali, I. and D. Butz) Report on Shimshal Nature Trust (SNT), Ghojal, Northern Areas, Pakistan, in D. Pansky (ed) Governance Stream of the Fifth World Parks Congress. Ottawa: Parks Canada and IUCN/WCPA. (17pp).
(2003) (I. Ali and D. Butz) The Shimshal governance model – A community conserved area, a sense of cultural identity, a way of life Policy Matters 12: 111-120.
(2002) Sustainable tourism and everyday life in Shimshal, Pakistan. Tourism Recreation Research 27(3): 53-65.
(2002) Resistance, representation and third space in Shimshal Village, Northern Pakistan ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies 1: 15-34.
(2001) (Butz, D. and K. MacDonald) Serving sahibs with pony and pen: the discursive uses of native authenticity Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 19(2): 179-201.
(2001) Autobiography, autoethnography and intersubjectivity: analyzing communication in northern Pakistan, in P. Moss (ed) Placing Autobiography in Geography: History, Method and Analysis Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 149-166.
(1999) (Butz D. and M. Ripmeester) Finding space for resistant subcultures InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Studies (2, Winter 1999) 16pp.
(1998) Orientalist representations of resource use in Shimshal, Pakistan, and their extra-discursive effects, in I. Stellrecht (ed) Karakorum – Hindukush – Himalaya: Dynamics of Change (Part 1) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 357-386.
(1998) (MacDonald, K. and D. Butz) Investigating portering relations as a locus for transcultural interaction in the Karakoram region of northern Pakistan. Mountain Research and Development 18(4):333-343
(1997) (Butz, D. and J. Eyles) Reconceptualising senses of place: social relations, ideology and ecology Geografiska Annaler: Series B: 79(1) 1-25. ('The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com')
(1996) Sustaining indigenous communities: symbolic and instrumental dimensions of pastoral resource use in Shimshal, northern Pakistan The Canadian Geographer 40(1): 36-53.
(1995) Legitimating porter regulation in an indigenous mountain community in northern Pakistan, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 13(4): 381-414.
(1994) A note on crop distribution and micro-environmental conditions in Holshal and Ghoshushal Villages, Pakistan Mountain Research and Development14(1): 89-97.
(1993) Developing Sustainable Communities: Community Development and Modernity in Shimshal, Pakistan, Unpublished PhD Dissertation, McMaster University, Hamilton.
(1989) The agricultural use of meltwater in Hopar Settlement, Pakistan Annals of Glaciology 13: 35-9.
(1987) Irrigation Agriculture in HighMountain Communities: The Example of Hopar Villages, Pakistan, Unpublished MA Thesis, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo.
(1987) Adapting meltwater supply to meet irrigation demand in high mountain agricultural communities: the example of Hopar Villages, Pakistan Proceedings of the 44th Annual Eastern Snow Conference, Fredericton, 34-47.
Publications relating to reggae research:
I have not yet published any results from my reggae research. The following are book reviews, conference presentations and invited lectures related to this research.
(2010) "Response as autoethnography: 1970s outernational roots reggae" paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, 12-18 April 2010.
(2009) Review of Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? By Jason Toynbee. Popular Music 28(2), 267-9.
(2007) "Burnin' and Lootin' across the Black Atlantic (Leeds, 1973): Trans-local associations of identity and experience" paper presented at theAnnual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Saskatoon, 29 May – 2 June 2007.
(2007) Review of Caribbean Popular Music: An Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady and Dancehall by D. Moskowitz, in Popular Music and Society 30(2): 285-287.
(2005) (D. Butz & S. Sabra) "Musical and Diasporic Networks: Understanding Space in the Music of the Fugees" paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meetings, London, June 2005.
(2005) (S. Sabra & D. Butz) "Epistemologies of Diaspora: Affiliations of Space and Identity in the Music of the Fugees" paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, 5-9 April 2005.
(2004) "Trod On: Spatial Ontology, Diaspora and Reggae Music" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Moncton, 25-29 May 2004.
(2004) "Starting from Scratch: The Evocation of Spatiality in Lee Perry's Reggae Sounds" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Cultural Studies Association, Boston, 5-9 May 2004.
(2004) "Sufferers' Dub: The Articulation of Spatiality in Lee Perry's Reggae Music" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, 15-19 March 2004.
(2003) "My Roots/Routes I'll Never Forget: The Constitution of Spatiality in Reggae Music" Invited lecture for the Waikato University Cultural Studies Seminar Series, Hamilton, New Zealand, 4 June 2003.
(2003) Review of Sound Tracks: Popular Music, Identity and Place by J. Connell and C. Gibson, in The Canadian Geographer 47(4): 84-86.
(2002) "Every Word, Every Second and Every Third: Listening for Geography in the Sounds of Music" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 19-23 March 2002.
(2001) "Preliminary Reflections in Favour of Musical Metaphors of Socio-Spatial Relations" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Montreal, 29 May – 3 June 2001.
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Awhile back, I posted about Kevin Tong's amazing iSteamPhone t-shirt and sold out art print. Lucky for you, Kevin has decided to offer up some A/P's of the art print. It's an 18″ x 24″ screenprint for only $20. This is a total steal, grab one at TragicSunshine.com.
By all means, steal from me!
Glad you made these available, Kevin!
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Well lap it up. I am only keeping a single poster for myself. You guys are eating the clothes off my back! Thanks.
I missed out on getting this one when you had it for sale earlier so thanks dude!


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What Are Olivia Holt Movies and TV Shows & How Much Is Her Net Worth?
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This former child star has made it big in the world of entertainment. Over the last decade, Olivia Holt has built an esteemable singing and acting career for herself, warming her way into the hearts of adolescents and young teens everywhere. She has an amiable personality, which when combined with her natural talent for performing and her incredibly good looks, has made it easy for her to excel in her chosen profession. Olivia has received a few honors in recognition of her work including a Teens Choice Award and Radio Disney Music Award. If you're a fan of her work, then you've probably already seen a number of Olivia Holt's movies and TV shows. Otherwise, it's never too late to get acquainted with her work.
Olivia is well accustomed to being in front of cameras and putting on a show for a crowd as she has been doing this since she was just a little girl. Whether she's singing or portraying a character, Olivia is always a delight to watch, which is why her fanbase is steadily growing with each new project that she puts out. Here is all there is to know about Olivia Holt's movies, the television shows she has been in, and how much she has managed to amass from her career so far.
Olivia Holt's Movies and TV Shows
The actress scored her debut big-screen role in the 2009 film Black & Blue, where she played a character named Claire. She was only 13 years old at the time, but her performance managed to catch the eye of the industry, leading to her landing parts on television.
The next Olivia Holt's movies came in 2014 when she lent her voice to Morgan, a character in the animated film Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast. Two years later, she starred in The Standoff as Amy Roberts. In 2017, Olivia kept busy with a couple more movie roles in Class Rank, where she played Veronica Krauss; and Same Kind of Different as Me, where she played Regan Hall, starring alongside Renee Zellweger and Greg Kinnear. Other Olivia Holt movies include Status Update and Gnome Alone, both of which she starred in and were released in 2018.
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Since she kicked off her screen career in 2009, Olivia has appeared in several television shows. Prior to that, she developed her acting chops and built quite an impressive resume by featuring in TV commercials for various brands such as Girl Gourmet, Kidz Bop 14, Littlest Pet Shop, Mattel, Hasbro, and Bratz dolls.
In 2010, she appeared as herself in the documentary Disney XD's My Life. The following year, she was cast as the lead, Kim Crawford, in the Disney TV series Kickin' It. She landed the role because of her gymnastics training, which proved essential because her character had to do a lot of martial arts and other stunts. Olivia played the character for three seasons before she was relegated to a recurring role in season four.
She played Skylar Lewis in the made for television film, Girl vs. Monster in 2012, followed by her role as Young Georgia in Shake It Up in 2013. The actress secured another lead role in I Didn't Do It, a comedy series by Disney that saw her breathe life into the role of Lindy Watson. After she left the show in 2015, Olivia guest-starred in Dog with a Blog and Ultimate Spiderman. She then went on to play the recurring character, Amber, in the animated series Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero.
Her next television role was as Valentina in The Evermoor Chronicles. In 2018, she was cast to play Tandy Bowen / Dagger, in Cloak & Dagger, a fantasy series by Marvel and Freeform. She reprised her role as Dagger in an episode of Spider-Man in 2019.
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How Much Is Her Net Worth?
The Tennessee-born actress has been active in the industry for over a decade, during which she has been featured in over a dozen movies and television shows. Since her breakout role in Kickin' It, Olivia has been earning impressive wages for her appearances, which have helped to elevate her financial standing.
As of 2019, Olivia Holt's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. This figure is expected to rise as she releases more music projects, films, and television shows in the coming years. Olivia is also likely to score more lucrative endorsement deals like the ones she has with Neutrogena and PlayMG, which will also contribute significantly to her net worth.


Trips down the Genesee River average 2.5 hours on the water.
Click here to check the current river conditions.
Directions from Buffalo - Take Rte 90 West to Route 400. Follow Route 400 to the Route 20A Interchange then turn left onto Route 20A East. Follow Route 20A East to Warsaw. Turn right onto Route 19 and head South out of Warsaw. Turn left onto Route 19A and follow that through the village of Castile. Turn left just past the "Letchworth State Park" sign onto Denton Corners Road and follow that to the Castile entrance at the park. Once in the park head South and follow the "rafting" or "Lower Falls Restaurant" signs. Our office is across the street from the restaurant, inside the South Pool House.
From Rochester: Take Route 390 South to the Mt. Morris exit. Turn left onto Route 408 and follow it into the village. Turn right onto Route 36 North. After crossing the river, watch for Letchworth State Park sign. The park entrance will be on the left side of the road. Follow the rafting signs to our office, we're across from the Lower Falls Restaurant. It is a 25-minute drive from the Mt. Morris gate to our office.
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays (call for departure times). Cost: $45.00 per person.
Wetsuits are required in the early spring and late fall.
A trip down the river through "The Grand Canyon of the East" provides memories that will last a lifetime and is the perfect trip for first-time rafters, youth groups, and families with children. After meeting at the South Poolhouse and changing into river apparel, you'll meet your trip leader. You'll be issued a paddle and PFD, be given a safety talk, and then walk about 10 minutes to the river's edge. Five and one-half miles of spectacular scenery and fun rapids await you and your fellow paddlers. On warm days, you can cool off body surfing at "New Wave Rapids" or get soaking wet at "The Leap of Faith." With a little luck, you may even see some of the animals that inhabit the park. The park is home to beavers, deer, eagles, hawks, raccoons, and river otters, just to name a few. Upon reaching St. Helena, our bus awaits (weather conditions permitting) to bring you back to the office to change back into dry, clean clothes and to enjoy a light snack.
During the summer months, the river often becomes too low to raft. When this happens, we use inflatable sit-on-top kayaks in order to enjoy the gorge. The ride is calmer and may take a little longer than when we're rafting, but hey, that just gives us more time to enjoy ourselves. (It may also require you to get out of your boat at times to walk a short distance through shallow water.) We are solely reliant on rain in the watershed at our Letchworth site. Water levels will determine what type of craft we will be using.
Come explore the park from a perspective only we can give you. One of our naturalists will accompany the trip, offering narration during the frequent stops along the way as the beauty that is within the gorge unfolds before you. Lunch will be served in the canyon. A variety of topics are available, including park ecology and history, philosophical or religious perspectives, etc. A minimum party of eight required. Cost: $60.00 per person.
Please visit our Special Events page to view some unique outings at the park as well as at other locations throughout the year.
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Another Cup of… The Dawn of a Series
As I approach the publishers editing stage of the draft of Another Cup of Champagne– the fifth in the Another Cup of… series, I can't help but look back on how it all began. I've had so much fun writing the adventures of Amy, Kit, Jack and their friends- but I honestly never thought I'd still be telling their stories five books later!
Although Another Cup of Coffee was the first book I wrote under the name Jenny Kane, it is actually my seventh novel. Without exception, all of my other works, be they long or short, have been formed from a single moment of inspiration- a flash point of certainty sparked from a conversation, location, or random thought, that has expanded and developed as I've penned the words.
Another Cup of Coffee however was a very different cup of tea! (If you'll pardon the pun!). It's dawn was thirteen years ago, shortly after the birth of my first child, and it started by accident. My youngest child never slept at night as a baby, nor did she feel inclined to eat much, so she was constantly awake, starving and grumpy (although she is totally lovely now!!), and as a sanity buster in the middle of the night I would lay on the sofa with her, and think back to all the wonderful times I'd had as a student when I worked as an archaeologist, all the fun I'd had with my university friends, I'd reminisce about how I met my husband, all the places we used to go, the music we used to listen to, the mistakes we made…and then, as the long nights wore on, I found I'd begun to think about the 'what if's' in life.
It was these 'what if's' that made me reach for a piece of paper- What if I hadn't met my husband when I did? What if I'd met him years later in a totally different place? What if my first boyfriend had hurt me badly, rather than finishing things amicably? And what if he'd been my best friend ever since- as, in fact, he is- but with the past still an open wound between us, rather than just something we look back on fondly as a lovely adventure on the way to growing up? (I use the term 'growing up' very loosely!!) What if my heart had been so broken that I'd run away from all my friends and started a new life many miles away? What if…..?
I wrote all those thoughts down- and then did nothing with them. Then, when my second child was born, and the lack of sleep began again, I picked up that piece of paper, and gave the characters associated with this 'what if-ness' names- although not the names in the book now- the main character was called Jenny back then, rather than Amy as she is now…
Thirteen years ago Amy Crane ran away from everyone and everything she knew, ending up in an unfamiliar city with no obvious past and no idea of her future. Now, though, that past has just arrived on her doorstep, in the shape of an old music cassette that Amy hasn't seen since she was at university.
Digging out her long-neglected Walkman, Amy listens to the lyrics that soundtracked her student days. As long-buried memories are wrenched from the places in her mind where she's kept them safely locked away for over a decade, Amy is suddenly tired of hiding.
It's time to confront everything about her life. Time to find all the friends she left behind in England, when her heart got broken and the life she was building for herself was shattered. Time to make sense of all the feelings she's been bottling up for all this time. And most of all, it's time to discover why Jack has sent her tape back to her now, after all these years…
With her mantra, 'New life, New job, New home', playing on a continuous loop in her head, Amy gears herself up with yet another bucket-sized cup of coffee, as she goes forth to lay the ghost of first love to rest…
As you can see from the blurb, I took all those midnight mixed up memories, those sips of coffee from my life- a life which has involved one hell of a lot of caffeine- and weaved them into the story I first played with thirteen years ago!
It was been an amazing amount of fun to write a series of stories which run so close to my own life and yet, at the same time- are nothing like it…with maybe one exception. There is a character called Kit in Another Cup of Coffee– she is an erotica writer, she has two children, she is happily married, she never wears make up, can't be bothered to worry about clothes, and she sits in a cafe all morning to write her stories, and she is the co-host of a literary festival!! Beyond that she isn't like me at all…honest…
You can buy Another Cup of Coffee as either a paperback from all good bookshops or an eBook from-
Amazon UK- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Another-Cup-Coffee-Jenny-Kane/dp/1783751126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377605533&sr=8-1&keywords=another+cup+of+coffee
Amazon US – http://www.amazon.com/Another-Cup-Coffee-Jenny-Kane/dp/1783751126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377605667&sr=8-1&keywords=another+cup+of+coffee+jenny+kane
It is also available on Kobo and Nook.
Another Glass of Champagne will be out this coming summer.
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Q: Getting Error "LoadError: cannot load such file -- celluloid/current" while running rake db:create on ubuntu 20.04 I am trying to setup new project which is in rails 6. When I am trying to create DB by running rake db:create, it gives me below error. Here is the complete trace.
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I have tried multiple things to resolve the issue. e.g. - updating "private_pub" gem and ruby version etc.Any help would be highly appreciated.