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10 Facts & Fiction about The Unraveling by Laurel Wanrow & Giveaway
Posted 7 August, 2015 by Danny in Author Spotlight, Blog, Danny, Giveaways / 5 Comments
Hey and Happy Friday everyone! Today, I have Laurel Wanrow on the Blog to promote her an amazing sounding story: The Unraveling, which you should make sure to check out!!
Here is Laurel for you with Ten Facts and Fictions about The Unraveling, Volume One of The Luminated Threads:
When I wrote my steampunk fantasy, I originally set The Unraveling in a fantasy world. However, I patterned my imaginary world so closely on Victorian England that a writing partner suggested I use a real English setting. An British friend helped pick the location of Derby and the nearby Peak District, where most of the story takes place. As it turned out, making this change was the easy part. Afterwards, I had a thousand little details to get correct…or try to get correct for my story set in 1868. Some I didn't get correct on purpose.
Here are ten facts and fictions about Victorian life, Derby, and The Unraveling:
Derby, England is the location of the world's first industrial factory, Lombe's Mill, a silk mill built in 1717. Perfect setting for a story antagonist who owns a machinery factory.
John Whitehurst II started a clockmaking business in Derby in 1736, and his apprentice John Smith became his successor in 1856. Because of the presence of both clockmakers and the steam industry in the area, I created farm machines operating with a mix of each.
Every steampunk story needs a steam train scene! The North Midland Railway really did run a branch line out to Rowsley in 1849, before my heroine needed it in 1868. However, I had to create the additional branch line going to Gapton. And Gapton!
The limestone plateau underlying the White Peak area really does make the soil poor for farming, but it's famous for its rare plant species and caves, all three of which provided inspiration for adventurous bits of the story, but telling which would be a spoiler!
Victorian women didn't usually work, unless as servants or merchant's wives, however, in my story women hold jobs as equally as men. In rural areas many women helped in gardens and fields, but they would have worn sturdy work dresses, never trousers, or a bib-and-brace.
The name 'bib-and-brace' has confused a number of my readers, but to be correct for the times, I couldn't call this pair of trousers with an attached front patch and shoulder straps 'overalls' like we do today. Overalls in the 1800s were a complete garment worn to protect clothing underneath while working, what we know as coveralls. The denim fabric "bib overalls" that became popular in the 1960, are the look I was after when dressing both men and women on my story's farm.
By 1859, gas lighting was common in Britain, due largely to the demand for lighting to provide longer working hours in the factories—and very useful in a mechanic's workshop for creating devices to fight mysterious pests. Like in real life, up until 1891, coal provided the fuel, piped in from gasworks, so the gaslights at the time were commonly wall or ceiling fixtures, not freestanding.
Indoor plumbing would have been rare. Bathing rooms had bathtubs, but not "showers" which is why I named the invention my hardworking characters use a "spray wash."
Satchels, or haversacks, made of leather or oiled canvas were used in the mid 1800's but probably not by women. By carrying one, Annmar shows early in the story that she's not likely to conform to society's expectations for proper Victorian women.
When including shapeshifters in this fantasy (Yes, shapeshifters in a steampunk story, and I'm not the only one to do it!) I wanted to use animals native to Britain, and though wolves were extinct by 1680, there is a tale of one being spotted as late as 1880, so I decided I could have wolves and wrote them in as a hidden surviving colony.
I hope you've enjoyed this little behind the scenes research tour of The Unraveling: part history, part balking against societal norms, part creative inventions, part fantasy.
The Unraveling
by Laurel Wanrow
Series: The Luminated Threads, Volume One
Genre: Steampunk Fantasy Romance geared to New Adults
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In 1868 England, the competition to control agriculture is fierce…
…and nobody says no to Derby's industrial magnate.
Except Annmar Masterson. The nineteen-year-old rejects his improper advances and instead takes an advertising position on a farm. She discovers the isolated valley is home to gifted species—including animal and plant shifters—who hide their lives from the rest of England. The blue threads only she sees on their clockwork machinery prove her heritage is rooted with theirs, but their world is so different that Annmar doesn't know if she'll ever belong.
Shapeshifter Daeryn Darkcoat blames himself for the death of his mate and swears he won't be responsible for another pack. But when the farm he loves falls victim to an endless run of strange pests eating the crops, he joins the hunt, taking charge of an unruly team of predator shifters. In the midst of the battle, Annmar stirs feelings he can't resist.
As Annmar becomes entangled in the fight against the pests, and with Daeryn, she discovers her magic might help…if she can learn to use it properly. If not, she'll be forced to leave the people she has come to care for and become what she fears most: nothing more than another cog in the magnate's gears.
THE UNRAVELING is a full-length novel, approximately 350 pages, for readers 18+ (new adult and older). This is Volume 1 of THE LUMINATED THREADS, a steampunk fantasy romance. To be notified of the releases of Volume 2 (fall, 2015) and Volume 3 (winter 2015/16), sign up for Laurel's Newsletter.
Find Laurel Wanrow:
On Twitter: @laurelwanrow | On Facebook | On Pinterest | At her website www.laurelwanrow.com
Laurel Wanrow loves misty mornings, the smell of freshly dug earth, petting long-haired guinea pigs and staring at the stars. She sees magic in nature and loves to photograph it.
Before kids, she studied and worked as a naturalist—someone who leads wildflower and other nature walks. During a stint of homeschooling, she turned her writing skills to fiction to share her love of the land, magical characters and fantastical settings.
When not living in her fantasy worlds, Laurel camps, hunts fossils and argues with her husband and two new adult kids over whose turn it is to clean house. Though they live on the East Coast, a cherished family cabin in the Colorado Rockies holds Laurel's heart.
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5 Responses to "10 Facts & Fiction about The Unraveling by Laurel Wanrow & Giveaway"
Victorian Women didn't usually work unless as servants or merchant's wives.
7th Aug, 2015 at 10:19am
Victorian women didn't work unless they were servants or merchants' wives. Thanks for the giveaway and historical background information for your setting. Love it!
Laurel 8/7/2015
Glad you liked them, Danielle!
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Report Suggests Physicians Experimented on Detainees in U.S. Custody
A report by Physicians for Human Rights released on Monday claims that U.S. physicians and psychologists betrayed ethical standards by collecting data on detainees' reactions to abusive interrogations to as to improve their effectiveness. This would appear to constitute experimentation on human prisoners, which is a professional ethics violation for physicians. The group is calling for an official investigation.
"Medical doctors and psychologists colluded with the CIA to keep observational records about waterboarding, which approaches unethical and unlawful human experimentation," PHR medical adviser and lead report author Scott Allen, M.D., said in a statement released with the report.
Physicians, for example, would monitor detainees' reactions to having their breathing blocked by a cloth over their head and try to figure out at what point the person feels helpless and out of control. As I noted in my story today about sleep deprivation, "learned helplessness" was one of the major goals of the CIA's interrogation program, which operated on the false belief that a detainee who believes he is helpless will provide whatever information the interrogator is asking for. (The flaw in the plan is that the information is often false.)
Dr. Steven Miles, author of Oath Betrayed: America's Torture Doctors, makes a similar observation about possible unethical human experimentation in an appendix to the second edition of his book.
He writes: "Circumstantial evidence is leading me to believe that abusive research may have been done at Guantanamo and that an investigation of this matter is needed." That circumstantial evidence is based on the "interrogation log" of Mohammed al-Qahtani, which "meticulously record[s] the prisoner's tears and bathroom privileges, digressions on dinosaurs and reactions to the interrogators playing checkers." Miles continues:
The peculiar content and structure of this document makes sense if it is the log of research on coercive interrogation. This would account for why it focuses on the emotions and interactions of the prisoner, rather than on the questions that were asked and the information that was obtained. From the nature of prior CIA interrogation research and the log, it is possible to infer a design of the research project. As a research log, this log appears to be a chronological recording of clusters of stimuli (a stressor and a Theme) and responses.
PHR's Scott Allen adds: "It is profoundly unsettling to learn of the central role of health professionals in laying a foundation for US government lawyers to rationalize the CIA's illegal torture program."
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Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees in Georgia.
Jekyll Island—Georgia state's smallest barrier island—is a narrow sediment deposit that runs along the coastline. The unique geography of Jekyll Island has given rise to a lovely and surreal beach that doubles as a graveyard for trees.
Picture this: gnarly pine and oak trees litter a desolate beach, standing like twisted sculptures in front of a picturesque coast. Some of the trees remain fully exposed and some appear to emerge from the depths of the sand. Driftwood beach is a sight to behold, looking like a veritable graveyard for sun-bleached trees.
According to the Driftwood Beach website, "this is due to the north end of the island slowly eroding away and being deposited on the south end of the island." In other words, the eroded soil became increasingly unable to support the trees, which then fell and decayed gradually over time, creating the beautiful and otherworldly sun-bleached formations of Driftwood Beach seen today.
Today, Driftwood Beach is a popular spot for amateur photographers, and a unique venue for local couples to tie the knot.
Driftwood Beach is a short walk east from the big fishing pier on the north end of Jekyll Island, but you can see it from the pier. For the best views, be prepared to walk about a mile from the parking area. Feeling adventurous? Just past Villa's By The Sea, there is a place you can pull off the road and follow the unmarked path down to the beach.


Which States Have Seen House Prices Rise Since the Real Estate Bubble Burst?
In the mid-2000s, the real estate market seemed too good to be true. Historically low interest rates encouraged buyers to borrow money for their dream homes, as well as speculate on property by buying investment houses on the presumption prices would keep rising.
And pop it did. Alarmed by spiraling property prices, the Federal Reserve hiked rates back up, which left many borrowers in the lurch. By 2005, the property market was beginning to wobble, thanks to increased foreclosures and falling prices. In 2007, over 1.2 million foreclosures were filed, up 42 percent from 2005.
That was when the housing crisis became headline news, as over 25 subprime lenders went bankrupt or put themselves up for sale. The crisis was so seismic that it became a major factor in the start of the 2008 global financial crisis.
What do the country's real estate markets look like now, ten years after the bubble well and truly burst? Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, we've found the average house price for each state in 2007, as well as the average price in 2017, the latest year with available data.
Nevada was one of the epicenters of the mid-2000s housing bubble, with the state having the most foreclosures in the country in 2008. Nevada saw the biggest decreases in average house prices over the last ten years, at 17 percent, but it seems they may not have learned their lesson from the last crash.
At the moment, house prices in Las Vegas are rising at twice the national average, despite the city's sluggish economy. It's not just tourists in the city who love to gamble.
North Dakota, on the other hand, has seen house prices rise by 82 percent over the same period, despite building new houses at a faster rate than any other state. North Dakota's oil boom happened at roughly the same time as the recession, attracting new workers to the state and cushioning the effects of the credit crunch.
Ten years after the subprime mortgage disaster, here is how much the average house is worth in every state (as well as D.C. and Puerto Rico) in comparison to its 2007 level, from Nevada to North Dakota.


I purchased a less expensive earbuds and they really hurt my ears, plus the sound was awful. I exchanged them for a Bose set and they were comfortable, and when there wasn't any static in the lines, the sound was awesome, but back they went and I upgraded to the Sennheim memento and glad that I did. The sound is superb and comfortable to wear. If you can afford the cash, these are well worth the investment.
Best true Bluetooth wireless headset so far. Sound quality is amazing and they are super portable. Bass and treble are super on point overall the best so far. This one are worth the price. I recommend it!!
I have the Jabra 65t elite active and these blow them away, hands down. The sound is unreal, connection is spot on, never drop sound once. The only issue I have is it can be difficult to connect to bluetooth sometimes. Seems like a software issue that could be fixed in the future, possibly. Otherwise these are a bit expensive but totally worth the price for great sound!
Dont believe he negative reviews. I've had them all from the Bose Soundsport both wired and wireless. Jabra Elite Sport etc. These are the best overall and well worth the price tag. The only negative is when the battery is low it will died withou quickly. But no worries because the charging case has your back.
This headset make listening to music feel like you are at a live show. I have seen Bassnectar in person, listening the Bass Head I felt like I was right back there. I don't know how this is possible but the audio from this headset beats my Sony Wh-1000mx2's by a margin I didn't think was possible. My wife was blown away by the audio quality too. Now I have to buy her some for her birthday. Worth the price ever day of the week.
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The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Would-Be Dropbox Meant to Thwart the NSA
Author: Ryan TateRyan Tate
BitTorrent Sync.
Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED
BitTorrent was best known as an internet protocol that let people swap pirated movies and music at the expense of big Hollywood studios and record labels. But then came a Belarusian engineer named Konstantin Lissounov.
About a year ago, Lissounov joined a hackathon sponsored by his employer, BitTorrent Inc., a company that seeks to transform the peer-to-peer protocol into a legitimate means of file-sharing for both consumers and businesses, and in a matter of hours, he slapped together a new BitTorrent tool that let him quickly and easily send encrypted photos of his three children across dodgy Eastern European network lines to the rest of his family. The tool won first prize at the hackathon, and within a few more months, after Lissounov honed the tool alongside various other engineers, the company delivered BitTorrent Sync, a Dropbox-like service that lets you seamlessly synchronize files across computers and mobile devices.
The difference is that, thanks to the BitTorrent protocol, which connects machines without the help of a central server, the service isn't controlled by Dropbox or any other organization, including BitTorrent itself. This means it could be less vulnerable to surveillance by the NSA and other government organizations, and that seems to have struck a chord with many people across the net. Each month, according to BitTorrent, about 2 million people now use Sync, including not only individuals but businesses looking for simpler, safer, and more secure ways of sharing data across systems. "It immediately proved magical," says BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker.
BitTorrent Inc. CEO Eric Klinker.
Klinker believes his ten-year-old company's fortunes are closely tied to this new tool. But beyond that, Sync is part of a larger trend towards internet services that are operated not by a central commercial company, but by independent machines spread across the internet. This includes everything from the bitcoin digital currency to open source tools that seek to replace social networking services like Twitter. They all do very different things, but the common denominator is that they put more control in the hands of the people – and less in the hands of corporations and governments.
Yes, BitTorrent built Sync – Lissounov is a programmer in the company's Minsk office – but the company doesn't control where the software routes data or what users do with it. In theory, this can make the service more reliable (you don't have to worry about BitTorrent going out of business) and more secure (the NSA must try harder to spy on data).
Sync's 2-million-person footprint is remarkable when you consider the software was released less than a year ago and is still in the beta testing phase. But its timing was excellent: the launch coincided with blockbuster revelations of U.S. government cyber-surveillance and new anxieties about concentrating private information on corporate servers. BitTorrent made the preliminary Sync "alpha" version available to the public in April, and it followed with a beta in July, right after former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed details of invasive NSA surveillance efforts, including a program called PRISM.
"The PRISM thing was a watershed moment internally and externally – suddenly we felt vindicated," says BitTorrent marketing vice president Matt Mason. "It's like: 'We were right. There is a reason to build things in a different way.'"
For the past 15 years, our software and data have steadily moved into the cloud, bringing massive gains in convenience. The cloud makes it easier not only to share data, among other things. But in some ways, it has also eroded our privacy. The NSA, it seems, has been tapping major cloud services in order to spy on users, and the revelations highlighted the dangers of using a file-sharing service like Dropbox. Indeed, some of the leaked NSA documents indicated that Dropbox had been specifically targeted.
But in a departure from Dropbox, Sync doesn't store data in one central repository that can be tapped by the NSA and others. It connects machines via peer-to-peer networking, meaning they can sync without storing data on any server. That means an interloper can't access data without tapping each individual machine. The rub is that, in order to synchronize files across multiple systems, all must be online at the same time. But Klinker and company still believe they have a significant advantage over Dropbox, and to exploit this advantage, BitTorrent is rebuilding its operation around Sync, hiring new executives to oversee the product, backing it with an enormous marketing push, and forming plans to make money from what is now a free tool.
Erik Pounds, VP of Product Management for BitTorrent Sync; Matt Mason, VP of Marketing, BitTorrent, Inc.; and Lou Hong, Product Marketing Manager, BitTorrent Sync.
This past fall, the company rented billboards in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and without identifying itself, it plastered them with purposely outrageous statements like "your data should belong to the NSA." Then, after whipping the media into a frenzy, BitTorrent claimed responsibility for the billboards and updated them with anti-surveillance messages.
Like Dropbox, the tool has a wide range of uses. Video editors, the company says, can avoid FedExing hard drives around the country since Sync and the underlying BitTorrent protocol can move gigabytes of daily footage across the internet. System administrators are using the tool to move corporate data onto fresh computer servers. And music lovers are using Sync to browse their massive song libraries on mobile devices with limited storage.
And again, following in the footsteps of Dropbox, developers are turning Sync into a platform for use with all sorts of other applications. Two open source programmers, one in Texas and one in South Africa, have launched vole.cc, a distributed social network built on Sync. Last month, an engineer who works for Harvard University unveiled SyncNet, a parallel version of the world wide web that runs on Sync.
But a big part of the commercial opportunity for the tool, BitTorrent executives believe, lies in the reality that large corporations are aggressively reining in data following Snowden's revelations. "It's absolutely the largest companies in the world who are most worried about privacy and what is happening with their data, and products like Dropbox make no sense to a company like that," Mason says.
The main concern of BitTorrent's engineers, Klinker says, is keeping Sync secure. The system is designed to cryptographically ensure that no one can unlock a piece of data except for the person that owns it and the person it was shared with, known as a "secret." Bram Cohen, who designed the original BitTorrent protocol, has been personally involved in reviewing these security considerations, according to Klinker. But the company has not open sourced the tool, so, unlike other distributed services, outsiders are unable to scour the code for vulnerabilities.
Klinker has argued, however, that sharing the code can also reveal vulnerabilities to attackers, and certainly, the company is appropriately paranoid about security. Asked if the NSA has made any overtures to retrieve data from Sync, Klinker thinks for a moment. "Not that we're aware of," he says.
BitTorrent employees in the BitTorrent Sync "war room."
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Top 10 High-Paying Industries in Malaysia 2022
News / By Jamie Song
One of the elements that students consider while choosing a course to study is future prospective employment demand and income. And for students who plan to continue working in Malaysia after their graduation, you must be wondering, what are the highest-paying industries in Malaysia? According to the recent FMT Media article, we have compiled a list for your reference!
The first on the list might come as a surprise to you! People working in the education industry earn the highest compared to others. From pre-primary to secondary, general, and vocational education, including those who work in support positions such as educational consulting, counselling, testing assessment, and student exchange programmes. The education industry paid some of the highest pay in Malaysia, with a monthly earnings average of RM5,088.
2. Mining and quarrying
The mining and quarrying industry earned the second-highest wages in Malaysia, despite the fact that it is believed to be in decline. In a sector that emphasizes natural resources like petroleum, natural gas, metal ores, stone sand, and clay, an individual may earn RM5,064 per month.
3. Information and Communication
With the constantly developing and improving technology, the information and communication industry is one of the biggest industries in terms of employment in Malaysia. Publishing, motion picture, audio, and television production; sound recording; music publishing; broadcasting and programming operations; telecommunications; computer programming; consultation; and other information services earned an average monthly compensation of RM4,310.
4. Finance, Insurance and Takaful
Selling insurance may be a lucrative business, with relatively high-paying commissions and a high degree of freedom with flexible work hours. However, it is not a simple task. Customer rejection, stress, and attrition are all likely to be high. Individuals in this field earned an average of RM4,221 per month for providing financial, insurance, takaful, and pension-fund services to the general public.
5. Public Admin, Defence and Social Security
Government employees earned around RM4,146 per month to create and interpret laws and regulations, as well as to manage government services in the legislative, taxation, national defence, public order and safety, immigration, foreign affairs, and social security sectors. With a strong rate of salary increase and the appealing fringe benefits, the long-held belief that government workers only make average pay is totally untrue.
6. Health and Social Work
Working in the health and social work industry is not an easy job, requires you to have empathy and be understanding towards the patients. For services in hospitals, specialist medicine, medical nursing homes, mental hospital institutions, rehabilitation centres, and other facilities that provide diagnoses and medical treatment, employees in the health and social work sectors, including those who offer counselling, welfare, and advice to the elderly, disabled, refugees, and other disadvantaged groups, they were paid around RM4,075 per month.
7. Professional, Scientific and Technical
After going through half of the list, you must be wondering what about the professional? How much is the lawyers or engineers getting paid? Well, the professional, scientific, and technological industry, which includes occupations in legal and accounting, management consulting, architecture and engineering, science research and development, advertising and market research, and veterinary and other activities, paid an average monthly pay of RM3,959.
8. Power and Air Conditioning Supply
The category of essential utilities is of great importance in our lives. Technicians who provide, distribute, and operate electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning, when compared to other industries, it sure is a riskier job. With the lowest number of employees among the industries, the average pay for power and air conditioning supply was RM3,595.
9. Real Estate
The pay in the real estate industry took a big hit because of the pandemic. Real estate used to be one of the highest-paying industries that everyone was eager to join. Well, the truth is that people who work in the real estate industry these days, only make around RM3,570 each month. This includes lessors, agents and brokers who sell, buy, rent, manage and appraise the property.
10. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation
Good news for all the art lovers out there! As the second-fastest growing industry, arts, entertainment and recreation has a 5.9% average income growth before being severely impacted by the pandemic. Those working in creative arts and entertainment, libraries, archives, and museums, and sports, amusement, and recreational activities earned an average monthly pay of RM2,665.
With the list above, we hope to assist students in selecting a course with high employment demand and pay. Here are some university recommendations and also its popular courses.
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'Tis Tamales Season at Heritage Park
Additional cooking demonstrations will be offered based on demand.
The Corpus Christi Parks & Recreation Department's Cultural Services invites you to attend one of its very popular Tamale Cooking Demonstrations to be held in the Galván House at Heritage Park.
Two demonstrations will be offered as follows:
· Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from 10:30am–noon
· Wednesday, December 2, 2015 from 6:00pm–7:30pm
Join Sandra Vásquez, inventor of the "Mas Tamales" Masa Spreader, as she demonstrates how to make Tamales more efficiently with the help of a modern gadget. Sandra says that, "Tamale cooks can spread masa on a dozen cornhusks in about a minute." Let Sandra show you the quick and easy way to prepare tamales. Come join us at our Tamalada demonstration and enjoy some tasty tamales.
Don't miss this one. Sign up now. Cost is $8 per person and includes the demonstration, recipes and food samples. Reservations are requested as seating is limited; call 361-826-3417 to reserve your space.
The Cultural Center is located in the beautifully restored Galván House in Heritage Park at 1581 N. Chaparral. Hours of operation are Monday through Thursday, 9am – 5pm, Friday 9am – 2pm and Saturdays by appointment. For more information, call or visit the Corpus Christi Parks & Recreation Department's Cultural Center at 361-826-3417,www.ccparkandrec.com (click 'Arts & Culture'). We invite you to Live. Learn. Play!


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Sybrina Fulton and Trayvon Martin: About Raising Children On the Cusp of Fear and Hope
Posted by metagcarstarphen in Observances, Women's Words
African American families, grieving mothers, Mother's Day, Sybrina Fulton, the talk, Trayvon Martin
The first time I got an inkling that Mother's Day could be something other than joyful was when I watched my mother grieve the loss of her own mom, my grandmother Patsy. I remember how we were in the wood-paneled basement of our three-story Philadelphia home when she got the call. I can still her cradling the beige telephone handset on her chest with closed eyes after the sad news came from Louisiana. Decades later, I struggled with my own grief (and still do) when Mother's Day rolls around. Although I was in the room with my mom and held her hand as she breathed her last, I have to fight to turn my thoughts from grief and longing, to gratitude and joyful memory for having had her in my life.
So, I think of these things today as I write this tribute in honor of Sybrina Fulton whose video message to all mothers is something everyone should view. If this name is familiar, it should be. Sybrina Fulton is the poised, but grieving mother of slain teenage Trayvon Martin, whose tragic death in Florida has sparked news coverage nationally and beyond. Today, on her Twitter account, Sybrina sent a post that begins:
"As I send you this message, my heart hurts and my eyes are full of tears for my beloved son Trayvon."
There is no way that anyone can attempt to interpret her grief and I certainly won't try to here. I do know that today is only one of the many bumps in the road she will face on the road to closure and peace about her son's loss. She has courageously transferred her grief into action, with the formation of the Justice for Trayvon Martin Foundation designed to address what she believes were underlying issues contributing to her son's untimely death. The second-degree murder trial of her son's self-confessed killer, George Zimmerman is likely not to occur until October 2013 or later, prolonging her anxiety. Still, Sybrina must be heartened by the generous donations of leave time by her co-workers in the Miami-Dade County, where she has worked for 23 years. Their gifts will allow her to take eight months off and retain a salary while she waits, watches and prays.
Raising a child in any day and age is a challenge. As parents, we want to protect our children from harm and yet propel them to navigate their own way through a future we cannot know. African American mothers often struggle with raising their children through a contradictory message of fear and hope. Our children, like all children, must know how to walk boldly in this world in order to claim all that it has to offer. Yet as parents and elders we know that there are unseen terrors, unspoken threats and invisible enemies lurking. How do we voice these without shutting down our children's desire to go confidently into their unseen futures?
I call this mindset constructive paranoia. To explain it, consider the definition of paranoia. It is when you think people are out to get you. But…. what if there are some people who really are out to get you? Then, you learn to be guarded around people who might be threats in broad ways in order to be protected against the narrow chances when that caution might be justified. In the wake of Tayvon Martin's murder, some commentators have referred to this as "the talk" and explicated how some of the elements of this bittersweet conversation between parents and their children.
Look around. If you can, observe children from different ethnic backgrounds in the presence of their parents, and watch the African American kids. Do they seem more restrained on the playground? Are they less vocal in public gatherings? Are they far less likely to, for instance, wander up and down the aisles of a supermarket unattended without some adult sternly pulling them back into view? Or, when some children boldly verbally challenge adults, or break into the front of a line without apology, watch whose parents are nonchalant and whose are agitated. Because one child's "cute" behavior is another child's accidental slip into danger.
Sybrina Fulton's grief is no doubt compounded by this familiar dilemma. She tried to raise her son for freedom, describing him as a typical teen in many a media account. Trayvon got to play video games, travel to New York City, and imagine a career in aviation. And yet he died after being shot on a visit to his father just yards away from the townhome where he slept. Does she wonder, in the irrational way that grieving hearts can do, if there was something else she could have warned her son about that could have saved his life.
Raising children on the cusp of fear and hope is an all too-familiar place for many parents with African American children. It is a space created by the social condition of racial stereotyping and distrust, and it is something we all must battle. Because when a Trayvon Martin dies, and a George Zimmerman kills him, we all lose, and the hearts of two mothers break in unfixable ways.
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Statement of Karen Weinstein, Chair of the Women's Caucus, California Democratic Party
The Women's Caucus of the California Democratic Party is proud to join with women around the world to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day.
Around the world we see courageous women standing up for equality, a voice in political leadership, access to education and fighting discrimination and violence against women. In Egypt, Tunisia, Afghanistan and Libya, women leaders are standing up and making sure that women's voices are heard as new democracies are established.
Women around the world are fighting for women's rights, often at great danger to themselves. With the leadership of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senators Feinstein and Boxer, Attorney General Kamala Harris and the men and women of California's congressional delegation, we are confident that the California Democratic Party will continue to lead in the fight for women's rights and full equality.
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The study recommends an immediate return to the Obama Administration's approach paired with a more appropriate discount rate that together would produce a social cost of $125 per ton of carbon, followed by a comprehensive update to ensure the social cost of carbon rests on frontier economics and climate science.
The social cost of carbon (SCC), the total cost to society from the release of a ton of CO2 emissions, is vital in evaluating the benefits and costs of climate policies. In the United States, the first consistent government-wide SCC came in 2010 after the Obama administration formed an Inter-agency Working Group to provide a scientifically robust evaluation. The Trump administration later disbanded the Working Group and lowered the SCC to near zero, allowing for the justification of key environmental rollbacks such as fuel economy standards. To reinstate a scientifically valid framework and ensure the SCC reflects profound changes in the economic and scientific understanding of climate change, in a new study EPIC Director Michael Greenstone and his coauthor Tamma Carleton, both core members of the Climate Impact Lab, outline important steps to update the SCC.
"The social cost of carbon is the key ingredient to assessing the desired stringency of all climate regulation," says Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, who co-led the original Inter-agency Working Group while serving as Chief Economist for President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. "Over the last four years, the Trump administration reduced the social cost of carbon to near zero by ignoring science and economics. The Biden administration can best serve the interests of the American people by returning the social cost of carbon to the frontier of understanding about climate change, including all that has been learned in the last decade."
Greenstone and Carleton, an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, recommend a two-step approach. First, the Biden administration can simply and immediately carry out the approach used to develop the Obama SCC (which included global damages, unlike the Trump SCC), but with a discount rate— measuring the present value of future damages to society—of no higher than 2 percent to reflect substantial changes in international capital markets that make the current discount rate difficult to justify. A 2 percent discount rate would increase the social cost of carbon to $125 per metric ton. The original estimate, updated to reflect the best available science in 2013, was $52 per metric ton.
As a second step, they recommend that the Biden administration launch a reconstituted Inter-agency Working Group and task it with comprehensively updating the SCC. Doing so would require several essential updates, including: 1) using an updated climate model to more accurately reflect the effect of emissions on the climate system; 2) updating how damages are measured to rely on large-scale data, capturing local-level differences in climate risk, and accounting for future adaptation; 3) continuing to rely on a discount rate no higher than 2 percent; and 4) continuing to incorporate global, rather than just domestic, damages.
"This paper aims to provide an actionable roadmap for the Biden administration to update the SCC, returning its value to the cutting edge of quickly-moving research on climate change," says Carleton.
This working paper will appear in a forthcoming book of energy and climate policy proposals to be released by EPIC in the coming weeks.
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Each year, The Arc of New Jersey hosts a Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month outreach event at The Statehouse in Trenton. Self advocates share resources and answer questions from Legislators from Districts across the state about current issues affecting the lives of people with I/DD and their families.
As an Ambassador you will carry on the tradition of families working together to improve the quality of life for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). In your role, you will help raise awareness about the contributions people with I/DD make to society every day. On this page you will find resources about people with I/DD, related laws and proclamations, as well as sample letters you can use to spread awareness.
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As China rises on the net, website numbers shrink
Government crackdown blacks out 1.4 million sites
By Richard Chirgwin 15 Jul 2011 at 02:00
Even as reports put Chinese as the number two language of the Internet, behind only English, strict government control is reducing the number of Websites within China.
With 457 million Internet users behind the Great Firewall, China's online boom has matched its long economic boom; the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) says in 2000, the country only had around 22.5 million users.
However, in the last year the government has reasserted its strict state control over what all those Chinese-speakers can access: 41 percent of the Websites that existed at the beginning of 2010 had disappeared by the end of that year. From more than 3 million Websites at the start of the year, the total had fallen to just 1.91 million by the end.
CASS cites "pornography" as the main reason for shutdowns, although there's the usual suspicion that the government is also cracking down on political dissent.
There is, however, an aspect of the data that suggests another force could also be at work. Although the number of sites fell, the CASS study found that the number of pages grew. The state-sponsored agency gave this as evidence of thriving free speech on China's Internet. CASS media spokesperson Liu Ruisheng is quoted by AFP as saying "our content is getting stronger, while our supervision is getting more strict and more regulated".
CASS says 60 billion new pages were created during 2010, even though these are hosted on a falling number of domains. In other words, China's iron control of Internet content is consolidating the number of content hosts in that country.
It certainly wouldn't surprise El Reg to find that content control was, either intentionally or otherwise, helping concentrate the market power of major hosts, in a country famous for using market control to favour insider capital. ®
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iGiant declines to Taiwan on for Hong Kong and Macau
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GI Psychologist Is Part of Our Team
Supporting children, teens and young adults with GI symptoms and conditions
Published on Mar 09, 2021 in CHOP News
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Appointments and Referrals
Questions/More Information
By Betsy Turner, PhD
Betsy Turner, PhD Children with chronic gastrointestinal (GI) conditions often experience seemingly "invisible' symptoms that are not easily understood or felt by anyone other than the child affected. These symptoms may interfere with a child's daily life, and trigger anxiety and/or depression.
Treatment regimens often include daily medications, regular infusions, dietary modifications and lifestyle changes — all of which can be time-consuming and stressful for children and teens. And to make matters more challenging, some GI conditions are poorly understood outside of specialty care settings.
Many patients with functional GI disorders have experienced symptoms for years without receiving an accurate diagnosis, or may have been told their symptoms were "in their head." The difficulties that children and adolescents face in coping with GI conditions can impact their entire family.
GI psychology at CHOP
The GI Psychology Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a collaboration between the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (DCAPBS). At CHOP, psychologists with specialty training in GI disorders help patients (and their families) better understand how a child's feelings, fears and emotions can impact their chronic GI condition and vice versa.
A team of eight GI psychologists at CHOP work collaboratively with children and families to improve children's daily functioning and quality of life. Our team strives to promote the overall health and development of pediatric patients with GI symptoms and conditions.
We are committed to providing family-centered, evidence-based and safe psychosocial and behavioral interventions to all GI patients. Our team is invested in training and has created a GI psychology training program for future GI psychologists and other pediatric leaders. Our team members also:
Conduct innovative research
Contribute to the literature in pediatric psychology
Deliver presentations at national gastroenterology and psychology conferences
Aim to achieve these goals through collaboration and integration of care with medical and psychosocial providers within our division
Exceptional clinical care
Our psychologists provide multiple services and supports to GI patients including:
Behavioral therapy to manage constipation and encopresis
Cognitive behavioral therapy to improve GI symptoms and quality of life
These evidence-based interventions target the symptoms of functional abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome and rumination syndrome, and improve the likelihood that patients (and families) will stick with the treatment regimen.
Our GI psychologists are available at CHOP's University City campus in Philadelphia and at five CHOP Specialty Care Centers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The GI Psychology team provided 3,328 outpatient visits in FY2019 and 3,546 outpatient visits in
FY2020.
We have been able to continue both individual appointments and interdisciplinary clinic models during the COVID-19 pandemic using telehealth, including shoulder-to-shoulder GI and GI psychology visits. Since March 2020, our team has conducted about 2,900 video visits. The widespread use of telehealth has also increased attendance for all of our disease-specific patient and family support groups.
Specialized interdisciplinary programs
The GI Psychology team works closely with colleagues in medicine, nursing, social work, child life and nutrition to provide compassionate and integrated care. The following programs have been developed in partnership with GI medical colleagues and highlight the benefit of shoulder-to-shoulder GI and GI Psychology visits:
Chronic Constipation Program (CCP) — This program includes experts in motility with an interdisciplinary consult and coordinated follow-up visits on an every-other-week basis for treatment of chronic constipation. Children and families within this program meet jointly with a motility gastroenterologist, gastroenterology nurse practitioner and psychologist. Families can select from two sites (King of Prussia or Philadelphia) for the program.
Interdisciplinary Care for Abdominal Pain & Symptoms (ICAPS) — This consultative program provides families with an integrated approach to the care of abdominal pain. Children and families within this program meet jointly with a motility gastroenterologist, psychologist, dietician and social worker. This program is expanding due to the success of the clinic.
Pancreatic Disorders Program — This program provides interdisciplinary care to children and young adults with pancreatic disease. Children and families within this program meet jointly with a gastroenterologist, psychologist and dietician.
Support Groups and Family Education Days — Our GI psychologists collaborate with gastroenterology physicians, nurses, dieticians and social workers to provide support groups to children and families with a number of GI disorders including: inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), gastroparesis, eosinophilic esophagitis, celiac disease, and complex intestinal disorders. GI psychologists also contribute to Family Education Days within the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
There are very few training programs in GI psychology in the nation. CHOP GI psychologists are actively engaged in training and professional education. For the past 10 years, we've offered 6-month training rotations for predoctoral interns in psychology. We also offer year-long externships for graduate psychology students. In its 3-year history, the GI psychology externship has received 31 applications from students matriculating in 14 graduate training programs in clinical, counseling and school psychology. We have accepted and trained seven students.
GI psychologists also provide a didactic training series for GI fellows. Most recently, our program has expanded to include postdoctoral training.
Our GI Psychology Fellowship — currently in its inaugural year — offers an opportunity for advanced clinical practice by providing pediatric psychology services within the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. The fellow provides integrated clinical services and works collaboratively with interdisciplinary team members for patient care, program development and quality improvement projects.
CHOP's GI psychologists are recognized leaders in their fields and sought after for their experience in promoting the overall wellbeing and development of children, teens and young adults with GI symptoms and conditions. Our team members have:
Provided presentations at national gastroenterology and psychology conferences
Written book chapters about the management of digestive symptoms and conditions
Served as primary investigators and co-investigators on quality improvement research in the areas of IBD, celiac disease and GI motility disorders
Betsy Turner is a pediatric psychologist and psychosocial team manager in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at CHOP.
Contributed by: Elizabeth Turner, PhD, MS
Our experts are available to consult with you or your physician on second opinion requests.
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Article: Major appointments and movements in July 2019
AUTHORAbid Hasan
WEDNESDAY31JUL 2019
Major appointments and movements in July 2019
In this piece, we highlight some of the significant movements which took place in the month of July 2019.
We have just completed the first month of the second quarter of the financial year 2019-20. The month of July witnessed some significant C-suite movements in the industry. In this piece, we highlight some of the significant movements which took place in the month of July 2019.
Sandeep Sinha- Cummins India Limited announced that Sandeep Sinha, Managing Director of Cummins India and Vice President of Cummins India ABO, has resigned to pursue business interests outside of Cummins. Sinha joined Cummins in 2004 as a Corporate Indirect Purchasing Manager. Over his career at Cummins, he held several leadership roles in Corporate Strategy in the USA, New & Recon Parts and Industrial Engine Business in India.
Harish Shriyan - Harish Shriyan, the CEO of advertising firm Omnicom Media Group India has stepped down from his role and will cease to work for the company by the end of this year. Shriyan was promoted to the post of Chief Executive in December 2017. Prior to that, he was working at the firm as Chief Operating Officer from 2013 to 2017. He joined the advertising firm in 2007.
Ankur Goel - Qlik announced the appointment of Ankur Goel as its Managing Director for India. Goel will be responsible for bolstering Qlik's local operations and leveraging his expertise to drive stronger countrywide growth. He will report to Geoff Thomas, Qlik's Regional Senior Vice President for the Asia Pacific region.
Meghna Apparao - Meghna Apparao has joined Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL)'s as the new Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to joining Godrej, She was working with Amazon India as Director. She joined Amazon India as General Manager in the year 2015. She was responsible for overall P/L responsibility for the entire Beauty, Personal and Health Care Appliances categories - spans across consumer products, appliances, and devices.
Ashutosh Gupta - LinkedIn has named Ashutosh Gupta as Country Manager for India, effective from 2nd September, 2019. In addition to his country manager role, he will continue to lead the LMS Online Sales Organization for APAC and China.
Gupta has been associated with the U.S-based firm since 2013. In his first role at the firm he led LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions (LMS) in India, where he scaled the enterprise business. Then later in 2016, he moved to Singapore to build LMS's Online Sales Organisation (OSO) for Asia Pacific and China.
Jitendra Gupta - Jitendra Gupta, who had been leading PayU's credit business put in his papers last week and may start his own venture later in 2019. Pallav Jain, Country Head of PayU Finance, which runs the pay later product LazyPay, is expected to replace Gupta. He had joined PayU in 2016, when he, along with Co-Founder Amrish Rau at Citrus Pay, sold the company to PayU for $130 Mn in cash.
Venugopal Konchada- Retail chain 1-IndiaFamilyMart owned by Nysaa Retail Private Limited has appointed retail industry veteran Venugopal Konchada as Chief Operational Officer. The hiring is in line with the company's plans for a rapid expansion where Venugopal will be overseeing the entire operational procedures in terms of retail, in-store opening, visual merchandising, business development and marketing.
Christian Juhl- GroupM, WPP's media investment group, announced that Christian Juhl will become global CEO on October 1, 2019, succeeding Kelly Clark. Christian will be responsible for the vision, strategy and operational excellence of WPP's media-focused companies. Christian is currently the Global CEO of Essence, a data and measurement-driven agency he joined in 2013. He led Essence's acquisition by WPP in 2015, and since joining GroupM, Essence has grown exponentially in markets, clients and services.
Pankaj Jain- Online fashion platform LimeRoad has hired Pankaj Jain as its Chief Financial Officer. Pankaj joins LimeRoad after a nine-year stint as the CFO of the ibibo group. A seasoned and result-driven finance professional, Pankaj Jain will be responsible for driving rapid growth, improving efficiency and delivering profitability at LimeRoad.
Topics: C-Suite, #Appointments
Abid Hasan
Former Associate-Editor, People Matters. You can contact him at +918010998491
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Q: How do I pad a Unicode string to a specific visible length? I'd like to create a left pad function in a programming language. The function pads a string with leading characters to a specified total length. Strings are UTF-16 encoded in this language.
There are a few things in Unicode that make it complicated:

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*Surrogates: 2 surrogate characters = 1 unicode character

*Combining characters: 1 non-combining character + any number of combining characters = 1 visible character

*Invisible characters: 1 invisible character = 0 visible characters

What other factors have to be taken into consideration, and how would they be dealt with?

A: When you're first starting out trying to understand something, it's really frustrating. We've all been there. But while it's very easy to call it stupid and everyone who made it stupid, you're not going to get very far doing that. With an attitude like that, you're implying that people who do understand it are also stupid for wasting their time on something so obviously stupid. After calling the people who do understand it stupid, it's extremely unlikely that anyone who does understand it will take the time to explain it to you.
I understand the frustration. Unicode's really complicated and it was a huge pain for me before I understood it and it's still a pain for a lot of things I don't have experience with. But the reason it's so complicated isn't because the people who made it were stupid and trying to ruin your life. It's complicated because it attempts to provide a standard way of representing every human writing system ever used. Writing systems are insanely complicated, and throughout history developing a new and different writing system has been a fairly standard part of identifying yourself as a different culture from the people across the river or over the next mountain range. You yourself start off by identifying yourself as Hungarian based on the language you speak. Having once tried to pronounce a Hungarian professor's name, I know that Hungarian is very complicated compared to English, just as English is very complicated compared to Hungarian. How would you feel if I was having trouble with Hungarian and asked you, "Boy, Hungarian sure is a stupid language! It must have been designed by idiots! By the way, how do I pronounce this word??"
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Heavy rain cuts off route connecting Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai
Relentless heavy rain since Sunday has inundated Pa Miang subdistrict in the Doi Saket district of Chiang Mai province.
Nant Kreunoppharat, the mayor of Pa Miang, said that the main road connecting Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai at several points had become impassable for small vehicles.
"Officials have been working to drain the water from the areas and have successfully fixed five out of six points where flooding was reported," he said. "Now only the point at kilometre 32.9 on the Chiang Mai-Chiang Rai Road is still submerged."
Nant also added that officials have helped people residing along the road to evacuate the areas to avoid possible flash floods. They were transported to Ban Pang Daeng School and Mae Takhrai National Park where officials have provided temporary lodging, food and drinking water. It is expected that everyone in the risky areas will be evacuated by Monday.
"As the rain continues to pour, the water level could rise further and make it harder to fix the flooded road," he said. "As I recall, this flood could be the worst in the past 15 years in Pa Miang."
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The UK's new regulatory regime for individuals Part 1: How does it apply to UK branches of EEA and non-EEA banks and PRA-designated investment firms?
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This legal alert will be of interest to non-UK firms which have a branch in the UK that has a permission to accept deposits or, where it is a PRA-regulated activity, deal in investments as principal.
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Evesham Abbey
Founded by St. Egwin about 701, in Worcestershire, England, and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin
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Within the abbey precincts and under the very shadow of its minster, were two parish churches, erected by the monks for the use of the people of the town which had grown up around its walls. That of St. Lawrence dates from the thirteenth century and that of All Saints is of a century later. The last of the great abbots of Evesham, Clement Lichfield, who reigned from 1514 to 1539, added chantries to both of these churches. Unwilling to yield to the rapacity of Henry VIII, when the suppression of the monasteries was threatening, he resigned his abbacy, acting, it is said, at Cromwell's suggestion. His unworthy successor was Philip Hawford, who surrendered the abbey into the king's hands in the same year, 1539. For this service he was rewarded with a pension of £240, and afterwards became first Protestant Dean of Worcester, in which cathedral his tomb may still be seen. The revenues of the abbey at the time of its suppression are given by Dugdale as £1183. The demolition of the buildings commenced almost immediately, and the ruins became, as in the case of so many others, a stone quarry for the neighborhood. Besides the two parish churches and the bell tower, only a gateway, a cloister arch, the almonry, and a few other isolated fragments remain intact to show what manner of building the once glorious abbey of Evesham was.
G. CYPRIAN ALSTON