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Monday, Monday
Two books advocate change on Mondays
Monday may be the best time to alter your outlook and improve the way you work and live.
BY RICHARD PACHTER
originally published 1/21/08 in The Miami Herald
I dislike Sunday nights more than Mondays, but that's just me. It's probably the vestige of my youth. But for some people, Monday is the worst time of all, like it was for that murderously disturbed youth who inspired The Boomtown Rats' ode, I Don't Like Mondays. For others, it's a bittersweet, unreliable occasion, like The Mamas and Papas' Monday, Monday.
As a symbol for the beginning of the workweek or the genesis of a new endeavor, Monday will more than suffice. Two new books use the day as a starting point for ideas on effecting radical and empowering changes in one's work and life.
Monday Morning Choices: 12 Powerful Ways to Go from Everyday to Extraordinary. David Cottrell. Collins, 208 pages.
I'm always skeptical of self-help manuals and avoid them like the plague that most of them are, but I'll occasionally encounter one that rises above the genre. This is, thankfully, among those.
Cottrell takes three types of choices — ''character,'' ''action'' and ''investment'' — and divides them into 12 subcategories, using them as starting points for a discussion about conducting oneself in an ethical manner in order to be effective while also tending to material needs. There's nothing especially new or earthshaking here, but Cottrell has a wise and light touch, employs language well and keeps everything simple and meaningful without preaching or proselytizing.
He also has a good sense of history and uses events such as the fire that destroyed Thomas Edison's workshop to serve as examples of his ideas by placing them in context with his little lessons. He invokes anecdotes from the workplace to make points without being heavy-handed, and he recounts turning points in his life that reflect the types of choices he advises others to make.
Cottrell recognizes that emotion and intellect are the key elements that motivate us, and he demonstrates that we are perpetually faced with choices that test our resolve and character.
No More Mondays: Fire Yourself — and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work. Dan Miller. Currency/Doubleday. 272 pages.
Miller wants you to stop working at a job you hate, with people you don't like, doing things you can't stand. He believes that most of us have traded our freedom and happiness for security, but the security we think we've attained is an illusion. Anyone who has been laid off or has had his or her position ''eliminated'' knows how true that is.
His contention, then, is that each of us ought to stop working at gigs we dislike, figure out what it is that makes us happy, and then do it. The money will come, he says, and the book is packed with tales of folks who did just that. Some became millionaires — multimillionaires, even — so what are you waiting for?
Well, he's a bit more serious than that, and cites Dan Pink's great Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind, as well as a number of other insightful and thoughtful works. But for those who need a bit of humor, folksy wisdom and gentle encouragement, Miller has plenty of stories, tips, observations and cartoons to convey his ideas in a pleasant, unthreatening and possibly empowering manner.
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Stargate SG-1 is one of the best TV shows of all time, this isn't an opinion - it's a fact. So there is much excitement around the idea that some form of the show will return later this year. However, it's not without its downsides too.
Firstly, it's only short episodes of 10 minutes each, according to Gateworld. There will be ten of these short episodes, totalling roughly the same as a feature-length TV episode. Could this be a backdoor pilot to get a full TV show commissioned? Perhaps, we'll have to wait and see.
Named Stargate: Origins it follows a young Catherine Langford, the daughter of the man who discovered Earth's Stargate in 1928. She ultimately recruited Daniel Jackson for the Stargate programme and featured in both the original film and SG-1's first season. Her fiance Ernest Littlefield was lost after going through the Stargate and was the reason the Stargate programme was shelved.
The big problem the show is going to have, of course, is drumming up any mystery at all around the Stargate. What started off as a total unknown was pretty rigorously explained during the ten season run of SG-1 and the later Atlantis and Universe shows.
The second problem for potential viewers is that you'll need a subscription to Stargate Command, a new streaming video service which is designed to provide something to fans of the show. What that something is isn't yet clear, but it could be video service for all of the Stargate shows: Universe, Atlantis and SG-1. There will be a paid model, but there's no information yet on how much it will cost, what you'll get and what countries you can subscribe in.
It's like how CBS All Access is the only place you'll be able to see Star Trek: Discovery, but since that's a US-only service Trek is going to be on Netflix outside North America.
There are few fans of the show that wouldn't love to see Stargate back on TV. Perhaps we'll see that if this service is a roaring success. It's hard to imagine people shelling out for increasingly bespoke streaming services though, especially as they probably also have Netflix and Amazon Prime. Still, if it's £3 a month, perhaps it will have some chance - at least for people who want to marathon those classic episodes of SG-1 that we are so fond of.


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Harry Styles Releases "Harry's House" and Twitter is Excited.
We officially entered the Harry's House era.
May 20, 2022 1:00 pm PT
Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Spotify
The day finally arrived: the release of Harry Styles' 3rd album: "Harry's House." The album's only single "As It Was" came out at the end of March, and ever since, fans have been excitedly waiting. Harry Styles began trending on Twitter, along with the name of the album and some of the songs from the album that fans found particularly special. In an interview with NPR, he describes the album and his definition of home by saying "While this is such a personal album, and so much about my own journey finding a place of home, I also feel like it's very much dedicated to my friends." It's safe to assume that fans enjoyed the personalness of home and what it means within the album.
Harry's House. Out now. pic.twitter.com/ePJrpQajw1
— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) May 20, 2022
Many fans immediately felt drawn to one of the songs "Matilda." Styles says that the song is about "your right to protect the space around you and be protective of yourself and look after yourself. I think it was a moment where it's not necessarily my place to make someone else's experience about me, but it's just wanting to reassure them that I was listening." One fan wrote that "Matilda is sad, very sad but it is also comforting, hearing someone say that it's okay and you don't have to be sorry that it's okay to let it go…it means so much."
harry styles gave us a warm hug w this one pic.twitter.com/XnKio0toeS
— matt (@mattxiv) May 20, 2022
Fans also discussed "Little Freak," a song many thought would portray Styles' song "Kiwi" but ended up being sadder than what fans previously expected. "Me thinking little freak was gonna be the next kiwi but then getting my feelings hurt," one fan commented. "This album feels like when you arrive home after being away on a family trip and opening your rooms door and jumping on your bed and smelling all of your smells you haven't smelt in a week the pile of clean clothes you left on your chair the candle you left uncovered," another person noted.
matilda to cinema got us like #HarrysHouse #HarryStyles pic.twitter.com/MGQutiP738
— liha🍣 satellite stan (@motionsatellite) May 19, 2022
not one skip on Harry Style's new album, listened to the whole thing through and was amazed each time the next song came on, great album
— aliyahhh 👼🏽 (@aliyahkimmey) May 20, 2022
Already, not even 24 hours after the album's release, fans dubbed the album a "masterpiece" as they discuss their favorite songs or what the album already means to them.

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How Does Mold Affect Children in Seattle?
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:20 am.
What is the Effect of Mold on Children in Seattle?
People are more concerned today than ever about pollutants in the air, about the environment and the effect these two things have on them, and especially on their children. And we should be concerned.
One of the environmental and air quality issues that should be at the top of our list is mold. Because mold spores are always around us, the chances of long term exposure is high. It just takes the right environment for mold to take hold and start growing, growing in places you may never think to look at.
Along with the elderly and those with existing respiratory problems, children, especially young children, are one of the most likely groups of people that mold can have an adverse effect upon. Some of the problems that young children can develop from mold have been known to last throughout their entire lives.
Just the smell of mold puts a child at risk for respiratory problems, especially asthma. In fact it has been estimated that the odor can increase their risk of asthma by 2.5 times. If, because of family genetics, meaning their parents have a history of allergy or asthma, not only are they more prone to developing these conditions naturally, but the presence of mold in their home or school will increase their risk.
This makes total sense when you consider that as mold grows, it emits a gas into the air, which is what we are smelling. Then combined with the fact that mold spores, which are allergens, traveling through the air are inhaled, sensitivities can develop.
To begin with, asthma is incurable, it can be treated and managed, but never totally cured.
Young children's bodies, especially their immune systems, are still developing, they're not physically prepared to deal with the negative effects of continuous mold exposure, the damage it can do may be with them for a lifetime.
What is the quality of the air that you and your children breathe on a daily basis?
If you have mold, or even think you have mold in your home, don't risk future health of your children. The smart thing to do is call a mold inspector to determine if and why you have mold growth and then remediate it.
How Do I Know if I Have Mold in Seattle?
Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:25 pm.
Because they understand the health risks, thinking they might have mold in their home can be a frightening thing to many people. It would seem the solution is relatively easy, just get rid of it – problem solved. Unfortunately, that is easier said than done.
First of all, discovering the presence of mold in your home isn't as easy as you might think.
Yes, there are times when you can see it, but maybe even more often, there are times when it's hiding, lurking in places you can't or seldom look at like back in the dark corners of an under sink cabinet, or in the padding of your carpet or even in your drywall.
Mold is called a Filamentous fungus and is considered a parasite.
Mold can grow anywhere it has a food source (any organic materials), moisture or high humidity, and a little time (if conditions are just right, it doesn't take much time at all for mold to begin growing).
What are the signs of unseen mold?
Mold smells…mold is considered a microbial volatile organic compound that releases gas while it's growing which is where its odor comes from. When it is growing in enclosed spaces or in high concentration, the odor is much more noticeable.
If everytime you enter your home or a certain room in your house, you get a whiff of "musty", chances are good that you have mold.
Keep in mind that in addition to the fact the smell develops slowly over a period of time, because you live in your home and you're there a great deal of time, you could get used to the odor and not recognize it's presence.
Health issues are another good indicator that you have mold.
Mold can make you sick…Although mold exposure doesn't have the same effect on everyone, for some, it doesn't take a great deal of exposure to cause health problems, especially for infants, the elderly and people who have respiratory or autoimmune disorders.
The difficulty using these symptoms as mold indicators is that they are so similar to cold and flu symptoms. If these symptoms persist and don't go away it's evidently not a cold.
If you have any indication of mold in your home, give us a call, don't put your health at risk.
What's the Best Way to Fight Mold in Seattle?
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:15 am.
How do you Fight Mold?
Obviously the best way to fight mold is to prevent it from ever getting started in the first place. But that is sometimes easier said than done.
We can't run and we can't hide, mold spores are not only insidious, but they are everywhere and always with us.
During the winter months, especially in the Seattle area, mold can become a real problem as furnaces are turned on, doors and windows are closed and humidity levels increase. These are indoor conditions that encourage mold growth.
Are we safe during the summer?
That being said, you might think that during the summer months mold would die, but that isn't the case. During the summer months we experience hot humid days; these are outdoor conditions that encourage mold growth.
Whether in the winter or the summer, excess humidity in our homes is mold's best friend. It has been estimated by George Tsongas, a Portland State University professor emeritus, that nearly 1/3 of the homes in the Pacific NW have mold or mildew problems.
One out of 3 homes is an extremely high number, and unfortunately, most of those homeowners don't even realize they have mold. Once you have it, it doesn't go away on its own. It will probably be necessary to contact a mold inspector and professional remediator.
If you don't have mold, or you have had remediation, to keep mold from beginning or coming back, it is absolutely imperative to control the moisture in your home.
An instrument called an hygrometer can check the humidity levels, which should be kept below 50%, although most of us are more comfortable when they are lower than that.
Always use exhaust fans in your kitchens and bathrooms.
These fans should vent to the outside.
If your home has naturally high humidity, you could purchase a dehumidifier.
Keep in mind that too many house plants can cause higher humidity as they give off moisture.
Just remember how humid it felt the last time you were in a greenhouse.
Never store firewood in your house; as it dries it gives off moisture.
Leaky faucets should be repaired.


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Montgomery County Speed Camera Fib#1 : Spending the Money
The media has a tendency to repeat claims about speed cameras which are made by local officials without questioning them. One claim which is repeated every time local officials talk to the press as a way of selling the program is that the money is used "only public safety or pedestrian safety programs." It turns out that this is, at best, a half-truth and an empty promise.
It is true that there is a legal requirement that money from speed cameras be spent ONLY on public safety,with the wording of HB443 which authorized the cameras stating "Montgomery County shall use the revenues generated from the enforcement of speed limit laws as authorized under this Act solely to increase local expenditures for related public safety purposes, including pedestrian safety programs". As such this is a requirement which cannot be violated without breaking the law, and is not merely not a casual promise. Legislators have used this requirement to sell the program to the public and assert that it is not a "cash cow". But the reality is that this restriction is meaningless and that money is NOT being spent according to the letter or spirit of the law, and is instead being used for various pet project.
Chevy Chase village decided that purchasing a new Segway, a locker room, and an office for their police chief constituted "public safety improvements". Minutes from Chevy Chase village show those items were purchased directly from the safe speed fund. These items were described in the minutes of board meetings from November 10, September 8, and July 14, 2008. Other items such as "underground utility conduits" designed to hold electrical and cable TV lines have also been authorized under the fund, which are general operating expenses unrelated to safety. In one Chevy Chase Village meeting, it was shown that the Chevy Chase Village and the Montgomery County governments considered the speed camera funds to be usable for almost any expense when: "Task Force Chair Robert Jones and Mr. Podolsky advised that the County's Senior Financial Officer had opined that portions of most of the Village's potential capital projects could possibly be funded from revenue derived from the Safe Speed program under the parameters of the speed camera legislation." The fact that this might violate the law is apparently irrelevant because the Village government believes they will never be held accountable for that.
This practice was not limited to Chevy Chase Village. The City of Rockville apparently budgeted $1,010,000 out of their speed camera fund on an item labeled "RECREATION AND PARKS PROGRAM AREA". At the county level, the situation is actually worse because there is currently no tracking of speed camera funds at all. In a recent Montgomery County council session, Council President Andrews stated: "There's not a way to specifically account for how the money is being spent. It goes into the General Fund."
Moreover, little if any of the money has been specifically designated for traffic calming devices. For example, Chevy Chase Village has not installed new traffic calming devices on Connecticut Avenue since the installation of the cameras. The failure to reinvest this money in this particular road should be galling to citizens who live outside Chevy Chase Village. Connecticut Avenue is officially designated a "State Highway", meaning it is maintained by the Maryland State Highway Administration with funds coming from ALL Maryland taxpayers. All of the revenue from the Connecticut Avenue cameras is currently going to the Chevy Chase Village government, not to the benefit of residents in the rest of the county or state whose tax dollars pay for the maintenance of that road. There are only 2000 residents in Chevy Chase Village, and the median income is the median household income is in excess of $200,000, compared with $87,624 for Montgomery County and $68,080 for the state of Maryland (information from Wikipedia). In early 2008 the Connecticut Avenue cameras were bringing in $250,000 per month to the Chevy Chase Village government, whose entire annual operating budget was about $4.5 million.
In other locations where speed cameras are present, EXISTING traffic calming devices have been allowed to fall into disrepair. There are two "your speed" radar indicator signs directly in front of Wooton High School near the two speed cameras at that location, which had been there before the speed cameras were installed, but as of Feb 26, 2009 both of those speed indicator signs were apparently non-functional. Studies have shown speed indicator signs to be highly effective at reducing both speeding and accidents. However when combined with speed cameras they would also tend to reduce camera revenue by reducing the number of inadvertent speeding violations.(ADDENDUM: On 03/05/2009 both of the referenced speed indicator signs were replaced with new ones of a different model. The signs were still non-functional on 3/04. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our visitors from the "Montgomery County Government" domain for their frequent readership of our website.)
Local governments continue to treat legal requirements as mere guidelines which can be used for PR purposes but ignored whenever desired. Other important restrictions in the law have also been ignored by Montgomery County. Right now many promises are being made as new legislation is being pushed to authorize statewide speed cameras. Given the history of these cameras, a little healthy skepticism by the public might just be in order.
Update 03/11/2010: For Chevy Chase, add $9.722 for a copy machine, as a "public safety improvement".
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Reading Banned Books on the Kindle
October 1, 2010 October 1, 2010 meandmykindle Analysis
Saturday is the last day of "Banned Books Week." Every year the American Library Association publicizes the fight against book censorship, and releases a list of which books were most frequently challenged during the year. Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series made the top 10, with objections about the book's view on religion and complaints that it was inappropriate for young readers or too sexually explicit. Other "frequently challenged books" include classics like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Color Purple, and The Catcher in the Rye.
But a funny thing happened when I tried to download these books from the Kindle store. 7 of the 10 most-frequently challenged books simply aren't available on the Kindle. The three you can download are:
1. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
3. Stephenie Meyers' Twilight books.
But here's the seven you can't download.
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
As an avid Kindle reader, it's left me feeling a little left out. This week the American Library Association is urging a celebration of the freedom to read, suggesting a variety of activities, many designed for schools and public libraries. (For example, "Draw a picture of the one book you would save if books were being burned…") They suggest essay contests and discussions, and even making a poster that celebrates students who dare to read books banned elsewhere in America. But they also urge "Exercise Your First Amendment Rights," at the bottom of one web page. "Read a Banned Book!"
Fortunately, there's a lot more banned books to choose from. The American Library Association has cataloged more than 11,000 attempts to ban books over the last 20 years — and over 1,000 different books that have been challenged since 1982. They also believe that there's many times more, estimating that over 70 to 80 percent of the challenges aren't even reported. In fact, there have even been attempts to ban 46 of the top 100 Novels of the 20th Century.
But there's at least one banned book on that list that's available only in Amazon's Kindle store: the special 50th Anniversary edition of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. It's a controversial book about an aging literary scholar who's sexually obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, though I'm not sure if that's why it isn't available elsewhere. When Amazon announced their new $139 Kindles, they touted it as one of "many digital books exclusive to Kindle" (along with UR by Stephen King). And another Kindle store exclusive is Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie — which also appears on Radcliffe Publishing's list of the top 100 novels of the 20th century.
Apparently right now there's two reasons why you can't read a book: because it's censored – or because it's not compatible with your chosen brand of e-reader! But digital readers can also help circumvent the censorship. I was excited when a traveler told me how their Kindle let them bypass government censorship of the internet in China! And if a library is pressured into removing a book, it may be available for downloading onto your Kindle.
Now every Kindle is a private, personal library – free from any pressure from your local book-burners…
Maybe this is the right time to think a moment about how we can preserve our "literary heritage". In 1424, the Cambridge University library only had a total of 122 books in their entire collection, according to one history class I took in college. And in fact, during the first 1,000 years of European history, there were less than 8 million books in existence. At some point in our own lifetime, we may eventually be asked to make a choice about which books we'll preserve in the new 21st-century formats.
I guess I'm hoping that the answer…is all of them.
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Common Sense says:
I have some disagreement with the whole Banned Books Week concept. Parental input into age-appropriate books in a school library, or librarians maintaining their collections based on readership, is not banning.
As for the 1st Amendment, you have every right to purchase any book published, there is no government entity preventing you from doing so. If you want your child to read a book filled with profanity and sexuality, buy it for them yourself.
For Kindles and other eReaders, just because it's not available in an electronic format doesn't mean it's banned. There are lots of books not yet digitized.
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Rustam says:
I like Harry too )
A.Lizard says:
Touting the Kindle as a censorship-free platform is ironic.
Though perhaps not as much as "Fortunately, there's a lot more banned books to choose from."
The Kindle and IIRC, the Apple i-Whatevers are the only platforms I know of where the vendor can delete or worse, substitute altered forms of documents you bought from them after the fact without notice or warning… i.e. they are e-readers with their own built-in memory holes.
I read e-books on 4 different platforms (Linux PC, netbook, Blackberry, Android tablet). None of which have built-in memory holes.
From http://pcworld.about.com/od/gadgets/Amazon-Sued-Over-Kindle-Censor.htm
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It's here — the first lawsuit in the case of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader and the whims of a company that deleted two George Orwell novels, "1984" and "Animal Farm," from Kindles without warning customers.
I never doubted that what has been described as the "Orwellian" action by Amazon.com would come to this.
After electronically deleting the books from the Kindles of customers who had already paid for the stories,
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REVIEW: Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
December 17, 2015 CJ Stewart	2 comments
Directed by: Ron Howard
Produced by: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
Screenplay by: Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman
Edited by: Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
Cinematography by: Donald Peterman
Music by: James Horner
Original song by: Mariah Carey, James Horner, Will Jennings, performed by Faith Hill
Starring: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Josh Ryan Evans, Clint Howard, Anthony Hopkins (voice)
Based on the book by Dr. Seuss
I'm not really certain what makes studios think that live action adaptations of things that belong in animation are good ideas, but if I had to make a guess, I'd say it's because they make money. Obviously, that trumps artistic expression, more often than not. And that's how you end up with things like The Cat in the Hat starring Mike Myers. These movies are at least technical marvels, when sufficient effort is put into them, and the environments in How the Grinch Stole Christmas are really quite incredible and well realized. The makeup effects are also mostly impressive, too. That being said, I've only once ever seen a live action adaptation or extension of a property that I ended up liking more than the original, and that was this year's live action Cinderella. Still, that's one exception, and none of this can overshadow the fact that Dr. Seuss' book was already perfectly adapted decades ago by Chuck Jones in the 26-minute-long, 1967 animated TV special, complete with the perfect look and tone, and, best of all, with absolutely zero filler to pad out the original book. The same cannot be said about Ron Howard's admirable but misguided adaptation. Read more…
Categories: Reviews Tags: adaptation, Anthony Hopkins, backstory, Bill Irwin, Brian Grazer, bullying, burglary, cash in, Christine Baranski, Christmas, Christmas movie, Christmas spirit, Christmastime, Clint Howard, comedy, Dan Hanley, Donald Peterman, Dr. Seuss, Faith Hill, family film, fantasy, greed, Grinch, hate, hatred, holiday, Holidays, James Horner, Jeffrey Price, Jeffrey Tambor, Jim Carrey, Josh Ryan Evans, Mariah Carey, Mike Hill, Molly Shannon, moral, morality, nostalgia, Peter S. Seaman, prejudice, redemption, revenge, Ron Howard, stealing, Taylor Momsen, theft, unnecessary, vengeance, waste, Where Are You Christmas?, Will Jennings
2011 in Review: Notable Films I Managed to Avoid, For Better or For Worse, January – April 2011
January 5, 2012 CJ Stewart	157 comments
A lot of people will say that 2011 was a dull year for film. Unlike previous years, there haven't been very many huge Oscar-worthy films this year that I, personally can think of. Though The King's Speech saw its wide release in 2011 (and I even saw it in theatres this past year), it was ultimately a film from 2010 and had, by this year's Oscars, already won several Oscars and other accolades in the year prior, so it was no longer a contender for this spot.
Of course, 2011 had its share of noteworthy films, such as Moneyball and The Tree of Life, both fo which I still have yet to see but hear fantastic things about. And there's Hugo, which is a wonderful family film from Martin Scorsese and my top pick for the year. But 2011 was largely a year of recycling. Sequels aplenty, some great, some good, and some completely awful, with plenty of expected and unexpected revivals of old franchises, many of which were completely unnecessary and, yes, unwanted. (Yes, I'm thinking of The Smurfs.)
2011 also saw the end of a few eras in film history, as well. The final Harry Potter released this year to high critical acclaim. For the time being, we've also gotten what is intended to be the final film in the Transformers trilogy (until Michael Bay decides he wants to have more money and toss in Jason Statham, who has been rumored to be taking over the lead human role for quite a while now). And we also saw Pixar release their first widely derided film ever in the admittedly-watchable-but-ultimately-thoroughly-mediocre Cars 2.
I went to the theaters plenty of times this year. Most of the films I did see were quite good, if at least enjoyable. A couple were quite bad. But there were still plenty of notable films that were released throughout the year that I didn't see, neither in theatres nor in my own home. Before I tell you what were my least and most favorite of the year, I thought I'd go through the daunting task of a quick rundown of each notable film released in 2011 that I, for one reason or another, for better or for worse, did not see in theatres or get around to watching on home release. Read more…
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Pupy, cute the little puppy explores the world with his usual pranks. His curiosity to learn new things teaches him many new facts about the living beings and the social order around him. He is always doubtful and asks questions on each and everything he feels strange. In fact, his questions lead him to great answers that are scientific truths.
The animation video intends to instil scientific temper in children. Pupy?s exploration of the world around him teaches that science is everywhere and around you. The animated doll Twinkle, who very much identifies herself with the children and their world, anchors the entire programme. The Kannada animation video includes seven stories and four songs including a title song, two folk songs and a musical.
Pupi won four awards in the All India Children's Festival 2007 * Best Program * Best Direction * Best Animation * Best Editing .Poopy is the fourth title in the Twinkle Twinkle educational content animation video series produced by Hibiscus Design.


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For those of you who are celebrating the spiritual side of Easter, here is a cover of "Amazing Grace". Have a wonderful Easter!!
Classic cover by Jennifer Victor
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Christopher Dwayne Tomlin (born May 4, 1972) is an American contemporary Christian music artist, worship leader, and songwriter from Grand Saline, Texas, United States who has sold over 7 million records. He is a member of Passion Conferences and is signed to EMI's sixstepsrecords. Some of his most well-known songs are "How Great Is Our God", "Our God", "Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)" and his cover of "Good Good Father". Tomlin has been awarded 23 GMA Dove Awards, a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for his 2012 album And If Our God Is For Us, and two RIAA certified platinum albums. Because of his songs' popularity in many contemporary churches, TIME magazine stated he may be the "most often sung artist anywhere". Tomlin's 2013 album Burning Lights debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the fourth CCM album in history to do so.
Live cover by Benignas Grybauskas
Chaka Khan - What Cha Gonna Do For Me
We all Together - Lo Mas Grande Que Existe Es El Amor
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Instrumental original by BassMey
Vocal cover by Benedetta Caretta
Jeremy Soule - From Past To Present
Instrumental cover by Johannes Myllymäki
The Witcher - Toss A Coin To Your Witcher
Instrumental cover by Taylor Davis
Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever
Vocal cover by Marc Martel
Tones and I - Dance Monkeys
Instrumental cover by Luis Graziatto
Instrumental cover by ItsAMoney
Ashley Tisdale - Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a
Live cover by Delicia
Julie Andrews - The Sound Of Music
Live cover by StereoMono Sunday
the Mamas & the Papas - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Live cover by Timmy Naces
Live cover by Álvaro
Instrumental cover by Karolina Protsenko Violin


Paul Dudley White's start as a practicing physician 60 years ago coincided with the hesitant, unheralded beginnings of a new medical specialty: cardiology. Dr. White nurtured and grew with it: for almost half a century his name was synonymous with the study, treatment and prevention of heart disease. Last week, as the American Heart Association was preparing to add to White's endless string of awards, death—from complications following a stroke—robbed him of what would have been a most appropriate honor.


When I heard about a chocolate tasting at local candy shop, Cocoanuts Boston, I was not expecting it to be a very healthy evening. Turns out that Tara, the shop's owner, had three vendors lined up (two were Boston-based, one was from Brooklyn) who each had different healthier approaches to their candy-making. All three companies boasted handcrafted, chemical-free products and brought lots of samples to prove that candy can be just as delicious (if not more so!) without the junk.
Brooklyn-based Raaka is certified organic, certified fair trade, soy free, nut free, and vegan. A great gift for the sustainability-conscious or people with food allergies.
Pure 7 just started less than two months ago! Even at 87%, their dark chocolate was surprisingly not overly bitter which owner Carrie attributed to the fact that it is sweetened with local honey as opposed to granulated sugar.
McCrea's Candies creator and "Caramel Scientist," Jason McCrea, was interested in creating a caramel that had no high-fructose corn syrup and used all USA-made (locally sourced when possible) products, including the cellophane the candies are wrapped in!
All three had a passion for their products and mission statements I could really appreciate.
Another thing I loved about the shop is how they put up bios of their vendors next to their product displays! It's a great personal touch and I always enjoy learning about the stories behind the goods.
Thanks to Tara from Cocoanuts for hosting and Jen from Blog & Tweet Boston for organizing a delicious evening!


International disaster relief charity ShelterBox is distributing emergency shelter and school equipment to communities in Niger, West Africa, which are still reeling from the effects of recent, devastating floods.
With the help of Air France, 448 tents – enough for up to 4,500 people – are being delivered to the northern, Agadez region this week.
A further 50 disaster relief tents and classroom equipment for up to 200 children are being deployed with the assistance of the French military. Each of the four Classrooms in a Box will provide a teacher and 50 pupils with items such as pens, paper, chalk, blackboards and maths sets, enabling them to resume lessons after the devastation.
A specially-trained ShelterBox Response Team will be arriving in Niger shortly to distribute the aid.
Ranked 174th of 179 countries on the Human Development Index, Niger is faced with enormous suffering that was significantly worsened by some of the worst flooding to hit the region in decades last September. Flash flooding wreaked havoc among the poorest communities leaving an estimated 100,000 homeless. Agadez was one of the hardest-hit areas and difficult to deliver aid to, as recent conflicts have limited access for international aid.
At the time, ShelterBox worked side by side with the French government and military to send 15 tonnes of aid into Niger. Tremendous efforts by ShelterBox France secured a French military C-130 plane which flew the aid and response team into Niger.
An initial 15 tonnes of emergency disaster relief ShelterBox aid was sent to Niger after horrific flooding in West Africa affected nearly 100,000 people in Agadez, Niger. Tremendous efforts by ShelterBox France, working side by side with the French government and military, secured a French military C-130 aircraft to fly the aid immediately into Agadez. These efforts were matched by the warehouse team and volunteers at ShelterBox HQ who packed the 15 tonnes of aid in a sensational three hours. In total 700 ShelterBoxes, with enough aid for up to 7,000 people was sent to Niger.


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The art of brunching in Conshohocken has taken on a whole new level…especially since many of your favorite dinner spots also serve up an incredible brunch. Check out some of the options below and prepare to be delighted!
Bar Lucca
729 East Hector Street, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Rustic Italian in an urban setting. Seasonal brunch specials plus homemade pastas, pizzas & specialty sandwiches.
Bar Lucca offers brunch every Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Website | Reservations | Delivery | Reviews | Facebook | Instagram
521 Fayette Street, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Serves breakfast all day, everyday, and lunch during the week. The weekend brunch menu includes both savory & sweet brunch options in addition to coffee, tea & specialty sandwiches.
Brunch offers brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Website | Delivery | Reviews | Facebook | Instagram
Coyote Crossing
800 Spring Mill Ave, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Authentic Mexican brunch menu serving up some old family recipes made with fresh & flavorful ingredients.
Coyote Crossing offers brunch on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
'Feine
'Feine is all about coffee, but it also serves breakfast sandwiches, pastries, muffins, bagels and more on a daily basis. Come sit in this awesome space and check it out!
Website | Reviews | Facebook | Instagram
Guppy's Good Times
2 Maple St, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Feast on house specialties like Chilaquiles and Biscuits & Gravy as well as sweet selections like, the velvet pancakes or the donut burger…the Bloody Mary Bar is a must at this fun neighborhood spot!
Guppy's offers brunch on Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Gypsy Saloon
128 Ford Street, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Brunch at the Gypsy Saloon will not disappoint! From Brunch cocktails like: "The Salty Lab" & the "Gypsy Bloody" to their array of breakfast "bennies", you will make this your brunch spot time and time again!
The Gypsy Saloon offers brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
101 East 7th Avenue, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Come ready to eat decadently with "The Farmer & The Fisherman" (which features farm fresh eggs, lump crab mornay sauce & filet tips on a steak roll) or dine simply with " Hilary's Saturday Quiche", and pair with a selection from the drink menu, and your Saturday will be complete.
Jasper's offers brunch on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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The Lucky Dog Saloon & Grille
16 East First Avenue, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Cozy and delicious, The Lucky Dog features live music during brunch!
The Lucky Dog offers brunch on Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Southern Cross Kitchen
8 East First Avenue, Conshohocken, PA 19428 (map it)
Known as the, " Sassiest addition to the Conshohocken dining scene", Southern Cross Kitchen is a cross between down-home southern classics & a modern spin on comfort food.
Southern Cross Kitchen offers brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The StoneRose
Conshohocken's destination for inspired cuisine, focusing on the best ingredients right from our backyard.
The StoneRose offers brunch on Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Tradestone Cafe
Coffee, tea and breakfast sandwiches to delight… All breads baked in-house daily and all meats roasted in-house…this is honest food at it's best!
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How do you cite something with no date in APA?
Which of the following is correct for a narrative in-text citation for a work by six authors?
How do you in-text cite the same author twice in APA?
What is in-text citation in APA format?
Is APA author date?
Why does APA require the date of publication in in-text citation?
How do you in text cite Ibid in APA?
How do you reference Ibid?
Can we use Ibid in APA Style?
How do you use et al in APA 7?
How do you cite when there is no publication date?
WHAT IS A in-text citation APA?
If there is definitely no date posted or date updated, APA uses the abbreviation n.d. (short for "no date") in the parenthesis where the date would normally go in your citation: (n.d.)
In-Text One Work of Six or More Authors [6.12] When using a narrative, write out the first authors' surname and then write et al. When not using a narrative, write out the first authors' surname and then write et al.
To cite two works by the same author and the same year, differentiate the two works with small lowercase letters.
For example, use in-text citations like (Smith, 2019a, p. 78) and (Smith, 2019b, p. 24).
On the References page, sort the two entries in alphabetical order by the title, since the names will be identical.
Using In-text Citation APA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005). For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14). For sources such as websites and e-books that have no page numbers, use a paragraph number.
When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, like, for example, (Jones, 1998). One complete reference for each source should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.
However, if you cite multiple works by the same author or authors, regardless of the publication years, include the date in every in-text citation to prevent ambiguity.
No. APA never uses ibid. Instead, give each citation using author names as usual. To learn about how APA uses Latin abbreviations in the APA official blog.
Use "ibid." (no italics) to refer to the only work cited in the preceding note. It may or may not include a page number (Ibid., 43.). Ibid. is never used if the preceding note consists of more than one source. Do not use "op.
Ibid. is one of several topics not covered in the Publication Manual because it isn't used in APA Style. Other styles that document sources with footnotes or endnotes use ibid. to point to a source that was cited in a preceding note.
APA 7th ed. in-text citations for works with three or more authors include only the first author name and "et al." (which means "and others" in Latin) is used in all citations, including the first in-text citation: (Smith et al., 2019).
Website with no author and no date
Bibliographic references are double-spaced and indented half an inch after the first line.
If there is no author, the article title comes first.
If there is no date, use the abbreviation n.d.
It is no longer necessary to include the date of retrieval.
Include an in-text citation when you refer to, summarize, paraphrase, or quote from another source. APA in-text citation style uses the author's last name and the year of publication, for example: (Field, 2005). For direct quotations, include the page number as well, for example: (Field, 2005, p. 14).
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We want to create a post-secular space where people can be clear about their religious or non-religious identity, whether secular, atheist, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jedi – and every other perspective besides. (What do we mean by post-secular space? Check out our first blog post).


Increased safety and service life of installations, shortened downtime and reduced maintenance costs.
The strength of Institut de Soudure Group lies in the men and women who commit themselves every day alongside our clients, at every stage of their project.
The quality of their services, their ability to react promptly and their awareness of safety are the main reasons why the Group's customers come back year after year.
The sites in France spread across nine regions enable Institut de Soudure Group to be totally focused on its customers and to respond quickly to all their needs.
Institut de Soudure Group also operates abroad with teams ready to travel worldwide and work alongside local partners.
The contribution of Institut de Soudure in this project is mostly concerned with establishing an efficient Acoustic Emission (AE) procedure, able to identify vessels with compromised burst pressures due to impact.


It's been a month since US voters cast their ballots and I'm finally able to write about what the whole experience has meant to me. I was, like many Americans, deeply concerned by the hate and racism that bubbled to the surface this year, particularly during the run up to the election. The whole experience was obviously deeply divisive and, in many ways, eye-opening.
There is certainly an undercurrent of tension, fear and frustration that brought us to this point, but there's more than that. There's this whole raw and ugly side to ourselves that we finally have to come to terms with. And to me this is the silver lining. Yes, we heard some horrible, shocking things being said publicly during the past year. We heard stories of hate and injustice. And we saw traits in our neighbors and in ourselves that had previously been well hidden.
But that doesn't mean they weren't there before.
This ugliness within has been brewing for a long time. I'm not a strong enough scholar of history to tell you if we're talking decades or centuries, but if I had to bet I'd go with the latter. So much progress has been made, but a lot of it is obviously surface level stuff. We still have a core sickness, a cancer, that all of the fear mongering of recent months is just feeding. The sickness is there to be sure, but it's time to take action so that we stop going down this unhealthy and downright dangerous road.
Yes, the ugliness in ourselves is hard to look at, but I'm grateful that we are getting to see it, because the only way to make real progress is to see what's really and truly there, to face our worst fears, to face our worst selves.
And now that we've all survived November 8th and the run up to it, it's time for the healing to begin. The sun continues to rise every morning and there are still plenty of good, kind and giving people out there, doing their thing. What we need to do now is to make a new commitment to focus on what we CAN control and how we can best move forward.
The only road to meaningful change is going to happen with one person at a time who refuses to be ruled by fear.
One person at a time extending a hand across the aisle.
One person at a time going out of her way to perform an act of kindness.
And this is really important. Fear is infectious and, like a fire's flames, it has the power to engulf and dominate not just individuals, but families, societies, countries… But nothing productive can come out of this place of fear. We aren't rational when we exist in that fear state. And if we get stuck there, we can't move forward into any kind of real prosperity, abundance or love.
Unless, say, you're being chased by a lion, fear almost always comes from imaging all of the things that could happen. You may have heard that top horror filmmakers usually will not show an audience what the monsters and demons look like, but will instead allow the audience to create their own image in their minds; an image that is much scarier than anything the filmmaker could have dreamed up. It's the same with the fear we experience in our own lives. The vast majority of the time we fear things that don't even ever happen. And if they do happen, we deal with them and, looking back, wonder what we were so scared of in the first place.
The list of fears is infinite, and everyone has their own special favorites, but just as the fear exists only in our own heads, we also have the power to eradicate those fears simply by taking control of our thoughts and actions. Fear can take a lot of our time and energy – so much so that it robs us of one of the great joys of life: living in the moment. It can also lead to irrational decisions and a skewered sense of reality (imagine the quality of life in the extreme case of someone who is terrified to step outside of their house).
So, how do we make a shift away from a fearful society into one where we the people are back in control? The way we do it, I think, is by a decision that we choose to make, one by one. A decision to not fear our neighbors. A decision to respect our fellow humans and to treat them with dignity. A decision to not lash out with anger, violence and insults, but to do everything in our power to make the world a little better. We each have our own gifts and our own light to shine on the world, and the world needs each and every one of us to show up and do so.
So, let's agree to let go of our fear and despair and to move forward into a place of enlightenment and joy. The decision to control what we can and to not buy into the fear factor is, I believe, our biggest weapon and one that I intend to exercise every single day as we move forward into a brighter world.


Introduction to City Hall Park 1899.
The meat of the site, newspaper articles detailing the daily events of the strike.
A blog about the life and times of newsies.
Links to resources about the strike, Newsies, and New York City around the turn of the Twentieth century.
Background information for the website (and the person who runs it).
What part of the website needs improvement?
This is so helpful! I love Newsies and therefore whenever I have to do a topic on a historical event the newsboys strike is my first choice. Currently doing research for my second summative project about the Newsboys Strike of 1899! Honestly couldn't do it without this site (or it would be much harder).
It's been a very long time! Harlem, Millinger's and so on are only accessible by the Wayback Machine these days.This is still an amazing website!
They are part of the "American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1940" digital collection at the Library of Congress, and can also be accessed through the LoC's American Memory collection. Abe Aaron conducted the interviews; he also spoke with others about different professions.
Hello. I am an eighth grader from Maryland. I am participating in a contest called National History Day with two friends. We are creating a website on the strike, and while researching, we came upon your website, which is a great help. Because you seem to be extremely knowledgeable about the subject, we were wondering if we could interview you, either over Skype, email, or some other platform? If you would be willing to do so, please let me know. Thank you.
"Conflict and Compromise" is a great theme for this year's contest! I think the newsboy strike definitely fits well. Yes, y'all can interview me if it will help with your project. What format will work best (do y'all need to provide a transcript as part of your sources?)?


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Leading with Vision
Four Organizational Change Mistakes To Avoid
Company's go through organizational changes: implementing a new CRM system, restructuring project for cost cutting, introducing a new product line, expanding into another country, establishing e-commerce business, buying or merging with another company, relocation project – the list goes on and on.
Depending on the scale and complexity of the projects, those changes make people feel uneasy, uncertain, worried, or even fearful. The human and emotional aspects of change initiatives are often neglected. Based on 30 years of research by change expert Dr. John Kotter, professor at Harvard Business School, 70% of all major change efforts in organizations fail. There are 4 main reasons for failures:
Key leaders do not create enough sense of urgency
Without motivation transformation efforts will go nowhere. Companies and its leaders underestimate the importance of establishing an inspired coalition with energy and authority.
There is not a clear vision or it is not clearly communicated
Without a clear direction the change program can easily dissolve into a list of confusing projects taking the organization in the wrong direction or nowhere at all. Transformation is impossible unless hundreds or thousands of people are willing to support it. It is absolutely essential to communicate where the change project is going and why.
Major obstacles and potential roadblocks are not anticipated and removed
There is hardly a change without obstacles. They can be: the organizational structure, narrowly defined job categories, compensation or performance-appraisal systems, and, worst of all, bosses who refuse to change and make demands that are inconsistent with the overall change vision.
Success is declared too soon and without anchoring the changes in the culture
Until new behaviors are rooted in social norms and shared values, they is a high risk to revert back to "the old way". Change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here, when it becomes part of the corporate culture.
Based on the four reasons for failure, leaders can significantly increase their chances of success of their organizational change project by following these strategies:
Establish a motivated and committed core team that will drive, lead, and execute the change efforts despite potential resistance.
Define and articulate a clear vision and ideal future outcome about the intended changes and its benefits, combined with constant communication and engagement of all stakeholders.
Create short-term wins to inspire and create ongoing momentum for positive, sustainable change.
Continuous reinforcement of the changes while anchoring them in the corporate culture to create sustainability.
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Nillu Nasser Talks about the Writing of "All the Tomorrows"
We are pleased that author Nillu Nasser has stopped by to offer some insights on the writing of her new book, All the Tomorrows, which officially releases on Monday, November 6, 2017. And if you needed any more reason to be excited about this amazing book, just click on the picture below to see what 3 separate reviewers have said about it:
Without further ado, we turn this over to Nillu.
How I researched All the Tomorrows
by Nillu Nasser
Committing to a story idea is a funny thing, at least for me. It's a decision that is made half with the heart, half with the head. My debut novel grew from an image I just couldn't shake: a filthy, older, Indian man, pressed up against a window. That image refused to leave me for weeks, and my imagination began building on it. That's when I know a story is worth investing in.
By the time I began writing the book in earnest, I knew the central character was a homeless man with a long lost love, and that he lived somewhere humid. Writing a novel, especially your first one, can be a daunting task. I had a hero, and the beginnings of a setting, but I decided to draw on my own experience rather than researching a setting from scratch.
I'm of Indian heritage, and so India seemed a sensible choice, and I loved the opportunities the setting brought to the story: the colour, the food and traditions. I knew my hero belonged here. That's how All the Tomorrows was born, a story about second chances that unravels amongst the dust and grime of the Mumbai's streets and behind the gates of opulent houses.
Still, there were gaps in my knowledge. I am at one Indian, and removed from India. My grandparents were born there, but I was born in the UK. My family traditions are rooted in both India and East Africa, with a splash of Britain thrown in. I have visited India twice, once as a child and once in my early twenties. My recollections are broad brush strokes: the smell of street food, the sticky heat, the palaces in Jaipur, the imploring faces of child beggars pressed against cool taxi windows.
For the details of my novel, I turned to travel guides and photo books. Cousins of mine, who live in Mumbai, provided eyewitness accounts. Friends sent me pictures of their own travels there. I watched Bollywood movies to drink up the setting. The internet opened up a wormhole, an unfiltered surplus of information, causing hours to disappear with the click of my trackpad.
How easy it is to get sidetracked. I needed to know the dates Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister, and within moments I was drawn into the tragic glamour of the Gandhi family, history I once knew, but which had all but escaped through the sieve of my memory: Indira's rise to power, the loss of her politically-minded younger son in a plane crash, convincing her elder son to run for parliament and setting him on the path to his assassination ten years later, her own murder, and how the wives of her dead sons are on opposing sides of the political spectrum in today's India.
Creativity is often about dreaming and drifting, as much as it is about perceiving and persistence. I liked how my research caused me to meander, how the novel was shaped by a chain reaction to materials I came across, and how my ideas morphed into something new.
For me, the best fiction shows glimpses of research but never burdens the reader; it is entertaining first and foremost. Fiction writers are not historians. Our magic power is making up worlds, with the hope that they are believable and authentic. Hopefully, I've achieved this with All the Tomorrows. I hope you'll pick up a copy to find out.
Releasing November 6, 2017 (Now Available for Pre-Order): All the Tomorrows
Sometimes we can't escape the webs we are born into. Sometimes we are the architects of our own fall.
Akash Choudry wants a love for all time, not an arranged marriage. Still, under the weight of parental hopes, he agrees to one. He and Jaya marry in a cloud of colour and spice in Bombay. Their marriage has barely begun when Akash embarks on an affair.
Jaya can't contemplate sharing her husband with another woman, or looking past his indiscretions as her mother suggests. Cornered by sexual politics, she takes her fate into her own hands in the form of a lit match.
Nothing endures fire. As shards of their past threaten their future, will Jaya ever bloom into the woman she can be, and will redemption be within Akash's reach?
For more on the author, please visit her page here: Nillu Nasser.
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Author Dr. Richard Barager Talks about the Interesting Subject Matter of His New Book "The Atheist and the Parrotfish"
We are pleased to welcome to our blog today Richard Barager, the author of the exciting new upmarket literary novel, The Atheist and the Parrotfish. He speaks a little about his process, and about what led him to the unusual but compelling story he brings us.
A frequent question in author interviews is this one: "What made you decide to write this book, of all the books you might have written?" In the case of my latest novel, The Atheist and the Parrotfish, there were two images seared on my brain decades ago that lingered and refused to go away. The exploration of what they meant became the basis for my novel.
One was of an encounter with a patient of mine, years ago. He was a gruff tradesman who came to my office one day wearing a dress and a bra and female wig, at a time when public cross-dressing was rare. I asked him why he was dressed like a woman. "Because I like it," he said. "And that's all I want to say about it." I wondered ever since what exactly it was that he liked about wearing a dress? My memory of him that day eventually gave rise, over two decades later, to my exploration of what it means to be transgender—and why—through the character of Ennis Willoughby, described as follows in the story.
"Hairless legs latticed by thick veins peeked out between the rims of his white socks and the hem of his dress. With caved in temples and sunken cheeks, a dusky wattle dangling practically to his chest, broken teeth, sallow skin, and a glaze of despair in his eyes…All he lacked was the striped garb of Auschwitz."
Another image indelibly graven unto my brain back then came during a trip to Paris, on a visit to the Louvre. I came around a corner and confronted one of the most arresting and disturbing paintings I have ever seen, a masterpiece by the Romantic painter Paul Delaroche, entitled La Jeune Martyre (The Young Martyr). It was of a young girl floating face up in the Tiber River, with her shear white dress billowing in the water and her wrists bound in front of her. A halo hovered over her, described in my novel as "…a thin gold circle of empyreal light…The lambency of the halo colored everything beneath it soft and yellow, even in the dark, lapping water." The intensity of Delaroche's rendering marinated in my mind for years and finally launched me on an exploration of religious skepticism and faith.
My memories of these images formed within several years of each other, but I had no way of knowing at the time that not only would I search for their meaning two decades later, but that I would do so in the same novel. Nor would I have believed it possible that my story would discover the same essential truth in each, a brilliant paradox common to Christianity and to cross-dressing. So striking was this elemental truth that I nearly titled my novel The Christian and the Cross-Dresser, instead of The Atheist and the Parrotfish. (Parrotfish, by the way, are hermaphrodites, spending part of their life cycle as male and part as female—like Ennis.)
What made me want to write this story, you ask? What makes most writers want to write literary fiction—the search for truth.
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A doctor's religious doubt is shaken by a transplant patient's eerie knowledge of his organ donor's most intimate secret.
Doctors tend to the needs of their patients, but patients give meaning to the lives of their doctors. So it is for Cullen Brodie, a twice-divorced California nephrologist, and Ennis Willoughby, a troubled cross-dresser whose life is saved by a rare heart-and-kidney transplant.
Cullen's bitter disbelief in the afterlife is tested when Ennis begins to exhibit tastes and characteristics uncannily similar to those of his female organ donor—whose first name Ennis inexplicably knows. When Ennis becomes convinced that the donor's soul has inhabited him, Cullen sides with Ennis's psychiatrist, who tells Ennis he has subconsciously confused his emerging transgender personality with the imagined characteristics of his female donor.
While his psychiatrist coaxes forth Ennis's female side, Cullen is summoned to the South Pacific by an old lover for a reckoning of their past. On the island paradise of Rarotonga, he is forced to confront the heartrending truth about a tragedy that destroyed their college romance—a tragedy Cullen blames on religious zealotry.
Filled with resentment over what he has learned, Cullen returns to Southern California determined to shatter Ennis's delusion of ensoulment. But Ennis's eerie knowledge of his donor's greatest secret forces Cullen to consider the unimaginable: Is it possible he is witness to a verifiable incident of transmigration, tangible proof of a human soul? Or is he witness instead to the miracle of being transgender? Male and female at once, the glory of one and the glory of the other, both shining—like a parrotfish, another miracle of nature, changing gender apace, beside its glorious, ever-changing hue.
Nillu Nasser
Nillu Nasser is a writer of literary fiction novels. She also writes short fiction and blogs.
She studied English and German Literature at Warwick University, followed by European Politics at Humboldt University, Berlin. After graduating, Nillu worked in national and regional politics, but eventually reverted to her first love: writing.
Nillu's stories often take place in rich settings and explore the search for identity from an outsider's perspective. Her debut novel, All the Tomorrows, was published in 2017, followed by her second novel, Hidden Colours, in 2018. A prequel short story to All the Tomorrows, 'The Dancing Girl' was released that same year. Her third novel, An Ocean of Masks, will be published in 2019.
First and foremost, though, Nillu is a reader. She is happiest barefoot with a book in hand. They are the first thing she unpacks when she is somewhere new.
She lives in London with her husband and three children. If you fly into Gatwick and look hard enough, you will see her furiously scribbling in her garden office, where she is working on her next story.
To find out more about Nillu and her latest books, read her blog, send her a tweet or sign up for her newsletter.
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Deceit is sewn into the fabric of our lives long before our first breath.
Norah is all about tough love. As headmistress of a community boarding school in Brixton, South London, her job is to put children back together after their lives have derailed. She understands their anger because the same red hot fury pulses through her own veins.
When a lack of funding threatens to close the doors to her school, Norah's pupils act out their anguish in increasingly dangerous ways. As the fate of her pupils hangs in the balance, Norah accepts an invitation to join a mysterious society of masked women who might be able to help her. Little does she know, she's on a collision course to meet the mother who abandoned her as a toddler.
Some traumas never heal. With her carefully controlled world in turmoil, Norah fights to save her pupils and herself. Can she be an example to her pupils, not only of grit and courage, but vulnerability? Or will her single-minded focus on saving the school be her undoing?
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Gregg Sapp, a native Ohioan, is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, librarian, college teacher and academic administrator. He is the author of the "Holidazed" series of downright funny satires (Evolved Publishing), each of which is centered around a different holiday. Previous books include Dollarapalooza (Switchgrass Books, 2011) and Fresh News Straight from Heaven (Evolved Publishing, 2018), based upon the life and folklore of Johnny Appleseed. He has published humor, poetry, and short stories in Defenestration, Waypoints, Semaphore, Kestrel, Zodiac Review, Top Shelf, Marathon Review, and been a frequent contributor to Midwestern Gothic, and others. Gregg lives in Tumwater, WA.
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"Why doesn't the Fake News Media state that the Trump Administration's Anti-Trust Division has been, and is, opposed to the AT&T purchase of Time Warner in a now ongoing Trial", Trump wrote.
He said going forward Quinn's replacement would "ensure every one of the individuals and firms we use in the political arena are people who share our high standards and who we would be proud to have associated with AT&T". On Thursday a source with knowledge of the matter confirmed that AT&T paid Cohen $600,000 for the year.
Avenatti said he was aware of four months of payments to Cohen totaling $200,000. Nonetheless, Mr. Stephenson also added that retaining Mr. Cohen "was a serious misjudgment".
Trump has denied the affair, and Cohen claims the payment was made to silence Daniels's false claims.
"In this instance", he continued, "our Washington, D.C., team's vetting process clearly failed, and I take responsibility for that".
The company said it hired Cohen's firm among "several consultants to help us understand how the president and his administration might approach a wide range of policy issues important to the company, including regulatory reform... tax reform and antitrust enforcement, specifically our Time Warner deal". Companies routinely hire political consultants at the outset of new administrations, he said, and AT&T has done so in the past.
"For the foreseeable future, the External & Legislative Affairs (E&LA) group will report to our General Counsel David McAtee". Stephenson said in his email that Quinn was retiring.
But Quinn appeared to recognize that the Cohen deal was a mistake, according to another person who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss Quinn's situation. Its contract with Cohen ended a year ago. "But that's factually accurate, and it ought to carry more weight in this situation". After law school, he joined AT&T as an attorney in 1993 and later ascended the ranks of the company's massive lobbying operations.
An attorney for Cohen did not respond to a request for comment Friday. "For anything beyond that I would direct you to the president's outside counsel".
To that end, ethics experts said Friday that the wireless giant could be in the clear legally.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for Trump, said Wednesday that the president was unaware of Cohen's consulting agreements.


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This is particularly helpful for a site in many ways. First of all many people want their code to be in high traffic sites as it gives them more opportunity of getting clicks as the visitors are more. More such users generally mean more content in the site which leads to better search engine rank for the keywords. There are no maintenance issues with the author and there are no publicity issues either. Seoul and other site related works are looked after by the site owner. Once somebody's article starts getting clicks, he is more encouraged to write better content. Who would not love traffic to his own sites therefore such articles are also promoted by the authors with backlinks from their own site or backlinks from other sites or forums they participate using signature link or in content link. This enhances the chances of the site getting higher pr and also to get high Alexa rank.
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Due to huge participation and huge number of registered users, such sites always stand a risk of invalid clicks where members can click around each other's ads. This not only stands a chance of the domain getting banned by adsense but may lead to individual account ban also. So when such a site is made, one must higher appropriate employees to look after such issues like ad impression monitoring, site activity monitoring, content monitoring, ad code monitoring and so on.
Many a times, members try to change the ad dimensions from their adsense account just to see what impact it has on clicks. Because codes are generated and are put in the articles, any change from the adsense account particularly means changing adsense code which is strictly against adsense tos and may lead to account ban.
So even though this is a good way to gain popularity and earn from others writing, it is risky and tedious at the same time. So before having enough knowledge about adsense, or web development or function, it is advisable that you stay away from such a model either as site owner or as publisher. But once the site is grown and starts pulling healthy traffic, you can bet it as a very good part time or small business.


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Ekweremadu Warns Against Military Action in Gambia
on January 4, 2017 at 11:38 am
Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has warned against military action in the Gambia following that country's presidential election, saying such action could threaten the security of the entire sub-region.
The warning is in a statement issued by the Senate deputy president's Special Adviser on Media, Uche Anichukwu on Tuesday in Abuja.
Mr. Ekweremadu said such action could plunge the country into bloodletting and threaten the peace of the sub-region.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh lost to Mr Adama Barrow in the Dec. 1, 2016 presidential election but insisted that he would not handover power on Jan. 18.
Nigeria's deputy president of the Senate then urged the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, as well as the international community to explore dialogue and to allow Gambian laws to prevail as a sovereign nation.
Mr. Ekweremadu, who is a former Speaker of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Parliament), also called for sanctions, in line with the traditions and relevant Protocols of ECOWAS.
According to him, sanctions should be considered in the event that dialogue and judicial options fail.
He added that "from Liberia to Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire, among others, West Africa has seen so much bloodletting and political instability.
"Heavy destruction of lives and property has been visited on the sub-region by insurgency and terrorism, which remain present danger to the peace and security of West Africa.
"Instructively, what normally started like child's play often resulted in protracted, but avoidable political upheavals and fratricidal wars."
The deputy president of the senate urged those concerned, particularly the ECOWAS of Heads of State and Government, to tread with caution.
He called for respect of the laws of the country, which allowed for judicial intervention in electoral disputes.
"We must all acknowledge the fact that Gambia is a sovereign state.
"If her Constitution and electoral laws allow for judicial role in resolving electoral disputes, then the Gambian constitutional courts must be allowed to count in resolving the political impasse.
"If the Gambian laws are preempted and her sovereignty breached, it could set a bad and crisis-triggering precedence.
"The sub-region must uphold the rule of law for the sake of the peace, stability and prosperity of Gambia.
"We must take all necessary steps as a sub-region to steer the West African nation and indeed the entire community away from any looming bloodshed and monumental destruction,'' he said.
However, Mr. Ekweremadu commended ECOWAS Heads of State and Government for the concern and commitment toward resolving the political situation in Gambia.
He further commended the efforts made by President Muhammadu Buhari to resolve the political situation in that country.
He urged Gambian authorities to ensure the protection of the fundamental and political rights of all Gambians and the opposition, to avoid escalation of the crisis.
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GURGAON: Confident about continuing growth opportunities for the Indian job market, US-based consultancy giant Korn Ferry Hay Group feels the outsourcing story is no more about cheap labour and the key drivers going forward will be value-addition and technology.
"There would continue to be opportunities for Indian job market for sure. But substitution of certain jobs by technology would mean that the role of labour and labour arbitrage is not that important.
"So I think the technology solutions to issues has an impact. I think technology is going to play a role in what those opportunities is going to be in future," Korn Ferry Hay Group CEO Stephen D Kaye told PTI in an interview here.
Kaye, who heads one of the world's largest management consultancies and was on a visit to India, said outsourcing was a response to a particular situation where companies were looking for cheap labour but the situation is now changing with the advent of technology and artificial intelligence.
Many global leaders, including US President Barack Obama and Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner in the presidential race, have voiced concerns about outsourcing in their bid to save local jobs. This has led to fears about loss of business for back-office service providers from India.
Experts believe advances in the field of automation and robotics is expected to radically change the job market and to survive this period, employees are required to re-skill to remain relevant in the job market.
"With the increasing levels of sophistication and artificial intelligence, I don't think it is cheaper labour that is going to be the driver," Kaye said.
Seeking to allay concerns that the Indian job market would take a hit, Kaye said technology is going to play a role and "the challenge is going to be how do companies and how do individuals in companies add value and how do we manage the situation where jobs can be replaced by technology".
"That would be challenge across the world. But I think it means that the outsourcing of certain routine tasks for labour arbitrage may not be always attractive as we go forward. So I think it creates a need for companies to look at how they add value now and in future," he added.
Korn Ferry Hay Group, whose clients include governments, public sector companies, family-owned enterprises as well as listed private sector companies from across the world, including many top Fortune-500 firms, is present across 56 countries and has a significant presence in India.
Talking about the Indian market, Kaye said he is excited about the opportunities that exist in the country, including for his group, which has nearly 7,000 consultants working with it across the world.
"We are also excited about the tremendous talent that exists within India that we are able to deploy for clients not only in India but also globally," he added.
Hay Group merged with Korn Ferry late last year to form a combined behemoth.


Beets are still abundant at our local farmers' markets right now. Normally we mostly enjoy beets roasted with carrots and onions, but lately I've also been loving them in this simple marinated side dish. I especially like this recipe because it makes a bunch of leftovers that keep well in the fridge and taste good eaten cold. We prepare virtually all of our own meals, but ideally I only like to cook for dinner so leftovers are a huge asset in our house.
You should check out my recipe for cinnamon sweet potatoes. Like this recipe, it's simple to make, tastes great as leftovers, and is toddler-approved.
What are your favorite ways to eat beets?


Water is a necessity that has been overconsumed by businesses for quite some time. But water is a limited resource, which means if more businesses don't do their part to conserve water, future generations will surely suffer.
With the recent droughts in California and water quality problems in Flint, more businesses are wondering how they can help combat this global concern quickly. If your business is looking to adopt better sustainability practices, don't let water use fall by the wayside. These water conservation tips are simple to implement and will help your business conserve water right away.
Your business could be wasting water and not even know it if there are leaks that haven't been attended to. Conduct a periodic shutdown of all water-using facilities and read the water meter at intervals during these shutdowns. If your meter's dial moves, you likely have a leak somewhere on site.
2) Conduct a water audit.
A commercial water audit can help you understand just how much water you and your employees use each day. Contact your water utility company and see what types of audits they provide. Sometimes, they can offer inexpensive ways to fix leaks and often give audits for free.
One of the biggest culprits of water waste in businesses is the restroom. While toilets and sinks are necessities in the workplace, they don't have to waste water. Ensure that your restrooms are more sustainable by installing low-flow toilets. If your toilets are old, they are using as much as 5 gallons during one flush! Low-flow toilets, however, use just 1.6 gallons of water per flush. Low-flow faucet fixtures should also be installed. And if showers are on site, showerheads with on-off valves can help conserve even more water.
4) Make sure employees are actively involved.
Everyone who works for you should be involved in your water conservation initiatives. While staff may not waste water intentionally, they should be made aware of how their daily habits may be wasting water. Send a company memo about your water conservation goals, host an all-hands-on seminar about water conservation, start a workplace water conservation challenge, share updates on the impact your water conservation initiatives are showing, and create awareness by posting signs about water conservation throughout the office.
5) Install a commercial water filtration system.
A commercial water filtration system or countertop water dispenser is a great, eco-friendly way to keep staff, guests, and customers hydrated.
6) Reconsider your landscaping design.
Switching to sustainable landscaping can drastically reduce your business's water needs. Replace grass with pebbles or stone steps. Choose plants that don't need a lot of watering such as cacti or succulents. Making these small changes will allow your business to go quite a while without watering plants – and your landscaping will still look great!
7) Appoint a conservation champion.
If you're serious about water conservation, assign someone to head your business' water conservation program. This person can help create and implement the initiative so you can focus on other aspects of your business. Once this person is appointed and has a plan in place, think about having them publicly comment on your new sustainability goals so your community can also hold you accountable. The more people who know about your water conservation efforts, the more likely you and your staff will work to get the job done.
These water conservation tips are just the beginning in understanding how to conserve water in your business. But if you start with these small changes, you will make a positive impact to protect the environment and this scarce necessity that we simply can't continue to waste.


Our family has been blessed with good health, an abundance of love, and infinite opportunities. We recognize how fortunate we are to have this life, and thus, we are inspired to give to those who do not have the simplest of needs, like clean drinking water. In lieu of gifts for celebrations and holidays, we kindly request a donation in the amount of your choosing to help Melina reach her goal of drilling a well for a village in an impoverished part of the world, such as in Haiti or Sudan.
These are learning opportunities for all of us and a journey we wish to share with our daughter. We hope this experience will inspire all of us to recognize how fortunate we are no matter how challenging our circumstances.
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M-League remains grounded
2020, Latest News, MalaysiaBy Editor AFF April 25, 2020
PETALING JAYA (25 April 2020) – Hopes of the Malaysian League making an early return to competitive matches received a rude jolt with a firm "NO" from Senior Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob. The defense minister in his daily press briefing on the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country said the standard operating procedure (SOP)…
PFAM sets two conditions for proposed pay cut
PETALING JAYA (13 April 2020) – The Professional Footballers Association of Malaysia (PFAM) have come up with two strong conditions if they are to accept a proposed pay cut in the now-suspended Malaysian League due to coronavirus (COVID-19). Top of their demand is that teams that are owing players' salaries will have to settle the…
JDT players and officials take 33% pay cut
2020, Latest News, MalaysiaBy Editor AFF March 29, 2020
JOHOR BARU (29 March 2020) – The players and officials of defending Malaysia Super League champions Johor Darul Ta'zim FC have agreed to a 33% pay cut. With the Malaysia Super League currently postponed due to the Malaysian government lockdown tentatively until 14 April 2020, the JDT management alongside players and officials have come to…
COVID-19: AFF to reschedule competitions this year
PETALING JAYA (25 March 2020) – The Asean Football Federation (AFF) has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic and has decided to reschedule several competitions slated for the next four months. Four events will be postponed to later dates this year, beginning with the upcoming AFF Women's Championship in the Philippines in May. The three…
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KUANTAN (23 March 2020) – The new Malaysia Premier Futsal League (MPFL) season might not have panned out as expected what with the stoppage due to Covid-19, but Pahang Rangers are keeping things in perspective to stay safe and stay strong for the challenges ahead. Pahang Rangers made a smashing start to their campaign to…
Malaysia to postpone all matches from Monday onwards
PETALING JAYA (13 March 2020) – Datuk Hamidin Mohd Amin, the President of the Malaysia Football League (MFL) announced this morning that all matches in the Malaysian League will be postponed from next week onwards. Matches that have been scheduled for tomorrow and Sunday will still be played but without spectators. This follows the consultations…
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