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Xi-Jinping gets second term as China's president
China's Parliament re-elected Xi Jinping as the country's president and also the chairman of Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China on Saturday, making way for his second term in the office.
Bejing: China's Parliament re-elected Xi Jinping as the country's president and also the chairman of Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China on Saturday, making way for his second term in the office.
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It was announced at the ongoing session of the 13th National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China, as reported by the Yonhap news agency.
Earlier on March 11, the National People's Congress passed a constitutional amendment to remove any term limits enabling Xi Jinping to hold presidential office well beyond 2023.
The Chinese legislature gave a near-unanimous approval to the sweeping changes, with 2,958 votes in favour, and only two votes against.
Considering the legislature to be packed by the loyalist of the Jinping's governance, the re-election process was conducted smoothly.
In addition to removing the term limits, the new constitution paves the way for the establishment of a new anti-graft super agency, the National Supervisory Commission.
Further Wang Qishan was elected vice president of China during the on-going congress sesssion.
A total of 21 items; four in the preamble and 17 in the main body, were revised, with a new section inserted.
Xi, 64, has consolidated power since taking office as general secretary of the Communist Party in 2012.
He would have had to give up the presidency after the end of his second term in 2023, but he now has a lifetime to push his vision of making China a global powerhouse with a "world-class" military. (ANI)
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Interesting article about Food Retailing space race & more.
Click to read article on CBRE report and more.
Further to my post last week about the food retailers I have seen a couple of articles talking about the cut backs in their planned store openings and land banks etc. The above graphic comes from one of these at the Daily Mail and it is quite a good article on this and other background to the competitive situation in the sector. You can click on the above image to read more if that is of interest to you.


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Providing support for the company's Series LCL dataloggers, the new Model LS1 "Data Loggerstor" retrieves and stores data from as many as 31 dataloggers, the company says. The storage unit can then transfer to a PC more than 250,000 temperature, humidity, and dewpoint readings, print them to a parallel printer, or display them. The battery-powered unit provides a convenient way for technicians to collect and inspect stored data from coolers and food storage areas, while leaving the dataloggers in the field, says the company.
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Things are getting real. I have an official release date for Salvage - April 1, 2014! And you know what that means . . . GIF PARTY TIME!!!
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Author and blogger Lenore Appelhans has an interview with me up on her blog, Presenting Lenore, as part of her wonderful Dystopian August series. I'm a few days late posting this link because of the general chaos that has descended over my life during the last two weeks, but I was so excited and honored to take part.
I got the chance to talk about SALVAGE, so if you want to be tortured by small bits of information about the book, please go read the interview. Lenore gave me some great questions, including my favorite, "What fictional character from another book would your character choose as his/her best friend and why?" and the one I most dreaded, "If your book had a theme song, what would it be and why?" This is one of those questions I've occasionally seen asked of other authors in interviews, and every time I hear it, my brain scrambles around like a headless chicken, trying to remember what music is and whether or not I like it. I can't help it. This question momentarily lobotomizes me. But I'm glad Lenore asked it, because she made me face my fear, and I think I came up with a relatively coherent answer.
In addition to interviews with other authors of upcoming books, Lenore also has book reviews and giveaways. If you're a lover of dystopian fiction and you're looking for your next book fix, check out Lenore's blog all month long.
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I have a vlog post up about making time for writing and life over on the Friday the Thirteeners blog. We're playing Truth or Dare over there, and this week I took a Truth. It has me thinking about honesty, so today I've decided to lay it all out there.
I've had some really wonderful things happen lately - my husband and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary last Monday, part of my advance arrived, my husband found a full-time job, and The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012, edited by Rich Horton, comes out today.
Year's Best includes my novella "Rampion," about love, tragedy, and witchcraft during the fall of the Umayyad caliphate in 11th century Spain. I'm thrilled to have my writing in such good company. Two of my literary idols, Kelly Link and Margo Lanagan, also have stories in the anthology, as well as my friend Theodora Goss.
At the same time, we've had car trouble, student loan trouble, and a slew of relatives visiting all summer long. On top of that, my grandmother is very ill. All of these things have culminated in me missing work and writing time, and coming down with a nasty cold. I would love to simply celebrate all of the good things happening, but I'm feeling a little "like butter scraped over too much bread."
I think I could shrug all of these other things off, if it weren't for my grandmother's sickness. Though she's receiving palliative care now, she's been in pain and declining health for a long time. And while I'm not depressed or anything so serious, it is hard to celebrate these other things while this is happening to her.
I sometimes feel bad posting unhappy items on this blog, as if I'm burdening any readers with my own morose thoughts. It also feels as if I'm being ungrateful by complaining when so many good things are happening to me. And believe me, I'm happy about these good things in my life, but I'd be lying if I omitted the bad.
And now I'm going to go eat some chicken soup and knock myself out with cold medicine. Things always look better in the morning.
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Those of you who know me recognize what an introvert I am, but lately I've been out in the world, interacting with other people and talking about my writing.
First, I've joined a blog called Friday the Thirteeners, which is written by a small group of Young Adult authors who have books debuting in 2013. The idea behind the blog is that we're playing an extended, writing-related game of Truth or Dare. Anyone can submit a challenge, and each week, one of the Thirteeners or a special guest author tackles one of the submissions.
My first dare went up today, a challenge to read part of a story I had written when I was younger. I ended up sharing an excerpt from my attempt at a sci-fi novel when I was 11 years old. It involved evil aliens, angels, space dragons, and more. Pop over to the Thirteeners site to watch my vlog post about it, and while you're there, don't forget to send us a challenge of your own. We are gluttons for punishment ready for anything!
I also have an interview about my novella, "Rampion," up on Prime Books' site. "Rampion" is a historical fantasy based on the fairy tale "Rapunzel" and set during the fall of the Umayyad caliphate in early 11th century Spain. It first came out in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction last spring, and now it's being reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 edition. You can read the interview here. The anthology is slated to come out Aug. 8, 2012, but it's available for pre-order now.
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To be perfectly honest, this past year has been so hard. I've had a lot of wonderful things happen - success with writing, the opportunity to spend time with my youngest sisters - along with a collection of truly awful things - some major family illnesses and drama. It's been a roller coaster.
But today, I got the okay to share a piece of news I've been dying to talk about: HarperCollins's Greenwillow Books has purchased my novel, Salvage. Which means it's actually, really, truly going to be published! Here's the write-up in Publisher's Weekly. . .
Virginia Duncan at HarperCollins's Greenwillow Books took North American rights, in a six-figure deal, to Salvage by Alexandra Duncan (no relation). Another YA science fiction entry, the book, which Kate Testerman at KT Literary sold, has what the publisher calls a "feminist slant" and follows a teenager raised on a male-run spaceship who comes to a scorched future Earth where she settles on a "floating island of garbage and debris." Author Duncan is a librarian in North Carolina and has written a number of short stories, including "Amor Fugit," which initially ran in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and then appeared in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 (Prime Books). Greenwillow has Salvage set for a 2013 release.
This is - no exaggeration - my dream come true. Greenwillow is an amazing imprint, and I'm really excited to get the chance to work with Virginia Duncan (again, no relation), whose work I truly admire. (She was behind one of the smartest, most action-packed books I read all year, Black Hole Sun, by David MacInnis Gill.) My agent, Kate Schafer Testerman, really went to bat for me and worked out an amazing deal. Aside from marrying Jeremy, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. So, for today, I'm going to put aside the hard things and the drama, and just appreciate the ride.
I have a ton of exciting news waiting in the wings, but I can only share one piece of it today. The lineup for Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012 has been announced, and my novella "Rampion" is going to be in it.
I'm doubly excited, because my friend Theodora Goss also has a story in the anthology called "Pug." I told my husband last night, and he said, "Hey, you guys are going to be anthology buddies!"
The anthology also includes stories by three of my favorite authors, Kelly Link, Margo Lanagan, and Neil Gaiman (swoon). The release date hasn't been announced yet, but it will probably be sometime this summer. I'll post again as I hear more!
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My dear readers, I have been lying to you by omission, mostly because I'm paranoid and superstitious. Now it's time for me to come clean.
1) I have written a novel.
It's a young adult sci-fi, and I promise to tell you more as it gets closer to actually coming into the world. But yes, it does have spaceships. Over the past six months, I've been polishing it and submitting it, which leads me to my next piece of news. . .
2) I have found a literary agent to represent me and said novel.
It's Kate Testerman Schafer of K.T. Literary. She also represents my good friend Stephanie Perkins and a ton of other authors whose work I either already love or am anxious to get my grubby paws on, including Maureen Johnson, Julia Karr, Ellen Booraem, and Ransom Riggs.
I'm almost indescribably excited about this. Kate has an amazing reputation for being both a genuinely nice person and a crackerjack agent, and she likes my book. She likes MY book!
Okay, I need to calm down, because I'm getting into Sally Field territory here.
Anyway, now that my book and I have an agent, I no longer feel that telling you about it is tempting fate to squash me with falling satellite detritus or subject me to spontaneous human combustion. This is wonderful news coming at the end of a very hard two years, and I am so grateful and thankful to all the people who helped me get this far: my husband, Jeremy; my friends, Stephanie, Nathan, and Dora; Gordon Van Gelder at F&SF, and now, Kate!
I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I know summer doesn't officially end until later this month, but summer as I define it -- school's out, pools are open, vacations are afoot -- is over. Labor Day is here and library school is back in session, which means the luxury of having my evenings and weekends free for writing is gone again, too. Not that that will stop me. I'll still be tapping away on my lunch breaks and probably neglecting my homework in favor of a writing project at some point, but now seems like a good point to declare an end to the Summer Y.A. Novel Writing Challenge and look back on how it went.
I set a goal for myself of finishing 45,000 words in three months, but more importantly, to stay sane and keep the joy of writing in my work. What's the point of driving yourself crazy writing 45,000 words you ultimately hate? I didn't hit my word count goal -- as of today I have 26,050 words -- and in the past, this would have been cause to beat myself up and mope around eating Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia Frozen Yogurt, wallowing in the certain knowledge that I was doomed to never succeed at anything. But this summer, I managed to stay sane, and more importantly, maintain my enthusiasm for the project I've started. So what if my pacing is more deliberate? 26,000 words is a respectable start, and right now, I don't have any editors looking over my shoulder, except the ones in my own head. Why not enjoy the process or writing, rather than hounding myself over results?
The best part of this challenge, though, has been having the opportunity to meet with Nathan Ballingrud and Theodora Goss for critique exchanges. They are both wonderful critique partners, and I'm so excited to see what their current projects eventually turn out to be.
So, what's next? I'm definitely going to keep working on the novel I've started, but I'd like to intersperse it with other projects. I haven't finished a short story since this spring, and I'd like to have at least one more out there in the world by the end of this year. You'll notice that I've changed the SUMMER Y.A. NOVEL CHALLENGE tab on my blog to Y.A. NOVEL CHALLENGE, and I've changed the goal to 90,000 words. I'll still blog about it occasionally, but not as often as I have this summer. In short, I'm going to keep going. Wish me luck!
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Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011, came out today. My story, "Amor Fugit," which originally was published in the March/April edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, is reprinted in the anthology.
I haven't received my contributor's copies yet, so today at lunch, I broke down and drove over to the local big box bookstore to buy a copy. I know I'm acting like a huge dork who's never had a story in professional anthology before, but let's face it, that's exactly what I am. Maybe the more professional thing would be to sedately tell you about all the excellent fiction in the anthology (Amal El-Mohtar's "The Green Book" is spooky-wonderful, and I'm really excited about reading "Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain" by Yoon Ha Lee), but in all honesty, I wish I could read this post to you this while jumping on a trampoline and screaming through an old-fashioned bullhorn.
Thanks to all of you for putting up with my dorkiness. I hope to make it worth your while!
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I'm not good at self-promotion. I kind of hate talking about myself outside the confines of marshmallows and cockatoo sightings, and pointing out anything good that has come of my writing tends to raise the hackles of my Protestant upbringing. Conversely, though, I love talking about my stories. They're like my kids or my pets, and I'm extremely proud when anyone says something good about them.
All of this is leading up to say that two of my stories are on industry recommended reading lists this year. "Amor Fugit," which is also being reprinted in Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2011, is on both the Locus and Tangent 2010 Recommended Reading lists. More surprising, at least to me, "The Door in the Earth" is also on Tangent's list. Of all my stories so far, "The Door in the Earth" received the most divided reception. I think it was one of those that you either loved or hated, depending on your tolerance for ambiguity in fiction. I'm surprised and delighted to see it on Tangent's list.
There are some really great stories on both lists, including "Eating at the End-of-the-World Cafe," by Dale Bailey, "The Green Book," by Amal El-Mohtar, and "A Thousand Flowers," by Margo Lanagan. Head over and check them out!
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This past summer Jeremy spent five and a half weeks in Italy on an archeological dig. It was the first time we had been apart for any significant amount of time since we got married, and I suddenly found myself with a lot of time on my hands.
The result of all that time is coming out next month in the May/June issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. It's a novella called "Rampion." It's a historical fantasy set during the fall of the Umayyad caliphate in 11th century Spain, loosely based on the fairy tale "Rapunzel." (By the way, if you want to read a really interesting book about the Muslim rule of southern Spain, I can recommend The Ornament of the World, by Maria Rosa Menocal.) Like history, it isn't always pretty, but I hope you end up enjoying it.
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A quick post, because I'm sick with a pre-Christmas cold and the off-brand Robitussin in my medicine cabinet is singing its siren song. Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2011 (which includes my story "Amor Fugit") has a release date, June 22, 2011. It's now available for preorder on Amazon.com. I don't know why, but somehow seeing it on Amazon makes the whole thing more real.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has an interview with me up on their blog, in which I discuss writing "Swamp City Lament."
I've never been interviewed before (at least, not aside from this one time on the local evening news when I was one of those people saying something inane like "people should go vote" in an interview montage), so it was pretty exciting. I'm glad the whole thing was conducted in writing, since I'm hopelessly inarticulate in person. I tend to stammer and forget words like "microwave" and "lobster" when I'm nervous. Luckily, neither of those words came up in the interview.
So, there it is, the other good news I had that was making me want to vomit out of sheer nervousness. My story "Amor Fugit" has been selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011 edition, edited by Rich Horton. The news is elsewhere on the internets now, so I feel okay announcing it here. I'm happy to report that I did not get run over or burst into flame in the meantime.
I'm incredibly excited. Of everything I've written so far, "Amor Fugit" is still my favorite story, the one I measure all my other ones against before they go out into the world (or don't), so I'm thrilled to find other people like it, too. And beyond that, I'm really honored that I get to be a part of this anthology. Look whose names are on the cover! Neil Gaiman! Yoon Ha Lee! Elizabeth Hand! Gene Wolfe!
I'm so grateful for all my friends and family who helped me get up the nerve to send this story out into the world, and to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction for publishing it in their pages earlier this year. But most of all, I'm grateful for my husband Jeremy, who has endured my paralyzing bouts of self-doubt and numerous requests to read and re-read my stories with grace and very little desire to throttle me. Without him, I wouldn't have understood love well enough to write about it.
*Like, for example, this preview of the HBO series being made of George R.R. Martin's book A Game of Thrones. I LOVE HBO's Rome and Deadwood and Big Love and Carnivale and. . . well, that could go on for a long time. But I hadn't read Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, which is one of those required epic fantasy series you have to read if you want to call yourself a fantasy nerd. After lots of peer pressure from my husband and our friend Nathan, this weekend I finally started reading the first book. Jeremy has done an admirable job of putting up with my utter failure to memorize characters' names so far. (Jeremy: "What part are you at?" Me: "Oh, King Fatty and Boromir are down in the crypt seeing the dead people!") But can I just say right now, I love Jon Snow? I've been told that characters in this series tend to change and do horrible, morally-questionable things or have horrible, morally-questionable things done to them, but so far he's my favorite character. However, I haven't run into Tyrion Lannister yet, and I've been told that could change my favorite character ranking. Ahem. Anyway, I'm looking forward to that when it eventually comes out on DVD or the magical money fairies give me the wherewithal to have HBO.
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NEW TABS, NEW FICTION: "SWAMP CITY LAMENT"
If you click on the new tab, you'll see some exciting news -- I have a new story, "Swamp City Lament," coming out in the Nov/Dec 2010 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I found this sneak peek at the cover on their Facebook page. Look at that! A skeleton! Now you know you want to read it.
NEW STORY: "AMOR FUGIT" IN F&SF.
March is here (although you wouldn't know that from looking out my window, where our nth winter storm is in full swing), and for me, that means the March/April 2010 of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is out. It contains my new story "Amor Fugit." You can read reviews of it in here, on SFRevu, and here, on The Internet Review of Science Fiction. Lois Tilson has some interesting things to say about electronic vs. print format and the publishing industry in general in the second article. I'm sick today, and the Tylenol PM is kicking in, so that's all for now.
"BAD MATTER" ON THE LOCUS BALLOT!
Welcome to another edition of Shameless Self-Promotion! (Sorry, I've been reading Octavian Nothing and it's starting to affect my brain.) My short story "Bad Matter" is on the ballot for the 2009 Locus Awards, and on their 2009 recommended reading list. You can cast your vote here for a wide range of categories, including Best Science Fiction and Best Fantasy Novel, Best Young Adult Novel, and Best Short Story, where you can find my story listed. You don't have a be a Locus subscriber to vote, and you can choose your top five picks in each category. If you liked "Bad Matter," I would appreciate it so much if you went over to the Locus web site and voted for my story.
Winter has been pretty eventful so far. I recently found out my next short story, "Amor Fugit" is going to appear in the March/April edition of Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. (I've added a "Bibliography" box to the left for anyone who wants updates on my writing.) Also, my friend Nathan Ballingrud has a short story he co-wrote with Dale Bailey appearing in this year's The Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow. You can also find the same story in Lovecraft Unbound, an H.P. Lovecraft-inspired anthology that came out earlier this year.
This came up to my knees. My knees!
Then, on the morning of New Year's Eve, someone going 45 miles per hour rear-ended my car at a stoplight. I was (miraculously) unhurt for the most part, except for some minor injuries we expect to go away with physical therapy. My car was totaled, though, so I've spent the last few weeks scrambling for a new used car instead of entertaining you here. Now I've secured a new used car. Let the entertainment commence!
I'd feel bad for it if he had caught it outside, but I don't want this in my house. Go, cats!
I'm a little concerned Pyewackett might be teaching Loki to read, though.
Literate cats are as much trouble as cats with opposable thumbs. They've made me promise to post my favorite books of the year next, under pain of a mousecatching strike.
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Today at 3:30 in the morning, I was poking around the internet (read: not writing a paper for library school), and I came across an early review by Karen L. Newman of Tangent magazine for the December/January issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in which my story, "Bad Matter" appears. The review, here, includes a short synopsis of each piece in the issue, including mine. Ack! Suddenly, the idea that people other than my immediate family and friends are going to be commenting on my work is very real. I'm happy with Newman's response to my story (Among other things, she says, "This story stands out, not just for the strong writing, but that it lacks a hopefulnes common in a lot of science fiction." Hooray!), and the company I'm in. I mean, the issue's cover has a flaming hellscape on it. How can you go wrong?
It tasted pretty good, too, and it looks like I managed not to give either of us any intestinal parasites! Always a plus. .
In other news, my (not so) little sister and brother were in town for a Decemberists concert at the late last month. We had a great time, although the sound was a little off during the first part of the show. Jeremy and I had traveled to Raleigh at the beginning of the summer to catch one of their earlier shows in the current tour, and were completely blown away. The band played all the way through "The Hazards of Love" their current album/"folk opera," and then came back for a second set. I've spent a lot of breath gushing about the Decemberists in past posts, so I won't make you suffer through more of it now. But I will post these photos.
Colin Meloy, in full rock god mode.
Also, I grew this pumpkin. In my garden. Not on my person.
Last, Loki the rescue cat would like to remind you that he is adorable and he owns the ottoman. Actually, both the cats are pretty damn adorable. And if you've seen me with cat hair all over my clothes, now you know why.
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Through a relationship with Papatoetoe High School's Sports Coordinator, HERA engaged with a group of girls at the school who expressed an interest in dance following engagement in an initial physical activity session. Sources Of Unconditional Love (SOUL) offered to support the girls and welcomed them to be a part of the SOUL squad programme. This offers girls an opportunity to create dance performances that are performed at the 'Voice of our SOUL' event, which was open to the public to enjoy.
Download and read of the challenges and successes of this programme had below.


If you've ever been stranded with a flat tire on a dark lonely road miles away from the nearest gas station you will understand just how good it is to have the Raniaco 12V Portable Auto Air Compressor in your car. Not only for yourself, but this also makes a great gift for anyone you care about, especially a good gift for someone that just got their driver's license.
This portable air compressor plugs into your vehicle's cigarette lighter, and the cord is plenty long enough to reach your back tires. There is an air gauge to let you know just how much air pressure is in your tire, and one of the best features in my opinion in the built in LED light so you can see what you're working on no matter how dark of an area you are in, a dark garage, a dark roadside.
This air compressor also comes with a few different adapters so that you can fill basketballs, footballs, volley balls, etc. You're not just limited to airing up your tires. This is such a handy tool to have with you in your vehicle at all times.


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Find betting tips and Scottish Premier League predictions for all of Livingston's fixtures in the league this season below.
Livingston vs Hearts – Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
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Kilmarnock vs Livingston – Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
Livingston vs Celtic – Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
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Livingston vs Ross County – Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
St. Mirren vs Livingston – Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
Livingston vs Kilmarnock – Prediction, Betting Tips & Odds
Livingston Football Club is a professional Scottish football club based in the town of Livingston. The club currently competes in the Scottish Premiership, which is the top tier of the Scottish football pyramid.
Livingston currently plays their home matches at the Toni Macaroni Arena, which has been the club's home since 1995. Also known as the Almondvale Stadium, the ground has a maximum capacity of 9,512 and is one of a number of grounds in Scotland that uses an artificial pitch.
Livingston Honours
Livingston have won plenty of honours over the years, with the highlight of their time to date coming when they won the 2003/04 Scottish League Cup. Having beaten both Dundee United and Aberdeen en route to the final, they then went on to defeat Hibernian 2-0 at Hampden Park, just weeks after the club's players found out the club would be entering administration. Livingston have also won the Scottish Challenge Cup, which came in the following season in 2014/15 as they beat Alloa Athletic 4-0, as well as the 1973/74 Scottish Qualifying Cup.
When it comes to league titles, the highest honour Livingston have won is the second tier that they won in the 2000/01 campaign. They have won the third tier of Scottish football four times too, first winning it in 1986/87 before winning it again in 1998/99. The Lions won it for the third time in 2010/11 by a stunning 23-point margin, before their most recent third tier title in 2016/17. In addition, they have two fourth tier titles to their name, coming in the 1995/96 and 2009/10 seasons.
Livingston History
Livingston Football Club was founded in 1943, initially being known as Ferranti Thistile, which was the club's name until 1974. At this stage they changed their name to Meadowbank Thistle after being voted into the Scottish Football League. They stuck with this name until 1995, when the club were forced to move to the town of Livingston due to financial difficulties, resulting in their current day name being chosen.
Livingston enjoyed success early on in their history, winning the fourth tier title at the first time of asking in the 1995/96 season. The Lions went on to win the third tier title in their third season at that level, before then winning promotion to the top flight as champions of the second tier within two seasons. In total, the club went from the fourth tier to the top tier within six seasons, being promoted as league champions on each occasion and even finished in third place behind only Celtic and Rangers in their first season in the top flight in 2001/02, qualifying for the following year's UEFA Cup in the process.
Their rise through the leagues peaked in the 2003/04 season when they won the Scottish League Cup for the first time in the club's history, while they also reached the Scottish Cup semi-finals in the same campaign. However, their rise to the top proved to be short-lived as they once again encountered financial difficulties, leading to their relegation at the end of the 2005/06 season. The club's issues at that time led to six players leaving the club with immediate effect the week before their League Cup final.


In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week's featured author is Robyn C. Spencer. Spencer is Associate Professor of History at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her book is The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland.
Robyn Spencer:The Sixties were a time of radical audacity when activists reimagined hierarchies and boundaries of all kinds and built organizations aimed at changing the world. It was also a time of radical re-education. People hungered for books and debated the ideas of global freedom fighters in the university of the streets. That unruliness and discipline are needed today to fight back against the fascism and warmongering threatening to swallow us all.
The Revolution Has Come reinforces the centrality of the Black radical political tradition and the day to day sacrifices made by ordinary men and women which made organizations like the Black Panther Party possible. Founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the Black Panthers would grow to be one of the leading organizations of the Black Power movement. A close-up look at the evolution of the Oakland Panthers' strategies and tactics can assist todays activists in the process of organizational building. While it may seem like there is a blizzard of issues and concerns to address today in the context of the retrenchment of the Trump administration, the Panthers' history demonstrates the myriad ways the organization took aim at deeply rooted structural inequality and built broad alliances with radical whites and other people of color in the process. The Panthers spoke out about the ravages of capitalism and aligned themselves with anti-imperialist and anti-colonial forces from Vietnam to South Africa to Palestine. Women were at the forefront of these efforts in the 1960s, just as they are at the forefront of the movements today. The Revolution Has Comeis the antidote to feeling atomized or powerless and reminds readers of the beautiful power of collective action.
The Revolution Has Come holds up a mirror to the Panthers' inner organizational life and demystifies the meaning of membership. Readers learn that the BPP had rules and structure and that they blended political education with social service, art, music, radical journalism, electoral politics and community control in the attempt to gain more freedom for marginalized groups. They see the ideology of the organization shifting and changing over time in response to the material conditions being faced. And they learn about the unrelenting and multifaceted campaign of repression against the BPP and how they dealt with the onslaught. I hope that the lessons drawn from the Panthers' history inspires people to join organizations aimed at structural transformation, recommit to radical political education and the serious study of ideas, and engage in more face to face organizing—all the while remaining vigilant against state political repression.
I wanted to dismantle the Great Man theory of history. Few will claim adherence to this school of thought, but it is alive and well in the study of the history of the Black freedom movement where men's stories are all too often positioned as universal. In telling the story of women and men working together in tension and tandem to build a revolutionary vehicle for social change, I wanted to provide an alternative narrative. Women joined the Black Panther Party in numbers that sometimes surpassed men. They pushed the organization to accommodate their identities as mothers, fought against sexism and misogyny in the ranks of the organization and played key roles in the organization's newspaper, community programs and PE structures. Kathleen Cleaver played a major role as Panther spokesperson and architect of the Free Huey campaign. Phyllis Jackson was a key organizer of the Panthers' electoral strategy. Connie Matthews' transnational activism helped to solidify the Panthers support base in Europe. I hope that readers will relish the many ways that Panther women contributed the history of Black Power and increasingly interrogate male-dominated stories of the past, understanding that often women are hidden in plain sight.
As an undergraduate history major at SUNY Binghamton I was lucky enough to be exposed early in my career to the brilliant work of Dr. Elsa Barkley Brown and Dr. Carole Boyce Davies. Dr. Barkley Brown's methodological approach to history has provided a framework for understanding African American political culture. Her essays in Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women were foundational reads that gave me permission to go beyond my training to my real-world experiences in Black communities in conceptualizing my area of study. Dr. Barkley Brown gave me the kitchen table as a theoretical space of radical possibility. Dr. Boyce Davies gave me Black literature. It was in her class that the world of Black novelists, essayists and poets opened to me. My work has been informed by the literary frameworks that I gathered from thinkers like June Jordan, Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison. In addition, Dr. Davies' work on Claudia Jones has been a model of how to understand Black women as thinkers.
I read everything Robin D.G. Kelley writes because of his deep engagement with contemporary politics and his commitment to excavating the stories of Black grassroots political actors, especially the Black left. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Charles Payne had a pivotal impact on my thinking. I hoped to bring to life the history of the Black Panthers in a way that was humanizing and respectful, yet rigorously critical as he did in his seminal book. I am inspired by too many political activists to name. Black labor radical General Baker, radical democrat Ella Baker and communist feminist Angela Davis are especially close to my heart.
The women and men who joined the Black Panther Party did more than imagine new worlds—they tried to build them. Audaciously, they called out the police brutality and state violence that plagued Black communities and renamed their oppressors as pigs. They adapted to political exigencies—toggling between third party politics to an alliance with the Democratic party. When they needed to broaden their base they pursued coalition politics and embraced spirituality. Boldly, they collectivized childcare. They didn't just try to change the world, they tried to change themselves. Despite a vicious campaign of repression and devastating political schisms, they maintained the power to name the forces arrayed against them and the right to struggle. They dared to dream of freedom and embrace joy. They were armed with more than their weapons and with more than their imaginations. They were armored by the history of the long Black freedom struggle. Obscuring the broad strokes and granular details of this organizing tradition is part and parcel of the misesducation endemic in US public schools. By writing the history of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, I hope to have expanded the sense of political possibility and unearthed a blueprint of organizing that deserves serious interrogation.
Roberto Sirvent is Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, CA. He also serves as the Outreach and Mentoring Coordinator for the Political Theology Network. He's currently writing a book with fellow BAR contributor Danny Haiphong called American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Fake News of Wall Street, White Supremacy, and the U.S. War Machine.


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Q: Slow face detection Firebase MLKit Started playing around with MLKit face detectors with the front-facing camera, but it's really slow on processing faces
func captureOutput(_ output: AVCaptureOutput, didOutput sampleBuffer: CMSampleBuffer, from connection: AVCaptureConnection) {

    print("Picture at ", Date())

    let visionImage = VisionImage(buffer: sampleBuffer)
    visionImage.metadata = metadata

    faceDetector?.detect(in: visionImage) { (faces, error) in
        guard error == nil, let faces = faces, !faces.isEmpty else {
            // Error. You should also check the console for error messages.
            let errorString = error?.localizedDescription
            print("Face detection failed with error: \(errorString)")
            return
        }

  }

Where am i going wrong?

A: There are a few things you can try to speed up the detection:

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*Build your app in the release mode (optimized), as opposed to the debug mode.

*When creating your faceDetector, please make sure to use a VisionFaceDetectorOptions and set its isTrackingEnabled to true.

*When setting up your AVCaptureVideoDataOutput, please add the following key-value pair to its videoSettings:
key: kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey
value: kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA

A: In My Case I was not following the proper Guidelines which are:
If you want to use face detection in a real-time application, follow these guidelines to achieve the best framerates:
Configure the face detector to use either face contour detection or classification and landmark detection, but not both:
You shoud do for better frame rates

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*Contour detection

*Landmark detection

*Classification

*Landmark detection and classification

You shouldn't use these
Contour detection and landmark detection
Contour detection and classification
Contour detection, landmark detection, and classification
Find all the guidelines here:
https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/vision/face-detection/android

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Goran Bregović is a Bosnian musician. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. Bregović has composed. Since then all my life and all my music have been marked by the wealth of these Goran Bregovic's musical adventures began in the sixties at a music school in . Find Goran Bregovic discography, albums and singles on AllMusic. the '70s and '80s, writes film scores, and makes stylized solo music steeped in Balkan folk .
The BBC artist page for Goran Bregović. Find the best clips, watch programmes, catch up on the news, and read the latest Goran Bregović interviews. 8 Mar Twenty-five years ago, Goran Bregovic was a philosophy graduate. Bregovic was already a devotee of Balkan Gypsy brass music – "we used. Balkan folk music stylist and film composer Goran Bregovic was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia on March 22, , beginning his music career in as bassist.
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Q: Drawing polyline in realtime I'm fairly new to ios and I would like to know what would be the best approach to draw polyline on google map while user is on the move. So it would only show the path the user has traveled. I'm thinking about using current location as the destination and redraw the polyline as user moves.
EDIT : I'm not even sure if google map is the way to go for this particular scenario since this app is free and there will be fee for API call over 2500 times/day. Is it better to go with Apple Map?

A: Following these guidelines:
You need to create a GMSMutablePath and add the current user location. As the user moves you add more coordinates to the GMSMutablePath.
When you need to draw the line just instantiate a new GMSPolyline object and set the map property of the GMSPolyline removing the previously drawn polyline setting it's map property to nil.


Listen to James Russell's reviews on Jesse Mulligan's show on Radia NZ of Bastion Point - 507 days at Takaparawha, by Tania Roxborogh; The Severed Land by Maurice Gee; The Singing Dolphin (Te Aihe i Waiata) by Mere Whaanga and Nee Naw by Dean Yipadee and Paul Beavis.
James reviews Kiwi books for kids!
Have a listen - James reviews these books on Jesse Mulligan's show on Radio NZ.
The Dragon Defenders goes to press!
It took just two weeks to write, then months to re-write, edit, proof-read, illustrate, animate (more to come on that - stay tuned!) and design.
I'm proud to say that my first children's novel The Dragon Defenders (7-12-year-old readers as a rough guide) is finished. It picks up the story three years on from The Dragon Riders – the final book in the Dragon Brothers Trilogy.
Flynn and Paddy are now 10 and 12 years old, and have grown up to become miniature Bear Grylls characters. Except they don't have a telly, so they haven't a clue who Bear Grylls is!
It's super-exciting, fast-paced and dangerous! And, best of all, it's the first of a series of novels to come.
The Dragon Defenders will be on the shelves around March/April 2017, and I'm going to do a nationwide tour when it launches. If you'd like to know when it will be out, click here, then add your name and email in the contact form and we'll be in touch.
If you think your school might like to have a visit from me for next year's book tour, sign up the same way and leave me a message.
Hard at work editing The Dragon Defenders!
Radio NZ interview with Jesse Mulligan!
Thanks Jesse Mulligan for a cool interview!
The Dragon Brothers books now have augmented reality - just download the free app AR Reads!
The Dragon Brothers Trilogy has gone digital in a spectacular way.
The much-loved maps on the end papers of each book now have augmented reality content. Rather than us trying to explain it, take a look at the video below. If you're keen to try it out, download 'AR Reads' from the App Store or Google Play (it's free) and try it out for yourself!
PLEASE NOTE: The app Peekavu used to host this content. Now that has changed - please download the app AR Reads - available on the App Store or on Google Play.


Vancouver is one of the lovely urban areas on the planet. The way of life and the environment make the personal satisfaction truly attractive. Be that as it may, the majority of this magnificence comes at a cost. Vancouver isn't the least expensive city to live in and buying your first home takes a great deal of arranging. Here are a few elements to consider before purchasing your first property.
First-time purchasers regularly wrongly look at cost and area as it were. They totally disregard where potential properties are found and how this can influence the property estimations of their homes. The absolute least expensive spots to live are Main Street and Hastings, Chinatown, and the East Side of Downtown. In spite of the fact that obtaining a home in these territories will be modest, you likewise need to fight with wrongdoing and wellbeing issues. Try not to consider cost alone when searching for your first property.
On the contrary end of the range are the higher end territories of Vancouver. Kitsilano, Yaletown, and the West Side of Vancouver offer wellbeing and extravagance in plenitude. Tragically, they additionally offer high property charges, cosmic strata expenses, and a general greater expense of living. Over having the capacity to bear the cost of a progressively costly home, you must have the capacity to manage the cost of the majority of the additional expenses encompassing it.
Not all areas in Vancouver are either higher end or wrongdoing swarmed territories. There are places where an upbeat medium can be come to. For instance, Marpole and South Granville offer unobtrusively estimated homes in moderately safe territories. Familiarize yourself with these areas and choose which ones you can manage the cost of and would need to live in.
The spectacular thing about the Lower Mainland is that the encompassing urban areas offer great things also. For instance, Burnaby is appropriate beside Vancouver and it offers security and sensibly valued properties. New Westminster is a center point for hip and youthful families that are simply beginning. Investigate suburbia for incredible properties, great neighborhoods, and sensible costs.
Obtaining your first home ought to be a standout amongst the most energizing occasions throughout your life. You must know about lodging costs and property estimation before you settle on any ultimate choices. When investigating the Vancouver advertise, it is essential to know which neighborhoods offer precisely what you are searching for. This will guarantee that your first buy is an insightful and monetarily stable one.


The little saga of the sewing room clean-up continues…….
I finished the job! Good news: I found my sewing scissors and even my embroidery scissors that I use for applique.
I found them on the cutting table under all of the pieces of fabric, trim, and unfinished applique squares that I am eventually going to use in a pretty patchwork shower curtain.
The problem with my sewing area is that not only do I sew there, I use the tables for shipping and photography so they tend, over time, to collect odds and ends. Are you like me and tend to clutter stuff? De-cluttering your work area is also a great way to free your mind of clutter, too. It also relieve some stress, believe it or not.
Here are pictures of how the room looks now.
So, now I can think……. Think of what to do next. Do I finish the little projects I have started or do I want to begin anew? I think I will just toss my experiments (otherwise known as started projects) and start again. Of course, this doesn't work with a major project you might have been working on and off for years. I have a quilt that I have been trying to complete for many years…..I will keep that and continue it but the others will go.
Now that you can think of a new project, here's a place for ideas and kits – this one is a good one for step by step: Tara Rebman- Quilt-As-You-Go: Patchwork Bags. Craftsy is a great place to find a lot of ideas.
Now I have one less "worry" and can enjoy the beautiful prairie that I see when I look out the window.


i hate posting mesages like this! makes ones vanity rise up!! But, i'm a christian. i have good moral priciples, good person, generous and blah blah.
wow..... beauty comes in many faces and shapes and personalities. but the most important is a passion for God and his Word. the rest.... well... lets just say, besides the above criteria, a faithful, loving, affectionate, momogamus, trusting partner! simple as that!
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Fishing Guide Directory
BC Fishn
Showcasing Fisheries from BC and the Pacific Northwest
SHOWCASING FISHERIES FROM
BC AND THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Salmon & Steelhead
Walleye, Perch & Pike
Youth Fishn
GETFSHN with Sonny
FLY FISHN
ICE FISHN
The people who brings you their adventures, tips, and other useful fishing information for the BC Fishn site:
The BC Fishn Pro Staff Team & Regular Authors
Danny Coyne
Danny has been an avid Angler since his early child hood. Danny grew up in a small quaint community in the Similkameen Valley of Princeton BC. His family's farm is nestled against the Similkameen River. This is where Danny and his older brother Spencer adopted the passion for fishing
Danny is a Pro Staff Angler for premium fishing companies brands such as Mack's Lure and King Fisher Boats. Danny is also a freelance outdoor writer and has written many articles for publications such as Western Woods & Water Magazine. You can find Danny traveling throughout the province conducting angling seminars on a variety of different fishing methods.
Danny is very active within multiple fish and wildlife conservation groups within the BC community. He loves to share his love and passion for fishing with others. Sharing his discoveries, adventures and tips on the water with fellow Anglers is just as equal of a passion of his as fishing. Danny encourages all Anglers to share the sport of fishing with the younger generation so they too can have those special moments in life fishing with their fathers, brothers and all loved ones.
Born in Texas, Seth's first fishing memories are of bass, catfish and panfish with a cane pole. In 1989 Seth moved to Princeton B.C. where he began his fly fishing obsession. Starting on little 20 mile creek and moving on to the Similikameen and Tulameen rivers. When Seth got a car and could go other places he fished the area lakes in his bellyboat. From Princeton he moved all over the province chasing money and chrome on the fly.
Seth now resides in Quesnel B.C. With his wife Candice and kids Hailey and Savannah. He gets out on the many cariboo lakes regularly. Living close to a few really good little lakes helps him get out lots. He also takes trips north for steelhead and salmon when ever he can. He logs for a local company and dreams of fishing all the time.
Matt Benson
Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Matt Benson has been fishing and hunting all his life. His love of the outdoors began at his family's cottage on a lake trout lake and today, much of Matt's time and energy has been focused on bass fishing. While living in Alberta, Matt would travel 8 to 14 hours to fish at a number of BASS and TBF [The Bass Federation] tournaments in Montana. His dedication and skill landed him a spot on the Montana State team a few times which allowed him to fish bass all over the Western US and down into Branson Missouri, for the TBF national championships in 2012. Matt is also a Cabela's Pro Staff Angler and conducts angling seminars throughout the province.
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson has been fishing since the age of 6. He was introduced to fly fishing by the age of 7 and never looked back. He was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario and has fished many of Canada's Great Lakes. He has traveled throughout Canada and fished in almost every Canadian province. Andrew has had the opportunity to guide throughout the Alberta Rocky Mountains and has gained a lot of experience over the past 10 years guiding high profile clients.
He enjoys teaching new anglers the sport of fly fishing and loves every aspect of the sport. He's finds a thrill not knowing what around the next bend. He's a certified fly casting instructor, a self taught fly tier, and enjoys every opportunity he gets to hit up a river weather it be with his fiancé or alone. He has also written articles for magazines in the sport of fly fishing, has been featured in many news paper articles, and has created many events for volunteer work for river clean ups, kids can catch programs, and also been featured on radio for his great accomplishments in the fishing industry and in his community. He now resides in British Columbia and is looking forward to expanding his knowledge and hoping make a great impact in the conservation part of the sport and make a difference that is noticed. Andrew is also looking forward to landing his very first Steelhead in the near future.
Guest Contributors & Authors to BC Fishn
Greg Montreuil
Greg Montreuil was born and raised in a small town in Northern Ontario called Iroquois Falls. Greg has been fishing since he was a young chap. He remembers catching his first fish; barbotte onRiceLake! Greg is an enthusiast outdoorsman and loves fishing for Pickerel and Pike.
In 2010, Greg moved out to Vancouver Island(Ucluelet) and never looked back! Greg quickly discovered that the fishing that Ucluelet is any anglers dream! From Ocean fishing to driving his Jeep in the back country to find a fishing hotspot was a whole new thrill.
In 2012, Greg was transferred with work and now resides in Cranbrook BC, another hot bed for fishing! Greg fishes almost every weekend and like any other angler, he enjoys the variety and challenges of new lakes and rivers.
"FISH ON"
Sonny Covin
Sonny Covin has been salmon guiding since the mid 1970's while in Campbell River, British Columbia when he wasn't flying water bombers for the Flying Fireman, in Sydney BC.
During his time fishing in British Columbia Sonny guided in the Tahsis area as well as in the Bamfield waters going up to 26 miles off shore with his 17 foot Boston Whaler in the shipping lanes to catch some of BC's spring salmon, ling cod and big halibut.
In the last six years, he has been fishing the Prince Rupert waters in his 24 foot aluminum cabin cruiser the "Sonny Buoy" from July to September and enjoying the company of Flying Fireman pilots and their families as well as his family and friends from his current town of Leduc, Alberta. When Sonny is not in Prince Rupert he likes to fish for Walleye, White Fish, Rainbow, Pike and Lake Trout around the Leduc area.
Having over thirty years of west coast fishing under his belt, Sonny Covin brings a volume of fishing experience to the team at a pro level!
Sonny has just been accepted as part of the fishing Pro Staff on the UFINDFISH Mobile App created by the Canadian Sport Fishing Show.
Drew Turner
Drew grew up in Princeton and has been fishing for about 30+ years. He mostly used spin cast and trolling rigs growing up and ventured somewhat into the world of fly fishing in his late teens. Fishing was his main hobby when growing up and can remember fishing the Similkameen River and multitude of still water lakes and streams in the area.
Drew has lived in Abbotsford, New Westminster, Maple Ridge, Castlegar and has settled down in the West Kootenay City of Nelson with his wife, 2 young daughters and dog.
During his time in the lower mainland, Drew got out of fishing for a variety of reasons but always had his fishing rod in his car in case a roadside lake or stream caught his eye. It wasn't until he moved to the West Kootenays a few years ago when his passion for fishing was re-ignited. Then in 2012, Drew took a fly tying course and got a new fly fishing setup. It was then and there that his passion turned into an obsession, as his wife would say. Although experienced in many years of fishing, fly fishing has provided Drew with a whole new challenge. Fly tying complements the fishing and there is nothing like reeling in a big one on something you have created at the bench. While primarily a fly fisher, Drew still enjoys trolling and using spinning gear too.
Drew believes that as it is important for adults to get out and enjoy the sport of fishing, it is equally if not more important to remember the little kids who want to get out with the adults. Remember it's not always about the catch, it's about the experience! Drew loves to take out his young daughters when he can.
Drew is an active member in the Nelson and District Rod and Gun Club, the West Kootenay Fly Fishing Club and of course the BCWF.
Chelsey Harasiuk
Chelsey was born in Black Diamond Alberta where she spent quite a bit of time fishing with her Dad and Grandfather. She caught mainly mountain whitefish and pike within her earlier angling days. She met her husband in Calgary and then moved to Cranbrook which happened to be her husband's hometown and to her surprise it was a fishing mecca! Her husband supports her passion 100% and she has him to thank for showing her all the "sweet spots". Chelsey is a very strong believer in catch and release and practices it often. She fishes every chance she gets but to her the outdoors has much more to offer such as hiking, camping, and mountain biking of which she enjoys as well. Chelsey loves being a female angler and she has a tendency to out fish most of her fellow men anglers whether it is her fishing buddy or just a stranger on the opposite side of the river. Chelsey would like to see more ladies out there fishing because they are definitely missing out!
Justin Paterson
Justin grew up fishing and guiding the storied trout waters of Southeastern BC near his hometown of Kimberley, BC. Starting out as the shop kid for the St. Mary Angler at 15, Justin started guiding at 18 and spent the following 8 years as a guide, fishing extensively on the St. Mary, Elk, and Bull Rivers, while also spending time on the Skookumchuk, Wigwam, and the various other tributary streams in that area.
Over the past few years Justin has begun to broaden his fishing horizons, and has fished in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana, as well as elsewhere in BC, for a myriad of species (including sturgeon, pike, steelhead, brown trout, bass, etc.)
Upon the completion of his Bachelor of Mgmt. degree from UBC-Okanagan, Justin took a position with Skeena Meadows Wildlife Preserve, a recreational property on the Skeena River, near New Hazelton, BC. Justin continues to build his skills as both an angler and caster (having recently taken up spey casting), and is working towards achieving his FFF casting certification.
Justin has always enjoyed sharing his passion for angling (specifically fly-fishing) with others and for many years his work as a guide fulfilled that desire. As he has phased out guiding, Justin has increasingly turned to introducing friends and family members to fly-fishing and has enjoyed spending more time fishing himself. Justin believes in attracting new anglers to the sport and so that they too can become advocates of long term sustainability of our lakes, rivers and fish!
Raymond Blake
Raymond Blake was very lucky to be born and raised in Jasper Alberta, he then moved to Kelowna 10 years ago. Ray started fishing at an early age and fly fishing by the time he was 14. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains and Jasper area Ray mainly fished for Rainbow, Brook and Bull Trout, Mountain White Fish and Northern Pike. Some of Ray's best memories as a young angler were hiking into lakes that were surrounded by Rocky Mountains with his belly boat strapped to his back. Once he was old enough to drive he started to explore other fisheries located near Edmonton and Calgary, especially the Forestry Truck Road area which is one of the best fishing destinations that Ray has ever experienced! Now living in Kelowna Ray mainly fly fish's rivers and small lakes with his Pontoon Boat.
Ray has a "reel" passion for the Salmonidae fish family. His fascination with these fish leads to his desire to learn as much about them as possible; including obtaining any books he can get his hands on!
Ray is very open when it comes to angling and is never shy to share information with other anglers. He has always been a catch & release angler, however doesn't shun people for taking fish home for dinner. Ray participates in each style of angling from spin and bait casting gear fishing to fly fishing. Fly Fishing is by far his preferred method as he is always on the pursuit of trying to make every cast the perfect loop!
Ray's first rule of angling is to respect the fish and to handle them with the care they deserve. He hopes to share and tell many fishing stories as well as provide information to fellow anglers so we can all have a great day out on the water!
Sam Van Kampen
Sam van Kampen was born and raised in Cranbrook BC. He started fishing at a young age at the many lakes, rivers and creeks in the east Kootenays. During this time he had the opportunity to catch mostly trout and some bass. In 1996 just after graduation Sam moved to Calgary Ab. While there he continued to fish occasionally and was able to catch some other species of fish. In 2004 Sam moved to Kelowna BC and fished rarely until 2012. At this time Sam tried fly fishing with some success but continued to spin cast most of the time. More recently Sam has enjoyed more successful days and improvement with his fly fishing technique . This can be attributed to fishing more often and added knowledge from his friend and fellow fisherman Raymond Blake. He still prefers spin casting but is hoping that improvement in his fly fishing technique will increase his love for fly fishing. In 2013 he also started to tie his own flies and enjoys catching fish with a flies that he has tied. Sam is looking forward to the future and expanding knowledge of fishing, fish in general and increasing his love for the sport.
Anthony Reid
Anthony was born in Vancouver and moved to Nanaimo at the age of 5 where he still currently lives with his fiancé and three daughters. They are a very active family when it comes to the outdoors. Camping, fishing, and taking advantage of what Vancouver Island has to offer. Anthony grew up fishing for salmon, bottom fish, crab, prawns and basically anything that could be retained and eaten with his dad since he was a kid. This is something he wants his kids to experience as well. He decided to take up kayak fishing a few years ago when a friend of his asked if he wanted to borrow his extra yak, head to a local lake and troll for trout with their fly rods. That trip was the beginning of a whole new aspect of fishing for Anthony. It wasn't long after that he had purchased one second hand and started to make it his own. Being an avid fisherman in the first place, this quickly became Anthony's favorite way to spend time on the water. He has covered numerous bodies of water whether it is salt or fresh and has chased every type of fish the region retains. He loves the look on peoples' face when they see him out in a kayak chasing the same thing they are in a fully rigged sea going boat. With the assistance of Alberni Outpost, Scotty Paddlesports, TheFishWhisperer.ca and Johnson Outdoors (adventureonthewater.com), Anthony is spreading the word about how fun kayak fishing in the Pacific NW really is and he is looking forward to offering any info to anyone that might be interested 🙂
Nelson Jatel
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VR, AR, and Giant Touchscreens: Myntra's Vision for Offline Stores Goes Live in Bengaluru
By Gopal Sathe | Updated: 17 March 2017 15:34 IST
Myntra's Roadster brand now has an offline store in Bengaluru
The store uses VR, AR, and giant touch screens to stand out
The idea behind the store is to drive brand engagement, not sales
In Bengaluru's Indiranagar neighbourhood, online fashion retailer and brand Myntra has taken its first steps into brick and mortar. On Friday, the company launched a store for its private label Roadster, as it tries to improve the visibility of the brand. Roadster, which is near Rs. 600 crore in sales through online stores Myntra and Jabong, is the company's most successful brand, explains Ananth Narayanan, CEO of Myntra and Jabong. He adds that the new store will serve as an "experience zone" for Roadster.
"The goal is not to drive sales - we already have that - but to engage with the customer and as you'd expect from us, we're using a lot of technology to do just that," says Narayanan. "We've got a VR zone, multitouch screens, full-screen displays that mimic the Myntra app, and selfie zones."
Myntra has 14 labels together account for 21 percent of its revenue, with Roadster alone contributing 8 percent. Narayanan says that the goal is to build these private labels as actual brands, including having them sold in other offline stores, and to build that kind of brand presence, having an offline location to connect with customers is important. Depending on how this store launch plays out, Myntra would explore more offline stores, he adds, for its other brands such as All About You.
"With the store we really wanted to showcase what the Roadster life means," adds Gunjan Soni, the CMO and Head, International Brands Business at Myntra. "Otherwise there would be no point to VR. It makes you feel like you're right there with the ethos of the brand, but it doesn't directly sell. That's a big difference between us and an offline brand - for them, the primary focus of the store is about selling."
When you walk into the store, it looks fairly normal at first. There is no pick and go technology and it looks like any other apparel store. But the large Roadster posters on the walls have headphones connected to them, and shop staff will point out that the whole thing is actually a touchscreen. With a tap, you're browsing through Myntra's online catalogue, and if you find something you like, you'll be asked to enter your phone number, and you receive a link to that item, which will open on the Myntra app. This can be used to buy items that aren't in-stock inside the store.
"We have around 31 screens in the store, along with the big LED display on the front facing the street," says Narayanan. "Someone joked yesterday that it could be a Samsung showroom."
The store also has people armed with iPads who can help you to find items, or take care of the payments with a mobile PoS, doing away with the traditional bill counter.
Although there's no bill counter, at the back of the store there is a large desk with a giant touchscreen embedded in it. On either side there's a tray with hockey-puck sized discs, with different pictures of things such as products, and places that the brand believes typical customers will visit. Pick these discs up and you'll see a QR code like design on the other side. Place this on the screen, and it loads videos and other content related to that puck. This could be a quiz about the place, tips on what to wear there, or a video on how, say, Roadster makes its jeans.
You can move the puck around and the video moves on the screen as well, or you can interact with the content directly with taps and swipes. It's a little confusing, but Manohar Kamath, Head, Myntra Fashion Brands says that employees will be at hand to guide anyone who is having trouble. Kamath says that this kind of interactive content will be appealing to the young customers who buy Roadster products.
Nearby is the VR zone, where Myntra has rigged up four Samsung Gear VR headsets that you can slip on to watch a 360-degree video showcasing the "Roadster life". You're able to look around the video while a band plays on the road, airplanes rush overhead, bikers zoom past, and so on. It's a nice touch, certainly, but seems like one of the less impressive uses of technology in the store.
Narayanan however says that we should also remember that the technology can and will be upgraded. "This is not a static store," he says.
Kamath takes us through the rest of the store, and shows us an interesting hidden feature in the Myntra app. If you tap the Myntra logo thrice, it pulls up a barcode scanner. Scan any item in the Roadster store, and you're taken to its page on the app.
"So if you're shopping alone, you don't want to try out every piece of clothing, so how can you tell what it will look like on a person, right?" says Kamath. "So by doing this, you can see the model photo on the site and get an idea of what it looks like when it's worn, to help decide what to try."
At the same time, the touchscreens everywhere could be used to buy an item that's not in-stock in-store in your size, he adds, taking us upstairs to the second store of the shop. Here, there's a large green-screen to one side, and Kamath tells us that you can use this to take a selfie when you're trying new looks.
"You can change the background, make a short video clip of you walking the ramp or pose next to the Sphinx," he says. "Our Roadster customers are typically young - or young of heart - so this is a fun thing for them."
There's a large touchscreen on one side, which you use to set up the shoot - you're then given a preview on the screen, showing you and the background you're standing against, so you can move around, and once the timer goes off it records you.
Once that's done, you can enter your email ID to get a link to the video and photos, which can also be shared with friends. "So you could try out something and then instead of just taking a selfie at a bad angle, you can do this, and then send it to your friends who can tell you if it looks good or not," says Kamath. "And after ten minutes, the video gets played on the big-screen LED on the front of the store too, to make you feel like a star."
In the past, many other online companies have also tried to take the offline route, typically for less tech-savvy users. In the US, Amazon is trying to make a model where technology changes the way you shop. To a degree, Myntra seems to be trying this as well, but as of now at least, much of the technology being deployed is just another way of packaging brand videos and other marketing materials. Still, the Roadster store has only just opened, and Narayanan promises that it - and other stores - will continue to evolve, so there's still a chance that it will not just build on the brand, but also improve the experience of buying things.
Further reading: Myntra, Roadster, Online to offline, Multichannel, Offline stores, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
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The Fall of Julia Gillard
I often wish British politics could be as exciting as events I hear about in other democracies around the world. Today began with the surprising announcement that former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (2007-2010; he led Labor to victory after 11 years of Liberal-National rule) was to challenge current Prime Minister Julia Gillard as leader of the Labor Party. There have been challenges in the past which Rudd lost, but this particular challenge bears resemblance to events in 2010 where Gillard outmaneuvered Rudd and took his position as Labor leader, ultimately winning the election.
By 57 votes to 45, Rudd won the leadership vote and has become the new leader of the Labor party. This doesn't mean he is now the Prime Minister – Gillard still has to submit her resignation to the Governor-General before this could happen, and with an election due to be held possibly as early as August Rudd certainly wouldn't have much time in power. This result certainly does spell the end of Julia Gillard's political career, however. She announced that she will not seek re-election later this year and is set to retire from politics. At least one of my 2013 predictions have come true.
So why did this happen? This seems like an act of desperation from the Labor Party, which has been performing very poorly in opinion polls and has seemed certain to be facing defeat in the next election. I don't know a great deal about Australian politics but Gillard does seem a very unpopular figure, perhaps partly due to Australia's poor economic performance and her terrible record on immigration. Throwing migrants onto an island is a really bizarre idea. My Australian cousins have certainly spoken about her negatively various times and a quick scan of the social networks reveals far more support for Rudd than Gillard. So is this a last-ditch attempt of the Labor Party to save itself? I suspect many Labor MPs feel he has a better change of leading the party to victory or, failing that, avoiding total wipe-out – and therefore making their own seats more secure. Time will tell.
Having browsed the general policies of the main Australian political parties I think I'd probably be most inclined to support the Greens, who are currently in a formal alliance with Labor and, I'm glad to see, generally poll at around 10%. But even with Green support I don't think Labor is likely to win the election.
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Eating disorders (young people)
What are eating disorders?
What is anorexia nervosa?
What is bulimia nervosa?
What is OSFED, EDNOS, BED, ED-DMT1 and other types of eating disorders?
Myths about eating disorders
Early experiences
Early experiences with food and eating
The beginning of an eating disorder
Realising something is wrong and seeking help
Treatment and care
Getting the diagnosis
Coping with an eating disorder and self-help
Working towards recovery
Eating disorders: what happens?
Eating disorders and thought patterns
Obsessions and rituals around eating
Secrecy and eating disorders
Depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts
The body and body-image
Physical symptoms
Everyday life - challenges and support
Friends and relationships
Social life and public places
School & studying
Wish i'd known this...
Messages to health professionals about eating disorders
Messages to family and carers about eating disorders
Messages to other young people about eating disorders
Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS)
Disordered eating (no diagnosis)
ED-DMT1 (Diabulimia)
Brief Outline: Ewan experienced bingeing and purging, and later anorexia nervosa, from the age of 14. With his mum's support, and together with CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service), he has overcome the eating disordered mindset and is on way to recovery.
Background: Ewan is 18 and doing his A-levels. He lives at home with his parents. White British.
Ewan says as a child he never had many friends, he used to rely on his parents and he felt larger than most of his peers. He'd always been clever and also sporty but not too bothered about his social life. As he moved to senior school things changed; he took up rugby, made more friends and his confidence grew. However, the pressure at school and peer groups, together with what Ewan calls "teenage angst" altogether got too much and Ewan turned to food for comfort. He started binge eating and purging through excessive exercise. After a while the bingeing turned to restricting food intake and dramatic weight loss.
Ewan says he could only think about his food input and output, everything else became meaningless. He was also severely depressed and had to drop out of school. Ewan was seen at CAMHS and with their help his mum tried to implement 'the Maudsley method' at home. Although this helped him put on some weight, his underlying mindset wasn't addressed. That's when his mum, together with CAMHS, came up "contract"; a reward method of addressing eating disordered behaviours and mindset and this has made a huge difference to Ewan. Every week he is set certain challenges that he attempts to take and at the end of the week gets assessed and awarded on how he has done. Ewan has been following the contract for well over a year and things that started as challenges have gradually become less and less so. At the moment his challenges are no longer related to what or how he is eating but to do with social life and friendships, to build up his confidence. Ewan has worked with his "brilliant" CAMHS psychiatrist and he has also found help in religion which he says saved him at the worst points of his life.
Ewan is looking forward to starting university, a whole new life phase and making new friends. He has been in touch with his prospective university and they have made a support plan together to enable a smooth transition. Ewan is also keen to do volunteering, to raise awareness of eating disorders, particularly affecting men.
Ewan found comfort in religion. He has searched for God in his own way.
When I was going through my worst stage that it I had a religious experience which converted me from atheism to Christianity. 'Cos I used to be very outspoken against religion and
And I used to upset a lot of people about that. And since then it's mainly been trying pursue I don't know if you've heard it's processed thought theology which is that bad things happen in life you have to accept that, but if you, if you try and do good things then they'll have a knock on effect. It's like the Buddhist way of thinking but with God in the equation.
But good will breed more good.
And my experience as well it was sort of being an example of that.
Do you actively, do you go to church? Or do you go to meetings?
Yeah I go to my church and youth group and things and although some of some theories are controversial still they go along with me.
And is your family religious? Do you come from that background at all?
My Mum's family, my Dad's family is not religious, but my Mum's was a Methodist family that were kind of forced to be Christian. And she never was a real Christian until about the same time I changed, and that's when we both kind of being born-again so to speak, as opposed to the established church we've more branched out to searching for God in our own way.
Ewan's mum used the "contract method" with the help of the doctors. He was set weekly challenges...
And then you came up with this different method, trying this contract thing. So how, who came up with it, did your Mum come across that 'cos she did research or …?
My Mum came up, came upon it, a similar thing on this American website it was their version of Beat, I can't remember what it's called now.
And she thought she'd, she'd discuss it with my psychiatrist and we talked about it and we did try it but it didn't work at first because even though we were all, though we'd agreed to trust each other, my Mum still had quite a lot of angst over what I'd done in the past so she found it very hard to trust me. And then one evening we had an argument but this time my Dad kind of saw sense with me and realised that I could be trusted. And that, it was after then that it started to change properly.
So it required mutual trust to work? So you talked about the challenges, how did it like work just in practice?
At the end of each week my Mum would go through the week with a piece of paper and we'd put down tallies for the challenges that I'd done,
And I would be honest and tell her what I'd found challenging during that week. And it pretty much, you could tell by the honesty because otherwise I'd get to the next CAMHS session and lose weight as opposed to put on weight. And it did go up and down the weigh, but it was going up and down as opposed to down. So that's how we dealt with the trust, and my Mum finally agreed that I wasn't lying to her.
And I think as I did things as a challenge more and more they became less and less of a challenge until they didn't become a challenge at all. And it's still going on that contract. But now it's down to like very, very small things that I find challenging now. And it's mainly challenges like used to be having certain foods, but now it's more doing certain things like going out with my friends, and making an effort to go out with friends and stuff.
And what were the first challenges like?
They were hard to do but I always knew that I was getting something out of it, and it was probably going to make me better as well. And it was more an attitude of I'll give it a shot rather than I can't, I'm not doing that.
So was it mainly about eating a certain amount or certain types of foods? Was it those sort of challenges?
Yeah it was sort of, types of food where you've eaten it, how, who you've eaten it with. Cos going out for a meal was a big challenge. Some challenges were worth more like staying the full day at school would have been like 2 points as opposed to 1 point which was half a day. And no points for not going at all.
And yeah it was social things, food things and exercise related things like if I said that I had some weights today but I didn't do as many as I usually do 'cos I was actually tired then I'd get a point for being honest that I didn't do all my weights 'cos I was tired.
Ewan was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa at 17 but thinks he had EDNOS a few years before.
I was putting a lot of stress into each day having to achieve this confidence and a lot of stress to be better than my peers and stuff.
So it [school] was quite competitive?
Mm. Yeah.
And so you felt like you made a conscious effort, you know every day to you know make it happen?
Mm. And it's in foresight that I see it that, at the time I thought it was just, just life. But then I, afterwards when I realised other people weren't doing that, that it was actually a problem.
Yeah. How did you realise that, "Oh actually, not everybody's doing this?"
Well it was after my treatment and everything with a psychiatrist, yeah.
'Cos even though I've only had anorexia for about 2 years I've probably had that EDNOS you know, strange behaviour with eating probably since I was 14.
And how did that sort of first start manifesting, the strange behaviours?
It was probably when, in year 10 when I got quite depressed and trying to keep up with every day and I got fed up of it, so I sort of swung from being really high to really low. From eating loads to eating nothing. And that's when it started to kick off really and I didn't know what was a middle ground.
Ewan will move into adult services as he moves to university in a different town. He has already...
The phase between moving on from CAMHS to adult services - how is that taking place? You know is there something already changing?
Yeah there's something in place but it's more around, centred around as a safety net as opposed to a compulsory thing now. So when I'm at university and, if I'm struggling I can go there and they'll, there will be someone there to talk to me.
And how do you feel about the change?
I'm looking forward to the change in lifestyle by going to university. And having a different life and knowing different people. But I don't, am sort of feeling a bit of anticipation about the actual services because the CAMHS psychiatrist I've had has been so good so, it's going to be very hard to find someone to live up to her standard.
And do you plan to apply to the university here or somewhere else?
I have done, but it's mainly a backup choice. I'm hopefully going to do history. We've talked to University about back up support and things like that.
Really. Okay.
And they are very supportive about it.


The Emily books! I made the mistake of reading those AT THE SAME TIME as reading the Anne books the first time I read both of them. There are still bits that get confused in my mind.
LOL yes I imagine that could happen. I think my favorite thing about these books is that they sort of grew up with me, or I grew up with them. When I was little, the first book was my favorite... the second and third didn't make much impact on me. Then as a teenager, the second book was obviously the best - Emily of New Moon was cute but childish, and the third had too much angst. Now, of course, even though the first two books have a special place in my heart, I identify the most with her in Emily's Quest.
That's a series I need to reread again because I haven't read them since I was young so I totally know what you mean about those later books being angsty.
1920s* CANADIAN LOVE QUADRANGLES FTW!
They're set around one of the wars... I just can't remember which one it is. I think it's WWI so in and around the 20s. Close enough for me!


Parco Hotel is located in the Lattari Mountains, close to beaches along the Sorrentine peninsula. The hotel is situated in a strategic setting close by to the major state roads, so that you can easily reach the city centre of Naples in around 40 minutes, and take trips along the Amalfi Coast. The archaeological site of Pompeii is just 5 km away. It features a sun terrace and garden as well as parking space.
This hotel allows you to make reservations by hours and offers spacious rooms featuring a TV, air conditioning and heating systems, WiFi connection, work desk, a balcony and private bathroom with shower, hair dryer and complementary toiletries. You can enjoy a mix of regional specialities and international dishes at the hotel's restaurant.
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