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Let's Go Caps: A curator's collecting trip into Caps mania
By Jane Rogers, June 12, 2019
I'm a lifelong resident of the Washington, D.C. area and a hockey fan. So imagine my excitement (and surprise) last year when my team, the Washington Capitals, finally won a Stanley Cup championship! I was going crazy. My family was going crazy. The whole town was going crazy! Fans were celebrating in the streets until all hours of the night, welcoming the team home at the airport, and lining the streets for a massive parade to cheer on the players for "bringing home the Cup."
Washington Capitals' Stanley Cup parade, held in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2018.
I was lucky enough to attend that parade in my capacity as a curator and look for cool stuff to collect. That's right: curators collect fan paraphernalia to document the whole sports experience, and these objects can tell quite a story about the fan, the team, the sport, and what's happening in society at a particular time. The museum has been collecting fan items for years—handmade and mass-produced material, from the famous Wisconsin cheesehead hat to game-day giveaways (and those infamous bobbleheads).
The author enjoying the Caps Stanley Cup parade before venturing into the crowd to collect fan items.
So, dressed in my trusty Nicklas Bäckström jersey and armed with business cards, I walked through the crowd looking for homemade items that expressed a certain spirit and dedication to the team. I saw many objects that were either not appropriate for our collections or just too big to care for. The Stanley Cup made of beer cans was one of my favorites, but we have no place to store it (plus it smelled of stale beer, and that's not a smell I wanted to bring into the museum).
Homemade Stanley Cup made by Suzanne Tank and carried to many Caps games, from 2008 until the Caps finally won the cup in 2018.
I did find a smaller version of the cup that was handmade by Suzanne Tank and carried by her husband the day of the parade. I walked up to him and asked if I could have his Stanley Cup for the Smithsonian's sports collection. By the look on his face, he was not expecting a curator in a Caps jersey to ask him for his Stanley Cup. He took my card and said he would ask his wife, since it was really her art project. A few weeks later, Suzanne got in touch and was happy to donate the cup to the collections—along with a few photographs taken through the years at games and at the parade, providing a complete history of the cup and an insight into the Tanks' fandom. I asked Suzanne why she made a replica cup instead of just buying a foam finger. Like most fans, she said it was superstition—to visualize and then create a cup would bring luck to the team and perhaps induce a win.
Suzanne's son, Sam, with the cup at the first playoff series in 2008.
The cup at the Stanley Cup parade, June 12, 2018.
I was also able to collect a couple of cool homemade posters from Tom Blonkowski and Nicole Svajlenka that show their dedication to the Caps, their feelings about the players, and their unique game-watching traditions. The donors also offered a guide to the posters' slogans and images, providing a totally different aspect of fan art and dedication.
Homemade posters by Tom Blonkowski and Nicole Svajlenka showing a photo of Braden Holtby making "The Save," an incredible stop against the Golden Knights in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
This "Shots Vodka" poster includes a photo of Caps players and coaches the moment they became Stanley Cup champions. The "shots vodka" reference is to a commercial starring a young Alexander Ovechkin, in which the Caps player asks for "shots vodka."
Although I only came away with a couple of fan art objects, I had a blast cheering on the Caps and hanging out with a few (thousand) fans—and now those crazed fans are represented in the national collections, helping us to create a full picture of the whole sports experience, from athlete, to team, to fan!
Jane Rogers is an associate curator in the Division of Culture and the Arts.
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Durban watch out for the fashion showcase on the 6 th may for 1 day only hosted by laconcierge Events.
This is the ideal time for our exclusive clientele to meet the designers and view their collections.
Rubina Dilaik; an actress by profession and a designer by choice.
As an actress she has done two successful shows and is better known as Radhika in Choti Bahu (zee tv ) she is also popular for her role In Saas Bina Sasuraal for sony tv.
Thus her gorgeous clothing line defines uniqueness and beauty. This is the first launch of her brand worldwide.
Rubina's range specialises in Indian Ethnic wear which is the core of the Indian culture and persona. Every piece is designed to be a masterpiece.
Sunita stocks garments at Socialite Zarine Khan's store FIZAA, which has hosts of bolly stars visiting her and film actresses like Kajol, Twinkle khanna, Gauri khan and many celebrities.
Zarine khan and Suzanne khan too sport my outfits. She dresses celebs in and out of Mumbai.
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She designs a fusion of indo western women wear which is very feminine and attractive and commercially viable with hand embroidery, own created digital prints, block prints with innovative cuts.


Sewers are the summit of human civilization and taxation is the price of civilization. So we are supposed to pay sewer tax, right? No, not really. In this post I will explain how space settlements could fund a sewage and waste water treatment system without having to collect sewer charges.
The first component is what economists call fixed costs, i.e. they do not depend on the actual usage of the system. The second component is variable costs, as they are proportional to the quantity of waste water processed by the system.
A fair system of funding sewers will charge people proportional to their use of the sewage. However, in practice it is hard to measure how much waste a person or household or business contribute to the total amount of waste water. Hence many local authorities resort to charge a fix rate to their residents, which is mostly to the disadvantage of the less affluent parts of the population.
People will consume clean water and produce waste water, this is reversed in the Sewer Treatment Facility. However, one will roughly produce as much waste water as one consumes clean water. Since the price of clean water will cover the cost of producing it from waste water, there is no real need to have a separate charge for the sewer. Also billing people for the water they consume, will encourage them not to spill water they do not need.
However, clean water is not the only thing produced by the purification of sewer water. In fact sewers are rich in a wide variety of useful substances. For instance, sewage sludge is estimated to contain up to millions worth of gold and other precious metals. Though the exact amount might vary from locale to locale, reclaiming these treasures is at least something to consider.
Precious metals are, however, not only the useful resource with could be reclaimed from sewer water. Sewage sludge is rich in phosphates and nitrates, the very components of fertilizers. Recovered phosphates and nitrates could be sold to farmers to raise additional revenue. A sewage treatment plant in Germany has built to remove calcium, aluminum salts, iron and phosphates from waste water. The recovered calcium is used as a gypsum source for building materials and the iron is sold.
Given that sewers are designed and built to collect and move human excrements, it is not surprising that waste water is rich in carbon compounds – in particular methane, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Like nitrogen and phosphor, carbon is valuable as it required for growing crops and hence carbon dioxide could be sold as well to farmers.
So through the sale of clean water and recovered minerals, a space settlement should be able to raise the revenue to fund a public sewer system without having to resort to levying taxes on its residents.


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This is A. J. Johnson's fine 1866 map of the world on a hemispherical projection. Offers a fascinating snapshot of the world during a period of rapid globalization and discovery. This is one of the first appearances of Lake Victoria on a Johnson map. Just to the south of Lake Victoria, Johnson also includes Lake Tanganyika. He is clearly identifying both the Ptolemaic 'Lakes of the Nile' as he surrounds both with the Mountains of the Moon. He also identifies both Mt. Kenya and Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of this range - another Johnson first - though we know today that both mountains are in fact isolated volcanic formation and not part of a specific mountain system. The Antarctic continent is shown only sketchily, representing the relatively primitive state of Antarctic exploration in 1866. Published by A. J. Johnson and Ward as plate numbers 11 and 12 in the 1866 edition of Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas. This is the last edition of the Johnson's Atlas to bear the Johnson & Ward imprint.
Very good condition. Minor wear along original centerfold. Text on verso. Minor overall toning.


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My love of collecting data isn't limited to work, I'm just as happy doing it at home. From the typical digital keepsakes such as documents and photos to geekier things like detailed utility records and 10 years of fuel consumption info for my car, I've got quite the little hoard.
*This can be tricky. Some people come in after the session starts, and others will leave before it ends. What I do is take a headcount right before I start. If I get comment cards following the session, I'll take the greater of my initial headcount or the number of cards I receive.
First of all, you'll have actual numbers for how many presentations you've given and how many people you've reached. If you submit abstracts for PASS Summit, they ask for this information as part of your speaking experience. It's also my understanding that the Microsoft MVP program wants similar numbers if you are nominated.
Aside from all that, this data helps influence what topics I submit for SQL Saturdays and user groups. If I spoke about indexing in a particular city last year, I'll be sure to submit other topics this time around. On a more personal level, whenever I'm feeling incompetent or irrelevant, looking back on a list of all the things I've done can be an excellent morale booster.
So if you're the least bit involved in the SQL Server community (or volunteering anywhere else, for that matter), I'd recommend keeping track of it. The effort to create and maintain a spreadsheet like this is minimal, and it will never be any easier than it is right now.
I like your idea and it would certainly help, thanks for sharing.
I hope it does help! Thanks for reading!
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Painting a metallic masterpeice - the extraordinary Faralli & Mazzanti Antas V8
Painting a metallic masterpeic...
The unpainted hand-beaten aluminium body gives just a hint of the massive number of hours that went into the machine.
Luca Mazzanti at left and Walter Faralli at right - our bet is that you'll hear more of those names in the future
The dummy
An engine with an intake sound that is breathtaking
The interior is crafted but modern
That shape
The dummy sans chassis
Applying the skin
April 20, 2006 Each year at the money-is-no-object end of the automotive market is the Top Marques exhibition held in Monte Carlo in April. The audience is focussed and ridiculously wealthy and the exhibitors are exclusively companies producing fine automobiles for those with stratospheric budgets and it's just the place to see workmanship of the calibre of Bugatti, Koenigsegg, et al, all in the one place. Each year the number and excellence of the world's most exclusive automobiles grows and this year sees the coming out of something a bit special. The Antas V8 will undoubtedly be the talking point of this year's show which opens today. The Antas is the work of Italian classic car restoration company Faralli & Mazzanti, though we expect the reaction to the prototype Antas V8 work to see the company forced into producing a lot more of these extraordinarily beautiful and lovingly handcrafted masterpieces. This is the first "berlinetta" to be born in the Faralli & Mazzanti workshop, and it's totally inspired by the materials and philosophy that created the great special-bodied Italian cars of the past. The body of the car is entirely hand-crafted from aluminium, the engine a carburettored Maserati V8 engine. On delivery, the Antas comes equipped with a case covered in blue velvet bearing a silver plate with the identification numbers along with a book and DVD documenting the construction of your vehicle.
Antas is driven by a powerful V8 Maserati engine fed by carburettors and endowed with a pleasing elasticity of power, which gives the "driver" the sensation of "true" steering typical of the great touring cars of the past. Because of this, when the time came to name this "jewel," a word was chosen that comes from the ancient Tuscan language of the Etrucscans: Antas means Eagle, "the noblest and most audacious dominator of open spaces."
F & M is best known to the automotive elite as a master body builder and restorer of prestigious "Barchettas" and "Berlinettas" (touring cars) with its best known restoration example being the famous MASERATI 450 coupè Zagato "the MONSTER", used by Stirling Moss during the 1957 Le Mans 24 hour race.
Accordingly, the Antas combines the knowledge acquired by master body makers with the stylistic inspiration of those who make modern cars with an eye to the past. The company says the Antas project is based on an in-depth study of the stylistic evolution of the Italian automobile between 1930 and the end of the 1960s – " a golden era in which elements of style were created and developed, and even today put their imprint on the most beautiful lines of automobiles of the world."
The planning and construction of the Antas project was undertaken with the same philosophy and attention to the traditional design and craftsmanship of that era.
The first drafts, in fact, were done on paper: Faralli first developed the Antas in 1:1 scale, then traced the final lines, always rigorously drawn by hand. Indeed, nothing was developed by computer; everything came from the heart, from the imagination and the capable hands of experts.
A dummy was constructed of iron tubes bent and modelled by hand, then it was built on the aluminium frame, with the same methodology of the great body makers of the past: the lightweight alloy mags took form thanks to the precise hammer blows of the artisan, who little by little transformed a cold element of metal into a decorative element of body.
The technical basis of this prototype derives directly from Italian grand touring cars of the 1960's. The frame a steel box adequately reinforced and modified, on which was mounted the model of tubes and sheet metal structure supported on the hand-moulded aluminium frame welded individually to the various components.
Preparation and sanding are done by the expert hands of artisans who prepare the body for painting, for which the best products of the recent generation are used.
So next time someone tells you, "they don't make em like that any more", tell them that actually, they do.
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In Formula 1 partecipò al solo Gran Premio d'Italia 1993 al volante di una Jordan, ritirandosi dopo un incidente durante il primo giro ed è per questo ritenuto il pilota con la più breve carriera di sempre nella massima serie automobilistica, record che però appartiene in realtà a Ernst Loof, che partecipò al Gran Premio di Germania 1953, e si fermò a 2 metri dalla partenza, per la rottura della pompa della benzina.
Ha vinto il Campionato di Formula Nippon nel 1994 ed ha corso anche in Formula 3000 e nel Campionato Giapponese Super GT.

Carriera

Gli inizi
Apicella, dopo aver ottenuto vari successi nei kart, esordì in F3 italiana nel 1984, guidando una Ralt RT3 e cogliendo il settimo posto in classifica generale. A partire dall'anno seguente cominciò ad ottenere le prime vittorie e, nel 1986, duellò con Nicola Larini per la conquista del titolo di categoria, poi ottenuto dal pilota toscano. Passò quindi alla Formula 3000, in cui negli anni a venire ottenne svariati podi, ma senza mai essere in grado di lottare per il gradino più alto del podio. Nel 1990 fece anche alcuni test per la Minardi, seppur con risultati alquanto deludenti. Decise quindi di trasferirsi in Giappone nel 1992, dove prese parte sempre al campionato di Formula Nippon. Il primo anno fu privo di risultati di rilievo, mentre nel 1993 concluse al quarto posto.

Formula 1
Nello stesso anno, anche a seguito del rifiuto di Emanuele Naspetti, Eddie Jordan decise di dare la possibilità ad Apicella di debuttare in Formula 1 guidando una delle sue vetture. Il contratto prevedeva una sola gara, ossia il Gran Premio d'Italia 1993. Durante alcuni test prima della gara il pilota italiano ottenne ottimi parziali, tanto da attirare l'attenzione del suo compagno di squadra, Rubens Barrichello. Nelle qualifiche, però, non ottenne risultati altrettanto brillanti e la sua gara durò fino alla prima curva, quando venne costretto al ritiro da un incidente con JJ Lehto. Eddie Jordan gli offrì comunque la possibilità di disputare anche la gara seguente, ma Apicella preferì tornare a correre nel campionato giapponese di Formula Nippon.

Risultati completi

Gli anni in Giappone
Tornato alla Formula Nippon, riuscì, nel 1994, a vincere il titolo di categoria ottenendo tre vittorie e svariati podi. A fine stagione, vista l'assenza di proposte da parte dei team di Formula 1, continuò a correre in Giappone, ma decise di abbandonare la DOME, squadra con cui aveva appena conquistato il campionato, per accasarsi al team 5-Zigen. La stagione, però, si rivelò molto deludente e Apicella non andò mai a punti. Nello stesso anno prese parte alla 24 Ore di Le Mans senza ottenere risultati di rilievo. Per il 1996 il pilota italiano rimase in Formula Nippon e corse con la vettura dell'anno precedente, concludendo il campionato con tre punti, frutto di un quarto posto. A fine stagione svolse anche alcuni test con un prototipo della Mugen insieme a Shinji Nakano, in vista di una probabile entrata in Formula 1 che mai si concretizzò. Senza un volante per l'anno seguente si limitò a sostituire Mauro Martini in alcune gare in Giappone e prese parte ad una gara al campionato nazionale di Super GT.

Tra Europa e Giappone
Nel 1999 decise quindi di tornare in Italia per prendere parte al campionato di Formula 3000, ma i risultati latitarono. Riuscì comunque a vincere due gare e concludere il campionato al terzo posto.

Contemporaneamente prese parte ad alcune gare con vetture sport prototipo, ottenendo il quarto posto in coppia con Andrea de Lorenzi a Brno. Nel 2000 avrebbe dovuto prendere parte anche alla 24 Ore di Daytona, ma venne rimpiazzato all'ultimo momento.

Decise quindi di tornare in Giappone, dove si dedicò a gare con vetture a ruote coperte.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Piloti di Formula 1 italiani

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Someone somewhere may know if dark haired swordsman Vásquez has a first name. The Castilian sword for hire has made her way since the recent unpleasantness with Montaigne as a sword for hire. She dresses as many former soldiers cast adrift across Théah, talks as they do and acts as they do.
Her nature is mercurial. One day she simply wants to get from one dawn to the next in peace. Then the next day comes and she misses the sound of the cannon and the rush of battle. One moment Vásquez is quiet and contemplative the next she is loud and roused for battle.
Vásquez has been around western continental Théah. She knows somewhere to sleep and someone who will know someone who can provide work for a sword in Castille, Montaigne and Eisen. She can usually find a small group of mercenaries to aid her in a fight at short notice.
Vásquez is exactly what she seems - a simple sword for hire. She is a pawn in other's schemes rather than a mastermind.


An increasing number of airline passengers are managing to save money by travelling with only hand luggage, according to a new report from The Co-operative Travel.
The study looked into over 68,000 flight bookings and found that the number of people flying with only hand baggage has risen by 233 per cent in 2011. Thrifty travellers are looking to save money on baggage charges imposed by budget airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair, managing with the 10kg of cabin luggage normally allowed and making Costa del Sol holidays and other destinations serviced by the budget carriers even cheaper.
The Co-operative Travel said that a family of four could expect to save an average of £233.12 on return flights if they managed without checking in any hold luggage. If you need new luggage you can get a 4 pieces with a suitcase that is airline friendly. When it came to Ryanair's peak-time flights, a family of four could save as much as £440 for return flights. Overall, 26 per cent of passengers are making savings by cutting their usual luggage weight usage, bringing cheap holidays to Magaluf and other popular resorts within reach of even the most budget-conscious travellers.
The report estimated that more than 16,000 families of four flying with budget carriers in 2011 will squeeze their belongings into one suitcase and the family's cabin luggage. In doing so, they will save an average of £149, while the 51,000 couples travelling with just one suitcase checked into hold luggage will save around £49.
"Budget airlines have been around for quite some time now and people are getting smarter and minimising the cost of their flights," commented Trevor Davis, The Co-operative Travel's director of retail distribution. "While not everyone will want to go to the extremes of holidaying with just carry-on baggage, it does allow people to decide exactly what they're prepared to pay for," he added.


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Escalation of Space Travel by @StephenTremp
As you've no doubt noticed, this has been Book Feature Week at my place. We started out with sci-fi, mixed it up with some YA paranormal, and now we're back to sci-fi with a guest post from author Stephen Tremp, who's celebrating the release of Escalation: The Adventures of Chase Manhattan.
Stephen writes sci-fi, but today he's going to tell us about some real life scientific ventures that only sound like fiction. Take it away, Mr. Tremp...
As we wind down the Escalation Blog Tour, I want to be sure to highlight some of what's going on in the private Sector regarding things like commercial space flight, space tourism,
Virgin Galactic: Is an America-based, British-owned commercial spaceflight company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions, and orbital launches of small satellites. Further in the future, Virgin Galactic hopes to offer orbital human spaceflights as well. Virgin Galactic's spacecraft is launched from a large aeroplane, giving the spacecraft more initial speed and altitude than if it were launched from the ground. REFERENCE
Book a flight now for only $250,000. You will be joining our community of over 600 future astronauts which has become one of the most exclusive clubs in the world! REFERENCE
SpaceX: The brainchild of Elon Musk (PayPal and Tesla Motors) made history as the world's first privately held company to send a cargo payload, carried on their Dragon spacecraft, to the International Space Station. The capsule then brought back more than one ton of science experiments and old station equipment. It's the only supply ship capable of two-way delivery.
NASA is paying SpaceX more than $1 billion for a dozen resupply missions. Space X can reuse their spacecraft too. SpaceX has signed contracts with private sector companies, non-American government agencies and the American military for its launch services. NASA needs these "private space taxis" to help ferry cargo to the International Space Station.
The Moon: According to SpaceDev, a return to the moon from the private sector could be accomplished under $10 billion using existing technology, significantly lower than anything NASA could accomplish.
"According to SpaceDev's chief, Jim Benson, the private group has found that a more comprehensive series of missions could be completed in a fraction of the time and for one-tenth of the cost of the NASA estimate." REFERENCE
Mars: An ambitious private manned mission to Mars aims to launch a two-person crew to fly around the Red Planet and return to Earth in 501 days, starting in January 2018.
This bold undertaking is planned by the Inspiration Mars Foundation, a non-profit company founded by millionaire and space tourist Dennis Tito that was officially unveiled on Feb. 27 after early details leaked.
Though the spacecraft would not land humans on Mars or even put them in orbit, it would bring people within a few hundred kilometers of the Martian surface — roughly the same distance between the International Space Station and Earth — and represent a major milestone in human spaceflight. If successful, the mission would go down in history as the first time a private company accomplished something government agencies were unable to do in space. REFERENCE
Asteroid Mining: The race is on. Who will bag an asteroid first? NASA or private industry. There is so much money to be made in a venture such as this because of the minerals that it's hard to say.
I love this idea and think we will see it in our lifetime. But my problem is, the best way to do this is to bring an asteroid into Earth's orbit without crashing it into us. How else are they going to mine it and bring the precious elements to Earth in a cost effective manner. Stay tuned.
Well, lots of crazy and exciting stuff on our immediate horizon. For better or worse. And I'll be on top of each and every step of the way at my blog.
Stephen Tremp Is the author of the Breakthrough series. Together, Breakthrough, Opening, and Escalation follow the lives of the unlikely participants from innocence to a coming of age through sacrifice, betrayal, passion, lust, unconditional love, and hope. Escalation will appeal to fans of modern-day science fiction, action, horror, and even romance.
Stop by Stephen's Blog for more information on the Breakthrough series, or download Escalation: The Adventures of Chase Manhattan at Amazon.
Thanks for coming by, Stephen & congrats on the new book!
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Are You Ready to Challenge Destiny? @CherieColyer Is!
Today, Cherie Colyer's upper YA novel with angelic flair---Challenging Destiny---is available on Kindle, and I'm excited to be part of the celebration by hosting an intriguing excerpt:
Logan's point-of-view
I glanced down at the silver dagger and then back up into her eyes. I couldn't move. My muscles froze as my mind whirled.
She pressed the bone handle into my hand and closed my fingers around it. "You'd be freeing me from my contract with the Fallen. My soul will finally be at rest." Her voice was soft. Tired. She raised her chin and closed her eyes. "Just make sure you hit my heart because I'm not going to promise getting stabbed isn't going to piss me off."
It wouldn't take much effort to kill Kira. She stood in front of me, half an arm's length away.
CHALLENGING DESTINY
Kindle Release Date: March 27, 2014
Worldwide Release Date: July 11, 2014
Logan Ragsdale and his younger sister, Ariana, have been marked, chosen to be unwilling participants in a war between angels and demons.
Logan can sense something's not quite right. Like an unexpected chill on a summer's day, he can feel the unseen closing in. He's had these feelings before and, each time, someone close to him died. He's afraid this time it might just be Ariana.
Logan's fears are soon confirmed when he discovers their new friends aren't human, but rather representatives from Heaven and Hell sent to Earth to ensure he and Ariana accept their roles in an ancient prophecy. Demons want Logan to open the gates of Hell. Ariana has the power to stop them, but if she chooses to side with Heaven to spare the lives of thousands of innocent people, she'll damn her brother for eternity.
Together, they must derail the biblical event if they hope to save themselves and the future of mankind...but what price are they willing to pay to keep the other safe?
Click here to read Challenging Destiny on Kindle today! Amazon UK
Cherie Colyer is the author of YA paranormal thriller/romance, EMBRACE and HOLD TIGHT from Omnific Publishing. Her latest novel, CHALLENGING DESTINY will be available this spring from The Wild Rose Press, Black Rose Imprint. Check out her website and blog for news on her books and bonus material. Follow Cherie on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Goodreads to get the latest updates on her books.
Congratulations, Cherie!
Gorgeous New Covers for the Shades Series by @CarolOates
Today is a double cover reveal for the Shades Series by Carol Oates!
Shades of Atlantis got a makeover (new cover to be available on April 15), and Shades of Avalon (to be released on April 15) is being revealed. To celebrate the reveal, Omnific is giving away an ePack of Shades of Atlantis at EACH hosting blog. So that means that right here, right now, you can enter for a chance to win just by leaving a comment on this post.
Shades of Atlantis.
Since the death of their parents, Triona Pryor and her brother, Ben, have lived with their aunt and uncle in Camden, Maine. Now in her senior year of high school, Triona loves her family and friends, but she has always felt that she didn't quite fit in...in Camden, or anywhere else.
Enter Caleb Wallace, the devilishly handsome man who has recently moved to Triona's small town.
While their attraction to each other is instantaneous, it also proves to be dangerous...and deadly. When tragedy strikes, Triona flees to London for solace and to start her life anew. It's there she discovers from an unlikely source that her family has been keeping secrets from her - secrets about not only her birthright, but her ultimate destiny as well.
Armed with this knowledge, Triona finds herself thrown into a whole new world and into a battle to save the lives of everyone she loves.
Shades of Avalon:
Ben Pryor grew up as an average kid in Camden, Maine, unaware of the supernatural storm brewing in his Celtic blood. However, at nineteen, as the last born in the royal line of the beings that once ruled Atlantis, Ben has eagerly embraced his newfound abilities and birthright.
When Caleb, his sister's mate, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, the prime suspect is the last remaining member of the overthrown corrupt Guardian Council.
With the discovery that an old acquaintance has been keeping secrets and the future Ben was so sure of shifting before his eyes, the situation becomes more complicated, the ransom for Caleb too high.
In the sequel to Shades of Atlantis, Ben will delve deeper than he ever imagined into the magical old ways of the Guardians, the secrets of Excalibur, and the truth behind the legend of King Arthur
Carol Oates came into the world on Christmas morning, in an elevator. Raised just across the street from the childhood home of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, it was only a matter of time before Carol's love of all things supernatural would emerge.
She began experimenting with fiction at school and keeps the notebook containing her first unpublished novel in her desk drawer. Over three decades later, all her stories still begin life scrawled on paper.
When not writing, Carol can be found exploring history with her son. Luckily, he shares her love of old buildings, castles, and tombs. http://www.CarolOates.com
The story of the Backworlds continues, and the story of Earth begins. Worlds on Edge by @MPax1
In the mood for an intense sci-fi adventure? You're in luck because today is the official launch of the fifth book in M. Pax's popular Backworlds series. Congrats, Mary!
Worlds on Edge
by M. Pax
War is coming. A horde of merciless aliens poise just beyond the Edge. In a matter of weeks, they will devour the worlds.
Racing ahead of the apocalypse, Craze returns to the Backworlds to warn them and plan a defense. Only he can't go home. Banned from Pardeep Station, he must wage a more urgent battle. His moon is under siege, and his friends are dying.
Bad things come in threes, and the galaxy is no exception. An old enemy returns, attacking moons and defenseless globes, leaving a wake of destruction. Worse than that, they threaten to join forces with the alien horde.
Defeat seems inevitable. Craze may not be able to stop it. Yet home is worth the fight.
Amazon / AmazonUK / Smashwords / Nook / Other Outlets
Fantasy, science fiction, and the weird beckons to M. Pax, and she blames Oregon for that, a source of endless inspiration. She docents at Pine Mountain Observatory in the summers, teaching the public about the stars and the galaxy. A Bachelors of Science in Journalism, she had former lives in marketing and television before settling down to write. Want to know more? Visit mpaxauthor.com
In Which I Show You Mine #AtoZreveal
I was so happy to learn that I wasn't the only dork who planned to pre-reveal her theme for the 2014 A to Z Challenge. As it turns out, there are a whole bunch of us, led by Team Damyanti in the Great & Powerful Theme Reveal Hop. Click here for the list of the many other bloggers who will reveal themselves today.
Ready to see mine?
90's Pop Culture Favorites!
As in, my favorites. I firmly believe the 80's were the best decade ever pop-culturewise, and as a result I tend to not give the 90's their due. So I forced myself to sit down and come up with 26 things I loved in the 90's that I STILL love, and you know what? It wasn't difficult at all.
So, starting on April 1, I'll be retroing back in time to show you bits of my 90's soul. But before we begin, I'd like to share with you my personal 90's timeline to provide insight into my baseline at the time I fell in love with these things:
1991: Got married
1993: Earned MBA from DePaul University
1995: Bought first single-family home
1996: Started la familia w/ bambino #1
1997: Became a stay-at-home mamma
Expanded la familia w/ bambino #2
'98-'99: Pretty much a blur
You're all tingly with anticipation now, aren'tchya?
If you haven't signed up for A to Z yet, there's still time.
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Labels: 90's Pop Culture, 90's. Pop Culture, A to Z
What a Grown-Ass Woman Wants (#GrownAssMan Tour)
New Adult has taken the romance world by storm, which is pretty cool---especially considering that my first novel, Three Daves, is a college love story---but some of us thought it was time to celebrate the fully-formed man and all the lovely things he can bring to romance. By some of us, I mean:
Amber Belldene, author of the Blood Vine Series
Autumn Markus, author of The Art of Appreciation
Feather Stone, author of The Guardian's Wildchild
Jennifer Lane, author of the CONduct Series
Julianna Keyes, author of Just Once
Nicki Elson, author of Divine Temptation
Rachel Brimble, author of 16 Marsden Place
(BTW, All Featured Novels Are Specially Priced At Only $0.99 – $2.99 Throughout The Tour!)
Each of us has spent some time falling in love with a fictional man over the age of 30 while we wrote the novels listed above. This week, we're each talking about grown-up love from our own perspectives, and we invite you to join in on the conversation. Please click on the links above to visit each author's post (and see what they're giving away at their places). Be sure to also stop by the Omnific Publishing blog to enter the Grand Giveaway---win a $50 Gift Card + a Grown-Ass Man eBook Collection. For a snippet about each of the authors and their Grown-Ass novels, visit my website.
My topic today is Grown-Ass women---or men---and how what they value in a mate has changed from when they first started mate-seeking. I chose this topic because it was the driving force behind writing Divine Temptation. As I've said before, I wanted to see how a mature woman with adult responsibilities would react to an otherworldly white knight being suddenly thrust into her life. I suspected her responses would be quite different from those of a teen or early twentysomething, and they were.
Not only did Maggie have adult responsibilities to keep her grounded, she'd learned through life experience---including a painful divorce---to appreciate different qualities in a man than she had at earlier points in her life. She even learned to admire qualities in her ex-husband that she hadn't paid enough attention to while they were married. So Divine Temptation is a very different kind of love story than Three Daves. I think that's true of all of us, don't you---that our personal love stories morph as we grow older because what we value in a mate/potential mate changes as we progress through this life?
I clearly remember what I was looking for in guys when I was an undergrad at EIU---my roommate and I called this ideal: Fun Guy. I was looking for the life of the party, someone who'd make me laugh and laugh. And I found him. I found lots of hims. But I also learned that Fun Guy was often synonymous with Drunk Guy. And that Fun Guy often turned into Overly-Sensitive and Needy Guy when not the center of attention. And he was almost always Selfish Guy.
My mate-seeking days are over, for better or worse, but I can see how my mate-dar has changed over the years in how I advise my daughter about boys. My number one advice: pay attention to how he treats his mother (and yes, I make sure my son is close enough to overhear). Is it with respect, thoughtfulness, and genuine caring? Or does he tend to disregard her unless he needs her for something? This is a good indication of how he'll treat the rest of the long-term women in his life. I also tell her to not discount the shy, socially awkward guys. It doesn't matter if he can't make a room full of people laugh as long as he makes her smile.
So how about you---how has what you value in a mate changed since you first started dating?
To say thanks for making me one of your stops on the tour, I'm hosting a li'l giveaway below. After you enter, please do hop around to see what the other authors have to say about Grown-Ass love. Don't forget to enter the Grand Giveaway at the Omnific Publishing blog.
#IWSG: Faking It
To quote something from my current WIP: the ability to pretend she knew what she was doing was often more valuable than actually knowing.
Do any of you feel that way with this writing thing? Like sometimes you're just pretending to know what you're doing instead of actually knowing? I sure do---in pretty much every step of the process: the actual writing, the querying, especially the marketing. I've taken every step forward that I needed to to get where I am, but not usually with a great deal of confidence. It's more like...m'okay, let's do this & see what happens.
Occasionally what happens is that I find myself in over my head. Like when Savvy Authors invited me to submit a proposal for an article, so I did, and they accepted. I sent out an excited Tweet and then thought...Aw crap, now I've got to write this thing. And what do I know about Finding the Hooks Within Your Manuscript?
The only way I was able to get myself started was by faking it---writing as if I knew what I was talking about. And by the end, I felt like, hey, maybe I have been learning as I go along and maybe I do know just a little bit more on the subject than I'd thought. So I guess that's my pep talk this month: boldly go forth as if you know what you're doing...and maybe you'll find out that you actually do.
This post is for the March 2014 edition of the Insecure Writer's Support group, founded by the one and clonely Alex J. Cavanaugh.
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JPMorgan 'Not Commenting' On Whether Obama's Personal Info Was Compromised In Data Breach
Hunter Walker
JP Morgan won't say whether personal information belonging to President Barack Obama, who reportedly held one of the company's credit cards as of July, was compromised in a massive data breach that was disclosed in an SEC filing Thursday.
Darin Oduyoye, a company spokesman, told Business Insider in an email that JPMorgan was "not commenting" beyond their initial statement. JPMorgan spokesman Paul Hartwick added the company would not identify specific customers.
"To protect customers' privacy, we do not publicly confirm, deny or otherwise identify customers," Hartwick said.
A White House press pool report published in July noted Obama used his "JPMorgan card" when he visited a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas.
According to the SEC filing, data from about 76 million households and 7 million small businesses was "compromised" in a recent cyberattack.
"User contact information � name, address, phone number and email address � and internal JPMorgan Chase information relating to such users have been compromised," the SEC filing said.
The filing indicated these figures were from a previously disclosed cyberattack.
"However, there is no evidence that account information for such affected customers � account numbers, passwords, user IDs, dates of birth or Social Security numbers � was compromised during this attack," said the filing.
This statement would appear to contradict a New York Times report published in August that indicated hackers obtained "checking and savings account information" from JPMorgan in a "series of coordinated attacks." That same month, Bloomberg published a report that said the FBI was investigating whether a potential hack into JPMorgan's systems originated in Russia.
The White House and Secret Service did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider about whether they knew if any of Obama's personal information was compromised in an attack on JPMorgan.
OBAMA: 'They Don't Call Moscow' When There's Trouble In The WorldBOEHNER: I'm 'Happy' To Bring Congress Back For War Vote If Obama AsksObama Can't Really Do Anything To Crush Inversions


This book presents a critical examination of the present hymnody used in the United Church, particularly in the Duke of Yorks and Rabaul area. The author considers the historical origins for such hymnody and its value in the church at present. He also presents a detailed discussion of the role of traditional Duke of York music in society and questions whether such music should also be used in the church.


We're not going to tell you who Dean Phillips and Erik Paulsen are, nor what side of the gravy train they hitch their useless asses to. We don't want biases, prejudices, and preconceived notions getting in the way of what is probably the single funniest thing you can watch on the internet this week. Attack ads are generally gross, self-righteous, and littered with knock-off Law & Order sound effects, but this one subverts all of that by turning the Bigfoot documentary—a creation as American as apple pie and Harrison Ford growling "GET OFF MY PLANE"—on its furry, fanged head.
In this fresh take on a timeless yarn, Bigfoot takes on the role of lensman, searching high and low for the mythical Erik Paulsen, who, despite repeated claims to his veracity, vanishes into thin air every time his constituency needs him. In the end, Bigfoot finally tracks down his subject by staking out the lobby of Globopharma™ armed only with a camera and his journalistic integrity, outing Paulsen as not only real, but just as monstrous as rumored.
If this (somehow) doesn't inspire you to get out and vote this fall, then hopefully little topics like war, famine, healthcare, taxes, racial equality, climate implosion, government accountability, and the future of the American justice system will.


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Office to Become Fully Open XML Compliant (at last)
Have you discovered The Alexandria Project?
Yesterday, Microsoft made an unobtrusive announcement that brings a degree of closure to a seven year long epic battle between some of the largest technology companies in the world. The same saga pitted open source advocates against proprietary vendors, and for the first time brought the importance of technical standards to the attention of millions of people around the world, and at the center of the action were Microsoft and IBM, the latter supported by Google and Oracle, among other allies.
The standards in question described the format specifications that can allow documents created by one proprietary software product to be opened, edited and saved in another.
More specifically, the battle had been joined between the supporters of the Open Document Format – ODF for short – developed by OASIS, and then adopted by ISO/IEC, and a format developed and promoted by Microsoft, called Open XML, which it contributed to ECMA for adoption before also being submitted to ISO/IEC. In due course, Open XML was adopted as well, but only after a global battle that, improbably, even inspired a public protest on the sidewalks outside a standards committee meeting.
The heat of the action mostly occurred between the summer of 2005, when Massachusetts first endorsed ODF, and the end of 2008, the year that Open XML became an ISO/IEC standard, and inspired tens of thousands of news articles and blog posts (you can find my 284 stories on this topic here, and a partially completed book telling the story here).
Famously, however, after expending such great effort to secure adoption of Open XML as a global standard, Microsoft itself did not fully implement that standard in its next release of Office, in 2007. Or its next. Or its next, although the ability to open and edit (but not save) documents in the ISO/IEC approved version of Open XML (which Microsoft called "Strict Open XML") was added to Office 10. Instead, it implemented what it called "Transitional Open XML," which it said was more useful for working with legacy documents created using Office.
This was something of an embarrassment, because one reason that Microsoft had given for the necessity of ISO/IEC approving a second document standard was to facilitate working with the "billions and billions of documents" that had already been created in Office. Implementers of Open XML as actually approved by ISO/IEC therefore would not be able to achieve this goal.
This lapse, we are told, will finally end with the release of Office 13, which is to provide full open/edit/save capability in Strict Open XML format. The announcement appeared in a blog posting by Jim Thatcher at the Office Next blog at Microsoft's Office.com Web site. Office 13 will also provide similar capabilities for the latest version of ODF approved by OASIS in January of this year (ODF 1.2), as well as for PDF, although Thatcher says that this functionality is intended to allow PDF files to be returned to Word form, rather than as an editor for documents intended to remain in PDF format.
Much has changed since the great format wars of the last decade, and perhaps this is why, one day after the announcement, only two brief articles have appeared in the trade press. Now, of course, we have Cloud-based office suites, mobile platforms, patent courts and other venues where the giants of the IT world do battle. But there was a time not so long ago when the tech journalists of every major outlet, and a hundred bloggers, would have been set madly typing by an announcement like this.
And that's a shame, because document interoperability and vendor neutrality matter more now than ever before as paper archives disappear and literally all of human knowledge is entrusted to electronic storage.
Only if documents can be easily exchanged and reliably accessed on an ongoing basis will competition in the present be preserved, and the availability of knowledge down through the ages be assured. Without robust, universally adopted document formats, both of those goals will be impossible to attain.
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And here we are with Frasson Gallery's issue number One. After an amazing, challenging number Zero issue, where we have learned and improved so much our work, to get better, better, better… find flaws, discover new paths and even change what we thought that was right, always looking for the best to transmit knowledge to the largest number of people. Frasson Gallery is born free, independent, timeless and global, combining image and content in an innovative, disruptive way. The magazine is becoming real with stories that are published every week, and after two months it becomes whole. Then we start the next issue. In this issue we have an exclusive interview with photographer Peter Lindbergh. He talks about this digital moment in photography and honors us with some photo from his exhibition, "Alberto Giacometti/Peter Lindbergh," on display at Giacometti Institute in Paris. And everyday our fashion editors will select the most important shows and images from the fashion weeks in NYC, London, Milan and Paris, and you can follow them here through Frasson Gallery's eyes. And voilá, les numero 1.


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Check out the high-tech upgrades that transformed Kansas City into one of the smartest cities in the U.S.
From public WiFi kiosks to a real-time map that shows you where to park, Kansas City has just made its bid to become one of the United States' smartest cities. You can color us impressed!
Free public WiFi, intelligent streetlights, and real-time traffic/parking monitoring? Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas City anymore!
It sounds crazy, but believe it or not, the above scenario exactly describes Kansas City, Missouri – which just announced its entry into the official smart city category.
Having four years ago given its residents access to blazingly-fast, 1,000 megabits-per-second Google Fiber, Kansas City has now added a range of other smart city features that promise to make it among the United States' most tech-savvy metropolises. Not bad for a city whose previous claim to fame was being the birthplace of Hallmark cards.
It's impressive tech. For instance, the kiosks mean that visitors and locals no longer have to whip out their iPhones to find out about local entertainment options or transport routes, but can instead do it via large (and free to use) touch-sensitive displays.
In a way, though, this is the icing on the cake. Just as giving an old house a fresh lick of paint doesn't make it new, Bennett notes that a smart city is about more than just a fancy devices.
In addition, the site includes pedestrian hotspots and the precise location of KC Streetcars. Over time, the idea is make more and more information available in this way. The other innovative part of it is how the data can be used by not just citizens, but other interested parties, such as city planners.
Finally, the anonymized data can be monetized by companies which partner with Kansas City — as Sprint and Cisco have done by investing in the area. Cisco, for example, contributed $12 million to the project, without which it could never have gone ahead.
So is this how all cities will look one day?


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Hollie Selby Considering the changes in warfare since 1845-1991, how far can Blitzkrieg be considered a turning point? Blitzkrieg, meaning lightening war, is a term that was coined by western journalists in 1939 to describe the combination and concentrated force of aerial, mechanized and mobile infantry power to push forward through enemy lines, a tactic greatly associated and heavily implemented by the Germans in World War II. The aim of using a co-ordinated and highly mobile attack was to take the opposition by surprise and therefore unprepared against a rapid, hard-hitting strike. Although this technique provided a multitude of successes, like any military strategy, it has its limitations and its effectiveness varied with each individual battle. In order to establish to what extent Blitzkrieg could be considered a turning point, I will examine the effect it's had on the way wars have been conducted since its recognition as a credited technique and compare it with previous war tactics such as static and defensive warfare which was favoured in World War One. The development of weapons and rapid industrialisation in the 19th century eradicated the efficiency of defensive warfare, leaving an alternative being sought after. ...read more.
Even without the application of Blitzkrieg, did Poland really stand a fighting chance against the German Army? This theory is also applicable to the Germans invasion of France in 1940, they had spent a large amount of their military budget on defence tactic such as the Maginot Line instead of up-dating their arms industry and investing in modern technology, the French High Command in 1940 was not even equipped with radio to control their forces effectively. If allied countries had been less conservative in their views by preparing themselves for a repeat of World War One, would this of not made Blitzkrieg less effective, if not obsolete? As Blitzkrieg had never been used at such a large scale and to such effect before the Germans employed it, there were factors which the opposition could exploit, causing it to be considered less of a turning point. Hitler and other leading German military minds had not pre-anticipated the full importance of maintaining air superiority throughout the duration of the war. However, allied forces, particularly Britain, understood that aerial supremacy was crucial to overcoming the force of a Blitzkrieg attack. If one component of blitzkrieg is overtaken, the rest would unwillingly fall apart. ...read more.
Since its debut in 1939, blitzkrieg has been applied to almost all war efforts and to what appears great success. However, I believe its victories relied heavily upon the weaknesses of the opponent as described in the triumphs over France and Poland, if other countries had not been so conservative in the tactics and developed their arms industry instead of relying heavily upon defenses I do not think that Blitzkrieg would have accomplished such success. Along with this, I think as a tactic it was developed to coincide with the advancing technologies that were becoming available rather than a break-through in strategy. It is still not a flawless technique that can be executed with precise accuracy each time; logistics and limitation still hinder it from being a seamless process. Overall, I believe it was the technology at the forefront of being a turning point, blitzkrieg develops and changes with each new advancements and although I believe it to have significant input in the way war efforts are conducted, I do not think it is successful enough as a strategy alone to be deemed a turning point.1 [1] J.F.C Fuller on the concept of Blitzkrieg tactics - "Military history of the western world" [2] Accounts of an unknown German Prisoner - http://www.2worldwar2.com/principles-of-war.htm [3] The Rommel papers - Field Marshall Erwin Rommel on air superiority -1953 ?? ?? ?? ?? ...read more.
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Julia Dixon gives us her recap of Texsom, the Sommelier conference that wrapped up last week, from the volunteer's perspective. She talks about some of the seminars that made an impression as well as some special wines tasted off-program. She reads her wine description that won the Guildsom Social Media contest for "Best Tasting Note." Plus, she has many other projects coming down the pike in the next couple months!
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Although there are scores of helpful articles on medicinal plants, edible plants, and other useful plants, in 90% of these Parmentiera species is only listed in tabulations with a single word (comestible) or just has a very simple page that again, only has one single word to indicate that the plant has an edible part. There is no meaty discussion of the plant's edible aspects other than Angon (2006). So clearly it would be helpful to have additional MA, MS theses and PhD dissertations on the edible aspects of this plant, especially recipes. An additional question is whether the cuajilote was eaten by grandparents but has been dropped by today's generation in favor of oranges, apples, and other non-native fruits. Plus, is there evidence of Parmentiera species in middens or pollen samples from pre-Columbian Mayan sites?
In this bibliography we will not focus on the books on forests which omit Parmentiera species in their coverage. There are several books on Belize which sadly omit Parmentiera species in their plant lists and/or index. Plus on forest trees of the Maya there is a book, in Spanish, with nice color photos of the trunk of most trees of the Maya area, and photos of fruit and/or flowers: but has ZERO mention of usage of Parmentiera. So we do not include in our bibliography this otherwise nice compilation of trees of the Maya.
There are many capable scholars who write about plants and forests, but also I too am unlikely to include every single solitary edible plant in my eight years of research, for the simple reason that every time I visit an archaeological site, the really good local guides mention edible aspects of vines, roots, or leaves that I was previously not familiar with. Plus my lists are focused on Guatemala; in El Salvador, Tabasco, Quintana Roo, surely there are plants that I still need to learn about.
This is why I work, plant by plant, to rescue edible and utilitarian plants from obscurity, to assist the Mayan, Xinca, and Garifuna people to improve their health.
Etnnobotánica y propagación de Parmentiera edulis D.C., árbol de uso múltiple en Cuba. Revista Forestal Baracoa. Vol. 29, No. 1. Pages 77-86.
Caracterización parcial del fruto de Paramentiera edulis. Universidad tecnológica de la mixteca. 58 pages.
This thesis, and Balick and Arvigo's guide to the useful plants of Belize, are, so far, the only books I have yet found which give more than a single cell in a tabulation, or a single word "comestible" for this plant.
Plants of the Petén Itza' Maya: Plantas de los maya itza' del Petén. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Memoir 38. 248 pages.
Cuajilote is mentioned in the Spanish list of plants (p. 214) but since this book on many capable years of research has zero index, it is a challenge to find where this plant is actually discussed. With over 14,000 books in my research library, even with many helpful student research assistants, it is not realistic to search every page of a multi-hundred page book to find a single plant. The CD is searchable but there is not much chance that with so many people in the office that a single CD disk can be found after having the book for over a decade.
Messages from the Gods. A Guide to the useful Plants of Belize. The New York Botanical Garden, Oxford University Press. 539 pages.
The Forest of the Lacandon Maya, An Ethnobotanical Guide. Springer. 379 pages.
This is the most complete book on the plants of the Lacandon area of Chiapas. We are proud to have provided photographs for this book to the author from the FLAAR Photo Archive of Flora & Fauna.
Plantas útiles de Petén. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. 157 pages.
Plantas medicinales de La Matamba y El Piñonal, municipio de Jamapa, Veracruz. INECOL. 108 pages.
Frutos mesoamericanos: breve historia de sabores y sin sabores. CONABIO. Biodiversitas. No. 103. Pages 6-11.
Re-Identifying Flora and Fauna in Maya Art & the Popol Vuh. Prepared for Tulane University, October 2011.
This was a lecture prepared at the request of a student organization at Tulane University. 65 full color slides with text.
This PPT presentation shows several of the most noticeable errors of archaeologists and iconographers misidentifying plants and animals in Mayan art. This lecture also addresses whether the Popol Vuh discussion of plants and animals is entirely mythological rhetoric, or whether what is described actually exists out in the fields, forests, rivers, and oceans of the Mayan lands.
I show several fruits that if pictured on a Mayan vase would instinctively and instantly be labeled as cacao (but are not even related to cacao, though their pods are identical to fruits pictured in Mesoamerican paintings, figurines, and incensarios).
Fruits that grow from the trunk similar to cacao: Cuajilote or Caiba: Parmentiera aculeata a forgotten fruit. www.Maya-ethnobotany.org; look in the A to Z index.
Further reading on cuajilote, Parmentiera edulis or Parmentiera aculeata can be found in publications of the Jardín Botánico de Cuernavaca, Morelos, México, Medicina Tradicional, Escuela de Enfermería, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos.
Plantas alimenticias y medicinales de las zonas semiáridas de Guatemala. Pages 61-63.
Parmentiera edulis is listed in the index for pages 38, 39, and 77.
Plants probably utilized by the Old Empire Maya of Petén and adjacent Lowlands. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters; vol. 24, pp: 37-56. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Other plants in the region having edible inflorescences, leaves, or fruits are Chamaedorea spp. (roil, chiat), Crotalaria maypurensis HBK., Ceiba aesculifolia (HBK.) Britt. & Baker (piim, pochote), Parmentiera edulis DC. (cot), and Physalis philadelphica L. (paknul, tomatillo).
Evaluación del efecto antirolítico del fruto de Parmentiera aculeata en rata wistar. Botanical Sciences. Vol. 93, No.2. Pages 293-298.
The evolutionary potential of Lacandon Maya sustained-yield tropical forest agriculture. Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 36, No. 1. Pages 1-30.
Estudios de caracterización poscosecha del pepino kat (Parmentiera aculeata). Universidad Autónoma de Campache.
Trees of Guatemala. The tree press.
p. 92 copies-and-pastes material from other books. Sadly there is no citation anywhere in the book for specific material: there is only a bibliography at the end of every family. So you have to estimate that 80% of what is in her book is from Standley and his team.
Arboles Tropicales de Mexico. FAO, United Nations. 413 pages.
El fruto es comido frecuentemente por el Ganado y en algunas zonas las personas los comen hervidos. (page 376).
Helpful book; but not much on uses. Now exists in new edition which I will need to track down in my seven metric tons of books.
Identificación de árboles y arbustos con potencial forrajero en el municipio de Teopisca, Chiapas, México. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur. 115 pages.
Árboles de la Selva Lacandona útiles para la restauración ecológica. SEMARNAT, CONAFOR. 94 pages.
Bignoniaceae. Flora del bajío y de regiones adyacentes. Fascículo 22. 44 pages.
Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana, Botany, Vol. 24, Part X, No. 3, Chicago Natural History Museum.
Evaluación nutrimental del fruto Parmentiera edulis para su posible utilización en la industria alimentaria. Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro. 67 pages.
Plantas útiles en la medicina tradicional de Malpasito-Huimanguillo, Tabasco, México. Polibotánica. No. 37. Pages 109-134.
Parmentiera, Fieldiana, Bot. 36 (4) :27-29.
Cited by Standley and Williams 1974:209 as the reference for their page on Parmentiera DC.


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IPL Points Table: How Teams Stand In Race For Playoffs
Mr KaleemOctober 30, 2020
The IPL 2020 league stage is nearing its conclusion and the race to qualify for the playoffs has gotten quite interesting, thanks to some of the results in the past week. So far, Mumbai Indians, sitting atop the IPL Points Table, are the only team to book their place in the playoffs. Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore, who only a week ago had looked favourites to reach the last four as well, have some work to do. Chennai Super Kings, who are at the bottom of the points table, are the only team out of the reckoning. The rest still have a chance.
We look at which team needs to do what to qualify for the playoffs:
Royal Challengers Bangalore (2nd)
Virat Kohli's team seemed a sure-shot bet to reach the playoffs but back-to-back losses has somewhat derailed their progress. RCB are still second in the IPL Points Table with 14 points and two games remaining. They need just a win to qualify for the playoffs. RCB face SunRisers Hyderabad on Saturday while their other game is against Delhi Capitals. It could get very nervy for RCB if they lose to SRH.
Delhi Capitals (3rd)
Delhi Capitals, like Royal Challengers Bangalore, were in pole position to reach the last four, but they have lost three matches in a row, which has put their qualification in danger. DC too have two matches remaining, but both are against strong team. They take on league leaders Mumbai Indians on Saturday, and then face RCB. If they don't beat Mumbai Indians and RCB lose to SRH, the match between Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore could very well become a do-or-die encounter for both teams.
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Kolkata Knight Riders (5th)
KKR lost to CSK on Thursday and that was a massive blow to their chances of securing a top-four spot. They are on 12 points but have only a match remaining. By the end of the day, they could drop another place if RR beat KXIP. KKR's final match is against Rajasthan Royals and there is no guarantee that they will qualify even if they win that game. They need other results to go their way if they are to reach the playoffs.
SunRisers Hyderabad (6th)
Like KKR and RR, SRH no longer have their future in their hands. Other results will need to go their way, if they are to qualify. But one thing working in their favour is that their net run-rate is much better than some of the other teams. So, if they win both their remaining games, they might still have a good chance of grabbing a last-four spot. But it won't be easy by any stretch of imagination as their final two games are against RCB and Mumbai Indians.
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Rajasthan have a do-or-die encounter against Kings XI Punjab today. Lose, and their chances of reaching the playoffs end right there. But a win could do them wonders, especially a big win. If RR manage to defeat Kings XI Punjab by a huge margin, they could rise to as high as fourth spot, but that all depends on what their margin of victory is. Their final game is against KKR, and if results go in both RR and KKR's favour, then this match could become a straight shootout for a place in the last four.
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Q: On a real vector space, can all inner product be expressed by the sum of other inner product? Suppose $V$ is a real vector space, and it has inner products $\phi_1, \phi_2,...,\phi_n$. And since $\phi_1,\phi_2$ are inner products, $\phi_1+\phi_2$ can also be a new inner product in $V$. More general, just let  $a,b>0,a,b\in \mathbb R$, $a\phi_i+b\phi_j$ can be a new inner product on $V$. Thus I wonder that can all inner products on a real vector space be expressed by the sum of other inner products with a positive real coefficient?

A: This is an incomplete answer (but I can't comment), hope it could help.
I suppose $V$ is an $n$-dimensional real vector space.
Choosing a basis for $V$, we get a bijection between inner products and symmetric positive definite $n\times n$ matrices.
My idea is that, if you can construct a basis $\{M_i\}$ for the vector space of symmetric matrices such that $M_i$ are all positive definite,  then all the linear combinations of the $M_i$  with positive coefficients will give an inner product.
For example, you can take as $M_1, \dots M_n$ diagonal matrices having all diagonal entries equal to $1$ except one which equals $2$. Now complete these to a basis adding the matrices having all ones on the diagonal and zero outside except for two simmetric positions where you put $1/2$.
These are all symmetric, positive definite and linearly independent.
Moreover they are a basis being $n(n+1)/2$, which is the dimension of the space of symmetric matrices.
For example, in  $\mathbb{R}^2$ we get
$M_1=\begin{pmatrix}
2 & 0\\
0 & 1
\end{pmatrix}$,
$M_2=\begin{pmatrix}
1 & 0\\
0 & 2
\end{pmatrix}$ and
$M_3=\begin{pmatrix}
1 & 1/2\\
1/2 & 1
\end{pmatrix}$.
Now, as you said, their linear combinations with positive coefficients of the inner products associated to $M_i$ give inner products and all the inner product (being represented by some symmetric matrix) are combination of them (but you don't know if all the coefficients are positive).
It is not clear (at least to me) if all the inner product can be obtained using non negative coefficients, maybe you should take a batter basis or a bigger set.
Edit: in the $\mathbb{R}^2$ case we get $2M_1-M_2+M_3= \begin{pmatrix}
4 & 1/2\\
1/2 & 1
\end{pmatrix}$  which is positive definite.

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One season after serving as ancillary characters on a 67-win team, Kyle Anderson and Jonathon Simmons have been promoted.
Coach Gregg Popovich is counting on the two as vital parts of a bench transformed by offseason trades and signings and a delicate little process called aging.
Gone from last season's bench: David West, who was out the door the moment the Spurs lost to the Thunder; Boris Diaw, currently sipping espresso in the Rocky Mountains; and Boban Marjanovic, now part of the Stan Van Gundy Revival Project in Detroit.
And though their roles were smaller, the disappearances of Andre Miller, Kevin Martin and Matt Bonner add to the roster upheaval.
Manu Ginobili remains, a key cog still, but he's 39 years old and coming off a season in which he averaged a career-low 19.6 minutes. That number will likely dwindle further in his 15th season.
In the wake of all that tumult, the onus to lead the Spurs' reserves falls on one player who averaged 4.5 points in 2015-16 and another who spent the early portion of the season shuffling between San Antonio and Austin. Combined the two have accumulated 2,406 regular-season minutes in the NBA, less than Ginobili played during the 2010-11 season.
Popovich doesn't have many other options – Anderson and Simmons will either find their balance or teeter off into the abyss.
Knowing that, Popovich is finally prepared to let Anderson unleash the full breadth of his ability.
"It's pretty obvious that I need to play him more," Popovich said. "He's gotten to that level where he's become confident, his teammates have become confident in him, his shot has gotten better. So now it's on me to figure out where to put him.
Anderson seems a natural fit to embrace the role Diaw left vacant. A 6-foot-9, 230-pound point forward theoretically presents all sorts of matchup nightmares for opposing coaches; Anderson's evolution into a pliant positional piece like Diaw would allow Popovich to continue his regular-season mad scientist act.
The D-League revelation doesn't carry the same burden Anderson does. His role will certainly increase though, especially if he gains Popovich's full trust.
The Spurs need Simmons' boundless energy and athleticism and defense. They need Simmons to prove he can stay on the court during critical junctures.
"It's about not making unforced errors, mistakes that don't have to be made because the defender maybe made a good play on you or such," Popovich said. "Knowing what your responsibility is defensively, just becoming more of a professional on a more consistent basis, which means solid play. He went to the summer league and improved in that area and he's doing it here.
Anderson and Simmons might not feel the weight of that statement just yet. How they react when they do will play a key role in shaping the months ahead.