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When Your Book Changes Direction--Why Juliann Rich's new book, Caught in the Crossfire, Took Dedication, Hard Work, and Learning New Writing Skills
In 2011, when Juliann Rich first decided to write a book, she intended to write an adult mystery. At the time this was her favorite genre to read so she began sketching out her detective and thinking of the murder plot. Then one day at work she had an image flash through her mind: two boys, holding hands in the middle of a bible camp.
Yikes. Now that's a book, she thought.
She put away her notes on murders and who-dun-its and who-figured-it-outs and began writing their story that night.
As the supportive mom of a gay son and as the daughter of evangelical Christian parents, it is definitely true that Juliann has compassion and insider perspective into the central conflicts within her new young-adult novel, Caught in the Crossfire, which will be released in June from Bold Strokes Books.
From the onset Juliann says she committed to writing a story that would put her readers into the world of a sixteen-year-old boy struggling to integrate his sexual orientation with his faith. It was also important to this author to depict the conservative Christians in her book as she knows them to be: people of devout faith who act according to their beliefs and do not see the harm they are inflicting on their GLBTQ loved ones.
She says knew the test of whether or not she succeeded with that goal would come when her mom read her book.
Juliann's mother called as soon as she finished it. She said it was a beautiful story and that she wanted to talk with Juliann's son now that she understood his journey better.
"Sharing Caught in the Crossfire with my family was incredibly healing," Juliann says. "I have a mission for my book it would be twofold: to let gay teenagers know that God's love for them is unconditional and to spark healing conversations within families that are polarized by their differing beliefs."
How She Began--With Writing Classes!
I first met Juliann in the fall of 2011 when she took my online class, "Your Book Starts Here."
"I giggle now," she says, "but at the time I thought I needed to have a completed draft to take your class, Mary. I wrote like a maniac and completed the first draft two weeks into that first class. At the time I thought I was finished. Remember that? Ah, the bliss of ignorance. Thank goodness for the excellent feedback I got from you and the other writers in that class. I shudder to think of the outcome had I charged ahead into the querying process."
She went on to take the next level of "Your Book Starts Here," as well as "Revising Your Young Adult Novel" with Megan Atwood, and she was chosen for a mentorship with Ben Barnhart, former acquiring editor at Milkweed Editions.
In the end she took Caught in the Crossfire through multiple passes of revision.
Along the way many aspects of the novel changed. She switched from third person to first person point of view, rewrote it from past tense to present tense and then back to past tense. "This was amazingly helpful and breathed an immediacy and life into my manuscript," she says. "I read my novel aloud so many times I can quote sections of it verbatim. This allowed me to hear the rhythm of the words, as well as spot redundant or awkward word choices. Eventually I realized that all this work had one goal: to get my forty-five-year-old self out of the way and let Jonathan's (my main character) voice come through."
By April 2012, Ben Barnhart, her mentor, gave the thumbs up. Caught in the Crossfire was ready for submission to literary agents.
Her Biggest Learning Curve
"Acquiring restraint in my writing," she says, when asked what was her biggest learning curve. "My natural inclination, in writing and in life, is to spoil the people I love. I want to give everything I possibly can. But the best books hold enough back that the reader has to figure some things out. I knew this as a reader--love this as a reader--but it didn't come naturally to me as a writer."
She also says that writing setting is tough for her. "I might have awesomely developed characters with authentic dialogue, but for all the reader knows, they could be floating in the stratosphere having a heart-to-heart. Seriously. This is an aspect of my work that I continue to strive to improve."
Her favorite character is and always will be the main character, Jonathan Cooper. He has become like another son to her. "As an idealist, Jonathan always hopes for the peaceful resolution," Juliann says, "and I love that about him. I just finished writing the sequel to Caught in the Crossfire, and I had to put Jonathan through hell in that book. It darned near killed me to make him hurt so much, but he revealed a resilience and strength of character that surprised even me. That's the cool thing about writing a trilogy. I get to know my characters on the deepest of levels."
Most difficult? That one's easy too. Jonathan falls in love with Ian McGuire, also sixteen, also gay, definitely not into the whole "kum ba ya" thing, as he puts it. Ian is a deeply wounded boy who expresses his hurt through rage. "Anger is a challenging emotion for me," Juliann says, "so writing Ian pushed me to take huge leaps of growth as I explored emotional truth. For that I will always be grateful to him."
How Did You Find an Agent and Sell Your Book to a Publisher?
"I did two things simultaneously after finishing revision on Caught in the Crossfire. First, I established my social media presence: my website (www.juliannrich.com), a WordPress blog, and my Twitter and Facebook pages. I focused all my sites on communicating one message: why I was the right person to write Caught in the Crossfire. I wanted interested literary agents who might Google me to see an established platform and to know that I am willing to partner with them in the promotion and marketing of my book and brand," Juliann says.
She recommends a great resource to learn how to build a platform: Get Known before the Book Deal by Christina Katz. "Is this mandatory?" she adds. "No. Great writing will land that deal with or without a social media presence. But it's an edge, and I wanted every possible edge going into querying."
The second step she took after establishing her platform was to prepare the proposal package: a tightly written query letter, synopsis, blurb and tag line. She used the following books to research literary agents and to help her learn how to write a proposal package according to industry standards:
How to Write A Book Proposal, Michael Larsen
How to Get a Literary Agent, Michael Larsen
Guide to Getting Published, Writer's Market
2012 Guide to Literary Agents
2012 Writer's Market, Deluxe Edition
A one-year subscription to Writer's Market (www.writersmarket.com) came with the purchase of the book, 2012 Writer's Market, Deluxe Edition, where Juliann could search by genre and subgenre. This was amazingly helpful, she says. She chose Young Adult (genre) and GLBT (subgenre), hit search, and a beautiful list of literary agents who were looking for books like Caught in the Crossfire appeared. It even provided links to their websites where she could read their submission guidelines. Following the agents' submission guidelines is rule # 1, she says.
To stay organized, Juliann also kept an Excel spreadsheet to track the agents names, dates of her submissions, and their responses. "In the end I submitted to thirty-two literary agents. I received five requests for partials (sample chapters) and three requests for the full manuscript."
In September 2012, one year after she wrote the first draft of Caught in the Crossfire, she accepted an offer of representation from Saritza Hernandez of the Corvisiero Literary Agency. Her passion for GLBT YA lit impressed Juliann. "She struck me as capable of navigating the ever-changing scene of the publishing industry," the author says. "It was a great decision, as she sold Caught in the Crossfire to Bold Strokes Books just months later."
Pansters or Plotters
"A lot of people put writers into two groups: pantsers and plotters," Juliann says. "Pantsers are people who write with no real outline or plan. They follow the whim of inspiration. Sometimes they discover magic, and sometimes they write themselves into corners. Plotters outline or storyboard or spreadsheet their story. Whatever planning format they choose, they know their plot before the first word is written."
Juliann wrote the first draft of Caught in the Crossfire as a pantser, mainly because "I didn't know any better," she says. "It flowed and it was ugly and messy and wonderful. Once I started taking your classes, Mary, I learned about your W storyboard technique and applied it in revision, where I spotted missing plot points, a sagging climax, and unsupported turning points."
She approached the sequel, Searching for Grace, thinking she would save herself all those levels of revision by plotting the book from the onset. She had her arc, her turning points, her "W" storyboard all filled out, but it didn't work. The story was too dark, too rigid. It lacked the spontaneity and element of surprise that Juliann loved about Crossfire.
"So I threw out my outline and went back in blind. I let my characters lead me, and it made all the difference in the world to the sequel."
She has concluded that writing processes exist on a spectrum with plotters on one end and pantsers at the other. "Me? I'm best when I'm fluid," she says. "I have learned to hold the novel loosely in my mind in the drafting stage. Allowing my characters to breathe and influence the direction we go in, yields the most authentic and unique first draft for me. I love that moment when my characters show up on the page with something they're dying to say. That's the best stuff, if you ask me, and I need to protect their freedom to do that.
"However, once that first draft is pulled together, in all its gore and mess, I am a plotter in the truest sense of the word. I flip on my editorial brain and examine my manuscript from the outside in, looking for ways to cut away the excess and let the most potent truth shine through."
Caught in the Crossfire will be released on June 16th, 2014 from Bold Strokes Books. It is currently available for preorder through www.boldstrokesbooks.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble in Trade Paperback as well as eBook format. After its release it will also be available in most public library systems and in many bookstores.
Juliann will be celebrating its release at Addendum Books on Saturday, June 21 at 7:00 p.m. If you're in the Twin Cities area, please join her at the Caught in the Crossfire Launch Party. She promises it will be a fun and memorable event.
And her second novel, Searching for Grace, will be coming out with Bold Strokes Books Fall, 2014. More details can be found on her website at www.juliannrich.com.
Here it is, the first day of spring for us in New England, and I'm both eager and nervous. Snow still covers the yard, but the light is stronger and birds are in their nesting frenzy. Days pass quickly. Outdoors will become part of my life again soon.
I'm a passionate gardener and kayaker. So spring, summer, and fall predictably pull me away from my writing--big time. I'm eager to get back to the quiet water and the glide of my kayak. I crave walking barefoot through the new garden, feeling the soft air.
But here's my concern: Will I slowly abandon my book as the warm weather calls me away from my desk?
There's nothing wrong with this--but my book is really important to me. I made a commitment to it last year, to take it through final revision. I have given the feedback time to simmer. I have drafted a plan of attack. But it takes sitting down at the desk and putting in the time. And I love it, if I have some way to make myself show up every day.
About this time of year, I set up or renew an accountability system for myself. I know what will happen if I don't.
This Week's Writing Exercise
This week's writing exercise is to explore and try one of the systems below, or use one of your own. See if you start a new rhythm of accountability, perhaps writing five out of seven days each week.
1. Sign up for a class where you have to write each week.
I like to sign up for an online writing class in fall and spring. I'm comfortable with the format and I love the anonymity of virtual gatherings. I look for classes that require me to practice new skills and workshop (share) my writing each week, if possible. Launching into a new writing community is scary at first, but I have experienced only positive results. Often the group is so fun to be with, we stay in touch after the class is over.
2. Call a writing buddy and set up a check-in system.
My second accountability tool is to renew my connection with my writing partners. Set up freewriting sessions with a writing buddy. Monthly or weekly or daily check-ins, depending on how much you write.
3. Try Jerry Seinfeld's technique: Create a chain you don't want to break.Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret is a technique he used when he was just starting out. The goal is to not break the chain of red X's on the calendar. LifeHacker also offers online calendars to use for this technique. Works great for anyone who loves to-do lists.
Bottom line: Most of us, even very disciplined folks, need something to keep them going. If they know that others are depending on them, waiting for them, expecting something, they'll try to deliver. Writing a book is a long-term process and these accountability systems not only support you but get you to, as one student put it, "shut up and just write."
That's all that counts, in the end. Whether you write. Or not.
"Did I Write That?!" What Happens to Your Writing as You Grow in Skill
Practically every week, I get an SOS email from one of my students. They've just discovered a clue about their book manuscript. A light bulb has gone off--they realize something they didn't know before. That's very cool.
The SOS is a cry for help, not because of this newly realized writing skill, but because they've read back into earlier chapters. "I can't believe I really wrote that crap," they say. "And now I have to redo it all."
Maybe poets and short-story writers and essayists don't run into this desperation. A book writer will, certainly. Because a book manuscript is a long writing effort. It can take a year or three or ten to get it tight and right. We begin writing our book with a certain raw understanding of the story. Most times, we have a limited view of our characters, plot, or topic. We have no clue how appropriate page-turning tension will manifest on the page.
This is good and necessary. Growth has to happen. The writing process isn't static. As time passes, as we learn new skills, we see our book in a new light.
I remember hiking the Grand Canyon. There was the trail, then there were plateaus or ledges where you could rest and admire the view. Book writers are on the trail, then they are standing on the plateau. They look at what they've done and see it differently. That's absolutely required.
But the depression sets in because we see how rudimentary our early drafts are. We think: Was all that hard work wasted? Should I have gotten the MFA, taken the writing classes, upgraded my skills before starting out?
It's never wasted time. We acquaint ourselves with our own stories--fictional or non--by immersion in them. By practice. Like becoming fluent in a foreign language, each book requires our time and loving attention. If you consider it a practice, it helps relieve the sense of pressure that you have to get it right the first time through.
Allow yourself room to grow.
Here's what I say to my students when they ask what to do with those SFD (shitty first draft) chapters that are so below their current skills.
Consider them in three levels. Ask yourself these questions about what can be salvaged.
1. Content: Is there content here that I can still use? Perhaps the scene itself, the research, the idea is intact. Maybe it's OK, content-wise. That's a huge step. Continue to question #2.
2. Structure: Is it just a matter of placement (structure)? Maybe this particular section needs to be located elsewhere in the book, and I didn't see that before.
Many writers pile backstory into the beginning of a manuscript, as a way to establish the story's credentials. Once the story is strong on its own, the writer sees that background information is less needed. But it's still good, and it can be moved to a later spot in the manuscript, where it flows better.
3. Language: Is the content OK and the placement (structure) working fine, but the way the writing comes across feels awkward?
When we begin a book, we often "tell" ourselves the story. The narrative is dry, less scene-oriented, less demonstrated (shown) than delivered. It's simply a question of taking the good material you already have in place and reworking the language, the balance of scene and summary, the show/tell ratio.
Writing a book is an act of discovery. If you know it all before you begin, there will be no surprises. And if the writer is not surprised, the reader won't be either.
Keep your early drafts--there's often gold in them. Or at least enough shine to capture and build on.
Personal History: Where We Come From and How It Informs Our Writing
When my first novel was published, the most common question I got was: Is this autobiographical? How much of your life is in this book?
I don't know why readers, and interviewers, wonder about that. Maybe they are trying to see the writer behind the words, align the real life with the made-up one. I think the deeper question might be: Where did you get your stuff? where did these ideas come from?
I couldn't match myself with any of my characters, truthfully. They were in their late teens, for one. I barely remember those years. Glad not to. They were falling in love for the first time. I do remember some of that. One was a championship waterskiier--not me, for sure--and the other was a budding artist--yes, some of that is in my life too. The location was real, a place I'd spent many summers. But the story taking place on that lake--the name of the lake, too--was completely made up.
I saw their disappointment when I said this. No, it's not my life, my history. But the question made me think.
There was a lot of me in that story, even if the facts weren't from my life. There was emotional truth, things I value and believe. Like helping others and doing the right thing. Like pain and heartache and taking risks. Like trying to figure out your place in the world, and if you even have one. And relationships too, echoed some of my personal history. I grew up with a talented but frustrated artist for a father, someone I loved but didn't get close to until near his death. My mother was equally talented--and she, like the fictional mother in my novel, flew small planes for many years. I'd even lost a sibling unexpectedly, as Molly, my heroine, almost did when her brother had his boating accident.
So, if I tallied up the similarities of emotional truth, there were quite a few. I had a better answer for those questions. Yes, there is much of me in this book, even though it never happened to me. It's a collage of who I am, how my personal history informs my writing.
Why We Get Stuck as Writers
I remember when I was working on the novel. I got stuck. A writing friend said to go back to myself, rather than to my characters. "Mine who you are," she said. I imagined myself a character in a novel (and sometimes, don't we all feel like one!), with values and beliefs, preferences and fears, things I knew and things I didn't know. Not the facts of where I grew up, but what I learned about mind, heart, and life in general because of this place, this family, my education, culture, religion, and friends. From my travels and the books I read.
I realize my effort to make something completely apart from myself was exactly why I was stuck just then in my writing practice.
So I began to reacquaint myself with my own personal history. Not the facts, but the truths of it.
Writers can get stuck for a lot of reasons. But a big one for me is not bringing myself into my own writing. I have to acknowledge and use my personal history. Otherwise my writing is unsatisfying, and I start to avoid it.
I'm not talking about the facts of your history, although that will certainly feature in many books. But don't let the facts get in the way of the truth.
This week's exercise is what I used to say hello to myself again. It enriched the writing I did in all the months that followed. I've adapted it from many sources, but I want to give a particular shout-out to life coach Nancy Okerlund, author of Introverts at Ease and the e-newletter, Introvert Energy.
1. Spend a few days listing your values. Focus on the top ten. Maybe you'd list "being a good neighbor," "order and beauty," "honoring diversity," "having enough money," or "solitude."
2. Sit with these, maybe even discuss them with a non-critical friend who knows you well. You're trying to come up with a picture of yourself. What you believe is most important.
3. Finally, consider how these values appear in your book. Are they present at all? The story may have characters who demonstrate the opposite of your values--that's still having values present in your story, especially if the character realizes some truth by the end.
4. If you're stuck with your writing, see if placing one of your values into a chapter might make a difference.


This was so awesome. I think it's my favorite in the series so far. Dean and Allie were fantastic characters. I was hooked from the beginning!
I loved Dean and Allie so much. They had a nice amount of tension and angst. Great animosity and verbal sparring that turned into really hot chemistry. Loved the story and the progression. I thought there was a great pace and build throughout as well as excellent character development as they both grown and come together. There is a great amount of hot and dirty fun, loved those naughty interactions. There is some humor involved, a bit of drama and emotion but oh man, emotional explosion at the end! That last 25% just about killed me. I did not see that coming at all! It was rather gut wrenching but it made for an excellent story arc as the characters developed. I thought it really kept the story fresh.
I loved all the roommates and their girlfriends and how everyone interacted. I had a lot of questions about Tuck throughout and then bam! the very end brought it all home. Oh man. Shoot me now. Seriously! I was laughing and saying OMG at the same time – I couldn't believe it. I normally am not a fan of cliffhangers but this one was awesome! I predict Tucker's story is going to be pretty epic! (It's a cliffhanger that leads you into the next story, Dean and Allie get full closure in this one).
Elle Kennedy rocks at dual POV! Totally solid read. There was just really great progression throughout that had me turning the page as quick as I could. Great characters that I fell in love with the more the story went on. Another great read in the Off-campus series. I highly recommend it!


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Circus reinvented in Montreal, this time with high-tech vibe
A performer at the 2019 Montreal Cirque Festival—the city is becoming "a hub for creative entertainment," says Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte
Montreal—the Canadian city that spawned the global juggernaut Cirque du Soleil—has once again reimagined the circus, this time tapping into the rich animation and video game production talent found in the Quebec metropolis.
In the old port district, between a giant bridge over the Saint Lawrence river and a Ferris wheel, two strange white pyramids sprouted up this summer—an edgy 21st century big top.
They are part of the latest act from Guy Laliberte, the founder of the venerable Cirque du Soleil who, after selling his company to Chinese and American investors in 2015, started a new venture: Lune Rouge (Red Moon).
That company is behind the strange pyramids of PY1, a show that blends acrobatics and multimedia flair with vibrant sounds, lasers, 360-degree projections and special effects.
"Montreal is undeniably the circus capital of the world, but is also becoming known as a hub for creative entertainment," says Lune Rouge's artistic director Jean Guibert.
Its first show, "Through the Echoes," tells audience members in a jam-packed 60 minutes "the story of the creation of the universe up to now," according to Guibert, a Frenchman who came to Canada in the early 2000s to work for Cirque.
What does that mean in real terms?
The interior of the main big top is turned into a giant four-sided screen, where abstract images are projected, accompanied by a voiceover about our collective cosmic history to an electro-pop soundtrack.
The Montreal Cirque Festival, which took place in July, grew out of the global success of Cirque du Soleil
Beyond the actual show, the PY1 venue is transformed on some nights into a massive futuristic dance club. In the morning, it's used as a huge yoga studio.
In the fall, the 600-seat white pyramids will be moved from Montreal to Miami, where augmented reality glasses will be handed out to showgoers to watch virtual actors and acrobats leap off the screens.
Hive of talent
Montreal, a city of four million, boasts an eye-popping 140 video game studios, including a branch of one of the world's largest, Ubisoft.
"We are looking to tap into the expertise of video game makers and others as we begin to break barriers between the worlds of showbiz, circus arts, theater and video games, and merge these disciplines to create new forms of entertainment," Guibert told AFP.
Many circus companies are now mixing elements of dance, visual arts and music into their shows
The city hosts several annual major cultural events such as the annual Montreal Jazz Festival and comedy festival Just For Laughs, attracting scores of entertainers who, according to Guibert, have helped turn it into "a world center of expertise in creativity but also in production."
For Nadine Marchand, director of the Montreal Cirque Festival, which grew out of the global success of Cirque du Soleil, many circus companies are now mixing elements of dance, visual arts and music into their shows.
Guibert says that added to these elements is "technology which allows us to cross-breed various forms of entertainment and continue to surprise people."
Bosch Dreams, which was showcased at the Montreal Cirque Festival in July, has also sought to blend technology, theater and circus arts.
Written and directed by the Montreal artist collective The 7 Fingers, it delves into the world of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, bringing to life his best-known paintings through digital animations on a giant screen, interspersed with performances by acrobats.
Montreal has a wealth of "inventiveness," says Nadine Marchand, the director of the Montreal Cirque Festival
Montreal's National Circus School has also been pumping out highly-skilled acrobats since its founding in 1981, noted Anthony Venisse, who also produced a show for the street festival this year.
"The National Circus School has placed a lot of focus on technique… and that bolsters graduates' artistic abilities," Venisse said.
Marchand noted: "These artists who could have gone into theater or dance have instead opted to join the circus," thanks to the wealth of "inventiveness."
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MUNCIE, Ind. (Sept. 23, 2015)– A Muncie man is in jail after allegedly beating and drowning his 8-month-old puppy for wetting on his bed.
Jacob Joe "Jackie" Rodgers, 26, of West Bethel Avenue, was arrested late Tuesday afternoon after his roommates came to City Hall to inform police what they had witnessed. They told police that Rodgers became extremely angry after his puppy had wet Rodgers' bed. Rodgers told his roommates that he was going to kill his dog for those actions. The roommates tried to intervene, but Rodgers had locked them out.
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My daughter and I are taking this cruise for the first time. The destinations are Grand Turk, San Juan, St Thomas and St Maarten, none of which we have ever visited before (am talking to you from Surrey in England!).
Has anyone got any advice on good things to do/see at any of these places? Haven't looked at any of the recommendations of tours suggested by the cruise line (I know these will be pretty expensive) so just seeking advice in case we can do things on our own.


How does the creative person function in a market culture? In the 25 years since The Gift was first published, this question has become increasingly more difficult to answer. Lewis Hyde posits some answers as he examines the way artists use their natural gifts in the world today and the possibility of resurrecting the spirit of generosity intrinsic to the making of art.
Read an excerpt from The Gift.


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Moderate quake hits İstanbul, no damage reported
A moderate earthquake has hit off the coast of İstanbul in the Sea of Marmara, affecting some industrial Turkish cities, though no casualties or damages were reported in the area.
Boğaziçi University's kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute says the 4.2 magnitude quake struck on Monday at 5:45 p.m. at a depth of 12 kilometers with its epicenter in in the Marmara Sea, 18 kilometers off the Avcılar district.
Earthquakes frequently rattle İstanbul, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.
The most recent devastating earthquake to strike İstanbul occurred in Aug. 17, 1999. A 7.6-magnitude tremor struck at 3:02 a.m. local time, killing tens of thousands of people.
[todayszaman.com]
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M 4.2 - WESTERN TURKEY - 2015-11-16 ....local time: 17:45...
Marmara Denizi'nde 4,2 Şiddetinde Deprem...
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One of my favorite experiences in France is the market. It doesn't matter if they are selling birds, flowers, antiques or food--it's all wonderful, different and visually stimulating. I'll take a good French market in any form!
My market favorites down in the Dordogne included Charlotte strawberries (which we caught at the end of the season...wahoo!), acacia honey, fruit rouges jam, walnuts and sweet, little potimarron (in the US it's called kuri squash). Half of these we enjoyed immediately and the other half we tucked in our suitcases with all our rinsed out yogurt jars (hello pots de cremes!). When we lived in France during our renovation, walking around this very market was my weekly respite. Despite having visited numerous times already, it still thrills me every, single time. I feel like there is always something new to discover and I never take for granted what an absolute delight it is to be there.
Just GORGEOUS! I adore France (that bread alone gets me!) Life there is so beautiful - I lived in Fontainebleau for 3 months last year and dream about it daily.
I stil think about that market,dream about it..
Je découvre avec tellement de plaisir ce blog !!!!
Tout m'enchante, les couleurs, les parfums ..
I agree, there's something amazing about a French market!
Beautiful pictures (specially the one with the bike). Nice post!


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Two Men & a Little '80s: (DC Reboot
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David Cooper and Matthew Krause, the two best critics you've never heard about, focus their wisdom and insight on the '80s, examining 40 titles that made them chortle, snivel, bellow, and shriek, and a few that just plain drove them to drink. With a nostalgic eye and a self-effacing flare for the dramatic, Cooper and Krause stir the cauldron of their shared past to dredge up memories both tranquil and troubled, taking the reader on a magical tour of the decade through the eyes of two land-locked, wide-eyed dreamers.
Matthew Krause and David Cooper were raised as brothers by a Ninja master, who trained them in the sacred art of Kotoba ("words"). Upon reaching puberty, they were pitted against each other in a blindfolded poetry death match, where they battled to a draw. In order to generate a sense of dramatic tension, their master tossed them out of his Dosho and forced them to embark on separate walkabouts to find themselves.
The two were reunited years later at Emporia State University. Here they sharpened their word-wrangling skills, periodically sneaking out of the training compound to binge on midnight movies.
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Seminole County deputies search for missing, endangered man
Deputies are searching for 64-year-old James Gridley, who they said is dependent on medication.
Updated: 9:03 PM EDT Jul 6, 2017
Deputies are searching for 64-year-old James Gridley, who they said is dependent on medication.Family members reported Gridley missing Thursday afternoon when they couldn't find him. Deputies said Gridley was last seen on Monday when he left his home on Cooper Ridge Court in unincorporated Lake Mary.Gridley has a potentially life-threatening illness and is dependent on medical treatment.He is described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 400 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing dark-colored shorts, a shirt with horizontal stripes and white shoes.Anyone with information on Gridley's whereabouts is urged to call 911 or the Seminole County Sheriff's Office at 407-665-6650.
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Family members reported Gridley missing Thursday afternoon when they couldn't find him. Deputies said Gridley was last seen on Monday when he left his home on Cooper Ridge Court in unincorporated Lake Mary.
Gridley has a potentially life-threatening illness and is dependent on medical treatment.
He is described as being 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 400 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing dark-colored shorts, a shirt with horizontal stripes and white shoes.
Anyone with information on Gridley's whereabouts is urged to call 911 or the Seminole County Sheriff's Office at 407-665-6650.


Nearly five years ago, Andy proposed to me at sunset. We were on the cliff side in Pentire, Cornwall. It was such a wonderful day, spent with family and friends and the start of the new chapter of our relationship together.
We had just finished a lovely meal at the Lewinnick Lodge and Andy suggested we take a short stroll to see the sun set. Proposing in Thai, Andy asked me to marry him and obviously, I said, 'Yes!'.
We recently took a walk there with our two children, my mother-in-law and Andy's brother. Oh, and we mustn't forget Sally, the dog! It's funny to think how far we have come since then and how much we have changed now that we have become parents.
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by Thulaja, Naidu Ratnala
The Rafflesia belongs to the family Rafflesiaceae and is one of the world's largest flowers. Rafflesia arnoldi, which can grow up to 150 cm in diameter, is the largest flower in the world.1 It was discovered by Sir Stamford Raffles and Dr Joseph Arnold on 19 May 1818.2
Discovery of Rafflesia by the Western world
Rafflesia arnoldi was discovered in Sumatra by an exploration party comprising chiefly Sir Stamford Raffles, his wife Lady Sophia Raffles, and his doctor and naturalist Dr Joseph Arnold at Pulau Lebar on the Manna River on either 19 or 20 May 1818.3
According to an account by Dr Arnold in his letter to Dawson Turner, a close friend of his, a local servant had first discovered a very large flower and led Arnold to it. Arnold thus became the first person from the exploration party to see the Rafflesia. The flower was large, measuring a full yard across. Dr Arnold described seeing "a swarm of flies hovering over" the flower and laying their eggs in it, and it produced "precisely the smell of tainted beef". He proceeded to remove the flower and sent the specimen back to Manna, but the specimen was later found to have turned brown and infested with maggots. In addition, he also made a coloured drawing of the flower.4
Unfortunately, Arnold passed away shortly after on 26 July 1818 from a fever he contracted while in Sumatra.5 The discovery was announced by Raffles in his letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society,6 on 13 August 1818. The letter also mentioned Arnold's death earlier in July 1818.7 Arnold's drawing and specimens were then brought by naturalist Dr Thomas Horsfield8 to England and came into the hands of Robert Brown, a highly-respected naturalist9 in England.10
Robert Brown wrote a paper titled "An Account of a New Genus of Plants, Named Rafflesia" and read it to the Linnean Society of London in 1820. In the paper, he named the plant Rafflesia arnoldi. He had proposed to name the genus Rafflesia in honour of Raffles, who was the sponsor of the exploration trip and a man of high repute in the English scientific scene,11 and the species arnoldi after Joseph Arnold.12 Before this, naturalist William Jack, who was Arnold's replacement, had unofficially named the plant Rafflesia titan in the third paper in his Descriptions of Malayan Plants.13 For his paper, Brown had referenced Arnold's notes, the drawings made by him and Raffles and his specimens in order to describe the plant. The paper also featured the first published illustrated sections of the flower by Francis Bauer.14 At that time, the discovery of the flower was greeted with much excitement in Europe.15
Two decades earlier, sightings of another species of Rafflesia in Java was reported by Louis Auguste Deschamp, a French surgeon-naturalist. He was recognised as the first from the West to find and describe the Rafflesia. He had sailed to Java in March 1794 and carried out nature explorations, when he discovered a specimen, speculated to be Rafflesia patma, in 1797. However, his notes and specimens were confiscated when the ship he was sailing in was taken by the British Navy on his way back to France in 1803, and his material only reappeared many years later.16
The Rafflesia is found in the tropical rainforests of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. It occurs only in certain habitats as a parasite on the Tetrastigma species of woody vines.17 It is a very rare flower, difficult to reproduce in laboratories and its dried specimen is difficult to preserve. The Rafflesia can measure between 36 to 42 inches in diameter and weigh between 9 to 12 kg.18
Since all the plants of this family are parasitic, they do not have any roots, stems or leaves and lack chlorophyll. Individual flowers or buds simply sprout on the species of Tetrastigma woody vines. Some flowers are monoecius, with both sexes in the same flower.19
Usage and potential
Prior to the discovery and introduction of this flower to the western world, the indigenous communities who had known about its presence were using the Rafflesia for medicinal purposes. Rafflesia buds were used by women to stop internal bleeding and shrink the womb after childbirth.20 In particular, it was used as a love-potion and to hasten childbirth by the Sakai tribes in Malaya, and as an aphrodisiac and astringent by "high-born" women in Java.21 In spite of its various uses, the chemical composition of Rafflesia flowers has not been extensively analysed yet. However, preliminary phytochemical screening has showed no evidence of the flowers' medicinal properties. On the contrary, the buds and flowers have a high content of tannin and phenols that can be toxic when taken in large quantities.22
In Thailand, young buds of the flower are eaten as a delicacy.
In Sabah, Malaysia, the Rafflesia was considered a flower of spirits or a taboo flower because of its foul smell and gigantic size. In Thailand, the flowers were believed to have mystical powers that could help one attain nirvana.23 In 1990, the Rafflesia was also designated as one of the three national flowers of Indonesia.24 The number of Rafflesia dwindled after its use as herbal medicine became a fad in the 2000s, leading to the Orang Asli harvesting the flowers and selling them to shops and middlemen.25 The Rafflesia was also threatened by loss of habitat arising from deforestation.26 To solve the problem, a scheme was started in Malaysia to train indigenous groups to become custodians and guides for ecotours instead.27
It was reported in 1987 that the herbarium in the Singapore Botanic Gardens held two dried specimens of the Rafflesia – Rafflesia hasseltii and Rafflesia tuan-mudae.28 Two years before, in 1985, it had attempted to grow the Rafflesia in Singapore by inoculating some seeds into its host vine Tetrastigma lanceolarium, which was grown at the Botanic Gardens on the request of Dr Willem Meijer, an expert on the Rafflesia. The experiment did not seem to have borne fruit as there were no further reports on it.29 In 2019, the National Heritage Board and National Parks Board launched the BalikSG app which used augmented reality to show users plants and animals named by or after Raffles at the new Raffles Garden in Fort Canning Park. One of the plants featured in the app was the Rafflesia arnoldi.30
Common name: Rafflesia.
Other names: Bunga patma,31 Yak-yak, Patma raksasa, Patma kemubut, Krubut, Pakma (Sarawak), Kukuanga (Sabah), Wusak-tombuakar (Tambunan), Ambun ambun, Kemubut (Sumatra), Kerubut,32 Petimun Sikinlili (Sumatra).33
Other common names: Devil's betel box, sun toadstool, stinking corpse lily.34
Species of Rafflesia
As of 2001, the species of Rafflesia with their scientific names, years and places of discovery were listed as follows:
1821: Rafflesia arnoldi, Sumatra, Borneo.
1825: Rafflesia patma, Sumatra, Java.
1841: Rafflesia manillana, Leyte Island, Philippines.
1850: Rafflesia rochussenii, Sumatra, Java.
1868: Rafflesia tuan-mudae, Borneo.
1879: Rafflesia hasseltii, Sumatra.
1884: Rafflesia schadenbergiana, Mindanao, Philippines
1910: Rafflesia cantleyi, Peninsular Malaysia
1918: Rafflesia borneensis, Borneo.
1918: Rafflesia ciliata, Borneo.
1918: Rafflesia witkampii, Borneo.
1984: Rafflesia gadutensis, Sumatra.
1984: Rafflesia keithii, Borneo.
1984: Rafflesia kerrii, Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
1984: Rafflesia micropylora, Sumatra.
1984: Rafflesia pricei, Borneo.
1989: Rafflesia tengku-adlinii, Borneo.35
Naidu Ratnala Thulaja
1. Nais, J. (2001). Rafflesia of the world. Malaysia: Sabah Parks, p. 14. (Call no.: RSEA q583.2095953 JAM); Exotic & endangered. (2011, January 1). The Straits Times, p. 7. Retrieved from NewspaperSG; Brown, R. (1821). An Account of a New Genus of Plants, Named Rafflesia. Retrieved 2019, September 2 from Biodiversity Heritage Library website: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.140121
2. Nais, J. (2001). Rafflesia of the world. Malaysia: Sabah Parks, p. 27. (Call no.: RSEA q583.2095953 JAM)
3. Bastin, J. (2019). Sir Stamford Raffles and some of his friends and contemporaries: A memoir of the founder of Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 240–241. (Call no.: RSING 959.5703092 BAS-[HIS])
4. Bastin, J. (2019). Sir Stamford Raffles and some of his friends and contemporaries: A memoir of the founder of Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 240–241. (Call no.: RSING 959.5703092 BAS-[HIS]); Bastin, J. (1973). Dr Joseph Arnold and the discovery of Rafflesia arnoldi in West Sumatra in 1818. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 6(5), p. 334. (Call no.: RCLOS 583.2 BAS-[JSB])
5. Bastin, J. (2019). Sir Stamford Raffles and some of his friends and contemporaries: A memoir of the founder of Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, p. 245. (Call no.: RSING 959.5703092 BAS-[HIS])
6. Bastin, J. (2019). Sir Stamford Raffles and some of his friends and contemporaries: A memoir of the founder of Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 179, 245. (Call no.: RSING 959.5703092 BAS-[HIS])
7. Bastin, J. (1973). Dr Joseph Arnold and the discovery of Rafflesia arnoldi in West Sumatra in 1818. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 6(5), p. 335. (Call no.: RCLOS 583.2 BAS-[JSB]); Brown, R. (1821). An Account of a New Genus of Plants, Named Rafflesia. Retrieved 2019, September 2 from Biodiversity Heritage Library website: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.140121
10. Brown, R. (1821). An Account of a New Genus of Plants, Named Rafflesia. Retrieved 2019, September 2 from Biodiversity Heritage Library website: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.140121
11. Bernard, T. P. (2015). Rafflesia in the natural and imperial imagination. In Damodaran, V., Winterbottom, A. and Lester, A. (2015). The East India Company and the natural world. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 147. (Call no.: RSEA 508.54 EAS)
12. Brown, R. (1821). An Account of a New Genus of Plants, Named Rafflesia. Retrieved 2019, September 2 from Biodiversity Heritage Library website: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.140121; Bastin, J. (1990). Sir Stamford Raffles and the Study of Natural History in Penang, Singapore and Indonesia. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 63(2), 1–25. Retrieved from JSTOR via NLB's eResources website: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/
13. Bastin, J. (2019). Sir Stamford Raffles and some of his friends and contemporaries: A memoir of the founder of Singapore. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, p. 283, 290. (Call no.: RSING 959.5703092 BAS-[HIS])
14. Noltie, H. J. (2009). Raffles' ark redrawn: natural history drawings from the collection of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. London: The British Library and Edinburgh: The Royal Botanic Garden, pp. 34–35, 94. (Call no.: RSING 508.0222 NOL)
15. Bastin, J. (1990). Sir Stamford Raffles and the Study of Natural History in Penang, Singapore and Indonesia. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 63(2), 1–25. Retrieved from JSTOR via NLB's eResources website: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/
16. Bernard, T. P. (2015). Rafflesia in the natural and imperial imagination. In Damodaran, V., Winterbottom, A. and Lester, A. (Eds). (2015). The East India Company and the natural world. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 149. (Call no.: RSEA 508.54 EAS); Nais, J. (2001). Rafflesia of the world. Malaysia: Sabah Parks, pp. 23–24. (Call no.: RSEA q583.2095953 JAM)
17. Kamarudin, M.S. (1991). Rafflesia: Magnificent flower of Sabah. Kota Kinabalu: Borneo Pub. Co., pp. 6–7. (Call no.: RSEA 581.5249 KAM)
18. Nais, J. (2001). Rafflesia of the world. Malaysia: Sabah Parks, p. 14. (Call no.: RSEA q583.2095953 JAM)
19. Nais, J. (2001). Rafflesia of the world. Malaysia: Sabah Parks, p. 1. (Call no.: RSEA q583.2095953 JAM)
21. Found—a freak flower. (1957, September 12). The Straits Times, p. 9. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
24. National flower Rafflesia. (1990, June 8). The Straits Times, p. 21. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
25. Rafflesia may fall prey to herbal fad. (2004, September 28). The Straits Times, p. 7; Rare flowers plucked and sold for $1.45. (2001, December 14). The Straits Times, p. 31. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
26. Nais, J. (2001). Rafflesia of the world. Malaysia: Sabah Parks, p. 193. (Call no.: RSEA q583.2095953 JAM)
27. Blooms which are the bud of foul smells. (2009, November 15). The New Paper, p. 20. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
28. Where flowers in the region are preserved. (1987, July 21). The Straits Times, p. 3. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
29. Hoe, I. (1985, November 10). Bid to grow giant bloom here. The Straits Times, p. 10. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
30. Nine gardens open at Fort Canning Park; augmented reality app lets visitors learn history behind them. (2019, May 27). Today. Retrieved from Today website: https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/nine-historical-gardens-open-fort-canning-park-escalators-augmented-reality-app-enhance
31. Holttum, R. E. (1950, October 3). The jungle's largest flower: Bunga Pakma. The Straits Times, p. 6; A flower that is on the verge of extinction. (1985, March 19). The Straits Times, p. 8. Retrieved from NewspaperSG.
32. Ridley, H. N. (1967). The flora of the Malay Peninsula, Volume 3. London: L. Reeve & Co., Ltd, p. 19. (Call no.: RSING 581.9595 RID); Ridley, H. N and Curtis, C. (1902). Malay plant names. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 38, p. 106. Retrieved from JSTOR via NLB's eResources website: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/
35. Nais, J. (2001). Rafflesia of the world. Malaysia: Sabah Parks, pp. 27‒28. (Call no.: RSEA q583.2095953 JAM)
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End game for USC's Nick Perry
By Scott Wolf | swolf@scng.com | Daily News
April 25, 2012 at 12:00 a.m.
USC defensive end Nick Perry will be in New York on Thursday for the NFL draft, which means he is confident his dream of becoming a first-round selection will come true.
Last month, Perry would not say if he would travel to the Big Apple for the draft, unsure of his status. But he's now comfortably listed in mock drafts as a mid-to-late first-rounder and will be one of 26 players attending the festivities.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," Perry said. "I do expect (to be a first-round pick)."
That never was a certainty during his three-year USC career. His talent was never questioned as quarterback Matt Barkley labeled him a "physical freak" and Perry recorded an impressive eight sacks despite not starting his freshman season.
Perry earned a starting job his sophomore year but his sacks dropped to four. The decrease led to questions entering his junior year.
"He did not make enough plays but no one did on the line that year," USC defensive line coach Ed Orgeron said.
But Perry recorded 9.5 sacks last season and he quickly turned pro with none of the suspense that surrounded some of the Trojans' other underclassmen like Barkley or safety T.J. McDonald.
"I have no regrets coming out," Perry said. "I've been training all my life for this moment. I'm just ready to compete."
Perry, who bulked up to 271 pounds since USC's season ended, looks like he could go anywhere from 12th to 31st.
"I think Perry is a late one," ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper said. "He's a pass rusher. He had a real good year a couple years ago, then a lackluster year the following season and came on this past year.
"So a little up and down during his career at USC, but a guy that did show the ability to put heat on the quarterback."
Kiper believes Perry will get picked in the mid-to-late 20s. But not everyone is convinced.
Todd McShay, also an ESPN draft analyst, said Perry is a "little bit overrated" and could drop to the second round.
NFL Network guru Mike Mayock said Perry looks like a first-round pick on some plays and a third-round pick on others.
"He's going to be one of those guys the combine and pro day helps because he's a bit of an athletic freak," Mayock said.
It might be too high, but some speculation included the Seattle Seahawks taking Perry with the 12th pick because it would reunite him with former USC coach Pete Carroll.
"Some of their defense has changed since Coach Carroll was at USC, but I'm familiar with most of it and I can adjust to it," Perry said. "I'd love to play for him again. I was going to go to Michigan, but then I decided going to play for Coach Carroll was best for me."
It was a big leap from Martin Luther King High in Detroit to Los Angeles, but unlike some higher-profile USC players from the East Coast, Perry did not complain about being homesick or go through periods of discontent when he redshirted in 2008.
"I will truly miss all the things I did here," he said. "I wanted to be part of the tradition when I came here and I feel it prepared me for this next step. I learned a lot from guys like (former USC players) Clay Matthews and Brian Cushing and Rey Maualuga."
Perry wants to be the latest USC defensive player to experience NFL stardom, but he does not want to draw comparisons to anyone.
"I don't quite compare to anyone," he said. "I'm my own self and I want to keep it that way. As long as I'm rushing and getting to the quarterback, I'm fine."
That will be enough for most pro teams. His performance at the NFL combine assured teams he was athletic enough to play in a 4-3 or 3-4 defense.
"When you talk about pure take-off speed and burst, there are few that are better than him screaming off the edge," draft analyst Nolan Narwocki of Pro Football Weekly said. "If you look at his overall skill set, there's absolutely going to be interest in him in the first round, as early as the teens."
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The title of this article is "Bonsai for Free" and well that might bring to you the thought that you will be able to have a bonsai tree shipped to you in the mail. Well, that isn't exactly what I mean by this article. Let me Explain.
You can absolutely have, grow, and care for bonsai at a cost of absolutely zero cost. Not a penny - really. And to explain exactly what I mean let me first tell you a little bit about what bonsai really is.
Often times people think of bonsai as a very specific type of tree. "That's a bonsai tree!" They might say upon seeing one. But bonsai isn't a particular kind of tree. It is the art of caring for a tree so it grown to stay small and attractive. Can you see the ramifications of this? It is an art that can be applied to just about any kind of tree (or even a shrub).
So, you can pick any kind of tree like apple, maple, cherry, oak, birch or anything else and apply the concepts of bonsai to it.
You can simply go outside and harvest seeds from local trees then bonsai them! Yes, and this will cost you nothing!
SO, this article explains to you how to harvest local seeds to make your own bonsai.
Hopefully you live in a place where you have access to trees. Unless you live right in the middle of a very big urban center you should have access to lots of local tree. And this means you have the ability to harvest seeds so you can plant them and create your own bonsai. Here is what you should do.
The most important thing to think about is that you have to follow the environment that the tree has grown up in and harvest your seeds and care for your tree the same way.
If you live in a temperate zone with very little seasonal change it means that you have to be aware of when the local trees fruit or seed and harvest at that time of year. And when it comes to growing the bonsai you have to keep this same environment which could mean keeping them outdoors or in a greenhouse. They might not do well if you try to keep them in an air conditioned house.
Observe how the trees in your environment grow and simulate this. If the trees seed and the seedlings grow year round then you can harvest your seeds and plant them right away!
If you live in a zone with seasonal changes you also have to maintain that same environment for the bonsai and you have to use this schedule for your harvesting of seeds.
I live in New England where there are four very distinct seasons and the trees seed or fruit in the autumn. So I go out and harvest my seeds late in autumn when the trees are dropping their seeds. This is a really good time to harvest. You want to ideally harvest seeds from the ground because this means they have completed their cycle and the seeds are mature. You just have to get them before the squirrels do!
Bring some plastic bags with you and keep put each type of seed in a different bag. There are a few things to look for when harvesting seeds. First off you should look for interesting types of trees Something appealing and even exotic is ok.
Any kind of tree will probably be perfectly ok but there are a few rules of thumb you should adhere to.
You should harvest seeds from trees in their middle years of their life. This will give you the healthiest seeds with the highest germination riates. Young trees and old trees will have seeds that are not as hardy.
And, examine the tree for shape. This tree in the picture shown on the left has a wonderful shape with very wonderful branch shape.
Finally, if possible, you should lean toward trees with small leaves! Yes, this will make a difference in how your bonsai eventually looks but it is worth it. Small leaved trees make for excellen bonsai. They maintain the illusion of a big tree that is actually miniature.
Now, this small leaf recommendation isn't mandatory but it is recommended. There are techniques you can use to keep the leaves of your bonsai small.
So you have gathered up your seeds. What do you do now?
If you live in a climate where the seasons change you have to realize that the trees are acclimated to this and the seeds will have to be wintered. You do this by first laying them out on paper towels for a few days to dry them out. Don't expose them to sun or to soil. Just let them dry out. Then you can place them in plastic bags and put them either in the refrigerator for the winter or put them in a place like the cellar or a shed where they will be exposed to colder temperatures. Keep them there for the winter and sow them in the spring.
Don't let them freeze or get frost though. This can kill them or damage their ability to germinate. You can put some strips of paper towels in the bag to absorb any moisture and stave off frost. Keep the refrigerator temperature between 34 and 46 F.
There are two different methods of germination and I suggest you follow both!
Split them into two equal batches and sow one batch in soil immediately. Take the other half of the batch and put it in plastic bags and store in the refrigerator for the winter -minimum of 90 days.
Put the seeds in a glass of water and let them soak. Generally the most viable seeds will sink .Use these and discard the ones that float.
Oak (Acorns) - This type of seed shouldn't be allowed to dry out. If this happens they become unviable. You can plant acorns right away without worries of overwintering.. You can also store them in the refrigerator for the winter. I would do some of both. If you do store them in the refrigerator it has to be in a plastic bag so there is some transfer of gases, keep the temperature above 34 and store them for no longer than 4 - 6 months.
Maple - You can plant the seeds immediately in the fall or in the spring if this is when you harvest them. Maple seeds can be a bit difficult and sometimes they take two years to grow so just be patient with them. Sow about 1/2 inch deep.
Pine Trees - Pine are a particular case in that there are female and male trees. You have to harvest the pine cones from a grove of trees where there is the chance that the female pine cones have been fertilized. Female pine cones are larger than the male ones so only harvest the largest pine cones. If they are not opened you can lay them out on paper towels for a couple of days to let them dry out and open then you can pick the seeds out.


Someone should remind the Washington Examiner's Philip Klein that New Zealand is a democracy, no matter how many laws they pass he doesn't like.
New Zealand's decision to swiftly ban guns in the wake of Christchurch shooting has been drawing praise among Democrats — in the process revealing the Left's chilling authoritarian impulses.
... it has been absolutely chilling to witness how many American liberals and prominent Democrats cheered the actions of the government of New Zealand. Even as liberals often insist that nobody is talking about taking away guns, many applauded the decision of a government to quickly confiscate weapons from law-abiding citizens without any debate or legal arguments.
All gun control is "chilling" to right-wingers, but why is this being called "authoritarian"? The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines "auithoritarianism" as "any political system that concentrates power in the hands of a leader or a small elite that is not constitutionally responsible to the body of the people."
But the government of New Zealand is "constitutionally responsible to the body of the people." New Zealand is a democracy. And the moves being made by the government of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern are taking place well within legal bounds.
Ardern can essentially announce there will be new gun laws because she and her coalition -- among her Labour Party and the nationalist New Zealand First party and the Green Party -- control the Parliament. They still have to write and debate new laws, but since the one governing coalition controls the one house of government, there's a good chance they'll succeed.
Also, unlike in the US, there is bipartisan support for the new assault weapons ban. The opposition party in New Zealand has endorsed quick action to ban assault weapons. The brake on the actions of the New Zealand Parliament is that if voters don't like what they do, they'll pick a new party in the next election.
Legislation giving effect to the ban will be rushed through Parliament under urgency – Ardern expected the new law to be in place by April 11.
The House of Representatives sometimes goes into "urgency" to make progress on business additional to what would be possible under the normal rules for sitting hours and progress of business.
A Minister may move an urgency motion for specified business, particularly bills. The motion can be moved without advance notice, and is not debated by the House, although the Minister must inform the House why the Government wishes to take urgency.
The website of the New Zealand parliament is inviting comment on the proposed changes (a brave move, in my opinion -- I'm sure there have been some extremely vile comments from the American gun community and the international white separatist community). This isn't being done in a ham-fisted way.
So "authoritarianism" is another right-wing euphemism. Klein is just stomping his feet and demanding that the right have its way on everything -- if not, he'll fascist-bait his political opponents, and everyone on his side will nod in agreement.


Thanks to the overwhelming popularity of online casinos, even more people today are participating in casino gaming than ever. In fact, online casino gaming is the only form of the activity that they know having never step foot in a land based casino. Therefore when planning on a holiday, these players often seek out travel destinations that will afford them the opportunity to enjoy gambling in a land based casino. Given this, many people select Australia as their tourist destination. Here, there are many famous casinos which can make anyone's trip enjoyable.
Many travelers to the Land Down Under will want to visit the city of Sydney. Home the famous Sydney Opera House, the city is also well known for its Star City Casino. Formerly known as the Sydney Harbour Casino, the casino is situated with a breathtaking view of Darling Harbour. Currently, the Star City Casino is the second largest casino found in the country. Other amenities include eight bars, seven restaurants as well as a hotel.
Within the casino, players can find a total of two betting floors. On the first floor is the main casino and the third floor is known as the Sovereign Room. This offers exclusive gambling for high rolling customers. The main gaming floor is split into three sections: table games, poker and electronic gaming. Over the years, the number of poker tables present has been augmented to today's number of 30. Updates have also been made to the Sovereign Room where four more private gaming rooms have been built. Another area known as the Vermillion Room was also add which is even more exclusive for the top gamblers through invitation only. Traditional casino table games, which you will have seen if you play at online casinos like Jackpot City are offered at Star City including blackjack, craps, Pai Gow, pontoon, roulette, sic bo, three card poker, four card poker, Caribbean poker and mini baccarat.


This wood shelf has a bead board back with shelf on top. It has 4 pegs at the bottom for an easy display of your items. Edges are sanded and stained for the country primitive look. Black. Measures 36" long.


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The Parlaytm firmware codebase uses a C++ object oriented, single threaded, event driven architecture. It has a clear and repeated and extensible Active Object design pattern for easy project implementation and maintenance. This single threaded architecture prevents the threading and blocking perils that can cause intermittent instabilities. It also supports full software instrumentation - with external control and visibility throughout.
The Parlaytm instrumentation is accomplished by providing message based interface to the functions and variables of the C++ class. A preprocessor identifies those functions and variables that should be accessible, and generates the code to interface. In this manner, the internal member functions and variables can be called, set and streamed.
Items - C++ object that can receive messages. The codebase is comprised of items - from controllers to drivers.
Messages - a structure of data that is passed between items. Messages are of type order, response, and notification. Messages can be sent to/from remote or internal items.
Message Pump - A special singleton item that handles the message queue, and routes the messages to the proper recipient. This item also manages timed events, and routing responses to callback functions.
Preprocessor - Scans the codebase to generate the discovery information of commands and properties of Items.
Messages provide the intra-communications between items in the system. For example, a controller will send a message to a SPI based sensor driver to read an ADC. When the data is received a response message is sent back to the original caller with the data.
Just as intra-communications uses messages, the same method is used for inter-communications between sub-systems, and the Parlay test tool. The functions and variables of each Item of each subsystem are "discovered", and made accessible as commands and properties respectively. This allows for external control of components, and monitoring of data - i.e. instrumentation. Command messages will result in the item function being called, and upon its completion, a response message is returned. Properties, which are member variables of the item, can be read, set, or streamed (as they get written or at a desired rate) . The Parlaytm UI allow the user to choose the item, and the item's commands or properties to control.
The items in a subsystem are hierarchical - generally each item controls the items of the next level. However from Parlaytm test UI, all items can be accessed. For example, a temperature control item can be started with a chosen target temperature. The subsequent thermister sensor response can be streamed and graphed live on the PC.
For Bluetooth BLE communications, the BLE characteristics are translated into the message protocol of the firmware, making simple, discoverable controls from a mobile device.
No matter the complexity of the system, the commands and properties of all system Items are accessible and controllable from the Parlay UI and scripting.


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Caesiumpermanganat ist das Caesiumsalz der im freien Zustand unbekannten Permangansäure, HMnO4. Das Mangan liegt darin in seiner höchsten Oxidationsstufe +VII vor.

Herstellung
Caesiumpermanganat kann aus Kaliumpermanganat und Caesiumnitrat hergestellt werden.

CsNO3 + KMnO4 ->KNO3 + CsMnO4 v

Eigenschaften

Physikalische Eigenschaften
Caesiumpermanganat ist wenig wasserlöslich, die Löslichkeit nimmt mit steigender Temperatur zu, bei 1 °C 0,97 g, bei 19 °C 2,3 g und bei 59 °C 12,5 g/l. Es kristallisiert im orthorhombischen Kristallsystem in der  mit den Gitterparametern a = 1006 pm, b = 580,1 pm und c = 794,4 pm. In der Elementarzelle befinden sich vier Formeleinheiten. Die Kristalle sind isomorph zu Rubidiumpermanganat, Ammoniumpermanganat und Kaliumpermanganat.

Chemische Eigenschaften
Caesiumpermanganat zersetzt sich analog zum Kaliumpermanganat in zwei Stufen, wobei intermediär Caesiummanganat(VI) entsteht. Als weitere Zersetzungsprodukte entstehen Mangan(IV)-oxid, Caesiumoxid und elementarer Sauerstoff. Die Zersetzung findet zwischen 200 und 300 °C statt.

10CsMnO4 -> 3Cs2MnO4 + 7MnO2 + 2Cs2O + 6O2 ^
2Cs2MnO4 -> 2MnO2 + 2Cs2O + O2 ^

bzw. die Gesamtzersetzungsreaktion:

4CsMnO4 -> 4MnO2 + 2Cs2O + 3O2 ^

Einzelnachweise

Caesiumverbindung
Permanganat


On the strength of a19-0 run in the second half and three players with double-doubles, Kansas State broke open a tightly contested game to improve its home-court winning streak to five games with a 73-55 victory over Lamar on Wednesday night, Dec. 5, at Bramlage Coliseum.
Junior forward Peyton Williams of Topeka, who has Holton connections, tallied her fourth double-double of the season with 18 points and 12 rebounds. This was her 11th career double-double.


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Q: disable clipboard option Edittext I am struggling with removing PASTE option. Although i am able to remove PASTE option from menu while selecting text from edtittext but in some devices instead of Paste, Clipboard option is visible. Can anyone suggest any workaround ?
 @Override
    public int getSelectionStart() {
        for (StackTraceElement element : Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()) {
             Log.e("TAG","====="+ element.getMethodName()+ "====");
            if (element.getMethodName().equals("canPaste") || element.equals("canSuggest")) {
                return -1;
            }
        }
        return super.getSelectionStart();
    }

A: You can remove all types of copy paste from EditText by using this kotlin extension function:
fun EditText.disableCopyPaste() {
    this.customInsertionActionModeCallback= object : ActionMode.Callback{
        override fun onCreateActionMode(mode: ActionMode?, menu: Menu?): Boolean {
            return false
        }

        override fun onPrepareActionMode(mode: ActionMode?, menu: Menu?): Boolean {
            return false
        }

        override fun onActionItemClicked(mode: ActionMode?, item: MenuItem?): Boolean {
            return false
        }

        override fun onDestroyActionMode(mode: ActionMode?) {
        }

    }

    this.customSelectionActionModeCallback = object : ActionMode.Callback{
        override fun onCreateActionMode(mode: ActionMode?, menu: Menu?): Boolean {
            return false
        }

        override fun onPrepareActionMode(mode: ActionMode?, menu: Menu?): Boolean {
            return false
        }

        override fun onActionItemClicked(mode: ActionMode?, item: MenuItem?): Boolean {
            return false
        }

        override fun onDestroyActionMode(mode: ActionMode?) {
        }

    }

    this.isLongClickable = false
    this.setTextIsSelectable(false)
    this.addTextChangedListener( object : TextWatcher {
        override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, after: Int) {
            if (after - count > 1) {
                this@disableCopyPaste.setText(s)
                this@disableCopyPaste.setSelection(s.toString().length)
            }
        }

        override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, before: Int, count: Int) {
        }

        override fun afterTextChanged(s: Editable?) {
        }

    })
}

Link reference: https://gist.github.com/SanikaVanjari/83758a53c9d52012e034e855c4f8653e

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Moguldom Studios has released its second documentary April 8th entitled, 'Gunland' that takes an in depth look into Chicago's prolific gun culture beyond what you seen in the news.
The gun violence that plagues Black America has been brought front and center. It is very clear to many that the broader society does not care about young black boys and girls dying in a barrage of gun violence. It is a fact that has been present in the black community for a long time; black life is not as valuable as it should be. Gunland goes behind the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago beyond the headlines.
It's a rare day that goes by that we aren't sharing stories about the tragedies wrought on our community by gun violence. The violence, especially in the city of Chicago, has reached levels that can no longer be ignored. Gunland is available on iTunes, Google Play and VHX. Buy or rent it today at MoguldomStudios.com!


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Draft-Eligible Goalies Know Road to NHL Is Long
June 14, 2019 by The Canadian Press
Spencer Knight wouldn't mind being the next Carter Hart — a goalie turning heads as a 20-year-old in the NHL.
If he winds up like Jordan Binnington, a netminder forced to take a long and winding road before finally getting his shot at age 25, that's OK too.
Just as long as he gets there.
With the first round of the NHL draft set for next Friday in Vancouver, this year's crop of goalie hopefuls know it's unlikely they'll hear their names called early by teams stepping to the microphone at Rogers Arena.
USA goaltender Spencer Knight (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO – USA Hockey, Rena Laverty)
That's just the reality of playing the position in 2019.
"I'm not really worried about where I go," said Knight, a member of the U.S. National Team Development Program and the top-ranked North American puck-stopper. "At the end of the day there's nothing different about you, regardless of where you go."
Teams Wait to Draft Goalies
No goalie has been selected in the top-10 since Carey Price went No. 5 to the Montreal Canadiens in 2005. Marc-Andre Fleury was chosen No. 1 by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2003, but those two studs have been the exception instead of the rule over the last 15 years.
Carey Price was the last goaltender drafted in the top 10. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
Dan Marr, the director of NHL Central Scouting, said one reason goalie stocks have fallen at the top of recent drafts comes down to teams needing to be 100 per cent convinced "a player's going to be a cornerstone."
With goalies, there's often too many unknowns at a position that can take a long time to develop. It's also hard to know how a 17- or 18-year-old will one day deal with adversity — a crucial element of their craft — under the microscope in an NHL crease.
"The mental side of the game for goalies is just as important as the physical side," Marr said. "There are intangibles you can't test for."
At the 2018 draft in Dallas, a goalie didn't come off the board until the New York Rangers took Olof Lindbom at No. 39 to begin a run of 39 getting selected by 23 teams from rounds two through seven.
Colorado Avalanche director of amateur scouting Alan Hepple — whose club owns five selections in the first three rounds next week, including No. 4 and No. 16 — said it comes down maximizing a pick's potential.
"You have to be patient (with goalies)," he said. "You have to be willing to have some growing pains.
"The value on a guy might not be as high in the first round as say in the third round."
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, who won this season's Ontario Hockey League goalie of the year award with the Sudbury Wolves, was selected 57th by the Buffalo Sabres in 2017.
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen won this season's OHL goalie of the year award. (Photo by Kevin Hoffman/Getty Images)
"You want to get drafted high because it shows the team that takes you really believes in you," he said. "In the end it's realizing it's not the number of your pick.
"How you work after that is what matters."
NHL teams tend to focus on size with goalies — four of the top-5 North American prospects stand six foot four or taller, with Mads Sogaard of the Medicine Hat Tigers towering over everyone at 6-8 — which also shrinks the pool of potential options.
"I don't know if that's been proven to be the best way, but a lot of successful, higher-paid goalies are tall," Marr said. "Teams have hesitated to take some of the smaller goalies."
Goalies Aren't a Sure Thing
Getting a premiere talent at forward or defence is also much more of a sure thing than a goalie that could be five years away from cracking the roster.
"The past couple years the skater calibre in the draft has been exceptional," said Prince George Cougars netminder Taylor Gauthier, ranked seventh in North America this year. "It doesn't mean the goalies are getting worse. It's just that players are good and someone's got to take the fall.
Taylor Gauthier of the Prince George Cougars (James Doyle/Prince George Cougars)
"It's disappointing, but you've just got to hope to hear your name called."
Selected 48th overall by the Flyers in 2016, Hart benefited from a crowded goalie sick bay in Philadelphia this season. He went 16-13-1 — including an eight-game winning streak from Jan. 14 to Feb. 9 — to go along with a .917 save percentage and a 2.83 goals-against average after getting recalled from the American Hockey League in December.
And then there's Binnington, a mid-season call-up by St. Louis, who grabbed the starting job and wound up backstopping the Blues to their first-ever Stanley Cup.
Drafted 88th in 2011, Binnington spent five full seasons in the minors before getting his chance in January. He was placed on waivers in September and began 2018-19 as an AHL backup, but went 24-5-1 — propelled by a nine-game winning streak — with a .927 save percentage, a 1.89 GAA and five shutouts as St. Louis surged from last in the standings to make the playoffs.
Jordan Binnington backstopped the St. Louis Blues to the 2019 Stanley Cup. (Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images)
"Things can change quick for goalies," said Marr, who is already eyeing Russian netminder Yaroslav Askarov as a coveted draft option 12 months from now. "It's about the maturity and preparedness of these guys.
"Jordan … right place, right time, right opportunity."
It's a story that should give the goalies selected next week — and even the ones that aren't — hope for the future no matter where they're picked.
"It just depends on the person," Knight said. "There's more than one path to the NHL."
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Joshua Clipperton, The Canadian Press
Categories NHL Entry Draft, Prospects Tags 2019 NHL Draft, Spencer Knight


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