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President's Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) Winners
Each year, EPA recognizes national winners of the President's Environmental Youth Award (PEYA)
Winners by year: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002
Read the press release about this year's PEYA winners. Congratulations!
EPA Region 1:
Kid Conservationist
by Jack Ryan Dalton
In his hometown, Nashua, New Hampshire, ten-year-old Jack goes by the name Kid Conservationist. His conservation work began when he first learned about the effect of palm oil and deforestation on the hundreds of endangered animal species in the rainforest, including his favorite, orangutans. Jack's YouTube channel, "Kid Conservationist," hosts his fun, educational videos teaching people simple ways to be good to the environment. Jack interviews experts in their field, including a National Geographic photographer and public relations director at Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, to showcase the incredible work being done by people around the globe to help protect our planet. His channel has reached thousands of people and inspired change in many. Jack has also presented to hundreds of children at zoos, museums, and schools throughout the U.S. and around the world. Additionally, Jack designed his own Kid Conservationist recycled material reusable bags to sell to his community to reduce the use of single-use plastic products. The $3,000 that Jack raised helped pay for orangutan care in Indonesia and the planting of more than 6,000 trees in critical rainforests. In August 2019, Jack was named the Youth Ambassador for Orangutan Alliance, an international non-profit organization. Jack has been a part of many additional projects and activities, including collecting donations and bringing them to the Memphis Zoo and writing a children's book about planting trees in the rainforest. Jack plans to continue to spread optimism and hope for environmental improvements to everyone he meets.
Codman Outdoor Community Garden Space
by Codman Academy High School Seniors
Team Members: Joanna Casimir, Keianna Grant, and Takhya Rather-Grady
Urban schools usually lack the resources for students to have access to school gardens. In July 2020, three students from Codman Academy High School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, set out to change that by creating the Codman Outdoor Community Learning Garden. The students, along with a teacher sponsor and a farm educator, built raised garden beds. Adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols, the students worked two-to-three days a week to plant a variety of vegetables and herbs. Very quickly, meeting every week at the garden became the students' passion. Although the Academy utilized virtual learning during the 2020-2021 academic year, the students continued to meet weekly to maintain the garden and share weekly harvests with the Codman Square Community Health Center staff. During the pandemic, these front-line health center staff found the adjacent garden comforting, relaxing and peaceful and were also thankful for all the garden produce.
Despite the challenges of the pandemic, this project delivered healthier, locally grown, and accessible food in a community where healthy and fresh foods are not always an option. The students built a garden ecosystem that brightened the courtyard, enticed bees to a place where they had not been seen before, and welcomed everyone who needed a place to reflect, eat their lunch, or pick herbs. Amazingly, the students' garden grew until more than 73 pounds of organic vegetables, herbs and flowers that were donated to the health center staff. The bountiful harvest included: squash, kale, popcorn, tomatoes, cucumbers, mixed greens, scallions, eggplant, fennel, beans, cabbage, chard, sweet peppers, hot peppers, chives, cilantro, oregano, rosemary, thyme, lemon balm, mint, beets, carrots, strawberries, nasturtium, and ornamental flowers. Working in the garden helped keep the students physically healthy and fit and the garden created a special and meaningful project during a time when students were navigating individual challenges through COVID-19 during their senior year of high school. Younger students already have plans to continue tending the garden and continuing the project into the future.
Reusable T-Shirt Bags
by George L. Catrambone School Green Team
Team Members: Alexis Applegate, Jacob R. Miller, Isadora Melo Muniz, Ashley Taylor M. Rocha, and Kelsey Ann White
After learning about New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy's ban on single-use plastic and brown bags, 2nd grade students at George L. Catrambone School created a "Recycle T-shirts" campaign. Working with teachers and staff, the students researched the enormous environment problems of plastic in oceans and how plastic bags contribute to the problem. They also learned about the harmful environmental effects of producing paper and how recycling paper requires a lot of energy. Armed with this knowledge, the students decided to make a difference in their community by organizing a schoolwide "T-shirt" donation drive, where students, families, and staff collected t-shirts. The students then turned those t-shirts into reusable tote bags replacing plastic bags. Additionally, the students created fun videos to show people how to make their own t-shirt bags. During the project, the students developed a survey gauging how much their fellow students know about recycling and their recycling habits at home, After the project was completed, the students gave back to the community by giving away the bags they created, ultimately reducing waste. These young students are proud of the difference they made in their community and to the environment.
Recycle My Battery
by Sri Nihal Tammana
Nihal, a middle school student in Edison, New Jersey, created a public awareness and collection campaign focused on helping people recycle all types of batteries based on his desire to bring about a radical change in the way people think and act in respect to used batteries. He started a non-profit organization and website, Recycle My Battery (https://recyclemybattery.org), that members of his community use as a resource to find collection sites for battery recycling. Partnering with Call2Recycle, a national battery recycling organization, Nihal set up certified battery collection bins at schools, libraries, and community centers in his community to make it easy for people to drop off used batteries. Recycle My Battery also provides two-way priority shipping free of charge to public and private organizations. To date, he has collected and recycled more than 55,000 used batteries and educated more than 400,000 adults and kids on the importance of and need to properly recycle used batteries. Nihal successfully created a network of more than 60 youth to help meet his goal of bringing down to zero the 15 billion batteries that are thrown in the trash every year.
Lake Barga Biodiversity Project
Sanuthi Henkanaththegedara
Sanuthi is a 3rd grade student at Clover Hill Elementary School in Midlothian, Virginia. She is also a Bear Cub Scout who loves camping, hiking, and learning all about wildlife and their habitats. Her "Lake Barga Biodiversity Project" refers to one of nine ponds located in the Albright Scout Reservation, a 568-acre camp located in Virginia with extensive hiking trails, ponds, and campgrounds.
During the summer of 2020, Sanuthi helped Dr. Tom McKee make a video documentary about the reservation where she has explored many habitats, plants, and animals. She spent many hours sampling, photographing, and recording species.
Sanuthi's project has helped educate other Cub Scouts, their families, and the public about the biodiversity at the Lake Barga area and the need of biodiversity conservation. Through her project, Sanuthi learned about animals and plants by directly observing them in their natural habitats at different times of the year. Additionally, Sanuthi learned how important water quality is and the effects of water pollution. She discovered that finding some species meant that the water in the ponds of the reservation is not polluted and the environment is healthy. This project offered Sanuthi the opportunity to be a citizen scientist and collect data for a global citizen science project.
The Bioma Project
by The Bioma Project
Team Members: David Balakirsky and Jeffrey Tong
The Bioma Project is a youth environmental initiative that promotes environmental stewardship among future conservationists. The Bioma Project, which is 100% led and operated by youth, is now in place at 40 schools in Maryland and encompasses 2,350 students. This program began in 2016 after students cleaned up a neighborhood stream, only to return weeks later to find new trash. Members of the Bioma Project team achieved their goals by placing aquariums of local ecosystems in classrooms and developing their own award-winning, hands-on curriculum. Each aquarium, stocked with 11 species of native fish and plants, simulates a local aquatic ecosystem for observation and interaction by students. While the schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bioma Project members raised funds and designed, built, and distributed mini-aquariums to low-income children, bringing to them a "slice of nature" during the isolation. The Bioma Project also periodically mobilizes youth volunteers to clean up streams in their community.
In this club, youth leaders vigorously create and test new ways of teaching environmental science and design new project ideas, such as an aquaculture system for freshwater bivalves. Members of the Bioma Project also serve on the National Youth Leadership Council. The aim of the Bioma Project is to solve environmental illiteracy and apathy by reaching out to future torchbearers of conservation.
Kids Saving Oceans
by Miles Fetherston-Resch
Miles started Kids Saving Oceans because he saw how the environment is treated and wanted to do something to help. As a 6-year old, there were not many ways for him to meaningfully engage in marine conservation, and donating his accumulated life savings of $13 did not seem impactful enough. After thinking through how to make money to donate to groups doing the conservation work that he was too young to do, Miles decided to start his own business to turn ocean plastics into something people could buy. He named this effort Kids Saving Oceans and began with a humble product line – kid's t-shirts, a one-size-fits-all hat, and four sticker designs – and set up a folding table at a festival celebrating local businesses in Florida. What he found that day was a deeply inspirational response to a kid's vision of stewardship and passion for environmental conservation.
Since then, Miles has given talks on why he advocates for healthy oceans, clean beaches, and thriving marine life; organized beach cleanups for school, civic, and neighborhood groups; and inspired his own school to ban single-use plastics and expand recycling and composting programs. He also gives all the proceeds to organizations that help the oceans. As of January 2021, Miles has raised more than $18,000 for ocean and beach conservation. More important than these discrete community engagement moments, and more important even than meeting his $1 million donation goal, is Miles's message that one person can make a difference. Miles believes, and his business is founded on the idea, that one person's choices can and will change the world when they are multiplied by a lot of people. His mission is to make those choices for himself and his family and his business, but also to inspire others to see that their choices matter too.
Baxter Plastic Film Recycling
by Roman K. Phillips
After recognizing that his local convenience center stopped accepting plastic film for recycling, Roman contacted the York County (South Carolina) Solid Waste Collection and Recycling department to research why the material was no longer being accepted. Roman toured the recycling facility, learning firsthand how the recycling of plastic film disrupts the facility. When plastic film is caught in the recycling machines, the facility shuts down for several hours which costs taxpayers money because the employees are unable to work. Roman also learned how plastic film must remain clean and dry to be recycled, which posed another challenge because York County lacked the space to store plastic film.
Upon further research, Roman learned about Trex® and their recycling plastic film program and decided to start a plastic film recycling initiative in his neighborhood. His project goals were to educate his neighbors about the importance of recycling plastic film and how to prevent plastic film from being sent to landfills. Throughout 2020, Roman educated his neighbors through social media posts and articles for his neighborhood newsletter. After receiving approval from his neighborhood homeowner's association, he constructed storage containers for the collection of plastic film. Approximately twice each week in 2020, Roman collected plastic film dropped off by neighbors at his two collection containers, sorted and weighed the film, and then dropped the film off at approved recycling locations. In 2020, Roman, with the help of his neighbors, prevented 2,107 pounds of plastic film from being sent to local landfills.
Project Name: NAV Garden For Girls
by NAV Garden for Girls
Team Members: Nia Lambert and Alexandra Sweitzer
NAV Garden For Girls is a nonprofit organization in Chicago that aims to teach underserved elementary school girls about science and women's empowerment with a fun approach as an after-school program. NAV's mission includes working toward bridging the gender gap in the STEAM field through environmental science and STEM education. The project began as a freshman year biology assignment and quickly grew into a city-wide organization consisting of more than 30 high school student volunteers. For the past four spring seasons (2018-2021), co-founders Alexandra and Nia have taught four 16-week-long programs to 1st and 2nd grade girls in underserved neighborhoods and schools of Chicago. The programs are delivered through workshops, crafts, games, and learning packets. The science curriculum includes an array of subjects, from climate change, recycling, and endangered animals, to sustainability, and gardening. NAV ends the program by building a garden for the school and neighborhood community. By encouraging environmental education and STEM education at NAV from such a young age, girls are being taught to not be afraid to chase their dreams and defy the gender norms of our society.
Project Name: The Envi Bottle
by Steffek Taylor Rainey
Steffek estimates that a dump truck's worth of plastic enters the ocean every minute and 40% of all plastic waste in the Gulf of Mexico originates from the Mississippi River, which runs through his hometown of Baton Rouge. Steffek recognized the connections between his use of single-use plastics and pollution, particularly how reusable water bottles provide convenience in mobility that silverware does not. Using Louisiana State University Innovation Park, he researched, designed, and prototyped a reusable bottle that includes storage compartments to house reusable silverware and a straw. Steffek predicts that each person who uses the bottles consistently to replace single-use plastics could save 55 pounds of plastic waste from being disposed of per year. While the bottle is in the pre-manufacturing stage, he has performed environmental advocacy work with state legislators, the head of the Louisiana Department of Education, the Louisiana Governor Policy Advisor, and the founder and president of a large food company. Louisiana State University has also expressed interest in purchasing the bottles for its incoming class, a move that Steffek predicts could save 426,250 pounds of plastic from polluting the environment annually.
Project Name: Just Say No to Palm Oil
by Adelyn Elizabeth Meyer
Adelyn has always had a fierce love of nature and animals. She watched a science video on palm oil, the world's most popular vegetable oil, and learned that palm oil is a major driver of deforestation, which leads to habitat loss and threatens wildlife. The video sparked in Adelyn a need for action and she soon began checking all the food products in her home to see if they contained palm oil. She discovered that palm oil was contained in nearly everything. When checking her favorite dairy-free cookies, Adelyn was distraught to learn that they also contained palm oil so she decided to make a video to send to the company asking them to stop using palm oil. The company received the video and replied three days later, telling Adelyn about their research for an alternative to replace palm oil. Prompted by additional project requirements from her teacher, Adelyn discovered the palm oil issue to be more complex than simply ending the use of palm oil. Adelyn learned that calling for more action is a step in the right direction but contains many steps including writing letters to representatives, educating strangers on elevators, ensuring her family is supporting companies committed to sustainable palm oil practices when possible, and contacting companies that are not to advocate change. Adelyn has committed to being a personal steward for the environment through this project.
Project Name: Rebuilding Native Habitats in the Community
by James David Karslake
James, an 8th grader, rebuilt four native habitats in St. Louis, Missouri helping to restore environmental sustainability to the locations. One of the habitats restored included a park overgrown with honeysuckle, which is an invasive species. Working with a sponsor who wanted to create a butterfly garden, James followed professional guidelines to remove the honeysuckle and conducted experiments to determine the best soil conditions before planting more than 100 native plants, including milkweed, purple coneflower, blue lobelia, and aster, that provide shelter and food for butterflies. In another park, he created an environment for native bees by building bee houses; planting a bee garden with asters, raspberries, and purple coneflower; and bringing in 2,000 native leafcutter bees. The number of bees in the park increased by 1000%.
To address an eroding creek bank, James coordinated the planting of 65 large native trees in this area to create a forest around the creek and 75 black willow stakes along the creek. Before the planting, he conducted an experiment that determined that black willow stakes would prevent erosion. James also led efforts to remove more than 120 pounds of trash from the creek. The fourth habitat was focused on restoring a brown bat colony in a rural area suffering from disease and habitat loss. Ten rocket-box houses were built and installed over 100 acres; monitoring confirms that the bats are now thriving. Each project took about 10 to 16 months to complete, including time needed to monitor the projects through the end of 2020. Over 240 people in the local community contributed their time and effort to restore these habitats.
Seas of Trees
by Ayla Oceanna Kanow
Ayla does not take growing up in Telluride, Colorado, for granted. She has been surrounded by nature her whole life. Realizing that not all children were as lucky as she is, Ayla decided to start Sea of Trees to get teens involved with nature while helping to protect the planet. Ayla has planted trees all over Telluride by working with local student groups. Seas of Trees has become a global non-profit, working with hundreds of kids while planting trees around the world to lower the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In 2020, Seas of Trees planted 1,500 trees, raised over $7,000, and sequestered 576,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. In Guatemala, Ayla sponsored indigenous students to plant 270 trees to reforest a hillside that was tragically burnt down several years ago. She also helped complete a project in Kathmandu, Nepal at an all-girls school. A group of students spent a day planting fruit trees. This specific project empowered local women and the fruit trees have begun providing healthy and nourishing food for the school. Sea of Trees has big plans for the future by continuing to plant trees locally and all over the world!
Project Name: SOS: Save Our Sharks - A Fintastic Tale
by Mount Madonna School's 5th Grade
Team Members: Vaden Barr, Solomon Coleman, Kenzie Culbertson, Mariska Goldstein, Delmi McWilliams, David Monclus, Romy Sirk-Traugh, Shawn Wensmann, and Noa Zands
"SOS: Save Our Sharks - A Fintastic Tale" is a student-driven project that supports the conservation of sharks from Monterey Bay in California and across the globe. The 5th grade class at Mount Madonna School, in Watsonville, California, created an educational movie to show how people's choices impact sharks and the marine ecosystem, raised funds for shark conservation, wrote letters to elected representatives (including the governor of Florida) to support a shark fin trade ban, and cleaned up local beaches. The students wrote public service announcements and held presentations to inspire citizen action and encouraged restaurants and families to reduce plastic waste. The students also donated the money from their movie sales to organizations that directly support shark conservation. Along with the organization "Save our Shores," the students worked to clean up local beaches and hosted a virtual presentation during World Oceans Week to educate the public about sharks and how everyday choices impact these keystone species. The students also worked with "Shark Stewards" to create educational materials to share with other schools. The class presented their research and project to their peers by creating an online presentation that was viewed by all students at their school. The project was chosen for WE Day in Los Angeles, and the students were asked to present their work at Santa Cruz Earth Day. All of this was done despite the COVID-19 pandemic and students having to work from home in 2020.
Project Name: Maji-Water Education and Security
by Hiya Shah
Hiya, an 11th grade student from Pleasanton, California, developed a project called, "Maji-Water Education and Security." This project helps make real-time water quality information accessible to promote civilian and municipality proactiveness to conserve water, prevent water pollution, and secure clean water access to communities. Hiya developed a water conservation community education project that includes a youth-led outreach campaign and a full-length documentary. The documentary was presented on local TV to educate city leaders, businesses, and residents about the Bay Area's water shortage and to persuade them to conserve water, resulting in the initiation of a youth-led Climate Plan in Pleasanton. Hiya also conducted research to make water quality information and education accessible to the public.
The City of Pleasanton recently discovered high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl contaminants (PFAS) in some of the city's groundwater wells and has been working to address that. In response, Hiya conducted research to find solutions on how to degrade and filter PFAS (PFOS and PFOA) in an environmentally sustainable and home-based manner. Currently, available PFAS treatments either have low lifespans or require high levels of energy. In response, Hiya designed an environmentally friendly, bio-inspired PFAS removal and filtration system to reduce energy requirements. The filter syncs to Hiya's mobile app, called Maji, to relay PFAS removal data as well. Hiya built the mobile app, Maji, for use by the public with a machine learning convolutional neural network to determine turbidity via image samples. This is integrated with Raspberry Pi sensors to retrieve temperature, conductivity, humidity and water sample images and local municipality testing data to relay data via a server to the mobile app. Biochemical parameters are used to calculate the water quality index in real-time of tap water at specific locations.
EPA Region 10:
Effective Climate Action Project
by Luna Silvana Abadia
Luna created the Effective Climate Action Project (ECAP) in her home state of Oregon to help focus public attention on systemic solutions to climate change, over individual changes. ECAP's mission is centered on three core initiatives: interactive climate simulations, online education, and local policy work. Luna created a leadership team of diverse youth and worked to develop a brand, social media platform, website, and blog for the project. Luna took training to be able to facilitate climate simulations, reached out to local decision-makers and climate leaders, and identified local environmental policies to support. She wants to help people understand climate science by interpreting the latest science shown through computer models, and to communicate this in an easy-to-understand way for diverse audiences in several languages. Recently, ECAP has organized and run five climate simulation workshops online, engaging adults as well as more than 30 youth. Via online platforms, they have reached hundreds of people through educational posts on many environmental topics. They have partnered with organizations including Renew Oregon, Plan USA, and Portland Youth Climate Council. Luna is working with the Portland public schools to help create a new climate justice curriculum and provide training for teachers to run a climate simulation workshop with their students.
Croptimize
by Evergreen Makers
Team Members: Ashok Devireddy, Sameer Iyengar, Ankit Kapoor, Pranav Palleti, Shivam Pathak, Pranav Prabhuram, and Sukhamrit Singh
The Evergreen Makers are a team of seven 11th graders from San Jose, California, who created an autonomous mobile robot that uses machine learning and environmental data to suggest optimal crops and rotation patterns called Croptimize. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology study found that up to two-thirds of all agricultural yield losses can be prevented through effective crop relocation and switching. Croptimize prepares farmers to deal with climate change causing rapid decreases in yields. By finding geolocations where farmers' crops are suitable or providing more productive crop suggestions and rotation patterns, Croptimize can help prevent worldwide food shortages and support vulnerable farmers, allowing for economic sustainability of farms. Croptimize uses sunlight, humidity, temperature, soil pH, and NPK nutrient sensors to collect field data. With this data, Croptimize determines the crops and growing patterns most fit for a tested plot of land. The Evergreen Makers team has done outreach to universities and farmers and tested their robot extensively at local farms in the Central Valley and the Bay Area.
Green Gardens / Global Interactions of Topsoil Loss
by Ina Kathleen Chun
Ina, an 11th grader from Irvine, California, developed a project called, "Green Gardens/Global Interactions of Topsoil Loss." Ina did research at the International Earth Science Symposium on the global effects of topsoil loss on global food security. With international colleagues from Australia, Kazakhstan, and the Czech Republic, she investigated how soil erosion and salinization was contributing to global food insecurity, examining case studies in multiple countries to pinpoint the relationship. After Ina directly experienced the devastating effects of climate change, during a California wildfire, she wanted to spread greater awareness about environmental crises. Working with local lawmakers, universities, and environmental groups, Ina created the Green Gardens initiative and designed a carbon sequestration garden for her community farm, donating the crop harvests to a local food bank. Ina led a team of high school volunteers to build the carbon sequestration garden and created an exhibit at a local community center to educate youth of all ages on the importance of carbon consciousness. With over 200 supporters and recognition from leading universities for the Green Gardens initiative, Ina and her team created engaging, educational pamphlets on carbon sequestration and sent them to elementary schools throughout California. Through her work, Ina hopes to inspire young world-changers in her community and tackle climate change together.
Recycle Plastic Waste into Asphalt Roads
by Green Team and Progressive Club
Team Members: Madison Bianes, Bryce Garrod, Isaac Lozano, Jacob Lozano, and Bibiana Martinez
By 2050, the ocean will have more plastic than fish, according to the World Economic Forum, if the current rate of plastic pollution continues. The Green Team and Progressive Club, a group of five 12th graders from Chula Vista, California, hope to address this issue through their project, "Recycle Plastic Waste into Asphalt Roads." When California State Senator Ben Hueso spoke at their school, the Green Team and Progressive Club took his challenge for students to think seriously of solutions to our planet's growing environmental issues. The students made a presentation to Senator Hueso regarding the idea that recycled plastics could be melted into asphalt to make roads, thereby reducing reliance on landfills, and paving the way for a greener future. The Green Team and Progressive Club then worked with Senator Hueso to write State Bill (SB) 1238, which he introduced to the California Senate. The bill would appropriate funding to the California Department of Transportation (CalTrans) to study using recycled plastics in asphalt roads and write specifications for its use in California. The students wrote two letters and delivered verbal testimonies to the Senate Transportation and Appropriation Committees in support of SB 1238. Later, the students spoke at a press conference where four news stations covered the bill's potential to revolutionize the plastic pollution problem. SB 1238, receiving no opposition, was passed unanimously in both committees and the full Senate, but due to Covid-19, the Assembly did not consider the bill in 2020. However, SB 1238 inspired a first-place winner in the CalTrans 2020 Western Association of State Transportation Officials Quality Awards, and Senator Hueso has committed to reintroduce the bill in 2021. As the next generation, the Green Team and Progressive Club is ready to tackle the global challenges that threaten our planet and people.
Youth Environmental Power Initiative
by Kelly Tung
Kelly, a 10th grader from Cupertino, California, founded the Youth Environmental Power Initiative (YEPI), a nonprofit organization that aims to spread awareness about sustainability and environmental justice, promote alternative transportation and safe biking and walking, and lead future leaders to fight against climate change and make positive changes for our environment. Kelly has led and implemented various projects including: the creation of education videos and films about environmental solutions; the organization of the YEPI Sustainability Summit; the publication of the YEPI Journal; the organization of the YEPI Environmental Art Contest; and legislative advocacy. These projects provided multiple pathways for youth to explore sustainability issues, connect with peers to advocate for climate change action, and create lasting and impactful change.


Chuck Noris once got his blood tested. His blood type was AK-47.
Chuck Norris can speak Japanese... in French.
When Chuck Norris was a kid he didn't play with Lincoln Logs, he built real houses.
When Chuck Norris was 8 years old he got into a pillow fight with his older brother, that's why he's now an only child.
Chuck Norris once went skydiving but promised never to do it again. One Grand Canyon is enough.
There is only one award higher than the medal of Honor: The Chuck Norris Medal of Roundhouse. No mortal man has ever earned it.


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With campuses in Lucerne and Le Bouveret center the Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland is in the heart of Europe and surrounded by culinary traditions from both Italy and France. The program will develop your appreciation in European culinary philosophies, skills and traditions and introduce you to modern trends.
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At the Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland, you will combine practical skills in the kitchen with lessons in modern management to lead a restaurant or kitchen. On-the-job experience also includes paid internships on, for example, four or five-star hotels in Switzerland.
Small classes, 12 students in each practical class enables our experienced teachers to give each student the attention required to develop in the kitchen.
Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland offers training in new facilities and up-to-date technology in the classrooms, restaurants and educational kitchen.
Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland is one of five prestigious schools offering its courses in collaboration with SEG Swiss Education Group.


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Susann McDonald papers
This collection contains materials collected by Susann McDonald ranging from approximately 1937 to 1999. It includes photographs, press materials, World Harp Congress minutes, and other harp related documents.
McDonald, Susann, 1935- (Person)
Open to public research.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.
Permission to publish material from the Susann McDonald papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Susann McDonald (born May 26, 1935) is a prominent harpist who has served as the head of the harp department at multiple prestigious universities, including Julliard.
Susann McDonald was born in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1935. At age fifteen, she studied with Henriette Renié and Lily Laskine at the Conservatiore de Paris. In 1955, Susann was the first American to win the Premiere Prix de Harpe. Shortly after, she was a winner in the first International Harp Competition in Israel. In the early years of her harp career, Susann toured the world. She performed in Israel, the Netherlands, South America, Canada, and Europe. She served as the head of harp departments at the University of Arizona, California State College at Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. She also was the head of the harp department at the Julliard School of Music from 1975 to 1985. Susann was named a Distinguished Professor of Music after serving as a chairman of the harp department at Indiana University-Bloomington in the Jacobs School of Music, which has the largest harp department in the world. In addition to her positions at various universities, Susann was also the artistic director of the World Harp Congress and the honorary president of the Association Internationale des Harpistes, and founded the USA International Harp Competition.
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Original order of the collection has been maintained.
Donated by Susann McDonald in 1997.
Donated; Susann McDonald; 1997.
Prominent Harpists, (Section IV.a.i. International Harp Collection Development Policy January 2011).
Processed; Lynzi Phillips; 2011.
Harpists -- United States
McDonald, Susann, 1935-
World Harp Congress, Inc.
Register of Susann McDonald papers
Lynzi Phillips
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Initial citation: MSS 7818; Susann McDonald papers; International Harp Archives; L. Tom Perry Special Collections; Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.Following citation: MSS 7818, LTPSC.
Initial citation: MSS 7818; Susann McDonald papers; International Harp Archives; L. Tom Perry Special Collections; Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.Following citation: MSS 7818, LTPSC. https://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/11357 Accessed January 28, 2023.

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Yes, it's very dramatic and romantic that Danny called Mindy and may not have gone through with his wedding while Mindy and Ben exchanged "I love you"s on The Mindy Project, but since Mindy focused on her family for this episode, I will too. Mindy encouraged her mom to write plays on The Mindy Project, and it was a sweet, heartfelt moment. The reason this stuck out to me, and gave me a boost of positivity on a very stressful day (week, month, year) is that it's inspired by Mindy Kaling's own family, but not in the way you think.
Mindy escaped to Massachusetts to avoid dealing with Danny getting remarried, and ended up helping out her mother. Mindy's mom was looking for opportunities to express herself creatively and perform in a local theater, but had a few obstacles in her way. She was frustrated, because while her children had followed their own dreams — Mindy opened her own practice, and Rishi is a third of the way through DJ school — she was not able to follow the dreams of her own. Mindy then encouraged her to take her experiences and write something for herself. It's good advice to all of us really, but seems extra special coming from a mother and daughter.
In real life Mindy Kaling's mother, who died in 2012 just after The Mindy Project was originally picked up by Fox, was an OB/GYN. Meanwhile, Kaling got her job on The Office after writing and starring in the play Matt and Ben with co-writer Brenda Withers. So, in the fictional world of The Mindy Project, it's like they switched. Kaling is living her mother's story in the sitcom every day, and her fictional mother is now mirroring her own interests and talents. Isn't that lovely? You should always write what you know, and The Mindy Project is finding new and interesting ways to do that every week.


In this paper is reported a novel grid integration scheme for a hybrid electric power generation scheme using Photovoltaic power generation and induction generator based wind power generation. The proposed scheme adopts Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) for the Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) of the wind turbine driven induction generator and the incremental conductance based MPPT for the solar PV system. The power from the wind source and the photo voltaic source are brought to a common DC link and a DC to AC three phase inverter is used to upload power into the grid and a novel control scheme is adopted for sinusoidal current injection at the point of grid integration. The first novelty of the proposed system is that a variable frequency drive is used to run the induction generator at different synchronous speeds for power generation over a wide wind speed range. The additional novelty of the proposed scheme is that a direct Clark transformation and a set of two PI controllers are used to control the grid integration inverter enabling it to drive grid current with THD levels much less than the allowable limits.


The high fortress that dominates the city serves as a reminder of both its strategic importance and its warlike past.
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Let me start this post by telling you a quick story: I once created this niche site that I thought would do really well. I wanted to flex my SEO skills, and see if I could a new site ranked rather quickly (I talk about how I perform outreach with sites like this at Lukeguy.com).
The new site would solve a problem like no other in its field – I had created this site for insect identification purposes, and it would help people with identifying bugs within hours. You would upload an image and there you got your bug identified rather quickly. So now you could find out if that bug was potentially harmful within a short amount of time.
I thought this helpful tool would promote itself, and would climb quickly. But was I wrong! I thought by me building it, people would come. I was wrong again. Wasn't long before I realized my cool little tool needed promotion just like anything else. That's when the journey began.
I turned to the greatest promotional tool on the planet, the blog, to launch my tool that I had created. I have been collecting steady links ever since, and was even featured on Lifehacker within just a few months.
How did I do this? It all started with one thing: the infographic.
As bloggers, our goal is to increase readers and traffic. The best way to increase traffic is to put out great content, and the number two way is by increasing the promotion of that great content.
You can have the greatest content in the world, but without amazing outreach, it's not going to be discovered. With my niche site, however, I understood that fairly early on and now find my blog climbing the ranks with Google as well. All because of this one infographic creation plan I'm about to tell you about.
How does an infographic drive traffic when all the info is included in the picture? Good question!
As you know, SEO traffic is the largest source of traffic that major sites get. By getting links from large sites, this will help your Domain Authority and increase your position in the search engines. The reason an infographic is great at getting this is because you can create one and have it posted on hundreds of sites. You create one graphic and get it posted everywhere without anything bad happening! You can't do that with guest posting, and copy the same content everywhere, without Google penalties. This is a great reason to do infographic in my eyes and many others.
My infographic was about bugs that bite people and what they looked like. That was it. However it was important to know and people were looking for something like this, and they wasn't getting it. The infographic is landing major sites and collecting many links from sites all over. By this happening, my past post is now increasing in ranking with Google also and are being seen by more people also. Which is pretty sweet when you think it about it. The infographic has been seen by over 19,000 people and many more to come.
The infographic is amazing stuff, but remember you may not be able to do this all the time, simply because infographics take a lot of energy and time. But they will definitely pay off if you do it with strategy. I don't recommend one every week, or even every month. Just have a good one and promote it for months. Blogs are so much easier to write and they're not as costly. However, the infographic gives you that extra nudge which every young blog needs in the beginning. They help the most with backlinks which is very important with SEO according to Cyrus Shepard from Moz.
Let's talk about how to create your infographic. First of all, study what you want your infographic to be about. The best infographics solve a problem by focusing on a solution. It makes someone's life easier in less time. It's entertaining and as well as being helpful, so by you creating an infographic that solves a problem you're more likely to receive a timely response with traffic. Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
So think of a major problem you can solve for your readers, and brainstorm how you can make it an infographic. Make it enjoyable to look at, and as eye-catching as possible.
A suggestion I have is to build an infographic around content that's already successful on the web. I'm not saying plagiarise, but build upon or put your own spin on the topic. That successful content may offer a solution to a problem your readers are needing to solve, but you see some holes you can fill, room for improvement. You want to turn this up notch with more data, more images, creating your very own masterpiece. With their shares, likes and comments as an indicator that people liked what they saw, you can be assured that it will do well when turned into an infographic. So by confirming validation from another source, you can be assured through the process that this graphic has potential.
This is the method movie producers take. They watch a book and see how people react to it. If it becomes a bestseller, that book usually (almost always) turns into a film. They're about to invest millions, and they're not about to do it on an unread book.
If you don't have graphic design experience or software, you may wish to hire someone to complete your infographic, which can cost anywhere from $100 to $600 and even beyond, depending on the content and how much time you have. However if you invest money in your infographic, it can be a driving factor when pushing this into the atmosphere. It can make you push harder when you realize you've invested actual cash in making your infographic successful.
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There are also plenty of image creation tools like Canva or Piktochart which allows you to use the icons already available. These sites have templates you can just populate with your ideas, rather than starting from scratch.
By you reading other articles, and by getting a feel of how other people view your topic, you will have an idea of the conversations around it. Reading all the articles on the subject gives you an idea of what's missing out there. I'd consider plugging your keywords into Buzzsumo and see how many popular on social media your subject is.
Once you're done, how do you know your work is complete – it's not like you can go and change a line here and there like you can on a blog post?
To be honest, I don't think anyone ever feels like their graphic is "complete", but there is a point where you must release and watch what happens. You'll know when that time has arrived. The most important thing is that you have gone the extra mile in bringing reliable data together. If that data is incorrect, everything else falls apart. Header design won't help you, great fonts won't help you, cool illustrations won't help you. Make sure to stress data accuracy.
To see what successful infographics look like, I have compiled a list for you of featured infographics by major blogs (such as Hubspot). They either featured these from other blogs or made it themselves.
You might like to have a look at this list I've put together of infographics that have done really well to help you get an idea of what works and maybe what you can include in your offering.
As for the promoting of the infographic, you really need to write an amazing blog post to go with it. It will help give your infographic context, and provide background and more information. If readers and other influencers link to your blog post when they share, all these words that you have in that blog post could trigger some search engine traffic, which increases your exposure. By you adding the infographic to your blog post, the chances of someone linking to you has now increased tremendously. People can't copy/paste your content onto their blog and be successful with SEO, however they can use your infographic and do quite well. That means more shares and backlinks for you, and that's a good thing.
Once the ball gets rolling your infographic could land in search engines and give you steady traffic every month. – thus completing the mission for your blog.
If you're looking for an email template in how you should present this, I've compiled a list of articles that explain that very well. Even though there's only four here, they are slammed with content that can help you land your infographic on "mega-sites".
This maybe the hardest part of the process for you, I know it was for me.
The best thing I can advise is know your niche. Understand what is the focus of your niche and who is the top influencer in that category. Once you have this down, you must scout possible sites that you can reach out to. If you've never seen an infographic on a site, good chance they won't publish yours. I'd also look to see if they've published infographics from other sites, if they have, that's a very good sign.
With larger sites, they seem to cover every subject, and they have many authors on those sites. If you watch the subject and the tone of the journalist and you see a match with them within your niche, I'd consider reaching out. There's a good chance they write for other major blogs also.
To find these rather quickly, I'd suggest using the Google method.
Simply replace "keyword" with the word that matches your niche best and put "infographic" in quotations like this: keyword "infographic".
Understand outreach isn't easy and can even be depressing at times, but by keeping a steady pace, you could really get some traction, resulting in traffic to your site. You will get tired, and things maybe tough during this process. You may have to take a break and come back. However, if you make outreach a daily habit, there's no reason why you can't completely crush your niche. It all takes time.
My ranking is doing well by the way and I'm on the verge of cracking a major keyword. That keyword come to a monthly of around 10,000 people. I'm three positions away from hitting frontpage and to think the site is only just a few months old. I'm ecstatic!
I hope this post helps you, and that this post helps fulfill your blogging dream.
Luke Guy is THE SEO guy who isn't your average robot who talks just about backlinks. He focuses on connections and uses this ability to rank well among search engines while using his strategies. Get his free eBook "How To Guest Post On Any Blog While Crushing SEO" to learn more.
I have had a hard time reaching my target audience despite having great content on my site. After maneuvering through various strategies, even I tried the steady paced, SEO marketing process and the results were relevant. It is helping me to drive traffic to my site.
One of my current goals is creating good relevant inforgraphics for my blog. I've created one so far that I'm pleased with called the 4 key steps to success in a new fitness regimen. I'm a learn by doing kinda guy so I'm going to keep working on it! I've also heard Pinterest is a good place to go to promote your infographics but I suppose that is niche dependant.
Wow! I literally created and published an infographic the day this was published!


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Q: Rota Implementation with DateTime Perl I'm quite thick when it comes to math cleverness and I need some help, I need to implement a rota system where we'd get groups of people "on call" for a week, said groups will recur throughout the year.
This will be CGI scripts in Perl with a db in the backend.
Easier with an example, say 3 groups the 1st is on call from this Wednesday to next Wednesday when at midnight group 2 will be on call for the week on wednesday, after them the last group will be on call the same way. After the last group the first guys are on call again Wed - Wed and the whole thing keeps repeating.
It also has to accomodate temp changes to individuals in each group which will hold only for the current session and not for the whole series.
Imagine google calendar, basically that but developed buy one guy, me, and within a week, gotta love management.
Question:
What I'm thinking but don't know how to do is identify, having the group's static week number (group 1 week 1; group 2 week 2 .. etc), which group is "on call" right now.

A: Simply divide the week number by the group number. But keep in mind that the first group will be equal to 1, the last group to 0.
E.g. if you imagine the start of the year for 5 groups;
for week 1 % 5 = 1; -> group one
for week 2 % 5 = 2; -> group two
for week 3 % 5 = 3; -> group three
for week 4 % 5 = 4; -> group four
for week 5 % 5 = 0; -> group group five
And it repeats...
for week 6 % 5 = 1; -> group one
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Ahead of this year's Tokyo Olympics, South African middle-distance athlete, Caster Semenya, is aiming to run in the 200 metres heat, competing over a distance that would allow her to avoid World Athletics regulations limiting her testosterone levels.
Semenya is a double Olympic gold medallist in the 800 metres but, as an athlete with differences in sexual development (DSD), is bound by regulations limiting normal levels of testosterone in competitors racing in events ranging from 400m to a mile.
The 29-years old athlete said: "My dream has always been, and will continue to be, to compete at the highest level of sport. And so in order to pursue my goals and dreams, I have decided to change events and compete in the 200 metres.
"This decision has not been an easy one but, as always, I look forward to the challenge and will work hard, doing all I can to qualify for Tokyo and compete to the best of my ability for South Africa."
Semenya had been seen training with sprint start blocks in recent weeks, leading to speculation she would look to reinvent herself over a shorter distance.
But she must still earn her place in Tokyo and, with a personal best of 24.26 seconds in the 200m set in Feb. 2019, is some way off the Olympic qualifying time of 22.80.
Semenya is appealing to the Swiss Federal Tribunal against a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling that supported regulations introduced by the sport's governing body, World Athletics.
CAS is based in Lausanne and comes under the jurisdiction of Switzerland's highest court, a ruling is expected in the first half of this year which could take her close to the July 24 start of the Olympics.
Testosterone increases muscle mass, strength and haemoglobin, which affects endurance. Some competitors have said women such as Semenya, with higher levels of the hormone, have an unfair advantage.
Semenya won gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, but has split opinion in the sport over her refusal to submit to the World Athletics regulations.
She has garnered support from many people who see the rules as a human rights violation, while others feel she has an unfair natural advantage that does not produce a level playing field.
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Review of Nele Neuhaus's Snow White Must Die
Following a search tangent is like cutting
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Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus, trans. by Steven T. Murray
Please cut me some slack today, as I give in to searchtangentitis, in which a word or idea prompts me to follow research trails that become increasingly unrelated until the original reason for searching has been lost. Nele Neuhaus's Snow White Must Die is full of searchtangentitis triggers. Just to give you a flavor of one of the trails I followed, I researched the German fairy tale and the Brothers Grimm, of course, and from there I went to dwarfs and apple varieties, Tales of Monkey Island (Disney, who made a Snow White movie, bought LucasArts, maker of the game Monkey Island), Haiti (an island), Tonton Macoute (scary-as-hell Haitian paramilitary group), wonton soup, Great White sharks, and Henry VIII. You get the idea. Since this is Friday, and Read Me Deadly has an "all bets are off" policy on Fridays, I'll indulge my searchtangentitis by giving some starting points for research as I talk to you about Neuhaus's book.
Snow White Must Die's prologue is a dreamy, tender scene reminiscent of the fairy tale. In a hidden place, an unknown man visits a recumbent woman, whom he calls Snow White. He knows she's dead, and, judging from her stiff and leathery skin, she died years ago. (→ mummy, a list of mummy movies, Steve Martin as King Tut, Nele Neuhaus)
The scene shifts, and it's Thursday, November 6, 2008. Famous German actress Nadia von Bredow is picking up her childhood friend, Tobias Sartorius, outside the Rockenberg Correctional Facility. Now 30 years old, Tobias served a 10-year sentence for the 1997 murders of two teenage girls, Laura Wagner and Stefanie Schneeberger. Laura was his ex-girlfriend, and Stefanie was his current girlfriend when they were last seen, entering Tobias's house. Tobias claims that his memory about what happened that night is a "black hole," and the bodies were never found. He was convicted on eyewitness testimony, circumstantial evidence, and blood stains on his clothes, in his room, and in the trunk of his car. Other physical evidence was found hidden in his house, and the murder weapon was found hidden outside. (→ international homicide rate, black hole, forensic crime fiction, amnesia)
When Nadia drops off Tobias at his family home in the Taunus Mountains village of Altenhain, Tobias is shocked by what he finds. His father, Hartmut, is a wreck, and the farm is strewn with trash. Hartmut's once-thriving restaurant has closed. His parents have divorced, and his mother, Rita Cramer, lives in Bad Soden. Tobias, who had planned to stay a few days, decides to help his father by cleaning up the property. When Tobias discovers one of his father's friends has taken financial advantage of him, he vows to stay until he can figure out what happened 11 years ago. This will not be easy, because the villagers are furious that Tobias has dared to return. A campaign of harassment begins. (→ Taunus Mountains, The Wall Street Journal, musophobia, German politics)
Among the few people who are friendly are Claudius Terlinden, the most powerful man in the village, and the father of Tobias's former best friend, Lars; Terlinden's autistic son, Thies; and a 17-year-old newcomer named Amelie Fröhlich, who works at the Black Horse. Amelie is friendly with Thies, and lives with her father and stepmother in the Schneebergers' old house. Everyone notices that Amelie has an "almost spooky" resemblance to the murdered Stefanie Schneeberger, who was nicknamed Snow White. Amelie has the "same finely etched and alabaster-pale facial features, the voluptuous mouth, the dark, knowing eyes." Until Tobias's arrival, Amelie found the villagers as interesting "as a sack of rice in China." Now she's obsessed with finding out about the old murders. (→ Altenhain, autism, graffitti art, snowflakes)
While Tobias deals with village hostility and a budding romance with Nadia, two significant events happen outside of Altenhain: a backhoe operator at a long-closed airfield in Eschborn discovers human bones and a skull in an empty underground jet fuel tank, and Tobias's mother is hospitalized in a coma after she's shoved off a Bad Soden pedestrian overpass and lands on a car passing below. Investigating these two crimes are Detective Inspector Pia Kirchhoff and her superior, Detective Superintendent Oliver von Bodenstein, who soon follow the evidence to Altenhain. There, they receive little cooperation. Pia notes discrepancies in the evidence that sent Tobias to prison, but what is she to think about Tobias's guilt when Amelie disappears? Man, there is no shortage of secrets in Altenhain. (→ prehistoric brain surgery, Freud on guilt, Patricia Highsmith, "guilt"-tagged movies, BMW cars)
Snow White Must Die is a beautifully atmospheric German thriller about a search for justice, involving themes of guilt and redemption, outsiders vs. insiders, and loyalty and betrayal. The village's cultural mores are fascinating, as are the topical issues in mental health and crime. It's the fourth book in the Bodenstein-Kirchhoff series, although so far it's the only one translated into English. Translator Steven T. Murray has done an excellent job. After the flow of Scandinavian crime fiction, perhaps we'll finally see more mysteries from Germany trickling in. (→ thriller genre, atmospheric optics, outsider art)
German cops, like cops everywhere, juggle personal loyalty to each other with loyalty to the force, and demands of work and family. I liked Neuhaus's cops. Bodenstein is the son of a countess (when he is wounded, Pia laughs to see his blood is red, rather than blue) and father of three children. Pia says he's Cary Grant handsome and charming. (Does Bodenstein remind you at all of Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey or Elizabeth George's Thomas Lynley?) Bodenstein would be happier if Cosima, his movie-producer wife, stuck to Kinder, Küche, Kirche. Their relationship has been strained since their Mallorca vacation was interrupted by Bodenstein's job. Bodenstein is now miserable because he suspects that Cosima is having an affair. Pia also has distractions: Bodenstein isn't his usual self, her ex-husband is in a messy spot, and her farm remodeling plans were denied a permit. Despite these issues, the 41-year-old Pia is happy. Her lover, Christoph Sander, is a zoo director whose smile "always triggered in Pia the almost irrepressible desire to throw herself into his arms." (→ Cary Grant movies, German beer, Life of Pi)
I also enjoyed a peek at Germany's law enforcement and legal systems. A couple of things struck me: for murder, there's no statute of limitations in the US, but there's a 30-year statute of limitations in Germany. When those human bones are discovered in the old airfield fuel tank, careful forensic analysis to determine how long it's been since death is crucial. And, I was surprised that Tobias could study to become a locksmith while in prison; would that be allowed here? (→ statute of limitations, the Wright brothers, explore human anatomy, list of films featuring extraterrestrials)
Finally, Neuhaus repeatedly uses the Snow White colors⎯"white as snow, red as blood, black as ebony"⎯to gorgeous effect in descriptions of the winter settings, names (e.g. the Ebony Club, Schnee[snow]berger), and characters' appearances, emotions (e.g., black despair, white rage, red embarrassment), and relationships. Scenes alternate between the villagers in Altenhain and the investigating cops, but there's no trouble following the action. The plot is timely and twists smartly. Although the final quarter could have been trimmed, the suspense is well handled, with skillful misdirection and foreshadowing. Nele Neuhaus's Snow White Must Die was already an international best-seller when it was published by Minotaur Books in 2012. It's no wonder. I enjoyed it, and I'm hoping for more.
Posted by Georgette Spelvin at 11:55 PM
Labels: Bodenstein Oliver von, fairy tales, Germany, Kirchhoff Pia, Neuhaus Nele, police procedural, TGIF, thank God it's Friday, thriller
Bonnie April 9, 2013 at 2:36 PM
Glad to see a positive review here, after the book was thoroughly panned by someone on DorothyL (and her book club, too!) recently. I'm slowly working my way through the original (thanks to a generous Swiss friend whose sister works in a bookstore), as my reading-German is nowhere as fast as it was in the good old days when I lived in Austria. Distinctly remember being a fan of a police procedural out of Germany during that time (70s-early 80s) but have tried thus far unsuccessfully to track it down.
By the way, you guys know it's impossible to post a comment from the iPad on here; right? Or is it just me?
Sister Mary Murderous April 9, 2013 at 3:06 PM
Hi Bonnie, I pulled out my iPad and was able to comment, as you can see. it was a little funky, though. The text box.appeared, disappeared and reappeared.
Georgette Spelvin April 9, 2013 at 3:30 PM
Hey, Bonnie. Mechanics first. I've heard that unless you're using Chrome, commenting from the iPad on Google blogs like this one doesn't work. I hope it's just a browser change that will fix that for you.
Envy your ability to read the German original. My own German wouldn't be up to it. Regarding the pans: It isn't a book without flaws; I'd revise the last quarter, because the suspense suffers. While the plot as a whole isn't very realistic, whiffs of it have happened. (After you read it, you'll know what I mean.) I enjoyed it. I'll look forward to your thoughts about it.
@SMM & GS: What I get is the sign-in boxes superimposed over the text of the comment box, and no amount of poking around or touching gives me the keyboard pop-up. I do have Chrome on the iPad, so I'll try that next time. It's still a tiny bit of a pain, because I usually read my updates here via Pulse, which unfortunately does not give you access to comments unless you choose "Read on the Web," which, of course, defaults to Safari. I do web design on the side, so I sympathize with OS issues, especially now we're trying to accommodate everything from a tiny phone to a wide-screen TV.
Re: Snow White, if I recall correctly, the book club complained that the blackouts were never really explained and that the home lives of the detectives were clichéd, or something like that. I know one of you ranted about too much personal life in other contexts (certainly including Jemma and Duncan in Deborah Crombie's books), but I personally love to have glimpses of home lives mixed in, particularly in contrast to someone like V.I. Warshawski, who has *no life at all* apparently outside her investigations (and whose whiney, passive-aggressive and TSTL cousin may just stop me reading her books). My current pet-peeve is the interminable nonsexual relationship; e.g. Jim Qwilleran and his coy Polly, or Hannah Swensen with her perennial two boyfriends. Particularly in police procedurals, it doesn't seem realistic to me *not* to give at least a glimpse of how hard it is to reconcile work and home, and if someone can depict that realistically and sympathetically, I'm all for it. Maybe it's backlash from that "you can have it all, baby" nonsense we boomers were propagandized with as teenagers. (Bah, humbug!) But I've only scraped the surface in this book so far. I've gotten to where the woman is pushed from the pedestrian bridge onto the car below.
Re: The Snow White complaints. Interesting. I have no problem with Tobias's inability to remember what happened because he'd been drinking heavily. I don't want to say anything more. I'm surprised that this was cited as a criticism.
I also like to see what's happening on the home front. It's true that there's nothing unusual about the problems Neuhaus's cops have at home, but I don't think that means they're clichéd; more like realistic. They're definitely proof of the sort that "you can't have it all, baby."
Here is the Chrome iOS test.
Maltese Condor April 9, 2013 at 5:45 PM
I can comment but not intelligently via ipad and I am not on chrome, at least I don't think I am hehe
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) have submitted a request to the Ecumenical Patriarch (i.e. the patriarch of Constantinople, the supreme head of all Orthodox Churches) to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Orthodoxy. On 19 April the Ukrainian parliament, at the request of President Petro Poroshenko, expressed its support for this measure. The President himself expressed his support on 22 April. There are numerous indications that a positive decision regarding this issue has already been made, and a relevant thomos (patriarch's decree) will be announced any time this year Proclamation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Particular Orthodox Church (Ukrayinska Pomisna Avtokefalna Pravoslavna Tserkva, UAPOC) will likely trigger a new wave of confessional conflicts across Ukraine, including a likely schism in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which recognizes the primacy of the patriarch of Moscow (UOC). It is beyond any doubt that a certain portion of believers and clergy, which today is difficult to estimate, will remain loyal to Moscow and that the Moscow Patriarchate will make every effort to support Ukrainian structures of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The government of Ukraine, for its part, will try to prevent the development of these structures. From the political point of view, both the expected granting of autocephaly to Ukrainian Orthodoxy and the likely conflicts resulting from this are favourable to President Poroshenko because they increase both his and his party's chances of re-election in the elections planned for 2019. On the one hand, he will gain new trust from patriotically minded voters, on the other hand, opponents of autocephaly will coalesce around pro-Russian parties. This in turn may help promote a pro-Russian politician to compete with Poroshenko in the second round of presidential voting as a weak counter-candidate whom the current president would defeat relatively easily.


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February 24, 2015 by russellproctor
What a Coincidence!
Often when reading stories, I come across what can only be described as a million-to-one shot coincidence. You know the type I mean – a character in the book just happens to come across the secret letter that reveals who the villain is. The person the detective met in a random encounter at the café just happened to be the murderer they were looking for. The magic spell needed to unlock the hidden room was the one the hero accidentally stumbled across in the wizard's book the day before. And it's a million to one shot. Of course, there's no alternative for the poor writer: if those coincidences weren't there the story wouldn't happen.
But actually, coincidence happens every single day. To every single person on the planet.
Look more closely at that million-to-one shot. I live in Brisbane, Australia. Population: 2.2 million. For the sake of argument, let's round that down to 2 million. What are the chances that a million-to-one shot happens on any given day in the balmy, sunny (but cyclone-and-flood-prone) metropolis I love? You guessed it: about 2:1. So each day in Brisbane 2 million-to-one shots happen. Each day.
What about the planet as whole? Earth's current population is 7.3 billion. Now that means that 7,300 million-to-one coincidences happen each day. Read that again: every day 7,300 people shout, 'What just happened?' as they face-palm themselves in disbelief.
So what about coincidences in stories? To what extent does the reader accept that the hero just happens to come across the key that unlocks the safe containing the documents everyone is after? How is it that the detective just happens to see the murderer talking to another witness, which forms the ultimate clue that solves the crime? What, he walked into the restaurant, out of all the restaurants in the city, at that exact convenient moment?
The bounds of credulity are often stretched (or ignored) for the sake of the story. In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Bilbo Baggins is lost in caverns under the Misty Mountains. Blindly groping through the tunnels, his hand just happens to touch the One Ring – the ownership of which will determine the fate of the world for years to come, cause wars and lead to the deaths of thousands – and he picks it and puts it in his pocket. Had this blindingly unlikely chance not happened, none of the ensuing story would have taken place. Tolkien tries to explain away the Ring's million-to-one shot discovery in The Lord of the Rings:
'Behind that there was something else at work, beyond any design of the Ring-maker. I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker.'
(The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien: Book One, Chapter 2)
But is it enough just to put it down to fate? Of course, the heavily veiled Christianity in Tolkien's works, which is in no way intrusive, could satisfy the reader, perhaps, that some 'higher power' is working through its mortal agents to defeat evil. But let's face it, in the end it's just a coincidence that Bilbo finds the One Ring.
And, in the milieu of that story, the coincidence can be ignored. The reader takes it for granted. We turn the page on Gandalf's dismissive statement above and just accept that now the Ring has been found, all we have to do is worry about what's going to happen to it.
The film Slumdog Millionaire is based on the premise that the events that occur during the childhood of a competitor in a game show just happen to provide him with the knowledge he needs to answer questions in a TV quiz. Somehow, the questions just happen to relate to events in his life which, by the sheerest good luck, give him the precise bit of knowledge he needs to answer. Coincidence? You bet. Big, fat coincidence stuffing its face with unlikelihood. But it's a great movie, and we accept its excesses of credulity.
Real life is full of coincidences too. Millions of times a day. But here we are.
So what does the writer do? How far can he or she take that lucky shot?
I'm guilty of it myself in my writing. I would venture to say all writers are faced with this dilemma. Will the reader believe this? I lie in bed at night, tossing and turning as I try to work how such an unlikely chance as I plan to put in my book can actually be believed. Will the supposed 'suspension of disbelief' the writer aims for actually carry it off this time? It's a tough call.
In the end, I think it comes down to careful writing. Surprising the reader at the climax of the story that the hero just happens to be an electronics engineer and can open the locked security door by tinkering with the circuits using the handy tool-kit he just happened to have in his pocket won't fool anyone. The reader will curse the writer and toss the book away with a vow to never again read anything written by that particular pathetic hack. But, if the writer were to foreshadow somewhere near the start of the book that the hero has a degree in electronics and always carries tools around in order to tinker with various bits and pieces as he goes about his other adventures (in other words, giving him business to flesh out his character) then the fact that he has the appropriate knowledge and equipment at the necessary time is more acceptable.
So there's two rules I guess that can help sell coincidence to some degree at least:
1) Don't underestimate your reader. Readers are smart people, otherwise they wouldn't be readers. And writers are smart, too, otherwise they wouldn't be…no, hang on, that doesn't work. But anyway, don't stretch things beyond what you, the writer, would accept yourself if you were reading someone else's story.
2) Use foreshadowing to 'set up' the coincidence long before it appears. If the reader can think at the appropriate moment, 'Of course! The railway station porter saw the villain hiding the diamond in the safe-deposit locker on page 45! That's how the hero knew where to look! Man, this guy's a good writer!' then you have done well.
Coincidence has its place, but it's a dangerous toy to play with. However, it shouldn't be something to fear. Just tell a good story and the reader will play the game.
I keep telling myself that, anyway.
Russell Proctor http://www.russellproctor.com
Posted in Books, Education, Fantasy, Film and Theatre, Horror, Language, Life, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Books, coincidence, good writing, literature, writing
February 4, 2015 by russellproctor
Inspiration, Buses, and Majorca
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Waiting for inspiration
Is rather like waiting for a bus.
You stand under the shelter
(Which has a big crack in the glass
And almost no roof)
And it starts to pour.
The wind is howling at you.
Millions of cars flash by.
You wait for forty minutes.
Five buses show up.
You wave your hands frantically for them to slow down.
You think quickly:
"Which one will take me to Cambridge?"
The buses start to leave.
You jump on one in a hurry
And settle down.
The air pump is broken.
There are loads of loud, rude people
Who leave their gum on the sides of seats.
The bus takes you to Majorca.
Great Opening Lines
One of the most important parts of a story, whether it's a novel or a short, is the first sentence.
The first sentence has a big job to do, and a most important one. Basically, its job is to make the reader read the first paragraph.
And that's important because the first paragraph's job is to make the reader read the second.
And, by extrapolation, the first page's job is to make the reader turn to the second. Once they have done that, the writer has them.
So that first sentence is vital. I'm an English teacher, among other things and I've read thousands of essays and stories and assignments from my students over the years. And usually I can tell from the first sentence what the rest of the piece is going to be like. If it's a good one, I can relax into it and maybe even enjoy the read. If it's a bad one I reach for a glass of red wine (every teacher's panacea at mark time) and resign myself to a mediocre effort.
The late great children's author Madeleine L'Engle started her novel A Wrinkle in Time with the sentence 'It was a dark and stormy night.' That is usually the sentence used as an example of how not to start a story. Which is why the brave Ms L'Engle used it, I guess. She went on to write a very successful series of novels from that bold opening.
So let's have a look at some great opening lines of great stories, and try to work out just why they hit the mark the way they do.
First up, one of my favourites, from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1948):
That phrase "the clocks were striking thirteen" is what makes this a wonderful sentence. Of course, common sense tells us clocks that strike on the hour (that is, sound out a series of chimes, one for each hour) are not twenty-four hour clocks, so none of them normally strike thirteen. The use of that word indicates there is something unusual about these clocks, and that draws the reader in. He or she wants to know not just why the clocks are striking thirteen, but how. Orwell arouses our curiosity in a subtle way and does what every good writer should do: make the reader ask questions. It's by reading the book that the reader will find the answers.
Another example, from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit:
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
Tolkien did a similar thing to Orwell. He introduced a word that would immediately ask a question. What is a hobbit? We want to know, so we keep reading. In this case, Tolkien almost immediately answers the question and gives us quite a long description of his invented race. But it works, because after that description he dives straight into the story and vindicates our newfound knowledge by putting his hobbit into a situation that demonstrates not only the racial tendencies of hobbits but the ways in which his particular hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, is different.
Another good line, for different reasons, from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre:
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-of-door exercise was now out of the question.
Here the author plunges us straight in. We meet at least two people: the narrator and Mrs Reed, and learn a bit about the habits of each. Mrs Reed is particular about when she dines; the narrator seems to dislike the outdoors and finds raw winter weather uncomfortable.
It is a grammatically perfect way of drawing us into the writer's world. We know it's Charlotte Bronte, of course, so we can anticipate the sort of story we're in for. But here we have no "faffing about" that other writer's of her time might have indulged in. We are into the story.
Here's an opening from a more modern book, Ben Elton's Past Mortem:
The victim died as he had lived.
Cruelly.
Only more so.
Three short paragraphs that set up a situation that has us wanting to know more. Is this a murder? And what was it that made the victim's life cruel? The fact that each paragraph contains a single short sentence or sentence fragment rams home to us the suddenness of the death and the impact of it. It turns out to be a gruesome murder and Elton cuts no corners in getting us straight to it. It's up there with Charles Dickins's wonderful opening to A Christmas Carol: 'Marley was dead, to begin with.'
The importance of killer opening lines can't be stressed too much. They have to be strong and intriguing, they must raise questions in the reader's mind, and they must immediately reflect the style and nature of the story to come. Sometimes it may well be that the first sentence is the last one to be written.
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Tagged Books, effective opening lines, opening lines, plot, story, writing


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Cannot recall the book I read this from, but, it has worked for me many times. Nor could I remember where the meditation thread was. Thought it could go either way.
Once your mind is still, no thought entertained. You can let the thoughts float by as in Eastern Style or block them outright as in Western--purely a personal choice.
With still mind and even breathing, let the blackness fall away to a wooded road. It is gravel mostly, and stretches farther than you can see. Begin taking steps forward. Walk forward until you see a side road off to the right side of the main drive (if you see it on the left, just go with it).
Once off the gravel drive, the road turns more earthen and leads into the tree line. Keep going. In those trees is a clearing. In that clearing is a stump. If s/he is not there, have a seat and they will be around shortly. Other times, you may find they are already waiting, expecting your arrival.
If this is a concern, what do you see upon beginning the visual? Do you reach the clearing before you see the other or after? What is said if you do speak?
Another fix is to cast a circle (of salt) around you before beginning. State clearly and with intent that none with ill intent may cross. Smudging is also a good way to dispel another entity or spirit from you and your dwelling if it is troublesome.
Should be something in the Cleansing section of the Para-boards to help there.
Will be trying this later. :o) Will come back with what seen/heard.
The guides can help. Have you looked into local covens or groves or paranormal groups to cleans and handle the being?


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In this video you will learn how to draw a pattern on a fabric.
The pattern to draw has been pinned to the fabric in the video "Stitching a garment Part 4: How to pin a pattern".
After the pattern is pinned on the fabric, it has to be drawn on the fabric.
Take a chalk, and start outlining the pattern from one end of the fabric.
Flatten the pattern with your other hand simultaneously as you move ahead.
Try to outline the fabric in one continuous motions, to avoid untidy lines on the fabric which may lead to inaccurate cutting of the cloth.
The pattern is first drawn on the fabric so that it can be cut accurately.
Choose the colour of the chalk carefully, such that the chalk line is easily visible on the fabric.
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