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Speech disorders refer to several conditions in which a person has problems creating or forming the speech sounds needed to communicate with others.
Three common speech disorders are:
- Articulation disorders
- Disfluency
- Voice disorders
Speech disorders are different from language disorder in children, such as:
- Getting their meaning or message across to others
- Understanding the message coming from others
Alternative Names
Articulation deficiency; Voice disorders; Vocal disorders; Disfluency; Communication disorder - speech disorder
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Speech is one of the main ways in which we communicate with those around us. It develops naturally, along with other signs of
Disfluencies are disorders in which a person repeats a sound, word, or phrase.
Articulation disorders may have no clear cause. They may also occur in other family members. Other causes include:
- Problems or changes in the structure or shape of the muscles and bones used to make speech sounds. These changes may include
cleft palateand tooth problems.
- Damage to parts of the brain or the nerves (such as from
cerebral palsy) that control how the muscles work together to create speech.
See also:
Voice disorders are caused by problems when air passes from the lungs, through the vocal cords, and then through the throat, nose, mouth, and lips. A voice disorder may be due to:
- Acid from the stomach moving upward
Cancer of the throat
- Cleft palate or other problems with the palate
Conditions that damage the nervesthat supply the muscles of the vocal cords
- Laryngeal webs or clefts (a birth defect in which a thin layer of tissue is between the vocal cords)
- Noncancerous growths (polyps, nodules, cysts, granulomas, papillomas, or ulcers) on the vocal cords
- Overuse of the vocal cords from screaming, constantly clearing the throat, or singing
Disfluency (
- Repetition of sounds, words, or parts of words or phrases after age 4 (I want...I want my doll. I...I see you.)
- Putting in (interjecting) extra sounds or words (We went to the...uh...store.)
- Making words longer (I am Boooobbby Jones.)
- Pausing during a sentence or words, often with the lips together
- Tension in the voice or sounds
- Frustration with attempts to communicate
- Head jerking while talking
- Eye blinking while talking
- Embarrassment with speech
Articulation disorder:
- Sounds may be distorted (changed)
- Sounds (most often consonants) will be substituted, left off, added, or changed
- Errors may make it hard for people to understand the person (only family members may be able to understand a child)
See also:
Voice disorders:
- Hoarseness or raspiness to the voice
- Voice may break in or out
- Pitch of the voice may change suddenly
- Voice may be too loud or too soft
- May run out of air during a sentence
- Speech may sound odd because too much air is escaping through the hose (hypernasality) or too little air is coming out through the nose (hyponasality)
Signs and tests
The following tests can help diagnose speech disorders:
- Denver Articulation Screening Examination
- Early Language Milestone Scale
- Denver II
- Peabody Picture Test Revised
A hearing test may also be done.
Milder forms of speech disorders may disappear on their own.
Speech therapy may help with more severe symptoms or speech problems that do not improve.
In therapy, the child will learn how to create certain sounds.
Expectations (prognosis)
The prognosis depends on the cause of the disorder. Usually, speech can be improved with speech therapy. Prognosis improves with early intervention.
Speech disorders may lead to psychosocial problems associated with ineffective communication.
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if:
- Your childs speech is not developing according to normal milestones
- You think your child is in a high-risk group
- Your child is showing signs of a speech disorder
Intellectual disabilityand hearing loss make children more likely to develop speech disorders. At-risk infants should be referred to an audiologist for an
As young children begin to speak, some disfluency is common. Children lack a large vocabulary and have difficulty expressing themselves. This results in broken speech. If you place excessive attention on the disfluency, a stuttering pattern may develop. The best way to prevent stuttering, therefore, is to avoid paying too much attention to the disfluency.
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Choi SS, Zalzal GH. Voice disorders. In: Flint PW, Haughey BH, Lund VJ, et al, eds. Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier;2010: chap 203.
Sharp HM, Hillenbrand K. Speech and language development and disorders in children. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2008;55:1159-1173.
Simms MD. Language disorders in children: classification and clinical syndromes. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2007;54:437-467.
Specific language and learning disabilities. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 32.
Simms MD, Schum RL. Language development and communication disorders, In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. NelsonTextbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap32.
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Trenton:1 City (1990 pop. 20,586), Wayne co., SE Mich., on the Detroit River opposite Grosse Ile, in a farm area; settled 1816, inc. as a city 1957. An early river port, it has plants that make metal products, chemicals, and transportation equipment.
2 City (1990 pop. 88,675), state capital (since 1790) and seat (since 1719) of Mercer co., W N.J., at the head of navigation on the Delaware River; settled by Friends 1679, inc. as a city 1792. Situated between Philadelphia and New York City, it is an important transportation hub. Its pottery industry dates from Colonial times. Other leading manufactures include metal products, rubber goods, textiles, and plastics. Trenton's population and industrial production declined in the late 20th cent.; however, there was suburban development, especially to the city's northeast.
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(The grave marker will look different than the one shown; we're planning on including an engraving of the Salt Lake Temple on the marker.)
"It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future..."
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Amanda Hall Wessman Gravestone
(The grave marker will look different than the one shown; we're planning on including an engraving of the Salt Lake Temple on the marker.)
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This is a really neat idea to raise the money. I may have to "steal" this idea for the list of headstones I'd like to have placed someday.ReplyDelete
It's been interesting to see a number of markers placed on various family members' graves in both my and my husband's extended families. The fund raising part is mostly effective when other family members are approached personally or if the relatives have a particular interest in the ancestor.ReplyDelete
Here's the story of a grave marker I had placed with the help of several family members including a cousin who had been working on the family line. There were a number of things we did to keep costs down for Adeline's grave, including using a piece of remnant granite for the marker and making it a flat marker.
If there were a larger family association, you may be able to do something grander, such as the markers installed recently on the William and Myra Myall Henrie graves in Bountiful and Panguitch, Utah. Here is Myra's marker:


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Abraham Bergman
Born: June 15, 1924
Krasnik, Poland
Abraham was born to a Jewish family in Krasnik, a town in the Lublin district of Poland. The town had a large Jewish population. Abraham's father was a tailor. When Abraham was 2, his mother died and he was raised by his grandmother. At the age of 7, Abraham started public school.
1933-39: I liked school but it was difficult. The Christian children often yelled at the Jews, "You killed our God." One year, on the day before Christmas break, some kids brought ropes tied to iron weights to school. They waited until after school, so no one could tell the teacher, and then beat up the Jewish kids. Many went home covered in blood. In 1938 I finished public school. The invading Germans reached Krasnik in September 1939.
1940-45: In 1942 I was deported to the Budzyn, Majdanek, and Auschwitz camps in Poland, and then Oranienburg and Flossenbürg in Germany. By spring 1945 I was in a group of 500 taken to a farm area in Bavaria. Only 3 SS guards policed 30 of us. When one guard went to the kitchen and the other took men to look for food, I seized my chance. Pushing through the farmhouse gates, I ran into the woods. Shots were fired; I threw myself down. Two escapees fell next to me. We got to the village of Gern just as a US tank appeared.
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I've been looking back on some of our Challenges. You know we have had a fabulous time making the Squares for various themes. I thought it would be nice to take a look back at some of them. So really this is going to be a post with quite a few photos and not so many words today.
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Filed under: war-machine | Tags: alexandros, anniversary, Athens, december, Greece, police, rioting, second day, socialist state
From the Guardian:
"Protesters smashed store windows and threw rocks and firebombs at riot police who responded with teargas today, the second day of violence during commemorations for a teenager shot dead by police a year ago.
The killing of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos led to two weeks of rioting in Greece last year, with gangs of youths smashing, looting and burning shops across the country in protest at heavy-handed police tactics.
Today's clashes broke out during a demonstration by about 3,000 people, mostly secondary school pupils, through the centre of Athens. Several dozen youths towards the back of the march attacked riot police with rocks, firebombs and firecrackers, smashing some of the bus stops, telephone booths and shopfronts not damaged in yesterday's demonstration.
Protesters injured a passerby who attempted to intervene, beating him unconscious. Police detained at least three youths. Demonstrators scrawled anti-police graffiti and stencilled a photograph of Grigoropoulos on shop windows and walls along the demonstration route.
Minor clashes broke out during a march of about 2,000 people in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, where police fired teargas to disperse youths pelting them with rocks.
Police said at least 16 officers and five demonstrators were injured yesterday, while 177 people were detained in Athens and another 103 in Thessaloniki. One policeman who lost control of his motorbike struck and injured a female pedestrian, who was tended to by demonstrators until an ambulance arrived.
At Athens University, masked protesters broke into the building, injuring the university's dean and pulling down a Greek flag, replacing it with a black and red anarchist banner. The clashes continued late into the night, and police clashed with protesters in the southern city of Patras and the north-western city of Ioannina.
Last night the civil protection minister, Michalis Chrisochoidis, defended tougher tactics used by police, following criticism from a leftwing opposition party. "Police detentions, when justified, are not illegal in a democratic society. Neither is it illegal for judicial officials to press charges," he said. "Vandals and hooligans have nothing to do with democracy.""
This seems to be rather typical of reporting of these events where almost everything police say is taken at their word. Police purposely run over people in the crowd (as the video below shows) and it is said that the officer simply lost control of his bike. He just couldn't take his foot off the gas while driving up to a crowd of people… The information about the dean from the university being beaten has not being confirmed by anyone except the media as many people at the university have seen him walking around after it was occupied and he was seemingly unscathed.
At least they got one thing right. "Vandals and hooligans have nothing to do with democracy."


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Joe Fly and Uka Uka Racing Share the Podium at the Audi Melges 32 World Championship
27 September 2009
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Porto Cervo - The tenth and final race of Audi Melges 32 World Championship reached its final verdict to determine the remaining steps of the podium behind the World Champion Bliksem today.
The race today was a photo finish that ended with 3 teams in a close battle. Giovanni Maspero's Joe Fly (Francesco Bruni as tactician) in the tenth race (wind around 7 knots) tried to replicate the success of race number 9. Lorenzo Santini and Alessio Marinelli's Uka Uka Racing, with Lorenzo Bressani aboard, ended in seventh place: this tied them with Joe Fly in terms of ranking.
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By Army Sgt. Jeremy Todd Special to American Forces Press ServiceOctober 21, 2008
FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2008 - Iraqi citizens gathered in Baghdad's Karadah district Oct. 17 to celebrate a new micro-power generator that will provide electricity to about 300 homes.
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Short Note: Yay yay.. I'm going on a cruise tomorrow. So long never go on a cruise d. :D
So happy. Gonna head down to Singapore tonight. Too bad they don't operate Star Cruise from Port Klang anymore. :(
Can you guess who these people are? No price for guessing right. But let's have some sportsmanship here. :D
Looks like some politician
As you can see we're all big kids in Ratchaburi's Wax Museum.
Another politician?
Haha, Richard also playing along.
Some Thai dude.
Hint: a first Thai lady to do something...
Hint: a famous Thai explorer
There are also some international prominent figures.
Guess who~?
This shouldn't be too difficult if you study Chinese history
This is a no brainer (no I don't mean her. nor me)
I mean.. I knew she was short, but o.O
Last one. This is easy too.
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u r so hilarious nicole! really like the 'Hint: a famous Thai explorer' pic hehe. being around with look-a-like statues creeps me out.ReplyDelete
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- tiger^cub21/5/09 5:12 PM
ok, those thai figures r diff, ct tell any of em, so sad, i know Mother Theresa tho, the pics wif 2 ppl, on the right is Mao Ze Dong right? i duno who's on the left tho, which goes to show my knowledge or lack of it in history :<ReplyDelete
lol! u r THE star!ReplyDelete
really funny!!! hahaha.... :-)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous21/5/09 8:32 PM
thought about going into acting? u sure got the skills!ReplyDelete
shit, i could guess neither of them... is there any deng xiao ping in it??? i really suck at history...ReplyDelete
shit, i could guess neither of them... is there any deng xiao ping in it??? i really suck at history...ReplyDelete
your pose super funny. they should make a wax of you insteadReplyDelete
Number 10 - On the right. Mao Zhe Dong! I KNOW I KNOW!! SURE CORRECT WAN!!ReplyDelete
I know a very small fraction of them BUT then the one that stands out is still my dear Girl - NicoleReplyDelete
(1) Professor Sanya ThammasakReplyDelete
(2) Professor Dr. Puei Aungpakorn
(3) Professor ML. Pin Malakul
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(5) Montri Tramod
(6) Seub Nakasatean
(7) ครูโต ขำเดช
(8) President Ho Chi Minh
(9) Mother Teresa
(10) Deng Xiao Ping (Left) & President Mao Zedong (Right)
Found these images interesting so I googled it and read about the facts!
Hopefully, I can travel to Ratchaburi and go to have a look on this wax museum~
So funny!!!! I love all the pics - its like a story you're trying to tell! Believable one!! Hahaha...ReplyDelete


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Funding for the media has been slashed and the Media Fund is to be dismantled.
In 2011 volunteers represented 73% of the total labour force in museums, 44% in libraries and 63% in pop music venues.
The American practice of buying a position on the board of trustees has been introduced but for now has been restricted to private cultural enterprises.
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7.3 Status and partnerships of public cultural institutions
There is a complex system of subsidies in the cultural sector. The following chapter will explain how the subsidy system works in these fields: arts and cultural heritage; media and entertainment; and creative industries.
The arts and cultural heritage
Performing arts
The performing arts sector includes music, music theatre, drama and dance. Within these four disciplines, there are a great many sub-genres, including opera, popular music, musical, ballet, mime, etc. The Performing Arts Fund NL is the most important subsidy source for the performing arts. From 2017, the Performing Arts Fund will provide a multi-annual funding to 84 cultural organisations. Applicants were judged on the following criteria: artistic quality, entrepreneurship, diversity and geographical spread. For festivals and competitions applies a fifth criterion: contribution to the development of the performing arts (see chapter 8.1.2).
The maintenance and management of theatre, music and opera buildings is the responsibility of the local authorities.
Visual arts
The government supports visual arts and cultural heritage through the Mondriaan Fund. The fund aims to encourage innovation and excellence in these fields by supporting outstanding artists, cultural heritage and art organisations and projects, both in the Netherlands and abroad (see chapter 8.1.2). Many of the Mondriaan Fund's grants are aimed at encouraging cooperation between organisations, artists, mediators, clients and / or other private or public parties. In order to stimulate the private market for art, the Mondriaan Fund has created the Private Art Buyers Scheme [KunstKoop]. Under this scheme, people can buy art on credit at over a hundred galleries spread across the Netherlands. The artwork can then be paid for in monthly instalments instead of all at once.
In 2015, the Mondriaan Fund grants EUR 1.4 million to the multiannual programs of 20 museums and other heritage institutions. In 2016 the fund grants EUR 1.9 million to twelve presentation institutions for contemporary art. The total budget for the period 2017-2020 amounts EUR 24.39 million per year.
Libraries, language and literature
Language and literature are financed through The Dutch Foundation for Literature. This foundation has the task of supporting writers and translators, and of promoting Dutch literature abroad. It invests in the quality and diversity of literature through grants for writers, translators, publishers and festivals, and contributes to the production and distribution of Dutch and Frisian literature in the Netherlands and abroad (see chapter 8.1.2).
In January 2015, a new libraries act was implemented. The government aims to create a centralised comprehensive network of libraries, both physical and digital (see chapter 5.3.4).
For the period 2017-2020 the total budget amounts EUR 10.15 million per year. Three support organisations for literature and one for libraries are part of the national basic infrastructure. There is room for support for literary magazines. Flanders and the Netherlands being guest countries at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 is of great importance.
Central government, the provinces and the municipalities are cooperating in the development of a digital infrastructure for national and local archives. The National Archive is the archive of central government.
Together with the archives of the larger municipalities, the National Archive is working on the development of a so-called "e-depot". The National Archive aims to make digital archives permanently accessible for citizens (click here for the English website of the National Archive).
Cultural heritage
The central government subsidises 48 museums, of which 30 are part of the Basic National Infrastructure (BIS). The 18 remaining museums funded by central government receive subsidies from other ministries (for example, the Army Museum is subsidised by the Ministry of Defence). In 2012, the museums under the BIS umbrella generated 29% of their income through their own activities. Their private income rates vary widely. The Van Gogh Museum, for example, generated 70% of its 2012 income through ticket sales, sponsorship, private gifts and commercial activities. In addition to the BIS, a great number of museums is subsidised by local government. The Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Jet Bussemaker, presented a Museum Letter in 2013, in which she reveals her vision on the museum system and proposes some measures in order to improve the system. She particularly stresses the need for more cooperation between museums across the country.
The Cultural Heritage Agency is responsible for the preservation and maintenance of cultural heritage in the Netherlands. The agency, which is part of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, awards grants for monuments and historic buildings, archaeology and cultural landscapes, and implements the Monuments and Historic Buildings Act. It takes action whenever the cultural heritage comes under threat (see chapter 4.2.2 and chapter 5.3.3; click here for the English website).
Media and entertainment
Most of the national budget for film is distributed through the Netherlands Film Fund. The fund is responsible for supporting film production nationwide. It focuses on the quality and diversity of feature films, documentaries, shorts, animation and experimental films. Its operations cover participation in development, production and distribution. Furthermore, it supports film-related activities such as festivals, co-production markets and individual training for film professionals. It is also responsible for promoting an enabling environment for the national film industry (see chapter 8.1.2; click here for the English website).
At the end of 2013, the government decided to earmark an additional 20 million EUR to improve the competitiveness of the Dutch film industry, and to stimulate foreign filmmakers to move to the Netherlands. The Netherlands Film Fund will be responsible for distributing the additional grants. The share of Dutch films in Dutch cinemas has increased over the last few years. In 2007, 14% of the films showing in Dutch cinemas were Dutch; by the first six months of 2013, this proportion had increased to 17.4%.
For the period 2013-2016, three film festivals and one support organisation for film are part of the Basic National Infrastructure. The support organisation is the Eye Film Institute Netherlands, the Dutch centre for film culture and heritage, which is dedicated to developing a vigorous film culture in the Netherlands (click here for the English website).
Media affairs are supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. State Secretary Dekker of the VVD (Liberal Party) is responsible for the media portfolio. Legislation on media is laid down in the Media Act 2008 (see chapter 5.3.7). The media is not incorporated in the Basic National Infrastructure and the actual media funds are not law-based. As explained earlier in this document, the main role of the government vis à vis the media is to safeguard pluriformity, accessibility and affordability (see chapter 4.2.6).
In the Netherlands, there are three funds regarding media affairs: the Dutch Cultural Media Fund [Mediafonds], the Co-production Fund for National Public Broadcasting [Co-productiefonds Binnenlandse omroep] and the Press Stimulation Fund [Stimuleringsfonds voor de pers]. The Dutch Cultural Media Fund is the largest of the three. It promotes the development and production of high-quality artistic programmes by the national and regional public-broadcasting corporations. The fund provides more than 16 million EUR in subsidies annually for radio and television programmes in the fields of drama, documentary, feature film, youth, new media and performing arts. The fund also stimulates new genres, like video clips and games, in collaboration with other organisations and funds (click here for the English website).
Following the earlier decision to reduce the budget for public broadcasting by 200 million EUR, the Rutte I Cabinet (2010-2012) announced a further cut of 100 million EUR. However, the new Rutte II Cabinet was subsequently forced by parliament to limit the second cut to 50 million EUR. The Media Fund will be dismantled and its tasks will be taken over by the public broadcast service.
Creative Industries
For the period 2013-2016, a new cultural fund was created: the Creative Industries Fund NL (click here for the English website). The term "creative industries" encompasses a broad range of different fields, including design, architecture, urban development, landscape architecture, graphic design, fashion, new media and gaming. The government aims to stimulate the development of the creative industries by making the cluster one of its ten "top sectors" in its "top-sector policy" (see chapter 4.2.3).
The three sector institutes concerning the creative industries (the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Premsela: the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion, and the Virtual Platform, the e-culture knowledge institute) have now merged to form the New Institute [Het Nieuwe Instituut]. The activities of the New Institute are grounded in the principles of design and innovation. It organises exhibitions, lectures and fellowships, and carries out research and development projects around three multi-annual programmes. The themes of the three programmes are Landscape and Interiors, Objects and Materials, plus a changing annual theme (click here for the English website). The New Institute is part of the Basic National Infrastructure for the period 2013-2016.
Cooperation models and additional forms of financing
Before state funding came into being, the cultural support system in the Netherlands was built around private initiative and social associations. In the second half of the 19th century, many important Dutch museums were initiated, mostly in cooperation with municipalities. The museums were financed and managed by a small, elite group. After World War II, central government intensified policy-making in the field of the arts and culture. From the 1960s on, almost all major institutions received subsidies from the state. But many of them were still managed by private board members. Together with central government, the board members formed the governance structure of a non-profit foundation [stichting].
Towards the end of the 20th century, these public-private organisation models returned to prominence. In the 1990s, both central government and the municipalities distanced themselves from museums. The museums were privatised; they became foundations with an autonomous management, separated from the subsidising governments. Due to the economic crisis of 2008 and the growing focus on the "value" debate, cultural institutions had to devote more energy to obtaining private income. It became a general belief that institutions could show their importance (and hence value) and impact by generating additional private funding. Especially in the so-called "participation society" (a term introduced by the Rutte II Cabinet in September 2013 during the announcement of the Budget Memorandum 2014), private initiative and private income moved to the centre of the cultural policy system.
Private associations and foundations
Next to government subsidies, funding comes from private associations and foundations. Some private foundations, such as the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation [Prins Bernhard CultuurFonds] and the VandenEnde Foundation, have specific social and cultural aims as part of their statutes. The Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation is the largest private cultural foundations in the Netherlands. It stimulates the conservation of nature and culture by supporting over 3 500 initiatives, individuals and projects every year. The VandenEnde Foundation was founded in 2001. Its focus is on stimulating cultural entrepreneurship and increasing the interest of young people in culture. It offers scholarships for talented young people, to enable them to further develop their opportunities (click here for English website).
Friends' societies and volunteers
A growing number of subsidised cultural institutions have friends' societies or private support systems. These allied organisations derive their income from membership fees, gifts and legacies. Especially in the museum sector, friends' societies can play an important role. But this kind of support is also important in other sectors. The Royal Concertgebouw has a friends' society with over 20 000 "friends". Friends are important, both for the additional money they bring and the social support they generate. About 250 000 people are in one way or another related to the many museums in the Netherlands (source: Smithuijsen and Van Woersem [2013] Boekman 97, p 86).
In times of economic recession, cultural institutions are more dependent on volunteers. In the museum sector, the number of volunteers increased by 59% between 2001 and 2011. In 2011, the total number of volunteers in museums was 28 364, while paid employees numbered 10 549. Volunteers therefore represent 73% of the total labour force in museums (in terms of people, not in terms of working hours). In the library sector, the proportion of volunteers had increased to 44% by 2011; in pop music venues, volunteers grew to comprise 63% of all staff as of 2011 (source: Cultuur in Beeld p 52-54). In general, smaller institutes attract a relatively larger number of volunteers. In the amateur arts sector, volunteers play a highly important role as well. As of 2009, one million volunteers were active in this sector, in which they organise exhibitions and performances, make costumes or even play a leading role as they do in amateur arts organisations. In 2009, volunteers spent between four and 28 hours a month on activities related to amateur arts. On average, 28 hours a month were spent on voluntary activities related to new media (photography, film), 21 hours on instrumental music and 19 hours on the visual arts. Men spent twice as much time on voluntary work in the amateur arts as women did (source: Kunstfactor 2009, factsheet 1).
Another source of cultural funding is the contribution made by commercial enterprises to cultural institutions or facilities: in other words, sponsorship.
In the 1990s, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science drew up a code for the sponsors of cultural events, called the Culture Sponsor Code [Code Cultuursponsoring]. In this code, various rules for a sponsor relationship are defined and the framework for sponsorship agreements is stipulated. The most important aspect of the code is that, in principle, the sponsor is not allowed to influence the actual content of the activity organised by its cultural public partner. Most large banks, including ABN AMRO and Rabobank, have their own departments dealing with culture sponsorship.
Recently the American practice of buying a position on the board of trustees has been introduced to the Netherlands. For the time being however, the practice has been restricted to purely private cultural enterprises – in this case the Museum Beelden aan Zee.
The government wants the cultural sector to become less dependent on government subsidies and to generate more money from private sources. For this reason, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science set up the Cultural Entrepreneurship Programme (2012-2016). Cultural organisations and producers are supported in their entrepreneurial efforts and helped with advice, coaching and supervision to find alternative funding. The main aim is to reinforce entrepreneurship in the cultural sector among both organisations and makers (see chapter 4.2.9). An important part of this policy is to encourage "giving to culture". The government aims to support donations to the arts and culture with its Gift and Inheritance Tax Act [Geefwet] and donation campaign.
Giving to culture helps to increase the public's engagement with the cultural sector. In 2009, the Dutch gave approximately 4.7 billion EUR to good causes. About 10% of that amount, 454 million EUR, went to culture. Since 2009 however, donations to culture have been declining. In 2011, the Dutch gave approximately 4.3 billion EUR to good causes. Approximately 7% of that amount, 287 million EUR, went to culture (see chapter 6.3).
With the Gift and Inheritance Tax Act [Geefwet], which was implemented in the Netherlands on 1 January 2012, the government hopes to encourage private individuals to make donations to cultural institutions by offering (additional) income tax benefits. The act also introduces a multiplier of 125 per cent, which applies to donations made to cultural institutions – up to a maximum of 5 000 EUR. This means that a larger sum can be deducted and a lower net amount can be paid, while the total donation to the institution stays the same (see chapter 5.1.5 and chapter 6.3). Since the act was implemented only in 2012, the effects have yet to be measured. An audit will take place in 2014.
Crowdfunding, the practice of funding a project or artist by raising small amounts of money from a large group of people, mostly via the internet, is gaining ground in the Netherlands. Since the state budget cuts to culture were announced in 2011, a lot of artists and institutions have started using the crowdfunding model to (attempt to) finance their projects, albums, plays etc. In the Netherlands, with its wide range of digital crowdfunding platforms, the amount of money collected in this way has increased exponentially, from 0.5 million EUR in 2010, to 2.5 million EUR in 2011 and 14 million EUR in 2012. Of the 14 million EUR collected in 2012, 1.9 million EUR went to creative projects. In 2012, 262 out of the 570 projects and institutions financed by crowdfunding were of a creative nature.
Investments and loans
In 2006, the first general investment fund in culture was established by the Triodos Bank. Its Culture Fund has the character of an obligations fund: if the interest on the finance market rises, the exchange rate decreases. The Culture Fund is a semi-open-ended fund, meaning that the issuing of shares passes through a bank, and the purchasing of shares is possible via all the Dutch banks. In 2013, the fund volume of the Culture Fund was 103.6 million EUR. There are other investment trusts which invest at least 70% of their capital in artistic and cultural projects.
The platform Culture-Entrepreneurship [Cultuur-Ondernemen] provides loans to artists, creative people and cultural institutions. For credits between 10 000 and 50 000 EUR, Culture-Entrepreneurship cooperates with the Triodos Bank. The loan is intended for durable investments, like the financing of musical instruments or the renovation or building of an atelier. For larger cultural institutions, it is also possible to request a larger credit from the Triodos Bank (click here for the English website).
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Recognized for cumulative GPA and athletic performance during indoor season
MACON, Ga. (March 5, 2013) – The Atlantic Sun Conference released its 2013 men's and women's indoor track & field academic all-conference honorees on Tuesday, naming one ETSU woman and three men to the lists.
On the women's side, junior Lexie Burley (Johnson City, Tenn.) was a unanimous selection for the second consecutive indoor season. On the men's side, sophomore Filip Jalovy (Modrice, Czech Republic), junior Anders Ludvigsen (Odense, Denmark) and sophomore Chris Winkle (Gray, Tenn.) earned the honors and were all unanimous selections.
The Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference teams recognize student-athletes who embody the conference's mission of Building Winners for Life. All members of each team boast a 3.30 cumulative GPA or better and participated in at least half of their team's meets, performing at a high athletic level. Each member has also been at his or her current institution for a minimum of one academic year.
Burley carries a 3.92 GPA, majoring in exercise science, and highlighted her indoor season by earning a bronze medal and third team all-conference honors in the triple jump. At the Hilton Garden Invitational in early February, Burley took gold in the triple jump for her lone event victory of the season. The Science Hill product also performed well in the other jumps, reaching personal bests in the high jump (1.68m) and long jump (5.62m).
Jalovy was named A-Sun Track Athlete of the Week twice (Jan. 16 and Jan. 23) during the 2012-13 indoor season and boasts a GPA of 3.60 in sport management. At the A-Sun Indoor Championships, the sophomore runner medaled three times, earning silver in both the 800m and men's DMR while taking bronze in the mile. Jalovy also had a pair of victories to highlight an impressive season, winning both the 800m and mile at the 35th annual Niswonger Track & Field Invitational, and set personal bests in the mile (4:13.33) and 3000m (8:34.07).
Ludvigsen's recognition stems from his 3.77 GPA in business and an indoor season that saw the Danish runner earn fifth place in both the 3000m and 5000m at the A-Sun Indoor Championships. His time of 8:38.11 in the 3K at the UAB Blazer Invite earned the junior a new personal best and sixth place in the event to begin the indoor season. Ludvigsen also ran at the Hilton Garden Invitational and Clemson Tiger Paw, earning fourth in the 5K and a top 10 in the 3K.
Winkle rounds out the men's honorees, as the sophomore carries a 3.75 GPA in exercise science and had a great 2012-13 campaign competing in the pole vault. The Daniel Boone High School product reached new heights, clearing 4.60m at both the Niswonger and A-Sun Indoor Championships. Winkle's Niswonger mark earned him second place, while his clearance at the A-Sun meet brought home a bronze medal and third team all-conference honors. Winkle was also fourth at the UAB Blazer Invite and sixth to begin the year at the Clemson Orange & Purple Winter Classic.
The A-Sun also recognized its men's and women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year, honoring USC Upstate's Gilbert Kemboi on the men's side and Lipscomb's Dani Walker on the women's side.
The Buccaneers now prep for the outdoor season, beginning next Thursday, March 14, in Charlotte, N.C., at the 49er Classic.
ETSU fans wanting Buccaneer news, score updates, in-game promotions and much more sent to their mobile device can do so by signing up for "Buc Updates." Click here to sign up today!
For more information on ETSU men's and women's track & field, please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


text: When first responders made it to the scene of a flipped truck in St. John's County, Florida, they probably thought the worst. The interstate was covered with blood, gelatinous blood. Oh, the humanity! Wait. Blood isn't usually gelatinous. It's Jello. And not just any Jello, that's a truckload of strawberry snack packs. Oh, the hilarity! Well, maybe not so much hilarity for the driver who flipped the truck. He's in the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and is likely to face charges when he recovers. A semi-driver passing through the area noted that it was a delicious smelling accident. Conveniently, two busloads of elementary students returning from a day spent visiting the oldest wooden schoolhouse were trapped behind the accident and were able to clear the scene. [First Coast News via Motive Forums]


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Our 400 student school spent almost $10,000 this year on paper and toner. As a frugal office manager, this makes me crazy! Those funds could do so much more than make copies.Sure thing. Coupled with textbook costs, source redundancy, and ill-thought-out tech plans, it all adds up to the fact that the digital divide is really a matter of poor resource allocation.
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I've just perused my first two iPads, thanks to two friends who are "first in line" types. Incredible reading devices. I'm itching to know whether textbook publishers are going to publish for iPads and Kindle-type devices. I'm the HS history teacher in a small school, too, and would like some advice as to how to approach presenting the idea of going to paperless textbooks to the admin. iPads are definitely "iT".ReplyDelete
poor resource allocation indeed.ReplyDelete
not only for getting access to those without ...but imagine the authentic world problems those brilliant minds with access would solve.
Why is it so hard to convince school admins and teachers to create a classroom web site and collect everything online? I've been doing it for years with my wiki-hosted site, www.barnesclass.com, where each student has a secure individual web site.ReplyDelete
My school of 3,200 students has a paper & copier budget of almost $125,000!!! I'm trying desperately to go 'paperless' in my classroom.ReplyDelete


text: With the upcoming Death Race movie the re-make on the tips of everyone's tongues these days (yeah right, you did see "The Dark Knight" didn't you?), the good folks at Universal decided to add a "Death Race Your Ride" feature to their website. You can pick from a number of canned cars OR you can upload photos of your own ride and add Death Race equipment. Heavy armor, weapons, decals, wheels, and battle damage are your paint, and Deathrace.net is your paintbrush. The old Audi somehow just isn't that intimidating compared to the big bad Ford Mustang. Great idea, right? It'd be like a personal "Jalopnik My Ride" p-shop feature if it weren't clunky as hell to use. A+ on the idea, F- on the implementation. [Death Race My Ride]


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Lineup breakdown: Dodgers-Cardinals, Game 2
A look at Saturday's starting lineups for Game 2 of the National League Championship Series between the Dodgers and the Cardinals:
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A look at Saturday's starting lineups for Game 2 of the National League Championship Series between the Dodgers and the Cardinals:
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With Skip Schumaker replacing Andre Ethier in center field, the Dodgers returned to the same lineup they used in all four games of the NL Division Series against the Braves. Ethier started Game 1 of the NLCS -- his first start since Sept. 13 due to a microfracture in his lower left leg -- and played all 13 innings.
Schumaker also fills in for Ethier in the No. 7 spot in the lineup. The former Cardinal hit .231 in the NLDS. Schumaker has a .260 career average in the postseason, and he is making his 13th start in October.
The Dodgers collected nine hits in Game 1. This October, Los Angeles is hitting .302 as a team with a .371 on-base percentage and a .500 slugging-percentage -- the highest of any Dodgers club during a postseason. Juan Uribe has hit safely in all five games in the playoffs and driven in six runs.
In Game 2 the Dodgers are facing right-hander Michael Wacha for the first time. Wacha was five outs away from a no-hitter against the Pirates in Game 4 of the NLDS.
1. Carl Crawford, LF
2. Mark Ellis, 2B
3. Hanley Ramirez, SS
4. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
5. Yasiel Puig, RF
6. Uribe, 3B
7. Schumaker, CF
8. A.J. Ellis, C
9. Clayton Kershaw, LHP
The Cardinals made some major changes to their lineup for Game 2. Yadier Molina moved into the cleanup spot, in front of David Freese, who hit seventh in Game 1. Matt Adams dropped to the No. 6 spot after hitting cleanup for much of the postseason. Jon Jay shifted one spot back to No. 7 in the order.
Molina started only one game in the cleanup spot during the regular season, going 2-for-4 with a double. Freese, meanwhile, batted fifth in 20 games in the regular season and posted a .265 average with 13 RBIs.
Pete Kozma continues to get the call at shortstop, making his fifth consecutive start. Kozma is known for his defense, but he has gone 4-for-15 with a double and a stolen base in these playoffs.
The Cardinals have respectable numbers against left-hander Clayton Kershaw, the favorite to win the NL Cy Young Award. Matt Holliday is 10-for-33 (.303) lifetime against Kershaw, with one home run and 10 walks. Molina is 6-for-22 (.273) in his career against Kershaw, including a pair of doubles.
1. Matt Carpenter, 2B
2. Carlos Beltran, RF
3. Holliday, LF
4. Molina, C
5. Freese, 3B
6. Adams, 1B
7. Jay, CF
8. Kozma, SS
9. Wacha, RHP
Austin Laymance is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Howell, P. D. (1996) Models for thin viscous sheets. European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 7 . pp. 321-343.
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Microsoft may be considering a more concerted effort to bolster gaming on Windows, according to indications in an internal Fable III Q&A in the hands of Kotaku (thanks joao). The document, prepared for Microsoft spokespersons, poses a question you would think was penned by a cynical game journalist, asking: "Does 'Fable III' on Windows signal a larger reinvestment by Microsoft in PC gaming? How is this different from the previous times you've announced a reinvestment in PC gaming and not quite come through with a robust offering?" It is quite encouraging to see that Redmond seems to recognize that they have not really followed through on previously announced plans to reinvigorate PC gaming, and while their answer to their own question is not as encouraging as the query itself, we can still hold out hope that they are looking to under-promise and over-deliver this time, instead of the opposite. Here's the answer:
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Century farms and ranches have shaped the nation. Amidst every kitchen, behind every faded barn door, and in every soiled and calloused hand lie untold stories of those who feed our nation. As an industry, we are called to discover these stories and share with consumers everywhere the contribution farmers and ranchers have made to our American heritage. It is time to redefine sustainability and put a face to the farmer who fills our cupboards and clothes our backs.
If you have a Century Farm in another state, visit Wikipedia - Century Farm for more information on applying in your state.
The Missouri Century Farm program's history dates back to 1976 as a result of the Missouri Committee for Agriculture that was co-chaired by James B. Boillot, Director, Missouri Department of Agriculture, and Elmer R. Kiehl, Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri. The committee's purpose was to organize the American Revolution Bicentennial celebration in Missouri. One activity that was initiated by the committee was the "Centennial Farm" project, which awarded certificates to persons owning farms that had been in the same family for 100 years or more. Interest in the program continued after 1976. The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and University of Missouri Extension planned a 10-year update in 1986 called the "Century Farm" program. This program has been sustained as a yearly event with over 100 farms recognized each year. In 2008, the Missouri Farm Bureau became a program co-sponsor.
Missouri currently ranks second in the nation for the number of farms with old barns, yet we have very little information about what types of barns were built.
The State Historic Preservation Office is in the process of collecting information about the historic barns and farmsteads that are still in existence within our state. For more information on completing an architectural survey form, visit the State Historical Preservation Office website and click on the Program Link for Architectural Survey. If you are interested in completing this form, please return it and the additional information to the address on the form. Certificates will be issued at no cost to participants in the program.
MO BARN Missouri Barn Alliance and Rural Network (Missouri BARN): Missouri BARN is a nonprofit organization recently developed in the state of Missouri who focuses on the identification and preservation of barns and other rural resources. If you are interested in finding out more about the organization, please contact Bill Hart at 314-691-1941 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"Bumble bees are major contributors to pollination of crops and wildflowers throughout the temperate northern hemisphere. Many species have declined, contributing to fears that we might face a 'pollination crisis.'"
So says David Goulson, professor at the University of Stirling, U.K., who will speak on "The Ecology and Conservation of Bumble Bees" on Wednesday, April 24 at a UC Davis Department of Entomology seminar.
His seminar, set from 12:05 to 1 p.m. in Room 1022 of the Life Sciences Addition, corner of Hutchison and Kleiber Hall drives, promises to be well attended. It is scheduled to be videotaped and broadcast at a later date on UCTV.
UC Davis pollination ecologist/assistant professor Neal Williams will host him.
"I will discuss the main causes of their declines, which probably vary between regions," said Goulson, who founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust in 2006.
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"In Europe, the primary driver is thought to be habitat loss and other changes associated with intensive farming," Goulson said. "In the Americas, declines of some species are likely to be due to impacts of non-native diseases.
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"I will then turn to possible links between poor bee health and pesticides, particularly a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. A controversy is currently raging on both sides of the Atlantic; I will give my view on the evidence for environmental impacts of these pesticides."
Goulson works mainly on the ecology and conservation of bumble bees. He has published more than 200 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of insects, with a particular focus on bumble bees. He is the author of Bumblebees: Their Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation, published in 2010 by Oxford University Press, and of A Sting in the Tale, a popular science book about bumble bees, published in 2013 by Jonathan Cape.
Goulson received his bachelor's degree in biology from Oxford University, followed by a doctorate on butterfly ecology at Oxford Brookes University. Subsequently, he lectured in biology for 11 years at the University of Southampton, before moving to Stirling in 2006, and then to Sussex in 2013.
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10.03.12: The CCRI Lady Knights volleyball team traveled to Haverhill, MA to play the Lady Knights of Northern Essex Community College on Wednesday. CCRI defeated Northern Essex 25-17, 25-12 and 25-9 in a best three-of-five match. With the victory the Lady Knights improve to 11-3 overall and 2-0 in Region XXI play.
Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Co-Captain Paula Cadavid (Lincoln, RI) who finished the day with 12 kills, with a hitting efficiency of 50%, six aces and 12 digs. Head Coach Samantha Amaral commented "She (Paula) is a great captain on the court and a finisher I need in games like today." Cadavid was helped by Janny Cabrera (Providence, RI) with nine kills, with a hitting efficiency of 44% and a block, Meagan Del Re (Coral Springs, FL) with also had nine kills, with a 43% hitting efficiency and a block, and Jenna Ayala (Paterson, NJ) with three kills and four aces.
Coach Amaral added after the match "It was very nice to get a victory under our belt. The girls played well and were able to just get better each game."
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Educational Background
- B.S., University of Connecticut, 1968
- M.S., University of Connecticut, 1970
- Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1974
Teaching Specialties
- Computer communication networks
- Parallel processing
- Digital system design
- Control systems and linear systems
- Electrical instrumentation and measurements
- Electronics
- Digital signal processing
- Computer modeling and simulation
Research Interests
- Massively parallel computers
- Computer modeling and simulation of dynamic systems
- Digital signal processing
- Instrumentation and measurement
- Computer communication networks
- Distributed algorithms
- Computer control
- Digital design and computer design
Selected Publications
"Computer Simulation of Dynamic Systems", Wm. C. Brown, 1988.
Goodman, T. J. and Aburdene, M.F. "Pascal Filters," Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 55, pp. 3090-3094, 2008.
Bravo, S., Gan, Lu, Nandi, A. K., and Aburdene, M. F. "Fragile Logo Watermarking for Public Authentication," Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing IEEE International Conference on, pp.1669-1672, 2008.
Zhong, Q., Nandi, A. K., and Aburdene, M. F. "Efficient Implementation of Discrete Pascal Transform Using Difference Operators," Electron. Lett., vol. 43, 2007.
Goodman, T. J. and Aburdene, M. F. "On Discrete Pascal Transform, Poisson Sequence and Laguerre Polynomials," Electron. Lett., vol. 43, 2007.
R.J. Kozick and M.F. Aburdene , " Methods for Designing Efficient Parallel-Recursive Filter Structures for Computing Discrete Transforms,," Telecommunication Systems, vol. 13, no. 1, 2000, pp. 69-80.
M. Xu and M.F. Aburdene, " Computation of Radial Zernike Polynomials Using a Parallel Recursive Algorithm," Special Issue on High Performance Computing, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, vol. 7, no. 1, March, 2000, pp.58-62.
J.E. Dorband, M.F. Aburdene, K.S. Khouri, and J. Zheng, " Design of a Minimal Bit-Serial Processing Element for a Massively Parallel Computer," International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, vol. 5, no. 2, June, 1998, pp. 84-93.
M.F. Aburdene and E.J. Mastascusa, "An Electronic Design and Laboratory Lesson Using a Switched Series-Parallel Network," Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Conference, Session 2659, CD/ROM.
G.R. Robertson, M.F. Aburdene, and R.J. Kozick, "Differential Block Coding of Bi-Level Images," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, vol. 5, pp. 1368-1370, Sept. 1996.
M.F. Aburdene, J. Zheng, and R.J. Kozick, "Computation of Discrete Cosine Transform Using Clenshaw's Recurrence Formula," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 2, pp. 155-156, Aug. 1995.
M.F. Aburdene and J.E.Dorband, "Unification of Legendre, Laguerre, Hermite, and Binomial Discrete Transforms Using Pascal's Matrix," Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 301-305, July 1994.


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Minnesota Vikings Looking for "Hidden Yards" That Could Give Adrian Peterson the Single-Season Rushing Record Over Eric Dickerson
When Border Battle II ended on Sunday, Vikings fans everywhere had mixed emotions about the result. People were certainly elated about earning a spot in the playoffs, but it was frustrating watching Adrian Peterson rush for 199 yards, falling just 9 yards short of beating Eric Dickerson's NFL single-season rushing record. Some are saying there is still a chance he got the record.
The Vikings organization is scrutinizing Peterson's stats over the 2012 season, looking to find a missed yard here or there that could put him over the 2,105 mark he would need to beat to claim the record.
The practice of re-examining player statistics rarely offers discrepancies from the NFL's official numbers, but the team plans to scrape for what they can in helping Peterson claim a record he fought very hard to attain a season after suffering a severe knee injury.
Vikings Head Coach Leslie Frazier offered encouragement for the hunt for yardage, telling the Pioneer Press the following on Monday:
Yeah, if we can find those hidden yards, we would do it. They have different people who will be doing that, but we'll be doing our own homework, as well. If we can find nine yards, we're going to find them.
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Barcelona is a complex virtual world of Dickensian lights and shadows, beautiful and mysterious. I wanted to bring its history, its soul, alive in this story in a very cinematic, sensorial way. A poet once called Barcelona "the great enchantress." I was born, raised, and have lived most of my life here and wanted to use my hometown not merely as a backdrop, but as an organic character to convey its romantic and seductive, yet sometimes dark and dangerous allure.
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Every translation needs some fine-tuning to adapt certain aspects of the context and double meanings. However, I tend to think readers, and lovers of books in general, have a secret nation of their own, and their understanding and intellectual curiosity goes beyond languages, passports, or even the fine points of slightly different cultural and historical contexts.
What do you hope readers of The Shadow of the Wind will take away from your book?
I think novels should be an experience. I want my readers to be thrilled, to be moved, to laugh, to cry, and to be terrified. To be stimulated. I want them to have the time of their lives and at the same time to look at the world, and themselves, in a different light. Many readers have told me that The Shadow of the Wind made them fall in love again with books and reading. If my book accomplishes that, I'll be more than happy.
What can we hope to see from you next?
I'm working on a new novel that picks up the mix of genres and techniques of The Shadow of the Wind and tries to take it to the next level. It is the second in a cycle of four books that I've planned in this "gothic Barcelona quartet," a sort of narrative kaleidoscope of Victorian sagas, intrigue, romance, comedy, mystery and "newly" fashioned old fashioned good storytelling.


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Incoming 1Ls / Re: God doesn't like Lawyers« on: May 30, 2008, 11:36:36 AM »
If you really want to be an attorney, then I suggest you develop a thicker skin. I imagine the disciplinary committee is similar to a judge, in that it does not appreciate frivolous complaints. Save your breath for an attorney that is being unethical, not one that just has poor taste in jokes. I am beginning to wonder, however, if you do want to be an attorney, or if you're just some a@@hole troll, b/c you keep commenting about how "you" want to be attorneys, not how "we" want to be attorneys. Maybe you're just too good to lump yourselves in with the rest of us? And by the way, it's "attorneys" not "attorney's." Inappropriate use of the possessive apostrophe really irks me.
Thanks for the advice.
You can imagine all you want. You are beginning to wonder if I want to be an attorney? Good for you. I'm beginning to wonder if I should care even a little bit about what you are beginning to wonder about.
I am no 'troll'. I am an active member of this board, a law student, and a person who doesn't like to let it lie when people insult others based on their religious beliefs.
Thanks for the lesson in proper grammar - the true mark of a person who is frustrated, unable to argue, and either embarrassed to be wrong in anyway or unable to accept that they are wrong.
The reason I used the word "you" and not the word "we" is that I wasn't condemning my own bad behavior, I was condemning yours (which is perpetual).
Say what you want, I don't really mind - but making fun of people who failed out of law school because they are religious and incapable of reason (or pray too much or whatever you reasoning is) isn't okay. And, frankly speaking, I don't want to be associated with people who think that sort of joke is at all humorous.
So yes, I AM too good to associate with the likes of you.
Instead of letting it go (which would be mature - by both of us), admitting it was in poor taste, or simply making sure to be clear to all who come here that this was a light hearted joke, you choose to vilify me and attack me for standing up for what I believe is right (which is that people shouldn't be made fun of for being religious OR for failing out of law school).
Guess what? Your opinion is of no consequence precisely BECAUSE of your behavior.
Yes, this was a joke. Yes, I responded, a heinous crime, by pointing out that the statement made was unacceptable, offensive, and bigoted. Do I deserve to be attacked, called a troll, and given grammar lessons? Maybe in your world.
But then again, I don't live in your world. I am an adult. I am careful not to say things that come off as bigoted or offensive. I find no joy in reading that people fail out of law school, nor do I find it funny when people make fun of religious people for their faith. I'm sorry that doesn't conform to your standards.
And let me make this perfectly clear - if you are representative of the type of person who becomes an attorney (and thankfully, you are more of an excpetion), then I don't WANT to be 'lumped in' with you in any way, shape or form.
You can choose to live your life however you wish. I'll be the one taking the high road, not making fun of people for their religious beliefs or academic acheivements or failures.
And it doesn't make me a troll to not respond to insipid comments either. It makes me intelligent.
I do so appreciate the grammar lesson.
Here is a couple of annoying improper apostrohes for you:
I'll let you fight this one out with the others but you are chastising them for making fun of your improper grammar but you call me out on a made up word that had an obvious meaning? I am glad we hold others accountable to a higher standard than ourselves.
The word 'dislove' doesn't exist.
I fat fingered a key and/or placed an apostrophe in the wrong place.
One is a mistake that is of no consequence and one is a made up term, like irregardless or flabnoiderzoink. I hold no one to a higher standard than myself. I think it's funny that way you yahoo's like to pile on and pile on. Yes, I pointed out that the word 'dislove' was not a word while you assaulted my patriotism. But to point out an improperly placed apostrophe? That's a little insipid, the only goal of which is to try to make someone seem or feel stupid.
I'm done.
It's time for my LSD vacation.
Once every few weeks, some asshats like to ruin what is otherwise a pretty decent board with rude, offensive, or innapropriate comments. God forbid anyone calls these uber-fragile human's on their bull, because then the less intelligent (in an effort to be funny) go into attack mode, debasing and devaluing this site.
I'm off on vaca, learning about apostrophe placement and it's equivalence with fictional, made up words....
You know I looked up "Vaca" all I could find was a posting in urban dictionary.


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Yes, so this is just a short little blog-post to alert everyone to the existance of my blog.
I'm telling you right now - don't expect any sort of consistency in my rate of posting. It will vary widely, and it will probably not make any sense whatsoever. I like being unpredictable (and I'm kinda crappy with time management, shhh), so I might not post for a few weeks, then have four or five new blog-posts up in the week.
Blog-wise, I suppose this entry is about begginings.
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