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John P. Briggs, PhD., joined the faculty at WCSU in 1987 and is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process. He is the author and co-author of several books, including Fire in the Crucible, on creativity (St. Martin's Press); three books on chaos: Turbulent Mirror (HarperCollins); Fractals, the Patterns of Chaos (Simon and Schuster); and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (HarperCollins), and a collection of short stories, Trickster Tales (Fine Tooth Press, 2005). He is one of three distinguished Connecticut State University professors from WCSU. He served as senior editor of Connecticut Review from 2004-2007 and is the journal's associate editor. His website is http://people.wcsu.edu/briggsj.
Brian Clements is the MFA Coordinator and Professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Writing. He is author or editor of over a dozen books of and about poetry, including the anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem, And How to End It (Quale Press), and Disappointed Psalms (Meritage Press). He is Founding Editor of the small press Firewheel Editions and of Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics. Prof. Clements also has worked professionally in technical communications, corporate communications, grant-writing, and non-profit administration.
Oscar de los Santos is Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process. Professor de los Santos is the author of Hard Boiled Egg (Fine Tooth Press, 2004) and Infinite Wonderlands (Fine Tooth Press, 2006.)
Edward Hagan is a Professor in the Department of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process. His teaching grows out of his primary scholarly focuses on Irish Studies and on war literature. He teaches all levels of writing courses. His latest book is Goodbye Yeats and O'Neill: Farce in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Narratives (Editions Rodopi, 2010).
Shouhua Qi is Professor in the Department of English. Qi has published extensively both in the United States and in China. He is the author of When the Purple Mountain Burns (San Francisco: The Long River Press; Shanghai People's Press; Hong Kong Joint Press; 2005), a novel about the rape of Nanjing (1937-38). His screenplay, based on the novel, has been optioned for production. Qi's other works include Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China (Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2008), and Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories (Long River Press, 2007). Currently Qi is working on a novel about an American-Korean War POW in China, tentatively titled Twin-Sun River. A play he wrote based on the novel was staged by Shanghai Theater Academy in spring 2009.
Joe Ahearn is a successful professional writer with more than 20 years experience in writing for Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Ahearn has written hundreds of technical and commercial publications, and produced a wide range of marketing materials. More recently, he has been heavily involved with web-based communications, producing a wide variety of commercial websites. In addition to his professional work, Mr. Ahearn has published poetry, translations, and essays in leading magazines and journals around the country, including his most recent book of poetry, Five Fictions (Sulphur River Review Press, 2003).
Holly Azevedo has been a writer, editor, instructor and manager for nearly thirty years. Much of her career was as a project manager for a major information technology corporation, where she wrote and managed the development of communications and technical publications. She has designed and delivered courses to writers, and to technology developers and users. Her non-corporate publications include articles on collectibles and the arts. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing from Western Connecticut State University. Her current work is in creative nonfiction, with special interests in history and culture.
Sandra Rodriguez Barron is the author of two novels published by HarperCollins: The Heiress of Water, winner of the 2007 International Latino Book Award for Debut Fiction, and Stay With Me. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship, a Greater Hartford Arts Council grant, a National Association of Latino Arts and Culture grant, and an artist fellowship grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism.
Roger Boylan's roots are in Ireland and the greater New York area. After attending the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh, he worked as a translator, computer technician, teacher, bartender, and book editor and traveled widely throughout Europe, North Africa and North America. Author of Killoyle (Dalkey Archive Press,1997) and The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad (Grove Press, 2003), his stories and articles have appeared in various journals, including The Literary Review and The Texas Observer. He is a regular contributor to Boston Review's New Fiction Forum.
Louisa Burns-Bisogno is an "O'Neill Playwright" and a winner at the National Playwrights Conference. She is an award-winning screenwriter, director, author, and international media consultant with over 100 on-screen credits. Her movies have been produced on cable TV and on all the major U.S. networks, as well as distributed internationally. Among these are:My Body, My Child with Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon; Bridge to Silence, with Marlee Matlin; Mary Silliman's War, and Nobody's Child, which netted an Emmy for Marlo Thomas. Louisa has trained professional writers in dramatic series techniques in Moscow, Dublin, and more recently in Rome where she is Head-Writer on a TV series in development. She has written story and scripts for popular American daytime series such as The Young and the Restless, One Life to Live and As the World Turns. She has had numerous plays produced including Angels and Infidels which she also directed. Seven of Louisa's plays were selected by the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for staged readings. She has produced and directed many of her students' plays in this prestigious venue.
Michael Capuzzo is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Murder Room, a true detective story that was nominated for the National Book Award, and is under development as a CBS-TV weekly series. His previous bestseller, Close To Shore, was a People magazine "Top Ten Book of the Year" hailed as an "adventure classic" with "artistry reminiscent of Stephen Crane" by The New Yorker. He and his wife publish Mountain Home, a winner of numerous awards for excellence. A former staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Miami Herald, he is a six-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, has written for Esquire, Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, and was nominated by Sports Illustrated for a National Magazine Award. He has appeared on NPR, CNN, and ABC News as an expert on storytelling.
Richard Cass is author of the story collection, Gleam of Bone (North Coast Press, 2005) and two books of poetry. He has won prizes for his short fiction, from REDBOOK, Playboy, Writers' Digest and the Pacific Northwest Writers' Conference. He is published widely, and a recent short story is included in the anthology, Best American Stories of the West, Volume 1. He lives in Brookfield, Connecticut, where he operates Cass Communications, Inc., specializing in technical and business communications.
Rita Ciresi is author of two award-winning short-story collections, Mother Rocket (Dell, 2002) and Sometimes I Dream in Italian (Dell, 2001); and three novels, Blue Italian (Dell, 1997), Pink Slip (Delacourt, 1999), and Remind me Again Why I Married You (Dell, 2003.) She is director of creative writing at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Jane K. Cleland's multiple award-nominated and IMBA best selling Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series [St. Martin's Minotaur] has been reviewed as an Antiques Roadshow for mystery fans. "Josie" stories have also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Jane chairs the Wolfe Pack's literary awards, which include the Nero Award and the Black Orchid Novella Award, granted in partnership with Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. She is a past chapter president of the Mystery Writers of America/New York Chapter and served on the national board as well. Library Journal named Consigned to Death a "core title" for librarians looking to build a cozy collection, one of only 22 titles listed, along with books by Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Jane also writes noir plays around the theme of women who love men they hate. www.janecleland.net
Matt Debenham is the author of The Book of Right and Wrong (OSU Press, 2010), winner of the 2010 Ohio State University Press Prize for fiction. His work has appeared in such publications as The Pinch, Roanoke Review, Battered Suitcase, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. He has been the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the CT Council on Culture and Tourism, and was Peter Taylor Scholar at the 2007 Sewanee Writers' Conference. He is at work on a novel.
Laura B. Hayden is the author of Staying Alive: A Love Story, a memoir of loss and recovery. The book has been recommended by the American Institute of Health Care Professionals. Laura writes for technorati.com and opentohope.org. She blogs at www.mommyofthebride.blogspot.com.
Gwen Jones is a graduate of the WCSU MFA in Creative and Professional Writing program, and a Craft and Industry Instructor for Literary Powerhouse Consulting. Her work has appeared in The Kelsey Review, The Connecticut River Review, and her novel, Andy Devine Takes a Wife (working title) has recently been purchased by HarperCollins Avon. A writer of women's fiction and romance, she lives with her husband, Frank, near Trenton, New Jersey. To see more, visit her site at www.gwenjoneswrites.com.
James Lomuscio is an award-winning journalist with more than 28 years experience as a newspaper and magazine writer and editor for The New York Times and other local publications. Mr. Lomuscio is the author of Village of the Dammed: The Fight for Open Space and the Flooding of a Connecticut Town (University Press of New England, 2005).
Nick Mamatas is the author of the novels Move Under Ground (Night Shade, 2004), Under My Roof (Soft Skull, 2007), Sensation (PM Press, 2001), The Damned Highway (with Brian Keene, Dark Horse 2011), Bullettime (CZP, 2012), and the forthcoming The Last Weekend (PS Publications, 2013) and Love is the Law (Dark Horse, 2013). Nick co-edited the magazine Clarkesworld and has co-edited several anthologies, including most recently the Bram Stoker Award-winning Haunted Legends (Tor Books, 2010) with Ellen Datlow, and The Future is Japanese with Masumi Washington (Haikasoru, 2012). He has published over eighty short stories in literary journals including subTERRAIN, New Haven Review, and Mississippi Review (online), genre publications such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Tor.com, Lovecraft Unbound, and Long Island Noir, and slick magazines including Razor and Spex. Nick's reportage and essays have appeared in The Smart Set, Village Voice, The Writer, Poets & Writers, Fine Books and Collections, The New Humanist, In These Times, H+ and many other venues. His non-fiction books include the writing guide Starve Better and the gag title Insults Every Man Should Know.
Molly McGlennen was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is of Anishinaabe and European descent. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English and Native American Studies. She holds a PhD in Native American Studies. Her scholarship and creative writing have been published widely. Most recently, her first collection of poetry Fried Fish and Flour Biscuits was published by Salt's award-winning "Earthworks Series." Her book of scholarship entitled Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women's Poetry is forthcoming.
Mark Misercola is a communications strategist and a former speechwriter for senior executives of corporations including IBM, Nynex, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is currently Regional Director for Internal Communications for Deutsche Bank in New York as well as an adjunct professor of advertising and public relations. Mr. Misercola's first novel, a suspense thriller is titled, Death to the Centurion (Twilight Times Books, 2004).
Sonja Mongar, a Montana-born journalist, editor, photographer and memoirist,is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagez, where she teaches creative writing, film studies and journalism. She participated in the Sea Grant'ss Science & Journalism project, which was created to train science majors as science journalists. She holds an MA from UCF and an MFA from UNO in creative nonfiction. Her twenty-year writing career includes print journalism, editing and radio broadcasting, marketing, advertising and public relations. Independent projects that blur the lines between culture, canon, genre, language and generation have resulted in the production of four volumes of bilingual literary and arts journals—pastiche and Manchas… as well as a project involving student writers, Colorn Colorado: Voces del Mar, featuring coastal and marine themed stories of West Puerto Rico's past. Mongar experiments with multimodal life writing using cyber-hypertext as narrative space. She has published Tomfoolery, a trauma narrative of her brother's murder and Love in a Field of Wheat, based on her great-grandmother's 1907 diary. Other works in progress include a full-length memoir and a film documentary. Mongar plays harmonica in the fusin jbara band, Mijo de la Palma, and co-produces free art, poetry and music events for the community.
E. K. Mortenson's poetry has appeared in print and online in such venues as The Found Poetry Project, Pisgah Review, RATTLE, Six Sentences, Connecticut Review, Broken Bridge Review, and Connecticut River Review. He is the author of the chapbook Dreamer or the Dream (Last Automat Press, 2010) and his full-length manuscript, What Wakes Us, is scheduled to appear in 2011-2012 from Cervena Barva Press. He was the 2008 recipient of the Leslie Leeds Poetry Prize. Mortenson is a member of the National Book Critics' Circle and his book reviews have appeared in RATTLE, Connecticut River Review, Rain Taxi, Gently Read Lit, and The Centrifugal Eye.
Lou Orfanella, a New York based teacher, writer, and workshop facilitator, has also worked as a broadcast and print journalist. Orfanella is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. His recent work includes The Sun Cannot Decide, Brief Encounters: Flash Fiction, and A Cabin in the Pines: A One Act Play. He has published over 100 articles, essays, columns, reviews and poems in numerous regional and national magazines, newspapers, and journals including The New York Daily News, College Bound, English Journal, World Hunger Year Magazine, Discoveries, Teacher Magazine, and New York Teacher. He holds degrees from Columbia University and Fordham University. Orfanella, who teaches writing at WCSU, has presented scores of public readings of his work and offers individual and group writing workshops.
Josh Pahigian is the author of several baseball books, including 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out and The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip. Josh has also written for ESPN.com and other periodicals. Josh's first novel, Strangers on the Beach, is a thriller set in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Publisher's Weekly named the book one of its "Fall 2012 Indie Sleeper Picks." Josh is also the faculty adviser of The Nor'easter News.
Dan Pope is the author of In the Cherry Tree (Picador, 2003.) His stories have been published in numerous magazines including, Crazyhorse, Postroad, and Iowa Review.Pope is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he attended on a Truman Capote Fellowship. He is a winner of the Glenn Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts awarded him a grant in fiction.
David Rich wrote the feature film Renegades, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Philips. He worked on other film scripts, for which he received a multitude of pats on the back in lieu of credit. Rich wrote television episodes for MacGyver, Legend and StarGate - SG1 and he has written three plays. He sat on the other side of the desk as Vice President of Development for George Englund Productions, based at Warner Brothers. Rich's first novel Caravan of Thieves received advance praise from Kirkus Review and Publisher's Weekly. www.davidrichbooks.com
John Roche has been an award-winning newspaper journalist for twenty years. In addition to stints as an actor and stand-up comedian, he has taught journalism, media studies, English composition and writing at several colleges in the tri-state region, and was recognized as Adjunct Faculty Member of the Year in 2008 by Marist College. He writes fiction in addition to teaching and his work as a journalist.
Onnesha Roychoudhuri is an editor, journalist, and fiction writer. Her writing has appeared in a number of outlets, including The Nation, Boston Review, The American Prospect, Salon, Mother Jones, n+1, McSweeney's, Opium, and Wag's Review. Most recently, she worked as an editor for the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, helping to fund, edit, and place investigative journalism in a range of outlets, from Harper's and GQ to Orion and the Oxford American. She has also contributed to a number of books, including Women's Lives (McGraw-Hill, May 2006), Send Yourself Roses (Springboard Press, February 2008), 109 Forgotten American Heroes (DK Press, October 2009), How to Rule the World (Klutz, January 2011), Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (McSweeney's, March 2011), and Junk-box Jewelry (Zest Books, June 2012).
Ron Samul is publisher of the international e-zine Miranda Literary Magazine. He writes for Inquiring News in Hartford, Connecticut, reviews books for Library Journal, and is founder of Northeast Boxing News. A professional tutor and creative writing mentor, Samul also instructs students in new media and electronic publishing, and manages electronic media for a collection of creative, journalistic and educational websites. He has been a standing literary judge for the IMPAC Connecticut State University Young Writers Competition, and a judge for the Langston Hughes Poetry Contest for the city of Norwich, Connecticut. Winner of the Connecticut AWP award in Fiction in 2006, his primary creative outlets are fiction writing and electronic publishing. Samul holds an MFA in Creative and Professional Writing from WCSU and lives in New London, Connecticut.
John D. Scrimgeour is the author of two books of creative nonfiction and a book of poetry. His most recent book, Themes for English B: A Professor's Education in and Out of Class (U of Georgia, 2006) won the 2005 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction. His other books are the poetry collection The Last Miles (Fine Tooth Press, 2005) and the memoir, Spin Moves (Pecan Grove Press, 2000). His nonfiction has appeared in publications such as The Boston Globe Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Thought & Action. His essay, "The Outfield," won the Writing about Baseball contest sponsored by the magazine Creative Nonfiction. Scrimgeour's poetry has appeared in such magazines as Ploughshares, Poetry, Colorado Review and River Styx. In 2010, he and the musician Philip Swanson, as the performance group Confluence, released a CD of poetry and music titled Ogunquit (confluence-poetryandmusic.com). He is a Professor of English at Salem State University.
Lisa Siedlarz is author of I Dream My Brother Plays Baseball (Clemson University Digital Press, 2009) and What We Sign Up For (forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press, 2011). She is editor of Connecticut River Review, the national poetry journal supported by the Connecticut Poetry Society, and she is managing editor for Connecticut Review. Her work has appeared in publications including The MacGuffin, Calyx, RATTLE, War, Literature & the Arts, Louisiana Literature, Main Street Rag, The Patterson Review, Big Bridge, Kritya, and Poems & Plays. Her work has been anthologized in Warsaw Tales, and Battle Runes: Writings on War. Siedlarz facilitated a 16-week writing workshop with Vietnam veterans and edited a collection of their work titled A Season of Now. She teaches a bi-monthly creative writing workshop with veterans at the New Haven Vet Center.
Karen Smith Vastola's most recent play, Buried Words was part of the New York International Fringe Festival 2011. 7 Kinds of Love was produced at DR2 Theatre/ D- Lounge, NYC 2009. Her play WORDS was developed as a member of the terraNOVA Collective Groundbreakers Playwriting Group, NYC in 2009. Karen's commissioned play Joseph & the Pinenut was produced at Andy's Summer Playhouse, N.H. in 2007. Useless Inc. was commissioned and produced at Andy's in 2006 and directed by Johanna Gruenhut. The Appointment was part of Rattlestick's 2004 EXPOSURE Festival and a finalist for the Kitchen Dog Theatre New Works Festival. Her play Eggs & Apples was recipient of a 2004 JOHN GOLDEN PLAYWRITING AWARD and read at DR2 Theater, New York. A section of Eggs & Apples was produced at Columbia University's One-Act Summer Play Festival and directed by Gisela Cardenas. Under the Bed was a finalist in the Drury University One-Act Play Competition 2004. Monologues/Scenes from her plays have been published in the Best Women's and Men's Anthologies by Smith Krauss, as well as Best Stage Monologues and Scenes from the 90's, Meriwether Publishing. She has been a Yaddo fellow. Ms. Smith Vastola graduated from Columbia University'ss MFA Playwriting Program. Karen is a member of the Dramatist Guild.
Lori Soderlind is author of Chasing Montana, a memoir. Her essays have been featured on NPR and in anthologies. The Norton Anthology of Creative Nonfiction includes her essay "66 Signs That the Former Student Who Invited You to Dinner Is Trying to Seduce You," which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has reviewed for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, and as a longtime journalist, her work has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Times and The Boston Globe, Montana Magazine, and others.
Paul Steinmetz is Director of WCSU University Relations and an adjunct faculty member of the Writing, Linguistics and Creative Writing department. He was editor of The News-Times, the daily newspaper that covers the region, for 10 years. He writes a blog, WCSU in the Age of Reason, for Hearst Connecticut Newspapers and lectures and provides written commentary on the news and public relations industries. He is a contributing editor for Tribuna Newspaper and wrote a chapter in the PRNews Media Training Guidebook. Paul holds an M.B.A. from WCSU and a B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University.
Tim Weed's short fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, LITnIMAGE, and numerous other literary journals and anthologies. Tim's essays and articles have appeared in national magazines including The Morning News, Cross Country Skier, Backcountry, Empirical, and Writer's Chronicle, and his essay on Cuba garnered a 2012 Best Travel Writing Award from Traveler's Tales. Based in Vermont, Tim travels widely as a consultant and director for arts, cultural exchange, and creative writing programs abroad. His writing interests include short fiction, literary-historical fiction, travel writing, writing about adventure, nature, and the outdoors, and novels for young adult and middle grade readers. His blog, Storycraft, is dedicated to the writing craft: http://weedlit.blogspot.com
Anne Witkavitch is a communications expert, transition specialist, published author and sought after speaker. Her award-winning anthology, Press Pause Moments: Essays about Life Transitions by Women Writers, is a collection of stories about change, adversity and celebration. The book received a 2011 Clarion award. Anne is a contributing writer and blogger for MariaShriver.com, TravelingMom.com, CreatedbyChicks.com and her blog, The Eclectic Writer; her work has also appeared in Connecticut Muse, Miranda Literary Magazine, and the Journal of Employee Communications. She has ghost written numerous articles and edited technical guidebooks and nonfiction books. She also served as managing editor of several Thin Threads special editions and the 2010 anthology. Anne's work appears in the anthology Women Writing on Family: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing. As principal of Anne W Associates, Anne consults with clients on strategic communications and change management. She also teaches managerial and professional writing at Western Connecticut State University and received her M.F.A. in Professional Writing from that school in 2007. She is a former corporate communications executive for GE and The Hartford.
Karen Romano Young is a science writer, children's author and illustrator. She has been involved with books and writing for as long as she can remember. The author of more than twenty books, including novels, nonfiction, and graphic novels, Karen has taken her work to the top of the world -- the Arctic Ocean -- and the bottom of the ocean -- in a submarine. Recent work includes writing and drawing aboard an icebreaker, creating Humanimal Doodles -- a science comic, and the children's book Doodlebug: A Novel in Doodles.


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The Dream Thief (Abadazad, Bk. 2) : Kate and her brother Matt are growing up in the big city, and life isn't always easy. They find refuge in the world of Abadazad - a series of books written over 100 years ago by classic author Franklin O. Barrie. Kate and Matt spend hours reading the Abadazad books, and know every character. One day, Kate takes Matt to the fun fair. He steps onto a carousel, goes around once, twice - and then disappears. Though Kate and her mother search for Matt for years, they never find him. Finally, Kate tells her mother they must give up looking - but on that very day, Kate meets an old lady, Martha, who also loves the Abadazad books, and seems to know more about them than anyone. Martha tells her that Abadazad is a real place, but Kate doesn't believe her - until a mysterious blue globe arrives at Kate's door, and Kate sees her brother trapped inside it. Now Kate knows what she has to do: she must go into the real Abadazad and find her lost brother, no matter what dangers it might hold.
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text: $15 to commute round trip? The worst gas-guzzling SUV does considerably better. At this price, it will flop. I thought this was eco-friendly? Why should I pay $7.50 per trip AND share with 2 other strangers? Lay off the ammendment 64 rights SkyTran and get your head in the game. Mass transit has to be affordable, or it doesn't work. At a $250M 'bargain', you should be able to charge reasonable rates to ride.


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Release Date: December 17, 2004
Rating: PG (for thematic elements, scary situations and brief language)
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy/Comedy
Run Time: 1 hr. 53 min.
Director: Brad Silberling
Actors: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Kara and Shelby Hoffman
Before I put pen to paper – or, as the case may be, fingertips to keyboard – I feel compelled to warn you that this is not the most usual of reviews. In fact, it is a review that may well leave you feeling alarmed, concerned or possibly even laughing hysterically (a word which means, like a baboon being tickled under its arm or, in this case, simply smiling).
The reason for this, as it shall soon be obvious, is that the tale under scrutiny is not one for the faint of heart. For, unlike other stories which insist upon happy endings, this tale is about the Baudelaire children, who experienced a series of most unfortunate events, beginning with the tragic death of their parents. And, while the three Baudelaire children do overcome their difficulties, it is not until the very end, and it is only in spite of the machinations (a word meaning illegal, immoral and possibly even French behavior) of a notorious villain, that they do prevail. So if it is happy endings you desire – or reviews that do not sound like this writer has been swallowed by a Victorian novelist – then I must advise you to seek elsewhere.
Violet Baudelaire (Emily Browning) is 14 and has a great talent for inventing things. Her brother, Klaus (Liam Aiken), reads every sort of book that comes his way – no small number, considering the vast library that has been at his disposal in the Baudelaire family mansion. A bright young man, just like his older sister, Klaus remembers everything that he reads, which comes in very handy during the children's travails. Sunny (Kara and Shelby Hoffman), their sister, is just an infant, but she has an uncanny (meaning, sometimes at a good time, sometimes at a bad one) ability to bite things. And while she speaks only in grunts and squeals, her brother and sister are able to interpret her perfectly (and so are we, thanks to subtitles). Sunny is also very insightful and droll (that is, insulting at times), when it comes to human behavior.
After Mr. Poe (Timothy Spall), the family banker, announces the terrible news of their parents' demise in a fire that consumed the family estate, the Baudelaires are escorted to live with the horrible Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), who lives in a home that might well, under normal circumstances, be mistaken for a rubbish heap. There, the children are forced to sleep in one very tiny bed, in a dark and musty room. Olaf also forces them to do chores that no adult under the age of 30 or over the age of 29 should ever have to do. Once, he even hits poor Klaus. You see, I did warn you that this was not a cheery story.
The reason for Olaf's despicable behavior is that he wants the Baudelaire family fortune, and is willing to do anything, including eating stale Pasta Putanesca and placing the children on train tracks in the face of an oncoming train, to get it. When that fails, the children are taken to live with their eccentric (a word meaning, someone completely obsessed with snakes) Uncle Monty (Billy Connolly). But Olaf disguises himself and finishes off the herpetological relative, much to the children's horror. Fortunately, their quick wit – and Sunny's willingness to play with a python – saves them from being returned to Olaf's care.


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(#) KelseyChem 2011-11-08 03:56:30 PM
i love it so much, poor gee, he just wanted to play with cherri and lilli !
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Thief steals from Nashua North team at Memorial
Lt. Michael Hurley said cell phones, cash, jewelry and electronics were among the items taken from 11 basketball players sometime between halftime and the end of the game, which Memorial won, 74 to 55.
Hurley said police "are looking at a particular student" in the thefts. He said a custodian was preparing to lock the door to the visiting locker room after halftime when he "found someone in there who wasn't supposed to be there."
No arrests had been made as of Thursday night.
Memorial boys basketball coach Jack Quirk said visiting teams have their own locker room. He said a custodian unlocks it for the team before the game and procedure calls for the custodian to lock the room when the team leaves for the start of the game and after halftime.
"The door was supposedly locked," Quirk said. "Someone could have been in there when the door was locked."
Quirk said the area around the locker rooms "is a tough place to police. There are just a lot of people in the locker room area."
The theft happened sometime during the game, he said. Quirk said school and police officials are aggressively investigating the matter.
"Hopefully, this can be resolved in a way where we'll get the stuff back. That's what we're hoping for," he said. "This is not something that the school or the police department is taking lightly."
Tom Arria, athletic director for Nashua North, declined to comment.
Memorial Principal Arthur Adamakos could not be reached for comment.
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Tomlin really liked him coming out.
I would at least take a look.
Tomlin really liked him coming out.
I would at least take a look.
If they don't get a trade they will cut him.
I believe since they gave him permission we can bring him in for a physical, etc.
Why not?
Rara's 2014 NFL Mock Draft
1. Mike Evans, WR; Texas A&M
2. Kyle Fuller, CB; Virginia Tech
3b. Craig Loston, SS; LSU
4. Marcel Jensen, TE; Fresno State
5a. Daniel McCullers, DT; Tennessee
5b. Max Bullough, ILB; Michigan State
6. Kadeem Edwards, OG; Tennessee State
7. Derrell Johnson, OLB; East Carolina
From the Yahoo sports blog site: "In 41 games over the last three seasons, McClain has 246 tackles, 6.5 sacks and one interception. McClain's most impressive season came in 2011 when he posted five sacks and a career-high 14 passes defensed as a 14-game starter. However, McClain's on-field performance that season was overshadowed by his off-field exploits. McClain was arrested in Decatur, Alabama in January of 2011 after allegedly pointing a gun at another man and firing it next to his head. McClain was convicted and sentenced to 180 days in jail, but the charges were dropped upon appeal when the victim would not cooperate with the criminal case. In January of 2013, McClain was again arrested in Decatur, Alabama after giving a false name to police during a traffic stop. In between those arrests, McClain was involved in an argument with head coach Dennis Allen and was suspended for conduct detrimental to the team for two games late in the 2012 season. McClain would not play after he was reinstated and he finished his third season in the NFL with 62 tackles and a sack while playing in 48.11 percent of the team's defensive snaps. If off-field exploits and a run-in with a head coach aren't enough of a deterrent to keep a team from trading for McClain, his contract might. McClain, who turns 24 in July, entered the NFL a season before rookies were sacrificed in the 2011 collective bargaining agreement. McClain has two seasons and $10.31 million remaining on his five-year, $40.25 million rookie contract and is scheduled to earn $4.255 million in total cash compensation 2013 and another $6.055 million in 2014. According to a source with knowledge of McClain's rookie contract, $3.635 million of the $10.31 million that remains on the contract is fully guaranteed with no offset language. Whoever acquires the contract, also acquires the $3.635 million in fully guaranteed base salaries." Trade for McClain -- and take on that kind of salary with that kind of risk??? If no trade agreement is reached, the Raiders will have to release McClain, but even then, I don't think the Steelers would bite...nor would I want them to.
He really hasn't ever shown he is that good of a player, plus his off-the-field baggage. Pass.
I would take ...McClain. However, I wouldn't trade for McClain because of his salary. He would have to be released for me to pursue him. It would be a 2 year deal with little up front and loaded with incentives because of his off field issues. He wouldn't be by no means a lock for this year. Year 2 would be an attractive deal for him in his base. If he didn't respond well to the vets, playing STs, and trying to win the starting spot...I would cut him in the last cuts. Risk-reward worth it if he has to earn his $$$. That being said, it only takes one team to "gamble" on who they thought he was coming out of college to give him a nice deal if he is cut.
We don't need anymore drama, or locker room nonsense. Pass.
2014 NFL Draft
1) Justin Gilbert-DB OSU
2) Jordan Matthews-WR Vandy
3) Chris Borland-ILB Wisconsin
4) Caraun Reid, DT Princeton
5) De'Anthony Thomas-RB Oregon
5b) Ryan Carrethers-NT Arkansas State
6) Jeff Janis-WR Saginow Valley State
7) Colt Lyerla -TE Oregon
Looks like a good move to avoid McClain. Amazing that guys waste a golden opportunity because they have **** for brains. He was arrested AGAIN in his hometown.
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Adam Rothman's Slave Country is an informative and highly readable account of slavery's role in the American settlements of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi before 1820. It vividly portrays the costs of slaveryfor the slaves, for the native Americans, and for the slaveholders. Slaves endured the often forced relocation to a hostile climate, the breakup of families caused by the slave trade, and the almost complete absence of legal protection that could result in often brutal treatment at the hands of the master or his hirelings. Native Americans were often forced into another kind of relocation by white Americans hungry for the fertile lands perfect for growing the sugar and cotton that European markets demanded.
But as Rothman, an assistant professor of History at Georgetown University, documents, slavery also imposed substantial costs on the slaveholder. Some were psychological. In the revolutionary period, many questioned the morality of slavery at a time when Americans were accusing the British of treating their subjects like slaves. Thomas Jefferson, a slaveholder, wrestled with the contradictions of slavery in a free society all of his life. Northern states, which in general had never heavily relied on slaves for labor anyway, concluded that slavery was not consistent with their revolutionary ideals and provided for gradual emancipation, either in their state constitutions or by legislation enacted early in the 19th century. Many slaveholders in the Upper South also concluded that slavery was inconsistent with American ideals and voluntarily manumitted their slaves. However, in the Deep South that Rothman describes, widespread manumission or even gradual emancipation was impossible because the cotton and sugar plantations that made up the local economies were too dependent on slave labor. As Rothman puts it, "planters assumed that they needed slave labor just as they needed soil and rain." As such, they went to extraordinary lengths to defend slavery, not only politically but also on moral grounds.
It is ironic that Thomas Jefferson had initially looked at the newly acquired Western territories as a means of mitigating the effects of slavery. He was an advocate of diffusionism, the belief that by opening new territories, the existing slave population would be spread over a greater area, making slave insurrection less likely and possibly setting the stage for gradual emancipation. Instead, slavery was so profitable in the new territories that slaveholders would go to any lengths, including civil war, to maintain it. One unintended consequence of Jefferson's policy was that the new territories actually became less democratic towards whites. Rothman explains that the 1812 state constitution for Louisiana, for example, skewed representation in the legislature in favor of plantation districts at the expense of New Orleans and the rural districts, placed steep property qualifications for office holding, limited suffrage to white males paying a state tax, and called for the selection of the governor by the state legislature. This occurred at a time when most of the North and the new Western states without slavery were becoming more democratic, moving towards universal white male suffrage.
Another cost of slavery to slaveholders was the tremendous fear of potential slave rebellion, which Rothman documents well. This was particularly true in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, where in many counties slaves greatly outnumbered whites. The largest such rebellion in U.S. history occurred in the sugar parishes above New Orleans in January 1811. During the War of 1812, many whites in the Deep South feared that the British would combine with native Americans, slaves, and free people of color to overwhelm them. As a result, severe restraints were placed on all three groups, and any hint of resistance was crushed.
In Louisiana, an attempt was also made to control the import of slaves from the rest of the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa. These measures were ineffective, however, because slaveholders seeking more slaves provided a ready market for smugglers. The state could not even keep out slaves from St. Domingue, who were particularly feared because of the slave rebellion on that island, which they might have participated in it. The result was what is known in economics as a free rider problem. Slaveholders as a group feared slave rebellions and wanted to make them less likely. They realized that they could do this collectively if they reduced their slaveholdings by obeying legal restrictions on slave imports. However, individual slaveholders knew that their own decisions about how many slaves to hold would have no effect on the probability of a general slave insurrection, and that choosing to hold fewer slaves would result in lower profits for them. Thus, no individual slaveholder was willing to limit the number of slaves he possessed (i.e., obey restrictions on slave imports) in order to limit the chance of a general slave insurrection. Laws attempting to reduce the danger were ineffective as compliance was relatively low.
In lieu of the high costs that slavery imposed on everyone involved, we might ask why slavery found such a firm foothold in the new territories. Rothman concludes that "there were alternatives to the expansion of slavery," citing, for example, a plan that Tom Paine conveyed to Jefferson to encourage the immigration of American and European whites to Louisiana. Paine argued that under this scheme, Louisiana "would become strong by the increase of citizens," rather than weakened by the increase of slaves.
However, such a plan could never have coexisted with slave systems on the cotton and sugar plantations that dominated the Deep South. Regardless of what modern readers may have thought of their practices, slaveholders were good businessmen. As Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman pointed out in Time on the Cross (1974), slaveholders took advantage of the best technologies of the day, such as steam power, the railroad, and the telegraph, and whenever possible used the best techniques to maximize their profits. This included the "gang system," an early version of the assembly line that divided complex activities into a series of relatively simple tasks that could be monitored closely. It was highly productive, but in the preindustrial era, when workers were unaccustomed to such rigid labor discipline, coercion was often necessary for compliance. Useless for a fragile plant such as tobacco, the gang system was ideal for cotton and especially sugar, the two crops that dominated the Deep South that Rothman examines. With sugar, in virtually every case in which slavery and free labor were simultaneously available, slavery drove out free labor. Thus, a plan such as Paine's, which might have been possible for the tobacco farms of Virginia, would not have been economically feasible in the Deep South so long as slavery was legal. The profitability of slavery was such that slaveholders would not have given it up voluntarily despite its enormous costs. The Civil War would be required for that.


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NIMBY Battle Heats Up on the LES, but Whose Backyard Is It?
The Bowery now has a Freitag boutique and a Whole Foods. Galleries and trendy restaurants rub shoulders with wholesale kitchen equipment suppliers (at least it's convenient for the restaurants). The question of gentrification is not if or when but how fast. This should not be news to anyone who lives or works below 14th Street, particularly not an art gallery that opened on the Bowery last year.
And yet, one of the more bitter battles currently being fought over neighborhood change and development has pitted the year-old Sperone Westwater gallery against a proposed 25-story hotel and tower next door, according to The Wall Street Journal. The twist is that although the art gallery has won some local residents to its cause, the tower has garnered the support (via rent guarantees) of an affordable housing development that borders the planned project. Read More


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Puppet contains a flaw that is triggered when certain input is not properly verified when parsing an HTTP GET request which contains a valid certificate and private key. This may allow a remote attacker to gain access to arbitrary files.
Upgrade to Puppet to version 2.6.17 or 2.7.18 or higher and Puppet Enterprise to version 2.5.2 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. In addition, the vendor has released a patch for some older versions.
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Food additives are substances that become part of a food product when they are added during the processing or making of that food.
Direct food additives are often added during processing to:
Direct additives may be man-made or natural. Natural additives include:
Indirect food additives are substances that may be found in food during or after it is processed. They were not used or placed in the food on purpose. These additives are present in small amounts in the final product.
Additives in food; Artificial flavors and color
Food additives serve five main functions:
Give the food a smooth and consistent texture:
Improve or preserve the nutrient value:
Maintain the wholesomeness of foods:
Control the acid-base balance of foods and provide leavening:
Provide color and enhance flavor:
Most concerns about food additives have to do with man-made ingredients that are added to foods, including:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a list of food additives that are considered safe. Many have not been tested, but they are considered safe by most scientists. These substances are put on the "generally recognized as safe (GRAS)" list. The list contains about 700 items.
Congress defines safe as "reasonable certainty that no harm will result from use" of an additive. Examples of items on this list are: guar gum, sugar, salt, and vinegar. The list is re-checked regularly.
Some substances that are found to be harmful to people or animals may still be allowed, but only at the level of 1/100th of the amount that is considered harmful. People with any allergies or food intolerances should always check the ingredient list (label) for their own protection. Reactions to any additive can be mild or severe.
It is still important to gather information about the safety of food additives. Let the FDA know about any reactions you have to food or food additives.
The FDA and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) supervise and regulate the use of additives in products sold in the United States. However, people who have special diets or intolerances should be careful in selecting products in the grocery store.
The U.S. government requires everyone that manufactures food to list all the ingredients on the label. See: Learn to read and understand food labels
Food Ingredients and Colors.International Food Information Council (IFIC) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration. November 2004; revised April 2010. Page last updated May 23, 2011. Available at: www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/FoodIngredientsPackaging/ucm094249.pdf
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Scitex CT format.
Raster image file format.
Used for pre-press imaging applications.
SCT is an acronym for Scitex Continuous Tone.
Binary format.
Stores images as RGB, CMYK, or grayscale bitmaps at a resolution of 8 bits per channel.
Does not support alpha channels.
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Raster image file format.
Used for pre-press imaging applications.
SCT is an acronym for Scitex Continuous Tone.
Binary format.
Stores images as RGB, CMYK, or grayscale bitmaps at a resolution of 8 bits per channel.
Does not support alpha channels.
Developed and maintained by HP Scitex.
Import and ExportImport and Export
- Import["file.sct"] imports an SCT file and returns an image.
- Export["file.sct", expr] exports graphics or any other expression as an image to an SCT file.
- When exporting Mathematica graphics or arbitrary expressions to SCT, the resulting image has the same raster size as its displayed form.
- Image objects are by default exported at their raster size.
- Because SCT is a raster image format, all fonts are rasterized on export.
- Import["file.sct", elem] imports the specified element from an SCT file.
- Import["file.sct", {elem, suba, subb, ...}] imports a subelement.
- Import["file.sct", {{elem1, elem2, ...}}] imports multiple elements.
- The import format can be specified with Import["file", "SCT"] or Import["file", {"SCT", elem, ...}].
- Export["file.sct", expr, elem] creates an SCT file by treating expr as specifying element elem.
- Export["file.sct", {expr1, expr2, ...}, {{elem1, elem2, ...}}] treats each as specifying the corresponding .
- Export["file.sct", expr, opt1->val1, ...] exports expr with the specified option elements taken to have the specified values.
- Export["file.sct", {elem1->expr1, elem2->expr2, ...}, "Rules"] uses rules to specify the elements to be exported.
- See the reference pages for full general information on Import and Export.
- ImportString and ExportString support the SCT format.
- General Import elements:
"Elements" list of elements and options available in this file "Rules" full list of rules for each element and option "Options" list of rules for options, properties, and settings - Data representation elements:
"Data" array of color values "Graphics" Graphics object representing an image "GrayLevels" array of normalized gray-level values "Image" raster image, given as an Image object -
"RGBColorArray" array of RGBColor objects - Import and Export by default use the element for SCT files.
- Advanced Import elements:
"BitDepth" number of bits used to represent each color channel "ColorSpace" color encoding used in the file "ImageResolution" image resolution specified in the file "ImageSize" raster dimensions
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First of all we admit the loofah is not a tree: it is a fast growing, annual, climbing plant with tendrils that grab out eagerly for support. However it can be as big as a tree, up to 30 metres!
Female flowers are moderate to good nectar suppliers; male blooms yield a good pollen value. The loofah's profuse and continuous blossoming during rainy periods provides excellent bee colony build-up and maintenance forage. Recommended for planting to increase honey production.
Ridged loofah Luffa acutangula Common loofah Luffa cylindrica (L) Roem
Common Loofah:
Luffa aegyptiaca, Poppia fabiana
Loofah,luffa, Chinese loofah, vegetable sponge, dishcloth gourd Jinghi, tochon (West Indies)
Estopajo, coladera, meocoton, calabazo, quingombo (LatinAmerica)
Schwammkuerbis (German)
Petole (French)
Bucha dos paulistas (Brazil)
Soc-qua (Chinese)
Hechma (Japanese)
A native of the Asian tropics, loofah is found throughout warm tropical, sup-tropical and temperate areas.
Widely utilised as handy bath accessories, skin exfoliators and pot scrubbers, loofah offers a renewable altemative to the endangered sea sponge. During World War II the durable fibre was used in surgical operations, as a filter in the Navy's steam and diesel engines, as cushioning in vehicle and tank seats and because of its insulating properties, in Army helmet linings.
Loofah gourds can also be processed into pot holders, doormats, gloves, sandals, caps, hats, waistcoats, stuffing for mattresses and saddles and have many other uses. Loofah readily takes dyes and can be embroidered for the crafting of decorated bags, place mats and garments, This versatile plant has served for hundreds of years as a healing agent. Loofah seeds are emetic and purgative, and the leaves are used by the Chinese in a treatment for skin diseases. In Japan a preparation made from loofah is sold as a skin softener. According to a sixteenth century Chinese herbalist, "The fresh fruit is considered to be cooling and beneficial to the intestines".
deep green foliage, composed of large, hirsute, long petioled leaves with seven palmeated lobes.
large (up to 12 cm in diameter), lemon yellow, with five spreading petals.
The female flowers of this monoecious plants (both male and female blooms on the same vine) develop singly on the plants stem, while their male counterparts grow in dangling bunches. After pollination the male flowers drop, while the females remain attached to the developing fruit.
HONEY: light amber, slightly aromatic.
A sturdy plant which is easily grown, even in poor soils. Loofah does not tolerate sustained temperatures below 18°C. Relatively resistant to mildew. The seeds remain viable for several years when stored under dry conditions.
Crane,E; Walker,P; Day,R (1984) Directory of Important World Honey Sources. lBRA, London,UK.
Kelly,C; Shobe J (1981) For Luffa or Money!
The Mother Earth News Magazine 68, pp126-127. Laurence,G. A. (1976) Common Bee Weeds of Trinidad and Tobago.
Little,E.L; Wadworth, F.H.(1964) Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Mary Shaw is a senior lecturer in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester. Her primary interest is ophthalmic nursing and she chairs the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) Ophthalmic Nursing Forum.
"We've developed RCN ophthalmic competencies for nurses, but they're not compulsory. There are nurses working as ophthalmic nurses who don't have ophthalmic training, as well as a lot of places where nursing posts have been replaced by healthcare assistants. That means patients aren't always receiving care that is as good as it should be, because people are carrying out tasks without necessarily knowing exactly why these tasks are necessary.
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I realised over the years as I moved up in seniority that the new nurses we were recruiting needed a lot of different skills, but also that were no generally agreed standards or procedures for judging or assessing the way they used those skills."
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We developed and grew this course purely because we wanted something locally, for our own staff, but it's now been opened up externally to a maximum of 10 nurses at a time. They are mainly working already in ophthalmic units and they have some practical skills but they've had no formal training. We offer them a practice-based course, tailored to each person; they'll come in for three Fridays and then spend three in practice, spread over six months and in order to pass the course they need to develop five new skills.
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