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I've finished the Brotherhood of Blood series. Night After Night is due for release in early 2009. So hard to say good-bye to the boys! But, I'm very excited about my next historical adventure. I'm going back to my roots and writing "straight" historicals—no paranormal elements! Why's that? Well, I've got the Nightmare Chronicles starting in August, and that will satisfy my need to create otherworldly characters. Right now, I'm really itching to get back into my first love.
For those of you attending RWA National Conference in San Francisco, please come say hi at the book signing Wednesday night. Later this year I'll be attending the Sweet and Spicy conference in Ottawa, the Buns and Roses Tea in Dallas, and the New Jersey Romance Writers annual conference! Sometime in there I'll be writing a book as well!

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Event report: SLMS continuing professional development workshop
30 April 2013
Continuing professional development (CPD) in Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy has never been more important. Rosalind Duhs reports on a day designed to explore the best ways in which UCL can provide for industry and practitioners.
The School of Life and Medical Sciences (SLMS) offers professional education for a range of challenging areas such as medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. The increasingly fast pace of change makes continuing professional development (CPD) essential. In many fields, including medicine and pharmacy, it is also mandatory.
The CPD day was designed to highlight the importance of CPD, look at examples of good practice, and consider how UCL can help busy practitioners to fulfil requirements and gain cutting-edge knowledge and skills. As Tim McHugh mentioned in his introduction, the participation of three UCL Vice-Provosts (Education, Enterprise and Health) showed how central work on CPD has become.
Anthony Smith, Vice-Provost (Education), opened the workshop. He emphasised the importance of online education against the background of the growth in massive online open courses (MOOCs) and the expansion of CPD requirements. Pharmacists now need to complete nine cycles of CPD every year. Anthony also recommended interactivity in online learning, pointing out that the simple uploading of lectures is not enough. He recognised that the development of distance and blended learning is time-consuming and needs to be realistically resourced. Achievements in teaching and learning and enterprise are significant and promotion criteria in these fields are under review.
Chris O'Callaghan (Institute of Child Health) provided compelling evidence of the potential for multimedia use in medical education. He showed how a wide range of cases can be made available, broadening doctors' diagnostic ability. Videos of children with respiratory problems combined with recordings of sound from stethoscopes could enable doctors to recognise less common conditions.
Chris has developed an algorithm for international CPD work through logical steps from needs analysis to evaluation of impact through research. He went through a careful 'proof of concept' process using new approaches to the development of healthcare in Asia. Solar-powered, handheld devices enabled healthcare workers in remote rural areas to check recently learnt procedures. Clinicians' own filming was effective and saved editing time. Clinicians could also supply accompanying patient notes.
Learning is supported by telephone mentoring which has worked well. Assessment across continents has also ensured that CPD has resulted in learning that will benefit patients. Distance assessment of practical medical and nursing skills is done through objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) using video.
Owen Epstein and Tim Rayne presented 'Answers in Medicine', a set of learning resources which moved beyond the traditional 'eco-structure' of lectures, seminars and written exams to an online 'digital eco-structure'. Rich multimedia design features offer learners a range of possible modes of access. Audio, video and script are all available.
Research into the limited attention span of the passive learner (for example those listening to a lecture) informed the design of Answers in Medicine. Learning is provided in short chunks and learners have frequent opportunities to test their knowledge through single best answer multiple choice questions (MCQs). Learning is available on the move via iPhone and iPad, so the vision of 'learning medicine anywhere any time' has become reality.
Susan Hopkins described her experience of 'engaging and interacting online with adult and distance learners' in the MSc in Healthcare-associated Infection Control. She emphasised the importance of taking account of the contextual factors which shape the learning of adults. Healthcare professionals bring a lot of experience to the course and have high expectations but are time-poor. Clarity of structure is essential. The expected time commitment for each virtual course session is provided to help learners to plan their studies.
Some students lack confidence in a learning situation and may initially feel insecure about web conferencing. The learning process becomes important in this type of distance course and needs to be carefully managed. It is essential to create an online community of practice. Blackboard Collaborate for web conferencing quickly becomes a popular way of creating group cohesion and question/answer and other interactive sessions can be recorded.
Students work with multimedia case studies and role-play in addition to reading. Susan finds PowerPoint with voiceover effective. Learners are provided with opportunities to self- and peer-evaluate. They give anonymous feedback to peers and mark each other's writing. This formative work creates the space for them to negotiate any learning hurdles. Marks are awarded for participation in forums, web conferences, and quizzes as well as assignments.
Performance skills, closely related to the workplace, are developed. Susan fosters on-the-job learning, inviting students to review procedures in their workplaces, such as decontamination routines and the use of antibiotics. Relevance to professional life and authenticity enrich the learning experience.
Dominic Black and Matt Jenner explained the Public E-learning Platform (PELP) project and UCL eXtend, UCL's public e-learning portal for non-credit-bearing CPD. The aim has been to create an online space for browsing courses, enrolling and paying. A pilot project, 'Better conversations with aphasia' for speech therapists and patients, has been completed.
Jane Dacre presented an overview of the impact of the system for the revalidation of doctors, introduced by the General Medical Council in December 2012. Revalidation of some 250,000 doctors is to take place every five years on a rolling cycle. Doctors are required to show that they are up to date, fit to practise and comply with the relevant professional standards.
The ultimate aim of revalidation is to protect patients. Enhanced annual appraisals will inform revalidation and electronic evidence will be provided. A multi-source, 360-degree feedback exercise involving ten colleagues confirms that doctors are 'up to date'. Documentary evidence of 50 hours of CPD per year must be provided, blueprinted to areas of practice. CPD demand from doctors is therefore set to increase fast and on an unprecedented scale.
Jane outlined her vision of good-quality CPD. She pointed out that it is "not our favourite subject", but should nevertheless be a practical, planned-for interaction and reflection blueprinted to practice and the standards set by the Royal Colleges. Education of others also counts towards CPD hours. An online record of CPD is kept ('My CPD'). Reflective notes can be made online.
The revalidation of so many doctors will be challenging in terms of affordability, making time in job plans, blueprinting to personal practice, recording and certification, but the uptake of CPD will increase, offering many opportunities for UCL staff interested in designing courses to enable doctors to meet these new demands.
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HERNDON, Va., Dec. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the largest technology council in the nation, today congratulated Karen Jackson on her nomination by Virginia Governor-elect Terry McAuliffe to serve as the state's Secretary of Technology. NVTC President and CEO Bobbie Kilberg made the following statement on behalf of NVTC and its membership:
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African Soccerscapes — 2010
How a Continent Changed the World's Game
By Peter Alegi
"Nobody understands the background to African soccer better than the Italian-American historian Peter Alegi. This World Cup is his moment. His African Soccerscapes crams daunting erudition, gleaned over many years of study of African football, into under 200 pages of history."
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"Via these outstanding works (Laduma! and African Soccerscapes), Alegi has placed African soccer on firm historiographical footing, while also popularizing a subject about which little was previously known beyond Africa's borders."
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"Alegi creatively and effectively uses soccer to tell the story of European domination and exploitation of Africa. Yet, he also shows us how Africans came to embrace the game imposed on them, and made it something distinctly African."
International Journal of African Historical Studies
From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, Africans have wrested control of soccer from the hands of Europeans, and through the rise of different playing styles, the rituals of spectatorship, and the presence of magicians and healers, have turned soccer into a distinctively African activity.
African Soccerscapes explores how Africans adopted soccer for their own reasons and on their own terms. Soccer was a rare form of "national culture" in postcolonial Africa, where stadiums and clubhouses became arenas in which Africans challenged colonial power and expressed a commitment to racial equality and self-determination. New nations staged matches as part of their independence celebrations and joined the world body, FIFA. The Confédération africaine de football democratized the global game through antiapartheid sanctions and increased the number of African teams in the World Cup finals.
In this compact, highly readable book Alegi shows that the result of this success has been the departure of huge numbers of players to overseas clubs and the growing influence of private commercial interests on the African game. But the growth of women's soccer and South Africa's hosting of the 2010 World Cup also challenge the one-dimensional notion of Africa as a backward, "tribal" continent populated by victims of war, corruption, famine, and disease.
Peter Alegi is an associate professor of history at Michigan State University and the author of Laduma! Soccer, Politics, and Society in South Africa. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of African Historical Studies and book review editor of Soccer and Society.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue
- Acknowledgments
- One
"The White Man's Burden"
Football and Empire, 1860s–1919 - Two
The Africanization of Football, 1920s–1940s - Three
Making Nations in Late Colonial Africa, 1940s–1964 - Four
Nationhood, Pan-Africanism, and Football after Independence - Five
Football Migration to Europe since the 1930s - Six
The Privatization of Football, 1980s to Recent Times - Epilogue
South Africa 2010: The World Cup Comes to Africa - Notes
- Bibliography
- Series Editors' Note
- Index
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- The Guardian (UK) book mention (reproduced in The Hindu, India's National Paper)
- The New York Times (5/24/10) Alegi comments
- Alegi Quoted in Sports Illustrated
- The Chronicle of Higher Education Notes African Soccerscapes in World Cup Feature
- Time Magazine World Cup Feature & Alegi Interview
- Walfadjri. . . L'Aurore (Alegi Interview)
- Los Angeles Times (Alegi Quoted)
- The New York Times (6/9/10) Alegi interview
- June 10, 2010—NPR, "All Things Considered," Alegi Interview
- Major League Soccer Interview with Alegi, June 2010
- New York Times June 21, 2010 Alegi Interview re: World Cup Coaches
- More Than Just a Game blog
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- July 10, 2010 New York Times Interview with Peter Alegi
- July 11, 2010 New York Times Interview with Peter Alegi
- Alegi Interview in El Siglo de Europa (Spain)
- YouTube promo of Peter Alegi's Summer 2012 online course, "Global Soccer."
- Alegi Radio Interview on Radio France International
- KPFK, "Spotlight Africa," (30 minute, 52 sec. mark)
- WBEZ "Worldview" (Chicago); Alegi Interview
- BBC Radio 5 (June 5, 2010 radio broadcast)
- China Radio International (June 11, 2010 Alegi interview)
- Talk Radio 702 (South Africa)
- KPFK (Pacifica Radio), "The People's Game," June 27, 2010
- Puma video, Journey of Football
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This 2-person tile game is a real challenge for the mind, although its rules are extremely simple. It found its inspiration in the colors of Tuscany: the landscape, the roofs of the palaces, the squares. The players try to place their 16 tiles on the board in such way to obtain a zone of connected tiles in their own color as large as possible. But each one of your own tiles is partly in the color of your opponent. Therefore every move does not only change your own situation, but also that of the other player. And this results in a real challenge and an original way of playing!
Mine did! Actually, my wife and I play a lot of card and 2-player games - some of our favorites are Lost Cities, Schotten-Totten and the Mystery Rummey series.
Toscana hit a sweet spot with both of us. After about 20 games, we both agree this one's a keeper.
Toscana breaks into 3 phases of play. In the opening moves, each player is trying to fence in a larger territory than his/her opponent. In the middle game, the emphasis moves to throwing wrenches into your opponent's plans, and making sure all your connections are in place. In the end game, a well laid piece can ruin the scoring chances for your opponent, even behind their 'secure' line.
Sometimes one player will break out in the early mid-game, and score a run away. But more often, the game is a tense affair that goes down to the last pieces played.
It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but for us, Toscana has been a wonderful discovery. If you're looking for a fast, replayable, competative game, pick Toscana up!
The other reviewers are right - the illustration on both the board and the tiles are beautiful. I like this game because you know which tile you're going to get to lay down and you also know what your oppenent's next tile is going to be.
The only luck involved in this game is the initial shuffling of the tiles.
This game plays REALLY quick - like under ten minutes if you motor through it. If it's taking you 1/2 hour, put down the game and chill out, you're obviously too stressed.
I gave it three starts because there are other games that are much more fun and replayable at similar prices. However, this was a great game at the cottage when there were about seven of us. During all hours of the day, if two of us were bored (board - get it?) we would play a game of Toscana, eventually someone would call out 'I've got winner' and in the end, it provided us with a few hours of entertainment.
Hoping for another great 2 player game from Rio Grande, but it was not to be. Gave one star for the graphics--it's beautiful (my wife is thinking of gluing pieces down and framing the whole thing), and one star out of 3 for game play. It just doesn't have play value--get Cathedral for a more fun version of this format. Couldn't give it the one star for great strategy--there just isn't much. It's sort of mindless--you each put tiles down. A small illustration of how to score at game's end was frustrating to figure out. I'd like to see it bigger. Pass unless you want a nice picture hanging on your wall!