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Popular dating app Tinder has added a vanishing photo sharing feature called Moments, similar to Snapchat.
IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), creator of the app, believes that it will encourage users to use it more often. The new feature will let users to share their photos with their matches which will vanish after 24 hours.
Tinder said in a blog: "Moments are swipe-able photos you can instantly share with all of your matches at once."
"With Moments you can swipe through fun Moments shared by your matches and get a glimpse into each other's lives."
"You can react by swiping right to "like" or left to "nope" a Moment, just as you would profiles, or you can take it one step further and reply with a message."
Tinder uses Facebook profiles and analyses user's social interests to suggest potential matches based on geographical location.
"Tinder Moments expire in 24 hours, so you can be yourself without the pressure of making it perfect. You can just share it raw or apply filters, draw, and add text to you make the most of the moment," it added.
Despite claiming that it sees more than 850 million swipes and more than 10 million matches every single day, the 18-month-old app is yet to make money and is planning for monetisation opportunities to generate revenue.
It had already indicated earlier that it is looking for greater monetisation and expansion beyond its initial purpose of hooking up singles.
And with Moment, it will be Tinder's first foray into social messaging, stepping beyond its dating base, as it faces competition from popular dating apps like OkCupid and new players like Hinge.
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Recent Headlines from Above the Law
* Per the Department of Education, Harvard Law sucks at handling sexual assault and harassment complaints. As it turns out, the DoE only found out about the misconduct because a faculty member from New England Law snitched on the Ivy League school. [Boston.com]
* Everything's bigger in Texas, including the penalties for pot possession. One state legislator wants to change that in the new year, and hopes his colleagues will puff, puff, pass his bill in favor of small civil fines instead of jail sentences. [VICE]
* "If the court has been waiting until the country is more comfortable with gay marriage, they've waited long enough." The first SCOTUS conference of 2015 will focus on gay marriage cases. It'd be fabulous if they took one. [Supreme Court Brief]
* Latham and Fried Frank are going to be advising on Shake Shack's initial public offering. Hungry attorneys working on the IPO will be disappointed to learn that their client doesn't have any public offerings for consumption on Seamless. [Am Law Daily]
* The bankruptcy trustee for the late, great, defunct firm of Howrey LLP keeps lining up big settlements for its remaining creditors. This time, Wiley Rein will contribute $1 million to the failed firm's coffers. Howrey like dem apples? [Wall Street Journal]
* As the year winds down to a close, we take a look back at the amazing time Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had. From her Hobby Lobby dissent to her subtle New Republic shade, the Notorious RBG's 2014 was better than yours. [Bustle]
* When you've allegedly been driving drunk after a holiday party and have gotten into an accident, one of the things you say to the police upon your arrest should not be, "Come on, I'm a judge" — especially if you are one. [New York Post]
* After advising on 221 deals worth about $511 billion, Skadden Arps was the top dog in the M&A game in 2014. While taking a break from rolling around in money, the firm's managing partner was heard thanking inversions. [MoneyBeat / Wall Street Journal]
* Although we haven't heard what's going on with associate bonuses at this firm, Wiley Rein bought itself a bonus subsidiary. Last week, the firm finalized its purchase of lobbying and communications group McBee Strategic. [Blog of Legal Times]
* While many law schools found their student enrollments getting smaller due to forces of nature in 2014, the University of Mississippi School of Law claims it decreased its class sizes intentionally. Oh, the places you'll go! [Clarion Ledger]
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* Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker pleaded not guilty in the beating death of a New Jersey lawyer. [New Jersey Star-Ledger]
* Judge Edmond E. Chang tossed Chicago's gun sale ban as unconstitutional. [Fox News]
* Refusing to take a hint, Paul Clement is suing over the Affordable Care Act again. [The Blog of the Legal Times]
* Nixon Peabody is trying to stand out from the Biglaw crowd. Maybe it's time for another theme song. [Washington Post]
* J.P. Morgan is close to a deal in the Madoff affair. Rumors place it at $2 billion or basically a week's worth of revenue. [DealBook / New York Times]
* After getting busted for cocaine possession, GOP Rep. Trey Radel has hired Rob Walker of Wiley Rein to advise him on the looming House investigation. Only in Washington would you have an investigation into something after the guy already pleaded guilty. [Politico]
* Are you ready for your retirement? The answer is probably, no. [ABA Journal]
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* People have "greatly underestimated how powerful a jurist Justice Sotomayor would be," and now that one of her concurrences flies directly in the face of Obama's NSA tactics, we'll get to see how powerful she really is. [MSNBC]
* Here's a fun end-of-the-year roundup: President Obama's Top 10 Constitutional Violations of 2013. Fifty internet points shall be awarded to the first person who correctly guesses how many are related to Obamacare without looking. [Forbes]
* Following Judge Shira Scheindlin's stop-and-frisk spanking, the Southern District of New York changed its rules on case assignments in order to increase transparency. Related-case judge-shopping just got a whole lot harder. [New York Times]
* Wiley Rein is defending its fee request in the Voting Rights Act case, and says the Department of Justice is "[tying] itself in knots" trying to find a way to get out of paying the piper. Harsh. [Blog of Legal Times]
* These are four ways you can overcome a low GPA when applying to law school, but really, the best way to overcome a low GPA is to not apply at all. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
* "I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA." Now that he's unleashed all of America's deep dark secrets, Edward Snowden just wants to Google like a regular guy. [Washington Post]
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* Despite his hatred of 3L classes like "Law and Unicorns," Justice Scalia believes that the third year of law school is necessary — perhaps a necessary evil, but still necessary. [Memphis Daily News]
* "[T]his excuse — sometimes labeled the 'too big to jail' excuse — is disturbing, frankly…." The eminently quotable Judge Rakoff is at it again, this time with harsh words for the DOJ. [New York Times]
* According to the latest survey from Citi Private Bank's Law Firm Group, managing partners think that 2014 will be better than 2013. This means bonuses will be the same next year. [Am Law Daily]
* Attorneys from Wiley Rein are fighting for $2 million in fees in the wake of their SCOTUS win in the Shelby County Voting Rights Act case. The firm's quest has been called "absurd." [National Law Journal]
* "The record is utterly devoid of any evidence of criminal intent or intentional misconduct." It turns out that Guy Lewis and Michael Tein, the attorneys accused of malpractice by the Miccosukee Indians, weren't bad after all. [Daily Business Review]
* Rather than pegging its value at $1 million, a professor from a fourth-tier law school is promoting the "non-economic value" of a law degree. Can "cultural capital" repay your loans? [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* "[N]o law school in Canada should be allowed to weed out gay students." Too bad. Trinity Western University, the law school that bans gay "sexual intimacy," received preliminary approval. [Globe and Mail]
* Law school specialization and you: follow these three simple steps to help you decide which niche you'll be unable to find a job in after you graduate. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
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ATL Law Firm Ratings: D.C. Edition
A comparative look at the Biglaw firms of Washington, D.C., based on the ATL Insider Survey
Biglaw, Cold Offers, Job Searches, No Offers, Sheppard Mullin, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Offer Rates (2013): A Round-Up
Which major law firms issued offers to all of their associates? Here are more names.
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* NY Attorney General investigating fast food restaurants for shorting their employees. This is a worthwhile cause, but what he should be looking into is who ate the bones? [CNN]
* Two more law schools, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and York College of Pennsylvania admit they gave false information to U.S. News resulting in better rankings. Those were their BETTER rankings? [TaxProf Blog]
* To keep "misleading statistics" in perspective, the Department of Education leveled one of its steepest fines on Yale for covering up multiple "forcible sex offenses" to keep its campus safety statistics down. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
* A measure of resource governance finds the U.S. has the second best governance of its oil, gas and mining sectors. Give yourself a hand regulators. And we're gunning for you Norway! [Breaking Energy]
* The Honorable Felicia Mennin does not grasp how time works. Thinks artist should have been more conscious of the public fear surrounding the Boston bombings… back in February. [New York Times]
* Congratulations readers for helping the profile of a White House petition to reform student loan policy. Here are a couple more if you feel like making more reforms to the process… or at least more suggestions for reforms that will sit on someone's desk. [Whitehouse.gov and Whitehouse.gov]
* Is political intelligence practice too risky? Is political intelligence an oxymoron? An interview with Robert Walker of Wiley Rein LLP after the jump [Bloomberg Law]
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Holy Infant hosted the Silver Rose that honors Our Lady of Guadalupe on August 22nd. It was a once in a lifetime event. The following is the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the history of the Silver Rose.
Early on a cold Saturday morning (December 9, 1531), Juan Diego, baptized into the faith as an adult in 1523, was on his way to assist at Mass about two and a half miles from Tlatleloco, where there was a church. Suddenly he heard beautiful music and a woman's voice calling to him from the top of Tepeyac Hill, which he was then passing. He saw a beautiful woman who revealed that she was the Blessed Virgin. She instructed him to visit the bishop to tell him that a temple should be built in her honor at the base of the hill.
Come celebrate the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII with the Knights of Columbus from Holy Infant Council 10794! We will be screening two films about the lives of these great men who will be canonized on April 27, 2014. The films will be shown at Kennedy Catholic High School's theater: 500 Woods Mill Road; Manchester, MO 63011
The movies will be screened on two successive Saturdays: April 23 and May 3. Show times for each movie will be 7:00pm. Tickets available at the door.
The film John XXIII: The Pope of Peace, to be shown April 23, stars Edward Asner in an acclaimed performance as the beloved pontiff who came from common stock and was known for his simplicity, goodness, courage and love for humanity.
The film Pope John Paul II originally aired as a three-hour CBS mini-series on December 4 and 7, 2005, starring Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning actor Jon Voight, who was
nominated for an Emmy for his remarkable performance in the film. This movie was made in cooperation
with the Vatican and received a blessing from Pope Benedict XVI. We will be showing this film on May 3.
All proceeds from ticket sales will go to the benefit of Haiti and Honduran missions.
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Imagine being part of an organization that fills your heart and your mind with the joy of giving to others and the feeling that comes with making a difference.
Knights are Catholic men, 18 years of age and older, who are committed to making their community a better place, while supporting their Church. Being a Knight is more than camaraderie--it is being involved with your community; it is supporting your local Catholic Church, while enhancing your own faith; it is about protecting and enhancing your family life. Come see just what we are all about and take the first steps to enhance your personal life by viewing the segment, Why Join?
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2011 Was a very good year for my work, I received a bit of recognition, made some new friends, traveled all over southern California taking pictures and even revived some work in film.
But no one knows better than me I didn't do it alone, these absolutely phenomenal and very talented individuals made it all possible and without them, I would be out there shooting landscapes and cactus. These girls got up early, suffered my company on long drives to remote areas of desert, hiked, climbed rocks and braved cold, wind, rain and heat just to create these images.
All I can say is each of them deserves serious kudos, each of them has my deepest respect, gratitude and love because they are what art is made of. And I'm not the only photographer they work with so you really ought to be watching them! The incredible people I had the privilege and honor of working with in 2011, in order of appearance...
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Is there a European usb mains connector for the iPhone, which I can use abroad, similar to the Apple World Travel Adapter kit for my G4 laptop?
By this I mean an alternative mains plug which will accept the standard usb cable supplied with the iPhone in the UK.
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19 Hopetoun Crescent is a stylish 3 bedroom maindoor flat situated in an extremely convenient location within a short walk of the city centre. Hopetoun Crescent combines traditional Georgian architecture with modern residential properties, all of which overlook Hopetoun Crescent Gardens. The property benefits from a delightful shared rear garden and an allocated space within a secure underground car park. The accommodation, which is located on the lower ground floor and accessed through a front patio, comprises - entrance hall with storage cupboard, open plan sitting room/dining room/kitchen, master bedroom with built in wardrobes and ensuite shower room, bathroom and 2 further double bedrooms with built in wardrobes.
Located in Edinburgh's prestigious World Heritage Site of the Georgian New Town, Hopetoun Crescent is only a few minutes' walk from Edinburgh's main retail and commercial thoroughfares of George Street and Princes Street. St Andrews Square Bus Station and Waverley Station are also within a short walk. The property enjoys all the benefits of city centre living with a wide variety of shops, bistros and restaurants on nearby Broughton Street and Leith Walk, including a Tesco Metro within a 2 minute walk and a Tesco Supermarket at Canonmills. The open spaces of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Inverleith Park and the Water of Leith are all within short walking distance.
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K2TPZ I was first licensed as a Novice in NYC in 1958. I now have an Extra Class license and operate mostly CW on 40, 30 and 20 meters with a variety of rigs. My rigs normally change depending on what I sell and purchase at Dayton each year. Having a 20-year career in the military, I've operated from QTHs in eight states and four countries. Then, after the military, my second career in support of public education took me to three additional states. Now I am retired and write short stories for the Literary Markets and work as a volunteer for the USO at BWI Airport in Baltimore. My current rigs are a Ten Tec Eagle, Kenwood TS 590, Elecraft KX3, Icom IC 7000 and an Elecraft KX1 for HF and an IC 208H for 2-Meter FM(plus several HTs). I have a number of different tuners, power supplies, paddles, keyers and the usual "stuff" a ham collects in 50+ years of active hamming. I am not a dedicated contestor or DXer. I'm mostly an active, but casual operator, spending 20 to 30 hours a week operating CW on my three favorite bands. I don't seek out DX, but if I hear them, I'll call them, often with success. My current QTH in Baltimore is a typical Rowhouse with a minimal backyard. At the moment my antennas are an ZS6BKW and a 20-meter Gap mono bander. I'm always experimenting with antennas. If you hear me, give me a call. I'll be delighted to chat with you. Best of 73, S. I. "Mike" 957701 Last modified: 2014-05-26 02:08:24, 1544 bytes You must be logged in to file a report on this page
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Cheery end of the year stuff is happening with We Were Liars. Your local independent bookshop will probably have nice gift-y looking copies with bands around the center that makes them look special, and Hudson Booksellers (in all the airports) will have the book on display for quick and easy gifts or airplane reading. And Amazon says its their #1 YA book for the year, and the only YA book in their top 20.
So I would be feeling pretty awesome if I weren't trying to finish the next book, which is a BLOODY MESS right now. But still, I do feel awesome.
The most fun awesomeness for you as a reader is that We Were Liars is up for the GoodReads Choice Award -- which you can VOTE FOR. It's in the YA Fiction category and we're down to the finals, now. You can very easily vote in all categories and it is quite fun to do. I voted in fiction and cookbooks. Anyway, WWL is in very good company so when you see the list of books in the top ten, you may vote for something else instead! But I hope you will go vote, because there's no doubt you'll find about about some good new books while you're doing it.
This is from my British publisher. I AM COMING TO LONDON! AND DUBLIN! AND LIVERPOOL! Please come out and see me. I love meeting readers.
P.S. At the bottom of the post you can see the UK jacket for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, which has never been available there until now.
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We're delighted to say we'll be hosting E in the first week of December – Christmas presents for everyone you know, SORTED = signed copies of WE WERE LIARS! She'll also be talking about the brilliant title THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU BANKS which we published just last week. Although very different to WE WERE LIARS it's completely dazzling in it's own way, so why not prepare for her visit by having a read before she gets here?
So finally, if you want to catch E Lockhart whilst she's in the UK here are her public dates -
*Newly added*
Monday 1st December
After school drop in meet and greet (informal) Waterstones Cheltenham – 4:30pm – link to come but contact Waterstones for more info!
Tuesday 2nd December
Waterstones Piccadilly, London – chaired by Anna James from We Love This Book and The Bookseller
Wednesday 3rd December
Waterstones Liverpool ONE
Thursday 4th December
Easons O'Connell St, Dublin
Admission can be booked via Easons on 01-8583815
Friday 5th December
Waterstones Birmingham High St
We hope we'll see you there!
It is an exciting day in Lockhart land. I am interviewed on one of my fave podcasts, Sara Zarr's This Creative Life. Zarr wrote Roomies (with Tara Altebrando) and The Lucy Variations and lots of other awesome books, and the podcast interviews all kinds of writers about the intersection of life and work, the creative process, etc.
Click here to listen and to learn more about Zarr and the podcast.
Also, over at the National Book Award, the long list for young people's lit was announced today! I was on the judging committee for Young People's Literature last year, so I really understand the process and feel nostalgic about the whole thing -- 289 books, arriving in boxes over the summer. My idea of fun. Our winner last year was Cynthia Kadohata's The Thing About Luck, which is a really wonderful story and everyone should read it.
This year's long list includes some books I've loved (Threatened by Eliot Schrefer and Noggin by John Corey Whaley) and some others I'm psyched to discover. If you're looking for quality YA and MG to read, you really should check out the "Up all Night" online exhibition of previous YPL finalists and winners. Happy reading. XXOE
I haven't posted a Boyfriend List on the site in a while, but since the gorgeous OMNI of the Ruby Oliver novels, THE BOYFRIEND QUARTET, is now on ebook, I figure I should do some more. They used to be the most popular element of this blog, and you can see them all by clicking here -- including lists from Paula Chase, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, John Green, Diana Peterfreund and more.
Here is the Omni jacket in case you don't believe me it's gorgeous.
OKAY. Now, a girl and then boyfriend list that is as thoughtful and sweet as the novel it's promoting.
Michael Barakiva is the author of the adorably Armenian and romantic ONE MAN GUY, a gay love story with lots of humor, skateboarding, delicious food and charm. Barakiva is a theater director and yet ANOTHER Vassar grad who has written young adult fiction (here's a list), and went to Julliard as well. He plays soccer with the New York Ramblers, has recently founded The Upstart Creatures, a theater ensemble dedicated to creating events that co-mingle art and food, and lives in Manhattan with his husband, Rafael.
Michael Barakiva's Girl/Boy Friend List
1) Cindy – Cindy and I met when we were 11, and spent most of the year awkwardly flirting with each other. Then I screwed my courage to the sticking place and asked her out to the Fifth Grade Dance. We lost touch until a few months ago, when she read about OMG online and got in touch with me via the magic of Facebook. I see now that Cindy is happily partnered to a woman with two beautiful children. Were Cindy and I drawn to each other because of our queerness? Who knows?
2) Debbie and I dated for like three weeks or something when I was in seventh grade, but drifted over the summer and pretended it had never happened when we returned to school the following autumn. She was one of the few other people who was in both band and choir, so we obviously had lots in common (she an alto and clarinetest, I was a baritone and bassoonist). We didn't really last, but I remember thinking her brother Frank was hella cute.
3) Gail – This is really where it got serious. Gail and I had known each other since 1st grade at McKnight, before my family moved a few blocks and I got rezoned to Drew. Then we became friends again in high school, where all the schools fed back into each other.
Gail was in the Lutheran Choir, as was I (don't ask how an Israeli/Armenian ended up in the Lutheran Choir). We started dating my freshman year of high school and I thought we were very happy, until her best friend Sarah Barnes told me that Gail wanted to break up with me but didn't know how. I did it for her, on the back of a school bus, on the way down to Culpepper, VA on a band/choir exchange (band and choir are figuring much more prominently than I would've guessed in this list).
Ironically, I met an oboist on that exchange (the double reeds are always sat next to each other) whom I would briefly date when he and I re-met in NYC a decade later.
Gail, like Cindy, got in touch with me recently when she read about OMG. She works in the same building in Central Jerse as my sister and my mom. Gail sang like an angel, and I'm incapable of thinking about her without hearing her dulcimer sounds.
4) Kim – Kim and I met after my sophomore (her freshman) year of high school, at McCarter's Summer Shakespeare Camp. We continued dating for years. I remember the first year or two happily, and the rest as…well…how shall I put it?
Kim remains one of the smartest, most talented and most beautiful women I've ever known. I always felt like we were soul mates, and after we finally finally finally broke up, I kept on waiting for the time we'd become friends again. As is incredibly clear from her rejection of my facebook request, she is clearly not eagerly anticipating that time. We still have a few friends in common from our Shakespeare days, and occasionally I can fb-stalk her via them to she what she's up to, but I can't help but feel a sliver of sadness because I think if I had already been out when I met Kim, she and I would be great friends today.
Or maybe not. Maybe Kim's narrative is radically different than mine, and I'm just this annoying guy she met who detoured her romantically for a few years. Who knows?
5) It's hard for me not to get sentimental when writing about Linsay, my last girlfriend. We met in college. She was a director, also. She was a Drama/English double major, also. She was a year ahead of me. We became good friends. She graduated. We started dating. The best parts of my senior year I remember spending in her railroad apartment on 6th between B and C. Linsay grew up outside of the city, knew it well, and introduced me to it, much the way Ethan does to Alek in OMG. My 21st bday fell in the six months we dated, and she took me to Lutèce.
We broke up. It wasn't pretty.
We tried to be friends again. It didn't work.
We didn't talk. It wasn't pretty.
Then we tried one more time.
This time, it really came together.
Linsay and I have seen each other through everything. Her daughter Julia, the most gorgeous creature on the earth, is my goddaughter. Last weekend, my husband and I went to Brooklyn to celebrate Linsay's birthday in Prospect Park, where I realized I liked her friends almost as much as mine.
Linsay's best friend from college, Joy Peskin, is the editor of OMG and the reason it happened. Linsay is one of the best board game players and cooks I know. Sometimes you wonder who in your life is going to be there forever. Sometime around ten years ago, I stopped wondering with Lins.
6) Ricky was the first person I met when I started backpacking through Europe. It was the summer after my second year of grad school. I was supposed to start a theater company but the funding fell through last minute and I was depressed so I marched into Juilliard's Financial Aid Office, insisted on taking some crazy loan with crazy interest rates that I'm still paying off, and used that money to flee to Europe.
Ricky was a smashingly handsome 6'4 Aussie who was kind and fun and the kind of person whom everybody loved. I met him in the hostel in London, he joined me in Paris the following weekend, I skipped Budapest to spend an extra few days with him in the middle of my trip, and then he sorta showed up in the States ten days after I'd left him because we decided we couldn't be apart.
We dated for almost two years and broke up right before 9-11. He's back in Oz now (Sydney, I believe) and if he's still single, snatch him up, Ozzies. He's a catch.
7) Raymond and I met at one of the more underground gay bars in the East Village. He was pale with blue eyes, a combination I should've learned to avoid by then because of how my knees quiver around it. He had a real job, and a real apartment, and lots of other real things that real adults have. He also had lots of real problems, which I didn't realize often accompany real adulthood.
We lived together for 12 of the 18 months we dated. When it was good, it was good. And when it was bad, well… We're not in touch much, having gone through that post-break up phase where we ignored each other, then that next phase where we went out and drank too much wine and one of us would cry and apologize for hurting the other so. Now we're in that phase where I refuse to call him because he always made me initiate everything, and he doesn't call me because he never called me, before during or after our relationship.
He wrote me the loveliest email the day that OMG came out. I wish him well.
8) I met Rafael shortly before I left NYC for a year on a gig. We wrote each other letters. Real letters, with postage and envelopes and everything. We fell in love in absentia, which I believe is really the easiest way for other people to do it with me. I came back. We started dating. And even though our relationship has not always been "a bed of roses," and we are no longer "spring chickens," (both examples of phrases he uses that made me fall in love with him), we got married on May 26th, 2013 and I have been happier than I thought I could with this warm, handsome and incredibly kind man.
There's a bunch of We Were Liars internet fun been going on past few weeks. I can't imagine you folks want to read it all, but here are some links anyhow!
Here on Bustle, eight books besides mine with honkin' plot twists, including two of my fave books of all time, Liar by Justine Larbalestier and When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead.
Here, an interview on Parade about plotting the novel.
And here, on Hello Giggles, a list of the best fictional liars, ever. Very nice company to be in.
Then on Flavorwire, a list of feminist YA novels, starting with Disreputable History and including a load of awesome reads.
And on GooglePlay I recommend my favorite summer reads.
Below! Booktalk Nation video of me and Gayle Forman (Just One Day, Just One Year, If I Stay, which will be a movie in August! ) chitty-chatting about We Were Liars and drinking wine and talking feminism.
And below, a video interview I did with Goodreads.
There's a new jacket for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, designed by the lovely designers at Hyperion. I love it. This jacket art has a soft roll-out, by which I mean bookstores will have the old cover and/or the new cover for a while until the old covers are all sold. But I have seen this one in a lot of places so keep your eyes open.
I had a lot of fun doing this Goodreads interview about We Were Liars, my friendship with novelist Justine Larbalestier, my tattoo, and what a mediocre person I am. Have a look.
I am answering questions on Goodreads May 22- June 1. I'll do as many as I can. No spoilers please -- but otherwise just go over there, log in, and ask me anything.
Today, May 17, 9 AM EST and 1 PM GMT
and going on all day
is the We Were Liars
live read.
That means you follow these instructions. Read the book. Post on Tumblr, Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #liarsliveread during th day. Share the experience! Photo comments like the one below, especially.
Have fun.
May 17, Sat -- American and British readers are talking about We Were Liars on Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. #liarsliveread. That's tomorrow! Follow the page number prompts below, or just join in. It begins 9 AM EST or 1 PM GMT and goes on till everyone falls over. xoE
More details and instructions here. You can use photos.
My favorite suspense novels, here.
Where I'll be at the International Reading Association conference this weekend, below:
Sunday 5/11Come hang out with me and Sarah Mlynowski Sunday at 11:00 AM at SIGNAL. We have FUN planned. http://ww2.aievolution.com/ira1401/index.cfm?do=ev.viewEv&ev=2163
Signing at the Random House booth at 1:30 PM: not just We Were Liars (hardcover! before pub!) but also The Boyfriend List and two Jenkins books: Water in the Park, Toys Go Out. (Not on the schedule! But I will be there.)
Then signing at the Anderson's Bookshop Naperville booth #2745: both We Were Liars and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.
Come out and say hello.
I have continued writing mottos on my hands, as Cadence and Gat do in We Were Liars.
There's an interview with me about We Were Liars over at YA Interrobang. And here's a review in The Horn Book to read.
The same info I've told you, but it bears repeating:
We Were Liars is out in the USA on May 13 and in the UK on May 14.
US Tour dates are here. Come out and see me beginning May 13! Write on your hands and show me. Bring your friends. I am doing stuff with Lauren Myracle, Lauren Oliver, Sarah Mlynowski, Libba Bray, Robin Wasserman, Gayle Forman, Jennifer Smith, Susane Colasanti, Eliot Schrefer -- basically, an awesome crew.
May 14, 7pm EST I hang out with Gayle Forman (whose If I Stay movie comes out this summer!) talking and taking your questions in a video chat thing. Sign up here and you can also get signed books.
If you want signed PERSONALIZED copies of We Were Liars the week it comes out, I have partnered with two great independent booksellers to get those to you. Order by May 8. Click here for details.
Here's the Australian cover for We Were Liars. Out down under in August from Allen and Unwin.
And in other news, I have been writing on my hands. The characters in We Were Liars do that a lot -- mainly mottos and phrases and ideas they like. Here are two.
What are your mottos? I think you should write them on your hands, take a photo, and tag me on Twitter. Just an idea.
We Were Liars is out in the USA on May 13 and in the UK on May 14. US Tour dates are here. NYC, Rochester, Rheinbeck, Washington DC, Book Expo, various places in MA and CT. Come see me. In New York, lots of fun events with other authors.
May 14, 7pm EST the magic of the internet brings you me and Gayle Forman (whose If I Stay movie comes out this summer!) talking and taking your questions in a video chat thing. Sign up here and you can also get signed books.
That's it for now.
I have been running about doing pre-publication tour stuff for We Were Liars. Here is a fun collection of photos from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which includes loads of your favorite authors and a selfie of me and Rainbow Rowell, with picture book author Tad Hills totally photo-bombing us.
And here is an article I wrote for the LA Times to publish during the festival. It's about howI came to write for young adults from grad school in Victorian literature. And they made a fun sketch of me. It's from an old PR photo though. My hair is shorter now.
Look! You can make a pinword re-bloggable thingummy. The We Were Liars site now has an app — you put up a photo, add text, add a Beechwood Island filter and then it is super good-looking and you can blog and reblog and pin and Instagram it. Here is my first one:
Ideas: confess your LIES, proclaim your TRUTHS, share your MOTTOS (there are a lot of mottos in the book), pull QUOTES you love, pose IMPORTANT LIFE QUESTIONS.
Go here to make them.
UK folks, you can pre-order We Were Liars at Waterstones. Here is the sign outside their Arndale shop.
Info on pre-ordering signed, personalized copies from USA bookshops is here.
Nice interview over on Debbi Michiko Florence's website about We Were Liars. And you can enter to win an advance copy!
Hello from a hotel room. I have been traveling a lot! I love room service! When I get home in a few days I have to start my next YA book. I am frightened.
Meanwhile, here is a little news!
Most of my events for We Were Liars (May 13) will be after it publishes, but Seattlites -- a sneak preview plus FUN and EMBARASSING hijinks with other writers.
Feb 27, 2014, me, Robin Wasserman, Adele Griffin and Sarah Mlynowski will read from our new books and from early and embarassing first attempts at fiction. It's at the downtown Seattle Public Library, 6:30 pm. More details here!
The four of us are also doing two panels on Saturday the 29th at the AWP Conference, also in Seattle, so if you're headed to that, come see us.
I just got back from spending 11 days teaching at Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children, low-residency program. To put it simply, there are intensive residencies in July and January, and the rest of the time students write like crazy and send in work to their advisors for critique and guidance. The faculty is very thrilling to be around, for me.
This time, I taught writing workshop with Laura Ruby (Bad Apple, Good Girls, etc) and our guests included: Anita Silvey (who lectured on the history of picture books and middle grade novels), Jane Yolen (who gave our commencement speech), Kate DiCamillo (who talked about her process on The Tiger Rising with Jane Resh Thomas), Geoff Herbach (who talked about his theories of primal emotions and how they drive stories) and Vaunda Micheaux Nelson (who talked about her development process on No Crystal Stair).
Pretty awesome. Plus our usual faculty who are listed here on the MFAC website. We spent a lot of time talking about picture books this season, and a lot of time talking about writing cultural difference -- sharing LGBTQ book lists, POC fantasy novel booklists, and more.
Anyway, the Hamline MFAC now has a Tumblr, which is unofficial but supercalifragilistic. It is run by faculty member and NBA long-lister Anne Ursu, and if you have interest in children's and YA books generally, it's a good one to follow (it's not centered on Hamline stuff, but on stuff we talk about at Hamline, if that makes sense.) Here it is.
TUMBLR and more TUMBLR
So not only do I recommend THAT Tumblr, but I want you to know I got ACTUAL TUMBLR lessons from Rachel Fershleiser, who works there and does all their cool book stuff -- and she explained it all to me! Though I haven't figured out totally how to work it, I am getting much better and you should come and follow me because I will be there and on Twitter much more than on this blog.
Also, of course, the We Were Liars Tumblr is dead sexy (made by the folks at Random House) and it has pins and maps and all that juicy stuff connected to the book.
Just launched: the We Were Liars Tumblr. #wewereliars
So pretty, right? I can gush because Ihad nothing to do with it. The folks at Penguin Random House made it. The only thing I supplied was the book, and they just went to town.
They made loads of pinnable and rebloggable images with quotes from the book -- which are also fun teasers as to the plot.Which is under wraps. The book comes out in May.
What else is on the Tumblr?
A map of the island -- Beechwood Island -- where most of the story takes place. (Scroll down)
A family tree of the beautiful Sinclair family. (Scroll down further.)
The chance to read the opening chapters. Or read reviews (including fun quotes from Maureen Johnson, John Green, Sarah Dessen, Scott Westerfeld, Shannon Hale, etc, plus loads of your favorite book reviewers and librarians).
Opportunity to pre-order the book. Or request an ARC while supplies last.
Anyhow, I hope you all will spread the word and follow the Tumblr and repost the pretty pins if you like them.
Hello! Here's a clip of me reading the opening of We Were Liars, which comes out in May 2014 -- at the Random House Librarian Preview.
Apparetly at least four members of the staff at Avid Bookshop in GA read an early copy of We Were Liars (May 2014) - and you can read their responses here.
And: The National Book Awards are on November 20. Follow on Twitter. I think the hashtag will be #nbaward but I'm not sure. I will post photos and give you the inside scoop when I can.
Hope you had a good Halloween. I was a monarch butterfly. Someone stole our pumpkin AND the bowl of candy we left out for neighborhood kids. I saw a man with a beard dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. I ate all the Butterfingers nobody else wanted.Business as usual for All Hallows Eve in NYC.
Today (Nov 1) was the cover reveal on the Entertainment Weekly website for my upcoming book, WE WERE LIARS. It was an exclusive, which means no one was allowed to see the cover until today -- or the juicy John Green quotation at the top of the shiny beautiful jacket. Here it is! You also get a hint of the plot, which is highly under wraps.
This is one of the nicest things an author could ever see and read. Ruby Oliver book manicures. At the Bookish Manicurist.
I have a book coming out in May. It is called WE WERE LIARS. There will be a fancy pants cover REVEAL on Entertainment Weekly's website on November 1, and advance reader copies (ARCs) will be mailed out after that -- but before then my publisher had me sign about 100 manuscripts which were sent to top secret recipients.
Okay, they're not top secret. I just don't know who they were. So if you were one of them, tweet me and let me know!
If you want to know more about We Were Liars, I answered questions on Twitter the other night so there are some clues there. Search hashtag #wewereliars and you can read the conversation.
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Hannah Moskowitz: Teeth
Robin Wasserman: The Book of Blood and Shadow
Gayle Forman: If I Stay
Rachel Cohn: Gingerbread
David Levithan: Two Boys Kissing
Lauren Myracle: Shine
Sarah Mlynowski: Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have)
Bennett Madison: September Girls
Gene Luen Yang: American Born Chinese
Tom McNeal: Far Far Away
Rainbow Rowell: Eleanor & Park
Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Verity
Andrew Smith: Grasshopper Jungle
John Green: Paper Towns
Libba Bray: Beauty Queens
Holly Black: White Cat (Curse Workers)
Melina Marchetta: Jellicoe Road
Frank Portman: King Dork
Scott Westerfeld: Peeps
Maureen Johnson: Devilish
Gabrielle Zevin: Elsewhere
Cecil Castelluci: Boy Proof
David Levithan: Boy Meets Boy
Pete Hautman: Mr. Was
M.T. Anderson: Thirsty
Jaclyn Moriarty: The Year Of Secret Assignments
Francesca Lia Block: Weetzie Bat
Annette Curtis Klause: Blood and Chocolate
Louise Rennison: Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Megan McCafferty: Sloppy Firsts


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Pittsburgh leads 4-1
Game 1: Tuesday, January 29th | ||
Islanders | 4 | Final |
Penguins | 1 | |
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Game 2: Tuesday, February 5th | ||
Penguins | 4 | Final |
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Game 3: Sunday, March 10th | ||
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Game 4: Friday, March 22nd | ||
Penguins | 4 | Final |
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Islanders | 0 | Final |
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Coverage: NBCSN
7:30 PM ET, January 29, 2013
CONSOL Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Points | Goals | Assists | |
NYI | J Tavares 47 | J Tavares 28 | F Nielsen 23 |
PIT | S Crosby 56 | C Kunitz 22 | S Crosby 41 |
M. Moulson (Islanders - LW): Goals: 1, Assists: 1
E. Nabokov (Islanders - G): Saves: 37, Save Pct.: .974
M. Grabner (Islanders - RW): Goals: 1, Assists: 0
PITTSBURGH -- The New York Islanders are done playing pushovers for the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Matt Moulson scored a goal and assisted on another, Evgeni Nabokov stopped 37 shots, and the Islanders dominated listless Pittsburgh 4-1 on Tuesday night.
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John Tavares scored for the second straight game for New York while Michael Grabner collected his fourth goal of the season and Casey Cizikas found the net for the first time in his career.
"I don't consider any win easy but we came out and played the game we wanted to play, and I think we didn't make the game easy for them," Tavares said.
The Islanders have won three straight against the Penguins dating back to last season, their longest winning streak in the series in more than five years.
Two of those victories have come on the road, something New York hadn't done in Pittsburgh since 2002.
While the Islanders aren't getting too far ahead of themselves just six games into the season, the way they dominated a team considered a Stanley Cup favorite is a welcome confidence boost following a late collapse in a loss to Winnipeg on Sunday.
"I'm sure nobody gave us much of a chance against a really good hockey team, but you know what I thought systematically we were a little more structured, over the last game for sure," coach Jack Capuano said. "We were a little more sound in a lot of areas tonight."
Pascal Dupuis scored with just more than a minute remaining to avoid the shutout but it wasn't nearly enough to keep the Penguins from losing for the third time in their past four games.
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 13 shots before being pulled after the second period. Fleury and backup Tomas Vokoun received little help from Pittsburgh's defense. The Penguins gave it away 11 times, with two of the turnovers leading to New York goals.
"I'm not sure if we're pressing early, and then it doesn't happen and you get away from things," Pittsburgh center Sidney Crosby said. "As you see tonight, we get a couple bad bounces, ended up down early and seems like we let that frustration kind of get to us."
The Penguins had scored first in each of their five games this season, but Cizikas gave the Islanders a well-earned early lead by stealing the puck from Paul Martin deep in Pittsburgh's zone, then swooping behind the net and wrapping it around an outstretched Fleury.
The goal served as an exclamation point on a period the Islanders dominated in a place where they rarely win. New York went in a loser in 13 of its previous 14 visits to Pittsburgh, the victory a 5-3 triumph last March that derailed any hopes the Penguins had of catching the New York Rangers for the Atlantic Division title.
Pittsburgh expects to be in the mix again during this truncated 48-game season but has hit an early rough patch that left the largest crowd in the brief history of Consol Energy Center voicing its displeasure following another disjointed effort.
The Penguins were drummed 5-2 by Toronto in the home opener last Wednesday and appeared no sharper six days later against another young, quick team that flustered Pittsburgh with its forechecking.
"We want to be a team that plays with pace and (is) tough to play against, and make teams come out of their own end and play a full 200-foot game," Tavares said. "When we're skating and getting on the forecheck, that's when we're most successful and that's what we've been doing, and I think that was evident tonight."
Not that the Penguins needed any help giving it away.
The Islanders went up 2-0 at 6:46 of the second period when Pittsburgh defenseman Deryk Engelland misplayed a New York clearing attempt at the blue line.
The puck bounced off Engelland's stick and the speedy Grabner pounced, beating two Penguins up the ice, then flicking a wrist shot that deflected off Fleury's glove and into the net.
The goal seemed to briefly energize Pittsburgh, which spent the next five minutes buzzing Nabokov. All the pressure failed to produce a goal, and a pair of power-play tallies by the Islanders late in the period put New York firmly in control.
Tavares wristed a pretty cross-ice pass from Moulson by Fleury to make it 3-0, and Moulson scored less than two minutes later, collecting a long shot off the end boards and stuffing it by a foundering Fleury.
The goaltender actually fell on his rear after the initial shot and failed to get up before Moulson stuffed it by him, a fitting ending to a maddening night.
Nabokov had no such problems. He improved to 10-2 lifetime against Pittsburgh, which went 0-for-3 on the power play, including a fruitless 5 minutes spanning the second and third periods after New York's Colin McDonald was hit with a boarding penalty and a game misconduct for his hit on Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy.
"We definitely deflated ourselves with the power play," Pittsburgh's James Neal said. "But we've just got to have a better effort all over the ice, 5-on-5 and we just didn't have it tonight."
Game notes
Islanders F Jesse Joensuu is out five to seven weeks after having sports hernia surgery. Joensuu sustained the injury while playing in Europe during the NHL lockout ... Pittsburgh D Matt Niskanen is day to day with a right foot injury ... The Penguins announced earlier Tuesday that Consol Energy Center will host the second USA Hockey All-American Prospects game Sept. 26, 2013. ... The Islanders play at New Jersey on Thursday while the Penguins play in New York against the Rangers.
Game Information
Arena: CONSOL Energy Center Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Referees: Stephen Walkom, Justin St. Pierre Linesmen: Derek Amell, Steve Miller |
Attendance: 18,657 (103.2% full) |
Team Stat Comparison
New York | Pittsburgh | ||
4 | Goals | 1 | |
2 | Power Play Goals | 0 | |
2 | Power Play Opportunities | 3 | |
0 | Shorthanded Goals | 0 | |
5 | Penalties | 3 | |
21 | Penalty Minutes | 6 | |
24 | Shots on Goal | 38 | |
14 | Hits | 20 | |
31 | Faceoffs Won | 41 |
Scoring Summary
1st Period | NYI | PIT | ||
16:01 | Casey Cizikas (1)
Unassisted |
1 | 0 | |
2nd Period | NYI | PIT | ||
6:46 | Michael Grabner (4)
Assists: Mark Streit, Marty Reasoner |
2 | 0 | |
15:22 | John Tavares (2)
(Power Play) Assists: Matt Moulson, Frans Nielsen |
3 | 0 | |
17:15 | Matt Moulson (4)
(Power Play) Assists: Brad Boyes, Frans Nielsen |
4 | 0 | |
3rd Period | NYI | PIT | ||
18:51 | Pascal Dupuis (2)
Assists: Chris Kunitz, Sidney Crosby |
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"You Want More Time Off?" – Dealing with Employees' Medical Leave Requests Under the FMLA and ADA
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In Weaving v. City of Hillsboro, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit waxed nostalgic by reversing a jury and lower court finding that a police officer with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) had a...more
We are all familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA prohibits discrimination based upon actual or perceived medical disabilities, and the ADA requires employers to accommodate employees with disabilities...more
Human resource professionals occasionally receive requests from employees to take FMLA leave to care for an adult son or daughter with an alleged serious health condition. Some of the most frequent requests involve FMLA time...more
A recent decision from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an impairment or injury is not excluded as a disability simply because it is temporary. In deciding Summers...more
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Once a conditional offer of employment is given, the Americans with Disabilities Act permits employers to require a pre-hire medical exam as a final condition of employment. If the exam reveals medical issues that would...more
On July 14, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released enforcement guidance on pregnancy discrimination and related issues, its first comprehensive update in 30 years. The guidance covers the...more
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Le Youth Connects Biggie to Figgy in Smooth 'Summer Nights' Mixtape
L.A. producer revels in '90s house and melismatic R&B
Who is Le Youth? "It's complicated," reads the producer's two-word Twitter bio. Los Angeles' Wes James has retained a relatively enigmatic personal existence since his Cassie-sampling disco-kissed dream of a single "C O O L" began making the rounds, but his profile as an artist is rising fast. And when it comes to his sound, the appeal is quite simple, really. Le Youth's interest lies in the intersection of two concurrent scenes that rarely actually touched one another while they were active: Clinton-era American R&B and '90s house from around the globe — a bit of historical revisionism that has Brandy sittin' up in her room at the Pacha in Ibiza. The end result is nostalgic, breezy, blissful, and swooning. In other words, his sound is perfect for Summer Nights. That also happens to be the name of the exclusive mixtape Le Youth has concocted for SPIN to help us properly embrace the sunniest of seasons. Check the playlist below the stream, and later take a trip through the C O O L EP. Dates forthcoming in San Francisco (July 18, Rickshaw Stop) and Miami (August 8, Bardot).
Le Youth, Summer Nights playlist:
Big Pun - "Still Not a Player (Le Youth Edit)"
Le Youth - "C O O L"
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The oyster reefs will by far be the best and most cost-effective solution with regard to preventing. Not only will they provide speed bumps to slow down and weaken storms, and clean up the water as well, they will bring back a part of the area's heritage: Oysters!
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The whole PR strategy for BP has been to keep the oil off the shore, so people like TIME's Michael Grunwald would bail them out with articles about how the disaster isn't all that bad. But just because we can't see the insides of the organisms in the food chain, that doesn't mean their intake of oil and other chemicals isn't devastating for the ecosystem and for the industries which rely on the marine food chain.
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The single biggest reason that Long Island can be mistaken for heaven on Earth is the beaches. From the boardwalks of Coney Island and Rockaway, past the world class resort quality of Jones Beach, passing through my personal fave's Tobay and Gilgo beaches, all the way to the Hamptons, Long Island beaches are central to our way of life. We have a thriving fishing industry and our oysters, from Blue Point on the south shore and Oyster Bay on the north shore, are legendary.
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Conferences - November 13, 2014
Experts Forum: Assessing Links Between Peacebuilding and Organized Crime
Organized crime and peacebuilding can be seen as separate issues, but recent research and practice suggest the two are deeply linked—conflict is increasingly fueling crime, and crime in turn makes peace harder to achieve.
Panel Discussions - December 01, 2013
How to Cope With Organized Crime
Organized crime has evolved dramatically over the past decades, and there are insufficient tools and training to enable members of peace operations to properly assess and respond to these threats. To address this shortcoming, IPI developed and implemented a two-week pilot course—the first of its kind—on how to cope with organized crime as a spoiler for lasting peace.
Panel Discussions - November 04, 2013
Assembling a Crime-fighting Toolbox for Peace Operations
On November 4-5, IPI, together with the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), organized an expert seminar in Berlin to improve the capacity of peace operations to respond to the threat posed by organized crime.
Panel Discussions - October 10, 2012
Lt. Col. Teo: Piracy is Spreading
Modern piracy has grown from petty theft to hijacking and kidnapping and ransoming of the crew, and it has also diversified geographically, from attention-getting attacks off the Horn of Africa to large-scale thefts in Southeast Asia and complex operations in the Gulf of Guinea.
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Understanding Organized Crime
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's top prosecutor says federal and state police officers have rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being held against their will at a filthy group home in the western state of Michoacan.
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam says police also rescued 138 adults on Tuesday from the Great Family group home in the city of Zamora.
Murillo Karam says the group home residents were kept in deplorable conditions, fed rotten food and made to sleep on the floor among rats, ticks and fleas.
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Statement From The Wakefield Board Of Directors
BOTH the League Express and Rugby Leaguer newspapers have run articles over recent weeks in which the sale of Belle Vue has been brought into question and in particular the Chairman of the Club has been criticised for his involvement.
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Foreign direct investment in China rebounds by 5.3% in 2013
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BEIJING (AFP) - Overseas investment into China rose 5.3 per cent last year, official data showed on Thursday, bouncing back after declining in 2012 for the first time in three years.
Foreign direct investment (FDI), which excludes financial sectors, totalled US$117.59 billion (S$150 billion) last year, the commerce ministry said.
The figure is up from the US$111.72 billion posted in 2012, when it skidded 3.7 per cent in the face of economic weakness in developed markets and a growth slowdown at home.
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This is a basic introduction/primer for the Japanese animation/manga series titled Kuroshitsuji, also called Black Butler. If you are new to the series, unfamiliar with it or interested in getting involved with the series, this should help you understand what the series is about, a little about the characters and what material you might have questions about within the series.
This summary was last updated on March 16th, 2012.
About Kuroshitsuji
Kuroshitsuji, called Black Butler when referring to the American dub (and print/translation of the manga), is a Japanese animation series aimed towards an older teen and adult audience. The manga was started in 2006, serialized as an anime in 2008. The author of the manga is Yana Toboso. Currently, the series has 66 chapters, 2 anime series/seasons, 6 OVAs, and 2 musicals.
While Kuroshitsuji is considered a shounen manga/anime, the majority of the audience is female.
Ratings vary depending on which form of Kuroshitsuji you are looking at. The manga varies between a G rating and a fairly solid R. The first season of the anime hovers fairly steadily around PG-13. The second series of the anime is often considered highly offensive, and can generally be rated between PG-13 and R. The series is not recommended for viewers under the age of 16, and is generally recommended for the over-18 crowd. The manga can be read by a slightly younger audience, though I wouldn't recommend it to anyone under 14.
The reasons for the ratings tend to be violence, sexuality, religious themes and mentions of rape and torture. Sexual themes are more prevalent in the anime than they are in the manga. Violence is more prevalent, and graphic, in the manga. Pedophilia is also a subject that is touched on more than once and should be considered when viewing or reading the series. Please note, the series does not encourage pedophilia.
Genre-wise, Kuroshitsuji is considered a black comedy. It mixes very dark undertones with generous amounts of humor, letting people enjoy the lighter side of life while reminding them that death is ever-present. On-going themes in the series include friendship, defying fate and the reality that, sometimes, hope is meaningless. The series is also considered a tragedy, as readers are told from the very beginning that the main character will die and is working actively towards his own destruction.
What is the story about?
In the year 1885, the Earl Phantomhive and his wife were murdered. Their entire way of life was utterly destroyed along with their mansion.
In the attack, their only child, 10-year-old Ciel Phantomhive, was kidnapped and sold as little more than meat on the black market. He was purchased by an occult group. Then, was beaten, tortured, raped and finally murdered as they offered him up as a sacrifice to a dark creature that they called the Noble Beast.
At the moment that he was murdered, Ciel summoned a demon. The demon offered him a bargain. The demon would help Ciel to achieve revenge against the people who destroyed his family. When that revenge was complete, the demon would devour Ciel's soul. Ciel agreed. After being given the name Sebastian Michaelis, the demon began to serve as his butler.
Three years later, Ciel is the new Earl Phantomhive. He leads a busy life. With Sebastian at his side, he works for Queen Victoria as the Queen's Guard Dog. Working in the shadows of the British government, he resolves sticky situations that could dirty the royal family's reputation. He also oversees his massively popular toy company, Funtom Company, and deals with his own problems all while working towards the one thing that will seal his fate forever
While the various forms of Kuroshitsuji have their own plots, they all follow this basic background. In general, Kuroshitsuji consists of a series of chronological sub-plots, usually involving Ciel's investigations of things for Queen Victoria. These sub-plots range from saving friends (and making new ones) to exploring the dark realities behind the incidents that lead to the death of Ciel's parents, Vincent and Rachel Phantomhive. Since the story varies so widely for Kuroshitsuji, it is a difficult series to summarize. Your best bet is to try reading a few chapters of the manga (I recommend at least the first 12) or watching a few episodes of the first anime series (at least to episode 4) to decide whether or not the series is for you. With the anime, do not judge from the first episode - it was produced as a stand-alone, and does not connect well with the rest of the series.
Meet the Cast
Here are a few of the characters for the series that you will need to know about:
Earl Ciel Phantomhive
Ciel is the main character of the series. A 13-year-old British earl, he is the last surviving member of a family of dark nobles who serve Queen Victoria by eliminating threats to the Crown. When he was 10, he entered into a contract with his demon butler, Sebastian Michaelis, and now continues his family legacy as he searches for revenge.
Sebastian Michaelis
Sebastian Michaelis is simply one hell of a butler. In other words, he is a demon who is posing as a butler. After entering into a contract of service with Ciel Phantomhive, Sebastian serves as Ciel's servant while helping his master to work towards the eventual goal of revenge. He is a very faithful servant, if a little devious, that will help the earl to achieve his goals... until the day he devour's the boy's soul.
Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Middleford
Lizzy is the bouncing, shiny, very happy and very cute presence that manages to annoy both viewers and characters alike. She is the 14-year-old daughter of Ciel's Aunt Frances. She is also Ciel's fiancee through an arranged marriage. Her goal in life is to make Ciel smile the way he did before his parents were murdered. Also, she delights in covering everything in pink and making it cute.
The Phantomhive Servants
MeyRin, Bard and Finny (along with Tanaka, not pictured) are the other servants that serve Ciel Phantomhive. Friendly, helpful and a little bit out of the ordinary, they work to make sure that their young master's life is as easy and uneventful as possible. And, if trouble does happen to brew, they can take care of it just as any servant of the Phantomhive family should be able to.
The Shinigami Dispatch Association (also called the Shinigami Death Society, Shinigami Haken Kyoukai and Shinigami Death Dispatch)
Death is good business in Kuroshitsuji. Shinigami, or grim reapers, are employed by the Shinigami Dispatch Association and control what happens to souls after they die. Due to the nature of their work, they often run into Sebastian and Ciel while master and servant are out and about. (Pictured, from left to right are Ronald Knox, Eric Slingby, Alan Humphries, Grell Sutcliff and William T. Spears)
The Undertaker
Creepy and perhaps a little off-kilter, the Undertaker is a good source of information when it comes to corpses, death and murder. His information comes at a price, however, and he's always up for a good laugh.
Fred Abberline
A young and up-coming detective for Scotland Yard, Fred Abberline is often sent in to investigate many of the same cases that Ciel looks into. His good-natured, naive outlook on life is an endearing contrast to the sometimes ruthless motivations of the people around him.
Can I read Kuroshitsuji online?
Yes. Yes, you can. Go here: www.mangareader.net/102/kurosh…
What is the best way to get into the series?
My personal recommendation is to watch the first season of the anime and then read the manga when you have finished. People who read the manga first sometimes have trouble stomaching the anime (which changes many of the character's personalities). I generally advise against watching the second series/season of Kuroshitsuji all together, as it does not fit with the rest of the canon and is, quite frankly, bizarre.
Is Kuroshitsuji a yaoi/shounen-ai series?
Yaoi/shounen-ai/boys love refers to series that focus on male characters who are gay, contain large amounts of gay content or have a romantic plot involving a male gay pair. Kuroshitsuji is not a yaoi or shounen-ai series. That being said, it has very strong shounen-ai undertones and is very suggestive. The series does have canonically gay characters and at least three canonically gay pairings that show up with prominence. There is also quite a bit of cross-dressing, and one of the characters is a man who wants to be a woman. This series is definitely not suited to anyone who is homophobic.
Is Kuroshitsuji a religiously offensive series?
While one of the main characters in Kuroshitsuji is a demon, the series does not follow any particular given dogma or religion and is not generally considered religiously offensive. The manga contains practically no religious content at all, only stating that Sebastian is a demon and never detailing anything of his past, species or origins beyond that. The first anime series includes an angel and occasional talk of God. One of the musicals contains several references to a shinigami who forsook the name of God and will burn in Hell. That being said, do keep in mind that the series is about a 13-year-old boy who sold his soul to a demon.
Does the Kuroshitsuji anime follow the plot of the manga?
No, it does not. Parts of the anime are taken from the manga (both series contain the Jack the Ripper and Curry Bread arcs), but most of the anime is completely separate from, and occasionally disagrees with, the manga.
Does Kuroshitsuji contain pedophilia or sexual content relating to boys under the age of 17?
There is no good short answer to this. However, I will have to say that, yes, Kuroshitsuji does contain pedophilia. Many of these overtones can be overlooked. Some are not evident at first glance, anyway. However, there is no way to deny that the theme is present. Pedophilia is not presented in a positive light in most scenarios. That being said, it should be noted that the Sebastian/Ciel pairing is at least vaguely canon, and many fans believe it to be completely canon.
A running gag in the series is the fact that Ciel is repeatedly kidnapped. More than once, it is made quite clear that he was kidnapped by perverts for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with money. At least one very suggestive scene involving Ciel is shown in the series, both in the anime and the manga, even if it is not what it looks like. In the second series of the anime, one of the teen boys is shown as having been raped by a man and willingly sleeping with people. A fairly large percentage of the characters in the series show some sort of sexual or romantic interest in one or more characters under the age of 15. Needless to say, this can be offensive.
Will there be a third season of Kuroshitsuji?
I cannot predict the future, but at the present time there have been no announcements regarding a third season of Kuroshitsuji. The second series/season bombed rather badly and I find a third season unlikely.
Can I watch the musicals subtitled online?
I have been told that the first musical was subtitled by someone (who must have been very bored), but I am unaware of where it may be available. If you want to watch one of the musicals, watch the second musical. It has a much better cast, an excellent storyline and unforgettable characters. You can find links to a raw copy on the BlackButler.Net forums or watch the subtitled version on YouTube. A word of warning: the subtitles on YouTube are very inaccurate.


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Patricia Anne "Patty" Maloney (born March 17, 1936) is an American actress with dwarfism.[1]
She was born in Perkinsville, New York. She stands 3 feet 11 inches (119 cm) and weighs 60 pounds (27 kg). Maloney is best known as Honk from Far Out Space Nuts, as Lumpy from Star Wars Holiday Special, and as Darla Hood from the animated TV series version of The Little Rascals.
Maloney began her show business career at age 3, performing on Broadway.
She was often a guest on the 1970s variety series Donny & Marie, and portrayed the robot waitress Tina in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Cruise Ship to the Stars".
Since 1982, she has also been an animation voice actor, worked on the Monopoly game show pilot, and even operated the Crypt Keeper puppet on Tales from the Crypt. Maloney appeared in Ernest Saves Christmas with California native Buddy Douglas as Santa's two elves. In 2011, she appeared as herself in Hanlet: Episode 4½ – Attack of the Phantom Special, an independent documentary film about the making of Star Wars Holiday Special.


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A woman confesses (on video) to stabbing her mother – blames satanic cult
Posted by: admin in Crime, True Life, VideosKatie Nichols, an unstable woman from Knoxville, Tennessee, confessed to the attempted murder of her mother. The entire confession was caught on video by a local news crew - Nichols claims that she was defending herself against a satanic cult of which her mom is the ring leader.
"I had to kill her – she was going to kill both of us. She was so powerful, I had no idea – I had no idea that my mother was that powerful," said Nichols.
She stuffed a sock in her mom's mouth and attempted to tie her up. She then strangled her until she lost consciousness, and then proceeded to stab her in the neck, chest and stomach using scissors and two knives.
Nichols is currently being held in the Knox County Jail on charges of attempted first degree murder and aggravated kidnapping.


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Category: 'Carnival and Special Series'
Calling for Submissions for the September Carnival of Natural Parenting: Home Tour
Calling for submissions for the September 2014 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Home Tour We continue to be delighted with the inspiration and wisdom our Carnival of Natural Parenting participants share, and we hope you'll join us for the next carnival in September 2014! (Check out August, July, June, May, April,…
Carnival of Natural Parenting 2013 Year in Review
A complete list of all of our 2013 Carnival of Natural Parenting participants, as well as my favorite posts from each month.
Consciously Creating My Community: Monthly Dinners
How have you intentionally created community? My goal for the year is to cultivate community. One way I've done that is to help organize two different monthly dinners with friends.
August 2014 Carnival of Natural Parenting Call for Submissions – Friends
We continue to be delighted with the inspiration and wisdom our Carnival of Natural Parenting participants share, and we hope you'll join us for the next carnival in August 2014!(Check out July, June, May, April, March, February, January 2014, December 2013, November, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March,…
The Many Benefits of Camping with Friends
Camping with kids, particularly kids preschool-age and younger, can be challenging. You have to keep an eye on kids out in unfamiliar surroundings, all while taking care of camp needs. Pitching a tent? No problem! Pitching a tent with a toddler intent on "helping"? A little bit harder.
- Calling for Submissions for the March 2015 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Day in the Life
- Name It to Tame It
- Distinguishing Between "Can't" and "Won't"
- Every Child Has a Story
- What's the Point of Discipline? Three Questions to Ask Before Reacting to Misbehavior
Forced Weaning Due to Pregnancy
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The Effects of Circumcision on Newborn Boys
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101 Things To Do Instead of Yelling or Spanking
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Kardashian's Call to Cover Up
83 Comments
- Giveaway: Glee Gum Make Your Own Chewing Gum, Chocolate, and Gummies Kits: A $42 Value {US, 3.31}
- Giveaway: One Year of Access to DreamBox Learning $120 {US; 3.31}
- Children and Creativity
- Giveaway: One Year of Piano Lessons with LearnPianoLive.com $300 ARV {US; 3.31}
- Natural Parents Network's 2nd Annual Holiday Gift Guide & Giveaway! {12/6, 26 winners, US, ARV $2,587}
- Giveaway: Silk Rainbow from Nova Natural and NPN Holiday Gift Guide – $99 ARV
- Giveaway: Totter Tower from UncommonGoods and NPN Holiday Gift Guide – $50 ARV
- Giveaway: OgoBild Hub from UncommonGoods and NPN Holiday Gift Guide – $20 ARV
- Giveaway: On the Farm Game from Ravensburger and NPN Holiday Gift Guide – $21 ARV
- Giveaway: Make 'n Break Junior Game from Ravensburger and NPN Holiday Gift Guide – $25 ARV
- 60 Acts of Kindness for Our Families – A Guest Post at Natural Parents Network
- Help Give Mothers a Voice!
- 33 Reasons to Grow Bee Balm, Lavender, and Basil: A Post on Natural Parents Network
- 5 Buzzworthy Natural Insect Repellent Ideas – A Guest Post at Hybrid Rasta Mama
- Little Children Are the Most Harmed by the Stress of Spanking


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