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The designers of the luxury suites at the new Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Prince George's County, Md., decided to design rooms around bold, modern rugs so arresting that guests would remember them and mention them to their friends.
They found just what they were looking for at the Connecticut studio of Emma Gardner, a rug designer whose inventive designs and vibrant colors have been featured in the pages of Elle Decor and Dwell magazines and at stylish restaurants and boutique hotels. This month, when the 2,000-room hotel opens at the National Harbor development, Gardner's hand-woven rugs will have a starring role in three of the suites.
"Her rugs are so new and fresh and hip, they were perfect for these very bold, one-of-a-kind suites," says Foreman Rogers, one of the designers who worked on the eight "concept" suites. Gardner says her design philosophy is simple: Stay away from trends and go with your own creative impulses. "I just design what I'm passionate about," she says.
A rug can function as a backdrop for a room or step forward almost like a painting, says Gardner, 41, who has long been drawn to color and decoration. Although not formally trained as an artist while growing up in Japan, Connecticut and New York City, she always had a creative impulse, she says. "Even when I was drawing princesses, I was more interested in the patterns on their dresses than anything else."
She took classes in painting, drawing and textile design while pursuing a career as an editor of several online magazines for Conde Nast and iVillage.com. In 2002, she and her husband, Patrick McDarrah, who worked in international film sales and distribution, found themselves between jobs and decided to sell their apartment in Brooklyn and move to Litchfield, Conn., to pursue Emma's dream of designing rugs. They hooked up with Rugmark Foundation, a global nonprofit group, to find mills that pledge not to use child labor. Gardner's Tibetan-style hand-knotted rugs of silk or wool are produced in Nepal; Indian mills produce the hand-tufted designs of New Zealand wool.After launching Emma Gardner Design, the young couple and their 14-month-old daughter set off on a cross-country tour in a Subaru with a roof rack packed with sample rug designs. Six weeks later, Emma Gardner rugs had representation in to-the-trade showrooms in eight major American markets.
"We had this attitude: Things just would fall into place," Gardner says. "It was amazing."
The motifs in Gardner's work reflect her interests in Asian art, travel and patterns from nature, from rubber-tree leaves to bones. She is also known for her unique color combinations: One version of her Curio design features chocolate, red, spicy orange, gray and butter rectangles; Flowers on Water layers giant periwinkle and violet flowers on a charcoal background.
She creates three to five designs a year and, in addition to rugs, she designs alpaca and wool throws made in Peru, as well as pillows. Gardner's line is sold to the design trade through showrooms such as Arbiter at the Washington Design Center and through a handful of design shops. Prices range from $50 to $150 per square foot, $2,700 to $8,100 for a 6-by-9-foot rug.
We caught up with her by telephone at her office in Connecticut.
Q. Some say if you have no idea where to begin decorating a room, start with the rug. Do you think that is good advice?
A. More and more people are using rugs as a foundation piece, as opposed to an accessory. There is a strong case to be made for that.
Generally speaking, people fall in love with a rug -- the color or the design -- so that kind of passion is a good place to start. If you choose one thing you love, it can serve as the anchor for the room. Then you can be more neutral with your furniture.
Q. What's the difference between decorating around traditional Oriental rugs vs. contemporary designs?
A. My advice would be the same for both kinds of rugs: Go with what you love. You should work with the colors in the rugs to create the room. You can mix both kinds of rugs in a house, not ONLY Orientals or ONLY contemporary.
Q. What's the best way to arrange furniture: on an area rug or around it?
A. It depends how you want the room to feel. Sometimes a large rug with furniture half on and half off can unify the room. It's as if everything is floating on an island together. This approach may give the room a cozier feel. Some people are loathe to cover up any of the rug: They use glass-top coffee tables and put furniture only up to the edge of the rug. They are making a statement that this is the focal point of the room.
Q. Can you explain the importance of knot count in determining rug quality?
A. We generally do 80 or 100 knots per square inch. You can do up to 150. The higher the knot count, the thinner the ply of the material, whether silk or wool. With a higher knot count, you can render designs more crisply. The lower the knot count, the chunkier the design turns out to be and the chunkier the feel underfoot, because you usually do a higher pile height with a lower count.


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Life Savers!
Trip Start
Aug 14, 2012
Trip End
Oct 25, 2012
Where I stayed
Chris and Emily's Abode (amazing couch surfing hosts)
What I did
Ruby's House
Mellow Mushroom
Galivants Ferry
We did not feel safe riding on the road, Hwy 501, so we opted to walk instead. We dragged our 80 pound bikes through the knee high grass along the highway for 7 miles in 90 degree heat. We arrived at a small establishment called Galivants Ferry where we rested. We feasted like royalty on gas station food. Peanut butter and honey sandwiches with a side of potato chips and french onion dip. We were surprised to find Aunt Jemima honey, but it tasted good so we had 2 sandwiches each. Discovered shortly afterwards that Aunt Jemima does not make honey. Yup, we ate peanut butter and syrup sandwiches.
It was at this gas station that we got into contact with Chris, a CouchSurfing member who was willing to host us for the night. He ended up driving out to Galivants Ferry to rescue us from 501. He and his fianc�, Emily, allowed us to use their shower and stay with them for the night. We got a tour of Florence, learned a bit of the history, and met some of their friends. It was the perfect end to a stressful day.
They told us that the rest of the roads in South Carolina were just as treacherous for bikers as 501. They also told us that they were planning on driving to an art fest in Charlotte in the morning and that we were welcome to hitch a ride. Having heard about the roads, we gladly accepted the generous offer. We are currently driving to Charlotte, and are having a blast.
We are so thankful for the hospitality that Chris and Emily have shown us. When we asked how to repay them, we were told "That's just how we do it. Pay it forward." How neat is that? We plan to, thank you so much!
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Want to find out how happy you are and how you measure up compared to others? In the first part of my six-part happiness series, I mentioned an Oxford happiness test. I also included some pointers to achieving happiness from Ryan Howell, an associate professor of psychology at San Francisco State University.
Well, Howell emailed me over the weekend. He suggests a website called Beyond the Purchase, which allows people individuals all over the ... Read More …
As the TED conference winds up its long run as a California institution and prepares to move to Vancouver, it threw out a host of new ideas and innovations that could help make the world a better place.
Here's a look at a dozen ideas that have come from the talks.
1. Self-directed education "school in the clouds"
Education research Sugata Mitra's experiments a decade ago exposing children in an Indian slum to computers without ... Read More …
This is the day Canadians Michael Green, Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao give their talks. Green is talking about the climate change benefits that can come from tall wooden skyscrapers. Yao and Wang are talking about how they discovered and cultured bacteria from the Fraser River that have the potential to break down plastics.
Architect Michael Green tells the TED audience he's looking for another "Eiffel Tower moment" in his quest to promote ... Read More …
Live blogging from the TED conference in Long Beach. I'm time-stamping this from newest to oldest.
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TED's livestream portion ends with an electrifying performance by three young Bluegrass musicians, Jonny Mizzone, 10, and his brothers Robbie, 14 and Tommy, 15.
Here they are from their June, 2012 TED Talent search submission.
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Posted on 12 / 16 / 2014I'm vegan and my friend is vegetarian. We usually go to the loving hut on Mira Mesa which is really awesome.
This location is not the same.
Got the special rolls, clay pot, and chow mein.
Very tiny amount on vegetables in these, mostly white tasteless noodles. The claypot was nothing but lumps of soy fish. The mira mesa location brings these with tons of vegetables, eggplant in the clay pot, and awesome flavor, and the dishes have more food on them. This is why it was disappointing and I would not recommend it.
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Woodblock prints were initially used as early as the eighth century in Japan to disseminate texts, especially Buddhist scriptures. The designer and painter Tawaraya Sotatsu (died ca. 1640) used wood stamps in the early seventeenth century to print designs on paper and silk. Until the eighteenth century, however, woodblock printing remained primarily a convenient method of reproducing written texts.
In 1765, new technology made it possible to produce single-sheet prints in a whole range of colors. Printmakers who had heretofore worked in monochrome and painted the colors in by hand, or had printed only a few colors, gradually came to use full polychrome painting to spectacular effect. The first polychrome prints, or nishiki-e, were calendars made on commission for a group of wealthy patrons in Edo, where it was the custom to exchange beautifully designed calendars at the beginning of the year.
Woodblock prints of the Edo period most frequently depicted the seductive courtesans and exciting kabuki actors (JP2822) of the urban pleasure districts. With time, their subject matter expanded to include famous romantic vistas and eventually, in the final years of the nineteenth century, dramatic historical events. These pictures could be made in great quantity and featured popular scenes that appealed in particular to the wealthy townspeople of the period.
Despite the fame of great print masters like Suzuki Harunobu (17251770) and Ando Hiroshige (17971858), each print required the collaboration of four experts: the designer, the engraver, the printer, and the publisher. A print was usually conceived and issued as a commercial venture by the publisher, who was often also a bookseller. It was he who chose the theme and determined the quality of the work. Designers were dependent on the skill and cooperation of their engravers and of the printers charged with executing their ideas in finished form.
A woodblock print image is first designed by the artist on paper and then transferred to a thin, partly transparent paper. Following the lines on the paper, now pasted to a wooden block usually of cherry wood, the carver chisels and cuts to create the original in negativewith the lines and areas to be colored raised in relief. Ink is applied to the surface of the woodblock. Rubbing a round pad over the back of a piece of paper laid over the top of the inked board makes a print.
Polychrome prints were made using a separate carved block for each color, which could number up to twenty. To print with precision using numerous blocks on a single paper sheet, a system of placing two cuts on the edge of each block to serve as alignment guides was employed. Paper made from the inner bark of mulberry trees was favored, as it was strong enough to withstand numerous rubbings on the various woodblocks and sufficiently absorbent to take up the ink and pigments. Reproductions, sometimes numbering in the thousands, could be made until the carvings on the woodblocks became worn.
Department of Asian Art. "Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ukiy/hd_ukiy.htm (October 2003)
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The Economic Impact of a U.S. Slowdown on the Americas |
This paper shows that the U.S.' biggest trading partners in the Americas will likely see a significant loss in exports and GDP as the U.S. economy slows. Countries less reliant on the U.S. market will not be as negatively impacted. |


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Justin Bieber doesn't want to be another cautionary celebrity tale.
TMZ reports that the pop star was rear-ended in West Hollywood on Tuesday afternoon while being pursued by a paparazzo.
"There should be laws against what I just experienced. We should have learned from the death of Princess Diana…" he tweeted on Tuesday.
While a bit outrageous to compare himself to the late royal, it is important to note that Diana was killed in 1997 in part because her driver was attempting to outrun photogs.
The first half of his next tweet might be even more controversial. He wrote, "…I don't' have a problem with Paparazzi but when they act recklessly they put us all in danger."
Bieber clearly has a bit of a problem with photographers, considering he's been accused by more than one photographer of allegedly destroying camera equipment.
Just yesterday, it was reported that he's being investigated for attempted robbery after supposedly "lunging at a fan" who was trying to snap a photo of the star.
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Conversi, Daniele (2000) Central secession: towards a new analytical concept? The case of former Yugoslavia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 26 (2). pp. 333-355. ISSN 1369-183X
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Political literature customarily defines secession as a movement developing in the periphery against the centre. This article questions this common assumption by raising the possibility that secession may be propelled by the centre. A working definition of 'central secession' (or 'secessionism by the centre') will be limited to those cases where a powerful nationalist movement operates from within the core or dominant nation(ality). The focus will be on the break-up of Yugoslavia - the disintegration of which was consistently and widely perceived as a conflict of secessionist republics opposed by, and confronted with, a unitary state. A brief geo-political excursus of recent secessionist movements will serve to highlight the singularity of the Yugoslav 'model'. In the case of Serbia, the rhetoric was adamantly unitarian, anti-secessionist, even anti-nationalist. It emphasised the defence of territorial integrity at all costs. In this way, the centre could cast itself as the spotless saviour of the country's integrity versus a 'treacherous' periphery. In fact, the hidden agenda of the regime was ethnic separation - of Serbs from non-Serbs.
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Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JC Political theory D History General and Old World > DR Balkan Peninsula |
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Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2009 15:11 |
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Mush March
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Born | October 18, 1908 Silton, Saskatchewan, CAN |
Died | January 9, 2002 Paxton, Illinois, USA |
(aged 93)
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Weight | 154 lb (70 kg; 11 st 0 lb) |
Position | Right wing |
Played for | Chicago Black Hawks |
Playing career | 1924–1945 |
Harold "Mush" March (18 October 1908 - 9 January 2002) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player that played 17 seasons in the NHL for the Chicago Black Hawks.
March was best known for scoring the game-winning second overtime goal in Game 4 of the 1934 Stanley Cup Finals to win the Stanley Cup for the Chicago Black Hawks. He was also the first recorded player to win the Stanley Cup on an overtime goal.[1] March won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Black Hawks again in 1938. He scored the very first goal in Maple Leaf Gardens on November 12, 1931 and also dropped the very same puck that he used to score the first goal during the ceremonial opening faceoff as part of the final game played at the Gardens. March was the last surviving member of Black Hawks 1934 Stanley Cup team.


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NEXTwork Lunch & LearnSpertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership and NEXT: A Division of Birthright Israel FoundationWednesday, March 13, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (CDT) |
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Make more of your lunch hour with NEXTwork Lunch & Learn on Wednesday, March 13.
Join us and an awesome group of Chicago-based young professionals for our first session, No More Guesswork: Data-Driven Decision Making with presenter Sacha Litman on Wednesday, March 13, 12:00-1:30pm, where you'll learn:
- How to evaluate your program's impact;
- How data can help you determine your organization's capacity;
- What Theory of Change and logic models are, and why they are important;
- How to use metrics, including what to look for and what to avoid; and
- Seven Steps of Data-Driven Decision Making.
Please bring your own brown-bag lunch, beverages and dessert will be provided.
Driving to Spertus?
Head here for directions:
$10 discount parking is available at Hotel Essex (2 blocks south of Spertus at 8th Street and Michigan)
Interested in purchasing a lunch?
Here is a great guide put together by Spertus for area lunch options. http://www.spertus.edu/visit/dining
When & Where
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
610 S Michigan Ave
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM (CDT)
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On Sept. 20, immediate past president of Soroptimist International of Grass Valley Heather Smee-Fosburg accepted congratulations on the completion of her yearlong President's Project — the Barnyard Playroom at the KARE Crisis Nursery. During the unveiling of the bright and beautiful room, Heather thanked Director Lynn Woerner, Woerner's husband Chuck, Dee Dee Brownell, Esther Flynn, Tammy Good and her SIGV colleagues for their hands-on and other support for her project. Lynn Woerner and Smee-Fosburg collaborated to turn a basic living room into an interactive learning environment for the children of KARE.
The most prominent new feature is a barn whose doors open to reveal a large chalkboard ready for all kinds of fun! Over the fireplace is a commemorative painting by Smee-Fosburg's granddaughter-friendly barnyard creatures below the room and club's name. Another highlight of the evening was the dedication of the "cuddle chair" to the memory of SIGV life member Sibley Hansen. The chair has proved to be a huge favorite of staff and children. Soroptimist International of Grass Valley is proud of its role in starting KARE, members serving on the KARE board and contributing to KARE's service to the community.


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Released: Aug 01st, 1985
Running Time: 30
Director: Jerome Tanner
Company: Western Visuals
Critical Rating: AA
Genre: Film
I like watching loop tapes, and this Fantasy Club vignette ranks about average on my peep-show scale. The strange set-up has a man in a safari suit and a fake pet snake, getting it on with a woman so wild, that she has to be chained up like a leopard. Her name is Sheeba, no less. This is after this blonde engages in lesbian sex with an unknown brunette.
In Wild Cat, you end up getting a half-hour of pure sex that includes all kinds of combinations. At times, the sex is raunchy and reminiscent of my early days in the peep booths. Since this series is priced under $20.00, it's not a bad purchase so that you'll have something to show at your next boring lodge meeting.


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title says it all, I'm getting TSB done on the rear (which by the way I had a polaris scrambler in the bed for a two hour drive, my rear leafs look friggin flat!) and want to raise the front about 1.5" (no more) and was wondering if I could get away with using the TRD struts up front, since they are practically brand new
anybody doing this and what did the 883s end up giving you? pics please (if possible)


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Financial Accounting
Author:Belverd E. Needles, Marion Powers
Edition: 9
Pub Date: 2006
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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JEFFERSON CITY — A Missouri state Senator pushing a bill that would eliminate the Medicaid program by 2008 described the health care system Wednesday as spiraling out of control.
Sen. Michael Gibbons, R-Kirkwood, promised to "move boldly forward" with a plan to re-envision the state's Medicaid program and begin again with a "clean slate."
Gibbon's proposal was approved by the Senate on Tuesday night after Republicans broke a Democratic filibuster that stretched for over 17 hours. It was attached as an amendment to the Medicaid cuts backed by Gov. Matt Blunt. The measure would create a commission that will be asked to make recommendations for a completely new system to replace the nearly 40 year old Medicaid program it eliminates.
"I think it's a gross injustice to allow this system to continue," Gibbons said. "This current system fails in everything it's supposed to do."
Medicaid is a joint program between the federal and state government that provides health care for the poor, elderly and disabled.
The budget proposed by Blunt during his first State of the State address earlier this year sought to knock nearly 90,000 people out of the system and eliminate many services for the elderly and disabled. House budget makers have put forward a less severe package. Republicans argue the cuts are unavoidable without raising taxes or cutting education funding because of Missouri's budget shortfall. Estimates have been placed between $600 million and $700 million.
Opponents have called the cuts cruel.
"If they can come up with a plan that's better, great, but anytime you're losing people hurting and suffering the plan can't possibly be better," said Sen. Maida Coleman, D-St. Louis.
Gibbons described Blunt's cuts as "modest" reductions that should be seen as "pretty good news" when compared to those proposed in other states such as Tennessee, where the Democratic governor has suggested eliminating the state's program.
"We're running out of time and we're running out of money," Gibbons said. "To me, cruelty would be letting people think they are safe and then finding out when it collapses."
The Senate bill, which has Blunt's support but must be approved by the House, calls for a 10 person commission made up of legislators from both parties that is advised by the directors of state departments related to health care. The commission will be charged with developing recommendations for lawmakers by Sept. 1 of this year. The General Assembly must then come up with a new program before the old one ends in 2008.
"We cannot tinker around with the system," Gibbons said. "It's impossible to fix it. We have to start fresh."
Democrats have argued the new program should be developed before the old one is eliminated.
"The legislature has been known to put out good legislation, but we are talking about programs that have been around for decades," Coleman said. The Democratic leader expressed concern that only Republican views would be heard by the commission.
Gibbons said he is "very confident" the legislature is up to the task. He said he wants a new system in place by summer 2006, two years before it would have to take over, and promised the commission will welcome all comers.
"We will invite and be open to anybody who has any ideas about how the system should work," Gibbons said. "Regardless of where people are by party, we want to hear from everybody.
"This is not a partisan issue. This is about protecting the vulnerable people in Missouri."
Through the 1990s, Missouri's Medicaid rolls swelled. When the late Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan took office in January 1993, over 510,000 Missourians were enrolled in the system. According to the state's latest estimates, nearly 1 million are covered today. The program's $4.8 billion price tag accounts for more than 28 percent of Missouri's budget.
Although he argued in an editorial earlier this week that too many people are on Medicaid, Gibbons said Wednesday that it was too soon to tell if a new system would mean fewer recipients.
"There's no preconceived notion going into this," Gibbons said. "The hopeful and optimistic thing is that there's no agenda here other than to build a system that works for the people of Missouri."
"We need to be leaders," he said. "When this is all said and done it's my fervent hope that Missouri is a model for the rest of this country on how to deal with the problem."


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We were destined for a statistically perfect final four, pitting the most powerful teams in football according to our all-powerful Quality Stats. Then Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts upset the Denver Broncos Sunday night.
Intelligence Index: Physically Gifted Denver Broncos a Dumb Team
The Denver Broncos remain one of the best teams in football: No. 1 still in our Quality Stats Power Rankings. But they have a critical weakness, and it's all in their heads: the physically gifted Broncos are not a very smart team.
Denver Broncos Beating Up Quality Teams; Have Chance To Rewrite NFL History
Peyton Manning and the Broncos are not only the best team in football, they're a league-best 5-1 vs. Quality Opponents. In fact, Denver has a chance to shatter the all-time NFL record of 10 wins in a season over Quality Teams. It's a record shared by three of the great teams in history.
No Debate: Facts Show Tom Brady Better Than Peyton Manning
For those people devoted to the stats, the data, the truth there is no debate: Tom Brady is better than Peyton Manning. Brady puts up similar stats in tougher conditions, produces more points, wins more consistently and doesn't shit the bed every year in the playoffs.
A Peyton Manning Stat More Amazing than 510 TD Passes
Peyton Manning is now the all-time TD pass leader, throwing four last night to surpass Brett Favre on the NFL career leaderboard. But Manning's TD pass assault looks even more dramatic if we compare him on a per-game basis to the greatest, most prolific passers in the history of the game.
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CHFF oddsmaking analyst Mike Wilkening warms up for the Super Bowl with a game-by-game review of the gambling seasons and results for the NFC champ Seattle Seahawks and AFC champ Denver Broncos.
Super Bowl XLVIII: Broncos-Seahawks The Statistically Perfect Super Bowl
Football is a chaotic, complicated and violent game. Yet it follows simple and definable statistical patterns centered around one single factor: the efficiency of your QB vs. the other guy's QB. And in this case, those patterns tell us that Denver-Seattle is the Statistically Perfect Super Bowl.
Patriots-Broncos: Trends Graphs Show Statistical Mirror Image
The final four teams this year are an amazing 44-2 (.947) when winning the battle of Passer Rating Differential, including a perfect 21-0 by the AFC title contenders. We take a graphical look at the seasons in New England and Denver and found remarkable similarities.
Get Tough Or Die: New England's 17-Minute Moment of Truth
The New England Patriots entered the 2013 season with two choices: Get tough. Or die. They proved their physical fortitude with 6 rushing TDs Saturday against the Colts. They proved their mental toughness during a 17-minute moment of truth against the Broncos in Week 12.
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Booksellers on the East and West coasts are holding screenings for Indies Under Fire: The Battle for the American Bookstore, an award-winning documentary film about the struggles of independent booksellers in Californias Bay Area. Screenings were scheduled in Frostburg, Md., and Berkeley, Calif., and the film has been included in a number of film festivals.
The film won recognition Sept. 30 as Best New England Film, honoring a documentary by a New England filmmaker, as its East Coast premiere at the 2006 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival near Boston.
Distribution of the film, which is available on DVD, is two pronged: First, its represented by Filmmakers Library, a top distributor to libraries and universities, and through self-distribution.
Source: Bookselling This Week
Several managers of Watson-Guptills 80,000-square-foot distribution facility in Lakewood, N.J., which will be vacated by the publisher early next year when Holtzbrinck assumes its distribution, have created a distribution company called Innovative Logistics, according to Judith Rosen in Publishers Weekly.
The company, which is taking over the Watson-Guptill facility, will focus on small- and medium-sized companies and use commission rep groups to sell. Its first client is Prestel Publishing, a former Watson-Guptill client.
Source: Shelf Awareness
Ripplewood Holdings has acquired Readers Digest for $2.4 billion, according to Publishers Weekly. The magazine showed an operational loss of nearly $45 million in 2005.
Source: Publishers Weekly
The newly formed Used Textbook Association advocates the role and value of used textbooks in the marketplace and is working toward a solution to the problem of textbook affordability while providing students with high-quality educational materials.
Barry Major, chief operating officer of the Nebraska Book Company and president of the Used Textbook Association, says, With textbook prices soaring, used textbooks are a viable option to dramatically reduce the cost students and parents are facing. In many cases, buying used textbooks can reduce the cost of a textbook by 75 percent.
Over the next year, the Used Textbook Association will be focused on adding additional bookstores as members; supporting legislation to assist professors in understanding changes in new editions and aiding in the de-coupling of textbook packages; informing faculty of the importance of timely adoptions to create stronger buy-back programs; and launching a proactive campaign to increase the supply of used textbooks.
The Used Textbook Association was formed in August by BUDGEText, MBS Textbook Exchange, Nebraska Book Company, New Jersey Books, Southeastern Book Company, Texas Book Company and Tichenor College Textbook Company. The Association is currently in the initial membership recruitment phase with close to 50 members.
Info: www.usedtextbookassociation.org, or 888-724-3338.
Source: Used Textbook Association
Senator Barack Obamas book, The Audacity of Hope, was featured at Changing Hands Book Store in Tempe, Ariz. Shelf Awareness reported that nearly 2,000 people were turned away from an offsite reading by the senator.
Tickets for the event were $35 and some 1,400 attended.
In other Obama news, Abebooks.com reported that a bookseller on their site was asking $1,698 for a signed first edition of Obamas 1995 title, Dreams from My Father.
The International Digital Publishing Forum announced a step toward streamlining digital distribution with the development of the Open eBook Publication Structure Container Format (OCF), a new standard for digital content creation and distribution that allows publishers to release a single standardized content file to online retailers and distributors.
Nick Bogaty, IDPF executive director, said the new standard has attracted support from all sectors of the publishing industry.
The Association of American Publishers and the IDPF were scheduled to hold a joint meeting Nov. 29 at the AAPs New York office to educate publishers on the use of the new standard. Info: idpf.org.
All 89 Tower stores, which include two Tower Books, are closing for good after Great American Group, a liquidating company, won a bankruptcy court-supervised auction and bought Towers inventory for about $134.3 million, according to the Sacramento Bee. The money will go to Towers creditors, who are owed some $200 million. The going-out-of-business sale will likely take eight to 10 weeks.
At its height a decade ago, Tower had $1 billion a year in sales and owned more than 200 stores around the world. During the companys first bankruptcy two years ago, the Solomon family gave up 85 percent of ownership to bondholders. The company filed for bankruptcy again in August. In its most recent fiscal year, sales were $430 million and were continuing to drop.
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The independent booksellers buying group, led by Tim Walker of Walkers Bookshops and wholesaler THE, is planning the next step of its campaign after ordering more than 35,000 books for Christmas.
Launched this summer with 100 bookshops combining their buying power to negotiate discounts of between 50 percent and 57.5 percent for 30 titles for Christmas, the buying group now comprises more than 130 independents.
Source: Bookseller.com.
The UKs new No. 1 book is Martina Coles Close (Headline), which set a new record for a weekly sale by a hardback fiction titleHarry Potter exceptedwith 37,423 copies shifted, an average of well over 5,000 a day. It was a half-price Book of the Week offer at both WH Smith and Waterstones.
The leading non-fiction title, Peter Kays The Sound of Laughter (Century), was a fraction off claiming the top spot for the first time, with sales of 37,086 copies. The Guinness World Records annual and Lemony Snickets The End (Egmont) also sold in excess of 30,000 copies, while the weeks highest new entry was Liseys Story by Stephen King (Hodder).
Borders opened its first book, music and movie superstore in the Republic of Ireland in the West Dublin suburb of Blanchardstown on Oct. 27.
The new 22,000 square foot Blanchardstown store will feature more than 100,000 book, music, movie and periodical titles and will follow the family-friendly retail park format that has become so popular with customers in Great Britain. The spacious ground floor will display Borders comprehensive range of books, CDs and DVDs, a Paperchase gifts and stationary shop, newspapers and the widest selection magazines in the marketplace.
There will be a strong focus on books written by Irish authorsincluding Irish biography, history, cooking and sports, as well as Irish fiction.
Borders Ireland Ltd. was established in 2006 as a subsidiary of Borders Group, which has more than 1,300 stores worldwide and revenues of $4 billion.
Source: Borders
Penguin is expected to publish Cuban leader Fidel Castros life story. The publisher is promising frank discussion of everything from Castros earliest influences to his relationship with Che Guevara and his thoughts on issues such as the death penalty and homosexuality.
Source: The Book Standard
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, who stood trial this year for insulting his country, won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature in a decision some critics assailed as politically charged.
The Swedish Academy declared Pamuk the winner on a day when, to Turkeys fury, the French lower house of parliament approved a bill making it a crime to deny that the Armenian genocide had occurred.
The 54-year-old Pamuk shot to fame with novels that explore Turkeys complex identity through its rich imperial history.
His most recent work, Istanbul: Memories of a City, intersperses personal reminiscences of childhood and youth with reflections on the citys Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman past.
Pamuk is the first non-American to have won so far in this years Nobels after Americans scooped prizes for medicine, chemistry, physics and economics.
The award comes with a cash prize of approximately $1.4 million. Last years Nobel Prize winner was playwright Harold Pinter.
Source: Reuters, The Book Standard.
Waterstones is to double its television advertising spending this Christmas, as it introduces a new set of animated characters to promote key titles. Gerry Johnson has warned that Christmas 2006 is likely to be even more difficult than last year.
At a presentation to more than 100 publishers in central London on Oct. 16, head of marketing Sandra Adar outlined the chains plans to widen the appeal to lighter book buyers and the gift market.
Waterstones said its TV spending would double this year, with ads for childrens books, half price offers and various offer of the week deals.
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What's that CES magic word we hear? Convergence? Yes, indeed: Sharp's all-new BD series, as the name suggests, features a built-in side-loading Blu-ray player in all fives sets ranging from 32-52 inches.
The sets themselves are all 1080p, with 120Hz on the 52, 46 and 42-inch sets of the series. As you might have guessed, the portliness rating here is about as polar opposite of Sharp's insane Limited Edition LCDs as it gets. The press release is conveniently free of dimensions, but as you can see in our shot, these babies are packing quite a bulge.
But then again, thin's not really the idea. Sharp's banking on a world of folks ready to make the jump to Blu-ray who just so happen to need a new TV? Or maybe they're looking to push over the edge ever-dwindling number of households who still haven't made the leap to an HD set? Either way, this seems a little late, but we shall see. Availability starts rolling out this month for the 32, 37 and 42-inch sets, with the 46 and 52-inchers coming in February.
It also reminds us the combination TV/VCR.
Update: We've got prices: $2599, $2299, $1899, $1299 and $1099 descending according to size.
Full line-up of AQUOS® BD Series Provides All-in-One Home Theater Solution for a Paramount
High-Definition Viewing ExperienceLAS VEGAS, January 7, 2009 – Strengthening its position as an innovative leader in the LCD TV industry, Sharp today introduces the world's first AQUOS® LCD TV Series with a built-in
Blu-ray Disc TM player, for a convenient all-in-one home theater solution. The Full-HD 1080p AQUOS BD series, which includes the 52-inch class (52-1/32" diagonal) LC-52BD80U, 46-inch class (45-63/64" diagonal) LC-46BD80U, 42-inch class (42-1/64" diagonal) LC-42BD80U, 37-inch class (37" diagonal) LC-37BD60U and 32-inch class (31-35/64" diagonal) LC-32BD60U screen class sizes, combines the ultimate high definition television with the ultimate high definition content format with a side-loading multi-slot for Blu-ray, DVD and CD content. The series offers a single-step operation feature that turns on the TV and activates play when a BD disc is inserted. In addition, the BD series features a newly developed Advanced Super View (ASV) Superlucent panel for a dramatically bright and crisp picture with reduced reflection and a new AQUOS Pure Mode for convenient optimized viewing of Blu-ray titles. A new elegant "AQUOS Blue" design includes a subtle blue accent at the bottom of the frame and a swivel stand for viewing convenience.
"We created this series to offer consumers a product that provides the same high-quality, clear picture they've come to expect from a Sharp AQUOS, but with the added convenience of a Blu-ray player for a unique combination solution that allows playback of the latest HD Blu-ray movies," said Bob Scaglione, senior vice president and group manager, Product and Marketing Group, Sharp Electronics Corporation. "This product is a one-stop, stylish home theater and the built-in side-loading Blu-ray slot is also a space-saver for style-conscious consumers, eliminating the need for a separate box and extra cables."Superior Image Quality
To realize the full capability of Blu-ray movies, the AQUOS BD Series offers an excellent picture, with the most advanced imaging technology on the market. Sharp's new ASV Superlucent panel applies an ultra-smooth finish that minimizes gloss while intensifying panel brightness and contrast. The AQUOS Pure Mode automatically senses the Blu-ray disc content and intelligently adjusts display settings such as aspect ratio to optimize the movie image. The LC-52BD80U, LC-46BD80U and LC-42BD80U further improve picture quality with Fine Motion Enhanced technology for 120Hz Frame Rate Conversion, a 10-bit panel for Deep Color compatibility and "dejudder" technology that results in the smooth reproduction of film content. All five models offer fast pixel response time, ensuring that viewers never miss a detail of high-definition content. Additionally, Sharp's proprietary Spectral Contrast Engine provides deep blacks and high contrast ratios. This ultimate home entertainment series also offers impressive 176 degree viewing angles, enabling the color reproduction to appear bright and vivid from virtually anywhere in a room.Extensive Connectivity
These Full-HD 1080p models are very fully featured, with four HDMI inputs on the LC-52BD80U, LC-46BD80U and LC-42BD80U and three on the LC-37BD60U and LC-32BD60U, as well as two component video inputs, all of which are 1080p compatible. The HDMI terminals all have 24p input capability for high-quality Blu-ray video processing. A true high-definition TV, the models house a built-in ATSC and QAM tuner for access to DTV channels. The units also feature an RS-232C input for custom installations and a PC input so the TV serves a dual purpose as a PC monitor.Pricing and availability
• LC-52BD80U will be available in February; pricing is TBD
• LC-46BD80U will be available in February; pricing is TBD
• LC-42BD80U will be available in January; pricing is TBD
• LC-37BD60U will be available in January; pricing is TBD
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
A Flag Obama Supporters Salute? — Oh, my. Barack Obama may want to call his new Houston office and suggest some decorating ideas. Take a look at the flag flying in the office at the moment: — No, that's not a Texas state flag with a picture of Obama on it.
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A Che Guevara Flag in Obama's Houston Office — Barack Obama won't wear an American flag on his lapel, but on the wall of his Houston campaign office: a Cuban flag with a picture of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara. (Click picture for video.) — (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Matt Bramanti / Lone Star Times:
Obama office adores psychotic Marxist thug — Che Guevara, the chief executioner of Fidel Castro's brutal revolution, was a bank robber, a cold-blooded murderer, an enthusiastic torturer and generally an evil, sociopathic bastard. He's quite literally the poster boy for everything wrong with socialism.
Hillary Clinton / CNN:
Clinton dismisses weekend losses — WHITE MARSH, Maryland (CNN) — Hillary Clinton on Monday explained away Barack Obama's clean sweep of the weekend's caucuses and primaries as a product of a caucus system that favors "activists" and, in the case of the Louisiana primary, an energized African-American community.
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Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Clinton Insists Campaign Is Strong … WHITE MARSH, Md. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton denied Monday that her campaign is in trouble after losing to Sen. Barack Obama in four states this past weekend and replacing her campaign manager. — "I'm still ahead in the popular vote and in delegates," Clinton said.
Matthew Yglesias, New York Sun, Truthdig, MSNBC, Associated Press, Jules Crittenden and Gateway Pundit
Karen Travers / ABCNEWS:
College Junior Breakfasts With Chelsea Clinton — 21-Year-Old Wisconsin Super Delegate Gets Face Time With Former First Daughter — Jason Rae is a typical junior in college. — He spends several hours a day in class at Marquette University in Wisconsin where he is majoring in history and political science.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
For Clinton, Ohio and Texas Emerge as Key States to Win — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and her advisers increasingly believe that, after a series of losses, she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries on March 4, and she has begun reassuring anxious donors …
Matthew Yglesias, MSNBC, TalkLeft, The New Republic, Eschaton, Open Left, The Field, The Plank, PunditGuy and Amygdala
Rasmussen Reports:
Obama, the Democratic Nominee? Yes He Can! — A Commentary By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann — I believe that Barack Obama will defeat Hillary and win the Democratic nomination. I think that this weekend's victories in states as diverse as Washington State, Louisiana, Nebraska …
CBS News:
Barack Obama Makes His Case — Steve Kroft Interviews The Democratic Presidential Candidate — (CBS) Asked what he thinks is the biggest difference between himself and Senator Hillary Clinton, Obama told Kroft, "I think Senator Clinton is smart and can be an effective advocate.
Goldy / HorsesAss.Org:
Did Esser call the primary for McCain... or McKenna? — Since prematurely calling Washington's caucus for John McCain, thus changing the narrative of Saturday's results, WSRP Chair Luke Esser is making a name for himself nationwide... or rather, the nation is making up new names for him.
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Hes at Hogwarts, and all the stars are out, reflected in the black ripples of the lake. Sirius cant sleep.
The lake is the Marauders favorite spot for a good mope, and as such, it has seen particularly heavy use this year. James mopes about Lily. Remus mopes about Siriuss stupid prank. Sirius mopes even more than Remus does about that stupid prank Sirius had to go and pull because he has no brainsnoneat all. Even Peter apparently has mysterious problems of his own because here he is taking up all the best moping space when Sirius is the one in desperate need of it.
Sirius doesnt want to talk to Peter because Sirius is incapable of doing so these days without teasing him, and the last thing Sirius wants right now is to hurt one of his friends. He wishes he wasnt so mean, turns around quietly so he wont disturb Peter, and heads back to the castle. Then Sirius trips in the mud and falls over with a pitiful yelp.
Sirius? says Peter.
Ha, says Sirius, hauling himself to his feet and shaking mud out of his hair. Scared you.
Good one, yeah, Peter says generously. So what are you doing out?
Sirius squelches a rather unnerving urge to explain how sad hes feeling and says, Dunno, instead. He looks down at his feet and kicks something that isnt there. What about you?
Peter shrugs. Dunno. They stand in awkward silence. Well, goodnight, Peter says and starts for the castle.
Oi, Peter! Watch out for-- Sirius is about to say vampires or hinkypunks but stops himself just in time. Why cant he be nice to people like Remus is or James can be when Lily makes him?
The conversation lurches in an alarmingly sentimental direction as he says, Er, Peter. Why is Remus still angry with me even though he says he isnt?
Peter turns to face Sirius slowly, as if buying time. Its okay, Sirius. It was just a joke.
Sirius hadnt expected Peter to understand anyway. Wormtails heart is in the right place, but hes too thick to notice that Remus flinches now whenever Sirius mentions the furry little problem, or how depressed Sirius was today when he got the silliest love letter ever (Please. Cant we snog? Seriously, write Black soon.), and Remus failed to so much as snort. Sirius sighs and gives his invisible target another kick.
He doesnt trust me, Sirius says. Poor Peter looks as if he has no idea what Sirius is talking about but is too timid to say so. Oh, never mind, says Sirius, trying not to sound annoyed.
Peter starts to leave again but turns around once hes almost out of earshot. Hes forgiven you, Padfoot, he says, without a trace of his usual nervous need to please.
Really? Sirius calls out hopefully.
But its hard to trust someone, Peter says in a kind voice, who doesnt treat you like an equal.
Peter returns to the castle as Sirius waves the goodnight he cant quite say aloud. He looks down at his reflection in the starry lake, jumps in, and swims until hes tired.
Sirius considers Transforming.
Its his favorite way to make Harry stop crying. Harry has always liked Padfoot. After a particularly satisfying yank on Padfoots ear, Harry even gurgled his first little laugh, causing Lily to very nearly lose her mind with delight and James to do so unreservedly.
Yes. He is a mad brilliant godfather, and he will stop the babys heartrending cries in the instant it takes to Transform, earning slobbery caresses from said baby and tears of gratitude from his parents once they show up.
The sight of Lily lying trapped in the rubble makes Sirius decide to stay human. Sirius has to step over Lily to do ithell help her up in a minute, shed have his head if he didnt check on Harry first--but he rushes to Hagrids side and looks down at little Harry. Harry recognizes his godfather, makes a vague attempt at pronouncing his name, and extends a tiny hand in his direction. Hagrid brushes some ash from Harrys forehead to reveal a nasty gash.
Disinfectum. Sirius remembers to cast a diluted version of the spell just like it said to in Lilys copy of Happy Babies, Healthy Wizards.
There, thats better, isn it? Hagrid says, giving Harry an awkward bounce.
Sirius opens his mouth to tell Hagrid theyve got to help Lily and James out of the ruins. He ends up saying, Give Harry to me, Hagrid, Im his godfather, instead.
Hagrid shakes his head. Im sorry.
Ill look after him.
I know yeh would, Sirius. Yer a mad brillian godfather, everyone knows tha. And Hagrid is saying something soothing about how Dumbledores got a plan, Muggles in Surrey, everythings going to be safer now that You-Know-Who is gone, but Sirius is laughing uncontrollably because what Hagrid doesnt know is that Harrys face has just contorted in exactly the grimace that means hes about to spit up. The Little Bubotuber, Remus called it once.
Harry spits up. Hagrid is horrified.
Sirius helps Hagrid charm away the spit-up. Maybe, Sirius says, hiccupping from his laughing jag as he tucks Harrys blanket snugly into the neck of his baby-shirt, when this is all over, he can come live with me.
Maybe, Hagrid says gently.
Maybe if the Muggles dont want him. Sirius feels the possibility is
unlikely. Who wouldnt want Harry? Hes the coolest baby everhe can even put his feet in his mouth.
Hagrid gives a heavy sigh, and Harry snuggles in for a nap. Unable to meet Hagrids eyes, Sirius looks away and sees Jamess glasses crushed in with the rubble. Then he sees the body.
Take the bike, Sirius says hoarsely. You should probably get going.
Right, says Hagrid. He chucks Harry in the chin and says with forced heartiness, Yer godfather is letting yeh borrow his motorbike, Harry. Youll like tha!
Keep it. I dont need it anymore. Sirius watches the engine, charmed to emit iridescent silver smoke stars, kick in, then he watches the headlights get smaller and smaller as Hagrid, his godson, and his very favorite thing in the world, his breathtakingly illegal motorbike, disappear into the night sky.
Sirius turns away from the ruins and Disapparates.
I would have died for you, he calls into the deserted side street.
He can hear footsteps, but he has to peer into the darkness for a moment before he sees Peter. They are alone, Sirius thinks, and the chase is over.
Peter turns to face Sirius, backing out of the alley and towards the busy Muggle street nearby, without meeting his eyes.
You still might, Peter replies with a chuckle. Resist arrest, Sirius. Youre the type.
Sirius has no idea what Peter is talking about. He draws his wand. We trusted you.
No, Peter says quietly, you underestimated me. They are no longer in the dark quiet of the alley. Peter has drawn them out into the Muggle crowd. He gives Sirius an ironic grin before starting to cry and shouting, Lily and James, Sirius! How could you?
The double accusation is enough to make Sirius lower his wand in shock. He tries to steady himself, thinks of Harry flying away to safety, of Remus, wherever he is, but, Sirius hopes, also headed for safety. He feels terribly sad when he thinks of Remus, who, he realizes, is about to become the last surviving Marauder.
He and Peter are going to kill each other.
The flash of an astonishingly powerful curse makes him think they have, but then he catches sight of a rat scurrying into the gutter. Peters parting words were meant, not to mock Siriuss feelings of guilt over the murder of James and Lily, but to frame him for it. Peter has escaped, Sirius realizes, and he starts to laugh like a maniac.
Sirius stopped the influx of memory by sheer force of will. He was shaking so hard he made the newspaper rustle audibly. Not only had Peter not died the night he was supposed to, hed ended up a sleeping rat perched on a schoolboys shoulder. Hes at Hogwarts.
Sirius loped to the shores edge, wiping away his pawprints behind him with his tail. He peered down into the steel gray surface of the North Sea and saw the Grim staring back at him. Padfoot no longer had the shaggy, playful look of an overgrown puppy. Azkaban had turned him into the kind of fire-eyed monster that haunts childrens stories and, some people believe, augurs the death of anyone who sees it.
Sirius closed his eyes, unsettled by his first glimpse of himself in twelve years, and jumped in.
He traveled hard until he reached Surrey, the first stop of his journey and the part of it he was most looking forward to. Sirius couldnt wait to see Harry, all grown up by now, with Prongsish hair and perhaps even glasses of his own. The thought made Sirius smile even in his dog form.
It was a chilly night for August, and the houses in Magnolia Crescent all had their lights on. Sirius had never given much thought to the insides of Muggle houses, but tonight they struck him as lovely and warm. Everyone was safe inside with their pleasantly glowing Muggle gadgets. Sirius wondered, as he eagerly passed one cozy home after another, which one would have Harry in it.
Sirius darted into a dark alley as a boy in Muggle clothes, exactly the right age, sat down wearily on a low wall. Glasses. Prongsish hair. Sirius took a step closer, using what felt like the last of his strength to stop himself from wagging his tail and whimpering.
Harry threw open his trunk and rummaged through his things. Sirius realized Harry had his huge regulation Hogwarts trunk and an owl in its cage. Harry was running away.
Really, it wasnt the trunk and the owl that tipped Sirius off. It was the way Harrys hands shook as he searched through his belongings, the way he kept looking over his shoulder, as if half afraid hed be caught and half hoping someone would come help him. Sirius remembered the night hed left home as a teenager and gone to stay with the Potters. He understood how alone Harry must feel at this moment and wished Harry knew he had his godfather right behind him.
Harry looked up, aware someone was watching him. Lumos, he said and stepped towards the alley.
There must, Sirius thought, be some part of Harry that remembers the big black dog whose yankable ears had provoked his first laugh. There was a flicker of something in Harrys eyes, and it could very well have been recognition.
No. It was fear. Harry cried out and fell backwards into the street. There was a loud crack.
It was the Knight Bus, emergency transport, Sirius remembered his mother say with disapproval in her voice, for people with nowhere to go and no one to help them get there. Sirius had hoped to glimpse Harry through a lighted window at home with a loving family. Instead, here was Jamess son, barely thirteen and reduced to taking the Knight Bus alone after dark.
Sirius heard Harry tell the conductor what had frightened hima big black thing and wished Harry hadnt spotted him.
Sirius hoped Harry had someone in his life as welcoming as the Potters had been for Sirius. He wished for someone he himself could turn to, someone waiting at the end of his long journey. After his brief encounter with Harry, the next familiar face he saw would belong to Peter Pettigrew.
Sirius headed north, looking back for one last sight of Harry. Harry boarded the bus, looking back for signs of the Grim he must now think was haunting him.


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The magazine, Northern Public Affairs, has published a special issue on devolution and economic development in the NWT. You can download this free special issue here.
Lots of good stuff in here from some of the main commentators on territorial and Aboriginal politics including Hayden King, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox, and Steve Kakfwi, among others.
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"Ottawa to cede new powers to Northwest Territories." What happened?
This was the headline of a news article on the front page of today's Globe and Mail.
According to John Ibbitson, "The Harper government is on the brink of making the Northwest Territories a province in all but name by ceding federal control over land, resources and water. The people and government of the territory stand to benefit from hundreds of millions of dollars in new resource revenues under the agreement, which will see the territorial and not the federal government primarily responsible for approving resource developments."
There's been quite a bit of scholarly and punditry ink spilled on the topic of devolution in the Canadian territorial north. Much of the scholarly literature has focused on assessing devolution normatively, arguing over which model of devolution would be most effective and just for the varied peoples that live in Canada's three territories.
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My research, on the other hand, has tried to examine the issue of devolution from a social science perspective. Rather than figuring out what would be a fair deal for all the parties involved, I published a paper earlier this year that tried to explain why the territories have achieved different outcomes in the negotiation process: Yukon (signing a final devolution transfer agreement in the early 2000s); NWT (No final deal yet, but an AIP last year), and Nunavut (no deal; no negotiations yet). (I also published another article, co-authored with Kirk Cameron and Steven Kennedy, that empirically assesses the effect that devolution has had on Yukon. You can download the ungated version of the article here).
Using a rational choice framework, I found three factors mattered."This paper has argued that variation in devolution negotiation outcomes relating to lands and resources can be explained by examining three sets of factors. First, in light of the federal government's dominant position in negotiations, territorial negotiators must negotiate an agreement that is compatible with federal preferences relating to resource revenues, equalisation, and the reduction of costs. Both the YTG and the Handley/Roland GNWT governments were willing to satisfy federal preferences in this manner. However, only the YTG has been able to complete a final agreement. The reason that YTG has been successful whereas the GNWT has not is because devolution negotiation outcomes also depend on the extent to which government officials perceive that sufficient aboriginal consent has been obtained. In Yukon, the fact that all of the Yukon first nations signed the UFA in 1993 and that a majority of aboriginal groups completed lands claims agreements at a fairly brisk rate were sufficient for federal and territorial negotiators to sign a DTA. In the NWT, in contrast, an AIP was negotiated only after the consent of four aboriginal groups was obtained in a 2007 resource revenue sharing agreement. However, the fact that two of the four groups have withdrawn their support means that the GNWT AIP is likely to be shelved or scrappedThe final factor that determines variation in devolution negotiation outcomes is federal perceptions of territorial capacity and maturity. The evidence suggests that the different timing of devolution in the NWT and Yukon was partly the result of the YTG being seen as more mature and politically developed than the GNWT. A more stark example is the status of Nunavut devolution negotiations, which have not proceeded beyond the negotiation of a protocol agreement. The evidence suggests that the lack of progress on the Nunavut file is mainly the result of federal reluctance to negotiate with a government that it believes does not have the capacity to undertake its current responsibilities and obligations, let alone those that would flow from a final devolution agreement."
So what changed for the NWT? Originally, the Government of the NWT (GNWT) had achieved the support of 4 NWT Aboriginal groups, which was sufficient to move forward in the eyes of federal and territorial officials. Two groups, however, backed out due to a change in leadership. As a result, devolution negotiations stalled.
Recently, one of the group's experienced yet another change in leadership and this leadership group was more willing to sign on. A second group signed on, raising the total number of Aboriginal groups supporting the deal to four. If the GNWT can keep this four groups on board, then it is highly likely that it will be able to complete a final devolution transfer agreement with Ottawa.
As I wrote in my Polar Record article:
"Anonymous territorial and aboriginal interviewees suggest that it is highly likely that future devolution negotiations in the NWT will only proceed if the GNWT can somehow convince at least two additional aboriginal groups to endorse the AIP."
Prediction is a trickly business in the social sciences. It's gratifying, though, when one's predictions turn out to be right once in a while!
Devolution and Territorial Goverance
Does devolution produce positive outcomes for territorial governments and residents? I examine this question with a former graduate student, Steven Kennedy, and a former civil servant in the Yukon Territorial Government, Whitehorse city councillor Kirk Cameron.
This article is free to the public (open access) and can be found here. Below is the abstract.


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The search for a missing Malabar firefighter expanded Tuesday. A search and rescue team is now looking in a wooded area near the lake where her truck and gear were found.
There were dozens of searchers and investigators working at the site Tuesday and across two counties trying to figure out what happened to Lt. Brandy Hall. They are hoping some new resources will shed some light on her disappearance.
After three days of searching for Hall, reinforcements arrived from South Florida. A specialized search and rescue team began combing the thick brush off of Treeland Boulevard. They brought with them a team of dogs capable of sniffing out humans, dead or alive.
"If there is anything out here or anybody, they should be able to find it," said Palm Bay Police Spokesperson Yvonne Martinez.
The 32-year-old mother of two vanished the night before she was to testify during her husband's sentencing for a marijuana growing operation. Jeffery Hall, her husband, was a former Osceola County fire chief.
In a rare move, Eyewitness News learned, Jeffery Hall was released from jail on $25,000 bond Monday night, just before he was to be taken to the state prison to serve an 18 month sentence. He was released pending an appeal.
Brandy Hall's truck was pulled from a Palm Bay lake and was being analyzed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, but detectives said there weren't any obvious signs as to what happened to her.
"They don't know if she's dead or alive. They have not come to a point where they can rule out anything," Martinez said.
The Palm Bay police dive team mapped out the bottom of the lake where the truck was found. It was drained down to about two feet of water. Police said there is less and less of a chance they will find her body there.
Teams are now searching about a five-acre wooded area nearby. Meanwhile, detectives are conducting more interviews and following leads.
Police said they have received a number of tips. If you have any information about the whereabouts of Brandy Hall, you should call the Palm Bay Police Department or Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS.
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