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In March 2006, the entire Hawaiian swordfish fishery was shut down for the season - 120 boats consigned to port after their hooks snagged their 17th loggerhead turtle of the year.
Now it turns out that a dozen Mexican fishermen, sailing six tiny boats with outboard motors, posed an even greater threat, drowning 700 loggerheads in a year.
This shock finding comes from a team led by Hoyt Peckham of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has been monitoring turtles off Mexico's Pacific coast. Given that small-scale fisheries are common throughout the developing world, it suggests that strategies to save sea turtles and other marine life may need to take them into account.
The loggerheads nest in Japan, and spend several decades roaming the northern Pacific. Using radio-tracking, Peckham and his colleagues discovered that juveniles congregate just off the Baja California peninsula, where they feed on swimming crabs.
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A security initiative from Google hopes to identify and put a stop to previously unknown, unpatched bugs that threaten the Web at large.
The company says two vulnerabilities are being actively exploited and recommends that Windows and Mac OS X users of the browser plug-in update their systems immediately.
Next week's patches will shore up holes in Windows and Office, but a permanent fix for the latest bug in Internet Explorer is still in the works.
New vulnerability in Windows and Office could allow an attacker to take control of IE 6 and IE 7 systems, software maker says.
The newly formed duo can now detect, prevent, and resolve breaches -- this could have ramifications for security firm competitors and governments accused of spying on their citizens and allies.
The tech giant agrees to purchase security firm Trusteer with the formation of an Israeli cybersecurity software lab in mind.
Even without a security suite, Windows 8 is safer than Windows 7. Adding just about any third-party security suite makes it even safer, a new study finds.
Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant.
Researchers say the latest version of Java is only in use by a dismal 5 percent of users, and many versions are months or years out of date -- just begging to be exploited.
New attacks exploit the Java plug-in as well as simply use Java to run locally when tricking users.


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I thought I was going to have some down time before I posted again, but I ran into this interesting isolation paper of forazoline A that is worth a gander from Tim Bugni's lab in the University of Wisconsin. They used a 15N-13C HMQC technique to determine which carbon was bonded to which nitrogen, which is apparently the first time this technique was used for a natural product. Looks like a pretty large natural product (m/z 901.4205). They have an interesting looking 13C NMR spectrum of the natural product (13C-labeled) that have splitting patterns on basically all of the carbons of the natural product (and thus looks like a proton NMR).
Archive for the 'New Types' Category
Forazoline A
Posted by naturalproductman on September 10, 2014
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CO2 as a protecting group?
Posted by naturalproductman on August 20, 2014
Arjan Kleij and co-workers from ICIQ in Spain have reported in ACIE on the use of carbon dioxide as a protecting group for cis-diols arising from epoxides using an iron or aluminum aminotriphenolate complex to make the carbonate from the epoxide.
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Posted by naturalproductman on January 20, 2014
Burkhard Luy and co-workers at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie in Germany have reported in JACS on a quick HSQC NMR method.
JACS paper
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Making HSQC look nicer
Posted by naturalproductman on September 6, 2013
Gareth Morris and co-workers at the University of Manchester and beyond have reported in ACIE on enhancing the resolution of HSQC contours. I imagine this would be useful when carbon chemical shifts and proton chemical shifts are jumbled together.
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Simplify proton NMR
Posted by naturalproductman on June 5, 2013
Klaus Zangger and co-worker at Karl-Franzens Universität Graz have reported in ACIE on a method to make your protons all look like singlets in your proton NMR.
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Removing triphenylphosphine oxide
Posted by naturalproductman on May 14, 2013
I have had this silly problem in trying to get rid of triphenylphosphine oxide from my reaction mixture. It's stuck with my final product and can be a pain. Some tricks I've seen are the use of dissolving mixture (O=PPh3 and product) in ether and run through short pad of silica. This would be great if my product weren't so polar – instead my product does not elute with ether. Another trick was from this Lipshutz paper in 2003 where they used Merrifield resin to scavenge the phosphine.
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2D-IR spectroscopy
Posted by naturalproductman on June 5, 2011
Robin Hoschstrasser and co-workers at UPenn have reported in Science on the use of 2D-IR spectroscopy to get the structure of a protein.
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Synthesis of Goniomitine
Posted by naturalproductman on June 8, 2010
Jerome Waser and co-workers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have published on a cyclopropane ring opening strategy to synthesize goniomitine. The strategy was to use a vinyl cyclopropyl ketone and open the cyclopropane with pTsOH to generate a precursor for a homo-Nazarov cyclization to access the six membered ring fused with the indole ring.
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It's not Delivery, it's HNPO.
Posted by naturalproductman on July 3, 2009
Shouheng Sun from Brown University has recently published in JACS on a target delivery of cisplatin to cancer cells using porous hollow nanoparticles (PHNP). They concluded that the nanoparticles deliver the cisplatin better at 2.9 micromolar IC50 towards breast cancer SK-BR-3 while without the nanoparticles, it's activity is 6.8 micromolar.
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TTN Ring Contraction
Posted by naturalproductman on February 27, 2009
The ring contraction reaction is a pretty neat trick using a thallium reagent published by University of Basel in Switzerland and University of Sao Paulo in Brazil by Andreas Pfaltz and Luiz Silva and co-workers in JOC.
A review on ring contractions by Silva can be found in TL:
TL Review
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Today I'm talking about health care again. Yes, again. As each day passes we are either getting closer to, or farther away from, a universal health care plan for America. The outcome of the current wrangling in Congress will quite literally mean life or death for hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of real, flesh and blood men, women and children. It's a topic worth talking about again.
To start our discussion today, let's play a quick round of Name That Politician! Guess who said this:
"I believe that our government and our people, business and labor, the insurance industry and the health profession can work together in a national partnership to achieve our health objectives. I do not believe that the achievement of these objectives requires the nationalization of our health insurance industry… Such action… would deny the people the right to choose how they will pay for their health care."
So, what's your guess? John McCain? Rush Limbaugh, maybe? Who?
Unless you were tipped off by this article's headline and the 36th president's photo, you probably didn't guess Richard Nixon. These words came from the mouth of Tricky Dick himself in a message to Congress back in 1971. That's right, 1971. For the benefit of all those who weren't around thirty-eight years ago, this business of trying to reform our health care system has been going on for a very, very long time.
I've seen this movie over and over, and no matter how many reruns I see, the opposition to health care reform remains, well… a crock. The same old boring, "how-in-the-hell-can-anyone-buy-this?" kind of crock.
Just as Tricky Dick assured us they would, our government, the insurance industry and the health profession have worked together in a national partnership to achieve their objectives over the past 40 years. Unfortunately, their objectives were not the same as yours and mine, and their cooperation could more accurately be called collusion.
Through aggressive claims management, outright denial of coverage for sick people with pre-existing conditions, exclusion of those with meager financial resources from all access to health care, and costs inflated beyond all decency, these three players have secured obscene profits and lifestyles for insurance and pharmaceutical industry executives, eyebrow raising incomes for medical professionals, and near eternal political life for well greased congressional representatives and senators. The whole business reeks of greed, excess and corruption—and misery and death!
How do these people get away with it? That's simple. We let them.
Back in 1971 Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY) said:
"Americans have for years accepted the principle that the fundamental services provided by the government for all people, such as national defense, the judicial system, pollution control and food and drug regulation, should be funded out of general revenues and the these revenues should be collected principally by means of a progressive income tax. Medical care is just such a basic service and should be so funded."
Her argument was simple, reasonable and sound in 1971, and it remains so in 2009. Still, Americans have yet to demand universal health care from their government. They have timidly listened to Dick Nixon and his successors and have let themselves be frightened away from what they know is right.
Nixon's words were tripe in 1971, and they remains tripe today. They were, of course, immediately parroted by the American Medical Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Blue Cross Association, American Hospital Association, the Republican National Committee and everyone else invested in the health care industry. The talking points haven't changed in forty years.
This past week Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other neocon talk show guns have in unison warned that any "public option" or government-backed health insurance program will create a massive new bureaucracy, a bureaucracy so large that it could not possibly do its job and would bankrupt the nation. It's funny, isn't it, that these right wingers fail to notice that the health insurance industry operates exactly such a bureaucracy right now, every day, and with eye-popping profits.
It doesn't matter who's running the thing, it's going to take one helluva lot of money and people to administer any kind of comprehensive health care program—a bureaucracy. Surely, there would have to be efficiencies inherent in a system where there is a single payer with a single program to administer, as opposed to hundreds of competing commercial payers with hundreds of competing programs to administer?
The arguments are old and tired. They are repetitious and boring. But, if you yet believe that in 2002 there were enormous stockpiles of chemical weapons in Iraq you will likely believe that we cannot afford universal health coverage. If you believe that mixing the races in our schools will destroy public education, that the Vietnam War was vital to our national security, that we haven't been torturing prisoners at Guantanamo, or that Richard Nixon had your best interest at heart, then you will likely believe that a public health insurance option is part of a conspiracy to steal your liberty, just like Glenn Beck says it is.
Like I said, I've been watching the same movie since 1971, and it had already been playing for quite a while before I entered the theater. It comes out the same way every time. Rich industry execs get richer and richer, and poor people get sicker and deader in ever larger numbers. It's time to remake this movie.


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New standard to help reduce the harm from smoking
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Herein, Gentle Reader, you will find a collection of short pieces about my favorite SF books. I wrote most of these as fillers for a fanzine long ago, but I'm periodically adding new ones. In all of them I recommend works by other authors that I don't feel have gotten the attention they deserve.
You won't find the obvious recommendations of Tolkien and Heinlein here; these are all items I feel have been unjustly neglected. I may add something about better-known favorites later, but for now what you have here are compilations of two series of very short articles on obscurities and lost treasures, plus whatever newer books I think have been unjustly neglected...
CONTENTS: Alphabetical by Author
|Forgotten Classics
|These Are A Few of My Favorite Books
|More Goodies
Everybody knows the great authors of SF's "Golden Age" -- Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein, Van Vogt, and so on. The greats of the thirties are still remembered almost as well -- E.E. Smith, Clifford Simak, Edmond Hamilton.
However, nobody seems to remember some of the authors who appeared in the sixties who I loved just as much as the greats when I was a kid -- authors like J.F. Bone, Daniel Galouye, Louis Charbonneau, and J.T. McIntosh. This forgetfulness may be in part because their work was usually published as paperback originals, especially by Bantam and Ace, and most of it has never been reprinted. In this series I point out some of my favorites, in hopes you can find them in libraries or used book stores.
First off, so far as I know J.F. Bone produced only one novel worth mentioning; I'm told he also wrote some short stories that saw print in Analog, and I know he wrote a novel or two for Laser Books during their brief disastrous existence, but as far as I'm concerned he's worth remembering for his first novel, The Lani People.
The Lani People probably sold pretty well, and some old-timers remember it, because of the lurid cover that depicted it as being a tale of perverse sexuality and slavery in outer space. In fact, the female lani are kept as pleasure objects, but that's by no means central to the story, which is about the nature of humanity. The lani are discovered on a distant planet in the far future; they look human, save that they have tails. A lani with her (male lani are too violent to be any use) tail removed is indistinguishable from human.
The law says, however, that the key is interfertility; anything that humans can breed with is human, and anything they can't breed with is just an animal. The lani, therefore, are animals, and the story follows the adventures of the young veterinarian hired to tend a lani herd as he gradually discovers the history and true nature of the species. It's got adventure, romance, excitement, and a dose of thought-provoking questions as well. Worth reading, definitely.
I couldn't remember the title or the author, but for years I remembered the story. It was one of the very first novels I ever read; I think I was eight. It was the story of Eldin Raigmore, a man with no past, and his rise in a society where social status is completely dependent upon one's performance in a series of tests of intelligence, creativity, character, morality, etc. I looked for it half-heartedly for years -- half-heartedly because I was afraid it wouldn't be as good as I remembered.
I found it; it's World Out of Mind, by the much-maligned and underrated Scottish SF writer J.T. M'Intosh, published in the U.S. under the name J.T. McIntosh so as not to look so foreign. And if it's not quite the great epic I remembered, it's still a fine novel in the pulp tradition, with its stratified society of Browns, Purples, Reds, Yellows, and Whites, sub-graded as Circles, Crosses, and Stars, threatened by emotionless alien spies working from within. It's a shade naive by modern standards, perhaps, but a good read all around. It was a Science Fiction Book Club selection, and can be found in either paperback or book club edition in the used book stores.
I know now that The Sentinel Stars owes a lot to the classic dystopias of 1984 and Brave New World, but I read it before I read either of them, so I didn't care. It's an odd combination of the two; most of the world is a drab, oppressive 1984-style world state where citizens labor to whittle away their tax debts. However, there is hope, a goal they're working toward -- Freeman status. That's right, when one's debt is paid, one is free to live in one of the special freeman reservations, where nobody works, where there are endless entertainments -- and occasional bits of nastiness that the workers don't hear about, as it might harm the idyllic image, and where the real danger is terminal boredom.
TRH-247 is an ordinary citizen who finds himself tangled in the truth behind the idealized image of the freeman camps, involved in an illicit romance with ABC-331, and just generally running afoul of the entire system.
This was a 40-cent Bantam paperback, one of dozens they churned out in the sixties, but it's one that stands out in my memory as being a notch or two better than the rest.
Costigan had invented a gadget that did something amazing; things that went through the ''eye'' of the needle-shaped device didn't come out the other side. At least, not in our world. They did come out somewhere, though.
The local religious fanatics considered this tampering with other worlds to be diabolical, and during the first critical testing of the first man-sized ''needle'' (prototypes had been little table-top models) one of them threw a monkey wrench in the works.
The resulting power surge put the entire population of a one-block radius around the needle into a harsh alternate reality where survival was difficult. Costigan's Needle is a ''survival'' novel in the tradition of Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky (except I believe Needle is the older, actually) or Tom Godwin's Space Prison, where a bunch of people are thrown into a hostile environment and not all make it to the end of the novel. In Costigan's Needle there's the added twist that they know how to build a needle that might get them back -- if they can get their technology to a high enough level in time.
Daniel Galouye's writing career was aborted in 1973, apparently as a result of an argument with his publisher, Bantam; Mike Resnick can tell you the gory details upon request (except that he keeps misremembering it as Ballantine, and I have Galouye's entire output, and it's all Bantam). Before he left the field, however, he produced a series of midlist novels that were pretty nifty. The best, in my opinion, was A Scourge of Screamers, in 1968.
For no known reason, people all over the world suddenly burst out screaming in anguish; is it a plague of some sort? Is it a new weapon? What is it?
It's the onset of zylphing, a result of rault previously obscured by the huge Saggitarian dust-clouds that block Earth's view of the galactic core, rault that's now getting through. It's a new means of perception. Why the screaming? Imagine if you had grown up in total, absolute darkness, having functional eyes but not knowing that you did, never seeing anything, having no concept of light or vision -- and then suddenly you're plunged into brilliant displays of light and color. You'd scream, too. It's a nifty idea done well.
I almost didn't include this fantasy classic in this series, because unlike the first five, just about everyone who has ever read this acknowledges it to be a classic. Even so, far too many people out there (and you know who you are) haven't read it.
Well, you should. It's been reprinted several times, either by itself or with other stories; I originally read it in an anthology edited by Ray Bradbury, but the copy now on my shelves treats it as a complete novel. It's an awkward length -- just under 50,000 words, where novels are generally considered 60,000 and up, and novellas are 20,000 to 45,000. That may have something to do with its not having gotten the attention it deserves.
If you've seen the movie version, The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, don't think you know the story, because you don't, and it wouldn't matter if you did; it's one of the most literary fantasies ever produced, and needs to be read.
Written in 1935, in the depths of the Depression, it's the tale of the very strange circus that arrives mysteriously in Abalone, Arizona one day, a circus run by an odd little Chinaman named Dr. Lao and featuring attractions that are much more real than anyone can quite deal with -- when they realize just what the attractions are at all.
It's a story of mysteries -- most of them never explained -- and of how people deal with mysteries -- usually, by ignoring them. The whole thing is written in a cynical style that's at odds with what's being described, giving a peculiar result indeed, epitomized by the weird ''Catalogue'' at the end -- ''An explanation of the obvious which must be read to be appreciated'' -- which lists the characters, starting with the more or less human ones and working down to the foodstuffs, which also, as it happens, include a human or two.
This is really simply indescribable; the author drew on extensive travels in China and Mexico as well as experiences in the American Southwest, and seems to have managed to put everything he ever did or believed into this one story -- which virtually no writer ever manages. If you haven't read it, you should; there have been many editions over the years, both hardcover and paperback, so you should be able to find one.
Okay, folks, I've written six short pieces on forgotten books that I remember fondly from my youth; but I haven't pointed out some of my not-so-forgotten favorites, books that I think everybody should read. Most of these are neither obscure nor particularly famous -- they're just good. I'll say a few words about each, so you can pick the ones you think will match your own tastes.
Brunner became famous when he wrote Stand on Zanzibar, but he'd been working steadily in the field for years before that, and my very favorite of all his work is The Whole Man, the story of Gerry Howson, a lame, hunchbacked hemophiliac, one of the most miserable creatures on Earth, born and raised in a slum -- and the most powerful natural telepath who ever lived. Expanded from the story ''Curative Telepath'', The Whole Man is somewhat episodic, starting with Howson's birth, following through his formative years and his discovery of his talents, then describing a few cases handled in his career, a job that consists of pulling other telepaths out of fantasy worlds they've created, before winding up with a personal search for fulfillment and a happy ending reminiscent of Heinlein's Waldo -- only much more satisfying.
(And while you're reading Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar remains the best overpopulation novel I've ever read, and The Sheep Look Up, while almost unbearably downbeat and depressing, is the best ecological disaster novel I've ever read.)
Engine Summer is a long-after-the-holocaust novel that does about the best job I've ever encountered of putting the reader inside the head of a protagonist with a genuinely different way of thinking. Rush that Speaks is entirely human -- at least, throughout most of the novel -- but a member of a culture that bears little resemblance to our own, even though it's descended from modern-day California. Rush wants to be a saint, which in his society means a person whose life is transparent, so that through it, others may see their world and themselves. If that sounds too metaphysical or mystical, you may not like Engine Summer -- but you should give it a try, as the mysticism here is not the contrived occultism of most SF or fantasy novels with mystic elements, but an alternate worldview, a part of a different culture. Anyone interested in anthropology has got to read this.
Dying of the Light I think everyone will like -- except maybe for the ending, which even one of the editors hated. It's a story of culture shock, love, war, and action, with something for everyone. The hero has been summoned to the dying festival world of Worlorn by a message he believes comes from his former lover, now married to one of the men of High Kavalaan -- except that the lover won't tell him why he was summoned, and things grow ever more complicated as Dirk t'Larien gets further and further embroiled in the internal conflicts and culture of High Kavalaan and the other societies that set up the festival on Worlorn. This book has some of the all-time best chase scenes ever written, a well-thought-out alien culture or two, sex, romance, friendship, treachery, all that good stuff -- and an ending that infuriates people because it stops short a paragraph sooner than it seems it ought to, leaving it open for the reader to figure out the outcome of a duel.
Here's another of my favorite books, believe it or not. Okay, I know what you're saying -- ''Lin Carter? Gimme a break! All he ever wrote was junk!''
Well, yeah, that's mostly true. Most of his fiction was bad imitations of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and others. A lot of it was sword-and-sorcery, a genre that's usually pretty bad anyway, and Lin Carter wrote some of the trashiest ever (though not as bad as Gardner Fox -- I've never understood how Fox could write so wonderfully for comic books and so very, very badly when he wrote novels).
However, think for a moment -- how can anyone write well, when imitating Howard, or Burroughs, or Lovecraft, all of whom were basically second-rate writers? Sure, they wrote nifty stuff, but stylistically, most of their work was horrible.
And usually, you see Carter imitating those horrors, so of course it sucks!
In Star Rogue, however, he was trying to imitate Heinlein, and Heinlein is not the sort of purple-prose paid-by-the-word Victorian hangover that Burroughs, Howard, and Lovecraft were. The result is actually quite tolerable.
The story involves an adventure of Saul Everest, Earth's only immortal man and the galaxy's top freelance secret agent, semi-retired. The star rogue of the title -- a gravitational anomaly cruising the galactic rim -- is simply something to get him into action, totally irrelevant to the plot and explained away in a single sentence near the end of the book. It's all sort of free-form space opera, with terraformed asteroids, telepathic aliens, psionic warfare, intelligent spaceships, galactic empires, attempted coups, and all sorts of fun stuff going on. It's a lot of fun. Not great literature, but really one of the best space operas I've read. Honest! From Lin Carter!
Makes you wonder how he'd have done if he didn't imitate anyone, doesn't it?
Star Rogue was a Lancer paperback original, never reprinted so far as I know, but it sold pretty well and turns up used a lot.
I just thought of something -- you have all read Fredric Brown's stuff, haven't you?
Specifically, I have in mind What Mad Universe and Martians, Go Home. Brown's specialty was humorous SF, usually gently mocking the cliches of the genre -- some of which are extinct now, but Brown's been dead for a quarter of a century or so, so you have to bear with him on that.
In What Mad Universe, the mild-mannered editor of a science fiction pulp is visiting the estate of his wealthy publisher in upstate New York, working on the letter column for the next issue -- specifically, trying to answer the latest LoC from Joe Doppleberg, an unbearably fannish space-opera lover -- when he's hit on the head by an unsuccessful unmanned moon rocket. The rocket carries an experimental device designed to make a flash on the lunar surface that would be visible from Earth; instead, it transports our hero into a parallel universe, a universe where Earth is in the middle of a war with Arcturus -- a universe just the way Joe Doppleberg would like it.
By the way, ignore the cover blurb saying it's ''terrifying.'' It isn't even close.
More of Fredric Brown's fierce whimsy... in Martians, Go Home, Earth is invaded by ten zillion little green men from Mars, who can turn invisible, see through walls, teleport, and so forth, and who haven't come to take over -- just to make everybody's lives utterly miserable through petty harassment. What sort of harassment? Oh, well, for example there's the honeymoon couple who find a Martian sitting on the head of the bed demanding to watch their disgusting mating rituals.
Pure fun throughout, both of them.
The dozen items above are all from fillers I wrote for fanzines, lo these many years ago; from here on, it's stuff written specifically for this website, but the basic theme is the same -- books I like that I feel don't get the attention they deserve.
In at least one case, a reader's reaction was to conclude that he can't trust my taste on anything, because I plug a book below he thought was a complete waste of time -- I did say "It may not be your cup of tea," though. I'm not claiming these are all great books with universal appeal, merely that they're books I like.
A listing here means that I thought the book was both something special, and somewhat obscure. I've also got some more ordinary recommendations:
Okay, I admit to being biased -- I went to college with Stu Hopen. All the same, I don't hesitate to recommend Warp Angel. Norman Spinrad, who reviewed it in ASIMOV'S, agrees with me that Stuart is a ''wild talent,'' insanely inventive and original. Warp Angel is jammed full of surreal, over-the-top imagery and bizarre set-piece scenes like nothing you have ever read before. It's not the most polished prose out there, nor the most straightforward plot, nor the most likeable characters -- Stu admits he may have read a few too many Russian novels -- but it's one of a scant handful of novels where every time I open it I find myself saying, ''Damn, I wish I could come up with stuff like this!''
So what is it about? That's hard to describe. In a system of four inhabited planets, in a time after faster-than-light travel has been banned because it was destroying the fabric of spacetime, a young woman is out for revenge against the brutal society that destroyed her life -- but that doesn't really convey the right impression.
If you can find a copy, take a look. It may not be your cup of tea -- but it's mine.
Again, like Stu Hopen, the late Brian McNaughton was a friend of mine. In this case, though, I'm not biased -- The Throne of Bones is brilliant.
It's not a novel; rather, it's a short story collection where most of the stories interrelate to form a larger narrative. The closest equivalents I can think of off the top of my head are The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, and The Dying Earth, by Jack Vance.
Except The Throne of Bones is far darker and more complex than either of those. It's about ghouls. It's about death and despair and horror. It's elegant and mordant and mannered and brutal. It creates a world and an atmosphere like nothing else I've ever read.
If you aren't a horror fan, you probably don't want to read it -- it'll give you nightmares. If you have a strong stomach, though, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
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NABS Creative Speed Mentoring – Thursday 18th October 2012
The lovely new Karmarama offices in Farringdon served as the setting for NABS' first Creative Speed Mentoring event bringing young practitioners face to face with some of the most prestigious creative names in the industry.
These included: • Caitlin Ryan, executive creative director, Proximity London • Dave Buonaguidi, founder & chief creative officer, Karmarama • Justin Barnes, creative director, SapientNitro • Nick Darken, executive creative director, Albion • Rosie Arnold, deputy executive creative director, BBH & president, D&AD • Russell Ramsey, executive creative director, JWT • Steve Aldridge, creative partner & chairman, Partners Andrews Aldridge
Zoe Osmond, NABS CEO took to the raised white stage in Karmarama's 'Town Hall' and welcomed everyone, setting the scene for this fun, frothy, fast paced event.
Oli Barrett (Co-Sponsorship Agency) and MC for the night then gently eased the audience into the concept of speed mentoring. Everyone was given one minute and asked to strike up a conversation with someone they didn't know. By the time we'd all done this a few times, we were ready to speed mentor for real!
Delegates were asked to sit at a table, leaving a space for a mentor. After each ten minute session the whistle blew, and mentor or delegates moved to another table. There was a large audience on the night, drawn in by the opportunity to quiz some of the brains behind some of the UK's most iconic ad campaigns.
Many pearls of wisdom were shared on the night, but here is a round-up of some of the advice we managed to overhear. There was only one complaint on the night and that was that everyone wanted more time with the mentors!
Some advice from Steve Aldridge:
Q: What made you hire the last person? A: It wasn't just about her work being different – she also lived the life. She was building her own website, blogging and doing interesting things off her own back. She was interesting as a person not just as a creative and I enjoyed talking to her. I learnt something from her.
Q: What was your most difficult experience starting out? A: It was getting a permanent job. I don't know if you are ever accepted as a creative; it's all tied up with that creative insecurity. It's quite hard to deal with. Every pitch is a test that demands your best work. You have to believe in yourself. Trying too hard to please people is not the right way to do your best work – your best work should be about answering the brief.
Q: How important is a digital background? A: The resurgence of craft is important. While you need people who understand digital design, it's about ideas first and foremost that are interesting. I can always find someone who can translate those ideas into digital. The hard bit is the ideas and switching from client to client and understanding different issues and target audiences. You can find the long copywriter or flash developer, but the person who comes up with the ideas will always be the celebrity.
Q: As a creative what are you looking for from the brief? A: I need insight into the target audience and something that's different about that audience. Some advice from Rosie Arnold
Q: What is your ideal planner? A: They should provide incisive simple thought. When we worked on Nicotell for example, the insight was about smoking in places you can't, such as flights. It was a piece of lateral thinking. Haagen Dazs is another great example. Coming up with the adult angle and making eating ice cream sexy, turned round the category. It was a very clever bit of thinking and that's what I want from a planner. For any category, ask yourself the question, what if, and start from there.
Q: What do you do when you get stuck and can't move on? A: Make a cup of tea, get out of the office. If you are working on cars go somewhere, anywhere to experience them. Thoroughly investigate the product. Look at ads you really like and think about how they might look presented as a cartoon, or a thriller or a sitcom etc.
Q: Are you excited by digital? A: Yes. Having an idea and pushing it through different media is very creative. Our experiential work, a stunt if you like with the Cerne Abbas for Lynx that caused loads of commotion and got censored due to nudity was great fun.
Q: Does censorship and boundaries demotivate you? A: Don't let difficulties of any kind hobble your ideas and don't modify them simply to get past restrictions. If you are convinced that an idea is great you should go to any length to get it through. Some advice from Caitlin Ryan:
Q: How do you go from being a junior to the next step? A: When you start self-editing to the point that your boss knows that you have got it. You begin to know the good ideas, the ones the client would buy. After all that is what you are paid to do. You know to be commercial and the better you understand the client imperatives the more valuable you are to the agency.
Q: You can feel lost in an agency as a junior. How do you get the briefs? A: Ask for the internal briefs, things like the Christmas party etc. If you do them well that will get you on the radar of seniors. Above all be willing and eager.
Q: I've been a freelancer for a while now. How do I and should I get back into the workplace? A: The concept of the big creative department might be on the way out. I need a different team for different projects. I might not need a flash animator on the pay roll all of the time for example. The job of the ECD is to make freelancers feel ownership and bring it all together. Don't forget the benefits of being a freelancer – it can be good to move around and experience different things.
Q: Creativity is a buzzword. Do you ever feel it's marching to the beat of its own drum or to that of the client? A: I got into advertising because I'm fascinated by behavioural science. Creativity is about making a connection and doing things in a different way. It's also about making other people see things in a different way or changing their behaviour and applying creativity to the issue in hand. Some advice from Russell Ramsey:
Q: If you could choose any brand to work on what would it be? A: Think about this in two parts. There's the client and there's the brand/product. If you meet the client and they are so conservative you might have a hard time of it even with the best brand in the world. But if you have a client who wants to change things then even if the brand is not the greatest, you might have a great brief. In other words, the best brief out there is probably not the best brand. Similarly a great brand can be an awful brief to work on if the client puts barriers in your way. What's more you can win a pitch and three months in you realise you don't want to be working on it. However the arrival of a new client can make all the difference. Remember too that the projects with the most money behind them are not necessarily the best ones to work on. The times when you know you have developed brilliant work is when the client is on the verge of firing the agency because you have pushed the boundaries as far as you can and some; and then the agency wins gold and everything is fine! Tension is good and you have to push the client almost to the brink!
Some advice from Dave Buonaguidi:
Q: What's your best advice on working with clients? A: Some of the clients in the business are not very ambitious. Your job should be to unlock their ambition. Show them that you can help them become famous for doing something different. Take control of the situation and show them how they could spend their money in a more interesting way. It's important to challenge things. If something pisses you off, do something about it and take control. Be a lion not a donkey! We are paid by a client to improve his/her business and help them beat off the competition. At Karmarama we don't enter awards because that's not about helping clients win. Clients love our attitude and find it refreshing not to see a room full of awards. Clearly too this means we attract a certain type of client. We save ourselves lots of money and time by not entering awards. Don't worry about what other people do. The most important thing is to do work for your client. Our industry is too insular, gossiping about work and what other agencies are doing. Don't waste your time. It's down to you guys to make the industry more interesting. You are better equipped to do this than my generation was!


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The new manager at the Etihad Stadium is not making predictions ahead of City's opening fixture against Newcastle, live on Monday Night Football.
The 59-year-old Chilean admitted: "We are absolutely ready. We have had a very good pre-season, working for about 40 days with all the players, knowing each other more.
"I think we are in very good shape to start the Premier League.
"We had a programme for the whole pre-season. Each week we made all the work we need.
"We played seven friendly matches with different starting elevens so most of them had an average of minutes very similar to each other.
"We are all settled. I don't know what happens with other clubs but next Monday, eight o'clock, we will see if it was a good pre-season."


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Hey guys, caught me on a very boring day and figured I write a little something today (: So my fellow Pennsylvania Korn fans excited for August when they're coming around? I CAN NOT WAIT! Last Korn concert I went to was Night of the Living Dreads with Zombie ..which had to be one of my favorite concerts but that was 7 months ago! So I can't wait, it's been too long! Anyways, if you want...
Korn is undoubtedly one of the best bands of all time. From the very first time I heard them I was hooked on their music, and really appreciate the creativity that they put into their lyrics. I still remember their 2010 concert in Adelaide. This is easily one of the best concerts I have ever been to, and it brought in a huge crowd of Korn fans who just wanted to have a really great time! Korn...
A sad day for all Korn fans, as we hear the awful news that H.R. Giger is gone from this world. Much love and respect for the man, the artist, who gave us one of the most iconic images .. May he rest now, having given so much (x) Rest in Peace Hans Rudolf "Ruedi" Giger H.R. Giger ~ painting by artsypajamas
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The Mississippi State Bulldogs were not able to produce on either side of the football on Saturday and ultimately the game went the way of Texas A&M.
Comparing the two sides, it was clear that it was as MSU coach Dan Mullen stated "as bad a performance offensively as we've had here in quite a long time."
The Bulldogs tried to use a balanced attack on offense, but were unsuccessful in their efforts mustering up only 98 yards on the ground at day's end.
The first half saw Russell throwing for only 29 yards. The rest of the offense was just as stagnate picking up only 87 total yards in the first half.
On paper, it appeared that the wide receiver's had a decent game, but upon closer examination, the statistics were due to a somewhat playing catch up and having more opportunities.
Chad Bumphis was part of that second half productivity. During the third quarter, Russell hit Bumphis with a 14-yard touchdown pass to give the Bulldog fans a glimmer of hope. Though it was exciting, Bumphis' catch came a little too late as the Aggies were already up 31-0 at that point.
MSU fans did have one more chance to ring their cowbells as Russell found the end zone on a 4-yard run. The Bulldogs attempted a two-point conversion, but like most everything else offensively they were stopped short.
To summarize MSU's day, one has to look at LaDarius Perkins' statistics. MSU's premier running back was held to only 13 rushes and 46 yards.
"We came out OK," Perkins said. "We weren't like we should have been. We all knew it was a big game, but it all comes down to execution and we just didn't execute like we needed to."
Mullen echoed Perkins' comments on execution and how MSU has "got to come out and execute right from the beginning;" especially when looking at the fact that this was the second week in a row for the Bulldogs to enter halftime down 24-0.
There were a few bright spots in Saturday's Bulldog performance. With the two touchdowns scored, it made 47 games in which Mullen and his team have not been shut out.
Additionally, Bumphis brought his career touchdown record to 19, while Russell tied Derrick Tate for the single season touchdown record at 16.
The Bulldogs have a great deal of work to do this week in practice.
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The Philadelphia Eagles have been in love with Fletcher Cox for awhile, and I'm actually a little surprised they waited this long before trading up.
I'm not as high on Cox as some, but I really like how he fits in Philly. He need to work on his performance against the run, but he'll be used in a rotation early in his career with the Eagles, which will allow them to put him in situations that play to his strengths. He is going to make a significant impact as a rookie, even if he's only plays roughly 2/3s of their defensive snaps.
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Rice bran, as the name suggests comes from rice. Specifically, rice bran is the brown outer layer of the rice grain, the part that we remove to yield white rice. The bran portion of rice is one of the most nutritious parts of the kernel. It is an excellent source of fat, thiamine, niacin, vitamin B-6, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and fibre. For horses, one of the best things about rice bran is that it contains a high level of fat and is a wonderful addition to the diet where a high fat intake is desirable.
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Inmates Were Doing Good Before Fleeing BRF
A little more background on the prison that two inmates walked away from 2 weeks ago. The Black River Falls Correctional Facility accepts inmates with 6 months left on their prison terms and some actually were used to assist in the flood clean up in La Crosse a few years ago. Superintendent, David Andraskas. Says they get inmates ready to go back into the public.
He says they also help inmates get their GED diplomas. Both James Newman and James Mislevec were doing good in these programs before they walked away from the facility and were later captured in Florida. The two will be back in court in Florida tomorrow morning.


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Combine Marsala and dried cherries in deep saucepan. Boil until mixture is reduced to 2/3 cup, about 8 minutes. Mix in remaining ingredients. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium, cover pan and simmer until cranberries burst and mixture thickens, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes. Transfer to bowl. Refrigerate until cold, about 3 hours. (Can be prepared 1 week ahead. Cover; keep refrigerated.)


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Kansas City, Missouri (PRWEB) January 10, 2013
Mr. Jim Campbell, formerly the managing director of MULTIVAC U.K. Limited., has been appointed as the new president/CEO of MULTIVAC, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Campbell joined MULTIVAC in 1992, and held a variety of positions prior to his 2011 appointment as managing director of the company's U.K. operation. He brings with him to MULTIVAC, Inc.'s U.S. operation over 20 years' MULTIVAC business experience and a wealth of packaging industry expertise.
"In looking toward the future growth of MULTIVAC, Inc., we believe Mr. Campbell has the management expertise required to advance the organization. We look forward to Jim's contributions and supporting him and the entire team at MULTIVAC, Inc.," stated Mr. Hans-Joachim Boekstegers, CEO / Chairman of the Board of Management, MULTIVAC Sepp Haggenmüller GmbH & Co. KG, Wolfertschwenden, Germany.
Campbell first qualified as an Engineer in mechanical and production engineering from Bristol Polytechnic and later earned his master's degree in business administration from University of the West of England. He and his family will reside in Kansas City.


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Jennifer Aniston surprises Jimmy Fallon with Winnie Rose baby giftAdd to Favorites | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon wasn't the only one giving gifts during his show last night. Jennifer Aniston was a guest on "Late Night," and surprised the new dad with a gift for his daughter, Winnie Rose.
"You had something very exciting happen -- you and Miss Nancy [Juvonen Fallon]," Aniston gushes. "I'm just so excited!"
Fallon was definitely excited by the treat, giggling, "She's about the size of this, she's so tiny," as he pulled out the Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal from Ty's Beanie Ballz collection.
As it turns out, this Winnie the Pooh plush is something of a collectible. Not only is it a gift from Aniston, but it turns out it's also spent the night with her.
"Now I have to confess something: this is such a cozy squishy doll, I slept with it last night. I cuddled with it!" Aniston admits. "I was embarrassed. I woke up and I was like, 'Oh, Winnie's in my bed.'"
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Erica Fox is the Head of Learning Programs for GoogleEDU, Google's cross-functional learning & development team. She works with a great team to provide Googlers a wide array of classes, cohort-based programs and learning resources, including Noogler (new hire) Orientation & On-boarding, people management curriculum, leadership development, professional skills, language instruction, emotional intelligence, creativity & innovation, and personal effectiveness. When not working remotely from her 1785 farm in rural Connecticut, you can usually find Erica in the classroom in any one of Google's East Coast US offices. Before joining the GoogleEDU faculty, Erica worked in Google's People Analytics team focusing on learning, leadership development and career development analytics. She worked with multiple learning groups to develop data-driven course selection and learning assessment practices, with the end goal of making Google's L&D and career development programs more influential and efficient. Erica joined Google in Feb 2007.


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Summer time means plenty of play time — so why not play with your food? Finding creative ways to enjoy healthy foods like watermelon is a great way to encourage the whole family to eat well — and have fun while doing it.
Here are three ways you can get the whole family in on some fun and healthy eating:
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense agency, announced 225 Texas Guard and Reserve members nominated their employers for the 2012 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. The agency received 3,236 nominations nationwide. Receiving one of those nominations was Skeet's Texas Grill in Abilene. Skeet's is owned by Lindley "Skeet" Smith and family of Sweetwater. The Abilene Skeet's Texas Grill restaurant was nominated by Chase Wylie, a Texas Army National Guardsman.
Texas State Technical College in Sweetwater recently announced a series of culinary classes for the community.
The first class is a Demo class that will take place from 5:30-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28. The class is only $10 a student with a limit of 30 students. Knife Skills will be taught during this class. Enjoy gourmet coffee and cookies while learning how to properly use a knife. Proper knife skills allow cooks to work much more proficiently, safer and cleaner. "Come learn how this is done from a professional chef," said Coby Baumann, Culinary Instructor at TSTC Sweetwater.
Emmanuel Fellowship Church announced the addition of a new team member to their staff. To help meet the needs of continued growth, Irene Escobar is filling the newly formed role of Associate Children's Pastor for the church. "Irene has been an essential part of the Emmanuel Fellowship Children's ministry for the past several years, serving as a classroom teacher and volunteer. Her faithful service has helped create the new ministry position she will now fill," said Pastor of Emmanuel Fellowship Church Eric vonAtzigen
Brought to you by the creators of Fireproof and Facing the Giants, Courageous is a story of everyday heroes who make a difference on the street, but who struggle to serve and protect their loved ones at home.
Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. As law enforcement officers, they are confident and focused. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood.
Country Biggest Winner contest and to encourage those who are not entered in the contest, but want to get into shape, the Texas State Technical College Fitness Center will host an Open House from 4-7 p.m. on Monday, March 26, 2012. There will be a free workout for everyone. Also available will be a free Zumba session with Nick Alvarado at 5:30 p.m. There will be drawings every 30 minutes.
As part of the Big Country Biggest Winner contest, local Zumba instructor Isabel Beltran will offer free classes this week for those signed up in the Big Country Biggest Winner contest. Her classes are held at 6 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays at Sweetwater Intermediate School. Classes also take place every other Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at SIS. Beltran is shown above leading a class in a Zumba workout routine during the Big Country Biggest Winner contest kick-off at the Sweetwater High School gym.
The Big Spring Police Department has issued the following release regarding the gender of the remains found near the McMahon-Wrinkle Airport Tuesday afternoon:
The autopsy on the remains found in Big Spring, Texas began a short time ago in Tarrant County. Detective George Oliver of the Big Spring Police Dept. is in attendance. It has been determined that the remains are that of a male. As of this time nothing else has been determined and we will put out another release following completion of autopsy and a preliminary report from the medical examiner. No further details at this time.
MasterScapes, a landscape business that has been open since 1991 in Abilene, has recently opened an office in Sweetwater. The Sweetwater Chamber of Commerce honored the new office with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, March 22, 2012. The local office is located at 608 E. Avenue A. Ryan McCorkle is the local general manager. MasterScapes has been designing, constructing and maintaining the landscape of the Big Country for 20 years, including that of the Sweetwater Independent School District properties. For an appointment, call 235-1937.
Rodney Harvey with Curtainwall Design Consulting led the powerpoint presentation and discussion regarding the state of the courthouse and the options available for repair during the special County Commissioners' meeting on Friday morning, March 16, 2012, in which several steps were taken toward the progress of the Nolan County Courthouse renovations as well as the construction of the new jail and sheriff's offices for the county.


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Quarterly Report: 2012, October - December (Q2), Shishmaref
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Community Sanitation Overview:
The City of Shishmaref provides water and wastewater (flush and haul), watering point, honey bucket bin rentals hauling (HBBR) and washeteria services, which include public showers, laundromat and water sale services. The main clients are the city residents, school, clinic and other non-profit and for-profit businesses. There is some residential plumbing currently in use. There are approximately 15 homes that utilize an above ground wastewater system. Most residents haul their own water from the washeteria. In the summer, most residents collect rain from rooftops. In the winter, residents simply chop off chunks of ice from one of two ponds located about five miles away from the city, load it into their snow machines, and take it to their homes. The school, local health clinic, city hall and garage use common water and sanitary wastewater systems. The city garage has the heavy equipment, fire truck, the Shishmaref emergency services office and the city lodge. The water is being treated at the treatment plant located in the washeteria. The city uses the pumphouse distribution plant to transport water to the businesses listed above. Both the washeteria and pumphouse have separate water storage tanks. The treated water is delivered to these buildings via water pipes. The generated waste is transported through wastewater pipes to the wastewater lagoon located approximately 300 yards away from the buildings.
RUBA Status & Activities This Qtr:
This quarter, the Shishmaref Water Treatment System submitted the required financial, accounting, tax and operation and maintenance documents to the city council, federal and state tax agencies as well as the RUBA Program. Nome RUBA staff had frequent contact with city and utility staff this quarter. RUBA staff provided advice and technical assistance regarding issues related to personnel policies, compensation of elected officials, and the Shishmaref Code of Ordinances. Nome RUBA staff completed the revision of five chapters of the Shishmaref Code of Ordinances and submitted the revised code to the city council for final review and adoption. On November 18, 2012, the city council adopted the five chapters with some changes. Nome RUBA staff intends to finish codification by the end of January 2012. The new codified code of ordinances will be presented to the city council for adoption as a complete document. Nome RUBA staff, city and utility staff as well as the city council have jointly worked with other regional and community organization to discuss building a new consolidated tank farm to ensure the city has adequate fuel for the community. A Tank Farm joint meeting was held on October 12, 2011. Nome RUBA staff also participated in an interagency meeting regarding the Shishmaref Relocation Project. The City of Shishmaref received a $150,000 grant through the Alaska Climate Change Impact Mitigation Program. The city hired URS Corporation to guide the city through the Community Site Assessment Feasibility Study, which will provide recommendations for planning needs that are supported by the community. URS engineers traveled to Shishmaref this summer to perform a preliminary site investigation of the three sites proposed for relocation by the community. URS began this project by inviting a host of federal, state, local, non-profit, for-profit agencies and businesses to share their ideas and knowledge about relocation. All participants emphasized the need to create and sustain a broad collaborative network to complete such a large, lengthy and expensive project. URS presented the preliminary findings of the site inspection and an overview of the recent work effort. The meeting also addressed such topics as project teams and roles, goals of work efforts, relocation site status, time frames, funding considerations and agency desired outcomes. The city clerk and a utility board member completed the RUBA sponsored Organizational Management for Rural Utilities course in November 2011.
RUBA Activities for the Coming Qtr:
Nome RUBA staff plans to travel to the City of Shishmaref to meet with the city council to discuss the final draft of the Code of Ordinances.
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All revenues and expenses for the utility are listed in the utility budget.
The utility has adopted a balanced realistic budget.
Monthly financial reports are prepared and submitted to the policy making board.
The utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills.
The utility has on hand a year's adequate fuel supply or it has a financial plan to purchase an adequate supply.
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources) sufficient to cover operating expenses.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources sufficient to cover operating expenses and Repair & Replacement (R) costs.
YTD revenues are at a level equal to or above those budgeted.
YTD expenditures are at a level equal to or below those budgeted.
A monthly manager's report is prepared.
Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary.
Finances Comments
The regular scheduled meeting minutes of June 21, 2011, show that the city council approved the FY12 budget with corrections. The ordinance includes a financial summary of all projected revenues and expenses for the fiscal year, followed by a detailed line-item breakdown of all associated expenses for each city department and public utility service. The utility and city finances are in good standing. The city, however, continues to struggle receiving the necessary utility related revenues to cover the operating expenses. The city council made a decision to continue subsidizing the washeteria by transferring money from other funds, such as the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT). The city bookkeeper and the utility clerk prepare monthly financial reports and submit them to the city council on monthly bases. The bookkeeper continues to provided RUBA staff monthly financial reports. According to the financial reports, the city and its utilities are current in paying all water and wastewater bills. The year-to-date revenues and expenses fluctuate from month to month, but overall, the revenues are at the equal or above those budgeted and the expenditures are equal or below those budgeted. The city council is active in the budget appropriation process and it has a good grasp of the fiscal reality of the city and utilities. The council makes informed decisions regarding utility finances because it receives and reviews monthly financial reports. According to the monthly city council meetings, the city council makes fiscal adjustments when necessary by amending the original budget.
Accounting Systems
Essential Indicators
The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it.
The utility bills customers on a regular basis.
An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts.
An accounts payable system is in place.
The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records.
A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent.
The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent.
Sustainable Indicators
A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner.
Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts.
The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts.
Accounting Systems Comments
The utility clerk is responsible for the cash receipt system and collections. The clerk sends out monthly utility bills to customers and offers a payment plan option to delinquent customers. Since the City of Shishmaref does not have a fully piped water and wastewater system, the city bills customers on a monthly basis for honey bucket bin rentals hauling services. This quarter, Nome RUBA staff provided the city clerk and utility clerk with letters of discontinuence of services and referral to collections services letters. However, the city offers customers deferred payment plans before considering taking legal or collection actions against delinquent customers. The utility clerk keeps track of all payments by recording them in a detailed logbook. The utility clerk passes along the financial information to the city bookkeeper, who uses QuickBooks Pro 2010 to generate monthly financial reports, prepare monthly bank reconciliations and track payroll liabilities. The QuickBooks Pro monthly financial reports are converted to Excel spreadsheet format which makes them much easier for council members to read and understand. The city clerk reported that all purchases are made in accordance with the budget.
Tax Problems
Essential Indicators
The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities.
The utility is current on filing tax reports.
The utility is current on making tax deposits.
If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current.
Tax Problems Comments
The city and the utility use QuickBooks Pro 2010 to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities. The city has no past tax liabilities or liens recorded. On December 27, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service reported that the City of Shishmaref is in compliance with federal employment tax filing and deposit requirements. As of December 27, 2011, the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development confirmed that all state tax payments and tax filing requirements are current.
Personnel System
Essential Indicators
The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language.
The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions.
The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation.
The utility has an adequate written hiring process.
The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance.
The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations.
The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available.
Personnel System Comments
All city employees are covered by an Alaska Municipal League Joint Insurance Association (AMLJIA) workers' compensation insurance policy. The policy is valid until July 1, 2012 and covers work-related accidents and occupational diseases as per Alaska statutory limits for each occurrence. The City of Shishmaref implements a comprehensive personnel management system with the mayor and city council continually reviewing personnel matters. The city and the utility follow the personnel policies in the day-to-day management of personnel. Each employee undergoes a performance evaluation review. The city maintains personnel files for all the city employees. The city is in the process of updating all employees' files to include I-9 forms. The city and the utility have a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job-training/oversight and evaluation, which is completed after ninety days of an employee being on the job. The city and the utility provide training opportunities to staff as funds are available. The city clerk and a member of the utility board completed the 32-hour RUBA Organizational Management for Rural Utilities course in November 2011, as well as other RUBA trainings previously.
Organizational Management
Essential Indicators
The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set.
The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility.
The policy making body enforces utility policy.
The utility has an adequately trained manager.
The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper.
The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators.
The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure.
The policy making body meets as required.
The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings.
Organizational Management Comments
The City of Shishmaref owns and operates the community's sanitation system. The city has a utility board which consists of members of the city council. The board is active in policy making and the city enforces the utility policies as per the code of ordinances. The city clerk and members of the city council reported that the board has monthly utility meetings. To comply with Alaska's Open Meetings Act, the city consistently posts notice of each meeting at least five days in advance in three public places. Each notice indicates the type of meeting to be held, location, date and time. The city council is active in policy-making for the utility, as evidenced in the city meetings minutes reviewed by Nome RUBA staff. The meetings minutes show that the city council is provided with written financial reports, briefings on ongoing utility projects, staffing issues, training requests and concerns of the public. The utility has a certified water operator, who is the manager and is supervised by the city clerk. The council hears monthly oral reports on the operation, finances and management of the utility from the operator. There is also an alternate water operator who works part-time or as needed. The operator has stated to RUBA staff he was proud to hold his job because the utility has provided good clean water to its residents. The city has a current organizational chart posted on the wall of the city clerk's office. Nome RUBA staff assisted in creating the organizational chart. The city council plays an active role in policy making. The October, November and December 2011 public meeting minutes show that the council discusses the utility finances and adopts budget amendments to facilitate the operation of the utility without creating interruption in services. The city council asked for more assistance in setting rates.
Operation of Utility
Essential Indicators
The utility operator(s) are actively working towards necessary certification.
The utility has a preventative maintenance plan developed for the existing sanitation facilities.
Sustainable Indicators
The manager receives a monthly O&M report from the utility operator and routinely "spot checks" the facilities to see that the maintenance items are being completed.
The utility has a safety manual and holds safety meetings.
Utility facilities have not suffered any major problems/outages due to management issues that are unresolved.
The utility is operating at the level of service that was proposed.
The operator provides status reports to the manager on a routine basis.
The utility has completed and distributed its "Consumer Confidence Report".
The utility is not on the "Significant Non-Complier" (SNC) list.
The utility maintains an inventory control list.
The utility maintains a critical spare parts list.
Operation of Utility Comments
The utility has a lead and an alternate water operator. The lead water operator is certified and is pursuing CEU's to maintain his certification. The alternate water operator does not have a certificate but he has attended classes, has been actively working towards certification and has a total of approximately five years of experience as a water operator. The utility has a preventive maintenance plan and a safety manual. According to meeting minutes, the utility holds monthly safety meetings by phone. The safety meetings are provided by the Alaska Municipal League Joint Insurance Association (AMLJIA). The utility has not suffered any major problems or outages for many years. The operator provides oral status reports to the city council and meets all required regulations. The utility is not on the Significant Non-Compliance list. The utility does not maintain an inventory control list and a critical parts list. RUBA staff recommended that the governing body address this problem. RUBA staff advised the governing body to contact the remote maintainance worker or the engineer assigned to the city to ask for assistance in creating an inventory control list.
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Traditional Wedding (Zulu Culture)
- 1 What is a traditional wedding?
- 2 Who set a wedding date?
- 3 Wedding preparations (Bride's side)
- 4 Brides Fairwell (Ukucimela)
- 5 Groom's outfit
- 6 Brides outfit
- 7 Conclusion
- 8 Zulu summary
- 9 Umgcagco
- 10 Ukunquma usuku lomshado
- 11 Amalungiselelo kamakoti
- 12 Ukucimela
- 13 Amalungiselelo kamkhwenyana
- 14 Ngosuku lomshado
- 15 Ngezithuba zasemini
What is a traditional wedding?
A traditional wedding is a last step after lobola negotiations has been finalized. This kind of wedding involves different cultures. Sometimes traditional wedding can be between two different cultures so those cultures will be represented on that day although the bride will end up following her husbands culture.
Who set a wedding date?
The groom invites his in-laws to come to his home so that they will discuss the wedding date (Ukubona izinkomo). The groom pays all the cows to the bride's family and then they set a date which is suitable for both families. After they agreed on a date the bride's family will go back home with the cows and start the wedding preparation.
Wedding preparations (Bride's side)
The bride's family buys gifts that she will give to her in-laws after the wedding ceremony such as: blankets, Zulu mats, brooms, clay pots, aprons and furniture. She will also buy a box (Kist) where she can put her clothes in and her husband's gifts.
The goat will be slaughtered after the head of the family has spoken to the ancestors that his daughter is getting married. The bride's father buys a goat that will be used to perform a ceremony which is called umncamo and he want the ancestors to protect her.
Brides Fairwell (Ukucimela)
The family and relatives of the bride give gifts to the bride just to wish her a happy wedding and they advice her to be a good wife to her husband and family.
Wedding preparations (Groom's side)
The groom will buy two cows which will be slaughtered on the day of the ceremony. He will also buy a goat that will be slaughtered to welcome the bride. The groom's family will prepare food and sorghum beer for a special day.
Wedding day
Bride's mother gives her daughter blanket that she will use to cover her body when she is leaving and her father will lead her to the kraal, and from the kraal they will go straight to the groom's residence and the bride will be advised not to look back.
The brides family comes early in the morning so that the bride will steal the gate. The bride enters her husband's home while nobody is noticing her. She enters in the kitchen and seat in the women's side of the house. Then the groom's family will pay for not being aware of the bride, they should have stopped her before she enters the house . The groom's family will welcome the bride's family and show them the room in which they can stay. In the midday the ceremony will start both bride and groom wear their traditional clothes.
Groom's outfit
Ibheshu- skin buttock covering worn by man.
Isinene- it covers the male front part
Isembatho- it covers male shoulders
Amadavathi- it covers male ankles
Izingusha- they cover male wrists
Iklolode- it covers male hair
Brides outfit
Isidwaba- leather skirt worn by married woman
Isicwaya-wear skin to cover breast
Inkehli- it covers females head
Then the couple will go to an open place where they will perform their wedding and dance in a traditional way. After that they will go back home to eat. The bride will give her in-laws the gifts she brought and also the groom's family will give the bride outfit that she will wear when she enters the kitchen.
Wedding bring two families together it actually build a relationship in the families that no one will separate because it also involves their ancestors. So the groom's family takes a cow's bile and split it to the bride which ensures that she now belongs to the groom's family.
Zulu summary
Umgcagco uyisiko elenziwa uma sekuqediwe ngamalobolo lapho umakoti sekufanele akhishwe aye emzini. Abashadayo bayazibophezela phambi kwezihlwele ezisuke zikhona emshadweni.
Ukunquma usuku lomshado
Umkhwenyana umema abakubo kamakoti ukuba bafike kuzoxoxwa mayelana nezinkomo bese kunqunywa nosuku lomshado. Uma selubekiwe usuku lomshado abakamakoti baphinda emumva nezinkomo sebeyolungiselela usuku lomshado.
Amalungiselelo kamakoti
Umakoti uthenga izingubo zokwembesa, amacansi, izinkamba, imishanelo kanye nefenisha ahambisana nebhokisi.
Ubaba kamakoti uthenga imbuzi yokukhipha umakoti ashise impepho abike emsamo ukuthi isiyahamba indodakazi isiya koshada. Leyombuzi iyahlatshwa idliwe ngalo lelolanga.
Izihlobo nabangani bayafike bephethe izipho bezovalelisa kumakoti bamyale ukuthi kufanele aziphathe kahle futhi ahloniphe emzini.
Amalungiselelo kamkhwenyana
Umkhwenyana uthenga izinkomo ezimbili ezizohlatshwa ngosuku lwecece kanye nembuzi yokumukela umakoti. Ubesethenga nokudla okuzodliwa abantu ngosuku lwecece.
Ngosuku lomshado
Umakoti uholwa uyise ngengalo adlule naye esibayeni ekuseni kusemnyama bese kuphunywa kuhanjwe kuyiwe kamkhwenyana, umakoti uyayalwa ukuthi angabheki emuva aze ayongena kamkhwenyana. Uma sebefikile kamkhwenyana umakoti uyafohla esangweni engabonwa muntu angene endlini ahlale esililini sabesifazane. Uma engabonwanga bayahlawula abakamkhwenyana kodwa uma evinjiwe abahlawuli.
Ngezithuba zasemini
Umakoti nomkhwenyana bayavunula balungiselele ukuya esigcawini. Uma sebeqedile kuyaphunywa kuyiwe kosinwa esigcawini. Uma sekubuywa umakoti uyambathisa abasemzini ngezinto asuke efike nazo. Nabasemzini bamuphe izipho bese bemkhombisa ukuthi usezongena ekhishini enze konke afuna ukukwenza.
Umshado wakha ubudlelwane phakathi kwemindeni emibili obungeke buqedwe muntu ngoba ekugcineni umakoti uthelwa ngenyongo okuyisiqiniseko sokuthi usengowalapho eshadele khona.
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First of all, as the press release title states, "The Wait Is Over: The First Star Wars Movie is on DVD." Yes, folks, Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace is making its way to DVD this year on October 16th. The 2-disc set promises over six hours of unique material including:
It sounds like quite a collection, and the retail price has been set at $29.98. So, when you are done digging through all of the Snow White DVD material and your older kids need a change of pace, this will be available the following week for your viewing pleasure.
In addition to the Episode I announcement, Lucasfilm commented that a second title will be released at the same time. Currently unannounced, the title is believed to be Lucas' fantasy / adventure Willow. I'll keep my eyes open for any additional information that may arise in the coming weeks...
In other fairly big news, The Simpsons: Season One DVD box set release was recently confirmed. Slated for a September 25 release, the set will include all 13 of the first season episodes with a bunch of bonus material. Included on the discs will be:
The disc set will be priced at $39.98. A follow-up set of the second season may be released in time for the holidays, with two more sets being released each year thereafter. However, keep in mind that the price and number of discs will go up for subsequent seasons, since all subsequent seasons have 26 or more episodes.
Warner Home Video recently announced the long awaited release of The Goonies DVD on August 21. The disc will include an audio commentary from director Richard Donner and the cast, a "Making of…" documentary, a music video, deleted scenes, outtakes, and the theatrical trailer. It will retail for $24.98.One last little tidbit, especially for the younger kids, is the August 7 DVD release of Bear in the Big Blue House: Potty Time With Bear / Visiting The Doctor. Personally, these are two topics that are close to my heart, as I'm sure they are to anyone with a 2 –3 year old. The disc will retail for $19.95 and will run 75 minutes.
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The second stop on this year's Dream 18 is Blue Ridge Trail in Mountain Top. This is the 7th hole on the Trail Course.
Tim Witherspoon, a 2-time heavyweight champion of the world, is mentoring young adults in Hazleton both in and out of the ring.
Our journey through this year's back nine of the Dream 18 begins at Blue Ridge Trail Golf Club in Mountain Top. Course superintendent Duane Schell takes us through the par-4 9th, an uphill dogleg hole.
New York Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was in Lewisburg on Friday to remember a former college teammate, Lewisburg High School grad Brandon Kramm.
A.J. Donatoni takes us out the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins practice facility to meet new head coach Mike Sullivan.
Several local athletes could make an appearance in the 2016 Olympics.
Southern Columbia grad and New York Giants fullback Henry Hynoski returned to his alma mater to help run a youth football camp. We caught up with Hyno as he passes on his knowledge of the game to a new generation.
Bloomsburg University grad and New Orleans Saints offensive lineman Jahri Evans returns to his alma mater to help run a youth football camp. We catch up with Evans as he passes on his knowledge of the game to a new generation.
Holy Redeemer softball, Wyoming Valley West baseball, and Abington Heights baseball go for state championships in Happy Valley! We have highlights and reaction from each thrilling game.
Wyoming Valley West and Abington Heights are moving on to state championship Friday after winning their Class AAAA and AAA semifinal games, respectively.
Auston Robertson will be announcing his college decision on Sunday with friends Austin Mack, and Ben Skowronek. The top recruit in the State of Indiana is excited about the big announcement.
First round games from state baseball and softball as many of our local teams advance to the quarterfinals
Baseball, Lacrosse and Volleyball playoffs are all in the playoffs. You can get the highlights and scores here.
George Curry will be back at Berwick for the 2015 season but that could be his last season.
Check out the highlights from AAAA, AAA, AA and A baseball.
More of our local athletes won gold on day two of the State Track and Field Meet in Shippensburg. Here are a few of the highlights.
Plenty of our local athletes shined on day 1 at the State Track and Field meet in Shippensburg. Check out some of the winners.
Right-Hander Scheduled to Pitch Thursday, May 21
Eyewitness News Reporter Joe Garrison has our highlights
Mini Golf just wouldn't be the same if Lomma didn't exist. Their courses can be seen all across the country.
In 'Making the Game' Part II we head to Schuylkill County and introduce you to logo designer Joe Bosack.
Our Making the Game series takes us to Northumberland County to tour a business that has been making mats for wrestling and gymnastics for 55 years.
For the 13th straight year, the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins are in the Calder Cup Playoffs.
Wyoming Valley West Graduate C.J. Yakimowicz has signed on to play in the A.H.L.
The Rochester Red Wings hand Scranton/Wilkes-Barre a loss and drop them below .500 on the young season.
We visit Schuylkill County's Lager Jogger.
The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders open theyear with a win thanks to the hot bat of Ramon Flores who hit for the cycle on Thursday.
The Scranton Wilkes-Barre Railriders begin a new season
In our Sports Spotlight A.J. Donatoni speaks with a former North Carolina Tar Heel basketball player that is receiving lessons from his coach even in death.
The Bloomsburg Huskies get a look at their talent entering the 2015 spring football schedule.
Marking A Milestone: 50 Years of Harness Racing begins Saturday- March 21st- Post time 6:30 pm
Loyalsock Boys, Old Forge Girls and the Holy Redeemer girls play in the final four.
High School basketball teams compete to advance to the Quarterfinals in the PIAA bracket.
Check out highlights from Round 2 of the PIAA Basketball tournaments.
High school wrestlers from across the state compete in Hershey for state gold.
High school basketball district championship games from Friday and Saturday night. Includes highlights and scores from Districts 2, 4, and 11.
The Bloomsburg Women's Basketball team pushed past Kutztown on Tuesday night.
We have highlights from Districts II, IV an XI to go with some college basketball.
The Classics of Scranton Prep are getting ready for their district tournament game with Honesdale
Poor weather on Friday forced high school basketball action to Sunday. Check out all the highlights from District II boys and girls basketball.
Check out the high school basketball action from round 1 in District II. Highlights from both Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
We remember North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith and to do so we pulled up video from his time in Luzerne County in 1983.
Dozens of people warmed up their vocal cords for a chance to sing at PNC Field.
Check out highlights from the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins road game in Hershey and all your local basketball for Saturday.
Several local athletes signing their letters of intent to carry their football careers on to the next level.
Excitement has been building ahead of the face-off between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks.
Ken Brown joins us live from Glendale, Arizona and catches up with an old friend of ours, Luzerne County native George Toma. He's been the head groundskeeper at every Super Bowl.
Ken Brown joins us from Glendale, Arizona and goes in-depth with Seahawks assistant and Lackawanna Trail product John Glenn.
Ken Brown joins us live from Glendale, Arizona and talks about the differences the Seahawks will experience between last year's Super Bowl and this year's.
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