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HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year starter for head coach Bubba Luckett at Christian Brothers High in Memphis, Tenn....named All-State and All-Region and earned team MVP distinction...senior season averaged 19.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.3 steals in 33 games while helping lead the Purple Wave to a 24-9 record and a spot in the Tennessee Division 2-AA West Region semifinal ...led the Purple Wave in scoring with 15 points in the semifinal contest versus Memphis University School...junior year averaged 15.2 points and 6.5 rebounds in helping lead Christian Brothers to the Tennessee Division 2-AA state title game, falling to Briarcrest High School...Purple Wave won the regional crown en route to the state championship contest...named to the Tennessee Division 2-AA All-State Tournament Team as Christian Brothers finished 26-7...highlight game of his career was a 27-point outburst in one quarter versus Hamilton at the MUS Shootout, hitting eight 3-pointers and converted a three-point play.
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FRESHMAN (2009-10): Attended University of Memphis, playing in 22 games with one start... in his collegiate debut against Jackson State, netted a season-high seven points and grabbed a season-best two rebounds in six minutes...had a near-perfect shooting game against Jackson State going 2-of-2 from the field, 1-of-1 from 3-point range and 2-of-3 from the line...first career start at home against Central Florida, playing 30 minutes with five points, seven rebounds, five assists, two blocks, two steals and just one turnover...scored three points and added one rebound and two steals in the Tigers' regular season finale win over Tulsa, hitting a key trey during a late first-half run against the Golden Hurricane that extended a 23-17 lead to 30-19 by halftime...played two minutes in home win against Gonzaga, missing his only field goal attempt, a 3-pointer.
SOPHOMORE (2010-11): Attended University of Memphis, playing in 27 of the Tigers' 35 contests with 10 starts, one of them against Gonzaga in the Spokane Arena...tied a career high with two steals against Gonzaga...had career-highs of 13 points and nine rebounds in season-opening win over Centenary...made nine of his 10 starts in Conference USA play...career-highs of five assists and two blocked shots in home win over Central Florida, playing a career-high 30 minutes.
JUNIOR (2011-12): Played on an Athletes In Action squad that toured East Asia in June...redshirted at Memphis.
GRADUATE (2012-13): Transferred to Gonzaga and was immediately eligible because Memphis did not offer his graduate program…played sparingly through the first third of the season, seeing just 63 minutes of action through the first 12 games of the season…played double-digit minutes in first three West Coast Conference games of the season, getting a season-high 13 points at Loyola Marymount on a 4-for-5 night from the field – all 3-pointers – and grabbed 4 rebounds…first Gonzaga start came at home against Pepperdine, playing season-high 24 minutes with 9 points on a 3-for-6 effort from the field – all treys…beginning with that start averaged nearly 11 minutes/game the rest of the season…averaged 3.2 ppg and went 28-for-63 from the field including 24-for-54 from 3-point range for 44.4 percent as he became a 3-point weapon off the bench.
GRADUATE (2013-14): Played for Athletes in Action on 10-day tour to Lithuania in August.
Misc.: Born in Memphis...two-time recipient of the Conference USA Academic Medal in 2010 and 2011...named to the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2010 and 2011...earned 4.0 GPA for the 2010 and 2011 spring semester...named to the Dean's List all four semesters of his career (2009 fall-2011 spring)...earned Tiger 30 distinction for the 2010 spring, 2010 fall and 2011 spring semesters...A member of the Tiger 3.0 Club all four semesters (2009 fall-2011 spring)...graduated from Memphis with degree in Sport and Leisure Management and is in graduate school at Gonzaga in M.A. in Organizational Leadership.


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A Small Town Doing Big Things for the Global Economy
Posted byon October 08, 2009 at 01:06 PM EDT
We believe that through regional collaboration we can bridge the urban-rural divide. We can invest in urban centers in a way that will benefit suburbs, exurbs, and rural communities, and vice versa. It does not have to, and can no longer be, a zero-sum game. Our fates are inextricably linked. As the Urban Tour (aka, the National Conversation on the Future of Cities and Metros) has continually demonstrated, smart regional plans succeed when there are strong public-private partnerships and everyone is brought to the table.
Our latest visit to Flagstaff, Arizona builds on this theme and also proves that good ideas and smart planning come in all sizes and models. "Economic gardening" – as Mayor Sara Presler calls it – creates an environment for local businesses to grow and flourish even in a town with less than 70,000 people that's perched at 7,000 feet above sea level.
Flagstaff has woven together public and private resources to incubate emerging technology businesses in Northern Arizona, from wind, to biotech, life sciences to solar power industries. Mayor Presler says it best, "we may be a small town in America, but we are doing big things for the global economy."
Our day in Flagstaff began with a tour and in-depth discussion with policy leaders, researchers, and business experts at Northern Arizona Center for Emerging Technologies (NACET). NACET is a business incubator that was funded in part by a $2.5 million Department of Commerce/Economic Development Administration grant that was matched (and surpassed) by the City of Flagstaff. The funding helped to leverage over $30 million in private funds. Within just 10 months, NACET incubated 11 companies and created 80 high-wage jobs with an average salary of $92,000 a year.
NACET is also home to Southwest Windpower, a company that is central to the Flagstaff success story. We, along with Megan McCluer of the Department of Energy, toured Southwest Windpower's facilities and learned about wind energy technology. Southwest Windpower is a pioneer in the development of small wind technology. The company has produced over 160,000 wind generators which have been installed in 80 countries around the world, and has developed a new generation of low cost wind turbine that connects homes to electricity grids. This is particularly important to the region because Flagstaff is seated in a Congressional District in which one-third of the Navajo Nation has no electricity or water.
We held a community forum later that day at Northern Arizona University, in a LEED Silver certified building, where 259 Flagstaff residents were eager to engage the Administration about the future of their community. We discussed best practices and ways in which the federal government can be a better partner in promoting innovative solutions. Megan McCluer emphasized that "[the federal government] needs to be broader in our thinking in deploying clean energy."
The regional collaboration taking place in Flagstaff is a model for the country. It was a long flight but a meaningful moment for a small city that represents much of what this Administration is trying to achieve: a stronger economy, environmental stewardship, and a concept fundamental to the American story – E Pluribus Unum: "Out of many, one."
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Environmental Source Samplers, Inc. (ESS) has a long and proven track record. We have been providing air quality related services since 1979. Headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, ESS has provided stack testing services in most of the fifty states and internationally. ESS serves clients in many industries including: Aluminum, Asphalt, Automobile, Carbon, ...
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E3 2011 Preview: Bastion
When it comes to downloadable console games, it seems that recently there has been no shortage of new ideas and fun gameplay. Every few months we get a breakout game either on PSN or XBLA, bringing us innovative designs in a budget-priced package that big publishers wouldn't risk trying in a flagship game. One of the upcoming games that shows this best is Bastion, a game that is now being published by WB, but that's only after it's garnered a lot of attention at trade shows and quietly built up a lot of hype with the indie gaming crowd.
I got the chance to play Bastion at E3, and I have to say that its blend of familiar isometric action, hand-drawn art, and weird narration style seem weird when you see it at first, but it actually comes together nicely. You play as a fine young chap, thrust into a world that's seen from the three-quarter isometric angle. Everything is hand-drawn in 2D, but the game doesn't feel flat at all, and the world kind of floats up from the abyss and builds itself as you traverse it. (It's the same layout and design every time you play, but often the stuff that appears as you travel can take you by surprise - or at least, it will your first time through.) Falling off of this teetering world of platforms is always a risk, and while there are no jumping puzzles, the game will gleefully put you near an edge and then throw monsters at you that require a lot of dodging to beat. One bad dodge, and off you go. You come right back with lower health and can always crack open a health potion to repair the damage, but you'll also be needing those to survive fights with the game's tougher enemies, too.
It probably sounds like this is some kind of medieval adventure game, but it mixes in guns, fantasy, and just a lot of seemingly mismatched themes in a way that's held together by the deep-voiced, film noir-style narration. This is used to very briefly prepare you for new situations, but it's also used to deepen the storytelling. I've heard a lot of comparisons to Braid or Limbo, but it really doesn't have anything to do with the gameplay - it seems to be mostly because of the 2D drawn visuals and hints at a deeper storyline. The style of play you get has more to do with adventure, action, and exploration than Braid's puzzle focus, and the reliance on a real voice means Bastion is doubling down on a more hands-on and less abstract style of storytelling. Whether that pays off or not in the end is a question that can only be answered by actually playing the game all the way through.
My particular adventure was supposedly through the harder of the levels that was available for this demo, and I had to use my musket-styled shotgun to take out bullet-shooting plants at a distance while also using a hand-held shield to block their projectiles. I got my hands on a spear which allowed me to unleash precise throws as well as a powerful melee attack, and found myself hunting some kind of weird below-ground-dwelling crocodile monster. All I had to do to trigger an attack (in the style of a land shark) was to walk in a particular kind ofl grass, and I figured out that using a dodge/roll maneuver would get me out of harm's way. Then I could get in one or two counter-attacks with the spear before repeating. I managed to beat the level with a handful of health potions left, and while the developer that watched over my shoulder told me I did really well, I'm always skeptical hearing that at trade shows, because hands-on gameplay like that is often very carefully put together to make the player feel like they really accomplished something. I imagine that most gamers did just fine on that level too - and I'm sure they found that level wasn't terribly difficult in the first place.
While Bastion doesn't really invent whole new gameplay ideas, it does mash together some under-utilized and really fun ideas to make something entirely unlike any game I've seen before. I will say that people are looking for the the narrative to really go somewhere as story goes, so hopefully this game's eventual conclusion will get people talking like Braid and Limbo did. Bastion is set for release on July 20th on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 points ($15), and while I see a Windows version listed on many sites, no release date for that has been announced yet.


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Undergraduate School/Major: I attended Sichuan University and obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering.
Prior to Booth: I spent four years as an auditor in Ernst & Young Chengdu and another year in M&A advisory at Deloitte Shanghai.
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Activities: Member of the Investment Banking Group, Asia-Pacific Group, Greater China Group, Basketball Club, and AudioBooth.
Career plans: I'm recruiting for investment banking in New York and Hong Kong.
Why did you choose Chicago Booth? I chose Booth because I want to further my career in finance and Booth is the best finance school in the world!
Use three adjectives to describe your experience at Chicago Booth: Inspiring, intense, and exciting.
What do you consider a "must visit" place or "must-do" activity in Chicago? The "must-visit" place is the MPP building where over 300 Booth students live and "must-do" activity is the "nine-hole" party in MPP.
Ask me about...: Recruiting for a job in East Asia and how to adapt to life in Chicago as an international student.
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Why did you choose Chicago Booth? Booth was always my first choice school, and I withdrew all my application to other schools after I was admitted. I knew about Booth since I met a few alumni in China who helped me to understand the school's culture and really impressed me for their well-roundness and approachability. Other reasons include the flexibility of curriculum, the free market culture, and the kindness of students and alumni.
Use three adjectives to describe your experience at Chicago Booth: Approachable students, well-rounded, and challenging.
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"Reform within austerity: UK public sector ICT overview and forecast to 2016-17" provides data on the UK public ICT market, providing marketers with the essential tools to understand their own and their competitors position in the market. Thus allowing them to use the information to accurately identify the areas where they want to compete in the future.
This report summarizes the status of the UK public sector ICT market in 2011-12, and anticipates developments over a five year period to 2016-17. This overview of the market for ICT goods and services across the UK public sector is intended both for those currently working with public sector clients, and those considering this market for the first time. The report also covers the economic social and political changes that influence the market, and the buying behavior that is shaped by these trends.
The report provides background material on the changing context for those who are already working with public sector clients. Those engaging for the first time with this market will find an outline of market structure, funding flows, major buying units and influencers.
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Report covers the use of ICT in the public sector across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This report forecasts ICT spending across hardware, software, services, communications and staff. These forecasts include spending on ICT outsourcing and ICT elements of some outsourced business processes. The ICT spending associated with ICT-intensive business process outsourcing is included in these forecasts. It examines UK public sector buying behavior across the following seven sub-sectors, which covers market structure, market drivers and initiatives, and forecast spending trends.
Central and devolved government: including both Westminster and the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland;
Local government: This covers local authorities across the whole of the UK, as well as fire and rescue services and various smaller bodies;
Criminal justice: including courts, and offender management;
Police and policing functions;
Health: This covers providers of healthcare services that fall within the public sector;
Education, including schools, further education colleges and higher education institutions;
Transport: including bodies involved in policy development, management of the public transport infrastructure and public sector providers of transport services;
National security and defence: where we take an overall view of security market trends, and forecast ICT expenditure in the defence sector that is not covered within the other sub-sectors.
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Two weeks ago, after 14 years of intermittent civil war, a rebel army composed of teenagers with outdated rifles attacked Monrovia, Liberia's seaside capital and have since taken control of a large portion of the country. The battles have killed hundreds of civilians, filled refugee camps and led to an outbreak of disease. As an indication of the international's community's concerns about events there, on Friday, the UN Security Council voted during an emergency session to send a multinational force to calm the fighting while a new government is formed.
Despite various "cease-fires" and ongoing peace talks in neighboring Ghana, Liberia seems to be descending into chaos with no relief in sight. The main rebel group behind the attacks, Liberians United for Reconstruction and Democracy (LURD), has stated that it will fight any interfering peacekeeping force.
Of even more concern, the insurgents initial attacks seemed to be concentrated on the U.S. embassy, where thousands of terrified civilians gathered. Frenzied Liberians piled mutilated corpses in front of the embassy's shuttered gates.
Many have called upon the U.S. to intervene, citing its "special relationship" with Liberia–which was founded primarily by freed U.S. slaves who left to create their own nation. Few accounts have detailed, however, precisely what the nature of this "special relationship" has been and why, from a moral perspective, it imposes obligations on the U.S..
In the following pages, I will use a legal concept drawn from contract law to explain the basis for the U.S.'s responsibility toward Liberia. The concept is "detrimental reliance." A contract is an exchange of promises. When one party breaks its promises, and the other has relied on that promise and suffers as a consequence, the latter party is said to have "detrimentally relied."
Liberia detrimentally relied on a number of promises and representations–explicit and implicit–made by the U.S. over the past century and a half. Historically, the United States has acted in such a way as to represent that it will provide for Liberia's economic well-being and security. But over history, it has let Liberia down–at no time more conspicuously than now.
In a contract case in which detrimental reliance was shown, the remedy would be damages. In this human rights crisis, the proper remedy is aid; humanitarian intervention; and the U.S.'s sending troops immediately to stabilize Liberia and protect innocent persons there from further atrocities.
The "Special Relationship" Between Liberia and the U.S. : Lengthy and Deep
As a review of Liberian-U.S. ties will show, America's special relationship is based on its using Liberia's resources to advance its security interests, and for economic gain.
In the early 19th century, Paul Cuffe, a wealthy African-American merchant from Massachusetts, became convinced that the only way that American blacks could become self-governing was to emigrate to Africa. To this end, he helped create a transportation company called the American Colonization Society. With the U.S. government's approval, the Society began to resettle free American blacks in Liberia.
Those pioneers were the original Americo-Liberians. In the small tropical nation, they quickly became the ruling group, assuming all positions of power and influence. Soon they constituted a U.S.-friendly elite. (It was also an elite whose skin color was typically lighter than that of the original Liberians. Sadly, then, the Americo-Liberians created a hierarchy that, in this respect mirrored the racial hierarchy they had endured in the U.S..)
In the 1920's–in large part because of the presence of this friendly elite, and that of a considerable U.S. naval fleet just offshore–the U.S.-based Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded the largest rubber plantation in the world in Liberia. The company installed Americo-Liberians in positions of power, and the small elite rose to economic prominence.
Subsequently, Liberia's president, William Tubman–who ruled from 1944 to 1971–allowed the CIA to build the largest spy station in all of Africa within his borders. During the Cold War, the U.S. sank billions of dollars into developing surveillance equipment in Liberia. Liberia also functioned as a U.S. outpost from which the U.S. sought to undermine national liberation movements throughout the continent.
After Tubman's death, his successor, President William Tolbert, angered the U.S. by courting favor with China and Cuba. Tolbert also angered most Liberians by showering privileges on his fellow Americo-Liberians. The ethnic and class conflicts between the Americo-Liberians and the darker Liberians grew.
In 1980, Tolbert was murdered by Samuel Doe–an illiterate warlord trained by the U.S. Green Berets. Doe became the first "true" Liberian to rule the country. Doe assassinated most of the former cabinet members as well as his fellow insurgents, and unleashed a wave of ethnic-based terror. Doe also exploited America's Cold War fears concerning Africa. Famously, President Reagan–who handed Liberia more than $5 billion during the early 1980s–invited Doe to the White House, addressing him as "Chairman Moe."
Charles Taylor's Ascension to the Presidency
Around the same time, Charles Taylor–an Americo-Liberian who had graduated from Bentley College in Massachusetts, and was in prison there on charges of embezzling part of the Liberian national budget–escaped, and returned to Liberia.
Taylor quickly became Doe's main adversary. He led a ragtag group of boy soldiers who for years hounded Doe's army and the civilian population from their countryside hideouts. By the mid-1990s, that protracted civil war had claimed more than 200,000 lives. In 1997–as a result of national presidential elections that international observers concluded were essentially open and fair–Taylor won, garnering more than 75% of the vote of the war-weary population.
Taylor used his new power to foment instability in neighboring Sierra Leone, in large part so he could mine diamonds there to fund other regional military insurgencies. Indeed, over the past decade, Liberia has been at the center of a complex web of regional battles in West Africa one that has also consumed Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Nigeria–that has involved not only such diamonds, but also illegal arms sales, massive refugee flows, the use of child soldiers and unspeakable human rights abuses.
When the world became savvy to the problems of "conflict diamonds"–illegally mined and traded diamonds that could fund arms trade and terrorism–Taylor diversified his business interests, in ominous ways.
Recently, the Center for Investigative Reporting detailed the links between illegal harvesting of Liberia's tropical rain forests and illegal arms smuggling in the area. The report noted that U.S. consumers are buying large volumes of wood products from Liberia–though it has been repeatedly sanctioned by the UN because of these sales. The report also noted that, unlike many other countries, the U.S. has failed to ban the import of Liberian wood, and thus to comply with the UN sanctions.
The Al Qaeda Link: The U.S.'s Continuing Interest in Liberia
Currently, the United States is particularly interested in the arms/wood trade in Liberia because Al Qaeda has been funding many of its activities through income sources such as diamonds and timber. Accordingly, Liberian intelligence may offer some help in tracking the financial dealings of Al Qaeda.
In addition, the U.S. fears that a destabilized Liberia could become a training ground for other terrorist groups. Its porous borders, excellent natural wealth and lack of any sort of government or control make Liberia, in some ways, a perfect base of operations for terrorists.
The Recent Crisis in Liberia Though Liberia has been troubled for a long time, the source of its current crisis is surprisingly recent. Less than two months ago, on June 4, a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone charged Taylor with "bearing the greatest responsibility" for war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law. Shortly thereafter, Taylor promised to leave office.
As a result, a cease-fire among rebel groups was signed, and representatives of the surrounding countries started to plan for a new Liberian government. But when Taylor refused to set a date for his departure, the fighting quickly resumed.
Last month, Taylor accepted an offer of asylum from the President of Nigeria–who said he would shield Taylor from war crimes charges, but only if Taylor stayed out of Liberian politics. On Friday, a group of West Africa negotiators traveled to Liberia to try to arrange Taylor's departure, yet, ominously, he disappeared shortly before their arrival.
The U.S. has demanded that Taylor leave the country before it will decide on the deployment of even a limited number of troops for a temporary mission, even though they are parked just offshore in several large combat vessels. However, Taylor has refused to leave until peacekeepers arrive–ironically contending that if he did, Liberia would descend into chaos and "total destruction." The result is a stalemate during which Liberians will continue to die.
Unsurprisingly, without a credible threat that troops will soon arrive, the LURD and other rebel groups are pressing ahead with their attacks. Yet the African regional security body and the UN are hesitant to respond–and again, the main culprit is the U.S.'s mixed signals.
For all these reasons, it seems plain that the bombs will continue to fall in Monrovia. It also seems plain that the U.S. is in large part to blame for that fact.
Liberia's Detrimental Reliance on U.S. Support
The sources of the U.S.'s responsibility to intervene in Liberia are twofold.
First, throughout Liberia's history, its enduring relationship with the U.S. has brought Liberians to count on the United States for financial support and security. And that is only fair; the U.S. has not only interfered in Liberian politics, but has enhanced its own finances and security greatly as a result of its relationship with Liberia.
Under similar circumstances, France and Britain stepped in and established peace when their former colonies Ivory, Coast and Sierra Leone, were in turmoil. The U.S. should do the same.
Second, right now Liberians–as well as other West African nations, and the UN itself–are relying, to their detriment on the U.S.'s specific promises to send troops–promises that have yet to be fulfilled. Every day this reliance creates greater damage–damage measured in human lives.
It is high time for the U.S. to more fully intervene to help a country that has so long relied on its reciprocal relationship with the U.S., and on U.S. promises. If the U.S. fails to do so, especially when it could do so quite easily compared to other military involvements, the rapidly growing chaos in Liberia may well develop into a regional disaster. And that disaster could itself develop into a human rights catastrophe.
It's important to recall that it was only a decade ago, in Rwanda, that civil unrest led to one of the worse human rights disasters of this century. The darker-skinned, subordinate Hutus suddenly, brutally slaughtered the light skinned minority Tutsis with machetes and other weapons. The U.S. not only failed to intervene at an early stage when it could have stopped the fighting–it also gave mixed signals to the U.N. and Africa security bodies, further delaying any possible intervention. That conflict left half a million dead and scattered a million refugees across the continent. The U.S. owes it to Liberia to prevent a similar outcome there.
As I noted above, a basic principle of U.S. contract law holds that if one makes a promise to someone who is hurt by relying on it, one must account for the damage one has caused. This simple legal and moral–principle explains why the U.S. is responsible for stopping the Liberian crisis before it becomes even worse.
NOAH LEAVITT, an attorney, practiced refugee law in Cape Town, South Africa. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Findlaw.com. He can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"Sometimes it seems that this whole world
is one big prison yard,
Some of us are prisoners
And some of us are guards.
Ballad of George Jackson,
by Bob Dylan
George Jackson was originally convicted of a $70 gas station heist in his late teens and sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of one year to life. Because of his refusal to bend down and crawl on his knees, so to speak, he never again left the California prison system and was murdered by guards in the yard at San Quentin on August 21, 1971. By that time, George was a member of the Black Panther Party and a revolutionary hero to millions around the world. His book Soledad Brother is still in publication and is remarkable not only for its insights into Jackson's life and thoughts but also for the emotionally charged writing it contains.
A year before his murder, his brother Jonathan was involved in an attempt to help free George and two other men known as the Soledad Brothers. On August 7, 1970, Jonathan Jackson entered the Marin County Courthouse armed with a submachine gun. He hoped to force the release of the Soledad Brothers. These were three men — his brother George, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette — who were charged with the murder of two guards at Soledad Prison after a black prisoner who was also a Muslim was killed by guards. Jonathan gave guns to the three prisoners who were present in the court–John McClain, William Christmas, and Ruchell Magee, a jailhouse lawyer who was testifying at the trial of fellow prisoner McClain, whose trial Jonathan interrupted. The three then took the judge, prosecutor and three jurors hostage.
They left the courthouse and placed the hostages in a county van. Before the armed men and their hostages left the courthouse, the Marin County sheriff ordered his men not to shoot. Despite this order, the van was hit by a hail of gunfire from San Quentin prison guards and other law enforcement personnel immediately after it left the court building's garage. Jackson, Judge Haley, McClain and Christmas were all killed. Magee remains in prison to this day, the sole survivor of this episode in US history.
Today, young black men are incarcerated at a greater rate than twenty years ago when Jackson died. In fact, the US prison system holds a higher percentage of its black population in jail than apartheid South Africa did during its heyday. According to a Justice Department report released on July 28, 2003, that over 10 per cent of black men between the ages of 20 and 39 were incarcerated in 2002. This figure contrasts with 1.2 per cent of non-Latino white males and 2.4 per cent of the Latino male population. Even more revealing are these numbers: the 586,700 black men in prison outnumber both the 436,800 white males and 235,000 Hispanic males. Furthermore, many of our country's inner city areas where many of these young people live in are under what amounts to a state of siege. Using the excuse of a war on drugs, heavily armed police can arrest virtually anyone they wish and, if they deem it necessary, the police do not hesitate to kill. After all, if they do kill a suspect, chances are they will walk no matter what kind of outcry there is from the public.
Drugs, which when consumed by the current president in his younger days were but youthful indiscretions, continue to be the primary reason people are in custody. One would think that with the percentage of people in the seats of power today who tried marijuana in their youth, there would be a greater tolerance for those people who smoke it today. Yet, when today's youth consume marijuana in a world much bleaker than that of twenty years ago, calls go out to jail them. In fact, in today's climate, even those who use pot for medical reasons face the possibility of prison. According to the aforementioned Justice Department report, over half of the current federal prisoners are in prison on drug offenses. This is primarily due to sentencing guidelines that require mandatory minimums on sentences and an accompanying trend among state and county prosecutors to hand many drug cases over to federal prosecutors, usually under pressure from the feds. Indeed, a friend of mine just recently finished serving a ten-year sentence for LSD possession with intent to distribute (1st offense) because she was tried in federal court instead of by the state of California. If similar cases are any indication, she would probably have received some kind of supervised probation if she hadn't been turned over to the Feds after refusing to turn in her friends. It's not that drugs are not a problem, mind you, but the greater problem is a government and society whose solution to such problems is to take actions that would be illegal if they were committed by a civilian.
It was George Jackson's belief that prisons are but the latest form of slavery. The scenario is pretty much the same: primarily poor people of color live in inhuman conditions providing forced labor for the state and private industry. The Nazis did the same thing in their prison camps, which is why Jackson often finished his letters to friends and family with the farewell, "From Dachau, with love." It is not enough for us on the outside to merely protest the imprisonment of prisoners in other countries, we must also examine the role we play in maintaining the so-called justice system at home.
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(Another Guest Blog from one of our favorites, Suzanne Pyrch. Continuing to instruct us on the lessons she is learning about ways in which we can help to save our planet.)
My wife and I love travel. We believe the old saw that travel broadens you. And yes, after a recent trip to Italy where we thoroughly enjoyed the food, I mean that as a double entendre. But it is how travel gets the wheels of your mind working that is so exciting. The wheels of my mind began cranking several weeks ago in Florence.
We needed to do laundry early and quickly before we set out for the day's adventures. There was a Laundromat near to the place where we were staying. It was small, a bit dingy, and clearly a concession to tourists as most Florentians do laundry at home. The soap was dispensed from a machine similar to a coffee machine. This machine sported a handmade sign saying BIO, and when you put in a 50cent token detergent oozed down a tube into a plastic cup. After using the detergent, you returned the plastic cup to the repurposed coffee machine — that is if it didn't slither out of your hand first.
Once we got the wash in, I left Deborah with the laundry and went looking for a place to get coffee and a nosh. I found a café at the next corner. It was a bright, woody and pleasant place with a display case full of tempting noshes. The regulars were standing at the counter drinking their espressos from those cute, tiny ceramic cups. To place my order I had to dodge in between the regulars. Since Deborah was minding the laundry, I ordered cappuccinos and apricot croissants to go. The barista put the croissants in a paper bag and the cappuccinos in plastic Dixie cups with no lids – and not even the good red Dixie cups, but the translucent white cups with the ribs.
I took it as a cheerful challenge to juggle the bag and two cups for the half a block back to the Laundromat. It was only when I had everything secure on a bench that this experience set my wheels turning. While plastic Dixie cups were not exactly eco-friendly, they were an indication of how little a concession Italians make for to go. And then the corollary popped into my mind: Americans are addicted to speed and ease. In the ballet of pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, motorcycles and cars that is Florentian traffic, not once did I see a delivery vehicle. And in investigating four Italian cities, I saw maybe two McDonalds.
As the detergent cup in the Laundromat evinced, Italians don't go in much for overpackaging. There weren't even many pizza boxes to be found. A trip to the market would cost you 5 cents extra if you forgot your bag. Even at a food kiosk in a park, the cappuccinos were served to us in ceramic cups. At a time when some first world countries are shipping their garbage to other countries, a cut back on garbage seems quite sane. According to The Clean Air Council, each American uses 500 disposable cups per year. I figure that the little detergent cup in the Laundromat saves many pounds of garbage each day. Not only does it save on garbage, but also the resources and energy needed to create and transport the containers that become garbage.
Protecting our endangered planet is very important to me, but sitting in that Laundromat I found a more personal reason to rethink the way we do things. When I pulled apart the apricot croissant, I realized that fresh replaced fast. Food in Italy is not an afterthought. Meals are meant to be savored, not dug out of boxes. I remember one meal at a restaurant where they brought to our table a metal mesh basket full of fresh fava beans. As we talked, we pulled apart the pods and ate the fresh beans. The only refuse was nature's own biodegradable containers, and the taste was splendid. As an impatient American, I was sometimes annoyed when I had to elbow my way through espresso drinkers standing at the bar in order to place my order. But now I realize that they were much more likely to experience their coffee as a beverage rather than as a quick drug ingested on the run. I found out that a happy consequence of creating as little garbage as possible is living life intentionally.


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learning how to properly charge and learning cold start procedure for LiFePO4 greatly increases odds of success, using li-ion batteries in our motorcycles.
let's visit a commonly used term in batteries... "C" ... example, A123 has a recommended max charge rate of 4C. a discharge rate of 30C, etc.
so what exactly does "C" mean. actual amp hour rating = 1C ... one A123 26650 cell = 2.3 AH @ 3.6v fully charged. 4x A123 wired in series = 2.3 AH @ 14.4v fully charged. (AH=amp hour) (26650 = 26mm x 650mm)
4x A123 2.3 AH LiFePO4 battery pack is spec'd at 4C .. so max charge rate is 10amps.... but not so fast... folks in the RC world has been charging A123 packs at 10C 1,000+ cycles with no ill effects.
Shorai LFX21 AH (pb eq) or 7 AH actual is rated at 3C conservatively. Shorai's prismatic cells can easily take 5C with no sweat.
not telling you to purposely overcharge LiFePO4 cells... but these cells are very rugged and are able to withstand a huge amount of abuse. including operating in unbalanced condition.
where all this matters is due to relatively low AH ratings of LiFePO4 vs lead acid batteries. Peukerts law says as internal resistance goes down, losses from high amp discharges goes down accordingly. this heavily favors LiFePO4 vs lead acid batteries during starting discharge when experiencing 70-185amps.
at lower amps Peukerts losses are very close. in other words current draw by accessories like lights, heated gear, GPS, etc. discharge efficiency are close for both types of batteries.
alternator will be constantly recharging for both types of batteries. but LiFePO4 will be drawing larger amps loads for shorter durations. using test mule R80G/S .. current delivered to battery is 22.5amp with higher output regulator @ 3,000 rpm. at that rate battery will be charged back to 85% level within minutes. then battery will take on less amps to fully charged condition.
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Regimental Meeting and Muster in Cowtown a sucess
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Holden Regatta report posts in the Journal!!
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hobby great - in the Capt.'s corner.
COWTOWN event AAR posts in the Journal!! Read all
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Recruitment in Wichita and a Ninth showing at
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Although the usual impression of the 9th is that of a
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Winning the Battle in Your Mind Amazon blog for Battlefield of the Mind DVD – by Joyce MeyerWelcome to my Amazon blog! I want to share with you about an important DVD that I believe could change your life forever. I'm so passionate about this DVD because the truth contained in the messages transformed my life. You see, I was an extremely bitter person because my father abused me physically, sexually and emotionally throughout my childhood and until I was able to leave home at the age of eighteen. But by God's grace, I've not only learned how to forgive and let go of my past, but also how to change the way I think so I can really enjoy my life every day. Now I have real peace and am free to reach out to others, helping and supporting them when I see needs in their lives that I can meet.So many people's issues are rooted in thinking patterns that actually produce the problems they experience in their lives. No matter where you've been or what you've done, it's my sincere hope that you'll learn the life-changing impact of changing the way you think. Your actions are a direct result of your thoughts, so if you want to change your life for the better, you must learn to change your thoughts for the better. I'd like to show you how to do that through my DVD Battlefield of the Mind.Your mind isn't a playground but a battleground, where many different kinds of thoughts are fighting to control your life. The good news is, you get to choose which thoughts win! When you choose to think life-generating thoughts that line up with God's Word, you'll begin to experience the fullness of life that the Lord has planned for you. I'll show you how to recognize when self-destructive thoughts are trying to control you and how to defeat them.Battlefield of the Mind has been the most requested teaching in my thirty years of ministry. We've received hundreds of testimonies from people who have turned their lives and situations around simply by changing the way they think. Because these messages have been so life-changing for so many, it's my desire to make them available to as many people as I can. Don't surrender to hopelessness another day! Take some time to learn the powerful principles in these messages so you can overcome your negative thoughts and live a victorious life. -- Joyce Stills from Battlefield of the Mind
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This book will bring you the experiences of 29 indie authors—their passions, their insights, their successes—to help other authors make the leap into indie publishing. This is not a how-to guide. This is the best of the indie tradition of experienced authors paying forward what they've learned, giving you information to help you on your journey. The personal essays in this book will leave you itching to get your work into the hands of readers and experience, first-hand, all the rewards indie publishing has to offer.
I've already set up a sign-up form for those interested in helping spread the word. Any amount of help big or small would be greatly appreciated. It will be up to you, when the times comes, as to how much you do. I will provide a list of things you can do, plus promo material. You can then choose what to do with it. You might choose to simply copy/paste a pre-written tweet, or to copy/paste a full-fledged blog post from a prepared HTML doc. It will all be made very easy for you. I will not expect you to write anything from scratch.
Contributing authors in alphabetical order are:
Alex J. Cavanaugh | Angela Brown | Anne R. Allen | Briane Pagel | C.S. Lakin | Ciara Knight | Cindy M. Hogan | D. Robert Pease | Dawn Ius | Emily White | Greg Metcalf | Jadie Jones | Jessica Bell | Karen Bass | Karen Walker | Kristie Cook | Laura Diamond | Laura Pauling | Laurel Garver | Leigh Talbert Moore | Lori Robinson | Melissa Foster | Michael Offutt | Michelle Davidson Argyle | Rick Daley | Roz Morris | S.R. Johannes | Stephen Tremp | Susan Kaye Quinn
The Australian! This is HUGE for me. Certain bookshops have even written to stock the book, including Gleeboks in Sydney, The NSW State Library, Fullers in Tasmania, Readings in Melbourne, and Matilda Books in S.A. I know I'm not mentioned in the article, but if people buy this anthology, and read my poem, and like it, finally, finally, I might start getting my wet little literary feet recognized in my home country. Fingers and toes crossed!


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Reusable Water Bottle Giveaway from 'The Never Waste' Campaign
The Never Waste campaign was designed to help Americans change the way we think about water to make an impact on water challenges here in the US, and is being launched by the Alliance for Water Efficiency and communities nationwide. Using the water we already have more efficiently is the most cost-effective way to preserve water for future generations.
Why Reducing Water Waste is Important
- The U.S. population grows by one person every 15 seconds. The total water supply is finite. Human beings are highly creative, but we cannot create more water.
- At least 36 states are anticipating water shortages in 2013. We can't sustain our way of life if we don't use water more wisely.
- Much of the water we use is not consumed and escapes through leaks. The amount of water leaked from U.S. homes could exceed more than 1 trillion gallons annually, enough for Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami.
- Saving water can help you save money. The average household spends over $950 per year on its water and sewer bill. A few simple changes could save about $300 per year.
- It also saves energy. Letting your faucet run for five minutes uses as much energy as letting a 60-watt bulb run for 14 hours.
Understanding how much water we waste becomes much easier when we can compare it to an everyday object. The Never Waste campaign features a water bottle that helps quantify the amount of water we waste on a daily basis. NeverWaste.org, offers consumers tips to help reduce water waste, such as fixing leaky appliances, turning off the faucet when possible and using water wisely outdoors. Consumers can also use a household water calculator to determine their water use and compare it with both water-efficient and average homes nearby.
And thanks to the good folks at Never Waste, readers of The Good Human now have a chance to win one of these reusable water bottles. What do you have to do to enter? There are a few simple rules:
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Shiny Water Bottle. Thanks Good Human for the chance to win!
Good idea!
Very nice idea!
Thank you for the giveaway opportunity, and the information regarding what water wastage equates to, in terms of energy useage- I can see that there will be some discussion at my (mostly male) household, regarding shaving! LOL
What a great giveaway and website too. They're on a great mission and I wish them all the best; along with wishing you all all the best.
I could definitely use a water bottle, thank you for doing this. This must be the day to think about water as I just took my water footprint this morning.
love it!
I love the design of the bottle! Thank you for doing the giveaway! 😀
I always need another reusable water bottle and I love the looks of this one.


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Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer will serve a second five-year term.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a news conference Wednesday at the Knesset announced that he would ask the Finance Ministry to approve the appointment.
Fischer agreed to the appointment after the Knesset voted in favor of a new Bank of Israel Law that he made contingent on agreeing to a second term.
The law, which passed its second and third readings on Tuesday, sets a series of checks and balances on the bank and the governor. The law currently governing the bank was passed in 1954.
Fischer, 66, became a citizen of Israel in 2005 in order to assume the post. He has kept Israel's economy stable during the recent global recession.
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Even if President Obama succeeds in getting Republicans to agree to tax hikes on the wealthy as part of a "fiscal cliff" deal, the country's grim budget realities will still cast a long shadow — limiting his ambitions as he begins plotting a second-term agenda.
Any agreement is likely to result in less than the $1.6 trillion in new taxes over the next decade that Obama requested in his initial offer to House Republicans, and White House aides are signaling to allies that any new money from taxes would be used almost entirely for deficit reduction — not for ambitious, new spending programs or government expansions.
Where Obama entered office four years ago planning to seize a moment of economic crisis as an opportunity for transformational policies such as the $800 billion stimulus and his health care overhaul, he begins his second four years with few, if any, similarly expansive or costly prospects.
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Instead, any new spending programs will, by necessity, be small and narrow in scope: repairs to roads and bridges, airport renovations and other infrastructure upgrades, for example, or modest grants to help blighted city neighborhoods.
Allies expect Obama to harness the combined political capital of his reelection and the outcome of the tax fight for an aggressive push to legalize millions of illegal immigrants in what could be a signature domestic achievement.
But beyond that, the second-term agenda remains shrouded in uncertainty, with questions about whether he would pursue other politically charged issues such as climate change or voting rights.
How high Obama can aim will depend at least in part on the details of whatever deal he manages to strike in the coming weeks with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).
Democrats say breaking GOP orthodoxy on taxes would be a game-changing moment, weakening the tea party movement's two-year stranglehold on Republican leaders and paving the way for future deals.
"A good agreement could provide important momentum for the president to accomplish other items on his agenda, like immigration reform, like some energy and infrastructure initiatives," said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "The question is, what does a 'good agreement' mean?"
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said Obama's potential success over the next four years also depends on the president's ability in the current talks to neutralize GOP threats to use votes on increasing the country's borrowing limit to force additional spending cuts.
If the debt limit threats continue beyond this month, Durbin said, "there's no way the president can function or this economy can grow under those circumstances."


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From the Pew Research Center, as reported in the Washington Post. Here is another summary, and here is the poll itself. Some of the more disturbing findings:
Nearly half of Muslims in Lebanon and Jordan, and 56% in Morocco, say suicide bombings against Americans and other Westerners in Iraq are justifiable.
Anti-Jewish sentiment is endemic in the Muslim world. In Lebanon, all Muslims and 99% of Christians say they have a very unfavorable view of Jews. Similarly, 99% of Jordanians have a very unfavorable view of Jews. Large majorities of Moroccans, Indonesians, Pakistanis and six-in-ten Turks also view Jews unfavorably. . . . 76% of Indonesians, 74% of Pakistanis, and 60% of Turks have an unfavorable opinion of Jews.
Only in Jordan does a large majority (75%) say that some religions are more violence prone than others, with 98% of those holding this view pointing to Judaism as most violent.
In Pakistan, . . . a narrow majority (51%) places some measure of confidence in bin Laden, a slight increase from 45% in 2003. And in Jordan, support for the Al Qaeda leader has risen over the last two years from 55% to a current 60%, including 25% who say they have a lot of confidence in him.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Poll of World's Muslims Shows Some Encouraging Results
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Huntington Beach Little League scored four runs in the third and five runs in the fifth inning, showing more than enough firepower to prevail against Las Vegas Silverado Little League and clinch the No. 1 seed out of West Region pool play.
Nick Pratto went 3-for-3 with a double off the top of the fence while Hagen Danner drove in four runs for Southern California (4-0), which will play No. 4-seeded Utah in the semifinals Friday at 8 p.m. Braydon Salzman also drove in two runs for So Cal while Anthony Martinez and Ryo Takada joined Pratto by scoring two runs each.
Nevada (2-2) will play Northern California in the semis on Friday at 2 p.m. It could have captured the No. 1 seed with a win but was unable to match So Cal's run barrage, though it did get a two-run home run from first baseman Omar Ortiz in the fourth inning.


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The report on the research highlighting the link between stress and failing memory (25 September, p 12) is great news for people of all ages. However the closing quote from researcher Ron McKay, "I actually think that I am going to get a couple of phone calls from drug companies," is most worrying.
If ever there was a condition which could be vastly improved upon using non-chemical therapies, stress must be it. There is a huge range of enormously effective alternatives to drug therapy for stress. The results uncovered by the National Institutes of Health team should not be cause for covetous approaches by the drugs companies. They should, instead, trigger urgent reviews of government health and education policies, health and safety at work policies, and our own personal attitudes of the importance of stress management to our general wellbeing.
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Anne Ursu is the author of several books for young readers and is the 2013 recipient of the McKnight Fellowship in Children's Literature. Anne's latest book, "The Real Boy," an Indie Next pick and was on the 2013 long list for the National Book Award. Her book "Breadcrumbs" was acclaimed as one of the best books of 2011 by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, and the Chicago Public Library. Anne teaches at Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and lives in Minneapolis with her son and four cats.
How do "Breadcrumbs" and "The Real Boy" meet the literacy needs and interests of middle grade readers?
It's my goal to write characters that readers can really identify with and feel for. I think that emotional connection is really important to middle grade; readers of this age are so empathetic. And so I hope in Hazel and Oscar readers find protagonists they care about.
In both these books, the protagonists are readers. Oscar sneaks into his master's library at night and reads botany books, and books ultimately help him uncover the secrets of his world. Hazel is a huge fantasy reader and makes a lot of references to Harry Potter and "A Wrinkle in Time"and "Golden Compass" and the like, and I hope kids who have read those books feel connected to Hazel, and those who haven't might want to read them.
Kids don't have a lot of preconceived notions of how books are supposed to work, and that gives us a ton of freedom in terms of the kind of stories we can tell and how we tell them. I love writing fantasy because it reaches kids on many levels—they are at a point where they are trying to figure out the world around them, and so reading about a fantasy world feels very relevant. And it tickles and celebrates their great capacity for imagination and for discovery.
It's also really important to me that the books give the reader a lot of credit.
I love Kate DiCamillo because her books use big words and have big ideas, and she proves all the people who think kids need simplicity wrong. I want the books to have ideas readers can sink their teeth into. I try to write books that have lots of layers, that might reach different readers in different ways. A couple reviews of these books have said they are too difficult for kids, and that makes me so frustrated. We need to honor these readers, not talk down to them.
And, most importantly, I want to give them a really good story that they can lose themselves in. Nobody loves a book like a kid does, and that presents a great challenge to authors—to write stuff worthy of these big-hearted, open-minded, story-craving readers.
Who are some authors that have pushed your writing and reading in new and unexpected directions?
"When You Reach Me" destroyed me. I was three chapters into a new book when I first read it, and I just threw away what I'd been writing; I realized if you can't at least strive to have that kind of ambition, what is the point of writing a book? Every time I read that book I discover another way in which it's perfect. Kills me.
"The Golden Compass" showed me that fantasy for young readers can deal with really rich philosophical issues, and I've always held it as a model for how big the themes in a book can be. Right now, I'm really interested in books that incorporate magic into the real world, like Nikki Loftin's "Nightingale's Nest"—I love that book because it trusts kids to understand that some questions cannot be answered. I just read "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin, and I think it's extraordinary, and it's got me thinking a lot about folktales. I also recently read "The Savage Fortress" by Sarwat Chadda—it's a really exciting and fun adventure story using Indian mythology, and I realize I need to delve deeper into global myths.
In addition to being an author you also teach creative writing to graduate students. What is one piece of advice you would give to a future middle grade writer?
Read. Read everything you can. Whenever anyone asks me this question at a school visit, that's what I say, and it sounds like I'm saying what the teachers want to hear, but it's true. The best writing education can be found in books.
What can educators do to get the most out of an author visit? Do you have advice for an author preparing to give a public reading of their work?
I love visiting schools so much. I hope that seeing writers makes kids feel like maybe they can be a writer someday. It certainly helps when the kids have been prepared—maybe the teacher can read a little bit from the books and talk about the author, maybe brainstorm some questions. Sometimes when I've done readings for "Breadcrumb"teachers read "The Snow Queen" (on which "Breadcrumbs" is based) to their classes, and I love that. It helps me a lot when the kids have a basis for what I'm talking about, and also when they are coming in and obviously excited.
I also learned at a school in Chicago that it's best not to the seat the kids too close to where the author is presenting or one of them might get stepped on, and then the author feels really really bad.
As for public readings, I cut down the section I'm reading—editing long paragraphs and descriptions—so it's easier to listen to. My reading copies are always marked up like crazy. I try to pick something that's fairly self-contained and about ten minutes. I have an old trick from being on the speech team in high school—when I'm doing dialogue I pick one side of the room to look at for each character, so the audience has a better sense of who is talking.
Have you had an opportunity to listen to the audio versions of your books? How does reading aloud factor into your writing process?
It sounds ridiculous, but it's very hard for me to listen to my own work. I'm way too sensitive to any bumpy phrasing—you can't edit it now, after all. And I'm hypercritical of the readers. It's for everyone's own good that I don't listen.
I do try to read every draft out loud. Certainly, it helps catch mistakes, but also you get so much of a better sense of the rhythms of your scenes. And sometimes you get bored reading—and that's a pretty good sign that what you're reading is boring. I don't really believe in "rules" for writing—I think you can do whatever you want, as long as it works—but I think you are generally supposed to avoid boring your readers as much as possible.


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