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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Pay it Forward!
I was lucky enough to come across Hillary's offer to pay it forward and accepted. And now I need to find three people to accept my offer.
If you would like to receive a handmade gift from me, and are willing to make and send a handmade gift along to three of your blog readers, please let me know in my comments. Once you accept, you will receive something from me within 365 days. In turn, you will have 365 days to fulfill your end of the bargain.
Pretty neat, no?
[PS. I would especially appreciate any comments that make me smile today. I got a speeding ticket on my way into the office today. Boo.)
ETA: Thanks to all for your interest in my Pay it Forward ... unfortunately, I've already gotten three people to play so the sign-up is closed. But you should check out their sites, because now THEY'LL be looking for 3 people each!:
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Oh my goodness!!! I would love to recieve one of the amazing things you make!!! I have seen this before around the blog world, and was pretty intimidated by it...but 365 days to make 3 gifts...shouldn't be a hard thing to do! I want in....ReplyDelete
Sorry about your ticket...hope your day goes better!!!
I found your blog about a month ago -- and you have inspired me to start quilting again (I began knitting about 7 years ago and totally forgot I even owned a sewing machine in the excitement of it!) Now, thanks to seeing all the beautiful work you do, I have 2 quilts in progress, and have purchased enough fabric to make 6 more - I am serious! You have really lit a fire in me to sew and make quilts ... even though I am nervous to try machine quilting. I see what you have made, and the lovely quilts you have received through swaps, and really want to sew again!ReplyDelete
I would be thrilled to receive something from you -- and would love to make things for 3 others (a year is a good time frame to slip in 3 extra projects), and I like the concept of random acts of kindness.
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I want to pay it forward, what a fun idea! Put me down.ReplyDelete
Sorry about your ticket, it always puts a damper on the day. Hope it gets better for you.
hm...too late for the pay it forward but that's ok.ReplyDelete
Sorry about the ticket. Go watch the baby video at my blog. It will make you laugh!!
I'm doing a pif over here - I didn't have 2 people sign up so I'm surprising some folks. Too bad about the ticket - where was it?ReplyDelete
Lately I've noticed a good deal of policing in the 35 mile zones.
Hi John!ReplyDelete
Longtime reader, first time poster. I am a brand spanking new quilter, inspired by you and several other talented quilting bloggers. So much so that I've started my OWN blog, and can't wait to start posting some projects (first ever quilt is in mid-bind as we speak!)
I would love to be considered for the pay it forward challenge; I love the idea of a cosmic chain of beautiful, handmade things! Thanks for the quilt-along (I see log cabins in my sleep now!)
Hm, don't know if you're choosing the 3 first people for the PIF, but anyway I'd love to join.ReplyDelete
Love the things you make, and your tutorials are great!
Speeding tickets happen (as parking tickets, which seem to be my forté), the only thing you can do is to pay them and then pretend it never happened!
You are in NC, right? My son goes to college down there and got a speeding ticket. He went and talked to the prosecutor (don't know if that's what they call it in NC but that's what they call it in NJ) and got it reduced significantly - so don't just pay it! He got it down to no points - he may have had to do a one day safe driving course or something, not sure. Good luck!ReplyDelete
I just finished a PIF on my blog last month. It was so. Stinking. Fun! Enjoy! (Oh, and if any of the other eight people who commented before I did don't want to play, please count me in!)ReplyDelete
Boo about the bad day. Yesterday was eventful for me, too: two flat tires, two diaper leaks, and one sore baby who fell of the bed. Somehow the day was wonderful. I chalk it up to good friends who came to my rescue. I hope you have some good friends in your neck of the woods.
OOO OOO OOO me! I would love to be part of your Pay it Forward, what a great idea! I am a novice to quilting and love what you do. You are truly talented and an inspiration. Hope your day is better :)ReplyDelete
I would love to pay it forward!! I would gladly pay your speeding ticket if you can/will remove the "Spider-Man" spider webs that my 4yr old son sprayed onto the kitchen ceiling. They have dried and become one w/ the ceiling! I'm trying to decide if I want to repaint the ceiling or tell people that it's the newest decorative accent for kitchens!!ReplyDelete
A friend of mine just dropped off one of her beautiful watercolors as a donation for a charity auction--and ended up paying $74 for a speeding ticket on the way home! Unfortunately, she can't write the ticket off her taxes! Maybe this won't make you smile, but know you're not alone. Sometimes our "enthusiasm" gets the better of us (or maybe enthusiasm is really just a lead foot :)ReplyDelete
I think you have 3 for the PIF, but if someone else is looking for their 3, I'm game!
This sounds fun, and I would love to send a surprise to a stranger! I've loved reading your blog and seeing the gorgeous things you've made!ReplyDelete
I just finished serving as a juror for the first time ever and we found the defendant GUILTY AS CHARGED! Does that help with a smile?
What a novel idea! I'd love to play. Sorry about the ticket. Tell your wife. My safety-conscious husband got one last month. He never told me. The gig was up when the "Clown Traffic School" postcards started showing up! BUSTED!ReplyDelete
Pay it forward...what a lovely idea. Isn't it nice to see how many comments you received in such a short time!:) I couldn't have done it even if I was first because I don't have a blog!:) No worries...I am just extremely happy and grateful for all you have taught me this month in the Wonky world! I can't believe all the different possibilities there are once you know how to do these and I learned the wonky star!! I have finished one wonky for our couch and have one top done for my daughter and one cut out for my son and then there are the 25 squares I have made that are posted on the ORBC site....all because of you and Dana and Amy....so John....no worries about the speeding ticket!:)ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog!! That means so much to me.ReplyDelete
I just posted again with info on my first quilt ever!! And would love love love for you too see that too, I even mentioned you in there.
Hi John, sorry to hear about the ticket.ReplyDelete
Give the ticket to your boss and have him pay it! After all, its his/her fault for making you work today right? If that don't work, offer the judge/cop a quilt, that might get you outta the ticket. Congrats on the PIF. I participated in one and got to send a gift to the UK.. I guess you could say that my craftiness is global!!!
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okay...go here:ReplyDelete
please pretend that i, the twilight dork, did NOT show this to you.
my hubby laughed his butt off when i showed it to him!!!
hope it cheers you up!!!
♥ rach
{sorry for deleting my other comment. huge typo. haha.}
Hi John. . . I posted a PIF a while back & still have 2 spots open. . .so, if anyone wants to play from my blog they are welcome to:ReplyDelete
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Have a great day!
In peace & pieces,
Sherry V.
BTW, sorry to hear about the ticket.
Jon I'm so sorry about your ticket what a rotten day! On the flip side having a pay it forward is a great way to lift your spirits!ReplyDelete
You just need to slow down Mr. John. What are you in such a rush for. Silly Boy!ReplyDelete
this should make you smile:ReplyDelete
you are an inspiration...
Sorry about the ticket! You should definately see Nancy's video, its sooooo funny! and as the UK recipient of Gregs PIF, I'm working on my own PIF gifts as I type, quilting has no boundaries! Hope the week gets better :-)ReplyDelete
Sorry about your speeding ticket! I came over from the Sinta's website to see your Schnibbles quilt - I hope you will post a photo and tell us more about it. You always use the most interesting fabrics!ReplyDelete
hallo, compliments for your blog and for your wonderful works. on my blog there is a Migrant Tombola.the rules are that the winner has to do a Migrant Tombola too.it is funny.hugsReplyDelete


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The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be one of record heat, sun, warmth, and drought in many areas across the USA. While this is fabulous vacation weather for the beach and outdoor activities, your lawn may have gone brown months ago depending upon your location. In New England, we are experiencing dry weather not felt since the 1950's. I don't imagine Elvis would be pleased to have a brown lawn upon his return home from touring.
At any rate, severe lack of moisture can create other problems beside the straw colored grass you see below your feet. Extended dry periods cause the soil temperature to dramatically rise, which in turn causes crabgrass and other noxious annual weeds to germinate in earnest. While your cool weather-loving turf is asleep trying to just survive, weeds can pop up and seemingly grow inches a day. This is especially true of crabgrass, even with a preventative treatment applied in the spring since the product's life span only lasts into late July or early August in NH or VT. Super heated soil creates an ideal growing environment for crabgrass, even in the best cared for lawns. A light touch is the best course of action until September arrives and restoration efforts can begin.
A more serious side to drought is the fact it attracts all kinds of heat- loving insects like Japanese beetles, chinch bugs and sod webworm to name just a few. Damage can be occurring right under your feet without a hint of the battle raging in the soil or on the hot brown surface of your beloved lawn. Left unchecked, fall rainfall comes and your lawn never recovers, which might be attributed to small grubs feeding from late summer right into fall.
Even those grassy areas lucky enough to have irrigation or some shade are not immune to the heat and humidity. I have seen plenty of brown patch disease rising up overnight due to humidity and wet grass, with the resulting damage visible the next morning. Mowing grass already in drought conditions or during the heat of the day is like pushing a friend over a cliff with the flu, just plain mean. The best advice in a hot summer with a significant lack of rainfall is to stay off the lawn if possible, watch and treat for insects as necessary based upon population levels, and irrigate if possible in the morning – even if only for a short period of time. Even a little water is better than nothing when it comes to keeping the dormant growing point of your grass alive. Like an IV in a sick patient in the hospital, any moisture applied is better than none in an absence of rainfall.
Any fertilizer used should be at a low rate, slow release, and generally granular in nature. With autumn only a month away, we are at the top of the roller coaster and things should slowly begin to improve as August fades into September. If your lawn has taken a hit like many have, plan now to have restoration services lined up in order to take advantage of the best growing time of year for grass – fall! Services like core aeration, overseeding, lime, compost tea, and organic or natural fertilizers can bring a lawn back to life in preparation for 2013.
Enjoy the heat now because your lawn sure hates it, at least in New England.

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By Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler, authors of Sexual Ethics
Part One of a Two-Part Series
In a recent interview with NPR's Fresh Air, Sister Pat Farrell, President of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), commented on one aspect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's "doctrinal assessment" of the group: "We have been, in good faith, raising concerns about some of the Church's teaching on sexuality…the problem being that the teaching and interpretation of the faith can't remain static and really needs to be reformulated, rethought in light of the world we live in…." Regarding whether or not these concerns are open for discussion in the Church, Farrell asks: "Can you be Catholic and have a questioning mind?…Is freedom of conscience within the church genuinely honored?" Her comment and questions invite reflection on a historical reason for concerns about some Catholic sexual teachings, the need for Church teaching that respects the consciences of the faithful, and the need for a renewed definition of the sexual person that adequately considers the sexual person in light of "the signs of the times."
Suspicion of human sexuality and the pleasure associated with its use has a long history in the Catholic tradition. Stoic suspicions of sexual pleasure and its emphasis that all moral sexual acts must be acts open to procreation within marriage were incorporated into Christian views on human sexuality and both "conjugalized" and "procreationalized" the approach to sexual activity. Augustine affirmed that sexuality and sexual activity in marriage are good because they were created good by the good God, but he also affirmed that their goodness is threatened by the powerful pleasure associated with sexual intercourse. Pope Gregory the Great even banned from access to the church anyone who had just had pleasurable intercourse. Despite some developments in Catholic sexual teaching, this suspicion of sex has for centuries placed enormous strain on Catholic consciences and self-esteem. This strain continues in the present and is highlighted by different perceptions of the role and function of conscience in relation to Catholic sexual ethics and Catholic social ethics.
There is a paradoxical difference in method between Catholic social and sexual ethics that has implications for exercising one's conscience on these issues. In Sollicitudo rei socialis, Blessed John Paul II articulates the Catholic Church's approach to social ethics. The Church seeks "to guide people to respond, with the support of rational reflection and of the human sciences, to their vocation as responsible builders of earthly society" (Sollicitudo rei socialis, paragraph n. 1). In social ethics, the Church guides, and believers, drawing on that guidance, their own experience, the findings of the sciences, and their informed consciences, responsibly respond. If the Church's way in social ethics is the way of principles that enable believers to responsibly respond, not the way of absolute norms to be unquestioningly obeyed, then surely it can be the way also in sexual ethics. That opens the way to the long-standing Catholic teaching on the moral ultimacy of conscience articulated, for instance, by the young Joseph Ratzinger in his commentary on Gaudium et spes' teaching on conscience. "Over the Pope as the expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority there still stands one's own conscience, which must be obeyed before all else, if necessary even against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority." Catholics rightly accord theological respect to the conscience of the magisterium when it teaches on sexual issues. Today they ask only that the magisterium reciprocate respect for their consciences.
[Part two will be posted tomorrow. It will discuss what a renewed understanding of sexual ethics might look like.]


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DCR's Virginia State Park Youth Conservation Corps Program was honored with the United States Department of the Interior's Outstanding State Volunteer program award in 2010. The Take Pride in America award cited the YCC's "... outstanding commitment to the stewardship of America's public lands and natural and cultural resources."
OVERVIEW: The mission of DCR's Virginia State Parks Youth Corps (VSPYC) is to engage Virginia's youth in a structured program of important conservation and park projects on public lands while providing learning that fosters teamwork, self-esteem, social responsibility and respect for the environment.
The program includes three elements united by the types of project, environmental education and adventure programming, and the age of the participants. These are environmental stewardship programs, not summer camps; the young person will work hard, sometimes in difficult conditions including deep mud, hot sun, and mosquitoes and flies.
Here's a video featuring a few crewmembers who participated.
Youth Corps projects are visible, tangible and meaningful. Crewmembers often return to the parks where they served and appreciate their projects for many years. Projects have educational aspects, are environmentally sound and fulfill an unmet need in the park.
Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) - This is a three-week residential program. Crews live in the park for three weeks. Work generally takes place in the daytime, and environmental education and adventure opportunities fill evenings and weekends. Crewmembers work and live as a team. Crewmembers also complete several projects throughout their park. Recruitment is targeted to attract youth from diverse backgrounds. Young people with a strong background in environmental education are encouraged to apply, but young people who have never experienced a park setting are welcome as well. An executive director and YCC coordinator handle the recruitment and selection of crewmembers and supervisors. Selection is based heavily on the quality of responses given in the application. Site selection and project planning are handled by park staff.
Youth Service Corps (YSC) - Through this non-residential program, service is used to re-engage at-risk and court-involved young people with their community and the environment. It runs Monday through Friday. Young people generally arrive at the park's corps site at 8 a.m. and leave at 5 p.m. The state parks partner with local youth service providers or organizations that generally work with at-risk youth. The partner provides meals and transportation and selects participants. Generally the partner also provides staff experienced in supervising the youth involved. Environmental education and adventure programs are offered in lieu of work during the day or added on the weekends or evenings, depending on the agreement with the partnering organization. Agencies that help at-risk youth and interested in learning more about this program should contact us.
Youth Development Corps (YDC) - This is a weekend program held during spring and fall. Crewmembers arrive on Friday nights, prepare a meal and set up camp. On Saturday, they work on a conservation project, much as in the YCC, but of course the scope of the work is limited by the short duration of the event. This program is particularly helpful to parks that lack adequate facilities to support longer summer programs. On Sunday the young people take part in outdoor activities such as rock climbing, kayaking, canoeing and interpretive hikes. This program is still in the planning stages.
Of the three programs, only the YCC requires potential participants to fill in an application form. The other two are by invitation of the executive director.
Crewmembers | Supervisors | Crewmember Application | Supervisor Application
Crews typically have 10 members, ages 14-17, from diverse backgrounds, as well as three college-age or older crew supervisors. The crew lives in the park in a structured work program. The crew is closely supervised by professional park staff and committed adult volunteers. By day, crews work on important development and maintenance projects, and after hours crewmembers enjoy recreational activities and learn about the environment, team-building, work life and job readiness.
The corps program aims to promote youth development, including disadvantaged young people, and provide a cost-effective way to raise environmental awareness and strengthen the stewardship of Virginia's valuable natural resources. The program combines work experience, education and life skills within the framework of environmental and community service. Crewmembers receive a $500 stipend for successfully completing the program. Bear in mind that this is not a summer camp. The program is for devoted and driven young people who apply for the program themselves. They should seek their parents only for permission to participate. Anyone found to be detrimental to the overall well-being of their crew will be sent home.
The program targets a broad cross-section of youth, including "at-risk," economically disadvantaged, college-bound, high school, dropouts and disabled youth. This diversity breaks down traditional social and economic barriers and provides a rich and challenging experience for each participant. A recent study shows that youth corps programs have a particularly positive impact. This program accomplishes what policy-makers of all political stripes want: A program that provides young people the opportunity to serve their state and the community while learning the values and skills necessary for the workplace and personal financial stability.
It is equally essential to help communities help themselves gain a larger stake in caring for our natural heritage. State parks are the natural setting for engaging citizens in such an environmental and developmental partnership. For youth service, the program offers practical conservation projects that can be completed in the time allotted by each session. It allows young people to witness and appreciate the immediate benefits of their work. For example, surveys indicate that visitors use trails more than any other park offerings, yet funding shortfalls make upkeep difficult. Trail maintenance, safety and accessibility are chief objects of the corps' work. Wildlife and native plant conservation and support for interpretive facilities are also high priorities.
In-kind support from local groups, such as parks' friends groups, is important and essential to the program. The groups want to help the young people, while corps participants help the parks. Various citizen organizations with few financial resources are able to contribute towards providing environmental education, logistical support, outreach, publicity and even help with recruitment. These groups also help promote the benefits of the program. The crewmember application will be available on Jan. 1, 2015.
Three crew supervisors are assigned to each crew of 10 to 14 crewmembers. Supervisors are directly responsible for overseeing activities of the young people from the time they report to the time they depart. Supervisors create a supportive atmosphere conducive to learning; they motivate, develop and discipline team members, ensure their well-being and help plan events. They also transport crewmembers to field sites, in a vehicle provided by the program, and they work with crewmembers in field projects. Supervisors also ensure that crewmembers are prepared for upcoming activities. The crew supervisor is the authority who must occasionally be a friend, parent, counselor and mentor. The role is demanding, but the reward comes in seeing crewmembers develop positive work habits essential to future employment. Supervisors build a team atmosphere and lead crewmembers to adopting a deep appreciation for environmental and community stewardship.
Crew supervisors must be able to work in and lead a team. The work can be physically demanding, requiring the use of field tools and hiking to remote areas while carrying heavy backpacks. First aid and safety training are required and will be provided during training. Supervisors must be comfortable working in rural, outdoor, marine and freshwater environments. As well, applicants should have some conservation education, experience or both, as well as experience in managing high school students. Supervisors may apply for up to two non-overlapping sessions.
The lead supervisor coordinates crew activities and serves as liaison with park staff. He or she coordinates meals and works with other supervisors and crews to make sure safety guidelines are followed and that logistics run smoothly.
Position offers are contingent on a criminal history record search and verification of two professional references. The principal purpose for requiring such personal information is to process your application for acceptance into the VSPYCC program; the information will not otherwise be disclosed to entities outside Virginia State Parks without your prior written permission. Also, VSPYCC policy prohibits the use of illicit drugs, alcohol or tobacco products while working with youth. VSPYCC members must be substance and tobacco-free throughout the entire session and during training (see below). Supervisors will receive a $1,800 stipend and $350 dollar travel stipend upon successful completion of the program.
In 2015, supervisor positions will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis so apply early. Applications will be available on Oct. 1. Supervisors must attend a training session June 11-14 at Twin Lakes State Park. Lodging and meals for the session are covered. Supervisors also must report to their respective park a day before their session starts. The three weeks of working with their young charges are intense. Supervisors must be onhand the entire time - 24 hours a day, seven days a week - and stay in contact with YCC directors every day to brief them on happenings at their park.
Applicants may choose the session but not the park. To learn more about the commonwealth's diverse natural resources, participants are placed in a setting distinct from their home. VSPYCC coordinators choose applicant placement and reserve the right to reject applicants who refuse a specific park assignment. Participants are responsible for their own transportation to the park. To facilitate carpooling, program administrators will provide contact information on other participants, but the YCC will not make the arrangements.
New corps members are preferred each year, but a participant may be selected to take part more than once if exceptional prior performance merits it. Selection is based heavily on the quality of responses given in the application. Remember, this is a work-at-will program. If upon arrival or during the session a crewmember or supervisor chooses not to help with a project, that person will be sent home and receive no stipend (see below).
Stipends are given upon completion of the program. If a crewmember or supervisor is sent home at any time before the program is concluded, a stipend will not be given to that person.
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|County Changes Sales Tax, Town Meets
|Written by Steve Frank
|Wednesday, 01 May 2013 14:57
Watauga County carried out its threat to the Town of Boone yesterday, with county manager Deron Geouque hand-carrying the county's notification to the state to change the sales tax collection formula. The move will cost Boone some $2 million in revenues, beginning in July and with the 2013-14 budget,
just now being formulated. But the matter at the root cause of the dispute is still nowhere from being settled, and the county still has the option, as a major owner of property in the town of Boone, to sue the town over the new 'affordable housing' ordinance that has caused the rift. On that matter, the Boone Town Council will hold a special meeting late this afternoon, going into a closed session to discuss the threats from county commission chairman Nathan Miller to sue the town. The town still has time to change their stand and save potentially save the $19 million deal on the old Watauga High property, but with the county playing their trump card and changing the sales tax distribution for at least the next year, that would seem unlikely. Watauga waited until the absolutely last minute to notify the state of their action, hoping for some movement from the town, but so far, there's no evidence that any such move is on the horizon.
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Perdido Street Stationby China Mieville
"As far as comparisons go, Miéville could be discussed in the same breath with steampunk authors William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. But it's not a stretch to compare him to the likes of Herman Melville: Both authors have pushed the envelope in their respective genres; both have created memorable, idiosyncratic characters (Bartleby, anyone?); and, perhaps most importantly, they can both be described as fearless and inventive." David Hannon, Powells.com (read the entire Powells.com review)
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Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory deal is stranger to none — not even to Isaac, a brilliant scientist with a penchant for Crisis Theory.
Isaac has spent a lifetime quietly carrying out his unique research. But when a half-bird, half-human creature known as the Garuda comes to him from afar, Isaac is faced with challenges he has never before fathomed. Though the Garuda's request is scientifically daunting, Isaac is sparked by his own curiosity and an uncanny reverence for this curious stranger.
While Isaac's experiments for the Garuda turn into an obsession, one of his lab specimens demands attention: a brilliantly colored caterpillar that feeds on nothing but a hallucinatory drug and grows larger — and more consuming — by the day. What finally emerges from the silken cocoon will permeate every fiber of New Crobuzon — and not even the Ambassador of Hell will challenge the malignant terror it invokes...
A magnificent fantasy rife with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and wonderfully realized characters, told in a storytelling style in which Charles Dickens meets Neal Stephenson, Perdido Street Station offers an eerie, voluptuously crafted world that will plumb the depths of every reader's imagination.
"This science fiction novel rocked my world. Sex with giant insects. Dream-sucking slake moths. An action-packed thriller with high literary production values. A sprawling, vastly ambitious, exquisitely executed science fiction fantasy with the best possible ending: You want more, more, more." Andrew Leonard, Salon.com
"[An] appetizing, if extravagant, stew of genre themes....
"[A] powerful tale...that combines Victorian elements with a fantasy version of cyberpunk. Miéville's visceral prose evokes an immediacy that commands attention and demands a wide readership. Highly recommended." Library Journal
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"More world building than storytelling, the yarn at least suggests that the author of King Rat is marching forward in his fantasy-writing career." Booklist
"It is the best streampunk novel since Gibson and Sterling's." John Clute
"China Miéville's cool style has conjured up a triumphantly macabre technoslip metropolis with a unique atmosphere of horror and fascination." Peter Hamilton
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From Cherie Priest, the award-winning author of Maplecroft, comes a new tale of Lizzie Bordens continuing war against the cosmic horrors threatening humanity
Birmingham, Alabama is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consumed the minds and hearts of its populace. A murderer, unimaginatively named Harry the Hacker" by the press, has been carving up citizens with a hatchet. And from the church known as Chapelwood, an unholy gospel is being spread by a sect that worships dark gods from beyond the heavens.
This darkness calls to Lizzie Borden. It is reminiscent of an evil she had dared hoped was extinguished. The parishioners of Chapelwood plan to sacrifice a young woman to summon beings never meant to share reality with humanity. An apocalypse will follow in their wake which will scorch the earth of all life.
Unless she stops it
Chapter One
A window burst open high above the market. A basket flew from it and arced
towards the oblivious crowd. It spasmed in mid-air, then spun and
continued earthwards at a slower, uneven pace. Dancing precariously as it
descended, its wire-mesh caught and skittered on the buildings rough
hide. It scrabbled at the wall, sending paint and concrete dust plummeting
before it.
The sun shone through uneven cloud-cover with a bright grey light. Below
the basket the stalls and barrows lay like untidy spillage. The city
reeked. But today was market day down in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick
of dung-smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets,
for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish
and cinnamon, cured meat, banana and onion.
The food stalls stretched the noisy length of Shadrach Street. Books and
manuscripts and pictures filled up Selchit Pass, an avenue of desultory
banyans and crumbling concrete a little way to the east. There were
earthenware products spilling down the road to Barrackham in the south;
engine parts to the west; toys down one side street; clothes between two
more; and countless other goods filling all the alleys. The rows of
merchandise converged crookedly on Aspic Hole like spokes on a broken
In the Hole itself all distinctions broke down. In the shadow
of old walls and unsafe towers were a pile of gears, a ramshackle
table of broken crockery and crude clay ornaments, a case of mouldering
textbooks. Antiques, sex, flea-powder. Between the stalls stomped hissing
constructs. Beggars argued in the bowels of deserted buildings. Members of
strange races bought peculiar things. Aspic Bazaar, a blaring mess of
goods, grease and tallymen. Mercantile law ruled: let the buyer beware.
The costermonger below the descending basket looked up into flat sunlight
and a shower of brick particles. He wiped his eye. He plucked the frayed
thing from the air above his head, pulling at the cord which bore it until
it went slack in his hand. Inside the basket was a brass shekel and a note
in careful, ornamented italics. The food-vendor scratched his nose as he
scanned the paper. He rummaged in the piles of produce before him, placed
eggs and fruit and root vegetables into the container, checking against
the list. He stopped and read one item again, then smiled lasciviously and
cut a slice of pork. When he was done he put the shekel in his pocket and
felt for change, hesitating as he calculated his delivery cost, eventually
depositing four stivers in with the food.
He wiped his hands against his trousers and thought for a minute, then
scribbled something on the list with a stub of charcoal and tossed it
after the coins.
He tugged three times at the rope and the basket began a bobbing journey
into the air. It rose above the lower roofs of surrounding buildings,
buoyed upwards by noise. It startled the roosting jackdaws in the deserted
storey and inscribed the wall with another scrawled trail among many,
before it disappeared again into the window from which it had emerged.
Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin had just realized that he was dreaming. He had
been aghast to find himself employed once again at the university,
parading in front of a huge blackboard covered in vague representations of
levers and forces and stress. Introductory Material Science. Isaac had
been staring anxiously at the class when that unctuous bastard Vermishank
had looked in.
"I cant teach this class," whispered Isaac loudly. "The markets too
loud." He gestured at the window.
"Its all right." Vermishank was soothing and loathsome. "Its time for
breakfast," he said. "Thatll take your mind off the noise." And hearing
that absurdity Isaac shed sleep with immense relief. The raucous profanity
of the bazaar and the smell of cooking came with him into the day.
He lay hugely in the bed without opening his eyes. He heard Lin walk
across the room and felt the slight listing of the floorboards. The garret
was filled with pungent smoke. Isaac salivated.
Lin clapped twice. She knew when Isaac woke. Probably because he closed
his mouth, he thought, and sniggered without opening his eyes.
"Still sleeping, shush, poor little Isaac ever so tired," he whimpered,
and snuggled down like a child. Lin clapped again, once, derisory, and
walked away.
He groaned and rolled over.
"Termagant!" he moaned after her. "Shrew! Harridan! All right, all right,
you win, you, you . . . uh . . . virago, you spit-fire . . ." He rubbed
his head and sat up, grinned sheepishly. Lin made an obscene gesture at
him without turning around.
She stood with her back to him, nude at the stove, dancing back as hot
drops of oil leapt from the pan. The covers slipped from the slope of
Isaacs belly. He was a dirigible, huge and taut and strong. Grey hair
burst from him abundantly.
Lin was hairless. Her muscles were tight under her red skin, each
distinct. She was like an anatomical atlas. Isaac studied her in cheerful
His arse itched. He scratched under the blanket, rooting as shameless as a
dog. Something burst under his nail, and he withdrew his hand to examine
it. A tiny half-crushed grub waved helplessly on the end of his finger. It
was a refflick, a harmless little khepri parasite. The thing must have
been rather bewildered by my juices, Isaac thought, and flicked his finger
"Refflick, Lin," he said. "Bath time."
Lin stamped in irritation.
New Crobuzon was a huge plague pit, a morbific city. Parasites, infection
and rumour were uncontainable. A monthly chymical dip was a necessary
prophylactic for the khepri, if they wanted to avoid itches and sores.
Lin slid the contents of the pan onto a plate and set it down, across from
her own breakfast. She sat and gestured for Isaac to join her. He rose
from the bed and stumbled across the room. He eased himself onto the small
chair, wary of splinters.
Isaac and Lin sat naked on either side of the bare wooden table. Isaac was
conscious of their pose, seeing them as a third person might. It would
make a beautiful, strange print, he thought. An attic room, dust-motes in
the light from the small window, books and paper and paints neatly stacked
by cheap wooden furniture. A dark-skinned man, big and nude and
detumescing, gripping a knife and fork, unnaturally still, sitting
opposite a khepri, her slight womans body in shadow, her chitinous head
in silhouette.
They ignored their food and stared at each other for a moment. Lin signed
at him: Good morning, lover. Then she began to eat, still looking at him.
It was when she ate that Lin was most alien, and their shared meals were a
challenge and an affirmation. As he watched her, Isaac felt the familiar
trill of emotion: disgust immediately stamped out, pride at the stamping
out, guilty desire.
Light glinted in Lins compound eyes. Her headlegs quivered. She picked up
half a tomato and gripped it with her mandibles. She lowered her hands
while her inner mouthparts picked at the food her outer jaw held steady.
Isaac watched the huge iridescent scarab that was his lovers head devour
her breakfast.
He watched her swallow, saw her throat bob where the pale insectile
underbelly segued smoothly into her human neck . . . not that she would
have accepted that description. Humans have khepri bodies, legs, hands;
and the heads of shaved gibbons, she had once told him.
He smiled and dangled his fried pork in front of him, curled his tongue
around it, wiped his greasy fingers on the table. He smiled at her. She
undulated her headlegs at him and signed, My monster.
I am a pervert, thought Isaac, and so is she.
Breakfast conversation was generally one-sided: Lin could sign with her
hands while she ate, but Isaacs attempts to talk and eat simultaneously
made for incomprehensible noises and food debris on the table. Instead
they read; Lin an artists newsletter, Isaac whatever came to hand. He
reached out between mouthfuls and grabbed books and papers, and found
himself reading Lins shopping list. The item a handful of pork slices was
ringed and underneath her exquisite calligraphy was a scrawled question in
much cruder script: Got company??? Nice bit of pork goes down a treat!!!
Isaac waved the paper at Lin. "Whats this filthy arse on about?" he
yelled, spraying food. His outrage was amused but genuine.
Lin read it and shrugged.
Knows I dont eat meat. Knows Ive got a guest for breakfast. Wordplay on
"Yes, thanks, lover, I got that bit. How does he know youre a vegetarian?
Do you two often engage in this witty banter?"
Lin stared at him for a moment without responding.
Knows because I dont buy meat. She shook her head at the stupid question.
Dont worry: only ever banter on paper. Doesnt know Im bug.
Her deliberate use of the slur annoyed Isaac.
"Dammit, I wasnt insinuating anything . . ." Lins hand waggled, the
equivalent of a raised eyebrow. Isaac howled in irritation. "Godshit, Lin!
Not everything I say is about fear of discovery!"
Isaac and Lin had been lovers nearly two years. They had always tried not
to think too hard about the rules of their relationship, but the longer
they were together the more this strategy
of avoidance became impossible. Questions as yet unasked demanded
attention. Innocent remarks and askance looks from others, a moment of
contact too long in public—a note from a grocer—everything was a reminder
that they were, in some contexts, living a secret. Everything was made
They had never said, We are lovers, so they had never had to say, We will
not disclose our relationship to all, we will hide from some. But it had
been clear for months and months that this was the case.
Lin had begun to hint, with snide and acid remarks, that Isaacs refusal
to declare himself her lover was at best cowardly, at worst bigoted. This
insensitivity annoyed him. He had, after all, made the nature of his
relationship clear with his close friends, as Lin had with hers. And it
was all far, far easier for her.
She was an artist. Her circle were the libertines, the patrons and the
hangers-on, bohemians and parasites, poets and pamphleteers and
fashionable junkies. They delighted in the scandalous and the outré. In
the tea-houses and bars of Salacus Fields, Lins escapades—broadly hinted
at, never denied, never made explicit—would be the subject of louche
discussion and innuendo. Her love-life was an avant-garde transgression,
an art-happening, like Concrete Music had been last season, or Snot Art!
the year before that.
And yes, Isaac could play that game. He was known in that world, from long
before his days with Lin. He was, after all, the
scientist-outcast, the disreputable thinker who walked out of a lucrative
teaching post to engage in experiments too outrageous and brilliant for
the tiny minds who ran the university. What did he care for convention? He
would sleep with whomever and whatever he liked, surely!
That was his persona in Salacus Fields, where his relationship with Lin
was an open secret, where he enjoyed being more or less open, where he
would put his arm around her in the bars and whisper to her as she sucked
sugar-coffee from a sponge. That was his story, and it was at least half
He had walked out of the university ten years ago. But only because he
realized to his misery that he was a terrible teacher.
He had looked out at the quizzical faces, listened to the frantic
scrawling of the panicking students, and realized that with a mind that
ran and tripped and hurled itself down the corridors of theory in anarchic
fashion, he could learn himself, in haphazard lurches, but he could not
impart the understanding he so loved. He had hung his head in shame and
In another twist to the myth, his Head of Department, the ageless and
loathsome Vermishank, was not a plodding epigone but an exceptional
bio-thaumaturge, who had nixed Isaacs research less because it was
unorthodox than because it was going nowhere. Isaac could be brilliant,
but he was undisciplined. Vermishank had played him like a fish, making
him beg for work as a freelance researcher on terrible pay, but with
limited access to the university laboratories.
And it was this, his work, which kept Isaac circumspect about his lover.
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The first technology is called high dose rate brachytherapy. Brachytherapy is sometimes called internal radiation therapy. High dose rate brachytherapy is a procedure that involves temporarily placing radioactive material inside the patient's body for about 10-20 minutes. Then, the remainder of the radiation treatment will be given over a 3 week period using stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT). SBRT is a novel treatment modality that involves the delivery of very high individual doses of radiation to tumors with high precision. This allows the doctor to deliver the same amount of radiation in a much shorter time. The purpose of this study is to determine the safety of brachytherapy when combined with hypofractionated SBRT.
Prostate Cancer
Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate
Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Stage IIA Prostate Cancer
Stage IIB Prostate Cancer
Radiation: Brachytherapy
Radiation: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
Procedure: Quality-of-life assessment
Other: Questionnaire administration
Phase 1
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|Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Phase I Trial of High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Combined With Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer Patients
- Dose limiting toxicities (DLT) graded according to the National Cancer Institute, Common Toxicity Criteria (NCI, CTC), v 4.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Data analysis of phase I studies is descriptive. All estimates of dose-specific rates (e.g., response and toxicity) will be presented with corresponding confidence intervals using the exact method.
- Late nonhematologic toxicity profile [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Acute and late hematologic toxicity profile of HDR and SBRT combination [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Correlation of dosimetric parameters, including dose-volume factors for bladder and rectum, with acute toxicity [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Patient-reported outcomes, assessed by EPIC and AUA symptom score [ Time Frame: Up to 5 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|Study Start Date:
|October 2012
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|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Treatment (HDR brachytherapy, SBRT)
Patients undergo HDR brachytherapy on day 0 followed by SBRT on days 15-30
Radiation: Brachytherapy
Undergo high dose rate brachytherapy
Other Names:Radiation: Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
Undergo stereotactic body radiation therapy
Other Names:Procedure: Quality-of-life assessment
Ancillary studiesOther: Questionnaire administration
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Adenocarcinoma of the prostate with intermediate risk disease T2b-T2c or Gleason score 7 or prostate specific antigen (PSA) 10-20 ng/ml, without metastatic disease
To rule out metastatic disease, patients must have the following tests:
- Bone scan within 60 days prior to registration
- Computed tomography (CT) of abdomen/pelvis within 60 days prior to registration
- Karnofsky performance status > 70
- Age > 18
- PSA blood test within 60 days prior to registration
- Prostate biopsy within 180 days prior to registration
Within 60 days prior to registration, hematologic minimal values:
- Absolute neutrophil count > 1,500/mm^3
- Hemoglobin > 8.0 g/dl
- Platelet count > 100,000/mm^3
- Men of childbearing potential must be willing to consent to using effective contraception while on treatment and for at least 3 months thereafter
- No history of previous pelvic irradiation
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of urological surgery or procedures predisposing to GU complications after radiation, i.e., anastomoses, stricture repair, etc. (will be determined by radiation oncologist)
- History of prior pelvic irradiation
- Documented distant metastatic disease
- Prior radical prostatectomy or cryosurgery for prostate cancer
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01655836
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|Sub-Investigator: Voichita Bar Ad, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Wenyin Shi, MD, PhD
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Prostatic Neoplasms
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Neoplasms, Male
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
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Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Prostatic Diseases
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In the States, the Obama administration and Fox News Channel have recently "declared war." The argument is essentially that the "talk-radio format" of the evening commentary programs undercuts the network's credibility as a news organization and the Obama administration has indicated they will not interact with the network on this level. And yet, Fox News is enjoying some of its highest ratings ever.
A recent study in the European Journal of Personality may shed some light on the popularity of the network. The evening programs are usually highly critical of the administration and popular with individuals who identify with the political right. According to Jugert et al., there are several personality constructs that relate to right wing authoritarianism (RWA): social conformity and a cognitive style reflecting a need for personal structure.
This ties in with Swedish psychologist Catarina Kinnvall's suggestion that increasing globalization has led people to feel "ontologically insecure" and thus more likely to identify with collective ideologies that answer to this feeling of insecurity. Two primary examples she cites are religion and nationalism.
The question then is whether the increasing realities of globalization and the continual breaking down of traditional "borders" — through commerce and technology, for example — are leading individuals to feel less existentially secure and thus more in need of more rigid ideologies, and if — for those in the States, at least — right-wing conservatism is ready to answer this call.
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When Ken Carpenter was interviewing for the job of USU-CEU Prehistoric Museum director last spring, he told the search committee one of his chief goals would be to increase attendance by adding more drama and visitor involvement in the exhibits.
He got the job in May, and now the museum is undertaking a painstaking, labor-intensive program to dramatize and personalize the science behind the exhibits.
One example is the project the museum's director of education and exhibits Lloyd Larson has been working on. Larson is building a new "Living Fossils" exhibit to relocate the live fish and reptiles now on display. The soft-shelled turtle and alligator will share a disguised swimming pool near the current exhibit. They'll have a better backdrop than the current tank, along with amenities such as a rock waterfall and room for two dry platforms for basking. "They fight over the one they have now," he explained. Reptile brains cannot compromise, apparently.
The monitor lizard will have a room of his (her?) own. Might as well plan for growth, he said. Monitors can hit 10 feet nose-to-tip of tail and weigh 200 pounds.
Living fossils are plants or animals that have shown little modification over many millions, even hundreds of millions, of years. The alligator, for instance, looks much the same as the ancestral ones that were living before the dinosaurs. Prehistoric 'gators, however, could reach 50 feet in length.
Once the reptiles move out, the plan is to remodel the storage room behind the current exhibit and put different specimens on display - paleontology and archaeology lab workers. These are people who clean and catalog all the ancient items arriving at the museum. Carpenter said the objective here is to give visitors a glimpse of all the detail work that goes into research and display creation.
High on the priority list is relocating the Utahraptor from its current perch on the second floor to front-and-center stage in the entrance hall. "It will have an interesting, dynamic pose, something that will look like its ready to attack people who are coming in," Carpenter said. It could even be leaping, as if ready to slash with its scimitar-shaped back claws.
Interest should begin as soon as people come through the glass doors, he explained.
The sand pit, where the stegosaurus and camarasaurus now lie in repose - "They look like they've been run over by a bus," Carpenter quipped - is also in for a makeover. "We're not sure what we'll do yet, but we'll show them all interacting. Maybe the stegosaurus will be swinging its tail at the allosaurus," he said.
Some work of a different sort is also under way in the pit. Museum workers are stripping the paint off the camarasaurus neck bones. As Carpenter explained it, the skeletons in the pit contain lots of actual dinosaur bone along with some replicas. They have all been painted a uniform black.
The director thinks people should be able to see the real fossil bones for what they are. "Imagine going to the Louvre and seeing a replica of the Mona Lisa. People wouldn't appreciate that," he declared.
The museum is far more than just a place to thrill tourists, though. It is also a research and education institution. Carpenter said he and the staff are working on plans to redesign the museum in a way that will integrate different elements of prehistory to make the whole tour more meaningful
"The way it is now, when you come in you turn right to go into paleontology or you go left for archaeology. That's not the way life is," he said. For example, stone-age Native Americans relied on rocks from the Cretaceous Period Cedar Mountain formation for tools. The new way of displaying would show some relationship between two widely separated times in prehistory.
Coal is another example. Linking the prehistoric processes of coal formation with the past and present of this region's economy would provide additional context.
All of this work, Carpenter said, is aimed at preparing for the new museum. In less than 10 years, plans call for a new building on Fairgrounds Road.
There has been nothing in this article about the archaeology side of the building. With more than 750,000 artifacts in its collection and more coming in, it is a story in itself. That's for the next article.


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