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Effingham Park Board commissioners Wednesday endorsed a community garden project.
The garden will be developed on property owned by the Passalacqua family south of the Bob's Discount store. The effort is being overseen by the University of Illinois Master Gardeners and the Park Board agreed to help prepare the plots. The City Tourism Department is also helping support the work as is the Alliance for a Healthier Effingham County.
The Board agreed to seek a matching grant that would pay half the $54,000 cost of a new playground structure in Community Park that would replace the wooden structure that's been in place since the 1980s. Board members also agreed to erect a sign marking the Ron Diehl Center at Hendelmeyer Park. The new lighted sign would replace the current sign. The new sign was promised when the Hendelmeyer Park Rec Center was renamed in Diehl's honor when he retired last year after almost 40 years of service.
The Board discussed relighting the Ron Diehl Center at a cost of about $23,000 with reimbursement of $15,000 of that cost expected and a savings on energy costs paying off the balance within two years.
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Indie poppers Fanfarlo, electro boys Filthy Dukes
and Fionn Regan have also been added to the bill along with Tommy Sparks, Hexes, Haunts and The Ghost Of A Thousand.
Today's additions join headliners The Streets and Cypress Hill as well as Roots Manuva, Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip and more.
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Relentless Boardmasters 2009 will run from 5-9 August.
The festival itself is a full week of live music and DJs, which complement the Boardmasters 5-Star World Qualifying Series, that coincides with the event.
The bash will have surfing, skating and wakeskating south-west-four-sw4-2009 as well as a bikini contest.
It is a festival of two halves: Beach Sessions take place at Newquay's Fistral Beach each day, before a double-day of big acts fill two stages at Watergate Bay at the end of the week.
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The mantra of Goddard College, "Trust the Process," began for me during my first telephone interview with an advisor after I submitted my application for enrollment. I was looking for a graduate school that would not only accommodate my continued studies in researching exceptional human experiences, but would also accommodate and honor my personal life as well.
Goddard College was the perfect fit for me, a woman in her mid-fifties, who was told 10 years prior by a neurologist regarding injuries sustained in a car accident, that I would never finish my college studies. With the guidance of supportive faculty members who recognized my determination to fulfill my dreams and succeed in all aspects of my own "exceptional human experience," I proudly completed my Individualized Master's Degree in Consciousness Studies.
With this degree come the tools and experiences to assist others to consider the challenges one may face along the journey toward their dreams and all it encompasses. Goddard College was the guiding light that helped me to stay "illuminated" and believe in myself both academically and personally. The roots of my connections to Goddard run deep and the family tree continues to branch out to this day as I stay in touch with faculty and colleagues.


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OPP: I Know He Has a STD
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Nicole and her boyfriend have been having unprotected relations but recently some mutual friends shared a big secret of his with her…Her boyfriend has Herpes and has never told her. Nicole wants him to tell her himself but doesn't know how to bring it up and doesn't want to let him know that his friends sold him out.
Slacker doesn't understand Nicole because she's not mad at her boyfriend for putting her health at risk. He dated a girl that informed him that she had the same STD only seconds before having relations and he is very thankful that she gave him the choice. But he says that had she not divulged the information prior to relations and he found out later, he would have gone crazy on her.
What advice do you have for her?
This just goes to show that you can never trust people unless you have seen their test results yourself. Our bodies and health are far too precious to be letting someone else ruin it, so we all need to be looking out for ourselves. USE PROTECTION! I'm really at a loss for what to say to her or about this…But she should be mad and take action.
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To celebrate this time of year, we're bringing back the Food52 Holiday Market. Stop by and you'll find a selection of products from our shop: beautiful housewares, kitchen and pantry essentials, and exclusive items galore. And we'll also be hosting classes to bring your gift wrapping, wreath making, cocktail shaking, and holiday cooking skills to a new level — and serving tastes of some of our favorite Food52 recipes throughout. We hope to see you there!
Thursday, 11 AM-12 PM
Join Deb Perelman of SmittenKitchen.com to learn about her current brunch obsession, Cranberry-Orange Breakfast Buns. Over samples, Deb will show you how to make the buns and explain why you should make room for them on your holiday table. Copies of her New York Times best selling book, "The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook" will also be available for sale.
Thursday, 11 AM-12 PM
It's hard to shop with little ones in tow — so we're making it easier. Merrill hosts a holiday story hour (with hot chocolate all around!) for kids of all ages. You can shop while they are entertained, and everyone's happy!
Thursday, 12-1 PM
Stop by to meet Deb Perelman of SmittenKitchen.com and author of the New York Times best-selling "The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook." Shop the holiday market, pick up your copy of the cookbook and get it signed by the author herself.
Thursday, 2-3 PM
Learn to make your own handsome holiday wreath. Class includes all materials, snacks and you'll take home your own front-door sized wreath!
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Shop our holiday market with your friends while you sample cocktails inspired by thebar.com. RSVP now!
Friday, 11 AM-12 PM
It's hard to shop with little ones in tow — so we're making it easier. Merrill hosts a holiday story hour (with hot chocolate all around!) for kids of all ages. You can shop while they are entertained, and everyone's happy!
Friday, 4-5 PM
Envious of professional gift wrappers? Here's your chance to up your holiday gift wrap game. Professional stylist Kristy Mucci will demo simple tips using kraft paper, tape, ribbons, and more. Bring your own gift to wrap, or practice on the ones we'll have on hand.
Friday, 7-8 PM
Join Food52 editor Marian Bull and Uproot Wines as they walk you through our mostly vegetarian holiday menu, with wine pairings for each course. They'll offer simple tips for wine pairings, and you'll get to eat and drink -- and be merry! Every attendee will take home Uproot wine and recipes with pairing notes.
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Learn to make your own handsome holiday wreath. Class includes all materials, snacks and you'll take home your own front-door sized wreath!
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Meet some of the designers and craftspeople who make the beautiful products in our shop. Come to chat and learn -- and you'll be entered to win a collection of products from featured makers.
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Brush up on classic cocktails with Food52 editor Kenzi Wilbur and thebar.com mixologist as they walk you through three essentials -- including our signature pop-up punch.
Sunday, 11 AM-12 PM
Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin from Ovenly teach you how to make their signature rosemary currant scones. Over coffee and tea, they'll talk about their new book and give you some of their top holiday baking tips. Take home a signed copy of the cookbook so you can replicate their hits all winter.
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Fancy cakes and pies aren't just for bakeries. Food stylist Erin McDowell will teach you foolproof ways to make intricate pie crusts and decorative cakes. She'll demo tips for braided pie edges, the perfect crimped crust, the classic swirled cake icing, and more.
Sunday, 3:30-5 PM
Kristen Miglore, Food52's executive editor and the author of Genius Recipes, leads a class on genius ideas for a low-stress holiday party. She'll show you how to make better party snacks, like Roberto Santibañez' perfect guacamole, while you sample other genius dishes and drink cocktails and wine from Uproot Wines. Tickets include 3 handsome recipe cards and a pre-order of the Genius Recipes cookbook.
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5 most useful, police-recommended ways to protect your home from burglars
After almost a week of furious shopping — Brown Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday—your home could be stuffed with goodies that thieves desperately want to get.
That's one reason why December ranks second for home break-ins, according to the FBI.
Here are five ways you can avoid being a victim.
#5: Get a dog.
Home burglary experts say having a dog helps protect your home. And now is the perfect time to get one because the Cleveland Kennel has slashed their adoption fee from $61 to $20 until Christmas Eve.
#4: Hide your boxes.
Did you stand in the cold on Thanksgiving or Black Friday to be among the first in the stores so you could get that brand new HDTV or other high-end gifts? Well good for you, but don't let all that effort go to waste by tempting a burglar.
Experts say people who put the leftover boxes from their big purchases out in front of the house are just letting criminals know what's on the inside. So either keep the boxes or dispose of them discreetly.
#3: Put blinds and curtains on your shopping list.
You want to avoid having people be able to see clearly into your home at night. Experts recommend you use blinds and curtains to avoid the thieves from having a clear view of your things.
#2: Use "sign language" to scare crooks.
Security signs also help to deter thieves. I interviewed a career criminal who told me when he sees those signs, he tends to move on to the next home. He told me, "It's safer."
Same goes if you don't want or can't have a dog. Getting a "Beware of Dog" sign could be enough to make criminals think twice before breaking-in to your house.
#1: Stop advertising when you're gone.
Yes, you love Facebook and Twitter, but there are some things you shouldn't share there. Like your out-of-town status.
Police say, when you post when you're coming and going, you may not be talking only to your friends. Even if it is "friends only" on your profile, a police officer told me some "friends" may be down on their luck and see an opportunity.
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Keep your system up to date with the most recent cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008 SP1. This package contains all of the SQL Server 2008 hotfixes that have been released since the initial release of SQL Server 2008 SP1.
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"SQL Server 2008 SP2. Microsoft targets release in Q3/CY2010."
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10 Uses For Tea You Probably Never Thought Or Heard Of (page 9)
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Researchers found that homosexual youth found the most comfort in messages that both supported them and advocated social change.
The new research not only confirms the power of speaking up for those facing prejudice but also underlines the importance of exactly what is communicated.
Aneeta Rattan of London Business School decided to take a closer look at the 'It Gets Better' YouTube campaign as a window into the content and impact of such "intergroup" communication, and wanted to capture the complexity of people's naturalistic communications as well as to be able to test for systematic differences in what people said.
She found that intergroup support messages that included ideas about social change were more comforting to LGBQ participants than those that included ideas about social connection, which suggests that it is a benefit to communicating ideas about social change more often.
The research was published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
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I was looking for some help with a particular problem I've been having. My computer seems to have a terrible Spyware problem. I ran Spybot S&D, but AdAware won't run all the way through without freezing.
My computer won't stay up long enough for me to get online. It just lags terribly and then blue screens.
I am on a different computer now, but I am still at a loss for what I can do to fix my computer.
Will I have to reformat my harddrive?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
If you are getting the blue screen I would definatly format it. Do you have anti-virus software running? If so try to update it as it may be a virus not spyware. However you you manage to "remove" it if it is bad enough to give you a blue screen it would be best to format it.
Save all your docs to a disk and when you format the pc put anti-virus on put the disk in and scan that to make sure nothing has transfered!
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Why Would Looking Your Age Be Something to Dread?
When you become a parent, it's not all about you anymore.
A new level of awareness and responsibility springs forth, a powerful concern for another's well-being. For me, having two young daughters has not only expanded my access to joy and deepened my sense of gratitude, but it has heightened my concern for the dangerously subversive messages they've already started to receive.
While I've been a devoted social activist and champion of women's issues for some time, it wasn't until this "Mama Bear" instinct kicked in that I truly understood the media's influence and the grave implications it has on the way women feel about themselves. It's not just the lone advertisement that screams "Find Mr. Right Before it's Too Late!" or the single magazine cover plastered defiantly with"Fight Aging!" that's going to demolish ones self-esteem. It's the cumulative effect of this constant barrage that erodes and undermines our confidence.
The good news: we have choices about how we react to such messages and how we relate to other women.
I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained. I've learned to watch my words too, particularly around my daughters—two of my greatest teachers—doing my best not to gossip about other women or even myself. If they were to hear me put some of those seemingly automatic thoughts on loudspeaker, such as, "I look bad today… Look at those bags under my eyes…"
I now understand that it would impact them in a profoundly unhealthy way. Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives. As role models to young girls, we have some big challenges ahead of us.
I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty. This has come with time, spiritual practice, motherhood and many mistakes along the way. I've learned to anticipate growing older with a sense of excitement. I want my daughters to see their mother fearlessly and gracefully claiming her body, her voice and her years.
Easier said than done, of course. For me, it's required discipline: just as I'm careful about what my daughters are exposed to, I'm just as careful with myself.
I avoid magazines that critique what female celebrities are wearing, what they're buying and what they look like. I skip right past channels that exploit "cat fights" or reality shows. And I've learned to walk away from any real-life judgmental conversations about women. They bring me down. They bring us all down.
In order to cultivate a healthier outlook, I've worked hard to shift some of my personal paradigms as well. In the modeling industry, while my own image sold dangerous messages to others, I, too, was receiving some pretty warped misinformation about standards of beauty. I internalized shame about aging—it was something to run from, lie about. I was encouraged to jump on every job I could before my 20-something expiration date. But even before modeling I'd been trained by my own cultural influences to worry about my looks and fear those inevitable wrinkles and stretch marks.
Long before I was a part of the media-machine, I'd decided that there was essentially only one good way to look: young. How do we maintain a healthy concept of beauty? What does it mean to look and feel beautiful in a time when shielding ourselves from such messages is nearly impossible?
These days, revealing how old we are is taboo and asking a woman her age is impolite, a risky social move akin to bringing up religion or politics at the dinner table. If she dares to state her age, she's given a "compliment"—whether sincere or not—such as, "Wow. You don't look your age." Why in the world has that become a hoped-for complement? Why would looking one's age be something to dread?
Yes, media is a culprit, but it's hardly the only player contributing to this fear of aging and these warped ideas about beauty.
I feel the media can and should help host the solution. I blog, I tweet. I sat for a round of television interviews to promote my memoir, and I recently walked the runway in Milan for the only "plus size" designer to showcase at any Fashion Week.
Just as I screen what my daughters view, I'm also the "mama bear" in my professional career and select exactly how and where I want to insert myself into the media and what messages I want to convey. I believe that no "look," no matter how seemingly flawless, equals happiness.
I often wonder how women, together, can transmit such positive messages on a larger scale.
How extraordinary would it be to experience a supportive sense of community, one that collectively dismissed toxic media-messages? How beautiful would it be to feel part of a unified whole, a member of a powerful sisterhood? What if we sought to actively create such a community and then committed to nurturing it on an ongoing basis?
I think this begins at the individual level, first rethinking how we relate to ourselves, then to each other—at home, at work, and even online with like-minded strangers. I'd like to think this is possible. I'm committed to doing my part for my daughters, for our daughters, and I'd like to do this work with other women who think it's possible too.
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Large Classes: A Teaching Guide Collaborating Cooperative Learning
A recent though not new movement in higher education has students work together in small groups to discuss or solve problems. This process is called collaborative learning or cooperative learning. In the "real" world, no matter what the intended profession, working with others is an important skill. Increasing opportunities for students to work together can help them develop this skill. In addition, small-group work encourages students who may be reluctant to participate in the large-class setting to become active learners. Cooperative learning also helps hold students' attention. Groups work best when they are given a short task that adds variety to a lecture.
What if I'm not comfortable using group work?
Incorporating collaborative learning efforts into a large class can cause a certain amount of chaos. While many students have worked in groups before, many have not. It can take some time for the instructor and students to become comfortable with group work. When group work fails, the problem can often be traced to the nature and structure of the activity rather than to the individuals involved in it. It can take time for students to view group experiences positively.
What are the goals for group activities?
Three kinds of group activities contribute to a variety of learning goals
Cognitive Development Exercises In these exercises, teams are placed in a real or simulated situation and asked to solve a problem. Specifically, they are asked to diagnose, interpret, test, analyze, and make value judgments about the problem.
Area Exploration:Groups are asked to do descriptive, historical, empirical, or experimental research on some topic. When the groups are ready, they prepare and deliver a presentation designed to teach the class what they have learned in their research
Psychomotor Exercise:These exercises focus on developing a particular skill, such as editing, quick problem solving, etc. In groups, the students practice and are critiqued by their fellow group members. At the end of the exercise, volunteers may come up and demonstrate their skill.
What are some activities I can experiment with?
In a large lecture, students will most likely choose their own groups. Here are several tasks you can give these groups. Come up with an example, hypothesis, or application of the material from the lecture
Compare responses to a series of statements and come to a consensus of opinions or answer
Complete and compare answers to problems or a questionnaire
Prepare for a test by determining the 10 major points of the unit or by coming up with questions
Generate questions they think will be answered during the class or asked on the test
Decide the most important points from a lecture -- then compare them with the instructor's
How can I design successful group activities?
Group composition
A group of up to five students is usually recommended since a larger group can make it hard for all members to participate (and make it easier for those reluctant to participate to be passive). The easiest way to form groups is to ask students to work with the three or four people sitting closest to them. You can ensure that different groups form on different days by asking students to sit in a different place each class or to simply ask students to work with people they haven't worked with before. Other methods are to group students by birth month, residence on campus, or major, or to designate rows as "Odd" and "Even" and ask that Odds and Evens mix. Some instructors require students to leave their seats when forming groups.
Group Role
Much literature exists on the roles to assign to group members. The basic roles are facilitator, recorder and reporter. The facilitator monitors the group and makes sure that it stays on task. The recorder takes notes on the discussion a.or the solutions to the problems posed. There porter is responsible for sharing the group's answers with the class. A role of "process observer" may be added to evaluate how effectively the group works together.
Group Product
Group tasks should lead to the creation of a group product such as a list of questions which is then shared with the other groups. At first, you may simply want to collect the products and comment on them during the next class, perhaps even assigning grades. If possible, you may want to have the group reporters share their experience with the class and explain how the problem was solved, what questions were raised, what points were discussed, and what results were achieved. For more information on Collaborati.Cooperative Learning, see CTE's Resource Packet on Cooperative Learning. Kadel, S. & Keehner, J. Collaborative learning: A sourcebook for higher education. Vol. II. University Park, PA: NCTLA, 1994.


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Beginning with a false premise, university researchers dredged computer simulation studies looking at associations (risk factors) and reported that one of the variables could be causal. This, it appears, now passes for science and support for public policies.
Research in support of politically correct foods are undergoing the same sorts of computer modeling machinations as research showing people cause global climate change. Reporting from the press release, MSN told the public:
Junk food taxes pay off, study finds
Taxing soft drinks and foods high in saturated fats and providing subsidies for fruits and vegetables might encourage people to change their eating habits and possibly improve their health, according to a new study. Researchers in New Zealand analyzed 32 previous studies and concluded that there would be a 0.02 percent decline in consumption of fatty foods with each 1 percent price increase. They also determined that a 10 percent increase in the price of soft drinks would decrease consumption by between 1 percent and 24 percent….
This suggests that such food pricing strategies have the potential to reduce dietary inequalities, said Helen Eyles and colleagues from the University of Auckland and the University of Otago, in Wellington, in a journal news release. Diets high in sugar and saturated fats contribute to the development of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Their article, A Systematic Review of Simulation Studies, was published in PLOS Medicine. The researchers began by explaining their premise, one also popular in public policies: junk foods, with high saturated fats and salt content, are "causative risk factors" for chronic diseases, including heart disease, strokes, diabetes, cancers and respiratory diseases. Reducing population diets of these foods, they noted, were identified as a priority action by the United Nations during its meeting on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases. "If these changes in population diet take place, the interventions will support the global goal of reducing non-communicable death rates and averting tens of millions of premature deaths within the next decade."
So, they did a literature search for computer simulation studies published since 1990 that looked at the association between food pricing strategies, consumption and chronic diseases. They found "19 peer-reviewed papers and 13 other types of reports" to use in their analysis.
But, they admitted the majority of the included studies (27/32) were of low to moderate quality. According to the authors, there was also "substantial variability in model structures, data inputs and the types and magnitudes of food taxes and subsidies assessed."
- They weren't able to use meta-analysis techniques as are used with randomized controlled trials to estimate the effect of an intervention, they said, since they were combining findings from simulations and models using varying structures and mathematical techniques. So, a key aspect of their study, they said, came from synthesizing epidemiological models and estimates of price elasticity.
- They also admitted that none of the studies included in their review had attempted to validate the epidemiological model that had been used, even though "validation is important because underlying model structure and assumptions vary widely between models and are associated with uncertainty; without validation or comparison of findings with other models, it is difficult to determine whether findings are real, or in fact artefacts of the model itself."
- Furthermore: "Most studies in this review (25/32; 78%) failed to estimate the uncertainty of model findings. Uncertainty arises from the model structure and variation in the model inputs, including food consumption data, food prices, relative risks, and PEs."
Despite their findings that "suggests food pricing strategies have potential for changing population diets and long-term health and disease outcomes," they wrote, "high-quality evidence is lacking, particularly with regard to the unintended effects of compensatory purchasing and the potential impacts on health equity, long-term health, and NCD mortality."
In fact, they highlighted:
There was also some evidence that pricing strategies may result in unintended compensatory buying through cross-PEs; two moderately high quality studies estimated a potential increase in consumption of sodium in response to a saturated fat tax, and a potential increase in mortality from CVD in response to a tax on less healthy foods.
In this paper, the authors explained they did little more than pool estimates from simulated models:
A particular aim of this review was to collate and quantitatively summarise the best evidence from simulation modelling studies regarding the association between food pricing strategies, food consumption, health, and NCDs. Therefore, although the pooled estimates are based on lower quality studies, the estimates can be improved upon as more relevant, higher quality research becomes available…
Nevertheless, a correlation found in simulation models was suggested to have a causal effect:
Notwithstanding the low to moderate quality of the majority (27/32) of the included studies, the overall finding of this review is that pricing strategies have the potential to produce changes in population food consumption….
Based on modelling studies, taxes on carbonated drinks and saturated fat and subsidies on fruits and vegetables would be associated with beneficial dietary change, with the potential for improved health.
But they did admit the need for more research:
Robust evaluations built into the implementation of food pricing policies would help to answer some of these questions and engender confidence that such strategies will provide positive effects…
Of course, in the real world, fat taxes have done little to affect obesity rates or health outcomes. "While we should not expect large health benefits from fat or sugar taxes, the administrative costs are real and substantial," Dr Eric Crampton, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Canterbury, told the New Zealand Science Media Centre.


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The Room
Emma Donoghue, 2010
Little, Brown & Co.
321 pp.
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another. (From the publisher.)
Author Bio
• Birth—October 24, 1969
• Where—Dublin, Ireland, UK
• Education—B.A., University College Dublin; Ph.D., University
of Cambridge
• Currently—lives in London, Ontario, Canada
Emma Donoghue is an Irish writer who lives in Canada. She has published six books of fiction, two works of literary history, two anthologies, and two plays.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, on 24 October 1969, Emma is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours B.A. in English and French from University College Dublin, and in 1997 a Ph.D. (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. Since the age of 23, Donoghue has earned her living as a full-time writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with her lover and their son.
From a 2004 Barnes & Noble interview:
• The youngest of eight children, I would never have been conceived if a papal bull hadn't guilt-tripped my poor mother into flushing her pills down the toilet.
• The nearest I've ever got to "honest toil" was a chambermaiding job in Wildwood, New Jersey, at the age of 18. I got fired for my "low bathroom standards."
• My lover and I have a one-year-old son called Finn, whose favorite thing is to rip books out of my hands and eat them.
• I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
• I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.
• I am completely unobservant and couldn't tell you how many windows there are in our living room.
• I would be miserable in beige; I mostly wear red, purple, and black.
• The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
• When asked what book most influenced her life as a writer, her is what she said:
I discovered Jeanette Winterson's strange, surreal novel about Napoleonic Venice, The Passion. I had read some trashy lesbian fiction before, but this was the very first book I found that had lesbian themes and was a work of great art. I realized—duh!—that it was possible to be "out" and a literary writer as well, and I started writing my first novel, Stir-Fry, the same year. I haven't liked all Winterson's books since, but I've always admired her uncompromising flair.
(From Barnes & Noble and the author's website.)
Book Reviews
Here come the debating points that are embedded in Ms. Donoghue's story. Was the world inside Room somehow safer than the world outside? Will it be damaging for Jack to have to share his mother with new people in her life—or with the people she left behind? Will Ma still be content to do nothing but interact with her frisky son? Is it harder to choose freely from a whole bowl of lollipops than to have no choice at all? Room is sophisticated in outlook and execution, but it's not too complicated to use actual lollipops to frame that theoretical question. Fortunately Ms. Donoghue makes both Ma and Jack too unpredictable for any of those answers to be easy.
Janet Maslin - New York Times
Jack's voice is one of the pure triumphs of the novel: in him, [Donoghue] has invented a child narrator who is one of the most engaging in years—his voice so pervasive I could hear him chatting away during the day when I wasn't reading the book. Donoghue rearranges language to evoke the sweetness of a child's learning without making him coy or overly darling… Through dialogue and smartly crafted hints of eavesdropping, Donoghue fills us in a on Jack's world without heavy hands or clunky exposition…a truly memorable novel…It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live.
Aimee Bender - New York Times Book Review
[O]ne of the most affecting and subtly profound novels of the year.... Not too cute, not too weirdly precocious, not a fey mouthpiece for the author's profundities, Jack expresses a poignant mixture of wisdom, love and naivete that will make you ache to save him—whatever that would mean: Delivering him to the outside world? Keeping him preserved here forever?…until you finish it, beware talking about Room with anyone who might clumsily strip away the suspense that's woven through its raw wonder. You need to enter this small, harrowing place prepared only to have your own world expanded.
Ron Charles - Washington Post
[A] riveting, powerful novel.... Donoghue's inventive storytelling is flawless and absorbing. She has a fantastic ability to build tension in scenes where most of the action takes place in the 12-by-12 room where her central characters reside. Her writing has pulse-pounding sequences that cause the reader's eyes to race over the pages to find out what happens next.... Room is likely to haunt readers for days, if not longer. It is, hands down, one of the best books of the year.
Liz Raftery - Boston Globe
Only a handful of authors have ever known how to get inside the mind of a child and then get what they know on paper. Henry James, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and, more recently, Jean Stafford and Eric Kraft come to mind, and after that one gropes for names. But now they have company. Emma Donoghue's latest novel, Room, is narrated by a 5-year-old boy so real you could swear he was sitting right beside you.... Room is so beautifully contrived that it never once seems contrived. But be warned: once you enter, you'll be Donoghue's willing prisoner right down to the last page.
Malcolm Jones - Newsweek
At the start of Donoghue's powerful new novel, narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. Seen entirely through Jack's eyes and childlike perceptions, the developments in this novel—there are enough plot twists to provide a dramatic arc of breathtaking suspense—are astonishing. Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful, creating exercise games, makeshift toys, and reading and math lessons to fill their days. And while Donoghue (Slammerkin) brilliantly portrays the psyche of a child raised in captivity, the story's intensity cranks up dramatically when, halfway through the novel and after a nail-biting escape attempt, Jack is introduced to the outside world. While there have been several true-life stories of women and children held captive, little has been written about the pain of re-entry, and Donoghue's bravado in investigating that potentially terrifying transformation grants the novel a frightening resonance that will keep readers rapt.
Publishers Weekly
Five-year-old Jack and his Ma enjoy their long days together, playing games, watching TV, and reading favorite stories. Through Jack's narration, it slowly becomes apparent that their pleasant days are shrouded by a horrifying secret. Seven years ago, his 19-year-old Ma was abducted and has since been held captive—in one small room. To her abductor she is nothing more than a sex slave, with Jack as a result, yet she finds the courage to raise her child with constant love under these most abhorrent circumstances. He is a bright child—bright enough, in fact, to help his mother successfully carry out a plan of escape. Once they get to the outside world, the sense of relief is short lived, as Jack is suddenly faced with an entirely new worldview (with things he never imagined, like other people, buildings, and even family) while his mother attempts to deal with her own psychological trauma. Verdict: Gripping, riveting, and close to the bone, this story grabs you and doesn't let go. Donoghue (The Sealed Letter) skillfully builds a suspenseful narrative evoking fear and hate and hope—but most of all, the triumph of a mother's ferocious love. Highly recommended for readers of popular fiction. —Susanne Wells, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
Library Journal
Room is beautifully written as a first-person narrative from Jack's perspective, and within it, Donoghue has constructed a quiet, private, and menacing world that slowly unbends with a mother and son's love and determination. —Vanessa Bush
Talented, versatile Donoghue relates a searing tale of survival and recovery, in the voice of a five-year-old boy.... Donoghue brilliantly shows mother and son grappling with very different issues as they adjust to freedom.... In the story's most heartbreaking moments, it seems that Ma may be unable to live with the choices she made to protect Jack. But his narration reveals that she's nurtured a smart, perceptive and willful boy—odd, for sure, but resilient, and surely Ma can find that resilience in herself.... Wrenching, as befits the grim subject matter, but also tender, touching and at times unexpectedly funny.
Kirkus Reviews
Discussion Questions
1. Why do you think the entire book is told in Jack's voice? Do you think it is effective?
2. What are some of the ways in which Jack's development has been stunted by growing up in Room? How has he benefited?
3. If you were Ma, what would you miss most about the outside world?
4. What would you do differently if you were Jack's parent? Would you tell Jack about the outside world from the start?
5. If Ma had never given birth to Jack, what would her situation in Room be like?
6. What would you ask for, for Sundaytreat, if you were Jack? If you were Ma?
7. Describe the dynamic between Old Nick and Ma. Why does the author choose not to tell us Old Nick's story?
8. What does joining the outside world do to Jack? To Ma?
9. What role do you think the media play in the novel?
10. In a similar situation, how would you teach a child the difference between the real world and what they watch on television?
11. Why are we so fascinated by stories of long-term confinement?
12. What were you most affected by in the novel?
(Questions issued by publisher.)
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Bob Schieffer announced the topics for tonight's debate. They are:
* America's role in the world
* Our longest war – Afghanistan and Pakistan
* Red Lines – Israel and Iran
* The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism – I
* The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism – II
* The Rise of China and Tomorrow's World…
Drezner is disappointed:
Here are the following areas and topics that apparently won't be discussed:
1) The eurozone crisis
2) Latin America
3) Russia
4) Africa
5) Foreign economic policy
6) India
7) North Korea
Now I get that some of these topics won't come up in a foreign policy debate that lasts only 90 minutes. But I'm also thinking that maybe, just maybe, it would be a better foreign policy debate if they actually talked about, you know, SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!!!
A friend of Fallows has similar objections:
No questions on the Pentagon or defense spending — a clear point of difference between the candidates.
No questions on the criteria for the use of force, whether in Iran or Syria or … Mexico.
No questions on the war powers of the President, either regarding Iran or drones or targeted killings.
No questions on civil-military relations.
Maybe Schieffer will shoehorn some of these issues into his announced topics, or maybe the candidates will broaden their answers. I hope so. Otherwise, this will be a truncated and woefully inadequate one.


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I was diagnosed to have cornual ectopic pregnancy on teh 10th of Feb. and rate dropped to zero in April after taking 2 shots of methotrexate. The SAC was totally absorbed on the 17th of July, noting that I took folic acid since the rate dropped to zero.
It is now almost 4 months sicne am trying to conceive after things are back to normal. I wish that you share with me some successful stories or tips.View Thread
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I went to my ob-gyn last year for check up! I was given a go signal that am healthy to get pregnant! After 4months, I got pregnant! Sadly after 12 weeks, the baby's heartbeat just stopped! So I had to go through D&C last July 2013. After 1 cycle as per doctor I can try, my husband and I decided to try again. So counting from the time I had my period last July, am now on my 7th cycle. Still no baby.
I followed all the steps this time, meaning by the book, so am in my fertile days waiting until my ovulation on the 16th (supposedly)! Though I felt a sharp pain on my abdomen on the 15th this month. I dont know if that's what they call "ovulation pain." I need baby dusts and tons of tons of prayers to get pregnant!View Thread
I went to my ob-gyn last year for chech up! I was given a go signal that am healthy to get pregnant! After 4months, I got pregnant! Sadly after 12 weeks, the baby's heartbet just stopped! So I had to go through D&C last July 2013. After 1 cycle, my husband and I decided to try again. So counting from the time I had my period last July, am now on my 7th cycle. Still no baby.
I followed all the steps this time, meaning by the book, so am in my fertile days waiting until my ovulation on the 16th (supposedly)! I need baby dusts and tons of tons of prayers to get prenant!
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You are so nice to check in from time to time. I am kind of new been here a few months. The boards do appear to have been busy before, but now no one hardly ever gets on. I found this site hoping to find women like myself. But let's see maybe it'll pick up.
I am very sorry about your losses, specially your most recent one I really am. Have you made it to 10-12 weeks before? Have you or are you under doctor's care for the RA& Lupus? We're you being seen by a Reproductive Endo? Has your husband be tested, for chromosone disorders, SA and have you guys done the HLA genotype testing? I am just curious to know. I mean if you feel comfortable about your decision then Amen...good for you. But if you aren't or maybe are not so sure then don't give up hun..I know 43 may not be the ideal age but who cares...I heard it's actually until 45 that most RE may be skeptical and even then. I am glad you are back in school..good for you. I wish I can find the motivation to go myself.
I understand and feel your pain..I hate infertility...I am not giving up now...when they say IVF is your only option I will throw in the towel because I know that will never happen, I don't have the money probably never will...
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Also from my understanding you don't have any other fertility issues...as for me all of a sudden I have repeated pregnancy loss...I hope and pray God will give us our miracles...
Till then take care yourself your babies and if I don't here from you Merry Christmas...I find confort in knowing are babies are together and know each other via us in the Heavens..mine is older and will help the Angels take care of your little one..there is a reason as to why God crossed our paths..View Thread
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Heather: Hopefully you did ovulate and hopefully this cycle it's not like the last one.
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i think its worse to feel like an outcast then to just deal with your emotions as they come and i know they were trying to spare my feelings which i love hem for but i am a big girl and make the decision whether it is too much too soon.(which it was) haha.
like you said 4 is not alot but when it is in direct contact to you it seems like evryone. just know your time will come regardless of how it happens and you will make some child the luckiest little nugget on the planet.View Thread
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my bio explains most of my issues but an overview TTC for 6 years and 2 M/C's before finally conceiving my little angel. it was a hot mess and as you all know very stressful.
i am very nervous about trying again and i can't quite get the hubby to understand as he assumes everything just has to be great now. i am very grateful for my son and do not want to take away from him with the obsession again but i am so afraid of history repeating itself.
i am on continuous BCP's right now to help control my endo but that seems to be getting progressively worse again also.
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CD 17(or is it 16 I don't know I've confused myself I'll double check it later). DD is starting to finally feel better YAY! but on the flip side the AC unit went out last week BOO!! Still adjusting to DH's third shift work cycle sometimes its hard to squeeze in time for BD not to mention I miss just being able to sit around in the evenings and watch TV with him. Oh well this too shall pass. Here's to a better week for everybody View Thread
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Landesa Featured in New York Times and MoreNovember 26, 2012 by Sally Farhat Kassab
Landesa has been in the news quite a bit lately. The latest New York Times "Fixes" column is a good primer on the problem of landlessness. It shines a spotlight on both its founder Roy Prosterman and Skoll Awardee Tim Hanstad as leading thinkers in the field. The column introduces Landesa's micro-plot work and highlights the potential for micro-plots to do much good for the landless rural poor around the world.
An excerpt from "Fixes":
"Today, political forces are arrayed against land reform. India, for example, had a land reform program since the 1960s that set ceilings on land ownership. The government could expropriate anything above the ceiling; compensation was typically well below market value. But the law was put to wide use only in the few states with Communist governments. 'With very small exceptions, the ceiling surplus approach was not going anywhere because people who owned the land and stood to lose were much more politically powerful than those who were going to gain,' said Tim Hanstad, the president and chief executive of Landesa."
Earlier, Bloomberg News ran a feature on land rights for women in Kenya. We've posted the video above. The story draws on insights from Landesa's field work, and spotlights key issues.
The Context China web site did a nice salute to Prosterman and the great work of Landesa's China team.
Landesa's new Women and Land Issue Brief examines the benefits and barriers to women's land ownership and provides examples of some promising programs that helped women gain more secure land rights.
Finally, a new photo essay spotlights one impact of Landesa's Justice Project in Kenya—newly elected female tribal elders. These 14 women are the first tribal elders to be elected by their rural community in memory.