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Leishmaniasis is a devastating disease that causes untold human suffering and numerous deaths worldwide.1 Leishmaniasis is a spectrum of diseases ranging from a fatal visceral form to a localized self-healing cutaneous lesion. The global prevalence of leishmaniasis, caused by the intracellular protozoan Leishmania species, is estimated to be approximately 12,000,000 cases total, with 500,000 new reports of visceral leishmaniasis and 1,500,000 million new reports of cutaneous leishmaniasis each year.2 Although much progress has been made in developing drug therapies for leishmaniasis, a number of clinical problems, such as length of treatment and prohibitive expense, are associated with these therapies. Therefore, new vaccines and improvements to existing clinical products are valuable additions to the fight against this terrible disease.The first-line clinical therapy, antimonial drug, was developed almost a century ago. This clinical regimen requires multiple injections (four weeks of daily injections for the visceral form of leishmaniasis), is costly, often associated with unpleasant side effects, and is becoming ineffective in many endemic locales. With resistance to therapeutic antimonials increasing to 60% in certain parts of India, the mortality rate from visceral leishmaniasis has been very high.3 Recent progress has been made by an oral anti-leishmaniasis drug, miltefosine, with the current clinical recommendation to use this drug as frontline treatment for some forms of leishmaniasis, including cutaneous leishmaniasis. Miltefosine, however, is teratogenic and requires an extended therapeutic regimen. Another therapeutic, liposomal amphotericin B, also has considerable efficacy against clinical leishmaniasis, but the expense of the drug renders it impractical in all but severe cases of the disease. Both miltefosine and amphotericin B function independently of the immune system, therefore, when the drug is withdrawn before completion of the therapeutic regimen, parasite loads re-emerge.4 Control of the phlebotomine sand fly vectors is also not feasible given the prohibitive expense associated with insecticide use.
The development of a safe, effective, and economical vaccine product is possible, given that controlled vaccination with live parasites has been practiced for centuries in the Middle East, and individuals who recover from clinical leishmaniasis develop immunity against re-infection. Additionally, recent trials with killed parasites demonstrate good efficacy of such a vaccine in post-infection settings of cutaneous leishmaniasis,5–8 and numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of such vaccines in experimental models of leishmaniasis.9–14


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Back when I wore a size 14 petite, I had a pair of black pants that were mislabeled as a size 12 petite.
I called them my mercy pants, although I'm not sure why. At the time I figured that when you're 5-feet, 1-inch tall and wear a size 14 petite you need all the mercy you can get.
But that's just silly.
What's not silly is the concept of mercy. I think of all God's attributes, I love his mercy best. At least that's what I plead for most often. "God, be merciful to me, the sinner."
International Gospel Lighthouse Church is hosting special Wednesday night services this month.
Bro. David South will be teaching and preaching each Wednesday at 7 p.m.
The church is located at 99 Lighthouse Road, six miles from Campbellsville on KY 70 at Acton.
For more information, call 465-2594. The community is invited to attend.
I have a confession to make. I am a suburban, middle-class, middle-aged white woman. I don't have a tattoo or an amazing story to tell. I'm not athletic or heroic or musical or artistic. I've never been a missionary to Africa or even Cincinnati.
I had begun to think that maybe being who I am was not cool and not OK. But thanks to a woman named Kimberly, I realized that who I am, an average woman who needs Jesus and whose ministry is primarily to other average women, is OK - more than OK.
First United Methodist Church is planning a Celebrate Recovery Program, with a new session set to begin Thursday, Feb. 7.
Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered 12-step recovery program designed for those 18 years and older.
The program's philosophy is that "no one has not experienced some problem that has limited them in achieving all that God wants them to be." The program allows participants to focus on the future rather than wallow in past mistakes and painful memories.
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The Joymakers are celebrating their 50th anniversary of playing gospel music.
Founded by Buddy Lowe of Greensburg in 1957, the Joymakers have traveled all across Kentucky and nationally from Florida to Wisconsin and Virginia to Iowa in their 50 years together.
Original members included Lowe, Joe Tommy Hughes, Garland Milby, Bill Bradshaw and Betty Jo Larimore, who played the piano.
Lowe said that in the group's early days, church music rarely featured instruments other than the piano.
"In those days, you didn't use guitar and drums."
"Love is a wonderful thing. You never have to take it away from one person to give it to another. There's always more than enough to go around."
-Pamela de Roy
Love. It truly does make the world go 'round. Whether it's the romantic love of sweethearts, the cherishing love of parents, or the loyal love of friends, we all have special people in our lives.
But do the people you love know just how much you care?
I can't remember exactly what I was whining about, but a month or so ago I was telling the one I call my uncle-dad about stuff that was going on.
Actually, the stuff that was going on was serious stuff, so I wasn't really whining; I was seriously upset. Nevertheless, when I finished he said, "Cheer up! You have the past to look forward to."
At the time, I attributed his comment to his advanced years and maybe a bit of senility setting in. Or maybe he didn't hear me correctly or was just trying to get me to shut my yap.
Financial Peace University, the 13-week program taught by Dave Ramsey, has helped more than 400,000 families positively change their financial future.
This life-changing program teaches families and individuals how to handle their money through common-sense principles and small group accountability. FPU is available for churches, companies, military bases, financial literacy programs, Spanish speaking organizations and community groups.
Certified by Precept Ministries International, Carol Freeman will be leading the eight-week study of Romans-Part Three.
Classes begin on Thursday, Jan. 10 and continue through Feb. 28. Times are 1 to 3 p.m. or 7 to 9 p.m. The location is Bethel First Presbyterian Church, 502 E. Main St. in Campbellsville.
Cost of the class is $23 for the workbook and materials. For additional information or to register, call Freeman at 465-8042 by Thursday, Jan. 3.
Kevin Spencer and Friends will be in concert at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 30 at South Summersville Baptist Church. For more information, call (270) 932-5419 or (270) 403-4643.
Robinson Chapel Church will have a night watch service on Monday, Dec.31 beginning at 8 p.m. ET.
New Dawn will be singing.
The church is located on KY 551 near Knifley.
The community is invited to attend. For more information call 465-6528 or 465-7151.
The Taylor County Ministerial Association has elected officers for 2008.
Skip Alexander of Campbellsville Baptist Church was elected to succeed Joe Hatchett of Campbellsville Christian Church as president of the association.
Other officers are Steve Orr, Kentucky Christian School, vice president; Ted Beam, First United Methodist Church, treasurer; and John Chowning, Campbellsville University and Saloma Baptist Church, secretary.
Michael Combs of North Carolina will be in concert on Friday, Jan. 4 at Elk Horn Baptist Church, with Fairview Baptist Church hosting as well.
The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10, which can be purchased at the door.
For more information, call Darell Cox at 465-2058.
The holiday shopping season is well underway. Shoppers rush from store to store, overloaded with purchases, searching for the perfect gift.
Many do not realize they carry the perfect gift year round - lifesaving blood. This holiday season, donate blood with the American Red Cross and give the gift of life.
You can help boost the blood supply this holiday season by donating blood on Christmas Eve, from 6 to 10 a.m. at Taylor Regional Hospital. All donors will have the opportunity to enter a drawing for a weekly $250 shopping spree.
Is there nothing more agonizing for a child than waiting for Christmas to arrive? I remember when my sister, two brothers and I would alternate between agony and ecstasy every December as we anticipated the arrival of Christmas.
With each day's waiting more torturous than the next, we would put on our David Seville and the Chipmunks album on the hi-fi and commiserate with them as they pleaded, "Please, Christmas, don't be late!"
Four decades ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said he had a dream.
Today, Greater Campbellsville United and the News-Journal want to know what your dreams are for the future of our community, state, nation and world.
Last week I met a man who told me how his community thumbed their noses at the anti-Christmasness of their annual holiday show.
Some had decided they couldn't sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" in a public gathering so they rewrote the words.
Ha ha ha, the man said. As the chorus on stage sang, "We wish you a happy holiday," the audience sang even louder, "We wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 116 S. Columbia Ave., will observe the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ on Dec. 24 at 7 p.m.
"This traditional service uses liturgy that dates back to the 2nd Century C.E.," said Karl Lusk, St. Thomas' pastor. "We'll sing the Christmas traditional hymns and also use a new setting for the service music, the St. James Press Christmas Service."
Lusk noted that this music uses familiar hymn tunes for the sung portions of the Holy Communion service.
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church's Girls in Action recently visited Taylor Regional Hospital and delivered comfort packages to the waiting rooms in the Women's Center, ICU and Emergency Room. They also delivered cookies to the nurses' stations in the Women's Center, Pediatrics, ICU and Emergency Room. Pictured at the Women's Center nursing station are, from left, Sierra Young, Sabrina Garrison, Kacie Underwood, Madison Handy, Mackenzie Sprowles, Korri Briggs, Brianna Handy and Desiree White.
Campbellsville Middle School eighth graders in Melisa Morris' algebra I and pre-algebra classes made fruit smoothies to relate equation solving techniques to real life situations. The activity, in which students applied the equations to smoothie recipes, was a "Thoughtful Classroom" activity.
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This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson's blog, which focuses on the effects of violence and trauma on the community. Go to www.oaklandeffect.com for updates on his reporting and www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-hotspot for updates from the Oakland Hotspot.
May 2
When Ben McBride first started trying to understand Oakland's violence he spent some time with kids who were deeply involved in it. This was around 2006, when Oakland had over 140 homicides. McBride wasn't living in Oakland then.
"I met one young guy and I asked him, because I was really curious, I said, 'Would you really kill somebody?' And he was like, 'Yeah, I would, I'd shoot 'em, if they disrespected me, yeah.' And I realized these guys were so calm, so nonreactive. But outside of that conversation, the conversation about disrespect, it was something else entirely. They were enthusiastic kids, like any other kids. But they were hurting, and so one of the things we're trying to do is restore their invisible humanity."
I met with McBride today downtown where he works. For the last several years he has lived in East Oakland. After he started digging into what was wrong with Oakland, and after the above conversation, he moved his family here, right into the so-called "kill zone."
Over the last couple of years McBride has been pretty deeply involved in getting the Operation Ceasefire program up and running. I'm going to be going out with him and his team this Friday.
"A lot of the young guys on my block, they just don't have a picture of what hope or community even look like," he told me. "Fixing this is going to take a long time. And there has to be a recognition that these are real people, and you have to be willing to say, I'm going to walk alongside you if you get healthy -- or even if you don't."
For the better part of a year McBride and about 15 other people from a variety of disciplines started meeting to hammer out the details of how Ceasefire would work. As in Boston and other cities where Ceasefire had been implemented, Oakland's planners agreed that they needed to entice violent offenders in with a simple message: We recognize you are in pain but that can't mean pain for everyone else.
McBride estimates that there are roughly 1,000 people involved in a serious way in violent crime in Oakland at any given time. Of that, roughly 200-300 are what he and others have identified as "high volume shooters." These are people, says McBride "who shoot multiple times a year and they're shooting at people multiple times." Looking at the numbers, he says he realized that while the problem was bad, the scope was also entirely manageable, if handled correctly.
Though it's still early, he believes Ceasefire is having an effect. Homicides are down so far this year 38 percent, according to the latest OPD figures. Shootings are down 6 percent. These figures could change quickly but so far the trend is looking good. The big question will be if it can be sustained over the summer.
A big part of this involves targeting people McBride says are the real power brokers in dangerous neighborhoods. These are people who seem to know everyone, whose families have lived there for decades, who have influence and sway.
Ceasefire was begun six months ago this month and in that time authorities have concentrated on the streets in Deep East Oakland, around 80th and 90th avenues, since that's where most of the violence has been taking place. The shooters don't necessarily live there.
McBride says his goal is "to have hundreds and hundreds of people walking through some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city." He says the plan is an intermediate step to ending gun violence. The longer term plans will require much more community participation, family regeneration and education. But it's a first step.
The work hasn't always been easy. Many people in McBride's community have expressed fears that Project Ceasefire is just a way for law enforcement to gather intel on violent offenders -- a sort of Trojan horse program that would allow them to pursue the people they want to nab and, as McBride put it, "arrest their way out of the problem."
But most people have embraced it.
"As long as you recognize their invisible humanity," he told me. "I'm optimistic."
Contact Scott Johnson at 510-208-6429 or email@example.com.


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You'll join your fellow Corps Members for weekly learning, and attend weekend retreats throughout the year. During these sessions, you will meet with a wide variety of top-level activists, trainers, and educators to learn more about the dynamics of urban poverty. You will also learn how to become an effective agent for social change, and the way that Jewish history, culture, and religion connect to your work to combat poverty and strengthen community.
Previous sessions have been led by outstanding facilitators, educators and leaders, including:
- Charles Allen III, Advisor to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Coastal and Environmental Affairs and Chair of the Mayor's office of Coastal and Environmental Affairs
- Dr. Richard Campanella, Associate Director of Tulane University's Center for Bioenvironmental Research and Research Professor with Tulane's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Rachel Durschlag, Founder and Executive Director, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation
- Mary Jacksteit, Associate with the Public Conversations Project
- Rabbi Ethan Linden, Rabbi of Shir Chadash in New Orleans
- Ruth Messinger, Executive Director of American Jewish World Service and former Manhattan Borough President
- Jackie Mondros, Dean at the Hunter School of Social Work
- Dr. Sabiyha Prince, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at American University
- Tom Waters, Housing Policy Analyst at the Community Service Society
Past session topics include:
- Why a Jewish Social Justice Movement? - Guests from around the Jewish social justice community, as well as AVODAH staff and alumni join together with Corps Members for a conversation about what the social justice role and priorities should be for the Jewish community. Participants share their Jewish justice journeys, study a text in pairs, and participate in discussion in groups, examining questions like: How does the Jewish social justice community set its agenda and where do we dedicate our resources? and What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of doing justice work from a Jewish location?
- Gender as a Social Justice Issue - Conducted in a round-robin format, Corps Members have an opportunity to engage with different terminology related to issues of gender and sexual identity, have conversations about the ways that their workplaces work or fail to uphold just gender workplace policy, understand and unpack hetero and cisgender privilege, compare and understand personal, political and Jewish values related to gender and sexual identity, and analyze current policy around gender and sexual identity.
- Class Privilege Workshop - Corps Members learn about class privilege in the United States and explore manifestations of class in their workplaces and in their community. Corps Members use the second half of this workshop to discuss solutions to classism they can employ in their daily routines, at their placements, and in their bayit community.
- Shabbat as a Radical Practice - Corps Members explore the idea of Shabbat from several angles: the concept of rest and peacefulness as a tool and source of inspiration for activists; the inherently radical ideas within the structure of Shabbat (i.e., time apart from consumption; prioritizing face-to-face community; people of all income levels being entitled to rest, etc); and how to best take advantage of their own Community Shabbat spaces during the year.
- Social Activism Skill Building - Sessions throughout the year are dedicated to creating a strong set of skills for social change, including community organizing techniques, communication for change, and new media.
- Site Visits- AVODAH Corps Members visit each other's work sites throughout the year to extend the scope of their learning. Site-visits help Corps Members broaden their understanding of the multiple issues that are related to poverty including hunger, literacy, workers' rights and healthcare. Corps Members also get a chance to compare the various methods of achieving social change that are employed by different organizations, including direct service, education, advocacy and community organizing.
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The James Brown Soul of America Music Festival is planned for Memorial Day weekend.
But it may be missing a major player: the Godfather himself.
In a story you'll see only on News 12, we reveal yet another blow to the festival plans.
Sources close to entertainer James Brown say it's very likely he will not be at the music festival honoring him.
James Brown's business manager says festival organizers have never submitted a request for James Brown and his band to appear.
Instead he'll be on tour in other cities.
It's a music festival to honor the hardest-working man in show business.
But James Brown's publicist says festival organizers haven't booked the festival date with Brown's management.
According to the Intrigue Music website, James Brown's road managers have booked him for Charlottesville, Virginia on May 25, the start of the festival.
And then on May 27, he'll be in Portsmouth, Virginia.
It's not that James Brown didn't want to participate in his own festival.
Brown's managers say nothing has ever been nailed down, and so his booking agency continued with other venues.
Brown's camp says it will be hard for him to drop in at the festival, especially to perform.
James Brown's band members are located all over the United States. It will cost roughly $85,000 to bring them to Augusta, pay for their food and hotel rooms, and pay them for the performance.
So far the festival hasn't paid a dime for them to come.
Things may change, but right now James Brown's business manager says it will be nearly impossible to get him here for the festival between his tours.


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SANTA CLARA -- Anquan Boldin isn't cowering at the prospect of getting hit Sunday in Tampa, when the 49ers oppose their former safety Dashon Goldson.
"He's a guy that can bring it," Boldin said Thursday, "but as a receiver, you don't worry about that stuff. If you get hit, you get hit, then just find them on a running play."
Boldin's tenacious approach has shown up in recent wins over the St. Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks. After each game, he talked about welcoming any and all physical challenges.
Goldson certainly will offer that, too. His penchant for hard hits already has earned him a one-game NFL suspension this season. Boldin praised Goldson as a physical, smart player, and their familiarity dates back to Boldin's NFC West days with the Arizona Cardinals and the previous three seasons with the Baltimore Ravens.
But Goldson isn't the most high-profile player in the Buccaneers secondary. That would be Darrelle Revis, whom Boldin faced a few times when Revis was with the New York Jets.
As expected, Boldin is the 49ers' leading receiver (67 catches, 915 yards, five touchdowns) while they work Michael Crabtree back into the mix. Despite the passing game's recent strides, it ranks last in yards per game, and Boldin notes there's "a lot of room for improvement."
Two games into his comeback from Achilles surgery, Crabtree was limited Thursday for a second straight day with an ankle issue that offensive coordinator Greg Roman said is not related to the Achilles tear.
Getting that Boldin-Crabtree tandem up to elite status will be a key for the 49ers (9-4) heading into the playoffs, assuming they indeed clinch a berth, which they can do as early as Sunday.
"You're always evaluating that part of it as a coach, trying to see what players do what best, trying to put guys in different situations to take advantage of different matchups," Boldin said. "That's an ongoing process."
With 85 yards against the Buccaneers, Boldin would reach the 1,000-yard mark for a sixth season. He is tied for first in the NFL with 27 third-down receptions (for 400 yards).
"The only thing I'll say is he's in the third year of a five-year contract, and I love the job that he's doing," York told this newspaper's Tim Kawakami. "But now is not the right time to talk about anything like that. We've got three games left in the regular season and a potential playoff berth, and that's what everybody here's focused on.
"We'll sit down at the end of the season and talk about all this -- and I hope he has the utmost leverage when we do that ... meaning after we win a Super Bowl."
Sports Illustrated reported that Harbaugh declined a two-year extension offer before the season. Harbaugh left Stanford after the 2010 season and is assured of his third straight winning season as 49ers coach.


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Community Briefs: Dec. 19
Published: Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 5:47 p.m.
Flat Rock Council will hold an agenda workshop meeting at 9:30 a.m. Dec. 30 in the assembly room.
Flat Rock Park and Recreation Advisory Board Committee will meet at 4 p.m. Dec. 23 at 48 Turkey Roost Court, Hendersonville.
The Board of Trustees of the Henderson County Public Library will meet at 9 a.m. Jan 9 at the main branch of the Henderson County Public Library in Hendersonville, in the board room, at 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville.
The Mills River Agricultural Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday has been canceled.
The Mills River Town Council will hold its organizational meeting at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. A reception for retiring Councilwoman Lois Pryor will be held immediately following the meeting.
A book signing for "Adolf Meistermann: The Devil's Legacy" will be held from 1-3 p.m. Saturday at Black Bear Coffee Company, 318 North Main Street, Hendersonvill, with local author Peggy Cramer. Info: 828-692-6333.
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"Where urban fantasy and James Bond meet...a fast paced and fun read which shouldn't fail to delight fantasy fans."
"A fast paced paranormal adventure that travels to the castles of Scotland and leaves readers with a whole new outlook on ghostly possibilities."
"Fun, hilarious, exciting, and scary all at once."
I'm really happy to have Jennifer Rardin here at Vampire Wire to talk about her urban fantasy series, the Jaz Parks novels, and let us in on the dish about her upcoming release, Bite Marks.
Bite Marks is the sixth in the series and takes her Australia. Really, what's not to like about a horde of gnomes, the CIA, possession by a demon, and job performance anxiety?
Jennifer is very kindly kicking in prizes for two contest winners: a spanking new, autographed copy of Bite Marks, and a copy of Once Bitten, Twice Shy, her first novel. Read to the end of the post to learn how to enter the contest.
MARTA: Please tell us about your upcoming release in the Jaz Parks series, Bite Marks.
JENNIFER: I can still remember one of my English professors saying, "If you can't reduce your plot to a single sentence, your story isn't ready to tell." So here's my shot—Bite Marks is about two CIA assassins who are sent to Australia to kill a guy before he can destroy the space program.
Naw, I still don't like that rule. Because you don't get the flavor, do you? How can you have any idea that one of our heroes is a vampire still haunted by his past, while the other often spends her down-time cooking up wild schemes that could result in her dad living out the rest of his days in an igloo on the peak of Mount McKinley? Or that, throughout the course of their partnership, they've managed to collect a crew of oddballs that include a demon-hunted psychic, a paranoid genius, and an easy-going sniper who still sends Christmas cards to most of his ex-girlfriends? There's even a dog named Jack, but we don't like to talk about him when he's not in the room. It hurts his feelings.
MARTA: Can you believe you're already on the sixth book in your series? How do you see Jaz's development from the first in the series until now?
JENNIFER: I looked down at the calendar today. It said that this was the second anniversary of the release of Once Bitten, Twice Shy, and I still felt like celebrating that first book. So, yeah, it's hard to get my arms around the idea of having so many novels on the market in such a short period of time. I'm happy we planned it that way, though, because it's given Jazfans a chance to jump right into the series without having to wait forever between installments.
As for our girl, she's become somewhat more stable as she's dealt with the worst of her grief and guilt and allowed herself to smile again. However, we've gotta remember we're dealing with a woman whose job is to eliminate enemies of the United States. As she's said herself, you have to be somewhat bent to succeed at her job.
MARTA: You grew up in the Midwest reading fables and fantasy and went on to get a degree in English. Can you name a few books that opened worlds for you?
JENNIFER: The first books that felt magical to me and gave me a sense of the unlimited potential of story were The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, and The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein.
MARTA: Since you began your series with Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Urban Fantasy has exploded. What's the appeal of a kick-ass heroine battling the supernatural? Please feel free to wax poetic about our current socio-political climate (or not).
JENNIFER: I recently asked my fans a similar question, because I'm doing a talk at the end of the month about urban fantasy for a group of Illinois librarians and I wanted a readerly point of view. Most of them mentioned that they're tired of whiny heroines who just stand around with their thumbs up their asses while their dashing yet adorable love interest (with the dimpled chin, no less) jumps in to save the day. I agree. We admire people who rescue themselves and then pull the people around them out of the muck as well. Even more so in stories, where we're looking for someone we can both identify with and admire. As for the supernatural element—for me (and I believe for many readers) it's all about escape.
Life is hard. And it often sucks. When I open a book, I've already dealt with a veritable parade of crapola for the past twelve hours. So I want something that transports me from my cares from the moment I begin reading until the second I close the cover. Which is why Urban Fantasy is such a great fit for a growing number of readers. You find that lovely escape, but you still get such an instant connection with the characters (because their world is so similar to yours) that you drop right into the story as effortlessly as falling into bed. (Okay, I suppose you could insist that urban fantasy's monsters are nothing like ours. But my response would be that we have the same sorts of predators in our world. They're just packaged differently.)
MARTA: What do you enjoy most about first-person narrative, and what are some challenges?
JENNIFER: I like the voice. If your character is unique enough, which I think Jaz is, readers can hear the inflection, sarcasm, drawl, humor, almost without me pointing them in that direction. In no other form does one character's voice come through so strongly, and I love having that sense of speaking straight from Jaz's mouth into the reader's ear.
I think one of the greatest challenges of first-person is a full-on fight scene involving multiple characters. Because if Jaz is busy kicking ass, she's not observing what everyone else in the room (or graveyard, or mountain trail—as the case may be) is doing. Sometimes the characters you need to see aren't even in the same location. Then I really need to figure out how she knows what's going on with them. Can she hear them? Is she recounting their story as told to her later? Tough decisions that always need a practical eye to make sure the reader doesn't put down the book and say, "I don't buy that for a second."
MARTA: So how do you do research for Jaz's international adventures while living in a farmhouse?
JENNIFER: Even living in the black hole of middle-of-nowhere Illinois we do get high speed Internet. So I spend a great deal of time reading about the locations Jaz and Vayl visit and studying hundreds (maybe even thousands) of pictures of the place. Believe it or not, the CIA usually has a webpage devoted to the places I've picked for Jaz's missions, and it covers the basics thoroughly. I read travelogues and guide books. I usually make one or two direct contacts with knowledgeable people who live in the area who are willing to answer questions like the one I asked my bookseller friend from Edinburgh, for One More Bite, which was, "If I was going to watch TV in a bed and breakfast just outside of Inverness, how likely would I be to come across a movie like Hot Fuzz?"
MARTA: How many books do you plan to have in the series? Are you working on any other projects?
JENNIFER: Right now I'm contracted to write eight books in the series. I've just finished the seventh, Bitten in Two, and am planning on beginning the eighth November 1. After that I'd like to start a new series for Orbit, which will also fall into the urban fantasy category. But the details are still Top Secret. In the meantime, I'm finishing up my YA book, Shadowstruck, which I hope to send to my agent by the end of the week.
MARTA: Are you surprised at the range of your readership? Can you share one reader comment or reaction that thrilled you?
JENNIFER: I didn't realize Jaz would appeal to such a wide age range (I've had e-mails from preteens and grandparents) or that so many readers around the world would find her such fun. I love it that people are enjoying the Jaz stories, but probably the one e-mail that touched me the most was from a lady who'd just lost her mother. She wanted to thank me for writing something that helped get her through the day. Knowing I gave somebody who was grieving just a little lift? That's huge.
MARTA: Okay, you know that I think your book covers rock. Do you want to give a shout-out to your designer? [You can read an article about the design of these covers here.]
JENNIFER: I do. My designer for the first five books did a tremendous job and I must thank him from the bottom of my heart for providing me with such beautiful, sleek covers. He's no longer with Orbit, but Lauren Panepinto has taken his place and I think you'll agree her cover for Bite Marks should totally be accompanied by a heavy metal riff every time it opens!
MARTA: Here's the requisite inane question: If you could rewrite a great classic in first person with a paranormal theme, what would it be and give us a few sample sentences.
JENNIFER: See, here again is where my English professors would probably rap my knuckles with a ruler if they could, because I didn't find a whole lot to cherish in the classics beyond Shakespeare and Chaucer. So, since Hamlet's already got a bitchin' ghost, I'll go for Romeo and Juliet's balcony scene:
Romeo: "Juliet! Throw down a ladder or something! It's coming!"
Juliet: "I'm tying the sheets together as fast as I can! What were you thinking anyway? The Capulet isn't supposed to wake for another fifty years!"
Romeo: "Now you tell me? Before you were all like, 'Oh, Romeo, let's take a walk by the cemetery. It's so dark and romantic. I'll show you a monument that's been marking the burial site of a cool old family legend. And while we're there maybe we can make out.' Now you're all—"
Juliet: "I never said that about making out! You're such a douche!"
Romeo: "Me? I was just . . . aaaaahhhhh!"
(He doesn't die just now. I'm telling you this because you look a little worried.)—Now those lines came from a classic. Can you name it?
MARTA: The aaaahhhh! part? Uhm, I'm pretty sure it's from Sense and Sensibility when Marianne falls down. Anything else you'd like to share with readers?
JENNIFER: It's my turn to do Thanksgiving this year, and I just discovered my kid doesn't care for celery, so if any of you have a great stuffing recipe that doesn't include the green, pass it on will ya? Here's where you can find me. (And yeah, I'm a chatter, so we'll definitely talk books while you're there too!)
MARTA: Thanks for visiting, Jennifer, and sharing your book news and the whole celery issue, which is also a problem with my spawn. (Just skip the celery. No one really cares about it. I make stuffing with cornbread, walnuts, onion, and that's about it.)
To can learn more about Jennifer and her books at:
- Jennifer's website, where you can read excerpts of all of her novels on the books page.
- MySpace
- Goodreads
- Reluctant Adults Blog
TO ENTER THE CONTEST: I'm always forgetting names of characters, but I remember Jaz Parks because it's such a cool name. If you'd like to win an autographed copy of Bite Marks or Once Bitten, Twice Shy, leave a comment for Jennifer or the favorite name of a character in a book or movie. (Mine is Snake Plissken from "Escape from New York." I love that name.) Will we ever forget Buffy Summers?
Mention on the comment which book you'd like to win. (Bite Marks is for fans of the series, and Once Bitten, Twice Shy is for those who haven't yet started the series.)
The contest is open worldwide and will run through the evening of October 28. Winners will be chosen at random.


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I think you're on the wrong track. All you're ever going to get is interpretations. The best path is to find where interpretations converge on something resembling a "fact."
My experience is that left/critical sources offer more satisfactory and logical explanations of generally-accepted facts. I'm not sure why you'd want to shelter yourself from sources that are "too liberal." Your general information/news/history-via-osmosis is an inherently elite, status quo-justifying perspective, just by living in a society where the means of communication are controlled by people with social power.
Don't try to look for "unbiased" sources, because those that end up looking like they stick to the 'facts' will probably end up being those that use conventional frames to explain history to make the present look correct and inevitable. Once you get into serious historical scholarship, you don't see as much controversy over basic facts, but a struggle of high-level theory to explain the whole course of events.
My point is there's no good reason to quit reading shit like Zinn, et al.
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Dude, get some rest. You're all over the place. How old are you?
There are catholics who have taken up the peoples' struggle, like Father Roy Bourgeois in the U.S. and Oscar Romero in El Salvador. And you seem to be distancing yourself from dogmatic catholicism but then you don't want to get into anything overly "liberal." Well as far as politics goes, liberalism carries a different meaning in contemporary US politics from its origional philosophy/political economy. So if you are looking for an alternative point of view, then don't be sheepish about claiming the left, if that's where you are at right now. Objective history doesn't really exist to me. The staff at your library should be able to help you with searches. Books on history and politics are making an argument based on archives, historical narratives, etc, however, the way that the authors approach or interpret their "evidence" will determine their results, as will their particular ideological and political standpoint. they are all biased and if they are claim to simply report unbiased facts or objectivity, then that is the sign that they are even more biased and probably reinforcing the power structure.
Anyway, here are some suggestions.
Michel Rolph Trouillot- Silencing the Past
Massimo de Angelis- The Beginning of History
Ward S. Albro- To Die on Your Feet
You'd probably like anything by Noam Chomsky.
Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:01 pm
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Oh yeah, and like Confidential said, if you're not totally burnt out on Catholicism, it's a big enough umbrella to contain some pretty cool things:
Not sure whether that's a positive consequence of Catholic theology, or if it's the only viable way of introducing radical ideology in places (like much of Latin America) that live and breathe the Church.
Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:07 pm
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emma goldman "anarchism and other essays"
the noam chomsky reader
are two good places to start
other good ones are
"shock doctrine" naomi klein
"confessions of an economic hitman"
i would say the emma goldman is a great entry point.
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I've been meaning to read "Freakonomics" for a long time, I think it might tie into that category.
Edward W. Said is the man when it comes to understanding imperialism throughout history.
Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:41 pm
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i'm not sure how any political history book is going to make your painting better. really being able to see what's around you right now, refocusing it through your lens. and properly conveying is what'll make better paintings.
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I'm going to recommend a vision quest.
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maybe you should think about becoming a poet.
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You should read some fiction. 100 Years of Solitude maybe. The Stranger. Breakfast of Champions.
If you want to read the bullshit history, just buy a high school history book. The one I had when I was a junior was called The Enduring Vision. It was pretty good actually.
Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:30 am
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Ok, so I think I get where you're coming from a bit more now. I still don't get how you made it through years of schooling without a basic knowledge of history. I mean, you know about Christopher Columbus, the Declaration of Independence, the Civil War, WW2? Right? What is it that you want to know? Once you get into college-level texts, there is no baseline neutral "1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" textbook. There are different authors who tell different narratives with different explanations and analyses of events.
I just checked my local community college's reading lists:
Western Civ:
Kidner, "Making Europe"
Berkin, "The History Handbook"
Perry, "Western Civilization:A Brief History" (parts 1 and 2, pre-1400 and post-1400)
US History:
Limerick, "The Legacy Of Conquest"
Cronon, "Changes In The Land"
Henretta, "America: A Concise History"
Bordewich, "Bound For Canaan"
Is that what you're looking for?
Why is it so important for you to learn establishment history? Did you actually have trouble understanding Zinn because of your lack of background knowledge? Or is it just a compare and contrast thing? You will learn plenty from more critical texts without getting the History 101.
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Start with James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me if you're interested in the skewed perspective of US History.
You're making a pretty tall order here, Penchant. I can't think of a database that will separate books into categories of propaganda and truth. You have to do that work yourself, and a lot of people have already made great suggestions of books that handle the latter really well. The most important thing here is to gather a knowledge base of the generally accepted facts through a constant reading of informed perspectives. Then you can analyze the information and make your own conclusions.
Take Columbus as a murdering for God gold hound slave driver as an example of a perspective that is more or less accepted as truth. How do we know this? In large part due to a priest named Bartolome de las Casas and his firsthand accounts of Columbus' activities on Hispaniola (modern day Haiti and the DR). Columbus started the encomienda system, which was basically the beginning of Manifest Destiny in that it "gave" Spanish colonists land with their very own startup kit of slaves to work it. They don't teach you that in high school because there's this desperately shortsighted need to preserve a more heroic image of America and it's founding. That's another discussion though.
So what I'm saying is that you need to find books that deal largely with primary, or firsthand, accounts of the events the book is investigating. Even these interpretations can be biased with the appropriate agenda furthering snippets presented to the reader, but that's where your own discernment comes in.
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The Bay Area rivals were placed as the first and second seeds in the NCAA women's tournament Spokane Regional on Monday and will play each other for the right to get to New Orleans if all goes according to form.
The schools split their Pac-12 Conference games in January, but an anticipated third meeting in the conference tournament final never materialized because the Golden Bears lost in the semifinals.
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We had a great time, and it was such fun getting to know our fellow runners, including the reviewers above. (Hi, guys!)
It was a unique experience, one that is hard to describe to people back home. (Them: "So, everyone on the cruise was a runner, then?" Us: "No, just us and about 25 others who signed up on Active.com for the group rate." Them: "So, did all 25 of you know each other?" Us: "No, total strangers at first. Friends by the last day!" etc.) This was our first cruise -- we'd never had much desire to take a cruise before. It was definitely worth trying once. Having visited Hawaii three times before, it was a welcome change to experience multiple islands without having to make travel arrangements. That, and the great views you get cruising around the islands and into the harbors, was the best part about the cruise. The downsides include those mentioned by others (everything has an added cost) and you do have to wait in line a lot. Otherwise, NCL seems like a respectable cruise line; no problems.
Marv and Rosemarie and their friends/colleagues Mike and Sharon were wonderful planners and hosts. The runs were fantastic, and there was plenty of time to do your own thing on the off days too; we weren't "managed" by the hosts at all. What a treat to meet some Marv's local friends who set up the runs for us in Hawaii Volcanoes Nat'l Park and on Kauai. Best of all, the weather was perfect that week, which doesn't always happen in Hawaii in January. My husband and I are seriously considering a return trip to west Maui next year to run the oceanfront (half) marathon on our own. It's one of our favorite areas anyway, and experiencing it as a runner was new and exciting.
Hello every one.this is Ruth and Juan from New Jersey: This was our first cruise and our first time to Hawaii. This has been our best running and cruising experience. Marv, Rosemarie, Mike and Sharon were great planners and entertainers. All runners and their families were so nice that it really hurted having to depart. I wish you all the best and I hope I have the chance to enjoy your company and running adventures again. I definitely suggest this cruise to every one wanting something different, exotic and still healthy!
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Your doctor will ask you questions about your family and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Tests can help determine the location and type of stone.
Urinalysis and urine culture
Your doctor may take a sample of your urine to see if there is an infection, or increased amount of the chemicals that cause stones.
Most kidney stones can be seen on an x-ray. This test is helpful for knowing what type of stone you may have. Other studies are often needed to determine the specific spot in the kidney where the stone is located.
An ultrasound is a diagnostic technique that combines sound waves and computer imaging to view internal organs. This procedure provides a more detailed picture than you would get from a single x-ray.
This procedure uses x-rays to take highly detailed pictures of your internal organs. A CT scan can spot small kidney stones that regular x-rays might miss.
For this test, a dye is injected into a vein. The dye highlights otherwise hard-to-see areas of your urinary tract as it passes out of your system. This makes it easier for your doctor to see the kidney stone on an x-ray. This procedure is less commonly used today because of the excellent images obtained with CT scans.
Blood Test
Blood tests help identify factors, such as high levels of calcium, uric acid, or the presence of infection, that can cause a kidney stone to develop.
24-hour Urine Collection
Urine will be tested for acidity and levels of substances, such as calcium, uric acid, citrate, and oxalate, which can form kidney stones. This test provides a more accurate analysis than your doctor would get from a single urine sample.
Stone Analysis
Once a stone is recovered, it can be analyzed in a laboratory to determine its chemical make-up. This may help your doctor make decisions about how you can prevent further stone formation.
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verbo (past sowed /səʊd/; past participle sown /səʊn/ or sowed)[with object]
- Three seeds were sown and plants thinned to one per pot when the first trifoliate leaf emerged.
- With wheat, for example, men tend to prepare the earth and sow the seed, while women and children do much of the weeding.
- Four seeds were sown per pot and thinned to a single plant nearest the center.
- They are otherwise treated as annuals and a fresh crop is sown from seed yearly.
- However, food supply has deteriorated as fewer and fewer farmers exist and little or no grain crops are sown.
- Afghan farmers have returned to cotton cultivation, sowing the crop over 6,000 hectares of land in the northern Kunduz province after decades of strife.
- As a result, 14,313 acres of land were sown a second time around.
- 'In previous years, no one even bothered to plant crops because our lands were dry like a desert, but that has all changed and everyone is sowing their land,' he said.
- The drought has caused great harm to the growing of wheat in the province, with more than about 733,000 hectares of wheat land unable to be sown.
- It is easy to keep and breed in the laboratory, living happily in petri dishes that have been sown with lawns of Escherichia coli bacteria.
- After the Soviet Army sowed the passes with mines it ceased and has never, so far as I know, recommenced.
- Mines can be sown in deep water, and are propelled at high speed towards a target, like a miniature homing torpedo.
- They had sown a lot of mines in the roads and fields nearby and when walking from our house to the flight line we had to stay within a yardwide path which had been cleared of mines and marked with strips of white tape.
- How long they get away with it depends on how long they can sow confusion and doubt.
- Not only does this harm individual patients, but it also sows a dangerous confusion in the minds of people living with HIV, decision makers and the general public.
- Don't let's spoil it by creating hydra-headed initiatives that end up competing with one another and sowing confusion in their wake.
sow the seed (or seeds) of
- Do something which will eventually bring about (a particular result): the seeds of dissension had been sownMás ejemplos en oraciones
- This experience sowed the seeds of the eventual skepticism I'd later feel towards much of my first church's teaching and practice.
- Over 100 years previously, Rousseau, in a broader educational context, sowed the seeds of what is sometimes called the 'child-centred' view of education.
- Such are the quirks of youth that can herald sudden fancies, and occasionally sow the seeds of a lifetime's obsession.
sow one's wild oats
- see oat.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- And like the New Testament parable of the sower and the seed, it remains to be seen whether the pope's prayers will fall on stony ground or whether they bear much fruit.
- Alon's idea, which became his master's thesis, was to feed the birds directly, by scattering corn near the lake with a mechanical sower.
- Oats had to be transported to the field where the sower, carrying a supply in a canvas apron hanging around his neck, used both hands to scatter seed as he walked.
Old English sāwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zaaien and German säen.
Sow, in the sense to plant is Old English and had the sense 'disseminate' from early on. The image of disseminate (Late Middle English) is the same, for it comes from Latin semen (Late Middle English) meaning 'seed'. Seed (Old English) in turn comes from the same Germanic root as sow. The differently pronounced sow that is the female pig is also Old English, and goes back to an Indo-European root shared by Latis sus and Greek hus which suggests they were on the menu for our early ancestors.
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- A day before the sows are ready to farrow, the farrowing boxes are set up in the rooms.
- In the fall, he makes a daily chore out of selecting the best ears to plant the following season and feeding the culled ears to his gestating sows on pasture.
- Claw lesions were reported to be more common in loose-housed sows than in either tethered or stallhoused sows.
- If the sow has not eaten enough to sustain herself over the hibernation, the egg will not implant.
- Management of the trial was designed to minimise adverse welfare effects on the badgers and included a three-month period in the spring during which no culling took place in order to protect lactating sows and their cubs.
- Bill and Madeline had even schooled the children in poses for various combinations of bears: a solo male, a sow with cubs.
- He said most of the stock is ingot, whereas more consumers prefer T-bar or sow.
you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- proverb You can't create a fine product from inferior materials.Oraciones de ejemplo
- But you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
- Thompson says, 'you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.'
- My grandmother used to tell me you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Old English sugu; related to Dutch zeug, German Sau, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sus and Greek hus 'pig'.
Sow, in the sense to plant is Old English and had the sense 'disseminate' from early on. The image of disseminate (Late Middle English) is the same, for it comes from Latin semen (Late Middle English) meaning 'seed'. Seed (Old English) in turn comes from the same Germanic root as sow. The differently pronounced sow that is the female pig is also Old English, and goes back to an Indo-European root shared by Latis sus and Greek hus which suggests they were on the menu for our early ancestors.
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Dice Sets
Dice sets, especially 7-piece RPG dice sets. Everything from metal dice sets and stone dice sets to pearlized and magma dice sets. Also includes other sets of dice such as 10d6 crystal dice sets.
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WASHINGTON (January 24, 2013)—Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties under President Barack Obama's health care law, experts say.
The Affordable Care Act allows health insurers to charge smokers buying an individual policy as much as 50 percent higher premiums starting next Jan. 1.
That means a 60-year-old smoker could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of normal premiums.
Younger smokers could be charged lower penalties under rules proposed last fall by the Obama administration.
Workers with job-based coverage can avoid tobacco penalties by joining a smoking cessation program.
Older smokers buying individual coverage could face a heavy financial hit at a time in life when smoking-related illnesses typically emerge.


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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that will take as long to read as it takes your coffee to cool down this morning.
We're in awe recently of all the holiday lights popping up all over the county, but something is missing - lights just don't glitter quite as nicely without a little snow in the pic.
What are the holidays without mounds of snow? The holiday spirit, thusly, is kicking in a little more slowly this year.
Because of the absence of cheer (and snow), we've turned to Ullr for a little advice. When we went on our usual quest for him this morning, in the depths of the White River National Forest, he was no where to be found. This is not like Ullr to blow us off in the morning like that, so it seems Summit County has a real problem:
Ullr, our Nordic snow-bringer is missing. We're urging all locals to keep an eye out for him in the coming days and to report all clues or information leading to his location to the Summit Daily News tip line.
This is urgent. If we don't find Ullr, we may have to continue to live the ways the Front Rangers do, the way the Northern Texans do. All sun and no snow makes the county a no-go. Join the search effort. FIND ULLR!! We out.


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Type of Program: Intensive Course Abroad
City: Cape Coast, Ghana and Cotonou, Benin
When Offered: May/June and January
West Africa's rich and deep cultural traditions have persisted through centuries of colonization, strife, governmental corruption, and other, often extreme hardships. This three-week course is your opportunity to experience firsthand the enduring and changing West African culture through intensive interdisciplinary study of Ghana' and Benin's customs, social institutions, and arts. This course involves extensive travel throughout West Africa, including lectures on West African religion, history, and art. You'll go on field excursions to meet artists, see theatrical and dance performances, visit cultural museums, and take intensive classes in West African drumming, dance, and more. As a complement to your experience, you will also live for part of the time with a family in Cape Coast, Ghana.
"History, Society, and Culture in West Africa" includes a seven-week preliminary course during the fall semester prior to the West Africa program and a seven-week follow-up course during the following spring semester.


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Area third and fourth grade students have had the opportunity to learn more about agriculture through the local K-State Research & Extension Ag In the Classroom program. This program informs the youth about the farming and ranching that occurs in McPherson County and the State of Kansas.
Recently Francis Stucky, a farm wife and retired teacher, shared with the students information on corn, soybeans, sorghum and sunflowers. The youth had the opportunity to unload their "shopping cart" and see just what their products were made from. They were surprised at how many products come from the crops that are grown in McPherson County.
The goal of this program is to help the youth better understand the role agriculture plays in their lives and in the community they live in.
It is funded by local farmers within the community and is taught to half the schools in the county every other year.
For more information on this program contact the McPherson County Extension Office.
Jonie James is a McPherson County Extension agent for agriculture.
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Where are all the houses for sale?
That's the question that homebuyers and their real estate agents are asking, as a report Thursday showed February home sales hit a six-year low around the Bay Area.
While factors ranging from credit to affordability can depress sales, "the main culprit is an inadequate supply of homes for sale," according to real estate information service DataQuick.
While prices jumped, sales of single-family homes dropped an average of 10.5 percent around the nine-county Bay Area, with dips of 15.3 percent in Contra Costa County and 19.5 percent in Alameda County, DataQuick reported. Santa Clara County held its own with a 1.9 percent gain, while San Mateo County was up 8 percent.
But sales in those four counties were well below the average February in DataQuick's records, which begin in 1988.
The median price paid for a single-family home in Alameda County was $500,000 in February, up 24.4 percent from a year ago; $401,000 in Contra Costa County, up 31.5 percent; $724,000 in Santa Clara County, up 15.8 percent, and $765,000 in San Mateo County, up 10.5 percent.
The stock of homes for sale typically rises at this time of year. Listings were up from a year ago in Alameda and Contra Costa counties and down in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, according to Realtor.com. All four counties showed gains from January.
It's still far from normal. "We're still way down from where we were two years ago," said David Stark, spokesman for Bay Area East Association of Realtors.
So far this year, the market appears to be a "virtual carbon copy" of the housing market last year that sent prices soaring in the spring, according to Michael Seguin at the Contra Costa Association of Realtors.
Rising prices are expected to coax more sellers off the fence in April and May.
That's the hope of Brenna Santos, 25, of San Jose, who has been looking for her first home -- a condo -- since December. "It's been really difficult to find something," said Santos, an AT&T sales agent who has been outbid several times.
"Some of the nice ones were getting taken so fast I didn't have a chance," Santos said. "It's very, very competitive."
Some of the homes in her price range weren't in great shape, she said. "It was, gosh what happened here? It was completely missing a door and had some old food in the pantry and the carpet was ripped up."
Her agent, Jason Von Raesfeld, said Santos has an FHA loan, popular with first-time buyers, but is competing against all-cash buyers.
Not surprisingly, sellers are cleaning up.
In the South Bay cities of Cupertino and Sunnyvale, homes were fetching $200,000 to $300,000 over asking price, according to sales figures compiled by Mark Wong of Alain Pinel Realtors in Saratoga.
That's true in Palo Alto, too. Jack and Mary Spence put the 1,200-square-foot Palo Alto home they'd lived in for 20 years on the market for $1.295 million recently. It sold for $1.7 million.
"It was way more than what we expected," said Mary Spence.
Instead of downsizing, the retired couple were able to "upsize" to a 3,400-square-foot home in Lodi.
In Dublin, Jeremy and Megan Brotherton, both 30, have put their home up for sale. They're asking $649,000 and have been swamped with buyers. They were out of town for their first open house, but a neighbor "said it looked like we were having a huge party," said Megan Brotherton. "Cars were lining the streets. He sent me a text saying, 'Man there's a lot of people at your house!'"
But the flip side is that once they sell, they will have to find something to buy.
As part of their home sale, they are asking to rent back the house for a couple months while they look for a home in Danville or San Ramon. "Otherwise we will be looking for a month-to-month rental place at a Courtyard Marriot or a Residence Inn," she said.
"Things are going very quickly," Jeremy Brotherton said. "The last home, we offered above the list price, but they had multiple offers." On another they're making an offer on, the seller's agent said they're anticipating six to eight offers.
With prices rising, the number of homes and condos that sold for less than $500,000 fell 30 percent from a year ago, while homes that sold for more than that increased almost 71 percent, according to DataQuick.
The median price fetched by a resale single-family home was $555,000 in the nine-county Bay Area, up from $540,000 in January.
Distressed sales -- foreclosure resales and short sales -- were 12.4 percent of February's sales, down from 34 percent a year ago.
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Police are searching for a man who broke into a Palo Alto apartment and tried to sexually assault the lone female occupant early Thursday morning.
The victim, a Stanford University graduate student in her 20s, woke up just before 2:21 a.m. to find an intruder in the bedroom of her apartment on the 100 block of Hawthorne Avenue, said Sgt. Brian Philip of the Palo Alto Police Department.
The woman sat up in bed only to have the man try to force her back down, Philip said. He told her to be quiet and a brief struggle ensued. She started screaming when he let up and he ran for the door.
Police arrived within two minutes of the woman's 911 call but could not find the man despite the assistance of a canine unit from the Mountain View Police Department, Philip said.
An initial investigation revealed the man forced his way into the woman's apartment, Philip said.
"Bodily force was used to open the (front) door and the chain was broken," Philip said in a telephone interview.
Philip said police believe the man broke into the woman's apartment solely to commit sexual assault. "He could have taken anything he wanted and left" without waking her, Philip said.
Other than a bruised wrist, the woman was not injured, Philip said.
Although the investigation is ongoing, Philip said it didn't appear as though the woman was being stalked.
"She has no reason to fear for her safety in any way," he said.
The woman said her assailant had an average build and was wearing a dark-colored hooded jacket or sweatshirt and dark-colored pants. She was unable to determine his age or race.
Police have yet to find any other witnesses to the crime, Philip said.
The attempted sexual assault follows three groping incidents within half a mile of the woman's apartment. The last one occurred Sept. 19 when a man tackled a young woman from behind and grabbed one of her breasts.
"We're going to look at everything," Philip said when asked whether police believe the crimes might be related.
Philip said police plan to step up patrols, but he also encouraged residents to secure their homes, remain aware of their surroundings and immediately call police if they see something suspicious.
"Palo Alto is a safe town," the police sergeant said. "We're hoping that this is an isolated incident."
Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call the police department's 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Tipsters who wish to remain anonymous can text or call 650-383-8984, or email email@example.com.
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Bail Arguments For Rajat Gupta Set for Tuesday
A former Goldman Sachs Group director will press his case next week to remain free on bail while he challenges his conviction on insider-trading charges.
Rajat Gupta, 63 years old, was convicted in June of three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy. He was sentenced to two years in prison in October.
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled arguments for Tuesday to consider whether Mr. Gupta should remain on bail pending appeal. He is scheduled to report to prison and begin serving his sentence on Jan. 8.
Mr. Gupta, who also was a former director of Procter & Gamble, was accused by federal prosecutors in Manhattan of sharing corporate secrets he learned as a member of Goldman's board to hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of Galleon Group and a friend of Mr. Gupta. That included an investment by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to shore up the investment bank at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
A lawyer for Mr. Gupta didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.
White-collar defendants traditionally have received bail pending appeal unless they are deemed to pose a danger to the community or they have a lengthy sentence. After a conviction, the burden on bail shifts to the defendant: they must demonstrate that they have a legitimate issue to argue on appeal.
The appeals court denied Mr. Rajaratnam's bid last year to remain free on bail after he was sentenced to 11 years in prison, one of the longest terms ever imposed for insider trading.
Mr. Gupta has been free on $10 million bail since he was charged in October 2011.
In court papers filed Monday evening, prosecutors argued that Mr. Gupta remains a flight risk despite the judge in his case saying he wasn't one. Among the reasons they cited were his strong ties overseas, his access to financial resources to potentially flee and "his demonstrated disrespect for the law and capacity for deceit."
Mr. Gupta's lawyers have argued in court papers that he should be granted bail pending appeal, saying the challenge to his conviction will likely raise several "substantial questions of law," namely that the district court erred in allowing wiretaps of Mr. Rajaratnam to be played at trial.
Those secretly recorded wiretaps were key pieces of evidence at the trials of Messrs. Gupta and Rajaratnam, who is challenging his conviction on similar grounds.


text: Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) is a blue-collar mechanic who races muscle cars on the side in an unsanctioned street-racing circuit. Struggling to keep his family-owned garage afloat, he reluctantly partners with the wealthy and arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). But just as a major sale to car broker Julia Maddon (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save Tobey's shop, a disastrous race allows Dino to frame Tobey for a crime he didn't commit, and sending Tobey to prison while Dino expands his business out West.


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Program Book from the stage play Madea's Big Happy Family.
In this souvenir program book, find out more about the inspiration behind the play, your favorite cast members, and take a look back at the past five years of Tyler's dream coming to fruition. This program is also full of behind the scenes photos and commentaries from Tyler himself. Prepare to be inspired!