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Sessions & Speakers
2017 Program
About Us
February 22, 2014
Chesapeake College
Wye Mills, MD
The 2014 Sessions and Speakers have not been completed, therefore we have presented the Session titles and speakers for the 2013 BTO Conference, to illustrate the wealth of writers topics covered, which are listed below, organized by general topics: writing craft, poetry, genres, publishing/marketing, and Internet uses. Several speakers are holding two sessions.
For a printable schedule of times and rooms for all BTO sessions, click the link on the right:
Shortcuts to More Efficient and Effective Writing; How to Avoid Making Writing More Difficult Than It Already Is.
Many new writers plunge into book-length projects before learning all the skills they'll need in order to produce publishable works. An experienced editor and teacher shows you how to avoid the most common wrong turns and how to be more efficient and effective. A practical summary of what every writer should be conscious of at every moment of the writing process.
Barbara Esstman
Internationally published and nationally awarded author Barbara Esstman is the coeditor of
A More Perfect Union: Stories and Poems about the Modern Wedding
(St. Martin's Press). Her novels,
The Other Anna
Night Ride Home
, were both published by Harcourt Brace, Harper Perennial and numerous foreign presses, and they were both adapted for film by Hallmark Productions. Among other distinctions, her short stories have been recognized by the Pushcart Prizes and the REDBOOK Fiction Award.
She teaches creative writing and creative nonfiction at universities and The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD.
Marketing Yourself and Building Your Platform
Now that you have a product, you need to get it into the hands of eager readers. In this session you will learn tips and ideas on how to make that happen, whether your book is hard copy or electronic. There's a lot you can do to get reader's attention both in person and online. This session will help you choose those methods that are most comfortable for you.
A mystery novelist,
Austin Camacho
is a popular speaker and instructor on the craft of writing at Anne Arundel Community College. The author of five detective and two action adventure novels, he is a past president of the Maryland Writer's Association. He blogs at http://www.ascamacho.blogspot.com.
You're done with the final draft of your book, after refining the text and getting feedback from readers and your writers' group. It's showtime, folks! Melanie Rigney, who has sold three books on proposal, will explain the various elements—query letter, synopsis, chapter outline, comparative analysis, reader demographic, and marketing plan—you'll need to have at the ready and will answer that eternal question: Why do no two agents or publishing house editors have the same requirements for a proposal?
Creativity 101: Remembering Why You're a Writer
Tired of hearing about "platform development?" Weary of contemplating all social media work that lies ahead? Overwhelmed about the business challenges of publishing? Come to this session to remember why you became a writer in the first place. We'll exercise our creative muscles and have some fun!
Melanie Rigney i
s the owner of Editor for You (www.editorforyou.com), a publishing consultancy. She has nearly thirty years' experience as an editor and writer, five as editor of Writers Digest. In the past three years, Editor for You, has provided content and copy editing and manuscript evaluation services to more than 100 publishers, literary agents, and authors. Rigney writes inspirational nonfiction and fiction.
Whether you write like a hare, amassing material without stopping, or like a tortoise, carving perfect sentences before moving on, you will have adjustments to make after your first draft. My process of revising (I'm more of a hare) starts with serious cutting: useless scenes, weak characters, and frivolous sub-plots have to go in order to reveal the "real" story. Once the underbrush is cleared, I see what I have to add to turn it into riveting narrative: I play with scenes to make them do more, write new ones, and re-order others to bring in important material earlier and ratchet up the tension. Throughout, I hone for precision, tone, and energy. No short-cuts, but an array of solutions to share.
-- Lights! Camera! Your Book Proposal!
You've completed your book, short story, article or essay, and you're anxious to send it out ASAP. Please wait! No matter how "done" you think your writing is, most probably you've only reached the first major plateau. No sense being rejected on the grounds of premature submission. Learn what interim steps will greatly increase your chances for successful publication in ten user-friendly steps.
Is It a Short Story or Novel? --
The short story is not just the novel's poor relation, nor a chapter lifted from your longer writings. The short story form is pure and magical, standing on its own with power and economy. Let's explore what constitutes a compelling short story. Why is it different from the novel? How are characters depicted? Most of all, does the short story structure serve your narrative needs?
Life Stories
Whether you want to write a memoir, blog, college essay, letter to your granddaughter, or use your own life as the basis for fiction, life story writing requires that we tell where we come from and who we are. Learn to identify your story's essence and to engage the reader through fictional techniques. Participants will leave inspired to begin or improve a work in progress
-- The Trajectory of Story: How to Begin With a Subject That Creates Its Own Plot
Do you begin stories that fizzle out? In this workshop you will learn how to identify subjects with unstoppable momentum; those that are rich in plot potential whether you write memoir or fiction. We will explore techniques for going deeper into personal experience, memory and imagination in order to select subjects inherent with conflict and mystery. Learn where to look for stories that will reveal an insight, a surprise. Acquire the ability to discern between what happened and why it matters.
Laura Oliver,
M.F.A., is the author of
The Story Within: New Insights and Inspiration for Writers
(Alpha /Penguin Books 2011,) named by "The Writer Magazine" as one of the best writing books of the year, and additionally selected by "Poets and Writers Magazine" as one of the best writing books published, new and classic alike. In addition, Oliver is an award-winning writer and creative writing workshop instructor at St. John's College and The Writer's Center. Oliver has also taught both fiction and essay writing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Oliver's fiction and essays are published in national newspapers, magazines and top-tier literary reviews.
Poetry as Autobiography –
The primary challenge for poets who write about their own lives is making their readers care. This session will focus on the difference between a poem that merely tells a story or reveals something about the writer's life and one that opens up to include the reader. We will also talk about whether or not it's okay to tell lies in an autobiographical poem and discuss the wisdom of holding information or emotion in reserve. The session will be aimed at poets who are drawn to autobiographical subject matter but are concerned about whether their poems will have an impact on readers who know nothing about the writer's life.
Sue Ellen Thompson's
fourth volume of poetry,
The Golden Hour
, appeared in June 2006 and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, her second nomination. She recently edited
The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.
Ms. Thompson teaches at The Writer's Center in Bethesda and at the University of Delaware. She was the winner of the 2010 Maryland Author Award.
-- Learning from Haiku
Though grammar school exercises have imprinted the 5-7-5 syllable format in our minds, the haiku is actually a wonderfully varied and flexible form for contemporary poets (Paul Muldoon and Billy Collins, among others, having written long haiku sequences). In this workshop, we will look at ways to translate the formal expectations and aesthetics of haiku into your own free verse. Readings will include classic and contemporary haiku, classic writings on the art of haiku, and contemporary free verse that draws on haiku conventions. Time will be made for the composition of short, haiku-based poems.
Temple Cone
is the author of three books of poetry:
That Singing,
from March Street Press (2011);
The Broken Meadow,
which received the 2010 Old Seventy Creek Poetry Press Series Prize; and
No Loneliness
, which received the 2009 FutureCycle Press Poetry Book Prize. He has published six poetry chapbooks, as well as critical reference works on Walt Whitman, Cormac McCarthy, and 20th-century American poetry. Awards for his work include two Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Individual Artist Awards in Poetry and the Christian Publishers Poetry Prize. An associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, he lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
Panel: Can Poetry Heal? ---
moderates, with
AMANDA NEWELL, BARRETT WARNER, and MEREDITH HADAWAY
Anne Sexton started writing poetry because her psychiatrist suggested it as part of her therapy for depression. But can writing—or reading—poetry actually help heal the mind? The speakers on this panel will present a variety of views on the role of poetry in healing, using their own and other poets' work as examples.
Amanda Newell
Barrett Warner
Meredith Hadaway
Amanda Newell
recently won the 2010 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for a chapbook-length poetry collection. Her work has appeared in
Bellevue Literary Review, Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore, The Delmarva Review, The Summerset Review,
The Little Patuxent Review
. She was the the 2011 Donald Everett Axinn Contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
. Amanda teaches at Gunston Day School in Centreville, Maryland.
Barrett Warner
manages his family's An Otherwise Perfect Farm in Maryland's Gunpowder watershed. His poetry has appeared in
Gargoyle, California Quarterly, Southeast Review, Slipstream
Comstock Review
and his chapbook,
Til I'm Blue in the Face
, was published by Tropos Press. He is also an avid book reviewer, writing for
Rattle, Loch Raven Review, JMWW, Cerise Press
Chattahoochee Review.
Meredith Davies Hadaway
is the author of two poetry collections,
The River is a Reason
(2011) and
Fishing Secrets of the Dead
(2005). In addition to publishing poems and reviews in various literary journals, she serves as poetry editor for
The Summerset Review
and as chief marketing officer for Washington College.
Publishing & Marketing
Finding and Working with an Agent --
Shannon O'Neill starts at the beginning of the process of looking for an agent: How do you even know if you need one? This session will cover the ins and outs of finding and working with agent and review the basics of what makes a good query letter. Also up for discussion will be the author platform and how to be your own best advocate through the publishing and publicity process.
Shannon O'Neill
is the editorial director of Sagalyn Literary Agency in Washington DC (http://www.sagalyn.com). She has taught writing at American University, Montgomery College, and The Writer's Center and was a longtime bookseller at Politics and Prose bookstore. She has a Masters of Arts in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and graduated with honors from Dartmouth College.
Seven Things You Need to Know Before You Sign on the Dotted Line ---
Cynthia Blake Sanders wants you to be protected. Before you sign that book deal, learn how copyright law protects writers and which publishing provisions favor writers and which favor publishers. Sanders has worked for both publishers and writers and helps writers understand their rights under copyright and publishing laws.
Cynthia Blake Sanders
is an attorney with the law firm of Ober/Kaler, advising media and advertising clients regarding intellectual property protection, licensing, and business issues. Advising clients in media and advertising, Cynthia seeks to find ballast for her clients as the media industry teeters between convergence and obsolescence. Because the law is rapidly changing as media evolves, Cynthia frequently speaks to groups on topics of copyright, fair use and commercial speech.
Inside a Story: Writing for Kids –
From picture books to young adult novels, learn about writing for kids of all ages. We will look at getting story ideas, capturing your audience, finding a voice that works for kids, creating stories with action and conflict that will keep kids reading. We will finish with strategies for publishing your work in today's markets.
Margaret Meacham
is the award-winning author of fourteen novels for children and young adults. She has two new titles coming out this fall:
The Ghosts of Laurelford,
a historical mystery for young adults, and
The Survival of Sarah Landing,
her first novel for "grown-ups". Meacham teaches writing and children's literature at Goucher College and Gotham Writer's Workshops in New York City. She holds degrees from Trinity College and University of MD.
So You Want to Write a Thriller? --
Thrillers are among the most popular of genre categories. But what, exactly, makes a book "a thriller"? What are its essential elements? Is there a formula to building a suspenseful "page-turner"? How can you craft characters compelling enough to carry an ongoing thriller series? Robert Bidinotto's debut thriller, HUNTER, soared to become the #1 Kindle bestseller in "Mysteries and Thrillers." Drawing from his own novel and those of others, he offers advice on how to transform a mundane story into a non-stop thrill ride, and how to elevate ordinary characters into iconic heroes.
Stranger Than Fiction: Researching and Writing a Non-fiction Book or Fiction Based on Real Life People and Events –
What's involved in writing a non-fiction book? How is it different from fiction and what are some of the things to look out for? For anyone who wants to write non-fiction, as well as those who haven't touched non-fiction since their last high school book report, John Reisinger will help make it all clear. He will cover the ins and outs of this demanding, but rewarding brand of writing, including selecting a topic, researching, organizing, and selling it. Plus, you will learn: Five things you MUST do, five things you MUST NOT do, and the one most important predictor of success. If you've ever wanted to write non-fiction, this is for you.
John Reisinger
is the author of several books based on real events.
Master Detective
is the story of Ellis Parker, his career as a detective, and his controversial involvement in the investigation of the infamous Lindbergh kidnapping of 1932.
Master Detective
has been published in both hardback and paperback, and has also been published in Chinese editions in both Taiwan and Mainland China. Timeframe Films, producers of films for both Nova and the History Channel is currently planning a feature film length version of the book. John is also the author of the Max Hurlock Roaring 20s Mysteries, which are based on real life crimes. More: www.johnreisinger.com
The Internet for Writers
Harnessing the Power of Social Media
Explore the big five social media services -- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Blogs -- and learn how to leverage the social platform that's right for you. This session explains how to tap into the tremendous networking and marketing power behind the major social media platforms and how to get a return on your investment of time from each one.
Mindie Burgoyne,
former publisher of Trinity Music and The Pastoral Press, has written three books---all focused on Maryland. Her articles and music compositions have been featured in numerous magazines and on the Today Show. She served as an advisor to National Geographic Television Network and has been a featured guest on National Public Radio affiliates. Her website is: www.writingthevision.com.
-- How to Develop a Popular Blog
Learn how to set up a free Wordpress.com blog and/or website, add your own text and photos, post new content, and "brand" your blog in ways that will attract the kind of audience you really want. This session will also include advanced tips and strategies for writers who are already blogging and want to take their blog to the next level.
Leslie Walker
is the Knight Visiting Professor in Digital Innovation at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She previously spent 16 years as a reporter, columnist, and editor for The Washington Post. She is the author of a nonfiction book,
Sudden Fury,
which was made into a television movie.
Marketing in the Digital Age --
This session offers advice to authors on how to market books online and offline. Angela introduces all the major marketing platforms, from direct mail to websites, blogs, social networks, online communities and various forms of advertising. You'll learn how to create a marketing campaign customized to your needs, including the basics of building a mailing list and using electronic newsletters.
Angela Render
is a professional web developer and Internet marketer who writes nonfiction, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and cross-genre romantica. Her work has appeared in
Smithsonian Magazine Online
Writers' Journal.
The second edition of her workbook,
Marketing for Writers
will be available in January 2012. She also teaches classes on Internet marketing for writers, The Writers' Center, Bethesda. Learn more at angelarender.com or thunderpaw.com.
Pinterest and Writing: Strange Bedfellows? --
Although Pinterest is the most visual of the social media, it can be a powerful tool in promoting your writing and meeting other writers. Find out how as Editor and blogger extraordinaire Mary McCarthy explores the concept of "pinning" your writing online.
Mary McCarthy
is the owner of pajamasandcoffee.com, which is ranked the #1 Humor Blog. She has nearly two decades' experience in professional writing publications. She's also written for many websites, including Suite101.com, and appeared on Juju Chang's Moms Get Real and NBC's Today Show.
OTHER: Editing, Pitching, Essays, Non-Fiction
Editorial Expectations - Yours and Theirs --
When you begin the search for someone to edit your work, what do you expect from that editor…and what should he or she expect from you? Judy Reveal will discuss both sides of the editorial pool; provide you with information on rates, contracts, and submissions. She will show examples of editing work to start your creative juices flowing and make you question yourself on your approach to finding an editor.
Judy Reveal
lives in Maryland. She is the author of
Around Greensboro
and the Lindsey Gale Mystery series including
Cheating Death, The Music Room,
A House to Kill For.
She is a freelance editor and a book indexer, as well as book reviewer for the
New York Journal of Books
. Judy is past president of the Eastern Shore Writers Association, Maryland Writers' Association, and a member in good standing of the Editorial Freelancers Association and the American Society for Indexing. In her free time she is a Greensboro Planning and Zoning Commissioner, member of the Greensboro Business and Civic Association; she fosters basset hounds for the Maryland Basset Hound Rescue League, and tutors students at Delaware Technical Community College.
-- Writing Non-fiction Articles
This session will focus on how to generate nonfiction story ideas, and how to craft a "magazine-style" article from those ideas. It will also suggest how to identify editorial needs and interests of regional magazines, and how to pitch those ideas to editors. We will discuss critical tips to capture the editor's attention and talk about what makes good nonfiction writing that elevates your submission to a level that will generate repeat assignments.
Terry Plowman
is Publisher and Editor of Delaware Beach Life.
Regional Magazine Editors Panel --
moderates, with
Publishers from Delmarva regional magazines will reveal what they are looking for from freelance writers. They will focus on what types of stories interest their readers. This panel will also provide the details of their magazines' submission guidelines, compensation potential, and the best way to develop a working relationship with a magazine editor.
Holly Smith,
is managing editor of
Maryland Life
magazine and a longtime freelance writer. Her work has appeared in
The Washington Post, More Mirth of a Nation, Brain, Child,
and other publications.
John Lewis,
arts and culture editor/columnist and arts blogger at
Baltimore Magazine
, is an award-winning writer of magazine profiles and arts criticism.
The Art of the Pitch: How to Pitch to Publishers, Producers, and Agents --
"A good idea badly presented sounds like a bad idea."
- Stephen J. Cannell
Your pages may convey artistry, but publishers, producers, and agents expect a compelling pitch before deciding to read your manuscript or screenplay. Presentation skills are an essential yet poorly promoted aspect of the writer's craft. Pitch sessions are opportunities to sell the uniqueness and marketability of your story. This workshop will introduce you to essential persuasion techniques, and broaden your perspective on what decision makers look for in a compelling pitch. All levels and genres.
Khris Baxter i
s a screenwriter, producer, and script consultant. He teaches screenwriting at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD, and at the low-residency MFA at Queens University in Charlotte, NC. He's a member of the Virginia Film Office where he is a judge for the annual Virginia Screenwriting Competition. Khris is also the founder of Boundary Stone Films
, a film and television development company based in Washington, D.C. He lives in Georgetown.
-- What Did I, Like, Do on My Summer Vacation: Finding New Energy in an Old Genre: The Personal Essay
Was your high school essay boring? Mine was. Why? It was an assignment and then we had little self-reflective ability. Now that we've lived life some and we want to tell someone about that summer, or maybe about a very long winter, perhaps a new love, and the pain of old losses, how do we best do it? In this presentation and discussion, we will examine the heart of the personal essay: the art of capturing someone else's mind by first exploring our own
George R. Merrill,
an Episcopal priest and essayist, is coauthor of
Reflections: Psychological
Spiritual Images of the Heart
. He has published essays in the
Chesapeake Bay Magazine, The Delmarva Quarterly, Tidewater Times, The Delmarva Review, Journeys
and in local newspapers. In 2009, Merrill placed first in nonfiction for his essay "The World Is My Oyster" in the Delmarva Beach Writing Contest sponsored by The Rehoboth Beach Writers and
Delaware Beach Life
. A published photographer, his fine art photographs have been exhibited in Annapolis, Baltimore, New York, and Easton. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com. Online:http://georgemerrill.blogspot.com
Kate Blackwell
is the author of a story collection
You Won't Remember This
(SMU Press, 2007). Her published work includes short stories, travel articles, and book reviews. For the past ten years she has lived part-time in Neavitt, MD and is working on a book of linked stories set in Delmarva. Kate has been a popular speaker on fiction craft. Her work has appeared in The Delmarva Review.
-- Ten Things To Do between Finishing a Draft and Getting It Published
In the new world of ebook publishing, writers now find their works competing with millions of titles. How can an author make his own books stand out amid the chaos and find their audience? Robert Bidinotto, whose debut thriller HUNTER became a national ebook bestseller, provides proven principles on how to propel your ebook to the top of its rankings on Amazon and other online retail sites. His tips include how to identify your target audience, carve out a distinctive niche, make your book "discoverable," and use Amazon's powerful marketing tools to maximize sales.
Craft of Writing
How the Plot Thickens --
Learn how to build your story in a way that will hook your readers, keep them interested in the action, and give them a satisfying finish. The basics of a good plot apply to every genre of fiction. Camacho shows how to use those basics to create a story arc that shows expert pacing.
Robert Bidinotto
is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and speaker. His debut novel,
HUNTER: A Thriller,
became a Wall Street Journal "Top 10 Fiction Ebook" bestseller during the week of December 4, 2011.(See above for additional bio.)
The Ten Most Important Ways to Market Your E-book --
Robert Bidinotto
is an award-winning journalist, editor, author, and speaker. His debut novel,
HUNTER: A Thriller,
became a
Wall Street Journal
"Top 10 Fiction Ebook" bestseller during the week of December 4, 2011. It simultaneously hit # 4 among all products and titles (fiction and nonfiction) on the Kindle Bestseller List, after being selected as the #1 Kindle "Editors' Pick" for the week. More than 50,000 copies of the book sold in 35 days. For eight years, he specialized in true-crime investigations as a staff writer for
Reader's Digest
. Subsequently, he served as editor of several national publications. Bidinotto is the author of two nonfiction books on crime:
Criminal Justice? The Legal System vs. Individual Responsibility
(with a Foreword by John Walsh of the "America's Most Wanted" television show), and
Freed to Kill
, a compilation of horror stories arising from failures in the criminal justice system.
-- Revision in Fiction: A Walk Through the Process
Escaping the Chronological Imperative, or Breaking Up Narrative Time
So you don't want to tell your novel in straight chronological order; you know intuitively it won't work and, anyway, you don't want to—it's boring. Nonlinear narratives unfold basically in two ways: in scene segments that re-order time, repeat time, or skip time, or through a narrative voice that moves backward and forward in time according to memory and motivation. We'll look at how scene fragments, or mini-scenes, can race swiftly over years, cutting in and out of moments the way films often do, while one fully dramatized scene can stop time entirely in moments of intense feeling. We'll also discuss "negative space" -- and more….
E(volution) of the Book: Publishing Options in the 21st Century --
Felt caught between a Nook and a Kindle place? E-books not quite the apple of your eye? Confused about the publishing landscape? Learn about your publishing options (print and digital) in a world where technology is impacting the way the written word is produced, disseminated, marketed, and read.
Gregg Wilhelm
is Executive Director of CityLit Project, which he founded in Baltimore in 2004. He has been an editor, designer, production manager, and marketer with various publishers. Gregg serves as publisher of CityLit Press and teaches in the School of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore.
Lynn Schwartz's
plays have been performed in Atlanta and New York City including Lincoln Center. Her stories have appeared in literary journals, and she has written numerous lifestyle features. She founded the Temple Bar Literary Reading Series in New York City and received an Individual Artist Award in Fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council. She teaches fiction and life stories at St. John's College and The Writer's Center. Contact her at www.writerswordhouse.com.
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I know the wait has been difficult, but it's Tattoo Tuesday yet again! One quick reminder: I NEED YOUR TATTOO PHOTOS. There's no Tattoosday without 'em, so send the pics to email@example.com.
On with the show:
We'll begin with my personal favorite, sent by Ryan B. in Delray Beach, Fla. His brother is such a huge Back to the Future Fan that he got this inked on his back:
From Sandi B. in Edwardsville, Ill.: "I requested an Alice in Wonderland theme, and (the artist) designed the entire thing, down to 'painting the roses red.'" She had it done by Dan Abner at Subculturez in Orange City, Fla.
Gary submitted a pic of his first tattoo. "It features my beloved guitar, a 1974 Les Paul Custom," he says. "The eagle being strangled has a lot of personal symbolism to it." He adds that it was done by Jack at Fate Tattoo in Columbus, Ohio.
Denver reader Mark M. explains this ink: "Yes, the Superman tattoo is cliche, but I added my own twist. Instead of the traditional 'S,' my thought was to use my kids' initials. A friend of mine is a graphic designer and he put my idea on paper." He had it done at Red Sky Tattoo in Castle Rock, Colo.
Finally, here's some ink from Whitney F.: "The dress form is my newest one, done by Bill Falsetta at Depot Town Tattoos in Ypsilanti, Mich.," she says. "Eah year they do something called Toys for Tats, where they will do a free tattoo (from a pool of a few that they have designed) for people who bring a toy to donate to local kids."
Thanks for the pics, and keep sending them in! Look for a new installment of Tattoo Tuesday next week.
Previously in Tattoo Tuesday:
- Farscape, Dr. Seuss, more
- Battlestar, Dali and more
- Delectable chefs' tattoos
- Misfits, Zen, more
- Einstein, Coca-Cola, more
- Pearl Jam, Freddy Krueger, more
- Elvis, Grumpy, Bob Marley, more
- Mario, Family Guy and more
- X-Men, Lost, Jack Sparrow, more
- A Victrola, Disney, more
- Futurama, Speed Racer, more
- Donald Duck, Tabasco, more
- Homer Simpson, Green Lantern, more
- Vampira, Star Wars, more
- Monkey Island, Nick Drake, more
- M.C. Escher, Radiohead, more
- Doctor Who, Beatles, more
- Radiohead, Maniacs, Mole Man, more
- U2, Morrissey, DMB, more
- The Joker, X-Men, Twilight, more
- Spider-Man, Hannibal, Pokemon, more
- Conan, zombies, Michael Jackson, more
- DC Comics, Twilight, Big Star, more
- A killer Gorillaz tat
- Aquaman, Poison, more
- Watchmen, Thor, New Kids, more
- Alice in Wonderland, Fozzie Bear, zombies, more
- A Muppet, Homer Simpson, Scooby, more
- Magnum, P.I., E.T., Michael Jackson, more
- Swayze, Donkey Kong and more
- A woman's sweet Charlie Brown tattoo
- Impressive Wonka art
- A reader's 'secret' Lost tattoo
Whitney has been writing about pop culture for USA TODAY since 1999, when Pop Candy began as a weekly column. Her interests include music festivals, mustaches, Lost, comic books and Andy Warhol. She lives in New York City. More about Whitney | E-mail Whitney

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As of midnight, October 1st, the U.S. House and Senate had not agreed on a budget, and the federal government is now implementing a partial shut down for the first time since 1995-1996.
On Tuesday Forbes listed Dayton as one of the top ten cities at risk during a government shutdown. Civilian workers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base bear the immediate brunt: approximately 8,700 non-military staff at Wright-Patt received furlough letters Tuesday morning.
A report on security at US Naval bases was due to congress on Monday - the day a shooter killed 12 people at the Naval Yard in Washington DC, and Congressman Mike Turner, of Ohio' 10th district, is now asking the US Navy to tighten it's vetting process for security clearance.
New figures from the Defense Department show sexual assault in the military is increasing, and that the vast majority of cases are going unreported. As WYSO's Emily McCord reports Republican Congressman Mike Turner of Ohio's 10th district is proposing legislation to encourage victims to come forward.
The Air Force has been struggling with cases of sexual assault. Nearly 800 cases were reported last year and military leaders say many more are going unreported. April is sexual assault awareness month and WYSO's Emily McCord spokes with Congressman Mike Turner for an update on how the Air Force is working to eradicate the problem.
The Ohio House and Senate has awarded the Ohio Military Medal of Distinction to the families of 28 Ohio soldiers who lost their lives while serving our country during the past year. Republican House Speaker Bill Batchelder, at a Statehouse ceremony, said each has made a sacrifice to this state that will never be forgotten.
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From: Sunelia Heath <>
Subject: [ZA-EC] Queenstown Free Press (Nov 1895)
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:13:30 -0700 (PDT)
Hallo :-)
May you all have a Blessed Good Friday.
Friday, November 1, 1895
Birth,- At Queenstown, on the 8th October, 1895, the wife of William J LOGAN,
of a Daughter.
Birth,- At Queenstown, on the 18th October, 1895, the wife of Mr. W.J. WIGGILL
of a Son.
Married,- At Wesley Church, Queenstown, on October 29th, 1895, by the Rev. C.K.
HODGES, Frank Edwin HOWARD to Mary Ann Elizabeth JOHNSON.
An Editor's Suicide.
On Monday last Mr. KLEINPENNING, editor of "Ons Land," shot himself at the Sea
Point Hotel near Capetown.
In Memoriam
In loving memory of Emmie, beloved wife of Richard Browne FARLEY, who died at
Sterkstroom November 4th, 1894.
Died,- At Queenstown, South Africa, Thursday, October 31st 1895, Emma, wife of
Robert CROOK.
Gone Over.- We regret to record the death of Mrs BERTRAM, an old Queenstown
resident. The deceased lady was related by marriage to Mr AD WEBB of this
town. The funeral on Sunday ws attended by a representative procession of
townsmen. Another old resident has passed away in the person of Mrs CROOK who
died on Thursday last at her residence, Cathcart-square, mourned by a large
circle of friends.
Friday, November 15, 1895
Birth.- At Queenstown on the 10th November, 1895, the Wife of A.C.
STEPHENSON, of a Daughter.
MALLETT-HILDER.- Married in Wesley Church, Queenstown, Cape Colony, on the 13th
November, 1895, Thomas Henry MALLETT, of Tarkastad, to Agnes Hannah HILDER, of
Witrigg Bromley, Kent, England. No cards.
Killed by Lightning,- During a lightning storm at Pilgrim's Rest, one white
man, six natives, and three oxen were struck dead. The white man who was named
WELLS, was a timber-cutter. He leaves a widow and three children. It is
believed WELLS must have died from the shock. There were no marks on the body
and at the time of the fatality the deceased was standing under an iron verandah
holding on an iron verandah post.
A brilliant and distinguished company gathered at Wesley church on Wednesday
afternoon the occasion being the marriage of Mr T.H. MALLETT, of Tarkastad, son
of the late Mr Charles MALLETT of Queenstown, and Miss Agnes Hannah HILDER,
daughter of Mr W HILDER, of Bromley, Kent, England, and niece of Mr A MORUM and
Mr S MORUM. The bride was given away by her uncle Mr A MORUM and was attended
by two bridesmaids, Miss MORUM, daughter of Mr S MORUM, and Miss L MALLETT,
sister of the bridegroom, and two flower girls, Miss Blanche MORUM, daughter of
Mr S MORUM, and Miss May MALLETT, niece of the bridegroom. The happy bridegroom
was attended by Mr Arthur MORUM as bestman and Mr B DUGMORE as groomsman. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. P TEARLE...
Tuesday, November 19, 1895
Birth,- At Queenstown on the 10th November, 1895, the Wife of A.C. STEPHENSON,
of a Daughter.
PHILIP,- On the 8th November, at Stellenbosch, the wife of H.J. PHILIP, of a
Tuesday, November 19, 1895
Tuesday, November 19, 1895
Missing.- Persons in possession of any information concerning the
undermentioned missing people are requested to communicate without delay with
the Colonial Office: -William A McDOWALL, relations of. Supposed to be
residing in this Colony. Abraham BUTHERFORD: left Ireland some considerable
time ago for South Africa. Benjamin MENKMAN (estate of); said to have left
England for Cape Colony fifty-four years ago., and to have died about a year
ago; was a sailor apprentice. JJ BUETSEGGER or BUCHEGGER, who is said to have
resided in Plein-street, Capetown, about two years ago.
Friday, November 22, 1895
Birth.- At Ncuncusa, on the 15th November, the wife of R.U. LLOYD, of a Son.
Died,- At Queenstown, on 14th inst., Margaret Annie, wife of Michael ALMOND, at
the age of 39 years.
Tuesday, November 26, 1895
Birth,- At Imvani, on the 23rd November, 1895, the wife of E.A. COGILL, a Son.
Tuesday, November 26, 1895
The Late Mr. HEATLIE
Few beyond the close friends and relatives of the Hon Thomas TENNANT HEATLIE can
have been at all prepared for the news of his death. But lung complications
make swift conquest of even the most robust and powerful. Mr HEATLIE was the
last survivor of three sons of the founder of the family in this country, Thomas
HEATLIE. He was thus first cousin to the poet Thomas PRINGLE, who's mother was
a HAITLIE (that is the Scottish mode of spelling the name), and through his
mother he was grandson of the once well-known remarkable Commandant VAN NIEKERK,
of Blaauwblommetjieskloof, the terror of evil-doers, the reformer of criminals.
The late Mr HEATLIE's father was a cavalry officer. He landed with his regiment
(the 21st or 27th Light Dragoons) from the Elphinstone expedition in 1895,
stayed at the Cape till the British occupation ceased in 1803, returned later,
and as a private gentleman acquired, according to the deed in the
Surveyor-General's Office, from Colonel WW BIRD, the Colonial Secretary, the
quitrent farm of Groenfontein, in what is now the Malmesbury district, 26th
March, 1819, The year previous, January, 1818, he leased for twenty-eight year
the farm Alexandersfontein. It was given in freehold to one DENYSSEN...
Married after to one of Commandant NIEKERK's daughter's he had by her three sons
and several daughters, and Mrs UPTON and Miss HEATLIE are now the only
survivors. These like the father were individuals with great force of
character... Resolute in character, hard in physique, energetic to a degree,
intelligently industrious, a devoted, tender, gentle husband, and ever-kind and
indulgent father, and as a friend, as true as steel. It was his misfortune to
loose his parents at an early age and to wrestle with Dame Fortune fiercely for
years. Meanwhile in spite of many necessities and with the aid of a noble wife,
he built up a competency. Then when ease should be looked for, faithfulness to
a friend, an unfaithfulness to him by that friend's kinsmen, swept all from him
and his children, and life had to be begun anew. Bravehearted he faced to
position, and slaved till he not alone regained his former station, but was able
in his later years to well provide for his sons as they came on in life, and
some of them were able to relieve him of business management. Brought up from
his youth with a passion for, and amongst horses, and possessed of all the
daring of his father he became one of the most dexterous of men in dealing with
our unbroken horses this country has ever had. His knowledge of horses, like
his trade in them for years, was unequalled. There was not one that he would
not master. Fingers and thumbs, wrists, arms, and legs, as well as ribs, by
their scars and fractures testified to the severity of his experience with
them. During the M..ny the Indian Government established a remount agency
here. It was in close communication with the HEATLIES, but owing to some
unsatisfactory proposals which it made to him, troop after troop of horses which
he sent in was rejected, and less efficient ones were taken at the regulation
price. All at once the entire supply was stopped: not a horse could be had.
Then it was discovered that Mr HEATLIE held every available animal. The agency
would not budge. It did not dare to tell the truth. HEATLIE was silent Feeling
that he had been insulted by the proposals made to him, he remained inexorable.
He would not yield. Friend intervened; the situation of the agency became
critical; neither side would give way. At last, troops of horses were sent
forward with rapidity by the agency, but whence they came no one then could
tell. No one, however, could be had for less than £10 a head above the
regulation price.
Many were the dealers which netted their clear £1,000 each on a troop. Then it
was discovered that these were all the horses which the agency had rejected
before when Mr HEATLIE sent them up. The profits on the extra charge went into
other pockets. HEATLIE was avenged.
In more recent years Mr HEATLIE gave his attention, with the help of his sons,
to the production of the now celebrated Prize Brandy. In this produce he has
bequeathed to the Colony a manufacture absolute free from fusel oil. He has
also done something for the farmers and the meat-eater. He introduced the first
prize-bred black-headed, broad, short, fattailed, long-legged, Persian sheep,
and only at his farm, Glen HEATLIE, could they, until comparatively lately, be
found in the Colony. Now they are in the Midlands, and notably at Wood's near
For eighteen years Mr HEATLIE represented the North-western Circle in the
Legislative Council, on each election being sent in at the head of the poll...
From childhood he was a martyr to bronchitis. It drew him more than once to the
edge of the grave. On his return from Johannesburg he seemed all right, but a
few days ago lung troubles in the shape of pneumonia, set in, attacking an
already predisposed victim. This associated with the bronchitis, made the
struggle for recovery a hard one. The doctors soon had reason to fear the
worst, and their fears were realised but too sadly, as mentioned at the
beginning of the notes.
Mr HEATLIE was married to Miss BEETON eldest daughter of Mrs BEETON, better
known to the present generation as the venerable and widely-esteemed Mrs.
GRAHAM, who is still in Cape Town. By their marriage there are ten sons and one
daughter still living. Among the former are Mr Arthur HEATLIE, C.E. the
Cambridge University champion diver, captain and stroke of one of the famous
crews there; Mr Barry HEATLIE, the first amateur football forward in South
Africa; Sydney Herbert, and Thomas (the youngest of all), who are also well
known at the leather; the Messrs Henry and William HEATLIE, at Storms Vlei, and
Messrs Charles and Noble HEATLIE, who work the farms... Mr HEATLIE was in the
sixty-seventh year of his age.
Death of Mr CJ PRICE.
We regret to have to record the death of Mr CJ PRICE of Tarkastad which took
place on Thursday last after a long illness. The deceased was well known in the
district having been one of the most successful and enterprising farmer around
these parts. He was also for some time a member of the Divisional Council of
Queenstown, but had to resign on account of ill health. The deceased was a son
of the late Mr J PRICE of Bower Hope, near Tarkastad, and cousin of Mr W PRICE
and Mr GH PRICE, better known as the PRICE Brothers, auctioneers of this town.
A telegram was received on Sunday announcing the death of Mrs HENELMAN at Fort
Beaufort, sister to Mr JG WEBSTER of this district...
Friday, November 29, 1895
Birth.- At Imvani, on the 23rd November, 1895, the wife of E.A. COGILL, of a
Birth- At Ncuncusa, on the 15th November, the wife of R.U. LLOYD, of a Son.
Birth,- At "Prairie Lodge," Queenstown, on November 23rd, 1895, the wife of
W.B. SCOTT, of a Son.
Kind regards
Sunelia Heath
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Note, these selections represent the opinions of thousands of mountain bikers all around the USA*. While it is difficult to compare MTB trails across state lines, identifying the top trail within each state yields interesting results.
What makes a mountain bike trail system stand out?
Judging by the list above, good trails close to large cities can be more popular than scenic or even epic trails within the same state. Most of these systems also offer trails for a variety of skill levels along with decent mileage (10+ miles).
Some surprising results: the top trail in Arizona is not located in Sedona or Flagstaff (see note about trails being located close to population centers). Colorado boasts several amazing rides (including Monarch Crest and Buffalo Creek) but 18 Road comes out on top, thanks in part to the large number of trails to choose from, events like the Fruita Fat Tire festival, and proximity to Moab.
And even in states where the top trail choice seems a bit debatable, the second or third place trail usually has it covered. For example, in Florida, both Santos and Alafia are excellent trail systems–and they're ranked #1 and #2, respectively, within the state. See this page to view the runners up in each state (use the dropdown menu on the right side of the page to select your state).
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Roll Call Vote
1) Menendez motion to waive the Budget Act with respect to S.1926, the Homeowner Flood Insurance Affordability Act; Waived: 64-35
Legislative Items
Passed S.1417, a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize programs under part A of title XI of such Act with a committee-reported substitute amendment.
Passed H.R.2860, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that the Inspector General of the Office of Personnel Management may use amounts in the revolving fund of the Office to fund audits, investigations, and oversight activities, and for other purposes.
Discharged the Rules committee and adopted the following joint resolutions, en bloc:
– S.J.Res.28, providing for the appointment of John Fahey as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute and
– S.J.Res.29, providing for the appointment of Risa Lavizzo-Mourey as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute.
Adopted S.Con.Res.31, designating January 2014 as "National Blood Donor Month".
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Diablo 3's 'Original Design' Now Used In Marvel Heroes – Brevik
David Brevik is a very important man to the Diablo franchise, and has spoken out about Blizzard's approach to Diablo 3 before – something that has caused the ire of ex-colleague Jay Wilson.
Now Brevik is working on Marvel Heroes, a superhero-fuelled MMO that the team at Gazillion Entertainment has said it believes is the spiritual successor to Diablo 2.
When asked about the comment, David Brevik said "We've got a lot of team members here that are working on Marvel Heroes that worked on Diablo 2, including me, and so in a lot of ways it is.
"This is originally the design that we wanted to make" Brevik added, "not using Marvel but from a gameplay standpoint, and is very, very similar to what we were thinking about for Diablo 3."
Brevik's role in the creation of Diablo was an important one, experience he has used to help create Marvel Heroes.
"I've taken what I learned in Diablo 1 and made in Diablo 2," he said, adding that he is taking "some of the stuff that we wanted to do in Diablo 2 and that we were going to do in Diablo 3 but now I'm putting it in Marvel Heroes."
"So in a lot of ways this is the spiritual successor to Diablo 2," agreed Brevik.
One such feature planned for Diablo 3 was a persistent hub called BattleNet Town, which was intended to replace a chat room.
"You never really were in a chat room," Brevik said, "you were actually in the world at all times. So you were running around town, there were other people around and you were interacting with them, trading and chatting with them.
"It was basically a graphic chat room," he added.
This was one of the original plans for Diablo 3, in fact, and was the "foundation" that was going to push Diablo 3 into making it what Brevik calls an "action RPG MMO."
Brevik explained that this is an idea he has latched on to since and even formed a basis for Mythos when his team at Flagship Studios – the development studio he created after leaving Blizzard – were working on the game.
"So finally, what I'm doing here with Marvel Heroes, it's actually going to come out and take that next step in action RPGs" claimed Brevik.
Are you more excited about Marvel Heroes after hearing it has such close bonds to Diablo 2, or are you just content with Blizzard's Diablo 3?


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Brown | Columbia | Cornell | Dartmouth | Harvard | Penn | Princeton | Yale
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Simply superlative.
These two words most accurately describe a 2011 Ivy League football season that was peppered with many career performances on both sides of the ball as evidenced by the announcement of the League's Rookie of the Year and All-Ivy teams.
Eleven players received first-team All-Ivy honors for a second-straight season, paced by Columbia senior offensive lineman Jeff Adams (Western Springs, Ill.) and Dartmouth senior tailback Nick Schwieger (Norton, Mass.), who were voted to the first-team for the third-consecutive season. Adams and Schwieger become the 38th and 39th players in Ivy football history to receive first-team recognition in three different seasons.
Adams has been on the left side of the Columbia offensive line, starting all 27 games he has played. A 2011 unanimous first-team choice, Schwieger led the Ivy League in rushing average for the third straight year (131.9 in League games) while currently ranking fourth nationally with 131.0 yards per game. His 1,310 yards on the ground are the second-most ever at Dartmouth, and Schwieger posted eight 100-yard games during the season, just the fifth player in conference history to produce as many in one year. He also set school career records for rushing attempts (649) and all-purpose yards (4,115).
Schwieger's classmate, cornerback/return specialist Shawn Abuhoff (Hialeah, Fla.) completed a unique All-Ivy double-double to close out his Big Green career. For the second-consecutive year, Abuhoff was named to the first-team as a defensive back and as a return specialist. He will go down as one of the best return specialists in Ancient Eight history, placing in the top five in kickoff returns (5th, 70) and kickoff return yards (4th, 1,761) and in the top 10 in punt returns (8th, 59) and punt returns yards (9th, 679). In the Dartmouth secondary this season, Abuhoff recorded 47 tackles, eight passed defended, three blocked kicks,two interceptions, two pass breakups and two forced fumbles.
Harvard senior defensive lineman Josue Ortiz (Avon Park, Fla.) not only received first-team honors for a second-straight year, but he did so as the coaches' unanimous choice for the second time in as many seasons. This year, Ortiz led the Ivy League with 10 solo sacks, ranked fourth among Ivy defenders with 14.5 tackles for a loss, had two fumble recoveries and forced one fumble.
A couple of Penn seniors -- offensive lineman Greg Van Roten (Rockville Centre, N.Y.) and linebacker Erik Rask (Newport Beach, Calif.) -- were also unanimous first-team All-Ivy. Van Roten started 30 straight games for the Quakers at left tackle becoming a mainstay for an offensive front that has been one of the best in the League the past three seasons. Rask ended his final season in red and blue with 83 tackles, 11.5 for loss, for the first 80-tackle season for Penn since Joe Anastasio had 102 in 2006. Rask added 2.5 sacks, six pass breakups, two interceptions, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and one quarterback hurry to lead the Quaker defense in 2011.
The League also boasted a unanimous selection in the secondary in Harvard senior defensive back Matthew Hanson (Lafayette, Colo.). Hanson was named Rookie of the Year in 2008 and second-team All-Ivy in 2009 and 2010. He tied for the Ivy League lead with 10 passes defended, adding 39 tackles with 26 of those unassisted.
Other two-time picks for the first-team were Brown junior defensive back A.J. Cruz (Lake Forest, Calif.) Dartmouth senior offensive lineman Ryan O'Neill (Orland Park, Ill.), Penn junior defensive lineman Brandon Copeland (Sykesville, Md.) and Yale senior linebacker Jordan Haynes (Folsom, Calif.).
With the most impressive season of an Ivy League freshman running back in 56 years, Princeton's Chuck Dibilio was the top choice for the Ivy League Rookie of the Year and was voted first-team All-Ivy. Dibilio ended the season second in the League rushing race with 815 yards (116.4 per Ivy contest) behind Schwieger's 923 yards. He ended the season with a total of 1,068 rushing yards, the sixth-highest total in Princeton history. Dibilio set the record for most consecutive weeks receiving a weekly award, being named Rookie of the Week for four-straight weeks from Oct. 24 to Nov. 14. He tied with Harvard's Eion Hu in 1994 for the Ivy record for most Rookie of the Week awards in a season with six during his first season on Old Nassau.
For the second-consecutive year, the Ivy League and the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) are partnering to co-host the presentation of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Football Players of the Year, as part of the festivities surrounding the NFF Annual Awards Dinner in New York City. For the first time in the award's 41-year history, the Ivy League is recognizing Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, honoring each as a recipient of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup from their respective sides of play.
The Asa S. Bushnell Cup will be presented Monday, Dec. 5, the day before the NFF Annual Awards Dinner, at a special reception and press conference in the Astor Room of the famed Waldorf=Astoria Hotel at 11:30 a.m. Two offensive and two defensive finalists will be on hand at the press conference along with their respective head coaches. The names of the 2011 finalists will be released Tuesday, Nov. 29 on IvyLeagueSports.com.
Ivy League Executive Director Robin Harris will unveil the winners' names at the event in front of a packed crowd of media representatives, NFF Board members and notable Ivy League football alumni and dignitaries. George Pyne, president of IMG Worldwide's Sports & Entertainment Group and NFF Board Member, will emcee the Bushnell Cup presentation for the second-straight year. Pyne, who has served on the NFF Board since 2008, played offensive tackle at Brown, captaining the 1988 football team and earning All-Ivy League and All-New England honors.
Chuck Dibilio, Princeton (Fr., RB, Nazareth, Pa.)
Jack Templeton, Brown (Jr., OL, Ramsey, N.J.)
Jeff Adams, Columbia (Sr., OL, Western Springs, Ill.)
Ryan O'Neill, Dartmouth (Sr., OL, Orland Park, Ill.)
Kevin Murphy, Harvard (Sr., OT, San Clemente, Calif.)
*Greg Van Roten, Penn (Sr., OL, Rockville Centre, N.Y.)
Jeff Mathews, Cornell (So., QB, Camarillo, Calif.)
*Nick Schwieger, Dartmouth (Sr., RB, Norton, Mass.)
Kyle Juszczyk, Harvard (Jr., H-Back, Medina, Ohio)
Chuck Dibilio, Princeton (Fr., RB, Nazareth, Pa.)
Shane Savage, Cornell (Sr., WR, Leesburg, Va.)
Ryan Calvert, Penn (Sr., WR, Studio City, Calif.)
John Gallagher, Dartmouth (Sr., TE, Salem, Ore.)
Kyle Rettig, Brown (Sr., DL, Clearwater, Fla.)
*Josue Ortiz, Harvard (Sr., DL, Avon Park, Fla.)
Eddie Smith, Dartmouth (Sr., DL, Louisville, Ky.)
Brandon Copeland, Penn (Jr., DL, Sykesville, Md.)
Caraun Reid, Princeton (Jr., DL, Bronx, N.Y.)
Brett Wyman, Brown (Sr., LB, Bridgewater, Mass.)
Alex Gedeon, Harvard (Sr., LB, Hudson, Ohio)
*Erik Rask, Penn (Sr., LB, Newport Beach, Calif.)
Jordan Haynes, Yale (Sr., LB, Folsom, Calif.)
A.J. Cruz, Brown (Jr., DB, Lake Forest, Calif.)
Stephen Peyton, Brown (Sr., FS, Woodland, Calif.)
Shawn Abuhoff, Dartmouth (Sr., CB, Hialeah, Fla.)
*Matthew Hanson, Harvard (Sr., DB, Lafayette, Colo.)
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Nathan Lovett, Brown (Sr., P, East Providence, R.I.)
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Shawn Abuhoff, Dartmouth (Sr., RS, Hialeah, Fla.)
J.C. Tretter, Cornell (Jr., OL, Akron, N.Y.)
Austen Fletcher, Dartmouth (Sr., OL, Old Brookville, N.Y.)
Jack Holuba, Harvard (Jr., OL, Ho-Ho-Kus, N.J.)
Matt Allen, Princeton (Sr., OL, Tulsa, Okla.)
Jack Geiger, Brown (Sr., OL, Whitefish Bay, Wis.)
Gabriel Fernandez, Yale (Sr., OL, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Collier Winters, Harvard (Sr., QB, Claremore, Okla.)
Treavor Scales, Harvard (Jr., RB, Stone Mountain, Ga.)
Alex Thomas, Yale (Sr., RB, Ansonia, Conn.)
Alexander Tounkara-Kone, Brown (Sr., WR, Staten Island, N.Y.)
Kurt Ondash, Cornell (Jr., WR, New Canaan, Conn.)
Chris Smith, Yale (Jr., WR, Midlothian, Va.)
Cameron Brate, Harvard (So., TE, Naperville, Ill.)
Clayton McGrath, Brown (Sr., DL, Longmeadow, Mass.)
Nnamdi Obukwelu, Harvard (Jr., DT, Brockton, Mass.)
Jared Sholly, Penn (Sr., DL, Clear Lake, Iowa)
Mike Catapano, Princeton (Sr., DL, Bayville, N.Y.)
Jake Stoller, Yale (Sr., DL, Shaker Heights, Ohio)
Josh Martin, Columbia (Jr., LB, Aurora, Colo.)
Steven Cody, Princeton (Sr., LB, Midlothian, Va.)
Andrew Starks, Princeton (Jr., LB, Plainfield, Ill.)
Will McHale, Yale (Jr., LB, Old Greenwich, Conn.)
Daniel Smithwick, Brown (Sr., DB, Danville, Calif.)
Rashad Campbell, Cornell (Sr., CB, Cheltenham, Pa.)
Brian Owusu, Harvard (Jr., DB, Oxnard, Calif.)
Matt Hamscher, Penn (Sr., DB, Whitehall, Pa.)
Drew Baldwin, Yale (Sr., DB, Alexandria, Va.)
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Joe Cloud, Princeton (Jr., P, Edwards, Ill.)
Gio Christodoulou, Yale (Sr., RS, Miami)
Chris Smith, Yale (Jr., RS, Midlothian, Va.)
Scott Ward, Columbia (Jr., OT, Costa Mesa, Calif.)
Kyle Cook, Dartmouth (Sr., OT, Anaheim, Calif.)
Joe Bonadies, Penn (Jr., OL, Leonia, N.J.)
Kyle Newhall-Caballero, Brown (Sr., QB, Gilbert, Ariz.)
Sean Brackett, Columbia (Jr., QB, Brooklyn, Conn.)
Patrick Witt, Yale (Sr., QB, Atlanta)
Mark Kachmer, Brown (Jr., RB, Wheaton, Ill.)
Brandon Colavita, Penn (Jr., RB, Sewell, N.J.)
Luke Tasker, Cornell (Jr., WR, East Aurora, N.Y.)
Chris Lorditch, Harvard (Sr., WR, Chalfront, Pa.)
Deon Randall, Yale (So., WR, San Diego)
Hamilton Garner, Columbia (So., TE, Duluth, Ga.)
Ryan Houska, Cornell (Sr., TE, Plymouth, Mich.)
Luke Nawrocki, Penn (Sr., TE, Syosset, N.Y.)
Zack Imhoff, Cornell (Sr., DE, Cincinnati)
John Lyon, Harvard (Jr., DE, Durham, N.C.)
Matthew O'Donnell, Brown (Sr., LB, Tipton, Iowa)
Brandon Lainhart, Cornell (Sr., LB, Cincinnati)
Bronson Green, Dartmouth (So., LB, Los Angeles)
Joshua Boyd, Harvard (Jr., LB, Hyde Park, Mass.)
Alexander Norman, Harvard (Jr., LB, Lewisville, Texas)
Joey Casey, Dartmouth (Sr., DB, Noblesville, Ind.)
Dan Minamide, Harvard (Sr., DB, Escondido, Calif.)
Foley Schmidt, Dartmouth (Sr., PK, Inver Grove Heights, Minn.)
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The National Research Council (CNR) is a public organization; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country.
To this end, the activities of the organization are divided into 7 macro-areas of interdisciplinary scientific and technological research (called Departments), concerning several sectors: biotechnology, medicine, materials, environment and land, information and communications, advanced systems of production, judicial and socio-economic sciences, classical studies and arts, energy and transportation, molecular design and agro-food.
CNR is distributed all over Italy through a network of institutes aiming at promoting a wide diffusion of its competences throughout the national territory and at facilitating contacts and cooperation with local firms and organizations.
From the financial point of view, the main resources come from the State, but also from the "market": more than 35% of its balance sheet, an extraordinary result, is the result of revenues coming from external job orders for studies and activities of technical advice as well as from agreements with firms, contracts with the European Union and with the other international organizations.
CNR is mainly interested in the dossiers related to Research and Innovation. Specific attention is paid to the framework program Horizon 2020 and all the European initiatives addressing science, technology, research and innovation.
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The 1940 census images will be hosted on Archives.gov, the National Archives website. Archives has been awarded the digitization contract for these images.
Indexing will begin as soon as the records are released online April 2. Each page will be indexed twice, with a third arbitrator to resolve difference in the two indexes.
FamilySearch is making upgrades and doing "test loading" to make sure its site can handle the extra traffic the indexing project will generate.
Chris Van Der Kuyl, CEO of brightsolid (the British parent company of FindMyPast.com), described the 1940 project as "one of the most exciting crowdsourced projects on the internet." A video commercial to be released on YouTube will bill it as a "national service project" and genealogical societies will receive incentives for galvanizing members to index.
Part of the funding provided by brightsolid and Archives.com will be dedicated to producing other free digital collections. The idea is that money that might otherwise be used to build competing census collections will now go to creating access to material that's not already online. It's "putting money into the community that would otherwise be duplicated," says John Spottiswood of Archives.com.
To volunteer for 1940 census indexing, sign up on the 1940 Community Census Project website.
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Brightsolid just announced a new pay-as-you-go site for US census records, 1790 to 1930, plus 1940 when it's released later this year. It'll be called CensusRecords.com, and is already live as as an early beta version that invites user feedback.
This is the first site that will let you search for your ancestors in the cnesus, then purchase the record with their names—a model that'll potentially make census research more affordable and accessible to those who don't want to commit to a genealogy website subscription.
No doubt brightsolid hopes—I know I do, too—that the pay-as-you-go service will lure casual researchers to get more involved in family history research.
Censusrecords.com visitors will be able to search for free. To view documents and download them to their computer, they can subscribe or buy pay-as-you-go credits, which start at $7.95 for 1,000 credits (good for 60 days).
Pay-as-you-go costs could add up if you're not sure you've found your ancestor and have to check a bunch of records, but if you're sure you've found the right folks, this could be your most cost-effective approach.
With the confluence of several factors—a growing interest in family history, economic concerns, anticipation for the 1940 census, and "Who Do You Think You Are?" showing genealogy to the masses—Censusrecords.com is poised to be a big hit. What do you think? (Hit Comments below to share your thoughts.)
Digital book operations manager Dennis Meldrum says approximately 17,700 books were moved, and a backlog of 13,300 books—which wouldn't fit onto the BYU site—were added.
That means you can now search upwards of 31,000 family history books at FamilySearch.org. Another 4,500 will be added this week, with 25,000 more to come during 2012.
You can keyword-search the entire text of the books and download an entire book (instead of one page at a time, as was the case on the BYU site). "We are working to improve the download experience over the coming weeks," Meldrum says.
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You'll be prompted to register for a free Fold3 account when you click to view a record.
The treasure hunt involves finding words hidden on the blogs of 15 genealogy bloggers who'll be reporting at the conference.
You'll find entry instructions on the RootsMagic website. Good luck!
Ancestry.com also will live-stream several presentations by its staff. See the list on Ancestry.com's Facebook page.
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Members of the public can submit statements for the hearing record. These statements must meet the specific format required by the Ways and Means Committee.
The genealogy Records Preservation and Action Committee (RPAC) recommends that such formal statements come from societies. RPAC is a joint task force of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the National Genealogical Society (NGS).
FGS, NGS and the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) will submit statements.
The RPAC, however, says it's working on a mechanism for individual genealogists to speak up in an "appropriate but dramatic" way. RPAC members are meeting at the RootsTech conference this week and will monitor Thursday's hearing. The committee plan make an announcement about how you can help save the SSDI by Feb. 14.
Ancestry.com, WeRelate.org and BehindtheNames.com have started a project to compile a database of surname and given name variants that should be searched along with whatever name you type into a genealogy database.
Traditionally, the Soundex system and/or a site's own algorithms determine what matches you see, but these still can return matches that don't make sense and miss good matches.
The project will improve searching on WeRelate.com, but any genealogy data site will be able to use the Variant Names Project database to improve its searching.
You can help build the database by adding alternate spellings for the surnames in your family tree. First, you'll need to create a free WeRelate account by clicking create account at the top of the page.
On the Variant Names project home, select given name or surname, enter the name and hit Go.
You'll see a list of potential alternate spellings with checkboxes. The checked names are included in online searches for the name you entered. (In addition, rare names that share a Soundex code are also included.) Unchecked names aren't included.
Review the list and think about variations you've found in your research. You'll uncheck variants of the name that shouldn't be included in searches, check names that should be included, and add other names in the text box at the bottom of the screen.
The starting-point lists came from an algorithm Ancestry.com and WeRelate came up with to find similar names for the 200,000 most-frequent surnames and 70,000 most-frequent given names in Ancestry.com's databases. Names also were added from BehindtheName.com, a site about the etymology of given names, as well as name dictionaries.


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It's been over a decade since the release of his last project, but I'm happy to say Glenn Lewis has returned to music. The R&B singer has a hot new single, 'Can't Say Love' and a forthcoming album.
I've always said folks are sleepin on this brother. It's good to see he's finally getting some props for his talents. Glenn Lewis first got the world's attention with the breakout single 'Don't You Forget It'. The sizzling track was from his 2002 debut LP World Outside My Window a decade ago. Here's a look back at the video.
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Yes, but what happens in 50 years if someone comes to borrow a particular book that hasn't been for sale in decades? The file resides on the libarary server, but cannot be loaned since there isn't a license available, and that particular edition is not for sale.
Since you're from Sweden you are, presumably, familiar with Astrid Lindgrens Pippi Longstocking and the sencoring of the Lindgrens stories. For those not familiar with them, a short recap:
Pippi's father was originally a "negro king" (hope I'm not getting banned for using the N-word. It is not ment in desrespect), but that word has since then gained a negative assiciation that he is now referred to as "south sea king".
Pippi is of course not the only example of this. Disney is sencoring a lot of their films and cartoons from the thirties that they now regard as "unfit" for modern audience. Jews, blacks and other "funny characters" (seen with the humour of that era) frequently appears in stories of those days, but this is regarded as "unfit" today. Even Tintin is being pulled from the libraries accused of being both racist and gay.
Since the original books and cartoon prints are very rare, the only versions available are the sencored ones. This is where the libraries come into it as "knowledge reservoirs/repositories" with a responsibility for preserving the materials that are published for later use and future research.
I've gone many rounds with the library system here in Norway to get access to rare books and documents, and in some cases even had to go to the national library (travel through half the country!) to get access to books no more than a couple of decades old.
I sincearly hope for a system that will preserve electronic publications and allow the use of them since these are interesting subjects, and subjects that needs resarching to understand the past and our history
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