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Inter dispatched Sassuolo 7-0 on Sunday to extend their unbeaten run to four games and move to the top of Serie A.
Walter Mazzarri's side were dominant from start to finish, with Rodrigo Palacio setting the tone in the seventh minute with the game's first goal.
Saphir Taider's strike and a Raffaele Pucino own goal gave Inter a 3-0 lead at the break before Diego Milito struck twice in the second half, and Ricky Alvarez and Esteban Cambiasso also scored.
Milito's first goal was widely celebrated, with the Argentine netting in his comeback appearance after a serious knee injury.
The 34-year-old, who had not played for Inter in over seven months, came off the bench in the second half and produced a smart finish before Cambiasso added a 20-yard strike.
And there was still time for Milito to grab a second, as he tapped in Fredy Guarin's assist to cap off a sensational victory.
Inter's position at the top of the table may only last a matter of hours but their fans will enjoy it, having endured a disappointing campaign last season, in which they finished ninth.
Mazzarri's new-look Inter have conceded just one goal in their five competitive matches this season, and they have now scored 17 goals.
The Nerazzurri were unchanged from the team that drew 1-1 with Juventus last week, while rock-bottom Sassuolo – who had lost all three of their Serie A fixtures this season – shuffled their pack.
They made three changes, including the recall of former Udinese striker Antonio Floro Flores, but were behind inside the first 10 minutes.
After a spell of Inter pressure that saw them win multiple early corners, Japan international Yuto Nagatomo burst down the left flank before producing a superb cross for Palacio to tap in.
Jonathan had an effort well blocked for Inter as they pressed for a second, before Algerian Taider found himself in the right place at the right time.
He followed in a saved Palacio effort to score easily past Pomini, and the goals kept on coming for the visitors.
Their third, scored in the 33rd minute, made a mockery of Sassuolo's defence, as a long ball from the terrific Guarin bounced in between Jonathan Rossini and Pucino.
With Haider lurking, Pucino panicked and steered a header over a stranded Pomini as Inter's travelling fans celebrated again.
Jonathan almost scored a fourth for Inter, but his effort was well saved, while Floro Flores had two opportunities before the break, the second of which forced a smart stop from Samir Handanovic.
Alvarez was also a constant threat for Inter and after going close early in the second half, he got himself on the scoresheet, tapping in another rebound from a Palacio shot, before Milito enjoyed his moment in the sun in the 64th minute.
Alvarez was the provider, getting to the byline before cutting back for Milito, and Cambiasso got in on the act with 15 minutes remaining, scoring an excellent curling finish on his left foot.
Milito wrapped up the win with an easy second, seven minutes from time, as Inter scored more than six goals in a league match for the first time since 1996.


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Ten years of increasing efficiency. Reports discuss the strategies and programs used to reduce demand since 2000.
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Sir Richard Branson (Chairman of Virgin Group): "Kiteboarding is a fun and spectacular sport that I think would make a tremendously exciting addition to the Olympic Games"
Neil Pryde (Managing Director of Neil Pryde Ltd.): "Kiteboarding today represents the cutting edge of sailing. The Olympic Games stand at the pinnacle of sailing and it is therefore logical and natural that Kiteboarding has a place in Olympic Yachting."
Michael Gebhardt (Two time windsurfing Olympic Medallist): "Kiteboarding, the newest discipline of modern high performance sailing, is perfectly positioned to launch the future of Olympic Sailing into the 21st century. The future is here and now. Kiteboarding is the future of Olympic sailing"
Ben McNabb (Sports Lawyers Association): "The future of Olympic Sailing rests with Kiteboarding. It's fast, exciting and visually stunning. Kiteboarding at the Olympics is inevitable, and our goal is to see it to fruition at the 2016 games."
Jerome Pels (ISAF Secretary General): "Foiling Moths with wing masts and kiteboards are the answer" (in response to a statement from Pierre Ducrey, Head of Sports Operations at IOC, regarding "added value" that sailing needs to provide to the Olympic Games)
The submission deadline for the all-deciding ISAF mid-year conference beginning of May in St. Petersburg is approaching fast - in fact it will be 12:00 UTC on Monday, March 10.
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- Coronavirus: Self-isolating in a multi-generational household
- Clap for Carers: UK applauds NHS staff and key workers
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- Matt Hancock: 'I'll stop at nothing to protect frontline staff'
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- The Papers: Test pledge as government admits to virus mistakes
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Today 3000 Yen = $26.97 US
HLJ has been good for most of us ordering Kubrick's. Dale orders a fair bit of other stuff from them as well. I've also ordered other Tomy items and have been completely satisfied with them. Shipping is fair for overseas.
I'd grab two sets and sell off the spares. JMO of course, but easier than trying to chase one down. I guess it depends on what the spares are. If it's the mystery piece, two sets for sure. Jawa or Tusken maybe ebay as they might not be the hot pieces.
Yen price: 3,200--about $28.56 USD--about $174.83 Canadian.
www.hlj.com it was, in fact, they've already got a page set up for pre-orders:http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljpage.cgi?AMD03374Yen price: 3,200--about $28.56 USD--about $174.83 Canadian.
Hopefully your orders will be fine unlike my Kubrick cases that got cancelled! Just sign in to HLJ from time to time & check your order status.
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We're a startup company making a plastic card (similar to a gift card) that let's people download applications onto their BlackBerry. People buy one of our cards in a store, scratch off a code on the back and use it to download five pre-selected applications to their BlackBerry's. The applications that the card downloads for our users are weather, news, navigation, local and music apps.
We're targeting BlackBerry users who aren't very comfortable using the BlackBerry app store but are still interested in downloading applications to their phone. Our target market is between the ages of 30 and 50. They are not avid technology geeks, but are somewhat interested and curious about it and use it on a daily basis either for work or personal use.
This project involves taking the design concept/mockup we have (see attached) as well as the assets we have (see attached) and assembling them into a brilliant and creative final product ready to be sent to the printer. The mockup is just meant to serve as a guide, so please don't be constrained by it and feel free to be as different or similar to it as you think is best.
The most important thing we'd like is for the card to stand out yet look professional and give people confidence (given that we're a new kind of product that people may not trust yet). We'd like to maintain a similar aesthetic as similar cards (such as gift cards) but don't need to be constrained by them. Attached are some pictures of gift cards that might be helpful. The main decisions that you will need to make are what to use as a background, how to lay things out on the card and how to bring it all together into an outstanding looking design. No need to create a logo and the use of attached assets is flexible. The card template from the printer is also attached and the requirements for printing are below.
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WASHINGTON – "He was almost unrecognizable," Abigail Maslin told a jury about her husband, "T.C.", after he was robbed and brutally beaten with a baseball bat last August.
She was the prosecution's final witness in the four-day trial of Tommy Branch, the 22-year-old D.C. man accused of beating and robbing Thomas C. Maslin near his Capitol Hill home. Jurors began their deliberations Tuesday evening after closing arguments. Deliberations will resume Wednesday morning.
Branch faces numerous charges, including conspiracy to commit robbery, armed robbery, assault with intent to commit armed robbery, aggravated assault while armed and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
The beating left Maslin with a severe brain injury. He was walking home after having drinks and going to a Washington Nationals game with friends when he was attacked.
Maslin's wife described for jurors a life turned upside down and a once-active 30- year-old husband who can now barely speak.
With a handsome picture of her husband taken in better times projected on a screen for the jury to see, Maslin testified that eight months after the attack, her brain-damaged husband walks with a limp, has limited use of his right arm and has trouble speaking.
"He has a difficult time expressing himself," she said. "It's difficult to determine what he understands and what he doesn't."
Her husband has undergone six surgeries since the attack.
Maslin said T.C. — who had thrived in his job involving renewable energy — can no longer work. She has taken the year off as a D.C. public school teacher to care for him. The Maslins are parents of a 2-year-old boy named Jack.
Maslin remained composed as she testified about the frightful hours when her husband was missing, how she located him at Washington Hospital Center and his ongoing rehabilitation.
Branch, the defendant, his chin resting in his left hand, gazed intently at Maslin as she testified.
Closing Arguments
Branch allegedly told two accomplices, "We want to make a quick move." Prosecutors say he meant a robbery.
Branch's lawyer argues he didn't do it and charges that his client's main accuser, Michael Moore, an accomplice who reached a plea deal with prosecutors, lacks credibility.
"You can't believe a word that Mr. Moore says," defense attorney Dorsey Jones said in closing arguments.
The prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Swanton, countered that Branch was the ringleader who led two other men in a series of armed robberies from Capitol Hill to Adams Morgan that night.
"We know how it happened. It was the bat that was found in his (Branch's) car," Swanton told the jury in his final arguments.
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Libraries of Life
The word "collection" conjures images of bric-a-brac, postage stamps and antique coins, perhaps foraged from garage sales or thrift stores and stored in curios and cabinets.
Searching the Spectrum of Frogs
When William Duellman joined the KU staff in 1959, the herpetology collection had 50,000 specimens; today there are 320,000 frogs, lizards, and snakes — thousands of these collected by Duellman himself. As he traveled and collected in the southern United States and Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru, he encountered many new species.
Lewis Lindsay Dyche
Lewis Lindsay Dyche, Dyche Hall's namesake, was a Kansas naturalist who would become renowned as an explorer, lecturer, taxidermist and showman. He was responsible as much for the iconic Panorama exhibit as he was for some of the earliest conservation laws in Kansas.
The KU Natural History Museum is the home of Comanche, the horse ridden by Captain Myles Keogh at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. After Comanche's death, Lewis Lindsay Dyche taxidermied the horse for the 7th Calvary, but Comanche stayed with the museum's collections. In 2005, museum staff completely restored the mount and created a new display on the fourth floor. Comanche is one of the most visited exhibits in the museum.
Web builders
Erin Saupe, a graduate student at the KU Biodiversity Institute, studies fossil spiders. She and her collaborators took a spider that died millions of years ago, mapped it using an X-ray, converted the data into a 3D map, and printed a plastic three-dimensional model of the original full-bodied spider: a reproduction that will show her exactly what it looked like, from the legs to the fangs.


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I write in response to Dan Rodricks' column, "Same-sex unions: What would Jesus do?" (Oct. 25). I more or less agree with his befuddlement with the "extravagant manifestations" of modern day religious Christianity. Nevertheless, his personal opinion concerning what Jesus would do in regard to homosexual marriage runs counter to Christian doctrine.
The Bible preaches repentance, not unconditional love to those in willful rebellion against God. Mr. Rodricks makes the common error of confusing God's unconditional love for those who have repented and turned to him in faith, as manifested in Christ's sacrificial death on the cross, with a generalized, sentimental acceptance of all behaviors that dismissed the evils of sin and the severity of God's response to it. This is a fatal mistake.
He quotes from the Sermon on the Mount, "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Is he really trying to suggest that Christian opposition to homosexual marriage persecutes the righteous? The Bible is clear that homosexuality is a sin, one of many, and it must be understood that all sin is worthy of death.
The expression "worthy of death" in Romans 1:32 isn't a reference to capital punishment or some form of misguided vigilante "justice," but rather an acknowledgment of their rebellion and that they are deserving of the physical death we all face because of sin. It should be noted that physical death isn't even the most severe punishment, eternity in hell is.
One of the reasons for the vehemence of orthodox Christian opposition to homosexuality and same-sex marriage is that the most radical of those involved in it are no longer just seeking tolerance of their lifestyle, but rather acceptance, approval and legal protection. Without a doubt, it would be good to hear more passionate Christian preaching rejecting fornication, adultery, hypocrisy and especially what many mistakenly consider "minor" sins, as the deadly offenses to God as well. And not just to the general public but also the church, for judgment and repentance must begin with the people of God.
In conclusion, it is clear from Biblical teaching that Jesus, if confronted by someone advocating same-sex marriage, would, while treating them with compassion, tell them to, "repent for the kingdom is at hand," and to "believe in me" and "go and sin no more."
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Maybe this would fit better on the personal blog as it's kind of a travel story, but it is Blizzcon related. And yes, I'm only sitting down to write about it now. But hey, I spent 2 weeks traveling then went back to working 7 days a week AND I've been sick with NOLA germs. (Damn NOLA germs. I blame boys.)
Besides, this story, or this string of stories, gives you the opportunity to laugh at me. Who doesn't love an opportunity to laugh at someone? (And to those who were thinking of replying with a comment along the lines of "I don't enjoy laughing at people", I will point it out now: you are a big fat liar.)
So lets flashback to Wednesday, October 19th, 2011. I was to leave for Blizzcon that night.
I live 3 hours away from the airport. 3 hours. I was working until 6 pm. And that was the only night we were able to book our guest for the Casual Raid Leading episode of the Double O Podcast (Thespius, of course. You regular readers probably know all about him by now – he's become somewhat of a reoccurring character in my WoW stories).
The plan was perfect: get home at 6pm. Record the podcast until 9 pm. Rush to Edmonton. Check into hotel I had booked (and already paid for) at around midnight. I'd get a good night sleep before my flight 7 am and I'd be all rested for Blizzcon.
It flowed smoothly. (And if you haven't heard for yourself yet, the podcast turned out AWESOME. Go listen now! Like right meow! This post will still be here when you're finished listening to the episode.) After a three hour drive (in the dark, through the countryside where deer and moose constantly jump in front of your car), it was midnight and I was pulling into the hotel parking lot.
I was going over my next day in my head: I'll check into the flight, I'll go through customs, I'll show them my boarding pass and my passpo-
My passport.
I didn't grab my passport.
It was one of those moment where you think "this can't possibly be happening, this is totally a dream, stuff like this doesn't happen in real life."
But it was happening. I knew exactly where my passport was. It was in my filing box, along with my birth certificate and other Very Important Documents. My filing box, which was in my apartment. My apartment which was 3 hours away.
My brain combed through the different options. I have no way of getting through customs without a passport. I don't know anyone who'd be willing to drive halfway to Edmonton to meet me in the middle with my passport. Besides, no one has the key to my apartment anyway.
It wasn't looking good.
I turned the car around and spend the next 3 hours driving home. I got home at around 3 am. I grabbed my passport and a few fiber bars (my evening schedule had not included supper and I don't get a lunch breaks at work, meaning that I hadn't eaten anything since my two packets of instant oatmeal at breakfast). I got back to Edmonton at 6 am. There was no point in going to the hotel at all so I dropped my car off at the airport and waited for my flight.
If you're thinking that I'll end with "and then everything picked up and the rest of the trip was perfect", you clearly have not been introduced to my luck.
I landed at John Wayne later that afternoon. The flight itself went pretty well – my little adventure that night guaranteed me a nap on the plane – but when I came down the stairs to the baggage claiming area, no one looked like they were waiting for me.
I'm used to sticking out in a crowd. I'm pretty tall. I'm on the scrawny side. I have a weird face. If that wasn't enough, there are enough photos of me floating around the internet that I'm sure random strangers see me and think "I have no idea who that chick is, but I've totally seen her on the internet."
So I stood by myself. I'll be found eventually. I will, I will, I will.
I struck up a conversation with guy who was waiting for someone who wasn't me. He also played a holy pally. Was pretty cool.
20 minutes later I wasn't found.
That's the problem with these video game conventions. You don't know what your friends look like.
My US phone had failed me so I didn't know what my number was (my Canadian phone is too cheap to work in the US so I have a travel phone that assigns me a new US number every time I cross the border). I did have a number for Juvenate, who had kindly offered to pick up, and I had texted him a few times but he had no way to text me back. I took a deep breath and decided to call him. (I hate phones, and it's especially scary to call someone who's real name you don't even know).
No reply.
I waiting about 10 minutes, then tried again. A girl answered. Yeah, not good.
Was Juvinate waiting for me at a different part of the airport? Did he leave, thinking I wasn't going to show?
I was getting close to panic. I hadn't been able to get the internet to work in the airport, but maybe I should try harder. Twitter always saves the day, doesn't it?
Twitter did save the day. I found a corner upstairs where there internet worked. With the help of a few spectators (both on Twitter and in real life – apparently Ophelie the Freaking Out Pally is rather entertaining), Juvinate and I did find each other.
Of course, never two without three. After we left the airport, I couldn't find my phone.
Yep. I got lucky and my phone ended up in the lost and found.
I was less lucky at the end of Blizzcon. After I checked out of the hotel, I realized my e-Reader was missing. I quickly gave them a call.
"We already cleaned the room. We didn't find it sorry."
I insisted, went back in person, called back a few days later, but nothing. I had read from my reader the night before I checked out, so I knew it hadn't left my room. Either it was stolen by housekeeping, or it fell out of my purse. Considering that's never fallen out of my purse before, I'm thinking housekeeping. And I had even left them a tip. Douchebags.
BUT!! After these misfortunes, my post-Blizzcon trip was pretty smooth…


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As a long time resident of this state, I have family and friends from one end to the other. It is also nice to meet new faces along the way.
This Society blog keeps track of places and faces through out the state and makes it a super place to keep track of for activities and events. The society is also what created this blog so they go hand in hand. Being located semi central of the state is also an advantage for them to be able to learn and have so much available to us.
This year I am hoping to pop in at one of their meetings when I go visit family in Sonoma and Marin Counties.
So if your doing California Research check them out and if not check them out anyway may give your group ideas or help you format a group.
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Ester's Wish for the Future of Girls in Haiti
Ester's Wish for the Future of Girls in Haiti
In times of violence and tragedy, the most extraordinary results can be achieved. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, a coalition of international and Haitian organizations came together to ensure girls' needs would not be overlooked. The Haiti Adolescent Girls Network is committed to protecting and empowering vulnerable girls, so they may safely navigate the volatile post-earthquake environment and break the cycle of poverty. It provides girls with a safe space to spend time with their peers, learn about their rights, and obtain the support of trusted adults.
Fifteen-year-old Ester learned about the Girls Network at PROFAMIL, our Member Association in Haiti. Ester likes to sing and dance, but her dream is to become a doctor one day. Unlike many girls her age, Ester is fortunate to still be able to attend school.
A self-described "intelligent girl," Ester joined the Haiti Adolescent Girls Network to learn how to protect herself. During the program, she developed a strong commitment to youth and women's rights and wrote a poem to express her views. Below is Ester's poem, "Stop," in English and Haitian Creole.
Because we are young
Because our brains are young
They think that we are little kids
We should not argue
But people who consider themselves older
Should be knowledgeable
We are human beings just like everyone else
We have equal rights just like everyone else
They must know
We have the right to go to school
We are entitled to health care
We have the right to speak
To express our feelings Stop, Stop!
Stop treating us like animals
Like your little tokens
Stop making us work like donkeys
We, too, are part of society
We are men
We are women
Although we are young
Stop mistreating us
Because we are human beings too
We represent the future of the country
Paske'n pa wè jou two lontan
Paske sèvo nou vyèj
Yo estime ke nou se timoun
Nou dakò nou pa ka diskite men fok moun ki di yo se gran moun yo konnen
Nou se moun menm jan ak tout moun
Nou gen dwa menm jan ak tout moun
Fòk yo konnen, nou gen dwa al lekol
Nou gen dwa pou'n jwen lasante
Nou gen dwa pou nou pale pou nou di sa nou panse
Sispann, Sispann!
Yo vann nou tankou ti bete, sispann
Fè kado nou pou yo, sispann
Travay tankou ti bourik, sispann
Nou fè pati sosyete ya tou
Nou se gason
Nou se fanm seleman
Nou se timoun
Sispann maltrete nou
Paske nou se moun tou
Nou se avni peyi a


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Wowzers, I can't believe I've hit 100 comments already! As a thank you to all of you who read this humble little blog, a taste of things to come. This is a panel from my upcoming continuation of the "3 Girls vs Ace of the TSAB" figure comic I've been working on the the better part of the year. It's not perfect, but once resized, I don't think anyone will be able to tell the difference ^^
I'm going to be attending Anime Expo '09 next week to pick up some more figmas and meet up with some friends, plus San Diego Comic-Con is at the end of the month, where I plan to pick up some more Gunpla. July is going to be a very busy month between these 2 cons and work, so I will try to blog every so often to let you guys know I'm still here! I plan to post my haul from each con as I get them, so please stay tuned and stay cool!
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Houston Dynamo midfielder Boniek Garcia has been named to the roster for the Honduran national team's upcoming friendlies and World Cup qualifiers. Garcia will leave the Dynamo following Sunday's match at Sporting KC and will return following Honduras' World Cup qualfier against the United States on June 18.
Garcia enters this coming camp with 79 career appearances for the Honduran national team. He has featured in each of Honduras' three qualifiers in the Hexagonal group and assisted on the game-winning goal in a 2-1 win over the United States on February 6.
Los Catrachos will hold their training camp in Tegucigalpa, Honduras beginning on May 26. The team will then head to New York for a friendly against Israel on June 2 before playing World Cup qualifiers at Costa Rica (June 7) and against Jamaica at home (June 11). They will conclude the month with a match against the United States on June 18 at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Honduras is currently in a three-way tie for second place in the final qualifying group with Costa Rica and the United States. The top three teams from the group earn berths to the 2014 World Cup, with the fourth-place team advancing to a one game playoff against the winner of the Oceania region.
Garcia has featured in eight games for the Dynamo in 2013 and has recorded two assists.
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MIDFIELDERS (10): Roger Espinoza (Wigan Athletic), Luis Garrido (Estrella Roja), Jorge Claros (Hibernian), Wilson Palacios (Stoke City), Orlin Peralta (Vida), Boniek García (Houston Dynamo), Marvin Chavez (San Jose Earthquakes), Mario Martinez (Seattle Sounders), Diego Reyes (Real Sociedad), Andy Najar (Anderlecht).
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As technology evolves to have more interconnected systems, many will find the term API becoming a larger part of their lives. This includes both business people and technical people alike.
I thought I would share an analogy to help those that are less technical understand some simple concepts to get you started on your own journey of learning, or just to help you feel better when talking with someone about the topic :->
If you are interested in incremental, multi-team delivery, you will find these concepts important to understand.
There are other concepts and the following is definitely an over-simplification, but this should get you started. My goal is not to make you an expert, but to get you ready to have some conversations about this in your environment.
- Public interface
- Keep the implementation private
- Don't make something public unless you really have to
For the purpose of this post, consider an Interface to be ....
The means by which you interact with something to send and/or receive information or change of state.
An API is an Application Program Interface. To extend the definition, consider an API to be...
The means by which you interact with a Program or System to send and/or receive information or change of state.
For the technical people out there.. Yes, I know this is an oversimplification.
The results are known to us either a - vehicle going faster, or b - engine revving faster, c - vehicle going slower, d - engine revving slower.
It is important to understand, there is no interface through the gas pedal for speed, torque or anything else. Those are other systems that have their own interfaces.
Keep the implementation private - Imaging for yourself that to know how to push the gas, you needed to know
- How many cyclinders the vehicle has
- Is it gas or electric
- What size engine
- What type of engine computer
- etc.
If you needed these to interact with the gas pedal, it would certainly be more difficult to drive.
Imagine that before you pressed the gas pedal, you had to calculate the force necessary based on engine size, the angle of the hill you were on, figure out which cylinders to turn on in what order to be able to press the gas.
Don't make something public unless you really have to.
These details are referred to as Implementation details. A good interface keeps this information private (not visible to the person or system using it).
By using this approach, you could for instance, change your engine from one type to another, or get an updated engine computer. You might have different results as you press the gas pedal with evidence from other interfaces (ie: speedometer), but you didn't need to change anything in the current interface or learn anything new to use it.
Don't make something public unless you really have to - This concept is extremely important for those that are growing systems incrementally or organically. Think about it this way...
Once you make an interface public in a complex system, it may be almost impossible to remove that interface from future iterations.
This situation will be compounded in systems that take years or generations to change or where interaction from other systems may rely on these interfaces long into the future.
In the example of our car, let's assume that someone said "You know, we could make the gas pedal really awesome if we allowed the operator to press on the right or left of the pedal by angling their feet to give a different acceleration potential".
This might make sense in your environment (let's say you have a specialised product for race car drivers and that would improve their lives significantly!). Innovation is cool that way.
My goal here is to have you consider this; Would a different interface be appropriate ( a hand control for instance). Could we have a separate control for Normal Acceleration or Faster Acceleration (think about this.. some vehicles have a Sport Mode).
There are two potential considerations should you decide to add this really cool interface Publicly (in your current application).
In a distributed application or system, something or someone will use a public interface! This means that you may need to have that ability in your system forever. You may never take it away (well, not easily at least).
If you realize later that you should have made a different interface (Sport Mode), it will be too late. You have made the interface public.
- People may have already created driving schools for the new accelerator system
- Someone may have created a special shoe to use it
- Control systems may have been built to control the pedal from a manual control that converts it to suitable pressures on the gas pedal
- And so on.
I hope this helped the non-technical person to be able to have some knowledgeable conversations about Application Program Interfaces or APIs.
There are Interfaces at different levels in your vehicle. Examples include....
- Engine computer
- Fuel pump
- Light switch controller
- Engine itself (think electric)
- Speedometer
- Tachometer
Technically oriented people will be using this term often in the future. APIs and discussions will become more prevalent as technology becomes more pervasive. The Internet of Things (IoT) is mostly about APIs for starters.
Hopefully, I have given you a bit of a non-technical description that helps you out to start your learning journey about this topic.
Actually, even communication and conversation is a form of Interface between humans. That's a topic for another time :->


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A former reality TV star best known for showing up uninvited to a White House state dinner with his then-wife is running for Congress.
The news from Tareq Salahi comes on the same day long-time Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) announced his retirement at the end of this term.
"I would like to thank Representative Wolf for his dedication to the Commonwealth and her people whom he has served well and judiciously since 1981," Salahi said in a news release.
"My political goals are sincere and motivated by a desire to once again serve the hard-working people of Virginia and genuinely represent them, their values, their concerns and their needs. I am well acquainted with the financial struggle and hardship many Virginians have been facing and have empathy and respect for the people who have somehow managed to tough it out in these challenging economic times," Salahi said.
Last year, Salahi announced he would be running for governor of Virginia, but did not collect the required number of signatures.
Salahi and his wife Michaele, who appeared on "Real Housewives of D.C.," separated in 2011 after she ran away with the guitarist of the band Journey. She and Neal Schon tied the knot last weekend.


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Boom! Kabam Acquires Exploding Barrel Games.
Casual gaming company Kabam announced Tuesday it has acquired Exploding Barrel Games, the Vancouver, British Columbia-based studio focused mostly on "core" gaming. The acquisition — Kabam's sixth gaming studio buy in the past three years — expands Kabam's company personnel to more than 600, including the 30-plus members of the Exploding Barrel Games staff, which will continue to work out of the Vancouver office. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.


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Here are a few questions I've received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability.
After reading your positive review, I downloaded Firefox 3.0, only to discover that some of my favorite add-ons, including a search toolbar, are incompatible. What can I do about this?
Wait. As I noted in the review, when major new versions of Firefox come out, it takes a while for some of the many add-ons for the browser to be updated so they are compatible with the new version. Because these are written by a very large number of different companies and individuals, the process will be gradual, and some will be updated more quickly than others.
As for search toolbars, like those from Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO), I doubt that most people still need them. When they first came out, these toolbars provided things the top browsers lacked: a permanent search box, pop-up blocking and a few other useful features. But all the major browsers now provide these things without requiring the installation of any external toolbar. The companies that make the toolbars can use them to sell advertising or attract you to their search engines. But, for many users today, they are redundant.
I don't want to run antivirus software constantly, but I would like to periodically run a program that could scan my computer and remove viruses and the like. Does such a program exist?
Yes. Here's one example. Microsoft (MSFT) makes a small, free program called the Malicious Software Removal Tool that looks for, and tries to remove, a limited number of the worst examples of malicious software. It can be downloaded at www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove.
However, this isn't a comprehensive antivirus program. Microsoft says it detects and removes only "specific, prevalent malicious software," and advises that "You should also use up-to-date antivirus software to help protect your computer from other malicious software."
I am in the market for a laptop. I was considering a Dell (DELL) or an H-P (HPQ) but have learned that Apples now run Windows. I have financial (Quicken) and other business files (Excel, Word and PowerPoint) that would need to be transferred to the new computer. Would this be possible on an Apple (AAPL)?
Yes, in the same ways you could transfer files from one Windows PC to another. For example, you could burn them to a CD or DVD, copy them to an external USB drive, or transfer them over a network or via the Internet. In fact, if you buy your Mac at an Apple retail store, the store's staff will move your files over free, or for a modest fee, depending on which folders, and how many, you want transferred.
Once the files are on the Mac, you can either use native Mac programs to read and/or modify them, or you can install Windows and run your usual Windows programs to handle the files.
For instance, even if you never installed Windows on an Apple, your Excel, Word and PowerPoint files could be used in the Mac version of Microsoft Office. However, the Mac version of Quicken isn't as compatible with the Windows version's files. So, for Quicken, I suggest installing Windows on the Mac and running the Windows version of Quicken.
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- Firefox for Android no longer automatically downloads the Cisco OpenH264 plugin as of version 68 As of Firefox 68 this plugin will no longer be available for new installations of Firefox on Android. Mozilla is considering future options.
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Add to the lengthy body of research on the connection between bad commutes and bad health yet another confirmation: a new study of automobile commuters found that longer trips to and from work correlated with various indicators of poor health, including decreased cardiorespiratory fitness, increased weight, high cholesterol, and elevated blood pressure. Yes, your long commute is literally making you less healthy.
The activity of driving to work should be better thought of as inactivity, and all that time sitting on your butt is slowly eating away at your cardiovascular health – and probably adding to your waistline. Those who have farther to travel tend to see worse results according to the study, which will be published in the June issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
The study tracked 4,297 people who lived and worked in 11 counties in the Dallas-Fort Worth or Austin, Texas, metropolitan areas, and compared their commuting distances with various medical health indicators, including cardiorespiratory fitness, body mass index, and metabolic risk variables like waist circumference. The longer the commute, the greater the likelihood these health indicators measure up on the fat and sick side of the scale. The researchers also found that people who drove longer distances reported doing less physical activity overall.
And even when the researchers adjusted for each person's physical activity habits and cardiorespiratory fitness, both waistlines and body mass index increased right along with commute distance. Higher blood pressure was observed in commuters driving 10 miles or more to work. Those driving more than 15 miles each way were less likely to meet recommendations for "moderate to vigorous" physical activity and were more likely to be obese.
A study by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics found that the average commute is about 15 miles each way. As the chart below shows, more than two-thirds of commuters travel 15 miles or less to work. Eleven percent, though, travel more than 30 miles each way.
More than 35 percent of adults in the U.S. are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
According to American Community Survey data from 2009 [PDF], the average commute in the U.S. was 25.1 minutes (and about half a minute more for those in metropolitan areas). In metros like Atlanta, Chicago, and Washington D.C., the average commute time is more than 30 minutes, some of the highest in the nation. Metros like Lubbock, Texas, and Missoula, Montana, have some of the quickest average commutes at just about 15 minutes each way.
Even on the low end, this translates to a lot of time spent in the driver's seat. If you were to drive the U.S. average 25.1-minute commute two times a day, five times a week for 50 weeks (alas, just a two-week vacation), you'd be spending more than 209 hours commuting a year. Assuming you get a good night's sleep, that's 3.6 percent of your year spent sitting in a car, gassing, braking and, hopefully, turn signaling.
Long commutes were already easy to loathe, but there's still room for further research on this subject. The authors note that future studies would be needed to fully understand whether and how sedentary time during commuting affects health. For example, how is sitting in a car for an hour on your way to work different from sitting in your chair for an hour when you're at work? Or sitting on your couch? Or, instead of sitting in a driver's seat, sitting in a bus seat?
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To help flatten the curve in the Covid-19 outbreak, officials at all levels of government are asking people to stay home. Here's what's worked, and what hasn't.
Because of coronavirus, millions of tenants won't be able to write rent checks. But calls for a rent holiday often ignore the longer-term economic effects.
As the coronavirus crisis forces changes in transportation, some cities are building bike lanes and protecting cycling shops. Here's why that makes sense.
We must prepare for a protracted battle with coronavirus. But there are changes we can make now to prepare locked-down cities for what's next.
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Great work! Other than the mods you already mentioned, was it much harder to build, compared to a standard AK?
I'd love to see the look on people's faces when they're expecting a run-of-the-mill AK and you touch off that first .308 round!
What FSB is that? What barrel work did you have to do to make it fit?
Is that the FSB that has the 24X1 bushing for the AK74 brake?
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What I lack in accuracy, I make up for in Volume!!!!
I wonder which is louder, the AK Saiga or an HK 53 at the range. The HK is a head turner on full auto unless your behind it. Your Saiga is a gun to be proud of though. It takes a lot of talent to make one that nice.
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Has the state, by adding education spending via IOUs, put school districts in jeopardy of bankruptcy?
Quite possibly, says John Fensterwald, in this thoughtful post over at the blog Educated Guess. The amount of dollars destined for schools that are paid by deferral -- essentially IOUs, in which this year's spending is paid out of next year's money -- has gone from $1 billion to more than $7 billion over the past three years.
This is an issue because school districts, when they get the promise of funding without the actual cash, must resort to various methods -- in many cases external borrowing -- to come up with the cash. And districts may not be able to do that forever. The fear is that they could get over-extended. Eventually, schools won't be able to produce the cash against the state promises -- and the deferrals could become budget cuts.
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There is no better way to finish this leader series than by starting and ending with the focus on our customer experience. Committed to pushing the boundaries of mobile computing, BlackBerry 10 symbolizes over a decade of innovation.
This week's three-part leadership series gives a behind the scenes look at what three of our top senior executives are most looking forward to with the launch of BlackBerry 10 from a customer perspective.
According to Mike Maloney, VP of Customer Support Operations – Americas, "Every customer support agent at Research In Motion that is helping BlackBerry 10 customers already has a BlackBerry 10 smartphone in their hands. Our support agents are ready and waiting to help troubleshoot any issue. People may not realize that we are running a global operation. We can support any country, any enterprise, any customer around the world."
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Visit Denver names Ken Chin as first executive director of Denver Sports
Visit Denver on Tuesday named Ken Chin as the first executive director of the reorganized Metro Denver Sports Commission, which now goes by simply Denver Sports.
Chin's 20 years in sports business marketing includes his most recent stint as vice president of business development for the Atlanta Sports Council, a division of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. In that role he is credited with broadening Atlanta's host-city profile on the national sporting events scene as well as expanding the council's reach from downtown into the 29-county metro Atlanta region. He worked as the city's point man for bid submissions to the NCAA and the U.S. Olympics Committee, experience that can help Denver as it mulls a bid for the Winter Olympics. Denver Sports is spearheading the exploration of a potential bid to host the Winter Olympics.
Chin also served as vice president of events and entertainment for the National Hockey League.
"Ken Chin brings the perfect mix of experience in both managing major sports events, and in recruiting and creating these types of events for city destinations," said Richard Scharf, president of Visit Denver, in a statement released Tuesday. "We were particularly pleased with his experience in creating partnerships and outreach that involve an entire community in bringing major sporting events to the region."
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock helped align Visit Denver with the Metro Denver Sports Commission, creating Denver Sports.
Hancock said Chin and Visit Denver can help metro Denver land "major new sporting events."
"Together, the future is bright for stimulating the regional economy and strengthening our national and international recognition," Hancock said in a statement.


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The Facts
We all experience a variety of moods such as happiness, sadness, and anger. Unpleasant moods and changes in mood are normal reactions in everyday life, and we can often identify the events that caused our mood to change. However, when we experience extreme mood changes that affect how we behave and function, these changes are often the result of a mood disorder.
Bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic-depressive disorder) is a mood disorder that consists of periods of extremely elevated mood (mania), extremely low mood (depression), and normal mood.
Bipolar disorder typically begins for people during adolescence and early adulthood. It is unusual for bipolar disorder to begin in childhood without strong familial risk factors, and it is rare for its onset to occur after the age of 60 (unless it is associated with another medical condition). Bipolar disorder occurs in about 1% of the adult population, and men and women are affected equally.
There is no single, proven cause of bipolar disorder, but research suggests that it is the result of abnormalities in the way some nerve cells in the brain function or communicate. Researchers also believe that there is a definite genetic link (family history) in which there is a higher risk for people who have a parent or full sibling (i.e., a first-degree relative) with bipolar disorder.
Whatever the precise nature of the cause of bipolar disorder, it clearly makes people with the disorder more vulnerable to emotional and physical stresses. As a result, upsetting life experiences, alcohol, illicit drug use, lack of sleep, or other stresses can trigger episodes of illness, even though these stresses do not actually cause the disorder.
Bipolar disorder is not the fault of the person suffering from it and is not the result of a "weak" or unstable personality. Rather, bipolar disorder is a treatable medical condition.
Symptoms and Complications
Bipolar disorder is a condition in which the person's mood changes in cycles – from extremely high or irritable to extremely low and hopeless – over weeks to months. The nature of these mood changes varies from one person to the next. A person may go through periods of elevated mood, depressed mood, and times when mood is normal. The period of time that the extreme high and low moods are experienced are called episodes of mania and depression.
Mania: During a manic episode, a person will experience a high, irritable, angry, or aggressive mood for at least one week that is not caused by drug abuse, medication, or other medical conditions. The person's mood disturbance will be severe enough to cause concerns from family or friends, and may warrant a hospital stay to prevent harm to self or other. In addition, they will experience 3 or more of the following:
- needing little sleep
- being more talkative than usual, often more loudly or quickly
- having racing thoughts (thoughts that won't quiet)
- being much more active than usual
- being distracted, often by unimportant or irrelevant stimuli
- having an inflated feeling of power, greatness, or importance (inflated self-esteem)
- doing reckless things without concern about possible consequences (e.g., spending too much money, engaging in inappropriate sexual activity, or making risky business investments)
A manic episode may also include psychotic symptoms such as delusions (firmly believing things that are not true) or hallucinations (hearing, feeling, or seeing things that are not there).
Hypomania is a milder form of mania that has the same symptoms but less severe, and has less negative impact on a person's daily activities. Symptoms must last for at least 4 consecutive days. During a hypomanic episode, the person may have an elevated mood and be more productive, but the mood is uncharacteristic of the person's baseline personality. Because these episodes often feel good, the quest for hypomania may even cause some people with bipolar disorder to stop taking their medications. However, a hypomanic episode does not usually last for long and gradually shifts into either mania or depression. Therefore, it is important for hypomania to be treated.
Depression: During a depressive episode, the person experiences feelings of sadness or loses interest in the things they normally enjoy. At least 5 of the following additional symptoms persist for at least 2 weeks and cause clinically significant impairment of social or occupational functioning:
- insomnia (trouble sleeping) or sleeping too much
- depressed mood
- weight loss or weight gain
- decreased interest in pleasurable activities
- fatigue or decreased energy
- problems concentrating or making decisions
- feeling slowed down or feeling too agitated to sit still
- feeling worthless or guilty or having very low self-esteem
- recurrent thoughts of death or of committing suicide
A depressive episode may also include symptoms such as severe anxiety, excessive worry, and other physical symptoms (e.g., pain) as well as psychotic symptoms such as delusions (firmly believing things that are not true) or hallucinations (hearing, feeling, or seeing things that are not there).
Some people with bipolar disorder experience mixed episodes that involve symptoms of both mania and depression together or alternating frequently during the day. Individuals are excitable or agitated as in mania, but they also feel irritable and depressed. Mixed episodes present the highest risk of suicide. Approximately 25% to 50% of all people with bipolar disorder have a lifetime risk of attempting suicide.
Some people with bipolar disorder also experience problems with movement, called catatonic symptoms. These symptoms include physical agitation, immobility, and unusual movements or body positions.
Patterns of bipolar disorder
People with bipolar disorder vary in the types and frequency of episodes that they experience. Some people may have equal numbers of manic and depressive episodes, while others may have mostly one type (usually depression).
While several years can pass between the first few episodes without treatment, most people eventually have more frequent episodes. Episodes can last for days, weeks, months, or sometimes even years. For some people, the episodes have rapid cycling where they experience at least 4 episodes per year in any combination of mania, hypomania, mixed, or depression.
According to the episode patterns, bipolar disorder can be classified as:
- Bipolar-I disorder: A person has at least one manic episode or mixed episodes and a depressive episode.
- Bipolar-II disorder: A person has only hypomanic and depressive episodes, not full mania or mixed episodes. Hypomania often seems normal to the person, and they seek treatment only for depression.
- Bipolar disorder not otherwise specified: A person has met most of the criteria for bipolar disorder but not all (e.g., shorter duration of a given episode or only hypomanic episodes).
- Cyclothymic disorder: A person has recurring hypomanic episodes and depressive symptoms.
Making the Diagnosis
A doctor will diagnose bipolar disorder based on a pattern of symptoms. Diagnosis usually involves a thorough medical history, questions about family history, a physical exam, and a psychiatric evaluation that assesses the individual's history of depression and manic episodes.
Early and proper diagnosis is an important step towards preventing other complications such as suicide, alcohol or substance abuse, marital or work problems, and more frequent cycling episodes.
Treatment and Prevention
People with bipolar disorder will receive treatment to manage their current episodes as well as treatment on a long-term basis to prevent future episodes. Components of treatment include medications and psychosocial treatments. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can also be used, but is usually reserved for people who do not respond to treatment with medications for bipolar disorder.
Medications for bipolar disorder must be customized to fit the individual because the patterns and severity of this disorder vary from one person to the next. Long-term medications are commonly used to treat bipolar disorder. Medications used to manage bipolar disorder include:
- mood stabilizers: Most people with bipolar disorder are treated with medications called mood stabilizers (e.g., lithium*, divalproex or valproic acid, carbamazepine). These medications provide relief from current episodes and prevent them from recurring. They do not worsen depression or mania, or lead to increased cycling. Valproic acid and carbamazepine are anticonvulsants used to treat epilepsy that were also found to stabilize mood. Other anticonvulsants (e.g., gabapentin, lamotrigine, topiramate) are also being studied for use in bipolar disorder. Lamotrigine can now be used to treat depression in bipolar disorder. Combination therapy with two mood stabilizers is sometimes recommended for people who have moderate-to-severe manic episodes, or who do not respond to or develop resistance to the use of one medication. During the use of certain mood stabilizers, such as lithium, blood levels are checked regularly in order to adjust the dose of the medication, and ensure the medication is working and that there are minimal side effects.
- antidepressants: These medications treat the symptoms of depression, and they work by altering the levels of certain chemicals in the brain in a way that elevates a person's mood. For people with bipolar disorder, antidepressants must be used with caution as there is a risk that the person might become destabilized or go into rapid-cycling. As such, most antidepressants are only used for 3 to 4 months at a time, but doctors will adjust the schedule on a case-by-case basis. Many types of antidepressants are available, and they work in different ways and have different side effects.
- antipsychotics: These medications (i.e., olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine, aripiprazole, ziprasidone) are used to help with the symptoms of mania, and they are believed to work by regulating the activity of certain brain chemicals to stabilize mood. Similar to antidepressants, several types of antipsychotics are available – each slightly differs in how it works, and each has different side effects. Antipsychotics are also used to manage psychotic symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations. Quetiapine is also used to treat depression in bipolar disorder, even when no psychotic symptoms are present. Olanzapine is also used to help with mixed episodes in bipolar disorder.
Other medications may be prescribed to manage symptoms such as trouble sleeping, anxiety, or restlessness.
It is important for people with bipolar disorder to keep taking their medications in order for the medications to work properly in managing this condition. People who stop taking their medications are at increased risk of experiencing another episode (approximately70% in the first year and approximately 95% within five years). This risk increases as time passes. Do not stop taking these medications or adjust the dose on your own without speaking to your doctor or pharmacist first. Talk to your doctor and pharmacist if you have any questions about the medications you are taking and ask about possible side effects.
Psychosocial treatments for bipolar disorder can include psychoeducation, psychotherapy, family therapy, and support groups. Psychosocial treatments help people and their families understand bipolar disorder, learn how to best manage the condition, and learn how to prevent other complications from occurring. Psychoeducation teaches people about bipolar disorder, its treatment, and its management.
Other things that a person with bipolar disorder can do to help reduce symptoms include:
- learning to recognize early warning signs of a new mood episode
- trying to get enough sleep, and to go to bed at a regular hour each night
- exercising regularly
- avoiding alcoholic beverages and street drugs
- reducing stress at work and in everyday life
- eating a well-balanced diet
- keeping a diary to track your daily feelings, activities, sleep patterns, life events, and the side effects of medications – this will help you and your doctor determine which treatment works best for you
*All medications have both common (generic) and brand names. The brand name is what a specific manufacturer calls the product (e.g., Tylenol®). The common name is the medical name for the medication (e.g., acetaminophen). A medication may have many brand names, but only one common name. This article lists medications by their common names. For information on a given medication, check our Drug Information database. For more information on brand names, speak with your doctor or pharmacist.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2020. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/condition/getcondition/Bipolar-Disorder


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1000 ml cold water,plus extra if necessary
2 pieces of wild salmon,(thawed,previously frozen) about 4 oz
2-3 sliced old ginger
1 tsp ground black pepper powder
1 tbsp salt
1 stalk scallion,cleaned and cut
soy sauce to taste
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2:Meantime ,coated wild salmon with ground black pepper powder and salt before toast in oven or toaster for 10-15 minutes until slightly golden brown.Remove wild salmon from toaster ,crushed and toss into the bubbly boil congee.Add in some soy sauce or salt to your taste.
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This week's Agent Spotlight features Melissa Sarver of Folio Literary Management
Status: Accepting submissions.
About: "I joined Folio in 2012 after more than six years with the Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency, where I represented clients in non-fiction and fiction, with a focus on Young Adult fiction, cookbooks, memoir and business books.
"In addition to Elizabeth Kaplan, I benefit from significant time spent working with literary agents Scott Waxman and Sally Wofford-Girand. This comprehensive background exposed me to such a variety of books and editors that I find myself in the fortunate position to successfully represent authors in a vast array of genres. I'm excited to continue representing my authors at Folio while taking on new clients.
"For me, reading is about exploration. I love finding new voices that can express something in a fresh way or new subject matter that makes the reader view the world differently, whether it's through fiction or non-fiction. One of the most thrilling aspects of my job is the constant exposure to a wide variety of topics; it's truly thrilling to play a part ushering innovative projects into the world.
"Prior to book publishing, I worked on the editorial teams of national magazines. I've found this experience useful in seeking out magazine journalists, assessing when magazine articles can be expanded into meaningful books, and providing hands-on editorial work on non-fiction book proposals. While a big part of my job includes the representation of my list of authors, I also handle the international rights for the entire agency, a role which promises to put me in contact with even more new people, new places and new ideas." (Link)
About the Agency:
"Folio Literary Management, LLC, is a full-service literary management company dedicated to providing comprehensive representation and career management to authors. Like other literary agencies, we focus on selling the domestic and subsidiary rights to our clients' books. But unlike most other agencies, we don't consider our job done when a client's book hits the shelves. At Folio, we recognize that's just the start. In addition to the traditional role of literary agents, we work closely with all of our clients to develop their platforms, writing, and credentials, and to assist them in extracting the most value possible from their intellectual property." (Link)
Web Presence:
What She's Looking For:
Genres / Specialties:
YA, Adult Fiction, Narrative NF, Memoir, Business, Cookbooks. (Link)
From the Website (as of 3/2013):
"Something new, something fresh or something edgy, dark, and innovative.
In YA, I'm attracted to realistic contemporary stories with a strong sense of voice and elegant writing that pack an emotional punch, like Sara Zarr's STORY OF A GIRL; Gayle Forman's IF I STAY, Jandy Nelson's THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE. I also enjoy lighter fare like ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS, THE CARRIE DIARIES, and PRETTY LITTLE LIARS. My YA taste run much lighter, fun and romancy than adult fiction. I'd love to see high concept contemporary YA. I'm also looking for YA mysteries, thrillers, horror, science fiction, urban fantasy, speculative, historical with a twist (alternate historical or historical with magical realism).
"When it comes to adult fiction, I live for dark, raw voices that make me see the "world in a new way. I look for characters who offer me a new or different perspective, whether it's a character in urban London (Zadie Smith), a little boy held captive (ROOM), or a young woman on the brink (SALVAGE THE BONES).
"I love to get lost in anything that teaches me about another place and time through the lens of the character. Some of my favorite non-client authors are Michael Chabon, Nicole Krauss, Graham Swift, Haruki Mirikami, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Abraham Verghese, and Tana French.
"In non-fiction, I'm looking for narrative and memoir with strong voice and prose. I enjoy memoir that read like a novel, that aren't just about the author's personal story but one that uses that story as a springboard for a larger story about a place or an event that has deeper resonance. I lean towards subjects that are more sociologically, anthropologically or historically inclined. I also love travel memoir.
"Business: I'm looking for people with significant platforms, mainly for "big idea" business books but I'll also consider some prescriptive.
"Cookbooks and food writing of all kinds, whether you're a chef, food writer, blogger, baker – I like it all!
"I'm also looking for select health, wellness and diet projects." (Link)
From an Interview (12/2012):
"I'm looking for higher concept contemporary fiction, like Jay Asher's 13 Reasons Why or Gayle Forman's Should I Stay. I am a sucker for a fresh, compelling voice, but I think that's not enough to find success in today's market, unfortunately. I'm looking for more issue-based books a la Sara Zarr or Laurie Halse Anderson. I love the hint of historical instead of dystopian, even alternative histories. I'm also looking for horror or darker, gothic stories with a bit of the grotesque. I'm still seeing too much dystopian that doesn't feel fresh. And, oddly, too many "dead sister/friend/parent" contemporary stories without more driving them than the protagonist learning to deal with her/his grief. And even though Anna and the French Kiss was successful and wonderful, it's still difficult to break these kinds of books out, especially as a debut book." (Link)
From a Blog Post (06/2012):
"She looks for contemporary/realistic fiction, both literary and commercial; mysteries; urban fantasy; magical realism, and issue-based stories. She's drawn to dark tales with brilliant prose and strong voice as well as quirky stories with a fresh sense of humor, and heartbreaking romances. She especially enjoys multicultural stories and similarly emotional stories with dystopian themes. She also considers Middle Grade fiction and Picture Books." (Link)
What She Isn't Looking For:
"Genre romance, westerns, hard science fiction or fantasy. I do not represent poetry, plays, or screenplays." (Link)
"I don't look for thrillers, romance, paranormal or fantasy (though I do love dystopian and what I'd consider 'speculative fiction')." (Link)
Editorial Agent?
"I work very closely with my authors through the entire process; I'm extremely hands on when it comes to editing proposals (thank you, magazine days!) or manuscripts." (Link w/more)
There are lists of Folio clients on the website.
Ms. Sarver's clients include: Sangu Mandanna (THE LOST GIRL, Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins) Kim Culbertson (INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BROKEN HEART, Sourcebooks) Todd Henry(THE ACCIDENTAL CREATIVE, Portfolio/Penguin) Jessie Sholl (DIRTY SECRET, Gallery/S&S); Tammy Donroe (WINTERSWEET, Running Press) Allison and Matt Robicelli (ROBICELLI'S: A LOVE STORY, WITH CUPCAKES, Viking Studio), among others.
Query Methods:
E-mail: No.
Snail-Mail: No.
Online-Form: Yes.
Submission Guidelines (always verify):
Fill out Ms. Sarver's online form on the agency website. Do not submit simultaneously to more than one agent at Folio. For information on queries and manuscript formatting see the "Submissions" tab on the website.
Query Tips:
"Don't tell me you've written ten books if none of them have been published. Don't tell me you're a 'published' author if it was through a vanity press. Don't tell me what other editors and agents have said when they've rejected you. Don't call what you're writing a 'fiction novel.' Don't tell me you've looked extensively at what I represent and then submit a thriller. Don't tell me that you've already written a trilogy (or worse, a five-book series); let's start with one book and say it has the potential of being developed into a series. And if you're out there writing, don't write an entire trilogy before approaching agents and editors! It's a waste of your time." (Link w/more)
Response Times:
Stats on the web show Ms. Sarver responding to most queries within 1-4 weeks and requested material within 1-6.
What's the Buzz?
Melissa Sarver joined Folio in late 2012 after more than six years with the Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency. She has a stable and growing list of authors who seem to love her and sales to such houses/imprints as Random House Children's, Balzer & Bray, Razorbill, and Sourcebooks.
I recommend following her on Twitter @mjsarver for the latest and greatest.
Worth Your Time:
Interview with Literary agent Melissa Sarver of Folio Literary Management at Amy M. Newman's site (12/2012).
Interview with Agent Melissa at Echoes of Wayward Mind (07/2012)
Agent Advice: Melissa Sarver of Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency at the Guide to Literary Agents blog (01/2011)
Interview with an Agent: Melissa Sarver at Mother. Write. (Repeat.) (07/2010)
Marvelous Marketer: Melissa Sarver (Literary Agent, Elizabeth Kaplan Agency) at Market My Words (08/2009).
Around the Web:
There's a great list of resources on the Folio Literary website.
You can sign up for the Folio Literary newsletter here.
The agency has a "Recent Deals" page on the website that's kept up-to-date. They also list deals on their Publisher's Marketplace page.
Folio Literary Management on P&E (Recommended, $).
Folio Literary Management thread on Absolute Write.
Ten Things About My New Agent by client Jen Nadol (01/2012)
Melissa Sarver, guest critiquer, at Kathleen Temean's site (06/2012).
Please see Folio Literary Management website for contact and query information.
Profile Details:
Last updated: 3/11/13.
Last Reviewed By Agent? 10/3/12.
Have any experience with this agent? See something that needs updating? Please leave a comment or e-mail me at agentspotlight(at)gmail(dot)com
Note: These agent profiles presently focus on agents who accept children's and/or teen fiction. They are not interviews. Please take the time to verify anything you might use here before querying an agent. The information found herein is subject to change.


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