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Adopt an Indie month where authors and bloggers are coming together to discuss self-printed books as well as those published by small presses.
There is also a chance for book bloggers to 'adopt' a book published in this way and showcase it on their blog, as well as have contact with indie authors.
There are also prize draws for authors, bloggers and readers, and the chance for authors who missed this one to sign up for the second Adopt an Indie month which is happening in February 2012.
Please do visit the site and share your thoughts, and maybe even adopt a book if you are a book blogger.
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Monday, 31 October 2011
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Tweet Treats - The Perfect Christmas Present!
I have a few recipes in the book myself, keep an eye out for mine when you get your copy!
Without further ado I would like to introduce you to the lovely Jane Travers. Without Jane, Tweet Treats wouldn't exist today.
Hello Jane and welcome to Ramblings of a Rusty Writer
For anyone who has not yet heard of Tweet Treats, could you briefly describe what it's all about?
Thanks for having me, Rebecca! Tweet Treats is a project to collect 140 character recipes (140 characters is roughly 25 words) sourced through Twitter. I collected recipes from 140 celebrities as well as from ordinary people, compiled a book which has just been published by O'Brien Press, and I'm donating all the royalties to Médecins Sans Frontières.
Why Médecins Sans Frontières?
They're an amazing charity, and I have huge respect for them. They provide medical care in countries stricken by war, famine and natural disaster, quietly and without blowing their own trumpet. They are utterly non-partisan in their dealings with people, and are funded entirely by voluntary contributions so that they are not affiliated with any country, religious institution, etc. I received recipes from all over the world for Tweet Treats and I wanted to involve a truly global charity; MSF was the obvious choice.
You created the book via Twitter. So, for anyone who may be wondering, what exactly is Twitter?
|Jane Travers
Twitter is a social network – but everyone knows that. You might not know what it really means, though. The emphasis is on "social" – Twitter is about building a broad online community of people with similar interests, who come together and chat, joke, discuss and debate. The essential brevity of a tweet (140 characters) is, I think, what makes Twitter great; you have to hone down what you want to say to its bare bones and still make it interesting. It means that Twitter moves fast and stays sharp, as there is no room for waffle in 140 characters. It's a great exercise for writers, actually, to be concise and clear about what they want to get across. I love it. (And yes, that passage was more than 140 characters – see what happens when I'm not on Twitter?)
Have you met any of the celebrities who have donated recipes? If so, what were they like?
I had to think about that for a minute! I feel like I've met so many people through chatting to them online, it can be hard to remember who I've actually met. I met Pat O'Mahony, an Irish celebrity – he actually agreed to launch the book for me, which was great fun! Pat is a good laugh and a huge lover of Twitter – he's even made a documentary about it. I already know a number of the Irish writers who contributed, like Colette Caddle, Claire Hennessy, RF Long, etc. I'll be meeting Neil Gaiman next month in Seattle and I'm crazy excited about that.
How many new recipes have you tried since creating Tweet Treats? Do you have a favourite?
Gosh, loads of them! I couldn't give you a number. Last summer, when I was flat out collecting recipes, I tried a new Tweet Treats recipe almost every night. A few of them have become firm favourites, like Banana Nut Bread by @mduffywriter – I have to make large batches of that every time because it doesn't last long in our house!
What were the highlights and lowlights of getting Tweet Treats together?
The whole thing was an enormous amount of fun, I'm happy to say! There were loads of little highlights along the way; getting the first celebrity (@Tracy_Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring), getting a recipe from my personal hero @neilhimself (Neil Gaiman), and loads of other celebrities gave me a huge kick too! There was a low point in the middle of the whole thing, when I thought I was mad and would never bring the whole thing to fruition. I thought about giving up and that same day @PaulaAbdul tweeted me to ask how the whole project was going and when the book would be out. I thought, wow, if Paula Abdul can have an interest in this, then I've got to keep going. And I did. The highlights far outweighed the lowlights, I'm pleased to say!
Would you ever create another fund-raising book?
I'd love to. I love the sense of well-being and purpose that Tweet Treats has given me, and the fun I've had with it. However, the only things I've had published to date have all been for charity, so it'd be really nice to actually earn some money from writing for myself one of these days!
What would you say are the most positive things that have come from using Twitter for you as a writer?
The network of writers. There are a fantastic bunch of writers, agents, editors and publishers out there, chatting, joking, sharing advice and information, and occasionally having a good rant. Before I found Twitter I was sitting on my own in front of a computer screen, typing into the abyss; now I'm part of a wider community. Writing is a solitary business, but I've learned it doesn't have to be a lonely one.
What are you working on at the moment?
I had been polishing off a novel (women's fiction). I put it aside when I started working on Tweet Treats, but now I'm trying to finish it off and find it a home once and for all. I'm also working on a YA paranormal romance, which I'm hoping will be a trilogy.
Thank you for joining me here on Ramblings of a Rusty Writer.
No no, thank you! ;)
If you like the sound of Tweet Treats, head over to Jonathan Pinnock's blog as he is currently hosting a giveaway of a copy of the book.
You can find further information via the following links:
FB Fan page for Tweet Treats
You can also buy a copy of Tweet Treats via Amazon.co.uk
Or via Amazon.com
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Launch of 'Eighty Nine' a Literary Mix Tapes Anthology
Today I am at a virtual launch party for Eighty Nine, the latest anthology in the Literary Mix Tapes series.
This is a collection of short stories created around prompts from, you guessed it, the year 1989.
|Me in 1989!
You can join in the launch party on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175234282561950 and find out all about this collection.
Buy Eighty Nine on Amazon.com by clicking here.
Buy Eighty Nine on Amazon.co.uk by clicking here.
Monday, 24 October 2011
A Spooktacular Giveaway
I am taking part in the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop which is being co-hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and The Diary of a Bookworm.
I am giving away one copy of my debut novel New Beginnings in paperback. (You can find out more about the book by clicking on the 'Novels' page above.)
All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is leave a comment under this post.
You can get additional entries in the following ways:
Follow me on Twitter. +1
Like my Facebook Page. +1
Follow this blog. +1
Follow my blog about writing for children and teens. +1
Let me know which of these you have done in your comment.
This will stay open until the end of 31 October.
I will announce the winner on 2 November.
I am happy to send the book anywhere in the world.
Good luck!
Sunday, 23 October 2011
DJ Kirkby's Story Chain
A very short post, simply to say please visit my friend D.J. Kirkby's blog today as she has set up a story chain and would love you to add to it.
As a thank you for joining in, DJ will add your name as an entry in her Kindle giveaway, and your words will also be taken along to her book brunch which is happening at the Portsmouth Book Fest on 26th October.
Thank you! x X x
As a thank you for joining in, DJ will add your name as an entry in her Kindle giveaway, and your words will also be taken along to her book brunch which is happening at the Portsmouth Book Fest on 26th October.
Thank you! x X x
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Anti-Bullying Week 2011 - Bullying and Me
When I started at senior school I was the tallest in our class, I was one of only two in the year with red hair, I was shy and I needed braces. That was all it took. I was called all sorts of names like 'Duracell' 'carrot top' and 'Jaws' and as time went on there would be whispering behind my back and then nasty stuff said in front of my face. It got to the point where I didn't want to go to school, despite enjoying the lessons, and I didn't have a clue what to do about it.
It was a teacher who discovered what was going on. She called me into a room one day and she said (I will never forget this), "You have a high IQ but your results aren't showing it. What is going on?" and I told her everything. The headmistress then dealt with the bullies (the process of which was terrifying to me as I was made to stand up in the middle of assembly while the ringleader named her 'gang' and included someone who hadn't done anything. I have felt bad about this ever since. This girl thought it was ME who had named her). Anyway, after this apologies were made, and the bullying stopped.
Why then did I find myself writing my debut novel about a girl who is bullied? Because even now, I feel the results of it. When I enter a room full of people I don't know, I instantly think none of them will like me. I am still more of a listener than a talker and I think some people think I am being anti-social or ignorant but it's because I am scared I will say something and be laughed at. This is thirty years later.
Bullying is a damaging thing. Bullies may think they are being clever or even be hiding their own insecurities by trying to look 'hard' in front of their mates, and the worst thing is, it is going on ALL the time.
These days with the internet there are places that can help, Bullying UK being one of those charities. I mentioned them in my book and I have always pledged to support them. I am donating 10% of any profit I make from sales of my debut novel to Bullying UK.
Please help me to support Bullying UK if you can. There are buttons in the right panel of this blog if you would like to order a copy.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Results Not Typical by Catherine Ryan Howard
Today I am proud to be part of the blog tour for Results Not Typical by Catherine Ryan Howard. I have invited Catherine onto my blog for an interview and she has also kindly donated some copies of her book for a giveaway (please see at the bottom for the details).
Here is the full blurb for Results Not Typical, followed by my interview with Catherine:
The Devil Wears Prada meets Weightwatchers and chick-lit meets corporate satire in the debut novel from Catherine Ryan Howard, author of the bestselling memoir Mousetrapped: A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida. Through their Ultimate Weight Loss Diet Solution Zone System, Slimmit International Global Incorporated claim they're making the world a more attractive place one fatty at a time. Their slogans "Where You're Fat and We Know It!" and "Where the Fat IS Your Fault!" are recognised around the globe, the counter in the lobby says five million slimmed and their share price is as high as their energy levels. But today the theft of their latest revolutionary product, Lipid Loser, will threaten to expose the real secret behind Slimmit's success...The race is on to retrieve Lipid Loser and save Slimmit from total disaster. If their secrets get out, their competitors will put them out of business. If the government finds out, they'll all go to jail. And if their clients find out… Well, as Slimmit's Slimming Specialists know all too well, there's only one thing worse than a hungry, sugar-crazed, carb addict – and that's an angry one. Will the secret behind Slimmit's success survive the day, or will their long-suffering slimmers finally discover the truth? Available now in paperback and e-book editions.
Hello Catherine and welcome to Ramblings of a Rusty Writer.
Congratulations on publishing your first novel, Results Not Typical. What inspired you to write this story?
Congratulations on publishing your first novel, Results Not Typical. What inspired you to write this story?
"Inspired" might be the wrong word! I'd always wanted to write a corporate satire, as that's a kind of book I really enjoy reading. I also think that any environment which unconditionally accepts what otherwise would be considered lunacy (I once worked for an American company that had us all open "emotional bank accounts" and – it gets worse – make deposits in each other's accounts as we saw fit) is ripe for mockery. In September 2009 I joined this scary cult-like weight loss clinic, and what I witnessed there/was subjected to/was traumatised forever by gave me an idea: a corporate satire set at an evil weight loss company.
Could you summarise Results Not Typical for us in only five words?
No, but I can do six: The Devil Wears Prada meets WeightWatchers.
Do you draw on personal experiences when you are creating your characters and plot lines?
Not so much for characters, because nearly all of the characters in Results have an air of pantomime villain about them. However I definitely drew on the odd WeightWatchers meeting I've attended and crazy diet book I've read for the plot. There's one scene where the, ahem, "Fat Club" leader is describing how to make something she's calling a pizza even though it's as much pizza as a chair is by using a wholewheat pitta bread, tomato purée, a couple of button mushrooms and a dessert spoon of low-cal grated cheese. That sort of thing – being encouraged to go to extreme lengths to make tasteless substitutes for fatty food instead of just, hey, a radical idea, just eating healthy food – definitely comes from my own personal experience with these people!
Your novel is all about a slimming company which leads to a very important question: What do you eat and drink while you are writing?
Coffee and calories. Repeat as required.
You have published three non-fiction books in the past. Could you describe Mousetrapped, Backpacked and Self-Printed for us in five words each too?
|Catherine signing copies of 'Mousetrapped'
Mousetrapped: Disney + Florida + (Dreams/Reality) = Happiness?
Backpacked: Very reluctant backpacker goes backpacking
Self-Printed: How to self-publish for realists.
Do you find it easier to write fiction or non-fiction? Which do you prefer?
I find it much easier to write non-fiction, because the story has already happened – you know what's coming next, and how it ends. Plus I enjoy taking situations and mining their humour. I find fiction much more difficult to write because I tend to tie myself up in plot knots, but I have a much greater sense of achievement from writing it than I do non-fiction.
Do you plan your books in advance, or write what comes into your head as you go along?
I'm definitely a planner. Any excuse to waste a few hours messing around with different coloured pens and Post-It notes!
Could you briefly explain, for anyone who yet to visit your blog, why you decided to self-publish your books?
Originally it was because I had a book - Mousetrapped - that was liked and praised by every editor or agent I sent it to, but they all agreed that there was no market for a book about an Irish girl moving to Florida in search of pixie dust, Space Shuttle launches and dreams. When I found out about CreateSpace, I thought I might as well put the book up there, as I believed there were readers for it out there somewhere, and I didn't want to leave it in a drawer. Now, a year and a half later, I've self-published three other books and am about a month away from hitting 10,000 books sold. The difference with me though is that I'm not campaigning for the death of books just yet; I'm still pursuing traditional publication and just think of self-publishing as a bit on the side. Hopefully some day in the future there'll be something to put it on the side of!
After reading Mousetrapped I would be very interested to know if you would ever go back and work at Walt Disney World again? Have you been back to visit since you wrote the book?
I don't think I'd work there again just because I've moved on now, but I would love to live in Orlando again, if only for the weather and the fact that there's always something to do. I've been back twice – Eva (one of my best friends there) and I have been trying to go once every calendar year. This year we all met up in Europe but I hope to see Florida again in the new year.
What next? Should we expect more novels or further non-fiction books from you in the future?
I hope so! In the immediate future my attention is totally focused on writing a novel I hope to submit to traditional publishers, but after that yes, I do plan on writing more books to self-publish. I'm just not 100% what those will be yet!
Thank you for joining me here on Ramblings of a Rusty Writer.
You can buy the book here on Amazon.co.uk
or, on Amazon.com
Enter the giveaway to win one of five copies on Goodreads (Open until 31 October)
Or if you would like to enter a draw for one of three e-copies of Results Not Typical, leave a 'pick me' comment under this post.
This will be left open until 12 noon UK time on Tuesday 1 November.
3 winners names will be picked at random.
This will be left open until 12 noon UK time on Tuesday 1 November.
3 winners names will be picked at random.
Friday, 14 October 2011
I'm Guest Blogging Today
Today I am guest blogging for the first time ever, thanks to the very lovely Sue who blogs at The Long and the Short of it.
In the post I talk about the importance of having a platform, speaking from my own experiences.
Please do pop by and visit.
In the post I talk about the importance of having a platform, speaking from my own experiences.
Please do pop by and visit.
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Coming Soon on Ramblings of a Rusty Writer...
|Interview here on 19th October
I also have interviews with some other authors lined up, which I am very much looking forward to. I won't say who just yet as I don't want you to get too excited.
I have been asked to guest blog on two other blogs, these will be happening in the next couple of months.
|Post here on 26 October
And finally I am proud to be part of the blog tour for Tweet Treets which is a fund raising recipe book which I have a couple of recipes in.
All this on top of my usual ramblings!
As always, thank you for reading x X x
Sunday, 2 October 2011
We All Have Days Like That
I had one of "those days" on Thursday. You know, where you're tired, you don't get a minute's peace, you have a bazillion and five things you want to do and no way of achieving them at that precise moment. And to top it all, a sore spot in your guts where you've been kicked by a rejection.
Yes, it was one of those days. I was well and truly fed up. Downward spiralling and not sure how I would ever feel any better. And then I realised the story I had drafted for a magazine that I was really pleased with would never be submitted to that magazine as the publication I intended it for didn't accept work from new writers, I developed a migraine, and all three of my children had a complete meltdown in the middle of my favourite shop. I have never seen them all like that at the same time, it was horrible; shouting, shoving, yelling all at each other but ugh!
So I vented on my social networks. They say a platform is vital to a writer, but in this case it suddenly became my safety net. On Facebook and Twitter I got instant replies from people who either felt the same or offered words of encouragement. I instantly knew, that despite those niggling suspicions, I was not alone.
One of my Facebook friends, who is a fellow Ether Writer and also coincidentally I worked with back in the 1990s said on Facebook: "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue. This is a statue day." I have never heard this one before and it made me laugh so much. Just the thing.
Since Thursday I decided to cut down my to do list in any way I could. I have removed myself from several online sites which I never used properly but had emails from all the time (LinkedIn, to name but one). I have done a lot of thinking about the next step for my second book and then in a completely coincidental fashion a good friend and fabulous writer sent me a very encouraging email. I was almost there by myself but her words tipped me into the "I will not give up" zone.
I dragged my husband out of the house on Friday and we had lunch outside a restaurant; good food, gorgeous weather and a fantastic bit of city people-watching where I gained a few character ideas.
Then I sorted something out that I hadn't even realised was bugging me. I polished some first drafts that I had sitting around on my desktop for weeks and sent them off to their various places. And I allowed myself a bit more chat time on Twitter.
It's funny as I feel like a different person today but I wanted to write all this down so next time I have the black clouds hanging over my head I can maybe come back and read this and get back to how I feel today more quickly.
I went out for a lovely family meal last night and during the conversation I discovered my Dad has read my book. I actually didn't think he would ever read it, so I am floating on clouds today.
So the worst kind of day to the best in only three days. That can't be bad.
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Clinical Trials
The Effect of Anti-HIV Therapy on Fat Metabolism in HIV-Positive Patients
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Information provided by (Responsible Party)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
First received: November 2, 1999
Last updated: April 16, 2014
Last Verified: April 2014
History of Changes
The purpose of this study is to see how taking certain anti-HIV drugs affects the way the
body metabolizes fat. This study will evaluate patients who are enrolled in CPCRA 058 (the
FIRST [Flexible Initial Retrovirus Suppressive Therapies] study) by looking for changes in
cholesterol levels, levels of fat in the blood, and body fat distribution. Patients in the
FIRST study receive an anti-HIV drug regimen which contains a protease inhibitor (PI), a
nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), or both.
Anti-HIV drug therapy using PIs has become very common treatment for HIV-positive patients. Recently, however, serious side effects involving how the body uses fat are being reported in patients taking PIs. Examples of these side effects are a redistribution of body fat, high cholesterol level, and development of diabetes. However, some of these side effects have also been seen in patients who are not taking PIs. It is important to determine whether or not these side effects are directly related to PI use. In this study, patients on different drug combinations, either with or without a PI, will be compared.
HIV Infections
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|Metabolic Consequences of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in HIV-Positive Individuals
Further study details as provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2006
Detailed Description:
Close to 3 years into widespread PI use, several toxicities, including metabolic alterations,
are being reported increasingly in conjunction with the use of PI-containing regimens. Some
of the manifestations of these metabolic alterations include hyper/dyslipidemia,
hyperglycemia, insulin resistance and glucose intolerance, lipodystrophy (in face and
extremities), and body fat redistribution (e.g., central obesity and buffalo humps). Despite
reports of increasing prevalence of metabolic complications among PI users, the question of
whether they result from PI therapy has not been answered. Some of these complications, e.g.,
a decrease in peripheral fat with an increase in visceral fat and buffalo hump, have been
observed in HIV-infected individuals who were not receiving PIs. This study compares 3
different antiretroviral regimens used in the FIRST study (CPCRA 058), 1 of which does not
contain a PI, and examines metabolic alterations which occur.
This study enrolls patients simultaneously co-enrolling in the FIRST protocol; 120 patients from each of the FIRST study strategy groups. At entry, Months 1 and 4, and then every 4 months, blood is drawn to measure serum glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. At entry and Months 4, 8, 12, and then every 12 months, body cell mass, and body fat by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) are assessed. [AS PER AMENDMENT 7/5/01: At Months 4, 8, and 12, then every 4 months through closure of the FIRST protocol] patients are weighed and skinfold measurements and body circumference measurements are done. The skinfold and body circumference measurements will be discontinued after the study has collected a minimum of 2 years of follow-up data on all participants. Statistical evaluations are performed on the data.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years and older
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are enrolled in the FIRST study (CPCRA 058).
- Have written informed consent of parent or guardian if under the age of 18.
Contacts and LocationsChoosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision.Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below.For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00001102
Locations Show More
|United States, California
|Community Consortium / UCSF
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|United States, Colorado
|Denver CPCRA / Denver Public Hlth
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 802044507
|United States, District of Columbia
|Washington Reg AIDS Prog / Dept of Infect Dis
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20422
|United States, Georgia
|AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 303081962
|United States, Illinois
|AIDS Research Alliance - Chicago
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60657
|United States, Louisiana
|Louisiana Comm AIDS Rsch Prog / Tulane Univ Med
|New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112
|United States, Michigan
|Wayne State Univ - WSU/DMC / Univ Hlth Ctr
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
|Henry Ford Hosp
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48202
|United States, New Jersey
|Southern New Jersey AIDS Cln Trials / Dept of Med
|Camden, New Jersey, United States, 08103
|North Jersey Community Research Initiative
|Newark, New Jersey, United States, 071032842
|United States, New Mexico
|Partners in Research / New Mexico
|Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87131
|United States, New York
|Harlem AIDS Treatment Grp / Harlem Hosp Ctr
|New York, New York, United States, 10037
|United States, Oregon
|The Research and Education Group
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97210
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Philadelphia FIGHT
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
|United States, Virginia
|Richmond AIDS Consortium / Div of Infect Diseases
|Richmond, Virginia, United States, 232980049
Sponsors and CollaboratorsNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|Study Chair:
|Subha Raghavan
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00001102 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 2, 1999
|Last Updated:
|April 16, 2014
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):Drug Therapy, Combination
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Body Composition
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
HIV Seropositivity
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on March 27, 2020
This information is provided by ClinicalTrials.gov.


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First we have the binder:
I covered each girl's binder in a brown paper bag book cover, and let them decorate them. Willow actually chose thematically-appropriate decorations:
This unit study is on each of the states that we'll be visiting during our upcoming road trip--Missouri, Arkansas, Tenneessee, and Kentucky--so Willow drew the Gateway Arch, a horse, and the Mississipi River (with sailboats, because she hasn't seen a real live riverboat yet, silly girl).
Now, the girls aren't actually required to do any of the activities that I'm about to show you, but I do know what they tend to like, so I'm guessing that Willow will do quite a bit of these, and that Sydney will do a few and goof around with a few more. Both binders are also identical, even though the girls are at different academic levels, because they still tend to get jealous when they see that a sister has something that they don't. So some of the stuff in the binder is too easy for Willow, and a lot of stuff in the binder is too hard for Sydney. Thankfully, Sydney doesn't get frustrated at Willow-level stuff, and Willow doesn't get bored by Sydney-level stuff--if they don't want to do something, they just don't.
Each binder has a US map from AAA and a ton of copy paper tucked into the front cover, a clipboard clipped to the inside cover, a notebook tucked into the back cover, and a mesh bag of supplies clipped onto a binder ring:
Of course, all this stuff will immediately get completely disorganized, but I plan to ask the girls to bring their binders in with us each night at our various motels, so I can neaten them then.
Each binder has a set of matboard stencils for all the states we'll be visiting; US map and flag coloring pages from Super Teacher Worksheets; state maps for each state from Megamaps; cut-and-fold three-dimensional animal pages for various animals we might see, such as thoroughbreds or Indiana bats--
--from Form Wild; coloring pages for horses and the Gateway Arch from the Dover Sampler series; and downloadable children's activity books for various places we'll visit, such as the Fort Smith National Historic Site, and places that we won't visit but that are still AWESOME!!!, such as...
The Arkansas.gov site has a terrific children's activity book which offers coloring pages for ALL of the state stuff. State gem? The diamond. State bird? The mockingbird. State fruit/vegetable? The vine ripe pink tomato. State rock? Bauxite. State cooking vessel? The dutch oven. And yes, I COULD go on.
More on Syd's level, the binder also includes a file folder game of sorting fruits and vegetables, from File Folder Fun, and a set of Betsy McCall paper dolls highlighting Betsy's trip down the Mississippi on a riverboat:
More on Will's level are some Spanish flashcards of words like horse, duck, grandma, and grandpa, from Boca Beth; and 20 or so mazes from KrazyDad--navigational skillz, you know.
Among the books that the girls have chosen for the trip are numerous children's books about Appalachia, other geographical locations we'll visit, tall tales, horse books, and a biography of Elvis (I can't resist!). Some of the DVDs include a children's Spanish documentary of St. Louis, more horse movies, more tall tales, etc. And some of the CDs are folk songs, Elvis hits, and audiobooks that take place in some of the places we'll visit, although audiobooks tend to be very hit or miss, love it or absolutely hate it, with the kiddos.
As for the traveling, I really do intend for it to be pretty low-key. My goal is to see at least one site that is meaningfully geographically or historically every place we visit, and to also do at least one super-fun kid thing. So in St. Louis I plan to take the girls to the St. Louis Science Center (Willow is really looking forward to the pirates exhibition), and also up in the Gateway Arch (this will be a first for me, too). In Fort Smith, where we'll spend a few days with my family, I plan to take them to the Fort Smith Museum of History (which has a real, honest-to-god working soda fountain), and there will also be lots of playgrounds, cousin and grandma time, cable television watching, candy eating, etc. While I'm in Ft. Smith I plan to plan where to go in Tennessee and still stay out from underfoot of the flood recovery efforts, but Willow is already talking about the Kentucky Horse Park, and thanks to the Wonderlab being an ASTC Passport participant, we get free admission to pretty much every hands-on museum in the country that we walk ourselves into, and we may walk ourselves into several on our trip.
But if all of THAT gets boring, don't worry--the girls will still have their other workbooks, and their other DVDS and CDs and picture books, and Hank the Cowdog and toy ponies aplenty, and computer games and indoor pools and stopping to pee and lots of snacks...
We are going to have an excellent time together.


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For the unknown reason, I cannot translate new messages from Ukrainian page. When I click on the translation links Opera and Firefox show the window with empty source field. I have tried to input the blind translation, but it only shows "Unknown error: ``tpt-unknown-page (unknownerror)".
Any hint will be much appreciated.
UserBase has moved to a new server, and in the process one link requiring change was overlooked. Sorry for the inconvenience, but you should have no further problem now.
Not sure if this is the right place to "complain" about this, but here is my problem: In the Category pages (for instance http://userbase.kde.org/Category:Applications/fr), shouldn't the link be translated ?
For instance the link Applications/Office/fr should be Applications/Bureautique (using the Page_display_title translation).
I'm not sure that that's possible at the moment. The best thing is to catch Nikerabbit on IRC and ask him about this. He's the author of Translate, and he may be prepared to put it on his to-do list :-)
I'm aware of it, but it's not an easy thing to solve.
I'm sure it isn't ;]
I just wanted to know if someone had knowledge of it.
Thanks :]
I noticed, that we now have breadcrumbs - great news! Unfortunately, they don't work well with translated pages. The page A/B/C will have a breadcrumb something like this [[A|A]] < [[A/B|B]] < C. The Danish version af the page is A/B/C/da, which will generate this breadcrumb: [[A|A]] < [[A/B|B]] < [[A/B/C|C]] < da which has two problems. First, the trailing da should not be there, nor the link to A/B/C (admittedly this is a minor complaint), and secondly, the links to A and A/B go to the English pages, where they should go to the translated pages A/da and A/B/da.
I can't see how this is implemented, but if it uses ordinary wiki syntax, I guess adding Special:myLanguage to all links would solve the second problem.
The breadcrumbs are actually built in to Mediawiki, and automatically generated. I will mention it to the Translate developers, to see whether they have any ideas, but there's nothing we can do in terms of mediawiki syntax.
I'm told that changes need to be made at code level. We have a "volunteer" that says he will try for it when he gets home in a few days. (For "volunteer" read "press-ganged volunteer" :-D )
That's great. If he needs a good illustration of the problem, a page like Amarok/QuickStartGuide/GettingStarted/da should do the trick. If feedback is wanted, I'd be happy to oblige.
I add zh-tw zh-cn to assistant languages option, so when I open enhanced translation editor, the editor has two kinds of translation suggestions, the first one come from zh-tw page (Traditional Chinese) if the zh-tw page's translation is completed, the other come from Google Translation (Simplified Chinese).
I hope the suggestion which come from zh-tw page can be converted to Simplified Chinese via Google Translation service and vice versa. It will save my time in dealing with two kinds of Chinese.
zh-cn == Chinese(China) == Simplified Chinese, I hope the suggestions from zh-tw page is converted to Traditional Chinese
zh-tw == Chinese(Taiwan) == Traditional Chinese, I hope the suggestions from zh-cn page is converted to Simplified Chinese
Is it possible?
It is possible to do many things to solve this problem. I currently don't have time to implement them though. Some bright guy might be able to make a JavaScript gadget that does that.
When you describe an action that requires choosing a tab - is it correct to mark that as a menuchoice>
I think so. I feel that it is most logical to treat all named GUI element the same way. To most users buttons, icons, tabs and other elements that are directly visible are probably used more often than menu choices, so it seems they deserves to be highlighted as much as menu choices.
Yes, my instinct says that if it is a choice action it should be marked as a menuchoice. If anyone can think of a case where it causes a problem, this is the place to tell us :-)
Please add Chinese(China) zh-cn and Chinese(Taiwan) zh-tw, thanks.
If you put zh-cn into the selector bar on the Translation Tool page you'll be taken to http://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Special:LanguageStats&code=zh-cn and similarly, putting zh-tw in, will take you to http://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Special:LanguageStats&code=zh-tw
I think it's just the unfamiliarity of the system. Let us know, though, if you can't find your way around.
For consistency, please make your category links in the form category-name/zh-cn- thanks.
They are different, I want to change userbase's interface language, look at this snapshot http://is.gd/fFIAm.
The chinese category links have a lot of work need to do, I will modify chinese category link name when I have free time.
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Change Preference need an account and login in, but some visitors (guest) don't have (especially the person who visits this site first time).
another method is add this function to Translation Extension, for example, the extension not only redirect browser to /zh-cn page, but also change wiki' interface language(system messages) to zh-CN.
"Your wish is my command!" as the stories say. Pipesmoker has fixed it so that all languages are now available (if your browser is open from before the fix you will need to reload to see it).
The how-to pages linked from Tasks and Tools set out the basic markup for most cases. However, there are a number of situations where the preferred markup is not clear. Before I can clarify those cases I need guidance from the translators. We can add examples to this thread until we are sufficiently clear to update the how-to pages. The first example I'd like you to consider is this section:
<example 1> Konqueror is primarily a web interface, but it can also function as a traditional file manager. If this is your preference, in System Settings, go to the Advanced tab and click on File Associations. In the list of Known Types, go to the inode/directory type. In the General tab at the right side of the window, select Konqueror in the Application Preference Order and click on the Up button until it is at the top. Click on Apply to save the changes. </example>
Please indicate how you would like this to be marked. If we can look at a few such cases we should be able to formulate useful guidance.
<example 1> Konqueror is primarily a web interface, but it can also function as a traditional file manager. If this is your preference, in, go to the tab and click on . In the list of , go to the type. In the tab at the right side of the window, select in the and click on the button until it is at the top. Click on to save the changes. </example>
Actually I would recommend a few changes to the original text:
- It is generally a bad idea to use names of GUI elements as anything other than names, så I would suggest replacing "In the list of ,..." with "In the list ...".
- I think is better than ; the latter is potentially confusing since it does not match one named GUI element.
- I think "If this is your preference go to is a simpler and better way to present a sequence of GUI actions.
<quote>I don't need to translate the application names, but what about those languages that have a non-latin alphabet?</quote>
After much experimentation it has been decided that markup that excludes elements from translation should be avoided whenever possible. That relies entirely on the experience of the translator to know what needs translation, but additional guidance can be written into [[EditMarkup|Prepare a page for translation]] where necessary.
With regard to links, it has been agreed that [[Special:myLanguage/Ark|<translate>Ark</translate>]] is the format that will be used for stand-alone links, such as the application-names in /Applications. To accommodate the different grammar needs, when the link occurs in a sentence the whole link should be left as within the translatable message.
There is a list of current categories and a set of pages where agreed translation of those categories can be found, linked from Translation_Help_Needed
As a general principle:
- The UserBase page for the application should have its traditional category (manual writers can add the application category if they wish).
- Tutorials, FAQ's etc should also have the traditional categories (again, the application category can be added).
- Pages that are part of the manual should only have the application category.
- The application category may also be used for any application that has many subpages.
New categories should only be considered if no existing one can be applied. If a new category is essential it must be added to all the translation tables listed on Translation_Help_Needed. Application-name categories may be omitted from those tables, as they will only be translated for non-latin alphabet languages. The translator is expected to know the official glyphs for the name translation.
KAddressBook and Plasma/FAQ are examples of pages where they are simply a re-direct to the latest version of the application. The problem arises if the text on one of those versioned pages contains something like [[KAddressBook/Enabling_Resources]]. There is no such section, because it's on the versioned page.
The solution is that the part that the reader sees can be trimmed for readability but the link must specify the version page.
Special:myLanguage finds the correct page, but then looks for a subsection with the English title, which of course it fails to find. Siebrand offers this workaround:
This will work if you add anchor points to your pages that cannot be translated. For example, add to the source text to allow anchors to always work. I experimented with this a while ago. The exact implementation may differ from what I write here, but I'm certain it's close. siebrand 08:44, 23 August 2010
This is working on a number of pages, so appears to be the correct solution for us.
ASCII smilies cause problems for translators, because the system reports unbalanced parentheses. Instead, please us icons such as [[Image:face-smile.png]] . Keeping the size below 15px constrains it vertically so that the text line isn't distorted.
Additionally, UserBase is linked to InstantCommons where you can search for other smilies or other images. You do not need any special addressing - they act as though they are uploaded onto our server.
Templates are used for Input code and for Output code. In addition, syntax highlighting and the inclusion of line numbers is now possible. For details see http://userbase.kde.org/Toolbox#Add_a_code_snippet
There was a good deal of confusion caused when an English page was accidentally translated and had to be rolled back. When that was marked as ready for translation again, the language statistics appeared to be incorrect - and in fact the two sets of statistics did not agree. Nikerabbit explains this: <quote> Few notes that hopefully help to clarify things: Special:LanguageStats: if group is 100% translated, the default task is 'review all changes' (definition pink + translation green) instead of 'show untranslated' (untranslated blue, outdated pink). If this is confusing we should discuss how to make it less confusing.
If the one who marks page for translation chooses to not invalidate translations, those translation should never show up in the view of untranslated messages, nor affect translation percentages. The only difference is that if you somehow go and edit one of those, you will see a difference between the old and new definition like you see for other invalidated translations.
Nikerabbit11:16, 8 August 2010</end quote>
Some templates require localisation, others don't. We will for now include all templates in the translatable area, leaving the translators to make the decision. The difficulty, as I understand it, is that we have two types of templates - those with replaceable text, which should definitely be translated, and those with fixed text, where a localised version is substituted.
Any further ideas for clarifying this should be added to this thread.
If any new section is added between existing sections, the system will allocate a section number. The number is used by the system to know where it came from and where the translated section must be placed, but to the translator it will appear out of sequence.
It is essential that during the markup phase care is taken to ensure sufficient context remains for the translators to make good judgements. Translators meeting bad examples should alert the admin group.
Images need more white space around them than you might expect. A double-empty line above the image is desirable, a double-empty line below the image is required, to avoid the possibility of undesirable line-wrapping.
Do we have a policy regarding use of the <menuchoice> ... </menuchoice> tag? The typographical guidelines mentiones only menu choices. Common practice also includes other named entities in the GUIs, such as buttons, textfields, dialogs etc. I assume this is all OK (IMHO it should be).
Recently I have come across a number of examples, where ordinary reference to things, that can be done in a GUI have also been enclosed in these tags, even though they do not specify a GUI element. An example might look something like this:
- does
- change and
I think this is potentially confusing and should be avoided. In cases like the above I don't think emphasizing is needed at all, but if some general terms must be emphasized, I think it is preferable to use ordinary bolding.
Should I remove superfluous menuchoice tags when I find them?
Yes. I talked to Yurchor about this, this afternoon, see User_talk:Yurchor#x.22Chatty.22_pages_-_hard_to_mark_up__414. Sorry for the extra work.
Yes. I talked to Yurchor about this, this afternoon, see User_talk:Yurchor#x.22Chatty.22_pages_-_hard_to_mark_up__414. Sorry for the extra work.
I came across a similar issue within link texts. Link texts already stand out, and adding extra emphasis to words in a link doesn't look good in my opinion. I haven't done anything about these - I know that there are other considerations, such as compliance with docbook, but does that apply to links?
I want to stick to compliance with docbook, and I'm honestly not sure of the answer to this. I suspect that the markup within the link may be unnecessary, but I'd like Yurchor to confirm this.
In fact, there is no such thing as compliance ;)
I have to re-write wiki2docbook to replace <menuchoice> with ''' and parse <keycap>Ctrl+F</keycap> to get <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>F</keycap></keycombo>.
To understand things better, you can compare XML (exported from UserBase and slightly fixed) and DocBook from rekonq pages here, Amarok pages here, and KrossWordPuzzle pages here.
The only thing that is needed for successful conversion is the consistent markup in UserBase itself. Nothing more. There must not be markup like <keycap>OK</keycap>.
The stable rules (and of course, great look of pages) is the only thing that matter for documentation. Should we separate clearer what pages are and what pages are not documentation?
Surely, there is not much sense to prompt someone to use "this markup is a mess!"© just to write their plans on Telepathy, which are far from the real-world implementation. ;)
Thanks in advance
[quote]I have to re-write wiki2docbook to replace <menuchoice> with [/quote] - how useful is <menuchoice> then? It seems strange to me that I'm going through pages changing "" into <menuchoice> when you have to change them back.
I don't think there's much we can do to help with the keycap parsing, though. Sorry about the "OK" - I think I've only done it once, and it certainly wasn't intentional. I have a bad habit of thinking that I just need to get to a certain point before stopping work, when it would have been better if I had stopped a little earlier.
Maybe we need a thread somewhere more central about which pages need strict markup, and which are better served by just bold and italic carefully applied.
It is useful. It makes GUI elements on UserBase pages mauch more prominent.
For example, <menuchoice>Ok</menuchoice> gives, but '''Ok''' gives just Ok which is not so visible. If you are trying to follow some instruction the former variant is much better, imho. ;)
I just want to say that DocBook compliance and UserBase markup have to be treated separately.
That was a very useful clarification. Looking at the docbook code for rekonq, I get the impression, that we should not use emphasis on application names when they appear in the text of a link. Is that correct?
Yes, it would be better, but emphasizing is not crucial. It can be easily tweaked during final polishing. Just a replace of <guilabel>rekonq</guilabel> with "&rekonq;".
The most ugly thing is to use bold typeface or <menuchoice> in section headers, or bold in {{Warning}}. Can it be added to Guidelines?
Yes, I'll do that. I guessed that it was better not to use it in section headers (I left some in because they were originally there, and I wasn't sure) but I wouldn't have thought of leaving it out of the templates - I assume that the same applies to Information, Notes and Tips templates.
Sorry to keep going on about this issue, but today I encountered some difficult problems translating KrossWordPuzzle. There are several problems all related to the use of the menuchoice tag.
First, It seems to me to be potentially confusing to ordinary readers to use the menuchoice tags for anything other than actually explaining how to do some task using the GUI. If we use menuchoice tags the way the are used in the feature list of KrossWordPuzzle, readers may confuse what is merely a list of capabilities with a discription of how to actually accomplish something (and be frustrated because the don't understand the "directions").
Secondly, using the name of a GUI element in its "literal sense", fx treatingas a verb, is going to cause problems to many translators. The great differences between the various grammatical systems would force translators to write awkward (perhaps even ungrammatical) texts.
Thirdly, we can never be sure, that a translation of the GUI even exists. If it doesn't, a translator of the UserBase page may need to have English words in the translation. Here I am assuming, that the name of a GUI element should always appear in print exactly as it is shown on the screen, which seems highly desirably to me.
Therefore I would recommend that names of GUI elements are avoided in feature list and similar places where we are talking about the capabilities of an application, but not about how to accomplish anything in detail. Perhaps the simplest way to think about this is to allways treat the thing enclosed in a menuchoice tag as a proper name. Would it be a good idea to add something like this to the guidelines or are there better ways to deal with the problems?
I did say that you might find other pages that were written before I had had the conversation with Yurchor. The best thing to do is simply point me to them, and I'll fix the problems. I'm dealing with so many pages that I can't possibly remember which pages might be affected, so you will just have to prompt me. Sorry.
Actually, my latest complaint was about yet another kind of problem with the use of the menuchoice tags. The KrossWordPuzzle page did not "abuse" the tag in the way we talked about earlier, but I still think that the way menu items were referenced is unfortunate. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear enough.
Thirdly, we can never be sure, that a translation of the GUI even exists. If it doesn't, a translator of the UserBase page may need to have English words in the translation. Here I am assuming, that the name of a GUI element should always appear in print exactly as it is shown on the screen, which seems highly desirably to me.
I do not think it's a good idea to translate manuals for the applications with untranslated interface. Anyway, KrossWordPuzzle has not been translated to Danish yet. I cannot even to contact with the developer to ask him is it worth to put DocBook in the main SVN module, but that's the different story. ;)
To keep the good translations, I asked that screenshots can be translated, not as in Amarok Quickstart. It will be LP-quality translations of manuals if translators never use the applications. ;)
This author was active for a good while, but seems to have disappeared at the moment. I too tried to contact him. His apps are nice. I don't want to lose them.
I've re-marked the KrossWordPuzzle page. No guarantees that it's right, but of course you are free to edit as necessary.
The typographical guidelines are fairly straightforward to document. I'm beginning to think that we need a separate page for the actual markup for translations, and to ask translators to join the Talk page to help work out rules. I'm clear on straightforward decisions, but less formal pages are very difficult for me, and therefore I am not likely to write a good guideline for this.
I wasn't aware of the problem with the Amarok QSG pages - and there are a lot of them. I'll try to fix those over the next few days.
I agree that we should have a translation of the GUI before we begin translating the manual. I'm not so sure that the same always applies to traditional UserBase application pages, though.
Another question came up regarding the way we emphasize applications. The problem comes up in the genitive case: Where in English we would have fx "The Amarok menues ..." og "Amarok's menues ...", the proper Danish translation would be "Amaroks menuer ...", i.e. the same as the latter English form but without the apostrophe. Is it desirable to keep the s ending unbolded (it does look a little odd)?
Having had time to think about this, I think you are right. In future I will mark the whole word in bold. Please correct any instances you find meanwhile. Thanks.
This is the summary of the conversation in June 2010:
Transferring the Danish translations of the first batch of pages to the new framework, I came across a few oddities:
- In one page the ;) smiley was used inside a parenthesized remark.
- Fixed - PageLayout guidelines warn against it and give image link instead.--annew 20:52, 28 June 2010 (CEST)
- Sometimes a paragraph has an image or a snippet of code inserted with blank lines around the inserted item. In those cases the whole paragraph - blank lines and all - should be kept in one translation unit.
- Off-line translation tools require headings to be in separate sections. Blank lines separate the sections, so this can't be fixed.
- While I was translating the page on Kopete, the original was rearranged a bit. In particular, some sections were removed, and the remaining sections were renumbered. .... It should be OK to have translation units that are not consecutively numbered, right?
- The sections should never be manually re-numbered. They will, sometimes, look non-consecutive, but the extension understands where they came from and where they must be put back. Manual editing breaks this.
- The latest changes (which are not approved, which makes it so that the current translations are not outdated)
- Correct - until the changes have been marked for translation they will not indicate the need for new translations. It may be that a number of changes are planned before the new version is complete.
- Old pages have unacceptable typography.
- Editing using Typographical_Guidelines will fix that.
- Empty sections, prepared for information to be added later, are a problem when it comes to DocBook production.
- They are fine in the early stages of building a page, but should be removed if they can't be filled before the page is marked for translation. --annew 12:28, 10 June 2010 (CEST)
- There is a problem, that is bound to come up from time to time: Sometimes small changes are made to a page to correct spelling, grammar or formatting. Often, these changes do not affect the translations
- When marking for translation it is now possible to check these as not affecting the translation.
- If absolutely necessary you can use this to find all pages with fuzzy tags, then open section , delete fuzzy tags .--Qiii2006 19:36, 12 June 2010 (CEST)
- Thanks, this is usefull! It doesn't solve the above problem, though, as the sections in question are not marked as fuzzy. I just checked - An_introduction_to_KDE/de doesn't appear on the German list, but the page is still marked as outdated (98% complete).
- That was a different bug, now fixed.
- By the way: Most (every?) time this problem has occured on one of the Danish pages, it has ben caused of two kinds of edits to the English original: Either a link of the form Page has been changed to Page or unneeded space characters have been removed for a wiki-link. I hope a solution can be found, for these kinds of changes are quite valuable to translators.
Another problem just occured to me. All links to translated pages needs to be changed as they are transferred to the new framework!
- As we go through pages red-links are obvious, so we should be fine for fixing them. --annew 20:52, 28 June 2010 (CEST)
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Christopher Kane Fall Winter 2013 Ready-to-Wear Collection
by Melissa Tunstall
It's been a big year for Christopher Kane. After becoming part of the PPR umbrella, he may have felt he had a lot to prove. And, boy did he. His fall 2013 ready-to-wear collection cut the muster.
Citing the extra money from the PPR deal as a big reason the show was able to be such a success, but the lush fabrics, mystical designs, and beautiful shapes didn't hurt. Camouflage played a major role in the collection. From the actual camo prints of blue and bronzes to the camouflaging of skin with mesh and translucent fabrics, the print made a fashionable return to the runway.
Mixing the camo with luscious velvets and furs created an upscale look rather than the redneck chic you may be expecting. The gorgeous wide-leg pants mixed with soft pants, the cutout dresses hinting in a miraculously delicate yet strong manner, and the overlapping of sheer panels to produce opaque dresses only mirrored the beautiful contradictions of Christopher Kane's vision.
It wouldn't be a Kane show without some graphic sweaters (this one of a brain inside a skull) and crazy textured dresses, so of course there were some of those. All in all, Christopher Kane brought it. Whether he wanted to prove that selling shares wouldn't affect his vision or show that it would help his line or just to design some amazingly great clothes, it doesn't matter. Christopher Kane is here to stay. And thank goodness for that.


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Patriarch Kirill: European population will die if it fails to come back to its spiritual sources
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill urged European religious leaders to make collective efforts to pursue the revival of Christianity within the continent.
"The Russian Orthodox Church proposes that European Christian communities unite to become partners of the states and European civil community in pursuing the revival of tangible connection between the human rights concept and the pan-European spiritual heritage," the Patriarch said at the Moscow meeting of the European Council of Religious Leaders.
According to him, only economic and political ties in Europe cannot be "a sustainable basis for the well-being of European community" and existing social values of human rights and rule of law and democracy may remain just "the forms which are unlikely to benefit in the conditions of moral relativism and sometimes may even cause harm."
Patriarch Kirill quoted "the decline of family values causing depopulation in Europe" as an example.
"How can family values be less important than the above ones, if the destruction of family causes physical reduction of the European population? Who will benefit from political developments, if European peoples cease to be or reduce to such number that their role will fail to have any significance?" he asked.
The Patriarch believes that the Soviet human rights concept involves no "clear and reasonable definition of the term human dignity" which is recognized in religious world view, therefore, Patriarch urged representatives of traditional religious communities of Europe to "make the term human dignity meaningful and establish its relation to virtue and seeking perfection."
"This is going to be our investment into generating ethical standards of both personal and social development. Currently, public environment is almost deprived of any moral models or ideals. Mass culture may only offer an image of a prosperous and successful person who can afford to meet every his or her wish," he noted.
The Patriarch expressed hope that the European Council of Religious Leaders will make its contribution to "intellectual enrichment of the European community with traditional religious values which have for centuries encouraged Europeans to seek justice and life under ethical norms generated by this tradition."


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Home > Glossary > Performance Practice and Presentation [PPP] > Interactivity > Emergence > English definition
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The term emergence can be taken as indicating a conscious utilisation of the changing boundaries between the subject (listener, interpreter) and the maker (artist, composer), in which the former interacts with what the latter has made, such that the work can be said to emerge in its 'use', rather than having been designed in its entirety by the artist and then 'presented'. This too might be regarded as a principle enhanced by the mechanisms (technological and social) associated with digital technologies. (Paraphrase of Simon Waters (2000). Beyond the acousmatic: Hybrid tendencies in electroacoustic music, in Simon Emmerson, ed. Music, Electronic Media and Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate.)


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Indigenous Australians honoured at NAIDOC Awards ceremony in Perth
Land rights activist Galarrwuy Yunupingu has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony recognising the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Mr Yunupingu shot to national attention in the late 1960s for his role in the landmark Gove Land Rights Case.
He was one of ten Indigenous Australians honoured at the National NAIDOC Awards ceremony held in Perth last night.
Four of the ten awards went to West Australians.
Noongar man Darryl Kickett, who has dedicated his life to community development, land rights, education, health and policy, received the 2013 Person of the Year Award.
1200 guests, including Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin and former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma, also attended the awards ceremony.
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Beth Bachmann's first book, Temper, was selected by Lynn Emanuel as winner of the AWP Award Series 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and won the 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and Tin House, among other journals. She holds graduate degrees from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and Concordia University in Montreal and teaches at Vanderbilt University. Beth's new poems recently won the Poetry Society of America's 2011 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress.
Some would call this heaven – a teenage girl half-naked
in the grass. For all I know, they might be right.
The lighting is soft, mid-morning, hazy enough to blur
the details, so we can fill them in any way we like.
Say, a brunette, barely legal, hidden.
From here, it looks like she's speechless.
When was this poem composed? How did it start?
It must have been composed in 2005. It started with the first line.
How many revisions did this poem undergo? How much time elapsed between the first and final drafts?
"Heaven" underwent one revision; about a year later, I changed the final word from "sleeping" to "speechless." It's a small sonic leap but "speechless" is more untranslatable and more dangerous.
Do you believe in inspiration? How much of this poem was "received" and how much was the result of sweat and tears?
I like Siegfried Sassoon's advice to Wilfred Owen, "Sweat your guts out." In any good sweat, face your door to the fire.
How did this poem arrive at its final form? Did you consciously employ any principles of technique?
The couplets here are imposed. I like the order of the couplet, the tension. Also, here, they're close-cropped like photographs, a way of controlling the gaze. And, end-stopped, gesturing toward the silence of the last word. There's also a doubling of hyphens, a doubling of vision, an open-ended dash.
How long after you finished this poem did it first appear in print?
It appeared in American Poetry Review Mar/Apr 2008, so about three years.
How long do you let a poem "sit" before you send it off into the world? Do you have any rules about this or does your practice vary with every poem?
I tend to let things sit a long time, a year or more.
Could you talk about fact and fiction and how this poem negotiates the two?
I'd say this one's mostly fact. It begins with a premise and then explores that premise. Then again, it's about heaven – is there a greater imaginative space?
Is this a narrative poem?
Do you have any particular audience in mind when you write, an ideal reader?
I am my own ideal reader. Use the enemy.
Did you let anyone see drafts of this poem before you finished it? Is there an individual or a group of individuals with whom you regularly share work?
Currently, I have one friend, a poet whose work and sensitivities I admire. We swap. I'm very private.
How does this poem differ from other poems of yours?
This poem seems more alike my others than different. About the same amount of nudity, light, violence and turning over. Same eye, ear and throat. Different body.
What is American about this poem?
Its references to Christianity and violent crime.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 13, 2008) - The current edition of the U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on Nov. 13 includes briefs on national team players competing overseas, how to purchase replica national team jerseys, updated list of United States players competing professionally overseas (including non-National Team members) and much more.
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REPLICA JERSEY AVAILABLE FOR LIMITED TIME: Are you looking for a unique holiday gift for your volleyball loved ones? USA Volleyball has the answer with replica jerseys from its 2008 Olympic Games indoor teams being made available for a limited time at http://usavolleyball2008.com/store/. The U.S. Olympic Women's Team replica jerseys, priced at $65 apiece, are available in extra small, small, medium, large and extra large. Replica jerseys are available for all 12 U.S. players who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games. Each replica jersey will have the Olympian's name on the back with their jersey number on both the front and back. Jerseys pre-ordered by Dec. 17 will be shipped in time for the holidays. In addition, USA Volleyball has several other 2008 Olympic Games apparel items commemorating the unprecedented indoor and beach volleyball success obtained in Beijing. Products available on the online store include short and long-sleeve T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies in multiple designs.
GLASS SIZZLES IN VICTORY: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), an outside hitter on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Games Team that captured the silver medal, aided her Russian pro team Universitet-Belogorie to a 25-13, 25-20, 25-12 victory over Balakovskaya AES on Nov. 9. She tallied nine kills on 12 swings with just one hitting error on offense for a 75.0 kill percent and .667 attack efficiency. Glass added three blocks in the victory for a 12-point performance. Her team, which is 3-1 on the season, next plays on Nov. 16 versus Indesit.
JOINES BIG EFFORT FALLS SHORT: Jennifer Joines (Milpitas, Calif.), a middle blocker on the silver-medal winning 2008 U.S. Olympic Games Team, tallied 19 points for her Russian professional team Fakel N-Urengoy, but it was not enough as Samorodok won 19-25, 25-23, 25-17, 24-26, 22-20 in a marathon match. Joines tallied 15 kills on 30 swings with just three errors, netting a 50.0 kill percent and .400 attack efficiency. She added three blocks and an ace to round out her evening. Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), who was tabbed to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Games preliminary roster (O-2), is a teammate of Joines in Russia but did not play in the match.
TOM AND HANEEF-PARK ON OPPOSITE SIDES: Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) competed as teammates for the U.S. Olympic Women's Indoor Volleyball Team at the 2008 Olympic Games, which resulted in a silver medal for the Americans. Now, both are competing in Japan's V-League on different teams who met for the first in the 2008-2009 season on Nov. 9. Haneef-Park topped Tom individual in points in the head-to-head match, but it was Tom's Hisamitsu Springs squad that came out as winners with a 22-25, 25-15, 30-28, 25-22 victory over Haneef-Park's Pioneer Red Wings club. Tom scored 10 kills on 46 swings to go with four blocks for 14 total points. Haneef-Park collected 22 points via 19 kills on 64 attacks and three blocks. For both players, it was the second match in two days. Haneef-Park scored 17 points all on kills in a 25-19, 25-17, 19-25, 29-27 loss on Nov. 8 to Takefuji Bamboo, which she played for in the 2004-2006 seasons. Tom recorded 15 kills in a Nov. 8 loss to Okayama.
NNAMANI HITS 21 IN TURKEY: Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.), a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Games silver-medal team, signed her professional contract late in Turkey. However, she has quickly moved to the forefront of her Galatasaray team. Nnamani recorded 18 kills on 34 attacks with only four attack errors in a 25-17, 25-27, 25-10, 23-25, 15-8 victory over Gazi Unuversitesi on Nov. 2. She added two blocks and an ace for a 21-point match. Nnamani and Galatasaray next hit the court on Nov. 13 against Besiktas.
BOWN POUNDS 26 IN ITALY: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a silver medalist with the 2008 U.S. Olympic Games Team, continues to frustrate Italian Serie A defenses while playing professionally for Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi. She totaled a match-high 26 points in a 25-23, 22-25, 25-20, 25-22 victory over Asystel Volley Novara on Nov. 9. Bown scored 21 kills on 28 attacks to go with four blocks and an ace. Jesi, currently in third place in the Italian Serie A League with a 4-1 record and 12 points, is scheduled to play Famila Chieri (1-4) on Nov. 16.
WILLOUGHBY COLLECTS DOZEN: Kim Willoughby (Napoleonville, La.), a member of the silver-medal winning 2008 U.S. Olympic Games Team, assisted Despar Perugia to its first victory of the Italian Serie A season with a 25-21, 25-22, 25-20 victory over Riso Scotti Pavia on Nov. 8. She scored all 12 of her points on kills coming off of 31 attacks from the outside hitter position. Perugia (1-4) played Minetti Vicenza (0-5) on Nov. 16.
SCOTT-ARRUDA HALF DOZEN: Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.), a four-time Olympian who earned a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games, netted six points for CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte in a 25-19, 25-16, 21-25, 25-22 loss to Zoppas Industries Conegliano on Nov. 9. She tallied four kills on 12 errorless attacks to go with two aces. Scott-Arruda's team falls to 3-2 on the season and faces Scavolini Pesaro next on Nov. 16.
STANFORD CONNECTION DOING WELL IN COLLEGE: Stanford University was represented with six players this past spring competing for spots on the 2008 Olympic Team. Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.) made the team. Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.) and Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), who both made the preliminary U.S. Olympic roster and were among the final cuts, returned to Stanford this fall for their senior seasons. Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), who competed for the U.S. at the Pan American Cup in June, returned to Stanford for her sophomore season. The three Cardinal currently average a combined 9.91 kills per set in leading Stanford to second place in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) national poll. Akinradewo, last year's AVCA National Player of the Year, averages 3.96 points per set with a .468 attack efficiency and 1.46 blocks per set. Barboza leads the team with 3.48 kills per set as part of a 3.94 points per set average, while ranking second on the team in dig average at 2.91. Klineman boasts averages of 3.87 points, 3.42 kills, 2.00 digs and 0.55 blocks per set with a .285 hitting efficiency. Stanford currently holds a 21-3 record and has won its last six matches including three over top 10 opponents.
HOOK 'EM HORNS TRIO FROM TRAINING TEAM: University of Texas had three of its players with collegiate eligibility train and compete with the U.S. Women's National Training Team this past spring. Although the three did not make the 12-player U.S. Olympic Team roster, the trio has used the training to their benefit by lifting Texas to fourth in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) national collegiate poll with a 19-3 overall record. Destinee Hooker (San Antonio), who skipped her collegiate track and field season this spring to train with the volleyball team in Colorado Springs, is averaging a Texas-best 5.18 points per set, including a 4.29 kill average on a .347 attack efficiency. Juliann Faucette (San Diego) is second on the team in scoring with a 3.55 point average. Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.) connects for a .465 attack efficiency to go with 0.90 blocks per set.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS: USA Volleyball has processed nine transfers of U.S. Women's National Team members to compete for foreign volleyball clubs during the 2008-2009 season. Setter Robyn Ah Mow-Santos (Honolulu) will return to VBC Volero in Switzerland. Middle blockers Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) will compete in Italy's Serie A League. Bown competes for Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi, while Scott-Arruda plays for CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte. Japan's V-League has secured the talents of outside hitter Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah) and opposite Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.). Tom competes for Hisamitsu Seiyaku Springs, while Haneef-Park is on the Pioneer Red Wings roster playing for former U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Toshi Yoshida. Middle blocker Jennifer Joines (Milpitas, Calif.) and outside hitter Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah) play for Russia's Fakel Novyi Urengoi club, while outside hitter Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.) also will compete in Russia with Universitet Belogorie. Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.) signed a contract to compete in the Turkish professional league with Galatasaray.
2009 PAN AMERICAN CUP COMING TO MIAMI: USA Volleyball will host the Eighth Annual Women's Pan American Cup June 26-July 4 in conjunction with the USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championship in the Miami area. The nine-day Pan American Cup, which will tentatively have three of the four 2008 Olympic Games semifinalists (Brazil, USA and Cuba), will be played on the campuses of the University of Miami and Florida International University. "USA Volleyball is extremely excited about the opportunity to host one of the largest international volleyball events in Miami and to pair it with the 2009 USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships," USA Volleyball Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal said. "It will provide a unique opportunity for our developing young volleyball players to be exposed to elite international volleyball teams from North America, South America and the Caribbean. The two events will also generate terrific excitement in the community and lead to greater popularity for the sport." USA Volleyball is hosting its first-ever Women's Pan American Cup, which serves as a qualifying event into the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix. The event is the largest international volleyball event hosted by USA Volleyball in terms of country participation. Team USA has not hosted a women's senior-level international tournament since the 1998 FIVB World Championship Qualifier tournament in 1998. Due to international scheduling and professional league commitments, matches on domestic soil have become a rarity with only seven contests against foreign teams in the most recent Olympic quadrennial (2005-2008).


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Facing two custody cases while maintaining a nonstop career, Sherri Shepherd has endured a rough couple of months. But The View co-host says she's holding up just fine.
"I'm a Chicago girl – I'm a fighter; I'm a survivor," Shepherd told PEOPLE at the Samsung Hope for Children gala, which she hosted in New York City on Tuesday. "And all the stuff in the media? You hope that your character and integrity will scream louder than what you can say. So I stand behind my character and integrity. You can't hold me down – I'm a wonderful mama."
On top of her heated custody battle with estranged husband Lamar "Sal" Sally over their unborn child via surrogate, the ABC personality is set to battle ex Jeff Tarpley for temporary physical custody over son Jeffrey, 9. Tarpley claims Shepherd has neglected their son due to her busy work schedule.
"Do I think there's a double standard? I don't know – yes, I do. With working moms, you've got to deal with the guilt of having to raise a child and having to explain to your child that Mommy has to work to pay the bills, and you hope that one day when your child gets of the age, they will look up and say, 'My mom did the best job she could do for me,' " Shepherd said.
"Or maybe I just married the wrong man," she added.
Shepherd's case with Sally is still pending; meanwhile, she's set to appear in court opposite Tarpley on July 21.
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