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This is the unforgettable story of Peter Pan, the child who never grows old, told in pop-up form. Filled with flying fairies, three-dimensional pirates, and much more, readers will delight in this retelling of a classic story.
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About the Author
J.M. Barrie, the son of a weaver, was born near Dundee, Scotland, in 1860. He was a journalist and novelist and began writing for the stage in 1892. Peter Pan, first produced in London on December 27, 1904, was an immediate success. The story of Peter Pan first appeared in book form (titled Peter and Wendy, and later Peter Pan and Wendy) in 1911. Barrie died in 1937, bequeathing the copyright of Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, a hospital for children.
Trina Schart Hyman (April 8, 1939–November 19, 2004) was an American illustrator of more than 150 children's books. She won the Caldecott Medal for Saint George and the Dragon and lived in Sweden.
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Peter Pan
By Barrie, J. M.
StarscapeCopyright © 2003 Barrie, J. M.
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Chapter One
Peter Breaks Through
AII children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
Of course they lived at 14, and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.
The way Mr Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in timehe gave up trying for the kiss. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion, slamming the door.
Mr Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.
Mrs Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a Brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs Darling's guesses.
Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.
For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly. She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way; his way was with a pencil and a piece of paper, and if she confused him with suggestions he had to begin at the beginning again.
"Now don't interrupt," he would beg of her. "I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office; I can cut off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings, making two nine and six, with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven, with five nought nought in my chequebook makes eight nine seven,--who is that moving?-- eight nine seven, dot and carry seven--don't speak, my own--and the pound you lent to that man who came to the door--quiet, child--dot and carry child--there, you've done it!--did I say nine nine seven? yes, I said nine nine seven; the question is, can we try it for a year on nine nine seven?"
"Of course we can, George," she cried. But she was prejudiced in Wendy's favour, and he was really the grander character of the two.
"Remember mumps," he warned her almost threateningly and off he went again. "Mumps one pound, that is what I have put down, but I daresay it will be more like thirty shillings--don't speak--measles one five, German measles half a guinea, makes two fifteen six--don't waggle your finger-whooping cough, say fifteen shillings"--and so on it went, and it added up differently each time; but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.
There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even a narrower squeak; but both were kept, and soon you might have seen the three of them going in a row to Miss Fulsom's Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.
Mrs Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. She had always thought children important, however, and the Darlings had become acquainted with her in Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time peeping into perambulators, and was much hated by careless nursemaids, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. How thorough she was at bath-time; and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry. Of course her kennel was in the nursery. She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with and when it needs a stocking round your throat. She believed to her last day in old-fashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this new-fangled talk about germs, and so on. It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line if they strayed. On John's footer days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom' s school where the nurses wait. They sat on forms, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as of an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light talk. She resented visits to the nursery from Mrs Darlings friends, but if they did come she first whipped off Michael's pinafore and put him into the one with blue braiding, and smoothed out Wendy and made a dash at John's hair.
No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr Darling knew it, yet he sometimes wondered uneasily whether the neighbours talked.
He had his position in the city to consider.
Nana also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a feeling that she did not admire him. "I know she admires you tremendously, George," Mrs Darling would assure him, and then she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father. Lovely dances followed, in which the only other servant, Liza, was sometimes allowed to join. Such a midget she looked in her long skirt and maid's cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, that she would never see ten again. The gaiety of those romps! And gayest of all was Mrs Darling, who would pirouette so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her you might have got it. There never was a simpler happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.
Mrs Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her children's minds. It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can't) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
I don't know whether you have ever seen a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting, but catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island; for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, threepence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on; and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.
Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents; but on the whole the Neverlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood still in a row you could say of them that they have each other's nose, and so forth. On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact; not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.
Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
"Yes, he is rather cocky," Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her.
"But who is he, my pet?"
"He is Peter Pan, you know, mother."
At first Mrs Darling did not know, but after thinking back into her childhood she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him; as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense she quite doubted whether there was any such person.
"Besides," she said to Wendy, "he would be grown up by this time."
"Oh no, he isn't grown up," Wendy assured her confidently, "and he is just my size." She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn't know how she knew it, she just knew it.
Mrs Darling consulted Mr Darling, but he smiled pooh-pooh. "Mark my words," he said, "it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Leave it alone, and it will blow over."
But it would not blow over; and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs Darling quite a shock.
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they met their dead father and had a game with him. It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation. Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a tolerant smile:
"I do believe it is that Peter again!"
"Whatever do you mean, Wendy?"
"It is so naughty of him not to wipe," Wendy said, sighing. She was a tidy child.
She explained in quite a matter-of-fact way that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her. Unfortunately she never woke, so she didn't know how she knew, she just knew.
"What nonsense you talk, precious. No one can get into the house without knocking."
"I think he comes in by the window," she said.
"My love, it is three floors up."
"Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother?"
It was quite true; the leaves had been found very near the window.
Mrs Darling did not know what to think, for it all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.
"My child," the mother cried, "why did you not tell me of this before?"
"I forgot," said Wendy lightly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast.
Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.
But, on the other hand, there were the leaves. Mrs Darling examined them carefully; they were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawled about the floor, peering at it with a candle for marks of a strange foot. She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls. She let down a tape from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of thirty feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by.
Certainly Wendy had been dreaming.
But Wendy had not been dreaming, as the very next night showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun.
On the night we speak of all the children were once more in bed. It happened to be Nana's evening off, and Mrs Darling had bathed them and sung to them till one by one they had let go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep.
All were looking so safe and cosy that she smiled at her fears now and sat down tranquilly by the fire to sew.
It was something for Michael, who on his birthday was getting into shirts. The fire was warm, however, and the nursery dimly lit by three night-lights, and presently the sewing lay on Mrs Darling's lap. Then her head nodded, oh, so gracefully. She was asleep. Look at the four of them, Wendy and Michael over there, John here, and Mrs Darling by the fire. There should have been a fourth night-light.
While she slept she had a dream. She dreamt that the Neverland had come too near and that a strange boy had broken through from it. He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also. But in her dream he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap.
The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming the window of the nursery blew open, and a boy did drop on the floor. He was accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your fist, which darted about the room like a living thing; and I think it must have been this light that wakened Mrs Darling.
She started up with a cry, and saw the boy, and somehow she knew at once that he was Peter Pan. If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of the trees; but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was a grown-up, he gnashed the little pearls at her.
Copyright 2003 by Charles Vess
Excerpted from Peter Pan by Barrie, J. M. Copyright © 2003 by Barrie, J. M.. Excerpted by permission.
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Table of Contents
The shadow Neverland Tiger Lily Wendy's story Captain Hook The return home.
What People are Saying About This
"Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature, and thereby undoubtedly made one of the boldest bids for immortality of any writer. . . . It is a masterpiece."
J.M. Barrie was a Scottish author. He later moved to London, England where he became a playwright and novelist. The Llewelyn Davies boys, who he became their guardian following the deaths of their parents, inspired him to write the indelible and beloved classic, Peter Pan.
Silke Leffler was born in Austria. She studied textile design and worked for a design studio in England. Since 1996 she has worked as a freelance textile designer and illustrator of children's books.
Customer Reviews
This is not your typical Disney version of Peter Pan. This version is actually very heart wrenching. It tells the story of Peter Pan, Tiger Lily, and the Lost Boys of course, but the Disney version only sugar coats the story where everyone lives happily ever after. This is not the case in this original tale of a boy who never grows up while everyone in the real world does. Heart breaking. Love this version, though. Everyone who is a fan of the movie, or who never wants to grow up should read this. I guarantee you wont after reading.
In a world full of weak, sappy and utterly meaningless books, sometimes it's nice to sit back with a cup of tea on a rainy day and crack open your grandfather's worn copy of Peter Pan. With its whimsical heroes and frightening villians, this book is more than just a thoughtful, exciting adventure. It's a look into the Victorian world through a child's eyes. Get past the mousiness of Wendy, the arrogance of Peter and the carefree exterior of the Lost Boys and you'll find a hauntingly beautiful tale about love and how precious a life is, no matter how short it may be. I highly recommend this book!
Peter Pan may be a children's book but I recommend it highly to anyone who feels like they need to get in touch with their imagination. Trust me, there is truth that lies in it for all ages.
This is a most delightful story.....easy to read and quite enjoyable.......all ages could and should indulge in some make believe!!
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I read a book called Peter Pan by the author named James Matthew Barrie. This book in an amazing book to dive in for an adventure. The book is full of magic and fantasy. You will get swept of your feet while reading this book. This book is set during the early 1900¿s with a family named The Darling¿s. In the story the family members are Mr. and Mrs. Darling, Wendy, John and Michael. Another character that is important in the book is Peter pan of course, he can be categorized the main character of the whole story. This book was inspired by author¿s older brother dying when he was only fourteen year old. The author¿s mother said that since he never got the chance to grow he will always remain a boy. The story of Peter Pan is mostly set in Neverland where Peter lives. Neverland is a magical world where fairies exist and many of your dreams may come true. The book only has 197 pages to read so it¿s not too long but it¿s not too short.
If you enjoyed this book you can also read a book about fantasy written by Lewis Carroll called Alice in Wonderland.
I loved this book! After I read it, I felt like going out and having a adventure! It really makes you think about how your living life. I recommend not reading the last chapter though-it's sad.
I began reading this book to my daughter when she was just 2 years old. By the time that she was 5, we read this book together. I will never forget all of her questions and the look of awe in her eyes as she heard the chapters night after night. A true joy of a book!!
My children and I often read this book together and then watch the movie afterwards. This is the ultimate do-gooder book for any child, especially those who seem to know better than their parents.
arrie, J.M. (2003). Peter Pan. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks. 0689866917 It seems with several movie versions, Hook, Finding Neverland, and the actual play, nobody could escape knowing something of the story of Peter Pan. However, it seems that only a small number of people actually read the book these days. Those that do, will discover a shockingly complicated and difficult text. Jumps in time and point of view, numerous metaphors, images, cultural and historic references and an interrupting narrator will make this a challenging read for many young readers. Plus Peter is really forgetful and potentially annoying. Nonetheless, there are uses for this book and exercises that may be completed. Just don't do them with too young of a crowd. If I were to use this book in the classroom it would be with high school students. Since there are so many rich themes and metaphors and since most students are probably familiar with some version of the narrative this book could be of good use in introducing analysis and literary theory. It is undeniable that Barrie captured a sense of magic, fun, and childhood that most children's writers cannot help but desire to equal. And because of this, there are great fun exercises that can be done, such as having children create or draw their own maps of Neverland. Since the book is also a play, it lends itself to being reenacted. This could help with visualization. Also, a special note if teachers use the edition of the book forwarded by author Susan Cooper-Her comments would influence anyone's reading of the text. For me, most striking is the delicate description of Barrie as "yearning for little-boy love" (p. XVI). Activities to do with the book: Have students create their own Neverlands, analyze the book's literary themes, enact scenes, research Barrie's life, discuss the imagination and separation between reality and fantasy, consider issues of power and the conditions of motherhood, the construction of masculinity and femininity etc. Students could also discuss the many reinterpretations and sequels to the narrative. Favorite Quotes: "All children, except one, grow up" (p. 1). "To die will be an awfully big adventure" (p. 123). "I'm youth, I'm joy" (p. 195). FOR MORE OF MY CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEWS SEE http://sjkessel.blogspot.com/
I absolutely love this book and definitely recommend it. It is so beautiful and sad! You fall in love with the characters, especially with Peter with all of his cockiness and forgetfullness. You learn more about Captain Hook, Peter Pan, and Neverland in the book than in the movie. The story is also written beautifully and is intriguing with all of its adventures and characters. However, more than that, the themes of youth and growing up are the factors that make the story so wonderful. I cried at the end of the novel because it is very touching and leaves a lasting impression on your heart.
I have always loved the story of Peter Pan. This book was soo magical, I couldn't put it down. Anyone looking for a good book should read this.
One of the most wonderful bits of fiction ever written. Truly timeless.
I read this book for the first time when I was 12 years old. It was so exciting to go back to Neverland, see all of the characters I grew up with and loved. J. M. Barrie created a beautiful, magical place of make-believe and pretend, and I don't doubt that each of us went there at least once as a child. The thing that astounded me was the great depth of the book. There were undertones and messages of mortality and acceptance. For instance, in the case of Captain James Hook, he stays in Neverland for his chance to take Peter Pan's life, but in the form of the ticking-crocodile, time is already after him and he has it on his mind, and he is frightened by it. Then there is the sadness of Peter Pan himself, the lost enigma that he is, locked forever out of a great happiness; family. There is so much hidden in the story, things that children would never quite understand. And that brings me to my favorite part about this story: as you grow older, reading this book as you become an adult, the story changes for you unlike anything I've ever known. As a child, I saw it as a happy adventure. As teenager, I see it as a rememberance of my own childhood slipping away, and my wanting to go back or keep that childhood inside of me. I've no idea what it'll mean to me when I'm an adult, and since I'm still a teenager I'm in no hurry to find out. The writing of J. M. Barrie is interesting and satirical, but also slightly childish. The world he created is magical and accessable, somewhere you can go in you imagination, a place to go away to, and for that I thank him. My only qualms with this version are the illistrations; not accurate and not fitting. Otherwise, still my favorite book.
Have you ever drempt about flying? If yes, READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peter Pan. Peter Pan is an exiting fantasy book about a young man Names Peter who finds a your girl named Wendy and her brothers named John and others who have fun adventures together. The beginning of the book was ok I particularly liked the part where they flew off into the night and to the neverlands. The book got better as it moved along like when captain hook and pan got into the fight. That by far was the climax of the story but when Pan had to catch wendy from falling off the blank that was ok. I didn¿t like the part when they were at the indians though for some reason I found it boring. Another part I found boring was when peter and Wendy got into a fight and they wouldn¿t talk to each other. I thought this book was fairly good. I thought there could be some more action in this book. I like the way the author put this book in its order because it made it easier to read. The setting is first in a urban apartment until Peter Pan came and took them away to the Neverlands. When they got there it was very wooded and they had lots of fun. The author J.M Barrie was a man who didn't want to grow up. So i¿m assuming that the reason he wrote this book is because he was very childish and wrote books in his wildest imagination. He was a nice person though. He was born on May 9, 1860 in Kirriemurir, Scotland and died on June 19,. 1937 in London, England. He had a wife named Mary Ansell '1894-1909'. He also had a son named Liewelyn Davies. He is notable for his book: ¿The Little White Bird¿ . One of the parts that was kinda boring but got kinda exiting as when they went to the indians place and they were smoking and when they got dancing it got better. Peter Pan is a very exiting book that makes you want to read more about it. I had Fun reading it and I would recommend it to people who like fantasy.
A wonderful fairytale, full of adventure. Definitely a classic which can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.
I think this book is simply magical. I got sucked into it. I couldn't stop reading it! A true classic. I love how it is written. You can really understand it. I recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, action, or anything like that.
Peter Pan has been illustrated many, many times by various illustrators. However, I don't find any of the previous attempts as outstanding as Scott Gustafson's edition. Gustafson is a master illustrator who vividly and imaginatively brings J. M. Barrie's endearing text to life. He has taken great care to illustrate this timeless story, paying great attention to detail and accuracy. We get to see the Darling family, the Lost Boys, and all the denizens of Neverland. Some of the illustrations found in this appealing edition are Peter and Tinkerbelle entering the Darling nursery, a breath-taking double page spread of the Lost Boys surveying the Neverland, and under water in the luscious Mermaids' Lagoon where a group of mermaids are playing with hundreds of rainbow-colored bubbles. There are fifty oil paintings; some are vignettes, some are full page, and others are double page. Gustafson's illustrations nicely complement the classic text. And if you have never read this story, this would be the edition to purchase. If you have children, then Gustafson's illustrations will surely please and enchant them. However, I consider this book to be more of a coffee table book than a book to be placed on a child's bedroom shelf. This edition of Peter Pan is a pleasure for both reading the text and viewing the paintings!
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EDIT: Please make sure Cleaners is more prominent than Darling Avenue because this will also be used for an awning that overlooks a busy street.
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Lking necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 6 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Summit Financial Systems
I am tired of telling my prospects what I don't do and this is why I'm changing my company name from "Libby King, CPA" to "Summit Financial Systems."
I am a CPA but as soon as those words come out of my mouth they either tell me they already have someone to do their taxes or they don't need to be audited. There's more to us than taxes! I hate taxes!
What I love is to create financial systems that bring order from chaos and that give insight to the business owners and management that they so desperately need. The way I can tell that I've been successful in demonstrating how I can help my prospects is that they will say something like, "I feel so much better since we've talked," or "this is exactly what I knew I was missing."
I also have the gift of teaching, so I bring new ideas and processes into my clients' work place and train their accounting staff how do do things better.
I have to be sensitive to the nature of my work which involves getting to know the intimate details of other people's money (or lack thereof) and be a strong leader through the projects to get them to the other side.
Finally, I want to keep my clients out of trouble with the auditors and the tax man. So compliance with the many regulations and principles is key to success.
From new business owners who have demonstrated that they are a viable entity (they've survived the first year or so and are showing promise) to those more mature companies who are ready for a change in their systems that will improve their condition.
The nice thing about accounting is that your clients' specific industry doesn't really matter that much because everybody has to count the money...I've helped non-profits, manufacturers, government contractors, and professional firms.
Selecting a logo is like getting married or buying furniture. I understand that it will be with me for a very long time and that the logo will take on its own life in the marketplace regardless of whether it's a good one or bad one, so I'm hoping to get a good one!!!
In terms of characterizing my company's personality, I want to portray elements of trust, integrity, professionalism, advocacy, and comfort. In terms of the actual product delivered, I want to communicate themes of order, streamlining, optimization, compliance, and finally providing visibility into the inner workings of their company. Visibility is key because these business owners want information sliced and diced so many ways and a good system is required to give that to them which will then allow them to make better business decisions.
My colors are purple & green.
On my old website: http://www.libbycpa.com , the picture in the upper right corner has the colors that I would like to maintain. The picture is of an aurora, but I chose it because it looks like an angel coming to the rescue...
A feminine look and feel is OK. I don't want any semblance of money (cash, coins, etc.) or any ledger paper or tax-related anything. Leave that for the tax bean counters.
I'll be using the logo to display on ink pens as gifts, my website, business cards, letterhead, and possibly embroidering onto a backpack.
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|Morbid Obsessions
by Fred Penzel, Ph.D.
"Doctor," began Alex, "1 don't know if anyone can help me. I think I must be some kind of incurable psychopath. You know, the kind you hear about on the news, who just goes berserk for no good reason and kills someone. Whenever I'm alone with someone older or smaller or weaker than me, I can't stop thinking about harming or even killing them... I mean, children, or some of my elderly estate planning clients, or even my wife, or other people who I don't even know!"
Staring at my office floor and speaking in a hushed voice, he went on to say, "1 get thoughts about putting my hands around their throats and choking them, or else I think about punching them in the face, or even pushing them out of windows. I go to work by rail and, when I stand on the platform, I think about pushing people in front of moving trains. I can't even eat in restaurants anymore. I can't stop thinking how easy it would be to stab the waitress with the knives or forks. I keep telling myself that I'm a good person who has never hurt anyone in his whole life. I don't want to think of doing these things, but I just can't block them out of my brain!"
What could possibly have induced this mild looking thirty-six year old financial planner to think this way?
"The first psychiatrist I went to said he thought I suffered from schizophrenia," Alex continued. "He gave me some anti-psychotic medication that made me feel so drugged that it was as if I was walking underwater all day. The last therapist I went to made things even worse. He told me that I must be holding in a lot of anger and that these thoughts were really my unconscious wishes. He said I would have to work out some early conflicts in my life to get rid of the anger, and that would take a long time. I asked him, 'In the meantime, how can I really be sure that I won't go berserk and do the things I'm thinking?' And he nodded at me and gave me nothing as an answer!"
I tried to assure Alex that, despite his fears and his past misdiagnoses, he was not a 'psycho-killer: but was suffering from Morbid Obsessions, one of the more misunderstood forms of the complex illness known as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. Despite the fact that this illness afflicts at least one out of forty people, it is one of the more poorly diagnosed problems seen by clinicians. For those who are not personally acquainted with such obsessive thoughts, we must be careful here to define what they are. Simply put, obsessions are any thoughts which cause anxiety, which are intrusive and repetitive, and which the thinker believes to not be his or her own and which they attempt to resist. Unlike those persons afflicted with schizophrenia, OCD sufferers are not delusional or hallucinatory. Their thinking is not disorganized. One of my patients refers to them as " my synthetic thoughts."
It was clear that Alex did not wish to harm anyone. He was simply unable to screen out thoughts of doing so. Most people with OCD, like Alex, almost universally begin describing their symptoms with the phrase, "I know this sounds crazy, but They exist in an isolated world of silent anguish, fearful of exposing this other thought process existing in their minds. They live in dread that the label 'insane' or 'psychotic' will be attached to them, if they share their thoughts with anyone, even a professional.
One woman related to me that her psychologist, in his ignorance, had actually reported her to state protective child services when she revealed her morbid obsessions about harming her children.
Obsessions are frequently accompanied by compulsions, which are any mental or physical activities done to reduce anxiety caused by the obsessions. These can range from simple avoidance to complex rituals of a superstitious and magical nature, which can take hours to perform.
While OCD was once thought to be strictly psychological in origin a type of neurosis it is now being recognized as a neurobiological disorder with a possible genetic basis. OCD can enter a person's life at an early age. According to NIMH figures, nearly ten percent of those who ever have it are already showing signs between the ages of five and ten. By the age of twenty, this figure rises to over forty percent. Until symptoms begin to emerge, it exists as "a potential" people carry around with them an accident waiting to happen. There are quite a few different categories of obsessions. Most of them revolve around either the thinker's harming someone else, or having harm happen to themselves. Alex's category, which is not uncommon, includes thoughts of killing, mutilating and injuring others or himself. These others can be loved ones, acquaintances or merely strangers.
Alex's morbid thoughts appeared to have really begun affecting his life when he turned thirty, just around the time he began his new career. This was a stressful time for him, he acknowledges, and the point at which he believes his illness began. On close questioning about his early years, he remarked that, ". It's funny, but now that we're talking about it, I remember that I used to sit at my desk in high school and think that I could stick my pencil in my eye and blind myself. Sometimes when I was slicing food, in the kitchen at home, I would get these ideas about cutting up my parents. I guess the thoughts weren't very strong, at the time, because I was able to push them away."
The recent upsurge in the punishing thoughts afflicting Alex began one night when he and his wife were lying in bed. "Suddenly it came into my mind how easy it would be to put my hands around Jessica's throat and strangle her to death. She is a lot smaller and weaker than me, and I knew she couldn't stop me. I could see myself doing it, and I imagined how she would struggle and then go limp. I told myself that this was totally stupid and unreal, but the thoughts just wouldn't go away:' The thoughts came back the next night, and every night there-after for several weeks. Alex began to dread this time of day. "I tried lying there all night, clasping my hands, and praying to God not to lose control. Eventually I began sleeping in our spare room, and told my wife I was just having trouble sleeping and didn't want to wake her up. I mean, how could I tell her what was going on in my head? I kept hoping that the thoughts would just go away."
As time went on, the thoughts not only didn't cease, but began to spread to many other situations with his wife and, later, with others. "Whenever we rode in the car together it would start up again, with me thinking how easily I could just do all these horrible things to her. I would try to grip the steering wheel really tight and force myself to concentrate solely on the road. But the thoughts were increasingly sinister and would almost seem to talk back to me every time I told myself that they were ridiculous, they would come back even stronger. They would make me think, 'Yeah, but how do you know for sure that you really don't want to do this?' And I would ask myself, why else would I be thinking about it all the time?"
At the start of his treatment, Alex had been about ready to give up. He had begun seeing a new psychiatrist, on his own, several weeks before he first came to see me. He was taking an antidepressant, which lessened the thoughts somewhat, but still didn't take them away. Luckily his physician was aware of the value of behavioral treatment for OCD and urged him to take this next step, despite Alex's growing fear that nothing could help him.
"Don't bother trying to teach me to relax myself, or to snap a rubber band on my wrist when I get those thoughts;' he informed me, with what sounded like barely concealed sarcasm. "My first two doctors tried those already and they didn't even make a dent in all this." I explained to Alex that these were not currently considered to be useful treatments for this disorder. 'Actually," I told him, "We have a saying around here - "If you want to think about it less, think about it more." He looked a bit edgy, when I said this. "Were you ever successful at forcing yourself not to think the thoughts?" I asked.
"No;' he answered, "I just wound up thinking about them even more. I then asked him, "Have you ever stayed with the thoughts and remained in a fearful situation long enough to see what really happens?"
When he said he never had, I went on to describe a treatment known as Exposure and Response Prevention. This has been in existence for over twenty years. People are helped, in a step-by-step manner, to gradually face stronger obsessive thoughts while resisting the urge to do anything compulsive to relieve the anxiety. In this way they begin to build up a tolerance for the thoughts and eventually no longer feel anxious when they occur. They can acknowledge the thoughts, but do not feel as if they must react to them.
Morbid obsessions (as well as other types) have long been mistakenly labeled as hard to treat by practitioners and this is attributable mainly to three reasons:
First, the practitioners often fail to distinguish between obsessions and compulsions. While both are mental events, they are quite different in their functional relationship to each other. Some practitioners believe that the thoughts must be resisted or blocked out, in the same way as compulsions. Paradoxically, they cannot be suppressed and must be confronted.
The second reason is that many practitioners fall into the trap of being distracted by the nasty content of the thoughts, failing to recognize them as obsessions rather than true desires. When the thoughts are treated as genuine impulses, the practitioner often tries to help the person control them, or else gets lost in endless discussions of what the thoughts really mean. The harm this approach can inflict is immense, because it only helps to convince the patient that the thoughts have validity and that they are right to be worried about carrying them out.
The third reason is that even when practitioners have some knowledge, they are not effectively utilizing existing techniques to their fullest. While many will try to help patients resist compul-sions, they use ineffective or outmoded techniques for the obsessions, the way Alex's other doctor did. They may not even attempt to treat the obsessions at all, not realizing that the untouched obsessions will only go on to generate more compulsions.
The actual treatment is straightforward. Alex began to gradually expose himself to the thoughts, and to resist his accompanying compulsions. He learned that, instead of avoiding situations where he might harm others (such as when waiting for the train), he had to stand there and keep thinking about doing so, in order to see that his anxiety and preoccupation would truly subside. In this way, he would learn that he didn't have to escape or stay at home like a recluse. While he was told, only at the outset, that "people with morbid obsessions do not act them out," he was given no further reassurance of any kind. He was encouraged, instead, to stay with and feel the anxiety. Alex would attend weekly therapy sessions and, in between, carry out homework on his own at his own pace. The assignments were tailored just for him, and were based on a ranked listing of all the situations he feared.
One of our most important techniques was to use audio tapes, several minutes in length, several times a day. Other methods include reading books or articles that provoked his thoughts, writing essays on why the thoughts were really true, and putting himself in real-life situations among other people likely to bring the thoughts on.
In all, between the therapy and medication, it took Alex roughly nine months of daily hard work to reach a state of recovery. He had his good and bad days, but he persisted. He still experienced the occasional thought, but could now handle it as it was occurring. Towards the end of treatment, he shook his head, saying, "There were times when I thought you were the Stephen King of psychologists, making me face all of those creepy things. I guess I called you some pretty foul names, at times. I have to admit, though, that I really learned something. You genuinely gave me every opportunity to act on every horrible thing I thought of doing, and I didn't do any of them! I truly believe, now, that I won't do any of them, ever, and that I never really wanted to, either."
If you would like to read more about what Dr. Penzel has to see about OCD, take a look at his self-help book "Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders: A Complete Guide to Getting Well and Staying Well," (Oxford University Press, 2000. You can learn more about it at www.ocdbook.com
Please Note: Then information in this site is presented as a public service to our patients and friends. It is not a substitute for a careful evaluation by a qualified mental health professional. If you are already under treatment, do not make any changes in your regimen without consulting your doctor.
Staff Articles
- Behavioral Treatment of Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- The Boy Who Didn't Know Who He Was (Teen Obsessions About Homosexuality)
- Acceptance and OCD
- Acceptance and OCD
- But I Love My Kids (Parents With Thoughts of Harming Their Children)
- Call Me Irresponsible (OCD and hyperresponsibility)
- Coming To Terms With The Lost Years
- Contamination and OCD ("Stronger than Dirt")
- Do-it-Yourself Therapy: Self-Directed Treatment
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for an OCD Specialist
- Getting the Right Treatment (Finding proper CBT treatment for OCD and BFRBs)
- Here's Looking At You, Kid: People With OCD Who Notice Things Too Much
- How Clean is Clean? (Compulsive cleaning and ordering)
- How Do I Know I'm Not Gay? (Homosexuality obsessions)
- How I Treat Violent Obsessions
- How Much Is Too Much? (Taking a more humane approach to behavioral therapy)
- How to Manage Your Parents When You Have OCD (a guide for teens)
- In Search of the Elusive Behavior Therapist
- Inositol and OCD
- Intensive vs. Self-Directed OCD Treatment
- Langley Collyer: The Mystery Hoarder of Harlem
- Let He Who is Without Sin (Religious obsessions)
- Loves Me? Loves Me Not? (Relationship obsessions)
- Morbid Obsessions
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (General information)
- Obsessive Love (When People Become "Obsessed" with Other People)
- Panic Disorder (General information)
- Samuel Johnson: A Patron Saint of OCD
- Saving the World (Compulsive Hoarding)
- Teens With Morbid Obsessions
- Ten Things You Need to Know to Overcome OCD
- A Touching Story (Touching and movement compulsions)
- Treating Morbid Obsessions
- Very Superstitious (Magical and superstitious obsessions)
- What Do You Say After You Say You're Sorry (Coming to terms after you recover from OCD)
- What The Heck Is "Obsessive Slowness?"
- When Epidemics Collide: OCD and AIDS
- Your Number is Up! ("Magical" numbers and OCD)
- Advice for Significant Others (Dealing with a TTM sufferer)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Trichotillomania
- Coming to Terms With Your Child's Hair Pulling
- Childhood Trichotillomania (Dealing with the reluctant child's pulling)
- Fight for Your Rights: Getting Insurance to Pay for Your Treatment
- Inositol and Trichotillomania
- A Stimulus Regulation Model of Trichotillomania (Why people pull)
- Trichotillomania (General information)
- Unconditional Self Acceptance and Trichotillomania
- What Cognitive Therapy Can Do for TTM
- Skin-Picking and Nail-Biting - Related Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders: More Than "A Bad Case of Nerves"
- Common Questions, Myths and Misconceptions About Psychiatric Medicine
- Medications that Treat OCD and OC Spectrum Disorders
- OCD and Managed Care
- PANDAS: The OCD - Strep Connection
- Depression: from Children through Adults
- How Do I Know I'm Not Really Gay - Part 2
- How To Defeat OCD By Surrendering
- Living With Your Loved One's OCD: Some Advice For Significant Others
- NAC and Trichotillomania
- Stimulation Substitutes for Trichotillomania
- To Be Or Not To Be. That Is The Obsession: Existential And Philosophical Obsessions
- 25 Tips For Succeeding In Your OCD Therapy
- My Parents Don't Believe I Have OCD
- Both Ends Against The Middle: When OCD Tries To Disrupt Its Own Treatment
- Driven To Distraction: Hit and Run OCD


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Career Advice: Are you my mentor (University Affairs)
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|Career development opportunities at McGill
The Skillsets program offers a series of workshops that aim to help graduate students and postdoctoral students in their career development.
The McGill Career Planning Services (CaPS) offers workshops and one-on-one help to trainees, including help in creating effective CVs.
|Networking organizations
Women in Bio is a professional development group for women in the biological sciences. This organization recently opened a Montreal chapter.
Emerging Health Leaders aims to develop a professional network for young people in health management. It welcomes interested graduate students and postdocs to its meetings.
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Let's Talk Science promotes science education through mentorship, classroom presentations and other activities.
Brain Awareness Montreal and Immunology Montreal are organizations that do community outreach in the Montreal area.
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The Science & Policy Exchange is an annual conference organized by McGill graduate students that explores the intersection between science and policy.
|Online career development tools
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has developed an online tool to help trainees develop an individual development plan. This tool doesn't take long to use and helps trainees identify possible careers and develop strategies to attain career goals.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has an excellent guide for laboratory management for postdocs and new faculty.
Inside Higher Education and University Affairs have articles, blogs and other documents to advise trainees on their career development within or outside academia. The Black Hole is an excellent blog for early-career scientists in Canada.
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In a few short weeks it will be January 2013 and the start of a brand new year for all of us.
Now the good news is that near the start of a New Year many people are actively looking for ways to make improvements in what they are doing.
Business people are looking for new ideas to increase sales, improve productivity, reduce expenses and increase profits. They want to make 2013 better than 2012 and at the start of a New Year they are very receptive to considering new ideas that will help them to do this.
Non-business people are just as receptive to new ideas to help them solve the pressing problems they have or reach their important goals faster and more effectively.
They want to increase their incomes, improve their relationships, have less stress, get in better shape, have new and interesting experiences, feel more valued and appreciated in their jobs and so on.
The main point here is that in January and February huge numbers of people are actively looking for ways to make improvements in their lives.
So why not come up with a promotional campaign that ties in the New Year with a good reason to take action now and invest in your products and services?
A number of businesses do this already and the obvious example is the health and fitness industry.
They know that huge numbers of people make New Year's resolutions to lose weight and get in better shape. So they run vigorous promotional campaigns in January and February that encourage people to get in better shape. And doing this generates large numbers of new sales.
So why not consider using a similar idea in your own business?
In other words, run active promotions in January and February that show people how to make 2013 a super successful year for themselves in the area of XYZ by investing in the products and services that you offer.
(XYZ is the area you can help them with.)
If you are a travel agent you could show people the importance of having new adventures in their lives. And how you can help them to do that with a special collection of 'mini adventures' that will make 2013 special, exciting and a year they will remember positively for the rest of their lives.
If you are a builder you might talk about how you can help people move into their dream home in 2013 without moving from where they are right now. For many people a good home renovation could actually give them their dream home without the expense and inconvenience of having to sell their current home and buy a new one. So you recommend that people take a 3-4 week holiday in 2013 and you will come in and transform their home while they are away.
If you are offer computer training you might show busy business people how they can have an extra 2-3 hours of extra leisure time each week by becoming far more effective in how they use various programmes on their computer. So 2013 could be the year they finally have the spare time they have been looking for to achieve some really important goals.
The main idea here is you take something that people are already thinking about (making improvements in the New Year.)
You then show them how you can help them to make these improvements faster, quicker and easier by investing in your products and services.
This is a powerful way to get 2013 off to a fast start with new sales and delighted clients.
And well worth testing for many businesses.
'Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.' - Oprah Winfrey
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100 ways to humanize your workplace
When I was a student at Manhattan School of Music millions of years ago, I got a part-time job temping at the brokerage firm Smith Barney. They put me in a luxurious office high in the sky above Rockefeller Center. The carpeting was thick and the artwork on the walls was museum-quality. I had a wonderful supervisor, Dee – my first office-work mentor, as things turned out, and sadly I don't even know her last name – and terrific co-workers. There was only one thing that baffled and irked me. Apart from Dee and the lovely women in my little department (it was all women in a clerical-type department back then, natch) the rest of the staff called me "the temp."
They called me "the temp" or "she" even when they were standing right next to me. As I got older and worked in more offices, I heard lots of people calling temporary workers "the temp" or "that girl" or "her, over there" without batting an eye. That's a reminder of how easy it is to be less than human at work. We are busy at work, and we are often stressed. We can turn into robots and pod people without even meaning to.
We know in our hearts and even in our bossy left brains that the only thing that powers our companies and institutions is human power, spark and mojo. If people don't care about what they're doing, nothing exciting or customer-pleasing will result. Work is only worth doing if it's done well, and things are only done well when the people doing them have a connection to the project beyond "I have to do it – it's my job." It's in everyone's best interest to make work more human and more fun, but how?
Here is a free downloadable tool 100 Ways to Humanize Your Workplacewith 100 suggestions for humanizing your workplace. Try some of them, and leave a comment below to tell us what happened!


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Taking stock in the Senate
As the dust settles in the Senate after yesterday's drama, it's worth pausing to take stock and consider just how much, if anything, has changed in the institution.
In a sense, there's a reasonable case to be made that we've defined "crisis" down. After all, the Senate had a fight over a procedural question on cloture as it's applied exclusively to executive-branch nominees. Say that sentence out loud to much of the American mainstream, and I imagine you'll get quite a few blank stares.
So the question then becomes, why should you give a darn? Will what transpired in the Senate yesterday actually, you know, matter? Will it make a practical difference to anyone other than those of us preoccupied with political machinations in Washington?
The cautious answer is that it's evidence of incremental progress, the results of which will have a real-world impact on the lives of real people.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for example, looks out for consumers against predatory excesses from the financial industry. As Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told Chris Hayes last night, in light of yesterday's deal and Richard Cordray's confirmation, "We know this agency is here to stay. No more clouds over what it legally is entitled to do. No more attacks that say maybe we're going to be able to undercut it in this way or weaken it in that way. We've got a full-fledged watchdog. The one we fought for, and [Cordray] is going to be there to fight for us."
And in light of Congress' inability to legislate, this dynamic will carry over to other areas – President Obama's ability to govern in his second term will increasingly depend on executive-branch nominees like the those included in yesterday's Senate agreement.
From the outside, it's easy to view the prolonged battle over arcane rules as another Washington sideshow. It wasn't. The progressive core of President Obama's second term agenda, from climate change to Wall Street reform, runs through those nominees and Democrats did not make their threats lightly. […]
[GOP obstructionism] might have been tolerable until a federal appeals court ruled early this year that President Obama could not fill the positions with recess appointments. Democrats now had to either fix the Senate procedure or leave crucial agencies' rudderless for an indefinite period.
"It's the only way, in many cases, the president can have any impact on policies he cares deeply about," Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and prominent critic of GOP obstructionism, told msnbc.
This certainly applies to Cordray, but it also extends to Gina McCarthy's upcoming work at the EPA, Thomas Perez's efforts at Labor, and the very existence of the National Labor Relations Board, the nation's most important entity in addressing unfair labor practices.
Also note the precedent, at least for the short term. The Senate Republican minority has believed for six years that reflexive obstructionism could continue, broadly and indefinitely, without consequence. Senate Dems made a specific threat, assembled the votes, and was prepared to follow through, forcing the GOP to cave and leaving Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) beaten and embarrassed.
If you consider the rapid evolution of the Senate into a super-majority institution as one of the most important political developments of our generation – and I do – then yesterday's drama represents meaningful pushback against the status quo. Jed Lewison argued persuasively:
This battle was fought over presidential nominations, but the key thing is that virtually every Democratic senator has now taken the position that the filibuster can be eliminated by a majority vote. That's a big deal because if you can get rid of a super-majority requirement by simple majority vote, then the super-majority requirement is essentially optional.
In recent years, Republicans have treated the filibuster as if it were an irrevocable Constitutional right, and not a simple rule that can be changed. Today, Democrats – whether they realize it or not – have killed the GOP's interpretation of the filibuster as a perpetual, immovable feature of the Senate meant to be used on routine matters of business.
That doesn't mean the filibuster is gone, and it doesn't mean Republicans won't continue to abuse it. It's here, and surely they will. But when they do, Democrats won't be able to claim to be powerless in the face of GOP obstruction.
Looking ahead, the White House will be sending plenty more executive-branch nominees to the Senate for confirmation in the coming years, including some next year to join the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Republicans will howl, but Dems have begun drawing lines in the sand – the minority cannot continue to block agencies' existence through filibusters. Full stop.
I've heard plenty of criticisms of yesterday's agreement, and detractors have raised fair concerns. The Senate, for example, is still a dysfunctional mess. Filibuster rules, in desperate need of reform, remain in place for literally everything – legislation, judicial nominees, and executive-branch nominees – and it appears the appetite for sweeping institutional changes is severely limited, in both parties.
But in today's environment, incremental progress is still progress, and there's ample reason to believe yesterday's deal moves the ball forward.


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It was fitting that IBM and Sprint picked July 10 to announce a new platform to integrate drivers' mobile devices with vehicle systems. It happened to be the fifth anniversary of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone App store. Until July 10, 2008, smartphones weren't nearly as smart because the number of apps that could run on handheld devices could be measured only in the hundreds. Today there are more than 900,000 apps for iOS devices and about as many for Android.
Cars, too, are getting smarter, but technological progress in the auto industry moves at a pace closer to the horse and buggy days than the development cycles of Silicon Valley. It can often take as long as five years before an automaker integrates new technology into a vehicle and, considering that many people keep their cars for a decade or more, the technology in our cars is often in its midteens by the time we put it out to pasture.
There are bright spots. Tesla, whose electric cars are still too expensive for most consumers, is doing more than just replacing gasoline with rechargeable batteries. It's allowing users to upgrade some of their car's features with software updates and it equips its Model S sedan with a 17-inch touch-screen that integrates access to media, navigation, communications, cabin controls and vehicle data.
The major automakers have all invested in technology and have a growing understanding that cars are more than just wheels and drive trains; they also are information systems that can both receive, collect and send data to benefit the driver and the car company.
There are ties between Silicon Valley and the automotive world. Nissan and Renault recently opened a joint research facility in Sunnyvale, which, among other things, will work on "autonomous vehicles" (self-driving cars). Ford opened a valley facility in 2012, and BMW also has a presence in the area as well.
It's also telling that several car companies participated at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas in January. Ford and GM were reaching out to software developers to create apps for their infotainment systems. Ford used CES to introduce an API (application programming interface) for its vehicles.
At the MobileBeat conference in San Francisco last week, IBM and Sprint jointly announced that they are working together to integrate IBM's MobileFirst solutions and Sprint's Velocity connected car platform to create an integrated hardware/software/connectivity platform to facilitate apps for cars.
The companies announced the Sprint Velocity Service Bus, a communications architecture that connects smartphones, tablets and other devices to vehicles through the cloud. At a press dinner, Sprint's Velocity development director, Bob Johnson, showed how a smartphone could be used to adjust a car's cabin temperature, seat position and other settings via Sprint's cellular network. You can even use a phone, PC or tablet to find a location and have that automatically programmed into the car's navigation system.
What impressed me about the demo was the very fast response time. The data went from the phone to the cloud and to the car in just a few seconds, though for the purpose of this demonstration at a dinner event, Johnson used a tablet to simulate the car.
Sprint's Velocity platform already offers in-car connections, including music and weather reports plus security, navigation, engine diagnostics, emergency services and remote connections for mobile devices.
Sprint, which is the No. 3 U.S. carrier when it comes to cellular handsets, is a leader in machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. There are millions of cellular connections between devices, ranging from soda machines that phone home when they need to be refilled to embedded geolocation devices that help companies keep track of assets.
In a news release, Sprint and IBM quoted a report conducted by research firm SBD that predicts the global connected car market to be worth nearly $53 billion in 2018, up from $17 billion in 2012.
One of my questions about this partnership is: Who will pay for the cellular connection? The last thing most of us want is yet another monthly bill. Johnson said the companies are exploring multiple business models, including monthly service charges, front loading the service charges into the cost of the equipment and even offering free, perhaps advertiser-supported, services. That caused one of my fellow journalists to wonder if we'll someday have to sit through a 30 second commercial before starting our cars.
On a more serious note, I worry about the privacy and safety implications of all this in-car technology. Car companies claim they work very hard to create a safe environment for the driver, but I'm yet to be convinced that enough work is being done to avoid driver distractions. And, when all cars are connected to the Internet — probably sometime in the next decade — I worry whether our whereabouts and our driving habits will be tracked and recorded by the car companies, insurance companies and, of course, government agencies.
If you hate the idea of red-light cameras, wait till you get your first speeding ticket via email because your car's computer ratted you out the moment you exceed the speed limit.
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A few weeks ago, my family and I celebrated my birthday in Indianapolis, which is about a two-hour drive from my house. We did a bit of sightseeing in the city and I was really excited to finally get the chance to visit Crimson Tate :: Modern Quilter while I was there. I've "known" Heather Givans, the owner, for a couple of years now, at least via Facebook and twitter, and have been a big fan of her work but it was so great to finally meet her in person after all this time.
Bolts of fabric in an antique crib. Love.
Stacks of fat quarters filed in an old card catalogue. Super love.
And even more bolts of fabric resting on antique ironing boards. Amazing.
Not only is the shop and it's owner adorable, but Crimson Tate carries some amazing fabrics. She had just received a new shipment of Kokka when I was there, plus she had the perpetual favorite, Flea Market Fancy by Denyse Schmidt, and too many other great things to list. But I was most impressed by how Heather displays her fabrics in such a smart way. Most of the fabrics in the shop are arranged by color, rather than by line (as in manufacturer/designer/collection/etc), which makes it easy for the customer to pick and chose by color and scale, rather than focusing solely on fabric collection or designer.
And one last shot of the shop :: antique baskets as light fixtures. Seriously amazing. You can see why Crimson Tate :: Modern Quilter is my new favorite fabric store. If you're ever in the Indianapolis area you need to stop by the shop, which is located downtown at 845 Massachusetts Ave. For more information about Heather, her adorable shop, and her amazing quilts, please visit her website at www.crimsontate.com. I definitely can't wait to go back!


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Sussex County dogs getting sick despite vaccines
Mutated viral strain worrying vets, boarders, owners
HARDYSTON — It only took a few coughs from some recent boarding canine clientele for Lynn Wilkins of the Pet Spa & Resort in Hardyston to want to find some answers.
"I was alerted by a new client whose dogs had a cough after boarding with us and within two days afterwards, I noticed some of my regular boarders coughing," said Wilkins, who has owned and operated the sprawling facility off Route 94 for over 20 years.
"We are very strict with our vaccine requirements, so when we saw just a few dogs coughing while others weren't, we knew we had to alert our clients as well as get assistance from local veterinarians," she said. "I called Dr. Lori Walker, DVM of Animal Hospital of Sussex County in Augusta, and within 48 hours had six to eight coughing dogs quarantined and tested."
Dr. Walker performed nasal and oral swabs of the stricken dogs and sent the samples to Dr. Christopher Frye, DVM, DACVSMR of Cornell University who performed a complete respiratory panel serology to try to determine the cause of the coughing. Serology is the diagnostic identification of antibodies in the serum of any type of bodily fluid.
The test results came back quickly and it was determined that three of the six samples sent tested positive for Parainfluenza, which is normally covered by the DHPP and Bordetella vaccines, something that Pet Spa and most boarding facilities, groomers and dog parks require. So, the results left Wilkins with more questions than answers as to why only some of the dogs at her facility were affected.
The answer, as all the veterinarians involved came to agree, was that the dogs were infected by a mutated form of Parainfluenza. Not to be confused with Canine Influenza, Parainfluenza is similar to humans getting the common cold. A mutated strain of Parainfluenza means that dogs will not have developed any immunity until they have been exposed. Only then can they produce the necessary antibodies to protect themselves. Even if a dog has received its regular DHPP or DTAP (Distemper, Hepatitis, Parainfluenza and Parvovirus) and Bordetella (Canine Infectious Tracheobronchitis; a.k.a. "Kennel Cough") vaccines, the mutated virus can still be contagious, often before it is symptomatic.
Fortunately, the Parainfluenza virus is not life threatening. Dogs typically show symptoms (hacking cough, runny nose and eyes) about three to 10 days after exposure. Symptoms usually resolve between six and 14 days.
From the onset of the infected dogs, Wilkins transparently took to her website and Facebook page alerting clients and the general community that there was some type of cough going around and that they were doing everything to determine what it was as they disinfected and sanitized the facility.
"I have been getting first-hand knowledge of kennels, dog parks and veterinary practices throughout the country that are also dealing with a rapidly spreading outbreak of 'canine cough,'" she said. "We are sharing the results of our testing to help others who are dealing with this illness in an effort to help the canine community everywhere, not just at The Pet Spa. My goal is and always has been the health, happiness and well being of all dogs, not just the dogs at my facility."
The Pet Spa has documented every symptomatic dog and absorbed the cost of veterinary care antibiotics for dogs in their facility. More serum samples will be sent to Cornell and studied further, possibly for pharmaceutical companies to create a new vaccine for this mutated viral strain.
CBS 19 News out of Charlottesville, Virginia reported that at least 22 dogs seen at Autumn Trails Veterinary Center have had the same symptoms since last Thursday, and that all the dogs were "well-vaccinated." The clinic is also running tests to determine the cause.
"From what we've seen this is becoming an epidemic, possibly starting in North Carolina and moving up the East Coast," said Dr. Ted Spinks, from the Animal Hospital of Sussex County, locared in Hampton Township. Spinks is a veterinarian for 37 years who also specializes in epidemiology. "The best precautions that dog owners can take are keeping up on their vaccines and making sure they are administered correctly, by a veterinarian or technician. I recommend boosting your dog's DHPP/DTAP/DAP and Bordetella vaccines to build immunity. I would also be cautious about dog parks and make sure that vaccines are done at least two weeks before taking your dog anywhere around other dogs."
Spinks has had professional experiences with the Parvovirus epidemic in Florida and a Rabies epidemic in Pennsylvania. He has also done extensive research on tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease, which is also a current epidemic.
"This mutated form of Parainfluenza has spread like wildfire and it is difficult to deal with as it is contagious up to three days before the dog becomes symptomatic," Spinks said.
Barb Green, president of Dogs of Vernon dog park said, "While this is going around it's best to avoid dog parks. We have shared the Pet Spa's message on our Facebook page to warn people and to make sure their dogs are up to date on vaccines. Unfortunately, there's no way to determine which dogs are vaccinated at the park, it is an 'At Your Own Risk' environment."
Spinks recommended that all dogs parks should at least post a sign citing the town ordinance for vaccine protocols so that people are more aware of their importance. Boarding facilities and groomers often have strict vaccine requirements which is why they are the least likely source of contagion. However, in this recent case, the mutated strain of virus seems to be resistant to vaccines.
"Lynn and her staff are doing everything they can and they're not 'pulling the wool over people's eyes," Spinks said. "I have been there every day since this occurred and their disinfection protocol is top-notch. They even replaced all ventilation filters, as the virus is airborne. At this time I would have no problem at all boarding my own dog there."
"My staff is going above and beyond, working up to fifteen hours a day to ensure the highest level of care and cleanest environment for all the dogs in our care as we always do. I applaud their efforts and dedication," Wilkins said.
The Pet Spa has also emailed and messaged over 240 local veterinarians and kennels alerting them to the outbreak and are still calling customers with upcoming reservations, stating that they have cases of Parainfluenza. Most clients at this point are keeping their reservations, Wilkins said.


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How Objects Move
In our previous article, we said that the ability to move a value from one place to another is one of C++0x's most important features, but one that many programmers will rarely use directly. We shall now explain who does need to use this feature directly, and why it works as it does.
Fundamental to C++ is the idea that you can bind a non
const reference only to an
lvalue. The reason for this rule is that people bind references to objects for one of two reasons: Either they want to use the reference to change the object, or they just want to avoid copying the object. Programmers distinguish between these cases based on whether the reference in question is
C++0x caters to a third case: The programmer intends to change the object's value, but does not intend to use the object again. This case typically comes up when a programmer wants to move an object's value from one object to another, and then destroy or give a new value to the original object.
Let's look again at an example from our last article:
string s = "I am a string!"; string t = s; // Make a copy of s </pre
Copying s to t requires allocating memory for a copy of s's characters, then copying those characters into the new memory, and finally putting a pointer to the new memory into t. This work is needed so that changing the value of s does not change the value of t, or vice versa.
What if we know that s's value will never be used again? In that case, we'd like to copy the pointer to s's memory into t, and then clear the pointer in s. We need to clear s's pointer because that memory is now controlled by t, not by s. Clearing the pointer also ensures that destroying s does not free the corresponding memory.
In our last article, we saw that we could tell the compiler that we will not use s's value again by writing

 string t = std::move(s); // "Steal" state from s
std::move function somehow tells the compiler that the programmer can change the value of
move's argument, and that it's OK to do so because the former value of the object in that argument will not be used again.
The way
std::move works is by using a new type called an rvalue reference, which corresponds to the third reason for binding a reference to a value:
- A plain reference refers to an object that you intend to change and use again.
- A reference to
constrefers to an object that you will not change.
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rvaluereference refers to an object that you intend to change and then discard.
T is an object type (that is, not a reference or function type), we write "
rvalue reference to
T" as
T&&. In general, we can bind an
rvalue reference to an object only if that object is an
rvalue that is, only if we can't use that object again. For example:
int&& n = 42; // OK; 42 is an rvalue int k = n; int&& j = k; // Error; k is an lvalue int&& m = k+1; // OK, k+1 is an rvalue
When we use an
rvalue reference, it acts just like any other reference: It is an
lvalue (even though it is called an
rvalue reference!) that is just another name for the object to which it refers. So, for example, we can write
n = 24; // OK, but it doesn't change the value of 42 m = 24; // OK, but it doesn't change the value of k
n changes a temporary that started out with a copy of 42. Changing
m changes a temporary that started with a copy of
k+1. Neither the value of
k nor the value of 42 changes.
If we overload a function with
T&& and
const T&, the compiler will pick the
T&& version when the argument is an
rvalue that is, when the compiler can see that the argument will not be used again and will call the
const T& version otherwise. This kind of overloading allows us to write code such as the following:
// This version copies a vector and sorts the copy template<class T> vector<T> vec_sort(const vector<T>& v) { vector<T> result = v; sort(result.begin(), result.end()); return result; } // This version sorts a vector in place template<class T> vector<T> vec_sort(vector<T>&& v) { sort(v.begin(), v.end()); return v; }
This example is a useful way of sorting a vector without destroying the original, with the added wrinkle that it preserves the original vector only when it needs to do so. If we give this function a variable as its argument, overloading will select the first version; the effect will be to copy the variable, sort the copy, and return the sorted copy. If, on the other hand, we give this function a temporary, it will sort the temporary without copying it, and return the sorted temporary:
vector<int> read_data(); // Read from a file, return values as a vector vector<int> v = read_data(); vector<int> sv = vec_sort(v); // Copy v, sort the copy, put it in sv vector<int> w = vec_sort(read_data());
In the last line of this example,
read_data() is an
rvalue. Therefore, overloading selects the second version of
vec_sort, which, in turn, sorts the vector that
read_data returned without copying it.
We can now understand a little more of the magic behind the example from our last article:
string t = std::move(s); // "Steal" state from s
std::move does, in effect, is take its argument, cast it to an
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Visiting coaches learn at Final Fours, CU's Boyle says
I've covered a half-dozen or so men's Final Fours and always wondered if the coaches that attend the NABC (National Association of Basketball Coaches) and the games were there just for fun or if they really learned something.
So I asked Colorado coach Tad Boyle, who along with some members of his staff, attended the NABC convention in Houston. "Yes, definitely," Boyle told me.
He watched the Saturday semifinals, and then attended Kentucky's closed practice before returning to Boulder. Boyle is a friend of Kentucky coach John Calipari. Calipari was on Larry Brown's staff at Kansas when Boyle was a guard for the Jayhawks in the mid-1980s.
"You pick up a lot," Boyle said. "You look at the teams that make it to the Final Four, and you look at the way they defend. When you get to the Final Four, you have to make shots to win games, because you're not going to get anything easy. I thought the Butler vs Michigan State game last year was one of the best games I'd ever seen in terms of two teams – you just had to shot. You have nothing at the rim, no easy baskets. You have to run your offense.
"You tape the games, so if you see an out of bounds play you like, you say, 'We've got to get that.' Let's put it this way, I've never invented a play in my life. Everything I've got, I've either been taught or stolen."
As for the NABC convention, that's beneficial, as well, Boyle said.
"Seeing all the coaches, it can help with scheduling; You find out who is looking for a game," Boyle said. "There's clinics. There's professional development clinics. Theres the trade show. We're going to have a new trade show so we're looking for products.
"It's like a lot of conventions, there are a lot of things going on, on a lot of different levels."
Sounds like a coaching staff gets out of the NABC convention and Final Four as much as it wants, and Boyle is one of those coaches that's always eager to learn.
That should serve him well throughout his coaching career.