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The last couple weeks have seen me make some pretty amazing progress with the new version of Geon. I've settled on a name for the service, managed to get a 4 letter TLD to host it under and the Silverlight client has seen a massive redesign that drove a complete rework of the underlying API. It's been quite a learning experience and I've encountered quite a few problems along the way that have served to give me some insight into the issues that the big guys probably had when they were first starting out. Whilst the system currently only has a user of one (well 3, the Anonymous user, myself and a friend's identity I stole to test out some features) I still got to thinking about the authenticity of my data and how I was going to manage that.
I first encountered this when I was coding up the login system for Geon. Originally it was based around the built in Windows Communication Framework Authentication Servicewhich, whilst being a down right pain to get working initially, provided all the necessary security for my web application without me having to think about how it got the job done. Unfortunately though this wouldn't work too well when I moved away from the .NET platform, namely to either Android or the iPhone, as they don't have any libraries that support this. So as part of my complete client redesign I thought it best to not rely on anything that I couldn't use on my other platforms and that meant building the Silverlight client as if it was a mobile phone.
In all seriousness I would've been completely lost if I hadn't stumbled upon Tim Greenfield's blog, specifically this postwhich outlined the core ideas for implementing a secure login system that uses RIA services. After doing some rough designs and mulling the idea in my head for a couple weeks I got a working implementation of it a couple weeks ago, allowing a user to login without having to rely on the built in Microsoft frameworks. Initially everything was looking good and I went ahead coding up the other parts of the application thinking that my bare bones implementation would suffice for the use cases I had in mind.
However after a while I began to think about how easy it would have been to a nefarious (or just plain curious) user to be able to wreck untold havok on my system. You see the login function needed 4 parameters: the user name, password, IP address and whether or not this session should be remembered next time the user visits the page. The IP address was for security as if someone manages to get your session ID they could theoretically use that to hijack your session and do all sorts of mean things with your account. In my implementation the IP address was passed up as part of the request which meant that anyone looking to perform a session hijack would simply have to pass up the valid IP for that session and I'd be none the wiser. Realising that it would be an issue I implemented server side IP detection which would make it quite a lot harder to get the magic combination session ID and IP address correct, making my service just that more secure.
This got me thinking about the authenticity of the data which I was going to be collecting from my users. I'm not putting any limitations on where people can post but I'm going to be flagging people as "out of area" when they're posting or responding to something that's not near their current location. However since I want to make the API open I have to make the co-ordinates part of the update request which will unfortunately open it up to the possibility of people faking their location. Not that there would be a whole lot to gain from doing so but if my feed reader has taught me anything recently its that the geo-social networking space is constantly grappling with this issue and there's really no good solution for it.
There seems to be two schools of thought on the idea of data authenticity when it comes to the location space. The Foursquare approach is one of mostly indifference as whilst they have a cheater code to deal with people trying to get that elusive mayor title they seem to have no problem with those who check-in where their friends are or if you create a fake venuefor others to check in to. I'm not surprised at their reaction as both of those kinds of behaviour mean people are using their service and are finding new, inventive ways of using it which could potentially translate into new features for their service. The second is of strict "no fakery here" policy that Gowalla has taken with their 6 commandmentsof their API. Whilst they're still opening themselves open to abuse the no tolerance policy on it suggests that they value data integrity much higher than Foursquare. Clamping down on fake check-ins would mean that their data is more reliable and thus more valuable than Foursquare's but that comes down to what you're using it for, or who you're selling it to.
Personally I'm in favour of the Gowalla route but only because there's little value in faking location data in my application. Sure there are potential scenarios where it might be useful but since I'm not placing any restrictions (only identifying out of area people) I can't really see why anyone would want to do it. That might change when I put in the social game mechanics in and I actually get some users on the service but that's a bridge I'll cross when I come to it. Right now the most important thing is trying to get it out the damn door.
I'm hoping that will be soon as once I get the core in I get to buy a Macbook Pro to code on, yay! 😀
If there's one trendthat I've noticed about any of the successful Internet businesses of the past decade or so is that they tend to be platforms on which others can build their business. Sure there are many highly successful companies that operate in a closed fashion but the trend towards a more open web is undeniable. Nearly every successful Internet based company allows some form of interoperability with the wider world allowing anyone to leverage the platform for their own purposes. Thus today for any fledgling start up the choice on whether or not to open up your service for others to use has already been made for you, but that doesn't necessarily mean its a bad thing.
There are many great examples of companies as a platform dating back to the early days after the dot com bust. One of the examples that sticks in my mind is eBay which started out as a simple way for anyone to sell their unwanted goods online. Quickly though people realised that eBay was in essence a cheap online shop front, much cheaper than many of the alternatives available at the time. This quickly snowballed and many niche businesses found their home on eBay using the brand to get exposure and the platform to grow a business that wouldn't have been possible before.
The examples flow thick and fast for nearly all of the current Internet giants. Facebook has shown that whilst its core of replicating your friendship online remains it's now a gaming platform and promotion network. Twitter owes quite a lot of success to its wide open API which has generated hundreds of quality applications, drove adoption of the service and makes it the de facto target for any Internet mash-up (even Geon!). So why does being an open platform do so much for driving adoption of a service?
Primarily it appears to be due to the amount of free development that one can receive by making their services available to developers. Twitter for the longest time didn't have an official mobile application, arguably the killer app for something that's based around short frequent updates. Still that didn't mean there were a lack of clients available for it like Echofon, Tweetdeck and Brizzly. Opening up their API meant that they could focus more on improving the service and developing new ideas rather than having to spend additional resources bringing their platform to where it was needed. This forms a positive feedback loop that enables the underlying platform to improve whilst ensuring that it still remains relevant to its users.
Of course this all relies on the idea that your service provides something of value to your users. For a lot of companies the services that they provide start out closed off in order to ensure that it functions as expected. Early on development time is at a premium and the additional resources required to ensure the platform is stable can outweigh the potential benefits of doing so. However once a critical mass of users is crossed it makes sense to open it up in order to drive adoption. A great example of this is Gowalla who only recently released a full API after being available for about 2 years.
For someone like myself who is seeking Internet fame and stardom the idea of being a platform underpins many of the decisions I make when developing a service. You see whilst I may think I know what people might want there are so many things that I just don't think of when I'm elbow deep in my code. In fact about half of the features in the current version of Geon have come just from talking the idea over with my friends and people who've been in the business for some time. Keeping my service open means that should an enterprising user find something lacking they're able to build it hopefully bringing more users to my service and giving them a little Internet e-cred.
Does this mean that every service that isn't a platform is doomed to failure? Absolutely not. There are many things where an open API simply isn't required like if the company themselves provides products that cater to their user's needs succintly. Still the writing is on the wall for those who build things on the Internet and the more open your application is the more likely it will be picked up by the wider world. Google VP Andy Rubin said it best with the words "Open usually wins" and the recent decade of the Internet seems to agree with him.
I'd like to think of myself as knowing a bit about the geo space and how it can be used as a basis for new applications or how it can augment existing ones. I've been elbow deep in developing such an application for over 6 months now and I've spent the last couple months checking out every service that could possibly be considered a competitor to me (there's not many, if you're wondering). Because of this I've started to notice a couple trends with up and coming web applications and it seems that the social networking world is going ballistic for any service that incorporates the idea of "check ins" at any location around the world. After spending some time with these applications (even ones that are still in private beta) I can't seem to get a hold of why they're so popular. Then again I didn't get Facebook for a long time either.
The basic idea that powers almost all of these applications is that you use your phone to determine your location. Based on that the application will then present you with a list of places which you can "check-in" to. If your friends on the application they'll get a notification that you've checked in there, presumably to get them to comment on it or to help you arrange with getting people together. It's a decent trade off between privacy and letting people know your location as you control when and where the application checks in and most of them allow you to share the updates with only your friends (or no one at all). The hook for most of the services seems to be the addition of some kind of game element to it, with many of them adding in achievements and points. For someone like me it falls into the "potentially useful" category, although my experience with them has led me to think that saying "potentially" was probably being kind.
The services themselves seem to be doing quite well, with Foursquare and Gowalla both managing to wrangle deals with companies to reward users of their applications. In fact it seems that check-in based services are the latest darling child for venture capitalists, which funding flowing thick and fast for any and all services that implement this idea. For the most part I'd attribute most of their success with their ability to hook into Facebook through Connect, as building a user base from scratch for a social networking based site is nigh impossible lest you tangle yourself up with Zuckerberg's love child. It also helps improves user trust in the application, although that benefit is on shaky ground as of late.
Still though the value they provide seems to be rather limited. After hearing that a couple of my tech inclined friends had ventured onto Foursquare (and I got bored of reading about them every day on my RSS reader) I decided to download their iPhone app and give it ago. The integration between other social networking services was quite good and it instantly picked up a couple people I didn't know where using Foursquare. Playing around with it I began checking in to various places, accumulating points and my first badge. Still I didn't feel like I really got anything out of using the application, apart from some virtual points which don't appear to be worth anything to anyone (although the same could be said of Xbox GamerScore and PSN Levels). This hasn't stopped Foursquare from reaching over 1 million users in just over a year which is quite impressive when compared to the current giants (Twitter took twice as long to reach a similar milestone).
It's no secret that I've shied away from calling Geon a social networking application, despite the obvious social implications it has. Primarily this is because I don't want to be lumped in as yet another social app but more and more I find myself needing to incorporate such features into the application, as that's what people are coming to expect. There's also the point that many of the ideas make a lot of sense when translated properly into my application. Two recent suggestions were a kind of rework of the Twitter trending topics and the other being the ability to follow people and locations. The first wouldn't exactly be considered a social networking feature but the latter is pretty much the bread and butter of many social networking services. Still I don't think people will be looking for check-ins in up and coming social apps, even after Facebook introduces their Foursquare killing service.
It's true though that although I might not get it that doesn't matter when so many others do. For as long as I develop Geon I'll be keeping an eye on these services to see how they evolve as their user base grows, mostly to see if there's anything I should be doing that I'm not already. It's going to be interesting to see how this all changes when Facebook finally unveils its location based service to the world and you never know, I might have the penny drop moment that so many people seem to be having about check-ins.
Until then however my Foursquare app will be little more than an interesting talking point to bring up amongst friends.


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Do you often feel fatigued in the morning or find yourself wanting to snack before lunch?
This has a lot to do with what you're eating for breakfast.
If you don't eat breakfast, or if you're not consuming the right balance of nutrients to set you up for the morning ahead, it's no surprise if you don't feel full for very long.
Preparing breakfast might be too time-consuming for a busy morning, but there's a quick solution for that.
Starting the day with a delicious and healthy smoothie bowl is an ideal way to ensure you can fit vital nutrients in and even burn some fat as well!
Ready to discover smoothie bowls? These tips will help you to get the most out of your smoothie creation.
What is a smoothie bowl?
From the name, you're probably thinking of a smoothie bowl as quite literally being a smoothie poured into a bowl, right?
And you'd be correct to a large extent, but there are some differences that set them apart.
For example, they're often quite a bit thicker than your average smoothie, hence the need for a spoon. Depending on your preference, you can make smoothie bowls rich and creamy and very similar to the texture of ice cream.
They're usually topped with pretty much anything you want – fruit, nuts, and seeds are popular choices.
Why are smoothie bowls so filling?
The main reason why smoothie bowls are so filling is the fact that you eat them rather than drink them.
Consuming a smoothie in this way makes it feel more like a meal, and you'll consume them less quickly in comparison. Eating more slowly has been shown to help people feel more full, which is great for setting you up for the day.
The other big difference is the toppings. Adding extra goodies to the bowl is yet another chance to add fiber and protein to keep you feeling fuller for longer. Ingredients like coconut milk, flax seeds, oats, and chia seeds make great additions to your smoothie!
How to make a smoothie bowl in 3 easy steps:
This method will make a positive impact on your mornings by providing your body with the energy it needs to start the day, the nutrients to keep going, and the protein to feel full and avoid snacking on unhealthy foods until lunch time.
Step #1 – Add your chosen ingredients.
To decide what to put into the blender, go by the rule of 70% vegetables and 30% fruit. These will provide the fiber needed to support the digestive system but also offer a balance between the health benefits of vegetables and the sweetness of the fruit.
I try to avoid adding more than 30% fruit contents to keep sugar intake at bay. If you'd like to have a sweeter bowl, you might want to add a few drops of liquid stevia sweetener.
For vegetables, I'd usually go for spinach, which has a relatively weak taste and works well with most other ingredients. Lettuce works great with mango and banana, while Kale works well if you're a fan of green smoothies.
Remember, protein helps you feel fuller for longer, which in turn helps avoid snacking on unhealthy foods before lunch time. To boost the protein contents of the bowl, I usually add soybeans or edamame.
You can also go for more exotic superfoods. My absolute favorites are a teaspoon of Maca, which helps me feel energized much better than any cup of coffee would, and cocoa powder for a rich, dessert-like taste and a dose of antioxidants.
Step #2 – Add liquid
You can either go for water or add another layer of taste and creamy texture by using almond milk or soy milk. To keep sugar contents down, I always go for the unsweetened version.
How much liquid should you add? About ½ to ¾ cup of liquid is usually enough to make the bowl creamy but not like a drinkable smoothie.
Step #3 – Blend and serve
Blend all ingredients in your blender for about 1 minute, or until fully pureed, then pour into your bowl.
For toppings, I'd go for a handful of granola, chia seeds or goji berries, which serve both as an enticing decoration and provide a dose of antioxidants.
Try this tomorrow for a healthy and easy-to-make breakfast. Feel free to experiment with combinations of your favorite fruits and vegetables.
You'll immediately see the difference in how you feel during the morning. I found it to be one of the most effective ways to start a morning positively.
Tell us in the comments what ingredients are included in your favorite smoothie bowls!
Daniel Pelegreen is a "smoothie guru," founder of Easy Healthy Smoothie where you'll discover natural, easy nutrition hacks for maintaining a healthier lifestyle and tackling excess weight, fatigue and stress. You can also follow his smoothie recipes and advice on Pinterest.

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Categories: Transition
I don't think many of us will quickly forget the week of November 8. For me, this week didn't just bring the shock of the election results, but an unexpected change in my financial situation along with the discovery of a medical condition requiring follow up testing.
I'm no stranger to change. I've reinvented myself professionally several times, have relocated around the country, started two businesses and have handled various health and financial challenges. However, when faced with a cascade of unexpected changes in less than a week, I felt that my world had been rocked!
Have you been there? Perhaps a company re-structuring or buyout has re-defined or eliminated your job. You might be dealing with a financial loss or a bitter personal disappointment. It may be that you're struggling to adapt to an alteration in your relationships, a change in your health or the changed political landscape.
Change can be scary. It can feel like you're trying to find your way along a rocky path in the fog. People, organizations and institutions that you had counted on seem to have disappeared. You may feel angry, powerless or depressed.
It's perfectly natural for us to find change unsettling and to crave stability, certainty and comfort. Yet denying or fighting change often leads to a downward spiral of resentment, self-pity and stagnation.
When dealing with my own transitions, I've been inspired by organizational expert, Margaret Wheatley, who asserted in her book, Leadership and The New Science, that the optimal state for living systems to thrive is not equilibrium or stability, but a state of openness to new information that might threaten their stability. This openness keeps organisms adapting to new circumstances in their environment so they can continue to thrive.
In other words, the key to thriving in our world of rapid economic, political and cultural change is an openness to learn and willingness to adapt to changed circumstances. This can put us on a path to designing innovative ways of living, working and contributing that we might never have otherwise considered.
Here are three key steps for adapting to change.
Although we may not have chosen this disruption, we can choose our response to it. We can elect to be either a powerless victim or a victor who confronts change with optimism and looks for the hidden opportunities.
As a recovering victim, I know how tempting it is, when faced with a devastating disappointment or loss, to lash out in anger and/or hide from the world and stew in self-pity. While taking an appropriate time to grieve is important, experience has taught me that staying in victim mode closes our minds to new possibilities, keeps us feeling powerless and stifles our creativity.
One of the best ways to move out of victim mode is to shift our thinking about change.
POWER TOOL – Shift Your Mindset about Change
- Make two columns on a sheet of paper
- In the first column, list all the negative aspects of the change.
- Now review each negative item and find a positive aspect to it. You could ask:
(a) What new possibilities does this change open up for me?
(b) How can I use this situation to grow personally or professionally?
(c) What lesson can I learn from this?
For example, a financial loss might be just the nudge needed to start that business you've been talking about. A change in the political climate could prompt you to more actively support a cause you feel passionately about. That career setback might jolt you out of your unfulfilling rut to start exploring opportunities for more meaningful roles or careers.
Once you move out of the victim mindset, you've positioned yourself to move forward in your life by taking action.
Your next step is to empower yourself by taking action. Review the positive aspects of the transition. What new possibilities can be explored? Is there something you've always wanted to learn or try? What opportunities exist to enhance your relationships, improve your health or pursue a passion?
When you get in action, you accelerate your shift from helpless victim to entrepreneur of your life! Taking action will boost your self-confidence and create a momentum that will attract opportunities that you might never have otherwise explored.
POWER TOOL- How to Get in Action
(a) Identify something that you've always wanted to do or learn but have been procrastinating, analyzing or overthinking.
(b) Break it down into baby steps. The idea is to start small so that you're not overwhelmed.
(c) Take the first step. Congratulate yourself for moving forward.
(d) Even if it doesn't work out exactly as you hoped, celebrate your choice to be proactive. View it as learning opportunity, evaluate what didn't work and adapt your strategy.
As you continue to take action, each little win fuels you to keep going. You'll discover that as your comfort zone expands, you'll begin to trust yourself more, which will encourage you to take more risks and let go of fear.
One of the hardest things about change is the fog of uncertainty that surrounds us. This is what often keeps us awake at night spinning all sorts of unpleasant scenarios about our future. We become fearful, stressed and paralyzed from taking action.
Trust me, I've been there.
According to Dr. Susan Jeffers, author of Feel the Fear & Do it anyway, the root of our fear is that we don't trust ourselves to handle whatever life throws at us. It follows that if we trusted that we've got the inner strength to handle this disruption, we wouldn't be as fearful. One powerful way to build that self-trust is by slowly expanding our comfort zones, which is why taking action is so important.
Even if you haven't yet taken action, you can start building your self-trust through two valuable practices:
POWER TOOLS- Build Self-Trust Through Meditation and Affirmations
(a) Meditation – Start a meditation practice to allow your busy mind to get calm, quiet and open to that still small voice within.
(b) Trust Affirmation – Develop the habit of reciting a positive self-trust affirmation to you when you're feeling overwhelmed, depressed or fearful. You can use a quote from the Bible or other spiritual source or from a wisdom teacher such as Dalai Lama, Eckert Tolle or Louise Hay. Two of my favorites are "I trust the process of life to bring me my highest good" and "Everything is working out perfectly."
Finally, it's helpful to trust that there's a benevolent force at work – whether you call it God or the universe -that has a bigger plan for your life, which will gradually emerge from the chaos of transition. When we learn to trust this benevolent force, we begin to see a path through the fog that will allow us to emerge from any transition stronger and wiser.
Anne Martin, J.D. is a Certified Professional Performance Coach, Reinvention Strategist and Speaker who guides professionals in creating and enjoying meaningful success. Her most popular presentations and classes include Breaking the Confidence Barrier, Reinvent & Thrive Through Transition and Reinvent Your Work-Life. To receive her free report, Seven Secrets for Thriving Through Transition, visit www.daretoreinvent.com


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Of course first time right is the goal of a new development. The preliminary phase of concept design, drafting specifications and conducting the required analysis will bring you close to this goal.
But it is still efficient to qualify the final performance of the design. This will avoid problems or quick adaptions to the design when production has already started.
Vink System Design & Analysis has solid experience in qualification tests. Examples of projects are:
- Level Sensor Development;
- Level Sensor Redesign;
- Wafer Stage Redesign.
Level Sensor Development
Keywords: concept design, design specifications, production specifications, qualification, bonding
The level sensor is one of the sub-systems in ASML's wafer scanners and steppers. The level sensor is a measuring system that is used for focusing of the wafer. Tighter focusing accuracy requirements led to the development of this new sensor. Several concept design studies, as well as mechanical analyses, were conducted. Opto-mechanical design, construction and adjustment specifications were also drafted. Test and qualification plans were drafted and performed.
Level Sensor Redesign
Keywords: opto-mechanics, stability, specifications, adjustment procedures, software procedures, qualification procedures
The level sensor is one of the sub-systems in ASML's wafer scanners and steppers. The level sensor is a measuring system that is used for focusing of the wafer. This redesign project involved conducting a preliminary study to derive revised specifications for improved focus measurement system performance. In addition to these specifications, test and qualification plans were also drafted.
Wafer Stage Redesign
Keywords: forces, budgets, qualification, specifications
The wafer stage is one of the sub-systems in ASML's wafer scanners and steppers. A wafer stage positions the wafer while integrated circuits (ICs) are being exposed. New specifications were drafted for all air bearings as part of this wafer stage redesign project. Bearing forces were analyzed during a preliminary study and then all variables were fine-tuned to arrive at an optimal balance between air usage, bearing force and air gap. Qualification of the first prototype bearings was performed using a separate test bed, as well as after integration into a wafer stage.


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So in Costa Rica there are a total of 351 Volcanos, or eruptive points where sometime in history there was a large eruption, and out of those 6 are active nowadays (the only really active is the Turrialba Volcano). The remaining are dormant or extinct, out of all those lets pick the Irazu Volcano.
The Irazu Volcano is located near the former capital of Costa Rica called Cartago. This volcano as we discussed is in the list of dormant volcanos, actually is the neighbor of the Turrialba Volcano (only real active volcano in present time; last eruption: January 2017). This is a beautiful volcano because it's accessible to the general public. But let's not jump ahead, let's make our way up to the volcano. Once you get to the city of Cartago at 1400 meters above sea level, we need to start heading up the mountain to the town of Tierra Blanca. Tierra Blanca, at 2000 meters above sea level, is a very cold mountainy area, very well known for being a town that depends mainly on agriculture for income, in this area potatoes are grown along with strawberries, not to forget about a lot more of agricultural goods such as onions, carrots, broccoli and many more. Basically any kind of agricultural goods that require cold climate, they harvest it.
Also something that Tierra Blanca is famous for in modern pop culture is for the Sanatorium Dr. Carlos Duran. This was a hospital that was made and used for tuberculosis patients in 1915, however as time went by, the hospital went through some issues and then turned to an asylum and a prison for mentally ill patients. After an eruption of the Irazu Volcano, the hospital was forced to close its doors forever, then the paranormal activities started to happen, even so that a famous TV show Ghost Hunters International made a special show on this place. Stories say that there is a nun that appears along with manifestations of ex patients. Till this day the place is open to the public and gets many visitors looking for a thrill or a scare if you will. All I know is that I'm not going within any kind of distance from the sanatorium.
Now moving right along is San Juan de Chicuá, a very small town with ~670 people and home to the Irazu Volcano, 3,432 meters above sea level. The Irazu Volcano is the highest and coldest point of Cartago, this area can reach an average from 22°F to 74°F (-7°C to 23°C). This volcano is opened to the public where the craters can be seen, however, even though the volcano is considered somewhat dormant on the back side there is some minor activity; and Irazu shows minor earthquakes no higher than 2.0 on the Richter scale.
The Irazu Volcano National Park is located on a 5,500+ acre property. Upon arriving there, there are a couple of neat things to see; first the black sand, all of the surrounding areas of this volcano are covered with lots of ash that was thrown during the 1,963 eruptions. Also the view…. on a good day you can even see above the clouds and you can enjoy a sea of white fluffy clouds. Now on a clear day, you can see the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean, now such view is possible, yet rare since the volcano is so high in elevation and its set on a very cloudy location. Now the Irazu is also home to many beautiful animals such as armadillos, foxes, rabbits, hummingbirds, woodpeckers and at night, plenty of owls. Now a funny fact about this volcano… on March 19th, 1963 on the visit of US President John F. Kennedy to Costa Rica, the Irazu caused an eruption, but the twist is when it started to rain ash all over the central valley.
Some areas of touristic interest that can be reached from the Irazu Volcano are:
Turrialba Volcano: As mentioned before, this is the most active volcano in Costa Rica these days, doing ash eruptions constantly. From Irazu, there is a 10 Km road that heads directly to the Turrialba Volcano National Park, which is now closed due to its constant eruptions.
Orosi Valley: This is one of the most beautiful parts of Cartago, full of coffee plantations where Coffee Tours can be done, parks for a picnic family day trip and rivers where White Water Rafting can be done.
Tapanti National Park: This is a gorgeous mountain area covered with Rainforest and Cloud Forest Jungles, where one can admire the distinctive flora and fauna of Costa Rica. This park is ideal to do a Costa Rica Nature Trip that is not visited by lots of tourists.
Turrialba Valley: This area is growing rapidly for tourism, where many accommodation options are opening, as well as touristic attractions where day tours can be done. Several adventure activities are now available in Turrialba, such as White Water Rafting, Waterfall Rappelling, Mountain Biking, Zip lining, Nature Hikes, horseback riding and more.
Guayabo National Monument: This is the largest and most important archeological site of Costa Rica, where the visitors can learn about our native tribes. This place is ideal for a Costa Rica Culture Day Trip.
Cartago City: This city features ancient ruins, the biggest cathedral of Costa Rica and interesting cultural places, such as its Central Market.
Prusia Park: This is a beautiful high altitude forest area with nature trails and very close to Irazu Volcano.
In a nutshell, this is a beautiful place to come and visit, and as a Cartago resident, I'm happy and proud of having such beautiful volcano in my back yard and if you ever plan to visit the Cartago area, don't forget to visit the sanatorium to get those goosebumps going and not to forget The Colossus Irazu Volcano. Pura Vida!


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Children in Year 2 had an interesting visit to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Britain last week. The masts had been damaged in the high winds the previous week but luckily they were mended just before the children arrived. The children particularly liked exploring the living quarters and finding out about the hardships of life in the steerage section of the ship - such as the problem of weevils in the ship's biscuits!
Back at School, Mrs Freire-Banos told the children about ancestors of hers who had journeyed from Liverpool to Sydney in 1853, on the second ever voyage of the SS Great Britain. Her ancestors had set up trade routes to sell pins and needles. Mrs Freire-Banos knew many details about this trip as her ancestors had kept a diary, which was still in the possession of her family, where all their adventures were recorded.
The children learnt about how Mrs Freire-Banos' ancestors had travelled second class so their journey was relatively comfortable. In the diary, their journey was described as 'like being in a nice hotel', where the 'food was really good and at the end of every meal you got cheese and raisins'.
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The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Iceland has delegated the implementation of the project to the Education and Training Service Centre (ETSC). The ETSC operates in accordance to a service contract with The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and administrates the Education and Training fund for adult education. The main responsibility of the ESTC is to make curricula for adult education, develop recognition of non-formal and informal learning, increase quality in Adult Education and develop counselling and guidance services.
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ETSC will be a partner (delegated by the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture) in developing and testing a model for educational guidance for more vulnerable groups. The ministry will remain responsible for political and strategic leadership of the project as well as for steering the experimentation, taking active part in project management meeting and contributing to dissemination of project outcomes
ETSC will lead the project nationally through establishing cooperative networks, overseeing field trials in cooperation with 2 Lifelong learning centres, and provide/share information for evaluation purposes of the model
The ETSC was established by the Icelandic Confederation of Labor (ASÍ) and the Confederation of Icelandic Employers (SA) and is since 2010 co-owned by the Federation of State and Municipal Employees (BSRB), the Association of Local Authorities in Iceland and the Ministry of Finance. The role of the Centre is to be a collaborative forum of the founding parties for adult education and vocational training in cooperation with other educational bodies operating under the auspices of the member associations. It targets those who have not completed the upper secondary level of education. This target group comprises approximately 33% of the Icelandic labour force. The objective is to enable individuals (drop-outs) who have not graduated from the upper secondary level to obtain an education and improve their position in the labour market, which complies with the focus laid e.g. in European agenda for adult learning and Europe 2020.
The ETSC operates in accordance with a service contract with The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and administrates the Education and Training fund for adult education. The main purpose of the ESTC is to make curricula for educational provision, develop recognition of non-formal and informal learning, increase quality in Adult Education and develop counselling and guidance for the target group (low-qualified individuals).
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They cooperate with Lifelong learning (LLL) centres and educational providers throughout the country. LLL centres are operating in all regions with a net of work-stations that cover the biggest part of Iceland. In the capital area there are 5 educational providers that belong to the net that ETSC works with. Two of them are regional for the capital area and three work throughout the country. These providers are responsible for the contact with individuals in the target group. The LLL centres are highly professionalised in the area of Adult Education with special focus on the low-qualified/low skilled individuals. They offer guidance with qualified guidance counsellors which will highly contribute to this project.


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* By allying us with its protagonist, Gravity universalizes its image of exploited female labor, sells it back to its entire audience, men and women alike. Gravity shows a contemporary ideal of femininity still more sinister than the pinup. It presents woman as an intricate machine, strapped to dozens of wires, working her ass off with the goal of appearing weightless.
* We were born too late: …in the early universe, as Loeb speculates in a paper published in Astrobiology late last year, everything would have been a habitable zone.
* Terry Gilliam thinks he could have screwed up Watchmen waaaaaaay worse than Zack Snyder.
* Another day, another Title IX class action against a major university.
* Students Joke About Raping Student Union President, Then Threaten to Sue Her.
* Objectification, Humiliation and the Liberal Arts.
* Surprising minimum wage jobs.
* Wisconsin income gap widening faster than nation as a whole.
* New Study Confirms It: Breast-Feeding Benefits Have Been Drastically Overstated.
* Man Wakes Up In Body Bag At Funeral Home. Wow.
* Chomsky on academic labor. Life off the tenure track at Boise State.
* Polynesian seafarers discovered America long before Europeans, says DNA study.
* Watch Six Colorado Senate Candidates Deny Climate Change Exists In 18 Seconds.
* Man, the rich are different.
* "While the entire U.S. population has increased about one-third over the last 30 years, the Federal prison population has increased at a staggering rate of 800 percent, currently totaling nearly 216,000 inmates and currently operates at a 33 percent overcapacity. One-half of those Federal prison populations are drug offenses. While some of them are truly dangerous persons, as Deputy Attorney General Cole said, many of them are first-timers, and by possession only, wound up under Federal laws, the crack cocaine laws, in the Federal system", she said.
* Researchers Find CTE In A Soccer Player For The First Time.
* This Is What Discrimination Against Pregnant Workers Looks Like.
* Twelve Fixed, Eternal Commandments for Academic Job Candidates.
* The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from: Wachowskis prepping new Matrix prequel trilogy.
* And I think we should all just agree this is the true ending to Harry Potter now.
Tough Issues in Fandom, Brony Edition
UPDATE: We wound up talking a bit more about this on Twitter. Here's the Storify.
Since March I've been chewing over this MetaFilter comment on the "brony" phenomenon:
OK. I'm a gonna say it. Bronies are rape by proxy. Girls are not allowed a safe place in pop culture. They are not alowed to have role-models that are not hypersexualized by a "fandom." Guys into sex with ponies are into fucking women back into their place, and not about celebrating the triumph of imagination… and those guys into sex with ponies would never, ever dare air their rapiness without the vast subculture of adult men obsessing over a kids' show aimed at girls. PPG got away with it, Billy and Mandy got away with it… Equestria has to be fucked into submission.
It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this New York Times piece on a "bold new direction" for the My Little Pony franchise, summarized thus: My Little Pony Gets Sexualized Teen Reboot. The recent Brave kerfuffle goes in here somewhere too.
* SFW (at least in my estimation) photography project depicting porn actresses with and without makeup. Discussion thread at MeFi, which links to a few more discussion threads at Reddit that are pretty soul-crushing.
* The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Isn't Scary Enough.
* The science of sleeplessness.
* My three year old daughter and I play a lot of old games together. Her favorite is Donkey Kong. Two days ago, she asked me if she could play as the girl and save Mario… So what else am I supposed to do? Now I'm up at midnight hacking the ROM, replacing Mario with Pauline. Also via MeFi.
* The Britannica Advantage was not only illusory, it also reflected the way in which the market economy always finds a way to turn things that are good in themselves into means to an end.
* When the Pope Is Chosen, His Tailors Will Be Ready.
* Salaried Atlantic writer argues current Atlantic freelancing policy is just fine.
* A Dangerous 'New Normal' in College Debt.
* 8 Studies That Debunk Male Gender Stereotypes.
* And some more interesting SF from Eliezer Yudkowsky: "Three Worlds Collide."
Wednesday Morning Links
* Confirmed: US planned to nuke the moon. Not a Mr. Show link, not an imaginary story…
* Backward Design for a Backwards History Survey.
Questions like "how did things get the way they are?" or "how far back do we have to go to find the roots of this problem?" are usually more interesting—and more recognizable as historical problems—than questions like "what happened next?"
* Why are we still so bad at talking about video games?
* This guide provides an introduction to a handful of the strange spatial typologies found within the "cold chain," that linked network of atmospheric regulation on which our entire way of life depends.
* Sea levels are rising 60 percent faster than the UN's climate panel forecast in its most recent assessment, scientists reported on Wednesday.
* In "North by Northwest" and other movies, Grant — for all his good looks — represented the triumph of the sexual meritocracy — a sex appeal won by experience and savoir-faire, not delts and pecs and other such things that any kid can have. Oh man. How did this ever see print?
* Last Year's Debt Ceiling Debacle Cost Taxpayers $18.9 Billion. We can beat that.
* We've all been there: Ann Arbor man punched during literary argument. But this story buries the lede: what book were they arguing about?
* And You Are Most Likely to Die at 11 a.m. If you're in the Midwest, that's about forty-five minutes from now, so you'd better get moving…
Saturday Links
* What if every Olympic sport was photographed like beach volleyball?
* The Obama administration said Friday it will begin charging $465 this month for temporary work permits for many young illegal immigrants, as it laid out details of one its signature new policies on immigration.
* Depressingly, Detroit is now stealing plotlines from The Wire.
* Climate Change Is Here — And Worse Than We Thought.
* And the New Republic proves once again it is the absolute worst magazine in the world. When you are tired of Springsteen, you are tired of life…


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This beautiful plate is made from solid silver that is almost pure, and of a grade that is probably more pure than sterling. It has a superb patina and is slightly misshapen from decades of use and handling. This wear makes the plate particularly attractive.
The other main attraction of the plate is the inscription and date engraved into the reverse which provides clues as to its use:
'Soy ED A Cofrdia ED A s Benditas Animas ED A C iud ED S ng u Xir Ano ED 1761' which in Spanish, with various shortenings and liturgical renderings seems to refer to the Brotherhood or Fraternity of the Blessed Angels in the year 1761.
It is likely that it was intended to be used as a paten or diskos – the small plate, usually made of silver and sometimes of gold, used to hold Eucharistic bread which is to be consecrated. It might also has served as a small collection plate, or as the plate on which a priest's zucchetto (Spanish: solideo) or skullcap is placed when not being worn.
Traditionally, the zucchetto is worn throughout most of the Mass, but is removed at the commencement of the Preface, and replaced at the conclusion of Communion, when the Blessed Sacrament is put away. Also, it is not worn at any occasion when the Blessed Sacrament is exposed. On these occasions, during the Mass when the zucchetto needed to be removed, a priest might have been placed it on a plate such as this.
The mark in the middle of the plate is not a control, tax or assay mark but simply the mark made by the silversmith's compass as he pressed the point into a flat, hammered sheet of silver and then swung the compass around to draw a perfect circle which would become the outline of the plate.
There are no maker's or assay marks. This, the purity and 'rawness' of the silver, and the mode of construction all point to this plate as having colonial origins, most probably in South America (Latin America; Latin American) or perhaps colonial Mexico.
A similar plate now with a parish church treasury in Spain and illustrated in del Carmen Heredia Moreno et al (1992, p. 72) is attributed to 18th century Mexico.
A silver paten in use – holding with the Host – in St Stephen's Basilica, Budapest. (Photographed in July, 2017).
del Carmen Heredia Moreno, M., M. de Orve Sivatte, & A. de Orbe Sivatte, Arte Hispanoamericano en Navarra: Plata, Pintura y Escultura, Gobierno de Navarra, 1992.


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Dota 2 tournament The International has once again broken its own record for the largest prize pool in esports history, with a $24,789,473 purse as of Sunday.
The International 8, taking place in Vancouver, Canada, this weekend, crossed the threshold of $24,787,916 on Sunday night to give it the largest prize pool of any tournament across all of esports. It's the seventh year in a row that The International, the capstone event to the professional Dota 2 season, has put forth a bigger prize pool than it did its previous year.
The International began using crowd-funding through in-game microtransactions to bolster the tournament's prize pool in 2013. That year, the pot reached $2.8 million by The International's end, with developer Valve providing $1.6 million to the purse that year and each season since. The prize money provided by those transactions since 2013, however, has dwarfed Valve's contribution each year.
In 2014, the prize pool leapt to nearly five times the past season, at $10.9 million, thanks to $9.3 million in contributions. The next year, the purse climbed to $18.4 million total, with the trend starting to flatline the past few years.
This year's main event hovered around the trend line of The International 2017 but didn't pass the previous year's prize pool until the day before the tournament's main event, which begins Monday. It's the longest the crowd-funded pot has taken to surpass the past year's pool in the tournament's contribution era.
The five-person team and organization that win The International 8 will earn $10.9 million. The finals are scheduled to take place at 5 p.m. ET Aug. 25.


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February 13, 2012 – Since plastic bags were introduced at grocery stores in 1977, people have been consuming nearly one million bags a minute. About 500 billion plastic bags are used in one year worldwide. Where does it all end up and what impact does it have on our environment, marine life and health?
In director Suzan Beraza's award-winning documentary, BAG IT, host Jeb Berrier determines to answer this question as he takes a closer look at society's addiction to plastic. He discovers that many of the products people use every day are made out of plastic and some contain potentially harmful chemical additives, such as Bisphenol A (BPA) and Phthalates, which are linked to illnesses and other health problems.
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- The average American uses about 500 plastic bags each year, for an average of 12 minutes before they are discarded.
- Two million plastic bottles are consumed in the U.S. every five minutes; less than 25% are recycled.
- 14 million pounds of trash end up in the ocean each year.
- An estimated 100,00 marine mammals and sea birds die each year from becoming entangled in or ingesting plastic debris
- Plastic bags are made of fossil fuels such as petroleum and natural gas, which are non-renewable resources.
- Ireland and China significantly reduced their use of plastic bags:
- Ireland reduced its plastic bag use by 90% after instituting a fee on single-use disposable plastic bags.
- China banned "ultra thin" plastic bags in 2008. They reduced their use by 40 billion bags in the first year.
BAG IT features in-depth interviews with actor and activist Peter Coyote, who is one of a handful of Americans to have a "body burden" test, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Seattle City Council president Richard Conlin, authors Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff) and Dan Imhoff (Paper or Plastic), artist Chris Jordan and other individuals that are reducing the use of plastic in their lives and making the necessary changes to improve their environment.
The film received numerous film festival awards, including the Best of Festival at the Monterey Blue Oceans Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Durango International Film Festival and the Best Environmental Film at the Sedona International Film Festival. Packaging for the DVD is made of 100% plastic-free recycled material and environmentally-friendly ink.
BAG IT is directed by Suzan Beraza; executive produced by Judith Kohin; produced by Michelle Hill and Suzan Beraza; and written by Michelle Curry Wright. Bonus features include Jeb in the Netherlands, Bioplastic pros and cons, an extended interview with Dr. Shanna Swan, Sylvia Earle talks about life before plastic, Wallace J. Nichols talks about the environmental movement, and Dr. Richard Thompson explains plastic and POPs.
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After that post, I was meaning to do a happier post about why we actually like living in China, but I've been too busy enjoying living in China since then that I didn't get around to it.
So like 6 months later, here it is: The Top 10 Reasons Why I Love Living in China
10. You can push people.
And it's not considered rude. Lunch time at our school cafeteria is seriously like a mosh pit. You just have to dive right in, otherwise you'll never get your food, and minor pushing is permitted and even expected. If you elbow someone in the gut, they will give you a dirty look, but non-painful squirming through a crowd is totally par for the course. You want to get somewhere? No polite waiting at a respectable distance. Just get there already! Once you get used to this different cultural way of moving through lines, it can be a lot faster than polite American lines.
9. You can cross the street whenever you feel like it.
Except when a bus is coming. Don't try that. Busses always win. But any other time, if you can make it, you can do it. Jay walking is allowed (and again, often expected). You don't have to wait at the red light for your little green guy to light up. If you see an opening, just go already!
8. You learn to be flexible.
When I first came to China to teach, I freaked out for the first two semesters because my teaching schedule was given to me about a week before I actually had to start teaching. For a naturally inclined advance planner like myself, this was horrifying. Now, here I am, three days before the next semester is supposed to begin, and I still have no idea when I'm teaching next week. But I'm actually emotionally fine with that. Living in China has moved me out of my control freak comfort zone. Now, I'm learning to see last-minute information as a fun surprise rather than crucial information I need ahead of time. The attitude here is: it will happen when it happens. No big deal. And I'm learning to relax into that philosophy.
7. You can (sort of) live naturally.
We live in a city of millions, but there are still chickens that wander around everywhere and probably end up in local dishes. Matt posted about the market where all the produce and meat is local and (usually) fresh. Our ground beef here tastes very different from American ground beef. It has a much more earthy taste, which I've read online probably means that it is grass-fed beef. So we get all these perks and we don't even have to pay for organic! On the other hand, a lot of favorite Chinese snacks are loaded with nasty preservatives and who knows what else. So it's not all good, but at least we know our meat is fresh and natural (because we just saw it wandering around outside).
6. Rules are ambiguous.
China is not only a flexible place when it comes to schedules; it's also flexible when it comes to rules. Relationships are more important than rules, so if you're a friend of someone who is supposed to enforce rules, this can be a good situation for you. Especially when said rules are needlessly complicated, confusing, and pointless. This aspect of China life can also lead to corruption, as most people and the media tend to focus on. But I for one am a fan of this part of Chinese culture. I find it much easier to cultivate good relationships than I do to follow all the rules. And I like knowing that if I think a rule is pointless, I can pretty easily get out of it by being friends with someone. The flexibility and freedom that provides is quite refreshing compared to the justice-oriented letter of the law that is common in the States.
5. Exercise.
Most people in China don't seem to "exercise" regularly, but they do get a lot of exercise. By this, I mean that you rarely see people out jogging, except for a few people from the community who come jog around the track at our school. People go to gyms, but the gyms aren't really busting at the seams considering how many people live here. However, everywhere you go, you'll see people of all ages walking and biking everywhere. That culture is unfortunately changing a little bit as electric bikes and cars get more popular here, but still, you can always see tons of people walking and biking on any street in Tianjin. We walk and bike so much more here than we ever did in the US, and my body feels much healthier for it.
Why do we bike and walk more here? We don't have a car! Most of our expat friends in China don't have cars, including our friends with kids (some of them even have 4 or more kids, and they manage to bike with all of them!) For people in the US, that would be insane. And it is more difficult. We had to adjust to the fact that we could not get everything we wanted at the supermarket. If it won't fit on your bike, you can't get it in that trip. But after awhile, we realize that it's really not that hard to get by without a car or a clothes dryer or a microwave or these other "necessities" that we would never have gone without in the US. You can get by with less, and that's a comforting thought in case the world ever ends and we have to figure out how to do things for ourselves again.
3. If you learn to communicate anything in Chinese, you feel like a superhero.
Chinese language is difficult. I've also studied Arabic, and I feel like Chinese is WAY harder to learn. So, although that can be a really frustrating part of living in China, it also makes you feel like Batman when you actually effectively communicate something in Chinese. Why, yes I did just order that bottle of water without using any English at all. Booya.
2. Food
Chinese food in China puts Chinese food in America to shame. The variety here is awesome (and I don't even like spicy food, so imagine how much Matt enjoys ALL of the food here.) And I have to say, I never really lived until I discovered Xinjiang food. (For those who don't know, Xinjiang food consists of a lot of lamb and other meat, often on skewers, round bread called nang, and delicious yogurt. At least those are my favorite dishes to get.)
The number one reason I always give anyone who asks why we live in China is - Chinese people. We recently got back from Thailand, and Matt and I talked about how being in Thailand highlighted for us again why we love Chinese people so much. As a whole, we find Chinese people treat us with hospitality, kindness, curiosity, friendliness, and sincerity. (Not every expat in China feels like that...in fact, one of our co-workers always says, "Chinese people lie all the time!") But we feel like if you can understand the culture and the ideas of saving face and building guanxi, you can see past the apparent "lies" of people here and build really incredible relationships. For most Chinese people we know, if we treat them with kindness, respect, and dignity, they will reciprocate with fierce loyalty and sacrificial kindness. We love our Chinese friends, and we are so grateful that we get to be here, building relationships and learning about community from a whole new perspective.


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|Crown Princess Mary of Denmark attended a fashion show organized by Malene Birger which was covered by the Copenhagen fashion week on Aug 6, 2015.. A friend of her accompanied her.
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- AnonymousAugust 6, 2015 at 11:32 PM
Beautiful Mary.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2015 at 12:01 AM
élégante la princesse Mary, de très jolis bijoux fantaisiesReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2015 at 2:23 AM
She looks absolutly fabulous. Like a rock solid, down to earth and future-proof she shows herself at with appearance at this fashion event. Keep it up.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2015 at 9:17 AM
Well done Crown-Princess Mary !ReplyDelete
You are doing a great jobb in promoting the Fashion-Industry of Denmark.
And your outfit is just beautiful and stylish as always !
Wish Crown-Princesses all over the world would put the same efford in supporting their own Fashion-industries including Jewellery to promote them on the internationell markets !
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2015 at 1:30 PM
Looking lovely and as though she has the key to the fountain of youth.ReplyDelete
- BeatrixAugust 7, 2015 at 5:44 PM
Mary looks beautiful. As always. Love her outfit :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 7, 2015 at 6:59 PM
I agree with all the comments above, she's absolutely beautiful inside and out.ReplyDelete
- ajeuropeAugust 11, 2015 at 3:40 PM
It's Ellen Hillingsø who's with Mary -- Ellen is a famous Danish actress and also god daughter of Queen Margrethe.ReplyDelete
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Emily Bell believes in destiny. To her, being forced to sing a solo in the church choir--despite her average voice--is fate: because it's while she's singing that she first sees Sam. At first sight, they are connected.Sam Border wishes he could escape, but there's nowhere for him to run. He and his little brother, Riddle, have spent their entire lives constantly uprooted by their unstable father. That is, until Sam sees Emily. That's when everything changes.As Sam and Riddle are welcomed into the Bells' lives, they witness the warmth and protection of a family for the first time. But when tragedy strikes, they're left fighting for survival in the desolate wilderness, and wondering if they'll ever find a place where they can belong. Beautifully written and emotionally profound, I'll Be There is a gripping story that explores the complexities of teenage passions, friendships, and loyalties.
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Sam and Riddle Border are being raised, and I use the term loosely, by a father who hears voices. He took them from their mother when they were both practically babies and has been dragging them around the country ever since. The younger, Riddle, has untreated asthma and seems to be mentally underdeveloped, and neither of them goes to school.
Because, if you cared about something, it would be taken away. If you stood up for yourself, you would be beaten down. If you spoke out, you would be silenced. They had only learned how to be there for each other. Other people could never be part of the equation. Clarence had set up the rules of the game that way long ago.
Emily Bell is just a normal girl with two normal parents and a normal younger brother. She is a senior in high school and a soccer player. There is nothing unusual about her life, until she meets Sam.
When Sam and Emily meet, they immediately feel a connection and their lives inevitably become intertwined. But Sam's father Clarence has different plans for his boys, plans that involve a forest and a shotgun, not teenage love and happiness.
I am not used to third person omniscient narrator, not anymore. It is a narrative mode that was favored by Honorè de Balzac and Charles Dickens, for example, but that is rarely seen in newer (genre) fiction. Writing in this way, that allows the reader to see everything, but not to experience it through any of the character's eyes, is not easy, and for Holly Goldberg Sloan, it was made even more difficult by the emotional complexity of her novel. And yet, she succeeded in offering insight into not just one or two, but almost every character in her book. Instead of getting overwhelmed by a very large number of characters, which would certainly have happened to a lesser author, Goldberg Sloan maintained all the narrative strings firmly in her grasp.
While the narrative voice certainly worked to her advantage in many ways, it also gave I'll Be There a movie-like quality I didn't really like. Combined with the naiveté of the plot, it somehow lessened the emotional value of the book.
Goldberg Sloan's writing gave me so much to admire, but the story itself didn't exactly inspire awe. Some people never outgrow fairy tales and I truly wish I was one of them, but unfortunately, they hold no appeal for me. This particular (modern) fairy tale is more layered and insightful than most, but it's a fairy tale nevertheless. As much as I'd like to believe it, people don't usually get what they deserve, when they deserve it, and the good guys don't always win against all odds. I find the idea slightly ridiculous, to be honest, having seen far more injustice than any person should see in a lifetime. I envy people who still believe in fairy tales, but I'm not one of them, which means this book just isn't for me.


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